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| 12. May 2021 | "Let's Play" Videos | Let's play videos. The days of YouTube channels that do playthroughs like, you know, you know, Let's Play's house, like, part 1, part 2, part 3. Do those exist these days? Like, I know Game Grumps still does that. I know Jesse Cox still does that. But who else does that? Achievement Hunter? But these are like really old channels, right? Is anyone new coming into the game and making it big off Let's Plays like this? I don't think they are. I much prefer my videos where it's like the Watch Dogs 1 video. Here is me playing Watch Dogs 1 the entire way through. Here are all the best bits, here's some good jokes, here's my good jokes, here's some good edits, and then we're done. The only reason the Watch Dogs Legion videos were split in two was because it was a sponsored video. |
| 10. June 2022 | "Major" changes to my appearance | Major changes to my appearance. So for years I of course have been wearing tank tops. And on occasion I'd get these comments like, Matt, shave your armpits, what the fuck? And I would look at myself in the mirror one day and I was like, you know what, I should probably actually shave my armpits. So I shaved my armpits. You know, new developments in the DarkViper AU enterprise. Like I watched this video and it was like, according to men's health, more than half of men shaved their armpits or something. I don't know, like, I thought it was like a tiny amount of people who did it. But I was looking online and stuff and it was like, oh, actually it seems like this is like a pretty common thing. And it's only like a fifth of guys who are like, that shit's fucking weird, bruh. And people are like, oh, it feels better and stuff. And I'm like, ah, okay, fine. It doesn't feel better. It was more comfortable having hair under there, but it's not that much different. Like after a couple of days, like I don't even notice. It was just like the first day or two, it was just a different sensation. And so it was just, you know, something I took more notice of. Now I don't even notice. The main reason I did this, because even when I have my arms down like this, there was a little bit of hair that showed and it looked unsightly. I've got no one to impress, so it doesn't matter all that much, but I still felt like the one. The other thing that's changed is I'm, I went for my first session to get some of the moles taken off my face, as small as they are. You probably can't even see them on the camera, except the ones on my cheek here somewhere. Is it this side? I don't know. Things of merit, I don't know. It would take a while for the treatments to take effect. And of course, I got a treatment for my back to try to remove my scars, the stretch marks. No one to impress except the 950k subs. Yeah, but you guys will like me whether or not I have hair under my arm or not. Presumably. |
| 24. September 2021 | "Non-stop" Super Mario 64 | Non-stop Super Mario 64. I was watching cheese05 today doing a mod of Super Mario 64 called like non-stop 120 star or something. Where rather than getting thrown out of the painting, you get every star in one go. And it knocks like half an hour off the amount of time it takes to do the run. It's weird to think that so much of 120 star is just waiting around for the like a da da da da da da. |
| 24. August 2022 | "Stupid people" believe everything you believe | Stupid people believe everything you believe. Just because a person believes the same things you do, you shouldn't necessarily think them better for doing so. It's often less important what you believe and more why you believe it. I have met many people who have expressed agreement with things that I've said, and when asked specifics, they just fall flat on their face. Either that or profess very stupid reasons for believing the same things that I do. The pa- |
| 24. August 2022 | "The power of slot machine | Power of slot machines. But again, slots are just the absolute worst fucking form of gambling that exists. Because they are just so perfectly programmed to manipulate people to spend as much money as possible, and to lose as much money as possible. They are specifically designed to make you lose, and to get addicted. You can just run test after test after test to see, ah look, if we make it so it pays out this much, or gets this close to paying out at this point, that will increase the amount of money that people put in by 10%. Let's do that. |
| 23. January 2023 | "The waffle house has found It’s new host": The consequences of gaslighting the internet. | Consequences of Gaslighting the Internet. So I'm gonna talk about something without naming the person who did this, because I don't wanna give them attention. You may have seen on many shorts, on many TikToks, in many comment sections, a constant spam of, the Waffle House has found its new host. So basically what happened is a content creator was like, hey, we should gaslight the internet, and just all type this in comment sections and explain it to no one. This has been done before, subscribe to PewDiePie being the most famous one, as well as, oh yeah yeah, from that Maximilian Musk dude, very hated content creator. This stuff is super annoying, mainly because it provides no benefit to anyone, and if everyone did it, it would make YouTube a completely insufferable place that is completely not usable, right? There's a reason why this encouraging of spam is against YouTube TOS, because if everyone did it, with the goal of trying to increase their online presence, YouTube would just collapse, the comment sections would be unreadable, and it would be a much worse place for everyone. So people who do this are, generally speaking, completely selfish assholes, who do not think for a moment about the implications of the actions on other people. I talked to the dude, and he just seemed to believe it was some sort of harmless fun and tried to make the justification that it's giving people additional engagement, so it will benefit some creators. When in reality, this is nonsense, of course, because the comments will match the distribution of comments normally, as in channels that get 10% of the comments normally will get 10% of these Waffle House comments, channels that get 5% of the comments normally will get 5% of these Waffle House comments, and it will just go down like that, so it will just match the normal distribution, and no one will receive any additional benefit in any metrics that actually matter. If you wanna think of it this way, when everyone's a super, no one's a super. When everyone's receiving these Waffle House comments, they may as well not exist, as far as improvements in the metrics. So what I'm saying is, this is dumb, and this dude's an asshole. I personally was receiving what, like, 50 of these comments an hour, it made my comment section intolerable and very difficult to read, and if this works for him and it gains him some traction and gains him some viewership, gains him some notoriety, of which he clearly craves, then it might just become a new trend, and I might have to deal with this every fucking day, and I really hope that doesn't happen. I did it too sorry. People just wanna join in. People just wanna be a part of the crowd, wanna be part of the meme. I don't blame anyone for doing this. The individual people who get swept along in the crowd, I blame the person who started the crowd in the first place. |
| 02. April 2021 | "You are not an editing professional, you are a YouTuber” | You are not an editing professional, you are a YouTuber. You're not an editing professional, you're a YouTuber. It's funny, the people who edit professionally, doing stuff other than YouTube videos, tend to be terrible at making YouTube videos. Because knowledge of Adobe does not necessarily give you an understanding of scene composition, or what should be included or what shouldn't be included, or pacing, or how to cut when there's a constant background noise and stuff. Like, the people who tend to think that editing for YouTube is easy, suck massively. I've had people who've been like, man, this is like the easiest fucking thing I've ever fucking seen, dude. And they make a video and it's like the worst fucking thing you've ever seen. There's just some people who have no fucking idea, and they have no idea that they have no fucking idea. It's the same people who say, oh man, you just play video games for a living, bro. Maybe a bit of Dunning Kruger or whatever, where it's just, you know so fucking little that you don't understand how to, you know, you know? It's funny, Bobby, a lot of the stuff that you might agonize over on a YouTube video, the audience is in general not gonna care. The creative cool edits do matter. We've talked about before, it's just a matter of time management, deciding what truly matters, what you need to spend your time on, what you don't. |
| 21. March 2021 | 'Smug Dancing Girl' and the risk of losing it all. | Smug dance girl and the risk of losing it all. Who is the little guy dancing at the end of my video? It's the little girl from Manhattan time. It's from a meme called Smug Dancin' that was popular for like a week. I have no reason to remove it. So it's staying. I should probably remove it though, you never know when it might bite me in the ass of YouTube. No don't, people don't even know the meme! You're always that way chat, you don't like change. This is different, Strimmer, I don't like it. Do the normal thing. Strimmer why you change? Coland A. Because it's technically a copyrighted image or whatever. I'm sure they won't give a shit but I mean it's just you know. Like you always think about these stories where a person will be using seven seconds of a little bit of music of a song in their outro. And then that... The people who own that song are like, oh what are you doing? You're using our music, oh my god content ID, all your videos. Like multiple times people have had to like use the YouTube editor and like remove audio from their outros or intros just to appease some music creator or whatever right? Wasn't Pyrocynical an example of that? When you become a big content creator and you really like what you have you begin analyzing what are my vulnerabilities here? What are the ways that I can be screwed over? What are the ways that I can lose the thing that I enjoy most? You know? I have not ever experienced the level of satisfaction with my life as I have while being a streamer and content creator in general I suppose. And so I'm fearful of losing it, you know? There are many ways you can get screwed over but that is life. You know? Everyday people are completely screwed over by stuff entirely outside of their control or stuff that is like thousands, millions to one kind of stuff that potentially they could have prevented. But you can't spend your entire life looking for those one in a million chance things and trying to safeguard yourself from them. Else you're going to end up in a small box with bubble wrap only communicating with the world through like 10 inches of bulletproof glass kind of thing, you know? Life is some amount of risk. But obviously my politics is an understanding that this risk exists and a belief that society should mitigate this risk for people. As in the guaranteed minimum should be above death situation or death. Whereas absence controls the people everyday can suffer death situation and death without, you know, without any ability to prevent it. What I'm saying is life has some downsides. You may have noticed. Sometimes bad stuff happens in life. I know this may be a shock to most of you a bit. It's true. Life is not all sunshine, rainbows and cute puppies. Everyone wouldn't want my life and returning to dating. I'm giving life advice now. |
| 23. November 2020 | (Pre-election) Would I bet $1000 Biden would win? | win. This also was recorded prior to the US election. Like if someone walked up to me right now and said look, I'll give you two to one odds, you know, you give me a thousand dollars and I'll give you two thousand if Biden wins. I'd be like yeah, absolutely. I would absolutely bet a thousand dollars that Biden's gonna win the election. Not because I'm 100% certain, but because it's, with all information available, it is the most likely outcome, you know, give it 70-80% and that's just a smart bet to make even if in the end you end up losing. If you make that bet the entirety of your life, by the end of your life you'll end up ahead. So you'd be stupid not to make it. Oh, even with the electoral college, everything suggests he will still win. It's not the electoral college you have to worry about, it's the potential shenanigans after that. It's the pandemic, it's the mail-in voting. It's as if it was just, if everyone got a button in front of them that they could press on election day, Biden would win hands down easily by every estimation that we have. But the actual process of communicating that through the mail or on the day or whatever, getting out of your echo chamber. |
| 31. July 2021 | 10% of Australians are millionaires | 10% of Australians are millionaires From my understanding managers in Australia, they were already getting paid Well, isn't the minimum wage here is high You know if you're working full-time somewhere you're making a good living this is a rich country like I I saw something yesterday that 10% of Australians are millionaires I assumed that means Mainly retirees and stuff right which doesn't surprise me because of the way superannuation works where like everyone is Obligated to save money in what I guess Americans call a 401k or something or whatever you know I'm like a a certain amount of your salary for the whole entire country goes into that and That can end up being quite a significant amount of money if a person works You know from 18 to 60 ish or whatever that in fact a lot of over 60s in Australia are sitting on probably They bought for like 10k back in the 70s and now with a million. Yeah true my grandfather being a I don't think the house Worth a million dollars, but he told me he bought like a plot of land for like 50 bucks When he was younger and because you know he was a builder He would go down with a couple of his mates Every weekend to this suburb that had barely been developed or that like there was no house around like there's no good infrastructure whatever and they just build a house there he built the house, and he sold that house and Bought another house like a few streets down because it was like on the water He preferred to be on the water, but like that they probably sold the house for I know $200-300,000 over here It's a strong return on investment, but but you go to go there now the whole thing is massively developed or whatever That's the advantage I suppose of being able to do plumbing and building and all that stuff yourself And you just buy some land in the middle of nowhere that no one wants and then just a suburb building around it Oh, yeah, this was this was decades ago 200 300 K Your nun bought two bits of land in the inner city for 25 pounds and sold it for like 30 ish pound She kept the land we worth a ton right now. I mean if you go back 50 years By effectively anything if it's if it's still around today It's worth a box on right and there's a guaranteed to be heaps of people who bought stuff for 25 bucks or whatever It's worth nothing now. Whatever you know it's just Am I rich relatively speaking yes, I'm not buying multiple houses rich, but I'm Don't have to worry about bills rich the generosity of my viewers is pretty crazy to consider |
| 04. March 2021 | 100% Chaos mod run. | 100% Chaos Mod Run. Could Season 5 of Chaos be 100% Chaos? It really depends on how long it takes to get through Season 4. Because the only way I'm going to be doing 100% Chaos is if I get back to doing 100% Speedruns. Which I might do, quicker than you might think, but it really depends. And 100% Chaos would be so fucking terrible. Mainly for the random events and stuff. Definitely with 100% Chaos there will be a lot of me having to change things to complete the run when you've screwed up one particular thing and I have to do something else as a replacement. Just imagine doing parachute jumps and stuff. |
| 28. November 2020 | 100% PB Video, Returning to 100%, 100% Chaos. | My 100% PB video returning to 100% and 100% chaos. I've heard from a lot of people now that they've watched my 100% speedrun, my PB of GT5 multiple times. I do remember a lot of funny stuff happening in it, and I think there was some pretty good conversations in there that weren't necessarily political in nature but had some philosophy or whatever that, just interesting stuff to think about. But I can't remember all of its contents, but I guess the video having so many views is more than just the algorithm liking long videos or some garbage. People have told me many times it's actually a really good video. It's gonna suck if I beat the PB and the next one isn't gonna be as good. 100% is not gonna be chill when I get back to it. Like, the standards for speedruns are just a lot higher these days. More than that though, people just get better at the game over time, you know? When you look at Summoning Salt's video that just came out, looking at Mario Kart 64, one of the factors that he points out caused some time save over the course of the years. It's just people getting better at the game. No new strats necessarily need to be found, but if people just play long enough, the standards for what is normal or acceptable continue to go down. And because I've been out of consistently speedrunning for so long, it's gonna be a long time before I can meet that standard again. I don't plan to go back to 100% anytime soon. I'll be going back to Classic first. The only reason I kinda wanna skip over Classic and go to 100% is because I wanna do Chaos. Chaos 100%. But physically, 100% is so goddamn demanding. You need to be in a real good physical state of a day to be able to get through an entire 10-hour run of GTA V. 100% Chaos will be so goddamn difficult. I can just imagine doing a parachute jump and being teleported away and having to find my way all the way back to that parachute jump. I would just go... |
| 04. March 2021 | 100% chaos mod run. | 100% Chaos Mod Run. Could Season 5 of Chaos be 100% Chaos? It really depends on how long it takes to get through Season 4. Because the only way I'm going to be doing 100% Chaos is if I get back to doing 100% Speedruns. Which I might do, quicker than you might think, but it really depends. And 100% Chaos would be so fucking terrible. Mainly for the random events and stuff. Definitely with 100% Chaos there will be a lot of me having to change things to complete the run when you've screwed up one particular thing and I have to do something else as a replacement. Just imagine doing parachute jumps and stuff. |
| 19. January 2022 | 1000 iq react content plan. | What was an IQ react content plan? It'd be very funny if like, you became even lazy as a reactor. So you just like, generated like a thousand different reactions and kept yourself fairly still during all of them. Then you gave that to editors and just said, look, find YouTube videos and put me reacting on those videos. So you'd be there and go, ha, that's so funny. And then like, it would zoom away from your camera and show the video and then it would zoom back and it would show the same thing again. I wonder how long you'd get away with that. |
| 17. May 2021 | 1080p vs 1440p vs 4k gaming | 1080p versus 1440p versus 4k gaming I was in the RTX mods, but there's always been graphing mods for this game. I haven't looked too deeply into them What's that meme? Sure 4k 60 FPS is great, but I prefer this and it's 144 FPS 1440p Top gear meme. I mean it's being done like a thousand different times, but why not 4k 144 Hertz I mean unless you're playing like CSGO you ain't getting that in any good game I mean, I would say force I mean I've said that many times the 1440p is that sweet spot, but I mean I'm sure as Technology continues to improve. I mean what well there might be the mission which turns out a bit like Eventually the standard will improve. I think one of the problems though is like like playing games Yourself is different from say streaming stuff with streaming stuff You need like the actual infrastructure of your like the internet to be improved for like everyone But so like for 1440p to become like the standard for online video Whatever it's still not like only for like 5% of people do 1440p for online video What I mean is like the graphics that you're doing for your games will probably always be potentially higher than Stream stuff because it's easier to upgrade your PC than it is to upgrade the entire Internet infrastructure for a country then maybe I'm speaking in an elitist way right like maybe you guys aren't doing 1440p You guys are probably still doing 1080p on average right can someone do a Pole do you tend to play games in 1080p or 1440p and I speak specifically for Games that have both options, which I guess is all you know like if you're just you just play games in your mobile Don't don't bother answering. I mean you give like a third option not applicable, but you don't play games I mean sure like higher than 1440 is just 4040 or higher you know do consoles cut yeah I guess because the newer consoles can do 1440 like I only moved to 1440p because of Streaming and video creation stuff trying to make my content look as fucking crisp as possible I only care about frame rates like significant frame rates because you know kind of matters for The smoothness of the content out better well I complain stuff. You know yeah, so this 72% you are still doing 1080p Yeah, so I guess then well actually There's actually fewer than the polls we do for Watching YouTube and I mean given that I'm polling twitch which skews older It's more niche side or whatever right so potentially like even fewer people than that use 1440p so yeah, I guess like online video and Gaming resolutions are probably still about the same at 1080p Because we're way away from 1440p. I would know I'm way away from 4k as the average 1440p is too expensive yeah, that's certainly true the bang for your buck is still definitely in the realm of 1080p And 1080p still looks great. You know but 1440p Once you experience it you do recognize it is kind of like the sweet spot you can look at for like You can look at 4k, but yeah, it's better like yeah, but if you go from 1080p to 1440p like okay I definitely think I'm different is a huge difference. Yeah, you can get some good 1440p monitors cheap ah Maybe now and if you go 24 inches Rather than 27 and of course if you want 144 Hertz that definitely jacks up the price as well You know I mean cheap is relative right maybe there's some cheap 1440p 144 Hertz monitors, but there's definitely cheaper 1080p 144 Hertz monitors doesn't matter how cheap something is it's expensive to someone Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 15. December 2020 | 1984 | 1984. You started reading 1984? You no longer want to be one of those people who have never read the book yet quoted a lot? I have, at no point in my life, ever called something like 1984, nor have I ever alluded to possibly having read the book, because I have not. I feel like the minority on that sometimes. |
| 01. January 2020 | 2 am in the hungry jacks parking lot | 2am in the Hungry Jacks parking lot. So as most normal people do, I drove to Hungry Jacks at 1am to get myself a stunner meal. Occasionally I'll eat it in the parking lot as normal people do. So I'm sitting there in the parking lot in my car at 2am, you know, just chilling, watching YouTube, and I'm like midway through eating my chips because I ate the ice cream then the chips as you do. A guy comes over and knocks on my window. This guy probably around my age, facial hair, like he's just on the fucking phone, it's 2am, I'm just like what? And he gives me no sign that he wants anything from me, but he just taps on my window and he just sits there with his arm on my car. I'm like, does he think he knows me? Like what's going on? And he just kept sitting there and I lock my doors and he's not doing anything else. Is this guy at 2am just feeling entitled to take a fucking break, take a breather on my car while I'm in it? Talk about violating personal space. So I just put my shit down and I reverse away and I've probably clipped him a little bit with the side mirror, but who gives a shit? I just leave and he's just looking at me as I'm driving away. I'm like, what was his expectations of me? Who did he think I was? Did he want to steal my car? Did he want to kill me? I don't even know. It's just such a weird interaction that I'm going to think about for the rest of my life going what the fuck was that? |
| 04. May 2021 | 20% of my audience plays Genshin Impact | to fail. 20% of my audience plays Genshin Impact. Can someone make a poll and ask how many people here have played Genshin Impact? Like every time I hear about that game, it's like, it's making a billion dollars, it's making a hundred, it's making a trillion, it's making a planet size worth of money. And I see clips of it and I'm like, oh this actually looks pretty decent for a, pretty good for a mobile game, but like I've just never met anyone who's played it. So 20% of people there had played Genshin Impact. I mean, you say, you say only 20%, but it's a mobile game in a stream for Grand Theft Auto V. I guess the reason is just because of how large mobile gaming is and how many people go to school, go to work or their stuff and can't be at their PC. So they just grab onto whatever is the biggest mobile game. Interesting. I heard once that like 80% of games that are made don't make their money back. Like while the gaming industry is huge, it's in the same way that like Twitch and YouTube is, where it's like they're just the people at the top making the vast majority of that money. I wonder if the people making the game were like, yeah, this game is going to make billions of dollars when they put it together. It's on PC? Yeah, but it's came from mobile though. I doubt the majority of Genshin Impact players up on PC. Can someone just look it up? Like what percentage of the player base is on PC? Now, there's no way the majority is on PC. Any game that's popular on mobile always has more people playing on mobile because everyone has a fucking mobile phone. Not everyone has a PC or whatever, especially when you're counting, you know, the Asian region. 38% on PC? 39 million PC players? Guys, becoming a Genshin Impact streamer? What do you think of mobile games that target little kids to take their parents money? Fuck, that's not mobile. That is not in any way, shape or form what mobile games target. Mobile games target like the bored motherfucker programmer dude who's making a hundred K a year, has no friends and wants to buy loot boxes. You know what I'm saying? Like the people with just no nothing, they work a high paying job, but do nothing else with themselves. And so they just have money to throw at shark cars and shit, the whales, you know? I am sure that these mobile games do take some money from kids, but the amount of kids who have the balls or just have normal access to their parents' credit cards is very tiny compared to the amount of people who just have credit cards. It's crossplay so all platforms can play at once and half the player base is on PlayStation 4 PC? Interesting. You know what they say chat? Waifu's cell. That is definitely expression as old as the economy itself. They've been saying that shit since the 1300s. Well, you know, waifu's cell. Let's put some hot women on the inside. Paint some anime women on your boat and somehow you make it to your voyage. Never got into these games, but it will be interesting to maybe try it one day. I feel like I've just worked in the capacity to promote the game and I haven't been paid for it. Look guys, don't pay Genshin Impact unless they pay. As a matter of fact, don't play any game unless they pay. |
| 18. July 2022 | 2012-2016 DarkViperAU. | 2012 to 2016 Dark Viper AU. Recently I went back to look over my really old footage, as in the 2012 to 2016 era of Dark Viper AU. When I did a lot of social commentary, just you know, communicating my thoughts kind of content on the channel Dark Viper8888. It's all garbage content. Garbage. But it's how I got my start, you know. Where I'm so much worse at communicating my ideas, yet I'm expressing them with far more confidence than I would express them today. The arrogance of being in your early 20s, you know. Everyone in their early 20s knows exactly what the fuck's going on man, they got the entire world figured out. The channel ended up having like, you know, like 8,000 subscribers by the end. But this was the period before I started streaming on Twitch. When I started streaming on Twitch, I'd still release videos on that channel, but they'd be very rare, like one every couple of months. So this is my old YouTube channel. You may notice the name. This is because I was all in on Twitch, did not give two shits about my YouTube channels. So all the YouTube channels that I had, I named this to advertise my Twitch. 2016, this is about when I stopped kind of uploading and I did nothing in 2017, just like. So February 2019 was when I deleted the channel, I believe. You love that channel? Were you actually around back then? Because it was shit. But I mean, the standard for content back then was a lot lower, so. I'm basically just gonna make a video with a bunch of random out of context stuff. All of it is not worth re-releasing, but a random compilation of me just saying random shit, probably gonna be funny. Hello, um, yeah. Have a good one. Have a good one. Hello, um, yay. What? What? What? I mean, how is this not hilarious to anyone but me? Um, have a good one. I hope the audio quality is better. Have a good one. It's tenor on my microphone, sue me. What? What? People are stupid. Have a good one. Hello, and I also want to thank a special person out there, and that is the first person who likes my videos. I'm just like, yes, success. Um, have a good one. Enjoy. Hello, being human sucks. Dot. Just personal opinion, I know I've just been rambling, but if you- like whaaaaaaat? Yo, I'm the son of God, and yeah. Do you like my shirt? Anyway, um, have fun. Wait, no, I normally say have a good one. Hello. He loves this apparently, right? What? What? Then he's kinda stupid. Anyway, have a good one. Hey! Do something else. Have a good one. Why did I delete my old Darkviper88888 channel? It was nothing of value on it, and it was just a risk that one day someone's gonna take something from the channel and be like, ah, you said this one time, and I'll be like, ahhh. When it comes to the social media game, is in your best interest to limit your liabilities. I talked about that story before where my Prime Minister was asked about one of his cabinet members' tweets from 2011. Once upon a time, I thought like, I'd never wipe my tweets. That's crazy, that's history, but uh, the longer I've gone on, there's just a lot of bad actors out there who do their best to misinterpret or, um, present things in a way that clearly was not intended. It doesn't matter how well you can defend yourself, a certain portion of people won't listen. It's just a lot of wasted time dealing with that shit. |
| 18. December 2019 | 2019 YouTube Rewind Reaction | My reaction moments after watching the 2019 YouTube rewind. Who would dislike this? That was really good. Any video that they made that was a rewind was going to have issues of like, like I didn't recognize any of that, like half those people, I'm going to say 90% of those people, but I can contextualize how significant they are because they gave me stats and numbers and I really enjoyed that. I learned things from that video. I gained a grander perspective of YouTube as a whole, which is something that I wouldn't have happened with a standard YouTube rewind. I saw creators that I liked, I saw creators that I didn't like and you know, why would anyone dislike this? What else did they fucking want? It was really well edited and it sounded good that it was edited well together. It felt a bit fast at times, but I understood what was going on at all times. The music was good. The only way I think people could hate this is if they saw creators that they hate and went fuck dad I'm disliking because that creator was included, but you can't even blame YouTube for the people that they included because they're just going by the stats. You can't even say, oh they didn't like this creator so they excluded them or whatever. You can't even make that argument because the people were excluded based on their popularity or what have you. There's gonna be no controversies of, oh man this person was left out in the sun or whatever or YouTube made them false promises about YouTube rewind. That's not gonna fucking happen because it's just a video like this and it was certainly cheaper to make. To add a bit more here, previous rewinds had controversies surrounding people being flown out to sit in the sun for an entire day to record something and only end up being included for like a second. Wasting their time and organizing everyone's schedules to be there at the same time was a huge hassle and a burden on a lot of creators. Nothing about this video is bad to me. Let's see these comments. Oh so people just copy paste in the same comment and the comment section is broken because there's so many comments being made. That's really fucking dumb. Maybe I am a boomer chat. I'm now literally in the situation where I'm like hey billion dollar company you did good. Fucking normies you did bad. Do I plan on doing any more modded speedruns other than Chaos%? Any more mad mods planned outside of Chaos? I mean what can top Chaos? Why I found Chaos the problem was... |
| 23. January 2021 | 2020 Wasn’t all bad. | 2020 wasn't all bad. There's this funny video from, I can't remember his name, if this ends up in a Rambles I'll find it. But he does this little skit where anyone who had a good 2020 has to kind of pretend that they had a bad 2020 because for the vast majority of people 2020 was a far worse year than average. My life is better in literally every single way in 2020. I loved 2020. 2020 was the greatest. Oh hey guys, thank god this terrible year is almost over. Oh yeah, totally awful year. Worst year ever. Terrible year. And so you seem like a complete jerk if you're like, man 2020 was great. And certainly while 2020 wasn't great in the sense of it was annoying, frustrating, I couldn't do a lot of things I would have liked to have done, my 2020 was pretty good in terms of like growth of my channel and stuff and I would have rathered it had been better for other people though honestly. It's one of those things where as bad as this year has been, I guess for most people there probably would have been at least some highlights or whatever. The thing is though 2020 definitely could have been better and certainly I wouldn't attribute any good things that happened to me this year to necessarily being because of like coronavirus or something. Like absent coronavirus, I think my year would have just been better. So my year wasn't bad and I've acknowledged many times that I did not suffer nearly as much as the average person because of coronavirus. But I do feel bad sometimes when I think man I did pretty good in this whole thing, especially by being in a job where you benefit from people being more likely to stay home and stuff. It doesn't feel good to profit off the misfortune of others. Oh true yeah I guess I'm not, you're right it's not like I'm the one causing their problems or whatever or what have you. I'm not in anything exacerbating their misfortune. If anything I'm trying to make it better but it's still much rather a case where people weren't experiencing such things. |
| 31. August 2020 | 2020 preventing me meeting people | 2020 preventing me from meeting people. Now that I have no roommates and, you know, I'm a little bit successful. I was thinking about looking into doing dating and stuff, but then I remembered COVID-19's a thing and I was like, well, fuck that shit though. This was meant to be my year where I meet people. I go to PAX and network and I like shake hands and go, oh yes, the stock market is a thing. The weather is good. And then we become friends. I believe that's how that exchange works with businessy people. I was hopefully meant to maybe even find someone to date or something, but it's not gonna happen now. I mean, good for you guys, because it means I can focus more on making content, but still. |
| 23. January 2021 | 2020 wasn’t all bad. | 2020 wasn't all bad. There's this funny video from, I can't remember his name, if this ends up in a Rambles I'll find it. But he does this little skit where anyone who had a good 2020 has to kind of pretend that they had a bad 2020 because for the vast majority of people 2020 was a far worse year than average. My life is better in literally every single way in 2020. I loved 2020. 2020 was the greatest. Oh hey guys, thank god this terrible year is almost over. Oh yeah, totally awful year. Worst year ever. Terrible year. And so you seem like a complete jerk if you're like, man 2020 was great. And certainly while 2020 wasn't great in the sense of it was annoying, frustrating, I couldn't do a lot of things I would have liked to have done, my 2020 was pretty good in terms of like growth of my channel and stuff and I would have rathered it had been better for other people though honestly. It's one of those things where as bad as this year has been, I guess for most people there probably would have been at least some highlights or whatever. The thing is though 2020 definitely could have been better and certainly I wouldn't attribute any good things that happened to me this year to necessarily being because of like coronavirus or something. Like absent coronavirus, I think my year would have just been better. So my year wasn't bad and I've acknowledged many times that I did not suffer nearly as much as the average person because of coronavirus. But I do feel bad sometimes when I think man I did pretty good in this whole thing, especially by being in a job where you benefit from people being more likely to stay home and stuff. It doesn't feel good to profit off the misfortune of others. Oh true yeah I guess I'm not, you're right it's not like I'm the one causing their problems or whatever or what have you. I'm not in anything exacerbating their misfortune. If anything I'm trying to make it better but it's still much rather a case where people weren't experiencing such things. |
| 12. September 2021 | 22/07/2016 I didn't think I could become successful | Here's me five years ago dismissing the idea of ever becoming successful as a streamer I'm not trying to get any job demo permanent twitch streamer That'd be actually kind of nice. I don't know what job I want man I'm a person with no aspirations who has no idea what they want for the future So it's very hard to say I'm gonna do this It isn't there's nothing I really want in life So it's not even like I can say I wanted to get a job that makes a lot of money so I can buy xx and x The only thing that I've found recently in the last couple of years that I really enjoy doing is speedrunning Even where even this that is just going to shit. I even enjoy doing this Well, it's not just speedrunning but streaming on twitch. I enjoy this but but it's never gonna become a job You know you can't become a permanent twitch streamer these days and even if you can it's such an It's not a secure source of income so you wouldn't really want to do it anyway for a job |
| 11. December 2019 | 24 hour stream | My opinion on 24 hour streams. 24 hour streams are in general not a good idea. Like a 24 hour stream basically makes it so you have to take like a day or two off after. If you stream 8 hours 3 days in a row it's probably going to be a better 24 hours worth of stream than if you stream 24 hours one day and took 2 days off to recover. You know? You become tired and you be like fuck I still have to stream. Like if you look at most streamers as they get towards the end of that time they look awful and they're super boring. Certainly there's value in doing it like you'll pick up a lot of viewers and AFK people or whatever and generally speaking you'll be higher up in the directory than you normally will be. But 24 hour streams are for very young people right? You may not think, maybe you don't think there's a big difference in energy between like an 8 year old. You may not think there's a huge difference between the energy of an 18 year old and a 28 year old but trust me there is. I could definitely do a 24 hour stream if I was sufficiently motivated but I can't do it like at the drop of a hat. Most of the longest streams I ever did were 16 to 18 hour streams when I was testing for 100%. People don't seem to realize how much time and energy and testing I threw into testing for 100%. It was just an insane amount of time. I had like 15 pages of different notes of things to test. In the end I shaved like an hour and 15 minutes off that category. Trust me. Realizing at 27 I can't really do 24 hour all nighters like it's nothing anymore hurts. You take that shit for granted when you're younger. I know I joke sometimes but I don't really feel old right? There's some days where I feel really tired but I don't think it's because of my age. It's probably because of my diet and exercise and stuff. You can see Soda Poppin. He still does 24 hour streams. What is he? Is he 25 or something like that? You can still do it. You realize at this age it's not worth the time. Doc is 38 years old and he did a 22 hour stream yesterday or something. It's doable. It's not as easy and you're smart enough to know that the advantage isn't really that. |
| 30. November 2020 | 2nd Pc For Streaming | Second PC just for streaming. Yeah, people who suggest second streaming PCs are probably not streamers themselves. A second PC just for streaming is so amazingly annoying. I speak from experience because I have done it. I did it for like six months. It was... made streaming so much worse. It's a lot of issues with audio sync. PCs these days are just powerful enough that you do not need a second one. Once upon a time it was really graphically intensive to stream at a reasonable quality with one PC. |
| 11. December 2020 | 3070 Benchmarks | 3070 benchmarks. 3070 benchmarks came out and it's really a completely identical to the 2080 Ti in gaming performance, maybe plus 2%. And what's its price? 2080 Ti was what, 1500 USD? And this will be what, 500 USD? That's some impressive value. Imagine moving from a 1070 to a 3070. It'll be fucking ecstatic. |
| 22. March 2021 | 3090 worth the price? | Fuck no. No normal consumer should buy a 3090. It's like the worst value product of all time. It's just for me, because it helps me with my job. It's a worthy expense. GTA 6 Rumors. Don't listen to GTA 6 Rumors. |
| 14. February 2021 | 3d printing may change everything soonish | 3D printing may change everything soonish. Clearly what we need is the ability to 3D print food. Food that is already cooked. 3D printing needs to become a thing where, like you can build stuff atom by atom. You have the basic building blocks of reality in your 3D printer and then it combines them together in a particular way to build anything. Hit on that shit science. What was I reading recently where people were talking about how there's going to be a huge revolution in the next 50 years or something with 3D printers? How so many goods are going to be a lot cheaper to 3D print at home rather than going to buy them? Like when you remove the need to ship something, all the middlemen, the labor involved in the actual construction and stuff, and all you have to do is just go online and press a button and it starts printing. You can massively reduce the cost of certain goods. But more than this, like even in things that require a lot of different parts to be built, rather than having to ship those parts from all around the world, having the ability just in one building to print each of the parts that you need and then you can put them together in that one building, that will also massively reduce the cost to build certain things. This is what they say though. I do not really know the limitations of 3D printing and what it can or can't do, and what will be possible for it in the future. |
| 14. February 2021 | 3kilksphilip | Three clicks Philip. In a video I'd only recently learned of three clicks Philip and for whatever reason I called him three licks Philip. It's very funny. Oh no, three likes Philip is what I said, that's right. What a name. I don't know. Obviously I know of him far more now. Another person who seems like a very interesting dude. I watch pretty much every video that he releases. I even watch his retrospectives on the coronavirus in the UK. There's just something about his voice that I find very soothing. Philip even said himself that according to a poll most of his viewers don't even play CS even though most of his contents around that. I mean like he has two clicks Philip and his just clicks Philip channel isn't CS. Yeah it wouldn't surprise me if the majority of my audience doesn't play GTA 5, not even GTA Online. I've said many times about CS that watching people play it at peak performance is really enjoyable. More enjoyable to me than playing the game myself and I just in general like anyone who's passionate about or passionate and very knowledgeable about a topic and clicks Philip is definitely that with CS. So do a poll if you like. How many of you played GTA Online within the last three weeks? GTA Online or GTA 5? So 56% of my audience has played GTA Online or GTA 5 in the last three weeks. That's not more than that's not that much more than half. I wonder if my YouTube audience would be different. Regardless it's still you know a lot of people who haven't played. Interesting would be how many people have ever played like what percentage who have never played GTA 5 or GTA Online who actually watch my content. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 07. February 2021 | 3kliksphilip in my Pacifist episode. | Question three clicks Philip in my recent pacifist episode. I wonder if clicks Philip received a bunch of messages When my pacifist episode came out people ask him like oh Why were you in the latest pacifist episode and he'd be so confused there imagine? for those who know what I'm talking about so Back when I did derailed pacifist, which is a few episodes ago now I messaged clicks Philip and I asked him to give me some lines two lines specifically one Rockstar, please fix and Come on Rockstar even valve would have fixed this. I didn't know which one I want to use I didn't have a specific place. I wanted to use them So I had him just had him give me them both and then when I edited derailed I found one spot to put one of the lines and the other one I was like it's It's overkill using two lines, so I kept the other line and I just happened to throw it in last minutes into the episode of pacifist that just released But I must ask for these lines like six months ago or something you can guarantee that he He wouldn't we would have completely forgotten that he gave the lines to me Especially considering that like he never sent me any messages He would just send me the sound files like he never said a single word to me It's absolutely be the sound files Obviously, I asked three clicks Philip because three clicks Philip is way better than two clicks Philip That's and that that clicks Philip guy takes Philip one. He's really sketchy I went in break pad, plea |
| 07. February 2021 | 3kliksphilip in my pacifist episode. | Question three clicks Philip in my recent pacifist episode. I wonder if clicks Philip received a bunch of messages When my pacifist episode came out people ask him like oh Why were you in the latest pacifist episode and he'd be so confused there imagine? for those who know what I'm talking about so Back when I did derailed pacifist, which is a few episodes ago now I messaged clicks Philip and I asked him to give me some lines two lines specifically one Rockstar, please fix and Come on Rockstar even valve would have fixed this. I didn't know which one I want to use I didn't have a specific place. I wanted to use them So I had him just had him give me them both and then when I edited derailed I found one spot to put one of the lines and the other one I was like it's It's overkill using two lines, so I kept the other line and I just happened to throw it in last minutes into the episode of pacifist that just released But I must ask for these lines like six months ago or something you can guarantee that he He wouldn't we would have completely forgotten that he gave the lines to me Especially considering that like he never sent me any messages He would just send me the sound files like he never said a single word to me It's absolutely be the sound files Obviously, I asked three clicks Philip because three clicks Philip is way better than two clicks Philip That's and that that clicks Philip guy takes Philip one. He's really sketchy I went in took a break ran pee |
| 17. September 2022 | 7000 series AMD CPUS | 7000 Series AMD CPUs Have you looked into the Ryzen 7000 series? If so, you plan to get one? The nanosecond that they were announced formally, I like opened my Discord and I was like, uh, eight managers, like, we got connections where I can get myself one of these? Coincidentally, they were like, you know what, it's funny, we're just talking to someone about that. You know, I was like, oh, well good. Do I want one? Of course. Like, people haven't tested them themselves, but everything suggested by the 7000 series is gonna be huge improvements. But also then I can get DDR5 and all that jazz. And maybe by having a new system, I won't have my Adobe crash all the time. Because Adobe can't figure out why it's happening. It's annoying the fuck out of me. For those unaware, I did have a sponsorship with AMD, uh, 2020. Were there supply issues at that point? Maybe a little bit. They got me a 3950X. When the 5000 series came out, I contacted them like, hey, yo, can you, uh, can you hook me up with some hardware again, my friends? But unfortunately, the supply was just so low. Even the, the AMD reps for Australia couldn't get me supply. They're like, oh, you know, maybe a little while from now, maybe we can, uh, they didn't end up getting me one. I contacted my sister who was living in Germany at the time, and they happened to have some supply. So she got me one. She's no longer in Germany, so I couldn't do that again, even if I wanted to. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 14. November 2022 | 702 Big Mac donation. | $702 Big Mac donation. Here is another 1% of a Big Mac. 100% of the way there. We have now funded a full Big Mac for Matto. Thank you for joining me on this ride. For those who don't know, True Hexproof, like years ago now, did a meme where they donated $7.02 as a 1% of a Big Mac, and now they've donated 100 times $7.02 to finally get to the $702 Big Mac value. Thank you so much, True Hexproof. I'll find some way to commemorate it by doing some Big Mac video or something. |
| 04. October 2021 | A AAA choose your own adventure game | A AAA choose your own adventure game. Imagine if the entire of a AAA game like GTA was choose your own path kind of thing. That would cost so much money to make. Making a game where your choice is actually mattered would take like a lifetime. Like for every choice you'd effectively be making a new game, a new story. Put to be really impactful and not just, you know, you take different paths to the same destination. I mean choose your own adventure is one of the things that works much better in books than it does in any other medium. The Stanley Parable? The Stanley Parable works, definitely, but I wouldn't call that a AAA game. Like think of how little you can do in Stanley Parable. You can walk. And listen, that's it. |
| 10. July 2021 | A Photoshop feature I hope exists in the future. | A feature in Photoshop I hope exists in the future. The next big advancement for this kind of software is gonna be programs that can understand what objects are. Or at least identify them. Like so I can say, you know, remove the helicopter from this image and it's just gonna be able to do it. |
| 10. July 2021 | A Photoshop feature i hope exists in the future. | A feature in Photoshop I hope exists in the future. The next big advancement for this kind of software is gonna be programs that can understand what objects are. Or at least identify them. Like so I can say, you know, remove the helicopter from this image and it's just gonna be able to do it. |
| 27. October 2022 | A Twist in the story of getting my 20k blinds. | A twist in the story of getting my $20,000 blinds. So the ramble hasn't come out yet, but I told you guys I had so many issues with installing my blinds, and the dude who owns the business ended up calling me up and apologizing for the complete clusterfuck that it has been, because there's been even more issues since the ramble that you guys haven't seen that hasn't come out yet occurred. Long story short, I walked into a store to order blinds four months ago for like over $20,000, and I still don't have them. And even worse than that, despite me pointing out all the reasons why there was going to be issues, I was not listened to, my emails were not answered. As I say, I still don't have them after like four months now. And it's being delayed even further, because the thing that I pointed out like nine times that they had to order, they did not order, is not going to be even starting until November the 4th. There's going to be like over five months to get blinds installed in my house. Insane. So the dude calls me up, he's like, yeah man, I'm sorry, this is not how I want to run my business, it's not normally what happens, I can't make excuses. I kind of wish he had made excuses, because I would like to know how this happened. Just a clusterfuck at every single point of communication to get blinds installed. Every single promise or timeframe suggested by anyone at any level of the business was a lie, and I still don't have blinds. But the funniest thing is, when the conversation was over and he hung up, he had woke me up by the way, but that's not really his fault, it's because I have terrible sleeping, so I was sleeping during the day. Like I don't blame people for that, because I mean, if I didn't want to be working, I would turn off my phone. But then I'm getting back to sleep, and he calls me back again, he's like, hey, you're DarkFiveAU. I'm like, oh, yes, yes I am. He's like, oh, I know your stuff, and I Googled to see what was going on, hey, you do good stuff. I'm like, alright, thanks for watching my stuff, bye. Small world, but I'd much rather he had not known about my work, because I am super pissed off that I don't have these blinds. Like it wasn't even just the four going on five months for these dudes. I'd been trying to get blinds for months before then. I've probably been trying to get blinds now for like a year, all in the hopes of at least a little bit fixing my bad sleep, and I just, I cannot believe how difficult this is. |
| 07. February 2021 | A career in social media is a fairly new thing. | A career in social media is a fairly new thing. It's funny to think how new my career still is, right? No one really knows how long you can like maintain an audience or whatever. Like what's the longest career anyone's had in social media? Ten years? Surely more. Like, I mean Destiny is who I think of when I think of a long career. He's been around for like ten years, right? And then there's people like Day 9 or whatever. People from... was StarCraft kind of like the first real big esport? Smallish was like 19 years? Really? Fuck. Ninja True. I mean, then again, when we're talking about these people, we're talking about people who started when they were like 13, right? We're not talking about old fucks like me, who started when they were 22, I guess. And I got reasonably successful when I was 26-ish. It is interesting how I can recognize all the names of the people that you're listing. I'm sure there are people who are more new to the scene. New to... I mean younger people watching YouTube and Twitch and stuff who won't know these people. You're watching YouTube when you were eight? YouTube didn't even exist when I was eight. I'm 26. How old am I? I'm 29. It's true that the best way to be big on a social media is to grow with that social media. But that was kind of back when people didn't really know. Like, okay, okay, so like when you think back to Pokemon cards, for example, the reason why Pokemon cards back from like the 90s are so rare is because no one realized that they'd be super worth a lot of money. You know, decades from now, no one realized that they would actually matter, right? In the same way that all these people who got really big with the growth of YouTube, with the growth of Twitch, no one knew that was going to be possible, that such success was possible. And that's why kind of they were able to do it. If it was obvious that such a thing could be achieved, so many more people would have been trying to do it and the odds of those particular people succeeding would have been much, much lower, right? I just said I was 29. I'm old enough to seem like I have my shit together to people who are young. I'm old enough to seem smart because I've had a few years to think about some stuff. But I'm not so old that people look at me as if like I'm their father, whatever. I mean, certainly becoming complacent is a way to lose your popularity. But I think for a lot of people, they get rich and then they're like, I don't really want to go to the effort to grinds to be competitive. I'm just going to do what I'm comfortable with. And then they sit and what they're comfortable with until they peter out, you know, it really depends, I suppose, for the popular content creators, what they're there for. Like I sincerely like making content. I don't think that's going to change. I like having an audience, you know. |
| 24. December 2021 | A channel that reviews heaps of MMOs. | A channel that reviews heaps of MMOs. So, I don't get to play MMOs anymore. I haven't played one since WoW, I guess. But there's this guy, Josh Strife Hayes, who just plays MMOs. This is an insane concept to me. Like, I always assumed that everyone would just, like, stick to one MMO until it crashed, or they truly got sick of it and moved onto another one and moved onto another one. This guy has apparently, like, played them all, and even makes it, you know, a series out of trying different MMOs. And explaining why he thinks they're flawed or good or what they've succeeded, what they failed at. And I find it very interesting. But in part, it's just his voice. His voice is just so nice to listen to. Listen to this. Tree of Saviour is perhaps proof that even if you have stunningly beautiful graphics helping to create a classically gorgeous world, solid and responsive movement with impactful, satisfying action combat gameplay. I'll just sit here, editing, listening to this guy being like, this has too many microtransactions, or this has too many level systems or whatever. And I'm just like, yeah, okay. It's that kind of content that I am clearly not internalizing any of the information. But while I'm listening to it, it's just so smoothing and nice to have a person break something down that they're very passionate about, you know? |
| 24. January 2022 | A cop thought I stole my own car | A cop thought I stole my own car. There's only one time in my life that I can recall getting in on the wrong side of the car. I went to the petrol station once. It was like 2am. I was going to the gym. Super dead at night. Fog everywhere. And there's this cop that's pulled in at the petrol station and they're refilling their car. I was like, oh shit, a cop. I had no reason to be worried about cops obviously, but I mean I'm afraid of authority figures. And so I pull in my car and I wanted to pull in at least one pump away from him or whatever. So I wasn't right next to him. But I didn't realize the pump that I pulled into was on the wrong side for my car petrol tank. And so I had to get out, realize, go oh shit, sheepishly get back into my car, pull my car out again and drive into another pump. I don't know why I did. I was just driven a little further away, but that might look suspicious. But I ended up in the pump right next to the cop and the cop looks at me like, is that your car, mate? I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it is. He's like, you sure? Yeah, absolutely. He's like, I think the number plate is actually for my mother's or whatever. But I think I was driving my mother's car at the time. I was super nervous, dude. I still remember to this day. And he's like, where are you going? I'm like, I go to the gym. He's like, all right, well, be careful or whatever. |
| 24. January 2022 | A cop thought i stole my own car | A cop thought I stole my own car. There's only one time in my life that I can recall getting in on the wrong side of the car. I went to the petrol station once. It was like 2am. I was going to the gym. Super dead at night. Fog everywhere. And there's this cop that's pulled in at the petrol station and they're refilling their car. I was like, oh shit, a cop. I had no reason to be worried about cops obviously, but I mean I'm afraid of authority figures. And so I pull in my car and I wanted to pull in at least one pump away from him or whatever. So I wasn't right next to him. But I didn't realize the pump that I pulled into was on the wrong side for my car petrol tank. And so I had to get out, realize, go oh shit, sheepishly get back into my car, pull my car out again and drive into another pump. I don't know why I did. I was just driven a little further away, but that might look suspicious. But I ended up in the pump right next to the cop and the cop looks at me like, is that your car, mate? I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it is. He's like, you sure? Yeah, absolutely. He's like, I think the number plate is actually for my mother's or whatever. But I think I was driving my mother's car at the time. I was super nervous, dude. I still remember to this day. And he's like, where are you going? I'm like, I go to the gym. He's like, all right, well, be careful or whatever. |
| 08. June 2020 | A deathless speedrun | A deathless speedrun of GTA V. Speedrunning the game without dying would be really fucking easy, like super, super easy. The only deaths that tend to happen in speedruns is intentional deaths. Like I've done heaps of runs where I've never died unintentionally. A death when I was real competitive would basically kill the run and I would have to reset. Like a non-intended death. A speedrun though without deaths would just be, you know, slowing the game down. I mean, it wouldn't take that much more time to complete the game without deaths. But you know, you know. |
| 27. July 2021 | A difference between Twitch and Youtube sponsorships | A difference between Twitch and YouTube sponsorships. I don't pick when the sponsor stream happens. With YouTube sponsors, very frequently it's like, here's the month, put it out in that period, because we're doing a particular sale or something. But with Twitch, the point isn't just to have one streamer promote something, it's usually a bunch of streamers promote something at the same time. |
| 04. July 2022 | A dumb way to ruin your sleeping pattern | A dumb way to ruin your sleeping pattern. Oh, my sleeping pattern's completely fucked up. I just kind of mindlessly built and cleaned until midnight. Just didn't look at the clock, just listened to my audio book and just cleaned and built. And then I got to the end, I'm like, what time is it? Oh shit, it's like 12.30. So I probably went to bed at like four in the morning or something. |
| 20. July 2021 | A gaming company doesn't like me | me. I found out recently that a particular gaming company doesn't like me. I won't say who or why, and it's not Rockstar, obviously. Although Rockstar may not like me, I don't know. I have no way of knowing that. But I found this out and I was actually quite surprised. I guess you, as a content creator, you just assume that like you're either too small for companies to care or that I don't know, like even if they do, like it's just going to be about the business for them. So they're not going to care if you're critical of them or whatever. But I guess that doesn't always happen. Maybe companies just have people whose specific job is to handle the social media and pick and choose which people are in the good books and which are in the bad books, you know. I guess that would make sense for all companies to have because you'd be worried that a person would... Because obviously it's illegal to say you have to be positive about this thing when they give you money for a review or something. But obviously you can stack the deck in your favor by only hiring people or paying people for reviews or giving people access or whatever to those who are already favorable to you, right? I imagine this happens in every industry, I imagine, right? Yeah. It's just something I didn't put a lot of time thinking about. I wonder how many other companies like that fucking dark viper guy, oh, I am not a fan. Oh, you know, not sure. I'm really going to change what I do, but still. Am I well known? What I consider... |
| 13. March 2023 | A gaming publication gave me a shout-out. | A gaming publication gave me a shout out. GTA 5 video gathers the game's funniest glitches in one place. Those who know the name DarkFiperAU will be familiar with their GTA content. In 2022 a video showed that the youtuber had taken three years to do a Passage Run of Grand Theft Auto V. Yeah, so these articles, I don't think they lead to a significant amount of traction to my video or like me as a creator, but these articles are very good because a lot of places in more traditional media still only really respects like actual publications, actual articles being written about you. Like it doesn't matter that I have over a million subscribers on YouTube. They were like, uh, don't care. But if I go, oh, I had an article written about me six days ago by Andrew Heaton. They were like, oh really? An article in Game Man? Oh, you must be a big shot. Yeah. Yeah, so I appreciate these things. It's nice. It's how I got verified on Twitter after all. Just linked them like a dozen. |
| 08. September 2021 | A guy I knew who could suck himself | A guy I knew who could suck himself. The first time I can remember a Matt saying, all Matt's are awesome. It was a friend of a friend who was well known for being able to suck his own dick. Not that I saw it, apparently he did it at a party that I was at. Fun fact, I cannot suck my own dick, so that's not a common thing for all Matt's. Like I'm sure he can't like, you know, really go down on himself. Like he could probably just, you know, suck his tip or some shit like that. But it's a very weird party favor. Did well with the women. Probably don't need to be surprised when I say that. He's a...attractive fellow. Wonder what he's doing himself now. |
| 11. September 2022 | A guy reuploaded my short onto TikTok | A guy re-uploaded my short onto TikTok. So seeing all this effort that I'm putting in chat and talking before how you can totally, if you really want to, just take the idea from one of these shorts and just make it yourself. You can do that. It'd take you a couple of hours at best because you already know how it needs to be formulated and how it needs to be done. You can do this. And there's nothing I can do to stop you. So it annoys me when stuff like this happens and people will just rip my shorts to their TikTok and he rips one of mine. He's like, video credits, DarkviperAU. What am I meant to do with your credit, my dude? What do you think that's going to do? I have right now millions of people watching shorts on my own fucking channel and I can't get them to watch my other content. What do you think a credit on TikTok on a different channel is gonna do? With the exposure, exactly. It's dumb. So not only did I write a comment saying, hey, you take down my shit, I filed a DMCA on this. I don't know if it actually went through, but the video is down. But not only that, I found his YouTube channel where I cannot tell you how crazy this is. He also re-uploaded the short. But what was weird to me is that it only had three views. It did well on TikTok. It did well on my channel. So it's suggesting what I've thought for a while now. The channel that you upload the shorts on actually matters. But my God, you had something that you knew worked. All you had to do was just recreate yourself. It's there for anyone to fucking take. Of course, you'd have to put in the effort, which is not effortless. I mean, you have to find the exact same music. You have to sync up all the dialogue and captions. But this is easily the easiest one of the shorts to make, because there was no tracking. What is this world where even ripping people off, even that has to be done in the scammiest way possible? You can rip off people without even the possibility of repercussion, and you still, you still fucking cheat it. It's insane. The world sucks. |
| 11. September 2022 | A guy reuploaded my short onto tiktok | A guy re-uploaded my short onto TikTok. So seeing all this effort that I'm putting in chat and talking before how you can totally, if you really want to, just take the idea from one of these shorts and just make it yourself. You can do that. It'd take you a couple of hours at best because you already know how it needs to be formulated and how it needs to be done. You can do this. And there's nothing I can do to stop you. So it annoys me when stuff like this happens and people will just rip my shorts to their TikTok and he rips one of mine. He's like, video credits, DarkviperAU. What am I meant to do with your credit, my dude? What do you think that's going to do? I have right now millions of people watching shorts on my own fucking channel and I can't get them to watch my other content. What do you think a credit on TikTok on a different channel is gonna do? With the exposure, exactly. It's dumb. So not only did I write a comment saying, hey, you take down my shit, I filed a DMCA on this. I don't know if it actually went through, but the video is down. But not only that, I found his YouTube channel where I cannot tell you how crazy this is. He also re-uploaded the short. But what was weird to me is that it only had three views. It did well on TikTok. It did well on my channel. So it's suggesting what I've thought for a while now. The channel that you upload the shorts on actually matters. But my God, you had something that you knew worked. All you had to do was just recreate yourself. It's there for anyone to fucking take. Of course, you'd have to put in the effort, which is not effortless. I mean, you have to find the exact same music. You have to sync up all the dialogue and captions. But this is easily the easiest one of the shorts to make, because there was no tracking. What is this world where even ripping people off, even that has to be done in the scammiest way possible? You can rip off people without even the possibility of repercussion, and you still, you still fucking cheat it. It's insane. The world sucks. |
| 17. December 2022 | A key Twitch feature keeping people on Twitch | playlist. A key feature keeping streamers on Twitch. So the bouncy board for those who are unaware is like Twitch's integrated system where they offer you advertising deals basically, sponsorships if you like. So what my management team does for me, Twitch does integrate into their systems for their partners. The problem with this though is that, at least for me, it's only available like America, UK, Canada, France and maybe one other place, maybe Germany. So it was never available in Australia. The bouncy board has existed for at least three to four years now and despite promises that it would come to Australia, it never came and it was always a sore spot for me. One of the many ways that Twitch let me down and one of the many reasons why there's no reason for me to be there. You're gonna understand for content creators who are like in the US and stuff, this is one more advantage that Twitch has over YouTube. So PokeyLols leaks their bounty page on Twitch, which is funny because I believe Mizkif did the exact same thing a few years ago and these guys are pretty close if I recall correctly. So he averages 6,000 viewers per stream and they're offering him a grand to watch a trailer for Cocaine Bear. A thousand dollars for watching an audible original The Sandman. I like that audiobook, I've listened to it all, it's very good. Browse Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments, don't know what this is. Watch another trailer, audible original, another trailer. Stream Genshin Impact for one hour, $7,365. He's done all these as well. So this money may seem like really really good money but for a 6,000 viewer streamer, you can get way more money than this, just with like a normal management team. Because 6,000 viewers is a lot. Does leaking this violate an NDA? No, I don't think they'd appreciate it. You've got to disclose your bounties right, it's just he's probably embarrassed by the leaking of the actual numbers that he got. So yeah, somewhat interesting stuff if you want to look behind the curtain a bit as to what kind of money can be offered to large Twitch streamers. And again it highlights the difference between Twitch and YouTube. $1,700 for one minute trailer is absurd money. It's hard to imagine they're seeing a return on that honestly, but guess they know something I don't. $7,000 for one hour of playing a game is crazy. Genshin Impact is a mobile game that is gacha and that has loot boxes in it and stuff. They make a fuck ton of money. Like if you get hooked into Genshin Impact, you're going to be playing it for like a year. Think of how much money over the course of a year that you might spend on a sort of pay to play mobile game. A little bit here, a little bit there. Like you wouldn't need to pick up that many people from a live stream of the game to kind of make that money back. It's on console too, yeah yeah but it's that on mobile. Like it has the monetization scheme of a mobile game. How a famous brand duped its |
| 14. December 2022 | A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get It’s pants on. | getting tired of being told that they look like me. Since this was posted to my subreddit, I'm not sure, you didn't get enough upvotes, so I'm gonna show it here. So I've been getting this comment for a while and I didn't know what it was or what it meant or. Dark Viper U, so just a bunch of people keep calling this guy Dark Viper U. Honestly, I thought it was some sort of cryptic message telling me that I only had 24 hours to live. I didn't know what it meant until people started tagging him. I started getting it a lot more recently on the video that this person commented on. So I went on his page to see if there was any resemblance. There is no resemblance other than the fact we've both got facial hair and I was wearing a black tank top in this video. Like how is it that I look like Pete Davidson, Enrique Iglesias, Michael B. Jordan, and now Dark Viper? These are all people that I get told I look like regularly and they don't even remotely look like each other. It's so funny that he's like, yeah, on this particular video where I was wearing a black tank top, people kept saying I look like Dark Viper U. But again, very funny, this guy looks nothing like me. It always surprises me when people say I look like people who have brown eyes. Like your eye color one of the most distinct things about you and like, oh, that guy has brown eyes, but you still look like Dark Viper. This guy looks like nothing like me. But I do find it funny that he apparently looked more like me because he had a black tank top. |
| 31. October 2021 | A long list of what I want in gta 6 | A long list of what I want in GTA 6. What would I want for GTA 6 gnomes? Uhhhh... No phone calls that start missions. No text messages that start missions. Or at least not main missions. If there's multiple characters, I would like it so after each mission, all three characters have consistent spots in which they spawn. But these are all speedrunning things, right? In terms of casual gameplay, I would say remove things like Sky and the Paws. Change the police back to the way they were in GTA 4. Fix the physics of the cars and the road. Remove things like curb boosting and brake boosting and stuff. Don't have mission skipping in the game. Or if you do have mission skipping, enable it after one death. How do cops work in GTA 4? You get out of range of them, and then you lose them. It's like a huge bubble of influence for all the cops, and then you just get out of that bubble and you're fine. If you're going to make it so cops can see behind them, actually show the distance they can see behind them. Make it so helicopters can't spawn directly on top of you and get you seen. Make it so you can make save files within missions. No follow missions. Never do another follow mission ever again. Fucking follow missions. Absolute cancer in gaming. Oh, just a general advice to Rockstar in general. Do not latch onto realism to the detriment of everything else. Some realism is good, but if the realism you're adding makes the game worse to play, then please don't do it. Don't do Red Evidence 2 again. Basically. |
| 15. December 2020 | A longer rant on success and luck | Well, I was never on the Elon Musk train, but he was kind of dead in any possibility of me jumping on that train after all his spreading of fake stuff about the coronavirus and saying by all evidence, he'll go away in April or whatever the fuck he said. It's He seems to be a driven fairly intelligent guy who got lucky a few times and now thinks he can do literally anything. Which is why he stumbles a lot and falls flat on his face. You don't think you can luck out being a billionaire? That's all that being a billionaire is. You can't actively work to be a billionaire. A billionaire is something that happens to you. You do things, you're granted opportunities, and it snowballs. You can't work to make a billion dollars. That's too much money. You can work to make a hundred dollars. You can add an extra hours of eight hours of overtime, but when you think how do you become a billionaire? There's there's no game plan that you can etch out there. It's being in the right place at the right time and getting lucky and working hard of course. But there are people working to the maximum proficiency as hard as they can all day every day. The hardest work is ever. Who are taking home minimum wage. A human being can only put so many hours into any project. The rest has to come from external forces that you can't control. You talk about this all the time, but no. Elon Musk history is not a history of, you know, a guy pulling himself up from his bootstraps. You're mixing luck with a risk. It's a problem with society. If you have ten people who each take a risk that has a ten percent chance of success, statistically one of those ten people is going to succeed. And idiots in society will look at that one person and go, what a genius. So smart. Look at him and his success. How genius he is. Those other nine fucking fools, losers. They all took the same risk and one of them had to win. But the one who got lucky is lauded as some super maker genius when in fact it was variables outside their control that led to their success. And that's how life is. Some people that you throw endless hardworking people at the economy. Some people will have rewards for their hard work determined by factors outside their control and the others won't. And the people who got lucky are the people who are lauded in society as geniuses. Assuming that analogy applies to the real world, which it doesn't do, that doesn't really apply. But it does apply, Zik. The best way for a person to make an amazing amount of money, like an obscene amount of money, is to accurately be able to predict the future. But that's impossible. You can only ever have an approximate idea as to what's going to happen in the future by extrapolating from what exists today. What you can extrapolate from is always going to be incomplete and it's going to be based on factors outside your control. As in, if you're at lunch and you hear some guy talking about how he thinks this product is going to be big and you then go research that and invest in it and make yourself a million dollars, you didn't determine that guy being there. If you think, oh, you know, this product might do very well. And then a year from now, the government invests a billion dollars in it. You didn't determine that. You know, you think, well, maybe this might be a good idea. And factors outside your control determine that to be the case. Every single day, there are endless people making a gamble on what the future is going to be based on the best information they have available. And some of those people have to be right. The history of the world is people being this close to greatness, but not catching a break. Sure, you can rationally make choices about the future, but you are not the determinant of the future. You as an entity have less control over your environment than your environment has control over you. There are always more variables impacting you and your future than that you control. Every person who walks by you influences you to some capacity, to a greater lesser degree. Everything from a person breathing near you versus the government in that entire scale. You don't control all of that. You don't control what information is presented to you. Right? You respond to environmental variables. You don't determine what variables are going to be impacting you. It's the old example of Bill Gates. What was a greater determinant of Bill Gates' success? His hard work and ingenuity or that he was one of the very first people in the world to have consistent access to a PC and that his mother worked for IBM. These are just the noteworthy markers in the history of these successful companies and people that we know about. But of course, these events happen every day to everyone. Elon Musk is driving to work one day and there's some other guy who is drunk, think he's going to drive himself home while drunk, but his friend stops him. If that friend hadn't have stopped him, that drunk driver would have hit Elon Musk and killed him. These events, these possibilities, you don't control. Every single day, a young, vibrant mind who is going to revolutionize the world is killed in a drunk driving accident. They had no involvement in it. Every day, some guy, it happens to be in the right place at the right time. Look into Will Smith's history, how he got his job on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He was literally just happening in the right room, right time. Got a spur of the moment interview. You can very easily improve your circumstances a little bit by working with a lot of people. Improve your circumstances a little bit by working harder. But to get like obscenely wealthy, obscenely successful, obscenely famous, you have to get lucky so many fucking times. You have to dodge. You have to get those million to one chances over and over. What is determining the difference between a person who's worth $100,000 and a person who's worth $50 billion isn't hard work. No one can work hard enough to legitimately make a billion dollars. You work hard and the systems in place extrapolate your wealth for you. There is a clear quality of difference between some fat ass sitting on their couch watching TV all day and a person grinding 14 hours a day to achieve in life. But that difference isn't a billion dollars. You also got to consider how smart you work. What determines how smart you work? Right now, each of us isn't working optimally. Where would you get the information to work smarter? I don't know. I am sure right now there are tools available online that if I read them, I would work so much better. I have no idea where they are. I'm sure there are people that I could pick up my phone right now, dial numbers and be like, hey man, can you give me some advice? And I get amazing advice. I mean, so much famous, wealthy, beyond reason. But I don't know anything about these things. I don't even know where to begin. How smart you work is also in a large part determined by the variables in your environment. You've got your mentor that teaches you everything that they know. Your parents happen to be successful. You go to a school where you make network connections. Your starting point. You happen to be in a fucking book shop and you see a book and you go, oh, this could be useful and it happens to be useful. You didn't determine that book to be there. Right? Not everyone exists in an environment that is both conducive to success and provides the knowledge necessary to even know that success is possible or how to best achieve it. You're lucky to be in one of those environments. If Elon Musk failed, he would be broken today. Depends at what point he failed. There is a point where failure isn't necessarily the end. Right? Starting out, sure, but once you get to a certain degree of wealth, you've got a certain amount of connections, you know, a reputation, you can fail and it just be a small road bump, you know? But the thing is, if Elon Musk had failed in his early days, either not being able to sell his company or what have you, or those times when they were, you know, a few weeks worth of rents before they had to leave or whatever, whatever the story was, we wouldn't know about it. There are tens of thousands, millions, if you like, over the course of history, of Elon Muskers that didn't beat the odds, that got to that point where failure would destroy them and they failed. Variables outside their control. And we don't know about these people. For every genius, there are countless geniuses that are never appreciated and never amount to anything. Survivorship bias, exactly. Never amount to anything, like assuredly, a person who is a genius, who is not self-destructive, would end up doing something of note, becomes a teacher or something, or just lives a basic life or whatever. I just mean in terms of millionaire famous person, let's say. By any definition that you could be called a genius, as long as you aren't mentally unstable or you've got an addiction or something like that, you're going to have a decent life. The choices my family were given could have easily been set to the side and not taken upon. By taking risks they got rich, it was not purely down to luck, even though my grandfather admits luck played a small part in what has happened. That's what a risk is, Dan. A risk is relying on variables outside of your control to move in a way that is conducive with your goals, so that you succeed, in a way that you could not have determined yourself. Had your parents taken those risks and they'd gone the other way, you'd be like, oh my fucking parents ruined my life taking those risks. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. I see nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 14. February 2021 | A mod i’d love that would help gta 5 speedrunning | A mod I would love for GTA V that would help with speedrunning. Do you think it's possible to mod the game to unlock every mission at once? That'd be really useful for testing. That's actually a really cool idea. Someone, uh, afterstream that to me. Make a mod that makes it so all missions are available at once. Well, I mean, I don't think it'd be worth going to that kind of effort though, because you do still have the mission replay menu. But the problem with the mission replay menu is that you don't get the actual entry into the mission. A lot of testing goes into, uh, how to get into the mission as fast as possible, and the effects of the beginning of the mission. For example, it's gonna come out in Facts and Glitches, where the beginning of Merriweather Heist, before you go into the mission, it loses you the cops. So you can walk near the mission marker for Merriweather Heist, lose the cops, and then leave, and not start the mission. In the Facts and Glitches video, I literally just stand on the border, shoot up in the air, get the cops, take one step forward, lose the cops, take a step back, shoot up in the air, and just do this over and over again, getting and losing the cops over and over, you know? |
| 18. May 2021 | A monkey plays video games with its mind | A monkey plays video games with its mind. Someone asked me did I see that Elon Musk demoed a monkey playing video games with a chip in his head or whatever. Yeah, and I read the commentary too. It's the same thing that Neuralink has been doing since they started. It's stuff that has existed for 20 years that they are presenting to the public. That's it. There's nothing new about that. The same demo was done like in 2002 or some shit. There are only two things I've heard that are good about Neuralink from people in the know. One, it's bringing more awareness of the public to that this technology exists. And two, that they might make something commercially viable of the technology that already exists. Just because something has been possible for 20 years doesn't mean it's equally as easy or that it can't be packaged in a way that could be sold to the public. Doing something is very different from making it commercially viable. To my knowledge, Neuralink has not done anything like that yet. Neuralink may end up being like the boring company, which is just hilariously dumb. Continuing to walk back what it's meant to be and now it's apparently like a car that's going a bit faster than a train. But it's far more expensive and carries far less people. |
| 07. June 2021 | A new argument about eating animals | a new argument about eating animals. So someone sent me a video, they specifically linked to 8 minutes in the video, so I watched that 8 minutes. Didn't contradict anything that I said in my last rambles, but they sent it to me anyway, I don't really understand. But it did brought up, the video brought up a point that I hadn't considered about, you know how they say cows produce so many emissions or whatever, it's bad for the environment, dah dah dah. It brought up the point that most fertilizer that is used comes from animals. And synthetic fertilizer, stuff made in labs and stuff, is a lot more harmful to the environment to produce or some such. So like, if we weren't using animal fertilizer, let's say we didn't eat meat so we didn't have animals dah dah dah, we'd have to make fertilizer that way to be able to make all the plants that we would need to eat. And that would be harmful to the environment given the process for that. And I was like, well, I had never considered that before. I don't know much about the differing levels of emissions comparing animal fertilizer to synthetic fertilizer. A lot of the problems I have with the discussion about veganism, there's the moral part of it. So when people are morally driven, where they believe that they're fighting for a crusade of what is right as opposed to what is practical, you can fudge the numbers either intentionally or unintentionally because you want to achieve that particular goal so bad, right? Like if you believe it's morally reprehensible to eat animals, do you really want to put forth a case where it's like, well actually it's better for the environment if you eat animals or actually the alternatives in regards to fertilizer as well. I'm not saying this is true. I'm saying because there are moral implications involved, you can't trust everyone to either be willing or emotionally able to look at the facts and present them. People can be speaking perfectly honestly about what they believe is true, but actually being led by emotion and whatnot. I mean, there's politics in general, I suppose, or anything with any sort of social implications. Yeah, I just wish it was something more that I had a lot of time to research in, you know, but I don't. So I don't know shit, people. If you think it's worth your time, do some research, man. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 08. November 2022 | A new word to feel smart | Hope not a lot of people do. A new word to feel smart. I learned a word yesterday chat, acrimonious. It means angry and bitter. I'm totally gonna use that in a sentence at some point and people should be like, what? Who the fuck says acrimonious? Where I heard the word though was, I'm watching an anime called like, The Tales of Tanya the Evil or something. It's an ECK where dude has been reincarnated or whatever in another world. This sub translation of the Japanese used that word and I was just like, dude, come on. Osaka of Tanya the Evil. |
| 28. September 2021 | A nice perk of being a large streamer | A nice perk of being a large streamer. One day it'd be so nice to be a big enough streamer that regardless of what I want to play I can have viewers to play it. So like I feel like playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Bang. Instant full lobby. Being in Australia, being in Australia, that's very unlikely though. Because the pings, you know. So I need to be large enough not just to have a big enough audience for that to happen globally but for Australia specifically. |
| 27. October 2022 | A non-controversial controversy in GTA 5. | A non-controversial controversy in GTA 5. So I made... this... short. Rockstar Games is going to be in some controversy when Twitter finds out that if you start a hangout with Amanda and never go to meet her, the game will misgender her. So you wanna try to... reconnect? Oh, there you are. Yes, of course I want to see you. I'm on my way. You failed to meet Amanda in time. The friend activity with him has been cancelled. This of course was likely written this way because it would be correct for every other hangout except for this one. The footage was obviously shot beforehand, but I needed some sort of intro lead-in, and so I was like, how about I make fun of Twitter's ability to misinterpret intention, as in the difference between making an honest mistake versus doing something maliciously, and to blow things out of proportion, which I think Twitter does. Because obviously, this is a mistake, an error. No one has actually been misgendered. It is just a typing error at the end, and so to consider it to be anything other than that would be fucking stupid. But so many comments took this as like an actual condemnation of Rockstar, or saying, man, I can't believe people are getting offended about this. I'm like, are they? It was a joke! I was mocking Twitter! So many people got offended that other people were offended. Who didn't exist? There's so many comments like, this is what's wrong with the current generation. Like, what are you talking about? It's a joke! Rockstar say- |
| 14. November 2022 | A perk of being internet famous. | A perk of being internet famous. This was a funny experience when building my new PC. I couldn't find my desktop background after I moved all my files to my new PC. So I googled DarkviperAU desktop background. Shout out to Itakwito who found the original nine months ago and submitted it to the subreddit. Recently I went into the quest of finding a high quality version of the image Matt uses for his wallpaper. Here is the earliest link I could find of a website containing the image. |
| 10. September 2021 | A permanent solution to a temporary problem | A permanent solution to a temporary problem. I hope you don't actually want to die, Nectua. It's common for people to contemplate wanting a way out sometimes, but death won't make you happy. It's clearly possible to achieve happiness in this world, and if you're having trouble doing it, maybe seek a therapist or introspect about what's making you truly unhappy. I mean, the reason why suicide is considered to be irrational is because in general, people's circumstances can always improve. There are very few people who are in circumstances where it's literally impossible for their circumstances to improve. Suicide is a long-term solution to a temporary problem? Yeah, exactly. When I was in my worst moments, I always said, like, uh, I want to be happy, I don't want to be dead. Being dead won't make me happy. Certainly you can imagine circumstances where death, or desiring death, makes perfect sense. People with an incurable disease, that just causes you nothing but pain. Of course, in those circumstances, your circumstances can't improve. It's a difference of living with feelings that you don't value, or dying and no longer experiencing those feelings you don't value. There's no possibility of feelings in which you value. But these are very rare circumstances. |
| 28. November 2021 | A possible sequal to meme olympics | Some of them a little bit glitchy, but my my thing when I get back to speedrunning is just I'm gonna be completing the game But X is a factor and I'm just gonna do that over and over and over again. That's gonna be great Yeah, people like to watch it. That's the thing. I know it ain't for everyone I mean most people wouldn't want to play the same single-player game over and over again, but I love it Hey if it works a possible sequel to meme Olympics Yeah, sure if you ever have an idea to do another one of the GTA What have we called the meme Olympics thing if we ever have any ideas for that, that'd be good You know, I just realized that was six months ago We should play set another one up soon if you're came, but I assumed that you would got scared off by um What's his name a laser beam? No, yeah, whatever He'll be right He's he's doing you know, so many people saying get laser beam for the next one. I don't know laser beam, bro He's got like what 17 million subscribers. Come on guys. I don't know his number or anything I I didn't really even know what he does. I've seen him just in passing people. He follows me on Twitter I don't know why but um, hey you should message him I mean if I was gonna be wants to do it if I sincerely had a reason to message him I probably would he's just he's just a dude as as am I as are you you know? Because he got big before that or whatever didn't he? Yeah, he was nothing. He had like a couple maybe a couple mill before that but he got huge off for tonight Yeah, I think I'm trending now sometimes and I don't know. I'm sorry to keep you. Um See you later, man Be sure to LIKE the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 28. November 2021 | A possible sequel to meme olympics | Some of them a little bit glitchy, but my thing when I get back to speedrunning is just I'm going to be completely in the game, but X is a factor. And I'm just going to do that over and over and over again. That's going to be great. Yeah, people like to watch it. That's the thing. I know it ain't for everyone. I mean, most people wouldn't want to play the same single player game over and over again, but I love it. Yeah. Hey, if it works. A possible sequel to Meme Olympics. If you ever have an idea to do another one of the GTA, what do we call the Meme Olympics thing? If we ever have any ideas for that, that'd be good. You know, I just realized that was six months ago. We should probably set another one up soon if you're keen. I assumed that you got scared off by what's his name? Laser beam. No, yeah, whatever. He'll be right. He's he's doing fine. You know, so many people are saying get laser beam for the next one. I don't know laser beam. He's got like what? 17 million subscribers? Come on, guys. I don't know his number or anything. I don't really even know what he does. I've seen him just in passing. He follows me on Twitter. I don't know why. But you should message him. I mean, if I asked him if he wants to do it, if I sincerely had a reason to message him, I probably would. He's just a dude, as am I, as are you, you know, because he got big with Fortnite or whatever, didn't he? Yeah, he was. I think he had like a couple, maybe a couple of mill before that, but he got huge off Fortnite. Yeah, I see him on trending now sometimes and I don't know. So to keep you. See you later, man. |
| 04. March 2022 | A ramble of Rambles whiles editing videos of Rambles. | A ramble of rambles while editing videos of rambles. Would you ever put a ramble of rambling while editing rambles videos in a video editor? It's already been done. All my editing footage is found, rambles are found in it. Do you have a ramble while editing rambles? And so I have people go over my footage of me editing rambles to find rambles. |
| 04. March 2022 | A ramble of rambles whiles editing videos of rambles. | A ramble of rambles while editing videos of rambles. Would you ever put a ramble of rambling while editing rambles videos in a video editor? It's already been done. All my editing footage is found, rambles are found in it. Do you have a ramble while editing rambles? And so I have people go over my footage of me editing rambles to find rambles. |
| 15. January 2022 | A realistic world vs a consistent world in video games. | A realistic world versus a consistent world in video games. Sometimes the realism in video games can destroy the fun of playing their game. Of course. Because reality is not usually more interesting than fantasy. Reality is one thing. Fantasy can be anything. Even when you're trying to, to some degree, mimic reality, it is often prudent to cut out the most tedious aspects of reality to increase people's enjoyment. You like your fantasy grounded? I like my fantasy consistent. As in the rules are consistent everywhere. The rules can have no similarity to reality, but they just need to be consistently applied. Like I hate, for example, like in GTA V, you walk up to some random gangster guy, you shoot him in the head, he dies instantly. You walk up to another random gangster guy, no armor, no nothing, shoot him in the head, he doesn't die. And you're just like, that's not consistent. You can invent whatever the fuck you want. Well, actually, they've invented some nanotechnology that can defend a person's head. So you actually need to shoot a few more times to get through the nanites to actually hit him in the brain. I would like, yeah, sweet fucking aces. You invented a new rule. That's great. Absent that rule, this is just an inconsistency and annoys the fuck out of me. I need you to forge this iron sorting game that'll be 15 hours of slaving over coals in the anvil. Exactly. You actually need to go sleep and you have to wait the eight hours of your character sleeping before you can play again. If you get up after six hours, your character is sluggish and has less energy and is more moody and shit. |
| 26. August 2021 | A realization of existence | A realization about Seinfeld. I always found it funny in Seinfeld that they used to always talk about how they could never get dates and they were not desirable and stuff and George was like, man I can never find a good woman but like every second episode he was dating some, you know, in real life glorious secret model. Like it never occurred to me at the time while watching the show but thinking back on it years later I was like, hey wait a second. And George being short, glasses, stubby, balding or whatever, usually not having great career prospects, still somehow dating someone every week. |
| 14. August 2022 | A scuffed way to fix echo in recordings. | A scuffed way to fix echo for your recordings. So before I had my Acoustic panels there are a few voiceovers. I wanted to record I want to show you how I did it someone in chat told me to do it this way and so I went like this like this And I would like speak into the microphone and stop acoustics I thought that was really funny and it works like it did in fact improve my acoustics I don't know how I would uh I'd know how I would deal with that long term But I think that is something that people do when they can't afford to treat their rooms. They just put a towel over themselves Be sure to LIKE and subscribe also leave a comment if you have something on your mind My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best |
| 16. February 2023 | A shocking lewd event at the Twitch streamer awards. | Welcome to another episode of Viper Rambles starting with a discussion of the shocking loot event that happened at the Twitch streamer awards So here is a very strange story. So you guys know liquid Wi-Fi. He is a Simpsons hit-and-run speedrunner Fellow Ozzy met him nice dude bit edgy bit lewd as you're about to see So this isn't liquid Wi-Fi, but this is just a tweet So I made twitch streamer grefg is hosting his own version of the stream of wars but for Latin America and Spain The event has now broken 1.6 million viewers. Look how insane that is I know I've heard his name said before because I know he's a huge streamer He just doesn't speak the same language as me. So I'm not gonna be super familiar, but that's very cool how big the event is but what happened is our liquid tweets at this tweet and like ain't no fucking way bro and They showed twitch chat At the event and it's a monga. It's an among us with a huge dick And this got like 250,000 likes and it was drawn like this as well. I guess it'd be a little bit censored for YouTube I don't know the guy standing there and there's a graph G Delete, please twitch called me and it was like I don't know where the delete button is that face Strange and funny |
| 21. August 2022 | A sign you may have ADHD | on guys and he comes in the mod chat and he's like it seems the complete opposite of what you had on twitter and i'm like well my dude you've said hair not chest hair so if you happen to see this on instagram that that's why a sign you may have adhd so often i talk about how we don't understand how other people's minds work we just assume how our mind works is how everyone else's does and so we often get surprised when we find out that people can't do things that we can do or don't do things the same way that we do or that other people can do things that we can't and this tiktok by this dude talked about his getting a diagnosis of adhd pb squammer he says one sign of you having adhd is that you finish other people's sentences like the person asked him do you finish other people's sentences and he's like no of course not that'd be rude and they're like but did you do that as a kid and he's like well of course everyone does and she's like do you even now finish other people's sentences but in your head and the guys and the guys like yeah of course how are you meant to have a response if you don't guess other people's sentences so you know what to say afterwards i don't do that do any of you do that i've often wondered how i'm so able to have a response immediately after a person is finished speaking like i don't do this and i think it's miraculous that somehow my brain just has the information necessary to immediately begin speaking and no diagnosis like this would ever be done with just one characteristic i'm sure there are people who do this who don't have adhd i just thought this was very interesting all these questions or things that i see that make me think about how my brain works always interests me what is it metacognition thinking about thinking next time i'm having a conversation with someone i need to like |
| 18. December 2021 | A small problem I had with ants | A small problem I had with ants. Should I um, tell stories before we begin or do you guys not give a shit about that kind of stuff? Ah, what do I care? I'll do whatever I want. Look at all my hungry jacks there. Pleasure to move that before I began. Stupid first story, okay? This is so dumb. Okay. So I was scrolling through Twitch and I saw Smallump was live. And so I clicked this stream and I looked at his webcam and I'm like, holy shit. His facial hair is like the facial hair that, like when I was a kid, shows would give like parallel dimension versions of the main character to signify that that character is evil. Doesn't it look that way? I even got him a picture where he's like, you know? I'm not saying it looks bad. I just, I just find it funny that that's, that's the facial hair that they used to use. So they could distinguish between the character and their copy, right? And so it's like, this is Smallump's villain arc kind of thing, right? So I post this on Twitter and I'm like, is this mean? I full sat there for like, I know like, must be like 15 minutes after I posted it. And even then like 15 minutes after that while I was doing other stuff, I think, am I an asshole for saying that? Is it, does this go beyond the bounds of what a person should say about someone they don't really know? It's obviously not cruel or meant that way, but would Smallump take it that way? And I was having like a full, like, I don't say mental breakdown, but like I ended up deleting it after like half an hour. So I hope he never saw it. And it just, it just felt like a weird thing to worry about. Like he's probably, he's not going to give a shit. No one's going to give a shit. But, uh, you actually don't like the idea of making people unhappy. Even the small possibility that he would look at my commentary there and be like, oh man, but I like my facial hair. Well, I'm sad. I was like, I don't want to deal with that shit. I want that on my conscience, you know? It's just banter? Yeah. But like banter between people who know each other well and banter between me and some guy I've talked to like four times or something is very different, you know? Did I say small-ance again? Small-ance. Small-ance. Yes. |
| 08. June 2022 | A special bonus with mcdonalds order. | Special bonus with my McDonald's order. A part of this story was in how this even ended as well, and that's why you might remember us. So recently, went up to the shops near me for the first time in six months, and the entire place has changed. So much so that I thought I went to the wrong place. No fucking joke. It- like, there's a new McDonald's, there's new stores, like the shop is now inside a building. Like they built a building around my local grocery store or whatever. I was just like, I was so confused. But I now have McDonald's that is like two feet away from me. Not nearly two, it's like 800 meters, but like two feet away from me, right? And today, I called and ordered myself some McDonald's. And I'm really annoyed because you can't put Big Mac sauce on the double quarter pounder in any of the delivery apps. Fucking insane. I still remember the day that someone told me to put Big Mac sauce on a double quarter pounder instead of the normal mustard and tomato sauce. Changed my life. But I can only do that now if I actually go to the store, which I don't fucking want to do. But anyway, so I ordered McDonald's, and this guy took like 10,000 years. I'm 800 meters away. Like I had no idea what the fuck he was doing. He was at the store for like 50 years. And so finally my food comes. One, it's cold, but more importantly, there's a fly trapped inside the double quarter pounder container. Like an actual full like fly. Not like a tiny little thing. It's like buzzing around all angry and shit. Like why is it angry? It's got like a full fucking burger to eat and it gets unleashed in my room. And I lost it. And so I'm like, I can't eat this food. And so I complain and get my money back or whatever and then I order myself another one. And that order came in like 10 minutes. No joke. So it came in like, you know, one sixth the time of the other one. I don't fucking know why. But still the fly was a problem. So I gassed my entire fucking room. I'm sitting here like, like a mug in the place. Like this is like spraying fucking everywhere. And my goddamn air for a few fires going like crazy. Like you're being gassed. Is this chemical warfare? It's still, it still treats the air quality as like being like horrendously bad because there's still like poison in the air. But uh, I probably killed it. So. Conceivably the dude, the reason why he took so long to get me my meal is because he was spending time trapping the fly in the double-quota pounder box. You know? It's possible. I mean, there's no other route that he could take to my house that would require so much time. Alright, dog fight. |
| 18. February 2021 | A strange edit i made in my Sleeping Dogs video | A strange edit I made in my Sleeping Dogs video. I wonder how many people were confused. In my edit of Sleeping Dogs, there was a dream sequence he was having where there was just a bunch of lines from the previous scenes being said in like a echoey kind of voice with subtitles. And there was a scene where a dude was like, I don't like this cocksucker or something. Oh no, I don't like this cocky motherfucker or something. And so I just edited it so all it says is just, I don't like this cock. And then he wakes up. It was such a confusing scene because it comes out of nowhere. Like it isn't obvious that he is dreaming. And there's just another sequence where he's just waking up. I don't know. It was a funny video, man. It didn't crack 100K views, but I thought what came of it was that I get. |
| 18. February 2021 | A strange edit i made in my sleeping dogs video | A strange edit I made in my Sleeping Dogs video. I wonder how many people were confused. In my edit of Sleeping Dogs, there was a dream sequence he was having where there was just a bunch of lines from the previous scenes being said in like a echoey kind of voice with subtitles. And there was a scene where a dude was like, I don't like this cocksucker or something. Oh no, I don't like this cocky motherfucker or something. And so I just edited it so all it says is just, I don't like this cock. And then he wakes up. It was such a confusing scene because it comes out of nowhere. Like it isn't obvious that he is dreaming. And there's just another sequence where he's just waking up. I don't know. It was a funny video, man. It didn't crack 100K views, but I thought what came of it was that I get. |
| 24. January 2022 | A strange sponsorship offer | A strange sponsorship offer. I got this company that sent me a sponsorship offer and it was $400 a month and they're like look what we want you to do, four social media posts a month, we want like a banner on your twitch, a banner on your youtube, you know that little square in the bottom right hand corner of my youtube videos, yeah we want that. We want you to like four videos a month, we want you to say you know go watch our stuff, we want you to do one giveaway a month, we want you to have like I think they want a little overlay thing on my twitch, I want you to like various times and streams to um and just goes on and on and on and on and on I'm like 400 dollars and you want me to give you everything but my firstborn child oh oh you want me to have a firstborn child so you can have that too all right. The only thing that's really inspiring me to take on or to even read sponsor emails is the worry that's um you know because because success is fleeting in the online world. I could wake up tomorrow and have nothing, channels rise and fall so quickly and I'm concerned that uh if I don't make some money now you know in a couple of years I'll have nothing or whatever like I'm not a greedy person, I don't buy a lot of things and stuff I'm always thinking about my future and what I'm going to be doing years from now. My strongest wish is that I can just sit back one day and go like it'd be very hard for the world to fuck me right now like it'd take a lot for something like a lot for me to for me to end up on the streets next week. I just want that feeling of comfort. I don't want fancy cars, I don't want jet skis, I just want to feel like I'm not always on edge that everything's going to explode. Some of you may have that or some of you may not worry about that in nairobi. |
| 30. June 2022 | A strange thing americans say when they come to sydney | A strange thing Americans say when they come to Sydney. Does Sydney have homeless? Walking around Sydney you might find the occasional homeless person. I have heard that people coming to Sydney, the things that they comment on are usually, Oh my god, everything is so clean and there are no homeless people. And I've heard from a lot of Australians who go to America that everything is so dirty. I say America big place, different from place to place, but um, and then in Australia is the same way. It's just a, I've heard these comments so much that there must be something to them, I think, because it's just independent, you know. Do they not pay to clean stuff like public funds and all that in America? It's a pretty established principle. The, what is it, the broken window phenomenon or something? Just cleaning up an area can lead to that area being less crime prone or what not. Because in areas where everything is downtrodden and destroyed and disgusting and grimy, I mean, you'd imagine people like, well, no one's gonna give a shit if you break some more stuff because everything's already broken. Or like, you know, you just live in such a shitty area that maybe that affects you and you're more likely to steal stuff or whatever. I don't know. If you live in a nice place, it's like, it doesn't inspire you to similar thoughts. It's like, well, of course people are gonna care because everything else is clean, you know. |
| 01. November 2022 | A terrible kidnapping in Australia | A terrible kidnapping in Australia. Okay, it's a very serious story chat. There's been a kidnapping. If you see this crazy crazy man, I want you to alert the authorities. This guy has kidnapped Toad. Look at him man, he's smiling through the pain. He's crushing his head. This monster. There will never be Toad in another one of your beloved video games ever again. Unless this monster is caught. He put up some kind of a little story here. So I walked into an arcade, spent two dollars fifty on this machine thing. One Toad first go, walked out while everyone watched. No one will ever believe me when I tell them. That's what they all fucking say though. The sick sick boss. |
| 14. June 2022 | A terrible mistake I made in a rambles episode | A terrible mistake I made in a rambles episode. Dang it chat. I swore in the first 30 seconds of uh, the ramble that just came out. I hope the algorithm doesn't pick that up for a long enough time that it uh stays monetized for a bit. Such a stupid rule. If you say fuck in the first 30 seconds you get demonetized. It's just so dumb. It's uh, YouTube has a lot of dumb rules. Because weird with the YouTube editor that you can't just like mute a part. Maybe I'll try and like stick some music over it so I can Get them to look at it again. It's just like the most common word that is spoken by everyone, right? And times have changed and fucking advertisers on YouTube should get with the fucking program. |
| 06. June 2022 | A very insistent delivery | A very insistent delivery. Just had a dude drop off a package, and he rung the doorbell like 19 times. Like that kind of doorbell ringing that happens in movies, where like, the zombie horde is coming and they're like, LET ME IN! LET ME IN! And I'm like, holy shit, I'm like, I'm taking a piss, and I'm like, oh, I better finish this up really quickly, this guy's about to die. But now it's just a package. |
| 17. September 2021 | A viewer offered me a photoshoot for my dating profile | A viewer offered me a photo shoot for my dating profile. There was a guy, a viewer of mine, who offered to take pictures of me or whatever for my dating profile. Because he's a professional photographer or whatever, not just a weirdo. And uh, you should probably take him up on that offer, but with COVID and all that being rampant or whatever right now, it seems kind of dumb to do so. |
| 01. June 2022 | A voice recognition mod for GTA 5 | A voice recognition mod for GTA 5. I could ask Doug Doug to make me a voice recognition mod and if you say chat or something, it kills. Like that's, that's kind of his thing. Like certainly, I wouldn't mind doing that for like, one video or something. He did the thing with Chaos and he said, hey, I was inspired by DarkViperAU. I mean, I would like to do something similar to that, but uh, asking him specifically to make me something like that? Nah, I don't think that, um, that's great. And certainly, his thing how he can like change it on the fly, in response to feedback that he gets in the experience, that's something that you really need for something like that, right? I respect what Doug Doug does and his content. As I've argued, like he kinda does what I do, but just infinitely better. You know? If you want something more to watch, check out my video linked down below about the harm of reaction content. It looks at the topic from every angle with some data thrown in, and it is arguably the best video I've ever made. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 03. September 2021 | A weird story about “thickness” and toilet paper rolls. | A weird story about thickness and toilet paper rolls. I have a story to tell you. It's kind of stupid. So yesterday I was watching Soda Poppin stream and he was getting a haircut. Now if you don't know Soda Poppin, he's a large streamer, weird dude. He starts talking about, maybe I shouldn't talk about this. Nah, I'm fucking going to talk about it. I started. He starts talking about how his dick can fit into a toilet paper roll. I'm sitting here just like, can my dick fit into a toilet paper roll? I don't know. I think it can. I think it can fit. And someone's like, man, my dick is so skinny. And I asked everyone else around the house, a bunch of other streamers and stuff, and they say their dicks can't fit into a toilet paper roll. And I'm like, oh, does that mean I have a skinny dick as well? I'm like, I have to try this. And no, my dick cannot fit into a toilet paper roll. Like it's not even close. As in like, I'm even mildly like semi-hard, right? Can't fit. And so I'm thinking to myself like, do I not know the size of my own dick or do I not know the size of toilet paper rolls? Either way, I learned something yesterday. Either about myself or toilet paper rolls or maybe both. And that's my story. I think my dick is fairly average, you know? People just always talk about length or whatever, right? They never talk about thickness. I don't know what the average thickness dick is meant to be. I've never thought about it. I've never been in a conversation where people start talking about the thickness of their dick. I've had people talk about the length of their dick before. |
| 12. February 2023 | AI Streamer was banned for transphobic jokes. | AI stream a band for transphobic jokes. So we talked before about the AI Seinfeld generator thing that exists on Twitch That was doing very good numbers 15,000 viewers and all that jazz. It got bands for making some Transgender joke. I probably don't want to show it but I didn't take it that way to me it came off as Trying to make a joke that when people have nothing to say and Like no one's laughing and stuff. They'll just say like randomly offensive things or something I just think in trying to do that it came off itself as Sounding too sincere. I kind of want to play it. I best not if you guys are interested You can look it up yourself. But um, clearly it's an AI with no particular ill intent against anyone just when I was listening to it I think it was a not attempting to make a joke about transgender people but more about the idea of being offensive to try to |
| 30. June 2022 | AI Tries to judge how attractive i am | AI tries to judge how attractive I am. Can you do this AI thing that tells you how attractive you are? I have a link to it, sure. Give it to me, man. How normal am I? Experience how artificial intelligence judges your face. Access to your camera is necessary, but no personal data is collected. The box is what thinks is my face? What the fuck? I think this doesn't work well. I guess I need to be... Okay, so I'll be like this close. Ha. Hello? I can't sit relaxed like this, man. Recognize my face machine. Is it done? Why is it not like my face? What is this box? This is not my face! Ignore me at your own peril machine. Is it done yet? I can't see anything. What if it still ignores me? Is it good? But now it's showing no box. Ah! What if it gives a 10 out of 10? If it does, I'm gonna assume it actually got my face. Any low number, it's bugged. 5.5?! You're ugly! Fucking foam on the wall?! Wait, 6.4? It changed? I'm in scams! |
| 01. November 2022 | AI thinks I am a Twitch Streamer gamer Ludwig | guy here. AI thinks I'm a Twitch streamer gamer Ludwig. So when it comes to generating images with AI you kind of need to know exact phrases to get it to do the things that you want and so someone invented this it's called a clip interrogator. So it creates things like this so I gave it this image and it says a man standing in front of a store looking at the camera a stock photo by the maze king enjoying coffee at a coffee shop Twitch streamer gamer Ludwig Sydney facing sideways file photo uncropped Marco Bucci lossless quality fun-facing camera Marsh with this kind of prompting you should be able to make something like this I just like that looking at this image immediately identified me as a Twitch streamer and a gamer Ludwig you |
| 14. August 2022 | AI will destroy career of arists. | For the longest time, I'd been trying to guess Dali 2, which is an AI that can draw stuff for you based on prompts. This guy, Wola-la-ba-bla, sent me this video, where this dude, Pix Imperfects, goes over him using this new thing called Mid Journey Bot. And it can't be that new because there's a million people in this Discord. And he shows off some of the stuff he makes. The annoying thing is all the advanced prompts you have to do to get it to work. Like, Captain Jack Sparrow as Terminator, full body, highly detailed, photo-realistic, cinematic atmosphere, 8K, octane render, Unreal Engine, dash dash Q2, dash dash AR16 resolution, uplight. Like, you've got to know all these things or it's very hard to get it to give you what you want. I worked at it for like 10 minutes. This is what I get. So I typed in, DarkViperEU with cheese. That's DarkViperEU with cheese chat. You can see it, right? What I ultimately wanted was a way to have this thing make thumbnails for me. So I have this thumbnail. I wanted to see what it would do trying to recreate this. And so I'm like, Michael Franklin and Trevor from the game GTA V has stylized as anime girls. And I'm like, there's some fucked up looking noses. I tried again. Uh, didn't get there. Tried again. It's like Franklin's face being fucked up and stuff. Uh, that one isn't terrible. Eyes fucked up. Uh, the faces are all just so fucked up. And, uh, yeah, and I'm like, this is too much effort. And I gave up my subscription. But apparently you can get faces to work. So like a portrait of a man named Abnan and you get faces. So I don't know what the fuck my problem was. But apparently you can get this to work. Bot struggle with faces. Yeah, it seems that way unless you give it particular prompts or something. I'm not sure. And AI is never going to be able to get the sort of specific detail people are looking for. I highly recommend watching this video and some of the other videos on this. There are AI right now where you could like take this image and then like cut out the corner and be like put a dragon there. And then in the style of the image, the AI will draw a dragon. It's just the stuff that's available commercially, well, to us normies, isn't the best stuff that's available. And as I showed before, you kind of need to know what you're asking for. Like these ones, for example, you can see the faces are still kind of a little bit fucked up and stuff. But it's just a lot easier to say to a person, hey, yo, I want this changed. But this was generated in like two minutes less. Currently, you can learn this language with these bots exactly what you need to say to get them to give you what you want. And then it takes you what two minutes to get what you want. Or you can talk to an artist and it might take them a week to get you what you want. But it's far easier to, you know, fine tune with a human being, communicate with them, you know. What does that two minute papers guy say? Don't think about what we have now. Think about what we'll have two papers down the line. What existed a year ago was one tenth of this. What exists now? But yeah, if you guys want to take a crack at this, feel free. It's called, well, you can watch this video if you want, but it's called mid journey. A lot of these AI are specifically cats so that you can't make stuff of people, like people who actually exist. I think it screws with their ability to do face as well. |
| 14. August 2022 | AI will destroy career of artists. | For the longest time, I'd been trying to guess Dali 2, which is an AI that can draw stuff for you based on prompts. This guy, Wola-la-ba-bla, sent me this video, where this dude, Pix Imperfects, goes over him using this new thing called Mid Journey Bot. And it can't be that new because there's a million people in this Discord. And he shows off some of the stuff he makes. The annoying thing is all the advanced prompts you have to do to get it to work. Like, Captain Jack Sparrow as Terminator, full body, highly detailed, photo-realistic, cinematic atmosphere, 8K, octane render, Unreal Engine, dash dash Q2, dash dash AR16 resolution, uplight. Like, you've got to know all these things or it's very hard to get it to give you what you want. I worked at it for like 10 minutes. This is what I get. So I typed in, DarkViperEU with cheese. That's DarkViperEU with cheese chat. You can see it, right? What I ultimately wanted was a way to have this thing make thumbnails for me. So I have this thumbnail. I wanted to see what it would do trying to recreate this. And so I'm like, Michael Franklin and Trevor from the game GTA V has stylized as anime girls. And I'm like, there's some fucked up looking noses. I tried again. Uh, didn't get there. Tried again. It's like Franklin's face being fucked up and stuff. Uh, that one isn't terrible. Eyes fucked up. Uh, the faces are all just so fucked up. And, uh, yeah, and I'm like, this is too much effort. And I gave up my subscription. But apparently you can get faces to work. So like a portrait of a man named Abnan and you get faces. So I don't know what the fuck my problem was. But apparently you can get this to work. Bot struggle with faces. Yeah, it seems that way unless you give it particular prompts or something. I'm not sure. And AI is never going to be able to get the sort of specific detail people are looking for. I highly recommend watching this video and some of the other videos on this. There are AI right now where you could like take this image and then like cut out the corner and be like put a dragon there. And then in the style of the image, the AI will draw a dragon. It's just the stuff that's available commercially, well, to us normies, isn't the best stuff that's available. And as I showed before, you kind of need to know what you're asking for. Like these ones, for example, you can see the faces are still kind of a little bit fucked up and stuff. But it's just a lot easier to say to a person, hey, yo, I want this changed. But this was generated in like two minutes less. Currently, you can learn this language with these bots exactly what you need to say to get them to give you what you want. And then it takes you what two minutes to get what you want. Or you can talk to an artist and it might take them a week to get you what you want. But it's far easier to, you know, fine tune with a human being, communicate with them, you know. What does that two minute papers guy say? Don't think about what we have now. Think about what we'll have two papers down the line. What existed a year ago was one tenth of this. What exists now? But yeah, if you guys want to take a crack at this, feel free. It's called, well, you can watch this video if you want, but it's called mid journey. A lot of these AI are specifically cats so that you can't make stuff of people, like people who actually exist. I think it screws with their ability to do face as well. |
| 06. February 2023 | AI-Seinfeld channel taking over Twitch. | as well. AI Seinfeld channel taking over Twitch. So continuing in the developments of what AI is doing in the content creator space, someone created an AI that creates an infinite supply of like Seinfeld-esque comedy in a Seinfeld-esque setting, if you remember the show. It's called Watch Me Forever. So at any given time you can click in here, there's currently 14,000 people watching. I was walking down the street the other day and this guy comes up to me and says, hey buddy, can you spare some change? I was like, nah man, sorry. All I got is a Chucky Cheese token. So then the guy says, what's a Chucky Cheese token? I was like, it's my life, I'm always trying to jump from one token to the next. Anyway, I'm sure you all can relate. Who else is living off Chucky Cheese tokens here tonight? So it's a show about nothing that on occasion can say things that do come off as humorous. But because it's all in this weird AI sort of format, it's amusing even when it's not funny sometimes. Of course, it's not just him sitting in front of a microphone, it's like all the sort of scenes that happen in Seinfeld in different rooms. Like you can see that's George, that's Elaine, that's either Kramer or Jerry. I assume it's Kramer. There's probably Jerry. Or at least approximations of them. And it goes for 24 hours a day. Has 125,000 followers and currently has 15,000 viewers. For you it's terrifying. I question how much of this is a sincere interest in this comedy and this content versus it just being a novelty. In the same way that Once Upon a Time Twitch controls Pokemon took over the internet and was just like the biggest thing with tens of thousands of viewers. Like that channel is still going and people are still playing but it's got 79 viewers now. You can still see it still has a lot of followers from back in the day but it's just nothing. And when the novelty wears off, like what's left? It is hard to imagine that the level of AI that we have now will ever be good enough to truly replace an actual person in the long term. But I mean then again, a lot of content creators only have like a couple of years of life in terms of popularity. |
| 21. November 2020 | AMD 5000 series cpus | AMD 5000 Series CPUs. I'm very interested in this 5000 Series AMD thing. Sent an email to the group who set me up for the 3950X when that came out, and I've loved it. But with the 3950X, you basically took like a tiny hit on FPS for a massively increased amount of performance for workstation stuff, you know, with streaming and editing and whatnot. With the 5000 chips, like, it looks like they're gonna even beat Intel in gaming. So you're gonna have the best of both worlds. And I definitely want to get in on that. And while their GPUs, they look like they're gonna be very good, the AMD ones that are coming out. I'm not 100% certain I want one, just because I don't know, like, I'm envy ENC or whatever the GPU encoding for streaming and recording and stuff, that's what I use, and AMD doesn't have that to my knowledge. But honestly, how successful their new GPUs are gonna be, it's largely gonna depend on just how much stock they have. Because how out of stock the 3800 and 3900 have been. I'm in the press too, still way better value than the Intel stuff. |
| 21. November 2020 | AMD vs Intel CPU market | shows it some time after. So when it says 30,000 people watched the VOD, more than likely 30,000 people tuned in to the stream for at least a second. As far as chaos is concerned, very few people are making the move when it isn't uploaded on YouTube to go watch it on Twitch. Very few people. Very, very few people bother moving to watch VODs at all. |
| 21. November 2020 | AMD vs Intelm CPU market | shows it some time after. So when it says 30,000 people watched the VOD, more than likely 30,000 people tuned in to the stream for at least a second. As far as chaos is concerned, very few people are making the move when it isn't uploaded on YouTube to go watch it on Twitch. Very few people. Very, very few people bother moving to watch VODs at all. |
| 07. May 2021 | AMD's absolute dominance of Intel | AMD is absolute dominance of Intel. Any AMD fans here? You mean literally everyone who's not crazy? No reason to buy Intel over AMD anymore? Yeah, there's no use case where AMD isn't better. Except when there's just no stock, you know? There is certainly comparable hardware, like in the mid-range, where if you can't get AMD and you want a PC now, you can buy an Intel. And certainly, you know, there can be deals on with an Intel CPU. Like I'm saying, it depends at the price point if AMD is better. And usually they are, but of course there can be neat situations where that's not the case. But as a rule, AMD is just beating Intel at every price point. Especially the high end. 3,600 is better than the 11400? As I say, it all depends on the price. And certainly the 11 series that Intel released, no one bought them. And they were, no one of course. But the price has already dropped and stuff, you know? The commentary was like, people asked why would Intel even release it considering it's so far behind their competitor? But like most releases of hardware is done way in advance, like it's planned way in advance. Like you're talking like you planned it like three, four years ago, whatever. And Intel clearly didn't predict how much AMD would improve. They assumed AMD would improve at the kind of same rate they did. So they'd always be at least somewhat behind. Said they were taking it back. And now it's going to take many years for them to catch up. Because you don't just walk and develop a new CPU or whatever, or new architecture, or new plans or whatever. It takes years. This is just what I hear from people in the space. Obviously I'm not an expert in these things. It's interesting to listen to, but at the end of the day it doesn't matter super for me, you know? |
| 15. June 2021 | AT CM 1164022944 | ATCM1164022944 I don't think the clip got more views than normal, but it was funny for me. |
| 15. June 2021 | AT CM 116422944 | ATCM1164022944 I don't think the clip got more views than normal, but it was funny for me. |
| 08. September 2022 | Abandoning twitter and limiting topics I speak on | Abandoning Twitter and limiting topics I speak on. I'm not sure I should talk about this. So I use Twitter pretty passively. I don't follow all that many people, and I don't scroll it all that much either. Like, if I'm following a person, 99% of the time it's because I want to hear what they have to say about stuff. I'm usually focused on like, my mentions or things related to me, as opposed to like doom-scrolling what other people are posting. I might take a glance at it like, for two minutes a day or something, what other people have posted, I don't know. All people on Twitter aren't this way. I see Nux all the time like responding to like, hundreds of posts from people. I know this is a good move business-wise to get attention and whatnot, but that's just not what I'm interested in. But I also see Mudaha doing that all the time. He seems very engaged on Twitter. Whenever he sees something where he has an opinion, he's injecting it in places that, you know, to each their own, right? But recently, Mudaha tweeted this out. Deleting Twitter, keeping the username, this app is hell. And it got a hundred thousand likes. I looked into why this is, and I'm not going to talk about any nuances of what was going on. I'm not interested in that. But when I saw this, what came to mind was, as I've gotten more popular, I have become more reserved on what topics I'm willing to speak on. And I'm less willing to tweet out things that are just opinions about what's going on in the world. Irrespective of my viewpoint, it can be the case that I hold the overwhelming majority viewpoint. Like 99% of people would agree with me. I still won't tweet stuff. This is very different from back in the day where I was just constant politics and religion and philosophy and all that jazz. I still do a bit of the philosophy, but I'm less willing to talk about like potentially ambiguous social events. And Mudaha seems to have, on two different topics that I would personally not have spoken on, irrespective of my position, given his opinion and gotten raked across the coals on Twitter. That sort of intense negativity is very hard to deal with. I remember when I had it during the No Damage drama, unbearable. It doesn't matter how many people support you or believe you or in your corner who say nice things, there will just be so many people, just constant bombardment of, you suck, your viewpoint sucks, you're a terrible human being, and there's no amount of anything that you can do to combat that. And that's what is very frustrating, right? It's always frustrating to have a problem that you can't solve and you just have to deal with. And it seems as though Mudaha has fallen a foul of that. And he's like, I've had enough, I'm done. I'm interested to see how long he can stay off Twitter though, because he used it a fucking lot, you know? And he got like 10,000 likes on whatever the hell he posted. So he lasted two days. |
| 29. March 2021 | Abstaining from drugs and alcohol. | Abstaining from drugs and alcohol. It's your birthday you're finally 21? Oh cool. What brews do I recommend? Oh, you have to drink if you don't want to. Dude, don't feel pressured into it, but I say avoid beer, avoid wine, drink some nice bourbon. The best you can afford. It's whatever takes your fancy. Just don't overindulge. Alcohol, fine in moderation, but uh, sometimes I mean I do envy people who can go their entire lives without indulging in these things that uh, you know, affect you mentally or whatever. Like Aswin Goldblist a video where he's like, you know, I've never drunk any alcohol, never smoked any um, weed or anything like that, never taken any drugs. Obviously everyone takes drugs in terms of like um, stuff that's medically prescribed, but he just means he's never um, indulged in such substances for entertainment or to take the air trough or whatever. It's funny because if you look at Aswin Gold, he does look like the kind of guy who would smoke weed all day and uh, play World of Warcraft. And Opin Jolette is another person who makes such a claim. And in a way, like, you know, in a way I find that weird because it's stuff that you know isn't gonna kill you, isn't gonna massively harm you, and it's an experience that you can have, like it's an experience you can have in life very easily. Like wouldn't you be curious what it feels like enough to do it? I mean I can understand avoiding things like cocaine or, or Methylcine because you can see like the long term ramifications of that and that it's addictive and whatnot. But um, having a, getting drunk once is not necessarily addictive or whatever, weed's certainly not addictive. I mean like anything can be psychologically addictive, but I'm saying that it's not chemically addictive, right? Um, maybe you fear the possibility, like I mean if you've got two alcoholic parents, I could totally understand why you would never drink alcohol. But just as a regular dude, I think it's an experience that everyone should have at least once. Like I, like I envy that you can say that, that these people can say that they've never done it, but at the same time if I were in their shoes, I would try at least once before I died just uh, to know what it was like, you know? Hardest shrug I've taken? Uh, I think, I think I did E once in the city, like very, like you know, over a decade ago. Other than that, I've had weed and uh, and alcohol that's it. All I remember is having a lot of energy and dancing a lot. And I can't dance, chap. I think ecstasy, I don't know, like I had something, you know? I, like I knew at the time, but it's just been over a decade, so I can't remember. It is very common for um, these drugs to be used by um, people in Australia. Like Australia has some of the highest levels of recreational drug use in the world. Um, if I recall correctly, we're not first, but we're out there. |
| 07. August 2021 | Acceptable age difference in dating | Acceptable age difference in dating. Like 16 in my country is the legal age of consent but I would never date a 16 year old. It would just feel very weird. A 10 year age difference with a person who's that young? I mean it might be different if the 10 year difference was like I was 33 and someone was 23. It would still feel kind of weird because of the huge difference in life experience but it would be less weird you know I'm saying? Because a person who's 16 could hypothetically be physically mature in that they've gone through puberty but it's very unlikely that they're mentally mature, right? |
| 27. January 2021 | Accidentally causing an artist to get hated | Accidentally causing an artist to get hated. So basically the story was that on one of my Oko runs, I commented, man, this song I've heard so many times while I've died or just before I've died. And the reason why this particular song had been in so many situations like that is because it was such an old song in my playlist. And then moments later I died and I'm like, I fucking called it man, it's the song. And so I deleted the song out of my playlist. But then on Twitter, I got a message from both the artist and some other guy being like, everyone was commenting like they fucking hate my song and it sucks or whatever. I was just so confused. |
| 10. June 2022 | Accidentally ordering two meals | Accidentally ordering two meals. I did it again I'm dumb! Occasionally I'll use like the auto order thing like using my previous orders to order a new thing and a meal in the imagery looks the same as a burger so I'll click like I want these two burgers from my past orders and I'll make a mistake and order two meals instead. |
| 06. August 2020 | Accidentally releasing videos | Whatever. Accidentally releasing videos. I'm gonna tell you something surprising, guys. You're probably not gonna believe me. I did something stupid. I used to have all my videos private before I put them live, and this would enable me to put the ending screens and put them in playlists and stuff, but recently I have started unlisting them. I don't know why, I think it's because of the default, it seems to make no difference, and I think because private is bugged so I can't even watch my own videos if they're private, whatever. It doesn't seem to affect them in the algorithm when I release them. Now whenever I set up a video, sometimes I'll accidentally put them in playlists, and so people who go to my playlist to watch videos will be like, what's this video in here? An unlisted video that's got like 10 views? Is Matt being hacked? Why does this video have so few views? And so yesterday, maybe 200 people got to watch an unreleased Rambles episode and the unreleased MediaShare video because I accidentally put them in playlists. Any of those people here? I just, hopefully won't make that mistake again. Those, like just a bunch of comments are being really fucking confused. |
| 09. April 2020 | Accidently being prepared for the pandemic | Accidentally being prepared for the pandemic. Six months ago or something, no it was probably four months ago or something, I ran out of toilet paper and I was really annoyed that I ran out of toilet paper so I said this is just nonsense, I hate running out of toilet paper, so I bought myself like a year's supply. I also ran out of Panadol, I'm like I'm sick of running out of Panadol, I'm gonna buy myself like a year's supply. I ran out of soap and I'm like I'm sick of running out of soap, I'm gonna buy myself like a year's supply. And so I've got like, you know, eight months of all three left. Then Corona happens, I'm like well I'm set. I've even got a little bit of hand sanitizer from when I went to PAX, I got like three of those. Which I've never had I bought hand sanitizer before that point. |
| 15. July 2021 | Achieving success in content creation | Achieving success in content creation. How hard is it to make it as a streamer or a content creator? Depends on your definition of makers. In this world, the higher that you want to go, the luckier that you need to be. That you just need to be in the right place, right time. Because everyone at any time is doing their best to attempt to predict the future given the information that they have available at the time. What information you have available to you at the time is not something that you ultimately decide. It's dependent upon your environments. It is entirely possible for you to have all the correct information, do all the correct things and still fail. While another person do all the wrong things and just coincidentally, due to the unknown nature of the future, happen to succeed. It's an annoying aspect of life that those who potentially prepare the most, do the most, are potentially the most deserving, are not always those who succeed. But certainly those attributes are correlated with a success. A person who tries to prepare, tries to learn more, tries to look for ways to succeed and actively pursues that obviously has a higher chance of success than a person who does none of those things. But it just doesn't guarantee success. So how hard is it to succeed is in part dependent upon these variables that are not all things that you can necessarily influence or control. Or even if you could influence or control them, you won't necessarily know in what way you should change them. Like right now, there are things that you could do to be successful online in two weeks. You have no idea what those are. I have no idea what those are. But there's someone out there who can coincidentally do those things and two weeks from now, there's going to be someone else who's successful online. Either coincidentally or just happened to have the information that makes that path known to them. If you look at my success, whether I would have been successful had I not speed ran GTA 5 is certainly very debatable. Given how few pathways to success they technically are. I just happened to see a dude playing GTA 5 and speed running it and so I started doing it. I just happened to be around when Friendly Baron started making content on YouTube and became successful with it and then inspired me to start making content on YouTube myself. These two instances were the most crucial in the success that I see today. At least the type of success I have. Certainly I could have been successful in some other way. It's impossible to say. But if these two events didn't happen, I would not have been successful in the way that I am. I can point to dozens of other things that I coincidentally did or that happened to be available to me in my environment. But these two things, obviously without them, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing today with the success that I'm doing today. But even then, you can look at my level of success and I have people all the time tell me, man, who the fuck are you? You're just a tiny content creator, man. Because people look at XQC or whatever with 130,000 viewers playing slots and they're like, man, that's what success is. Everyone has different ideas of what success is. And maybe you aren't even referencing my level of success. Maybe you're thinking, how can I become a billionaire? How can I become Jeff Bezos? And the pathways to that are even smaller. And the amount of variables that just coincidentally have been in your favor are even larger. Hoping for these things to fall into your lap is obviously unwise. This conversation, this ramble that I'm giving you right now, isn't something that you control. It isn't something that you knew was going to be here, that you could have determined to be here necessarily because you couldn't necessarily know whether I was going to speak like this. But this conversation could potentially inspire you to do something that leads to your success. It's weird because when I have those little rambles, I'm always so doom and gloom when it comes to success due to my awareness of how many things in a person's life they don't directly control. But I always try to throw in a little bit of like, man, at least try, man. If you want to succeed, you've got to at least try. Even if the odds are stacked against you, even if the system isn't fair, just complaining about it isn't going to change that. If you want it, you have to go for it. And immediately saying that I want to say, but obviously the amount of people who can reasonably throw their all at trying to succeed in everything is quite small because a lot of people have responsibilities and dependencies and don't necessarily exist in a stable circumstance already. So throwing away their current little bit of stability they have in some risk to achieve a greater level of success is potentially unwise. The world is not fair. Everyone doesn't have equal chance of success, and you've got to hope that well-meaning, kind people succeed so they can at least benefit those around them and not necessarily work to their detriment. Yeah, the interesting thing about being a content creator is that the pathway to success is very different depending upon what you want to do and who's doing it right. It isn't like a career where you go to this school, to this school, you get this credential, you apply at this place, you get this job. Everyone has their own little story of how they got to where they were, and they're all very different. There are very few content creators where, especially those who started in the very beginning where it wasn't necessarily an obvious path to success, maybe even before, maybe even before money was even possible to get, everyone has their interesting story, you know. It's why these videos of the rise and fall of particular content creators, they do very well on YouTube. Because it's always weird stories. I'm of course nowhere near big enough of a content creator for anyone to ever bother making such a story about me. But I sometimes do reflect on the history that I'm leaving behind. It makes me want to, a lot of the time, take the time to explain myself and why I do the things that I do, what motivates what I do, especially when I'm believed to have done wrong. But over time of being a content creator, you realize it's just a full zone. No one listens, no one really cares. |
| 17. March 2022 | Adblock, twitch turbo and youtube premium. | Adblock, Twitch Turbo, and YouTube Premium. Why don't I use Adblock instead of buying YouTube Premium? Well, I have Adblock and I have YouTube Premium. I am well off these days. If I use a website consistently, I will probably buy its premium service. So that I can continue to exist, you know? It's why I sub to a handful of streamers, the handful that I watch and I donate just a couple of bucks to them maybe once in a while. Because I use Adblock. Although I should probably just get Twitch Turbo really. Except Twitch Turbo isn't shared with Twitch streamers. Although I think streamers are still paid as if you saw an ad. Yeah, but that's your premium YouTube will go bankrupt. I mean, individual content creators would. If you have YouTube Premium, you are worth as a viewer, like 50 times what any individual viewer is worth to whoever you're watching. You get money from Turbo, but... So with YouTube Premium, the revenue of that is split between YouTube and all the people you watch. I don't know what percentage it is. Maybe YouTube takes 30% and the other 70% is split between everyone you watch. So, you know, if you watch seven people equally, each one of them gets a dollar or something. On Twitch, Twitch keeps all the money from Twitch Turbo. But you still act as though you're watching ads. But an individual ad watch is worth, you know, pennies, effectively. So the YouTube Premium system works fine. |
| 27. March 2022 | Addicted to the feeling of completing a goal. | Addicted to the feeling of completing a goal. I have a problem chat where I much prefer to complete smaller tasks even if they're less important. I'm like addicted to the feeling of progressing and completing a goal and so I will go for the easiest goals you know. |
| 15. July 2021 | Adding known characters to movie scripts | Adding known characters to a movie script. Opinion on Kylo Ren? Effectively everything from every new Star Wars movie has been at best okay. They are the least impressive movies of all time, yet they have made a staggering amount of money. The Men the Lawyer isn't a Star Wars movie. And Solo I wouldn't even think of as a Star Wars movie. Solo is just the highest movie. It would not surprise me if Solo was just the highest movie that was written. And then someone was like, hey what if we just put Star Wars on this and then more people watch it. And so they did. I mean people said that about, what's that, Cruella? That new movie that came out from Disney. It just seems like another movie that was written. And then Disney was like, yeah we could just put like an already existing Disney character on it. And so more people watch it. Let's go. You know. Like it wouldn't surprise me honestly if every single time a movie was pitched. And someone was like, yeah this is a great script. How can we add an already existing character into this? Okay so the guy's wife has just been murdered. Okay it's a revenge story. Oh this is a great script. Can it be about Iron Man? Do we still have the rights to Robin Hood? Can we set this just with Robin Hood or something? Dracula is in the public domain. A lot of movies would be better with him in it. Make a law that every single movie has to have Dracula in it for at least 10% of it. Pretty much every Die Hard movie wasn't written as a Die Hard movie so it's a common practice in the industry. Yeah. An already existence franchise or property or character whatever that people already know about means that you have to spend less money on advertising. And given that you already have evidence of that particular property working once before it increases the likelihood that it will work again. You liked that first thing that we did that one time. Here is that thing again. Bit different. Wow I like that first thing and this is that first thing but different in some way. I'm going to see that thing. That's great. What's this a new thing? I don't know if I'm gonna like this thing. I never heard of this thing before. I don't like new things. I'm gonna go re-watch that movie I watched before. |
| 16. June 2022 | Adobe Premiere is trash | is trash. You have no idea the lengths that I've gone to try to render more episodes of This Is What You Missed. Adobe Premiere is trash. Currently there's a bug in the software to make it so that when things are of a certain length, it will render the entire thing, except like the last minute or two, and then fail to combine the footage, the audio and the video that it produces. Adobe knows of this issue and will not do fucking shit to fix it. Presumably because there's very few people who are in my circumstance that need to render things that are that long. But like, I've gone to insane lengths to try to fix it. I've rendered with GPU, I've rendered with CPU, I've done like four different systems. I bought myself a NUC, a different Intel system to have in the other room. I've ended on that as well, didn't fucking work. My last hope was to not use Adobe and use like a competently made editing software, which was DaVinci Resolve. But putting the project file in DaVinci Resolve, like you can kind of do it with an XML file or something, but none of my edits to the audio carry over, and it's kind of buggy, and the audio doubles up and stuff, and it doesn't work basically. And I don't know enough about DaVinci Resolve to be able to do the edits in that software, so I'm fucked. I've been trying to solve this now for a month and a half, and there's nothing I can do. Split the video into two parts and render them separately? No, I mean, I want the whole thing as one video. That's important. Even if I take, even if I render it in half and then put them together, it still doesn't work because it's still the same length. It is specifically the length. What if you render them in two and then join them in DaVinci? That's a good idea. That is a good idea. Yeah. I wonder if the support staff that I talked to knew that that could have been a solution, but were like legally unable to tell me just to use a competent editing software. This actually worked and is what has enabled me to release more episodes of This Is What You Missed. So person who suggested that. |
| 03. May 2021 | Adobe Sponsored Streams | No. Adobe Sponsored Streams. Sometimes Adobe Sponsors people to edit stuff on stream. Really? I've never heard of that. You would assume that they would only sponsor like professional editors or something, right? Like I don't view myself as a amazingly tactical editor or something. I can do what I need to do and if I can't then I google it and you know. |
| 18. August 2022 | Adobe has let me release more 'This is what you missed' | Adobe has let me release more This Is What You Missed. So you may have noticed I was able to release another episode of This Is What You Missed of Noita. Very few of you watch it, that's fine. It's just I'm going to keep doing it because it's just an easy video to put out. I do put effort into it, like I do skim through it and remove pauses and whatnot, but it's just very lightly edited playthroughs of various games. The reason I was finally able to do this is because Adobe has finally fixed the issue where you weren't able to render projects that were really long. Not in the release version, I'm on the beta version of Adobe Premiere. Yes, I'm not sure if any of you out there have the same issue as me right now, but if you do, sign up for the beta. So I have made like another half dozen episodes of This Is What You Missed, and I will continue to process old footage that isn't worth editing, but people may still want to watch. So this is all the stuff that will probably eventually get into This Is What You Missed. This is the newest stuff. The further we go back, the lower the quality of the footage. Like Tunic should definitely be a This Is What You Missed series. I never finished Teardown. I really need to go back and finish that. It's just a bunch of stuff. None of this worth editing because it's either too much footage for too few views or yeah, that's basically it. Like the Sekiro footage is great, but it's like 60 hours. Editing 60 hours of footage takes weeks and the video will get like 100,000 views. How much storage do I have? 150 terabytes. And it's not enough. Legit, it's like I've used like 120. Why do I not do this? |
| 16. June 2022 | Adobe premiere is trash | is trash. You have no idea the lengths that I've gone to try to render more episodes of This Is What You Missed. Adobe Premiere is trash. Currently there's a bug in the software to make it so that when things are of a certain length, it will render the entire thing, except like the last minute or two, and then fail to combine the footage, the audio and the video that it produces. Adobe knows of this issue and will not do fucking shit to fix it. Presumably because there's very few people who are in my circumstance that need to render things that are that long. But like, I've gone to insane lengths to try to fix it. I've rendered with GPU, I've rendered with CPU, I've done like four different systems. I bought myself a NUC, a different Intel system to have in the other room. I've ended on that as well, didn't fucking work. My last hope was to not use Adobe and use like a competently made editing software, which is DaVinci Resolve. But putting the project file in DaVinci Resolve, like you can kind of do it with an XML file or something, but none of my edits to the audio carry over, and it's kind of buggy, and the audio doubles up and stuff, and it doesn't work basically. And I don't know enough about DaVinci Resolve to be able to do the edits in that software, so I'm fucked. I've been trying to solve this now for a month and a half, and there's nothing I can do. Split the video into two parts and render them separately? No, I mean, I want the whole thing as one video. That's important. Even if I take, even if I render it in half and then put them together, it still doesn't work because it's still the same length. It is specifically the length. What if you render them in two and then join them in DaVinci? That's a good idea. That is a good idea. Yeah. I wonder if the support staff that I talked to knew that that could have been a solution, but were like legally unable to tell me just to use a competent editing software. This actually worked and is what has enabled me to release more episodes of This Is What You Missed. So person who suggested that. |
| 27. April 2022 | Adopting new tech in old age. | Adopting new tech in old age. I was listening to Brennan Sanderson and his friend. What's his name? Um Dan Wells They were talking about the difference in generations adopting technology and how like for example my father Barely can use email has no interest in in adopting anything new and am I gonna reach that point where I'm gonna be like Oh you kids with your new angled fucking gravity boots No interest in that new tech. I can't imagine or ever get that way like I've just grown up in a generation where Technology is changing rapidly so fast and all the time and it's just a part of my life that New technology is gonna come along and I'm gonna have to adapt to it, you know |
| 22. March 2022 | Advice for new content creators. | My advice for new content creators. So I have any advice for aspiring content creators. When you make content, don't just make content that you find fun to make. Think to yourself, would someone else want to watch this? Who am I making this for? And then when you upload it, think to yourself, would a person click on this video if it was presented to them? If no, why not? What can I change about the content? Ideally what you want to do as a new content creator is identify a type of content that people want to see that doesn't exist or doesn't exist in sufficient amounts to satiate people's desire for that content. And then you make that content and package it in a way to say, hey, this is that thing that you want to see or that this is a thing that you have never seen before. Then you got to do that like a bajillion times. If you are making stuff that everyone else has already made, you are just sending yourself out to fail because everyone else doing that thing is going to be doing it better than you and edited far better than you're going to edit your content because they've been doing it for years and you're just starting. Everyone makes that mistake of, oh, I like what that content creator is doing. I'm going to do that too. Easiest way to grow is through TikTok. At the end of the day, what is most important is making good content. Having the mindset of, oh, just go on TikTok. That'll get me a lot of viewers. You're still going to make good content on TikTok, especially if you want them to migrate to the platform so you can actually make money. If you don't have an idea for content, don't waste your time. Find something else to do that's fun and engaging for yourself. Don't you set yourself up to fail. |
| 03. February 2020 | Advice for smaller streamers/those not succeeding | I recently did a Q&A. Some questions were asked via voice and Discord, others I just read from Discord and answered. Do you have any advice you can give somebody who is just starting out and has had the stream for so long and put in, I guess you would say work or, I don't know, there's just so many questions I could possibly ask. I can be brutal and say if you've been streaming for a prolonged amount of time and you haven't achieved any success, you should either stop streaming or do something else to potentially bring an audience to Twitch. As in, clearly the discoverability isn't working for you, make content somewhere else on a new platform and advertise your Twitch. If you do something consistently for a long time and it doesn't work out, you need to change. What you're producing isn't of a value that people would want to consume it even if they saw it. It doesn't matter how discoverable you are. Work on yourself, your content and seek other avenues of discoverability. Do you ever feel like you make bad content? So I do create bad content sometimes. As I've said before, when I am attempting to create good content, I think I do it well. I like my content, I legitimately find me funny. If you watch me edit myself, people often make fun of me because I laugh at my own jokes. I find myself funny. I like the content that I produce and the times where I feel the worst is when I don't like what I produce. As far as my Twitch streams go, when I listen to my Twitch streams, I do generally think it's good Twitch content as in it's good background audio, occasionally entertaining, occasionally funny. I speak quite a bit which is good, but I do do things that I don't like. Mouse sounds are bad. I misspeak. My voice cracks. No one's perfect. No one can create a perfect seamless content for nine hours without things being occasionally cringy, occasionally awkward, saying the wrong things. One of the biggest frustrations for me is when I'm looking over the content for rambles and I hear myself talking about a particular topic and I think to myself, I can explain that ten times better if I wrote it down, but I don't have that opportunity when I'm streaming because it's all free flowing. In general, I think I am a good streamer and I do like my content. If you are watching your own content and you don't believe it's good, that doesn't mean necessarily that other people out there won't think it's good. There are people out there who hate the content that they produce, but other people like it or that they produce content that they themselves would not watch. That is, I don't think that's the norm. I really have no way of knowing. We often judge other people by ourselves. We use ourselves as the barometer. We think what is normal for us, when we don't have anything to suggest otherwise, we think what is normal for us is normal for everyone else. Because it's normal for me and I have nothing to suggest otherwise, I believe it's normal for people to produce content that they themselves enjoy. What I'm saying is, just because you don't enjoy your content doesn't mean that you couldn't be successful. My gut feeling, hate gut feeling, but my gut feeling is if you're consistently producing content that you think is not very good, then perhaps streaming isn't for you. |
| 01. March 2023 | After all the updates, is it finally safe to play GTA V Online on PC? | Hello and welcome to another episode of Viper Rambles, starting with a topic, after all the updates, is it finally safe to play GTA Online on PC? So there has been a lot of talk about whether or not Rockstar has actually put in IP shielding into GTA Online. If there was good IP shielding, it would mean we wouldn't need to use VPNs anymore, we wouldn't risk being DDoS just by going in online, people wouldn't be able to see your IP address with a simple network modder, and so, it was obvious they did something. But I have been sent a message from a person with a mod menu, and he says this. GTA still compromises your IP, mod menus can even see the IP of the Rockstar games relay your information is going through. Player to player network syncing, like making sure two players are standing in the same spot for both of their game clients, is still peer to peer. From what it seems, the relay intended to obscure your IP is essentially useless, probably only there to make sure people aren't fucking with your stats or something. I don't know exactly what they do, but apart from needing a VPN and or Guardian, you're good to go back into online. Feel free to show this on stream. And yeah, so he's like, patch this information. Yeah, so it's still visible apparently. I had heard this whispered by some other people. Yeah, so unsurprisingly, Rockstar's patch to make things a little bit more secure has made things a little bit more difficult. |
| 20. October 2022 | After my experience at Pax Australia 2022, do i want to go next year? | The live from on the live stream side after my experience of Pax Australia 2022 do I still want to go next year? 60% of the reason why I go places is knowing that if I stayed home I'd sit there being like man be having so much fun at that place I didn't go to think for all the wonders that could happen I could found the girl of my dreams there But I'm sitting at home such a dumb decision and I beat myself up about it for as long as the duration of the thing and then I feel miserable until I get over it like two weeks later, and so I had to go fear of missing out indeed And it was I wish it was in Sydney rate my Pax experience So it depends what I'm rating the actual inside of Pax like a 2 out of 10 not interested I don't want to see the indie games. I don't want to line up for stuff I question how much of people going to Pax is the stuff in there versus like seeing creators and going to panels and Just being with their friends and stuff. I suspect for a lot of people You know it's just like what else you have to do in a weekend. Oh, there's an event coming up Fuck yeah Let's just all go down there pay the money and walk around for a bit and just hang out and see some cool stuff Just talking with your friends I think that's the main appeal for most people right but outside of Pax is like the booth and stuff cuz you didn't even need You didn't even need a badge to come see me or whatever like some people legit Just got on a train just came down and said hey, man How's it going? I felt kind of bad for some of the people because it was like I talked to you for like five minutes or whatever and You've come like half an hour. Did I say me and the fans a plus barely an awkward moment and Very nice people a lot of people think they're awkward when they meet me I think maybe like one or two people were tops and I don't even really remember it like I'd be surprised if no one Was awkward but no one stands out to me particularly awkward There was memorable thing with people was that love you were like their hearts were beating rapidly I could feel it the food in general that I've had throughout the trip. I'm not a big food person I'm just gonna give it a six didn't dislike anything except maybe the Japanese barbecue, but you know, hang out with TG a plus the manager people Shouldn't really just call the manager people as a group a plus cuz I shouldn't even as magic people like I was obviously I think of them as my friends in a way, but it's like obviously it's a business relationship Meaning modest pelican a plus the handful of people that I met at parties and stuff a plus everything else F So this hotel grand hire F all the travel F all the ubers like the ubers weren't bad that bad. There was no difficulties. No problems with them. Nothing like that F cuz our travel sucks Like if I could have met all the same fans hire TG hung out with most pelican hung out with the management people Done all that in Sydney The whole event would be a plus but having to travel and be stuck here for two extra days with very little to do and stuff Brings that the whole experience down significantly next time round. I am NOT Staying two more days. I'll probably just stay one more day because I saw pictures of people Flying back the date the direct day after packs and look so packed Everyone would have been crowded onto planes like sardines and stuff and it's just so many people as they are My own packs next year. I would be surprised if I did not it's um It is a burden to get out what I get out of it You know as in like I don't get a heap out of it. Me fans is cool Having a handful of conversations is cool, but like I'm not really that big into parties I don't mind going but I never really get much out of them It's usually just very loud and you have to yell that conversations that only mean anything I would much rather if packs was held like in Sydney So like I could drive out there hang out with people then go back to my house And whenever you add into it the need for a flight and a say at a hotel makes everything ten times more burdenful |
| 29. March 2021 | Aftermath of my Fortnite Thicc video. | Aftermath of my Fortnite Thick video. I have this clip where it's just a clip on my clips channel of me playing GTA as it normally is, and I was mentioning how I went into a Fortnite stream and I didn't remember how thick all the Fortnite characters were. I was like, is this how it always was that the Fortnite skins were the thickest asses I've seen on any characters ever? I'm sincere, and I legitimately did not remember it being this way and was quite surprised. And so I put this clip up on the clips channel, but I chose to use an image of the newest character they're releasing, Chung Li, or something. I think she's from Street Fighter. And I happen to see this image later on Twitter, so I'm like, oh, actually, that's a good example of the thickness of Fortnite characters. So I'll put that in the video. And so the thumbnail was just me, like the screen you see now, but in the middle of the screen, Chung Li with a thick ass. And no nudity, of course, but this is just an image I took on Twitter. Didn't think anything of it. And I uploaded it and it got like half a million views. But because afterwards, I'm like, oh, of course it did, because it's attractive. It was a thick ass in the thumbnail. I didn't think about it. And YouTube doesn't take down the video, which has this image in it for like 23 seconds. They only take down the thumbnail, which has the image of Chung Li in it. And I'm like, why? And they're like, oh, this is sex or nudity. I'm like, there ain't no sex. There ain't no nudity. It's just what's the word voluptuous or something, but it's perfectly standard material for YouTube as far as I'm concerned. And so I appeal and say, this is just what Fortnite is, my guy. You're going to take down all of Fortnite? And YouTube comes back 12 hours later and they're like, okay, yeah, we agree. It doesn't actually violate our terms of service. You're all good. It was more than likely a bot just detecting something in the thumbnail. And so then I'm like, okay, good. So thumbnail goes back up. And then an hour later, an hour later, it gets taken down again. And they're like, look, this is sex or nudity in the thumbnail. I'm sorry, my guy, we're going to take down. Come on, YouTube, we went through this dance before. It's fine. And then fortunately, another hour later, they're like, okay, okay, again, we've checked the second time now and again, we agree. It's not actually a problem. So putting that back up for you. I'm like, okay, thank you, YouTube. But it's funny because I found out later that that picture of Chungli that I was using that I thought was just from Fortnite is actually, it was actually enhanced. It wasn't an actual representation of the thickness of Fortnite characters. Her thickness was enhanced. It was fake thickness, guys. So I was clear into YouTube, like, this is just what Fortnite is. Come on. But in reality, not the case. So while again, Fortnite skins do have the thickness, I did engage in a little bit of fake news in an unintentionally presenting that thickness in a thicker light than potentially actual, but it's over now. The thumbnails up there and so good, I guess. But weird. Thickness was expanded and enhanced. Exactly. I think it's possible, Velo, that either it was just a bot rechecking and you're right, maybe it didn't get whitelisted or maybe when it was taken down, it just changed to a normal thumbnail like a non-custom one. And that non-custom one was an image from the video, which of course had Chungli in it as well. And that caused it to be confused or whatever because it was both thumbnails. I don't know. It got resolved pretty quickly. So it's not a big deal. It was just weird to me, though, that it detected the thumbnail, but not the video itself that had the image in it the entire way through. Yeah, Aunt Denise is the Chungli of GTA V with all that ass. There's something about the word thickness that I like. It's just a satisfying word to say. Imagine how thick my Fortnite character would be. I saw someone on Twitter again drew me as a chick who was voluptuous. It's not that close to looking like me. You could tell it's me given the rant jacket and stuff. Can someone Google the word voluptuous and tell me what it actually means? I'm curious if I'm using it correctly. Because always used in reference to the curvature of women. Curvaceous and sexually attractive. Typically used of a woman. I told you. I wonder its origin though. What did it originally mean? |
| 29. March 2021 | Aftermath of my fortnite Thicc video. | Aftermath of my Fortnite Thick video. I have this clip where it's just a clip on my clips channel of me playing GTA as it normally is, and I was mentioning how I went into a Fortnite stream and I didn't remember how thick all the Fortnite characters were. I was like, is this how it always was that the Fortnite skins were the thickest asses I've seen on any characters ever? I'm sincere, and I legitimately did not remember it being this way and was quite surprised. And so I put this clip up on the clips channel, but I chose to use an image of the newest character they're releasing, Chung Li, or something. I think she's from Street Fighter. And I happen to see this image later on Twitter, so I'm like, oh, actually, that's a good example of the thickness of Fortnite characters. So I'll put that in the video. And so the thumbnail was just me, like the screen you see now, but in the middle of the screen, Chung Li with a thick ass. And no nudity, of course, but this is just an image I took on Twitter. Didn't think anything of it. And I uploaded it and it got like half a million views. But because afterwards, I'm like, oh, of course it did, because it's attractive. It was a thick ass in the thumbnail. I didn't think about it. And YouTube doesn't take down the video, which has this image in it for like 23 seconds. They only take down the thumbnail, which has the image of Chung Li in it. And I'm like, why? And they're like, oh, this is sex or nudity. I'm like, there ain't no sex. There ain't no nudity. It's just what's the word voluptuous or something, but it's perfectly standard material for YouTube as far as I'm concerned. And so I appeal and say, this is just what Fortnite is, my guy. You're going to take down all of Fortnite? And YouTube comes back 12 hours later and they're like, okay, yeah, we agree. It doesn't actually violate our terms of service. You're all good. It was more than likely a bot just detecting something in the thumbnail. And so then I'm like, okay, good. So thumbnail goes back up. And then an hour later, an hour later, it gets taken down again. And they're like, look, this is sex or nudity in the thumbnail. I'm sorry, my guy, we're going to take down. Come on, YouTube, we went through this dance before. It's fine. And then fortunately, another hour later, they're like, okay, okay, again, we've checked the second time now and again, we agree. It's not actually a problem. So putting that back up for you. I'm like, okay, thank you, YouTube. But it's funny because I found out later that that picture of Chungli that I was using that I thought was just from Fortnite is actually, it was actually enhanced. It wasn't an actual representation of the thickness of Fortnite characters. Her thickness was enhanced. It was fake thickness, guys. So I was clear into YouTube, like, this is just what Fortnite is. Come on. But in reality, not the case. So while again, Fortnite skins do have the thickness, I did engage in a little bit of fake news in an unintentionally presenting that thickness in a thicker light than potentially actual, but it's over now. The thumbnails up there and so good, I guess. But weird. Thickness was expanded and enhanced. Exactly. I think it's possible, Velo, that either it was just a bot rechecking and you're right, maybe it didn't get whitelisted or maybe when it was taken down, it just changed to a normal thumbnail like a non-custom one. And that non-custom one was an image from the video, which of course had Chungli in it as well. And that caused it to be confused or whatever because it was both thumbnails. I don't know. It got resolved pretty quickly. So it's not a big deal. It was just weird to me, though, that it detected the thumbnail, but not the video itself that had the image in it the entire way through. Yeah, Aunt Denise is the Chungli of GTA V with all that ass. There's something about the word thickness that I like. It's just a satisfying word to say. Imagine how thick my Fortnite character would be. I saw someone on Twitter again drew me as a chick who was voluptuous. It's not that close to looking like me. You could tell it's me given the rant jacket and stuff. Can someone Google the word voluptuous and tell me what it actually means? I'm curious if I'm using it correctly. Because always used in reference to the curvature of women. Curvaceous and sexually attractive. Typically used of a woman. I told you. I wonder its origin though. What did it originally mean? |
| 14. January 2021 | Age of Empires 2 | Yeah, wow. I've been reign re-igniting the PC flame. My mates and I have been playing Age of Empires 2. Oh, I love that game. Like the age, you play HD edition? Yeah, I've played it since then. But I mean, when I was a kid, I got the demo out of the serial box, you know, that promotion level. And yeah, that's how I got it. It would give you like the first 10 levels of saying Age of Empires 2. And I remember, like, I meticulously removed every single tree from a level. I made armies of monks to convert every single enemy into my allies, because they only had a limited amount of levels. And so I was making my own stories, my own games in these 10 levels in the demo. That's how much I love the game. That's so good. And it's unfortunate that I didn't stick with it. Did you know there's a guy named the Viper? He is like the most popular Age of Empires 2. And it's funny that we have a similar name. Oh, the Viper. Yeah, true. You do. Yeah. I've got a bit of an obsession with like the Age of Empires 2 competitive scene. Like, I watch a lot of T90, Nili, Viper, like all the pros play. Like, it's such a good game to watch. Only recently though. I've learned of T90, the Viper, a little bit from watching some stuff on YouTube. And watching like a tournament or something or two on Twitch. But certainly I haven't gotten that involved. Yeah, it's cool. It is very impressive how popular that game is still to this day. Oh, yeah, absolutely. |
| 14. January 2021 | Age of consent laws | Yeah, I made a ramble about it before. The purpose, I can kind of repeat some of it here, but it's the- I didn't watch that one. How was it received by your community? Oh, it hasn't come out yet, I think. Okay. Because since the dream thing, I'm just going to continue to comment on drama like I did before where it comes out weeks later and no one gives a shit except my fans. I don't want people to give me that much attention again, at least not too soon. Because age of consent laws, what they're meant to do is attempts to prevent exploitation. Whereas certain ages that people can be where it's just, we can just adamantly say, because when we talk about consent, often implicit in that is the idea of informed consent. You can't give consent unless you're actually informed about what you're consenting to. And a person who is very young, it is impossible for them to give informed consent. As a society, you say your brain is not developed enough, you don't have enough life experience to be able to assess what you're actually consenting to, whether it be sex, sending nudes, whatever that is. You can't understand the implications, therefore you can't consent. So any relationship, let's say with a person 14, 15, whatever it is, immediately society says no and justifiably so. But when they get older, different people will agree, well, can you understand the implications of sending nudes at 16, at 17, 18? It's why the age of consent laws differ between these countries because we don't all agree who can give informed consent, who can actually understand what's going on. And when there's a huge age range between the participants in these matters, it becomes more likely that exploitation is taking place, that one person has more information and is using that information, greater knowledge, greater development, whatever, to exploit the other person. But when people are, even when people are underage, when they have a similar age, let's say they're both 17 or whatever, or they're both 15 or whatever, both people either can't give informed consent or at least running off the same level of information. So the odds of there being exploitation there, where a person is more developed or more knowledgeable and they're using that knowledge to exploit the other person, the odds of that is far, far lower. So that's why it becomes very murky when you get closer to the age of consent in your society and the range of age between the two participants is so small. It's a lot harder to say immediately there's exploitation going on here. Like if you had a 21 year old having a relationship, sexual or otherwise, with a 15 year old, you'd go, well, obviously there's significant information difference there and that 15 year old can't give informed consent. But a 17 year old and a 19 year old, is there such a difference in information here, of understanding of what's going on, that one person can't give informed consent or at the very least that one has more information than the other? It becomes a lot more murky. And illegality, because as I say, it shouldn't matter what bit of dirt you're born on or what bit of dirt where this thing happens, it should be wrong or not, irrespective of the dirt. Simply appealing to, well, this is what the age of consent is on this bit of dirt. It doesn't fucking matter. If it's wrong on that bit of dirt, it should be wrong on this bit of dirt. And in my mind, when it was just the one instance of two people sharing news that I thought was a sincere interest, like Carlson wanted to date this girl and she wanted to date him, that was fine to me. It became an issue to me of potential exploitation when Carlson was doing this with many, many girls. It seemed then that she was consenting to share news with the idea that this was going to lead to some relationship. While Carlson was effectively sharing news with the knowledge that, oh, fuck it, I'm just going to move to the next chick, but I'm going to get some nudes out of this. What she was potentially consenting to was not what she was actually consenting to, which is giving her nudes to potentially a collection for Carlson. But then again, it really depends on how many times this occurred, over what time periods and stuff. It's a murky situation. I don't think it's as clear cut as Carlson definitely used his position of power to exploit women or something, but it is certainly a bad situation. It's crazy that his mates and stuff have just decided, look, we don't want to associate it with it. But I can understand their frustrations because they probably thought it was one and they were talking with him. I watched some Jay Schlatt stuff and I don't know. It's messy. He lied to them, what he was doing. Certainly they've seen more information than we have and that they're willing to say, we want no part of this. That makes you think what's behind the scenes that we're not seeing. I also think the ages as well, the age between, like you were saying, 27 and 29. I don't think I'm going to be that different at 29, whereas the age between 14 and 16 or 16 and 18, even 18 and 20, they have huge years of your life. You're literally growing. You're going from being a student living at home to living out of home in some of those years. There's a big mental and maturity gap in those years as well. That's the question of how much credence do you want to give to those years. Because it's not obvious. Yeah, it's hard. I guess we just don't know. No. There's a good question. |
| 23. January 2021 | Age of consent laws and CallMeCarson. | is. Age of Consent Laws and Call Me Carson. Do you know why age of consent laws exist and what they're meant to do? People seem to forget that when we talk about consent, we're not talking about just consent, but we're talking about informed consent. As in, if I consent to you doing something without sufficient information to know exactly what you're going to be doing or the implications of your actions, I haven't really given you consent. I've given to you under false pretenses basically, especially in a case where you have more information than I do and you know that I lack information, you would be considered to be exploiting me. Right? Age of consent laws are designed in each society to enshrine people who we believe cannot give informed consent. As in, when you are so young, it is impossible for you to have sufficient knowledge to give consent and informed consent to be in a relationship or a sexual relationship or anything of that sort. So the reason why age of consent laws differ by a few years or what have you in different countries is because it's not immediately obvious at what year the average person can give informed consent, can actually understand the ramifications of what they're getting involved into. So we can all agree that a person who's 15 is not likely going to be able to understand the ramifications of a sexual relationship. But 16? Yeah, maybe 17. Oh, again, maybe. There is variance in the development of different people in terms of their life experience and just their physical development, obviously, but we're talking about the average person of a particular age. The goal of these laws is basically to keep people from being in exploitative situations. That's the goal. When things get murky is when you have two people who are very young, because when two people are young, perhaps under your country's age of consent, it's hard to immediately suss out exploitation because both parties are equally uninformed. Each party is considered to be unable to give consent. There isn't one person in that relationship who is using their greater knowledge to potentially exploit the other person. So if two 14 year olds get in a relationship, it's not something or a sexual one, let's say they develop early. This isn't a relationship that we want in society. But at the same time, you wouldn't put either of these people on sex offender lists. You wouldn't put them in jail. You wouldn't punish them in the same way that you might punish a person who is 20 for having a relationship with a 14 year old, because you recognize that both parties are uninformed. It's not immediately obvious. There could be more evidence to suggest that one person is exploiting the other, what have you, but there isn't immediately obvious that one is exploiting their position over the other. So when this call me Carson thing came out, and people started talking about, oh, she's only 17 years old. Oh, and he was 19 at the time. Anyone who knows what age of consent laws are meant to do just went, this is a complete non story. This is just some high school shit, two years difference. There is nothing about that age difference that is representative of a significantly greater understanding of what is going on, leading to a potential for one part person in that party to be exploiting the other person. This is the reason why the age of consent laws vary so much. In parts of the world, that wouldn't be considered illegal at all. The issue with the Carson thing wasn't a matter of illegality. It was a matter of morality. There didn't need to be more evidence than simply an age difference suggesting of exploitation. When people then brought up, oh, but she was his fan, again, everyone just went, who cares? By being a fan of a content creator, it does not mean that any involvement you have with a content creator is necessarily exploitative. It's a relationship that is prime for exploitation, but it isn't necessarily an exploitative one. There has to be evidence of that exploitation. It's why I expressed and others expressed, I will start to care when the age difference is larger, or there is more evidence of this. If there's more instances of this, then I'll start to care. Absence that, this is just some high school drama shit. Since then, it's come out that Carson has more issues where he was depressed, potentially suicidal, and he wasn't just sexting this one girl. Who knows if he did it with a lot of people, whatever, but over a long period, he was sexting a lot of his fans. This moves into the territory of exploitation, not because any one of these people may have been directly manipulated to sext with another person. That's perfectly fine behavior. If there are two people who legitimately are interested in developing a relationship or furthering their relationship, sexting between them is perfectly acceptable. It's a legitimate expression of your interest in another person. The reason why what Carson did is exploitative is because he didn't seem to have, at least from what has been released, an interest in developing a relationship. It was getting a lot of these naked pictures from his fans, whether it was to get a power trip or to gain additional self-esteem, or maybe he gets off on the idea of having exclusive pictures. Whatever the case is, clearly, whatever informed consent was given by the original party, they were under the apprehension that this was going to be a relationship or something, that something was going to develop from this. The sharing of these naked pictures was done with the goal of furthering a relationship, which Carson didn't seem to be interested in. So he's representing himself as a person like, oh yeah, yeah, we're involved, this is a thing now, right? But in reality, that's not the case. So this person, while giving consent to share these pictures, wasn't giving informed consent, right? They were being exploited for these pictures. They were being misled for this purpose. This is what is wrong with the Carson thing. People focusing on the idea of the age difference, nonsense, if you know what age of consent laws are meant to do. Focusing on the idea of sexting, nonsense, happens all the fucking time. People focusing on the idea of a fan being involved in some case with content creator, that's a little bit more justifiable in terms of focus because again, that is a situation prone to abuse, but not necessarily guaranteed to be abusive. What's interesting and evidence of Carson's wrongdoing is the greater wider manifestation of his desires for these pictures from multiple people over such a short period. I mean, arguing on people on Twitter about this, and it drove me fucking crazy that people don't understand this. You mean saying Carson's easy? What type of fucking name is Carson? I think I am saying Carson, but I just, the way that I speak sometimes sounds like um, it sounds the same in my ears, fuck. |
| 23. January 2021 | Age of consent laws and Callmecarson. | is. Age of Consent Laws and Call Me Carson. Do you know why age of consent laws exist and what they're meant to do? People seem to forget that when we talk about consent, we're not talking about just consent, but we're talking about informed consent. As in, if I consent to you doing something without sufficient information to know exactly what you're going to be doing or the implications of your actions, I haven't really given you consent. I've given to you under false pretenses basically, especially in a case where you have more information than I do and you know that I lack information, you would be considered to be exploiting me. Right? Age of consent laws are designed in each society to enshrine people who we believe cannot give informed consent. As in, when you are so young, it is impossible for you to have sufficient knowledge to give consent and informed consent to be in a relationship or a sexual relationship or anything of that sort. So the reason why age of consent laws differ by a few years or what have you in different countries is because it's not immediately obvious at what year the average person can give informed consent, can actually understand the ramifications of what they're getting involved into. So we can all agree that a person who's 15 is not likely going to be able to understand the ramifications of a sexual relationship. But 16? Yeah, maybe 17. Oh, again, maybe. There is variance in the development of different people in terms of their life experience and just their physical development, obviously, but we're talking about the average person of a particular age. The goal of these laws is basically to keep people from being in exploitative situations. That's the goal. When things get murky is when you have two people who are very young, because when two people are young, perhaps under your country's age of consent, it's hard to immediately suss out exploitation because both parties are equally uninformed. Each party is considered to be unable to give consent. There isn't one person in that relationship who is using their greater knowledge to potentially exploit the other person. So if two 14 year olds get in a relationship, it's not something or a sexual one, let's say they develop early. This isn't a relationship that we want in society. But at the same time, you wouldn't put either of these people on sex offender lists. You wouldn't put them in jail. You wouldn't punish them in the same way that you might punish a person who is 20 for having a relationship with a 14 year old, because you recognize that both parties are uninformed. It's not immediately obvious. There could be more evidence to suggest that one person is exploiting the other, what have you, but there isn't immediately obvious that one is exploiting their position over the other. So when this call me Carson thing came out, and people started talking about, oh, she's only 17 years old. Oh, and he was 19 at the time. Anyone who knows what age of consent laws are meant to do just went, this is a complete non story. This is just some high school shit, two years difference. There is nothing about that age difference that is representative of a significantly greater understanding of what is going on, leading to a potential for one part person in that party to be exploiting the other person. This is the reason why the age of consent laws vary so much. In parts of the world, that wouldn't be considered illegal at all. The issue with the Carson thing wasn't a matter of illegality. It was a matter of morality. There didn't need to be more evidence than simply an age difference suggesting of exploitation. When people then brought up, oh, but she was his fan, again, everyone just went, who cares? By being a fan of a content creator, it does not mean that any involvement you have with a content creator is necessarily exploitative. It's a relationship that is prime for exploitation, but it isn't necessarily an exploitative one. There has to be evidence of that exploitation. It's why I expressed and others expressed, I will start to care when the age difference is larger, or there is more evidence of this. If there's more instances of this, then I'll start to care. Absence that, this is just some high school drama shit. Since then, it's come out that Carson has more issues where he was depressed, potentially suicidal, and he wasn't just sexting this one girl. Who knows if he did it with a lot of people, whatever, but over a long period, he was sexting a lot of his fans. This moves into the territory of exploitation, not because any one of these people may have been directly manipulated to sext with another person. That's perfectly fine behavior. If there are two people who legitimately are interested in developing a relationship or furthering their relationship, sexting between them is perfectly acceptable. It's a legitimate expression of your interest in another person. The reason why what Carson did is exploitative is because he didn't seem to have, at least from what has been released, an interest in developing a relationship. It was getting a lot of these naked pictures from his fans, whether it was to get a power trip or to gain additional self-esteem, or maybe he gets off on the idea of having exclusive pictures. Whatever the case is, clearly, whatever informed consent was given by the original party, they were under the apprehension that this was going to be a relationship or something, that something was going to develop from this. The sharing of these naked pictures was done with the goal of furthering a relationship, which Carson didn't seem to be interested in. So he's representing himself as a person like, oh yeah, yeah, we're involved, this is a thing now, right? But in reality, that's not the case. So this person, while giving consent to share these pictures, wasn't giving informed consent, right? They were being exploited for these pictures. They were being misled for this purpose. This is what is wrong with the Carson thing. People focusing on the idea of the age difference, nonsense, if you know what age of consent laws are meant to do. Focusing on the idea of sexting, nonsense, happens all the fucking time. People focusing on the idea of a fan being involved in some case with content creator, that's a little bit more justifiable in terms of focus because again, that is a situation prone to abuse, but not necessarily guaranteed to be abusive. What's interesting and evidence of Carson's wrongdoing is the greater wider manifestation of his desires for these pictures from multiple people over such a short period. I mean, arguing on people on Twitter about this, and it drove me fucking crazy that people don't understand this. You mean saying Carson's easy? What type of fucking name is Carson? I think I am saying Carson, but I just, the way that I speak sometimes sounds like um, it sounds the same in my ears, fuck. |
| 27. April 2022 | Air purifier saves my life? | Air purifier saves my life. So for those who didn't get the memos I bought myself an air purifier and I opened it and took out the box put it in this room and it's like Oh my god You've got like the highest levels of gas like possible that we can detect in this room And so I freaked out do I have a gas leak or some shit and it ran for like half an hour and it still said I had the highest levels of gas possible So I went outside like found my gas main and turned it off manually I could never done that and all the time I've been here and and said the air was cleaner and I'm like This has to be bullshit, right? Because I've lit matches and stuff Surely I would like died or caused an explosion if there was an actual gas leak so later when I needed hot water, I turned back on the gas and And it hasn't detected more gas since so I can only assume that because I keep my door closed so frequently that there must have been some smell in here or a Build up of some other gas or something that isn't just the gas that I use for my gas stove and shit Basically, I'm not dead basically Presumably, I mean I really do enjoy going back to speedrunning So maybe I've died and this is actually heaven You never know have I considered my air quality might be impacting my energy levels. Yeah many times so Like I'm feeling if I'm feeling particularly shit. I like open my window and open my door and stuff. I'm buying myself a smaller air purifier The stick in this room as well. Hopefully won't be too loud. Can an air purifier Be a substitute for like having an open window It can right not fully Hmm everyone says no and there's one guy who's like absolutely that's what I use mine for |
| 11. December 2020 | Airline Food | I see. What's the deal with airline food? I actually watched a video at one point that explained what the deal was with airline food. It was something to do with, at the higher altitudes, your taste buds are different. So when you're really high in the air, your taste buds work differently, so food tastes different. That and, so like the food doesn't taste the same and with the, with considerations of both cost and storage and whatnot, the combination of the three makes it very hard to make really good food in the air for long flights. Once at altitude, the combination of dry air and pressure changes, reduces our taste buds sensitivity. In fact, our perception of saltiness and sweetness drops by about 30% at high altitudes, according to a 2010 study at the German airline Luft-Hass-Hanssach. Okay, cool. It sucks when you remember something, but you don't remember where you learned it and what level of justification you had at the time to believe it, like you'd assume because you remembered it, you found it convincing at the time, but you know. |
| 20. March 2021 | Aldi supermarkets in Australia. | Audi Supermarkets in Australia. Yeah, well, Audi's a pretty big thing. That they managed to come in and carve themselves out a little bit of a market share away from Kohl's and Woolworth's is pretty impressive. Their stores do have that very minimalist feel, where everything's still in the boxes and they have unlimited amounts of goods, focusing on those, enabling them to have lower prices. Let all the people who work there sit on seats when they're serving customers and stuff. That you bag your own stuff. It's a very interesting, it's a different dynamic to either Woolworth's or Kohl's, which are the main supermarkets in this country. And as a person who worked at Kohl's for five years, I have no allegiance to this supermarket or whatever. The nanosecond I moved closer to Woolworth's, I'm like, oh, I can go to Woolworth's then. Because Woolworth's and Kohl's are basically the same to me. But I can distinctly see that there's a difference with the way Audi conducts themselves. They stand up in other supermarkets. Because yeah, I don't get it either. |
| 17. May 2021 | Alerts on twitch causing disruptions | Alerts on Twitch causing disruptions Did I quit the IAS? No, it's just I don't I don't have alerts on during no damage runs To be real with you. I have now gone so long with alerts being unable to interrupt me That I'm kind of the enemy have trouble going back to it You know have being in the middle of a rant or saying something and then an alert comes through I saw a clip of Asmongold and he was ranting about something or whatever and then someone Interrupted him for like five bucks or whatever to say l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l And he cuts it off of course and I think I saw like his title was $20 text-to-speech I mean when you have 50,000 viewers Why is your text-to-speech that cheap? You know like increasing the cost of your text-to-speech has nothing to do with just farming more money or something Just so people can't spam the entire stream with it and so What they have to what they want to say has to be pretty important to them for them to shell out the money Like I don't know what I'm gonna make my text-to-speech is probably gonna be something big. |
| 30. June 2021 | Algorithmic shift killing clips channel | Algorithmic shift killing the clips channel. Ah, I got some bad news chat. Not that it really affects you, but uh, YouTube uh... Hello Matt, how are you? Not good. YouTube has decided that uh, my clips channel doesn't deserve views anymore. I mean I say that, but it's like, as in like, this is the first time, May the 1st, I got 14 million impressions. So people saw my clip on their screen somewhere 14 million times. Yesterday it's down to 4 million. You know, it's like a quarter of what it was. It's been 4 million for like the last week or so. Like the impression click-through rate hasn't gone down. The average view time hasn't gone down. Like people are clicking them just as much as they were, and watching just as much as they were before. But I guess they now are de-emphasizing uh, clip content. Which makes sense, I mean it was so over-emphasized, but probably still worth making content for. But it's down to how many subs? 468th a day. Which is now less than my main channel. Like my main channel has not suffered this same dip. As in it's not like just a dip of all of YouTube, it's just uh, the clips channel. And it's funny cause the uh, the revenue from the channel in terms of... Cause the, the RPM is still three times what it used to be. Even four times in some cases. So like, finally the clips channel can make some money. Cause the RPM is good, and then the views go down. But still, uh, still a good amount of money in there, a lot. I'm just, I'm just saying like it's uh, algorithm shifts again. This is your clip channel, I mean yeah true, exactly man. It's just a fortunate, unfortunate change, but still good for me. It is also possible that it isn't an algorithmic change. Simply that more people are making clips, and therefore my clips are being shown less. In other words, it's an oversaturated market now. |
| 29. May 2020 | Alinity releasing nudes on stream | Dickerman revealing nudes on stream, you mean when she showed her breasts. Talking about the individual specific circumstance of a person accidentally showing their boob on stream. I don't think that should be a banable offense. I've mentioned before, I have shown my nipples on stream accidentally multiple times because of the clothing that I wear. If I was female by that standard, I would have had to have been banned many, many times over. Accidents happen. And the people who think that Alinity is 10,000 IQ working out how to work the live stream game or whatever, they're fucking insane. If you look at the actual footage of her actually showing her breast, she's clearly shocked. She's clearly a circumstance where that would happen accidentally, potentially. The idea that this was planned, it just seems so fucking dumb to me. I don't understand the internet's desire to attribute genius level intellect to Alinity. If you listen to her speak for like 15 minutes, she just sounds like a best than average person who doesn't think about the consequences of actions very often, but apparently she's just like mastermind level genius, sitting there like planning everything ahead. It's just fucking nonsense to me. I'm sorry. |
| 23. March 2021 | All content creators have toxic fans, get over it | All content creators have toxic fans get over us. Dream has cultivated such a toxic army of fans on Twitter. There's a tweet that I wrote out. Everyone, when they reach a certain size, gains a certain amount of toxic fans. It's impossible not to have them. Pointing these out is not meaningful. Usually it's done disingenuously or to attack a person unjustifiably. What matters is is the person cultivating these people, spurring them on, cheering them on, or are they actively to some degree saying they don't like them or whatever. The response of the content creators is what matters, not the existence of them, because they're always going to exist. Every single time someone on Twitter calls out a really large content creator and they start losing or people realize that the point that person's made is shit or whatever, that person will fire back, Oh, look at this. Look at this toxic fan who said this mean thing to me. Oh, why aren't they repudiating this fan and their terrible ways? Oh, look how bad this content creator is because this one of their fans did something bad. It's complete fucking nonsense. Once you reach a certain size, it is impossible to have everyone who watches your content to be a perfectly behaving person. All that matters is, is the content creator actively working to foster a community of people who are like that person or trying to spur on that person to act poorly or trying to weaponize these poorly acting people? If your biggest critique of a content creator is, hey, this fan did something shit, therefore you are shit. You're either an idiot or you're not arguing in good faith, you know. |
| 30. June 2022 | All fame has its limits | All fame has its limits. You're pretty- really popular in the whole GT5 gaming community. I was listening to Linus talk yesterday, how he doesn't believe that he's famous. And he drew comparisons to like, Taylor Swift and stuff, where everyone knows their name, doesn't matter where they go, they're just like a mob of people. And he compares himself to that, where he's like, you know, I go out anywhere related to tech. And so I'm be like, hey, that's Linus Tech Tips. There's always a these one person, whatever. It's not the same thing. Like, he's famous in a particular area of the world, as opposed to that kind of global fame. And I didn't really agree with this kind of argument. It's just like, everyone is known within a limited area. Like, even Taylor Swift, parts of the world would have no idea who the fuck that is, right? And certain generations as well. Everyone has their demographics and their region, in which people know them. |
| 12. August 2020 | All gas no brakes | All gas, no brakes. You guys may not know of this channel, All Gas, No Breaks, but it's blown up really huge in popularity recently. He's even going out during the coronavirus. Basically, he goes to these big events, you know, Flat Earther Conference, just right now, the Portland protests or whatever, and he just lets people speak their minds. He barely prompts them, he just puts a microphone in front of their faces and tries to, you know, listen to as much as possible. This protest video is fucking amazing. Like, if you've ever wanted to see every side of a protest, this is your guy. Like, he talks to fucking everyone. You get a sense of how confusing a protest is, all the different players with all these different goals, and how it's so hard from, you know, sitting at home to know how much of anything is possibly occurring. It's a 10 minute video, but in 10 minutes you feel like you know so much more than you started, even whilst understanding that you don't know everything. And that's kind of how you feel with all the videos. At no point do you feel like the person is pandering to you or working to present a narrative that is extravagant or, you know, what's the word I'm looking for? Sensationalized. It's just, here is what is going on here in a condensed form. It's fucking amazing. I highly recommend this channel. |
| 01. June 2020 | All in one go pacifist | When are you going to do the PassFast run? You mean a whole run of PassFast? I can't imagine I will ever do that. It would take so long. Maybe I'll do it one day, like, you know, years later. Uh, but, who knows. A lot of the things I did in PassFast were really difficult, and to do them again would be just like, Nooooo. If YouTube gets worse, more companies filing, claiming videos, etc. Would you consider quitting YouTube, temporarily or permanently, to not risk your channel being closed? Or would you take the risk and stay open? If there was a possibility of, uh, my chan- |
| 01. March 2023 | All judgements are formed with incomplete knowledge. | All judgments are formed with incomplete knowledge. So TGG has tweeted out something that I've expressed myself quite a few times in various ways. Thoughts of the day, being a creator can be so weird, man. People only see 10 minutes of highly edited footage of you, then form an image in their head about you. Some people decide they love you, some hate you, but none of them actually have a clue what you're really like. So I've said this before, but eventually I came to realize that this is just life. You meet someone at a party for 10 minutes, they look you up and down, they assess every aspect of you, they judge every word that you've ever said, and then they have an impression of you that they might hold on forever. They may forget every part of that interaction. And then like a year later, someone will ask you, oh yeah, that guy, he seemed like a bit of a tool really. Can't remember why, but yeah, I don't really like that guy. It is debatable to what degree anyone really knows anyone else. It's debatable to what degree you even know yourself due to the inherent bias in that you want to perceive yourself in a particular way. You want to perceive your actions in a particular way in relation to your own emotional needs and whatnot. It's understanding people in general is hard. Like as a rule, you recognize that you should just give people more credit. When you meet a person and if they're acting poorly or whatever, you should be like, well, you know, I don't really know them, maybe they're having a bad day. Like you should wait for a lot of information before judging a person, but it's so hard to do that. Like that Theo person we just talked about before, multiple tweets coming off as a massive tool entitled, petulance, maybe he's having a bad day. Maybe there's some underlying information that I don't know. Maybe he isn't as bad a guy as he came across in those tweets. It was just one day of his life and I'll never know. I just think this issue is more prevalent for successful content creators. Like we see it more often, this becomes more obvious to us because there's just so many people. It's just so many opportunities for people to have snap judgments of you as a person. People dip in and out of your life as a content creator, taking away impressions that can be completely divorced from who you actually are. And there's nothing you can do about it. And for a long time, it has caused me so much distress and it still does cause me a little bit of distress to be honest with you. But I'm doing my best to make my peace with it. It is just a part of the job. Someone in chat there said they'd be very disappointed to find out that I was actually a jerk. I'm a jerk sometimes. I'm sure there are many instances in my life where I've been uncaring when I should have cared, when I've inadvertently harmed others. Maybe even times where I've been bitter and intentionally harmed people. Who knows? These are instances that I would obviously not want to remember because I have an invested interest in seeing myself as a good person, but I'm not perfect. I've likely rationalized to myself things that I shouldn't rationalize. I try to remember that knowing a bit about psychology as I do and human behavior, it doesn't make me immune to the failings that everyone falls victims to on occasion. I just try and stop occasion and go, what am I doing here? Why am I doing this? I try to second guess myself, introspect, think about my place in the world, but yeah, I'm not perfect. If you could see me all time, all day, every day, you would occasionally see me be a jerk. That's just life really. I would say a lot of people think you're a tool map because of your stance on the reaction content even though you are a good person. Yeah, I often ask people every drama that I've been involved in, what motivated me to get involved? And it's usually a belief that someone has been treated unfairly, that there's some injustice happening where someone is being taken advantage of. As I've said to many people, we each have conflicting motivations. I am a person who strongly wants to keep my head down and to not cause people to focus on me personally, which may be weird for you to hear from a YouTuber, but I like people focusing on my work rather than me personally. And the other thing I'm motivated to do is to call out things I see as unfair, unjust, when I believe people are being taken advantage of. And these things will often butt heads in really strange ways in which you'll see me make compromises between these two things. Like when I released a 14 page document rattling off the top of my head thoughts about a recent injustice as I saw it. A person fully into combating that injustice would have spent weeks making a YouTube video to reach the most people possible, would have added 800 people on every social media. But I didn't do that. I just released the text document because I had to find a compromise between these two feelings, where I wanted to combat the injustice, but I didn't want people to focus so much on me and make me feel uncomfortable. Didn't work out that way, almost didn't. It's as I often say, when it comes to actions that people take, it is possible to postulate many different potential motivations to explain that behavior. And depending upon your particular biases or what you want to be the case, you can lean towards particular motivations so you can maintain your image of a person. People who want me to be a drama whore, terrible human being, will just assume that anything I do is just for clout, even though that's never the case. They'll assume I'm malicious, that I'm insincere, that I'm full of hot air. Where people who want to believe me to be a good righteous person will either take my word for it as to my motivations, or will themselves assume these things without even hearing me say them, because they want to believe I'm a good person, even when they might disagree with me. The world is a complicated place. People are complicated. Behavior is complicated. Simple, Bed W and Show |
| 27. November 2022 | All my recent footage was deleted. | We'll do that. All my recent footage was deleted. So I had a huge scare yesterday, and I don't even know why it happened. I have a guy who watches my VODs, or at least the ones that I tell him to watch, and I have him pick out rambles to be edited. He doesn't edit them himself, he just like watches the streams at two times speed and goes, okay, there's a ramble here, put in timeline, ramble here, put in timeline, and then someone else will come along and do the actual finer edits and all that jazz. And for the longest time, I had been linking him individual files in my Dropbox, and I was like, I don't need to do this. How about this, I just give you the names of the files and give you one link, and then through that link, you just like search for the file. You just type in the file name and it will come up for you. And he's like, oh yeah, that's fine, sure. And so I give him a link, and then 15 minutes later, all of my files are deleted. You can understand how amazingly pissed I was, and I'm like, how could this even have happened? You can't possibly have the ability to do that. And I look, and it seems like the default for a link to a file is an edit link. So he could actually have done it. He was like, no reason to, and we'd been working together for many, many months, but disappeared. And it turns out when a file is deleted on the Dropbox, it deletes it on the PC that it's connected to. So not only the files deleted on Dropbox, they were all deleted from a hard drive. I actually looked up after the facts how to stop this, and there is no way to stop it. That is just what Dropbox does, and there's nothing you can do about it. And this has never been an issue in all the years I've been using Dropbox, because no one else has ever deleted my files. And so I'm freaking out like, what the fuck did you do? I will kick you into the sun. Eventually got back to me after an hour, and said, I didn't do anything, man. I opened the link and I was like, okay, cool. Then I closed it and went to get a haircut. Fortunately for me is I use NAS, and NAS is a network attached storage server. I got two in the other room, and any file that's deleted on one of them isn't deleted permanently, regardless of its size. Like you may know on the actual windows, like if you delete a file that's 50 gigs, it will say, this is too big to run the recycle bin, and you have to delete it permanently. That doesn't happen here. Any file that's deleted goes into a recycle bin, and so I could restore all the files. So I lost nothing, except that I had to spend a couple of hours making sure that all the files were actually there and getting rid of various duplicates, because sometimes it'll create duplicates of files as they're being transferred and stuff. It's very confusing and annoying. But hopefully I've lost no actual footage. And the dude argues tooth and nail that he did fucking nothing. But it couldn't be a coincidence that just happened when I gave him the link, the files disappeared. But there is no evidence on Dropbox itself that anything was ever deleted. There's no evidence he did anything. It could have just been some freak error or glitch or something, who knows? But very scary situation. It's just fortunate that I didn't give him access to all of my files. It would have taken me literally weeks to re-upload them. I just gave him access to my recent projects. So had I lost these files, I would have lost all my footage for the last month. So fortunately that didn't happen. |
| 10. August 2022 | All my viewers are currently watching shorts. | All my viewers are currently watching shorts. This is also interesting this post by this DarkviperAU fellow like, I like this dude, he says things I agree with. If you want to know the state of YouTube right now, all of the other channels my audience watches in analytics are shorts channels. Except T2G, but 14F15 is huge. I suspect it is the cause of all the channels blaming the algorithm for giving them less views at the moment. I've seen so many videos now where people are like, oh man my new videos aren't doing nearly as well as they normally do, oh what's going on? My suspicion right now is that more people are using shorts, and YouTube is less prioritizing new videos over just videos that are good. As we've talked about, a video that was released two years ago that's good, isn't better than a video that was released one day ago that's good. Maybe for YouTube now, if I was YouTube, and I wanted to both have the fresh hot new thing, but also have new, like old content being served to people, I would have shorts focus on the new hot thing, and the long form content be like, just any form of long form content is fine to recommend to people. I'd remove the bias that long form content has for new videos, and just let shorts do that shit. Because like on TikTok, if you released a TikTok like a month ago, no one's seeing that shit. It will never fucking be seen ever. And shorts may work out that same way. I can't know that for certain, but that would make sense for that to be done that way. But when it comes to this thing in the back end, other channels your audience watches, I question whether this is based on like number of views or time, because shorts are of course very short. And so it might just be the case that my viewers aren't spending the most time watching these people, but they're spending the most views on people. So they might watch three shorts from this flicking through shorts, but they're only spending like three minutes with them. Yeah, so I just found that interesting, because this is the first time this has happened, that I've seen shorts channels in the back end at all. So maybe they've changed something with the algorithm or they really are working to integrate the long form content and the short form content algorithms. I'm not sure, but which is an interesting change. |
| 01. January 2021 | All speedrunners share an audience. | All speedrunners to some degree share an audience. Ah yeah, those of us who make speedrunning content on YouTube, to any- with any degree of prominence, our content gets recommended, like we share an audience, you know? I don't think I'm the most likely speedrunner, and I can be a jerk sometimes to people. I'm, uh... I'm sometimes a bit bombastic or whatever. I'm- I'm not reserved enough. I speak my mind too much, when sometimes, uh, peaking my words carefully would be more beneficial to me. Speaking of mind is more respectable than putting on a face for things. There's a difference between... There are always better ways to communicate your thoughts, that won't necessarily rub people the wrong way. A particular idea can be communicated in endless different ways. And the kind of people who are willing to stop, think, wait, and then make a formal response, they do a bit better than people like me, who will just fire off exactly what's on my mind at the time. But I think it's just like, it's the nature of how I've become, with- because I do live streaming, right? You need quick, immediate responses to anything that is being thrown at you. And I've just gotten... That is the thing that I now do, it is my- my base way of acting. Once upon a time, I was slow to respond. I would wait and think and respond with the exact right words that I want, but now it's just, I have to respond immediately, you know? Everything has to be so quick. |
| 08. November 2020 | All speedrunning prior to 5 years ago was meaningless | You know, all speedrunning prior to five years ago was effectively meaningless. You think GTA V would not be speedrun when GTA 6 comes out? Depends on the reception of GTA 6. Certainly, it will die down GTA V speedrunning for a time. But like, you gotta understand, when San Andreas first came out, Twitch wasn't a thing. YouTube wasn't really a thing. And when, when did, when did it release? Early 2000s, what I'm saying is, while San Andreas was out longer, the time people to run the game, optimize it, develop competitive strategies and all that stuff, that didn't exist. Like speedrunning was still a very, very niche thing. But now it's not. You could almost say all speedrunning really started, like, let's say five years ago. Obviously, that's not true. But it's kind of like that. Because the amount of people who have started speedrunning have contributed to speedrunning, has just exploded astronomically to the extent where the time before that is almost meaningless, in terms of its significance. So while San Andreas is an older game, its meaningful history of its speedrun is largely just as old as the GTA V one. What I mean is, given the amount of people running GTA V, like, it's going to be more solved by the time GTA 6 comes out, to the extent where there's going to be less reason to continue to run it, right? Even though GTA IV came out, even though GTA V came out, clearly San Andreas still wasn't solved. It remains to be seen how long a game can still be competitive and interesting after there's, you know, a hundred active runners running it over and over again for five plus years. Is SA solved? If you want to call SA solved, then it must have only been solved recently. Oh, yeah, but like solving one category is different from solving everything, right? Like, surely there must be still strats discoverable in the 100% category of, let's say, SA, right? Because new categories can always be made. You can always find more stuff to tinker with in a speedrun. And certainly there must be lesser run categories of SA that if they had more people running them, then they would go down heaps. Because that's what I'm trying to say, that how solved a speedrun becomes depends on, like, how many people are running it and how much competition there is. And because there wasn't really much competition at all or many people running at all, if any, back in, let's say, 2004 for SA, the first, you know, ten years of the life of SA is effectively meaningless in terms of speedrunning history. Sure, things would have been found, but if you if no one had run SA before 2014, then 100 people started running it on 2014, they would have found everything found in that previous decade in like a day. And just given how popular speedrunning is now and how much money there is in it now, games are getting solved much faster than ever before. Last of its two strats are being discovered so much faster due to popularity in comparison to last of its one. Not only just the popularity of the game, but the greater popularity of speedrunning. Not only that, though, but with the with the second edition of a game, if it follows any similarities to the first game, especially in terms of like if you use the same engine, for example, many of the strats, glitches and whatnot that worked in the first one can work in a second, so you don't have to go through that period of discoverability or whatever you've discovered. You've got that already. Nahi Jaiky released the video recently on the last of his two. He clearly was not happy with it. He was seemingly very conflicted on it, though. What games do you think get speedrun the most? You can see that on speedrun.com website. You can search by active runners. And yeah, it's Nintendo games. Games that get speedrun the most are usually games that either have endless possible solutions or games that have really tight and satisfying controls. GTA V, for example, does not have tight and satisfying controls. Very, very frequently, you will get caught on small objects and be unable to make fine movements, get caught on doors. You'll be swimming and the game will dive you under for no reason. I'm not saying the controls in this game are necessarily bad per se, but it's not like platformer controls. Oh yeah, Minecraft is huge, mainly because of the success of Dream. There's even Clint Stevens, Ms. Kiff. Who else is running Minecraft right now? It's the new meme speedrun thing. Ludwig was a... He was a Smash dude, right, originally. Which is close to speedrunning. |
| 17. September 2021 | All streaming isn’t equally tiring | All streaming isn't equally tiring. So I'm sad, and I feel bad being on stream feeling sad. So much time I've wasted, chat, playing this game and no it's own shit instead of playing GTA and making the interesting stuff that I wanna make. You know how easy it is sitting on stream and being boring? It's really easy. You know how hard it is being on stream and being interesting? It's really hard. I want to explain this before where like, there's this thing that YouTubers do when they come over to Twitch, where they try and keep up the same level of energy that they have for their YouTube videos for the entire stream that they do on Twitch. And it just tires them out, burns them out, and they stop streaming. Cause you notice in a YouTube video, everyone's like, hey guys, what's up? Like, you know, it's energy all the way, you know, explaining things in a passionate kind of way. It's the best content on YouTube. I've realized over time that I've started to do that. As in, when I know I'm making YouTube content, I'm basically trying to keep up that level of energy for the entire time that I'm streaming. So the YouTube video will have the most content possible or the most footage that can be useful to YouTube. And it's so hard. But when I play things like Noita or Slay the Spire, I'm just playing the game. I'm just chilling. And it's so much easier to do. Cause I am, I can be the lowest energy possible and it doesn't matter because it's probably not gonna be YouTube content and if it is, then it can be watched by many people. I could sit here 12 hours a day and just stream Noita, but two hours of chaos is like a week's worth of energy. Cause it's just two hours of constant talking and being engaged with the content. You know, this isn't boring. Yeah, but you're more watching for the game than me, right? Cause I'm not doing anything particularly amazing. I'm just playing the game. It's just background noise, you know? |
| 08. December 2021 | All time not spent making content is wasted | I'm not spent making content is wasted. I've reached the point with streaming where even mild things that eat up my time really fucking annoy me. Because I'm like, if I wasn't doing this, I could fucking be editing that footage. I could be making that video. We stream in that other hour, man. Don't wanna be fucking cleaning the house, man. I wanna be fucking streaming. Because all I want to do is stream. All I want to do is stream and make content. That's all I ever want to do. When I get tired, I'm like, fuck, I'm tired again, man. Can't bloody stream. Blah, physical frailty. Oh, no. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 29. March 2021 | Allegations made against James Charles. | The allegations made against James Charles. Did you see the new allegations of James Charles grooming a 16 year old? Isn't he meant to be a scum fuck? Isn't that the consensus? I thought, it hasn't been like 87 different grooming allegations against that dude. Yeah he has. It is weird to think. I guess it's just the way that I've never found myself attracted to younger people. Or like, the body types that tend to be possessed by younger people. Maybe is a better way of putting it. I don't really get the appeal. I suppose in the same way I don't really get the appeal of MILFS necessarily. Not that I haven't seen older women who are attractive. But like, people say, man I'm so into MILFS. I don't get it. Like I just mean, given that James Charles is as rich. I was thinking of Connor from Trash Chase. Yeah I don't get it. But given how rich James is. Like, he has the resources to find effectively anyone. He has all the money in the world. Right? He has time. He has endless people interested in him. Why specifically a 16 year old? Or those other accusations that were leveled against him. Where he likes to get with straight people. Or people who aren't necessarily gay or whatever. Like it's just weird. Like all the options to choose from. And that's where you go. I heard he didn't know he was 16. Yeah, but like, there's been enough of these stories. And James being like, I don't know man. Like I was just in a wrong place at a wrong time. Enough of those situations where you're like, really? Like, come on. How old is James? How old is he? Isn't he like 25 or something? 21? Maybe it's not as weird as I'm making it out to be. I thought he was like 25. Like a 21 year old could have legitimate reasons to sext an 18 year old or whatever. Right? But I don't know man. Like, because obviously I haven't looked too deep into these allegations. I don't want to present it as if I know for certain whether James has done underhanded shit. Or if it's just a bunch of people looking for their 15 minutes. But there's a lot of smoke. A lot of smoke. Kind of harkens back to what I was talking about at the beginning of the stream. You can't deep dive into everything. There's probably at least one person in chat who's like, oh my god man. I've been looking into this for the past two months. I know everything. Like please look at my chalkboard with all these images and all this information. I've connected all the dots. I can see what went down. I would say I wish I was that person but I wouldn't want to spend the time. What do I consider to be a healthy age difference? I don't think it's consistent. As in, the younger you are, the closer your ages have to be for it not to be weird. The older you are, the wider the age difference can be without it necessarily raising eyebrows. Like if you're 55 and you're dating someone who's 45, it's like, you know. You've clearly both lived full lives. When you have a person who's, I don't know, 23 dating an 18 year old, you're like, oh maybe. I mean, really as I always say, it's more that age differences can be, assuming a person is old enough that they can give consent. And again, we've talked about that before with Call Me Carson. It's not immediately obvious at what age any society should say, this is when you can definitely give consent. But assuming that you can give consent, it's usually best just to look for abuse as opposed to assuming abuse occurred. Like it can be entirely possible that two 18 year olds being in a relationship can be amazingly abusive because one person just happens to be massively more mature than the other person. Like it's a, an age difference can be indicative of something you can look at and go, okay there might be something sus going on here. But it isn't usually a guarantee that that's the case. You know what I'm saying? It is entirely possible for a 25 year old to be having a legitimate healthy relationship with an 18 year old. It's just a situation that has a greater potential for manipulation or abuse or a person taking advantage of someone because of a difference of life experience. You know what I'm saying? And in most cases, it's usually not something you want to bother spending the time looking at. It's like in most cases, it's none of our business. It's not like it impacts our lives. It's not like you can do something about it. It's just you're judging from afar going, I don't think this is very good. You know, partition your care. Try to care about and focus on things that actually impact you and those you care about. And especially things that you can potentially change for the better. |
| 30. July 2022 | Almost at 1 million subscribers. | Almost at 1 million subscribers. So I'm about to hit a million subs guys on YouTube. I don't know how I feel about it. On some level I worry I'm going to hit a million and just pseudo-retire. Be less focused on getting something out every day and whatnot. I won't have anything immediate to shoot for. |
| 28. June 2022 | Almost getting scammed buying a water cooler on Amazon | Almost getting scammed buying a water cooler on Amazon. You know the main reason I didn't sleep well last night chat? I spent like an hour and a half looking for a water cooler dispenser. And I almost bought one on Amazon for $1400. Until I found out that the same water dispenser in America is worth 200 USD. I'm like, how could this be a scam? It has like 4,000 plus reviews. But these reviews were like American reviews and shit. They don't tell you about like whether the price makes sense. Because sometimes you have stuff on the Amazon Australia store that's like 10 times its actual value and you just don't know. It wasn't one case shipping. It was actually just listed for $1400. I would have noticed if it was one case shipping. Amazon is so bad everywhere else in the world compared to America. When it first started that was the case but it's not now. If I'm gonna buy something, especially something that's not like very niche or something. I'm probably gonna buy it from Amazon. Because the delivery is so much faster than everywhere else. A day or two delivery in Australia is fucking insane. When like the average company is taking like a week or two maybe three sometimes. Because Amazon just has so much money that they can afford to have like that much infrastructure in place. Where most other companies can't you know. Like I check Amazon then other places like Google or eBay or whatever. They don't get me wrong. Everything isn't available from Amazon like in a day or two right? But if there's something specific that I want now, Amazon's my only bet you know. Please subscribe to my channel. |
| 01. September 2020 | Almost saying the n-word | Almost saying the N-word. Why did you say Neba in your Fall Guys video? Oh that was really funny. Um, well, funny, weird. Um, so you know how, you guys know how I make weird sounds sometimes when I'm playing Fall Guys? Apparently, I said some, like it sounded like I said some variation of the N-word while I was playing in my random gobbledygook or whatever. N-I-B-B-A or something. When people link it, I'm like, it does kind of sound like that, but it's clearly not that. |
| 14. September 2021 | Almost strategies in speedrunning | strategies in speedrunning. I remember ZFG talking recently about how one of the other Zelda games there's like a heap of almost strategies where you can almost do something that would save you so much time like you can do nine out of ten steps if they found a way of doing that tenth step then they'd save so much time there's a lot of that in speedrunning where something is really cool but not faster you know you can half do a strap but this is one thing that makes it not optimal or whatever and that's what I like about my facts series I can I can showcase that stuff which which doesn't happen in tutorials or vehicle breakdowns and it's also interesting because it's stuff that people who watch the speedruns don't necessarily see. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 10. January 2021 | Alt strat in pacifist | Alt strat in pacifist percent. Why don't I use alt strat in pacifist as well? So when I did pacifist, alt strat was not known about. I hadn't discovered it yet. And so the longer I go without releasing all the pacifist footage, the more strats keep getting found that either would have made things easier for me in the run, like achieving the same goal, but it would just be easier for me to do less frustrating or the strats themselves could impact how many people I had to kill in the first place. Alt strat is not 100% reliable. It's not, but only because I don't have more than one HP. Alt strat, if you have a normal amount of HP, is 100% reliable. Like you may occasionally get one shot at you, sure, but then you just keep going. Like there were parts in some of the pacifist missions where I was just getting brutalized by bullets, so much damage, and it was, I was so hard to get from A to B. And if I'd, if I'd known about alt strat, like I could have used alt strat to have gotten from A to B a lot easier, you know. |
| 15. December 2020 | Alternatives to my twitch career | Alternatives to my Twitch career. Have I ever had another job? Of course. I worked in Fresh Produce Department at a supermarket for five years. I repaired hearing aids for... well, hearing aids and hearing devices for like three years. I delivered pamphlets and papers for maybe two years when I was younger. Maybe a bit more, I'm not sure. I have a community services diploma. Or a certificate for. And a bachelor's of social science with a major in psychology. What job would I do if there was no Twitch and YouTube? Probably astronauts. They were kind of my choices. Either become an astronaut or be a Twitch streamer. And I chose to be a Twitch streamer. I'd be an underwater stripper for sharks. Exactly. If I quit Twitch and YouTube, what would I do in my spare time? I've always imagined I would take care of myself. As in I would begin exercising. I would read more books. Watch a lot more TV shows. I would get myself a very big TV and a very comfortable chair. I would go back to dating and do online dating and stuff. You could allocate less time to content creation and spend more time enjoying yourself. I am not convinced that I have longevity in this space. I am fairly convinced that, you know, I got to strike while the iron's hot. I have the rest of my life to be non-popular, non-interesting, normal dude. I may only have a few more years of being successful. So I may as well make the most of it while I can. And do that other real life stuff somewhere down the line. |
| 23. November 2020 | Always buying the newest smart phone | Is it really important getting the newest phone? Yeah, I'm in the kind of the same boat. The only reason I'd want a new phone is if I plan to do more VR stuff Because doing not a VR stuff, the in real life stuff, streams But like the quality of the footage that I took in 2018 for PAX That was that was fairly good and that was just done on the phone that I have. I don't know how much things have improved since then But like for the next PAX convention or whatever, I might look around and see If there's an even better phone quality-wise for recordings. Other than that though, like what's that meme or whatever? People will spend 1200 bucks on a phone to look at the exact same three apps that they were looking at on their old phone You know, you don't need a 1200 dollar phone to browse Reddit, send texts, look at Facebook or whatever the hell people look at Yeah, but that's why I ended up changing myself from like, what did I have before? Samsung something or whatever that I got from my aunt But it was a secondary phone and its battery was going and so between the battery and wanting to be able to record good footage Of PAX, I bought myself a new phone I mean you can get bad of your placements and stuff these days But yeah, the only reason I'm interested in new tech and stuff is just for stream quality and stuff content Cameras and phones are getting better enough that they can't really do much with them I mean when you have to fit in that small form factor like that, there's only so much that you can do I don't get why phones need four cameras now these days. I think a lot of it is just the marketing Say we have the best cameras blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, you know Like a lot of it is just about the numbers that you can push on Put on the marketing stuff. I find on my phone that I'm not able to use all the lenses for all the purposes that I have It's weird. You can only use in particular situations Considerations and motivations for a new phone |
| 23. November 2020 | Always buying the newest smartphone | Is it really important getting the newest phone? Yeah, I'm in the kind of the same boat. The only reason I'd want a new phone is if I plan to do more VR stuff Because doing not a VR stuff, the in real life stuff, streams But like the quality of the footage that I took in 2018 for PAX That was that was fairly good and that was just done on the phone that I have. I don't know how much things have improved since then But like for the next PAX convention or whatever, I might look around and see If there's an even better phone quality-wise for recordings. Other than that though, like what's that meme or whatever? People will spend 1200 bucks on a phone to look at the exact same three apps that they were looking at on their old phone You know, you don't need a 1200 dollar phone to browse Reddit, send texts, look at Facebook or whatever the hell people look at Yeah, but that's why I ended up changing myself from like, what did I have before? Samsung something or whatever that I got from my aunt But it was a secondary phone and its battery was going and so between the battery and wanting to be able to record good footage Of PAX, I bought myself a new phone I mean you can get bad of your placements and stuff these days But yeah, the only reason I'm interested in new tech and stuff is just for stream quality and stuff content Cameras and phones are getting better enough that they can't really do much with them I mean when you have to fit in that small form factor like that, there's only so much that you can do I don't get why phones need four cameras now these days. I think a lot of it is just the marketing Say we have the best cameras blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, you know Like a lot of it is just about the numbers that you can push on Put on the marketing stuff. I find on my phone that I'm not able to use all the lenses for all the purposes that I have It's weird. You can only use in particular situations Considerations and motivations for a new phone |
| 26. August 2021 | Always money to be made on any side of an argument | There is always money to be made on any side of an argument. The debate climate in today's society is out of garbage. There's too much money to be made for peddling a viewpoint. There will always be a demand for some kind of public figure to be sprouting a particular point of view and money to be made for doing so. It's why regardless of like, it's like look at climate change for example. The consensus in the field is overwhelming. But you can always find some guy who's receiving money from somewhere who's willing to spout the opposing viewpoint for those who want to believe that kind of thing. There's always some outlet that's willing to receive some money under the table to write something. It's just how things go. And I don't think there's really a good solution for it. Or if it even really demands a solution. |
| 15. July 2021 | Am I a big streamer? | Am I a big streamer? Do I count myself as a big streamer? So the word big unless you Specifically define it within a particular range like you set up some sort of measure. It's just a relative thing There's always a bigger fish or more to a big fish. So if you compare me to them, I am tiny Oh my god, am I tiny? It's like, you know, I I buy had 1.5 million viewers like a couple of days ago, whatever I'm sitting here with a few thousand whatever I mean, it's just so tiny but then you compare me to The overwhelming vast majority of content creators. This is like or anyone who's even tried to become one It's like well clearly I'm big, you know, but it's just I am NOT a household name. I am NOT Monstrously large like if I stop making content tomorrow people forget about me effectively instantly My future is far from secure in that it's not like I can just leave for a year and expect to come back or whatever I'm comfortably big I sometimes feel small when I compare myself to those above me and I sometimes feel large when I compare myself to those below me Just relative in numbers. I'm not saying in terms of like is a joke that Ludwig says, you know bigger number better person It's obviously not true. You |
| 16. May 2020 | Am I a bodybuilder or used to be? | Am I a bodybuilder or used to be? I used to go to the gym like every day Or every second day for quite a long time and I didn't really I didn't go hard at it I just did a little bit of cardio lifted a few things and then I might go to McDonald's sometimes afterwards. No like um, I kept myself a little bit fit but Since starting streaming and getting hard into streaming I don't really exercise much at all. I got myself a bike I did that for a little while and I don't take care of myself nearly as much as I used to but I've never been a bodybuilder. I've never been a person who exercised because they get a lot of energy and joy and out of exercising I exercised because that it seemed like the responsible thing to do and It was part of a little bit of a routine and I could go at like 2 a.m When no one was around a lot of the problems I had in different points in my life Is that I had to choose between having a shitty sleeping pattern and exercising at 2 a.m Or having a normal sleeping pattern not wanting to go to the gym because there's too many people around and thus not exercising, you know |
| 30. July 2020 | Am I a different person off stream? | Am I a different person off stream? It's really weird how I never met you but through your streams and videos I feel very connected to you and reading this chat. I'm not the only one I mean I do talk about myself a lot, but it's very different from knowing me I think I'm I'm very similar on stream as I am in real life But how would I know because we all act differently depending upon the circumstances we find ourselves in even suddenly like my mother for example With the with the phone where the way she talks to a person in front of her and on the phone is very different It's like four octaves is octaves octaves higher. We're like, hey, how's it going? You know that thing like she doesn't realize she's doing it But because of the context that's just what she does and we all do that if there's this great onion idle Article on the onion a satirical magazine website or whatever It's everyone in the world confirmed insane after lengthy investigation investigation into how people act when they're at home alone It's it's something like that where If people saw the way that you act by yourself I know walking around naked or whatever or just staring off into space or talking to yourself or whatever Just weird stuff you do by yourself if people saw that or you did that out in public people think you've lost your mind Obviously the way I acts in terms of my behaviors is different off stream than on stream But I don't think if you met me in real life, you'd be like who is this strange individual, you know? |
| 02. February 2021 | Am I a perfectionist? | Am I a perfectionist? Would I say I'm a perfectionist? No. I would not say that. When it comes to certain things that I'm passionate about, I put the work in, I put the effort in, but I wouldn't say it has to be perfect for me to be satisfied. I'm a person who's willing to make cuts and sacrifices and stuff when necessary. I've talked about before where if I can put in half the effort for 95% of the game, I'm not going to put in that extra 50% effort for that 5%, unless I'm really, really passionate about the project. I'm just too busy. I care a damn lot about quality, but I don't put it to insane levels where it's detrimental to achieving my goals. Perfection is not my goal. My goal is to make good stuff that I can be satisfied with and that can entertain people, and I can be satisfied without perfection. |
| 06. March 2021 | Am I a streamer or Youtuber? | Am I a streamer or a youtuber? You are a streamer turn youtuber or a youtuber turn streamer. I was a youtuber turn streamer turn Youtuber I start on YouTube. I moved into gaming on Twitch and then I went back to being a YouTube now as a gaming youtuber I think more of myself as a youtuber these days because I do seem to spend more of my time editing than streaming and And even when I'm streaming I'm still considering like how is this going to look on YouTube? YouTube is What influences what I'm going to stream? I still see myself as a streamer I've had it YouTube takes up so much of my considerations these days that I can't see myself as purely a streamer at the very least How long have I been a partner? It was uh end of 2016. I became a partner didn't I? I've been a partner for four years. That's a long time Isn't my oldest sub 48 months 49 months. Yeah Long time how things have changed |
| 06. March 2021 | Am I a streamer or youtuber? | Am I a streamer or a youtuber? You are a streamer turn youtuber or a youtuber turn streamer. I was a youtuber turn streamer turn Youtuber I start on YouTube. I moved into gaming on Twitch and then I went back to being a YouTube now as a gaming youtuber I think more of myself as a youtuber these days because I do seem to spend more of my time editing than streaming and And even when I'm streaming I'm still considering like how is this going to look on YouTube? YouTube is What influences what I'm going to stream? I still see myself as a streamer I've had it YouTube takes up so much of my considerations these days that I can't see myself as purely a streamer at the very least How long have I been a partner? It was uh end of 2016. I became a partner didn't I? I've been a partner for four years. That's a long time Isn't my oldest sub 48 months 49 months. Yeah Long time how things have changed |
| 23. August 2021 | Am I a “cool” person? | Am I a cool person? I'm a cool person? I always imagine it's kids saying that, and for some reason, like, what is cool has massively changed, so that I meet the definition. Clearly I was just born in the wrong generation, spent my entire life not cool, and suddenly I'm 30 and can't capitalize on being cool, and now I'm cool. Damn. |
| 05. April 2021 | Am I addicted to fast food? | We'll sort you out, you know. Yeah, but even in those cases, Aethex, I'm pretty sure the credentials you need are far lower. But yeah, as I say, it could be different where you're from. Am I addicted to fast food? What I consider myself addicted to fast food, I can definitely go periods without having it. It's just my body clearly craves it, and I clearly have a lot of memories enjoying eating it, so it is hard to not have any for long periods of time. Because I don't like a lot of food. I don't like making food. I don't like the food that I make. I don't like the cleanup of making food. Like, everything about eating and making food, even delivery, whatever, I hate it all. I hate food. And you're like, hey, how about you spend ten times the effort to make yourself something that you're going to enjoy half as much, and will fill you up half as much. And it's just like, that seems like a terrible thing to do. Why would I ever do that? And the answer is, well, you know, long-term health, and not looking like a pile of shit. And in the moments of your body craving those chemicals, it's hard for you to override your emotional need for this food, and to say, we should think about the long-term ramifications of our actions, you know? As I've said before, I'm kinda in that camp of consciously where we're just kind of, we're here for the ride in regards to our emotions. Like, our emotions drive us to do shit, and we can kinda steer a little bit with our consciousness. But the main driver in most situations I consider to be our emotional impulses, and they're hard sometimes to be like, fuck off, we need to go right instead of left, or whatever, away from our other fast food. |
| 14. December 2022 | Am I always angry in person? | Am I always angry in person? Have you ever lashed out on or shouted at someone offline as you did on the quartering? Offline? Can't probably say that I have surely I must have at some point in time my entire life I do not recall any such events. I am a pretty mild-mannered chill dude in real life I'm not a ragey kind of person regardless of my state of mind. It takes a real lot to get me angry It is when you become a streamer You quickly learn that you need to be more communicative with your thoughts and emotions and just over time It just kind of ramps up. You can't just be like hmm. That was mildly inconvenient. You've got to communicate it It's more interesting and funner I suppose it just for most of your life in most situations like you're taught to like somewhat repress how you're feeling so as to not cause a scene or Embarrass the people around you or what have you your live streaming like the opposite of that is Advent ageless you kind of got to remove those blocks on you yourself as a person |
| 15. November 2021 | Am I an alpha male? | Am I an alpha male? Do do do do do do do do do I consider myself an alpha male? You you cannot even possibly fathom How little of a shit I give about such an assessment Ladies people have you ever met a single person who calls himself an alpha male that doesn't just come across as massively pathetic Unless they're doing it as a joke or something, then that's fine because that can kind of be funny I'm telling the world and I'm not |
| 30. July 2020 | Am I an introvert? | Am I an introvert? Am I more introverted than most people? I don't know. Like, because you'd expect a lot of Twitch streamers to be at least somewhat introverted. I've heard people talk before that extroversion is what you might expect, but I guess I use myself as the baseline, so I expect you'd be more like me. But maybe most people are extroverted. But I would think if you were extroverted, though, you wouldn't be able to spend the time, enough time streaming to become successful. Like, how could an extroverted person who likes going out and is energized by going out and being around other people... I suppose maybe such a person would treat streaming as going out? Like, being around people as in streaming people would be to them as exhilarating as being at a party or something? It depends on your type of content. I imagine variety streaming and stuff is a little bit different. Of course, there's always gonna be in-reel livestreamers. For someone who doesn't get people, you're really good at introducing yourself and making general conversation, given the previous in-reel livestreams. It's a little bit different when people come to talk to me, and I fully am aware that they want to talk to me. It's almost like I could say anything, and it would be meeting a person's expectations. It's also why it's good when I meet people and they know who I am to some extent. It's almost like I can think that they probably want to talk to me, given that I have somewhat of a following. For that reason alone, I'm like, well, this person may not consider talking to me a waste of their time. Or I might not be annoying them or whatever. Okay, so there are people out there who consider themselves amazing, right? They're the best person in the world. They have delusions of grandeur, so they talk to anyone and they just automatically assume that the other person just feels amazing speaking to them. People who think the sun shines out their arse, as they say. I kind of wish I had a little bit of this. I always have the expectation that I'm just annoying people. And I know that's not the case. I have, I would say, irrational predispositions in regards to others. I know it's not possible that every person I speak to is not necessarily interested in speaking to me, or that I'm annoying every single person that I contact, but it makes me reserved in a way when meeting new people that it almost becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If there's someone who seems awkward, standoffish, and is less engaged with you, you probably wouldn't want to talk to that person, knowing that it's not the case is half the battle. See, the worst thing though is when you have these... Okay, imagine like you always think people are on your front lawn or something, and you know, 99 times it's completely delusional, but the hundredth time you see someone standing on your lawn, you're like, see, they were on my fucking lawn. This is a bad example. But what I'm saying is, the vast majority of the cases, it's just all in my head. But whenever there is that one moment where my negative self-perceptions turn out to be true, or someone does turn out to hate me or not like me or just, you know, just not want to be around me, it almost vindicates all the other irrational thoughts. It shouldn't, but it does. |
| 16. May 2021 | Am I bored of GTA 5? | Am I bored of GTA V? Do I not get bored of this game? No, surprisingly. The- what I get bored of is Stupid questions and I suppose doing the the first beginning part here over and over again Doing too much of this first sequence can get tedious. You know I'm saying? Like if I didn't Have the goal of finally beating Oko for the first time. I would be doing it I would be doing speedrunning again and doing more chaos And I'd be I'd be doing doomsday house like there's so many other things I want to do with this game so I'm not bored of the game, but I am I am somewhat sick of Of um the beginning of this one like I would love just to be able to skip halfway through every time |
| 15. November 2021 | Am I concerned about people possibly knowing my address | Am I concerned about people possibly knowing my address? People already know my rough address anyway. Well, I mean, I have doxed myself seven times. But like, I mean, because I had the PO box before anyway. Clearly people can triangulate your location with enough information. Like my PO box was only......here. Clearly I drove to it, so I'm not that concerned, I guess. But it is weird. Because 99.999% of people on the internet are fine, but... I mean, like I had a person yesterday who sent me a bunch of fucking weird messages......telling me I was a piece of shit. You know, only takes one fucking crazy person. Twitch is... |
| 13. October 2021 | Am I confident with the new ohko strats? | Am I confident with the new Oko strats? How am I feeling so far? Um, I'm a little bit disappointed in myself, um... The mistakes that have made- that have happened so far. But, I'm not that surprised, because, you know, I am just getting back to this after four months. Whenever you, uh, change anything about what you're doing, there's always some possibility of something happening that you aren't aware of, or, um, you forgetting something, and that's just reality. It'll take quite a few runs before I'm really confident in just automatically doing everything I need to do. Am I confident without ult strats? Ult strats wasn't really super important to begin with. As we always said from the get-go, the only thing that really seemed like a needed ult strat was Polito score. And, uh, with the knowledge that you can set up proximity mines and have them actually stay, I mean, that- sorted that out. Certainly, um, I would never have had the time that, um, RM had to, uh, to figure out all the, uh, placements of all this stuff and whatever. Ult strats just prevented me from making ult strats. Yeah, I would like to think I would have just spent the time and hammered it out myself, but... Yeah, cause I- I guess I would have just done media sharing, just hammered it forever, but... I'm not sure how much it comes across, but the strats are really... I guess you haven't seen most of them, but the later ones. All the fine points where all the mines are placed, it's really, really cool. As I've said before, like, uh, because I had ult strats, I didn't have any need to find anything to replace it. I didn't develop the new strats, so at least the ult and the high strats, I'm pretty sure all came from RM. Other missions involve strats from other people as well, but... |
| 23. February 2022 | Am I driving away viewers with how I act online? | Am I driving away viewers with how I act online? Hey Matto, I love your videos. There is no one from that I didn't laugh I like that you talk about your feelings in videos and I hope you can handle what you want to do. I always I'm always gonna support you. Thank you so much, man. It is interesting to think about though Like maybe if I was less open about myself While certainly people would think of me differently would they think of me better or worse or Or because you can never know like if your conduct in some way annoys people or prevents them from subscribing or liking your content or or they just you know Get sick of something you're doing and leave like it you never get to talk to these people They all just slowly fade away And the people who are still there Don't care about the things that have driven the other people away And so if you ask them, oh no, we don't care about that at all. No, no, no, no, you know It's entirely possible that Ways that I conduct myself while being enjoyable for The audience that I have it is potentially Scared away an even larger audience that i'm completely unaware of but thinking that way can drive you nuts Thinking about all the things that you could have done differently to potentially be doing better. Whatever and considering how successful I am such thoughts are fairly meaningless Do you think people would perceive me as perceive me worse? I mean you can't run that test unfortunately Be sure to like and subscribe Also, leave a comment if you have something on your mind my feed gives them to me from all over my channel It doesn't matter how old the video is |
| 02. February 2021 | Am I friends with dream and dream cheating memes | Am I friends with Dream and the Dream cheating memes? Am I friends with Dream? We spoke once Twice if you count DMs, and I have somewhat clowned on him. Well, I went about on him I've played up the Dream cheating meme a little bit since that conversation I know how much he cares about that shit. He probably isn't happy with it, but I know I wouldn't say I'm friends with Dream I hold no animosity towards Dream necessarily and as I said in the conversation He seemed like a decent fella. Who was I- whose stream was I in yesterday? It was I think it was Liquidstream He has this emote which is the Dream Animated character, but it's wearing Doc's sunglasses. I thought that was really funny It's named Lucky. Or was it just a generic emote on Bear Twitch TV? |
| 07. August 2021 | Am I gay? | Am I gay? Am I gay? I'm not gay, no. I've got nothing against gay people. I've never, I've, uh, I think I've kissed a guy once in my whole life. No, twice. Twice. Once during a game of King's Cup when I was like 18 and really drunk, but it was a part of the rules. I had to kiss the guy next to me. And I think Dennis kissed me once. He's a really gay bloke. Like, I don't mean that in an offensive way. I mean, he's really, really, really gay. I had a gay friend once, but I never see him, so it doesn't really matter. |
| 01. May 2021 | Am I going bald? | Am I going bald? Am I going bald? No. My hairline has looked exactly the same as this all my life. And I have the photos to prove it. My hair will thin a little bit as you do when you get older. Your hair thickness peaks at like 25 or something and then goes down a little bit. So people in their 20s have the long, luscious hair, man. And then even if they don't lose their hair, it becomes a little bit wispy and thinner as they get older. I've always had a high hairline. I've told this story before. So I was 19 at a party and my friend Michael comes up to me and he's like, Ah Matt, you and me are going to have a rough time moving forward. Both got that hairline. And I'm like, nah, but Dad hasn't lost his hair. I got like one grandparent who has lost his hair and he lost it in like his 40s. I've got no genetics for losing hair, man. I'm going to go gray. He's like, nah, man, just accept it. And so I look at his Facebook, I think when he was 25, and yeah, he's had to shave his hair. You can see how it's gone from this side like he couldn't grow his hair. And me, I still look exactly the same as I did when I was 19. Always just had a high hairline. But I am going gray. And that's what will happen to me. I'll be gray by the time I'm like, I mean, I haven't gone that gray. Like if I showed you my hair, you could probably see some hairs. You can't see what you see on camera. I know, man. Like you can see like, see how you're like a little gray. Like everywhere kind of gray, just a little bit lighter gray. See? That's my problem. Twitch turning me gray. Yes, I won't be worried until I actually see my hair recline beyond what it's been the best of my entire life. Anyway, shouldn't be gray at my age. My dad went gray by the time he was 25. My cousin, two years older than me, he's like twice as gray as I am. Every male in my family has gray hair. It just depends on what side of the family you're talking about as to how early they went gray. I'm surprised I've heard that this long. |
| 20. October 2022 | Am I going to exclusively livestream on youtube? | Or burdensome, I should say. Am I going to exclusively livestream on YouTube? For those unaware, I've now done maybe 21 livestreams on YouTube, including my livestreams down in Melbourne. So I was second-guessing the YouTube streaming, and whether it makes sense to move back to Twitch. Because the problem of streaming on Twitch has always been that 98% of my audience that found me on Twitch didn't find me through Twitch. So my audience is never just naturally on Twitch waiting for me to show up. They are people who are watching YouTube, and on rare occasions, like if I say I'm live on Twitch, they'll go, Oh, DarkFiber's live on Twitch? And they'll move over to the platform. They're never aware that I'm live. And so my viewership always suffered and declined because of that. My lack of consistency at a particular time and whatnot. And so moving to YouTube to solve that problem made sense that you guys will always be presented with my livestream. Like even when you're watching my videos, the little red circle will be around my profile picture saying, Hey, I'm live. Bro, you can check me out. But the reason why I was still hesitant to be on YouTube is because I liked the separation between my stream content and my YouTube content. They were totally separate. I knew where one was and where the other was. There was no possibility of like the YouTube algorithm getting pissed that my livestreams didn't do well or anything like that. Because that was something that happened in the early days of live streaming where people who were live streaming reported, who knows if it was true. Like maybe it was all in their heads, who knows. But they reported that it seemed that the algorithm preference them less because they were streaming there. Like their videos didn't do as well. I'm not 100% sure that that is true now, but I'm concerned about the health of my channel. And so it was just like, you know what? Even if there's a 2% chance, fuck it. I'll just do all my live streaming on Twitch to avoid that possibility. But doing a poll on YouTube and a poll on my Discord, people overwhelmingly want me to be on YouTube with the streaming. Of course, as you'll find with any polling, it's a separate matter what people think they want and will do and what they'll actually do when presented with the scenario in real life. So it could be the case that all the people who want me to stream on YouTube are just like, yeah, I'd rather you show on YouTube just on the odd chance I would want to watch you. It's more likely I'll watch you on YouTube, so I want you to be there. And maybe the Twitch people who want me to stream on Twitch will be more committed. Like let's say like 100% of the people who voted for Twitch would actually watch me on Twitch. And only like, you know, 50% of the people who said they would watch me on YouTube would only watch me on YouTube. And this, that's possible. But the numbers are just really overwhelming in YouTube's favor. So and as I've said, at least for the test streams that I did, it does seem like I have more viewers on YouTube. So I will continue to try to stream on YouTube. We'll see how that goes. And hopefully when I get back and I can release some of these bigger videos on the back end that I still haven't released, that things can look healthy again. My goal with my main channel videos is just to maintain 10 million views a month. I'm currently at like 7.2. But I haven't released a video in five days. I only released one video in the last week. So, you know, we'll see. So here's the thing, chat. I don't want to stop streaming on Twitch at all entirely. In part because like YouTube doesn't do anything. I like a pax and stuff. Twitch is here and they're having parties and whatnot. I'm going to keep streaming on Twitch, doing my editing stuff there. Just to have maybe a couple of hours each day on Twitch. Give people a chance to talk to me if they want to on there, I suppose. And keep some subs on there, I suppose, in case I want to go back to streaming there permanently. So for the longest time, the concern was that if I streamed editing on Twitch, that people will always assume I'm live editing. And this was a problem for a while. And now that I'm streaming all the important stuff on YouTube, I can freely just stream my editing on Twitch for the hell of it. Because if everyone always thinks I'm editing on Twitch, that's true, because I will be, you know. It's very hard to compare streaming on two different platforms because like the time of stream that I do is very different. The content I stream is very different, you know. I mean, the time of day I start and how long the streams last, whether or not the heightened viewership YouTube will last long term as a separate matter. I'd probably need a sample size of like three months on YouTube and three months on Twitch. And even then, those three months will occur at two different times of the year in two different times of my career. And so it won't be directly comparable anyway. But it will certainly be better than what I have right now, which is like a dozen streams. Some of them while I was sick, you know, and then I've taken this vacation work thing to Melbourne. It's just hard to compare the platforms in terms of the actual numbers. But I am still convinced that YouTube is the best bet moving forward. What I might do though is make it so my VODs are member only. I just don't like the idea of the live streams of my videos competing with the videos themselves and the need to make thumbnails for every YouTube live stream and stuff. It's a huge hassle. As I say, though, I will continue to stream on Twitch doing my editing stuff. But I mean, eventually one day, one day I might not have any subscribers like paid subscribers on Twitch. At that point, I will just probably cancel my affiliate and partner status so that I can live stream on YouTube and Twitch at the same time. I mean, without even really have that much purpose, that would be without even be worth the hassle. I don't know. Why did I move from Twitch? Because the vast majority of my audience is from YouTube to the extent where doing a poll on Twitch finds that like only like two to three percent of my viewers found me on Twitch itself. I would like to remind everyone that my memberships are pretty damn cool and more stuff will be coming benefits wise for memberships. What were the two benefits I want to do for memberships? Being able to watch past VODs and what was the other thing? I want to set it up so like you can see my videos early. Like the second a video is done, it will just become visible for members. And then like, you know, over time, I will release it to everyone else. Like when it has the thumbnail and title and all that stuff. You don't have a join button? And memberships not available in every country yet? I think I like on Twitch. |
| 08. March 2022 | Am I going to get “cancelled”? | Am I going to get cancelled? Hope just because of Charlie's massive following they don't try to cancel Matt. Cancelling isn't a thing like that. It doesn't work that way. All that's gonna happen in the future is some amount of content creators will now have heard of me in a negative way and so should I try to associate with others I would have to potentially run into that wall. That's about it. Because the internet is a really large place chat. Like a really large place. It is ultimately a blip in the grand scheme of things but it's still really annoying. As a rule when it comes to viewers if people like your content they will largely do their best to push away things that they don't like or suggestions that the content creator is a bad person or that you shouldn't be watching their content because you like the content you're looking for all the justifications you possibly can to continue doing what you're already doing because change is annoying. I'm not saying people should have legitimate reasons to not watch my content anymore but I'm saying this is a general principle. It's why cancelling people is really really hard. As in like you've got to like be out there as a pedophile and just not be making content and it's gonna be the most clear-cut you can possibly imagine or you're gonna actually go to jail or something. Absent that your viewers will in large part either not believe what other people are saying interpret things in a way to continue doing what they already already doing which is watching your content or they won't even hear about it. So like I don't expect a significant amount of my viewers to leave me in part for those reasons I listed but also because I didn't do anything wrong. |
| 10. August 2022 | Am I going to prioritize shorts over clips? | Am I going to prioritize shorts over clips? Could rambles be broken down into shorts? They seem to appear more than clips channels to me on YouTube, but I'm a lowly user, not a creator. So regardless of whether or not the rambles would do better in shorts, shorts don't make any money. At the end of the day, I want to create both shorts and clips. I can do both. On the main channel, my plan is to release like one short a day of like the best of the best of the best clips that I've ever produced. And on the clips channel, to have rambles put there and see how they go, just as an experiment. Given that shorts can only be one minute in length, I don't think that I have a lot of good rambles that are one minute in length, so it's unlikely to happen. |
| 30. December 2022 | Am I going to start doing Facts and Glitches for GTA Online? | Am I gonna start doing facts and glitches for GTA Online? Lobo Charity asks, now that you have been doing more GTA Online content, do you think facts and glitches for online is a viable option? Yes. At some point, I will probably start doing facts and glitches for online, but it will be stuff that has been around for like forever. Stuff that Rockstar is not gonna patch. Something that seven years ago, people were able to do and probably can still do now. It's kind of like my goal with that. It'd be largely cosmetic stuff, stuff that doesn't affect your ability to make money and stuff. But I wouldn't want Rockstar to nuke my account or something. And again, I don't want this stuff that I play out to be patched. |
| 13. October 2021 | Am I good with the people who completed ohko? | Am I good with the people who completed Oko? Yeah, Unnamed is legit. Um, our Ham also competed around a while ago. I mean, there is no world record guys. The timing doesn't matter. It's just you've done it or you haven't, you know. Am I good with Unnamed now? I see him all the time in um, the speedrun discord. I appreciate the work he's doing now. I don't know if he's done any full runs, but he's done a he's done a lot of testing and discussions and then he's done um, segmented. I'm basically like the individual segment ones. |
| 09. February 2020 | Am I hyped for any upcoming games? | They didn't. Am I hyped for any upcoming games? Any games looking forward to in 2020? No, it seems like the vast majority of gaming companies these days are fucking scummy as shit. And CD-Project Red is apparently still pretty good. But like, getting hyped over games that are coming out in the future just seems silly to me. I was somewhat excited for the reforged version of Warcraft 3 because that was a game that I loved when I was a kid and, woah, look at that, Blizzard fucked that up too. Why be hyped for any gaming in the future? You've just gotta wait until it's like, already out and has been out for at least a month to know definitively that the game is actually gonna be okay. And even years later, companies can be making their games worse. Even if you buy a game that is good on launch, it can become worse and worse as time goes on. We exist in a weird timeline in regards to games. I played Witcher 3. I... I liked it, but it wasn't that good for the stream. And I wasn't in love with it to the extent that I was willing to, you know, forego speedrunning and stuff to play it. |
| 27. March 2022 | Am I interested in fighting sports? | Am I interested in fighting sports? Am I a UFC fight fan? Uh, no. Conceptually, I'm like, that is something that I never see in my life. Like, people fucking going at it, fighting, in any capacity. I think it'd be very interesting to, like, in person, see some sort of a fight like that. I think it would just be an interesting experience. But, no, it's not something I'm interested in. Are there more doors or wheels in the world? Are there more wheels or doors in the world? Yeah, very stupid question. It all depends on, like, what you're defining as a wheel and what you're defining as a door. You know? Tap'me |
| 29. December 2020 | Am I involved in any drama currently? | Am I involved in any drama currently? Am I still in drama with other YouTubers or Twitch streamers? The drama I've got in over the course of my YouTube life, I think is fairly mundane. It's less than 10 people. I'm not sure you're counting Dream necessarily, because I'm not really involved in any drama. I'm more just like reporting on it. I'm involved in the sense that being a prominent speedrunner who has an invested interest in the speedrunning community being, you know, respected. I'm involved in that capacity. But I'm not involved in the sense that I am directly involved in any cheating in Minecraft. |
| 08. November 2022 | Am I now just all about the money? | And it's not just not what talking about. Am I now just all about the money? So had someone leave me an interesting comment chat all you talk about anymore is your money and success Shit makes me sad man. I miss humble viper being a fan since like 2016 2017 to now it seems every single rambles for the last 50 or so episodes you mentioned how much money you're spending or success I get you're proud of yourself man, but don't let it consume your life, bro It isn't all about the money to other people have that perception I mean for those who do I? Just talk about things that I find interesting or that are happening in my life in general and the stuff that I'm generally spending my Money on I hope people usually recognize is more about you know improving my well-being which Benefits you as well because I I'm in a better mood, and I have more energy to make content I did have another comment similar to this talking about like oh, yeah, you're bragging about your 24,000 dollar blinds Whatever I just think it's interesting. It is certainly true. I didn't need to spend that much I could have just gotten them for like my bedroom for example rather than the entire house But I've been waiting seven years for blinds And I can afford it so why not me spending money getting as good a bed as I can get and getting blinds and stuff It's all about fixing the one major problem with my life, and that is my inability to sleep Consistently and soundly and to wake up with energy and if I can solve that will be an easy street chat the quality of the content Will go up 10,000 fold. I'll have more days where I'll be on top of my game I feel slower mentally chat as I have for the last week or something And I always do when I'm fixing my sleeping as no things people spend money on it's normal things that people spend money on But usually not this much money like I bought a 4090 now you could look at that as me just flexing to dough But in reality I would never buy a 4090 if it wasn't for business purposes It'll make my content look better and make things run smoother and process faster So I can do more before it was a business thing. I would always buy like you know the 70 like the 1070 the 2070 kind of thing or you or often the 60 because that's usually the best value for your dollar As far as talking about success a lot It's because I try and impart upon people information that comes across my table or a way of seeing the world that I think is Either true or at the very least productive like it can help you achieve the goals you have in your life improve your life because as I often say that was a lot of my aspirations early in life was to Benefit other people to make other people's lives better And I only know about a select amount of things that I can that I feel confident enough to speak on authoritatively to some degree often a lot of that has to do with YouTube twitch the online ecosystem and to some degree how to succeed in that and so I will talk about success at least in This Avenue quite a bit, but yeah, so I say I don't think a lot of people have this perspective, but I hope |
| 17. December 2020 | Am I sick of my clips channel? | Am I sick of my clips channel? Do you want to also be done with the clips channel or is that still fun for you? Is it possible to find something enjoyable but still wanted to be done? Because I'm kind of that way with a lot of things where I can find the doing of something to be enjoyable But I also find the completing of a goal to be enjoyable So hypothetically the longer that I'm doing something the higher the odds that I get sick of doing that thing and just want the goal enjoyment to happen. Like I don't want to run out of clips for the clips channel and I like watching it grow with numbers and and all that stuff. At the same time though I kind of would like my older footage to all have been processed as in I've gone through all the older clips I've made all of how this even ended into clips I've made all of Facts and glitches into clips and all I'm doing is just looking through the newest stuff to find the best clips to upload to that channel It's kind of this spot I would like to be in so that it becomes less of a day to day I need to upload 24 clips every day versus oh, you know, I have enough clips to put more on the channel I better start doing that again Making the clips is very easy. It does have its difficulties and its annoyances Why two different channels? The content is so fundamentally different that putting them on the same channel would be unwise I am frankly surprised so many people have subscribed to the clips channel I can only assume that Such people don't use their subscription feed as a person who uses their subscription feed like every single day to find content It would be very annoying to have a clip release every hour Although with that being said I think the clips are very good and funny and I enjoy watching them at the same time It would just be a club that I wouldn't want to deal with but it just goes to show that YouTube Moved away from the subscription model a long while ago and they're mainly focused on delivering content to people by a recommendation Which to be honest is a superior way of doing things as long as the recommendation algorithm is good though I find it has trouble giving me content actually want to see though once upon a time It felt like YouTube was actually doing well with recommendations where I'd always have something to watch when I went to recommendations But within the last month or two I've actually been watching more anime more Netflix more crunchy roll because there's nothing in the recommendations I even watched more tik-tok. Maybe I'm just a person who's hard to service in terms of content I don't know, but I think it's doing a worse job. |
| 14. May 2020 | Am I still getting a dog? | So, on Twitter you mentioned wanting a dog. How are things on getting a dog currently? My landlord says they're open to the idea, especially because they want to keep me here because you know having a consistent- a person who's consistently paid their rent for like, what, four or five years now and had no issues. That's someone they want to keep around and they probably don't want a pet here because who- who renting a house would want to have a pet there? It just seems like a greater likelihood of damage to the property or what have you. But have I made any progress to getting a pet? No. Mainly because I don't think I could give a pet the love and affection that it deserves. I- I think- Like I can't be playing with a puppy all day. I can't be playing with a dog all day. I can't be walking the dog every three to four hours or whatever because I've got too much work that I do. I'm at my computer all day and I think I would hate to be in a situation where I love the pet so much but then it keeps bothering me and taking me away from my work and then I begin to hate it or something. I- I- It's hard to imagine but I just- I don't like the idea of getting an animal that I'm not going to be able to care for in the way that it needs. It's why when I asked on Twitter, like, what is the lowest maintenance dog that I can guess? I asked that not because I'm lazy but because I'm- I understand my circumstances. I understand what I'm bare minimum likely to give to the animal and I wouldn't want to get an animal that I couldn't care for well. For all I know, once I got the animal I'd be like, fuck Twitch, all I care about is my dog and I would just be caring for it 24x7 and that would be my world but I don't know that for certain so you plan for the worst-case scenario which is that I would be a, you know, a distance, you know, I would just play with it every once in a while maybe feed it by chucking its food- |
| 01. June 2022 | Am I still going to Reddit Recaps? | Am I still going to do Reddit recaps? Matto does this mean Reddit recaps are going to stop? Or what is your opinion on streamers reacting to their reddits? I hold to the belief that if you're included in something, you have some degree of rights to use that content. And I can extend that pretty far. Like, I saw Smolland react to the world record for Minecraft with the permission of the dude who did it. You, I'm assuming Smolland was at least somewhat involved in the development of that run. He's in that community. That gives him some degree of right to use that with the permission of the dude. I don't think I don't find that to be particularly exploitative. As much as I don't like reactors, I'm not going to DMCA anyone who reacts to any of these videos because I'm using their footage or I'm talking about them to some degree. And that's all hunky dory for me. As far as reddits are concerned, if other people on Reddit have the right to use you in that content, then you should have some right to use that content as well. Especially when it's explicit that if you're submitting something to this Reddit, you are submitting it so I can see it and use it for some purpose. You know, how could one make the argument that you can take my face and distort it in some way for some piece of art, but I can't then use that art of my face, you know. And sure, that certainly doesn't stretch infinitely. Like if a movie came out worth $10 million dollars and my face was like on a Twitch on some screen somewhere, I wouldn't say I can use all that, of course. But stuff submitted to Reddit is just stuff that people have thrown together quickly, specifically involving you, for you, on your platform, and therefore I consider it acceptable, you know. And as well, obviously, Reddit is a non-profit system or whatever. People aren't submitting things to your Reddit specifically to earn revenue or what have you. Revenue or what have you. Please read Mester's comment. Didn't you react to Moore's mutual insurance video because it was posted to your Reddit? Something like that. This is something I try not to do, but I've also been in his stuff. Like, to put it another way, he's included me in like at least five of his things. Kind of just returning there. But as I've said that before, I think I've removed it before, actually. Because there's rules on the subreddit against posting stuff that isn't about me or involving me. It's why we removed cross posts from the GT5 Reddit. At least no Moore's mutual and I am in his content. So I think YouTube subreddit should have a TUS that states all the material can be used in any way I need to. Well, yeah, it's there. There is a TUS on my subreddit specifically that says that. |
| 16. May 2020 | Am I sufficiently compensated for what I do? | Question as a person who speed runs for hours. Do you think for all the effort you put into your content? Do you feel you are compensated properly for working most likely more than the average person? I am I am compensated way more than I think I probably deserve. I like my content I think I make great stuff that's in terms of my contributions to society It's not you know up there with a you know doctor or something along those lines. I'm doing very well and And it's why I don't go out of my way to respond to sponsor emails and get involved in that stuff I'm doing great And I really appreciate all the contributions that everyone's given me and to people watching me in general I do put a lot of effort in but it isn't you know like I probably make Doubly as much as the average person in Australia. Do I work twice as hard as the average person in Australia? No, do I work harder than the average person in Australia? Yeah, probably me That's me. It's just bias, but I know if it's doubly as much in this world the amount of money You make is not directly proportionate to the amount of work that you do There are people who work really fucking hard for very little pay There are people who work very little for a lot of money There is of course a correlation between working hard and getting more money But if you believe that hard work is the main determining factor in your success in this world I would consider you to be. |
| 27. March 2022 | Am I trying to get world records again? | Am I trying to get world records again? I would just continue to improve and if I feel like I'm within the domain of being able to get world record I'll go for it. But it's not super likely. Like I got a lot of other stuff to do. But I mean so does everyone else, right? It's funny, because in ages past I had an advantage because I could do runs all day every day. And like Tarex and Duthess had other stuff in their lives that they had to do. But now, because of my commitments with all my content and stuff, I have other stuff I need to do as well. So even though I do this for a living, I don't necessarily have an advantage over other people. Because the actual amount of runs that I can do is about the same or maybe a little bit less than other people. But I suppose like if I was really keen to get world record I could do nothing else but run this. But I have other interests and things I want to achieve as well. Like I'd be happy just to be even somewhat within the domain of competitive within six months. But I mean even that I feel is asking for a bit much. People are really good these days, man. It's lovely to see. |
| 06. June 2020 | Am I well informed? | Have I done studies at university? Yes, I have a psych degree. Do you just research topics that interest you? Yes, you sound very well informed and set on your opinions. I don't consider myself to be well informed except on a certain amount of topics that either you know, I had to look into deeply for university or For one reason or another I've had the research like back in the day I did care a lot about religion and and stuff and I looked into a lot of that. I'm sure these days I've probably forgotten most of it anyway, but Most of the time when I speak on topics I speak very generally like I talk about the factors involved. I don't make certain Declarations about what is true. I'm like, you know, this is what possibly could happen. This is probable. This may happen I think this is likely I don't say this is the fact of the matter When I say I'm set in in my opinions Some of them I am because I feel like I've done my due diligence to the extent where Nothing that people say surprises me anymore like on the topic of religion I have talked to so many religious people for so goddamn long and every Every time I run across a new person who's fervently believes their religion. I'm like, yes Okay, good. It's perfectly fine that you believe that that's fine I'm no longer interested in discussing it because I don't think there's anything that I can get a Value from those conversations do I think I could impart valuable information to them? Yes, but I just don't enjoy it anymore It's just not something I care to discuss There's not a lot else that I'm really strong in my opinions on maybe My being a social Democrat or believing that social democracy is a good way to construct a society and I can I can talk about why but a lot That is later values. I |
| 20. July 2021 | Am I well known? | Am I sending myself well-known now? Of course. So how many millions of unique people view my stuff every month? I mean, what does a football stadium hold, like 50,000 people or something? When like, I don't know, 40 football stadiums without the people watch something that you- the stuff you produce every month. I mean, you can't go- you can't not see yourself as well-known at that point. It's all relative though. Am I as well-known as a person who's been popular for 10 years? No. Am I as the most successful person? No. But surely whatever definition of well-known you have, I have to meet that. Like I- I'm pessimistic sometimes, but I mean, I am self-deprecating, but I- even I can't stretch that to the extent where I can ignore that. Why do I rage- |
| 16. May 2020 | Am i a body builder or used to be? | Am I a bodybuilder or used to be? I used to go to the gym like every day Or every second day for quite a long time and I didn't really I didn't go hard at it I just did a little bit of cardio lifted a few things and then I might go to McDonald's sometimes afterwards. No like um, I kept myself a little bit fit but Since starting streaming and getting hard into streaming I don't really exercise much at all. I got myself a bike I did that for a little while and I don't take care of myself nearly as much as I used to but I've never been a bodybuilder. I've never been a person who exercised because they get a lot of energy and joy and out of exercising I exercised because that it seemed like the responsible thing to do and It was part of a little bit of a routine and I could go at like 2 a.m When no one was around a lot of the problems I had in different points in my life Is that I had to choose between having a shitty sleeping pattern and exercising at 2 a.m Or having a normal sleeping pattern not wanting to go to the gym because there's too many people around and thus not exercising, you know |
| 15. November 2021 | Am i an alpha male? | Am I an alpha male? Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do Do I consider myself an alpha male? You you cannot even possibly fathom how little of a shit I give about such an assessment Ladies and gentlemen, have you ever met a single person who calls himself an alpha male that doesn't just come across as massively pathetic? Unless they're doing it as a joke or something. Then that's fine because that can kind of be funny Bye. |
| 22. February 2022 | Am i attempting to get my speedrun world records back and do i have an advantage? | Am I attempting to get my speedrunning world records back and do I have an advantage? I would just continue to improve and if I feel like I'm within the domain of um, being able to get world record I'll go for it, but it's not super likely. Like I got a lot of other stuff to do. But I mean, so does everyone else, right? It's funny, because in ages past I had an advantage, because I could do runs all day every day, and like Torek's and Dutess had other stuff in their lives that they had to do, but now, because of my commitments with all my content and stuff, I have other stuff I need to do as well. So even though I do this for a living, I don't necessarily have an advantage over other people, because the actual amount of, you know, runs that I can do is about the same or maybe a little bit less than other people. But I suppose like, if I was really keen to get world record, I could do nothing else but run this. But uh, I have other interests and things I want to achieve as well. Like I'd be happy just to be even somewhat within the domain of competitive, within six months. But I mean, even that I feel is asking for a bit more. People are really good these days, man. So it's lovely to see. |
| 10. August 2022 | Am i going to prioritize shorts over clips? | Am I going to prioritize shorts over clips? Could rambles be broken down into shorts? They seem to appear more than clips channels to me on YouTube, but I'm a lowly user, not a creator. So regardless of whether or not the rambles would do better in shorts, shorts don't make any money. At the end of the day, I want to create both shorts and clips. I can do both. On the main channel, my plan is to release like one short a day of like the best of the best of the best clips that I've ever produced. And on the clips channel, to have rambles put there and see how they go, just as an experiment. Given that shorts can only be one minute in length, I don't think that I have a lot of good rambles that are one minute in length, so it's unlikely to happen. |
| 16. May 2020 | Am i sufficiently compensated for what i do? | Question as a person who speed runs for hours. Do you think for all the effort you put into your content? Do you feel you are compensated properly for working most likely more than the average person? I am I am compensated way more than I think I probably deserve. I like my content I think I make great stuff that's in terms of my contributions to society It's not you know up there with a you know doctor or something along those lines. I'm doing very well and And it's why I don't go out of my way to respond to sponsor emails and get involved in that stuff I'm doing great And I really appreciate all the contributions that everyone's given me and to people watching me in general I do put a lot of effort in but it isn't you know like I probably make Doubly as much as the average person in Australia. Do I work twice as hard as the average person in Australia? No, do I work harder than the average person in Australia? Yeah, probably me That's me. It's just bias, but I know if it's doubly as much in this world the amount of money You make is not directly proportionate to the amount of work that you do There are people who work really fucking hard for very little pay There are people who work very little for a lot of money There is of course a correlation between working hard and getting more money But if you believe that hard work is the main determining factor in your success in this world I I would road I I would giddyoe to be |
| 25. February 2021 | Amazing excuses potential editors make sometimes. | The amazing excuses potential editors will sometimes make. You guys wouldn't believe the amount of excuses that I get from people who say they want to edit for me and then I give them some footage and weeks later they come back with some bullshit. This person today was like, Yeah, um, I'm not comfortable that you want to see the project file rather than the rendered file, so I'm not gonna do it. I'm like, I gave you the footage two weeks ago. You were the first person in like hundreds of people to ever have a problem with that and the idea of having a problem with that is so amazingly stupid. I just, I cannot fathom the idea that you're being sincere. I said, it's like you're a duck and you said you don't like water. I don't believe you. Like why not just be honest and say I don't want to do it? Why, why invent bullshit? Especially unbelievable bullshit. Say that crocodiles ate your hands. That you found out that your father's a shark and you're dealing with that emotionally. That your dog recently learned to speak French and you feel like you can use that to get some kind of a career in show business. Sky's the limit. Did it look good? They clearly didn't do the task, gloomy. What am I talking about? The usual Dark Viper EU nonsense that everyone comes to know and love. There seems to be some people who, despite lacking editing ability, they view my request for editors as like a once in a lifetime opportunity thing to edit for a large content creator, have that on their resume, or maybe get future work in editing because of working for me. And so I have people who aren't very skilled, don't have the experience, biting off far more than they can chew, editing for me. That might be the overwhelming majority of people who have ever submitted to try to edit for me. Like 98% of people fail. And it's hard not to get cranky at these people because they just massively waste my time. |
| 26. November 2021 | Amazon gave me a free ps4 | Amazon gave me a free PS4. In most cases where I've had a problem with Amazon, I've contacted them, and like 10 seconds later they're like, look, we'll give you a new one. My PlayStation 4 was quote-unquote lost in the mail, as in like it took like an extra week to get here, and they're like, yeah, we'll give you a new one. I'm like, alright, I just, I don't, I just, I don't know where it was, fair enough! And then like it ended up coming like a week later or whatever, so I got two for the price of one. They have good customer service in the sense that they just have so much fucking money that they can hire legions of people, so you have like no wait times. And they can afford any amount of fraud, so they just let people get away with murder. I've heard there are like fraud rings or whatever just around Amazon, getting products and just going, yeah, lost it. You know, I mean, surely they would eventually crack down on some... |
| 09. January 2022 | Amazon sellers offering coupons for positive reviews | Amazon sellers offering coupons for positive reviews. Thought this would be an interesting rambling topic. Your thoughts on Amazon sellers offering vouchers for positive reviews? I suspect that it is more common for people to complain than it is to compliment, right? If 99% of the time things go right and 1% of the time things go wrong, then it's not as though 99% of your reviews are going to be positive necessarily. A handful of negative experiences can spoil the rating of your product or whatever, right? Like the reason I suspect that you constantly get emails where it's like, hey review this product that you bought recently. It's to give people an additional push to put forth their positive experiences, not just the negative. Are you saying Amazon sellers are offering vouchers to specifically positive reviews? Or are they offering them to reviews in general? Because I'd be totally fine with the company being like, hey yo, write a review and we'll give you 10% off. Or write a review and we'll give you $5 at Amazon or whatever. That makes sense to me. But positive specifically? No. If your service is good, they'll tell one person. If your service is bad, they'll tell 10 people. I don't know if that's necessarily true. I think it's more that, I suppose if you have like an amazing experience somewhere, you're probably going to tell some people about that. If you have a terrible experience at some place, you're going to tell people about that. But like, not all products have the capability for you to be amazingly enthused. Like, you buy a set of pots and pans. No one's going to be like, oh my god, this set of pots and pans is fucking off the chain, bruh. Like, yeah, the range of your possible experience there is going to be not as extreme as say going to some resort or something. I don't know. |
| 02. May 2021 | Ambivalence on snow | Ambivalence on snow. It's 6th of April and you have 20 centimeters new snow, but I like to swap. Nah. As much as I think snow looks really cool, probably feels it as well, I think living with snow would be terrible. Last night I accidentally left the air conditioning on, 20 degrees, and I didn't tuck in my sheet at the end of my bed. And so whenever I would move my legs, I get heaps of cold air, and that actually kept me up. But I was too lazy to go and tuck in my bed or fix the air conditioning. Well, partly because I thought the air conditioning was on the correct settings and I just didn't think about it. But it contributed to me losing sleep. Now, I can only imagine actually living in cold weather, how often I would be unable to sleep because it's too cold. |
| 13. October 2021 | American’s protest to ‘save australia’ | Americans protest to save Australia. Wonder how Matt feels about Australia turning into a fascist nation? Ah, that's another good topic. I'll share it to you. So for those unaware, right now in America, so there's this certain subsect of weird people in America who do this thing where, because a significant portion of America know nothing about other countries, they'll spend their time lying about other countries to say, hey, X, Y, and Z that we don't want to happen here, look at this other country that has those things and they're terrible right now. So you can clearly see that we shouldn't have those things there. Rather than arguing about the merits of those things, they will just scare and fear monger about those other countries. Australia currently has that going on right now in that we had like no lockdowns for the first wave of COVID, but recently we had a flare-up and lockdowns occurred. And so this is a perfect opportunity for people to lie about Australia from America. So for example, actually the post is now deleted. Oh, unable to view this tweet because the owner limited who can view their tweets. Well, regardless, this person linked all this stuff like, look at this terrible stuff that's happening in Australia. And like I reversed image searched one of the images and it was of this girl who got hit in America by a rubber bullet like a year ago, right? The images that are being shared about people getting brutally destroyed in protests and stuff in my country are all pictures from other countries. It's all completely fake. Whenever there is any government action that impacts people, it's of course going to impact stupid people. That's just how government policy works and because stupid people are stupid, they will do stupid things. Yes, there have been protests against the lockdowns as there has been protests against the lockdowns in every single country in the world. Nothing particularly egregious has happened. Like from my understanding the lockdowns have ended now or are ending quite soon. I can't remember which. We're at like 85% vaccinated or something. And so things are opening up again. As a matter of fact, at least for my state, half the people have recently resigned because of corruption allegations that have nothing to do with COVID. What I'm saying is there have been so many bills and stuff passed over the past couple of decades that have given the government power to retain metadata or to go through people's private information and whatnot. They've like busted into media buildings and taken information and stuff. Like there's been some concerning shit in regards to government overreach of power. But the stuff that has hit America and has caused dipshits to do protests in New York, save Australia, is complete nonsense. Fabricated bullshit. The stupid people, the couple of hundred whatever stupid people who are protesting just sensible government policy to prevent the continued spread of an infectious virus, they're just dumb. That isn't the problem that we're experiencing in this country. If you have been reading some source of information that is suggesting to you that Australia, because of the lockdowns, is now an authoritarian dictatorship, like North Korea, that source of information, you should not be reading and is lying to you. And it's probably been lying to you for the entire time that you've been reading it. Australia, just like every country has its problems and it's worrying things, but the things that are causing people to protest in New York to save us, it's not real. Long story short chat, stupid people are going to stupid. |
| 31. August 2020 | Among us and the cool kids club on Twitch | Among Us and the Cool Kids Clubs on Twitch. Among Us is a game where a group of people have to find the imposters before the imposters kill the group. Would I play Among Us sometimes? That game looks so fun. And the cross promotion, uh, seems quite good. Of course, it would depend on your performance in the thing, but, um, like there's a... Among Us right now on Twitch is showcasing, like, the different cool kids clubs that exist, you know? All these different clubs of Twitch streamers who, uh, all support each other and shit. And you look at these clubs and you're like, I'm in none of these clubs, man. This sucks. It's like being back in high school, man. All the cool kids fucking playing their team games, and I'm sitting here doing my challenge runs like, aw man. That's a game that's like Town of Salem, right? Yeah, Town of Salem was the one before it too. Is Among Us a new game? Because I haven't really seen it before. The clicky high school shit never ends in life. We all thought it did, true. It's just more or less relevant in different parts of your life, I suppose. Like, I'm not super missing out, not having those groups, you know? What sucks as well is, with all these kind of deception games, how fun it is is somewhat predicated on how much knowledge everyone has of the game. Because it's very hard to be deceptive when you don't know enough about the map or where you could possibly be or whatever to lie. And when a person lies to you, as the imposter, you don't know enough about the game to know whether or not they're lying to you. |
| 31. August 2020 | Among us and the cool kids club on twitch | Among Us and the Cool Kids Clubs on Twitch. Among Us is a game where a group of people have to find the imposters before the imposters kill the group. Would I play Among Us sometimes? That game looks so fun. And the cross promotion, uh, seems quite good. Of course, it would depend on your performance in the thing, but, um, like there's a... Among Us right now on Twitch is showcasing, like, the different cool kids clubs that exist, you know? All these different clubs of Twitch streamers who, uh, all support each other and shit. And you look at these clubs and you're like, I'm in none of these clubs, man. This sucks. It's like being back in high school, man. All the cool kids fucking playing their team games, and I'm sitting here doing my challenge runs like, aw man. That's a game that's like Town of Salem, right? Yeah, Town of Salem was the one before it too. Is Among Us a new game? Because I haven't really seen it before. The clicky high school shit never ends in life. We all thought it did, true. It's just more or less relevant in different parts of your life, I suppose. Like, I'm not super missing out, not having those groups, you know? What sucks as well is, with all these kind of deception games, how fun it is is somewhat predicated on how much knowledge everyone has of the game. Because it's very hard to be deceptive when you don't know enough about the map or where you could possibly be or whatever to lie. And when a person lies to you, as the imposter, you don't know enough about the game to know whether or not they're lying to you. |
| 30. May 2021 | Amouranth and hot tub stream on Twitch. | Started getting ad revenue again from her channel. They did demonetize amaranth earlier today I didn't they didn't do my time. They took it. They took ads off of her. She's still a little buddy. So yeah No, she's making so much money. Yeah, what the fuck got only fans? She's got a fucking tits and ass out on stream Bitches live in the dream. She literally sits in a bath and just gets paid for it But I was watching TV stream as well the server was I play on our pay on was down And I hate viewers for the stream by significant margin just watching this shit and just commentating her But I was commentating out like it was amazing content. I was like, wow She was building a sandcastle She was like this is hot little baddie like making a sandcastle on the beach the worst fucking sandcastle I've ever seen in my life. Like it was so bad It was like I could take acid and build a better sandcastle But just hot and like with a big bum and like love and life and people were just throwing money at her and That's what my views picked when I watched that and the amount of the amount of horny fucking men on the internet Never ceases to amaze me If you want to watch something go to porn hub or if you're gonna pay like You had someone who's gonna pay for this surely go and pay for a hookah like I'll be real with you though. Um, there were a significant amount of people who would hear these women getting all this money And they've been like what that's understandable then they hear about us getting money playing video games playing GT five Thank what the fuck why are people watching people play fucking video games? I guess the money like everyone's got their own ideas as to how it's justifiable to make money I absolutely will never hate on someone is making money Like if you're making money and legally not ex selling fucking humans or something But if you're making money like within the realms of like whether it's cringe fortnight content or whether it's like hot tub Like whatever my personal belief is if you're making money, we don't pick the audience like if people are watching it The market demands it it's allowed or whatever and let's be real if I was an attractive woman I'd be doing I'd be using that as well But unfortunately, we were all born Straight white men. I think I'm guessing from from everyone's voices. Yeah, I think my could pulled off now though I've grabbed myself a hot tub man. See how I go I reckon I reckon you could exploit it just just for one stream just to see how it goes Just getting a hot tub in your bodies if I had a hot tub I totally would do that absolutely for the mean but I don't and it's just too much effort But I have a good feeling you get banned on twitch for that for like TOS says like if it's a hot tub, it's fine I whatever but like these chicks are in in kiddie pools, bro inside like come on It's like the rules the rules like state as long as it's contextually appropriate It's allowed What are you gonna wear not a g-string and a key pool in your bedroom, bro, come on And then she's not even in the kiddie. She's standing in it bro. She's not like in the water like sitting down or whatever She's standing in a pool precisely if you read the TOS it says they want to prevent content that is a sexual in nature, right? But of course they they say Of course Well, of course there's some situations where you can be somewhat nude and it's appropriate not necessarily sexual and and you agree with that Like sometimes, you know in an in real-life stream, you could be in a hot tub and it could be perfectly benign But obviously people are using that as a loophole to make sexual content in these situations where it's not necessarily sexual It's obviously sexual content. So this is this like this isn't against us. It's not them not enforcing TOS It's a loophole in the TOS that they have no interest in closing I'm happy that they don't ban men for male because for showing nipples or whatever because I've I've shown mine on stream many times just inadvertently with my tank tops whatever and I'm like man if I was a chick I wouldn't have Would have a career at this point Some content creators have it better than others But advertised mustn't like |
| 30. May 2021 | Amouranth and hot-tub stream on Twitch. | That's what happens. Amaranth and Hot Tub streams on Twitch. An update to the story, Amaranth has started getting ad revenue again from her channel. They did demonetize Amaranth earlier today. They didn't demonetize her, they took ads off of her. She still had all the bloody subs. Oh yeah, no, she's making so much money. Yeah, what the f- Got OnlyFans, she's got her fucking tits and arse out on stream. Bitches live in the dream. She literally sits in a bath and just gets paid for it. Bro, I was watching TV stream as well, the server I play on, RP on, was down. And I picked viewers for the stream by a significant margin just watching this shit and just commentating her, but I was commentating it like it was amazing content. I was like, wow, she was building a sandcastle. She was like, this is hot little baddie, making a sandcastle on the beach. The worst fucking sandcastle I've ever seen in my life. Like it was so bad. It was like, I could take acid and build a better sandcastle. But she was just hot and with a big bum and love and life. And people were just throwing money at her. And that's what my viewers picked when I watched that. And the amount of horny fucking men on the internet, it never ceases to amaze me. I know, it's like, dude, if you want to watch something, go to Pornhub. Or if you're going to pay, like someone who's going to pay for this, surely go and pay for a hooker. Like, you know, that's not my thing. You're a fucking oath monster. I'm with you, man. I'm with you on that. I'm willing to give more hookers. I'll be real with you, though. There were a significant amount of people who would hear these women getting all this money. And they'd be like, well, that's understandable. Then they hear about us getting money playing video games, playing GTA V. Like, what the fuck? Why are people watching people play fucking video games? That's dumb. Are you making heaps of money? Everyone's got their own ideas as to how it's justifiable to make money. I absolutely will never hate on someone who's making money. Like, if you're making money and legally not selling fucking humans or something. But if you're making money, like within the realms of, like, whether it's cringe Fortnite content or whether it's like hot tub, like whatever my personal belief is, if you're making money, we don't pick the audience. People are watching it. The market demands it. It's allowed or whatever. And let's be real, if I was an attractive woman, I'd be doing I'd be using that as well. Oh, fuck yeah. 100%. You can't hate it. But unfortunately, we were all born straight white men, I think. I'm guessing from from everyone's voices. Yeah, I think Madca pulled off now, though. I grabbed myself a hot tub, man. See how I go. I reckon you could exploit it just for one stream, just to see how it goes. Just get in a hot tub in your bodies. If I had a hot tub, I totally would do that. Absolutely for the meme, but I don't. And it's just too much effort. The thing is, I do it for the meme, but I have a good feeling you get banned on Twitch for that. For like exposing yourself. No, the TOS says like if it's a hot tub, it's fine or whatever. But like these chicks are in kiddie pools, bro, inside. Like, come on. The rules state as long as it's contextually appropriate, it's allowed to make this content. Kiddie pool in a bedroom. She's got Mario Kart. You're going to wear not a J string and a kiddie pool in your bedroom, bro. Come on. And then she's not even in the kiddie pool. She's standing in it, bro. She's not like in the water, like sitting down or whatever. She's standing in a pool. Precisely. If you read the TOS, it says they want to prevent content that is sexual in nature. Right. But of course, they say... She's wearing lingerie. Yeah, you say, but they're like, well, of course, there's some situations where you can be somewhat nude and it's appropriate and not necessarily sexual. And you agree with that. Like sometimes, you know, in an in-vote livestream, you could be in a hot tub and it could be perfectly benign. But obviously, people are using that as a loophole to make sexual content in these situations where it's not necessarily sexual. It's obviously sexual content. So this is... Like this isn't against TOS. It's not them not enforcing TOS. It's a loophole in the TOS that they have no interest in closing. Just whip your cock out and say it's a biology lesson. Exactly. I'm happy that they don't ban men for male... for showing nipples or whatever, because I've shown mine on stream many times, just inadvertently with my tank tops or whatever. And I'm like, man, if I was a chick, I wouldn't have a career at this point. |
| 12. July 2021 | Amouranth’s ad revenue on twitch | Amaranth's ad revenue on Twitch. One interesting thing that came out of the whole Amaranth losing her ad revenue thing, it only lasted a couple of days so she got it back quite quickly. Which is very strange, like why would Twitch do it in the first place if they were just gonna immediately put it back? It's almost as though they were trying to help Amaranth out in that the few days that she lost for ad revenue, she got so much media attention that it was worth way more than any ad revenue that she lost. But regardless, she claimed that she made, what was it, 30k in ad revenue? Like Amaranth is like 10 times larger than me or something. In terms of average viewership or whatever, you know. But that suggests she's making like 30 times my ad revenue or something. Not 30, man, I mean, call it 20 or something. I guess maybe she plays ads? There's a lot of money for ad revenue. What makes it interesting to me is not how much money she makes in ad revenue, but because ad revenue is the minority of income that you make on Twitch. So if she's making 30k in ad revenue a month, she must be making like half a million dollars or something a month or some shit. Maybe 300,000. I can't imagine her ad revenue is over 10% of her revenue. She even took 40k and said no to it? Yeah, I think she said 30 to 40k or something. As large a sum of money as that is, that is not a heap of money given her other revenue sources. I suppose that's what happens when you have an average of 15k viewers or whatever. Whatever you do. And if it doesn't matter, if you're breaking up the content or whatever with ads, I guess you can spam ads all day. Of course she could be being dishonest. I mean, if she said 15k, I'd be like, yeah. If I knew she played ads and she said 30k, I'd be like, yeah. Because just extrapolating my own money or whatever. It's just 15 plus times larger than me. It's like, well, OK, well, I guess she can make that much more than me, I guess. If you're subbed, you don't see the ad or it still counts? Yeah, it doesn't count. Twitch Turbo counts. As in if you have Twitch Turbo so you don't see ads on the entire platform, you still do give revenue to the content creator, even though the ad doesn't play. Unless they've changed that. Twitch Turbo is a thing where you pay 10 bucks a month or whatever and you get no ads on the platform. Very rare that you see Twitch Turbo. They probably don't advertise it all that much. As long as you have ads turned off, you shouldn't see ads. It's up to the content creator if subs see ads. I mean, certainly it could be possible that you you accidentally watch while you're signed out or there's a bug or something. But as of all, no, you're not meant to get ads while you're subbed. Yeah, Twitch Turbo is like YouTube Premium. YouTube Premium is better value for the content creator though, because YouTube Premium directly shares revenue with the content creator while Twitch Turbo does not. If Twitch Turbo shared revenue, then content creators would directly advertise Twitch Turbo. I suppose on Twitch, though, it's a little bit different because, you know, just be better off getting a person to sub to you specifically, you know? Like why advertise Twitch Turbo when you can advertise your own subs? According to CNBC, ad revenue averages about $200 per 100 subscribers. I think you must be reading that wrong or they're talking out their arse. I believe they're talking about sub revenue, not ad revenue. It is funny sometimes reading articles written by people who have no real understanding of the thing that they're talking about. And given that Twitch is somewhat niche, but people will still need to write on it occasionally. I'm sure they just basically be writing nonsense. It happens all the time. You're an economist and it frustrates me so much. You think it's half, you think Amaranth is making half a million dollars a year? You are way off. If before taxes you told me she's making five million a year, I'd be like, yeah, okay. You said 10 million, I'd be like, ah, maybe that's trash in a bit, but yeah, yeah, still possible. Half a million? Nah. I mean, she has OnlyFans, Patreon, Bits, donations, subs, YouTube. Doesn't she have two YouTube channels? Revenue sources are like, she's got like 15. Oh, half a million in a month? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's plausible. The biggest thing that we don't know, like this discussion is completely pointless, but you know, the OnlyFans thing. Like I believe OnlyFans has the most generous revenue share of any platform, as in it takes the smallest cut. You think you can live with 500k a month? Really, man? It seems like it'd be a bit of a chore. You could only buy one island a month? I don't know, man. Don't think it'd be worth it. |
| 17. September 2022 | An Australian’s thoughts on the Queen’s death | Depressing. An Australian's thoughts on the Queen's death. So it is the main story, isn't it? The Queen dying. I'll be honest with you, I don't really feel anything. The first thought I had when I heard the Queen died, I was like, but she was 96. How pissed would you be to not get to 100? You'd be like, holding the scuff of the doctor being like, YOU MAKE SURE I MAKE IT TO 100 OR ELSE! Bleh. I didn't really have any connection with the Queen being, um, Australian and all that stuff. It feels no real different than if just a random person died. Anyone's lucky to get 96 years. And certainly the Queen lived that life in luxury. Had a better life than the vast majority of people who've ever lived. 96 for one is a damn good run. Exactly. Exactly. I'd like to reach 96 myself. Because she wasn't like, infirm or whatever, you know. As in like a... She was still walking around doing stuff or whatever. All in her 90s and stuff. We can all only be that lucky. |
| 21. August 2021 | An advantage speedruns have for youtube content | An advantage speedruns have for YouTube content. There's this principle in online content of stakes where any video that has some sort of stakes in it traditionally does better than a video that doesn't have stakes. So if I win I get X amount of money or I have to give up X amount of thing and speedruns are really great for putting in stakes because you can see at any given time at the time a tick up and stuff and you're trying to |
| 13. March 2022 | An annoying Youtube format. | An annoying YouTube format. There are so many YouTube videos right now, where the format is like, put question in title, say, this is a really interesting question guys, you guys really want to know the answer to this question. But first, here's a history about some tangentially related things, that will take up 90% of the video. I'll get to that question at the end. And then, it's like, read Wikipedia for like 9 minutes. You answer that question, here's the answer. Done. And I watch the videos, I am the problem. Swap. |
| 13. March 2022 | An annoying youtube format. | An annoying YouTube format. There are so many YouTube videos right now, where the format is like, put question in title, say, this is a really interesting question guys, you guys really want to know the answer to this question. But first, here's a history about some tangentially related things, that will take up 90% of the video. I'll get to that question at the end. And then, it's like, read Wikipedia for like 9 minutes. You answer that question, here's the answer. Done. And I watch the videos, I am the problem. Swap. |
| 21. March 2021 | An awkward birthday story. | An awkward birthday story. I got contacted by a person like a month and a half ago or something. Now maybe a month ago to give them a birthday message for their boyfriend. This is only the second time this has ever happened and now that I'm mentioning this it might end up in rambles. I guess I'll never do it again because I want to get bombarded with messages of people asking me to do it. But regardless I thought it was nice that this person cared enough about their boyfriend's tastes and preferences what they're into and stuff to to contact me to give them a happy birthday message right. I was like oh that's sweet so I guess I'll do it. Then I forgot about it and then like a few weeks went by I'm like oh shit I was gonna do that message whatever so I sent them a message and I'm like hey do you still want that birthday message for your boyfriend and and she's like oh yeah sure yeah absolutely that'd be great and I waited like a week week and a half and then I sent them the message and then they got back to me and they're like oh that's awesome unfortunately we just broke up like a couple days ago whatever and I'm like ah god dammit. I was like oh no what timing you know and it sucks cuz they seem like a nice person and like cuz I don't know anything about their relationship or whatever like instinctively I wanted to give them advice but I was like no don't give advice cuz you know what the fuck's going on in their lives you don't know why they really broke up or whatever you have barely any relationship experience just just wish them both the best but uh funnily enough she still she said she would still give him the message but uh yeah whatever the case may be I hope they are hope they both do well the effect of consistent music in YouTube |
| 12. November 2022 | An easy way to make more videos. | An easy way to make more videos. Just saw your GTA online video. Glad to see GTA still the same glitchy mess I remember. Yeah, that compilation's doing well. It's interesting, whenever you can repurpose old footage to not have to make another video from scratch, you always wanna do it, and compilations are a great way to bring older content that people haven't necessarily seen to the forefront. And as well, like, if enough time has passed, then the people who saw it the first time are gonna be like, oh yeah, I remember this. This is a great moment, you know? Compilations is just sort of a no-brainer, except that they take time for you to put them together. It's why I don't do them myself. I have a dude named Bittertricks, who by himself is watching my entire back catalog of videos. And that's where all the footage for all the compilations have come from. It's just easier to have one person do it, because they can keep track and know exactly what's been already stored or whatever in the timelines. Obviously, I'm paying him, of course, like I've given him many thousands of dollars, but it's just, it is still a task. You know, it's a lot of content that I put out. |
| 28. June 2022 | An embarassing aspect of my identify the country | An embarrassing aspect of my identify the country video. I realized that I failed to find Finland multiple times Which is really funny because I've had a meme throughout my entire career That I'm gonna one day invade Finland and take it over that I couldn't identify on a map is pretty embarrassing Like when I watched that footage back I was like how did I forget Greece that many times because I gave my reasoning in the video why it should have been Obvious to me, and why did I forget Finland? I felt the same way when I watched my Pokemon video back I was like oh, how'd I forget poly world that's obvious, but in the moment. It's hard to remember some stuff |
| 28. June 2022 | An embarrassing aspect of my identify the country | An embarrassing aspect of my identify the country video. I realized that I failed to find Finland multiple times Which is really funny because I've had a meme throughout my entire career That I'm gonna one day invade Finland and take it over that I couldn't identify on a map is pretty embarrassing Like when I watched that footage back I was like how did I forget Greece that many times because I gave my reasoning in the video why it should have been Obvious to me, and why did I forget Finland? I felt the same way when I watched my Pokemon video back I was like oh, how'd I forget poly world that's obvious, but in the moment. It's hard to remember some stuff |
| 08. March 2022 | An objective definition of react content | Is there an objective definition of react content? Do you think there's an objective way of defining what is reaction content? So words do not have objective meanings. They're just social conventions, social constructions. You're just trying to impart a particular meaning. Any word can mean anything if society collectively agrees it to be so. It is certainly the case that in relation to goals some definitions are better or worse. It's like whenever I argue for a definition as being superior, I usually argue on the basis of utility. One definition isn't technically more objective than another. |
| 15. January 2023 | An obscenely rich person sits around watching others work hard - The crowd applauds. | An obscenely rich person sits around watching others work hard and the crowd applauds. So for those who have watched my series about reaction content, to summarize, reaction content is a system of exploitation that specifically disadvantages everyone in order to put money and well exposure of viewers and therefore money in the hands of the incredibly lazy. So, Pine Lee is a creator that I stumbled across a couple of months ago. Watched a few of their videos. They've got a fairly interesting presentation style. You may have seen their video, the Mr. Beastification of YouTube got pretty big and of course because he's become somewhat successful the reactors come in to take their slice of the pie, smelling blood in the water. So he writes, the person who posted the VOD of Hasan reacting to my video is about to overtake my own video in views. All off of stealing my title, my thumbnail and the video I spent three weeks working on in one day. The formatting here is clearly to make it seem like Hasan just made the original video replacing my face with his more famous face. It's the channel's best-performing video of the week all the while not crediting my original video in the description. E-mailed them but no response. I appreciate Hasan putting my video on such a huge platform but it's mind-boggling to think that this random-ass VOD person is about to make more money from my video than I did after spending about 200 hours on it. I took a lot of pride in making every element of this video from the scripting to the editing of the thumbnail all by myself but I guess that doesn't really matter on YouTube. If people would leave a comment under this video about this that would be great. So the reason why Hasan has a huge platform is because it was built by people like Pinely. It's kind of like Hasan has siphoned from thousands of people a large enough viewership that people don't recognize where that viewership came from and so they're like, oh, there's something that I helped build but get nothing out of. I'm so happy to have been a cog in the machine to produce that for Hasan. Like this dude has just been massively exploited and he's like witnessing in action how this exploitation works. Just not specifically done by Hasan and he hates it. It's like I only want to be exploited by Hasan. I want I only want to be one of the thousand bits of coal that Hasan throws into his train to keep that thing running. I don't want someone else to use me in that way and it's just sad. Like Pinely is smart. I've seen his videos. Does he not pause for a second go wait a second if Hasan sits for 10 hours a day watching other people work hard and claims this is advertisement? Why doesn't his viewership go down? If he is advertising competing experiences of watching other creators, then why doesn't his viewership go down? Why does it keep going upwards over time? And the answer is because this system of exploitation extracts more viewers and more exposure from the market than it gives and if it didn't do that people wouldn't do reaction content. The entire reason reaction content is done is because it disadvantages people like Pinely who actually make the content that is reacted to. If reactors lost viewers, cause viewers to go watch someone else in the market then they would stop doing reaction content either because they would recognize this and just stop immediately because they wouldn't want to hemorrhage viewers or they'd have to stop because they'd run out of viewers. It's like Hasan's got a pie and he's like I am sharing this pie with other people and you watch the pie and it never decreases but he keeps somehow getting more pies saying guys I'm sharing pie with everyone as like he's sitting there with 15 trucks full of pies as a 16 sitting truck rolls up I know I'm preaching to the choir here It just sucks to watch people be taken advantage of and then to thank the person exploiting them for doing so I think 14 pages wasn't enough. You need a whole thesis I did a whole thesis. The problem isn't that I haven't explained this in great detail in a very convincing way because I have and I know it's very convincing because I've had like hundreds of comments of people and in even creators that I didn't know in very much so respect that say hey I watched the video you've changed my mind completely but it's just weird to me that people can't come to this conclusion on their own and that is wrong to say because everyone doesn't know something at some point, right? You don't start with all knowledge or some such you have to eventually come to conclusions but you've got an obscenely wealthy person sitting around all day watching other people work hard when 99% of the income that he generates is generated on the back of other people's hard work and he gives them nothing and From that you should be given pause and go wait Is this really a good thing is it doesn't really benefit me for someone in the market to? Bring all the best content towards themselves in order to develop an audience Could Hassan really be advertising other people and having viewers go find them and watch them if he has used this mechanism to become the most watched US Twitch streamer could he really grow that fast while Sending people elsewhere and answer course is no Like even if you don't have like the data and stuff that I that I used in my videos This should be something that people can reach and so what's become more interesting to me is Trying to conceive of why people don't come to these conclusions themselves I do talk about some of them in in some of these videos But is that the propensity to not want to think badly of others not want to feel like you've been taking advantage of is Something called the just world bias and people are biased to wanting believe the world is just like I have had people acknowledge my content in Positive ways and it makes you feel good. It's impossible not to I suspect that's just the feelings that they have Oh, isn't this cool that someone is acknowledging what I've created in a very positive way not caring about the negative ramifications that the System that has acknowledged them causes I think about this a lot and I shouldn't I should just let this go But it's so terrible yet so fascinating to me But it's bothersome that I have made something that thoroughly if watched by the populace would change things But I can't get them to I just don't have sufficient charisma to make that sort of thing appealing I can't break through that emotional desire to keep your own Perceptions the same as they are to continue to act in and believe as you currently do it's just a shitty situation I can't really help the world and I have to sit by and go oh look There's another person who was taken advantage of who smiled the entire way. It's great I did send him an email though But I've recognized that even having a million subs and getting hundreds of thousands of viewers and stuff people still aren't necessarily gonna respond to you It's just as you said with the reaction channels creating content for you It's ultimately gonna come down to the platform's implementing measures against it to protect actual content creators as much as does suck now I believe there will be a gradual change towards limiting reaction content the only way that's gonna happen is if there's outcry from the creators themselves for enough people come to understand the reality of How reaction content affects the market how it specifically is designed to disadvantage them? But how are you gonna get that message out reaction content by design? causes the bad actors to grow faster than anyone else and therefore necessarily have the most influence and reaction content primarily negatively impacts content creators not viewers Well, it does in a very roundabout way as it crushes the actual people who make the content makes it hard for them to make a Living but I doubt you're gonna convince audiences of that and like I've had people leave comments But they say yeah, I understand that reaction content harms people. I like it though. So fuck them I just need to stop caring. I say many times I need to stop caring about stuff But may have part of me likes trying to make the world a better place I know as I said before I like writing essays as well. I don't really have an outlet to do that There's not many topics that I'm really passionate about. I'm still so very conflicted with life chat I know I should just ignore the injustice I see in the world and the harm that people put on other people Even those who harm themselves unknowingly and I they just have such a hard time doing it But all it does is bring me stress man. I'll grow up one day. |
| 07. February 2022 | An old video I am proud of. | An old video I'm proud of. I have a Sleeping Dogs video already. I never finished the game, but I edited that one. I made a good video from the most garbage footage that exists. If you haven't seen the Sleepy Dogs video, you're missing out. I had like three different editors look at that footage and give me back shit. I was like, no, you're awful. This can be made into something good. And I just spun it into silver. |
| 08. March 2022 | An unexpected small change in my routine due to the pandemic | Unexpected small change in my routine because of the pandemic. I wash my hands a lot? Uh, yes. With hand sanitizer. Since the pandemic, when the- well, I got hand sanitizer when the pandemic started. And uh, I found I like it. I just like every couple of hours, just, you know, just gonna... You know? Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 15. February 2022 | Analogies of consent. | Yes, I think Fair Use is more important because you made the analogy of, you made two analogies. Well, you made one joke about spiking a drink, and then you also made the analogy of sexual consent. And do you still stand by those analogies? Oh, yeah, they're great analogies. I would argue that. So I think actually, I just dislike unpaid labor more than other people, maybe. In my mind, I'm like making comparisons of abuses of consent between something that's like a six and a ten to maybe a little bit provocative. But to other people, they're like unpaid labor? Who gives a shit? They think I'm comparing like a one and a ten. Because the comparison there isn't to suggest that react content and sexual assault are the same. It was to explain that it's absurd to ask for consent after the fact because it would naturally justify anything where a person can't give consent at all or is unknowing that you've abused them in some way. And you would naturally have to say that so many horrendous things are justifiable. And that's all that I was trying to communicate with that. And me being charitable to myself, but the main reason people want to be so offended by that is that they don't want to engage with the argument because they would know it's true. I'm like... Maybe. Okay, so I don't understand. I don't get the analogy. When it comes to sexual assault, there is no legal instance where if you don't get consent, it's lawful. So that act requires consent. However, when it comes to fair use, fair use entirely exists so that you don't need consent. So we have many laws when it comes to re-uploading content saying that you can re-upload content in this scenario, this circumstance, this circumstance, this circumstance, and you don't need consent. In fact, the work doesn't even need to be published. If you record something, if you write something down, you are giving consent implicitly and legally to allow someone else to use that work in a fair way. Now, if their content creators are saying, no, what we're doing is fair use, this is what Ethan was saying basically, that if I react to something and it is fair use, then you've already given consent. Sure. So I want to stop here. So it's not that you've given consent. It is that legally, you don't need it. So if you use a small clip of any one of my videos, I have not given you consent, but legally speaking, you don't need it. What is legal is not the same thing as what is moral. Right? It's like if the law tomorrow was you don't need consent to have sex with another person, that wouldn't then become justifiable or meaningful. In terms of what any one of us believe society should be, it's why I largely just dismissed fair use law immediately, in part because what they're doing on stream is clearly not fair use. Oh my God. You would just watch Disney movies if that was the case. We'll get to that. Yeah, we'll get to that. We'll hash it out a bit more. But even if, then I said, even if it was legal, for the reasons listed above, it would still be exploitation and I wouldn't think it would be good for society. So- But I think the analogy is bad because anyone who does spike a drink or anyone who does sexual assault knows it's wrong. Well, technically, if you got consent from another person for you to drug them, like you say, hey, I want to drug you and have sex with you while you're barely conscious. And they said, yeah, sure, I'm totally cool with that. Then I wouldn't be into that kind of shit and I don't know why that would be okay. And certainly, you'd be asked questions like, is there some sort of abusive power relationship going on here? But assuming that there's no other extraneous variables that we haven't considered here, that would be okay because you have two consenting adults engaging in some sort of sexual fetish that's their responsibility, right? The point is to express how if you have a position of, for things that require consent, it is totally okay to ask for it after the facts. Uh, that would necessarily imply that any action that is abusive where a person is unknowing that they've been abused or is unable to respond and say no. Um, I used another example in there. These things would have to be justifiable because, hey, if you spike her a drink and she wakes up in the next morning and goes, oh, I'm not into this, what the fuck? You- That will still be fine because even if they're not into it, you didn't need consent in the first place, right? Obviously not because it's fine to ask for consent after you've done the thing. Um, clearly that's absurd. Yeah, but you don't need consent if it's fair use. So what I think, what I think is what the problem with the analogy is that the mindset is completely different. So someone can actually believe that what they're doing is fair use and, you know, the fair use is only something that a court can decide. No one can, no one can spike a drink thinking that what they're doing is legal, okay? So the mindset is completely different. Therefore they don't think they need consent and therefore they're not coming from, they might not be an immoral person whatsoever and they might not have any bad intentions whatsoever and can still be re-uploading content in a way that they believe is fair use. Someone who spikes a drink is always going to be immoral and the problem is that you're basically linking the two and saying that, you know, one is both immoral. Technically, a person can believe that spiking another person's drink is fine. As weird as that sounds, the world is just weird out there. So the analogy works because it assumes a mindset. Um, you are correct. So my, my mistake, as we talked about before, is that I assumed every reactor has this mindset, which is wrong, obviously, as we now see with Charlie, but the analogy still works because assuming you have this mindset- Well, I would assume that with, I would assume that the mindset thing is probably the case with almost all of these- Which is largely what I was trying to say, is that, um, no one can reasonably have this position. Even if reactors want to espouse that in situations where consent is necessary, it's fine to ask after the facts. They can't actually have this position because applied anywhere else in the world, that would be absurd. And that's what that was trying to say. So this mindset of you, you, it's fine to ask for consent after the acts is an unreasonable position because it would justify all these other terrible things. And so you either, if you have this mindset, you're a monster or if you don't, then you should stop espousing that you do because you clearly don't. Right? Here's the problem. I think, I think there's a better way to do it. If you want to make that analogy, remove the content creators from it. So what you've done is you've basically said, I'm going to make this analogy by saying that these content creators have the same kind of philosophy. Uh, but we don't need to do that at all. You could just say, here's, here's an example of something to demonstrate my point. And you remove the content creators from it. For example, you just say, if someone, some random person does things, they need consent after, right? That's, that's wrong. You can sort of make the analogy that way. You don't have to say these content creators basically think that, you know, consent's okay to have afterwards. So it's, it's, it's implied by certain things that reactors say. Um, reactors will often fully admit that certain people do not like what they do and they know that they don't like what they do, but they do it anyway. Um, and then when they found out, they'll stop. So if you believe that a person's feelings towards their content matters, then it's obviously something that you should ask for consent for. But if you don't believe it, it's fair use. Oh, no, no. But I mean, I mean, that's the thing. Yeah. If it's fair use, they just keep doing it then because why would they respect the other person's position? They would just say, oh, well, I don't care what you think. I don't need your consent. Get fucked. Well, that's what Aidan said. Um, and they, they usually apologize for example. |
| 31. July 2022 | Analysing my 'This is What You Missed' series. | Analyzing my This Is What You Miss series. If you haven't seen it, it's usually just a combination of a bunch of lightly edited streams where I play particular games. Okay, so I have now uploaded a heap of This Is What You Miss stuff. It's been very varied in terms of how successful they've been. So you've got like this, Super Autopets, that got, you know, a hundred thousand views. You've got Rogue Tower, which is the first one which may have helped it, which it got two hundred thousand views. But then you've got like, you know, Blasphemous. Got thirty thousand views and even Noita did okay. It's got like seventy thousand. This is fairly recent, right? None of this stuff gets me like an insane amount of money views on new subscribers and all that stuff. It's meant to be filler content, but it's just interesting to me how varied it can be. Like I would think that Slay the Spire would do just as well as Noita. This is not making my channel, but I think it was a good idea to do this as opposed to making a VOD channel. Like I hate VOD channels where it's just an entirely unedited chunk of footage with no value or meaning and you're just jumping between games. I prefer this where I combine all the footage from when I played either a bunch of games or over a bunch of different streams played the same game that is never going to be edited. So people who are interested in watching me do it can actually still do it, you know? Help me on this background noise. There was so many cool things we did in Noita that no one has ever seen and it's just not worth editing. These are just streams without your ability for me to interact with you, you know? |
| 31. July 2022 | Analysing my 'this is what you missed' series. | Analyzing my This Is What You Miss series. If you haven't seen it, it's usually just a combination of a bunch of lightly edited streams where I play particular games. Okay, so I have now uploaded a heap of This Is What You Miss stuff. It's been very varied in terms of how successful they've been. So you've got like this, Super Autopets, that got, you know, a hundred thousand views. You've got Rogue Tower, which is the first one which may have helped it, which it got two hundred thousand views. But then you've got like, you know, Blasphemous. Got thirty thousand views and even Noita did okay. It's got like seventy thousand. This is fairly recent, right? None of this stuff gets me like an insane amount of money views on new subscribers and all that stuff. It's meant to be filler content, but it's just interesting to me how varied it can be. Like I would think that Slay the Spire would do just as well as Noita. This is not making my channel, but I think it was a good idea to do this as opposed to making a VOD channel. Like I hate VOD channels where it's just an entirely unedited chunk of footage with no value or meaning and you're just jumping between games. I prefer this where I combine all the footage from when I played either a bunch of games or over a bunch of different streams played the same game that is never going to be edited. So people who are interested in watching me do it can actually still do it, you know? Help me on this background noise. There was so many cool things we did in Noita that no one has ever seen and it's just not worth editing. These are just streams without your ability for me to interact with you, you know? |
| 16. May 2021 | Analytics showing the growth of livestreaming, 2019, 2020, 2021 | The Growth of Live Streaming 2019-2020-2021 What I want to do first before I begin is look at this thing. Now, are you guys gonna hate me if I look at this thing? Live Game Streaming Trends. It's new info. Is that yes? You're gonna hate me? Like, would you send up a message? Can I link this? Technically, no. To get access to this, you have to like, you know, give them your information and they send it to you. So I don't know if I'm meant to put it in a video, but like, it's not really gonna matter. Because like, this will eventually come out on my rambles like, a week from now, or two weeks from now, whatever, and then no one's gonna care, you know? So this is the Live Game Streaming Trends for 2021. Like, it compares all the different years and stuff. I haven't read it yet, so I'm actually gonna read it with you. Live Streaming Audiences continue to skyrocket. In 2021, audiences reached an average of 97 million hours of live streams a day, an 80% increase since 2020, and a 139% increase since 2019. So there's a difference there. That is a huge difference. 2021's first major viewership spike was driven by massively popular video game Rust and its role-playing servers. The servers featured some of the most popular streamers in gaming, including XQC, Myth, Shroud, Pokémane, Valkyrie, and Ludwig. On January 24th, Q1, so quarter one, hit a peak of 120 million hours watched, driven largely by the Mobile Legends Bang Bang World Championship Finals. What? Mobile Legends Bang Bang World? I've never heard of that in my entire life. Okay. Hours watched top Western streaming platforms. One that's huge increases, but also Twitch still massively dominating. Holy hell. They've all increased, but Twitch. Look at, look how big of a jump that is. It's insane. The Western game streaming platforms reached 8.8 billion hours watched this quarter, a year over year increase of 80% compared to quarter one 2020. The greatest increase came from Twitch, which generated 6.3 billion hours watched in quarter 2021, a 97% increase from the previous year. 97%? God damn. Live hours watched on YouTube gaming increased from 1.1 billion to 1.4 billion, making it the second most watched live streaming platform to no one's surprise really. It's funny though that Facebook gaming increased by more, right? Facebook gaming audience has surged year over year with an increase of 87% compared to 2020. Is it possible that Facebook gaming streaming is going to overtake YouTube as number two? Is that because Facebook does better in other markets? But this is top Western. Well, maybe they're just counting it as it is a Western streaming platform, but maybe it's counting its numbers, not just from Western people. It would have to be. Interesting. Top 10 most watched games in streaming. Ayyyy, GTA 5. Carried over League of Legends. Plus six. I win. This is all me chat. Nothing to do with roleplay or whatever. Just definitely me. Personality driven roleplay games stole the spotlight from major esports. GTA 5 overtook League of Legends as the most watched game in streaming. No pixel, a custom Grand Theft Auto V server, enable streamers to become fictional characters in a... How do you say this word? Fox. It means fake or whatever. Reality television style entertainment. Popular creators flocks to Rust, a multiplayer survival game creating private streaming servers. The hype made of the eighth most watched game in 2021. Look at that. It went up 27 spots. It's not there now, though. It's definitely declined since then. The Battle Royale genre has sustained its popularity, taking four of the top ten spots in ranking. Yeah, Fortnite. What the fuck is... Grana Free Fire? I've never even heard of that game. PUBG Mobile? They're actually calling it PUBG Mobile rather than just PUBG? This is weird. Oh, this is some interesting stuff. Look, I was saying before about how fucking large XQC is. Look at those numbers. Top ten gaming influencers. And this is like Spanish or whatever, right? So like, compared to the next biggest English, he's like three times larger. And that's what I asked yesterday, and do you guys watch XQC? Like, have you watched him in the last week or whatever? And 90% of you said no. I was very surprised. That is not to scale. That is true. Because obviously this isn't like double this, whatever. Fits here. It's good. Look at Ludwig, though, plus 38. God damn. And Summit still being in this list is crazy. He's been around for like a bajillion years, you know? I guess some of these people, I don't know Trymax or InPlays or iBuy. I know everyone else here. Variety streamer XQC tops the charts as the most watched influencer of 2021. His GT5 roleplay streams fueled his popularity during the quarter, generating 30 million hours watched on his channel. Ludwig has emerged as one of the fastest growing creators on Twitch, largely driven by his unique approach to streaming content. Not only was he the host of the popular Twitch game show Hivemind, but his sub-a-thon, a non-stop nearly month-long stream, reached a peak of 107k viewers. Damn, man. Live streaming continues to expand to global audiences, with 4 out of 10 creators living outside of the United States. 4 out of 10. Wait, that's me. I don't live in the United States. Hell yeah. Trymax is a German streamer? Cool, cool. Top 5 female gaming influencers. Valkyrie finished as the number one female streamer in 2021, almost doubling the next closest streamer in total watched hours. And there's one on YouTube as well. Is this person also a VTuber? Well, they're definitely a VTuber. Pecora. I think I've seen that person somewhere. Valkyrie has continued to bridge the gap between gaming culture and more general popular culture. Ray recently appeared in a Machine Gun Kelly music video as Corpse. Weird. The video has hit over 12.3 million YouTube views. I guess they mean the content creator Corpse, not a Corpse. The male-female streamer gap is still substantial. Valkyrie placed 27th overall in total hours watched across both male and female streamers. And Pokimane placed 98th. That's nuts. That like on Twitch, the biggest female content creator doesn't even hit top 100. That is quite a difference. Top 10 VTuber gaming influencers. I'm not reading this. I like VTubing, Yank. Do I recognize any of these people? No, no, no, no, no. Oh, I recognize that one. She has the small, small Turtle House. And I've seen a few of the clips of this one and the funny animations. Wait, CodeMeko counts, I guess. I guess she does count as a VTuber. It's funny. I've seen Gor as well in clips somewhere. I don't know. I recognize the rest. Top 5 esports events by hours watched. Don't care about this either. League of Legends. Da, da, da, da, da, da, da. It's just funny that XQC is just sitting there with by himself one dude being bigger than like two big tournaments combined. But peak 2.5 million views is nuts. Wall Street bets stock craze in Twitch chat. I don't care about this either. I hated this shit. I still hate that people are still talking about GME and stuff. Just let it die. Sponsored live stream watch time increases by 137 percent. Audience flock to streaming platforms presented. Audiences flocking to streaming platforms presented a ripe opportunity for brands to sponsor streaming content to reach gaming audiences. Streamers are required to use sponsor to add in stream titles to denote sponsored content within their live broadcasts. Both the total number of sponsored streams 88 percent and the sponsored hours watched 103 percent have grown at a dramatic rate since 2020. Interesting. I haven't done many sponsored stream things generally because the rates you get are much worse compared to YouTube for like far more effort. But I guess that's changing. What is compare chat? My husband Gold had a sponsor with him. What is it? Audible. I want an audible sponsorship and Spotify sponsorship. Insurance? Weird. Oh, it says over there. Major non endemic brands including Spotify. Non endemic just means like it isn't gaming related, I guess. Major non endemic brands including Spotify, Cash App and Audible have topped the charts as some of the most watched sponsored streams in 2021. Compare.com and auto insurance quote database reach just under half a million live hours watched of has been Gold's channel almost three times greater than the second most watched non endemic sponsored live stream. Simple mobile's Ludwig sponsored engaged his channel at the perfect moment sponsoring the first day of his epic nearly month long subathon. Interesting. Interesting. And this is done. Okay. So that's some interesting data, which I'm sure most of you don't care about, but I care about it because I do. Do the Twitch streams sometimes. So what does non endemic actually mean? So it just it just I know it in context. It means what you wouldn't normally associate with the platform. I know like if you have a sporting platform and you advertise, I don't know Pokemon. Pokemon isn't a sport like no Mcdendon sponsors of businesses whose products and or services are not directly linked to the market but still benefit from the marketing strategy. Okay. That's a good way of putting it. |
| 26. August 2021 | Animal genitalia in RDR2 | Animal Genitalia in Red Evidemption 2. There would have to be a discussion in some boardroom somewhere when they were making Red Dead. How do we handle horse cocks? Do the horses have cocks? How much cock? Are all the horses going to be neuted? How much realism are we going with here? Like that would be a discussion, you know? In terms of getting the game rated, that would hurt them in particular ratings. Maybe they brought in a horse cock specialist? What do you do for a living? Well, I'm a horse cock specialist. I advise different companies on how they should handle horse cock. How'd you get so good at your job? Well, practice. I have a very intimate experience with the subject matter. I myself am quite hung. |
| 03. May 2020 | Anime I am currently following | Anime I'm currently following. I spent some time looking for a new anime yesterday to watch. Couldn't find one. I was thinking of watching that Tower of the Gods or something, but I ended up just watching another episode of One Piece instead of boring part in One Piece. I'd finished watching the Magus Bride or whether the fuck it's called, Magi Bride or whatever. The anime that I'm currently following now, One Piece, Black Clover, My Hero Academia, Darwin's Game and I'll catch up with Attack on Titan one day. Is Darwin's Game over? It might be over, I don't know. Have I seen Powered then or what that is? Castlevania's video? Yeah, Castlevania's fucking excellent. If you haven't seen Castlevania on Netflix, you're missing out. Yeah, I like Steins Gate. Steins Gate is good stuff. I've seen Promised Neverland. Good show. Promised Neverland falls into that meme of like, guess the age of this anime character? World-renowned doctor, seven PhDs, knows 14 languages, you know, is special regent to the Queen of the United Kingdom. How old is this character? And you're like 45 and then it's like eight years old and you're like, come on! In Promised Neverland, like all the kids are meant to be 12 and they've got like the maturity and ingenuity of like 30 year olds at least. You're just like, yeah, I know they're meant to be special, but come on. Am I into manga? Not even slightly. It sucks that a lot of anime is just, you know, basically expensive advertising for manga and like the next series never gets made. The least, the less effort that is required for me to consume a media, the more I'm going to prefer. Media that I can consume while doing other stuff. I will prefer. |
| 30. January 2021 | Anime I am currently watching | Anime I'm currently watching. Do I watch anime? I do. Currently still keeping up with um, there's a Jujitsu, Sorcerer, One Piece, Attack on Titan. I tried watching more episodes of Is it Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon and the most recent season is so fucking cringe. Oh my gosh. I want to watch that uh, that other one with the Didsy goddess, the fire chick, the knight who likes pain and the normal dude. I want to watch that one but it's not on Netflix or Crunchyroll. Konosuba, yeah that's that's the best isekai going into fantasy world fucking anime that exists because it makes fun of all the tropes of all the other ones. Yeah so I started watching Kill la Kill. It is also extraordinarily cringe. Does it get better? Like I understand that it's meant to satirize a lot of tropes in other anime but why did they expressly say that the main chick was 16 and then put it in that sexual outfit? I was just like this wasn't very good before that point and now this just feels weird. I don't find it funny though it's I find it just I just find it cringy. Like they're fictional characters right so like they don't really have an age as in if you if you had said that the main character was 873 she still could have acted the same way. It's just like there was there's no reason to specify the age if you get what I'm saying. Like you could have specified any age at all and kept the character exactly the way that they are. So why specify the age being that young? I guess because they're meant to be in this high school thing or whatever but like I like that that isn't a deal breaker for me in terms of the series. If the series was funny or interesting sure but it just the the idea of these armors drinking blood or whatever and the chick herself having like no fucking real talents because I've only seen the first three episodes and the suit being like yeah this is our power like it's it's the combination of the both of us that gives us makes you able to do this power and I'm like fuck off it's the suit. The chick sucks before the suit and so I like I don't like mech anime and stuff like that right where like the power comes from an external suit or whatever I don't like that shit. I like it when the the main character is the actual powerful one or whatever capable one or whatever they train them learn and become better and dah dah dah you know it's kill the kill. It was interesting to see Ludwig did a sponsored deal with Crunchyroll where he watched two episodes of an anime on his live stream and then I watched the two episodes because he uploaded them both to YouTube and I watched the rest of the anime. I would have kept watching it but there was uh there was no more episodes. Seemed like a good deal really. Depends I suppose but depends how much they were paid but and I was already a member of Crunchyroll so. |
| 10. November 2021 | Anime body pillows. | Anime body pillows. Bet Matt has a Pepsi anime pillow. I look at those body pillows, and I'm like, would I actually be comfortable to hold a body pillow while sleeping? It doesn't seem like it would be. Maybe, maybe in like really cold climates or something? I don't know. Like some people sleep with a pillow between their legs or something that's meant to be good for your back or neck or I don't know. I remember seeing a picture of it as a suggestion of a way to leave pressure or some shit. I don't know. There's no anime that I like enough that I'd want a body pillow of an anime character. No. I wonder what those cost. According to the great Google, most body pillows run between 20 and 100 dollars, but you can find budget models for under 10 and luxury models for over 200. |
| 01. December 2022 | Announcing a new upcoming outro compilation video | video. My outro is being retired from future and past videos. While there will be a ramble explaining why, I will briefly explain it here as well. And now this is also becoming a ramble. I had considered making this change numerous times over the years, but recently I decided to have one of my mods go back and fix errors in my older videos. Titles, descriptions, categories, small edits, etc. So it seemed this was as good a time as any. My analytics show that 0.3% of my views come from the end screen. 0.15% if you include shorts. However 20% of those who reach the end of videos click away just before the outro plays, which by all accounts should have some small impact on my reach algorithmically. The higher the percentage a video is watched on average, the better reach videos tend to have. Keeping a part of a video that shows a steep decline of people watching is not good form on this platform. The outro ultimately just gave people more time to move on from my content. The autoplay and the default 12 video suggestion screen after video has a better chance at matching people with my content to keep them engaged than my end screens that by all accounts were not interesting. This makes sense as the design was repetitive and never great even after the changes. The end screens could not be placed well on the image and my name showing my twitch and twitter are less relevant than ever. I would also often do an actual outro thanking people for watching before having the generic outro then play, which made little sense. My goal with my channel is to make great stuff and to have as many people enjoy it as possible. I will therefore make decisions that act to best achieve that goal. As much as I like the many memes from the outro over the years, this decision is appropriate I think. As always I sincerely wish you all the best, which I will continue to do at the end of my videos just not in the outro screen. At least the dancing doggo can finally stop risking its life on top of that building. You should go watch my Minecraft chaos video that just released by the way, it is quite good. So a lot of people were upset because it's been such a fixture of my content for many many years and so I'm gonna make a video that showcases all the variations of my intro. These are the main variants, the first one being from April of 2019 which is just like this. Okay that was sped up a bit but you get the idea. But all these videos have custom outros in them so there is, well not all of them, there's like 150 or something custom outros in these videos. I will one day get a good pizza again chat but in the meantime if you'd like my video I'd really appreciate that thank you. It was just whatever off the top of my head I would say something. Like I do believe if you're going to make an outro in your YouTube video you have to make it a part of the content. It has to be you saying something to the viewer that's different every time. There's a reason for them to stay or at the very least you are specifically instructing them to go watch another video or something. It's either you do that or you have no outro at all and my generic one that I've been using for quite a long time is just not good. So I'm gonna make a compilation of all of these outros. I don't know how long that video is gonna be or if anyone's gonna watch it but I will do that as a way to remember the history. Of course one of the best outros I think is this one. Be sure to like the video, thank you for watching and I wish you all the best except for Rockstar Games. F*** them. Dumb. |
| 10. September 2021 | Annoying password requirements and security | Annoying password requirements and security. I changed all my passwords to incorrect, so whenever I forget it will tell me your password is incorrect. I wonder how many people do that though. I'm pretty sure every year, or every couple of years, studies are done to see like, what are the most common passwords, like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and stuff. I wonder how many people put their passwords incorrect. I mean these days, that password would be too weak. I go on websites and it's like, you need a password that starts with a capital letter, has a capital letter in the middle of it, has a symbol in the middle of it, and has three numbers. And I'm just like, what the fuck do you want from me? How the fuck am I gonna remember this password? I suspect it's because, um, if your account gets hacked, that causes them more work. In the case of money, like it might be money that they'll never recover at, it costs them money for you not to have a secure system. I know there's all these things that record all your passwords and shit, but then I don't know the password if I want to use my account on some other person's system, or my mobile phone or whatever, and I don't trust these fucking people. I looked up, apparently Heroes of New Earth had a data leak a long time ago, and my email address from that was leaked or some shit. But of course, it was a very old email address, so I didn't really care. In terms of data leaks, it's more like it's a when rather than if, you know? Because you just sign up for so many goddamn things. You just gotta hope that when something leaks, it's not, uh, it's not significant. Like all those people who lost their social security numbers and shit, it's a bit worse than losing your email address, you know? My GTA V account actually got hacked, they changed my password and everything to Russian. I've heard that, like I remember reading a report that in Russia, like some of the best jobs are like in these hacking firms or something, where they pay well and whatever, I don't know. As in there's like an industry of hacking in Russia. And apparently the government kind of turns a blind eye to it, as long as it's not targeting people in Russia itself. Partly with the goal of the government being able to use any of those hacking techniques, if they desire them. If you allow that kind of industry to flourish, I guess you run the risk of being hacked yourself. It does allow you to develop more sophisticated hacking techniques. |
| 05. January 2022 | Annoying zoomer editing styles | Annoying Zoomer editing styles. You think it's nice, it feels smooth and not like clunky? I hate edits of stuff that are just like, every single cut, cuts exactly on the word, and there is no air, nowhere, anywhere. It drives me fucking crazy. Zoomers with their one fraction of a nanosecond attention span, needing these fucking Roblox people to like every single frame be speaking wild. Like a sentence that drags along forever without any pause. Exactly, exactly. Like my cutting is, I'm trying to make sure no time is wasted, but it still sounds like speech. It is still, it still has time to breathe, you know? |
| 14. May 2020 | Another cooking stream | Chuck it away. Will I ever do another cooking stream? No. There was all footage from back in the day. I'm not as bad at cooking these days. So it wouldn't be as interesting. |
| 18. August 2022 | Another example of Rockstar instantly fixing money glitches. | Another example of Rockstar instantly fixing money glitches. This was linked to me. There was a glitch where you could sell a car for more than you bought it for, like you could buy it for 25 grand and then sell it for like 200,000. And so for a couple of hours, people were just like, you know, printing money with a car here. And Rockstar fixed it immediately. And it was just used as an example of like, if there's a bug related to money, instant fix, everything else, I will get to it a few years from now. You want to know the whole story, watch Obese. |
| 08. June 2020 | Another job and business email | But you know another job and my business email Do you have an actual job or do you make enough money off streaming? I make more money Than I should by far. I don't know why you wouldn't consider this to be an actual job, man. I work like 10 hours a day and even when i'm not working i'm uh, i'm like answering all my dms I got so annoyed today Like I spent like i'm actually i'm actually behind on my twitter dms mainly because of the q a someone watched a faxing glitches episode and couldn't do one of the glitches and so they sent an email to my business email the one goddamn place Where I don't answer stuff from from viewers and they they for for a glitch Like could you imagine if every single person who watched a faxing glitches video who couldn't do a glitch sent me an email to my business fucking email what fucking nerve some people are just so Up themselves just inconsiderate of other fucking people And I don't have I don't have time for that twitches man. I'd say i'm i'm working. I'm you know I stream all day and then when that's done. I edit you know Not enough hours in the day to do something |
| 18. August 2022 | Another streamer swatted | being swatted and shit. Trans woman Twitch streamer, careful, doxed, arrested at gunpoint by London. Oh, London, Ontario, Canada. Oh, okay. Yeah, I was confused for a second there. It's like the scummiest possible thing you can do. This happens way too often. Like more than zero is too often. Like I wonder what I'd do if I was, I suppose you just lay on the floor and just try not to do anything. It's fucking scary. Like I don't know how they do this. Can you actually just call up SWAT and be like, hey yo, come to this person's house? Surely not. Like it has to go through some checks and channels and stuff, right? I suppose if you're convincing enough, you can just convince a regular person on the line to go through the proper channels. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 02. May 2021 | Answering honestly when someone asks you how your day was | Answering honestly when a person asks how your day was Had an interesting experience yesterday chat had this chick message me on the dating app. I'm on and she asked me like how my day was and I was like Should I be honest like with what I did or she asked me because yeah I feel like what did I get up to today because what I did was edit and play heroes of my magic 3 I'm like now fuck it if My my hope is to find someone who also happened to play heroes of my magic 3 when they were a kid. That's it's my goal in dating I was like yeah good to play this game from my childhood for the first time in like a bajillion years It was goddamn wonderful blast from the past don't think she ever mentioned me back, but uh as the break sometimes I'm sure over time. I will get More annoyed with that and eventually I'll just well not lie I'll just be um selective about the truth Oh, yeah, you know I just did some stuff from my childhood that I enjoy or whatever you know just brush over the details Brush over the details. I should do GT RP. Can I pretend to be a person who really really likes heroes of my magic 3? |
| 30. September 2022 | Anthony Fantano gives Viper some respect | Anthony Fantano gives Viper some respect. So I was watching Let's Argue, Art is Useless by Anthony Fantano. And there's this particular clip. Look, Viper, kind of a weird guy, kind of a sketchy guy, I'll say that. But he definitely deserves at least a little bit of respect on his name insofar as he is an outsider hip-hop artist. Finally getting a little bit of respect. Someone acknowledging that I am an outside hip-hop artist. Thank you, Mr. Fantano. Obviously he's talking about someone else, but it's just funny. The guy was also named Viper and I was just half listening and I'm like, Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, wait, that's not me, but still. |
| 07. August 2021 | Anyone can stream | Anyone can stream. Anyone can do it man. I am a testament to that anyone can start doing this shit. Because I just went, hey, I want to start streaming. And I started streaming. It's that fucking easy man. To get popular on this website, you need a miracle. You need black magic. |
| 24. May 2021 | Apex Legends in 2021 | Legends in 2021 Just reinstalled apex legends and fucking hate it It's weird that apex legends became successful because wasn't it released like with a lot of tech issues with barely any marketing or whatever and yet still managed to take off and Was him see dog VA and trash taste always mentions How it's like really really big and like where he is or whatever like even the V tubers and stuff all play out or whatever If it's legends is going on mobile Weird it was great. It's gotten real bad recently I played it back in the day and I found it somewhat enjoyable, but just not Something I would spend enough time had to get good at the only had bad marketing remember all the streams playing release I don't think they were paid to play were they yeah, maybe it just came out at the right time people sick of for now In pub G was still there pub G was always broken I was around when they finally released the second map and it was just so glitchy and broken You got like 10 FPS everywhere and how vaulting the ability to go over stuff was like some Revolutionary thing that they took like six months to add |
| 28. June 2022 | Apparently I still have hope | Apparently I still have hope. Mors Mutual tweeted this out. Rockstar Games on Black, they're making the setup to reveal something or is it just a bug? And so I clicked through and there was like nothing here. There is something here now and it's nothing so it's clearly a bug. But I was like oh man they actually announced something! This tweet got me excited for nothing. For a moment in my head I was like, what if they're announcing GTA 6? Showing that hope truly isn't dead within me. While this tweet debated me, it taught me something about myself. That I still hope for things in the future. |
| 25. February 2021 | Applying your time correctly for success online. | Applying your time correctly for success online. So Ludwig apparently has made like a PowerPoint presentation talking about his success, kind of how he achieved it, how he believes other people can get success on Twitch and just streaming in general. I watched maybe the first 20 minutes I think, thus far it seemed pretty good. Mirrors the common sentiments but presented in a captivating way. I wish those kind of presentations existed back when I first started. I look back at a lot of the time that I put in and I realized that a lot of it was misplaced. But then I also realized that a lot of the time that I spent while misplaced for immediate success on YouTube and Twitch and stuff was fundamental for my success now. Like for example, all that time I spent streaming, doing speedruns and stuff, it led to me having all the amazing clips I have today that I could put on my clips channel that massively blew me up recently. If I didn't do all that streaming back then, while I could have applied my time somewhere else, I wouldn't have had all those clips to use now. Additionally, because I spent so much time streaming and so much time speedrunning, it massively increased my knowledge of the game, which again was fundamental to my latest success on YouTube. Like, so while I do say sometimes like, oh, you know, I wish I started making videos on YouTube earlier, maybe it was in my best interest to have waited the years that I did because it meant that I had a huge backlog of content that I could put up on YouTube when I finally did get to YouTube, you know. Yeah, either. Most people find me on YouTube now. My early days of Twitch really embody that idea where never grow complacent with incremental growth. As in, I could see my numbers on the back end and I was slowly growing and I was like, okay, that's good enough. As long as I'm growing, that's cool. I am progressing, but it doesn't mean you're necessarily applying yourself in the best way possible. There can always be better strategies that you aren't using at the time, you know. |
| 26. September 2021 | Approaching discussions with humility and appropriate levels of confidence | Approaching discussions with humility and appropriate levels of confidence. I think it's perfectly reasonable to say, look, here's the ideas that I have right now, here's why I have these ideas, let's discuss it, let's have a discussion about why I might be wrong about these things. I'm not saying I'm certainly right, but everything I've seen thus far seems to support them. No one can spend their lives being fully informed about everything, and you will always need to make decisions on the basis of, you know, less than the complete amount of knowledge, right? There's always something more you can know about a topic. By necessity, you have to form opinions sometimes, you have to judge what is the most plausible and go about your life on that basis. Understanding your foundation of why you believe something is very important, right? It's good to know why you think the way you do. I don't think a lot of people really question the underlying foundation of their belief system, sometimes. Discussing these sorts of things is important, and certainly there's certain topics that are so taboo that, you know, just talking about anything will get you... People shy away from certain topics because of fears of being... or suffering negative social repercussions. And that's a bad thing, right? Everything should be open to discussion. But the level of arrogance that some people bring, or egotism, or even narcissism, that people bring to discussions is sometimes just so fucking toxic. |
| 29. November 2022 | Are GTA Online cars based on real cars? | Are GT Online cars based on real cars? How much of Rockstar's cars in online are based on cars in real life? I hear quite a few, but is it like all of them or? Yeah, pretty, yeah, all of them. To my knowledge, there is not a single car in online where Rockstar has made from scratch themselves that's not based on anything in particular. Literally every single thing is based on something, however, it's always, especially in the OG days, it's always been a mix, a big, big mix. It's like four different cars together. Oh, it's interesting because they changed the names I know so they're not the same as the ones in real life, I assume for legal reasons. I wonder what the actual people who make the cars in real life think about Rockstar copying their cars, because you'd think it would just be good advertisement for those cars in a way. Because when I thought about buying a car, I was like, I wanna buy a car that's in GTA V that I drive quite a bit. Then I found out they're worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and I was like, well, nah, maybe I won't do that. But I'm sure people draw connections between cars in real life and cars in GTA V and make purchases on that basis. Of course, oh, of course. I have a Hellcat and then when they added in, you know what a Hellcat is, the Challenger or? I don't know anything about cars, dude. Oh. I think nothing at all. Well, I had a, it's a Dodge Challenger, it's a muscle car, boxy looking, modern muscle car. I had the regular version and then they came out with the wide body version in real life and they added it into GTA and I was like, man, it looks so good in the game too. So I went out and got the wide body version of that car in real life. I traded it to get the wide body one like in GTA. I'm sure that's very common. So I think the main thing with them not having a lot of people, I get that question a lot. They're like, oh, this car is so stupid. Why doesn't Rockchip just add the actual cars? It's very, very complicated for them to do that. I'm sure you've heard Toyota is one of the worst. So associating their cars with any violence, even the smallest things is just police chases. They don't want that associated with their cars. Oh, that's a good point, I hadn't thought about that. So imagine all the illicit things that you can do in online, I'm pretty sure like maybe one car manufacturer would say yes, the rest of them would just say no. You could not have a, yeah, a lot of people don't think about that. They're like, oh, just give us real cars, it's so stupid. But Rockstar genuinely can't. I often am surprised when I find people who have issues with things that are in GTA 5 and GTA Online, because those people do exist. It's just I've been so, I've just been around it for so long that it's just a normal thing, the violence and the drugs and the swearing and all that stuff. But clearly everyone in society doesn't find that sort of thing appropriate, and certainly brands wouldn't either. Exactly. I actively remind myself of that at times. |
| 17. January 2022 | Are MMOs a waste of time? | entertain you, by that alone not a waste of time. You could say it's not a productive use of time, in that the progress you make in an MMO doesn't convert into progress in terms of improving your life circumstances. But obviously everything you do doesn't need to relate around improving your life circumstances. You'd go crazy. Like entertainment in general is good for psychological health. At the same time, people who massively dedicate their lives to MMOs, unless it's somehow their job, are probably doing themselves a disservice, as there are definitely things in life that such a person would enjoy more than playing an MMO that they likely can't afford. But I mean, as a general statement for us, there are people who are perfectly happy putting their entire lives into an MMO. It's just I think for a lot of people who do that, they do it because MMOs are in general a very cheap form of entertainment. If you got nothing going on in your life, you can just throw your entire life at an MMO, which is what I did when I was younger. Didn't have the money to spend on things, but I could use my shitty computer to play WoW all day every day, not really improving anything about my life or developing any skills, but certainly wasting time in a way that was at least mildly entertaining. But I mean, I was literally grinding achievements in World of Warcraft by myself. When I look back at that time, I think to myself, I could have played any other fucking game and probably enjoyed myself more, but I was just like, didn't want to buy more games, didn't want to spend the time, didn't want to learn, I don't know. I know man. Basically, MMOs good, overindulging in MMOs is bad. Do viewers do the GTA V features I show in my videos? Ah, I know for a first that prim video with me, I have been talking about this game ever since I startedCameroon 4. I've reached an unilaterally high standards and it's going mouve moments, allowing me to show a NZ video after I've got removed my programme curtains from my flipside of the screen. |
| 17. September 2021 | Are My Parents Proud Of My Success? | Are my parents proud of my success? Are my parents proud of my success? I don't think they understand my success. My dad has always just taken my word for it that I'm doing well. But remember that, uh, like I barely made any money for a long time. So obviously for a long time my parents were like, Oh, you're applying for some other jobs? Or, yeah, my mom was always like, Oh, you know, you got to get into this bachelor program, you know, go into this and that. Understandable, right? Because obviously trying to stream for a living is largely a foolish endeavor. The amount of people who grow successful at it, the smallest, smallest fraction. It was for the longest time I was making just enough to get by, you know. And even then, who knows where streaming is going to be in five years? |
| 30. November 2020 | Are Speedrunners More Likely To Be Good At Other Games? | Are speedrunners more likely to be good at other games? Are people who are good at speedrunning likely to be good at speedrunning other games? You imagine anyone who has the mindset necessary to speedrun something long enough to be the best at it, yeah, they're probably going to be good in that they're better than average at other games. Because they have the persistence to practice, to work at something for hours and hours on end, to stick with the one thing. Will they be the best? Depends how similar the game is, and how good, if they're the best to begin with. Like, largely being a speedrunner, being the best speedrunner, depends on how much competition there is, and how much time other people have to put into the run. If you can throw thousands upon thousands upon thousands more hours at it, you're probably going to be ahead of everyone, or at least the vast majority of people. Because speedrunning is just, in a big way, a huge time investment. Thanks for watching! |
| 20. March 2021 | Are Star Wars movies bad. | Are Star Wars movies bad? Do I like Star Wars? I've always liked the idea of Star Wars more than the execution of it, and the movies have been largely the weakest part of the world, and certainly the last three Disney movies have been very flawed. Like, I couldn't even be bothered to watch the final one that they released. I watched like the first ten minutes, and it just would seem so garbage that I quit. I have, however, seen like a handful of videos explaining why it's garbage, and those have been kind of funny. But then again, Star Wars episode 1, 2, and 3 were also garbage, but just for different reasons and in a way that still carries nostalgia. Like, the characters of 1, 2, and 3 were good. Individual parts of 1, 2, and 3 were good. The music of 1, 2, and 3 were good. It's just the execution of it, and the dialogue was not particularly good, you know? Like, 1, 2, and 3 were flawed for different reasons than 6- 7, 8, 9. Yeah, people who say that Disney ruined Star Wars while claiming episodes 1, 2, and 3 were actually good movies, they're just fucking high. 1, 2, and 3 are bad movies, but just nostalgic and meme-worthy. 3 isn't bad? Ah, yeah, 3 is like maybe pretty decent, I guess, but decent maybe. But like 7, 8, and 9, they have like no charm to them at all. Like, there's nothing memorable or interesting or meme-worthy of 7, 8, and 9. It's- There was some passion and idea behind 1, 2, and 3, but not 7, 8, and 9. The movies were made to paint in the lines to make the money. Because it's not like they can't make good Star Wars content. Like, Mandalorian is very good. Even, um, what was that movie, the heist movie or whatever? The solo movie, Han Solo movie. That was just okay. Like, if that- if Star Wars didn't exist, and the Han Solo movie came out, I think it would have just been good. Like, it would have met expectations. Like, oh, that was a pretty good sci-fi heist right there. It was nothing special, though. Yeah, I liked Rogue One, but even that was flawed for a variety of reasons. I mean, at least I watched episodes 7 and 8. And while watching them, while watching 8, I didn't particularly hate it. It's just, the more I thought about, the more dumb it seemed. And 7 just seemed too much of just repeating stuff in old movies. What I dislike about 9, from the part that I saw, it's cut so amazingly fast and throws so much information at you within like four fucking seconds. Every scene is held on like half a frame. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 12. July 2021 | Are TicTokers creative? | Are TikTokers creative? Do you consider TikTok stars as creative hard workers? Unlike YouTube, TikTok has no creativity It's just people copying trends or dancing in front of a picture or dumb shit like that I have no respect for someone who gets paid on TikTok. Have you ever used TikTok? I'm gonna accuse you right now. You have never used TikTok. You have? I assure you not very much Sketch comedy is a hard thing to make a living doing I mean any form of comedy is because you need to keep thinking up new fresh creative ideas There are some people on the platform that are just that's all they do they sit around all day going what can I make a joke about and Can keep it into a minute and it's a hard fucking thing to do There are certainly a lot of people on the platform who all they're doing is what's the latest trend? Okay, this thing and then they just do that trend but there's a lot of original creative stuff on there And the best thing you can do as a TikToker is to create a trend worse than this though is the The people who get popular because of a particular trend the trend can't last forever There was this guy with like an orange suit or whatever who made a face and there's only so many jokes you can make with That there's this guy who a song plays and then he runs and there's only so many jokes you can make with that And you've got to look at these people who are effectively making a living in some extraordinary It's just so tiny the niche that they're making a living and every day they're like man my 15 minutes is almost run out I've got to somehow make a future out of this and they can't do it like if you're making a living on tik-tok your situation is so Precarious and the the easiest way to get famous is for one particular thing But then you you can't do that one thing forever the amount of people who? transform Just the normal accounts into TikTok fame and then go on from that tik-tok fame to have some sort of long career with a consistent pay is so tiny You have to both get lucky and you have to be so fucking skilled is really hard to Get into a position on any social media where you're making any kind of a consistent Living that isn't at the risk of falling down around you with one small change in a trend You know there are a lot of creative amazing people on tik-tok man people who are more creative than I could be in the entirety Of my life, and there is a lot of bullshit on there as well. It depends on the individual Person if I respect what they're doing if I think they're particularly particularly creative how much luck versus how much skill? Went into their success it tick tock isn't just a place lacking in creativity I mean to be real with you most new memes actually come out of takes up even now most the Popular songs those who hit the top of the charts are usually those who do really well on tick tock tick tock is just a defining Industries at this point. It's just very cynical to say just there's just no creative creativity enough You know as a new creator would you recommend tick tock or YouTube for explosive growth? YouTube has the best chance of giving you some sort of a stable career the money on tick tock is a Invitational smaller than YouTube and YouTube has everything it has live streaming. It has a form of tick tock it has its own Edited content and stuff tick tock is just one thing YouTube is everything they can't even really be compared getting followers on tick tock is Not super important like a follower on tick tock is worth so much less than a follower on basically any other platform I think tick tock is established enough that it's not a situation where you know you You're growing with the platform. It's kind of grown to the point where it's gonna grow to it's still gonna grow But I just mean it's not gonna It's already it's already got its established players like if you can be on the ground floor of a new Social media that's great and some people got that with tick tock, but that should be say oh no It's gonna depend upon you which is more suited to your type of content that you plan to make |
| 12. July 2021 | Are Tictokers creative? | Are TikTokers creative? Do you consider TikTok stars as creative hard workers? Unlike YouTube, TikTok has no creativity It's just people copying trends or dancing in front of a picture or dumb shit like that I have no respect for someone who gets paid on TikTok. Have you ever used TikTok? I'm gonna accuse you right now. You have never used TikTok. You have? I assure you not very much Sketch comedy is a hard thing to make a living doing I mean any form of comedy is because you need to keep thinking up new fresh creative ideas There are some people on the platform that are just that's all they do they sit around all day going what can I make a joke about and Can keep it into a minute and it's a hard fucking thing to do There are certainly a lot of people on the platform who all they're doing is what's the latest trend? Okay, this thing and then they just do that trend but there's a lot of original creative stuff on there And the best thing you can do as a TikToker is to create a trend worse than this though is the The people who get popular because of a particular trend the trend can't last forever There was this guy with like an orange suit or whatever who made a face and there's only so many jokes you can make with That there's this guy who a song plays and then he runs and there's only so many jokes you can make with that And you've got to look at these people who are effectively making a living in some extraordinary It's just so tiny the niche that they're making a living and every day they're like man my 15 minutes is almost run out I've got to somehow make a future out of this and they can't do it like if you're making a living on tik-tok your situation is so Precarious and the the easiest way to get famous is for one particular thing But then you you can't do that one thing forever the amount of people who? transform Just the normal accounts into TikTok fame and then go on from that tik-tok fame to have some sort of long career with a consistent pay is so tiny You have to both get lucky and you have to be so fucking skilled is really hard to Get into a position on any social media where you're making any kind of a consistent Living that isn't at the risk of falling down around you with one small change in a trend You know there are a lot of creative amazing people on tik-tok man people who are more creative than I could be in the entirety Of my life, and there is a lot of bullshit on there as well. It depends on the individual Person if I respect what they're doing if I think they're particularly particularly creative how much luck versus how much skill? Went into their success it tick tock isn't just a place lacking in creativity I mean to be real with you most new memes actually come out of takes up even now most the Popular songs those who hit the top of the charts are usually those who do really well on tick tock tick tock is just a defining Industries at this point. It's just very cynical to say just there's just no creative creativity enough You know as a new creator would you recommend tick tock or YouTube for explosive growth? YouTube has the best chance of giving you some sort of a stable career the money on tick tock is a Invitational smaller than YouTube and YouTube has everything it has live streaming. It has a form of tick tock it has its own Edited content and stuff tick tock is just one thing YouTube is everything they can't even really be compared getting followers on tick tock is Not super important like a follower on tick tock is worth so much less than a follower on basically any other platform I think tick tock is established enough that it's not a situation where you know you You're growing with the platform. It's kind of grown to the point where it's gonna grow to it's still gonna grow But I just mean it's not gonna It's already it's already got its established players like if you can be on the ground floor of a new Social media that's great and some people got that with tick tock, but that should be say oh no It's gonna depend upon you which is more suited to your type of content that you plan to make |
| 18. January 2023 | Are YouTube's swearing restrictions going too far? | YouTube and society does not understand how language works. So previously we discussed how YouTube was changing how they were looking at swearing. Again, it's an American company. I swear if YouTube was in any other country in the world, we wouldn't be dealing with this stuff, but it's America, so... But the change that scared me when I read the changes was that they were gonna be changing how they were looking at swearing throughout the entire video. And this was how they were gonna treat all swearing as somehow equal. So if you said bitch or fuck, they're now equivalent. It doesn't matter. If one is a lesser swear word than the other one, it doesn't matter. Like, if you swear too much during the video, you could get demonetized. And so my recent Chaos video, which hasn't released yet, it got demonetized. And what it said was swearing in the first seven seconds or frequent swearing throughout the video. Now, what is frequent? I don't know. Because my videos have always had frequent swearing in them because it's a part of the game and I swear a bit myself. The beginning of GTA V has the lines with Lamar and Lamar saying the N-word, even with the A at the end or whatever. Maybe that's why it was picked up, but I checked the first seven seconds. Even the first 15, there is no swearing. Although at 13 seconds, there's a word on screen, shit, for like two frames in chat. So that could be the reason why it got picked up, or again, the swearing throughout the video. But this getting demonetized makes me feel justified in my concern that I expressed in the previous rambles. Because what if they now have just like a counter where they're like, for every 10 minutes of video, you can swear twice? Or what if they don't consider the length of the video and you get 10 swears regardless of the video length? And if you do more than 10, you're out. It doesn't matter if my video is two hours long. If I'm at 11 swears, I'm done. I deleted the demonetized one and then re-uploaded it, and the second one was not demonetized. This is all fairly silly. As I've said before, I assume this is just YouTube's attempt to, as best as possible, keep the advertisers happy, make them not get scared off or something by swearing, prevents advertisers being put on videos that they shouldn't be put on. But this is just really dumb. I just don't understand this obsession with suggesting certain words are taboo. Words are just vehicles for communicating meaning. And swear words eventually reach the point where they don't really have any real meaning in how they're used. They just work to communicate a feeling. Like when you call a person a bastard, you're not necessarily calling into question their lineage or whether or not their parents were married. That could have been the case once upon a time, but now it's just to call a dude a tosser. Say, I don't like you. You're a bastard. Sort of thing. If I used a different word to communicate the same sentiment, if the sentiment isn't inoffensive, then the word shouldn't matter. Like we could all collectively, tomorrow, decide to use like the next letter along or something for a bunch of words. Like instead of fuck, we say guck. And the feelings communicated would be the same. But from how these rules are dealt out, it wouldn't be bad for people because, oh, that's not a taboo word because it's a slightly different sound. So it's fine. And that's just nonsense. It's funny that this stuff was explained to me as a kid all the way back in... You guys remember the show Recess on the Disney Channel? There was a plot line where TJ, the main character, was sent to detention because he said wamps. Wamps is just his word that he made up to express discontent with what's going on. He's like, this wamps. Oh, man, we got so wound up in Detweiler's story, we missed Recess. This wamps. What did you say, Detweiler? I just said this wamps. That's it, Mr. Potty Mouth. It's the principal's office for you. Merch! But Mr. Frisk, you don't understand. But eventually, one of the teachers is like, I'm not up to date with your newfangled slang, but I know a bad word when I hear them. You're going to detention. This is a very serious situation. A very serious situation indeed. We can't have bad language in school. I know, sir, but... You see, bad language undermines authority. It demonstrates impertinence, disrespect, laziness. But all I said was... I know what you said. I can't keep up with you kids and your gutter slang, but Miss Finster assures me it's filthy. I have no choice but to give you detention level five. Level five? Man, this wamps. Make that level six. Are you ready to push me any further? And the argument was made with this kind of discussion of like, is it the word that matters or the feeling or what have you? And in other words, TJ was merely using a word to communicate his discontent with the situation, and being discontent with the situation is not offensive, nor should it be. He was being punished not for the feeling that he was communicating, but for the suggestion that he was using a bad word. It is the way that society treats language as if the words matter rather than the meaning and feeling being communicated is nonsense to me. But I can't change society, man. People are weird. I wonder how many people are going to remember that episode and be like, oh, Recess, man, that's a great show. Zander and Yelnif asks, if YouTube now treats all profanity as equal, does that mean the C word is not as bad? It depends whether they like increased it to the level of C word or like C word went down, because like it's hard to imagine that the N word, for example, is now being treated by YouTube as the same as fuck, right? Previously, they had like a special category for the C word, for the FA word and the N word. They considered the C word to be a slur for women on the same vein, which in my culture, that is obviously not the case. And it would just seem weird if they were just to like make these equal in any capacity. So I don't know what they mean by saying that all profanity is treated equal, but I can't imagine they're doing that. In other words, I don't think I'm going to get my past this episode where Trevor says the C word like nine times undemonetized, unfortunately, maybe one day. |
| 05. August 2022 | Are all "good" games successful on steam? | There's this interesting video that I watched talking about how, as you might suspect, the success of games, right, it's only like 20% or something that make their money back. It's like the top 1% make the overwhelming majority of the money. If you have a game that does well, you just make a staggering amount of money, just, oh my god, like it makes your life. But the overwhelming vast majority of people who make games get basically nothing out of it. Because it's so hard to get noticed. Like with YouTube videos, right, you might watch 20 YouTube videos a day. With games, you might play like one new game a week. And because they require an investment of money and a significant investment of time, like a person's really got to be sold on a video game before they are willing to play it or whatever, right? And so for that reason, like, you know, it's the triple-A publishers with all the marketing and all that that get all the attention. With that being said, though, the premise of this video that I was watching is that good games generally do get noticed. As in, he did a thing where he looked at high rated games that didn't get that many sales. The amount of sales was basically proportionate to how good of a game they seem to be. He like mathed it out and stuff. Because certainly a lot of games that are made are just shit. Because it's very hard to make a good game. The counter argument is there's a lot of people out there who don't put in the effort, don't know what they're doing, haven't studied art, dev design, don't have any experience or end up just giving up after the initial release instead of continuing to update. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But you've got to be in a pretty good place in life to be able to dedicate the time necessary to make something good, you know. Or to be in a situation in life to have the necessary ideas to make something good. Basically, making a game is hard. Also, like, you've got to imagine that for most people they make shitty games first that don't do well, but are still willing to continue, right? And they learn from their experience to make something better. Tunic, the Little Fox game. So it's going to win the commander? |
| 13. March 2023 | Are all creators weird? | Kind of explosive growth again. Are all content creators weird? Why does YouTube attracts like, some of the weirdest fucking people? Obviously most YouTubers are just normal people, right? It's simply that there's so many YouTubers. I think YouTube said there's, what, like two million jobs supported by YouTubers. Like all those people aren't YouTubers obviously, but let's say there's a lot of people working with YouTube. So obviously, even at like the normal rate of being disturbed weirdos, if that applied to that many people, there's gonna be a lot of them and we're gonna hear about them all the time. It's not like people go, oh, you know, it's crazy how many completely normal people are YouTubers. It's only the ones who do wrong that get attention. It wouldn't surprise me if it was a little bit higher for YouTubers, but it's probably about the same way as the rest of other professions. |
| 23. July 2022 | Are all my videos 10/10? | Are all my videos 10 out of 10? I know this Darkviper guy on YouTube always has 10 out of 10 content, I never have to worry there. Appreciate you saying that, but clearly not everyone agrees. There's a lot of my videos that don't get a lot of traction from people. Like what I try and do is do one like high quality good video and then one weaker video and alternate you know, because that was always the purpose of Rambles. I can't possibly make a good high production video every single day unless I hired like a fuck ton more people and I myself developed more energy somehow. But I can do a good video and a video that's still worth your time but maybe not as good every day, every second day right? A comment that I wanted your YouTube posts of the week advising I only watch Password Sent, you said I was missing out so I tried other stuff, you didn't lie there's some good content right there. There really is. I don't release bad videos. All my videos rank somewhere between like a 6 and 10 out of 10. Everything is watchable. Watch the |
| 06. June 2022 | Are any of my discoveries still in speedrunning? | Are any of my discoveries still in the speedruns? How much of what you invented is still in the speedrun? A handful of things. But obviously a lot of what I found is low-hanging fruit. Certainly my Facts and Glitches series has led the discoveries, but calling them my discoveries is a bit charitable considering that they were submitted by other people, and I was just the conduit for their discoveries. |
| 08. June 2021 | Are any shows as good as their first season | Are any shows as good as their first season? Have I ever watched Prison Break or Person of Interest? I, like everyone else, was super into Prison Break when it first came out. The first season was like crazy good and then it just slowly became worse and worse and worse every time. I don't think I ever watched the season... Did they make a season when the dude actually got out of jail or something because one of the main actors went to jail or something? Never saw Person of Interest though. Like everything else? Ahhhh. There are some shows where they don't hit their stride until a few seasons in. Honestly, I think comedies. Is it mainly comedies where it's like the first few seasons, you know, they can be good but they're like not perfect but they kind of get their stride? I mean The Boy is the first season that was good. I mean so yeah, it's certainly possible for the... Actually because The Boy isn't really a comedy is it? So yeah, I think more serious shows do better in their first seasons. Like they don't necessarily know where they're going so they have to kind of build up. They have to have lightning strike twice to effectively make a second good season. With comedies it's like the characters become more fleshed out. How they interact with each other becomes more established. The details about the characters' relationships and stuff don't need to be rehashed so you have more time just to dedicate to the characters being funny, you know? Yeah I guess that's possibly true. And true with plot driven shows continuing to need to add more and more and more just because the show is making money. Even beyond when the... It makes sense for show to continue, it's gonna get worse that's true. Yeah, Simpsons is another example. Season four to eight is the golden years. I mean that's in part there because of the talent that they had in those years and the world was a different place. |
| 07. February 2022 | Are any viewers from my 2014 streams still around? | Are any of my viewers from my 2014 stream still around? Matt, are there any viewers from my 2014 Rambles video still around? Um... No. There are people who stop by every rare occasion that are not really consistent, you know. Thing is though, like, I'm a large enough content creator that even if one of those people wants to stop by and say hello, I'm not necessarily gonna see them, you know. Even if they sub or what have you, say hello. It might be half an hour before I see it sometimes, right? I just don't get those kind of personal kind of experiences with people anymore. Except outside of a handful of people, right? Then I'm just too busy, you know? So much of my streaming these days is specifically focused on making YouTube videos and stuff. I'm not the Twitch streamer that I once was, where I would just be playing video games and reading chat. Now it's, I'm always trying to be focused on what I'm doing to say jokes and always know what's going on and whatnot. It's a much different experience compared to normal streaming. Streaming for YouTube is just very different from normal streaming is what I'm saying. That's why it's relaxing sometimes to play Slay the Spire and Noiter and stuff because they're just so casual by comparison. I'm not trying to be interesting. I'm not trying to be funny. Your ability to mess with people as a large content creator. What is happening? This is an illusion. You're in a coma. Please wake up. Your family cares about you. slam am |
| 10. September 2021 | Are billionaires making personal VR rigs? | Are billionaires making personal VR rigs? Like people say like, oh you know VR just isn't as good right now and da da da, the technology's not there. But I mean, why is some billionaire not making his own personal VR setup and hiring people to personally make him games? If I was a billionaire I'd just do that shit, like just hey look just make this room a VR room. Because surely if you had unlimited funds you could make a good VR system and you could make good VR games. It's more of an issue of making it at a way that it's cost effective and could be sold on a commercial level. And getting developers to be willing to give up the opportunity cost of making a game on some other platform to make it for a VR platform. |
| 22. July 2022 | Are esports careers over after you turn 24 yrs old? | Are esports careers over after you turn 24 years old? Wait Shroud is returning to Valorant's esports team? How old is Shroud? Shroud's 28, he's past the esports prime of, you know, under 24. See how he goes. Shroud is an aimbot, he's a crackshot. I mean, considering he plays these games every single day, you'd imagine he'd still be really good. But when he was in CSGO as a pro, he was really good, right? But not like the best? No, maybe he was the best. No, I think he was like insanely good, but he didn't win an insane amount of tournaments or something. Either way, I heard someone recently say, like speculate, that maybe the reason why people seem so much worse at video games, you know, in their later 20s moving into their 20s isn't because like the reaction times are getting so much worse, it's because they don't have as much time to practice. And I thought to myself like, yeah, or maybe it's a bit of both. When I'm playing the game, GTA, and I feel slower, like let's be real, how much of that is because I have aged two years, two, three years, versus just not doing speed running consistently for two to three years. Most people as they get into their 20s, you know, want to do other things, they move on and that can affect their skill, that makes sense. How much of Valorant is pinpoint accuracy versus like AoE effects? Is less tan**y? |
| 08. September 2021 | Are fiction books technically lies? | Our fiction books technically lies. If you define a lie as something the person knows is untrue, but that they represent as true, then a fiction story isn't a lie because while it is untrue, it is being represented as something untrue. It's like if I said to you, this is just a joke by the way, but my feet are actually ducks. I'm not lying to you. It's false, but I've told you explicitly that this is something that's not true. Something that is untrue isn't a lie. A lie defines a person's knowledge of something. You're lying to me. You're intentionally representing something that's untrue as true. Exactly, Ais. Lying requires to see. In fact, what a person thinks to be the truth doesn't even need to be true for it to be a lie. Like if I think 2 plus 2 equals 5, and I tell you that 2 plus 2 equals 3, I'm still lying to you because it just defines deceit, not a matter of objectively correct answer. |
| 15. May 2021 | Are music reactions justifiable? | the song and gets it in other people's playlists and stuff. The problem with reactions to music is the reaction itself is a substitute for the for wherever else you can listen to the song. You've got the entirety of the original work potentially in your video and a person who just go back and listen to it there as much as they want, potentially bypassing any paid option or whatever that might exist for it. Or you won't get any they won't get any money on Spotify and stuff, even though it's fractions of a cent or whatever. It does reduce the revenue of creators or music labels. I would argue that I think obviously the odds of a person just listening to it over and over again on YouTube as opposed to Spotify is very low. And I think the songs and the artists benefit more from the publicity given. If a big content creator listens to a song, then they lose out. I mean, generating sales of merch or tickets for concerts. Potentially, this person would like that one song and go and, you know, go on Spotify and listen to like the entire album kind of thing. But obviously music labels disagree. Maybe they don't like the precedence of, you know, if we let this guy listen to an entire song for the purposes of a review, then the next time they want to use a song in a movie, they're going to be like, well, you let this guy use the song entirely. As in, I don't think a review of a song is necessarily a bad thing. It just depends on how it's done, I suppose. Like, you know, my stance on reaction channels, right? If the main focus of your content is reacting to shit, I don't think you should be a content creator and I don't think you should be making a living doing that. There should be some creative output that you're putting into these platforms. It shouldn't just be you responding to other people's creative work. And the reactions that are justifiable to me are those that don't incorporate the entirety of the original work. We've talked about this endlessly, but there's two separate questions, you know, whether I believe it should be done or whether I think it hurts music labels and I don't think people reacting to songs hurts music labels or artists or whatever, you know. I ever use my chaos content to an insane degree. I find a comment there from someone in chat funny. My chaos content, because I'm now making it into clips, basically, it goes live on Twitch. Then that same content goes live on YouTube as a, you know, a raw video, and then it gets edited into highlights and goes live on YouTube again. And then eons later, it is now being made into clips for the Clips channel. So the same scene can be shown on Twitch, then YouTube, then YouTube, then YouTube again. This is 10,000 IQ reusing of content right there. Why I explain strats live instead of recording voiceovers. It doesn't feel as in the moment real, you know, the voiceovers given after the fact seems so out of place and intrusive. Like the only thing you want to use at a desperation like you have no choice, you know, the explanation done in the moment just seems more legitimate. It's also less work the second time around. I may as well just have a go at it now. And then if I fuck up, do it better next time. Also, there's always new people in chat. So the explanations given now do benefit the new people in chat. I don't think it annoys my current viewership enough. Like, I don't think there's any downside, you know, you know, GTA 6 needs more destructible stuff. I really hope Rockstar puts in more destructible stuff in GTA 6. It'd be nice to see some destruction on this building because of the tank shots, you know. Or at the very least destructible trees. Rockstar Watch Dogs had that. If that's not in GTA 6, I'll be really surprised. |
| 26. March 2023 | Are my compilations lazy content? | If I have NPCs and AI for you glitches and facts compilation someone left a comment I've received a few comments like this on each of my compilations where they say another views content compilation great and It's funny that YouTube can't detect that this is sarcasm So in the prompts that suggests me to answer to this comment It says glad you enjoy it more to come glad you like them I've never used these pumps before chat But on the back end it does say like like it gives you the option to just press a button to immediately respond to stuff It doesn't always but see like down here fair enough. Yeah, I agree They are more importantly though the reason these compilations are getting made is one It's good content that most people haven't seen but also they do really well facts and glitches packaged to be a single topic do better than like 90% of the videos that I release the only downside to them is that they're hard to make So here's what the end project looks like It's not a complicated timeline because most of the edits were done in the original clips and facts and glitches But it isn't as simple as just putting the clips on the timeline The end result of this was 38 minutes But the original clips were an hour and 23 minutes and look like this like changing this Into this takes at least a couple of days like the compilations on Oh dark fire per AU is just like Chucking some stuff in a timeline Adobe Premiere and throwing it to YouTube I'm putting a lot of effort into it on occasion. I'm even rerecording footage Recording voice lines is it as difficult as other things that I've done or do no Bits I wouldn't call it lazy content necessarily right there is definitely a value in Watching facts and glitches all related to one topic even if you've seen them before so as I said to this dude There'll be a compilation like every seven to ten videos ideally not too many But just you know a couple of month and for most people it will be in large part stuff They've never seen before and certainly it'll be edited better than it was the first time around because my editing years ago was not the best YouTube is cutting my boobs from videos so I received this comment on my |
| 13. January 2023 | Are my efforts to correct misinformation online futile? | Are my efforts to correct misinformation online futile? So I saw a particularly stupid video by a content creator who while he has said some stupid things is Not a person who I would normally consider to be particularly stupid But the stupidity of this small video that he made and the general positive response to it I was kind of stuck in Mike Floyd I question if I should make a response video to it like I did in the past But I recognize like who cares while I do think it would be an interesting video It is not my job to correct people stupidity on the internet. It gets me into trouble I sent him a DM just got curious like hey like this this is dumb and you should have realized immediately it was dumb It's uh, I didn't get a response which generally is what happens. He started a channel recently where he is just like Throwing out his random thoughts about stuff and so obviously they're sometimes gonna be really poorly formed, but this was a Really particularly poor one that I don't think he really took a second to think about like the implications of what he was saying or Why he was saying it you had some good converse before like political ones with people like destiny Even though I didn't understand most of it the parts I understood I enjoyed long ago I would spend a ridiculous amount of time arguing with random strangers about all the dumbest topics imaginable on the internet And it was all a complete waste of time I'm not even sure to what degree trying to convince anyone of anything really has any value Anymore I've just gotten so apathetic Was the Andrew Tate arrest a setup? Did you know that Andrew Tate got arrested in Romania? I do know that and I have no comment because I don't know anything about it. Well go- |
| 01. March 2023 | Are my speedrunning days over? | Are my speedrunning days over? So MysteryBiscuits points out, you changed your Twitter bio, no longer a speed slash challenge runner. Crazy Carpet, Gamer, Rambler, Adobe user slash hater. Before it said, what did it used to say? I'm pretty sure just GT5 speedrunner, challenge runner or something. Crazy Carpet in reference to me being called Maddo. Yeah, I just thought this is more in line with what I'm doing these days. I still think of myself in part as being a speedrunner, but it's obvious that it's been so long since I've like submitted a speedrun that thinking of myself as predominantly a speedrunner is probably silly at this point. I always talk about getting back into it, but I am more interested in being entertaining than I am in being a good speedrunner these days. And I've gotten older and I'm so out of practice. It's very hard to compete. It'll come up when I talk about the whole fiasco with unnamed and no damage. But one of the things that brought me so much to spare throughout the entirety of the no damage saga was the knowledge that I was falling further and further behind the other speedrunners. That no damage didn't allow me to practice many of the skills necessary to be a good speedrunner, especially the movement tech. And with every passing week I knew I was getting worse and worse and worse relative to everyone else. And it filled me with a lot of dread and despair thinking that potentially no damage was like the last thing I'd be able to do, because I would just never be able to catch up again in speedrunning. And that has largely come to fruition. I love speedrunning. I love the speedrun community and I read everything that people write in the speedrunning discord. But it's obviously the case that I'm not as active in speedrunning as I was before. Calling me a challenge runner is more fair, especially because speedruns are a form of challenge runner after all. But who knows maybe one day I'll be back into it. We'll see. Probably best to leave speedrunning behind. I get the impression that you don't just want to speedrun. You want to be good, not just good, but at the top good, which would take way too much time for you to accomplish if even possible. Exactly, Svenno. It is quite hard to be entertaining and engaging and create content out of my runs that people actually want to see when I'm doing basically the same thing over and over again. |
| 15. January 2023 | Are my standards too high for my GTA 5 Facts and Glitches series? | Are my standards too high for my GTA 5 facts and glitches series? You know only just now I noticed that you can see Brad's body as Trevor is walking away in the left hand corner of the screen. Never noticed that until now. That's crazy Because I'm always looking at Trevor. New fact for facts and glitches? Sometimes I think I have too high standards for that series even though the standard has declined over time Like so many people still don't know that it was Dave that shot Brad like I see short Sometimes or tic-tacs whatever but people like oh my god. I was that was Dave I'm though. Oh, we do I had no idea that's crazy |
| 14. June 2021 | Are no damage runs just luck? | Are no damage runs just luck? Which mission do I think is the hardest? It's impossible to say. None of them feel difficult at this point. Like if you asked me to do each mission individually back to back ten times in a row without taking any damage I would have no issue doing it. But the ones that come off as being the most difficult are the long ones. Like Politoskull for example, because like 19 different scenes. Where do you, are you asking where do I think this run will die? I never know because it's always unexpected. It's only a handful of things now that are really luck. My last run got killed by one of them, but I don't know. I just always seem to find a new way to die. It's always RNG the strats optimize to the max. So there's a big difference between RNG and just not knowing about something. Well, I guess it's a little bit of RNG, but like for example Kugas, right? I was unaware that Kugas could be in Mr. Phillips and could attack me there. Had I known this and as I know it now haven't been caught out by it since. Like a lot of this run has just been, oh didn't know that could happen. Now that I know I can avoid that in the future. This run is like, it's just going longer and longer and longer compared to the earlier runs because all I'm doing now is avoiding, you know, that one time this one thing happened. Like I would imagine the vast majority of fails that I've had that have gone up in the Oko series or whatever on YouTube people have gone, oh that could have happened. Like we've had fails where we've just sat there and had to micro analyze the clip data to discover how I could have possibly died and it's like bullet curves around corner and clips me in the toe from 800 miles away from max. It's like, oh, okay. Well that could happen I guess now. So now we'll do something about it. It's always gonna be frustrating because obviously I got one damage like four months ago or whatever. And between illness and general fatigue and my shitty sleeping pattern and continuing to find these one in a thousand ways runs can die. I just never got there, but that's life sometimes. That's life. Trial and error. Honestly, that is a lot of what challenge runs are and speed runs are as well. The advantage with speed runs is usually there's so many people doing runs that eventually everything gets seen. One person will never be able to do as much as multiple people or learn as much. So what I'm saying is I'm gonna be cloning myself. Is that a line from Thanos? Fine, I'll do it myself, but there's like 50 of Thanos. If there is any pages of code for each AI interaction in each mission there must surely be thousands of outcomes for each mission. Would it be luck or skill? It's not thousands of outcomes. And certainly in most cases what variation exists is often completely meaningless. Given that you are an active participant, you're steering the possible outcomes in a particular direction. As I say, there is a significant amount of just having to do it over and over again and finding all the ways that it can fail. It's not completely RNG. There is a loss of like even when you get into a situation where you might hypothetically die. I guess at that point it is RNG whether you get punished or not. |
| 23. December 2022 | Are old TV shows still relevant 100 years later? | Wow. Are old TV shows still relevant 100 years later? I continually wonder, is there like some show that people will be watching 100 years? Like how old Seinfeld now? Or Friends, they're like what, 20, 30 years old? Like I haven't seen much of Friends, but Seinfeld feels so outdated now when I think about it. The Simpsons? I mean like, not shows that are still being made, not new episodes of a show. Let's say The Simpsons stops today. Will people still watch The Simpsons 100 years from now? I think if anything, The Simpsons continuing as long as it has past the golden years will hurt the ability for that to happen. What's the oldest show that you still think people would occasionally watch? I'm sure there's people who would still watch like DVDs of Hogan's Heroes or something, but the audience there must be so small. But like when you see shows like Better Call Saul Breaking Bad, shows that just ended so perfectly, or rather like were very satisfying packages, surely someone 100 years from now will still want to look at that media. Not just for nostalgia purposes, but maybe like an influencer in those years would be like oh man, found this show from 100 years back was apparently king shit back then. It's so good dude. You probably haven't heard of a Better Call Saul Breaking Bad? Guys should look into this stuff. I know it's dated, you know, it's not beamed straight into your brain. You gotta watch it on like a flat screen TV, but trust me, we're worth it. They're gonna be having that conversation. Tom and Jerry came out almost 100 years ago and I think the reruns still air. I mean yeah, a lot of the Looney Tunes came out like a ridiculous amount of time ago. That's true. On some level it does feel as though TV is getting worse, but I think that just might be more that we don't remember the ridiculous amount of crap that was on TV like in the 90s and 2000s and stuff. If something was garbage in the 90s, no one watched it and no one talked about it. If something's garbage now, it's like, hey guys, do you hear how bad this show is? And people would just start talking about it on Twitter. Like if Morbius came out in the 90s, just no one would talk about it. Comes out in 2020 and everyone's memin' about it, how bad it is. |
| 19. February 2022 | Are people Innately good or bad? | Are people innately good or bad? I never want to be put in the situations where doing something wrong is really, really beneficial. I worry in the future that I'll rationalise doing something bad. You know? I think everyone's done that at some point, where they've been faced with something that they know they shouldn't do but is really beneficial and so they rationalise it to themselves. Like, ah, you know, it's not really that bad. I mean, everyone does it, I mean, da-da-da-da. And it's a slippery slope from there, right? I fundamentally believe there are no evil or good people. There is a hypothetical chain of events that can happen to anyone, specific to who they are as a person, that will have them doing bad things. There is a hypothetical chain of circumstances that could happen to any person doing bad things right now that would have them doing nothing but good and feel really bad about what they did in the past and da-da-da. I don't believe in this concept of innate goodness or innate badness or something. |
| 19. February 2022 | Are people innately good or bad? | Are people innately good or bad? I never want to be put in the situations where doing something wrong is really, really beneficial. I worry in the future that I'll rationalise doing something bad. You know? I think everyone's done that at some point, where they've been faced with something that they know they shouldn't do but is really beneficial and so they rationalise it to themselves. Like, ah, you know, it's not really that bad. I mean, everyone does it, I mean, da-da-da-da. And it's a slippery slope from there, right? I fundamentally believe there are no evil or good people. There is a hypothetical chain of events that can happen to anyone, specific to who they are as a person, that will have them doing bad things. There is a hypothetical chain of circumstances that could happen to any person doing bad things right now that would have them doing nothing but good and feel really bad about what they did in the past and da-da-da. I don't believe in this concept of innate goodness or innate badness or something. |
| 15. November 2021 | Are people more prone to outrage these days? | Are people more prone to outrage these days? This new offended culture? Before the internet, people were doing protests over video games, movies, they were burning books, there were massive riots over simple issues. It's... the internet just makes us far more aware of other people's grievances and gives people a greater ease to communicate their frustrations or their outrage or what have you. You can certainly make an argument that people are more outraged these days, but it's hard to tell whether people are more prone to outrage or if because of the internet they're simply presented with more things that can lead to outrage and the internet or social media in general gives people a greater ability to communicate that outrage, right? People made movies, tv shows, communicating that Dungeons and Dragons was a tool for Satan. Clearly people have always had stupid ideas and have gotten offended over very simple innocuous things. All the outrage over M&M and Marilyn Manson and rock music and people have always been offended but the 24 hour news cycle, reporting on tweets and just so much information, such a greater ability to communicate. Starbucks, you know, doesn't put Christmas stuff on their mugs and it's news that people become super outraged over. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 13. October 2021 | Are people split on Max Payne 3? | Are people split on Max Payne 3? I had some people write comments on my Max Payne video saying that they really didn't like Max Payne 3, but I've also had a lot of people say they really do like Max Payne 3. I can't wait to play it one day and find out why it's controversial. I guess nothing is liked by anyone, just seeing a handful of people say they liked it and they didn't like it doesn't mean it's controversial, but I just mean I'm curious what my impression of the game is going to be. |
| 13. October 2021 | Are people split on max payne 3? | Are people split on Max Payne 3? I had some people write comments on my Max Payne video saying that they really didn't like Max Payne 3, but I've also had a lot of people say they really do like Max Payne 3. I can't wait to play it one day and find out why it's controversial. I guess nothing is liked by anyone, just seeing a handful of people say they liked it and they didn't like it doesn't mean it's controversial, but I just mean I'm curious what my impression of the game is going to be. |
| 30. December 2022 | Are people using me just to get into my videos? | Are people using me just to get into my videos? Mark Inyo asks, do you think people only ask questions to get into videos? Questions that can be asked on my Discord, if you're a YouTube member, a patron, or a Twitch subscriber? I don't think enough people have asked questions for that to possibly be true. This one maybe, but no. The vast majority of people are not willing to go the effort to put stuff into the Discord. |
| 08. September 2021 | Are politicians all just selfish? | Are politicians all just selfish? I mean, you'd have to be naive to think that politicians aren't in some respects motivated by their own self-glorification, but you'd have to be extraordinarily, extraordinarily cynical to think there isn't a single politician in existence who actually cares about other people. Or there isn't a single person who gets into politics with the actual goal of helping others. People aren't all or nothing. People can have multiple motivations. Some people can be motivated by a desire to be seen as a good person or a defender of the weak or whatever, to the extent where, you know, ultimately just helping people is a tool for their own self-glorification. But at the end of the day, they still act for the best interests of others. It's a matter of, you know, being that knight in shining armor. It wouldn't surprise me that there are probably some politicians who convince themselves that, ah, you know, what my wealthy donors want is really what is best for the people anyway, so I can just listen to my wealthy donors because I'm really doing the right thing. |
| 02. October 2021 | Are public debates pointless? | Are public debates pointless? Debating is a pointless indulgence that never changes anyone's minds. I passionately disagree. A debate can make people more aware of the other side And lead them to think about their own views or to do more research on their own It can also make the debaters themselves more aware of the points on the other side and could be a catalyst for future change You are you aren't usually gonna get a person in a debate going Wow, I've completely changed my mind because a person who's willing to debate an issue is Usually a person who's you know Fairly strong in their opinion on that issue But a person in the audience isn't necessarily as strong, you know, the the middle 20% or whatever Who's like who's like somewhat undecided Debates are very definitely useful, but I do agree that they're mainly for entertainment though There are good debates as in two experts kind of going at it or two two people who are good at debating or have Debating experience whatever kind of going at it and then there's like the really terrible completely useless debates, which is like Steven Crowder Preparing for two weeks memorizing cherry-picked facts and then talking to someone on a college campus who has had no time prepare anything for the discussion those debates are No, no value at all. They exist more to reassure people who are very insecure about their beliefs that That they have justifications for believing as they do and that the people on the other side have less justification Because like where can I find the weakest possible non prepared arguments by a person with no fluency in debating? Oh, yes, Stephen Steven Crowder's channel great I can sit there for 10 minutes and go oh Ben Look how dumb this person is the person who has had no time to prepare and has no debating experience Clearly the other side must be fucking stupid the most |
| 23. December 2022 | Are spam bots gone for good from Youtube? | Are spam bots gone for good from YouTube? So YouTube has received a lot of backlash for pretty much forever about spam bots on YouTube and they've always said we're trying our best to combat them and at various different times they got better or worse. You have to imagine that these people doing these spam bots are getting a return on their investment or they wouldn't be doing them. But you've likely seen them in the comment section where it's like, Oh, I'm DarkfireperAU, click and send your name and details to my WhatsApp and I'll give you a prize. Yeah, it's dumb, but people do fall for it. So YouTube has updated their policies and efforts apparently on community spam and abuse. They now have improved spam detection on comments, they've improved bot detection in live chat, and they now have comment removal warnings and timeouts. So people will be alerted like, hey, this comment was not cool. And if you do it too many times, they'll time you out for 24 hours. I mean, this is good. Not everyone reads their comment back end like I do. So not everyone has equal chance to catch the bot comments like I do. And even then I'm not going to catch them all. So it's nice to just have another layer of protection. On the back end of YouTube, it's always given you the option to turn on like an experimental filtering of comments. But I've always found it to be too harsh. Like it would actually remove some comments that I want to see or that are just benign or whatever. They just look kind of sus. Like no system of removing content is ever going to be perfect. There's going to be some things caught in the crossfire bit. There needs to be some sort of protections. All my entire comment section is just going to be spammed nonsense. So it's good. |
| 27. October 2021 | Are teachers our best and brightest? | Are teachers our best and brightest? The people who you'd probably want most teaching people are people who could get more money or achieve more in life doing other jobs. Because there's a lot of demands on teachers and a lot of frustrations with... Like not a lot of people want to deal with dozens upon dozens of children, right? A lot of hassles related to teaching and whatnot that don't exist in other careers. I mean, I'm sure some people who do fail to get other professions go into teaching. But certainly some people are legitimately passionate about teaching and want to teach the next generation and whatnot. And these are probably the people who we want to be teaching. You know, you're shaping the next generation and stuff, but at the same time, kids can be little shits, right? You have to do with shitty parents. So shitty parents, shitty kids. And every year you'd effectively be rolling the dice in regards to who you get the next time around, you know? Like working with people in general has a lot of frustrations, it seems. |
| 30. March 2023 | Are the GTA Online DLCs just a straight ripoff of the GTA V Story Mode missions? | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Rambles Podcast starting with the topic are the GTA Online DLCs just a straight ripoff of the GTA 5 story mode missions So as you guys know there was a recent DLC the drug overdose the drug dose the dose DLC Daily dose of internet DLC for GTA Online whatever it was called Play through it. I rated it like a 5 out of 10 But a lot of people pointed out that there was similarities between many missions from single-player and From GTA Online. I saw in this video from gypsy. There's a list here The first dose one was similar to travel of industries first dose three was similar to friends reunited first dose six Was similar to the ECU job last dose one was similar to series a heist finale Last dose five was in a similar to minor turbulence last dose three was similar to doomsday heist act one set up one and dead Men walking the same interior do I care about this? Not really it is very very clear that they've got like one guy in the back Doing his best just to make a little bit more for GTA Online while everyone else is working on GTA 6 I'd rather they put everyone important on GTA 6 and get that out ASAP Rather than making GTA Online just that little bit better GTA Online is way too old It doesn't deserve better content. It should die, but I don't want it to have nothing at all Because then I would have nothing to do and it would wane in popularity and stuff So just having some little fun new kind of thing is alright in my books right like if I could get a modder to make me Things like this DLC that came in online I'd be happy with that and I think the only reason why people are super critical of this is Because rather than coming from just a couple of guys some fan modders This is coming from Rockstar itself if it was just a couple of fans or whatever making this stuff Oh, there's I was really fucking good. That's a 10 out of 10 fan mod for GTA Online from Rockstar It's like you got to compare it to everything else that they've made and it's clearly By comparison like a 5 out of 10 kind of thing right worth the time to do but not particularly amazing It's also important to remember that for a lot of people They haven't played or seen the single player in like 10 years like even me With some of these I don't know what the ECU drop is I didn't see the similarities between the doomsday heist act one if you haven't played this content if you don't live and breathe GTA Online and GTA 5 as a lot of us do you won't see these similarities and for those people they may not may as well Not exist they've been reusing interiors for a long time. I think that's just a lot of how design works I remember playing World of Warcraft When I was younger and like every single cave in the entire game was like exactly the same Or at least they had like three different variations like the entire world So you take one step inside a cave and be like yep This is this cave and you'd know where everything is like it's clear that No developer reinvents the wheel every single time But I guess it was just so obvious this time round that uh you rub people the wrong way for me when I was playing I considered it more like a callback to those missions Because they were different enough that I didn't consider them to be like just ripping it Wholesale from the original so I was kind of fine with it if this is how GTA 6 is treated though. I'll be super pissed |
| 04. July 2022 | Are the new rambles thumbnails leading to more views? | Are the new Rambles thumbnails leading to more views? I had one of the Rambles with the new thumbnail get under 40,000 views. That's about as low as they used to get as well. What I suspect is the case is that the topics still need to be good in the thumbnail and all the new thumbnail does is make those topics stand out. So the Rambles is still largely based on the topic, but they can sell the topic better. How come you didn't make different thumbnails earlier? I didn't have anyone to do it. Various different times I've had, I've tried to hire someone to go back and fix up some of my older thumbnails, but only at one point was someone competent enough and it was too slow and like I didn't have the time to make better thumbnails myself and I didn't have someone for it, but now I do. So you know, I do like new thumbnails a lot more. I feel like the artist you got does a good job with them. I agree. It is certainly the case that it is still hard to make thumbnails that are appealing for certain things that I do. Like took him like three tries with the Fortnite footage, the next one coming out to make something that I thought was at least decent. And I don't really blame him for that. It's more that I have no ideas for it myself and therefore I can't expect him to have an easier time of it, you know. |
| 21. December 2019 | Are there any "good" GTA V characters? | Good characters in GTA V. We were thinking, are there any good characters in this game? I think Patricia might be the only good person in this game. Can you think of another one? I thought about Tanisha a bit. Ah, here we go. Franklin kills like a lot of people, dude. A lot of people. Yeah, Solomon, I guess, isn't that bad of a dude. He kind of knows what Michael's doing, but doesn't give a shit, right? Yeah, true. Patricia doesn't turn on her husband or whatever. Molly? She's a white collar criminal, dude. She even refers to herself as a white collar criminal. She doesn't even give a shit. Floyd is a bad dude. He lets a fucking killer use his house to arrange a robbery. Barry? I guess he's not morally bad, but he's still not a good person. I mean, he sets up a thing and bails on Franklin and he hires people to steal his weed. Mary from the marathon missions? I guess she's okay. So she falsely accuses people of staring at her ass. Jimmy drugs his father and steals his money and car. He even kicks him out in the middle of the streets. I mean, Michael's accountant, probably a bad person because he's, you know, he's working for a murderer and moving his money around. Chopper kills and eats people, man. Chopper's bad boy. He is not good boy. Tao Cheng? He does a lot of fucking drugs and he's irresponsible in running his business and shit. And he clearly has people killed. Worst character in this game is definitely Trevor because he gains satisfaction from killing people. Floyd's wife? She commits adultery and she's fucking crazy. Omega's a good guy? Yeah, Omega's a decent bloke, I suppose. Crazy, but a decent bloke. Mr. K has a torture fetish and refuses to give information, wasting people's time. Clearly bad guy. He also installs security equipment and stuff for terrorists. I mean, clearly terrible person. Ricky calls up a criminal and asked to be included in heists. He clearly bad person and has no consideration for the privacy of other people. |
| 18. May 2021 | Are there people who watch me on Twitch but not YouTube? | Are there people who watch me on Twitch but not YouTube? Do you think I've reached the point? Okay, someone- can I- can a mod do a poll? How many of you are subs to my YouTube channel? I wonder if there are people who watch me on Twitch who just don't care about the YouTube video or if I actually get enough new viewers through Twitch's recommendation algorithm that's worth going, hey, you should follow, you should subscribe to my YouTube stream or whatever, YouTube channel, whatever. Don't like sub now and then answer the poll, I'm just curious. I would imagine like 97% of subs and assuming a 1% error for people just fucking around. Oh, most people found my Twitch through YouTube. It was like 10% or something that didn't. 90%? Oh, so 10% is more than I expected. Hey guys, you should sub to my YouTube channel, has great content on it. All my best stuff from chaos to chaos highlights. Video every day from all my different series. What are my series now? Oko, Rambles, Chaos, Chaos Highlights, Facts and Glitches, Pacifist. That it? And then the inter- just the random videos occasionally. Because how the through and ended we haven't put a video in like eight months, nine months. Oh true, I am releasing the Dark Souls speedruns, but it's not really a series necessarily because there's a finite amount of those. Oh, Reddit recap, true, that's another one. I don't think GT Online counts. Doesn't happen enough. It's true that those who are active in chat or who are willing to answer the poll are probably those who are more likely to be subbed on YouTube. Ah, it's not necessarily true. You could imagine how, yeah, the poll could be biased. People who are active right now versus workers. Or those who are willing to answer a poll or or people on mobile, I think it's harder to answer polls. So it's definitely things to be biased, but all I was looking to see is that there was a sizable enough portion, you know. |
| 18. June 2022 | Are they your friends or just using you for views? | Friends or just using you for views? Someone just came out right and said it where they were like People need to remember that the people that you collaborate aren't your friends They're business associates But like it is entirely possible to make friends in this industry and to have legitimate friends But you probably never know if they're really your friends until you know You have nothing as long as you have something that brings them benefit from the association You'll never know if they're just sticking around for that thing regardless of what it said how chummy you are How what what you know what you do? There's always that possibility that person's only there or saying those things because of what you have like I have absolutely Phrased things in a way to be more charitable and kind because a person was a larger content creator I don't think I've ever lied or Maintained an association just because a person was popular, but I've certainly treated a person differently because they were successful. It's hard not to will |
| 08. December 2021 | Are those with gifted subs treated different from normal subs? | Subbed subs treated different from normal subs This is of course referring to twitch and their paid membership feature where you can either buy one for yourself Or have someone buy one for you. You can't tell the difference Some streamers say there should should be a way to tell the difference in the old days if a person was subbed It represented them as likely a person who wasn't a troll So if a person said something weird or did something wrong You would give them a bit of a benefit of the doubt if they were a sub they're like look clearly they don't mean anything by this Because you know why would they spend five dollars somewhere? Just to do something to get themselves banned But these days a troll can get gifted a sub and you've seen they're going is this a person who's financially supporting me? Or is this a just a person who got lucky you know?특ORDIN ARVE |
| 18. April 2023 | Are video games normalizing gambling? Australia proposes new rating system to protect children. | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Rambles Podcast, starting with the topic, are video games normalizing gambling? Australia proposes new rating system to protect children. So sometimes I feel like loot boxes in games are kind of old news. They've just become expected, especially like in mobile games and stuff. But in my country, video games with simulated gambling are to be given R18 plus rating under new proposal to protect children and problem gamblers. Some politicians in my country are like, hey, look, I don't think it makes sense for kids to be inundated with all this simulated gambling, turning them into problem gamblers for the future. And it's hard to disagree with that assessment. It's hard to even agree that this stuff is good for adults. But obviously, your likelihood of getting hooked on this stuff is probably higher if you're introduced to it at an early age. I'm not sure how this would be enforced or what have you. Steam already does not like Australia and the regulations we have down here. Yeah, gambling laws in Australia are kind of weird because in our country, the amount of money that we spend per person on gambling is some of the highest in the world, sometimes the highest, depending upon how it's calculated. And we have poker machines absolutely everywhere. Ridiculous amounts of money will be funneled into politicians. And there'll be investigations showing that like organized crime uses poker machines to launder their money to make it clean. And nothing will happen related to that. Or like progress on combating that will be extraordinarily slow. So maybe this is legitimately just caring politicians trying to stop something they consider to be bad. Because obviously, the government isn't a model left. There are people who are trying to combat gambling and people who are exist as mouthpieces for the gambling lobbies. Yeah, so from what I've heard about this legislation, I agree with it. There's a reason prohibition failed in the US take something like drinking away and people will only want to do it more. So this is a common misconception. The idea that prohibition doesn't work. It clearly does. Examples of individual instances where it doesn't work is not an argument against all forms of prohibition. Barriers to entry do work. The more difficult you make something, the less likely people are going to do it. Generally, the problem is more about enforcement than the idea that barriers to entry simply do not work. There is some evidence that even the idea of there being a barrier is enough to stop at least some people from doing something. If something is labeled as illegal, there will be a certain portion of people who do not do it as principle. But just because there's a path to achieving something doesn't mean everyone is going to want to walk that path, given that it is now more difficult than it was previously. Like obviously, if they made it so games are with gambling or loot boxes in them are now 18 plus and thus people who are under the age of 18 can't just go into a store and buy them or potentially buy them online. That will be a barrier that will prevent some people from playing those games. Doesn't mean it will prevent everyone, but it will prevent some people. Like obviously, if people under the age of 18 could buy alcohol in my country, more people under the age of 18 would buy alcohol. That doesn't mean because this barrier to entry that you need like an ID saying you're above 18 is sufficient to prevent all people underage from drinking alcohol. That isn't what happens, but it does reduce it. In my experience, people do what they want to do. Barriers just make it that much harder. And as you might have noticed from experience with people, the more difficult something is to do, the less people do it. It's like if you want to go to the movies, but you go to the website and it says, look, you got to fill out this survey, you got to fill out this form, you got to wait three to five days before your money clears to buy the ticket. You got to book the ticket two weeks in advance. Like you may want to go to the movies, but you look at all that and go, fuck it, this ain't worth it. And you can guarantee if such a thing happened to go into the movies, then people would set up like black market sort of deals where they already have the tickets accessible and you just go through a third party to buy them. But then you have to be willing to circumvent the law, which everyone is not. You likely have to pay more fees to have those systems worked to begin with. So you have to be willing to pay more money. You'd have to know about them in the first place. So that that angle will be there, but still there'll be a reduction in people compared to a situation where people could just go on the website and click two buttons and get a ticket immediately. In the same way that people tend to take the path with the least resistance, the path with least resistance is often not doing the thing. All laws have side effects, positive and negative. It's just a question of whether you believe the positives outweigh the negatives. |
| 26. September 2021 | Are viewers who don't pay money for streams just leeches? | and stuff. Are viewers who don't pay money for streams just leeches? The controversy that female streamers calling people leeches? What did she say that anyone who doesn't financially support a stream is only able to watch that stream because other people financially support it? I mean that's true but even if you don't financially support a stream you still do support it by watching especially in terms of discoverability right? The more people who watch the more likely a stream is to succeed. Like the lowest levels of support you can give to a stream is just watching it and I appreciate that a great deal. If I can recall the clip correctly she just seemed very smug and cruel in the way she was saying it because I mean there's a lot of people who can't financially support streams right? Or who don't have the money or you know what I'm saying? Or it's just not financially responsible for them to do that like they don't make a lot of money and they got to save money and stuff and you can't fault such people for not wanting to give out five bucks a month you know I'm saying? I don't expect people to give me money for this content but obviously I greatly appreciate when they do because without it I wouldn't be able to stream. Like the word leech is wrong here I think because everyone technically does contribute because even if you just watch you can even spread by word of mouth or whatever and say hey I like this streamer and that person you tell might end up subbing to me or something you know? It's an ecosystem right? If no one watched me except the people who gave me five bucks a month my stream would fail very quickly |
| 23. April 2023 | Are we addicted to negative news? | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Rambles Podcast starting with a topic. Are we addicted to negative news? so I'm sure you guys often hear that having a Negative slant on something increases the likelihood that people will click it or engage with whatever you've made I mean anecdotally creators will tell you about this I've seen many different examples of this people comparing their own content to the exact same topic Like the top 10 best cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! that video compared to the bottom 10 worst cards and the worst Video will always do better But there have been studies on this phenomenon more than simply just the experience of people who make content and one of them has recently Come out. I learned about this on TikTok from Hank Green and the way that he Phrased what the study found got me very interested. Title of the study negativity drives online news consumption. The abstract reads Online media is important for society in informing and shaping opinions hence raising the question of what drives online news consumption Here we analyze the causal effect of negative and emotional words on news consumption using a large online data set of viral news stories Specifically we conducted our analyses using a series of randomized controlled trials number 22,743 a data set comprised 105,000 different variations of news stories from upworthy.com that generated 5.7 million clicks across more than 370 million overall impressions. Although positive words were slightly more prevalent than negative words We found that negative words in news headlines increased consumption rates and positive words Decreased consumption rates. For a headline of average length each additional negative word increased the click-through rate by 2.3% Our results contribute to a better understanding of why users engage with online media So when Hank talked about this he was like 2.3% that is a huge click-through rate in an increase. And a study was just published that for every word expressing a negative emotion in a headline that Increased the click-through rate to that article by 2.3% and if you're in my business, you know, that is big I'm like, yeah, that would be a huge increase I do not believe for a second that one negative word is increasing the click-through rate by 2.3% to put that into perspective impressions from my YouTube videos is 3.9% roughly right now So like one negative word if this applied to online media as well would increase my click-through rate by 50% This is all correct. It's just this here can be misinterpreted It's not talking about the raw number 2.3% But a 2.3% increase of what it was before just give you an example what the headlines were like a positive headline would be Whoa Supreme Court have made millions of us very very happy Versus we'll look back at this in 10 years time and be embarrassed as hell it even existed So positive versus negative but you can see in this graph down here So you can see the positive words graph here like with each additional positive word The graph goes down in terms of its click-through rate with the negative words It goes up when it says 2.3% it means 2.3% of what it already is So if your click-through rate is 1.1 and you add five Negative words it will go up by roughly 10% and then be 1.21 which is a significant increase your click-through rate isn't moving from 1% to 11% right? Which is what you could interpret those words to mean it's like when people say deaths by this drug have gone up a hundred percent and it's gone from One to two the way that statistics of phrase can make it seem more significant than it actually is Like I know that if I put a negative word in some of my titles on my videos that they will get clicked more But I generally only do it when it actually makes sense what this brought to mind Was I was talking to another creator about Sunny V2 and once upon a time he criticized another creator For always just being super negative with all these titles and the focuses of his videos And if you look at Sunny V2 now some years later He does the exact same fucking thing where all his videos are multiple negative words in the title always with some negative slants Always topics of a negative nature And this is why right if your goal is to maximize impressions click-through rate views revenue You've only got a finite amount of time So if your goal is to maximize those things and don't really consider much else You're always gonna go for the negative stuff because that will even scientifically bring you forth the greatest reward Being reminded of this again I do wonder if I'm gonna start putting more negative words in my titles but like as you can see even in this study like one negative word increasing the click-through rate from 1.1 to what would it even be? 1.12 it's just a tiny fraction but over a large enough Amount of impressions that really adds up for views mr. Beast is the most popular youtuber and literally never dropped a negative video I'd be surprised if that's never the case, but I mean yeah, he doesn't do that many negative stuff in them as I say like Just because something can increase your level of success doesn't mean it's necessary for you to succeed It is the case with all creators that we're each constantly doing things that Coincidentally are leading us to be more successful that we're completely unaware of and we're constantly doing things that are Harming our ability to succeed that we're also completely unaware of you don't need to be Perfectly optimal to succeed you just need to be doing more things that positively lead you in that direction Then you're doing things that pull you away from it It's why this people who run successful businesses can do incredibly stupid things things entirely detrimental to that goal You believing incorrectly there that they're going to succeed because of them and still succeed just the nature of reality right and of course Due to all success being somewhat predicated on Factors outside of our control you can make all the right decisions do all the best things all the time and still fail Because that is the nature of life. We do not absolutely control every variable that leads to order tracks massive |
| 22. March 2022 | Are youtube tags important? | Are YouTube tags important for your videos? Is YouTube tags important? No. I've talked about this before, I'm convinced that anything that can be gamed becomes fairly useless to the algorithm. Because people just put tags in that have nothing to do with their content, you know. |
| 24. January 2022 | Arguing facts is easier than arguing values | Arguing facts is easier than arguing values. I love just pure practical statements about whether A equals B or like, you know, A will lead to B, because you can look at data, you can look at statistics, and you can just make a case based on the evidence. When you get to values, as in, should you value X over Y? Is security, like, to what extent is security preferable to freedom, freedom preferable to security? There's no actual answer to these questions. On an individual one-to-one level, you can make a case and you can lead people down a select amount of questions that you can phrase particularly to lead people towards your values, but doing it on a mass level is next to impossible. When, I mean, it's, to significantly change a lot of people who are listening to you, right? You always have to preach into the choir, because if a person doesn't accept your value system, if you make statements based on those values, people just can go, nah, not interested, you know? It's like if you, if I value this, my back wall, above all else, I can make endless statements about the practical realities of protecting this wall, and at the end of the day, if you don't value my wall as much as me, you're just gonna go, I don't fucking care, go away. |
| 23. January 2021 | Arguing with young people on Twitter. | arguing with young people on Twitter and the difference between illegality and immorality. I was- but I was so annoyed yesterday arguing with that dude on Twitter because it just pushed my sleeping pattern back. I was at the end of it. I'm like I've wasted like an hour on this dude. I didn't have an hour to waste. What a fucking waste of time. What was most annoying about it is I knew he just didn't understand what he was saying and and I couldn't let it go. It just kept pissing me off more and more that he didn't know what the fuck he was talking about. And the reason was because he was 18 years old. No one at 18 understands how language works. The difference between illegality and and immoral. And at the end of it after an hour he's like, okay, yeah I understand what you're saying now, and I agree. I'm like, yes, you would have- if you were like a little bit older we wouldn't have had to speak for an hour about this and you would have got it immediately. Well, not necessarily, but more likely. Don't take my previous statements as criticism of 18 year olds or rather Once you go get older you understand that at 18 you didn't really have life figured out. When you're 18, 17, in your early 20s, whatever, you may have some good ideas. It may even be possible that your ideas don't change over that period, but your ability to communicate those ideas or to explain why you believe as you do will be very limited. You just won't have the experience talking about such topics. The amount of time that you've had to think about the complex issues of the day is very limited. You would be largely new to considering the world as maybe more ambiguous than it immediately seems when you're younger, when you're a kid. And passing out that ambiguity and coming to firm conclusions that you can argue and present, it takes many years. That you haven't had at 18. You can be absolutely correct at 18 in a belief that you have. But I'm- surprised me that any 18 year old could, on any political topic, explain their point of view well or argue it well. What frustrates me about the conversation that I have with the dude is he would constantly, frequently imply that something being illegal impacted whether or not it was moral or immoral. It'd be implicitly implied by things he would say. It'd be explicitly stated as well in other things that he'd say. And then when I would press him on this, he would say, No, I never said that. I never said that something being illegal makes it more or less immoral. I'm like, but you literally just said that and I would highlight specific words in his previous statements and he would still say no, I didn't. Eventually he had to buckle though and say, okay, I guess I did. He's like, well, obviously you did. I was going crazy. And it's just a flaw in my personality that I couldn't just let it go and let someone just be fucking dumb on the internet. It reflects badly upon me that I can see a person being stupid and I can't just let it go sometimes. I mean if you want an explanation there, things that are legal or illegal when you're trying to influence society to perform or not perform particular actions. What you're making illegal can have nothing to do with morality or could have something to do with it. But it's less that something being illegal or legal influences whether it's moral or immoral. But it can be the case that the reason why something is illegal is the same reason why it's immoral on your particular foundations. It isn't that the illegality is impacting its immorality. It's simply that the source of the illegality and the immorality is the same thing. So they seem related when in actual reality they're not. When you're a kid, you tend to think that everything that's illegal is bad. And so you're... I can't know what it's called. Developmental psychologists will tell you about it. You tend to assume that something is against the rules because it's immoral. And as you grow older you realize that can't possibly be the case. Because laws change all the time. Things that were once considered illegal are now legal. And whether or not they were moral or immoral didn't change. Our perception of it sure changed. But that's all that happened. Like your system of morality, whatever it is, can't be so fluid that if I have an eraser next to a piece of paper and I change the wording on a piece of paper, that that thing turns from bad to good. Or good to bad. It's like it's against the law to push an old woman down the stairs. As a world that's bad! And I change it so it says it's perfectly fine to push an old woman down the stairs. Well, that's good now. When you're a kid you think that's how the world works. But when you grow up a little bit older you realize that can't possibly be the case. Exactly. Certain things are legal or illegal in different countries. It's not as if morality can be based on geographic location. It can certainly be the case that contextual things to a situation can make something more or less moral or immoral or what have you. But clearly your entire system of morality cannot simply be based on what piece of dirt you're standing on. If you jump from one side of an imaginary line to another, things become different things become good or bad. It's nonsense. But again when you're younger, you don't realize this. Or at least you don't think on it enough. Divorcing the concepts of illegality and immorality in your mind takes some years. |
| 23. January 2021 | Arguing with young people on twitter. | arguing with young people on Twitter and the difference between illegality and immorality. I was- but I was so annoyed yesterday arguing with that dude on Twitter because it just pushed my sleeping pattern back. I was at the end of it. I'm like I've wasted like an hour on this dude. I didn't have an hour to waste. What a fucking waste of time. What was most annoying about it is I knew he just didn't understand what he was saying and and I couldn't let it go. It just kept pissing me off more and more that he didn't know what the fuck he was talking about. And the reason was because he was 18 years old. No one at 18 understands how language works. The difference between illegality and and immoral. And at the end of it after an hour he's like, okay, yeah I understand what you're saying now, and I agree. I'm like, yes, you would have- if you were like a little bit older we wouldn't have had to speak for an hour about this and you would have got it immediately. Well, not necessarily, but more likely. Don't take my previous statements as criticism of 18 year olds or rather Once you go get older you understand that at 18 you didn't really have life figured out. When you're 18, 17, in your early 20s, whatever, you may have some good ideas. It may even be possible that your ideas don't change over that period, but your ability to communicate those ideas or to explain why you believe as you do will be very limited. You just won't have the experience talking about such topics. The amount of time that you've had to think about the complex issues of the day is very limited. You would be largely new to considering the world as maybe more ambiguous than it immediately seems when you're younger, when you're a kid. And passing out that ambiguity and coming to firm conclusions that you can argue and present, it takes many years. That you haven't had at 18. You can be absolutely correct at 18 in a belief that you have. But I'm- surprised me that any 18 year old could, on any political topic, explain their point of view well or argue it well. What frustrates me about the conversation that I have with the dude is he would constantly, frequently imply that something being illegal impacted whether or not it was moral or immoral. It'd be implicitly implied by things he would say. It'd be explicitly stated as well in other things that he'd say. And then when I would press him on this, he would say, No, I never said that. I never said that something being illegal makes it more or less immoral. I'm like, but you literally just said that and I would highlight specific words in his previous statements and he would still say no, I didn't. Eventually he had to buckle though and say, okay, I guess I did. He's like, well, obviously you did. I was going crazy. And it's just a flaw in my personality that I couldn't just let it go and let someone just be fucking dumb on the internet. It reflects badly upon me that I can see a person being stupid and I can't just let it go sometimes. I mean if you want an explanation there, things that are legal or illegal when you're trying to influence society to perform or not perform particular actions. What you're making illegal can have nothing to do with morality or could have something to do with it. But it's less that something being illegal or legal influences whether it's moral or immoral. But it can be the case that the reason why something is illegal is the same reason why it's immoral on your particular foundations. It isn't that the illegality is impacting its immorality. It's simply that the source of the illegality and the immorality is the same thing. So they seem related when in actual reality they're not. When you're a kid, you tend to think that everything that's illegal is bad. And so you're... I can't know what it's called. Developmental psychologists will tell you about it. You tend to assume that something is against the rules because it's immoral. And as you grow older you realize that can't possibly be the case. Because laws change all the time. Things that were once considered illegal are now legal. And whether or not they were moral or immoral didn't change. Our perception of it sure changed. But that's all that happened. Like your system of morality, whatever it is, can't be so fluid that if I have an eraser next to a piece of paper and I change the wording on a piece of paper, that that thing turns from bad to good. Or good to bad. It's like it's against the law to push an old woman down the stairs. As a world that's bad! And I change it so it says it's perfectly fine to push an old woman down the stairs. Well, that's good now. When you're a kid you think that's how the world works. But when you grow up a little bit older you realize that can't possibly be the case. Exactly. Certain things are legal or illegal in different countries. It's not as if morality can be based on geographic location. It can certainly be the case that contextual things to a situation can make something more or less moral or immoral or what have you. But clearly your entire system of morality cannot simply be based on what piece of dirt you're standing on. If you jump from one side of an imaginary line to another, things become different things become good or bad. It's nonsense. But again when you're younger, you don't realize this. Or at least you don't think on it enough. Divorcing the concepts of illegality and immorality in your mind takes some years. |
| 14. September 2021 | Argument from authority and the supernatural | Argument from Authority and the Supernatural So for those unaware, like, back in the day, I used to talk about like, um, people's ideas of spirituality and religion and all that jazz and like, it was very interesting at the time, but now it's just so lame and depressing, you know? Like, do you guys understand why an argument from authority is a fallacy? Like, this is, this is actually one of the most debated fallacies I think that exists. So the, the formulation that is definitely a fallacy of reasoning is where you say, because this person says it, this makes it true. So a doctor says you have cancer, that means it's true you have cancer. That's not technically accurate, because obviously a doctor can be mistaken, they can, you know, you could be the wrong patient, they could do tests incorrectly, um, their assessment of these tests could be wrong, whatever, because doctors are fallible. It is true to say that a doctor saying you have cancer is evidence that you have cancer, because this position, presumably, is off the basis of tests that do demonstrate whether or not you have cancer. Well, presuming the tests were done accurately. See, it's, it's a, the way of demonstrating this is if you take your car into a mechanic, and the mechanic says, yeah, man, there's something wrong with your engine, it doesn't make it true that there is something wrong with your engine, but it isn't, you have evidence that there's something now wrong with your engine. If you took your car to another mechanic and they said, yeah, something's wrong with your engine, how many cars, how many mechanics do you think have to tell you that there's something wrong with your engine, before you just accept that there's something wrong with your engine? One mechanic might be lying to you, might be dishonest, but two, three, with every additional authority on engines that says there's something wrong with your engine, you should be more confident that this is the case, because authorities aren't basing their opinion on nothing. They're basing it on what makes them an authority, their expertise, their research, preferably tests. Another form of the fallacy is an argument to a false authority, where a person's like, yeah, I'm a doctor, I have a doctorate from fake university. Also wrong, because it neither makes it, because they're not actually authority. Or, of course, my position on whether pineapple should be on pizza is valid. I have a doctorate in immunology or whatever. Like, that's not relevant. You could be said to be an authority on something completely irrelevant, but it's irrelevant to the position in which you're taking. People who just throw out, you're just basing this on authority, man, this is a fallacy of argument from authority. These are usually people who just don't like authorities, or they disagree with an authority. The dude who's like, sure, that guy has 30 years experience in studying diseases, but he has no sheet, you can't listen to this guy. It's just an argument from authority listening to this guy's position. It's nonsense. The position of an actual authority on a topic is evidence of that being true. It's not true in of itself because of that position being espoused by the authority. You do this all the time. You potentially don't have the expertise to run tests to determine whether or not you have cancer. Right? But if a doctor says, yo, by my estimation of the tests in which I've run, you have cancer. It's a synthesis of tests based on expertise. So listening to that authority is not you just going, well, I definitely have cancer because some guy says it. It's evidence for a conclusion. I know why I'm talking about this. I don't understand why people don't understand. An example is just given to me of a guy who believes in the supernatural because when he was near a glass door and the glass fell out of it for whatever reason, it shattered before it hit him, confirming to him that there's something protecting him from the glass. So in other words, an invisible entity protected him from the glass by shadowing it before it hit him so it would not hurt him. It should be obvious to everyone why that explanation should be disavowed compared to a more natural explanation. Right? So this person doesn't know everything about glass, would not be watching every aspect of what the glass was doing prior to it hitting him. There are two things that he knows to be true. He does not know everything about glass and he would not have all information about what was going on with the glass as it was falling. These two things are unknown and both can provide explanations for the phenomenon which he's experienced. Things that are unknown is how a being could exist invisibly and interface with glass in that particular moment or why it would exist there at all. How is this even feasible? This potentially new dimension, right? If you were to reach for this explanation, you would take on endless additional questions and assumptions about reality that you would not be able to fulfill. In the previous more mundane explanations of this is something that glass can do that you were simply unaware of before or there is some factor of the glass and the door that you were unaware of that explains this situation, there are fewer assumptions that you're having to make to explain what occurred to you. And this should be what you do for all of your life. What explains this phenomenon that I've experienced with the fewest amount of assumptions necessary? I have to take on the fewest amount of burdens possible to explain my situation. Your own ignorance is usually a good place to start. The problem in most cases with supernatural explanations is for literally decades, if not now hundreds of years, supernatural explanations have been posed for fucking everything and they've always failed. Either they've been superseded by natural explanations or they have not been able to be used in a predictive capacity to have a reasonable assumption about what's going to happen next. We can't say based on this supernatural explanation we should see X, Y and Z and then we actually see X, Y and Z. They've always failed. It's why our world isn't now dominated by mystics or psychics or what have you. It's not dominated by people who believe in these things, it's dominated by people who ignore them entirely and stick to the natural. If at any point something supernatural met this burden in which we could say here is the supernatural thing, X, Y and Z is going to occur based on this supernatural thing and then we actually see X, Y and Z, it would just become a part of the natural world. If psychics were able to demonstrate their ability beyond simply cold reading, Barnum statements, what have you, it would just become a part of the world. We would all go down to psychics on Friday to get some, have a couple of drinks and have some laughs and learn about what's going to happen to us in the future. It doesn't happen this way because they can't have this utility. The second something supernatural becomes substantiated is just a part of our world and becomes the natural. Because the distinction between natural and supernatural isn't any positive trait. It is just the lack of substantiation. That's it. If you can substantiate it in a way that is useful, it becomes a part of the natural world. It's why when you try and think of positive traits that apply to everything that is supernatural, there aren't any commonalities except that they reject the natural, so that the negation of the natural and they haven't been substantiated. Like if angels were substantiated to exist, it would just become a part of the natural world. I'd be like, hey, there's Frank the angel. And there's nothing that says they couldn't be substantiated hypothetically because all these supernatural things apparently interface with the natural world. In the same way that wind does. These things should be able to be demonstrated, but they always fail. Given the long history of the failure to substantiate supernatural claims, it takes a huge leap of faith to use a potential supernatural explanation to explain anything. It's that riddle I once gave you. We'll call it a riddle. It's when a person says there's a pixie under a rock and you lift up the rock and there isn't a pixie, and they say, no, no, the next rock, and you lift that up and there's no pixies. How many times do you have to lift up a rock and then be no pixie there for you to be mentally justified in saying there's no pixies under any rocks? Because you can never confirm that. It could be the case that there could be another pixie, or it could be a pixie under the next rock, or the next rock, or the next rock. But eventually you reach the point where there's no point anymore in looking for the pixies under the rocks. The due diligence has been done. I know none of you are interested in this shit. And to be fair, I'm not really that interested anymore either. These conversations used to be so fun, but you just never get anywhere. Because if a person's already making the logical errors that lead them to explain most of their reality with the supernatural, you aren't getting through that with a conversation. Like I talked to a guy, just in the comments before, where he's like, I had this experience where my three-year-old nephew walked in and he says, we need to put the kettle on for Nana Mary. And he's like, this nephew never had met any sort of Nana Mary, nobody he was talking about. And a while later, someone called to inform an uncle or something that their great-grandmother Mary had died. He's like, how do you explain that? And I just Googled. And Google, I was like, so there's a character called Nana Mary on like the most, one of the most popular TV shows of all time. Roseanne. Maybe he got the name from that. He's like, no, it meant zero percent chance. I'm like, really? So what you're saying is there's a non-zero percent chance that this woman died and then after death, visited your three-year-old nephew that they'd never met to ask to put the kettle on. There's a non-zero percent chance that, but there's a zero percent chance that he watched a rerun of Roseanne. Why would a spirit want the kettle on? You die and you're like, yeah, I haven't visited that three-year-old nephew that I've never met before. Maybe I should go visit them and ask to put the kettle on. That's a non-zero percent chance that that happened, chat. But watching a rerun, zero percent chance. Is a zero percent chance that this kid just learned of this name from somewhere else or overheard someone talking about this family member? Or that this guy is unaware of when this child met this great grandmother, whatever. Zero percent chance. But someone dying and through mechanisms unknown, still maintaining themselves in this reality. And then through mechanisms unknown, translocating themselves through this dimension to a child. And then having this ability to communicate after death to someone in the physical world. What they ask is to make them a cup of tea. All the potential hypothetical explanations for this situation. And this is the one that this person thinks is the one to go with. All I'm saying, chat, is if you die, I'm not making you tea. There is so much that each of us doesn't know about ourselves, about our psychology, about the things that we interface with on a day to day. I couldn't build a computer. I couldn't build a toaster. The world is so ambiguous and unknown. And yet people, when they reach for things to explain their surroundings, they just stack on themselves. Assumption after assumption after assumption after assumption after assumption to get to magic. I just don't know why people go to the mental effort. How? |
| 01. June 2020 | Artificial intelligence | to do. How do I feel about AI? I'm messing around with object detection right now and it's crazy how good it is. I don't know where the future of AI is going to go. I remember reading it. What made me interested in AI, if I wasn't interested before, but it's just a thing that always comes to mind when I think of AI, was reading an article. Was there a video in there as well? I'm not sure. Talking about how AI is just amazing, a chess, da da da. But go as a game, which is the game with white and black circles, they're disks and they jump or whatever and they change each other's colors. I don't know how to play the game, but there are so many possible moves and so many possible combinations in Go that older AI are not able to do it because the amount of time it would take to calculate one turn would just be astronomical or whatever. And so humans were the best Go players. And then a new AI was made, it would play grandmasters and a grandmaster would not understand why it was making the moves that it would make. And then later on it would be like, oh, that's why it was moving like that. Oh. And in this article, it explained a Grandmaster in Go saying, it was teaching me things about the game. It was playing in ways that I had just not ever considered possible before. He took one game and the AI beat him twice, three times, whatever. His understanding of the game, a grandmaster, developed from playing this AI. The new strategies were developed by this machine that humans just couldn't think about. And it was just so beautiful and poetic. And you think AI could just revolutionize anything in that way, given enough time or enough resources or enough initiative or need or whatever. Who knows what AI is going to be doing or if they make an actual artificial intelligence, one that actually simulates consciousness or whatever. Who knows what will happen with that, whether we'll all just be destroyed when we create this new entity that is just so much more brilliant than us and so can think so much faster. You listen to people talk about this stuff and it sounds so exciting and sometimes so terrifying, but I don't know enough. At best, what I've listened to about it is just for entertainment purposes. I'm not educated in such things. Object detection, if you're having fun with that, good for you. We'll see what the future holds. |
| 13. January 2023 | As Youtubers grow, do they lose their authenticity? | As youtubers grow, do they lose their authenticity? So I occasionally get asked in reddit posts, because people know that I'm on there and so they'll go What do you think of this dark viper or whatever? And I do see them all, because not a lot of people bother doing that, so if a person does I'm like Oh, this must be something important, and it is like 50% of the time, whatever What celebrity can you simply not stand, even if everyone else likes them? Majority of youtubers, they make good content at first, but then the production quality increases They just seem less and less genuine, and they are no longer the person you first started following I feel like the money, fame, and everything else in that bubble goes to their head And they eventually just keep smelling their own farts Also, many game reviewers tend to all say the same thing, but in different words I've noticed this when I was into watching game reviews Now I look for normal people's opinion, because I bought many games based on glowing reviews Ended up disappointed in some way There's 10,000 upvotes there, with gold, like To that review thing, highly recommend Skill Up, does not say the same thing as everyone else And can be very critical of games, even when there's backlash from his audience who does not agree with his criticism Skill Up, respect as a reviewer When I see things like this, I fit into this mold, where over time my content quality has improved And I have made more money, and I have brought on new people who have skills that I don't have Who can make content look even better 10 months ago I even stopped making my own thumbnails, I've got someone else doing that now It's very hard to constantly follow yourself, and to assess Am I changing significantly? Am I a different person? In a worse way I don't think this idea of smelling their own farts is something that really applies to me But that's more because of my philosophy on how I believe people become successful In that it's not me being something special, or doing something amazing But more a matter of happenstance in who I ended up being in a particular spot with a particular bit of information You know, I have that whole determinist kind of vein in my philosophy of life And so it makes it very hard to attribute to myself some ego, grandiosity of just how Oh, I'm so fucking amazing because I became a successful YouTuber But clearly when you have money and you have people saying that you're great and stuff It has to influence you somehow, right? But then again, I do have a lot of people who also call me a piece of shit So they balance out I understand his view and way I mean when you first start making content with that revenue by now receiving it It has changed your surroundings and settings, and you're a result of that Thus your content will see a difference It's not only your content will see a difference, you will change It's impossible not to If your circumstances change and your experiences change, you will change Even if just in subtle ways For me, when I look back at my old self in my old content I consider myself to be a better person now and a person who makes better content It is certainly true that I am more You could say manufactured I'm more purposeful like whenever you watch me and I'll say something and I will misspeak Ages past I'll just keep speaking because fuck it who cares Now I will go back and say that entire new sentence Because I know it's going to be in a YouTube video Back when I used to stream and without any consideration for a YouTube video that's coming up I just be silent for a minute be like fuck it who cares now I know this is gonna be YouTube video So I'm like, oh, you know people on YouTube probably would want to know what I'm doing right now So I best explain what I'm doing those considerations will change how I make content and the production quality will therefore increase But it will feel less genuine because it is less genuine is me acting in a particular way to make the content better as opposed to How I would normally act if I wasn't having those considerations. I'm not sure where I'm going with this I just found this to be a very interesting comment. Like I think it's a very true comment And I worry that maybe I've changed in a in a worse way, but I don't think I have at least not significantly I haven't changed significantly in a bad way. The reply is true. I Seriously feel like critical most critical has lost his way What was once very funny gaming commentary became constant internet drama and clickbait title videos. I barely followed him since I stopped watching Critical I think 2019 there is not a week that goes by that I don't see his face because every single video I watch that covers some sort of Historical drama or something like you look what you watch the right opinion or something. There will always be Charlie there Giving his take on some drama that he is not involved in then he knows nothing about but that hey He got to make a video that day and is trending on Twitter So there you go Charlie has a hundred percent become super manufactured as a I have to do X Y & Z to get my four videos out today Regardless how much I actually care about this thing, but it works like for every hundred people like this who agree with this The algorithm will keep pushing Charlie to new audiences and those people would be replaced by new people It's a system that works and so ethically you can criticize it in terms of the amazing ability to misinform people about everything under The Sun but from a business standpoint It is the smart move to make if you can ethically deal with the continued possibility of missing from people about things You don't understand yet. You're gonna make a lot of bank doing this kind of content It was always funny to me that people who loved moist critical would come into my comment section and be like yo, man You're just you're starting drama for views Especially when I didn't even make a video in the first place and only responded when people made videos about what I said and about Me as a person But it was just very funny because Charlie has spent like half a decade making nothing but drama videos clickbait drama videos Well, that's not fair. Not nothing but but a continuous stream of the last five years Drama clickbait videos about every topic under the Sun that has fucking nothing to do with it And again that he knows nothing about but people will love moist critical for doing this But like the one time I make some videos about something I'm very passionate and knowledgeable about in order to defend myself This is just a step too far The double standards of the internet is fucking crazy. The reason why I was Referenced in that reddit stuff before is because of this comment. This is a legit so many content creators They all want to milk the golden goose of reactive video trash Like why in the fuck do people care what random internet video game streamers think about fucking politics court cases Incident fucking drama who cares and watches this stuff as when go crit all of them Why any react videos is all they do now I mean, it's just for you be repeating myself that once you get an audience You know, you can just print money by reuploading other people's videos But of course, it's not just people who already have an audience. So this channel for example, mr Leboid reacts average point like five videos today or something and you can see these videos aren't getting a lot of views So you're like, oh, I guess he's not a very successful reactor, right? Like it's it's not a big deal like he has no audience anywhere else his other channels Teeny tiny right if you look at his social blade he's getting 50 million views a month and the reason for this is once upon a time there was like a cost to uploading multiple videos a day the algorithm much preferred new stuff and Subscribers were more important. So if you didn't get those initial subscriber views, then your videos wouldn't do as well But these days that stuff doesn't matter as much so all you need to do is spam out as many videos as possible and just like hope that one of them pops off and Hey, look eventually that happens. So you got like 36 million views back up here I got recommended his channel because of a reaction he did to With a Yankevik song like it's just so effective for even those who don't have an audience It's why I keep saying creativity is somewhat dead for being creative on YouTube is no longer the smart strategy for either Getting a lot of views or maintaining an audience It is just spamming out low effort videos of reaction stuff because when you don't need to think of a topic Don't need to think of new ideas You can just just re-upload what is already successful and leech off some of that popularity the rest is history Work hard until you're recognized fuck That's funny like why spend a month and the necessary cost involved in that to make a video that takes a month to make when you can just Take someone else's video that they spend a month making in 20 minutes I do wonder if YouTube cares about this stuff and I do wonder now how much of the market is now controlled by |
| 07. February 2021 | Asking to like and subscribe. | Asking people to like and subscribe The reason why asking people to sub Increases the likelihood that they're gonna sub is because people forget when you ask them people ask themselves the question Do I want to subscribe? I have since that question people may just not think about it You know Like you probably run across videos all the time that you're half watching or whatever or that you kind of enjoy and you just never Think about hitting the like button, but the second someone asks you oh, yeah, I guess I can I mean yeah sure whatever You know it's been proven many times over that it does work to do exactly that I'd say about 50% of the time My liking of a video like pressing the like button is because a per the the video itself has reminded me Especially because I'm normally passively watching the video like I'm not actively thinking about what's going on or the video is coming to an end I've never liked a video when a person's asked me at the beginning of a video though I won't give a personal like unless I actually like the video is less that I'm liking the video because they ask and it's more that They remind me to ask the question of whether I want to press the like button |
| 25. February 2021 | Asking “is this speedrun easy” is always a silly question. | Asking is this speedrun easy is always a silly question Did you see if I have an easy game speedrun? Fuck no. The question is X easy to speedrun is always a silly question in a way because it depends if you want to speedrun it Proficiently or be world record competitive just finishing a run of any speedrun is generally fairly easy but doing it well is very hard to to get even a Reasonable amount of all the break boosts to know that they all exist all the different movement tech and shit That just the length of the run alone is enough to dissuade even seasoned speedrunners It is to do all the strats in a run and get a good time is hot |
| 06. August 2020 | Assaulted by roach | I Assaulted by a roach So I needed a king knife. I believe what was it was a fork. I think it was a knife for my fish and microwave cheeseburger that I had for breakfast this morning and so I open my dishwasher because I'm too much of a garbage human being to unpack the dishwasher and I Immediately see a cockroach this fucking big like we're talking Cockroaches that you expect to see in one of the mummy films You know how there was like all those bugs whatever like that kind of size bug just fucking sitting there in the dishwasher How to get in the dishwasher? I have no fucking idea like it was that there the whole time It was a waiting for freedom and I've now just released released it upon the world. I and but then how did it survive the wash? Regardless it just sat there and it was clearly alive So I got myself a little container and I pushed it in and then you think also what you let the cockroach go You left it out that outside. No fuck that shit I I open a small amount that fucking sprayed a bunch of fly spray in there and killed it fuck with my dishwasher Would you this be a lesson chat? Don't fuck with my dishwasher. Okay. I already don't think it cleans stuff in it enough |
| 23. November 2020 | Astrosoup deleting all his social media | Media Have I heard what happened with Astro soup? I saw on Twitter that he had disconnected all of his social media Including his YouTube channel, and I of course had no idea why Astro soup. I just know of him as a GTA YouTube I've seen some of his videos got recommended to me sometimes he had a very um obvious Sort of thumbnail with you know the purple or whatever the hell it was So I knew of him, but I didn't really watch a heap of his content I'd seen a couple of videos then I saw on Twitter that apparently Sources say he's taking time off for his own mental health, which is interesting And that's where it ended for me, but then I got a message from someone on Discord they were saying hey Can you help me bring awareness to this it seems as though another content creator had accused someone of being the ultimate cause of? Astro's departure and That person was now receiving harassment or some such I just said I don't want to get involved because I don't really know any any of the people involved in that But I don't know if there's any truth To any of those are kind of allegations or what's happening with that if that's what you're referring to Well, I can no longer find the clip I am pretty sure Astro soup came back temporarily to Twitter and made like a 15 second clip explaining that yeah He was just having issues, and it wasn't this other content creators fault Basically, I don't know much and I hope Astro's done well Bojack Horseman finale mild spoilers |
| 02. May 2021 | Asymmetrical faces | Asymmetrical faces. Have you guys ever done one of those, um, it like flips your face and you can see to what degree your face is symmetrical? Because apparently symmetrical faces are really attractive. My face is not super unsymmetrical, but it's not symmetrical, you know? Nowhere near as bad as some of the ones I've seen on TikTok, where it's like two halves of a person's face come from two different people. But, you know. I wonder if there are people out there who get plastic surgery specifically to make their faces symmetrical. Surely that happens. Asymmetrical, not unsymmetrical? What did I say? Oh, I guess I said unsymmetrical. So I don't actually. |
| 30. June 2022 | At what age does your reaction time start to decrease? | At what age does your reaction time start to decrease? Many people seem unaware that it's like 24. In this game, moving as fast as I am, it's only difference in milliseconds chat, but those difference in milliseconds being 31, I feel them sometimes man. That's why the kid who won that Fortnite tournament, the first major one was 16 or something. So, it wasn't much different |
| 30. May 2020 | Atheism | I'm 17 and think I'm an atheist whenever I tell people this I get usual disapproving comments Are you an atheist and what are you views on atheist? And this is a question by the way. I ran a religious channel atheist theist debates For a long time I had my own channel where I talked about religion and my perceptions of it I I am an atheist in the sense that I do not find any I don't believe there's sufficient evidence to believe that any kind Of God exists if you believe that fits the definition of atheist, that's then I am an atheist. It's just Depends on your definition. I go into a long diatribe about it I just do not care about this topic even slightly my advice just don't tell people Thankfully, it's a minority that you don't wear on your sleeve people don't know of it unless you tell them So just don't tell them you won't get disapproving comments. Just nod your head when someone talks about religion Yes. Yes, very good. Yes as you because you're 17, right? You just your job at 17 is just you know figure yourself out without necessarily disrupting your Circumstances around you because you're not necessarily self-reliant right get into your 20s or whatever find like-minded people Maybe if you want to discuss this kind of stuff on the internet where you're anonymous, that's also fine figure out yourself but uh you don't necessarily need to be Combating people in your everyday life or telling people in your everyday life about your views of the world or religion or what have you? Most people who are religious or irreligious just live their lives normally keeping their head down They're not the Westboro Baptist Church, you know holding up science and stuff They just have their particular beliefs about the world If another person challenges you about something and they clearly want to have a discussion with you and want to know your views Sure discuss it, but don't interject it into conversations where it doesn't belong. I Did that when I was younger? When I was very involved in discussing these kind of things and it was a jerk thing to do I remember having a huge argument with one of my friends who was religious When we're down the South Coast and I made the entire trip awkward Terrible thing for me to do it was very clear. He hadn't thought a lot about his views and it wasn't my responsibility To try to persuade him of what he believed or to you know, put a crack in his foundation or something He was my friend. I should have had more respect for that I understand it's an important issue for a lot of people and especially if you believe that religion has a negative impact on society But at 17 as you shouldn't be rocking the boat of your social circles or your family or what-have-you You know keep that shit online. You can find endless amounts of people who want to discuss such things online and you know, and there's no Ramifications to your your personal life by having such conversations and they're very interesting conversations. It's why I had them as well Yeah, that's that's my advice. So, you know, we we share that potentially depending upon your definition Hope that helps |
| 01. September 2020 | Attempting to get world records again | Right? Attempting to get world records again. Will I ever attempt world record again? The amount of focus I'd have to have to even challenge the world record is way more than I want. I just don't have the time. I was I've never been that good at the game. There was a time relative to everyone else. I was quite good, but just over time, I've cared less. I focus less. And it just it just doesn't seem like something I particularly want to do anymore. There could come a day when Passivist is finished, no hitters finished, and I've done every meme run under the sun and everyone's moved on from GTA 5. And then I start trying for the world record again. That's unlikely to happen. More likely, like GTA 6 is going to come out and then I'll move past it. You know, I got world record 100 percent less than a year ago. Yeah, like for a month. A year is a long time in speed running. Oh, yes, so much can happen in even a month. It feels like 10,000 years since I PB'd in Classic. |
| 14. March 2020 | Attempting to speedrun other GTAs | Will it help me out? Attempting to speedrun the other GTAs. I've thought about speedrunning all the other GTAs, man, and I've half-heartedly attempted. I've literally spent one day trying to speedrun four, three, and an SA. Like, I've downloaded the splits, and I'm like, I'm prepared, dude. And then always something happens, like new strats found in five, or I lose my world record, or blah, blah, blah. There is definitely some reality where back in the day, Tarex didn't take one of my world records, and I actually spent enough time learning one of the others. |
| 27. October 2020 | Attention to detail | in video games, right? Like sound in video games, you never explicitly take notice of, but it can radically change how much you enjoy what you're doing. Like you can play a game and something just feels off. You can watch videos or movies or whatever, and TV shows, it's like just feels off, but you don't know exactly what it is. Just because you aren't explicitly knowledgeable about the specific thing that is off-putting in a video, doesn't mean it's not off-putting. I can't have the exact phrasing, but there's an expression which is something like, it's like what, 70% of the effort is for 90% of the reward or something? Or like, there's diminishing returns on your effort in regards to the reward that you get from it. Where, that last 10% in regards to something you're making, can, those finer absolute details, can take more effort than the lion's share of what you've created. And sometimes, in terms of the sake of efficiency, it's not worth those finer details, you know. If you can make two videos at 90% quality, or one video at 100% quality, it's often better to do 90%. But then you get to that point where you can just keep doing that, I suppose. You can continually argue that the next little bit of effort isn't justified. Like, oh, you know, if I only did, if I made them at 70% quality, then I can make three videos. You know, then I can make four videos at 50% quality, blah blah blah blah, and just keep making more content of it. Because at some point, you know, your videos would just end up shit. |
| 04. September 2020 | Audience response to GTA Online | The random questions, I suppose. Like they'll put a thousand limit, but let you have five crews. Like it's not the same thing, Rockstar. Why not just have like a 5,000 limit for one crew? Nah. As you know, corporations in real life are limited to 5,000 people. Just makes sense. You're running a criminal enterprise and you have over a thousand people beneath you. That's illegal. Are there crews with no limit? Not to my knowledge. There are crews with like over 100,000 people. Then how do I get one of those? You can't? Be friends with Rockstar? I fucking hate Rockstar, dude. You have to be vetted by Rockstar. Holy shit, man. Every single interaction I've had with Rockstar has led me more annoyed than when I started. I can't imagine allowing myself to get even more annoyed, asking them to remove the limit on my crew. Pizza tales and soft drink problem. How was my pizza? So basically guys, I have this habit of putting pizzas in the oven and then forgetting about them. This goes all the way back to my World of Warcraft days where I would get off work from Kohl's and I would grab myself some pizza that's on special, a bottle of soft drink that was on special, and I'd go home and I'd just preheat the oven, forget about it for like an hour. I'd go, all right, I did preheat the oven. Then I put the pizza in and I'd be... |
| 01. September 2020 | Aussie politician being called a simp | Bill Shorten calling Scott Morrison a simp. Hope you enjoy those extra five emirates, they are pretty swag. Why do I see the word swag? That's so lame. Did you guys see this story? Even though you're not Australian you might have seen it. The previous opposition leader called our current Prime Minister a simp. Or fundamentally if I can put it in really plain English, Mr. Morrison needs to make sure that he doesn't look like he's just a simp to Donald Trump on this very important issue. Like it's this weird combination of cringe yet the same time like having a politician being that aware of current trends is poly good. Had the vibe of you know fellow kids. It was funny, a little bit cringe, a little bit hello my fellow kids. But maybe because I don't mind Bill Shorten maybe I'm more hesitant to, like I'm more accepting of it or more looking for reasons to think of it positively. Because you don't want a politician that's completely out of touch right? You want a politician who has some understanding of the current culture. It's not a great word to begin with. It's just another one of the flavor of the month, um soy boy, cuck kind of stuff you know. |
| 10. June 2020 | Australia Superannuation | Australia Superannuation, which is basically a government mandated savings account for when you retire. I gotta handle my- for those who don't know in Australia, everyone's required by law to have a Superannuation account that they're- that is being paid into. And I have two Super accounts because I have one from uh, when I worked at Coles and one when I worked at Phonak, which is just a waste because I'm just getting double the fees. It is- it is sensible to put money into your Super. Maybe even more money than you're required to because um, it's- it's taxed at a low rate or no rate at all. So it depends on how much money you make, whether it makes sense, dah dah dah. I'm not an accountant, but I mean apparently I'm meant to be doing this. What's Super? Super is Superannuation. So as half explained before, in Australia, your employer is required to put a portion of the amount of money that you earn into a- an investment account basically. And Superannuation companies are those who are responsible for investing that money for you so that- but by the time you retire, 65-ish, you'll have a large savings account. Usually by that point for the average Australian, it's like a million dollars or something. That you can reasonably live off for the rest of your life. It's- it's a system to guarantee that people aren't aren't burdens on the state in- at the end of their lives. And this money, it has benefits in that um, the money isn't taxed as high as normal revenues. So for you, it makes sense that it's a- it's an okay system. And it's one of the reasons why Australia has the um, highest median wealth of any country. It's because by the time- because most people don't save their money and they- or they don't invest it wisely or they- they blow it on a bunch of shit. But in Australia, there's only to an extent that you can do that. So it's like the- the second you hit 65 or whatever, that you just flush with cash and people just spend all that shit in the economy and da-da-da. There's certainly- I'm- like with any system this large, there's always issues. A lot of people don't watch their Super and they can be in- their Super can be bad agencies or whatever that charge ridiculous fees and don't give good returns and they don't know about it until years later or whatever. It's one of those things where it's a good system, even if it isn't perfect revenue. |
| 05. August 2022 | Australia's destructive lettuce scarcity. | is going through shortages of some vegetables and stuff. Supply chain issues and all that stuff, Ukraine, da da da. But the way that this impacts me is that lettuce is like worth its weight in gold right now. And as you might know, lettuce commonly put on burgers and rolls and stuff in fast food restaurants. So a lot of fast food restaurants right now are using a lettuce-carrot blend or just pure cabbage. And I bought myself a bunch of red rooster today and I've never had a burger taste that bad. I didn't think cabbage was significantly different from lettuce. It really is. It smelled and tasted disgusting. I'm going to say like it smelled like cum. It really did. I was so confused. Like where the fuck is this smell coming from? This isn't right. Did someone cum in my burger? No, it was just the cabbage. Either that or someone came a lot because I had a lot of burgers and they all smell exactly the same. There must be multiple different types of cabbages because I've smelled cabbage before and it didn't smell like this. But it was the the weirdest, most terrible tasting burger of my life. I'm definitely avoiding any lettuce burgers for the foreseeable future because god damn, did I check the expiry date? The expiry date? What do you think they like like burn in an expiry date into a burger? What are you insane? Flip that shit over? Look on the bottom for the expiry date? The death of the clips channel and the future of my shorts. So that. |
| 29. May 2020 | Australia, Love, Hate | What do you love and hate most about Australia? I don't experience the entirety of Australia. I mean the heat I'm not a fan of. What I love most about it? That it's a stable, secure democracy. |
| 29. May 2020 | Australia, love, Hate | What do you love and hate most about Australia? I don't experience the entirety of Australia. I mean the heat I'm not a fan of. What I love most about it? That it's a stable, secure democracy. |
| 28. July 2022 | Australian mobile providers tried to kill me with incompetence Vodafone and Telstra | Australia. Australian mobile providers tried to kill me with incompetence. So I'm currently with Vodafone. In my country there are three different mobile providers, Optus, Telstra and Vodafone. There are a bunch of other mobile companies but they all use one of these three networks. Each of these networks has roughly 98% coverage of Australia but obviously they don't have the same quality of coverage in every single area. At my house I get one bar with Vodafone but I so very rarely need to use my mobile data that it's so rarely relevant to my life. I had some cleaners here yesterday. He's trying to send me the bill, a picture of the bank details and he's sitting there and he's like odd hasn't gone. I'm like oh yeah see the little bar there still going and we sat there for like two awkward minutes while waiting for this bar to finish. This is just like a small picture like a couple of kilobytes or whatever. Funnily enough this cleaner was also with Vodafone. Eventually I'm like I'm sure you leave drive a couple of streets away it'll send. He's like okay and I'm like I'll message you if it doesn't work and it took all the time for the cleaning to finish and for him to leave and like 10 minutes later for him to drive away from this area for it actually to send to me. But when I first brought this issue up to Vodafone they're like oh your SIM card's probably uh bad. We got we got good coverage there where you live. I'm like really okay send me the SIM card. So they sent me a SIM card but they didn't send me the tool to remove the SIM card and so I then had to wait for a week for a tool to be sent to me because I didn't have a pin or anything like that that could that could open it without damaging my phone. And so I finally put in the new SIM card no change obviously because my SIM card was like two years old. So Vodafone just flat out lied to me after being with them for like a decade giving them thousands of dollars flat out lied. So I'm like I'm going to change my provider. How do you even explain this fucking story? I go into the Telstra website which is again the owner of another network in Australia. Spend like you know 20 minutes putting in all my details dotting all the t's crossing all the i's all that stuff to transfer my number from Vodafone to Telstra. People like this is an easy process these days don't worry about you just do some buttons it's fine. There were so many pages of documents I had to sign it was so fucking frustrating. So they sent me the SIM card. I'm like well it should be a simple matter of like pressing a couple buttons if I hadn't activated the SIM card. No. I look at the instructions and the page is so faded that I'm having to put out like next to the light to figure out what the numbers are and to read the instructions like this had been printed with like the cheapest ink on the cheapest paper I've ever seen. It was barely paper it was like tissue paper. I'm like this is these are some cost saving measures right here. I scanned the code the the QR code follow all the instructions. I don't have sufficient information to activate the SIM card. They didn't send me like an account number or anything like that. The website I tried that form to don't have enough information as well. I'm like what the fuck is going on here? Surely they knew I had to activate the SIM why why is this so complicated? And half the time on the app it's rejecting me as a bot. I'd press the thing the button I am a human and it's like I don't think you're human son. I'm like no I really am. No I don't think you are. And so I I waste like like 45 minutes doing this and I'm like fuck it I'll call Telstra themselves because you know how it is all these uh automated forms and stuff if a small thing goes wrong they have no idea what the fuck's going on so you can't get through. So I'm like I'll just call Telstra it should be fine. Now I think Telstra has their support staff in India. The quality of the phone call was one of the worst I've ever seen uh heard rather and that might be because you know of how bad my coverage is here I'm not sure. So I'm calling them and I'm like uh somebody's Matthew and they're like Mark? No Matthew. Daniel? No no it's Matthew can you spell that? M-A-T M-A-R no no no M-A-T. I must have spent like 45 minutes just spelling things and every once in a while there'd be a break of like three minutes where no sound no sound at all they must have the strongest noise gate ever no music no breathing no no static no nothing I'm like you still there just like oh yeah I'm still there you need he goes no no no just working on it. So how do you spell your address again? I I've never in my entire life had such incompetent support stuff. Just when I think she's making some progress after saying it's not working for some reason I don't understand why it's not working what is this I don't understand and finding out that she wasn't using my details that I already provided on the website she was just trying to get all my details again the same information I gave she hangs up on me she says let me put you on hold and she hangs up after like 45 plus minutes like I I partitioned an hour and a half of my day to get this done and it wasn't sufficient I was back at square one and so I complain on Twitter because that's what you do especially when you have a large following they're like oh shit we better get this fucking done or you know they're ward away customers from our shitty business and so I am talking to the person in the dms I'm like so can you help me activate my sim and they're like no what do you mean no it's like well yeah you're like a business account so like that's not something we handle like we can literally not help business people through Twitter I'm like so what you're saying is by making a business account I have less support than most people they're like yeah I'm like is there anything else I can do like oh you can talk to this these people if like and so they sent me another line and so go through to another support sector I'm like so can you help me activate my sim card like no I'm like what do you mean no it's like well you can't do that you have to have the call on the phone I'm like I just did that and they hung up on me they're like well there's nothing we can do this company's worth billions of dollars billions after this complete shit show people in on Twitter the support staff on there most people were talking to me trying to figure out what the fuck went wrong how they lost all my details how colossally like a dozen different support stuff now had fucked up and been unable to help me activate a sim card it's a sim card and so eventually they got the exact same details out of me a fucking again and they're like look we'll call you for a phone call tomorrow I'm like all right call me midday you know when they called me today chat 9 45 while I was asleep probably still having food poisoning feeling like shit not getting enough sleep and they called me at 9 45 the one thing I said to them is call me at 12 that's it they had one job to do and they couldn't fucking do it this is insane and I said to them on Twitter after they now woke me up and I said hey call me back at 12 I really wish you didn't call me at this point I said to call me at 12 and they apologized I'm like I'm sorry but if there was any inconvenience caused by our call it's now 115 they still didn't call me at 12 the level of incompetence expressed is just so mind-boggling all I wanted to do was activate my sim card for my phone and you know what's the worst thing chat the worst thing in all this when I put my Telstra sim into my phone I think it still shows me the level of reception that I get even if I can't make calls or use the internet because it shows me some bars up there and it too only gives me one or two bars so I think even if I went through all of this and and finally had this billion dollar company managed to take my money to activate a sim card I think I'd still be fucked I think I'd still have bad coverage there were three as I say mobile networks maybe I if they ever get this activated I'll try Telstra and be like well that's shit too and then I'll try Optus but I think I'm just up shit creek I have no idea why I can look on a map of coverage and like 100 meters that way 5g 100 meters that way 5g 100 meters that way 5g 100 meters that way 5g in this area 4g and it's shit 4g as the cleaner said to me he's like oh yeah people around here always complaining and I don't understand why I'm in Sydney the most expensive houses in the world the most populous city in Australia sure I'm on like the the edges of it but like where else would you put coverage and I just think to myself like maybe there's like one guy who's just pissed off every CEO of these mobile companies and so they just refuse to improve the coverage I |
| 21. August 2021 | Australia’s Vaccine roll out and businesses determining elections | Australia's vaccine rollout and businesses determining elections Oh, that's the one we have in the UK, everyone has had the jab for this one. I mean, dude, our vaccine rollout in Australia was the worst of any developed country. When the UK was at like 50% or something, we were at 5% Again, because of the incompetence of... So, politics in Australia, for me, it's... Well, it's going to tell you who I vote for, but there are two parties. There's one that serves the business interests, the status quo, those who own the media apparatus, and those who do that less. This first group can be amazingly incompetent, but it doesn't matter as long as they do what they need to do for the invested business interests in the media enterprise, right? As long as they're doing that, their coverage will always be amazing. The other group won't even be talked about unless it's in a negative light. The only way the other party ever gets in is when the first party fucks up so badly that even the businesses are like, dude, these guys are really fucking incompetent. You know, like, over the course of our history, I think one party has been in power 70% of the time, and that's the coalition. It's every election is theirs to lose. All they have to do is say the right things to, you know, 20 people who own most of the things in Australia, and they win, and that's about it. Like, literally, our entire fucking country was on fire, and our prime minister fucked off to Hawaii for a holiday. And you're like, well, that just stinks. He's career, right? No. He's still fine. He's still there. He's probably going to win another election, too. It's just to lose when you're serving the business interests, you have to really fuck up in a way that fucks with their interests, right? Like, you might question, for example, why is it bad just to serve the business interests, right? Even if you want to believe that businesses always have pro-social desires or whatever, like, the businesses that exist now, their interests now, aren't necessarily aligned with the interests of where the country should move in the future, right? It can be entirely possible that a decision on the federal level needs to be made that might negatively impact the businesses now for future businesses that are going to arise, right? Innovate and change for the future. And if all you're doing is serving the present status quo business interests, you will never develop and change into the future. You will grind the same sort of system into oblivion and never move on to bigger and better things, you know? It's like Australia very much so in a very good position to be the leader on renewables. And it's just like, yeah, but that's going to hurt the profits of the fossil fuel industry right now. So let's not do that. Let's cut subsidies and whatnot and have them be disputed. And it's, I don't like politics in my country, man. I don't think people as a whole are short-sighted. I mean, you can argue it took time. But like, is there many countries where the majority don't want people, want government to take some action on climate change? But of course, some action is always, it depends on how you ask the question. It's like if you ask, should the government's main goal to be to limit carbon emissions irrespective of harm to the economy? The answer is going to be like overwhelming majority, no, that shouldn't be the government's goal. But if you just said, hey, the government should take an interest in investing in things that reduce carbon emissions, you'll get like 80 percent in, like I say, Australia or whatever. |
| 14. February 2021 | Australia’s new ‘link tax’ law on google | Australia's new link tax law on Google. This hasn't passed yet, but it might. People keep messaging me about this thing that the Australian government, because I'm Australian obviously, that the Australian government wants to put in place. They want to make it so Google has to pay news websites to link to them. I don't... So the talk around the town is that this is just Murdoch, you know, the media empire dude. Him just using his connections to get Google to pay him a fuck ton of money. It's not gonna benefit Australia. Australian news or just anyone except Rupert Murdoch basically. It just seems to me... So Google is now threatening to leave Australia, as in like, we can't use their search engine. I don't think this will have any impact on YouTube, because not like YouTube links to news websites in Australia. So I should be fine. But in the whatever weird scenario where Google just makes so YouTube doesn't work in Australia, I'd either use a VPN or move to New Zealand or something. But that's not a thing. But that's what people keep asking me about. Like in reality, a link tax, all that would do is make it so Google would prioritize linking anything except Australian news websites. Because it'd be every single other website reporting on the news would cost them no money, except Australian ones. Apparently Google has done some deal in France or something that they have to pay when they use snippets of like the actual reporting or something of from news organizations or something. But using snippets of their material seems a little bit different than just linking to their website. Are they really gonna give up one of the richest countries in the world? Australia is really really tiny. It's population less than 25 million. If Google thinks that this law could set a precedent that would cost them a lot of money on the global stage, they'd probably more likely want to abandon Australia and say, look, other countries, you don't want to go down this road or we'll abandon you too, rather than just letting the government get away with it. I've talked about this before, where there is a lot of content made on YouTube right now that is just people finding the work of other journalists and reading their work. Like a journalist goes to all the effort, gets the sources, writes a thing, drinks coffee, stays up 12 hours or whatever, gets the thing done, puts it out on their website or the company they work for's website. And then some YouTuber goes, hey, so I read this article and it's pretty good. And here's my opinion on it. And I'm just gonna read a little bit of it here and just to tell you about what's going on. And they just sit there with a webcam and just read the article. And I'm sitting there going, how annoying must that be as a journalist to watch a person potentially make a thousand plus dollars just reading your work into a YouTube video? That doesn't seem right to me somehow. That person's labor, they're not being paid for it. At the same time though, it's in society's best interest for news to propagate and for as many people as possible to be able to learn about what's going on in the world. Like in fair use, there's a rule where you can't own facts. Like a journalist who writes up an article doesn't own the facts within the article, but you can own the presentation of facts. And an article you write about facts in the world is something that you own. And so you do have protections on people using your work. In the same way that just because your article contains facts, it doesn't mean you can copy it and put it on your own website or whatever, right? But back to the link tax, I just don't know how this link tax would ultimately benefit the small Australian media organizations. It seems that the vast majority of this money is just going to go to Fox, go to Rupert Murdoch, and Rupert Murdoch doesn't need more money. His media enterprise, at least in its totality, isn't losing money. It's making fuck tons of money. Certainly it's the case that some of the media in Australia that Rupert Murdoch owns doesn't make money. That's because Rupert Murdoch has bought it up specifically for influence as opposed to the ability to make money. He's just crushed out all the competition or brought up all the newspapers within a particular region to spread his particular brand of propaganda to the world. It isn't about the money in those cases. But I'm sure he'd love to just get a fat stack of money from Google every single time one of these newspapers was referenced or linked to or whatever. So long story short, I don't think whether or not this link tax goes through is likely going to impact me. And from a surface level look at things, it seems as though it's just the coalition once more putting forth legislation specifically to benefit Rupert Murdoch because he practically owns the fucking party. News websites are dated. Journalists should create YouTube channels. It's funny, YouTube videos are not a great way to consume media. It's just a very fast way of consuming media. It's not like any YouTube video you can click a source or like reading an entire article will have you understand things far more than reading a person's interpretation of that article. It is not a lot of people want to spend the time or even have the time to sit and read an article for 20 minutes. |
| 03. April 2021 | Average age of a top 1000 YouTuber. | Noita and Dark Souls videos keep it up by the way would like to see you speedrun Dark Souls again I wouldn't mind speedrunning Dark Souls again, but I won't Maybe one day if I get back to speedrunning GT if I haven't burned myself out completely as I mentioned before there was a time Where I tried to get back into Dark Souls 3 speedrunning temporarily. I learned all the new strats I saw all the new skips and some of them are pretty cool and difficult I spent a few days and learning them getting good at them And I never completed one. I don't know what it was something happened in GTA 5 or something I'm not sure but so it was that brief period where I almost got back into it And then I realized it was dumb too because no one wants to watch that channel I mean for me I got obviously other people to do successfully with Dark Souls runs But it's just tough for me people don't want to watch that stuff It's not like I can say after I'm done with OK I'll get back into that because obviously I got to get back into GTA 5 speedrunning |
| 06. July 2021 | Avoiding debating people | I don't know why I do this because I said they're going oh man I have so many arguments about this topic that I could make I even want to contact one of the people and talk to them But this is such a complete waste of fucking time I have these impulses sometimes to do things like that to talk about or discuss things that don't really matter And it burrows into my head and that's all I can think about for an hour And it's like why what a waste because I used to do that stuff back in the day you know like I'd argue people on the internet and stuff and I did a lot of it before the days of the modern sort of online debate culture and stuff or people having access to webcams and discord and all that shit where they can more easily debate one-on-one and it'd be interesting to see a Timeline where rather than moving into gaming I stuck with my old Social political content bullshit from back in the day and where would I be today? Presumably insane in a white room somewhere, but I would be interesting to watch that downward decline What I'm basically saying guys is that turn the freaking frogs gay I'd definitely be Alex Jones if I had stuck with that other content They're putting microchips in your bananas people the big scam seen the cost of bananas increased Reasonally that's why they're paying for the microchips Taking vitamin D before I went to sleep Yeah, I hope that I don't know how I keep forgetting though like so for those unaware I'm fairly certain a significant portion of why I was |
| 18. April 2021 | Avoiding drinking alone | Avoiding drinking alone. Thought about buying myself some bourbon yesterday, because I don't have any here. Which means on the rare occasion I'm stressed enough to want to drink I can't have one, but that seems like a good thing really. I shouldn't be drinking alone. So I'm trying to avoid the temptation to buy myself some alcohol. Bourbon is best, yes. Scotch better than bourbon? I think I've spent a lot of time drinking scotch to be honest. Is scotch like more expensive than whiskey and bourbon? Like I've never been to a place and had people drinking scotch. I've never seen a person at a club be like, yo man, can I get some scotch? Yes, yeah, probably take it. It's probably more expensive to prepare. Scotch is a type of whiskey. Yeah, as is bourbon is a type of whiskey. I like Jim Beam. That's just the standard bourbon you get out at places. |
| 06. March 2021 | Avoiding editing Pacifist | Avoiding editing pacifist. I just really want to work on my pacifist shit right now. Every single time I spend time editing some random old garbage, when I get to the end of it I think to myself like man if people knew how much time I'm spending on all this other stuff instead of pacifist they'd be so pissed at me. I got to wonder if it wasn't for my clips channel how many episodes of pacifist I would have released. Probably quite a few. Maybe me at least one I think. I promise you guys that if I complete no damage I will go hard into pacifist. I will. I will get this footage done. Why'd I stop pacifist? Because I finished it. I streamed all the pacifist live I just need to edit it but I'm really eager to test new strats in pacifist but I'm more eager just to show people the fucking footage. I say I will retry. I will retry and reduce the amount that I killed. Like I haven't even done the total tally. I don't even know how many people I ended up killing. How many episodes of pacifist? Five I'd say. Five or six. |
| 06. March 2021 | Avoiding editing pacifist | Avoiding editing pacifist. I just really want to work on my pacifist shit right now. Every single time I spend time editing some random old garbage, when I get to the end of it I think to myself like man if people knew how much time I'm spending on all this other stuff instead of pacifist they'd be so pissed at me. I got to wonder if it wasn't for my clips channel how many episodes of pacifist I would have released. Probably quite a few. Maybe me at least one I think. I promise you guys that if I complete no damage I will go hard into pacifist. I will. I will get this footage done. Why'd I stop pacifist? Because I finished it. I streamed all the pacifist live I just need to edit it but I'm really eager to test new strats in pacifist but I'm more eager just to show people the fucking footage. I say I will retry. I will retry and reduce the amount that I killed. Like I haven't even done the total tally. I don't even know how many people I ended up killing. How many episodes of pacifist? Five I'd say. Five or six. |
| 01. July 2020 | Avoiding the puddle Last of Us 2 and Red Dead 2 | The similarities between The Last of Us 2 and Red Dead Redemption 2. You came from Red Dead Online? Oh my god guys. Avoiding the puddle is now my spirit animal. I was so happy. We're gonna watch this clip together and enjoy it. Just enjoy it, huh? This is stuff you miss out on if you're not following my Twitter. This is the greatest take on gaming in the history of gaming. Nothing is better than this take. It's just unbelievable. Okay? Games like this and Red Dead 2, the graphics are so good. It's almost like they wasted all that effort on a shitty game. You know? Like what if these games that look so amazing also are as amazing as they look? What a waste. You know how hard it was to make that girlfriend of mine so butt ugly? They probably went through a lot of effort. Maybe they should do a collab. But the guys who make these games look so sick, they need to collab with people who know how to make games. Whoa, cool horse. It's just perfect on every level. Even the end. Hey, look a horse. It's so true. It's weird now because Aris drew comparisons between The Last of Us and Red Dead Redemption 2. I like hearing that people don't like The Last of Us 2. It's almost like hearing that people don't like Red Dead Redemption 2. That just makes me happy. |
| 01. July 2020 | Avoiding the puddle Last of us 2 and Red Dead 2 | The similarities between The Last of Us 2 and Red Dead Redemption 2. You came from Red Dead Online? Oh my god guys. Avoiding the puddle is now my spirit animal. I was so happy. We're gonna watch this clip together and enjoy it. Just enjoy it, huh? This is stuff you miss out on if you're not following my Twitter. This is the greatest take on gaming in the history of gaming. Nothing is better than this take. It's just unbelievable. Okay? Games like this and Red Dead 2, the graphics are so good. It's almost like they wasted all that effort on a shitty game. You know? Like what if these games that look so amazing also are as amazing as they look? What a waste. You know how hard it was to make that girlfriend of mine so butt ugly? They probably went through a lot of effort. Maybe they should do a collab. But the guys who make these games look so sick, they need to collab with people who know how to make games. Whoa, cool horse. It's just perfect on every level. Even the end. Hey, look a horse. It's so true. It's weird now because Aris drew comparisons between The Last of Us and Red Dead Redemption 2. I like hearing that people don't like The Last of Us 2. It's almost like hearing that people don't like Red Dead Redemption 2. That just makes me happy. |
| 11. October 2021 | Background music in content | Background music in content. People are often content to just listen to chill hop on YouTube, right? So even when I'm not doing anything particularly interesting, at least you still got a bit of chill hop in your ear, you know? There's no complete silence where you might have to look over and go, is the stream still active? It just depends on what you do. If you have a very action-packed, tense stream, the music will cut through the tension, or you're playing a battle royale, where everything is meant to be quiet and you hear a bang from the distance, right? Not only would the music distract the streamer, it would take away from the game. But I mean, if you're farming creeps in League of Legends, I mean, the sound doesn't really matter, does it? I have noticed that with informational videos on YouTube, they do sometimes seem kind of empty if there's no music. The music done poorly, it's awful. I'm sure all of you have run into these informational videos where the music is too loud, or the music is too distracting, and you're having to really focus on what the person's saying. Those videos are super annoying, and you can see it in the like to dislike ratio. But the people are like, what the fuck is with this music? Or even like an obnoxious intro where it's super loud blaring garbage, you know? Music done right can be an asset, but music done wrong can be a massive distraction that pisses everyone off. More than that, it's very hard to have music that's at least inoffensive to the ears of the majority of people. Like, I'm surprised I'm not sick of this music yet myself. I listen to this music 10 hours a day, the exact same playlist, and it's only like two days worth of content. That's why I listen to the entire playlist, like every two days. But my volume is low enough and it's so inoffensive that I rarely think that I'm listening to Trilog. It's just like so background, you know? |
| 03. September 2021 | Bad people justifying bad actions. | Bad people justifying bad actions. I would imagine most people who have who are pedophiles justify their own actions to varying degrees. If you listen to pedophilic priests or what have you they'll often say like oh it wasn't me I'm not a bad person. Satan was in me. Satan took over. I am merely a mortal man and Satan is so powerful. Who can really blame me for not being able to ward off Satan or what that Milo Unopolis guy was like oh you know it's good for the kids you know it's good for the young young gay men to have a stronger older mental. People who do wrong I'd argue that people in general have a decent ability to rationalize behaviors that they probably shouldn't be doing or what have you. We want to think of ourselves as in general good people. I mean this is a general idea like obviously I don't think every pedophile thinks of themselves as good. It's like the the corrupt politician who's like oh you know anyone in this circumstance would have taken that money. I mean come on now. How many people would actually acknowledge themselves as a bad person? Probably very rare. People probably more commonly accept that they've done wrong as opposed to that they are a bad person right? Because I think everyone accepts that it's like oh you know I did a bad thing here. I did. But they probably don't think of themselves as a bad person overall. You know it's like I did wrong here or you still rationalize it. Oh you know I had no choice. The situation demanded this of me or I was in a bad place so I wasn't thinking straight or dah dah dah you know. I had a friend who studied this and they say there are two types of people those who feel remorseful for what they are doing and those who don't and the latter are very hard to help. Yeah it makes sense. |
| 06. August 2020 | Balancing alerts for Youtube | Balancing alerts for YouTube and Twitch I'm conflicted in regards to alerts because sometimes the alerts can be kind of funny to have during runs But other times they can be somewhat disruptive and I'm worried about annoying people on YouTube But I'm really thankful for the people who donate to me and give me subs and stuff and I kind of want the alerts on I need to find some happy middle ground. I put them on in between runs at the beginning I guess later on in the stream. There's less alerts so it's Easy to put them on balancing YouTube and Twitch was tough sometimes Disable text-to-speech remember text-to-speech is often the funny thing like if you go through my how this even ended episodes Sometimes people donate and make funny comments or comments that I respond to while I'm running if anything Having a button that removes the alert sounds but keeps the text-to-speech will be good You reckon having it on it causes more ramble viz. That is also true a part of the reason why it's a little bit harder Now is because I'm just worse at the speedrun and the speedrun is shorter all the splits kind of matter this isn't like back in the day where Especially before break boosting where there were just long stretches where I was effectively doing nothing but dodging traffic |
| 05. September 2021 | Balancing education and work | Balancing education and work. The closest I've ever had to having two jobs is when I was doing my my Cert IV and then my Diploma of Community Services. I was also working at Coles four days a week so I think I was studying four days and working four days so there was one day where I was both studying and working. It was terrible. I think I had a day off. I used to have a day off during that during the week but then I had to start doing a youth program thing. It was quite shit. Like that experience because TAFE isn't hard right it's like the kind of like the simplest form of a upper level of education you can get. That experience has always always firmly had me believe that people should be able to study and not work because I can't imagine anyone who's both working and studying will achieve the same results that they would if they were just studying. Like your focus should be on learning and retaining that information you know for the workforce not on doing some menial tasks so you can buy yourself Maccas. |
| 23. March 2021 | Balancing work and social life | Balancing Work and Life It's a long one. Hey Matto, long time YouTube viewer, been getting more into Twitch, always good to see you cheerful in life, finding it hard to distance myself from work and meet people. I feel like I've pushed away my friends and I feel like I'm an anti-social jackass who pushes people away. I feel like I'm just too far gone to be able to change as a person. Have you ever had problems being a workaholic and if you do, if you have any advice on how to just, how you can stop looking for distractions, much love? I have no advice for that. I, all I do is work and I've never had good friends, I've never had any strong relationships. The friends I had in my younger years, I honestly think, reflecting upon it, we weren't particularly compatible, had different interests. I have never been good at making friends, meeting people. I consider myself asocialism that I'm not social, anti-social is a little bit stronger. My advice is to do what I'm going to be doing, which is just try, you know? If you consider this to be a problem, research on how to solve it and actively work to change it. First, reflecting upon whether you do really consider this to be a problem. Do you like your job? Do you find satisfaction in it? Do you really want to have stronger relationships and friends? Or do you feel obligated to do that? Like as if, cause sometimes when I reflect upon not having a lot of friends and not having strong relationships in the past or now, I sometimes wonder, do I actually want these things or do I think I should want these things? I sometimes don't know. And I'm going to find out, hopefully. Your job might be different. In my case, my job has a time limit. Where like if you're living a long career, you've got you can take time off and do these kind of things. But for me, if I don't work now, I might not have a job in five years. I might not be popular five years from now. Taking time off to do the social stuff feels as though like five years from now, I could be like, why the fuck didn't I just do a little bit more work then so that I can relax later on? I'm worried about ruining the opportunity I have by seeking other non-work related things. I don't know if that's a circumstance you find yourself in as well, but it's something that weighs upon me. |
| 07. May 2021 | Ban appeal content | Ban appeal content. I had a DFIA that I saw the other day, going through ban appeals on stream. Yeah, I've mentioned that before. It just doesn't- it's not for me. Like, do you really find that stuff enjoyable? Can someone do a straw poll? Do you find ban appeals on stream interesting to watch? Yes, no, I've never seen it. Maybe it's only interesting to you for some streamers or whatever, like just gauge the opinion. I've talked about it with my mods and, uh, Louis doesn't seem like I think it's a great idea and, uh, I've got a lot of stuff to do, you know. But I'm just curious if this is something that viewers actually care about. Or if it's just something that streamers do because they don't have much else to do. 54% said never seen it. What was the other breakdown? 33% said yes, and 13% said no. Interesting. I mean, I- I clicked into Asmongold's stream and he was looking at ban appeals from six months ago. It didn't look super interesting. I mean, like, the reasons why people get banned, I guess, can be kind of funny. And your responses to it can be kind of funny. And you can make a game of it, but it's just- I dunno. I feel like there's a lot of other stuff I can make. There were some funny situations. I mean, I imagine the end YouTube video would be okay. Because then you could just cut out all the boring ones. Because Louis is the person who does my ban appeals and he probably takes too much onto himself. Because, like, the larger I get, the more ban appeals there are. Dark Fiber EU speedrunning ban appeals? Uh... Ludwig has done everything. But Ludwig, I believe, did something similar to that. There's a very- I wouldn't say easy in some cases, but it's a very obvious Joinkin' twist. Where you take something someone else has done and you add challenge to it. So, speedrunning, no damage, pacifist, bingo board. You- you meet certain criteria, you know. The thing plus qualification is the easiest way to Joinkin' twist. |
| 10. June 2020 | Banning People For Different Views From Chat | banning people for different views in chats. We've talked about this many times. There is a certain degree of deviation from anyone's viewpoint that a person's willing to accept, as if a person came in here making a legitimate case that people made out of cheese and that psychic dingos were attempting to unflatten the earth in order to mine diamonds from the now-sophierical earth to power their time machines so they can go back in time and clone Hitler. And this was a legitimate position that they had and were espousing. I have no interest in combating that viewpoint. That person is either mentally ill or so far gone from the foundation that I view as reality that the conversation couldn't go anywhere. It'd be a complete waste of time. A person who believes that there's nothing wrong with the Chinese government and that they've been combating poverty all over the world and they're a bastion of good. It's just so far outside of what is even plausible, given what I know of reality, that having that conversation while I'm streaming just isn't worth it. That person wouldn't necessarily get banned for expressing such views, but they would get banned for expressing them in a way that was overtly hostile and insulting and in a way that was just annoying. It isn't about a lack of challenge. It's, you know, not appearing to be insane, basically. |
| 10. July 2020 | Bare Foot Adventure to Macdonalds | My barefoot adventure to McDonald's. I left the party, I had no one to leave with because people that I knew had left earlier. And I'm like, look, it says on the Google Maps, 10 minutes to McDonald's. 10 minutes walking around in these fucking shoes. I took off these shoes and like fucking booked it barefoot. Like I'm sitting there with my socks on, just my socks, just like fucking sprinting through the fucking city to get to McDonald's. Oh my God. Barefoot Mac is run, as you say that, like the quintessential Australian life. Just fucking booking it. |
| 10. July 2020 | Barefoot Adventure to Mcdonalds | My barefoot adventure to McDonald's. I left the party, I had no one to leave with because people that I knew had left earlier. And I'm like, look, it says on the Google Maps, 10 minutes to McDonald's. 10 minutes walking around in these fucking shoes. I took off these shoes and like fucking booked it barefoot. Like I'm sitting there with my socks on, just my socks, just like fucking sprinting through the fucking city to get to McDonald's. Oh my God. Barefoot Mac is run, as you say that, like the quintessential Australian life. Just fucking booking it. |
| 20. February 2021 | Barriers to CallMeCarson coming back | Barriers to call me Carson coming back to YouTube. Is Carson still alive? He just vanished? Yeah, I mean, because he got all the accusation things with his behavior, we've talked about that before. But an interesting point that someone mentioned to me is, I always said, you know, when Carson wants to come back, he will just come back. You know, his viewership will skyrocket. I have like a video that gets like 6 million views or some shit in like a nanosecond. But another person pointed out like a lot of Carson's content was stuff he did with his friends. Or with other people or whatever. Like while certainly there is no limit of people who would just immediately at the drop of a hat do content with Carson for the views or the cloud or whatever, Carson might or Carson might not necessarily be interested in that, you know. He seemed like a dude who was happy making videos with his friends and he might not be interested in making content if he can't do that shit, you know. He's still a massive streamer. Is he? Maybe in the case where your content is maybe collaboration based, I think an apology video is probably necessary. You wait a couple of months and you make an apology and then like other content creators will be like, oh, you know, well, he did apologize. He's changed his ways. So I guess, you know, I can forgive him and we can make content again, you know. Your apology video has to have a dog. You know, that's just, that's just points you're leaving on the table, guys. If you can have a cute dog next to you and maybe a cat as well, that's like an additional three points to your apology video. If you can't bring yourself to cry, just claw at your eyes to make it look like you are crying. The best apology video was made by Jack's film. And I think that's what you're referencing. I made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgment. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. It's very fun. It's him, of course, it's not an actual apology video. It's him mocking apology videos. Jack's films over the years, satirizing different trends and stuff, has always been fairly funny. It feels like he hasn't done a lot of that in recent years. I mean, has there been many? Yeah, Jack's films definitely had a lot of memes. He's a talented dude. He just doesn't seem to do as much as he used to, or rather he does other things. He's likely to be bored gaming, making a show and da da da. |
| 20. February 2021 | Barriers to callmecarson coming back | Barriers to call me Carson coming back to YouTube. Is Carson still alive? He just vanished? Yeah, I mean, because he got all the accusation things with his behavior, we've talked about that before. But an interesting point that someone mentioned to me is, I always said, you know, when Carson wants to come back, he will just come back. You know, his viewership will skyrocket. I have like a video that gets like 6 million views or some shit in like a nanosecond. But another person pointed out like a lot of Carson's content was stuff he did with his friends. Or with other people or whatever. Like while certainly there is no limit of people who would just immediately at the drop of a hat do content with Carson for the views or the cloud or whatever, Carson might or Carson might not necessarily be interested in that, you know. He seemed like a dude who was happy making videos with his friends and he might not be interested in making content if he can't do that shit, you know. He's still a massive streamer. Is he? Maybe in the case where your content is maybe collaboration based, I think an apology video is probably necessary. You wait a couple of months and you make an apology and then like other content creators will be like, oh, you know, well, he did apologize. He's changed his ways. So I guess, you know, I can forgive him and we can make content again, you know. Your apology video has to have a dog. You know, that's just, that's just points you're leaving on the table, guys. If you can have a cute dog next to you and maybe a cat as well, that's like an additional three points to your apology video. If you can't bring yourself to cry, just claw at your eyes to make it look like you are crying. The best apology video was made by Jack's film. And I think that's what you're referencing. I made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgment. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. It's very fun. It's him, of course, it's not an actual apology video. It's him mocking apology videos. Jack's films over the years, satirizing different trends and stuff, has always been fairly funny. It feels like he hasn't done a lot of that in recent years. I mean, has there been many? Yeah, Jack's films definitely had a lot of memes. He's a talented dude. He just doesn't seem to do as much as he used to, or rather he does other things. He's likely to be bored gaming, making a show and da da da. |
| 08. June 2020 | Bath water merch | Bath water in my merch. Does your merch mug come filled with bath water? I mean, there's not a 0% chance that it does. I mean, it's not... That's not a thing you should expect. But you never know. Maybe someone will... Use it in the bath and, you know, send you bath water as well. You never know. Crazier things have happened. |
| 19. October 2022 | Battery packs for your phone are good | Battery packs for your phone are good. You have no idea how refreshing it is to look at your phone and be like, I've already lost 12% on my battery? That's insane! And then you just like, take out your battery pack, and you just plug that shit in, and then just fully charge. It's like, that's great! I might permanently carry around a battery pack. Nah, I don't go anywhere, so what would be the point? You know. My Uber driver... |
| 25. July 2022 | Battling to become relevant on YouTube Shorts | battling to become relevant on YouTube shorts. So for those who are unaware, I have a fairly successful TikTok. It has 550,000 followers or whatever, but followers aren't really important on TikTok. You can find people with 3 million followers who are getting no views or whatever, because a substantial amount of people just use the for you page, as opposed to the follower page. Similar to how on YouTube it's all recommendations rather than subscribers or whatever. When I say all, I mean, you know, it's like 90% recommendations, 10% subscribers. But I've always wanted to be successful on YouTube shorts, because I've seen people pop off hugely with that shit. And I was very successful with my clips channel. My clips channel did really well for a very long time, until, you know, a lot more competition came in, so thanks. And I just had less content, like I oversaturated the market, but whatever. It's not important. But basically, I released this video, my first short ever on my main channel, and it's actually done pretty well. And because of this, I'm probably going to keep doing this, where whenever I release a facts and glitches video, I'm going to release one of the facts as a short alongside it. I've had an issue recently reaching new people, and the shorts does seem to enable me to do that. Maybe because the algorithm is different from the normal part of the website, which you may have realized, like when you first start using shorts, you aren't getting recommended the same content that you get in the normal YouTube section, right? But you can see how you don't get any money from YouTube shorts. But that's not the point, right? Why just one? I do not want to spend too much time making YouTube shorts. A facts and glitches video will make, you know, 50 times this amount of money. So I want to put out more shorts on the main channel, but not have it take up too much of my time. It can't be a main focus. Most of you will probably know that I have a shorts channel, and it has never been successful. It's weird because I uploaded the exact same content, the exact same content that I put on TikTok onto the channel, and it never did well. I got like one video that popped off, maybe two, which for me is at least suggestive. I've overused this content. Like, I mean, I put it on my main channel, I put it on TikTok, I put it on clips, and I put it on shorts. Surely people are sick of what a lot of these clips are showing. The second though is these videos weren't made for shorts, the 9x16 ratio. The reason why on my main channel the video did a lot better is because that was the first video I made for 9x16. The entire video's construction, the captions and stuff, everything was, I want this short to do well. Where with these, it's just, here's content that I made before in 16x9, I'm just going to convert it very quickly into 9x16. And clearly it just didn't do as well. It's not my fault YouTube shorts recommendations have always been weird, but it is my fault. I mean, this is suggestive of that to a degree, where I lazily threw together my already existing content into 9x16, and the second I actually tried to make something for that format, it's done very well. I'm not sure I'll delete this channel or something, but what if you just got lucky this time? Yeah, exactly. It's possible. That's why it's suggestive, not an absolute fact based on, I mean, I'd say the short I made had a lot going for it, because it was a very interesting short. |
| 25. November 2022 | Be purged if you criticize Elon Musk. | Be purged if you criticize Elon Musk. So Twitter's issues continue to reign supreme. How much of a shit fest the site has become and how much uncertainty exists. So Elon tweeted out, All unpaid legacy blue check marks will be removed in a few months. I guess that includes mine, I don't know. But I wanted to criticize this on Twitter that Elon Musk is fucking insane and fires any of his staff that say any negative things about him whether publicly or privately. Apparently we found out like on Slack servers like people even slightly criticize Elon and we fired the next fucking day. I'm not risking losing my Twitter account to criticize this man who has no interest in allowing anyone to say anything negative about him ever. Not worth the risk. Especially after he banned all those clearly parody accounts, whatever. The current system for verified check marks is so fucking dumb, right? This verified tab now is, hey, pay attention to anyone who gave $8 to Elon Musk. That's what this whole tab is about. They even moved mentions to the side to be like, hey, pay attention to people who paid $8. Pay attention please, do it now. Before it was like someone of some significance may have mentioned you in some capacity or tried to interact with you. And that was fine. Like maybe half the time it was just some random person who worked for some organization or whatever. But at least it had some value. Now it's like, hey, $8. They paid $8, he did it, go look at him. All these people are just like random people with $8. Why would I care what they think over anyone else? This entire tab is completely pointless. It sickens me that so much of what has changed at Twitter and Elon's focus when he took over was the verification check mark. Like, holy shit, of all the things that mattered to the business of Twitter, who had a small check mark next to their name was not the most important thing. It didn't matter. It never mattered. I don't care how many butthurt people were like, man, I always wanted the tick mark next to my name. Who cares? It wasn't the important part of Twitter. So I don't understand why Elon's 99% focus and 99% of what he talks about on the platform is related to that fucking check mark. Holy shit. But apparently on at least some platforms, not mine currently, they are going to be changing the Twitter blue check mark back to what it was before Elon went fucking brain dead and changed it to be exactly the same as the verified check mark. I don't know if this is rolled out everywhere. Who fucking knows what's going on Twitter these days? But apparently this may now become a thing for some people sometimes. Like that already existed, remember? And that he specifically changed it away from something sensible to something brain dead. There's a lot of speculation, of course, that's hard to verify because obviously Twitter employees don't really wanna speak out vocally against Lord King God, Elon Musk, because they will just be fired immediately. But from one of the remaining Twitter employees, it, Twitter, has about a week left before it's dead. I know of six critical systems like serving tweets levels of critical which no longer have any engineers. There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast a lot until it runs into something and then it will stop. New Twitter just alerted employees that effective immediately all office buildings are temporarily closed and badge access is suspended. No details are given as to why. What I'm hearing from Twitter employees, it looks like roughly 75% of the remaining 3,700-ish Twitter employees have not opted to stay after the hardcore email. Even though the deadline has passed, everyone still has access to their systems. So basically, it's a shit fest. We've all known it's a shit fest. And Elon tweeting this out didn't give comfort anyone. How do you make a small fortune in social media? Start out with a large one. You know how you make a larger fortune in social media? You leave people in charge, you know what the fuck they're doing and you don't just randomly fire staff and threaten them, because it just pisses everyone off. I'm still in the position that it's hard to imagine Twitter is gonna go away, but as I kept saying from the get-go, Elon Musk has no fucking idea what he's doing. He doesn't know how to run a social media. And he's failed at like most of the businesses that he started, whether it be his boring company and his specialized tunnels or his hyperloop garbage, things that don't make sense in the realm of physics, but he just says, hey, let's just do it anyway, because you know, whatever, or his dancing goddamn robot. He's in over his head, he's dumb. There was a good quote here. It's something I've said before. All these people who sincerely believed that Twitter was run by this woke SJW culture and all their decisions of banning and what advertisements exist on the platform and all that shit was just a matter of pushing an agenda. You are insane, I'm sorry. It may seem that way to you, but I've got a news flash for you. Nationalistic ideas, particular political ideas, let's say, are not popular with advertisers. The reason why companies are fine making their badges into rainbows and shit is because this stuff is more popular globally with the people who use Twitter and advertisers in general. It shouldn't surprise you. The companies that have the most money are global entities and are thus not going to be favorable towards things that are more niche or nationalistic or suggest some sort of racial superiority or something of a particular group of people in one part of the world. It's just business. If it were the case that this kind of stuff was hyper-popular and just the thing that brought in the most viewers and was good for brands to associate with, that would be the dominant stuff on Twitter. If Twitter survives, all Elon is going to discover is that after trialing all these dumb things that don't work, he's gonna fall back on to doing exactly what the previous Twitter higher-ups were doing because that did at least once or twice get them into profitability. These decisions weren't being made for ideological reasons, they were being made for business reasons. The idea that Elon could make Twitter profitable while doing none of the kind of censoring of content that is required to keep advertisers happy is nonsense. As run the incident, they are the majority of the income for all social medias and therefore what they want goes. And what they want is stuff that is popular globally. I'm sorry. Your particular niche fucking belief that you have that people on 4chan love isn't the way most people think. I am sorry. |
| 27. April 2022 | Beans! | Beans! Woke up and I'm like, I wanna try some new food. Which is usually a big reason why I feel like shit. It's like Zombino's or something, or some name. I got myself a bowl of meat and cheese and taco chips, a taco bowl. There you go. And I opened it and there was a bug. A living bug. But I convinced myself that it wasn't actually in the food. It was caught in the side of the container. And it was so tiny, like microscopic. I was like, this is gonna be fine. I'm just gonna eat this anyway. So I eat it and I feel like shit. There's that. Also I got like a burrito from them and I said, no beans. I just don't want beans. Don't put beans in. I don't like beans. I don't like the texture and stuff. Just don't put beans in. They put beans in all through it. It's like, ah, well, good thing I'm already full off the taco bowl. I don't have to eat this. Because I would have had it already been full. It's uh, beans suck. Fuck beans. I mean, figuratively speaking, literally fucking beans would probably be quite uncomfortable. Presumably. |
| 30. May 2020 | Beard maintenance | How long have you been growing your beard for? Since the day I was born. How do I keep it as it is? I do nothing to my beard. It just grows. |
| 09. July 2022 | Becoming a Roblox creator | actually need to do shit and apparently you don't. Becoming a Roblox creator. Are you OK that we told chat about your change in like your content pivot? Oh, yeah, it's totally fine. We'll come out sooner or later. I just thought that is of to know, like, so that maybe like the people that like Roblox can subscribe like now, you know. I mean, you joke, but I was actually considering playing Roblox for April Fools. Why not? Why not just all or just forever? Why stop at April Fools? Do you know there is a Dark Viper who plays Roblox? A different one. Yeah, it's a whole big thing because we were the two only successful Dark Vipers. And he was willing to change his name because technically I became famous with the name Dark Viper first. So he's now a DV place. What a guy. Yeah, he played Roblox with his. |
| 27. November 2020 | Becoming a meme | Becoming a meme. I would love to become a meme in some capacity. Or I suppose I would like to become one in a positive way, you know? I suppose no meme lasts forever, but it would be a little bit of an honor, you know? Of course we have memes for my own community, but like that meme with critical. Uh, woo baby! This is what we're waiting for. Yeah, this is what it's all about. Woo! I love their meme. Wholesome excited meme. Now the more popular you are, the easier it is for something that you do to become a meme. When you're so popular that you already are the mainstream, anything you do that is a running joke kind of becomes that mainstream kind of meme. |
| 14. May 2020 | Becoming a variety content creator | Etobio question, would you have you considered becoming a variety content creator? I kind of am in that I'm expanding out to playing, you know, expanding out a slight bit further out from my current content as in like I was GTA 5 and then I was other GTA games and now I'm GTA clones. But I have played a lot of other different games over the course of my time on Twitch as you have now likely seen as on my YouTube channel I'm having highlights made of the older footage. It's not worth my time to play games that I'm not likely going to enjoy or that my viewers aren't likely going to enjoy. There's this happy medium where I can have the biggest amount of my viewers possible happy and me happy at the same time. And those games seem to be GTA clones because it's something familiar but different. You know, and so I am a variety streamer in that way in that I've expanded from simply being a speedrunner where I speedrun every day but I'm not a variety streamer in the sense that I play literally. |
| 05. April 2021 | Becoming better able to communicate your emotions. | Becoming better able to communicate your emotions. It's funny, I was watching a video recently, I told you about the um, a video talking about how to do like small talk well and talking about Joe Rogan and his techniques. This isn't again an endorsement of everything Joe Rogan does, I'm just saying he is good with making conversation flows in his podcast, right? And one of the things that the video mentioned is don't fake laugh, but let yourself laugh. Like if you find something funny and it tickles you that way, you express that, you know? I've noticed I laugh a lot more than I used to. I wonder how much of that is just me letting myself express my emotions. Letting myself communicate how I feel versus like that I'm just a happier person than I was in the past. I'm not sure, maybe both. As may be seen with the Moodahar thing, maybe my willingness to communicate how I feel in the most obvious terms possible, maybe not good for sensitive people. But in general I think it's a good thing. And certainly I very much so enjoy not bottling up my emotions, you know? Laughing is really good, not gonna lie. Try it sometime. Do that thing from Final Fantasy VII and just laugh at the ocean. Ha ha ha ha ha! Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 16. June 2022 | Behind ever scam there are endless ruined lives | Behind every scam there are endless ruined lives. That's why I think about every time I hear one of these stories about some cryptocurrency crashing, or NFT scams and stuff, where rug pulls, where they just run off with the money. Like that hundred million dollar figure is just countless people whose previous ten years of life or whatever has just been rendered effectively meaningless in regards to financial security. It's just gone. Like how do you recover from that mentally? I'm sure on some level you just say to yourself, if you're strong enough, you just go, well, I have no choice but to soldier on. Like I have a hard enough time investing in anything, because I just don't like the stress. But I suppose I have the luxury that I'm well off. A lot of what inspires people to invest is to get into a situation that I'm in already. Like when I went down to Melbourne, and people were making fun of me, just in a friendly kind of way, for not having any investments. And I was like, I just work, you know? Not everyone has that luxury. If you're working a nine to five, and you're afraid of your future, I can understand why you might get taken in by one of these scam artists, and buy into something. Maybe if you were in a different circumstance, you would be able to understand that clearly they're promising things that they can't possibly deliver on. But you're just so desperate to secure your future, that you buy into stuff that you shouldn't. I want to invest, the main reason I want to is because money doesn't keep up with inflation. Yeah, exactly, exactly. I bought my house, as I say, in part, so people will bother me less, and I can spend more time on my content, and I can improve the house to make my content better. But also for that reason. Derby Premier. |
| 07. February 2022 | Being 30 is weird. | Being 30 is weird. I am exactly 30. 30 and a half actually, I suppose. It's not like it's my birthday today. 30 is a weird set of years because you're old to people who are young, but you're young to people who are old. Old is a relative thing. |
| 29. January 2021 | Being a large vs small streamer | Being a small streamer versus being a large streamer. I begun talking about this when Twitch's chat system went down and I could no longer see my audience. It's been a long time chat, since I've had to just talk without the benefit of having a chat. It's one of those things that I've mentioned many times where there are certainly more, like there are some difficulties with being a larger streamer, but in general, the larger you are as a streamer, the easier the actual process of streaming is. Because you always have something to talk about or to respond to, and you always have people who can help you with any small problem that you have on stream. Being a smaller streamer and always talking on stream, always being engaged, when you only have a small amount of- a small viewership is very difficult. It's why if you can just start with 50 viewers, it's like you're in a much better position. Especially considering that the lower your view count, the higher the average amount of messages sent per viewer. Because if you're in a 50 viewer stream, you can almost guarantee that your message is going to be seen. So you have a greater incentive to send a message. Where in a larger stream, you know, the odds of your message being seen is tiny. So many people go, why bother sending the message at all, you know? In the smaller streams, it's more of a potential conversation with the streamer. In the very large streams, it's more like you're in a crowd and you're cheering being a part of the crowd, you know? I would have no problem doing this run without a chat. What makes this difficult is I know that this is going to be YouTube content. And because it's going to be YouTube content, I should be saying stuff. I should be talking about stuff. If it were just a matter of me doing the run by myself, I'd be totally chill to do that, man. I would have like some YouTube video on to my side. I'd just be listening to it while I played the game. It has been so long since I've played a game while listening to a YouTube video. That was my life for years. Just playing World of Warcraft, no volume, farming achievements, picking up critters, farming pet battles, whatever the garbage I was doing, and listening to YouTube or listening to movies or TV shows or whatever the fuck. I'd look over once. I would watch TV shows and whenever it would sound like there was a scene change, I would look over, see what the scene looked like, and then just focus on the game again. I was a weird person. I'm a weird person now. Finding Twitch made things so much easier to get some good background noise, right? I wish I had found Twitch earlier. I really do. I listen to people talk about the old days of Twitch and clearly worse times, but I wish I had that history. I wish I'd be in part of that history, you know? As I've said before, though, I've often lamented that I didn't start doing Twitch earlier, but it's possible had I started earlier, I wouldn't have started speedrunning GTA V. I wouldn't have become successful doing this. The variables that were necessary for me to succeed or realize that I could succeed at all wouldn't have been there. Maybe those first few viewers who had stuck by me and talked to me or whatever, and told me to continue doing what I'm doing, maybe they wouldn't have been there and I would have quit, who knows? But it's also possible that I would have got in at the right time, been as successful as I am now but earlier, and then, you know, become even bigger than I am now. You can't run that simulation, you know? But I'm very thankful to a lot of people who were there in the beginning. Like NuroZo, for example, who would, like, every month or whatever give me 50 bucks. Just cause. He liked me as a person who liked my content. And I was just like, oh, wow, you know? Or Mudkips and Riddlez and Griever and, you know, Ren and Julia and just all these people. I- I- I- There's so many people. I- I wonder how many people who were there in the beginning have no idea how successful I've become and have no idea that they were, in some small way, important to my success. Of all the messages to be able to come through, that's a message that came through? Aren't you bored of GTA? That's some fucking terrible RNG. I fucking hate that question. God damn. |
| 22. March 2021 | Being a master at something sounds great until you hear the work involved | It's good as me. There are many skills in life that would be cool to have, but when you realize what it takes to have those skills, you immediately are like, no, it's not worth it. It'd be great to be amazing at karate. Oh, what it takes 10,000 hours to get that good? Okay, nevermind that. I would love to be able to speak another language. I mean, not growing up learning one, like just learning one, just the hell of it, in late age, like, oh, you have to go to all this effort. It's like, well, okay, fuck it. I'd like to be a master chef. Oh, what's that 10,000 hours? Ah, you know, I got stuff to do. Like I got these TV shows I'm watching right now. I don't really have the time. Obviously I know a lot about GTA and I'm arguably pretty good at the game, but when I say to you, hey, you'll have to spend 8,000 hours to get to this point of knowledge and proficiency. You'd be like, eh, I think I'll pass. I got better stuff to do. Like if you were gonna pick a skill to throw 8,000 hours at, let's say you had to pick one, it's not gonna be GTA V. It's gonna be really low on your list. I am just fortunate that it happens to have led to a decent career for me. Arguably though, I've said before, arguably I am not as good as you would expect me to be, given how many hours I have in this game. I gotta think about all those people though who have 8,000 hours in a game and it's just a hobby for them. Clearly not a waste of time of course, because it's entertainment or whatever for them, but that I can play a game that I really enjoy for this many hours and have it be a career is the dream come true. How long is 8,000 hours in days? It's almost a year. I think I'm like 400 and something. Okay, 8,760 hours in a year. Yeah, so I'm almost a year. Non-English speaking copycat content creators. What do you think? |
| 14. June 2021 | Being a streamer means repeated questions | questions. What questions you repeatedly get your dislike answering? Oh you have no idea. I made the mistake of mentioning something in Rambles once and oh boy was that a fun week. As of all of thumb, once you get to a certain size and you're still willing to read your chat, you will get a handful of questions just endlessly. If there is a motivation for one person to ask a really stupid question, that motivation is not likely unique to that person and so you will hear that question every day for the rest of your life. Always keep in mind that this job is fucking awesome. The perks of it, the benefits of it are so cool but it has a lot of downsides as well and obviously the perks, the positives, far outweigh the downsides or else I wouldn't do it right? But that doesn't make those downsides any less annoying. I mean that's basically everything in life. Everything in life has some sort of downsides and you do those things because the upsides are better than the downsides. Make an FAQ? No one uses it exactly. Making an FAQ effectively does nothing except clogs up your description. Always speak at any questions I think of have already been asked and that's the thing though. Some questions that you hate answering are perfectly reasonable for people to ask. I remember like even as a speedrunner I remember stopping into a stream where Distortion was testing some new strategy and I say in chat like, oh so what's this strategy about? I thought it was stuff like, look at his up times like six hours I'm like well he's probably got that question like 99 times in the last six hours. It's uh like if you join and you don't have the information unless you ask you're not gonna get it. Although normally when I'm asking in chat like that it's less directed the streamer and more directed at the chat so people can answer the questions you know because often there's like bot things that answer people you know. In some way maybe it would be good like if there was a private mod chat where people could specifically talk to the mods. They want to ask something but not have me see it or something but I guess they could do that with whispers and stuff you know but people wouldn't use that anyway. |
| 01. September 2020 | Being angry due to being ignored | Being angry due to being ignored Sometimes regardless of how justified I feel my anger is and my complaints are It's probably in my best interest not to complain as much I just have this streak of like it sucks to be ignored It really really sucks as long as I believe that I've been heard and if there's a problem that it's being worked on I'm very content to sit, you know Promise is gonna be done in three weeks. I'm like, okay great. I have something to look forward to them, but silence Be ignored not knowing if you've been heard or it's thanks being worked on being worked on it's such a frustrating experience |
| 08. September 2022 | Being changed by success in the creator economy | being changed by success in the creator economy. There are so many much more harmful things that exist than reaction content, but the world is so ambiguous and my ability to affect other forms of harm in the world is very minor. This topic I know a lot about, I know I can convince people if I'm just given a shot, and I can impact things, and that makes it more of immediate interest to me. But at the same time, as I believe Josh Strife-Hays once said to me, I am to some degree fighting the tide. The tide's got energy for days, it's never gonna run out. I'm eventually gonna get tired and get swept away. I often speculate to what degree the bad creators, these scummy creators, I always wonder to what degree these people started this way, or to what degree this industry changed them. Because sometimes I can almost feel myself changing. Let me tell you about a disgusting moment, chat. When I was down in Melbourne and I had been given a new headset from Sony and I didn't want to take it on the plane, when TGG said to me, man it's worth like 500 bucks, man, you should take it, I'm like, I don't care, man. I actually said to him, I'm rich, I don't need this shit. And when those words left my mouth, I was a bit drunk, don't get me wrong, but I'm like, wow, that is just like, gross. What a gross thing to say. Like I would never have said anything like that in the past, irrespective of my finances. And I just, I like, I had like a crisis of like, who am I? What happened? I just want to think I said it because I was drunk, but when that happened, I'm like, man, how much this industry changed you? It's taxing, always getting presented with somewhat underhanded things that you can do to make more money or to gain additional success. Times when you can push aside your morals and beliefs and just to get that little bit further ahead, or you know, you're great on the line of the gray area, or you deal with the constant negativity that is pervasive. Even if it's only 1% of the interactions you have with people, it's so constant that sometimes you just want to go, fuck the universe, fuck everyone. I'm just going to be an island in of myself and just play the online world as a game. Like I'm not there yet, but, and I hope I never get to that point where I just have complete lack of compassion for others, but moments like that scare me. That one day I'm going to wake up and, you know, be a Logan Paul or some shit, and a rice gum or something. I know that there are things that I do today that I would not have found acceptable five years ago. I suppose you could say, once upon a time, when things weren't relevant to my life, I held more ambiguous positions. The line that I drew was not necessarily as hard fixed in a particular point, but as those things became more relevant as I became a larger content creator, things that I thought I wouldn't be willing to do, turns out I was like, oh yeah, this isn't that bad actually. Certain sponsorships that I've taken, certain content that I make, like the Reddit recap for instance. You can hear me five years ago being like, man, this content where it's just like the audiences submitting stuff to like Jack's films or whatever. That's just lazy content. I never said it where you shouldn't do it or it's immoral or something or whatever, but I never thought I'd get to the point where I'd be doing that kind of stuff. Clarifying my thought. |
| 24. December 2019 | Being critical of the practices of other YouTubers | Being critical of the practices of other youtubers. I often try not to be critical of people who do things on YouTube that I disagree with or that I consider somewhat scummy because as I'm in a good position where I don't have to rely on YouTube for my revenue Twitch is far more consistent in your revenue than YouTube is even though Twitch isn't massively consistent either. For some people on YouTube if their views dip 20% 30% they won't be able to pay their rent and shit so it's in their in their interest that they have to be like as clickbaity as possible man continuously get people in. If you're on the edge of your bankruptcy or death situation or whatever I can't be highly critical of you for doing scummy shit. Or at least I can still be critical of you if you're really harming your audience but like if you're if you're somewhat bamboozling your audience and being a little bit clickbaity I can be kind of forgiving of that if you're just trying to make it or whatever. The people I'm most critical of are like you remember when Logan Paul and Ricegum and shit were doing like sponsorships for mystery boxes where it's just it's like the skin gambling thing or whatever or it's just loot boxes but it's clearly a scam and it's like hey if you open this mystery box for five dollars you have a one in a million chance of winning this luxury mansion or whatever. Complete scam. Complete scam. And these guys are making so much fucking money but they still took sponsorships from these people. It's just fucked. Oh Jake Paul did it? I'm sorry. Whatever. There's a YouTube channel that I really really hate related to GTA content. It's this dude who's like I found a Megalodon shark in GTA 5 oh my god and it's just a mod but he presents every one of his videos as if it's you know him actually finding a secret in GTA 5. He takes mods that were made by other people and pretends they're rockstar creations from the game and he's found the secret. Scummy as fuck. For one thing he doesn't give credit to the people who make the mods. For two he doesn't give people access to the mods. For three he's directly misrepresenting the content. Certainly some people who watch know their mods. Often the top comment will be hey this is a cool I don't care if it's a mod but it's a substantial amount of people don't know and they click on the video you know expecting it to be legitimately representing GTA 5 content. I present my content well. Nothing that I do with my content what I call clickbait in the sense that if you look at my thumbnails what you see in my thumbnails is what you get in the video. My thumbnails consist just of stuff in the video. That facial expression that you see I am making that in the video. The scene that you see that is from the video. The title always relates to something in the video but it is still presented in the most captivating way possible you know. I have never seen this mission fail before. Sounds clickbait but it's true. The end of the video I said that in the episode but I could have certainly touted it like there is a car pile up that fails the mission. Less interesting. Less captivating you know. Like there's a fine line between presenting things in a captivating way and misrepresenting your content you know. There's this video ProZD. Okay I've got the headline. Pedro Pascal joins Wonder Woman 2. No no no you gotta tickle their balls a little bit. Okay Game of Thrones actor joins Wonder Woman superhero film. Tickle them more. Actor joins film. How about this you won't believe actor joins film. Why wouldn't they believe an actor would join a film. Wait you won't believe. You won't believe? Won't believe? That doesn't mean anything. Why would 80,000 people share it on Facebook? I mean it said I wouldn't believe it. You admire my integrity? Integrity is a thing that is very easy to have when your back isn't against the wolves. I am in a good spot right now. I have that luxury of being able to pick and choose. That's why I say I try not to be critical of people who are barely getting by. If my back was to the wolves as well I would likely have a completely different... I would convince myself differently as to what is acceptable. Like you should see um whatever's content whatever passionately hates clickbait. There are stuff that I do with my videos that he would find unacceptable. He he said to me that he likes that I've become successful without clickbait so clearly he doesn't see this particularly egregious. And obviously when I look at whatever's content I sometimes think man just you should present yourself a little bit better dude. It's some good content here and you're cutting... |
| 06. June 2022 | Being disliked due to misunderstandings | Being disliked due to misunderstandings. I always read the comments whenever I get brought up anywhere. And it depends on the place where the comments occur as to whether they're positive or not. In general they're mainly positive, except I get these occasional comments where they're like, are that guy just a clout chaser? Or isn't that the guy who said that all reactors are rapists? Or whatever. I'm looking at this like, these people haven't watched a single one of my fucking videos. That's the only solace I can really take in that I know that no one who watches my content could believe such stupidity. It's just not doable. Even the case where people won't accept the context or the motivating factors that led to me making those analogies in the very first document, they don't usually think terribly of me because they know my content and they know why I make it. I saw a person leave a comment on the very first video and they were like, oh man, you're just jealous of these larger creators, man. It's just jealousy that's inspiring you. And I responded like, did you watch the video? I went back to that comment a couple of hours later and they changed it, they edited it, so they said, what was it? I actually want to get the exact thing they said. It was just something like, let me go. Yeah, it was this one. They wrote something originally here saying that I was just a clout chaser, whatever. I said, did you watch the video? And then they changed it. I agree now. You made some good points. I take back my comment. And I do this all the time. I don't know if I sound arrogant when I say this, but I'm very confident that anyone who dislikes me generally does so for misunderstandings or an ignorance of what I do or who I am, as opposed to legitimate reasons. That isn't to say that people couldn't dislike me for ideological reasons. Certainly that is more likely to be a thing, right? I could support positions that people find abhorrent or what have you. But people will often ascribe to me things that I simply did not do or think ill of me for things that, again, I didn't do. And it's very frustrating to see. The funniest comments were always, I swear to you, half a dozen, maybe more than that, comments from people who are like, I understand everything here and I'm in complete agreement, but maybe that's because I study economics. Because it's like, yeah, you're just talking about how markets work and market forces. And like, yeah, pretty much. And as I said to Carl, when we had our conversation, he said these are new ideas. I'm like, well, they're kind of new ideas, but it's more that I'm applying ideas that exist in other areas of discourse to our industry that don't normally get thought about. Like one of Charlie's original things that he said that really stuck with me in his first video was when he said, he's taking his knowledge of capitalism and markets and stuff and that stuff doesn't apply to YouTube. And like, yes, it does. This is a market like any other. |
| 31. July 2022 | Being entertaining is hard. | Being entertaining is hard. Most video games are not made with the purpose of enabling a person playing it to be entertaining. That is not the goal when they're making the video game. Consequently, it can sometimes be hard to make something on screen entertaining. I recognize that a lot of people have low standards for like streaming content for example, but they just want something on in the background. It's just like, yeah, whatever. Eat chillin', I'm chillin', all good. But making them to YouTube content, you kind of gotta work. Make jokes, do interesting things. And that takes energy. There's tons of games that I want to play, but I also want to make content out of them. So I gotta wake up in the morning and think to myself, do I feel good enough mentally and physically to actually go through the procedure of enjoying myself to the maximum degree and making jokes and stuff? |
| 08. June 2022 | Being finally free in virtual reality. | Being finally free in virtual reality. I 100% guarantee you chat, one day when my career is over, I'm going to get like the best VR system ever and like, just like dance in VR. I am too repressed in real life to dance for any fucking reason. I could win a million dollars and I would not dance, but uh, in a virtual reality where no one knew me, I think I could. And I think that would be very liberating, you know? To be completely divorced from concerns about uh, how people perceive me and stuff. In the real world, those inhibitions are just so oppressive to what I do and how I express myself. Although they have declined over the years, as you can tell by me screaming you disingenuous dense motherfucker, but they're still there. And it would be interesting to live for a time without consideration for them. Stream it? No, don't defeat the point. It saddens me to hear your words. It is always important to remember chat that I am a flawed person, just like everyone else. You know, you all got different flaws and my one is uh, that. I mean, inhibited person. At least in real life. On the internet, I can express myself a bit better. |
| 30. September 2021 | Being fired vs quitting | Being fired versus quitting. Better be tired than fired. Yeah guys, don't fire me. Please let me continue to stream. It's interesting though, I mean, viewers do kind of fire streamers when they lose interest. And then you're kind of fired. Without anyone really telling you that you're fired, you know? You just fade away. Can you imagine that, uh, that's how you get fired from a normal job? You just get less and less work. Less and less people pay attention to you. Until eventually you're doing nothing and no one acknowledges your existence. And you just leave. Better to be fired than quit? Nah man, it's better to quit than be fired. Because having a firing on your employment history doesn't look as good as, uh, you know, you just quitting. Like a lot of places will, uh, as an act of courtesy tell you that you're gonna be fired. And they'll give you like two weeks to quit. Like, hey, so we're gonna fire you. But, uh, there's no real malice here. If you wanna quit, feel free. Of course, depending upon your circumstances, it is not always better to... Actually that's probably what you're talking about, isn't it? Because you don't get unemployment immediately if you quit in some countries. |
| 04. March 2022 | Being genuine on stream. | Being genuine on stream. Still more interesting than most streamers? I disagree. But I'm happy you think so. Your content feels way more genuine than 99% of other streamers, YouTubers? I guess when you stream your work, and you endlessly get frustrated, and fail at stuff, and get cranky and stuff, you're gonna come off as more genuine, right? Because I literally have no ability to sanitize myself for the internet. Which is unfortunate, because sometimes I do- I am just a jerk. I get cranky and people say something genuine, I'm like, aww shut up. But I have no desire to be perceived as a perfect person. Cause I am certainly not. I want to be perceived as I am. A badger. I just- I just thought, what's a random thing that I could end this sentence with? That's what I went with. Matt, you yelled at me before, and it made my whole day. I'm happy some people take it that way. |
| 16. June 2022 | Being half way through life | halfway through life. This is a weird thing to think about, right? But whenever I see someone who dies in their 60s, I'm like, holy shit, I'm like halfway through my life. That's nuts. I mean, statistically that's not the case. I think statistically men are still dying on average in their 70s, whatever, you know. Like, it's such a long time away, but at the same time, time seems to fly when you get older. Not if you die now, that'll show them. The phenomenon of time going fast, whatever, as you get older is definitely a thing. You live in a cave and drink Pepsi and eat Veggie My Piece, you're really letting the clock run down, buddy. True. But there's still time, chat. I've always said when my career ends here, I want to become like a gym junkie or whatever. I want to spend all my time playing VR and going to the gym. That's my plan. I'm assuming my career will only last another 10 more years, right chat? And by then, VR technology will be amazing, you know. |
| 07. February 2021 | Being held to a higher standard and what drives behaviour. | Being held to higher standards and what drives behavior. I saw that someone commented that they felt like you were more like a prick than a good guy, and I completely disagree. While you definitely are mean sometimes, at least you realize your mistakes which shows you do care. People, I've told this before, people have different standards of what it means to be a prick and not right and it's just a... I had a ramble about this before, I don't really want to repeat it, but it's just life being a content creator. And I've found, as I've gotten larger, people hold larger content creators to standards that are so high that they would never hold anyone to. As in, as a content creator you are expected to be orders of magnitude better than the average person in terms of your conduct. Stuff that regular people do every day, if you do, people will think you're a complete piece of shit. Admittedly there is more responsibility and you do impact people more, so you can understand why they'd be at least somewhat of a higher standard. But I swear sometimes it feels as though people will criticize you for stuff that they themselves do frequently, you know. It's like that rant I had once where it's like I got angry in a video game and people were like, How could you ever be angry in a video game? I'm like, motherfuckers, I'm sure you get angry at video games all the fucking time. Relax. Let me be a normal person for five minutes. It's like I call a person the fuckwit and they're like, How dare you use such language? It's like, have you never called a person on the internet a fuckwit before? Like, I'm sure you have. I'm sure this is the first that you've heard. There's this tendency where it's cultural. In Western countries, when a person acts poorly, people are more likely to assume that this is because of some internal drive or some internal fact. Like, oh, like this person acts poorly, oh, this person's an asshole. In Eastern countries, they're more likely to think, oh, this person's acting poorly. Man, something bad must have happened to them today. It's obviously a difference in person to person. You're biased towards assuming it's internal factors or external factors as to what's causing the behavior that a person's eliciting. But I hope in most cases where I do act poorly, I hope that people give me the benefit of the doubt and they're like, Okay, he's having a bad day as opposed to, man, this guy's an irredeemable asshole. I'll say it one time, I do push myself to achieve the things that I want to achieve. I do work long hours sometimes. I do days where I should take a day off. Maybe I don't, whatever. Sometimes I have a hard time dealing with some of the annoyances of what I do for a living and I act poorly. But I think I, in general, do pretty well with it. Like, I will fully admit, like, binge editing for 13 hours or something in a day is probably not good for you mentally. But I have my eyes set on completing a project. I can kind of get really stuck in it. |
| 01. January 2021 | Being impacted by laws in other countries. | Being impacted by the legislation in other countries. The first thing referenced is the new act that may make DMCA a felony in America. What I think about it, clearly I don't think it's a very good idea for it to be a felony to play copyrighted music without a license or whatever in a live stream or whatever the hell it is. I haven't read the specifics of the bill. All I've heard is the commentary on it. So whether the bill would actually do that, I don't know. It does not seem like a good thing. I would hope it does not pass. There's nothing I can do to change it whether it passes or not. Isn't it wonderful that so much of what happens in America legislatively impacts me directly but I have no ability to have any say over that legislation? I mean directly. My interests in regards to my business and my livelihood are represented by people in other countries that I have no ability to vote for. Can we not have just one Australian representative there to cast one vote for the entire country or something? That'd be nice. Talking about that law about criminal punishment for music, I think your influence in the American elections is greater than the influence of the average American because you influence... Oh yeah, absolutely. You're correct. That's why I said direct. I don't have the ability to directly influence through voting. Given that I can reach a lot of people in America, I can change the way voters feel about any particular issue or educate them on issues that I think are important, leading them to potentially vote in a way that I would consider favorable. There is repercussions to me doing that. Whether they're significant or not, I can't tell you. For example, when I asked people to vote in a way that I wanted them to in the American elections, like overtly I said, hey, vote for this candidate. It should be obvious which one I chose. Some people were mad at me for that. I consider it very much so, whatever. You think Americans have a better idea what it's like living in America? Because of how large America is and how varied America is, being one person in America does not give you that much of an ability to have a broad perspective on the entire country. If anything, your circumstances, your particular circumstances, bias you in favor of looking at America as entirely similar to the circumstances you find yourself in. You're a biased entity looking from one perspective. Where a person who isn't in America, while less motivated to gauge the entire country, at the very least isn't biased from having that one particular perspective in America. You can have a more broad view. What I'm saying is there are benefits and detriments to being an American trying to suss out how all of America is going. And there are benefits and detriments to being a foreigner trying to suss out how all of America is going. If anything, the Americans are probably most likely to have a reasonable broad perspective on how America is going, other people who travel a lot, or have lived in multiple places, or can have a feel of living in the rural versus cities and da da da. Certainly you'd still be biased and you'd still be only looking through your own eyes. And so it would still be important to read, research, news, studies, whatever. What I mean is if you're living in some small town with a thousand people in it, and you live there your entire life, you don't know what the fuck is going on in America, just because you live there. Like, come on, you know? Living in a country does not mean you are educated on that country. Isn't it illegal to tell people who to vote for? No. What are you talking about? To bribe them or to offer them some sort of, what's the word, remuneration or whatever for their vote? You say, hey, I want you to vote for this guy. What are they going to do, put you in jail? You shared an opinion as a foreigner in the prison system. Local and state elections are more important than federal elections. Personally, I think it's poor form for an entertainer to encourage people to vote for someone, but that's just me. So I had this person who legitimately said that attempting to convince my audience of my own perspective is immoral, which is similar to that line of reasoning there. If I have a point of view, doing a particular thing would lead to benefit for you and for other people. I would feel immoral for me to keep that information from you. I'd be like, well, I have this information about this thing that you could do that I feel that would benefit you, me, everyone else, society in general, the future of the human species. I'm just going to keep that shit in the box. Nah, you didn't know that shit, man. It's all good. Like, how is that not anymore? It's like watching a person careening towards a cliff and going, I think it wouldn't be a good idea for me to convince them to do otherwise. I mean, is it my place? Is it my place to stop them going off the cliff? Nah. Like, what type of mindset is that? Certainly, I would say if you don't consider yourself educated on a topic or attempting to manipulate people to act against their own interests, you know, attempting to influence people on either basis is clearly bad. But if you're a well-meaning person who believes you are at least sufficiently educated to have an idea as to what would benefit other people, and maybe you believe other people are less educated on this topic, attending to educate them is a moral thing. Certainly, sometimes that might lead you to, you know, leading people astray and leading them wrong. You just got to realize that is a possibility and just, you know, try your best. The alternative of just never speaking out about issues that matter is not better. At the end of the day, you know, you can take my opinions or not. You can listen to me or not. It's totally up to you. |
| 01. September 2020 | Being misunderstood in rambles | of being misunderstood in this series. The most recent rambles, I accidentally put it in a state where people could watch it before it officially officially released and a hundred people watched it before it actually released correctly and so I got to read those comments and I knew that some people based off those comments I knew when I released it officially there was going to be a significant amount of people who would misunderstand what I was going to say well what I said in the video and it really bothered me I almost didn't release it but I recognized that most people would get the point that I was saying and the point that people misunderstood was only half of what I was saying anyway. I might write a video as people seem okay with me doing scripted videos now about the topics I was talking about there um it was around the sexual misconduct thing and some 1g's response like that was it was this is weeks ago that this actually occurred it's just as is often the case with my rambles they're not designed to you know get clicks based off the most recent news they're they're just designed to give my thoughts and opinions you know eventually when those videos come out um which is often weeks later but it just it just sucks sometimes it's just something I've come to terms with and it doesn't bother me as much as it used to but back in the day when I used to make youtube videos I would like have the most nuanced fucking precise scripts you could ever possibly imagine like I would just go on and on hammering every fine detailed bit of nuance and everything that I wanted to say and eventually I came to realize that just trying to do that trying to reach 100% of people made the video unappealing for the vast majority of people like you're better off aiming for 90 95 to understand rather than going for 100 or else you're gonna bog down that 90 95 with stuff it's just you're just reiterating at that point they're just going to be bogged down and less interested in listening but when I'm rambling when I'm playing clearly I can't be that precise or well thought out because I'm not writing I'm speaking as I'm playing especially while distracted but so occasionally in these rambles I will um release a ramble and then read a comment and I'll say if I just had five more seconds man you wouldn't have misunderstood in this way you would have understood my point you would probably agree with me or the bare minimum would understand what I'm trying to say but because I don't have the time you don't understand and you or you now don't agree and it bothers me so I don't know if I'll write that scripted video but I might we'll see what happens |
| 27. March 2021 | Being more empathetic due to experiencing negative circumstances | Bad circumstances. I was watching a video that Asmongold uploaded today on his uh, kinda secondary channel or whatever, like his personal channel or whatever. He was talking about his experiences with the Texas blizzard or freezing or mass cold or what would you call it? Flash freeze? No, it was a flash freeze. What would you call it? Is it blizzard? Cold snap? Ice storm? Winter storm? Snow storm? One of those things. It was cold is what I'm saying. Talking about how he didn't have any water and uh, like he slipped out on his car and it gave him a fright or whatever because he's not used to driving in snow and that he consumes of luck to have electricity and stuff. And you listen to these stories and you think like there are a lot of people in the world who that's their like their norm or whatever. Where it is their norm that electricity is inconsistent or that their access to water can be inconsistent. Or that they are, you know, on the verge of uh, bankruptcy or destitution or whatever just because of uh, a change in the weather or the climate or what have you. And that's, thinking about that stuff is so disheartening. It's a terrible thing to think about. I guess people in more fortunate circumstances when you get put in these situations where you get to live the life of a less fortunate person even for a week, it can probably uh, make you more empathetic towards them. I mean I say that and then you think of 4 Connor, you know that old riot dude who just got out, he got outed as an old riot dude and even when put into the dire circumstances that he was put in, he still blamed the victims uh, of these circumstances. Like you just assume that being in those circumstances would make you more empathetic, but I guess for some people it doesn't. I don't know. You live in Texas, you had no electricity, it was 30 degrees in your house? Yeah, sounds fucking terrible dude. Being where I am in Australia, the likelihood of me suffering any sort of natural disaster or great change like that is quite small. And it's not because, like, Australia not existing on any faults, it's not really prone to earthquakes or, you know, there's no, it's not going to be some volcanic eruption or whatever right? It's mainly bushfires that are problems in Australia. And where I am is quite far away from the bush. How bad the bushfires would have to be to reach me is like the country would have to no longer exist kind of thing. I'm very fortunate to be in the spot that I'm in, you know. And hearing stories like that, people suffering in this way, it makes you, makes at least me appreciate even more what I have and how lucky I am, you know. Australia doesn't exist. Well then I've got no chance of getting hit by bushfires, do I? I don't even, the country isn't even there. Not even dream luck could make a bushfire happen in Australia. You might not have natural disasters in Australia, but spiders? Do you not have spiders in your countries? |
| 28. December 2019 | Being nice | What could ever be that good? Being nice. There's many reasons I can give you. I don't consider myself humble. I don't have a very high opinion of myself. And I see my success as more of an extension of the kindness of others than necessarily me being an amazing person. There are endless people out there who could, if they were in the right circumstances, do what I do. I don't consider myself special in that respect. So I'm very appreciative of the people who keep me doing what I'm doing because I really enjoy doing it. You know? And as far as nice is concerned, I don't sacrifice things for others very often. Not that I really have much of an opportunity to do anyway. I like when people are nice to me. And I feel good when I'm nice to other people. So I have every reason to be nice to others, especially when it isn't inconvenient to do so. One of the greatest feelings about being a streamer is, like, you just do something simple like responding to a person's email and you can make a person's day. And it's just like, that's fucking fantastic. It's a great feeling to be able to act in the world and make other people's days better. It's especially great when it takes so little effort on your part. I know, like, I never really think of myself as a nice person, but I do try to be what I consider to be nice. You know what I'm saying? I mean, just why wouldn't you? I have every reason to be nice and no reason to be nice. |
| 15. November 2021 | Being oblivious in regards to women when I was younger. | Being oblivious in regards to women when I was younger, arguably nothing has changed. Did I confess to my crush? Didn't we have a crush? I once asked a chick out from my TAFE class, which was after high school. He was way out of my league, which is kind of embarrassing, but I can't recall having a crush on anyone. I was oblivious to two women of girls, you could say, who were interested in me, I think, over the course of my years. But I was oblivious to it at the time, and only became painfully obvious later. Neither I was particularly interested in, but one I barely knew and the other I thought was mainly as a friend. Well, as a friend, really, because I had known her for a very long time. Realizing that she was interested in me, they put so much into clarity. It was like, oh... Would I be... |
| 22. March 2021 | Being on top of r/cringetopia | Being on top of r slash cringetopia. The video of me explaining something with all my hand movements and shit while I'm wearing my my rant jacket or whatever. It was on top of the thing like massively sped up so I'm like moving my hands so much and it had like 20,000 upvotes or something. I got to read the comments. Everyone knew who I was. People seemed to like me which was pretty cool. Two comments stood out to me. One where a person asked who's this guy and another person described me and the person responded so like they're smallins but for GTA and the guy's like yeah. I 100% am flattered by that description. The other one that stood out which was negative was a person who remembered me as the guy who raged in Among Us. That situation with Scott back in the day remember where that clip, I don't know how viral it really went really but it got around enough of me raging at that dude. Because even at the time it was fucking stupid. In hindsight it's even more stupid because you know more about the game now and we both misplayed. It is nice to have more positive things go viral about me. It's not nice to be remembered for a moment of weakness although it has certainly led to me being more willing to not stream if I'm feeling like shit. Rather than trying to force myself to stream. Just edit off stream. It's all good. The meme is in some small way mocking me I guess. Like maybe my hand movements or whatever but I don't really take it that way. I'm just flattered. I am the Leonardo DiCaprio meme. I'm like that's me. That's me. |
| 02. February 2021 | Being outraged on someone else’s behalf | behalf. I hate these kinds of people who just get offended to everything, stop watching, go away if you don't like it. I mean, clearly in life, there is a right time to be, let's say, outraged on someone else's behalf, right? Especially if you have the power to influence things and the person who is potentially being negatively impacted doesn't have the power to impact things. Using to use your influence to help that person, you know, being outraged on their behalf, it can be a sensible thing. You know, think of any civil rights or any, just any attempts to gain rights for a minority in history. That's always needed. Some people in power to actually go, yeah, okay, this is fucked up for these people. The perpetually outraged people, the people who live to be outraged, who don't know how to partition their care, so they only focus on the issues that matter and instead just focus on, you know, they're just yelling and screaming constantly. It limits their ability to impact anything because they're just always outraged. Oh, here's that person always outraged about stuff, you know, you got to pick your battles. |
| 01. January 2021 | Being overworked and low energy. | Being overworked and having low energy. DarkFap, I love watching your YouTube at night. Also, aren't you ever tired while streaming 24x7 in 30, 165 days? Yeah, I mean, I get tired. It's irritating to me that having the energy that I used to have is hard. It's hard to think back. I was tired a lot back then as well, but I don't know. Maybe I've always been this way. I'm just getting old? Ahhhh. I don't know if it's just that, man. I think it's probably a combination of no longer exercising, overworking myself, not having a consistent sleeping pattern. Sometimes my Hashimoto's, like maybe I'm not regulating the med or whatever that I have to take correctly. Part of it can be mental, you know, feeling the grind of not succeeding. There's many things that can lead me to feeling tired that is less than just being older. I've got myself a, well, at least it's going to revive eventually, my elliptical trainer. I'm hoping that I can force myself to just, you know, wake up every morning, 20 minutes on the elliptical or whatever, and then start my day. Like back in the day, I used to exercise every day. Not to any kind of insane bodybuilder kind of standards, but it would be a part of my routine to go to the gym, usually 1, 2am or whatever, do a bunch of cardio, lift a little bit of weight and then go home. Sometimes I've been thrown off, but I mean, like at least I was doing something. Did I enjoy exercising? No. I have not for a single moment in the entire history of my life ever enjoyed exercising. I've always considered it to be a massive waste of time. I had a friend back in the day who, like, all he did was work out. Extraordinarily muscular person. He said he loved it. It was the only time he felt alive kind of thing. There are chemicals, at least in your brain, that are meant to make you feel good with different kinds of exercise, but I've just never really felt that. Is there four or five motivating chemicals or something in your brain? Endorphins? I'm not educated in such things. I know I have red stuff on it, but I just can't think of it. You hate doing exercise when people can see you? Yeah, I was the same way, which is why I used to go at like 1 or 2 a.m. The most consistent that I ever exercised was when my sleeping pattern was at a state where I could go early in the morning. One of the things that kept me from exercising often was, you know, annoying whoever I was living with by making noise. Living by myself now, although I do hate having an a.m. sleeping schedule or whatever, like I would be more free to go to the gym. There's 24-hour gyms that are that hour. But it'd be less of a time sink if I just exercised at home. As I said, I bought an elliptical machine. I do have an exercise bike, but I've always preferred ellipticals. I've always looked at basketball as one of the funnest sports for exercise, but I've never really got into the sport. Or had people to play with, mind you. Have I ever thought about trampoline? No. This is literally the first time ever in the history of my life that a trampoline has ever entered my mind. I had hoped to keep up the streak of lack of trampoline thoughts for the rest of my life, and you've denied me that luxury. How dare you. How dare you. |
| 28. July 2020 | Being patient in video games | Being patient in video games. How do you feel people calling you impatient? People gotta justify things. I'm clearly not impatient. I'm clearly not impatient. If people need to lie to themselves about that, that's their business. No video game should ever feel like you're being patient. At no point in a video game should you be like, man, I really wish this part of the game didn't exist. Guess I have to grit my teeth through it so that I can get to the thing that I want to do. Of course, everyone has different tastes, so it's almost impossible, I guess, for a game to be made. You know, someone isn't bored waiting for the better part of the game for themselves. But at the same time, no one should look at a game and go, oh yeah, to play this game you need a lot of patience. That's just dumb. If patience is needed as an element to play the video game, then that video game hasn't been made very well and it should have been slimmed down. Like when you're watching a movie, you don't sit there and go, oh yeah, this is just like the slow part of the movie. You've got to wait, you know, 12 hours and we'll get to the good part of the movie. That's just evidence of it not being made very well. Like what's Jim Sterling review of The Last of Us? He's like, yeah, you could trim this down. Could have cut out like a good six hours of this. |
| 22. March 2021 | Being perceived as an azzhole | Being perceived as an asshole. Just saw a comment there where someone saying that some dude went to high school with Mr. Beast and Mr. Beast was very up himself. I've talked about this before, like one person's impression of a dude doesn't necessarily define who they are or whatever. I remember once when a person, they called me an asshole when I was younger and they were sincere and I was legitimately confused. I had not had a person to my face refer to me as an asshole with that level of sincerity. Like it wasn't like I just done something then and there. They were saying that the way that I conducted myself in general was that of an asshole. And I was just confused. And I actually sat there for like five minutes. Am I an asshole? No, surely not. And then I thought like of stuff that I do that maybe to some people could come off as being an asshole. Like sometimes because I'm socially self-con... then and even now socially self-conscious. Sometimes I wouldn't want to experience saying goodbye and having to shake everyone's hand and whatever. And so I would just leave places sometimes. And it isn't because I was trying to hurt people or because I didn't like people or whatever. It's because sometimes I just emotionally just had to fucking leave because I'm a bit of an introvert. I'm like, I've overly stimulated by this circumstance and I just need a fucking bail. You know, and I'm sure to some people they'd be like, oh man, what a fucking asshole. It wasn't it wasn't being inconsiderate of other people necessarily. It's just the way that I had to conduct myself. So I'd be comfortable. What I'm trying to say is actions speak louder than words. Like if the person could show something Mr. Beast had done in high school that showed him to be an asshole, I'd be like, well, that's more important. But a person just saying, yeah, I didn't like the way that they conduct themselves. And I took them as being egotistical or whatever. I'd be like, that's not as meaningful, especially. I mean, how old is Mr. Beast? 24? They say every five years you're a different person, which doesn't, of course, just absolve you of anything you did in the past. But I mean, personality wise, you do go through shifts and changes. |
| 20. February 2021 | Being physically fit, as a content creator? | Being physically fit as a content creator? I saw a photo on Twitter today of Dalski, the Minecraft speed runner. And it was just like first haircut of 2021 or whatever, because he had, like his hair was super fucking long and then he cut it. And I was like, what surprised me was not the haircut, but that he was physically fit. Like whenever I see a content creator, YouTube, Twitch, whatever, and I see a picture of them and they don't look like garbage, I'm like, wow, it's possible. Are you saying you aren't jeopardizing your physical longevity for short-term games on the interwebs? Oh, you mean people do that? People have an appropriate work-life balance? That's crazy. It's impossible. Yesterday, when I was feeling like shit, I did actually go on my elliptical machine for like 10 minutes or whatever. That just made me feel like shit even more, sorry. |
| 07. February 2021 | Being productive while I am successful. | Being productive while I'm successful. If I push up to start at every stream, I was meant to be doing a little bit on my elliptical before every stream but I haven't seemed to manage it. Gonna try and force myself eventually. Like when I get up in the morning I look at my social media a bit. I just wish I had the fortitude, the strength, whatever, to just look at that shit while on the elliptical machine. Get a little bit of exercise while looking at social media, making looking at social media not a complete waste. Although again, because it's my job I guess it is never a complete waste to look at social media but I mean you know I'm saying. Is it really that important not to waste time? I have a career where what I get out of it is dependent upon how much time I can throw at it. There's always stuff for me to do. There is never any downtime in this job and because success is fleeting in this career no one expects to be around for you know five ten years or whatever. There's always this urgency to use your time wisely to be as productive as possible because you don't want to get three years on be completely irrelevant and say to yourself, man I didn't capitalize on my success when I could you know. |
| 11. December 2020 | Being recognized in public | Being recognized in public. Am I ever noticed in public? People do, sometimes, look at me weirdly when I'm in the supermarket. I assume it's because I'm wearing black shorts and a black tank top and a jumper. People are like, why is this guy, if this guy is cold enough to wear a jumper, why is he wearing a tank top? Why is he not wearing a shirt? And they'll never have the answers to those questions. My very existence when I go to the supermarket confuses people. Obviously, I don't normally go outside. I don't normally go places. I went to the supermarket today because I wanted to make myself burgers for breakfast, as you do. But I had no dishwashing liquid, so I couldn't clean my pan. And my pan was really shot anyway. So I went to the supermarket specifically to get a pan and some dishwasher detergent. And I got a bunch of it. So I basically, I didn't even get bags. So I was walking out of the supermarket with a frying pan's worth of dishwashing detergent. |
| 19. July 2020 | Being shunned by the big youtube sponsors. | Being shunned by the big YouTube sponsorships. I wish I was a normal YouTuber in a way. Because I've watched a lot of YouTube. So I've now seen like every creator I've ever watched have a sponsorship for Raycon. Every single one. And I was in a situation where I needed wireless earbuds. I was publicly lamenting not having them. Not for any marketing reason. I just legitimately needed some. I've never received an email from Raycon. I'll never forget when I was doing a sponsorship with Squarespace. And I did everything they asked. Then at the final hour they're like, nah, we're not interested. We saw you have political content on your channel or whatever. Nah, fuck off. I was just like... Yeah, they'll sponsor Philip DeFranco or whatever. But my rambles are apparently just... You know, just awful. Thanks for watching. |
| 16. January 2020 | Being split between competing interests | Seems good. Being split between competing interests. I've talked about before, but it just annoys me that I can't do everything that I wanna do to maximum efficiency. I can't maximally be a Twitch streamer, a YouTuber, and a speed runner. I kinda split my time between all three, so I don't do my best at any of them. I think a part of me, chat, has had trouble kinda not seeing myself as competitive to be the best anymore. It's this transition from being a pure speed runner to multiple different things while being a speed runner that's been hard for me to accept in some way. Like I should just give into it more, right? I should be focusing more on other stuff than doing runs. I'm a harder hardster, man. I've seen myself more as a speed runner than anything else. So it's hard for me just to go, fuck, I'm gonna do just Chaos today, you know? But I should. I think I'm gonna try and do that in 2020. Still be a speed runner, but accept that I'm not likely gonna be number one, at least not for the foreseeable future, and thus speed run, but also not speed run to the detriment of my YouTube series. And certainly if I do speed run, I should focus on finishing runs. As in, the days where I speed run GTA V should be like days where I speed run GTA V. So I just do an entire run. I am still good at this game. You don't need to be number one to be good at something. You know, takes a lot to be the very best. And I'm just too spread thin these days to really give my all into it. You know, I can't spend six hours practicing one strat. |
| 09. July 2022 | Being the biggest Fortnite stream | Done. Still making content? I believe so. Being the biggest Fortnite stream. Okay, hold on a sec. I'm looking through all these streams, Matt. And literally, I think this stream is the most viewed stream out of all of them. Really? Nice. We're like the most watched squad. Why? Guys, why are you watching us? Because I'm the greatest Fortnite player of all time, man. Obviously. Come on. Oh my god, that's so good. Where am I ranked in the Fortnite section? Like, I don't know if the viewers are finding it as well, but like, I was keen for this. Like, it was a new experience, but I'm having like actually such a good time doing this. I think that probably translates through to like the stream, you know? It's hilarious. Like, we got fourth in a Fortnite tournament. That is so funny to me. What are we doing? That's so good, dude. We're top five or third or fourth or something in the Fortnite category. That's pretty good. I'm just trying to scroll through like all these tourneys and see. Yeah, you're definitely the most viewed stream that's in this tournament right now. Me, a YouTuber, most viewed on Twitch. Well, you're actually not. Loserfruit has 2.2k viewers and you've got 2.1, so. Ah, dang. The only person beating you is the most. Make yourself more. Duplicate yourselves. Call your friends. |
| 09. July 2022 | Being the biggest fortnite stream | Done. Still making content? I believe so. Being the biggest Fortnite stream. Okay, hold on a sec. I'm looking through all these streams, Matt. And literally, I think this stream is the most viewed stream out of all of them. Really? Nice. We're like the most watched squad. Why? Guys, why are you watching us? Because I'm the greatest Fortnite player of all time, man. Obviously. Come on. Oh my god, that's so good. Where am I ranked in the Fortnite section? Like, I don't know if the viewers are finding it as well, but like, I was keen for this. Like, it was a new experience, but I'm having like actually such a good time doing this. I think that probably translates through to like the stream, you know? It's hilarious. Like, we got fourth in a Fortnite tournament. That is so funny to me. What are we doing? That's so good, dude. We're top five or third or fourth or something in the Fortnite category. That's pretty good. I'm just trying to scroll through like all these tourneys and see. Yeah, you're definitely the most viewed stream that's in this tournament right now. Me, a YouTuber, most viewed on Twitch. Well, you're actually not. Loserfruit has 2.2k viewers and you've got 2.1, so. Ah, dang. The only person beating you is the most. Chat, make yourself more. Duplicate yourselves. Call your friends. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 31. October 2021 | Being treated as more than just some guy | Being treated as more than just some guy. It's a weird thing. It kind of sneaks up on you. People treating you as more than just some guy on the internet. It's like, it's the weirdest thing where someone writes a comment, I respond, and they say thank you for responding. I'm like, I'm just a guy on the internet responding to comments like that. I haven't done anything impressive. People are like, oh, it's really cool you responded, I read my comment, I'm like, what? I'm just a random guy responding to comments on the internet. |
| 05. March 2023 | Being uncomfortable chilling and playing games on stream | Fame being uncomfortable chilling and playing games on stream as much as I enjoy playing this game like I it's too much Just like playing a game as in when I'm doing challenge runs and stuff or speed running I feel like I'm doing something special when I'm doing this I just feels like I'm just playing a game and you guys are watching isn't a bad thing to sell you It's just a different experience You know like I'm just so not in the streamer mindset as some people are now always feel like I gotta be doing something special I just need to learn to Relax and play video games again |
| 27. October 2021 | Being you is fine you don’t need a textbook definition | Being you is fine, you don't need a textbook definition. My advice, Maywell, is never attempt to self-diagnose. Don't worry about trying to find some classification that suits you, just live your life, man. Because the second you start trying to classify yourself and find classifications or characterizations or whatever you want to call it that suits you, you'll start changing to suit those classifications, right? You'll be like, oh, I've got these five things, I know about those five things, well, yeah, maybe I do have those five things. It'll shape how you define yourself and how you act and stuff, it's not good. Understand yourself within the context of you and your surroundings as opposed to some definition in a textbook or whatever. |
| 02. February 2021 | Bell Delphine twitter controversy | Belle Delphine Twitter Controversy. Pinned on the recent Belle Delphine drama. I clicked on her on Twitter. I, I, she released some sexual images. She does porn now or something. It was a rape fantasy or something. As long as it's all consensual, whatever, you know. I have never found Belle Delphine to be particularly attractive and I don't particularly care. |
| 25. July 2022 | Ben VideoTech’s viral video of modders in GTA Online | Ben Videotech's Vival Video of modders in GT Online Did you guys see the Vival clip of GT Online? I think it was on Reddit, it got 60,000 upvotes from... I don't know if Video Ben put it on Reddit themselves, but it got really big there. The best part is it 15 seconds. Look how shit Twitter quality is. God damn. Look at this. It's like a mirror world, like Inception. There's a random boat in the air. Is it more than one? Even in the middle of the world being destroyed and falling apart, Agatha's worried about a casino. I mean, in this case, worry might be justified. But yeah, this is fucking crazy what modders can still do. And on Reddit people were like, man, Rockstar has no anti-cheating people debating whether they could actually have one with peer to peer. |
| 04. February 2020 | Best and worst parts of speedrunning | then what do you think are the best and worst parts about speedrunning? I guess when you fail out of no fault of your own, in it's a negative part of life in general, where you can do everything right and still fail. But that is always very demoralizing when you feel you've got everything going for you in the game. It's just like, no, today is not your day. And the most positive, it's, you know, watching yourself achieve and grow better than you were before, where you can look back at yourself in the past and go, ah, I have I've become a better runner. Also, finding new things or niche knowledge or the excitement of, oh, look, we've discovered a new way of saving time or what have you. These are very good feelings. Oh, you know, beating world records or whatever. There's a lot of good feelings that come from speedrunning. The moment to moments, gameplay and speedrunning is not particularly what I enjoy. Like I've said this before, I don't I don't enjoy every time I shoot the guard in the head in prologue. The culmination of what all those neutral moments lead up to in terms of discoveries of getting better, of achieving better times, getting world records or whatever. It's it's the culmination as opposed to the individual parts. If you're like. |
| 18. December 2019 | Best countries to be a streamer | Would it have been best to have grown up, to have had the highest chance of being successful in the streaming industry? And the answer to that question would be America, in one of the most prosperous areas, with fairly rich parents, both because the mainstreaming companies are from that region. America does have areas with very good internet. You know, you speak English, so you have the largest viewer base from wealthy and more prosperous countries who have the free time to watch streaming. You have a life experience that's similar to the greatest portion of viewers on Twitch. So you can emulate, empathize, whatever, not emulate, you can empathize with your viewers and stuff, and you have stories that you can tell that they can, you know, understand and sympathize with or whatever. If you mean like right now, which country is like most interested in growing a streaming industry, or you know, you have perks in regards to taxation or support from industry, it'd still be America, I suspect, it just would depend on the state, you know. I don't know enough, I haven't needed to do that research, but I know for a fact that there are some countries that, you know, you can get like a work visa if you're a streamer, and other countries that don't recognize streaming at all as a career or a job, you know. There are, didn't Germany say they were, don't know if it ended up happening, but that you have to get a license to be a live streamer similar to if you were a TV channel or something, which can cost thousands of dollars. That kind of thing is obviously not very conducive to success as a streamer. Did that end up happening? Because there was this story where a lot of German streamers were like, yeah, we're gonna have to fucking bail out of Germany immediately. It happened, so did you watch just all streamers leave Germany. And then of course there's all the countries where like live streaming is heavily regulated or, you know, like China and stuff, clearly such countries would not be a great place to be a live streamer. Live streaming is still in that stage when not a lot of people really understand it. Like if you mention Twitch to the majority of even the English speaking world, they're like, what? Twitch? Is that like them tweeters? The word utilize. People use the word utilize too much. I heard someone say utilize well recently. Utilize means. |
| 14. May 2020 | Best piece of life advice | What would be the best piece of life advice you can give? Partition your care wisely, as in only care about things that actually matter. Don't get all worked up about, you know, whether this celebrity is dating this person, or, I don't know, whether your ex from the third grade is doing well on Facebook, and you're sitting there stalking her, none of that shit matters. If you find yourself getting worked up over something that doesn't really impact your life, and you have no ability to change, fucking stop. |
| 08. November 2021 | Best ways to make money in gta online in 2021 | Best ways to make money in GTA Online in 2021 Well, it's the fastest way to make money in GTA Online. You can get yourself a 9-5 job and you buy yourself shortcuts. Or you painfully grind content that you don't want to play to buy things that don't really matter and that don't really make your playing experience more enjoyable. Those are your two options. You either work a 9-5 job and rather than spend your money on stuff that actually matters, you buy digital garbage in a shitty online game. Or you spend your valuable time doing stuff you don't want to do to get stuff that you don't really need in that same shitty online video game. I suppose your third option is just don't give a shit about buying garbage in a shitty online game. Just play the stuff that you want to play. But if I just do this shitty thing I don't want to do for another 39 hours, I can buy new headlights for my super pimped out black car that I never can use anyway. And then no one really gives a shit about. And who that guy over there who just bought the same thing for like $10? We here at Rockstar want to give our players a sense of pride and accomplishment. Sure we made $50 perjillion. That doesn't mean we can't milk people for every cent they're worth with microtransaction. We want to make the game juuuust enjoyable enough that you won't quit. Just tedious enough that you'll pay us money to avoid that tedium. |
| 03. May 2020 | Better Call Saul Future Plot Speculation | Better Call Saul speculation. I did see the Better Call Saul finale. No spoilers. It was alright. Wasn't like, woah, no way. It's like, ah, that's pretty good. Yeah, Trevor's in Better Call Saul. Is it two episodes he's in? That is just special. It's funny though, the villain of this most recent season, he reminds me of Trevor. It's like a more charismatic Trevor. He's like Trevor's brother. Like, older brother. Is that what his name is, Lalo? Yeah. Good character. It does somewhat suck because you do know the face of a lot of these characters because of Breaking Bad. But it's possible that they, like, recontextualize everything. For example, we know... oh fuck, I forgot her name. I love the character, too. You know, Saul's missus. My brain. How can I forget her name? What the fuck? What is this reality? Ahhhhhhhh...please help. Kim, there you go. Like, she's not in Breaking Bad, but like, that could be recontextualized, like, because the assumption is that this isn't spoilers, it's just speculation. That she eventually just has enough with Jimmy and Bails, or she gets killed, or... Like, that's what you'd assume, but it's possible that, like, she's still in the series, but because you never see Sol's home life, you never see her. Or, um... That'd be anticlimactic, though. Or, like, she bails and hides away, and they've said, like, oh, we'll meet up in five years or some shit when he dies down. You never know. What's on Sol? Would you recommend phoning him? I mean, Sol, good, man. Kim dying would be too easy. Depends how she died. It is hard to imagine Kim dying from, like, the cartel or... Because of his underworld business or whatever, and him still being willing to stick with it. Or that that would never come up in Breaking Bad. Like, it has to end in a way where Sol never mentioning it makes sense. I guess he wouldn't mention it to his clients, because, like, why give your clients that kind of information on you? You know? Dogs. |
| 06. October 2021 | Beyblades and my childhood | Beyblades and my childhood. Beyblades are that cartoon thing which never made sense because one kid had like a spinning top with the soul of like a dragon in it and another kid just had you know a Beyblade from a store and they versed each other and it was meant to be fair. It's like motherfucker. Can we Outlaw the use of ancient spirits in our spinning tops. I feel like it gives him an unfair advantage I remember watching as a kid. I remember nothing about it. I'm pretty sure it was one of those shows that was Was it was it made to sell toys or the or the very least the like I remember begging my mother to take me to a store to buy a Beyblade and I thought long and hard about the one that I wanted and like I looked through the guides and they had like different stars for like defense and power and spin and da da da. I finally picked the one that I wanted and then we looked around like for like all the shops and they were everyone was sold out like fucking everyone We finally found a store that had some and they had like three Beyblades left and they all sucked and my mom was like look you're gonna have one of these Beyblades or no Beyblades And I was like, okay fine I'll have a Beyblade there And there was this kid at school who he had like a Chinese knockoff Beyblade or something And it was a Beyblade from like the TV show basically, you know how like there was with Yu-Gi-Oh! There was like the fake god cards and stuff this kid had a fake Beyblade Where one of the contenders in the show had like a Beyblade, but it had like a really huge disc on it It's like a larger plastic outer ring which made his Beyblade like ten times the size of everyone else's and This is what the kid had and so he had his little Beyblade arena thing and would just beat the living shit out of Anyone who versed him. Like why don't you guys want to verse me? We're like fuck you dude you have like OP spinning Beyblade thing. I hadn't thought about this stuff in years. Primary school man I love yo the older boy. Ell to hell with him man |
| 16. February 2021 | Biden lessening federal private prison use, and dominion voting systems suing everying | Biden lessening federal private prison use and Dominion voting systems suing everyone Biden did that thing where he committed to Ending the federal government's use of private prisons to be clear this only impacts the tiniest portion of those who are actually incarcerated in America definitely do not agree with private prison prisons the financial incentive to take away people's freedoms and put them in small boxes and to lessen as much as possible the amount of funding spent on those people is Not good for society in my view because certainly those prisons are completely the opposite they have the complete opposite incentives for rehabilitating and preventing further crime they have a financial investment in future crime occurring and or a Greater amount of people being put in prison. It doesn't seem like a good thing for society at all Giuliani getting sued for 1.3 billion by Dominion and other like they they've brought suits against heaps of people and They apparently plan to bring more suits forward and that's not surprising Presuming their innocence which to be real all evidence suggests that they are innocent Given how much their brand has now been impacted by all these lies and conspiracy theories Of course, they're gonna sue everyone under the Sun and a very reasonable case can be made that Those spreading these lies knew that they were lies and specifically spread them for their own gain which even with how hard it is to prove liable or slander in the American courts that that should be sufficient for them to get some pay whether it be I'd ask any 1.3 billion, but you know Be sure to LIKE the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 16. February 2021 | Biden lessening federal private prison use, and dominion voting systems suing everything | Biden lessening federal private prison use and Dominion voting systems suing everyone Biden did that thing where he committed to Ending the federal government's use of private prisons to be clear this only impacts the tiniest portion of those who are actually incarcerated in America definitely do not agree with private prison prisons the financial incentive to take away people's freedoms and put them in small boxes and to lessen as much as possible the amount of funding spent on those people is Not good for society in my view because certainly those prisons are completely the opposite they have the complete opposite incentives for rehabilitating and preventing further crime they have a financial investment in future crime occurring and or a Greater amount of people being put in prison. It doesn't seem like a good thing for society at all Giuliani getting sued for 1.3 billion by Dominion and other like they they've brought suits against heaps of people and They apparently plan to bring more suits forward and that's not surprising Presuming their innocence which to be real all evidence suggests that they are innocent Given how much their brand has now been impacted by all these lies and conspiracy theories Of course, they're gonna sue everyone under the Sun and a very reasonable case can be made that Those spreading these lies knew that they were lies and specifically spread them for their own gain which even with how hard it is to prove liable or slander in the American courts that that should be sufficient for them to get some pay whether it be I'd ask any 1.3 billion, but you know Be sure to LIKE the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 06. March 2021 | Big Mac for breakfast | Big Mac for breakfast. I haven't had breakfast yet. I ate a considerable amount of Hungry Jacks. For breakfast, yes. I didn't even have their breakfast stuff. They are one of the companies that will sell you lunch stuff all the time. I recently found out that, as is often the case with McDonald's, they... So, for those who don't know, McDonald's brings their new stuff to Australia and New Zealand, usually before they bring it anywhere else. The reason for this is that it's a small controlled market that is similar enough to Europe and America or whatever, that if it works here, it will probably work over there. And so we were the first country to get McDonald's selling lunchtime stuff all day. I can get a Big Mac at 6am and I do that frequently. Sometimes I'll get the breakfast stuff, sometimes I'll get myself a large Big Mac meal and a sausage-ish muffin. You can also get breakfast stuff all day as well, but it's limited items. They won't give you a double-quarter pounder in the morning. I mean, you can select the stuff, you can pay more, like you can pay for the extra patty and the extra cheese or whatever, but it won't be an item on the menu. In the same way that you can get a sausage-ish muffin all day, but you can't get a double sausage-ish muffin all day. I mean, you can just add the stuff into the menu, you know. |
| 27. February 2021 | Big Statistics Youtuber On Dream’s Speedruns | A big statistics YouTuber released a video on dream speedruns. Speaking of that dream cheating thing, this other dude named Matt, who does a lot of probability statistics stuff on YouTube, released a good video yesterday. Apparently statistics are his thing. It's, you know, he writes books on it and blah blah blah. And he went over both the papers, explained some errors in dreams dude's paper. A lot of it being superfluous stuff. I think the most interesting thing that he said was that given the odds the dream had, there is no amounts of like p-hacking and bias correction in the world that could ever bring that number down to a realistic sequence of events or whatever. It was an interesting video. It sucks though whenever you want to watch one of those videos because every video starts off with like a seven minute explanation of the Minecraft speedrun. And so you have to just like mash skip. I'm so sick of hearing a basic explanation. Everyone who makes a video goes with the assumption that no one knows about the story yet. If you ever want to know what good videos I run across, usually speedrunning related, I highly recommend following my Twitter. You'll, you'll on rare occasions get that political shit thrown at you. But I mean in general, it's just me saying funny stuff and retweeting videos that I think are pretty snazzy. It's interesting words. |
| 10. December 2022 | Big YouTubers got caught advertising a scam | Big youtubers got caught advertising a scam. What is your opinion on the established title scam? Basically, they don't actually give you land and you're not actually a lord They have no offices in the UK and are based out of Hong Kong Scott Schaefer did a good video on it So I've never been offered a sponsorship with them But I definitely would have declines because there's no way that a company that's offering like a piece of paper What was it like a hundred and fifty bucks is legit. There's simply no way It doesn't the concept doesn't even make sense at all you have like just a random little tiny bit of land in Scotland And you can call yourself a lord and a lady and who fucking cares if you can be called a lord and a lady in Scotland anyway, what that doesn't mean anything. It's such a dumb concept Like you don't need much of a sense for scams to immediately see that and go. Yeah, that's probably not something legit I mean when you're offered enough money, sometimes you shut off your mind and who knows maybe had they offered me money I wouldn't yeah, my mind would have shut off just as much. I'm not criticizing people anyone involved I'm saying like the second I heard someone advertising I'm like this is probably some bullshit, right? The thing I didn't understand most about that established titles scam Is that if it was the case that owning a small amount of land in Scotland made it so you could be a lord or lady Wouldn't just every single person in Scotland by like a tiny bit of land and call themselves a lord and a lady making it completely Stupid if everyone's a lord and a lady then no one is a lord and a lady like it's a completely meaningless thing like so much Of it just sounded like complete bullshit just on the surface without digging deep at all The big issue was that they were sometimes Advertising that this was a legit thing to become a lord or lady and other times advertising it as a gag gift So some people clearly bought it thinking it was an expensive gag gift while other people bought it sincerely believing this was actually legit Also, the price of it ranged from 50 to 150 dollars and from what I hear established house was giving away a lot of money Which does make sense for a company that was effectively selling nothing for a lot of money? |
| 01. September 2020 | Big metal bands still being poor | Big metal bands still being poor. I was reading something recently about metal bands and how metal bands can be insanely successful and the singers can still be worth effectively nothing. Or like relative to other artists, right? Maybe because advertisers are less interested in advertising on metal bands? Like sponsors and stuff, those kind of deals are probably very important to the bottom line of musicians. And certainly metal doesn't go on the radio and isn't used in movies and stuff as much, right? That's probably where the big bucks are. Oh yeah, it's probably just the last of an audience too. |
| 15. December 2020 | Big streamers limiting donations | Big streamers limiting donations. Thoughts on big streamers like Pokimane limiting, disallowing their donations on their streams? The first person I was aware of doing that was Alpha Gaming actually, which isn't even what you might call one of the really top tier streamers. My question is, did they disallow bits? Is it even possible to turn off bits on your stream? Because Alpha Gaming didn't disallow bits. The next person I was aware of was Toast, and that was quite a while ago. Both Toast and Pokimane have received 8 figure deals from Twitch. Oh, no, Toast was Facebook Gaming and Pokimane was Twitch. They clearly don't need donation money, they have enough to live the rest of their lives, so it makes perfect sense for you to turn off donations. I would imagine that Twitch wouldn't allow you to turn off bits as a partner. Thanks for watching! |
| 11. September 2022 | Bigger number, not necessarily better | Not necessarily better. I don't know what to do, chat, when it comes to the shorts. In like, two weeks or something, I received 37 million views and 35k subscribers. But on my normal videos, I've seen no increase. So it starts here, me getting 40 million views from shorts, and nothing changes. It highlights again, that, as I said before, as YouTube admitted, the algorithms between shorts and long-form content, they're completely disconnected. As I said before, anything that doesn't help you in the algorithm is basically pointless. Subscribers, again, basically pointless. If it doesn't help the algorithm present your content to more people, doesn't matter. With all this being reaffirmed, why am I doing this? It makes the numbers look so good, but they have no value. Opposed shorts as regular content? I don't think they do well. Exposure, Matt, exposure, but as I keep saying, exposure means nothing. Unless it translates to the algorithm actually taking note of you. People knowing your name doesn't matter. It's the only watch stuff that's served them by the algorithms. No one's digging back. Now, to be clear, I am sure there's not, it's not zero people who have come from shorts to my videos. It's just such a small amount that it's not even detectable. In the same way that TikTok has a conversion of like, less than 1%, I'm sure shorts also have a conversion of less than 1%. So annoying. So I might just stop shorts and do one every once in a while, because I'm falling behind on the rest of my work, you know? Completely different type of viewer. It's not a completely different type of viewer. It's simply that people only watch content served to them by the algorithm, and the algorithm for long-form content does not see what you watch in shorts or what you like in shorts. They're just entirely separate. So you can watch a hundred of my shorts in the short section, and at no point would that increase the likelihood that the algorithm will present you my long-form videos. Why? |
| 02. July 2021 | Biggest GTA cheater unbanned | The biggest GTA cheater was unbanned. GTA ever had any major cheaters? Not to my knowledge. Oh, if you mean GTA in general, then yes, we've had one, which was ANTI. Is ANTI the only one? Like major cheater, not like, you know, person accidentally breaks rules or something. You really want me to re-explain the ANTI story? If you're really keen for it, you can type exclamation mark rambles and search for ANTI. Tell the ANTI story. Okay, so ANTI was a very well known, popular, much liked speedrunner for many of the older GTAs. San Andreas GTA 3, I think, you know, Vice City as well, definitely. Over the years, a handful of things had come to light where something looked a little bit sus and people were like, Oh, you know, that's just, you know, old games being weird. Something speeding up a little bit. This is fine. Nothing too suspicious. It seemed as though no one wanted to believe ANTI was a cheater because, you know, they had known him for so long, right? And then suddenly one day someone noticed that his bike in Vice City was creating this smoke and the person was like, that doesn't make sense. That doesn't happen with my bike. And so they spent some time trying to get this same smoke to appear and it just couldn't happen. Whatever they did, they could not find a way to get this bike to make the smoke that ANTI was receiving. And the reason for this is that the bike would only make that smoke when it's above a certain speed and a non-tempered with bike can't have that speed. So ANTI had suddenly increased the speed of this bike to make it go faster beyond what it was meant to be able to. So they were cheating, effectively. Other runs were examined and this had happened in a variety of spots. I think there was a truck in San Andreas, same thing had happened, where the truck was moving faster than it should have been able to. So ANTI was tinkering with the values of the vehicles in the game. So unless you're doing like a side-by-side comparison, you aren't gonna notice because, you know, you're shaving off a second or two here or there or whatever. I'm not exactly sure how much, but it wasn't like doubling of the speed or just an increase in speed. So they were banned, all their runs removed or almost all of them, I'm not sure the exact ruling or whatever. ANTI went on to be a Super Mario 64 speedrunner to my knowledge. I'm not sure if they're still running. It's uh, when you get banned in one community, it doesn't mean you're necessarily gonna be banned in all other communities, right? And that's the last I heard of this story. I'm not sure where ANTI is today. I think they're running under a different name or something, I'm not sure. But that is the biggest cheating scandal in GTA speedrunning history that I'm aware of. Oh ANTI, did you get unbanned, did they? How long was they banned for, Velo? Thought it was two plus years? Hmm. Was there any part of the story that I missed out, Velo? Has been quite a long time since I've thought about it. I mean, honestly, it's one thing to get away with cheating when people have no real reason to suspect you, greater than any normal person. It's another thing to try and get away with it when people know you as a cheater and will scrutinize everything you do. I think the main reason for getting unbanned was that he continued being active in the community and doing runs. Maybe that shows a sense of remorse and commitment and stuff. At the end of the day, it has nothing to do with me. Whatever the runners feel best for them is what's best for them, right? That's my attitude I take with basically any decision made in any speedrunning community. I can speak on what I would do, but then again, I don't really know what I would do. I can only speculate and it doesn't seem like a useful thing to do. Stay gold, Viper, never cheat, stay pure. You may have heard me reference before, winning is almost secondary for me to winning in a way that I can feel some sort of sense of achievement in. I hate winning in what I consider to be a cheap way. I don't like taking the easy way out in anything. |
| 04. February 2020 | Biggest change I would make to Twitch | owner of Twitch, what's like the biggest change you would make or? What came to mind is I had a disagreement with Lewis. I'm so Lewis is the Australian partner manager. You may have seen him in chat. I'm near no very good guy. Very wonderful person. I don't think discoverability is solvable for live streaming content. For reasons I brought up before in terms of inability to categorize it and people not necessarily jumping between different things and the benefits of all the enjoyment and the uniqueness of live streaming comes from sitting in a live stream for a long time and, you know, talking and experiencing in real time the creator. Like if you're going to only watch 15 minutes of a live stream, at best, you've watched a very poor YouTube video. There are certain aspects of live streaming that make discoverability very hard. And like the one thing that I would want to get to your question, the one thing I would want to solve if I own Twitch was would be discoverability. So people would want to come to the platform and could and good content creators could succeed on the platform and be discovered and go to the top to get more even more people in because the content would be so good. But I don't know how I would do that. And I don't know how to even begin doing that. And so that's all I can think of that I would want to solve. Everything else about Twitch is pretty good. I often say that the one thing I want Twitch to do is to increase the bitrate to 12K because 12K is the like the base average of what you need for high motion gameplay on 1080p and without any kind of pixelation. The problem with this is you're increasing the bitrate by a third. Now, what do you do? Do you only limit it to partners? People would write. People would be so pissed. What do you only limit to affiliates? That's like the significantly larger amount of people. As in, I don't think giving people 4K more bitrate is going to massively increase the audience of Twitch, but it will probably significantly increase the overhead of Twitch as you'll be paying a lot more money in this domain of slightly increasing quality without any significant gain in audience. I mean, I don't have any numbers to back that up. I would just be very surprised if the cost would be worth the gain in that context. |
| 09. April 2020 | Birthdays and Jumping castles | birthdays and jumping castles my best birthday memory nothing immediately comes to mind I do remember a birthday where that I had at a bowling alley that was super crowded the hot dogs were like undercooked and terrible and it turned me off hot dogs for years my mother complaining got all the money back I don't know why that was the thing that came to mind I used to love jumping castles dude jumping castles are one of those things where I would I would still jump on jumping castles today find me an adult jumping cast and I will jump on it I'll record and it'd be great content for the stream I'm sure most you are like man I never jump on jumping castles man that's for kids and I'd be jumping on that jumping castle and you'd be sitting there being like man I wish I could jump on that jumping castle social norms man they just tie you down is that in sand castles man two things that adults aren't meant to enjoy that I would totally enjoy doing and want to keep doing I haven't made a sand castle like ten thousand years took me a while to realize you were talking about bounce castles this here ought to buy you one the best part about jumping castles is turning them off and acting like you didn't do it the fuck is a fucking bounce castles bounce is that what people call jumping castles in other countries okay to be fair bouncing castle probably makes more sense because you're bounced around I guess a normal castle is probably more of a jumping castle you just stand in a normal castle you just jump up and down making it a jumping castle bouncy castles yeah yeah thinking about I think I've heard it called that on our TV shows I think jumping castles are more common in this country though as a name I mean what makes something a castle what is the requirements to meet that distinction pointy towers I'll get myself a house made and I'll just give them the list of things that are required for a castle first for a house be called a castle I want all these design requirements technically met in the cheapest way possible have myself a little most that's like you can step over it have myself a little guard dog at the front |
| 29. January 2021 | Bitcoin, investing, and not having time for anything | Bitcoin investing and not having time for anything. Did I see that Bitcoin is now 30k? That's interesting. Everything just seems like a bubble, right? Isn't, isn't everything these days just like, you buy a piece of paper for $100 and then you sell that piece of paper to another guy for $200 and he sells that same piece of paper to another guy for $300 and then you go, oh, I kind of want to get back into that. So you re-buy that piece of paper for $400 and then it just keeps going up and up like this. The piece of paper hasn't changed, but the perceived value of it continues to go up because people keep trading it backwards and forwards. What the fuck is value at this point? You've got something that doesn't really exist tangibly and it's just trading hands backwards and forwards, increasing in value. And that just seems to be everything. It's creating wealth out of thin air. As I've said many times before, I'm not invested into anything and I feel kind of dumb for not doing that, except I don't have any free time. I just don't care. Like it's one of those things where I don't particularly care about making more money. I just want to make good stuff. But at the same time, I know people think me stupid for not caring about those things. So I feel bad about not caring about those things. I feel bad that I don't care as much as I should. Like I was driving back from my mother's and from the air conditioning ducts, it looked like white smoke was coming out, but it wasn't smoke. I was very confused as to what it could be. It might have been whatever is used to cool air for air conditioning. And I was like, well, that's not good. Am I poisoning myself here? And for the 97th time I thought to myself, I should probably get myself a new car. I can afford to do it. And I know I'm not going to because I just don't care. I don't have the time. I don't want to spend the day to do it. When I think about going, I'm like, but then I won't be able to edit that day. And then I don't do it. I'm worried that I'm going to die in a car accident just because I'm refusing to replace my car that I've had for the last 17 years. How old am I? I'm 29. Okay, well it hasn't been 17 years. It's been like, I bought it when I was like 16. So 13 years. Whatever. It's a long time. But the car is older than that because it was second hand. I was doing the math from when the car was built and it's 2004. Oh, 2003. Whatever. 2003, 2000. Is it 2003? I thought it was 2004. I might have lied when that command was made. I don't know. I don't know when the fuck it was made. |
| 17. June 2021 | Bitcoin: Gambling for the wealthy or everyday person? | Certainly, it's a little bit tempting to invest in Bitcoin when it hits 20k. I mean, goes down to 20k. It's more than likely I'll just forget about not doing it. Crypto gambling for wealthy people? I disagree. Crypto, I think, is gambling for people who are poor as... Like, people hear the stories about X person putting a bit of money in crypto and then getting 4,000% returns and becoming a millionaire and stuff. A lot of people who look at the current systems, the current finance institutions, the stock market and stuff as like a rigged game for rich people, and they're like, look, this new thing crypto, man, it's for the average Joe, and they put their money into it. Obviously, there are a lot of rich people who own a substantial amount of different coins and effectively control the market and can crash it if they really wanted to. But there's definitely a lot of poor investors trying to make something of their lives and pessimistic about their chances. Now, wealthy people do give a crap about crypto. There's been a lot of stuff in regards to bigger institutions buying positions and blah blah blah blah blah. I don't follow it enough to be specific. How does Mr. Beastburger work? Thoughts on Mr. Beastburger? Mr. Beastburger more like Mr. Bestburger. |
| 08. June 2020 | Blizzard is garbage at making games | Blizzard is garbage at making games. Am I gonna try the new WoW content? No. Even if the new WoW content was the most amazing thing in the world, I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole because I do not like Blizzard. That's actually not true. There is a certain reality where Blizzard makes something so revolutionary, so amazing, that I just feel compelled to play it. Given that Blizzard seems fucking terrible at everything, that seems very, very unlikely. It's like trying to imagine a badger painting an amazing painting. It's not impossible, but it's not gonna happen. Hey guys, do you want to play Overwatch 2? Which is like, basically just like Overwatch 1, but slightly different? Of course you do! Give us a full price for fucking game! |
| 09. February 2020 | Blizzard kills Warcraft III and my hopes for the future | Blizzard kills Warcraft 3 and my hope for the future. Warcraft 3 reforged. There's a long list of features that Blizzard removed. There's all these things that they promised yet didn't actually produce. Promises of cinematic and graphical upgrades that they simply did not fulfill on. There's just endless bugs. They've even prevented people from playing the old versions. As in, if you if you boot up the old version, you deal with a lot of the issues that the new version has as well. If you've bought Warcraft 3 you've forged, I highly recommend refunding it. Or else you're supporting these scummy practices. I just wish I could be a fly on the wall in, you know, Warcraft headquarters or whatever, Blizzard headquarters, and see what they were thinking about the release of that game, how they could justify it. Like, why do all these fucking companies hate their old games? I just don't get it. It's crazy. |
| 09. February 2020 | Blizzard salty they missed out on the MOBA Cash | Blizzard souls he that they missed the Moba cash. Oh, did you hear the Blizzard has now uh, you know taken ownership of any mods or stuff that people make in their games? It's hilarious. What's enabled the creation of our you know, Dota 2 and whatnot was the hands-off approach and people you know being able to do it for the love of it and create something that they themselves can own and Blizzard's like oh we need we need to put a stop to this Your customers enjoying creating something within our games. Fuck that shit custom enjoyment. I can't put that on a fucking spreadsheet Yeah, cuz that's that's what that's what Blizzard fears that they're gonna miss out on the next opportunity of Like Dota they missed out on movers But the reason why they missed out on movers is because they didn't like, you know, they weren't looking for an opportunity Blizzard had all the opportunity in the world to to make a MOBA Given the popularity of Dota 1 and they just didn't fucking see it Here is the storm came way after Dota as in the the popularity had a massively sale as in Blizzard had all the opportunity to Be the trendsetter be the person be the ones creating the MOBA because they they had Dota 1 in their hands And they didn't am I hyped for any upcoming games any games looking forward to in 2020? No, it seems like the vast majority of gaming companies these days are fucking scummy as shit and CD CD project red is apparently still pretty good, but like Getting hyped over games that are coming out in the future just seems silly to me I was somewhat excited for the reforged version of Warcraft 3 because that was a game that I loved when I was a kid and Well, look at that Blizzard fuck that up to why be hyped for any gaming in the future You just gotta wait until it's like already out and has been out for at least a month to know Definitively that the game is actually gonna be okay. You know, even years later companies can be making their games worse Even if you buy a game that is good on launch It can become worse and worse as time goes on we exist in a weird timeline in regards to games I played Witcher 3 I I liked it, but it wasn't that good for the stream and I wasn't in love with it to the extent that I was waiting to You know forgo speedrunning and stuff to play it |
| 30. September 2022 | Blocked by Rockstar Dev on twitter | Blocked by Rockstar Dev on Twitter. I want to be as vague as possible while still communicating the story because I do not want anyone to message anyone involved. So I have spoken before about how I don't know anyone who works for Rockstar. Like I know like I've maybe interacted with one person and that was the person who I met in person at PAX 2019. Despite this I was informed once that when I was very angry about being DDoSed and kicked off GT Online by mod menus and I went on Twitter and said the devs should be ashamed at what GT Online is. I was told in that fiasco that some people who work for Rockstar did see that and that didn't make them happy. But of course I didn't see any of that because I don't know any of these people right. But recently someone quote tweeted someone from Rockstar and added me because what they said they thought would be of relevance to me. And when I click through to this tweet I'm like it says this person's account is protected and I was like that can't be true because what the person has written implies that their account can't be protected. That means that they've just blocked me. And so I looked into it like I locked down my account and I was like who the fuck is this person? And it was a person who worked for Rockstar. A person that I've never interacted with, never I've never looked at their account and but they have me blocks. Because you can mute people on Twitter right so you never have to see them. A block is to say that you never want this person to ever be able to see anything that you do and you want them to know that you've blocked them. Made me sad. As I've said before chat I'm not built like one of these people who can just like shrug off people hating you and shit. I get a hundred positive comments every day and I get that one comment that's that calls me a fuckwit for entirely unjustified reasons that it sticks with me forever. They wear me down. No amount of saying things like you know but there's like millions of people in the world that don't hate you. Just make good stuff, find people who like you and move on but it just doesn't help me. The thing is though they don't hate me for no reason. They hate me for reasons that don't make sense or entirely unjustified. But it's just it's just the nature of the job. It is impossible to go throughout your content creator career without people hating you. It is impossible. They just haven't even out all these years I just can't deal with the world. I'm just I'm just not built that way. I care a lot about everything it sucks. |
| 02. August 2021 | Blood is thicker than water is a misquote | Blood is thicker than water is actually a misquote. Completely off topic, but I want to share some information I learned yesterday. Have you guys ever heard the expression, blood is thicker than water? Because this quote is used to mean that, you know, your family is more important than anything. The full quote is actually, the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb. And it's meant to mean that the family you choose is more important than the family that you don't. Right? The original quote is meant to mean the exact opposite of how the shortened version is used. Yeah, the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb. The original quote is way better. |
| 03. April 2021 | Bloodborne and Sekiro videos are coming....eventually. | Bloodborne and Sekiro videos are coming. Eventually. Did I complete Sekiro? Yes, I did complete Sekiro, but not in the... I didn't complete the entire thing. I think it was the DLC for it that came out later that I didn't do. But obviously there's many different endings and I did not seek out all those endings. I did the overwhelming vast majority of the bosses. I played like 60 hours of it. And I have... to my knowledge I have like 95% of the footage. Recently I gave the footage to Martin. I said, if you want to cut this down whenever you have time, feel free or whatever. And he seems to think the footage is quite good. I even gave Bloodborne to DMod like a thousand years ago. But this is all very low priority stuff because it's not going to be watched really all that much. Like, I think Sekiro and Bloodborne would do better than my Demon's Souls playthrough. Because the Demon's Souls playthrough was like really low quality PlayStation 3 and everyone was expecting the higher graphics of the new version and stuff. But that Demon's Souls video was quite funny. I did it certainly further back when I was a worst streamer, but I liked that video. Even though it's an hour and 40 minutes, I think it's a good watch. I'm going to be very interested to see what the end result of my 20 hours of Bloodborne footage is and my 50 hours of Sekiro footage is. |
| 03. April 2021 | Bloodbourne and sekiro videos are coming....eventually. | Bloodborne and Sekiro videos are coming. Eventually. Did I complete Sekiro? Yes, I did complete Sekiro, but not in the... I didn't complete the entire thing. I think it was the DLC for it that came out later that I didn't do. But obviously there's many different endings and I did not seek out all those endings. I did the overwhelming vast majority of the bosses. I played like 60 hours of it. And I have... to my knowledge I have like 95% of the footage. Recently I gave the footage to Martin. I said, if you want to cut this down whenever you have time, feel free or whatever. And he seems to think the footage is quite good. I even gave Bloodborne to DMod like a thousand years ago. But this is all very low priority stuff because it's not going to be watched really all that much. Like, I think Sekiro and Bloodborne would do better than my Demon's Souls playthrough. Because the Demon's Souls playthrough was like really low quality PlayStation 3 and everyone was expecting the higher graphics of the new version and stuff. But that Demon's Souls video was quite funny. I did it certainly further back when I was a worst streamer, but I liked that video. Even though it's an hour and 40 minutes, I think it's a good watch. I'm going to be very interested to see what the end result of my 20 hours of Bloodborne footage is and my 50 hours of Sekiro footage is. |
| 08. August 2022 | Blue light glasses to help me sleep, is it a scam? | Huge increase for me. Blue light glasses to help me sleep. Is it a scam? You know what I got, chat? I got some blue light glasses. I mean, that blocks out blue light. I am that desperate to fix my sleeping. I'm gonna start wearing them like hours before I go to bed. You know those glasses are a scam? So I consider them to be a scam as well. Then I looked into watching some YouTube videos. Even that Dr. Mike dude claims it's legit. Not that blue light damages your eyes, but that blue light can throw off the amount that your body produces melatonin. And I was, and he referenced some studies and I looked it up and it's like, yeah, there is some studies. I don't have the know-how to, and not really the time, to properly assess the methodologies, but it does seem to have some basis. And as I say, I'm that desperate to improve my sleeping that I'm gonna give it a go. |
| 15. December 2020 | Board games I enjoy | Board games that I enjoy ones that can't come to mind are um Secret Hitler. What's that? What's that one? Um, we put the cards and they spell weird things The black cards, you know, I liked Monopoly as a kid. Oh, it's doing very fine in the past I played a lot of card games with my grandmother like cribbage poker blackjack play a lot of Romeo Rummy Cub Play a lot of yard scene monopoly. Oh, yeah, I played some scrabble me my mother used to play scrabble You just play chess with my father Secret Hitler is a game similar to Among Us. There's two fascists and Hitler and The fascists know who they are and who Hitler is but Hitler doesn't know who the fascists are then there's the liberals who are trying to vote out the fascists and so like Hitler has to figure out who his supporters are so he can work with them and the fascists have to kind of signal to Hitler that they're fascists without getting caught by the liberals and the liberals have to find who the fascists or Hitler are and this is No, you shouldn't further you shoot them or something. It's a yeah, I can't remember exactly But it's a fun game. It's basically like Among Us in board game form. Chess isn't a board game Wikipedia says it's a sport It could be by |
| 23. November 2020 | Bojack Horseman finale (mild spoilers) | Because I had more free time last night, I ended up watching all of Bojack Horseman at 2.2x speed. The second last episode hit me emotionally. I thought that was such a gripping, what I thought was the ending of the series. I was just like, I teared up a little bit, just a little bit. Probably if it was going at, not going at 2x speed, the moment would have lasted longer. I may have cried a little bit, I don't know. But I only teared up because it was going so fast. And like I was impacted emotionally. I was just like, oh Jesus, that was brutal. The finality of it. Then there was another episode. And I was like, what? So much of the previous episodes implied certain things and certain happy endings for the other characters, other than Bojack. And then the final episode, rather than leaving those things somewhat open-ended, but heavily implied good things happen, they just showed you those good things. And I was like, this is a tacked on episode because they think it's going to get another season. It was disappointing. Like spoilers for the show, I've been kind of vague, but I didn't think Bojack should have got a happy ending in that way. Like the other characters having those happy endings, fine. But I think Bojack, his ending would have been so much more final if it was, you know, that ending of self-destruction. Whether you think it would be a good message for society or the message, I don't know. But the ending would have been so much more impactful. But like second last episode hit that perfect peak and then just smash down. Tick tock, create a fund. |
| 23. November 2020 | Bojack Horsement finale (mild spoilers) | Because I had more free time last night, I ended up watching all of Bojack Horseman at 2.2x speed. The second last episode hit me emotionally. I thought that was such a gripping, what I thought was the ending of the series. I was just like, I teared up a little bit, just a little bit. Probably if it was going at, not going at 2x speed, the moment would have lasted longer. I may have cried a little bit, I don't know. But I only teared up because it was going so fast. And like I was impacted emotionally. I was just like, oh Jesus, that was brutal. The finality of it. Then there was another episode. And I was like, what? So much of the previous episodes implied certain things and certain happy endings for the other characters, other than Bojack. And then the final episode, rather than leaving those things somewhat open-ended, but heavily implied good things happen, they just showed you those good things. And I was like, this is a tacked on episode because they think it's going to get another season. It was disappointing. Like spoilers for the show, I've been kind of vague, but I didn't think Bojack should have got a happy ending in that way. Like the other characters having those happy endings, fine. But I think Bojack, his ending would have been so much more final if it was, you know, that ending of self-destruction. Whether you think it would be a good message for society or the message, I don't know. But the ending would have been so much more impactful. But like second last episode hit that perfect peak and then just smash down. Tick tock, create a fund. |
| 19. January 2022 | Bongo Cat has a youtube channel. | Bongo Cat has a YouTube channel. Bongo Cat has a YouTube channel? Really? They're still releasing them? That's insane! The meme is still alive? Getting some decent views too. That's crazy! It's not even copyrighted. |
| 19. January 2022 | BongoCat has a Youtube channel. | Bongo Cat has a YouTube channel. Bongo Cat has a YouTube channel? Really? They're still releasing them? That's insane! The meme is still alive? Getting some decent views too. That's crazy! It's not even copyrighted. |
| 04. July 2022 | Books vs audiobooks | Books versus audiobooks. Do you actually read or listen to audiobooks? When I was younger, I loved books. I've got a huge bookshelf of books at my mother's house. Having that full bookshelf made me feel good. But these days, books just take too long to read. I am of the position that reading a book probably helps you retain information more than listening to it, because like you can look back in the material if you need to, and you can take it at your own pace. Like if you have trouble understanding something, you can stop, think about it a bit, and then continue reading. You can't really do that with an audiobook, at least not as easily. But I don't need to retain all information about, you know, Wax and Wayne or Brandon Sanderson's books. I just have to enjoy it in the moment. And for that reason, audiobooks are fine. But they're also a lot more efficient to listen to. Like I don't have time to sit down and dedicate myself to a book, but I do have time to listen to an audiobook while I'm cleaning and shit, you know. See, I read endless books when I was younger, but I don't do it anymore. |
| 19. July 2020 | Borderlands. | Borderlands. Do I like the Borderlands games? They've never appealed to me even slightly. That's not true. The world of the Borderlands is interesting. The character of handsome Jack, everything I've heard about him makes him seem very interesting and cool. But the actual gameplay, is it just I don't like looter shooters? I haven't found one that really drives with me, I'm not sure. |
| 24. September 2021 | Brad's voice actor | people. Brad's voice actor. Imagine being Brad's voice actor in this game. It'd be interesting to look him up and maybe he has other characters he plays in the game, I don't know, but it would be kind of shit to be involved in the most successful media commodity or whatever of all time and you have two lines in it. Would that suck though? I mean you'd want more but I mean you can still say hey I did those voice lines in GTA V. He only did Brad, he did do Chad in The Lost in the Damned. Interesting. |
| 17. May 2021 | Brain: exists. Logical Fallacies: It’s free real estate | I saw a reference on reddit yesterday about those studies that show that the more you hear a claim, the more you're likely to believe it, simply because it's familiar to you. As a bias that we all suffer. A very scary, yet interesting one. What's the other one? The um, is it called immediacy bias or whatever? Where the more easily you can remember something, the more you're likely to believe that what you're remembering is valid or worth considering when you make some sort of assessment. Like, oh man I need to make a decision, and then the first thing that pops in your head is well if I'm remembering this it must be important. The 108 billion psychological biases that we all fall into to a greater or lesser extent are very interesting, and very humbling when you eat them. Brain exists, logical fallacies, it's free real estate. Nature. |
| 10. June 2020 | Branding Diseases | The naming conventions behind diseases. America has been the source of different pandemics in the past. Like the Spanish flu came from the US. Only we learned about that recently. You know why it's called the Spanish flu? It's because the US wouldn't acknowledge its existence, and Spain was apparently the first one to acknowledge the flu's existence. And so they got labeled and branded with it. Have you guys heard all this shit about whether COVID-19 should be named the Chinese flu or whatever, or the Chinese disease? It's so dumb. Because it was already named COVID-19. It was already named coronavirus, colloquially. And then people attempted to rebrand it as the Chinese flu or whatever. And they're like, what? It's not racist? There's other flus that have also been named after countries. And it's like, yeah, but those were also wrong. As shown by the Spanish flu, which is what you always point to. And it didn't even come from Spain. It was a terrible name. It was like half a decade ago. The guidelines for naming the naming of these disease was updated to avoid these kind of things. Because we can't just name every single disease that comes out of China as the Chinese virus or whatever. I thought it was just dumb because it was an attempt at rebranding, not an attempt at communicating better. It was clearly politically, perhaps even racially motivated as opposed to attempting to communicate well. It wasn't as though it's like they thought COVID-19 is a bad name. Well, let's show up for coronavirus 2019. It was already a good name. You can't even argue that based on utility, a change into the Chinese virus is good. But again, given that guidelines were ruled up specifically to dissuade such naming conventions in the future by the World Health Organization. And then in the past, such names were incorrect and wrong and hated even when they were made back then. It just seems so dumb, you know. This is one of the things that Bill Ma recently talked about that I just thought that's just so goddamn dumb. Like, what is it racist calling something Chinese food? It's like, well, Chinese food isn't bad, my dude. At no point are you trying attempting to rebrand something to paint an entire group of people with a negative brush. It's like, it's just such a dumb argument. I didn't talk about this at the time because it's kind of old news now because it was obviously so stupid. But it just came up into my mind that, you know, the virus wouldn't have happened without Chinese culture. What are you fucking insane? Given that other pandemics have come from other countries, that is clearly not the case. Do you believe that every single place in China is using wet markers? Are you fucking insane? China is a very large, diverse fucking country, man. Can you imagine if, I don't know, like one aspect of your country was, I don't know, let's say rednecks were making moonshine and they make dangerous moonshine that kills a bunch of people. And then the next day, foreigners are like, huh, well, you're making some fucking moonshine, killing some people, motherfucking. You'd be like, no, I don't make moonshine. I've never seen moonshine. What the fuck are you talking about? That's like arguing the entirety of China responsible for a virus's outbreak. And if you believe that any virus, where it originates, it should be named after that, then we got to retroactively do that, man. There's at least a dozen viruses that have come from the US that should be retroactively renamed the US virus 1, the US virus 2. But I don't think you'd be a fan of that, would you? Three-fourths of China does not live in Hong Kong. What are you fucking high? Did you say that sincerely? Hong Kong's like 2% of the Chinese economy. Exactly 1.4 billion people live in China. It's like, yeah, man, but this one dude may have been responsible for like the virus in this small, tiny part of the country. Therefore, the entire country is at fault. Every single fucking Chinese person. Swine flu? Yeah, that should be not called after the US. It's not talking about US's culture's problem, but have you seen the US's factory farming? Not just the US's, but the world's. And you're like, yeah, man, yeah, it's clearly just China who has bad practices in regards to the food that could potentially lead to viruses. Yeah, absolutely. Any form of meat production or eating any animal has some hypothetical chance of you contracting a virus in some astronomically tiny chance. Could you imagine living your entire life avoiding astronomically small chances of harm? What are you, insane? Don't get me wrong, it'd be nice if they didn't do it. But I find it hard to believe that this is just some aspect of China that could just change overnight. All of these people are necessarily eating this food despite having massive other options. I don't think these are the sorts of people who have it worse down the street. |
| 26. March 2022 | Brandon Sanderson’s crazy kickstarter | except maybe like, I don't know, Stephen King or someone. And he made a weekly update where he's like, guys, I've been keeping a secret for a long time. It's due to my mental health and stuff. I'm gonna make a video tomorrow talking about it. Be sure to watch it. And then he makes this video where he looks so serious. He's like, it's time to come clean. And it starts like this, hon. I have been lying to you. And it is time for me to admit the truth. Because I accidentally wrote an extra novel in secret. I apologize. I couldn't help myself. In the previous video as well, I'm like, oh my God, is he dying? Is he gonna have to quit? Or is he got family issues? And he's just, but it gets even better because he didn't write just one book. He wrote like four books or something. And then the whole video breaks down like, how he did this, why it happened, like how he dealt with the pandemic by writing these books. And it's just a very funny concept. But what's more interesting for you guys is this. He did a Kickstarter and it's made $16 million in a day. So ultimately he wrote five books, four of which he's releasing through this Kickstarter. And he made $16 million. So that's in Australian money. So he's made 11 million USD in a day. So what he's offering here is like, the books as they get released will be sent to you. And they'll release once every three months or something. So over the course of the year, you will receive these four new Brandon Sanderson books. And his fans were like, yes, whoa, son. To the tune of $11 million. It is now 33 million USD or 44 million AUD. They had a goal of $1 million. I can't wait until this is discussed on their podcast because that's just crazy. But what a cool way to hype up such a release. But that's what I mean where like, most authors struggle to get a book out in a year or struggle to get a book out every two years. Brandon Sanderson, while writing his other books and keeping up with those obligations, wrote another five books, four of which are now being released here. That's crazy. The anti-George Rahman, basically, yeah. I mean, you wanna watch his breakdown of it, but he's got like, the rest of the books here. Feel free to go watch it. Yeah, so Brandon Sanderson is the author I'm currently reading. I'm up to his second book in his Mistborn series. I think there's like seven books, and I'm really enjoying it. |
| 26. March 2022 | Brandon sanderson’s crazy kickstarter | except maybe like, I don't know, Stephen King or someone. And he made a weekly update where he's like, guys, I've been keeping a secret for a long time. It's due to my mental health and stuff. I'm gonna make a video tomorrow talking about it. Be sure to watch it. And then he makes this video where he looks so serious. He's like, it's time to come clean. And it starts like this, hon. I have been lying to you. And it is time for me to admit the truth. Because I accidentally wrote an extra novel in secret. I apologize. I couldn't help myself. In the previous video as well, I'm like, oh my God, is he dying? Is he gonna have to quit? Or is he got family issues? And he's just, but it gets even better because he didn't write just one book. He wrote like four books or something. And then the whole video breaks down like, how he did this, why it happened, like how he dealt with the pandemic by writing these books. And it's just a very funny concept. But what's more interesting for you guys is this. He did a Kickstarter and it's made $16 million in a day. So ultimately he wrote five books, four of which he's releasing through this Kickstarter. And he made $16 million. So that's in Australian money. So he's made 11 million USD in a day. So what he's offering here is like, the books as they get released will be sent to you. And they'll release once every three months or something. So over the course of the year, you will receive these four new Brandon Sanderson books. And his fans were like, yes, whoa, son. To the tune of $11 million. It is now 33 million USD or 44 million AUD. They had a goal of $1 million. I can't wait until this is discussed on their podcast because that's just crazy. But what a cool way to hype up such a release. But that's what I mean where like, most authors struggle to get a book out in a year or struggle to get a book out every two years. Brandon Sanderson, while writing his other books and keeping up with those obligations, wrote another five books, four of which are now being released here. That's crazy. The anti-George Rahman, basically, yeah. I mean, you wanna watch his breakdown of it, but he's got like, the rest of the books here. Feel free to go watch it. Yeah, so Brandon Sanderson is the author I'm currently reading. I'm up to his second book in his Mistborn series. I think there's like seven books, and I'm really enjoying it. |
| 20. May 2021 | Bread | My opinion on bread. What is my opinion on bread? I like eating bread, but I hate how quickly it goes off. And before you get started with, oh you should put it in the freezer Mr. Jar Jar. It's so much better in the freezer. You're wrong. Putting bread in the freezer is terrible. Makes the bread taste worse. Fat. Even putting bread in the fridge makes it taste worse. Looks at my freezer that has four loaves of bread in the freezer. Look, if you're toasting the bread, okay fine. It will still taste worse. I mean you're toasting it. It's not a big deal. If you're making sandwiches out of that frozen bread, you loco. You cray cray. People will be around your house any day now to put you into a white straitjacket. You are a few fries short of a happy meal. There are a few buttons missing on your remote control. When you guys were kids, did you take bread and like cook it on a fire? I remember doing that as a kid. Like you'd get a tree branch. There's like a fork and then you like thread it into the bread and then you hold it over the fire. It tastes surprisingly nice. Like the novelty of it of burning the bread was nice. |
| 04. November 2021 | Bread disappoints me | Bread disappoints me. What sucks most about bread is that it tastes the best like immediately after it's made, and then like every day afterwards it's slightly worse. So you buy fresh bread from the store, oh, oh, oh that's some good stuff. You wait three days and you look at it like you're such a disappointment. |
| 20. October 2021 | Breaking bad causing pizzas to be thrown on a roof | Breaking Bad causing pizzas to be thrown on a roof Did you guys hear? the house where They shot all the footage for Breaking Bad I don't know if it's still going on right because the show's been off like off here for quite a while But people would throw pizzas on their roof reenacting the Thing from the show they erected an anti pizza fence lol So what do you need this fencing for? Well these people keep throwing pizzas on our roofunting 45 minutes back into killing my mom |
| 10. June 2022 | Broughy's performance in GTAGuessr | Bruffy's performance in GTA Guessa As a- Bruffy didn't do that badly, but I was- I was concerned that uh, he was gonna be on like um, uh, the professional level. I mean, certainly he spends most of his time memorizing and learning about all the cars and stuff, but I was uh, I was curious to see how extensive the uh, racing is. But, as I've often pointed out, even on parts of the game where, uh, like I've been a hundred times, there's still small features that I don't recognize, cause you just don't pay attention to them. And I guess that's kinda the same way with racing, where you might drive by something a dozen times, and you never pay attention to it, cause you're- you're paying attention to like, your car, you know, your place and the thing, you're trying to get all the brake boosts and curves and all that jazz, uh, you're not checking out the buildings that you're next to. And the roads are, you know, in general designed the exact same way where the- the buildings aren't, so I can recognize a building from a particular mission in single-player and be like, oh yeah, this design has to be in this particular area. Like I did with Hood Safari. When I- when I saw that- no, sorry. Like I did with Longstretch. When I saw that corner, I was like, this has to be the third way, or actually no, based on the wire at the top, this has to be, um, Longstretch. Even if I hadn't stood in the exact corner, you know? Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 31. March 2021 | Burger King's Interesting Marketing Strategy | Burger King's interesting marketing strategy. Don't know if you guys saw it, like everyone's made a video about it, which is an interesting part of the story. But if you've seen this Burger King tweet from Burger King UK, women belong in the kitchen, got half a million likes, 132 quote tweets, and 120k retweets. Everyone's talking about this thing. And given how much people are talking about it, it makes you think in your head, like, how planned was this? There's something that suggests it wasn't planned, because a little while later, they added to it, if they want to, of course, yet only 20% of chefs are women, were on a mission to change the gender ratio in the restaurant industry by empowering female employees with the opportunity to pursue a culinary career. We are proud to be launching a new scholarship program, which will help female Burger King employees pursue their culinary dreams. To my understanding, these second tweets came a little while after the first tweet. I wonder if the Burger King UK account was just trying to be edgy, and they got a lot of pushback over the next like 10, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, whatever it was. And they're like, oh, shit. We fucked up here. Let's add on to this a scholarship program. As much as I want to believe that's true, it probably isn't true, because it would probably take a while to set up a scholarship program or whatever. The person with the authority to announce that shit is probably not the guy handling the Twitter or gets a message when shit's going wrong on Twitter. Everyone talked about this. I saw this on my Twitter timeline like hundreds of times. The amount of media attention that they got was truly fucking impressive. Now, because we normally talk as though all attention is good attention. Is this the kind of attention that Burger King would want? Like what I'm saying is, are there people now who are not going to go to Burger King who would have otherwise gone to Burger King because of this tweet? And are there going to be some people who are like, oh, yeah, based Burger King, and then they go to Burger King to buy food? Are there going to be a lot of people who just do not give a shit, but because Burger King is now in their minds, they will go? As in like the tweet has no impact one way or another in terms of its content, but because everyone's talking about Burger King, they're sitting there at lunch going, I'm going to get some Burger King. I don't know why I'm going to get some Burger King. What made Burger King pop into my head? I think they gained from this, even though a lot of the talking about it was negative. And clearly, they must disagree with me, though, because six hours ago, they tweeted out, oh, we hear you. We got our initial tweet wrong and we're sorry. Our aim was to draw attention to the fact that only 20% of professional chefs in UK kitchens are women and to help change that by awarding culinary scholarships. We will do better next time. We decided to delete the original tweet after our apology. It was brought to our attention that there were abusive comments in the third and we don't want to leave the space open for that. It's funny, though, no one is going to see this apology. Fucking no one. I didn't know about this apology until I started my stream and tried to look for the truth. Like, some ordinary gamer released a video on this two or three hours ago. Clearly he had made that video before this apology because this apology isn't in it. As in, this apology was released before his video, but the apology wasn't in the video because everyone's talked about this now. All the people who talk about the everyday goings on, the people who release a video every day just talking about some random shit, they've already talked about Burger King fucking up and so they haven't mentioned this development. And would anyone care about this development? It's hard to grasp how people view companies, right? And how much they believe anything that companies do is fucking sincere because it's never fucking sincere, right? All I really want to know is what was the original motivation for the first tweet? Because clearly they knew they were being edgy and they must have calculated it. They must have been like, OK, sure, we will get this edgy backlash, but then they'll realize that we're doing a good thing. But do they not realize that no one looks at the fucking next tweet, right? Everyone always focuses on the first tweet. It's why the first tweet had 487,000 likes and the second tweet only had 100,000 likes. The overwhelming majority of people would only take away from this story Burger King tweeted out women belong in the kitchen, you know? Given their apology, clearly they didn't think this through. But then again, maybe the apology was a part of the thinking. Maybe they're like, OK, we'll do the inflammatory thing, then we'll hit them back with the positive thing and then we'll completely apologize later on saying we're sorry for the thing we did. And this was their entire plan from the beginning. But if it was their entire plan, then they don't know they don't understand social media and how people don't go for the follow ups. They don't go for the next step. The first thing is the only thing that ever gets traction. I still think they gained overall. I think I don't think this is going to negatively impact their sales anywhere. And I think just with Burger King being on people's minds, they're more likely to get more sales. I'm curious, though. I want to look at their Twitter. They gained 21,000 followers, more than that. 22,000 in the seven days prior. They had gained 60. What I'm saying is, I think they did ultimately gain. I know how much followers on Twitter really matter, but yeah, I don't think they lose out from this. The kind of people who would potentially not go to Burger King because of this joke message or whatever aren't the people who are going to Burger King in the first place. Because I go to Burger King or Hungry Jacks in my country, and this doesn't affect me at all. What some random Twitter employee does on the Burger King Twitter is not going to impact whether or not I go to a local franchise and give that guy a couple of bucks for a burger. You know what I'm saying? My dietary preferences aren't dependent upon Twitter. Why would they be? Could you imagine if they did something really fucking terrible and you're sitting there with a Burger King franchise being like, oh my god, my sales have dropped 20% because some fucking intern tweeted some nonsense on the Burger King Twitter, on the UK version. I'm not even in the fucking UK. Of course, that is the mild danger with franchises, I suppose. Some additional information, Burger King's scholarship was effectively giving two people $25,000 that they advertised this scholarship to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. So even though it's obvious, of course this was just an advertising scheme, they didn't really care about the issue that they said they were trying to fix. |
| 31. March 2021 | Burger King's interesting marketing strategy | Burger King's interesting marketing strategy. Don't know if you guys saw it, like everyone's made a video about it, which is an interesting part of the story. But if you've seen this Burger King tweet from Burger King UK, women belong in the kitchen, got half a million likes, 132 quote tweets, and 120k retweets. Everyone's talking about this thing. And given how much people are talking about it, it makes you think in your head, like, how planned was this? There's something that suggests it wasn't planned, because a little while later, they added to it, if they want to, of course, yet only 20% of chefs are women, were on a mission to change the gender ratio in the restaurant industry by empowering female employees with the opportunity to pursue a culinary career. We are proud to be launching a new scholarship program, which will help female Burger King employees pursue their culinary dreams. To my understanding, these second tweets came a little while after the first tweet. I wonder if the Burger King UK account was just trying to be edgy, and they got a lot of pushback over the next like 10, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, whatever it was. And they're like, oh, shit. We fucked up here. Let's add on to this a scholarship program. As much as I want to believe that's true, it probably isn't true, because it would probably take a while to set up a scholarship program or whatever. The person with the authority to announce that shit is probably not the guy handling the Twitter or gets a message when shit's going wrong on Twitter. Everyone talked about this. I saw this on my Twitter timeline like hundreds of times. The amount of media attention that they got was truly fucking impressive. Now, because we normally talk as though all attention is good attention. Is this the kind of attention that Burger King would want? Like what I'm saying is, are there people now who are not going to go to Burger King who would have otherwise gone to Burger King because of this tweet? And are there going to be some people who are like, oh, yeah, based Burger King, and then they go to Burger King to buy food? Are there going to be a lot of people who just do not give a shit, but because Burger King is now in their minds, they will go? As in like the tweet has no impact one way or another in terms of its content, but because everyone's talking about Burger King, they're sitting there at lunch going, I'm going to get some Burger King. I don't know why I'm going to get some Burger King. What made Burger King pop into my head? I think they gained from this, even though a lot of the talking about it was negative. And clearly, they must disagree with me, though, because six hours ago, they tweeted out, oh, we hear you. We got our initial tweet wrong and we're sorry. Our aim was to draw attention to the fact that only 20% of professional chefs in UK kitchens are women and to help change that by awarding culinary scholarships. We will do better next time. We decided to delete the original tweet after our apology. It was brought to our attention that there were abusive comments in the third and we don't want to leave the space open for that. It's funny, though, no one is going to see this apology. Fucking no one. I didn't know about this apology until I started my stream and tried to look for the truth. Like, some ordinary gamer released a video on this two or three hours ago. Clearly he had made that video before this apology because this apology isn't in it. As in, this apology was released before his video, but the apology wasn't in the video because everyone's talked about this now. All the people who talk about the everyday goings on, the people who release a video every day just talking about some random shit, they've already talked about Burger King fucking up and so they haven't mentioned this development. And would anyone care about this development? It's hard to grasp how people view companies, right? And how much they believe anything that companies do is fucking sincere because it's never fucking sincere, right? All I really want to know is what was the original motivation for the first tweet? Because clearly they knew they were being edgy and they must have calculated it. They must have been like, OK, sure, we will get this edgy backlash, but then they'll realize that we're doing a good thing. But do they not realize that no one looks at the fucking next tweet, right? Everyone always focuses on the first tweet. It's why the first tweet had 487,000 likes and the second tweet only had 100,000 likes. The overwhelming majority of people would only take away from this story Burger King tweeted out women belong in the kitchen, you know? Given their apology, clearly they didn't think this through. But then again, maybe the apology was a part of the thinking. Maybe they're like, OK, we'll do the inflammatory thing, then we'll hit them back with the positive thing and then we'll completely apologize later on saying we're sorry for the thing we did. And this was their entire plan from the beginning. But if it was their entire plan, then they don't know they don't understand social media and how people don't go for the follow ups. They don't go for the next step. The first thing is the only thing that ever gets traction. I still think they gained overall. I think I don't think this is going to negatively impact their sales anywhere. And I think just with Burger King being on people's minds, they're more likely to get more sales. I'm curious, though. I want to look at their Twitter. They gained 21,000 followers, more than that. 22,000 in the seven days prior. They had gained 60. What I'm saying is, I think they did ultimately gain. I know how much followers on Twitter really matter, but yeah, I don't think they lose out from this. The kind of people who would potentially not go to Burger King because of this joke message or whatever aren't the people who are going to Burger King in the first place. Because I go to Burger King or Hungry Jacks in my country, and this doesn't affect me at all. What some random Twitter employee does on the Burger King Twitter is not going to impact whether or not I go to a local franchise and give that guy a couple of bucks for a burger. You know what I'm saying? My dietary preferences aren't dependent upon Twitter. Why would they be? Could you imagine if they did something really fucking terrible and you're sitting there with a Burger King franchise being like, oh my god, my sales have dropped 20% because some fucking intern tweeted some nonsense on the Burger King Twitter, on the UK version. I'm not even in the fucking UK. Of course, that is the mild danger with franchises, I suppose. Some additional information, Burger King's scholarship was effectively giving two people $25,000 that they advertised this scholarship to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. So even though it's obvious, of course this was just an advertising scheme, they didn't really care about the issue that they said they were trying to fix. |
| 30. June 2021 | Buying PS5 For GTA 5 | Buying a PS5 for GTA 5. Oh no. If the expanded enhanced version of GTA 5 is really really good and doesn't actually come to PC, I'm gonna have to get a PS5. Do you think they will make it so that the PS5 version supports keyboard and mouse? No, they're not gonna do that are they? They do have that option but there's no way they're gonna do that. So I got until November to get a PS5. Because there's been no announcement of expanded enhanced for PC as of yet. This is where having contacts with the company or that company having community outreach will be really good and valuable. Sign an NDA or something, they'll be like yeah yeah it's coming to PC this date and I can make decisions on that basis but Rockstar doesn't work that way. Not worth using a controller for expanded enhanced? I mean if it's really really good, I will probably just do a run of it with controller. I mean that's something that people have always wanted anyway. And I'll bitch and complain and be like, Yeah main controller is a fucking terrible man, I don't know if you should use main controller for that. It'd be doubly as bad because if I'm getting one of the consoles, I'm getting the PlayStation 5 over the new Xbox. Because I want Demon's Souls. But I hate the PlayStation controller more than I hate the Xbox controller. So if I'm doing GTA 5 on console it would be on the Xbox version. So I have to get a bird there I suppose. And so I imagine that Peli would stay on the Xbox version or whatever. So having the Xbox version would probably be for the best. What about the haptic feedback? Apparently it is pretty cool but eh. TGG, players on PlayStation. I hate how all these are separate man. These separate ecosystems for different games. Do I have any consoles? I bought the PlayStation 4 to play the new God of War that came out. And I also played Bloodborne on it. Is there anything else chat? Oh I did read it too, that's okay. |
| 30. March 2021 | Buying a GTA 5 car in real life. | Buying a car from GTA 5 but in real life. I have been thinking about, as I've mentioned many times before, buying a new car. So I looked up how much all the cars cost in GTA, as in like all the cool ones that I like, and it's like, this car cost $200,000, this car cost $300,000, this car cost $2.5 million. I'm like, you know what? I don't think I'm gonna get a car from GTA as I originally planned. Because fuck that. I don't know what I'm gonna spend on a car, but it's not gonna be six figures. I just couldn't imagine how much stress I would have driving around a car that was that expensive. I like driving around my shit box, because there's no... no one's gonna steal it. If I hit something, it's like, eh, you know? Having a car even worth a modest amount of money, I'm gonna be freaking out like everywhere. I'm gonna want everything to stay a meter away from my car. Like my mother's car, probably worth $20,000 or something, I don't know. Someone with a backpack must have leant against it or moved past it, and they had buckles on their backpack, and it like scratched little grooves into her car. And the cost of that's gonna be hundreds of dollars. And I'm just like, my car's got all these nicks and little bits of paint missing and stuff, and I'm gonna give a shit. I guess if I buy an expensive car and that stuff happens to me, I just would not care, but I don't know. I don't like the idea of purchasing something that expensive, that is so fragile, relatively speaking. $702 Big Macs, suddenly $10,000 Big Mac, exactly. I mean, I have insurance, but yeah, I want a car that's nice, but not expensive. Can you get a car for $7? Will I ever buy a Tesla? Not in Australia. I don't think there's enough support for electric cars yet. I wouldn't mind having an electric car. |
| 24. October 2020 | Buying a PS5 on launch | Buying a PS5 on launch. The only reason you'd get a PS5 over a PC is if you are you can't afford a PC or you want the PlayStation exclusives. I'm a strimmer so I want the exclusives. If I wasn't a strimmer I would not give two shits about getting a PlayStation 5 on launch. Would not care even slightly. I'd be like, yeah I get it. Week, two weeks, three weeks, four months, whatever. I'll get it eventually. It's fine. But my job is, you know, having that stuff. |
| 08. November 2020 | Buying a house | Buying a house. Do I ever plan on buying my own house or am I going to continue renting? As I've said, I'm not invested in anything, mainly because I just don't have the time to look into it, because I spend all my time doing content creation stuff. And what this means is, over time, I lose money because inflation being a thing, countries like to keep inflation to 1-3% or something like that, whatever. Whatever the case is, my money loses value every year. So the smart thing to do is to put your money into assets that appreciate over time at a faster rate than inflation loses the value of your money. So buying a house with the assumption that it will appreciate in value would be a smart thing to do, especially because I'd both avoid paying rents and I wouldn't be losing money to... losing money, you know what I'm saying, losing value of my money in inflation. But I'm concerned about the property market in this country and people saying it's a bubble and all the different liabilities that come with home ownership and it's like... there's a lot of expenses involved in that and other taxes you pay and... like I'm just... I don't know. I think I want to buy a house just because it's something that I know I can use, even if the property market collapses, I'll still be living in it, so that'll be good. I can use it for that purpose. |
| 03. May 2020 | Buying a kilo of salami | Buying a kilo of salami. I never should have continued to eat that salami. For those who don't know, I accidentally bought a kilo of salami, half a kilo of devon, and a kilo of chicken. A kilo of salami is a lot, and you know what it costs? Like, $29. I was that disgusted with myself that even though I meant to be eating healthier, I couldn't bring myself to like throw it out or something, because it was $29 fucking dollars! Health is one thing, but $29? My health isn't worth $25 fucking dollars! So I keep eating it, and it just makes me feel bloated and shit. And I woke up this morning, because I ate some fairly close to going to bed last night, and it just felt fucking awful. Everything tasted like salami. Mistakes for me. How do you do the back? I bought my stuff online, and I thought I was doing 0.1, I think I did 1, or I didn't realize how much a kilo of salami was, or something, I don't know. I was doing it very quickly, and I just, you know, put in a number. |
| 05. March 2020 | Buying a new mattres | Buying a new mattress. Where do I purchase one of these mattresses? So you want me to get a sleeping duck mattress? Wait, wait, wait. Try our firmness level quiz. mattress size Queen. Number of sleepers. The ducks? One. What is your name? Matt. What is your primary sleep position? I don't know. I think back mainly. I am between 25 and 34. My waist is Is this many? My gender is this many. What do you currently rate the quality of your sleep? One. How would you currently describe your current mattress? Medium. Spring only. Do you have any pain points in your sister with? upper back Lower back. What firmness do you think would suit you best? Okay, do you need a firm mattress? I mean, they support your back or whatever. What's best for back support? Okay, I want firm then. What is your single biggest challenge in finding a mattress? Vampires. I am funny. So you're saying I should buy this mattress. This mattress will help me. You're meant to have it for like 15 years guys. So it's like a hundred bucks a year. Okay, I will purchase this mattress. Okay, actually I might get a pillow as well. $120 for a pillow? For real though my pillow is garbage. Like it's it's terrible. This might be good for your neck and stuff. It does last years. This is true. I'm gonna get this pillow too. $150 for sheets? I do need like a Duna cover and stuff because the one that I've got is disgusting. I've had it for like 15 years. What are flat sheets? What am I getting with this? What is a flat sheet? They are from between the blanket and you. So I want this. So it's $1800. Under the assumption that I will not have to buy any of this ever again for the rest of my life. I f- |
| 05. March 2020 | Buying a new mattress | Buying a new mattress. Where do I purchase one of these mattresses? So you want me to get a sleeping duck mattress? Wait, wait, wait. Try our firmness level quiz. mattress size Queen. Number of sleepers. The ducks? One. What is your name? Matt. What is your primary sleep position? I don't know. I think back mainly. I am between 25 and 34. My waist is Is this many? My gender is this many. What do you currently rate the quality of your sleep? One. How would you currently describe your current mattress? Medium. Spring only. Do you have any pain points in your sister with? upper back Lower back. What firmness do you think would suit you best? Okay, do you need a firm mattress? I mean, they support your back or whatever. What's best for back support? Okay, I want firm then. What is your single biggest challenge in finding a mattress? Vampires. I am funny. So you're saying I should buy this mattress. This mattress will help me. You're meant to have it for like 15 years guys. So it's like a hundred bucks a year. Okay, I will purchase this mattress. Okay, actually I might get a pillow as well. $120 for a pillow? For real though my pillow is garbage. Like it's it's terrible. This might be good for your neck and stuff. It does last years. This is true. I'm gonna get this pillow too. $150 for sheets? I do need like a Duna cover and stuff because the one that I've got is disgusting. I've had it for like 15 years. What are flat sheets? What am I getting with this? What is a flat sheet? They are from between the blanket and you. So I want this. So it's $1800. Under the assumption that I will not have to buy any of this ever again for the rest of my life. I f- |
| 10. May 2021 | Buying another $702 Big Mac | Buying another $702 Big Mac. It does 10 piece giveaway. I will eventually do it guys. I will eventually order $702 worth of Big Macs. One day. Would I have to like, call them up and talk to them? I guess I would. How would I explain that to them? I would like as many Big Macs as I can order for $702. They'd be like, uh, well, it would be like $705. No, no, just like, make a smaller Big Mac. Or like, cut one in half or something. Just make exactly $700. Yeah, I said that before that maybe I'll do it at PAX. It's just setting up stuff like that is a pain, you know? I guess I can like, just let people grab them immediately. I mean they do like, catering events and stuff, don't they? So maybe, uh, yeah. I guess it could be possible I just talk to them, whatever. I do not have an agent, no I have a manager, but I mean, it's kind of silly. Maybe, maybe they could, do I don't know. For the publicity, I don't think people are going to report on a dude buying a couple of hundred bucks worth of Big Macs. If I had a standard PAX, yeah maybe. And $109 isn't like an insane amount in terms of giving away free Big Macs, but. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. They cost you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 02. April 2021 | Buying the rights to movies to show on stream. | Buying the rights to movies to watch them on stream. I watched this video yesterday. Guy, I think his name's Austin. He spent like, he doesn't say the number, he bought himself a garbage beam movie. He bought the rights to it for two years. He's gonna show it on his YouTube channel. You know what I'm talking about? Some of you probably saw the video. I wonder if if movie companies were a little bit more savvy or gave a shit or whatever and they priced it somewhat reasonably. I wonder how many streamers would uh, or YouTubers would pay money to stream particular movies. Especially movies that are like 10 years old ever. What would it cost? What's a fair price just to like play Finding Nemo on stream? Like they lose nothing for it, you know? Because not like any of those people who would be watching would be like a day away from having, you know, buying a DVD copy of Finding Nemo, but now they saw it on livestream, they're not gonna do that. Maybe, I guess yeah, Twitch live streaming I suppose. There's live streaming in general. It's still just so small compared to the movie industry that even if they realized they could get money out of it I guess they just don't give a shit. |
| 24. January 2022 | Buying way too much sugar | Buying way too much sugar. Oh guys, I made a terrible mistake. I bought myself a kilo of the new Runtz. Remember how, did that Rambles release? I think it did, I'm pretty sure it did. I talked about how my favorite candy is Runtz. And I love them back in the day, I haven't had the newest ones. And they're not that great. Like, they're good for like four of them, maybe five. And then you're just like, this is just too overwhelming. I wonder if it's because, like I've grown up, I'm older now, so I can't deal with as much sugar, I don't know. Or is it just because the flavoring is different and completely different? I don't know. Why did you buy a kilo before you knew if you liked them? It was 20 bucks for a kilo on eBay. They didn't have smaller sizes. And I thought a kilo wouldn't be that much, but it's two goddamn bags. And I like them, don't get me wrong. I'm just gonna have to eat like one a day for the next bajillion years. What's my favorite candy now? I don't really have a favorite candy, man. I buy Twixers when I go to Coles. Runs, like every Australian's favorite word. That's a different word. Runs is a funny word, yeah. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 05. April 2021 | CDawgVA ramen conspiracy. | SeaDogVA ramen conspiracy. Let me tell you a small conspiracy. It's so not true. I don't watch Connor's from Trash Taste. I don't watch his YouTube channel. I've clicked an occasional video that's gonna recommend it to me, but I don't really watch it, right? And I saw, get recommended to me yesterday, Connor's video where he's like trying every type of ramen or trying 50 types of ramen or whatever it was. And I was like, wasn't that the idea that I had that I never ended up doing that got into my rambles? And I'm like, wait a second. Wasn't there that Trash Taste episode where Connor referenced Dense Motherfucker and kind of said it the same way that I do as my meme? What if Connor saw my rambles? I talked about the ramen thing and so he did, he decided to do it himself. There's absolutely no fucking chance of that. But I'm like, you can see how you can make connections if you're really keen to. All of it's probably coincidence. And certainly I was never gonna do the thing anyway. And certainly I wasn't the person to originally think, hey, let's try a bunch of different food. That idea is so fucking common. You can guarantee that I am not a regional fucking snowflake and Connor's just like, hey, I should do an eating thing where I eat a bunch of ramen. But when I saw it, I'm like, what if? What if? Yeah, C dog VA for those who don't know him. Yeah. I actually went back to try to find where he talked about... Because the conversation as I mentioned before, it was in one of the Trash Taste episodes where someone said Dense. And I was like, Dense always comes off to me now like it's really visceral, like it's, you know, Dense Motherfucker. And again, could it be a coincidence? It's funny. I've reached that level where it doesn't surprise me now if a person has been recommended one of my clips. Because it gets recommended like 300 million times a month or something. I rarely think that people know of my content or watch me regularly. It doesn't surprise me when people of ten gent will be heard of me or happen to have seen a clip or something, you know. It's what happens when you throw 2,600 videos of yourself on YouTube over the course of the... |
| 10. July 2021 | CS:GO and Rainbow 6 Seige | CSGO and Rainbow Six Siege CSGO great game, high skill ceiling, enjoy watching people play it who are very proficient at it Rainbow Six Siege I could not care about even slightly The amount of money that you'd have to pay me to sit for five minutes watching Rainbow Six Siege Like, they'd have to liquidate every asset in existence They would have to give me so much money that money would no longer have value in this world Because no one else would have any and they'd have to move to something else to trade |
| 10. July 2021 | CS:GO and Rainbow 6 Siege | CSGO and Rainbow Six Siege CSGO great game, high skill ceiling, enjoy watching people play it who are very proficient at it Rainbow Six Siege I could not care about even slightly The amount of money that you'd have to pay me to sit for five minutes watching Rainbow Six Siege Like, they'd have to liquidate every asset in existence They would have to give me so much money that money would no longer have value in this world Because no one else would have any and they'd have to move to something else to trade |
| 27. August 2022 | CSGO SKINS VS NFTS | CSGO skins versus NFTs. CSGO skins and NFTs are pretty much the same. A lot of the problems with NFTs don't apply to CSGO skins. CSGO skins are more along the vein of Pokemon cards. Cardboard is in no way shape or form valuable. It's only valuable in the eyes of people and the second that people stop caring about Pokemon, the cards have no value. And that is the same way with skins. Like CSGO skins do have practical application within the game, and you don't have all that kind of shady, can't be deleted, potentially being able to infect people with illicit code or whatever that steals all their shit and all that nonsense, you know. As I say, everything that people say NFTs can do, Valve has been doing for a decade with CSGO skins. |
| 11. December 2019 | CSGO or mario maker pro | Would I rather be a pro at CSGO or Super Mario Maker? Would you rather be a pro at CSGO or Mario Maker? Probably Mario Maker. Because there's just so much Mario Maker to play. Being a pro at CSGO is something that, like, there's a time limit on that. There's no pro 35 year old CSGO player. But there are people, like, in their 30s on Twitch, who still do very well at Mario Maker. Because Mario Maker, a wide variation of gameplay styles can still be entertaining with that content. CSGO is not that way. Isn't there so much more money in CS? There's greater longevity in Mario Maker. And in just Mario as a franchise in general than CS. Doc? No, Doc is good at the game, but he's not a pro CS player. And certainly Mario Maker, like, you can do more as a streamer in Mario Maker. Like, you can make levels, you can do viewer levels, you know, your chat can be involved. You have more opportunity to read chat and interact with chat. Mario Maker is a very good streaming game. It doesn't matter your mindset, you can find some new thing to do, whatever. Like, you're having a slow day, you just want to play some, like, you know, some troll levels or puzzle levels or whatever. Speedruns, whatever, whatever, maybe. |
| 27. July 2021 | Cake | Seven games. Cake. Cheesecake was the first form of cake that I liked. I didn't like cake or chocolate for a very long time. I was crazy. Chocolate cake is fantastic. May I use 25 bucks to buy myself a chocolate cake? |
| 05. March 2022 | Cake spoils in the fridge. | No? Cake spoils in the fridge. I have cake, anyone want any? I found out recently that cake goes off in the fridge, and so I'm gonna have to chuck out that cake that I made, which sucks. I mean, obviously cakes go off, but I just never thought about it, so I didn't rush to eat it. I'm like, wait a second, it's been like a bajillion years. So, you know. Of course I kept the smash cake. I ate barely any of it, but still. I need to buy a frozen cake next time. |
| 30. May 2020 | Call of duty | Have you played COD Modern Warfare? I played Modern Warfare 2, it was a great game, haven't played any since. I even bought Modern Warfare 3 and I played it for like 5 minutes and said fuck this shit. |
| 14. January 2021 | CallMeCarson drama | You look at the call me Carson situation like he was so famous, so young. And like you can comment on that, what you will, like obviously fucked up, but like people are taking a bit out of proportion, in my opinion. But like he was just like a 19 year old or an 18 year old with so much fame, like messaging 16 year old, like. That's two years of like he wouldn't probably have been ready to like be like, oh, this could really affect me. Do you know what I mean? Like you just didn't have that judgment call. There's certainly a lot of avenues to look at it at, and I do think it has been blown out of proportion. Maybe it's different for us, because that's the kind of thing would be actually legal here. But in other countries or whatever, the just the question of illegality is enough for you to go on. I'm washing my hands. This is fucking fucked up. Totally. Yeah, I guess that's what you got to have front of mind as well, especially having the pictures like it gets pretty I don't know. I feel bad for him. I think he's in a was in a tough place. And yeah, I was more in when it was just the one girl that he was 19. He was 19. She was 17. I was like, you know, this is just stuff that happens in high school all the time. Then when it became more people, it turned away from like two people of sincere interest, potentially showing pictures and more that Carlson might have been potentially just using his fame to get naked pictures of people. And that seems more fucked up. Again, he's still very young. And at the same time, like that that does seem like something that because he admitted that he didn't think it was right. But it's just, again, it's just so fucking young. So young to get so famous. I'd love to hear like before I would ever judge the situation at all, like I honestly have to talk to Carson or at least hear from Carson. Like, I just feel like until you've heard both sides, you just I personally just can't make a call. But it just highlights that whole thing of young fame, doesn't it? It's a very fast, I'm aware. And as I was saying before, in general, when these kind of things come out, you should just vanish. I mean, regardless of whether you're innocent or guilty, if you vanish, it'll all just eventually blow over. I believe he's lost like 300,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel. He's lost like 10 percent. Oh, sure. But I mean, that's it's all slowing down. And, you know, he'll come back in six months. And certainly most of his fans won't give a shit. Yeah, true. It's just the way of content, I suppose. Yeah, it's just the soon as like it's underage sex or nudes. It's just like it's such a red flag. Like it's just like it's going to screw you. Like there's some things that you just like you can make an edgy joke and just bounce back straight away. But there's just some things that, you know, I don't know. |
| 25. July 2022 | CallMeKevin’s DarkViperAU Cosplay | Call me Kevin's Dark Viper AU cosplay. Someone sent me a clip. I don't know if it's an old clip. I can't, I cannot put on sleeves right now. I'm doing my Dark Viper cosplay because it is boiling. So suddenly that man's fashion sense makes perfect sense to me. Black tank tops. So people can go back to saying I copied Dark Viper like just when I am, just like when I did the Chaos mod. We even have the same hairline. I hope people didn't actually give him shit for doing Chaos mod or something because that'd be really dumb. It might just be because we share a large amount of our audience or whatever. He's one of the people in the back end who it always says my viewers watch a lot. Because obviously I don't own Chaos mod. I wasn't even the first person to do it because the tank top thing was funny. See I told you it's practical and fashionable and always will. |
| 14. September 2021 | Calling small-ant Smallant | Smallants. I didn't notice until after I made that video that I did say smallants every time. Small ants, but like smallants, smallants, like they're the same. I just woke it up. I've heard people call him smallant before. How was I meant to know? I've heard of both ways. His name doesn't have a space. Exactly. |
| 17. December 2020 | Can GTA survive the “ultra-sensitive world” we find ourselves in? | Can GTA 6 survive the ultra sensitive world we live in? I've been thinking, I don't think GTA 6 would survive the ultra sensitive world that we live in now and I think that's why, or at least the strong reason why we won't get GTA 6 anytime soon. Based, you have said something that, I would almost say triggers me. Do you know how GTA originally got big? They paid. Well, they don't openly admit this, but they wink and they nod when you talk about it. They paid magazines to talk about the terrible violence and the corrupting nature of the video game GTA. Oh, look at the terrible things you can do. And of course, it led to outrage, outrage, and people talking about GTA corrupting our youth. Like, people who are like, I don't know, have no knowledge of history, don't know anything about the 90s and the war on video games or the war on music or metal and, you know, Eminem being brought before Congress and all that shit. They seem to think that people today are just uniquely offended. And it's just, like, we had an entire history of people just being like, man, whatever you want to do, you can do it, man. Totally fine, I don't care. And then suddenly we got to like the year 2000 and people are like, oh my god, I'm offended by everything. It's not history, my dude. People have been offended by dumb shit for all of time. It was even worse back in the day. Because it's a survival thing in terms of social sanctions, in terms of getting people to conform to particular behaviors. It's how human beings exist and function. If you didn't do what your tribe did, you got thrown out of the tribe. Where do you think religion and sanctity and rituals and all this shit comes from? It comes from people's offended sensibilities. People are more tolerant of a wider amount of shit than ever before. My god, at one point you couldn't like wear, like, the types of clothes that people wore. If you wore the wrong clothes, you're going to get arrested. Blasphemy laws existed like fucking everywhere, man. You insult religion, you go into jail. You couldn't swear on the TV. All that changes now is our overwhelming access to information and our ability to share opinions to massive amounts of people is so fucking easy. Once upon a time, there was like a thousand people in existence who could communicate an opinion to more than a thousand people. Now like everyone can do that shit. It's less that people are offended more and more that you can hear about people being offended with the ease of pressing a button. If you think Rockstar is sitting there like, I don't know, man, I'm pretty keen to get a billion dollars for GTA 6, but someone on Twitter might be offended. Ah, nah. I mean, a billion dollars, but that person on Twitter being offended? Not interested. It's not going to happen. Not keen on that at all. You're crazy. You're fucking crazy. I mean, yes, you may give a shit what a random fuck on Twitter says. YouTube channels may give a shit what a random fuck on Twitter says because they can clickbait that shit for views, but no company is not releasing a product that will net them billions of dollars because of random fucks on Twitter or Facebook. You're insane. I've done that rant like eight times. You'd think I would stop getting triggered by people saying that impressively dumb shit. |
| 02. August 2021 | Can I become president? | Having one? I have no capability to become presence of anywhere. Actually, that's not true. There are some countries where there is no requirement that you be born in that country to become presence. So I could hypothetically move somewhere, live there for the required amount of time. And then- oh my god. Then become present. They've given the money to the- |
| 04. June 2021 | Can I finish GTA 5 with my eyes closed? | Can I finish GTA V with my eyes closed? Can I finish this game with my eyes closed? As long as you consider failure to be a way of finishing, yes, I can. Close my eyes, fail, and then I'm finished! Within such a definition of finishing, I can finish basically anything with my eyes closed. |
| 28. January 2022 | Can Rockstar fix the remaster and can they still make good content? | Can Rockstar fix the remaster and can they still make good content? Do you think Rockstar can fix the GT trilogy remaster? Funnily enough, that's gonna be this one of the topics in there in the rambles that's coming out today. Long story short, they can fix bugs, but they can't make it good because the remaster is bad. Sure, but the problem is it is not fixing that it needs. It needs a remake or a more serious remaster. This remaster was a mobile port that was tinkered with. It's not good enough. It's like you've got a really shit table that has both been made out of terrible wood, but also been badly designed. You can tinker with it, you can wax it, you can shine it, you can buff it down or whatever, but at the end of the day, it's still a table made out of shit wood. All that it has going for it is that the base game is good and therefore the remaster will always be at least playable because the base game was playable and good, you know. It's really shit how a lot of world-known studios put out games that aren't finished because the exacts need to push their payday at the end of the year. It annoys me how little consequences there seems to be for bad decisions on the upper levels. What's that, uh, that recent thing with Blizzard and that Bobby Kotick or whatever his name is? Seems to be an absolute shithead, made tons of terrible decisions and essentially abused people himself or at least was knowing, knowledgeable about it and did nothing about it for years. And he's still in that position, you know. Like he's done everything bad, seemingly possible, but he still kept the position that he had and still has. Do you think the GTA franchise is dead or will be bad now that so many of the OGs have left? While it is true that just having money doesn't mean you're gonna make a great product, I think that Rockstar has enough money and enough time that whatever they release in the future will be good to someone. And I don't mean like the definitive edition or that shit because that wasn't really made by Rockstar. What do I think about the leaks for Bully 2? As I've said before, I talked to a guy from Rockstar back in 2019, the one conversation I've ever had from a guy who worked at Rockstar. He worked in the media side and he said that there had been some playable thing of Bully 2 kicking around the office or whatever. But I think he might have been expect- I think he might have been speculating a bit. Because basically saying that in his view, it was dead at that point. That they couldn't get it to work. They couldn't be happy with what they were making. But that was two years ago, you know. So maybe they finally found something that works for them, an idea that they can run with. And if that's the case, then sure, man, guess Bully 2 coming, you know. |
| 24. October 2022 | Can large creators blow up smaller channels? | I mean speaking of supporting smaller channels, it isn't that I specifically support smaller channels It is that if I see a video that I think is particularly cool. I'll tell you about it I don't think that translates to a heap amount of views for that person It's more that doesn't hurt them helps them doesn't help me. You know, I'm not gaining something from shouting out these people but good stuff deserves recognition and and helps out the person helps you guys out because you got something to watch and Yeah, it's everyone everyone's good, you know put out positivity in the world as much as possible Have you ever given anyone a shout out and they blew up in popularity? Doesn't really happen shout outs can just give people a little bit of a push It's the algorithm that matters, you know Like certainly I've given people raids and stuff and giving them some more viewers and whatnot But it's not you know shout out isn't sufficient In case I shouted someone out and you got over 100k subs amen MrBeast gave like three different people a hundred K subs and two of them abandoned their channels Because they would just lose subs every single time they upload a video and they didn't increase their viewership and the third one I think continued to putter along but said the experience in general is pretty negative You need to naturally build an audience if a big creator says hey Yo, all you subbed to this person a lot of people will but it doesn't mean they like the content or watch it If you know of that creator though I'd like to look at their channel because I am I want to make a video on that one point Don't think I ever will though. Like there's no way it has no impact It's just uh, you know Sustained collaboration is probably the best method for a large creator to help a smaller one I like with a greater guarantee of success. I need people to remember that subs don't matter. Yeah, what's that dude's name? I'll show you his social blade. His name is Mischief, right? So here's the subs So he goes Ah He's and he's losing subs every month this does nothing He's now releasing videos for less than 10k views whatever so like when did the thing happen April so six months ago before Quantum TV he was getting 10k views a video here the 20k there 20k there and we can skip forward here and 10k 20k these acts same Indistinguishable from general growth exactly does depend on the content in the video or is the person it's that Just because a person subscribes to you because of some controversy or because another big content credit says to Doesn't mean that the people will stick around and or actually watch the videos that the person releases I mean because there's more 15k view videos here than they were six months ago But we're looking at a modest increase in viewership You can't make a person from an event like that because the quality of the person's content won't change if their content wasn't algorithmically Viable before the blow-up it won't be afterwards and see if viewership won't increase or that much nearly all of mr Bees shoutouts work out well for the content credit. No specifically we know for a fact They don't mr. Beast didn't experiment where he Literally got three random people three random creators and gave them all 100k subscribers it was devastating for all three to abandon their channels entirely and start a new channel and The other one hangs on but it's still getting the same amount of use He was getting before the 100k subscribers what determines whether or not a shit the shoutout or whatever works Is this the contents of persons content is already good and in that case they don't need the shoutout Usually what tends to happen is a person is already blowing up for some purpose and that's when they get noticed by a large content Creator and the large content creator effectively takes credit for whatever is happening to the channel does YouTube give new creators room to succeed? |
| 27. November 2022 | Can people with nothing become successful? | Everyone is at the exact same point, but on YouTube you don't know that. Can people with nothing become successful? Do I think it's possible for people with nothing to become successful? Of course! There is always going to be some hypothetical path that a person could take to go from effectively anywhere to anywhere else. It's just a matter of likelihood. A person with absolutely nothing could dial a number on their phone at random and happen to connect through with some person, and you would say a particular set of words and pitch something, and the person would be like, oh yeah, I'll invest in that, sure, and your life will be changed. But the odds that they're happening is astronomical. There's a reason why most obscenely wealthy people started out in families that were to some degree rich, because in those environments, the variables that are necessary to create even grander wealth are more likely to exist. |
| 08. December 2021 | Can playtesters make youtube videos? | Can playtesters make YouTube videos? I'm sure you'd have to sign some kind of an agreement where you would would agree not to profit off knowledge you'd gained from the experience or something. Probably couldn't make 50 YouTube videos and then like the day the game releases just release all the videos. It's like day one you have a super detailed walkthrough of every mission on YouTube. Like when you go look up walkthroughs for each of the missions of GTA V, they have millions of views. You'd stand to make quite a lot of money doing that. |
| 15. February 2022 | Can streamers really ever be in fair use? | Why content created or why reactors specifically if they fully grasp these concepts might might be slightly immoral? Charlie said this thing in his video right, but he's like, you know, I try to add as much as I can to every video But sometimes I just get caught up in it and I don't really react Okay, and I mean we kind of agree that reactors generally don't Use these videos in fair use like they are uploading the full amount that they are uploading the full video Which technically doesn't that necessarily doesn't make it non not fair use So we can talk about I argue it will like every time because you you what depends it depends on the what's necessary or not at length of the clip and I The idea of what a transformation is is to like change something so it's not what it was before right? No amount of adding to something Makes something not not itself. So like that doesn't have to be transformative It depends on because criticism is part of the thing of fair use So if it requires the fair fair clip to criticize it then I'll grant you hypothetically speaking It is possible for a person to be so in-depth with their criticism that Every single frame is necessary for that criticism to make sense We're just talking like zero point zero zero one percent Yes, super rare. It's a difficult argument to make legally One of the things you should largely do is think to yourself Can I justify the inclusion of everything that I've included that's copyrighted? So the example I like to use is if you wanted to make a criticism of the lighting in a movie You could say the lighting in this newest Disney movie is terrible And you would then show some scenes to show the lighting is bad and and well of course that's fair use because you You could argue in court because like well I needed those scenes to to have people understand my criticism without that What am I gonna just sit like by 10,000 words to explain what light is? I mean like how would you even communicate light without some visual imagery? But if instead of just showing some scenes you showed the entire movie you being caught like well, yeah I didn't need 99.99 percent of the copyrighted material that I used but I wanted to anyway in fair use You can only use what is necessary for your work to to make sense For you to achieve the purpose that you're trying to achieve and when it comes to react content You have no idea what's coming up next you have no no idea what copyrighted material you're about to consume So you say you can't really get up in front of the court and say I knew I needed to use all that material Because you didn't know you you don't have foresight you there are going to be sections where you're going to be completely Silenced and they're completely irrelevant to any sort of commentary or humor or criticism that you you're about to espouse But you've you've already included that copyrighted material anyway It's why in the document I advocate that all I really want is for people to watch the thing that they they're trying to use beforehand Because once you've done this your ability to transform that thing is going to be much larger Because you're going to have an idea as to what's coming up what's what things you want to add You're going to have some knowledge beforehand whether you can add anything of value at all |
| 30. January 2022 | Can true impartiality be achieved in media? | Can true impartiality be achieved in media? If you want some really good media deconstruction, check out the podcast, No Agenda. I'd be interested to what degree? What was that? What was it? There was a survey that asked people about reporting, and they were like, is it biased to report this thing that is bad about this person, even if it's true? A non-insignificant number said yes. I wonder how often even these reportedly non-biased publications, when they just report things that are factual, that go against other people's way of perceiving the world, or that are negative towards their favored political party or politician, they're like, nah, this must be biased. These people must actually be biased because that can't be true. Because I think this is a phenomenon that exists, and then I wonder how much of these non-biased publications are simply trying to sanitize the news and the world. So there's nothing overtly damaging or harmful, like something that is bad for someone. They'll be like, well, we've got to downplay this as much as possible to prevent people who like that person from being offended or whatever, you know? Depends on what is being reported. If they report that ex-politician didn't donate to an orphanage, then there is definitely a bias. Oh, true, Volker, yeah. I mean, I guess it depends on how the question was asked. But it's certainly possible, for example, for you to be biased in your reporting, in that you just report bad things, even if true, and ignore good things that are also true. It is possible in this world to say nothing but truths and have a person come away with a false impression of the world. Lying is almost the lazy way of tricking a person, you know? You can easily trick a person with nothing but truth. I feel there's no punishment or penalty for faking news or having extreme biased opinions reported to stop it happening, but there is. I mean, mainstream publications have the ability to be sued when they say bullshit, because they have a lot of money and it's worth the time. Certainly, not everyone has money to sue these people, but there are ethics and news standards that mainstream media publications have to abide by, or they can be brought up and reprimanded and all that jazz. But to what degree you think these things that are terms, I can't say, but for example, Fox News is currently being sued by Dominion because of all their, frankly, lies about the election or whatever, right? And Dominion is apparently currently winning, so Fox News might end up having to pay through the nose because of how much damage they did to Dominion's brand by knowingly lying. But that's the problem. In general, it's not a matter of the media lying. If you have a story that comes up and then you report all the facts on it, but you want people to perceive the facts in a particular way, you just go to talking head number four that you know has this particular opinion or has been fed to say particular things. Like, they're selected because of what they're gonna say, and then you just talk to them, and they present their opinion as basically facts. And even if they're not saying this is fact, even if they're saying this is my opinion, whoever's watching will remember that opinion just as much as they remember the facts, and it will color how they see things. Selective reporting and being selective in who you talk to is enough to massively skew how people see the world. You don't have to openly lie most of the time. I'd say lying is just the lazy way to do things. Be sure to like the video and subscribe. Also remember, comments are shown to me chronologically for my entire channel, meaning regardless of how old the video, your comment will still be shown to me in my feed. So leave one if you have something on your mind. |
| 16. November 2022 | Can you actually master something after 10000 hrs? | Can you actually master something after 10,000 hours? 10,000 hours to master something? Would you say you master GTA overall, not just speedrunning? It's not 10,000 hours of doing something that caused you to master it. It's dedicated practice and testing the boundaries of what you already know. Like if you played the same song on guitar for 10,000 hours, you get good at that song, but you wouldn't master the guitar. You've always got to be going that next little step, the next little step, next little step, testing the limits of what you know to truly master something at 10,000 hours. I believe people just saying 10,000 hours is either shorthand or like to simplify something that's kind of true. Like all practice is not valuable practice. |
| 18. July 2022 | Can you become successful on twitch without money? | Can you become successful on Twitch without money? Basically, with everything in life, it's not a matter of whether you can become successful, it's a matter of how likely you are to become successful. With every form of success, there's some necessary prerequisites. A small list, and then there's a huge list of things that increase your chances of success, which aren't necessary, but again, are good things to have. Do you need a good speaking voice to succeed on Twitch? No, but it's a good thing to have. Do you need to be physically attractive to be successful on Twitch? No, but I mean, it's a good thing to have. Do you need to be good at games? Well, no, but it's a good thing to have. Do you need a good microphone? No, but it's a good thing to have, and so on and so forth, and yada yada. Do you need a psych degree to become successful on Twitch? Absolutely. Every person who's successful on Twitch has a psych degree. |
| 12. February 2023 | Can you grow an audience just as a streamer? | interest. Can you grow an audience just as a streamer? Hey Matt, hope you're doing well. I was wondering in your opinion what is the best place to start streaming if you have no following anywhere. I am interested to start and would appreciate the input. There's no way to really generate an audience as a streamer just by streaming. You have to make other content somewhere else. So it almost doesn't matter where you start streaming because you're gonna be wanting to try and make that into actual content for like YouTube or TikTok or what have you. There's Twitch is still probably fine. I'd say you can't grow big just live streaming. So whatever works best for you. Twitch is the easiest to get into so and has the most systems that work for it. TikTok clips get big easier than YouTube nowadays. I mean YouTube shorts do the same but whether that's you growing an audience is a separate matter. I've talked about my experience with getting hundreds of thousands of subscribers from YouTube shorts but it doesn't really converse to views on anything else. Like I'm sure it does convert some amount but it's a tiny tiny portion. It's just when you have nothing anything you can get is a good thing. It's harder than you might think to make streaming content and converting it to YouTube stuff especially if you don't have any help. Editing especially when you're new is very very time-consuming. Why would you even want those 15-second attention span TikTok people? Because people don't just watch TikTok. Like I'm the sort of person who watches tons of podcasts and long-form content and even I will scroll YouTube shorts or TikToks on rare occasions. Like my preferred content is long-form content but as in like the longer they're better but sometimes it's hard to find videos that are that long better engaging. |
| 08. November 2021 | Can you just stream for fun and hope for success? | Can you just stream for fun and hope for success? I started streaming like two months ago. I enjoy it even though just a few people watch it. I like playing with my friends and making clips, having a good laugh. If I get noticed I'll be happy. If not I won't get sad. The main thing should be to enjoy it. Definitely do. Today though you can't really grow as a channel. Just enjoying it. You need more than that. You actually need to make moves or consider the implication of what you're doing on your growth. Creators who say, just have fun and if it happens, it happens. These are more than likely people who have been streaming for 10 years. They were here during the beginning and they just had fun. It grew for them. But that's because there was less competition back then. There was more discoverability. You could just be good and get somewhere. That's not the case these days. |
| 14. May 2020 | Can you speedrun GTA on a low end pc? | Is it possible to speedrun GTA V on a low-end PC? I mean you can speedrun it on a toast if you want to, it's whether you're gonna have a good experience doing it. And the answer is probably not, because GTA V is still a fairly intensive game. Because of the advantages that better loading and higher FPS gives you in that game, you aren't gonna be majorly competitive. But let's be real, if you start speedrunning GTA V, you aren't gonna be majorly competitive in the beginning anyway. It's not, the difference between you and World Record isn't gonna be FPS and loading. You would hope over the many months and years that you would dedicate to the game, that eventually you'd be able to get yourself a mid-tier PC. At which point the difference in loading and FPS would be minuscule if anything between you and the World Record. |
| 14. May 2021 | Can you start a fire by shooting a trail of oil? | Can you start a fire by shooting a trail of oil in real life? Can a bullet light a trail of petrol? Like if you shot a trail of petrol, it wouldn't actually light, would it? Unless it was like against something that would spark? Like if it's like, if it's like against metal or something and you fired a bullet at it, like spark maybe? Against that dirt, there's no way it'd spark, right? It's just metal hitting dirt. Incendiary round on me? Yeah, because there'd be fire, wouldn't it? Yes, it just types the bullets, maybe you could do it. But certainly that scene that we saw back there, complete bullshit. What's that? This game isn't perfectly realistic. Use flint and steel? I saw this documentary, it was called Minecraft, and they showed that flint and steel can be used to light fires, including making portals to other dimensions. Very educational. Mythbusters tried lighting fuel on fire with a bullet and it didn't work. Yeah, but Mythbusters is totally in the pocket of big flint and steel industry, you know? They're trying to sell more flint and steel. They don't want you to realize you can choose one bullet to light that you're on fire. Wake up, sheeple. |
| 31. October 2021 | Can you use ‘cheats’ in GTA 5 speedruns? | Can you use cheats in GTA V speedruns? Isn't cheating by definition not allowed? I remember someone brought that up on the forums once. Ah, it doesn't say in the rules that you can't cheat anymore. It's like, yeah, because that's what cheating is. It's breaking the rules. If it is a cheat, it is cheating. Cheating is not allowed. |
| 18. November 2020 | Capitalism and socialism | Capitalism and Socialism You're literally playing a game that wouldn't have existed if not for capitalism You could make the argument that nothing that exists today would have existed without every genocide that has ever existed in the history of the world But that doesn't necessarily mean those genocides were justified or a good because that's a true statement Every single one of us is alive right now Because of genocides in the past in fact the entire history of the world if it wasn't exactly as it was none of us would Be here, maybe some other people would be here, but that does not in some sense justify anything that's happened in the past It's a dumb statement to make the person who made that statement has never existed in another economic system indeed Attempts to bring forth other economic systems have largely failed or have only existed in like experimental phases While existing in a world that in large part or in the 90% majority was capitalist I I don't know what a socialist world would look like it is hard for me to even think on what that is or what it would achieve I've always wanted to speak to a socialist about Concerns that I have both in terms of getting there and what it would ultimately mean for society a more equal society isn't Necessarily one that's better in the sense of a society where everyone exists on a scale from three to six is better than a society Where everyone's equally at a two? everything I've heard about social cops for example I I do not understand how that would achieve a worse world than capitalism or how Innovation still wouldn't be achieved social cops would be a form of Socialism I can't believe you're seriously thinking completely socialist system is good a free market is good for the economy. I am a I Seem to agree with that, but the economy isn't Society as a whole or the entirety of human existence certainly at times Attempting to safeguard society and the well-being of humans is going to have some negative impact on the economy Indeed all of environmental protections are that what that person said what what what do you think a socialist society would look like? It's one of those things where? Knowing more about socialism does not have a very large Practical benefit for me probably have some small practical benefit, but of all the things I could research It's definitely low on the list in terms of practical benefits given my particular circumstances, so I'm not the most educated when I look up socialism and there many different ideas and Disciplines of what it means or how it should be implemented or what a society that is socialist would actually mean It just goes all over my head. I just don't know Venezuela is a great example of the failures of social and so this this talking point I've looked into deeply and I know for a fact it's wrong for multiple reasons, but the first is Venezuela it's its socialist policies are basically the same as any Scandinavian country It was about on par with Australia, New Zealand Norway in terms of these socialist policies 75% of its industry was privatized That's not a socialist country the reason Venezuela failed While these other countries of civil policies still succeed is because Venezuela had put way too much stock in oil Where they were paying for these expensive? welfare systems with oil money and so oil tanked and it crashed the economy and then there was a and then there was a printing issue with something with not just the over printing of money But there was a black market for currency That led to some system where people could literally get currency from the government and then sell it for US Currency and it just it just led to this death spiral of currency that destroyed the economy the people who want to present Venezuela as socialism are people who don't like nationalized industries They don't like that Their oil industry and stuff was nationalized that they were using natural resources to fund things for society Venezuela being socialist is Just propaganda for people who want to make money off natural resources but is it this any of this can be looked up and Yeah, to my understanding the the guy who called himself a socialist was ousted He wasn't even in power when the country went under But even then I don't think it was because of the new leader But this is what this is what I mean Where I don't know how socialism would be implemented I don't know what that society would look like and I'm perfectly willing to say I don't know But the reason why I'm hesitant to condemn socialism is because every time someone talks about socialism They say things that I know for a fact are false where the arguments against socialism based on premises that I know are not true and So I would love to speak to a socialist and have them present arguments on the other side Because all I'm hearing is complete nonsense by people like Yolo Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 02. October 2021 | Captain planet caused me to harm the enviornment | Captain Planet caused me to harm the environments. I don't know if it's because most baths are tiny. I don't know how a grown adult could be in a bath and really be comfortable. My father used to rent at a place that had a spa bath, and even that didn't feel good, you know. And yeah, baths do take more time, very true. I remember being a kid, I set the bath, and then I went to watch TV, and I was so engrossed in an episode of Captain Planet that I flooded the entire bathroom. Because I turned the water on to fill the bath and I just forgot about it. Which is kind of ironic, because, you know, Captain Planet teaches to save water, protect the planet, and instead he was partly responsible for me wasting water. My mother was not happy. Like, am I really to blame? Clearly, it's the people's fault who made such captivating television. |
| 02. October 2021 | Captain planet caused me to harm the environment | Captain Planet caused me to harm the environments. I don't know if it's because most baths are tiny. I don't know how a grown adult could be in a bath and really be comfortable. My father used to rent at a place that had a spa bath, and even that didn't feel good, you know. And yeah, baths do take more time, very true. I remember being a kid, I set the bath, and then I went to watch TV, and I was so engrossed in an episode of Captain Planet that I flooded the entire bathroom. Because I turned the water on to fill the bath and I just forgot about it. Which is kind of ironic, because, you know, Captain Planet teaches to save water, protect the planet, and instead he was partly responsible for me wasting water. My mother was not happy. Like, am I really to blame? Clearly, it's the people's fault who made such captivating television. |
| 11. September 2022 | Captioning stuff is harder than I thought | Captioning stuff is harder than I thought. So for the longest time I was like, how the fuck do these people who make captions do spelling errors so frequently? It's weird. However, having now written a bunch of captions, it is a lot easier than I thought to screw up. I've done it like twice now. I caught it last time. I was never, it's, it was never, it was never about the money. Not I was never about the money. I must have gone through this like a dozen times. And I never caught this. And this thing has like two million views. Most people won't catch it. Yeah, in part because like there's other things to be looking at the screen, but also because your brain just fills it in. Bigger number. |
| 29. January 2021 | Cars and specialized parts in Australia | Cars and specialized parts in Australia. I have no interest in getting a Tesla. Although, according to, what's his name, Marcus Brownlee, if you want distance, Tesla is kind of what you have to get right now. But apparently, like, the luxury aspects of Teslas are much worse than their competitors. It's like, Tesla has the best batteries, and that's about it. But I wouldn't get an electric car, at least of that sort, that requires a charging station in Australia. When you need specialized equipment, specialized parts, or whatever, in Australia, you can often just be shit out of luck. I guarantee you that Tesla does not have the same... The charging stations are not as ubiquitous in Australia as they are in America. Like, I'd just be fucked. And I couldn't just go to a normal mechanic. And certainly because I'm not, like... I don't live in the city or something, right? I'm on, like, the fringes, making it even less likely that I'm gonna have the stuff I would need to service an electric car. I know what I want, Bob. I don't want to get a car. Can I just get someone to come around and bring me an exact replica of the car that I have right now but new? That's ultimately what I want. So what I want is something small. So the odds of me hitting something are reduced. I want something that's comfortable and is fuel efficient. So I don't have to fill it up as much. And will look at least somewhat impressive to people. They won't give me weird looks because my car is disgusting. I'm kind of tired of that. What would be nice, though? As stupid as it sounds, getting a car that's in GTA V would be nice. But I mean, getting one of the supercars, I'm sure they cost like a pachazillion dollars or some shit. To get Tracy's car. What's the Massacro in real life? What does that cost in real life? 100k? Fuck that. Oh, 16,000? I could do that. 550,000? What are these numbers? Okay, so it costs between one dollar and a trillion dollars. Thank you, chat. Thank you for your help in this very important matter. Find out it's actually worth a trillion and one dollars. Massacro is based on three cars. I'll buy three cars then. And get someone to Frankenstein them together for me. I'm pretty sure I've seen a... what's it called? A carbonaza? You know that car in this game? I'm pretty sure I've seen that one in real life. But yeah, I could buy that. But like, it's fat as fuck. I don't want a fat as fuck car. I just want a car that won't hit things. |
| 31. August 2020 | Cash converters | Cash Converters. Opinion on cash converters? I don't know what that is. I'm assuming it has a business model where it converts your items to cash. More than likely giving you far less cash than what the item's actually worth because they have to take on the risk of not being able to sell the item. Porn shops, yeah. Is it a scam? Ahhhh! I don't know if porn shops are necessarily scams per se, but they take advantage of vulnerable people because if you need money that quickly, you're more than likely vulnerable. I'm sure a lot of them have stolen goods within them. I mean, they also take upon that liability as well, that an item might end up being some evidence of a crime or stolen good or something that they will therefore have to forfeit. What if they have insurance for that? If you buy an item worth $10,000 that ends up being stolen and you have to give it back or something, does your insurance pay you out? I mean, certainly it would be in the porn shop's best interest to take advantage of the ignorance and offer someone far lower than something's worth. |
| 27. December 2020 | CatJam twitter account story. | Cat Jam Twitter account story. So I follow this Twitter account called Cat Jam. Because you know the meme, Cat Jam? Love that meme? For those unaware, I will show the meme, although it would normally be green-screened with a different background. All this account does on Twitter is puts up popular songs, you know, from all decades and it puts Cat Jam over it. And I was like, I remember this song. Yeah. And it's cute and I might put a song into my Spotify or whatever. Yesterday, as I've seen it do before, on its Twitter with 200,000 followers, it's like, hey guys, let's go raid this person and post Cat Jam. You know, I just happened to be on a break or whatever, so I'm like, fuck it. I'll do it. And so I clicked through the link to the Twitter, which is to the Twitch. You know, the guy has like two viewers or whatever, less than 50 followers, playing Doom, his microphone sucks, his streamer etiquette or whatever, it sucks. The game audio is way too low. But then everyone's just typing Cat Jam and I type Cat Jam too. I would be shocked, shocked, if even a single person from that raid went back to that guy's stream. But it was probably exciting for that guy, for that moment or whatever, seeing that amount of activity in his chat. I don't know. The accounts, the Cat Jam Twitter account, contacted me through my DMs. How the fuck did it do that? Don't I have closed DMs? Oh, wait a second. Maybe... Oh, because I follow them and I guess they followed me, even though I have closed DMs, they can still message me. I guess that's how it works. Ah, right, right. So they're like, hey man, thank you for joining in the raid. That's cool. Do you have any requests for songs? And I couldn't think of a song to request. I thought of a lot of songs I liked, but I don't know what other people would like, so I said, nah, fuck it. No, no, I said to them, no, I have no requests. I hope you and your friend, the person that they want to raid, are doing well. And the Cat Jam person's like, Oh, yeah, I looked at your content, looks pretty interesting. You'll make it one day. And I was just like, thanks, man. One day. I'll make it one day. Hahaha! Like, they were trying to pay me a comp, like, oh yeah, your content looks cool. You know, you'll get there one day. You got the right stuff. And I'm like, have I not made it? I haven't made it yet. What the fuck is making it? Me little tiny boy dark rapper, man. Cat Jam thinks I got the right stuff, guys. Maybe he's right. But if I just stick with it for a little while, I'll get somewhere. |
| 14. March 2020 | Catching all the diseases at Burger King | Catching all the diseases at Burger King. Hey, Serge, how are the things? I felt kind of sick today. As I tweeted out, I went to Hungry Jack's, and which is, you know, Burger King, and I swear I saw the woman cough into her hand. I didn't want to make a big deal out of it, and I wasn't certain what I saw because I wasn't paying that much attention, so I gave her cash. I never pay with cash. I just happen to have cash because my father gave me some for my birthday, which is coming up. She was coughed in her hand. I've had to touch her hand to give her some change. I'm looking at my hand when I'm in my car like, what have I done? And normally I eat my food in the parking lot or whatever, but I'm like, I have to go home and wash my hands. And I'm not a germaphobe, but it's just the entire time I was just conscious of everything I was touching because the coronavirus thing, there has been some reports of it being in New South Wales, although those people have been discharged and stuff, but you never know. And I'm like, do I feel sick? I did just drink a bunch of strawberry milk, thick shake, whatever. Am I, am I, am I dying? Is this a bad thing? And I'm like, this is all a rational, these are all a rational thoughts. I mean, I get in contact with germs all fucking time. But in that moment, I'm like, it's 3am, I'm fucking tired. I just want to eat my food without worry. And then I get home and I'm looking at my food like, should I eat this food? Is this contaminated? Do the people who make the food touch the food? Surely they don't, right? How often does a person of Hungry Jacks wash their hands? Eh, fuck it. I ate the food. And I sat around all morning. I was on the toilet a bit as well. I'm like, am I feeling ill because I'm just ill because I ate like a fuck ton of Hungry Jacks and that's bad for you? Or am I actually ill? I think it was just the Hungry Jacks being garbage. I don't know. It wasn't a fun, fun morning for me. I'm not dead yet, sir. |
| 05. April 2021 | Cdawgva Ramen Conspiracy. | SeaDogVA ramen conspiracy. Let me tell you a small conspiracy. It's so not true. I don't watch Connor's from Trash Taste. I don't watch his YouTube channel. I've clicked an occasional video that's gonna recommend it to me, but I don't really watch it, right? And I saw, get recommended to me yesterday, Connor's video where he's like trying every type of ramen or trying 50 types of ramen or whatever it was. And I was like, wasn't that the idea that I had that I never ended up doing that got into my rambles? And I'm like, wait a second. Wasn't there that Trash Taste episode where Connor referenced Dense Motherfucker and kind of said it the same way that I do as my meme? What if Connor saw my rambles? I talked about the ramen thing and so he did, he decided to do it himself. There's absolutely no fucking chance of that. But I'm like, you can see how you can make connections if you're really keen to. All of it's probably coincidence. And certainly I was never gonna do the thing anyway. And certainly I wasn't the person to originally think, hey, let's try a bunch of different food. That idea is so fucking common. You can guarantee that I am not a regional fucking snowflake and Connor's just like, hey, I should do an eating thing where I eat a bunch of ramen. But when I saw it, I'm like, what if? What if? Yeah, C dog VA for those who don't know him. Yeah. I actually went back to try to find where he talked about... Because the conversation as I mentioned before, it was in one of the Trash Taste episodes where someone said Dense. And I was like, Dense always comes off to me now like it's really visceral, like it's, you know, Dense Motherfucker. And again, could it be a coincidence? It's funny. I've reached that level where it doesn't surprise me now if a person has been recommended one of my clips. Because it gets recommended like 300 million times a month or something. I rarely think that people know of my content or watch me regularly. It doesn't surprise me when people of ten gent will be heard of me or happen to have seen a clip or something, you know. It's what happens when you throw 2,600 videos of yourself on YouTube over the course of the... |
| 01. August 2020 | Censoring my content | Censoring my content for the algorithm. What I consider censoring my content on YouTube to get better treatment from the algorithm, I don't think that I can put the genie back in the bottle or whatever the expression is. Too much of my content is political or whatever and I just think the association in general of GTA V with more mature content will always prevent me from getting the really best treatment by the algorithm. I have found content creators who do GTA V that are the same sort of presentation you get from the bigger Minecraft people. Hey guys playing GTA V I'm gonna I believe the video was I'm going to transform into an animal today oh my god look I'm an animal isn't that crazy and then like the guy spins around on the fucking screen his little webcam and then but then like he'll go on as a cougar to attack civilians. I'm sitting there just like this is kids content and he's mauling people as a cougar. Like I don't think something as simple as bleeping out swear words is really going to help me. If you tag things in monetization there is one for swearing where you can say you know there's light swearing either you know general damn and stuff cuss words in the first first 30 seconds or hard swear words after 30 seconds like if I say fuck 45 seconds in I have to tick this thing to be honest about you know the nature of my content. I don't think if I could say there's no swearing in this content that it would really help me especially because a lot of the natural gameplay of the game has swearing in it it'd be very strange to edit around that or censor the characters themselves. In some weird reality I could imagine censoring myself in like if I only swear occasionally or whatever but I couldn't imagine censoring the game. Also I don't like content where the person swears just so much and they're just constantly censoring. It's one thing if you do like a huge monologue for 10 minutes and you swear once you may as well censor that but if you aren't going to make an active effort to stop swearing you probably shouldn't be censoring at all right. It's funny once upon a time when we were talking about submitting GTA V to GDQ we talked about making audio logs for the game that were censored. I think there exists a mod already that does censor like pedestrians and stuff that are walking around and maybe the radio stations but not the actual cutscenes. Someone was actually working on doing that censoring for if we ever got into GDQ or if because one of the GDQs outright says we will not accept GTA games. I think it's the one SGDQ I think does that. AGDQ is more lenient but they've only accepted they've never accepted GTA V they've only accepted like Vice City and stuff. But this is the kind of stuff you have to think about as a content creator you know. Muting the swear words makes more sense than putting bleep bleeping under it. They say that depending upon the type of bleep that you use the algorithm can actually sense that and will still suppress you or whatever the case may be. Muting is apparently the way to go what a lot of content creators do. Watch the GTA V video earlier and the two people were literally swearing six times a minute and it made the video unwatchable really? You know how you go into Michael's house and Jimmy I think he might actually call someone the f-word that's a slur homosexuals and he expresses that he will rape someone. That's more than just swearing and generally speaking not what charity events want you know. There was definitely some really tough stuff that's more than just a little bit of you know saying f- every once in a while you know. |
| 02. February 2021 | Cereal | Awesome. Cereal. What's my favorite cereal? Cereal is terrible. All the good tasting cereal is absolutely awful for you. Like, you look at the back of Fruit Loops and it's just, oh, this is 100% sugar. Okay. There is tons of cereal that I like to eat, but it's just all sugar. |
| 14. January 2021 | Chad “AnythingForViews” | This person I can recall ever meeting in person was Chad, Anything for Views. And that was a weird situation because he was at PAX like 2017. I was basically a no one. And he was really drunk in the middle of the day. And a friend of mine, Leto, he said to Chad, he's like, oh, Matt over there, my name is Matt. He's like, Matt, you're, Matt's a big fan of yours. And so Chad runs up behind me, puts his arm around me. And I'm like, hey, man, I heard you're a huge fan. And I'm like, I don't really know him that well. I know him from mainly from Filthy Frank's content. So it was super awkward. And for whatever reason, he told me that he's going to die or something. Because he said he was having health issues or something. I was just, it was just such an awkward situation to meet someone like that. I love Anything for Views. He's a very interesting fellow. It's just so like the most genuine person I've ever seen online. Like he's so funny. One of the funniest moments on YouTube for me was he was like giving, he sold merch and he's like, I'm going to hand deliver this merch or something. And he's driving around Melbourne, I think it was Melbourne, delivering this merch to people like in a car. He has that video. Yeah, it's a video. And he was just taking like hours to do this because it's like Melbourne traffic or whatever. And he goes to this kid's house and just like opened the door. And this kid just walks out and he's just like, this big guy just walks out and he's just like, and Chad's trying to give him this merch. And this kid just doesn't even know what's happening. Like he's just taking a bunch of acid. He's just, I don't know, the whole thing. And the way it was just filmed and the way like it happened, it was just so like, I don't know, awkward. And I don't know, I cried laughing. He's definitely very, what is it in, he doesn't have a filter. He says and does anything. Anything for Views is an appropriate name. Definitely on brand. Yeah. I was just, I was just thinking of, do you know, do you know he's banned on Twitch, right? I did not know he's banned on Twitch. Did you tweet about it? I don't spend going to it an awful amount. They explain why it was a years ago. He said the N word a lot, like a lot, a lot. He was really, really drunk in some, you remember, do you remember ice Poseidon? Those people, I think was around that time. All those crazy people and he was really drunk in an RV or something, traveling or whatever. And it was live streamed and he said the N word a lot. I think he was just really drunk trying to be funny or something. And it just, it just, it just immediate indefinite suspension. That'll do it. Yeah. If you get us, as a not much of a filter, that man. That's why, that's why people love him, you know? Anything for Views. Yeah. It was an interesting career, how he got started, I suppose. Like, cause he didn't really make his own content for a while, but then just everyone kind of knew of him from iDubbbz, Max Moffo and Filthy Frank. Interesting stuff. Yeah. I like the new podcast he's doing with Max. Cause Max is kind of similar in that regard, like just a likable, genuine guy. And I think that like he's really found a home there on that podcast. Cause he can just, like they literally drink while they do a podcast. So I don't know, it just seems to work so well. I've seen basically every episode. And I like the way that they conduct themselves, which is just, you know, just everyday guys chilling, talking. But they do it well. Like, it's not like, it sounds like a recipe for disaster, but like it's a, it's a really good podcast. Like they know what they're doing. Have you watched any of Max Moffo's Pokemon card stuff? Not heaps. I like Max. He has so much Pokemon stuff. It's insane. He's got like six channels, I feel like. Oh yeah. He doesn't upload on most of them. But they're there. Yeah, they certainly are. That's all the questions I had. |
| 04. March 2021 | Challenge runs on Youtube. | interesting. Challenge runs on YouTube. The only way I could do a run of this with NPCs having 1 HP is if you gave me like, what are the controls? XCOM controls? Where I'm like, Jimmy, hide behind the couch. Trevor, hide in the cupboard. And I did everything myself. There are definite ways you could make this more difficult that would make more sense, like making it so your allies never have bullets. Of course, the main way to make this more difficult is just to remove old strat. The run would still be doable, but it would take you 10 trillion more tries. Or blindfold me? Yes, yes, blindfolding me would make this more difficult. That is true. There seems to be a little bit of a trend right now of people doing blindfolded challenges and stuff in different games. That advice that Ludwig gave about, what do you call it, the pinch and twist or whatever? I don't know what he called it. You look at what other people are doing. You don't directly copy them. Because if you directly copy them, not only can you receive criticism, but also there'll be a ceiling on how popular a video can be. But you take someone else's idea and you change it. You put a spin on it. You combine it with something else. Challenge runs are really great for that. You just look up what are the top 10 challenge runs. And then a new game comes out, or your game is one that people haven't done the challenges for and then you just apply all the challenges to that game. And you just print content. It's basically what I'm going to be doing when I get back to speedrunning. At least in the beginning period where it's not like I can really PB or whatever because I'll be learning. It would just be me taking a speedrun and adding a mod to it. You may have already seen a few episodes of that kind of idea where I'm going to call the series like GTA 5 bus and then it's just some change. So I have GTA 5 but Brad lives. GTA 5 bus. I've got low distance scaling on permanently. The first ones will be like GTA 5 but it's snowing. I mean, I'll call it GTA 5 speedruns, but it's always snowing or something. A better title. It just doesn't feel like it. Facebook.com. I don't think he's there either. |
| 04. March 2021 | Challenge runs on youtube. | interesting. Challenge runs on YouTube. The only way I could do a run of this with NPCs having 1 HP is if you gave me like, what are the controls? XCOM controls? Where I'm like, Jimmy, hide behind the couch. Trevor, hide in the cupboard. And I did everything myself. There are definite ways you could make this more difficult that would make more sense, like making it so your allies never have bullets. Of course, the main way to make this more difficult is just to remove old strat. The run would still be doable, but it would take you 10 trillion more tries. Or blindfold me? Yes, yes, blindfolding me would make this more difficult. That is true. There seems to be a little bit of a trend right now of people doing blindfolded challenges and stuff in different games. That advice that Ludwig gave about, what do you call it, the pinch and twist or whatever? I don't know what he called it. You look at what other people are doing. You don't directly copy them. Because if you directly copy them, not only can you receive criticism, but also there'll be a ceiling on how popular a video can be. But you take someone else's idea and you change it. You put a spin on it. You combine it with something else. Challenge runs are really great for that. You just look up what are the top 10 challenge runs. And then a new game comes out, or your game is one that people haven't done the challenges for and then you just apply all the challenges to that game. And you just print content. It's basically what I'm going to be doing when I get back to speedrunning. At least in the beginning period where it's not like I can really PB or whatever because I'll be learning. It would just be me taking a speedrun and adding a mod to it. You may have already seen a few episodes of that kind of idea where I'm going to call the series like GTA 5 bus and then it's just some change. So I have GTA 5 but Brad lives. GTA 5 bus. I've got low distance scaling on permanently. The first ones will be like GTA 5 but it's snowing. I mean, I'll call it GTA 5 speedruns, but it's always snowing or something. A better title. Tek ma Englandnal |
| 08. June 2020 | Challenge runs vs Speedruns | Do I enjoy challenge runs or speed runs more? Because challenge runs are newer, probably a little bit more interesting right at this second, but challenge runs feel really casual. Partly because I'm not in competition with anyone else necessarily, like I'm the only person who's really doing this seriously, but also because I can take it easy. I don't have to do all these super strats or whatever to gain every single possible second. I don't have to worry that much about getting break boosts. In many cases getting break boosts is not great for this series because if I crash and take damage I die. |
| 25. February 2021 | Challenge runs vs speedruns. | Challenge runs versus speed runs. This isn't a speed run. It is a challenge run. So all speed runs are challenge runs, but all challenge runs aren't speed runs. Speed running is just the most popular version of challenge runs. And that is probably in part because trying to complete something fast can be done with like, you know, effectively anything. And it's a challenge that you can never complete. You can always do it faster. Well, things like no damage runs, you can complete. You can become more optimal in completing the same task, but once you've done it once, you've completed the challenge. It is also a challenge that doesn't require modifications to the game or like, like the devs don't have to support it at all. And you can still do it yourself, you know, like if you want to do a challenge run where, you know, a particular item doesn't drop or you're restricted in regards to your health or something, that kind of stuff requires modifications to the game. And certainly considering that a significant amount of gaming was done on console, you couldn't just do these modifications back in the day. |
| 15. January 2022 | Chance of playing Roblox not 0%. | The chance of me playing Roblox is not 0%. I will not play FNAF. I will never play FNAF. I say never say never, I will never play FNAF. There's a higher chance that I will play Roblox. Chatting me like, oh my god, play Roblox, it's my favorite game, man. That would be so cool if you played Roblox, man. I can show you my cool shoes. Like, got my dad to buy me in Roblox. Because that's the game, Roblox. It's great, man. That no greater game exists than Roblox, man. All the cool kids have the best skins in Roblox. There's at least one of you sitting there like, oh yeah, yeah, I don't play Roblox. Ha ha ha ha. I never played that game. I certainly don't play it every day. Roblox, be anything, build anything. You can even be an exploited worker. As you make games and you receive like one fifty bajillionth of the profit that the company gets. What does that pay out, like twelve percent or something to creators? God damn, dude. I watched that video. Yeah, I watched it before everyone else. I watched the original video when it had like ten thousand views. I knew Roblox was scummy before you did. That's right. It's how cool I am. Well, man, I wish I was as cool as you. I know you do, chat. I know you do. |
| 02. July 2021 | Changes to emotes on twitch | Changes to emotes on Twitch. Oh yeah guys, I've added a new emote, Deviper Pride. Like I ordered like a heap of different emotes and I just forget about them because Grey takes however long she takes or whatever and I'm just like whatever. They'll get done when they get done. They messaged me yesterday they'll give me the emotes and normally they um, like they give me the basic designs and then I decide if I want them or what I want changed but they did the Pride emote immediately. Presumably I know because they're trans and it's Pride month or whatever they're like oh this is a good idea to have like this done immediately as fast as possible so they just did that one earlier than all the rest. That's why there aren't any other new emotes there's only the new Pride emote but let's say good timing for the month and all that so it worked out well. I had to remove Deviper Suit though for it. Twitch has announced that they're adding five new follower emotes and five new animated emotes and there'll be an emote library so like even when you remove an emote like it isn't active for everyone it'll still be in the library on the back end so you don't have to keep re-uploading them whenever you want to add a new emote back. So I'm going to get 10 more emote slots basically and I do have a bunch more emotes that have been made so we'll have slots for them. It's going to be hard to decide which ones are going to be follower emotes though. Um we're gonna have to like just I'm probably what I'm probably gonna do is find the five most used emotes and make them into follower emotes I think. Oh no the Pride emote will stick around forever it's a great emote. I do think Twitch has long ago become too saturated with emotes. It's like every announcement is uh you know new emotes or raid emotes or you know once upon a time there was just such a small selection of emotes but now with Frank of AC, Better Twitch V and stuff like the ship has sailed like everyone has basically unlimited emotes kind of thing. It can be fine for individual creators but for the platform as a whole there's no like identity to emotes now you know. I should have shown you guys the new emotes the uh the new Twitch Prime emote is pretty goddamn good. It's basically the current Prime emote but it's not winking and has the rant jacket because the Twitch jacket technique. Follower emotes can only be used on the channel in which they are unlocked. Oh I guess they wanted to make it so that they uh can't be used as advertisements on the other streams. That makes sense. Thank you for that information. |
| 10. September 2022 | Changes to my YouTuber memberships | Cheers to my YouTuber memberships. Also for those who it matters for, hello, I've removed the member tier in order to just have one tier, the same as on Twitch. That tier is now called Friendo. Sorry for any inconvenience. It was an experiment that I had on YouTube to make a cheaper tier, but I prefer my memberships on YouTube to be at parity with mine on Twitch, and yeah. |
| 22. December 2020 | Changes to my energy levels. | Changes to my energy levels. Need to find a way to get myself more energy though. My body can't match up to my, uh, like my mind's desire to stream. I get too tired. That fucking sucks. Back in the day guys, I was doing 100% runs back to back. That's not really true, but it was close to true. Like I'd take like a day off in between 11 hour streams finishing the whole entire run. I would love to see how high my viewership would be if today I finished in 100% runs. You'd be crazy. But I think my standards for my energy were much, much lower back in the day. Like I was much more comfortable just playing the game for 10 minutes without speaking. Or just kind of chilling and just responding to chat. Rather than being somewhat engaged with whatever I'm doing. I think gluten matters for that. But yeah, working out and waking up at the same time every day is important. But I don't do that because I'm a dumbass. |
| 30. May 2020 | Changes to my politics | Yes, how has my political ideology changed over the years? Who knows? I don't keep a diary and certainly we like to reassess. We, you know, selectively remember things or reimagine ourselves based on what we currently believe in, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't know what I believed about politics necessarily back in the day. I was certainly less interested when I was younger in my teenage years. I think the roots of what I would call my underlying philosophy of behavior and morality and whatnot, these things are very similar to what I used to believe. It's less that I think my views have changed and it's more that if they have changed, they've only changed subtly, but I've just become better able to communicate what I believe and for what reason. It's hard to say, you know, if you give me specific questions about particular things that could be more specific. |
| 11. September 2022 | Changes to ‘This Is What You Missed’ | Changes to the This Is What You Miss series. So my most recent Noita video that I uploaded did really poorly. Now, it is the third video in a series and each episode is, you know, 15 hours long or whatever. But clearly, if I want to keep uploading This Is What You Missed, I should just focus on doing one episode of each series. Either that or spreading them out really far because clearly I've put this Noita stuff a little bit too close together. You watch it all but in the background, yeah, people treat it as a live stream. There is such cool stuff that happens towards the end of the series. Like on some level, I wish when things were popular, well, Noita was more popular, not that it was ever crazily popular, but I wish that I had just skipped over all the early footage and just showed you my complete dominance at the end. Skipping from being a kid to being like God tier. But I decided not to do that and I just wanted to get it all out there. How long has it been since I streamed it? Yeah, longer. |
| 02. March 2022 | Changing minds on youtube. | ...on YouTube. Majoring in psychology, right, made me so... Okay, like I was already somewhat aware that people aren't... Like, obviously, people aren't perfectly rational. People have a lot of biases. But studying psychology hammers home to you quite strongly that people kind of suck when it comes to, like... I don't want to use the word objectively, but let's just say objectively assessing the evidence for or against the proposition. People are really triable, and some psychologists will argue that trying to change people's minds with, like, reason and evidence is a fool's game. You just need to, like, jack into their emotional sensibilities and really hit home at them with every once in a while, like... Peppering in some kind of argument, but really hammer home at the emotional underpinnings. Most of what exists on YouTube is... it's not people who are really attempting to change other people's minds. It's people who are trying to preach to the choir, get an audience, and make bank, right? Like, I've watched videos that I've completely agreed with 100%, but then I realized, like, I completely 100% agree with this video before I even watched it. Like, if I had known the content, I would have agreed, right? And looking at it again, I'm, like, thinking about the people who disagree with me on any of these issues. I think to myself, no one who I disagree with watching this video will change their mind even the slightest. A lot of what this person has said is based on a foundation of things that I believe that people who disagree with me don't believe. It's why people write books about, like, how to change other people's minds, or how you're meant to engage in conversation. Like, one tactic is to give any concession you can. Like, just a person says something, and before attacking what you think is wrong, immediately talk about what you think they've said that's correct, or that you agree with. Like, we don't disagree all that much, like, I agree with this and this and this, but here's where we disagree. And you try and bring as much similarity as possible between the two views. That's, like, one very easy tactic that you should use, but... Or be a polarizing figure and gain short-term following. Can you give me an example of a polarizing figure that gains a short-term following? Like, I think there's a lot of people who go against the grain and quickly amass a following, because there aren't a lot of people going against the grain, but there are people who do agree with those views. So, like, they go, finally, someone's saying exactly what I believe, and they just get massive amounts of views. There's money to be made fighting for any side of any issue. Convincing people that you are not the one changing their mind, instead they're changing their own mind, seems to be the best way to get people to change their own opinions, yeah, yeah, yeah. Spoon-feed a person until they come to the conclusion you want them to. Let them walk down the road and just kind of prod them in the direction you want them to go, until they walk that road themselves. Realistic Consequences |
| 14. August 2022 | Changing my older thumbnails for more views. | Changing my older thumbnails seems to have worked to get more views. So on the back end of YouTube, it is possible to make groups of particular videos that you have some interest in and seeing how they're doing. I have an interest in my rambles right, because my rambles as a series do very terribly in terms of getting views after the facts, like a couple of months down the way people don't watch the old rambles, and so you can see here for my first 50 rambles, for the longest time get like 50 of them, collectively 200 views a day, and there's 50 of them right, but look at this, the last couple of days, there's an increase of what, like five, six times the views. One thing that could possibly have caused this is, you see I've changed the thumbnails, at least one of these here is one of the changed ones, this one is one of the changed ones, this one's one of the changed ones, so half of the ones getting the most views are the ones that I've changed. So either the changing of the thumbnails has worked, I know I'd already changed 10 and I saw no improvement, I've changed five more and now I've seen an improvement, so maybe there's enough of an improvement that the algorithm is now going to throw out the old ones and to more people, but it's also possible as I speculated before that YouTube may be less prioritizing newer videos now because of shorts. As I say, I felt like I was too confident when I said that in the previous rambles, that YouTube is definitely moving away from having a bias towards newer videos in their long-form content, I don't know if that's true, but this is one more bit of evidence that suggests that could be a thing, but either way I'm gonna keep having my older thumbnails updated, like these thumbnails that are being updated are not being updated by Grab, but the person who does my newer thumbnails, they're being updated by someone else and they're not as good, they're just flat out not as good as Grab, but they are far better than the thumbnails that I made myself, which weren't really thumbnails for the old rambles. AI will destroy the careers of artists. |
| 04. February 2020 | Changing smoking age from 18 to 21 | I recently did a Q&A. Some questions were asked via voice and Discord, others I just read from Discord and answered. Thoughts on the FDA tobacco law changing the minimum age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21 in the US? Smoking is terrible, and the fewer people who can do it, the better. I am not usually in favor of governments attempting to coerce or influence what individuals do that have nothing to do with harming others. Certainly, when you have a public health system, things that harm you do have knock-on effects on other people. And certainly, if you have dependence, harm to yourself can have ramifications for those around you. But smoking just seems, one of the very few things you can point at and go, this is entirely detrimental. There is nothing good that comes from smoking. Anyways, smoking cigars and pipes, I'm not going to say it's not bad, it is. There's a higher chance of mouth and throat cancer and shit from smoking a cigar or a pipe. But if you do it occasionally, you don't inhale it, so you're not going to have the sort of effects you have with vaping or smoking cigarettes. Like where you have lung cancer and heart disease, that stuff isn't present with the older styles of tobacco, let's say. Things that are addictive, advocating for their use but only occasionally, is never wise because you have no ability to predict your future level of dependence. It just steals life from everyone who uses them over the course of their lives that they use them. Certainly, there's always outliers, people who smoke until they're over 100, but as a variable in this world, smoking tobacco is not a positive one. It's not as though smoking tobacco doesn't have some positive benefits in terms of, you know, it can make you calmer and whatnot. It has positive chemical effects, but there's other ways to get those same effects that are not as harmful globally as tobacco products. I'm not saying you personally are going to be monumentally impacted by your smoking. I would suggest that you stop if possible because, you know, whatever benefits you're getting from it, you can get elsewhere. But for the world as a whole, it is not a positive thing. |
| 06. June 2020 | Changing viewers political views | I'm saying hey Matt a few years ago. I've begun binge watching videos from people like Ben Shapiro Marley unopolis and ladder with Crata I became ultra conservative and argue with people who even slightly disagree with me made a speech for my English GCSE I don't know what that is called Why the left is wrong which many talked about modern feminism but also included my former hatred for even Semi publicly funded University when I found your channel. I'll be honest I hated most of your opinions, but I carried on watching and Thinking about your ideas stop watching the counts that brainwashed me to believe what they believe and now after watching most of your videos multiple Times I think you've helped me helps to cure me for my brainwashing So finally my question is should pineapple go on pizza? It is uncommon that I hear sentiments like that. I've heard such sentiments, but Most of that content isn't watched nearly as much as my gaming content So any positive comments that I receive are normally about my gaming content. I've had people say oh, yeah I've been binge watched your entire rambling series. I'm like, oh really? Oh, that's interesting or like I love watching your channel Like that you're rambling series. I love that you're like, oh really? It's not something I expect to hear, but I always love hearing it I'm happy to what degree? I've helped you and you know, I hope you live in a great life and that's what matters and you know I don't think pineapple should go on pizza I don't think it tastes very good cooked pineapple I don't know what the it's just I mean whatever floats people's boats, but it's not really my thing The only reason I have in the past Really hated pineapple pizza is because I would go to my friend Ben's house and he would have leftover pizza I'd be like, oh, you can have the leftover pizza Matt and I'd be like, oh no Open the box and pineapple fucking pizza You'd pick off the pineapple, but it wouldn't repair the pizza the damage is done that pineapple is seeped all in there and you're sitting there like you've got like fucking tweezers and a fucking microscope and you're like Let me go this fucking pineapple dude and you're picking through it If you're destroying the topping other toppings on the pizza that the ham or whatever and you're storing the cheese To get any piece of pineapple and you never get it all you never get all that pineapple as you you're biting into your cold Defiled pizza because of the pineapple juices that are still on it and you bite and you taste that squelch and you're like, oh no, I have failed and You eat that pineapple and it's just awful So not a fan of it, but I don't have any friends right now who eat pineapple pizza So I can't be negatively impacted by their poor life choices. So I'm more accepting of these things |
| 08. September 2021 | Changing your name to richard-inator | Changing your name to Richard Enator. I want to know how much it would take to legally change my name to the Dick Enator. I want it on a license plate too. Well on a license plate I don't think it would fit. I don't think it costs more money to change your name depending on what it is but are there rules against changing your name to something that's considered profane? I don't know. That seems like a bad name anyway. Then you need to become self-employed or go by a shortened name. Just call yourself Dick. There are people who are called Dick in society short for Richard. |
| 14. January 2021 | Channel Names | Why did you pick that? I'm like, when did you make the name and why did you pick Modest Pelican Gaming? Like there was still definitely an element that it was funny, but also just I had no idea what I was doing as well. Probably a bit of a hybrid of that, I think. I did worse. My first, my gaming channel was called Dark Viper Game Channel. Not even gaming! Game Channel! It's nice people getting confused because they know it's about gaming and they know it's a channel. It's like real good. It's just smart. But why Modest Pelican? What's, do you can see yourself a modest Pelican? Fuck knows man. I don't know, I just wanted something really unique. I said this in my Q&A and it was a bit of a disappointing answer. It really is that I just wanted something that no one else had anything like. Like just totally unique so that search results and everything would just always be Modest Pelican. When did you make it though? You weren't like a teenager or something. Were you making this brand with the knowledge I'm going to be making content one day or was it just, here's just a name that I've picked myself as an email or something. Yeah, no, it's just for content purposes. What about you? Is Dark Viper like a picked name or is it a... My name has a little history to it. It's a composite of two different things. My first email that I ever made was called Game Viper 3 or something. I made it in like the fifth grade. And just over time as I've moved to different things making new email addresses and stuff, Game Viper hasn't been available, the number hasn't been available. And eventually it combined with a World of Warcraft character that I had in a private server called Darkbane. So it became Dark Viper and then the number and the end has changed over time. But I ended up with Dark Viper AU because my old name was Dark Viper 88. And 88 has associations with, well, let's just say some far right bad political stuff. You want to Google what 88 means. Let's not get this video demonetized. Just 10 seconds. I'm going to just chill in the night and the rest. But I learned about those political associations because I tried to make my name Dark Viper 88 on Grand Theft Auto V and it wouldn't let me have it. I was like, oh, well, shit, better change my name before this screws me, you know. |
| 30. March 2021 | Character customization in GTA V and janky hitboxes. | Character customization in GTA 5 and janky hitboxes. Have you considered you're failing these runs because you keep Franklin with the EA ass haircut? Possibly. Possibly. It's funny because I actually have time in this category to get him a different haircut. But the selection of haircuts in this game was really long. This game definitely could have used some significant customizations. Like I wouldn't want customization in this game of the absurd levels that GTA Online has. Where you can look like a complete fuckwit, and it's meant to make sense in the grand scheme of the game. Like you're doing a serious heist and you you look like some alien vampire guy and the person saying the heist does not acknowledge it at all. I want characters in GTA Online to legitimately look at you and go, what the hell are you wearing? Dude, do you know what an alien vampire looks like? Yes. Just changing the haircut effect to a hitbox. Now that would be funny. The less hair you have the smaller your hitbox is. I mean most games have it so that everyone has the exact same hitbox and the character model that you have is just you know shown over the top of it. You wouldn't want situations like Objob or whatever his name is from 007, GoldenEye, N64. He was like short, like half the size of every other character and and aiming down was very difficult with the N64 controller. So if he got him really close to you, he'd be like, you know karate chopping your nuts. And you'd have to get the head start and kill you. When did the hitboxes bigger in San Andreas if you've had? Yeah, I suppose for single-player games like when you want to make a consequence for getting overweight or something. It wouldn't be too bad. I wouldn't be surprised in San Andreas of being fat. I gave you a bigger hitbox. Obviously I don't know that. Didn't go that deep into San Andreas. Hitman 3 has hitboxes that go around every curve. You can actually shoot between an ear. Like an ear in the neck or whatever. It's interesting. I mean GTA V's hitboxes are pretty good, right? Did you not see yesterday as my bullets would graze the side of people's heads and knock your- |
| 30. March 2021 | Characters vs actors in modern media. | characters versus actors in modern movies. Do I like Marvel movies? They're just eh. There's too many of them. Not special. What video did I watch that was talking about how TV shows and movies and stuff have changed where once upon a time the main draw for a movie was the actor and so it'd be like Jim Carrey is the Grinch kind of stuff. But these days it's like the IP, the character is the draw. You know, so it's all about this is Thor's movie. There's C-4, the God of Thunder, blah blah blah. You know, like the actors are recognizable, but it's the characters that are the important draw for the movies. And I guess that's why all these superhero movies are of a preference for the studios because they're so recognizable these characters. And the characters can live long after the actor. Actor gets too uppity, want too much money, you can hypothetically get rid of them and get a new actor in their place. There's only one, what's his name, Chris Hemsworth or whatever? There's only one Chris Hemsworth, but there's infinite Thors. Speaking on the actor appeal for movies and now it's characters, maybe it's because people care more now about characters and the deep story of them rather than superficial level of the actors playing them, keeping the content. I think it's more that this is just the change from the studios and it's advantageous for them to have things be this way. And so scripts are written to make the character the star as opposed to making the actor the star. You know, scripts aren't written for actors anymore. Or at least not as much. That's just my suspicion, obviously. It's not like I'm reading communications, emails from these studio heads or whatever, I get that. Seems that way to me. |
| 01. March 2022 | Charlie’s collab with Joel Haver | they could at the wall and it's just random for so many different people what actually stuck Charlie's collaboration with Joe Havre question for you. How did that Joe is the name Joe Havre? How did that whole situation come about? Actually after we talked we set up just a fun collab because I he had done the moist meetup And I thought it'd be fun to get him and the gang out to do some of that like at our location You started doing some skits and getting a little wacky Did he explain how he came up with that idea? He Him and his friends apparently they had this rock wig and someone commented that it looked like my hair So then they just started doing an impression of my voice It just got a little out of control That guy is uh He's got some very unique content. It's cool to see him blow up over the last year whatever I know super happy to see that too I found him like most people through the animations, but he does so much good stuff His his older stuff had the problem of just not being like it was good But it's not presented like well for the algorithm because the the thumbnails were just whatever as with the titles once he picked up a |
| 01. March 2022 | Charlie’s many usernames | Hello everyone, these are just the rambles that occurred during the stream where I played against Charlie in GTA Guessa. There is no drama discussed here as we already had that conversation privately a week prior to this stream. Charlie's many usernames. Since I've got you here, to pick your brain, um, what is with how many names you have? Like Penguin Zero, Moist Critical, and like it's Moist Critical not with like, Spelt Critical, it's got a K in it and a 1 in it. How did this come to be? So the reason everything's so disjointed is just because for some reason I just never even think to keep everything in line. So for Twitch for example, like, Penguin, not Penguin, just regular Critical was taken, Big Moist was taken, so then I was just like, okay, we'll go Moist Critical. And the name Critical was started when I was a kid pretty much. A buddy of mine recommended the name on Xbox Live because I wanted to change my name from Mob-O, Insane-O to something else and he was like, try Critical like this and I was like, cool. Because I was back when like putting a 1 in alternating caps was the shit. Yeah. And Penguin Zero? I was just 11 and I loved the Penguins. It's just funny how much of the like, trends of large content creators you kind of buck where your content is still more personality based, like, you know, it's fairly simple editing most of the time. Your thumbnails are just you, your titles are just, you know, again, mainly you, you have this style to you that is simplistic but still works. While everyone else is doing everything they can to become more complicated and all this trash, you have this simple style that for whatever reason, well, not for whatever reason, there's many reasons why, but everyone just loves it. And you're succeeding in a way that other people can't succeed is what I'm trying to say. I really just put a lot of that to being there at the right time and getting lucky because I feel like if you did this now, like just my completely carefree way of approaching the internet space, you might not get as lucky because there's just so much of it now. But back when I started, it wasn't nearly as big. So you could get away with stuff like that. Like back when I started, there weren't even custom thumbnails. So even PewDiePie content was just random stills from his auto generated thumbnails. How long you been around them? More than 10 years? What 15 or? Yep, I actually made an account in 2006 when I was, I would have been 11 then, and I was re-uploading softcore porn. In 2007, I made my current account, which was for unsigned rappers music and then started making Gears of War content. It is funny, every successful content creator, especially those who start in the early days, seem to have like a very unique start. Like no one has the exact same story because it's just, especially when the early you started, the less likely you could have expected that you would succeed in any capacity. So people just throwing whatever. |
| 08. November 2021 | Chasing down a delivery driver story | Chasing down a delivery driver story. Small story, I got woken up after about 5 hours sleep to a knocking at my door. It was raining outside and it was a dude delivering a package. Worse, it wasn't a package for me. It was 3 packages, none were for me, and two of them weren't for this address. One was for next door, another was for like it had the same number but it was a different street name. And so I didn't have to sign for the packages, so he just left them there. But I saw him as he was driving off and I saw he had stopped down the street to give another person a package. So I'm there, not wearing a shirt, it's cold, it's raining, and I run down the street to the dude. I'm like, look you've left two packages you weren't meant to leave. He's like, oh alright. But he doesn't understand me at first and then the person he's giving a package to has to explain it to him. He's like, oh okay I'll come back. So he grabs them back. Then I had to go back to sleep, which was hard. And that's partly why I'm a bit tired. Good guy Matt? Not good guy Matt. I wasn't doing it for anyone else except for me. Because I would have had to go the effort to give the packages back to the post office. |
| 05. March 2020 | Chasing the delivery man in the rain | Chasing a delivery driver in the rain. Small story, I got woken up after about 5 hours sleep to a knocking at my door. It was raining outside and it was a dude delivering a package. Worse, it wasn't a package for me. It was 3 packages, none were for me, and 2 of them weren't for this address. One was for next door, another was for like it had the same number but it was a different street name. I didn't have to sign for the packages so he just left them there but I saw him as he was driving off and I saw he had stopped down the street to give another person a package. So I'm there, not wearing a shirt, it's cold, it's raining, and I run down the street to the dude. I'm like, look you've left 2 packages you weren't meant to leave. He's like, oh alright. But he doesn't understand me at first and then the person he's giving a package to has to explain it to him. He's like, oh okay I'll come back. So he grabs them back. Then I had to go back to sleep, which was hard. And that's partly why I'm a bit tired. Good guy Matt? Not good guy Matt. I wasn't doing it for anyone else except for me. Because I would have had to go the effort to give the packages back to the post office. The last time I got free stuff was from Woolworths. They dropped off like 10 things of milk and 10 things of yoghurt mistakenly. And I was too busy to chase them up about it. Didn't want the yoghurt, didn't want the milk. And so I just sat in my fridge until eventually it went bad and I had to chuckle it out. And I just filled up my bin. I wish I had done something about it. It would have been a little bit different if I could have done it the same day. But they were closed by the time I realized and I was like ahhhh. There's no amount of calling them now that would alleviate other people from annoyance. |
| 29. May 2020 | Chat arguing in bad faith | What is your opinion on people in chat intentionally or otherwise arguing in bad faith? Additionally, what do you think about the accountability for streamers versus chat in these situations? Do you just mean people who are arguing despite not actually holding that position? You know, I'm an anti-vaxxer. I think vaccinations are garbage blah blah blah, but they're not really that they're just trying to G you up or whatever you can any person in chat who's arguing any kind of position could be such a person if a person calls you out in chat and says oh, you know, you were wrong you're wrong about this and you Carefully break down and explain why that person is stupid and what they've said they will um, there's oh I baited you man I bet you so fucking well you were you I didn't really believe any of that shit and I just waste your time Ha ha ha fuck you That's just that's just something you have to deal with as a streamer You can ignore it and that person can be like look at look at this guy things is so good with his positions But he ignores my criticism like he he is he is he's floundering under the weight of my brilliance that he won't even acknowledge My questions were fucking fool and there's that but if you acknowledge them and you show how they're wrong They're like, oh man, I fucking played you dude. I fucking played you |
| 17. March 2023 | ChatGPT doesn’t think I am a good GTA V speedrunner. | Chat GPT doesn't think I am a good GTA 5 speedrunner. If you ask chat GPT about the best GTA 5 speedrunners, you are 1 out of 4 on the list. Really? Who are the best GTA 5 speedrunners? Wow. It didn't even list me. I don't even know who this is. Is DALA from 2019? No it's not. It's 2021 DALA. It was 2021 when LOL Reset was actually doing stuff and he was never big anyway. I can understand Burhaq being here if it's 2021 DALA, but no one else here can I understand. Ah I guess BAN in 2021. Reno being here at all? What about Dark Viper AU? All strangers and freaks what are you talking about? He's also collaborated with other GTA 5 speedrunners. This is all false. I guess it's almost 2 years ago now, but I was more relevant speedrunning 2 years ago. It's September 2021. But who the hell is Desands? It doesn't come up with anything. I guess there's just more examples of chat GPT just confidently saying stuff that's false. So what we'll just do it again and see if we get the same results. Illumina? They're not a GTA 5 runner. They run the other GTAs. And Hugo has never held a world record in GTA 5. That's crazy. Screw AI chat. Now I'm sure it will get better over time and recognize my speedrunning greatness. Fixed it. Who are the best GTA 5 speedrunners? Modest Pelican. There you go. I made it infinitely smarter. Please ignore this code on the side. |
| 05. September 2021 | Cheating in relationships | Cheating in relationships. I mean it's always contentious. Was informs behavior more environments or genetics, but obviously I'm not a fan of cheating in relationships. If you're a person who is prone to cheating or rather believe you can only function in an open relationship or something you should be open about that. Giving another person unrealistic expectations as to your fidelity is a |
| 14. January 2021 | Cheating in speedrunning | Good. Yeah, okay. Speedrunners fucking hate cheaters. And especially because we all know in the back of our minds, like, oh man, so it's hard to catch these people these days. Man, anyone could be a cheater. It sucks when a person gets a world record. And your first thought isn't always, I'm so excited for you. I wonder if they cheated. Yeah, do they cheat? That's super frustrating. That's terrible for your thing. Yeah. |
| 29. December 2020 | Cheating in speedrunning and why the outrage. | that as time has gone on, games have become more complex. Cheating is now more easily done. It's why people have proposed like outrageous anti-cheating mechanisms, never accepting a run that isn't streamed, requiring hand cams, and it depends on the game how significant any of these measures would be. It's why when cheating comes to light, speedrunners rightly up in arms. Like, because the air of suspicion around everyone and everything, wondering who is legit and who's not, it's a terrible feeling. Because you want to assume everyone is above board, but you know deep down that can't be the case. I'm happy in a game like GTA V, it'd be very hard to cheat in a significant way, in terms of modifying game files. Like one of the things that most annoyed me about the way that Dream talked about this situation in regards to the cheating, regardless of what occurred, the statistical irregularities of those drops is the very thing that mods should look for and examine when found. Like those kind of statistical irregularities is how people get caught cheating, and it's like the very thing that mods should be investigating. There's like, I would say there's three types of cheating. One, splicing, where you temp with the video after the fact. So you splice together good runs, or you remove one particular section and put it in a better section or whatever, to fake a speed run that way. The second is making it so something happens that can't normally happen in the game. So you make your vehicle go faster, you make your character run faster, whatever it may be, you warp yourself somewhere else, this kind of stuff. It's impossible for the game to do these things, but you suddenly change the game in a way so you still gain that outcome. Like when Ante increased the speed of his bike, that bike can't normally go that fast. You've changed the game to do that. The most subtle form of cheating is where you make it so the game does something that can happen. You just make it happen with a greater irregularity. So you just improve your RNG. That kind of stuff is a lot harder to catch because the video, like if all you have is the video of the run, then you can't know if that super rare thing that occurred was caused by cheating, or if it was just the super rare thing that occurred. Wouldn't people lose followers, subs from cheating? Normally, yes. But of course, when people cheat, they don't think they're gonna be found out. They cheat with the goal of hiding it as much as possible. Oh no, as much as possible, completely. They just, they want the gains from the cheated outcomes with none of the consequences that come from being found out. As I talked about before, there's money, there's fame, there's followers, there's subs in having world records these days in popular games, which just leads to a greater inspiration to cheat and to get these results. Getting annoyed at resetting. I've gotten into a bad habit of not cheating. |
| 21. March 2021 | Chess pros make me want to stop playing Chess. | This dude on YouTube get 2800 in chess and watching it makes me feel like I'm watching Starcraft pros back in the day. Like one of the reasons I stopped playing Starcraft was because people who were pros were so fucking good and it felt intimidating. And I feel that same way watching this dude play chess. Makes me want to play the game far less. It was interesting watching it though. As in like, it's really impressive how good you can be at chess once you've played, you know, a bajillion games. And can memorize all the boards and all the plays that people could possibly do. But who got the time for that shit? It is as most skills are. How being a master in a skill is really impressive. Then you realize how much time it would take to become a master and you're like, ah fuck it. You know. I have now made it as a content creator. So I'm going to brag for a second chat. |
| 21. March 2021 | Chess pros make me want to stop playing chess. | This dude on YouTube get 2800 in chess and watching it makes me feel like I'm watching Starcraft pros back in the day. Like one of the reasons I stopped playing Starcraft was because people who were pros were so fucking good and it felt intimidating. And I feel that same way watching this dude play chess. Makes me want to play the game far less. It was interesting watching it though. As in like, it's really impressive how good you can be at chess once you've played, you know, a bajillion games. And can memorize all the boards and all the plays that people could possibly do. But who got the time for that shit? It is as most skills are. How being a master in a skill is really impressive. Then you realize how much time it would take to become a master and you're like, ah fuck it. You know. I have now made it as a content creator. So I'm going to brag for a second chat. |
| 24. May 2022 | Chess.com commented on my chess video | Com commented on my chess video. Did you see that chess.com commented on my video of my chess video? I assume that's the thing that they do frequently So at the beginning of my chess video I was like watch as I go from an okay player to an okay player like a year later And they were like yeah, we feel that I was like they pretty prominent on YouTube other. Yeah, I imagine so It's just a good business decision |
| 13. January 2020 | Childhood Dream Job | What was my childhood dream job? What did you want to do when you were an adult? The first thing I wanted to do was drive trains. My friend had this train set that he kept in his garage. And uh, I thought it was pretty snazzy. Cause I can drive trains. I am being serious. You don't think trains are cool? One of my favorite games was uh, Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Do I like- |
| 10. June 2020 | Children's Cartoons | of his YouTube content. Children's cartoons. Next time, Gadget. Next time. Get it? It's that Inspector Gadget show. Is that even on the air anymore? Like if I walked up to a kid and said, hey kid, you like Inspector Gadget, would the kid know what I'm talking about? No? Look at these fucking experts and child's TV programming in my chat. It's almost weird that more kids programming is ever produced. Shouldn't you just need like, you know, a bunch of shows and then you just put that shit on repeat forever? Cause like it's always a new generation of kids. It changed with the times, but I mean, kids program is meant to be dumbed down and simple. Probably newer iterations of the show are meant to, you know, like be targeted towards young kids, but also teens, I guess. Isn't, wouldn't that be the thing? So you'd make new content for the generation that's just grown out of the old content, but you'd also get some content for the younger generation as well, maybe? Like you just, you make new episodes to expand the market. Ben 10 dumb as fuck. I never watched Ben 10 as a kid, but I watched an animated thing where a dude explained the entire timeline of Ben 10, including all the time travel stuff. And it seemed fairly interesting. Not interesting enough that you'd want to watch the show, be like, oh yeah, there's some lore here. You know, they put in some effort and stuff happens. It was like a. |
| 03. June 2020 | Choosing Twitch vips and mods | How do you choose your VIPs and mods? VIPs are just people who've helped me out more than what I would consider to be normal for the average person. It's the difference between a person going, hey, you know, it's, you know, you walk down there, take a left, take a right, and a person going, let me draw you a map. And they draw you a map of the streets and then give you the map and go, that's where you need to go. Like the, but it's the same thing, but one is just like orders of magnitude, like, wow, you must be a really fucking nice person to have gone to that lengths to help me. And that's why I give VIPs in those situations as a little thank you. Or in cases where people have, a person has really saved my bacon, as in, if they hadn't told me that information, I would have just been completely fucked for like an hour or two or something. They have done something that has really helped me. My mods, it's usually just people who show evidence that they care about my content and won't necessarily try to fuck with my stuff. They've either been here for a long time or they've contributed financially in some way. People who was like, well, if you've done X, Y, and Z, and you've been around for this long, well, it seems like you really do care about me and my content. So you're probably gonna be a person who treats the mod status as something that you can respect and you will fulfill, you know, you help me out when I need it. You're a person I can trust. It's more about the trust. Some people have said, I know how to be a mod, dude. I don't really get it. I'm like, look, I don't, you can learn to be a mod, but as long as I trust you, I'm perfectly willing for you to make mistakes or not understand things. That's the main thing I want from a mod. Often the time when I make myself a mod is when I have no mods around because eventually mods start to lose interest in the content and they start losing interest in modding for me as they show up less and less and less. Or I might be in a particular time zone where there are no mods. And so then I end up just looking in chat and saying, who of these people meets my criteria and I mod them. And currently I have quite a few mods and I think I'm pretty fine as is. format the |
| 03. June 2020 | Choosing twitch vips and mods | How do you choose your VIPs and mods? VIPs are just people who've helped me out more than what I would consider to be normal for the average person. It's the difference between a person going, hey, you know, it's, you know, you walk down there, take a left, take a right, and a person going, let me draw you a map. And they draw you a map of the streets and then give you the map and go, that's where you need to go. Like the, but it's the same thing, but one is just like orders of magnitude, like, wow, you must be a really fucking nice person to have gone to that lengths to help me. And that's why I give VIPs in those situations as a little thank you. Or in cases where people have, a person has really saved my bacon, as in, if they hadn't told me that information, I would have just been completely fucked for like an hour or two or something. They have done something that has really helped me. My mods, it's usually just people who show evidence that they care about my content and won't necessarily try to fuck with my stuff. They've either been here for a long time or they've contributed financially in some way. People who was like, well, if you've done X, Y, and Z, and you've been around for this long, well, it seems like you really do care about me and my content. So you're probably gonna be a person who treats the mod status as something that you can respect and you will fulfill, you know, you help me out when I need it. You're a person I can trust. It's more about the trust. Some people have said, I know how to be a mod, dude. I don't really get it. I'm like, look, I don't, you can learn to be a mod, but as long as I trust you, I'm perfectly willing for you to make mistakes or not understand things. That's the main thing I want from a mod. Often the time when I make myself a mod is when I have no mods around because eventually mods start to lose interest in the content and they start losing interest in modding for me as they show up less and less and less. Or I might be in a particular time zone where there are no mods. And so then I end up just looking in chat and saying, who of these people meets my criteria and I mod them. And currently I have quite a few mods and I think I'm pretty fine as is. Let me know. |
| 10. January 2021 | Christmas without my family. | Christmas without my family. How was my Christmas? Non-existent. As terrible as this is gonna sound, I didn't even get to see my family. Basically, my sleeping pattern was so bad that I- I just wasn't awake. My mother says she understood and- and all that, but I'm sure she was disappointed. I'll make it up to her. But also, the event was somewhat ruined as well because my half my family was in lockdown because of an outbreak of the coronavirus. Certainly, like, even had we met, we all would have worn masks and, you know, social distance and stuff, like, we would have taken precautions. And it was gonna be less than ten people or whatever, but- because my family gatherings are small anyway. But with, you know, like, half the people who would normally have come not going to be there, it was already gonna be a small affair anyway. But then I didn't go, so like, there wouldn't be like four of them there or whatever, so just- Obviously not what they want. |
| 12. August 2020 | Christopher Hitchens | My thoughts on Christopher Hitchens. What's my opinion on Christopher Hitchens? I mean, he was interesting when I was younger. As I got older, you came to more realize that his arguments were not as rigorous as you might have thought when you were younger. He was an interesting character, and no one said otherwise. Very eloquent. And it would be interesting to have him around to talk about today, even if I think I wouldn't agree with him. But it would just be interesting listening to him speak, because he was just an interesting character. |
| 09. February 2023 | Chrome extension allows you to skip my jokes | Chrome extension allows you to skip my jokes. So there are extensions that exist for YouTube that filter out certain types of content. Either they automatically skip over those parts and videos, for example, sponsors, or like they give you a button that you can press to then skip over them. I guess because most people watch stuff on mobile, they're probably not that popular, but who knows, they might exist for phones as well. It's just usually on phones when you wanna add these kind of extensions. So have a little bit more finicky or a bit more of a hassle, or you need to jailbreak your phone or whatever. But while I know these exist, what surprised me was when this was tweeted at me. It's not a Dark Viper AU video without millions of philotangent flags. Philotangent jokes, philotangent jokes, philotangent jokes. Like yeah, my videos contain quite a few jokes in them. Is that really necessary? Are people really wanting to skip over these? The people who watch my videos being like, I came here for the speed runs. I came here for GT5, not this asshole's jokes, but he's ruining his goddamn videos with humor. What is this? I showed them this. There is no correlation between what's listed there and like what people actually watch in the video that they're talking about. So there's no correlation. So not that many people either using this feature or even using this extension at all, which is. |
| 30. September 2022 | Chrome no longer supporting ad-blocking extensions? | no longer supports ad blocking extensions? So from what I'm reading here, apparently Chrome is going to be changing some stuff that inadvertently is going to make it so that ad blocking extensions on Chrome are gonna potentially not work. From what I'm reading here, that doesn't seem to, well, they're arguing that's not their express goal. We are changing how network request blocking works because we are making foundational changes to how extensions work in order to improve the security and privacy characteristics for extensions platform. Chrome supports and will continue to support ad blockers. Will they though? The second that people start talking about Chrome blocking, Chrome removing ad block, people start talking about moving to Firefox. Obviously Google doesn't want people to leave the platform, but obviously they want people using ad block less. If ad block stop working, would I move to Firefox or something else? Something not based on Chromium because there are other web browsers also based on Chromium. And yeah, I guess I would. I pay for a lot of services. Like I pay for YouTube premium and stuff, but it doesn't mean I want to get inundated with ads on random websites, you know. Clearing those servers is not going on just like it used to. |
| 02. October 2021 | Claims of bias as a counter for arguments | The themes of bias as a counter for arguments. I have never liked the argument where it's like, a person makes an argument and someone fires back, but you're biased. The response to that is, so what? Am I wrong? Is my argument bad? Am I saying false things? But you're biased. And? Am I wrong? Saying a person is biased is not a defeat at anything. It's like when you bring up statistics and someone will say, well that place that put forth those statistics is biased. It's like, and? Are they wrong? Is there something wrong with their methodology? Well, but they're biased. And? If you know someone is biased towards an issue, if you have limited time to read information, or you have a wide selection of sources to choose from, of course you'd pick the least biased one. Because, I mean, that's most likely going to give you the good information, right? Or the more accurate information. But if you have more time, or someone's presented you with a particular bit of research, saying that's biased in order to dismiss it is, I'm sure that's a fallacy that's got a name to it, right? So what you're saying is, if Fox News came out with a report, just saying it's Fox News isn't a counter, no. But it would be, it's kind of, okay, here's the question. If someone says there are pixies under these rocks in this field, and there's 10,000 rocks, and you pick up one rock, like, the person says there is a pixie under every single rock in this field, and there's 10,000 rocks. You pick up one rock and you go, there's no pixie here. They're like, oh no, no, no, there is, it's the other rocks, just not that rock. Okay, pick up another rock. There's no pixie here, dude. They're like, no, no, the other ones though, all got pixies on them. And you keep lifting up rocks, and there's no pixies. How many rocks do you have to pick up before you're justified in dismissing the entire field as being absent of pixies? I don't think there's a, like, an objective answer to this question. But if you have a source of information that is consistently wrong, or peddling a false narrative, or some such, there will eventually come a time where it would be just, it'd be a waste of your time to continue to look at information from that source. This is what I meant by before, where, you know, you have limited time to look at sources, and you have to, you have to have some criteria that you can dismiss things out of hand, or you could be there forever. Like, you'd be reading some nine-year-old's Facebook post about, I know, communism or some shit, like, I gotta read all the sources, man. |
| 08. September 2022 | Clarifying my thoughts on capitalism | Trying my thoughts on capitalism. I don't want to read this entire thing out, but I wanted to say something about it. It's a little bit controversial, I suppose. I don't like when people say that capitalism is a system based on individuals' economic freedom. To clarify, my stance on capitalism has always been, I can give you dozens of things I hate about capitalism, but I have yet to be convinced that there is a better form of constructing the economy of a society. That, ultimately, removing capitalism as a whole would lead to greater prosperity for the human race as a whole. Identifying flaws or issues with something is very different from saying that you'd be better off without that thing. It's like, if I get sore feet, and I say, man, I hate when my feet are sore, it doesn't mean that I want my feet removed with chainsaws. But it seems so ingrained in culture and the way that we think about ourselves, and what we should do with our lives, that it seems very unlikely to change to the degree that it's not going to be a part of the human condition. But there is clearly different countries that are doing capitalism, better or worse, to the degree that clearly many of its excesses and issues can be solved through legislation, through regulation, and these are the things that I support. But when people say that capitalism is a system based on individuals' economic freedom, I laugh. If you do not participate in capitalism, you either die or you cannot interface with other people, which is effectively death for most people. Like, if I put a gun to your head and I said, yo, make a sandwich, or you die, okay, technically you have a choice. You can die or make the sandwich. You're perfectly free to make that choice. But it's clearly a hugely coerced choice. You wouldn't look at that situation and go, that man is free, making his choices between death and making sandwiches. And that's what capitalism is. You play the game or you die, or you just never interface with the modern world. That is not economic freedom. For the overwhelming vast majority of people on the planet, they will do a menial job that they don't want to do, spending the vast majority of their time in their lives doing that thing, and then they'll die. There's circumstances not improving at all, and they'll only do this because they have to. And that is not freedom. As I say, it could be the case that this is just the best that humanity can do. Irrespective of what system we attempt to create, there's always going to be some people doing that in a world where there is scarcity. Someone has to do the work for there to be food and all that jazz. But this romanticizing of capitalism as a truly miraculous and wonderful thing is just stupid to me. Sometimes the best choice is still a shitty one, and that's the most that you can convince me capitalism is. I've yet to find a socialist or a communist, if you want to draw distinctions there, that can convince me that the complete removal of capitalism would ultimately be good. And what even that would even look like. But the same token, I'm not convinced capitalism is particularly an amazing aspect of existence. To further clarify, to call anything free to me implies non-participation to be a viable option, and participation to be uncoerced. Such is not the case with capitalism. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel, it doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 08. September 2022 | Clarifying my thoughts on unpaid internships | What's on unpaid internships? I've criticized in the past, unpaid internships. This person says internships are completely voluntary and a great way to gain work experience, which is far more valuable than a diploma. The reasons why so many people want them, it allows them to learn for free what they need for a decent job and often offer direct path to paid job. Unpaid internships aren't free. You are paying a company your unpaid wages. You are paying someone to make them profit. It's not a free experience. The immediate worst thing about this, it makes internships only available to a certain class of person in society. You have to already be well off financially supported to be able to take an unpaid internship. This means that certain jobs, if they require unpaid internships or certain companies and whatnot, it means that the only people who can get into those companies are people who are already rich or are already born to wealthy families. And then it's just in general unfair, but also just not good for society. In the ideal world, we want the people who are suited for roles to get those roles in society. We don't want just people who happen to be born to rich families getting into these jobs. It's not a fair system or a good system for society. Your best case scenario, what ends up happening for a person who isn't already of means to take these internships, the state has to support them. Why the fuck should my tax dollars go to paying the labor costs of some private company? That's not what taxes should be used for. That's not what social support systems should be used for. If a company can afford to pay a worker, they should. In fact, if a company can't afford to pay a worker, that job shouldn't exist. It's not the state's responsibility to provide a workforce for private companies. So the existence of unpaid internships represent a failure of the labor market. If in a sufficiently well-working labor market, you'd walk into a job interview and they'd be like, oh, this is an unpaid internship. And you'd look at them and go, oh, well, I'm gonna go work for that company over there who will pay me money to do this same job. And you'll stand up and they'll be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Maybe we can work out some sort of payment plan. The only reason unpaid internships can exist is if there's not sufficient opportunity in that labor market for people of such skills and qualifications to have a significant enough set of places to go. And absent regulation, it's just everyone's gonna be, maybe I can boil my shoes on Thursday and just not eat. Maybe I can get this job. It's not representing that your economy is doing well at that point, right? These are unpaid internships, bad for society, unfair, and representative of your economy not doing particularly great. No person's prosperity should be based on whether or not they're willing to give free labor to some company that can clearly afford to pay wages. Clarify. |
| 18. April 2021 | Clean gaming huds and streaming overlays | Clean gaming HUDs and stream overlays. Would I do a no HUD run? Eventually. There's not much of a HUD in this game, right? Like right now it's just the map. The map of course being very important, but I certainly like the kind of style where a game can be like this, where nothing's on the screen except like a tiny thing. And I kind of feel that way with streams as well. I much prefer that to be effectively nothing on the screen. Covering the gameplay. So I'm kind of scrunched into the corner over here. All the necessary information. Like you go on some streams and the stream is just like graphs and alerts and just like it's just so plugged up. Worst is when you go to a World of Warcraft stream and like 90% of like an actual radar or something and 90% of the stream is just covered in analytics. They got enough analytics that they're trying to calculate NASA's landing. What's the fucking XQC's line? An analyze for NASA. Six consoles. Ten computers. |
| 23. March 2021 | Climate change | Climate change. What are my thoughts on climate change? Over a hundred years ago, these scientists were sitting around and they were like, so why is the earth not a ball of ice? And they're like, what do you mean? So like, you know, just like, why are we not like a ball of ice? There's a lot of those out in the universe. So like, why are we not that way? And so they did some experiments and like, well, it seems there's like this balance, right? Where like these gases trap in heat and stuff so that we don't just get into a ball of ice there. And they're like, okay, yeah, but then why aren't we like a ball of fire? Why isn't like just everything really, really hot? It's like, well, and they do some more tests and like, well, it seems as though there's like a careful balance in the environments where there's a certain amount of gases that trap in heat. Some of it's expelled into the atmosphere, into the wider universe, whatever. Some of it is trapped below ground, these gases and stuff. It's like a perfect balance to keep us at the exact right temperature for life. And another scientist is like, but aren't we like digging up that stuff and releasing it back into the atmosphere? Isn't that gonna have like long-term ramifications? And everyone looks at themselves and goes, holy shit, it is, it is gonna have long-term ramifications. So you've got these people in like the 40s, 50s and stuff, you got like these lectures and stuff given to university students. Like, scientists warn future ramifications about continued industrialization may be terrible in the coming decades. We can't be certain what's going to happen, but it might be one day a terrible consequence for the humanity. And that's what we're seeing now. And they've been saying roughly the same thing for the past hundred years, and we're all gonna be fucked in the future. The end. The biggest problem with the climate change had is the advocates of this idea were those idiots who like study something for their entire lives. What the fuck did they know? On the other hand, you had the richest, most powerful people of, you know, pretty much who had ever lived, people who had made money from fossil fuels and industrialization being like, nah, that's all nonsense. Because you know, that's gonna eat into their bottom line. And so when you're trying to get a message out, competing against literally the most powerful, richest people in the world, you're probably not gonna be perfectly successful at doing it. Yeah, we're pretty fucked, unfortunately. Whenever this topic comes up, you can look in chat and you can see these people who have directly been misinformed by these people who have had their business interests threatened by what is a true examination of the climate we exist in. And there's nothing that you or me, little guys, can do about it except vote for people who actually give a shit about this stuff, you know? Disappointing to reflect on. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 02. April 2021 | Clintsteven's returns, temporarily. | Clint Stevens returns temporarily. So do you guys see Clint Stevens has once more come back to grace twitch.tv with his presence as temporary as it is likely to be. Apparently he turned on his stream and his timer showed like 166 hours or something and he just put a dead skeleton in his chair. I wonder how long he did that for because I tuned into his stream at some point and he was actually there. I swear he has an attitude of like you know keep him wanting more because he plays so hard to get it makes his stream so elusive and rare that everyone just has to stop by regardless of what he's doing when he eventually streams. Because when I stopped into his stream he was just playing Tony Hawk just doing some tricks and it was nothing particularly special. Not saying his stream's bad but like it was just a regular stream. There's so much hype about it because it's a rare occasion when he actually streams. Like I imagine if I didn't stream for a month and I just came back I would have double my normal viewership you know. |
| 07. May 2021 | Clips channel preventing work on main channel content | The clips channel preventing work on main channel content. When will I upload reddit recap? When I edit it I'm behind in so much because I'm bad as wonderful as the clips channel has been chat, you know losing that Two and a bit hours or whatever that it takes to process the clips. That's definitely eaten a lot of my editing time normally like Directly the clips channel is the reason why past first hasn't come out as one because normally what would happen is Everything will get caught up and I'd be like, well, it's not working on pastors now It's nothing else to work on but there's always clips to work on always more and more more All rambles up today now, hell no rambles so out of date like what's the date today? Rambles are a month old if the clip shell is far more valuable than pastors They like the clip shell is just insanely value. That's why I spin all the time. It's the 13th. Yeah, the the most recent rambles which Given to me was from the 18th Matt. Why is the reddit recaps doing well because it's a good content It's funny. The most recent reddit recap has a meme. That's actually topical You know, it's like it's gonna make less sense the longer it takes me to release it That's very early. It's an evergreen joke from the boat, you know, do I think rambles is classified as a podcast? Probably not. I mean it can serve the same purpose if you were treated as one But I know I know what you what necessarily needs to be the case for a podcast to be podcasting |
| 10. January 2021 | Clips channel vs main channel revenue . | How revenue on my clips channel compares to revenue on my main channel. The clips do generate revenue, yes. Views from longer videos are more likely to generate revenue than views from shorter videos because there is an internal timer. Don't know what the internal timer is on how quickly you can receive ads. And I think, I don't know, maybe advertisers prefer putting ads on longer videos, I'm not sure. But like, if you watch five clips, you might only get one ad that, because each clip is so short. But if you watch five of my main videos, you get more than likely an ad each time or whatever. So don't expect the channel with a lot of short videos to be generating the same kind of revenue as a larger channel. So like, I don't know, my main channel has one third of the views of my clips channel, but it probably makes, I don't know, three times as much. I don't know the numbers. I don't really look at them. So that would mean a view on my main channel is worth nine times what it is on my clip channel. How does YouTube Premium influence this? Oh, that's also a good point, because YouTube Premium pays out for how many minutes you watch, and certainly with clips, you watch less. You know, does YouTube Premium give content creators more revenue than regular YouTube? Yes, a view that has been made through YouTube Premium is worth far, far more than a view that is done through just watching ads. But obviously, the vast majority of people don't have YouTube Premium. So you do end up making more money with ads. But especially for longer form content like mine, YouTube Premium is going to skew higher for me than it is for other channels that just release a five minute video or something every day. |
| 31. March 2021 | Cloud gaming and the upgrading of tech. | Cloud gaming and upgrading tech. What do I think about cloud gaming? I've heard things in favor and things against. You're certainly always gonna bash your head up against physics, you know? It'd be interesting though, let's say there was a reality where no one had any consoles. Or no one gamed on PC, like all of us paid a fee to, just with our monitors or TVs, have all the processing done somewhere else, someone else's servers, someone else's hardware. We just deal with that latency. Like, how would console generations work? You'd imagine there'd be a handful of companies who'd be looking at game developers going, guys, just keep making games with current hardware. You know how much money it would take us to upgrade the hardware? Just keep going. Just keep going with the current hardware that exists. Come on. Would we just be stuck at the same level of hardware forever? Or would there be some market pressure? Like one of the companies would upgrade to the newest technology and be like, look guys, you want the best gaming experience? We got the 572080TIs. I don't know. Like, I'm not a fan of console gaming in general. And personal computers seems like that's always gonna be a thing that's necessary, right? I don't think on cloud gaming that much because it's not something that really impacts me. It's not something that I would likely ever get. |
| 10. June 2020 | Cluttered Twitch Overlays | Clustered Twitch overlays. I've been using the same basic blue box for like a bajillion years. I despise, despise clustered overlays. Like I've talked about this before, I watch Hungrybox, probably one of the content creators I like watching the most right now, because he's an underdog that's jigglypuff. He's really passionate and cares about what he does. He's very emotive, he's very expressive. But his overlay, I hate his overlay so fucking much. He has like everything except the kitchen sink on that screen. Like at least a third of his screen is covered by non-gameplay. I'm just like, stop. It's still watchable, don't get me wrong. And I guess eventually you just block it out. But like so much of it seems completely unnecessary. Or with like a few tweaks moving stuff around, it'd look a lot cleaner. He has since made a new overlay for when he is fighting in important matches, and it is a significant improvement. I suspect he did this for the benefit of the game. |
| 15. January 2023 | Coffeezilla’s “easy” takedown of Logan Paul. | Coffeezilla's easy takedown of Logan Paul. What do I think of the Crypto Zoo scandal? I know next to nothing about it. Like obviously I watch Coffeezilla's videos as well, but I have no additional information or opinion beyond, yeah, that sucks for those involved. The Crypto NFT space was just such a good spot for people to rip off desperate people. I think how easy Coffeezilla took down Logan, well call it easy, I mean clearly he did a lot of research, I mean in terms of the perception of the public, I think was in part because of how low people's perception of Logan already was. Like sure, what he did was clearly scummy. If Logan had a better reputation, people would have been like, ah maybe we should hear him out. And more people would be like, oh you know, I believe Logan, I stand Logan because I like Logan. Logan did way too much to jettison his good public perception for money. I mean did he really have a good public perception? Yeah, surely at one point. |
| 29. May 2020 | Cognitive biases | How big do you think is the impact that cognitive biases have on us and are they more positive or negative? Negative. Oh, let me rephrase. Um, you can be biased towards things that are favorable. I mean, because we're all biased in like, it's like I'm biased in favor of healthy food away from poisoned food. I have a bias in that regard. But if you mean cognitive biases, cognitive biases prevent us from accurately assessing information in ways that will give us accurate, true information. And that's always bad. In the way that accurate, whatever, information is always better to have than false or misleading information or what have you. What impact do I think they have? I don't know, men, depends on the person. We're all subject to cognitive biases. What are your thoughts on the Linity's recent proj- |
| 21. August 2021 | Coincidentally saving lives with my content | Coincidentally saving lives with my content. Just wanted to let you know that your stream saved my life. I was in a coma for four years straight. One day my nurse came in the room and turned your stream on. Miraculously I woke up just so I could turn that trash off. Joke. Love your stuff. Devapour love. Thank you dude. It's funny, um, I have received messages. With messages along that line were apparently serious. Like I guess if you're gonna reach millions of people then statistically speaking there's gonna be someone who's gonna be in a situation where they're about to do something really stupid and you know take their own life or whatever and you upload a video and they're like oh watch this video then and they don't end up doing it. You know? The last message I received was I was going through my Instagram DMs because I had received endless DMs and I never checked the DMs all the time I've had Instagram but I'm like oh you know I've got some free time and I've now turned off my DMs so there's no more DMs coming in so I may as well just go through the ones that I've been sent before and I would like posts from people who said something nice or whatever and occasionally respond and ignore the ones that were just bullshit. And so a dude DMs me later on Discord and he's like oh man I was, I was, you know, end of my rope kind of thing and your liking my post on Instagram distracted me, you know, for a while and stuff and I started thinking about YouTube and your content and stuff and it gave my friend time over to save my life, to come over and save my life and I'm just like, like I didn't really do anything, you know? And it's uh, but it's just weird to know that those situations can happen just because you can reach so many people, you know? Like I was just trying to send some nice vibes towards these people. It's a weird responsibility in a way to reflect on sometimes that you have the ability to make a person's day or destroy it with just a mere utterance or whatever just because you've reached that many people, you know? |
| 05. January 2022 | Coke no sugar is better than Pepsi Max | Coke no sugar is better than Pepsi Max. Guys, by the way, Coke no sugar, I'm saying this right now, is better than Pepsi Max. There is a new king of the no sugar soft drinks, it's Coke. I didn't think Coke could win, but they won. But he's still on top right now. Gonna finish what Pepsi Max I have. I mean, I do have quite a bit of it left in there. I mean, how could I have known such a thing was gonna happen? But I'll finish my Pepsi Max and then I'll move to something else. |
| 06. August 2020 | Cold One’s podcast | Going on the cold ones podcast Would you ever go on the cold ones podcast with max and chat? I feel like that's be a good ass episode Absolutely, I would I've watched most the episodes they put out She might have watched every episode they've made now. They haven't made that many It seemed like interesting dudes, but I think they go a lot harder than I do, you know I think what would end up happening is I would get really drunk and make complete ass myself Which you know might make good content. I mean they selectively edit shit, but who knows I don't drink nearly as heavily as I used to |
| 06. August 2020 | Cold one’s podcast | Going on the cold ones podcast Would you ever go on the cold ones podcast with max and chat? I feel like that's be a good ass episode Absolutely, I would I've watched most the episodes they put out She might have watched every episode they've made now. They haven't made that many It seemed like interesting dudes, but I think they go a lot harder than I do, you know I think what would end up happening is I would get really drunk and make complete ass myself Which you know might make good content. I mean they selectively edit shit, but who knows I don't drink nearly as heavily as I used to |
| 30. May 2020 | Collaborate with Gtamen? | to other people. Collaboration with GTA men in the future. If there is a reasonable collaboration to be had, sure, we could do that. I mean, you could play GTA Online at some point if he plays it on PC, which he probably doesn't. Most people who play GTA Online probably don't play it on PC. I mean, who are stream... |
| 30. May 2020 | Collaborate with gtamen? | to other people. Collaboration with GTA men in the future. If there is a reasonable collaboration to be had, sure, we could do that. I mean, you could play GTA Online at some point if he plays it on PC, which he probably doesn't. Most people who play GTA Online probably don't play it on PC. I mean, who are stream... |
| 30. May 2021 | Collaborating for growth on YouTube. | Collaborating for growth on YouTube How many of your viewers don't know who I am? How many of my viewers don't know who you guys are? You know what I mean? It's a really good way for all of us to grow. And it's just fun. It's just fun to do. I mean, Fortnite and stuff seems a lot more collab friendly compared to GT Online. Especially considering how shitty GT Online servers are or whatever. D-Sync issues and what not. I mean, just in general, doing one of the highest-grossing together would probably work for content. But I suppose you guys have done them to death. I mean, even if it was something like, for me, teaching Dark Vibrate U the best strat or something like that, that would be easy content sort of thing. I saw Sonny featuring in a Sons of Vurgeons episode. Because he's on Xbox, where all my rest of the crowd. That was heaps of fun, hey Sonny? It was good. It was good. For sure. We had our boys do a full, like, something similar like this. We had our crews do different challenges. It was good. Yeah, I saw that. That was cool. Yeah. I just, for me, collaborating is always the effort, isn't it? I'm super keen to get... I've obviously done RP with both of you, except I've been trying to get Viper on RP for ages. Yeah. Hopefully any day now. |
| 14. January 2021 | Collaborations with other content creators | I've done so few collaborations that people are probably just like, like, where was landed so hard because it was like, well, out of kind of nowhere, that was your voice and all that. Yeah, I'm in the same boat. My collaborations have been you, Sonny Evans, and a very strange one with Clix Philip. I, you know who Clix Philip is? No, I didn't catch that video of yours. Oh, you don't know Clix Philip? He's been around for a very long time. He's, I guess, CSGO. You don't know CSGO. Yeah, yeah, probably not. Is he big on Twitch or YouTube? Oh, YouTube, YouTube. Oh, yeah, that's so bizarre. Yeah, I'll check out his stuff. He's got three channels. He's about to hit a million subs. He's just been around for such a long time that if you've even dipped your toe near CSGO, Clix Philip comes up. Like he's mentioned in the patch notes for that game. I don't play CSGO, but he just has this interesting voice and he's so passionate about what he talks about. Cool. He's very interesting, but I won't bother with that story then, but it's just, I bet he's asked him for some lines and he didn't send me back a single word in the emails that I sent. I sent him two emails. He didn't say a single thing, but he sent me the sound files. And I was just, it was just a weird interaction. Like, oh yeah, hey man, sure, no worries. I expected something like that, but no, he just sends me the sound files. It just gets it done. Yeah, I've used them in two different pacifists. So whenever I use them, people are like, oh, is that Clix Philip? What the hell? But yeah, I want to do more collaborations because you probably noticed all these YouTubers going to get a plane among us and stuff and just leeching off. They're growing off each other and growing in insane degrees. It just seems stupid not to try to do something along those lines. The YouTube seems to like that cross promotion kind of thing. Definitely. Yeah. Why haven't you done more collaborations by the way? I'm definitely not opposed to it. I've done like funnily enough one with you and one with Sonny Evans, a couple of other people down the road. It's just, I don't know, the group of friends, I've got a really good group of mates. There's about 10 of us and every night at least one of them is going to be online. So you might know them, like the Sons of Virgins, the Stealtho guys, like Crosby, Dom, all those guys and I just play with them all the time. We were friends well before the channel was a thing and I just sort of play with them and I guess that's kind of what I end up doing. It's been such a good social thing, but I'm totally open to it. I'm just a pretty bad networker, honestly. I can kind of just make my content chill out and it's just sort of the years gone by, I guess. So certainly I can see how your content, especially considering that you focus on single player games like a lot of the time and because you've already got your friends, I mean, it'd certainly be easier to play with your friends than reaching out and organizing something with another person. Yeah, exactly. I'm kind of the same boat where I speed run a single player game or challenge run or whatever. It doesn't immediately lead itself to collaboration. Yeah, yeah. Like I've Doug Doug, if you've heard of him, we wanted to collaborate together. We both just looked at each other and went, what are we going to do? It's hard, right? I have no idea. I was very impressed that because did Sonny Evans reach out to you for a collaboration? I think so. Yeah, I think we kind of followed each other on Twitter and one of us messaged and similar to us, I guess, we're just like, I like Sonny, like we got on really well. And yeah, he didn't make I like to I like his content as well. He impressed me that he has, you know, these collaboration ideas or whatever. Like he came to me with an immediate proposal to do this thing. And I was like, oh, fine. It seems no effort on my part to do this. But I wish I had something like that, just some go to just grab someone in and chat, you know, that kind of. Yeah, that's cool. I do know like, like recently, especially like I've joined Misfits management and I've like met a lot of other creators now really cool, like, like, you know, like we're talking about CSGO earlier, the only real CSGO I've watched was like, fits and swagger and all them. And I met them and like we sat down had dinner together and it was really nice. But it's just for me, it's like, I guess I'm not don't have that Sonny Evans thing where I'm like, hey, it's like jumping to GTA video. I just don't think of it or I just don't like, I don't know. It's just not like front of mind for me. But that would be really cool, I guess. Yeah. So the Misfits, they're different from Click and Misfits is that Swagger Souls and stuff? Who are the Misfits? Yeah, so the Misfits, like, you know, like Swagger Souls, Fitz, Toby, Zuckles, McCreamy and Notorious, they're like the six guys. I've heard of two of those names. Oh, okay. But I have heard of Misfits because they're the big Aussie creators. Just funny, funny guys, like they just take the piss and have a good time type thing. Yeah, I think some of them are least on cold ones. Yeah, I think they did go on there like a few weeks ago. Yeah. So I haven't actually joined them. I've joined the management side of things, which is like a much bigger pool of creators. I won't name them all, but there's lots of them, lots of huge Twitch streamers and YouTubers. And it's been good. Like, they're just a really good management company. |
| 23. June 2021 | Collabs and the meme olympics video | Co-labs and the meme Olympics video. Did you guys watch the meme Olympics video I released? It's a good video. I feel kind of bad releasing my version first because it spoils who the winner is I suppose but maybe we'll sort something out so if we do more like other people get to go first. I should do more collabs. Collabs are hard to set up and thus far they have not been um they haven't done amazing reviews. I will do them whenever I get the chance because they're fun. I'm fairly indifferent to how well they perform. If anything I want them to perform well so that the uh the other person wants to do them because I'll just do them fucking hell of it. I guess that I guess it's only true to some extent though because I mean if they got like one view I probably couldn't like justify the time but as long as they do moderately okay you know I'll do it. You want really stupid chat? With that collaboration video I turned off my alerts but because streamlabs is terrible when I change scene they turned back on there was one point in the entire collab where an alert went off and it was exactly when something funny happened and I wanted to keep the audio so there's a section where Modest Pelican makes a joke about what we should go after in the game the first person to kill X gets a point it was a bit risque and said was like whoa whoa bro and during that pushback at Modest Pelican's idea which I'm pretty sure is a joke anyway but uh the alert went off and so there's one alert in the entire recording and one alert in the entire video and it's in that section. I should send the dude a message like yo this is your subscription by the way thanks for the sub man what was the joke nah it's uh you know you don't risk those kind of things man he didn't want it in and would I have left it in if he didn't want it in if he didn't say ah I don't think it was that bad clearly within the context it was a joke regardless but it's just you know you don't take those kind of risks like I found the joke and the mystery in a weird way more funny than the original joke anyway |
| 04. November 2021 | Commentary on a livestreamer saying all livestreamers are completely fake | Commentary on a live stream is saying all live streamers are completely fake How could you stream all day being a fake person? How could you manage that? Wouldn't you just like burn out? Super fast like what what would you talk about? Maybe that's where half of Twitter's people talking about taking breaks for their mental health I guess if you're if you're a fake person online you would need to take breaks to be yourself I made this reference a little while ago for some reason I had to review the footage of one of my any percent runs I think my any percent world record that day I'd been talking about a subject went on about for like 15 20 minutes something about philosophy or whatever and then I Watched my any percent video from three years ago. It was the exact same conversation I was saying the exact same things in the exact same way It'd be inconceivable to me that I haven't changed over the last three years But I don't think it's like in terms of me becoming a fake person or something It's more that you just change over the years, you know You learn new things gives you different perspective and whatnot I know I feel like fake people don't succeed in the line It's I think it just depends on what kind of content creator you are It just seems like something you can't keep up long term unless the character you're playing is very similar to yourself I can't remember which theorist it was talking about the world as a stage where there is The stage in front of society the public sphere where you're you are one person and then behind the curtain you're another Like clearly people are not the same privately as they are Publicly, but the distinction is more or less depending upon the person if you're streaming endless hours every single day That would be so tiring if there was such a huge distinction between those two things The your public and private self when Soda Poppins there talking about how he's Fucking his sex doll or whatever or he's talking about his masturbation habits. Whatever it is I don't think Soda Poppins playing a character there there would of course still be a difference between the way that he conducts himself on stream and How he conducts himself privately, but the the differences wouldn't be super stark when people talk about Meeting Tyler one in real life and him on stream. They clearly very much to the same even doc What I've heard of Doc's character is it's an exaggerated version of himself The reason why this dude is so confident that everyone is this way is because as I've said before we judge other people By ourselves we consider ourselves to be the standard unless proven otherwise It's like that old thing Whether you sit down to wipe your ass or stand up Everyone has that moment when they find out that some people do the other and they're like really people do that What because you've you've never been in a situation where you could be given evidence that people do something differently So you just assume everyone else is the same and so this guy probably a very fake Motherfucker and such is what he assumes about everyone else to clarify I'm not saying live streamers act identically on stream to how they act off stream I'm just saying that it would be extremely taxing to maintain a huge degree of separation Between who you are as a person and how you act on stream You can't edit the content like you can for you to so maintaining effectively an entirely separate personality for half a dozen hours a day Is more than what I believe the average person is capable live streaming is entertainment So surely people act differently to be entertaining, but the core of the person themselves will be there |
| 06. June 2022 | Commentary videos vs reaction videos | Commentary videos versus reaction videos. When it comes to all that historical stuff or the music reactions and stuff, like at the end of the day you can just make a commentary video right? The reaction pass does not improve the content quality or rather it doesn't improve your commentary. It makes it worse. Your first time reaction to something is not the best commentary that you could possibly conceive of. There's little excuse ever to do a reaction as opposed to making a commentary video which is edited and done after the fact after you've seen the entire thing and maybe write something down to gather your thoughts and stuff and only using parts of the content that you're responding to that actually matter for your commentary. Like people point to when I watched Dream's response to his drama, what I did for that video is I watched his video all the way through, then I read the document that he released, then I came back, watched it again, recorded myself watching it and then I would stop the video and say things in response to particular things he said but the stuff that ended up on YouTube was just the parts where I spoke and the stuff that he said that was required for my commentary to make sense. Like that is the laziest form of commentary video that you can make and it's still orders of magnitude higher quality than a reaction video because I already knew what was in the video. I already knew what I wanted to say and I edited it just to include the parts that actually matter. Tom Scott made a video where he responded to his own footage from 2012 and he said that was originally a reaction video but I immediately thought of 50 other things I wanted to say and scrapped it. Yeah. I mean I've thought that way myself with my rambles. A ramble will come out and on some occasions I'll scrap it because I'm like this just it just doesn't communicate the way that I want it to communicate. I could communicate these ideas 10,000 times better if I just wrote a script about it. But I actually don't have the time for a lot of stuff and of course my rambles are usually on topics that aren't as weighty or meaningful or whatever. Like my rambles are meant to be filler content, you know. I think as long as someone is providing additional value to the clip they are reacting to them. If it's a clip sure. Yeah the the Cold Or Crew guys I actually reference in the ramble that's going up today. But they don't use the entirety of the original products, you know. It doesn't matter how much you add to something if you're creating a market substitute for the thing that you're reacting to then it's not acceptable, you know. Because an ethical use of another person's content isn't about what you add but it's about what you leave behind, you know. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 13. March 2022 | Commenters who come from drama channels. | Commenters who come from drama channels. So I, as you guys know, I read a lot of comments. Actually, I would argue I read most comments that happen on my channel because I use the back end of my comments like as a social media basically. And the last couple of weeks listening to the dumbest fucking shit, these weird-ass fucking narratives that have come from people like h3h3 and mskiff and all these fucks, it's just been so funny because I'm, I'm just a dude and I do work very hard and so people have to invent these narratives to attribute malice or deception or even drug addiction in order to insult me. And it's funny, but also very sad that these people being influenced by terrible people, there's nothing I can do about it. Because you can explain to them all day that they're wrong, but they just don't care. |
| 05. March 2022 | Commenting on my channel actually has a purpose. | True. Commenting on my channel actually has a purpose. I have seen people be surprised when I reply to a comment left on very old videos. Remember comments are shown to me chronologically for my entire channel, meaning regardless of how old the video, your comments will still be shown to me in my feed at the time you make it. The video could be 2 years old but your comment will say written 1 minute ago when it appears for me. So if you watch an old video and have something on your mind, feel free to comment it and I might see it. I do browse recent comments in between doing things. So I wrote this for 2 reasons. One, it does suck when people want to say something on an old video to me and they don't realise I'm going to see it. But also two, it'll increase my comment engagement. So this button, well at least normally it does, I'm in the wrong channel right now. I can't change channel. Yeah basically this button opens up the comments for the entire channel and I open it like whenever I'm in between stuff and actually read comments. So I'm not lying when I say that because I want people to comment more so I can read more comments. But there's a business reason to do that as well which is to increase comment engagement. Yeah I'll show it to you in a sec but I um, yeah so when I click this button here it opens and first it shows me the member comments and then I go okay I've read the member comments and then I click that off and then I read all the comments. Bench, Michael and witness protection. And so you can see this is like a very old video here. So like this is pacifist, incredible video and editing, respect for the amount of time you put into it. Oh man. See I like these comments. Lol he van past all the painkillers. But the painkillers suck, don't they? So the more people who know this, the more people will actually comment on my old videos and know that I'll actually see it you know. I wanted to make sure that people didn't think there was a 100% chance that I'm going to see their comment because there isn't. But there's a chance you know. |
| 03. June 2022 | Comments from people who haven’t seen the video | Comments from people who haven't seen the video. I like how my series has turned out. What I don't like is that no one's gonna watch it. It was never about the creators themselves. Once you've reached the point where you're justifying ripping off thousands of people for profit, there's no reaching a person like that, right? But the viewers you can reach. It'll never not be annoying when people leave comments and you look at the comments and go, you didn't watch the video. Sometimes you can look at the comment and go, I know exactly where you stopped. You stopped at the five minute mark. If you'd gone like three more minutes, that question wouldn't have been answered or you couldn't make that criticism. And it's, uh, it's painful. The H3 one was painful to listen to, though. While obviously I found it very disagreeable, Ludwig's was the only one that wasn't painful to listen to. Because, I mean, as Carl pointed out, he was of the people that I responded to. He was the one person who at least kind of got it, you know? It'll always be annoying when people speak confidently about things that they know nothing about. And for those who are unaware of Hassan, that's kind of his bread and butter. |
| 22. March 2021 | Comments made entirely to get a response | Worst blue you could have picked. I think all blues are pretty good. Blue is my favorite color. You know, I do occasionally catch comments in chat that I'm 100% sure are only made specifically, uh, to grab my attention. As in they're way overly aggressive and clearly untrue. Well, who was that person, a content creator, who was talking about how on his Instagram, he'd occasionally catch these comments where a person's like, Oh, you fucking suck. Your songs are garbage. You're terrible. And then just out of whim, he'd be like, Amen. You know, I do my best. And then the person would respond like, Oh my God, I love you. I, you know, I didn't mean any of that stuff. That's so cool. You talked me into, you know, and I think it's some of the comments I see in chat. I like that sometimes. Like a person there was, I saw a comment where a person's like, um, you're fucking scum. You're only doing it for the money. And I'm like, either that person is just saying that as a shitty joke. Or it's just saying that to get my attention or whatever, you know? Oh, was it Eric Andre? Yeah. Yeah. I think on Hot Ones it was Eric Andre saying that stuff. Yeah, true. True. Why would you're only doing it for the money being insult? Either they're calling me insincere in that I do claim to be doing this for more than simply the financial incentive. And back to what the person was saying before. It's, uh, the person would be calling me insincere and effectively a fake where I'm faking enthusiasm and, uh, and a preference and a liking for what I'm doing when in actual reality that it's just for the money, which is a hundred percent not true. Considering how many, many, many years I did this exact same thing to effectively know people with no level of success. The Mizkif and 4Connor scandal. So for those unaware, Mizkif is a big dude on Twitter. |
| 27. July 2021 | Comments that suggest I don’t edit Pacifist | Comments that suggest that I don't edit pacifist. You have no idea how much it savagely hurts me when people suggest that someone else other than me edits pacifist. Yep, and I could cuts me so down deep into my core and It makes me feel want to go back to the days where I did literally everything myself as a matter of fact it It hurts when the editors aren't giving credit for the stuff they do, but I mean Just pass this is like my child dude. It's like my child I've I enslaved for it and just you know |
| 27. July 2021 | Comments that suggest I don’t edit pacifist | Comments that suggest that I don't edit pacifist. You have no idea how much it savagely hurts me when people suggest that someone else other than me edits pacifist. Yep, and I could cuts me so down deep into my core and It makes me feel want to go back to the days where I did literally everything myself as a matter of fact it It hurts when the editors aren't giving credit for the stuff they do, but I mean Just pass this is like my child dude. It's like my child I've I enslaved for it and just you know |
| 04. May 2021 | Commissioning a memento of GTA V | Commissioning a memento of GTA 5 Legit though, I'm not a person who wants stuff on my walls and stuff like I don't like I'm not a big decor kind of guy but I kind of do want to have like I know commissions like an amazing picture of Michael Franklin and Trevor like just to hang up on a wall somewhere saying I'm sure I could find something But I kind of was like original this game just makes me feel good You know that comfortable pair of gloves and even when I stop playing it I want something just to look at it and go I remember all that mental scarring and suffering I had in that game It's good times I think it's a bit of a love-hate kind of thing |
| 29. March 2021 | Communication is hard - the downside of niche language. | Communication is hard. The downsides of niche language. The only person who screws me is RNG. In before half the comments on YouTube are like, WHAT'S RNG?! I don't know what RNG is. Why is RNG screwing my dear boy, DarkFype? I don't understand. RNG is random number generation. It's just a way of saying luck in games, okay? We have the discussion though sometimes why RNG took off as a word instead of luck in speedrunning. You can speculate, but I mean, I think RNG is actually better than luck for describing what's going on. Because luck can have like, you know, different connotations, can have mystical connotations in the way people use the word, luck in video games can reference a stat or skill that like increases your damage or you know, your rogues use it and stuff. RNG doesn't exist as a term in any video game. It's in speedrunning and gaming, it's unambiguous exactly what you're referring to. Where luck isn't necessarily that way. But it is, what's the word, esoteric language. People who aren't in the community or the group or in the know of speedrunning aren't necessarily going to know what you're talking about though. So RNG is more specific and more correct because you're referring to the randomness in the game that is not truly random, it's a number generator, you know what I'm saying? But so you're being more specific, but you're sacrificing a larger amount of people being able to understand you to any degree, right? It's the way it is with a lot of terms really. You can either use a lesser known term that specifically communicates exactly what you want to say or you can use a more broad term, less precise term, that more people understand. It's like, what does trepidatious mean? Because it doesn't actually mean fear, but people use it to mean fear. And we've heard this discussion before, or trepidation. A feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen. See, so it only references something that may happen, right? So you could say trepidation and a person may just take it to mean fear when you're actually meaning a feeling of fearfulness about something that may happen. Or you can say fear and not communicate that extra bit of information. It's weird the kind of words that end up being used as synonyms that when you actually look up what they actually meant to mean, they aren't synonyms. It's like envy and jealousy. Jealousy is like when you feel losing something, you're jealously guarding something from others. And envy is when you want something that someone else has. So jealousy relates to what you have and prevents the others from taking it. And envy is wanting something from someone else. If I'm using that correctly, like even right now I'm not 100% sure, but it's kind of... Yeah. And I learned this because there was a clip of Asmongold saying he was jealous of Ludwig. And Ludwig, being an English major, was like, actually, Asmongold, it's envy, you're envious of me. Jealousy would be if you're worried someone's going to take something that you already have, not that you want something that someone else has. Like in the way that Ludwig sometimes does his I am better than you all kind of joking attitude. Because it is a joke, right? It's funny because Ludwig is in a position where he's had that kind of joke, like I am the best there's ever been thing for so long, that he's actually become one of the largest content creators ever. So in some way he is better than others. And so if you don't know that he's putting on an act and you just like joined his stream when he's doing one of his little bits where he's like, I am the best there's ever been blah blah blah, you might get a false impression. As in like the clip that I'm referencing there, he's joking around. He's not like savaging Asmongold for not knowing the definition of a word. Because on the stream all the time, Ludwig doesn't know the definitions of words. Because we all don't. I don't know what I'm rambling about anymore. I'm sorry. |
| 16. February 2021 | Community posts are broken and i was using them for a year | Really? YouTube community posts are broken and I was using them for a year. The spiffing Brit released a video where he was like, guys, community posts are broken. If a user comments, likes, and answers in a poll, YouTube considers that to be three interactions. And so YouTube's like, oh my god, this post must be amazing! And so they thought at literally everyone, as in like, you can have a hundred thousand subscribers, and for some reason, having a poll or whatever there will make it go to, you know, 300,000 people or whatever. And considering, like, way more than that, as in like, you have 300,000 votes, and obviously only a small portion of people that get served the poll or whatever will actually answer, so it's going to millions of people potentially. But the spiffing Brit also pointed out that you can put a bunch of random shit in the community post, like a bunch of the top search terms or whatever, and it makes it even more like crack to the algorithm. So you can just make random community posts being like, hey yo, what up, it's me, it's your boy, do you know who your boy is or whatever, and they do a poll. And the thing is, if a person likes comments, answers a poll or whatever, YouTube will go, oh, well that person liked the poll of that channel, so maybe they'll like the content from that channel as well. So your content is more likely to be recommended to people answering these community posts. It's funny though, this video started out with the spiffing Brit going, the vast majority of content creators don't use community posts, like they were terrible when they first came out, so everyone just doesn't bother with them. And I'm sitting here like, that ain't me, that ain't me, sport. I've been using community posts for over a year. I wonder if that's helped me in the algorithm, because I have noticed over time people write comments like, who the fuck are you? Why am I getting recommended your community posts? I don't even know who you are. And so I guess my community posts that I've been doing to say that I'm live on Twitch, where I put like a little cute animal or whatever, especially maybe because of the cute animal that people like, oh, there's a cute little dog and they press like whatever, and that makes it more likely that the community posts get served to other people. This wasn't some tactical thing that I was doing to try to get new viewers in. It was a tactical thing trying to get people to follow my Twitch. But over the course of the year, I've probably picked up some new viewers because I was using community posts and apparently no one else was. Well, not no one else, but like not a lot of people were. I saw someone made a community post and they hadn't made one in six months. And they're like, oh, you know, I know viewers don't like if you spam community posts. And I'm like, who's hitting on community posts? I love them. For the year that I've used them have always gotten me the most traction of any posting on any social media, Twitter, Twitch, Instagram, whatever it is. Community posts will always beat it in terms of interaction, in terms of likes and shit. It's just one of those things where sometimes success in life, doing something and then it just coincidentally being the thing that you should have been doing all along. It's like Moodaha, some ordinary gamer, made a video where he was like, I had this bet with my friends or whatever and I lost the bet. And the consequence was that I had to buy some shitty stock. And the shitty stock that I bought was the GameStop stock. And that was like a year ago and I bought it for $4. And now because of this thing that's happening on Reddit, I've made heaps and heaps of money because it's now worth like $150 a share. So much of success is that doing things for whatever reason, whatever your motivation, and then just coincidentally being conducive to success later on. Because no one can predict the future. And sometimes doing the, for whatever reason, doing the non-obvious thing can be the most beneficial if it turns out to provide benefit because no one else did it. It's like look at Pokemon cards from the 90s when no one had any idea that Pokemon cards would be worth a bazillion dollars 20 years from then or whatever. But if you were one of the people who just for whatever reason just left a case of booster packs or whatever in your house or you left me, or you were some weird nut who cared about cleanliness or whatever. And so you put everything in sleeves and you're like, oh I love these characters, I'm going to put them on my wall. If you happen to do that, you now just make yourself millions of dollars or whatever. Going against the grain is not always sensible, but sometimes, just coincidentally, if you go against the grain it can really help you out in the future, if you're lucky. |
| 01. June 2022 | Companies go overboard with claiming music | Bored with claiming music on YouTube. Yeah, music is one of the things that gets the most claimed on YouTube. Honestly though, I think they overdo it. As in, I think they should have a similar policy to TikTok. You can use like 30 seconds of a song on TikTok and no one cares. That stuff is all licensed, of course. But it's, you know, the music producers clearly understand the value of having snippets of songs. Often I get jebated by songs on TikTok and I think this song's a fucking banger and I go listen to it on Spotify. And it's just that 30 seconds, it's very good. I'm like, oh, fuck you. The difference between YouTube and TikTok is that YouTube makes a fuck ton of money. Actually, I suppose TikTok makes a lot of money too. It's just that the creators don't get a lot of that money, but YouTube is still making way more money. Let's be real. And so either it's just a carry over from back in the day where music companies didn't realize the value that could be had by having their music promoted a lot more on YouTube. Or the music companies are like, yeah, sure, we get a little bit more promotion. But at the end of the day, the money that we get from content ID, those billions of dollars is worth more. TikTok has the license for those songs and some of those songs are uploaded by the creators. Yeah, I'm not sure to what degree TikTok has a detection system to whether a song is copyrighted and they don't have a license for it, I'm not sure. Me. |
| 03. September 2021 | Companies moving for better government policies. | Companies moving for better government policies. If you don't allow companies to perform tax evasion, the argument is that they will leave the country altogether. But that can't be true, or else why not just leave anyway? Like if leaving a country didn't have any downside, why wouldn't you just leave in the first place? Clearly, different countries have different forms of policies and taxes to try to attract different forms of business. But it's not possible to simply like, get up and move yourself to another country without detriment. There's a reason why Amazon came to Australia and opened up businesses in Australia. It is certainly true that if your tax policy was too aggressive, then tolerating it would not be worth it for the company. And leaving would be the only recourse. But there has to be a balance that can be struck there. Well, leaving country costs money. And you need buildings and stuff elsewhere. Not only that Woodeater, but it can also prevent you from being able to be competitive with your competitors. The further away your manufacturing plants are and stuff, the more travel is necessary. The higher your costs of distributing your goods, the longer it takes for your goods to get to your consumer. It can be the case that some countries have better forms of different products. And you want to be close to the source of the goods you need to produce your products and stuff. The further you are away, the more travel, transport costs there are in getting different parts and stuff. All I'm saying is it's definitely possible for some companies to move to gain access to better or more advantageous government policies. But not all of them can. |
| 23. December 2019 | Companies resurrecting dead actors for movies | start recommending me better stuff. Companies resurrecting dead actors for movies. You guys heard of this thing where they're making a new, what is it, Vietnam movie and they want to use an actor who died in like the 60s, making a CGI or whatever and have someone else voice the character? That's insane. And then like, didn't the director say something like, oh, you know, we didn't intend for this to be a controversy. We're not doing it just for the promotion. I'm actually surprised so many people care. And it's just like, there's no way. There's no way that they made that decision and didn't think, oh, man, this is going to get some publicity for the fucking movie. And the family of the dude who like, this was eons ago. So none of the people who were live probably ever met the dude. And they're like, oh, sweet, time to make a fucking buck off our dead relative. It's like movie studios are so afraid to take risks that they're remaking like all these old movies. They continue to make sequel after sequel after sequel. But now they've gone even further. They don't want to take risks on new actors. So they're literally basically resurrecting the dead to use already established actors with an already established fan base of some kind. God damn, dude. Like, who could have a look that is so unique that there isn't a single person, seven billion people who looks like the dude? Come on now. |
| 12. August 2020 | Company claimed my most viewed video, I may sue | company falsely claimed my most popular video I may sue them my 100% run on YouTube is my most viewed video ever 1.3 million views someone claims a small portion of it three hours in calling my video a cover of a instrumental song that I know for a fact they don't have the rights to I was so angered that I submitted a dispute and they rejected my dispute as they tend to do I was so angered that I sent them another dispute this means that if they reject that dispute the video will be taken down and I'll get a strike on my channel but I was just that pissed I said to them in the message I know the rights holders for this song you are not them I will sue you I will legitimately go to court and sue you for damages if you reject this dispute and I will if they reject the dispute and my video is taking I will fucking sue them because they don't own the rights to the song chillhop is doing because they own the rights they own the masters they're doing their thing on their end talking to the people who are who have filed this false claim but who knows what's gonna happen I've never been in this situation before where I filed the second dispute yes so we'll see what happens but uh when have anyone mentions that 100% run that's all I think about like the worry that I'm gonna get a strike on my channel and I have to go to fucking court or whatever and fuck these people dude I know I've talked about this before but there there are companies out there who pay people like cents an hour to watch all the most popular YouTube videos to find anything that they have any possibility of claiming and then they claim it and the people get like a commission for everything that they claim that's why this wasn't this wasn't detected it was manually claimed a 10-hour video was manually claimed like three hours in for a minute of background |
| 12. August 2020 | Company claimed my most viewed video, i may sue | company falsely claimed my most popular video I may sue them my 100% run on YouTube is my most viewed video ever 1.3 million views someone claims a small portion of it three hours in calling my video a cover of a instrumental song that I know for a fact they don't have the rights to I was so angered that I submitted a dispute and they rejected my dispute as they tend to do I was so angered that I sent them another dispute this means that if they reject that dispute the video will be taken down and I'll get a strike on my channel but I was just that pissed I said to them in the message I know the rights holders for this song you are not them I will sue you I will legitimately go to court and sue you for damages if you reject this dispute and I will if they reject the dispute and my video is taking I will fucking sue them because they don't own the rights to the song chillhop is doing because they own the rights they own the masters they're doing their thing on their end talking to the people who are who have filed this false claim but who knows what's gonna happen I've never been in this situation before where I filed the second dispute yes so we'll see what happens but uh when have anyone mentions that 100% run that's all I think about like the worry that I'm gonna get a strike on my channel and I have to go to fucking court or whatever and fuck these people dude I know I've talked about this before but there there are companies out there who pay people like cents an hour to watch all the most popular YouTube videos to find anything that they have any possibility of claiming and then they claim it and the people get like a commission for everything that they claim that's why this wasn't this wasn't detected it was manually claimed a 10-hour video was manually claimed like three hours in for a minute of background |
| 28. July 2020 | Comparing Watch Dogs, GTA IV, GTA V driving | Comparing the drive in between Watch Dogs GTA 4 and GTA 5. How do I feel about the driving? This game is nice. It's not, it's in between GTA 4 and GTA 5. As in it feels realistic, but also is not like crazy stupid. As in like if I graze a car, you know, I'm still fine, I'm still progressing. Like I clip into a car, I don't spin around 360 like you do in GTA 5. In GTA 5 you sneeze and you're in another stratosphere. You know, it's always been dumb. It's like none of the cars have weight to them. But in GTA 4 it's like you touch something and it takes you 10,000 years to get one kilometer worth of speed back. It's... Like this, there's some weight to your movement. But it's not like GTA 4 where you're like breaking for 10,000 years to end up at the point where you want to end up at. Like breaking actually does something in this game. Turning actually does something in this game. It's a happy middle. It also might seem better because a lot more stuff is destructible in this game. Like you can destroy trees and whatnot. There are some indestructible things, but like... Like far more is destructible in this game than GTA 5. And GTA 5 is not even consistent what things are destructible. In terms of the story, I don't think this game is as fun as GTA 5 or funny. It's very serious, you know? |
| 18. April 2021 | Comparing different No Damage runs | Comparing different no damage runs. Have I seen Smallon do a no damage run of Pokemon Platinum? No. That wouldn't be that difficult, right? I mean, very time consuming, but maybe he cared about time. I mean, cause aren't there Pokemon that where like their first move is always a non-lethal attack? So you could just hypothetically just level yourself to the highest level or whatever, and then just one shot everything. And you can use Quick Attack and stuff, it'll always go first. I mean, it's really difficult, don't get me wrong, and time consuming, but because Pokemon has so many tools, like it's definitely a doable thing. RNG is a monster in Pokemon, certainly, true. It's just in general, the no damage runs, no hit runs that are insurmountable are very difficult. Those where you have the fewest options. But in Pokemon, because you have all the time in the world to prepare yourself for anything that's coming up, and you know the range of things that can occur, it's something that you could plan out. Understand, still take skill, still take a lot of knowledge, but I would certainly trade places with him in terms of no damage runs. It frustrates me to no ends how limited my options are in a lot of things in this run. The view count, does Smolland not get more viewers than me? Surely he does. Wait, am I even following Smolland on Twitch? I am, right? I was about to say, I don't think I've seen him online. I'm Nos? Oh. Okay, I'll fix that later. I swear to you, I followed him at some point. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. They cost you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 18. April 2021 | Comparing different no damage runs | Comparing different no damage runs. Have I seen Smallon do a no damage run of Pokemon Platinum? No. That wouldn't be that difficult, right? I mean, very time consuming, but maybe he cared about time. I mean, cause aren't there Pokemon that where like their first move is always a non-lethal attack? So you could just hypothetically just level yourself to the highest level or whatever, and then just one shot everything. And you can use Quick Attack and stuff, it'll always go first. I mean, it's really difficult, don't get me wrong, and time consuming, but because Pokemon has so many tools, like it's definitely a doable thing. RNG is a monster in Pokemon, certainly, true. It's just in general, the no damage runs, no hit runs that are insurmountable are very difficult. Those where you have the fewest options. But in Pokemon, because you have all the time in the world to prepare yourself for anything that's coming up, and you know the range of things that can occur, it's something that you could plan out. Understand, still take skill, still take a lot of knowledge, but I would certainly trade places with him in terms of no damage runs. It frustrates me to no ends how limited my options are in a lot of things in this run. The view count, does Smolland not get more viewers than me? Surely he does. Wait, am I even following Smolland on Twitch? I am, right? I was about to say, I don't think I've seen him online. I'm Nos? Oh. Okay, I'll fix that later. I swear to you, I followed him at some point. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. They cost you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 20. July 2022 | Comparing rdr online and gta online | Red Dead Redemption Online and GTA Online. TGG pointed something out on Twitter comparing Red Dead Online to GTA Online. And GTA Online, consistently popular, Red Dead Online, simply not. And the same with GTA 5 and Red Dead Online. Certainly to some degree you could argue this is because Rockstar didn't advertise as much. They didn't put out as much interesting content and stuff. At the same time, clearly Red Dead Online was nowhere near as popular as GTA Online. As I've tried to argue, I just don't think it was as good as a theme for an online game. It's just too slow. It's not the action packed explosions tech stuff you've got on GTA Online. For Red Dead 2, the main thing was the story. And you had the characters who were so memorable and whatnot. Going to the online version where you have a silent protagonist, it just doesn't work as well. Totally understandable, but I'm sorry for the people who really wanted Red Dead Online to be supported. Like I know the professional really loved it. |
| 19. April 2021 | Comparing yourself with people better than you. | Comparing yourself with people better than you. You watch my streams while you write scripts? Sounds like a tough thing to do. I have trouble watching stuff while writing and whatnot. Helps with creative process? I get, maybe for some people I'm not sure. I've never looked into like the actual, what's the word, efficacy of listening to stuff while studying or writing or whatever. My voice is good for sleep. I hate when I'm speaking and I suddenly become lost for words or I pause or whatever. Like, editing the rambles is a bit of an annoying thing because of the way that I speak and I sometimes stop and start, stop and start. Like you have these stretches where like I will just fluently communicate ideas for like two, three minutes without barely a pause except to breathe. And you have these other situations where I'm pausing every couple of words. Like, I guess, I suppose. And it, you can tell the difference so much. And so when people tell me I'm eloquent and shit, all I can think back to is looking over the footage and being like, why couldn't I just fling out those ideas fast? You know? It doesn't matter how good or bad you are at anything, right? You're always comparing yourself to the people who are better than you, you know? I know people who can fire off ideas so much faster than me, speak so much better than me, who are far more learned than I am, who have spent more time researching everything under the sun. And so I always feel inadequate, irrespective of how much people compliment me on things, you know? I do, of course, give myself a little bit of credit and say that often, because I'm playing a game, it can be distracting. I do remember reading research that, because they've done research about how different tasks impact your proficiency at other tasks. As in, like, if you're juggling while trying to lift your feet up and down in a rhythm, you're trying to memorize certain words and certain colors or something. Like, they've done a lot of tests, like, does doing this task impact your proficiency at this task? And not all tasks impact other tasks in the same way. As in, like, some tasks in your brain have an overlap and others don't. I would tell you the thing, I would tell you more specifically, but it's been like half a decade since I've had to read any of this shit, you know? I mean, you'd intuitively understand that different tasks don't inhibit your proficiency at other tasks as much as other ones, you know? |
| 01. June 2020 | Competitive pvp games | Have you ever would you ever play a competitive PvP game on or off stream for example overwatch? No, not particularly interested I have played PvP in different games, but it's not something that's Driven me, you know, I don't think my audience would be particularly interested in me doing it You have to become you have to do it a lot Very repetitive grinding to get really good at PvP and it just doesn't seem like something I would ever really want to do |
| 17. September 2021 | Comtemplating Doing A Debate Stream | contemplating doing a debate stream Do I do debates? I've always wanted to set aside a day where I um Just talk to people in chat and have them debate me on different topics But I'm not sure it's the most productive use of my time. As a streamer, you of course have a lot of leeway over what you can do But you always try and balance your own enjoyment with the enjoyment of people who'd be watching If like if you'll enjoy two different things eight out of ten, but one of those things chat will enjoy eight out of ten And the other four out of ten, you know, you pick the one that both parties would enjoy, you know |
| 24. January 2022 | Confidence in one’s own beliefs as superior | Confidence in one's own beliefs as superior. Long ago I accepted the degree to which a person considers you educated or intelligent depends on how much you agree with them. Certainly that's not absolute. Some people will be charitable and grant a person's intelligence irrespective of the degree in which they agree with you. But we believe we're right about the things that we believe. That's why we believe them. And if a person believes too many things not similar, that aren't the same as us, then we just assume they must be stupid. I ask why have they not reached the same conclusions that we have. I remember JonTron once said in his debate with Destiny, well obviously you can't have all the facts because if you had all the facts you would agree with me. This sort of arrogance where people are so confident about their own views, it's terrible because we're all very flawed. You always got to keep on your toes, questioning your own beliefs, your biases, what have you. Because ultimately humans are very psychologically flawed and I try never to forget that. Whenever I see something on Reddit that I think is very appealing, I immediately go and search by controversial. One of the things that I think on YouTube I wish they had is a search by controversial feature. Because there's always the dissenting opinion and it's always there being downvoted and you want to hear it. But no one's perfect, obviously I don't have the time to do this for literally everything that I've ever heard ever. And there's not always a way to immediately get the dissenting opinion, it's not even always valuable to get the dissenting opinion. Because this all takes time. You can't spend your life spending days after days researching things that have no value to you personally. You can't learn everything, you just got to learn what's practical. I'm rambling, I'm sorry. |
| 23. November 2020 | Considerations and motivations for getting a new car | new car. Would I get a Tesla? I don't drive enough to bother getting any kind of luxury car. Spending a lot of money on a car, it's always seemed to me to be like just an amazingly it's a luxury expense. Like you're trying to impress people because it just appreciates in value every year and you pay so much money and insurance and blah blah blah. I got no one to impress by having a nice car. I just need something that can get me from A to B. My car looks so shit right now that I have thought of like if I ever got back into online dating or something after Corona or whatever, I might buy myself something a little bit nicer because I bought my car in 2006. So I've had it for like 15 years. I'm probably fine to get an upgrade at that point. Having a car this long could be said to be at least a little bit unsafe. Like certainly I get it serviced and maintenance or whatever. But like after that long, I could justify some kind of an improvement just so it doesn't look like shit. But I wouldn't spend a ridiculous amount of money buying a car that I'd barely use. You know, I'd be looking for something that's fuel efficient and doesn't cost me a lot in terms of maintenance or insurance or what have you. That still looks good enough that if a person saw me driving it, they wouldn't be like, wow, this guy's homeless. And then people look at my facial hair and beard and think that already. So I don't need to give them more reason to think that. What's that car I'm not meant to get? A Chevy. So I won't get a Chevy. That's the one thing the internet has taught me. Chevy bad. Are Supras good? Is that just a meme or are old Supras are good? If I do get a car though, I'll be sure to make sure it has good features for holding a phone or whatever so that I can stream. If it doesn't improve my stream, I'm not super interested in it. Get a bike so I can be like those YouTubers back in what year was it? Was it 2010? For a while, there was all these people who would like they'd be going to work on their motorbike. And so they'd have like a camera on front of the motorbike and they just talk about stuff. It's like my rambles that instead of while being playing video games, it's why going while going to work. What car do I drive now? A Lancer ES 2004. I bought it secondhand in 2006. I know for how much was it? $13,000? Used all of my money that I had made working at Kohl's to get it. I haven't really maintained it on the outside. Like the paint is flickering off and all that jazz. Like you wouldn't look at and think it's a new looking car. It gets serviced every six months or whatever. There was one point where the dude was like, are you sure you don't just want to get a new car? He's like, it needs like 2500 bucks worth of repairs. That was a few years ago and I was like, ah, fuck it. I'll just keep the car. I like the way my car feels. I'm sure it's not the smoothest experience in the world. And maybe like another car would be more comfortable. But I'm used to the way my car feels. I've driven my mother's kind of new car with the modern conveniences and stuff. And hers was the automatic. I just didn't like the feel and like how high I felt off the ground and stuff. What motivates me to talk about politics on. |
| 15. November 2021 | Considering the accessibility of jokes. | Considering the accessibility of jokes. Sometimes I wonder how many of the jokes that I do, how many of those are universal, how many are worldwide. I keep that in mind when I'm making videos these days, when I think to myself, is there some way that I could phrase this that more people will understand it, regardless of their background. Because obviously I'm not blaming people for not knowing obscure shit, or not knowing every English word or whatever, it's something you have to think about in comedy I guess. I wonder how much actual comedians think about that. |
| 11. June 2021 | Considering the longevity of jokes | Considering the longevity of jokes. I wonder how many people write comedies with the, with some, some thoughts of how the comedy will be like perceived 10 years from now, right? Do some people not put in jokes because they're like, oh, that joke will not be relevant in like two weeks, whatever. Let's keep that away, you know, avoiding referential humor. Sometimes when I make past this episode and I write a joke, I'm like, oh, this is really funny, but like in a year, this is going to make no sense. I usually put them in there. I'm more interested in having people in the moment find it funny rather than thinking of 10 years in the future. Maybe it's just because I can't think of better jokes, but. |
| 12. September 2021 | Conspiracy theories | Conspiracy theories. What's my opinion on conspiracy theories? There's a reason why, with conspiracy theories, it's usually all or nothing. A person who believes one conspiracy theory usually believes all of them. It's a manifestation of a certain type of brain that's studied in psychology a bit. But I always say, just because conspiracies exist, it doesn't mean that all claims of conspiracy are equally justifiable. It's the same fallacy where someone says something like, oh, you know, the media lies. It's like, just because someone has written something as a part of the media that was false or was a lie, doesn't mean that everything ever written by the media is equally likely to be a lie. It's an important distinction to make. |
| 07. December 2019 | Conspiracy theories about me | Conspiracy theories about me. Um, there's this dude who for the past four years, um, has been... It's gotta be by four years. It might even be... Oh, what's his name? Uh, Kane. It might still be Kane after all these years. He pops up his head every once in a while and says that, like, I'm having an affair with people and that I viewbot and I'm cheating and everything's hacked and I'm stealing content and I'm hiding strats. Basically everything that you could ever possibly imagine. And the reason why you can tell us the same guy every time is because he mustn't speak English as his first language or he's not right in the head because he never writes correctly. See, it's popped up on the... GTA Discord. It's popped up on the, um... speedrun.com forums. It's popped up now on my subreddit. I address it because it's not a concern to me. My reputation is fucking impeccable. And at my current moment, like, it's very hard to imagine having 150k followers on Twitch and viewbotting yourself to 500 viewers. Like, I used to have 1500 viewers on, uh, when I was doing 100%. So it'd be very weird to viewbot myself to minus a thousand viewers. If I cheat in the game, it'd be very weird to cheat myself into second place. After I held world records for so long. Like, it's just so dumb. That, uh, it's laughable and humorous, but still annoying because it just comes up every once in a while. |
| 14. May 2020 | Conspiracy theorists | Why do you think flat-earthers are like they are? Do you think they were raised like that or not very smart? It's a mode of thinking that leads to the conspiratorial thinking. So, a person who believes one conspiracy more than likely believes them all. It's very rare to find a person who only is an anti-vaxxer and in every other aspect of their lives is just a sane human being. It's like Trump, very long time, anti-vaxxer, but he was also, you know, anti-climate change. He was also a birther and there was like, you know, dozens of conspiracy theory things throughout his Twitter in his years. Because it's a mode of thinking that leads to that. It's not, you know, just, I found the evidence, man, I got the secret stuff. It's not, it's just a type of brain physiology that leads to that. I don't think it's a matter of being raised in that way. At least I have not seen any evidence of that being the case, but I'm not an expert in conspiracy theorists. |
| 27. January 2021 | Constantly worrying how stream will look on youtube | my stream footage will look when it's made into a YouTube video. Yes, I've woken up the last two days with a bit of a scratchy throat. We're having to drink water like the moment I've woken up and I sound weird in my ears. I'm hoping it's not so bad that when I edit this or whatever I'll be like, oh my god man. See it's poisoning my brain. All I'm thinking about is how is this going to look in the video? I never had these thoughts before I got this close to succeeding. Now that I know I'm like a moment from success all the preoccupies in my mind is, oh man, how is this going to look in the YouTube video? Is this going to be the YouTube video? Oh, if I say this it's going to look weird in the YouTube video. I fucking hate it. It's distracting. Exactly. I've got to just not worry about it in play. Exactly. I have changed my compressor a little bit making it activate earlier than it used to because I would peak sometimes or I'm too much in the limiter. |
| 10. January 2021 | Constera . | KONSTERRA So this channel, KONSTERRA, right? I've heard some of these songs over the years. Primarily I think I had Winnable in my playlist for ages. And you may have heard it, Sup Yo, It's Me, It's Your Boy, As Mengolt, that song. He's released two that I hadn't heard before. That's What's Up, Mitch Jones and So To Pop and You're So. And I've listened to these songs now like 15 times over the last four days. I don't know what it is. I just really love how catchy they are. And the editing is amazing. He's only got like 40k subs. It's crazy to think that he's got this much attention from all these top content creators. It's still only got 40k subs. I guess maybe because of the... What's said in them, YouTube doesn't like recommending them or something. I'll warn you, the lyrics are kinda crude, but the editing is really funny. I'll just give an example how I just done. I paint myself green, made steam over. I'm fucking rowing a boat, made steam over. I jack off two and tie. I didn't do it again, but made steam over. It's just the weirdest shit. Yeah, I don't know. But certainly, if you know the history of some of the content creators, it's even funnier, right? Because you get some of the references. I didn't know the origin of the meme related to So To Pop and The Shovel. I had heard the reference used the shovel, but I always thought it was a reference to when he played Hitman. He killed all the people with the shovel. But apparently not. Apparently he was playing some horror game like seven years ago. His chat kept telling him to use a shovel. |
| 17. September 2021 | Contemplating Doing A Debate Stream | that guy from WoW who's like, you think you do, but you don't. Having aspirations for the future. So, what's your biggest dream yet to come through? A part of my problem emotionally in life has not really had, having grand goals. Like I've never had aspirations or things I really want to achieve. I've just kind of floated through life until I found streaming and YouTube and Twitch and you know, da da da. I didn't really want anything. I didn't even convince myself I wasn't really deserving of things, which is very depressing. Thinking about those da- |
| 07. May 2021 | Content all big streamers can easily make | Yeah. The content that all big streamers can easily make. There's always those things that are in the meta for streaming that effectively every large streamer can do. Like, Ban Appeal, the reason why you're seeing more of it is because it's something that literally everyone can do. Um, with enough viewers, you know? Not everyone has a hot tub chat. Not everyone can do a hot tub stream. It would've been funny just to have filled my bath with water. I don't know, got myself like... a wetsuit, flippers and a snorkel and just sat in my bath. Or some shit as a meme. But I think that kind of... You gotta do that well, or it comes off as cringe. There's a fine line between acting stupid and it being funny and acting stupid and it being cringe. New meta, guys. People build pillow forts on stream. That would be so fucking weird. I know what my apologies are in my mind. I remember I used to have sleepovers, the birthday parties when you were a kid. And you'd get like sheets and stuff and peg them to stuff. Put your own little fort in different rooms and stuff. One of the saddest parts of growing up is when sliding down your stairs in a mattress is no longer fun because you're too big. As in it takes one second to slide down rather than the normal, like five seconds when you're like a third this size. |
| 01. June 2020 | Content burn out | Have you ever been burned out from creating content? If so, what have you done to mitigate it? And if not, what keeps you going? I'm passionate about what I do and I can always Change what content I'm making to freshen things up. I've never been burnt out from making content as a whole except Back long before I was making gaming content Then I got burnt out because I didn't have any specific ideas for content that I wanted to make I tried to force myself to make content and I would produce garbage and it would make me feel terrible. |
| 14. March 2020 | Content creators bleeping swears | GTA Routes. Content creators bleeping out swear words. I've developed a bit of a pet peeve on YouTube right? These channels, the content creator swears constantly but they censor it. So you watch a video and it has like 15 bleeps in it. Like I can understand if you swear like once or twice or something in a video, like it's it's not something you commonly do, sure, bleep it out. If you're not even going to attempt not to swear, bleep it out. |
| 30. May 2021 | Content creators stealing from other content creators. | content creators stealing from each other my my worst case was a little bit different you know the mad channels do you know them yeah so that was fucked up yeah like it just watched the entire series picks out the things that he likes and then memes on the the fucking title of my facts and glitches series including putting the like the title of my series in their tags and they don't credit me it's like I mean I can't own facts and glitches about GTA 5 but if you're literally sitting down watching the series copying it and then making the title about like the same as my series I mean at least acknowledge that you've done it I mean you're gonna be that blatant but goddamn at the same time like you should just copy each other so like you don't like like Ludwig said the old Yoink and Twist is fine I was about to say yeah the Yoink and Twist is a phrase popularized by Ludwig where you take someone's idea and then put a spin on it to make it your own you are inspired by them you aren't directly ripping off what they did yeah and like the thing is like technically you can't like do anything about like you technically don't own it but it's like you do like you can send my whole fan base on yeah do you know fan base on me and we both get you know sunny so this guy also did I've walked across the entire GTA 5 map like months after you did that like a month after you did that I legit don't care he doesn't own a lot of things you know and a lot of people have done there's a few cases in my case that the people don't like to walk across shit but they literally done it to the extent that they use my exact format like the way I narrate the way they use the same font in my video they even use the same music that I use as soon as you start it just it just means you're doing well honestly like it's just gonna happen like people uploading my shit onto TikTok and taking your credit or whatever and you see the comment sections just like this is Modest Pelican like you just you just like sick like if you're doing well people gonna steal your shit basically I don't even care anymore to be honest if someone's stealing shit I can't be us anymore dude the music thing is so funny every time you know the song you use in your GTA intro is probably like meet Thicc man and it's not for nothing I think the song's called in the background like whenever I use that song people like dude stop copying this song this is Modest Pelican's song you made it I'm like no he didn't like it everyone used this song like what do you mean you're most like I'm with you sonny like you just get a spot where I think you just don't give a fuck I remember yeah I used to I used to get really upset over it like a real like it was like take a baby you start off really caring about video rankings and as the years go on you just like fucking pick it you can't really do much anyway like if you do get into this beef like the amount of times where two people have beefed and one person is actually like truly dropped off the earth isn't a lot it's why I was surprised to hear that happened to the the gentleman dude or whatever I feel bad about I didn't know that wasn't my intention I did not want to like kill his channel but the thing is like I tried messaging him on Twitter and like all that and he just like wouldn't respond so I kind of think that he was still on his way out though you know it wasn't a case it was just a case of he had like a massive surge of views during DLC days I mean it just plateaued like with every other creator like it wasn't per se because we did leave his child didn't look healthy before that but I mean I'll be like if you click on those videos around that time they like to dislike ratio is terrible and it's directly because of that and that wasn't what I wanted to do but you know |
| 14. January 2021 | Content creators who never had a “real” job | Sentiment is very interesting that you've seen the other side. I've heard people criticize These content creators who get really big really early in their lives and they've never worked a normal job They don't they don't understand what that life is like So they come off as really arrogance or whatever they they don't they don't know what it's like to be their audience And so they get big heads big egos But um you and I we've been there doing normal jobs and I think that keeps you grounded It doesn't make you get fully yourself You know, I think it does give you like a quite a lot of perspective about like you like like I sometimes cringe when I hear I mean everyone's got a different journey. So I don't want to like throw shade, but sometimes people will be like oh Like I'm this YouTube jobs the hardest job in the world. I'm like frontlines military doctor maybe Maybe a bit more stressful. I don't know like but it's just like it's not the hardest job in the world Sure You put in some hours and it's like, you know You're subject to public opinion and it's like every job has its moments But when you go into that finance job You realize that a lot of those same stresses are in every job like every jobs got deadlines and pressure and so This this job has a lot of so it's weird because it's almost like while we all have the same job We're all youtubers well constant There's the experience of that job is very different because of the different contents that you content that you make how much you make How you interact with the audience? What kind of feedback you get like the the life of keemstar and me we both technically make content But I guarantee you our what we do in that job in that role is extraordinarily different I can I can honestly say anyone who's successful making a good living in YouTube. It's it's a wonderful job You know, it's it can have its difficulties has a downside has upsides, but it's nowhere close to the most difficult job I wouldn't put it the average person doing this job not top 50% most difficult jobs And it's certainly probably the greatest thing about this job is how rewarding it is in that You get out of it effectively as much as you put in You know you if you want to do more you can do more if you want to do less you can do less When you're in a normal job you you do that nine to five five days a week or whatever And you don't really have that flexibility just to take take it easy one month and go hard on that the next month That that flexibility can really help you offset any Detrimental experiences that you can have with YouTube because you have that flexibility to deal with whatever get it gets thrown at you You know, yeah, absolutely. I |
| 31. August 2020 | Contextualizing Asmongold's react content | Learning about Pokimane through my criticism of Asmongold. My opinion on, someone asked my opinion on Pokimane. I didn't know much about Pokimane before the Asmongold thing. People showed me her as an example of a person who had a separate side channel with like 400,000 subscribers where she was uploading herself reacting to other people's content. As she was rightly criticized for by a lot of those commentary channels, she'd just sit there like on her phone while the video plays and then legitimately upload the entire thing to YouTube. The very thing I was critical of Asmongold for. As I mentioned before, when I made my critique of Asmongold, I thought he was like not unique necessarily for large Twitch streamers, but what he was doing was surely at very least uncommon. But I was shown many examples of other big content creators doing the exact same fucking thing. And Pokimane being one of those examples. The problem. |
| 28. July 2020 | Continued concerns about the current issue | Continued concerns about the current issue. Am I worried about COVID? Of course. It's a highly infectious disease and given that America has its response as being completely awful Where it's it's it's gonna stay as a concern for quite a long time It's it's pretty funny really all these people who are like, oh, you know, we've got to open up the country Don't America now got to open up the country get men save the economy Dad, it's up. These people are so fucking dumb around the world. You know have people saying like oh, we can't accept goods from America Rampant COVID-19 still they've not controlled the situation at all. We don't want to reinfect our population We can't buy goods from America tourism from America. You fucking crazy, man We can't let people fucking come in here from America like what I mean what I mean is COVID-19 was always going to have a negative impact on everyone's economy by people changing their buying habits or where they go Whatever to and what different countries are buying who's buying what goods and whatever right your best chance was always Controlling the virus and removing it from your population That was the only way you were ever gonna save your economy opening too early and all indications Every single one said that America was opening too early it was clearly gonna have a greater negative impact on your economy then simply staying closed and Dealing with the virus but people are fucking dumb us Americans are impatient America is literally the most Individualistic country on the planet and that's why it was fucked from the get-go. It's actually funny the the book I'm listening to a righteous mind talks about individualism and references America in this way and this book was made You know, you know many years before the current situation we're now I'm talking about some of the reasons why you would predict that America would do the worst because So individualistic it's like what a mild inconvenience to help other people fuck that shit where the more community driven Societies like oh, of course. Yes, I'll do this because I'm a part of my community. My community is my identity I am my community dad it up And so help helping someone else is like helping yourself in the sense of the identity in other countries We're different hierarchies and different your groups your nation your whatever They're as important as your own well-being in many respects to these people Of course They were always gonna do better than us now more individualistic countries in handling such a such an outbreak that isn't me dissing individualism necessarily like when I listen to the author talk about The way that these people think in these other countries it it almost boggles my mind in a way Like I've just I just can't think that way because I've grown up with my own experiences in my this own particular environment Right, it's but obviously we were gonna have a harder time at it and you know, what's the next most individualistic country? You know the UK they also had a problem with we're fortunate that we here in Australia We're fucking far away from everyone, you know, and and funny enough because of our bushfires Tourism had dropped by like a third or more But just before the kovat outbreak we were even more protected from the outbreak just because of less people coming here Coincidentally just because of the bushfires if it may be possible that the bushfires actually save lives It's a weird thing to think about if you're going to have a silver lining to half the country being on fire Wow tough times |
| 02. February 2021 | Continued success for gta 5 actors | How much success are the voice actors from GTA V still experiencing? Actors did the Franklin and Lamar cutscene in real life. Yeah, the real life actors actually did it as well. I wonder how successful those two guys are in real life. Like how many gigs and stuff would you get because you sound like Lamar Davis or Franklin Clinson or whatever. I mean, you voiced them obviously. How much would your voice being that iconic prevent you from getting other gigs? Like this game is still selling millions of dollars worth of copies every month. It still frequently hits like the top charts of the most sold games. I guess in part because there's just always people growing up or whatever who are just getting into gaming or whatever. And GTA V is a classic, one of the best games of all time and there's still people making content about it. Of course, people are going to buy it for that reason. Of course, for online as well. Like some people may want to say, oh, but you ever just buy enough, just play online. I think there's still a substantial amount of people who have never played the game, who are buying it just to play through the story. |
| 05. February 2021 | Continuing to avoid gambling | in the ass. Continuing to avoid gambling. I hope you can, uh, abstain from that in the future. I've been there. I enjoy gambling, but, uh, when I quit my job back in the day, I stopped cold turkey, cause I, uh, couldn't afford to lose the money at that point. Not that I ever gambled at, uh, high stakes, I always gambled low stakes, but, like once a year, I'd end up on Poker Styles or some shit, and I'd lose a couple hundred bucks, and I'd hate myself. Like, fuck this shit, man, I- I- Holden hell it's been one year. It's gotta- I gotta be like two years, something, since I- I gambled last, and it's probably for that blackjack stream. If you want a good reason not to gamble, watch my gambling series. Spoilers, at the end, I lose all the money. Gambling is fun with friends, if you know that a long night at the casino with a lot of fun will cost you a hundred bucks. The best gambling to do is, if you've got a bunch of friends, and you all put in like 20 bucks, and then you play poker or whatever, and the winner gets to keep all the money. YouTube pacifist.com |
| 02. May 2021 | Continuing to complain about dating apps | Continuing to complain about dating apps. Any progress on the dating app so far? I have had probably like seven or eight matches with people that seem interesting and or I find attractive. Never has it gone past three messages. I don't know what people are looking for when it comes to messages but uh still haven't figured that one out. You're terrible at texting. No I'm great at texting. I think that's the problem. Most people when they send messages online will send like a singular word or half a sentence. Me I can in a heartbeat type you like max character fucking question versus and response to what you've said because I frankly find it super boring when the conversation's like hey hey what you up to? Nothing much. How are you? I'm good. So how's the weather? I fucking hate that shit you know. When I respond to a message I try to both give them interesting information and try to elicit that from them as well and apparently that's not a good thing. Next person who matches with me I'm just gonna respond hey and see what they fucking do. I will play like super hard to get in terms of information about me. I'll be like Johnny Tightlips from god damn simpsons. They ask me how are you and I'm like why do you want to know? I'm just asking oh yeah who you asking for? What are you gonna do with this information? Why you so curious all of a sudden how I am? You weren't a wire? Dating apps work like that everywhere just don't bother interesting people and not on there or at least the chances of you meeting one are so low it's not worth it. It's more productive to use or make all the dating apps god damn. Yeah I think I want to go back to using um OkCupid if it still works the same way it did eight years ago when I used it last. It probably doesn't. Because at least on OkCupid you could like write information and you could check out a person's profile and they could actually give detailed information about topics relevant to them or there was also an algorithm that would attempt to show you people who are likely compatible with you with these dating apps it's just here's a picture of someone who looks physically attractive. Do you think they look physically attractive? Yes? Ok good they'll never contact you. Plus sometimes it really does seem like a lot of these accounts just have to be bots but like why? Why? I suppose there might be some effort to like catfish people or like or convince them like oh you know you're just gonna give me a thousand dollars or whatever and I'll come right over with some shit and they convince people to give them the money I don't know. You bet they're willing women in my instagram DMs. My instagram pictures fucking suck and I never use instagram. I sincerely doubt it. To be honest though even on the dating app that I'm on like the one thing it says for you to link with is your instagram so maybe instagram's important maybe I'll try and cull my instagram and find some good pictures of me but there are no good pictures of me I'll just put my wide matto picture there. The problem is I don't go anywhere chat so I don't have pictures places. Here's a thought I will drive no no I will google interesting places within an hour from me and then I will drive to those places take pictures of myself and go home. I'll go to some club or sign can be like hey look guys I know we just met but can we just like take a photo together for my instagram? You look like interesting people want to make some money you have to take a picture of an expensive car with your keys right next to the car that's how you get the latest of course. |
| 25. February 2021 | Continuing to struggle having my Noita footage processed. | Continuing to struggle with having my Noita footage processed. I've actually finished editing now two episodes of Noita. It's been a real struggle to find anyone who can help me with it. The two episodes that I completed both took me around seven hours, which is far more than it would require me if I had competent help. I can never be certain that anyone I get to help me is selecting the correct scenes from the larger bulk of footage. Because I don't watch the larger bulk of footage, I just fix the edit that they give me. The first person, I have no evidence that they missed any really crucial scenes, so I'm giving them more footage so they can continue to cut it down, but their actual editing is very elementary, so it requires a lot more polish. The second person, despite putting a lot of effort in, they ignored an entire 45 minutes of footage, and in that 45 minutes of footage that I looked over, there were seven classic scenes. There was this one time where Chatz did an effect called scatter gold, and I was so excited because I thought Chatz would give me a fuck ton of gold, until then I realized that they just scattered my gold, like they stole gold from me and scattered it around the floor. It was like a classic scene that I even remember today and I just completely missed it. Or like when Chatz spawned a huge thing of lava and killed me. I can't fathom how people miss these kind of scenes, but they do and it really bothers me. The reason why there hasn't been clips on the clips channel is because I've wanted to finally complete some of these episodes, so I've had to throw far more hours than I normally would have at editing specifically that. What is Neute? It's a dungeon calling game, like Dead Cells, mixed with Thraria. I played like 120 hours of it on stream. |
| 08. June 2022 | Controller users are after me. | Controller users are after me. When do you play? I did play GTA expanded enhance. It's on YouTube. It's in my playthrough of the PlayStation version of Grand Theft Auto. I was like, I fucking hate controllers man. They're awful. And like, for what existed in the YouTube video, trust me, I complained even more in the actual stream. I cut out bits of it just so people wouldn't be mad and they were still mad. When I say controllers suck, I mean subjectively. I think they are terrible. I'm not saying they're not better in some circumstances, like platformers you probably want a controller for. Things with a minimal amount of inputs. Anything where you're looking to be like in the general area of something, as opposed to getting pinpoint accuracy, sure, controllers. Go nuts. And that's why driving is fine with controllers. But I am personally not a fan. Never liked them. Don't like holding them. Don't like the feel of them. Don't like the feel of the buttons. Controllers are the thing I use because I'm forced to, not because I ever really want to. And I would have expected people to be like, oh, so when Dark Vipers says he doesn't like controllers and thinks they suck, that's like his subjective opinion about his personal preferences. People are like, how dare you impugn the honor of the controller? Suggesting that no one should exist who uses controllers? Wanting a genocide of controller users? How dare you, sir. My parents, my grandparents use controllers. You want to kill my family? I'm like, no, you can use a controller. It's fine. I just don't like them. I was a bit harsh, but it's a YouTube video, right? You don't go half measures. What I'm saying is I would like to make peace with the controller users of the Internet. I will allow you to live in my empire, OK? You will be less a citizen's bit. You can live. |
| 08. December 2020 | Controller vs mouse and keyboard in GTA 5 | Controller versus keyboard and mouse in GTA. So do you normally drive with controller? Only for cops and crooks because I can just like actually get like a cruising speed like this. Yeah, I can blend in with the traffic perfectly. Other than that, I never play with the controller. Definitely not for shooting like shooting with controllers. So dumb. I use controller for parachuting, biking and what's the other thing I use for? Flying. Why biking? So biking you can control your stamina usage a lot better on control than you can on keyboard and mouse. And because in the speedrun, because you do the biking thing on Dias little girl at the very beginning, you don't have a lot of stamina. So it's important not to burn too much your HP. |
| 27. April 2022 | Controversial Pacifist kill. | Controversial pacifist kill. Why does that guy climb onto a plane as it's taking off? And not jump off even when it's in the air. That dude is actually a little bit controversial chat, because in pacifist I didn't consider that one of my kills. And still looking at it, I kind of still agree with myself back then, but I also don't. Like I didn't even try to save him. I considered more that he killed himself than I killed him, you know. Could you save that guy by landing again briefly? I'm pretty sure he just is scripted to die. I didn't do any testing. That was the controversy. |
| 03. June 2020 | Cooking stream again? | When am I doing a cooking stream? I have nothing that I want to cook. It would be interesting to like make a cake or something on stream. That'd be interesting. But usually when you'd want to do cooking streams and stuff, there are multiple people there, or you have someone controlling the camera. That's um, B2 was able to make anything out of that cooking footage was a amazing because so much of it is complete garbage footage. There's a joke in there about how garbage the footage is. Like I never showed a shot of the sausages I was working on. There was like a half half the frame had sausages. It's just very hard to do by yourself, and I'd be using my phones at lower quality, and I could make other content that people enjoy more. It's just no real motivation for me to do that kind of stuff. Considering its difficulty and how many people would want to watch it. |
| 04. June 2021 | Copying XQC to grow on Twitch | Copying XQC to grow on Twitch You clicked on this instead of XQC and you don't regret it. Maybe I need to Watch some XQC's content see what he's doing these days. It's a funny thing at least in regards to Streaming like attempting to emulate XQC would probably be a very dumb idea in regards to a goal of growth. I mean Because XQC's growth isn't just because of what he does but because he already has that position like what you should be doing To grow when you're smaller. It's not the same thing that XQC can do to grow where he is I mean XQC is gonna grow effectively regardless of what he does, but he does also seem to do Things that do help him in terms of growth Whether or not he's doing those things specifically for growth or not is something we'll never know We'll have to I mean even if you ask him, yeah, who knows but it's like he plays the meta The games that are that are popular on all of Twitch But I mean the games that become the meta tend to be games that are enjoyable and fun and stuff So just because you're playing them, it doesn't mean you're playing them just for growth You know and true XQC in some cases just defines the meta himself. |
| 22. December 2019 | Copyright issues with believe music | Ongoing copyright issues with believe music. But yeah, so my problem with copyright right now is, okay, so I use a content ID free playlist from Chillhop Records. Chillhop Records owns the masters to all the songs that are used in their playlist, and they say anyone can use them as long as you credit us in the bottom of your videos, which I do. But an artist who, I guess Chillhop Records work with them to make a song, they made a song called, it's not Starry Nights, it's something like that. Starry Nights by ASO. This guy then went and used that song, again, in a collaboration with another artist named Hans. Hans, his label is Believe Music. So while Starry Nights is content ID free, Believe Music put this new song called Neighborhood by Hans into the content ID system on YouTube. And so everyone's use of Starry Nights is being claimed as Neighborhood by Hans. Because the background noise is exactly the fucking same. Because Neighborhood is just Starry Nights, but with some vocals over the top of it. And so I'm just like, well this is a mistake obviously, it is painfully obviously a mistake. I will just counter these five claims on 50 hours worth of content and say look, this is really obvious. Just listen to both songs, you gotta understand that this is content ID free and it was done in 2018. I thought that would be the end of it. Wait 30 days. On the very last nanosecond, Believe Music rejects all the appeals for the claims. They must be using some kind of a botting system so they do not read the counterclaims. They just immediately reject them when they're about to lapse. Because if it lapses, they lose their claim. Any human in reality reading what I wrote, explaining in intricate detail with links to all the songs, explaining how they've made a mistake, no one could read that and comes to the conclusion that the claims that Believe Music has made are valid. And so I contact YouTube going, this company is abusing the copyright system, they're not reading appeals, they're using some kind of botting system to reject them, they're claiming things that they have no right to claim and YouTube is like, eh. And so I contact the artist. I'm like, hey man, they shouldn't be doing this. He's like, yeah, they shouldn't. I look into it, haven't heard back from him. Send him another message, still haven't heard back. Got another claim though. Got another one rejected too. And so I send a message to ASL or whatever. I'm like, look man, you're potentially fucking over thousands of people here, can you help me out? No response. So I'm in a situation where all of my content that just coincidentally has this song in it, Believe Music is claiming it all. What's worse though is I probably lost about $1,000 by this point. I've sent now direct emails to Believe Music for each of the videos explaining, like in every human way possible. The only thing more I could do is explain in different languages. No one in their right minds can look at their claims and think they're valid, but YouTube won't do shit. Believe Music hasn't got back to me. Hans is no longer sending me messages. There's like nothing more I can do, except complain. And YouTube has the goal to send me emails. Like, oh yeah, if people violate, if people misuse the copyright system, you can guarantee that we'll terminate their account. I'm like, yeah, but they're clearly using bots and not reading appeals. Surely that's against your guidelines, right? Surely there's some rule that you accept. Will you agree to read appeals should they be made? Right? Thus far no response. What I don't understand though is that they don't even really seem to be monetizing all that well, the videos that they claim. Like they're 10 hour videos and they have it best put one ad at the beginning. Like they're clearly not even monetizing well the stuff that they're stealing. So why even bother? It's insane. It's like breaking the law in the most clumsy, mismanaged way. As an update to this story, eventually I got onto Chill Hub Records and they said that they would go through YouTube and remove Believe Music's ability to claim this content. But it has now been about 10 days and the claims still exist on all my videos. By all my videos, I just mean the five- |
| 01. June 2022 | Corridor crew reactions | You know? Corridor Crew reactions. I was actually going to reference Corridor Crew in the video. Like they did a reaction to the graphics in Arkane. And their reaction contained like two minutes of footage from the show. Like clearly they sat there with a... The funny thing is they were experts in the thing. And the dude they were with, you know... I think he worked in the industry or he worked on Arkane to some degree, whatever it was. And so they clearly sat there probably for hours watching the show, at least a couple of episodes. And then no one saw that footage. What everyone saw in the end was all the commentary they made that had substance that was actually a value, edited together with supplementary material that made what they said make sense. They didn't show you the episodes of Arkane. They just showed you the parts that were necessary. Perfectly within fair use. That is the form of reaction content that H3H3 went to court over five years ago. And the stuff that is perfectly acceptable to me. Those are just commentary videos. I call them response videos. The difference would be like if Asmongold did that, he'd just show you seven episodes of Arkane. You know? I think companies go over... |
| 12. April 2022 | Cosplaying as gta characters | Cosplaying as GTA characters. I was also thinking that since you played the story mode a lot on your channel, you probably, you know the story like really well. Like obviously, right? Yeah, to some degree. I was thinking, what if you did like a video like reacting to my cosplay outfits? I mean if you want or if you don't want it's okay, but I think that you would have a funny reaction if you saw some of my costumes. I've seen them. They look very nice. I mean I'm not much big on React content. Like this part for instance, if you click that link that I just sent you actually skipped to the part in the video where I actually put on the Bugsters outfit. And I have more outfits coming up. Like I have the Juggernaut outfit which is the big armor I'm going to be dressing up as that and in the Polito score. And I also have the big one, like both outfits. The ski mask one for the loud one with the suit and I have the one with the armored truck one. I even made the armored truck outfit too. It is really impressive my guy. Trust. I mean I've shown it on screen for my viewers right now. Yeah I'm not big on React content unfortunately man. But yeah, it is impressive. And I, as I say, it's good to put a twist on some of the stuff we've done before. Yeah I mean I wanted to do something different on my channel because I just got so bored of GTA Online. Like people come to my channel and say that I hate GTA 5 which is just a load of nonsense. Like I like GTA 5. I wouldn't have 460 days played on it if I didn't like GTA 5. But it just got to the point where I did everything in the game and there was nothing else for me to do and I got so bored of the online. And so I love the older GTA games and so I started doing playthroughs of that. But you know it started with Watch Dogs 1. Because with Watch Dogs 1 I wanted to do something different. I always wanted to be a playthrough channel. A channel that does playthroughs. That's what I always wanted to do. And so I figured what can I do to make my channel unique? What can I do to make my channel different from other playthrough people? And I thought why don't I dress up as the characters? It's going to be a bit expensive so it's nice to get costumes. But it is going to be I think worth the watch for people because people are going to like seeing that. It's going to see something different, unique. That this guy tries to imitate the character's outfits to the best of his ability. And sometimes some of the outfits are really easy to make but sometimes some of them are hard to make. Like that Bugsters one, I don't know if you saw it, that one was hard to do. I had to get a bunch of parts together. And the thing is that red suit that I'm actually wearing was actually like a real life exterminator suit I think. I got it off Amazon but it matched it perfectly. And then the mask that I was actually wearing was an actual mask. So I actually was trying to find one that was fake but I couldn't find one that was fake so I ended up using that one there. |
| 08. September 2021 | Could GTA 6 be online only? | Could GTA 6 be online only? There is no reality where GTA 6 will be online only. No reality. Investors will go, okay, let me get this straight. We get our money back like tenfold with your single player titles, and you've done this consistently. You want to make it online only when you succeeded with the online version once and massively failed with it the second time. How about no? Although it was the investors that should stay as stakeholders. |
| 27. July 2021 | Could I go a month without livestreaming? | 🎵Music🎵 Could I go a month without live streaming? Did I say that I could go a month without streaming and be fine? Me might have basically nothing else in my life. Like I think I just wouldn't find life fulfilling if I didn't stream. Like the last five days where I didn't stream really at all were not enjoyable days. |
| 03. May 2021 | Could I hypothetically do No Damage consistently? | Hypothetically speaking, let's say that I completed a run, but I kept playing. I kept going over and over and over again. Eventually I would experience all the very unlikely ways that a run can fail, and I would devise strats to avoid those things, and eventually the run would become more consistent. So you could say, with every run, the run becomes more consistent. And so hypothetically speaking, if I just did it forever, it would eventually become a consistent run. It still wouldn't really be a good speedrun though, because most of what this run is is you know, strats, as opposed to execution, kind of. As in like with a no damage run for Dark Souls, you can get better and better and better at dodging, and over time it becomes way more consistent and easy because your skill increases. And with this, it's more about remembering all the strategies that you're meant to do. There's only so far that skill can go without knowledge, the strats, to actually just avoid any possibility of damage entirely. Because I can't dodge bullets. I can only put myself in situations where I can't be shot. I don't think anyone watching OCO is expecting speedrun strats. Yeah, exactly. Most speedrun strats do give damage to you or increase your chance of damage. I just mean that other no damage runs do end up getting speedrun as like minor categories and stuff, mainly Dark Souls. Because it is possible for the strategies to be so consistent, or the game just in general be easy enough to like that you can truly master it, that you can play with the added qualification that you can't take damage. But that isn't the case here. Again, OCO is short for no damage run, guys. It means one hit KO. I confuse so many people with that. It's like OCO, one hit KO, exists not just in this game. Like I would assume that one hit KO or one hit knockout or whatever would just be a term that everyone would be familiar with, you know? Keep in mind, if a person started doing this run right now, they would make a lot swifter progress than I did in the beginning, because they could skip the months upon months where I didn't have these strategies. Like if you went back in time and gave me the strategies I'm using now, then I would obviously finish far, far faster. The process of the year hasn't been me with these strategies trying to solve the run. It's been me slowly but surely finding all the ways that I can fail and devising strategies to reduce the likelihood of those things occurring. If you just gave me the end results, I'd be done much faster. That is kind of what frustrates me when people message me and say, oh, I'm going to do OCO as well. I'm like, well, I really hope you don't use the strategies I made over the last year to do it before me, you know? The fear of someone beating me to it has caused me to play suboptimally, because rather than spend a day devising a handful more strategies to make things more reliable, I keep doing runs knowing that I can hypothetically succeed. I should get that little bit more lucky, you know? A part of the reason I've been able, viewers have been able to give me like what the two, three strats they have is because those missions were already, you know, 95% fine and I just didn't want to spend the time to look into it. I think I would have been done by now if I had just bitten the bullet, accepted that shooting wasn't the best strategy on minor turbulence and just went for explosives. Further stuff, I've gotten this to wrap up. Why do you narrate all the intros for OCO instead of doing it once in post and posting that into the video? Like, I don't know why people ask this question and it gets asked every time. It sort of seems more natural. I explain it differently every time. A voiceover feels so impersonal and it's just worse. It feels out of place. I can't even have the audio for the game and the music and stuff as easily in there either. And you see me on screen, my mouth moving to different lines, but there's a voiceover playing. It's just worse. Certainly, when the explanation or intro is bad, I do avoid it. It's just to solve a problem. Certainly one thing I've got going for me is that apparently how effective Alt-Strat is depends on your settings in Nvidia. I don't know exactly what settings cause it to work more. I sent my settings to a guy and he used them and then it worked better for him because I've got all my stuff set on performance and stuff. Or do I have it on graphics? I'm not even sure. Biographic settings matter for how effective Alt-Strat is. We know distance scaling is one setting in the game that matters. Wouldn't lower FPS be better for Alt-Strat? Doesn't seem to be. It does suck a little bit that Alt-Strat has denied me the quest to find other strats for certain sections. Yeah, so if Oco hadn't taken me as long as it has, like if I had succeeded on the 18th attempt or whatever it was with when I took that one damage in degree up, if I had succeeded, I may have continued and gone for a run without Alt-Strat. But like the average viewer isn't going to give a shit. Do I care enough to do a run without Alt-Strat? Not presently, no. I'll get my video. I'll get my title. I'll achieve the thing that I want to achieve. Some viewers hate Alt-Strat. I just view it as a strategy in the game, but it's an inelegant strategy. Having like unique strategies for every mission and stuff is cool, and just throwing Alt-Strat at any problem is an... Alt-Strat is an inelegant solution and a reality where there were strats to make things secure in all those spots would be better. Do I enjoy Oco at this point? Yes, except that I feel bad because I feel like I'm always going to fail kind of thing. You know what I'm saying? It doesn't have the same entertainment value for me as it did on my 20th trial, so I still enjoy it. A lot of it though is still the new strat finding and implementing those strats. The soul crushing pain when I fail, probably not worth it. But I want to succeed so badly. How many attempts? I have no idea. Definitely something that will be counted at the end. G25 have no damage run or you have damage seen or scripted. The only scripted damage is in the ending with Michael. Then again though, I've never tried to avoid that damage. I just don't know of any way you could possibly avoid it. Because he's meant to shoot you, that's the point. Yeah, but potentially Alt could fix it or like you could trigger the cutscene and then like fall off onto a car or something and then he wouldn't have the life. It's something that I haven't bothered to try to fix, but it's the one place where the game tends to want to be like, hey yo, you're meant to take damage here. I don't know that Oko has really helped me grow. It's just more given me content for YouTube. As in like if I had continued in speedrunning, I don't think speedrunning or Oko would have really made a difference in terms of how much people watch me or whatever, right? But the clips channel was very important. Oko is much more entertaining. I don't know about that dude. The speedrun is pretty good these days. Opasifus has brought in heaps of people. The four most important stuff in my career online, in terms of growth I mean, is Facts and Glitches, then Opasifus, then Chaos, then the clips channel. I mean before that I guess you could say starting speedrunning GTA V. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 03. May 2021 | Could I hypothetically do no damage consistently? | Hypothetically speaking, let's say that I completed a run, but I kept playing. I kept going over and over and over again. Eventually I would experience all the very unlikely ways that a run can fail, and I would devise strats to avoid those things, and eventually the run would become more consistent. So you could say, with every run, the run becomes more consistent. And so hypothetically speaking, if I just did it forever, it would eventually become a consistent run. It still wouldn't really be a good speedrun though, because most of what this run is is you know, strats, as opposed to execution, kind of. As in like with a no damage run for Dark Souls, you can get better and better and better at dodging, and over time it becomes way more consistent and easy because your skill increases. And with this, it's more about remembering all the strategies that you're meant to do. There's only so far that skill can go without knowledge, the strats, to actually just avoid any possibility of damage entirely. Because I can't dodge bullets. I can only put myself in situations where I can't be shot. I don't think anyone watching OCO is expecting speedrun strats. Yeah, exactly. Most speedrun strats do give damage to you or increase your chance of damage. I just mean that other no damage runs do end up getting speedrun as like minor categories and stuff, mainly Dark Souls. Because it is possible for the strategies to be so consistent, or the game just in general be easy enough to like that you can truly master it, that you can play with the added qualification that you can't take damage. But that isn't the case here. Again, OCO is short for no damage run, guys. It means one hit KO. I confuse so many people with that. It's like OCO, one hit KO, exists not just in this game. Like I would assume that one hit KO or one hit knockout or whatever would just be a term that everyone would be familiar with, you know? Keep in mind, if a person started doing this run right now, they would make a lot swifter progress than I did in the beginning, because they could skip the months upon months where I didn't have these strategies. Like if you went back in time and gave me the strategies I'm using now, then I would obviously finish far, far faster. The process of the year hasn't been me with these strategies trying to solve the run. It's been me slowly but surely finding all the ways that I can fail and devising strategies to reduce the likelihood of those things occurring. If you just gave me the end results, I'd be done much faster. That is kind of what frustrates me when people message me and say, oh, I'm going to do OCO as well. I'm like, well, I really hope you don't use the strategies I made over the last year to do it before me, you know? The fear of someone beating me to it has caused me to play suboptimally, because rather than spend a day devising a handful more strategies to make things more reliable, I keep doing runs knowing that I can hypothetically succeed. I should get that little bit more lucky, you know? A part of the reason I've been able, viewers have been able to give me like what the two, three strats they have is because those missions were already, you know, 95% fine and I just didn't want to spend the time to look into it. I think I would have been done by now if I had just bitten the bullet, accepted that shooting wasn't the best strategy on minor turbulence and just went for explosives. Further stuff, I've gotten this to wrap up. Why do you narrate all the intros for OCO instead of doing it once in post and posting that into the video? Like, I don't know why people ask this question and it gets asked every time. It sort of seems more natural. I explain it differently every time. A voiceover feels so impersonal and it's just worse. It feels out of place. I can't even have the audio for the game and the music and stuff as easily in there either. And you see me on screen, my mouth moving to different lines, but there's a voiceover playing. It's just worse. Certainly, when the explanation or intro is bad, I do avoid it. It's just to solve a problem. Certainly one thing I've got going for me is that apparently how effective Alt-Strat is depends on your settings in Nvidia. I don't know exactly what settings cause it to work more. I sent my settings to a guy and he used them and then it worked better for him because I've got all my stuff set on performance and stuff. Or do I have it on graphics? I'm not even sure. Biographic settings matter for how effective Alt-Strat is. We know distance scaling is one setting in the game that matters. Wouldn't lower FPS be better for Alt-Strat? Doesn't seem to be. It does suck a little bit that Alt-Strat has denied me the quest to find other strats for certain sections. Yeah, so if Oco hadn't taken me as long as it has, like if I had succeeded on the 18th attempt or whatever it was with when I took that one damage in degree up, if I had succeeded, I may have continued and gone for a run without Alt-Strat. But like the average viewer isn't going to give a shit. Do I care enough to do a run without Alt-Strat? Not presently, no. I'll get my video. I'll get my title. I'll achieve the thing that I want to achieve. Some viewers hate Alt-Strat. I just view it as a strategy in the game, but it's an inelegant strategy. Having like unique strategies for every mission and stuff is cool, and just throwing Alt-Strat at any problem is an... Alt-Strat is an inelegant solution and a reality where there were strats to make things secure in all those spots would be better. Do I enjoy Oco at this point? Yes, except that I feel bad because I feel like I'm always going to fail kind of thing. You know what I'm saying? It doesn't have the same entertainment value for me as it did on my 20th trial, so I still enjoy it. A lot of it though is still the new strat finding and implementing those strats. The soul crushing pain when I fail, probably not worth it. But I want to succeed so badly. How many attempts? I have no idea. Definitely something that will be counted at the end. G25 have no damage run or you have damage seen or scripted. The only scripted damage is in the ending with Michael. Then again though, I've never tried to avoid that damage. I just don't know of any way you could possibly avoid it. Because he's meant to shoot you, that's the point. Yeah, but potentially Alt could fix it or like you could trigger the cutscene and then like fall off onto a car or something and then he wouldn't have the life. It's something that I haven't bothered to try to fix, but it's the one place where the game tends to want to be like, hey yo, you're meant to take damage here. I don't know that Oko has really helped me grow. It's just more given me content for YouTube. As in like if I had continued in speedrunning, I don't think speedrunning or Oko would have really made a difference in terms of how much people watch me or whatever, right? But the clips channel was very important. Oko is much more entertaining. I don't know about that dude. The speedrun is pretty good these days. Opasifus has brought in heaps of people. The four most important stuff in my career online, in terms of growth I mean, is Facts and Glitches, then Opasifus, then Chaos, then the clips channel. I mean before that I guess you could say starting speedrunning GTA V. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 22. December 2020 | Could rockstar ruin gta 6 speedrunning? | 6's speedrun ability and using mods in speedruns. Could Rockstar do anything to stuff up speedrunning for GTA 6? Oh, absolutely! They could never entirely fuck up speedrunning, except by making the game really boring to play. That's the only thing. They could make the game 50 hours long and people would still speedrun it, but it would become either segmented or they'd make shorter categories. And honestly, the best way is just to make a really shitty game. Like if they intentionally made the game so the cutscenes couldn't be skipped, pretty much immediately I'm sure speedrunners would come together and be like, let's just mod this shit and skip the cutscenes. Once upon a time, I think like no changes to the game in any capacity was like just the universal standard. But as things have moved forward, I think it's more acceptable for a lot of people to, you know, as long as it doesn't fundamentally change the game or reduce the amount of skill involved or something, and it's more about accessibility or creating an even playing field. In those cases, in rare cases, mods can be acceptable. Because clearly there's no skill in watching a cutscene, you know. Especially when it's the difference between a run being viable and not viable, you know. Which mods? I mean the universal best example is always that one for Bioshock or whatever that made it so a particular item spawned permanently in a box rather than having to reset over and over again for like a 1% chance or something. Or there's us now with the Project 1.27 or whatever. Resident Evil 3 OG is by default a modded run. Mod gives you grenade launch a 100% chance like 30 minutes into the run while in game it would be normally be a 40% chance. Yeah. An example that like that. I'm assuming the rocket launcher is like a must-have. The problem with mods being too acceptable though is that like take that rocket launcher example for like let's say there's a better strategy that could have been found or that would have been found if not for that mod. Like that's always the fear that you'll get into a case where you're modding around RNG rather than finding more optimal strats to avoid RNG, you know. |
| 13. January 2023 | Could there be a pet companion in GTA 6? | Hell yeah. Could there be a pet companion in GTA 6? Do you think there'll be a pet companion in GTA 6? I hope so. But certainly controlling a pet companion and having them be a useful part of the game is probably quite difficult. If I can pop someone with a sniper out from million miles away, what's the point of my dog? |
| 01. July 2020 | Counterstrike and Kilksphillip | Counter-Strike and Clicks Philip. Will I ever play Counter-Strike again? Nope. I cannot imagine the context where I would play Counter-Strike. I do not like spray patterns. It's definitely a fun game though. I kind of wish when I was younger I played it. I feel as though Counter-Strike is a part of that generation of games that I just didn't get to play. I was stuck playing Water Walker. Knife-opening Simulator. I love that series that Clicks Phillips is doing where he just uses a case simulator to open cases. I'm sure how much money you lose. I even like that series he does where he compares what skins were worth if you had got them at the very beginning when the cases came out versus what they're worth today. Both of those series seem like things you could just do forever with declining views throughout the series. You could just make one of those videos every month. I love series like that. It's just infinite content that is at least mildly interesting. I have seen various different videos from 3ClicksPhilip. I've seen a bunch of his videos over the years just casually that have been recommended. His content never super gripped me because I don't play CSGO. But then suddenly, I don't know what video got recommended, but I found it so endearing that I just watched more and more of his content. I liked his presentation style and his history and his methodology for his videos and what he tries to achieve. When he said he used to like making videos where he would make the videos as short as possible, where he would condense what he wanted to communicate down to the most simplistic elements and then make videos like that because he didn't like how people would make tutorials that were like 50 minutes to explain a simple concept. I was like, that's cool. That's an interesting place to get started in the YouTube game. But he has videos talking about his thoughts on endless different topics and stuff. I just like the sound of his voice and his presentation style, so I watched tons of his videos over the course of a month maybe. Weirdly, right now, for some reason, YouTube isn't recommending me his videos anymore. I don't know what is. Maybe it recommended a bunch that I had already seen, and so I skipped over them and so the algorithm assumed they didn't want to watch anymore. Maybe it had something to do with that video he released recently where he wanted to test the new profanity filter on CSGO. So he made a video where he said all these profane things and saying, here's what all the stuff will get filtered, what won't get filtered, da da da. So of course the video got age gated and maybe that's impacted his videos getting recommended. I saw on Twitter he said that one of his videos didn't do as well as you would normally expect after he made this profanity video, so who knows? Maybe the algorithm is not treating him kindly. Whatever the case may be, I like his content. I do recommend it to people. Especially if you're interested in it, CSGO, Skyrim, just general commentary. |
| 01. July 2020 | Counterstrike and Kliksphilip | Counter-Strike and Clicks Philip. Will I ever play Counter-Strike again? Nope. I cannot imagine the context where I would play Counter-Strike. I do not like spray patterns. It's definitely a fun game though. I kind of wish when I was younger I played it. I feel as though Counter-Strike is a part of that generation of games that I just didn't get to play. I was stuck playing Water Walker. Knife-opening Simulator. I love that series that Clicks Phillips is doing where he just uses a case simulator to open cases. I'm sure how much money you lose. I even like that series he does where he compares what skins were worth if you had got them at the very beginning when the cases came out versus what they're worth today. Both of those series seem like things you could just do forever with declining views throughout the series. You could just make one of those videos every month. I love series like that. It's just infinite content that is at least mildly interesting. I have seen various different videos from 3ClicksPhilip. I've seen a bunch of his videos over the years just casually that have been recommended. His content never super gripped me because I don't play CSGO. But then suddenly, I don't know what video got recommended, but I found it so endearing that I just watched more and more of his content. I liked his presentation style and his history and his methodology for his videos and what he tries to achieve. When he said he used to like making videos where he would make the videos as short as possible, where he would condense what he wanted to communicate down to the most simplistic elements and then make videos like that because he didn't like how people would make tutorials that were like 50 minutes to explain a simple concept. I was like, that's cool. That's an interesting place to get started in the YouTube game. But he has videos talking about his thoughts on endless different topics and stuff. I just like the sound of his voice and his presentation style, so I watched tons of his videos over the course of a month maybe. Weirdly, right now, for some reason, YouTube isn't recommending me his videos anymore. I don't know what is. Maybe it recommended a bunch that I had already seen, and so I skipped over them and so the algorithm assumed they didn't want to watch anymore. Maybe it had something to do with that video he released recently where he wanted to test the new profanity filter on CSGO. So he made a video where he said all these profane things and saying, here's what all the stuff will get filtered, what won't get filtered, da da da. So of course the video got age gated and maybe that's impacted his videos getting recommended. I saw on Twitter he said that one of his videos didn't do as well as you would normally expect after he made this profanity video, so who knows? Maybe the algorithm is not treating him kindly. Whatever the case may be, I like his content. I do recommend it to people. Especially if you're interested in it, CSGO, Skyrim, just general commentary. |
| 04. March 2022 | Countries with -land on their name. | Countries with land in their name So all I'm saying chat is Finland is a terrible name for a country Why why land is it to distinguish it from all the water countries? Is there a fin water is that this same reason Australia is better than New Zealand? Yes, New Zealand should just be called New Z or New Zia Yeah, New Zealand is now New Zia. We can save so much time. We know it's land. It's a country. There's no water countries Think of how many Thousands of hours have been wasted wasted by all these countries that have landed in it fuck off with that shit You're living in a hang Still having England. It's funny |
| 31. October 2020 | Covid Deaths, Misinformation, Denial. | My thoughts on COVID deaths, misinformation and denial. We know how many people died from COVID and that it's in the hundreds of thousands, because every year there is a prediction based on prior trends as to how many people is likely to die. So there's a graph. When circumstances are normal, year on year, in every month, the same amount of people die. And so it goes up and down depending upon whether. More people die in summer, less in winter. Right. Because of that, when COVID hit, you see when COVID hit goes, and it massively goes over estimates. Now, that in of itself doesn't prove that COVID has killed hundreds of thousands of people. I mean, it's millions of people over, but I'm talking about America now, because it's generally where this kind of nonsense comes from. But if you don't believe COVID killed hundreds of thousands of people, you have to explain away that deviation, that variance, without reference to the globally acknowledged pandemic that every bit of evidence suggests is the cause of that. You have to start thinking up like, I don't know, man, the government's got black helicopters with reptiles taking people away. You can not believe a single thing global health authorities from different political persuasions, different countries, different interests have all universally said about this pandemic. But then you still have light years worth of data tangential to this that you then have to explain with something else. And you're fighting an uphill battle, because just accepting the reality of what is most obvious easily explains that. The numbers would never be correct because more people have died from the flu. No. So again, to explain one more time, the amount of people who die from the flu is something that is calculable. There is an estimate based on how many people is going to die every year. And the flu is a constant that you can actually predict the amount of people who are going to die from the flu every year. And this is factored into the estimates. Everything above those estimates is something that you don't expect. So you can see in previous years, which I had done in front of me, that there has been flus that have been significantly worse by like 10,000, 20,000, something like that. And you will see like little X's on the graphs where they go, this is a flu that was much, much worse than it's normal for a flu. And you can see that. But then you compare the deviance from a particularly bad flu to COVID. And it's just like a couple of hundred thousand more spread over these months. And this data, more importantly, suggests that COVID deaths are undercounted, not overcounted. Because not everyone who's died has been tested for COVID. And certainly other people have died because of COVID existing, but not directly from COVID in the sense of doctors time or resources or whatever, being taken up treating people for COVID, where that would have normally been put onto other people with other illnesses or whatever. And there's only so many hospital beds, there's only so many hands, right? You don't have to listen to anything about from global health authorities to look at the data of predicted deaths year on year and realize that something fucked up has happened over the last year. And if you're then going to go, well, it's not COVID though, it's aliens. I mean, you're an idiot at that point. You're an idiot. |
| 22. December 2020 | Covid vaccine and pax aus. | COVID vaccine and Pax Australia. I saw a report today that's the first person to receive a COVID vaccine. Well, there's some nine year old woman received a COVID vaccine. So maybe things are gonna turn for the better. I hope that COVID is sorted for the next Pax. I think Pax is held in October, so it's possible that it could, that we could get to that point. It's gonna be some months before such a vaccine is ubiquitous. |
| 08. January 2022 | Covid's effect on housing prices and businesses | big thing, you know, can't they can't identify that they don't know anything because they don't know enough to be identify their lack of knowledge. COVID's effect on housing prices and businesses. The thing that really pisses me off is like in my region, there's a lot of like businesses that are now finally like completely shut down. Like, I know a lot of small business people like close friends of mine too, that like they had good businesses pre-COVID because of COVID. Like they couldn't afford their rent, they couldn't do shit. They were they're shut down because of all these lockdowns because of how poorly even the government has handled it. And that's I think that's the real tough thing to really swallow. Right. Like you may not notice it if you don't go outside too much, but like literally do go outside in your neighborhood and look at how many like four lease areas are. Look at how many like fucking rental areas are now available. All the businesses are, in fact, getting their asses shut down simply because of their money. Smaller businesses are less able to weather changes in the market, of course. Especially if you live in an expensive city, like I don't know how expensive Sydney is necessarily. I assume it's I always say expensive city, but it's like I think like when I think of expensive, I think of like Los Angeles as being like the fucking Mecca for like killing your bank account. You know, Toronto is not too far behind. I know Melbourne was super expensive. Just to back to the thing, I think regardless, like even if there were no lockdowns, I think that the small businesses would have pretty much gotten fucked, especially the ones that aren't online. Because people would have themselves become afraid as more people dropped like flies, as hospitals became more and more packed. There would have been a portion of people who would have stayed home, maybe as many people, maybe not. But there would have been like an infectious disease in a society is going to hurt businesses as people try to avoid going places with other people. But Sydney is basically just like Melbourne, Sydney and Melbourne, like they're different in many ways, but they're both super expensive. Like the cost of a house has gone up in Sydney by $300,000 in one year. It's now the median house. The median is 1.5 million. It is. Wow. Nuts. How much weight? How big is the house on that one for 1.5? Like square footage? I don't know, but it's not like a mansion. My guy. It's just a house. OK, it's just like a standard. OK, because that's the prices we're seeing over here. Like it's fucking I know that I know the house that I ended up getting here was like 1.3 million. We we mirror. Yeah, whenever I hear about something happening in Sydney, you can kind of look to Canada, which is we share a lot of similarities because of our history with the Commonwealth and all that jazz. And we do. We do have some of the same problems. I mean, in terms of like how much of our countries are used versus not like in terms of landmass where people live, pretty true on that one, you know. But it's like when you tell me that house price, I'm like, yeah, no, that 1.5 million. I'm like, that's that's that's I mean, I feel kind of better because we're slightly lower, slightly. You know, it's like maybe it's not as bad. My mother two years ago, she's like, oh, you should get alone and get yourself a house. I'm like, oh, you know, I'm a bit busy. I'm building my my channel and stuff. I don't got time to look for a house. I'll do it next year or the year after. It is two years later. Housing prices double. I'm like, fuck. I like, fuck, man. And it's like, dude, the thing about it is like if you go to like 1.5 million, it's like a successful person would be like, maybe I can make it work. How does somebody with like an average salary even conceive a one point five million dollar house? And they can't because this is this is just a bubble. It's just too everyone just is so easy to to borrow money. Interest rates are so low. And the nanosecond interest rates go up. There's going to be people who will, you know, default on their mortgages and shit. Houses will go back on the market. The we do the two thousand eight financial crisis again. And that seems to be what we're leading to. And it's so terrible because I don't want that to happen because how much it will devastate people. But on the other hand, I would like to buy a house that is a normal price. Yeah, like a good size house. You know, like a fucking decent place to live in, not like a fucking closet you buy in New York for like. Fucking half a million. No, this is like I have a family who live in New York and they bought their house for like fucking the same price I paid over here, except their house is like 30 fucking years old. And I'm like, makes sense, because you are living in one of the most expensive fucking cities in the world. But like, shit, I don't know. I mean, I think in like the next two years and even if the bubble does burst, like unfortunately, with the way property prices are, they're only going to drop like 10, 15 percent simply because of like the market hasn't stopped. You know, like even over here, like despite how high the prices go, you still have people buying houses for some reason. Like I know in the investment world, we like sold a property to a guy who like literally bought it off of us with cash, like just cash. And I'm like, like, you know, when you get that much cash, you have to like do the whole like fucking criminal check on them. It's like, are you sure we're not selling to like the cartel or like, you know, I know it's like legit money. So, OK, I suppose two big factors, of course, you know, I mean, there's many factors. But the covid has taught people because we're all stuck inside. We're like, man, I want a better house. We're going to be stuck in here all this time. And, you know, people just realize having a really nice home is a good thing. But also because people are afraid of the future, you know, and if there's one thing that does well and that people will always need, it's a house. So if you got money, you're going to stick it in a house because that seems the most secure thing. It used to be a thing where like fucking me and you because we were always we were able to remote from home for a while now with like the way that we handle our job and our careers. So we could buy a house in like any place and we could pay like nothing. Like there are literally mansions like fucking in like certain parts of Quebec for like two hundred thousand dollars, like full fucking mansions with like pools and everything. I could go out and buy that and like live comfortably. And like now everyone can. I mean, you know, true, it is more possible, but people still don't want to do it. And for the same reason, I don't want to do it. It's fucking a lot of effort to move somewhere in the middle of nowhere, especially when I need good Internet, which is not necessarily going to be there. And it is nice, you know, because my my family is my mother is in Sydney and people make connections, have friends and stuff. And it's hard to move away from that, even if your job allows it. But now everyone can remote from home and people are kind of getting used to it. So it's like now they're moving out to these places, increasing their values like up the ass. So it's like even places that typically would have been considered like not a hotbed for property are now like also climbing up. And like where I live right now, you think like living 40, maybe an hour away from the city might be a problem, especially in Toronto, where we have like maybe one highway that gets you there to the city. People are still moving out here because now they're all remoting from home, doing nothing. And like, you know, they don't have to live in the city anymore. Chad, what Moudha is saying is stop buying houses in Sydney so I can buy one. OK, actually, yeah. If you can buy a house away from the city, especially if you're comfortable living at home, you know, I like going to the city. That's why I pay money to live close to the city. It pisses me off. But it is what it is. Yeah, I see you on Twitter having having a time of your life in. I know what city you'd be going to, but in Canada, Toronto, I like just I have some I have some good friends over here. And it's like I can't really afford to live. |
| 21. December 2019 | Crappy Friends | Experience with crappy friends I was reading Reddit today People who've had their friends stabbed in the back What's your story? And why do I read these sad things man? Just like all these stories like I invited all my friends to go to the movies And they all bailed but I went to the movies anyway And I saw them all there leaving the cinema Without me And like all these stories could be completely bullshit That people have manufactured to gain karma But they just make me so fucking sad dude Felt that way with a lot of my friends back in the day Remember this one time? My friends meant to pick me up to go to this place I don't remember what the place was But they forgot me I had to call them like hey guys do you come to give me And they're like oh shit we completely forgot you I'm like oh wow thanks Back in the day we used to play Dota 1 When like there was another 5 people there I'd be the one that they ditched Because you can only have teams of 5 And they'd be like why don't we just play 3 vs 3 And they'd be like nah fuck you man My overall impression of this was |
| 07. February 2021 | Crappy sponsorships and the association between sponsorships and bad games. | Crappy sponsorship games and the association between sponsorships and bad games. I've been receiving a lot of emails, right, from sponsors. I think the nanosecond that December ends, sponsors think they can get cheaper prices with content creators because the ad revenue in January is like half what it is in December. So content creators being used to having a certain amount of revenue, they're like, oh yeah, I need to do sponsors now to keep that same revenue. I look at the emails and I'm like, I just can't be fucked. If the sponsor said, this is what I'll pay you, I'm far more likely to be interested or to talk to them than when they say, hey, what's your going rate? I'm like, I don't need this kind of stress. I don't need to go backwards and forwards, haggling for a price or whatever. I got shit to do, you know? Although StreamElements did contact me on behalf of Raid Trail Legends to stream their game on Twitch for two hours, which is funny because I don't use StreamElements and all their attempts to move me over over the years, I have not done. I haven't yielded. I haven't adhered to their request to have me move to StreamElements, but they still contacted me, offering it to me. Because I guess Raid just wants fucking anyone. I wonder if you guys could predict what they were offering me. You guys say all fucking numbers everywhere. It was one thing to play a little bit of a raid, raid the game in my spare time, the little I have, and do like a minute sponsor spot like I did, you know, eight months or whatever for YouTube. It's another thing entirely to play the game for two hours on stream. Like I could play Raid for two hours, no problem. But with a chat, people asking you about it, criticizing you for doing the sponsorship at all, that much criticism and heat and shit, the amount I'd have to be paid would be fucked up. And what they were offering me was half. It was dependent upon a certain amount of downloads, but they were offering me half what I got six months ago, whatever, to do a minute sponsor spot in that YouTube video, facts and glitches. I always said to people that even for Raid, I would accept the sponsorship only if they offered me an amount of money that you guys would be pissed if I didn't take. And that's why that sponsorship spot exists on YouTube. But the amount of money that I'd have to be paid to play a mobile game on stream for two hours at this point, which would be staggering. I got too much shit to do. If I was a variety streamer, though, I think I'd be far more willing to do that because you're just playing a different game every day anyway, you know? What I really need is to be sponsored by Noita. Darkfire, we're willing to pay you. I'll accept. Well, you haven't told her how much. Yeah, I know, just I'm sponsored. So I have a justification to play the game now. It's all good. Okay, $5 an hour. Perfect. 100%. Okay, we just need you to play the game for an hour, 10 hours. You want to play the game for 10 hours? You got it. No, that's not, that's not, no, no, no, you don't. I, you drive a hard bargain. Guys who made Noita for $5, 10 hours, fine. There was a thing, who said it? Was it Skara who said, no offense to sponsors for games, but the second that someone is sponsoring someone to play a game, Skara says he automatically thinks the game is shit. And that's not fair because there are good games that sponsor content creators, especially a lot of indie games. If you, if you want to look around and get yourself, you know, a couple of hundred bucks or whatever to play an indie game, you can do that easily because they're just starving for attention. But that stigma exists because of games like Raid and stuff, because the good games that need attention are usually like indie games that don't have huge budgets. So you don't see them actually being accepted in their sponsorships very often because the amount of money that they can offer is not usually of interest to really big content creators. The only ones that can really make it worth your time are these, you know, gacha random micro transaction games. And because they're the ones who get picked up the most, that kind of stigma begins to exist. |
| 12. December 2021 | Crazy commenter really hates GTA 5 any | Crazy comments that really hates GTA 5 Any% This is of course the category where you largely just mission fail three times to skip through the game I've done very few very very few Any% runs. Someone was either Insane, memeing or I don't know but they've left a comment going on my Any% video like This is the most fucking disgusting thing I've ever seen in my life How dare you disgrace GTA 5 with this you know Torex is so much better than you and you Disgraced the game that he speed runs and I'm just like there's a disclaimer at the beginning of the video man I said that this this isn't a traditional speed I said dude this disclaimer you're disclaimer you've given does not in any way take away from this garbage game And you're you're disgracing GTA 5 and like dude this isn't the normal category I run calm down you'd have to read it to believe it seriously I'm not exaggerating if anything I'm I'm dampening how how crazy it sounded |
| 12. December 2021 | Crazy commenter really hates gta 5 any | Crazy comments that really hates GTA 5 Any% This is of course the category where you largely just mission fail three times to skip through the game I've done very few very very few Any% runs. Someone was either insane memeing or I don't know but they've left a comment going on my Any% video like This is the most fucking disgusting thing I've ever seen in my life How dare you disgrace GTA 5 with this you know Torex is so much better than you and you Disgraced the game that he speedruns and I'm just like there's a disclaimer at the beginning of the video man I said that this this isn't a traditional speed I said dude this disclaimer you're disclaimer you've given does not in any way take away from this garbage game And you're you're disgracing GTA 5 and like dude this isn't the normal category I run calm down you'd have to read it to believe it seriously I'm not exaggerating if anything. I'm I'm dampening how how crazy it sounded? |
| 24. January 2022 | Creating demand for “you” is important as a content creator | Creating demand for you is important as a content creator. The reason why being a variety streamer and having a significant draw of your content be your personality is valuable is because your personality is unique. Unique to you. There is endless content that you can throw your personality at and create something new. No one can duplicate your personality perfectly. You are you fundamentally. People can beat your scores at things, they can play the same modes as you, they can play the same games as you, but they can't be you doing those same things. If you have an attractive personality that people will come around just to see and talk with you, then you're set forever basically because your personality will stay roughly the same and you can always just jump to the next thing. |
| 07. June 2021 | Creation of Lamar Silverhand | The creation of Lamar Silverhand. It is funny every time an episode of Pacifist comes out, and people are like, oh, now I understand why it took so long to make. And people don't realize that I don't work on it for like, months. Like, an episode of Pacifist, regardless of how intensive the editing is, if I just dedicate myself to it, I could finish it over the course of three to four days. You know? New reason this one took so long is because I didn't work on it for almost two months. Then I completed it all in like, five days. But then I had to wait like, a week for the Johnny Silverhand thing. So, that joke in the most recent Pacifist, Lamar Silverhand, it went through quite a few stages. I was sitting there for like, five minutes, ten minutes a day, I don't even fucking know. Seeing that, trying to think of something that Franklin could have as a daydream. Something about dreaming, waking up, falling asleep, something like that. And that popped into my mind. Wake the fuck up, Samurai, we have a city to burn. And I'm like, oh, that's kind of funny actually, because the building is burning, and that even... That's even associated in a way. But I'm like, how could I make this more relevant? I was like, like, originally I had it just so... Because Johnny Silverhand says his lines off screen, and then moves his head into frame, I'm like, well, I guess I could just replace his lines with Lamar's lines. And have him move into frame. I'm like, yeah, but that's not really that creative, is it? I can do better than this. I'm like, what if I face swapped, and then just change the color of his skin or something? So it would be Lamar's face on Johnny Silverhand's body, but I change his skin color. And then I looked into that, and I'm like, face swap technology is not that good. Especially considering that Johnny Silverhand takes off glasses. Like, two people sent me stuff they made on their phone or whatever with FaceApp or whatever, and it looked horrific. Like, the stuff of nightmares. And I'm like, okay, so we can't just face swap Keanu Reeves with Lamar. So what do I do now? I'm like, well, I guess I'll look for a Johnny Silverhand model with his clothing, and just put that clothing on Lamar. But it turns out it's a lot more complicated than that. The clothing is made for a particular model and stuff. You can't just switch the clothing between characters. And while there was a Johnny Silverhand model, it was a model you had to pay for. And I contacted the person who made it. I'm like, hey, look, can I pay you for this model? Or maybe even better, pay you to make one for Lamar? And he's like, I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm like, oh, well, can I at least have that model then? And he never got back to me. Fortunately, I got a message from Shadow Wolf. Like, I basically got no messages when I called for people to hopefully make me a Lamar model that looked like Johnny Silverhand. I only got one response. It was from Shadow Wolf, and he made me one. Like, it is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it's pretty good. So yeah, so he gives me the model, and then I give it to Murphish. So actually, originally, I went to Murphish to who's the person who's helped me with some other projects who does a lot of the machinima for me. It's not like he moves the characters, and then I edit the result, basically. He helped me with the Franklin, Rose, Lamar speedrun, the Rockstar's champion fight, and ending D. But he said, like, he has no idea how to make models. That's why I had to contact Shadow Wolf. So then I got the model from Shadow Wolf. It took like four or five days, and then I gave it to Murphish to make the scene that you ended up seeing, and that took four to five days. But the problem with making the scene is there is no scene, no, there's no animation in the game, literally no animation where a character takes off their sunglasses. There isn't one. And no point in this entire game does a character take off sunglasses. The closest you have is binoculars and putting on sunglasses or something, which both they use, they both use two hands. And so the reason why in the second half of the scene, I zoom in on Lamar's face, is to cover that the second hand is basically doing nothing. You can just barely see it out of the side. But I think the zoom actually worked quite well because Lamar, it showcased Lamar's face well and he looks very serious. Additionally, I didn't hang on the zoomed out version for very long because the sunglasses actually like floating over his face just a little bit. You'll see them like vibrate a little bit, like it's not fully on his face. So basically that it worked out as well as it did is surprising. The thing is actually playing in reverse because it's the animation of a person putting on their sunglasses, but it's reversed. So it's taking. |
| 02. February 2023 | Creator of the account breaking mod menus for GTA Online apologizes. | Creator of the account breaking mod menus for GT Online apologizes. This is apparently a post from the dude who first put the features in a mod menu. They're breaking people's accounts and stuff and getting them banned. I fully own that I fucked up. I am as sorry as a man can be. And all I can do is take extreme ownership right now, be better, and lead myself to a better life as a better human again. Those malicious features shouldn't have been added, ever. I believed that North was in such a bad state that we needed something to boost popularity in the modding community. So adding those features seemed like a good idea. I was wrong. I'll be posting a tool tonight, open source, that can be ran once to unbreak your account if you or your friends don't want to load up a menu to fix it. Again, I'm sorry for releasing this into the public. Full change lock can be found here. Not everything was addressed in this update. I wanted to have these features removed ASAP. More bug fixes to follow today. I have often wondered how cutthroat the market for mod menus is. Because there's quite a few of them out there, right? And I suppose you want to do things to stand out, to have features that no one else has. But the second you add a feature or find a way to do something, another mod menu is going to go, oh, we can add that too. If this is true, then it was just a dude trying to get popularity, trying to get some more sales, went a bit too far. Still doesn't justify it and still seems fucking terrible because mod menus in general are goddamn terrible. And of course, mod menus in general have had terrible features that have screwed with me for years. It isn't just these crashing, bricking features that have come out now. It isn't like the normal effects that a mod menu has are benign and don't ruin other people's experiences of GT Online. Not just my own. So it's hard to feel sympathy for this dude because he sells something that specifically harms and makes the experiences of other people worse. Do you think there are grounds for lawsuit against Rockstar? Who the hell would want to spend potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting Rockstar for this issue? Something so ambiguous. Who would know the law enough to know whether or not they really have a case? You probably have to like already have lawyers on retainer. You just always have looking up stuff and you're just like, hey, you just look into this and see if we have a case here. Which I don't think most players do have. Yet countries, yeah, like the EU or something could be like this is representing a privacy concern or just a general safety concern for people in the EU. So we're going to crack down on this, but that's not going to happen. I don't think that'd be way worse than this. I think my son lost his GT Online account complaining to me every day. I will not have this happen again. Rockstar fix your shit or we will sue you for billions of dollars. You |
| 27. August 2022 | Creator stares at a wall to protest demonetization | Creators Stares At A Wall To Protest Demonetizations Just being one creator, it's hard to get a complete view of what's going on on YouTube. Even though you've got your back-end analytics, it's not telling you like what's happening on other channels or the platform as a whole. You can be missing trends or up-and-coming creators who are somewhat eating your lunch and you have no idea because you've only got your analytics, right? And so, on my back-end, I've only got three videos that are demonetized. I used to have like 12-ish, but I talked to the support for YouTube and we worked to get them demonetized. Like, I just removed the parts that were bad. But with these, I can't possibly fix them because this is just a bunch of swearing for like 11 minutes. This has a joke where the C-word is said like 30 times in quick succession. And this has people having sex in cars as a fact. So I've just left them be. I'm not even sure how readily you can do this anymore because they've changed how YouTube support works. And now I have to go directly through my YouTube rep to talk to the general YouTube support. And it's not been nearly as quick a process as before. But I saw this video by Anomaly3. Well, it's just Anomaly. He's got like three channels. And he's like, my other videos are all getting demonetized. I'm fucking sick of it. I'm literally gonna stare at this wall for 10 minutes. And so he just stares at the wall for 10 minutes. So exacerbated is he by how many of his videos are being demonetized. He's just like, fuck this shit, I'm looking at a wall. And watching this video, I'm like, I guess things are much worse for certain facets of the YouTube community than they are for me. I would think I would be having it the worst because I swear so much my videos and, you know, it's a violent video game. But apparently not. The skins market for CSGO being, you know, a violent video game, along with gambling to some degree, often receives these kind of demonetizations. Actually, I didn't get Jesus's response to this, actually. About 10 months ago, something changed dramatically and about 80% of stuff started getting demonetized for enabling dishonest behavior. I.e. the shit Anomaly's been complaining about. I've had no luck getting any help from YouTube about it. I think it's likely the algorithm is for taking CSGO skins for NFTs and that's been the reason. Unfortunately, I've never been able to get a human at YouTube to help. |
| 26. May 2022 | Creators reach out to tell me they dislike react content | Music Creators reach out to tell me they dislike React content. So as of today, three of the nine videos have come out in the React series. Thus far, I've received like, at least a dozen messages from content creators. Like, I don't know that many content creators. There's not that many people who would reach out to me because they like video, and like a dozen. I mean, man, I totally understand. Or like, you've convinced me, I've changed my mind, or I agree, and you're fighting the good fight and stuff. Common sentiment, of course, always being like, man, I wish I could say stuff like that you're saying, but I can't risk the backlash. Because as I've said many times, a lot of creators don't have high opinions of React content. Even without having heard my arguments explaining the long-term effects and stuff. The sentiment was that it's very negative. It's just that, you know, there's not much point saying that because the effect you're going to have is so small, and you're just going to piss people off, as I talked about in the video. I belong to this Discord where there's a bunch of speedrun content creators, speedrunner content creators, right? Make a lot of documentaries and stuff, big and small, you know. It's the only kind of group that I belong to that's outside of, you know, the GTA kind of sphere. Like, I don't have that many friends. If you can call people you only know online through business associations, friends, which, you know. Like, I think I'm myself as friendly with Sunny Evans, TGG, and Modest Pal, like a few other people, you know. But obviously, we're not exactly going to the movies every weekend, you know, but whatever. So in this group, more than a handful of times, I've kind of butted heads with people over the idea of React content, trying to explain my point of view. And when I released the video, a handful of them said, that was a great video, man. You know, I get what you're saying. I hadn't thought of it from that perspective before. That was very wonderful to hear. Obviously, in general, the series is meant to target a general audience. Like, the only way this changes in any capacity is if you change the minds of the viewers, right? And they support other things. And I never expect, as the series is going right now, like, it's not going to get a bajillion views, right? It's never going to get that far. People just don't care to that degree. But the response has been positive in general. So I will change some minds. And at least I've done something, you know. It's very hard to change the world in a positive way. But if you feel like you've just done a little bit, maybe that can be enough. Plus, some of the videos that are coming up are really funny. In multiple different ways, funny. The only video that's just pure comedy is the 14-pages video. But all the videos are funny for different reasons. Excuse me. |
| 18. August 2022 | Creators who can treat the online space as 'just a game'. | It's rough. Creators who can treat the online space as just a game. Just watch Rambles 260, would be very interesting hearing more about your journey through being self-conscious and how you've grown from it. I still think I'm self-conscious. I suppose because I'm at home so often, I less have to care about other people and their opinions in real life. It actually relates to something else I want to talk about here, the separation of real life and online life. Sometimes, for a moment, I think of all of you guys, all these videos, YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, TikTok, all this jazz, I think of it like a game, but I can't maintain that illusion because it's real to me. But I suspect other creators aren't like this. To them, it truly is just a game. Like the second they turn off their PC, they go back to the real world and everything that happens online, even though it is in the real world, because it's online, it doesn't have consequences. Like I question if that's how some people can have such split personalities or do so many scummy things online without feeling bad because they just treat it like a game. If I lie, I cheat, I steal, and I get caught, who cares? Because it's just people on the internet that I'll never see, I'll go back to my life. Like they just have such a separation in their minds between the digital world and the real world. Like in the TV show Digimon or something. But I can't do that because I have nothing else in my life. I do sometimes think that if I had more in my real life, I think stuff online would bother me less. Can't just be like, ah, well, that's just the online for you and go back and play with my dog and hang out with a girlfriend or something, you know? Like there is that concept where they talk about the idea as the world as a stage, where all your interactions with other people through any medium is like a performance that you put on, at which point you go back behind the curtain when you're by yourself or with those you truly care about and you be yourself. And I think just the online world just enables people to do that to a much greater extreme. You can have people online who are like the scummiest fucking people, but in the real world wouldn't think of doing any of that shit and would just be regular kinds, nice people. It's just stuff I've been thinking about lately. People on the internet aren't real. They obviously are, but I think some people actually compartmentalize themselves so they can in a way act as though they aren't. I would love to see research on this because I suck at doing it, but I'm almost certain that other creators are better at doing that than me. What do I want changed on YouTube? Do I wanna stream on YouTube? I wish they would fix their chat so it wasn't terrible. Twitch's system where the chat comes in chunks is a lot better. So like on YouTube, it's just a nonstop flow. So the chat never sits in one place for more than like half a nanosecond. On Twitch, because it comes in chunks, each message is at least in a certain spot for like a second or two. So you can like take in the information before it like chunks along. I don't know if Ludwig's extension fixes it or not. I don't know. But I mean, I'd rather they just integrate that into the fucking system itself. I am of the position, which is a controversial one, where I think like 50% of the things that people criticize YouTube for aren't justified, which still leaves quite a bit that they criticize them for that is justified, but it's just a lot of people blame YouTube and the algorithm in general for mistakes they're making or things that they just refuse to see or don't know anything about. And it's not like YouTube can respond or the algorithm can be like, ah, no, you're on the wrong. |
| 30. June 2021 | Crew members skills in gta 5 | Crew member skills in GTA 5. Are those crew skills actually useful? Not at all. I think maybe originally they were meant to have some significance in the game but at this point not really. Like taking the crew member that sucks can slightly change the missions because some might die you might get a lower take stuff like that but uh it's not particularly significant. No I mean one increasing by 25% you're not gonna notice that. I meant like the 25% increase in skill that those guys receive there is meaningless. You're not gonna notice that bringing them in the future. It's not like they're gonna hit 25% more shots or something. It's not like a mission is gonna be doable or not doable based on their 25% though. The different stats between the characters can matter in terms of what happens in the mission. There are the bad heist members and there's the good heist members and the stat increases are basically pointless. Like I wonder if originally there was meant to be like redoable heists in single player so like the stats and increasing their stats actually mattered. It mattered. You always take the least expensive members. Often when you take the least expensive members they can die and lose your money. I suppose then you can pick up their money usually. |
| 04. October 2021 | Criticizing Rockstar is sadly too easy | Criticising Rockstar is sadly too easy. It's funny, I much would rather it was not the case, but whenever Rockstar does anything, it always seems to be the worst possible thing, and so it's very easy to make a video saying hey guys look Rockstar has once more done the worst possible thing. I wish it was different, I wish I would struggle to make criticisms of Rockstar games, but it's not hard. It is the easiest thing in the world, it is shooting fish in a barrel. Rockstar wakes up every morning and thinks to themselves how can we do stuff to give Matt stuff to complain about. Every time I make a simple video and be like hey this is really dumb. Everyone is like it is really dumb Matt, and I get like a million views. I don't have to force it, I don't have to lie, I don't have to fake it, I am always permanently pissed with everything that Rockstar games is doing. I wish I was one of those people who still believed that Rockstar was on the verge of releasing something god damn amazing, but the amount of people who have left the company and stuff, I don't know. What is my opinion of college or just higher education in general? |
| 10. November 2021 | Cut facts from the first episode of pacifist%. | facts from the first episode of Pacifist Percent, which of course was prologue. You didn't see everything that happened in those two hours obviously in the first episode of Pacifist Percent. The way that we play this, Trevor always takes off his mask and it allows you to switch to Michael in the second scene of the shootout. I always thought that's how it works, that you can only switch to Michael in the second scene and he'll only take off his mask during the second scene, but that's not true at all. It turns out that if you take cover on the first pole, then he removes his mask and if you do that the game can sort of bug in the first scene and he won't remove his mask. So in some attempts, before I figure this out, I'd be like why can't I switch to fucking Michael? Why is he not taking off his mask again? In some attempts I was running forward to the area of the second scene and then running all the way back between all the enemies just to try to get him to take his mask off. There was also another thing, sometimes when the second scene is activated and Brad and Michael are meant to move up, they just won't, or Michael just won't. If you switch to him and then move him up to the second scene, he'll just run all the way back to the first scene. This happened twice. |
| 10. January 2021 | Cute animal emotes . | Cute animal emotes. Why are all emotes dogs? They're not. And that's the problem. Here's what I'm saying chat. I should buy Twitch from Amazon. They could probably give me a decent deal, like me five bucks. It's probably what it's worth, right? And then I'll force all the content creators to only have doggos for emotes. I see this as a foolproof plan and will guarantee Twitch's profitability into the future. It is only through this platform's commitment to cute doggos that it could survive. The catos are cute. I mean the picture I used today was of a cat when I went live. And certainly catjam as I say is my favorite emote right now. Wait, wait a second. Catjam is my favorite meme and bongo cat was my favorite meme before that. I guess I just really like cat memes. What's the best dog meme? Oh cute dog is also that was my favorite. Oh doge of course. How'd I forget doge? So I suppose my favorite dog meme right now is that silence wench. I don't want to be horny anymore. I just want to be happy. I did make me travel. |
| 08. January 2022 | Cyber security, fearmongering, and too much negativity | During my recent GTA Gessa collaboration with Moodahar, he and I talked before, during, and after about a large variety of topics that you now see before you. There were some difficulties splicing together our different audio tracks, but it should all sound great regardless. We start now with cyber security, fear-mongering, and too much negativity. So the stream's live now. Don't, don't, you know, give your social security number or whatever the equivalent is in Canada. Man, every time like, cause my content, like when I make like computer stuff, I do so much virtual machine Linux stuff that everyone calls me paranoid about it. And funny thing, anytime somebody gets hacked, I'm the first guy they contact. It's like, what's going on? Like, what did I do wrong? I'm like, dude, you call me paranoid and then you're in the same business that I am. And you click on the weird shady links and it happens to you. Come on now. Your content is definitely interesting. I can see, I can see why it's successful given, like, I mean, you've got sort of niche knowledge that not everyone has and you use it well. I try to like, my thing with like computer stuff, it's like in the cyber security field, it's like one of my things with security and keeping yourself safe on the internet is like, you don't just set it and forget it, right? Like you have to constantly learn it and be on top of it. So it's like the best you can ever do is tell people, it's like, don't freak out, don't panic. All right. Your password, just because one side is hacked doesn't mean, you know, everyone has your social security. Just jump in, follow these steps and you'll be fine. There's a lot of people on the internet, like they profit off of that, like, free, like, you know, the freaking out the audience. Fear mongering, I guess, right? Like that's what it is. And it's just like the more you can mitigate that, the better it is. And at least this field, right? Like everything's headed to the internet. So it's like, you might as well be on top of it before, you know. When you say profiting from the fear mongering, do you mean like making content around it, spooking people out? Yeah, I feel like if you make content, freaking people out, but you don't know what you're covering exactly. There's nothing wrong with talking about a security flaw. But like, if you're going to make content like that, you should also dedicate just as much time as you talk about it to also talking about the mitigations and the solutions as well. Right. You can't just throw the problem and then throw people into like, you know, you can't chop off the head of a chicken and just see it run around. What came to mind is you ever seen these channels where they're like survivalist channels and all their videos are titled like, the end is coming a week from now. The stock market is going to crash. How to prepare when people are roaming the streets with guns. And I see so many crypto channels like that, man, like all the crypto stuff I've been covering. Everyone always throws out. It's like U.S. currency is finally dying. Hyperinflation will kick in in the next month and destroy you. And I'm like, man, and then they keep pushing some bullshit coin. It's it's all just a grift. And that's the thing that freaks me out. Like you say survival channel. But that that that ideology permeates so many aspects of YouTube. Right. Like I'm bringing up the financial aspect here. I'm talking about like crypto scams and it blends in so well, you know, fear gets clicks for a lot of channels. And it's kind of sad. Negativity, negativity as well. Yes. Yeah. Honestly, like I think the biggest thing that the thing that I hate is I think about a year or two ago, I was like super into like that content because it kept getting recommended. Right. Like it kept showing up in my timelines and I was like, I'll click on it while I'm working. And then it's like it ruined like media for me, you know, like it ruined movies and television. Like I'm talking about the culture war channels now. But it's like every time I go on and it's like this movie is bad. This agenda is crazy. This is I'm like, dude, I can't I don't know how you can thrive off of just being this negative every day of your life. I mean, the money is good for these people. And that's all that really matters. But I mean, of course, talk about the audience. How did the audience deal with this? Like, like there's only so much negativity you can experience in a day and still be like psychologically well and able to function. I have multiple times like like not interested when I feel like I'm experiencing too much negativity in my kind of content phase. I feel like I get to that point, too, like at certain times in my career. Right. Like when when we have like a month where like so much, I don't know, so much controversy is happening and like you can't help but not address it at certain points, especially like my space, the computer sphere. And it's just like it gets to a point where like you have to you have to stop reset because it really does like mentally drain you. Like I feel I felt for months on end, not burnout, but just like a mental drain on me. You know, it's like I'm like, I just I'm mad. Like I'm just angry about shit the entire time. And as a content creator, like people ask you about this stuff and expect you to have an opinion. See, you. |
| 23. November 2020 | Cyberpunk 2077 and Twitch TOS | 60 seconds is really long. But of course it's really long because people could be in specimen, you know. Cyberpunk 2077 and Twitch TOS. I will be playing Cyberpunk when it comes out, but it's uh... I continuously hear bad things about the development behind the scenes, with all the delays and stuff and the crunch and uh... Devs potentially- oh, the management potentially lying about what they- the devs are doing or... how much crunch is involved and I- I don't know. Like CD Projekt Red is a fairly respected studio or whatever, but they uh... They have been known to have bad work place practices. I can't imagine Cyberpunk is gonna be a bad game per se. It's a matter of whether it's gonna live up to the hype. I sincerely doubt that it will be um... not worth the time to play. TOS issues with Cyberpunk? No. Unless Twitch outright bans the game, the rule of thumb is... any content that would otherwise violate TOS, you just can't focus on it. There are too many games that have nudity in the more sensitive themes for Twitch to ban people for showing it. Can you imagine just if, you know, they had to ban like every uh... What's it, God of War game or whatever? Because they all have nudity in them and stuff? I mean, it's absolutely a good way to uh... just give your competitors the high ground, just ban a bunch of popular games that have uh... particular themes in them. I think gamers expect too much from Cyberpunk. If that is the case, then it is entirely the marketing team's fault. Because they have advertised the game as, you know, the second coming of Christ kind of thing. Similar to um... What's the game called? Man Free something? What's it called? No Man's Sky. That's it, yeah. But in No Man's Sky case, it seemed to be less a matter of trying to mislead the public and more just biting off more than they could chew. That video by the internet historian on No Man's Sky is so brilliant. Things I've learned working on the anime pro- |
| 02. February 2021 | Cyberpunk 2077 makes me appreciate GTA 5 | Cyberpunk 2077 makes me appreciate GTA 5. Watching reviews of Cyberpunk 2077, like the one that was just released by Angry Joe, makes me appreciate GTA 5 even more. Sure, this game had its problems on release as well, but nowhere near like Cyberpunk 2077, right? And considering this game is technically seven years old, how good it holds up even against things released now is really impressive. |
| 09. October 2021 | Cyberpunk and the viability of video game stories | Cyberpunk and the viability of video game stories. Uh, have I played Cyberpunk? I played Cyberpunk for maybe three hours when it first came out. Didn't super jive with me. Like a video game story has to be really good and told really well for me to really be interested in it. You understand, I've read or listened to, like, must be close to a thousand books or something. I've watched hundreds of TV shows. They, I don't know, maybe at this point tens of thousands of YouTube videos. Like, it's gotta be a really good story for me to really care. Because video games are not often the best way to tell a story. It's very hard to have gameplay that compliments the story rather than gets in the way of it. It can be done. Indeed, some stories make the most sense to be told in games. Like ones where you impact the story being told. Or like what you do impacts how easily you get some of the story. Or like you can get a sense of achievements completing something so you get more of the story, whatever. But absence those kind of mechanics, I would much rather just watch a cutscene movie on YouTube. Watch a TV show, watch a movie as opposed to play a video game for a story. In general, I play video games for the video game part. |
| 22. December 2020 | Cyberpunk nudity and Twitch TOS. | Cyberpunk, Nudity and Twitch TOS. Does Cyberpunk have a censored mode for nudity? For streamers? Yes. That's good, but also like, damn. You know, because if there was no censored mode, then it would be allowable under Twitch TOS as long as you didn't focus on it or whatever, you know. There was that period where, what was that game? Where you started out naked or whatever and then you built stuff. People play that with nude character models on stream. |
| 02. February 2021 | DC animated movies are gorey | DC animated movies are gory. So I watched a DC movie yesterday. One of the animated ones. Can't remember what it's called. Dark Acropolis or something? Justice League gets their ass kicked by Darkseid and then of course they still win. But later on. I think there's like three that I haven't seen or something. I'm gonna watch them eventually. I didn't see the one before it, the one that released in 2017. But it didn't seem necessary to understand what was going on. We watched old animated X-Men. Probably still holds up. Oh man, but this DC movie was brutal. As in you fully saw like blades go through brains and a chick like ripped in half. You can see like the inside of her body, her spine. I'm like, Jesus. Clearly these movies aren't made for kids. Like they know the audience. Yeah like all the internet people who speed run GTA V are really gonna love these movies. |
| 27. October 2021 | DDoSer targeting gta streamers | A person has repeatedly DDoSed GTA streamers by taking their IP addresses from social clubs. Basically, the dude is just hanging out in the GTA section, DDoSing people, right? Rockstar has no security. There is literally no reason why GT Online has to be set up the way that it is, except it's cheaper to do it. Rockstar has pushed security onto its user base. It's up to the users to spend $30 a month to get themselves a mod menu. It's up to the users to spend $100ish to get themselves a VPN, to deal with all the issues of VPNs, to defend themselves. That's not Rockstar's problem in their mind. It doesn't matter how much hundreds of millions of dollars that they get, they would not care about this issue. They have long since stopped valuing positive sentiment, community sentiment, and maybe, in a business sense, that makes sense. Let's be real, it doesn't matter how shitty Rockstar is as a company, if GTA 6 is good, people still buy it. It's hard to get into that mindset. I'm sure the higher-ups at Rockstar are just like, you know, anyone in my shoes would do the same. It's just business and all that stuff. It's just business being a great slogan to justify any level of atrocity. Any level of harm or to the consumer. It's just business. The only person to blame, or people rather, is Rockstar Games. Like literally, they're the only people blameable in this situation. I mean, the arsehole doing it can't give me blame, but there's always gonna be arseholes in the world. Summit1G on speedrunning GTA 5. You know, once upon a time Summit1G did say he wanted to check out GTA 5 speedrunning. And that he might speedrun it himself. True story, I'm not lying to you. Summit had recently speedrun Ocarina of Time, Any%. I had just gotten the Classic% world record. I can't remember why I donated to Summit. It's the only time I ever donated to him. And I mentioned in the donation that I speedrun GTA 5. He's like, oh really? That's cool, man. Thinking about checking that out myself, maybe doing some speedrunning myself or whatever. I thought at the time, like, there's no fucking way that Summit would ever speedrun this game. Because when most people think of speedruns, they think of things like Ocarina of Time or whatever. Like you just massively skip huge sections of the game. The occasional comment that calls my Facts and Glitches series fake. I heard someone leave a comment. I can't taxi into the ocean. My cab driver spooks when I aim at him. The game won't warp me to the hospital when I kill myself and switch. And I'm like, you're not taxiing far enough out. You haven't whistled for the cab. And it only sometimes works. And then he responds like, oh, I'm sorry. Okay. Yeah, I get it now. I'm surprised I don't receive more of those comments from people like, this is bullshit, man. You're just trying to bamboozle me. You're using mods for some shit. |
| 27. October 2021 | DDoSer targetting gta streamers | A person has repeatedly DDoSed GTA streamers by taking their IP addresses from social clubs. Basically, the dude is just hanging out in the GTA section, DDoSing people, right? Rockstar has no security. There is literally no reason why GT Online has to be set up the way that it is, except it's cheaper to do it. Rockstar has pushed security onto its user base. It's up to the users to spend $30 a month to get themselves a mod menu. It's up to the users to spend $100ish to get themselves a VPN, to deal with all the issues of VPNs, to defend themselves. That's not Rockstar's problem in their mind. It doesn't matter how much hundreds of millions of dollars that they get, they would not care about this issue. They have long since stopped valuing positive sentiment, community sentiment, and maybe, in a business sense, that makes sense. Let's be real, it doesn't matter how shitty Rockstar is as a company, if GTA 6 is good, people still buy it. It's hard to get into that mindset. I'm sure the higher-ups at Rockstar are just like, you know, anyone in my shoes would do the same. It's just business and all that stuff. It's just business being a great slogan to justify any level of atrocity, any level of harm or to continue. It's just business. The only person to blame, or people rather, is Rockstar Games. Like, literally, they're the only people blameable in this situation. I mean, the arsehole doing it can be blamed, but there's always going to be arseholes in the world. This video is sponsored by Skillshare, which is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes that help creators explore new skills, deepen existing passions, and get lost in creativity. Millions of creative and curious people use Skillshare to learn about a seemingly endless variety of topics, such as film and video, graphic design, web development, animation, productivity, and more. Being a member means you get unlimited access to all their classes, which includes a combination of video lessons and a class project to fit any schedule or skill level. If you're looking for somewhere to start, I recommend Productivity Habits That Stick, using time theming by Mike Vardy, who is a writer, speaker, and productivity strategist. Mike introduced the concept of breaking down the weak into particular themes. For me, these themes would be housework, YouTube, streaming, etc. With each day having a particular theme, I was able to sort out my necessary tasks into their assorted days, increasing my productivity without the burnout of overworking myself. Time theming helps you work smarter, not harder, something that's definitely ideal for anyone dealing with an overwhelming amount of work, but little time, like myself. Mike's course helps you work on your daily routine with tools and techniques to optimize your productivity. Skillshare is curated specifically for learning, meaning there are no ads, and they're always launching new premium classes so you can stay focused and follow whatever captivates you. The first 1000 of my subscribers to click the link in the description will get a free trial of premium membership so you can explore your creativity. Thank you Skillshare for sponsoring this video. |
| 04. December 2020 | DMCA and the future of Twitch vs YouTube | DmCA and the future of YouTube vs Twitch For those who don't know, Twitch sent out an email to everyone, basically everyone, where they said, hey look, a bunch of companies said, hey, you know, you've got some of our material on your website in VODs and clips and stuff, we need you to take that down. And Twitch was like, okay, so they deleted all offending material off the platform and sent everyone an email saying, hey look, people requested that we take down this content, we're not going to strike you now, but if this happens again, you will get strikes. Everyone was like, wait, what content did you remove? What was the offending material? When did it occur? And Twitch was like, eh, I don't know. And it's like, wait, so, wait, wait, wait, are you saying that if someone else requests material to be taken down and like four years ago I used that song, you're going to strike my channel? And Twitch was like, yeah. That's terrible. So you're saying three of these strikes from the entire history of me being on Twitch and my channel will be gone? Twitch was like, yeah. That's just awful. That is painfully awful. Everyone's just like, well then I have to delete everything I've ever put on the platform then because the only way to protect myself against this kind of stuff, like, it's clips as well. Any clip made by someone else at any point, like even if you've deleted the VOD, the clip still stays and it's associated with your channel. Like I talked to my partner manager about this and this does seem to be a correct interpretation and I think it's very silly. So on both YouTube and Twitch, a DMCA, which is a digital, digital millennium copyright act, it's not an actual DMCA, right? What companies like YouTube and Twitch have to do is present themselves as making a good faith effort to remove copyrighted content from their platforms so they're not liable. All they have to do is not be overtly trying to violate other people's copyright to earn a revenue, right? It's a low standard to me. This is my understanding anyway. It's why YouTube gives people strikes. Like you know the strike system, you get three strikes throughout, that isn't a legal thing. It doesn't exist in the law like, oh, if you violate someone's copyright three times, your channel gets deleted. That's a YouTube thing. It's why YouTube has changed the rules of that many times over the years. What restrictions do you get? Back in the day, if you got one DMCA, you couldn't post videos over 10 minutes. Back in the day, DMCA, a strike on your channel would be permanent. And if you got three, eventually you'd lose your channel. Of course, YouTube has removed these restrictions over the years, simply meaning that if you get three strikes, three DMCA strikes, over the course of six months, you're gone. It's like every six months, it's like you lose a strike or something and then you're fine. Twitch does not have any forgiveness scheme currently. If you get three strikes, you're gone and there's no coming back. There's nothing in the law that says Twitch has to do this. But by having rules like this, it's suggestive that they're making a good faith effort to remove copyrighted content from their platform. Like when these companies say, oh, you've got copyrighted material on your platform, Twitch is like, really? I had no idea. Oh, well, we don't want that, of course. We remove it immediately. This is all about moving liability, right? Other than removing the content, what they do to the content creators is up to Twitch. Because the consequences is not written in the law. When a company comes to YouTube or Twitch and says, hey, you've got our content on the platform, that's not a legal process. They haven't gone through the courts to get that content removed. Twitch and YouTube just remove that content to cover their asses because they don't want to get sued or for the rules to change, whatever. So with this most recent just deleting all these clips and material, Twitch is totally able to go, yeah, we won't punish anyone this time. We will punish people in the future. And I don't think punishing people for older content is necessary for them to establish that they're making a good faith effort to remove copyrighted material from their platform. Because you can't change the past. All this is going to do is force everyone to delete all of their older material. Now I'm sure someone in a boardroom is like, we don't care about clips. We don't care about VODs. We're not trying to compete with YouTube here. We'd rather just everyone delete all that stuff so we can't be held legally liable. But for me, I've always seen Twitch's major strength in terms of keeping its content creators to be people's history on the platform. People go, oh, if I move to YouTube, I'll lose all that history. I'll lose all that footage or whatever. I'll lose all those clips. I'll lose all the history I have on the platform. Twitch not valuing that history, I think, is a foolish mistake. It just weakens people's connection to the platform and builds more negative sentiment. Where people are like, oh, you're making me delete all this stuff that I highly value? Well, fuck Twitch then. I'll move to YouTube kind of thing. Maybe this won't cause a lot of people to move to YouTube, but it makes it easier to move to YouTube, which I don't think is good for Twitch. I understand Twitch wanting to be seen as making that good faith effort, but I think it would have just been fine if they said, look, we won't punish you for older content, but moving forward, we will punish you. Because the DMCA system has always existed on Twitch. Always. All that's changed now is that Twitch has gotten bigger and more companies have taken notice about people using music in the background of their streams. And so they're now making more claims than they ever used to before. Over the years, there has been the occasion where someone has gotten a strike and it was like, oh, you know, this is happens in a blue moon. You don't worry about it. But now it's happening more frequently. More companies are taking notice. And clearly the companies aren't there being like, oh, man, we're losing revenue because people are using our music in their background. That's not the case at all. What they want is some kind of deal. I have been using content ID free music for like three and a half years. Something like that. For some time. But in the very early days of Twitch, I would play GTA 5, which, you know, the radio, it's got copyrighted songs on it. And so there could be some clips back there with some copyrighted stuff. Now, again, the odds of those clips being struck down for songs that old isn't amazingly high right now, but there is a risk. And those clips do not have enough value on this platform for me that they're worth keeping for any risk. Right. And then, of course, there's games like Watch Dogs 2. Watch Dogs 2 has copyrighted music and I just played that recently. But again, those are older songs. It's not a huge risk. But if a person like me, who 99.99% of the time has been using copyright free music, if even I'm worried, you've got to imagine how these other people are who have been playing copyrighted music for the last three to four years. You know? So basically, in summary, I think it's stupid that Twitch is willing to punish people for the past, for past clips, past highlights. I think they'd be perfectly fine just sanctioning people moving forward who push the boundaries of their rules. This isn't a new system that they've put in place. It's simply greater enforcement and greater focus on the system that already existed before. But another thing, though, is Twitch is already in a fairly weak position versing YouTube. It has already been shown by people like Dr. Disrespect, who had 30 to 40k viewers on Twitch regularly, moving to YouTube, now having 40 to 50k viewers. Like if you get banned from Twitch, it's not a death sentence. You just move to YouTube. What's going to happen when 10 of the biggest streamers, remember that like 75% of the watch time goes to the top thousand streamers on this platform. What happens when the 10 biggest streamers say no? If you're going to ban Ludwig, we'll all go to YouTube. What is Twitch going to do in that case? Like Twitch is in this situation where they can't afford to lose all this talent, but they still need to be presenting themselves as making a good faith effort to remove copyrighted material from the platform. Let's say tomorrow that another set of companies says, hey, all these songs are ours, remove them from the platform. Is Twitch really going to give three strikes immediately to like half their top content creators and just send them all to YouTube? That would be insane. It would sink Twitch. I mean, cause that was always the sentiment that one of the reasons why you weren't at risk for losing your channel is because Twitch can't afford really to enforce it to that degree. But they seem to be suggesting that they are going to enforce it to that degree. So are they, are they lying or are they suicidal? I don't know. Twitch is still the best platform in part because the culture is different, but also because your, your revenue streams are better with Twitch prime on YouTube. Right now I have 40 channel members, which is the equivalent of the subscriber on Twitch. I have over 4,000 here. I don't know, like 1500 of those at Twitch prime. Even if in some crazy world, people on YouTube were willing to become channel members to the degree the same on, on, on Twitch, I would lose all those Twitch primes immediately. Gifting subs, bits, all this stuff. It's, it's ingrained into Twitch culture where on YouTube people are more used to watching stuff for free and not engaging with material or not typing in the comments in chats and stuff. The culture just isn't the same. You may have more viewers on YouTube, but for the time being, at least you're probably not going to make as much money. Both because of the culture of giving being different and because Twitch prime isn't there. But at the same time, it's not a death sentence moving to YouTube. With every passing week, month, whatever, the culture on YouTube changes to be more accommodating to live streams. Ultimately, at those very high levels, it's more about the eyeballs, the brand and the recognition and stuff. And right now Twitch has the most brand recognition. It feels official, it has prestige, being the biggest one on Twitch. It means more than being the biggest one in YouTube live streaming. And that's kind of what you want to care about when you're that size. You aren't sweating one Twitch prime, but you are sweating the ability to sell your brand to advertisers and stuff. There's reasons you want to stay on Twitch. It's becoming less and less every day. Twitch is losing ground to YouTube and it seems as though they will continue to lose ground to YouTube for the foreseeable future. And every time they lose ground, the threat of being banned on Twitch becomes less and less of a real problem. YouTube has under 13 year olds mostly. It is certainly true that Twitch skews older in terms of the viewer, which means people are more likely to have more disposable income to sub and whatnot. Like a dollar value, a YouTube viewer is not worth the same as a viewer on Twitch. Of course, if you have double the viewers on YouTube, that can obviously offset that. Once you're really, really big, like 10,000 plus viewers or whatever, you're not necessarily sweating the one Twitch prime, the one subscription. You want all the eyeballs, you want your brands to grow, you want people to be more aware of you or whatever. And if YouTube becomes the place where you can get the most recognition, people are going to move there as opposed to worrying about one Twitch prime or whatever, right? We aren't at the point yet where Twitch is worse than YouTube or that YouTube is better than Twitch. One day we might get there. And moves like this, threatening everyone with bans from prior content for DMCA, I think just accelerates YouTube's eventual dominance of the live streaming space. And I want that to happen because I like Twitch. This all just seems like a mess. I don't agree with Twitch's decisions on the matter. It's a shitty situation. I don't know how much they're going to enforce this stuff. It's a mess. An interesting mess. In a world where Twitch and YouTube are equal, YouTube wins because they have more users. The only way Twitch can be, can succeed ahead of YouTube is if they are better in enough ways more than simply the audience. This move suggests that Twitch does not have anyone's back. They're willing to go overboard in my estimation to present themselves as making that good faith effort to remove copyrighted content rather than protecting their streamers. |
| 18. April 2021 | DMCA’s continued impact on twitch | DMCA's continued impact on Twitch. What do I think about Mixer? It doesn't even exist anymore. Where have you been? Close down like a million years ago. Mixer is now Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming is now Mixer. Have they released... reports recently as to the movement in terms of market share for these... live streaming platforms? I'm sure if they had it, they would have heard about it. Eagerly awaiting to see the trends in the market dominance. It'd be very interesting to see what the effect of... Twitch's DMCA drama will be. Because one of the big advantages Twitch had over YouTube was that they could play music. Without having to worry about DMCA's and whatnot in the large majority. Now that that's changed, I wonder... were people really moving off the platform for that? That just puts YouTube and Twitch on even footing. It doesn't necessarily mean that anyone would move to YouTube for that. Because of that, you know. I can't play songs anymore? Oh, well there's DMCA now. Does no one watch my rambles? These are old stories. You just can't play DMCAable music or whatever. You gotta get the constant ID free stuff. You may have seen that some people have recently gone back to playing music on Twitch. And the reason for this is that OBS has a feature... where you're able to make it so that a different track of music... is recorded to the VOD on Twitch. So like, on the livestream, you can listen to Kanye West or whatever. Whatever artist you like. But in the actual recording that goes on Twitch, all that stuff will be removed. So any company that is trawling through VODs to find potential DMCAable music... won't be able to find it there. It'll only exist for the live audience. The problem with this is that systems already exist to listen to livestreams... and DMCA live content. It's just I imagine this stuff is harder to run. This system is probably less perfect or whatever. And I guess a lot of these content creators are just hoping... that they won't be targeted by these systems that detect music live. Or that companies just won't bother. Or maybe even music that's played live, maybe there's less protections for that... rather than recordings, I'm not sure. May depend on the region. But regardless, it's not completely safe... but it is safer certainly than putting it in your VOD. Why play DMCAable music then? Because it's good music. People like playing the popular songs and stuff. In the overwhelming vast majority of cases, just regular background music... content ID free music is good. But there are some cases where you want to have a music stream day. Like I've said before, I would love to just sit on stream here... and have you guys throw songs at me. I can be like, no I don't like this song. I like this song. No I don't like that song. I like this song. And then I can make myself a playlist or whatever. We can share our favorite songs together. We can't do that anymore. Is it not economically feasible to get a license? These companies are so amazingly backward and ancient that no. Like if you want to get a license for a song... you're talking to a guy in this department who doesn't know what you're talking about. What is Twitch? What is YouTube? What's a live stream? You can keep the song up on your channel for a week... but then you gotta take it down. And these people at best are used to working with like movie studios and stuff. Which is, you're being talked to by a lawyer... and you've got like a 50 page contract. And they're potentially paying you $100,000 to use their one song in their movie. They're not used to experiencing just some guy who wants to listen to a song sometimes on stream. The tools don't exist for people to really go through mechanisms... like purchasing licenses for their live streams. And even if you did, odds are still that you would get a DMCA or something. Because the system wouldn't be able to pick you out as the guy who actually has a license. So you could have your stream taken down... and then you have to go like, no no no no, I have a license, I have a license, I swear, I swear, I swear... and go through that whole process to get your channel put back up. A good example is the guy that leads guitarist or singer or whatever from Dragonforce, I think. He streams on Twitch and he was playing his own music and his channel got taken down for his music. And clearly he has a license to play his own songs. And his channel got taken down. You can literally be the artist and still have a hard time. |
| 31. July 2022 | Daily Dose of internet coming out against reactors. | Daily dose of internet coming out against reactors for those who don't know who daily dose of incident is very successful YouTube content creator Who does this thing where they he takes usually? Viral clips he reaches out to the people who have the clips and he says hey Can I use your clips in a compilation and then to my understanding? I don't know exactly what he pays them, but he pays them some money So like he's effectively you know leasing and or buying clips from those who may who make them I as you've probably know by now I'm somewhat on the fence with clips it depends what you're doing with them I give you using clips to make something distinct and new and all that jazz and or if the clip itself is low effort like It's just some guy who happened to see a dog run into a fence or something I'm generally fine with that stuff But in daily doses case where he's asking for mission and or paying people for this stuff It's fine by me, but so he releases this tick tock where he says it took me ages to become successful Like I have released a video after a year hadn't done anything I quit I came back and then eventually like two years down the line One of my videos finally blew up and it inspired me to continue and I became what I am today and someone responded like yo Fortnite streamers reacting to your videos while eating. That's what blew you up And so he's like are you fucking crazy people reacting to my videos did nothing like I've been I've been successful longer than the react meta on on twitch longer than read the react meta on YouTube And he's like I can look at my analytics and I know where my viewers come from This is just fucking nonsense and this person's like come on, bro X you see gave you at least 15% of your subs daily doses like no here are my analytics You're fucking wrong is it while not saying things exactly how I would say them Daily dose to some degree coming out against this narrative of reactors actually providing significant benefit for those they react to was nice to see The only dose always comes up in the conversation of reactors Because he goes to such lengths and has done so for you know half a decade to find the people who own the clips To ask for permission and pay them but the reactors who react to his stuff don't go to such efforts They don't even ask daily dose for permission to reupload his stuff They don't ask the original creators that don't pay them any money and they don't ask any those or pay him any money So reactors make a complete mockery of what he's done To be who he is today and that's that it'd be nice if he just one day was like guys some of the Channels that own the clips that I use, you know They they they say I have to strike you down something I strike you down it strikes down all the reactors point I can happen though |
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| 05. March 2020 | Dan Houser leaving Rockstar | but bad for others. Dan Howser leaving Rockstar, the co-founder who was in charge of world building and scripts. Oh yeah, that was an announcement. Rockstar's co-founder is leaving the company in March. How many of the original people are left? Zero? I like to think positively about the changing of the people at Rockstar. I didn't like Red Dead, didn't think it was all that great, didn't like the direction they took, thought they made very simple mistakes. So maybe, with new people, things will be better. They'll make something that I really enjoy. I doubt it. Personally, I think it's probably the people who are still there who are in part responsible for the things I don't like about Rockstar. But, you know, we can be optimistic. If one more person asks me about Dan Howser, I will fucking Dan Howser that person. And I know what that means, but they won't enjoy it. OK? I got like personal DMs from like 57 people wanting my personal opinion on this dude leaving Rockstar. I don't know who the fuck this guy is. He's a guy. I didn't like Red Dead 2. So like, is Rockstar going to be worse going forward? I didn't like the last game that they produced. I haven't liked anything that Rockstar has produced for the last seven years since GTA 5. If you can ask me, is Rockstar going to become bad? I'm already in for the position that Rockstar is pretty bad. At least in regards to appealing to my personal preferences. Another dude leaving Rockstar ain't going to change that. I have heard that Dan had disagreements with the head of Take Two over Rockstar. Well, Take Two wanted Rockstar to release more games quicker and to focus on online with microtransactions. Now, if any of that is true, like any part of that, that's not a good thing. But let's be real, Rockstar has kind of been focusing on online anyway. And clearly Dan wasn't enough to stem or stop that from happening. So him leaving, I mean, who knows? His brother Sam is still a Rockstar, though. And I watched this movie about this guy named Sam. It's a bit of a douchebag. Did everyone send Ring to this place? |
| 25. June 2021 | Dark Souls no damage runs | GTA 5 is less about dodging and more about just avoiding any situation where you could possibly take damage. Dark Souls is like learning an intricate dance to the point where you don't even have to think about it and you can do it. GTA 5 is about avoiding the dance entirely. And all damage in Dark Souls is telegraphed as in it's like, I am going to be doing damage to you momentarily. Please do the thing that you need to do to avoid said damage. In GTA 5 it's like a guy in the next state over chucks a beer bottle and ricochets from that state to your state and hits you in the head and you die. Bye. |
| 20. December 2021 | Dark and edgey humour | Dark and edgy humor. I have a fairly dark sense of humor I have run across people who seem to mistake being a piece of shit for Making dark jokes like the joke I always remember from Philip DeFranco like 10 years ago when he was more edgy was when he was like Today's April Fool's and my girlfriend said my girlfriend put a joke on me and told me that she was pregnant But the jokes on her because I threw it down the stairs Now that's a dark joke and it's funny, but I wouldn't say it's the greatest joke in the universe I wouldn't say it's an amazing joke like if you told me that Jacob like, huh? Yeah Okay, but that's what I kind of mean by dark humor Remember this joke that um kind of ended the chases on the ABC where they did a skit where the premise of the skit Was why bother doing? Make a wish stuff when the person is gonna die anyway, that's a dark joke But it's but it leans on the side of ash is not right. That's not really funny It has the structure of a joke in the way that they portrayed it But it just seemed it wasn't funny enough to get away from the insensitivity, you know I would definitely would not have had them get banned from the ABC or some shit, right? There was so much backlash I think the backlash was silly, but the joke Wasn't very good. It's a very good comedian can ride that line of Of edgy and out there or whatever while still being very funny Could you got to be funny if you try to do some dark humor and you're really edgy and you push the boundaries and you're not funny You're much more likely to receive Substantial backlash, you know was it between dark and edgy. I always take dark to mean usually involving something taboo I think dark is more than edgy like edgy is like sitting on the edge of what's acceptable Dark is more like actually stepping over that line to some degree What's that was like all those gay the the dead baby jokes, whatever. Those are dark jokes They're not edgy jokes. What's the difference between a portion a pile of dead babies. I don't have a portion in my garage That's a dark joke. It isn't an edgy joke. It's not like it's not like there's People dispute whether dead babies are in a garage or a good or bad thing or it's not some commentary or whatever It's just you know, it's just a doctor. Agee would be something like um, oh, there's this dude who makes jokes about some Abortions or whatever something like that. I don't know. It's Maybe maybe you couldn't use it can use them interchangeably and I'm just being pedantic or something I'm not sure but it's just my the way that I've seen the words or use the words myself I'm not saying that's how the word should be used or are used by everyone. It is being offensive just to offend people I think I think edgy can be like just poking fun at things that people tend to find Sacred or things that you're not meant to joke about or whatever, you know Like like religion or politics or social issues or what have you? |
| 20. December 2021 | Dark and edgy humour | Dark and edgy humor. I have a fairly dark sense of humor I have run across people who seem to mistake being a piece of shit for Making dark jokes like the joke I always remember from Philip DeFranco like 10 years ago when he was more edgy was when he was like Today's April Fool's and my girlfriend said my girlfriend put a joke on me and told me that she was pregnant But the jokes on her because I threw it down the stairs Now that's a dark joke and it's funny, but I wouldn't say it's the greatest joke in the universe I wouldn't say it's an amazing joke like if you told me that Jacob like, huh? Yeah Okay, but that's what I kind of mean by dark humor Remember this joke that um kind of ended the chases on the ABC where they did a skit where the premise of the skit Was why bother doing? Make a wish stuff when the person is gonna die anyway, that's a dark joke But it's but it leans on the side of ash is not right. That's not really funny It has the structure of a joke in the way that they portrayed it But it just seemed it wasn't funny enough to get away from the insensitivity, you know I would definitely would not have had them get banned from the ABC or some shit, right? There was so much backlash I think the backlash was silly, but the joke Wasn't very good. It's a very good comedian can ride that line of Of edgy and out there or whatever while still being very funny Could you got to be funny if you try to do some dark humor and you're really edgy and you push the boundaries and you're not funny You're much more likely to receive Substantial backlash, you know was it between dark and edgy. I always take dark to mean usually involving something taboo I think dark is more than edgy like edgy is like sitting on the edge of what's acceptable Dark is more like actually stepping over that line to some degree What's that was like all those gay the the dead baby jokes, whatever. Those are dark jokes They're not edgy jokes. What's the difference between a portion a pile of dead babies. I don't have a portion in my garage That's a dark joke. It isn't an edgy joke. It's not like it's not like there's People dispute whether dead babies are in a garage or a good or bad thing or it's not some commentary or whatever It's just you know, it's just a doctor. Agee would be something like um, oh, there's this dude who makes jokes about some Abortions or whatever something like that. I don't know. It's Maybe maybe you couldn't use it can use them interchangeably and I'm just being pedantic or something I'm not sure but it's just my the way that I've seen the words or use the words myself I'm not saying that's how the word should be used or are used by everyone. It is being offensive just to offend people I think I think edgy can be like just poking fun at things that people tend to find Sacred or things that you're not meant to joke about or whatever, you know Like like religion or politics or social issues or what have you? |
| 03. August 2021 | DarkVTuberAU | me. Dark Vtuber AU. I have no interest in doing the Vtuber thing. I've said many times and I've been on the record, I have no desire to ever pretend to be anything more than exactly what I am. I have issues with ideas of what identity means and what it means to say that I am myself. I don't think I need to spend a lot of my time pretending in any capacity, honestly. I don't think it'd be good for me psychologically. I've become a Vtuber who's just a cat and I sit here all day going meow meow meow as I play the game. |
| 18. July 2022 | DarkVipeAU onlyfans. | Dark Viper AU OnlyFans. OnlyFans? I mean, if I could do OnlyFans, I mean, nah, I probably wouldn't. I've got enough things that I do. I do one of those OnlyFans that is a PG-13. Nothing really lewd on there at all. I've never actually been on OnlyFans. Does it have, like, an algorithm of discoverability or something? Classify people by their physical appearance in the most precise ways, and then recommend you creators that look like each other? No. I guess then it's just a platform where you have to, like, market yourself on other platforms. Now, it's like YouTube. YouTube has a great recommendation system. It bothers me that people who don't use YouTube's algorithm complain that it's not very good. Like, people don't use the buttons available, and they don't use the not-interested button, and they just, you know... And they're surprised that they can never find content on there. |
| 18. October 2021 | DarkViperAU #Shorts | I made a shorts channel. I do have a shorts channel now guys. I made it because people kept re-uploading my clips making them into shorts to be in the shorts section of YouTube. Hate it, so I made my own channel. Yeah, so guys if you see my shorts channel on YouTube, it's just got DarkviperAU hashtag shorts. Feel free to sub to it. Don't leave mean comments like, This is just another channel stealing DarkviperAU's content. Because there's a lot of them. |
| 08. December 2021 | DarkViperAU - The emperor of Finland | Dark Viper AU, the Emperor of Finland. No, no, no, we'll take over Finland eventually. It'll happen. I'll know I have- I'll have made it as an internet personality when I get a call from the Finnish government and they're like, Look, heard about your intentions with Finland. We need to know that these aren't serious, so we're gonna have to send some people to come take you away. Or some shit. I of course will lie and say they're not serious. Don't want them to be prepared for the invasion. Now fuck it. I'll know when I've become famous as an internet celebrity or whatever when they just give me Finland. They're like, look, you're so good at running GTA 5 that I think you'd be very good at running our country. We've all agreed to give you a go. Dark Viper, the Emperor of Finland. |
| 08. December 2021 | DarkViperAU - The emperor of finland | Dark Viper AU, the Emperor of Finland. No, no, no, we'll take over Finland eventually. It'll happen. I'll know I have- I'll have made it as an internet personality when I get a call from the Finnish government and they're like, Look, heard about your intentions with Finland. We need to know that these aren't serious, so we're gonna have to send some people to come take you away. Or some shit. I of course will lie and say they're not serious. Don't want them to be prepared for the invasion. Now fuck it. I'll know when I've become famous as an internet celebrity or whatever when they just give me Finland. They're like, look, you're so good at running GTA 5 that I think you'd be very good at running our country. We've all agreed to give you a go. Dark Viper, the Emperor of Finland. |
| 19. February 2022 | DarkViperAU Stole My Candy! | Dark Viper AU stole my candy What's more viable Matt subbing to you or getting a shit ton of candy look yeah You should get shit ton of candy to be honest. I mean If you really want a shit ton of candy and and you're like like not worried about your weight or something get the shit ton of Candy I don't want you to be like subbed to me and then like a week from now go man I could have got that candy this motherfucker dark Viper took my candy from me What an asshole and then like a year down the line You know I'll be at some convention somewhere and you'll come out and know it with a knife and be like you stole my candy from me and you stabbed me and I might die. Please we just stop all that immediately and you choose by the candy |
| 24. May 2022 | DarkViperAU The 'React' Guy | EU the react guy Someone tagged me on reddit in this post that was it was titled name a controversial streamer That you still like to watch and I was listed by this dude They tagged me and the guy who made the post responded. Oh, that's the react guy I was like, oh, but like saying I've done more controversial things than that Don't pigeonhole me into one controversy controversy. I've had many controversies. I'm multi-talented controversy whites I'm not the most controversial Only to people who haven't been around forever. People don't know the stories man chest |
| 08. June 2022 | DarkViperAU The Scammer. | FiverrAU the scammer. I saw like the dumbest fucking comment When will you stop trying to justify that you just play games all day long? The reason video you made showing you you doing some video editing was nauseating We all know you pay other people to do that. It was so disingenuous Guys, he's got me all the editing that I do is just a front All my editing streams none of that was real. It's all smoke and mirrors I'm just opening Adobe and moving around footage. None of that ever I get to see the light of day It's all fake The guy is a millionaire he made it playing GTA 5 it's funny I Played GTA 5 for five or six years and made no fucking money And then you know why I started making money when I started editing ain't that crazy It's almost like you can't just play a video game and make fuck tons of money You actually have to do other things there are millions of people just playing video games right now Live or you know billions playing them Privately if we're possible just to be get millions of dollars just playing video games everyone would be a fucking millionaire This is not that way and what I do have people helping with editing now the amount that I edit hasn't decreased Every waking minute I spend either making footage which is probably like a third of my job now Another third is management stuff, which is organizing footage. You're making thumbnails Uploading stuff titles rendering and all that stuff and the other third is just raw editing dealing with projects myself |
| 12. August 2020 | DarkViperAU exposed as a jerk to his viewers | Dark Viper AU exposed being a jerk to his viewers. I've been a real jerk to maybe three or four people, I think. Not over the course of my life, I mean just over the last four days. I was a jerk to at least four people. Under normal circumstances I would go back and apologize, because I don't like being jerks to people, but so there's this phenomenon, right? I know this is going to sound so egotistical or something, but whenever you explain something, there is going to be the vast majority who understand, because you've explained it well. Then there's going to be a minority who don't understand, but don't say anything. Maybe they realize they're not the brightest, they're like, well, you know, this isn't really important to me. But then there's going to be this like, one, two percent of people who don't know how stupid they are, who will pester you with the most amazing stupid questions, that is so painfully obvious in their answer, but you feel compelled to respond. And like, you're basically bringing up finger puppets, drawing diagrams to explain, they're like, nah, I don't get it, because there's music, but it's so painfully obvious, and it just drives you crazy. Whenever I make an informational video, you get a handful of these people, and I'm not mature enough as a person just to identify these people and move on, I still respond, and it drives me crazy. Until eventually they wear me down, by patience, just, I'm just like, you dense motherfucker, how do you not understand? It's like the video, where's the video? For those who haven't seen it, you're in for a treat here. I think X represents a general concept of rich people, and Y represents a general concept, these are specific things, of poor people. This diagram, no, it describes my points, it describes it, it describes my point of view, this can't prove anything, it doesn't actually represent real life. No one can be this dumb! Still one of my favorite clips, we made that into a donation sound as well, and you just run across these people every once in a while, and at the end of the conversation, man, I'm such a fucking jerk, dude, because no one works for their genetics, no one works to be in an environment where you're properly nourished as a child, or that you have influences in your life that make you seek out new information and whatnot, you don't earn that. The people who don't have these things, you pity them on some level, because you recognize you're privileged to not be in their circumstances, but at the same time, it doesn't make you have unlimited patience, right? Because you only have a finite amount of time in your life. A mature person would go, oh, they can't be helped and move on, but me, being a fuckwit, I'm just like, you will explain this! I will make it so you will explain, I will write seven essays, just please understand, and you just never get there, it's just terrible. Welcome to my life and my various flaws as a human being. It's gonna come back to bite me in the ass one day. Someone malicious is gonna make a video like, DarkviperAU exposed, being a jerk to his viewers. It happened. |
| 30. September 2022 | DarkViperAU giver of relationship advice | P-A-U, give her a relationship advice. I need her help. Man, I'd do else to ask. There's a girl that likes me, but I don't like her back. How do I let her down easy? Peace and love. How the fuck would I, of all the people in the universe, billions that exist, you come to me with this question? Why do I, like, it's like you've come to, like a fish, and ask them how to fly or to make pizza? I wish you all the best with you. Unfortunately, I don't have any advice. I do appreciate your $10 there, and I appreciate that you think I'm capable of such sage wisdom as that, but unfortunately I'm not. |
| 02. November 2021 | DarkViperAU health progression. | Dark Viper AU health progression. You think summoning Saults should make a video about me? What would be titled? The negative health impacts of speedrunning? Take like- takes like old streams of me. Happy, thin, smiling, and then takes me now just beaten down, fat, and old. Let this be a warning! I was never thin- ah ah ah ah I got I got photo evidence that once once upon a time I was not a fat fuck. It was once upon a time that my movements were not regulated by the government out of fear that I will cause earthquakes and tsunamis. |
| 27. September 2022 | DarkViperAU react series | Dark Viper AU REACTS series. Is this the start of Dark Viper AU REACTS? I have considered making a REACTS series where I react to my own videos. For some of the videos that were more complicated, I wanted to do like a director's commentary and explain why certain things are as they are, and give more depth to what's going on. And I could do that for a few dozen videos, at least. Yeah, director's commentary for Passive is pretty good. My hairdresser- |
| 21. August 2022 | DarkViperAU revealed a secret bad person | ass people really has any impact other than just puts into people's minds Hey, you know, this is something that you could do realistically and everyone who just wants to fuck with you goes Oh, yeah, you don't want me to do this then i'll do it anyway, right? You're kind of damned if you do damned if you don't dark viper you revealed as a secret bad person The topic name here was different before but this video keeps getting demonetized. So i'm just going to change it So recently this person named Ask orbery fine person nice person this person just Finds or submitted tweets from people saying horrendously garbage shit and uh, she kind of retweets them, right? It's sort of like a public shaming thing and as many of you likely know on twitter There are a lot of people who have variations of my face as their profile image and i've kind of just let that be But this person got featured their entire Account is full of the most horrendous garbage considering it's called weird twitter I thought for a bit that maybe this was either an attempt to fuck with me Especially because they they mention that their profile image is me in their description either that or it's just someone trying to get attention I'm not sure but regardless a lot of people thought that this profile picture was of this weird twitter person And so they wrote comments in response. Why does it look like he shaved his pubic hair and glued it to his face? I've seen better beard rendering in 90s era video games. Did he glue that thing to his face? It looks like he's glued to his face. If it weren't for your mama, you wouldn't even be here with your fake beard So stop dissing women and Comparisons, this is what happens when you order your men from wish Perhaps just maybe this guy's problem is right there in the mirror wild guess here Is he trying to look like a video game character from 2010? Can't unsee the gap between his face and hair That should not be he got dead fish eyes It's my theory that a lot of beards hide weak chins and it even got posted to blatant misogyny on reddits Well, i'm not going to go through all this both on twitter and reddit. There were some people being like Oh my god, is that dark viper au? I didn't know it was like this Thankfully, it wasn't many people and there was usually a reply that's like oh no, I found his real twitter It isn't him. I do remember though that one person was like what this is dark viper au. No, no wonder I I unsubscribe from him like a year ago and I was like ah, but uh, it is unfortunate that this happened And I just thought it was a kind of a weird moment that should probably be immortalized in my ramble series As I say once you reach a certain size these sort of things are just going to happen Thankfully at my request ask orbry was kind enough to take down the tweet But the original tweet by weird twitter is still there as is their account despite me reporting it for impersonation |
| 19. February 2022 | DarkViperAu Stole My Candy! | Dark Viper AU stole my candy What's more viable Matt subbing to you or getting a shit ton of candy look yeah You should get a shit ton of candy to be honest. I mean If you really want a shit ton of candy and and you're like like not worried about your weight or something get the shit ton of Candy I don't want you to be like subbed to me and then like a week from now go man I could have got that candy this motherfucker dark Viper took my candy from me What an asshole and then like a year down the line You know I'll be at some convention somewhere and you'll come out and know it with a knife and be like you stole my candy from me and you stabbed me and I might die. Please we just stop all that immediately and you choose by the candy |
| 18. July 2022 | Darkviperau onlyfans. | Dark Viper AU OnlyFans. OnlyFans? I mean, if I could do OnlyFans, I mean, nah, I probably wouldn't. I've got enough things that I do. I do one of those OnlyFans that is a PG-13. Nothing really lewd on there at all. I've never actually been on OnlyFans. Does it have, like, an algorithm of discoverability or something? Classify people by their physical appearance in the most precise ways and then recommend you creators that look like each other? No? I guess then it's just a platform where you have to, like, market yourself on other platforms. Now it's like YouTube, YouTube has a great recommendation system. It bothers me that people who don't use YouTube's algorithm complain that it's not very good. Like, people don't use the buttons available and they don't use the not interested button and they just, you know, and they're surprised that they can never find content on there. |
| 03. August 2021 | Darkweeber reviews | Dark Weaver Reviews. Anime Review Dark Weaver? If I thought for a moment that me reviewing anime could get a lot of views or whatever, I would do that. But the name would only make sense to people who watch my old content, so... Kinda pointless. But like if I wanted to make an anime review, I'd call it that. Dark Weaver Reviews X. Actually it's funny, Gigu just released a video talking about how there's not a lot of actual anime reviews that happens anymore. It's more uh... talking about the significance of shows and... like essays. Boku no Pico? I have seen that, I just can't remember what it is because you've used the Japanese name. Because why would I know the Japanese name? Note, I have seen most of the popular anime. Watch it at 2x speed, fly through it. As long as it's not Slice Life or Romance. You're looking at a guy who's almost finished One Piece. Got like 30 episodes left. Like I'm not some guy who knows nothing about anime. I've seen a little bit of Tricon, it didn't really grip. |
| 01. May 2021 | Daylight savings time | Daylight savings time Pins on daylight savings time. I like everyone else believe it's complete shit and should be removed, but no one can be bothered Okay, I can't be everyone surely there are some people who supports it daylight savings time. We make a poll Make it four options the first one being the first two being I live in a place with daylight savings time I support or don't support and the other one being I don't live in a place with daylight savings time I I support or don't support and so I don't need to know what wins I need to know all the results really Aves and Germans wish daylight savings time to be removed The thing is even when the majority of the population wants something it can still not be like politically feasible to do like even if we want to grant that politicians Work in favor of achieving what the population wants to some degree. There's only certain things that they can do I'll spend their time doing or fight for it's a very minor issue like daylight savings It's probably not one that any politician wants to ask further how long I live in daylight savings, and I don't support it's 65% Is there someone write out all four results, please so 25% in daylight saving time support 65% don't support 7% not in daylight savings don't support 2% Yeah, I can't long story short the over one majority people in daylight savings Don't don't support it the over one majority people wait this poll sucks Why did they implement daylight savings time it was to do with? giving farmers more time to do their crops or something and Or like to reduce the use of electricity by giving more people Daylight time when they're awake. I think for those reasons. I think it's good those reasons don't apply now All you have is people being awake more during hotter weather And so they just run their air conditioners and farmers don't fucking need more daytime to bloody well do their goddamn crops This is in 1930 the main expense of electricity is not your light bulbs. It's like literally everything else Supposedly, this is the last year Canada will be using daylight saving time well good on Canada I hear a lot of good things from Canada Honestly might be the country that if I could live anywhere else that would be where I'd move to a lot of places Keep saying this the last year doing daylight saving times. We keep returning to it. I'll hope Canada doesn't let us down Canada's not that great by every metric it is good There is no metric of societal health that Canada's terribly in it can only do Terribly by comparison to other equally good countries, you know |
| 02. February 2021 | Ddifferent containers for soft drink taste different | Different containers of soft drink taste difference. Okay, well I've only got two Pepsi Maxes left in my fridge and I stupidly have all my other cans downstairs. Why do you buy cans if you can buy a full bottle and save money? Cans taste better than plastic bottles and glass bottles taste better than cans. And that may surprise you, feel free to go grab yourself just glass bottle of Coke, an aluminum can of Coke and a bottle of Coke and drink all three in succession. You'll be able to taste the difference, especially when they're cold. The glass bottles of Coke are very expensive. |
| 20. December 2021 | Dealing with an incompetent management company | Dealing with an incompetent management group, not the group that I'm with currently. A management company contacted me and I'm like, Oh yeah, I'll hear you out, like maybe we should talk by email right, because time zones are a bitch. They're like, no no no no no, we'll talk on the phone. I'm like, oh yeah, okay, fair enough, it's not a big deal. So we set up a day, I get to that day, I email them, I'm like, so we doing this? No response. The next day I get a message, I'm like, oh we're doing the conversation? They're like, what do you mean? It was yesterday. I'm like, do you not understand how time zones work? Because you're the day before me, so if you say it's on this day at this time, because they said Australian Eastern Standard Time, 9am Australian Eastern Standard Time, on Monday. Which is their Sunday, I was like, well that's kind of weird, but okay, whatever you reckon. They didn't seem to realise that time zones aren't just a difference in time, but also a difference in day. So they missed the day, I'm like, okay fair enough. So we set up for another day and I talked to them, I was like, okay, maybe it was just a one off mistake, maybe they're not incompetent or whatever. But they want another conversation, I'm like, okay fine, we'll talk again. And so I'm there like two minutes early or five minutes early or whatever it was. And they're like, oh so you ready to talk on Zoom? I'm like, what the fuck is Zoom? We're going to talk on Discord, but you're talking about it. And they mess me back like five minutes later, oh yeah, it was on Discord, that's right. My bad, I'm like, okay weird. And so they wait there for 25 minutes and they never get the call. They're like, oh you know, the person's almost ready. Who are these people who are missing meetings, choosing the times for meetings, and then leaving me hanging for 25 fucking minutes? Like how little respect must you have for me that I'm pawned off to the incompetent people and you just leave me hanging for 25 minutes whenever you fucking feel like it? They eventually call, no they didn't get it. Like I said, this isn't fucking on, just send me an email and we'll talk there and they didn't get anything back. Nonsense. They should manage their time, Betty, yes. How could they manage me when they can't even manage their own time? |
| 15. February 2022 | Dealing with negative publicity and people's unrealistic expectations? | to happen. There's only one positive thing I've ever said about Keemstar, which is like a hundred negative things for one positive. And that positive was, how does he not just like explode from the negative negativity for all those years and to be hated that much? Because I'm even to an extent dream, which maybe we shouldn't talk about that topic, but the amount of hatred he gets from so many corners for so many reasons, many of it justified, depends what topic we're talking about. Somebody is justified getting backlash and the degrees of hatred from certain people. It would just must be so overwhelming. Cause I'm getting like one tablespoon of the hatred that these sort of people are getting. And I already feel overwhelmed by it to at least some extent. People who think this is what content creators want, just have never experienced it. Maybe there are some people out there who do want this stuff, but there's not many, you know? I've spoken to Dream a lot and yeah, I said to him like, I don't, he's a lot more switched on than people think. And you have to be to deal with, like people say that he like responded to the drama badly, right? But I mean, when you've been through a little bit of what he goes through, I think he deals with it like incredibly well. It's very difficult not to have like a complete breakdown when you're getting piled on by so many people. Like dealing with that kind of drama is incredibly tough. What I like to say is that there's this hypothetical person who is mature, never emotional, 100% logical all the time, thinks before they speak in every situation. This person doesn't exist. But when criticizing people for their responses to any situation, they are compared to this hypothetical non-existent person. It's like, well, in hindsight, you could have emotionally reacted this way. Like we're not in perfect control of our emotions. We respond in ways emotionally just clouds our judgment or we can potentially do something that we think is right in the moment and then realize moments later, oh shit, we fucked up. No one is going to respond to any drama perfectly. It's not always due to like them being a terrible person. It can just often be feel emotionally overwhelmed or you feel attacked and you want to fight back. People criticize me for my situation with unnamed. Well, I've apologized to unnamed publicly and privately multiple times. I will argue till the day I die, given what I knew at the time, I was never going to respond any other way. I just misunderstood a lot of what unnamed said and did and I didn't know who he was. And so I made conclusions that I was always going to come to, but they were wrong. He's a good dude and he's passionate about speed running now, which he's now got into. And he's helped me out learning in my runs. So I feel bad that I was in any way, shape or form responsible for any negativity thrust upon him. But I cannot see a reality where the situation I was in was going to ever be different. Only a person that hypothetical person, because that's what I said in my, my original response to the drama. I said, I think the overwhelming majority of people in my circumstance would have happened the exact same way. It would have acted the exact same way. And while I'll accept that a perfect human being and maybe some people who exist would have acted differently and better than I did. I don't think that's many people. And certainly many of the people criticizing me for what I did either would have acted the same way I was. For people to accept that you'd have to know a lot more about the situation and my particular mental state and what I go through, maybe even on a day to day basis, which, you know, not many people are going to be receptive to and certainly to a degree, I don't want to share that information anyway. So like I understand. It's not never for a successful person to express their woes is never taken well. It's funny. Some people do take it well in the sense of they like the idea that you being you're being open about your emotions and how you feel and all that stuff. But other people are like, dude, your life is going so good. Shut the fuck up. You shouldn't have any problems. Da da da. It's that you're so attractive. Why are you sad? You ever heard someone? We haven't heard that. That's a meme, I guess. Oh yeah. I mean, attractive people, I've seen people who are very attractive say that sort of thing. How could you possibly be sad or you're so rich, how could you possibly be sad? Yes, I don't know. It's a direct correlation between like how big a creator is and how perfect the expectation is for them to act. Yeah, probably. Like the more the bigger they are, people are like you have to be more and more and more and more perfect, which in real life, there's no correlation between how big you are and how like immature you are or how emotionally stable you are. So yeah, it's weird. |
| 17. March 2021 | Dealing with potential editors | Dealing with potential editors. So I had a real shit day yesterday. Like a really, really shit day. There is one group of people in this world that I seem to consistently find myself being an asshole to. And that's potential editors. I have been so long dealing with what I could only call incompetence and it's starting to drive me nuts. I don't think I, for any amount of money, would enjoy a life where I had to deal with hiring people for tasks. Like as a primary part of my job. Being that person in a company. Because on the small scale that I do it, it drives me fucking crazy. Because it's hard not to be rude. As you explain in intricate detail how a person is fucked up royally and your bafflement as to how they could have fucked up this royally. And like rarely do you find a counter argument. Like when you explain it in the clearest terms that they fucked up and it's incredibly insane that they didn't realize they fucked up. You really get an argument. Because they're like, oh well, actually yeah, obviously I see that now. I was like, why didn't you see that before? I have wasted hundreds upon hundreds of hours of my life now dealing with people who have failed to edit tasks. I just feel like it's such a draining experience. Might be my least favorite part of my job. I just wish people had a better understanding of their own capabilities and so would not take on tasks that are clearly above their ability. I hear someone say hi to editors. One more task that I clearly need to do myself. I don't even look at what I'm asking for as particularly demanding. I'm willing to go miles to make the end product better. And fix it. I need to see some evidence that what the person's done originally is saving me time. Or is actually indicative of a sincere effort to make something good. And certainly the ability to make something good. I suppose just a sincere effort is not enough. Because the end result has to be good. At least to some degree. Like I'm saying if the edit is 50% there, I will carry that edit on my back to the finish line to get it uploaded. But people can't even meet that standard. It's driving me fucking mad. And I'll complain about it and I'll get emails from people like Oh don't you worry I'll fucking do it. I'm not like this. And they all are. They're all like that. It's driving me mad. Exactly. |
| 30. June 2021 | Death Note's alternate ending | alternate ending. What is my favorite anime? I still think it's Death Note. I recently learned that the manga had a different ending from the actual anime for Death Note. In the anime, I mean it's been out for so many decades, Light runs away before he uh, Ryugu puts his name in the book. In the actual anime, um, Light is still in the room with all the other guys and he says to Ryugu, like, Ryugu, put their names in the Death Note or whatever. And uh, Ryugu says okay or whatever and Light thinks that he's won because Ryugu's gonna kill everyone in the room for him. And then, uh, that's when Ryugu says, no, I'm putting your name in the Death Note, as I always said that's what I was gonna do. Because, you know, obviously, because Light was gonna live and live out the rest of his life in jail. And so Ryugu, um, didn't want to have to go through that because it'd be very boring, so he just writes Light's name and then ends. The way it does it in the anime, where he like runs away or whatever, and it's kind of parasitic or whatever, it doesn't have the same impact as Light realizing in front of everyone that he's about to die and him panicking and crying and shit. I said spoilers and it's been out for decades. It's like the oldest anime ever. I think the second half of Death Note is fine, it's just no one knows as good as the first half. Oh yeah, I've seen Mob Psycho, it's a great anime too. Have I seen the Death Note movie? Yeah, it's garbage. I still remember when that movie came out for Netflix and just, it was like a ripple effect on the internet where every single YouTube channel made a video saying, this is the worst movie fucking ever, what the hell? Like it's one thing to make a bad movie, it's another to take like some source material that is so good and just fuck it up completely. What's it called? Um, you're given a layup and you miss it? Isn't a layup when it's like the dude in basketball throws the ball like it's like right in front of the hoop and all you have to do is like just tap it in or whatever. It's like the easiest thing in the world and you just fuck it. See I know my baseball, okay. I have no interest in basketball or baseball guys, just beware. Death Note is the oldest anime ever, 2005. Hey that's like 16 years old and the manga is even older than that. Death Note is like that anime that like everyone's seen. Yeah, Jojo is pretty good. I would definitely watch the newest season when it comes out. Dragon Ball also was garbage but Dragon Ball is a little bit, the whole thing is a bit more harder to adapt to a movie. Death Note not so, it's literally a fucking magic book that can kill people. How do you fuck that one up? Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 30. June 2021 | Death Note’s alternate ending | alternate ending. What is my favorite anime? I still think it's Death Note. I recently learned that the manga had a different ending from the actual anime for Death Note. In the anime, I mean it's been out for so many decades, Light runs away before he uh, Ryugu puts his name in the book. In the actual anime, um, Light is still in the room with all the other guys and he says to Ryugu, like, Ryugu, put their names in the Death Note or whatever. And uh, Ryugu says okay or whatever and Light thinks that he's won because Ryugu's gonna kill everyone in the room for him. And then, uh, that's when Ryugu says, no, I'm putting your name in the Death Note, as I always said that's what I was gonna do. Because, you know, obviously, because Light was gonna live and live out the rest of his life in jail. And so Ryugu, um, didn't want to have to go through that because it'd be very boring, so he just writes Light's name and then ends. The way it does it in the anime, where he like runs away or whatever, and it's kind of parasitic or whatever, it doesn't have the same impact as Light realizing in front of everyone that he's about to die and him panicking and crying and shit. I said spoilers and it's been out for decades. It's like the oldest anime ever. I think the second half of Death Note is fine, it's just no one knows as good as the first half. Oh yeah, I've seen Mob Psycho, it's a great anime too. Have I seen the Death Note movie? Yeah, it's garbage. I still remember when that movie came out for Netflix and just, it was like a ripple effect on the internet where every single YouTube channel made a video saying, this is the worst movie fucking ever, what the hell? Like it's one thing to make a bad movie, it's another to take like some source material that is so good and just fuck it up completely. What's it called? Um, you're given a layup and you miss it? Isn't a layup when it's like the dude in basketball throws the ball like it's like right in front of the hoop and all you have to do is like just tap it in or whatever. It's like the easiest thing in the world and you just fuck it. See I know my baseball, okay. I have no interest in basketball or baseball guys, just beware. Death Note is the oldest anime ever, 2005. Hey that's like 16 years old and the manga is even older than that. Death Note is like that anime that like everyone's seen. Yeah, Jojo is pretty good. I would definitely watch the newest season when it comes out. Dragon Ball also was garbage but Dragon Ball is a little bit, the whole thing is a bit more harder to adapt to a movie. Death Note not so, it's literally a fucking magic book that can kill people. How do you fuck that one up? Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 05. September 2021 | Debate with my sister about planned obsolescence | Debate with my sister about planned obsolescence. There's a word for what you're describing to you. Like they're not made to break, it's just they're not made to last. Like I assure you right, if you kept those things in a box for two years and never used them, you could open them two years later and they'd be fine. You could be one of those lucky people who could use one of those devices and just for whatever reason it would never break. Or you could be hyper, hyper sensitive with them and they'd last a long time, but just... What's the word? Someone must know the word. Is it planned obsolescence? I thought about that, but I didn't think it was. Maybe it is. Regardless, it was a debate I had with my sister actually. She said to me that she watched a documentary that showed that every piece of electronics made in the US or in China has built within it a chip that makes it defect after a certain amount of time. And I said that is complete nonsense. And I'm like, no, no, no, I guarantee it's the case. And I'm like, look, you will find no evidence for this. I guarantee you. And she the next day sends me articles about planned obsolescence. I'm like, that's not the same thing, Megan. Planned obsolescence is like having the choice between two types of metal that are both roughly the same price. And instead of going with the one that will make the device last five years, you go with the one that will make it last on average two years just so you sell more units. That's not the same thing as having a chip that defects the device after a certain amount of time. If that was the case, manufacturing in both China and the US would be something that you'd almost effectively never use, because this would eventually get out, of course. It's like you'd buy it from any other country because you have a larger chance of that device actually lasting longer. If it's guaranteed to break after two years, you wouldn't buy from either country. And there's also, as I said, there's a lot of legislation that's on the books right now that would not make any sense. If that was indeed the standard for all electronics in America, like there's different people fighting in different states for the right to repair. If the devices were guaranteed to fault after two years, whatever she said, it'd be completely pointless. Furthermore, if it was simply a chip built into all these devices, then you'd have like on every corner, like some guy who's like, hey, your phone, it's got a chip in it, we'll make it break in two years. Pay me 50 bucks, I'll remove it. Because she believed it was the law that devices had to be made with a chip in them that made them fail. Consumer culture, you know, that's absurd for so many reasons, just a little bit of thought. But anyway, is it the manufacturers who use cheap components? It depends on the device. Like some businesses have the business model of saying like, your device will last the rest of your life. You know, we'll give you a lifetime warranty. You have any problem, you bring in and we'll fix it for you. And if we can't fix it, we'll replace it. |
| 30. September 2022 | Defy the YouTube algorithm | Defy the YouTube algorithm. I'm glad you've been back in my YouTube algorithm lately, it's always good to see you. Hey, if you're ever sitting there every day, scrolling through the YouTube algorithm, and you think to yourself, man, the algorithm ain't giving me anything good right now. Just go, uh, look at my, like, classics playlist or scroll back in my channel. You're guaranteed to find something you ain't ever seen before that you'll enjoy. |
| 02. October 2021 | Deja vu | Deja vu, the uncanny feeling you've already experienced something even when you know you haven't. I fucking hate deja vu. Coops me the fuck out. My life is very repetitive. Life in general, most people, is very repetitive. You do think about situations in the future and of course memory isn't perfect, your brain isn't perfect. But I mean, there's many different explanations as to why you can feel deja vu, but it just feels creepy whenever it happens to them. No, deja vu is when you feel like something has happened before or that you've like dreamt it or whatever. I'll be like, I've seen this. I've seen this happen before and I'm now living it. What the fuck. Coincidence? Yes, 100%. |
| 19. February 2022 | Deleting Facebook, My old dog, and my prom | Deleting Facebook, my old dog and my prom. Basically I deleted my Facebook account yesterday and I downloaded all my videos and stuff and images. Said to my dog, this is from 2009, I can't remember when he died, but it's over 10 years ago now. I remember it as being like a silky cross terrier or something. I remember my parents, I think they woke us up or something and they brought us out and I was like super confused and they had like a literal basket that was wrapped with wrapping paper and I was like oh my god a dog. Saddest thing though, saddest thing. Towards the end he was blind and deaf and I don't even think he recognized me anymore. That stuff's hard in people, it's also hard in pets, trust. And this is me at my prom. Is what I mean by when I say I put my hair spiked up and with blonde in it. Don't I look fucking stupid? Ahhhh, it's awful. It's just terrible. But yeah, those are the main pictures that I took. And this is another image from Danica. It's very close to good too. And this was sent to me as well. Forget who, by maybe, is that his name? I'm not sure. Davey and it's the doggo jumping, Sheba. It's cool. |
| 09. March 2022 | Deleting facebook was easy for me. | Depleting Facebook was easy for me. Deleting Facebook needs balls, you may not like it, but people might want to contact you and Facebook technically is your only source for them. I don't know any people. I deleted my Facebook, cause I was like, is there a single person from my past that I really want to contact me? The answer is no. I can't think of the scenario. Maybe like one or two dudes. Like of all the people, for the first 25 years of my life that I met, if I saw them somewhere, I'd be like, there's probably like two people that I saw somewhere, I'd be like, hey man that's cool, how you doing? And that's it. |
| 14. January 2021 | Deleting old videos | I'll never delete an old video. I think I've privated like one or two for various like copyright reasons, but I I'm not I've deleted heaps of videos like my my original channels don't exist anymore And I watch that is such a different brain Yeah, I can watch them and I can be like, yeah, this sounds like me I don't know the presentation very different are these ideas a little bit more rough in the way that they're presented But I I can I can totally see where I'm coming from and I can see how that person became who I am today But I wouldn't defend that content. It was very straight-laced very presented in a Like I'm sitting in front of the camera and basically read from a script in an essay. It's nothing like What I do now, but I mean my my rambles could be presenting the same ideas But the way that they're presented is so different Yeah, but even I certainly One of the things I found especially when I was panicking about the algorithm not liking my channel I took down a lot of my older videos that weren't edited as well And then I kind of compiled them together into the best bits of those videos So all those original videos don't exist anymore. The best bits of them exist in compilation So nothing's really been lost as far as I'm concerned with those and certainly the clips channel That enabled me to put clips from my twitch from 2015 and stuff up there as well, which was awesome It is interesting looking at the past where it's sometimes you forget where you came from You know and how much you've and unless you put side-by-side your old content and your new content. It's hard to see how different You are, you know Definitely I Sometimes get comments on my old old videos because like when you go into YouTube any of money doesn't isn't familiar It'll just show you your recent comments like regardless of what video great feature most ones Yeah and so I'll sometimes say one from like a video from like like three years ago or two years ago and some like you Alright today man, like your voice sounds weird and like one of my Subscribers that could a hundred percent just be banter But I sometimes want to like to people not look at like maybe I must have not have seen the date and I sound like So droney and monotone more than believe it or not. I do now when I talk so Yeah, I Find the way I present myself and speak and whatnot has changed over the years in ways that I Didn't immediately remember until I saw my older content. I'm a lot more Lot more communicative. I'm a lot more energetic in communicating my emotions and whatnot I think it's just something you kind of develop as you you spend time on Twitch you realize that if you're feeling something People won't immediately know that unless you communicate it in some capacity and you just get used to Communicating your thoughts and feelings in a way that your audience can understand as opposed to when you're by yourself with no camera You may feel frustration, but you don't necessarily show us but when you're with an audience you kind of have to show it or they won't understand and I've never intentionally changed the way that I act for the benefit of my audience, but I found that just over time I've naturally done that I Guess just in unintentionally. That's why I appear so different compared to my older content. Yeah a Lot of these it real it's a really hard skill like communicating Yeah like what you said how you actually feel in your content sometimes like because in your head you like Especially when I was starting I was like I'll do it like this and then I'd make it and it wouldn't be like what I was wanting to Do the air you ever that you um, you |
| 27. March 2022 | Delivery drivers ruin my sleeping pattern. | Three drivers ruined my sleeping pattern. I was having a TV delivered yesterday chat. And so that I look, we're gonna come between 8am and 4pm. And I'm like, oh no, my sleeping pattern is terrible right now. I'm going to bed at like 10am. I guess I have to stay awake, but don't worry. They might come at 8am and I'll be fine. They didn't come at 8am chat. They didn't come at 9am, didn't come at 10am, didn't come at 11am. And I'm feeling really fucking tired. I'm like, stay awake. Ahhhh. Didn't come at lunchtime, didn't come at 1pm. I'm checking my phone like, I'm fifth in line, what does that mean? 2pm? No. 3pm? No. They came at 3.30. There was an 8 hour window and they came at the very end of it. And I'm like, they pushed the TV in my house and I'm like, I'm not even gonna unbox this. I just go to sleep. And I had maybe 5 and a half hours sleep or something. Cause I was just, I know like I was so tired that I couldn't even sleep. You know? Bam! |
| 16. May 2021 | Deltora Quest | Charmed and dealt for a quest. The Fantastic Four to me has always come across as like the least interesting superhero team. But maybe that might be because all the modern movies of them have been shit. Although one of them did have Cole in it, the guy from that show Charms. How do I still remember that? Why is that the information that my brain decides to keep? Man, I watched so much of Charm when I was a kid with my sister. I just remember like odds and ends of it. A demon who could turn back time once, but if he does it again too soon then he dies. Or like when Cole goes to the afterlife and then like he manages to survive this snake or whatever and like when demons and stuff come they get killed and their powers get left behind so it like steals fuck tons of dead demons powers and why do I remember this stuff? Such a good show. Was it though? The graphics certainly don't hold up. Although the very teleportation effects that they had were great. So demons when they teleported, like fire would just replace them and then they would disappear. Angels it'd be like a blue and white thing that would like turn into particles and float into the air or something. Wasn't there one like the person would, you know like a dissolve effects? They would just dissolve as in like they would just take two steps and just dissolve out of existence and that'd be their teleport. What's the show called? It's called Charmed. It was I don't know big in the 90s? The show revolved around three sisters who each had their own abilities that like combines if they recite like an incantation or whatever they could vanquish like the most powerful demons or whatever. It was very dumb. Like they would freeze a demon or whatever then have to say like some rhyme that I'm sure today would seem so goddamn cringe. The 90s was just a different time you know. From the creators of Matt Talks About Stargate, Matt Talks About Charmed. I definitely didn't like Charmed as much as I did Stargate though. I'm sure everyone has their shows though that they watched heaps of when they were a kid. I saw something recently. Do you guys remember Del Toro Quest? It was a book series. Yes, yeah. Del Toro Quest was I know was it made kind of for teens or whatever. It was a book series and I guess like every school stocked these books. So like because you have reading time at the library and stuff or you're required to take a book home or something. I'm sure like just endless kids read this series. I can barely remember what it's about except that like super evil guy coming and so main characters have to find a belt and all the gems that go in the belt. But each of the gems is either guarded or itself has corrupted some area and they have to get it back and put it back in the belt so they can defeat the evil or whatever. There's only one one of them that I can even vaguely remember and the reason was because it was really creepy. They get to an area where like every single gem they found up to this point has always had like some curse or some evil person guarding it. But then they find like just a regular place that seems perfectly normal and this person is playing music and their caretaker is like oh this person is just you know they're mentally ill or something. The only thing that soothes them is playing music and you know the gem is the only thing keeping them alive or something. So if you took it they die and the main characters are like oh well we can't take it then because that'd be moral because we'd be killing this person. I hope they get help and then they leave and then they realize that the song is being played in a particular way to communicate that they need help and that they're being tortured or whatever by the caretaker. I don't know why I remember that and I'm sure that's half incorrect but yeah. As I say it's just it's just annoying how much of your life is spent consuming information that you just you just forget you know. You forget a thousand things every day. Yeah Michael's right. You know what they say you gotta know something about something if you want to forget a thousand things every day. |
| 27. January 2021 | Demonstrating my popularity | Demonstrating my popularity. I think I'm at the point if I made a video of me sneezing, I think it would get 40k views. Wait a second. I do have a video of me sneezing. There's a there's a clip of there's a clip of me sneezing on my clips channel. How many viewers does that have? I think I caught it when your sneeze is too strong. 35k? Yeah, I see, told ya. And it's only been there for a couple of days. Ha ha ha! Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 18. June 2022 | Destiny reacting to my Hasan anti reaction video. | Destiny reacting to my Hassan anti-reaction video. To my knowledge he only watched that one and not the main video. You know that Destiny reacted to your Hassan video? Yeah, a couple of you left comments. Ballsy of him. Obviously on the back end I couldn't see it because it doesn't convert the actual views or benefits to the video, but there was at least like six comments. But someone was pretty adamant, like, oh you should debate him, like why? Why? Who is Destiny? A stripper from Vegas. I've had my one debate with Destiny and that's enough for a lifetime. I mean don't get me wrong, probably be an interesting conversation to some degree, but I don't really want to throw the day away on it. I'm a large enough content creator that it'd be weird to reach out to someone else for a conversation about something that I did. If he wants to talk to me about it, he can contact me and maybe we can talk, you know. For what it's worth, it wouldn't need to be a debate, but Destiny regularly does have long conversations on stream with whoever feels like it, creator or random viewer. Oh, well, I didn't mean to imply it'd be some massively combative thing. If he does indeed disagree with me, I assume it would result in some sort of disagreement that is hashed out in some way that could be called a debate. Like you guys gotta understand, I spent two months riding this shit, and it was all I could think about and worked on every single day. I'm not in the the biggest mood to continue that. As I say, I just spent so much time on it. I just want to get back to fucking speedrunning. Two plus months on big projects was a bit much, and besides Destiny's reputation is not particularly good. It was actually the reason why I... Because people said a long time ago, if it's not completely different, they said I should talk to Vosh, and I'm like, I don't really want to potentially get that baggage, you know, and Destiny has even more baggage than Vosh. In debating, it almost doesn't matter what you're arguing for, it more matters how you argue, as to how convincing you're gonna be, and I am not a strong debater or a strong speaker. Debating becomes extremely difficult because the fan base is getting involved, it becomes extremely difficult for people to actually encapsulate anything objectively since so much confirmation bias going on. I mean, there's always confirmation bias, and there's no objectivity or whatever, it's, you know. If what you're saying is that people don't like to concede things that they otherwise would concede because there's an audience, that's certainly true. It becomes less about, um, arguing for a position and more appeasing the crowd in some way. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind, my feed gives them to me from all over my channel, it doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 02. October 2021 | Destroying pizzas while working at a supermarket | Destroying pizzas while working at Kohl's, the supermarket. You forgot about a pizza you put in the oven? Dude, when I used to work at Kohl's when I was younger, I would walk to my dad's afterwards. I work weekends basically and I'd walk to my dad's. I would frequently buy myself like a McCain's pizza. And I would put it in the oven the second I got home, and then pour myself a nice glass of Coke, and then I'd go play World of Warcraft. And then like two hours later I'd be like, I'm really hungry. Why am I so hungry? I'd run out there and my pizza would be like a charred burnt mess. I must have done that at least 50 times over the time of me working at Kohl's. |
| 18. October 2021 | Destructive nature of MMOs | The destructive nature of massively multiplayer online games. I should play Genshin Impact. So, there's nothing about Genshin Impact that really appeals to me. And just the thought of its gacha opening shits to get characters and stuff, that that enough is enough reason for me to avoid it. Like, if I was gonna play an MMO, I'd just play New World. Like, MMOs are for people who have a lot of free time and just want something to do. You know? Like, when I look back at all the time I spent playing MMOs, I consider it a complete waste of time. MMOs are... They give you the feeling of achieving stuff without actually you achieving anything. You know? So normally, to get the same kind of feelings that you get from an MMO, you'd have to like, work or or develop a skill or create something in life or go out somewhere or whatever. But with an MMO, you pay 10 bucks a month if they have a recurring fee and you can get that feeling from leveling up or beating a boss design. But of course, everything you do in life doesn't necessarily have to be productive. It doesn't necessarily have to have some material benefit for your actual life. But at the same time, like, if you want to be really good at MMOs, like get to the high upper echelons or whatever, you are taking like a hit to your well-being in real life. Because you have to dedicate like a lot of the time in life that you could have been doing something productive to the game. Like with every other game, you can kind of just like jump in every once in a while. You know, you play a single-player story game, you just come back to it every once in a while. But with an MMO, it can become like a second drop. If you want to be competitive and be optimal, you've got to put in a certain amount of time every day, irrespective of whether or not you should be spending their time doing something else, you know. |
| 02. June 2021 | Destructive passion in the development of super smash bros melee | I've watched a mini documentary on YouTube today about the history of Super Smash Bros. Melee. I tweeted out about it if you want to watch it. I only had 15,000 views but it came out, you know, only a couple of days ago. It's about an hour long. It's very interesting. The main dude who made it was working like 40 hours and then sleeping for four and going back to work and eventually collapsed on the job. The game was made over the course of 13 months and he was like involved in every part of the process to get it done. That kind of passion is goddamn amazing. Certainly destructive and not something that should be normalized, but at the same time when you see it, it's respectable in a way to be that passionate about something that you're working on to basically throw away your life to see it completed in the way that you want it to be completed. |
| 05. April 2021 | Detecting colour blindness. | Detecting colorblindness. Am I colorblind? No, my father is a little bit I think. Well, okay, I've never seen any evidence that it suggests that I'm colorblind. Is colorblindness detectable outside of a subjective experience? As in, can you go to the doctor or an optometrist and they can look at your eyes and say, Oh yeah, I think you've got some colorblindness there, my dude. Let me test your colorblindness thing here to confirm. You have to notice it yourself, right? And then you can go do tests and then they'll tell you if you're colorblind. Here's an online test. You have to identify that you're having a problem first. It can't be detected like with a general checkup and an optometrist or whatever. It can be detected? And like, I know that a test can confirm it, but I want to know if it can be incidentally, it can be detected tangentially. Like an optometrist can look at your eye and see, Yeah, you've got some colorblindness there. Is it physically represented in an obvious way? No. Yeah, I think it is possible. Because I just mean that it's possible that there's people out there who are colorblind right now, but maybe it's only in a slight way or they've just never been in that particular situation where they say that's red and someone else says, no, no, no, that's green. What are you talking about? I suppose this is this kind of stuff you'd probably detect pretty early, right? Like kindergarten or something. I don't know. Never really thought about it, I suppose. We all see colors slightly differently. I don't see why that wouldn't be true. It's not something I've ever really thought about. There's a hue test where you have to rearrange colors from red to purple in the correct order. And if you can't, you've got colorblindness. Okay. |
| 28. January 2022 | Detecting falsehoods without expertise . | Detecting falsehoods without expertise. So as I've gone on in my life and I've gained expertise in certain areas, it's become more obvious to me, more obvious than it was before, that absent expertise, it is very hard to differentiate between bullshit and actually good advice or stuff with a solid foundation, right? Unless of course you're willing to actually do the legwork and do the research yourself. A person who's just giving you information, if you don't have some foundational knowledge already, they can be telling you gobbledygook and you'll have no way of knowing. It sucks, because you can't be an expert in everything. It's not pragmatic to me. You can't spend all your time researching every minor fucking detail. Be sure to like the video and subscribe. Also remember comments are shown to me chronologically for my entire channel, meaning regardless of how old the video, your comment will still be shown to me in my feed. So leave one if you have something on your mind. |
| 20. March 2021 | Dev patches exploits specifically to annoy speedrunners. | Developer patches exploits specifically to annoy speedrunners there was a person on Twitter who made this post where they're like as a Developer a game developer. I think people like speedrunners too much Basically, it's a question. It's just like fuck speedrunners people we developers should just patch things Specifically a screwover developers. It makes me happy thinking when I patch something it's gonna piss off all these speedrunners it's amazing and That kind of sentiment maybe if this gets in rambles, I'll put on screen or something I don't know but I responded to this and I said if you're doing something in Gen like in general if you're doing something to piss off people You're probably the bad person in that situation if your only motivation in your action is just to piss people off You're probably not a good person if there is some sort of an exploit or issue with your game that requires Speedrunners to find it then it probably isn't that impactful or impactful at all on the casual experience So worrying about patching it rather than just making the game better for people who play it It's just a waste of time, right? But if there is like an exploit or issue in your game and the only thing motivating you to fix it is That it's gonna piss off speedrunners and this is something very impactful for the casual audience Right that then you're both a bad person and a game bad game developer Right. The reason why I'm mentioning this is because people brought up with the first part that I said where you know if if your only goal is to piss people off then you're probably a You're the bad person in that situation people pointed to me and said yeah but look at all your jokes about red evidemption 2 you're just doing that to piss off people who like red evidemption 2 and There's in no way shape or form the case. I Legitimately like those jokes and a part of the joke is that the game clearly isn't bad Like obviously it's not bad. I mean not liking this doesn't make it bad and Like I thought everyone was in on that joke But apparently a significant amount of people aren't in on the joke and to just think I'm just doing this to piss off people who like The game and that made me feel really bad So I can't make you jokes about red dead anymore. Yeah as much as I like those jokes, I'm not going to Continue to make them I'm gonna avoid Bad mouthing red dead to except in like just a way to explain why I didn't enjoy the game as much as I have you |
| 31. October 2020 | Development of GTA 6. | The development of GTA 6. Do you think Rockstar even started making GTA 6? I think in general, the nanosecond a popular franchise game releases, people start working on the next version. Like, immediately. I think that's even the case with consoles and stuff. Like, it's going to start working on the next thing immediately, right? So I'm sure there has been work on GTA 6, but obviously Rockstar didn't expect the level of popularity of GTA Online, and its continued relevance and popularity, and generation of revenue for them. So you can guarantee, over and over again, they've taken ideas from GTA 6 and put them in GTA 5. Probably to the extent where they may not even have a lot of ideas for GTA 6 anymore, because they've all been repurposed for GTA 5. I don't think GTA 6 is likely to come out anytime soon. The commitments to GTA 5 expanded and enhanced. I think definitively chose that. If it comes out in the next three years, I'll be surprised. Unless, of course, the popularity of GTA Online tanks. |
| 01. June 2021 | Diablo 2 remaster | The Diablo 2 Remaster. What's the next game I'm gonna play? So, now that I've finished Heroes of Might and Magic 3, I thought to myself, like, what do I play next? Other than Bully, of course. And I saw that apparently the technical alpha for Diablo 2 released. So there's a lot of streamers right now playing it. It had, like, the most views, viewers over any game on, on Twitch. Imagine that a game that came out, what, 20 years ago, whatever, having that many viewers. And I was like, oh, Blizzard always sends me, like, invites to the, to the pre-release or whatever of their, the World of Warcraft. Surely they'll also send me one for Diablo. No, they didn't. And I'm personally hurt by their lack of consideration that I would want to play Diablo. I love Diablo. Played one, two, and three. Finished all, all of them. One of the first games I ever played Diablo 1 on my PC. They would just shovel, you know, get back into WoW, get yourself addicted. They will, they will just shovel that to me every goddamn day. But Diablo, no. No Diablo for you, Mr. Dark Vapper. If the Warcraft 3 remaster is anything to go by, Diablo 2 will be Hot Diarrhea. Well, people didn't play it and I haven't heard any complaints. |
| 08. December 2021 | Dial up causing an awkward situation | Dial Up Internet Causing an Awkward Situation Oh dude, I've told this story before. Dial Up caused so many arguments. You're not a 90s kid, unless you yelled at your mother. Get off the phone! I'm on the internet! My internet was going poorly, it was terrible. Walked into my sister's room, I'm like, are you on the phone? And she was having sex with her boyfriend. Very awkward. Was she on the phone though? No. Making it even worse. |
| 14. May 2021 | Did Among Us need Covid to be successful? | Did Among Us need COVID to be successful? I wonder if Among Us would have still gotten off the ground without COVID and stuff. I think it would have, honestly. The things that led to Among Us's recognition didn't have anything to do with COVID, because it was soda popping and then Admiral Bulldog playing it on stream. And then streamers realizing that they can play it with each other and stuff. Like just soda popping, giving it, showing it to 20,000 people in that stream. And streamers as well was enough, you know. Would it have been as big as it is, as it got? No, not in, nowhere close. But it definitely would have finally seen some measure of success beyond having a few dozen players, you know. |
| 14. May 2021 | Did Among Us need covid to be successful? | Did Among Us need COVID to be successful? I wonder if Among Us would have still gotten off the ground without COVID and stuff. I think it would have, honestly. The things that led to Among Us's recognition didn't have anything to do with COVID, because it was soda popping and then Admiral Bulldog playing it on stream. And then streamers realizing that they can play it with each other and stuff. Like just soda popping, giving it, showing it to 20,000 people in that stream. And streamers as well was enough, you know. Would it have been as big as it is, as it got? No, not in, nowhere close. But it definitely would have finally seen some measure of success beyond having a few dozen players, you know. |
| 21. August 2021 | Did Dream actually cheat? | Did Dream actually cheat? It's the only... so Carl Jobs was the only person who spent the time to actually track down and investigate Dream's claims from his document. And the evidence does suggest that while Dream's game was modified, Dream seems to have been unaware about it. The abridging of that to be Dream admitted to cheating is... it's not accurate. I'd like to thank the sponsor of this video, Skillshare, which is an online learning community where millions come together to take the next step in their creative journey. With thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people on topics including film and video, graphic design, web development, animation, productivity and more. It includes a combination of video lessons and class projects to fit every schedule and skill level. Members get unlimited access to thousands of inspiring classes with hands-on projects and feedback from a community of millions, and those can be done in under 60 minutes. If you're looking for a place to start, I recommend Learn Premiere Pro and Edit, a how-to video for beginners, taught by Hallease Navais, who is a digital storyteller and video producer. She does a great job at giving a quick overview of Premiere's interface, offering enough detail to give the user an idea of the main tools, but without overwhelming them with the full capabilities of the program. Skillshare is curated specifically for learning, meaning there are no ads, and they're always launching new premium classes, so you can stay focused and follow wherever your creativity takes you. The first thousand of my subscribers to click the link in the description will get a free trial of premium membership, so you can explore your creativity. Thanks again Skillshare for sponsoring this video. |
| 12. February 2023 | Did I Get the Atrioc Story Wrong in My Latest Rambling Episode? | Did I get the Aatrox story wrong in my previous Rambles episode? So this may not interest you, but I find interesting the way this mistake happens, so I want to talk about it. So in a previous Ramble episode, I talked about how Aatrox had been caught looking at deep fake pornography of female streamers. What I said at the time was that he not only looked at deep fake pornography of female streamers in general, but of his friends as well. Now, the reason why I said this was because it had been said in multiple articles, and even was the title of an article, and I saw multiple people, commenters, saying this. But I think lines just got crossed, because while it is entirely possible that he did that, there's not direct evidence that he did that, and I want to explain why. People often use the word friends to mean like colleagues, or associates, or your peers, right? So you have work friends. They're not going to be your actual friends, but you work with them, right? And so, a person less in the know might say streamer friends to mean like other people that you know who happen to stream. To what degree I'm friends with, say, Dunk or Slam. Are we friends? I mean, we talk via livestream, we've interacted, but are we friends? That's debatable, right? And so, the people that we know who Aatrox looked at, he likely knows, he's likely met them before, but are they friends? Probably not, right? There's not like a long history of these people interacting with Aatrox in their content and in a friendly kind of way. They could be friends, we don't know. So that's one side of it. Another side of it is the website did contain the fake images of his friends. But it's just there's not direct evidence that he looked at that material. He did pay for access, and he could have, but there's no direct evidence of that. So, there's stuff he did look at that those people could have been his friends, but we just don't know that for certain. And there's stuff on the website that is his friends, but we just don't know he looked at it, right? And so, this combining of circumstantial stuff and the sort of ambiguous way that the word friends can be used led to people saying directly Aatrox was caught looking at the fake pornography of his friends, right? People throw the word friend around pretty crazy now. That could be part of it, as I say. Other parts of it just assuming that he had a friendship with the people that we know he looked at. Either that or assuming that he did look at the material of his actual friends that he had access to. But you can see how a mistake can be made there. So, when someone pointed this out to me, and I was like, oh yeah, actually technically that image that we know he looked at, this one, didn't show those direct friends. And certainly not his best friend's girlfriend. She was on the site, but she isn't shown here. And so, I took down the video within like an hour or something, and I explained why I took down the video. So, if you watched the first version and you wondered why it was taken down, this is why. Like, I don't particularly like spreading false information. It could be true, but I don't have direct evidence for that, so it was a mistake on my part. It is certainly the case that doesn't change that much about the story, in that it is still non-consenting material and whatnot. What this impacts is probably like how bad Atrioc looks for what he's doing. Because you can probably understand that looking up deep fake material of your friends, and certainly your best friend's girlfriend, is a bit weirder, let's say, than looking it up for complete random strangers. Still not good in this particular case, due to the non-consensual nature of this material, but it's potentially a little less weird. Am I being a hypocrite for criticizing commentary channels? So, I got called out in a comment, and obviously I wouldn't just normally dedicate a section in Rambles to a comment, but I think it will enable me to clarify some things about my stance in regards to commentary content. So, are you a commentator now then, yeah? After saying what you said about people who do the very thing you are doing in this video, commenting on stuff that has nothing to do with you or is not in your area of expertise, unless deep fake is in your area, you even reupload it because you made errors, you are becoming what you hate and it saddens me, such a hypocrite at times, you are literally using other creative stories as content just to react for yours and be done with it. So, this is referring to a criticism that I had of some commentary channels, where what they talk about is not necessarily what they are knowledgeable in, or they have something interesting to say about, but merely that which is popular. And people will, like the nanosecond something happens on Twitter, they are like, I have no idea what the hell this is, I learned about 15 seconds ago, let's make a video about it. And I think we can all agree, that's probably not a good thing. In an ideal world, you would have people who are directly involved with, or at least significantly knowledgeable about, whatever they are talking about. In making that criticism, I fully acknowledge that I wouldn't seek to restrict people from talking about whatever they want to. I don't know where I would draw that line, I merely say that people should be more cognizant of whether they are fully knowledgeable about what's going on. And so I responded to this dude, he's talking about the H-Rock story of course. I covered it because H-Rock and I share viewers, we are both speedrunners, both Twitch streamers, and I watched his content in the past. I also critiqued him in my Anti-React series. I spent little time on H-Rock himself, or even the people surrounding the story, and more are just on my own habits for pornography and my controversial tweet. The part about H-Rock was about a minute and quickly moved on from. It did however have relevance to me. Like, I'm not saying that people can only talk about things that are specifically tattooed on their body or something. That was not the critique I was making. And I think it's disingenuous to suggest that is the case. And the reason why I made that critique in the first place is because I think my rambles are to some degree commentary on the wider world. It's just I try to limit it to stuff that I know about or directly involves me, rather than simply what is just popular at the time. Stuff that I am familiar with because of a sincere... |
| 13. March 2022 | Did I dye my hair? | Did I dye my hair? Matt did you dye your hair? No, I've thought about though. Maybe when it gets like 50% grey or something? I'll dye it. Can I think 50% grey would look weird but full grey would be fine? You know? |
| 01. December 2022 | Did I enjoy Cyberpunk? | Have I played sadpunk? Yeah, there's a little bit of a me playing it on YouTube. Didn't super drive with me, but I think it was because I was just tired. I think I could get in the game if I took the time. As I often say, right, how well I've slept massively influences like my personality and how much I like certain things. Why? |
| 06. August 2020 | Did I enjoy Watch Dogs 1? | Did I enjoy Watch Dogs 1? Did I enjoy Watch Dogs? Yes. It was scary how much of Watch Dogs I enjoyed to the extent where I'm like, man I wish GTA 5 was like this, you know? Arguably I probably enjoyed playing Watch Dogs more the first time than I did playing GTA 5 the first time. And it made for a great video too, the Watch Dogs video, despite there's two hours and a half, it's good video. I'm hoping Watch Dogs 2 can be as good. When's the Bloodborne stream? I've played Bloodborne, all of Bloodborne. I've got 24 hours of footage of it. Dmod said he was going through it a bit but in between things. Do I like break dying like? |
| 20. December 2022 | Did I ever consider going abroad? | Did I ever consider going abroad? Have I ever visited South Asia? I've never been in another country, dude. I sometimes see pictures of stuff in the world that I would like to go see. I see these beautiful blue oceans. I'm like, man, how good would it to be there? But then I realize like half an hour after being there and being like, ah, this is cool. I'd be like, this sucks, I wanna go home. People say it's about the journey, not the destination, but I am totally about the destination. I do not at all like the journey. If I could teleport somewhere instantly in the world and see something cool, I'd be like, fuck yeah, man, let's go. If you tell me, I have to go on like a flight for like 20 hours and then catch a cab there and you gotta make sure to drop off your bags and organize stay and stuff. And you gotta get specific papers to be able to go there and maybe you don't know the language and stuff. And you're just like, ah, why? No travel destination is good enough without the proper company? That's a good way of putting it, I suppose. Cause at that point then it isn't the journey, it's you get to spend time with people you like. That's sad thing about AU, is that you're like a 20 hour flight from anything worthwhile. Yeah, that is a good point. Being in Australia does make it tough. Like obviously if you're like in the EU and like you can just instantly cross between borders and like you're an hour's drive from another country with its own culture and history and stuff, like that's a completely different thing than flying 20 hours for something. Like I'm sure it's very common in Europe for you just to go on a holiday to another country just like for the hell of it. Would I ever consider moving to a different country? It's too much hassle. I just don't know what I would gain from doing it. The only thing that I could imagine is if I met someone who lived in another country, like when I was on going to a convention or something. |
| 18. January 2023 | Did I ever play Hades? | We'll see. Did I ever play Hades? Yeah, I've played heaps of Hades. I speed ran it back when it was in beta. When the Hydras were the final boss. I played 15 hours of the official release. It is definitely a game that I could have seen myself playing more, but I was just like, ehh. No, honestly, I should go back to it. Especially if I'm playing State of Spire again. It just wasn't really popular with my audience. |
| 26. May 2022 | Did I get any responses from people at the focus of the videos? | Did I get any responses from the people at the focus of my videos? Have you had any of the people you have mentioned in your video respond to you or mention the video? So I as I said in the first video that I made in the series My expectation with reactors is always that they will not respond Carl made the case when we had our conversation after the first react drama Carl made the case that because of the way that that drama occurred with my script getting out there and those Provocative analogies that people refuse to just accept how they were actually being used whatever He said that maybe that's a blessing in disguise because absent them very little attention would have been paid to this and maybe it's done some good and While I think maybe he was probably right that it was only because of those things that any attention was paid Actually, I kind of made that case in the first video as well I don't think it really led to any good if you give people else They will take them and just focus on you know the typing mistake with the 20 million thing or the analogies and then just ignore everything else that our long video is Really tight like poking a hole in it is very difficult just because it's so robust and and long and whatnot and Even if you want to try and poke a hole in it all the rest of the videos in this series are covering literally everything else If you wanted to respond to me With me releasing nine videos, how are you going to do it? It's hard enough responding to you know a 20 minute video, but this is something like three hours worth of content so like even if these reactors wanted to respond to their ability to respond something that long and that well argued and also that they're certainly in the wrong is You know they don't have that great of an ability to do so right any hate from receiving reactors yet part of me feels like They just avoid it to prevent their audiences realizing how awful their moles are kind of like what Asma did with your older videos regarding react content Yeah again the only reason my script in the first place got any Acknowledgement was because of Charlie. I I still find it hard to believe that Even a significant portion of reactors don't know what they're doing and how much they're screwing over other people I'm like XQC XQC and Hassan are really dumb like it's conceivable that neither of them understand Although it's surprising with Hassan because he you know he engages with the more Left wing of politics the the idea about carrying a worker exploitation But I'm fairly convinced that most of them know what they're doing and and so I assumed when I wrote that first script that they Would do their best to ignore it and just not give it any additional attention because they wouldn't want people to call into question What they're doing and so this time around especially now that the video is airtight and effectively perfect doesn't have any kind of mean to latch on to like there was last time it's not gonna get a response from someone like Charlie and The video is an hour long. I would expect that the vast majority will ignore it. I believe that Someone sent me something on Twitter where XQC's audience was begging him to watch the video and he's like this is an hour. I'm not watching it and then he skipped it and I'm like yeah, that's so on one hand, I'd rather he didn't watch it because As I explained the video, I don't think it helps the video. It's largely just gonna hurt it. But secondly reactions to that kind of informational content is awful because a person will pause the video and go on a diatribe about something That it gets responded to 40 minutes in or they will pause the video mid-argument And then by the time they unpause the video everyone the chat has forgotten what was initially said like the the reactions Reduce the quality of the original video in a way at least in terms of its informational content It can still improve it for the audience because they have an audience to watch it with you know You have you have a friend you're fucking around laughing at something, right? Like I would much rather every reactor just watch it off stream by themselves where they can take it in, you know Yeah, I'm more interested in the viewers watching it because as I've said before once you start that exploitation game There's nothing that can replace that you know There's there's no other business model that can get you the kind of gains that reaction content can because you know when you have to deal with Managing people or paying for labor or whatever organizing things You can't get that kind of quick easy access to high quality content like think Josh Stratheis the person I use as an example I mentioned the kind of cost that would be required for him to dedicate make you content Hundreds of thousands of dollars in wages, right? When you're talking about the high upper end talents of YouTube to have them make content for you The cost would be astronomical. There's there's no business model that you could have that you could replicate That kind of high quality content with that kind of kind of frequency Yeah, it's not really gonna change |
| 22. November 2022 | Did I hate the new God of War game? | caught up to AMD. Intel has caught up and surpassed AMD, at least currently right now. Or rather, they're fairly neck and neck to a degree. It's not like you're going to be unhappy having an AMD CPU, but the absolute top of the line in gaming at the very least is Intel. Who knows how long that will last. What advice I would give to my younger self? As I've said before, if you are a Patreon, YouTube member, or a Twitch subscriber, you can suggest Rambles in my Discord. So AEE asks, if you could give advice... |
| 02. February 2020 | Did I have any hobbies as a teen/kid? | Do did you have any hobbies or whatever when you were a child teen or a child or teen? I liked playing video games. I played ten pin bowling and enjoyed it That's about all that comes to mind. I played sports. I played cricket. I played soccer I'm indoor and outdoor of both. Yes |
| 28. April 2021 | Did I learn anything at uni for content creation? | Did I learn anything at uni for content creation? One question I have is when you were studying psychology in college, did you ever take any video classes? Oh, you mean classes like that would help me with YouTube and stuff? No, not at all. My electives were all in criminology. I think maybe university is different in America. Listening to Ludwig talk about how he took classes and stuff was very confusing to me. Like I didn't just pick classes all over the place. Like 90% of the classes that I picked were classes necessary for a bachelor's of criminology or a bachelor's of social science with a major in criminology. |
| 08. March 2023 | Did I make a mistake by removing my outro? | Did I make a mistake removing my outro? Hugo EG asks, has removing your outros had any positive or negative effects on your channel? I have not noticed any, nor did I expect to notice any. I don't regret doing it, but I never expect to see a significant result anyway. And I mean, having the same outro basically for like five years or whatever kind of played out. |
| 04. February 2020 | Did I pick up any vices from my parents? | my view. And do you have anything in your life that is like, that is like your parents did this and it was harmful but you picked it up, or that was harmful and you hate it now? You know, I can't really think of anything that you could consider a vice. No. I mean, if anything, I've there are perhaps things I should have picked up from my parents that I did not. My father is very into exercise, very into eating healthy while I'm not. I would actually say that my father has some non-scientific ideas about what is healthy. If you've ever looked up fruitarian diets or what have you, this is just eating nothing but fruit or something and you could live to be 200 or whatever. And this dude who suggested that you could cure any, I mean, I'm not sure how far my dad goes into it, but you can cure any disease or whatever just by eating fruit. You'd like never get sick. I mean, you know, cure every disease but you just never get sick. It's funny because the dude who popularized this diet of cancer or something. It's all nonsense but I have to kind of nod my head. And my sister, my mother believed in psychics for a while and she has crazy ideas. My sister believed in crystals for a while. My family has had different aspects of pseudoscientific beliefs that have absolutely no basis and like a quick Google search will tell you it makes absolutely no sense but they still believe it anyway. So I'm happy that I seem to have not picked up that kind of stuff. But of course that's, you know, what is pseudoscience in the eye of the beholder to some extent. As in like, I'm sure there are other people out there who look at the beliefs that I have and would go, that's completely nonsense. You could debunk that in a Google search. I'm sure my family might look at that, look at me and then think that of me. So maybe I have bought into what I would consider a vice, believing in non-substantiated things and I just don't know it. Perhaps it's less that I haven't picked up a vice from my family and more that I'm unable to see the vices that I've picked up. |
| 02. February 2020 | Did I prepare for my streams as a smaller streamer? | When you were a smaller streamer, did you prepare for streams by writing down anything you want to talk about or writing down your goals for the stream to keep yourself talking if you ever went quiet or did you just generally try to keep your mind active and whatever you had in your mind you would talk about? I didn't have any preparations for my streams. I've often said that you grow to meet the circumstances that you're put in or whatever. You change over time in subtle ways that you may not even explicitly work towards but you just you know people are like playdough to agree you crush them in somewhere and either they die or they grow to accommodate the space that they fit into the space that they've now been put in. To answer your question, I did not prepare for my streams and I'm not sure to what degree I even talked to my chat. I think just over time I happened to talk to a handful of viewers that came into my chat and then I got used to talking and then I just you know kept talking talking about the game talking about stuff. I have no idea how I managed to get by having so few viewers. One advantage I did have was that I had a YouTube channel where I was getting 500 to 2000 views on videos that I would release and while I had nothing to do with gaming I did get a handful of viewers who came from my YouTube to my Twitch to say hello. So you know I having the difference between having 5 to 10 viewers and having zero viewers is monumental. Having the occasional person who stops by and it's like yo Matt what's up? Those people very important. Sins of death, riddles, griever, I shouldn't have started listing names because I forget people but those handful of people who were around in the beginning were integral to my success today. Many of them have, these people would have gone on in the rest of their lives, never give me, most of them, never give me a thought again but they have impacted my lives in positive ways that they'll never understand. I was fortunate. I don't have any particular advice that I can give to smaller streamers on how to deal with having low viewership because I can't remember having it and what I do remember my success is more attributable to the other people who happen to be around as opposed to something I particularly did. If you like this Q&A footage and want me to keep doing this kind of thing just hit like, it generally tells me that people like watching the stuff. Thank you. |
| 01. February 2020 | Did I receive backlash when I grew on YouTube | As for did I receive any backlash from any speedrunners? No, not at all. I was not large enough to receive such backlash. As a general rule, other than Baron being a dick, people have just been completely nice to me. If anything, it's been weird to have people who I've seen as larger content creators acknowledge me as, in any way, shape or form an equal. Because in my heart of hearts, I'm still that little nervous guy who has 15 viewers playing Warcraft III. I mean, a little bit. Obviously, I'm not actually that way. I'm not blind to reality that exists. But I haven't got a big head yet, I don't think. I don't see myself as a hugely successful person. I see myself as an unsuccessful person who's experiencing a momentary amount of success that could go away at any time. I'm not naive. Obviously, I know I've applied a lot of work, and I'm fairly good at what I do. But I just don't feel successful yet. And I hope the feeling of anxiety of losing it all eventually just goes away. But it hasn't yet. So we'll soon find out. If you like this Q&A footage and want me to keep doing this kind of thing, just hit like. It generally tells me that people like watching this stuff. Thank you. |
| 27. November 2022 | Did I use secret strats to get world records? | Did I use secret strats to get world records? When you had world record, did you have personal strats that only you knew or apply? Of course not. The idea of people keeping strats from other runners is just abhorrent because the vast majority of what you're using is stuff discovered by other people. If everyone just kept strats to themselves, the run would be a lot more boring, right? A lot less would be found. You build upon the knowledge that an experience of other people to get better. It does suck though that people who find stuff often don't get the credit they deserve. As usually the people who do the runs and get the best times they get that kind of attention. But it's just as I say, there's always downsides and upsides to everything and having more interesting, exciting runs and a collaborative effort is good. Although in some cases I don't blame people like if they discover something and they want to do it a run first. That kind of makes sense. But holding a strap back until they get world records is kind of gross. Like for example in 007 individual level speedrunning, Karl has talked about how there was cases where people would develop a new strategy for an individual level, get world record but not tell anyone. So they can get a lot of world records and then release them all at once. And it's just like you've been holding back strategies that other people could have been using to improve their own times. And so that the other people are wasting their time using suboptimal strategies and you know that you just don't care. So |
| 24. September 2021 | Did I work a normal job before coming a content creator? | Did I work a normal job before becoming a content creator? I have worked nine to five. My first job was when I was younger than 14. I don't know. I delivered pamphlets, then newspapers, then pamphlets and newspapers for a long while. Then I got a real job. I worked at Coles for which is a supermarket chain in Australia. I worked there for five years. Usually Friday, Saturday, Sunday for nine hours. Sometimes Thursdays as well. During that time I did a community services degree in a TAFE. Leaving that I got a job preparing hearing aids and hearing devices and shit. Then I did a bachelor's of social science with a major in psychology. I was one unit shy of criminology, but for reasons I'm not going to go into I couldn't get the double bachelor's or double degree. Have I? |
| 17. March 2022 | Did Rambles come to replace my podcast? | Did Rambles come to replace my podcast? You first start a podcast, right? And then that shut down. So Rambles became the alternative. No, I tried to make a podcast fairly recently. I did one episode with Mollis Pelican and I tried to do another episode with Carl Jobs, but I was too tired and crashed and burned in the middle of it. Still feel bad about that. And people on Patreon said the footage was fine, but I was like, this didn't feel like my best work. Rambles came about because I ramble on stream a lot. And I'm a person who likes to milk everything for what it's worth. If I have something of value, I want to use it. And some of my Rambles are fairly interesting. As I always say, keep in mind when I first started making content on YouTube, the content I made is similar to what Rambles is. Or at the very least, it was me giving my opinions on a host of topics, current events, religion, philosophy. As time moves on, my content moves further away from what I used to talk about. Back in the day, you know, 2013, 2014, because I I'm become I'm intentionally becoming less political, less combative in regards to things that I consider to be less than well-evenced. You quite liked my political Rambles, but it makes sense why you stop. Yeah, I liked a lot of them, too. Some of them less so, but I do think it was quite good content. |
| 19. January 2022 | Did getting a psychology degree make me more empathetic? | Getting a psychology degree make me more empathetic. This topic was begun with a viewer question. Do you think your psychology degree caused you to become more empathetic? Once I got a hold of the subject, I begun taking people's actions less personally, as certain behavioral actions are outside of our control. What I'm asking is, did the subject have a similar effect on you? The funny thing about doing a degree is the lines blur between what you learned as a part of your course and your already existent beliefs or things you've picked up elsewhere. Like if I say something about human behavior or the mind or something, people go, well, Dark Viper has a degree in psychology, so I guess this must just be something he picked up from his course. It might be possible I picked it up somewhere else, and I just don't know, you know? So like I can think back to being at Coles, and I remember talking to Andrew, and he was talking about this guy who was being an asshole, and I'm like, yeah, but you know his history, right, where his parents are alcoholics and shit. Some other things about this guy, given that environment, it's not that big of a surprise that he's not doing well and potentially acts like a jerk or whatever. I always had those kind of thoughts, thinking about people's environments and how they influence people's behaviors, more being prone to attribute people's bad behavior or bad life circumstances to failures of their environment as opposed to, I guess, failures of their genetics. Like some internal core, it's just, you know, they exist in a bad environment, and therefore they act bad. If they existed in a different environment, they would act good. Learning more about psychology just kind of affirms those ideas about the world, and I sincerely believe that if everyone took a psych course, even just like the surface, indisputable sort of stuff, you'd become more empathetic as a person because you'd have a better understanding of how people are constructed within a society. You'd start to think about why people are as they are. People make statements like, oh, they're just lazy, and you ask them, like, why are they lazy? And they go, well, they just are. No, no, seriously, why is one person more or less lazy than another? We can both agree that being less lazy leads to a better life. You're more productive. Your circumstances will be more secure if you work towards your future and whatnot. Why is one person more or less lazy than another? And if you talk long enough, it eventually comes down to aspects of environments that leads to different experiences or aspects of genetics. Neither of these things are in a person's control. And even though the consequences of a person's laziness do not change, the reality of the circumstances is what it is. It's not like you can suddenly just rely upon a potentially lazy person to be productive, but you often end up pissing them more than simply hating them for their behavior, right? You deal with the reality of the circumstances, but you don't deal with it with a sense of dislike of the person or hating them for failing society in some way. Like, a person who is living a bad life is a failure of society to me as opposed to a failure of them. As I say, man, if I had been born in different circumstances, I'd be a different person, maybe a worse person, maybe less productive. But of course, this kind of way of thinking can lead you down a path of never seeking self-improvement, where you're just like, oh, my environment's shit, and it's always been shit, and my life sucks, and nothing's ever gonna get better. You go, oh, man, the world's stacked against me. I can't ever possibly succeed. So why even try? It's been said by people far smarter than me that it's actually an asset to believe that you can succeed, irrespective of how likely you are to succeed. As in, if you always believe you're gonna succeed, you're gonna try and persevere. Where a person who doesn't believe they can succeed, irrespective of their actual likelihood, isn't gonna try, or is gonna be less motivated to try. Regardless of your circumstances, you are better off being optimistic and trying, at least within reasonable levels. I don't mean like you should become $100,000 in debt chasing some dream, but it is clear that there are many different things that you can do to improve your circumstances. The biggest barrier is usually knowledge of how to improve your circumstances. If you have a good environment, that knowledge is just all around you. In other successful people who you can model yourself after, or people you can directly speak to, or you go to educational institutions, from childhood to adulthood, whether it be college or whatever, that kind of groom you with information about how to achieve in your environment. Not everyone has this, but we have the internet and stuff these days. If you are in a rut, you can't find something to do with yourself, and you want to improve, there are places you can go to seek information to better your life. It's a matter of identifying problems and seeking solutions with the wonder that is the internet. I do this too sometimes. Complaining about problems that you aren't actively working to try to solve is a complete waste of fucking time. May make you feel better to yell at the world, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter how much you yell, things aren't gonna improve. Like when I rant and rave about react content and stuff, that is the world that exists, I'm not gonna be able to change it, so complaining about it is fairly pointless, except that it makes content. No amount of complaining about how unfair the world is, is gonna change it and make it fair. You just gotta work with the world as it is, and potentially where you can, seek to improve things, for others as well as yourself, you know. |
| 13. March 2022 | Did i dye my hair? | Did I dye my hair? Matt did you dye your hair? No, I've thought about though. Maybe when it gets like 50% grey or something. I'll dye it. Cause I think 50% grey would look weird but full grey would be fine, you know? |
| 08. July 2021 | Did i play sport as a kid? | Did I play sport as a kid? Did I play sport as a kid? I... yeah. Um, indoor-outdoor soccer. I played cricket, indoor and outdoor. Played 10-pin bowling. Yeah, I did a lot of sports, I suppose. But I mean, I was never much of a sporty kid. But, I mean, I liked, um, running. Uh, did okay in the running competitions as a kid. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 11. December 2020 | Did mixer screw Ninja? | Did Mixer screw Ninja? Someone said that Ninja got screwed by Mixer? Are you crazy? I mean, certainly you could imagine a reality that would have been preferable for Ninja, where Mixer was a booming success, ended up competing with Twitch. He was the biggest person on that platform. Microsoft put money into building his brand. He became the new star of a new amazing platform. But it's not like Mixer tried to fail. It's not like Mixer was working to not succeed to screw Ninja. Mixer shutting down was far better than the circumstance that Ninja found himself in, where he was stuck on a small platform that was going nowhere, contractually obligated to stream there for up-deanth more years. Had he finished his contract on Mixer, he would be much worse off for it. He would have ended up with the same amount of money, but he would have fewer viewers, his profile would be smaller. Mixer closing down, he got all the money from the contract and got to go back to a more successful platform with even more viewers. And he also got the free media attention from when Mixer closed down, everyone started talking about Ninja again. I just don't know what's going on with Ninja right now, though, because for a while there, he seemed super committed to being the biggest and the best. But these days, I don't really think that seems to be- |
| 11. December 2020 | Did mixer screw ninjja | Did Mixer screw Ninja? Someone said that Ninja got screwed by Mixer? Are you crazy? I mean, certainly you could imagine a reality that would have been preferable for Ninja, where Mixer was a booming success, ended up competing with Twitch. He was the biggest person on that platform. Microsoft put money into building his brand. He became the new star of a new amazing platform. But it's not like Mixer tried to fail. It's not like Mixer was working to not succeed to screw Ninja. Mixer shutting down was far better than the circumstance that Ninja found himself in, where he was stuck on a small platform that was going nowhere, contractually obligated to stream there for up-deanth more years. Had he finished his contract on Mixer, he would be much worse off for it. He would have ended up with the same amount of money, but he would have fewer viewers, his profile would be smaller. Mixer closing down, he got all the money from the contract and got to go back to a more successful platform with even more viewers. And he also got the free media attention from when Mixer closed down, everyone started talking about Ninja again. I just don't know what's going on with Ninja right now, though, because for a while there, he seemed super committed to being the biggest and the best. But these days, I don't really think that seems to be- |
| 17. June 2021 | Did my good memory help me at university? | Thing that got me through university was that I'm very good at writing give me a little bit of a Info and give me a topic and I can write your nice essay on when it came to the tests I did okay like often I would walk into the exams Knowing that I had effectively already passed the course whatever Because because I got high grades on the essay I said well as long as I get 50% in this I get like 75% of the entire course. That's a fucking No Would study for tests to it. I don't consider my memory to be better than the average person's it's just With speed runs in general it isn't as though you're memorizing Every single part of the run and thinking about it all the same time you just kind of memorize What thing leads into the next thing is like well? I'm about to end here So the next thing is getting into a taxi the next thing is and so on again You know when you only know one path eventually you just naturally do that path that you practice it enough We study uni psychology. I did all my electives in criminology for reasons. I can't really remember What my views on twitch growth were in 2017? Hi, dark Viper. It's hard to get viewers when streaming. I only get one viewer on my streams I've made the |
| 10. December 2022 | Did new God of War or Pokemon sell more copies? | Did the new God of War or new Pokemon sell more copies? Would I play Pokemon? No. I like games with some sort of a challenge and Pokemon definitely ain't it. Is it true that the new Pokemon game outsold God of War? Is that true? God of War is sold 5.1 while Pokemon is sold 10 million? It is ridiculous how popular the Pokemon games are despite how shit they are. And I can say that and not piss people off because I think universally people accepted that the newest game is like terrible. There's probably just like a ridiculous amount of people where the only game they want to play is Pokemon. Because the franchise has been going on for so long and it's so global and I guess it's so accessible. And kids too yeah. |
| 17. March 2022 | Did rambles come to replace my podcast? | Did Rambles come to replace my podcast? You first start a podcast, right? And then that shut down. So Rambles became the alternative. No, I tried to make a podcast fairly recently. I did one episode with Mollis Pelican and I tried to do another episode with Carl Jobs, but I was too tired and crashed and burned in the middle of it. Still feel bad about that. And people on Patreon said the footage was fine, but I was like, this didn't feel like my best work. Rambles came about because I ramble on stream a lot. And I'm a person who likes to milk everything for what it's worth. If I have something of value, I want to use it. And some of my Rambles are fairly interesting. As I always say, keep in mind when I first started making content on YouTube, the content I made is similar to what Rambles is. Or at the very least, it was me giving my opinions on a host of topics, current events, religion, philosophy. As time moves on, my content moves further away from what I used to talk about. Back in the day, you know, 2013, 2014, because I I'm become I'm intentionally becoming less political, less combative in regards to things that I consider to be less than well-evenced. You quite liked my political Rambles, but it makes sense why you stop. Yeah, I liked a lot of them, too. Some of them less so, but I do think it was quite good content. |
| 17. May 2021 | Did the new among us map save among us? | Did the new Among Us map save Among Us? When Among Us new map? How many people are watching Among Us right now on Twitch? Oh no no no, someone go to Steam charts and tell me if there was a boost in player numbers since the new map came out. 23% boost, so basically nothing. 21k playing instead of 13k? I mean those are still relevant numbers right but yeah there was still a lot of people playing on mobile and stuff but I'm sure they hoped that the new map would see a greater boost. Can you imagine how much worse it would have been for them had they actually stuck to their guns and released Among Us 2? Like actually spent additional dev time waiting another six months to a year whatever it is to release another version of the game? The game would have been so dead by then. Although do you think that like let's say two years from now if they actually released a Among Us 2 massively revamped that people would give a shit? I somewhat doubt it. I think it's kind of run as course. Like these Among Us games have always existed you know the town of Salem and all that there's heaps of them it's just Among Us did it in a very accessible way or whatever. They had a new spin on it but now that spin is also old. Have heard of Project Winter? Yeah that's also released right? Same kind of thing. It wasn't a Project Winter just Among Us but more complicated a bit more depth. What's that movie the thing or something? Isn't there like a shape-shifting alien or something in a research facility and everyone dies but there's two guys left alive or something and you don't know if one of the guys left alive is actually the alien or not? And that's kind of the movie version of Among Us right? Never seen it but I've seen it analyzed to death you know. They had a game for a tour on PlayStation 1 or 2 and it felt like at one point like every movie had its own tie-in game. Doesn't surprise me. Isn't Among Us just Mafia in space? Yeah yeah like in board game form there was heaps of these things. I mean like you know when Secret Hitler was popular I wonder how much is the theme of that game made that game popular for a while. You guys don't know Secret Hitler? I talked about before on stream it's just basically Among Us where you've got two fascists who know who Hitler is and Hitler who has his two fascists who are his supporters but Hitler doesn't know who they are so the fascists have the kind of signal to Hitler somehow without the liberals learning either who Hitler is or either who the fascists are and the liberals have to take out either by shooting him or or voting out Hitler or something. I can't remember the exact rules but it's the same concept as Among Us. It's just a card based form. |
| 06. February 2023 | Did the quality of my videos decline over time? | the hardest choice is How the Sewer Ended number 31. I don't mean this in a disrespectful way, but it's crazy how much your video quality has improved since these older videos. And I responded, editing every single day for four years would do that, huh? You should have seen the first generation of How the Sewer Ended videos. That was made into the clips videos and started the How the Sewer Ended playlist was even lower quality. Now I wonder how much of what this person's talking about is like the editors who now help me make stuff. But obviously, like if you compare the videos that I've made personally, whether it be Passifist or just general videos, even facts and glitches, like obviously even my simplest edits have become far better. I've often said you can look at Passifist episode one and Passifist, well, the latest episode and you can see how I've developed as an editor over time. And it does feel me with pride, but the thing that stood out to me most about this comment is that How the Sewer Ended episode is four years old. Four years old. Like I'm now past 10 years of making content to some degree. It's just a weird thing to reflect on how much of my life has been dedicated to worrying about YouTube and making stuff for YouTube and whatnot. Weird to think about. This Wheel of Time reveal 10 years later blew my minds. So this is something that none of. |
| 09. March 2022 | Did the react drama help me? | Did the reacts drama help me? I wonder if that drama helped game viewers for you Matt as it was trending on YouTube Fuck no. Oh my god. No zero percent. No all publicity is not good publicity Negative publicity can be very bad Generally speaking the kind of publicity that you want is Something that communicates something about your content that people will be actually be interested in seeking out that is not to say there is not going to be Individuals who now watch my content due to having found me through this drama, but in general it is such a infatisimally small amount of people compared to just my normal amount of exposure I get from my normal content that it is not worth the mental strain and the potential annoyances moving forward from people saying particular things that aren't true or having negative opinions of me for reasons that are not justified or other content creators who won't want to associate with me because of Drama from the past certainly that third one only can go no all of these can only go so far Give it a couple of months and this will just all be a distant memory But it was still on occasion pop up its head and go hey remember that time that you know The garbage happened with that drama. I'll be like yeah, that was that was fantastic. Oh, yeah, you remember Yeah, it was you suck and I'll be like, okay Thanks the people who believe that all publicity is good publicity have never experienced negative negative publicity I was not an unsuccessful nobody looking for a small amount of sunshine in my deep dark hole I was an already successful content creator who has now been soured to endless amounts of people I don't think there was a singular day in my entire Career where I lost subs until this drama People just don't get it man More importantly a big part of being a successful content creator in the long term is having a good mental game Most people fail as content creators when they lose passion for the work stop enjoying it and burn out the more constant negativity you experience The more likely this is going to happen to you. You |
| 26. May 2022 | Difference between reviews and reactions | The difference between reviews and reactions. What's the difference between a react and a review? In a review has portions of something to give context to what you say. Where a reaction is, you present the entirety of another work. Traditionally, I didn't edit it. Certainly, there are some things called reactions that are basically just reviews, but in a review, they have most likely watched the thing before I made an analysis. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, as I'm says as well. Reviewers watch the whole thing offline first before they present their comments. Yeah. I would say that the old Fine Brothers react videos were acceptable even with the react tag on them, but they were different. The sort of react content that I point to as acceptable is like the Corridor Digital react videos, which is they'll get a person who's like an expert in some sort of content or some sort of field, and they will sit down with that new person and they will watch something like for an hour or something, and then they'll talk during it. And then we won't see that our footage. What we will see is everything that they said that was worth saying had some value, plus enough of what they watched to give context to their words. So if you go watch their reaction to Arkane, with the guy who talks about how all the visual effects work and stuff, you don't see entire episodes of Arkane there. You see parts of the show that give context to their words, and that's fine. Ultimately, it's just a review or response or commentary, as opposed to reaction content that I'm criticizing, which is the pause button stuff. |
| 04. May 2021 | Differences in humour taste | people. Differences in humor taste. My humor is trash. I saw someone write a post, a comment, where they were like, maybe my humor is just weird, but Chop falling through the grounds was the funniest thing to me. In fact, some glitches. Like I thought it was somewhat amusing that Chop is falling through the ground, but I didn't like laugh at it or something. But this guy was like animate that he burst out laughing. There was definitely a lot of times in my series where I'll put in something that I think is kind of funny, blow air out my nose, and he will say, that was fucking hilarious, man. All right. You know, I sometimes think I have like a high threshold for humor or something. Like there's a lot of stuff that other people find funny that I don't find funny. Then I look at myself in chaos and I fucking laugh at everything. Like I find everything funny. Like maybe, maybe there's only a select amount of things that I find humorous, but I laugh at all of them. I don't know. Sometimes the interesting with the clips and stuff. What you find funny. Yeah. Like that clip of me just saying taco chips, I find that fucking hysterical. There has been multiple clips that I've found hysterical that haven't hit like 20k views on the clip show. Probably because they don't appeal to a wider audience. Like they don't have GTA in them or whatever, but yeah. I said Dorito chips. Dorito chips. And then is my concern with a lot of my content. Like when I first got Editors, when I have couch go through the clips before they come to me, my concern is that people miss things that I will find funny. But at the end of the day, there's at least like an 80% overlap between stuff that I find funny and that other people find funny and stuff. Right? Like, you know, the main point is to get the really good stuff, not the fringe niche stuff that only I would. |
| 02. February 2021 | Different containers for soft drink taste different | Different containers of soft drink taste difference. Okay, well I've only got two Pepsi Maxes left in my fridge and I stupidly have all my other cans downstairs. Why do you buy cans if you can buy a full bottle and save money? Cans taste better than plastic bottles and glass bottles taste better than cans. And that may surprise you, feel free to go grab yourself just glass bottle of Coke, an aluminum can of Coke and a bottle of Coke and drink all three in succession. You'll be able to taste the difference, especially when they're cold. The glass bottles of Coke are very expensive. |
| 14. February 2021 | Difficult projects can be the most satisfying | Difficult projects can be the most satisfying. Only that Sleeping Dogs project that I did, using my old footage, it was one of the most fulfilling responses I got to any of my videos. Like it only has 70,000 views or whatever right now, which is far less than other videos that I make. But that the footage was so bad, and yet I produced something that I thought was pretty good and that I'm kind of proud of, that was a good feeling. You know, I had a hard project that turned out well. |
| 06. July 2021 | Difficulties buying furniture | I went to 50 different car dealerships. I just went to the closest Lexus one, the recommendation of my mother, and I was like, I don't hate this car. The car seemed to have good safety features and it looks nice enough. And he said that I would never have to take it for service because they would come and get it and service it for me. I was like, all right, just give me the car so I can stop thinking about this. I did need a new one. When it comes to furniture, I guess I just have to find another day where I'm ill and then go to some sort of a furniture store. I mean, ill is in like fatigues, not like contagious, right? Find some furniture store and just buy some stuff that I know I'm not gonna like, but it will just be downstairs. But like there's a massive lumber shortage right now, guys. So like you're buying a single chair for like 900 bucks. And I don't really wanna spend that kind of money because like at least the car has some functional purpose. Like right now, if my bed broke, I just instantly without delay buy myself a new bed because I need a bed. Furniture, the only reason I'm buying furniture is for some hypothetical scenario where I have someone over and I need to impress them with my furniture. That's it. I don't really want furniture. I don't really care about furniture. I'm not gonna use the furniture. I don't know if it really makes sense to spend thousands of dollars populating the downstairs of my house for other people's benefit that be very rare circumstance anyway, you know? You have thought about finding a designer or something, but even looking them up, they seem very expensive and like it doesn't seem like a good time to buy furniture because again, because of the shortage. I think furniture prices are up like 50% or something, but it feels like everything's up like 50% right now. Whiskey stones. Have I tried whiskey stones? Whiskey stones, if I recall correctly, are things you put in your freezer that are stones and then you put them in your glass of whiskey and they keep your whiskey. |
| 05. February 2021 | Difficulties in ordering mexican food | Difficulties in ordering Mexican food. So I had tacos again today. I found out that there are only like two Mexican places in my area that actually deliver food. And neither has particularly amazing tacos. I mean a nacho bowl, whatever the fuck I call it. Like the nacho bowl that I made that one time was infinitely, ten trillion times better than the stuff that I order. Takes a lot longer to make though. I think they put onion in it last night. Fucking onion. Who? Why? Why? Who are all these people who like onion? Onion is awful. It's 4am and now I want to order nachos, but everything is closed. I feel that pain Rocketman. Especially whenever I want to order pizza in the morning. And pizza places don't open until 11am. Which is weird. Is pizza poison before 11am or something? Is it like that thing, you know with the, what's that thing with the gremlins? If you feed them past midnight, they become murderous evil things. If you give pizza to humans earlier than 11am, they become murderous killy things. But people are always murderous killing things. Ha ha ha ha. Social commentary. Onion gives it the taste of, onion has no taste. It just has a really annoying texture. |
| 18. April 2021 | Difficulties on dating app and trusting people | Difficulties on dating app and trusting people. I'm gonna say something weird, don't take it the wrong way immediately, but I need to dumb it down on this dating app that I'm on. Not in terms of I have to act stupid to attract people or something. I mean that I don't think people expect you to say more than basic small talk at the beginning of a conversation. Like a person asked me my food preferences or something and I actually mentioned aphantasia or whatever and my ability to not be able to mentally imagine the taste of food and stuff. I'm like I don't think people would expect that kind of stuff. When there's a person that you know and you've known that person for a while or something, sure that would be interesting to talk about, but if that's like you've been talking to a person for 10 minutes and that's what they start talking about, you'll think they're fucking crazy. Someone mentioned they were a nurse and I was asking how they were doing with it and like how did COVID affect them and I said to them oh well I suppose maybe it wasn't that bad because of the bushfires because the bushfires reduced tourism and that helped Australia be a bit more better off in regards to the spread of COVID early on which helped us long term. And I'm just like Polly doesn't want to talk about COVID to begin with. Second, now Polly thinks that I hate immigrants and tourists and shit because I'm talking about how this has been produced. I'm like next conversation I should be like I like dogs. Dogs are nice. Do you got dogs? I don't have dogs. I'd like to have dogs. That's better than small talk. Small talk exists for a reason. It's to help you get comfortable with another person. Hello other person. I too am a person who does person things. I of course agree that those conversations are far more interesting. But I'm a weirdo. I'm just going to make sure other people don't realize I'm a weirdo until it's too late. Effort and patience when you don't believe in Disney movies. That's funny. Are you talking about TikTok trends and doggos? I can do that. I do watch TikTok and I do like the trends on TikTok. Do I mention my job and my dating profile? I just say that I live stream and make videos for a living. I made sure to mention the word success in there because while I'm sure they don't envision this kind of success, I don't want them thinking like I'm in a basement recording videos and doing live streams like two viewers. Gold diggers? I personally believed if I ran across a gold digger, I'd be able to convince them that I have something more than wealth. But no, I'm not particularly interested in a person who would just see me as a way to buy things. As a sage hat, what I want at the end of the day is a person that I can actually trust implicitly and they can trust me and we will each enrich our lives in varying different ways. Regardless, to the same degree, I've always wanted a person that I can trust. I feel like I've never had a person that I trust significantly. I don't even see myself as a trusting person because I've never really had a positive relationship romantic or otherwise that has enabled me to trust the person implicitly. At least I trust my mother and father and sister. As a good brother, I trust my family, at least my close family. As in like I could loan any one of my family members a heap of money. I would be confident they would pay me back if they were able to or something. I mean, I'd rather not do that. I feel like doing such a thing would be a strain on the family bonds or whatever, you know, but this is depressing. I know everyone isn't equally blessed in the family department and I truly pity such people. What is my sister's name? Anastasia. That's a lie. You believe me for like one second. |
| 06. November 2020 | Difficulties resupplying my Koss KSC75 Headphones | constant barrage of criticism and critique and what have you. Difficulties resupplying my Koss headphones. I actually had my headset break yesterday. I think this is my last pair of these headphones. So I looked on Amazon. Normally I get these from America. On the American Amazon, these cost 12 USD, the equivalent of like 18 Australian dollars. On the Australian Amazon, they cost twice that price. And I was like, you're kidding me. I'm just going to buy them from the American Amazon. But since I last bought them, which I normally buy them on the American Amazon, as I say, but since I last bought them, they no longer ship to Australia from America on the American Amazon. And I was like, well, this is complete bullshit. But I was fortunate enough to find a coupon on some random website, specifically for this headset, that made them cost 20 Australian dollars, which is still I think it's 22 in the end, which is still a little bit more expensive than if I just bought them from the American Amazon. But the obviously it was half the price, but from on the Australian Amazon. So I was happy. So I bought myself five pairs. I should record how long each one of these last me because none of them last a year. But it's mainly because of the cable. The cable is not great quality. I'm the only buyer. No, no, no. This is a very popular. It is considered like, I guess you could call it the best cheap headset that exists. Its sound quality is like comparable to a 100 dollar plus pair of headphones. But I get them because of the design. I like the ear clip on design, open back, lightweight design. I've talked about them before. The only other person who I know who was somewhat popular, who used them was Etika. And if you know what happened to Etika, it's very sad. But if you go back far in my videos, you'll hear me commenting like, oh, Etika is also using my headset. I was stealing my headset. You know, unfortunate that association. Don't know why I mentioned it. But yeah, very sad what happened that day. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 12. September 2021 | Difficulties with my job and taxes | Difficulties with my job and taxes. I'm even afraid of looking even mildly suspect when it comes to finances because streaming and Twitch and stuff is kind of a new field thing, right? I don't want to be sitting there in front of some like 60 year old accountants who's working for the government and they're like So tell me one more time. What are you doing? I'm like, oh, well, okay So I play video games on the internet and I'm a speedrunner you see and like people subbed me They give you money for playing video games. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's kind of what I do But I also like make videos and stuff. Mm-hmm. And what are these videos involved? Playing video games and you get money for this. Yeah, I got money for this just okay. Just just don't put me in jail. I remember when I was doing my taxes one year I went through the list of all the professions and I'm like, okay content creator couldn't find it YouTuber couldn't find it. Live streamer couldn't find it. Streamer couldn't find it. I'm like, uh performance artist? It's like okay, well it's there. Okay, so guys I'm a performance artist That's what I do. |
| 08. March 2022 | Digital games should they be resellable? | part. Digital games, should they be resellable, isn't buying a digital version of a video game also the idea of ownership? Technically when you buy a digital video game you don't even own it, which is a thing that people complain about forever. Usually it's like you're buying a license to play it indefinitely, unless that's changed in some regions, that was the case for the longest time. Because it's like when you buy a video game you don't own the assets in the video game. It's not like by buying GTA 5 I can like make GTA 6 myself, right? You buy a ticket to play. Isn't that how physical copies work also anyway? Well you can sell the physical copy. French Core recently ruled that Steam will have to allow users to resell their games, that's funny. How would that be achieved though? Re-selling Steam games would ruin the industry, that would kill almost all indie devs. So one of the reasons why physical reselling of games isn't a huge deal is because there's a lot of legwork involved. You know, you gotta take the game, go to a marketplace somewhere, find a seller, do the transaction or that shit, or send it out to a person. A lot of that people don't really want to spend the time doing. But imagine if like, you know, you go to buy a game and next to it it says buy secondhand copy and it just costs a dollar less or something. The process of selling is just you tick I want to sell this game from my inventory, and then it would immediately go on the marketplace and will be the next one sold. And like once you've played the game, any amount of money that you get back is just like dollars off your original purchase price. So it's not like you're sitting there trying to recoup the cost that you had in developing the game, which is what the developer is doing. So you would just go okay what is the lowest price that someone else is selling it for? 10 bucks? Well I'll sell it for 9. Another person like well someone's selling it for 9, I'll sell it for 8. And so eventually, like after you've sold like a thousand copies or something, it's just going to be a continuous influx of people buying the game for a dollar on Steam, playing it, and then selling it again for a dollar or something. And of course you always know that you could if you wanted to buy it again because it's going to be a dollar whatever secondhand. Because there's no there's no difference between a digital new product and a pre-owned digital product right because it's not like it's going to wear over time or something. Yeah I could totally see how that would just destroy the digital online game sales industry even with like AAA developers and stuff. That seems like a terrible decision. I think someone once mentioned that Steam could just change their contracts to where you effectively just buy a license that can't be resold. Not sure how accurate that is. That would kind of seemingly defeat the purpose of the ruling but I mean I guess it depends on why that ruling was made. TrueLayers Studios do generate a lot of revenue from things like Game Pass and Micro Transactions. True, true. I guess yeah if digital resales became a thing then AAA companies could just pivot their business model. I mean we couldn't like all games change to that. Like let's say you technically get the game for free but you need an account to play that game and to get an account you need to buy a subscription that renews every 99 years. Like surely there's ways around that if you really want to get around it. Of course requiring people to make another account is always a thing in itself and a barrier to entry and all that jazz. |
| 03. June 2020 | Dinner with historical figure | If you were able to have dinner, a conversation with any historical figure, who would it be? I would find some historical figure who buried a lot of treasure and I'd just be like, look man, you aren't going to have any other conversations, like, help me out here. I don't know dude. I'm not a big historian. |
| 21. August 2021 | Discord DMs | Discord DMS Curious how often you read your direct messages in discord. I always read them. I respond to Any that makes sense to respond to the people who say hi? How are you or? They ask some random stupid question or something I don't tend to respond to the person says something nice or has an entire another health increase or has a Intelligent question I answer those be like you never want to advertise Advertised too strongly that you answer DMS because that just causes a bunch of to be frank idiots to send you random messages In general you want some way to contact you that people who really actually need to contact you will be able to find But it's not so easily accessible that uh anyone who wants to go hey, man Well, uh, actually should a message out here It's funny because I'm sure a lot of people who say hi to me might actually have something that they want to tell me But you got to open with that, you know |
| 08. June 2020 | Discovering chicken salt | of chicken salt. You know other countries don't have chicken salt? How weird is that? Yeah, people in Chaplin are like, what's chicken salt? You're barely living life right now, you don't even realize it. I can literally remember the first day that I had chicken salt. That's how significant the discovery of chicken salt was to me. Daniel Myers has the guy lived across the road from me, went to his house for dinner, had chips and had chicken salt on them, and I was just like, what? What is this magic? How have you made these these chips so good? I actually said, can I have this? And they're like, what do you mean? And like, can I have your chicken salt? Imagine going to a house and just being like, hey, yo, can I have this condom? I'm pretty sure they said no. And they're like, you could just buy some your own. In the same way that I still remember when I discovered chicken salt, if you hit that like button, you'll remember it forever. I swear. Thank you. |
| 18. December 2019 | Discrepancies in GTA V hours played | Being AFK enables you to get passive income. So the reason why Baron has 12K hours in the game is because he AFK'd online for days to get additional income. He doesn't say this very often when he mentions his hours because you know, he just wants to, because I mention my hours at the beginning of my videos all the time, so he wants to kind of bite me in the ass that way by falsely claiming to have my hours played in the game. But I guess that's his business, even though it's fucking annoying for me. So finding people who have more hours, who play online, probably isn't super hard. Finding an amount of people who've played more than me, actually played the game, is, I'm sure some exist, but there's probably not many. The effectiveness of vitamin supplements. I take vitamin D, dude. Supplements are a lie, they do nothing, that's absolutely not true. Supplements do something if you have a... |
| 05. February 2021 | Discussing anime I have watched and seen | Discussing enemy I am watching and have seen. I watched the newest episode of Attack on Titan and One Piece. I hate that I've now got to the end of these series and I have to watch them episodically. Kill la Kill? Kill la Kill is not very interesting. I find it cringey. I don't like any of the characters. Do I watch Beyblades? I haven't seen Beyblades in like 20 years. I'm surprised they're still going on. Of course I've seen Hunter x Hunter. It's a great show. I kind of want to re-watch it. It's been quite a while. Attack on Titan fan base is so angry right now. Really? What for the most recent episode? I guess you'd have the spoiler for people in chat or whatever but don't do that. I didn't see anyone with it. I might re-watch Demon Slayer because I don't understand what the big deal is. I'm trying to watch Re-Zero. I barely remember season one and getting into season two it just seems really... you know. But finally it's really good so I'm like okay I should keep trying to watch it. Some people dislike the CGI. There was CGI? I just care that the story is good. I don't really care about how it's communicated. Yeah I like Reincarnated as slime. It sucks all those filler episodes though. There are so many things that I say to myself I need to re-watch this or replay that but I know I won't enjoy it as much the second time around because what I really want is just more material in that universe right. Like I'm like hey I play God of War again. I don't really want to play God of War again. I want to just you know get a new game. To be fair though there was a lot in God of War that I didn't finish because they released DLC for and stuff and I don't have the footage from when I played God of War the first time. I think I beat it over two days or something. I played like 12 hours two days. Really wish I had kept that footage. Lamenting the loss of my... |
| 01. January 2021 | Discussing cheating in GTA 5? | Discussing cheating in GTA 5 speedrunning. Hi Matthew, quick question, is it possible to use RNG boosts on GTA to get phone calls earlier or get better cop spawns like Dream that are minecraft but on GTA? No. There are certainly things you could change in the code to make things benefit you, but they'd be overt, like they'd be obvious once you saw them. There are certainly, so cheating in a way that has some measurable impact in your ability to get world record but isn't so significant that it can't get detected seems quite hard for GTA 5 speedrunning. Like you could increase the speed of all your vehicles by 1%, probably wouldn't notice. Well actually if it was all vehicles there would be some missions where like particular slow vehicles you could probably tell. But like, say you did that, your vehicle going 1% faster is not likely to be the determining factor whether you get world record or not in a 6 hour run. You know, it seems if cheating does occur or has occurred or will occur in GTA 5 it seems far more likely to be the more mundane cheating in regards to splicing. Even that would be hard to do in a way that wasn't detectable. But that seems more likely than changing something in regards to the game. |
| 30. May 2021 | Discussing our names and rebranding. | Discussing our names and rebranding. I was fortunate to rebrand it when I had like 7k followers on Twitch from DarkViper88 to DarkViperAU. Taking the gaming out of my name was such a controversy. I kinda like the gaming part, I won't lie. You just said mother spell again gaming to me. I named it so hard, but for those who are new viewers, it's awkward right? Who cares? Was it really a thing for you? Did you really want to get rid of it? What was the reasoning? Branding man. I just mother spell again so much cleaner. Like long term growth and shit. Like modest pelican gaming. Like that sounds like from 2002. |
| 13. August 2022 | Discussion with Charlie | Wait, so how's it going? Not too bad man, how have you been? Yeah, I've been okay. But you've been in a bunch of shit recently, it seems. How did this end up happening? Because you aren't a part of OTK, how did you end up being involved? Was it just because you were also associated with the Artesian builds? Yeah, so I think what happened is, after the Artesian builds, public suicide, God rest its soul, I think a lot of people were looking for another PC company to partner with, because pretty much everyone watching streams is in the space, so everyone's using high-end PCs for the most part. And I was talking to Miz about it since they were also with Artesian, and we started talking about the Starforge thing. And they had already been underway with getting the infrastructure in place to be able to do it themselves, because after everything with Artesian, as now everyone knows, they stopped testing computers for like months, which is something partners didn't know about until all of this information went public. So I think it was just this big lack of trust in the PC building space, because Artesian was one of the biggest players. I think they were doing at their peak like 20 million a year annually or something crazy. So if something that size was this sketchy, this lack of quality control, and with a CEO that was that shady, I don't know. For me personally, it cast a lot of doubt into other companies as well, because if someone as big as Artesian was doing it, who's to say someone like NZXT or iBuyPower, just any of the other big players wouldn't also have something similar. So they thought it was a good idea to do it like their own, so they can be like hands-on with it and be able to have like actual good customer service, transparency, and be able to deliver the builds that people are purchasing and wanting. And I really liked that idea because I felt the same way, just being able to have an actual impact and be able to control it. So if I can sort of throw a wrench into that reasoning, right? I don't know anything about gardening. If I partnered with a gardening company for whatever reason, and it turned out to be a scam, I wouldn't then sit about starting my own gardening company, because I know nothing about gardening. From what I can sort of gather is the people who are backing this company don't know much about PCs. They don't know much about the industry of creating pre-built PCs either. Why do you feel better qualified to handle the potential pitfalls than a company that's like next to it, that's been around for a very long time? Isn't it more likely that you're going to run into issues because of your lack of knowledge of the industry and the products that you're selling? Then that would absolutely be the case if we were the ones running it, but we're not. It's pretty public that the people that are the actual ones behind it are the ones with the experience. For example, if you look into who's behind it, you'll see the actual good part of Artesian, the CEO that wasn't crazy. He is the one that's spearheading this. I don't know if you really looked into the collapse of that company. Let me pull up... I saw Game of Nexus' video. Yeah, I was going to link that. So it's not us that's running it. It's the people that have the experience, the people that have been in the space, and they were doing it right. So they came together and we partnered with them. We're not the ones building the PCs. We're just the ones making sure everything actually runs properly. There's nothing shady. They're doing what they're saying they're doing, such as testing the builds, making sure the prices are actually better than the competitors, and just making sure that we're able to listen to community feedback and make the changes that are necessary, such as obviously upgrading the $1,000 build. Most people weren't satisfied with that, so upgrading the card as well as the CPU, I think, was crucial. And doing that in a timely fashion, I think, was very integral to showing that we actually mean it. How are you really going to know if things are going tits up? Like a year from now, you're still going to be looking at every balance sheet to make sure no one's skimming off the top or whatever. It's hard to imagine that the people involved, especially influencers who have no real business experience in this regard, are really going to be good checks on power for a company that pre-builds PCs, especially considering that the industry of pre-building PCs is already a little bit shady to begin with because everything on top of the cost of the parts, you're never going to be able to give as good a value as simply the parts themselves, you know? Absolutely. And that's something I, as well as I believe the others, have been very open about. You are absolutely going to get more bang for your buck if you build your own PC. That's never something we're trying to encroach on. That's never anything any pre-built company will ever be able to match. If you want to take the time to learn it, you are going to be better off spending that money making your own PC. 100%. That's just the truth. But you can say that for a lot of other things, too. You'd save money changing your own oil. But again, not everyone wants to learn how to do it or take the time to do it, which is why you take it to a mechanic. That's the whole idea behind pre-builds. I tried building my own PC, and I didn't do a great job. The PC didn't work super well. So since then, I've bought pre-built, which is, you know, I partnered with Artesian, pre-built, get everything. I don't have to do it myself. And for me, it's worth it. And for a lot of other people, it is, too. But it's not going to be worth it for everyone. And that's totally fine. There's nothing wrong with that. Again, it's not trying to compete with building your own PC. It's just there for the people that don't want to learn how to build it or just don't want to take the time to build it themselves. You can see somewhat the disconnect, right, where you're saying, we are in this because we want to be able to put checks in place, make sure everything works well, yada yada. And day one, immediately you've failed at that. Like, you know, it calls into question your ability to, in the future as well, see these things before they come to the public and before the public can notice and call you out on it, right? Yeah, but on that same coin, absolutely. There was a big failure from us and not going to sugarcoat it. Yeah, we missed the mark. But to be able to rectify that, I also think that should instill confidence that we do listen to the feedback. So by being vocal, we're able to pivot and make those changes people are looking for. Not to pat ourselves on the back or anything, but being able to turn it around, I also think is a good thing. Getting it right the first time would have been preferable, but still getting it right eventually is better than not doing it properly at all. Absolutely. But the main thing that you're saying, the reason why you want to be involved, is to prevent the very event that happened the first day of the company existing. There's no evidence that you will ever prevent another one of these from happening or that the future isn't just going to be continued issues, the public going, hey, here's another problem, and you're continuing having to fix it. Once upon a time, you were like the everyday bro kind of guy on YouTube. You had low audio quality and video quality because you're just an everyday dude, right? And now you're part owner of a PC part company. You've certainly changed, wouldn't you agree, a little bit over the last couple of years? Yeah, and then also during that time I was partnered with Artesian, which turned out to be a scam and it really lost a lot of trust in viewers and the things that I promote. Whereas here I can be a lot more hands-on. So again, I feel like this is something that swings both ways. By being so carefree and no audio quality, no checking into things, I ended up promoting something like Robinhood, which ended up losing a lot of people a lot of money because Robinhood did some sketchy shit. So I've just tried to be more like attentive to the things that I like put myself on. So for this, being able to be hands-on was worth it to me. And like you're saying, the checks in place to make sure things that like bad things don't happen. No one got any of those PCs. And if they did, the PCs would have worked completely fine. The PCs were very usable that exactly is advertised, but they weren't good enough for the price point. So everyone got the option for a refund or an upgrade, whatever they'd like. So no one actually received anything that was subpar because we listened to them. So the checks were in place. So to be clear, it wasn't simply that the parts weren't priced well. It's that the parts aren't even what you should be purchasing. As in, they're parts that exist certainly, but if you have $200, there's technically like a dozen CPUs you can buy, but there is the best value for money for $200 that exists. And the parts that were on offer weren't anywhere close to that. So people were speculating, like, oh, maybe you've got like a bunch of these in a warehouse somewhere, or you've already bought them on mass or something. This is what was laying around because it didn't make sense to be buying an i3 or to be buying a 1660 GPU. And that's a totally fair criticism. That wasn't the case. It wasn't just a bunch of like excess parts lying around. They were crafted just to meet that demand of casual gaming, but it wasn't good enough. For example, the i5s were in the other thousand dollar builds around the market. So upgrading it to an i5 made the most sense, but both builds are pretty comparable. From what I understand, I believe the difference between an i3 and an i5 in casual gaming is anywhere from a 5% to 10% performance upgrade. So it's not like a massive difference, but it is better, which is why it's absolutely integral that we give the best quality for the price, which we are doing, doing our best to continue to do. Sure, and this comes back again to the main question that I asked you in DMs is, why are you doing this at all? Because you keep repeating over and over again, this isn't about the money, my guy, and I don't care about the money, but like, it has to be about the money, or you just wouldn't do it. If it was about the money, I'd just take another sponsorship like Artesian. It's far more lucrative and a lot less headache. It really is. I don't want anyone to get something shitty that I was endorsing. I've been a lot more conscious about that. But you'd have to take, have to care about the money somewhat. Like you're saying that you've still got your same degree of caring about the money that existed before, but you also have the other obligation to make sure that you're not doing anything scummy. Because you just wouldn't take any sponsorships at all if you didn't care about the money. I take sponsorships because I worry that one day I'm going to need the money. I don't need the money right now, but I'm like, maybe somewhere down the line, I'm not going to be doing as well. And I run the risk, and I know I run the risk, that I'm going to end up sponsoring something that isn't that good, or someone's going to be harmed because I haven't done my due diligence or whatever. That's the risk I'm taking. But you are substantially richer than I am. You've got, certainly you've got your e-sports team to run and stuff, but your channel is making a ridiculous amount of money. You don't need sponsorships. It's just, it's why it comes off as so disingenuous when you say, I don't care about money at all. You have to care about the money at least somewhat, right? I mean, the company obviously cares about the money. I don't, so I don't have like a salary from the company. I don't take distributions from the company. If the company eventually makes some kind of crazy profit down the line, then yeah, eventually it would be profitable. But right now I literally wouldn't make money from it. I'm doing it because, like I said, I want to make sure that it's just good quality that I have my name on. And since I already had Artesian, I've wanted people to have the option for good builds. You mentioned e-sports. So for example, I take 0% of e-sports winnings. I do nothing but lose tons and tons of money on it every single month. But to me, it's worth it because it's delivering fun content. And I feel the same way about this company as well, because for me, it's worth it because I feel like I'm able to help deliver a quality product to people that are looking to purchase it. So in the tech field, there's massive markups. So when you go to another pre-built, their margins are pretty huge on their like systems. This one is not. The margins are a lot lower here across the board because everyone involved doesn't need the profit because it's not the most important part of it. So the margins on the Starforge builds for the company are significantly lower than all the competitors because, again, it's people like me and the OTK crew that don't need the money. So they cut into the margins. And again, of course, it's a company, so it has to make money. You can't just have a company that's giving everything away for free and losing money on every PC sold. But me personally, I am not making money on it. Eventually, maybe, yeah, probably down the line if it goes well. I'm surprised that you could compete to that degree with the other pre-built companies because you'd imagine they being more established and being around for far longer and likely servicing far more people can get better deals on this hardware, buying it en masse. I can't tell if it's marketing speak or like how do you know that you have better markups than the other competitors? Because there's like dozens upon dozens of pre-built companies. There is a lot of them. It's a very oversaturated market, 100%. I guess I can't say with 100% certainty all of them are, you know, were better than every single one of them on the margins. But from all of the research, all the market research that I have at my disposal from the team, that's the conclusion I'm able to draw. I'm at the disposal of what is publicly available and also what's been shared with me from the professionals. Again, I'm not the one building the PCs. I'm not the tech mastermind behind them. I'm here to make sure that everything is transparent by the books and isn't going to end up like artesian and isn't going to be predatory with huge margins for the company at the expense of quality for the customer. I'm talking to you. I believe you when you say that. It's the question of whether I think you can do that. And I guess that's something we'll just have to prove over time. I want to make it clear. I totally understand where you and everyone else is coming from. I hope this doesn't come off as me trying to vilify or placate anything. I'm trying my best to be as open as I can be about my intention with the company. Because I knew going into this, this was going to be controversial because in the pre-built space, people are very questionable because of the players in the space. You get more value if you just build it yourself. That is the fact. So a lot of people think that it's just a pretty not great business in general because it's not the best value for your book. And I get that. It's just as someone who buys pre-builds and as someone who had previously partnered with builders, I see the demand from a lot of people who want quality builds for their money without having to learn to do it themselves. And I just wanted to deliver the best possible thing I could to that group. Yeah, it is a middleman market that is probably always going to exist. And as you say, it's not only just the price and value, but it's just that you can't maneuver as fast as the market can maneuver. You'll have parts still in warehouses somewhere eventually that will be six months out of date. But you've still got to sell those systems. You can never adapt as readily as the market can adapt with new stuff coming out. And it's just a part of being the middleman. As I say, I do understand that there is still a market for pre-built PCs that's always going to exist. I ask you, do you think everyone else on your team has the same goals and motivations that you do? I truly think so. So on launch day, obviously things weren't great, not even close. And within two hours, the entire team, every single member, hopped on a call to go over everything that wasn't working and everything we needed to change. And within 24 hours, we were able to get not only all the orders for parts, but also change the entire build format. Upgrading the PCs, dropping prices, everything that people were wanting from us, we were able to deliver because we were all on the same page. So once again, doing that, we immediately ate into margins because that doesn't mean anything to us here. We want to make sure that people feel confident and get the best quality. So having everyone that's okay with doing things like that, I think it put a lot of faith in me and the whole team. Because going into launch, you can always feel and put on whatever face you want. But when things go shitty, like they did for us, to be able to buckle down and try and make the changes that are hard changes to make, it just showed me that people were willing to work together and make things happen. As I said before, that is what you'd expect of any company. It's not like you had any choice. You couldn't have just said, screw it, we're just going to sell non-competitive overpriced builds that everyone knows. The actions you took could indeed be, I believe you, I'm not sure about everyone else. The actions taken could indeed have been a desire to be magnanimous or to make sure you're above board. Or it could just be, well, this is the best business decision. We have to do this now. And then somewhere down the line, more margins are going to come in and stuff. But as you say, it's just going to be a matter of time will tell. Yeah, it's just a hard... Because it was such a bad start, it's hard to immediately prove that to people. But hopefully we can soon. I really hope we can because it's something that I believe in. Again, if it was just a play about money, it would have just been me partnering with another computer building company. But after Artesian, I just completely lost trust in these businesses. If I can't ensure that my viewers are actually getting a quality product, I don't want to promote it to them. It just doesn't feel right. And being able to be a part of it and ensure things go in the right direction has just become really important to me. Do you ever sit back and think to yourself, man, fuck all this shit, fuck sponsors? Because I sometimes do that. It just seems such a hassle sometimes. No, absolutely. And some of the companies are just a real pain in the ass to work with. The main things I work with now are games I like and then things that I'm actually involved in. So I'm trying to keep it to things that I am actively in, like my comic series or merch or something. Things where I can be there, like at the helm and ensure that people are getting exactly what I'm saying that they'll get. Well, thanks for talking to me. It's nice of you and giving me a response. It would have been impolite for me to talk shit against you again without giving you a chance to say something this time around. I appreciate it. No, man, it's totally fine. I appreciate you reaching out. And I really hope that we can shake this Artesian 2.0 scam PC thing, hopefully. Yeah, I wish you the best of luck with it. And I hope everyone gets the systems they deserve. Yeah, I hope so too, man. Again, if you have any questions or if anyone has any questions, just feel free to reach out. Will do. I'll talk to you another time. Yeah, no worries, man. Hope you have a great rest of the day. You too, see ya. |
| 24. December 2021 | Dislikes/Likes and the YouTube Algorithm. | Dislikes, likes and the YouTube algorithm. Someone asked me how I still have dislikes. I have an extension for it. Yeah, it's just called a return YouTube dislike. I'm not sure it's gonna last forever. And certainly because people now think that no one else is gonna see their dislike except the creator, people are probably less likely to press the dislike button. So for new videos, you're not getting the same experience as you did with old videos when the dislikes were visible. But it does help for older videos because you can still see the dislikes. For any video before they removed it, you can still see how many people disliked when they first saw it. So here's releasing a video on YouTube these days, right? And if you scroll down, you'll notice that there's something missing. Tags are missing. They're not here. You have to go Show More and go down to Tags to put them in. And it says, Tags can be useful if content in your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in helping your viewers find your video. If you have no tags, I'm pretty sure. It says like this isn't recommended. It's just a thing that you can do. But once upon a time, tags were really fucking important. At least that's what YouTube said, like you gotta tag everything right and all that jazz. But these days, they say the complete opposite. And the reason I suspect is because the algorithm changes in terms of what it pays attention to. The second that YouTubers know of a factor, they game it. So people obviously spend a lot of time shoving useless tags in the Tags section that got their video more views but didn't increase the satisfaction of the viewers themselves. So people are being shown the wrong videos. And therefore YouTube's like, well, algorithm, stop prioritizing tags. This is clearly not working for us. The reason why I bring this up is I suspect it's the same thing as the likes and dislikes. Once upon a time, whether or not a person pressed like on the video was an important indicator for the algorithm in YouTube as to whether or not people actually liked the video and wanted to watch it and whether they should share it to other people. But these days, because so many YouTubers are like, hey, hit that like button. It's no longer a good indicator as to whether or not people actually like the video. And so you've got all these creators who are spending time in their videos asking viewers to do stuff that doesn't actually benefit them. It's a waste of the viewers' time. It's a waste of the content creators' time. And so I suspect that YouTube probably doesn't want likes and dislikes at all. They probably consider them to be a completely useless metric for consumer satisfaction or whatever. I'm not saying this is necessarily the case, but this is probably YouTube's thinking. We have so many analytics. Every place that the mouse goes, every nanosecond that a person pauses or whatever, you know, speeds up. How many videos that they're clicking and stuff. Watch time. Were they watching to the very end? We've got this whole content profile. We don't need to know whether people are pressing like or dislike to know whether or not a person liked or disliked that video, right? And so like, let's just get rid of it so it's one less distraction for the viewer from them watching more content. Like, I think this is the direction that they're kind of going. Like, hypothetically speaking, if the algorithm is good enough, then like the likes and dislikes shouldn't be necessary. The videos that are scams and people don't like are just not going to be sent to people. They're not going to be shared. They're not going to be recommended. And they might even be deprioritized in search features. But I suspect, you know, the average viewer and creator doesn't have that much confidence in the algorithm to actually do that well. And certainly people prefer that sense of control. They don't want to trust an algorithm to prevent them receiving scams and they're recommended. They want to be able to do that themselves via the like and dislike. So I'd probably say that people potentially wasting their time asking for likes and pressing like and dislike isn't that much of a negative when compared to people having one more way of detecting scams and false videos and stuff. But I suppose then again, there is of course the downside that people do mass dislike things. Not because the video is bad, but because they personally don't like it. The dislike button isn't necessarily a way of measuring something's falsehood or level of scamming or whatever. It can relate to just people's, you know, perception of it being controversial, let's say. Like there have been videos that I have found that have had thousands of dislikes that I've considered to be perfectly reasonable and completely legitimate. I'm sure you've had the same experience. I've had videos where there's been like a 99% like ratio and I've considered them to be complete scams containing nothing but ignorant garbage. Just because the video doesn't agree with the masses doesn't mean it's bad. Exactly. Thinking about it now, let's consider that the main thing the dislike button does is to ward people away from scams and wrong information. Stuff that people shouldn't be watching. What is better at doing that in a non-biased way? An algorithm or the average person? Thinking about it this way, I think I'd go with the algorithm. I've seen it be the case that a video has released and it's had more dislikes than likes and the video has only been out for like two minutes. I actually do know of a channel, he's a climate scientist, and he makes videos about the environment and climate change and all that jazz. And each one of his videos has at least 10% dislikes. He's commented like he finds it unbelievable that these could be actual people doing this. He thinks there's just a bunch of bots that do it. And I'm sure that must be very annoying to, you know, make videos about a topic that you're very knowledgeable and passionate about. And to have people mash that dislike button just because they don't like what you're saying. It's like it's just the more that I reflect on the dislike button and the like button, it just seems so pointless. Both of them. No, I'll clear that back. It's not pointless. It's just it creates both good and bad situations. And I don't have enough information to know whether it creates more good or bad situations. Any system is going to cause good and bad. And I'd need more information to know which is more likely. I mean, for controversial videos, the creators could disable that. So if everyone has likes and dislikes except you, it represents you as someone trying to hide something. And people will instantly click off the video or consider it to be less reputable. The goal of mass dislikes is to achieve that. And if you hide likes and dislikes, you give the people mass disliking you exactly what they want. The big YouTubers could buy likes and still go on with their scams. I mean, YouTube does do things to get rid of bothered likes and dislikes apparently. But I don't think the big YouTubers who come out with a scam NFT, I mean, all scams, but I don't think they're getting 99 percent likes because of bots. I think it's just, you know, they know the audience, you know, being people to pay to dislike certain content creators. Yes, that is a service provided in some areas where you can pay for likes and dislikes done by actual people and actual accounts. The biggest reason why I suppose I don't like dislikes being taken away is because like the one last way. That a creator can't hide the response because it's possible for a creator to hide or delete all the negative comments, but they can't get rid of dislikes without telling people that they're getting rid of dislikes. If there was a thing down here that said something like 10 comments deleted or something, that'd be interesting. It would at least give the viewers some feedback that, you know, maybe this isn't as positive as the comments were suggesting. Do you think YouTube will stop recommending a video based on the mark? I am certain right now that YouTube does not recommend videos based on the number of likes because it's less representative of how good a video is and more how well a creator has asked for likes. Like if you ask for likes, it can like double or triple the amount of likes you get. How good you were at asking for likes isn't necessarily representative of how good the video is, you know, and the amount of likes you get is often a matter of it being a popularity contest. That isn't to say that amazing videos don't get a lot of likes. It's just, as I say, a system that's so easy to game that it would just be weird if the algorithm took that feedback. YouTube honestly says they don't know how their algorithm works, so we are left walking blindfolded. There's a difference between saying, I don't know how my toaster works and I don't know how to use a toaster. Here's an algorithm. I have no idea what it's doing, right, algorithm? I have no idea what it's doing, but I give it these three things. Then on the other side, I get this. There are only so many ways that you can conceive of how the algorithm would have sorted this information in this way. Maybe it was like, oh, I'm going to go from darkest to lightest, and then it just sorted it that way. Or maybe it went backwards and went lightest to darkest, but you have some idea of what it's doing in there, right? But the more complicated things get, the more you just give it more information. It can sort things in ways that you can't necessarily predict, but you do have some idea, right? Often you can look at the output that it's giving you and say, okay, this is bad or this is good. It isn't like YouTube is clueless what its machine learning algorithms are doing. YouTube definitely tweaks the algorithm. They say, hey, prioritize this, and then the algorithm does that, and then they look at the outcomes and they say, you know what, prioritizing that didn't actually have the outcomes that we wanted. Or the algorithm isn't achieving the results that we wanted with that small tweak that we had to it. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 31. July 2021 | Disliking modern car design | Disliking modern car design. 100% real with you, I hate the way this looks at the front. I think it looks like trash. But other people seem to like it, and I'm gonna be inside it, so I don't care. Or is it this? I don't know, it's a non-sport version. I'm gonna get a black one. Yeah, it's fine, it looks fine, and as I say, I'm more interested in being inside of it. But the thing that I don't like, I think it's just common with every car. You know, my windscreen, when I'm looking out of it, is like this big on my current car. But like a small little thing here, okay? But on modern cars, it's like your vision is just this middle part here. So you get so much less vision than you do on my old car. It feels claustrophobic. More pillars, strength for safety? Yeah, I assume so. Your ball sack looks like that, my dude. Seek medical attention. |
| 10. June 2022 | Disney Making way too much Star Wars stuff | Disney making way too much Star Wars stuff. Oh yeah, Disney's just making everything conceivable with Star Wars I kind of want to say why not at the same time like it's possible to burn people out on the franchise But Disney's just got so much money You know they can at the same time make 50 different things like in some cases what prevented people from getting burnt out on series isn't that the The license holder didn't want to make more so they couldn't make more they could just couldn't invest the money It wasn't sensible. I mean Everything Disney makes seems to make money like have they had a Star Wars thing yet not make money until that happens They're just gonna do a fucking crazy the same way Netflix went crazy. Just making every show imaginable until they started losing money I mean we all do that in the same way that when I Was on top of things and chaos was doing so well. I just made as much as that as possible You know try to get whatever I could out the door, bro |
| 10. June 2022 | Disney Making way too much starwars stuff | Disney making way too much Star Wars stuff. Oh yeah, Disney's just making everything conceivable with Star Wars I kind of want to say why not at the same time like it's possible to burn people out on the franchise But Disney's just got so much money You know they can at the same time make 50 different things like in some cases what prevented people from getting burnt out on series isn't that the The license holder didn't want to make more so they couldn't make more they could just couldn't invest the money It wasn't sensible. I mean Everything Disney makes seems to make money like have they had a Star Wars thing yet not make money until that happens They're just gonna do a fucking crazy the same way Netflix went crazy. Just making every show imaginable until they started losing money I mean we all do that in the same way that when I Was on top of things and chaos was doing so well. I just made as much as that as possible You know try to get whatever I could out the door, bro |
| 30. September 2022 | Disney wants a Star Wars game every 6 months | Disney wants a Star Wars game every six months. Like let's call this a rumor. That doesn't seem that crazy to me. The problem you're running into there is finding people who could do that. I'm assuming that they don't want a game made by the same company every six months. I assume what they want is like five different groups working on Star Wars games in tandem, and then they're releasing one every six months. You give each of them two years. At the end of the two years, they'll go one, then two, then three, then four, and they just start on the next one. You know, with the amount of money that Disney has, that doesn't seem too crazy, but I think the problem they've run into is finding enough people to be able to do that. Devs are in huge demand. It's a tough job. But I mean like six months is more than enough to like experience the meat of, like let's say a single player game. Most people aren't playing a single player game still after six months. Chrome. |
| 27. December 2020 | Disney’s New Star Wars Shows. | Disney's new Star Wars TV shows. Did I see the Disney reveals with the new Marvel and Star Wars shows? I mean, when they're making 10 new shows or something, do they really think people are gonna watch 10 different Star Wars shows? It is interesting that they're bringing back the people from the original trilogy to portray Obi-Wan and Darth Vader and whatnot. As long as it's well written, I'll watch it. I mean, I'm watching The Mandalorian. But you're right that I don't care at all that much. How the biggest... |
| 31. August 2020 | Distractions while driving | Distractions while driving. The point we're talking on the phone while driving isn't the talking but holding the phone. Any amount of your attention that is off driving impedes your driving. You can say maybe it's in a non-significant, oh it's not significant enough to bother and too hard to regulate to make illegal, but certainly being distracted while driving in a conversation with a person in your passenger seat is definitely going to be an impediment to your reacting to novel situations. Situations that you haven't seen before, or things that are unexpected. The situations where the difference between a one second versus two second response time can get you killed. What I'm saying is, we need machines to drive the cars. |
| 22. April 2021 | Diversification in content | Diversification in content. Yeah, that's true. Look at Peli, like he's just, he picked that thing up and he's like doing great numbers now. Like even on Twitch, but also on his YouTube channel. I think he uploads it to his second YouTube channel, it just does really good. I mean, considering he has like a million subs on YouTube, him getting 1.2k on Twitch is not particularly remarkable. Like I think he'd have more numbers if he did, he more advertised. My YouTube content all advertises my Twitch in a greater or lesser, to a greater or lesser extent where his doesn't necessarily. I think I had this discussion with Peli about you in the past as well, where like we were talking to each other, we're both like YouTubers and streaming, well, we both didn't stream at all, but we both said to each other like, okay, so what Vipers got going on for himself is like such a great and healthy thing where you got like this big Twitch viewership. Because, you know, those people are like, I think kind of like super fans, if that makes any sense. Like they come out and they're willing to spend like hours upon hours with you, like and get to know you and get to know like the real you, like ups and downs, you know, like it's kind of different. So what Peli has got going on in his YouTube channel, even with a million subscribers, he doesn't have that same level of interaction and like quote unquote fandom that you have. So I don't know, like if it's that easy for him to get people over. Because I basically speak like five hours a day to an audience and then like my every passing thought is put on my YouTube channel, it becomes a lot more of a personal thing. If you, so there are some YouTubers who you know effectively nothing about. You don't, you don't, you may not even know their voice. And then on the spectrum all the way down to me where there are viewers that I have to know effectively everything about me. Because I'm just that open with myself and being that open does have its own risks and problems, but it does embolden people to actually give a shit about you. And embolden people to potentially watch you do effectively anything. Because you are involved and that's all that matters. And especially when it comes to financial support, people are more likely to support both a content creator they like and content that they enjoy than simply content that they enjoy, you know? Yeah, that makes sense. |
| 28. November 2020 | Do American's want third parties? | Now, do Americans want third parties? Are there many Americans who wouldn't want additional parties? I remember I was at some family gathering and I heard my uncle express his preference for the first pass the post system. And I was just like, really? Just, okay. First pass the post is used in these countries and basically you get one vote. So imagine if three different people are running for office, one gets 30%, another gets 30% and the other gets 40%. The 40% wins the seat, even though the majority didn't vote for that candidate. But like, so yeah, people have different preferences than me in regards to voting, but I'm fairly certain that the majority of people in America, if it were possible, would like to have some voting reform to enable the existence of minor parties, third parties or what have you. Because certainly you can see Trump supporters right now on Twitter saying, oh, the Republicans betrayed him. Oh, I don't like the Republicans. Ah, Fox News, oh, I don't like them. I'm sure those people would like an existence where the party of Trump could come to be and be a legitimate third party without sinking the Republican party and giving the election to Democrats every single time. And of course the Democrats or Democrat supporters are always complaining about that. I mean, people wanted Bernie to make a third party, but of course Bernie isn't an idiot, you know? Bernie's been in politics for a long time. As an independent, which is a damn hard thing to do considering there's only two independents in Congress. He knows how to play the game. Oh yeah, I take Bernie or Yang over Biden. Very different policies, the two of them. But the parts of what I like about Biden are concessions that he made to his opponents. |
| 28. November 2020 | Do Americans want third parties? | Now, do Americans want third parties? Are there many Americans who wouldn't want additional parties? I remember I was at some family gathering and I heard my uncle express his preference for the first pass the post system. And I was just like, really? Just, okay. First pass the post is used in these countries and basically you get one vote. So imagine if three different people are running for office, one gets 30%, another gets 30% and the other gets 40%. The 40% wins the seat, even though the majority didn't vote for that candidate. But like, so yeah, people have different preferences than me in regards to voting, but I'm fairly certain that the majority of people in America, if it were possible, would like to have some voting reform to enable the existence of minor parties, third parties or what have you. Because certainly you can see Trump supporters right now on Twitter saying, oh, the Republicans betrayed him. Oh, I don't like the Republicans. Ah, Fox News, oh, I don't like them. I'm sure those people would like an existence where the party of Trump could come to be and be a legitimate third party without sinking the Republican party and giving the election to Democrats every single time. And of course the Democrats or Democrat supporters are always complaining about that. I mean, people wanted Bernie to make a third party, but of course Bernie isn't an idiot, you know? Bernie's been in politics for a long time. As an independent, which is a damn hard thing to do considering there's only two independents in Congress. He knows how to play the game. Oh yeah, I take Bernie or Yang over Biden. Very different policies, the two of them. But the parts of what I like about Biden are concessions that he made to his opponents. |
| 30. September 2021 | Do Australians say shrimp or prawns | Do Australians say shrimp or prawns? Can you say prawn? What's significant about prawn? Do we actually say shrimp though? I don't even know if we do that. Yeah, there was that advertising campaign where they said shrimp on the barbie, but do we actually say it? My mother and father have always said prawns. For the longest time I thought prawns and shrimp were different things. Yeah, no Aussie says shrimp, exactly. How we tell if a person's Aussie or pretending to be Aussie, like we woke up to a person who's pretending to be Aussie, and we're like, do we say prawns or shrimp? And they say shrimp and we know they're pretending to be Aussie. You see? Because only foreigners think Australians say shrimp. I was in the Australian equivalent of the FIB, so you know, I know these interrogation tactics. |
| 17. May 2021 | Do GTA RP servers make money? | Do GTA RP servers make money? Do these RP servers make money? No pixel takes about 10k a month to stay up? Damn. He'll pay them for in-game things? They have microtransactions? Interesting. Interesting. Getting some conflicting information, people saying they only make money from streams and donos and some people saying they have microtransactions. I mean, because it just seems like it'd be a lot of work to manage such a server. All the different people and characters and egos and content creators and da-da-da would be hell. You'd hope they'd be making some money. Ah, they have priority? I see. So you pay a fee to go to the front of the line. I see. Depends on the server. So what's like the end goal with the RP? Like, you develop your character, sure. But I see people doing heists and stuff. Did you guys see that there was an article written about how XQC had like a heart rate of like 180 or something while he was doing some heist for a painting or something like that? And I saw it because Michael's voice actor, Ned Luke, he tweeted out, slow and steady Q, slow and steady. Totally understandable why he shortened his name to Q, XQC. It was kind of funny. He's calling XQ. Because obviously he said slow and steady Q, slow and steady because it's mimicking what happens in Prologue. It's like slow and steady T, slow and steady. I find that kind of funny. Yeah, so like, why was he so stressed? You get the money and you can buy cars and stuff. He isn't a voice actor, he's an actor. Oh, true. That's actually a good point because obviously there was a lot of motion capture and stuff for Michael. There was acting involved there, not just the voice. True, true, true. Calling him a voice actor does kind of diminish a little bit. Yeah, the hacking mini game is difficult and you only have a certain number of attempts before it locks you out. Oh, interesting. So what, you get a bunch of money you can buy cars and stuff or a nice house. |
| 26. May 2021 | Do I Do "X"? | Do I do X? I do not play any sports, no. If you have a question for me that involves me using my time for something other than streaming or editing, I don't do that thing. Do I still work out? Not really. I actually saw this, uh, I saw this TikTok with this chick who had amazing apps and she just highlighted like the steps, like the the ab exercises she does every day. I was like I could do that shit. Doesn't look like it takes too long, but knowing that I could do it and actually getting myself to do it after spending, you know, 12 hours streaming and editing. Very different things. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 10. December 2022 | Do I act different on stream when I know it will be a video? | Do I act differently on stream when I know it will be a video? One thing you learn when you're making live stream footage into edited footage is that you have to always be aware that that's gonna happen. Like while I'm streaming I am aware like oh what I'm doing right now isn't gonna be in the footage or what I'm saying right now isn't gonna make it in. Other times I'm like if I don't detail certain information, it's gonna be very hard to edit this section. It's why my streams probably feel sometimes less natural than other streams because I am specifically talking in a way sometimes not to you guys but to the people in the future and trying to make it easier for the editing. |
| 01. December 2022 | Do I actually enjoy GTA online? | Joy GTA Online. What is my honest opinion of GTA Online? It is the jankiest piece of crap that has ever been produced by a AAA company. Its success, despite its just insane levels of jank, is insane. I'm not a person who believes in like magical shit and whatnot, but uh wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of uh wish granting involved to uh get this game to be as popular as it is. Do I find online a little enjoyable? Of course! But the reasons I find it enjoyable is probably not the same reason most people do. Have I played Fallout 76? This is still more jank. I don't care. Exactly. |
| 20. July 2021 | Do I approve of TV rips on YouTube? | he rips on YouTube, just channels that upload TV shows that they don't own. Of course, they don't approve of channels that upload like TV content to YouTube and shit. At the end of the day, it is somewhat just an issue of distribution, right? Clearly, people don't want to be watching, like slowed down or sped up shit of Family Guy on YouTube and stuff. I don't think it necessarily harms these TV shows or something. But yeah, like, and it's still probably not a good thing. If for nothing else that it's not content that they put effort into and it ultimately then takes away attention from the original content that other creators actually make, you know, how the other content creators who make a living and stuff. Like if you removed all TV uploads, rips of people's stuff from YouTube, odds are that at least some of those people would watch other people's content, thus earning them more revenue. Like I'm less concerned about the implications for the billion dollar corporations or whatever and more just concerned for the content creators on the platform. At the end of the day, it's the it's people not really putting in any effort and taking home a paycheck. Well, assuming that they managed to get monetization, which I'm not sure how easy it is these days. Didn't used to be a big problem. Will I stream Elden? |
| 20. October 2021 | Do I believe I am unlucky? | Do I believe I'm unlucky? How is my luck when it typically comes to these kind of things? I don't consider myself a lucky person, but I don't believe luck exists in the sense that I don't believe there is some Extra force in the universe that makes some people more or less lucky There have been studies of it in general People who would call themselves lucky are people who are more likely to remember their successes and forget their failures But also because of their perception of themselves as lucky they like enter more competitions and put themselves out there more so Just from the amount that they put themselves out there They're bound to win more than a person who doesn't and a person who's unlucky or considers themselves unlucky rather They don't put themselves out there as much and they they remember their failures and forget their successes They're like, oh, you know sure I won that one competition But think of those ten thousand that I entered that I didn't win I'm so I'm lucky, you know and I'm I'm of that kind of mindset where I don't put myself out there very much and I I remember when I fail or when I get bad RNG, but I very rarely remember the good RNG although the game the game is more geared to that perception right because Good RNG is often invisible as in I'm driving down a street and there's no cars that get in my way That's good RNG, but it's invisible like you won't Unless you're really trying to take notice you won't even notice that that occurs But you definitely notice if a car flies out of nowhere and hits you in the fucking face and you're all this bad RNG Not noticing the four streets beforehand with good RNG, you know Randomness can only exist digitally. I mean in these games It's it's not true randomness. It's all determined. It's just we can't Understand all the variables in real time, you know |
| 22. December 2020 | Do I believe in free will? | Do I believe in free will? Do I think we have free will? Not in the sense that most people use the term. I do not believe in libertarian free will. But then again, depending upon who you talk to, no one does. The definitions of free will that you have to use to save the concept of free will, I don't think are very useful. As in, there is a difference between you picking up a glass versus a person putting a gun to your head and telling you to pick up a glass. If you want to call that difference free will, then that definition of free will I accept. All others, I object. |
| 10. September 2021 | Do I believe in miracles? | Do I believe in miracles? Do I believe in miracles? No. Well, depending on how they're defined, but uh, a one-off circumvention of the normal way in which the universe works is not something you can confirm. There can never be sufficient evidence to substantiate such a thing. To put it simply, generally you build a case for an explanation of an event by looking at similar events. As a miracle is a one-off occurrence, it will differ from all other similar events to the extent where it will always appear to be less likely than what is commonly the case. In the same way that if your light bulb didn't merely stop working due to naturally failing and was actually destroyed by a one-time light bulb-hating undetectable entity, the overwhelming history of light bulbs naturally failing would prevent you from accepting that as a good explanation. A miracle can neither be repeated nor reproduced, thus evidence in favour of it cannot be gathered after the facts. Lies, false memories, false information, misunderstandings and other psychological explanations can all be established to exist, have repeatedly been shown to explain unlikely events, and can continue to be repeated, reproduced and tested. These explanations will therefore always win out over miracle explanations that can't even be established to be possible. If by miracle you simply mean events that are extraordinarily improbable, then yeah, of course I believe in those because they happen every day. When you have billions of entities doing things each and every day, there will be endless, million to one things that happen every day. But like when you look up so-called confirmed miracles, you'll find that the evidence for them is very lacking. As in like, ah, you know, this person said this thing happened. There's something to do with the Catholic Church, where a person, in order to be canonised as a saint, ordinarily at least two miracles must have been performed by that person. There are more than 10,000 saints, so that's a lot of miracles. And when you, the list of miracles that they've done, it's like, oh, you know, they touched someone and that person felt better after like a week. It's like, a miracle! A miracle! It's like they put no effort into it, seriously. Or like there's meant to be some water that's meant to be able to cure you of diseases or something, it's like miracle water. And studies have been done on it. And like, they'll hold it up like, this person went into the water and went into remission because of their cancer. Whole miracle! But you do studies and it's like, yeah, the same amount of people who go into remission without this water, go into remission with it. It's just they only focus on the people who go into remission with it. Miracles fall into two categories. Those we can investigate, where they're found to be lawfully absurd, and those we can't investigate, that are called miracles because we can't actually examine the evidence of whether or not they're miracles. Miracles are believed in spite of any evidence, not because of it. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 28. June 2022 | Do I believe in soulmates | Do I believe in soulmates? Do you believe in soulmates? No. I believe that in the world, there are countless people who you could live comfortably and happily with, and that relationships, successful ones, are more about changing and adapting to meet the needs and preferences of your partner, as opposed to finding someone who just coincidentally happens to perfectly fit who you are right now. Especially considering that we change over time, you know? A person who's perfect for you right now isn't necessarily going to be one who's perfect for you in five years. You want another person who will grow and adapt and change with you. Relationships that stand the test of time are those where there's compromise and people meet in the middle. And so yeah, you can do this process with countless people. |
| 09. February 2023 | Do I benefit from criticizing reactors? | Good? I actually liked your channel for a long time, but it's become so much lazy content just churned out. Chaos percent, Rainbemiser constantly and every other week attacking a different YouTuber over react content so you can get clout. And never mind the change, horrible titles, thumbnails. I didn't release an episode of Chaos for two months and even prior to that it was only once every two weeks. This was an attack on Linus. I haven't released a video about another creator in almost 10 months and these were response videos specifically to things said about me. Explaining the harm other creators do does not give me clout or benefit me at all as you yourself are demonstrating right now. It always bothers me when people say, hey man you're benefiting so much from criticizing what these other creators are doing, but I hate you now and I don't want to watch your content. Not for even a moment recognizing the disconnect between those two sentiments. Think about it for six seconds, just six fucking seconds. They don't care though, they just don't care. I just get comments like this all the time and it doesn't matter what other comments I receive these will always stand out. This is a reaction video, you are reacting to video clips. I respond, this is a reaction comment, I'm reacting to your words. My lungs are reactors, they react to my need for oxygen and the oxygen in the air is this fun. I like this one. Do not forget your keyboard is also making reaction content as they're reacting to your key presses and making content based on what you type. You know as valid as your points are, I find it hypocritical of accusing reaction content as bad when you are, pause, doing it yourself. Do you also find it hypocritical that my eyes react to light and my lungs react to my need for air? If we just broaden the term reacts to encompass literally everything in existence then despite the differences between things they are now all the same. What is the point? Why do you do this? Why so dishonestly equivocate? I don't understand, like I know it benefits reactors to pretend that every single thing that people call reaction content is exactly the same. Both in what you're doing and its implications but surely people can recognize to some degree that they're doing this. Surely. To broadly summarize, on one hand there is repurposing the bare minimum of content you have already seen for a specific purpose which can often align with fair use guidelines. On the other hand there is sitting around watching endless YouTube videos in order to present your first time reactions to them with no real goal in mind beyond that which does not fall within such guidelines. This is like textbook 101. I am doing a bad thing therefore I'm going to equivocate what I'm doing with something that is not bad and pretend they're the same. Just prefer to them as the same word. I rewatched your video and there was literally a part where you were saying this shit happens. Yes. It is covered in a lot of the videos. It's just stressful. I never should have taken a stance on anything Jack. I could have lived a much happier life. Just accepting how bad life is and how unfair the world is. I'm doing great. I bought myself a house. I got money. I don't have to care about this shit. I don't. I could have just equally has been as unethical and lived a much more carefree financially secure life. But I didn't choose that because I actually give a shit. But I'm not cut out for this Jack. I can't deal with this negativity and I'll be frank with you after stupidity. How do people not realize yet that criticizing other creators is not a path to success? Criticizing the rich and powerful is not a good move. If you want to live a carefree happy life. But people don't care. No one cares. It sucks. |
| 10. July 2021 | Do I buy cosmetics in games? | Do I buy cosmetics in games? I am so happy I don't care about cosmetics. I'm so happy. I would hate to throw my money away on them. Like, don't get me wrong. Having cosmetics is cool. I understand the value of having a cool character, but I don't care about it that much to the extent I'm willing to spend money on it, you know? |
| 24. September 2022 | Do I care if Rockstar likes me? | Do I care if Rockstar likes me? It's an interesting question I think about sometimes because I recognize that what we do online is Done to in a great degree by Rockstar's good graces like they could strike us all down Take us all to court fuck with us, but obviously what we do here is mutually beneficial So it's very unlikely to happen, but that sword over your neck is always there And so you want to be in Rockstar's good graces, so I don't like just to be a dick for no reason like I like to have Criticism that you know is justified but at the same time like this is a company that I've dedicated Well over half a decade to playing their game and to following everything that they're doing I can't help but realize that acknowledgement from Rockstar even praise from Rockstar would be something I would appreciate Suggesting that I am doing something significant in any capacity Would be appreciated like I can't I can't deny that it was just an interesting thing to think about I suppose |
| 20. October 2021 | Do I care the location that gta 6 is set? | Do I care the location the GTA 6 is set? The setting of a game doesn't really determine how good the gameplay is gonna be but it does somewhat limit what can be included like Red Dead Redemption 2 like obviously you can't have cars driving around in that setting but the differences between let's say modern-day London and modern-day America is like this effectively no difference like I don't think it would significantly change the gameplay like what does London have technologically that it doesn't exist somewhere in America |
| 12. November 2022 | Do I consider myself attractive? | Do I consider myself attractive? Do I consider myself attractive? No. Lies matter, you are very handsome. So I have people from my audience tell me all the time that I look very attractive. Now, I can explain that in a few different ways. They're all likely possibly true in some respects. The first is people are just being nice. The second is, potentially because I am from a more well-off area of the world, comparatively to other places, the degree to which people look attractive where I am is probably higher than average. I don't mean to say to be rude or something, I'm not criticizing anyone here, but that is just a fact. The more people who have access to funds to, you know, do cosmetic surgery or get in shape or eat good food or be appropriately nourished as they develop and stuff, the better people are going to look on average. Australia is one of the richest countries in the world and so people here generally look pretty good. But at the end of the day, chat, actions matter more than words. I have never found myself receiving any particular attentions from anyone attracted to men that would suggest that I am attractive in any respect. It just has never happened. Like you guys tell me I look good. I don't get that many hits on like my dating profile and stuff. I'd have some professional photos taken of me and lose some weight. Like I recognize that my pictures on there aren't the best, but they're like the best ones that I have. There are a lot of pictures from when I was down in Melbourne as well. A good dating profile has pictures with friends, you're doing hobbies and professional shots. Yeah, so I struggled with my dating profile before because I didn't have that, but then when I went to Melbourne, I got a bunch of those photos and I was like, oh, you beauty. And so I have gotten a lot more matches than I used to, but not with anyone that I'm particularly interested in, you know. |
| 23. March 2021 | Do I consider myself famous? | Do I consider myself famous? Do I feel famous? To a degree. Always keep in mind that the bigger you become, the more you're aware of people who are even bigger than you kind of thing, right? It's- you're always comparing yourself to the people who are above you. Like, I make a tweet and I get a thousand likes. I'm like, ah, that's pretty good. People- people like the stuff that I do. And then I see Dream tweet out like, so I, uh, ate toast and he gets a hundred thousand likes. I'm like, ah. Alright. Perfectly craft, hilarious tweet. I think it's a great joke. And, uh, I know, Pokimane tweets something mundane and it's a hundred thousand likes. That is not to say Dream and Pokimane haven't said funny things on Twitter. I just mean that my best comes- comes nowhere close to their worst in terms of recognition. You know? And- and- and keeping that perspective can somewhat keep you humble, I guess in a way. Maybe humble's the wrong word. I don't know, but like I know I'm not a nobody necessarily, but I'm- |
| 30. July 2020 | Do I consider myself successful? | Do I consider myself to be successful? Maybe I have a bit of imposter syndrome. Partly because my success online doesn't feel like the success that other people have. In the sense that my success almost feels a little bit illegitimate, in that my success is so tied to a particular game. Like true online success on YouTube and Twitch is that kind of success where you can do effectively anything and still be successful. Where it's your brand or you as a person that people come for and what you're doing is just like the icing on the cake. I certainly don't have that. I appreciate all the people that that's true for. Certainly the amount of views I get on speedrunning rambles is very flattering, you know. But especially with Burhaq beating my records and stuff and me being tired and not being able to do runs as much as I used to be able to. It does feel like I'm falling by the wayside to some extent. Bring up Baron again, certainly Baron made me feel that way. With basically every video he's ever done where I've... Despite my years of knowledge I have not been considered worth even a fucking simple question at any point. It's very painful. I know to dedicate your life so much to something and then for someone just to completely dismiss your value in regards to that thing. That's a tough pill to swallow. You are successful, tell me another person who makes a video about buying plants and gets a fat of views. Yeah, it's that problem with humans, right? Where your expectations always normalize and you're always comparing yourself to that bigger thing. I'm not Misfits. I'm not Loserfruit, I'm not Panda, whatever. I'm not these people with just a horde of followers, you know. I'm at both positions, humbled by the success that I have and very appreciative of the people who watch me. But I'm still in this situation where I'm not really popular. I'm not really one of those YouTubers, Twitch streamers, whatever. Look at all these other people who are bigger than me. I'm just some guy, you know. Even YouTubers and nobodies compare to Hollywood and so on. The best example, listen to this. Linus Tech Tips was on his podcast and even he was like, Oh, you know, we're not like, we're big, right? But we're not like, you know, Logan Paul, PewDiePie, big or whatever. Like even he was downplaying how big he is in the grand scheme of things. Because you're always looking at the people who are bigger. You get invited to the medium sized room and you look over at the big room. Or you get invited to a new room and you look at the people who are on the stage in that room. And that's all you do. |
| 22. March 2022 | Do I delete comments? | Do I delete comments? Any explanation on why my comment got deleted sometimes on the main channel? Because it's on no way or form a bot comment. I am not sure to what degree that content creators normally read their comments, but I read them as you would any social media feed in the same way that people would go on Facebook and just scroll for a little bit or go on Twitter and scroll for a bit. I go to the comments and so you can see like I I responded and it's just you know two hours ago 15 hours ago 16 hours ago because I haven't responded to me, but you can just go down and I just response after response after response on videos. It's funny. There was a comment where a person was like I'm gonna prove that you can't see comments and older videos I'm calling you out for your bullshit just trying to bake comments, and I responded. Hey man. How's it going? Like like three minutes after they posted Is it soul-crushing sometimes? Yes, I honestly don't see the appeal of Viper. I only got introduced to his channel because of Charlie ironically because he was spawning to a video made by Viper reacting to one of Charlie's videos. So this comment I received so many times. All of you who've read the document automatically know why it's stupid because what Charlie did was not a reaction to my video. It was a response video which are things that I was advocating for. I was saying response videos as I define them are always better at least 99% of the time to reaction videos and I would prefer if reaction videos were to die and everyone would do response videos. Will you only take the parts of someone else's content that you need that you can transform and that are important to what you're trying to say. These videos do far better than reaction videos to draw attention and to lead people to another channel because a at least with videos the video ends so you need somewhere else to go so you go hey, you know, I'll go watch that guy who was mentioned I'll go check out that guy's channel who was mentioned comparatively to a live stream where it doesn't end. As soon as XQC stops watching a video the stream keeps going so there's no reason for you to leave. There's no reason for you to check it out. You're not looking for something new you've got content in front of you. Like live stream reactions are just the worst way, the worst way to drive an audience to a channel and that's why reaction live streams keep growing and never lose audience despite showing thousands of other content creators that if they were if a significant amount of the audience was going to those channels they would eventually end up sharing their viewership with so many channels that their viewership would naturally have to decline. But that doesn't happen because you get like if it's something like for every 10,000 viewers who watches a video you get like 50 views or something. It is so impotently tiny. But yeah, so and it goes on and my impression is that he is a loud foul-mouthed belligerent annoying pseudo intellectual who tries to appear smart by shouting his theories at people pretending to know what he's talking about but he comes across as a drunken uncouth rancor with no comprehension of basic philosophy. I'm honestly this is actually like this is actually just a coincidence because most comments aren't this brutal. This is probably like one in a thousand maybe maybe one in five hundred comments. It's a little bit worse because of the the Charlie thing but I still read all the comments and so to answer your question about deleting comments there are two reasons why you might not be able to see your comment. One, the way YouTube's comments system works is that your comment first goes to the server or a particular server or something and then eventually propagates to everyone else and in that process some people will not be able to see other people's comments. I'm not exactly sure how the system works, but someone in another country and you in a different country if you refresh your pages you may be given different comments at least in the initial periods where there's a lot of comments coming in. But also I do mute people on occasion. People who I consider just be saying go fuck yourself you fucking fuck nugget or something. I'm like well, I don't want to read from this guy ever again. This is not valuable to me. For the sake of my mental health and just the general quality of my comment section I just mute them. It doesn't happen all that often, but it does happen. So it is possible that you've just said something really really strange and just insulting for no purpose. I just remove it. Don't I have a degree in psychology? It's like yes. I both have a degree in psychology and had a huge interest in philosophy at least in regards to religious philosophy. I'm always fascinated how much effort some people take to attack you. I'm the opposite. I'm fascinated by how much effort people don't take in their attacks on me. As in an an effortful attack will be you know you look over my content, you see what I do, you get a feel of me, you read my writings, you watch my videos, you get all to the end of that politics like three hours, and then you've had a comment. But most comments attacking me are just like LOL 14 pages. It's like well, that's great my guy. It's funny just how many comments I had of people coming from Ethan Klein's video just spamming 14 pages. It was like a hundred. Imagine being so much of a, I've never I've never called people this far, but a sheep that you are you're typing literally the same comment as you know another 99 people within an hour's time without any awareness that you're doing it. It is such a hive mind, non coordinated, but still all thinking the same thing. Like that's just embarrassing. |
| 28. July 2020 | Do I deserve more viewers | Do I deserve more viewers? I deserve more viewers why? I'm not a particularly remarkable person. I think I make good content but I'm pretty where I think I should be. Except that video that I made about Amanda not being in Prologue, that shit should have got a million views. That was an amazing video. It was precise and tight and a video spreading bullshit with rambling in it from... What's the guy's name? I don't know. His video gets 5 million fucking views. My video, chock full of information, no rambling, perfectly cut together, sound files from the game itself, everything perfectly made, 130k views. I'm just sitting there like recommended like half as much as a normal Chaos video. I'm just like fuck you YouTube. People would like that video if you let them watch it. It's still got like a 10% click through rate. It's likes, astronomical, it's retention is like 75%. What video gets a 75% retention rate to the end? It's insane. The analytics on the back end for that video are fucking unbelievable and YouTube is just like no. Your video is 50 seconds too short of 10 minutes. We don't want fucking anything to do with it. Fucking awful. So in that regard, on specifically that video, yeah I agree, I deserve more. Everything else though is... Guys you gotta remember on the back end, like my collection of my channel, I'm getting like 8 million views a month. That's a lot of views for a person who's only been successful for two years or whatever right? Sure Mr. Boss is getting like 20 million, Ternando is still getting like 10 million and stuff, but these are guys who've been making GTA content for like 10 years, you know? They've got a much larger back catalogue than me. It's not Venos, who's the person that I confuse with Venos, what's his name? Uh, Nort. Nort has like 6,000 videos or some shit. So he's getting like 50 million views or whatever, but you know I've got like a frat, like 1 eighth of the videos he does. I'm doing very well for myself, especially considering what I do, which is violent video games while I swear. And talk about politics sometimes and society and you know blah blah blah blah, not that I do as much as I used to. Like clearly I'm not actively working to course the algorithm and considering that I'm doing quite well. Man, do you think you get milk when people make one video saying secret and then beginning location or perhaps? Are you saying do I get angry when I see videos that are complete garbage that have like 10 million views or whatever? Yes. Actual curious question, how did you confuse Venos for Nort? I don't know, maybe I just saw something with his name in it or something, or I happened to be googling him in social media or something. I don't know who's secret name beginning is. Do you know if you get much viewer overlap with the GTA RP scene? I don't know, no. I have no way to get that information. I actually got recommended a video from The Professional, which is a guy that you guys mention fairly regularly. Not what I expected, he sounds quite young. I only watched a few minutes of the video because it was he was just talking about it seemed very late to the party talking about why people are pissed at Rockstar for releasing GTA 5 on PlayStation 5. |
| 28. July 2020 | Do I deserve more viewers? | Do I deserve more viewers? I deserve more viewers why? I'm not a particularly remarkable person. I think I make good content but I'm pretty where I think I should be. Except that video that I made about Amanda not being in Prologue, that shit should have got a million views. That was an amazing video. It was precise and tight and a video spreading bullshit with rambling in it from... What's the guy's name? I don't know. His video gets 5 million fucking views. My video, chock full of information, no rambling, perfectly cut together, sound files from the game itself, everything perfectly made, 130k views. I'm just sitting there like recommended like half as much as a normal Chaos video. I'm just like fuck you YouTube. People would like that video if you let them watch it. It's still got like a 10% click through rate. It's likes, astronomical, it's retention is like 75%. What video gets a 75% retention rate to the end? It's insane. The analytics on the back end for that video are fucking unbelievable and YouTube is just like no. Your video is 50 seconds too short of 10 minutes. We don't want fucking anything to do with it. Fucking awful. So in that regard, on specifically that video, yeah I agree, I deserve more. Everything else though is... Guys you gotta remember on the back end, like my collection of my channel, I'm getting like 8 million views a month. That's a lot of views for a person who's only been successful for two years or whatever right? Sure Mr. Boss is getting like 20 million, Ternando is still getting like 10 million and stuff, but these are guys who've been making GTA content for like 10 years, you know? They've got a much larger back catalogue than me. It's not Venos, who's the person that I confuse with Venos, what's his name? Uh, Nort. Nort has like 6,000 videos or some shit. So he's getting like 50 million views or whatever, but you know I've got like a frat, like 1 eighth of the videos he does. I'm doing very well for myself, especially considering what I do, which is violent video games while I swear. And talk about politics sometimes and society and you know blah blah blah blah, not that I do as much as I used to. Like clearly I'm not actively working to course the algorithm and considering that I'm doing quite well. Man, do you think you get milk when people make one video saying secret and then beginning location or perhaps? Are you saying do I get angry when I see videos that are complete garbage that have like 10 million views or whatever? Yes. Actual curious question, how did you confuse Venos for Nort? I don't know, maybe I just saw something with his name in it or something, or I happened to be googling him in social media or something. I don't know who's secret name beginning is. Do you know if you get much viewer overlap with the GTA RP scene? I don't know, no. I have no way to get that information. I actually got recommended a video from The Professional, which is a guy that you guys mention fairly regularly. Not what I expected, he sounds quite young. I only watched a few minutes of the video because it was he was just talking about it seemed very late to the party talking about why people are pissed at Rockstar for releasing GTA 5 on PlayStation 5. |
| 15. July 2021 | Do I diet and exercise? | Do I diet and exercise? Am I into fitness? No, not at all. Discovering that I could simply do less in the sense of eating less and lose weight. Ah, that was great. Finding out that all I had to do was eat one meal and then just not eat and I could lose weight. I'm like, yeah, you beauty. You are you saying I can do less things and lose weight? Fuck yeah. But you have to give up eating. Yeah, man, grace. I always thought I would have to start counting calories or doing particular exercises and have a restrict schedule. Say no, just do less things. Free up, get myself a little bit more free time and lose weight. Certainly for a while there it was kind of annoying going to bed hungry and fighting my brain as it tries to convince me that I just need to eat another fruit like meal or something and certainly I have cheated twice in part because of outside stresses. I should be consistently below 80 kilos soon and that would be good. If I can get back to being 75 kilos being like my old high school weight that'd be fucking fantastic. |
| 28. November 2020 | Do I drink alcohol? | Do I drink alcohol? Do I drink alcohol? No, I'm a very committed Muslim. Alcohol is a tool of Satan. Obviously. I don't particularly drink alcohol all that often, but that's mainly because I don't like drinking alcohol alone. The amount of times I've drunk alcohol alone I can count on one hand. So I need to go to events or go places to drink alcohol, and I don't go out all that much, especially since COVID, you know. But even before COVID, I'd probably go somewhere where I would drink like once every three months at best. I probably would drink like twice a year at best. Do I not drink alcohol for the taste? Bourbon doesn't taste good enough that I want to drink it for the taste, especially given the after effects. |
| 17. June 2021 | Do I drink coffee? | I had iced coffee. My knowledge, anyway. Maybe someone breaks into my house every night and feeds me iced coffee while I'm asleep? It's possible. It's not likely. Rain in person chat just starts to sweat. How does he suspect? Do I drink coffee? Nah, I'm not a coffee fan. There was a time or two I've, uh... I had coffee trying to stop drinking soft drink or something, but it's nah. I prefer things that are cold, and, uh, preparation time for coffee is not great. Preparation time for anything isn't great. Bitcoin. Gambling for the wealthy or everyday person. Have I invested in any crypto? No. I'm genuinely skeptical of the entire market. |
| 10. July 2021 | Do I enjoy GTA Online? | I enjoy GTA Online. I enjoy online. As I said many many many many times, it's just the massive amount of bullshit that surrounds online that I don't like. As in if I could just jump into a death- snap my fingers, jump into a death match with 30 people, fuck yeah, do that every goddamn day, but I can't. It's just endless loading screens and endless crashes and just so many fucking modders and stuff. It just- There is- the stuff that I enjoy and like 800 walls between me and the stuff that I enjoy. They don't have to exist there, but just Rockstar has them there because fuck me. |
| 01. May 2021 | Do I enjoy fighting games? | Yes. Do I enjoy fighting games? Do I play fighting games? No. I've certainly never found appealing the 2D fighting games, you know, the the Street Fighters and stuff. Like they're fun games. Don't get me wrong. But I've never really been keen to play them all that much outside of like arcades when maybe I was very young and watching the the tournaments of these games. Aren't really interesting to me. Oddly, Super Smash Brothers is more interesting to me. Well, I mean, I guess it's technically also kind of 2D or whatever. But the ability to have platforms and go off screen and and all that stuff, it just makes them more interesting to me. |
| 22. December 2020 | Do I enjoy my clips channel? | Do I enjoy my clips channel? Is the clips channel providing me with enjoyment? Yes. I find myself hilarious. Certainly it is annoying... going through and finding the best clips, but uh... it is funny the ones that I put up there. I probably should have kept more of the... past this ones from unreleased footage, but I just basically deleted them all, because I thought it would be... too spoilery. Clips channel is just for money? The clips channel was begun primarily to build my brand. As in, get more viewers to watch my other stuff. I did not expect it to be as successful as it is. Where at the wharf's my main channel right now? The clips channel is how you found me? See? Exactly. To my knowledge, I was... I had to at least be one of the first to make their own dedicated clips channel. Like a lot of the really really big content creators, you know, they can't be farts. And they're happy to let these other people do it for them, you know. I have an advantage though that... what I'm doing is somewhat unique. If you get suggested a random clip from a random streamer... if they do something funny, you're like, oh that was funny, but you might not necessarily seek them out. But with my clips, you know, Chaos, GT5, Speedrunning, GTA 5 OCO, people might not know that it exists. And because they become aware of that, they go, oh... okay, maybe that's something I want to look into, maybe I like that kind of thing, you know. It is always depressing when something very low effort becomes so much more successful than something really high effort, you know. Effort does not necessarily translate one to one into reward on YouTube or in life in general. |
| 10. June 2022 | Do I enjoy speedrunning as much as I used to? | Do I enjoy speedrunning as much as I used to? How am I enjoying speedrunning again? Uh, I haven't really started. I'm still doing it in the, in the practice phase. It's fine learning the run. I much prefer doing it though. You think you'll enjoy it as much as you used to when you're fully back in it? The run is just so different than back in the day, in the sense of, um, even when things were super serious, it was still at least somewhat chill. There are just so many tiny details that you have to get perfect now or you can soft lock the game and stuff that, uh, I will enjoy it, but whether I don't enjoy it as much as I used to, it's hard to remember how much I enjoyed it back in the day because I can remember being super stressed out and super annoyed at the run. You can look back at my really old footage and I'm raging far more and stuff. As much as people claim that, uh, I rage a lot these days, I am super chill compared to the old days. Who the fuck shot me? I mean, those are a little bit different. I mean, it's kind of like pop-offs and stuff. What I mean is, like, especially back in the days before driving strats, there was a lot more downtime. There wasn't as much focus on the moment-to-moment driving mechanics, so you could, um, like, you could ban to a chat mall. Like, these days, I expect most of my rambles will come before the stream, uh, the run starts rather than during, you know? But it's also possible, though, when things become more second nature that, uh, you know, there will be more downtime because I would just, uh, because everything will be second nature. |
| 02. February 2020 | Do I enjoy theatre/plays? | comments are what have you you know Matt do you enjoy any theater slash plays? I've never been to a theater or a play I've always thought I would enjoy it if I if I ever had the opportunity to go I don't know any people my father used to say to me you need to find a girl who has very different interest to you and she'll just take you places and force you to do things and then you like them Because that's where the way that I've always been the story that I always tell is When I was at a water park, and I wouldn't go down this route this slide Mother begs me every time to go down the slide. We went multiple times refused to go down the slide I mean it wasn't like a huge theme park is like a Thing in the Olympic pools like you pay 20 bucks you get in and I just refused and then like years later, I eventually went I think this is so much fun and That's it's been my life in a nutshell where I've been too Inhibited or I'm too afraid of looking like a fool to do something and then when I finally do it I enjoy it And over time I've gotten better at putting myself out there more and doing different things But I am still you know somewhat risk-averse change of us You know, I'm fairly content with how things are so I don't be |
| 16. May 2021 | Do I ever get surprised people watch me on Twitch? | Do I ever get surprised that people watch me on Twitch? Man, do you ever wonder why the fuck 3k people watching me try not to get shot in a game about shooting people? No. I'll be- I'm 100% real with you. I get recommended my own videos sometimes because I have two accounts, you know, my clips channel and my normal channel, and I will occasionally click one and watch it and find out how it is. The clip of me coming to a realization about taco chips and just exclaiming, the taco chips or whatever it is, it just makes me laugh. Or I watched yesterday the clip of me dying to the cougar again. I'm so angry and confused. It's really funny. So no, I totally get it. As I said many times, I find myself very funny. And I make good background noise. Viper is his own number one fan? I am. I couldn't imagine being a content creator who makes stuff they don't like. |
| 03. February 2020 | Do I ever schedule content for particular days? | Do you ever set streaming days or have a schedule for specific content? Not really. Usually like the day before I think I'll do this tomorrow. Maybe I'll do this the next day. But that's about it. Ultimately, my best content is the content that I feel the most comfortable doing. And I won't know what I'll feel comfortable doing until that day. If I don't feel up to doing X, then forcing myself to do X is not going to be, well, it's not going to be as enjoyable for either me or the viewer than if I waited until I was comfortable to do X. I'm still going to do X. |
| 31. October 2021 | Do I fail on purpose for better youtube content? | Do I fail on purpose for better YouTube contents? I would like to think that's true, but no. I fail enough that I don't need to fail intentionally. I don't lack in unintentional fails. I don't think I could intentionally hit a rock, flip my car, and kill the translator. I'm not that skillful. I couldn't do that intentionally. |
| 02. April 2021 | Do I fear a YouTube error deleting my channel. | Do I fear a YouTube error deleting my channel? Of course I'm worried about some random YouTube hiccup messing with my channel. YouTube is just so large with so many interlocking features and people dealing with endless different things that like every single day errors happen that fuck over people, you know? It's just that large and those errors just represents you know a tiny tiny tiny fraction of the overall user base of YouTube. Like being overly worried about an error of YouTube fucking with me is is just as irrational as being worried about I don't know being hit by lightning. There's nothing that I can do to protect myself from a potential YouTube error so overly worrying about it is not sensible. Certainly not having all my eggs in one basket is you know a way of defending against the consequences of such a thing. It's not like I can prevent it from happening and I do have some connections now. My managers know a person or two at YouTube. I have a YouTube partner manager. I have a Discord that I'm in that has a person or two that works at YouTube. Like it doesn't guarantee that any of these people will be able to help me in such a circumstance but I do have people that I could hypothetically talk to to get some information and YouTube is better these days than they were in the past because they do have partner support and all that stuff now. Certainly given how large the company is it's still far from perfect and there's still information they don't like to give you but it isn't as bad as it used to be you know. |
| 01. May 2021 | Do I feel alone? | Do I feel alone? Does anyone else feel alone all the fucking time? Oddly no. Despite being largely alone, I don't feel alone all that much. Maybe it's because I have viewers and stuff. Isn't really the same thing as friends and relationships. Like this cute chick messaged me on the dating app thing I'm on now today and I didn't even know what to say. And I was just like, how do you start a conversation with a complete random stranger? And I wrote some stuff, but whenever I get into a conversation like this I think to myself like, do I really want to take time off streaming and editing and stuff to you know, go on dates and stuff? Like I kind of do and kind of don't. I wish I could just be in two places at once. Like I always just expected that I would just get burnt out on streaming and making videos and then I can pursue the other parts of life that I largely ignore, but I'm still not burnt out yet. So I but I feel like I'm getting old and I can't just spend the rest of my life making videos and live streaming, you know. It's funny whenever I'm looking on the dating app though if I see someone too attractive, I'm just like nah, because either they're real and there's no way they want to be with someone like me or they're a bot. I don't want to deal with that shit. And another thing that is a turn off for me. It's not a turn off necessarily. It's just I can't imagine having enough in common with such a person to share a bond and it's people who are very outgoing. Like I see pictures of people like skydiving and doing rock climbing and stuff and I'm like, I'm not really against doing those things, but let's be real. I haven't needed to do those things for like the 30 years that I've been alive. So probably wouldn't jive with this person. And you know, this is like this person is too interesting. They've done too much with their lives. I'm just gonna pass on this. I'm just gonna pass on this. Be more boring. It's like look, it's it's not me. It is you. That's because you're too attractive and too interesting. Okay? But like I imagine a lot of people with these apps like they sit around all day and you know intermittently talk to each other or whatever. And I stream and edit all day. Although I can't answer my phone when I'm on streaming and stuff, you know. I just don't think these apps are really for me. The Hot Chicks are the ones you want. They're the ones everyone doubts themselves over and never measures them because the girl's too good for them. Never doubt yourself, man. We talked about that before where people who are really attractive are often the people that get pursued the least. That is something with evidence to it. But I think that kind of that kind of assessment doesn't apply to dating apps where everyone is just swiping left and right. Super fast, you know. Like we talked about this before. In real life, it potentially costs something to walk up to someone and and talk to them and be rejected. But on a dating app swiping left or right, you know, you can do that in a heartbeat. Like it doesn't matter. Clearly attractive women on these apps get swiped a gajillion times a second or whatever. Go on the rev show? That's that dating thing, right? That's just for memes or whatever. What's called the Raj Patel show or something? Where like I've certainly seen clips of the show where like ten streamer chicks talk to one streamer guy or something. Like I guarantee you there has not been a single relationship spawn from that show and especially being a Australian. What am I gonna do like an online date? Get out of here. Does that even exist anymore? I don't know. Don't really follow it. |
| 23. February 2022 | Do I feel and taste things like everyone else? | Do I feel and taste things like everyone else? I often wonder if I taste and feel things less than most people. I mean, like physically, I got a massage chair now and I put it on vigorous. I'm like, yeah, this is all right. I think it's meant to like beat the crap out of you when you put it on vigorous. I'm like, yeah, this is all right. I feel, I feel stuff kind of. Yeah. I eat food and I'm like, this is food. I'm clearly consuming this. While other people would be like, oh my God, this is like ambrosia, a gift of the gods. Oh, it just tastes so amazing. This is defining my life for the rest of time. I will tell everyone about this meal. Every person I meet for the rest of my life, I will be like, this meal I had today was the greatest thing ever. I'm like, I've never felt that way about food. I don't understand. I should, so basically chat, I should be experiments upon. Okay. If scientists snuck into my house at night, kidnapped me and run, run experiments on me because of my copious fast food eating. I would understand. I wouldn't appreciate it, but I'd understand. How does eating fast food basically every day for like over a decade affect a person? You know, you can order local healthy, non-shit, non-fast food with mobile apps. Like what? If I could get a person just to deliver me like a good fish meal or something, that'd be nice. The problem with good healthy food, by the time it's made, sits there, gets picked up by the driver, then gets delivered to you, it's shit. Truly healthy food does not keep well in delivery. Just make it or get a wife. I've sometimes contemplate going on a date with a person and suddenly just being like, look, I don't know what I want to say. I'll be like, look, you just make food for me. Like, I'll give you 60 grand a year or something. I know I brought you here under the pretenses of a relationship, but would you be interested in a cooking job? It's full time. Get on Tinder. I'm not here for sex. I'm here to find someone who can cook. This isn't sexist because if I was gay, I would be doing the same thing or have the same desire with a guy. |
| 13. January 2023 | Do I feel like a celebrity? | Do I feel like a celebrity? It doesn't matter how big you get in this industry, you will always be comparing yourself to those who are bigger than you, and therefore you will feel somewhat small. You will have instances where you're constantly reminded about your place in that you're above other people in terms of success or what have you, but you'll always be constantly reminded about the people who are higher above you. Think of every drama that I've been in with a larger content creator and how I always came at that from a position of weakness because I just could not reach as many people as the people that I had beef with. Like I'm sure even a Mr. Beast or something, top of the YouTube hierarchy, is looking at people in other industries, or billionaires or whatever in other industries and being like, man, I'm small compared to those guys. It's just how people work. It is certainly a toxic kind of thing to do, and I'm sure people with a more healthy attitude don't make those comparisons as much as some other people do, but I'm sure everyone does it to some degree. You cannot help but be aware of your relative position to everyone else. So do I feel like a celebrity? In cases where I'm reminded that I do reach a lot of people, but other times I feel fairly small and insignificant when I'm reminded how small I am compared to other players in this market. |
| 17. December 2020 | Do I find large or small projects more satisfying? | Do I find large or small projects more satisfying? Do you get more joy from making the same type of video basically every day with normal views each time than put a lot of effort into something and not having any benefit from the effort? My satisfaction from content creation comes from the building of an audience. Having people be entertained by my work. There is certainly a satisfaction in completing a large project and people being like, oh that was amazing dude, but I find a lot greater satisfaction by being like, people like, hey, you make me laugh. I really enjoy the stuff that you put out. I was having some bad times and your videos cheered me up. I love that feeling. There are a lot of different angles in which making content brings me satisfaction, but all in all, the greater level of enjoyment I instill in others, the greater level that I entertain others, and the more that I get feedback that I'm doing this, the better I feel about what I'm doing. And I don't need to create huge big videos to achieve that ends. Shouldn't you do it for the fun of it? That is fun. What do you think fun is? We're talking about the content creation, not the actual... I'm talking about YouTube videos, editing, not the playing of the game. I find playing the game fun, but the moment to moment editing, no one finds moment to moment editing fun. The end result can be fun, the creating particular things and finding satisfaction in that, that can be fun, but no one finds cut here, remove footage, cut here, remove footage, key framing stuff. That moment to moment stuff is just tedious stuff to get to your end goal, which is actually enjoyable. Like, if you could mentally will the timeline to become the thing that you want it to be, you'd just do that, rather than dealing with Adobe or whatever, you know. What I'm saying is, if YouTube tomorrow begun to prioritize huge amazing projects, rather than daily uploads or whatever, I don't think I would necessarily get more satisfaction out of that. It would be the case though, that there'd be less content on YouTube, and the quality of the content on YouTube would increase. Because a substantial amount of this daily upload stuff is complete trash. |
| 12. November 2022 | Do I get annoyed by anything my viewers do? | Do I get annoyed by anything my viewers do? Besides orange matto, is there another thing your audience would quote that annoyed you? I wouldn't even say orange matto annoyed me, it just became too much on the subreddit, and there was not enough interesting variation of it. My audience as a whole doesn't do anything that annoys me, but there's always like just stand out people who will say things that throw me off, that are just really rude, or just designed specifically to annoy me. That when I'm having a bad day or whatever can really fuck with me, but there's no like meme, consistent meme that I don't like in my community. I'm flattered when a meme pops up, you know? As far as my community goes, absolutely very wholesome, but uh, it's always the case that when there's enough people, like whenever I do really really large streams, there's always gonna be those like, you know, less than 1% of people who just trickle in and are complete jerks, and that's just the way it is. The bigger you become, the bigger that small facet becomes, into the point where it's impossible to ignore, and you have to actively work harder to ignore it, you know? |
| 27. November 2022 | Do I get more revenue from youtube streaming or twitch? | Done. Do I get more revenue from YouTube streaming or Twitch streaming? How's YouTube working as opposed to Twitch? It's the same thing. Might be less money though, it's hard to say. Well actually whether or not it ends up being less money will ultimately depend on how many people keep their Twitch subscriptions. Cause I'm like way less memberships on YouTube. Like there's so many conveniences doing this on YouTube as opposed to Twitch, but um, people are just much less likely to buy memberships. It's hard to say. No, it's more of a matter of like different pros and cons. So definitely more viewers on YouTube, but not such a ridiculous amount that's the difference in the amount that people on YouTube give me money is mitigated, you know. If all I cared about was the money, I might still have just stayed on Twitch, but that's not the main thing here. No emotes, harder mod, no custom colors, no replies, no filters, Twitch names are more unique, third party support is a lot less, and there's no internal chat logs as another one, that's also annoying. The ability to go back in the player is the main thing that's good on YouTube. In terms of income, YouTube is most definitely better, probably not, honestly. People are used to spending money on Twitch compared to YouTube, and on Twitch you've got Twitch Prime, so more people are going to be subbed to inspire other people to sub as well, and you can gift subs specifically to individual people. The sources of revenue on Twitch are a lot better, more ingrains in the culture. Even though there's more viewers on YouTube, there's more people with money on Twitch. Oh, another bad point for YouTube streaming, some people don't realize they're like 10 minutes behind, so you'll put out seemingly random comments. The delay is longer, but you're right, being able to wind yourself back is a double-edged sword, because there are people watching right now, who are watching 10 minutes ago. In Twitch, you know- |
| 01. January 2021 | Do I get overwhelmed by the fame? | Do I get overwhelmed by the fame? Do I get overwhelmed by the fame? My fame is so tiny. By comparison to a lot of other people, man, it's not something that can um, overwhelm your life. Especially when it's just online fame, you know? Relative to the greatest levels of Twitch and YouTube fame, I'm nowhere close. I am not in the highest echelons of content creation. I'm in the lower tiers. I'm in the pantheon, but I'm that guy. I'm that one you don't know, you know? Like you look at, I mean, Dream or Sykuno or, you know, these content creators who've largely come out of nowhere and gone from a thousand viewers to sixty thousand or whatever. These are the people who have that kind of fame that can either go to your head or completely overwhelm you. I suppose any amount of fame can go to a person's head. It just depends upon the person. But with my level of fame, it will be less understandable than that kind of level of fame where you sneeze and it becomes the highest rated clip on livestream fail, you know? Like you do something fairly insignificant. But just because it's you, it becomes a significant thing. I can do something so amazingly funny or cool or amazing in this game and it won't propagate over the internet, you know? Saying all that, I don't think I really care that much about fame, except in the sense that I like people watching my stuff and I like hearing that my stuff brings people joy and entertainment and all that jazz, and the more famous I am, it's indicative that that other thing is occurring to a greater level of frequency. So it's less that the fame is the goal, but the fame is an indication that my goals are being achieved. |
| 02. May 2021 | Do I get recognized on dating apps | Do I get recognized on dating apps? Do I get recognized in my dating app? Of course not. It's like 95% of my audience is male. I'm only looking chicks, looking for chicks on the app and only within a certain radius of me. Now it would be impossible for there not to be at least one chick in a radius of 100 kilometers of me that would recognize me. But the odds of her also using the app that I'm using and also being presented with me on the app, like it's astronomical. He also won in 7.5 trillion. Exactly. I'll just have to mod my dating app to improve my luck. |
| 10. July 2021 | Do I get sick of doing the same thing over and over? | Do I get sick of doing the same thing over and over? Do you have any idea how much of your life is you doing the same thing over and over again? And think about it for a moment. How much of your life is just repeating something you've already done before? Think about the normal job and how much repetition is in that job At least I get to play a video game that I really enjoy and get to stay home, you know? |
| 24. May 2022 | Do I go on vacations? | season and move on to the next season. Do I ever take vacations? The sad part of things is there's nothing in my life that I enjoy more than streaming and making YouTube videos. Like there's just nothing that I would rather spend my time doing. Like what I always imagine is that I'll eventually just get over the idea of doing this for a living, or my career will naturally pete out, and at that point then I can focus on other things, you know. I always thought at that point I would go to the gym every day, work out, maybe get a personal trainer, that kind of stuff, but I don't want to balance those things with working on this stuff. I'm an all or nothing kind of guy. I don't like to half ass anything. |
| 08. July 2021 | Do I hate Ninja? | Do I hate Ninja? Do I hate Ninja? No. Why would I hate Ninja? Ninja is just a dude who I will never meet, you know? I'll say nothing I've seen of Ninja suggests that if I met him in real life it wouldn't just be a chill experience. Haven't watched his content in a bajillion years and I'm sure he's a different person compared to when I did watch him back in the H1Z1 days, but uh, he's just a dude. Okay, maybe not just a dude, he's a very rich dude, I guess. |
| 23. January 2021 | Do I hate dream? | Do I hate Dream? Do I hate Dream? No, at all. Hating people you don't know is like, it's a big investment and it should be reserved for something really, really bad. Like murder, or fraud, or taking advantage of people in a pandemic or something like that. Or spreading misinformation about said pandemic. These kind of things. Stuff that has a measurable impact on the livelihoods or the lives of people. Like even taking the claims against Dream, 100% facts. He seems to have just arrogantly believed that he was deserving of having better RNG. So he had to do less runs in a particular speedrun. And yet still quit before he even got world record. Still very bad. Jeopardizing the, it's not a sanctity to word, the comparative nature of speedrunning. But I mean, hating a person? Ehh, you know. He just seems like a guy who made a mistake. A mistake that should be punished. But we all make mistakes. You know. There's a difference between hating a person for a wrongdoing and believing there should be some justified punishment for that wrongdoing. The happy ha- |
| 27. September 2022 | Do I have a bad reputation | Do I have a bad reputation? I saw a clip of myself two and a half years ago where I said, I've got a great reputation. I wouldn't say that now. I'll occasionally get these comments because I'm now releasing shorts and so I'm hitting a wider audience where a person will say, hey aren't you that guy who did X, Y and Z? And I'll respond, no. I literally did none of those things. But I can totally understand how you've come to those false conclusions. The more you put yourself out there, the longer your career, the more creators you interact with potentially in a negative way, the greater the possibility that people are going to hate you for either unjustified or justified reasons. They're going to come to misunderstandings because they just don't give a fuck. I'm genuine? Here's the thing though, to come to that conclusion, you actually have to listen to what I say. It's arrogant for me to say this, but the biggest barrier between people liking and or agreeing with me is their unwillingness to even listen to me speak. The ridiculous amount of comments that I received on those reaction essay videos where a person will be like, man you are fucking wrong, you know what the fuck you're talking about. I'll respond like, did you even watch the video? And they'll be like, no. I'll be like, ah, man you did this and this and this. I'm like, did you watch any of the videos where I explained what I was doing and why? They're like, no, but you're an asshole. I'm like, alright. There's just no escaping that reality, chat. Once you hit a certain level of success, that will be your life. And you have to be able to deal with that level of negativity. It doesn't matter how amazing you think a creator is, chat. There are people out there who hate that person's fucking guts. It is impossible to conduct yourself in a way where you will meet everyone's standard of acceptable behavior, whether in how you conduct yourself in your business or how you communicate with others or what have you. Some short sub- |
| 13. October 2021 | Do I have a problem with bots on twitch? | Do I have a problem with bots on Twitch? Do I have a problem with bots? Uh, no. In what sense? When you get large enough as a streamer, it requires a hell load of bots spamming into a channel for it to have any effect. And when you have enough subs, like, there's not a huge difference. You go into sub-only mode and you just move on with the stream, it's not particularly disruptive. I mean, it was more of a hassle when I was smaller before they put in follower-only mode. In general, if over the times I've ever been spammed with bots over my career, you just put it in follower-only mode for an hour or something, and then as annoying as it is, eventually they just stop, because, you know. |
| 31. October 2021 | Do I have an interest in physics and cosmology? | Do I have an interest in physics and cosmology? It's interesting, but ultimately impractical for me to think on. I like an interview with Sean Cowell about some discovery where something about matter was theorized like 20 years ago, and technology didn't exist to confirm it. But then after decades or whatever, it was confirmed with some calculations and blah blah blah at Antarctica. And the original theorists are like kind of shedding tears because it's so amazing. And the interviewer asks Sean Cowell like, so what are the practical implications of this discovery? And Sean Cowell looks at him and goes, nothing. But it's very interesting though. This isn't me dismissing this kind of research. You never know what discoveries will lead to the betterment of humankind. And knowledge in some ways for knowledge's sake is a thing that I can get behind. But for me personally, I have no motivation to say look up the latest research on black holes. If I knew everything about black holes right now, what would that get me? Would it make me better at speedrunning? Would it make me better on Twitch? You know, there are a lot of topics that I'd love to know more about, but it would just be completely impractical for me to know about or to learn about. Oh, I mean, when I was choosing my major, I wanted to do philosophy. And I was like, oh shit, it's got like no career prospects. What's like philosophy, but at least has a little bit more career opportunities. And it's like, oh, well, there's psychology. Well, there you go. So I did psychology because psychology was born from philosophy, the desire to test some of the claims of philosophy or some of the disputes rather. |
| 13. October 2021 | Do I have any Youtuber merch? | for any YouTuber merch? If you could buy one piece of YouTuber merch besides my own, what would it be? I don't know. Do any YouTubers have really great merch? Like guys, I wear the same outfit every day. When do you think I'm gonna be wearing this merch? I have actually bought one merch item. I bought the Linus Tech Tips mouse pad. I think my review of it hasn't made it to Rambles yet. I like it. I even cut it to fit my desk. If I didn't wear tank tops every day, what would I wear? A really fancy suit, just everywhere. Buy myself like just a dozen $4,000 suits and that's all that I would wear. My second preference. For real though, I want to at some point actually buy myself some really nice clothes. I just never have the need because I don't go anyway. |
| 17. September 2022 | Do I have any major regrets? | Do I have any major regrets? When I receive questions like this, I like to answer with the first thing that comes to mind. And the first thing that comes to mind was when I tweeted out, the devs should be ashamed of GT Online. Basically, I wrote a tweet that blamed the devs for GT Online not being great. As many people pointed out, that's kind of uncalled for. The average person making code or whatever at Rockstar, they're just working their 9 to 5 and they just do what they're told, right? They're not making design decisions. While it is indeed possible that things that they have done have influenced the game to be worse, I don't fucking know that. I don't know anything about coding, I don't know about hierarchies in these companies. Assigning blame to specific groups within a large corporation was just uncalled for. Originally, when I wrote the comment, I think my intention was just to say that, like, if I was a person who worked on this game, I would feel shame for what it's like. This was after I had spent multiple days getting DDoSed and kicked from GT Online by mod menus. But it came off like I was blaming them. And then when challenged on that, I'm like, you know what? It is their fault. Fuck them. And I kind of doubled down on that. And that's why if you watch that video, GT Online has never been a good game. The way I'm speaking in there many times is in reference to the devs being at fault. Because that was done like the day after that tweet. But in hindsight, like a couple of days, I'm like, yeah, I say that shit was just uncalled for. And it was like I even received comments from like one or two people who suggested like, you know, that people who work for Rockstar do follow me and they see what I say. And that was clearly hurtful to them. I say I regret doing that. Like, it's weird to think that a tweet is the first thing that comes to mind. |
| 13. October 2021 | Do I have any youtuber merch? | for any YouTuber merch? If you could buy one piece of YouTuber merch besides my own, what would it be? I don't know. Do any YouTubers have really great merch? Like guys, I wear the same outfit every day. When do you think I'm gonna be wearing this merch? I have actually bought one merch item. I bought the Linus Tech Tips mouse pad. I think my review of it hasn't made it to Rambles yet. I like it. I even cut it to fit my desk. If I didn't wear tank tops every day, what would I wear? A really fancy suit, just everywhere. Buy myself like just a dozen $4,000 suits and that's all that I would wear. My second preference. For real though, I want to at some point actually buy myself some really nice clothes. I just never have the need because I don't go anyway. |
| 05. February 2021 | Do I have carpet in my house? | Do I have carpet in my house? Do I have carpet? I do. I do have a slight allergy to dust mites. Like a tiny allergy. So maybe I would have done better to be in a house with a lot more carpet flying. I don't think it's a big enough issue. I've heard like a lot of people have like a mild mild allergy to dust mites, but they never noticed cuz it's just it's just so tiny. I had a friend though that had a pretty big allergy to dust mites so his entire house like had no carpet. Carpet suck? I don't know. I've lived in houses with carpet my entire life. Carpet in the bathroom, god damn. I think it's fairly standard in Australia to have mainly tiles and carpet. Tiles for downstairs, carpet for upstairs. It's uncommon to find wood floors. Like what would you do when it's cold? You always wear socks or something? Like I would have thought carpet would be very common in colder climates. |
| 13. January 2020 | Do I have footage of my first few runs? | and give it to player one. Do I have footage of my first few runs? Do I have footage of my first few runs? I have the second run that I uploaded. The second run I ever did, which I uploaded to speedrun.com. The first run I ever did was hardly a run. It was more like multiple ways through the run I had to stop and go, oh wait a second, what was the route that I was meant to take here? And I would just sit on the side of the road, watch the world record and then start again. My second run, I didn't do any such stopping so it was more of a run which is why I uploaded it. It's on my YouTube channel somewhere. The quality is like 480p, 800 bitrate or something, it's fucking horrendous. Yes, the olden times of my stream where I could play nothing without it looking pixelated. And there was that one stream where I accidentally set everything to 1080p with 800 bitrate, I looked fucking horrendous. I got a host from Zoton and a viewer was like, oh can you like turn down the resolution or something, it looks pretty bad. I'm like, no I think it's the best I can make it look. I just didn't know man. I didn't know. |
| 13. January 2020 | Do I have footage of my first runs? | and give it to player one. Do I have footage of my first few runs? Do I have footage of my first few runs? I have the second run that I uploaded. The second run I ever did, which I uploaded to speedrun.com. The first run I ever did was hardly a run. It was more like multiple ways through the run I had to stop and go, oh wait a second, what was the route that I was meant to take here? And I would just sit on the side of the road, watch the world record and then start again. My second run, I didn't do any such stopping so it was more of a run which is why I uploaded it. It's on my YouTube channel somewhere. The quality is like 480p, 800 bitrate or something, it's fucking horrendous. Yes, the olden times of my stream where I could play nothing without it looking pixelated. And there was that one stream where I accidentally set everything to 1080p with 800 bitrate, I looked fucking horrendous. I got a host from Zoton and a viewer was like, oh can you like turn down the resolution or something, it looks pretty bad. I'm like, no I think it's the best I can make it look. I just didn't know man. I didn't know. |
| 16. May 2020 | Do I have free time? | casually. How do you manage your life so you can have free time with as much as you do such as editing and streaming? There's nothing I want to do with my free time other than edit and stream and answer DMs and answer emails and most of my day is spent doing something related to my YouTube or Twitch or you know rare occasions TikTok or what have you. It's why I'm listening to YouTube when I'm cooking food or in the shower or just before I go to bed and whatnot. That's my free time that I consume content but remember that when I edit especially when I'm editing off stream and stuff or I'm answering emails and stuff I'm usually listening to or watching YouTube as well. I'm chilling doing stuff for my work as well. It's not like oh my god I'm just like have to be bolted to my table mashing at the keyboard perfectly absolutely working 100%. It's like you know I work for 20 minutes take a break to watch two minutes of a YouTube video work for 20 minutes take a little break. I work as much as I want I have that freedom. It just so happens that I usually prefer working than doing basically. |
| 05. September 2021 | Do I have friends to hang out with? | Do I have friends to hang out with? Do I have friends to go out with? Nah. I'm not super interested in having any to be honest. Whenever I think of going somewhere, I always think, but then I can't edit. Or then I can't stream. It's been a few years I think since I've had a bunch of people to hang out with. But even then, the vast majority of people I knew, I didn't super jive with. It's more, you went out for drinks, no conversation of any significance was had. And then you went home. And it was just the most completely pointless garbage ever. I can't think of a single worthwhile moment. There was just a person or two, or maybe three, that I still think on and go, well I hope they're doing well because they were decent people. But the vast majority of them, nah fuck them. |
| 05. April 2021 | Do I have friends? | Do I have friends? Do I have friends? No. I have people I'm friendly with online who I enjoy seeing but I don't have like people that I'd be comfortable calling to help me move a couch Probably comfortable calling and being like, hey, let's just say we go see a movie. I'm kind of bored, you know I do know people who legitimately would be happy with me succeeding or achieving something or whatever Yeah, it's not the same thing as a person, you know You call on the phone, you know, I'm happy to know the nice people that I do online though. I'm not complaining. I want to |
| 27. December 2020 | Do I have good memories of my early life? | I think Do I have good memories of my early life? Do I have good memories of school? No, I do not have any good memories Prior to starting to it. It's actually sad. Yeah, whether it's because I'm I've never really been good at Developing memories of good times. It's more that I just remember all the bad times But I also don't really think the environment I found myself in for most of my life was a particularly good one I'm sure I had some fun times with my friends, but in hindsight I don't think I don't think I'd let a particularly fulfilled life I was not good at making new friends So I kept the friends that I had even while recognizing that we were very different people They weren't doing the things that I was particularly interested in I convinced myself to do certain things That I don't really think I was I particularly enjoyed it's what everyone else was doing Like I can't remember a single good time that I had going to the city and getting drunk Do I think I have a fulfilling life now? Yes. The only problem I have with my life right now is Not feeling physically up for doing what I wants to do mentally like it's only been three and a half hours But even now I can feel a bit of strain on myself my my body the tiredness and it sucks All I want to do is stream for like 15 hours a day, but my body just can't take it It's weird though. I find different things more or less taxing Gt5 is easy if I was easily the most taxing because it actually matters what happens I have a lot more writing on it that I have a lot more viewers I have to engage more with with chat and stuff and playing noita is a lot more relaxing Because at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. I want to succeed But if I don't who cares and while playing no damage I have to be focused all the time If you making sure I'm doing the exact right thing at every time or I'm gonna fail. It's a small stressful It's more taxing physically success is just relative. It depends if you have a specific criteria for success than it's not relative but you're right that uh Every time you get to a different tier of success your expectations Your expectations whatever normalize and you don't see yourself as successful ever right because you're looking at the people even more |
| 20. October 2021 | Do I have memories that make me cringe? | Do I have memories that make me cringe? Do you have any memories that make me cringe? Oh, heaps. Heaps of memories that make me cringe. I've often said I beat myself up with my own past. Like the things that I remember the strongest are the parts of my past that are the most damaging or the most cringey or the most negative or whatever. I don't remember the good moments, I remember all the bad moments and it sucks. Like if you follow me around, please don't do that. But if you did, you'd occasionally see me just stop and look and get a look of horror on my face. This is because something has reminded me of a cringey moment I've done in the past. |
| 08. September 2021 | Do I know how to play an instrument? | Do I know how to play an instrument? I've always wanted to play an instrument, Elite. I never saw myself as having much talent for it, and I never had the time to learn. Clearly I have the time to learn. I hate when people say that, and I really shouldn't have said that, because you could make the time. It's just I didn't have sufficient reason to. My desire to learn wasn't sufficient to learn, and there was nothing in my environment motivating me to learn, so I never did. We all have the same amount of time. Depending upon who you are, you have other matters that are more important. |
| 08. June 2021 | Do I like Lord of the Rings? | Do I like Lord of the Rings? Do I like Lord of the Rings? When I was a young kid, a young little lad, you know, I had this huge collection of VHS tapes just in the bottom of my cupboard. A lot of stuff that I have recorded off the TV, off pay TV, you know, because I was a filthy pirate, you know, recording stuff with a VHS player. But I only had limited amount of tapes and you know, I didn't have money to buy more, so I would watch the hell out of anything that I had. I watched Stargate over and over again. But I had the VHS tapes for Lord of the Rings and so all the time I'd be at my shitty computer thinking back now at just how bad it was, you know, and next to me would be my shitty VHS player and like a TV, you know, half the size of one of my monitors today and over and over again would just play Lord of the Rings. Because I just, I liked having background noise and this was kind of before like YouTube and Twitch and stuff. So if you wanted background noise, you kind of had to have DVDs or TV or whatever it is, you know, there's really good stuff on TV. So I watched the same movies over and over again. |
| 10. July 2021 | Do I like batman? | Do I like Batman? I like Batman's villains more than I like Batman. Certainly Batman kind of exists and holds those villains together. Like the villains wouldn't make sense without Batman being who he is, but it's just a different takes on Batman I've enjoyed more or less. He's definitely not down the bottom of my preferred superheroes, but he's not the top. |
| 06. August 2020 | Do I like brakeboosting? | boosting. Do you think you'd enjoy the run more without breakboosting? No. When breakboosting was first introduced, we were fairly dismissive of it. Like we thought it only made sense to do if you use the power and use the power slow around anyway. We didn't really understand the potential. And there's over time, breakboosting game more and more and more important to the extent where now it is like the defining attribute in regards to who gets what back basically. But movement tech is cool. Anything that speeds up the game and makes the speed run less just a monotonous holding W kind of run. That's cool. It does make it difficult for new runners to get into the run, knowing how many breakboosts you have to memorize. But I mean, if you're not going for world record, breakboosting is fairly unimportant anyway. It'd be the last thing that you learn. I like it more than I dislike it. |
| 10. November 2021 | Do I like cake? | Do I like cake? Mass do you like cake for the longest time I didn't know Then I only liked strawberry cheesecake and now I kind of like pretty much all cake Chocolate cake is really nice Like I have on rare occasions just throwing caution to the wind and bought myself a chocolate cake from the supermarket It's always fucking delicious come a long way from that kid who didn't like chocolate and he was like 13 years old |
| 02. February 2020 | Do I like competition in the srteaming sphere? | try to shake up my life all that much. My question, do you like the idea of competition in the streaming sphere, like Mixer, etc., irrelevant of its numbers now? If another platform was to blow up, would you be supportive of competition? A true competitor would have some advantages. Minor competitors like Mixer, less so. But overall I believe it to be good in terms of lining the pockets of larger streamers certainly. They've received many tens of millions of dollars that they wouldn't otherwise have received. It lights a fire under Twitch's arse to put in some more features or whatever. So I'm in favor of it. But of course there is the downside of course that over time more and more people are going to be spread thinner and thinner between different platforms, which is always tedious and annoying. As a general rule, you want, you remember what Netflix used to be where every single show was on Netflix. All you needed was Netflix. And now you need 17 different streaming services. That's annoying. What would be nice if there was just some sort of a content aggregator where there was no exclusivity contracts. Everyone just could stream everywhere and they had a chat that filtered all the chat from all the platforms all into one place. That would be nice. Those kind of things do exist to some degree I think, but the latency issues and various different exclusivity issues, especially with Twitch, kind of put the kibosh on that kind of stuff. It may inspire Twitch to actually look into fixing discoverability, but as I've talked about before, it might just be inherent to the content of live streaming. Discoverability would never be as good as offline content. It's very easy to have discoverability on TikTok when a person's watching 57,000 TikToks an hour. Where on a live streaming platform where a person's watching one stream a day, it's a lot harder, especially when it's harder to categorize what exactly is in that live stream or why people wouldn't enjoy watching it at all. |
| 02. February 2020 | Do I like competition in the streaming sphere? | try to shake up my life all that much. My question, do you like the idea of competition in the streaming sphere, like Mixer, etc., irrelevant of its numbers now? If another platform was to blow up, would you be supportive of competition? A true competitor would have some advantages. Minor competitors like Mixer, less so. But overall I believe it to be good in terms of lining the pockets of larger streamers certainly. They've received many tens of millions of dollars that they wouldn't otherwise have received. It lights a fire under Twitch's arse to put in some more features or whatever. So I'm in favor of it. But of course there is the downside of course that over time more and more people are going to be spread thinner and thinner between different platforms, which is always tedious and annoying. As a general rule, you want, you remember what Netflix used to be where every single show was on Netflix. All you needed was Netflix. And now you need 17 different streaming services. That's annoying. What would be nice if there was just some sort of a content aggregator where there was no exclusivity contracts. Everyone just could stream everywhere and they had a chat that filtered all the chat from all the platforms all into one place. That would be nice. Those kind of things do exist to some degree I think, but the latency issues and various different exclusivity issues, especially with Twitch, kind of put the kibosh on that kind of stuff. It may inspire Twitch to actually look into fixing discoverability, but as I've talked about before, it might just be inherent to the content of live streaming. Discoverability would never be as good as offline content. It's very easy to have discoverability on TikTok when a person's watching 57,000 TikToks an hour. Where on a live streaming platform where a person's watching one stream a day, it's a lot harder, especially when it's harder to categorize what exactly is in that live stream or why people wouldn't enjoy watching it at all. |
| 31. July 2021 | Do I like dark jokes? | Do I like dark jokes? Do I like dark jokes and memes? It depends. Some dark jokes like push the boundaries of what is acceptable and norms and other dark jokes are just, hey, this is a thing you're not meant to say or do. And that ain't funny, you know? That's just lazy fucking comedy. |
| 04. February 2020 | Do I like driving? | It's my answer. Do you have a driver's license and would you have any tips for someone that is going for their L's? Practice, I failed mine twice. Don't worry about failing, you'll get it eventually. I've never enjoyed driving, as in I enjoy the freedom of driving, as in I like being able to go places very quickly, but I do not enjoy the process of driving. I find it not comfortable. Perhaps if I had a more expensive car, more comfortable car perhaps, I'm not sure, but I don't like the idea that I might crash or someone might crash into me. It's one of those things where you can do everything right while driving and still die. I try to avoid those circumstances as much as possible. |
| 15. November 2021 | Do I like hawaiian pizza? | Do I like Hawaiian pizza? Thoughts on Hawaiian pizza? It should go back to fucking Hawaii where it belongs. I'm not a fan of Hawaiian pizza, but you know, it would ever float your boat man. Wasn't Hawaiian pizza made in Canada? Okay, well Canada then. Isn't it actually German? Look, okay. Clearly what's happening here is no one wants to take credit the abomination that is Hawaiian pizza. During wartime each of the combatants blames the other people for creating Hawaiian pizza And men you should fight well today You know why? Because they created Hawaiian pizza. The monsters. It's a great propaganda tool, Hawaiian pizza. |
| 03. January 2022 | Do I like microtransactions in games? | Do I like microtransactions in games? My thoughts on microtransactions? I'm again- I don't like them in any capacity. They are here to stay though. The one advantage that I've heard of microtransactions is that it gives something for the staff of these game companies to do in between big releases. I kinda know how true this is, I've just heard this claim. It was more common before microtransactions for companies to hire on a bunch of staff and then when a game was completed they'd effectively kick them to the curb. But now they keep them on doing small things and the next game comes around and they jump on that. I don't know how true that is, but I'm just trying to think of the benefits of microtransactions. There's also the benefit that some games wouldn't otherwise receive updates. But because of microtransactions the companies still have a reason to keep updating certain worlds in games. But I think microtransactions in most cases these days are used instead of DLC. Like under normal circumstances you would receive a fully fledged new story with the characters and stuff. But instead of spending the time developing that, these companies just put all their manpower into making microtransaction content. Because the return on investment is higher with that content than with standard DLC. That's what happened with GTA V. Microtransactions that influence gameplay are awful. Even in single player games. The game has to be designed around the existence of these microtransactions. No one is going to spend the time developing these things unless they have the expectation that people are going to buy them or have reason to buy them. But even cosmetics in microtransactions are still bad. Because once upon a time in some of these games you'd be able to get the coolest looking items and mounts and stuff in the game. But suddenly they need to have something to be able to sell. So they need stuff that looks okay or decent in the game but really awesome in the microtransaction store. If the stuff that you could get easily in game looked awesome, why would you just shit out the money to get it from the store? It's hard to tell with cosmetics how many of those cosmetics would have just ended up in the game anyway if it wasn't for the existence of microtransactions. Or how much of it simply wouldn't have existed if microtransactions didn't exist. It's impossible to say. Because DLC was the original microtransaction and people came more to accept that because at least it was a bundled package. But there's always been claims that people have cut out sections of their game specifically to make it into a DLC and now as microtransactions it's all terrible. I suppose one additional benefit of games based around microtransactions is that players are not sectioned off from each other. Like traditionally with DLC, if you didn't have the DLC you couldn't interact or play with people who have the DLC. When it's all free everyone has access to it. Everyone gets the new maps and maybe you have to grind a bit but at least everyone can technically access everything. The companies aren't sitting there being like, how can we keep all the player base together as much as possible? That's what we care about. No, it's how can we make the most money? They just defend their decision to make it free to play microtransaction garbage as opposed to pay DLC. They defend that by saying, oh this is in the best interest of the consumer. But it's not really. They just care about making more money and they make more money with the microtransaction than the DLC. In ages past the developers would just go, we need the best looking cosmetics imaginable. Get people super fired up for completing the content and getting all this gear and stuff. But now it's like, look guys we need stuff that looks good but let's not go crazy. We've still got to make some cosmetics for microtransactions. There's only a finite amount of cool looking shit that can exist. The stuff you pay for has got to look better than the stuff you don't. Any game that has microtransactions has been built with microtransactions in mind. The game that is eventually made has to in some sense reinforce the purchasing of microtransactions or why would you spend the time and money making them? Cosmetic microtransactions are just the least abrasive of the microtransactions because at least they don't technically affect gameplay. But as everyone points out looking cool in game or having cool skins and stuff, that is a part of the gameplay. That is a part of the fun. That is part of the enjoyment. All it means is that at least there's a level playing field when it comes to competitions with other people. It's still not a preferable circumstance. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 27. July 2021 | Do I like my voice? | Do I like my voice? Do I like my own voice? It is satisfactory. My ability to read aloud is not very good, and my mouth sounds are sometimes bad, but in general it's okay. Um, but I think it's more just over time I've gotten a little bit better. It's uh, enunciation and whatnot. |
| 16. May 2020 | Do I like racing games? | Do I like racing games? Not even slightly. That's um, expression of racing games as you know driving really fast and turning to the left. That's you know, that's not what racing games are, but in my head I'm like I want to drive really fast turning to the left. It just it just doesn't look appealing to me even so. |
| 23. January 2021 | Do I like sports? | Sports I am NOT into sports now Not even slightly Definitely not my thing the most I was ever into sports was when I was a little kid and I would Watch the Friday night football with my dad so like a stair planner It's not that I don't in some sense understand the appeal you're just rooting for a team whatever or you You're following the progress of a particular team in a particular league and so you have it's exciting or whatever when they succeed and you can share in that camaraderie with a The fellow your fellow people who enjoyed that kind of stuff I get all that I mean I've watched eSports That have like content creators in them, and I'm I'm excited when they win or whatever you know Back when I used to watch Reignout need enter tournaments and he win or get far whatever I feel like yeah That's cool. Hooray. You know but even eSports these days. I'm not particularly into The closest I get is watching melee tournaments and because I've watched hungry box And I watch him a little bit like I'm I hope he does well And if I see a tournament that he entered I'll look in the brackets and see how he's doing I would like to have an experience where I sit overnight having some drinks With friends and we watch a CS go tommy. I think that'd be a cool experience and I imagine My desire to have that and my thinking that as a cool experience is what it must be like to watch just normal sport With your friends. I just I view CS go as like the peak eSport You know has such a high skill ceiling Yet to get it simple enough that anyone can follow it watching sports is overrated. Yeah, I definitely have enjoyed Playing sport in my life more than I have our watching it although CS go I certainly enjoy watching that more than I do enjoy playing it But that's just because I'm really bad at it. I don't really get it. I don't want to learn all the call signs I'm going to week he leaky fucking faucet, and I'm rushing Q I don't know like I want to learn that shit. I want to learn the bullet spray patterns and stuff I stick to my GTA 5 where I point my gun at the person and most of the time they get hit by the bullet except when lag plays a factor |
| 08. June 2020 | Do I like the movement tech in GTA V | Do I like that there is movement tech in GTA 5? I mean there's just so much movement tech. I kinda like it I guess. The game would be a lot simpler, certainly, if you didn't have to change between camera angles. And third person was always as fast as first person. |
| 08. June 2020 | Do I like the movement tech in GTA V? | Do I like that there is movement tech in GTA 5? I mean there's just so much movement tech. I kinda like it I guess. The game would be a lot simpler, certainly, if you didn't have to change between camera angles. And third person was always as fast as first person. |
| 03. September 2021 | Do I like watching my own videos? | Do I like watching my own videos? Do I like watching my own videos? Yes. It's not like I put them on in the background and stuff, but... I've often said the content that I produce is the exact content that I would like to watch. And that fills me with a bit of pride. That I can re-watch older episodes of How This We've Unended and laugh at my jokes. Um, and enjoy watching the series. That's a good feeling for me. |
| 30. May 2020 | Do I live alone? | Find comfortable. Do I have a roommate or do I live alone? I live chainsawing by my mom. |
| 12. December 2021 | Do I make a return on my giveaways? | Do I make a return on my giveaways? To a million dollar giveaway? Nah. I think the limit without license in my state is like 10 grand or something, I'm not sure. You'll never see a giveaway bigger than that for me. Like I don't think there's much of a return on investment for giveaways, but I just kinda like doing them. I mean I get something out of them because people sign up to my other social media, but I don't think there's a huge return on that. As in like, I think those people would have just signed up for those social medias eventually anyway if they actually used them to a significant degree. I mean it's possible that um, because it reminds everyone to use their prime substance stuff that maybe I break even. It's possible. I've never really done the math. Got him, cap. |
| 24. October 2022 | Do I miss having roommates. | I miss having roommates? Not at all. There are some weak moments where you think, man, I'm gonna get stabbed. I've heard a creak in my house. And you think roommate- having roommates would help with that, but my roommates could've stabbed me. You never know. Why commentary channels rush to upload video- |
| 18. August 2022 | Do I miss my golden years of speedrunning? | I could be on the level I was at back then. I haven't had a chance to, I haven't had reason to. But I do wish I was back that way, yeah. It's funny, because I don't feel much worse. Well, I suppose I do a little bit, but the results don't lie, I am significantly worse. A part of it is that there's a bunch of new strats that are hard that I keep failing, and it makes my time look a lot worse than had I just not done the strats at all and just done something simpler. Like, well, there's a lot more strats that save time. These strats, if you fail them, lose you a lot more time than you would have otherwise saved. The speed of my facial hair growth. For those who don't like my lack of beard. |
| 16. May 2020 | Do I miss speedrunning? | They good. Do you sometimes wish you could move your content back to mainly speedrunning GTA 5? Are you perfectly happy with the side series like Pacifist, One Hit KO Chaos, becoming the main focus of your YouTube Twitch channels? I could move back to mainly speedrunning if I wanted to, but I prefer what I'm doing right now. Pacifist, One Hit KO, they will end eventually. They will go away and by default, because I would finish them, I'll have nothing else to do with them. And at that point, I will move back to speedrunning because by default, that's what I have left. There's just no rush to react to speedrunning. It will always be there where I left it. Certainly, the longer I take, the more I have to relearn. But at this point, the thing that most interested me about speedrunning in general was always achieving goals and finding new things about the game. And Pacifist and One Hit KO, just there's more opportunity to do both things right now compared to speedrunning for me. Speedrunning, I've spent so long doing it that it's nice to take a break and do other challenges, but I do miss it to some extent, and I will get back to it eventually. |
| 27. January 2021 | Do I notice having more viewers than usual? | Do I notice having more viewers than usual? How do you feel about peaking around 6k viewers the other day? It doesn't feel different than normal. To put it another way, would being in a room doing a speech in front of 20 people be different to you than doing it in front of 30 people? That's about the same difference from other streams I've done. You wouldn't even notice the difference, you'd have to sit there and actually count them. Everything that I do greatly changes depending upon how many viewers I have. I do the same thing. I mean, I might feel a little bit worse when I let people down or I recognize it's harder to follow chat and stuff, but probably the worst part is being unable to catch up easily with the subs and donos and stuff. Because people are being generous towards me and I'm unable to thank them easily, you know? I'm just a little bit of a wimp. |
| 30. September 2021 | Do I pick up women in bars? | Do I pick up women in bars? I don't go to bars. Well, you know back in the day I went to bars, but even then I didn't approach women. I'm just not I've never been that comfortable with myself I've never really seen myself as a person that other people should want to be with I've always had my own issues I've never felt physically appealing in insecure you could say and for this reason like I could be approached or I could get to know a person and then maybe I talked about Stacey before my first girlfriend the the Wiccantree whatever she approached me I did the online dating thing for a while and that was more comfortable at least there you talk to a person for a bit And I mean if they're talking to you that is somewhat interested in you, you know, I also never saw myself as a person Well, I'm a reptile. So that's that's a part of reason I never saw myself as a person |
| 18. December 2019 | Do I plan on doing any other modded speedruns? | There was no mod that you'd want to see for the entire game that really makes it interesting. Even like the one hit mod for example, like for a substantial portion of the game you can't even be shot, like here for example. It'd be the same game. What would be interesting is setting up the chaos mod so there's no none of the ones that can mission fail you or kill you and only the ones that can like inconvenience you and shit and doing a run with that if like my goal was to make a new former speedrun or whatever. It would be lovely to have a mod that changed every vehicle, or at least all like the ground ones, to like the fastest kind of game or some shit. Am I famous? Am I a legend? I'm just some dude. It's always very flattering when people are very happy when I respond to their messages. People weirdly think I'm famous. I understand that a lot of creators don't respond to all their messages and shit, but I respond to the vast majority of mine. Unless you're sending me something really stupid. I had to block someone recently called Simply Yeet on Twitter because he kept just spamming the most weird shit into my DMs. Like just, he was just a very dumb person. There's no malice there. He's just, you know, probably a dumb kid. My favorite video games. Hey Matt, didn't know if you saw my question earlier, but what's your favorite video games? Uhh, here's a my Magic 3, the Dark Souls franchise, GTA 5. |
| 20. December 2022 | Do I plan on speedrunning the Diamond casino heist? | Do I plan on speedrunning the diamond casino heist if they could be done solo absolutely I saw TGG tweet out that they should make the casino heist solo instantly I would do that, but as long as it's not soluble then no TG did a poll where he was like do you play? GT online solo or with other people and like 75% said solo I suspect that still means that they play with random strangers or ever when they need them for particular highest spit Yeah, there are other things that you can speedrun like the contracts and the doctor trade DLC There are other soluble things that can be speedrun, but it's like the only really interesting one to me What do you mean casino solo rockstar then had to put some evidence the game honestly surely? It's less effort to like revamp older heists than it is to make a new one I don't understand why they wouldn't do that sure it can lead to the possibility of breaking things But I mean adding something new can also do that |
| 25. February 2020 | Do I plan to move elsewhere | Have I thought about moving somewhere better? My circumstances here are pretty good, to the extent where the only reason I'd want to move is if like, I could buy a house. Which I don't think is going to happen anytime soon, especially in Sydney. Because if I bought a house, there'd be a handful of tedious things I wouldn't have to do. I'd have more room to potentially have like, I don't know, a room dedicated to a green screen and that's a huge step to make for such small games, you know. And that would be a lot of hassle to sort all that out. My circumstances here are fine. Just build a house myself, but become like my grandfather. He bought himself a block of land for like 50 bucks back in the day in the middle of nowhere. Built a house on it and watched as the suburb just grew up around his house. Build a house for favorite runs, no house could be large enough to fit all my favorite runs. Like look at me right now, I'm just fucking hunched over man, I'm like I'm a fucking hunchback trying to do god damn speedruns. Excuse me guys, gotta pause the run to ring my fucking bell. Man if you bought a house, would you prefer a green house or a front garden? I would prefer no greeny at all because it all requires goddamn upkeep. What am I, a fucking tree beard or whatever from Lord of the Rings? I don't need fucking grass. I can buy myself some cows with the greys on my front lawn, get the fuck out of here. |
| 05. March 2023 | Do I plan to retire soon? | Do I plan to retire soon? When do I plan to retire? I think about retiring every day. But I feel like I'm never gonna retire. I'll just become more and more just doing whatever the hell I want to do until no one cares. I always thought I would just end on a high note, but honestly if I just end up with a couple of hundred viewers who want to chill out and just do stuff, that's fine by me. Most creators would be happy to have like four years of- |
| 03. June 2020 | Do I play Chess? | I have the footage still. Do you play chess? I am one of those people who if you sat me down next to a person who wasn't a chess pro I could beat them very easily as in like I'm not a chess pro and as a novice I can beat any other novice dude. You've just hands down I beat all my friends when I was a kid they didn't want to play anymore because I was just too fucking good like On a whim I entered like a chess tournament at my school I got like third or some shit and it was like on a technicality or something That I ended up getting third because I beat the guy in second place or something But it didn't give me enough points to be in the finals or some shit I was just dumb we did chess on stream where like five people versed me and I beat them all and then I versed the Person who was actually a pro at chess No, I beat banger banger apparently had a medal for like blitz chess or something that he won a tournament and I beat him I beat him not a blitz chess though at normal chess I Versed a handful of people who just like everyday play chess and they just fucking wiped the floor with me. It was obvious like Five moves in or something. They were just getting schooled |
| 06. August 2020 | Do I play any of the modern fps games? | Do I play any of the modern FPS games? Have you ever tried to play any new FPS games, not Fortnite, like Apex or COD? I played a little bit of, uh, Apex. None of those games super appeal to me, because everyone plays them, and I don't have the time to get good at them. Like, I'm two for two with winning, um, death matches against you guys in online, and I think that's what I'll just keep doing. Because I am obviously not some FPS amazing pro guy, but because I have so much experience in GTA V, I can kind of carry myself playing those kind of things. |
| 30. May 2020 | Do I prefer Youtube or Twitch? | Do I prefer YouTube or Twitch? As a platform to watch content, YouTube, just because of the way that I live my life Where I only have a finite amount of time. I may only have five minutes here, five minutes there I don't have time to really immerse myself in a stream as much as I used to be able to so I prefer watching YouTube. I still watch quite a bit of Twitch But it's usually when I've run out of things to watch on my subscription feed or a particular content creator happens to be online Elijah who if he's doing runs or Hungrybox if he's in a tournament or something like that For content creation, Twitch is far easier for me to do than YouTube This is just me being me, you know, and I just turn on the thing and I if I didn't have to make any YouTube content my day would end when my stream ended all the tags and Thumbnails and editing and all that stuff is far more complicated than Twitch has ever been for me YouTube is more permanent. I I don't remember what I streamed ten days ago, but and there's no point looking that up It's just who cares. It's just barely even titled But I can see the video that I uploaded ten days ago and I can I can watch that again and again and again And again if I really want to and you know ten years from now, I'll be like, that's the video I released on YouTube but on Twitch there's none of that permanency which is freeing in some ways But also, you know, it it's a downer sometimes like if I wasn't making YouTube content How much of what I create would just go off into the ether? No one would ever see it again I would never remember it It's kind of depressing to think how much of my my label would go into creating twitch content and it would never be seen again So I like creating content for YouTube and Twitch for different reasons, but Twitch is certainly easier than YouTube |
| 30. July 2020 | Do I prefer to into a story blind? | Do I prefer to go into a story blind? Studies show that if you already know the abstract of a story, you will most likely rate the story better upon seeing it completely. Like, I think I prefer to know nothing going into a movie except that the general premise is something that I find appealing. If I had to pick a movie at random, I'm probably not going to enjoy that movie. Even though I know nothing about it. Which seems to be my preference, I prefer to know as little about a movie as possible. But if I know so little that I'm likely going to pick a movie with a premise that I'm not going to enjoy or in a genre I'm not going to enjoy, such complete lack of knowledge would seem to be detrimental to my enjoyment. |
| 29. April 2021 | Do I procrastinate? | Do I procrastinate? Have you ever dealt with procrastination? Assuredly, when I was younger, I would not do things that I was meant to do in order to play World of Warcraft. You have to think back very far for that, though. Certainly, when in school, I would not do an assessment or sign, and leave it to the last minute or whatever. But that is not common for me. When I was in uni, I made sure to partition my time correctly and give myself the best chance of having everything get in on time. I'd make sure to work on everything every day. What I do now, I love so much that I dedicate all my time to it. If I don't want to do one thing that I need to do, then I'll do another thing that I need to do. If I'm truly completely sick of doing anything for my work, I will clean my house, or do the stuff that I need around the house that I don't do as much as I should. There's always something I need to clean, something I need to do, something I can tidy. And I'm just kind of the person I am these days. The only time I feel satisfaction is when I'm achieving goals, pursuing some ends. I'm sitting around just watching movies and shit. Most of the series I watch and shows I watch, I do in between working, which is maybe a little bit inefficient sometimes, but I prefer it. So I will work on something until I can't deal with it anymore, and then I will click off to another tab and watch something for five minutes or so, at two times speed, and then get back to work. I suppose thankfully I'm not one of those people who will just get five videos in and go, oh shit, I was meant to be doing work, wasn't I? I'm the kind of guy, I'll just do the five minutes and get back to it. Just sometimes when working, I need to get my eyes off what I'm doing. With the truly hard tasks, I'll be like, look, I'll go through five minutes of footage, or ten minutes of footage, whatever, and then I'll turn off. I'll limit the amount of work that I do, and I'll get to this threshold, then I can take a break, this threshold, then take a break. It makes tasks more manageable when you cut them into smaller pieces. It isn't, oh man, I've got two hours more work to do, it's like, I've got ten minutes until I can take a break. As I say, it's very easy to stay committed to a task if you actually want to complete the task. Would I consider myself a workaholic? Yes. My work-life balance is non-existent. That doesn't sound great, yeah, it's just what I'm comfortable with now. Moving out of my comfort zone is tough. As I say, I've moved into online dating now, and I'm trying to find someone to go out and date with and stuff, but it's just, it's hard going. It's interesting that I can work every day entertaining thousands of people. I can have a significant portion of my content be just me speaking, and it be loved by tens of thousands of people. And I still can't find someone who wants to engage me with the conversation. Never have I felt more worthless than I felt trying to do online dating. Are you confident you could find a woman who supports and suits your current lifestyle? I mean, that's the goal, but skeptical. Girls want bad boys, you gotta stop doing bads, but that's funny. As I said, the dream is, of course, to find another streamer, similar lifestyle. You guys gotta keep in mind that even amongst streamers and content creators, my life is fairly weird. Even the most successful content creators don't dedicate themselves this much to what they do. Most people have something else going on. |
| 16. January 2020 | Do I ramble on purpose? | Am I rambling on purpose? I never ramble for the sake of rambling. It's just naturally when you stream for you know, 7 hours, you will talk about some stuff. Not all rambles make it into speedrunning rambles though. Some do get cut because they didn't like how I communicated or I don't like the topic or what have you. I'm also not afraid of repeating myself in rambles as long as I haven't done it really recently because you never know when people are going to jump into rambles and you never know if I've communicated it better the second time than I have the first time and da da da. But you know what products always the same quality? That like button. If you smash it, it always has that same satisfying feeling. Thank you. |
| 02. November 2021 | Do I read YouTube comments? | Do I read YouTube comments? Do you still read your comments? If so, how do you mentally deal with the minority of crap? I do read YouTube comments. I'll have nothing to do, and I'll just add- or I've released a video, and I'll click on the comment section in the settings or whatever, like not the actual video, like the section that shows all the comments in chronological order from all the videos at once, and I'll just read some and answer a few. I'll go through 20, 30. The vast majority are fine. There'll be one occasional comment that is really dumb. Depending upon my mood, I'll either explain to the person why their comment is dumb, or I'll just move on. There was a point where I actually answered every comment in some capacity back in the day, but I can't do that anymore, there's too many. How do I deal with the crap? I guess I just don't see much of it. Like I have replies turned off and comment notifications and stuff turned off, so even if a person wanted to pick a fight with me in the comments, responding to my comment and me responding to theirs, like I wouldn't know. I found turning off all those notifications made comments a lot easier. I engage with them exactly to the limited extent that I want to engage with them. Under rare circumstances, I'll go back and I'll be curious if a person responded to my comment, but not very often. I mean, I did once upon a time run a channel related to religious content, right? And maybe that gave me a bit of a thicker skin towards such things, because there's some real, real dumb comments that used to be left on those videos. People would write these long essays of complete nonsense, like the dumbest thing you've ever heard. The person who wrote it must have believed it to be the most amazing work of writing in history, because they'll go to every single video and copy paste it. |
| 22. March 2021 | Do I read books? | Time for books anymore. Back in the day, I would probably read like... I don't know, like I... There was a time when I was going through a book every two weeks. But these were fairly short books. Like when I was reading, um... The Dritster Durran series and whatever that is called. The Dark Elf series. Or Sherlin Kenyon's books and stuff. This was before I, uh... Had YouTube and Twitch and stuff and... So whenever I had any downtime, I was just reading a book. And a lot of the early fantasy that I read was... I guess even before smartphones. Or like... iPods and stuff existed when I was in high school. But they're nothing like they exist today. Comments made entirely to invoke a response. Literally the... |
| 16. December 2019 | Do I recognise people in chat? | How many people do I recognize in my Twitch chat? Someone asked me do I remember people's names and the answer is yes. What tends to end up happening as a streamer there's a handful of people that you remember specific events about and then there's a substantially larger amount of people who you develop Associations with or like oh this person's funny or whatever Oh, yeah, I see this person around a lot this person occasionally can be annoying or this person is young or this person has an interest in this like it's a vague sense of who all these people are and Then you have people whose names you just recognize where it's like they'll come back in six months and go How's it going? I'm a guy. I remember you I've seen your name around But of course it's impossible to remember everyone's names a big problem that I have I Simplify people's names so I can end up with a bunch of different people You all in my head have the same names even if they use the names to slightly differ And I often associate them with the different colors of their names So when they change the color of their name, I get kind of confused. I'm unfortunately past the time Where I can remember every viewer who comes into my chat. I do try |
| 17. March 2022 | Do I regret buying GTA Definitive edition? | Do I regret buying GTA Definitive Edition? Do I regret buying the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition? Of course not. Why would I regret buying it? I make content about video games. Even bad ones. Do I regret buying Bad Dimension 2? Yes. I should have gone to PAX. |
| 03. June 2020 | Do I regret doing my degree? | Also had a question concerning a degree as I'm currently halfway through my Bachelor's of Science but now I'm not even sure that I want to continue doing the course but don't want to give it up because I don't know what else I want to pursue. Do you regret doing your degree because you didn't end up following that career path? Having a degree in anything is always an asset in any kind of job you want to go in. Just because it shows the person who is looking at your resume that you must have your shit together to some degree if you were able to get a degree. Going into an interview and they're asking you what have you done for the last year and a half, two years and you go well I dropped out of a degree that does not look good in a resume. If you've got other plans, specific plans, then it probably makes sense to drop out but if you don't then just completing what you're doing right now, continuing with it until you have other plans, something else you want to move into that's tangentially related or you know you get an opportunity to work somewhere or what have you, wait for that. Don't cut off what you're currently doing without definitive plans about what you're gonna do after that. In general if you've gone through more than a year of your degree, for the vast majority of people I would argue it makes sense to finish that degree especially if you've already invested some money in that degree. |
| 23. July 2022 | Do I regret going back to speedrunning? | Do I regress going back to speedrunning? Have you ever been overwhelmed returning to speedrunning and having to learn all the new strats? Oh absolutely dude. I have questions whether I should return to speedrunning at all. I make statements all the time like tempering expectations being like I'm not gonna be the best guys I'm just gonna do what I can have some fun with it. Of course if I was only focused on learning the run as opposed to making content and stuff I would have learned a lot faster. But that's what I'm kind of doing right now. While I can't make good content, at least the content that I want because of my echo, I'm doing my best to focus on learning the run. |
| 24. February 2022 | Do I regret going to university? | But, do I regret going to university? Now, that's an interesting question, because clearly I have not used my degree. I didn't get a job that required my degree. But at the same time, you know, the butterfly effect, where a small change in a complex system can lead to drastic changes, right? Or whatever. If I didn't go to university, if I didn't study, it's possible I wouldn't be where I am right now. I would say it's almost certain. I would have been influenced by different things, be doing different things, different burdens on my time, or what have you. It's very unlikely that I would have gone down this exact same path that I've gone down. And I like my life right now. I've done well for myself. I'm very satisfied with what I do. So clearly, I like that I went to university. But I can't say that I'm using my degree in terms of what I do for a living. I did learn stuff in my degree that I value. It's probably shaped my views of different things in ways that I couldn't even make a direct connection to. But yeah, I'm not using my degree right now. You'll always have the degree. How valuable a degree is largely depends on when you got it. It's like the first two years after the degree, it's the most valuable. So I read that somewhere, I don't know. Certainly having a degree means that on your resume, it says, I had my shit together for this many years to enable myself to follow rules and requirements and study and stuff to complete this course. And that usually speaks of your character, of your aptitude, of your capabilities, of your committedness. Like having a degree, regardless of what it is, suggests something good about you as a person when you're applying for a job. Did you actually learn or is it just for the special paper? Oh, I actually I definitely learned things. But the paper is what matters. |
| 22. December 2020 | Do I regret moving from speedruns to challenge runs? | Do I regret starting to do challenge runs over speedruns? Do I regret stopping speedruns? Not even slightly. You can't have everything in the world. Not stopping speedrunning and doing challenge runs was a brilliant move in regards to growing my channel and learning more about the game. And in many ways, appreciating the game even more. I love OneHicHair. I love PacifistPercent. It's just, in the same way that I realize I can't have it all, I still wish I could have it all. I wish I could have speedrun this entire time as well. Kept up with the runs and kept my time more competitive and stuff. You just can't do it all. I'm not sure if anyone, one individual came up with the idea of OneHicKo. The idea of having only one HP and needing to not take damage is, you know, as old as video games. Like, I wasn't even the first person to do OneHicKo for an entire run of a GTA game. Like, I'm pretty sure San Andreas Chaos has a OneHicKo option. And I know people have done OneHicKo runs of San Andreas and stuff. At least I think they had, because there's a leaderboard for it. It's just not very popular. Like, San Andreas, you just have access to a lot more tools. And the game is a bit more drank, making it a lot easier to do. And no one has completed GTA V OCO now. But I'm the only person who really took it seriously. Like, you can watch my first runs of this, and I treated it the same way that other people treated it, where it's just, you know, get through the game as fast as possible with only one HP. I don't think there'd be any advantage to having OCO become competitive. Because clearly, if it just becomes down to time, the fastest person, the person who does it the fastest, is going to be the person who just takes the most risks. And in a run this long, every single mission, you could take some additional risk to get that little bit faster. Like, the fastest OneHicKo run would be only slightly faster than the fastest speedrun, because all you would do is avoid the intentional deaths. And so you'd just have to hope that you just never get hit. It'd be interesting to see what strategies are developed to avoid possible damage while still going fast, but it wouldn't be something I'd be interested in. It would just seem a worse speedrun to me. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. They cost you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 06. March 2021 | Do I regret starting OHKO? | Do I regret doing one hit KO? Do I regret doing one hit KO? Was attempt 18 that I failed by one damage? It is somewhat annoying that I was that close and I've had to go through all this additional strain to Try to get rid of that one last bit of damage Knowing that I was one frame from having a perfect one fucking frame As I say though, it's possible that I would have fucked up something else It's possible that a nervousness would have caused me to fuck up later missions and I only succeeded because I wasn't nervous I'd already taken one damage. I would never give up doing literally never Be sure to LIKE the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 08. July 2021 | Do I regret starting Twitch and Youtube? | Do I ever regret starting Twitch and YouTube? Do you sometimes regret starting Twitch and YouTube? Not even for a moment. There has not been a single time that I've regretted starting Twitch and YouTube. Since becoming successful at it. It is the highlight of my life. I love what I do deeply. I'm thankful for it every day. That's why I work so hard at it. |
| 06. March 2021 | Do I regret starting ohko? | Do I regret doing one hit KO? Do I regret doing one hit KO? Was attempt 18 that I failed by one damage? It is somewhat annoying that I was that close and I've had to go through all this additional strain to Try to get rid of that one last bit of damage Knowing that I was one frame from having a perfect one fucking frame As I say though, it's possible that I would have fucked up something else It's possible that a nervousness would have caused me to fuck up later missions and I only succeeded because I wasn't nervous I'd already taken one damage. I would never give up doing literally never Be sure to LIKE the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 30. June 2022 | Do I respect commentary videos? | Do I respect commentary videos? Commentary videos have always been fairly low effort stuff, but I have no issue with them because can you imagine a society where people weren't able to communicate as freely as they want their own ideas and shit? Like obviously looking on Twitter of a day and being like, I guess this is what people are talking about so I'm gonna talk about as well doesn't necessarily lead to the best commentary. Back in the day on my first channel I would occasionally have to think of stuff to care about rather than making videos about stuff that I care about and I fucking hate that. I hate it. It was a terrible experience and I imagine being a commentary channel is similar to that. You wake up and you're like, oh what people are complaining about Jessica fucking throwing a pie at Ben. Who the fuck are these people? I guess I gotta talk about it because it's what everyone's talking about and that just seems garbage. You know, collegiate situations where you talk on topics that you know nothing about and or I say you have to fake interest in stuff and I don't want to live that way. I wouldn't want to make content like that. But I say some of it can be good especially if you're already knowledgeable about the topics that are being talked about and I wouldn't want to live in a world without that kind of stuff. |
| 15. February 2022 | Do I stand by the way I communicated? | Um, but I do want to close on, you seem to firmly stand by your communication in like as far as the analogies and all that kind of stuff go. Within the context of that, it was an unfinished script and within like the end results with clips and stuff, I, well, it would have, I think it'd even been better received. So I do contend that a lot of the hubbub about those sentences is more about people avoiding having to read the document or engage with my arguments than anything else. Like the amount of people who read the document and had issues with it was very tiny. Because before, when I was awake, before Charlie responded to this, I looked through hundreds of messages from people who'd given me feedback on my writing and talked about different things. There were some changes that were made to the document based on other people's feedback because they didn't think a certain thing was clear. I heard from like two people who said, I think those could be taken the wrong way. If you do make this into a video, I'd recommend like just changing your wording there a bit. And I was distracted with other stuff. So by that point, so I didn't do it. And the other person who was on Twitter who said, who made the statement, you're just saying that React is a rapist. And that thread after that on Twitter is something that I wouldn't defend. The mistake I made in that thread is the same one that we've talked about before, where I assumed a certain mindset behind this behavior. That comes across. We'll call it for the sake of this discussion, the principle of similarity or something. So if you do something and you receive positive feedback and there's no negative repercussions for doing it, you are more likely to do that thing than the average person. Because you've already shown that you have the necessary prerequisites to do that thing and you've received some positive feedback rather than negative. So as long as you keep receiving that positive feedback, you'll keep doing it. In the same token, similar things to that, you would necessarily have to be more likely to do than the average population because these are similar. The average population has not demonstrated the possibility of doing either of these things, but you've at least demonstrated the possibility to do something similar. And so we would say something like a person who scams a grandmother for $1,000 is probably more likely than the general population to scam a school for $10,000. I'm not saying every person who scams grandmothers has the exact right mindset to scam schools as well, but you can see how due to the similarity of that mindset and the action, that would necessarily be the case that there would have to be some movement there. Even if it's 1%, 10%, whatever. What's the point of saying that though? Oh, there was no reason. This was just some academic ramblings. I was sitting in bed when a person asked me about it. Back to my analogy, would a person who cares nothing for consent in one domain in life be more likely to not care about consent in another domain of life? And the answer would inevitably have to be yes. But the problem with that argument, as we've talked about many times now, is that not everyone who does react content disregards the idea of consent. While in my view that they are, and some of them are, it is not the case that every single person who does react content is like, this person needs consent. Fuck them. I don't care about consent. And so the argument is bad on that basis. It would technically still be true for anyone who held that mindset, but not all reactors. And so rightly criticizing me, you can't say that all reactors are more likely to rape people because they react to content or something. That's just patently absurd. And that wasn't what I was trying to imply. Why do you say the thing about spiking the drink then? Oh, because that was in the document. In the document, it was just to give examples as to why the ideas of consent don't work. In this, it was to talk about the- Why'd you say that? Because I just wrote a document. Why'd you say that? I know, we were talking about the doc. I just really don't understand why you said, cover your drink around these reactors because they may spike your drink. No, they seem keen to suggest that the mindset that is being suggested, they are suggesting they have a mindset that would imply that this is the case. But I don't believe they have that mindset. I don't believe anyone actually has this mindset. No one could actually think that consent doesn't matter. What's the word to describe that? It's not ironic. It's not ironic. What's the word to say something that you're actually facetious? Is it facetious? No, I don't think I'm being facetious. I said I was being flippant. I was treating something serious with perhaps less seriousness than it should be taken. But it was just to reach for something that university would be considered bad to, again, express how this idea of consent would be destructive. Again, the question is, sometimes even if you think logically you might be right, you do have to communicate with where the other person, what their level of understanding is and where they're coming from. Not only that, but their sensibilities. If you want to be understood, it is best to, as much as possible, avoid an emotional reaction. Even if, as I argue, these analogies do work, at least in the document, in the way that I tried to make them work. Although, again, it assumes a certain mindset that wouldn't necessarily apply to all reactors. It still wasn't the best form of communicating to a wider audience because obviously people would potentially have an emotional response to it that wouldn't be related to the argument itself. But it's not the best way to communicate to gee up people unnecessarily. As I said, worked on it for a day, gave it to my Rambles audience. I didn't consider it to be something that the wider audience of people would see. But I still contend that the majority of the people who riled up over it are just people who had no interest in reading the document. It is far easier to engage with bad man says all reactors are rapists than, hey, look at all these arguments about the idea of worker exploitation. No one wants to read a 14 page document, but everyone wants to say that guy said reactors are rapists, fuck that dude. It's a simpler narrative. And that's why the comments coming from elsewhere were very much so focused on that language where the comments when I first released it were about many of my arguments. Or saying that you need to be more specific as to what you're talking about when you're talking about reaction content. So originally, it was like the seventh page, I outlined what I meant by reactors. But people wouldn't get that far and would complain like, oh, this guy is making a response video as I call it, and he shouldn't be included in this. I'm like, well, you're right. So certain changes were made to accommodate people's responses. But as I said, if it were the case that it was just a natural response for people to be like, these two sentences are the worst thing ever, I would have seen more of that initially. And therefore, the changes would have happened. It was hours of looking at people's comments because I'm a fucking weirdo. Had there been a significant amount of that, I would have made those changes just to be receptive to people's sensibilities. But it didn't happen. And therefore, I can only conclude that a significant portion of this outrage is disingenuous or only exists because the wider amount of people have put forth focus on it. Because it's just such a, at least in terms of document, such a minor pass of what I'm talking about. It's largely relevant to the point. You could remove both those analogies and nothing about the document would change. Which is why it was dumb. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I agree. I just didn't conceive of the idea. Because in part, I was just angry. Maybe you can even call it vindictive to some degree. And I was just typing out my ideas and frustrations and whatnot. And I'm like, hey, this is actually good writing. I hope other people read it because I don't have time to make it into a video. The way that you communicate to what you think is going to be a couple of hundred people at best, maybe a couple of people from your audience who get past page two, is very different than what you communicate. If it didn't make the video. I think if you actually put it in the video, it could have been way worse. Oh, no, I don't. I'm, I don't know. Because it would have had a lot of immediate exposure as opposed to just- I just mean that in the video, there would have been other clips and stuff that would have contextualized my words and more better communicated my meaning and potentially- Well, again, that's like assuming that people understand what you mean. But some people just get triggered by the topic. Sure, but they have to get to page eight. By the subject. And I don't think many of these people who are complaining to me have read the document and gone to page eight. No, I know for a fact that the vast majority have not actually read the document. Because as I say, the people who read the document initially, that was not their main takeaway. There were other things that they wanted to talk about. Not a bracketed sentence on page eight and one offhand remark in page four, it was at 12 or something. That was not their concerns. The main- you could say that someone might be like, well, that was a bit extreme, I think. But in a video, if you're making it- because you would be like 20 minutes in at that point. If you're making it into a video 20 minutes in, you care more about the topic than a particular analogy that I'm using. But for a lot of people, their presentation to this work was, oh my God, Darkviper AU is calling React as rapist. And that's all that they really care about. Sure, yeah. That makes sense. That does make sense. So who knows? Maybe we can't turn back the clock. Honestly, even I am like- |
| 09. April 2021 | Do I start the trend of clips channels | Did I start the trend of clips channels? Since you made your devap clips channel, I've seen some other clips channels pop up from other people. I never want to think of myself as a trendsetter, and certainly I wasn't the first kind of this channel, as I described, there was generic clips channels before. But I am fairly certain that some people saw my channel and were like, oh, I should do this as well. There's no way that's not true. There's no way in hell I could have been the first person to make a clips channel for their stream though. But going as hard as I did on us, maybe I was the first to do that. I do think though in general, Twitch streamers just prefer other people to upload clips of them onto YouTube, you know. Certainly I have the advantage that my clips aren't just darkviperAU does X funny thing, you know. Like there are a lot of Twitch streamers who are big on Twitch, but have effectively no YouTube presence, because they're like the old guard of Twitch, as in they grew with the platform. Like my clips have an appeal to people who don't know me, because they're speedrunGTA related, which already does well on YouTube. Like GTA content does well on YouTube, speedrun stuff does well on YouTube, and the combination of the two does well on YouTube. So making clips of it, you know, does very well. If you're just a regular Twitch streamer, your clips might not go as far as mine do in the algorithm. Not that they all do, mind you. But if you throw enough clips up on YouTube, it's unlikely that you don't get a couple that pop off, you know. So like in every batch of 20 that I upload, a heap will sit in the 10-20,000 views, but there'll be like a handful that go like 200,000, you know. |
| 06. June 2020 | Do I still enjoy Chaos | Do you still enjoy doing Chaos percent and stuff as much as you did when you first did it? I personally don't watch it anymore because I feel like it's very repetitive after the tenth time. Well, I can't enjoy it as much as I did the first time because it was different the first time. It was something I'd never experienced before. I still enjoy it, don't get me wrong. And there's still a lot of funny situations in it because that's why I only do an episode like every week. It's so it doesn't become stale to me and it's still fairly funny. It's also why I limit myself to two hours because after two hours it can get kind of old. Like I don't know how the fuck Hugo does like 12 hour streams of Chaos. Crazy anime. I would find that so amazingly tedious. |
| 06. June 2020 | Do I still enjoy chaos | Do you still enjoy doing Chaos percent and stuff as much as you did when you first did it? I personally don't watch it anymore because I feel like it's very repetitive after the tenth time. Well, I can't enjoy it as much as I did the first time because it was different the first time. It was something I'd never experienced before. I still enjoy it, don't get me wrong. And there's still a lot of funny situations in it because that's why I only do an episode like every week. It's so it doesn't become stale to me and it's still fairly funny. It's also why I limit myself to two hours because after two hours it can get kind of old. Like I don't know how the fuck Hugo does like 12 hour streams of Chaos. Crazy anime. I would find that so amazingly tedious. |
| 28. November 2020 | Do I still enjoy my No Damage runs? | You know? Do I still enjoy my no damage runs? Matt, do you still find these runs more enjoyable from when you first started OCO? Because in the first OCO video, you were laughing and seemed to be having lots of fun, but now you seem more stressed, wording. I don't remember how much I enjoyed the first run. I still find it enjoyable. But certainly there's more pressure on me now to succeed, and my success is more important now. When you're just screwing around, as Bob says, the first OCO was more of a meme run than it is now. Like, I'm taking this very seriously. I still do joke around and stuff, but the degree to which I joke around and laugh is probably more related to, you know, my energy level and the time of day, as opposed to the run itself, you know? But yeah, I really want to succeed. So I take it more seriously. |
| 28. November 2020 | Do I still enjoy my no damage runs? | You know? Do I still enjoy my no damage runs? Matt, do you still find these runs more enjoyable from when you first started OCO? Because in the first OCO video, you were laughing and seemed to be having lots of fun, but now you seem more stressed, wording. I don't remember how much I enjoyed the first run. I still find it enjoyable. But certainly there's more pressure on me now to succeed, and my success is more important now. When you're just screwing around, as Bob says, the first OCO was more of a meme run than it is now. Like, I'm taking this very seriously. I still do joke around and stuff, but the degree to which I joke around and laugh is probably more related to, you know, my energy level and the time of day, as opposed to the run itself, you know? But yeah, I really want to succeed. So I take it more seriously. |
| 18. August 2022 | Do I still go to the Gym? | It's not doing it, you know. Do I still go to the gym? Like five years ago, I think, I would consistently go to the gym, like every day or every second day. No, not every day. Like probably every second day. I would just go do some cardio and lift some stuff for an hour or something. I was never particularly built. I had a bit more muscle on me. It was more just like a thing that I did as a part of my routine. It's when I got harder and harder into streaming and stuff, like that was one of the things that I abandoned. Do I miss my golden years of speed running? Do you ever look at your old How the Sea Unlimited episodes and be like, I wish. |
| 08. November 2020 | Do I still have a lot of GTA V content planned? | to GTA 5 still to make. Like, I legitimately want to finish all the missions in in GTA Online. I haven't even done all the heists yet there. Like the GTA Online content isn't particularly amazing, but I kind of still want to do it because I still haven't done, you know, I never finished the casino heist. I haven't done the doomsday heist, whatever. I can make content out of that and I will get there eventually. I still want to get back into speedrunning. I still haven't finished the new heist. I still haven't finished Passive. It's like I like if they announce GTA 6 tomorrow, I'd be like, ah, shit, I've got so much more I need to do. I wish I had started doing other stuff other than speedrunning or just started speedrunning GTA 5 earlier or something. |
| 05. September 2021 | Do I stream for particular times? | Do I stream for particular time zones? Would you rather stream in different time zones to have more viewers? I have streamed at like every conceivable time zone at least once because I have trouble maintaining my sleeping pattern. So last night I was gonna go to bed like 10 p.m. but I was like now fuck it I'm gonna wait and stay up and see how pass this goes. Well I couldn't really get to sleep anyway. It's uh going to bed at midnight men's like woke up at like 7 right and tomorrow I'll probably wake up at 8 and next day I wake up at 9 and it would get worse and worse from there right. It's not good. |
| 24. May 2021 | Do I stress clean? | Do I stress clean? I was laying down to bed yesterday at 3 a.m. Trying to get to sleep despite my sleeping pattern being complete trash. I'm like, no, I can't get to sleep, so I clean my entire house. Okay, I didn't dust or mop, but like I went through all my cupboards and sorted out all my stuff and cleaned my second room and stuff and it was nice. My version of stress cleaning is just getting annoyed and throwing out a lot of stuff that I later regret. I so rarely do that. I don't buy or get much stuff. Most of the rubbish that I end up having to throw away is cardboard and stuff. I do have this guy who I get to come around like every six months like to just take a bunch of stuff to the tip, but usually cleaning for me is often like putting stuff in its correct place or relocating some of the stuff I'm never going to use. |
| 03. January 2022 | Do I support legal weed? | It's on the finger. Clearly the amount of harm caused by weed pales in comparison to alcohol, tobacco, and many drugs that are perfectly legal. There is no standard that I could conceive of that would justify things like weed being illegal and yet things like alcohol being legal. As I say, it's not a matter of is weed harmful in some context. It's a matter of whether it's sufficient harm to justify banning it and whether or not banning it causes more harm than it prevents. And in my view, it clearly causes more harm than it prevents. You have perfectly functional people with perfectly functional lives who smoke weed every goddamn day and cause no trouble for anyone. |
| 01. June 2021 | Do I think I made GTA 5 Speedrunning popular? | I made GTA V speedrunning popular? Someone asked me, do I take credit for the growing of GTA V speedrunning? And the answer is, of course. Anything that brings GTA V speedrunning or GTA V challenge runs to a greater awareness is going to lead to a growth of that thing, because people are going to be going, oh, I didn't know this existed. Or, oh, you know, actually, now that I've been presented with that, I could, maybe I want to do that myself. That sounds fun. That kind of stuff, you know? The growth of a speedrun really has to do with how good the speedrun is, necessarily. It's more about how markable it is, how much people want to watch it, how, if you have it personally, at the forefront of it that can present it to a wider audience. |
| 08. June 2020 | Do I think YouTube will "end" soon? | Do I think YouTube will soon come to an end? The only thing that could possibly kill YouTube is our amazingly strong copyright legislation. I mean the kind of stuff that No, even then I don't think it would die. No, I can't imagine what could kill YouTube. It is so big It's just such a well-known brand. It will always have some value to someone whether it becomes smaller I don't know, but it's kind of action or change what I make to YouTube. I would not with YouTube I would make changes with copyright law. There's a great video by Tom Scott where he's like YouTube isn't broken the world is where it was like the main gripes that everyone has with YouTube is just because of the way copyright law is and The changes he would make to it. I agreed with them. Not that I can remember the exact details of what he said. |
| 23. August 2021 | Do I think expanded and enhanced will be significant? | Do I think expanded and enhanced will be significant? Do you think GTA V remastered will be much different? Uh... no. For console people it'll be a huge improvement, for PC it'll be like, okay, I see how it's a bit different. I mean, that they're taking so long to release it is more suggestive that it's actually gonna have some significant difference. Because if it was just gonna be a big pile of nothing, why haven't they released it yet? |
| 24. February 2022 | Do I think twitch will ever increase their bitrate? | Twitch will ever increase their bitrate currently the max is 8k and I stream at 900 P because 8k looks better at 900 P rather than 1080 P Why am I streaming at 900 P because I don't like numbers that have four digits hate them They scare me would twitch ever increase their bitrate. I Don't know honestly. I think like I I don't know why they'd ever go above 12k I said the most common resolution people watch content at is 1080p and so you should be meeting the requirements to have 1080p Look good, which is 12k bitrate either Twitch has stuff on their back end that suggests You know not enough people have the bandwidth to be able to watch 1080p at 12k bitrates Or that not enough people use 1080p at all Or they just don't want to spend the money because they don't believe we're bringing you new viewers and stuff or whatever More than 900 P is not needed. Nah 1080p does look better than 900 P But only if the bitrates right plus like you never want to have bitrate so high that you drive away a portion of your Audience because they can't watch but that should never really happen because the default is auto and so the systems to just change the stream to What you can deal with |
| 11. June 2021 | Do I use apple or android? | Do I use Apple or Android? Apple or Android and what do you think about them both? I have an Apple iPad. Uh... Because it seemed to be the best tablet that I could get at the time. Uh, I quite like it, but I mean, given its cost, it's not worth it for fucking anyone on the planet. I basically just use it as like a TV. Hang- like, hanging over my bed kind of thing. I have a Android phone, a Samsung, and it's quite good. And, uh, I don't really care. Apple seems to be terrible value for money, in that you do not get the best parts, the best hardware. What you do get though is, uh, you know, an integrated system, everything just kind of works and pairs seamlessly. It's a very simplified experience, there's no complications. You get better RAM with Samsung? Are you saying that because of that video that that dude made about how opening a particular Instagram story would crash your device? Like, lock it? And this was because it would somehow, like, bypass Instagram's restrictions to make it so the image that was being opened was massively larger than that Instagram is meant to allow? And so, uh, if your phone didn't have enough RAM, it would just lock up. But some, uh, better phones, uh, didn't crash, they just slowed down or whatever until you closed it. It's an interesting video. And in that video, they pointed out that all Apple phones have less RAM, so Apple phones the most were affected by this. Thanks for watching. |
| 08. November 2021 | Do I want GTA 5 characters in GTA 6? | Do I want GTA 5 characters in GTA 6? Would you want the GTA 5 characters reappear in GTA 6? Absolutely. You know how there's that opening scene where Michael's sitting on the beach and Franklin's walking by and Lamar's like, hey yo bro, where's this house I'm looking for? I would like that scene recreated, but the new characters are walking by and it's just Franklin, Michael and Trevor like, nah this is the life, smoking cigarettes and just looking off into the sunset and then the characters walk by and that's it. And that's the entire them being in there. Just some nod where, you know that scene at the end of the last Dark Knight movie or whatever where Batman lives and Alfred's there and he's just like, that's what I want. I want a nod to GTA 5. I don't want them to come back as main focus, right? |
| 06. November 2020 | Do I want a larger audience? | Want a larger audience or to maintain my current size? Would I rather have a bigger audience or somewhat like what I have now? I always want a larger audience. To me, the downsides of having a larger audience pale in comparison to the security that you get the larger you become. You can eventually reach a size as a content creator that you effectively can't fail unless you actively do something wrong or just stop making content or whatever. Or you just get burnt out, which happens when you kind of get to that size, when you lose motivation. I am not at that point. I have not earned enough that I could live for the rest of my life comfortably and I'm by no means in a position where I've got like just insane exponential growth or that if I stop making content tomorrow, that my situation would be in jeopardy. Will people still be making content for? |
| 06. June 2020 | Do I want a new car? | Have you thought about changing your car? Uh, yes, because my car is getting very old, but I don't drive enough to justify the extravagance of buying a new car. And even then, I would just look for, like, the smallest thing with the best mileage, because I'm not trying to impress anyone, I just want something that can get me to A to B without killing me. |
| 23. February 2022 | Do I want fame? | I want fame. Which platform do you want to be most famous on Twitter, YouTube? I don't care about fame. The only... Fame is the wrong word. I like making a lot of content that people really enjoy. I like making content. I like people enjoying my content. And so I want as many people to see my content as possible. But I don't care about fame per se. Except that it is... It is what comes with the other things that I want to achieve, you know? But I mean obviously YouTube, because YouTube is, you know... 100 times bigger than Twitch. Cool, I hope you become the biggest streamer YouTuber. This is never gonna happen. There are lots of things that I do as a content creator that... While it appeals to some people, it prevents me from achieving super mainstream success. Like as I've said before, attempting to go for the super mainstream success, you know... Ubiquitous everywhere, appeal to every market, it can prevent you achieving success at all. But if you achieve success in a more niche way... Something that's non-mainstream, it prevents you from ever being that mainstream successful, right? I swear too much, I talk about politics, I ramble about shit and all that. None of these things, all these things mean that the algorithm is never gonna love me the same way it's gonna love some... Oh my god guys, I'm playing Minecraft, oh! You know, that kind of stuff. But if I wasn't as I am now, it's possible I never would have achieved any success at all. You're better off being successful in a niche in a particular way than not successful at all, you know. |
| 23. August 2021 | Do I want to become a variety creator? | Variety content creator. Everything about becoming a variety content creator? Right now I could make a good living being a variety content creator, but I don't really want to be. So I don't like a lot of games. Most of my life I have been spent playing a handful of games a lot. I don't really want to be a person playing all the new games. I mean I think it'll be okay, but I really enjoy speedrunning and doing no hit. I'm playing GTA 5 and all that jazz. The biggest problem with it now for me is just that I because I have to be entertaining if I'm not feeling energized. I don't want to make content that's going to be shit for YouTube, right? Like right now I wouldn't mind just playing some online. I mean I kind of want to do this more, but I'm perfectly fine with what I'm doing. |
| 03. January 2022 | Do I want to have kids? | Pressed? And that's about it. Do I want to have kids? Do I want kids anytime soon? Nah. Like I'm the kind of person who looks at having a dog as too much responsibility, as much as I love dogs. When I see little kids, I get that, oh man that's adorable, like they're so ignorant of the world, and you teach them things, and you help in the next generation or whatever, and they're always so curious and thankful or whatever when you help them out. And it's all adorable to me. But actually having a kid, and having that responsibility for the rest of your life, is a bit much. The amount of, oh that's cute, that the kid kicked the ball or whatever, doesn't make up for, I don't think, like, you know, the kid having a tantrum in a shopping mall or something. |
| 17. September 2021 | Do I want to travel? | want to travel. Now I've never looked favorably upon traveling. It costs a lot of money and there's nothing that I really want to see enough that I'm willing to spend the money. Like don't get me wrong, if I had the ability to instant teleport myself to other countries, I would totally instant teleport myself and just look at some shit like hey that's pretty cool. Monuments and stuff like that but I mean no amount of financial cost is worth it for me. I think traveling is best done with other people. I have no one to travel with. You can certainly meet people throughout your travels but I'm not a person who likes talking to random people and shit. Unless I'm drunk. Flashback to embarrassing moments in my life right there, that was not good. Traveling is something you share with others. It certainly doesn't have to be this way but I think that's the best way to get the most out of traveling. More than likely if I did travel though it'd be somewhere in Australia. There's heaps of places in Australia I haven't seen and you know. Just go to Google Street View and have a fan blowing on your face to pretend you're hiking there. Exactly man. Traveling is about experiencing culture. Well how do you experience culture without seeing? As if seeing isn't a vital part of culture. But I'm not a big culture guy. I don't think I'm gonna shit. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 22. March 2022 | Do I watch Cricket? | Do I watch cricket? Do I ever watch the cricket? On occasion, there are situations where I'm physically incapable of changing the channel. And cricket may be on. In such a context, I would be required to watch the cricket. Otherwise, no. |
| 27. November 2020 | Do I watch Hololive? | Do I watch any hololive? Do I watch any hololive channels? No. But I have watched that squirrel hololive person talking about non-stop nut November, and I thought that was very funny. And I've seen three clips from the dog hololive person that have been animated. Small small turtle house and water in fire, why? It make no sense. I love those clips. WATER IN FIRE! |
| 22. March 2022 | Do I watch cricket? | Do I watch cricket? Do I ever watch the cricket? On occasion, there are situations where I'm physically incapable of changing the channel. And cricket may be on. In such a context, I would be required to watch the cricket. Otherwise, no. |
| 23. December 2019 | Do I watch linus Tech Tips? | Do I watch Linus Tech Tips? Yeah, I've seen all of Scrapyard Wars. I watch 80% of the videos that Linus Tech Tips produces. Like when I run out of stuff to watch, I'll check my sub feed and they'll offer me a Linus Tech Tip video that's like We put a new Heat sink on this motherboard. I'm like, I don't really care, but I'll watch this because I have nothing else to watch. But there are some things from like Scrapyard Wars that the second I see them I click on them like oh yeah, that sounds good. It's just with tech it often depends on the topic as to how interested I'm really gonna be. But in general Yeah, I really like the content. It just depends on the topic how much I prioritize it in terms of watching. |
| 27. July 2021 | Do I watch my own content? | Do I watch my own content? I watch my own videos. Often after I upload a ramble, I'll listen to the ramble at like three times speed or something. And often people will be like, I found that part funny and then I'll click that link and I'll watch that part as well. The part that's really painful is when you listen to some really old video you made and it's just not as good as your new stuff and you're like, ah fuck. |
| 02. February 2021 | Do I watch other people’s chaos runs | Do I watch other people do chaos runs? I have not watched any call me Kevin's chaos videos. It feels weird Watching other people do chaos. It is not my mod. I was not the first person to do it Arguably I popularized it but obviously it's good in general that other people use the mod as well And it's cool that other people can find enjoyment in it, but it still feels weird to watch it, you know Makes me realize I'm not special I think it's people tell you if someone's doing chaos and acting like they're copying you. I I do dislike it. Yes, I Hope I hope anyone who has used chaos mod have not been overly annoyed by people Are you just copying Dark Viper? It's not true I do find that uh when people do chaos, but don't have the goal of getting through the game It's not as fun or funny because without that Structured goal of you trying to get somewhere like you can just stand there. You just stand there and things happen to you Nothing's really an impediment, you know Chaos needs that goal one thing that could make chaos better in a way is if it could have its own modes like You could set set it to like find 10 cars or find 10 red cars and get into 10 red cars and then you try and do it as fast as possible or whatever and there and there Chaos model time you then the goal isn't always just to get through missions. It can be some arbitrary stuff |
| 29. October 2021 | Do I wish I had chosen a different name? | Do I wish I had chosen a different name? I like the name DarkviperAU. The name DarkviperAU is original enough that there's not a heap of competition in it. It's gamey enough that it's suited to what I'm doing, but it's not lame in the way that some gamey names are. You know? |
| 04. January 2023 | Do I worry that I will have a negative impact on others. | Guardian is the way to do it. Do I worry that I will have a negative impact on others? Boazza also asks, do you worry about your influence on people when it comes to personal opinion or people using your arguments to support their views? React content, political views, et cetera? I have frequently seen people espouse positions that I hold and argue for them in ways that I consider to be poor or try to repeat things that I've said and don't necessarily get it right. This is just a factor of any time you communicate your ideas and people find them to be appealing or what have you. Like, not just being an influencer. In your personal day-to-day life, you are gonna have that happen sometimes where you argue for a point of view and a person hears it and they believe it and they repeat it somewhere else but don't necessarily have your same foundation for believing it, right? Do I worry about this? To some degree, sure. I don't wanna lead people astray or lead them to hold positions that they might get into a situation where someone questions them on it and they're unable to defend their own views. I hope no one gets into a situation where they're like, well, I trust Dark Viper. Maybe I don't understand his reasoning for holding these positions but I trust that he has the right position so I'm just gonna repeat them. I don't want people to get into that kind of situation. |
| 12. November 2022 | Do Twitch streamers or YouTubers make more money? | Do Twitch streamers or YouTubers make more money? I won't directly quote the person to avoid like potentially poorly explaining their point but there was a discussion about who makes more money, Twitch streamers or YouTubers and the answer is obviously YouTubers, like it's not even close. Per viewer Twitch streamers make more, but it's only like the top, you know, thousands Twitch streamers who are making a substantial amount of money and it's like the top hundred are making like orders of magnitude more than everyone else. Like if you compare the top 0.1% on YouTube to the top 0.1% on Twitch, like it's not even close. Like if you look at like Ryan's world or whatever, right? 300 million views, he's not even the most subscribed person or the person with the most views, whatever. He's getting way more than that. This would be the low end and that's already like twice as much as XQC makes as the biggest Twitch streamer. But what tends to happen is the people who are like really really popular on YouTube aren't necessarily making a fuck ton of videos. Making a fuck ton of videos is what you want to make a lot of money. Take, his name is Michael Reeves, right? Ridiculously popular person, seven million subscribers, he's in so many videos, super popular, but he only releases like two videos a year, like two videos a year. He's in a lot of stuff, he's clearly doing well for himself, like he may have other sources of revenue, but these are the people you think about as really big YouTubers, but they're not doing YouTube in a way that brings in the money. Releasing one video every every six months that gets really insanely popular is a good way to be popular and well known on YouTube, but it's not the best way to make money. Ryan has like 30 channels, so it's not just one, yeah that as well, yeah. I mean just that for that one channel. I mean when you when you look at like the biggest YouTube channels, you've got like corporations or people who are you know in Mr Beast vein, who have like hundreds of employees and like endless different business ventures, they're clearly making more money. It's merely that per dollar the effort and expense employed for a Twitch streamer is far far lower than that of a YouTuber. The dollar per viewer is way higher on Twitch, but of course there's only like 10 000 people on Twitch who have any viewers. |
| 13. March 2022 | Do Twitch subscribers always win my giveaways? | Do Twitch subscribers always win my giveaways because they have a higher chance? Viper all of all the giveaways you created subs won right? No, obviously not. Do you know do math? Here are all the people that enter the giveaway Here are the subs that enter the giveaway and the subs get twice the chance of winning The odds of this specific little bit here cause get it causing a person to win is very very small just by the sheer number of Of the non subs which is say is 99% The vast majority of the people who win are non subs. Well, I'm exaggerating a little bit here But on average one of the wins goes to a sub Well specifically one of the wins goes to the bonus Amount that a sub gets because I can see which entry |
| 10. December 2022 | Do YouTuber’s prepare multiple thumbnails for videos? | Do YouTubers prepare multiple thumbnails for videos? As I always say, if you're a patron, a YouTube member, or a Twitch subscriber, you are able to submit questions and stuff in my Rumble suggestions. Tira asks, in some of your Rumbles lately you mentioned how some videos have been underperforming. I wanted to ask if you've considered maybe preparing multiple thumbnails for some videos and swapping them out every time to see which one does best. People who make like one video a week, or one video every couple of weeks, or one video every month, have the freedom to really drill down into what makes that video perfect, and to have, as you say, multiple thumbnails that they can switch out between. Because I'm trying to release a video every day, and often it's the case where I'll have a video finalized, and then within seven hours I will be wanting a thumbnail. It's not as simple as that to make multiple thumbnails. And as well because I'm doing series, where often I need a lot of thumbnails on the exact same topic, it's hard to have like multiple unused thumbnails for one particular video. That being said, there has been multiple times where I've seen a video underperforming, and said, ah, might be the thumbnail, and so I have changed it in ways. For example, the billionaire speedrun thumbnail did get changed ever so slightly. Franklin's post was changed, the text at the top was changed to emphasize billionaire more, to make it more distinct from the millionaire speedrun video. But yeah, this isn't something that I have the freedom luxury to do. I do it a bit, but I can't do it as much as people who release fewer videos. |
| 22. February 2022 | Do Youtuber’s care if their viewers buy the sponsored products? | Do YouTubers care if their viewers buy the sponsored products? Do YouTubers that do sponsors really care if people buy or try the products? In some cases, a sponsorship can involve some sort of a kickback based on how many sales are done, or they can involve commissions so you can get a certain percentage of sales. I don't traditionally do those kind of deals, but the only way a sponsor will resign with a person, they could do another sponsorship, give you another chunk of money, is if there's been a reasonable amount of sales that they think it's worth it. Not all sponsorships have explicit ways to measure conversions of people buying the product or being aware more of the product, but traditionally they do. You get sponsored, maybe for, well usually for a lump sum, and then on the back end, sponsors like, we sold X amount of products from this link, therefore it was worth the amount of money that we paid them, so let's do it again. |
| 17. March 2023 | Do all Australians eat kangaroo? | Do all Australians eat kangaroo? How common is it to eat kangaroo? People eat kangaroo fairly regularly. It's not like if you go to McDonald's and you can eat kangaroo. Kangaroo is like a specialty meat where you'll find it in like really high class restaurants. But it mainly exists there for tourists. Like people want to be able to say, I went to Australia and ate a kangaroo! There's no benefits to eating kangaroo over any other meat. It doesn't taste better. I remember at the time eating it, I think it would just taste like any normal meat. The differences would be more expensive. |
| 08. March 2022 | Do content creators even like their audience? | Do content creators even like their audience? Yes, but there's only so much you can only like a mass of people to a certain degree, right? They're just a mass of people. I can't speak to them entirely of everyone. Obviously my circumstances are not really the same as most people in that I always had trouble like talking to people and social situations I wasn't always the most comfortable in and streaming gave me an opportunity to like interface with people on like a social level But in a disconnected way so that I never feel uncomfortable YouTube also gave something to me that I didn't have in my life Which was the ability to talk about anything that I wanted with people and to have them give me Positive feedback that suggested that I was worth something There was nothing in my life prior to YouTube outside of house my family that would suggest I could do anything or That I could produce anything of value or that I was meaningful or that you know other people cared about me but when I got to YouTube in my first video is where I would I would talk about my ideas and I would get comments and people would interface with me and Care about my opinion and I would care about theirs and we would talk and that was there did a lot for my self esteem And stuff so I I owe a lot to my viewers both of you to intuition not simply for Monitor in a monetary sense, but also in terms of my perception of self as being something of value So I like you guys as much as I can like a collective mass of people you know you |
| 03. February 2020 | Do facts and glitches that waste my time annoy me? | Would you prefer if people like me stop sending you facts and glitches considering that it may not work because you Discovered on old gen. I don't want to waste your time or make you think I lied to you There are some things that people send me which is so clearly false and so clearly a waste of time that I would prefer If it was never sent to me at all But whenever you have a filter even if it's just hey guys be more considerate when you're sending me things even the smallest filter It's going to both capture bad and good There is no perfect filter in the world that doesn't have some hypothetical possibility of filtering things out that you actually want I would rather receive a hundred things that waste my time Than miss out on one thing that I would really want to know So I would say just send me whatever you can and I will check it and I will look over it Never feel as though you're wasting my time You might end up doing that but I would prefer you waste to waste my time than to Waste my time than to |
| 26. December 2021 | Do file names affect your videos success on YouTube? | Do file names affect your video's success on YouTube? So YouTube's goal as a platform is to feed content to people that they want to see. That's their goal, they want to keep them on the platform. Is the name of a file uploaded to YouTube necessarily indicative of the content within that video? Is it necessarily indicative of how good the video is? The answer is no. So my most successful run of all time was 2019-09-01-03-0115 as a file name. And it's got like 3 million views. My third most popular video is just Passviss13. My fifth is again just a random string of numbers. Carthu Dojo one month ago, just so people aren't writing file title essays on their computer. Just know that YouTube fixed this so file names no longer impact SEO. |
| 28. January 2022 | Do game developers like speedrunners? | Do game developers like speedrunners? There's a series going on right now where they get the developers to react to the speedruns and a lot of them seem like oh man this is so cool but I mean you'd imagine the people who are willing to do those kind of episodes are people who you know who like speedrunners or whatever the people who hate them are probably less willing to do those kind of series but you can see why a dev might not like a speedrunner because a speedrunner showcases the flaws more than that though speedrunners tend to complain it's hard to imagine a person who worked on coding GTA 5 like loving sitting in my stream and listening to me bitch about the code and shit even when I'm bitching I often try to qualify like yeah this game is still amazing it's so so good that oh my god I wish this wasn't program this way and besides as I've gone on in playing the game like it becomes more and more obvious that what you once thought of as completely random you know you begin to understand oh you know actually I was at fault there or once you understand the underlying mechanics it removes the RNG and da da da there can still be things that you hate but the more you come to know about a game in general the less you come to complain about like sure I would love if the rapid-fire bug didn't exist I would love if switches were consistent for all characters after missions instead of just the characters who are in the missions there are tons of things that would change about the game I can understand why developers would not be super enthusiastic about speedrunners I think it's mainly smaller game companies who like speedrunners because they bring attention to the game give a publicity and stuff you know where bigger developers don't need that kind of attention |
| 10. July 2021 | Do i enjoy GTA Online? | I enjoy GTA Online. I enjoy online. As I said many many many many times, it's just the massive amount of bullshit that surrounds online that I don't like. As in if I could just jump into a death- snap my fingers, jump into a death match with 30 people, fuck yeah, do that every goddamn day, but I can't. It's just endless loading screens and endless crashes and just so many fucking modders and stuff. It just- There is- the stuff that I enjoy and like 800 walls between me and the stuff that I enjoy. They don't have to exist there, but just Rockstar has them there because fuck me. |
| 29. May 2020 | Do i ever want a break from gta v? | Ever get into mental turmoil or distress playing GTA V so much? Do you ever wish to deviate and almost in a sense take a holiday from the game? Not really. If I don't want to play the game, I don't play the game. GTA V is a very comfortable set of slippers. I know a lot about it. It surprises me to some small extent, but I mean, it's very familiar. And that familiarity breeds comfort, you know, and it's very rare that I am unhappy turning on GTA V. I can't think of a time when that was the case. There's certainly other things I would potentially prefer to be doing. There have been times where I've booted up GTA V and I would have preferred to stay in bed watching anime, but those are very rare situations. |
| 16. May 2020 | Do i have free time? | casually. How do you manage your life so you can have free time with as much as you do such as editing and streaming? There's nothing I want to do with my free time other than edit and stream and answer DMs and answer emails and most of my day is spent doing something related to my YouTube or Twitch or you know rare occasions TikTok or what have you. It's why I'm listening to YouTube when I'm cooking food or in the shower or just before I go to bed and whatnot. That's my free time that I consume content but remember that when I edit especially when I'm editing off stream and stuff or I'm answering emails and stuff I'm usually listening to or watching YouTube as well. I'm chilling doing stuff for my work as well. It's not like oh my god I'm just like have to be bolted to my table mashing at the keyboard perfectly absolutely working 100%. It's like you know I work for 20 minutes take a break to watch two minutes of a YouTube video work for 20 minutes take a little break. I work as much as I want I have that freedom. It just so happens that I usually prefer working than doing basically. |
| 01. June 2020 | Do i invest in stocks? | You know, do I invest in stocks? I've talked about this before, where my father was constantly saying to me, Matt, I gotta get in the stock market, Matt, you're losing thousands, millions, billions of dollars, like he would exaggerate, and you gotta invest in, Matt, you gotta talk to this guy, you gotta make this, make this, put it, put it, I don't know, man, I'm doing well, and I don't need more money, it's, like, I'm paying my bills, I'm fine, like, I'm nervous, I'm risk-averse, you know, the stock market's a scary place, you know, I get it, it's always been growing and stuff, and, but, like, I don't like the nature of the market right now, and the housing bubble we have here, that everyone's like, oh, it's gonna explode any day, like, I don't wanna get into the market just before everything goes south, I'm just gonna wait a little bit, you know, give it a year, give it two years, maybe we'll see what happens, he's like, oh, you're making a mistake, Matt, you're making a mistake, and even on his advice, I looked up an advisor, financial advisor, and I sent him an email, like, the day before the market crashed with COVID-19, not the day, but around that time, and I was like, well, not gonna invest now, am I? I mean, to be fair, if I was ever going to invest, which I'm not knowledgeable on, I don't really understand, I don't, I don't, the mechanisms to buy international stocks and stuff, and not just stocks from Australia, I don't know a lot of this stuff, the main reason I was talking to a financial advisor, just to educate myself on how to do these things if I wanted to, when the market drops, that's the time to buy, assuming it's gonna go up and not continue to go back down, could you get everything for cheap? If you haven't been wiped out by the crash, then, you know, the rich people would go, oh, cheap stocks, ha ha, like, that's what happened in 2008, everything crashed, and, you know, the rich people who didn't have your peasant investments, you know, kept their money and just bought themselves companies that needed quick cash, and just to stay afloat, or parts of it, stocks, whatever, and, you know, massively gained from it, but there's something called, like, the, is it, like, the bunny bounce or something, or is it the cat, dead cat bounce, where you throw a dead cat, and it hits the ground, and then it bounces, and then it, you know, of course, it falls back down, so the stock market, it goes massively down, and then people are like, oh, it's at the bottom, it's at the bottom, guys, you're gonna invest that money now, it's one of the cheapest, and then it goes back up, and then the reality is still hitting about how fucked the economy is, or whatever's happening, and more people go, oh, you know, we're not gonna lose as much money as we would have had we sold down here, so it's a bit high, we'll sell now, and then it crashes again, and so all these people get fucked because they jumped in too early, you want to jump in at the very bottom, you don't want to jump in at this dead cat bounce, or dead bunny. |
| 24. January 2022 | Do i like CS:GO? | Do I like CSGO? What do I think of CSGO? I've always heard the gunplay in CSGO. I don't like having to learn all the different spreads for the weapons and like starting to shoot and then having to pull the gun down, have it continue to shoot straight and stuff. Just drives me crazy. I've only played a little bit and I didn't like it. Call me old-fashioned, call me simplistic, but I like being able to put a trigger at something and shoot and have that thing be shot. Oh, certainly it does make it more skill-intensive. Certainly. It makes it very interesting to watch as well. Just for me personally, it's not something that I want to play. Could I learn it all and could I end up enjoying it? Sure. But I've just never had that need or I haven't been motivated to. CSGO when it came out and whatever it was just a time in my life where I wasn't playing any shooters. I've never been super into shooters really. |
| 01. January 2021 | Do i like Philip Defranco? | Do I like Philip DeFranco? Do I like Philip DeFranco? Yes. Philip DeFranco over the years has- He's had different, called generations of his contents. In- in some generations, he's been really, really fenced to the like, holy shit. Like, if- if there was like, a bill about burning children, he'd be like, well, there's a lot of strong arguments in favor or against the burning of children. I'm not really sure where I sit on this particular topic, audience. You guys tell me about it down below in chat. I'm just like, Jesus Christ, man. Like, I mean, at least say something, but- but that was a different- like, he's not that way now. He is far more honest about his own opinions. He is, at the end of the day, just a news aggregator, but he seems to be a pretty good one. But certainly in years past, he just came off so disingenuous because he would be so hesitant to say anything that might ostracize any single person. Let's say he's not that way now. I'm just saying I've always watched his content. I've watched his content since I was in high school. But at different points in time, I've liked his content to a greater or lesser degree. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 12. December 2021 | Do i like any game more than GTA 5? | Do I like any game more than GTA V? I prefer the gameplay of Dark Souls. Like, Dark Souls is my ideal form of gameplay, or just the Souls games in general. But I don't think there's any game I like more than GTA V, but I think that's more because of familiarity than anything else. It's it's my thing. It's my world, you know. |
| 12. December 2021 | Do i like any game more than gta 5? | Do I like any game more than GTA V? I prefer the gameplay of Dark Souls. Like, Dark Souls is my ideal form of gameplay, or just the Souls games in general. But I don't think there's any game I like more than GTA V, but I think that's more because of familiarity than anything else. It's it's my thing. It's my world, you know. |
| 24. January 2022 | Do i like cs:go? | Do I like CSGO? What do I think of CSGO? I've always heard the gunplay in CSGO. I don't like having to learn all the different spreads for the weapons and like starting to shoot and then having to pull the gun down, have it continue to shoot straight and stuff. Just drives me crazy. I've only played a little bit and I didn't like it. Call me old-fashioned, call me simplistic, but I like being able to put a trigger at something and shoot and have that thing be shot. Oh, certainly it does make it more skill intensive. Certainly. It makes it very interesting to watch as well. Just for me personally, it's not something that I want to play. Could I learn it all and could I end up enjoying it? Sure. But I've just never had that need or I haven't been motivated to. CSGO when it came out and whatever it was just a time in my life where I wasn't playing any shooters. I've never been super into shooters really. |
| 17. December 2020 | Do i like formula 1? | Do I like Formula One? The ground could open up during an F1 race, and Cthulhu and creatures of nightmare could spew out of the ground, killing everyone, transforming some people into grotesque monsters. And I'll be like, I bet it was an F1 race? Not interested. Don't care. F1, by its existence, makes everything else around it less interesting. It is a vortex from which interesting things cannot escape. All car racing. F1 is all car racing. Well actually, the vehicles use that. No, no, no, no, no. F1 is all car racing. F1 is NASCAR. F1 is F2. Like, all of car racing is F1. F1 and NASCAR are the same thing, and it all sucks. What about Eurobeat? Yes, Eurobeat is also F1. In reality, I think F1 is just a synonym for not interesting. Do you like this movie? F1. Do you want to go get some food? F1. Biking? F1. Red Dead Redemption 2? F1. |
| 15. November 2021 | Do i like hawaiian pizza? | Do I like Hawaiian pizza? Thoughts on Hawaiian pizza? It should go back to fucking Hawaii where it belongs. I'm not a fan of Hawaiian pizza, but you know, it would ever float your boat man. Wasn't Hawaiian pizza made in Canada? Okay, well Canada then. Isn't it actually German? Look, okay. Clearly what's happening here is no one wants to take credit the abomination that is Hawaiian pizza. During wartime each of the combatants blames the other people for creating Hawaiian pizza. And men, you should fight well today. You know why? Because they created Hawaiian pizza. The monsters! It's a great propaganda tool Hawaiian pizza. |
| 27. July 2021 | Do i like my voice? | Do I like my voice? Do I like my own voice? It is satisfactory. My ability to read aloud is not very good, and my mouth sounds are sometimes bad, but in general it's okay. Um, but I think it's more just over time I've gotten a little bit better. It's a annunciation and whatnot. |
| 16. May 2020 | Do i like racing games? | Do I like racing games? Not even slightly. That's um, expression of racing games as you know driving really fast and turning to the left. That's you know, that's not what racing games are, but in my head I'm like I want to drive really fast turning to the left. It just it just doesn't look appealing to me even so. |
| 30. May 2020 | Do i live alone? | Find comfortable. Do I have a roommate or do I live alone? I live alone. |
| 16. May 2020 | Do i miss speedrunning? | They good. Do you sometimes wish you could move your content back to mainly speedrunning GTA 5? Are you perfectly happy with the side series like Pacifist, One Hit KO Chaos, becoming the main focus of your YouTube Twitch channels? I could move back to mainly speedrunning if I wanted to, but I prefer what I'm doing right now. Pacifist, One Hit KO, they will end eventually. They will go away and by default, because I would finish them, I'll have nothing else to do with them. And at that point, I will move back to speedrunning because by default, that's what I have left. There's just no rush to react to speedrunning. It will always be there where I left it. Certainly, the longer I take, the more I have to relearn. But at this point, the thing that most interested me about speedrunning in general was always achieving goals and finding new things about the game. And Pacifist and One Hit KO, just there's more opportunity to do both things right now compared to speedrunning for me. Speedrunning, I've spent so long doing it that it's nice to take a break and do other challenges, but I do miss it to some extent, and I will get back to it eventually. |
| 03. June 2020 | Do i play chess? | I have the footage still. Do you play chess? I am one of those people who if you sat me down next to a person who wasn't a chess pro I could beat them very easily as in like I'm not a chess pro and as a novice I can beat any other novice dude. You've just hands down I beat all my friends when I was a kid they didn't want to play anymore because I was just too fucking good like On a whim I entered like a chess tournament at my school I got like third or some shit and it was like on a technicality or something That I ended up getting third because I beat the guy in second place or something But it didn't give me enough points to be in the finals or some shit I was just dumb we did chess on stream where like five people versed me and I beat them all and then I versed the Person who was actually a pro at chess No, I beat banger banger apparently had a medal for like blitz chess or something that he won a tournament and I beat him I beat him not a blitz chess though at normal chess I Versed a handful of people who just like everyday play chess and they just fucking wiped the floor with me. It was obvious like Five moves in or something. They were just getting schooled |
| 30. May 2020 | Do i prefer youtube or twitch? | Do I prefer YouTube or Twitch? As a platform to watch content, YouTube, just because of the way that I live my life Where I only have a finite amount of time. I may only have five minutes here, five minutes there I don't have time to really immerse myself in a stream as much as I used to be able to so I prefer watching YouTube. I still watch quite a bit of Twitch But it's usually when I've run out of things to watch on my subscription feed or a particular content creator happens to be online Elijah who if he's doing runs or Hungrybox if he's in a tournament or something like that For content creation, Twitch is far easier for me to do than YouTube This is just me being me, you know, and I just turn on the thing and I if I didn't have to make any YouTube content my day would end when my stream ended all the tags and Thumbnails and editing and all that stuff is far more complicated than Twitch has ever been for me YouTube is more permanent. I I don't remember what I streamed ten days ago, but and there's no point looking that up It's just who cares. It's just barely even titled But I can see the video that I uploaded ten days ago and I can I can watch that again and again and again And again if I really want to and you know ten years from now, I'll be like, that's the video I released on YouTube but on Twitch there's none of that permanency which is freeing in some ways But also, you know, it it's a downer sometimes like if I wasn't making YouTube content How much of what I create would just go off into the ether? No one would ever see it again I would never remember it It's kind of depressing to think how much of my my label would go into creating twitch content and it would never be seen again So I like creating content for YouTube and Twitch for different reasons, but Twitch is certainly easier than YouTube |
| 03. June 2020 | Do i regret doing my degree? | Also had a question concerning a degree as I'm currently halfway through my Bachelor's of Science but now I'm not even sure that I want to continue doing the course but don't want to give it up because I don't know what else I want to pursue. Do you regret doing your degree because you didn't end up following that career path? Having a degree in anything is always an asset in any kind of job you want to go in. Just because it shows the person who is looking at your resume that you must have your shit together to some degree if you were able to get a degree. Going into an interview and they're asking you what have you done for the last year and a half, two years and you go well I dropped out of a degree that does not look good in a resume. If you've got other plans, specific plans, then it probably makes sense to drop out but if you don't then just completing what you're doing right now, continuing with it until you have other plans, something else you want to move into that's tangentially related or you know you get an opportunity to work somewhere or what have you, wait for that. Don't cut off what you're currently doing without definitive plans about what you're gonna do after that. In general if you've gone through more than a year of your degree, for the vast majority of people I would argue it makes sense to finish that degree especially if you've already invested some money in that degree. |
| 17. September 2021 | Do i want to return to speedrunning dark souls 3? | Do I want to return to speedrunning Dark Souls 3? Do I still run Dark Souls 3? I do not. People were not interested in me running it back then. I did it because I really enjoyed it. The amount of effort it would take to get back into it is just way too much. And I was always at a major disadvantage because I couldn't do it on controller. I always did it with keyboard and mouse. I played all the Dark Souls games on keyboard. I mean, except of course for Demon's Souls and Bloodborne. Which aren't Dark Souls games, but you know they're in the Soulsborne franchise. Like I don't have the drive to play it like I used to. And my audience wouldn't find it as great. And I'm more interested in doing GTA V. Whenever anyone says they want to watch me play something that isn't GTA V, I always think of that guy from WoW. Who's like, you think you do, but you don't. |
| 14. February 2021 | Do i watch CallMeKevin? | Do I watch Call Me Kevin? Do I watch Call Me Kevin? I've only recently become aware of Call Me Kevin because he started doing chaos. Given how successful he is, I'm sure I know I've heard his name somewhere before, because he's just been around for that long. I looked on his social blade and he's been getting 40 million views for like 10 million years. That's the kind of long career that any person would love to have. Whenever I meet or learn of a content creator like that, I always want to know what their history was, like how they got their start, how they had the staying power to stay around that long. That's kind of what I want to do with that My Rambles with a series. Content creation is such a interesting thing to get into and the pathway to get into it is so varied that it's always interesting hearing a person's story. I've yet to hear one that isn't interesting. He went full-time on YouTube because he got hit by a car? Really? I mean, I'm not laughing because he got hit by a car. I mean, that's that's kind of what I mean by there's always some interesting story, right? There's one thick silver lining, the tragedy of being hit by a car turning into a long successful career online. I can't tell if you guys are lying or not. |
| 27. November 2020 | Do i watch hololive? | Do I watch any hololive? Do I watch any hololive channels? No. But I have watched that squirrel hololive person talking about non-stop nut November, and I thought that was very funny. And I've seen three clips from the dog hololive person that have been animated. Small small turtle house and water in fire, why? It make no sense. I love those clips. WATER IN FIRE! |
| 02. February 2021 | Do i watch other people’s chaos runs | Do I watch other people do chaos runs? I have not watched any call me Kevin's chaos videos. It feels weird Watching other people do chaos. It is not my mod. I was not the first person to do it Arguably I popularized it but obviously it's good in general that other people use the mod as well And it's cool that other people can find enjoyment in it, but it still feels weird to watch it, you know Makes me realize I'm not special I think it's people tell you if someone's doing chaos and acting like they're copying you. I I do dislike it. Yes, I Hope I hope anyone who has used chaos mod have not been overly annoyed by people Are you just copying Dark Viper? It's not true I do find that uh when people do chaos, but don't have the goal of getting through the game It's not as fun or funny because without that Structured goal of you trying to get somewhere like you can just stand there. You just stand there and things happen to you Nothing's really an impediment, you know Chaos needs that goal one thing that could make chaos better in a way is if it could have its own modes like You could set set it to like find 10 cars or find 10 red cars and get into 10 red cars and then you try and do it as fast as possible or whatever and there and there Chaos model time you then the goal isn't always just to get through missions. It can be some arbitrary stuff |
| 25. June 2021 | Do large content creators edit? | Does Tyler1 do anything else other than stream? I know he has a YouTube. Is he involved with that at all? It was just interesting tuning into his stream yesterday And he'd been live for 16 hours presumably being playing League of Legends for 16 hours. Is that what he does? Everyday play League of Legends and that's it. I know he doesn't play other games Yes, he's a professional bodybuilder Interesting. Has his own gym. Does seem like a sensible thing to invest in when you have an interest in it like that I wonder if I was that successful and I could have 40,000 viewers and I just playing whatever all day Would I rather do that than Edis? You know If I made a deal where I never make another YouTube video again, but I can have A higher viewership and continue to grow. Would I take that deal? I don't think I would. I find a lot of value in Editing and making something good and people telling me they like what I create. I could do some editing Obviously, I've moved on from the days where I need to do every single thing myself but it isn't just streaming that I like. Do I like streaming speedrunning or Making YouTube videos more. I don't know. It also increases my skill set by working on YouTube videos more Certainly in a case where it's all went to shit in terms of developing skills Editing skills are probably the things most transferable to other jobs Be sure to LIKE the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 16. November 2022 | Do libraries still serve a purpose? | Do libraries still serve a purpose? I want to hear your views on libraries I've heard people say libraries are dead, but as a person who works at one we are swamped I also have met people who have not been in one ever since they were a child. I haven't been to a library in like Probably 15 years that I support the existence of libraries because they seem to make sense Like there should always be somewhere in society where a person can go for peace and quiet and to access information for free. As I've often talked about your ability to prosper and Develop in society is dependent upon in large part your access to some at least the basic resources that you need you know shelter food information da da da and Libraries existing will always mean that for people who hit rock bottom They are always available and that to me is their functional purpose to give people a leg up bringing themselves out of our destitution, but obviously they serve a more functional purpose for a lot more people like if you're you need to study and you have a Household full of kids and whatnot or you just need peace and quiet away from everything a library is good for that You as you obviously you can access better internet than what a lot of people have in some places Obviously books are still very valuable people like books. Yeah, I I would never want to see a society without libraries to hear that They're still swamped. That's great I do hear that you know book reading is still as popular as ever if not growing in popularity in some places Which is somewhat surprising given how ubiquitous internet access is and all that stuff But I mean, I want to think include audio books in that yeah libraries a plus in my view Investments in people have returned for society and I consider investments in libraries to be investments in people |
| 27. September 2022 | Do my YouTube or Twitch viewers stay in my livestreams longer? | Do my YouTube or Twitch viewers stay in my live streams longer? So doing the math, I think the average person on Twitch watches for 16 minutes and the average person watches for 8 minutes on YouTube. Which probably makes sense because my stream is far more promoted on YouTube as in I'm more likely to reach new people who will click into the stream and be like, you know, this isn't really my thing and click away. Where on Twitch, generally speaking, anyone who has gone to the effort to move over to Twitch from YouTube in order to watch me is a person who's committed to watching me on that platform. You thought it would be more on YouTube, you must... No, you gotta factor in all the people clicking in. So as a comparison, the 14 days on Twitch, I had 214,000 live views. On YouTube, it's 448,000. So it's more than double. I'm reaching far more people on YouTube than I was reaching on Twitch and by necessity, that's going to include some people who are less interested in my live stream. I screwed up. |
| 23. January 2021 | Do my Youtube viewers know Twitch culture? | Do my YouTube viewers know Twitch culture? So for those who didn't catch couch couch's message, he's asking me Why when I talk about twitch stuff and twitch streamers and stuff are my viewers seeming the fairly ignorance of what I'm talking about or these the people that I'm talking about and The the reason should be obvious is because most of my twitch audience is from YouTube We did a poll that one time where it said 90% of my audience found me through YouTube that doesn't mean that a person didn't already watch twitch and became aware of me from YouTube and so Added me to their twitch account, but there's there's likely more of those people I get messages all the time where people say oh, you know, I only watch you on twitch a person who naturally grew on twitch more than likely Because its recommendation system or whatever is picking up people who are more aware of twitch and watch twitch from on a more regular basis a greater portion of my audience compared to other twitch streamers and so that's why I'm saying that most of my viewers likely only watches me or You found twitch through me and thus hasn't had time to find out About all the big players here and it's weird when I speak about big streamers I just assume everyone knows who they are or the released in most cases You probably don't need to know who they are for what I'm saying to make sense You know, but I think it's just that I think it's just that I think it's just that I think it's just that I think it's just that people aren't necessarily |
| 02. February 2022 | Do my viewers care what games I stream? | It just it just seems as though that would be something covered under false advertising, but it depends on the country Do my viewers care what games I stream? There's a reason why? the viewership of Streamers differs depending upon what game they're playing. It's just the fact that people are more interested in watching particular games or at the very least particular creators play particular games because as I've said many times before a Creator acts differently depending upon what they're playing their level of knowledge of it whether they're experienced Headshotting everyone or failing at everything or asking a bunch of questions versus explaining to you how everything works Or just how at ease they are because it can be more stressful playing a new game versus an old game, right? I am NOT the same person playing for guy as I am playing this game. Or at least I am the same person of course I'm just a Different part of my personality is presented and it might not be as interesting to you A lot of people get frustrated when I play new games, and I don't know what I'm doing And I ask a lot of questions I don't take it that seriously and I fail and I'm like well that doesn't matter and then I guess you should care that you fail Blah blah blah Be sure to LIKE the video and subscribe Also, remember comments are shown to me chronologically for my entire channel meaning regardless of how of the video your comment will still be Shown to me in my feed. So leave one if you have something on your mind |
| 23. January 2021 | Do my youtube viewers know twitch culture? | Do my YouTube viewers know Twitch culture? So for those who didn't catch couch couch's message, he's asking me Why when I talk about twitch stuff and twitch streamers and stuff are my viewers seeming the fairly ignorance of what I'm talking about or these the people that I'm talking about and The the reason should be obvious is because most of my twitch audience is from YouTube We did a poll that one time where it said 90% of my audience found me through YouTube that doesn't mean that a person didn't already watch twitch and became aware of me from YouTube and so Added me to their twitch account, but there's there's likely more of those people I get messages all the time where people say oh, you know, I only watch you on twitch a person who naturally grew on twitch more than likely Because its recommendation system or whatever is picking up people who are more aware of twitch and watch twitch from on a more regular basis a greater portion of my audience compared to other twitch streamers and so that's why I'm saying that most of my viewers likely only watches me or You found twitch through me and thus hasn't had time to find out About all the big players here and it's weird when I speak about big streamers I just assume everyone knows who they are or the released in most cases You probably don't need to know who they are for what I'm saying to make sense You know, but there many times that people aren't necessarily cognizant of everything related to it |
| 31. July 2021 | Do people deserve to ‘blow up’ because of algorithmic changes? | Do people deserve to blow up because of algorithmic changes? Do words of opinion on random YouTube's blowing up due to the algorithm? Do they deserve it or not? What do you mean? It is possible for algorithmic changes to value certain types of content over other types of content but no one is successful because of the algorithm. You've got to have good content for people to want to click on it. The algorithm, all it does is just try to serve people content that they'll click on. It doesn't make people click on the videos. I mean everyone who is successful has had variables outside their control contribute to their success to a greater or lesser extent. Simply having something you didn't directly control contribute to your success. If that was sufficient to preclude a person from being deserving of success then no one deserves success. What do you mean about some shorts? The reason why shorts were able to blow up as they did is because some people saw this new feature and went, you know what, I'm going to do that. It hasn't been proven to be something that is successful but I'm going to take time out of my day to dedicate my time to making content for that. And it paid off for them. It's other people's fault that they didn't do that. Again, it's a little bit luck because some people didn't know shorts existed and some regions got it before others and some people just didn't have access to the information and da da da. But the main reason people were able to explode with shorts is because there was so little shorts content that if you made a shorts then it went to basically everyone, right? Are there many channels that still today have maintained themselves after shorts are now saturated as it is? And shorts, they don't, didn't make money. Like I benefited from the algorithmic changes but I also, you know, spent three hours a day, every single day for months and months on end making clips and I made well over 4,000. I definitely put the work in, you know. |
| 26. December 2022 | Do people even bother to enable notifications? | Do people even bother to enable notifications? YouTube actually sent out a notification company, but they usually do, don't they? I don't get that many views from notifications, but that's probably because... Well, I mean, in general, like, I suspect that most people don't have notifications turned on, because most people are subscribed to, like, hundreds of people. You might have notifications turned on for, like, a couple of people at best, who maybe release, like, a video once a month that you really don't want to miss. But, um, for people like me who release a video every day, like, why would you turn it on for me, you know? Especially if you really don't want to watch every one of my videos. |
| 14. December 2022 | Do people even read FAQ’s? | So, why don't you add an FAQ to Keo Perico streams? It's online, so chat thinks they know better than you. No one reads FAQs, no one. Think of every single time you've ever needed an answer to a problem and you go to some website and it's like, hey, before you send an email to support or talk to a support staff through the chat, how about you troll through this forum and look at all the previously asked questions to see if there's an answer that might solve your problem. And you go, no, fuck you, let me just talk to someone and get the answer. Why should I spend all this time reading a user manual when I can just go, hey, Frank, I got a question, give me the answer. And people coming to a random live stream, I can be like, excuse me, where is the FAQ? I want to spend the next 15 minutes reading your FAQ to get updated with all the answers to my possible questions. Just doesn't happen. |
| 26. December 2022 | Do people feel nostalgia for what I used to make? | Do people feel nostalgia for what I used to make? I wonder how many people have nostalgia for me speedrunning GTA V. Probably a bit right? I remember 7 years ago watching Dark Viper AU do X, Y, and Z. Felt that especially during OCO, it felt like it would take years to get back to speedrunning and still I'm still up back at it. At least you can't care. You remember me doing 100% getting world record? Ah yes, those days. Those were the days. What makes good the game? |
| 21. August 2022 | Do people prefer guys with hairy chests | And 4 is just immediate, you know, it's specifically for single-player Yeah, but I'm sure it's useful for people making mod menus as well That is partly why people were so outraged because the main thing it's used for and it is the basis for so much of the single-player Content that has been made and that has kept this game alive to a degree for so long Do people prefer guys with hairy chests? I've been thinking about shaving my chest hair I've never done that partly because I just want to go the effort recently shaved my armpits Okay, they probably need another shave now, but like shaving my armpit shaving my chest all that jazz is something I never really considered like it's just something I never really thought about but when it was mentioned I was like, yeah, maybe I would look better with a clean shaven chest I'm surprised more people didn't notice this or comment on it But in my most recent video I put in this picture what I consider to be my most Embarrassing picture that I have and very few people either noticed or commented on it. This is me ten years ago Flexing something fierce with amazing lighting when I got out of the shower. I don't know why I took this picture I look like Tom Cruise with the amount that I'm squinting I'm looking at this like I didn't have a lot of chest hair back then in the last ten years I've grown a lot of chest hair. I think it looks better not having chest hair You didn't think that was me. Yeah, probably a lot of people thought that I don't know I told you I used to do at the gym once for the time I took care of myself a bit better. So seeing this and thinking about that I was like I want to know what other people think and so I did a poll I said do you prefer chest hair on guys? Split this for people who are attracted to men versus not so two-thirds of people attracted to men prefer No chest hair two-thirds of people not attracted to men also prefer no chest hair it's one of those things where it is ultimately personal preference both for yourself and In a partner and so there's some people who love chest hair and other people who don't and I guess so normally I suppose You'd just consult your partner as to what they wanted But I don't want to shave my chest hair on a regular basis. That'd be a huge pain in the ass I'd rather just get it lasered off and never have to think about it again But if I did that I could never go back compared to another picture looks nothing like me. Are you crazy? It looks exactly like me. How long does wax chest hair last two months seven weeks? Yeah, see I don't like throwing things into my life that like Additional times that I have to go out of my house set up appointments and all that jazz. It's annoying It get lasered off is done forever I'm thinking about a chat because I think I personally prefer not having chest hair But here's something funny well who runs my Instagram which is largest reposting stuff from discord and Twitter and all that jazz he did this poll. Do you prefer hair? |
| 29. May 2020 | Do people recognize me on the street? | Like, you can't win. Do some people recognize you on the street and wants to take a picture with you? No one recognizes me on the street. I don't go on streets. I don't talk to anyone. I don't meet people. When I was at PAX, yes, because, you know, I said I was there, but I'm not that famous. I'm not that popular. And I don't go out that much, so. hey |
| 27. April 2022 | Do people still care about the olympics? | Do people still care about the Olympics? Do people care about the Olympics? Surely its viewership has just done nothing but go down, right? Like with every passing year, there's just so much more content to watch from so many different sources. You care because of the laser tv shows, but does it? I mean, are you still watching normal tv? Like legit, free-to-air tv in my country is terrible. Not only what's on it, but the quality of it. So I went to all the effort of getting my aerial set up for my tv downstairs and I look at the quality of the picture and it's like 360p. I guess the the technology that transmits the data is just very antiquated. Neighbors is getting cancelled? You mean that show that was on before or after the Simpsons when I was a kid? That's unfortunate. |
| 17. March 2022 | Do people subscribe due to my rambles? | Do people subscribe due to my rambles? You found me through rambles? Not traditionally how people find my content, but some rambles do get new viewers for me. I can actually, considering the new thumbnail, I wonder, let me have a look, how many new subscribers I got. Just subscribers isn't the best indicator. Could it's possible a person can click on one of my rambles, watch, not subscribe, but then, you know, get recommended other content and and, uh, you know. So like, 340, got 80,000 views and 33 subscribers. Although the count is actually broken. The back end is screwed up a bit. Also, like, my most recent ramble, 57 new subscribers in two days are all 50,000 views. So, one in a thousand views is a new person who subscribes. What I like about the content is it doesn't really come out instead of other content. If I didn't release that, I would release nothing at all. While it does take up some of my time, perhaps more time than it used to, I think it still makes sense to make. |
| 02. June 2021 | Do people use the recommendation system on Twitch? | Do people use the recommendation system on Twitch? You're so annoyed by the hot tub girls and you're recommended? Apparently you can hit don't recommend this to me now. Which is a feature YouTube's had for a long time and now Twitch has. I'm frankly surprised that you see you're recommended. Can we do a poll? How many people, when they go to Twitch, go to the front page first? How many people go to their follower page first? And how many people go to something else on the website? As in like most people have like an autocomplete in their or bookmark or whatever to something? To go to Twitch? Minus my follow page. Can we get a poll for that? So 77% go to the follow page. What are the other percentages? The other two options were home or other. Whatever. At least we know, yeah, like as I expected. So the majority of people go to their follow page rather than the home page. Once upon a time recommendations only existed on the home page. And it was something that I was critical of years ago. And I was happy that they made the change. Not that they likely made it because I suggested it. It's just an obvious change. Like you can see recommended like fucking everywhere now. So if you go down on your follow page, there will be recommended people there. If you look on the side of your screen, there will be recommended people there. If you go to the browse by games, it'll recommend you games. I mean, certainly just having a lot of recommendations around doesn't mean that people are using them all that much, but certainly doesn't hurt, you know? Yeah, third party programs do hide recommendations. Sometimes by default, I'm not sure. Trying to think, have I ever followed a person because of a recommendation? I think I have. I think I was recommended the current world record holder for Minecraft speedrunning. And I followed them on the basis of that recommendation. But that's all because I recognized them. Like I already knew they were the Minecraft world record holder. I haven't followed all Minecraft speedrunners though. After I did my long April fools video. Who do I follow? Can you still see who follows who? I mean, there are external websites where you can see. There used to be a tab where you could see who a person followed. No? All right. You followed me because of recommendations? Well, that's good. At least it's doing something good. My clips just came up and you recommended it? Oh, you mean YouTube? Yeah. YouTube's recommendation system is very robust. And there are obviously a lot more people looking around for new content on YouTube compared to Twitch. I'm always very conflicted when I hear people say, you're the only streamer that I watch. On one hand, I'm like, well, that's flattering. On the other hand, I'm like, ah, you know, I wish you had other stuff to watch. At least when I wasn't alive or whatever, right? I'm always like, I hope you find something else as well that captivates your interest. |
| 26. August 2021 | Do political debates have value? | Do political debates have value? Debates are useless unless both parties are open to a resolution. I mean, it can still be entertaining and the audience themselves can get useful information. Or people in the audience can change their minds. Or the debate itself can be a catalyst for changing minds. I mean, to an extent, Legatus, political debates, like those you saw at Politicon, are a lot of the time just people trying to get their word in, get in their talking points. Honestly, I think too many people want to win rather than listen and actually create a logical compromise that would be better for everyone. That is definitely true. Especially in the case of people, anyone who's become famous enough to be called up on stage to debate a particular viewpoint, is likely going to be very invested in that viewpoint. Or, um, either psychologically invested, or invested in a monetary sense. But the issue of compromise isn't that simple. Because it's like, let's say a person has a viewpoint that we should kill all the Jews. Does that mean that, what's the compromise there? We only kill half the Jews? That's an extreme, right? There are some viewpoints that they can't be a compromise on. You know? Or let's say, because a compromise isn't necessarily a halfway point, right? But the halfway point might be more of a benefit to one side than another. What's a good example of that? Let's say we're on a sinking ship, one person thinks that they should let all the water come in, the other person says, we should let none of the water come in. The compromise, or the middle ground, would be letting half as much water come in, but the end result would be the same, that you'd eventually drown. But the point of the discussion would be for the logical argument to be implemented. I don't believe that... I don't believe in objective values outside of particular goals. If two people have completely different goals, then I believe that on the basis... Even if both sides have all the facts, what should be implemented will be different, right? And there'll be no logical basis that you could argue from where one person would be wrong or right, because they just have different goals. It's kind of like, I don't believe there's an objective amount that you should care about other people. I don't believe somewhere written in stone there is, you should care about your family, 0.9 out of 10, your neighbors, 8 out of 10, your cousin's 7 out of 10, and so on and so forth, right? There's no objective answer to these questions. |
| 05. June 2022 | Do racers avoid the cars with the fixes? | and boosts, it would be fine. Do racers just not like the new cars that have all these fixes applied? It's only those four open wheel cars, which we never race with anyway, because they've just got no top speed and load of grip, so they're not fun to drive, honestly. It's only those four cars that have the fix. They haven't even applied it to any new... |
| 05. June 2022 | Do racers like the physics exploits? | new car at some point, but yeah. How are the races perceiving these changes? Do you guys like those kinds of physics exploits? It's divisive because the idea, you know, the curb boosting and all these brake boosts and other exploits, they do increase the skill gap at the very top. They're the very quickest guys can use all these things to the, you know, and in a way, if they applied this flag and had no curb boosting, the cars would all get significantly slower. So they'd have to improve engine power for all the cars as well and make them just raw, the raw performance quicker because the cars get a lot of speed from the curbs and natural bumps in the road, even if you're not actively trying to seek out the curbs. So the racing would get a lot worse, the cars would get a lot worse, they'd all be slower. And that's probably why they don't go back and put them onto current cars and it's just testing for future. In a perfect world, at least for me, I would prefer them not to have curb boosting physics, but be quicker just by default, you know, have much higher top speeds and much more power and not curb boost. But when it comes to the highest level of racing, even, you know, curb boosting and brake boosting is a big part of it, but you've still got to be doing the racing lines. You know, you've still got to be doing the proper things that you got to do in any other racing game. And that's what makes GTA racing so good that you've still got to focus on that kind of stuff. So it is divisive. Some people wouldn't like it. Some people would, I think, as long as they treat it correctly and actually made the cars fun to drive without curbs. |
| 28. June 2022 | Do speedrunners like losing their world records? | Do speedrunners like losing their world records? Is it friendly competition or do other speedrunners get annoyed when their record gets beaten? Depends on the runner. Certainly I can tell you that when you're at the top by yourself and you have all the records it does get a little bit boring. Probably no one wants a circumstance where like they're losing world record every day but like you probably don't want to hold it too long. I doubt anyone's like man I want to hold the world record just by myself forever. We looked at GTA 1 yesterday and it's like one runner has grinded that game and he has all the world records and there's basically no other submissions. I doubt he's like man I would hate if someone else was to start submitting and potentially beat my runs you know. |
| 15. February 2022 | Do streamers know or even care about fair use? | So this is the thing where content creators are aware of this. I'll grant them some leeway here and say that they believe that most of the time what they're doing is fair use. But they'll certainly agree that some of the time that it's not fair use. And what I think, this is where I think is a big flaw if they were to defend their actions. Because if you knew that you if you did an action like 10 times, and you knew that like, two out of 10 times your action is going to be illegal, but you did it anyway, I believe that to be not principled. Yeah, right. So I think that if you want to do an action, you have to know before you do it, whether or not it's going to be legal or illegal. I'm going to disagree with what you said initially. I don't think that any of these people give two fucks about fair use and neither so neither do I. To be clear, fair use with law was written in 1976. So it's made smaller changes since then because you know, certain cases have set precedent. But the idea that people that long ago have some some knowledge as to what we believe today should be the best in regards to our online media landscape that didn't even exist back then is absurd. But like, it's it's it's hard to even argue that a lot of what we do with video games, for example, could be considered fair use. But like, I would argue video games is like a medium of content creation and you transform it in the way that you play it. And I would also argue it doesn't really impact the original, but it doesn't really matter. What it impacts are positively. It doesn't impact negatively. Sometimes we can talk about those minor details. I don't really want to get bogged down into the idea of talking about what I think should be justifiable, because as I've already outlined, anyone can have their own positions on this. And it's like you kind of have to hash it out. It's important to address fair use in general. I don't think it's because like, so let's say I'm making these guys, these guys are making millions of dollars a year. So let's say tomorrow it came down definitively definitively that playing video games is against fair use. Fucking terrible, illegal stuff. People still do it because it makes them a lot of money. And they might personally believe, as I do, that there's no harm being caused here. The companies are fine with it. I'm fine with it. Everyone seems fine with it. And so they would keep doing it. And that's the case with react content. I now accept for a lot of reactors. They're like, I'm not harming anyone. Who cares about the law? The person reacting to benefits. I benefit. Everyone benefits. It's win-win for everyone. Who cares what the law says, right? If you asked any content creator, would you change fair use law? They say yes, immediately. And they would give you perhaps a list of things that they think should change. A good video is Tom Scott's YouTube Isn't Broken Copyright Law is. It's a very long video, very well done, where he talks about how so much of what we do in the online media scape is technically not fair use, technically illegal, technically a violation of copyright content. But it benefits so many of the parties involved that it doesn't really get challenged all that much. So what I'm saying is people use fair use in sort of a in a value sense. Like we all agree that there should be some amount of leeway given where we can use other people's material to make something new. What that is isn't what the law says. It's based on our own values. It's why you have people say, well, this is actually fair use. What they mean is I think this should be something allowable by people under the law. They've never read the law. They've never read fair use law. They've never read any of the rulings or anything like that. They just say, this is something that I value and I think should exist. And this is something that I consider justifiable under that value system. That's fair enough. We do see a lot of them use fair use as a defense though. So essentially at the end of the day, that just kind of makes them, do you think that makes them an asshole? Well, no, it's, they're appealing to our, again, going back to the idea of if it's legal, it's justifiable to do. This sort of argument is used, I don't want to say, used against those who haven't really thought about it all their heart. If you are younger, you haven't experienced the world all that much. Let's say you're 16 years old and someone says to you, this is legal, so it's fine. You might accept that argument. You're going to have to, you're going to be a few more years down the way before you start going, oh, actually, you know, maybe that's not as justifiable. Or maybe you just don't really care that much and you just want to forget the whole thing. It's like, well, that seems like a good argument. Fuck it. So they're using these arguments, maybe not disingenuously, but that point can be used two different ways. Either you're saying this should be legal and people are like, oh, I agree. It should be legal. Or you're saying it is legal. Some people will agree on that base as well. So I can't tell whether a person who cites fair use law actually believes it's fair use or not. I can't tell you that. But it's not a good argument in terms of trying to justify your actions to appeal to the law as we've talked about before. |
| 29. January 2023 | Do taller people have a higher chance of getting cancer? | cancer. So interesting fact that I learned and it makes like intuitive sense when you hear it But I had never thought about before is that taller people inherently have a higher chance of getting cancer because you're taller You obviously have more cells and that means there is a greater amount of cells that can possibly become cancerous I wish I remember the numbers it was like so apparently for every extra 10 Centimeters you have roughly a 5 to 10 percent chance increased risk of getting cancer depending upon the particular type of cancer |
| 13. March 2022 | Do twitch subscribers always win my giveaways? | of winning. The odds of this specific little bit here causing a person to win is very very small. Just by the sheer number of the non-subs, which is say it's 99%, the vast majority of the people who win are non-subs. Well I'm exaggerating a little bit here, but on average one of the wins goes to a sub. More specifically, one of the wins goes to the bonus amount that a sub gets, because I can see which entry wins. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 20. December 2021 | Do video games make kids violent? | Do video games make kids violent? My thoughts on people that say video games make kids violent, they're idiots. They fit into two categories, people who are mistaken or people who are ideologically driven to draw blame or criticism from something else in society. It's either a mistake or scapegoating. But there was one point where the evidence suggested that people were more aggressive playing video games. What this turned out to be was if you play a violent video game, it can inspire your flight or fight response. Like it puts adrenaline into your system. And while that adrenaline is in your system, you can be more G'd up and willing to, you know, throw a punch or something. But that can be said of anything that gets adrenaline in your system. You know, if you play sport or something, it doesn't persist after the flight or fight response. It doesn't change your mentality. I mean, yeah, there's certainly no correlation between video game use by country and violent crime. That lack of a correlation doesn't disprove the hypothesis that video games can cause violence, but it is certainly not. It's certainly against or evidence against that hypothesis. |
| 17. January 2022 | Do viewers do the GTA 5 features I show in videos? | Do viewers do the gt5 features I show in my videos? I know for a fact that people who watch the stream learn things and then do them in their Casual play and stuff a lot of stuff in Facts and glitches you can incorporate into your general gameplay But of course the vast majority of it is While interesting not something that's really relevant for casual gameplay or online gameplay |
| 17. January 2022 | Do viewers do the GTA 5 features i show in videos? | Facts that people who watch the stream learn things and then do them in their casual play and stuff. A lot of the stuff in facts and glitches you can incorporate into your general gameplay, but of course the vast majority of it is, you know, while interesting, not something that's really relevant for casual gameplay or online gameplay. Learning a speedrun is more than learning a rouse. Like one of the hardest things to do. |
| 17. December 2020 | Do we shape the algorithm or does it shape us? | Do we shape the algorithm or does it shape us? It's so sad that content is so hamstrung by the mighty algorithm. It depends on how much you believe the algorithm is shaping people's preferences versus how people's preferences are shaping the algorithm. It's both. It just depends on how much you think it goes either way. Because it's possible that the content that I want to produce or the content that I like producing the most, it's not being hamstrung by the algorithm necessarily. It's being hamstrung by people's desires to actually watch their content. Or I could blame myself and say I'm not good enough at presenting their content in a way that people actually want to watch. As people have pointed out, my titles for Pacifist or whatever are not super captivating. Then it says number 20 might throw some people off. Like you can't spend all your time blaming the algorithm. But it's certainly true that the algorithm deserves some of the blame. For at least some people. For me, the algorithm push to channel I wasn't interested in for two months straight and it turned out to be one of my favorite channels now. That's possible. In some ways, machines know us better than we know ourselves. |
| 07. February 2022 | Do we truly have freedom? | Do we truly have freedom? So there's two kinds of freedom. There's positive and negative freedom, where negative freedom is like being free of restrictions. Oh, the less restrictions specifically upon you, the more negative freedom you have. And positive freedom is your ability to actually do things. Like you can have all the negative freedom in the world. Like there's just a thousand things that you have to choose from. There's no restrictions saying that you specifically can't do something. But if you lack the capability to do it, that freedom isn't very useful, you know? Like you need both positive and negative freedom. And to what degree you have it just depends on your current circumstances. Like a billionaire has great abundance of positive and negative freedom, where a poor person obviously has far less. And it depends on the specific topic, the specific thing you're trying to do, the region in which you're in, as to how much of either freedom you have in regards to anything, you know? Freedom is an illusion. It depends on what you mean, what you're saying freedom in that context. Like reality can very rarely be summed up with such a like piffy little quote like that, right? Because if you mean freedom to simply mean free will in a libertarian sense, then I agree with that sentence. Because I don't think free will in the libertarian sense actually exists. But that's not really what we're talking about. Irrespective of your views of determinism and whatnot, in reality, there is a quality of difference between you having a desire to do something and being able to do it and you not being able to do that thing. And then you can analyze what are the limitations that prevents you from achieving or doing the thing that you desire. Like there are measures that exist to measure freedom in different ways. And what was the, isn't it like a freedom index or something that measures people in different respects, like access to information and health services and all that jazz. As a poor person, freedom is an illusion in the sense that you are shown all these things you can do with your so-called freedom because situation and circumstances of life prevents you from using that freedom. Yeah, so that would be a situation of where you have negative freedom, where you're not restricted from doing particular things by like laws and what have you. But you don't have the positive freedom and you can't actually do those things because you're limited by your circumstances. Lack of access to money or free time or what have you. I mean, I've spoken to some people who outright just reject the idea of positive freedom. They're usually libertarians who ultimately only view freedom as being free of like governmental restriction. So if you were in a desert by yourself, society didn't exist, there was no government, you would have the maximum amount of negative freedom possible. Because there would be literally no one to tell you, you can't do whatever you wanna do. There are no laws, no regulations, no restrictions put upon you by anyone else. You are the freest person you can possibly be, but you'll be able to do nothing because you'd be in a desert, there'd be nothing there. You have access to, you would have all these desires of things that you would love to be around you that you can do, but they wouldn't be there. You wouldn't be able to actually achieve your desires in your environment. It's why you can conceptually understand why a person in a society that, where there's taxes or regulations or even law enforcement or whatever, they restrict you in particular ways, you are still more free to do things in that environment than you would be in a place absent any restrictions placed upon you. It is the case that sometimes you have to give up certain freedoms to be able to actually achieve the things that matter to you most, or to be put in a circumstance to have a foundation where you can actually do things in your environment. |
| 03. January 2022 | Do women have an advantage on Twitch? | Viewer believes women have an advantage on Twitch due to physical attractiveness. Of the upper echelons of Twitch, very few women. Like very very few. As with everything in life, being attractive benefits you in terms of getting out of the uh... the hole that is the, you know, less than five viewers area. But there's more to building a successful stream than being physically attractive. I would argue the majority of female streamers on this platform are not what you might call titty streamers. It's uh, it's selection bias. The only female streamers that you take notice enough of, or the only ones that you will see noted on our live stream fails or other platforms that talk about Twitch, um, are those who are doing the wrong thing, right? Go to any gaming section, scroll down, look at the first 15 women. I'd be surprised if you found one. |
| 20. December 2021 | Do you have to livestream your speedruns | Do you have to live stream your speedruns? Is live streaming a requirement to run the game? No. People are very skeptical of runners who have never live streamed and don't like show their practice or whatever on stream and show their failures on stream. A recording is required, yes, but you don't have to stream that recording. Technically the only thing you need to submit a time is a recording of that time, but depending upon the game and as technology gets better, you know, you can fake runs more easily. GTA 5 is not a game that will be easy to fake a run in, but there's still things you could potentially do that would be harder to do if it was streamed and we could rule out that you were cheating if you are. We saw you progress and become better at the game on stream. |
| 14. January 2021 | Do you know any big content creators? | So you do you know many famous big YouTube streamers like you said you went to a dinner with some of these people. Do you do you have any either. Who's the largest content creator that you've ever actually spoken to. And do you have any interesting stories about meeting any content creators. I guess the biggest numerically would be laser beam. He's probably like 15 20 million followers. You met him. Yeah. Yeah he's super nice guy and then I like yeah just said like because I like Australia has like really good communities that kind of stuff. You can meet up and I've met like the boys like before like they're really cool. Molly I'm music as well. Do you know music. He killed me in Fortnight once. Yeah. So I mean his videos somewhere. Oh true. Whoa. And OK I know where that guy is he's over at the launch pad and he's got a hunting rifle which means if we want to take him out we got to play aggressively for it. We can't get into like a little peak war with him. He would 100 percent win that. OK I see him. Oh what's he doing. Always running away. Oh no no no no no my friend. There will be no running. There will be no running from you. Not when he's got the Omega skin. Hey bro. Oh my god that was filthy. I have crashed at his house and like we've had drinks together and stuff is really cool. And then I've recently joined Misfits management and yeah where I've met a bunch of like that whole team is just really really good people like the back end staff the actual creators like and it was really cool because I've obviously watched like a lot of swagger and fits and the boys before. So to catch them like make them live I was like well this is this is really cool and they're really nice nice guys as well. And then I guess they have got millions like it's crazy how big all those guys channels are but they're all everyone I've met super nice in real life like totally genuine which was cool. It's funny that you mentioned watching these people I only know of them because they're big content creators and because they're Australian. I've when swagger souls when I found out he doesn't do soul stuff I was like really. Then why is he called Swagger Souls. Because I think he started doing soul stuff or something he doesn't do much of it now I know like I've I've seen them and I know of them through other stuff I watched like the cold ones for example. But I don't know that many big content creators and what I've only recently become more knowledgeable of them in the last couple of months. So shout out to me and and whatnot like the problem the most famous. In the US as I have come across in America the fact is that people in the South came through with a共 with Black faith and gave what we are now known for and psi解extFFER that aspect |
| 14. May 2020 | Do you play cs:go? | Do you play CSGO or will you play it? I don't play CSGO, I wish I was good at CSGO. I have footage of me playing CSGO that DMod edited into a video, but I don't think it's very good because I only played CSGO for like 40 minutes and it was just kind of a boring video. |
| 03. February 2020 | Do you think hardship and suffering is good? | Do you think that as a society seeking increasingly more comfort is always a good thing? You personally think that hardship or suffering, personally when it's shared, can be a good thing? If I said to you, do you want to suffer more? And your answer is yes, I would consider you a fool. That it is possible for hardship or suffering to lead to good things doesn't make either a benefit or something that you should seek out or desire more of in society. Like it is possible that you could be hit by a car and the nurse attending you, you happen to hit it off with and you meet the love of your life. But you wouldn't then suggest that people get hit by cars to meet the loves of their lives. In terms of your likelihood of living a long prosperous life, having additional hardships or suffering, especially in your early days of life, are variables that would prevent you from achieving that. They're negative, they're detrimental to that goal. So I wouldn't wish them upon anyone, even if there are people who have created or achieved in part because of their hardships or suffering. If you like this Q&A footage and want me to keep doing this kind of thing, just hit like. It generally tells me that people like watching the stuff. Thank you. |
| 10. December 2022 | Do you understand this 90s reference? | It's gonna recur. Do you understand this 90s reference? That looks broken to me. Is that broken? That's broken, chat. Fix it with what? Am I meant to be fucking MacGyver? You give me like a paperclip, an elastic band, and I'll fix a goddamn helicopter? Do people even get MacGyver references anymore? I haven't even seen MacGyver. Like MacGyver was before my time. I only know of MacGyver from references to MacGyver in other shows, and because it was the same actor from Stargate SG-1, which is a show that I love. You have no clue what it is. It was basically a show, I think about a detective, and the main thing that was the appeal of the show is like he would get trapped inside like a garage or something with just like a box of scraps, and he would Tony Stark his way to making like a battle tank or something, and then bash out and take down the bad guys. That kind of thing. He was no detective, he was a spy lol, and it was a Cold War show. Look, detectives, spies, they all wear the same hats, so same people, right? |
| 22. February 2022 | Do youtuber’s care if their viewers buy the sponsored products? | Do YouTubers care if their viewers buy the sponsored products? Do YouTubers that do sponsors really care if people buy or try the products? In some cases, a sponsorship can involve some sort of a kickback based on how many sales are done, or they can involve commissions so you can get a certain percentage of sales. I don't traditionally do those kind of deals, but the only way a sponsor will resign with a person, they could do another sponsorship, give you another chunk of money, is if there's been a reasonable amount of sales that they think it's worth it. Not all sponsorships have explicit ways to measure conversions of people buying the product or being aware more of the product, but traditionally they do. You get sponsored, maybe for, well usually for a lump sum, and then on the back end, sponsors like, we sold X amount of products from this link, therefore it was worth the amount of money that we paid them, so let's do it again. |
| 09. April 2020 | Doctor disrespect staying on Twitch | Doc Disrespect taking a paycheck to stay on Twitch. Speaking of disrespect, you guys hear that Doc got himself a paycheck to stay on Twitch? It's clearly getting very expensive for these streaming services to keep the top talent because it's not like Doc is gonna take one paycheck. Like he's gonna get like five million dollars a year or something to stay on the platform. And that's not gonna end. As long as he's still popular. Like what's gonna happen, like after three years or something? He's just gonna be like, yeah you don't need to pay me anything Twitch, I'll just stay here. Cause I like you guys. Nah. He once more asked for more money. Although it would be very weird for a person like Doc, who's been outspoken against other platforms or whatever, to after a couple of years of taking money from Twitch to be like, oh yeah I'm moving to Mix now guys, they're offering me more money. If you like the video be sure to disrespect that like button. Not in that you like ignore it, but that you hit it. Wait, you know what I'm saying. |
| 08. September 2022 | Does # shorts success mean more views for my long videos? | Does hashtag short success mean more views for my long videos? I hope people in Rambles aren't getting sick of me talking about shorts, it's just I'm making a new form of content on effectively a new platform, at least a new algorithm, and it's interesting to me. When criticizing reaction content, I've repeated over and over again the algorithm is all that matters and reaction content, even if people see your face, the changes to the algorithm are not in your benefit. The algorithmic changes just benefit the reactor, knowledge over creator does not mean that you're going to watch them significantly, and shorts I believe demonstrate this really really well. For those unaware, at least presently the shorts algorithm and the long form content algorithm are separate, so you can get really big on shorts and it doesn't really impact all that much how well you're going to do in the long form content game. Of course people can still independently do well in the long form algorithm, therefore doing well in both. Which is why you can see people getting like 5 million views on a short and then they can release a normal video and get like 10,000 views. I'm experiencing that right now. I've gotten 10 million views on my shorts, look at me just skyrocketing here, my popularity in shorts, insane bruv, oh my god, look at, look at, I just, it's crazy, and then on my long form content, nothing. How can it be that I'm getting, you know, 1.8 million views here, a million views here, like my viewership is going up so much because of shorts, but my other videos aren't changing at all. It's because the algorithms aren't connected. 10,000 subscribers, I mean this is not updated, but 10,000 subscribers is a meaningless amount when it comes to actually increasing your viewership. I'm sure you've seen many many times all these channels with 5 million subscribers, but they're getting 10,000 views a video. As I say, subscribers aren't valueless. You do get some views from the subscription feed, and surely to some degree, the algorithm must recognize that, oh, this person subscribed recently, maybe that means they want to see more content. Like, I've often speculated that the act of subscribing probably says something to the algorithm, but being subscribed, you know, a couple of weeks later, probably is less meaningful. I'm sure you've all gone through that phase where you found this new creator and you're like, oh shit, this is amazing, then you subscribe, watch, like, all their back catalog over the course of three weeks, and then you just forget about them. Because that's the thing, when the algorithm stops giving you videos for a creator, they may as well not exist for you. Each one of us knows of a creator where there's videos in their back catalog that we'd love to watch, but I'm not gonna dig back that far, I'm not gonna dig back years to find like a particular video, whatever. I ain't got time, no one got time for that, we're gonna spend an hour on like a fucking journey in Be With Back catalog, doesn't happen. I'm sure on rare occasions that happens for some people, but it's just such a tiny, infatizable amount. We all know of thousands of creators, if the algorithm isn't presenting their videos to us, they may as well not exist. |
| 08. September 2022 | Does #shorts success mean more views for my long videos? | Does hashtag short success mean more views for my long videos? I hope people in Rambles aren't getting sick of me talking about shorts, it's just I'm making a new form of content on effectively a new platform, at least a new algorithm, and it's interesting to me. When criticizing reaction content, I've repeated over and over again the algorithm is all that matters and reaction content, even if people see your face, the changes to the algorithm are not in your benefit. The algorithmic changes just benefit the reactor, knowledge over creator does not mean that you're going to watch them significantly, and shorts I believe demonstrate this really really well. For those unaware, at least presently the shorts algorithm and the long form content algorithm are separate, so you can get really big on shorts and it doesn't really impact all that much how well you're going to do in the long form content game. Of course people can still independently do well in the long form algorithm, therefore doing well in both. Which is why you can see people getting like 5 million views on a short and then they can release a normal video and get like 10,000 views. I'm experiencing that right now. I've gotten 10 million views on my shorts, look at me just skyrocketing here, my popularity in shorts, insane bruv, oh my god, look at, look at, I just, it's crazy, and then on my long form content, nothing. How can it be that I'm getting, you know, 1.8 million views here, a million views here, like my viewership is going up so much because of shorts, but my other videos aren't changing at all. It's because the algorithms aren't connected. 10,000 subscribers, I mean this is not updated, but 10,000 subscribers is a meaningless amount when it comes to actually increasing your viewership. I'm sure you've seen many many times all these channels with 5 million subscribers, but they're getting 10,000 views a video. As I say, subscribers aren't valueless. You do get some views from the subscription feed, and surely to some degree, the algorithm must recognize that, oh, this person subscribed recently, maybe that means they want to see more content. Like, I've often speculated that the act of subscribing probably says something to the algorithm, but being subscribed, you know, a couple of weeks later, probably is less meaningful. I'm sure you've all gone through that phase where you found this new creator and you're like, oh shit, this is amazing, then you subscribe, watch, like, all their back catalog over the course of three weeks, and then you just forget about them. Because that's the thing, when the algorithm stops giving you videos for a creator, they may as well not exist for you. Each one of us knows of a creator where there's videos in their back catalog that we'd love to watch, but I'm not gonna dig back that far, I'm not gonna dig back years to find like a particular video, whatever. I ain't got time, no one got time for that, we're gonna spend an hour on like a fucking journey in Be With Back catalog, doesn't happen. I'm sure on rare occasions that happens for some people, but it's just such a tiny, infatizable amount. We all know of thousands of creators, if the algorithm isn't presenting their videos to us, they may as well not exist. |
| 18. January 2023 | Does Discord impact the growth of My channel? | Does discord impact the growth of my channel? Zander and Yalnef asks, how much of an impact on your channels would you say having a discord has? What good does it do for you etc? I have no way to quantify that which is kind of annoying some people don't like the idea of having a discord as a creator because it ends up a place full of drama and shit talking and All that jazz and stuff can happen in the discord or people can discuss things in the discord that can reflect on you as a person But we've never had that issue the best thing the discord does for me is that enables me to have a bunch of rooms for people To give me suggestions or information for stuff that I'm trying to make or if I have like a tech issue or something I'm like hey everyone in the discord can you give me a hand with this? I don't do much of the day-to-day conversations and stuff like from general or the Section that's mainly for members and stuff like I don't deal with a lot of that There have been times in the history of the discord where there has been drama and certain people have left in a half or Somebody of need to be banned or people have DM people inappropriate stuff This is few and far in between though It is also the best way to have people be able to get Alerts for the stuff that I make because you can go in there and in the whole react section and click one of the things Like you want to be alerted for live streams or alerted for videos for example. It was a lot better before Everyone muted at everyone and add here and add human or whatever because I could instantly give a message to endless people But since everyone's muted that now it only reaches like a tiny fraction of the ones did but it's that I saw |
| 03. February 2020 | Does Friendlybaron make good content? | aware you don't like Baron as a person, but do you think he makes good content? No. His casual versus speedrun series was something that fits a hole that no one had filled in that there's always a demand for pseudo tutorials that expand the interest in a speedrun and also help newer speedrunners learn about a run. But I don't think that what he made was particularly innovative, creative, or interesting. It was basically, here is an idea that everyone has done 10,000 times and here is a run that Baron didn't create, let's mash them both together with a monotone voice and poor presentation and many factual inaccuracies. I'm certainly happy he made this series, but I would not rate it as a very good series. It was an adequate series that met a particular demand. It doesn't speak well of him as a creative entity, which is why one of the next videos he did was, you know, the inspiration behind the missions in GTA 5, which is like a... you can Google that same idea and there's like 57 articles of just like from what culture and whatnot who have done that exact same idea. He isn't a creative individual, he isn't a nice individual, and it kind of annoys me that he is in part responsible for my success on YouTube in that his success inspired me to, you know, buckle down a bit more and to, you know, hammer in the pavement and actually implement the ideas that I've had for a long time, but I was too... I just didn't believe in myself so I didn't implement them. So I'm always thankful to him for that and I think had he not just been a complete asshole for no reason, we could have remained friends for a very long time. He and I have missed out on an opportunity to grow as content creators because he's a dick and I won't forgive him for that. It'll go too personal to understand how much he wronged me and he will never understand why he wronged me. I don't think to this day that he thinks he did anything wrong and that just really pisses me off. If you like this Q&A footage and want me to keep doing this kind of thing, just hit like. It generally tells me that people like watching the stuff. Thank you. |
| 18. October 2021 | Does GTA 5 have similar problems to RDR2? | Does GTA V have similar problems to Red Dead Redemption 2? So as you guys may have noticed, I've been using some of my old rambles, many of them unreleased, occasionally re-releasing some of the really early ones. And there was one I was very nervous to release, which is my first statement when I quit Red Dead 2 for the first time. And reading the comments, at least people didn't mass dislike it like they did the first time that footage came out, like the first time I said that stuff. But do people not understand that Red Dead 2 is twice the length of GTA V? Thus any issue that could be even slightly comparable between the games is exacerbated to a great degree because the additional double the time you have to spend dealing with those issues. Anything in GTA V that seems to not make sense or not be very realistic doesn't matter as much because it's not a realistic game. It doesn't pretend to be. It's meant to be crazy gunfights and all that stuff and just weird shit happening, where Red Dead 2 was packaged as a realistic game. So any issue that I brought up with Red Dead 2, if you want to make the argument it could be said to be an issue with GTA V, I would disagree largely for the two reasons that it's a lot shorter and what it's trying to achieve is very different. |
| 15. July 2021 | Does Michael get shot during prologue? | Does Michael get shot during prologue? Does Michael actually get shot or does he pretend? Someone told me on the 360 version is actually a little bit clearer because of the more simplified graphics I mean he really a bullet doesn't go inside of him How about that? Whether the game wants to pretend he was wearing a thick enough body armor Or maybe he was he was using a different bullet that doesn't penetrate as much or something who knows? |
| 30. January 2022 | Does MrBeast make the best content on youtube? | Does MrBeast make the best content on YouTube? MrBeast is the best YouTuber, change your mind. It's all in the eye of the beholder. I would trade literally every single MrBeast video that has ever been made for one video made by SummoningSoul. Any of them. Even his earlier ones. I have never watched a MrBeast video and been like, oh my god this is the greatest thing I've ever seen. I mean, not on this side. MrBeast's videos that he makes are... have massive broad appeal. Things that broadly appeal are not necessarily the best content. Like if you've ever seen the movies that are coming out right now where you don't want to take any risks. They want some known established thing that works. That will appeal as broadly as possible. That's MrBeast content. You aren't ever going to be like blown away necessarily. I mean some people are, certainly. But you're never going to end the video and be like, man I wish I hadn't watched that video. Depending upon who you are and what you're interested in. Other content can be way more interesting and impactful to you. MrBeast is the marvel of YouTube? Yeah I guess. Sure. Why does SummoningSoul take so long to upload? He didn't do it full time until recently. I saw him talking somewhere about him going full time. But also it takes a lot of research and efforts to create that kind of content. MrBeast videos is not my thing but I can see why people like it but I personally don't think it's for me. I assure you if you sat down and watched a video, you're not going to hate them. They're a bit over the top for me as well. Like I don't give a shit if a person gets a Ferrari. I don't give a shit if a person gets 10 grand. The stakes are also a bit wonky because you know someone's getting some money. You know? And they're just random people. If random person A or random person B gets a lot of money. You know? |
| 07. December 2019 | Does Red Dead Online make sense? | Red Dead Online makes sense. Like as I said before, Red Dead seems more like a series that would benefit from single player DLC than that would benefit from an online world. Like the world of Red Dead is meant to be an open plane with nothing in it, you know, that doesn't scream online world full of people to me. And given the limitations of the time period, there's just not a lot of technology and variation you can add to that world and have it still be setting appropriate. As weird as it is to add an orbital cannon to GTA V, at least it makes a little bit more sense than doing it in Red Dead 2. Like at the end of the day, all horses look basically the same. And there's only so much variation in a dress that's appropriate for the time. They could add horse armor. Once upon a time, $5 for horse armor was laughed at. Like everyone laughed, everyone memed at it. And now it's just the standard affair of the internet or the gaming landscape. Of course I'll play GTA VI when it comes out. I don't... why ask that question? Really, I found myself enjoying online because of how it isn't on rails. It might even be something that I would enjoy, chat. I wish I could have given it a bit more of a go. |
| 10. July 2021 | Does Rockstar benefit from mod menus? | Does Rockstar benefit from mod menus? Why how- I don't agree that the mod menus are helping Rockstar because they lose all the advertising from streamers being able to play GTA Online. It makes people annoyed and less likely to play GTA Online. Like whatever money they're getting from banning people and rebuying accounts, it pales in comparison to the negative community sentiment and the lesser advertising from streamers and whatnot. The destruction of the community around GTA Online for PC. |
| 04. May 2021 | Does Rockstar want me to succeed in my No Damage Run? | Does Rockstar want me to succeed in my no damage run? And profile not found with the fat $40. You've got this Matt. We all love you and believe in you. Don't let Rockstar win. Honestly, if there is any Rockstar people aware of what I'm doing, I'm sure they would be happy with me to succeed because it will just be one small bits of additional publicity for the game. Rockstar has nothing, there's no reason to want me to succeed. |
| 04. November 2021 | Does Twitch deserve a cut of sub revenue? | Does Twitch deserve a cut of sub revenue? These are my thoughts after seeing someone complain that her community wants to give her five dollars not Twitch 250 and her 250 and they should have that option. The overwhelming vast majority of Twitch streamers just cost Twitch money. 99.9% of people who have ever streamed on Twitch have just costed Twitch money. I'm including in that the people who've like streamed once and then just bailed and stuff right? People don't think about that. They just say oh I'm losing this money and Twitch is taking it. Grrr. What's that? I cost Twitch money for like four years becoming drawing my community and Twitch dares to take my money when I was just using their free service and costing them money and like Twitch never complained because Twitch is business model. They offer you a free service in the hopes that you grow large enough that they can recoup their cost of you growing. |
| 24. September 2021 | Does YouTube want to demonetize videos? | Does YouTube want to demonetize videos? YouTube's demonetization does not come from YouTube, it comes from market decisions. YouTube doesn't demonetize stuff because they want to, they demonetize stuff so that they can get advertisers. If YouTube could have literally everything monetized to the highest degree, and people would still watch it, and all advertisers would still advertise on it, they would. If a new competitor came to you- came and said, we're not going to demonetize anything, you're not going to want to be on that platform, because that platform is going to have a hell of a lot of time getting advertisers. It's a problem that Twitch has, because Twitch doesn't segregate its partners, or its affiliates or whatever, in terms of, you know, what type of content they produce, or how appealing they're likely to get to be to advertisers. Anyone who advertises on this platform has to be okay with wholesome stuff, and, you know, less wholesome stuff. You have to be okay with both. And people- advertisers aren't necessarily going to be okay with that. There is never going to be a service driven by ads that isn't going to have some content demonetized. |
| 24. October 2022 | Does Youtube give new creators room to succeed and my tips for success. | and my tips for success. I am frequently presented with videos from people who have like under 200 views in their videos and all those videos suck. All of them. YouTube 100% gives small creators a chance to grow and to be seen. This. When you're a small creator, the space available for you is very competitive. Like YouTube probably allocates let's say 10% of their impressions to like the bottom 90% of creators. So you're only going to get a few people clicking on your videos and if you aren't getting like 100% of those people watching, the algorithm is not going to think you got a good video in your hands right? Your video has to be pretty fucking impressive to be able to capture like the random people at like 2am like oh what's this fucking thing, oh it's garbage, click off you know. But the problem with that is people who are small creators don't know how to make quick engaging videos. Everyone when they first started out was shit. It's just how it is. What a lot of content creators who are small don't realise is you can't get big or get successful doing the same thing that everyone else is doing. You can't be the hundredth person to talk about X video game. I was talking to a small content creator recently, I said to him like look when you make a video, think who is going to be clicking this video and why? Would you click this video if you were shown the thumbnail and title if you didn't know who made it? Don't try to make videos for your audience, you think you've got an audience when you have 300 subscribers, you don't have an audience, no one cares. Never make videos for your audience. You're making a video for the general population that exists who have no idea who you are. And like every content creator should be thinking of that all the time. How I make my video as appealing as possible to a wide variety of people. My rambles for example for the longest time were just filler and they were made just for people who know me. But now I do my best to make them a little bit more broadly appealing with the thumbnail and the voice when I do the topics and stuff and all that jazz. The hardest thing about being a smaller content creator is you have no idea all the things you're doing wrong. And I know that because I didn't know all the things I was doing wrong when I was a small content creator. We all start shit but some of us are lucky enough to stick around long enough to develop the skills to figure out what we're doing wrong and stumble across things that happen to work and get enough of an audience that we can keep going and learn to be better content creators. I've just been presented because when I look for editors people will often show me their channels and I look at them and go this person will never make it. They will never get anywhere doing what they're doing right now if they just keep doing it. I will see people for years doing the same things, never getting there but never breaking out. Because a lot of people make videos for themselves, things that they want to make, they want to throw out their opinions about stuff, things that they're passionate about but they don't really think about how to package that for an audience. They're like well if I get an audience cool but you can make things you're passionate about, things that you love because that's the best stuff to make really. But with just a few small changes thinking about who you're appealing to you can change your content in small subtle ways to actually build an audience. For video editing on YouTube do not waste people's time. Anytime where you stop and say hey I'd like to give a shout out to, I'd like to give a thanks to, hey so like two months ago guys I made this video, scrap all that shit. Your video that you just released right now should be in of itself a bubble. Nothing else, I'm doing a square bit, nothing else exists outside of it. It should be a perfect package that any person who watches it will immediately be able to understand everything that's going on without having their time wasted. No, you make 30 minute long videos, it just all has to be engaging. You can't spend five minutes building up before you get to the premise that's answered in your title. You've got to have a hard hitting title that as many people as possible are going to be interested when they read it to see what's going on in the video. Some it leaves a question unanswered or suggests something is interesting in the video and then you've got to immediately jump as quickly as possible into paying off the title in an engaging way. It's tough, it is tough. I get videos from people that I can look at and go this person can edit but they don't understand how to make YouTube videos. The scene selection makes no sense. They've picked scenes because they personally enjoyed them because they were there in the moment not because they're going to be appealing to a wider audience and it's just you know what's the best way to build up a portfolio of edited work? Usually making videos yourself on a YouTube channel I suppose. Pick an idea, write a script, make a video. To use an example of what I just talked about there's a video game called Tunic that I really like and I was introduced to two sub 400 subscriber channels because they were the only two channels that I found that were making lore videos about Tunic. Tunic, not a super successful game, that's why that niche existed and some huge channel didn't do it but that's just an example. How do you achieve success on the level of MrBeast? So the pathways to success that you end up usually getting are things that you luck into because prior to your success you don't generally know how to be successful. You don't have the tools or the skills or that jazz. Especially to have monumental success in the order of many millions of dollars right? MrBeast was fortunate enough that the random thing that he tried was Spectacle. It is not possible with GTA V speedrunning to be as successful as MrBeast. It's not possible. There's just not enough of an audience for it. MrBeast, the thing that worked for him in the end was Spectacle and Spectacle is liked by millions upon millions of people. It has a lot more legs than a kind of niche category of success like I have and I've expanded beyond the initial area that I gained my success but I can't rapidly expand far away from it without taking upon risk and it'd be sort of silly to give up more easily obtainable success in the hopes of achieving greater success that I may not be able to get you know? The risk versus reward of abandoning my smaller niche area of success is just not worth it. The draw MrBeast did is he succeeded once with Spectacle then he went a little bit bigger, succeeded again and went bigger and slightly bigger and slightly bigger and slightly bigger and he had the advantage of existing prior to MrBeast. In the same way it's easier to become Amazon before Amazon exists, it's easier to become MrBeast before MrBeast exists. At least to some degree. Because certainly once someone has done something it makes it easier to mimic them and get a portion of their success. Because there were a lot of MrBeast clones. None of them as successful as MrBeast but still pretty damn successful you know? YouTube is so weird that just because something worked out for one person in a particular circumstance doesn't mean it'll work out for another person in another circumstance. I mean that's not just YouTube though, it's life in general. No two people have the exact same variables impacting them at any given time. Two identical twins in the same town who've been joined at the hands the entire time are still not identical in every variable that's impacting them and so if you try to model your success after another person doing everything that they did it doesn't mean you're going to succeed. Because you're never going to be doing it in the exact same circumstances that they did. The variables outside their control that just happened to go just right are not necessarily going to be the same ones that you need to go your way you know? |
| 17. January 2022 | Does a song need good lyrics to be successful? | There was this experiment where they took, I think it was nonsense Spanish words and put it to a generic beat You have to look up the exact story that there have been many examples of songs that have that are incomprehensible either by design or Happenstance that get to the top of the charts like when you think about a lot of songs that you like People don't even know the lyrics or they only know the chorus I can't tell you whether certain words are better or whether having lyrics is better or for getting popular or something But it's definitely not necessary. No, no, I don't think Despacito was it. Oh, but Despacito isn't a good example Yeah, that was popular everywhere despite that Yeah, like a lot of songs the lyrics probably only make sense to those in the know or the author themselves don't they have like a Series on YouTube where the artist comes up and they're like, hey, yo, this is what I meant by this these lyrics like I've never Super been into music like there are some people Who will come home from a hard day's work and they will just sit back and listen to music I've I don't think I've ever fucking done that music for me has always been that thing I listen to when I can't Watch a TV show or watch watch a movie or or whatever and even then sometimes I'll prefer an audiobook Don't get me wrong when I find a song that I really like I can often drive to it for quite a while And the stumbling across the song from meatloaf and I listen to it like 50 times in a row, but I'm just not one of those passionate Music people who can you know name their ten favorite bands and everything they eat for breakfast a Massive multiplayer online games a waste of time things that |
| 02. November 2021 | Does america suck to live in? | Does America suck to live in? America definitely doesn't have the worst levels of inequality in the world, right? You gotta remember, America at its average isn't representative of every state. A lot of American states would be right up there with our Scandinavian countries and shit, you know? There's 200 plus countries depending upon who you talk to, like what that exact number is depends what you define as country. And America, you know, are often top 20 and it's top 20 top 30. And again, if you divided America by state, some of those states would be like, you know, top 70 while others would be top 10. The problem with countries like mine and America and whatnot, it's fears of what's going to happen in the future, especially for the younger generations, and knowing that things can be so much better. A very good way to have things not be good is to grow complacence with how things are, right? I meant that some states in America are fucking terrible in regards to education or economy or social welfare or whatever, and other states are infinitely better. So on average, they won't look as good as individual states would look judged on their own merit. |
| 14. January 2021 | Does anyone help you make videos? | Does anyone help you make your content? Other than your friends of course that were involved. Oh yeah, like friends in GTA. No, it's just me. I started a second channel where I've got an editor who puts together like the Twitch moments for me and he does a really good job of that. And my girlfriend helps with like TikToks and stuff like that. But in terms of just, but she's just grabbing parts of the video. It's just me who puts it together. How about you? Do you have an editor or anything? I've got a lesion of people who help me. It's one of these things, how long ago was it? It was, oh exaggeration of course. I mean a year and a half ago or something like that, what I used to do was I would stream for like six hours or something and then I would get off stream and then use the clips and parts I remembered from the stream or I'd look on my splits to see where I lost time and stuff. Then I'd cobble together the video and throw it up on YouTube. And slowly over time I got better and better at editing. But I'm going to go insane doing this every day, all day by myself. Especially as I started to go through the entire VOD to find stuff, I would constantly be falling behind. So I reached out to my audience and I said, hey look, can someone help me out here? And I went through dozens upon dozens of people who were just awful. Like whether I have high standards or something, you're trying to find someone who's exactly like yourself, you're cloned, who thinks exactly as you do. And I didn't know what I was doing trying to find people. And eventually I was about to give up, but I found this guy Martin and he wasn't perfect because I certainly wasn't perfect, but he was good enough that I was like, this can work. And over time me and Martin, we've both gotten better. And the system I have right now is where I'll do the live stream, I'll send off the footage to them and they'll make something that they think I like, they'll send it back to me and then I'll open it up in Premiere and I will tinker with things and change everything to my specifications and I'll add my own jokes and stuff. And the end video will be two people having worked on their own ideas and stuff. And that gets the product that we have today. This is for all the Twitch stuff, my videos, the ones that I work on just by myself, you know, passwords, facts and glitches, this kind of stuff. There's tons of videos I make myself, like as in like half the videos each month I make by myself. But the other half I only have partial involvement in whether it's 10% or 60% or something, depending upon the person. But just over time, as I continue to put out more and more footage, I've constantly added more people. I've got maybe four main editors now, but they all do like part time kind of stuff. Like I'll send them footage and then like maybe weeks later they'll have finished processing it and send it back to me. I don't have any strict schedules. I just kind of work off their schedules. As long as they save me time, I feel like I'm winning here. Yeah, for sure. But every once in a while, like someone messaged me and said, oh yeah, I want to edit for you. I'm like, well yeah, I've got this footage from two years ago when I played Bioshock. Go nuts. Like the, I see my stream footage as just, if it just sits there and never gets edited, no one's ever going to see it. It's just something that could be converted into money for my benefit and another person's benefit. And as long as the video is good, I'm perfectly happy putting it on my channel. These days, very little gets streamed that doesn't eventually go on the YouTube channel. And my ideal situation is where I can stream as much as I want for as long as I want and everything still eventually gets processed and put on the YouTube channel and I never fall behind. Unlike back in the old days where I would have to stop streaming to catch up on all my editing drove me nuts. Yeah, I feel you. That's what I want as well as well. I did, I found an editor for who's just absolutely fucking amazing. Like seriously one of the best editors and he's doing the Papa Peli vids at the moment. But dude, the first editors I got were like this company. I won't say who, but they sent that some of the stuff they'd send me. I was like, Hey guys, just 10 to 15 minutes. I'm playing cod with my friends. Hey, just some, some jokes, some good kills, like just make it a fun video that people will enjoy watching, please. And like, no joke, they'd send me a 40 minute file and the first minute would be like me on my phone. And then like one of my friends telling a story about work and the story would be halfway through and I'd be like, what made you fucking think like this was the good place to start the story? Like what is going through your head? Like I don't understand how anyone could think it's not, it's not just companies. Like I've, I've become to realize, I've come to realize that the knack of knowing what is good content isn't obvious to anyone really. It's like, it's a skill you develop over time. Like I would look at myself editing two years ago or something and I would think this person shit like every week I feel like I get better and better and better at identifying these kinds of things. But when I, when I first, when I first was getting my editors, what I would do is I would look at the edit they've sent me and I would write them pages and pages of just like move this frame here, turn this down, add this choke here. And then eventually I realized that it was just much better if they sent me the project file and I worked on and made those pages of corrections myself. And just over time, when a person works with you enough, they get a feel of your content. They get a feel of what you want. They themselves get better. And so my current main editors do things within, you know, well, it depends on the answer, but you know, 80, 90% of exactly what I want. And so the modifications I need to make up very minor these days, but when it back and back and when we first begun, it was like, I'm seeing them moving dozens upon dozens of things, moving stuff out and blah, blah, blah. It's just, it's ultimately editors for me. While they certainly bring their own flair and stuff to the video and really does help me that way. The main thing they help me with is just scrubbing through footage, scrubbing through footage and finding the good shit is so annoying. It is the worst part of editing because it's just so much VOD to have to go through. Well, if you stream for seven hours, that's like kind of at least seven hours plus of like time, right? Time's up, I'm fucked! |
| 05. April 2021 | Does dating suck? | Does dating suck? Dating is the worst thing ever. As with all pursuits, the end goal can be amazing if you succeed. But the idea of investing so much time and then failing is obviously not very good. Dating is both high risk and high reward. It might be the highest risk, high reward thing you can do. |
| 24. August 2022 | Does deplatforming work and do the "good ideas" win the public sphere? | platforming work and do the good ideas win in the public sphere. This next one may be a little bit more controversial. Sub or no gamers, tweet it out. Banning Andrew Tate is dumb. Ideas should be challenged and if he spreads misinformation, it should be countered in the public sphere. If you actually believe bans do something, it only amplifies his shitty message onto more users through alternate platforms. Shitty ideas should be countered with sound reasoning in the public eye, these people should be mocked and not treated as digital martyrs. I strongly disagree with these assertions. The biggest example of a mass deplatforming that had an impact was Alex Jones. Alex Jones was once upon a time, ubiquitous, just every way, on the tip of everyone's tongue, every single time he said anything stupid, you'd hear about it on every single platform alive. Then he got deplatformed basically everywhere and you hear about him very rarely, very, very rarely. He took a huge hit to his business. Saying that being deplatformed just pushes people to alternate platforms where they have an even bigger reach is nonsense. It's like saying there is a... compared to YouTube. The reason why we talk about the big social media platforms as basically the public sphere now is because if you're not in them, you're effectively silenced. You do not get a bigger reach. It's possible that those who are already in your camp feel vindicated and like, yeah, they're just trying to keep him, push him down because he's right. But in reality, you will reach far fewer people. This idea that in the public sphere, the good ideas win out and the bad ideas get defeated is fucking nonsense. Hitler could have won World War II. The reason he lost and his ideas ultimately fell in Germany and whatnot isn't because of some innate quality of existence that leads us to the bad guys get defeated. Bad ideas can win. Bad guys in general can win. Maybe a good way of putting it is there are no good or bad ideas. All ideas are simply better or worse in relation to particular goals and because everyone disagrees on what goals people should have, people fundamentally disagree as to what are good or bad ideas. Every single idea has utility towards some goal. Complete fabrications have utility to achieving certain goals. Spreading misinformation is useful to achieve certain goals. What ideas win isn't a matter of which is more true, which is better debated. It's a matter of popularity, how really they can spread, marketing, emotional appeals. More importantly, humans are primarily emotional. One of the things that you come away with as an impossible conclusion to ignore if you take a psych course is that human brains suck. Suck in ways that is disturbing. Once you learn enough about the way your mind works, human behavior in general, why people do what they do, you start thinking, how can I have any confidence in anything that I believe? How can I have any confidence in anything that I do? Because I am a victim of all the hundreds of mental shortcuts that we all have that cause me to accept things unjustifiably or to do things that I just want to do emotionally and that I then retroactively think up rational reasons for the things that I've done. People will want to believe something, Google it, and when they find even just one thing that suggests that it's true, believe it as a matter of fact for the rest of their lives. Inverse is true. They'll see something that is mildly discomforting, that they don't want to believe, and they'll see one fucking thing that is suggestive as false, where it was posted, a spelling error, and they go, oh, that's an error right there, I'm done. That is false for the rest of my life. This is why debating ideas with such people does not work in deplatforming, absolutely does. Maybe it's me being emotional. I don't like to say that debate has no value. I often like to say that debate for anyone who's made up their mind on a topic is fairly pointless. Debate usually works for people who don't have a lot of information already. There's a principle in psychology where we are more likely to defend the first idea that we hear. It's why indoctrination or getting them while they're young is important. You want to get your ideas in there first because they're the most likely ones to take hold and stick in there long term. But like debating another person means that you are also giving a platform to giving those ideas that are bad to the audience as well. Ideas that may emotionally resonate with those people. As a person who once ran a religious debate channel, I have watched debates where I've considered one participant to soundly destroy the other. And then went on to read comments and discuss with people who had the complete opposite opinion. But the question then becomes, should a person be banned? I once talked about this in another Ramble where I would hate to be on one of these social media companies having to decide where the line is. Because there are ideas that are as demonstrably false as possible that harm people. That will lead to the suffering and deaths of thousands of people. That if you let them propagate and spread on your platform, people will be harmed. And so on some level, you have to look at that and either say to yourself, I should put a stop to that. Or there is some higher ideal for society that I should attempt to defend. Which some people would argue is like freedom of information or freedom to make a choice or anti-censorship or whatever it is. And I can't tell you where that line is. I'm happy I'm not the one making that distinction. But Andrew Tate is clearly spreading misinformation, is a scam artist. I know he's been accused of a variety of different criminal associations or criminal acts or what have you. I can't tell you the exact justification for his banning. Was Tate really making any political statements? Oh, he's made statements on like every single topic imaginable. He just spouts nonsense to get attention. That's the game. While the video was not out at the time of this ramble, I quite enjoyed some ordinary gamer's video about Andrew Tate. Talking about his history, the things he's done and the things he's been accused of. Any publicity is good publicity that is absolutely not true. We've discussed that in rambles many times. Demonstrably false. The fear is once you open this door of banning particular ideas that eventually ideas that you approve of and support will similarly be banned for reasons that you wouldn't consider to be justified. I once agreed with this mentality where it's like, well, as many ideas as possible should be allowed in the public sphere in case some ideas that we dismiss out of hand initially actually turn out to be true. Or just in case in the future that these powers that we've given to ban particular people with particular beliefs end up getting inflicted upon the wrong beliefs and the wrong ideas and whatnot. But what I've come to believe is that no amount of being charitable in terms of what ideas are allowed to foster and spread will change in the future. Like, let's say, Nazis took over. Nazis aren't going to get up there and be like, oh, they were really nice. They let our ideas propagate in the public sphere for the last 20 years. Oh, that's nice of them. We won't do any censorship ourselves then. We'll just be charitable. Or what's that? Ideas that are against our fascist nationalistic beliefs. Oh, well, that's okay then. We'll let them slide. They won't go to prison. They won't go to the chambers, whatever. Like, they're not going to do that. No amount of being charitable to these bad ideas is going to lead those same people to be equally charitable when they're in a position of being able to censor. And it's just tough. As I've said many, many times, I am so happy that I'm no longer in a position where changing people's minds matters. For those saying they're just opinions, beliefs inform action. Compartmentalizing what you believe from your actions is impossible. So everything I've seen of Andrew Tate, he spreads some quite harmful shit that if accepted and put into practice would diminish the lives of countless people. And he does it seemingly to enrich himself. He is, as far as I can tell, a bad person. Do I think he should be banned? I would need to know more specifics because while I do think in some cases it makes sense for people to be banned from these platforms, it should be in like the most extreme examples, right? I don't really want a Facebook trawling through posts or whatever to find like the one time they, I don't know, said a slur or something and banning them, you know? There clearly needs to be some leniency, but that same leniency cannot possibly mean that every single person deserves a platform in which to spread stuff that will potentially lead to the harm of others. Not to mention spreading misinformation is a thousand times easier than explaining how it's wrong. Yeah. I saw that Mouda Har wrote the comments being like, I didn't want my tweet to seem like I was defending Andrew Tate or liked him or any way, and I didn't take his tweet to be that way. I disagree with his tweet for every other reason. Mouda Har did get somewhat raked across the coals on Twitter, even though he got a lot of likes on that tweet. |
| 03. June 2020 | Does editing tire me out? | Does editing tire you out? If so, do you not feel as motivated to make videos as much? I mean, any work tires you out and certainly editing is work to a degree and so I do become tired. |
| 10. September 2021 | Does getting a speedrun a world record increase your popularity? | Does getting a speedrun world record increase your popularity? Did my popularity rise after getting my first world record? Not substantially that I can recall. Having world records is always good for streaming because of the advertisement that those runs can get you both on YouTube and for people going to speedrun.com Like there's a quite reasonable amount of people who when they think I wonder if this is speedrunnable, they'll go to speedrun.com look up the world record holder and just follow their stream. You can see in analytics how many viewers or how many clicks on your stream you get from speedruns live and stuff every stream and it's never an insignificant amount. It's a large amount for new streamers and stuff. Certainly if you have a world record in a very unpopular game that no one's looking up, it's not going to help you. |
| 08. May 2021 | Does having kids make people happier? | Does having kids make people happier? I saw something recently where They have surveyed This is off kind of topic. It's to remind me of it. They surveyed people in Different countries to find out in on average in what country does having a kid make you more happy I think there was like 25 countries on the list and so like 12 countries having a kid on average made you happier and this is self reporting of course and the other 12 it made you less happy and At the very bottom I think was Australia where you were like 8% less happy or something and the United States was last as 12% less happy because obviously there's you can't simplify to that degree Like it it likely depends on like how much money you have how secure you are in your circumstances Whether the child was planned or not like it's not as simple as you have a kid and you're 10% less happy or whatever But it was just interesting having a quantifier like that at all and thinking yeah, I wonder what variables go into Whether you're actually happy having kids or not and what is the likelihood of that happening? |
| 22. December 2021 | Does it make sense for Tanisha to be with Franklin now? | Do I think Franklin being with Tanisha makes sense? You can either look at it two ways. Either Tanisha misjudged Franklin's ability to change and therefore she was willing to go back with him, but that seems unlikely considering that he is, you know, kind of still in the business of criminality. Or Tanisha misjudged herself and how willing or able she was to truly get away from like the gang bang criminal world, the streets that she grew up in. And I think the second one is more likely that she tried to do the mundane normal life with her doctor or her lawyer or whatever. And it just didn't fit with her, didn't drive. And she would have gone back to Franklin something more that she knows that's more secure, you know. Wasn't she getting married? There's this funny thing, it's called divorce. It's been around for a little while, a couple hundred years. All I'm saying though, chat, is the major sort of plot moving forward kind of thing has happened with its DLC is me getting my name on the wall in a very serious business here. Look at that, end partner. You can't take that away from me. How I feel hearing GT Online reference GTA V. But why? |
| 03. August 2021 | Does it make sense to have multiple YouTube channels? | Does it make sense to have multiple YouTube channels? What do you think about 3klissphilip and his channels? Have you ever considered having multiple channels for different types of content like him? At different times in YouTube's history, it has made more or less sense to have multiple channels. These days, so there was once upon a time where people would get their videos from their subscription boxes, right? And if you put up too many videos, it would spam people's subscription feeds and they wouldn't appreciate that and would potentially unsubscribe, limiting how many people got access to the videos. These days, because recommendations are the primary way that people get videos, is less necessary to avoid spamming your audience with videos, right? Then again, there is still some loss in viewership releasing two videos in the same day, because people who watch your content on a regular basis can only watch a certain amount of it. So if you release an hour video and a portion of your audience only has an hour of a day to watch videos, and then you release two hour videos, they can't watch them both obviously, right? And that doesn't change if you have multiple channels. There's diminishing returns if you upload too many videos that are too long that your audience literally can't keep up with, and that doesn't change whether you have multiple channels or not. I don't think there's any advantage to having multiple channels, except when you're in situations like me, where it just makes it easier to handle your videos, compartmentalize them. It'd be a hell on the back ends to have to navigate through my clips to find my main channel videos, if I get that by the moment one channel. It is nice to compartmentalize as a content creator. But as far as the algorithm is concerned, I don't think the algorithm takes into account the channel itself all that much. It must do it to a degree. Like if you're watching my clips, it'd be very strange if YouTube wasn't also giving you my main channel videos, and vice versa. Yeah, like if I was in Clicks Phillip's shoes, I would just upload everything to one channel. |
| 04. May 2021 | Does it make sense to move from Twitch to YouTube for livestreaming? | Does it make sense to move from Twitch to YouTube for live streaming? I want the feature that YouTube has where you can rewind during live streams. Absolutely. It is definitely a feature that YouTube has over Twitch. Like the only downside that that has is the possibility that a significant amount of your viewership isn't at the same time as everyone else. But I absolutely agree, it's a good feature. I'm assuming that it's both a hard thing to achieve and given that Twitch wasn't made with that in mind, it's probably not easy to implement. There's not a lot of things that YouTube live streaming has on Twitch, but that is one of them. How many of you know Harris Heller, Alpha Gaming? You don't really need to know him for what I say to make sense here. Harris Heller is a guy who grew popular on Vine, Instagram, but then it all came tumbling down and then he kind of rebuilt himself as the dude who does commentary on Twitch, YouTube, live streaming in general. A bit of tech, a bit of commentary on the industry, blah blah blah. But he made a video yesterday where he said he's moving from Twitch to YouTube to do live streaming. Not because he hates Twitch in any capacity, but his justification was the kind of thing that I talked about before, where YouTube has what TikTok has in the form of shorts, or at least they're putting it there. YouTube has live streaming, which Twitch has, but it also has the offline content. So if you're on Twitch, you have to use other platforms to also grow on to put your other content. There's not a lot of traffic that just goes to Twitch. You kind of have to bring viewers over. And he kind of looked forward to doing everything on one platform and growing with YouTube's live streaming. Because while it isn't as good as Twitch's right now, it's not like leaps and bounds off and he just believes that YouTube is eventually the future because Twitch has no interest in competing with YouTube in the realm of edited content. Basically everything that I've been saying that I don't really like about Twitch. But for me, the all the eggs in one basket thing is one argument against doing everything on YouTube. There is some added security, while there is some inefficiency, being on TikTok, Twitch and YouTube. And certainly TikTok does shorts better than YouTube does because they started far earlier. And of course, Twitch does live stream better than YouTube does because again, they started way earlier. But just the amount of money behind YouTube, the ground is always going to be made. Doing it the first time is often a lot harder than doing it the second time. So YouTube can just see what TikTok has done that has been successful and do that, has seen what Twitch has done and do that. It is of course hard to break into that market and be like, yeah, don't go to TikTok for shorts anymore. Just go to YouTube. But obviously I'm not going to do what he did. But it was just the first time that someone that I knew even in passing, I mean personally, I mean his content, who has just openly said that they haven't gone to YouTube because they got a contract. They haven't gone to YouTube because they hate Twitch. They went, yeah, I think this is just the platform that is going to be the future. In my opinion, I don't think Twitch is going anywhere. I don't think it's going to implode. I just think it's going to slowly lose market share. But if you look at like the numbers of Twitch's growth, I showed them on stream once before, Twitch has just massively grown. Like it doubled in the last year in terms of watch hours, which is a lot harder when you're, you know, a lot bigger. Like going from one to two is easier than going from 50 to 100. Or at least the amount that you need to increase to do that, you know. And while like Facebook gaming grew more than YouTube live streaming, at least it's according to some numbers or whatever. Who knows if they're recording the numbers correctly, but like it doesn't look like Twitch was slowing down at all and COVID has just massively helped it. So maybe I'm being overly bleak and maybe Harris Heller is also being overly bleak about Twitch's future. I just don't know how Twitch is ever going to compete with the discoverability of the edits and content on YouTube's. Until Twitch is no longer dependent upon other platforms to advertise its streamers, it's always going to be in a precarious situation with the future. Who watches Facebook gaming? Who uses Facebook? It's weird to think of people using Facebook, but a lot of people fucking do. Someone do a poll. Who in my audience used Facebook within the last week? It's anonymous guys. You don't have to lie. Don't be like, oh man, but Dark Viper may find out I'm one of the cool, the non-cool people who uses Facebook still are. No, just answer honestly. So Facebook, I believe got sued because they overrepresented engagement by saying like, you know, just scrolling by if a video starts playing, that's a view, which is not the case. Like YouTube doesn't count a view unless you stay for like 15 seconds or something like that. Or you watch a certain portion of the video. I don't know the exact numbers. Instagram doesn't count though. Instagram is technically different even if it's owned by Facebook. Does Messenger with Facebook count? Does anything related to Facebook? In Latin America, Facebook is the Reddit for us. So only 30%. I've never looked into like how much Facebook numbers are declining or whatever. I've never heard anyone saying like Facebook's on the decline. No, actually I have. I remember actually seeing a report like the first year that they actually lost users. Wasn't that, wasn't it 2018? Was it the first year that their amount of active users didn't go increase or something? Yeah, I agree. I think Facebook is the worst. |
| 30. May 2021 | Does livestreaming prevent YouTube content? | Does live streaming prevent YouTube content? So how much of your time do you spend streaming now, Peli? I'm just doing like a few times a week now, man. Does it get in the way of releasing your normal content on YouTube? Honestly, I've just like taken such a different mentality to content lately. I'm just doing it for fun and having a good time and not worrying too much. I like just completely adjusted because I don't know, like I was getting too into it, too into the numbers and stuff. I was like, look, I've got a good thing going. I'm just going to enjoy the journey. How often do you stream? You stream a lot, man. I stream every day. I've been doing it for many, many years. The problem I'm having is it takes so much more energy to stream GTA 5 and be turned on or whatever and be entertaining and do these runs and stuff. And it's so stressful. And I just want to like for the first time in years, I just sat on stream recently and played like some of the old games I used to love, Slay the Spy, They Are Billions, Heroes of Might and Magic, my childhood game. And it was so fun. But my viewership was so much lower and people just complained and complained. And it's just like, oh, God, I just want to play video games. |
| 30. January 2022 | Does mrbeast make the best content on youtube? | Does MrBeast make the best content on YouTube? MrBeast is the best YouTuber, change your mind. It's all in the eye of the beholder. I would trade literally every single MrBeast video that has ever been made for one video made by SummoningSoul. Any of them. Even his earlier ones. I have never watched a MrBeast video and been like, oh my god this is the greatest thing I've ever seen. I mean, not on this side. MrBeast's videos that he makes are... have massive broad appeal. Things that broadly appeal are not necessarily the best content. Like if you've ever seen the movies that are coming out right now where you don't want to take any risks. They want some known established thing that works. That will appeal as broadly as possible. That's MrBeast content. You aren't ever going to be like blown away necessarily. I mean some people are, certainly. But you're never going to end the video and be like, man I wish I hadn't watched that video. Depending upon who you are and what you're interested in. Other content can be way more interesting and impactful to you. MrBeast is the marvel of YouTube? Yeah I guess. Sure. Why does SummoningSoul take so long to upload? He didn't do it full time until recently. I saw him talking somewhere about him going full time. But also it takes a lot of research and efforts to create that kind of content. MrBeast videos is not my thing but I can see why people like it but I personally don't think it's for me. I assure you if you sat down and watched a video, you're not going to hate them. They're a bit over the top for me as well. Like I don't give a shit if a person gets a Ferrari. I don't give a shit if a person gets 10 grand. The stakes are also a bit wonky because you know someone's getting some money. You know? And they're just random people. If random person A or random person B gets a lot of money. You know? |
| 21. September 2022 | Does my Twitch audience watch my YouTube livestreams? | My Twitch audience watch my YouTube live streams. How many of you caught one of my YouTube live streams? So 70% of you. Probably be a little bit more when we get the YouTube discord announcements done. YouTube sellers don't seem that bad to be honest. I think YouTube's filtering system probably removes anything that's really bad. But it's roughly the same people who watch me on Twitch. When 95% of the people find me from YouTube, it's not that big of a difference. I won't repeat my Twitch streaming mistakes with YouTube streaming. I made a lot of mistakes when it came to Twitch streaming that I plan to not make with YouTube streaming. Like I eventually became so focused on making the best YouTube content possible that I didn't like nothing else to make my streaming experience better. One biggest example is turning off alerts. Well alerts can have some funny things happen and give me questions to answer and enable people to you know interact with the stream. They can be distracting from YouTube content, stuff I'm making. Even though I can remove them in post, like I can be mid speaking about something and then lose my train of thought because an alert goes off. But because I have alerts turned off so frequently, no one knows when it'll actually appear and say something on stream. So I get far fewer alerts. I continuously foster in people a feeling of disappointment when they subscribe or give bits or something and then nothing happens. And they're sitting there, like I've been there where I've donated to someone. I've sat there for like 10 minutes being like, so is it gonna do something? Am I waiting for the alert to go off or is it you know? I can just think of the hundreds of people over the years that have sat there in anticipation when nothing's happened and that can foster resentment towards the stream. I'm like zero to three new noticing donors. I just read them all at the end, but that's not what a live stream is meant to be. It's meant to be more interactive. Alerts being off are sometimes a bummer. Exactly. On YouTube, I'm effectively never gonna turn them off. Also over time, I just less and less looked at chat, which made things harder as well. So I'm switching. We'll see. YouTube is changing its life. |
| 23. March 2021 | Does my degree make my words more valuable? | Does my degree make my words more valuable? Thanks for talking about how life is a risk itself. I'm almost 20 years old. I have been scared to ask people out or make friends because I'm scared of hurting my personal image. You should talk about that stuff this more often with your psych degree. I don't think my psych degree makes me in any way shape or form more qualified to speak on such things. My psych degree just gave me a broad overview of what is studied in psychology. It doesn't make me an expert on any such topics, right? Maybe I have a little bit of a better foundation to speak on it than other people, but I hate to think that people put more weight on my words, my own musings, just my own attempts to figure out life because I have a degree. If I don't have a master's like I'm not a practicing psychologist. I'm just a dude who you know. |
| 16. May 2020 | Does other life exist in the universe? | Do you think there is some form of life out in the universe somewhere? Given how large the universe is, yes. Is it intelligent life? Is it life that has any way of contacting us? Probably not, given what we know of physics. It would seem very, very unlikely that in trillions upon trillions upon trillions of masses, how many galaxies are there? Like there's billions upon billions of galaxies, and it's just like, if the picture of it zooming from Earth to the Milky Way, out, out, out, out, out, and it's just like, we are not even visible, our galaxy is not even visible, it's just so fucking tiny, and you're like, yeah, we're the only life in all of that, and you're just like, well that seems kind of stupid. It seems no way. Do I think aliens have ever visited Earth? No, I don't think so. Just because there's no mechanism that we're aware of that would allow such a thing to occur. Without that mechanism, it just automatically seems unlikely. I have watched conspiracy theorists put together patterns of the globe of things that they don't fucking understand. If you have the goal of making a pattern, and you know very little about the world, you're going to find so many fucking patterns, man, that you can't fucking explain. You see them on TikTok all the time, they drive me fucking crazy. Your inability to explain something doesn't make aliens more likely. If you know of a mechanism that would enable intelligent life to form somewhere else, and to come here, talk to me about it. Not just like, you know, I guess they make like wormholes or some shit. Like, practical, we know it can be done. Then I'll be interested. Without that, I'm not interested. I'm not saying that human knowledge is the extent of what is possible. I am saying you judge what is likely based on what is, you know to be possible or probable. Without that mechanism, who cares? I mean, you could make the case that, you know, there's like invisible dragons that are ethereal, and you can't touch them all around us. And I'm like, yeah, you can postulate that. But how? How are they doing that? How are they invisible? How do you know they're dragons? And people are like, oh, well, I don't know, man, but it's pretty cool. I just, I fucking hate conspiracy theory. |
| 30. September 2022 | Does releasing weaker videos hurt a YouTube channel overall? | Does releasing weaker videos hurt a YouTube channel overall? It has always been hotly debated whether or not releasing poorly performing videos matters. Cause there are channels out there that are getting a million views on one video, 20,000 views on the next video, and then a million views on the next video. It is without a doubt a fact that you can release poorly performing videos and still have really well performing videos. But what isn't determinable is, had that 20,000 view video not been there, in my example, would those videos have gotten more than a million views? Maybe they would have gotten 10 million views. We have no way of knowing. It is the problem with success that even if you're succeeding, you don't necessarily know why, or whether or not you're doing things that are preventing you from succeeding even further. Just because you're succeeding doesn't mean you're doing things optimally. I question whether my, this is what you missed stuff is negatively impacting my channel. Cause I know like, I'm gonna release another episode in a week or two. You'll get 20,000 views, and maybe a thousand people watch it to the end. Those thousand people will probably like it and appreciate it, and I would like to release it for that reason. But I'm hesitant to, cause the views on the channel aren't doing amazing. Like shorts are doing amazing. Live is doing pretty good. But I've dipped below 10 million views a month for my long form content videos. And that's something I don't want. I was really just releasing, this is what you missed to pad out my content, so that I didn't run out of videos, so I could still release one every day. We'll see. YouTube membership versus Twitch subscription. What does becoming a channel member give? Mainly just access to my emails currently, I think. Oh, and I read your comments first when you leave them under my videos. There's a dude who's a member who always leaves timestamps, just as like reminders for him where he is up. |
| 30. May 2021 | Does rockstar like us even though we are critical. | Does Rockstar like us and our content even if we are critical of them? At the end of it all of our content just makes them millions upon millions of dollars. Oh, yeah easily and that's why I hate when I get comments from people saying dude the game literally makes you money You can't say anything bad about it. Like stop complaining. You sound like a child I'm like bro. I've made them more money than they made me like I'm allowed to complain about it. Yeah |
| 20. October 2021 | Does rockstar pay speedrunners for world records | Does Rockstar pay speedrunners for world records? Do they give out money to whomever manages to world record a speedrun, or am I thinking of something else? You're thinking of something else. If Rockstar actually gave money out to people who got world records, people would rig the system something fierce. Like two guys would just trade world record back by 0.1 seconds. |
| 27. October 2021 | Does someone at Subway like me? | ["Sweet Home Alone"] Does someone at Subway like me? The person at Subway gave me a free orange juice, further cementing my belief that at least someone at the Subway likes me. But it's possible that it's just, you know, giving a free sample of something. That's a fucking huge free sample. |
| 16. December 2019 | Does space fascinate me | Does the thought of space fascinate me? Does the thought of space fascinate me? No. Like it fascinates me in a very limited way, as in, so much of what is cool in space is like, what's the phrase, a complete anathema to our very existence. Like it, we can't come into contact with it in any capacity or use it for any practical means, so knowing about it, while interesting, is not usually the best use of time. Certainly, I do value those who are interested enough to study these kinds of things, because I mean, how can we know that things out in the universe aren't valuable to us or useful to us, practically? The only way we can know that is to study it, right? There is so much that is unknown, and people who are trying to figure things out about the universe and the world in general, you know, it's a noble pursuit, but it's just not one that's super interesting. |
| 03. February 2020 | Does streaming hardware matter? | Okay, does equipment matter? Quality so low that it's distracting from the content is certainly not what you want. There are endless small variables that, if improved, can potentially increase your likelihood of success. Not everything is equally as important, as in if you spend $10,000 on the most beast stuff around, it isn't going to necessarily make you successful. It might give you an ability to gain a viewer here or there, but investing a significant amount of money in something that you haven't been successful at to this point, or might not be successful at in the future, and you might not see return on investment, that's not a smart move. You can get perfectly serviceable streaming equipment for a couple hundred bucks. You can look at big streamers right now using Blue Yeti microphones and C920 from Logitech as a webcam. |
| 01. June 2020 | Does streaming hurt speedruns | being closed on YouTube, I would just take all my content off it and put it somewhere else and still upload it on YouTube. YouTube has all the eyeballs, they have all the money. How much do you think commentating GTA affects your speedruns and how much better do you think you'd do when you weren't commentating? It's not the commentating. So I always talk about this 99% of the time if I am looking over a chat it's perfectly acceptable for me to do so. There's a 99% chance that driving down this road nothing's going to happen. But that 1% of the time I'll hit something that completely unexpected happens and I'll lose time. I would clearly do better if I was entirely focused on the game and never read chat, but I wouldn't enjoy the experience as much. When Burhax said he was going to start doing runs off stream, I basically just went like I'm never going to be able to compete with that. If you're 100% focused on the game in every capacity, like you never even glance around you, you're going to have less of a likelihood of missing something than I would trying to be entertaining for chat and whatnot. In my experience, I never managed to get a better time when I had chat turned off compared to when I had chat turned on. But it's just you know, you can infer that with less distractions you would do better. That's the way it is with everything. |
| 01. June 2020 | Does streaming hurt speedruns? | being closed on YouTube, I would just take all my content off it and put it somewhere else and still upload it on YouTube. YouTube has all the eyeballs, they have all the money. How much do you think commentating GTA affects your speedruns and how much better do you think you'd do when you weren't commentating? It's not the commentating. So I always talk about this 99% of the time if I am looking over a chat it's perfectly acceptable for me to do so. There's a 99% chance that driving down this road nothing's going to happen. But that 1% of the time I'll hit something that completely unexpected happens and I'll lose time. I would clearly do better if I was entirely focused on the game and never read chat, but I wouldn't enjoy the experience as much. When Burhax said he was going to start doing runs off stream, I basically just went like I'm never going to be able to compete with that. If you're 100% focused on the game in every capacity, like you never even glance around you, you're going to have less of a likelihood of missing something than I would trying to be entertaining for chat and whatnot. In my experience, I never managed to get a better time when I had chat turned off compared to when I had chat turned on. But it's just you know, you can infer that with less distractions you would do better. That's the way it is with everything. |
| 03. June 2022 | Does the content in the reaction matter is it only the reactor? | content in the reaction matter or is it only the reactor? If it were the case that people watch more for the person doing the reaction than the content itself, for one, people couldn't maintain their viewership when they leave the room by playing other videos, but for two, they wouldn't need the videos. They could just sit and talk to their chat and keep the same viewership, which clearly they can't. And you can even tell it's not just for the person reacting because the viewership given to any particular reaction changes depending upon what they're reacting to. If it were the case that the reactor was the main draw, the viewership for each of the viewers would be exactly the fucking same. It's not. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 27. August 2022 | Does the internet still hold creators accountable for thier actions? | creators accountable for their actions. I think Linus was the first person I heard outright say it. The internet always finds out. If you're gonna do something, you wanna do your best to do it above board, or else the internet's gonna find out and there's gonna be ramifications for it. Recently though, I've kinda begun to doubt that, where it seems as though it doesn't matter what you do, as long as you just keep making content, eventually you'll be fine again. It's very rare that a person experiences so much backlash that they can't just recover by just staying in the game and everyone forgets. There's just so many people watching content, and eventually the people who hate you leave and the people who don't care stay, and they get replaced, and the people who leave get replaced by new people and you just, you're fine again. Like it's hard to think of a large streamer who hasn't done something really scummy or run some sort of a scam, you know? Glasses. |
| 04. November 2021 | Does twitch deserve a cut of sub revenue? | Does Twitch deserve a cut of sub revenue? These are my thoughts after seeing someone complain that her community wants to give her five dollars not Twitch 250 and her 250 and they should have that option. The overwhelming vast majority of Twitch streamers just cost Twitch money. 99.9% of people who have ever streamed on Twitch have just costed Twitch money. I'm including in that the people who've like streamed once and then just bailed and stuff right? People don't think about that. They just say oh I'm losing this money and Twitch is taking it. Grrr. What's that? I cost Twitch money for like four years becoming drawing my community and Twitch dares to take my money when I was just using their free service and costing them money and like Twitch never complained because Twitch is business model. They offer you a free service in the hopes that you grow large enough that they can recoup their cost of you growing. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 26. December 2021 | Does uploading less popular content hurt your other videos? | Does uploading less popular content hurt your other videos? I mean, I once had an argument with another content creator, that's not named names, about whether your channel matters for recommendations of content. So you may notice on my channel, for example, I'll upload a really good video next to my rambles, which I know won't be as successful. So I'll upload a video that I know will get 600,000 views, and I'll upload another one that I know will get 60,000. And I don't give a shit. But some people will say, that second video you've uploaded, Matt, has now just fucked the rest of your videos. In YouTube's algorithm, it's gonna be like, whoa, this person's uploading shitty videos and he got 60,000 views, I'm gonna recommend his other videos less. And I say to everyone, that doesn't make sense for YouTube to do, because YouTube just wants to know what the good videos are. And an unsuccessful video does not imply that another video is bad. A bad video doesn't change the content of a good video. The late night channels are the best to show this, right? So 5K views next to two videos with 100K. And you have like the actual episodes themselves, 1.4 million, next one, 179. You'll have, see, a million view video, million view video. So this is a channel that uploads both 6K view videos and million view videos. The algorithm seems to, as much as it possibly can, judge each individual video on its own merit. And this benefits new content creators. |
| 24. October 2022 | Does youtube give new creators room to succeed and my tips for success. | and my tips for success. I am frequently presented with videos from people who have like under 200 views in their videos. And all those videos suck. All of them. YouTube 100% gives small creators a chance to grow and to be seen. This. When you're a small creator, the space available for you is very competitive. Like YouTube probably allocates, let's say, 10% of their impressions to like the bottom 90% of creators. So you're only going to get a few people clicking on your videos. And if you aren't getting like 100% of those people watching, the algorithm is not going to think you've got a good video in your hands, right? Your video has to be pretty fucking impressive to be able to capture like the random people at like 2am. Like, oh, what's this fucking thing? Oh, it's garbage. Click off, you know? But the problem with that is people who are small creators don't know how to make quick, engaging videos. Everyone, when they first started out was shit. It's just how it is. But what a lot of content creators who are small don't realize is you can't get big or get successful doing the same thing that everyone else is doing. You can't be the hundredth person to talk about X video game. I was talking to a small content creator recently. I said to him like, look, when you make a video, think who is going to be clicking this video and why would you click this video? If you were shown the thumbnail and title, if you didn't know who made it, don't try to make videos for your audience. You think you've got an audience when you have 300 subscribers. You don't have an audience. No one cares. Never make videos for your audience. You're making a video for the general population that exists who have no idea who you are. And like every content creator should be thinking of that all the time. How I make my video as appealing as possible to a wide variety of people. My rambles, for example, for the longest time were just filler and they were made just for people who know me. But now I do my best to make them a little bit more broadly appealing with the thumbnail and the voice. When I do the topics and stuff and all that jazz. The hardest thing about being a smaller content creator is you have no idea all the things you're doing wrong. And I know that because I didn't know all the things I was doing wrong when I was a small content creator. We all start shit, but some of us are lucky enough to stick around long enough to develop the skills, to figure out what we're doing wrong and stumble across things that happen to work and get enough of an audience that we can keep going and learn to be better content creators. I've just been presented because when I look for editors, people will often show me their channels and I look at them and go this person will never make it. They will never get anywhere doing what they're doing right now if they just keep doing it. I will see people for years doing the same things. Never get getting there, but never breaking out. Because a lot of people make videos for themselves, things that they want to make. They want to throw out their opinions about stuff, things that they're passionate about, but they don't really think about how to package that for an audience. They're like, well, if I get an audience, cool. But you can make things you're passionate about, things that you love, because that's the best stuff to make really. But with just a few small changes, thinking about who you're appealing to, you can change your content in small subtle ways to actually build an audience. Tips for video editing on YouTube. Do not waste people's time. Anytime where you stop and say, hey, I'd like to give a shout out to, I'd like to give a thanks to, hey, so like two months ago, guys, I made this video, scrap all that shit. Your video that you just released right now should be in of itself a bubble. Nothing else, I'm doing a square bit, nothing else exists outside of it. It should be a perfect package that any person who watches it will immediately be able to understand everything that's going on without having their time wasted. No, you make 30 minute long videos. It just all has to be engaging. You can't spend five minutes building up before you get to the premise that's answered in your title. You've got to have a hard-hitting title that as many people as possible are going to be interested when they read it to see what's going on in the video. Something that leaves a question unanswered or suggests something is interesting in the video. And then you've got to immediately jump as quickly as possible into paying off the title in an engaging way. It's tough. It is tough. I get videos from people that I can look at and go, this person can edit, but they don't understand how to make YouTube videos. But the scene selection makes no sense. They've picked scenes because they personally enjoyed them because they were there in the moment, not because they're going to be appealing to a wide audience. And it's just, you know, what's the best way to build up a poor quality of edited work? Usually making videos yourself on a YouTube channel, I suppose. Pick an idea, write a script, make a video. To use an example of what I just talked about, there's a video game called Tunic that I really like. And I was introduced to two sub 400 subscriber channels because they were the only two channels that I found that were making lore videos about Tunic. Tunic, not a super successful game. That's why that niche existed and some huge channel didn't do it. But that's just an example. How do you achieve success on the level of Mr. Beast? So the pathways to success that you end up usually getting are things that you luck into. Because prior to your success, you don't generally know how to be successful. You don't have the tools or the skills or that jazz, especially to have monumental success in the order of many millions of dollars, right? Mr. Beast was fortunate enough that the random thing that he tried was spectacle. It is not possible with GTA V speedrunning to be as successful as Mr. Beast. It's not possible. There's just not enough an audience for it. Mr. Beast, the thing that worked for him in the end was spectacle. And spectacle is liked by millions upon millions of people. It has a lot more legs than a kind of niche category of success like I have. And I've expanded beyond the initial area that I gained my success. But I can't rapidly expand far away from it without taking upon risk. And it'd be sort of silly to give up more easily obtainable success in the hopes of achieving greater success that I may not be able to get, you know? The risk versus reward of abandoning my smaller niche area of success is just not worth it. Cool Mr. Beast did is he succeeded once with spectacle, then he went a little bit bigger, succeeded again, and went bigger and slightly bigger and slightly bigger and slightly bigger. And he had the advantage of existing prior to Mr. Beast. In the same way, it's easier to become Amazon before Amazon exists. It's easier to become Mr. Beast before Mr. Beast exists. At least to some degree. Because certainly once someone has done something, it makes it easier to mimic them and get a portion of their success. Because there are a lot of Mr. Beast clones. None of them as successful as Mr. Beast, but still pretty damn successful, you know? YouTube is so weird that just because something worked out for one person in a particular circumstance doesn't mean it'll work out for another person in another circumstance. I mean that's not just YouTube though, it's life in general. No two people have the exact same variables impacting them at any given time. Two identical twins in the same town who've been joined at the hands the entire time are still not identical in every variable that's impacting them. And so if you try to model your success after another person, doing everything that they did, it doesn't mean you're going to succeed. Because you're never going to be doing the exact same circumstances that they did. The variables outside their control that just happened to go just right are not necessarily going to be the same ones that you need to go your way, you know? Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 26. May 2021 | Doge Coin | Dogecoin. Have I seen Dogecoin? Yes. Very interesting to watch people pump up the value of a coin and then bail. Let's be real. Like if your game plan is to buy a coin when it's low and sell it when it's high, it's just a pyramid scheme at that point. You do the initial investment and you want other people to buy in, increasing the value of your investment and then you bail. And you bailing of course reduces the value of the investments that other people have done, but now you've made a lot of money off the people who have done the investments after you. You're not using it, it doesn't have any value in terms of buying anything or it doesn't have any practical use or anything. It's just something that you can park your money hoping that other people park their money after you so that you get more money. Stocks work the same way. I mean they're tied to something in reality with practical purpose that can drive up its own value. As in it's more than simple hype. Like you're sitting there on your investment not just hoping more people invest. You're hoping that the company does well inspiring people to invest. That the company produces some product of wealth, value to society, leading people to invest. When you've got a Dogecoin, all you're hoping is that the meme continues on and people buy in, also hoping to be one of those people who can bail at the top. When they talk about buying the dip, you're ultimately trying to be the one in the pack who doesn't lose their money. You're looking at all the other investors going, I'm going to leave at the right time, leaving you guys losing a lot of value. I'm going to be taking home your money. |
| 26. May 2021 | Dogecoin | Dogecoin. Have I seen Dogecoin? Yes. Very interesting to watch people pump up the value of a coin and then bail. Let's be real. Like if your game plan is to buy a coin when it's low and sell it when it's high, it's just a pyramid scheme at that point. You do the initial investment and you want other people to buy in, increasing the value of your investment and then you bail. And you bailing of course reduces the value of the investments that other people have done, but now you've made a lot of money off the people who have done the investments after you. You're not using it, it doesn't have any value in terms of buying anything or it doesn't have any practical use or anything. It's just something that you can park your money hoping that other people park their money after you so that you get more money. Stocks work the same way. I mean they're tied to something in reality with practical purpose that can drive up its own value. As in it's more than simple hype. Like you're sitting there on your investment not just hoping more people invest. You're hoping that the company does well inspiring people to invest. That the company produces some product of wealth, value to society, leading people to invest. When you've got a Dogecoin, all you're hoping is that the meme continues on and people buy in, also hoping to be one of those people who can bail at the top. When they talk about buying the dip, you're ultimately trying to be the one in the pack who doesn't lose their money. You're looking at all the other investors going, I'm going to leave at the right time, leaving you guys losing a lot of value. I'm going to be taking home your money. |
| 31. July 2021 | Dogecoin is stupid | Dogecoin is stupid. There's nothing tangible or valuable about Dogecoin. As in, it's not connected to anything in real life. There doesn't even seem to be any motivation to make it into tradable in of itself or make it into an actual currency. It was made as a meme, as a joke. It was never intended to be a sincere investment. The i- Dogecoin becoming what it is now, going up 4,000% of its stuff, shows how fucking fragile and stupid investments are. And this idea of, oh, you know, capitalism means that, uh, capital is distributed in the economy in an optimal way. It's like, I'm not saying other systems can do it better, but look at Dogecoin and how much money has been thrown at that, something with absolutely no value and has no reason to exist, has no justification in society at all, and people throw money at it. You're wrong? In what? It was literally made as a joke. A joke! You bought Dogecoin and made a solid $100? Yes, someone else gave you $100. You got $100, but someone else lost $100. The dude who sold to you lost the value as it increased afterwards. Dogecoin is everyone trying to buy something of effectively no value, well, actually no value, and then hoping to bail and leave other people with the losses. You never do Dogecoin- It's called Dogecoin! It's the biggest giveaway! It was literally made to mock cryptocurrency. They say, look how fucking easy it is to make a cryptocurrency, I'll just make one right now, Dogecoin! And it's what it is now. Markets are tied to things in reality of value. They can be high-pin different companies and stuff, but the companies can go up in value because of more than simply hype. A company does well in its earnings. So people buy the stock. Company does bad, loses a CEO, you know? There are things external to the stock price itself that dictate whether it's likely gonna go up and down in terms of people buying it. With Doge, it's like, are people buying Doge? Are people buying- are more people buying Doge? Are people buying Doge? Can I buy Doge with the expectation that other people will also buy Doge? Are more people buying Doge? Okay, I'm gonna buy some. No one else is buying Doge. Sell! Sell! Sell! It's literally a promise of a hype. Is it hype? Buy. Is it not hype? You sell. You sell to the detriment of everyone else. People hype in Doge again? Up? Yeah. No hype? Sell. Like, people might buy a stock because they think, oh, you know, the fucking- they bring out a new product or something. So things are gonna change. Or, like, the purpose of the stock market is, at least initially, to give capital to companies so they can do shit with that capital. Make tangible shit. That they make a public offering to get funds to do stuff to expand the company. With Doge, where's it going? It's trading around fucking currency. It's not- it's not- it's not- nothing productive is coming from that capital. At the very- at the very least, the existence of some crypto might be okay, but in general, yeah, I do shun the idea of crypto. Currency trading has been a thing practically- yes, but at the very least it has, like, it's tied to governments and their existence. And the- the economies of different countries. If you think the economy's going bad or good, you can buy different currencies. It's tied to the real world. Like, I've never seen a greater condemnation of modern economic systems or crypto- the world in general. Doge, crypto isn't controlled by individuals. Or rather, um, it's the same with the normal economy, where there- there- Each crypto has a handful of people who control the vast majority of the coins, including, um, large financial institutions have brought up a bunch of different coins. The biggest rises is huge financial institutions buying these coins. These people who ha- have all the money, right, they're not sitting on their asses with crypto, they're- they're buying it too. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 03. May 2020 | Dogs are more responsibility than I thought | are more responsibility than I thought. I'm still on the fence with getting a dog. Like, I just don't think I have the necessary time to give it the attention it would need. Like, when I- when I've learned more about what it takes to take care of a dog, we- we- we didn't take care of the dog. My- or my old dog when I was growing up well enough. Probably when we were kids we did, but- and certainly my mother and father did something- like, did a lot of the stuff, but- because I think it was a shits- shitsuit across something else was my dog growing up, and he did not get a walk every day. Especially when my parents divorced. My dad would come by like once or twice a week to give my mom. But I guess at that point like, my dad would run him a lot, like, you know, they- they'd run for hours an actual run. So, maybe- maybe he was fine on that. |
| 20. October 2022 | Doing IRL streaming is scary. | In real life streaming is scary. See, I said it on Twitter, like, I couldn't even stream in the airport. I was super concerned that I'd go there and people would be looking at me like, why the fuck is this guy streaming? What is he talking, who is he talking to? Why is he talking to himself? And I just couldn't do it. A part of the reason I didn't stream is because I just didn't want to stress myself out before the flight or whatever. But a big reason was because turning it on and just disregarding everyone in my surrounding would have been very tough, you know? Couldn't fathom doing what a lot of in real life people do, streamers. Like, literally just talking to random strangers. Like, they're just walking by who don't know you and shit. I don't know how. Can you show your mod menu in real life? You guys are my mod menu in real life. I have access to like a thousand people who will tell me shit. Usually completely useless shit and incorrect information, but sometimes really correct information. And that's pretty good. It's like a superpower. As in, I value you guys. You guys are cool. As I've often said, prior to my online life, I didn't really get any like positive reinforcement for anything that I did. My friends were friends, were largely just shitheads who would just put me down at every turn. I mean, outside my family, my family was always supportive. But hearing a person in real life say, hey, I like your stuff. It's something that really matters to me. And I greatly appreciate it. |
| 12. December 2021 | Doing a stream without a mic and only a soundboard | Doing a stream without a mic and only a soundboard. I would love to do a stream where I just used a soundboard and... uh, to see how long it would take you guys to notice. Thanks for the sub, kind viewer! Oh no! Damn! Well that's weird. Can you feel the love tonight? Ron's dead. Yay! |
| 08. May 2021 | Doing chaos mod in other games | Doing Chaos mod in other games. Now I could never do Chaos in Red Evidemption 2, like, I think doing Chaos is far more entertaining when you know the game inside and out. You know, you know all the tools that you can possibly use to get from A to B and to circumvent the damage of Chaos and whatever. Like, if you've only played the game once and Chaos teleports you to somewhere you've never been, you can be stuck there for like the next four hours because you just don't know what to do. Someone told me that there's now like a Skyrim Chaos and stuff. I wonder how much, because obviously like randomizer mods existed prior to GTA V. I wonder like what was the progenitor, what was the first Twitch interactive randomizer mod kind of thing. Of course I've heard of DougDug. You reckon DougDug was the one who, because I mean he does a lot of stuff like that. I'm sure like this was just some ancient thing. Or like, because remember we talked about before how like games came along that had Twitch interaction. And so they probably came along first and then that was combined with the randomizer mod. |
| 11. December 2020 | Doing collabs with other streamers | Doing collaborations with other streamers. Would I join any streamer for G2 Online? Oh absolutely. Think about it this way guys. How would you feel if you had to just randomly interact with a stranger? Talk to them for prolonged periods of time while playing a particular game. It could be done, certainly. But you recognize the risk that you'd be running there. That you'd not have a personality that would drive with the other person. Or that you'd end up frustrated or something but you'd still have to continue and stuff. Those risks with you and a stranger, it's the exact same with content creators. Liking a person, like I think Doug Doug seems to be good dude. Seems to be like a person I'd like. Doesn't mean we necessarily drive if we did content together, you know. And for me who hasn't done a lot of collaborations. The only collaborations I've done is when I got ClixPhilip to give me some lines for Pacifist. He said, in his emails, he said nothing. The only thing, I sent him an email and said, hey look, can you give me these lines? And I can put them in my video. And all he sent me back was those lines in an audio recording. Cut to the chase that man. I even asked him for a redo of one of the lines but slower. And he just sent me back that line. Not a guy who, what's the, mince his words, ClixPhilip. And then just Modus Pelicum where I DMed him on Twitter and asked him for some lines for Pacifist as well. Beyond that, haven't collaborated with anyone. I'm sure like if I reached out to any of the other kind of GTA people who make online content and just said, hey look, let's just play online or something for an hour or two. I'm sure they'd say yes and I'd get a video out of it but I don't know. I don't know about Bruffy. The sense I get from Bruffy is he's kind of straight-laced. What we really should do is play something completely different. Like we, I should make the effort to get together a bunch of GTA people and we should all play among us. |
| 31. August 2020 | Doing full speedruns again | Doing full speedruns again. Uh, yes, a snow speedrun was always on the books for something that I wanted to do. But I'm currently... I'm currently not even competent at... Like, obviously I could do a speedrun of the entire game, but I, uh... It wouldn't go amazingly well, and I... I want to do each of the segments first. Maybe people are right, maybe I should just move on from Travisent and... Do the other segments so I can get back to doing full runs. Like, going back to full runs, like where just every stream I completed a full run of the game, It would do wonders for my view count and my followers and stuff. Not only that, but I think I'd really enjoy it. It's just I'm not sure I have the energy, you know? Saying you do a six hour speedrun is very different than actually doing one. |
| 10. January 2021 | Doing gimmick speedruns . | Doing gimmick speedruns. First-person run? I don't know why people want me to do a first-person run so badly. When I get back to doing speedruns, as in like I know all the strats, I'm doing full runs again. I will do heaps of gimmick runs, but there'll be gimmick runs where they won't be, like it won't impede my ability to actually speedrun. Like I might change something cosmetic about my character, might make it always snowing for example, stuff like that. Things where I can still learn the run and practice the run, but things look a little bit different, you know. Both for the YouTube content and just to kind of change things up, right? But when I start getting closer to PB and become more competitive again, I will stop doing that stuff. |
| 29. May 2020 | Doing more challenge runs | Matt, do you think you're doing a GTA 5 RP or a different type of challenge run? I'm doing challenge runs now and I will continue to do modded variations of GTA 5 runs for a while, but there aren't any other challenges that are really interesting to do that change up the gameplay in a significant way enabling me to learn more things about the game and to approach the game in a different way. Like if you I know make my character drunk for the entire game sure, that'd be it'd be interesting for like an hour maybe two hours tops, but it wouldn't be interesting for the entire fucking game That's the problem and it wouldn't really change much about the way the game is played I would just be playing the game the same way but a little bit inconvenienced in the same way that if I used vehicles as a little as possible Might be interesting for an hour maybe two hours tops, but it'd just be boring You know, there's not a lot of challenges that for the entire game Change something significant enough that it it's really worth doing for the entire game It's why I'm gonna be doing that series where I just do an hour or two of the game with one particular effect permanently on. The first part of that series was the low render distance run, right? For an hour for an hour I played with the load render distance mod permanently on it was fucking terrible I could not imagine doing an entire run with that mod permanently on but for an hour wasn't too bad Even though I wasn't feeling particularly bad that day, but that is in the future. I will not do GTRP It's just not something I'm interested in. Do you |
| 27. October 2020 | Doing more cooking streams | Make basically anything interesting. As long as you have footage. Certainly it helps if the original footage is interesting. Maybe, maybe some footage is unsavable. But a person screwing around in the kitchen and failing massively, that's just gonna be funny, right? But at the same time, I'm not as bad at that kind of stuff now. And I don't really cook food. I just can't imagine how I would do that and make it interesting. You're kind of derpy when you do stuff like cooking unintentionally funny. Yeah. I mean, I know what I'm doing to an extent. It's one of those things where, um, when you know you're being recorded, you're more naturally communicative. And it's just a skill you develop over time. Like you have, like, my alarm goes off, either I internally go, oh, this is unfortunate and walk over and change it, or I make noises expressing my frustration. You know, and one of those two is going to be more interesting. It's the narration of what you're doing that can help things be interesting. I don't know. It's hard to explain. What I'm saying is I don't think it's just the editing. I think I'm funny sometimes. My lost footage. I played through all of God of War over the course of like three days. I mean, the newest one. I didn't record any of it. God of War. |
| 06. March 2021 | Doing no damage runs without alt strats | Doing no damage runs without alt strat. Would this be impossible without alt strat? Or just super difficult? It would definitely be possible. But uh, as I've said before, your biggest barrier would be Polito score. Because only on your first attempt is the bank door open. So you'd be playing six hours, get to Polito score, and have like a 25% chance of being able to get into the bank and knock a chop. Basically all that would happen is in, let's say, 30 spots in the run or something, your chances of being shot would go from 0.1% to like 5%. So you'd have to get lucky far, far, far more. And you would imagine though, without alt strat, I would go to more efforts to find even more reliable strats. But it's inconceivable that the route would ever become safe enough where alt strat wouldn't still be valuable. I haven't done the Polito beginning enough to really say, but it's a quite short walk to get back into the bank. It's not that long. It's long enough that the odds of you being shot are still very high. |
| 03. May 2020 | Doing other challenge runs | It took until like I had nothing else to watch for me to watch more manga, watch more anime Doing other challenge runs and GT online. I get recommendations for types of runs all the time. The problem is Most of them don't seem fun or challenging. It's like only get into cars if you have to There's a difference between something being challenging and just tedious, you know What I'm planning to do is a thing called GT 5 but different Where I play through the game in different sections With one mod constantly on so like similar to what I did with the low render distance But with other mods the next one I want to do is ghost all characters and all vehicles are invisible I might have to do one or the other because if I have both of them, I think I'd be very confused |
| 14. January 2021 | Doing sponsorships on YouTube | So it does help you are sponsorships or yeah sponsorships like just getting stuff done like advice like anything you need Just having someone to talk to about stuff is really good. Have you done me sponsorships? I know I just watched a video where you're like brought to you by Rachel legends. No, I just kidding that Thing yeah, like I have but I think I'm gonna start doing a few more but Yeah, man I just I feel like I just sort of chill out make content and the years have gone by and I've enjoyed I've loved what I've Been doing streaming on twitch again, but I don't know like I just never in any rush to sort of do anything And then as a result, you know You might be a bit the same like you've kind of blown up in the last few years and you've just been doing your thing Speedrunning and it's just like, you know, suddenly here we are having a chat. Yeah basically, I might my So I like to think of it as chilling but I'm just doing content and editing 24 7 like every moment I'm awake I'm doing something on social media or streaming or whatever. I got nothing. I got nothing else in my life It's the only thing that's ever given me any kind of satisfaction I do feel like it's just been like a chill journey and I've been bobbing along But I've been reflecting on I'm like man. I've worked my fucking ass off to some degree. Yeah Definitely like what I was working two jobs to get the channel going. I remember saying to myself I've got to remember how fucking hard this is not sleeping at all Like and then yeah, that's as I got to go full-time and got a lot easier but certainly When it comes to sponsorships though, like I just I just look at and go I'm making enough money and it's all looks like such a pain the ass hammering out with Figuring out the payment is and what they exactly want and stuff I mean having a management group is you've now got probably will make that easier But but I got get all these emails and I'm just like I just want to make my content man. I'm behind and editing and shit |
| 29. December 2020 | Doing the new online heist solo. | Doing the new online high solo. Yeah, so I stopped into a stream or two of the new online stuff and it does look interesting. Oli is different. I didn't stick around that long and didn't want to spoil it for myself, but I am interested to play it. Given that you can do the new content solo, it seems that Rockstar has my, the same opinion as me when it comes to solo content these days. Like people have said, why don't they just make single player DLC now? I'm like, it's way too late for that because there's no reason that they can't just release whatever single player DLC they would release as multiplayer. Like why would they just restrict the ability to do it multiplayer? They're better off doing what they've just done now, which make it both solo and multiplayer. If they make just single player DLC, the only thing that will do is make it so you can't play it with your friends. There's no advantage in that at this point. Who needs friends? I mean, there's that song. But you gotta have friends. I mean, by that donkey, Eddie Murphy. |
| 28. April 2021 | Domino's and pizza hut | Domino's and Pizza Hut I'm gonna be real with you chat if I ever move a consideration of where I moved to is where the Domino's is open 24-7 I should contact my local Domino's and be like look, I know you don't open Until 11 a.m. I know you don't take pizzas after midnight, but look look look I Can keep you open I can buy a lot of pizzas. We can work something out buy a store genius idea I move into Domino's that I own delivery times Way down no travel time. I speed run pizza delivery. I see no downside to this plan I know what John's is but Pizza Hut round here sucks It's almost criminal how bad Pizza Hut is around here I know Pizza Hut in general has declined but the franchise here is awful They have no fucking idea how to make a pizza. There is more grease than there is pizza By the time the pizza gets to you the box is soaked it all tastes like plastic I'm not convinced. There's any meat on Pizza Hut pizzas in this area as someone who lives next door to a pizza place Let me tell you it's a curse and blessing having your pizza always hot and fresh is great But having that smell always around lunchtime is testing my resolve every single day As I always say everything has upsides and downsides for someone |
| 23. August 2021 | Dominos “free pizza” scam | Domino's free pizza scam. So fun fact chat, there's this thing that Domino's does where you can pay three dollars to say, hey look, if you bring the pizza in 20 minutes, cool, but if you don't, you gotta give me a free pizza. I know why I phrase this, if I'm offering them the deal, they offer me the deal, where we'll get you their pizza in 20 minutes, or we'll give you a free pizza if you pay us three dollars. It's almost like a scam in a way, because whatever the cost is for the pizza, like the raw materials, it's probably like three bucks, four bucks, five bucks, whatever. And so many people are either not gonna redeem these codes, or are going to just pay the three dollars and the person's gonna get there in time. Or even if they use this voucher, you can't get delivery unless you pay 22 dollars, as in you gotta buy 22 dollars worth of things to get delivery. So if you're using this free voucher, you still have to spend 22 dollars, so it's like they're bringing you back again. So basically, it's basically a scam. But the reason that I do it is because if I'm really fucking hungry, I'm like, I don't care about three dollars, I just want them to bring me my pizza as fast as possible. And so I've been doing this whenever I'm really hungry for quite a while, and I looked in my inbox, and they've given me like 10 free pizzas, and I've gotten none of them. Because that was not my goal, I wanted the pizza faster, I didn't want another pizza, because I didn't want to make myself fatter by eating too much pizza. So what I'm gonna try and do, is I'm gonna see next time I order a pizza, if they'll accept multiple codes. Can I just order 10 pizzas? Is that a thing? I'll just put them on the fridge, and then I'll eat them slowly, and they'll be disgusting after like two days, but you know. It was not a thing, the codes expire, only two works. |
| 24. September 2021 | Don't give me money you can't afford | Don't give me money you can't afford. If you are broke you definitely should not sell. Please do not sell to me if you are not doing well financially. I'm not going to name names but someone recently donated me some money and they've fallen on hard times. I know how unexpected this is hard times, but I went back and refunded everything they ever gave to me to help them out. Like I'd rather people just, I don't want to think that I'm negatively impacting people or inspiring people to donate to me money that they can't afford or something like that. I'm doing okay. If you want to support me and can do so, I'm really appreciative of it, but I don't want people to put themselves in the poorhouse to support me. |
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| 06. August 2020 | Donations vs bits + Shroud IRL donation | Direct donations versus using bits twitches currency and shroud receiving an in real life donation Why do streamers prefer bits in comparison to real money? Do do they come do they prefer bits? I have not heard such things it costs you more money To give with bits, but you get you get emotes in a batch I in general do not care how people are nice to me. I just like when people are nice to me Like like who is the stream who's like what you've given me money in the wrong way Fuck you like who is that guy you know? Whatever you're comfortable with as long as you're not tying the made of rocks and chuck it through my window Generally fine with whatever you're doing You ever seen that clip of shroud is a at some convention and Some dude walks up to him and gives him a donation. He's like hey, man is a trap is 20 bucks It's just oh Thanks What Don't don't give me your money No, it's not a tip though here. I'm not taking I will leave it on the table I'm not gonna take it I'm not gonna take it Here I'll even I'll hand it back to you. I will hand it back to you That is yours Pockers Sure, man, I'll take it. Thank you Alright |
| 06. August 2020 | Donations vs bits + shroud IRL donation | Direct donations versus using bits twitches currency and shroud receiving an in real life donation Why do streamers prefer bits in comparison to real money? Do do they come do they prefer bits? I have not heard such things it costs you more money To give with bits, but you get you get emotes in a batch I in general do not care how people are nice to me. I just like when people are nice to me Like like who is the stream who's like what you've given me money in the wrong way Fuck you like who is that guy you know? Whatever you're comfortable with as long as you're not tying the made of rocks and chuck it through my window Generally fine with whatever you're doing You ever seen that clip of shroud is a at some convention and Some dude walks up to him and gives him a donation. He's like hey, man is a trap is 20 bucks It's just oh Thanks What Don't don't give me your money No, it's not a tip though here. I'm not taking I will leave it on the table I'm not gonna take it I'm not gonna take it Here I'll even I'll hand it back to you. I will hand it back to you That is yours Pockers Sure, man, I'll take it. Thank you All right |
| 19. November 2022 | Don’t we have enough movies yet? | Don't we have enough movies, yes? So I had an interesting experience today, chat. You know the movie Rain Man with Tom Cruise? Basically, a savant is able to play blackjack and count cards and he gets taken advantage of by someone. I don't know the whole story, I haven't seen it, but it's a very popular movie. I have not seen this movie, but I've been trying to watch it for a long time. It's always been that thing on my list to do. And so today, I'm like, today's the day I'm gonna finally watch Rain Man while waiting for this TV to be delivered. And so I Googled where to watch it and I couldn't find, there was no place available. But I found out it was released in 1988. It was released before I was born and it's over 30 years old. How weird is that? Like just realizing how much time has passed and how long I've been trying to watch this movie and there's no way to watch it. Like I could pay money like 10 bucks or something to Amazon and get it, just the one movie. But it isn't on any streaming service. It was just a moment where I was like, holy shit, time is flying by. This movie will one day be like 70 years old or something. And will people still like me be trying to watch it? I wonder like, are there gonna be people 30 years from now who are gonna be like looking up Dark Viper AU on YouTube or some shit? Of course not, but it's funny to think of. I often reflect like, shouldn't we reach a point where we don't need any more movies? That there are just enough extraordinarily high quality movies for a person to watch for their entire lifetime? That everything has been commented on? Every story has been told? Every possible permutation of music that can be interesting to our ear has been done? Like how many more songs do we need of people being like, yeah, I've got hoes in every postcode and I'm a big shot up in the club and look at all my neck chains. Like how many more do you need? |
| 03. January 2021 | Dopplegangers. | Doppelgangers. The superstition of doppelganger? Whether there's a person out there who looks exactly like you? Well, of course that's gonna be the case. Given that there's seven billion people, there's gonna be... If you lined everyone up, in terms of their dissimilarity with yourself, there would be a person who was close enough to you that they would be effectively indistinguishable. But of course, under close examination, you'd find differences, you know. Scars, pimples, you know, moles, whatever, just small tiny things. Slight variations. But obviously there would be... there would have to be someone out there who was the closest possible to you. It's why with every celebrity that is out there, there's always like copycat pornography of them or whatever. You can occasionally find posts put on reddit of, this guy is the Mexican counterpart of this actor or whatever, you know. |
| 23. November 2020 | Doug Doug giving me a shout out | So Doug does video, yeah. As I said in a comment on the Reddit recap, uh, it's just a funny coincidence that I complimented him in my Reddit recap two weeks ago and then he, um, gave me a shout in his, um, video there. When I rated him yesterday, he said- he says he likes my stuff. Which is nice. I realize that, like, a million unique people watch my stuff every month. So it shouldn't surprise me when another content creator has heard of me. Especially when they make similar content to my own. But it still always surprises me, you know? When other people, uh, respected people have a good opinion of me, it feels good. Not gonna lie. It's a good feeling. I feel like your content is pretty different, though. He does forms of challenge runs and has videos that involve chat interaction. That's kind of my content in a nutshell right now. And he does things in GTA V. Our content is dissimilar. It has many different elements. But we're in the same kind of genre of content. Especially as we're both focused on, uh, games. We're in the same industry, the same category of content. We don't produce the same content. You could say, in the company of YouTube, we do different jobs, but we work in the same building. Oh, yeah, certainly, um, if you include my rambles in my occasional video about nonsense, other stuff from later games, yeah, I do have that, which a lot of people don't have. Buying every new smartphone. |
| 01. September 2020 | Downfall of Roosterteeth | The downfall of Rooster Teeth. Rooster Teeth though has gone so downhill dude. I wonder if there's a video out there that's just an expose on Rooster Teeth because they were acquired by AT&T or whatever or their subsidiary of a subsidiary of a subsidiary or whatever that. I wonder with Rooster Teeth if it was just a matter of them getting too big or the original creators becoming too rich or like once you get to the point where you have enough money to live comfortably the rest of your life. Are you equally as winning to take on criticism or you just like fuck it dude. I'll shoot if the fuck I want and if it doesn't work out it doesn't work out you know. When you're actively working to take criticism in, you're actively working to appeal to people when your livelihoods on the line. Well I can probably inspire people to make creative choices that might make it worse. In a lot of cases it probably keeps you grounded. Prevent you just going fucking crazy. You know you're you're working to prevent people from being overly, being critical. I don't know. Bernie left the company and the other founders all in smaller roles now too. Yeah. I mean if you look at the viewership on the channel like Rooster Teeth is one of those companies that are like everyone knows but like so just well you know. Yeah so Rooster Teeth a company of you know like 400 people or something. Not all working on this channel mind you but you get the idea. They have double the viewership that I do on YouTube. That's not good you know. So you get 50 million views in 2017 and 15 million. It's staggering to see them fall you know. I watched Rooster Teeth then I moved to Achievement Hunter then I moved to Funhaus and now I'm not really into it at all. Most were the Funhaus guys that left haven't they? As well. Like the Funhaus guys are paid a salary right? Like I think it's always best in content creation where what you make is in some way dependent upon how good the product goes. I guess it's the same idea of a social co-op or whatever with companies set up. When everyone has an invested interest in having the product or the company whatever do the best it possibly can and you're gonna share in that extra better that it will be. I think everyone's inspired to work harder you know or to put that little bit more effort in because you know that little bit more effort isn't just gonna pad some dude's pocket it's gonna have some measurable returns for you you know. And like if your job is just to put out five videos every week for a company your paycheck doesn't change whether that video is a 4 out of 10 video or a 10 out of 10 video. Who cares? Gavin is still with Rooster Teeth? How? How is that possible? The slow-mo guys is more successful than Rooster Teeth and it's still popular. Like he's working at Rooster Teeth in any capacity definitely costs him money compared to if he just released more content for the slow-mo guys. Is he still with Megan Terny or whatever the hell her name is? Maybe he works there because she works there as well I'm not sure. Meg Terny left Rooster Teeth a while ago but they're still together. Interesting. People didn't like Megan Terny. |
| 21. November 2020 | Downloading all my clips | Downloading all my Twitch clips. I did something stupid chat. I started downloading all my clips from Twitch So that I can delete them all there's other things I want to do as well I want to make a separate dark viper clips channel and just upload clips there I hire some people to go through all my clips and find all the best ones And see what that does to you through algorithm and not my I won't be on my original my actual channel I'll be on a separate channel. I want to see what it does I didn't realize how long would take to download all the clips so I decided to stay up waiting for it But I was kind of forced to because six thousand clips into the download It started coming up with errors disk full disk full disk full disk full. I'm like, oh shit I'm like I don't have the capability to half way through change the Place where the files being downloaded to so I quickly made space and then it kept downloading clips Then I realized that it's gonna Continuously fill up my hard drive because I stupidly did it on my main hard drive which has like 400 gigs But 400 gigs was a few thousand clips or whatever. I had to stay up Continuously moving thousands of clips out of my main drive I'm like this couldn't take too long and I must enough hours and hours and hours on end And so I end up going to bed like 1 a.m When the previous day I had gone to bed like 5 p.m Like I just forced myself to stay awake to get this done. I missed a hundred or two hundred clips I don't know which ones I missed and hopefully we can figure that out I've completely ruined myself so much have I ruined myself that when I was buying McDonald's today I was like it won't let me buy a double big Mac. What is this? It says you need to buy this within these timeframes. I'm like what but it is between those timeframes I don't understand what's going on. I guess let's go the thing then and then driving that I realized that it wasn't 7 p.m. At night it was 7 p.m. In the morning. I was so out of it I didn't even realize what part of the day I had woken up in and even now it feels like at 7 p.m. Even now |
| 31. October 2021 | Downloading an album with dial up internet | Downloading an album with dial-up internets Hey man, I remember having dial-up I once worked for months to get every weird owl song off of Kazaa Finding each individual one, I probably downloaded like 50 viruses while doing it I ticked them off little lists and I made myself CDs with all the songs on them I even printed myself off like disc covers and stuff To be fair, even if I had the money, I'm not even sure where I would have bought his works |
| 19. April 2021 | Dr K, HealthygamerGG. | Dr. K, healthy gamer gg. I talked to Dr. K if I had a chance. I'm not sure what I talked to him about. I've only seen Dr. K talk to a person or two, and to be honest, when I think of him, I think of Rekful and that just makes me sad. Not that I'm blaming him or something for that in no way, shape, or form. I just mean that the association's there in my mind that I don't like to think on such things. He seems like an interesting, nice fella. Like, if I ever met him in person, I'd be like, hey, how's it going? You seem like cool, dude. A lot of my issues are things that I don't really think have objective answers. It just, in regards to how you see life and people and what it all means and da-da-da. A psychologist can potentially help you find answers that are emotionally satisfying, whatever they... It's not that they can give you objective answers to these questions. Again, because I don't really think they exist. From my understanding, he... Not only is he, in some sense, is good at presenting the idea of therapy or getting help or talking to a psychologist or the advice given by such people. He's good at presenting this in a way that makes the public more accepting of it, you know? You've got your biggest content creators talking about their problems with a person, and you go, well, maybe I'll talk to someone about my problems, you know? In no way, shape or form do I think the videos that he makes with these people are necessarily going to help the people that he's speaking to. I mean, it could, don't get me wrong. I just mean that talking to a person for an hour and a half is not necessarily going to be life-changing. But they're certainly going to help the audience, either directly through giving them advice that can help them or leading them to go, or maybe I can sort out my own problems as well. I don't think there's a single downside that I can conceive of from Dr. K's content. Irrespective of how effective it is in regards to any goal, it doesn't cause any harm, so I'm certainly all for it, you know? |
| 19. April 2021 | Dr K, Healthygamergg. | Dr. K, healthy gamer gg. I talked to Dr. K if I had a chance. I'm not sure what I talked to him about. I've only seen Dr. K talk to a person or two, and to be honest, when I think of him, I think of Rekful and that just makes me sad. Not that I'm blaming him or something for that in no way, shape, or form. I just mean that the association's there in my mind that I don't like to think on such things. He seems like an interesting, nice fella. Like, if I ever met him in person, I'd be like, hey, how's it going? You seem like cool, dude. A lot of my issues are things that I don't really think have objective answers. It just, in regards to how you see life and people and what it all means and da-da-da. A psychologist can potentially help you find answers that are emotionally satisfying, whatever they... It's not that they can give you objective answers to these questions. Again, because I don't really think they exist. From my understanding, he... Not only is he, in some sense, is good at presenting the idea of therapy or getting help or talking to a psychologist or the advice given by such people. He's good at presenting this in a way that makes the public more accepting of it, you know? You've got your biggest content creators talking about their problems with a person, and you go, well, maybe I'll talk to someone about my problems, you know? In no way, shape or form do I think the videos that he makes with these people are necessarily going to help the people that he's speaking to. I mean, it could, don't get me wrong. I just mean that talking to a person for an hour and a half is not necessarily going to be life-changing. But they're certainly going to help the audience, either directly through giving them advice that can help them or leading them to go, or maybe I can sort out my own problems as well. I don't think there's a single downside that I can conceive of from Dr. K's content. Irrespective of how effective it is in regards to any goal, it doesn't cause any harm, so I'm certainly all for it, you know? |
| 17. September 2022 | Dr Strange in the multiverse of madness worst movie ever? | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Worst Movie Ever You know what I watched yesterday chat? So I watched this video, like the entire thing, the 6 hours, I watched it like 1.5x speed I had not seen Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness because I heard it was quite bad And I saw on Twitter someone being like There's no way that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is like objectively the worst movie ever I'm like, is it really that bad? And I watched this whole thing and it's like, it's pretty bad This video makes a very strong case that like every single aspect of it outside of the acting was bad I mainly listened to it, like I didn't super watch it as in like I was cleaning my room And so I would listen to him and look back at the screen every once in a while But I have very interesting stuff |
| 24. October 2020 | Drama Channels | Drama channels. What do you think about news channels like Drama Alert and Scares? They're not news channels, they're drama channels. There's two different types of news. You can divide media in general into different categories, but two categories that are often useful to think about is public need to know and there's other words for it, but the things that the public doesn't really know about. In this category you can put hurricanes about to hit, the coronavirus information, that kind of stuff, and in this category you can have how many people Kim Kardashian slept with. No one needs to know about this information. Nothing about this information can inform you about how you should be living your life or the best things you should be doing with your time or where you should invest your money or where you should be working or what risk you're at doing whatever you're doing. Whatever's happening with celebrities and stuff, that fucking doesn't matter at all. And there's a sliding scale because not everything needs to be need to know. Things can just be entertainment, but obviously there are things that are... When you look at channels like Drama Alert and Scares, I would say 99% of what they talk about has no actual value to your life. You are watching it entirely for its entertainment value. So calling them news, you know, it seems weird. It's just a lot of sensationalized garbage. More than this though, it's not like Scares or Drama Alert are the ones usually, certainly not Scares anyway, finding stories. They're reporting on other people's work. |
| 08. June 2020 | Drama and commentary channels | Drama and commentary channels. Where's my opinion on drama channels? Um, you know, someone's gonna do it. It's easy content to make. I don't have a high opinion of it, but I understand why it exists. What do I think about commentary channels? So, there are different kinds of commentary channels. If you make a living commenting on stuff, eventually you're gonna start commenting on shit that you do not really care about. And you're gonna force yourself to communicate an opinion that you don't really care about, and you're gonna make mountains out of molehills. You're gonna talk on things that you know nothing about. Like, you're gonna become the quartering, basically. Who knows nothing about anything. And at every turn is fucking crying so much about, oh, this character is doing this in this fictional world. Right? And none of it fucking matters at all. News channels that just report the news are a bit more interesting. Because while they can inject commentary, they don't necessarily have to. But these channels that release, like, three videos a day, where it's like, oh yeah, this thing happened, and it's terrible, grrr. And that's the video. It's fucking garbage content. Adds nothing to any kind of discourse. It's entertainment and very lazy shitty entertainment. |
| 01. June 2022 | Drama has little value for growth | Drama has little value for growth. I hope most of you didn't skip the first video because towards the end of it, I explained that drama doesn't really have a lot of staying power in terms of growing an audience for yourself. If you look at the sub-numbers on the videos, it gets like, I lose like 20-25 and then it slowly goes up into the positives. For the amount of work, like, could you imagine, like I could probably finished Passist. No, I definitely could have. Not just the final episode, but the Passist 2.0 where I go through the series again. I could have finished all of that in the amount of time that took me to make these videos. And of course gained far more from that. But instead I did this because I thought it was, you know, morally important. And some really good content. I know most of you won't watch the videos all the way through and stuff. But there's some really insightful interesting stuff in them. |
| 26. December 2021 | Drawing emotes is harder than it seems | Drawing emotes is harder than it seems. I'm pushing a friend into drawing emotes, so sad seeing him let his drawing talent go wasted. Drawing emotes is harder than you think. There's an art to making something really small that looks good and is very expressive, that not all artists are suited to do. I mean, they can probably learn, I mean, they don't get me wrong, but like, if you take a person who's used to painting and all that jazz and drawing cool bits of art, if you ask them then to make an emote, they, in many cases, try to make a smaller version of what they already make, and it just looks terrible because it's too detailed. |
| 14. January 2021 | Dream cheating drama | Because the other big drama that's kind of still going on, but kind of died down. What did you think about the dream thing? You think you cheated? I looked into it a little bit. Like, I just don't know about the like the proof, like I don't like I'm not a statistic expert, like, so I'm just relying on a bunch of other statistics experts. He's pretty adamant that he didn't cheat. He seems like, look, I just don't know. I have no idea. What was your I've actually haven't been able to gauge your final sort of thoughts. I eventually said that I'm after because I ended up talking with people involved in behind the scenes within the discord and stuff. I eventually came to the conclusion that it seems, especially after talking more about the statistics, talking about people breaking it down more simply so I can understand it. It seems most likely that dream just got really frustrated with the RNG in the runs and he just made a mistake. He got the frustration took over him. And when he got found out, he was in a situation where like, I don't want this to define the rest of my life. Yeah, like because the people would talk about his seems like a nice guy. He makes great content, but he didn't want this mistake to define his life. So he's just defending himself to the ends of the earth because at the end of the day, whether or not dream cheated does not impact the world. If tomorrow everyone just said, well, dream didn't cheat. Nothing really changes. Except maybe for dream, if everyone said, you know, he definitely cheated. Nothing really changes except maybe for dream. I'm sure that's what it's like in dream set. It's like, look, I made a mistake. Let's not ruin me for the rest of time based on this. And so that's why he's come out so passionately in his defense, because as I was discussing in the Minecraft discord, every reason he had to do this is stupid. It's just like, have you watched Minecraft speedruns? Yeah, I've seen it. Yeah. I'm watching this guy, Giedowski these days. And I get frustrated watching him play where I'm like, are you serious? All that good RNG leading to that one bit bad of RNG and you got to start again? Fuck this shit. And I couldn't imagine what it'd be like for you. You've got a hundred thousand people watching you and you know, every time you were set, you're effectively wasting their time or whatever. And they're all eager to see you succeed. I think that could just go to a person's head and they could just be like, well, fuck it. I'm just going to go to the next level. Like, well, fuck it. I'm just going to increase my likelihood of getting the good RNG. The skills still the same, but it's not the case. Like when, when you, when you have low RNG for something, you're the skills you have to implement change because the pressure on you when you finally get that good RNG is so monumental. Like this, this is my chance. This is my time. But if you have some confidence that your RNG is pretty good and you're going to get multiple runs like that, you're not as pressured. You're like, well, you know, I fuck up this time. I'll get it next time because I'm going to get that same RNG. But I'm, I'm sure that in dreams head, he was just like, I'm just removing your RNG and making it just skill and, and then the type of justify him to himself. But if he cheated, he was, I guess. Oh yeah. It's like, the question is always if, but I, I am of the position. It's most more likely that he cheated than not at this point. Yeah. I can't, that's fair. You made it better. But as I say to people though, it doesn't super impact your life. No one really needs to make a decision on this issue. It's not an issue of politics or society or your own personal wellbeing or something whether or not dream cheated doesn't matter. It's the only reason you'd really look into it deeply is if you'd entertained by the drama of all the things, the longest of things you could look into and gain additional knowledge about that would have some benefit to your wellbeing. Dream, whether dream cheated is not even on that list. You know, it's, it's entertainment. It's things to pass the time, not need to know information, you know? So I have respect to your position of, I don't know, that's a completely fine position for you to have. I don't know. You're like, literally, I just don't know. Like I don't, like, I don't really know, like no dream that well. Like, I mean, he seems like I've seen some of these crazy clips that he does on Minecraft and it's insanely cool to watch. And I actually, I caught a couple of series, like just during the whole drama, I watched some of his videos, they're actually really good. Like he makes, it's a very cool idea. His friends chase him. He does these amazing skills and that's kind of like my extent of dream. So I feel like I'm in that position. That sentiment, he makes great content was actually tweeted out by the person who made, you know, that made the video dream exposed, whatever the original video geo. He actually tweeted like a couple of years ago, your dream makes really good content. Like irrespective of anything, it's really good. The stuff that he makes, like you said, it probably just helped dream. It was like, I wonder what like dreams like, and they watch his videos and I'm like, oh, that shit's actually pretty good. It was in his drama. It's just like fueled him. It would be interesting to look at the numbers and see if he did end up gaining. But certainly within the speed running community, his reputation is not. |
| 26. August 2021 | Dreaming about GTA 5 Speedrunning | Dreaming about GTA V speedrunning. You know what I dreamed about last night, Gwyn? GTA V. You know what I dreamed about? About GTA V? I dreamed I found a skip from prologue to long stretch, and I momentarily woke up in a panic, because I forgot the strat. Until after a few moments of contemplation, I realized I didn't really think of a strat. And even then I wasn't sure, and I had to think, maybe I did think of a strat. What was it? It's funny because such a strat would still be banned from Class E%. I needed to get myself a dream diary, specifically for GTA V streams and strats. You know, that wouldn't be a bad idea. It'd give me some stream content. |
| 21. June 2022 | Dream’s fall from his peak | Millions of years ago, uh his viewership has dropped massively, but it was impossible for it not to because there was a point where he was getting like a million subs a month and was getting like 400 million views like you have to fall from that point. I think he's getting like 40 million now, which is still like Five plus times what I get. He's barely uploaded. Hey, imagine with the amount of money he's made he must just be like well, I'm done. It's Tommy and it's still really popular. I haven't followed these people man I'm not really following the Minecraft thing. Minecraft is still huge, but there was just this period where everything was Minecraft, you know Nothing can stay on top forever Would I rather a clone or a wife? Would I rather have a clone of my wife? |
| 16. May 2020 | Drug legalization | I've never found myself to be particularly passionate about any particular type of game. Most of the time that I played games over the course of my life is because I had nothing better to do, or I had nothing, like no better options or whatever. Like I didn't have the funds to do other things. Gaming was like, enjoyable enough to be worth doing, but I've never been like, oh my God, this game is amazing. Oh my God, I'm just so excited to get the next version of this game. Holy shit. I've always been like, oh, this is fun. It's cool. Great. And I can have that feeling basically playing any game to some extent. If I could be good at any game, it would be the Mario games or the Zelda games. Or I would basically be Smolens. Is that how you say his name? He's got Mario, Zelda and Pokemon in his pocket for content creation. And that's a lot of fucking content of a very, very large audience. He's very good at the games. He has he he is the peak speed runner really right now on YouTube. Thoughts on drug legalization and culture around illegal things. I would legalize all drugs and treat them as a mental health issue. I would make the selling of some drugs illegal. You know, the harder drugs, ice, what have you. People that stuff that can really fuck you up and is amazingly addictive. But people who use the drugs, I wouldn't I wouldn't ever send them to prison. I don't think it helps any. |
| 04. May 2021 | Dumb memes in Twitch chat | Dumb memes in Twitch chat. Why can't you say hi YouTube? Because it was a good meme for like five days until people realized that they can just spam hi YouTube and so whenever I start speaking people start spamming hi YouTube just clogging up chat and making it unreadable and so we now have bans and timeouts for people who do that shit. Basically chat once more killed a good thing. As Twitch has gotten bigger and has become far more common for people to upload stuff from Twitch to YouTube this meme of people typing hi YouTube is increased exponentially. But for me because so much of my content goes on YouTube people can quickly identify what parts of the run are gonna be on YouTube like when I get to certain points if you've seen the no damage run you're like well if I type something here it's gonna be in the video because this is he always puts this part of the no damage run on YouTube. When I start talking about something they're like well this is a ramble right here I'm gonna type something in chat to see myself later it's just it's just not it's not good again I do well the only thing in chat would be when people have something to say rather than people just typing to get noticed. Oddly what bothers me most about the hi YouTube thing is not the hi YouTube thing it's when I explain I don't like it and then people still do it like you know it's the internet like you got to expect those things but just it just it just irks me a little bit the existence of people who just the only thing they want to do is cause annoyance and pain and suffering to others it's just fucking awful it's a small portion of the population man if they just didn't exist the world would be so much so much a better place you know like you can look at you've got to imagine like 1% of the population in their desire to cause suffering to others probably caused like 80% of fucking problems. Time for a cult? No I imagine a world where we're killing 1% of the population with some happy a much worse world than whatever problems such people cause. What are your opinions when people say the view count when you say it would you have it off and then I hate when people mention the view count. I have adamantly said anyone who mentions the view count in any stream you're either new to the platform or you're an asshole like there's no in between them why cuz there's no circumstance where a person can benefit from knowing their view count unless they explicitly want to know it. If view count goes down you might feel shit cuz your view count is lower than normal if your view count goes up you might get nervous because your view count is higher and you as a viewer have no fucking idea how the stream is gonna respond to you're giving that information so you're just you're giving that information for no practical benefit considering that the streamer can get that information themselves while running the huge risk that you're gonna cause the streamer discomfort for giving that information so either you're new to the platform and you don't know this or you know this and you're an asshole there's no in between or even people who say oh that channel is really slow today it's like a viewer doesn't know how fast the fucking chat should be given any any factor on this fucking platform and then you become defensive about it it's what it just such assholes do I hate trolls and just those types of it depends on what type of trolling you're you're talking about you just mean like jokes and shit that's fine but people who specifically do stuff just to cause like harm and suffering to others and they consider that funny yeah fuck those |
| 08. March 2022 | Dumb questions that never die | Dumb questions that never die. I answer questions too often in a snarky way chat, and I hate it. There are just a set of frequent questions that I receive that piss me off every single time I hear them. Because I've heard them 987 times and they were stupid the first time, and my patience just has worn so thin. Because I know that person hasn't had the answer to the stupid question before, but it doesn't mean it isn't frustrating, you know? You don't mind hearing, like, a sensible question over and over again, because like, yeah, it's a perfectly reasonable question for you to ask, but... There's some questions that are just dumb, and the person asking them should know they're dumb, you know? |
| 30. September 2021 | Dumbest thing I've done on stream | The dumbest thing I've done on stream What's the dumbest thing I've done on stream? Probably be that time where I went to post something to Reddit and It showed all the subreddits that I've subscribed to and they were pornographic ones People like Matt you can't show that on stream. I'm like what? Oh? Try to think of something else. That's what always comes to mind when I think of it. I mean I've shown my address Like six or seven times Half of them when I was getting pizza |
| 17. December 2020 | Dunkey’s video criticising the current state of YouTube. | Talking about the things that video game Dunkey said in his video, I'm done making good videos. So Dunkey released a video yesterday where he, in his comedic fashion, basically, what's the word? Lambasted? Lamb-basted? He was very critical of the wider YouTube meta right now. Where he's like, all these YouTubers releasing a video a day of what is effectively garbage content. While people like me, Nakey Jakey, iDubbbz, whatever, making original funny concept videos, you know, releasing a video a month, whatever, this is clearly not what YouTube wants, this fucking sucks. Da-da-da. And I feel him, to a degree. He pointed to, on the back end of YouTube currently, it's changed from saying videos to content. As if this is suggestive of an overall difference in mode of thought or goal or whatever of YouTube. But in reality, it's more than likely just to communicate that it's not just videos on that tab, it's actually your videos and live streams and stuff, right? But certainly, as a rule, as much as I like my content, and I find my content enjoyable and stuff, the content that I find to be the best content is this kind of stuff made by the Nakey Jakeys, the Dunkys, where it's these one-off, really funny videos that you're super excited to see in your subscription feed. But really, I think the tendency towards this daily video thing, it's kind of just come because of live streaming. Because when you live stream, you make so much content that, if cut down, is perfect for YouTube videos, right? And of course, the more content you make, the more money you make, the more you get recommended in the algorithm and stuff. Like, when I found UppersNotJump, I was like, oh, this is great! A new content creator who makes one-off videos, like every month or so, that are really funny. And so I watched, like, every video that they produced, and then I had nothing else to watch. If you find my YouTube channel and you like my stuff, you can be in a hole of my content for, like, the next 10 years. There's just so much of it. I would imagine the vast majority of people get bored before they got to the end of it. With the amount of YouTube that people consume, there's just no way that the people who make one-off videos every month could ever possibly say shape people's desires for content. Like, as much as I think it would be a lovely world where everyone was making one really cool video every month, that just can't be the reality, you know? People demand more content than what such people can produce. Like, I'm so much of a split mind on it, because you've heard me lament that I work so hard on that anime video, and it got less than 200k views, and me playing Chaos for two hours, you know, for one-hundredth of the effort, gets 200,000 views and makes even more money because it's a two-hour video. Like, I would love if my one-off projects, or my projects I put a lot of effort into, did a lot better in the algorithm. People watched it a lot, or my projects I put a lot of effort into, but that's just not either what YouTube is doing, or that people seem to be interested in. It is a sad state of affairs that just because you put a lot of effort into a video, and work on it for weeks and months, and have an original idea, it doesn't mean that video is going to be better, or more enjoyable, than some guy buggerizing around for ten minutes in a game. Like, if I look at things more objectively, me playing Chaos for two hours is funnier, more amusing, more entertaining, better, than that anime video I made, despite that I put so much effort into that anime video, you know? Like, I've got to accept the reality of what people seem to want to see. Like, I've had my own criticisms of the YouTube meta, but my criticisms are more about how I feel other people are being exploited, in terms of, like, reaction content and stuff. What I'm basically trying to say is, video game Dunkey has been successful on YouTube for, like, a decade, is currently getting 40,000 subscribers a month, and 40 million views a month, as much as I can understand his frustrations that the content that people desire, and the content that YouTube propagates is not necessarily what either of us want it to be, we're both very lucky to be in the situations that we're in. You only complain to a certain degree before you just sound like you're bitter and not thankful for the position you're in, right? It does suck that YouTube does favor lower effort content, but on YouTube, for 10% of the effort, some people can make a video that is 80% as good as another video where a person's putting 100% of the effort, you know? Effort doesn't necessarily translate directly into high quality, or something worth watching. Another thing, though, another facet of Dunkey's video, though, was, at least he touched on a little bit, the change in what a YouTuber is. Once upon a time, the successful YouTubers were individuals who were really creative and could think of original stuff. You know, they'd make one video or something, it was a single person operation. And then the companies came in, producing heaps of content, manufactured or whatever, and now the biggest YouTubers have kind of become corporations into themselves. They've taken on editors, and you have some of the biggest YouTubers who don't edit. They don't really make YouTube videos. They're kind of like, they'll record themselves and then just give the footage to other people to edit. What would you even call that? Because they're not YouTubers at that point. Their involvement with the process of making the YouTube video isn't even 50%. Directors, they manage other people who actually make the content. I remember listening to this guy who was talking to Devin Nash or whatever, he was a YouTuber, and he was talking about how his goal as a YouTuber is effectively to continue to expand to the point where he doesn't need to do anything, but he still gets a lot of money. And it just sounded so hollow and meaningless. You know how the Fine Brothers wanted to trademark React and create a bunch of franchises who were all reacting to stuff or whatever? That's obviously what this guy was talking about him doing. I think Jake Paul did something similar. You basically take on a person and you use your already present brand to build them up in a contractual agreement so that you receive, say, 20-30% of what they make, but you build them up to who they are. And so you eventually abandon making content yourself, but you've made so many other content creators that you're still reaping all this money. When you think about who the most successful people are, all these companies and people with these syndicates of content creators, I understand Dunky being like, oh my god, I wish we were back in the days where we were just singular content creators, your iDubbbz, your Nakey Jakey's, whatever, just singular dudes making videos about the stuff that they love, rather than these enterprises just pumping out content. Like, you can even see that I've become some of that myself. Once upon a time, I streamed and made 100% of every single video that went on my YouTube channel. I did literally every single thing for every single video that I've ever made. But I slowly went crazy and I reached the point where I literally could not work harder. I could not do myself everything that I wanted to do in regards to my content, so I had to get some help. It's funny because while I've brought on people to help me now, I still do the exact same amount of work that I did before. My workload hasn't changed. It's just I'm now better able to focus my efforts to the things that actually matter and require my greatest level of input. The stuff that is the most time consuming, or stuff that I wouldn't even bother doing, because in terms of priorities, it's so low on my priorities, like that stuff can all get done. It doesn't eat into my time. But I'm sure Dunky would look at people like me releasing one video every day, and he's like, oh my god, dude, that's just not art. It's not really creating something special or whatever, right? It's just creating content. And he's right. As much as I love my own videos, like I've said this before, that the videos that I create are not on the same level as a person who puts months and months into an animation or something, or a person who does a video essay that they put a month of research into, right? I'm not making that kind of content. But I've just acknowledged that when I do put that kind of effort in, it's not rewarded to the same degree that the faster content is. So as much as while I don't think Dunky would look at me as the embodiment of everything he doesn't like about YouTube, I'm sure he would look at me as kind of moving a bit more into being what the meta favors, right? Throwing out just as much content as possible. It is rare that any video gets on my YouTube channel that I haven't had involvement in its editing. For example, I was annoyed yesterday because people on the superhot video wrote in the comments like, oh, whoever edited this, it was really cool. And I was like, I fucking edited that. I mentioned in passing before the issues I had with the production of that video because Miles was having personal problems and stuff. And the video took two months for two hours of footage to be processed before it got to me. And what was sent to me was 55 minutes long. And so I spent like the entire day cutting it down, adding my own edits. And I was really proud of some of the edits that I made. And people being like, oh, man, I wonder who edited this. I wonder who did this joke. But I did those things. But you can't blame people not knowing because when you start to not do everything yourself, it's understandable that people may not know who did what. But I just miss being able to do everything myself. But I just don't have the time. Like that Morpheus edit in the superhot video was fantastic. I don't think it was the funniest thing in the video, but I found it really amusing. And I finally got to include Palpatine saying, do it, kill him. Be defenseless, man. Do it. I don't know. Certainly some of the edits, some of the for all I know, the edits that people liked were the ones that Miles had in there as well. But I was a substantial portion of that video. |
| 07. February 2022 | E&E could damage my facts & glitches series. | Expanded and enhanced could damage my facts and glitches series. I have not considered, like expanded and enhanced could damage my facts and glitches series. In that people won't be able to recreate the bugs anymore. It could also create its own bugs. I will have to like, maybe even restart the series and call it, uh, Facts and Glitches Expanded and Enhanced. You know? It just depends how different the game is. Like I would be shocked if it was more than simply a graphical upgrade. And with a graphical upgrade, minor things would be changed, but the engine stuff probably wouldn't be. Personally, I am hoping that, uh, you know, Rockstar, specifically despite me, Will fix all the facts and, uh, fix all the glitches in my series. So that, uh, people who play the game can have a better experience. Although, I don't, have we found any glitches that really impact the experience of the player base? I don't really think we have. Oh, yeah, like I'd, I'd hope that they would fix the monkey business bug and expand and enhance. And fix the, um, FPS glitch for complications. Those are game breaking bugs that will, uh, like actually impact a lot of people who play the game. Especially as graphics cards get better and better. I mean, like I have as bad an opinion of Rockstar as anyone, but I think that would be fixed. You know? Like honestly, like, my opinion of Rockstar gets better every single day that I don't play GT Online. And then I play GT Online and I fucking hate them again. I forgets, I grow softer with each day that passes. And then I play and I'm like, oh my god, what have you people done? You know? |
| 24. May 2022 | Eating Taco Bell for the first time | I'm... Ah, I ate Taco Bell for the first time! I had like one of those burritos or something and then... Like, it was... too soft. I can't remember what it tasted like, but it was like, super mediocre. But the squishy softness of it, of the tortilla roll, just... Wasn't nice. Because apparently Taco Bell has tried to get inroads in this country twice and failed twice. But, they're having another go at it. I think they started 2020. And this is the first time it was available in my delivery app. Playing Jump King. For those who don't know the game, you're a king and you have to jump up- |
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| 08. December 2021 | Economies in online games | Economies in online games. I mean online economies are very interesting in general. Like if you ever want to just binge watch some videos, look up like RuneScape's economy or things that have crashed the RuneScape economy, or videos looking at the World of Warcraft economy. I heard from someone that the economy in World of Warcraft is used in economic textbooks to explain economic principles. I mean, I wouldn't say all of them, I mean, at least a particular one this person saw. Because it's a simplified closed system, right, and so it's easy to explain the variables to change things. GTA economy is so basic, yeah, because I mean there isn't, of course, because there isn't trade. Is there an economy? I guess there kind of is. You can't trade, you can't sell things, there's no market. I mean market is in, you know, a free market between people. |
| 08. January 2022 | Editing all day everyday | Attention. Yeah, we have to put you on YouTube parole because we don't trust you with your content. Editing all day every day. I'm actually like I'm glad that like I know somebody else that edits as much as me on here, because everyone I talk to, it's like they have like just editors for every single thing that they do. And I know you work just as hard on like editing your own content and everything. I have editors, but it's like as I have gotten people to help me, my editing hasn't decreased. I still edit the exact same amount because I just what I edit now differs. The less important things that I normally wouldn't have time to edit, I give to other people. So it's less that I've hired people to reduce the amount that I've had it. And it's more that I've hired people. You're producing more content, so they're worrying about that. And I can focus on the important things. And so my workload hasn't decreased. It's just what I work on is different now. Like I'm hitting my head. |
| 18. December 2019 | Effectiveness of supplements | Deficiency. Like, like, take multivitamins for example. 95% of a multivitamin you piss out. Your body can only process a certain amount of different vitamins. So having more of it does nothing. Vitamin D is fairly unique in that because of the way that people live life, the way the jobs are these days, where most people are being explored indoors all the time, pretty much everyone has vitamin D deficiency. What was the doctor telling me? To the extent where you can no longer test on the public health care in my country for vitamin D deficiency because it always comes back that you're positive for vitamin D deficiency. Always. Unless you have a legitimate reason to believe your deficiency is something, taking supplements doesn't, isn't going to do much for you. I was prescribed vitamin D a long time ago. I take a pill of it every day just because of my lifestyle these days. YouTube's changes to demonetization. Have you guys seen the new announcement regarding demonetization? YouTube is going to look into finding more. |
| 03. June 2020 | Effects of reducing game development crunch | What effect do you think video game development companies such as Naughty Dog and Rockstar reducing workplace crunch will have on the video game consumption as well as artistic quality of video games? I would not feel comfortable buying GTA 6 for $60 if it's not the same quality as other GTAs. Reducing video game crunch would more just be about pacing the development of the game better and rather than attempting to hit a particular deadline simply delaying something until it's good. Allowing more for that as opposed to trying to rush everything at the end or get everything out just perfect, you know, holding a game off until it's good. What you should be comfortable buying should just depend on, you know, what the reviewers are saying, what the game looks like. Clearly you don't need crunch to produce a good game and I don't think crunch was the magic spark that made GTA 5 what it is. |
| 30. June 2022 | Egg sandwiches and a sad teacher | Egg sandwiches and a sad teacher. In the story I tell here I was probably 10 or 12 years old. We went on this field trip, it was said there'd be food to eat. For whatever reason, the only food available was like, egg and mayonnaise sandwiches. And so we were like little kids, we're like, I want an egg and mayonnaise sandwich, it's disgusting! And so, like half of us just walked around really hungry all day, because we didn't want to eat the egg and mayonnaise sandwiches. Reflecting on that as an adult, I think one of the teachers like made sandwiches for like the entire class. She was older, maybe in 60s or something, I'm not even sure. And she probably just made what she thought were cool sandwiches. But to kids who like eat peanut butter and veggie-mite sandwiches and stuff, it just seems so gross. And like I can't remember her exact response, so I remember saying to her I don't like the sandwiches. But in my mind I can see her look sad, and it makes me feel bad, you know? Because doesn't that just suck in live chat, when you try and do a good thing and it isn't appreciated? One of those painful feelings, ain't it? Getting egg and mayonnaise sandwiched in honor, I'm not even sure that exactly what it was, I just knew it had egg in it. |
| 23. March 2021 | Either work to achieve your goals or drop them | Either work to achieve your goals or drop them. If you are feeling tired all the time, I highly recommend going to a doctor. Or, again, identifying what in your life is making you tired. Bad diet, bad sleeping pattern, whatever it is, and trying to actively solve it. I dealt with my issue, I just kind of pushed through it for a long time. And then, you know, I had Hashimoto's for who knows how long. And it was just undiagnosed, because I didn't go to a fucking doctor. Like, again, I know it's hard, and no one's perfect at doing it. I'm not perfect at doing it. But if you recognize you want something, and you're not actively working towards achieving it, then you are to some extent to blame. You can't just mope around all day that you aren't achieving what you want to achieve if you're not willing to actually try to achieve it. Life isn't fair. Systems aren't fair. Good people, hardworking people, don't always succeed. But the only way to guarantee that you don't succeed is to never try, you know? Being debating with my dad on taking a chance in life, never know if I don't try. I mean, don't take that advice as, you should just fucking do anything in life, right? They're just, you know, yolo, I'm gonna invest all my money into blah blah blah. Like, you know, risk management is important. Jumping off a cliff to see if you can fly is still a bad move. Either actively work to achieve your goal, even in some small way, or just drop it, because you're not going to achieve it, because you're not actively working towards it, you know? Dwelling on things that you aren't ever going to achieve is not going to be good for you. I know just dropping it is, you know, it's not that easy, right? But I'm just saying. I'm a person who really likes setting goals and actively working to achieve those goals. It's probably the only thing that really gives me satisfaction in life. Whenever I'm down or feeling shit or something, I like to set some sort of a goal and then achieve it. It usually makes me feel better. So I'm having a shit day, feel bad, can't stream, whatever. I go, I'm going to clean my kitchen. I'm going to rearrange my cupboard. Anything where I think at the end of it, there will be some tangible benefit to my life, even if temporary, in terms of my cupboard, because I'll eventually get dirty again or whatever, you know? Because at least then I can sit at the end of the day and go, I achieved something today, you know? Not everyone's like that. I'm only just talking about my own mentality. If I have a problem and I can't solve it immediately, or I have to wait to solve it, or I can't actively work to fix it, these are the problems that bother me. Knowing I have to wait a week for a phone call to have a conversation, to solve a problem or whatever, I'm just like, oh, just do it now, you know? I don't like putting stuff off. But sometimes you have to. |
| 23. January 2021 | Elajjaz. | The Twitch streamer Elijah. Have you watched stream Elijah? Yeah, I watched Elijah all the time. All the time. He plays these weird old games that are kind of like Souls, but kind of not or whatever and I like his speed runs. I watched him play some Demon's Souls, the new one. I didn't watch a lot of streams. But Elijah is definitely one of the people who if I'm watching a stream, there's a chance I'll be watching him or I'll um, I'll listen to him in the background. Seems like a nice dude. |
| 17. July 2021 | Elden Ring may save horses for me. | Elden Ring may save horses for me. What do I think of Elden Ring? So when I saw that Elden Ring has a horse as a primary aspect of its mechanics and its open world, I started to sweat. I was like, oh no, this can't be another Red Divinium 2, please. I need- I need some good to come in the future. Don't ruin this for me. But then I can see like, it's- it's like jumping over fucking cliffs and like running up walls and stuff, and like when you want to dismount off the horse, it disappears under you. You use the horse in combat. I'm like, okay, Shavokstar fucked that up for me, but there's no way FromSoft can. FromSoft may actually redeem horses as a mode of transportation in- in my eyes, right? They may save horses in gaming for me, and they do that by making a horse that looks like a demon thing. Because goddamn normal horses are boring. The Elden- Elden Ring looks great. I can't wait. GameRanks put it as their like, top thing that we've learned about from E3, and I agree. Nothing else was of interest to me in E3. Well, there was other stuff that like looked good or that I could maybe play in some other contexts. It's just with Oko, and what I have to do with Pasphos and stuff. The game has to be like, the greatest thing ever for me to think of putting aside everything that I'm doing to play it, and Elden Ring is that. You know me, I've said many times, I love all the Dark Souls games, I love FromSoft, and uh, yeah. Oko, Elden Ring, when? I cannot imagine. I can't imagine Elden Ring would ever be good enough that I would change all my content to just being about Elden Ring. Can't imagine it. For better or worse, I am a rockstar do or die. To a significant degree anyway. I'll probably release a video or two on it, as I have with other Dark Souls I've played. Man, do I wish I kept the footage of me playing Dark Souls 1 and 2. Or even my casual playthrough of 3. What are you gonna do? It's too long ago. I just wish I played the games of a company that was interested in making video games. But they made Red Devil Imogen 2, yeah, that was a thing. |
| 06. July 2021 | Elden Ring trailer impressions | highlighting certain aspects of it and it looked really nice. Looks like a combination of Secure and Dark Souls, in a way, which sounds pretty good. There are very few developers or publishers, whatever, that I care about. FromSoft is definitely one of them. I'm not more excited for a FromSoft release than I am for a Rockstar release, but it's pretty close. And I might favor Rockstar releases more because business-wise, that's better for me. I love FromSoft games, dude. React to trailer? Yeah, I guess I could do that, maybe. But like, it's not really, people don't really like my Souls content. Although, like I haven't made any Souls content in a long time, but that original Demon's Souls playthrough video was a good video. I don't care what people say. I know it's like an hour and a half long, but very few people watched it, but it was a good video. Sekiro, back in the day, when it released, was one of the first kind of big sponsorships that I did. I don't think it was paid necessarily, but I was given some giveaway stuff, as well as like an amazingly cool collector's box. Like, they literally sent me a wooden box with a bunch of stuff in it. It was flattering. I would hope that such a thing would happen again for Elden Ring, but I don't think it will happen this time for various different reasons, but we'll see what happens. Fan mail streams. Do you think you would do a fan mail stream? I had a PO box a real long time ago. The reason why I don't have one now is because sending stuff to Australia costs so much money. It's a... |
| 12. August 2020 | Electric cars | Electric cars. What do you think about car industry going towards electric instead of fuel-based engines? Seems good. I've listened to a lot of this, you know, electric cars are better for the environment. Oh no, they're not. They actually put out more blah blah blah. It seems to be that in general electric cars are better for the environment. And to what extent they do produce negative environmental repercussions. It seems more related to the infrastructure that currently exists outside of the industry. In terms of, you know, where the electricity comes from in regards to coal and whatnot. And that will just change as well over time. And it is changing over time with renewables being more a part of each country's generation of electricity. A lot of the environmental impacts of electric cars is overblown in my estimation. It's more put out by, you know, these companies who have a lot invested in traditional forms of transport. With that being said, like, you know, how batteries are made or whatever is apparently very destructive to the environment and whatnot. But this still pales in comparison to what stand cars do to the environment. And certainly as electric cars become more widely adopted, things just get better and better and better, right? As more money is in the industry, more research can be done. There's more reason for those kind of developments. |
| 30. September 2021 | Elevator small talk | Elevator small talk. Do you make small talk in the elevator? I'm not a monster. Stalin, Hitler, people make conversations, small talk in elevators. These are the true horrors that have been produced by humankind. |
| 10. June 2020 | Elon Musk Baby Name | Elon Musk's child's name What do you think about Elon named his new baby? I could not care even slightly I mean, I guess I care a little bit for the well-being of the child in terms of it getting bullied or whatever You know your first thing you do for your child is name us and so you name it a weird name That for its entire life people go. Um, why is your name this and that's gonna be question They're gonna receive for the rest of their days as a streamer who has to answer the same questions over and over again Completely justifiable questions sometimes I can tell you after a few years. It's already gotten a little bit tedious. I Cannot imagine how garbage that's gonna be for that child that Elon Musk You gotta be special man. You gotta feel like he's better than everyone else He's even just even down to the name of his fucking child man. How would I pronounce it? I'm sure they'll give him a nickname that will just be a normal name and for his entire entire life There's gonna be like forms and shit that you need to like type his name for and that the He'll have to fuck like the keyboard might not even have those symbols or like the Mobile phones and iPads and shit like you just you just made his life worse For no reason is done |
| 25. July 2022 | Elon Musk attempting to back out of buying twitter | Something Elon Musk attempting to back out of buying Twitter. Oh Elon backing out of Twitter It's gonna be very interesting to see if he can actually do that because he signed all the papers Twitter was very open about the amount of bots that is on the platform Elon also waived due diligence before he signed meaning that he had all the time in the world to investigate and chose Specifically not to but he was like not as more bots than what they say cuz cuz I know dude I know my heart of hearts so I'm pulling out even though like one of the things that Elon said he wanted to tackle by buying Twitter is the amount of bots on the platform as in he already knew this shit It wasn't like after he talks then he learned that there's bots on Twitter like that theory where people say that This was just a way for him to sell his Tesla stock Without having a completely freefall with people thinking he's bailing on it because the stock is bad or something because as long as you have a good reason for selling your stock the market isn't necessarily going to React as if this is a cataclysmic event or something, right? If the market sees no reason why you're selling your stock and you start mass selling Everyone else is gonna mass sell because you know, they're worried that there's something that they don't know that's Suggested the company's gonna do badly and everyone else is gonna sell their stock and all, you know conspiracy theories But it makes so much sense because Tesla stock is so massively overvalued It is like the biggest bubble within a bubble that is the stock market at this point Elon Musk is being forced to buy Twitter who knows how that's gonna work out cuz it's got to go to the courts now Bare minimum Twitter is gonna receive a billion dollars but like surely they're gonna argue that they deserve more than what's in the contracts because a Deal where you're selling the company you have to do things to prepare for that and that all takes time and effort and for Elon to Just jerk it away, you know, it has negative consequences for the company But they're refusing to release data that he wants are they though? They're fusing least area he wants another they're suing him to make him buy they will be required to release the data I mean Clearly they're not worried about releasing the data Then if they're willing to sue him and release the data the data can't be concerning to them is Twitter holding back data from Elon Musk The data stream has been available for years to companies that pay Twitter for the ability to analyze it to find patterns and insights in The daily conversation they along with some analysts and Silicon Valley insiders say that Musk is using the data requests as a pretext to wiggle Out of the deal or to negotiate a lower price Oh, actually, there's a YouTube channel I can recommend if you want to know more about Elon pulling out of his Twitter deal and all that and how bullshit his claims are watch this video Patrick burr. What do you speak you speak? I'm hedge fund manager a university professor and a former investment banker Here's some really great videos about finance and he has this dry wit, which I just find very endearing I highly recommend this channel, but this video also quite funny as are all his videos about Elon Musk's Deal but yeah, just to tack this on to the discussion. We're having yesterday about Elon's a bullshit |
| 01. December 2022 | Elon Musk hates the idea of crediting others. | Others. So I don't think most of my rambles about Elon Musk actually ended up on the channel. I've left them in their own project file and I might release them, I don't know. But I want this one to be included because, well, when you see, it goes so much against what I value and believe. The richest man in the world reads his Twitter replies, sees an image he likes in a reply, and then instead of retweeting it, he downloads the image and reposts it. Sometimes he crops the creator's names off. So Elon Musk has been doing this forever, just stealing memes without crediting anyone who actually made them, or at least the source of where he got them. Like there's a retweet feature and he still makes sure to download them just so he can have all the attention of someone else's work. And you think, well, maybe they're just memes or whatever. But this person shows an example. Remember when he posted 2B fanart in 2019 and when his own fanboys asked him to credit the artist, he not only refused, he started ranting about how credits is ruining us and the internet before going black profile picture and deleting his Twitter account instead of giving credit. Deleting, like he didn't actually delete it, he just pretended. So 2B and beautiful art. Credit the artist, Elon, no. I wish people would stop crediting artists on Twitter when any fool can find out who the artist was in seconds. It's destroying the medium. What do you mean? It is often quite hard to find the original artist to anything, partly because people don't credit shit. And even then, any additional barrier to entry will cause less people to know of that information. Not 2B, deleted, just deleted by Twitter account and puts a black circle. He's been doing this shit, this amazingly cringy shit for years, but you know me, I'm a person who strongly believes in credit where credit's due. And like, if you know anything about the history of Elon Musk and the more you dig into it, you will find that basically everything that has been attributed to him has just been him stealing credit from other people. Whether it be calling himself a founder of PayPal, which he was not, calling himself a founder of Tesla, which he was not, and it goes back all the way. There's great videos on it now, but his fanboys don't really care about that shit. He's just lied and taken credit for the works of thousands of people. It's like, well, he owns SpaceX, so clearly everything done at SpaceX, including all the technology that SpaceX was built off, must be his creation now, ha ha. Maybe some people think that, honestly. Elon repost another person's meme, now it's his meme, he made it. Elon acting like a fake depressed, hegy 14 year old lol. Yes, that is a good way of putting it. And some people really, really love that shit, and it's really sad. The major upcoming changes for the next Chaos Rainbemizer season. |
| 03. September 2021 | Elon Musk is not saving the world. | Elon Musk is not saving the world. I would never like these mashups that imply that Elon Musk is personally building rockets or doing fucking anything with that company. It's funding. That's about it. It's this fucking narrative of the one man who revolutionizes the world. It's fucking nonsense. Didn't his boring company weather just fold and he did give up? Isn't that just a recent thing? Lazy Elephant, he scams people so he could test his fucking drilling equipment that he wants to use on Mars. That is clearly bad. Like there was no reality where what he was claiming he was going to be able to do was possible. It was just nothing but lies and lies and lies. Elon Musk is a great hype man, marketer, but he hasn't really done all that much. |
| 18. January 2023 | Elon Musk's never-ending unfulfilled promises scam. | Elon Musk's never-ending unfulfilled promises scam. I'm sure most of you by now understand that Elon Musk is a, what's it called, a vaporware salesman. Where like, for his entire career, he has just said, hey, we have the newest technology, we're gonna innovate, change the world. We're like one year away from completely automated cars, one year away from revolutionizing space travel, we're one year away from revolutionizing public transport, all that jazz. One year away from solving traffic in cities. And then like that year comes by, it's like no, next year guys, next year. And this technique was used to massively pump the stock of things like Tesla and enabling him to bail out with what? $40 billion of sold shares. And now the entire thing's crashed. This is a scam that's been going on forever where a person over promises and presents themselves as a person about to change the world. So everyone hops on, buys shares, and so they can sell their shares and get out. But it's funny that some people don't see this still. Even when things like this come out, where it is cars in a tunnel, and they're like, hey man, cars in a tunnel with RGB, this is gonna revolutionize the world. Holy shit, like singular cars in tunnels, as if we haven't had like buses and trains forever, right? So many videos have been made comparing the two different technologies, but you still get these people who are like, wow, this is the coolest thing in the world, dude. It's gonna save about 15 minutes, man. But it's just always gonna be the case that some people are gonna know so little that they'll buy anything, either in the sense of actually purchasing a product or accepting entirely false information. That's how Elon built himself to being who he is today. It's nuts though. Oh true, yeah, I mean, I did kind of overlook the RGB in the tunnel. It's happy rainbow lights, man. That's well worth it. |
| 29. May 2020 | Elon and free America | What do you think about Elon's participation in the Free America campaign? Personally, I just thought he's smarter than this. When I saw Elon trending on Twitter, I was like, what's all this about them? And so I saw Elon Musk going, we must Free America, yeah, Free America, woo! And I'm like, so what's really going on here? So read some articles, and people talk about that Elon was so close to meeting the requirements to get a stock bonus of like $700 million or something like that. And COVID-19 and the economies of the world closing down potentially will inhibit him to getting to that point. Like he's at 98% completion and time is running out. And if he doesn't get that last 2%, then he loses $700 million basically, or some shit. It may not in those dire terms, but that describes the situation at least. And so when you look at the history of his comments about this, people panicking about COVID, nonsense, idiocy, nonsense, idiocy, every day, nonsense, idiocy, nonsense, more people die, idiocy, nonsense, cases double, triple, nonsense, idiocy. This is all going to go away guys, all going to go away, complete nonsense, going to go away. And it's him saying, you know, there's going to be zero cases in April. It's either he is behind the scenes going fuck guys, I better use my influence to try to secure my $700 million bonus. Or he subconsciously wants that $700 million bonus. So he's looked around for anything that can support, because as we all bias, we're all biased to seeking out information that supports the opinion we want to have, how we want to see the world. He just searched out certain things that have convinced him that he's really right. Oh, it's not about that $700 million. This is really what is best for the world. And I'm just putting out my opinion there. Sure, this would benefit me, but that's not really why I'm doing it. Or, you know, the $700 million really doesn't matter to him at all. That's not really a factor. And he has seen things that I have not. And he's actually right that freeing America of freeing up things would actually be the best way to do things. Like, because I like to think the best of people in general. I think he's probably, I would like to say he's in the camp where he's just subconsciously being influenced by that $700 million. I don't think he's seen they're going, sure, a lot of people are gonna die if we open up the country. But, okay, that's $700 million. I think that's worth it, man. Fuck the people. Fuck the people. Like, I'd be very surprised if he was, you know, just in it for himself maliciously saying, you know, sure, some people are gonna die, but fuck them. I'm gonna get my $700 million. I think he, you know, biased because of the potential winfall that he will have. He doesn't want to lose it. |
| 11. December 2020 | Embarassing Myself On New Year's Eve | Embarrassing myself on New Year's Eve. What year was it? Was it 2019? COVID hadn't hit panic levels, but it was a thing a little bit, I guess. Loseafruit posted something like having a New Year's party with what's the group called again? Click or what have you at their place, Mutual's Welcome. And I had no idea what mutuals meant. And I was like, I know she follows me on Twitch. We know a lot of the same people. Like, I mean, between our Twitters, like we have we have similar people that we know, like I know. So message her on DMs and see if I can come because I don't really have a lot of streamer friends. Like, I'll be cool to see how the really, really big streamers are doing or whatever or what they're doing with themselves. I mean, I was averaging what, 600 viewers at this point. I had a big YouTube, right? It's not like I was small content creator or whatever. Polar Nuts still nuts because lose fruit and all that. But my assumption was when she said mutuals, that it just meant like we know the same kind of people. What mutuals actually means, though, is that you follow each other on Twitter. And so I sent her a message. She didn't respond, obviously. And I was like, oh, now I feel kind of pathetic. And that's all the stories. It is an awkward story. As I've said many times, I remember the last Twitch party that was held. And I was like, oh, fuck it. I'll go to the next one. And then Covid hit and I was like, god damn it. I really wish I went to that Twitch party. Been so long since I've done anything. And there's no party that is worth even a tiny chance of me catching Covid in my mind. And not just for me, I would I would never want to worry about harming other people or something. The guilt that I would experience if I was responsible for even one other person dying would just be just monumental. It would crush me forever because I've got, you know, a bajillion decades left to go to parties and shit. |
| 22. January 2022 | Embarassing dating stories | stories. Probably the most embarrassing thing that happened when I did online dating was we went ice skating and I parked my car in the underground parking but we were there so long that the underground parking closed so when I left I was like oh crap I can't get my car and so she had to give me a ride home. Not an online dating story but the first time I crashed my car was when I was on a double date with a friend and his girlfriend and it had just rained or it was still raining a little bit and there was some poorly signed construction and so he doesn't see it he slammed on his brakes and I'm like why would he be breaking in the middle of it oh shit and I like I thought he was just slowing down a bit because he actually slammed on his brakes and I just ran up and back him. No one was hurt but it was I don't know if that was the first date or whatever but it was not great. Did I end up banging Stacey's mum? No. I dated two girls named Stacey not at the same time obviously and I did not bang either of their mums. Stacey's mum has got it going on crashes his car runs dead. |
| 11. December 2020 | Embarrassing Myself On New Year's Eve | Embarrassing myself on New Year's Eve. What year was it? Was it 2019? COVID hadn't hit panic levels, but it was a thing a little bit, I guess. Loseafruit posted something like having a New Year's party with what's the group called again? Click or what have you at their place, Mutual's Welcome. And I had no idea what mutuals meant. And I was like, I know she follows me on Twitch. We know a lot of the same people. Like, I mean, between our Twitters, like we have we have similar people that we know, like I know. So message her on DMs and see if I can come because I don't really have a lot of streamer friends. Like, I'll be cool to see how the really, really big streamers are doing or whatever or what they're doing with themselves. I mean, I was averaging what, 600 viewers at this point. I had a big YouTube, right? It's not like I was small content creator or whatever. Polar Nuts still nuts because lose fruit and all that. But my assumption was when she said mutuals, that it just meant like we know the same kind of people. What mutuals actually means, though, is that you follow each other on Twitter. And so I sent her a message. She didn't respond, obviously. And I was like, oh, now I feel kind of pathetic. And that's all the stories. It is an awkward story. As I've said many times, I remember the last Twitch party that was held. And I was like, oh, fuck it. I'll go to the next one. And then Covid hit and I was like, god damn it. I really wish I went to that Twitch party. Been so long since I've done anything. And there's no party that is worth even a tiny chance of me catching Covid in my mind. And not just for me, I would I would never want to worry about harming other people or something. The guilt that I would experience if I was responsible for even one other person dying would just be just monumental. It would crush me forever because I've got, you know, a bajillion decades left to go to parties and shit. |
| 22. January 2022 | Embarrassing dating stories | stories. Probably the most embarrassing thing that happened when I did online dating was we went ice skating and I parked my car in the underground parking but we were there so long that the underground parking closed so when I left I was like oh crap I can't get my car and so she had to give me a ride home. Not an online dating story but the first time I crashed my car was when I was on a double date with a friend and his girlfriend and it had just rained or it was still raining a little bit and there was some poorly signed construction and so he doesn't see it he slammed on his brakes and I'm like why would he be breaking in the middle of it oh shit and I like I thought he was just slowing down a bit because he actually slammed on his brakes and I just ran up and back him. No one was hurt but it was I don't know if that was the first date or whatever but it was not great. Did I end up banging Stacey's mum? No. I dated two girls named Stacey not at the same time obviously and I did not bang either of their mums. Stacey's mum has got it going on crashes his car runs dead. |
| 30. January 2021 | Emotion and external factors in changing minds | Emotion and external factors in changing minds. I will say, and it's a controversial opinion, gonna be very controversial today, the more I've learnt about human psychology, the more I've realised that this idea that like, the best ideas win or some shit is nonsense. The things that motivate people to change their minds or motivate change in the dominant opinion in society, I don't think is two guys sitting in a chair having a reasons debate and the best argument is just winning out. I think it all relates to emotion, the tribe, what ideas are popular, what ideas best lead to people being able to achieve the positive feelings and avoid the negative feelings in their particular environment. The idea of a person feeling shame for holding a particular idea is I think more powerful than an argument against that idea. If a person views holding a particular opinion as detrimental to their ability to achieve their goals in their environment or makes them feel bad because their friends don't like them or whatever, those feelings are so much more powerful than someone saying, what if you look at this statistical analysis on page 74, if you cross tabulate these and you'll find that actually your position is not really based in reality, sir. Far less impactful. What ideas people hear first, the context under which they hear them, the way that the person is speaking when they say them, these things matter so much more than what it says on page 74 in some document. The dumbest ideas presented well can travel so much further in the minds of people than the greatest ideas presented poorly. And don't get me wrong, when I was saying before that the emotional content and the emotional things surrounding a discussion are more important than the actual substance of the discussion. The substance of the discussion still does matter, right? Especially on issues that aren't necessarily emotional or when people don't have strong ties or strong external forces compelling them to hold a particular viewpoint, you know? If you want to convince a person that the cost of a cheeseburger is $3 instead of $2 or whatever, the facts and presenting that really doesn't matter. If you want to have an argument about which cheeseburgers are better, McDonald's or Burger King, you know? It less matters what the facts are in regards to the content of the burgers. I don't know. Maybe a bad example. I suppose when you're a public figure, it's almost like every topic there is external forces compelling you to have a particular viewpoint. When you're an average person, especially when you haven't expressed your opinion openly, you're more free to change your minds on basically anything without repercussions. |
| 19. January 2022 | Emotional damage meme. | The emotional damage meme. Emotional damage! I love that meme. I love that dude. You guys know the meme I'm talking about? Emotional damage! That meme is that's a shitty quality version. You know that guy? I love his other one where he goes, I will send you to Jesus. Probably gonna use emotional damage in our past. That meme is fire right now. They've even got a beat to it. Emotional damage! And so it's just a bunch of people like, being like, oh it's just a Disney movie, how could it, it couldn't be that bad. And then they like flash a bunch of the most emotionally soul crushing things in Disney. But if you close your eyes, emotional damage! Emotional damage! Emotional damage! Emotional damage! I kind of talked it up a little bit chat. It's a beat, you know? |
| 22. January 2022 | Emotionally supporting some guys that took lsd | Emotionally supporting some guys that took LSD. I got a weird email. This guy was like, me and my friends dropped acid. We had your 100% PB on in the background. Like it was just reassuring that you were always there on the screen. Always look back and there'd be you playing the game. So thanks for being there with us. I was like, okay, cool. |
| 14. February 2021 | Emplemon | Michael. Emplemon. Hey, Matto, just finished watching your latest Rambles video. Really enjoyed them as always. I don't think I've heard your opinion on creator Emplemon before. Emplemon's video on Hungrybox was one that got me interested again in Melee. I followed Hungrybox over that. His videos on content ID and copyright and stuff, also very interesting. I know I've seen probably half a dozen to a dozen of his videos and gone, yeah, these are very well made. He's very talented. I've also seen some stuff that is suggestive that maybe he and I wouldn't jive politically. Nothing important or worth remembering really, but I just, I remember having that feeling seeing something. I can barely remember what it is, but who really cares, right? He makes good content, you know? I probably watch every video that he brings out. |
| 18. July 2022 | Emplemon’s million sub special. | Implemon's million subs special. So Implemon is an amazing content creator. You probably have seen some of their stuff. But he released this like hour and a half plus video talking about his history on YouTube because he hit a million subs. I was looking at that and I'm like, I wish I could make a million subs special. That was that good. It didn't get as many views as the rest of his content, but trust me, it's a very interesting listen. And it makes me reflect on, like I've been on YouTube for 10 years to varying degrees. And I barely remember any of my history. I feel like I don't have a story like he does. I just kind of ploddle along with random things happening. A lot of it, I guess about my history, I'll explain when I do the iceberg video, but like I guess the iceberg video will be as close as I have to a million subs special when I hit a million subs. |
| 29. October 2021 | Empty non-committal political statements | Empty non-committal political statements. I also watched a video recently that talked about some particular types of statements that are made by politicians that are a Non-committal that seemed to have meaning like the statements if you elect me I'll make things better right that doesn't really tell you what I'm going to do except that I'll make things more positive or Achieve things that you know are good It doesn't actually tell you what I'm going to achieve it's like that like the statement Make America great again, right we all have different ideas of what it means to make a country great But by making this statement you are putting forth yourself as a person who's going to do things get things done But you're not committing yourself to any particular ends like on any issue Because you want to get the most votes as a politician Anytime you put your foot down on a particular side of any issue you lose votes So what you well what a lot of people want to do a lot of politicians will almost need to do is make statements where? They're not really that committal unless they they're not really that committed unless they need to be you know |
| 19. December 2019 | Emu Wars | What are the Emu Wars? Is it really even a thing? What are the Emu Wars? The Emu Wars is an actual historical event where emus were a pest to a bunch of farmers. So they basically went around with machine guns and shit and tried to kill the emus, like cull them to protect the farms. But emus were very fast, run around very quickly from side to side and shit, so they were very hard to shoot. So they'd end up killing like one or two emus and then all the emus would scatter. And this is like a hundred years ago or something, so you can't get around all that well. And people just threw more and more money at the problem or some shit, and ultimately at the end of the day a lot of money was wasted, a lot of bullets were wasted, and they killed very few emus. Worse than that though is that emus can take a shot or two before and then run around and potentially not even die. So they would never know if their shots were sufficient to actually have killed an emu. So it was a huge mess basically. So it's a bit of a meme because it's so stupid. Like obviously it wasn't an actual war between Australia and the emus. If it was an actual military it would win, but it was a government-funded skirmish trying to take out the emus and the emus won. |
| 06. March 2021 | Emulators and their legality | Emulators and their legality. My opinion on emulators and the legality of them? Clearly I like emulators and I think they should be legal for games that are no longer being sold or exist for antiquated hardware. Without that those games will just be long forgotten and unable to be played, you know? It's weird like so many games are limited to a much worse experience if played through the actual release. Especially in times where you know you remember how PlayStation tried to release that mini PlayStation or whatever and they the games they put on it were like inferior versions. There are better versions of those games that existed with far better emulation. Like if you if often when you buy the official release of older hardware or older games or whatever you're legitimately getting a worse experience than if you paid nothing. Like if the original developers eons later aren't going to go to the effort to give you the best experience for your money, are they deserving of your money? Sony literally sold you freeware emulator on their system? Yeah. Like in some cases like a Mario Party for example people have been begging Nintendo to have a good online system for that so people can play Mario Party over the internet and Nintendo just refuses to do it. You can apparently do that shit pretty damn easily with an emulator. If you are unwilling to give your consumer base the experiences that they desire, you're clearly able to give them if you wanted to, then you can't possibly be angry if they give themselves those experiences. |
| 29. May 2020 | Encounters with deadly animals | Have you had any encounters with dangerous animals, poisonous spiders or snakes in your life? No. I've been around redback spiders, maybe half a dozen times over the course of my life. Oh shit, a redback! They are poisonous and potentially deadly, but the odds of dying from any particular poisonous animal, dangerous animal in Australia is extraordinarily tiny. People are like, man, I would never go to fucking Australia, get killed by an animal. It's like, man, you have a higher chance, whatever country you're in, of being hit by a car and dying than you do of being in Australia and being killed by animal. Anywhere that humans congregate in significant enough numbers, certainly tourist spots, all such animals are driven away. If you go to the Aussie Outback, yeah, maybe you might be at risk of a snake or something, but I mean you have a mobile phone. But why the fuck would you be going to the Aussie Outback anyway? Like you get bitten by a snake, you're like, oh shit! I got bit by a snake, can you come get me? |
| 26. September 2021 | English is weird and Australia doesn't help | Weird and Australia doesn't help. How do you pronounce Melbourne? It is funny when people go, Melbourne. Are you guys from Melbourne? I know it's not spelt that way, but that's the way that it's said, okay? We live here and you will abide by our stupid naming conventions, okay? Rizbain. The best example of countries where their pronunciation makes no sense. Not countries, sorry, states. I guess, America. The Arkansas and Kansas. If this is Kansas America, why is this not Arkansas? Why is this not Arkansas? I think it's a funny vine with a Russian woman. Why you do this, America? I mean, there are still people in the world who think that Australia is just a backwards country. But surely there's less now. Like my friend Patrick, or my old friend Patrick. He's not my friend anymore. He talked about when he moved to Australia when he was 12. And kids were like, why would you want to move to Australia? They're like, they live in huts and stuff. I was like, what the fuck are you talking about? You know? |
| 12. April 2022 | Enjoyable GTA Clones. | Enjoyable GTA clones. In terms of playthroughs, you're not just gonna stick with... Because you do other, what would you call them, GTA clones, right? You're not just into GTA? Like you do Saints Row and what do you do, do you like any Mafia? I did Saints Row 2. I actually like Saints Row 2 more than GTA. Saints Row 2 is my favorite crime game of all time. GTA is my second favorite crime game. But, and when I say Saints Row, I mean the second one, obviously. I like the old style, you know, when it was gangsters and stuff like that. Not like the stupid super power stuff that they do today. Yeah, I played Saints Row 1, I think, a couple of months ago. I actually quite, I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. You should try Saints Row 2, because Saints Row 2 is way better than Saints Row 1. Saints Row 1 is still a good game, but Saints Row 2 is the best one. Yeah, as is often the case with a lot of franchises, where the first is like, they're testing things out, figuring out what works, and in the second, they refine everything to a fine diamond, you could say. I will eventually get onto that. My eventual goal is to play every GTA clone, but it's, I've got so much editing and stuff and all these other projects. Have you done Sleeping Dogs yet? I played Sleeping Dogs just a little bit, a long time ago, and I liked it quite a bit. I'm not sure why I gave up on it. I think I just got busy because someone took a world record away from me or something. I never went back to it. Do you think it's good? I think Sleeping Dogs is excellent, and the problem with Sleeping Dogs was that Sleeping Dogs was actually going to have a new game that was supposed to come out in 2015 called Triad Wars, which that was supposed to be a competitor to GTA Online. It was going to be an online game, and it was going to be set in the same map. Hong Kong was the exact same map, but you were going to be playing as a gangster this time, not as an undercover cop. You were going to create your own triad, and you were going to work your way up doing different jobs similar to GTA Online, and eventually get a penthouse. You can customize it. You get cars and guns, and it was supposed to be really cool, but the publisher cancelled it because they didn't think that Sleeping Dogs was enough of a success. Do you think they were wrong? I think they were wrong. I think Sleeping Dogs has a lot of potential. I think Sleeping Dogs could have evolved into something much bigger because it was only the first game in the series. The thing is, though, is I personally don't like it when people, like, you know, throw around sales numbers because people do that all the time. They say, oh, this game sold better, so then therefore that game is better than that one. Just because a game sold better than one game doesn't mean that the game is necessarily better than another one. Like, for instance, me personally, my favorite GTA in the entire series is GTA IV. And the reason I like GTA IV, one reason is because I'm originally from New York, but also is because I like, I just like the seriousness of the tone. Like, you've played GTA IV, right? Yeah, I like the characters, the atmosphere, the story. You know how GTA IV has that dark, you know, criminal underworld theme? Like, it's more serious tone. Like, it's like, you know, it's more brutal, I would say. You know what I mean, right? I do like it more, but I like the, I think there's a lot of things that GTA IV did better than GTA V and GTA V did better than GTA IV in terms of my personal preferences. But I can totally understand why GTA V would have a much wider appeal than GTA IV, if you get my meaning. GTA V, I think, you know, it sold better because it was the next game in the series. Like, GTA VI could be a worse game than GTA V, and it will still sell better than GTA V. True. Because so many new people have gotten into GTA. So just looking at the next game and saying, you know, this game is better than the next one because it sold more. Not necessarily a fact. I mean, look at the Call of Duty games. Like, usually most Call of Duty games, the next one is one every year, sell better than the previous one. But there's some Call of Duty games that are really bad, some that are good, and some that are like, you know, in the middle. But, you know, people kept saying, oh, Cold War sucks, Cold War is a bad game. And then Vanguard came out, and now they're all saying Vanguard is the worst one. So it's like, you know, people oftentimes can't make up their mind. I mean, I found a lot of the stuff in GTA IV to be less forgiving. Like, the driving in GTA IV, I mean, you can, you get used to anything, but I prefer the driving in GTA V. Even though I fully acknowledge that the driving in GTA IV is like more realistic, more weighted. Cars in GTA V by comparison are more flozy. But I prefer the control of GTA V over GTA IV in regards to the driving. I like GTA IV's driving because it felt to me like I was driving a real car and I felt like the physics were just better. I mean, you know something? I was doing an MC cell mission today and I was doing that the Pounder truck mission. Do you know that one? No. It's where you drive like a big single truck from your MC business and you make the delivery. And there's one mission where there's like a guy smoking weed in like the truck and your character gets high and everything. But what happened was there was a bunch of NPCs shooting at me. And so the NPC traffic in front of me freaked out. I had this small little car like hit my truck and my truck went flying back that it almost like flipped over. And I was like, this is so stupid. There's no way in hell like a small like little car like this would be able to flip a truck like this. So I thought the physics in like GTA IV were just so much better than like the physics in GTA V. Yeah, it is more realistic. But at the same time, like it was just more annoying for me sometimes. Like I totally understand that GTA V physics aren't more realistic and you can have situations like that where cars are flying everywhere. But for the average audience, I think that's preferable. People prefer when wacky stuff like that happens. It's more accessible to casual audience. And that's going to help games reach more people. As again, this isn't a matter of which is better or what have you. But just what's going to be preferable to the majority of people. I don't just do like, you know, games similar to GTA. I also like, you know, play like I'll play shooters and other games on my channel. Like I did, you know, the great Ace Attorney Chronicles. You know that one? I have actually never played an Ace Attorney game. But I've seen all the memes. I know what it's about because it's just it's surprisingly popular for what is it? I guess. What would you call that genre? It's a very simple game with like text and stuff like that. But even though it's like it's so simple, the formula for it is just so genius because that game requires like so much critical thinking. Like it's like some of the first cases that you do like they're pretty easy. But then later on, like you're you know, you're the defense attorney. You have to try to find your client innocent and your client most of the times your client is had nothing to do with it. They're just being framed. And so you have to like really carefully look at the evidence. You have to see what people are saying and you have to catch their contradictions. And when you finally catch them in that contradiction and you call it out, you just feel really like accomplished when you finally break the case open and you expose the true culprit. It is certainly a genre that I've thought about playing some games in. But at the end of the day, when I finally find time to play a single player game, I generally try to grab myself a GTA clone simply because I know that's going to do better for my channel. And I know I'm going to enjoy myself. I get where you're coming from, but I just I just don't like that word like GTA clone personally for me. I just you know, I see these games a lot of times as competitors. Oh, it is certainly in a way it has a connotation of being like demeaning, like, oh, they're just copying Rockstar. But in reality, it's just referring to a type of game, you know, minimap in the corner, gun stealing car sort of thing. It's not meant to be demeaning, but I can't understand why it is suggestive that they're just ripping it off, you know. Have you done the Godfather games? No, but everyone tells me they're amazing. I haven't even seen the Godfather movies. Didn't they come out like 50 years ago or something now? 1972 Godfather 1, 1974 Godfather 2 and 1994, I think Godfather 3. But yeah, this is mafia movies. And the thing is, the games actually follow the movie pretty well and they're pretty good. So it's just like usually a lot of games are based on movies suck. But that one's kind of an exception. Do you think I could play them without seeing the movie? Yeah, you don't you don't really need to see that. You don't really need to see the movie to play them. Like when I was a kid, I I I understand Godfather 1 is the easiest movie to understand out of all of them. Like it's just, you know, pretty simple. Like you can be a kid and watch and understand most of everything that's going on. When I was a kid and I watched Godfather 2, I was a bit confused. Like, you know, there was like the Fredo scene kind of confused me when I was a kid. But like, you know, later on when I was older, I watched it. I understood it better. But you can play for the game. And when you play for the game right before you start a mission, the missions are follow the movie. They'll give you like a little like bio thing on the screen and it'll tell you the description. Like here's what's happening in the story and everything like that. And so you can read that and it explains everything perfectly. So you don't even need to really watch the movie, but it does help to watch the movie. |
| 29. December 2020 | Enjoying content from games you don’t like. | as you do GTA content, or the way you do GTA. Like GTA is on my last list of playing games. I don't like it at all, but the way you do it, I really like it. Speedrunning is more than just the game, right? You don't have to play a game to like a speedrun or a challenge of something, right? The overwhelming vast majority of speedruns I've ever watched or had an interest in, I've never played. It is not common, I would say, for speedrunners to become popular because of their personality. The best speedrunners tend to be people who are just massively focused on the game, and their personality is just like a side thing, you know? I said it's uncommon, not unheard of. There are many speedrunners who have had a life beyond speedrunning. From my Twitch or YouTube? Both. Speedrunning, especially being a very, very good speedrunner, is a good way to get people to initially notice you. And if you happen to also be a good streamer, a good entertainer, have a good personality, or you develop one over the course of your speedrunning career, you can maintain that audience long after your relevance in speedrunning has declined. Cheating in speedrunning and why people get outraged about it. It has long been known about. |
| 30. March 2021 | Enjoying my older edits. | Enjoying my older edits You know, I get this kind of little bit of joy when people comments on my old videos and They're like, oh man that edit at this point that was so funny And I'm like, I remember that edit and I get to go back and click it and look at it and laugh as well a person they were like man, I burst out laughing on your blitz play video the The Joker edit, you know how like I hum I spliced in the Joker from the Dark Knight driving the um garbage truck For the scenes where Michael's driving the garbage truck. It's just such a simple little editor Whatever, but I think I find that funny too. It sucks where people don't put a timestamp though Because then I have to find it myself in the video. I don't do enough creative editing outside of pacifist anymore because a lot of like there's like a facts and glitches you have to do creative edits on you know I I don't do anything with the chaos highlights anymore because I just I just upload the raw stuff And if it wasn't my editors being willing to do it I would never release the highlights, but some people like them and they have some good edits in them. So you |
| 13. March 2022 | Entertainment is growing stale. | Entertainment is growing stale. I was watching a video yesterday where a guy was talking about how his enthusiasm for gaming was dampened and it sort of made him depressed because it was like what his content on YouTube was focused on and all that jazz. And it was something he loved previously so it was, you know, very put out that he couldn't love it to the same degree anymore. But then he realized that changing genres of games and playing types of games he'd never played before rekindled his love for the hobby. I feel like I'm going through a similar sort of thing with other people's content. I feel like I've seen everything before. Nothing is anywhere close to as entertaining as it used to be. Everything seems played out and stale. It's even hard to like start watching something because like, well, who fucking cares, you know? I hope I can find something that rekindles my love of content again. Like I like making content. It's just, you know. |
| 23. February 2023 | Entitled content creator goes berserk after simple request to remove reaction video. | Hello and welcome to another episode of Viper Rambles starting with a topic entitled content creator goes berserk after simple requests to take down reaction video So this company called honeypot made this documentary. It took them according to them over a year Funnily enough. It is about something called react. Now this has nothing to do with the reaction content It is some stuff related to coding. So Just ignore that this says react here. It isn't a documentary on reaction content Uh, very well produced I can understand why it took so long And so this guy theo comes along takes the original video takes the original title takes the original thumbnail shoves himself in it And then reuploads the entire thing to youtube with himself in the corner. No editing no addition of any Changes he's not making the documentary into something. It wasn't before he's not using the footage for a completely different purpose Nothing that comes even close to what fair use is meant to defend and ultimately Nothing that matters he adds 18 minutes of runtime to the original So most of this video is just him watching a documentary and so the original creators honeypot Seems somewhat taken aback by this they didn't expect this to happen They didn't ask him to do it and so their response initially was like Oh, okay. You've done this now, but like you haven't really credited us all that much and you have monetized it Can you like not do that? That's that's strange and their response likely from their social media manager was hi theo Hi, theo. Glad you liked that documentary. It took a lot of hard work Please consider giving the original version a watch or subscribing to our channel for upcoming projects Now to me that sounds a little bit passive aggressive like hey, yeah that we we spent a lot of time making that documentary It's very interesting that you uh, you reupload it to your youtube channel in full. That's that's that's super But a few days later honeypot is like, you know what? We've talked it over the whole team the company or everyone who worked on it We would prefer if you like didn't have our entire documentary on your youtube channel So can you like take it down this enrages theo so he goes on a twitter tirade prepare yourself This is the most delusional shit i've ever seen despite turning off monetization Linking to the original channel and video and promoting the hell of the honeypot theo react documentary They are making me take down my reaction vid. Here's what they say We appreciate that content creation is no easy task However, after talking with the rest of our team and our management We would kindly ask you to remove the video from your channel perfectly fine response I would kindly request that anyone who understands how the internet works Refused to work with honeypot theo in the future They have made vague threats to dmca me throughout for reuploading their entire documentary They spent over a year on and they did nothing more than watch. I even gave them the pinned comments the benevolence I would be asleep, but i'm legit so pissed this will be the main topic on stream tomorrow I should also disclose why i'm so confident that this isn't a one-off misunderstanding I have additional info from ex-employees about honeypot's rough practice around these docs So like he didn't ask them for permission and honeypot therefore had to scramble To get a response to what they wanted to do about the situation of their entire documentary being ripped off and this enrages theo He doesn't reflect me. Wait, I didn't actually ask for permission or give them time to formulate a response I just did it. I fucked around and found out but it's their fault even worse than this Because he started to mute the replies of honeypot explaining why they did this Honeypot has been terrible to me by not letting him reupload the entirety of their documentary that they spent over a year on So i'm not letting them use my replies as a platform They can make whatever public statement they want but they're not doing it here Just so we're clear theo has like five times the followers on twitter He was literally just punching down On a smaller twitter account and then hiding their replies so they can't get their voice heard I will say though I can still see honeypot's responses So maybe he changed his mind on this and just left this up. I can't say but this does show his intent You didn't let me use your content. So i'm not letting you use my platform. So one of his viewers says You can react to the video. They can't dmca That as it's transformative the hell so theo responds while I could i've chosen to respect their request More than happy to let them hurt themselves in these egregious ways. So he's fully in agreement. Of course, it's fair use I mean I reupload their entire documentary and I watched it and said some things while watching it That's that's clearly fair use It is always very clear when a person has never bothered to read fair use guidelines There are many cases where it is not obvious whether something is in fair use or not that in regards to Broadcasting yourself watching a video and then re-uploading that in its entirety to youtube This is the most clear-cut case of not being defended by fair use that has ever been Fair use law wasn't written in an age of being able to easily reproduce Videos and movies and stuff. One of the things I most enjoy whenever this happens is just linking people to commentary on fair use law and case precedent So I think this is stanford talking about like what fair use is meant to cover in regards to commentary and criticism If you are commenting upon or critiquing a copyrighted work, for instance writing a book review Fair use principles allow you to reproduce some of the work to achieve your purposes Some examples of commentary and criticism include quoting a few lines from a bob dillon song in a music review Summarizing and quoting from a medical article on prostate cancer in a news report copying a few paragraphs from a news article for use by a teacher or student in lesson or Copying a portion of sports illustrated magazine article for use in a related court case consider how tiny those use cases are And then compare that to literally just re-uploading the entirety Of a documentary these aren't even the same like planet region as I often say fair use is not about What you add it is what you leave behind does what you've left behind still have its purpose have its value What you want to be doing with using someone else's work is creating something original distinct different You want to be creating something with a different expression a different purpose for a different audience One thing that almost immediately makes you fail fair use is creating a market substitute and with certainty if you watch What Theo put on his youtube channel? You have now watched the original documentary in its entirety It is absolutely a market substitute as are all unedited watch parties of other people's videos You've seen the thing every frame of it. It is a perfect substitute for the original I know most of you probably by now have read the fair use guidelines It only take you like 10 minutes, but none of these people want to because they prefer to live in ignorance So they can continue to say oh who can really say if it's transformed even though The guidelines are pretty clear at least in regards to this usage So this is what honeypot said to Theo hello to this thread Well, we're super grateful for the support and we have no issues with reaction videos We felt it wasn't right for the entire documentary to be shared as it was initially The reaction video initially had ants and not much credit was given to the creator for transparency Here is the initial request we sent the documentary has since been delisted and we appreciate the Respecting our request. Please share your thoughts here or feel free to contact us If you have anything you would like to add to the discussion so perfectly cordial just like hey Can you just like not re-upload our entire documentary? It's all asking and Theo is just Throffing at the mouth on twitter attacking blocking preventing them from saying why they did what they did their stance is so much Much less than my own they didn't ask for much. I respected their request I don't respect them for making it so I tweeted something else dude Re-uploaded an entire documentary with himself reacting in the corner the same day It was released the team who spent months making it told him to take it down. He's now enraged Believing it is transformative and fair use he demands no one work with the original creator I almost believe this is a marketing stunt How could someone be this deluded as I always say no one bothers to actually read the fair use guidelines or precedent Not even the abridged version They just believe anything they do is fair use because they want it to be so theo saw my tweet And he responded to it. That is literally not what happened. I reacted on stream out of public demand Uploaded the vod that nice had good relations with the team was asked to make changes and did and then got vague threats The team used to be friends. They no longer are so understand they were friends until the very moment Theo couldn't use them for free content if you are not willing to let theo Re-upload the entirety of your work that you spent a year on to create a perfect market substitute for his own game No longer friends. That's not friendship. That's an abusive relationship the second Honeypot wasn't useful to theo attacking on twitter dogpiling. No one work with these people This is the grossest thing i've ever seen and it shows how bad things have gotten how entitled people feel I never said the words transparency or fair use I did what was asked of me and still got threats from people I used to call friends I don't know why you're harassing me in a weird moment where I was fucked over but go off I guess the only reason this came to my attention was because he started to attack them on twitter if you watched my discussion with linus on this one of the things that he Was most enraged about in regards to reaction content was how much backlash people get for defending their copyright Like this team spent a year on this work And so that for most people would allow them free reign to do with with it. Whatever they please. It's their work They spent the time but theos like no your work is now my work. I can do whatever I want with it I didn't have to ask you and people in theos comments were like, oh i'm never gonna watch the original documentary now How dare they the backlash against honeypot was extreme But imagine if theo wasn't just a 50 000 follower Person on twitter if he was like as big as most critical and he did this like theos seems Completely confused why honeypot initially was perhaps hesitant to say hey I we don't want you re-uploading our entire documentary when you can see from responses from people like theo that is a perfectly reasonable thing To be worried about saying because you will receive backlash from people who don't care about fair use law and just want to Fair use law and just want stuff that they want to exist to exist They'll have irrational people who will attack people for defending their copyright the discussion in the boardrooms like okay So we obviously own our legal rights to do this and we don't want them to do that. But Theos of the world will attack us on twitter. Is that worth it? It's worse in my case because as you know from my series reaction content as a totality does not have a benefit on original content creators All it does is drive traffic to reactors to the detriment Of the original creators because the algorithms rather than promoting original content promote reaction content instead But people don't understand this and i've accepted that they don't understand this It can be entirely possible to people to be wrong and to agree to use reaction content all theo had to do was Ask and he didn't He fucked around and he found out so theo talking about what he created says here know it's about 28 minutes longer It's actually 18 minutes longer. I added a lot of insights I had from my knowledge and relationships with those featured in the documentary Beyond that my frustrations are more with the dragged out requests eventually leading to a takedown They could have just hit me up now the level of delusion here If he had so much to say why not make his own video if he is so knowledgeable and has Some things that he really wants to give his chest Why not make his own video better than this? Why not watch the documentary and then just make a video talking about your thoughts? If he was so interested in putting out his piece and promoting the original documentary The worst way to do that for the original creators would be to reupload the entirety of the original documentary He has many avenues through which he can promote that documentary and say his piece And he picked the only one that has the most detrimental effect on the original work However, he picked the one that has the most benefit to himself and requires the least effort on his part He could have clearly easily watched the documentary and made his own video. No one would have complained Probably would have even been better because he would have the context of the entire documentary before making the video Didn't do that though Then he has the gall to say they could have hit him up after he reuploaded their entire documentary Not for a moment realizing that he could have hit them up. He is the one doing something here Of course their response especially from a company is not going to be immediate and may once it goes through different channels Come out with different results because they're a company had he asked for permission Their response would have gone through the channels and he would have gotten one But he chose to fuck around and he found out and they did yes hit him up before they shot out dmcas Which they're in full right to they were perfectly cordial and this deranged person just goes firing off on twitter saying you should boycott them And so this is his ending point. Ah, so this is how creator burnout happens, huh? Suddenly makes sense. It must be a real hard life watching and then re-uploading documentaries Oh my god, like the lack of self-awareness in so much of what he said is just amazing The only other thing I can say is I just wish people cared enough to do like a brief google search before they spoke about things Like you know me I have for many different projects had to look into feyus law. I've read case presence I've read the relevant cases that had the most effects on uh defining presence i've Read many of these summaries from different universities and stuff talking about copyright and fair use in america and all of it to me is fairly irrelevant and unimportant Fair use does not define everything that even like the average person would want to exist in our online space It was made long ago It was not designed for a world where any person can live stream the entirety of a movie at a moment's notice That's why the examples that I showed you before of commentary and criticism are related to like print media and stuff It's so out of date, but it is always a good starting point Because it is the law in america where youtube is based out of especially when you don't necessarily agree With what content should be allowed it is the foundational baseline to talk about and so I just wish people would just read the guidelines once live streaming yourself watching a video violates every factor on multiple points Re-uploading that unedited to youtube also violates all these points. There is clearly some stuff that is More gray. There is always going to be ambiguity when it comes to the law but in regards to Effectively watch parties of content the law is very clear the guidelines and the case present but they just do not want to read it. There's just so much stuff that varies considerably that is all thrown under the banner of reaction content and that has itself been discussed in these core cases. Judges have acknowledged that it is just so wide what is called reaction content that one core case is never going to cover the entire gambit of what that term covers. But as I say, I just wish people would read the guidelines because then we can have an actual discussion about like the ethics of it, the morality, what should be allowed, what is fair, what is not fair, the market impact of this stuff, but we never get to that point because they haven't even done two minutes of basic reading and will just outright say this is fair use, this is transformative even though transformation is not the sole point that is assessed in looking at fair use. As I say, I am trying to move away from this reaction stuff, I'm trying to make peace with it. I've accepted that it's of such a level of complexity that I can't really expect the average person to be willing to sit down and understand its intricacies. Think of all the tangential topics that you bump into throughout your life. You don't have time to sit down and listen to some guy ramble at you for a couple of hours on the topic or for yourself to go through the legwork and read all that stuff especially when it has no real bearing on your life and I've accepted that. I've accepted that I'm not really going to be able to change the world. However, in cases like this where it's just so blatantly abusive and so blatantly lacking in introspection, so lacking in self-awareness, that it's just something that I have to go, hey look at how crazy this is. The best viewer to date and required watching for anyone who has an interest in this topic is the one from Tom Scott. YouTube's copyright system isn't broken, the world is. No 40 minute video is going to be perfect but it's very good talking about how limited your rights are in regards to using other people's work. I'm just waiting for the day that YouTube shuts down this reaction bullshit. React content used to be so beautiful and fair. Creators such as Aussie Man react to simpative funny video while adding editing and commentary is the right way to do reactionary content. This is just plagiarism. So as I often say there are two basic groups of reaction content. One where you've seen some work and you go hang on a second I can use this to make something different. To express this in a different way, to repurpose some of this work, to make something truly my own. This is what I call after the facts. You've seen something, you know what it is and so you're going to use it in a particular way for a particular purpose. You're not always going to meet fair use but you're more likely going to meet fair use and you're likely going to be ethical as well. The other type is people who are just watching videos with their audience. They don't know specifically what's in it, maybe they've read the title and think maybe I have something to say and they just watch the entire thing. Their goal isn't to create something new but to present their reaction to something. So we'll have this something in its entirety plus their reaction. In the same way that putting a clock on a toaster doesn't make something new of the toaster, it's just now a toaster with a clock, this doesn't create something new. It creates the original thing plus something else. And you haven't come at this with a particular purpose in mind, with a knowledge that you can create something new, you've just sat on your arse and watched something. In the same way that sitting on your couch with a friend and pausing the Lion King to talk about the movie doesn't transform the Lion King, you sitting there and pressing the pause button and giving your thoughts on what you've seen doesn't transform whatever you're watching on YouTube. It doesn't make something new. My criticism of reaction content is almost entirely in that second category and I in all of my work have specifically said this and yet I still have people who make weird statements about, oh well what about this content? Isn't this reaction content? I don't care. I had one dude say, hey thank you for reacting to Theo's tweet and I'm sure there'll be people in the comment section be like, um aren't you reacting to Theo's twitter? Hmm? |
| 03. August 2021 | Epic games store exclusives | Epic Games Store Exclusives What do you think about Epic Games and them making games exclusive for their store? So, when you talk about exclusives, when it comes to things that Epic Games specifically funds themselves, no one can dispute that, right? They can put away whatever the hell they want, they're forking over the money, right? But them buying already made stuff to put on the store, exclusively, and at the end of the day, the devs make those deals and potentially it can lead them to making other better games because they now have a bunch more capital, or it can mitigate risk on the games they're about to release. They're like, well, we're getting this guaranteed money, so, you know. It can keep developers in business. It's not great that, like, if people are willing to put up with console exclusives, and they should be able to put up with Epic Games exclusives as well. There's no fucking difference, really. |
| 10. November 2021 | Erasing specific memories. | Erasing specific memories. Could you imagine how amazing that would be if we had a way to delete specific memories? Like you just watch a movie that was just a fundamentally amazing experience and then you'd be like, I want to do that again. You just delete the memory of the movie. It's called Alzheimer's. Oh, dude, that's dark, man. |
| 30. June 2021 | Even rich people want more | Even rich people want more. Having unlimited money seems amazing, but you get everything without challenge, so it wouldn't be particularly great. I think that's what you said. Nah, man, there's a lot of stuff in life that poses you challenges that money does not solve. As we've talked about, once you get to that really, really high level of wealth, it effectively becomes meaningless. The difference in your wealth and your peers, it all comes about prestige and stuff, man. Who has what rare thing or who is respected by what different groups, where your money comes from. It doesn't matter how much you have. You can always look to see something that you don't have, and certainly you'd rather be in that situation than not have access to enough funds to even get by, you know. Everyone has problems, but not all problems are equally as problematic for personal circumstances. I assure you, even being in the situation where you're aware that your problems are not as monumentally terrible as other people's problems, it still doesn't make your problems feel any better, really, or any less of a problem for you in the moment. You're trying to vibe, but Matt has to remind me how depressing the world is. The world is a wonderful, amazing place, full of wonderful, amazing people, and every day wonderful, amazing things happen. In general, the world is either good or benign, with a handful of negative things in it. Most of your interactions every day will either be good or just okay. The reason why the bad things are focused on is because they are abnormal, or demand the most attention, not because they are the most frequent things. |
| 01. March 2022 | Everyone does Chaos mod | Watch them now and it would just be as if I'm watching a new movie, but it's just it was so longer, you know Yeah, everyone does chaos mod If you ever looking for something to do on stream though chaos mod is like super cool Yeah, I actually played that a long time ago when it first came out. It's gotten so wild now It's a lot better. It feels like something that like Every kind of variety content great can just jump in and do for a couple of hours because it's just such easy content to me Oh for sure. I think I think cuz mr. Beast has done one for like 50 million views and so is jelly or whatever His name is and it's just so good that it gets a lot of love pongo Um, who was the original creator, but a lot of people have added to it now. It's Masterpiece of work. I used to be big into the mods back when I used to make a lot of videos on it where they just First started getting the models ironed out and they had it on like a hook program and rockstar tried to fight back a script Hook I used to play so many of those goofy fucking mods on there man and to see where it's gotten is so cool I missed out on so much of the early days of like online and Like I've missed out on so many developments in this game because like for the first 5,000 hours I played this game all I did was speedrun I knew basically nothing about the game except the speedrun route and for whatever reason because I'm just crazy I was perfectly happy just doing it over and over again and finding new strats and optimizations and glitches and stuff But I'm happy I've sort of broadened my horizons and of course the final |
| 14. September 2021 | Everyone eventually should be able to catch me live on Twitch | Everyone should eventually be able to catch me live on Twitch. I haven't actually been able to watch the streams because you're 8 hours ahead of me. Feral, honestly man, for like a week I was starting my streams at 4am, and now it's kinda 4pm and I just start up my stream. Like, if you wait long enough, my sleeping pattern's either gonna be good for you or bad for you, you know. Almost. |
| 26. December 2022 | Everyone is a word record holder. | The most tied GTA 5 world record, look at mass percent. I'm sure there must be like 800 people who submitted that now Look at how many gold ties That's nuts, and it's all based on um when the last one the last was 24 days ago I've had a bit said he also had a go at it um bitsu. Look at these scrubs with their 30 seconds man So many of them this couldn't get to two seconds. It is not good enough 8 seconds 7 seconds 149 submissions that's nuts |
| 15. February 2022 | Everyone just assuming the worst. | But there's a through line through all of this through the initial script the response videos from everyone There's like a commonality which is that everyone is taking everything that everyone else does and assuming the worst. Yes so I mean You did that with critical by saying that he was Intentionally misrepresenting what you were saying whether it's probably just he just doesn't understand it And then everyone's taking what you said and saying that you're I mean you kind of did say that they were bad people so I mean that's understandable, but I Don't know. Yeah, everyone sort of just there's no faith. There's no faith that you know, maybe there's just a misunderstanding is going on and if we were to talk about it, then everyone isn't bad people and everyone kind of does really want the best and maybe these reactors aren't intentionally hurting people and They just don't understand it and I had a point here that It's very this is a very complex situation and it's very new so there's a lot of parallels between like you mentioned the exploitation of labor, right and there's a lot of parallels that can be drawn towards like capitalism and socialism and the economy in general and a lot of these big streamers like Hassan for example a very Actively outspoken against the out the exploitation of labor, but then like he's apparently this reacting thing is exploitation and it's essentially the same thing and yet they don't seem to Understand it exactly how it works. And so why is that right? Because it seems like pretty simple but the difference is that economics has been studied for hundreds of years and We have a very good understanding about how it works but the economics of impressions and the economics of like viewerships and how people Use social media and all these platforms is very new only within like the last 10 15 years So people haven't really wrapped their mind around the implications of certain actions So I think generally when it comes to like people doing things like this. It's more that they may not understand the full ramifications rather than they do understand everything and they're just choosing to To do it and they just don't care Yeah, exactly as you say a lack of understanding or disagreement as opposed to malicious Intent to harm others and certainly in the case of talking about people like a son It's a difference of values as well like depending upon your political Positions in regards to the economy society and stuff Exploitation may not even exist I mean there would be people out there who would passionately argue that slavery should still be a thing and I know that sounds weird But there are nuts out there, right? It's certainly the way that a lot of what that was a lot of the script was phrased in a way to appeal to a certain value set that Hassan and Socialists say that they espouse espouse. I am on in that domain of Values, but I don't call myself a socialist in part because I'm not sure how society would ever transition to such Set up and I'm not even sure what it would really look like but I do support a lot of policies that People would call Socialist policies, which is often um Interventions of governments to provide at least the bare necessities and to prevent excesses in the market from companies that potentially might abuse their positions to Harm their consumer base or create negative externalities that would harm people who aren't their consumers But would still be harmed by them Anyway, because that's a lot of what react content does is it creates negative externalities It's basically a harm that is caused To those who aren't necessarily in the arrangement So reactors are reacting to other people's content and this is the arrangement to most people but in reality they exist in a wider scope of things and this This behavior this action has impacts for everyone else outside of it as well Which is what I tried to argue in the script that everyone is affected by react content Not merely those two involved in the exchange That's the probably the biggest thing that I've noticed that people don't |
| 21. March 2021 | Everyone wouldn't want my life, and returning to dating. | It's funny, I try not to give life advice. I don't think I'm all that good at living life. As I say, the life that I lead, most people probably wouldn't be able to stomach all that well. Probably on the surface it looks like something that most people would want. But, uh, taken as a totality, I don't think that's true. I like it though, you know. This isn't me saying, oh, woe is me. It's me saying, I think I've got it pretty good. Given my preferences. But there's a lot of people out there who don't have my preferences. There are people who want to go somewhere every fucking day, don't like sitting in a chair, you know, 16 hours a day or whatever. But there's a lot of people who do like that kind of stuff, you know. Everyone's life has downsides, detriments, you know, trade-offs. And I just happened to have found one where I like the trade-offs that I've made. The things I don't do or can't do don't bother me all that much. And the things that I can do and I am doing, I really enjoy. Those weirdos who don't like to stay home? Yeah, those fucking weirdos. I have been thinking though, chat, that when I turn 30, which is in like a week, I think I might start trying to date again. Maybe do some online dating stuff. It's an avenue of life that I've largely just completely ignored since I was like, when was the last date I went on? The last date I went on was like, I was like 22, maybe 23. It's a long time. And I don't think I was ever particularly good in relationships and whatnot. But sometimes I do sit and I go, man, it'd be really good just to have one person who's always got my back, you know. Someone who's always in my corner, have a bad day, just hug, snuggle, watch a movie. It sounds heavenly. But when you think about the upsides, it's like most things in life where the end perfect results, achieving that, thinking about the path to get there is so much work and you aren't even guaranteed to get there, you know. The world is full of people who, you know, invest so many years of their life into a relationship and then it just fails, you know. Or they flitter around trying to find the perfect person or whatever and they never end up making it. And as a person who has spent most of their life fairly content being a loner, I'm not even sure I'd be suited for a relationship, right? Maybe. I mean, it's now. I didn't hate it back then, but it's, yeah, I don't know. Identity and coming to know yourself. There is this thing where. |
| 22. October 2022 | Everyone’s livestreaming quality will hopefully soon improve. | will hopefully soon improve. The new Intel GPUs and Nvidia GPUs apparently have support for the AV1 codec which will enable live streaming to occur at higher quality for the same bitrate. So at 1080p, the quality used to get a 12k bitrate, you can now get at say 8k bitrate. It's just more efficient. The only problem is that like Twitch has to support the AV1 encoder, which from what I can tell, hasn't happened yet. I think they said they wanted to roll out completely by like 2025. It's weird that so much promotion is going into this codec. It's at least on the streaming end with Twitch and whatever. No one's saying if it's actually gonna be supported by the time these cards come out. I will still buy the 40 series GPU in the hopes that things look better with it, which it should, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see. |
| 02. May 2021 | Everything doesn't need to be a social media | Everything doesn't need to be a social media. I am frankly tired of all these programs that now require you to have an account to sign in to give your email address and all this stuff. I hate it. I remember when Nvidia GeForce Experience or whatever started to require you to log in and stuff and I was just enraged. Like, everything doesn't need to be a social media. You just run a virus check. Would you like to share it on your Facebook wall? Good job! Here's 10 achievements for updating your fucking driver for your graphics card. Do you want to tell your friends? |
| 24. April 2021 | Everything is cancel culture now - ease of outrage on Twitter | Everything is cancel culture now and the ease of outrage on Twitter. Do you see KSI left Twitter because of cancel culture? No, what happened to KSI? I- sorry for rolling my eyes. I just get really tired. Everything is cancel culture now. Like, if people on the internet call you a shithead for something you did, rightly or wrongly, that's not cancel culture. It's just people calling you a shithead. People have been calling people shitheads forever. There has not been a single time in human history where people have not tried to negatively impact those that they consider to be adhorrent, for whatever reason. People did letter writing campaigns to try and get people fired and stuff. People were fired for things that they said back in the day. Just because it's now on social media and that's far easier to do, there's any- like, to give you an example, um, what is his name, um, Cuomo or whatever, the- the- the Democrat who's been accused of, uh, sexual misconduct and stuff. You know what I'm talking about? I can't say his name. You know- you know that story, right? Cuomo. Yeah. He's like, don't buy into this cancel- cancel culture nonsense. It's like, any single time anyone does something and there's consequences for that person's actions, they just go, well, this is cancel culture. Again, it came to insane levels with the bloody doctor- those Dr. Seuss books where a private company decided it was in their best interest in terms of their long-term profitability to stop publishing, like, six of the 50 plus books that they published for Dr. Seuss. And people called this cancel culture. It's insane. Cancel culture as a word now just seems to exist as a tool to demonize any response given that you don't- don't like. Every- everyone else's problems, everyone else's complaints is cancel culture, but my- my complaints are entirely justified, you know? The campaign against Maximilian, uh, by critical. I wouldn't call that cancel culture. I would consider it to be justified- just a justified response. But what he's doing is trying to cancel Maximilian, but no one's like, oh cancel culture, vunamuck. It- what is or is not cancel culture just entirely depends on whether you think the person speaking is justified. It's not- it's not applied based on the characteristics of what's going on, it's applied based on your ideology or what you personally agree with. It's nonsense. Like if KSI truly did nothing wrong and he's just quit Twitter, I mean, I- Twitter often is very cancerous. I mean, I don't- I don't think he's probably gonna lose out for that considering how successful he is, but, um, if he was bullied into it for unjustified reasons, I would say that's wrong. Because the last thing I heard KSI did is, uh, on Philip DeFranco, DeFranco said that, um, KSI used some word for transgender people that's a bit outdated or something and he was like, oh, that's- you shouldn't use that word and KSI was like, oh, am I bad? Cool. I want to do it again. And it was that it. But didn't that happen like weeks ago? So- so why is he leaving now? That can't be the reason. They didn't stop going at him? But- well, obviously not. Why would they? As in, once you reach a certain size with enough many millions of people, there is always gonna be a significant amount of people, like enough that you will notice, potentially hundreds, who will hound you forever. And there's nothing you can do about that. That's- that's just kind of the nature of social media and being that large. Social media gives crazies the ability to be crazy just 24-7 in the most obvious, noticeable way possible, you know? It's a long story, but someone else was canceled for spurs of racism and the only people who called it racism weren't even black. Okay. I- I'd be very interested in how you knew that, but that's a different topic than that. He quit because of the toxic Twitter community in his eyes? Yeah. Like on- like the point of Twitter, in a way, is communication. And your ability to limit what kind of communication you see, you don't have a lot of tools to achieve that. So you kind of have to face the toxicity, as much as the positive stuff and whatnot. And it's weird, often I'll look at like the top response to a tweet and it will be the most toxic comment, because it's the one that's garnered the most reaction. So I think Twitter just prioritizes putting that first. I'm in a level of success where I'm nowhere close to being at a point where I'm big enough that people will just bombard me with toxicity each and every day, but I receive some still. Like how- how much bigger is KSI than me? Like 50 times. If you times the amount of toxicity I felt by 50 times, yeah, I could totally see myself bailing from Twitter for that. Absolutely. Especially when you're at KSI's level, where he's worth tens of millions of dollars. At that point, you've got to look at these fuckwits bombarding you on Twitter, and regardless of your response, they're not gonna go away. And you should be like, why the fuck am I dealing with this? You know, how much do I say I'm at a level of success? Whenever I'm comparing myself to large content creators. Because I exist in this kind of comfortable level of success online where I'm successful, but I'm not so successful that everyone's trying to take a chunk out of me. Or that people can get brownie points on social media trying to take me down. Or to appeal to a certain crowd who hates me, you know? He's almost 100 times bigger on Twitter. Exactly. Like, I can notice the small amount of toxicity I experience sometimes. A hundred times that? God damn, that would suck. But him quitting Twitter is very different from a person being canceled. He basically left the social media because it sucks. And I don't think anyone on Twitter would argue that Twitter is something that people must be on, or that it doesn't suck sometimes. Once you get a check mark, can't you create the replies you see on Twitter? And stuff though. Oh, yeah, you can you can say like, um, only people you follow can respond to your tweets and stuff. But I don't think you can just straight out delete replies. And even then I can't imagine KSI is the kind of person who wants to deal with that shit. Well, you see in every comment section on YouTube where people are like, oh my god, he's deleting replies. Oh, I sincerely doubt that happens very often except by the most, like, sensitive people ever. You can? Fuck, get me that check mark on Twitter. I'll delete everyone's comments. Yeah, then I guess it's just he doesn't want to go through that bullshit, which is understandable. And Twitter isn't that important? Has he ever done like any sponsored shit on Twitter? I saw Ozzy Osborn's Twitter tweeting out that some new Dragon game was coming out or something. It might have been a mobile game as well. It's like, yeah, Ozzy Osborn is more playing this game. Oh, bro, I love Raid Shadow Legends. Twitter is the most cancerous site you've seen? I think any site that's main focus is communication between people and sharing of opinions and potentially having people butt heads who massively disagree and stuff. And you having easy access to talking to effectively anyone that's gonna leak this toxic shit, especially because it can still be anonymous. You're having a shit day or something. Oh, you feel like shit and you just throw some stuff on Twitter. I remember when I was playing Cuphead, I hated so much the gauntlet at the end that I went on Twitter midway through doing it and I tweeted the developers, you're going at the end fucking sucks, and I hate it. You just have that easy access. I was like, I like the game all the way up until this is awful. Why? It was a dice game at the end for those who don't know. I kept getting this like really bad roles and having to start again. I went for like an hour. It drove me goddamn crazy. I was sick. I've been doing it for like 17 hours. Oh man, was I pissed. That's what I mean. You know, you're just too few barriers and no consequences. It leads to people being able to be toxic. But it is as toxic as you want it to be, at least as a normal user, right? Who you interact with is kind of up to you. There's a level of outrage separate to cancer culture that you're talking about. Eventually it does get to the point where a mob of people entirely beset on being outraged, just gathered together and find reasons to point their fingers in the direction of march, PE backing. Yeah, that's always been the case though. It's just a lot easier to organize now. I'm just seeing like you're back in the day they'd organize like book burnings and stuff or protests of like movies and and whatnot. It's just doing that took a lot of lead work and now to be a part of a mob hating on something it takes 15 seconds. You can find a hate mob or 18 of them in a minute on Facebook. It's not that people have changed. It's just that it's so easy to do it now. Of course cancer culture has always been a buzzword. It's just the it was a buzzword to describe like a sincere attempt for a very large, very large amount of people prolonged over a very long period of time to try to get something removed or something and now it's just like anyone who is critical of anything ever on social media as cancer culture. I'm sure Weinstein is just out there right now going, well this is fucking cancer culture my guy, you know. I mean it's very useful. Like I imagine am I bad enough for a person to use such a narrative for my own gain? I can't imagine myself doing anything that I would consider justifiable for me to be deserving of outrage. Hard to imagine. I mean most people think the way of themselves. I don't know. I try to think like if I myself suffered a lot of backlash on social media would I be like fucking cancel culture bruh? I feel like I do a little bit better arguing in my own favor than grabbing that kind of low-hanging fruit. Do you think newer games have been affected by cancer culture by not including stuff? It has always been the case that video games will conform to appealing to the demographics that they want to appeal to. So you can guarantee in boardrooms since games have been made people have been like what if we put this in and they go nah we might ostracize this audience and that'll lessen our sales. Let's see if we can tweak this a little bit so that doesn't happen. Or like localization of foreign media for example. Whenever some media comes from one area to another they change certain things about the game or the any kind of media whatever to remove religious symbols, change certain things to other things so they understand and whatnot. And this is just a part of creating media right? Even me, where like I'll write a joke and then I'll write on Twitter like do you guys understand this reference? Do you understand this word? And if not enough people do I'll scrap the joke or change it. What I'm saying is the culture of the day of the demographics you want to appeal to is going to influence what you create. If you want to be successful that's just how it has to be. That's capitalism. Do I think fear of backlash has influenced how games have been developed? Of course. It's along the same vein. The flip side of that of course is things being changed or put in media specifically to cause outrage to get free media. Rockstar, it's like they've all but confirmed that they did this with the earlier versions of GTA where they would pay magazines to be like oh my god this Grand Theft Auto game coming up, oh corrupting the youth of today. Mothers lock up your daughters. What do people say back in the day? You know outrage marketing is definitely a thing. It is just very useful to have something that you can throw at anything to have your little tribe recognize it as bad. You have little buzzwords you know. Whether they deserve this label or not. You throw it at them and then it was like oh I meant to hate this thing? Yeah go for it man. Simplify reality for me. And I just consider cancel culture to be one more of these buzzwords. Because used by fucking everyone. Guilty or innocent. Irrespective of the actual substance of the complaints or who's making the complaints. But then suddenly it isn't cancel culture when you agree with what the people are trying to quote unquote cancel. I honestly hate how people use the word cancel now. It just means some people are mad at them. Yeah. Yeah. I suppose it would be a little bit better if like these crusades were more often effective. But they traditionally aren't. Right? Traditionally there's a small downturn and then unless the person quits gets removed from the platform. Or goes to jail. Everything bounces back within six months. Does anyone take cancel culture serious anymore? It is a very very good marketing tool. Say something being cancelled and you can generate sales. Say you're being cancelled and your followers, your fans will flock around you and support whatever you want them to support you know. And certainly as I've said while the actual cancelling of cancel culture is usually not effective. The negativity is real. Fuck is the negativity real? If you're getting spammed with toxic messages and stuff. Like not everyone can take that shit and no one wants that shit. Like I've said before like Keemstar as big of a shithead as he is sometimes. Like he gets so much hate all the time. Like Keemstar is successful. Has a lot of money. I would not trade spots with Keemstar for anything. He's done and said a lot of fucking shit things. I'm not saying the hate he gets is unjustified. I'm saying the hate he gets the average person would crumble under that in like 10 seconds. Keemstar has the persistence and resilience of like a cockroach. It's insane. Or to put it another way. If indeed KSI has left Twitter. It's not as though Twitter removed him from Twitter. It's not as though he lost sponsors or anything like that. It's just the hatred and negativity of these people have caused him to leave. If someone calls you a fuckwit enough times eventually you're just going to go somewhere else where you don't get called a fuckwit. Keemstar is awful. His memes are legendary. I have used his unfaithful fuckboy. You have the idea how fast I really am. Unfaithful as fuck. I've used that meme many times. Similar to the vein of JonTron. Both not very good people but good memes. What JonTron drew? He's an alt-right guy. Very confusingly given his heritage. But uh, protect the gene pool kind of thing. It's weird. Like if you follow him on Twitter. I only like to use the word dog whistles. Bet like. He is a creative dude. He is a master at writing these tweets or images and stuff that are suggestive of what he wants to say. His political beliefs and stuff. But he doesn't want to outright say it. So he uh, he kind of beats people. I don't like to follow him on Twitter. Very traditional mindset Mr. JonTron. To say the least. Unfortunately. |
| 24. April 2021 | Everything is cancel culture now - ease of outrage on twitter | Everything is cancel culture now and the ease of outrage on Twitter. Do you see KSI left Twitter because of cancel culture? No, what happened to KSI? I- sorry for rolling my eyes. I just get really tired. Everything is cancel culture now. Like, if people on the internet call you a shithead for something you did, rightly or wrongly, that's not cancel culture. It's just people calling you a shithead. People have been calling people shitheads forever. There has not been a single time in human history where people have not tried to negatively impact those that they consider to be adhorrent, for whatever reason. People did letter writing campaigns to try and get people fired and stuff. People were fired for things that they said back in the day. Just because it's now on social media and that's far easier to do, there's any- like, to give you an example, um, what is his name, um, Cuomo or whatever, the- the- the Democrat who's been accused of, uh, sexual misconduct and stuff. You know what I'm talking about? I can't say his name. You know- you know that story, right? Cuomo. Yeah. He's like, don't buy into this cancel- cancel culture nonsense. It's like, any single time anyone does something and there's consequences for that person's actions, they just go, well, this is cancel culture. Again, it came to insane levels with the bloody doctor- those Dr. Seuss books where a private company decided it was in their best interest in terms of their long-term profitability to stop publishing, like, six of the 50 plus books that they published for Dr. Seuss. And people called this cancel culture. It's insane. Cancel culture as a word now just seems to exist as a tool to demonize any response given that you don't- don't like. Every- everyone else's problems, everyone else's complaints is cancel culture, but my- my complaints are entirely justified, you know? The campaign against Maximilian, uh, by critical. I wouldn't call that cancel culture. I would consider it to be justified- just a justified response. But what he's doing is trying to cancel Maximilian, but no one's like, oh cancel culture, vunamuck. It- what is or is not cancel culture just entirely depends on whether you think the person speaking is justified. It's not- it's not applied based on the characteristics of what's going on, it's applied based on your ideology or what you personally agree with. It's nonsense. Like if KSI truly did nothing wrong and he's just quit Twitter, I mean, I- Twitter often is very cancerous. I mean, I don't- I don't think he's probably gonna lose out for that considering how successful he is, but, um, if he was bullied into it for unjustified reasons, I would say that's wrong. Because the last thing I heard KSI did is, uh, on Philip DeFranco, DeFranco said that, um, KSI used some word for transgender people that's a bit outdated or something and he was like, oh, that's- you shouldn't use that word and KSI was like, oh, am I bad? Cool. I want to do it again. And it was that it. But didn't that happen like weeks ago? So- so why is he leaving now? That can't be the reason. They didn't stop going at him? But- well, obviously not. Why would they? As in, once you reach a certain size with enough many millions of people, there is always gonna be a significant amount of people, like enough that you will notice, potentially hundreds, who will hound you forever. And there's nothing you can do about that. That's- that's just kind of the nature of social media and being that large. Social media gives crazies the ability to be crazy just 24-7 in the most obvious, noticeable way possible, you know? It's a long story, but someone else was canceled for spurs of racism and the only people who called it racism weren't even black. Okay. I- I'd be very interested in how you knew that, but that's a different topic than that. He quit because of the toxic Twitter community in his eyes? Yeah. Like on- like the point of Twitter, in a way, is communication. And your ability to limit what kind of communication you see, you don't have a lot of tools to achieve that. So you kind of have to face the toxicity, as much as the positive stuff and whatnot. And it's weird, often I'll look at like the top response to a tweet and it will be the most toxic comment, because it's the one that's garnered the most reaction. So I think Twitter just prioritizes putting that first. I'm in a level of success where I'm nowhere close to being at a point where I'm big enough that people will just bombard me with toxicity each and every day, but I receive some still. Like how- how much bigger is KSI than me? Like 50 times. If you times the amount of toxicity I felt by 50 times, yeah, I could totally see myself bailing from Twitter for that. Absolutely. Especially when you're at KSI's level, where he's worth tens of millions of dollars. At that point, you've got to look at these fuckwits bombarding you on Twitter, and regardless of your response, they're not gonna go away. And you should be like, why the fuck am I dealing with this? You know, how much do I say I'm at a level of success? Whenever I'm comparing myself to large content creators. Because I exist in this kind of comfortable level of success online where I'm successful, but I'm not so successful that everyone's trying to take a chunk out of me. Or that people can get brownie points on social media trying to take me down. Or to appeal to a certain crowd who hates me, you know? He's almost 100 times bigger on Twitter. Exactly. Like, I can notice the small amount of toxicity I experience sometimes. A hundred times that? God damn, that would suck. But him quitting Twitter is very different from a person being canceled. He basically left the social media because it sucks. And I don't think anyone on Twitter would argue that Twitter is something that people must be on, or that it doesn't suck sometimes. Once you get a check mark, can't you create the replies you see on Twitter? And stuff though. Oh, yeah, you can you can say like, um, only people you follow can respond to your tweets and stuff. But I don't think you can just straight out delete replies. And even then I can't imagine KSI is the kind of person who wants to deal with that shit. Well, you see in every comment section on YouTube where people are like, oh my god, he's deleting replies. Oh, I sincerely doubt that happens very often except by the most, like, sensitive people ever. You can? Fuck, get me that check mark on Twitter. I'll delete everyone's comments. Yeah, then I guess it's just he doesn't want to go through that bullshit, which is understandable. And Twitter isn't that important? Has he ever done like any sponsored shit on Twitter? I saw Ozzy Osborn's Twitter tweeting out that some new Dragon game was coming out or something. It might have been a mobile game as well. It's like, yeah, Ozzy Osborn is more playing this game. Oh, bro, I love Raid Shadow Legends. Twitter is the most cancerous site you've seen? I think any site that's main focus is communication between people and sharing of opinions and potentially having people butt heads who massively disagree and stuff. And you having easy access to talking to effectively anyone that's gonna leak this toxic shit, especially because it can still be anonymous. You're having a shit day or something. Oh, you feel like shit and you just throw some stuff on Twitter. I remember when I was playing Cuphead, I hated so much the gauntlet at the end that I went on Twitter midway through doing it and I tweeted the developers, you're going at the end fucking sucks, and I hate it. You just have that easy access. I was like, I like the game all the way up until this is awful. Why? It was a dice game at the end for those who don't know. I kept getting this like really bad roles and having to start again. I went for like an hour. It drove me goddamn crazy. I was sick. I've been doing it for like 17 hours. Oh man, was I pissed. That's what I mean. You know, you're just too few barriers and no consequences. It leads to people being able to be toxic. But it is as toxic as you want it to be, at least as a normal user, right? Who you interact with is kind of up to you. There's a level of outrage separate to cancer culture that you're talking about. Eventually it does get to the point where a mob of people entirely beset on being outraged, just gathered together and find reasons to point their fingers in the direction of march, PE backing. Yeah, that's always been the case though. It's just a lot easier to organize now. I'm just seeing like you're back in the day they'd organize like book burnings and stuff or protests of like movies and and whatnot. It's just doing that took a lot of lead work and now to be a part of a mob hating on something it takes 15 seconds. You can find a hate mob or 18 of them in a minute on Facebook. It's not that people have changed. It's just that it's so easy to do it now. Of course cancer culture has always been a buzzword. It's just the it was a buzzword to describe like a sincere attempt for a very large, very large amount of people prolonged over a very long period of time to try to get something removed or something and now it's just like anyone who is critical of anything ever on social media as cancer culture. I'm sure Weinstein is just out there right now going, well this is fucking cancer culture my guy, you know. I mean it's very useful. Like I imagine am I bad enough for a person to use such a narrative for my own gain? I can't imagine myself doing anything that I would consider justifiable for me to be deserving of outrage. Hard to imagine. I mean most people think the way of themselves. I don't know. I try to think like if I myself suffered a lot of backlash on social media would I be like fucking cancel culture bruh? I feel like I do a little bit better arguing in my own favor than grabbing that kind of low-hanging fruit. Do you think newer games have been affected by cancer culture by not including stuff? It has always been the case that video games will conform to appealing to the demographics that they want to appeal to. So you can guarantee in boardrooms since games have been made people have been like what if we put this in and they go nah we might ostracize this audience and that'll lessen our sales. Let's see if we can tweak this a little bit so that doesn't happen. Or like localization of foreign media for example. Whenever some media comes from one area to another they change certain things about the game or the any kind of media whatever to remove religious symbols, change certain things to other things so they understand and whatnot. And this is just a part of creating media right? Even me, where like I'll write a joke and then I'll write on Twitter like do you guys understand this reference? Do you understand this word? And if not enough people do I'll scrap the joke or change it. What I'm saying is the culture of the day of the demographics you want to appeal to is going to influence what you create. If you want to be successful that's just how it has to be. That's capitalism. Do I think fear of backlash has influenced how games have been developed? Of course. It's along the same vein. The flip side of that of course is things being changed or put in media specifically to cause outrage to get free media. Rockstar, it's like they've all but confirmed that they did this with the earlier versions of GTA where they would pay magazines to be like oh my god this Grand Theft Auto game coming up, oh corrupting the youth of today. Mothers lock up your daughters. What do people say back in the day? You know outrage marketing is definitely a thing. It is just very useful to have something that you can throw at anything to have your little tribe recognize it as bad. You have little buzzwords you know. Whether they deserve this label or not. You throw it at them and then it was like oh I meant to hate this thing? Yeah go for it man. Simplify reality for me. And I just consider cancel culture to be one more of these buzzwords. Because used by fucking everyone. Guilty or innocent. Irrespective of the actual substance of the complaints or who's making the complaints. But then suddenly it isn't cancel culture when you agree with what the people are trying to quote unquote cancel. I honestly hate how people use the word cancel now. It just means some people are mad at them. Yeah. Yeah. I suppose it would be a little bit better if like these crusades were more often effective. But they traditionally aren't. Right? Traditionally there's a small downturn and then unless the person quits gets removed from the platform. Or goes to jail. Everything bounces back within six months. Does anyone take cancel culture serious anymore? It is a very very good marketing tool. Say something being cancelled and you can generate sales. Say you're being cancelled and your followers, your fans will flock around you and support whatever you want them to support you know. And certainly as I've said while the actual cancelling of cancel culture is usually not effective. The negativity is real. Fuck is the negativity real? If you're getting spammed with toxic messages and stuff. Like not everyone can take that shit and no one wants that shit. Like I've said before like Keemstar as big of a shithead as he is sometimes. Like he gets so much hate all the time. Like Keemstar is successful. Has a lot of money. I would not trade spots with Keemstar for anything. He's done and said a lot of fucking shit things. I'm not saying the hate he gets is unjustified. I'm saying the hate he gets the average person would crumble under that in like 10 seconds. Keemstar has the persistence and resilience of like a cockroach. It's insane. Or to put it another way. If indeed KSI has left Twitter. It's not as though Twitter removed him from Twitter. It's not as though he lost sponsors or anything like that. It's just the hatred and negativity of these people have caused him to leave. If someone calls you a fuckwit enough times eventually you're just going to go somewhere else where you don't get called a fuckwit. Keemstar is awful. His memes are legendary. I have used his unfaithful fuckboy. You have the idea how fast I really am. Unfaithful as fuck. I've used that meme many times. Similar to the vein of JonTron. Both not very good people but good memes. What JonTron drew? He's an alt-right guy. Very confusingly given his heritage. But uh, protect the gene pool kind of thing. It's weird. Like if you follow him on Twitter. I only like to use the word dog whistles. Bet like. He is a creative dude. He is a master at writing these tweets or images and stuff that are suggestive of what he wants to say. His political beliefs and stuff. But he doesn't want to outright say it. So he uh, he kind of beats people. I don't like to follow him on Twitter. Very traditional mindset Mr. JonTron. To say the least. Unfortunately. |
| 22. February 2022 | Everything is “mid” now | Everything is mid now. You guys heard everyone referring to stuff as mid? I kind of like it. What's mid? Ah, it's like average. I believe that's, at least that's how I'm interpreting it. It's not my fault that you're mid. It'd make nothing special. Chat, I bestow upon you the greatest honor that I can in this current internet meme age. You are not mid. |
| 10. December 2022 | Everything shall be a subscription now | Everything shall be a subscription now. Thoughts on pay-to-play online scams from consoles? Yeah, you mean like the subscriptions to get online stuff. Yeah, it's garbage. It was actually just like what they were talking about on the WAN show today. Companies love their subscription revenue. You've got like cars now going to be charging subscriptions to get like more acceleration. So they're like, program your car to not have as high acceleration. And if you want the max acceleration possible for your vehicle, you have to pay a monthly price. I think they wanted it to be like a hundred bucks a month. Mercedes, I think. Because when your car is basically a computer, an electric car, whatever, you can do that shit. It's garbage. What was the other example? Your CPU would be capped in terms of how fast it is, unless you paid a fee. Every company is just like, hey, how can we cut off a small chunk of what we provide and get people to pay a subscription for it? What did Elon Musk do the nanosecond he took over Twitter? He was like, hey, what's some features that we already have on the platform that we can put behind a paywall? Why don't we just shadow ban every user that doesn't pay us eight dollars? You want your speech to be seen, give eight dollars now. Why invent new things to have people pay money for when you can just have things that you already have behind a paywall? Yeah, Tesla has tons of that shit, don't they? It's utter trash. It doesn't mean all subscriptions don't make sense, but I think we can all agree when it's on the hardware side, when you're paying to unlock stuff that you already have, you've bought an item that can do a thing and you're paying to get that functionality back. That's awful. |
| 21. March 2021 | Evidence I have made it as a content creator. | Those of you who watched my rambles will remember that there is one thing that I said that you know I've hit the big times when I do it. And what that thing was is having glass bottles of Coke. I have small mini bottles of Coke. I bought four of them and they're delicious. Coke in glass is like the best thing ever. But it costs like per liter, like so much more than cans or plastic bottles. But the glass is so good. Like you go to fancy restaurants and you ask for a Coke, they'll bring it out for you in a glass bottle. My room is now a fancy restaurant trap. Hit the big leagues. I haven't bought a lot of them though because I still think it's a bit extravagant. But I did buy a pack of four. And I like it. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 08. June 2020 | Evo going Online | Evo, the fighting tournament going purely online because of the pandemic. You guys heard that um, Evo is moving online because they had to cancel their event or whatever? Watch Tongueybox make a video on it and uh, he's basically saying that Nintendo's netplay or whatever is really really shit. And he's hoping that Evo going online will inspire Nintendo to actually fix it. Because surely Nintendo doesn't want to be embarrassed at Evo when uh, everyone uses their netcode or whatever to uh, to play their games and it's just a laggy buggy mess. I like watching Smash, but sometimes watching Smash Ultimate, I can understand why people look at it as like, not a real fighting game. Like some people say that shit. I was watching um, Jigglypuff versus Sonic and the entire thing was just Sonic spin dash, spin dash, spin dash, spin dash, spin dash over and over again. While they like, and Jigglypuff just jumping around Sonic, each trying to avoid each other, but just barely graze each other to do damage. And it was just, it just looks so fucking dumb. Kind of interesting to watch though, but so fucking dumb. |
| 02. May 2021 | Expanded and Enhanced making older GTA 5 content obsolete | Expanded and enhanced making older GTA 5 content obsolete. So apparently guys, on June something, there's some sort of a convention announcement thing, I don't know. I just saw a tweet about it. And it's been about a year since Rockstar announced the expanded and enhanced version of GTA 5. So people speculate that they're gonna give some sort of a trailer at this event. Since it's in June. And so I realize now that if the expanded and enhanced version looks as good as I think it's gonna look, there's gonna be a real need for me to finish my footage. Like finish past this before expanded and enhanced comes out. Guys, what if the expanded and enhanced looks so good that it'll render all content made in the original GTA 5 obsolete? And people won't want to watch that content anymore. What if there's like a race to recreate all content made for GTA 5 in the new version of GTA 5? I start recreating my How the Sea Would Ended episodes and I'm like reenacting what happens in the speedruns. Oh no, I have fallen over. This is terrible. It's millions to one! True. Reenacting everything from my past would require me to get a War Dragon. True. |
| 27. November 2020 | Expanding my merch store | Expanding my merch store. I do sell RUN's Dead T-shirts, yes. I don't really advertise my merch. I've slowly been in talks with these people who said they might help me make merch and stuff, but I... I just, like, what I could do is just spend a couple of days adding all my emotes to my merch store, fixing them up, and then I'd be more comfortable selling my merch, but it's just, it just takes so long to add anything to the Streamlab store. I'm at a level of success that if Grey wasn't so amazingly slow with completing work, I would just pay him, like, another 25 bucks plus or whatever per emote to just make them into larger versions and complete them on the edges. But getting him to do anything takes 10,000 years, so I'd rather just do what I've already done, which is upscale them all. I've upscaled all the emotes, but the small imperfections in the small versions of the emotes become very pronounced when they're upscaled, so you have to go into Adobe Photoshop and fix the small bits. Plus, a lot of them are incomplete, like, small amounts of the body or something aren't shown in the square version of the emotes, and I don't have the completed version. So some of them are not perfectly suited to be on a shirt, but in general, even with the small bits cut off, they still look pretty good, so... Why not vectorize all of it? It would take forever. The upscale versions are pretty damn good, and it just takes a little bit more effort to make them perfect, or close to perfect as they can get. |
| 24. October 2022 | Expanding who i verse in GTAguessr. | I don't challenge people on the basis of whether or not I beat them. I don't need it to be a close game. It just needs to be a thing where a person knows the map to some degree. There can be some discussion. It's a weird game to play because you don't want to entirely give it away, but you want to have some conversation about it still, you know? GgGeser vs. Hugo1? I think Hugo1 is fine with me. We haven't talked in a real long time. And even when we were close, so we didn't talk all that much, I mean we raided each other a few times, but yeah, Hugo is on the list of people. Because I say, there's a lot of people who were like on the short list of me to challenge, but none of them have webcams. I try to do all the people with webcams first because it makes the most sense for the series, but now that I've done Gillymaster and it went quite well, I may as well now expand to other non-webcam people. There's a surprising amount in the GTA community. I mean, whatever, probably gonna have to be like last because he doesn't have a webcam or a mic. He'd absolutely beat me. Of all the people who exist who have beat me in GTA, he is definitely one of them. But it would just be a very hard thing to do for a video. As much as I respect this, I have to do. |
| 24. October 2022 | Expanding who i verse in gtaguessr. | I don't challenge people on the basis of whether or not I beat them. I don't need it to be a close game. It just needs to be a thing where a person knows the map to some degree. There can be some discussion. It's a weird game to play because you don't want to entirely give it away, but you want to have some conversation about it still, you know? GgGeser vs. Hugo1? I think Hugo1 is fine with me. We haven't talked in a real long time. And even when we were close, so we didn't talk all that much, I mean we raided each other a few times, but yeah, Hugo is on the list of people. Because I say, there's a lot of people who were like on the short list of me to challenge, but none of them have webcams. I try to do all the people with webcams first because it makes the most sense for the series, but now that I've done Gillymaster and it went quite well, I may as well now expand to other non-webcam people. There's a surprising amount in the GTA community. I mean, whatever, probably gonna have to be like last because he doesn't have a webcam or a mic. He'd absolutely beat me. Of all the people who exist who have beat me in GTA, he is definitely one of them. But it would just be a very hard thing to do for a video. As much as I respect this, I have to do. |
| 05. June 2022 | Expectations for GTA 6. | Do you have high hopes for GTA 6? Do you think they're going to knock it out of the park or they're going to fall back or? After covering this game for Rockstar for the last nine years, I have zero hopes of anything good for GTA 6. Really? Zero at all? You think they're not going to live up to people's expectations? I mean, the expectations are so high, I suppose. How could you? But I don't know. It's such a difficult one because they've changed so much over the years. And especially with like key figures who were part of the creation of GTA over the years have left. And I think that the game itself will be well polished and good. You know, it'd be like Red Dead Redemption 2 level of quality and it will get a lot of praise for just being a good base game. But I don't think it's going to be quite live up to the heights that people would hope it would be after all this time, I think. They certainly haven't done themselves any favors taking so long on it, allowing people's expectations to go higher and higher and higher. Yeah. And after all the crap with online, I feel like they're just going to put that in insidiously to, you know, they could have GTA 6 just be GTA. It's a story mode for your online character and it's all online or something. I wouldn't put it past them doing something like that. So I think the online portion is also going to be worse. |
| 06. June 2020 | Expensive brand clothing | What is your opinion on hypebeast's clothing culture and people who spend $1,000 on it? I'm a person who cares more about functionality than, um, you know, saying something with anything that I purchase. The idea that some people in this world are being killed to have their shoes taken because of status symbols, or people are putting- making themselves destitute because they're trying to live a lifestyle of buying all the hip new clothing and they have endless amounts of clothes in their cupboards while having just maxed out credit cards and stuff. All this stuff is crazy to me. So if you- if you value a brand because you have a prior history with it that shows that it's a quality product, so you're willing to pay 20 bucks more to get that brand over another brand that looks the same, is reportedly the same, but you're not willing to take that risk, that can make sense. But $1,000 on shoes that, you know, the cost to manufacture them is 20 bucks or something, because they happen to have a particular brand, that's just fucking crazy. You aren't buying it because you have a history of it showing that it's functional and can suit your needs. You're buying it for that status symbol. That status symbol, the money should be worth more than that, to you. There can be some occupations where, you know, wearing those status symbols can really matter, but not many, especially for people who are young. The people who would care if you're wearing what type of shoes you're wearing, they're not people that you should really care about. |
| 02. November 2021 | Expensive branded clothing and accessories. | Expensive branded clothing and accessories. What is your opinion on expensive clothing, streetwear, supreme, off-white? I think it's all nonsense. There's a phenomenon that I've read about, which is something I never experienced, where people will go massively into debt to buy things that they can't afford, to convince people that they're not poor, or that they're richer than they actually are. But people will care so much about the opinions of others, that they'll literally destroy their lives, chasing a... or trying to falsely live a lifestyle that they can't really afford. Brands like that shit seems associated with that in my mind. People who don't have the money to buy, you know, expensive cars or whatever, so they'll buy themselves an expensive piece of clothing, be like, yeah man, see I'm super well off, I'm doing well, you know. Like, I hate buying clothing in general. I do understand the appeal of looking really good. So there's this guy I know, Matty, who, wherever you see him, he's always wearing a suit, you know, dressed to the nines, because he really enjoys doing so, and he's got like a bunch of suits and stuff. If you can afford that kind of stuff, I totally see that appeal. Looking good feels good, right? It does always come off to me as a bit of a overindulgence though. Like, the money I spent on clothing yesterday will probably be the amount of money I spent on clothing, like, for the next five years or something, I don't know. Won't be the next five years, but like a year. But these brands wear like, it's less even the quality of the good and more just the brand itself, it just seems so dumb. Because at least with standard expensive clothing, like, you're getting something for it in terms of the quality of the good. With things like Supreme, you're not really. I hate all these clothes where the brand is on the clothes. It looks so fucking tacky. Those clothes should cost less money, because you're advertising the brand. Since this clip was made, I have become a bit more well-off, so I can understand what purchasing prestigious brands is meant to achieve. In society, people are more likely to give you attention if you are financially stable and or wealthy. But it is extremely tacky to walk up to a person and brag about your financial status. So prestigious brands on your accessories and clothing communicates this status for you. Basically, the brand communicates something about you that it would be unfashionable for you to say yourself. |
| 24. August 2022 | Explaining Hasan Piker's Success on Twitch | And it's just awful. Explaining Hasan Piker's success on Twitch. I am still extremely mad at Hasan because I wasn't avid chatter in his chat, yet his mods won't tell me why I'm banned for saying that I agree with you on reactions. Hasan is a grifter, similar along the vein of Andrew Tate. It sucks, but again, what can you do? I suppose that's not charitable. I'd say Hasan does less harm than Andrew Tate. Similar deal though. It's all about personal enrichment. You don't understand why he is so popular. The ability to communicate with confidence is a skill held by grifters and stupid people. Some people will flock to anyone who will assert things with a high level of confidence and give them reassurance in the things that they already believe. Hasan has an advantage in this arena because he's both a grifter and stupid. He's a double threat. He's gonna conquer the world. No one wants to have a person be like, hey, oh slow down. Do we really have reason to believe these things? Should we hold these things with such confidence? Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 15. June 2021 | Explaining lesser known facts and GTA 5's lore | Explaining lesser known facts about GTA V's law How did no one recognize him? He was a notorious bank robber not for his face but for his deeds As in they didn't know his name, neither Brad's name or Trevor's name They just know of the TRIO robbing all the banks Because they wore masks and used aliases Why did they take the masks off? Michael's mask was removed by the guard And at that point it was now seen by the security cameras So it was kind of pointless In the original version of Prologue They realized this was the case And there was meant to be a mini game where you wiped the security cameras It's in a separate room that's no longer accessible unless you march your way in there I wonder if the reason why they removed it Is so both to keep up the rapid pace of Prologue But also to give a justification for why they didn't put their masks back on after they killed the guard I mean Trevor has a line when he takes off his mask Where he says, if I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die breathing rice And takes off his mask Or he also says, you wanna see the face of death? Be my guest So Michael's mask was removed off him And Trevor has singular lines that give justification for him removing it Why does Trevor even eliminate all the competition just to go to LS? All he does afterwards is sell guns with Oscar Because what defines Trevor as a character is impulsiveness He has some inclination and that inclination is enough for him to do the thing It's why Michael was always afraid of him Knowing that even when they were kind of buddy-buddy kind of friends Like because they've been through so much together He still always had some fear of Trevor Because you just never know when he might just flip And suddenly he doesn't love you anymore, he just fucking hates you Like at the end Trevor describes it the best when he's talking to Devin Weston Where Devin's trying to reason with him and he's like I feel like taking you out and that's enough for me Criminality is a lifestyle for Trevor, no job Trevor doesn't care what is criminal or not Keep in mind that before he met Michael he wasn't a criminal At least in the sense of like he wasn't robbing stuff and whatever More than likely he had done illegal stuff before that But he isn't really a person who considers the legality of what he wants to do It's just this is what I want to do, who cares why I'm gonna do it Chaotic neutral? No, no, no, I consider Michael to be chaotic neutral As in Michael has expressed goals He doesn't like to cause harm, he doesn't like to cause good But when he has a particular goal And if one of those two things is necessary to achieve it He'll do either So Michael can do good and be nice He can be bad But he doesn't really seek out to do either He's just a selfish dude It's why multiple times Michael will be like Hey don't hurt him or hey let him go or hey this is just mean Because he's like none of these things are necessary And they aren't serving my goals so why are we doing them? You know? He doesn't like harming people, you know? But he will do it if it's necessary What would happen in Prologue if the roles were reversed Between Michael and Trevor with the guard? I imagine Michael would have talked the guy down or something I doubt Michael would have ever shot that dude in the head Like more than likely he would have reasoned with him Like where are you going with this? What are you gonna do? What are we just gonna put down our guns? And maybe there even is some reality where Michael puts down his gun And more than likely at that point Trevor would have just tried to wrestle the gun away from the guard or something What is my logic explanation for the characters powers? I mean I don't think there is any internal world explanation As in it's just meant to be like an exaggerated version of the characters actual traits Because like there isn't an in law explanation as to how Michael can get shot in the head And then you know take a small amount of damage in his health bar or whatever right? Franklin is meant to be a great driver and therefore we have a power to represent that skill Michael is meant to be a good shooter and therefore we have a power to represent his skill And Trevor is meant to be a meth head with a bunch of stamina and strength or whatever You got that meth rage strength or whatever and so we have a power to represent that Like within the story the characters are defined in a way that makes their powers make sense But obviously the powers themselves don't make sense you know When you take speed, is speed different from meth? No it's the same? No yes? So it's the same kind of chemical stuff but taken different ways? Lamar references Franklin a bit earlier He doesn't reference it as a superpower he's just like you know you got to concentrate or whatever Do that squinty thing you do Why couldn't Michael just burn Brad's corpse in ten years? I mean I think that would cause a bit of a ruckus That would put a lot of risk upon himself And considering he thought Trevor was probably dead somewhere in a ditch he probably had no reason to do it This dinky little red car I guess maybe it shows how poor Michael is at this point That he's driving that rather than something decent When he loses his car Why was Michael so sad about his family trying to leave him? They all suck You should just let them leave and start with a younger hotter woman I sincerely doubt Michael could get a younger hotter woman And he loves his family to an extent I underestimate his power I mean we did just see him with his shirt off recently I mean that kind of dad bod isn't really appealing to most people I would know you know what I'm saying? Mike can have you Look you can do better than a fictional character We all can Maybe not some of you but most of us can I'm sorry Your waifus are perfectly acceptable okay? |
| 28. April 2021 | Explaining strats during no damage | Explaining strats during no damage. I like that you low-key say what is happening in the run. I really appreciate it since this is the first time watching Oko for me. When I started giving explanations for literally everything that I'm doing, I thought I was close to finishing. I thought I was close to done. I have now done explanations for everything I'm doing in the run. Every single run for like the last 60 attempts. I am slowly going crazy. I am so over explaining things. To be honest with you though, it's not that bad because it gives me something to say. I'm not completely silenced. And it is fun to explain them sometimes. But at the same time, it is burdensome sometimes. I expect it to be done by now. It's a new experience for me because like in speedrunning, while speedrunning you're not explaining all the strats that you're doing. You know? You could just stop. No! I'm not going to get to it because when the final run is done and it stands forever, the explanations will always be there. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 02. February 2023 | Explaining the attention economy | Explaining the attention economy. Previously I thought people intuitively understood this or like it was just something you picked up via osmosis kind of thing. Attention is a finite resource. There can be only a finite amount of things that require attention at any given one time. Take MMOs. There cannot be an infinite amount of MMO games that are all successful because there's just not enough people with enough attention to be able to give the MMOs the attention they need for there to be an infinite number of them because there's a finite amount of attention there can therefore only be a finite amount of successful MMOs. I can't tell you the number that that is but that is the case. Whenever anything new comes onto the scene whatever attention is applied to it necessarily has to be taken from somewhere else because attention is always applied even if all you're paying attention to is what's in your room. This is how people aren't famous anymore. That is a good way of putting it where there can only be a finite amount of famous people because you can't simultaneously pay attention to literally every single person on the planet at once. In the same way that you can't watch an infinite amount of YouTube videos you have a finite amount of attention that you can only give to a certain amount of digital products at a time. Not all things require mutually exclusive attention but this is what the attention economy is about. It's recognizing that literally everything can't have infinite amounts of attention and everything that gains attention takes from something else. When Among Us became ridiculously successful it isn't like new people came to exist or new time came to exist. It was simply that people stopped paying attention to other things and started paying attention to Among Us and the reason why Among Us stopped being successful is because people stopped paying attention to it and started paying attention to other things. So this concept I thought like just everyone will understand but the more I talk to people who support reaction content they don't understand this. They assume that it is impossible to take a viewer from something. That if a person is presented with something and and watches that a lot that can never be a loss for anything else when in reality it has to be by necessity. Even if what experienced that loss is that that person would have spent a couple of hours looking at a wall or something. Which wouldn't be valuable to anyone but you know the attention would move from something else. |
| 07. December 2019 | Explaining the launch issues with RDR2 | a disastrous Red Dead Redemption 2 launch. It's possible that Rockstar was just so afraid of leaks, because they always are, that they don't have any real beta testers. But I mean, why would you be afraid of leaks for a game that's already out on console? Maybe they're worried about, you know, hackers getting their hands on it early? I mean, that's what the whole game encryption seems to suggest. I mean, if you're worried about it though, you'd probably not let people preload. I don't know, dude. It's hard to imagine the mindset that could have led to such an abysmally terrible launch for a game that sold that well, and for a game that's trying to have online microtransactions. Here's what may have happened. They were working hard on getting the PC version out, because they wanted to sell more microtransactions for the online. And maybe the online on console is floundering so hard that they half abandoned it, where they're like, well, we're almost done, so just finish it the best you can. Because we're not gonna make much money from the online, so let's not throw too many resources behind it. That would kind of explain it. They started working on it before they found out that it was gonna fail. |
| 30. June 2022 | Explaining the premise of spy x family | Explaining the premise of Spy Family. This is the hot anime right now. If you just want to go watch it knowing nothing, skip this next section. You could say this is mild spoilers. The only really good thing on TV right now is Spy Family, the anime. It's just so good. That show doesn't deserve to be that good. No show deserves to be that good. Spy Family revolves around three different characters. One is a spy who needs to reach a certain target, but that target can only be reached in a very particular way. And that is at a particular event where his son will be at a very prestigious school. So the only way to get into this prestigious event is to have a kid who scores very high on all the tests and stuff and gets invited. So this spy needs to get himself a family to fulfill his mission. And so he goes to the local like, ore village and picks out a child. This child is named Anya. Like the cutest little adorable little bubbly thing of happiness you ever seen. But also turns out she's escaped from a laboratory and she can read minds. She refuses to tell anyone about her ability to read minds because she's afraid that everyone will like hate her. And so every scene where her just explaining I can read minds, every scene where that would solve a problem, she's like, but then they'll hate me and think I'm crazy and they'll return me to that laboratory or whatever. And she's like, she's like four or five years old or something. So like she can read minds. That's her thing, right? And then the fourth character is a woman who is an assassin. And her thing is that because they live in like an oppressive sort of regime sort of thing, not oppressive, like it's in a city that's always on the threat of war and everyone's worried about spies and people who aren't conforming to the status quo and stuff. And because she's getting older, people start to be suspicious of her because she doesn't have a boyfriend. She doesn't have a husband and stuff. And so to make it so she can blend in better, she wants a husband. And so, you know, she happens to run into this spy and they both go like, look, you know, what if we were just to get married? You know, not a real marriage, but like, you know, we'll get the papers and we'll say we're married and stuff. So I'll have a family, you know, because I need that for my job. And you know, people won't be suspicious of you because you don't have a husband. And she's like, oh, yeah, that's great. Cool. They are each unaware of each other's professions, by the way. And so she's a socially awkward assassin. In her head, she's thinking about like killing people all the time and stuff, even though like she's just like a soft spoken sweet person who just happens to be a mass murderer. And so Anya can read minds. So she's not meant to know that her dad is a spy and that her mother's an assassin, but she reads her dad's mind and goes, oh, my God, my dad's a spy. That's so cool. Just like that spy show that I like to watch. And oh, my God, my mother's an assassin. That's also so cool and scary. So, yeah, spy family. |
| 02. February 2023 | Explaining the thought process behind my shorts editing. | Explaining the thought process behind my shorts editing. Your short on being banned was hilarious, I laughed so much. I have watched that now like 17 times. I love that short. Like, it's funny, every single time after I make a short, I always reflect on all the different things that I could have changed. The slight subtle timing differences, the location of the text, you know, how loud the music is and stuff. Making one of these shorts, it may only be like 15 seconds of actual footage, but it usually takes like hours to produce at times. Because you have to like be very precise in what you're doing. You are at risk of being banned every time you live stream and discuss speedrunning strategies. I'm sure killing yourself would be faster. Ah, yeah, why don't you just kill yourself guys? I mean in the game. So it's funny that this came out around the same time where people are getting banned because of mod menus and people are like, oh, I thought that's what you're going to be talking about. The reason why the screen pans to the left is because there was no additional footage before this clip for me to like do this voiceover for. So I had to be creative and this is just like a freeze frame that moves across and also showcases that I'm playing GTA 5 and so it's not jarring. I mean, to what degree people would recognize this GTA 5 as a separate question, but I think the text keeps people engaged and interested even while it's scrolling. When I moved into here, like I had to draw a distinction between me speaking and me reading someone in chat and I couldn't think of like the best way to do that. So I said speedrun it in chat, but I was like, are people even going to be able to read that? It goes by so fast. And see how thick this outline is. I found that with a thinner outline, the text in the background like obscured this text. But in hindsight, I think I would have rather just having a thinner stroke. I think it would have looked a lot better. I'm sure killing yourself would be faster. So this R like should I have just said A R or may I should have said um instead? Like R almost sounds like I'm scared. But that's what I went with and I kind of regret it a little bit. Like these are some subtle cuts, right? The original clip I think is like twice as long as this, but I'm like doing timing exactly what it needs to be. I wanted yeah to be separate from the rest of this text, but it would flash on screen so fast that you couldn't read it. And I found it jarring so I left it in here even though I think it looks funky. Don't you just kill yourself guys. See how long that timing was there? Anytime you leave like an opening for people to scroll off when nothing's happening, people will leave. And so I had to think is it worth having this pause for comedic effects if some people can leave? And I thought yes, without that pause the short is infinitely worse. I'm actually interested to see if people clicked off then actually let me have a look. Not significantly, which is good. So the timing must be pretty good then. One interesting thing is this is what my average short looks like, this gray area here. So usually for the first three days the shorts are constrained a bit and then after three days they go whoosh. I wonder why that is. Why is it that so many of my shorts after three days blow up? Maybe the algorithm's testing it in smaller groups and it's like well you've got enough views in the first three days so we will just blow you up now. It's like this is like the testing period for shorts. I'm happy this is getting a bit more love here because this is the short of Franklin versus Michael. This alternate ending for GTA V shows what should have happened when Franklin tried to take out Michael in ending B. Hey man, I don't know what I did to deserve. This was so fucking difficult to edit. Both for Pacifist and for this short. In Pacifist I had to condense down Michael's dialogue here without having hard cuts showing Michael just jumping around the screen. Because it's actually a very long monologue that's not very good for like a fast paced YouTube video and certainly not a short. But for the short it was even worse because the original footage here was like a minute fifteen. I had to cut out fifteen seconds without ruining the entire scene. Like when I edited it the first time a minute fifteen is what it required. Like it was better with a minute fifteen. And keeping all the elements in 9x16 very difficult. It's very subtle but different scenes in this are squished in. They don't have the same ratio as they normally would. And what's annoying is because of him saying motherfuckin' so early the whole thing gets demodified anyway. So in February when it gets demodified I'm not getting anything out of this. Like a lot of thought goes into these shorts. A lot of thought goes into all YouTube videos that people who don't make YouTube videos or don't make good YouTube videos can't appreciate. The video that popped off though, the Trevor one did really well. Slowing down now but the Trevor one was definitely more engaging than the Franklin and Michael one. But I think they're both good so I want the other one to do well as well. It's this very weird thing where on some level I don't like shorts. It seems like such a stupid format but when I make something and I work to tinker with something so if it's just perfectly right that it does well in the shorts algorithm it feels good. You can kind of look at it in speedrunning terms as like one of the segment runs versus a full speedrun. Like a full speedrun is more satisfying and it feels more real because you're speedrunning the entire game. But a segment run is like more consumable. It's a short part of the entire whole and so it's easier to do, easier to get through, easier to master. And so while not as satisfying in its mastery, you can still gain satisfaction out of that. |
| 14. August 2022 | Explaining what the hell happened to my face. | What the hell happened to my face? Explaining what the hell happened to my face. Haaaaaaahhhhhhh. How's it going chat? Welcome to year 2012. So why is my face shaved chat? So yesterday I planned to record some additional faces for thumbnails. And so I'm like, oh I best shave my beard a little bit, just trim it around a bit, you know. And I was trimming my beard with my trimmer and I'm like, you know what, I've never actually done it like upwards. I've only ever done it like downwards. Uh, so not against the grain. I'm like, would that like cut it more uniform? And so I did it. I'm like, no, that's just kind of ruined it. And I'm like, can I fix this? And after like five minutes of trying, I'm like, nah, I can't get this level anymore. It looks fucking terrible. I'm just going to do what I always do when I fuck up shaving and that's just shave completely. I haven't fucked up shaving in like four years or something. So, but I mean, back in the day, what I used to do is not have a beard. I would trim and just have stubble. I look 10 years younger. I know about that, dude. |
| 07. December 2019 | Explaining ‘no one can be this dumb’ (Stream Lore) | explaining the origin of the no one can be this dumb clip what's the story behind the no one can be this dumb clip? I think X represents a general concept of rich people and Y represents a general concept, these are specific things, of poor people this diagonal- NO! It describes my points! It describes it! It describes my point of view! This can't prove anything! It doesn't actually represent real life! NO ONE CAN BE THIS DUMB! I explained something to a person, in multiple different ways, in the most simplest language possible and their response to it was the complete opposite of what I explained and I just couldn't believe a person could be that dense to not understand it's not a matter of agreement, you can disagree, but there's no way at that point you couldn't have understood it's like if I said all bats are blue, and you came back and said all bats are red and then I spent all my time drawing bats and painting them with blue and crossing out bats that are painted in red, I spent 15-20 minutes doing that and you came back and said- and you were like, so you're saying all bats are red and I just exploded, I was just so fucking mad |
| 21. July 2020 | Exploiting YouTube's 100k playbutton system | Exploiting YouTube's 100k play button system. Can we see the 100k play button? It's in the cupboard over there, man. If I was super popular, what I would do, have all my fans subscribe to different channels, and then I'd have the name on each of the play buttons I received for those channels, spell it out. And then, like, the entire wall would just be that. One word at a time in play buttons. I think it'd be fucking fantastic. But I am, unfortunately, not that popular, and I can't wait for fucking PewDiePie to steal my idea, as he always does. He's stolen so many ideas from me, man. I can't list them for you right now. I just missed Marbles. Trust him, man. Every good idea PewDiePie has ever had, he stole from me. |
| 08. January 2022 | Exploiting the dead for profit | with it because it is just a way for us to like kind of collaborate more and more and like in a way where it's like doable. Exploiting the dead for profit. I put up a hundred thousand dollar bounty like I'm not even joking like it's not a joke anymore like I put up a hundred thousand dollars and I said if you can prove that ghosts exist right now like if you can prove that spirit boxes work I'll pay you. Oh yeah. Why are you the cash? That's that shit's horrible all those channels that are like a famous person diet talking to famous person beyond the grave at 3 a.m. Every time dude I see that shit I can't I can't imagine like and the thing is the audience that follows it they eat that shit up because what they do is they just like tie it to like religious like beliefs and shit and everyone tie it like oh it must be true you know god's love is here and as a spiritual guy I'm like hey listen I don't think god wants ghosts running around speaking to them with morse fucking code that would just be really depressing but hey it's all weird shit and it's it's like when I was in my young 20s or whatever I mean younger than that I would like to have these conversations but these days I'm like it's such a powder it's not it's not a fun topic people are very passionate about their stuff and a lot of it's very meaningful to their lives and it's kind of you feel like a buzzkill sometimes being like no I don't I don't really think you have a justification to believe in that but it's you know leave leave that for other people these days you know it's fun to talk about though the Stan Lee nft stuff have you seen that oh gross dude gross who owes their twitter who would allow that I don't know who owns the twitter I don't even know if it's like marvel owned or if it's state owned I when I saw that I was like this must be something old this had and then I saw the word nft and I'm like it's not that old Stan Lee died before this shit was a trend and then I saw the time and I was I couldn't do it do you know what the company is called that made the nft series oh it's something weird um beyond life that's beyond life that's it the fact that that tweet is still actually up there the website itself as well they did not phase whatsoever they they definitely I wonder if they got something out of it like people actually bought into that shit I hope not I don't even know if it's launched yet I mean I'm following up I signed up for the nft minting I mean I can't wait to have myself a stanley nft I want to join the club one seems like a seems like a fun environment to get in it's launching actually right here it even says seventh January 2022 so this this this trend this these occasion times where this is happening where a famous person has died and that their twitter or social media keeps posting and sometimes pretending to be that person whatever I gross fucking gross and and the thing is like people are always like the nft people are always like yeah but he was chilling like merch or something I'm like that's also disgusting like don't get me wrong I think that's just as bad but like at the same time you know especially |
| 27. October 2020 | Expressing anger on stream | What happens though is over time, being a Twitch streamer, being a YouTuber, you naturally realize that you need to be expressive, or people don't understand what's going on, or whatever right? So you don't consciously think I need to be more expressive, it's just over time you naturally become more expressive. Like when you're sitting yourself at a PC playing a game, you probably aren't going to yell out. You're going to feel the same frustration that I feel sometimes, but there's no reason to communicate that. You make a, but for me, I need to communicate those feelings that you didn't know that I'm having them. I never consciously made this decision, but I can look back at a comparison between old videos and current ones, and I'm just more expressive as a person. Maybe it's also because I'm happier or whatever, but I don't know. I just feel more comfortable. I mean, that's why I feel more okay doing such things. I don't know. Whining. That person's name, Whining Gaming, reminds me of when I was in like, it was like, it's maybe from kindergarten or the f- But what you late in school is actually like, you know, like having these conversations |
| 07. August 2021 | Extremely shy female characters in games | Extremely shy female characters in video games. Honestly, I don't really find the super shy speaking style and stuff of women in anime and stuff to ever be attractive. I prefer just people to speak normally. This whole, I don't know, I don't know, it's not attractive. It's not exactly unattractive either, it's just kind of like... It's not a selling feature for this character to me. |
| 22. December 2020 | FPS cap in GTA 5 speedrunning. | FPS cap in GTA V speedruns. I'm hoping that the expanded and enhanced version of GTA V, that is apparently coming to PC as well, isn't going to change the limit that GTA V has on FPS. If you go too far above 140 FPS, the game starts to stutter like mad, and it's just unplayable. That's good for speedrunning for us, because it means that like, you know, 10 years down the line, a person can't just play with 300 FPS or something, and decimate all the speedrun times, because FPS does have some moderate influence on how fast you can run the game, how significant curb boosts and brake boosts and stuff work. So having a hard cap of 140 means that there's only so far that hardware can carry you. But if the expanded enhanced version just somehow fixes that, and it becomes like infinitely scalable, people are going to be coming back every five years with new technology and just blowing world records out of the water. People probably weren't around for it, but there was a time where we tried to enforce an FPS cap, and there was so much debate, and people were screaming backwards and forwards, and so it just ended up getting dropped. Yeah, dark times. But I mean, things have matured since then, and the dipshits have left, so I suspect that next discussion will be a bit more mature, and we can largely just remove the people who don't actually run the game who tried to dominate the conversation last time. |
| 13. January 2020 | Facebook content thieves | Facebook content thieves. Have you ever had a stolen video go viral before on something like Facebook? I feel a good way to get more views would be promotion of a highlight on a popular gaming page. Not at all. Most times when Facebook people steal content, they crop out any way that something is recognisable, recognisably that person's content. Even when they do give credit, the amount of click through is usually very small. It of course depends on the content. If something about the content is suggestive that there's more of that content through the link, more people will click. But if you've made like a one-off viral thing that has no real personality to it, you're just showing something that's really cool, people won't click through it, you know. It helps, right? Like, I mean, if you've got content that isn't doing well on your end and someone else takes it and it does well on their end and brings you, like, that's just good for you, ultimately. Not that you'd ever want to promote people stealing other people's content, but it can benefit you in some contexts. Other times it can massively disadvantage you. Because clearly the content thieves on Facebook are not doing things to benefit you, they're just trying to enrich themselves. I have given permission to people before to use my content on other social medias that I don't really post to, like Instagram and Facebook, but I was on XQC's media share like six times. Really? I've only knowingly been on there once. Do you have any clips of me being on there the other times? Does he know my name yet? He called me Dark Vibe-ler last time. |
| 14. January 2021 | Facebook gaming | you can. I don't understand Facebook gaming. I was like, all right, I'm gonna watch some streamers on Facebook. And I just couldn't even find this was about a year ago. But I was like, I couldn't even find the Facebook gaming thing where I could search for channels. I was like, how user friendly is this? You have the exact same experience as me. I said the exact same thing. And like hearing these content creators who take chunks of money to go there. I'm like, surely there's a number that anyone would take to move there, but no one's going to be happy making that move. Because in no way is Facebook gaming a better live streaming experience than than Twitch or even YouTube gaming. Like certainly mixer had some some positives a bit higher bit rate or whatever. And it was really focused. It was a website purely focused on live streaming. So there were some benefits that and it was more comparable to Twitch. But Facebook seems all over the place. And it's so hard to find anything. Okay, that's crazy. Right? You're like Facebook gaming. I'm going to search it right now and tell you what I say. Facebook gaming live streams like that's enough keywords. So I put that in Facebook gaming, watch live gaming video things. It takes me to I've got a few things here like it's just seems so unuser friendly. They've tied it up a little bit. But over time, because given how much money Facebook gaming is throwing into this, you can guarantee it will get better over time. And the same with it. It's getting better on the YouTube and |
| 08. September 2022 | Facebook gaming app being shutdown | Facebook gaming app being shut down. Apparently Facebook gaming is shutting down their iOS and Android apps on October 28th, 2022. When I first saw this, I was like, maybe Facebook gaming is not doing as well as Meta would have liked, and maybe they're rolling it back or whatever. But it was speculated down here. My take not shocked, Zuckerberg has been clear that he believes that an economic downturn is here, and it may be a long one, maintaining an app that probably isn't getting a ton of downloads is an ineffective use of capital that is better served elsewhere. Facebook gaming is just being rolled into the normal Facebook app. So like, there's not gonna be two apps, and that's it. And I'm like, well, that's not that interesting. |
| 06. July 2021 | Facebook gaming not taking cut from livestreaming revenue | new from live streaming content creators or whatever they're that interested in boosting their live streaming section presumably because the live streaming section that they have would be making them like 0.0001% of their revenue or whatever right but of course you know facebook live streaming seems bad on every level for the viewer the content creator the audience isn't really there is much smaller than twitch at the end of the day the place where you want to do a live stream is the place where the viewers are not just in terms of the money but also in terms of the longevity of your career if you go somewhere you're making a bit more money in the short term in the in the long term you know you're not going to keep the viewers and eventually you'll fall into insignificance a little bit more money now is not as good as a long career because you make more in the long term would i go if they paid me x amount of course as in there is obviously an amount of money that i could be offered to move platform that is the case with everyone we will give you uh you know switzerland and 10 billion dollars i don't know man kind of really like twitch the color purplish is something that i really drive with i don't really think i want an entire country in 10 billion dollars i'm gonna have to say no to that like you know i'm saying it's zuckberg buy switzerland give it to me in 10 billion dollars then we'll talk about switzerland isn't the best deal that's why i also said they had to give me 10 billion dollars now but honestly guys switzerland is a big plus in that deal avoiding debating people despite the urge to i won't say the topic but i watched a bit of a debate between um two people on a topic before i went live and uh |
| 05. March 2023 | Facebook takes a page from Twitter's playbook with new subscription service. | Yep. Facebook takes a page from Twitter's playbook with new subscription service. So Facebook is making some changes, guys. You guys still use Facebook? I'm sure some of you do, because in some countries it's still almost the prerequisite for doing anything. But, obviously I don't use it anymore. Haven't logged into Facebook in. Wait, I don't even think I have an account anymore. So I guess I can't even log in, but a long time. From The Zuckerberg himself. Good morning! And new product announcement. This week we're starting to roll out meta-verified. A subscription service that lets you verify your account with a government ID, get a blue badge, get extra impersonation protection against accounts claiming to be you, and get direct access to customer support. This new feature is about increasing authenticity and security across our services. Meta-verified starts at $12 a month on web or $15 a month on iOS. Because you have to pay Apple a small amount of money every time you pay through their service. We'll be rolling out in Australia and New Zealand this week and more countries soon. So the reason I'm bringing this up is to be like, suck shit everyone. I'm in Australia, I get this amazing new feature first. You guys gotta wait to get meta-verified? Get rekt. Now obviously, this is really stupid. It was stupid when Twitter did it, it's now stupid when Facebook did it. As far as I've heard, the paid verification on Twitter hasn't been doing very well. It hasn't generated all that much income. Especially by comparison to the amount that Twitter is paying in terms of its loan repayments. And interest and stuff. This is obviously not a new idea to have subscription services attached to online websites and stuff. But this is a worrying trend of where like, security features, verification and stuff is being paywalled. None of this is like, some cool new feature. It's like, hey, here's like, basic services for security you now have to pay for. I think people at Facebook were like, holy shit. Like, are people really putting up with this on Twitter? Are you serious that people are defending this level of stupidity on Twitter? So this is just like free money we could just have by doing something entirely scummy and terrible. Really? Well let's do it then, cause fuck it. Cause obviously, the purpose of verification and authentication is meant to be, to prevent impersonation. If you are in a position where you can be negatively impacted by being impersonated on the internet, it shouldn't cost you money to prevent that. It's like, oh yeah, so you're being defamed and your life potentially being ruined because someone's impersonating you? Pay us $12. Same thing with Twitter, it's just dumb. But what company is going to leave free money on the table? I suppose. And you know there are some people who are going to pay for this. 100%. It's actually kind of annoying on Twitter, as I've said before. Once upon a time, you would go to your verified tab and be like, oh, someone's like something I've done. And you click it and it's like some journalist or another content creator or someone who's been in some movies or something that is associated with the org or something, who's made an e-sports team. And you'd be looking at them like, is there some business relationship we can have here? How does this person know my stuff? What sort of avenues is my content being viewed in the industry and stuff? Now when I look at it, I'm like, oh, here's 15 people who paid Elon Musk 8 bucks. This is completely pointless. Like sometimes I have to like open the 15 people to find the people who actually matter in terms of my business, potentially, who might be some contacts for the future. It's to separate the people who paid 8 dollars from people who actually matter. And it's quite frustrating. Like obviously being in this industry doesn't make you better than anyone else. It is merely that a person who's paid 8 dollars isn't particularly interesting to me. There is no reason why I should be alerted more for a person who's paid 8 dollars versus a person who's paid nothing at all. In an ideal world, I would have Twitter be like, hey, here is a select amount of people who have engaged with your content who actually could be of an interest to you in a business sense, which is kind of what verification was before. But now it's just, hey, here are people who paid 8 dollars to get that little modicum more of attention from you, which is frustrating. Mute them? But many of them aren't bad people. But maybe I will have to start doing that. I don't know. It's frustrating. They've directly made a feature worse. This isn't what verification should be. If it was the case on Twitter that verification was given to people unnecessarily, or there were legacy accounts that had verification, fine, remove it. Although again, I can't really see how that would cause much problems for the platform. But the new system is infinitely worse in terms of it actually providing some benefit for the... |
| 26. March 2023 | Facebook's Meta takes on Twitter with new social media platform in the works. | Facebook's Meta takes on Twitter with new social media platform in the works. Breaking, Facebook's parent company Meta is working on a competitive Twitter. I mean, are Facebook and Twitter really that different? Isn't Twitter just more like a much more slimmed down version of Facebook? I mean it certainly would be a Facebook kind of thing, or a Meta kind of thing, to release a copy of a social media because that's what they've been doing forever. But like, this sort of person who is willing to abandon Twitter because of Elon Musk, I totally get that, I totally understand why you would do that, is not the sort of person to like Mark Zuckerberg or have a preference for Facebook, or to necessarily think that either is going to like run at Twitter better than Elon Musk would. It's like jumping out of a flaming pile of shit into a different flaming pile of shit. I just don't think that's going to go well. So who is this going to appeal to, is my question. Out of the frying pan into the fire? No I think it should out of the fire into the fire. Are my compilations lazy content? I release my video, let me ruin GT- |
| 18. October 2021 | Facebooking warping minds | Facebook warping minds. I wonder what it would feel like to have parents who, uh, get their brains warped by, uh, Facebook and all the misinformation on there. Like me and my mother have never really seen eye to eye on, um, politics. But, um, we don't talk about it all that much. But because my mother, uh, she works, um, in corrections, as in like she works in the, um, prison system. Not in prisons, but like the, the managerial side of it. Like, cause they, they have medical professionals and stuff who like explain everything related to COVID and like even early on why it spread, how it spread, da da da. Unlike, you know, the average parents, they're going to be, my mother's very informed, you know, she's probably more knowledgeable. Oh no, she certainly is. She's more knowledgeable at any given time as to what is happening in regards to the response to the virus than I am, you know. Not that we really discuss it, but she'll always send me messages like, oh, so this is when the lockdown's ending, oh, there's restrictions now. But I'm always just in my house. I don't, I don't care all that much. I like in the actual day to day changes. |
| 09. March 2022 | Failure and risk are different for everyone. | Failure and risk are different for everyone. Matter, what are your thoughts on failure? I feel like so many people are so afraid of failure that they won't even proceed to work on something because they might fail, but then they complain that they haven't gone forward in life at all. Would like to know your thoughts. Different people in life are better able to fail without significant ramifications to their circumstances or their well-being, you could say. So if you're already in a well-off circumstance and you want to take a risk and have a chance of failure, if you fail, you fall back on your savings or your family connections or your previous education or what have you. If you're a person who's got like two pennies to your name, no family, maybe no friends would have worked. Of course, you're going to be very afraid of failure because you're one failure away from living on the streets. Take my going into streaming, a risky thing. Potentially at the time, I didn't even know how risky it was because I just didn't know enough to know how much the odds were stacked against me. But I had middle class family, mother and father who loved me and would support me, regardless of what I did. I had $30,000 in my bank account from working during my earlier life. I had a degree, bachelor's, social science, major in psychology or whatever, and I was able to get that degree in past because in my country, education subsidized, like I didn't have to pay a dime for that degree. And so me taking a risk on Twitch would be very different for a person with none of those things taking that risk. What I mean is, sure, if you want to get ahead, you have to to some degree be willing to fail, but it's worth acknowledging that everyone doesn't have the same risks when they attempt to achieve the same goal. And certainly, as I've said before, everyone has a breaking point in terms of failure. Like there's only so much that anyone can fail before they eventually go, this just isn't worth trying. A person who's out on the streets isn't necessarily a person who's never tried. And I would argue, effectively no one who is homeless is a person who's never tried to get somewhere in life. But everyone has their breaking point. When I said I didn't have to pay a dime for my education, what I mean is that it's deferred payment or whatever. So it's a system where the government pays for your education. But when you start earning a certain amount of money, I think it's over $35,000 or $40,000 or something like that, your wages are garnished to pay back that money to the government. If you don't have enough money to go to university, but you got into the university, you can show aptitude or whatever, then the government's like, look, we'll foot that bill, but the second you start making a decent amount of money, you'll pay that back. |
| 08. June 2021 | Fake speedruns are good /s | Fake speedruns are good. What is my opinion on fake speedruns? I think fake speedruns really like, brighten up the community and you know, bring some much needed fun and excitement into the speedrunning in general of all games really. You know, is this a fake speedrun or not? Haha, it's like a little game that we play. And then when you find it out, the person is like, Ah, see, I got you guys, haha. And we all live happily ever after. And what do you want me to say? I don't like fake speedruns. You ask my opinion while knowing what my obvious opinion is going to be. Fake speedruns suck. Although, actually, if you are talking about the fake speedruns that are obviously fake speedruns, that's perfectly fine. Like my Lamar roasts Franklin speedrun or whatever that I did where Franklin goes around and kills all the characters and then ends the thing. Or the one that flying kitty made in the same vein for SA. Things that are obviously not real speedruns or whatever are pretty funny. Like speedrun memes, I like speedrun memes, they're good. |
| 05. August 2022 | Faling asleep spoiled my audiobook. | that I'm reading, I accidentally fell asleep while listening to the book, and when I woke up, I listened to about two sentences of five hours further in the audiobook, and it spoiled a major major plot point for me. I suspect now who the real villain is, and I'm like, no! What are the odds of all the fucking two sentences? It happened to be the two- the two sentences where they're revealing the big baddie. I hope my interpretation is wrong now. What book? Uh, it's gonna guess Warbringer? Warbreaker? Uh, by Brandon Sanderson? Sounds like it might make it even more interesting? No. Or it's like a mystery, like it's uh, it's clear there's stuff going on that you don't know, and you read, or you continue to listen because you want to know what the- what the- what's really going on, you know? Drip fed to you over the book. Is money intrinsically valuable? Um- |
| 31. October 2020 | Fall Guys Fall, Among Us Rise. | My thoughts on the popularity of Among Us and Fall Guys. Every streamer's addicted to Among Us. It's a real good game. You gotta feel bad for Fall Guys though. If Among Us hadn't blown up in popularity, you can guarantee a lot more people would still be playing, um, Fall Guys. Among Us especially had the advantage because it's free on mobile. Not that it's the easiest thing in the world to play on mobile. I guess Fall Guys though was, uh... It was free on... PlayStation Plus, whatever. Like I'm sure the numbers on PlayStation are, uh... A lot higher than they are on Steam. Fall Guys are still blowing up after three matches? Um... Like I feel as though once you've won Fall Guys a few times, there's no real reason to keep playing. You can just get more proficient, but you're not fighting for anything really. Especially if you don't care about skins. Among Us I suppose is the same thing that you, because you're with... For most people, friends that you know, and you can joke around and have fun. And it's suspenseful or whatever. That kind of social interaction or whatever. Uh, carries the game. Like for me, I care about winning. I care about stats in Among Us. Most people don't. As I've ranted about on Twitter, and in previous streams, I find most videos of other people playing to be intolerable. Because I, I, I consider them to be playing very poorly. No, no, I didn't say it was dead, full throttle. It just had a drop off. The game is still doing very well by comparison to say the average game. And it's only been a short amount of time. It went from having 200,000 people playing it on Twitch, or watching it on Twitch, to 20,000 people watching it on Twitch. It's meteoric rise had a meteoric fall at the end of it. What the Four Guys people probably have to hope is that the hype for Among Us dies down by the time they release Season 2. Unfortunately, Among Us was still popular when Season 2 released. Season 2 is lackluster, so it did nothing to stop the decline of Four Guys. |
| 05. August 2022 | Falling asleep spoiled my audiobook. | that I'm reading, I accidentally fell asleep while listening to the book, and when I woke up, I listened to about two sentences of five hours further in the audiobook, and it spoiled a major major plot point for me. I suspect now who the real villain is, and I'm like, no! What are the odds of all the fucking two sentences? It happened to be the two- the two sentences where they're revealing the big baddie. I hope my interpretation is wrong now. What book? Uh, it's gonna guess Warbringer? Warbreaker? Uh, by Brandon Sanderson? Sounds like it might make it even more interesting? No. Or it's like a mystery, like it's uh, it's clear there's stuff going on that you don't know, and you read, or you continue to listen because you want to know what the- what the- what's really going on, you know? Drip fed to you over the book. Is money intrinsically valuable? Um- |
| 06. June 2020 | Family Friendly YouTubers | What's your opinion on family friendly youtubers if they're making content that other people enjoy and that's all good and that's just fine. |
| 26. January 2022 | Family and given name order in other regions | Family and given name order in other regions. In some countries, like, uh, I know North Korea does it, the South Korea does it as well, where people say the last name first, right? I just mean we should make it the norm to say the last name first in Western countries as well, so I could be Judge Matthew. Yeah, Kim is the example, I think that's how I learnt that it's common in these regions to do that. When they were talking about Kim Jong Un's name. So Kim is his last name, so I guess he'd be John Un Kim. |
| 27. February 2021 | Fan Submitted Content | fan submitted content If there's one thing that really makes me feel awkward It's when people make me fan stuff that isn't very good. I love when people make me fan stuff and it's very flattering Regardless of its quality, but it's stressful if I feel like I'm not as enthused by it as the person probably wants me to be You know in the same way that uh with the people who who? Submit to edit for me and when they give me something back, that's garbage I always feel bad because I'm like I'm gonna have to tear this person down at least with submitted fan stuff I just don't have to respond, but that's the advantage of the reddit recap I can see fan stuff, but only like really good stuff gets this up unfortunately in some cases Stuff with only a few upwards the stuff that I would actually really like like that time that uh I was yelling you are insane you are insane and Foxy put that soundbite to uh My game of among us where I played with a guy named insane. I thought that was really funny, but only got a few uppers |
| 06. July 2021 | Fan mail streams | Another person who loves having a lot of stuff for content that can be interesting but I just don't think it's very cost-effective for the viewer and As a person who doesn't like having a bunch of stuff. I don't know what I do with all the stuff I just don't think it's worth it. Basically Maybe one day if I had my own place or something I could have a room to pull all the stuff in You know like you want to appreciate what people send you not just chuck in the trash wherever them at this point The house this small now that I have no Storage space whatever I have to and I wouldn't feel good about that, you know What portion of facts and glitches submissions make it into episodes? How many repeats do you get in the facts and glitches submissions? Hard to say I can say that uh at best maybe |
| 07. August 2021 | Fans fixing games for companies | Fans fixing games for companies. It is impressive what people do to maintain old games. Like there's this package of fixes that you can just with a click of a button apply to Max Payne to fix it completely. Like Rockstar should be paying these guys money, but they're not, you know? |
| 19. April 2021 | Fast food tier list. | right? Making a fast food tier list. Do I have a fast food tier list? Such a thing would be largely uninteresting for me to make, because Australia doesn't have that many fast food places. Like, you have the big ones and then you have like smaller little chains everywhere that an international audience won't recognize and I probably wouldn't even know the name of. You know, Domino's, Pizza Hut, KFC, McDonald's, Hungry Jacks, which is Burger King, and that's about it. And there's, you know, I think there's some Wendy's around and, is it Wendy? I don't know. Wendy's in this country, I think, is a little bit different. Because Wendy's has burgers in America, right? I don't think it has it here. Oh, Subway as well. Subway's another one. Red Rooster exists, but that doesn't, international audience doesn't know that. We don't have Carl's Jr. When I look at a tier list from Americans, I don't recognize 80% of it. We do have Carl's Jr. Get out of town! If we have Carl's Jr., it's like one in some guy's basement. There's one around the corner from you? Got some bad news. There's not actually a Carl's Jr. It's a plant from the American government to steal your iPhone. I think we have like one or two Taco Bells in the entire country or something. There's 11 Carl's Juniors in Australia? Well, that's why I haven't heard of it then. The FIB needs to expand their information gathering enterprise. We have Nando's, yeah. Nando's is okay, a little bit expensive. The only thing I really have from it usually is the triple Bondi burger or something. Video game artists, sound design, and CGI. I took the opportunity there to look on the table, and there's like pictures of cars and stuff. There are just certain things that you... |
| 12. August 2020 | Fast travel in games | Fast travel in games. Fast travel is a thing that should be used so you can go back to places that you've already been before. So like you want to explore that area again, you shouldn't have to do the equivalent of walking back through seven different chapters that you don't want to see specifically to see that area again, right? Or you want to farm a particular thing in a particular game, that kind of stuff. It's not something that you should be using to get to your destination. Speaking about games like Watch Dogs 2 which allow you to fast travel to places you haven't been before, sure you can make the argument, oh well, you don't have to use it. But when a game has fast travel in it, the game is built around that concept. So if you're not using it, it's possible that you're either experiencing things you're not meant to experience, or that you're experiencing grinds or tedium that's, you know, the fast travel has been put in there to avoid. That argument, just don't use it. It always misses the point that games are built around the mechanics that are put into them. It's why when people say, oh sure man, there might be microtransactions in a single player game, but you don't have to use them. And people just go, yeah, but the game is built around those mechanics to a greater or lesser extent, so you would never have a single moment where you could possibly use the microtransaction. |
| 30. May 2020 | Fasting | Certainly opinion on fasting you mean which type of fasting eating fasting for many many days as a Religious thing I think is very silly Fasting as a health thing sure fasting is a way to lose weight again sure I did fasting one meal a day Fasting for a while to lose weight, which was good I'm having a harder time doing that now because before I would just eat like a large fast food meal And then I'll be fine for the rest of the day But now I have a hard time eating enough calories in the morning to last me through the entire day But I should try and get back on to such a thing |
| 08. December 2021 | Favourite GTA character | My favorite GTA character from any game. Keep in mind if you haven't played it you won't recognize these characters. These characters are from Battle of Gay Tony, which is a GTA 4 expansion. Who's my favorite GTA character? It's Yusuf or um, Luis. I just liked Yusuf's over-the-top kind of character and his accent and his singing and he was a very funny, comedic character. Luis was just a very good, well-written character I think and I like the way he conducted himself and his accent and that. |
| 03. June 2020 | Favourite car? | Do you have a favorite car? No. If I were to be given a free car, it'd be one that would be very expensive so that I could sell- |
| 16. May 2020 | Favourite cheese | This be one. What's your favorite type of cheese? I am not an expert in cheese. Now that I've started buying groceries online, I can see all the cheeses that Woolworths has. And so I just start picking random ones now. And then when they arrive, I eat them. I'm like, well, that was cheese. I've yet to find a cheese where I'm like, whoa, this cheese is fucking insane. I must get more of this immediately. I'm just like, yeah, this is cheese. |
| 15. December 2020 | Favourite fantasy books | My favorite fantasy books. I was always a fantasy buff when I read physical books as opposed to just audio books. Like if you go to a top 10 list of the best fantasy books, I've read them all. Like A Wheel of Time and the Rift Wars Saga and the Empire trilogy. So there'd be Raymond D. Feist, Robert Jordan, Johnny Wirtz. I haven't been much into reading or fantasy books or whatever in quite a long time. I spend too much of my time working these days. But I do listen to audio books slowly. I couldn't get through The Witcher series. I got to the final book and it was just so slow. I'm still curious what happens in it, but not enough that I'm willing to deal with the slog of the book series. I have now twice tried to get into Dune and failed both times. It's going to be interesting to watch the movie. |
| 14. January 2021 | Favourite game, YouTuber, Streamer | Other than like rapid fire stuff like you know what's your favorite game or favorite YouTube or streamer kind of stuff. Yeah, favorite game is probably rocket League at the moment I just love it. Absolutely obsessed. Another game I didn't think would survive as long as it did. I know playing it back in beta this is not a game but apparently it's still really really good for a lot of people. Just like it's almost like doing a GTA speedrun like you can just always get better and it's so competitive you know like it's got that timeless factor about it because you can always just get better and improved. I think it might be bigger on consoles because you kind of need a controller for it and that's probably what threw me. Most of these e-players who are like taking it seriously get controllers I think. And then my favorite content creator is T90Official who's like an Age of Empires 2 guy that you know about. Love that guy. Yeah, what about you? What's your favorite game? Still going to be GTA 5 I think. I probably could have guessed that after our conversation today. Other than that just everything Souls. I love Souls because of my no story just you know there's a boss you figure it out you beat it you get that satisfaction of being the boss finding its gimmick or whatever. And as far as content creators go I don't know. I know I like a lot but every time I try and think of some I just blank because the streamers I watch right now is like Dowsky and who does Minecraft speedrunning Mitch Jones and his PvP stuff. Elijah. Yeah cool. He just does a lot of games like you hitman and all these kind of games but I must watch hundreds of content creators but every time someone asks me about them I just blank and I go I have no idea. It's hard to pick a favorite like for me though it's easy because T90 just streams he does like he just I just love watching him commentate Age of Empires games. Like the boys and I are this big Age of Empires fan I've been watching him for about like a year now so it's just like I like a lot of content creators but I watch like an hour of him a day minimum so it's pretty obvious. Did you play Heroes of Might and Magic back in the day? I did not. Man you missed out. That's another one of those games that has stuck around. Didn't get the same kind of love in terms of a remaster that Age of Empires did but that game is still played comparatively. The Age of Empires 2 and Heroes of Might and Magic 3 are the two games that like dominated my childhood. People still just love them. Now I'm just gonna have to go to the bathroom again. I'm just punching water. We can wrap it up here if you like because we've been talking for two and a half hours. Yeah that sounds good. Well dude this is really awesome like I you know I had a good time thanks so much for having me on. No it's certainly enjoyable talking to you but this is for the first time I think we've actually spoken outside of DMs or whatever right? True I think it just feels like I must have spoken to you because we've DMed so much but yeah maybe this is the first proper time actually. Yeah thank you for stopping by. Any shout out yourself? Just go watch DarkViperAU on Twitch. Just shout out you bloody social media dude. Watch Modest Pelican on YouTube and Twitch.tv. Go watch T90. He's a good guy. Nah yeah if you want to check out my content obviously I'd appreciate it but yeah thanks again Viper this was really good fun man. Thank you for stopping by. Thank you for being on the first episode man. It's absolute honor man. Guess I'll talk to you another time. Yeah talk to you soon man. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 16. May 2020 | Favourite games as a kid | Naive. What was my favorite game when I was a kid? I loved Kingdom Hearts. I loved Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Age of Empires 2. I loved Sega games that I can't- Guns of the Heroes on Sega. I really loved. A bunch of Nintendo games. All the Mario kind of- Super Mario 64, Mario Cars, Sonic Adventure Battle 2, Super Smash Bros. Melee. All these kind of games I loved. But none really stick out to me as like, this shaped my life. It's- I just enjoyed playing certain games back then. I played World of Warcraft for like 8 years, and I'm still not really sure that I ever enjoyed it. |
| 16. May 2020 | Favourite movie | Favourite movie of all time if you don't have a favourite most rewatchable? Groundhog Day Back to the Future Shawshank Redemption If you had the option to play any other game without the consequences of people complaining about it what would be the game you'd play? I don't know dude. I don't- |
| 16. May 2020 | Favourite music | What is my favorite artist song? My favorite song right now is Ordinary Man by Ozzy Osbourne featuring Elton John. I don't have any particular artist that I love. Sabaton and Disturbed are the two bands that I've liked the most songs that they've produced. As in most artists I have like one, two, three, maybe even half a dozen songs that I like. But Sabaton and Disturbed I've liked a lot of their songs over the course of my life. Like I would say Meatloaf. Love a lot of Meatloaf's songs. But I mean he's produced hundreds of songs and I like... |
| 23. August 2021 | Favourite ‘WKUK’ sketch | Favorite why does kid you know sketch do I have a favorite why does kid you know sketch Liquid PCP I mean the sniper office one is good I mean there's two that came to mind and the end this really stupid But say I say sir it appears that you are peeing upon my leg. What's this? I say sir it appears that you are peeing upon my leg And it's just is the dumbest premise for a sketch ever. I'm not sure how much I hold up now I find that fucking hilarious is okay |
| 27. January 2021 | Fearing to meet content creators you respect | Fearing to meet content creators that you respects Did you look the new summoning salt bit the nanosecond a summoning salt video comes out? I watch it the nanosecond I never wants to formally interact with summoning salt for as long as I live I never want to do that because if he doesn't like me It will make me sad and I'd rather just never have an answer that question because I really like his content It's just such a positive celebration of what speedrunning is that it's just so respectable I love it, and if he doesn't like me for whatever reason I'm just gonna be like oh oh oh |
| 07. December 2019 | Features I would add to GTA V | Features I would add to GTA 5. If you could add one feature to GTA 5, what would it be? The ability to know what text messages coming up next. The ability to see hitboxes. Even just as like a In experimental mode. As you could examine it, like you press a button and it shows the hitboxes for everything. The speedometer would be nice. An internal speedometer that was actually accurate, unlike the first-person one. Are you talking about like gameplay features? Like things I would enjoy? Would you rather have all scripted AI calls or no missions require a text message energy? I'd rather just have no missions require text message energy. Like I've said before, I wish there was a... I'm not against the idea of missions requiring phone calls to start. I'm against that being the only way to start them. So throughout casual play you wouldn't think to call Lester maybe. So Lester will call you. But in your second playthrough, you should be able to call Lester. And Lester would be like, oh man, I was just about to call you. You know the military, I found the military hardware. Or when you get to the area with the thing you're meant to be getting. If you get near the military hardware before it spawns, Lester should just call you and be like, hey you man, you're in the area where the military stuff is. What gameplay things would I add to the game? Like I would like the ability to change the cars of the main characters. The way your character looks be consistent across the entire game. Like when you dress them up, whatever. I would even like more ways to dress them. Potentially. I feel like there's not enough actual styles of stuff in this single-player. I guess all that was saved for online, so that's kind of silly to suggest. I would like more mini games and stuff. Bowling and whatnot. In stuff to in general spend your money on would be cool. Like just be able to get cool pets. That follow you around. Not just chop. Like if I want to get myself a Paris and teach it fucking things to say and it swears at NPCs or something, that'd be cool. Like it wouldn't have to be super over-the-top, but just more stuff basically. Like GTA 5 has more stuff kind of than GTA 4 that you can spend money on and stuff. But it still doesn't have a lot of stuff that actually matters, you know. Why do you think they can't just roll out the new cars from online to single-player? Because they have no reason to. Like they want people to play online. And if you can just get a car for free in single-player, you might not want to grind for it online. You should be able to bulk up your characters, but then make them fat or sculpted goods. I mean in a world that is sort of a commentary on the fakeness of Hollywood or whatever. I don't know what the... you know, comments on all that kind of stuff. That you can't get plastic surgery, to my knowledge. Can you get plastic surgery? Like you can't get yourself like fake tits or liposuction or I don't know. Remodel your entire body. Like get yourself fake pecs or I don't know. Like that you can't do that kind of shit. It's just kind of weird. Like it sucks that you can't spend 30 minutes making Trevor look presentable. It sucks that you can make Trevor look presentable and then you can switch to Franklin and back and suddenly Trevor's hair's back and he's wearing a dress. Exactly. It doesn't... persist. When the game is over, I think it persists, right? And I mean you can still get those weird switches and then it's all gone again, I guess. Sorry for the complaining about Red Evidemption 2 everyone, but I was very disappointed in it and its launch especially. But if you liked the video, I'd really appreciate if you liked the video. Thank you so much. |
| 11. December 2020 | Feeling Fat | That's a brand new feature 45 minute meals mandatory three times a day He's gonna let this island. It's very funny so true feeling fast So I'm not eating today guys why could I feel fat as fuck looking at images of the stream of myself putting up those Plates yesterday. I was like man. I look fucking terrible I've also got like like bumps on my arms or whatever and I'm like, oh my god I got exfoliate and take care of myself, you know, Kovac isn't gonna be around forever Eventually, I'm gonna have to go out into the world and people you have to see my disgusting body and in preparation for that I should care about myself a little bit especially things that don't take more time out of my day Whenever I think to myself I could exercise I think or I could work on their projects |
| 31. August 2020 | Feeling better about night streams | That just makes sense for him to move that. Feeling better about streaming at night. When you finally stay up late enough to catch the stream, well, I mean, this isn't- I don't really have a normal time for streams, dude. No one should ever say that they can never catch my stream, because I stream at such weird times all the time. I woke up at like 7 p.m. today, and it feels less oppressive streaming at night, because I know no one is living here with me anymore. Because I know it may surprise you guys, but I'm not a jerk, and jerk in this case is a person who doesn't consider the well-being of other people around them in their actions. I do. It's just sometimes not feasible to take into- like to radically change what I'm doing for the benefit of my roommates, right? So I just feel bad all the time whenever I would stream at night, and they would be there. And I hated that feeling of being- feeling bad, but now that they're not here, I don't have to feel bad anymore. |
| 27. September 2022 | Feeling guilty about being sad | Feeling guilty about feeling sad. Sometimes, I wish I caught feelings for people, even if it would make me sad. Sometimes, chat, when I feel sad unjustifiably, I wish I had a, like, a justification for feeling sad. Like, you shouldn't need to justify your feelings, right? But sometimes, I'm just like, man, I feel like shit, and I shouldn't feel like shit, and I feel guilty about it. Feeling sad, then feeling guilty about your sadness is like the worst fucking feeling, dude. The most important thing is to feel good about yourself. |
| 10. July 2021 | Feeling guilty when sad. | Feeling guilty when sad? Oddly, having so many people be nice to me and support me makes me feel guilty for feeling sad all the time. You know? You know? You know? You know? You know? You know? You know? You know? You know? You know? uh |
| 29. April 2021 | Feeling shackled by GTA 5 No Damage | Feeling shackled by GTA 5 no damage When the next episode of pastas come out I'm so behind on everything and the main reason is just because of this series Under normal circumstances, I would have taken a day off by now and just caught up on other stuff like my rambles are so far behind and It's because I've made a bunch of other videos that aren't normally a part of my roster of content the mood high videos that the collab with merfish and stuff and it is just a Normally, I would have thrown a few few days at finishing facts and glitches But I haven't been able to do that either because I just want to finish this series so badly Like I feel so shackled by this series guys. I really do I enjoy it But it's just the knowledge that is keeping me from doing so many other things is becoming frustrating You know then play something else. No, I will complete this people don't seem to understand that something being tedious or Or having a negative aspect doesn't mean that the positive aspects of it or the end result of what you're doing Isn't that doesn't still make it worth doing? You know like if you complain about the traffic going somewhere the response isn't well Then don't go because obviously the person's dealing with the traffic then they consider the traffic to be worth whatever they're doing Wherever they're going, you know, it definitely isn't worth it. It totally is Do I think I'll ever play RP with Pelican if I finish this series so many things will be done so many? |
| 12. February 2023 | Feeling the effects of the Sun for the First Time. | We'll see feeling the effects of the Sun for the first time So as I mentioned previously what I'm trying to do now is every day walk up to my local Supermarket and come back takes like an hour half an hour both ways well obviously I've gone outside Many times in the last half decade or whatever is not often that I spend time like just walking around With no specific purpose right I'll take a car or an uber somewhere Usually at night, and I'll go indoors somewhere and go back home This is like the first time maybe half a decade that I'm just walking for the sake of walking And so I was unhappy to find that I get burnt pretty easily apparently this is like a couple of days So this might be like one hour in the Sun three days in a row and just I've got my tank top lines here People did joke with that image though. I can't believe you're giving this away for free I also realized that most of what causes the outward appearance of aging is the Sun some studies say it's like 90% of it and so I would often joke that by being indoors for so long I'll look young forever which obviously isn't true But I'll look younger than I would otherwise if I were in the Sun all day And so I realized like oh no if I'm doing this walking all day that will no longer be the case But I still want to do my walking so I'm gonna be putting on like a bunch of sunscreen Whenever I do my walking just so I don't get burnt and all that jazz and apparently it does also prevent some of the Cause of aging from the Sun, but it is somewhat annoying Like it was so freeing that I would just like get up shove on my shoes Put on some clothes and just walk out my door like that simple and now the process of like putting on sunscreen on like my Shoulders and my neck and my face It's annoying right prep work for anything sucks But it's something I have to do and I think it has been making me feel better I do dislike losing the hour ish of my day doing this But I think mentally and energy wise I'm doing a bit better sleeping I'm still not very good at unfortunately, but you know it's a small improvement. What I do at the supermarket I usually buy myself some food either I get a Porto McDonald's Or I just buy myself like a bunch of fruit and vegetables I try to always stay between the three you do want some sun vitamin D does wonders for your sleep mental health I always took vitamin D tablets, so that's not it I think it's more the exercise it is interesting though if you ever go to Australia You will see people walking around with umbrellas when it isn't raining and this is why I remember when I was a kid Or younger more active or whatever I don't think I ever saw a person like unless they were at like an event or something Walking around just holding an umbrella, but I see that all the time now whether it's people wanting to Protect themselves from the effects of aging or if it's just like how amazingly hot the sun can get in Australia god damn |
| 19. July 2020 | Feelings interacting with people. | My feelings when interacting with people. Like, I don't like these interactions, man. So much of my interactions with people, it just makes me feel terrible. Because I'm always worried about what I'm saying, or how I'm making them feel, or what they're saying to me means and stuff. My recent sponsorship with Raid, talking to the dude. I was always worried I was doing something wrong, or something was going wrong, or I wasn't going to get paid, or whatever. I hate all these frustrations. I am so happy that people support me and enable me to live a lifestyle where my interactions, my direct interactions with people is quite limited. Not because I think badly of people necessarily, but just because I suck at it, interacting with people. And I always, I worry about so much that it makes it hard to truly enjoy being around or talking with people directly. You know? I'm just, I'm just a weird guy. And I'm happy this weirdness has somewhat been an asset in what I do for a living, as opposed to being a massive detriment, which is what it would be if I had any other career. You know? A lot of the things I talk about in regards to my business, or sponsorships and stuff, you could interpret it as me just being super money hungry or something. But this is not fucking it at all. All of it is just a constant fear that I'm not going to be streaming in the future, because I'll lose my audience, so I won't be as popular. I won't have the money to do it or something. And a lot of this just stems from my own worries about my own capabilities and stuff. You know? I just wish I was a more confident person, you know? But oh well. What can you do? I'm an introvert. Many people consider introvert to mean it doesn't like social situations. That is not true for me. But an introvert actually means like you find yourself being tired by social situations or whatever. Like you don't necessarily dislike them. It's a- you often need time to yourself to chill out, cool down and stuff. An introvert isn't necessarily asocial. I am asocial and I would consider myself an introvert. As in, I can enjoy myself heaps going to some event and chilling out and stuff and, you know, having drinks and whatever. Often the day after, I feel like shit because I worry about the things that I've said or how I've interacted with people and da da da. Potentially I may have made an ass of myself because I was drunk, who knows. But at the time, I can enjoy it a lot. I just don't need that to be happy. An extroverted person would be like, oh man, I need to go out. I need to go somewhere, see some people. I'm not lying. I'm not lying. Fuck you. It's a reference to uh, Wreckful. An extroverted person would be wanting to see people all the time, feels restless if they're, you know, stuck at home alone too often. I'm not that way at all. I'm perfectly happy the vast majority of the time never seeing any people. But every once in a while, I'm like, you know, I need to go somewhere. I need to see some people, you know, even just get out of the house, go see a movie. Even as by myself, I don't know, like I was quite disappointed that I'm not going to PAX. And it wasn't just to meet fans and stuff. Because I'm not a huge travel person. Because the one time in the year that I can be around like-minded people and meet some of the people, you know, that I talk to online. That I've never, I've never seen face to face. I think I've reached that level of success where I could justifiably go to a TwitchCon if I really wanted to. And I might, especially if they're not close together. The next PAX and the next TwitchCon, wherever they're held, I might try and go to both of them. To make up for missing PAX 2020 because it's been canceled. Do you believe introverts are looked down upon? Yeah, I'd say so. Certainly in the past, because you know, introverts will obviously be more attracted to entertainment that they can do alone. Or, you know, niche stuff potentially. They're probably less likely to care about what other people think of them or whatever. So introverts are more likely going to be in hobbies and stuff that people don't necessarily have a high opinion of. But I think a lot of, you know, once maligns hobbies, you know, gaming and whatnot. It's far more acceptable these days. Comics and, you know, superhero movies and stuff. This is mainstream stuff these days. Gone are the days where people used to pretend that they weren't on the internet every day. Because they didn't want people to think they're losers. People would set themselves as offline on MSN Messenger to pretend like they had a social life outside the internet. My friends used to yell out in public that I play World of Warcraft. Like, Matt plays World of Warcraft to embarrass me in front of people. Those days are gone. It's gone. |
| 28. November 2021 | Finally completing GTA 5 no damage | Speaking on me, finally completing GTA V No Damage. Did you finish Oko, didn't you? I did, yes, in the last episode. Congrats. Thanks man. I know you were stressed out about that for a while, understandably so. No, that's awesome for you. It is so annoying to me that like, it was like the 14th run or something, I got one death and it was by one frame or something in a helicopter and then it took like another 50 attempts to get to zero. Like every single run I just think to myself, if that motherfucking guy hadn't shot me as the helicopter exploded I would have been done months ago. So how long did it take you all up, like over a year? Oh yeah, way longer. I mean especially if you include the four month break. And it shouldn't have taken that long, but what happened was when I realised I could do it with the strats that I did, the only strat developments that I made was to solve issues that happened. So I'd do a run, something would happen, I'd make a new strat to solve it and then I would continue. And what ended up happening is, because it took me so long, other people started running and they were more committed to like, not only did they have different issues that they had to solve, but in the case of Ahem, his name ended up being, he wanted to no damage like every single variation of every heist and stuff. And so he found out that the other versions of the heists, even though they're more complicated, you can actually more reliably do them without taking damage. Like you wouldn't think the loud big score, you know with all the firefights that you do, would be an easier thing to do, but it is actually easier in no damage. But the level of exact strats that you need to implement, it's like an essay worth of different strats. But if you learn that essay of strats, it's so much easier. I think now with the route, partly mine, partly everyone else's, mainly a lot of Ahem stuff, I think I could do no damage like three times back to back and not take damage. It is just so good. Especially the minigun as it turns out, you can sit perfectly in cover and fire your minigun bullets around corners and through walls. And so like there's just a bunch of spots where if you just have a minigun, you can reliably kill everyone and be perfectly safe. And had I known that, you know, a year ago, I definitely would have been finished by now. How do you feel now that you've finished it? I expected to feel a lot better than I did. I mean, I'm just happy it's over, I suppose, but it's just I lost so much getting there. As in, if it wasn't for how long it took, I would have already been back speed running. I would have made much more interesting content. I wouldn't have a bunch of people hating me online because of me being salty that I wasn't first. I mean, there's a lot more to it than that. But well, people don't look at it from your perspective. Like I think we spoke about this when we had like Peli and Sonny Evans and like, man, people don't understand like doing that for that. It's like it's one thing to watch you do it, but like put yourself yourself in your shoes. Dude, the amount of stress because like you've been trying to do that for so long, like you said that was holding you back from doing other types of content for me, looking at it from a content creators perspective, I can see why you were the way you were. I mean, I was going through other stuff as well at the time. I had a lot of other stresses with some finance stuff, but also because my my Hashimoto's wasn't doing well. |
| 10. September 2022 | Finally fixing my teeth with invisalign | Finally fixing my teeth with Invisalign. I have finally started my Invisalign treatment. I talked about a long time ago, they have these plates made that you wear in your mouth that ever so slightly change the location of your teeth. So your mouth feels like a tiny amount of pressure and maybe even pain you could call it. It's just so tiny, but it's always there. The reason why I was willing to do this is because you can take the plates out for, well technically they say two hours is like the ideal, but I'm going to be taking them out for four hours and just extending my treatment. So for four hours a day I won't have these plates in, I will stream and whatnot, maybe go a little bit longer than that, whatever, and then for the rest of the day I'll wear them. Every three weeks you're given a new set of plates that are slightly different than the ones you had before, which ever so slightly move your teeth again. And so after, probably going to take me like nine months of getting a new plate every three weeks, my teeth will be perfect. Because you take them out and you get that relief, it'll probably take longer to get used to them. But certainly when I first started wearing them, when they first put them in, I was like this, how am I going to deal with this? Then like 12 hours later I was like yeah, okay, this is still irritating, but it's a thing. And as I'm driving before, I was like oh yeah, this is just a thing. As with all things, you just get used to it. My biggest concern is that I'm now on the clock with streaming. I don't stream usually longer than four hours a day these days, but when I want to do full runs and stuff I need to stream six and a half hours. I'll just have to deal with that, I suppose. And hope that the rare occasion that I do that isn't a concern. |
| 29. December 2020 | Finally getting a 5950x CPU. | 50x finally like a month and a half after they came out there wasn't even a lot of supply for scalpers on the eBay in my country I'm not getting it through my AMD rep person this time. They said AMD is too Busy with all their releases and stuff to be bothering with deals with youtubers and whatnot especially from Australia so a viewer, sorry I can't remember your name Said to me on discord like hey you remember you said your sister got you a valve index from Germany well Germany still has supply of 5950 X's how about you just get her to get one for you, and I'm like oh, that's a brilliant idea So contact my sister and said hey yo do they have any supply? Oh, yeah, there's this store near me has five of them. I'm like okay buy me one It's gonna take like a month to get here, but then I'm gonna have ultimate power My game will have slightly more FPS, and you know what that means chat my life will finally be fulfilled Everything in life will then be perfect Nothing bad will ever happen for all of time because I'll have slightly high FPS because that's what that means chat But it will be nice is what I'm saying and then maybe I'll give away my 3950 X into you guys You never know but I mean I suppose less people be able to use it, but I don't see the definitive best game of 2020 What is the worst game I've ever played except Red Dead Redemption 2? |
| 29. October 2021 | Finally getting a haircut | Finally getting a hair cut. Look at this chat, look at this. So I might be going to my old hairdresser. Like I didn't go to her. Like I, like she cut my hair for like the first 25 years of my life or something. I don't know. But um, she moved away like an hour and a half away or whatever and I'm just like, oh shit. Because I've moved in the last five years, I'm like closer to her. So it'll actually probably be faster to go to her because I can book an appointment than it would be to go to my barber near me because I can't book an appointment and I have to sit there for like a month. |
| 18. July 2022 | Finally getting a new headset. | Finally getting a new headset. The headset, these are the same Koss KSC75 headphones that I always wear, but they come from Massdrop. And Massdrop has the exclusive rights to the black version of this headset, and the cable is a little bit better as well. It says Massdrop there, you probably can't see it of course, but um. So I bought myself like four pairs, they took eons to come, but they do look better than the other ones I was wearing, so I'm gonna keep getting them from there. They look better and the cables better, so that's good. I think it might be a little bit more expensive, I'm not sure. |
| 27. October 2022 | Finally getting more editors. | Finally getting more editors. I had five one-hour chunks of 3% and so it seemed like a good time to use that footage to try to find myself some more help editing wise. I combed through like must be like 60 submissions on on discord and in the past it has taken eons to find even one person even moderately capable. But this time I actually found two people who can help me edit. So that's a huge weight off my mind a huge relief. Hopefully this means I will be less bogged down with editing and so I can stream more. There's a lot of stuff I should personally still do that I can't give these people but regardless all the minor things that having bogging down my time preventing me from streaming and and doing the important edits I can now give to these people and so hopefully there'll be more more stuff coming your way of a higher quality soon. |
| 20. July 2022 | Finally getting my blinds | Finally getting my blinds. I finally talked to a person and it looks like we're a go for getting me some curtains. Well actually I'm getting blinds. So originally I wanted to get block out curtains but the person was like, ah well you know you're still gonna have some light around the side and I didn't really want that. So I'm like okay what can I get that will have pure blockage? And the interior zip track block out blinds are the only things that do that because they go into like a track and it like perfectly seals. But getting those I realized that there was a like I would have a choice either my window would be entirely uncovered or it would be entirely covered and I was like that means that people from the street can just look into my house and that's fucking weird. But it turns out you can have like two screens one like perfect block out and another one that's a only a small amount of sheer covering so people can't see inside and some lights let in. So I finally got that all sorted and it's gonna be like three weeks until it all gets built and I am so fucking excited chat. I know how it's gonna look it's gonna be black and it's gonna be all around the house we'll see. But my mother has also turned me onto these uh apparently you can get like a project manager for your house and you just say I want this this this this this this this and this and this and this and then they'll organize people to come and build that stuff for you and I'm like oh sweet that sounds really good because understand the house that I bought chat is one of those houses that is built en masse so this house looks the same basically as the house next door and the house there small differences but they're built all at the same time with like not cheap parts necessarily but parts that suit the purpose they're not fancy they're not anything they're not anything more than you need out the back I just have a slab of cement I don't have a pagola or something you know the bathroom is a perfectly serviceable bathroom but there's nothing special about it I'm looking at this like well I own the house now so I can build stuff that I actually want but I don't know how to handle getting all that done so if I get this project manager then I'll be golden I guess |
| 27. October 2021 | Finally getting my teeth realigned | Finally getting my teeth realigned. So I've booked myself in chat to get an examination to see if I'm suited for this. You know how you've got the, they originally had braces and then they moved to like invisible liners where like they're basically invisible and it's like a guard thing you put on your teeth and it straightens them and stuff. They now have an even better one where you only have to wear it like 12 hours a day like mainly when you're sleeping and stuff because I could never do braces or anything like that because I'm a you know I do online content. Yeah because you probably can't see it but my teeth are like ever so slightly crooked like tiniest amount. I'm down the bottom it's a little bit worse but I've always been a little bit self-conscious about it so I was like you know if I can get it sorted without it interrupting anything else in my life why the fuck not you know? |
| 02. February 2021 | Find the hidden black guy | Find the hidden black guy. So there's this funny clip, I saw it on TikTok. I don't know what show it's from, but you know how there's all like, like find the hidden gamer or whatever, and there's like seven people, and they all have to pretend to not be a gamer or whatever, and the group has to vote out the gamer. If the gamer isn't the one voted out, then they get a bunch of money, and if they are voted out, the other people get the money. And it's like, and it replaces the hidden gay guy, the hidden whatever, you know, you've seen these kinds of things. And the clip was basically, find the hidden black guy, and everyone was wearing like green suits or whatever to cover all their features. And so one of the people making the judgments is like, name the hit single by So and So, and the name of the song was like N-word in Paradise. And so the guy just, the guy he asked the question to just hesitates, and he can't say it because he's not black. And he's like, okay, I know you're not black. I thought that was so funny. |
| 02. February 2022 | Finding Brandon Sanderson's Youtube channel. | Finding Brandon Sanderson's YouTube channel. How many of you know who Brandon Sanderson is? He's a very, what's the word, prolific fantasy author. So like if you read fantasy books, even if you don't read his books, you probably know who he is because he writes very, very quickly. As in like everyone who likes gamethones is like, man, why, we want George R. R. Martin to become Brandon Sanderson. You know? You know? Okay, this is gonna be a terrible thing to say, okay? But if George R. R. Martin dies, more than likely, if anyone's gonna finish the series, it would probably be Brandon Sanderson because he finished Robert Jordan's series, The Wheel of Time, after he died. Robert Jordan knew George R. R. Martin. I'm pretty sure Brandon Sanderson knows George R. R. Martin. So basically, if George R. R. Martin dies, we will probably get an end to gamethones far faster. Because Brandon Sanderson writes like, you know, 10 hours a day, every day. All he does is write. George is not as committed as that. It wouldn't be the same ending, but obviously he would rather have George finish it, but I'm just saying, an ending would come about faster. But yeah, I'm actually watching, no, I'm listening to his Mistborn series right now, Brandon Sanderson. But I've, it's funny because I bought A Way of Kings, or The Way of Kings, which is one of his books on audiobook. This is the second time I've tried to get into the series, and I just can't. I finished the first book a long time ago, and I'm having to listen to it again, because I barely remember it. It's just so long. And it takes like, it takes like a lot to get going, and I can't even admit it throws so many characters that you so fast, and so many names, and so many intricate connections. It's really hard to follow. And I basically given up on it, but then for whatever reason, I found his YouTube channel, and I just started listening to him talk about how he writes, why he writes, his just opinions on books and movies, and other authors and stuff. And I found it all very endearing, to the extent where I'm like, I want to get into this guy's work. And so I picked up Mistborn, and it's a lot easier to get into. And I do like what I've read so far. But what's this book called? Yeah, so I realized that there is actually a book from Brandon Sanderson that I've read before, and I loved it. It might actually be the last actual book that I read, which is Elandris. How long ago was this? Might be five years now. I was coming back from Melbourne, and my phone was dead or something. I was getting on a plane, and I stopped into the news agency there or whatever, and they had Elandris. And I read the back, I'm like, oh, this is pretty good. Something to read while I was on the plane. And so I read it on the plane, and I was fucking hooked. It was so good. I got off the plane, just kept reading it. And I finished it. He's definitely a great author. I'll be 100% real with you. I like Brandon Sanderson's content. His thumbnails suck, like massively. I'm not sure how he could make the thumbnails better, but if he just hired someone to make him thumbnails would double his sub count overnight. And I'm not saying this in an elitist way, like, oh man, how does he not figure out fucking thumbnails yet? Thumbnails are like probably one of the hardest parts of YouTube. Doesn't matter how good your content is, if people can't superficially look at the title and thumbnail and be like, I wanna see what's inside, then it's not gonna go anywhere. I click on his videos, not because they look interesting, but because I've seen enough now that I click them because it has Brandon Sanderson in it. And if the topic looks interesting, I'm gonna watch it. Or if I need background noise, I'm always looking for audio stuff to listen in the background when I'm making thumbnails and shit. Watching Sanderson, and is it Dan Wells with their podcast? Podcast? Because they're both authors. Dan Wells being more in horror, so I know nothing about his work. Watching them just talk to each other, make a podcast, then they have another podcast as well. Like, and they're in their 40s. It gives me hope that when I'm in my 40s, I'll still be making content somehow. Maybe my content will be more chill. I'll just be chatting with people or something, but I wanna keep making content. |
| 02. February 2021 | Finding I like mexican food | Finding I like Mexican food, or at least a kind of Mexican food. I had Mexican food today. Not a person who normally likes Mexican food, but since discovering that if you put tacos, meats, cheese and lettuce and mild salsa in a bowl, since discovering that that tastes really good, I just wanted to order that from somewhere, and it tasted pretty good. Oddly though, the stuff that I made at home I think I enjoyed more. Basically just got stuff that involved those ingredients. I'm sure when they got my order, they looked at it like, is this guy fucking serious? He wants to remove all these things? Wants to remove the tomato? Wants to remove the black beans or whatever the hell other stuff is normally in Mexican food? But whatever. I like what I like, okay? You're weird? Yes. Yes I am. |
| 09. June 2021 | Finding a flaw in my Content ID Free playlist | Finding out a flaw with my copyright free playlist. See this is the kind of song that I would normally have removed from the playlist. For those unaware, I use a Content ID free playlist. But I have an edited version of it where I remove like 50 songs. Usually the 50 songs just have lyrics in them like this song kind of does. Or there were songs that I had received a Content ID for, obviously wrongly, and the Content ID's got removed, but I'd rather just avoid the possibility of that happening again. But I found out recently that sometimes the people who own this playlist do lose the rights to particular songs. So they remove them from their original playlist. But because mine is just a copied version of their playlist, those songs don't get removed from my playlist, right? So I got a Content ID on the last Chaos episode, and I thought it'd be like all the other Content IDs, the artists or whatever, their labels, whatever, make a mistake. But in this case, Chillop's like, yeah, we don't have the rights to that song anymore. We lost it like a month or two back. You should be using our updated playlist as much as possible. And so now I, so that's why I had to edit out the music in the last Chaos episode. So now I have a choice. Either I can use the original playlist and keep in like the 50 songs that I don't particularly like, like the one we're listening to right now. I like the song, it's fine. It's just I don't like when I'm talking and there's talking behind my voice, but whatever. Or I can use my editor playlist and run the risk that sometimes the songs, like I won't actually have the rights to use them. So I'm going to use their original playlist because, you know, I don't like Content IDs, you know. Can I just skip it? I'm not doing runs. It's just a distraction, pressing a button. Really, I need a way for my, you know, chat to do it, or my mods to do it or something, you know. |
| 30. June 2022 | Finding an accountant | Finding an accountant Yeah, like the wrong accountant can really fuck you up. Like I have an accountant that they came very highly recommended by My twitch rep at the time. They represent like a bunch of Australian content creators They have a history knowing how to handle this kind of business. I remember before that I remember trying to find a an accountant just from like the internet before I found these people and so I got a call back from someone and we talked and I had to explain to them what I did for a living and I'm not sure they really understood at the end of it I was like, I don't think these people can handle my finances when they don't even know what I do |
| 02. February 2022 | Finding brandon sandersons youtube channel. | Finding Brandon Sanderson's YouTube channel. How many of you know who Brandon Sanderson is? He's a very, what's the word, prolific fantasy author. So like if you read fantasy books, even if you don't read his books, you probably know who he is because he writes very, very quickly. As in like everyone who likes gamethones is like, man, why, we want George R. R. Martin to become Brandon Sanderson. You know? You know? Okay, this is gonna be a terrible thing to say, okay? But if George R. R. Martin dies, more than likely, if anyone's gonna finish the series, it would probably be Brandon Sanderson because he finished Robert Jordan's series, The Wheel of Time, after he died. Robert Jordan knew George R. R. Martin. I'm pretty sure Brandon Sanderson knows George R. R. Martin. So basically, if George R. R. Martin dies, we will probably get an end to gamethones far faster. Because Brandon Sanderson writes like, you know, 10 hours a day, every day. All he does is write. George is not as committed as that. It wouldn't be the same ending, but obviously he would rather have George finish it, but I'm just saying, an ending would come about faster. But yeah, I'm actually watching, no, I'm listening to his Mistborn series right now, Brandon Sanderson. But I've, it's funny because I bought A Way of Kings, or The Way of Kings, which is one of his books on audiobook. This is the second time I've tried to get into the series, and I just can't. I finished the first book a long time ago, and I'm having to listen to it again, because I barely remember it. It's just so long. And it takes like, it takes like a lot to get going, and I can't even admit it throws so many characters that you so fast, and so many names, and so many intricate connections. It's really hard to follow. And I basically given up on it, but then for whatever reason, I found his YouTube channel, and I just started listening to him talk about how he writes, why he writes, his just opinions on books and movies, and other authors and stuff. And I found it all very endearing, to the extent where I'm like, I want to get into this guy's work. And so I picked up Mistborn, and it's a lot easier to get into. And I do like what I've read so far. But what's this book called? Yeah, so I realized that there is actually a book from Brandon Sanderson that I've read before, and I loved it. It might actually be the last actual book that I read, which is Elandris. How long ago was this? Might be five years now. I was coming back from Melbourne, and my phone was dead or something. I was getting on a plane, and I stopped into the news agency there or whatever, and they had Elandris. And I read the back, I'm like, oh, this is pretty good. Something to read while I was on the plane. And so I read it on the plane, and I was fucking hooked. It was so good. I got off the plane, just kept reading it. And I finished it. He's definitely a great author. I'll be 100% real with you. I like Brandon Sanderson's content. His thumbnails suck, like massively. I'm not sure how he could make the thumbnails better, but if he just hired someone to make him thumbnails would double his sub count overnight. And I'm not saying this in an elitist way, like, oh man, how does he not figure out fucking thumbnails yet? Thumbnails are like probably one of the hardest parts of YouTube. Doesn't matter how good your content is, if people can't superficially look at the title and thumbnail and be like, I wanna see what's inside, then it's not gonna go anywhere. I click on his videos, not because they look interesting, but because I've seen enough now that I click them because it has Brandon Sanderson in it. And if the topic looks interesting, I'm gonna watch it. Or if I need background noise, I'm always looking for audio stuff to listen in the background when I'm making thumbnails and shit. Watching Sanderson, and is it Dan Wells with their podcast? Podcast? Because they're both authors. Dan Wells being more in horror, so I know nothing about his work. Watching them just talk to each other, make a podcast, then they have another podcast as well. Like, and they're in their 40s. It gives me hope that when I'm in my 40s, I'll still be making content somehow. Maybe my content will be more chill. I'll just be chatting with people or something, but I wanna keep making content. |
| 03. April 2021 | Finding flaws in a system and abusing it. | Finding a flaw in a system and abusing it. Did you guys see this thing that apparently Twitch has made it so that there's a... Your reason for refunding a sub can be you just wanted a shout out from the streamer? Is this true? I didn't dig into this story. I just saw people talking about it on Twitter. I was busy at the time. It was removed? It wasn't removed because of the backlash? Can I explain? Okay, so there was a story that went around where Twitch was like... Apparently they implemented a feature where if you sub and you say, Look, I didn't want a sub, I want a refund. A reason you could put is, I just wanted a shout out from the streamer. And everyone was like, are you crazy? Why would you give people the ability to refund so easily like that? You would just, you know, sub, have a streamer go, hey, thank you for the sub, and then refund. You could fuck, especially with smaller streamers, you know, where every sub really matters. And that doesn't seem like very good for the platform at all. But apparently people in chat are saying they removed it, and good. Although, to be honest, it could be a case where like, you get to do it once and then you get restricted. Or something. It's like with Amazon, right? Where... Back to the websites attributing certain things to you and categorizing you and stuff. Apparently on Amazon, I've heard this before, but I also heard from Devon Nash in his video. Like if you're refunding a lot of stuff or returning a bunch of stuff way more than is normal, You get a lot more scrutiny, you know? Out there in life, if you're committed to finding a way to cheat a system, It's possible to find it, you know? But a lot of people who cheat the systems, they get greedy. And they do it a lot. And if you do it a lot, you keep increasing your chance of being caught, you know? To be fair though, there could be just be endless people out there who are just slightly cheating the system, going, That's enough. I've cheated the system enough. I'm good. And they just never get caught. Maybe I'm just pessimistic about people, but I think that's probably the minority. I think most people who find systems that they can abuse for some gain probably go a little bit too far and get caught. Because it can be often the case where it costs more money to find these people than it does to stop them, you know? Like Amazon's like, look, if we have to check every single fucking box for a return, It's going to cost X amount of money, that there's this amount of fraud and da-da-da. And they go, well, okay, we'll screw it. We just won't check them and we'll save money even though we're getting screwed by a handful of people. Wasn't there a story where some guy got like three million dollars from Amazon because he would just fill the boxes with dirt or something? Or is that nothing different than Nash mentioned? I don't know if that's true. Someone tell me if that's true. You guys heard this story too? Whether it's true or not, I suppose, doesn't matter a heap. It does explain the principle though. I mean, I kind of scammed Amazon a little bit. You remember that story with my, uh, was it PlayStation 4? Oh, what was it, guys? What was the hardware that I bought? It might have been the PlayStation 4. So I ordered myself a PlayStation 4 from Amazon and I wanted it to arrive like the day that God of War released or whatever, so that I could play it. And I was so annoyed that it didn't arrive because it said it was going to arrive and it didn't and it was like four days over chew or something. I'm like, where's my PlayStation? What's going on here? And they're like, oh, you know, we're sorry, we're sorry. Okay, we'll give you a refund. I'm like, you give me a refund? Yeah, yeah, so I will give you a refund. I'm like, I mean, it does seem like it's lost, but like, okay. They give me a refund. I'm like, okay. And so I wait a couple of days and my PlayStation shows up. So I get, no, I think what they said is, um, I could, I could, they refunded it to me on the condition that I bought myself another PlayStation 4. And so I did. And so I bought myself another PlayStation 4 from Amazon and then my original one showed up and so the second one. So I paid the cost of one PlayStation 4 and I got two. And so I just sold the other one. I mean, like when I was complaining, I was expecting them to like contact people on my behalf and find where it was or maybe give me a discount on a game. I didn't expect just a media refund. It was buy one get one free. Exactly. And maybe I should have told them that let's be real. I was quite pissed at how long it took to get there. Maybe that wouldn't even be Amazon's fault. I don't know. I can't remember if they send it off late or something or they had stock issues. I'm not sure. When I started telling this story, I thought to myself, was it the PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5? And I'm like, no, wait a second. I don't have a PlayStation 5. So it must be the PlayStation 4. I must have got the PlayStation 4 like way after release though. If I was getting one when God of War released. Yes, it would have been like two, three years ago I got PlayStation 4. PS4 released in 2013. Yeah, a long time. Are there any good games on the PlayStation 5 yet? I said I think there is stock places somewhere that maybe I could have bought one at some point, but I just haven't been bothered to follow it. There's no point playing Demon's Souls now because everyone's already played it. I mean, there's no immediacy to that. Probably one day I'll end up playing it, but like probably after I've done a lot with GTA and stuff, you know. Really, it only seems like if you're already playing PlayStation 4 games or whatever, you should be buying the PlayStation 5 because the games run better. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 24. February 2022 | Finding flaws in your own reasoning. | Finding flaws in your own reasoning. How does one find fallacies in their thinking? Just reflecting upon your reasoning as to why you actually believe something? Try and think of reasons why you could be wrong, and what reason you have to believe that what you believe is more likely to be correct than the alternative? I don't know. I have no evidence that I am better than anyone else at finding fallacies in my own beliefs or reasoning. For all I know, everything I believe is based on fallacy, but I'm just too biased to see it. I do not claim to be any more or less flawed than the average person. I feel as though I'm not, but I'm sure most people feel that way. I just try not to make grandiose claims or claims of complete certainty, and I try to always second-guess myself where appropriate. |
| 28. December 2021 | Finding mutual value in friends and the need for shared interests | Facebook. Finding mutual value in friendships and the need for shared interests. If my friends never ask me if I wanna hang out and I'm the one who always has to ask them if they wanna hang out, does that mean it's time to ditch them and find new homies? That's ultimately up to you. Some people just don't like organizing stuff. Like certainly you're putting in more effort than you might in other situations, but maybe you should talk to your friends and tell them how you feel. I don't know. I'm not good with people, man, I'm not. I stopped organizing stuff. Like once upon a time, I would organize stuff all the time. And then I organized this archery thing and a lot of people said they'd go. And then like at the last minute, 75% of them bailed. I was like, fuck these people. I sucked at making friends. So I kept a lot of friends who in hindsight, I recognize were just complete assholes. As a kid, as a teenager, you shouldn't have to like be constantly thinking about like being excluded or being mocked for something. You should be able to trust your friends, right? I never had that fucking feeling. Or maybe with like one or two people, right? But like the group of people that I knew, the majority, like, no. And you can't, I can't even say like it's just entirely their fault. Like I wasn't a good friend a lot of the time. But certainly when I was younger, I was. I would always organize shit and we'd do stuff. As I got older, I realized it was just stressful. Not everyone would go. And as we grew older, I had different interests and I was constantly disregarding my own interests for other people's benefit. I wish I had just met some people who, who have a like mind to myself. Similar to what I've done now, I guess, with Twitch, you know? Cause that's the thing about Twitch, right? You don't set out to make your own like bubble. Cause certainly I don't have a bubble, right? Because like anyone can join it at any time. But eventually over time, your viewers are going to tend to be people who agree with you on at least the topics that you speak about, you know? Or don't disagree with you on like everything, you know? Because most people don't hang around with people or like watch people that they passionately disagree with on every level. They just get irritated and aggravated and then they leave. Young people should just be put into groups of preselected friends to make it easier for them to socialize. We should name that kindergarten or school. I was just, I was reading that and I was like, wait a second, but we do that already. But I mean, eventually in any school, you know, like people get their own groups and then they tend to stick to those groups, you know? I've always wondered what kind of person I would have been had I gone to a different school. Because 75% of the people who went to my school went to my primary school. My school was just finishing being built. So there was only grades seven and eight. I was grade seven. So I didn't need to force myself to make new friends. I could just stick with the same friends that I had for a billion years. As weird as it is, if you have friends where you can't talk about politics without having arguments and you like politics, you just need to find friends that you agree with or you have to agree with them just that you can have civil discussions about politics, you know, which is a hard thing to find. As a person who never really had anyone to talk about politics with and the friends that I had from way back, they never really knew much about politics and the positions or the opinions that they held were not very thought out. It just wasn't something I could really talk about the people, talk to the people that I knew about, you know. I didn't lose my friends because of politics. I lost my friends because, you know, we didn't share many interests and just over time we grew apart because they knew I wasn't particularly interested. I wouldn't make the effort to go places. I think I lost a tire. I'm dealing with losing with friends because of growing apart. I can relate to losing friends. I can relate to having no friends, to feeling alone. I can relate to a lot of things on the bad spectrum of friendship, right? I can relate to being a bad friend to other people. But my circumstances are different because I have you guys, you know. Because I don't feel alone. I've never been the kind of person who's like every day being like, oh man, I wish I was out hanging with people. I wish I was going to the movies. Wish I was going blah, blah, blah. Or what parts of my life where that occurred. Like it was, I wanted to go out, but I didn't want to go out, right? Like I wanted the feeling of being with other people, but not the effort of like going out and stuff. Like, you know, and Twitch gives me that, you know. I feel connected to people, but at the same time, I'm not going places I don't want to go, that I don't want to go. I'm not having conversations I don't want to have. There's no pointless small talk with like 50 different people talking about the weather. You know? When a YouTuber. |
| 30. June 2022 | Finding my backup house alarm battery | Finding my backup house alarm battery. I said before, my alarm battery was buggered. Kept flashing, being like, replace battery. And for the life of me, I couldn't find where the battery was located in my house. So I called the number on the alarm, and the dude's like, yeah, I'll charge you 140 bucks. I'll get the alarm and I'll install it for you. And I was like, 100% this dude was overcharging me because the alarm costs, or the battery costs $40. But I was like, I don't give a shit, just want this to be dealt with. So he came around and installed it, and it turned out the backup battery was like in my cupboard upstairs or some shit. And I 110% could have done that shit myself had I just known where the battery was located. So, you know, seven plus years from now, when I need another battery, I do it myself. |
| 22. December 2020 | Finding new music and Spotify. | Finding new music and Spotify. I do watch TikTok guys. TikTok is currently my best source for new music right now. Just added a song called Resurrection by someone, someone sang with G. I need a better way to find music though. They take, I say many times, and you take a day and just chill with Spotify and let it recommend me stuff. Of course I can't use this actual recommendation because it only recommends Chillhop to me because I listen to Chillhop all day on stream. The radios and stuff can kinda help me. Like I don't get to experience the, your year of music that Spotify releases because it's all just Chillhop on the stream. Whoa man, you really love Chillhop. Not really, it's just all right. But it's a surprise to you to learn that I do not listen to Chillhop in my spare time or music I usually listen to. Normally the music I listen to is whatever handful of songs I've happened to run across over the last month, I'll listen to those five songs until I find different songs. |
| 04. March 2022 | Finding new strats in modern day speedrunning. | Finding new strats in modern-day speedrunning. I felt like I felt like making a video about it but it's just something that I don't have that much involvement in. It's once upon a time finding strats was a matter of like doing the legwork as in like trying something over and over and over and over again until you found the right results but now people can look into the code and get information that through normal testing would take you hours. It's a different set of skills but it has changed how strat finding works. There's a lot more of a skill requirements or knowledge requirements of like coding and stuff to contribute which didn't exist before. Back in the day you found a strat and you could help with the testing and stuff. Now if you find something that seems like a good idea or a good strat you go okay here's the idea people who know something about the code can you look into this. It's different I'm not saying it's bad necessarily but at one point it was like you were doing legwork to uncover a mystery and now it's you look behind the curtain and you just get the answer. |
| 22. February 2022 | Finding out Lirik the streamer is an NFT shill | Finding out Lyric the streamer is an NFT shill. Wait did Lyric shuttle NFTs? This is no way. Lyric announces NFT collection. Wow what an asshole. Lyric said there would be 10,000 NFTs minted and each one would be priced at $50. So half a million dollars for nothing. He compared the price point to buying a shirt from a merch store. But with a shirt on a merch store you get a shirt! You get a physical item that is sent through the mail! And there are expenses involved! An NFT is a digital garbage thing that has no real purpose! It is a JPEG! Wow! Or rather you're buying a link that goes to the JPEG that could hypothec between something else. Holy shit. Where the fuck is Lyric? I have been a follower of Lyric for like, I don't know, like a bajillion years or something. I mean let me see here. Following since 2015, this man can go fuck himself. Where's the unfollow button? RIP. |
| 22. February 2022 | Finding out lirik the streamer is an nft shill | Finding out Lyric the streamer is an NFT shill. Wait did Lyric shuttle NFTs? This is no way. Lyric announces NFT collection. Wow what an asshole. Lyric said there would be 10,000 NFTs minted and each one would be priced at $50. So half a million dollars for nothing. He compared the price point to buying a shirt from a merch store. But with a shirt on a merch store you get a shirt! You get a physical item that is sent through the mail! And there are expenses involved! An NFT is a digital garbage thing that has no real purpose! It is a JPEG! Wow! Or rather you're buying a link that goes to the JPEG that could hypothec between something else. Holy shit. Where the fuck is Lyric? I have been a follower of Lyric for like, I don't know, like a bajillion years or something. I mean let me see here. Following since 2015, this man can go fuck himself. Where's the unfollow button? RIP. |
| 19. March 2021 | Finding out why Loserfruit was one of my first followers | Finding out why loserfruit was one of my first followers. I bought myself this bourbon, right? So it's called 1792, and it's really good tasting bourbon. So much so that while I don't like to drink alone, I think it's an evidence of a, you know, that you're in a bad state of affairs, especially because my father's an alcoholic and my mother, whenever she was stressed or whatever, she would drink some wine or whatever, listen to some music, and I never thought that was particularly good behavior. So I never want to emulate that shit. But two nights in a row, I like this bourbon enough that I got a little bit drunk at the end of the night. And it was very dumb because I would wake up feeling so tired, you know, and it would just make the next day a complete waste. So I was drunk this one night, and I don't know how it came to mind. I think I was on Twitch tracker, and on Twitch tracker, on the side of the screen, it'll tell you your most famous followers, right? And for the longest time, I'm talking like five years, my most famous follower has been loserfruit. And I was like, loserfruit has never spoken in my chat. We've never spoken to each other ever. Why did she follow me all this time back then? And she happened to follow me on Twitter, like a few months ago, I just assumed because businessy thing or whatever, or now that we have the same manager or whatever. Maybe that was why. Still hadn't spoken. But given that I was a little bit drunk, I'm like, I'm gonna get to the bottom of this. I'm finally going to find out why loserfruit followed me. So I DMed her, I was like, hey, so why did you follow me all that time back then? And she's like, I don't remember. I do not remember why I followed you. And I'm like, dang. I was, I, like, I don't know what I expected. That's why I never asked. Like I never imagined there'd be some cool story behind it. But I expected some answer. So there's no answer to the question and that's kind of disappointing. It might have been, when did Fortnite come out? Maybe it was during Fortnite friendlies. I don't know. But like she, she relatively speaking is one of my first followers, but I don't think she's ever really watched my content because I think I had like 3000 followers when she followed me and she was then and still is like the biggest Australian Twitch streamer. I imagine it was probably something like Trihex because I've told this story about Trihex before where he also has been one of my most famous followers for a long time, but he's never watched my content. But at least with him, I know why he followed me. A very long time ago, Admiral Bulldog, a guy who's hosted or at least rated a handful of speed runners, right? Admiral Bulldog rated me for like 3000, 4000 viewers. And this was, you know, half a decade ago. So there's a lot of viewers. And during this raid, I guess Trihex was watching Admiral Bulldog. So he followed me because of that raid. And I know like a two, three weeks later, I was in Trihex's chat and I think I subbed and I was just talking in chat and Trihex was like, oh, Dark Viper, I see you're a partner. I guess it wasn't five years ago then. How long have I been partner? I don't know. But it was, it was, it was many years ago. He, he, he says, Dark Viper, you're a partner. What do you stream? And I was like, how does Trihex not know what I stream? He followed me like weeks ago. Surely he would know. And I said as such, politely, he's like, ah, I followed you. I don't even remember that dude, but all right then. All these people follow me. They just do not give a fuck about my content though. Because I guess with a lot of bigger content creators, they just follow everyone to make those connections, right? Like I've, I've had awkward situations, at least one or two, because I unfollow people who I'm not watching actively. Or who I just don't want to hear from or I haven't talked to in a long time or whatever. And so there has been a time where people are like, oh, you're not following me anymore. I'm like, oh shit. Yeah, my bad, my bad, mistake, I guess. So I guess it'd be smart just to be following fucking everyone on the odd chance that it starts some conversation or you meet them later and you can be like, oh, I followed you for ages, man. You know, you just to be more in tune with the, the current trend of who's who's who on Twitch, I suppose, you know, you know, one of the biggest reasons why I don't reach out to more content creators is because I just don't want to have to deal with the thought of whether people think I'm a dipshit within average people. I don't particularly care, but the perception of me in the wider YouTube sphere, it actually kind of matters, the general sentiment that people have towards me. And I sometimes get the feeling that it isn't super positive. But when I think about that, it's possible that that feeling just comes from, you know, my my insecurities and the flaring up of my negative self perception, which is by no means as strong as it used to be. But like the anxiety of thinking about messages that I've sent, are that I send the right thing as a person now think I'm a dipshit and stuff. I don't like those feelings and that I have these thoughts and stuff. It really does limit my life in terms of how much interaction I have with other people and whatnot, because I limit it just to avoid these feelings. And it's a terrible way to live, you know, I don't care as much as I used to, but like I now that I've messaged Louisa Fruit, I got a wonder art, one that she thinks I'm a dipshit for the rest of my life. And she mentioned like Marcus, I'm like, I think I think she's with a dude named Marcus. Is that the same guy as the prestige clips, dude? Am I meant to know prestige clips? How many times have I talked to prestige clips? I think the same person and I like I'm so bad at this shit. You know, remembering everything about people. I'm just like I'm I think back to my life where I had in real life friends. Maybe I was actually just a shitty friend. I don't know. You're telling me you you shouldn't avoid people socially. Yeah, man. People people are great. You can greatly enrich your life as long as you're not a weird person like me. |
| 19. March 2021 | Finding out why loserfruit was one of my first followers | Finding out why loserfruit was one of my first followers. I bought myself this bourbon, right? So it's called 1792, and it's really good tasting bourbon. So much so that while I don't like to drink alone, I think it's an evidence of a, you know, that you're in a bad state of affairs, especially because my father's an alcoholic and my mother, whenever she was stressed or whatever, she would drink some wine or whatever, listen to some music, and I never thought that was particularly good behavior. So I never want to emulate that shit. But two nights in a row, I like this bourbon enough that I got a little bit drunk at the end of the night. And it was very dumb because I would wake up feeling so tired, you know, and it would just make the next day a complete waste. So I was drunk this one night, and I don't know how it came to mind. I think I was on Twitch tracker, and on Twitch tracker, on the side of the screen, it'll tell you your most famous followers, right? And for the longest time, I'm talking like five years, my most famous follower has been loserfruit. And I was like, loserfruit has never spoken in my chat. We've never spoken to each other ever. Why did she follow me all this time back then? And she happened to follow me on Twitter, like a few months ago, I just assumed because businessy thing or whatever, or now that we have the same manager or whatever. Maybe that was why. Still hadn't spoken. But given that I was a little bit drunk, I'm like, I'm gonna get to the bottom of this. I'm finally going to find out why loserfruit followed me. So I DMed her, I was like, hey, so why did you follow me all that time back then? And she's like, I don't remember. I do not remember why I followed you. And I'm like, dang. I was, I, like, I don't know what I expected. That's why I never asked. Like I never imagined there'd be some cool story behind it. But I expected some answer. So there's no answer to the question and that's kind of disappointing. It might have been, when did Fortnite come out? Maybe it was during Fortnite friendlies. I don't know. But like she, she relatively speaking is one of my first followers, but I don't think she's ever really watched my content because I think I had like 3000 followers when she followed me and she was then and still is like the biggest Australian Twitch streamer. I imagine it was probably something like Trihex because I've told this story about Trihex before where he also has been one of my most famous followers for a long time, but he's never watched my content. But at least with him, I know why he followed me. A very long time ago, Admiral Bulldog, a guy who's hosted or at least rated a handful of speed runners, right? Admiral Bulldog rated me for like 3000, 4000 viewers. And this was, you know, half a decade ago. So there's a lot of viewers. And during this raid, I guess Trihex was watching Admiral Bulldog. So he followed me because of that raid. And I know like a two, three weeks later, I was in Trihex's chat and I think I subbed and I was just talking in chat and Trihex was like, oh, Dark Viper, I see you're a partner. I guess it wasn't five years ago then. How long have I been partner? I don't know. But it was, it was, it was many years ago. He, he, he says, Dark Viper, you're a partner. What do you stream? And I was like, how does Trihex not know what I stream? He followed me like weeks ago. Surely he would know. And I said as such, politely, he's like, ah, I followed you. I don't even remember that dude, but all right then. All these people follow me. They just do not give a fuck about my content though. Because I guess with a lot of bigger content creators, they just follow everyone to make those connections, right? Like I've, I've had awkward situations, at least one or two, because I unfollow people who I'm not watching actively. Or who I just don't want to hear from or I haven't talked to in a long time or whatever. And so there has been a time where people are like, oh, you're not following me anymore. I'm like, oh shit. Yeah, my bad, my bad, mistake, I guess. So I guess it'd be smart just to be following fucking everyone on the odd chance that it starts some conversation or you meet them later and you can be like, oh, I followed you for ages, man. You know, you just to be more in tune with the, the current trend of who's who's who on Twitch, I suppose, you know, you know, one of the biggest reasons why I don't reach out to more content creators is because I just don't want to have to deal with the thought of whether people think I'm a dipshit within average people. I don't particularly care, but the perception of me in the wider YouTube sphere, it actually kind of matters, the general sentiment that people have towards me. And I sometimes get the feeling that it isn't super positive. But when I think about that, it's possible that that feeling just comes from, you know, my my insecurities and the flaring up of my negative self perception, which is by no means as strong as it used to be. But like the anxiety of thinking about messages that I've sent, are that I send the right thing as a person now think I'm a dipshit and stuff. I don't like those feelings and that I have these thoughts and stuff. It really does limit my life in terms of how much interaction I have with other people and whatnot, because I limit it just to avoid these feelings. And it's a terrible way to live, you know, I don't care as much as I used to, but like I now that I've messaged Louisa Fruit, I got a wonder art, one that she thinks I'm a dipshit for the rest of my life. And she mentioned like Marcus, I'm like, I think I think she's with a dude named Marcus. Is that the same guy as the prestige clips, dude? Am I meant to know prestige clips? How many times have I talked to prestige clips? I think the same person and I like I'm so bad at this shit. You know, remembering everything about people. I'm just like I'm I think back to my life where I had in real life friends. Maybe I was actually just a shitty friend. I don't know. You're telling me you you shouldn't avoid people socially. Yeah, man. People people are great. You can greatly enrich your life as long as you're not a weird person like me. |
| 20. October 2021 | Finding out you have been doing something wrong your entire life | Finding out you've been doing something wrong your entire life. Have you guys had that in your life? Where you've done something for a very long time in a particular way then you found out like a super simple more obvious easy solution and you're just like I've wasted so much of my life. That's so annoying. We all fundamentally realize that there is some knowledge out there that is so crucial that we so appreciate having but we have no idea what it is. Like you kind of wish you could have like in the same way that there's like a diagnostic for your PC it could be a diagnostic for your life. It's like hey you're doing this kind of inefficiently. You could be taking this route to your house. You could be doing this on your taxes. You'd be like oh really fuck. |
| 23. June 2021 | Finishing OHKO | Finishing one hit KO Why I'm not doing normal runs no more because I still have not finished this trash I know I can do it hypothetically is that is it gonna happen? No Hoping just leads to too much sadness and disappointment when it became possible for me to succeed For the you know next up deep runs or whatever. I felt hope but now I don't I've been so long overdue for this to finish that hoping at this point It's just too saddening. Master you good dispensing happiness and good wishes to others you ought to say hello for yourself I'm really looking forward to just buggerizing around learning the speedrun with MediaShare honestly It's fucking chilling and doing random shit in GTA is fucking amazing Could that mean a 100% speedrun on the horizon doing 100% without a first without first establishing Doing classic percentage is dumb. You just overwhelm yourself having too much to learn. How good was I with break bursting? I mean relative to everyone else when I stopped Yeah, I give myself a 7 now relative to everyone else and play like a 3 because everyone else has just gotten better while I obviously Have nots. Do you think you get better at oko the more you play? Of course, will you do a commentary style video like impassivist on oko? Mmm. I don't think so. Are you afraid of the impact oko might have on speedrunning performance? Oh, that's a long gone my dude This run has fucking decimated my speedrunning ability I was already having trouble keeping up and then doing this now for a year It's not been a year by itself, but it's been like like like what nine months by itself or something Especially in the driving I've fallen so far behind my shooting has improved That's probably the only thing that's improved in this time, but that's not Important like the shooting is not the most important part How long do I think it would take me to get back into speeding shape after oko? Depends on how much time I dedicate to it. You still enjoy GTA 5 or you just do it for the content I still do enjoy it, but there are certain things that I enjoy more or less like buggerizing around In GTA doing those small challenges in the collab was heaps of fun Figuring out stuff for facts and glitches also heaps of fun Strat testing heaps of fun. Actually thinking about the only thing I don't Fully enjoy right now is the time between the difficult missions in no damage I would almost say the first half of this run I don't enjoy right now because I've done it so many times and it's like a foregone conclusion that 90% of the time I'm gonna get through it if I just spend the time on it The downtime in the middle here because there's it's not really important isn't particularly fun There's no stakes here this driving this tow truck. I who cares, you know Only thing that makes it even least a little bit into it in saying is because I'm talking to you guys With speedrunning it's all important. You know, there's no real downtime There's always some stakes in everything that you're doing at any moment things can go to shit which can be very stressful But it makes things more interesting, you know, as I've said many times before GTA 5 is just a very very Familiar comfortable set of gloves. I'm never displeased wearing my favorite set of gloves But always, you know, sometimes something new is more appealing I'm never displeased playing GTA 5 but it's always possible that I could rather be playing something else new is always better It's not that not always The reason why people still go back to the classics all the time, you know |
| 25. December 2019 | First PC I ever purchased | PC that I ever purchased myself. I Remember when I bought my first PC. I knew nothing about PCs and I basically just bought some Pre-built garbage off like a random. I basically googled buy PC and I just bought Something for like $800 and it was sent in the mail and it was garbage. I was confused Why it wasn't better than the PC that I had in terms of playing World of Warcraft I thought my integrated graphics of my CPU was a graphics card Didn't know it made one graphics card better than any other Integrated graphics are the best. Oh, you mean they integrated dude like they take up less space. How could they not be better? |
| 09. April 2021 | First impressions being false | First impressions being false. The guy I read the other day was a dick, by the way. Um, excessive profanity, his thing is excessive profanity in that he's a... How much of an act it is I'm not sure, but it's like his thing that he gets overly aggressive. Honestly, I think it um... It hurts him because there has been multiple times in his life where people outside of his community have seen his attitude and have assumed sincerity or they assume the worst about him. Knowing him in person to some degree, having met him a few times, he's a very nice guy. Just like me. Oh, as I've always said, it is always possible to find a person and get a snapshot of them and get a completely wrong idea of who they are. And I certainly agree. Some of my most, what's the word, bombastic, over-the-top moments, if that's all you saw of me, you wouldn't know anything about me. Unfortunately. |
| 14. March 2022 | First time catching me live, and it is an editing stream. | First time catching me live and it's an editing stream. Your first time on Twitch? Then it's unfortunate that you've chosen such a boring stream to be your first. I do appreciate the thought though. I know that may sound weird that I say that to every person who says something like that, but I just don't want their experience of Twitch colored by this non-standard boring stream, you know. I feel bad though because in some ways it's like almost being critical of those people who are here. I do appreciate people keeping me company. |
| 25. December 2019 | First video I ever played | The first video game that I ever played. What was the first game I ever played? Well, the first PC game I remember playing was Diablo 1, but I'm sure there must be games before that. I remember playing, like, Revenge of Shinobi and Golden Axe and stuff on my Sega. But I suspect the first game I ever played. I basically got for free this black and green PC. DOS or whatever. And I had a game where you had to type the letters before they got to the bottom of the screen. I remember my sister yelling at me like, Mahd, you're taking up half the hard drive with Diablo. It's like a massive 16GB hard drive or something and 8GB for Diablo or some shit. Whatever the hell it was, probably less than that. The first |
| 29. May 2020 | First video game | What was my first video game as a kid? The first video game I can remember ever playing was my parents came home with this green and black PC. I don't know if this is my first video game ever, but it's just because it's so old. I assume it was certainly at the very near the beginning of my life. I may have had a Sega before this, I'm not sure, but they had a, they bought a home. Probably got it for very cheap because it's ancient technology at that point. But you type letters as the letters fall to the bottom of the screen and see you go X, Y, C or whatever. And it would disappear and the next one would come and more and more would come. And if too many hit the bottom, you would lose. Sega was my first system and I had Echo the Dolphin and Golden Axe. Guns to Heroes was around there too. Revenge of Shinobi because there was a cartridge that came with the Sega that had a bunch of games on it. A racing game, a soccer game, Golden Axe, Shinobi, Columns. And there's the... |
| 02. February 2021 | Fitz getting cancelled on twitter | Fizz getting cancelled on Twitter. Did you guys see that apparently Fizz said the R word and people tried to cancel him or something on Twitter? So fucking dumb dude. You just never know how Twitch is gonna respond to that kind of shit so I try not to say it anymore. But I mean I hear Fizz say it, you know, sometimes. See, he heard Surtapuff say it as well. It's just one of those things where I don't really give two shits what the, uh, some random people on Twitter are gonna think. But Twitch, that I care about. They're technically my employer. They might put a strike against my name and it might come bite me in the ass eventually. Because that's the thing, when people try to cancel you, anything short of you going to jail, you personally quitting because you just can't deal with the negative sentiment, or being deplatformed, like literally being banned from the social media, it's just gonna benefit you in the long term. It definitely doesn't matter what you do. For example, I didn't know that Fizz played Minecraft. I didn't know that he was in some surf or whatever with a bunch of content creators. I now know because people tried to cancel him on Twitter. I knew effectively nothing about Fizz other than apparently that Modus Pelican thinks he's a nice guy. And now I know more about him. And I'm talking about him right now. And you guys are now learning about who Fizz is. All this because apparently he said the R word and people tried to cancel him on Twitter. I found out about it because someone made a video on it. More people talking about Fizz. And you can understand how when you're a public figure, how being cancelled just benefits you. Unless, again, those three things become a reality. Jail, you personally quitting or you're actually being deplatformed. The R word isn't simply an insult. It means to slow to prevent the progress of. But again, it's not worth pissing off the powers that be on whatever platform you're on. Twitter, fuck them. As I say, if the company actually doesn't want you on their platform, that actually does something. It'd be interesting actually to take a bet when Carson comes back and makes a video. Assuming he does come back, I mean, because as we as has been talked about, he does have some issues, depression and whatnot. And for all we know, the this situation has made things worse. I don't know. But say he does come back. It'd be very interesting to see how many how many views the video gets and how many subs he gains back. Because he lost something like 10 percent of his subs. You don't think you'll get so many back? I think he will. If he waits long enough, a combination of forgetting the negative sentiment dying down, new people who watch Twitch and YouTube just being completely unaware that anything happened. The combination of all these factors, you just bounce back. That's what seems to be the norm in regards to these issues. Again, unless the three things I was talking about happen. Being outraged on someone else's. |
| 06. November 2020 | Fixing Bully | Trying to fix bully. I've never played bully because I could never get a start on my PC I get emails whenever I utter those words where people will tell me that I need to use the silent patch. It drives me a bit crazy because like people must know that I've played all the other earlier versions of Rockstar games so obviously I know about the silent patches, but people still Send me messages every single time I say I can't stop bully to download the silent patch as if that isn't the very first thing that appears when you search on Google people give me no credit, but I think it's more that people just really want to help me So it's flattering and nice that people want to help me but the same time it gets kind of annoying Because it's the equivalence of do you want you know turn it off and on again kind of Suggestions and it it gets frustrating My issue had nothing to do with the game crashing when it booted up or whatever Which are the things that the silent patches meant to fix it like literally would not stop Regardless of where I purchased from or from what launcher Errors just kept popping up and I would google the errors and there'd be no concrete answers to why I'm not averse to playing emulators I will probably when I get to play bully. I'll probably play What is it the Xbox one version of bully? I'll just grab it on an emulator. I hear it's the best version And avoids a lot of problems with Windows 10, but it's just not something that I've looked into in a while shame There isn't a VR version of bully like that. Surely there are ways that I could solve it. It's just a lot of effort you |
| 24. October 2020 | Fixing bugs in games | Fixing bugs in games. Talking about the monkey business bug where when you go to the mission monkey business for the first time whoever is standing there will run off scared so you have to leave the area and come back to respawn the mission. The bug has been in the game for years why hasn't it been fixed? The defense is always anything that you try to fix can potentially cause more bugs. It is often the case when something isn't particularly disruptive that leaving it is in the best interest of the developers rather than potentially you know you're breaking everything else while fixing something that's fairly innocuous. But in the case of this like this particular bug I don't think it's you know it has an effect like every slick effectively every single person who plays is gonna experience that bug enough that it's on the wiki it's clearly something that they should have fixed. |
| 04. July 2022 | Flash in the pan vs longevity in content creation | Flash in the pen vs. Longevity in content creation. Being that relevancy is the main concern for content creators, would you rather be the same size you are now that be certain that you will remain relevant for 20 plus years or peak with 10 million plus subs for a guaranteed one year? My level of relevance is quite high so I would take the 20 years. 20 years of my current level of relevance would be worth more than one year of relevance with 10 million subs. 20 years is a long fucking time chat but of course that would require like 20 years of work I suppose like you're kind of asking me would I rather get more over a longer period or kind of cash out early? I'm not sure I want to do this for 20 years but I really like doing this I'm not sure what else I would do with myself haven't I been streaming for almost 10 years? 2014 I started so I guess we're gaining on that long but obviously I haven't streamed to the same degree all that time |
| 09. April 2020 | Flavour of the month insults | The flavor of the month insults. Hey, Matt, are you a simp? I'm not super in the know as to what a simp is. These are these new terms that people invent to belittle others to make themselves feel better because they're insecure. Like, I'm not I'm not always up to date on them because Cuck was the last one. There was another soy boy. And, you know, there's always a list. It's almost like there's memes and then there's like meme insults. Yeah, but I'm not saying they're inventing words necessarily. They're being brought to the forefront of memed as insults. |
| 08. December 2021 | Flexing my productivity | Flexing my productivity. Watching streams is productive for me, because I can get advice and learn stuff from other streams that I can do myself. When I'm watching YouTube videos, I'm not killing time, I'm learning stuff that I can talk about on stream. When I'm watching other streams, I'm not wasting my time, I'm learning stuff that I can do on my stream. You see? You see? When I'm playing video games, that's not me wasting my time, it's me developing certain skills. So that I can showcase them on stream. |
| 17. May 2021 | FlyingKitty’s “Speedrun” of GTA SA | Flying Kitty's speedrun of GTA San Andreas. Tell me if this looks familiar to you. Does that look at all familiar to you? It's the exact same thing I had Murphish make. I do think his has done better though. So I consider that video to be the perfect example of the Jönken twist. It's not an idea that exists forever but this was coined by Ludwig where a lot of what YouTube is, is seeing something that someone else has done and going wait a second what if I do that but change it in a way to make it my thing. So you know other people have done no damage runs. What if I did a no damage run for GTA 5? Other people have done games without killing anyone. What if I did that but for GTA 5? And Flying Kitty I know is at least somewhat aware of me because they put me in their my dabbing thing in their YouTube rewind or whatever. So I guess they saw my video and was like you know what I could do that for better for San Andreas and I do think it's a better video. It's very flattering and very well done. He of course can do it himself while I have to pay my fish. Because I wouldn't even begin to know how to do that you know. But a very good video. |
| 09. July 2022 | Focusing on YouTube or Twitch | Yeah, it tastes the same restore. Focusing on YouTube versus Twitch. So like, if we just do like, stick together like as a bit of a unit, I reckon that would give us better odds as well. Of course. Team people. Because there'll be a couple of people who like, separate, bam, we just, we just fuck them up. Chat, just so chat knows, we haven't, we haven't played together before, so we gotta build the chemistry over the first like, game or two I reckon. Maybe we should do a quick team building exercise. Like what? What do you got in mind? Everybody say your name, something you enjoy doing and your yearly YouTube revenue. Yeah, you first. I thought of the idea, you know. Now we'll do, we'll do Twitch revenue. Alright, I'm TGG, I like making GTA videos and my Twitch revenue this past year was zero dollars. Peli? Um, I actually did make some Twitch revenue. Yeah. You're up. I know. For like 30k or something. Well you can't actually be serious because then that makes me have to be serious. I'm not gonna tell you my fucking- Yeah, now you gotta be serious. Yeah, well mine's like- No, Peli, you didn't play something you like doing. Oh, um, making Viper uncomfortable. Viper. Not difficult, unfortunately. I ain't leaking my revenue. Actually, wait a second, it already leaks. It's already leaked. Yeah. It's already out there. I'm number 296. Yeah, at least I was. Crack the top 300, my boy. I'm definitely not there now. I haven't been streaming much at all. I can't believe that shit leaked, hey, that is insane. Yeah. House reveal when? Well, you missed that? Oh, you did a house tour? No, no, no, no. Um, there was a Twitch leak and like all the data from Twitch- Oh, no, no, no, I'm saying when's the house tour? Oh shit, I think mine's on there as well. Yeah, let me know the ref. Dude, everyone got really worried about me when they saw my Twitch earnings and I was like, because I only streamed really casually, like not too much, and they were like very, very concerned for my health and I was just like, nah, it's okay, YouTube is the main game. Like, it's how you work, children. Yeah, Peli's eating minute noodles every night for dinner. Yeah, yeah, people acted like I was in poverty and shit. I was like, nah, I can't. Everyone got his mash. I was like, I just need to, could just use code Peli at the item shop a little bit more frequently. Please, my bro, please. That focusing more on YouTube thing is, I agree with that. I'm there myself now, but I do miss streaming more. Nothing, mate, it's just being able to chat with, because it just feels like less like a number, more like a person when it's Twitch. You chat with these people, you get to know them, like it's just a whole different, cooler kind of thing, but I don't know. Videos is kind of like my passion is creatively. How much streaming now, Peli? How much am I streaming? I don't know. Like I've recently, well, I've been doing an experiment for a video. The last seven days I've been running my stream 24 seven, just showing my YouTube videos and got like, I think it's something like 7,000 followers, $3,000 or something. And I did nothing. Averaged a thousand viewers. That's cool. It's just this like back in my day, back in my day, Twitch had rules against like sleeping on stream. You could actually not, you were not allowed to leave your stream unattended for more than 30 minutes, but because those rules no longer exist, people of course realized that the second you go offline, you get no more exposure. There's, you know, you don't get followers and you don't get any subs and stuff. There are people who would give you their prime if you happen to be live, but they just don't, they give it to someone else because you're not live. So people are doing these like nonstop subathon things where like they do their normal day basically they were there. They're live for, you know, 14 hours, whatever. And they go have a shower, eat and sleep and they have leave their stream going either. They, the scumier people just show other people's YouTube videos, but some people show their own content. Other people have like their mods or something just to keep the stream going. What you say, bro, you might find yourself in the middle of some internet drama. Trust me. That'll be coming in a week or two. Trust. But like, as I wanted to experiment with that and see how truthful, truthful that is, like |
| 02. May 2021 | Focusing on the negative | Focusing on the negative. You know the worst part? One of the worst parts about becoming a content creator is it becomes so painfully obvious to you how bad you are at focusing on positive over negative. I know it's meant to be a thing that people are generally hardwired to do apparently, where, you know, the negative stuff kind of stands out or whatever because the stuff that needs to be addressed where positive stuff is, you know, it's doing what it's meant to be doing, everything's good there, blah blah blah because I'm sure you've heard many YouTubers talk about how you can get a thousand good comments and it's just like the one that's negative that stands out. I can have thousands upon thousands of people who love my content and give me nothing but praise and wonderful stuff and then just a small minority of people who call me a shithead and those are the people who stand out. It's fucking disrespectful of the people who are kind to me, you know? It's annoying that tendency, it's a very hard thing to override. Yeah, only just J, like, it does seem to be a tendency that people have. It's not just a me thing. But it's something that you really wish you could just override. And surely some people are able to do so, right? Because there are some people who, in the majority, get negativity but just focus on the positivity, you know? |
| 31. August 2020 | Follow my Twitch channel | Follow my twitch channel like I don't do calls to action for my twitch very often most of my content passively advertises my live streams like anyone who has even a passing interest in Finding my live streams and watching me, you know, they can clearly do it But at the same time like being reminded to do something and help people family and YouTube as does 90% of people I came from YouTube as well But every time I get on you're offline well demonstrably false |
| 31. August 2020 | Follow my twitch channel | Follow my twitch channel like I don't do calls to action for my twitch very often most of my content passively advertises my live streams like anyone who has even a passing interest in Finding my live streams and watching me, you know, they can clearly do it But at the same time like being reminded to do something and help people family and YouTube as does 90% of people I came from YouTube as well But every time I get on you're offline well demonstrably false |
| 26. September 2021 | Food I had from my school canteen | Food I had from my school canteen. For those unaware, Australian schools do not traditionally provide food for their students. This is some extra thing that you can have if you have some money to buy some stuff from a little store. Oh my god guys, I just got flashbacks to being in primary school. One of the happiest times, and perhaps the thing I remember most about primary school when I was a kid, was every Friday, my mother would give me lunch money, and I would dash down, like I'd be watching the lunch bell, the clock, like a hawk. The very second the bell rang, I'd run out of that fucking room, down the stairs, immediately to the canteen, as fast as possible, to buy myself a chicken burger and a bottle of coke. They had the best chicken burgers, and made some mixed lollies too. I think if I went, like walked into the school during the lunch time, and ordered myself a chicken burger, they'd probably give me one. I'd be like a 26 year old, there'd be a bunch of like small kids around, and I'd be like, sup kids, and just buy a chicken burger. Don't worry about it. Do you ever enjoy a gay time? You mean the ice cream thing? A gay time? No, I don't like those. What ice creams did I get? I think I got Clippers and Splicers? And for Chockers when I was a kid, I would get a Golden Ruff on occasion, and a Summer Roll, oh my god. |
| 23. January 2021 | Food goes off too quickly. | Food goes off too quickly first ever donation love the streams how often do you cook for yourself in frequently and by cook it's like yesterday I made sausages I Got a packet of sausages that wasn't expired and then I put them all in a pan and then I moved them all around until they Were crispy brown all around them and inside and then I ate them and that's my cooking currently. I have some hamburgers downstairs Hope they're not off. I don't know how long food lasts. I'm always surprised when I get downstairs I'm like, I just bought this What day is it when did I buy this What it whatever the day I bought it. I'm like, why is it off? Yeah, if food does die very quickly, but it's the healthy food that dies very quickly It's so hard to eat healthy. I guy it's hard to imagine how people with less free time or Less flex a bit of lean what they're doing can eat healthy like I've got I guess I don't have a lot of free time I have a flex ability and what I'm doing, you know, and I still have trouble even worse people who actually like food So I think it's like 73% of Americans this time go overweight. It's probably about the same for Australia. It was like I Wait 90 today Before I ate so I'm probably 92 now I get back again But I seem to have lost that little bit of weight and she would have been lower than then because the scales up I just I would be an 88 and I guess now I'm probably 90 what it means. I'm five kilos every way You said the new word is that it's not a matter of knowing what's healthy It's that all healthy things go off so fucking quickly. I guess actually no if you have a diverse palette There's probably some decently healthy stuff that doesn't go off. But everything that I like that's healthy Just goes off like that You know if I could just have a limitless supply of strawberries that never went off. That's all I'd eat I just eat strawberries because why not if strawberries do go bad so fast What's that fucking deal hang around? |
| 14. February 2021 | Forgetting everything that happened in pacifist | Forgotting everything that happened in Pacifist Percent. It's been so long since I did Pacifist that I only have vague recollections of stuff that happens. So when I watch the footage, I'm like, oh yeah, I remember that happening. I said, so it's fucking awesome, you know? That's why I'm kind of excited to really sit down and grind to the footage, so I can relive those moments. And of course, the suffering, frustration, and pain and stuff, but... I have finished, I finished recording Pacifist like a thousand years ago. People occasionally come in and be like, hey, so when can I stop by to see you record the Pacifist? I'm like, build yourself a time machine. But as I've said before, once I do put out all the footage, I will be going back to trying to improve on the total deaths, total kills that I had. And you could watch that, that's a while away. I think I will focus on Pacifist after, okay. Hmm, but if I finish Pacifist before I start speedrunning again, I'll have nothing, oh no, because then I'll just be faxing glitches, speedrunning, and chaos like it was back in the day. I mean, as it is between Pacifist after, yeah, that'd be fine, yeah, so I'm probably going to focus on Pacifist after, okay. And I'll use that time to hopefully get my more competent people who help me with editing to go over my older footage while I'm distracted doing Pacifist. Because I obviously won't be able to record new footage while editing it. I might edit it on stream, but it's a very personal thing to edit, you know. Trying to be funny in editing is a little awkward for other people to watch, you know. When I'm streaming, I'm just being myself. It doesn't feel weird, but writing a joke and doing some voice line or something while other people are watching, it feels different. |
| 13. May 2021 | Forgetting my clothes in the washing machine | For getting my clothes in the washing machine. So I fucked up chat. Does this surprise you? It shouldn't. I did my washing like I don't know, two weeks ago or something. It gets to now and I'm like, why am I so short on shorts and tank tops? And so it turns out I left some laundry in the washing machine. I ran it and I've left it there for two weeks. I only realise now because I tried to put my towels in there to wash and so I open it and it reeks. Oh my god. Fucking disgusting. And so I've run it again and it still doesn't smell good. So I'm running it again now and I might have to just wash it like 17 times or something to get my tank tops back to their freshly able to be worn way that I want them to be. I know what I'm talking about. What I'm saying is, I wore this same tank top yesterday. Chuck them out? Nah, just wash them. Did it be fine? It will be fine. |
| 13. May 2021 | Forgetting what is in a taco bowl | ["Sweet Home Alone"] Forgetting what is in a taco bowl. Do you have cool American Doritos? I have no idea what that means. The only Dorito chips I have at my house are plain ones. Oh my God! Dorito chips! So yesterday, I made myself a taco bowl. I put in the meat, put in the salsa, I put in the cheese. Realized I had no lettuce, and I was like, Oh, I found out lettuce, shit, but... I was like, is this all that's meant to go in a taco bowl? I sat there like a minute, like, this seems empty somehow. Nah, probably just my imagination, I ate it all. I basically ate minced meat, salsa, and cheese. Never, until right now realizing I had the Dorito, plain Dorito chips that I was meant to put in the thing. Mystery solved. Well, guess I'll eat those chips plain at some point then, I guess. I'm sure they'll keep, I'll buy some more minced meat or whatever. Yeah, I didn't have any lettuce, man. Food goes off too quickly. |
| 08. March 2022 | Forgetting what others consider sacred | Forgotting what others consider sacred. It is important to remember that people perceive things differently than you do. Things that you consider to be irrelevant or unimportant or antiquated, some people can still be very passionate about. I saw a post where a person was like, I'm happy that grief of Jesus and chaos no longer appears as Jesus because now it's less sacrilegious. I say this as an evangelical Christian. I just looked at that for a while and I'm like, oh yeah, there would be people out there who would care about that. Like I've always known that, it's just something that I don't often reflect on that. Some people could watch that series and be like, oh my god, Jesus with a rail car? This is not on. Dude's going to hell. I don't consider that stuff important and some people don't. |
| 08. June 2020 | Forgotten content and copyright | Forgotten content and copyrights. There's probably a lot of really funny content that doesn't really get watched anymore because of the resolution it was shot in. All these legendary actors of days gone by won't have their content as well recognized or respected because of the poor audio and video quality. It'd be so good if copyright was a bit better so that every 25 years all the streaming services could have every TV show of the past on their platform. Surely at some point all the high quality content of this generation is going to lose its copyright. And so any streaming service will have like a hundred years of high quality content that you can just pick through. Disney wouldn't allow that exactly. Disney being a big reason why copyright is complete shit. Because copyright definitely should exist. It just shouldn't be what it is now. Yeah, Tom Scott's video on copyright was amazing. I'm pretty sure though under fair use law, none of the stuff that I put on YouTube, like I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure the stuff I put on YouTube would probably pass. Certainly pass this percent would. What I do on Twitch probably wouldn't though if really challenged in court. Playing through the entire game, there's no way that would fit under fair use. Yeah, we've talked about it a dozen times, man. It's just that no streaming games has benefits to everyone. I mean, there's a reason why companies pay people to stream their games. It's just it's a good way to get noticed. Certainly it helps or hinders different games to a greater or lesser extent. It's better off that no one challenges this shit in court and everyone keeps their head down and lets it all sit in a legal gray area. |
| 20. October 2021 | Former CSGO pro caught cheating in dumb way | Former CSGO Pro caught cheating in dumb way. Did you guys see the video of that guy who was caught cheating at CSGO? He was wearing sunglasses and it reflected what his screen looked like. And his screen had all the enemies lit up red. Through wall-sand-shit. And he just deleted his channel immediately. What a dumb thing to do. Both cheating and getting caught cheating that way. But I mean, I guess cheaters in general are probably not the brightest fellows. Except I imagine the people who sell cheats are probably pretty brat. |
| 20. October 2021 | Former csgo pro caught cheating in dumb way | Former CSGO Pro caught cheating in dumb way. Did you guys see the video of that guy who was caught cheating at CSGO? He was wearing sunglasses and it reflected what his screen looked like. And his screen had all the enemies lit up red. Through wall-sand-shit. And he just deleted his channel immediately. What a dumb thing to do. Both cheating and getting caught cheating that way. But I mean, I guess cheaters in general are probably not the brightest fellows. Except I imagine the people who sell cheats are probably pretty brat. |
| 22. December 2020 | Forsen being banned. | Forsen being banned an update to this story according to Forsen's Twitter. He's going to be unbanned sometime after Christmas Yeah, it is weird Forsen being banned people suggest that he was banned because he opened an image on stream that looked perfectly fine But then the image morphed into a horse cock or something So it's a trick image like he opened it and he's like, okay This is a fine image and he put it on stream and then train and changed he legitimately just got trolled A stream is usually banned because they don't know the rules. I don't think the rules Are anything beyond which you would just expect on a platform like Twitch? Yeah, it really feels like they just don't like Forsen. Many streamers have shown nudity or Done the wrong thing and either not being punished at all or got a slap on the wrist or whatever It did really seem like they were looking for a reason to ban Forsen. The speculation is potentially that Because Twitch seems to be wanting to move into eSports But every time they'd host anything eSports related people would be spamming like Forsen boys and shit in the chat And I guess they probably didn't like that. I don't know. He has nothing to do with it Well, he has something to do with it because he's Forsen. You're right that he's not instructing in any capacity I mean it likely does reflect. I mean we're only speculating. We're just thinking of reasons why Twitch may not like Forsen He is one of the biggest people on the platform and his chat is a cancerous spamming mess Not nearly as cancerous as it once was but maybe they think it reflects badly upon them And while he is a big streamer, he's not the biggest, you know He is very OG though. How long had Forsen been on the platform? I remember him from the Hearthstone days. Six, seven years? |
| 29. January 2021 | Forsen’s reaction to my interview with dream | Forsen's reaction to my interview of Dream and dealing with negativity For those who weren't here yesterday, Forsen is a very very old content creator Not not age-wise, but he's been around the block for a very long time He's probably been there for, I don't know, he's probably at least eight years or something He, I think he was an accountant or becoming an accountant or something He had a future ahead of him, right? Making some good money in finance or some shit But he was streaming at the time and he realized that he was making more money than like a CEO At the places that he was, that he could be working and he's like, well, okay, fuck this shit I'm gonna just stream then and so he was one of the big time streamers back in the day And he still is a big time streamer I knew him from his Hearthstone days when I first started watching Twitch He was like the creme de la creme huge content creator very well known for having a very cancerous chat And you can go to his chat today And it's still just constant spam of stuff because he doesn't really regulate it at all Before the XQC's, the Tommy Innits or whatever, there was Forsen with his cancerous chat on top of the platform And his chat inspired many of the memes that you likely know today And certainly for a while, like Garchi or whatever and a lot of the Twitch songs came from his chat There was this period where Forsen was the meta, right? And so flash forward to today, Forsen sort of reacted to my interview with Dream He didn't really bother watching it, understandable, it's very long, that's not really important But he basically said that I was paid to have my views of Dream change I think he basically insinuated that I was a small content creator who was influenced by views or directly financed to change my views I think he kind of moved away from that a little bit because then he looked at my channel and saw that I had a video from GTA V with 1.5 million views within the last week So it's a hard narrative to sell himself on But he insinuated that, oh no, he directly said that probably this guy was paid to interview Dream And the questions that he asked Dream were already given to Dream beforehand and it's all just a PR thing Which obviously, all that's not true But as I just said to Kosh now, I don't think that interpretation is unexpected As if you don't know me, you don't know of other statements I've made around the issue, community posts, those other videos or whatever And all you knew was how hard I went on Dream originally And then you saw, it's not a complete 180 but a shift away from that point of view And suddenly it happened after a content creator with 50 million subs takes notice of you Of course you're going to conclude that this was done for views or the person's been manipulated It wasn't just Forsen saying these kind of statements So I don't blame Forsen for having that point of view Especially considering he didn't watch the whole entire video, that surface level assessment As a understandable, if wrong, you know And that's the story His chat is just constant spam, I mean yes, it's not a stream you want to be in for chat Oh no, Kosh, no, I wasn't sad yesterday because of Forsen Certainly having that additional bit of negativity didn't help me I was just ill and continuing to be inundated with negative comments from people As I've said many times, at no point in time did I blame myself for anything that happened to Apollo The assertion that I had anything to do with it is so absurd That even as a person who's so self-critical and so self-doubting as myself It didn't even cross my mind for a moment to actually blame myself But that doesn't change how being inundated with negative comments, how that's going to make you feel Or the realization that moving forward there's going to be some people who are going to have negative pre-notions of me That in any future interaction with someone they might go Oh, that's that Dark Viper guy with the Apollo thing? Well, he's a fucking asshole, whatever Like especially when people don't necessarily have the time to dig into a person's history Sometimes all they can hear is the scandals and people will judge me based on those scandals Regardless of how justified they are And that realization annoys me It's very hard to get popular without generating some sort of negative baggage But I had pretty well not done that for a long time It's only recently that I've taken on this baggage and I'm having trouble dealing with it You know, to a degree |
| 27. March 2021 | Fortnite character thiccness | Fortnite character thickness This is gonna sound weird. I haven't tuned into a fortnight stream in a long time But I did recently were for tonight characters always That thick I remember being This much as a design choice Somewhat taken aback like am I meant to be watching this I Aren't people weirded out with with that shit playing it all dad in there man, I Guess I'll find out if that's the way that it always was when I Because my I'm having my old fortnight footage the little that I have of it Edited and I guess then I'll see what the character models look like back in my day back in my day Back when fortnight was a good game. You know I'm saying I don't fucking know. Hey. Yeah for you guys unaware I did play fortnight a little bit back in the day when it was a new thing also played pub G and H1z1 and all these games Most of the footage I have left of fortnight though is from like my first win and when I did the Nvidia tournaments Got paid 500 USD to be in two fortnight tournaments had maybe like a hundred viewers for both of them No idea why they paid me that much money. They're good for them Oh, but I did have to like chase them down for like six months to finally get paid those were the days Ah, yes the time before time Why it matters what I talk about during runs? This is the run meter and I always do you're never gonna have me come in the stream be like guys. I'm gonna stop |
| 13. October 2021 | Fortnite made among us game | Fortnite made Among Us game. You found out Fortnite Among Us was a thing? Yeah, because Fortnite just ripped off Among Us. Which is, you know, what Fortnite has been doing since its inception. I mean, has anyone played the Fortnite Among Us game? Like, is it better than the original Among Us? Do you think anyone played the Fortnite version and they were like, man, I miss playing Among Us and they went back to it? It's not better? It sucks, dick. Makes sense. Stop posting about Among Us. I'm tired of seeing it. Is that what that original post was about? It was about Among Us? I've only seen like endless different edits of it. Val werewolf within was the original Among Us? I mean, if you want to reduce Among Us just to a murder mystery, I mean, those have been around forever, right? |
| 22. December 2021 | Franklin DLC impressions after completing it all | I'd say the beginning part with Dr. Dre, I give that like a 5 out of 10. There was nothing offensive about it, but in no way what I said that people need to play it, if their fans are GTA. But the Franklin part, yeah I'd give this like a 7, maybe an 8. The only thing that I think the Franklin part failed at is the gameplay. And as a person who really cares about gameplay, didn't do a heap for me, but as a person who really loves like single player, did a lot for me. Like the gameplay for the entire DLC was just so simplistic. It was just driving and shooting. But I guess if you're having two characters that need to be near each other all the time to have the dialogue, you're very limited in what you can get the characters to do. That's what I keep saying, the gameplay of GTA Online is very stale and given the limitations of the game, it's hard to see how they could really innovate on it at this point without simply making a new game. You know what I'm saying? It's a cool DLC but it makes me sad because it could even cycle bits of single player DLC which we're never gonna get now. As I say, I don't think that experience would have been better had it been done outside of GTA Online. The FPS would have been higher. There's just not any real value in restricting it from you being able to play it multiplayer, except of course avoiding the modders and the hackers and stuff. But as long as the invite only sessions are actually working to keep such people out, then there's no real downside. As long as the feedback for this Franklin Lamar thing is good enough, I suspect they'll try to do the same thing with both Michael and Trevor. Like clearly there was a lot of hype around this DLC just seeing Franklin and Chop and all that stuff. It wouldn't surprise me if Rockstar was gonna look at this and go, okay, let's work on some Trevor Michael stuff as well. And whenever we're seeing a bit of a slump in the amount of players playing GTA Online, let's just throw that out there and bring everyone back. Because it will, every time, bring everyone back. Of course there's only a certain amount of times you can do that. And it's debatable how many meme-able things exist with Michael. I think there's still a decent amount of meme-able stuff with Trevor, but regardless, like let's say they released the Michael one and it sucks. People will still come back and play it. Let's see if they release the Trevor one and it sucks. People will still come back and play it. It was just a good move making this and it would be a good move moving forward to trade in on people's love of GTA V to bring people to GTA Online, in a business sense. Would a Michael GTA Online DLC work? |
| 22. December 2021 | Franklin DLC impressions after doing the Dr Dre section | the Dr. Dre section. This took about five hours and of course I eventually did complete the entire thing. So as far as this DLC goes, right, it is clearly just an advertising thing for Dr. Dre's music. Now, from a business perspective, I admire that. I think it's pretty cool, the idea of someone who's more old school joining a newer generation sort of thing and getting his music some advertising that way and releasing music through games and stuff. I mean that's good for our industry and it shows the growth of it. At the same time, there was nothing particularly special about this DLC. There was no real interesting gameplay. It would just shoot a bunch of guys like we always do and the gun mechanics are fairly simplistic in this game to begin with. So, you know. Call me cynical, but the only reason we got Franklin back is probably because of the attempt to promote Dr. Dre. They're like, we've got to get a certain amount of numbers, certain amount of people to engage with this DLC. What's like a slam dunk thing that won't take a huge investment of time, but will definitely bring people back? It'd be funny if people who worked for Dre or Dre himself were like, yeah, bring back that Franklin guy, you know? It wasn't bad, it was just like the whole you walk into a room, shoot five guys in the head, and then move to the next room. There's only so many years you can do that and it's now been eight years. You've got to change up the formula a bit, but GTA's problem is that the gun mechanics are fairly simplistic. And whenever you're in tight corridors, you can't really have your NPCs being good. Like you may have noticed if you watched there, sometimes I'd walk into a room and the NPCs would just stand there for a solid ten seconds and just let me pop each one of them in the head. Rockstar has this problem where they're trying to balance people who just started playing last week and people who've been playing for eight years, and that's impossible to do without difficulty modes, which they aren't going to implement. So like the entire thing is tediously easy and the only time I fail is because I don't give a fuck. Because I don't take it seriously, I think it's the best attitude to take, so weird funny things can happen like me falling off places and stuff. But like if I took this seriously, then I would never fail. But because the game is so amazingly easy, I'm better off just never taking anything seriously. Because the only way it can be enjoyable, you know, it's just like, like with a normal MMO, different ways of doing battles will be added or different skills and stuff that change up the way that you play your character. With this game, you're locked to a guy with a gun shooting at other guys. And it doesn't matter if you add other weapons, the other weapons don't fundamentally change what you're doing. You are still a guy with a gun shooting at other guys. And the degree to which you'll be successful will depend on how readily you put the trigger on them and press the button. That's fine for a while, that's fine for a few years, but clearly it's gotten a bit stale now, right? Does it make sense for Tanisha to be with Franklin now? |
| 22. December 2021 | Franklin DLC impressions after playing for 3 hours | My opinion on the update after playing for three hours. My thoughts after playing the entire update are also in this video, but just later on. Opinion on the new update so far? Generally speaking, when you release new content, what you want to do is innovate and create new forms of gameplay to bring people back, but this is just the exact same shit that Rockstar has been doing for eight years. Wonky hitboxes, bunch of invisible walls, repeated NPCs, terrible AI, but hey, at least Franklin is here and stuff. My hope is that all this means is that like the A-Team at Rockstar is still working on GTA 6, and they're largely just like in between their lunch breaks throwing some stuff for GTA Online just to keep it kind of supported. But maybe I'm being too optimistic. We shall see. They make enough money with it, so don't expect them to change the formula. I mean, that's generally what you do. As I always say, people want similar, but different. So over time you just slightly change things to keep things looking fresh and new, but you got to innovate on the gameplay a little bit, Rockstar. Like it's nice seeing the characters again, but at the end of the day, the gameplay is the exact same thing that they've been doing for the last like eight years. Like when I speed run, it's a little bit different because everything matters. All the precision matters. Like when I miss a shot, I'm like, oh fuck, I've lost time. If I die, it matters a huge deal to me because I have so much invested into the run already. Like I'm like, oh man, if something bad happens now, I'm gonna lose three hours of my time or whatever, and that keeps me invested. Even though I'm doing the same thing over and over, I have goals that I want to achieve and you know, something's always on the line. It matters if something fails. Here, it's just like, nothing matters. It's the same slow paced gameplay, not particularly difficult, and even if I failed, it put me back like two feet and I just start again. The enemies in online are dumber than the enemies in single player, like massively so. And even really the gunplay just feels a lot less satisfying because everything's kind of floaty. It's hard to explain. Like everything just feels so much more satisfying in single player. And the mechanic of sitting on walls, shoveling snacks into your mouth, it's just dumb. Oddly, it'd be better if you just had to sit for a while and regenerate to full, because the the act of opening up the menus is just a frustrating, annoying way of taking you out of the experience of the gunplay. It's just dumb. I mean, they were willing to add futuristic technology into the game. I don't know why they didn't just add a futuristic like regenerating armor suit to the game. That's nanotechnology that is invisible. It was always fairly dumb that you only regenerated to half HP. Meaning that within 10 seconds of any kind of altercation, you were always going to be down to half HP. But they never changed it, and it just doesn't make sense. Maybe in their minds, like pointless busy work during firefights makes them more enjoyable. I don't know why they would have that opinion, but it's just a really lackluster showcase again of the flaws of GT Online that they do not seem interested in fixing. At the very least, if what you guys say is true, they have finally realized that putting snacks and armor in the same location is probably a good move. That's the only thing I can really say about the improvements to the game that have come from this update. I really didn't want to be negative about it, you know. This is now the second time in recent memory where I'm like, oh look, here's something that could potentially be good. Let's be positive about it, and then it comes out and it's just so... Meh. My opinion on the Franklin DLC after doing the |
| 27. January 2021 | Franklin roast memes | Franklin being roasted by Lamar memes Do I enjoy the Franklin roast memes fuck no? Oh my god do I hate those fucking memes I guess it's mainly because people just kept sending them to me like every single fucking variation You know that like what's that meme of um the guy who has a wallet full of pictures of his kids and he's just like Hey, you want to see pictures of my kids and you're just like no come on It's just so adorable look at the pictures Just roll whole roll of produce a please leave me alone and just bashing in the face of the fucking pictures And that's kind of how it was With those fucking memes they would not go away just bashing me in the face wherever I went But I guess people don't have pictures in their wallets anymore that pictures in their phones, but you get the idea okay? Back in my day people actually carried around pictures of their children They didn't have them in their newfangled mobile devices Just to clarify obviously different expressions of the meme can be funny and interesting Certainly those made by merfish are very good and represent talents But the amount that people would send them to me every single time any of them got popular That's all I would see for the next couple of days. It was not an enjoyable experience |
| 26. September 2021 | Franklin's silly $500k bonus | Franklin's silly 500k. This is an amount of money that you are given at the beginning of every game if you pre-order GTA 5. How did I get 500k? It's a pre-order bonus that I'm not allowed to use in the run, but I can't remove from the game because Rockstar's stupid. I don't think giving Franklin half a million dollars breaks the immersion of the game. What are you talking about? What player choice as to whether to get the 500,000? That's nonsense. Boo, player choice. We will just have player choice as a thing you can buy with shark cars. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 27. July 2021 | Free games, then vs now | Free games, then versus now. I remember back in the day, being a kid, I'm being super desperate for any free games and all the free games sucks, like you're playing demos and shit. These days, you can have no fucking money as a 12 year old and have like 50 cents. |
| 19. January 2022 | FreeRoss. | Hashtag free Ross It's always funny when someone asks a stupid question. I ignore it. I get to see how many times they'll ask it Even though it's obvious I'm ignoring it. It's funny. So just ban Ross, please. And man, it's not taking hints. Get him out of my stream. Free Ross? Where? A whole Ross for free? That's crazy value. Well, he didn't do nothing He was he asked the same question six times and talked about how he loves arson. What do you mean? What do you mean? If you ignore all the things that he did he didn't do nothing. Your honor sure we could talk all day about all the people that my client murdered But we're not talking about all the people he didn't murder. When you think about it There was seven billion people on this planet and he only murdered ten of them That's not that many in the grand scheme of things. He's a hard worker He could have got way more if he was he was really interested in it. Your honor I think he deserves some leniency. If you ignore the people that he killed he didn't kill no one. Yes I do practice as a lawyer when I'm on streaming guys. I'm pretty good, right? |
| 15. February 2022 | Freedom of speech and the ability to distribute other's work. | From anything clients that he would do he anything client for example said I don't give a shit if you can sense or not It's it's it's fair use. It's freedom of speech So there are there are content creators that will think that way so freedom of speech as it applies in America at the very least it's just related to the government's ability to They can't restrict the populace of speech in like public forums that they control whatever private businesses can save shut the fuck up All that they want to but the if it was possible that say the Constitution America Defended people's rights to reupload other people's content as a matter of freedom of speech Then you would imagine like one lawyer in the entire history of the country would have made that case because like It's clearly he was conflating You have the right to say whatever you want or let's say I believe it is the case that Society should enshrine that that people should have Wired liberties as to what they're willing to say or what they're able to say in society But that doesn't give you the right to use another person's content as context so like if I write a review for a Disney movie I don't get to like attach like a Download of that movie to my review because that's absurd. It's like hey guys I'm running a review of the Disney movie here. You know go watch it from my Link here and then come back and read my article I have every right freedom of speech to write that article but not to take someone else's labor for context You're the the the idea of of speech giving you ownership of just universally of everyone else's stuff because it gives what you're saying context is absurd especially considering that it undermines what Copyright as we can talk more about face, but copyright law in general is meant to enable people to recoup their losses and time and time from their when they were innovating in some capacity like the example I use is if you Have to spend ten million dollars and ten years of your life developing something But this something could be copied by someone else for a fraction of the price Why would you do it because you'd go to market and you'd be ten million dollars in the hole and ten years in the hole And you'd immediately have 17 fucking competitors all selling the same thing but for a lower price and because you need to recoup costs But they they don't and so everyone's recognized this for a hundred years. That's clearly gonna be It's gonna restrict people's desire to or limit people's desire to innovate so copyright law is meant to give people a certain amount of protection for their time and money so they can recoup that and if Fair use law allowed people to just just take a Disney movie and reupload it as long as every five minutes You said huh? That's funny. They would undermine the concept of copyright law fair use is meant to like Keep copyright as it is but recognize that There's gonna be some context where you can do things with copyrighted content that doesn't impact the original Creators ability to recoup their losses make a profit and to be rewarded for their time And this is where you talk about transformation where if you have something that's wholly unique from the original Then it shouldn't really impact the original if you're targeting a separate audience and making a profit there It's not going to impact the original's ability to make a profit over there if If you're making it for an entirely different audience If you're making it for an entirely different purpose again It's likely to target if an audience is not going to impact the original and this is what fair use is assessing How how how much does what you've created? Impact the original and its ability to be profitable in the market and if you're re uploading a Disney movie Obviously it's gonna have some impact towards it right it's it's like what what needs to be clarified is that Disney movie? Can be some randos YouTube video? That's basically the important distinction like we have to it's a Sure, I mean anything I use Disney movies as to say to again bring up Why if they believe they're in the right are they not watching Disney movies yes? But you can be literally anything any product at all the concept of Fair use that is being espoused at least you're telling me about these people would completely undermine the idea of copyright law like just destroy it It'll make it effectively Irrelevant like you could just have Netflix just oh yeah, I could I could start my own streaming service Where I have literally all the content in the world, but I'm just in the corner eating popcorn and being like that's funny I would I would never need to pay licensing fees for the rest of my life I could have all the content in the world and I could charge people a dollar to watch it as long as they're willing to Have me in the corner occasionally saying a word right? That's absurd the company's would have abused this long ago to just never pay licensing fees We agree well, I'll get to some examples of Everything in a second, but we do agree that what they're doing isn't fair use, but what I'm saying is the Intention is the difference yes? |
| 19. October 2022 | Fresh meat cutscene in gta 5 was not improvised | in GTA V was not improvised. Oh, my N-word, huh? What's up, homie? Oh! So this dude uploaded this video of... Is it Steven Ogg? The guy who voiced Trevor in GTA V, he was with Ned Luke and the voice actor from Franklin, I've always forgotten his name. They were at some Comic-Con interview kind of thing. They were explaining that the get-up that they had on kind of prevented them from having any ability to do improv, really, because they've got, like, huge belts with all this stuff on them and all these, like, hard dots so that they're being motion-captured and whatnot. Like, if you do a wrong move, you can break this very sensitive hardware. And so that scene in Fresh Meat where Trevor trips over and everyone believed, like I did, that the interaction between Franklin and Trevor was largely improvised, they're saying, nah, that's not real. He's like, maybe a line or two or something, but, you know, you shouldn't have that kind of freedom in that kind of get-up to just trip over randomly on something. That's just not what happened. And I was like, oh, that's kind of disappointing. It was like an urban myth that had built up out of the interaction seeming kind of odd, I suppose. Like, if you watch the Fresh Meat scene, it kind of drags on a bit, and there's some weird awkward pauses and stuff. And that's what made it believable that it was improvised, but apparently not. That pace is just so real and low, and I don't know how you Bugged." |
| 17. July 2021 | Friendlyjordies and his legal woes. | to me. Friendly Jordys and his legal woes. What do I think of Friendly Jordys? I saw someone write before. Umm... somewhat conflicted. There was once a story that he talked about. Well, I was interested in it enough that I looked into it more. And, well, he wasn't necessarily incorrect. It was more like he was simplifying things. And I guess that's how YouTube kind of works. In general, I found his reporting on stuff to be interesting and engaging. And true, as far as I can tell. He does come off as somewhat smug and full of himself sometimes. But in general, I like him and I think it would be very interesting to like, if you met him somewhere to have a chat with him. Because he seems like a knowledgeable, engaged sort of person. As in, he has character flaws like we all do. And flaws in general, I suppose. But on the whole, I consider him to be a good content creator and an interesting person. The reason the person probably asked is... So this guy, FriendlyJordys, is a satirist. He makes comedy stuff. But he also reports on the news and does a bit of investigative journalism while acting somewhat like a clown, in his words. But he... This is guy John Barallaro, I think. He's a politician in my state. And he, Jordys, believes himself to have, and it seems suggestive that he has, that he's uncovered some corruption from this John Barallaro guy. And John has now sued him and sent like a special police unit or something to arrest this YouTuber's cameraman and producer or whatever. Lying to the police to get them to arrest this dude. At least lying from what information has been shown thus far. It's an abusive power from a corrupt politician attempting to silence a critic. And regardless of what you think of Jordys, even if you disagree with him passionately, that kind of stuff is just disgusting, right? I wonder how does John just feel about Barallaro? Bruzz, it's easy to say. Does Bruzz consider himself to be just above the law or something, or does he not consider the Streisand effect where the more you respond to this thing or whatever as a politician it's just gonna lead to more people being aware of it and talking about it and whatnot. It's gonna be very interesting to see where this goes because it is an official court case. Especially considering that apparently Jordys has a pretty famous lawyer or something supporting him or representing him or what have you in court. Be interesting to see. Yeah, I'm sure none of you really care about this. Small thing in the land down under for most of you. I mean, it's a small thing in the land down under, I suppose. I gave him a hundred bucks too. Even if he gets a massive influx of support or something and can easily deal with his legal bills, whatever. I'm happy just giving him a couple of bucks. I like his content. It's one of the problems with making content that is centric to one particular part of the world. Especially, well, I mean, it's not a problem if you're American, I suppose, but when you're Australian if you're making content about Australian politics like there's only 22 million, 23 million, whatever it is, 24 people in this country. And so it's relatively speaking for the world a small audience that you can capture. So Jordys makes some funny content he gets like two to three million views a month on YouTube. Like he's a smaller content creator than me. Shouldn't be that way. That's, you know, you're appealing to a smaller market. I hope for his current ordeal is that he ends up like he ends up getting some more recognition and growing his audience off the back of this. George Carlin and irony. I actually received this one bit of damage at the very last mission in the very last final fight, firefight at the game. So I'm very close to being successful. So I'm hoping this time I get it and be actually with the the bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. Try to save it. Couldn't do it. Lost at the end there. Just barely failed at the end. Just like my PB in no damage. Someone in chat said it was ironic that I finished the that I failed the end of the intro and I my PB was the failure at the end. That's not irony. I remember listening to this stand up thing from Oh, what's his name? Oh, no, I can't even remember his name. Carl. What's his name? The old comedian. He's dead now. He's a George Carlin. That's it. Yeah. He has this thing where he explains different English terminology in a funny way. And one of the things he explains is irony. Where he's like, as a rule of thumb to know if something's ironic or not, ask does it involve opposites? A firefighter starting a fire is a fire. |
| 18. February 2021 | Friendo | Frendo. I edited myself, no country for old men, but I added Frendo a bunch more times. You know that scene, you may have seen the scene even if you haven't seen the whole movie, what's the most you've ever bet on a coin toss? I edited that so he says Frendo far more and it's actually a nice conversation. Didn't get that many views, but I found it funny. I put it on Twitter in my um, tip show. It's a bit of a meme me saying Frendo, I'm not sure what brought it on or why I say it, but uh, I like it. I like it. How much Frendo? 69 cent. Y'all getting any rain up your way? What weight would that be, Frendo? I've seen you was from Dallas. That's the way it is, Frendo. Is something wrong? With what? With anything. Is that what you're asking me, Frendo? You don't know what you're talking about, Frendo? Just passing the time. What time do you go to bed, Frendo? Somewhere around 9.30, I'd say around 9.30. Well done, Frendo. Will there be something else? I don't know, will there? Frendo? Well, I got your clothes now. Frendo? |
| 03. June 2020 | Friends with famous people | How would you feel and what would you think if you met PewDiePie and became friends with him? If I ever met someone that famous, I would have to hope that I'd be, or that famous and successful, I'd have to hope I would be on a somewhat equal level of success. Else, I'm not sure that I could ever interact with them in a good way. As in, like, I couldn't be myself. As much as I would hate to be like that, in the back of my head all the time, it would be, this guy's really fucking successful, dude. If he likes you, man, this could make your fucking career. Think of how much you could grow your audience just by an association with PewDiePie, man. You don't want to mess this up or whatever. And that would just fill me with anxiety and would annoy me, and I would hate to do that to another person where a part of me would feel like I'd be using them, and that'd just make me feel awful, because I wouldn't intentionally be using him. But I'd just be aware of that circumstance, and that would impact everything that I do. Maybe I don't disagree with them strongly, because I don't want to piss them off. Maybe, you know, I'm too eager to go someplace or hang out with them or whatever, and I'd be assessing all my, everything I'm doing in that way, and I would just be very frustrating. Right? I don't ever want to meet someone that successful while being so low on the totem pole compared to them. It would, I would hope, this is just some hypothetical, right? I would hope I would just be fucking chill, especially because I am fairly successful right now. I don't need a person like PewDiePie to give me a boost. So I'm hoping that I'm at a level of success where I'd just be like, yeah, how's it going, man? Cool. But I worry that I would subconsciously or whatever, attempt to use them in some way, and I wouldn't really be comfortable with that, you know? I just, just the anxiety of thinking about that all the time and second guessing myself would be terrible. I would rather have known and been friends with PewDiePie before he became successful. Not that I'm saying PewDiePie is necessarily the content creator I'd want to be friends with. The content creator I would want to be friends with is Gus Johnson. Gus Johnson, funny, funniest fucking guy. |
| 28. July 2020 | Frozen foods | Frozen foods. Hey Matt, greetings from Germany. What do you think of frozen foods? I hate foods that aren't preserved. I hate how quickly they die. I bought myself four punnets of raspberries, and lo and behold, like two, three days they're dead. It's just, my doc's like, yeah, you've got to eat less foods with preservatives and stuff, you've got to eat fresh food. I'm like, oh, but come on, it dies in like two minutes. You know, I like frozen foods. The frozen foods are good. |
| 23. February 2022 | Frustrations when communicating with companies | Frustrations when communicating with companies. It sucks whenever something happens to you, where you know if you could just talk to someone for five minutes, it'd be resolved. But you have to go through 57 different processes, or 57 different lower level people who do not give a fuck, and or do not have the authority to help you, trying to grind to get to that point where someone just actually reads what's going on. That's what happens when companies get really, really big, you know? The finer details get lost, and so there's always people who slip through the cracks, or parts of the company that aren't necessarily doing things as well as they possibly could. I hate companies. At the end of the day, whenever you buy a product from a large company, an ideal situation for you is that you walk away with the entire company, and you give them fucking nothing. And the perfect situation for the company is that they take literally every cent you have and give you nothing. And you are each trying as hard as you can to get as close to those best realities as possible in any negotiation. |
| 29. January 2023 | Full Self-Driving cars and the battle against car dominance | car dominance. So my statements here may be somewhat surprising because I probably looked pretty impressed at what AI art is producing, but I'm not impressed by what I see self-driving doing. So this video, Tesla full self-driving is not in a good place. Basically just goes through an experience of 21 minutes of a dude driving with full self-driving in a Tesla. And it seems awful. The amount of times where he's like, it just feels so awkward, man. It's doing something so dumb. I have to take control because people are looking at me. And the amount of times where it's like, well, I can't do this now. So I have to take control and like do a U-turn and stuff. It just seems trash. And the rebuttal there as well. Everything seems bad in the beginning, like give it 20 years, what's this gonna look like? But I mean, ignoring that Elon Musk has been saying since 2013 that we're one year away from full self-driving. Ignore that of course, but this is just Elon Musk. I just think how good would this have to be for me to be comfortable just letting an AI drive my car? Cause this is like a mistake can lead to my death at that point. It's not like AI art, which isn't gonna kill someone or something. I'm already a person who's fairly nervous as a driver. And I don't even like driving all that much. I mean, I can enjoy myself driving sometimes, but the everyday experience of like traffic and worrying where I'm gonna go and stuff, I hate that shit. If it wasn't for GPS, it'd be intolerable. A mistake leads to your death driving anyway. Yeah, but there's that emotional desire to have control over your fate, not to leave your fate up to others. But then again, I mean, I go into public transport and I'm fine with that. My fate's not in my hands then. I go on a plane and my fate isn't in my hands then either. I guess it would just be a matter of like, just needing to be shown a reality where this tech has driven tons of other people around for a long time and no problems have happened. And then I guess I would just look at that evidence and go, well, I guess I'll accept it too. But when I look at stuff like this of him driving around like this and the car being unable to sense certain things and do certain stuff and even the slightest bit of difficulty like this car stopping here and it doesn't understand that it's parked, I get so confused, terrifying. It's just clearly full self-driving isn't there yet. And it just looks so terrifying right now. I remember watching that video by CPG Grey, like, so this was back in 2016, talking about how self-driving can solve all traffic issues. And this seems so optimistic about it. And that was seven years ago. And self-driving right now is still so shit. Of course, by the way, this video has been massively criticized in terms of its solution like here by Adam something. If you're unaware of it, there's this constant battle on YouTube between people who fucking love cars and think that everything should be based around cars. And these people who point out all the things that are given up by catering the entirety of human existence and society around cars and how much more efficient public transport is. How it's just better for the environments, better for everyone's quality of life, having walkable cities and stuff. And they make a very strong case. And I get to the end of it, I'm like, man, I do like having a car though, the convenience of just being able to drive wherever I want to at the moment's notice and not having to worry about like when's the next train coming or what have you. But then again, I've never lived in a place with very good public transport. When I grew up, like you had to drive places or you had no choice, like you could not go anywhere. And it would always piss me off because I wanted a train when I was younger so that I could get a train to the city to drink and it just wasn't there. Had to take like buses and stuff and like, I remember sprinting through the city multiple times to catch like the last bus at like 1.15 in the morning or something, awful. When I see this show, Not Just Bikes, talk about all the different sort of ways that a society or a city can be constructed to allow for bikes and different levels of car infrastructure and stuff and different levels of public transport, buses, trams, trains. It's all very fascinating and stuff that I have effectively no experience with having lived my entire life with cars as a necessity to go anywhere. If I was gonna make a prediction, what was more likely that cities would all be retrofitted to be like more walkable, have more access for bikes and whatnot and cars be downplayed or full self-driving becomes like a reality that everyone has, like everyone has full self-driving. I would bet more on the machines. Cause I feel like the cycle of replacing cars, five, 10 years or something, what's the average, I'm not sure. Whatever that cycle is, you could have different generations of cars, but different generations of entire cities. Like you don't just replace the entire infrastructure of a city, at least not easily. Like the fundamental shifting of people's attitudes and goals would just be so significant to change that. I mean, there's no reason you couldn't have both. I'm just saying like, if I was gonna bet on one changing how transport works, I would go with a full self-driving. I just think if it works, it's easier to implement than a fundamental restructuring of culture, people's attitudes towards public transport and the infrastructure of an entire city. I'd say just things that I've been seeing that I find interesting. |
| 07. May 2021 | Fun fact about the name "Monika" | Fun fact about the name Monica. As I said in my last stream chat, I only recently learned that saying Monica slow sounds like my N-word. I was just blown away. Like, I'm sure kids around the world have known this. This might be a staple of playground culture, and I just never knew. Crazy. I also saw a clip on YouTube. It's DarkViperAU says the N-word. And I'm like, what? And so I click it, and it's just me saying N-word. Like, it's a compilation of a video that isn't even on my channel anymore. And it's just me going N-word, N-word, N-word, N-word. Apparently the thumbnail is funny, but I couldn't see the thumbnail for some reason. It's weird. Another thing, another video I saw of me, because you know, the videos that people make about me are just the best on YouTube, guys. No, but, um, it's DarkViperAU perfectly cut screens. Only two minutes long. And I saw it a long time ago, but it has 400,000 views. I was like, wow. Um, as far as fan-made content, not a lot gets that high. I think that people want me to make compilations of my fails and stuff. I don't think I should make a compilation of all my fails for no damage. I should make a compilation of all the times I yelled. If someone could afterstream that to me, I'd appreciate it. Because I will be going through, at some point, like, all the episodes to get clips from it. And having a perfectly cut screen thing would be great for the entire series. It was already up, yeah, but it was made in, like, November. So, like, there's many, many more months of me dying on the inside and expressing it on the outside. |
| 07. May 2021 | Fun fact about the name "monika" | Fun fact about the name Monica. As I said in my last stream chat, I only recently learned that saying Monica slow sounds like my N-word. I was just blown away. Like, I'm sure kids around the world have known this. This might be a staple of playground culture, and I just never knew. Crazy. I also saw a clip on YouTube. It's DarkViperAU says the N-word. And I'm like, what? And so I click it, and it's just me saying N-word. Like, it's a compilation of a video that isn't even on my channel anymore. And it's just me going N-word, N-word, N-word, N-word. Apparently the thumbnail is funny, but I couldn't see the thumbnail for some reason. It's weird. Another thing, another video I saw of me, because you know, the videos that people make about me are just the best on YouTube, guys. No, but, um, it's DarkViperAU perfectly cut screens. Only two minutes long. And I saw it a long time ago, but it has 400,000 views. I was like, wow. Um, as far as fan-made content, not a lot gets that high. I think that people want me to make compilations of my fails and stuff. I don't think I should make a compilation of all my fails for no damage. I should make a compilation of all the times I yelled. If someone could afterstream that to me, I'd appreciate it. Because I will be going through, at some point, like, all the episodes to get clips from it. And having a perfectly cut screen thing would be great for the entire series. It was already up, yeah, but it was made in, like, November. So, like, there's many, many more months of me dying on the inside and expressing it on the outside. |
| 25. December 2019 | Funniest movie I have ever seen | What is the funniest movie that I have ever seen? The funniest movie I've seen? I don't know. What came to mind was Aeroplane, but wouldn't say it's the funniest movie It's just like a very good comedy I remember watching Robin Hood main titles like a lot when I was a kid. I loved that movie Well like the Mel Brooks movies, what is it? Spaceballs and stuff. Found hilarious. I didn't- oh Prince- actually Princess Bride might be the funniest movie. That movie is so good But it isn't as funny like with repeat watches. I think it's hard to have a comedy that's like continues to be funny after you know all the jokes Why I'm not- |
| 05. February 2021 | Funny argument I had on twitter about chaos mod | A funny argument I had on Twitter about Chaos Mod. I got into the dumbest Twitter argument. You got no idea. It's so dumb. I didn't even want to explain it's so dumb. So every single time anyone mentions Chaos Mod on Twitter, I get tagged into it either by the person who's making the original tweet or someone responding to the tweet. And usually I just ignore it because who cares? But I was added in this tweet yesterday where this dude was saying Uber hacksaws or something whatever his name is Setting the trends of doing Chaos Mod. Hell yeah. I'm like who the fuck is Uber hacksaws? I'm like come on man like I've done 60 videos on it Jelly's done Did a video for like 22 million people Mr. Beast did it for like 17 million call me Kevin Is it been doing it for like a last month or something? Like whoever this guy is he's clearly not setting any trends And after I tweeted this I'm like that was kind of silly because it's not my job to correct People on the internet because obviously there's gonna be shit Misattributed or people trying to grab credit where credit isn't due all the fucking time and I can't spend my time correcting that shit And like a day later this uber hacksaw guy comes in he's like hey man What's all these arguments about like who started what trend I thought we left that shit in 2011 I'm sitting there like this isn't an argument over who started a trend I'm merely pointing out that this particular person clearly didn't start the trend There's no argument over who started a trend who knows who were the first person start. There's no one really did No trend is started by a singular person I'm saying this guy is clearly not starting a trend and he gets all up in arms That I corrected this dude for falsely giving him credit. I'm like, that's just a really bad look It's like one guy falsely falsely gives another guy credit another one points this out and the guy who's falsely being given credits Like hey, yo, bro. Why you why you correcting him for I'm like, what a fucking ass hat So it's like I'm like so what you're saying is you would rather Him had falsely given you credit and no one had corrected and your problem with this situation is that a correction was made He's like, yeah, but I admitting it fair enough I'm like like sure criticize me for wasting my time on Twitter if you like cuz I was but I was in bed and I had Nothing better to do. I was just responding to shit the people out of me in but uh What a weird way to spin it as if it was a an argument over who started trend rather than whether he personally was involved That's I'm saying like it what stupid arguments you get into with people on Twitter man. What a complete waste of my time funny and retrospective |
| 22. December 2020 | Funny reference to GTA VI in 2021. | Funny reference to GTA 6 in 2021. So the dude who does pitch meetings released a video today where he titled it something like, this video is going to age poorly. Talking about how 2021 is going to be so amazing and he just mentions all these clearly very exaggerated things that are never going to happen in 2021, but that, you know, in a dream reality they might happen. And one of the things that he mentioned was GTA 6. It's like, man, I'm just, I don't have any time anymore because I'm spending so much time playing GTA 6. That would be the dream, but it's not going to come out in 2021. I did find the reference funny though. I don't think it's inconceivable that Among Us might still actually be popular all throughout 2021. Clearly not as popular as it is now, but that would not surprise me. And plus we have the new map to look forward to. |
| 08. June 2020 | Furry artists | furry artists fursuits cost a lot of money, so I found out because of the What's his name echo Fox or something who does smash in and has like a fursuit or something? And I didn't get like an award with a fursuit and table was discussing what a fursuit costs Is it is it's thousands right not tens of thousands. There's a reason fursuit is usually artists that are always taking commissions Isn't that like a running joke that? the easiest way to be a successful artist online is to Draw stuff for ferries. I remember when we were discussing getting emotes for my channel Some was like oh you get gonna get one of those furry artists man. They they do some good work. I could make some great I Mean especially because I guess I guess I was I guess I was looking for a dogger emote I guess a furry would have some knowledge of drawing dogs. Maybe not the exact way that I want |
| 01. July 2020 | Further collaboration with Modest Pelican | Further collaborations with Modest Pelican. It would shock me if I never found something else to do with Modest Pelican for the rest of my time on YouTube. But um, yeah, if he played GT Online on PC, I would probably play with him for a day or something. He can show me the ropes of how to play the game. But he's on PS4, and I'm not super enthralled by GT Online anyway. I mean, I wouldn't mind playing with him. Besides that, I haven't done in real time collaborations with anyone before. I would worry it would be awkward. It's one thing to be yourself and make jokes. It's another thing to have another person there, and how well you joke around and how you act impacts the content. And how comfortable they're going to be and stuff. It's a bit more pressure, you know? I would hate to not be good at it and make things awkward for another person. Thanks for watching! |
| 01. July 2020 | Further collaboration with modest pelican | Further collaborations with Modest Pelican. It would shock me if I never found something else to do with Modest Pelican for the rest of my time on YouTube. But um, yeah, if he played GT Online on PC, I would probably play with him for a day or something. He can show me the ropes of how to play the game. But he's on PS4, and I'm not super enthralled by GT Online anyway. I mean, I wouldn't mind playing with him. Besides that, I haven't done in real time collaborations with anyone before. I would worry it would be awkward. It's one thing to be yourself and make jokes. It's another thing to have another person there, and how well you joke around and how you act impacts the content. And how comfortable they're going to be and stuff. It's a bit more pressure, you know? I would hate to not be good at it and make things awkward for another person. Thanks for watching! |
| 17. December 2020 | Future collaborations with Sonny Evans. | Future collaborations with Sonny Evans. Will I do more challenges with Sonny Evans if he invites me again? Absolutely. I don't think either video did amazingly though. Compared to Sonny's normal videos, I don't think it did particularly great. While it was fun, I'm sure Sonny would rather just move on to other things, you know. Like, Sonny has a series where he can reach out to content creators and do that series with them. Like, he'd be better off grabbing another GTA content creator and doing the same thing, you know. Rather than just doing me. I mean, business-wise. What I would love is a mod that enabled me to... Like, there's a two-player mod for this game, but I think it's only local. Like, you can't do it over the internet. I would love two-player, single-player GTA V with Chaos Mod. I figure that'd be a hard thing to program. Like, I've heard 5M might be able to facilitate something like that, but I don't know anything about it. So you would just play the game normally, but there'd be two of you. I'm fairly certain with 5M you can already play through single-player. Which is the two-player and chaos thing that need to be done. |
| 14. January 2021 | Future of Rockstar | I think GTA online is a weird thing because I don't think even Rockstar, I'm obviously just speculating, realized how big it would get. And then they just built on it and they've built on it. So you've got this, I think what they're doing with GTA 6 is it's going to be like that same great single player experience, a big map, but they're going to design this map to be like GTA online ready. And it's going to be like, you know what I mean? Like GTA 6 is going to be like a massive project. And I think they're going to be like the potential of GTA 6 online is so big. And I don't know what they're going to do with it, but I have a feeling it is just going to be massive, like absolutely insane. The concern is always that they're not holding anything back that GTA 6, it's never going to come out because every time they have a good idea, they think, oh, you know, we're just throw this on GTA online right now and get money right now, as opposed to five years from now releasing that thing for GTA 6 online or whatever. I have no idea what's going to happen with GTA 6. Hopefully before we die. Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah, hopefully it will eventually come. It'll be a little bad when it does. You obviously didn't like Red Dead 2, but in my opinion, like I am just undoubtedly a Rockstar fanboy, but it's just like, I genuinely love their games. Like I really do. There are certain aspects of their older games that are just, because they're outdated, that feel rough to me, but modding them and just giving myself a map or whatever, the ability to move your camera or whatever with Vice City. I enjoy all the other GTA games and I want to play the rest of the Rockstar games when I get around to it. I'm excited certainly for GTA 6 and I, as I say, there's just a handful of things in Red Dead that just didn't drive with me, but certainly what they do with GTA, as shown by their past ones and their current, I would be very surprised if I didn't like GTA 6. Very surprised. But the concern is a lot of the people who worked on the previous GTA games are now gone. They, was it Leslie Benzies or I don't know the names of these people, but it's not going to be the same people rising it or designing it or what have you that they had in the past. And so the concern is that it's not going to be as good. It's going to be a completely different thing. Or there was a, the CEO or something was talking about how they want Rockstar to make shorter games rather than releasing what they're doing now, you know, work on a game for seven years or whatever and releasing one they want Rockstar to make more games more frequently. So we might not get a massive epic like GTA 5 that took, you know, 30 plus hours, whatever, for the person to finish casually. We might get ourselves a game that takes four to eight hours or something to finish and then there would just be more focused on online. And certainly for a person like me who likes single player games, I'm not sure I would find that as appealing, you know? Yeah. I hear what you're saying. My gut tells me GTA 6 will be a big long GTA San Andreas, GTA 4, 5 type campaign where it's really serious. I just, I really feel like Rockstar wouldn't risk like, risk that. Like they, I think it's going to happen. I just, and then I, but I do think there'll be like a lot of like, they'll build a world, a lot of their games is just their world, right? Like an amazing world that you can go around in the detail and it's amazing. Like that is a huge part of their games. So they, it'd be like that would take a lot of the time, right? Like the actual storyline is actually just all happens in that world. So I can't really imagine them doing like a four or eight hour campaign. Yeah. Like I, I, because if I was in their shoes, I wouldn't want to destroy what they've already done as in like they have a precedent of this working so well, making this massive Epic and then the online attached to it. I, if I was in their shoes, I wouldn't break that formula. I would, I would do the same thing that got me a billion dollars last time. Cause I want another billion dollars, you know? Yeah. Of course. |
| 27. March 2021 | GME stock and Bitcoin | and bitcoin keep in mind this ramble is from February 25th Hi, Jimmy. Hold you me. I think you're all nuts buying gme. I think you're bloody crazy There's there's a very good write-up that destiny did it's like a two-hour long video I know you're not going to watch it, but it's extraordinarily detailed explaining Who benefited from the gme thing? Why all the hype is nonsense? Why robin hood? Probably didn't do anything wrong and they did only what they were obligated to do to do prior to robin hood Preventing additional buyers because they were running into liquid liquidity issues Retail investors were already selling more stock than they were buying The people who were continuing to drive up the price of gme Wasn't retail investors. It was hedge funds who were using their massive amount of their massive capital to Take money from other hedge funds the people who benefited from gme the most the the the people who In the hedge funds, you know the hedge fund managers and all that shit There's there's no evidence that milvina or whatever still needs to get shares to to cover their Shorting and the wall street bets continues to delete Negative comments or comments about people's losses and stuff that should scare anyone getting involved It's just another one of those meme hype things where Everyone wants to get involved because they they fear they're missing out. I don't think it's a pomp and dumb necessarily but like the the peak has already happened and it the people holding the bag at the end of the day mainly going to be the retail investors who have been largely misled have been inspired by uh This this rhetoric of you're fighting the man, dude Don't let them win and you've got to wonder how How much these uh these people driving this narrative are? uh are Knowing that they're just driving a narrative to give themselves a additional profit or whatever or how much um You know, they bought into their own hype like they they actually how much do they believe this narrative versus how much they're just being opportunistic and Using what influence they have on these message boards and stuff on reddit to profit Jimmy has gone up a lot today. Oh because people are still buying into it. It's like um uh, conor bryant Sent out a tweet saying that he was buying into it as I said Well, some of this was this was obvious to me prior to watching destiny's video Watching that video Having the each claim broken down what actually went on the figures behind the scenes Uh very enlightening That no one's gonna be watching that shit. The video is terribly presented Because the meme is gonna persist just some guy just sitting at home going. Ah, it's jimmy star I mean, so buy a little bit of that, you know in the same way that like uh, elon musk or whatever tweeted out Uh a little while ago where he what do you say bitcoin and ethereum? I think they're too high in price Then I saw someone else in my timeline on twitter saying like oh man fucking elon musk tweets out That they're too high and I lose 17 percent of the value of my crypto currency. What the fuck? It's just it's just memes If you believe the meme has gone strong and enough people are going to continue buying it because the meme is strong Then yeah You should be buying into it I suppose and just hoping that you can dive out before the meme dies and leaves leave someone else holding the back but it's not going to be the hedge funds as a totality that's losing the money because they've got eons worth of experience collectively knowing uh When to bail out on these schemes Individual hedge hedge funds may lose out like a melvin capital or whatever been And bitcoin is not a currency anymore. It's being traded as a commodity aren't currencies also commodities People trade currencies already Currencies are traded and people do put money in different currencies Don't they even don't people even speculate on the currency market and bet against different currencies going up and down and and da da da Keep in mind, of course guys. I i'm not an economist and i'm not Some sort of savvy investor. This is just stuff I I hear and I I do Casually follow like don't take me as a gospel, you know That bitcoin's not being spent to buy things only bought for an investment Yeah, I see what you mean Has there no but he said bitcoin is no longer a currency uh, I don't think there's ever been a point where the majority of trades of bitcoin have been for goods and services as opposed to as a way to Park wealth if if for something to be a currency, it has to be more involved in trades of more than simply of currency for itself or whatever It's bad phrasing. But what i'm saying is if it if it has to Not simply be a way of parking wealth, then I don't think bitcoin has ever been a currency like I don't know what Something has to be to be a currency Like what requirements are there for something to be a currency? I think bitcoin would be such an unstable thing to be a currency It does seem to have great swings. I mean there do seem to be some people who sincerely believe that bitcoin will one day Be the global currency or whatever But I I think a lot of people with bitcoin is the fomo thing They fear that they're going to miss out on the big thing and so everyone's buying into it There is not enough bitcoin for it to become a global currency, but isn't it infinite infinitely divisible? No Really? Because I know That eventually there will be no more bitcoins to mine and apparently Each bitcoin is harder to mine than the previous bitcoins before it and they believe that uh eventually People will be paid for what? Facilitating transfers or something and that's how you like will be mining bitcoin, but you won't be mining bitcoin You'll be just facilitating trades or something. I don't mean it's over my head. I don't really care But why isn't it infinitely divisible? Why wouldn't it just be like you have 0.01% of a bitcoin? Or one fraction of a bitcoin, you know You can purchase fractions of a bitcoin. Yeah, so so why? given that you can have just fractions of one Would it uh Would it not be able to be a global currency today bitcoin is One in 100 million divisible, but it can be much more divisible if needed one day. It can't be inflated it Bitcoin plays a major role on the black market. Yeah, it doesn't surprise me Thunder foot |
| 12. April 2022 | GTA | GTA plus for those living under a rock. This is rock stars subscription service for GT online. So what do you think of this? GTA plus nonsense. I think it's stupid Surprisingly, hey, I did a video for 20 minutes ranting on it. Um the other day What do you what do you think their thought processes for releasing this now of all times? I think that they're gonna see that a lot of new players are gonna download GTA 5 This is free on the PS 5 some players are gonna be really get I don't know if you I'd use the word addicted But really get into the game and and so they're gonna say oh, I you know I get this benefit here and I'm gonna like, you know, I'm gonna get some extra stuff here But the benefits are garbage. I've read the benefits. They're like five hundred thousand dollars like every month $500,000 in GT online is not that much money That's like one MC business and I actually did the Kyle Perico heist today with a friend of mine and I made a million Two hundred thousand dollars in one hour in one hour playing and that they give you five hundred thousand dollars a month for buying that That's that's garbage. I remember watching teach G's video Is it true that they're like they're gonna give people early access to vehicles? That's what it seems like from the thing But if they do that, that's basically a paywall at that point. They're basically holding the vehicles at ransom Yeah, I mean does having the newer vehicles give you any sort of advantage or is it just like a bragging rats? Like I've got these vehicles you don't well It's it's more a bragging thing unless it becomes weaponized vehicles Because like right now the most broken vehicle in the game. I'm sure you know is the press remark, too That's the vehicle that you know all the annoying kids who spam that blow you up in the game constantly But it's uh, yeah, there's these vehicles are you mostly just you know, super cars and stuff like that But people are gonna show off and stuff like that. Um, yeah as bad as the Rest of the awards are I can totally see anyone who's really passionate about GT online for whatever reason just getting this for that alone And no one wants to be walking around going. Oh, I guess I can't have access to all this content for a week That sucks, especially because they priced it as six dollars. I'm sure most people You dedicating themselves to a game wouldn't see six dollars as a huge amount of money. So I'm saying like it's it's a scam It's not good value But I think it's it's priced low enough that anyone who's invest in the game is can just game be like, oh, it's only six dollars You know fuck it. There's no reason for them to do this. They're making fuck tons of money They shouldn't be paywalling the stuff But I think it's gonna be successful as sad as that is I think there's gonna be a lot of kids that are going to Buy this stuff. I mean the same thing happened with expanded enhanced a lot of people ended up buying it I told people I would only buy it, you know do my playthrough because I bought expanded enhanced mostly for the single player I didn't really buy it for the online I did make a new character to play with my friends But I guess just so I could do something But I bought it mostly for the single player because I wanted to do a playthrough the single player Yeah And things at the end of the day, even though expand enhanced wasn't really expanded and it was barely enhanced It is still technically the best version you can get on console. So it was always gonna sell I guess Yeah, at least somewhat especially when it was free was always gonna have heaps of downloads as well. This is a |
| 20. July 2022 | GTA 4 and rdr remasters cancelled | GTA 4 and Red Dead Redemption remasters cancelled. So apparently, because of the GTA trilogy being less than amazing and everyone raging over it and stuff, apparently Rockstar and or Take-Two have shelved the possibility for an original Red Dead Redemption remaster or remake, and a GTA 4 remaster or remake. Who knows what they would have done. And when I look at this, I'm like, do I care? GTA 4 holds up really well. The only thing it has is like technical issues. You could chuck one guy on that for like a weekend just to make the mods a part of the actual game to fix it. The remaster of Red Dead Redemption is probably more important because it's much less accessible being only on PlayStation 3 or whatever, right? Because it doesn't even have a PC release. I'm not sure how the emulation is. Maybe the emulation has gotten better. I'm not sure. But obviously, it was mainly Grove Street Games or whatever that screwed up the GTA trilogy remaster, remaster remake, whatever. And so like they could have just used someone else potentially. And from what I heard, the GTA trilogy remaster sold very well. It still sold tens of millions of copies. Like they made their money off it. But again, maybe this is suggestive that Take-Two Rockstar still to some degree cares about their reputation and didn't want to potentially do it wrong. They didn't want to farm it out and potentially suffer all that backlash again. Or maybe they do actually care and want to do it right so they'll do it off the GTA 6 or something. |
| 08. September 2021 | GTA 4 did some things better than GTA 5. | GTA 4 did some things better than GTA 5. GTA 4 had some things about it that made it feel more real. Like the gunplay felt a bit realer. The health bars on the people you're shooting at was kind of interesting. The combat was kind of interesting. The NPCs in the streets and stuff felt more real. The cops wouldn't just go fucking crazy when you looked at them. There were some good things about the way GTA 4 felt. But the driving was complete ass. When you're out there were a handful of boring missions and stuff. |
| 08. July 2021 | GTA 4 vs GTA 5 losing cops mechanics | On the mechanics of losing the police in GTA 4 or GTA 5 better. In GTA 4 you're actively working to lose the cops, but in GTA 5 a lot of it is just, you know, you just sit there. Waiting. Like it doesn't matter how well you avoid the cops, it still takes the same amount of time if you don't get seen. With GTA 4, if you avoid the cops really well and bust out of the circle, you immediately lose the cops. And you feel that sense of reward, like yeah I did good, I dodged the cops, yay me. In GTA 5 it's like, well I dodged the cops and I'm just gonna sit around here for a minute. You know. You don't get rewarded. |
| 26. August 2021 | GTA 4’s FPS Issues | GTA 4's FPS issues. GTA 4's bike physics is fucked up by FPS, which is why I had so much trouble driving bikes in GTA 4, because I didn't lock my FPS. And so things would just screw up every time I got on one. Someone, like, in the final mission, you have to drive a bike, and I was like, why can't I win this? This is complete garbage. And someone in chat's like, have you tried locking your FPS? I was like, what? No? Okay, I'll do that. Then I locked it, and everything was easier. It's crazy. |
| 28. November 2020 | GTA 5 100% No Damage Runs | GTA V 100% no damage run. Will I do Oko 100%? Completely pointless to do. There's nothing about 100% that has more risk of death. If I truly run out of things to do, then maybe. Now side missions don't really have a risk of dying. There's no real combat in the side missions. There's a few small exceptions, but like nothing major. I'm sure there would end up being like just a handful of spots where there's more risk, but there's nothing really major, you know. As in, doing it at 100% Oko would more be about just not tripping on my face. Not landing a parachute jumping correctly. Not hitting a wall or something. And doing that for 10 hours would be very frustrating. I'm already doing it for 10 hours, so even longer, it'd be 15 hours. The episodes would look roughly the same because the episodes that go on YouTube skip everything that doesn't really have a risk of death. And so most of the 100% would be ok. |
| 06. March 2021 | GTA 5 Geoguesser for speedrunners | GTA 5 GeoGuessr for speedrunners. I was thinking of a game show of sorts involving speedrunners of GTA. You'd be showing them a picture of a map of a random location, since you guys know the map so well. You'd be better off just doing it with people who are familiar with the game, not just speedrunners. Speedrunners tend to know a lot about the game from a specific context, as in you know very well the routes that you use and stuff that's potentially important for the speedruns. But you don't know much about the superfluous stuff. It wasn't until I started making YouTube content and I did these other challenges and did chaos and blah blah blah that I experienced more of the game. I mean before that obviously I still knew a lot about the game, but just speedrunning the game doesn't give you a full picture of the game, you know. It's like I speedrun Dark Souls 3, and I specifically knew how to speedrun it, but I knew basically nothing else about the game. |
| 02. May 2021 | GTA 5 Is 8/10 | GTA 5 is 8 out of 10. Do you think GTA 5's stealth mechanics should have been deepened? Absolutely. As I've said many times before, GTA 5 does nothing amazingly, it does everything like good. There's no individual aspect of this game that is oh my god this is amazing and crazy and cool and this will never be improved upon. It's just yeah, there's no real bad part of the game. Everything is done well. It is the most 8 out of 10 game I've ever seen. Graphics are pretty strong, they're not that good. For like a lot of it, a lot of the things the problem was is it was limited by the hardware of the 360 and the Playstation 3 and of course it was limited by being on a console so you can't have like ridiculous button, button sequences and whatnot. Like everything has to be mappable to a controller and everything had to be runnable at least to some degree on very weak hardware. The game is fucking unbelievable considering how old it is though. Like if you compare this game to Watch Dogs that came out around the same time, it has, Watch Dogs arguably has better graphics. At least in some areas. Watch Dogs has better scenery in terms of that you can destroy trees and whatnot. There are certainly things that Watch Dogs did better than GTA 5. There's things that did worse. Do you think games compromised to get into consoles? When they're made near the end of the lifespan of a console, absolutely. Right now? Not really. Except in terms of mechanics and stuff. Because obviously you can't do mechanics that require fine point pinpoint accuracy for a console, so you've got as a joystick. You can't have 78 different moves to be bound to individual buttons because you've only got a handful of buttons on a controller. But then again you wouldn't want to overcomplicate the buttons on the PC either. No. |
| 27. March 2022 | GTA 5 No Damage season 2. | GTA 5 No Damage Season 2. Is there ever going to be an Oko Season 2? I doubt it, which is a shame because the route is so good. You never know one day I might go back to it for the hell of it. I mean if GTA 6 isn't out, you know, three years from now, maybe I'll do another one. |
| 31. March 2021 | GTA 5 Still Making Memes After 8 Years | GTA V still making memes after 8 years. It is interesting though that that cutscene became a meme, you know, 7 plus years after the game released. It's weird what things just suddenly catch on. Who was the first person to make a meme out of it? Couldn't have been the Harry Potter one. The Japanese streamer. Yeah, I guess before the actual full cutscene there was the Vtubers who don't speak English or whatever who would say the N-word and so the cutscene became, it became popular as that scene in GTA V that Vtubers would say the N-word when they're watching. Because absent the social stigma of course, the way that Lamar says the N-word, it's funny and it's totally something that you would replicate were you given the chance, you know. As it's a little sing-song and funny movement with it. It's pretty easy to make a meme popular on Reddit. Is it? You think you can bot a meme to success? I don't know about that. Bots probably would help though. Manga ass can be weird. Manga is so weird. Like- |
| 07. May 2021 | GTA 5 all achievements speedrun | GTA V Achievement Speedrun. Yes I do think the single player game will be changed with expanded and enhanced. If for nothing else they're making it to split the game. As in online won't be connected to single player anymore. Oh my god guys, if they separate the online and single player, they'll probably separate the achievements as well, and then I'll have 100% of the achievements in the game. It'll also likely make it so there'll be a new speedrun, speedrunning all the achievements, cause they will now all be obtainable in single player. |
| 02. February 2021 | GTA 5 characters in GTA 6 | GTA 5 characters in GTA 6. It would not surprise me at all if characters from GTA 5 were in GTA 6 in some small way. I'd be very surprised if they were like main characters. The best you could hope for, I think, for a character from GTA 5 would be like a similar role to Lester. When Michael, despite having all his money or whatever, still wants to stay in the game because he realizes his life is hollow without it. And so he helps you set up heists or whatever. Begrudgingly. Yes, Michael becomes a disabled person who sets up heists. That's exactly what I meant. It's not uncommon in stories for the old guard to pass off the baton to the new, you know. In a way, that's what Trevor killing... who was it? Killing Johnny. That's kind of what that was. Like obviously there will be references to GTA 5 in the same way there were references to GTA 4 in this game. Nah, man, a lot of people life are lost in the dams. I obviously didn't. But I wonder what the game's rated. Like, I don't know. Where do they rate games? Do they even exist when the game came out? The Battle of Gay Tony was definitely better. Great game. Really the biggest problem that Rockstar has with bringing back any of the characters for GTA 6 is that all the characters are filthy fucking rich with ending C. Both... well, for one, that if they brought back all three of the characters, they'd have to say which of the endings was true. But also that they're all rich. So like the story couldn't be they need more money or whatever. It'd have to be like some kind of a grudge. In the same way Michael pulling down the tennis pro's house or whatever. That kind of stuff. Michael Trevor Franklin is pissed off with X-person who's done them wrong and they ask you for help in dealing with the matter. But then of course Lester is fucking super rich, but he has no issues setting up heists for GTA Online. Because the core of the game is strong with all these characters. update Itself |
| 03. January 2021 | GTA 5 cutscenes with character model changes . | GTA V cutscenes with character model changes have you guys been getting recommended these small clips of GTA V where the character models are changed? originally I was like that's a cool idea probably deserving of getting those views, it's like a simple thing that like fucking anyone could kinda do but now I'm getting recommended to them on YouTube over and over again and it's kind of annoying but I just keep going not interested, I'm not interested in the channel blah blah blah but people send them to me all the fucking time like hey man you know this cutscene that you've seen 18,000 times wouldn't you want to see it again but with Harry Potter instead of one of the characters? no! I don't! to the 110 people who have sent me that clip thank you but no thank you you might have been the US haircut one yeah I wonder if that person was inspired to start making those again because of the Brad one that got picked on my channel |
| 13. May 2021 | GTA 5 expanded and enhanced cutscene movie | GTA 5 expanded and enhanced cutscene movie. Can you please watch cutscenes? No. No, I've been thinking guys. I'm sure Rockstar wouldn't appreciate it, and it technically is against TOS. But when the expanded enhanced edition of the game comes out, making a cutscene movie for it would be pretty sweet. I mean, whatever the case is, I will need to re-record all the cutscenes for videos that I make. Well, I suppose as long as there's actually a significant change, which every indication says there is. Gonna be. Why doesn't Rockstar like it? Hypothetically speaking, a person could be curious about the story of GTA 5. A cutscene movie would technically replace their need to actually buy the game. Like, videos of gameplay can't really replace actual gameplay, you know? Because the experience of playing the game is very different from watching a person playing a game. But a cutscene movie can technically replace the need to play the game for the story, you know? You could also watch a let's play. Yeah, I'm sure Rockstar doesn't super appreciate a person who shows literally the entire game via a let's play. But it's probably the least of Rockstar's concerns, right? Whatever they're losing on that, if they're losing anything at all, is probably not a big concern for them. In the TOS or whatever, they just write that in case they have some reason to take it down or whatever, right? You know, covering their asses. I doubt they're gonna send me a cease and desist and be like, look man, take down your cutscene movie immediately. Is a mild concern. Especially because I don't think they ever took down any of those that were made on YouTube. Like, there's tons of cutscene movies on there, right? And they all have shitty quality. |
| 06. March 2021 | GTA 5 geoguesser for speedrunners | GTA 5 GeoGuessr for speedrunners. I was thinking of a game show of sorts involving speedrunners of GTA. You'd be showing them a picture of a map of a random location, since you guys know the map so well. You'd be better off just doing it with people who are familiar with the game, not just speedrunners. Speedrunners tend to know a lot about the game from a specific context, as in you know very well the routes that you use and stuff that's potentially important for the speedruns. But you don't know much about the superfluous stuff. It wasn't until I started making YouTube content and I did these other challenges and did chaos and blah blah blah that I experienced more of the game. I mean before that obviously I still knew a lot about the game, but just speedrunning the game doesn't give you a full picture of the game, you know. It's like I speedrun Dark Souls 3, and I specifically knew how to speedrun it, but I knew basically nothing else about the game. |
| 20. March 2021 | GTA 5 getting banned and video games getting scapegoated. | bad almondry. GTA getting banned and video games scapegoated. GTA might be getting bans? Uh, you mean in Illinois or whatever? I doubt it. And even if they did ban it in that state, it would just be the sale of the product as opposed to playing it. And so you just buy it online from Steam or whatever. Illinois is run by a crapped asshole. Violent video games have always been a great scapegoat for any particular issue in society. Especially by those appealing to older voters. You may recall Trump getting up there and be like, we need to ban the violent video games. And they released that really fucking terrible mashup of like Call of Duty and shit. But look how violent this is. Oh my God. Clinton said something similar. There's that clip of her viral fucking going around as well. I mean, there's this stuff that's really important. There's like every single political ideology you could say or political party or something has scapegoated video games to a greater or less extent at some point. It's just politically useful as a tool, especially when you're trying to get the votes of the older population. Oh, I knew it. New home video games were bad news. What's that? It's causing all the cats to be stuck in trees. I fucking knew it. You want them to stop doing it? Chat vote in elections. You can't you're 15. I feel like you're just making excuses. Okay. Look, election fraud isn't that hard, you know. Okay. I of course am joking. Game. |
| 30. June 2022 | GTA 5 is the hardest speedrun | GTA V is the hardest speedrun. I wrote on Twitter something, maybe people would have thought it was beta or something, but I actually agree with it. I think GTA V is probably one of the hardest speedruns to do optimally. Your speed can be varied so much, based on so many different tiny factors, that driving a single scene absolutely optimally, with the highest speed possible, is almost impossible. I'm talking like you'd have to micro-analyze the ground to find every single even slight indentation, and perfectly hit it at the exact right angle to get your highest speed possible in each conceivable scene. It's just never gonna happen. You can hypothetically do that in Super Mario 64 or something, but you can't do that here. Tassing this game not only would be a monumental undertaking that would just take a staggering amount of time, especially considering the length of the game. I'm not even sure how you could conceive of doing everything optimally, is what I'm saying. This run has a lot of physics exploits, like a lot of them, many different kinds, and it's just fairly impossible to do them all exactly perfectly and still maintain control of yourself. You could do it if you were a machine, but, you know... |
| 28. April 2021 | GTA 5 is the worst GTA | GTA 5 is the worst GTA. GTA 5 is the worst Grand Theft Auto? Have you never played Grand Theft Auto 1 or 2? Because those are definitely worse. I prefer GTA 5 over the other GTAs, but I can understand why you might prefer one of the others over GTA 5. I've said before, I think all the GTAs do something better or worse than all the others, you know? I find GTA 5, in my mind, it doesn't fail at anything, while the other GTAs, in part because of the time that they were produced, have some flaws that in many cases you can fix with mods, right? It's like a separate question comparing the older GTAs without mods to GTA 5 versus the older GTAs with mods to GTA 5. Like, I would imagine Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, released today, would be better than GTA 5, released today. Although, certainly, you could argue whether or not everything in San Andreas would even pass today. But that's a separate question. Assuming that they'd be able to be released. Do I think GTA San Andreas is overrated because of nostalgia? No, having played it, not having played it as a kid, there is some great stuff in that game. It is a very large game with a lot of features. It is in some ways more fleshed out than GTA 5 because GTA 5 lost a lot of its stuff to GTA Online. I say I prefer GTA 5 over GTA SA. I can understand why people disagree with that. I can also agree for GTA 4. GTA 4 is a little bit harder for me because GTA 4 is good, but it's just a very empty thing. The characters and story of GTA 4 are very endearing, but a lot of its controls and the world itself seems very hollow and bleak. Because it's the point, you know, because this is part of the story really. Like I can see an argument for SA and GTA 5 as either being the best. I'm harder on GTA 4. Thinking as a second in my mind, you know. Do I plan on playing GTA 4 again? Yeah, potentially one day. I may as well go through all the other Rockstar games first though. Where thoughts on Bully? Bully thus far has been like, every character is amazing. The story is eh. The gameplay is like, it's alright. It's there. I don't hate anything I've done thus far. Some of it's been kind of fun and whatever. But the characters, every cutscene, it just feels so alive with some new dynamic personality that's just been thrown in action. They're all so distinct. Like I would hate to be the person to make Bully 2 to try to make characters that aren't just somehow carbon copies of the characters in Bully 1. When I first started playing Bully, I thought it was just going to be a delightful little thing around the school. Do a few classes, do a few things and you know, head off. I thought it was a short game. But learning that there's like a whole city scape, you know. Very unexpected. And I can't wait to see more of it, you know. L.A. New York opinion? I quite enjoyed it for the time that it spent in the game. I think I should go back and finish it though. But when I finish it, I'll do it in VR. I mean, Nightclub is awesome. I'm sure I must have seen it somewhere. Ever played Red Evidence 1? There was a small video of me playing Red Evidence 1 on my YouTube channel. It's like a five minute video. There was also a clip or two of it on my clip channel. And funny enough, what was in the clip didn't actually make it into the cuts of the YouTube video. I didn't play it that long. I didn't like the controls or how bad it looked. Sizzy, if you ever have nothing else to watch and you were like, I mean, I want to find some to watch, go look at my Dark Fiber AU Classics playlist. Because a lot of that stuff is very good, but doesn't get recommended to a wider audience. |
| 14. June 2021 | GTA 5 is/was an odd choice for my main game | GTA 5 was an odd choice for my main game. What I think of rhythm games never really appealed to me. And when I think about my gaming history and the kind of games that I spent most of my time on, like it just seems so weird. Like all the time I spent playing all those tower defense games in Warcraft 3, you know. All the achievement farming in World of Warcraft. At least some games that I played when I was younger make sense, you know, Age of Empires 2 and Heroes of Magic 3. But certainly I didn't play, uh, you know, single player shooters when I was younger. GTA 5 might have been like, my first single player shooter that I ever finished. As I say frequently, I never expected that this would be the game that I play and spend my time on. But it just gripped me. Maybe because it felt so different and new to me, I don't know. But god did I suck at this game when I first started. And some would argue nothing has changed. I absolutely boomeranger. The pressure does make me play worse, but it's just, it's just life. Even as a speedrunner, I never did well when I was on world record pace. It's a skill to have, to be under that kind of pressure, especially while streaming. Or knowing you've got a lot on the line and still performing. Some people can do really well at that. And, you know, they can be in a tournament for half a million dollars and to them it's just like they're playing at home and there's no difference. But for others, you know, that kind of pressure breaks them and fucks up everything. I don't think the pressure has caused me to fuck up many of these runs. But I do feel it. That's just the nature of the game, unfortunately. |
| 14. November 2022 | GTA 5 isn’t as good as you think. | GTA 5 isn't as good as you think. So there was this video released over a year ago now by English Ben. Why GTA 5 isn't as good as you think a speedrunner's perspective. He starts the video by saying, you know, he's not a guy with thousands of hours of speedrunning in GTA 5, but he is a person with thousands of hours of speedrunning in the earlier GTA titles. I don't like to say that maybe someone who has that experience might disagree. Despite that I do have thousands of hours of GTA 5 experience, I don't find myself disagreeing with this video at all. It's why I don't think I ever mentioned it in Rambles. I watched it and I was like, yeah, these are all fair criticisms. Like, who could argue with this? And the way he presents it is perfectly respectful, as in like he's not belittling you for liking the game and he acknowledges that the game does have good points, even if he points out the bad ones specifically in this video. Like the first thing he talks about is no freedom, specifically in regards to how you complete missions. All of us playing GTA 5 know that, right? What freedom exists in terms of like the speedrun is stuff that you like need to have a deep knowledge of the game to know. But worse than that though, what freedom does exist, even the stuff intentionally put in by Rockstar, you're almost punished for trying to find that stuff. Because in 99% of the time, if you try and do something that deviates even a little bit from the obvious linear path, you're going to get a mission fail and you're not going to be rewarded for your questing. I couldn't believe that when you got to Red Evidemption 2, it became even worse than that. It was one of the worst aspects of GTA 5 and they just doubled down on it. And it makes me afraid that they're like, oh, look, GTA 5 was so successful with this formula, Red Evidemption 2 was so successful with this formula. And so we will get a 100% linear, no deviation, no freedom playing experience in GTA 6, even though they've been criticized from every angle for this feature of the game. He says that GTA 5 is easy, there's no punishment for failure. Every time you mission fail, you go back like two feet and you lose effectively nothing. You never lose any guns. Money is largest for cosmetics. You only need to buy any weapons. You can play the entire game without even purchasing a single goddamn thing. Anything you purchase is just like for the hell of it. It doesn't really help you get through the game. It isn't necessary. And who would disagree with that? The game becomes very hard with the speedrun. And when you do intentional challenges and stuff, but outside of that, it's easy as hell, as is Red Evidemption 2. Is that just a product of the time? Is that what people are more interested in? But so many difficult games are so successful. Yeah, I don't know. The in-game mission skip feature is stupid in an old title. Who could disagree with that? They even brought it into Red Evidemption 2, I think. Right. But I mean, they had that in Red Evidemption 1, but you need to fail five times to use it. And as I said, though, like most people don't even know the mission skip feature exists in the game. Like, if you're dying or failing three times in a game that easy, you'll just spam an enter to get back as soon as possible. You're not reading the prompts down the bottom corner. Yeah, I don't think the game was hard enough to justify that. Of course, that could just be us being speedrunners and so used to the game and all that stuff. But it's just hard to fathom that anyone applying themselves even to some small degree couldn't get through it. The 100% is arbitrary and collectibles give no significant awards, unlike previous titles. Who could disagree? You don't need to collect everything in the game to complete the 100% checklist. And I remember times in my 100% runs when I'd complete getting all the collectibles and a person seeing this for the first time will be like, well, that's it. You just get that car. Yep. Or watch this, that's it. You just get that one mission where you shoot that guy. Yep. Side content provides no benefit outside of completing it for completion's sake. Also true. But of course, that's more about the story, the interactions and stuff. Like there's no gameplay benefit, but the side content is more about the characters and those interactions. But even those weren't particularly amazing, right? They were good as a one-off play or something, but they weren't insanely memorable and amazing, right? GTA Online is bad. Its content is lackluster and its stability is awful. Has always been true. And I'm surprised after so many years that they finally made some efforts in like the last year to improve it. Like what took them so long? Like even those who enjoy playing it is usually like, yeah, but like you can have fun playing it with your friends. That's true. As long as you're not a streamer who's targeted by mod menus, and as long as you're on consoles and you're playing with friends, it can be a great experience because there's so many things you can do in GTA Online in terms of all the mini games and whatnot. And no one would argue it's a smooth, easy to get into playing experience. And his conclusion here is good. GTA 5 is a good game, but a bad GTA game. Many positives, but many negatives. I've often said the reason why I like GTA 5 so much is because I get just a familiar glove to me. It's an open world with mechanics that I've gotten really used to and I quite enjoy. And then I can set my own goals and work towards achieving them. Knowing so much about the game, it just makes me feel good to play it. But I was never big into GTA before I started playing GTA 5. Now having played it for almost 10,000 hours, I can totally see how, especially as I've now gone back and played the older GTA titles, how someone who loved those games wouldn't love GTA 5. Definitely has a lot of strong points for it and it totally makes sense why it's so successful, but it definitely has its negative aspects that I hope they don't carry into GTA 6. As I say though, every single issue people have with GTA 5, it looks better by comparison to Red Abdomption 2, that has all those negative attributes, but like 5 times as bad. They are bad in GTA 5, but not so bad as to ruin the experience. In Red Abdomption 2, they can definitely ruin the experience people. |
| 31. March 2021 | GTA 5 still making nemes after 8 years | GTA V still making memes after 8 years. It is interesting though that that cutscene became a meme, you know, 7 plus years after the game released. It's weird what things just suddenly catch on. Who was the first person to make a meme out of it? Couldn't have been the Harry Potter one. The Japanese streamer. Yeah, I guess before the actual full cutscene there was the Vtubers who don't speak English or whatever who would say the N-word and so the cutscene became, it became popular as that scene in GTA V that Vtubers would say the N-word when they're watching. Because absent the social stigma of course, the way that Lamar says the N-word, it's funny and it's totally something that you would replicate were you given the chance, you know. As it's a little sing-song and funny movement with it. It's pretty easy to make a meme popular on Reddit. Is it? You think you can bot a meme to success? I don't know about that. Bots probably would help though. Manga ass can be weird. Manga is so weird. Like- |
| 14. June 2021 | GTA 5 story misconceptions | GTA 5 story misconceptions. How many videos do you think you could make clearing up misconceptions about GTA 5 story? Ah, dozens. A lot of it though would be met with the same kind of response, like, most people who played this game, you know, just played it and enjoyed it, didn't really think much about the story and just moved on with it. They didn't bother looking at extra details or material and stuff, so a lot of it would just be me showing people that stuff. But a lot of the comments, so like, on that last video that I made, it was very funny how many comments were like, well, this is obvious. Other people were like, oh, I never thought about it that way, that's interesting. And other people were like, no, you're fucking wrong, die. It's like, oh, you know, I mean, it may not need to be those exact terms, like, you know, but it's like, like, that kind of ferocity of calling into question my integrity and shit. It's just like, like I was just some, uh, Mr. Boss guy or whatever who was just making up bullshit for clicks. As I've said many times, I have continued to add to this really large script, explaining all the little details that explain Dave and Michael's relationship and how Brad and Trevor and all that stuff and how the heist was meant to go down and stuff. And, but I obviously still haven't released it because I'm still bogged down with this, but like a lot of content creators have issues thinking up ideas for me because I have so many consistent series that I can just continuously add content to. I don't need to think of a new idea every week. So when I do have an idea, I put it in a little pile and I get to it when I can. But because I've been so bogged down with this series for so long, the ideas have just piled up and up and up. And, you know, there is so much that I want to do that I've been tied to this series for so long. There's so many, you know, million, two million view videos that I could have done. Stuff that I know you guys would find more interesting, but I just haven't been able to do it. And who knows when I will be able to do it. But that's just life. This could have ended four months ago if it wasn't for a frame, but I'm still here. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 14. June 2021 | GTA 5's long load bug solved - Should we patch out RNG? | GT5's long load bug solved. Should we patch out RNG? Do I have a least favourite mission? Yeah, I'm cleaning out the bureau. It's not bad in this mission obviously, in this category, but I'm in speedrunning. It's just entirely random how many red lights the janitor gets before you get back to his house. There's nothing you can do about it. You're just sitting there waiting and waiting and it's like multiple minutes of just back to back bits of RNG. Terrible. There was a development in GT5 speedrunning within the last couple of days. Within the community I mean. There are now people who know about coding and stuff and they've looked into GT5's code and they've found what is the likely cause of the long load bug. For those who don't know, when you taxi to a side mission or even near a side mission, there is a random chance that you get a much longer load than normal. No one knew why this was or if it was avoidable. It turns out it's not avoidable. It is just random. The game basically in the code gets into a loop and Rockstar seem to know that this bug existed but rather than fixing it, they just put it on a 20 second timer or something. If it does happen, the game will just keep doing it for 20 seconds until the game is like oh okay this is happening and stop it or something. So there was a discussion whether or not we should add a fix for this into the runs. The consensus was while it would be nice, no. We're not going to add it because even though it is a bug, it is a glitch, it is something not intended or whatever, it is technically a part of the game this era and if we get into the habit of patching out RNG, where does that end? Potentially someone might find a strategy to avoid this or they might route around this random time loss or something and if we just removed it with coding, that potential ingenuity to solve the problem will never come to be. We can't make an argument like oh well we need to keep what the developers intended so we can remove it. Because we abuse things that the developers didn't intend all the fucking time. From my point of view, I wouldn't have cared all that much if it was implemented or not, especially considering how few people run the taxi categories. But yeah, I'm not displeased at this outcome. Had it gone to a vote, if people felt it was close, I probably would have just abstained. No one seriously argued in the mod room if it should be implemented. It was more just discussing what potential arguments could exist for it and they were all fairly quickly dismissed. But I guarantee you, in other speedrun communities, people might have gone a different way. Because speedrunning isn't some sort of monolith where everyone has the same ideas as to what speedrunning should be. And even as you may have seen in the GC5's controversial strats video that I made so long ago, we've butt heads even in our community about our different beliefs as to what different categories should be. Were Rockstar really half arse fixing that? There are a bunch of things that Rockstar half arse fixing. And again, to play devil's advocate, if you have some error that isn't groundbreakingly terrible for the player base, and maybe it's causing a little bit of a problem, if it would take you 10 days to fix it, or you can reduce its effects in 5 seconds or whatever, you'd probably pick the 5 seconds. There's a limited amount of dev time that you have, and the more complicated your fix, the more likely you're going to break something else inadvertently. It's a question of risk versus reward. If you can do something simply that in large part solves the problem, or something complex that entirely solves the problem, often the simplest solution is the better one. How can speedruns be verified if people can mod the game and fix time losses like that? If you did an entire run of 100% and you never got a long load bug, that alone would be cause for people to question the legitimacy of your run. You can't get into it too much, but trust me, it's a lot harder to get away with cheating than it is to cheat. It's funny, it's just like I was talking about before with these runs, where if you change one thing, change a bit of your routes, that is some new place where endless different things you've never seen before can happen. If you cheat, you change the way the game works in some capacity, the odds of you not inadvertently causing a bunch of other changes is very low. It is very hard to seamlessly cheat when you're trying to fool people who play the same game over and over and over and over again. Like I'm sure, like me you've seen me, I started Prologue once and there was like a singular frame of a lens flare and I was like what was that? What was that? I've never seen that before. Like I have done some scenes so many times that a single frame difference looks weird to me. Cheating is not impossible, but it's quite difficult. If you go speedrunning, are you doing one clean run without practice to see the time? That would be quite funny, but the time would be terrible. Yeah, but weird things happen when speedrunners abuse bugs, glitches, etc. not easy to prove the game was modded. I can't remember the specifics, but there have been times in the history of speedrunning where some one-off bug has happened, whether it be a hardware glitch or something like that, and it's given a person an advantage. In some cases where it doesn't look like a person cheated, didn't look like a person modded, but they've had something happen that gave them an advantage that has never been seen before, those runs will still often be disqualified. Because while you can't prove cheating, you don't have enough evidence that this was a legitimate thing as opposed to a cheated thing. You lean on the side of caution. In the overwhelming vast majority of cases, if someone sees something weird and that has never been seen before, usually it just leads to people trying to replicate that thing, and when it gets replicated, it shows that it's legitimate. There was a dude who accidentally got a bug in some RPG or something, and he skipped like two hours of the game. It was like, what the fuck has he cheated on? And then they just found out that this is a thing that you can do. Skipping two hours? Ah man, some of these really long games that are interconnected and all that stuff, you can skip heaps. I mean, look at Ocarina of Time. What's the time for Ocarina of Time now? Like under 10 minutes or something? Or is it 12? You can do it man, the length of that |
| 04. March 2021 | GTA 5’s hidden fps defect. | GTA V's hidden FPS defects. I saw Nick on Twitter, NMP lol I think his name is on Twitch, friend of Soda, Poppin. He tweeted out that he has a 5950x and a 3090, he's having trouble with GTA V stuttering. And I'm like oh that's my exact setup. And the instant I saw his setup I'm like I know his exact problem. He's definitely going above 140ish FPS. If you go above 140ish FPS in this game, your game will stutter. It doesn't matter your hardware. It's why we all cap it to around 140. I do 140 just to make sure there's no stutters at all. The further you move away from 140 the higher the likelihood you get at least a few stutters. I wonder how many people know that you can't go above 140 FPS. Like how common is that knowledge? Considering for most of the existence of GTA V, the overwhelming majority of people have not had hardware where they'd go above 140 FPS. Who knows why it is that way. Certainly it was made for consoles first so maybe that's the reason. Like I hear some people suggesting oh now you gotta change these settings man, turn this up, turn this down. It's all nonsense. It's just the people end up creating settings that coincidentally make it so they never go above 140 FPS. |
| 24. May 2022 | GTA 6 Box Art Leak | GTA 6 Box Art Leak I was setting Grand Theft Auto 5 as my stream category and I noticed it said GTA 6 and so as a joke I tweeted out Twitch confirms the box artwork for GTA 6 because it has a little bit of artwork there. I think it's just some fan thing like Twitch commonly puts in games before they release. I don't know what they use for the art most of the time but they pick something clearly. A lot of people are like I don't know if this is real Matt or are you serious? And so I'm like for those who asked yes this 100% real or future rockstar announcements will come via Twitch drop down menus. This decision makes as much sense as most other decisions they make. And then I think a handful of articles were written about it. Grand Theft Auto 6 box art revealed. DarkviperAU who is a verified twitter account to his credit recently tweeted that GTA 6's cover art has been revealed on Twitch and one can view it in a new category titled Grand Theft Auto 6. Since the cover art doesn't seem to be genuine one assumes his tweets were tinged with humour. These people out here questioned my sincerity. I haven't said a funny thing in years. Like. |
| 24. February 2022 | GTA 6 LEAKS AND DISCUSSION PODCAST | GTA 6 leaks and discussion podcast. I was watching more of the offline TV podcast, which was literally just three friends and like some guests I guess they're kind of friends with just talking. There were a lot of lols in the conversation where they had to actively work to think up something new to talk about and stuff. They didn't seem to be any real plans for discussion topics and they just talked for two hours and then they released it unedited on YouTube and I was I was just like this this should be something I'm doing but I need to find at least two other people I have some rapport with. It seems like such free easy content. Really I just need someone else who's doing a podcast like that that I can just be a guest on or just just be on permanently. So there's no work on my part. What would I call my podcast? Viper cast. Terrible. Terrible. How about I just call it GTA 6 leaks and discussion. I'm sure people will be very interested in such a topic. Oh yeah. Modest Pelicans group is called Sons of Virgins and I find that very funny. I think it was a very creative name. I wonder where he got it from or what inspired him to make that name. |
| 08. August 2022 | GTA 6 apparent “Wokeness” and female character leaks. | GTA 6 apparent wokeness and female character leaks So some of you may be interested in my takes on the most recent GTA 6 leaks. I haven't really seen them, I don't really care about them, I just want the game to come out. No amount of leaks will make me more interested than I already am in the game releasing. I've heard things of course where people are like oh my god, Rockstar has gone woke and all that shit. This is just the end game of any company that wants to make the maximum amount of money. There's always going to be cuts made to appeal to a wider amount of people. I can never be as big as MrBeast making the content that I do. My content will never have as broad an appeal as MrBeast's. Doesn't matter how good I get at it, how much I make, he'll always be the guy. And Rockstar has been around long enough that that was always going to be the end. Now how significant do I think any sort of changes or cuts are going to be? I don't think they're going to be that significant at all. Rockstar and GTA has weathered criticism its entire experience. And like people talk about like apparently there were cross dresses or trans people or something in GTA 5 and they were removed in a later update. How many of you remember that? Were any of you aware that those characters existed as a person who played for 9500 hours didn't even notice? Are you telling me if they don't have whatever references to trans people or cross dressing people or whatever the jokes were, if they aren't in GTA 6 it's going to be a dead game for you? Was there anything in GTA 5 that you can see them potentially removing as an idea in GTA 6 that's really going to matter to you? I can't think of anything. Because remember the mainstream aspects of the game have always been stuff that is broadly appealing. They're not just like they're going to open the game and try to offend half the people in the world. The worst that could possibly happen if you consider it all that bad is that the little jokes like posters and stuff aren't going to be as potentially offensive to people as they may have been in the past. And I don't think that's going to be a significant difference. From what I've heard GTA 5 was already kind of toned down in that department from GTA 4. Because that's just how generating profit works. As I say, what did they remove from GTA 5 when they became woke? Basically fucking nothing that anyone had ever noticed ever. I think anyone worrying about this is crazy. I'm more concerned not about the potential wokeness or progressiveness or whatever, but the loss of the talents that wrote the original games. They're going to be using people who were less fundamental to the other games being as good as they were. It would suck if the game came out and the writing was just bad and people were like well this is just because they're woke. There's a much greater risk that whatever comes out is just bad because it's bad than it's bad because it's not insulting trans people somewhere. So I personally still look forward to GTA 6 and I think it's going to be a good game. But that's probably because I'm super biased in that avenue. I would take fucking anything more from Rockstar. The lead writer left some time after Red Redemption 2 coming out, but I'd guess GTA 6 was already written at that point. Apparently they've been working on it since GTA 5 came out, but I doubt, you know, because there's always more writing that needs to be done. Rewrites, changes, as things develop over time. Because I mean GTA is meant to kind of satirize present day and so you've got to kind of keep updating that. I suppose I didn't talk on do I agree with removing that kind of stuff. It depends what it is. I've never liked being offensive for the sake of being offensive. Where you're not doing something funny or making a joke. It's just hey, some people would be offended if I did this, so I'm going to do it. Isn't that funny how offended these people are? That's not humor. That's not a joke. A joke can be offensive, but offensive things aren't jokes. Just because they're offensive. I would consider it bad if something funny was going to be put in the game, but they remove it because they're worried about offending people's sensibilities, even though it's a good joke of some kind. But again, humor is subjective. At the end of the day, I don't care as long as GTA 6 is good. If GTA 6 isn't good, then oh boy, everyone's going to have their own pet theories as to why. Every single person with any kind of agenda or motive or whatever, any person who wants to see the world in a particular way will blame that fucking thing for the game being shit. And it will be funny to watch, but I'd rather GTA 6 just be good. It's in the same way I feel with it being a female protagonist. There is nothing about having a female protagonist that is better or worse for me. It is just, is it good? As I say, every release of GTA has been met with controversy, and in the past they even used controversy to promote the game, paying writers to go, oh my god, you know, kids shouldn't play this new GTA game, it's terrible. |
| 27. October 2022 | GTA 6 gave me my most liked Tweet ever. | GTA 6 gave me my most liked tweet ever. So recently, I had my most liked tweet ever. It wasn't what I expected it to be, but here it is. So, GTA 6 trailer within 48 hours. Maybe? Possibly? Hopefully? Neat. I actually had a segment in Rambles where I was talking about the possibility of the trailer dropping on October 21st, but I removed it because I was worried I'd be wrong. But this blew up. Everyone's liking it and retweeting around and stuff. I was just engaging in the same speculation that everyone was. The reason why people speculate that October 21st was going to be the release date for the GTA 6 trailer is because that was the date believed to be the start of the GTA franchise, like when GTA 1 first released. But of course, October 1st came and went and that didn't happen. And someone who worked on the original GTA 1 tweeted this out. Apparently there was still debate online about when Grand Theft Auto was originally released, so for the record it was released on Friday, November 28th 1997 as evidence. Here's a rap party invite Keith sent us the day before from my email archive. So the speculation that led people to suspect that it would be released on October 21st has now been shifted to the 28th of November. So we have a month or so until the trailer might be released. There's also of course the anniversary for Grand Theft Auto Vice City which is coming up at the end of October, but it seems more fitting I suppose for it to be on the anniversary of the whole franchise. But who knows, right? But at the end of the day, the real GTA 6 trailer was the friends we made along the way. So wholesome. There's still tags now where you show your status in tweets. I don't know why. |
| 01. November 2022 | GTA 6 has too much water | GTA 6 has too much water. So as per usual, people who aren't following me on twitter are missing out. I like to explain the thought process behind some of the jokes that I make on twitter. Having now seen the GTA 6 trailer, I can honestly say that the game clearly has too much water. Zero out of ten. Funny. But this is actually a reference to a meme that I only recently learnt about. Even though it's quite old I believe. This is from 2014. So the meme was 8 years old and I only just found out about this meme. So IGN published its review of Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire for Nintendo 3DS. The reviews commentary on there being too much water instantly became a point of contention among the IGN members and fans of the game at large. So I was watching some random video, I think it was like the top ten most contentious IGN reviews. And that came up and I was like oh that's kind of funny. So I tweeted that. |
| 05. June 2022 | GTA 6 having mobile game monetization. | The reason was that Take-Two has an association now with mobile game, a mobile game company like Zenga or something. Yeah, they bought them, didn't they? Yeah, I remember when Blizzard and King got together, they started putting like those mobile game sort of stuff into World of Warcraft. I wonder if the next version of GTA Online is gonna have a lot of that stuff too, like, um, auto battlers and, um, like you send out your little drug gangs and after 24 hours they bring back some money or something. Yeah. Hope not. I mean, you know, they tested the GTA Plus subscription with GTA Online so they could get out all the backlash out of the way to normalize it for the next game. You know, all this monetization stuff is gonna be baked into the next online game, I think, for GTA 6's online version and it's just gonna be even worse. So you expect the subscription model 10 bucks a month or something for GTA Online 2? I think so. I think it will continue. I don't think they'll lock it behind a subscription model, but the subscription model itself of GTA Plus, they'll just add a lot of other stuff that you can have for GTA 6 to the point where whatever GTA 6 is online offering, if you're not paying the monthly subscription, it's probably not gonna be worth it. You know, they'll lock stuff behind it. So a free service and then on top of that some premium subscription. Yeah. |
| 24. February 2022 | GTA 6 leaks and discussion podcast | GTA 6 leaks and discussion podcast. I was watching more of the offline TV podcast, which was literally just three friends and like some guests I guess they're kind of friends with just talking. There were a lot of lols in the conversation where they had to actively work to think up something new to talk about and stuff. They didn't seem to be any real plans for discussion topics and they just talked for two hours and then they released it unedited on YouTube and I was I was just like this this should be something I'm doing but I need to find at least two other people I have some rapport with. It seems like such free easy content. Really I just need someone else who's doing a podcast like that that I can just be a guest on or just just be on permanently. So there's no work on my part. What would I call my podcast? Viper cast. Terrible. Terrible. How about I just call it GTA 6 leaks and discussion. I'm sure people will be very interested in such a topic. Oh yeah. Modest Pelicans group is called Sons of Virgins and I find that very funny. I think it was a very creative name. I wonder where he got it from or what inspired him to make that name. |
| 15. May 2021 | GTA 6 needs more destructable stuff | I mean, certainly, um, China wants to become that and there's advantages to this kind of man with a currency. I'm not educated enough in it, but certainly the US currency has been the kind of international trade currency for a very long time. Like, when we talk about the strength of my currency in my country, we don't talk about the euro all that much, or the pound. We talk about the US currency. In part because I'm paid by an American company. I think of everything in US dollars. I sometimes have to clarify when I'm talking about Australian dollars of my own currency. If they print money over and over again, they end up with bread cost $100. Hypothetically speaking, to have the value of your currency, you have to pay $100. |
| 15. May 2021 | GTA 6 needs more destructible stuff | I mean, certainly, um, China wants to become that and there's advantages to this kind of man with a currency. I'm not educated enough in it, but certainly the US currency has been the kind of international trade currency for a very long time. Like, when we talk about the strength of my currency in my country, we don't talk about the euro all that much, or the pound. We talk about the US currency. In part because I'm paid by an American company. I think of everything in US dollars. I sometimes have to clarify when I'm talking about Australian dollars of my own currency. If they print money over and over again, they end up with bread cost $100. Hypothetically speaking, to have the value of your currency, you have to pay $100. |
| 22. March 2021 | GTA 6 rumours | Guys, until Rockstar announces it officially, just ignore it. It's all garbage. Rockstar is super secretive, and everyone knows it. Like when I got my new managers and they asked me, is there a company or something that you particularly like or want to work with or something that we should keep an eye out for or contact on your behalf? And I said, well, you know, I guess Rockstar kind of, I suppose. And they're like, oh, yeah, good luck with that. You know, I wouldn't hold your breath. Apparently, people like prestige clips or something have received like goodie bags or whatever from Rockstar Games, but they don't tend to. Apparently, they don't really do stuff. The content creators don't do much. Making an order just before somewhere closes. You order Domino's three minutes. |
| 06. November 2020 | GTA III getting Demonetized | GTA 3 getting demonetized. I remember my GTA 3 highlights video got demonetized. And at the time I was like, why did it get demonetized? And I watched back today and like the first words out of my mouth is like a sentence that contains me saying the F word three times in a row. It's like, oh, I didn't realize that when it was made. You can swear. You're just not allowed to swear in the first 30 seconds. I guess advertisers think that, you know, it's too close to the advertisements or whatever. |
| 08. June 2020 | GTA Online Again | The odds of me playing GT Online again... The odds of me playing GT Online again isn't zero. It's just I know if I go on GT Online, hackers will ruin it for me. I'll just get mad and it'll ruin the day. Every time I do crew lobbies, they are broken. None of my crew can see me online, I can't see them online. We go through the settings every single time, there's always that one smile out of the chat, it's like, No, no, no, Matt, you just need to change this setting. And then we change, we look at all the settings, show they're all perfect, and they're like, Oh, yeah, your game's just fucked then. I'm like, yeah, every single time. I know it's because of the region I'm in, but crew lobbies are completely broken online. We've tried multiple times, from every angle. You can join my crew, yeah, go for it. Exclamation mark crew is my crew, but... Are you connected to the internet? Have you tried turning it on and off? And then on again. You remember that final step, yes? The on again? You didn't just turn it off, did you? Talk to Rockstar Support. That's funny. This guy, a funny man, believing Rockstar Support can actually help you with their glitchy fucking terrible game. |
| 03. January 2021 | GTA Online holds back GTA Online . | GTA Online holds back GTA Online. Do you particularly like GTA Online? I've said many times that I play GTA Online at all is more that I like GTA 5. If GTA Online was its own thing and I'd never played GTA 5, I would not play GTA Online for a single fucking moment. But so much do I desire for more GTA 5, I take the next best thing which is GTA Online. With all that being said, I don't think GTA Online is a bad game. It's merely that its foundations, its systems are god awful. Like if I could snap my fingers right now, put myself into a death match and play with a bunch of people, do that in a heartbeat. Similar to CSGO, jump into a race quickly. But the very slow nature of doing anything in online, the grindiness, the shark card microchains action garbage, the long loading, even though it has improved over time, certainly with me because I have a better computer. Like it's just the shitty menus, how annoying it is to do anything in the game, like that you have to go outside of the game to a separate website to do half the functions in the game, like getting yourself additional maps and stuff, sending up things with your crew, the hackers, the... It's like so much of it. It's just so poorly laid out and tedious and slow for that reason. That the good game that exists within GTA Online is held back so strongly, you know? |
| 03. April 2021 | GTA Online speedruns. | GTA Online Speedruns Will there ever be a GTA Online speedrun? People do online speedruns all the time Especially with the KO Perico heist or whatever that it is basically speedrunnable I think even just casual people get into a kind of how do you do this most oftenly possible, you know? But there are speedruns of every online heist. It's just something I don't really want to really get into Have you seen my online heist speedrun? The video's got like 600,000 views. It's a good video Also from 2017. This is a lot more hassles with online because the connection issues and needing to have extra people a lot of the time and deadl- yea. |
| 22. April 2021 | GTA Online's Reduced Loading | This is a special episode of Rambles as these rambles were done during the collaboration Cops and Cooks that I did with Sonny Evans. Be sure to keep an eye out for that video. GTA Online's reduced loading. Have you been enjoying the faster loading though? I didn't really notice it to be on- well it's noticeable, it's quicker, it is quicker, but it is something that stood out to me all that much. You know it's all good and well but the game has so many issues. Like I think- I can't get excited- oh wait hold up let me stop recording. I can't get excited for this sort of stuff with so many like- like the hacking issue is still so rampant man. I can't even stream my stuff without someone just dropping in and crashing my game or booting me offline or whatever. It's just too much. The news says that they're ramping up security after seven years. It is still like remarkably funny to me how a single modder managed to fix that. Yeah I guess Rockstar just wasn't looking. Which they definitely should have because how- how loading has been a problem for so long. Like loading had improved over the years but I think it might just be hardware it improved with as opposed to Rockstar improving it. It was really bad on PC. But yeah it shows like it's either- it can't be incompetence but like it's definitely- it wasn't a priority at all until someone pointed out went semi-viral and then oh shit yeah let's just fucking- |
| 14. January 2021 | GTA San Andreas | video. But then I've gone and done like series on Grand Theft Auto San Andreas that I seriously didn't think would do well. And some of them got over a million and I was pretty surprised. We love San Andreas, like really love that game to this day. Maybe going back and playing it now isn't, I would think it is, but I can understand why you wouldn't. But when that game came out, it was like, it was insane, man. Like nothing had been come close to the scale and what that offered. It was ridiculous. Yeah, I completely missed all that. Most of my gaming life, other than when I was really young, Nintendo GameCube, that kind of stuff, I skipped over the PlayStation stuff. When I came to PC, it was like Age of Empires, Warcraft 3. I completely missed all the Grand Theft Auto stuff. And even going back today with a couple of mods to make it look a little bit better, you know, control a bit better, San Andreas was a really fun game. And yeah, man, just cool as well, like being like put in that, you know, gangster world with like hoods and territory in the story. And like, it was just like so different and so like open world hitting the gym, like the three different cities, like you went from Vice City and GTA 3, which was still really cool games to just this massive like area that you could explore. And it just blew my mind and graphically for its time, believe it or not, it was really good. So yeah, so I hear I feel like there's a lot of parts of gaming history that I just completely was ignorant that they existed. Like I missed all of CSGO and stuff like that. And I hear about all these people who grew up on these games, like, man, I wish I had those experiences instead of I just spending all my fucking time playing World of Warcraft. Like you're not the only person who did that. Like so many of my mates just started playing World of Warcraft and that was it. |
| 11. October 2021 | GTA V AU Dub | The Grand Theft Auto V Australian dub. If I knew more about modding this game, I would totally, as like an April Fool's thing, I would start a normal run, and then I'd start and people would quickly realize something was different. And I would dub over all of the voices for the missions and main characters with my own voice in the most stereotypical Australian accent imaginable. G'day. You know, kind of thing. Like, you know. What's all this then? Fucking Jimmy. Fucking stealing my book. Oh, but daddy was just... taking possession with payment pending, you know. Like some garbage. Oi! What's all this then? Oi, Bazzar. What's you with my half pack of VB that I had in the fridge? It's like Aussie, Mario or some shit. What is... |
| 19. December 2019 | GTA V Pitch Meeting | The potential for a GTA V pitch meeting, for those who don't know, pitch meetings are a YouTube series on the Screen Rants YouTube channel. Should they do a pitch meeting for GTA V? I mean, I think that's... I don't think they make pitch meetings for video games. Has he ever done one? It wouldn't surprise me if there was someone who made like a copycat thing for it. I mean, I could try and make that if you want me to. There's a fine line to be drawn between like, flattering parody versus just stealing a theme and profiting from us in a way that's annoying. Like, I doubt he would be annoyed if I made like a one-off video or something, you know? Like, I don't want to steal his thing. It'd be hard to replicate it. That dude has an interesting presence. |
| 03. May 2020 | GTA V VR Plans | VR plans Speaking of via what about GTA VR if anyone wants to send me a valve index I will play GTA 5 VR the next day if no one's willing to do that then we have to wait like six more weeks for Steam to give a Valve index to my sister so then she can send it to me So talking bare minimum like eight weeks it'd be a little bit less that valve is like what? Giving fucking valve indexes to this fucking criminal convicts Australians. No never They would just kill themselves with us beat each other to death. I won't have that on my conscience We would not sell any sell any valve fucking indexes to Australians as exact conversation that happened I swear I was in the board meeting was very very mean I thought me and Gabe gave new what type man, but apparently not |
| 22. November 2022 | GTA V source code was leaked. | The GTA 5 source code was leaked. So there has been a lot of discussion around some stuff that was posted to GitHub. The GTA 5 source code leaked on GitHub, providing a little more context here after looking through the GitHub repository. This is not the game's full source code, but does contain a vast documentation of the game's back-end systems, explanations of its functions and accompanying parameters, including developer notes. I wouldn't mention this, except that Rockstar has already taken this down, but I'm sure a lot of people got their hands on it initially. Looks like it was real the GitHub files have been taken down by Take-Two with a DMCA notice. Who knows what the implications of this are? I heard a lot of rumblings that Rockstar was removing like 95% of their anti-cheat stuff from the back-end. Is not my area of expertise, but that could be related to this. They saw this coming for some reason and uh, preemptively tried to stop it. But as I say, the anti-cheat, if it exists at all, doesn't really work, so who cares. Until Rockstar says that this is impacting us negatively, we'll just never know, I suppose. But, not a good thing. |
| 01. November 2022 | GTA clone is a perfectly fine name | GTA clone is a perfectly fine name. GTA clone, really dude, you're one of those? It's the name of a type of game, like rogue-like, or souls-like. Maybe it should be GTA-like, maybe clone is a bit demeaning, but that's what it is. It's the name of a genre. I didn't pick the name, I'm not the bag- |
| 30. January 2022 | GTA online’s difficulty balance problem. | GTA Online's difficulty balance problem. Do you like the new Franklin and Lamar memes in the recent update? Yeah, I do. My biggest complaint, as I say, with the newest update is the gameplay. So when you look at things like Fortnite, it can easily, well, I mean not easily, but it can create circumstances where people who are more experienced can have difficulty and challenge and stuff, and they can have new people also have difficulty and challenge and stuff. They have their own problems, like making so people don't get crushed in their first few games and quit playing. But by the nature of the game, in that difficulty is created by your opponents, the difficulty can constantly scale with whoever's playing. GTA Online can't do that. Even in the mini games, there's no MMR system, right? But for the gameplay itself, the story elements and stuff, the missions, the missions have to be able to be done by a person who just started playing and a person who's been playing for the last eight years. And the gameplay is going to be equally satisfying to both. That's impossible. What you end up getting is something where like the average person is potentially going to be satisfied. So people who are high levels of experience are going to be like, this is fucking easy. Why am I even doing this? And people at lower level experience like, man, this is quite tough. I'm not sure I can get through this. Me playing any of the online stuff, I have to turn off my brain and just run into hallways blind to have any possibility of dying or experiencing some fail or whatever. And certainly when you're making content for YouTube, you don't want to just mindlessly succeed. You want things to go wrong. Like people will be like, oh, how did he fail this? Because I'm not being careful intentionally. And certainly it's fun to just run through and not really give a fuck. And if something goes wrong, just to adapt to whatever goes wrong, right? I don't want to be sitting there like 10,000 IQ planning out every room to make sure I don't suffer any negative repercussions. Not only would that be boring, but it wouldn't be very fun. When I play games, I don't play to optimally do the best. I play them for fun and to potentially make good content. To bring it back to what I was saying before, I don't find GT Online challenging in the overwhelming vast majority of the base gameplay. And the general content that they make is just very stale to me. And it sucks due to the nature of it being peer to peer and not having servers or whatever. All the kind of comparative things you can do with other players is also tainted because like you can shoot a person with a shotgun point blank in the face and it will do no damage. Everyone's lagging and jumping all over the screen. And that excludes the issue of mod menus. It's just like a GT Online has problems. I will always say though that it can never be a good game until it's not peer to peer. Any game of that scale that is peer to peer is bad and can never not be bad. Racing is not bad unless you're a future. Because at that point you aren't really in direct moment to moment competition most of the time. You're more, at least most of the time, versing other people in time trials. You could hypothetically all be racing on separate tracks for most of it. And it won't make a difference. I think that's a little harsh. Peer to peer has a lot of potential. I think it just requires a lot more effort to get right, which is an issue because as we know, AAA studios hate effort. No, I don't think you can do it without a centralized hub. It's never going to be possible that endless different communications all happening between endless different points all over the world. It's just never going to be good. You're always going to introduce lag and glitches because you're balancing so much. Everything being fed into one central hub and then fed back is just a much better system. Especially in shooters where the second to second gameplay is important. Like if you're doing some turn-based strategy game, I mean security issues aside, sure, go peer to peer. Or like if there can be like a full two second delay and it not matter, like are you paying chess? You don't, you don't, well, I mean, yeah, chess is 1v1, so that's not as big of an issue. Yeah, I mean simple games or things where like there's a huge delay naturally built into the game. I've only played GT Online on console and it's always been fun. However, I have pretty much always played with friends. So if you are waiting for a bus, that can be fun with friends. The right friends, just cracking jokes, having a time of your life. People you really drive with, waiting for a bus can just fly by, you know. That's just the power of friendship. The power of no worries, just hanging out. That says nothing about the game if in those circumstances it's enjoyable. Because with the right people watching paint dry can be enjoyable. Have you ever seen like a really bad movie that if you watched it yourself, it'd be like god awful. With friends just joking, taking the piss out of the movie, it becomes hilarious. |
| 22. February 2022 | GTA youtuber tier-list | GTA YouTuber Tier List. I clicked on a random video yesterday. It said, GTA 5 YouTuber Tier List. And I was in it. And it put me as a God. And I was like, oh, that's sweet. I didn't click it as like a, I'm gonna be in this kind of thing. I was like, I wonder what other GTA YouTubers people know about. Kind of thing. I was like, oh, I'm in there. That's sweet. A lot of the comments were like, you forgot this person. You forgot this person. I wonder how many GTA YouTubers there are. Like making a video a week or something. There must be at least like a hundred, right? Who are like over a hundred case apps, let's say. Especially if you're counting other languages. You reckon it'd get to a thousand? Maybe. It's very hard doing ranking videos of people unless you say it's a joke upfront. It's a very easy way to burn bridges. You know what I'm saying? Or like just be mean. Because obviously if you personally don't like their content, it's nothing. But no one wants to hear, oh, you know, I don't like your content. Or put another way, everyone knows that everyone out there doesn't like, you're not going to have everyone like your content. But knowing that it's different than a person telling you outright, yeah, I don't like your stuff. Fuck you. I don't like your content. |
| 09. October 2021 | GTAguessr and GTA roleplayers | GTA Guesser and GTA Roleplayers Call me Kevin did a GTA guest video great. Hope it leads to more people playing it. Did he do well? No, really? I'm sure there's a lot of people who casually enjoy GTA who would like to have a go at it But wouldn't necessarily do good at it. I think the people who do the best at RPs I was talking to Piz recently who does GTA RP and he does really well. He apparently has 3,000 hours in the game or something But obviously most of my my 8,000 hours was when I was speedrunning the game and that's a particular part of the game But RPers if you've done RP for hundreds if not thousands hours You go all over the map, you know |
| 12. December 2021 | GTAguessr mobile app drama | GTA Gessa Mobile App Drama For those unaware, there was some drama with GTA Gessa, right? They designed GTA Gessa to work on desktop, mobile, whatever, to work on every platform, just by going into the browser. But some dude basically ripped the entire website and made it into an app and then put it on the app store. I think they charged for it, I don't know if they always charge for it, but they basically stole the entire website and put it on the app store. And dealing with Google and Apple to get something taken down, especially when you're small like the GTA Gessa guys, is a huge hassle. And so apparently they've been dealing with it for quite a while, and they've now just released a mobile version of GTA Gessa. They basically had to make their own app to get the guys to take it down. It apparently has some new feature. So in the mobile version, like it's a special mobile game, I don't think you can do it on desktop, you're given a location on the map and then four images, and you've got five seconds to figure out which one of the four images corresponds with the part on the map. And it's like a streak thing, so if you get one mistake then it gets really a streak and you have to start all over again. So if you're interested in that, I've tweeted out about it. |
| 23. January 2021 | Gabriel Iglesias. | Gabriel Inglisius. You're not fat, you're fluffy. Gabriel Inglisius. He has lost a bit of weight, right? I wonder if he ever felt pressured, given how much of his humor is related to him being overweight, to maintain some of the weight at least. I'm sure once he got to a certain level of wealth, he was like, wait a second, you know, I want to live for a bit longer. Yeah, I remember watching his comedy back in the day. Back before YouTube was a thing, and like, you know, in high school you'd share around like stand-up comedy stuff. Oh, he has the exact routine on that? That doesn't surprise me. I mean, a lot of comedy comes from just everyday experiences talking about your life and me explaining it in a funny way. In life can be funny. I mean, effectively anything can be funny if you explain it correctly. Or what I just did, present it well. Favorite comedians don't really have any. You saw Gabriel Inglisius in an interview with Mark Maron. He seems like a smart guy. Interesting. I've never heard of this Mark Maron. |
| 15. December 2020 | Gambling and the stock market | Gambling and the stock markers. Your blackjack video is hilarious. Are you talking about my clip that I just put up there, or are you talking about all four parts of the blackjack stuff? Because those are good videos. But no, I will never do that on stream now. I avoid gambling these days. I am a risk-averse person. You see those posts sometimes where people are like, I put all my life savings on X to win X, and you're like, you're goddamn insane. But of course, man, if they had won, people would go, oh man, I hurt this guy, he won all this money, putting his life savings on this. Oh, what a genius. Of course, loot boxes should be banned in games. So much- so- So many monetary techniques for games are so predatory and disgusting. And they are just gambling. They- they feed on the same psychological failings, you know. Honestly, if you put your entire life savings down on one bet, can't feel bad for you when you lose, I can feel bad for them. Either that's a failure of their genetics, or a failure of their environments, or they would have needed as one, you know, sane person in their life to go, yep, you shouldn't do this, my friend. This is a terrible idea. I have lived my life. I have lost in gambling, you know. I've seen what that can do. I don't have a massively addictive personality. Things could have been different in my life, and I would have been right in that same guy's shoes. Are stocks gambling? Yeah, it depends what you're doing. I mean, to a degree, in the sense that your outcomes are dependent upon an uncertain future. If you're going to have a definition of gambling that is so all-encompassing that stocks make it in, then basically any form of risk is going to be considered gambling under that definition. I mean, a gamble is actually a synonym for a risk. Did you see that thing where McDonald's announced that they were creating their own vegetable burger or something that's going to be releasing soon? And the stock price for some vegetable burger company or whatever dropped like six points. And then a later announcement clarified that McDonald's was getting involved with that specific company to produce this vegetable burger. And so the stock price went back up again. And the joke title, I think, was The Stock Market When Tech Pros Get Notifications. |
| 27. November 2020 | Gambling responsibly | Gambling responsibly. You heard about these stories of people who bet all their money on the American elections and lost it all? Crazy. Even when I used to gamble back in the day, I would gamble for low stakes, you know? I never gambled with the express goal of like generating a better life for myself or changing my financial circumstances. It was all about the fun of the game, which certainly winning more money is in of itself fun, but like I could have won every single time I went to the casino, like double my money that I played with each time, and it still wouldn't have been a significant amount of money. Like it wouldn't have changed my life measurably because I'd play with two to $400 each time I would go. And so if each time I won two to $400, that'd be a nice amount of money, but it wouldn't radically change my life. In the same way, if I lost it all, wouldn't radically change my life. And that's the point. Gambling should always be looked at as just something that is fun, unless of course you're trying to do it as a job. And at that point, it's less gambling and more statistics, risk management and statistical analysis. For a lot of people, like you have to keep growing bigger and bigger and bigger to get that same level of chemical hit in your brain when you win. You're no longer satisfied with winning that small amount of money. It's gotta be bigger and bigger and bigger and to dig yourself into a hole. Gambling can destroy you. It feeds on the psychological failings of humanity. I'm not gonna pretend to know the exact determining factors as to whether, what is most likely determined whether a person can do it responsibly or not. But clearly some people can do it responsibly and other people can't. Yeah, so they say, Fla, that some people are genetically predisposed to addiction. Less ability to regulate their behavior. I'm... |
| 30. July 2022 | Gambling streamer attempts to buy back their soul. | gambling streamer attempts to buy back their soul. So I want to do a poll with you guys. Do you know train wrecks TV? Like not even watch him just do you know his name? So 63% of people said no. So train wrecks TV has been in a lot of controversy over his career from being Some might call a colossal douchebag. I've actually heard those words used I'm not making them up very poor reputation, but during like 2021 maybe late 2020 He started doing like a ridiculous amount of slots Yeah, we're talking like like 5,000 hours of slots potentially somewhere in that ballpark, right? You're just sitting there. You might not say a single word for like five minutes and just going slot after slot Let's see if I can show you some footage like this stream went for 32 hours And It says 1.7 million views Isn't this amazing content but regardless Doing slots for this long for whatever reason grew him from you know person getting 5k view viewers to getting 25k It's a 30k or whatever. He was sponsored to do all this slot stuff and he must have received like tens of millions of dollars because he was really really good at bringing people in to the gambling ecosystem and of course having Them shill out their life savings to these gambling companies potentially ruining thousands tens of thousands of lives Getting them addicted to this Massively brain-dead stuff that is that only exists to take advantage of weaknesses in human psychology Gambling is not a rational thing rational arguments against it traditionally do not work and so he effectively grew in terms of his fame and Bank account to a staggering amounts doing this but somewhere along the way train seems to have understood that Eventually more money can't make you satisfied you get to a point where you're at the top and you're like men What now the vast majority of people who end up getting a staggering amount of wealth regardless from what source? Get to that point and they're like well, I've got a lot of money now So I guess I should do other things so I don't know the last couple of months He's done a few of these now where after you know sucking potentially tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of people into gambling into slots into the most degenerative addictive disgusting Aspects of gambling he's now like I'm launching my free mental health care program You know he's is parted with these people and giving a fraction of the amount of money that he's made Destroying people's lives he's like to all content creators of all sizes the cost of care We can provide can be relative to what we each make I've been doing this for my core community since 2015 It works apply this post to set up this program for your community. We can succeed when most countries have failed Go and keep it a buck. I'm disgusted that none of the large traders that farm clout with posts and cheap words every time mental Health awareness is trending didn't instantly want to opt into my free mental health care program for their community Just because it means pennies I guess out of their pocket tags all of them Regardless of any of our differences if any you should all join on this outside this program We can still shit talk each other but for this we put aside put our differences aside I ask you this question. Could you imagine like a psychologist or a therapist or anyone who works in the mental health industry? as a side business Advertising gambling gambling to millions of people. Do you think any? Psychologists would be like yeah, absolutely. You should be advertising gambling getting gambling more accepted in society a more Being a gateway to people ruining their lives It's like a nutritionist promoting McDonald's and now can you imagine a person who gives two fucks? about mental health doing that either train wrecks fucked people's mental health and continues to fuck people's mental health as a Mechanism to receive a massive amount of wealth and now he's got that massive amount of wealth He looks back and goes, huh, but I want it all though. I don't just want the massive amount of wealth I also want the respect of my peers and I want to be seen as a good guy And so now he puts forth this initiative and he's shaming people for not wanting to be associated with him My take on this train wrecks advertised the most destructive addictive gambling for years and was paid handsomely for his success doing so Now like everyone who achieved wealth through harmful means he's trying to buy back his soul and public esteem Why does this always work? How far we have fallen? Is there any way wealth can be made regardless of how harmful where people won't say? Hey, anyone would do it most who come to have staggering wealth eventually attempt to buy social capital At which point the source of wealth doesn't seem to matter money talks this is analogy I give where people are climbing a mountain and a person is Climbing and he sees another person who started smash them in the face and they fall to their death And he just keeps climbing kicks another person to their death. It's like it's them or me. It's them or me kicks them down And then he gets to the top of the mountain. He's like, yes, I won He's like, you know, I've had a change of heart I don't really think that people should kick other people down mountains or punch them in the face to get ahead in life I'm gonna start a some sort of committee if you stop other people doing this or to uh Cure away the impacts of people being hit in the face and falling down mountains. It's just so disingenuous You only care After you've received all the benefits of doing that exact same fucking thing Like how much of it is guilt how much of it is just a desire for more clout? Given the like amount of people that he tagged being like yo, man, you should all get in on this brah We should be friends again. Let's get let's get involved together It could be either but it's just sad and what sucks chat is it's working. Well, you don't see like the biggest content creators Messaging whatever you can see some messages like a lot of supportive messages from viewers Uh other smaller creators or whatever or being like, yeah, I want to get involved. This sounds great because you can never win back everyone There's always gonna be some amount of people who see through your bullshit to see through the scam But there are a lot of people who won't it just seems as though there is no mechanism for wealth generation Where your sins can't be absolved in the public eye? We're just throwing around a little bit money even just a small fraction of what you've made Even if it only removes a small tiny amount of the harm that you've caused It's enough for some people if you're just staying long enough Some people aren't even aware of the shit that you've done. It just seems though You can just be the scummiest motherfucker scam everyone advertise the most heinous shit Go all in on like even even just stuff. That's kind of gray. You just make that your entire existence I just wait a little bit and go change my mind about it guys and i'm donating 10 bucks to frank and was like yes king society sucks Why be a good person when you can just be a horrendous person and then buy a good persona? With your ill-gotten gains. I I find funny though people will point to like on his stream Do not gamble you will lose look how desperate he is to have defenses Are there people out there who really believe that casinos are like rigged in the in the normal person's favor? That that isn't weighted towards the house. Is there any person who live who doesn't realize that but people still go to casinos Because gambling isn't rational Making rational arguments against a an emotional need desire the the chemicals in the brain. What what's going to come next? You can beat the odds man. It could be you get all that money. Look at the flashing lights All of it designed just to pray off our psychological vulnerabilities train rex wouldn't have been sponsored for as long as he was and potentially still is if he was not successful at getting people to gamble and if this was truly a detriment to that goal, then he wouldn't have been sponsored and the Sponsors will be removed and certainly after gaining a fuck ton of money even without this shit and then putting it there Does not absolve you of anything that you've done in the past? Yeah, surely the casino just gives away millions of streamers even though they won't make their money back. Yeah |
| 03. June 2020 | Game communities | What is my most hated loved game community? I don't really get people's obsession with gaming communities I mean unless it's one of those games you're directly having to play with other people Who cares what other people like or do not like or how people behave in their little fucking forums or whatever who cares? Just enjoy the game! |
| 12. September 2021 | Gamer dating website sponsorship | Gamer dating website sponsorship. I received an email yesterday from a website that specializes in hooking up gamers for relationships. It's a gamer dating website. Like I'm not sure what this disparity is on normal dating websites. It's uh... I imagine the disparity on a gaming website would be even worse. Do it? If anything that I say or do on that dating website would then be known about to my viewer base. I am a very open person. There's not much that I don't talk about. But this is the internet. And I am a Z-list celebrity at this point. So there's always the possibility that I could make a dating profile and ultimately be catfished by one of my viewers just for kicks. There's a lot of risk involved in online dating to begin with. That risk is magnified tenfold when you have an audience of any kind. I mentioned before the email of that person who just sent me an email telling me to go fuck myself effectively. I don't know how many people like that exist online and have that opinion of me. But it only takes one smart person to fuck with me significantly. Or at least a bunch of my personal details. I don't dislike the idea of a gaming dating website. It could be a perfectly serviceable product. Perfectly fine. The fee that I would potentially have to be given to be willing to put my name to that brand would probably be higher than what I'm worth. |
| 22. February 2022 | Gamer is a cringe word | Gamer is a cringe word. Gamer is such a cringe word nowadays, is it? A total gamer thing to say. I mean, true, it does seem like everyone's a gamer to some degree. I'm an epic gamer? Yeah. We just need more things to differentiate gamers from each other. I'm an epic gamer. |
| 08. December 2021 | Gamers who have beloved gaming memories | Gamers who have beloved gaming memories. When I listen to podcasts that have gamers on them, or maybe I just listen to other streamers and stuff, I often hear them remark about their history in gaming and the memories they have with other people and stuff. I don't really have much of that and it makes me feel like I've missed out on a significant part of gaming. |
| 18. April 2021 | Games being limited to certain hardware | Games frustratingly being limited to certain hardware. You got a PS5 ad when you join the stream? What a useless ad. Is there any PS5 stock yet? Have they actually released some games for it? Now we can't say consoles right now because the consoles are actually quite powerful. The current console generation is probably more powerful than the average person's gaming PC. I actually, I'd be confident in saying that. And that isn't just for the price. Yeah of course, I mean PC still has more benefits given, you know, the much, much larger library of games and mods. Your PC is better than the current console? Well la dee da, Mr. Fancy Pants. Now I know the feeling. I am certainly privileged to be in a position where I can have a system that is more powerful than the current consoles. And I do get annoyed that I can't play all games on my PC. I suppose some people must exist in the inverse. Where they have a shitty gaming PC, but a great console. And they're like, man, I wish I could play my PC games on my console. |
| 14. January 2021 | Games that consume your life | by the Varsity people. Did you play WoW back in the day? I actually, funnily enough, played old school RuneScape and then all my mates, there's like probably a lot of the in school, everyone's playing it. WoW comes out, everyone's like, this is the better game. And I didn't switch. Like I was a late adopter. And I went and then some of my friends just disappeared, man. Like it was like we were nerds on RuneScape. Like we played it a lot. But World of Warcraft was like too fun. It was like the game was too good. And it would like absorb my friends. And I remember one of my mates' mums was like, can you come over and tell Joseph to get off World of Warcraft? And I went over and he was in the middle of like a raid. And I was like, man, your mum's like got me to come over. You got to come outside. Let's go for a kick a soccer ball around or something. And he was like, oh, all right, I'll tell them I had a power failure. They pulled his computer out of the socket. So his clan wouldn't get angry because he was like tanking or healing or something. And then they looked up where he lived and determined there was no power failure and kicked him out of the clan. And I was just like, I'm not playing this game. This is fucking cooked. This is too much. It's like a new life type thing. The sunken cost fallacy or whatever. The more time you invest, you're like, well, I can't quit now. All that time is completely pointless. I was sucked into that for many, many years. I would quit and I'd go, but if I stay away from the game and all that time I spent in the game was completely pointless, I would keep coming back. I had a friend who would go, his parents didn't let him have internet at home. I don't know if it was a religious thing. I'm not sure, but he would go over to my other friend's house every single day to play World of Warcraft for like eight hours. I understand what you're saying with the weird links that people go to. But even today, did you hear that the newest WoW expansion was like the fastest selling expansion for WoW or something? The sense of progression, like those little endorphin hits, sorry, not endorphin, my apologies. Yeah, hits like along the way, like you get a new level or you get a new boss and there's just those tiny little rewards that you like grind for. Like you kill orcs for a while, you kill something and then you get that little thing. And it just like that cycle is so addictive. But it's still around World of Warcraft after how much? It must be 15 years or something. It's insane. I still have an old school RuneScape account that I play casually and it's got like massive play days. Yeah. Did you ever quit? Yeah, like my old account got deleted and I just sort of, yeah, play a bit for fun now on the side. I watch Sir Puggers and stuff. Do you watch any RuneScape? Not in a minute, but yeah, I know him. Oh yeah, because the videos got recommended to me. I love videos even about games that I don't play. People who are passionate explaining detailed stuff about how games work, all these cool feats in games and RuneScape stuff got recommended to me a little while back. So I do know a little bit about it. Although I did play, you know, I was in high school for a little bit, but that's kind of where I know of RuneScape from the insane amounts of bots in the game and how the economy of RuneScape works and stuff. Very interesting stuff. The Venezuelans who like work in RuneScape, like Chop Wood or whatever on their bots so they can sell them currency for like US dollars, which is like way bigger than the average wage. Crazy. Yeah. |
| 29. May 2020 | Games with chat (e.g Quiplash) | You know. Hey, but what do you think about doing a game day with your fans and playing some multiplayer games like golf with friends or something like that? We did that. We played a game of golf with friends and one specific person fucking ruined it. They wouldn't take it seriously and would just spend all their time knocking people off the fucking course. These kind of days, while in theory, sound very good. Most people only want those days because they might be involved and they might be able to play and have fun. You don't usually want to watch... Most people don't really want to watch me play a shitty little game and watch a bunch of other random people play with me. They want to play with me. And when a person doesn't get included, they're like, well fuck it, I'm going. So any content creator you watch, their viewership will be like two-thirds, maybe half of what it normally is. Because it's... Like it's not a practical use of my time. Could it be fun? Yes. If I could play Mario Party with three other people, that'd be pretty cool. But like it wouldn't be great content. Like I'd rather play Mario Party with three other content creators. If I spent my entire day playing with my fans, playing Quirplash or whatever, I'd probably play with like one-one-hundredth of the amount of people who would want to play with me that day. It's not a significant amount of giving back and that's where you don't see many people doing it. |
| 16. February 2021 | Gamestop - hedge funds taking money from other hedge funds | GameStop, hedge funds taking money from other hedge funds. It is truly crazy how much of the internet has been taken over by talks of all these people buying GameStop. Game. Stop. Stock. Hard to say. Like when I first heard about it, it seemed like a cool David versus Goliath story, but then I saw a comment that was like, yeah sure this was all started off by Reddit, but if you look at who's actually investing in GameStop, it's a bunch of other hedge funds or large investment firms or whatever. I was like really? That sucks. That's why I asked on Twitter, is this true? And people link me all these things. Like yeah, a lot of the money that's being made is by other firms cannibalizing those who had um, who were shorting GameStop. So it's not like all the money is going to your little investor dude bros on Reddit. A lot of it is just going to other uber rich people. Most of it is. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me because they have all the money. So the nanosecond, everyone realized they could make a fuck ton of money through buying up their stock. Obviously the people who do investing on a day-to-day basis are going to be the ones who go, well, we already have all the fucking money. Let's just make even more money, you know. So I'm sure that some individual firms or hedge funds or whatever are going to be decimated, but the money itself, not a lot of it is going to trickle down. Especially because it, I think it depends on when you bail, when you sell. And obviously those who do investments for a living have access to all the information, all the analytics and blah blah blah. They're going to be the ones who bail at the right time, more than likely. While the people who stay in too long are going to be your little dude who knows nothing. Who's just bought a little bit of the stock for the meme, you know. I've said it before, I don't fully understand how the stock market brings value to society. I understand how it does when a company goes public for the first time, or needs to generate revenue by selling additional ownership in the company or whatever. But I don't know how the day-to-day trading of companies actually brings value to society. Other than simply giving a place for people to invest their money or whatever, or to give appreciating assets to people that they can buy and hold long term, whatever. But it's, but you could do that with anything, you know. You could do that with Pokemon cards. Like how does, like in the day-to-day trading, how does that differ from buying and selling Pokemon cards? The day-to-day trading just seems to be gambling with assets. Where different rich people are at any given time trying to get the shiny Charizard of stocks, and hopefully make a fuckton more money because it appreciates or whatever. Day trading is gambling. But then why is it allowed to occur? Why is there some benefit to market volatility or whatever? Like I don't understand. I'm a Patreon supporter of Economics Explained, an Aussie YouTuber who does a lot of economic stuff. I've never bothered to go to one of these Q&As, but I'm tempted to go just to ask the question, what value the stock market provides to society, and what benefits fast trading has. Isn't it just ultimately scraping up the top layer of value and pocketing it for yourself? |
| 04. March 2021 | Gamestop stocks. | Stop stocks. What are your thoughts on all the whole stock exchange shenanigans? Um, a lot of rich people are going to make a lot of money and a lot of everyday poor people, uh, or middle-class people are going to end up, uh, staying in too long and losing a fuck ton of money. The majority of GameStop stock was not held by retail investors. It was held by other hedge funds making money off those who are shorting the stock, but the hedge funds know when to get out. And what the retail investor just wanted to get in on the hype does not. And they're going to be one left holding the bag. I believe that's already the case. |
| 07. June 2021 | Gaming for a living impacts your enjoyment of games | Gaming for a living impacts your enjoyment of games Competitive gaming makes you unable to enjoy casual games. I am I wonder if that's true for everyone I feel like anytime spent casual gaming should be spent on practicing. Yeah, I guess it's the same feeling I have then like I do hear about the Rigorous practice regimes, you know morning to dusk or whatever just grinding away My issue though is even when my Professional gaming whatever it my streaming is done. I meant to be editing as well So even in hypothetically that time where I would just have free time to do something else I I still have other stuff I meant to be doing and then never ends like this There's never an ends to I've done everything It's well I've still got 800 more things and then like even in some hypothetical reality where I completed everything that I needed to complete Then it's okay now I gotta think of something new that I have to do or I'm wasting time one day. It will all stop their chat one day no one will watch and Then I can just sit and play heroes of magic 3 to my heart's content And that was some someday be and I think a sad day I just hope that by the time that this is all over and my career is ended like I wanted to end as if like I want to be the one who's like I've done enough and then I Leave as opposed to effectively being forced to leave by circumstance either some legislation or getting banned or just People losing interest or whatever. I mean everyone wants to decide their own fate, but in my present state of mind It's hard to imagine just not wanting to do this at some point, but you know people change Maybe tomorrow I'll wake up and be like I'm gonna be professional heroes of might and magic 3 player I'll build the fucking tournament scene myself, but don't you think you've been so deep into doing just the important stuff and not enjoying yourself? It'd be more harmful rather than being productive. It's just I do enjoy myself in doing the productive thing as well I'm fortunate in that respect. I do a lot of things that I enjoy my I enjoy my job I don't think I'm sincerely harming myself by uh Playing a game that I enjoy or editing stuff that I enjoy certainly. There's some tedious parts, but it's that's any |
| 26. January 2022 | Gaming on pornhub as an alternative to youtube | Gaming on Pornhub as an alternative to YouTube. Quick thought, what if Pornhub expanded and created a gaming category? Would that be better than YouTube? Since there's no censorship or demonetization of any sort? No. Are you crazy? We've talked about this before. All platforms start with a hands-off, lasso-da-sicle, you-can-do-whatever-you-want attitude. And then eventually they have to start making money. So then they start trimming back the content. That makes it so they can't get advertisers. Or makes the platform not palatable for large audiences. And they trim and trim and trim. The only time you will have a perfectly free and open platform is if it's publicly funded or it's the early days of private ownership. Pornhub makes a lot of money from ads. They are the central hub for people watching pornography. And so all these websites that run off subscriptions, you know, razors and stuff, they pay Pornhub to advertise for them. Why do I know that? Because I am a part owner of Pornhub. I own 16%. I get revenue reports quarterly. Did people not know this? Obviously not. I didn't know where I know this information from. I was watching some videos. I watch videos about economics and shit. Basically, so if Pornhub opened a gaming section of Pornhub, while it would increase the amount of content on the platform, it wouldn't substantially increase the amount of companies that want to advertise on the platform. Because it would still be associated with Pornhub, right? Which would turn off a lot of advertisers. So you would increase the amount of real estate for the ads to be placed. But you wouldn't increase the amount of ads that need to be placed. So the CPM would go down. Basically, any individual bit of content on Pornhub would be making less money. You would never get to a point where you'd be making as much money on Pornhub as you would be on YouTube. You know? More than this, it's very unlikely that audiences would move from YouTube to Pornhub to watch their gaming content. So the audience would still be all on YouTube. Like, you gotta understand, when you talk about demonetization, and you talk about content that gets removed, you're talking about like 0.00001% of the content. The vast majority of people do not care about this content, and to be honest, I wouldn't say it's worth watching anyway. You're not going to take much of an audience away from YouTube by hosting this content. And demonetization, newsflash, is not as big of a thing as a lot of content creators suggest it is. The reason why you hear about it all the time is because YouTube gets thousands of hours of content uploaded to their platform every day. So the odds of one video getting demonetized or something incorrect happening to someone is obviously quite high, just because the amount of, you know, the billions of users on the platform. YouTube on the whole is very good at what they do. Like, I guarantee you, every single day, someone's content is wrongfully removed from YouTube. Every single day, someone's video is wrongfully demonetized. Every single day, someone is wrongfully banned on this platform. Every single day. And it's because there's literally billions of users on the platform, and there's 365 days in a year. It would represent like 0.00000001% or some shit of the overall decisions being made at YouTube in regards to content. |
| 04. October 2021 | Gaming skill - innate or developed | of time. Gaming skill innate or developed? Do you guys have gamer genes? Are you stuck sucking at everything like me? I don't think anyone has gamer genes. We, oh I mean surely different people have different aptitudes in terms of response time or whatever. The vast majority of it is just practice or whatever or growing up playing certain types of games. Yeah but you can train your memory and you can train hand-eye coordination right? I'm sure like the tippy top peak of performance probably does come down to biology but getting in let's say the top 10% I think anyone could do that with just practice. I think being good at games is in a large part having enough time to do it and the persistence and willingness to do it. Not everyone is willing to sit there for hours and hours on end being garbage and get to the best or is willing to do the research in looking up guides and strategies from other people or watch other players to learn how they're doing it better. And it's always hard watching people who've been playing a certain type of game for like 15 years and you think is it worth it? Like take cheese05 for example right? Cheese05 never speed ran Super Mario 64. He saw punkation do it and he was like this looks fucking awesome I'm gonna do this and he practiced like effectively every day or something right? Where and he came out of nowhere just after a year he got world record which was like what the hell? And for such a refined game I don't think cheese05 is just some prodigy or something he just put the time in you know. Getting the best time in a speed run like that looks like such an insurmountable task that most people wouldn't be willing to even try. But like Shroud has been playing shooters for like his entire life. No one should be surprised that when Shroud plays on your shooter he's good at it. He's been doing it like 10 hours a day for like over 10 years every single day. That doesn't mean that Shroud doesn't have some sort of innate aptitude to such games but I would guarantee you if he didn't have the decade of 10 hours a day or whatever that he'd be like that's more significant than whatever aptitude he has. This run is much stamina and patience as it is everything else. There's so much that you need to learn. |
| 06. October 2021 | Gaming while knowing nothing about PCs | gaming while knowing nothing about PC's I remember playing World of Warcraft without a graphics card not understanding why my FPS was so low playing on integrated graphics on my CPU I was like but it says that I have a graphics thingo because it's like in the description thing I don't know I didn't know anything about PC's I really wish I had educated myself earlier my experience with Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 as a kid did I ever play Diablo 1 online? No I'm not even sure I finished Diablo 1 I think, no I did I was a barbarian but I had that book that made it so I could use firewalls yeah so what I ended up doing was I just like I think I just jumped around using firewall after firewall after firewall until uh everything died in Diablo 2 I was so impatient with the game that I started jumping over all the enemies and then like just killing the boss enemies that I needed to to get the special items and so by the time that I got to Diablo and I had to kill Diablo he would just wreck me because I was such a low level |
| 15. November 2021 | Gay men and beard attraction | Gay men and beard attraction. Amongst gay men, I wonder who is more attracted to beards. Men who can grow beards or men who can't grow beards. Because having a beard myself, I don't find beards that impressive. I'm not gay, I'm just saying as a straight man. I don't find beards impressive. You'll occasionally run across like a really well sculpted beard and you'll be like, well that's impressive, that probably took some effort to maintain. I wonder if people who have beards who are gay, I just like sicker beards. And so I prefer a person clean shaven. But a person who can't grow a beard, maybe they're attracted to beards because they can't have it. You know? Ignore the gay question I suppose. I've had people who would be like, man I really like your beard, I wish I could grow one like that because I can't grow any facial hair. You just find interesting what you yourself can't have. Maybe. |
| 26. November 2021 | General life advice | General life advice. Tell me life advice. Partition your care sensibly. If you find yourself caring too greatly about something that you cannot change or influence in any capacity and has no bearing in your life, attempt to reorganize your life so that such a thing is presented to you less. Don't get worked up over the small things. Find value in being productive. Is there some small thing you can do to be improving your well-being? It's always good to relax, but if you find that most of your time is spent relaxing, then you should probably be doing something more productive to better your future. If you have stuff that you don't use, that over time is simply lessening in value. Sell it immediately. Go to the effort because having a bunch of superfluous stuff doesn't benefit you. |
| 10. September 2021 | Genetic modification | Genetic modification. What do I think of genetic modification? It's clearly not there yet in regards to the technology. There's always the fear that if you change one gene, you know, it'll have other ramifications that you don't expect. If gene modification becomes a thing, I think that culturally we will shift in terms of what we consider to be a disease. Like if you have a gene that's related to having, you know, low intelligence or something, you'd think we'd eventually reach the point where we would consider that a disease. Like why should some people be blessed with genes that give them benefits in terms of being prosperous when they've done nothing to earn those genes? It's just a lot of things you can consider. Like, you know, is it right for parents to be able to modify the genes of the child? The child has no say in it. I mean, but then again, we don't exactly, you know, think it's wrong to give a child medicine or something that it doesn't understand. Or will it lead to a culture where fairly benign things are being altered by parents who just want like, you know, Oh, you know, I really like this hairstyle, so I want my child to have this hairstyle, so I'm gonna modify their genes. Or will it be something fiercely regulated only in regards to particular genes and who's choosing those genes? And like the bare minimum, if gene modification becomes a thing, removing genes associated with diseases or illnesses, things that literally shorten your life expectancy, would clearly occur very quickly. And it's hard to think of an argument as to why that wouldn't be justifiable. It's like, oh, you know, we have this gene that's related to having a disease. It's not justifiable. It's like, oh, you know, we have this technology that can remove this gene that will completely fuck your life, but we're not going to do it because, you know, oh yeah, marijuana. For at least one generation, anyone who isn't enhanced will be looked at as like, potentially lesser or something, you know, but I don't see that as a necessary reason to never do it, of course. Like the biggest reasons not to do it is the potential unforeseen ramifications in regards to a person's biology. Like, clearly humans aren't 100% understood. I certainly wouldn't want my child to be that guinea pig. The first generation of those who have their genes changed. I'm fairly certain you'd want to listen to Carl Sagan talk about it. Not the Carl Sagan, the Super Mario Maker speedrunner. He makes vaccines and he does a bunch of this stuff and he occasionally talks about it on his stream. It was like CRISPR and stuff and I'm pretty sure they have changed genes in some circumstances. By effectively reprogramming viruses to do so. I'm not an expert in such things, so I don't really know, but I can only speak of it in terms of the potential social ramifications or just my opinions on it or whatever, you know. |
| 15. December 2020 | Genshin Impact | Genshin Impact. You guys seen the new, what's the game called? The Zelda game but it's anime waifus that everyone plays? The Genshin Impact or something? Everyone's sponsored by that chick, currently I think. Currently he's making billions of dollars with his bloody loot boxes. I've seen reviews of Genshin Impact that suggest it's actually pretty good, other than the crazily terrible microtransactions. I mean no game that's gonna work on mobile is ever gonna be like an amazing game, you know. You're very limited in the controls that you can have. I mean it can have a good story or decent graphics but it can never be like groundbreakingly crazily good because it can only have a certain degree of complexity. |
| 17. July 2021 | George Carlin and irony. | George Carlin and irony. I actually received this one bit of damage at the very last mission in the very last final fight fire fight of the game So I'm very close to being successful. So I'm hoping this time I get And be actually with the ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba Tried to save it couldn't do it lost At the end there just barely failed at the end just like My PB in no damage Someone in chat said it was ironic that I finished the That I failed the end of the intro and I my PB was the failure at the end. That's not irony and I Remember listening to this stand-up thing from oh, what's his name? Oh, no, I can't even remember his name Carl What's his name? The old comedian? And the he's dead now. He's a George Carlin. That's it. Yeah, he has this thing where he explains different English terminology in a funny way and one of the things he explains his irony where he's like basis as a rule of thumb to know if something's ironic or not ask does it involve opposites a firefighter starting a fire is ironic because a firefighter is meant to put out fires, but they're starting a fire an ambulance getting into a car accident or injuring a person that's irony It'd be a funny coincidence that are me failing my intro and my PB being a failure at the end as well What's my favorite George Carlin bit? I can't really remember much of his comedy. Like there's a very smart interesting dude, it's a and listen to much of his comedy when I was growing up and That's um thing about irony. I just happened to stumble across on YouTube one day. Yeah, I like Bo Burnham and Tim Minchin I true into one of Tim Minchin's live performances once he did not play my favorite songs Kind of disappointed |
| 28. November 2020 | George Lucas and the high ground. | George Lucas and the high ground. I've always wondered if George Lucas, when writing that line about the high ground, he was like, um, not only did he literally have the high ground, but figuratively as well, because he had the moral high ground and they're as well trying to communicate there that Obi-Wan was really in the riots and Anakin, in slaughtering those innocent kids, he was actually the bad guy. You understand, there's a case to be made that the Jedi were incompetent, maybe misusing their power to a degree, but when you have a character literally slaughter children, that kind of nuance kind of gets lost. |
| 19. February 2022 | Get your Abbreviations out of here | Get your abbreviations out of here. The WCC is playing the next step. What? What is WCC? West Coast Classic. How was I going to know that? What? Hey man, I said three random letters with no context. How would you not immediately know the thing that I was abbreviating? Come on, Matt. Get your head in the game. Bloody hate abbreviations. Man, I was down at the DCB last weekend. Where are you? Oh come on man, you should know this. I'm not East Coast, I'm not West Coast. There's no coast that is powerful enough to hold me, man. I'm Universal. |
| 19. February 2022 | Get your abbreviations out of here | Get your abbreviations out of here. The WCC is playing the next step. What? What is WCC? West Coast Classic. How was I going to know that? What? Hey man, I said three random letters with no context. How would you not immediately know the thing that I was abbreviating? Come on, Matt. Get your head in the game. Bloody hate abbreviations. Man, I was down at the DCB last weekend. Where are you? Oh come on man, you should know this. I'm not East Coast, I'm not West Coast. There's no coast that is powerful enough to hold me, man. I'm Universal. |
| 30. November 2020 | Getting Refunds For Defective Products | Getting refunds for defective items. As far as getting refunds is concerned, I don't have the time. I don't got time to go to the post office man. I still need to send back the Elgato capture card that's worth $500 that immediately failed two days after having it. As is the case with most Elgato products, making them a very stupid purchase. |
| 10. July 2020 | Getting Scammed With Travelling Costs | Getting scammed with traveling costs. Honestly the most embarrassing thing that I did today is from my house to the airport was $140 with the Uber. $140 fucking dollars. Like it's a 45 minute trip from my house to the airport. $140. You know what it cost me? Leaving the airport to this hotel? $90. And I felt like I got so fucking scammed because I was leaving the airport and the guy was like, You need taxi? You need taxi? I'm like, Yeah, I guess. He's like, Oh, you come in taxi. You come in taxi. Like, uh, okay. So I get in his taxi and so for like the entire walk to his taxi because it was a little bit of a distance, I thought I was gonna die. I'll be frank with you. So this guy's gonna harvest my organs. He's not at the curb or whatever. He's like some guy who wants to take me to back out and shank me and take my shit. I'm like, I'm dead. But you know, I've had a good run. This, you know, I'm it won't be that bad. No, but I get into the cab and while I'm in the cab, I do the Uber. So I type on the Uber. How much would it cost for me to get to the airport to to my hotel and Uber says $67. Like that's fucking steep. I wonder what the taxi is going to cost. So I get there. We arrived and he's like, Oh, that mean like $88. I'm like $89. Something like that. Like I still go, okay, fair enough. I'm not gonna fucking argue with the dude. I'm not gonna fucking haggle. What am I like? Yeah, I should have haggled. Okay, fair enough. I should have haggled, but it was it was a lot more money. I know if I got like a premium cab or some shit. I don't know, but clearly I should have taken an Uber and I would take an Uber in the. |
| 10. June 2020 | Getting YouTube Premium | or part series or whatever. Finally getting YouTube premium. I watch a lot of crap on YouTube sometimes because YouTube is just so easily consumable for me. I can be doing something else and just listen to YouTube or pause YouTube and come back unlike Twitch. Like I watch Twitch probably every day but not nearly as much as YouTube. Like Twitch is what I watch when I'm like, before I start the stream and I'm clicking to see who's online and stuff. Oh, I finally got YouTube Red though or YouTube premium I think they called it, right? You know the reason why I got it? There's only one feature that I care about. I can finally fucking watch, I can finally just listen to the audio videos. It sucks because that was a feature that just existed for YouTube before they made YouTube premium. They put that shit behind a paywall and I was just so sick of ads when I was in the shower or trying to not bump the phone in my pockets that would cause it to pause or skip to another video or something. I use Spotify, Spotify is just music, there's no YouTube here. Why do I listen to other videos in the shower? I don't have a lot of time to consume. |
| 21. November 2020 | Getting a 3090 from some random guy on the internet | Getting a 3090 from some random guy on the internet. So HiHi knows a guy who knows a guy who can get me a 3090 from America. And for a long time I was like, nah, I don't need a 3090. I'll eventually get one, they'll come to Australia, blah, blah, blah. More stock will come in. But like, Nvidia is saying they're going to have stock shortages until like 2021, like into 2021. And Australia is the last people to get stock and I'm just like, fuck it. So contact the dude. And the guy must be fairly well off because he's willing to send me the card and then I'll pay him. I think he's a fan as well. Like I was hesitant to trust some random guy on the internet, but HiHi is my bot and I trust HiHi and the guy seems legit. And he didn't seem particularly pushy to give me the card and was willing to wait. You know, like I held off a month before saying, yeah, okay, send it to me. So hopefully I'll receive that in a couple of weeks or whatever. What if it's a bum? Possibly. I will certainly test the card first before I send him any money. That should be fine. My concern really is that another card is going to be released, which I would want. But I doubt that's going to be the case, at least not anytime soon. Make sure it's an actual 3090 under the metal. I mean, just benchmarking it should be sufficient for that, right? It'd be 20GB version 3080 in December, 1000. Yeah, I mean, that's no difference. Like a better value card is not what I care about. What I care about is a significantly better performing card in games. I don't think that's going to happen. Clearly the 3090 was then pushing the limits of what was possible and pricing it just in a completely non-valued way. Yeah, I don't think it's going to be 3090. Yeah, super exactly. Yeah, there are clearly going to be better value cards because it's already better value cards. I cannot wait until I can make this game look so beautiful with a 3090. You watch, I'll get it though, and then I'll have like driver problems. Like there's a cap on how high you can have your FPS in GTA V without having a stutter, and that's something like 140. What I'm interested in though is having my game look really good at 140 FPS for the YouTube content. |
| 24. May 2021 | Getting a PAX Australia ticket | Getting a ticket for PAX Australia. So PAX Australia, right? Apparently they're not gonna have as many people as they normally have there. I don't know if it's because of COVID or whatever. Like, I guess what they're doing is like, they're selling a limited amount of tickets and then maybe they'll do more and more depending on how COVID is around the time of October, whatever. And they sent an email where they're like, oh, you know, it's no guarantee that partners, that all partners will be invited or whatever or given influencer tickets or whatever. So buy your own tickets. And I sat there for five seconds, I was like, man, but I'm like, big shot dark fapper. Surely they're gonna give me a ticket. Then I was like, okay, maybe they won't give me a ticket. I'm gonna buy one. So I bought one as well. So if they happen to give me an influencer ticket, I'll probably give away the other ticket. Not everyone necessarily gives a shit about me, chat. I don't know how many people do. So I better be safe, you know? |
| 16. February 2021 | Getting a manager to handle sponsorships | Getting a manager to handle sponsorships. Going to be getting myself a manager chat, hopefully. I'm in a situation where I just ignore emails about sponsors because I both hate having those conversations and I just suck at them and I don't have the time to make them. So I'm basically just gonna find myself a person that I can forward these emails to. Before you send me an email like, Matt, I can be your manager, don't bother. It's the random person in chat, regardless of who you are, I could never trust for such things. I've just reached out to my partner manager and I've just asked them to recommend someone and they've recommended a few people so I'm gonna see if they're good. One got back to me yesterday and I actually ignored their DM because it was just before I was going to bed. But I'll get back to them after the stream. |
| 10. May 2021 | Getting a new keyboard and content creator merch | Getting a new keyboard and content creator merch. You should get a PewDiePie wireless keyboard. I saw a review of it. It is not good apparently. As in, it's not as though you're buying something that isn't a keyboard. It's that it isn't worth what you're paying for it. It's usually the case, right? When you're buying some sort of a niche product that's not being like mass produced through the normal channels, there's always, at various different points, additional costs that are added into that. And then there's the, you know, there's the need to add that little bit of profit on top of it, whatever, to make it worth selling. It's not like you're selling millions of these products, whatever. You're maybe selling hundreds or thousands or whatever, so... Most of the time when you're buying merch, it should be because you like the look of it, or you just don't care and want to have some memento of a content creator, whatever, right? It's why selling hardware and stuff is hard, right? Like if you're selling a shirt or a plushie or something, you know, you can have a cool design and subjectively that design can be worth the price. Because it's kind of like, um, it's original. It can't be kind of compared to competing products because nothing really competes. I mean, all shirts compete with each other, but a design is unique, you know? But if you're making a keyboard, a keyboard can compare in terms of its functionality to other keyboards. I guess it's possible for a shirt to not function correctly as a shirt, but that's kind of hard to do. It could be compared on terms of price, though, because certainly no merch item with a cool design has ever been worth the same as just a generic shirt from a store, right? You're paying a massive premium for that thing to look cool. It's why you can buy, you know, a bunch of black tank tops for five bucks or whatever each. But you can't buy my tank tops from Streamlabs for five bucks each, you know? My fear with getting a custom keyboard is A, I have no idea what I want, and I'm just a difficult person in general. But also, if it breaks, then like I'm kind of shit out of luck. And if I get used to a keyboard, I don't want to go back to a different keyboard and all that jazz, you know? I really should buy one of those key tester things, where you can buy one key of each of the different type of keyboard keys. I'm fairly certain I like reds, and it's not like I've had a heap of experience testing every other key. I know I don't like blue, which again pisses me off. I've never met a person who thinks blue is the best. I'm sure they exist, but I was very surprised to find out that they must be the majority, or else why would Logitech put them based in all their fucking boards now? They have orange switches? People buy loud switches on purpose? Yeah, it's weird to me. I like some noise, some feedback, but some people have great satisfaction from the noise of typing. I think there's even ASMR for typing or whatever, right? I think it's kind of weird. Certainly as a content creator, I don't like the keyboard sounds. I did a poll once, and people either said that they liked hearing it a bit, or were indifferent, I think, in the majority. Like, you don't want the clicking to be so overwhelming, but having some noise of clicking sometimes is not particularly bad, you know? But you can join streams sometimes, and it's like the person is talking and all you can hear is clickety clickety clickety clickety clickety clickety clickety... it's weird. So concerned was I, once upon a time, about sound from my keyboard. I used to use O-Rings. O-Rings being things you can put on your keys to reduce the sound that they make. Do O-Rings help a lot? Yeah, they do. I don't know how they impact the attenuation point or whatever, the point where it actually does the click. You hit a clicky key until you use them. I mean, eventually your brain would just, with the word, habituate to the sound, and then block it out. Because it's not important sound, so your brain would just filter it out. Until you're focused on it. I wonder how much of my keyboard... like, normally I have my keyboard at an angle, right? I wonder how much of that is just I'm pushing the cable against the wall, and so my keyboard can't be flush with the wall. And just realize this now. I'm definitely going to look into keyboards after this. |
| 15. January 2023 | Getting a pet to cure my misery. | Getting a pet to cure my misery. So chat, I've talked for the longest time about potentially getting a cat and I've been so miserable for quite a while that I'm like, I think just having a cat as a distraction would be a good thing. I just like poke it, pet it whenever I'm angry and should be like I just like So it is not easy to get the cat that I want, it's a Siberian because I'm slightly allergic to cats. So I need a hyperallergenic cat, but it's like to what degree these cats even exist is a little bit debatable. So a Siberian is said to be the best for a person with allergies. But as I say, mine are very minor allergies, like my eyes get a little bit itchy or something. I've been around cats for a long time. Like I'm used to going to my friend Patrick's house and it would take like hours before I'd see any effects. So I'm thinking that a Siberian cat should be good for me. So I looked into when a new litter is going to be available because they are rare cats and it's at the end of January. So going to the end of January think about it. I will show you the previous litter that I missed out on. Ain't they cute? I liked in this one, this little back one here. It looks a little bit derpy. Reminds me of Salem from Sabrina the Teenage Witch. He just runs away. I know when they're kittens, they're more cute than when they're cats. But like cats kind of take care of themselves. You just like give them a bunch of stuff and then they just take care of themselves. Whatever. You have an automatic feeder. Well, I mean, you'd want to feed the cat normally. But I mean, just feed them twice a day and change the litter. Yeah, exactly. Like with dogs, I would have to get into a much more strict routine of like going for walks and stuff, which I'm not sure I would want to. Like dogs should be walked ideally twice a day, which most people I imagine don't. Yeah, I do think a cat would better fit my lifestyle than a dog. The reason I was thinking about getting a dog though, which is so that I could go, I want an excuse to exercise. Like I could get a cat and a dog. May I reduce some research into getting a dog? I can't decide because I don't like making long-term commitments into anything chat. Like I avoid unnecessary responsibility because I'm afraid of letting people down or unforeseen consequences causing me to not be able to meet those obligations. And getting a pet? That's a decade. Just like yeah, I'll do this for a decade. That's tough. Pets help mental health. Exactly. Please don't be one of those people who give away their pets after a few months. Because funny enough, I've organized for that because again, I can't test these cats beforehand. They don't do that anymore. So I could get the cat and just be allergic and I would have to give it away. I said to my sister, you willing to take it? She's like, yeah, okay. Because it costs four thousand dollars. It's an expensive cat. This is an Australian dollars chat. Hyperallergenic cats are not cheap chat. |
| 05. March 2020 | Getting a standing desk | Getting a standing desk. I should really go out of my way to get this standing desk. Like I don't even want a standing desk so that I can stand. The results in terms of whether standing at your desk is better or worse, like it's debatable. The research is mixed apparently. But I've never had the ability to lift up my desk to the exact height that is comfortable for me. I think if my desk was like you know half an inch higher I'd be more comfortable. Currently right now I have curtains under both sides of my desk to lift it up that little bit more. Not in a million years did I ever think I would spend the money on a standing desk. But when it comes to comfort for hours on end, not being comfortable is preventing me from making content and working longer hours. So it's just better that I maintain some comfort. |
| 27. December 2020 | Getting and building my new exercise machine. | Getting and building my new exercise machine. So I got woken up this morning by a dude calling me. So I've ordered myself a very expensive elliptical machine in the hopes that it'll both be quiet and, because I like ellipticals when I used to go to the gym, I'm like, maybe this will inspire me to actually do some fucking exercise. So just 20 minutes on the elliptical or whatever whenever I wake up. It's kind of my goal right now. I look at the delivery cost. I'm like, this is an insane delivery cost, but ah, you know, whatever. Comparing it to the prices of other websites, it's still a good deal. But then I had like a building cost. Like if you want them to come and build it, I'm like, I've never had another person come and build me something before. But in this case, I know this is going to be a pain in the ass to build. I don't want to break it or something or install it in a way that is less than optimal so it might make noise. So fuck it, I'll pay the delivery cost. But it's an expen- I'm going to pay the building cost. But I'm like, this is an expensive building cost. So my idea was that the delivery guy would come here, drop it off, build it, and then leave. Turns out that's not the case. What happens is someone's going to deliver it and then I have to like organize for the person to come out and build it for me. I ain't got time for that shit. I don't have time for, you know, to be ordering these guys to come at a particular time. I don't know when the fuck I'm going to be awake or when I'm not going to be streaming or whatever. That sucks. But so I'm like, I'm going to have to sort this out. And so this guy calls me, wakes me up to ask me if I've got the machine and, you know, call him back when I get it. And so I hung up. And then just before the stream starts, another guy calls me from completely different companies. Like, yeah, so I'm meant to be building your elliptical or whatever. I'm like, didn't you just call me two hours ago? No. Apparently, the people who have sold me the elliptical machine assigned the building of it to two different companies. Are they- am I meant to get them both to come out at the same time and they can fight to the death for the honor to build my machine? Do they know who I am? Do they consider that- that big of an honor to build me an elliptical machine? Am I that famous now? Probably not. It's probably just an error. But still very annoying that I'm going to have to sort this out. I think I might just get the refund to build it myself. Maybe I'll build it on stream. What if I build it on stream, then- then I can be paid to build my elliptical. Can- can turn that one around. It's a good plan, right? |
| 29. December 2020 | Getting annoyed at resetting. | wanting to do multiple runs. I don't know if it's just in Oko, but usually when a run dies it's so unexpected and it just fills me with such dread that I really want to start again. I'm hoping I don't have that same mindset when I get back to speedrunning because you kinda need to do multiple runs to get somewhere. But when I get back to speedrunning, either after Oko is finished or after Pasifist is finished. I think I will try and focus on Pasifist after this. As much as I want to get back into speedrunning, I don't know. I just feel really bad that I haven't put out more episodes. I'm at least doing the footage I have left for fuck's sake. Have my no damage runs made me a better speedrunner? Do I think my knowledge I've gained from doing Oko will improve my gameplay in the future? |
| 06. June 2022 | Getting back to speedrunning | Getting back into speedrunning. The world is to some extent passed me by in regards to speedrunning chat, but I will work diligently to get back up to speed. That's what happens when you don't do runs for years, you know? Why did you stop in the first place? Uh, I believe it was no damage. I wanted to focus on doing no damage. And doing no damage is so fundamentally different from the speedrunners. I was always active in the Discord, so I continued to see the strat developments. I even contributed, occasionally. Knowing that strats are being developed doesn't make you good at them, you know? You don't internalize them. Like I know there was like five strats found in the last two weeks. That would be hard pressing to remember what those are, right? Especially with the amount of runners there are now, and how many developments are being found all the time because of just how many people are running. You've got to be running fairly consistently to keep up with things. With a run this long, it's like forever evolving. After 9k hours I never thought I'd see you watch me tutorial. It doesn't matter how many hours you have in the game, like if you leave the speedrunning thing for a while and you come back, you've got to learn all these strats. Like obviously I could get through the game with ease, but you can't do what you don't know about, you know? There's new strats every couple days? Yeah, it's seemingly so. It's even the case where like, if you take time off a category and then you come back to it, you have to go through the tutorial again because there's just always new strats. Like as time has gone on, because there's more people interested in speedrunning, all speedruns have become more complicated. I suppose it depends on how successful the speedrunning is as to how much of my time I'll dedicate to it. Like I want to dedicate the lion's share of my time to it. I don't want to be embarrassing, you know? I recognize that I'm kind of the gateway for GTA speedrunning and I don't like that I'm not competitive, you know? I mean that's what happens when you take two years off or whatever, you know? Which is life. |
| 30. January 2021 | Getting cancelled as an online content creator | getting cancelled as an online content creator. They're gonna cancel me? So Devin Nash released this video that I thought was very accurate in regards to cancer culture, right? It is extraordinarily rare for a person who gets cancelled to actually get cancelled in regards to people whose job it is to remain in people's consciousness, you know? If you're a public figure, you make content online, whatever it is, it's very hard for you to actually get cancelled because people just start talking about you and people talking about you in general is good, earned media, as Devin Nash would call it. Your name just gets out there more and so the people who would never have known of you now know of you and agree with you. I really like watching Devin Nash's video because he argued, something I've argued in the past, that in related to drama or controversy, regardless of what you do, it seems as though the best thing you can do for your own benefit, while it isn't necessarily honest or good for other people, it's best for you, is to say nothing. Just fucking vanish. Controversy happens, whatever it is, just say nothing and disappear. Come back in a few months when the cycle of what people care about or whatever has changed. Never mention it, never respond to it, and it will just door blow over. Because people can't stay focused on one particular thing forever, especially when the person isn't fanning the flames of that shit, you know? It's important to note that when a person is cancelled and they're a public figure or whatever, and that the norm for that is for a person to grow in terms of their influence because more people talk about them or whatever, it's important to remember that even if the person's platform grows, that person can still suffer emotionally. Receiving a lot of negative attention, even if it can benefit you in regards to your business, your online profile, how many people know of you, your viewership numbers, whatever, it can still take a toll on you mentally. Like when people talk about baiting controversy, man, to get yourself more views, people who do that must have the minds of steel. Because I think that an average person, a normal person, they would just fucking get destroyed mentally. I only received a tiny amount of negative attention from the dream thing, and the vast majority was positive really, especially from those who matter. But even that was just like, ah, god damn, this is so tiring. You know, I can't imagine these people, that apparently exist, like people will accuse people of just, you know, baiting drama. Like Keemstar, for example. The average person would go insane dealing with the level of hatred, justified as it is, that Keemstar deals with, you know. Certainly changing your minds as a public figure is a thing that you always experience backlash over. Because you bring around yourself people who agree with you, and then when you change your mind, the people who you've already rejected or have moved on, who you now agree with, they won't hear about it, but the people who you now disagree with are those who are going to hear most about it and are going to give you the most shit. |
| 01. January 2020 | Getting freaked out in my shower | Getting freaked out in my shower. So my day has only just begun and I've already had two weird things happen to me, right? So I have these wireless earphones, right, that I now wear in the shower. I listen to music and occasionally audiobooks and stuff. Been doing it for like a week, it's pretty good. Today I was feeling like kind of overwhelmed by light and shit. So I was like, look, I'm going to have a shower in the dark. It's something I haven't done in a long time. Like, yeah, it's pretty peaceful. Listening to some music in the dark in the shower. And so I get in the shower and I see these flashes on the wall. I'm like, what the fuck? I look at it. Is my phone flashing? Wait a second. Flash again? No, it's not my phone. Look out the window because I'm watching for the flashes to see if it's, like, no, it's not there either. I'm looking fucking around. I look at the wall and I see the flash. What the fuck is where these flashes come from? I'm getting anxiety thinking like, what is there a fucking camera in here or some shit? And then I go, wait a second. And I realize that the lights are always flashing directly behind me. I'm like, oh, it's the earbuds in my ears. Oh. Because I just, since having them, I just never been in the dark. I was freaking myself the fuck out. |
| 04. October 2021 | Getting friendzoned | Getting friend-zoned. Have I ever been friend-zoned? Depends what you mean by friend-zoned. Have I ever been interested in a woman and she tried to abuse my interest or something for some kind of favor despite not being interested herself? Ah, yeah once. There was this chick once upon a time who was younger and didn't have a driver's license and I'm pretty sure she knew that I was interested in her. I think she kind of... it was... it drags me along to get some rides some places. I wasn't really having much of it. Like the handful of places we went, we like we went to a concert once and went to the city once, I had fun there even though I kind of knew that I might have only been going because I could drive but I enjoyed myself and then I was like ah this is kind of stupid though but you're a kid you know you don't know any better. Or at least you don't immediately know better. If you mean by friend-zoned like oh you know a person wants to remain friends and you want something more, I don't think it's a very good concept right? No one's obligated to be interested in you or whatever man. |
| 23. March 2021 | Getting in early - recognition and success online | Guessing in early, recognition and success online. What is my opinion of content creators who got famous using easy apps like TikTok? I don't think it's easy to become famous on TikTok. Whenever there's a new social media, those who adopt it early get a large chunk of content on that platform. And as the audience grows, you know, their content is thrown to a new audience and they grow with the platform whenever. That's probably the easiest way to get popular on social media. Being there first. But like, there are a lot of people out there who are amazingly talented, amazingly brilliant, hilarious. But we'll never know about them because they'll never get that big break. They'll never get the algorithm to care about them. They'll work tirelessly for years making amazing stuff. And we'll just never know because that's, again, life. There are a lot of really deserving people who work really hard, who get fucking nothing their entire lives. And thinking about that depresses me. Recent example is the Joe Harver we talked about. Is it Harver or Haver? Either way, I'm sure you've seen him because he's a he went from like, you know, a thousand subscribers with like a thousand views a month or something to like a million in less than a million subs and tens of millions of views in less than a month. And you look at his old stuff and his old stuff is really good. It has its own unique style, own unique kind of feel for comedy and stuff. He made like, what, hundreds of videos or something or with high production quality, original ideas. And it just for like two years, like did fucking nothing. No one gave a shit. And then suddenly the algorithm cares about one video. And they're just like, people like, oh, this guy actually makes good stuff. And then suddenly he gets the recognition he deserves. But there are a lot of people out there, the Joe Harvers of the world who never get that recognition at all. They go for two years, three years, four years, five years, and they just never, never get it. What you're saying is Forsen is really popular because he capitalized on Twitch early state. I do not know enough about Forsen's history to say whether or not he did something other than simply be here at the beginning. But I can say with some certainty that Forsen being around during the very early days of Twitch and growing with Hearthstone was a very advantageous fan. A lot of the biggest content creators today are people who were here in the very beginning, some of the first partners that Twitch ever made. But again, of course, remember, that's not the only pathway to success, but it is a very advantageous one. Seeing the coming trend before the trend actually occurs or happening to be there for the trend as it's created. Not that you've seen it necessarily, but you just happen to be there by coincidence. Very advantageous. Basically what I'm saying, guys, fucking learn to be able to see in the future. Don't be lazy. Fucking become a seer. What, you can't see the future? Fucking scrub. How long did it take for you to get recognition? Depends on what you consider recognition to be. Three or four years before I made Facts and Glitches, which Facts and Glitches probably made me more than small little dude. Keep in mind, though, when I say it took three or four years for me to get recognition, I'm not saying that I deserved recognition before that. With everyone, it takes time to kind of get your stride, to make content that's worth watching or to really know what the hell you're doing. One advantage, again, of being there at the beginning of a platform is usually the standard for what is good is a lot lower. So you can be inexperienced, you can be somewhat shit, and still by comparison to everyone else, you're doing pretty good, you know? The later and later you start on a platform, the better you have to be in your initial heyday or in your initial beginning, or else you won't be able to compete with everyone else who's on the platform, right? Like the reason Joel Havre or whatever stands out is that, like, you go back years in his content, it's still really good. The same kind of production quality he's doing today, kind of stuff. Which probably that's not the case, as in, like, if you go back really far, I'm sure his content is worse. But he just had such good content for so long with effectively no recognition that it was, you know, annoying or it's not good to see. For me, though, I look back at my really old content and it's not very good, you know? Because it takes a while to get comfortable streaming and to know what's going on, especially back then when there was less information about it. |
| 27. December 2020 | Getting infinite Youtube play buttons. | Getting infinite YouTube play buttons. Will my clips channel qualify for a second play button? Absolutely. It's funny because once you get to a certain size on YouTube, you can basically just print yourself play buttons. Once you're at like a million subs or whatever on your main channel, you just go like, Hey guys, I'm making a second channel about my cats. Haven't uploaded anything there yet, but if you want a sub there so you get my content about my cat first, feel free to sub. Instant 100,000 people sub. And you get yourself a play button for your cats. And of course, there's some people who are so large they can do that even for a million play buttons. That's what I was actually thinking of, uh, Seth. Linus cat tip. |
| 27. December 2020 | Getting infinite Youtube playbuttons. | Getting infinite YouTube play buttons. Will my clips channel qualify for a second play button? Absolutely. It's funny because once you get to a certain size on YouTube, you can basically just print yourself play buttons. Once you're at like a million subs or whatever on your main channel, you just go like, Hey guys, I'm making a second channel about my cats. Haven't uploaded anything there yet, but if you want a sub there so you get my content about my cat first, feel free to sub. Instant 100,000 people sub. And you get yourself a play button for your cats. And of course, there's some people who are so large they can do that even for a million play buttons. That's what I was actually thinking of, uh, Seth. Linus cat tip. |
| 27. December 2020 | Getting invited to a speedrun creator discord. | Getting invited to a speedrun creator discord. I was actually invited to a discord with a bunch of speedrunning content creators and stuff in it. Which was very nice, because given that I haven't speedrunned in a while, I sometimes worry that other speedrunning content creators may look down on me a little bit. Because I remember back in the day, when I first heard about no hitruns, I had no interest in them and I didn't completely respect them. Respect is probably the wrong word, but I didn't think much of them. Being a speedrunner. Because the idea of a no hitrun, no damage run is like the polar opposite of a speedrun, effectively. Damage boosting is a strategy implemented in like just endless, like effectively every speedrun where you can take damage, uses damage boosting to save time. But obviously things have changed. Just like back in the day when I said I'd never speedrun Trevacent and then I speedran Trevacent, you know? |
| 24. February 2022 | Getting mew from my neighbour. | Getting Mew from my neighbor. My friend went to a... he went to a convention and he paid like 10 bucks or something to get a Mew on his game and he used the trade duplicate thing to give me a Mew. I was so sad when he moved away. I remember... I remember my mum being like, um, I've set up so you can go over the neighbor's place to meet their son or whatever. I'm like, I don't want to go over and play with some other kid I don't know and she's like, oh you'll be fine. I went over there and I was a shy kid who, you know, didn't really make friends very well and Daniel Myers was just like, hey man, how's it going? He treated me like we'd been friends for like a decade and he's like, oh man, come play Churok with us. I'm like, what the hell is Churok? And Churok was some shooter game on N64. It was so fun, dude. So fun. I'm not sure if this memory is true but I remember being confused as to why he was treating me so kindly that I was almost convinced that we had met before because I just had never experienced a random stranger being that kind to me before. Like I have so few memories of being a kid but I remember the times I spent with Daniel Myers, man. I remember when he introduced me to chicken salt. Chicken salt is fucking delicious. I don't still know him, no. He had to move to Queensland and I cried that day. I still remember how sad I was. |
| 28. September 2021 | Getting my DarkViperAU name on socials | Be assuring. Getting my Dark Viper AU name on socials. Oh, good news. So for a very long time on TikTok, I was called Dark Viper under scroll, YT under scroll, TTV, as in Dark Viper YouTube Twitch TV. I did this name because I couldn't get Dark Viper AU and I wanted a name that said, hey, I'm on YouTube and Twitch as well. When I started getting bigger on TikTok, obviously this is a very shit name to have. So I tried to get Dark Viper AU and I found a person who convinced me that they actually owned the Dark Viper AU account, but they'd lost the password and couldn't get back into it. How they did this is they showed older messages or whatever that they used the account to send and whatnot. Maybe it was bullshit, but it was fairly convincing. Like it'd be weird for a person to go to that kind of effort to say, hey, I can't actually get into the account, I'm sorry, right? And so for the longest time, this account has remained dormant, the Dark Viper, dormant, the Dark Viper AU accounts. And I could never get it. But I talked to my managers and I said, do you have contacts at TikTok? Can you get them and say, hey, look, I know you don't normally do name changes, but you have to do them eventually or else there's gonna be no accounts for people to have and people are gonna have, you know, Dark Viper 12345678910, because all the names that brands or content creators could use for names, they'll have gone. You can't really have a brand name that has like 57 numbers at the end of it. And so they talk to their contacts and it's not, after a month, I got the Dark Viper AU name. So I'm now Dark Viper AU on TikTok. So I guess I'm Dark Viper AU now everywhere, right? I don't think I have any accounts that aren't Dark Viper AU. I'm so happy that I never went to the efforts to get Dark Viper on all the platforms. The Dark Viper on Twitch came back after many years and streamed like twice or something. The Dark Viper on Twitter, he's had the name Dark Viper, you know, he's used the name since like 1993 or something. And so he's never gonna give it up or what have you. Like Dark Viper is a common enough name, it's not super common, but common enough that getting it on every platform would be hell. Dark Viper AU, it still gets used sometimes, but it's far more accessible and easy to get. It does, I do occasionally run into issues when brands or sponsors or whatever wanna call me Dark Viper. And I gotta say, no, no, no, do Dark Viper AU because there are other Dark Vipers out there. Oh, true, I still don't have the Dark Viper AU name on social club. I don't have it in GTA online. And that's never gonna fucking happen. I have an easier time talking to a foreign company, TikTok and getting a response, getting a name change than I do with Rockstar Games that I've made content for, for, you know, half a decade kind of thing. I'm trying to think, is there any, no, I think Rockstar does have the worst support of any company I've ever found. They are the worst. They're actually, thinking about other, there are very few things that Rockstar does that I don't consider them to be the worst at. I wonder if it was always this way, or if I just happened to get involved with the Rockstar Games world at the downturn of their company, what if, I don't know. You know, chat, it sometimes boggles my mind that I still can't get the Dark Viper AU name in GTA online. For those unaware, the Dark Viper AU account is a PlayStation 3 account that is a level one character that hasn't been logged into in like eight or nine years. Still can't get the account though. I can get a Chinese company, TikTok, to give me the Dark Viper AU account that hasn't, hadn't been logged into for a few years, but I can't get Rockstar, American company, to give me an account that hasn't been used in like fucking nine years. It's fucking nuts. If I like, rep to any other company's goddamn stuff, easy, just get me an account name. Can't do it with Rockstar Games. No fucking community goddamn representation or consideration at all. It's not that they don't like me, it's that they don't fucking do anything with people who make content for this game. If you think that consumers of Rockstar products get no consideration, I guarantee you people who like make content for Rockstar Games get even less consideration. If that's even possible, can you have less than zero? Rockstar doesn't give a fuck about anyone unless you like are handing them at least a hundred grand every second they are taking up of their time. |
| 25. June 2021 | Getting my chest waxed | Impress the same time. I thought you know I've never had like just a completely smooth chest I wonder what percentage of people do that shit Content true for content that'd be good well sure when I was a kid, but obviously I'm not talking about that now Am I see for things like that though you need? Someone else with you right it's not like I can wax myself or maybe a coat What do I know yeah get my plants to wax me isn't there like? Hair removal creams and stuff is that worse than waxing I? Know how that shit works doesn't sound like that. She'll be good for you your descriptions do not sound particularly appealing twitch chat Oh, no, we used our first name. What what have we done wrong? Why I split my no damage runs in half, so only 40 minutes in but any plans for full run today I just I'll just get to that point and be like |
| 27. October 2022 | Getting my facts and glitches series dubbed in Spanish. | My facts and glitches series dubbed in Spanish on YouTube now you can have different audio tracks for your videos I don't know if there's always like the first audio track that is is Given to everyone or like it'll detect what region you're in and give different audio tracks I hope it does the detection thing Linus tech tips is doing a thing where they're having like an AI You know read their videos in Spanish and then like syncing them up with the video and the person who wants Spanish can change That audio track and I was thinking like as we've talked about before There's no way I can have every single one of my videos dubbed over in a different language That just doesn't make sense. I have too many viewers who cost too much, but my facts and glitches series It'd be so easy to dub over because there's no person on screen There's not even like music during the section where like I'm speaking It's just a chunk of my voice and then the gameplay so Realistically, I could have someone and just say what I said for that particular section and then just play it out normally I'm thinking of seeing if I can find someone who speaks very good Spanish to see the thing is though because I don't speak Spanish I can't like judge how good they are at it, and I believe there's different variants of Spanish You know I guess I'd have to look into one I don't really have time, but it does seem like something that would be really willing to be something fairly achievable You know but like I need someone more than who can just speak Spanish right I need some with like a good speaking voice for YouTube and for that reason but um at the very least if I have a mod who can speak Spanish Then they could check and be like yeah, this guy's legit or whatever |
| 10. August 2022 | Getting my shoulder hair lasered off. | Getting my shoulder hair lasered off. I got a little bit of hair on the back of my shoulders I'm like I should get that laser off And I'm like for who for who would I get my shoulder hair laser off am I gonna meet someone in public or meet a woman? And if you will ah you got a few hairs on your shoulders. Oh Deal breaker for me son. Why would she say so why would anyone say something get the fuck out of here? You guys in chat like I had no idea you had hair on your shoulders Why am I even here you wasted all my time you've taken the best years of my life. How dare you? Please don't leave me I can sh- |
| 04. March 2021 | Getting new music from Twitter. | Getting new music from Twitter. So I got this playlist that uh, it's got 55 hours of music that was suggested to me on my Twitter. It wasn't all of the songs suggested because apparently for couch they wouldn't all appear. But I am slowly going through it. Whenever I have time, I don't even know where I'm up to. Like I'll find where I'm up to later, but I have been finding a few songs. So if you want to see what songs I'm listening to right now, my exclamation mark playlist should bring you this playlist. Do they not, do they not add an order? No, they don't add an order. |
| 04. March 2021 | Getting new music from twitter. | Getting new music from Twitter. So I got this playlist that uh, it's got 55 hours of music that was suggested to me on my Twitter. It wasn't all of the songs suggested because apparently for couch they wouldn't all appear. But I am slowly going through it. Whenever I have time, I don't even know where I'm up to. Like I'll find where I'm up to later, but I have been finding a few songs. So if you want to see what songs I'm listening to right now, my exclamation mark playlist should bring you this playlist. Do they not, do they not add an order? No, they don't add an order. |
| 09. July 2022 | Getting old in content creator game | out about how tangled the thing is. Getting old in the content creator game. I'm just so fucking tired, man. Oh, I hope I just don't fall asleep on my goddamn keyboard. Did you try to have a nap before you jumped on? I suck at sleeping in general. Same, yeah. And naps I've never managed to sleep for a short period of time. Especially because like the stress of knowing that I might oversleep and all that, I just can't chill. Feel like it's an old man's game. What, sleeping? Yeah, the old afternoon nap. I mean, probably one of the few things I can look forward to getting older. Yep, just sleep whenever you want. Yeah, I mean, fuck, I'm an old man right now. I'm 31 or whatever, so, you know. I'm an old man in this game. Yeah, I was playing Fortnite the other day with some mates trying to get Ds and I'm like, man, I feel like I'm too old for this game now, eh? Feel like the only people that play Fortnite are content creators or 14 year olds. Wait, someone in chat is telling me I'm 30. Am I actually 30? I thought I was 31. No, no, I think I'm 31. I am 31. Okay, good. Stop fucking canceling me, chat. Once you get up there in numbers, they all start to feel the same. Oh, yeah. 30 feels way different from 29, but 31 does not feel different from 30. I'm a 30 in a year and I'm not happy about it. Don't guys peak at like 40 or something though? Yep. |
| 23. November 2020 | Getting out of your echo chamber | I loved watching, um, there's this thing that I watched recently. So Destiny, you can say a lot of negative things about Destiny till the cows come home, right? But I've always said I would love to know him as a person, because he seems like an interesting guy who can argue his points well. He can speak well. And he released this video where he went into basically a Republican stronghold. Um, half the people on stage were, three out of five, were black Republicans. And listening to what, how they believe the world works, and their values, and how they would, how, what they would say to push back against things that Destiny said, was very interesting to me. I hope he keeps doing it, because it's very interesting getting a look behind the curtain, you, you could, you could say. Like there's, there's only so far that you can kind of work to get yourself out of your bubble, without physically going somewhere else, you know? Listening to Destiny talk to people who believe not, not only, not only do they have different values, but just believe the world is like a different place. They live in a different reality. It was very fascinating. Yeah, Destiny is a very old school content creator. Like he was streaming back when like, you know, the technology to stream well didn't even exist. Like you're having to cobble things together from your fucking kitchen sink to, to stream with two bits, you know? He's had a lot of controversies over the years, some justified, some not. Very interesting character, regardless of what you think about him personally. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 26. May 2022 | Getting out these anti-react content videos almost killed me | Getting out these anti-react content videos almost killed me. I made just a quick message to say I'm loving the recent vids. They clearly show you have put a lot of time and effort into them. Not saying other videos aren't as good, but I enjoy them too. It is very rare for me to do a project of this scope. Making these nine videos, the total writing was 150 pages, although 50 pages that was outtakes. And, I mean, I guess it's probably like two months writing them, because I was writing notes at least when I was making Pacifist. So I went from Pacifist, which just took a ridiculous amount of hours, like over 200 hours to make that video, and then I moved on to these, and it crushed me emotionally. I got Bob to help me with the last video, which is the major video, because I was just like, I need this to be done. And I'm freaking out to Bob, like, oh man, I'm dying here, I'm so stressed and sad and stuff, and I'm just happy that it's a, you know, I get into it, it's not. |
| 29. March 2021 | Getting questionable fan art. | Getting questionable fanarts. Do I get mad when people draw me thick? I in general appreciate all the fanart that I receive. I don't want to keep drawing attention to people drawing me in particular ways, because I feel like that would just inspire more people to do it. Like, imagine I get myself into a situation where someone draws me as a hentai or something, and then I draw notice to this and they get a bunch of traffic on their website or some shit. All I'm gonna get is pictures like that on my Twitter all day. Other people hoping that they get a shout out or whatever. I don't want to get into that situation. It'd be really weird. What I do want to do though is Soda Poppin released a video today. He's released another one like this before, where he does like a contest for art for merch, and he pays like 200 bucks to the person who gets the most votes, and 100 bucks to any other design he chooses to put up on his store. And he like ends up picking a lot, because you know he's just, he's got a fuck ton of money or whatever, because like 30 designs and he pays out like 3 grand or whatever. I'm tempted to do something like that. I'm nowhere near as large a content creator as Soda Poppin, so I doubt I will receive as many submissions. I do want to do it, but also I don't want to get into a situation where I'm saying hey I don't like your art kind of thing, that contests are a way to get tons of art and pay for none of it. It's kind of a sketchy practice, really. But you are paying for it. I mean I suppose if you did a contest and you kept all the art and only paid the winner or something. I mean you pay anyone who wins. I suppose it puts you in a situation where if you were hiring artists normally for the same price, like everyone you hired would get paid. But I suppose no one's obligated to submit to the contest. Like it's entirely a voluntary process. You're looking forward to it? I'm not sure I'm going to do it. It's just a passing thought. Although those contests have ownership of the submitted work as a condition. Oh, that sounds scummy as fuck. As long as you don't use any art you didn't pay for. Yeah I'm very much so in the line of paying people for the work. But then again, the profile picture that I'm using right now on my stream isn't paid. Vroom made it for me, like a bajillion years ago when I was a tiny content creator. Is that not good? He made it for me specifically to use. A little bit worse is the one I'm using for my clips channel. I didn't pay for that either. It was the second piece of fan art I ever received. The credits there in the about section. I mean it was submitted to me directly for me to use though. I suppose maybe that's different because you aren't specifically asking for it. A person's doing it specifically without any expectation of being paid. Like I mentioned before when a person, they tweeted a somewhat risque, it's not pornographic, what's it called? A female version of me that they drew on Twitter. And they did one for GTAmen as well. And I liked that. And the person was like, hey man I'm not going to judge. And I was just like, I'm just flattered that people care enough and acknowledge my existence enough to spend time creating something of artistic value. I love art. It's something that I suck at myself. I cannot draw to save my life. I'm hoping if I ever find someone who I want to settle down with for the rest of my life, I hope they can draw. But I love that shit. I would almost say I find that actually sexually attractive. Creative people who can sing, dance, play instruments, draw. Those kind of arts stuff. Because I can't do any of that. I am completely inept at that in every capacity. So I'm attracted to people who can do that kind of stuff. But it's one of those things where I'm not lamenting that I can't do it because I've never tried. I've never put that practice in. There's a good comic that shows this where a person is watching another person draw. And they're like, whoa it's amazing, how can you do that? And the person is like, it's practice. And practicing for years. Well, it's truly an innate talent. You must just have the genes for it. It's so incredible that you can draw like this. And the person is like, no, no. I've been practicing since I was a kid, and so I'm just good at drawing now. And they're like, well, guess I'm never going to have those kind of skills to be able to draw like you. And they're like, no, you could. You just have to practice. It's just, you don't want to spend the effort. Because as I say, as much as I envy these kind of skills, I do nothing to gain those skills myself. So I'm not complaining. I am envious, but at the same time I recognize that in a significant way, it's just my inability to put the work in that prevents me from having these skills. |
| 30. May 2021 | Getting recognized in public. | Getting recognized in public Come on, we haven't been noticed in public yet Yeah Ever since I started doing all the pub of Peli face cam shit and streaming a bit more not like very often I've been a pretty small town but I was at a campus the other day because we had to wait for my friends to come in and I guess University campus is like a hot spot for Fucking people and I got recognized like four times just sitting there having coffee was insane That is so fun My mind what about you guys I've been recognized once in my entire life and that was from a person who served me at our Audi and it's mainly because I don't fucking go anywhere It's very hard to be seen by people like if I just you don't go places Yeah, that's so true Do you ever just imagine how many people have actually noticed you but like didn't want to say anything? Yeah I've had those messages once or twice actually but you get those Yeah from people like I think you might know who I am, you know, I've heard twice one was a taxi driver Oh, yeah, very which was kind of awkward. But you know It was fun and once in a supermarket actually |
| 08. June 2022 | Getting recognized. | Getting recognized. Have I ever been recognized in public before? I never go out in public, dude. Well, yeah Technically I have yeah, at least I think I have I told that story once before how I was out shopping with my mother Whatever I had a mask on but uh, I was probably wearing one of my shirts and some guy like smiled at me And gave me a thumbs up or some shit. I'm like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I've been recognized on the phone twice That's true once when I called Text swap for my ISP and another where I called the tax office |
| 16. February 2021 | Getting rid of the stuff at my house | Getting rid of all the stuff at my house. I've finally managed to get a dude to come around and get rid of all my rubbish. I will occasionally forget to put out my bins or not be too good at sorting, recycling or whatever. And so, I get stuff sent here and packaging and boxes and stuff and over the course of a month, the monster just piles up in my garage. So I eventually have to get a dude to come around and just get rid of it for me. Makes everything feel so much cleaner though. |
| 27. December 2020 | Getting scammed by AI Dungeon 2. | Successful getting scammed by AI dungeon 2. Oh So something happened to me yesterday, right? So there's this thing called what's it called AI dungeon 2 So I saw soda pop and playing AI dungeon 2 on stream and looks kind of fun It's basically a thing where an AI builds you a story There's a free version of it But only the paid version has a text-to-speech thing where the bot will read you what's going on and you kind of need that Reading for it to be enjoyable like reading yourself is kind of lame. So I'm like, it's ten bucks I'll pay and it's a subscription, which is annoying, but I'm like, okay, I'll pay whatever So I paid and it didn't make me a member and I was just confused. It wouldn't let me pay again I it definitely take my money. So I issued a refund through PayPal some time later I completely forgot about it the people who made this game actually got back to me and they said oh, yeah There's something that happens extremely rarely. It does happen. You didn't get your membership, but you were charged So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna refund you and cancel the subscription. It's okay. No, actually, you know what? I'm gonna do I'm gonna refund you give you a free month of the service and keep your subscription now This was these messages were sent to me two months ago so there has been a ten dollar subscription that I've been paying for for the last two months and and So I didn't get to use the free one month didn't get to use the second month I paid for and now in the third month which I've just paid for like three days ago and the only reason I found out about this is Because they sent me a newsletter and like hey guys, we're we're making some cool new changes to the AI dungeon I'm like wasn't I paying those guys money? What happened with that? So I can't smell subscription It's telling me you know, I was like, hey, give me my money back It's only 20 bucks, but it's funny cuz I wouldn't mind actually playing the game It did look kind of interesting and still have my membership for the rest of the month. So maybe I'll Maybe later on maybe after this if you remind me you can go check it out I like I've never played it. So we'll see after this. Yeah, this is more important |
| 05. September 2021 | Getting scammed in Runescape | Getting scammed in RuneScape. Have you ever been old f4 trolled? No Maybe in RuneScape once upon a time. I was trolled once in RuneScape when I was young when um I know as an idiot kid I was just selling a bunch of random shit that I had in my bank and a dude was like hey I'll give you an adamantite pickaxe For all the stuff. I'm like, okay so he puts in the trade window and then he switches the adamantite pickaxe for like I think it's an iron pickaxe or something there's just two pickaxes that look very similar and one's super rare and the other ones just okay, and he traded them out and I didn't notice and I finished the trade and he took all my stuff Thankfully it was all garbage stuff But I did feel kind of bad the other time I was kind of bamboozled was my old mod ran When I was playing pubg I was like, how do you how do you honk your horn and she's like, oh, it's shift F I was like, oh, no, it's not what you're talking about. And then The person who was also in the car with me starts honking their horn and so I'm like, oh Over your honking the horn there must be shift F. So I press shift F and I Dived out my car and died. I'm sure that clip is around somewhere in like my top few clips |
| 04. March 2021 | Getting tired of No Damage runs. | Getting tired of no damage runs. I can't believe how close I got last time guys. Nine hours in to take damage in such a tiny way. There are so many things I want to do you have no idea and I'm being limited by this category not being completed. There were some close calls in the other run as well though like there's always close calls in every attempt. Honestly at this point I am a little bit sick of this category. When I started explaining everything that I was doing I had the expectation that I would finish the category with the next like five runs that I've now been explaining every single thing that I do for like the last 20 runs or something. It's uh it's kind of gotten old. Just stop explaining. No I want the explanations to be in the completed run and I am so close to getting it guys just so close. I had two runs now that I failed by a frame. What would I do after a clean no damage run? I've got a lot of modded speed runs and stuff that I want to do. I suppose first thing I want to do is work on passives and finish passives and then we'll go with the modded speed runs. |
| 04. March 2021 | Getting tired of no damage runs. | Getting tired of no damage runs. I can't believe how close I got last time guys. Nine hours in to take damage in such a tiny way. There are so many things I want to do you have no idea and I'm being limited by this category not being completed. There were some close calls in the other run as well though like there's always close calls in every attempt. Honestly at this point I am a little bit sick of this category. When I started explaining everything that I was doing I had the expectation that I would finish the category with the next like five runs that I've now been explaining every single thing that I do for like the last 20 runs or something. It's uh it's kind of gotten old. Just stop explaining. No I want the explanations to be in the completed run and I am so close to getting it guys just so close. I had two runs now that I failed by a frame. What would I do after a clean no damage run? I've got a lot of modded speed runs and stuff that I want to do. I suppose first thing I want to do is work on passives and finish passives and then we'll go with the modded speed runs. |
| 08. June 2022 | Getting too good at GTAGuessr. | Getting too good at GTA Guessa. Yes, this was recorded before I versed the professional. I realize the better that I get at GTA Guessa, the more I'm observant of the game. The less people I can reasonably challenge to the game. That's a bit of a problem really. Like I looked at the list of the people that I thought it'd be cool to challenge. Both from a business sense and that they seemed like interesting people, so you know, fun-wise. And I'm like, I would just crush all these people. I think for the next GTA Guessa, I need to challenge some actual like GTA people, as in people whose primary content is like GTA Online or Roleplay. Sure, I would. I am very good at the game. I am one of the greatest GTA Guessa players of our generation. Okay, maybe you aren't the same generation. Of this century, implying that there are other centuries where there are better GTA Guessa players. Fucking George Washington, man. Fucking so good at GTA Guessa, you have no idea. |
| 30. May 2021 | Getting your name on a new platform. | Getting your name on a new platform as a content creator. I like how many TGGs there are. TGG1, TGGfan, TGG33, TGG. It's like 8 here, man. How annoying is it when you start playing something new and you have to try and get your own name and every fucking iteration is taken? It was so annoying because the person with Dark Viper AU isn't like a person trolling me or something. They're a person who made it back in PlayStation 3 and hasn't played in like 8 years. And I sent them an email like, can I just have it? Because no one's using the account. It's like level 0 or whatever. And they're like, nah, can't give it to you. I'm like, oh, that sucks. I took your account. |
| 24. January 2022 | Getting youtube viewers to watch me on Twitch | Getting YouTube viewers to watch me on Twitch. Uh, yeah. Things still seem to be doing well. The main way I can grow on Twitch now is just finding more ways to get people on YouTube to care about whether I'm live on Twitch or not. I just need people to give enough of a shit to check every once in a while if I'm live. Thanks man. I mean, thinking about just making a video being like, hey yo, here's how you turn notifications on when I go live. Because I'm not meant to make videos telling people to go watch me on Twitch. Uh, YouTube doesn't like those kind of spam videos. It's a tiny risk, but I won't do it that often. |
| 24. January 2022 | Getting youtube viewers to watch me on twitch | Getting YouTube viewers to watch me on Twitch. Uh, yeah. Things still seem to be doing well. The main way I can grow on Twitch now is just finding more ways to get people on YouTube to care about whether I'm live on Twitch or not. I just need people to give enough of a shit to check every once in a while if I'm live. Thanks man. I mean, thinking about just making a video being like, hey yo, here's how you turn notifications on when I go live. Because I'm not meant to make videos telling people to go watch me on Twitch. Uh, YouTube doesn't like those kind of spam videos. It's a tiny risk, but I won't do it that often. |
| 14. January 2021 | Getting “cancelled” as a content creator | I have you do you um just on topic of cancelling have you do you know Devon Nash by some chance? Um only because I think you mentioned him in a recent video. I yeah Recently talking about the idea of cancelling and it doesn't seem that in the vast majority of cases that people who try to get cancelled Actually actually get cancelled like if someone tried with you to go always saying all these terrible things I think it's so obviously a joke that you would just gain from such a thing People would just become more aware of you and you just blow up like I can't imagine It's so hard to cancel but people to begin with but certainly in our position where The more people talk about you the better off your content is I think I want to be someone try to cancel me I want that to be like an interesting experience Yeah, yeah, I think as well like you look into it like if you like do something that's legitimately too far like We don't have to name an example But like you know you cross the line and break a law then maybe you're gonna get cancelled like some fucked up Something really bad or a queen swear on this is that okay? Yeah, yes, there's something really bad Then maybe you're gonna get cancelled for that But if like someone's like oh you made a joke and then people come and look at me and I'm doing like charity streams And like obviously try and be like a nice person and a good person It's gonna be like they just make them look stupid in my opinion But you're gonna look at the intent of the person as well like it's just for a bit of a laugh The content matters is just in in a lot of cases that Even if you do something horrendous as long as you say nothing Duck your head down for a couple of months you can come back and no one Because because the the cycle of people trying to be canceled the drama moves ahead so quickly the only way that you can truly be canceled is if you know you literally go to jail or Even they're like people have gone to jail and come back. I had their crazy Thanks for the prime bro Kill like a whole family. Yeah, man. I was 20 years ago. Fuckin chill. Anyway. Anyway. |
| 19. October 2022 | Getting “recognition” from large Twitch streamers | Recognition from large Twitch streamers. Mostly after the React drama, how does it feel to get recognition by large creators? What you have to understand is, Twitch streamers are not really that large or respected, I guess. I already had recognition from large content creators that I actually like and respect. Recognition from people that you don't respect or even like is not particularly interesting. Especially in that context. The fresh meat cut- |
| 19. October 2022 | Getting “recognition” from large twitch streamers | Recognition from large Twitch streamers. Mostly after the React drama, how does it feel to get recognition by large creators? What you have to understand is, Twitch streamers are not really that large or respected, I guess. I already had recognition from large content creators that I actually like and respect. Recognition from people that you don't respect or even like is not particularly interesting. Especially in that context. The fresh meat cut scene, thank you. |
| 27. February 2021 | Gifting 3000 Twitch Subs And The Cost Involved | Wanting to gift 3000 subs so that I can unlock the last 10 emotes on Twitch, and the oddities in calculating how much that would actually cost me. Just give 3000 subs, don't tempt me. There was a clip that went somewhat viral, where the stock guy was like, Streamers don't want you to know that when they gift subs, like it's not that big of a deal, because they get some of that money back and it's tax deductible and da da da. I've openly said this many times. I don't know how much money it actually costs me to gift a sub, because I do get a portion of that money back, and if I didn't pay that portion. Now I suppose a good way of looking at it is in the same way that Linus talked about it on his podcast, where people are like, Hey man, why don't you just buy that robot dog for 70 grand or whatever, like it's tax deductible. And he's like, just because something's tax deductible doesn't make it a good purchase, or not in some way a waste of money or whatever. Because even if you're going to give, let's say, 20,000 of that 70,000 to the government, you'd still rather have $50,000 than a robot dog that you wouldn't necessarily use, right? A waste of money is still a waste of money. While tax deductions do incentivize you to make business purchases, it doesn't make any business purchase sensible, right? Like if I give subs, I am still losing money. But even more than that, like, do you pay tax on that income? So common basic thing, everyone knows 50-50 subs, right? Obviously better contracts, let's just say it's 50-50. So let's say I'm paying 250 per sub. So I would have normally paid, let's say 30% on, it's probably more than that, but let's just say 30% on tax that I'm now not paying on that money. But then aren't I then paying tax anyway because it counts as income? So I think that cancels out because I'm no longer paying tax on the money that I spent, but I am still going to pay tax on the revenue that I then get back. Yeah, you pay tax on money, you pay yourself. Yeah, exactly. Because I'm giving Twitch money and then they're paying me money. While I'm no longer paying tax because of business expense, the first time that I pay on that first chunk of money, the money I then receive back, I'm still paying tax on. Yeah, so it just cancels out. So I am still, I do still end up paying tax. It's just if you don't make the deduction, you'd end up paying tax twice. So I guess then you do still end up paying the full money that you'd normally be paying. But of course, that is still less than if another person gives a sub. You pay less in taxes buying the sub than you would in income. How so? Yeah, I guess that is true. I guess that is true because I don't pay, let's just make it $5. So I because I put $5 as a business expense and don't pay tax on that $5. And then I receive $2.50 in income from that. And then I pay tax on that income. So a $5 sub with that 50-50 will cost me three bucks or whatever. But then since you're avoiding the initial tax, which we shouldn't have made it 30%, but which was a buck 50. I don't know. While tax is normally easy to figure out, it's weird in this case because you're kind of increasing your own income, paying money to yourself. Whatever it would cost me to get 3,000 subs, it would still be a nice chunk of change. I imagine approaching $10,000. Of course, there's a decrease in income. The point that the guy was trying to make is it's not as huge expense on behalf of the streamer as people seem to believe. It is tempting because I don't have a lot to spend my money on. And I really do care about my stream and getting emotes and stuff. And I think they're pretty cool and stuff. But I think it'd be cheating in a way to gift that many subs. Having a goal to aspire for, to shoot for seems pretty good. Gifting a sub lowers your tax by 150, assuming 30% tax rate. But it costs you $2.50. So a gifted sub is a net $1 loss. No, but you receive... You pay tax on that 250 that you receive. That's the additional bit. As in you pay 250 to Twitch. You receive 250 back, but then you pay tax on that 250. So it's more than a dollar. Oh, true. And in my region, there's VAT. That's a very good point. VAT is like 10% here. It's actually even worse because I'm not even sure how subs are worked out. As in a sub in my region costs more than other regions. Because it used to be 5 USD, but now it's like 8.95 Australian, which is actually more than 5 USD. It's complicated, doesn't it? Yeah, I much preferred when the sub price was 5 USD in my region. I didn't like when they changed it to Australian. Certainly in a reality where the... Like whether it's better to be the Australian currency depends on the exchange rate between USD and US. Since they've made the change, it's only been a bad change. You've only ended up paying more. One second. Why they changed the currency? I don't know. |
| 07. February 2022 | Gilbert Gottfried real voice. | Gilbert Godfried's real voice. Oh dude I had something happen yesterday so I thought Gilbert Godfried's voice was what he actually sounds like but it's not. You know the guy who played Iago and stuff in Aladdin? He doesn't actually sound like that that's a stage voice. There is very little footage of him given using his normal voice but there's like a a clip of him on SNL from way back in the day that shows his normal voice. It's just a normal voice. When you have a dog you have to take him for walks. Well you never pay that much attention to me. That's not the dog that's the cat. Okay this one. The dog, the cat. What difference does it make? Makes a very big difference. I don't like the cat. If you want the cat you have the cat. Wasn't it obvious? I mean I assumed he was yelling sure but he just has a normal voice. |
| 26. August 2021 | Gish-galloping | Gishgalloping. Gishgalloping is when you fire off rapidly a bunch of claims that you know the other person isn't going to be able to unpack and so it seems as though you win. So like in five minutes you make 20 claims that each in of themselves would require five minutes to debunk and then the person has their five minutes of course is unable to debunk what you've said and so you come back and say look at all the things that the person wasn't able to to deal with here and it seems like you win. |
| 21. August 2021 | Gladys Berejiklian’s main focus as Premier | Gladys Berejiklian's main focus is premiere of New South Wales. What's happening in Sydney right now? We have a premiere whose only real interest is in serving business interests. To the detriment often of the wider population. And her priorities being what they were caused her to make very dumb decisions in terms of protecting us from the outbreak of COVID. Yeah, that's basically it in a nutshell. Very accurate statement about the premiere. I mean, I think she's pretty blatant with it, I think. Hasn't she made public statements before in regards to being a premiere for the business? Business is what I think. |
| 27. August 2022 | GlassesViperAU Returns | ViperAU returns. Glasses ViperAU is back from the dead, baby! Gonna get my eyes checked out for, uh, whether I can have them lasered or not. And while the person's like, yo, you just gotta not wear contacts for three days beforehand, I'm like, fuck that shit, I'll do like, five days beforehand. Knowaire teaches permission to transcript the 국만у |
| 26. December 2022 | Goat Simulator's GTA 6 leak shut down by Take-Two. | 6. Leak shut down by Take-Two From Ben Videotech, news Take-Two issued a take-down notice against the Goat Simulator video, amid a cool marketing video which showed an edited snippet of the next GTA title from the leaks back in September. Meetshaw and the NPC, this media has been disabled in response to a report by a copyright owner. They also had another tweet where the Goat Simulator was like, huh, I'm in danger, as in from Ralph Wiegand from Simpsons, but I found it kind of funny, showing that yes, it seems that Take-Two is still very interested in keeping as much of that stuff off the internet as possible, keeping people in the dark. I wish I could tell you how much of a snippet was in there, but I didn't get to see it. Take-Two is very odd with their actions sometimes. I mean, I guess in their minds, it's just that fewer people see any of it, the better off things are. The harder they make it to find that content, the less people will see it, which is true. Increase the difficulty, increase the barriers to entry, the less people will see it, and they clearly don't want people to see it, so. And taking stuff down is not the end of the world, as long as they're not like, directly s- |
| 25. February 2021 | Godzilla vs King Kong. | Godzilla vs King Kong Team Kong or Team Godzilla? Isn't Godzilla like able to shoot laser beams from his throat and Destroy cities? How much are they nerfing Godzilla to get him on the same level as King Kong? Isn't it just basically like Superman going up against Donkey Kong? That kind of difference in power? You got to imagine that neither is going to die and it's just gonna be like they're going to Have mutual respect for each other and part ways having a greater Understanding of someone so different than they so they can come back for a duo movie Another tag team against another two monsters later on. King Kong and Godzilla once enemies now begrudging friends as they fight Other monster will they win or will all the monsters become friends by the end of the movie? Be sure to watch this through our epic to find out Godzilla reminds you of a lovely cartoon from Newgrounds, which is um, the ultimate battle of ultimate destiny Whatever it's called Godzilla was hopping around Tokyo City like a big playground They aren't nerfing Godzilla. They are overpowering Kong. Are they making him like a mecha Kong or something? If they nerf Godzilla it make movie shit. I don't think anything they can do to Godzilla will Increase or decrease the shittiness of the movie because it's definitely gonna be a shit movie |
| 19. March 2021 | Going through ban appeals on stream | Going through band appeals on stream What do you think about streamers making videos reacting to their unbanded requests? I was gonna do the same thing but we talked it over and in the mod discord and Came to the conclusion. Maybe it wasn't the best content those who go over the band appeals But mainly Louie suggested them there wasn't enough funny stuff in there to make good content. I think it's fine I don't think the content is particularly amazing, but it's probably easy content to make and you run the risk of People intentionally writing certain things in band appeals too because they know it's gonna be a video or something |
| 20. October 2021 | Going to take out so much that they know you | Going to take out so much that they know you. I remember when I used to go to Subway at um, near my coals where I worked. I was kind of friends with everyone who worked there because I had been going to Subway for so long. And I asked the guy like, can you give me extra extra extra pickles? He just gave me like a whole layer of pickles, like just a thick ass fucking layer. It was delicious. I love pickles. There was a guy at Subway who started to learn my order. Uh, that was the last time I went there. There was a Reddit post where this person was like, I used to love that at my local Starbucks they knew my order. So they, the very second I walked in the door they'd start making it. So it was ready by the time I got to the front of the line. But uh, eventually I would want different things and it became really annoying. Like, I didn't want to say something, but uh, eventually you can get sick of the same coffee over and over. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 05. January 2022 | Good intentions don't change disruptive behaviour | Good intentions don't change disruptive behavior. It doesn't matter how sincere a person is in doing something, it's still going to be disruptive or annoying. It's just the way it is. Let's say a person comes from a culture where commonly to bring people's attention, they chuck rocks through windows. That's just a thing. And they sincerely are doing so, not with any attempt to annoy you or cause destruction to your property, but just to get your attention as they would with anyone else. It's not malicious, they're just sincerely attempting to get your attention in the way that is normal where they come from. Despite that, I still don't want them chucking rocks at my house. The effects of this sincere non-malicious action is still the reality that's going to break my windows. I only have a certain amount of energy, attention, or level of comfort and patience and shit that I can display on stream. Especially when I'm having a bad day, a person's desire to be sincerely annoying is not something I have to tolerate. |
| 01. June 2020 | Good pc vs good streamer gear | Given the choice between having poor streaming equipment, mic, webcam, etc. or a poor gaming computer that can run GTA just not to a good level, which would you rather have to work with? I mean at this point right now it'd be the worst the worst PC for gaming, just because I'm more focusing on YouTube content right now, but uh you know prior to this point it would obviously be the worst webcam and microphone because I was more focused on speedrunning at that point. I'm fortunate that I don't have to pick between the two and I would argue not many people do in that um good mic, good webcam, a decent gaming PC. These are far more easily obtained with less money today than they were five, ten years ago. |
| 11. December 2020 | Good shout outs vs bad shout outs | Good shoutouts versus bad shoutouts Doug Doug mentioned up Viper a you as an inspiration in the last video. You know about that. I do know that bummer neck Naka honestly, um, I don't think it's going to Like I doubt if it led to any substantial increase in subs I just I just like the thought of it like having someone else whose content you respect and who seems like a nice person acknowledge you in some way is quite nice a direct contrast to when people like You know when the quartering gave me a shout out and I was just like fuck off go away I would much rather you thought I was a dipshit not the kind of person you want to Giving you praise but to be real though I'm happy could the quartering gave me a shout out just because I got to make those two videos that are so fucking funny If you if you if you haven't seen those videos, you're really missing out. I love those videos He can't even afford sleeves. He said the joke twice. He was so proud of it. Oh It might have been my favorite might be my favorite interaction with another content creator in the course of my life It's gonna be a very hard stop that you disingenuous dance motherfucker Oh, if you see you have to do something about something else you couldn't tie your shoes |
| 11. December 2020 | Good shoutouts vs bad shoutouts | Good shoutouts versus bad shoutouts Doug Doug mentioned up Viper a you as an inspiration in the last video. You know about that. I do know that bummer neck Naka honestly, um, I don't think it's going to Like I doubt if it led to any substantial increase in subs I just I just like the thought of it like having someone else whose content you respect and who seems like a nice person acknowledge you in some way is quite nice a direct contrast to when people like You know when the quartering gave me a shout out and I was just like fuck off go away I would much rather you thought I was a dipshit not the kind of person you want to Giving you praise but to be real though I'm happy could the quartering gave me a shout out just because I got to make those two videos that are so fucking funny If you if you if you haven't seen those videos, you're really missing out. I love those videos He can't even afford sleeves. He said the joke twice. He was so proud of it. Oh It might have been my favorite might be my favorite interaction with another content creator in the course of my life It's gonna be a very hard stop that you disingenuous dance motherfucker Oh, if you see you have to do something about something else you couldn't tie your shoes |
| 30. June 2022 | Goods and services taxes | Now, goods and services taxes. In Australia, are taxes applied like in the US on items and stuff? In the way on price tags, they don't include the taxes on the items? So, we have a 10%- I think it's still 10%- GST. So, goods and services tax. So, everything has a- not everything, like fruit and vegetables, sanitary products. There are exceptions, but most things have GST on them. And it's funny because John Howard, his government- I don't know what year it was, this is a long time ago. Before, yeah, I was too young to care about politics. But, I distinctly remember him, I've learned that he's like- We will never introduce GST, never fucking happen, you got a promise from us, we're running on a platform, no GST will never happen, gets into office, immediately puts on a GST. Well, immediately in political terms. I don't like GSTs. Goods and services taxes, because they're non-progressive. A person who's close to the poverty line can less afford to pay for taxes on goods than a person who is making a fuck ton of money, man. They do acknowledge to some degree, which is why certain things don't have GST on them. Things that are necessities. But I'm not sure how expensive that is, I can't remember this anymore. But we have the tax included in sales. If something costs $5, you're paying $5 for it. It is baffling to me, the idea that in America, you have to do the math yourself. It's just fucking stupid. What is listed as the sales price is the sales price, because it includes tax. And to my knowledge, I only know of America not including it. And that's why always on Reddit and stuff, people will be baffled when they go to America, and like, what do you mean this costs like another dollar or something? What are you talking about? This is the listed price. Some states have no sales tax. I think it's just Delaware. I was about to say, I've never heard of a state in America not having sales tax. Like two, okay. That may explain why I've never heard of that before. |
| 19. October 2022 | Google Stadia shutting down | Google Stadia is shutting down. Google Stadia is shutting down and for those who don't know what that was, it was like a cloud streaming service for games meant to revolutionize everything, but people made fun of it from the get-go for endless different mistakes and how they market it and what they were offering and for what price and da-da-da. Eventually it became like a serviceable product, but at that point it was too late and now Google is kicking it to the curb like they have with endless different projects. But what was surprising to most people is that they were funding like every single purchase. All the games, all the hardware, all that jazz. That's nuts. Like this must have cost like a staggering amount of money to get completely nowhere. I'm surprised they stuck with it for so long though. But of course what they can't refund is people's time spent in games. There wasn't a huge amount of people who played a bunch of Google Stadia, but look at this person spending 6,000 hours in Red Dead Redemption 2. Now, I'm not going to kick a person while they're down because 6,000 hours in Red Dead Redemption 2. Kind of crazy. Hasn't even got all the achievements. I can't relate to that. I hope for this guy's sake that they allow, like Rockstar allows people to like move their progress to another platform or something, but that seems unlikely. |
| 19. October 2022 | Google stadia shutting down | Google Stadia is shutting down. Google Stadia is shutting down and for those who don't know what that was, it was like a cloud streaming service for games meant to revolutionize everything, but people made fun of it from the get-go for endless different mistakes and how they market it and what they were offering and for what price and da-da-da. Eventually it became like a serviceable product, but at that point it was too late and now Google is kicking it to the curb like they have with endless different projects. But what was surprising to most people is that they were funding like every single purchase. All the games, all the hardware, all that jazz. That's nuts. Like this must have cost like a staggering amount of money to get completely nowhere. I'm surprised they stuck with it for so long though. But of course what they can't refund is people's time spent in games. There wasn't a huge amount of people who played a bunch of Google Stadia, but look at this person spending 6,000 hours in Red Dead Redemption 2. Now, I'm not going to kick a person while they're down because 6,000 hours in Red Dead Redemption 2. Kind of crazy. Hasn't even got all the achievements. I can't relate to that. I hope for this guy's sake that they allow, like Rockstar allows people to like move their progress to another platform or something, but that seems unlikely. |
| 30. March 2021 | Got myself a Dark Souls editor. | I finally got myself a Dark Souls editor This isn't Dark Souls. I've actually got my next Dark Souls PB Uploaded that will come out soon. You can see me get a PB of over an hour I doubt many of you watched the first run and I'm sure Like less than half of the people who watched the first one and watched the second one But still I will upload all my Dark Souls PB's. I also like the editor that I found for the videos. The editor is far from perfect, but you can In a... he's actually proficient in the sense of he's already good enough and The more he edits the better he will become so he's like as good as Martin or I were Like a year, year and a half ago, two years ago, wherever the fuck we started. You like an editor? Must be a code there Hell yeah, it's a very rare thing. Do you run any other games? No, but the footage of me speedrunning Dark Souls 3 from like three years ago, four years ago now Is only just now being released on YouTube. I've got another episode that coming out soon I have my six PB's that I did for Dark Souls 3. The first one is out and the other five will come eventually Yeah, but that's the only other leaderboard I ever submitted at Times 4. |
| 30. March 2021 | Got myself a dark souls editor. | I finally got myself a Dark Souls editor This isn't Dark Souls. I've actually got my next Dark Souls PB Uploaded that will come out soon. You can see me get a PB of over an hour I doubt many of you watched the first run and I'm sure Like less than half of the people who watched the first one and watched the second one But still I will upload all my Dark Souls PB's. I also like the editor that I found for the videos. The editor is far from perfect, but you can In a... he's actually proficient in the sense of he's already good enough and The more he edits the better he will become so he's like as good as Martin or I were Like a year, year and a half ago, two years ago, wherever the fuck we started. You like an editor? Must be a code there Hell yeah, it's a very rare thing. Do you run any other games? No, but the footage of me speedrunning Dark Souls 3 from like three years ago, four years ago now Is only just now being released on YouTube. I've got another episode that coming out soon I have my six PB's that I did for Dark Souls 3. The first one is out and the other five will come eventually Yeah, but that's the only other leaderboard I ever submitted at Times 4. |
| 12. July 2021 | Government says I can’t have human fuel | Government says I can't have human fuel. So I watched this video that talked about all the different ways that meal supplements have existed and people's desire to remove the tedium of eating and all that jazz. This guy ended it by saying, it seems like there's only one good company for meal replacements and it's Huel. Which, you know, a combination of human and fuel. I'm like, oh, I've heard that before. Let me look up and see if I can get that. Nope. Because due to all the regulations in Australia in regards to food and animals and stuff and importing them and stuff, to import any food, it's like 800 hurdles that you have to jump through. And Huel is just like, nah, not interested. And so, but the same with Soylentz and all the stuff. Unless it's a homegrown, made in Australia meal replacement, you can't get it. And I tried Ozzylentz back in the day. Not a fan. I think there's another one now. Haven't tried it. But like I hear good things about Huel. It's actually the second time it's been mentioned to me. I would love to try it, but I can't. It's literally no fucking way. It's bullshit. Like don't get me wrong, I totally understand the reason why you would have regulations around bringing food in. Potentially invasive species and stuff. Australia's already had that a handful of times and it's fucked up the ecosystem. Cane toads being the biggest example there, or what have you. And potentially different foods having within them insects and stuff that can be invasive species. I understand the regulations. I just wish, you know, it wasn't particularly inconvenience to me right now, you know. So I understand the rules, but it doesn't make me happy that it happens to not help me right now. I'm sorry Australia, we won't let you eat fuel made from humans. Damn. It was my one dream. |
| 30. September 2021 | Government supporting those in bad circumstances | Government supporting those in bad circumstances. I just don't agree that we have to pay and support people who make bad decisions doing drugs. Take any drug addicts. Do you believe that if they were born in different circumstances, or different genetics, that they would have made the same choices? Probably not. I can only ask that people be treated the same way that I want to be treated. If I happen to be born into circumstances that lead me down a path of bad decisions, where I end up getting addicted to some kind of a drug, I would hope in those situations that there would be services available to me that I could improve my life. I'm fortunate that I haven't been put in those circumstances to lead me down such a path. But if I was in those circumstances, I of course would want such services to exist. And I imagine you would as well. To then say, well, I'm not in those circumstances, so fuck those people that are. It's just hypocritical. And I don't like being a hypocrite. We all make bad decisions in life. It's just, sometimes we get punished for those circumstances. Think of every person who had unprotected sex when they were younger. Some of those people just happened to get pregnant. Some of those people just happened to get diseases and die early. The act, the bad decision is the same. But some people get unlucky, and those bad decisions snowball into ruining their lives. Think of all the people. Here's a good example. Think of Barack Obama. He smoked weed in college. He became president of the United States. There are tons of people who smoke weed in college, got caught, got strikes on their record, and fucked up their entire life. It's like, we should not have to support those people who made those bad decisions. But it's not the bad decisions that ultimately sunk them. It was making a bad decision and it having grander complications. Think of every bad decision you've ever made where you weren't coarse, or you recognized that there could have been great repercussions for what you've done, but there weren't. Not because you controlled the outcome. It's just because, you know, it just so happened that the environment wasn't in that way to have those consequences occur. We don't all have a loving family, or good role models, or opportunities in life, or the- |
| 06. March 2021 | Graphic Card supply, giveaways, and taxes | Graphic card supply, giveaways and taxes. Did you guys hear that apparently it's Nvidia right there? They're starting to make some of their old 10 series cars like the 1050 Ti and shit because they can't make enough of any of the newer models to meet demand. And you can remember how everyone who had a 2080 Ti, people were laughing and I'm like haha you got 2080 Ti and the 30 series is coming out as like half the price for the same performance. Haha, no one can get a 30 series card. People were panicking selling their 2080 Ti's for like 300 bucks or whatever on eBay when in reality they've kept a significant amount of their price due to lack of availability of the other cards. What did I do with my 2080 Ti? Oh that's right I gave my 2080 Ti away in the giveaway, that's right. I was like wait a second, what happened to my card? Because I could have put it in my other PC that I use mainly just as a storage thing. It's got a 2070 in it I think but I was like nah, it's a waste. Give it to someone who can use it and enjoy it. Oh I don't need a 2080 Ti or a 2070 whatever in the storage PC but I, it's just back, it's my older hardware. And if this PC ever dies I can use it as a backup until I get new parts. New giveaway 2070? Considering I'll be doing sponsorships I might do some significant giveaway, I don't know what for. But I doubt even if I reached out to AMD or Nvidia that I could get some of the low supply parts. I'm sure people in general would just prefer the cash but I don't know if cash inspires people as much as the actual hardware to enter giveaways, I don't know. Personally I would much prefer to win money than the actual part. That money's enough of an incentive but people are weird. Like if you look up people's psychological biases and the ways to word things in marketing and stuff to influence people to buy or sell or whatever, what pricing of objects makes people more or less likely to buy them? It could be the case that just money doesn't sound as exciting as the actual object or something. Even if the actual object is more limiting. Did I sign the GPU? No but the person asked for a message. So I was like hey, have a good 2021. Don't you have to pay taxes when you win the money? You're meant to declare it as income. I guess you're meant to do it with the object as well. I have to think like, you should declare money that you get for birthdays and stuff as income, right? Depends on the amount? Like no, because I know you can gift people stuff tax free, but maybe it's only to family members or something. It probably just depends on your country. It's not impossible to declare everything but obviously the government isn't in a position where they're... You get those memes sometimes where they're like, oh man if you're off and your tax return by a dollar they'll put you way behind bars for 30 years. It's nonsense. So as long as you're making a clear good faith effort to declare stuff, you're fine. My taxes aren't particularly hard. Especially when I was just a working dude or whatever. It was just a matter of, you can do your taxes in like 20 minutes online. If you're American, just keep in mind that from what I've heard, the American tax system is intentionally made to be complex and annoying. In part so that these companies that you can pay to do your taxes can get some money from you. I have an accountant these days and I pay them quite a bit of money. But it's more because of just how complicated my taxes would be if I didn't do that. I could never imagine sitting there doing all the currency conversions myself. From all the different currencies that I could send. They've dragged me nuts. How I do my taxes now is every quarter I go through all my cards and my PayPal and stuff and I remove anything that's irrelevant. And I just send the bulk to them labeling income and expenses. |
| 06. August 2020 | Graphics vs gameplay | Graphics vs Gameplay Do you think super realistic graphics and video games are really that important? Really good looking graphics are great for promotions of a game. Like the game looks so amazing. That can get, you know, great posters, great trailers and stuff to bring people in. You can't really communicate gameplay all that well in, you know, 15 seconds, 30 seconds or whatever that you have in short shitty trailers on YouTube or whatever, right? I think that may be one of the things that motivates a lot of gaming companies to invest so much in graphics. But obviously the gameplay at the end of the day is the most important thing. Graphics are awesome, but if the game is boring to play, then it's not going to be something you're going to enjoy. I think though if the game looks really good, people will be more forgiving of worse gameplay, I think. Like if the world is an eyesore, you'll be more prone to being annoyed by small things, I guess. Maybe. Graphics can make a game better, can make a game great, but I don't think graphics alone can ever make a game good. Just my opinion. I don't think there's anything objective about that. That take from Aris on the last of us two in Red Dead 2 was so fucking great. I showed that clip multiple times where he's like, I don't think the exact phrasing where he's like, so much time and money being wasted into making these games look good. Whoever makes these games look this good should team up with people who actually make good gameplay and they can actually make a good game. |
| 23. July 2022 | Great media you will never seek out | Sweet media you'll never seek out. It's one of those things where even if you know something's good, if you don't get reminded of it, you're not gonna seek it out, you know? Because there is so much media that you haven't seen that you'd really love to see that until you- until you- someone says, hey, have you seen this? You don't think about seeking it out. Same like on YouTube. I got heeeepss of videos in the back catalogue that you guys have never seen but you guys don't know that they're there so you never think of seeking them out until YouTube recommends them to you. It's why the recommendation system on YouTube is so important. |
| 01. February 2020 | Grow on YouTube to grow on Twitch | Yeah, sorry just paranoid obviously. I was part of a big group of people who sort of from like facts and glitches back in like February last year, we sort of started coming to your channel. To what extent did that, those videos blowing up getting hundreds of thousands of views, to what extent did that boost your, obviously you're getting lots of subs on YouTube for YouTube, but to what extent did that transfer to people watching you live, playing GTA live on Twitch? Because I know I was someone who started watching the videos and said oh this is pretty cool and then was like I've never watched Twitch before, I heard of it but never watched it. When I first started doing facts and glitches, I didn't even think it would be successful in that I originally pitched it to five larger YouTube channels. Two of them got back to me and said they weren't interested, the other three never got back to me because I wasn't confident that I could gain any viewership myself because my YouTube channel was basically nothing at that point. So obviously yes I did blow up on YouTube partly because of facts and glitches which then led into past fifties percent which kind of went the same way where it started off small and then kind of grew like a week later. For Twitch, yeah of course I grew. The biggest suggestion that people have for growing on Twitch is to grow on YouTube. Twitch has effectively minimal discoverability, unless of course you're really really high up there, really really large already, and even then you have a better chance of bringing people from YouTube to Twitch than just going here. YouTube is the best asset that a Twitch streamer has right now for growth. Less experienced people believe that the more time you throw at Twitch the better off you're going to be, but that is not true. As a principle in life putting in more effort is meaningless unless you're applying that effort in a practical useful way. And just grinding harder and harder at Twitch with Twitch's minimal discoverability is not the best way to grow on Twitch. You still got to stream of course, especially in my case where my content is on YouTube is based around my streaming content, but you know other things are more important like things like TikTok or you know maybe even go on bite because it's a new social media. Growing on a new social media platform is often a good technique to use, but YouTube is the best right now. |
| 30. November 2020 | Growing More Popular And People Not Liking You | day. Growing more popular and people not liking you. There's this point in content creation, right? Where you go from no one knowing you to like everyone knowing you and their opinions not necessarily being positive. There was this weird exchange with Sunny today where he said, um, ah man everyone likes you. I'm like, I don't know about that. And he's like, ah yeah. And I was like, I don't know if he was, I don't know what that last statement meant as if he like, he knows some people don't like me or I went into a Reddit recently. I liked watching him speedrun GT5 but his constant bitching and calling out literally every YouTube or streamer made me hate him. Like you are speedrun GT5, who gives a fuck what other people do? And see like 94 upwards. Exactly. Watch his stream. It's even worse. I saw him actually go in on a viewer, a sub actually so paying to be there for being bad at Tarsen among us went in on a guy for probably 30 minutes. Like because you're insulated, right? When people don't like your stuff, they just leave. So you don't get that negative feedback that often you need to make your stuff better. People just leave. So I like those comments sections so I can actually read what people actually think, you know. |
| 29. May 2020 | Gta VI won’t be speedrunable? | Do you think it's possible GTA 6 won't be a speedrunnable game? No. The worst possible case scenario is it will be split into smaller subsections. It's too popular of a series. They would have to really fail. Like Red Dead Redemption 2 fail. |
| 09. December 2020 | Guilt over not caring about all political issues | Guilt over not caring about all political issues. I agree, I used to be interested in politics and what issues, but now I don't even care because it's all so depressing. Sometimes I feel bad when I can't be bothered to support every single issue or protest. I just want to be comfortable in life. I have that feeling sometimes too. And then I immediately feel guilty because I recognize my lack of willingness to participate and my desire not to care is because those issues don't directly affect me. And if those issues, whatever they are, directly affected me, I'd be annoyed at the people who don't want to participate. It's just selfishness. But you can't do everything. You can't care about everything. You'll go crazy. You can't follow everything. You gotta pick your battles. |
| 02. November 2021 | Gun realism in gta 6. | Gun realism in GTA 6. It's outrageous how you can walk into any gun store and buy an RPG and a minigun or even a flashlight for a shotgun. We need regulation. Could you imagine in a GTA 6, you get to file the right paperwork with the right people, wait seven weeks to get yourself a gun. There's a limited amount of guns you can have and bullets you can have for each gun. This game being realistic would just be so fucking terrible. The only weapon you can carry is the minigun. You move at like 110 speed while doing so. I think I watched a video where they said there have been similar things to a somewhat handheld minigun, but it's unrealistic or something. Like there's just been small minigun kind of things. I don't think there's actually one that you can carry around and shoot. |
| 02. November 2021 | Gun regulation in general. | If you've got something that can massively increase your ability to kill other people, it's probably something that should be regulated to some extent. I can't tell you what extent that should be, or what the rules should be in any particular region, but it would just seem to be strange if there was no rules around the possession or acquisition of such things. Not allowing 8-year-olds to buy firearms is technically a regulation around firearms. I hope you're not at the position that kids should be able to walk into McDonald's and grab themselves a 9mm. Gun control isn't suddenly going to eliminate violent crime. Oh god, the stupid... Okay, so can someone please link to applied the video that I made on barriers to entry, and what a barrier to entry is, and the... and the... the argument, this... this thing won't fix literally everything, therefore this is stupid, is... is one of the worst fallacies in... in social policy that exists, and it really hurts my head. It doesn't matter what position you hold on any issue, if you hear someone say, but it won't fix literally everything, as an argument... if you hear someone say that, hit the person in the face. Or... or assume there's some... some reptile from another planet, because they... they... it's hard to conceive that such stupidity exists in the human race. |
| 20. November 2022 | Guy Completes all FromSoft Games without getting hit. | Guy completes all FromSoft games without getting hit. A dude has done Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1, Dark Souls 2, Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring, one after the other, without getting hit even once. He happy! I know that feeling. He happy man. Oh! Someone tagged me in this, and they were like, I wonder if this guy was inspired by Dark Viper AU's No Damage runs of GTA V. And I responded like, it's actually the opposite. To my knowledge, the No Hit community of Dark Souls is the biggest No Hit community that there is. And I was inspired to do No Damage GTA V by the happy hob who was a No Hit runner of the Souls games. And I was like, hey, I should do that in GTA V. And I did. It isn't as though I hadn't heard of No Hit runs before, because I watched him a bit, and so inspiration struck. Obviously, the Souls games make a bit more sense to do No Hit runs 4, because you have so many tools available to you, and the things that fly at you are meant to be dodgeable in some capacity, unlike GTA V. And I would argue that doing a No Damage run of those games would be amazingly more tedious, because even a small amount of fall damage would just screw you so much. And so many of the strats that you do to get to certain places require you to take a little bit of damage. It would still be doable, I'm sure he could do it, it would just be far more tedious. |
| 01. September 2020 | HBomberGuy video essay on RWBY | Hbomberguy's video essay on RWBY. I was watching this great video that released by Hbomberguy about RWBY. His main premise being that the series has a lot of amazing parts in it, and it's not exactly garbage because of those amazing parts, but it's just executed really poorly, and has a lot of really weak elements that prevent it from being the amazing thing that it could have been. I think the video is two and a half hours long, although the intro I think could have been a bit shorter. But I suppose when the video is two and a half hours long you're like, well, you know, fuck it. But it's a very interesting video. I'm like an hour and ten minutes in. I would have kept watching it, but I felt I had to start my stream. I'll definitely watch it at the end. Imagine having the level of patience to analyze a piece of media to produce something that's two and a half hours long, and it's actually watchable. Do you need to have seen RWBY? No. It's the first season of RWBY, and it all made sense to me. |
| 04. March 2022 | HTSE is now more difficult to make. | You know, how the speedrun ended is now more difficult to make. How the speedrun ended is going to be a lot harder to make these days because frankly, I'm just a better streamer. There's not as much irrelevant downtime stuff as there used to be back in the day. I'm, so I'm a better streamer and a worse speedrunner. So back in the day, I would talk less, there'd be less stuff of importance information being given, so you could cut those sections, and I would fuck up less, so there wasn't always something of interest happening. Now, I talk far more, there's, I'm always trying to be engaging, saying things that people would want to hear, and I fuck up far more, which impacts the run, and so more needs to be kept, and so I'm not sure how things are going to go from here. Surely things can still be cut down, I just mean they can't be cut down like they used to, as in like a six-hour video, no, a six-hour run could be cut down to like a 20-minute video. I don't think we're going to be like that anymore. We're probably going to cut like a six-hour video down to like 40 minutes or an hour or something, you know. |
| 31. August 2020 | Hackers in Fall Guys | Hackers in Fall Guys. I don't know why I wouldn't have fun hacking it, no sense of accomplishment in that. People like attention. Imagine being that person who no one ever takes notice of either positively or negatively is coaxing through life. Being in a situation where, you know, you're ahead of everyone regardless of how you got there and people are looking at you and paying attention to you, that's appealing to a very small amount of people who are just that desperate for attention. And sometimes winning isn't enough. Like the feeling of just dominating everyone is appealing to some people. Even if it's undeserved domination, it's like, huh, look at these fucking spurts, not able to do what I'm doing. Ha ha ha, I'm so much better than they are. You know, it's just Fall Guys of all games, it just has far less reward for that kind of exploitation compared to other games. Because it's not like you can have a high KD, it's not like you can show other people your win rate or something. You know, once the game's over, you'll never see those people again. And sure, you'll get yourself a few more coins, but so fucking what, right? You get one more skin. You can only wear one at a time, you know? Like if they removed the ability to get skins in that game, people would still hack. Just for the lols. Hey Matt, what's your Fall Guys KD? It's fucking unbelievable. We'll do 10,000 to one. My internet went out once, so I died. Why does Fall Guys have so many players? It's because it's a good game. |
| 31. August 2020 | Hackers in fall guys | Hackers in Fall Guys. I don't know why I wouldn't have fun hacking it, no sense of accomplishment in that. People like attention. Imagine being that person who no one ever takes notice of either positively or negatively is coaxing through life. Being in a situation where, you know, you're ahead of everyone regardless of how you got there and people are looking at you and paying attention to you, that's appealing to a very small amount of people who are just that desperate for attention. And sometimes winning isn't enough. Like the feeling of just dominating everyone is appealing to some people. Even if it's undeserved domination, it's like, huh, look at these fucking spurts, not able to do what I'm doing. Ha ha ha, I'm so much better than they are. You know, it's just Fall Guys of all games, it just has far less reward for that kind of exploitation compared to other games. Because it's not like you can have a high KD, it's not like you can show other people your win rate or something. You know, once the game's over, you'll never see those people again. And sure, you'll get yourself a few more coins, but so fucking what, right? You get one more skin. You can only wear one at a time, you know? Like if they removed the ability to get skins in that game, people would still hack. Just for the lols. Hey Matt, what's your Fall Guys KD? It's fucking unbelievable. We'll do 10,000 to one. My internet went out once, so I died. Why does Fall Guys have so many players? It's because it's a good game. |
| 30. May 2021 | Hackers killed GTA Online livestreaming. | Hackers killed GTA Online streaming. That's literally the reason I don't stream. Really? The main reason. Yeah. I can't. I go in. I go in invite only sessions. Modders join me. I go in closed friend sessions. Modders just brute force their way in. They can do it. They've got my Rockstar ID. No matter what. I go in a solo session and somehow they can still get in. It's fucked. When you don't stream, people can still get in. They can find you. They improved it a slight amount or something. Because there's a thing that I use called Guardian or something that puts you into a lobby by yourself. But there was a point where mod menus were so strong that they could pull you from your lobby into a different lobby. So even if you were in a lobby they couldn't access, they could still pull you into one where they could access. It was very strange. But they fixed that. And as I say, I don't play a lot online. But I did manage to do the newest heist while streaming. As many trials and annoyances that did cause. I totally understand why you were avoiding it, honestly. Yeah, well, last time... Was it unreleased when you streamed it? No, no, it's... Because they patched an exploit or something. And maybe I just got lucky. I'm not sure. But generally speaking, as long as I'm in a lobby purely by myself. It's so sad that you need a mod menu to stop modders. Well, yeah. Or you can have that, of course. Yeah. Like the only reason I don't have a mod menu is because I don't care about getting banned on social club or whatever, but on Twitch, if you're violating the TOS, they can kick you out. And you never really know how sensitive Rockstar is going to be to that stuff because they could just... I don't know, it doesn't seem like they're very tolerant or creators when they... Like they take down lots of YouTube videos and whatnot. I think it's mainly Twitch, to be honest. Like if one viewer just says, oh my God, he's using a mod menu to Twitch stuff or whatever, he's all over. It's called guardian.exe is the thing that I used. I'm not sure how useful it is now, but all it does is just guarantee that you're in your own lobby, which is a thing that you can do with like unplugging your network and stuff. |
| 02. May 2021 | Hades and Hades speedruns | Hades and Hades speedruns Matt what happened to you playing Hades? I played it for like 11 hours. I was like well that was fun I stopped playing. I did see a speedrun What would it called a blank file speedrun? Who is it is it GameSpot or IGN or something that does the developers react to? speed runs of their games and the developers of Hades reacted to a first attempts Brand new save file for Hades. It's pretty interesting like you have no upgrades. No additional health. No nothing and it completes the game IGN yeah, I think I saw on GameSpot like Blood-borne speedrunner reacts to viral blood-borne clips or something it keeps getting recommended to me. Isn't that something that TGG does? reacting to viral GTA 5 tech talks or something. I would like to find the 50 most viewed GTA 5 clips of all time and Watch those even if not for content cuz I'd be curious what was in them |
| 02. May 2021 | Hades and hades speedruns | Hades and Hades speedruns Matt what happened to you playing Hades? I played it for like 11 hours. I was like well that was fun I stopped playing. I did see a speedrun What would it called a blank file speedrun? Who is it is it GameSpot or IGN or something that does the developers react to? speed runs of their games and the developers of Hades reacted to a first attempts Brand new save file for Hades. It's pretty interesting like you have no upgrades. No additional health. No nothing and it completes the game IGN yeah, I think I saw on GameSpot like Blood-borne speedrunner reacts to viral blood-borne clips or something it keeps getting recommended to me. Isn't that something that TGG does? reacting to viral GTA 5 tech talks or something. I would like to find the 50 most viewed GTA 5 clips of all time and Watch those even if not for content cuz I'd be curious what was in them |
| 20. February 2021 | Half a million views for eating cereal | Half a million views for eating cereal. I got recommended a video today. I'm curious if you guys got recommended it too. It was a 24 second video of a guy eating cereal. Had half a million views. Type one if you got recommended this video. Someone mentioned Schlaz. I think that's what the person's name is. Who is this Schlaz person? Big guy, yes. Because they got recommended to me yesterday. I think I watched one of their videos. It was about... I can't remember. Minecraft youtuber dream friend? Ah, I see. Carsten's friend? Ah, no wonder he can eat cereal. You know, get those kind of numbers. |
| 03. April 2021 | Half as interesting. | Half as interesting. Mato, did you know Australia misspelled responsibility on one of their notes costing the country millions in reprints? Yeah, I did hear that from somewhere. I'll put a YouTube video knowing me. Probably half as interesting. I wonder how those channels think up their video ideas. Maybe they get submissions from people or something? Because certainly it's a team of people who do research and write scripts and then they have one dude who reads the scripts and another person who does the animations and stuff, right? Wikipedia-ness? Yeah, it's possible. |
| 09. July 2022 | Hanging out with YouTubers | Yeah, absolutely. Say that. Yeah. Hanging out with YouTubers. Right, it's so weird looking at all these chat rooms and seeing all these YouTubers. Why is that? All in the one spot. Oh yeah, true, true. I don't fucking know any of these people, man. It's hard to be impressed. I mean like, it's like, YouTubers in general always end up being like, great people. Especially like the personality content creators. When you have a vibrant personality in your YouTube videos, you're usually a great person to talk to. Yeah, every YouTuber I've spoken to is really cool. I fucking hate them all, including you two. Survival attitude. Wow. |
| 29. May 2020 | Hardest part of grown on Twitch | even slightly. What do you think is the hardest part of going on Twitch? Discoverability. Discoverability is always the hardest part of going on any platform. Once there's the established players, the people at the top, algorithms generally prefer popular things over unpopular things. And so it's very hard to get noticed. Depending upon the- |
| 29. May 2020 | Hardest part of grown on twitch | even slightly. What do you think is the hardest part of going on Twitch? Discoverability. Discoverability is always the hardest part of going on any platform. Once there's the established players, the people at the top, algorithms generally prefer popular things over unpopular things. And so it's very hard to get noticed. Depending upon the- |
| 29. December 2020 | Hardware Unboxed vs Nvidia. | Hardware unboxed versus Nvidia. For those unaware, Nvidia basically said to Hardware Unboxed, We don't like the way that you review our products, so we're not going to give you the early samples that are normally given to reviewers. They then effectively said, hey, if you start reviewing things more favorably, the way that we want you to, we'll start giving you stuff again. Yeah, I saw the Nvidia versus Hardware Unboxing. I'm happy they, you know, they reversed the decision or whatever. Like I imagine it would be frustrating as any company or whatever who produces a product. You want to do the best it possibly can and if you have people saying things that you don't like, that's clearly something you don't want. But at the same time, that's just, you got to live with it, right? You can't just crush out reviews that you don't like, you know? And I'm happy that all the content creators came together and said, no, go fuck yourself Nvidia. And there was actually backlash. I mean, certainly you don't want to get into a situation when you only have yesmen or whatever, where every reviewer is afraid of saying anything negative about your product, out of fear of being squeezed out and not getting review samples and stuff. You just get into a situation where you have nothing, you know, you have nothing but yesmen, you don't get actual feedback on your products. Consumers will be less satisfied because they end up buying products that they don't really want or need or what have you. Like take him to an extreme of what Nvidia was trying to do there that doesn't help Nvidia. But you can understand in the short term if someone is saying things about something you've created that you don't like. You can just be like, I fucking hate this person dude. It was even funnier though that because Linus in his rant about it brought up an example of when Nvidia was literally using a review from Hardware Unboxed on their website and Linus when he said he went over the reviews that Hardware Unboxed has done of Nvidia products, they seemed to be very positive. Like he didn't really understand how they could be so focused on like one small aspect of their review process that they didn't like enough to completely remove them. Given that their reviews of Nvidia products had been largely almost- |
| 08. March 2022 | Hardware shortages, scalpers, and crypto | hardware shortages scalpers and crypto do you think that graphics cards will ever become normal price and if so when do you think it will happen clearly those who manufacture graphics cards want to as much as possible meet the demand that exists in the market and therefore graphic card manufacturers will be attempting to scale up their operations as quickly as possible but these things aren't like you can't just turn on additional graphics card manufacturing you need to find the right people the right locations build all their infrastructure and stuff and that takes many years so I mean the shortages happen what like two years ago or something and it wasn't simply because of COVID so I don't know how many years it requires to build out such things so I have no idea I hear people say it's still gonna be a couple of years yet and yeah shortages in raw materials could potentially be a problem as well I mean but scalpers wouldn't be a problem if there was sufficient supply because all that would happen is they would take a chunk of the product and then people would either move on to a different similar product or they would wait for another amount of supply which would be quickly coming along because they can churn them out fast enough even with sufficient supply wouldn't there still be high demand for the supply from miners choking up the market every time they're shipped out creating a bottleneck in production to supply change I mean sufficient supply would that would have to also meet the demand of miners as well sufficient supply there implies that you're meeting the demand of miners as well it's not like miners have infinite demand and I mean with the drop in crypto hopefully that will go the way of the Dodo once all the whales have brought in enough suckers to offload their crypto to real money and all that's left there is the people holding the bag and the rich people not needing to like advertise crypto or pay people advertise crypto and whatnot surely the demand for will continue to decline I mean there's always gonna be some demand for it because there's gonna be some people holding the bag but you |
| 14. March 2020 | Harley Quinn Animated series | I learned, like, from start to finish maybe twice. My opinion on the Harley Quinn animated TV series. Very good series. Highly recommended. It's basically like, the strangest take on the superhero, super villain genre I've ever seen. It's as though nothing is serious. Like, it's gory and violence and endless references to sex or whatever. It's like, it must be M.A.R. I'm not sure. I don't know what demographic they were targeting. Surely people in their early 20s. Late 20s perhaps, I don't know. It's almost as though nothing matters in the series except drama and social media. Like, they'll be on some talk show killing people and the audience will be like, cheering and it'll show you pictures of like, the superheroes watching the show on their smart devices or whatever. And it's just like, what the fuck? Like, Bane is hilarious. Very funny show. |
| 14. January 2021 | Has Modest Pelican changed over time? | Yeah, has your content always been what it is now? Because obviously I've only recently in your history become aware of you, but I've only watched like something like, I definitely haven't watched your entire catalog. I've watched dozens of your videos, but not the eight. Like I haven't gone all the way back to the beginning. Like I didn't know you did Battlefield 1 and all that. Yeah, that's fair enough. It's been this. So has it always been this narrative, no real gameplay sounds or whatever, just this flowing story of jokes and the story that's been told? Well back in Battlefield, I started doing more tips and tricks and just messing around like as a bit of a hobby. And then I just started making a few little sarcastic remarks and I would have like put so much effort into like analyzing a gun or something. And then people would just be like, that joke at the end made me subscribe. And I was like, wait, there's like a lot of people doing the statistics stuff better than me. But people like the joke. So I just kept like, yeah, just turned it into like, it's almost just like well polished shit posting, I guess. But then I think honestly, I feel as if like I started making these videos only like three years ago or whatever it was four years ago. And I'm just like the same person making those videos. And then suddenly there's just this big subscriber base and big view account, which I'm insanely grateful for. But it's like not not imposter syndrome, but it's kind of just like this is almost hard to believe. Like I almost just don't think about it too much because it's just so weird to me. Like what happened? It's just. Yeah. Yeah. Understandable. I mean, the style that you have surely exists somewhere else, but I've never seen it somewhere else. You have such a captivating voice and the way that you enunciate words is also clear and it flows so well together. It's really impressive to me. Thank you, man. I appreciate that. Do you the way that you speak, is this the way that you've always spoken or is it like over time you've come to have more of a way that you speak in your videos? Like have you developed over time? Well, obviously, like I'm speaking differently to my videos now, but it's just it's just all happened. Like there was no real like the only reason I even did post commentary gameplay the first time was because I just couldn't I just was like a university. I had no money. I was just using a shitty laptop and I just couldn't set it up to have the capabilities to record my voice and play games. So I just did a post commentary and then I stuck to that and then it just developed and how I recorded my voice. I always just sort of did my best and it all just sort of happened. It wasn't really too overly planned. Hmm. Well, it's an interesting story, I suppose. Yeah, but you know. |
| 27. September 2022 | Has Twitch lost market share | Twitch lost market share? I do want to see what the numbers are gonna be like next time round when it shows the comparison of where all the live streaming stuff is. I will not be surprised if again that Twitch's market share has shrunk. But I'd be surprised if Twitch were to die out entirely unless Twitch trying to get more money right now is evidence that Amazon isn't happy with Twitch and is looking to get rid of it or something. Unless it can start making more money, I don't know. The only thing that's gonna kill Twitch is Amazon wanting it dead. At least, you know, in the short term, the next couple of years. Which platform is worse, YouTube or Twitch? YouTube provides the careers for like tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people. Twitch is like 5,000 streamers and most of them are just people who watch YouTube videos. I'm gonna say I think YouTube is a little bit better. |
| 27. September 2022 | Has Twitch lost marketshare | Twitch lost market share? I do want to see what the numbers are gonna be like next time round when it shows the comparison of where all the live streaming stuff is. I will not be surprised if again that Twitch's market share has shrunk. But I'd be surprised if Twitch were to die out entirely unless Twitch trying to get more money right now is evidence that Amazon isn't happy with Twitch and is looking to get rid of it or something. Unless it can start making more money, I don't know. The only thing that's gonna kill Twitch is Amazon wanting it dead. At least, you know, in the short term, the next couple of years. Which platform is worse, YouTube or Twitch? YouTube provides the careers for like tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people. Twitch is like 5,000 streamers and most of them are just people who watch YouTube videos. I'm gonna say I think YouTube is a little bit better. |
| 14. June 2021 | Has anyone donated asking me to private chat | Has anyone donated to ask me to a private chat? Have you had problems with donating requesting private chats with you or something similar in return for big donations? Nope. I have had people who Wanted to speak to me. I've seen just random comments on YouTube. I was like, hey, we have a chat sometime I think this is always gonna be no it'd be a Weird thing to do I think |
| 17. March 2023 | Has drama ruined my channel's success? | Has drama ruined my channel's success? Branching out to new games is sometimes better for the channel? I think I have a decent amount of variety on the channel already. The problem with my channel is not variety right now. GTA V, obviously a much older game now, I've done all the low-hanging fruits. People have moved on to other games, there's a lot more competition. A greater proportion of the already-existent player base for GTA V has seen my stuff and potentially gotten over it, right? Most people don't watch the same creator for years and years on end. My content can change, but I'm still roughly the same person. Like you might think that drama or whatever that I've been in in the past could have affected the channel, but there's no correlation with that at all. In the vast majority of cases when drama between creators happen, the audience of each creator just defends their creator and they move on. It's not common that there's a really huge change in the status quo when two creators butt heads. So the people who watched me, they knew me already, so they were willing to defend me. The people who didn't watch me, you didn't care and had no reason to defend me, but also no reason to watch me, so there's just no real loss there. I suppose the worst case though is that potentially new people would have a negative association with me, but that... It's just such a small amount of people in the grand scheme of things. It is always the dream of any creator to somewhat grow beyond what makes them popular in the first place. It's a very hard thing to achieve, and certainly I have not succeeded at it. Like, could you imagine if I did nothing but Viper Rambles? I'd be very unsuccessful. If I would want to move away from gaming as a whole and do essays and commentary videos, I could do that, but I'd probably end up falling into the trap of what a lot of commentary channels fall into, where they start talking about stuff that, you know, they don't care about or know about, but it's popular, so they have to talk about it, you know? That's their job. And I don't really like that idea. I have enjoyed that throughout my career, I've not needed to, like, grab for the popular thing, or immediately get out a video to catch a trend. I just do the stuff that I want to do that I think is entertaining, and I do it the best way I can. I feel like drama could potentially bring some people to your channel. As long as you're not doing it on purpose, people who already follow you can just decide to watch other videos. It's important to remember that any drama, regardless of size, is just such a small drop in the ocean of how many people use these platforms. Like, two million people may seem like just an extraordinary amount of people to you. Relative to the entire platform, it's just, like, so little. And most of those people who might learn of you through that drama were people who would have no interest in your content anyway, and would never have run across you. So let's say 90% of the people in that 200 million end up hating you. It's like, that's probably no loss for you. While algorithms with impressions are designed to target people who might have an interest in your content, drama is not targeted in such a way. I used a handful of examples in the React series, in the first episode, where I showed people getting, like, 50,000 followers, and going from having 20 viewer averages to having 60 viewer averages. That's a change, but it's just so tiny. The impact of drama will always be so, so tiny, compared to the overwhelming deluge of exposure you get from the algorithm. Like, when I direct people to some form of content, that content will probably get, like, a couple of hundred views. That's just... relative to the platform is just nothing. It's too nice, but it's not. |
| 12. December 2021 | Has having more money changed me? | Has having more money changed me? Am I a different person? I'm a little bit of a different person. I lived most of my life just living, you know, not doing great. And I always imagined that even if I made more money, that I would never spend my money stupidly. Like I would still do everything myself to save money and blah blah blah. But now that I have more responsibilities and like my time is always of the essence, there's always something that I should be editing, there's always something I should be working on. I'm more prone to being willing to spend money to save time. I sent a message to someone yesterday to a cleaning service. I said, can you come clean my house with it? Like, oh, send us some pictures and then show us what we'd be cleaning and the rubbish we've taken away. Like I would never imagine doing that six months ago. What I would normally do is like every couple of months, I would take a day off streaming and just clean the entire house. I put my earphones in and just go to town the entire house. But now a day off streaming is, you know, a significant amount of growth or a day off editing a video. It's a video you guys don't get to see. Like clearly the money that I would spend on the cleaning would probably be less than the amount that I'd make making content. And even if it was equivalent, making the content would still grow my channel. Cleaning stream, that's what I should do. I'll hire someone to film me cleaning or I'll get myself some kind of a harness. That will give you like a top down view. We can make it into an interactive game where like type one and I will clean the oven. |
| 20. December 2022 | Has the spark for GTA V story speedrunning fizzled out? | Has my spark to speedrun GTA V story mode fizzled out? Yo man, it seems like you have abandoned the idea of going back to regular story speedrunning, but is it true? This just feels like speedrunning story mode, but new. It feels like an expansion of singleplayer. I have not given up on it. I swear to you, one day, you'll come on my channel and there will just be constant singleplayer speedruns. It is an aspiration of mine, but I keep getting sidetracks. I find something else of interest. Speedrunning singleplayer is like the 6.5 of my life. Always nice to do. It's fine. But whenever I find a 7 or an 8, I'm like, oh, gotta get on that. And then it takes ages for me to relearn the speedrunner. And I'm just like, oh. |
| 28. May 2022 | Hasan's bad ukraine takes | takes. Like Hassan has been savaged a lot recently over his Ukraine stuff. There's a great video. What's his called? Um, is it Lonerbox? I highly recommend this video, Why Hassan Gets It Wrong in Ukraine. I recommend this channel in general. This guy has a great speaking voice. Where is he? Um, where's his face? It can be his face. Yeah, so Lonerbox. He has a great speaking voice. He's very methodical. Well thought out, you could say. And he breaks down how irrational Hassan was in regards to Ukraine and the kind of, I would say mental issues that he has that causes him to put his foot in his mouth so frequently. He's just so stubborn and as was the case with responding to to my stuff, he doesn't care how little he knows. It's just this is what I want to be true and therefore it is true. That's it. And he will stubbornly defend that regardless what people say. I've never seen a person just outright ban so many people who are just being reasonable. And I just like, hey I disagree. He's like BANNED! Like Lonerbox in that video clearly held himself back. Like he even says, and most of the time I'm holding myself back from insulting the dude. I didn't really hold myself back. Well I did to a degree. But the implication of what I say is often very insulting. You didn't do it right Matt, you were supposed to play Lonerbox's video. I'm gonna get something to eat. He never checks sources man. Oh if you want to see some good examples of someone not checking sources, that Lonerbox video on Hassan and Ukraine, very funny. Like it's just funny how he can twist things in his head to fit the narrative that he wants and just conveniently forget where certain information comes from. If you want something more to watch check out my video linked down below about the harm of reaction content. It looks at the topic from every angle with some data thrown in and it is arguably the best video I've ever made. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 03. June 2022 | Hasan, The Psycho | Hassan the Psycho. Hassan Piker's mental breakdown defending react content. It is really a mental breakdown though. Like, this dude is fucking insane. There was like a nickname given to each of the people I responded to by my mods because the, you know, they watched them as much as I did. And Hassan was given the nickname of Psycho because this is some batshit crazy shit. Honestly, the fact that they don't even think they deserve to pay the video creators, most people laugh at the pay with exposure when it comes to other areas. Did you watch the Hassan video? That one was really funny. When it came to his defending the idea of paying in exposure. And all the parallels that exist between what he defends in regards to his business model and capitalism. Like, Hassan is just engaging on a day to day basis in a much worse, much more exploitative version of capitalism while pretending to be a socialist. It's awful. My name of course now is mentioning it as a banable offense in his chat as well. Because that's what he does with everyone who points out his massive hypocrisy. He cannot take constructive criticism because he would have to accept that he is a terrible human being. There is no getting around that criticism. He would have to massively reshape his life to fit the ideals that he espouses. And he of course doesn't want to do that. Will I? |
| 26. August 2021 | Hating on games people spent endless time on | hating on video games that people spend endless time making. I think it'd be really awesome to work on video games. I mean, as we're streaming there'd definitely be downsides. I'm sure it'd be hours of coding but I think it'd be like just building any- like you know that satisfaction you get when you build something and you watch it slowly form and grow? That'd be- and I think that's the kind of satisfaction you- you don't get with many things. But with making a game you definitely have that. It's why it sucks to be critical of people's games, especially when it looks like a lot of passion went into it. Just like, man I'm- I'm- I'm shitting all over something that a person's burned their life behind, you know? Oh yeah West, I- I hope when you give me your game I don't hate it or whatever. I want to say now, definitively, I say it all the time. Just because I call this game garbage doesn't mean that I think this game is garbage. It's more just to let out my frustrations. I think Rockstar makes great games. All their games have flaws in them but every game has flaws in it. I am legitimately excited for any game that Rockstar brings out and I'm- I feel legitimately sorry that it took me so long to play Rockstar games. I think if I had grown up playing Rockstar games and enjoyed those games it would have been awesome. GTA 5 is a masterpiece. It fucking sucks that this game is garbage and Rockstar should stop making games. They're terrible. Their developers are 12 years old. Tetris has no flaws. What do you mean? Like the L blocks- there's not enough L blocks, there's not enough line blocks, there's just too many of those blocks that go like that man. It's a completely flawed game. If all they gave you is line blocks the game would be so much better. Suddenly they're 12 not 5. I mean they've grown up okay. |
| 17. September 2021 | Have I Ever Played Dungeons And Dragons? | Have I ever played Dungeons and Dragons? Have I ever played Dungeons and Dragons? I tried to play with my friends back in the day I got really frustrated that they weren't focused enough to progress and I can't I there was a meme I kept going to talk to statues because I was convinced that there'd be a talking statue And then we find a bag and I thought it was a trap So I shot it but it was actually a rare bag of holding or some shit And I just destroyed the bag and people were mad at me. I just couldn't be fucked going really I didn't super enjoy myself, but those are the two memories I have of |
| 15. July 2021 | Have I already made enough money to live the rest of my life? | Have I already made enough money to live the rest of my life? Honestly, would you have enough money to live the rest of your life comfortable, but not luxurious without working again when you stop with YouTube and Twitch tomorrow? No, not a chance. But that is in parts because of where I live in the sense that like I'm sure with the amount of money that I have if I moved somewhere in the middle of nowhere and gave up, I mean more effectively anyone I suppose could go live in the forest somewhere with the amount of money that they have or whatever but it's just a significant barrier to me having enough money to live the rest of my life is the country that I live in and the cost of living being what it is. I'd be hard-pressed living in any reasonably developed country with the amount of money that I have for the rest of my life especially given inflation and whatnot. If I gave up canned Pepsi, oh yeah, okay then if I gave up canned Pepsi and went back to bottled Pepsi then yeah, maybe I could live the rest of my life As a sack first I'm not willing to make. Let's keep in mind I haven't been successful for very long and there's constantly evidence that my success will wane and that my career is not necessarily infinite, you know or rather that I'm not gonna be the one who decides to end my career that my career will end itself. It ultimately depends it's very hard to predict the future and to see what's coming and there are certainly things after the fact that you didn't know in the beginning that you wish you could have predicted or that you knew in the beginning you know I like I don't know what I need to know to be successful in the future but I will know that in the future and I'll be kicking myself for not knowing it now Imagine I had proper internet from the start rather than 800 bitrate. Yeah, exactly It was a struggle in the early days Be sure to LIKE the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 18. February 2021 | Have I considered ending my partnership with Twitch? | Have I considered ending my partnership with Twitch? Would I turn down partnership with Twitch? No, I am already a partner with Twitch. If I sincerely believed that being somewhere else was more advantageous to me, I would be there, but I don't think that's the case. I still think Twitch is the best live stream platform right now, especially for me, who's already a partner. But as I've said, I have I do not believe that Twitch is doing enough to safeguard their market dominance. I just I just don't. I'm just questioning why they are not updating their partnership requirements thing. 75 average viewership, since they don't accept people with those stats anymore. What makes you believe they don't accept people with those requirements? I thought that's the criteria for you to submit. Like not to be automatically accepted. Like they take into account more things than simply that, you know. It's the basic requirements to be considered, not the basic requirements to be accepted. My Twitter is full of those people who post their rejections from Twitch who average like 120 viewership. I don't know, Limitless. I don't know. I never saw the 75 viewer thing as a guaranteed partnership. I thought it was just to submit. |
| 18. February 2021 | Have I considered ending my partnership with twitch? | Have I considered ending my partnership with Twitch? Would I turn down partnership with Twitch? No, I am already a partner with Twitch. If I sincerely believed that being somewhere else was more advantageous to me, I would be there, but I don't think that's the case. I still think Twitch is the best live stream platform right now, especially for me, who's already a partner. But as I've said, I have I do not believe that Twitch is doing enough to safeguard their market dominance. I just I just don't. I'm just questioning why they are not updating their partnership requirements thing. 75 average viewership, since they don't accept people with those stats anymore. What makes you believe they don't accept people with those requirements? I thought that's the criteria for you to submit. Like not to be automatically accepted. Like they take into account more things than simply that, you know. It's the basic requirements to be considered, not the basic requirements to be accepted. My Twitter is full of those people who post their rejections from Twitch who average like 120 viewership. I don't know, Limitless. I don't know. I never saw the 75 viewer thing as a guaranteed partnership. I thought it was just to submit. |
| 30. May 2020 | Have I ever been rejected? | Have I ever been rejected? Sure, in every capacity. |
| 23. August 2021 | Have I ever been to New Zealand? | Have I ever been to New Zealand? Have I ever been to New Zealand? Not to my knowledge. I mean, I could have been kidnapped while I was asleep, brought there, and then brought home, but... Unless it happened now. |
| 02. February 2020 | Have I ever dealt with a stalker? | I recently did a Q&A. Some questions were asked via voice and Discord, others I just read from Discord and answered. Have you ever dealt with a stalker? Yeah, I've dealt with them in my backyard, man. I've got a shotgun over there for those occasions. I have had people who have sent me continuous messages and I just ignore them. I've had the worst, the two worst, are Kane and Vegas. So Kane was a person who would spam whisper my viewers in my chat. I'm being like, hey, Dark Viper, he banned me, he was meant to unban me. I tell him to unban me and so I get these messages every day from people, nice, well-meaning people who would be in my chat and go, I got a message from this Kane fellow, he seems to be very put out that you haven't unbanned him as you planned. So I have to deal with that every single day, very irritating. I get messages on all platforms from this guy and he would keep making new accounts. On one hand, you feel pity for such individuals because they're clearly not right in the head. But on the other hand, they're really, really fucking annoying and so it's hard not to go off on them. I spent a lot of time just trying to ignore it and hoping it would go away. I remember one day I was so frustrated. I said, look guys, can you just report him or something on his account, so at least that his main account, whatever gets banned. And so there's some repercussions for the terrible things he's doing to me. And Hollander in chat was just like, I'm not going to fucking report him, he hasn't done anything to me. And I went off on him. I was like, you selfish motherfucker. Like you just, like even if you weren't going to do that, just don't say anything. Like don't downplay the suffering that I'm experiencing and dismiss it because it doesn't involve personally involve you. Can you not take me at my word? Like that this is a person who's causing me issues? Like you've been here for a year. Do you think I'm just a person who's just like, hey man, let's match report random people. I went off of this dude. Hollander, sorry. When all my anger and aggression was actually directed towards Kane, I was using Hollander as an outlet for my frustrations because I just exploded. There's a video out there, you probably won't find it. It's a very low quality, like cringe, angry streamer compilation or something. And I'm like 40 minutes in and it's like 160 piece. You can't even really tell it's me, but it's just me going, nah. I have no idea where that is, but probably one of the first compilations I was ever included in. No, no idea why I was so low quality. The other person is Vegas. Vegas is a person who has been accused of and look, it's definitively proven that he doxed a lot of fucking people. Who's that? Shift? Swift? Does SpongeBob streams or something? Shift HD or something? He doxed him and some of his mods or something and he harassed them. And then he would message me about how he's going to kill himself if I don't do X, Y, and Z. Very, again, deranged individual. Eventually just banned, dismissed. You know, he would change his name to my name. Very, very irritating. Again, a person you want to pity, but while they're so annoying and harassing you, it's very hard to do that. Once you get to a certain size, it's very hard to actively harass me. It's quite hard because your messages are going to be missed in chat. Any ignoring of you is automatically going to be justifiable for me and understandable by my audience. Because I'm sure you guys know, you know, I'm a busy guy. I'm doing a lot of things. Like if that person came into chat like, oh, Matt was ignoring my DMs. Most of you would go, well, yeah, he's a busy guy. He gets a lot of DMs. Where once upon a time I would feel obligated to answer every single DM that I receive. And even to this day, I think I still do answer every single DM that I receive. But what I'm saying is I don't feel guilty ignoring people or pushing people aside who I think are harassing me or sending me things that they shouldn't receive. I just block them. I mute them and move on. I worry sometimes that I've muted people or block people unnecessarily. They're well-meaning actors that I've simply misunderstood or they've acted out of place without knowing it or intending to cause me any harm. It's partly the reason why I unban everyone periodically, like every six months to a year, whatever. Because I feel as though the trolls or whatever, they won't come back. They've moved on to the next victim or whatever. But the well-meaning people who have stuck by or had some interest in my content legitimately, they will come back and potentially won't act as bad. If they never acted bad in the first place, they'll at least get a second chance at a second life, if you will. |
| 23. August 2021 | Have I ever gone skiing? | Have I ever gone skiing? I skied a very long time ago. The only memory I have of the experience is my parents' fight. It was the same trip where I was very excited to see the snow. I built myself a very large sand fortress. It's not a sand fortress, it's a snow fortress. And then some kids destroyed it while I was having dinner. A lot of my memories are really bad. I was devastated when the kids' mother found out. Who knows if these memories are real anymore. I believe the kids asked me to play with them and stuff. And I was just like, no, go away. I don't want to be anywhere near you guys. They were just kids, man. They thought it was just someone who left over. Tony was standing there as a kid and I was like, man, that's so mean. It works really hard in it, too. |
| 09. April 2020 | Have I ever smoked? | Have I ever smoked? Have I smoked? Ah, by smoked do you mean like consistently smoked cigarettes? No, or like any like obviously I've smoked weed before I've had a cigarette before but I've never smoked in the sense of like gonna picked up a pack. I have never myself purchased weed or cigarettes. I've merely in circumstances What's the phrase? Bummed one off someone? I wonder if that's a universal expression or just an Aussie UK thing |
| 10. July 2021 | Have I ever wanted to delete everything and disappear? | Have you ever wanted to delete everything and disappear to see if anyone cares? Strangely, no given the outpouring of support that I receive every day I don't doubt that people care all the things I doubt I do not doubt that People value what I do that is a wondrous feeling. I would love for everyone to have this feeling in their lives I may not have love chat. I may not have health really but I do have a lot of people needs now who like what I do I Can't have it all but I got that |
| 03. January 2022 | Have I ever worked in retail? | away from the content if it happens too frequently. Have I ever worked in retail? Have you ever worked in retail? I have, and fortunately I never had to deal with customers. I worked in Fresh Produce. Outside of the occasional person going, where's the carrots? I didn't have to do any of that shit. These days you have to also be trained on registers if you're in any department. No, I think for the last year that I was there, that was the policy, but whenever anyone asked for someone from Fresh Produce to go to the registers, I would send someone else, because I had seen it already. I mean most people are totally fine. The ones that stick out to you would be the crazies. There were two interactions with customers that I remember. One where a person was standing in front of the mushrooms and I was standing next to them and they said something like, hey how's it going? I was like, oh good thanks, how are you? And the guy turns to me, looks at me weirdly, and I see he has a wireless receiver in his ear and he was talking on the phone. I was just like, he was so small, it was on the side that I couldn't see. I'm like, what the fuck was I meant there? It felt so awkward. Another one where I dropped something on my main finger and I was like, ah, hmm, a person asked me a question, I'm holding my finger like this, and they're like, oh where's so and so? I'm like, oh it's down there. And I point with my middle finger, like this, something like that, because I just hurt my finger and I think nothing of it. And then I walk off and I get called to the front desk and this woman's complained that I've given her the finger. And I was just like, who are you? What are you talking about? Oh yeah, I did help you. And the manager's like, so why are you doing this? I'm like, well I just pointed with the finger that I had available, I just hurt my finger. The woman I think was like, I don't believe you. I'm like, I don't care if you believe me. And I say to the manager, I've been here for like five years, why would I give some random person the finger? And I go back to work now and I just leave. In no world, other than that I used my middle finger, could you have interpreted that as me giving you the finger? |
| 01. June 2020 | Have I gotten any sponsorships? | Have I gotten any sponsors? I have been sponsored by a handful of people over the time I've been on Twitch. I don't pursue sponsorships very often. People send me emails all the time and I will, uh... At this point where I'm quite successful and making a good amount of money, I don't feel like I should be wasting people's time with sponsorships. The only reason I respond to any emails is just because I'm worried that at some points, I'm not going to be as successful as I am now and, uh, you know, I won't be making ends meet and I'll be worried that, um, you know, I'll be like, Oh man, I should have done those sponsorships when I had the chance, man. I would be more secure in my circumstances, you know, five years from now. I'd just done those sponsorships when they were actually there for me. I don't need those opportunities now, but I may have wished I took those opportunities at some point in the future. There are emails going around right now about Raid Shadow Legends and you could get a thousand dollars or something streaming it and I just, I'm just like, I just don't want to waste people's time with that shit. I don't need a thousand dollars. I don't like Raid Shadow Legends. I don't like being f- I'd have to be somewhat fake. Like, it's one thing to be sponsored by a product that I think is good, it's another thing to take money from something that I don't really believe in, that I think you'd be wasting your time to use. We've talked about this before in Rambles about the different thresholds of like what I'd have to be offered, but there are very few things that aren't directly harmful that I wouldn't be willing to be sponsored by for the right amount of money. Because there's always a certain amount of money that I can be offered where if I don't take it, all of you will think I'm a fucking idiot. If Raid Shadow Legends was offering me ten thousand dollars an hour to play Raid Shadow Legends and I didn't take it, you all would be very pissed. You know you would be pissed. Because it's just- it's just a really dumb thing not- |
| 02. February 2022 | Have I lost credibility among GTA 5 speedrunners due to not running? | Have I lost credibility among GT5 speedrunners due to not running for so long? Do you think since you haven't done a run in a while you've lost some of your cred in the speedrunning community discord? Because I have been the main outlet through which people learn that GT5 speedrunning exists, it's usually people who like my content that end up going there. It is the case that, what is it, like way more than half of the people who've ever clicked a link to the discord have come through my videos or my links that I've created. I'm sure there are people who don't respect me as a speedrunner anymore, maybe what I did was before their time, but I don't think many people there like openly hate me or something because I don't really, it's not like I'm sitting there being like I'm right, I know how things should be run, da da da. In general, I just, if someone has a question I can answer, I chip in and answer it. And it's not like I'm not active in the sense that any discussion that happens in any of the discussion sections or in general, I read every day. I don't often contribute because I don't often have something to say, but I keep up with things and I do contribute when I have something to say. So it's not like I've spent the last two years just being entirely absent, entirely hands off and not engaging in discussion because I've been doing that, you know, because I'm still around doing a no hit run is the most tangential thing to the speed running you can do, right? I'm still in the domain of GTA speed running. I just haven't been doing runs. So like I can't tell you what the consensus of the people in the discord is, but considering a significant amount of them came through my content, they probably have at least a decent opinion of me, right? And yeah, certainly opinions were split on me back when I was doing runs anyway, you know. |
| 02. February 2022 | Have I lost credibility among gta 5 speedrunners due to not running? | Have I lost credibility among GT5 speedrunners due to not running for so long? Do you think since you haven't done a run in a while you've lost some of your cred in the speedrunning community discord? Because I have been the main outlet through which people learn that GT5 speedrunning exists, it's usually people who like my content that end up going there. It is the case that, what is it, like way more than half of the people who've ever clicked a link to the discord have come through my videos or my links that I've created. I'm sure there are people who don't respect me as a speedrunner anymore, maybe what I did was before their time, but I don't think many people there like openly hate me or something because I don't really, it's not like I'm sitting there being like I'm right, I know how things should be run, da da da. In general, I just, if someone has a question I can answer, I chip in and answer it. And it's not like I'm not active in the sense that any discussion that happens in any of the discussion sections or in general, I read every day. I don't often contribute because I don't often have something to say, but I keep up with things and I do contribute when I have something to say. So it's not like I've spent the last two years just being entirely absent, entirely hands off and not engaging in discussion because I've been doing that, you know, because I'm still around doing a no hit run is the most tangential thing to the speed running you can do, right? I'm still in the domain of GTA speed running. I just haven't been doing runs. So like I can't tell you what the consensus of the people in the discord is, but considering a significant amount of them came through my content, they probably have at least a decent opinion of me, right? And yeah, certainly opinions were split on me back when I was doing runs anyway, you know. |
| 03. February 2020 | Have I overslept and missed a deadline? | Have you ever overslept and missed an opportunity meeting a deadline? For my first test that I ever had to take, it was in a different facility and I had to drive into the city and I got caught in traffic, I got lost. They have a rule where you can only enter the test within like an hour of the starting time because it's like a three hour test or something. And I got there like two minutes before they, if I got there two minutes later, they would not have let me in. I tried to learn from my mistakes. I went to every single other test early. Like I would arrive like an hour early. I realized that I was better off potentially wasting a significant amount of my time sitting on a chair somewhere eating a pie or something. And being not stressed because I'm there, I'm there already, I can calm down. Then arriving on the dot. I'm a person who likes to arrive early for meetings and deadlines wherever possible. I don't like the stress of having to rush. |
| 23. August 2021 | Have I played cuphead? | Have I played Cuphead? No, I streamed Cuphead a long time ago. Played through the entire game in 16 hours while I felt very sick. Don't know why I did that, but that is the thing that I did in the past. The footage is garbage. |
| 10. July 2021 | Have I read Harry Potter? | Have I read Harry Potter? Have I read Harry Potter? Yeah, I was a kid when Harry Potter was coming out, man. Everyone my age read Harry Potter. It was even like a reading assignment in class. As a field trip, we went to see Harry Potter, the first movie. No joke. And a girl in our class bought everyone a chocolate. |
| 08. June 2020 | Have I seen deadly Australian animals | Have I seen ex deadly animal in Australia? Living in Australia, you do not see deadly animals Humans don't live near deadly animals. If there's enough humans in a place, they drive out all the animals They're deadly ones especially. If you want to see deadly animals, you got to like go to the Aussie Outback and stuff You know 95% of the population of Australia Will just never see a deadly animal. To say that Australia has all the deadly animals or a significant portion of them. That's true. That's like they're in the desert or you know endless miles away from human civilization. I haven't seen a koala since I went to the zoo when I was a kid man. Koala populations produced a lot because they have chlamydia or whatever |
| 08. June 2020 | Have I seen deadly Australian animals? | Have I seen ex deadly animal in Australia? Living in Australia, you do not see deadly animals Humans don't live near deadly animals. If there's enough humans in a place, they drive out all the animals They're deadly ones especially. If you want to see deadly animals, you got to like go to the Aussie Outback and stuff You know 95% of the population of Australia Will just never see a deadly animal. To say that Australia has all the deadly animals or a significant portion of them. That's true. That's like they're in the desert or you know endless miles away from human civilization. I haven't seen a koala since I went to the zoo when I was a kid man. Koala populations produced a lot because they have chlamydia or whatever |
| 24. September 2021 | Have I seen the anime "Bleach"? | See in the anime Bleach, I've watched Bleach, yes I have watched all of Bleach, it should have ended with Aizen. No, I actually haven't watched all of Bleach. I stopped watching when the Ichigo went into a video game to get EXP. I was like nah, done. Should have ended with Aizen. |
| 03. September 2021 | Have I taken the covid vaccine? | Have I taken the COVID vaccine? I have not. My country has some of the worst COVID vaccine rollouts anywhere. I literally go nowhere. I don't have a job that requires me to interact with people. The most interaction I have with people is when I get food delivered, and I never talk to them or interact with them. Basically, I have no ability to spread COVID to anyone. Literally none. I suppose I'm a little bit concerned for myself, because there is a small possibility that one of the food delivery guys smears COVID on the pizza box. But if the vaccine was available for all, I would take it, but I don't think it is currently. I checked a week and a half ago, and I wasn't eligible. Yeah, considering my lack of interaction with people, I'm not overly concerned. Government was... Well, it always is majorly incompetent, but it's particularly bad in this case. |
| 12. February 2023 | Have achievements in games lost their value over time? | Have achievements in games lost their value over time? I think achievements once upon a time in games was more about like, hey, you can be one of the few people who managed to do X or Y. Then they became like ways to guide the player to doing new stuff that they wouldn't necessarily find otherwise. Make sure they're on the right beats for the game. But with games like this, these online service games, it's more about like giving people a reason to play as much as possible. You want all the achievements, don't you? Do this 50 times. But they're not achievements, they're awards, very different. |
| 30. May 2020 | Have i ever been rejected? | Have I ever been rejected? Sure, in every capacity. |
| 10. July 2021 | Have i ever wanted to delete everything and disappear? | Have you ever wanted to delete everything and disappear to see if anyone cares? Strangely, no given the outpouring of support that I receive every day I don't doubt that people care all the things I doubt I do not doubt that People value what I do that is a wondrous feeling. I would love for everyone to have this feeling in their lives I may not have love chat. I may not have health really but I do have a lot of people needs now who like what I do I Can't have it all but I got that |
| 01. June 2020 | Have i gotten any sponsorships? | Have I gotten any sponsors? I have been sponsored by a handful of people over the time I've been on Twitch. I don't pursue sponsorships very often. People send me emails all the time and I will, uh... At this point where I'm quite successful and making a good amount of money, I don't feel like I should be wasting people's time with sponsorships. The only reason I respond to any emails is just because I'm worried that at some points, I'm not going to be as successful as I am now and, uh, you know, I won't be making ends meet and I'll be worried that, um, you know, I'll be like, Oh man, I should have done those sponsorships when I had the chance, man. I would be more secure in my circumstances, you know, five years from now. I'd just done those sponsorships when they were actually there for me. I don't need those opportunities now, but I may have wished I took those opportunities at some point in the future. There are emails going around right now about Raid Shadow Legends and you could get a thousand dollars or something streaming it and I just, I'm just like, I just don't want to waste people's time with that shit. I don't need a thousand dollars. I don't like Raid Shadow Legends. I don't like being f- I'd have to be somewhat fake. Like, it's one thing to be sponsored by a product that I think is good, it's another thing to take money from something that I don't really believe in, that I think you'd be wasting your time to use. We've talked about this before in Rambles about the different thresholds of like what I'd have to be offered, but there are very few things that aren't directly harmful that I wouldn't be willing to be sponsored by for the right amount of money. Because there's always a certain amount of money that I can be offered where if I don't take it, all of you will think I'm a fucking idiot. If Raid Shadow Legends was offering me ten thousand dollars an hour to play Raid Shadow Legends and I didn't take it, you all would be very pissed. You know you would be pissed. Because it's just- it's just a really dumb thing not- |
| 27. November 2020 | Have i played undertale? | Have I played Undertale? Have I ever played Undertale? No, I had no interest in playing Undertale. When it came out, it was uh... When I was deep into speedrunning, I think. I didn't want to play anything else. I ended up watching the game grumps play through it, like on a week-to-week basis. So I do know about it. I watched it like two times speed. Certainly seemed like a good game, especially considering how few people worked on it. Wasn't it just like one guy or something? Maybe another person for the mute? No, no, I think it was just one guy, which is pretty awesome. |
| 30. May 2020 | Have i struggled with addiction? | jeez right have you ever struggled with any kind of addiction not with any um substances that like you know tobacco or you know you kind of drugs like that uh but certainly it's hard to kick the bucket of soft drink kick the bucket of soft drink i mean i can't it's hard for me to stop i can stop and i do stop for long periods but i enjoy it it's something that i enjoy and the the the direct negative consequences of drinking soft drink i don't like experience on a day-to-day basis right uh i don't see the potential damage to my body or what have you it's just you know i just enjoy the experience of drinking it and then i move on with my day and it's just the the habit of doing it like it's always be true and there's the soft drink being there that familiarity is nice and it's so it's it's hard to give up uh and fast food in general i don't like a lot of food uh i don't know if it's something wrong with me personally i people around me were like oh i love this burger so much oh it's so amazing i'm fucking i'm having a fucking orgasm over here i'm like it's just burger man i have no idea what you're talking about because i don't like a lot of food the food that i do enjoy i i value greatly like pizza and whatnot but it's terrible for you so i have a hard time giving up that junk food because all that i enjoy it's like either i eat the food that i enjoy to some small amount like it's barely anything but i enjoy it at least somewhat or um i don't enjoy any food and i eat healthy and it's just it's it's hard to give up that small enjoyment right there's not a lot of things outside of twitch stream streaming and and making youtube content that i really enjoy so giving up those few bits of enjoyment is hard for me if you want to call that an addiction you can that i can massively cut back at a moment's notice it suggests to me that it isn't an addiction necessarily but that i have a hard time long term stopping is uh is at least some evidence that it's a psychological addiction or what have you so typical |
| 29. December 2020 | Have my No Damage runs made me worse. | Speedruns later? It's hard to say. Oko has taught me patience while in speedrunning for the longest time. I mean, it might have made me a little bit of a better driver, even though I don't really focus on driving. It's just because I can kind of take my time with turning and stuff. Where in speedrunning, it's kind of like you always want to go balls to the wall. But having patience in speedrunning is not necessarily a great thing. But I don't know. See what happens. The skill set doesn't immediately transfer ever. Would I cheat in speedrunning for money? If you could make a hundred million for cheating in speedrunning, would you? If you could make a hundred million for cheating in speedrunning, would you? Everyone has a problem. |
| 13. March 2023 | Have my fans had enough of GTA V Chaos? | Have my fans had enough of GTA V chaos? I can only speak for me, but chaos just lost its charm. Sure, Mirror World and Rain, but might as well gave it a fresh feel. But in its core, it's all the same. Yeah, like, sure, I can keep adding new effects, and I can keep changing chaos, but you're right, it is still just chaos. The appeal of, oh look, viewers have spawned something every 30 seconds. We've been doing that for years now. That peak of like, oh, that's so cool. Like, we as viewers can interact with the game. How weird is that? That's so new. That's gone now. It is fairly standard to have some sort of viewer involvement in content these days. It isn't special anymore. I still think it creates interesting moments and it is funny, but that mystique, that allure of this is something new and cool that I've never seen before is gone. And I can't get that back, regardless what I change chaos to. My content is great, you don't have to worry. I always have to worry. That is the nature of the beast. As I say, I got cool stuff coming out, and I hope that people actually like it. That AI video you just saw, like, I am trying to think of new things and try new things and whatnot. Still fun to me, but I see why people lose interest doing the same mod through the same game over and over. It can be tiring. Like, the assumption is that you will always bring on new people to replace the old. When someone gets sick of something, they leave, but a new person can find it. It's the replacement rate of all content, right? So with each new season, you hope like just more people jump on, which did happen with earlier seasons. But I've been around for long enough now that it's possible that I've had that sort of content seen by basically everyone available who might have a potential interest in it. Or at least the easily accessible people, right? I'm sure there are 90 year old grandmothers sitting in nursing homes knitting right now who would also enjoy Chaos Mod if they were presented with it, but that's never gonna happen, right? The algorithm would never prioritize my content in presenting it to that audience. But the easily accessible people, like I've milked that dry to a degree. I found all the people, so there's never gonna be that. |
| 29. December 2020 | Have my no damage runs made me worse. | Speedruns later? It's hard to say. Oko has taught me patience while in speedrunning for the longest time. I mean, it might have made me a little bit of a better driver, even though I don't really focus on driving. It's just because I can kind of take my time with turning and stuff. Where in speedrunning, it's kind of like you always want to go balls to the wall. But having patience in speedrunning is not necessarily a great thing. But I don't know. See what happens. The skill set doesn't immediately transfer ever. Would I cheat in speedrunning for money? If you could make a hundred million for cheating in speedrunning, would you? If you could make a hundred million for cheating in speedrunning, would you? Everyone has a problem. |
| 03. February 2020 | Have you considered co-streaming? | I don't think we need to move you in for this. Have you ever considered co-streaming with another speedrunner perhaps doing a speedrun race competition with others in something short like Trebsent for example? I did that stuff back in the day. These days, because I'm in Australia, it's very hard to co-stream or collaborate with anyone because I'm in a weird time zone. Finding an exact time that another person can put aside their responsibilities, I can put aside my responsibilities and on the dot start then is hard. First problem. Second problem. I don't really have anyone that I'm that close with at this point where it would be both a boon to us both and not awkward to do such a co-streaming. Three. I don't really have anything suited for that. As an IE, I believe by myself I can in general make better content than I can with another person. At least currently. But if I found the right person perhaps I would change that. |
| 16. May 2020 | Have you ever played Runescape? | Have you ever played RuneScape? A long time back in the day I did play RuneScape. And I remember someone trying to buy my account off me for $50 and I said I would give it to you but I'd forgotten the password and the username. And they had a free thing on Twitch Prime, on Twitch, you get like free membership for RuneScape or something. And I thought well I'll go back to my RuneScape account but it's been that many years, like over a decade, that my account doesn't exist anymore. So it's funny I actually watch RuneScape content on YouTube these days. I just find it interesting that this guy, Pugger or something, talking about the botting in RuneScape and how they make money and how much money they make and these weird networks and the schemes they have. So I think it's very interesting. |
| 10. August 2022 | Have you heard of endless pools? | Have you heard of endless pools? You and I want more than anything else in the world chat. So this is called a endless pool or an infinity pool or whatever you call it right. So it's a small pool, doesn't take up a lot of space but there's a pressure that pushes that you can change and so you can continuously swim into it. It's even got like a underwater treadmill and you can like run on the treadmill in the water as exercise. It also works as a bit of a spa bath thing I think as well. Like I was originally like measuring my small backyard being like can I have like a just a long pool in it and then my mother's like what if why don't you get one of these things. I'm like oh that sounds great. All my life I've loved swimming but public pools are fucking disgusting. The pool that was at my mother's house is too small to do laps in and I don't like the design of it because spiders would get underneath the underhanging stuff and it would just... When I was younger I was a good swimmer and I distinctly remember every single swimming carnival which is a little contest thing you do at the school where everyone is like a swimming contest right. I never entered because I was too self-conscious. My entire primary and high school life despite being a good swimmer never participated. I was just that self-conscious. That's the kind of kid I was. When I think about exercising this is the only exercise that I've ever enjoyed swimming but I got nowhere to do it. I haven't been in the water in like a decade probably. Getting this would just be the most amazing thing and that's this currently my goal I'm working towards now. When I get my blinds and my acoustic panels I'm gonna see if I can find some company to build me one of these things and then maybe finally I won't be fat as fuck and I can actually get some good exercise. I think this would improve my quality of life massively. I'm just tired of feeling like shit chat. I'm tired of it. |
| 11. October 2021 | Having a chat is important for long speedruns | important for long speed runs. This is some of my oldest footage. Speedrunning الله alah, waansa, serfu直تي |
| 12. September 2021 | Having a female protagonist in GTA 6 | Having a female protagonist in GTA 6. The characters in GTA 5 reflects and do commentary on aspects of society and there are certainly aspects of society that are either more commonly or arguably uniquely experienced by women and having a female main character allows for commentary on those aspects of the world that wouldn't be as as easily done or doable with a male character. There's nothing about a character being male or female that makes them more or less valuable to me or enjoyable to play. It just matters how they're written and I can see how a female character would allow, it would give Rockstar more avenues of commentary. It depends what they write as to whether it be good or not. If you want to superficially play as a female character, you can certainly do that in online. |
| 26. April 2021 | Having a generic appearance. | Having a generic appearance. I bet black people think all white guys in black tank tops are you. It's not just black people. Everyone thinks everyone who has brown hair is male and has a black tank top as me. No joke. I never realized how generic I look as a person until I had a bunch of fans who do the Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at stuff going look it's Dark Viper and it's just some random dude with like brown hair, and I'm like Okay, I see a point. I do look like that guy, but no more than I look like every other white guy with dark hair. I had facial hair and a black tank top and like you never find me, you know. The long arm of the law will never find me as long as I can just walk into a crowd of people. They just be constantly turning people around and it won't be me. I can plant in anywhere. And the default character in the old wrestling games. |
| 06. June 2022 | Having a nightmare about fictional work | Having a nightmare about fictional work. Hey, Doc, do you ever have dreams where you're still doing Oko? I had a dream last night where there was still another React video to release. And I was panicking like, oh no, I should've put this in video 8! What am I doing? Why did I make that a separate video? And I'm like, in this state of half of being awake, half being asleep, trying to figure out if it was a dream or not. I'm like, is this real? Do I actually still have more of that fucking work to do? I thought it was over! God, that was stressful. Mum put it. The huge stretch marks on my- |
| 07. December 2019 | Having a normal streaming | Having a normal streaming schedule. I never stream to appeal to a particular audience. I'm of the belief that it's better to be comfortable streaming than to be uncomfortable streaming at a particular time, right? I'll get more viewers, more followers if I make a good stream rather than an okay stream at a particular time. When you're a smaller streamer, Brad, you kind of have to take every advantage that you can. You know, rearrange yourself so that you are awake and feeling good when you're streaming at a time that's advantageous to you in terms of getting a great audience. I'm kind of big enough as a streamer that I don't have to make those kind of considerations. And I just know me as a person that I'm not very good at keeping a consistent schedule with a consistent sleeping pattern, and attempts to do that actually hurt my stream because of how I feel. Right now, I feel like shit. But that's again because of what I normally do where I fuck up my sleeping pattern. What fucked up my sleeping pattern this time was completing fucking pacifist percent, which has actually gone very well. This last pacifist percent did better than the one prior to it. I didn't think the one that I released was going to hit. It took like a month for episode 10 to hit like 150,000 views. This one hit 150 in like a week. So basically, pacifist percent is not dead. Prediction. |
| 03. January 2021 | Having a rat as a pet . | Having a rat as a pet What I think of rats as pets I saw this documentary once that this kid had a rat and it ended up being this balding old dude who had Transformed himself into a rat like 15 plus years ago since then I've I've come to conclusion that probably having a rat as a pet It's not a good idea who knew you ran that kind of risk having that kind of a pet |
| 12. August 2020 | Having a streaming schedule | Having a streaming schedule. Oh, that's right. Someone said, um, do I think do I think I'd have more viewers if I had a schedule? Absolutely. It is well known that the best way to grow a Twitch stream is with a consistent schedule. The problem with having a consistent schedule though is You know, you don't always feel up to streaming. You might wake up feeling shit or you know, you might want to do something else or make a YouTube video or stream a different thing than what it says on your schedule and forcing yourself to do it, it's just gonna make your content worse. More people still tune in because they'll know your life every time and people may even if they like your content enough set up their schedule around you as in like Ah, you know, so-and-so is live at this time every day. I'll eat my breakfast and watch that person You know, I'm coming home from work then I can watch that person because he's always gonna be there, you know Yeah, you so you can so when I said the best way to grow, Wub, I didn't say it was the only way or a necessary prerequisite for growth. It's it's something that's an asset for literally everyone But it's not necessary like not having a schedule is a detriment to growth not like the nail in the coffin Do I have any new tips for speedrunners? Sorry, do I have any new tips for streamers? If you look up in my rambles, I talk about Growth as a small streamer in many different spots exclamation mark rambles and just look for streamers I guess long story short next impossible go to get lucky and Growing on twitch as a new new content creators next impossible. You have to use other platforms |
| 17. September 2021 | Having aspirations for the future | Having aspirations for the future. So, what's your biggest dream yet to come through? A part of my problem emotionally in life has not really had having grand goals. Like I've never had aspirations or things I really want to achieve. I've just kind of floated through life until I found streaming and YouTube and Twitch and you know, da da da. I didn't really want anything. I'd even convinced myself I wasn't really deserving of things, which is very depressing. Thinking about those dark times. I still don't think I really have grand goals. I just want to continue to grow successful, build a larger audience. And I suppose my biggest dream is just to be so secure in my circumstances that I don't have to fear that a small thing could go wrong and I'll be so... |
| 27. April 2022 | Having me see your comment isn’t really special. | Having me see your comment isn't really special, although I don't always respond. There is never any reason to be like, oh my god, DarkFyperAU responded or saw what I said. I see everything that people type. As in like, the nanos, when, when I take a break, I go Twitter mentions, I go, I scroll back and read the comments on my YouTube channel, and when I go to Reddit, it always shows me if anyone's tagged me. Like, especially as a person who has trouble sleeping, and sometimes it might take an hour or two, maybe even longer than that before I actually get to sleep, I occasionally will just open and look at stuff, you know. |
| 25. February 2021 | Having my old Dark Douls runs edited. | Having my old Dark Souls runs edited for YouTube. Yeah, I know I have the 69th fastest, any percent, no teardrop speedrun for Dark Souls 3. It's my claim to fame. I miss running Souls. I was never good at it, though. I didn't even complete that many runs. I've been meaning to have my older, uh, Dark Souls 3 runs edited for YouTube, just in case some people still want to watch them. I'm certainly very boring while doing them, but there might be some funny moments in there, I'm not sure. |
| 25. February 2021 | Having my old dark souls runs edited. | Having my old Dark Souls runs edited for YouTube. Yeah, I know I have the 69th fastest, any percent, no teardrop speedrun for Dark Souls 3. It's my claim to fame. I miss running Souls. I was never good at it, though. I didn't even complete that many runs. I've been meaning to have my older, uh, Dark Souls 3 runs edited for YouTube, just in case some people still want to watch them. I'm certainly very boring while doing them, but there might be some funny moments in there, I'm not sure. |
| 03. January 2022 | Having the right answer doesn’t make you correct | doesn't make you correct. It is possible to hold my exact position on issues and for me to still think you're dumb when I hear about how you reached those conclusions. It's like, it's that analogy I use sometimes of a very complicated math problem on a whiteboard and there's a mathematician sitting there for hours trying to figure it out, scratching his head. And little girl walks up and goes, it's seven. He's like, what? It's seven, sir. And he's like, go away, girl. And then after hours longer, he finds out the answer's seven. And he's like, oh. He runs out to the girl and he's like, how did you get the answer? She's like, well, my favorite number's seven, so it's seven. The girl had the right answer, but she's not smart. What caused me to you? |
| 18. August 2022 | Having your niche on YouTube. | Perfectly fine. Do I like cycling? I did when I was a kid. I don't really get the opportunity now. I would like to live in one of those cities where like everyone cycles. Like the Netherlands or whatever. What's that YouTube channel that like talks about city planning and how it impacts people's quality of life and stuff? Not just bikes? Yeah, very great channel. See, it just goes to show chat. The main way to get successful on YouTube is to have your thing, your niche. The thing that you're doing either that no one else is doing or that you're doing better than everyone else. You can do other stuff but most channels that get really successful have that thing. That's why I can mention particular features of a channel and you all name exactly one channel. As time goes on, it's harder and harder to find a channel that's more successful. |
| 17. July 2021 | Hbomberguy’s measured response to vaccines. | Hbomberguy is a measured response to vaccines. Did you guys see Hbomberguy's a measured response to vaccines or whatever? Where he talks about the original paper that led to people believing that vaccines have something to do with autism and stuff and all the duplicity and the scams and the dude having investments in this particular type of vaccine. So you're trying to scare people away from this combination vaccine. All the lies that went into the creation of the data for that paper. And it is it's like an hour and a half long and it's horrifying. It is absolutely horrifying how many people have now died because this one guy was just so when it wasn't one it was like two or three but it is so massively greedy. Like and it's funny you see like the old interviews with this dude as he drums up this fear and he's saying repeatedly like oh you know you just don't want to use the combination vaccine. The other vaccines are perfectly fine because that's where his investments were right. And then you watch him today. He now says all vaccines are bad because now he makes all his money off the anti-vax crowd. And it's never went to jail made millions of dollars looking out in his fucking balcony and his goddamn mansion. Oh man makes your blood boil dude. Highly recommend the video though highly recommend it. It is well-researched funny sometimes and horrifying a lot of the time. Like dude basically tortured kids man. Like HBomberguy makes some amazing videos dude. I have a lot of respect for those people on YouTube man who can passionately diligently work making a particular video for months and months on end. I don't got that kind of discipline. Okay okay maybe I do like is it like thinking to myself maybe I could do that if I was really passionate about saying if I'm willing to work at this for you know a year I could probably work on a video that long but I wouldn't want to but uh I know it's very hard I you know it's it's an amazing thing it's called vaccines and measure response. I am not vaccinated it's not available to me as of yet. Well I talked about yesterday I'm not actually sure if it's available because it's 40 and older I'm not 40 but I have Hashimoto's which if you are immune compromised you're able to get it but Hashimoto's doesn't guarantee that you're immune compromised necessarily and I don't think I am. I would have to visit my doctor and stuff but then again like I don't go anywhere or interact with any people so it's not a huge thing for me um so I might just wait until I can get it like as in like my age group or whatever yeah I'm not 40. Yeah Australia's been terrible because fucking Skomo is his whole crew of fucking idiots is terrible. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 31. October 2021 | Health consciousness and my food habits | Health consciousness and my food habits. I Wouldn't say I'm the healthiest person alive I've never been super healthy I remember I used to go to the gym for like an hour and then immediately leave the gym and go to McDonald's like I Drink way too much soft drink. I got addicted to soft. I wouldn't say it I I found myself enjoying soft drink a lot when I am was working at Coles I would leave Coles and grab like a two-liter bottle of coke and just drink that all night while playing water Warcraft get myself a Oven pizza put it in the oven forget about it have it burned to a crisp and then put the the next oven pizza In the oven and eat that one. I take me two oven pizzas to eat one oven pizza I play wow for like four hours and be like hey, wait a second. I'm still hungry. What the fuck I'm very read as a week go by where I don't have fast food at least twice Maybe even three times some weeks go by and I have fast food every day Not for every meal just at least one million a you're surprised. I'm not fat Um, I try not to snack people who tend to be very overweight I usually people who have developed very bad eating habits early in life like they they kind of addicted to the food and Or the or the eat when they're bored or the ease, you know When when they're sad or whatever solve emotional problems I've never really been this way. I remember getting home when I was 19 looking myself in the mirror I'm being like I've actually put on a little bit of weight and so what I did in response is I started to exercise I would get to my dad's and do sit-ups and Push-ups and stuff. The only reason why I've put on any weight at all is because of streaming I'm at the lowest levels of physical activity you can possibly have and because I haven't reached a point where I'm Overweight to the point where it's debilitating. I haven't really taken many positive steps to to solving the problem Oh, like I'll I'll somewhat take steps where I might not eat fast food for a week Oh, I'll exercise for a week and then stop doing it because I got other things to do, you know |
| 30. January 2022 | Hearing different news than family because of different sources. | Hearing different news than family because of different sources. Sometimes it's weird to see that news I heard is completely different with the news that my mom heard because of different sources. Yeah, I do that sometimes actually with my mother. As in I will... I'll ask her, so what have you heard about this? Like I almost don't care what's true. I care, like, my mother being in her 50s or whatever, watching more mainstream sort of sources. What she's picking up on about the situation. Take for example, so the premier of New South Wales recently got investigated for corruption. Nothing's proven yet, it's just an investigation started by an independent ICAC, which... What does ICAC mean again? Well, independent corruption... I don't know if I've heard of it. Independent Commission Against Corruption, yeah. So an ICAC is basically like, it's set up to be independent from the government and it's meant to look at the government and be like, hey, what's going on here, that's weird, we need to look at this and then it makes... it investigates stuff and makes recommendations to the government as to whether charges should be brought down and all that stuff. And so the ICAC announces, or this outstate ICAC announces that they're investigating our premier. And for everyone who just watched the mainstream news, they were like, oh, how can they do this? She's a perfect premier, she's the greatest fucking person alive. What the fuck is this? The ICAC has lost its way or whatever. But everyone online is just like, yeah, of course, because she's very corrupt, that politician. I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner, you know? And so, like, I'm at a family gathering and one of my aunts is like, oh, they're treating her wrongly. Oh, I can't believe they're investigating for her corruption, she's a wonderful premier, best we've ever had. And I'm like, really? I've heard the complete opposite. It's funny because like the day before corruption, the corruption investigation, like, there was this big spread about her being an inspirational woman, you know, at a wonderful premier and stuff. Like to the nanosecond and even after the investigation came down, the mainstream media was like, oh, she's the greatest person ever. But I could get into specifics, but it doesn't really matter. |
| 20. July 2022 | Heated towel racks for my bathroom | I had the electrician over yesterday and he's installed in my bathroom's heated towel racks because my old towel racks were awful. They weren't properly affixed to the wall. They fell out multiple times. There was so much glue over the wall, on the wall to keep them in there. I got them removed and the wall patched up and then I had the heated towel racks installed and they're not that great for their price. Like yeah, my towel's a little bit warm now and it is good in terms of fighting bacteria, potentially building up in your towel and stuff but they're not like really really warm. |
| 29. April 2021 | Hentai vs Covid | Hentai versus COVID. I saw a infographic, or just a graphic I suppose, on Reddit today. Google searches for Hentai versus Google searches for the COVID-19 vaccine or something. And so it showed which countries googled Hentai more than the vaccine and Hentai won half the world or something. God damn. I didn't realize Hentai was that popular, but apparently it is. I mean, is Japan the only country that makes Hentai? No? Mostly? I have heard that... So watching Trash Taste, listening to those guys talk about their experiences in Japan and with Japanese companies and whatnot, and it seems like a lot of Japanese companies have a strict way of doing things, and they only really care about the Japanese market. The rest of the world is an afterthought despite the rest of the world being so much larger, and in their experience, these companies, we'd be surprised they have an international audience or that they have international fans and stuff. I wonder how much Hentai is monetized globally. Because I mean, well certainly there's a lot of regulations around adult advertising and stuff, which is going to be in my video that I'm making soon. I don't think I've ever seen such content advertised anywhere. Except through memes. Maybe Japan is producing a bunch of Hentai memes, and that's how they advertise it. Hentai is just a sexual anime. It's not even called Hentai in Japan? Yeah! I remember someone telling me that. Because Hentai means pervert in Japanese. So I guess it should be called adult anime in Japan? Advertising Hentai memes genius? Honestly, advertising anything via memes seems amazing. It's just, meme marketing seems hard. Because it can't come off force, it's got to seem natural, you know? I wonder if Grande, Dolan Dark, or whatever, Dolan Dark, whatever the hell he calls himself. I wonder if he gets emails sometimes from shady companies being like, hey, I want you to make a meme about our products. |
| 14. August 2022 | Hey! That's Me! | Hey, that's me. It is legit the funniest thing when this happens, when I'm watching a video and I'm like half paying attention, kinda watching, and then I pop up in it. I'm like, oh! Oh! It's me! I'm like that Leonardo DiCaprio meme. Also this Australian guy was talking about changes to the inventory. We should maybe do something with it. I don't know, I find that so funny. Moral's mutual insurance, good dude. Surprisingly young considering his, uh, how good he is at editing. |
| 01. June 2020 | High refresh rate monitors | Do you own a high refresh rate monitor and would you say it's worth it? It depends what you're trying to do. I have it because A. I can afford it and it's a business expense. B. It has advantages for GTA V speedrunning. They can have my FPS higher. I don't think most people need more than 60 frames. 60 frames is in general fine as long as they're smooth frames. If you have some disposable income and you want to buy yourself a better monitor, sure. You can definitely tell the difference between 60 FPS and 120 FPS and it is a smoother enjoyable gaming experience but it is not the first thing that you upgrade. |
| 29. January 2021 | High vs low dpi mouse settings | High versus low DPI mouse settings. What are my mouse settings? My settings are terrible. There are two things you can do. You can either have a very low DPI, which means you have to move your entire hands to hit things. So you're dragging your mouse all the way across your mouse pad. This is advantageous because if you need to make like a tiny fine adjustment, it's really easy to do because you just slightly move it, it slightly moves on the screen. Or you can be a dipshit like me and have a super high DPI. What this means is I can flick my mouse from one core of the screen to the other in a nanosecond, a fucking nanosecond. But my ability to make really fine movements on the screen, if I'm off by a pixel, my ability to move a pixel is effectively non-existent. My DPI is like 2000 or something, I don't even know anymore. But then again, the DPI sounds higher than it actually is because in the game I have no mouse sensitivity. But like all DPI isn't equivalent because in different games it uses DPI in different ways and you in GTA V right now, I have my mouse sensitivity set to zero. If it was higher, I'd have a lower DPI. But I have heard that it's more accurate to use just DPI rather than the mouse sensitivity in the game. If you aren't looking for exact shots, like you just need to as quickly as possible aim in a particular direction, or you're shooting an AOE or something, then of course higher DPI is better. But for shooters, shooters, like a pixel difference can really matter. Honestly though, I think gaming in general, like it's moving away from games that require that pinpoint accuracy. Partly because like a lot of games want to be on mobile devices as well as PC and being on console your ability to make the precise aiming or whatever is even worse, whatever. Like unless you're making a purely PC title and your goal is to have a higher skill ceiling, there's not much advantage to having some pixel perfect kind of aiming kind of thing. |
| 12. August 2020 | Highlights as a new streamer | Stream highlights as a new streamer. No one wants to see your stream highlights. Your YouTube channel should be for original content, then maybe along with stream highlights while streaming, right? Because you understand that just a regular dude's stream highlights isn't going to get picked up in the algorithm. The average person isn't going to care about it, right? Once you have a brand and an audience and maybe you're just a better streamer in general, I don't know, basically anything you put yourself on gets views. Eventually, you can become a brand so big that the limiting factor on how much money you make is just how much you can stick your face. |
| 05. April 2021 | History of Chiropractors. | The history of chiropractors. Thought of going to a chiropractor? I went to a chiropractor for a very, very long time. All it did was alleviate my pain somewhat. Because I don't think I have it now. I had mild scoliosis or something when I was younger. My experience with chiropractors has made me lean more in favor of the narrative that you may sometimes see online that chiropractors aren't real doctors. Like, they're not physiotherapists. The credentials that you need to be a chiropractor is far, far lower than you need to be an actual medical professional. Chiropractic started as like a true absolute pseudoscience where you can cure anything by manipulating the spine. These days, the extent of the legitimacy of chiropractic care in your particular region will vary whether chiropractic care will just be physiotherapy or will just be massage or something. But it's not something that I'm ever going to be comfortable going to again. I can't be sure that anything they did really went beyond a massage and placebo effect. Because they certainly never fixed my issue. Interestingly, my pain went away when I stopped going to the chiropractor for a long time. Look it up yourself if you like, you know, make your own choices. If they're helping you, that's good. And you've got one of the good ones, but it's not. Like if I were to seek help, I would seek out a physiotherapist. I think the reason why people don't like physiotherapists as much as chiropractors, like in my experience, because again, you mileage me very wherever you're from. Like when I went to a physiotherapist once, they gave me exercise for me to do myself. They're like, I can help you a bit, but you've got to help yourself. My chiropractor was not really that way. See, I just come in every couple of weeks, whatever. |
| 05. April 2021 | History of chiropractors. | The history of chiropractors. Thought of going to a chiropractor? I went to a chiropractor for a very, very long time. All it did was alleviate my pain somewhat. Because I don't think I have it now. I had mild scoliosis or something when I was younger. My experience with chiropractors has made me lean more in favor of the narrative that you may sometimes see online that chiropractors aren't real doctors. Like, they're not physiotherapists. The credentials that you need to be a chiropractor is far, far lower than you need to be an actual medical professional. Chiropractic started as like a true absolute pseudoscience where you can cure anything by manipulating the spine. These days, the extent of the legitimacy of chiropractic care in your particular region will vary whether chiropractic care will just be physiotherapy or will just be massage or something. But it's not something that I'm ever going to be comfortable going to again. I can't be sure that anything they did really went beyond a massage and placebo effect. Because they certainly never fixed my issue. Interestingly, my pain went away when I stopped going to the chiropractor for a long time. Look it up yourself if you like, you know, make your own choices. If they're helping you, that's good. And you've got one of the good ones, but it's not. Like if I were to seek help, I would seek out a physiotherapist. I think the reason why people don't like physiotherapists as much as chiropractors, like in my experience, because again, you mileage me very wherever you're from. Like when I went to a physiotherapist once, they gave me exercise for me to do myself. They're like, I can help you a bit, but you've got to help yourself. My chiropractor was not really that way. See, I just come in every couple of weeks, whatever. |
| 05. June 2022 | History with GTA. | and how he got his start on YouTube at all. Have you been with GTA since the beginning, you're playing since GTA 1, or did you hop on with GTA 5? Well, I got a PS2 specifically for GTA 3, because I went around a friend's house and I was like, oh my God, this is amazing, I wanna play this. And it was like one of my, it was my first game on that platform. And then I got Vice City. Vice City is still, you know, my favorite GTA game of all time. And then San Andreas, GTA 4, and then I just started playing GTA. |
| 14. June 2021 | Hitting 700k on YouTube | Hitting 700k subs on YouTube. How do I feel about hitting 700k on YouTube? The amount of subs you have is more evidence of how long you've been on YouTube as opposed to how successful you are. My back end of Twitter, of YouTube is uh... It's doing alright. It's nowhere close to the best of the theme, but it's uh... It's still got good numbers and that makes me satisfied. Like I'm sitting at like 13k, no 13 million per month for the main channel in views and While the main channel, while the clips channel looks like it's doing 50 million right now. It's It's leveling out to around 30 or 35. That's a good numbers, but I'm definitely past my peak. But then again, when I start making different content again, you might have researches. |
| 01. November 2022 | Hopefully the last bit of drama getting my 24k blinds | $24,000 blinds. So for those who watch my rambles, I doubt many people care, but there is hopefully one last thing to explain with me getting these blinds. So after being jerked around for so long, I got contacted yesterday and they're like, okay, November the 4th, that is the day that they're all gonna be installed. Now the electrician has come by and put in the motors, right? And I'm like, no. They're like, what do you mean no? It's like, well, they came by over a week ago and gave me a quote. And so I emailed them and said, oh, that's cool. I'll pay that price. How do you want me to pay? And when can you install? And I got no response. This entire venture, I've had my emails ignored so often. And now my email to the electricians is also being ignored. So I emailed them again and finally I got a phone call. And the woman's like, I emailed you and you didn't respond. And I'm like, what do you mean? She's like, I emailed you two hours ago. I got no response. This is a person who lost my email and didn't answer for over a week. And she's hounding me because in two hours, I didn't respond to the email. After all my emails have been missed throughout this entire thing, she's given me lip for not responding in two hours. And she says, well, the only time that the electrician can come now is between like the 1st and the 3rd. He's got to come two days. He's in Queensland now, he's going to have to come back. And I'm like, yeah, well, I mean, if you'd respond to my email, that might not have happened. She's like, oh, there's no reason to be hostile, sir. She lost my email and caused all these problems. The fucking like 10th email that people haven't responded to and I'm getting lip. Holy shit. These are the 20,000. Technically 24,000 because it's costing like three to $4,000 to have the motors installed with electricians. Like, fuck me dead, dude. I'm getting really worse luck with buying goddamn anything. But I just cannot believe after being like, it's going to be like five months. I'm getting lip for not responding to an email after two hours. Wow. What I need electrician for? I need to install the hard wire like 20 motors into the walls. |
| 30. September 2022 | Hopefully the last shorts update | Hopefully the last shorts update. I know I've done like 80,000 updates for shorts, but hopefully one of the last ones, there'll probably still be more. I found out that the 45% revenue share, the changes to the revenue monetization and stuff that I mentioned in previous rambles, isn't happening until 2023. So uploading shorts right now is gonna have the same little value they had before. So I might just release like one a day or one every two days or something, not spending too much time on it, but not stopping shorts entirely. Cause I do have like a lot of clips to go through. It's not like I'm gonna run out and, it's nice to see those big numbers to get more subs and stuff, even though those big numbers and those subs don't seem to matter all that much, but we'll see. Quitting. |
| 01. July 2020 | Hopes for expanded and enhanced GTA V | Hopes for the expanded and enhanced GTA 5. Is it too hopeful to think that maybe the reason why Ned Luke is like a lot more involved on Twitter and stuff is that Rockstar has brought him back to do some kind of a single-player DLC? Given that they're, you know, separating the single-player and online, surely that would make it easier just to throw in some half-arsed DLC for the single-player. It's been seven years. Look, I just, I want to hope for something now. Something that makes this situation not terrible. Oh, I got included in, I'm probably saying this wrong, Swiggyta. Swiggyta made a video today commenting on expanded and enhanced things, and he put a small collaboration of a bunch of different people at the beginning of his video. |
| 14. February 2021 | Hoping i don’t later consider my life wasted | Hoping I don't later consider my life wasted. That dude yesterday who mentioned that his uh, his grandfather died at 61 or whatever. I think to myself like, you know, I'm close to almost halfway through my life, whatever, at a 29. You know? I just hope that I don't look back in 10 years and think I've wasted my life or something. Like, that would just suck so much. Getting to the end of your life, looking back and going, man, that was a fucking waste, you know? Like, I look back at a lot of my early 20s or whatever. The time I played World of Warcraft, I look back at that and think that was a fucking waste. I don't think it's likely, I'm likely to do that with this stage of my life. I find this stage of my life so fulfilling. True, you can always look at it that way. Where, had my past been different, maybe I wouldn't be where I am right now. So it wasn't really a waste because it was a necessary prerequisite for my current life, you know? Always think about things as the glass being half full. |
| 25. February 2021 | Horror games on stream. | Playing horror games on stream. You would watch me play a horror game? Oh, I'm sure they'd be extraordinarily interesting because I would be extraordinarily scared and I would cry. I am sure a grown man crying over a horror game would be very interesting to watch. I don't doubt it, but I'm not gonna make it for you. I honestly think playing a horror game would probably ruin me for days. What I'd probably just end up doing is intentionally failing over and over again so that I can build up like a resistance to the fail. I'd be like, yeah, failing doesn't matter. Look, I've done it a billion times, so it's fine. I'm not playing FNAF. If FNAF, the acronym or whatever is fucking terrible. Who calls the game FNAF? Has the game changed from the game that I knew it as like a bajillion years ago? Where all it is is just turning on lights and closing doors and shit. Now there are lamps too? Lamps? Wow! Gonna play that game as soon as I'm able. Fucking lamps chat. No one told me there was lamps in the game. Lamps are awesome. In my other room I have a large extensive lamp collection. I am horny for lamps. |
| 04. December 2020 | Hosting smaller streamers | Hosting smaller channels. What do you think are the impacts of a larger channel hosting a smaller one in the long term? It depends on how large you're talking and how small you're talking. As a rule, there is no downside to a large streamer raiding a smaller one for the smaller streamer. Unless of course like it's from some community or something that hates them, but I'm saying it's in general. Like it's... The biggest benefit though from the raid is rarely the viewers from the raid itself, but more that the the person gets boosted up in the category that they're in. So people searching by largest amount of viewers in a particular game or something will be more likely to see that person. Like it gets them exposure in different directories and as well that brings along new viewers. |
| 17. June 2021 | Hot tub streams now official category on Twitch | Hot tub streams now an official category on Twitch. Did you guys see that development? Apparently Twitch is gonna be releasing the hot tub beaches and what is it, pools stream section or something? Again showing that if Twitch was losing money, more money than it was gaining from these hot tub streams, obviously it would strike them down, but they're probably looking at their balance sheet and going, oh, it's quite a bit of money that we're receiving right there. Maybe we should keep this around. The new change to Chaos Mod. The latest episode of Cas... Casus? Casus? Casus? |
| 04. December 2020 | House, Investments, Motivations | House investments motivations. Do I plan to buy a house? Um, probably eventually. I don't think about money that much. I have that luxury. It's a privilege. I try to just be generous to people where I can. There's not a lot of stuff that I want to buy. I'm not invested in anything. I'm very skittish when it comes to making huge purchases or buying stock or something. Because I have a very bleak view of the world and my future and the future of the world in general. And so whenever I think about tying myself to anything, I become extraordinarily nervous. I've said many times, I am so thankful for the job that I do and you guys who enable me to live as I do. Because I think I would have just been a nervous wreck for my entire life. Because even as successful as I am, I am still so afraid for the future. I can't imagine what I would be like if I was a person without savings and whatnot. I pity such people and I wish nothing more than that everyone could be successful. Because when I think about buying a house, knowing that I exist in a country where there's, they talk about property bubbles all the time. Or looking at the stock market and I listen to people talk about the stock market and how everything's overvalued and we're due for some kind of a correction. But then other people say, oh, you know, actually the way things are set up right now, there's not going to ever be another correction or blah, blah, blah. I listen to all this stuff, but it doesn't make me any more confident or willing to invest in something. Like when I think about buying a house, the only reason I'd be like, yeah, sure, I'll buy a house. It's because I can fucking live in it. I don't want to invest in property. I want somewhere that I can live because I imagine even if everything goes to shit, I'll still need shelter, right? I still need food. Even if my house that I bought just decreased in value by 90 percent, I'd be like, that's unfortunate. And I just keep streaming. Like, you know, how much would a bungalow with good internet cost on the outskirts of Sydney? Half a million dollars. I don't know. A shack on a corner would probably be worth half a million dollars. I don't know what a bungalow is. Is it a small house? It's not the building itself that's valuable necessarily. It's the it's its location. It's land. I live in like an hour from the city, but I'm still technically in Sydney. I guarantee you that I could move somewhere. I know that the taxes are lower or I pay less rent or I could buy a house or something, but few people are willing to go that far outside their comfort zone or go to that level of effort to make such moves. Like, I just want to make good content. Right. Like, I do the bare minimum required so that I can continue making the content that I make and doing the thing that I do. You know, I'm not sitting here trying to become a millionaire. You know, ever thought about moving out of Australia? I could never imagine moving out of Australia. I would never want to go through all the hassles that come with living in another country and having to do with visas and all the questions and people's scrutiny and whatnot and being a foreigner or whatever. It all seems like such a huge pain in the ass. Certainly, deals like the one going on between the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, where I think you won't even need a passport or something to go between them or to live in the countries. There are definitely places that I could move to with less hassle. I just don't know why I go to that kind of effort. Like, you make radical changes in your life out of necessity. Very few people are willing to micro their lives to get any that kind of benefit, to change that monument to get that kind of benefit. |
| 21. August 2021 | How Australia went with Covid and what changed | I don't know. How Australia went with COVID and how things changed. We did very good with COVID for a time. So, I've talked about this before. Because we had had the bushfires just before COVID happened, our tourism had dropped like 50% or something. So when COVID happened, there wasn't a lot of, by comparison to normal, travel between Australia and other countries. We are, we have low population density and we're way away from everywhere anyway. When the outbreak happened, we were never at huge risk of shit hitting the fan, right? And so, for that reason alone, we were fine for a while. But people grow complacence. This new Delta variant is apparently more susceptible to transmission. And as with every country, there was politics surrounding it and stuff and people taking credit for different things or saying this is right and this is wrong and not wanting to change from that. Else they would look like they were wishy-washy or hypocrite or whatever. Because a lot of what Gladys did, who's our premier, is she was very critical of other states. Like, oh, they can't handle their shit like we can handle it. And even though she at one point led in a boat with a bunch of COVID on it, because nonsense. But, and so she was like, oh, we don't need lockdowns. We got responsible people here, not like those other states. And then now we've had to go into these super hard lockdowns because no one in this state can act responsibly. She's had to eat her words, but it's still acting all smug and shit like she's better than anyone. I'm not a fan of the premier, but it's just... Like, I can't pretend that I'm a person who is receiving information from every source, right? As in, I have people who give me information about my state who have their slants and I can't tell you, I can't claim to be the ultimate arbiter of truth on the matter. It's just... She has never come across to me as a particularly good premier. And her interests don't particularly align with mine. |
| 11. December 2020 | How Covid has impacted me | How COVID has impacted me. What's the worst thing that's affected me because of COVID? I'd say PAX. PAX being cancelled was probably the most impactful thing. I don't see people very often or hang out with people. I don't have a circle of friends that I call and go to the movies with or go out for drinks or whatever. PAX is kind of the only thing a year where it's a place to meet a lot of new people and stuff. There's the occasional Twitch party as well, but I didn't go to a lot of those. And it's like the only time I travel or whatever and I didn't get to do it this time. Of the four years where I've been kind of popular enough to justify going to Melbourne for PAX, I've only been able to go to 2017 and 2019. 2018 was Red Devademption 2 and 2020 of course was COVID. Like anyone else, I've experienced heaps of inconveniences because of COVID. But obviously in terms of what job you want to have during an outbreak, I have one of the best ones. The inconveniences I've experienced is nothing compared to what a lot of other people have experienced. So obviously I don't complain about it unless directly asked. |
| 26. October 2022 | How Discord temporarily adding and removal of a feature screwed me. | Discord temporarily adding and removing a feature screwed me. So Discord implemented this new feature called message requests, where anyone that you hadn't spoken to previously, their message would go in the message request section, so then you could accept or decline them, without having it like, clutter up your actual DMs page. And I came to rely on this. Before I went to Melbourne, I asked people, hey, who wants to edit for me? And so in my message request, there was a bunch of people who were like, yeah, I can edit for you, let me trial me and we'll see how we go. And I had like a bunch of these messages piled up before I went to Melbourne for a week, and thus wasn't able to access or deal with them, because I didn't have a PC. Then I came back from Melbourne, and Discord had removed this message request feature, and you're like, well, that's not a big deal, Matt, but it was a big deal, because they removed my access to all the message requests. So I had 88 potential DMs that I could not access. So like removing the feature was dumb, because it was a good feature. Removing my access to my DMs was even more dumb. Fortunately, I sent like a message on Twitter, I sent a message in their DMs, I sent a ticket, I contacted them on Discord itself, and my message requests have now been reinstated, but for who knows how long. Some was telling me that all the message requests should have just become normal DMs, like auto being accepted, but that didn't happen to me. So like, I wish they just wouldn't remove this feature, and just gave it to you as an option, just an update to this story. While they have kept the message request feature, for some reason they deleted my 88 message requests after a few hours. So if you did DM me about editing and I didn't respond, feel free to DM me again, Discord likely removed your message. Like, how am I meant to trust Discord going forward? Like, they're gonna implement some new feature, I'm gonna love it, and start using it in my day-to-day life, and then they're just gonna remove it and fuck me again. Like, you know? Yes, Rockstar, please fix. |
| 05. June 2022 | How GTA 5 compares to other GTA games. | year five when that came out. I had a very different experience for most people because I jumped on largely with GTA V. I had seen GTA IV but GTA V was the first one I really played. So I didn't have what some people had where they didn't like the change of the games. They didn't like GTA V by comparison to the others. Did you look on the older games more favorably than you do GTA V even if you do play GTA V more? I think so in small areas but as a whole I think they're all very good. You know I think GTA V it's probably a nostalgia perspective but I think the older games are generally better than GTA V story. Like I prefer their storylines but obviously GTA V is the most technologically advanced one and the most polished. And the most accessible certainly. Yeah absolutely. Little things like I think the radio has gotten worse in every successive GTA game since GTA Vice City but they're all only by small margins and the same is true of like the story. I think the story is not as good in GTA V as GTA IV for example but they're all you know such a high level that I don't think it makes too much of a difference. I've often said that they all do different things better or worse as I've played so much of GTA V that I like it the most because it's just the one I'm most familiar with. Yeah. |
| 10. September 2021 | How GTA RP hurt my ability to grow on Twitch | How GTA RP hurt my ability to grow on Twitch? I'm guessing GTA 5 speedrunners don't gain any traction in the directory with all the RP crazy being in the top. Yes, you were correct. The first time RP took off, it wasn't as big as it took off this time, and it crushed me. I was like the amount of followers I got every day halved. I was a lot smaller of a streamer, but I you know I had 100, 150, maybe 200 viewers sometimes I think. Before RP, I was always top 10, maybe rare occasions top 5 or something, and RP came along and just BAM crushed me down. Sent a panicked email to a partner, supervisor guy, Lewis. He put me on the whitelist for the front page which was nice, and that kind of boosted my numbers a bit. Being on the ANZ front page gives you like 50 to 80 viewers or something. So that helped me move up a little bit and gave me some new followers that way. It wasn't as good as before. Certainly, I don't want the section to be so dead that the game is like massively down the directory. Like I don't want to be the first in a dead section. So I value RP bringing people to the section. But at the same time, it can be too much of a good thing, you know. There's a difference between like a bunch of people around my size RPing versus there being 15 streamers that each all have 10,000 viewers all doing RP, you know what I'm saying? |
| 17. January 2022 | How GTA roleplay put me on Twitch’s Homepage. | Small carousel when you go to the Twitch homepage you're presented with a different person each time. How did you get on the Twitch homepage? Uh... A lot of sexual favors. A long long time ago, before GTA V Roleplaying, when I would speedrun, I'd be in like the top 5 in the GTA V section. Which led to me getting a lot of exposure and getting a lot of viewers and stuff. But then when GTA V Roleplaying came out, I got buried by a lot of big streamers. Which obviously was kind of depressing. And so I wrote Lewis, the Australian New Zealand regional manager dude for Twitch. I said to him, hey man, I just want to tell you about the situation I'm in right now. And it kind of sucks. Do you have any advice and stuff? And he's like, look, it's how things go, right? It sucks. It is what I can do. I can let you be on the front page every once in a while. You'll be on the white list if there's any free spots or whatever. And you've been streaming long enough, you know, you'll get put on there. I'm like, oh, that's awesome. Thanks. Does a song need good lyrics to be successful? I true ba... |
| 22. March 2022 | How I achieve happiness. | How I achieve happiness. How do I keep my work ethic so high? I love completing goals. It's it. I like setting goal, and then doing goal. I am happy only when progressing to goal. When goal complete, I make new goal. And then I complete that goal for happiness. And then that's all I do. Forever. For the rest of my life. When nothing else makes me happy, it is very easy to continue. |
| 08. July 2021 | How I avoid eating at night | This shit. How I avoid eating at night. How to control myself from not eating at night. Get gum. Get gum. Get gum or think about it this way. How annoying is it that you do not have control over your body? That should frustrate you. Think of it as a game, trying to win, beat your body in a game of chicken effectively. I looked in already, I have lost like 12 kilos. For at least the first month and a half there, I was like full hard on it. Like any rationalization that I would come up with to eat, I'm like no, this is just my body forcing me to desire to do this even though I have no real reason to do it. I'm not gonna die, I'm not on the point of starvation. I have tons of fat in my body that can be consumed for energy. There's no reason for me to eat right now, regardless of what my body says. Now I'm not as stringent. Like I'll often have a chocolate egg before bed. Like I'll have one meal and then want a chocolate egg before bed. But it's mainly just so I can finish eating them. They've been around since Easter. I don't have that many left. Certainly I did go to bed every night starving effectively, but going from 93 to 85 was far easier than going from 85 to 80. |
| 16. January 2020 | How I avoid procrastination | How I avoid procrastination I'm a person who doesn't like to be overwhelmed by stuff. So I kind of just chip away at things and I find that chipping away at Projects that I don't want to do or that I find burdensome Makes us I'm less likely to procrastinate as in I'll be like look I'll do half an hour worth of work Then I'll watch a YouTube video for 10 minutes and I'll always need doing that over and over again Or like I'll set myself a specific goal as in like I will do this much by this day and having those goals Enables me to focus if I'm passionate about a project. It's very easy to Not procrastinate right? It's it's much harder when you have to do things that you don't really want to do that's when procrastination can come to come into play and usually then I just try to you know Reflect on why I'm doing the task Why does it need to be done? What am what benefits am I gonna get or what potential losses am I going to experience for not doing the task? You know, I'm also generally a person who once I get involved in a task I can um kind of focus as in like once I get into a task. I usually have trouble stopping I like to have something to be finished. I need to find more time to I |
| 17. September 2021 | How I choose my mods and VIPS | How do I choose my mods and VIPs in my Twitch chat? How do I choose my mods? It's usually people who seem like nice people, people I feel like I can trust, people who have shown in one way or another that they care about the stream and or will help me if I need it. There are many different ways to show commitment to a stream. Sometimes it's also technical skill, like people seem to have different skills that would help me. Necessity is often a part of it, in the sense of there'll be a day where there'll be a troll in chat and none of my mods will be here, and so that will tell me, well, I need more mods. Either my mods are moving on or I just don't have enough to meet all time zones, so I'll add a mod that day. I'll be like, okay, I'll just look at the people who type in chat, and I'll look for someone who meets my general criteria, and then I'll add them. Some people have been added as mods who've never modded before and have been completely clueless in terms of what to do. Most of what being a mod is for me is just doing what I ask. I'll be like, hey, type this in chat. If I wasn't a speedrunner, I would probably need less mods. It wouldn't be as big a concern if there wasn't a mod here. But of course, I can't just alt-tab and type in chat. I am doing a speedrun, you know? Certainly, I do hope that my mods are proactive in a sense. They don't always necessarily need to wait for me to do something. But of course, there's always the possibility if a mod does something on their own that I might not approve of what they do. But that doesn't come up very often. I'm not a complicated person. I know one other streamer that has 200 mods. He mods everyone, lets up some donates. You have VIP now. You don't really need to do that. Or you only get 100 VIPs. VIP in this chat is given to people who do coding and tech for me and stuff. People who've had a world record in GTA V, the main categories. And people who were former mods. You said VIPs are former mods. What did you mean by that? So no person will like a stream forever. Or be truly interested in content forever, right? Especially my content. Well, I mean, all content is fairly repetitive. Like a personality driven streamer. Their personality isn't going to change massively every year. Content can get stale even for mods after this jump earlier. Now that fucking sucks. So when a mod stops coming by or comes by too infrequently to really be useful as a mod or doesn't participate as much anymore, I remove their mod and make them VIP. When I used to remove mod, it was mainly to avoid mod chat. So like when they happen to stop by, they wouldn't be another mod. They'd be a viewer. So it wouldn't be like, you know, the handful of people in my chat all being mods always look terrible. Less of a concern now. I mean, I've had it be the case in the past where a mod will stop by and people in my chat be like, Oh, we got a new mod. Oh, wow. Hi, new mod. I've never seen you before. And it's like, now he's a very old mod. And it's kind of awkward, really. And so I just seek to avoid that kind of stuff. |
| 22. January 2022 | How I completed the Pokedex in Pokemon red as a kid | How I completed the Pokedex in Pokemon Red as a kid. I remember finishing Pokemon Red. I had every single Pokemon except Taurus. I spent, well as a kid, I thought it was like thousands of years trying to catch Taurus in the Savari Zone, and it just wouldn't give me the fucking Pokemon. I was so mad. I eventually went to this, my friend's house, and his friend had a Taurus. I'm like, dude, just trade me a Taurus. He didn't want to, but I was like, I can convince him that, oh shit, I don't have a trading cable. So I begged my friend's mother to drive me like 15 minutes down the road or whatever to my house to get the trading cable. And then I came back and I'm like, well just trade it to me, I'll trade it right back, because I just want to, wanted to say that I've called all the Pokemon in the Pokedex. I said, but you won't even have the Pokemon, I don't care man, I just want to complete the Pokedex. And so I traded with him, and I traded back, I'm like yeah, I completed the Pokedex. Greatest achievement of my childhood life. I also got scammed once. I sold one, from my eyes as a kid, like it was a mint Charizard trading card, and another Charizard with a small little crease in the corner, combined for like $30 to some guy at the local market, that guy fucking scammed me something fierce. And you know what I did with that $30? I bought Digimon cards. |
| 22. January 2022 | How I completed the pokedex in pokemon red as a kid | How I completed the Pokedex in Pokemon Red as a kid. I remember finishing Pokemon Red. I had every single Pokemon except Taurus. I spent, well as a kid, I thought it was like thousands of years trying to catch Taurus in the Savari Zone, and it just wouldn't give me the fucking Pokemon. I was so mad. I eventually went to this, my friend's house, and his friend had a Taurus. I'm like, dude, just trade me a Taurus. He didn't want to, but I was like, I can convince him that, oh shit, I don't have a trading cable. So I begged my friend's mother to drive me like 15 minutes down the road or whatever to my house to get the trading cable. And then I came back and I'm like, well just trade it to me, I'll trade it right back, because I just want to, wanted to say that I've called all the Pokemon in the Pokedex. I said, but you won't even have the Pokemon, I don't care man, I just want to complete the Pokedex. And so I traded with him, and I traded back, I'm like yeah, I completed the Pokedex. Greatest achievement of my childhood life. I also got scammed once. I sold one, from my eyes as a kid, like it was a mint Charizard trading card, and another Charizard with a small little crease in the corner, combined for like $30 to some guy at the local market, that guy fucking scammed me something fierce. And you know what I did with that $30? I bought Digimon cards. |
| 29. March 2021 | How I deal with self-worth issues. | How do you try to overcome and deal with those thoughts? Thank you. Keep up the great streams. I am very fortunate that I have a massive influx of people who tell me I'm worth something and that I matter. It is very hard to maintain that level of irrationality when there's just a huge influx of people telling you that you're wrong, you know? As I say, I don't have easy solutions for people who live normal lives to find self-worth or what have you. And certainly it isn't just people, of course. I found something that brings me a great deal of satisfaction and that I legitimately like. As in, the videos that I create, I can look on and I can see these are good and I like them and I enjoy them and I can watch them myself. And that creating something like that just makes me feel good about myself, you know? The added influx of positive comments from people who are like, oh, I enjoy this as well, that certainly helps as well. But just finding something that brings you meaning and self-value or whatever, you know, achieving goals, doing things that you consider noteworthy, it all adds up to giving you a higher opinion of yourself, you know? But as I say, I don't live a life that most people can live or even get the opportunity to live. And I say I'm very thankful for that. And so when people ask me how do you solve problems that you have, the avenues by which I can solve my problems are not the same that other people can use to solve their problems, you know? I try to give advice where I can, but become a famous YouTuber is my advice. Like, look, man, all you got to do is upload a couple of videos for a couple of half million views and you'll be fine. Walk into a therapist's office. Have you tried becoming a successful Twitch streamer? It's that easy, man. Yeah, life's tough and I wish you the best in feeling better and finding some self-worth, man. The origin of Rule 34. Whoever redesigned Lola Bunny is the biggest villain. We talked about it yesterday. That comparison on Twitter between that softcore porn version of Lola Bunny and the new version is making you look at the difference as far more than it actually is. Look, you guys who want to get your rocks off to Lola Bunny, don't you worry. There's going to be many people with the success of that movie who will draw the character in pornographic ways just for you. Don't you worry. I'm sure even now, the furry artists with their patrons of blah, blah, blah, thousands of dollars are scribbling up a storm. Don't you worry. Scribbling up a storm. Don't you worry. Disney no longer got you, but the furry artists, they got you, fam. From my understanding, Rule 34 as a rule comes from a really old... Is it a copy past or like a meme email or something? Like the 50 rules of anime or something? And apparently a lot of the list is now very outdated and doesn't make any sense or the joke's old, but Rule 34 as a rule stays around. It's the rules of the internet? Ah, I see. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 04. October 2021 | How I ended up with no IRL friends | How I ended up with no in real life friends Like at one point I was seeing my old friends all the time And then it became like every once in a while Then it became every couple of months And then I just woke up one day and I'm like I haven't seen my friends in like two years A handful of them I miss but a lot of them I don't You kind of wake up one morning and go Oh wait a second A significant amount of people that I know are complete assholes And they're like I wish I'd made different life choices in terms of friends But a couple of them I still have fun memories of them I suffered from that phenomenon where You know you make friends in kindergarten And then just keep those friends forever You meet friends of friends and shit I don't think I ever really made more friends of my own When I was a teenager and shit I gained more friends through other people But I was not really you know shopping around for people who had similar interests to me And I really suffered for it I think Because I went to primary school And then just as I finished primary school A new high school opened up And that high school was close to and the same name as my primary school And because it was new it had like only Grade 7 and 8 in it when I went in And like 75% of my primary school students Went to this new high school So there was no imperative for me to meet new people or make new friends Because like oh well I know basically everyone here already I've moved around a few times but you should just make a group of friends and stick with them I'm just not good at being around people I think I should not go with people in general |
| 23. March 2021 | How I experience music | How I experience music. I have never been super into any particular band or music or whatever. I listen to a huge wide variety of songs. All that matters to me when I listen to a song is that it makes me feel something. That's it. I listen to a song for like 20 seconds and if I don't feel something, it doesn't captivate me, I move on. Lo-Fi does not captivate me. I listen to it on string because it's content ID free. And it's just perfectly acceptable music, you know? Although, hearing Lo-Fi on other people's streams or in other people's videos feels weird. And it's kind of off-putting to me. Because I'm so used to listening to this music in one particular context, recognizing the song in someone else's content throws me off in regards to enjoying their content. Because I can't stop thinking about the song. While I'm doing my own content, it's very easy to tune out the chill hop. But when I listen to someone else's content within, I have a hard time turning off, you know, tuning it out. I do have some Blind Guardian, yeah. There is effectively no band where I like the majority of their songs. Two exceptions, I think Sabaton and Disturbed. I think at one point I had every single Disturbed song that they ever released in my playlist when I was a kid. Except for one. And even that grew on me. And Sabaton, there was like a month period where all I listened to was Sabaton, like every song that they had. With music in general, I think recognition or similarity is important. Like if you listen to a song enough times, it starts to, you know, jive with you. You know, you recognize it. Sometimes, like I'll hear a song on the radio or in a completely different context. And then I'll stumble across the song myself on Spotify. I'm like, oh, I remember this song. Yeah. Yeah. And like I probably didn't enjoy it as much the first time around. |
| 22. December 2021 | How I feel hearing GTA Online reference GTA 5 | He's legal ain't popo supposed to handle shit like that. You sound more and more like a sneeze. I easy it's every day man You do I'm kind of like a superhero for cannabis nigga kind of like impotent rage, you know when he came You know what I'm talking about. I won't forget your bitch ass There are so many little references to single-plan look at the bike man, I can't believe they brought it back I'm lying. You sound more like a sneer each every day some single player, but he slightly changed it I don't know why the dialogue just makes me happy man. I just mean cuz like those first missions I've done like Thousands of times and it just it's just a weird feeling to have the game reference those missions Which is something that I've spent so much time in you know, it touches me in a weird way Don't know how to describe the feeling it's nostalgia, but it's not you know Cuz not like something from my deep past. It's something from my present But you know like absence knowing that I'm in GT online like This looks just like playing single-player as I've said before it makes perfect sense to me why they wouldn't make pure single-player DLC because Then you it just then the only difference between that and doing in GT online is that you couldn't play with your friend This is basically just story mode co-op DLC. Yeah, as I've said many times in the past It's way too far gone for them to make actual single-player DLC And they don't really need to they just need to make single-player DLC in online so people can play with their friends Vox star acknowledging the Lamar roast meme |
| 12. September 2021 | How I got into GTA 5 Speedrunning | How I got into GTA 5 speedrunning How did I get into speed GTA 5 speedruns if you don't mind me asking? I do mind you asking How dare you dig into my sensitive past in this way? No, I think I've told this story on this mission like 17 times or something But of course, there's always new people so it's always new for someone I was streaming because I found twitch through Hearthstone tournaments I was streaming Warcraft 3 custom maps, but I really enjoyed watching speedrunners So I wanted to find something to speedrun because I thought it would be good for my stream Give me something to stream and it would be doing something that I thought was very fun I didn't have anything that I was already good at to speedrun because you can't really speedrun custom maps on Warcraft 3 or World of Warcraft. Not really which are the two games that I was playing majorly I bought GTA 5 out of boredom like someone's like, oh, it's a good game I'm like, I guess I'll buy it. Fine. It sat there for like three weeks Then later on I was like, you know I want to try to find something to speedrun because I don't have any games right now to speedrun That doesn't mean I can't pick something up. So I Wanted to speedrun like Super Mario Sunshine or something but I didn't seem that good at it because that was one of the things I like Watching back then Super Mario Sunshine speedruns, but I happened to stumble across Witwix speedrunning GTA 5 he doesn't traditionally speedrun GTA 5 He just normally does online and he became famous for speedrunning Boshi, but just he happened to be speedrunning GTA 5 that day. I had never seen him before Do anything I didn't know of him at all before this point, but he made it look Somewhat fun. He didn't do that many strats He wasn't a serious speedrunner But as I say it was enough to know that Speedrunning GTA 5 existed and I happened to buy the game like three weeks prior because I was looking for something to do I hadn't played it up to that point So I decided to casually play through it and I thought you know if I liked the game I was gonna speedrun it so I casually played through it the game soft-locked like halfway through or something and I'm like fuck this I like the game enough and I think I can speedrun it looks interesting. So I'm gonna go speedrun it I got support from the runners at the time. I got like my biggest host like 50 viewers I still remember being super excited being like, oh my god I got a host of 50 viewers from Surtunama and One of the one of the viewers from that host was like hey Can you like turn down the resolution or something? It seems very pixelated. I'm like, I think it is low I don't know man turns out I was streaming it like just that particular day I was streaming 1080p 800 bitrate did not look very good to say the least Because back then I I was at like 480p normally with like 825 bitrate on a good day And this is GTA 5 a high-motion game if you go back and watch like my earlier runs, it looks abysmal But I did everything in my power to make my Australian internet and they allow me to stream There's only so much you can do with ADSL 2, you know I'm happy for the people who watched my stream back then quality standards were low But they weren't as low as that, you know So that I gained any viewers at all and people to stop by and keep me company was a surprise See I ran the game like I Effectively no viewers a person would stop in every once in a while and be like hey, but I really enjoyed doing it I enjoyed learning it my first run. I was looking up the video as I Did runs like I'm like, oh shit. They're meant to be doing this route. What's this route? I just watched the video and then do it my first time was over nine hours. I know it might have been just nine hours I think you |
| 23. August 2021 | How I got into playing Noita | How I got into playing Noita. How'd I discover this game? A guy named Elijah played it around its' felice because it has a Twitch control feature so a lot of streamers played it. But I liked the game even without the Twitch control feature. I have done the stream feature where Twitch controls modes what spawns and stuff. You can look up on my YouTube channel there's five videos of it. I haven't done it since I became good at the game though. I mean, arguably good. So it'd probably be a little bit different if I did it these days. A bunch of streamers played it. I learned of it from watching another streamer play it. The reason why some streamers played it is because it has a Twitch controls feature where your viewers can pick what happens next or whatever. And so streamers would play it knowing very little about the game and would quickly get sick of it because if you're not good at the game you die immediately when your viewers pick something. So a bunch of streamers had just a couple of goes at it and then moved on. I played Twitch Controls Chaos but I also really liked the game so I continued with it. |
| 20. July 2021 | How I got verified on twitter | How I got verified on Twitter Oh, I was verified on Twitter guys! It was a very simple process actually Like, a while back, Smalland got verified And I was like, oh, he's a speedrunner type guy Maybe I got a chance He's like, ah, nah, man, I got it through my org or whatever They got connections, they got me verified I don't have an org, so I'm screwed Then I saw Carl got verified I'm like, well, if Carl's getting verified Maybe there's a process for me to get verified now So someone told me, they're like, hey, yo You can now submit to get verified on Twitter But you're only doing it on your mobile for some reason It isn't on the desktop version So that's probably why I didn't see it So it's just like, hey, what do you want to be verified as? Like, who are you? And I'm like, well, I'm an influencer or whatever And then they're like, look, submit some articles That have been written about you in the last six months And so I've had articles written about Chaos, Passiveist, and Oko And I'm like, I just submitted nine or whatever And then they verified me in six hours The only advantages I know of from being verified Is you get a verified tab Where anyone who interacts with anything that you do Who is also verified You can see that they interact with your stuff I guess so verified people can connect better or something And I now stand out a little bit more From all the people who use my face on Twitter There's a lot of those Like, even in um, uh, Sosig's video or whatever Um, when he was going through his Discord Like, one of the guys who responded to him Was using my orange picture face And so I'm in his video for a short period Via this person's comment You know? Anyway It's a small thing A gaming company doesn't like |
| 03. May 2020 | How I have been affected by the pandemic | How I have been affected by the pandemic. My life hasn't super changed, except that there's delays or inconveniences in like everything that I do, or order or whatever. The biggest change in my life is the lack of being able to get- go to the barber, you know. Like, don't get me wrong, I have been inconvenienced, but it's not the level of, you know, people losing their jobs and stuff because of it, you know. It feels wrong to complain about anything right now, but I still have my problems, you know. Like, I threw out my back a week ago and it still fucking hurts, which is just amazing for a 29-year-old. I've had so many different tech issues with tech breaking or getting different tech delivered and it- it having issues with my phone, my phone issues, got my new NAS and one of the drives was dead on arrival. Didn't- my monitor was delivered without its cable. The months I had to wait for different cables for my camera, my capture card dying for my camera so I couldn't use a webcam for so long. Like, all these issues, but- and they're very annoying issues, but when you compare them to a lot of the same stuff, they seem so minor, you know. It's hard not to complain. |
| 30. May 2021 | How I know my most popular Twitter followers. | How I know my most popular Twitter followers Yeah, I've DM'd with Rockstar a little bit which is kinda cool I feel like they're the, like, I'm the only one they don't follow on Twitter, is that true? Nah, they don't follow me to my knowledge Hey sweet, let's go I bet they probably do follow you mate, we just haven't noticed Nah, I've noticed that I've actually, I come up when I found it but I have a thing where It tells me all the popular people who follow me on Twitter or whatever How do you have that? It's just some website, tweet something, I don't know I'm paid like five bucks and it's just Most popular person who follows me is Dream |
| 20. December 2021 | How I learned i was allergic to cats | How I learned I was allergic to cats. I remember every time I used to go over my friend Patrick's house, I'd feel a little bit off. Maybe my eyes would start to itch a little bit. Every once in a while. If I was there for a prolonged amount of time. And then I remember this one day, I was over his house, we were drinking. A bunch of us. And I was there for many many hours. I was like, why am I in so much pain? Ah, I was like really drunk. Like, it's awful. I can't. I'm dying. My eyes itch so much. And they try to put I try to lay down in bed or whatever. But it was just too awful. I decided to leave and walk home. And when I when I left, I immediately felt a little bit better. But then later I was going to move into a house and the dude had a cat and I'm like, I should probably get myself checked out. Because it's Australia, right? So getting tested for allergies doesn't cost you anything because public health care. We're just thankful because otherwise, you know, I was poor dude, wouldn't have been able to test in and on there like five seconds. And then I got a slight dustman allergy. It's like you're basically most people do whatever it's barely anything you get. Like you never notice it. But the cat thing, yeah, you can have it as whatever occasion. |
| 25. June 2021 | How I learned of my headset | Look at some good high quality audio on here. Open back. And then like, aye, this is what you need. Costs whatever the fuck these are called. And the rest is history. You aren't an audiophile if you don't know about this headset. Has a very good reputation for a reason. I've heard from people that these headphones can be uncomfortable over time. I've had that same issue. There's just something that you get used to. Maybe it's when you haven't sculpted them to your ear correctly. And maybe you weren't them a bit too tight. But I do recall over the years I've had days where it's been irritable on my ear. But it's just something that doesn't happen anymore because I've been using them for so long. Interesting video on Elon Musk. Before I begin though, I'd like to give a shout out to this video. I found it quite interesting. Thanks for watching. |
| 02. April 2021 | How I listen to audiobooks while making clips. | How I listen to audiobooks and make clips. When I make clips for the clips channel, right, on one ear it's connected to my PC, on my other ear it's connected to my audiobook on my phone, and I alternate. So I need to listen to a clip, I press my right ear to stop the audiobook, I click on the computer to start the clip, I listen to enough of the clip to know what I'm meant to be doing with it, I stop the clip from the PC, then I tap my right ear again to start the audiobook. And so I listen to the audiobook in like 30 second bits, stopping and starting it, to as optimally use my time. It's worked, I'm on like book four of Life Reset, and it's still going good, the book says, still hasn't disappointed me. I'm not sure everyone would like it because it is slow sometimes, but yeah I do listen to it, some of the Eminem stuff is good, but it's got like 400 songs, a tiny tiny amount that I actually enjoy. |
| 02. January 2022 | How I made my last No Damage thumbnail. | How I made my last no damage thumbnail. So you saw how I got really bloody there? So the story is, when I was trying to make a thumbnail for the latest no damage run video, I realized I'd used every single good scene in the game to make a thumbnail already. So I was like, shit, I have to do something original. How about I use Chaos Mod and make the character bloody? But while the mod normally can have it so you can have effects permanent, for some reason you can't do that with bloody. So I had to make it apply every minute. Actually it randomizes between daytime and bloody. It was a weird workaround. But that's why after a certain amount of time of me being there, all the characters turn bloody. |
| 25. December 2019 | How I make pacifist | How I make pacifist percent. Here's what happens with pacifist percent. I record the footage. I have maybe like one or two ideas. And then I sit down with the footage in front of me and I'm like, fuck man. I'm not an entertaining person. I'm not funny. What the fuck am I going to do with this footage? Like how am I going to make an episode out of this? How am I going to write jokes? This is impossible. I'm done for. And then I then I watch the footage. I cut out parts that seem pointless or whatever. And I guess the end I'm sitting there with like two pages of notes and I'm like, I can do this. This can happen. This can work. I can make an episode. And I'm excited now. Like I was it was getting on late at night and I'm like, like where the fuck did the last three hours go between working on the episode for three hours? Just goes like that. But I've decided not to take a day off for pacifist percent. What I'm doing now is I finished the stream. I finished the episode how this we went ended and whatever like hour, two hours, three hours that I have left in the night, I work on pacifist. |
| 03. September 2021 | How I played minecraft casually. | How I played Minecraft casually. I played Minecraft casually back in the day. My favorite thing to do in Minecraft was dig holes and then use the resources that I gained from digging holes to make very large towers. So I'd build like a small fortress and then just dig deeper, deeper, deeper and then go around in circles. Just round and around and around and around and around and around making a bigger and bigger and bigger chamber. Until it was so big that enemies would spawn in it and I'd put like torches every certain distance to stop enemies from spawning. I played it in a very simplistic way. And the game was a lot more simplistic back then. |
| 08. July 2021 | How I procrastinate | How I procrastinate. In the picking order of stuff that I should be working on, this is probably fourth. But this is just the easiest thing to work on. It's funny, my idea of procrastination is not not working. It's doing work that is less important but easier. |
| 02. June 2021 | How I ruined my first Dark Souls 1 playthrough | How I accidentally ruined my first playthrough of Dark Souls 1. When I played Dark Souls 1 for the first time, I started as a sorcerer, a wizard or whatever, but then midway through I had to change. I accidentally killed the sorcerer that sold you all the best abilities. It was infuriating, because I didn't want to kill him. It's that I couldn't, it wouldn't open his cage, and I accidentally hit him through the cage, and then he fell off the edge and died. I then used cheat engine to change all my stats and my class to that of a warrior, as if I had started from a warrior from the get go. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 08. August 2022 | How I run my Youtube channel and produce so many videos. | See what happens. How I run my YouTube channel and produce so many videos. I Don't have that many people who do stuff for me. It's kind of confusing like I'm not a person who sets deadlines for stuff I say hey, do you want another project? Are you free if they say yes? I give them something and then it takes as long as it takes the videos get done when they get done anything that Must come out. I generally just try to do myself rather than being like bring in this by this deadline People do as much or as little for me as they want But yeah, so I have Martin who does stuff regularly for me to whatever degree he wants Demod as well has been around for a long time. They they do, you know, like how this even ended You know GT online videos and stuff like that. Then there's I'm who he does other stuff. He's not as fast as The model Martin B has really good quality stuff. Then there's X who does The reddit recap each month. I have no one else to do it and it saves me time having him there And so I appreciate you know, it's just it's just one video month It's like well, yeah, that's just one less thing. I have to handle and then of course, yeah again There's then there's a grab who does 99% of my thumbnails. He's the new thumbnail guy. I don't like being that reliant on one person giving me a thumbnail every day as sometimes happens like you he'll have exams or You know, you go on vacation or whatever couple days ago. Yeah, whatever. Yes, you know, he's a freelancer That's just how these kind of things work. Recently. I wanted to know how many sponsors I've done in my videos So I said to my mods like hey I want 50 bucks just click and read the descriptions of my videos for the past two years. Give me a list all the ones with Sponsors, I believe it was a Venn. She was like, yeah, I'll do it Everything else just odd jobs like that where it's like I'm too busy to do this But it's something that I would have some benefit to having done And so I just ask my mods who wants some money to do some stuff on rare occasions I'll ask the wider audience to help me with stuff pay them a little bit of money like right now I'm having people find my best clips that have ever been uploaded to the clips channel Giving like 500 clips to a bunch different people like I've got like 20 people working on right now Like I haven't we haven't talked about a price, but I'll probably end up paying them a couple of bucks Whatever. I do have other people who help me because I pay my moderators some money to Moderate some stuff. I pay one person to go through all my discord channels with suggestions and stuff to clean them up and remove the the bad stuff and and make a spreadsheet of all the good suggestions for things I pay someone to Post stuff on Instagram for me I also pay someone to keep an eye on my reddits and to pick up any Really good submissions that don't get enough up votes for the reddit recap catch-up I pay someone to go through the facts and glitches and and put the stuff that isn't repeats into a spreadsheet for me rather than me having to go through every single Discord post myself which used to take me hours one end I also have a dude who is going through my older videos to find particular things that I can make into Compilations while he won't edit them I will he's at least finding the footage for me for the last month after doing it myself for a bajillion years uploading like 9,000 clips I finally had other people doing the clips channel for me Which was a huge thing like I had to give them edits at limited editor access to the channel and they were uploading clips, but as I talked about before I'm Stopping the clips channel in that way and so yeah and everything else I do myself anything That's really important. You know like the recording of facts and glitches I do all the rambles myself, but that's more because it's a more efficient if I do it myself these days Like only I know exactly what I want to say and what topics I want to keep in So when I had other people do the rambles Not only would it just take longer They would edit topics that I'd be like I don't want this topic and I'll remove it So they may have spent half an hour editing a small section that instantly I know I can remove Actually, I also have someone else who sifts for rambles for me like I basically pay a dude to watch my stream and Not edit the rambles, but just be like in this section There was a ramble and then I just have the chunk of footage and I edit it myself so your facts and glitches Rambles, pacifist, chaos, raw, not that it requires a lot of editing More specialized stuff like obviously I did the Thanks for the million subs. I did the editing of the million sub livestream I did the which will come out next video the dark fiber AU out of context video Like I did the shorts that popped off I do this is what you missed because it just be a lot of the things that I do A lot of the things that I do are either the most important things or the things that it would just be extremely tedious to have Someone else do either because they literally can't do it because it requires my voice requires my creative input or Would be required giving them Astronomical amounts of footage like if you ever want to know if someone else contributed to a video Just always look at the end and it will say made in collaboration with and then someone else's name if someone else Helped me out with it. See that's my entire enterprise. It's going on right now. So my entire day is spent streaming editing and doing Managerial work in regards like sorting and moving around footage Sorting and moving around stuff that people were submitted to me thinking of ideas and Usually doing all that while editing Something will be loading or I'll be taking a small break and I'll be having conversations on discord about stuff that I need to have done While I'm editing a video, right? And so yeah, I'd say that there's three people who do stuff for me very regularly and then maybe like nine people who do little things for me Occasionally, I have this attitude where I think to myself I want to do this Is there any amount of this that I don't need to do personally and that I can just give people money to do for me? Because it's just more efficient that way. I only have two hands I only have a finite amount of time each day And you just got to think this way when you get to this level like one of the reasons I do sponsors Isn't for the money. It's because what for one thing I worry in the future that I will need money I'll be like, I didn't take why didn't I take sponsors back in the day? But also I have a management team who gets sponsors for me But not only that they're a valuable resource when I need connections with people other creators or in roads with YouTube or whatever If I just need advice where I'm like, oh shit. I don't know this I can talk to my management team and if I stop doing sponsorships with them I wouldn't have that outlet to talk to them Like I less consider that my management team works for me or something and more that I work for them in a way |
| 08. August 2022 | How I run my youtube channel and produce so many videos. | See what happens. How I run my YouTube channel and produce so many videos. I Don't have that many people who do stuff for me. It's kind of confusing like I'm not a person who sets deadlines for stuff I say hey, do you want another project? Are you free if they say yes? I give them something and then it takes as long as it takes the videos get done when they get done anything that Must come out. I generally just try to do myself rather than being like bring in this by this deadline People do as much or as little for me as they want But yeah, so I have Martin who does stuff regularly for me to whatever degree he wants Demod as well has been around for a long time. They they do, you know, like how this even ended You know GT online videos and stuff like that. Then there's I'm who he does other stuff. He's not as fast as The model Martin B has really good quality stuff. Then there's X who does The reddit recap each month. I have no one else to do it and it saves me time having him there And so I appreciate you know, it's just it's just one video month It's like well, yeah, that's just one less thing. I have to handle and then of course, yeah again There's then there's a grab who does 99% of my thumbnails. He's the new thumbnail guy. I don't like being that reliant on one person giving me a thumbnail every day as sometimes happens like you he'll have exams or You know, you would go on vacation or whatever couple days ago. Yeah, whatever. Yes, you know, he's a freelancer That's just how these kind of things work Recently, I wanted to know how many sponsors I've done in my videos. So I said to my mods like hey anyone Want 50 bucks just click and read the descriptions of my videos for the past two years. Give me a list all the ones with sponsors I believe it was a Venge was like yeah, I'll do it Everything else just odd jobs like that. Whereas like I'm too busy to do this But it's something that I would have some benefit to having done And so I just ask my mods who wants some money to do some stuff on rare occasions I'll ask the wider audience to help me with stuff pay them a little bit of money like right now I'm having people find my best clips that have ever been uploaded to the clips channel Giving like 500 clips to a bunch different people like I've got like 20 people working on right now Like I haven't we haven't talked about a price, but I'll probably end up paying them a couple of bucks Whatever. I do have other people who help me because I pay my moderators some money to Moderate some stuff. I pay one person to go through all my discord channels with suggestions and stuff to clean them up and remove the the bad stuff and and make a spreadsheet of all the good suggestions for things I Pay someone to post stuff on Instagram for me I also pay someone to keep an eye on my reddits and to pick up any Really good submissions that don't get enough up votes for the reddit recap catch-up I pay someone to go through the facts and glitches and and put the stuff that isn't repeats into a spreadsheet for me rather than me having to Go through every single this court post myself which used to take me hours upon end I also have a dude who is going through my older videos to find particular things that I can make into compilations While he won't edit them I will he's at least finding the footage for me for the last month After doing it myself for a bajillion years uploading like 9,000 clips I finally had other people doing the clips channel for me Which was a huge thing like I had to give them edits at limited at a editor access to the channel And they were uploading clips, but as I talked about before I'm Stopping the clips channel in that way and see and everything else I do myself anything That's really important. You know like the recording of facts and glitches I do all the rambles myself, but that's more because it's a more efficient if I do it myself these days Like only I know exactly what I want to say and what topics I want to keep in So when I had other people do the rambles not only would it just take longer They would edit topics that I'd be like I don't want this topic And I'll remove it so they may have spent half an hour editing a small section that instantly I know I can remove Actually, I also have someone else who sifts for rambles for me like I basically pay a dude to watch my stream and Not edit the rambles, but just be like in this section There was a ramble and then I just have the chunk of footage and I edit it myself so your facts and glitches Rambles, pacifist, chaos, raw, not that it requires a lot of editing more specialized stuff like Obviously I did the Thanks for the million subs. I did the editing of the million sub livestream I did the which will come out next video the dark fiber EU out of context video Like I did the shorts that popped off I do this is what you missed because it just be a lot of the things that I do Are either the most important things or the things that it would just be extremely tedious to have someone else do either because they Literally can't do it because it requires my voice requires my creative input or Would be required giving them Astronomical amounts of footage like if you ever want to know if someone else contributed to a video Just always look at the end and it will say made in collaboration with and then someone else's name if someone else Helped me out with it. See that's my entire enterprise. It's going on right now So my entire day is spent streaming editing and doing Managerial work in regards like sorting and moving around footage Sorting and moving around stuff that people were submitted to me thinking of ideas and Usually doing all that while editing Something will be loading or I'll be taking a small break and I'll be having conversations on discord about stuff that I need to have done While I'm editing a video, right? And so yeah, I'd say that there's three people who do stuff for me very regularly and then maybe like nine people who do little things for me Occasionally I have this attitude where I think to myself I want to do this Is there any amount of this that I don't need to do personally and that I can just give people money to do for me? Because it's just more efficient that way. I only have two hands I only have a finite amount of time each day and you just got to think this way when you get to this level Like one of the reasons I do sponsors isn't for the money It's because what for one thing I worry in the future that I will need money I'll be like, ah, I didn't take why didn't I take sponsors back in the day? But also I have a management team who? Get sponsors for me, but not only that there are valuable resource when I need connections with people other creators or Inroads with YouTube or whatever if I just need advice where I'm like, oh shit I don't know this I can talk to my management team and if I stop doing sponsorships with them I wouldn't have that outlet to talk to them Like I less consider that my management team works for me or something and more that I work for them in a way |
| 26. December 2021 | How I was treated while younger and can I even be sure I remember | How I was treated while younger and can I even be sure I remember? Sorry if this is too personal, but when you were younger how you treated and how has this changed since you became a content creator? I don't think I was treated well by anyone. No one really said I had any value or that I could I could do anything particularly interesting The friends I had were not the sort of people you want to be friends with people who would mock me continuously I think my entire existence while younger could be summed up in this one interaction I was hanging out with my friend of mine at the time a friend. I just thought he was a friend and we're perfectly fine then other people came over and He would join with them to mock me mercilessly and I would talk I talked to him like what the fuck Why is it that one-on-one? We're thick as thieves, but the second anyone else is around you're a complete jerk to me It's like what do you mean? I don't know about they'd be like six of us there to play Dota 1 I'm like, hey, let's just play three on three the six of us and one of them I don't like three on three and they would just keep me out. I'd message them and be like hey You can you get a spot? Can I play? No respond and I knew I knew these guys some of them for decades I can't think of any Happy memories I have for them either there's like maybe one or two people that I knew like my entire life that I I would care What was they were doing on doing now? It's like what I was saying before about experience, right? So in the moments your senses are picking up a certain amount of information While a lot of it's being processed by your brain only a small fraction of it Are you consciously paying attention to and of the objective reality? Obviously your senses don't pick up literally all information out there Your senses only pick up things that your senses can pick up obviously So any flaws in your senses or things that don't get picked up you aren't picking up either right and of that some portion of it is then put into your brain and you interpret it in a particular way and your Interpretation becomes memory and becomes facts to you as in you may interpret a person as being hostile and awful And that's what your memory of that event will be it could be the case that this person wasn't hostile at all But that's your interpretation and that becomes real to you and then over time this memory degrades It gets reinterpreted with new information small details If you remember them at all the first time around are lost like you probably didn't pay attention much socks You're wearing so if you if you think of the scene you just give yourself a pair of socks Polly is the pair of socks you're wearing but it's not important right and then as you go throughout life what memories Stand out or that you can recall without particular stimulus a bias to your current circumstances So maybe I want to feel like I was persecuted or my childhood because I don't see any of those people anymore Maybe a part of me feels guilty about that that I didn't keep up with them And so I just paint them as bad people Maybe I don't want to take the time to contact them again And so I selectively remember the things that make them seem not worth connecting with it's the problem with memory your memories aren't A digital image existing for all time the things that continually get reinterpreted and changed Given your current experience and your current bias so when I talk about my past that's all I'm thinking about I don't have a lot of distinct memories of my childhood or of my teenage years of going to high school It's crazy how many years I spent in that high school and so live it can I remember I imagine as I often say because Recognition is easier than recall if I went to the high school. I probably got yeah, I remember this class Yeah, I remember this class here, but so little of my past seems worth remembering obviously It was impactful to who I was today, but who gives a fuck you know? |
| 26. April 2021 | How I would do a subathon. | What? How I would do a sub-a-thon. I am surprised Ludwig is keeping 30,000 viewers on his, you know, 140 hour stream or whatever it is right now. Like if I did something similar, every sub caused the stream to go longer. All I would do is play Heroes of Might and Magic. And so the stream would end very quickly because people would get bored of that shit. Heroes of Might and Magic is like my favorite game of my childhood. If you don't know it, you're really missing out. The third version. Like all the rest like eh. But it's like a game that today still has a competitive scene and you know, it's like 20 years old or whatever. Like ClixPhilip just made a video saying how amazing it was. Yeah, Heroes of Might and Magic 2 is good too, but 3 is just a better version of 2. Even today, it holds up as a game. Because people still play it, there's been a modding effort to improve it somewhat. There was actually a chance for the game to be remastered at one point. And they remastered it and gave it better graphics, but they removed like all the features. No random map generator, no DLCs, all the expansion packs that added so much. It was like the bare basic bones of the game with no changes except it looked better. So you had to make a choice. Do you want your game to look slightly better? Or do you want like 90% of the content in the game? Huge letdown. And they claimed like, oh, but we lost the rest of the files for the game. Yep, bullshit. Blizzard said the same thing. If you did an endless Heroes of Might and Magic, I would create an army of old accounts and sub each one every month to keep you on the air forever. If that were true, I would totally be willing to do that. If you want to play the game, I highly recommend downloading it for five to ten dollars from good old games and then getting it the free fan expansion Horn of Abyss. |
| 08. July 2021 | How Jehovah's Witnesses robbed and killed my grandmother | How Jehovah's Witnesses robbed and killed my grandmother. Was that able to mean my great grandparents? Um, I don't think so, maybe I was very little. I'm not sure if I was a great grandparent, but I know there was a... Might have been another one of my grandparents, but who died when I was very young. Below the, like maybe I was five years old or something. Uh, the reason she died was because, uh, Jehovah's Witnesses got their teeth into her. Not only did they pilfer her for every cent that she had, because she's a lonely woman, she'd let him in, let him in her house. They'd take her checks, they'd take her money, and then she needed a blood transfusion to live. And she died. Uh, for those who don't know, Jehovah's Witnesses say, Blood must remain inside the body, blood transfusions are against God's plan. Because of some stupid interpretation, a particular line in the Bible, which doesn't mean anything even close to what they think it means. |
| 08. July 2021 | How Jehova’s Witnesses robbed and killed my grandmother | How Jehovah's Witnesses robbed and killed my grandmother. Was that able to mean my great grandparents? Um, I don't think so, maybe I was very little. I'm not sure if I was a great grandparent, but I know there was a... Might have been another one of my grandparents, but who died when I was very young. Below the, like maybe I was five years old or something. Uh, the reason she died was because, uh, Jehovah's Witnesses got their teeth into her. Not only did they pilfer her for every cent that she had, because she's a lonely woman, she'd let him in, let him in her house. They'd take her checks, they'd take her money, and then she needed a blood transfusion to live. And she died. Uh, for those who don't know, Jehovah's Witnesses say, Blood must remain inside the body, blood transfusions are against God's plan. Because of some stupid interpretation, a particular line in the Bible, which doesn't mean anything even close to what they think it means. |
| 27. February 2021 | How Many Streaming Services I Use | How many streaming services I use? My thoughts on Netflix? Sorry. I don't really care what streaming service I'm using, as long as the thing I want to watch is there, you know. We are definitely moving closer to an era where we'll be going back to the cable packages, you know. You'll pay a monthly fee to get access to multiple streaming services. Can't waste. How many streaming services am I signed up for? I think I'm still paying Stan, even though I haven't watched anything on there in like a bajillion years. I'm paying Crunchyroll. I'm paying Netflix. But I still can't find the shows, I want to say. Multiple anime, I mean, like, where the fuck are they? Like season two of a... It's a show with the kids and the creatures that eat them or whatever with the... Promise Neverland, that's it. Oh yeah, I've got YouTube Premium too, that's true. I do have Disney Plus, that's true. That's true. I'm probably playing 50. Of course I don't have Foxtel. I wouldn't give Rupert Murdoch a fucking dime to save my life. That's obviously not true, I would give him a dime to save my life. But in general, I do avoid giving Rupert Murdoch any fucking money. Fuck that guy. I do have Amazon Prime, that's true, but not for video. You were right clinically that I don't... It's less financial success and more I just don't have time. I don't have time to, you know, sit there and analyze what I'm paying. Well, actually, technically that's not true. Every three months, I go through all my finances and break down what's being paid to what, because I have to for my taxes. So I guess at the end of every financial quarter, I will see what streaming services I'm paying money to and I'll cancel them if I want to. That's how I found out that I was paying for Netflix twice. So I did that for three months not realizing. Of course I care about it. I make quite a bit of money now, but that doesn't mean I want to waste money, you know? I am very much so cognizant that my future is far from certain and how successful I will be for how long is unknown. You know, you know, everything could explode tomorrow, because that's the internet. I use Spotify, not Apple Music. |
| 28. December 2019 | How Rockstar can screw GTA VI | How Rockstar could kill GTA 6. What do I think Rockstar can add to GTA 6 to kill the game? Very in-depth realistic mechanics. So like, you can only carry what a normal person can carry in regards to weaponry. The driving is perfectly realistic, like you have to change gears and stuff. The cops will actually respond to you breaking road rules, so if you go above the speed limit and there's a cop around, the cops will chase you. Wanted levels persisting through death. Probably a combination of the bad parts of Red Dead Redemption 2. |
| 05. June 2022 | How Rockstar wiped Broughy's account. | or little tiny micro bumps that make you go a little bit quicker. One story I remember of your life, I'm not sure if it's a bad topic for you or something, but you lost all of your stuff at one point, right? Because you used exploited money or some such, is that correct? Yeah, that was, was it two years ago now? I can't remember exactly when it was. I was devastated on your behalf. I felt it was so unfair. I was like, how dare you do this to a person who's dedicated so much of their life to the game? What happened? How did you continue? Did you rebuild? Did you ever get anything back? Can you tell that story to my audience? I think it was about two years ago. There was an apartment glitch and throughout the course of doing all this kind of stuff, you know, I'm always under pressure to have the money to be able to buy all the cars to then test them and put them out for lap times and all that kind of stuff. So I was getting to the point where a new DLC was coming out not too long, I think. And I was getting low on funds and this apartment glitch popped up and it was so easy. I think you had to like, I can't remember exactly what you did, but you bought a different apartment and you got the money back from it or something like that. And I basically did it a little bit too much. If I'd done it, if I'd stopped like 10 minutes earlier, I think it would have been fine. And because they're anyone who made under a certain amount, they just left alone or something like that. But I was just over the threshold of those who they decided to punish. And they just went like, they just went no holds barred on it and wiped everything. So my PS4 character as it was back then, which started as my Xbox 360 character on day one in 2013, was gone. All my cars, all my properties, all the history and all the stats, it was just completely wiped. So like seven years of building. Yeah, basically. I wasn't happy about it. I was fairly melancholy about it. But I also, you know, I did a glitch. It was calm. I couldn't go against the fact that they did that. It made me sad to see that go. But it is what it is. You know, I take my punishment for that, I suppose. Maybe I thought it might be a little bit heavy handed. I didn't think the punishment fit the crime at all. You probably should have received some reprimand or whatever, but like that's, that was kind of ridiculous to lose that much. Yeah. It felt a bit over the top. But you did continue to rebuild. I did question what I was going to do because I've got my Xbox One character and a PC character and I've had a previous PC character banned. So I've got a new one. It's like, it's just a total mess of different characters on different platforms. But that was my main platform that I actually cared about and, you know, built my, you know, build a garage of cars on. And I did question whether I even wanted to bother with that anymore. And then I thought, no, screw Rockstar. I'm going to legitimately find a way to make money as efficiently as possible. And I'm going to build it all back up again. And as it is right now, I've got more cars and I'm more complete in my collection of stuff than I was back when I got reset two years ago. That's good. They forced me to work out how the most efficient way to make money in the least time as possible, which isn't the Kyoperico heist, by the way. And I did that for until PS5 came out and it just got like I never bought a shark card or anything like that. I just I just booted up again. Oh, good on you. So it's a good ending to the story. |
| 12. April 2022 | How The Professional Got His Start On YouTube | How the Professional got his start on YouTube. How long have you been doing this sort of content? Like, how did you get your start and how long have you been around? I started my channel in 2015, but when I started my channel in 2015 it was just like a giant mess. It was just like, you know, something that I just did for fun occasionally. I'd do streams, like it was very unorganized, it was random and stuff, and I maybe got like 300 subs in like a year and a half, so it was just something I did occasionally for fun. I never like, you know, planned to be a YouTuber. And then when Gunrunning came out, that was like June of 2017, I did a bunch of videos showing how to sell the bunker and how to make money with the bunker, and people liked it and they saw it, they had a lot of money, and they asked me, hey, can you make more guides? And so I made more guides, and you know, every time a new GTA update came out, I kept making more guides on it, and you know, that's how my channel really took off. Well, there's a lot of people who kind of got their start making sort of tutorials for GTA Online, especially because it's so hard to understand for a lot of people. Especially to know what you should be doing, the more optimal way to make money and stuff, you know. It was easier to get into GTA Online as a YouTuber like, you know, years ago, I think it's a bit harder now today, because there's a lot of other YouTubers and also, you know, a lot of people like, you know, know a lot of this stuff today. There's a lot of new players coming to it like years ago. I guess with the PS5 and the Xbox Series X, there'll be a lot more new players also, but I think it's personally a lot harder to start as a GTA Online creator today. Yeah, more competition, certainly. My chat keeps referring to you as a GTA Online billionaire. What's that about? Oh, it's because back in the day, I used to grind a lot on GTA and I did like these big grinding streams, and so I had like a specific goal that I would hit like every stream, and usually I used to stream like, you know, four, five days a week, but then, you know, that was, you know, destroying my health because I was also doing videos, and so I kind of cut it back to like, you know, two, three streams and then did the videos, but I would just hit constantly grinding goals and I would teach people how to make money in the game. I did a lot of money guides and my ultimate goal was to hit a billion dollars in GTA Online, and eventually I got to it. I got to that. It was like December of 2019. I hit like, I hit a billion dollars on there. And I suppose then you ran out of stuff to do, ultimately, because you could purchase everything in the game. Yeah, I can pretty much purchase everything in the game. I am playing on a new character on the PS5 version right now because I don't want to like lose my PS4 character because there's just, when you transfer to PS5, it deletes your pre-old character, and so there's a lot of my buddies are still on the PS4, but, you know, I already have all the MC businesses on my new PS5 character, and, you know, I'm not grinding like crazy, but, you know, just playing for fun now, and, you know, a lot of my guides are still relevant, but I just, you know, I just don't grind as much anymore. You know, I do play-throughs and other things. I do a lot of cosplay. I'm sure you've probably seen that I dress up as the characters in games, and I'm known a lot for that now. It's a cool way to change up, you know, playing through games, to add that little spice to it, you know. Yeah, so yeah, anyway, probably should get into it, I suppose. |
| 03. January 2021 | How Twitch denies me thousands of dollars. | Twitch is denying me thousands of dollars. For those unaware, there is a system on Twitch where advertisers can set bounties for Twitch streamers. Twitch streamers can choose what bounties they want to do. For example, playing League of Legends for an hour for a certain amount of money. I also have a bit of a discussion about Mizkif and how much money he makes. Did you guys see that Mizkif had some of his financials for Twitch League? How much do you think that Mizkif made from bounties in the last month? Don't say if you know, I'm just curious. Well, people who don't know what they think. All over the place. One person's gotta ride if they don't have their guessing. Yeah, apparently Mizkif, 40k. Now, I am no Mizkif, you understand. I am not 20 plus Kandy or whatever. At the same time, you might now understand why I'm a little bit pissed. Just a teensy-weensy bit pissed that bounties aren't available to me. I am well above the criteria for bounties. But because I live in Australia, I'm not allowed to have them. Now, understand how insane that is. My audience is potentially more American than the average American streamers. I have the same eyeballs that an American streamer has. But because I'm on a different piece of dirt, I'm losing out potentially thousands of dollars of revenue a month. For those who don't know, bounties are like, hey, play this game on stream for an hour and we'll give you 500 bucks. But these deals happen all the time, but these are the ones done through Twitch. And they're quite lucrative. Watch this advertisement for a new Amazon Prime TV show on your stream. Give you 500 bucks. These are what bounties are. And so obviously, it shouldn't matter where I'm born or what bit of dirt I'm on. It should just matter my geographic location. It shouldn't matter where I am. It should matter where my viewers are. And my partner manager knows this. Twitch knows this, but they just can't be f*** changing it. Now, everyone's out there with grievances about Twitch and how they're handling different things. But look at it from my point of view. I am a partner on this website, but I'm not really a partner. You know what I'm saying? There is tiers of partners who get different levels of treatment. And I am on the lowest possible tier in Twitch's books. Doesn't matter how successful I become, they don't seem to give much of a sh**. I can understand why Mizkif would be annoyed that that kind of thing would leak. Because I mean, I suppose it's not that hard to calculate how much money Mizkif makes just looking at his subs with it, because he has over 20k subs. So he's making just on Twitch, just from subs, like close to 80k or whatever a month. And then ads and all that stuff. Whenever he gets excited, when he gets a card worth 5k or whatever, I'm just like, I still understand why that would be exciting, right? Because you get the cool thing, the high value thing, the rare thing. But it's obvious that Mizkif, if he really wanted to, could buy himself one copy of every single rare first edition card and not break a sweat. I don't think it's all an act. Like if you play poker and you win yourself 200 bucks, it's a cool feeling. Yeah, I won, woo! Like that 200 bucks is not going to radically change your life. You may just go back to gambling that 200 bucks and lose it again later. But that feeling of, oh my god, it's a rare thing, oh, that's so cool. Is awesome. Like it's even enjoyable to watch another person do that. I don't think it's fake. But I'm sure when Mizkif sits back at the end of the day, he goes, that doesn't really matter that much. You know, you don't see the appeal. I just like seeing people happy. In like enthusiasm, passion, whatever, it's infectious, you know. As long as it feels sincere, it's an awesome thing to watch. Like you can not understand even slightly what's going on. But if people are really happy and the thing is, oh, that's awesome. Yeah, cool. Yeah, you know, it's a fun thing to watch. I doubt it. He's really happy with the Lugia off stream. Oh, we got Lugia, did he? Interesting. I mean, I have personally never understood the appeal of collecting a bunch of stuff. Like I can understand the appeal in winning stuff or getting some rare thing. But at the end of the day, putting it on your shelf and looking at it, I can't imagine getting satisfaction from that. Or maybe I would, who knows? It's not something I've done a lot of in my life. Because I never had money to waste in that way. Like if someone offered me a glass cabinet with a copy of every single Charmander card ever made, like one copy of each, not every single one obviously. You know what I'm saying? Like every ass of Charmander in Pokemon cards. I would like, yeah, sure, why not put it on my wall? That sounds kind of neat. But I would never go the effort to achieve such a thing, you know. The digital stuff in like CS skins and all that, I'm the same way with that. I don't really understand the appeal. Like looking cool in a video game, sure, I understand the appeal over not looking cool, right? But I'm not particularly fussed. Like if I join a game and my character looks like complete shit, I'm like, eh, because I'm mainly interested in the gameplay. If I have the option to make myself look cool, I make myself look cool and I never think about it again. Like I've had the same outfit in GTA Online since the Casino Heist came out. And before that, I had the same outfit in GTA Online since the first time I played, which was just wearing a suit. It's weird that I value more the achieving of the intangible thing, like the goal. Finishing Oko, getting a cool speedrun, than I do about having some material thing, you know? The knowledge that I have achieved X goal is more, it brings me more satisfaction than I have gotten this physical object that is now in my room over that. I suppose if the physical object is the goal, or that the physical object represents the intangible goal, as in like I have a plaque over there that says I had 100k subs. Similar, but I mean, I just don't need that physical thing. I don't need that thing on my wall to look at every day. It's the same way I've never felt and never said ever get a tattoo of something. There's nothing that I want to see every day. And there's no satisfaction of a game from having such a thing. That's just my mindset. I'm not saying it's a correct one. It's just how I feel. I would say I find far more satisfaction in the things that you achieve either through time and effort, versus achieving through money. |
| 28. May 2022 | How Twitch differs from all other social media | Twitch differs from all other social media. Ah, there was one thing I wish I had added into the main video, the second video. I think the reason I didn't add it was because the data isn't new. So for those who don't know, on the backend of Twitch you have very few analytics, so while on YouTube you can see directly how much of your viewership comes from different sources. Like for YouTube in general it's like 70% is from mobile devices. I read somewhere, but on my backend it's also close to 70%, which I showed that in Ramble at some point. But apparently Twitch is different. Twitch apparently, at least as of 2019, was majority desktop. As in like it was like 70% desktop. And that's weird. It's just not normal. And I was going to put in there discussing how easy or hard it is to move from a stream to YouTube on different devices. Like on mobile it's infinitely harder. But it just seemed like it would be too clunky to explain that, especially because the data wouldn't be as relevant. Twitch is honestly better on PC than on the phone. Yeah, because a lot of what people watch Twitch for is background noise. They're playing a game, they're playing CS, and they look over and see another person playing CS. Or you're grinding for something in World of Warcraft and you need something on, and you can always look over there. You don't need to click out of the game every 10 minutes to watch a video. You just have something on for hours on end. And on mobile, unless you have a really large phone, you're basically dedicated watching one thing. And so Twitch has less of a value proposition if you have to focus on it. And yeah, and even chatting in chat is harder on the phone. So it makes sense. As in like even though the data is old, I would still think it's probably recent. Like it's still relevant for Twitch. And so... |
| 02. January 2022 | How Twitch handles the GTA strip club. | How Twitch handles the GTA strip club. The only thing I haven't done is buy a private dance at the strip club. And of course, by Twitch's rules, as long as it's a part of the game and a thing that I have to do, it's fine. I just need to buy it, like I don't need to like sit there forever. So there'll be boobs on the screen for like five seconds. I can't remember the context, but I ended up looking up Lyric playing GTA V when it first came out. Because, you know, obviously back in 2013 when the game came out on console, Twitch was a lot smaller, live stream was a lot smaller, the quality looked abysmal. And there was a significant amount of discussion like, can streamers go in the strip club or like what are the rules on that? And are they going to get bans? And yeah, I'm not going into the strip club for fun. As in, the rules are basically if it's a natural part of gameplay, you just can't focus on it or whatever. You can't make it the focus of your stream. I have no choice. I have to do this. And I will do it the absolute bare minimum that I'm required. Of course, I wouldn't get ban chat. You know, like back in the day when 100% required that lap dance, I did the whole lap dance. I don't mean I went in and went out. I mean, literally for like a dozen runs, I did the entire lap dance on stream. The good old days. Because back then it was, we thought it required. Until eventually we realized you could just start it and stop it. And so it was only there for a couple of seconds. And then we realized you're not doing it at all. |
| 02. January 2022 | How Twitch handles the gta strip club. | How Twitch handles the GTA strip club. The only thing I haven't done is buy a private dance at the strip club. And of course, by Twitch's rules, as long as it's a part of the game and a thing that I have to do, it's fine. I just need to buy it, like I don't need to like sit there forever. So there'll be boobs on the screen for like five seconds. I can't remember the context, but I ended up looking up Lyric playing GTA V when it first came out. Because, you know, obviously back in 2013 when the game came out on console, Twitch was a lot smaller, live stream was a lot smaller, the quality looked abysmal. And there was a significant amount of discussion like, can streamers go in the strip club or like what are the rules on that? And are they going to get bans? And yeah, I'm not going into the strip club for fun. As in, the rules are basically if it's a natural part of gameplay, you just can't focus on it or whatever. You can't make it the focus of your stream. I have no choice. I have to do this. And I will do it the absolute bare minimum that I'm required. Of course, I wouldn't get ban chat. You know, like back in the day when 100% required that lap dance, I did the whole lap dance. I don't mean I went in and went out. I mean, literally for like a dozen runs, I did the entire lap dance on stream. The good old days. Because back then it was, we thought it required. Until eventually we realized you could just start it and stop it. And so it was only there for a couple of seconds. And then we realized you're not doing it at all. |
| 08. December 2020 | How YouTube content skews how viewers see gaming ability | Use how viewers see your gaming ability. We're doing great, though. I still can't believe it. They're actually winning. I'm kind of I'm kind of baffled. I don't even want to put all this stuff out because it makes me look so shit. I don't think people think it's said that way. I think they will. They will. They gave me so much heat for my. I got pretty shitty driving in this game. Everyone's giving me shit all the time for my driving. Because because most of my what goes on my channel is my fails. People talk shit about me all the time, too. Like, because when because when everything's going perfectly, it's not really that interesting. It's only when everything goes to shit that it gets interesting footage. So most of the footage that gets presented to my audience is me screwing up. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 08. July 2021 | How a church blackmailed my mother with my soul | How a church blackmailed my mother with my soul. The only other story that, um, of that sort of nature that I have is, uh, my mother was Christian, but she didn't go to church or stop going to church frequently, um, because she had kids and other responsibilities and stuff. And I was a second child, and when I was born, she, uh, wanted to get me baptized. The church refused to baptize me because she, um, didn't attend church enough. They basically said, hey, you know, uh, hey, if you attend a church a bit more, then maybe we'll, uh, we'll do it. And it's like, and she, she said to me, I was just telling me this story when I was 20 or something, she's like, it just seemed crazy to me that the point of baptism is meant to save my son's immortal soul, and they were effectively blackmailing me, being like, yeah, yeah, you wouldn't want something bad to happen to your son's immortal soul. Maybe you want to come by church a bit, maybe put some money in the collection plate, you know, maybe then we can work something out. My mother is still spiritual to an extent, which is, uh, not particularly impressed with, um, those kinds of institutions. Um, and I think for good reason. |
| 17. December 2022 | How a famous brand duped It’s customers. | So there's been a few videos on this Kami Koto knife scam, right? One recently came out by Scott Schaeffer, apparently one came out a long time ago by Shad Versity, and it was basically that the claims of the quality of these knives is much much lower than what is being said in these advertisements, and they're massively overpriced for what you're getting. Like, they're effectively lying about what these knives are, what they entail, and how they're made. The only way that this is relevant to me is I've never even offered one of these sponsorships, but I remember seeing one a long time ago and looking into it, just looking at their website and being like, this seems overpriced as shit. Those knives look terrible. And so I googled, like, buy knife set, and I bought myself just a random knife set, and that's what's sitting downstairs. And so when I heard this company was a scam, I was like, ah, maybe I picked up on that by looking at their website. I don't know. Dodged a bullet there, and the knives I have downstairs are pretty good. I barely use them though. But, uh, yeah, it's a friend. They're funny. |
| 22. December 2020 | How alerts will be handled when i return to speedrunning. | How alerts will be handled when I get back to speedrunning? Is Text to Speedrun? It is not. I don't know what I'm gonna do when I get back to speedrunning, because when I speedrun, normally I do have alerts in Text to Speedrun, but I don't want too many alerts to happen. My viewership has increased substantially since I last speedrun consistently. I'd be concerned that I would receive too many donations, and too many bits, and too many subs and stuff, because as nice as that is, I don't want to ruin the stream or YouTube experience for people, but a lot of the alert sounds are quite funny, and the text to speech can be funny too, but it is an unfortunate side effect that sometimes they can ruin particular clips that happen, you know? Maybe I'll just turn off the subsound entirely, or increase the cost for text to speech, or the alerts, or something. Think on later. There's a lot of donation sound suggestions as well that I should add, but that's in the future. That's future Matt's problem. Fuck that guy. |
| 17. September 2022 | How am I finding YouTube streaming so far | How am I finding YouTube streaming so far? What is your opinion on YouTube streaming? More profitable? Super chats? Easy to use? This is a good ramble topic. Okay, so Thus far I've had like twice the viewership maybe. The money? two to three times the money. The downside is Everything else is more difficult. The settings don't save so I have to like put it all set up each time I have to put in a new link to the chat into each of the overlays every single time Setting up the the way the chat looks took a gazillion years I can't make it so at least Maybe there's a way around it, but it's so convoluted to get anything working the way that I wanted to Everything is a pain in the ass YouTube live streaming is so What's what's word um? Oppressive to new people. It's like they specifically work to make everything more difficult. You know Yeah, the quality would definitely be significantly better You can save a show template. No, no, no, so it won't save like monetization settings There are certain things that won't save like having slow-mo'd on for example that I wanted to be Subscribed by only chat these things won't save ever even if it's possible that such saving exists It's not obvious Nothing, nothing is obvious about YouTube streaming. I'm using like Third party websites to build this chat There's no guides about anything It it's awful at the end of the day chat 90% of what streaming is is The audience where is the audience and like the benefits of growth and profit? I mean in terms of where you stream because you can well I suppose fun fun is obviously a thing I meant in terms Of because you can have fun anywhere, but where your audience is the growth and profit Those two things matter most and everything else just white noise So even if I have to go through five to ten minutes more difficulty for every single live stream I do on YouTube. It's worth it what? |
| 20. July 2021 | How am I motivated to continue GTA 5? | How am I motivated to continue GTA 5? How do I have so much motivation to play GTA 5? It's just comfortable. I mean, it should be obvious why I enjoy playing Chaos is because it's massively chaotic and new every time and Pongo is always adding new effects, new effects that you will see five minutes from now when Chaos shows up on YouTube. Some of those new effects are really cool and creative. For the game in general, I'm the person who plays games to achieve certain things or to meet certain goals. As long as I have a goal to achieve in a game, I'm comfortable playing the game, then I'm happy, you know? The problem that I have with Oko now is in my mind I have already achieved it. There isn't anything left to solve. It's just a matter of the grinds now, and that's kind of lame. I haven't actually achieved the goal, but I've done literally everything but and that it ruins a lot of what made this fun. I know I may seem salty when I say it, but I feel as though I've legitimately been cheated out of success in this like dozens of times and so it's hard to bring this with the same enjoyment that I had initially because like I could have done every single thing that I did in my previous runs and I could have succeeded in a different reality. I could have done the exact same and succeeded and that just it just feels shit to me. |
| 17. January 2022 | How and when people engage with Youtube content. | How and when people engage with YouTube content? See much of a jump in revenue in December? December is in general double the revenue of the lowest month or something. So like, if you release a video in December, you're probably going to get like double the money you get in January or something. Which is why December is often very competitive. Because people save their video and release it in December for that extra ad revenue. It's debatable how much sense that makes because if everyone does that, then there's so much more content people are able to watch that you're going to get less views and therefore less money. In the same way that some people take January off, like it's their month to take off because the ad revenue is so much lower. But whenever I look at January, I think to myself, there is a lot less content creators making content in January. This is my time to make content for all the people that have nothing to watch. The demand for content is the same, but the amount of content to service that demand is lower. Meaning that I can have my content pushed to more people and potentially get more views. Or at the very least, just have new people find my stuff. I mean, more therefore more likely to click my videos in the future when they get recommended because they recognize me from the other stuff they saw, you know. What percentage of my viewers are not subbed? I checked actually two days ago. 25%. So subscriptions, as I've said before, aren't that important. It's only like it was less than 20% of views come from non-recommendation sources. I don't know how much of that 20% is search versus the subscription feed. I mean, subs still matter to some degree, as in a person who's subbed to you has a higher chance that a person who's not subbed to you to see your video because they might look in their sub feed sometime. But you can find yourself endless 5 million subscriber channels that have like 20,000 views per video because the substantial majority of people don't watch videos via their sub feed, especially newer people who are more used to things like TikTok. And considering like what 70% of people watch content from their phones, people just get on the app and scroll home. They scroll through the community posts, they scroll through stuff and just click whatever catches their fancy. Me, I'm an old school guy. I've been using YouTube since the last 10 years. So that kind of recommendation system didn't exist, or at least not to that same degree when I first started. Subscriptions was the main way that people got content. So what I do over the day is I go to my subscription feed and I make a tab for every one of the videos in my subscription feed that I want to watch and then I make my way through those. And when I'm done with those, then I go to home and look at recommendations. I'm subscribed to 250 people, but I don't watch 250 people's worth of content, you know? It is uncommon for people to bother to go to the effort to unsubscribe from someone. And the longer that you're on the platform, the more accounts that subscribe to you, but just stop clicking your videos so they never get recommended them again, or they stop using an account and make themselves a new one. That old account is still subscribed to everyone, but no one's using the account anymore. So the subscription is completely worthless. The amount of subscriptions you have is correlated with success on YouTube, but it's more strongly correlated to being successful at some point, you know? On the back end of YouTube, you have this that shows like the times where your viewers are most on YouTube. So Tuesday at 8 p.m. around this time, okay, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday at 8 p.m. are the times when the fewest of my viewers are on. That's 6 a.m. the most of my viewers are on. But this is my time. So I try to release my videos like around midnight. And so it moves into these times. And so that's what that dude is referencing. In the English-speaking world, people are uploading videos during this time. And for us Aussies, we're waking up, you know, 8 a.m. or whatever. And so everyone's already released their videos. I think most people's stats would look this way if they make English-speaking content, because this is like peak for Europe and America. But I mean, I imagine if, you know, you make content for India or something or, I guess, just trying to use YouTube. I don't know. But this would look different, you know? That's so funny. I was about to talk about how cool this feature is because it shows how many people came back after watching a video. But it says here, too many videos to display. Instead of changing the publish date to include fewer days. Because I just upload so many videos. So the most it can display is four to five days, because I just upload that much. I was skipping a day. Maybe the data was broken that day. So 33 viewers watched this and then returned. 70 here. It's so fewer than the other channel. Zero? Zero? Zero? Yikes. But I mean, as I say, this was a worst time for me, I think. Oh, this is in the first 24 hours. I should say seven days. OK, there we go. It's a bit high now. Within seven days, how many of these people came back? So 180. So again, these are people who this is their first video that they ever clicked on and how many of them came back afterwards. So this video had 900 new viewers and 182 came back for another video later. Like, I think that's a really cool thing for YouTube to have made. And on Twitch, we have no analytics at all. Although Twitch actually did release some new analytics as well. They put in the backends which emotes you use the most. Not the most useful thing, but I've had to use third party stuff for those kind of stats. At the end of the day, YouTube wants you to be able to make the best content for viewers. And so the more analytics that they give you, the better that you can tailor your content to meet the demands of the audience. Of course, it is not possible for you to make the most optimal video all the time, because the most optimal videos are those that require the most work, the most effort. You got to have a mixture of optimal and suboptimal or you'll just go fucking crazy. |
| 17. January 2022 | How and when people engage with youtube content. | How and when people engage with YouTube content? See much of a jump in revenue in December? December is in general double the revenue of the lowest month or something. So like, if you release a video in December, you're probably going to get like double the money you get in January or something. Which is why December is often very competitive. Because people save their video and release it in December for that extra ad revenue. It's debatable how much sense that makes because if everyone does that, then there's so much more content people are able to watch that you're going to get less views and therefore less money. In the same way that some people take January off, like it's their month to take off because the ad revenue is so much lower. But whenever I look at January, I think to myself, there is a lot less content creators making content in January. This is my time to make content for all the people that have nothing to watch. Meaning that I can have my content pushed to more people and potentially get more views. Or at the very least, just have new people find my stuff. I mean, therefore more likely to click my videos in the future when they get recommended because they recognise me from the other stuff they saw, you know. What percentage of my viewers are not subbed? I checked actually two days ago, 45%. So subscriptions, as I've said before, aren't that important. It's only like, it was less than 20% of views come from non-recommendation sources. I don't know how much of that 20% is search versus the subscription feed. I mean, subs still matter to some degree, as in a person who's subbed to you has a higher chance that a person who's not subbed to you to see your video because they might look in their sub feed sometime. But you can find yourself endless 5 million subscriber channels that have like 20,000 views per video because the substantial majority of people don't watch videos via their sub feed. Especially newer people who are more used to things like TikTok. And considering like what 70% of people watch content from their phones, people just get on the app and scroll home. They scroll through the community posts, they scroll through stuff and just click whatever catches their fancy. Me, I'm an old school guy. I've been using YouTube since the last 10 years. So that kind of recommendation system didn't exist, or at least not to that same degree when I first started. Subscriptions was the main way that people got content. So what I do over the day is I go to my subscription feed and I make a tab for every one of the videos in my subscription feed that I want to watch and then I make my way through those. And when I'm done with those, then I go to home and look at recommendations. I'm subscribed to 250 people, but I don't watch 250 people's worth of content, you know? It is uncommon for people to bother to go to the effort to unsubscribe from someone. And the longer that you're on the platform, the more accounts that subscribe to you, but just stop clicking your videos so they never get recommended them again, or they stop using an account and make themselves a new one. That old account is still subscribed to everyone, but no one's using the account anymore. So the subscription is completely worthless. The amount of subscriptions you have is correlated with success on YouTube, but it's more strongly correlated to being successful at some point, you know? On the back end of YouTube, you have this that shows like the times where your viewers are most on YouTube. So Tuesday at 8 p.m. around this time, okay, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday at 8 p.m. are the times when the fewest of my viewers are on. That's 6 a.m. the most of my viewers are on. But this is my time. So I try to release my videos like around midnight. And so it moves into these times. And so that's what that dude is referencing. In the English speaking world, people are uploading videos during this time. And for us Aussies, we're waking up, you know, 8 a.m. or whatever. And so everyone's already released their videos. I think most people's stats would look this way if they make English speaking content, because this is like peak for Europe and America. But I mean, I imagine if, you know, you make content for India or something or, I guess, just trying to use YouTube. I don't know. But this would look different, you know? That's so funny. I was about to talk about how cool this feature is because it shows how many people came back after watching a video. But it says here, too many videos to display. After changing the publish date to include fewer days. Because I just upload so many videos. So the most it can display is four to five days because I just upload that much. I was skipping a day. Maybe the data was broken that day. So 33 viewers watched this and then returned. 70 here. It's so fewer than the other channel. Zero? Zero? Zero? Yikes. But I mean, as I say, this was a worst time for me, I think. Oh, this is in the first 24 hours, I should say seven days. OK, there we go. It's a bit high now. Within seven days, how many of these people came back? So 180. So again, these are people who this is their first video that they ever clicked on and how many of them came back afterwards. So this video had 900 new viewers and 182 came back for another video later. Like, I think that's a really cool thing for YouTube to have made. And on Twitch, we have no analytics at all. Although Twitch actually did release some new analytics as well. They put in the backends which emotes you use the most. Not the most useful thing, but I've had to use third party stuff for those kind of stats. At the end of the day, YouTube wants you to be able to make the best content for viewers. And so the more analytics that they give you, the better that you can tailor your content to meet the demands of the audience. Of course, it is not possible for you to make the most optimal video all the time, because the most optimal videos are those that require the most work, the most effort. You got to have a mixture of optimal and suboptimal or you'll just go fucking crazy. I want to change the thumbnails of my rambles. So endless people have told me, I actually like- |
| 26. August 2021 | How are my weekends? | How are my weekends? How is my weekend? Uh, considering that I stream for a living, weekends aren't really different from weekdays for me. The only difference is that there's more people out on the roads and at stores and everything annoyingly closes earlier. |
| 09. December 2020 | How bad is my eyesight? | How bad is my eyesight? For those unaware, I wear contact lenses. How bad is my vision? Uhhh... Stretching out my hand... Anything past that is blurry. I remember when I was really young. I got contact lenses, glasses, and then contact lenses. I got glasses when I was like grade 7, and contact lenses in grade 8, and I haven't used glasses since. I remember sitting at McDonald's. My dad was asking me about my sight, and I said to him, Uh, like I don't know, I don't know how people are meant to see. Like, I don't know, I've only ever seen through my eyes, so I don't know if I'm not seeing well. I said like, look, I can't really read the McDonald's menu unless I squint. And my dad's like, wait, I'm... I'm 40 or 50, whatever the hell age was at that point, and he's like, I can read that, so you probably have some problems. And I remember saying to him, like, I just want to bother people, like if it's not... If it turns out I see fine, I don't want to bother people with... And he's like, no problem, you should get tested, or whatever. And so I got tested, and I, yeah. I have a stigmatism or whatever the hell it's called, I don't know. |
| 24. January 2022 | How big do I want to get on Twitch? | How big do I want to get on Twitch? There is no limit to how big I want to get on Twitch. There is no downsides to growth that I'm- I don't see the upsides as being better than. Of course the- the bigger you become, the more criticism you get all the time, right? Not everyone wants to deal with that kind of stuff. It's why most big streamers have like secondary channels where they do more personal stuff or they stream to a smaller audience and stuff just to sometimes get away from it all. But you have to get really fucking big for that and even then those secondary channels are orders of magnitude larger than I am now. |
| 24. January 2022 | How big do i want to get On twitch? | How big do I want to get on Twitch? There is no limit to how big I want to get on Twitch. There is no downsides to growth that I'm- I don't see the upsides as being better than. Of course the- the bigger you become, the more criticism you get all the time, right? Not everyone wants to deal with that kind of stuff. It's why most big streamers have like secondary channels where they do more personal stuff or they stream to a smaller audience and stuff just to sometimes get away from it all. But you have to get really fucking big for that and even then those secondary channels are orders of magnitude larger than I am now. |
| 16. November 2022 | How can people play professional tennis without getting bored? | How can people play professional tennis without getting bored? How I didn't get burnt out on GTA V after playing it for so long? As say, when you have an audience that's captivated with what you're doing, when you have your own particular goals that you want to achieve, and, you know, when you enjoy something, it's easy. I mean, think of anyone who does a particular game as an esport or something. Not only that, people who do like sports for a living, people who play tennis for 30 plus years. I mean, watching a lot of videos about tennis pros and stuff, they just got recommended to me in the algorithm, and I found a channel called Colt Tennis, and I was like, man, this is interesting how this is being presented and the stories of different people, how they became successful in tennis. But holy shit, how do you play tennis for decades? How do you do that? It looks so boring. But to them, like all the minutia of all the ways that you handle particular situations and whatnot, and reaching your physical prime and trying to be the best, climbing up the rankings, it's just like playing a video game to these people, but more athletic and better for you. If you've got that drive, you want to be the best, you want to achieve particular goals, it's no longer boring. You don't think of that that way. |
| 04. November 2021 | How chat can lose you time in speedruns | How chat can lose you time in speedruns Back in the day, I used to do runs without chat and it didn't really help me But these days there's far more viewers and far more of a necessity to read. Like in an ideal world at no point should having a chat Make you play worse Unless of course you just made nervous by people watching whatever Like you should only read chat when there's a 0% chance that you can lose time But that's not how it ends up going. You read chat when you have a 95% chance of not losing time and then something unexpected happens and you get screwed Plus because you're thinking about what to say to chat, you're not thinking about what's coming up next |
| 18. January 2021 | How clips channel impacted Twitch viewership and sub growth of main channel. | How the clips channel affected my twitch viewership and sub growth Do I normally have 4.2 K viewers? There was a point not even like six months ago where I dipped down to getting 200 to 400 subs a day on YouTube and I was like is this the end am I done and you can see the tweets on Twitter I'm like I mean I the algorithm doesn't like my stuff anymore like it seems to be only giving my contents to people Who already watch it? I'm like what have I done wrong is people and and small and says me I guess polish time a year men your schools gone back and like I don't know man. I'm not sure that's the case man I don't I don't know I was a bit a little bit dismissive of what he was saying it's some other who said this as well, but I just remember small on saying it and Eventually, I calmed down a bit looked at my stats for the previous year And I did see a similar kind of dip so I I messaged smaller than I apologized Because he was probably right then over time I started to grow back a bit more but when I started to upload my clips to my clips channel my main channel went from like 400 subs to a thousand and then to 2000 subs a day I think was like a like a 2.5 K a day or something and then this dream thing happened and and Increased even more and so while I've noticed since the clip channel Became into being my viewership increase every stream The dream thing has increased it a bit more potentially not even just because of the conversation but because even like a mood a heart whatever Something some ordinary gamer mentioned beyond that his discussion with dream and there's been a lot of discussion around me for better or for worse In endless different avenues like you saw the guy come in there and call me a shithead before but no I said answer your question. No, I don't normally have 4.2 K viewers, but it was independent of the dream thing It was gonna happen regardless the the the growth of my viewership was was going in that direction And I can't I can't tell you how much of it is dream versus the clips channel because the clips channel right now is getting Like a hundred and fifty K views an hour the clips channel hadn't peaked Before the dream thing it was still going up and up and up and over the last Two weeks, it's gone fucking gangbusters. So I don't I don't know but it is nice. Thank you for being here guys my |
| 18. January 2021 | How clips channel impacted twitch viewership and sub growth of main channel. | How the clips channel affected my twitch viewership and sub growth Do I normally have 4.2 K viewers? There was a point not even like six months ago where I dipped down to getting 200 to 400 subs a day on YouTube and I was like is this the end am I done and you can see the tweets on Twitter I'm like I mean I the algorithm doesn't like my stuff anymore like it seems to be only giving my contents to people Who already watch it? I'm like what have I done wrong is people and and small and says me I guess polish time a year men your schools gone back and like I don't know man. I'm not sure that's the case man I don't I don't know I was a bit a little bit dismissive of what he was saying it's some other who said this as well, but I just remember small on saying it and Eventually, I calmed down a bit looked at my stats for the previous year And I did see a similar kind of dip so I I messaged smaller than I apologized Because he was probably right then over time I started to grow back a bit more but when I started to upload my clips to my clips channel my main channel went from like 400 subs to a thousand and then to 2000 subs a day I think was like a like a 2.5 K a day or something and then this dream thing happened and and Increased even more and so while I've noticed since the clip channel Became into being my viewership increase every stream The dream thing has increased it a bit more potentially not even just because of the conversation but because even like a mood a heart whatever Something some ordinary gamer mentioned beyond that his discussion with dream and there's been a lot of discussion around me for better or for worse In endless different avenues like you saw the guy come in there and call me a shithead before but no I said answer your question. No, I don't normally have 4.2 K viewers, but it was independent of the dream thing It was gonna happen regardless the the the growth of my viewership was was going in that direction And I can't I can't tell you how much of it is dream versus the clips channel because the clips channel right now is getting Like a hundred and fifty K views an hour the clips channel hadn't peaked Before the dream thing it was still going up and up and up and over the last Two weeks, it's gone fucking gangbusters. So I don't I don't know but it is nice. Thank you for being here guys my |
| 30. May 2020 | How committed am I to bettering my health? | How committed are you in bettering your overall health given the warnings of your doctor? Somewhat. As in, I don't necessarily want to be, you know, fucking Adonis or whatever, the most healthy person on the fucking planet. I just want to not ness- I don't want to go to the doctors and be like, Whoa, what the fuck is wrong with you? I don't want to, um, ravage my body and shorten my life. I am making steps to improve my life. It's a life where I just abstain from anything that I enjoy to increase my longevity. It wouldn't really be a life that I want to live. There's a lot of vices or, you know, things that negatively impact your health that are fun to do or enjoyable to consume, and I wouldn't want to abstain from all of those for the rest of my life. So I will never be a perfectly healthy person, but I will, um, I am attempting to be. |
| 11. December 2020 | How covid has impacted me | How COVID has impacted me. What's the worst thing that's affected me because of COVID? I'd say PAX. PAX being cancelled was probably the most impactful thing. I don't see people very often or hang out with people. I don't have a circle of friends that I call and go to the movies with or go out for drinks or whatever. PAX is kind of the only thing a year where it's a place to meet a lot of new people and stuff. There's the occasional Twitch party as well, but I didn't go to a lot of those. And it's like the only time I travel or whatever and I didn't get to do it this time. Of the four years where I've been kind of popular enough to justify going to Melbourne for PAX, I've only been able to go to 2017 and 2019. 2018 was Red Devademption 2 and 2020 of course was COVID. Like anyone else, I've experienced heaps of inconveniences because of COVID. But obviously in terms of what job you want to have during an outbreak, I have one of the best ones. The inconveniences I've experienced is nothing compared to what a lot of other people have experienced. So obviously I don't complain about it unless directly asked. |
| 05. June 2022 | How did Broughy get started on YouTube | introducing things early. Yeah, well speaking of YouTube, how did you get started on YouTube? Everyone, well most people have interesting stories because it's a hard thing to break into. Success is not guaranteed. And when did you start and what was your process like getting to where you are today? I have some videos on my channel, some old gaming videos from like 2006, where I just, I uploaded some random videos of random things I was doing in games at the time. Mm-hmm. So I've always known YouTube is there as a place to put stuff and I've done that over the years up until I think it was late 2012. So this year is actually going to be my 10 year sort of anniversary of proper YouTube commentaries and content and stuff like that. I just, I used to watch YouTube back then, the game that I really focused on with keys of war three, the multiplayer and all that kind of stuff. And I used to watch people make videos about that and I thought I could do that. I want to try that. I just, I just thought it was fun and idea to make videos. So I just did. And I, you know, go back to some of those old videos and they're very ropey, but that's the whole process. And I made videos just for the enjoyment of making videos for like the first year where nobody was watching. I just was enjoying it. And then I started making videos on GTA naturally, cause I love GTA. You know, GTA has been the sort of thing that I've been playing all, all through my life. So when GTA five came out, I just thought I'll start making videos on that as well. The big breakthrough I suppose was starting the car testing, you know, playing, seeing, seeing YouTubers put up videos like the carbon is there is the fastest car in the game because it's got the highest in game stats and the other is the fastest car cause it's the most expensive and all this kind of stuff that was rife in 2013. I just thought, Hey, I'll do this. I know how to race a little bit. I'll take all these cars around the track and see which actually is the quickest. And yeah, it went from there. Really. Was there any specific video that you can remember where you were like it exploded and got you a bunch of subs or a bunch of views and kind of like you, there was a, was there any point in your career where things significantly changed or was it just a slow burn grind just every month getting a few more subs, few more views. And so yeah, it was that initial testing video. I tested the supers and the sports cars at the time. There was seven sports, seven super cars and maybe like 13 sports cars or something. I put them all in one video for ranked for lap time and somebody shared that video on the GTA five Reddit. I think it was a few years ago. And that's when things started. And then after that, I started putting up the lap time testing videos for the other classes of cars and people just kept coming back for that. And yeah, that's where it really sort of went from. Well, great. That's, uh, that was those are my questions. Plus a bunch of other stuff that we touched on, which was good as nice chatting with you dude. And thank you again for coming to GT. Thank you for having me. It's been really fun. Yeah, it certainly was. If you, if you ever have any ideas, if some way that I can help out your channel with some collaborative, feel free to drop me a line. You know, I like to return the favor because I feel like you're helping me out here more than I'm helping you, you know. And as I say, everyone, if you want to check out Bruffy's content, highly recommend it. Good dude. And yeah, I'll see you guys later. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 29. November 2022 | How did DigitalCarAddict start making content | How did digital car addicts start making content? As a final question, because the question I always like to ask YouTubers, I don't think I asked you this before. How did you get your start in this career? YouTube in general? I mean, I started off, I've said it before, my streams, it's the funniest thing. My first video ever posted on my channel, and I never deleted it on purpose because I wanted it to have it there like a talking point when somebody asked. I was having an issue in GTA Online where you were riding a motorcycle, and then when you hopped off, your character would show the animation of the racing helmet being taken off, but then it would just fall to the ground. It wouldn't take it off. It was really weird. It would show him taking it off, but it was basically a helmet glitch. Okay. And then I contacted Rockstar Support back when you were able to call them, back then you were able to call Rockstar Support, and I explained the issue, I explained the issue and they said, well, upload a video so we can see it and investigate it further. So I'm like, how do you do that? I didn't even know you could upload videos straight from your PS4. I didn't even talk to YouTube. I didn't know you can do that. What year was this? It was 2015? Okay. Yeah, 2015. So she guided me on the phone, how to upload a video using your PS4 on YouTube. And I'm like, wow, you can do this. That's actually pretty cool. So when I started posting clips of random stunts that I did in game, just random little clips, 20 second, 30 second clips. And then I just started posting more and more videos, especially when DLCs came out. The biggest one that started to grow my channel was the Import-Export DLC when the Rant Buggy came out and all those other cars, the Rant Buggy, the Phantom Wedge. And I posted some videos on the missions for those and some of the customization videos on those cars. And that got me to, I think it was like at a hundred subs and that boosted me to a thousand in like three days. Has been a slow, steady grind since then, or is there any particular video that popped you off? No, it's been a pretty slow, steady grind ever since then. I mean, every hundred thousand subs, I make like a milestone video and they're pretty separated about a year apart, roughly. Gotcha. Well, thank you for playing with me and chatting with me this time. Thank you for giving me a close game. It certainly is better when it's close rather than a domination, you know. I will eventually have everyone back in the games. So you will have another chance to meet me one day. Oh, wow. Okay. I look forward to that. I don't know how long that will be, but one day. Yeah, I definitely look forward to that. |
| 02. October 2022 | How did GhillieMaster get successful on YouTube | How did Gimmie Master get successful on YouTube? I always ask every YouTuber I meet this question. Because it's always interesting. How did you get your start? What was your story? Not a lot of people managed to break out of the mediocre existence of the thousand subscriber area. But you have. How did you do it? So, I made my channel in 2012. And that was years ago. Obviously many, many years ago. That's when I created the channel. And then I was really just uploading random clips back then. And then in 2015 I got into GTA Online a lot. I used to play Call of Duty a lot back in the day. That's actually where my name comes from. Because we used to do Ninja Defuses and Search and Destroy and stuff. So my name was Gilly. And then I was like, okay I can't just name my YouTube channel Gilly. So I just threw something on top of it. And then 2015 I got into GTA Online a lot and started uploading clips. I used to do a lot of PvP stuff back then. Much more than I do now. Well I still do PvP stuff but back then it was much different. Because obviously you have things like the Orbital Cannon nowadays. There's so many things that ruin it. And then it didn't really take off until 2017 was when Smuggler's Run came out. I made a video about all the dogfighting. The dogfighter aircraft in that update. And that kind of took off. And then later in 2017 we got the Doomsday Heist update. And then I made a video about the Charter Bog and how underrated it was. Because it had this insane lock-on range. And that was one of my first guides that really took off too. So then I started doing more guide videos. But it didn't really. I had like 10,000 subscribers I think back then. I got like 10k in a month from that video. And then 2019 I was going to community college on the side doing YouTube. But I was doing like full-time. And then when I got done with community college I was like, I had around I think like 100,000 subscribers back then. I was like, I'm gonna try to do it full-time. And then now obviously we're here. Yeah it's funny how many people were students also being YouTubers. And kind of moved away from their studies eventually into YouTube. Because it's just students have a lot of free time. I mean usually living with their parents or whatever. Yeah. And can upload. And I at the time when I was going to community college, I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted to do. I was kind of like I was trying to just go in to get my general studies out of the way. But then I was like, all right this opportunity is here. I'm gonna see how I can make it work. And then similar to my story when I because I was I had a couple of viewers on Twitch. Couple of hundred and I ended my degree. I got my psych degree and I'm like, well, I'm doing okay on Twitch. Let's see where this goes while I'm looking for a job. Didn't find a job, but I did okay on Twitch. So I just continue with that. Plus, you know, this is a greatest job to have right? Mm-hmm. What else would you rather do? You know, yeah, it's definitely it's something I enjoy doing. It's awesome to be able to do this for for a job and your story mirrors a lot of the stories that I've heard from people. Usually people have like distinct videos where they're like, yeah, this is the point where things kind of took off. I think that's kind of how you think you have one video that just takes off and you kind of spiral into that after from there. That's how a lot of people just keep making crap for many many years until eventually you're able to make something good that appeals to people. And then you try and figure out why did that video work and you try to kind of emulate that and move from there. But yeah, I guess it's a pretty good place to leave it unless you got other topics we should probably talk about or? Yeah, I think that covers pretty much everything. The GTA 6 leaks happened at a almost perfect time where we could talk about that. Yeah, true. So yeah, thanks for coming and maybe we'll play another time. Yeah, thank you for having me. I do want to give people a chance to well for me either to beat them again or for other people to to win back and beat me. Whatever got to get a revenge. I'm not sure when it's gonna happen. Maybe one day. Yeah, maybe one day. It's as you may have noticed that I'm not the best at setting up collaborations because of how bad my sleep and badness. Oh, dude. Thank you for being willing to you know, deal with that. No, it's fine, man. Yeah collaborations, especially when we're in completely different time zones. It's it's hard to set up in Australia. It's just so far away from everywhere. Everyone's got different schedule. Everything. Everyone's are busy. So yeah, thanks for coming and thanks hanging out. Thanks chat with me and I'll see you another time. I suppose. All right. I'll see you later, man. Have a good one. Bye. Be sure to like and subscribe also leave a comment if you have something on your mind my feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 24. September 2021 | How did I become successful as a content creator? | How did I become successful as a content creator? Long before I was making gaming content, I was making shitty videos about social, religion, political, no not political, philosophical stuff. I had like 7,000 subscribers. Like I'd release a video and get like 500 views, maybe a thousand views, whatever, at my peak, and I was always starved for ideas and stuff. I enjoyed making videos, but I often felt like I was forced to make them, and I hated that feeling. I found out about Twitch and I moved to Twitch, and I really enjoyed it. Unfortunately, like I would say, hey I'm going on Twitch. I wouldn't say I'm live on Twitch, but I would like say to my subscribers, like oh you know I'm on Twitch, and I maybe had like 50 followers starting out. So like a handful of my viewers, because it wasn't gaming content, I said that the people who subscribed to my original YouTube channel weren't interested in gaming content. But some of them would stop by, and so my first viewers were those people. There was one game that I was a master at that not a lot of people, well I would say no one, streamed on Twitch, which was UTD for Warcraft 3. The Warcraft 3 section back there was at the best of times, this was like 4 or 5 years ago, at the best of times had like 10 streamers in it. So at all times, if anyone went to the Warcraft 3 section, which was very few people, but if anyone went there, I would be someone they would see. But I had like less than 1 megabit per second upload, so my content was all pixely and terrible quality. I knew nothing about being a good streamer, but I just streamed because I like the idea of streaming. And I really enjoyed it, and I enjoyed Warcraft 3. But eventually I was like, you know I need something else to stream, I can't do this forever. And I like speedrunning, maybe I can speedrun something. So I actually tried to put like a timer on UTD, the custom map that I was talking about before. But it's not a game that you're meant to play quickly, it's one that you're meant to take your time with. And so I, like two streams that I was like, this is fucking stupid. So I was looking for something to speedrun, and I happened to come across Witwick's speedrunning GTA 5. And I was like, oh, I happened to have bought GTA 5 like 2 weeks prior because I, you know, someone just suggested that I might enjoy playing it on PC. I knew next to nothing about GTA, didn't care about it all. But this was pure luck that I happened to stumble across Witwick's speedrunning this. Like he's so rarely speedrunner, he maybe did less than 10 runs. And GTA 5 of course being so massively popular. And GTA 5 speedrunning back then wasn't something that people took seriously. This is something I keep trying to stress to people. Very few people were interested in speedrunning GTA 5. The people who speedran GTA 5, in general speedran other stuff. There were a handful of runners who did it fairly casually, especially by comparison today to today. So it was the perfect place for a person to go who wanted to be serious. There was enough of a community there that when I started running it, like I get ho- I got hosted from Zoton and stuff like that. So I had, you know, between 100 and 200 followers when I first started speedrunning. I had a handful of viewers and stuff that would stop by every once in a while. I maybe averaged like 8 viewers. I worked hard at it. I streamed a lot of hours. I was committed, like I would look every day at my footage, my audio, trying to make it just that little bit better with the limited amounts of hardware and internet that I had at various different times. I moved specifically for better internet to improve my streaming quality. I would troll forum after forum, watch video after video of people giving suggestions as to how to make your stream better. I mainly focused on visual and audio quality. Like I put the work in, but it was luck that I just happened to stumble across Witwix. If I didn't stumble across Witwix, what would I have ended up streaming? Who knows? Maybe it was something that would be less successful with algorithms later on and da-da-da. So I had the time to stream. I'd been working since I was like 14 or something, so I had a little bit of money that I could spend on stuff, on a little bit of extra hardware and stuff when I learned more about that. Like I didn't choose this environment. I didn't choose to ignorantly choose GTA V and it happened to be successful. So when I did choose it, I worked really hard. As hard as I thought possible. As in the only reason I didn't work harder back in the day is because I didn't know of other ways that I could be working harder. Before I ever blew up on YouTube, I was thinking like what more content could I make? Because I wasn't a good YouTuber, right? I didn't know how to edit well and stuff. But over time my editing became better and better. And Baron, like one of his videos blew up and I was like, wait a second. The YouTube algorithm will actually take notice of speedrunning content if you put more effort into thumbnails and tags and shit. Because I was making content, but I was more making it for my Twitch viewers. I was like, oh my Twitch viewers like knowing how the run died and stuff. Well I'll make them content for that. I compiled a list of all the facts and glitches that I had discovered or knew about from my time running this game. And do you know what I did with it? I didn't make it into videos. I sent it to other GTA content creators. I said, hey look, like I know some stuff about single player. Can I like make you videos of all this stuff and you just like put it on your... I don't need any money. Can you just like tell people about my Twitch channel? Most of the people I sent it to ignored me. One person or two people replied, you know, pliifully saying no. It wasn't really what they did. One of them being whatever57010 who I shout out in a recent video. When Baron blew up I was like, wait, if this is possible then I can do it too. And so I made my facts and glitches series and I got 500,000 views. It was just knowing that there was something more that I could do inspired me that. But at this point in time, before I made that episode, I was already fairly successful on Twitch in the sense that I already had 200, 300 viewers stream and stuff. That I was already in the 1% of Twitch before any of this came about. It's simply, YouTube is certainly responsible for me going from a partner getting by to a partner who is now in the like top 2000 streams, right? It's kind of my history, right? It's a matter of putting in the work and getting lucky. Looking for ways to improve things. And when I found them, working at them as much as I possibly can, could. Because I really do love what I do. It has been the most fulfilling thing that I've ever done and I never want to see it go away. Just a footnote to that. Remember that it took, I was a partner for effectively two years and I've been streaming for effectively four years. Before I was in a situation where I had sufficient knowledge to make the kind of content I make on YouTube now. I can't simply say to people who want to be successful, make content on YouTube. Because I don't think if I from day one had tried to make the content I make today, like I didn't think I would have been successful. It was only because I had four years of knowledge of GTA V single player that I could have made any of that content at all. If I tried to make it from day one, I would have just completely screwed myself. And I can't really suggest someone, oh just dedicate yourself to a game for four years so that you can make YouTube content. That's absurd. GTA V has never left YouTube. It's always been shared around and showed. There's always been a bunch of creators making videos, getting over a hundred thousand views and stuff. There wasn't really any mainstream sort of speed running GTA V content that was really being produced for a mass audience. But I bet it's probably in a large part the RP that made it have an even bigger resurgence of rather than simply being at a constant level. |
| 24. May 2022 | How did I get into Chess? | How did I get into chess? How did I get into chess? When I was a wee little young lad A little boy Maybe even less than five years old, I'm not even sure I know, like I remember Being like kindergarten First grade And my dad, this old chess board We'd sit there Doing the dishes, cleaning stuff and whatever And we'd play games of chess I would always beat my mother I remember the day that I finally beat my dad And I remember running around the house like I won a game! I won a game! Because I was being a little kid And I'm not going to beat an adult, you know? |
| 24. May 2022 | How did I get into chess? | How did I get into chess? How did I get into chess? When I was a wee little young lad A little boy Maybe even less than five years old, I'm not even sure I know, like I remember Being like kindergarten First grade And my dad, this old chess board We'd sit there Doing the dishes, cleaning stuff and whatever And we'd play games of chess I would always beat my mother I remember the day that I finally beat my dad And I remember running around the house like I won a game! I won a game! Because I was being a little kid And I'm not going to beat an adult, you know? |
| 08. December 2020 | How did I get started in speedrunning? | All of the following rambles occurred during my Cops and Crooks collaboration with Sonny Evans. How did I get my start in speedrunning? Man, how did you ever start? When you started going into speedrunning, how did that happen? I found Twitch through Hearthstone Tournaments and then I started streaming because it just looked so cool. I started playing, because I like this Warcraft 3 custom maps thing, and so I was streaming that, but I was like, you know, I need something better to stream. I really like the speedrunning stuff, the Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario 64, all these speedrunners doing this cool stuff, but I don't have a game to speedrun. So I was just thinking about what kind of game I wanted to speedrun, and I happened to see a guy called Witwix speedrunning GTA V, and I had happened to buy GTA V like two weeks before, but I bought it entirely out of boredom. I had no interest in playing it really, so much so that even when I installed it, I was like, ah, fuck it, I'll play it later. Because I happened to have bought it and I saw him speedrunning, I'm like, hey, this is something I have no experience in, no current interest in, but the speedrun looks cool, so I'm going to try and do it. So I did, and I liked it. Like I had no experience with GTA prior to GTA V. I've always wanted to try it, but you have to put in so many hours to get on, even remotely competitive. Absolutely. These days, certainly when I started, it was like not many dedicated runners, maybe like one or two, and those who had done runs were the people who mainly play the other GTAs, so they did half seriously. And so it was so much room for someone to come in and even just try to a moderate degree, and that's what I kind of did. |
| 29. May 2020 | How did I meet modest pelican? | sense. How did I meet Modus Pelican? I think in two different videos Modus Pelican made references to me and me being a GTA speedrunner, suggesting that either he liked my content or he was at least aware of me to some extent. So like I didn't watch his content prior this point, people told me this and I watched some of his content and I found it amusing. Certainly his presentation style was something I hadn't run into before, it bearing some similarities to some of my Passive Percent footage in terms of how I present that sometimes. And so when I was making Passive Percent, I needed two gags for phone calls, one with Franklin and one with Michael. I immediately knew that I wanted Franklin to be calling Rockstar Games and found that footage very easily. Then for Michael I was like what can I do for Michael? Ah, I really don't know. And so I started to look around at other phone calls the characters have done like CJ and stuff in San Andreas and I found nothing. I couldn't find anything specifically. I didn't look very long but I was like hey wait a second, what if I got another YouTuber who's popular in the GTA space to be on the other side of the phone? I was like you know Modus Pelican has running gags that's and he's fairly popular and people would recognize his voice immediately. He has a recognizable voice, has running gags and he's pretty popular. So I'm like and he knows that I exist. I'm like well that's just a match made in heaven right there. So I contacted him on Twitter. I said hey man I've never reached out to another content creator to you know count me in my episodes but I think I have something that you might be a good fit for. You know here's a rough idea of what I want to do. I won't make it too detailed because I haven't thought it all the way through but just tell me if you're interested in and I can give you a script. And he's like oh yeah absolutely man I can totally do that. And uh and then that happened and it all worked out. He was in my episode and then he said you know um I will see if I can do the same thing like I can have you count me on one of my videos or whatever. And he wrote me something and I changed it a little bit and then I uh I said it in one of his videos and so that was the entirety of the interactions that we've had. We now follow each other on Twitter. Although I'm always surprised that other content creators are willing to follow me on Twitter because of how much I fucking complain on Twitter. I can't help myself but uh he seems like a nice guy. Makes funny content. More successful than I am. His content is very personality driven. His particular style of comedy driven. It's not tied to any particular game as in like if GTA 5 or Hitman or whatever the fuck just exploded tomorrow he'd just grab a new game be like oh yeah I'm doing this now and make the same jokes the same editing and people would watch it. I have a lot of respect for the dude. The only thing I don't like about Modus Pelican is the titles of his videos because I do not like the so I did this and you won't believe what happened. I like I get why people make those titles. I'm not judging it on a moral level. For me personally I like to know what the video is going to be about before I click on the video. A lot of the time I'm like I've got these 10 other videos I can watch or I can take a gamble with this video that's titled you won't believe what happened. I'm like I'm just going to watch one of the other 10 videos that I know is going to have something interesting in it. It's just it's just a titling of videos that puts me off clicking on content. I'm not the average viewer though. A lot of people go well I wonder what happened in this video and they'll click it and so that's why I understand why people make that titling but I don't personally do that titling because I don't like content with that titling for my own consumption. It's a very small critique you know and I wouldn't expect him to change for my benefit as in I'm not his uh his average audience you know what I'm saying. |
| 24. February 2022 | How did I survive my early streaming days? | How did I survive my early streaming days? How old are my oldest followers? How old am I? How long have I been streaming for now? So let's win. Here we go. This is basically when I started streaming. So I had 200 followers July 2015 Like what was I doing when I had 12 followers? Was I streaming at this point? It's conceivably possible that all that time I was streaming um Warcraft 3. I wish I could remember What I thought about streaming back then. What my goals were, what my aspirations were. I just don't remember. How was I able to Sit there playing Warcraft 3? Really I think when I first started streaming I I do what a lot of people do and I just played Warcraft 3 as I normally do it And then if someone talked in chat, I talked to them. This is really old There was only a very brief period where I didn't have a blue border. I look so different I'm still at level 78. Look at Crown, Mr. Vittles ViguGeek? Don't remember that person. So play the simplest most boring mode ever We're playing Naga with full darkness. Yeah Look look how when I scroll the screen you can't read any of the numbers. This bitrate is like 825 income inequality Which he is going to directly Just immediately click Rinsing about politics. I was so much thinner there. Bye got to go racist piece of shit dark racist piece of shit Viper88. You've said that tons of times Rigo You've said you either you're going and as well you've also said them a racist piece of shit another racist piece of shit I've changed I have been not |
| 08. December 2020 | How did Sonny Evans get his start on YouTube? | Now Sonny Evans got his start on YouTube. Now Sonny Evans got his start on YouTube. Now Sonny Evans got his start on YouTube. I hope YouTube continues to treat you kindly. |
| 03. February 2020 | How did my outro come to be? | How did my outro come to be? A wonderful person, Arcadius, a long time ago was like, hey, I can make you some thumbnails if you like. I was like, oh, yeah, thumbnails are pretty good for YouTube, right? He made me my thumbnail templates. So my thumbnails currently, I mean, I changed them slightly and they've evolved over time. And I've suggested small things that you can change and whatnot. Collaborative effort, as I say. But him giving me those templates certainly contributed significantly to my growth and success on YouTube. And I'm not sure what I would have done without him. Perhaps I would have floundered around. Perhaps I would have found someone else or what have you. But I would not want that variable of my success to vanish from my past. I would not be as confident that I would be where I am today without Arcadius's kindness towards me. And so, sorry. And the outro was also made by Arcadius and the intro as well. The Hat in Time Dancing Girl was my addition, Smug Dancing, which is a meme. The music is just some music that I found because I like Kingdom Hearts. |
| 14. January 2021 | How did we meet? | So, um, uh, how, so people asked, how did we first meet now? I can, did you follow me on Twitter? Uh, I watched some of your videos. You were like, um, you were talking about like an incident where another speed runner had like, was kind of using your strategies. And I just started watching you around then like probably like a year, a year and a half ago now, I guess, and then. I just started, started watching your content and I was like, Oh, this is funny. Like I've got that into speed running, but you kind of turned it into something that I was happy to watch and I enjoyed. And then I referenced you in a video. Yeah. Just cause I want to add a speed running joke. So I was just like doing a game so badly, like playing Grand Theft Auto San Andreas so slowly, I referenced you as a joke, and then I probably followed you on Twitter around then I imagine. Yeah. So I have this issue where, um, uh, I think everyone hates me all the time. Like you've, you've, yeah, I'm sure some people do. I think most people don't, most people are either, um, either like me or they're completely indifferent to me or don't know about me, but it's just in my head. Um, everyone hates me to some degree, but so when, um, you reference me, I'm like, I mean, you're following me to like this guy can't hate me. And it just so happened that around that time, um, I was writing a joke in pacifist percent and, uh, I needed, uh, two phone calls. One, I was going to have Franklin call rockstar games to get help or something. And another, I just needed, um, a very noticeable, obvious voice who does GTA stuff and like, who, who, who is like that? And I'm like, Oh, modest Pelican. He followed me on Twitter recently. And, uh, and I'm like, he's got a lot of running gags and stuff. So I asked you to do that joke where, um, you're asking Michael to promote the word, good word of your channel or whatever. I still find that joke hilarious. Um, and, and. Well, when I made the joke about you being in my basement or something, people still just ask, like, it's like, it's been like, probably like a time goes so fast, it's been probably over a year since we did that and people still, every video, every stream is like, is dark Viper still in your basement? Like in my discord, it's like, how's dark Viper going in the basement? Cause obviously we have probably a bit of a crossover of like viewers. People will like, like have your, um, pictures there, like discord picture or whatever, and they'll just be like, I'm in your basement. Like it's been a year and a half. So yeah. And I didn't, I didn't like, did that video do particularly well? I thought it was just like a, it did the same as your normal videos, right? Um, I have no idea, man. I can't remember. Yeah. I, I, it's, I can't remember the exact video that it was, but at the time, I'm like, I'm, I'm like, I'm surprised as you that the joke has maintained itself this long, you know? |
| 14. February 2021 | How different companies and record labels treat their music on different platforms | How different companies and music labels treat their music on different platforms. Where did I get this Lo-Fi music from? It is a content ID free playlist that I've been using for something like... How long now? Like three years? No, maybe not that long. Two plus years? I don't know. It's a very long time I've been using this exact same playlist. They keep adding new songs to it though. Only recently are more and more people starting to use it because of the whole DMCA drama on Twitch. And so, while once upon a time it was very rare for me to stop into a stream and to hear this playlist, now it's becoming more common. Which is unfortunate. Although it seems most people are going the route of using video game music. Because obviously if people or companies were DMCA-ing music, then you wouldn't be able to stream or, you know, show video games on YouTube. Because it would be impossible to distinguish between the use of a song in a game versus using that song in another context. Although, if companies were willing, they could actually make that distinction or whatever. They could train a bot or something to detect if the song is being played with the wrong visuals on screen or some shit. They're not likely going to go that effort. All music has some risk when it comes to content creation. But content ID free playlists are, I think, the lowest risk. There is a tiny amount of risk though because you never know what's going to happen five years from now. Whether the company would let their ownership lapse or something. Or they'll sell it to someone else. And sure you could argue in court that you had a license to use it at the time. Like you wouldn't want to go to court for that shit, right? And with video game music, there has been a handful of cases where Nintendo has started claiming videos with their particular music in it. But Nintendo, especially those old Nintendo games, have some really fucking great music in them. Especially because they're good songs, but also they're nostalgic. Who doesn't feel good when they hear a Banjo-Kazooie song come on? Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. You know, you got into my streams because once upon a time I was playing Five Finger Death Punch. Don't really know that band well, but I know I had at least one of their songs on my playlist. We've talked about this before. Like a lot of people get introduced to songs because of places like YouTube or Twitch or whatever. At least before they started cracking down on DMCAs. Like right now, so many songs have been thrown up into like the top 10 charts or whatever by TikTok. All it takes is one song, or at least a part of that song to go viral on TikTok. And everyone searches out that shit on Spotify and puts it in their playlist. Like of the seven songs that I put in my playlist recently, like three or four of them, I got them from TikTok. It's just funny the different ways that companies have treated the different platforms. Like with TikTok, they're paying people to dance to their songs or to try to make them go viral and shit. We're on Twitch, they're like, you, how dare you play a fucking nanosecond of my song? How dare you? I will destroy your entire career. It's just, it's nonsense. Clearly with Twitch, they were hoping Amazon would just pay them a fuck ton of money in the same way that Google does that. And I suppose there is some difference between playing the entirety of a song versus a small snippet of it, but not really. Someone asked, what does Google do? Google pays the music labels heaps and heaps of money because of the ad revenue. Whenever a song gets claimed on YouTube, you know, YouTube gives the ad revenue to the music label. I wonder if YouTube even takes their cut. I'm not even sure that they do, who knows. But on Twitch, like the ad revenue is so small. And obviously, while on YouTube, you can get the perfect song for the perfect scene. You want that exact song for that scene. On Twitch, it's just like the music this plays is just background noise, you know. You're not catering particular songs to particular scenes. Any background noise will do. |
| 26. October 2022 | How discord temporarily adding and removal of a feature screwed me. | Discord temporarily adding and removing a feature screwed me. So Discord implemented this new feature called message requests, where anyone that you hadn't spoken to previously, their message would go in the message request section, so then you could accept or decline them, without having it like, clutter up your actual DMs page. And I came to rely on this. Before I went to Melbourne, I asked people, hey, who wants to edit for me? And so in my message request, there was a bunch of people who were like, yeah, I can edit for you, let me trial me and we'll see how we go. And I had like a bunch of these messages piled up before I went to Melbourne for a week, and thus wasn't able to access or deal with them, because I didn't have a PC. Then I came back from Melbourne, and Discord had removed this message request feature, and you're like, well, that's not a big deal, Matt, but it was a big deal, because they removed my access to all the message requests. So I had 88 potential DMs that I could not access. So like removing the feature was dumb, because it was a good feature. Removing my access to my DMs was even more dumb. Fortunately, I sent like a message on Twitter, I sent a message in their DMs, I sent a ticket, I contacted them on Discord itself, and my message requests have now been reinstated, but for who knows how long. Some was telling me that all the message requests should have just become normal DMs, like auto being accepted, but that didn't happen to me. So like, I wish they just wouldn't remove this feature, and just gave it to you as an option, just an update to this story. While they have kept the message request feature, for some reason they deleted my 88 message requests after a few hours. So if you did DM me about editing and I didn't respond, feel free to DM me again, Discord likely removed your message. Like, how am I meant to trust Discord going forward? Like, they're gonna implement some new feature, I'm gonna love it, and start using it in my day-to-day life, and then they're just gonna remove it and fuck me again. Like, you know? Yes, Rockstar, please fix. |
| 19. October 2022 | How do I come up with video ideas? | How do I come up with video ideas? As with most things, you take something and you combine it with something else. So for example, I saw Anomaly do a thing where he was like, Hey guys, I'm gonna ask my dad what's worth more, this CSGO item or this thing in real life or whatever. So he'd be like, this gun or this car. And he's like, oh yeah, well that gun's probably worth 10 bucks and that car's probably worth like 10 grand. So the car is like, ah, but dad, that gun is actually worth $20,000. And he's like, what? That kind of stuff. And so I was like, you know what, I can do that with GTA Online. Easy. I know nothing about the price of stuff in GTA Online, other than that they don't make any fucking sense. So it'd be funny just to have a video where I compare two different things from GTA Online. Yes, I've had well and I think Avengers helping make me a bunch of compare A or B things and I will go through them and see how well I do. Like that. So I know GTA, GTA Online, here was a video idea that someone else did with something else and I, so I'm taking that person's video idea, putting a twist on it, applying it to something else different. You take things and you twist them. The, the yonkin twist. You know? Good shit. |
| 13. March 2022 | How do I deal with emptiness and failure? | How do I deal with emptiness and failure? How do I deal with emptiness? I pursue goals. I work on stuff. I look for stuff that can improve my circumstances. Even small things. How do I overcome failure? How do I tolerate it? What other choice do you have? What cannot be changed must be endured. Take failure as merely a stop. It's a small blip in the grand scheme of things. the difficult |
| 15. June 2021 | How do I deal with my Hashimoto's | How do I deal with my Hashimoto's? How do you handle having Hashimoto's? I don't have many people to relate on long, lifelong issues like this. Not sure how to handle it. It depends on how serious it is for you. Mine is, I guess relatively speaking, a fairly minor case. This isn't like, you know, decades ago or whatever. As long as you have the right dose of medication and you just stick with it, you're fine, you know. The issue is finding the right dosage or whatever. And for me, it's sometimes hard to tell, you know, if I've taken too much or taken too little or whatever. I'm at a good place with the dosage that I have. Worse when I forget if I've taken it that day and I kind of panic like, oh, shit, I meant to take another one or whatever. But that's just life, you know? What cannot be changed must be endured. And it's just, if you have it, I'm sorry to hear. I know your pain and just have to live with it, you know. |
| 27. July 2021 | How do I deal with nervousness? | How do I deal with nervousness? What are your suggestions for being nervous? Any tips? For me, just reflecting on the grand scheme of things makes any individual situation seem less important and therefore less nerve-wracking. It's like, you know, I'll forget about this in a week or a month or whatever. I consider the actual ramifications of what's going on, you know. I think out why I'm being nervous and whether that nervousness is actually justified given the circumstances and usually the cases... |
| 20. July 2021 | How do I deal with saddness? | How do I deal with sadness? Do I ever feel depressed? Yes, sometimes. How do I deal with it? I... pursue some goal. I try to identify what is making me depressed, and then pursue trying to fix that. Which is a... easier thing said than done. Because generally when you feel depressed, you feel no motivation to do anything. Therefore identifying the thing you need to solve does not make you feel motivation to solve it. It just depends on the person, you know? I can't tell you what works for you, I live a different life for you, you know? Get a hobby, work towards something. Get a side hustle, as the internet calls them. I don't know. Read a book, see a therapist. Exercise, determine if it's a dietary issue. Or a health issue, see a doctor. When you're depressed, do you know you're depressed? Yes. Exercise has never made me happy. When I'm unhappy. Like, ever. Uh-huh, maybe a little bit. Maybe I'm being exaggerating though. It just in general, I just feel more tired, it doesn't... I prefer to just do something that distracts me from my issues. And generally speaking, when I'm exercising, I have all the time in the world to think on stuff. And that does not make me happy. The internet is too keen when someone's like, I'm feeling a bit blue, to say, look, just get therapy. Therapy isn't for everyone, right? It is a tool. And not everyone needs therapy when they're feeling a bit blue. |
| 20. July 2021 | How do I deal with sadness? | and new every time and pongo is always adding new effects new effects that you will see five minutes from now when chaos shows up on YouTube some of those new effects are really cool and creative for the game in general I'm the person who plays games to Achieve certain things or to meet certain goals as long as I have a goal to achieve in a game I'm comfortable playing the game then I'm happy You know the problem that I have with oko now is in my mind I have already achieved it there isn't anything left to solve It's just a matter of the grinds now, and that's kind of lame I haven't actually achieved the goal, but I've done literally everything But and that it ruins a lot of what made this fun I know I may seem salty when I say it But I feel as though I've legitimately been cheated out of success in this like dozens of times and so it's hard to Bring this with the same enjoyment that I had initially because like I could have done Every single thing that I did in my previous runs, and I could have succeeded in a different reality I could play the exact same and succeeded and that just it feels shit to me How do I deal with sadness? Do I ever feel depressed yes sometimes? How do I deal with it? I pursue some goal I try to identify what is making me depressed and then pursue trying to fix that which is a Easier thing said than done because generally when you feel depressed you feel no |
| 10. July 2021 | How do I get adobe premiere playback so smooth? | How do I get playback to be smooth in Adobe Premiere? Well for those who want to know, the biggest barrier is your storage. Your storage is going to screw you. Get an SSD, put your bloody footage on it. But like, I still have issues sometimes where it just doesn't like the footage. It just doesn't. And I usually just render the whole thing as a sequence up here and it fixes it. |
| 11. December 2020 | How do I have my steak? | How do I have my steak? How do I like my steak? Non-existent. Delicious when non-existent. Oh my god. No, I'm not a steak fan. Expensive steak is wasted on me. Does very expensive steak taste better than cheap steak? Yes. Do I care? No. Take me to some kind of steak restaurant and I'll just order myself a burger or whatever. I like beef, but there's just something about steak. The texture, maybe, that doesn't jive with me. Satire. |
| 11. December 2020 | How do I have my steal? | How do I have my steak? How do I like my steak? Non-existent. Delicious when non-existent. Oh my god. No, I'm not a steak fan. Expensive steak is wasted on me. Does very expensive steak taste better than cheap steak? Yes. Do I care? No. Take me to some kind of steak restaurant and I'll just order myself a burger or whatever. I like beef, but there's just something about steak. The texture, maybe, that doesn't jive with me. Satire. |
| 16. May 2020 | How do I keep my cool during chaos%? | You know, how do you keep your cool while chat destroys you or gives you a minor inconvenience to you in chaos? A lot of the things that I find most frustrating in life are things that are sapping my time, as in like, I'm trying to get somewhere and there's traffic. Oh, no, I'm going to be sitting somewhere that I don't want to sit, you know, for the next 15 minutes, and I could be doing something else in this time. I'm waiting for something to charge or, you know, I'm waiting for something to come in the mail. Things that I need the thing, but it's in the mail. Oh, this is really fucking annoying. That stuff really pisses me off, especially when these delays happen because of someone else's incompetence or something. When it comes to chaos, I am there for two hours, regardless of what happens. I go fast, I go slow. I'm still there for two hours. I just enjoy myself. I am as much along for the ride as you guys are. If you delay me 57 times before I get to the end of the mission, so what? I'm still going to be there for two hours. It does get somewhat annoying, mainly because I realized like, oh shit, we've we've we've. |
| 16. May 2020 | How do I let things go? | How can I brush things off? Little things tend to make me angry or anxious and will affect my entire day. I wish I could just let things go. I have no advice to that man. I have... There are some things that stick with me like that. Comments that someone has made or whether they're just stupid things that I'm... I stomp around my house going, oh, you're so fucking dumb. How could you say something like that? Oh, fucker. And like, I'm having a mental argument in my head with the stupidity that I just watched. And I sometimes have a hard time letting that go. And we all have those things. We sometimes have a hard time letting go. But my advice I gave before, take a step back and go, does this really matter? Can I affect this? Why do I care about this? Just think it over. I'm not saying it will help you immediately, but it helps me sometimes. So I don't have a... |
| 19. December 2019 | How do I remain calm in discussions wiht people? | How do I remain calm in discussions with people? I lose my cool a lot when conversations go on really, really long. Type dumb in chat. That outburst, what is it, um, No one can be this dumb! This can't prove anything! It doesn't actually represent real life! No one can be this dumb! Shows I'm far from a perfect debater. I can, uh, eventually lose my cool. When I'm confronted with a person who is very, very ignorant, and very, very dumb, and lacking an awareness of such facts. I wouldn't say I'm the best at debating. It depends on the context, really. Oddly enough, communicating with people who are talking in text is, uh, I think far more frustrating. The constant need to wait for a response, especially people who type slow, just makes me more and more annoyed. If you listen to my discussions with Rem, and, uh, irrelevance, that I put on my YouTube channel, I can remain cool for three hours there, because it's just a conversation, you know? And the feedback is immediate. It almost doesn't matter who the person is, as long as I can elicit immediate feedback, and keep asking questions, I can remain calm. It's like when I have a minute of building expectations for what a person is going to say, and then they say something that I've already covered, and what they're saying is extraordinarily stupid, I just explode, I'm like... Um, what's the expression? You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink? I feel that way with some conversations sometimes. Right. Lead them painstakingly to the water, and they want the water, but they just refuse. They put, it's right there, it's like, I don't see anywhere, but it's right in fucking front of you! The water's there, please drink it. What water? Me and this... no, no, the water! Not the sand, the water. I don't know what I'm saying. That's right! You're feeling in the water! Drink! I don't know how to drink, man. It's just... You know. |
| 19. December 2019 | How do I remain calm in discussions with people? | How do I remain calm in discussions with people? I lose my cool a lot when conversations go on really, really long. Type dumb in chat. That outburst, what is it, um, No one can be this dumb! This can't prove anything! It doesn't actually represent real life! No one can be this dumb! Shows I'm far from a perfect debater. I can, uh, eventually lose my cool. When I'm confronted with a person who is very, very ignorant, and very, very dumb, and lacking an awareness of such facts. I wouldn't say I'm the best at debating. It depends on the context, really. Oddly enough, communicating with people who are talking in text is, uh, I think far more frustrating. The constant need to wait for a response, especially people who type slow, just makes me more and more annoyed. If you listen to my discussions with Rem, and, uh, irrelevance, that I put on my YouTube channel, I can remain cool for three hours there, because it's just a conversation, you know? And the feedback is immediate. It almost doesn't matter who the person is, as long as I can elicit immediate feedback, and keep asking questions, I can remain calm. It's like when I have a minute of building expectations for what a person is going to say, and then they say something that I've already covered, and what they're saying is extraordinarily stupid. I just explode. Like, w-w-w-w-w-w-w-k-k-k-k-k Um, what's the expression? You can lead a wh- horse to water, but you can't make them drink? I feel that way with some conversations sometimes. Right. Lead them painstakingly to the water, and they want the water, but they just refuse. They put- but it's right there, it's like, I don't see any- but it's right in fucking front of you, the water's there, please drink it. What water? the water not the sand the water I know I understand it's right you're feeding in the water drink I don't know how to drink man you know |
| 16. June 2022 | How do I remember all the strats in a speedrun? | revived a bit apparently with this Morbius stream. How do I remember all the strats in a speedrun? As long as you know the next thing that you need to do, it's not that hard. It just takes practice like anything else. How do you become good at drawing? Practice. How do you become good at sport? Practice. Anyone can speedrun any game as long as they're willing to spend the time on it. It may take different people more or less time to achieve the same stuff, but every speedrun is doable if you have the time. B- |
| 10. July 2021 | How do i get adobe premiere playback so smooth? | How do I get playback to be smooth in Adobe Premiere? Well for those who want to know, the biggest barrier is your storage. Your storage is going to screw you. Get an SSD, put your bloody footage on it. But like, I still have issues sometimes where it just doesn't like the footage. It just doesn't. And I usually just render the whole thing as a sequence up here and it fixes it. |
| 15. January 2022 | How do i have Patience for tedious tasks. | How do I have patience for tedious tasks? How do you create such patience for doing a tedious task? Well money, money's good. I find a lot of satisfaction in completing goals. Saying that's a task done. Seeing numbers go up. Anything that shows progress in that regard I'm pretty happy to do. I'm a little bit more annoyed with tasks that never end. Which kind of YouTube is that way? |
| 16. May 2020 | How do i keep my cool during chaos%? | You know, how do you keep your cool while chat destroys you or gives you a minor inconvenience to you in chaos? A lot of the things that I find most frustrating in life are things that are sapping my time, as in like, I'm trying to get somewhere and there's traffic. Oh, no, I'm going to be sitting somewhere that I don't want to sit, you know, for the next 15 minutes, and I could be doing something else in this time. I'm waiting for something to charge or, you know, I'm waiting for something to come in the mail. Things that I need the thing, but it's in the mail. Oh, this is really fucking annoying. That stuff really pisses me off, especially when these delays happen because of someone else's incompetence or something. When it comes to chaos, I am there for two hours, regardless of what happens. I go fast, I go slow. I'm still there for two hours. I just enjoy myself. I am as much along for the ride as you guys are. If you delay me 57 times before I get to the end of the mission, so what? I'm still going to be there for two hours. It does get somewhat annoying, mainly because I realized like, oh shit, we've we've we've. |
| 16. May 2020 | How do i let things go? | How can I brush things off? Little things tend to make me angry or anxious and will affect my entire day. I wish I could just let things go. I have no advice to that man. I have... There are some things that stick with me like that. Comments that someone has made or whether they're just stupid things that I'm... I stomp around my house going, oh, you're so fucking dumb. How could you say something like that? Oh, fucker. And like, I'm having a mental argument in my head with the stupidity that I just watched. And I sometimes have a hard time letting that go. And we all have those things. We sometimes have a hard time letting go. But my advice I gave before, take a step back and go, does this really matter? Can I affect this? Why do I care about this? Just think it over. I'm not saying it will help you immediately, but it helps me sometimes. So I don't have a... |
| 27. November 2020 | How do speedrunners not go insane from repeated dialogue | How do speedrunners not go insane from repeated dialogue? How do people who speedrun not go insane from repeated dialogue? You don't even hear it after a while. Legit, you just don't hear it. The only reason cutscenes become an issue is because, like, you've got nothing else to focus on. You aren't playing the game. At that point, you know, you're focusing on the cutscene. But when there's gameplay, you're focusing on the gameplay. Get in that perfect line. You aren't listening to what the character is saying. Plus, a lot of speedrunners play with a very low volume. |
| 22. February 2022 | How do you fill the empty air as a small streamer? | How do you feel the empty air as a small streamer? What is my advice for what to talk about when you're just starting out and there's no one to talk to and stuff? I don't know because it's not something that you can just do infinitely. When I would play UTD I would explain what I was doing and why I'm doing it but that can only go so far you know. You've got to have a knack for it and I certainly didn't have it when I started. That's why I say just streaming to get big is kind of foolish. You need to do other stuff, YouTube content and whatnot. If you get a couple of viewers the streaming experience is far far easier. The amount of people who want to watch a small stream especially considering small streamers are generally worse at streaming. Yes. Not an increasing amount of people. |
| 24. August 2022 | How do you find the confidence to stream for the first time? | How do you find the confidence to stream for the first time? How do you find the confidence to first stream put yourself out there? How do you first push past the initial fear? Like what's the fear? Especially if you're a new streamer, no one's gonna be watching you anyway, right? There's nothing to worry about. You are all just people. Like what concerns do you have? Like what's the worst that could happen? Or maybe you fear not having viewers, which is just a reality. I made my first videos on YouTube and that's far more controlled and you know it just kind of snowballs from there. |
| 10. December 2022 | How do you grow to like the sound of your own voice? | How do you grow to like the sound of your own voice? I like the sound of my voice the very first time I heard it. I remember distinctly the first time I heard it and I messaged out on Facebook. I was like, I just heard my voice for the first time, like in a recording, like dedicated, like I just sat in front of my corner and I'm like, I was like, my voice is fucking awesome. That's great. That's something to that effect. While I don't have that much of a rosy impression of my voice these days, I do recognize that the way that I speak is far from perfect and I have a hard time saying certain words and reading certain scripts aloud and stuff is huge pain for me. But the sound of my voice is fairly good, I think. And as I say, I've never disliked it, so I can't give you any advice. Am I afraid of being canceled? Are you afraid of being canceled? No. So I'm very skeptical of the idea of canceling. The only things that really result in you being canceled are where you are literally unable to make the product that you were making previously, like you go to jail, for example, or what you've done fundamentally changes the feel of your content to your audience. Like if you're ousted as a pedophile or something, to the degree where people can still like look at the content, oh yeah, I'd really enjoy this, but I feel very uncomfortable watching this now. Like I get that's funny, but the person doing it, like I can't do this, it's making me uncomfortable and then they literally can't watch it. Because when you get canceled, it's usually by people who don't even watch your shit. Like people are angry at you, but at the end of the day, if what you produce still provides the same value that it did to the people who found value in it before, you're not going anywhere. That's why you have endless people who are believed to be despicable by millions of people who have huge audiences. Even EDP 445 isn't canceled, he's back on TikTok. Yeah, but he took a huge hit. But again, that's because like he's been banned from a lot of platforms. Like so he's probably the best example of that. He was not only banned from platforms, which prevented him from making the same product he was making before, but he also did something so horrendous that it changed like the feel of his content and made it less appealing. But he had other issues as well before that because he stopped being a fan of football or whatever, which was one of his significant appeals or some such. I'm not sure. |
| 05. June 2022 | How does Broughy handle GTA Online modders? | People couldn't then just go back and play with their friends because the game, the character was gone. That was the worst part about it, I think. With GTA Online, so you're on console. Do you ever play on PC? You said you have a character, but do you do any community stuff on PC? I did up until very recently, and then I've decided to diversify a little bit away from GTA, and PC Vanilla GTA has been a victim of that, because that was honestly the most annoying thing to try and stream and do videos on with the modders. That's what I was about to ask about. How do you deal with the modders when you're playing on PC? Is it just a fact of life for you or do you have... I don't anymore. I've given up on it. I mean, I play 5M, you know, plenty, and that's where I connect with the PC guys. The vanilla part of the game, I've just left. I've just abandoned it. It's just a joke. The defenses against modders for 5M is good? Yeah, I've never experienced any, because it's all server-based, I've never experienced any problems with modding on 5M. And why do you think that Rockstar has never implemented something similar to 5M? I'm not tech savvy in that way. I don't know why 5M solutions wouldn't be available to Rockstar. Do you have any expertise in such a matter? No, honestly, I don't. I mean, they've never had dedicated servers. It's always been peer-to-peer stuff. So you're not connecting to a server anywhere. You're connecting to everybody else in the lobby. And I think when you've got a game that's based like that, the idea of people modding is just inherently... That's how it is. People will be able to do that. Because of peer-to-peer, it's so much easier to hack a mod or what have you. And there's probably costs involved with the service that Rockstar was never interested in. But I sure as fuck hope that with GTA 6, that they, you know, change their minds. Because I cannot deal with another generation of peer-to-peer. I am so sick of modders. I know. It's horrendous. It's awful. I mean, that's why I've abandoned it for PC. It's just, it's not worth the effort anymore. How often do you experience modders in console? Because I hear there are some. It's just a lot harder to do. I've never experienced it. I don't think. There was one time back in like 2016 or something, there was someone doing a Godmode glitch or something. But, and I know that Godmode glitches happens every now and then. I guess I'm in a little bubble of I create a crew session and have people from my community join. So I don't really get the experience of being in public sessions too much. But even when I am, I'm not really seeing, certainly not to the extent of PC. Yeah. I mean, I kind of regret that I, because I can't use controllers. So I can't really play the console kind of version. But like for the longest time, I had to deal with not only mod menus, but DDoS as well. Yeah. Because in the GTA section, there was people who would just go around to see who's on GT online, join your server, get your IP address and just DDoS the hell out of you. So dumb. I mean, like the mechanisms to like mask IPs is not complicated. Like you can go through Steam to do it. Like anyone who has a network monitor can see the IP address of everyone, even without a mod menu in the lobby. It's so stupid. And that exactly speaks to, you know, the annoyance with Rockstar. Yes. They don't bother to improve any of these like little infrastructure things. It's unlikely to change seemingly. Someone told me, I just read a comment in passing, I want to ask you about it, that you might be leaving the Rockstar ecosystem. Are you moving on to other things or? I'm not leaving specifically, but I am reducing my time on it. What do you plan on doing otherwise? Been doing iRacing quite a bit and I'm planning to continue that, which is like proper sim racing. I'm also going to experiment with other different types of racing games. So Wreckfest is the next thing. |
| 17. June 2021 | How does Mr Beast burgers work? | Ha ha ha. I've never had this, not in my country, dude. The video by MatPat on it is really good. Where apparently a bunch of these celebrities, they basically just hire a company to organize... How do you explain it? It's like a bunch of already-existent restaurants fulfill orders done on the app. So you have the MrBeast Burger app, and there are no actual MrBeast Burger restaurants. There are just a bunch of already-existent restaurants that will make the food that is on that menu. And yeah, so that's the thing. And apparently a bunch of celebrities have done this. Will no damage ever be an official speedrun? Do you think Oko will become an official speedrun someday? I fucking hope not. |
| 14. January 2021 | How does Peli make his videos? | And that leads me to the question for you. How do you make your videos? As in, do you have a specific goal in mind with what you're going to record? And then that's what you're going to use for your video. Are you playing the game and you go, oh, you know, I could make a funny story out of me playing this part or something like how planned is your recording session? It's pretty planned, but I like everything to be super organic. So like if me and my friends are playing Grand Theft Auto, I'll be like, let's try and do a heist or something. But it's, you know, that's super, super just organically happens, like whatever happens in the heist. And then I'll just go through the footage and, you know, sometimes it can be really time consuming. Like if I'm doing a day's a video, oh, my goodness, the amount of footage you have to capture for a day's a video is insane because there is a lot of just running around and surviving. But a GTA video, we might capture like four or five, six hours footage. And then I just go through that and then make notes and then read the highlights over it like the process is pretty lengthy. And I know that I guess I guess everyone has this decision, right? Like when I was having that sort of like come up, I was like, the business move here is to make Fortnite and Minecraft content. Like I completely make Fortnite and Minecraft content. And I accept that this is a job and I get really great views. And that's it. But I was like, you know what? Well, then why wouldn't I just go and be a fucking accountant? Right. Like if I'm going to do something I don't want to do. So I just play games, actually enjoy and make content from that. |
| 16. May 2020 | How does it feel having fans? | How does it feel to have so many people enjoy your content? Ah, it feels good. It's interesting to have this power where you can make a person's day by simply answering their DMs. Like I've been on the other end of that, where I've DMed or, you know, somehow been acknowledged by a creator that I like, and I'm like, oh, that's very good, and I still remember it to this day. I mean, it's not life-changing, necessarily, but it makes you feel good. And so now that I know I'm that for a lot of people, I spend a lot of time trying to give them that feeling of happiness, even though it takes up quite a bit of my time. And then it feels good for me, and I try to make other people feel good, and it makes me feel good to make other people feel good. It's a good feeling. Good feelings all around, basically. Say hello |
| 19. February 2022 | How early did I submit to become a Twitch partner | How early did I submit to become a Twitch partner? Remember this was back in 2016, so things have changed since then. I didn't know the standards for partnership, right? So what I did is I submitted for partnership entirely because I wanted more... to put more dragons on my screen and I wanted permanent quality options because my bitrate was so terrible that I thought, look, if I at least had quality options it might make my stream look a bit better. It's like, hey, can I be partner so I can have a slightly higher quality stream? Because my stream looks terrible right now. I think I submitted like a 1200 followers or something. |
| 19. February 2022 | How early did I submit to become a twitch partner | How early did I submit to become a Twitch partner? Remember this was back in 2016, so things have changed since then. I didn't know the standards for partnership, right? So what I did is I submitted for partnership entirely because I wanted more... to put more dragons on my screen and I wanted permanent quality options because my bitrate was so terrible that I thought, look, if I at least had quality options it might make my stream look a bit better. It's like, hey, can I be partner so I can have a slightly higher quality stream? Because my stream looks terrible right now. I think I submitted like a 1200 followers or something. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. |
| 27. April 2022 | How early in the process I am thinking of pacifist jokes. | How early in the process I am thinking of pacifist jokes? No joke chat, I thought of a joke for the episode that covers the final missions for GT5 Pacifist two years ago, I thought of a joke, two years ago. And I've had it in my notes all that time, and I'm so happy, and finally able to put it in episode. It's gonna be so difficult to do, like I'm not even sure I can do it, but it's gonna be very cool if I can pull it off. |
| 01. January 2021 | How futuristic vehicles effect GTA Online. | How futuristic vehicles affect GTA. Opinion of how futuristic vehicles affect the GTA heritage. I've said before that GTA has kind of moved away from the whole cops and robbers, rob banks kind of thing, get money stuff. Like when you've got orbital cannons and grand conspiracies, it's less cops and robbers and more corporate espionage. It's a completely different kind of feeling game, GTA Online to the rest of the GTAs. The scale just continues to get more absurd. |
| 08. December 2021 | How gamergate caused me to change how I engaged with content | How Gamergate caused me to change how I engage with content. I think the first time I had the epiphany was during Gamergate. I had a bunch of different people on my timeline, on Twitter, talking about nonsense that doesn't really affect me in any capacity, that has no relevance to my life and that I can't influence in any capacity. And I realized it was just making me angry. And when I realized that, I'm like, this is probably the dumbest thing I've ever done. Getting worked up about something that truly doesn't matter. And then so I remove like endless amounts of people from my Twitter. And since then, I try to be more focused in terms of caring about things that I can justify as actually mattering. You know, things that I can actually influence or that have some bearing on my life or what have you. To be fair though, because I'm a Twitch streamer, almost anything that I learn about or read about has some practical benefit because I can talk about it on stream. Like, hey, did you know hot dogs are made out of cats? Like, I knew it. Inspiracy comes forth. |
| 08. December 2021 | How gamergate caused me to change how i engaged with content | How Gamergate caused me to change how I engage with content. I think the first time I had the epiphany was during Gamergate. I had a bunch of different people on my timeline, on Twitter, talking about nonsense that doesn't really affect me in any capacity, that has no relevance to my life and that I can't influence in any capacity. And I realized it was just making me angry. And when I realized that, I'm like, this is probably the dumbest thing I've ever done. Getting worked up about something that truly doesn't matter. And then so I remove like endless amounts of people from my Twitter. And since then, I try to be more focused in terms of caring about things that I can justify as actually mattering. You know, things that I can actually influence or that have some bearing on my life or what have you. To be fair though, because I'm a Twitch streamer, almost anything that I learn about or read about has some practical benefit because I can talk about it on stream. Like, hey, did you know hot dogs are made out of cats? Like, I knew it. Inspiracy comes forth. |
| 01. September 2020 | How games can be adapted for VR | How games can be adapted for VR? Uh, GT5 VR already exists. There is two different ways to take games that already exist and make them VR. One, where like, you actually remake the game sort of for VR, and so it becomes a good experience. The other way is just kind of to make the camera follow a VR way of moving. So like, you can just basically control your character using VR and you're just in first person view kind of thing. You basically map the game to VR controls. And there's a third party thing that does the latter. So it's clearly going to be a janky experience, but people say it's okay. |
| 01. June 2020 | How has being a streamer impacted game enjoyment | You know hey dark fiber has being a streamer had any negative impact on your enjoyment of video games either on stream or just casually In your own time. I don't think so certainly I don't Play the same games like I'm sure if I wasn't a streamer I would play some kind of an MMO because that's what I've always done until I became a streamer because the MMO just filled a Lot of time and you know you could meet goals and was fairly rewarding at different times With so much more time being taken up by streaming and stuff not really having free time Necessarily like with a nine to five you go to work you come home and that time is yours I don't have that any time that is free time. I could technically be doing something for my stream world or YouTube So I don't have that kind of True downtime that a person needs to get into an MMO I still enjoy games to the same extent that I used to if anything I've probably I probably play more games Because I'm a streamer then I would have if I wasn't a streamer Thinking about it now because I used to just play like one or two games. I played it Warcraft 3 endlessly I played what what a Warcraft endlessly You know play heroes of my magic endlessly and I didn't really seek out new games because I like the familiar I like mastering a particular thing as opposed to you know Just playing one game to the end playing one game to the end playing one game to the end having a Shelfs after shelves of games. I've never been that way so my gaming habits have changed I don't think they've changed to the worst though I will add here that playing a game on stream is always more enjoyable than playing it off stream because it's nice having an audience and playing a game off stream not having that audience that it does feel Like there's a lacking there like I'm missing something So I probably play less games off stream than I used to because if I'm gonna play a game I may as well just wait until I'm on stream and play it with an audience, which will always be a better experience |
| 01. June 2020 | How has being a streamer impacted game enjoyment? | You know hey dark fiber has being a streamer had any negative impact on your enjoyment of video games either on stream or just casually In your own time. I don't think so certainly I don't Play the same games like I'm sure if I wasn't a streamer I would play some kind of an MMO because that's what I've always done until I became a streamer because the MMO just filled a Lot of time and you know you could meet goals and was fairly rewarding at different times With so much more time being taken up by streaming and stuff not really having free time Necessarily like with a nine to five you go to work you come home and that time is yours I don't have that any time that is free time. I could technically be doing something for my stream world or YouTube So I don't have that kind of True downtime that a person needs to get into an MMO I still enjoy games to the same extent that I used to if anything I've probably I probably play more games Because I'm a streamer then I would have if I wasn't a streamer Thinking about it now because I used to just play like one or two games. I played it Warcraft 3 endlessly I played what what a Warcraft endlessly You know play heroes of my magic endlessly and I didn't really seek out new games because I like the familiar I like mastering a particular thing as opposed to you know Just playing one game to the end playing one game to the end playing one game to the end having a Shelfs after shelves of games. I've never been that way so my gaming habits have changed I don't think they've changed to the worst though I will add here that playing a game on stream is always more enjoyable than playing it off stream because it's nice having an audience and playing a game off stream not having that audience that it does feel Like there's a lacking there like I'm missing something So I probably play less games off stream than I used to because if I'm gonna play a game I may as well just wait until I'm on stream and play it with an audience, which will always be a better experience |
| 08. June 2022 | How has chat impacted my life. | How has chat impacted my life? Has anyone from your chat ever had an impact in your life? Even just something you will always remember? Presumably nothing immediately comes to mind, but as a collective you guys have had huge impacts on my life of course. Good! My ass is dead! My life is better than it's ever been and the people who like my content are in a large part responsible for that. |
| 01. June 2020 | How has lockdown affected Twitch/Youtube for me? | future brings I guess. Do you feel as if your Twitch and YouTube have been doing better since the COVID-19 lockdowns? Well, certainly I've seen a reduction in revenue on YouTube's end. I have not seen a similar reduction on Twitch's end. My viewership has not particularly increased on YouTube, although it's hard to tell because the YouTube algorithm has recently changed to prioritize different forms of content, not necessarily as aggressively pushing newer content, trying to find older content that when pushed does equally as well as newer content. I'm doing fine. I don't, I'm not super micro-analyzing the numbers, I'm just making content that I think is good. |
| 01. June 2020 | How has lockdown affected twitch/youtube for me Z | future brings I guess. Do you feel as if your Twitch and YouTube have been doing better since the COVID-19 lockdowns? Well, certainly I've seen a reduction in revenue on YouTube's end. I have not seen a similar reduction on Twitch's end. My viewership has not particularly increased on YouTube, although it's hard to tell because the YouTube algorithm has recently changed to prioritize different forms of content, not necessarily as aggressively pushing newer content, trying to find older content that when pushed does equally as well as newer content. I'm doing fine. I don't, I'm not super micro-analyzing the numbers, I'm just making content that I think is good. |
| 17. January 2022 | How have I changed over the years? | I don't know. I, like everyone, am biased towards potentially forgetting moments where I've had bad takes or I've been a fool or retroactively think of myself in the past and I think of myself more in line with who I am today because it's just more comfortable that way. Like you don't remember your past perfectly, but you know your present and so your past ideas of yourself are colored by your present. Like I remember looking at some of my older footage and being like, oh, you know, I was surprised I would say things that way on this topic. I don't disagree, but my phrasing there is a bit more blunt than I would do today. Like I had bitter wicks go over like substantial amounts of my oldest footage and his takeaway was that I haven't changed all that much and that's five years. But I've seen that footage and I certainly say things differently now. The degree to which I'm willing to communicate certain ideas has certainly decreased. Humans don't really change. Nah, nah, they totally do. It's just often very subtle. These things happen. It's just the most fundamental changes you can have in a person are when they're put in a completely different environment. The more new things that you experience, the more new people, new ideas and stuff that you find yourself around, the more that you're going to change. If the stimulus on you is effectively the same year to year to year, it's not surprising that you don't don't change all that much. But I mean all of us are inundated with endless information these days via the internet. So we have more capacity to see things that we've never seen before, hear things we've never heard before, that can get us thinking and lead us, be a catalyst to lead us down researching things that can change our views on stuff. It doesn't happen all the time and certainly aspects of the internet promote little bubbles that we live in where we don't necessarily see different things. Despite that, we do have access to more information, more sources of potential change than at any point in time in history. As you get older you change less and less. I think there might just be how much your life changes is a lot less as you get older. The older you get, the more likely you've found your thing or found a relationship or got a house or got a stable job and so you're gonna be in that thing for long periods of time where when you're younger things are more likely to change. You're not settled somewhere, but people still change in their later life too. How livestreamers have influenced DSLR cameras over the last few years. In the next section... |
| 18. April 2021 | How huge skips are found in speedruns | How huge skips are found in speedruns? How do people find these skips? Sometimes it's a matter of like, you theorise like, hmm, if I could find a skip here, it would enable me to skip all this area. So then like you trial and error stuff or you use like a cheat engine to prevent you from being able to die and you push yourself out of bounds and stuff. And then you just try and see what works. Or it's, in other cases, it's a matter of you find a skip in one area and you think to yourself, if this skip works here, maybe it works somewhere else. So long story short, it's trial and error or using already known skips in different areas kind of thing. |
| 15. November 2021 | How i gained 60k twitch followers in 1 month in 2017 | Oh, I gained 60k Twitch followers in one month in 2017. Can anyone tell me what gave Matt such a big boost in followers in 2017? It was an impressive boost, I noticed on the graph in the latest video. So in 2017, Twitch trialed this feature where when you started in new accounts, it would give you a preview of like a handful of streams that were presently live and it would go, do you want to follow this person? Do you want to follow this person? And this was based off like your gaming selection. So you would say like, oh, I like GTA 5, Minecraft and, you know, CS GO. And then it would give you a selection of people who are live that you can potentially follow. And like in the beginning, it wasn't even obvious that you didn't have to follow these people. Like they would just spam follow to get through the prompts to make their account as fast as possible. Because it was people who were live and I was doing 100% GTA 5 at the time. And I think they were only suggesting partners, at least in the beginning. And there's only a select amount of partners live at any time. A significant portion of people who are making new accounts were getting shown my ugly face and they were spamming follow. They'd never been to my stream, knew nothing about me, but they're like, follow. I got a huge amount of follows, but the amount of viewers that I got out of that was not that high, a little bit of an increase. I caught at the time and explaining this phenomenon, I called it the also follow phenomenon. So that's what's caused that peak increase. So that's what's caused that peak in followers at that point. There are real accounts and some of those people did stop by, but obviously a person who follows because it's suggested when they're making their account is far less likely to come to your stream than a person who's actually come to your stream and gone, oh, I really like this and press follow, you know. Wouldn't that create dead followers who never watch? Yes, yes it did. Yes, it did. |
| 02. January 2022 | How i made my last no damage thumbnail. | How I made my last no damage thumbnail. So you saw how I got really bloody there? So the story is, when I was trying to make a thumbnail for the latest no damage run video, I realized I'd used every single good scene in the game to make a thumbnail already. So I was like, shit, I have to do something original. How about I use Chaos Mod and make the character bloody? But while the mod normally can have it so you can have effects permanent, for some reason you can't do that with bloody. So I had to make it apply every minute. Actually it randomizes between daytime and bloody. It was a weird workaround. But that's why after a certain amount of time of me being there, all the characters turn bloody. |
| 14. November 2022 | How is Billy Mitchell able to sue so many people? | Billy Mitchell able to sue so many people. So you guys may have seen Billy Mitchell is suing Kyle Jobs again, or he's continuing to sue him and maybe suing him again with another lawsuit. How does this guy have enough money to be doing all these lawsuits? Like watching this, I was like, yeah, I already know Billy Mitchell's litigious or whatever. And equally, this case seems to make as much, as little sense as the other cases he's done against people. But how does he have the money? If it is indeed cost Kyle, I'm not doubting his claim, I'm saying, apparently it's cost Kyle 180 grand to defend against this case. Can I look up like Billy Mitchell net worth? I mean, this says it's a million dollars. He has a rickety world famous restaurant. I mean, like, I know for a fact, a lot of these net worth articles are complete nonsense. But if he had obvious public stuff that would suggest he was worth like $10 million or something, I'm sure it would be listed. So where's this guy getting like 200 grand per lawsuit or whatever to do this stuff? Because he hasn't won a case yet to my knowledge. Maybe he believes he's gonna win? Getting the money to sue people by suing people is all a cycle, but I don't think he's won, has he? Strange situation. Hope Kyle wins his case. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 25. February 2020 | How is RNG a factor in who has WR | is RNG a factor in who has world record? Over a long enough time, all that really matters is skill. With RNG contests, or contests that have some aspect of RNG rather, they're done out of like best of seven or something. Because you can get lucky once, you can get lucky twice, hell you can get lucky seven times in a row, but the odds of it are very low. The more games required, the less likely you're just gonna have a one-off spurt of good luck. In the long term, skill wins out every time. There have been times in the history of this game where the world record has quantifiably only been held because of better RNG. Where like the times on like every split would be you know, roughly the same and then there would be one split where it's a person's lost two minutes to RNG and the other person hasn't. But that isn't usually very common. Everything has luck, Karstuh. There are very few speedruns that don't have some aspect of luck involved in them. There are very few games out there that don't have some aspect of RNG, because RNG in general for a casual experience makes things enjoyable. Watch the most recent Super Mario 64 World Record, where most people are like, oh, Super Mario 64, that doesn't have any real RNG. But you'll hear cheese say like four or five times in that video, I got the best RNG here. It's because even in that game, there's RNG. How the coins fall from different boxes or when blue coins spawn like from eyes and stuff can make or break, you know, you run. Or can cost you a lot of seconds is what I'm saying. The format of my one hit KO. |
| 15. January 2022 | How is it possible for TakeTwo to still milk gta online? | How is it possible for Take-Two to still milk GT Online? Listening to Mudaha talk about Take-Two today, does Take-Two really think they can just milk GT Online forever? It's crazy to me. The gameplay loop of GT Online is just so simplistic. I'm floored that people still do it, but I mean, GT Online's just been out for so long, it had like kind of first move advantage. As we always say, there is no other competition in the third-person open world shooter genre. The genre is just GTA. If it's that simple, why can no one compete? Because they don't want to compete with GTA. Takes a huge investment to make something like GTA, and then you have to compete with GTA. Being GTA is easier than competing with GTA. Cyberpunk Online was promised way back. Did they make no online for that game? And they've already moved on to other products. And a cyberpunk version of GTA would do pretty well, as in like Rockstar already kind of transformed the world of GTA by adding so much futuristic technology. It's weird though, because GTA has all this futuristic technology, but only in particular areas. Like no one has like cybernetics or like really advanced phones or really advanced laptops or whatever. It's just like flying motorbikes. |
| 15. January 2022 | How is it possible for taketwo to still milk gta online? | How is it possible for Take-Two to still milk GT Online? Listening to Mudaha talk about Take-Two today, does Take-Two really think they can just milk GT Online forever? It's crazy to me. The gameplay loop of GT Online is just so simplistic. I'm floored that people still do it, but I mean, GT Online's just been out for so long, it had like kind of first move advantage. As we always say, there is no other competition in the third-person open world shooter genre. The genre is just GTA. If it's that simple, why can no one compete? Because they don't want to compete with GTA. Takes a huge investment to make something like GTA, and then you have to compete with GTA. Being GTA is easier than competing with GTA. Cyberpunk Online was promised way back. Did they make no online for that game? And they've already moved on to other products. And a cyberpunk version of GTA would do pretty well, as in like Rockstar already kind of transformed the world of GTA by adding so much futuristic technology. It's weird though, because GTA has all this futuristic technology, but only in particular areas. Like no one has like cybernetics or like really advanced phones or really advanced laptops or whatever. It's just like flying motorbikes. |
| 17. January 2020 | How it feels to watch my own content | How it feels to watch my own content. Yesterday I wanted to listen to my audio to see if I liked the way my compressor was now, because I had increased it a little bit. I decided that I didn't like the way, this slight subtle change in the sound. But what I noticed was, I kind of get why people watch my content. That's a good thing for me to think, you know? Like I just sat there and watched it, I probably like 15-20 minutes just flew by just watching myself stream and I was just like, this is weird. I can watch my own shit for that long. It's just the combination of the way my voice sounds to this microphone and the music and the gameplay, I think it kind of meshes together well as good background music, you know? As I've said many times, I make the kind of content that I personally enjoy. When I say that the next How This Even Ended episode is very good, it's because I enjoy it. I enjoy watching it and I wish I could find someone who makes the exact same content I do, but for a different game. |
| 14. September 2021 | How i’m going to die | I'm going to die. So I know how I'm going to die. It's true. One day, it's gonna be a knock at my door. And I'm gonna be like, Ah shit, dazed, half asleep. That's one of those packages that I ordered. Ah no, if- If I don't go get this package, it's gonna go to the post office. So I will like, put on some pants and dash out the door. My pants half on, and like, I'll be dashing down the stairs, and I'll go and leave, and then I'll trip and I'll break my skull. Every single time I run down the stairs for a package, I think of that. I'm scared every time. But these motherfuckers will not leave my packages at my door. They're assholes. All of them. You don't need my fucking signature. I'm here. Can't I have just some box I tick? I will take full responsibility for whatever the fuck happens to my packages. |
| 17. January 2022 | How livestreamers have influenced DSLR cameras. | When I say clean HDMI out, it simply means that there's nothing on the screen. There is only the video feed when you connect it to your PC. When I first got a DSLR camera to use as my webcam, this was only a couple of years ago, like camera creators didn't have any like easy way to do clean HDMI out. Like the first camera that I got, the Canon, if you put on focus it would always have the focus thing on screen. But in just a few short years, people who make cameras have just been like, oh shit, people are buying these for webcams? That's fucking dumb. I mean, these things cost like a bajillion dollars. But all right, we'll give you a clean HDMI out, no worries. You want to spend 5,000 bucks on a webcam? Be my fucking guest son, we'll take your fucking money. Just look at us streamers and they're like, what fucking morons? Thank you, come again. Pizza Hut is still surprisingly garbage. I did something for all of us. |
| 14. January 2021 | How long before you burn out? | How long do you think you can keep this up? Just forever? Until YouTube spits you out, no one wants to watch you? Or you're like, well, you know, five years, maybe I'll head on to something else. Something you want to do for the rest of your life. I'm just taking it as it comes for the moment. I think, obviously YouTube's owned by Google and Twitch is owned by Amazon, so you like to think they're real pillars. But you don't want to be like naive, like technology's always superseded technology. Things always change. Like you look at something like Mixcel, which was owned by Microsoft. Like they poured hundreds of millions of dollars, probably billions of dollars into that project. And you think, oh, it's owned by Microsoft, this is going places. And then one day they just pulled the plug. It is crazy. And then all these streamers were like, yeah, that's my career. And they were just like, all right, what do you want us to do about it? And so there is that element that could happen to you. But I think I'm really trying to like design a lifestyle around that now. Like I went so hard for so early making just a video every three and a half days, which might not be like the type of content I've chosen to make. That's a lot of work in three and a half days. Like with, you know, you're just basically not stopping. So this year I'm going to like dial the videos back, but more effort into what I do post, maybe weekly on the main channel, but like really put a lot of effort into it. Give myself like days to really think about what I'm doing. And in between that, I'm going to stream on Twitch just so, you know, I can jump on live and like what you were saying. It's really chill. It's fun. And then post that to Papa Peli. So I'm trying to design a lifestyle where there's less of just like no sleep, no going hard type thing. And I think that's going to help me do it long term because I love what I'm doing. But you know, humans do burn out except you apparently. Like what's your, how long do you think you can keep it up? I will do this for the rest of time until I explode. Like I just, like I don't, I'd say it's just the only thing that I've really found that I've really loved to do. And so I would do it until people stop. I guess really, because actually you can't really predict the future. I will do it until I'm no longer feeling fulfilled doing it. Whether that be because I get sick of it or because the nature of the job changes in some way. Like what kind of content you have to make to be competitive or something or to have people watch or to appeal the algorithm. Maybe that becomes so unpalatable to me that I can't imagine doing it. And then I can then see myself bailing. But as you say, take it by year, whatever. Just see what happens. Because I can't, who can predict what's going to happen in five years? I think your mindset's great. Just be grateful for where we are and keep enjoying it, right? That's all you can do. There's no point thinking like, I've got to do this for 10 years. Just keep making the best videos you can, keep streaming, keep loving. |
| 06. November 2020 | How long can I edit without taking a break? | How long can I edit without a break? How long can I edit without a break? It entirely depends on the project. I've had episodes of PassFest where I've just woken up, literally never kicked off the screen. Where I've had others where it's just been such a slog that I've taken a break like every 10 minutes. Different projects are more or less enjoyable. But the thing I hate most is scrubbing through footage. I hate that shit. I did it for so long myself that of all the things that my editors help me with these days, or make it so I don't have to do, scrubbing the footage is my favorite thing. Scrubbing through footage simply means going through a very large amount of footage and finding the good parts of it. So there might be six hours of footage from a VOD, but you need to cut it down to the 30 minutes of actual good stuff before you can then begin to edit it together. I much prefer the actual editing part as opposed to the scrubbing parts. fû |
| 06. November 2020 | How long can I edit without talking a break? | How long can I edit without a break? How long can I edit without a break? It entirely depends on the project. I've had episodes of PassFest where I've just woken up, literally never kicked off the screen. Where I've had others where it's just been such a slog that I've taken a break like every 10 minutes. Different projects are more or less enjoyable. But the thing I hate most is scrubbing through footage. I hate that shit. I did it for so long myself that of all the things that my editors help me with these days, or make it so I don't have to do, scrubbing the footage is my favorite thing. Scrubbing through footage simply means going through a very large amount of footage and finding the good parts of it. So there might be six hours of footage from a VOD, but you need to cut it down to the 30 minutes of actual good stuff before you can then begin to edit it together. I much prefer the actual editing part as opposed to the scrubbing parts. Any questions? |
| 02. February 2020 | How long did it take me to properly learn to edit? | So that really comes to mind. How long did it take for me to learn to properly edit my videos? There is no properly, as in over time, my focus, what I wanted to create with my content has shifted and changed, and it has thus justified more or less effort. How long did it take me before I created something that today I can look back on and say, that is a good product? Yes. But a part of that was because back then, I was creating something different, something that I now see as unacceptable. I was making content on YouTube for my Twitch audience, and it was a different thing that I was creating. I'm not a perfect editor now. Every day I know something that I didn't know the day before almost, you know? So I'm always getting better, but there are still things that I can't do or things. It's not a matter of not being able to do something while editing, it's not being able to visualize and have a particular idea to do something. When I see D-Mod create the Linus Tech Tips intro that he made for that video, I looked at it and went, I could do that. I could do that, or at least at the bare minimum, I think I could do it now, but at the bare minimum, I could Google how to achieve an effect that I didn't say. But I wouldn't think to do that. I wouldn't think to combine all those things together in that particular way to create such an animation. And that's what I'm trying to do. |
| 16. February 2023 | How long do shorts take to make? | How long do shorts take to make? Question, how long to make a short versus a normal video in terms of editing? Depends on the video. So, I have had shorts that I finished within half an hour. I've had shorts that have taken three hours to do. Because you've got to remember, every single thing you see that happens in a short requires like actual effort to conceive of and then execute on. I might go through a hundred songs before I find the exact song that I want. I might go through a hundred clips before I find the exact clip that I want. All this takes time. Every single cut, every single change in the camera, every single change in the frame, all that takes time and effort. Even if it is a really short clip, it's all going to be really, really precise and that takes time. Anything done in an editing program takes time. It sucks. |
| 06. November 2020 | How long does it take to finish OHKO? | How long does it take to finish one hit KO? How much time does a one hit KO full run take? I think the shortest was around 10 hours. But over time, there's two different competing forces that increase or decrease the amount of time it takes for me to do Oko. Every time I die, of course, I lose time and have to do it again. So over time, I die less because I'm more experienced and I know what to look out for. So that reduces the amount of time it takes for me to finish the run. But also over time, I develop strategies that are usually more cautious and time consuming, which increases the length of the run. So over time, the length of the run has reduced and then slowly increased again as I have attempted to find more consistent strategies, because it's possible that dying five times in one spot can take less time than setting up a strategy for 15 minutes to avoid the possibility of dying at all. |
| 22. December 2021 | How long does rockstar expect people to enjoy the exact same mechanics? | the exact same mechanics. GTA Online is just a very weird game. It is so anti-new person, and so hard to get into if you don't have friends already playing. But at the same time, they have the expectation that people who have been playing for, you know, 8 years are still gonna be cool with walking through hallways and shooting people with the same guns they've been using for the last 8 years. There are just no mechanics that are interesting anymore, yet, as I say, most games that are supported for this long add new mechanics. New things to do. The gunplay in GTA games in general has always been simplistic, but now you've got games where you can, like, vault over stuff, slide to take cover, dive from side to side, you know, that kind of stuff. Like, it's a... you've got a lot of movement options, so you can have your AI be a bit more intelligent in what they're doing. The AI in this game is fairly dumb. Is my merch unisex? Is my merch unisex? |
| 04. March 2022 | How long i’ve been a twitch partner. | How long I've been a Twitch partner? How long have I been a partner now? 60 months. Wait, isn't that exactly 5 years? Guess my 5 year anniversary was 30 reasons. It's almost my 7 year anniversary of my account. I made my account 23rd of 2014. |
| 01. June 2020 | How long on Twitch? | How long have I done Twitch? About five years. With a lot of game companies such as Blizzard, Bethesda and Rockstar for instance, is there any company that is a negative light at the moment you want to see become a good likeable company? Is there any that you want to see crash and burn? I hate Blizzard. I hate Blizzard with a passion. Warcraft 3 was one of my favorite games of my childhood. I played so much of it and when they announced a remaster of it I was like, are you saying I can play all the custom maps that I used to play when I was a kid? And so like everything from the ground up just built better and like all the um UI and issues and stuff is all going to be fixed. That's that's insane. Like I've made custom keybinds and stuff. No way this is actually going to be a remaster of my favorite game. I have something to look forward to. Me, the person who never fucking gets anything gaming wise, it's gonna happen for me. And they they pushed out complete trash. A buggy mess that had like the next to no improvements and even the improvements that they they promised were completely cut back. What fucking cunts. I do not like Blizzard. Don't like the developments they've made with um the China situation banning that dude. I I don't everything I hear from Blizzard these days is just oh no Blizzard's in the news. Oh look they've killed 17 kittens because they wanted blood to summon summon summon Satan. Oh this this is perfectly on par with what I think Blizzard is about these days. Don't like them. Rockstar I also don't like. I don't think they treat their IP as nicely as they should. All the things they've done um you know they they just don't they don't improve their games so they work on modern systems leaving it to modders. When they re-release games or we can remaster them like what they did with SA they make them even worse. That they they still use peer-to-peer servers or peer-to-peer um networking or whatever for their online systems complete trash. That they cut up the GTA 5 single player and threw it into GTA Online. Fucking hate that shit. I I do not like Blizzard or Rockstar. I don't dislike Rockstar as much as I do Blizzard because Blizzard are everyone I'm gonna say everyone there but the company is a whole fucking assholes. But Rockstar is you know just looking out for themselves. The things that they're doing seem to be making a lot of people really happy. You know I hear people complain all the time that people keep playing the GTA Online game so someone must be happy with what they're doing. So that I'm not a part of the group of people that they want to make happy. Uh you know should I hate them for that? I do but is it justifiable to hate them? I'm just not their target audience. I guess like I just wish they would do just one or two things that you know I care about like stopping the hackers and the GTA Online and maybe making servers for GTA Online. Uh or you know releasing games that I actually want to play instead of garbage like Red Evidemption 2. I know you like a chat I'm saying garbage from my perspective okay. I enjoyed it for quite a while it's just so many things in that game if they'd just slightly been changed I could have enjoyed it dah yeah so um don't want to see Rockstar crash and burn yeah well I want to see Blizzard crash but I don't like that company. |
| 01. June 2020 | How long on twitch | How long have I done Twitch? About five years. With a lot of game companies such as Blizzard, Bethesda and Rockstar for instance, is there any company that is a negative light at the moment you want to see become a good likeable company? Is there any that you want to see crash and burn? I hate Blizzard. I hate Blizzard with a passion. Warcraft 3 was one of my favorite games of my childhood. I played so much of it and when they announced a remaster of it I was like, are you saying I can play all the custom maps that I used to play when I was a kid? And so like everything from the ground up just built better and like all the um UI and issues and stuff is all going to be fixed. That's that's insane. Like I've made custom keybinds and stuff. No way this is actually going to be a remaster of my favorite game. I have something to look forward to. Me, the person who never fucking gets anything gaming wise, it's gonna happen for me. And they they pushed out complete trash. A buggy mess that had like the next to no improvements and even the improvements that they they promised were completely cut back. What fucking cunts. I do not like Blizzard. Don't like the developments they've made with um the China situation banning that dude. I I don't everything I hear from Blizzard these days is just oh no Blizzard's in the news. Oh look they've killed 17 kittens because they wanted blood to summon summon summon Satan. Oh this this is perfectly on par with what I think Blizzard is about these days. Don't like them. Rockstar I also don't like. I don't think they treat their IP as nicely as they should. All the things they've done um you know they they just don't they don't improve their games so they work on modern systems leaving it to modders. When they re-release games or we can remaster them like what they did with SA they make them even worse. That they they still use peer-to-peer servers or peer-to-peer um networking or whatever for their online systems complete trash. That they cut up the GTA 5 single player and threw it into GTA Online. Fucking hate that shit. I I do not like Blizzard or Rockstar. I don't dislike Rockstar as much as I do Blizzard because Blizzard are everyone I'm gonna say everyone there but the company is a whole fucking assholes. But Rockstar is you know just looking out for themselves. The things that they're doing seem to be making a lot of people really happy. You know I hear people complain all the time that people keep playing the GTA Online game so someone must be happy with what they're doing. So that I'm not a part of the group of people that they want to make happy. Uh you know should I hate them for that? I do but is it justifiable to hate them? I'm just not their target audience. I guess like I just wish they would do just one or two things that you know I care about like stopping the hackers and the GTA Online and maybe making servers for GTA Online. Uh or you know releasing games that I actually want to play instead of garbage like Red Evidemption 2. I know you like a chat I'm saying garbage from my perspective okay. I enjoyed it for quite a while it's just so many things in that game if they'd just slightly been changed I could have enjoyed it dah yeah so um don't want to see Rockstar crash and burn yeah well I want to see Blizzard crash but I don't like that company. |
| 30. May 2020 | How long to make facts and glitches? | How long does it take to film and upload a Facts and Glitches? When I was doing it all by myself, as in like I wasn't taking any viewer submissions, what it would be is I would play GTA V, speedrun, a couple of weeks, and by the end of those weeks I would have a bunch of things in my afterstream that were interesting facts that I could make a Facts and Glitches video about, or stuff that I've just remembered and I've said look we should put that in Facts and Glitches. And I would already know those 15 things are definitely going in Facts and Glitches, so it would take like 2 hours to record, 3 at most, and I could edit that video and release it that day. But now that I'm taking submissions from viewers, I have to look at the fact, understand what they're saying, which is not always easy to do, look at whatever video they have if there is any, go to that same place, test it myself, judge whether it's actually good enough to be in the Facts and Glitches episode, record the footage and then put it up there and then explain it. Sometimes it's a complicated thing, I have to explain it in a way that the viewers are going to understand. It's a lot more complicated process, so it takes a lot longer, I don't know how much longer, it depends on how many of the facts that I go through and check and blah blah that I ultimately reject, because there's a lot of crap put in there, and a lot of stuff that I already know or that's already been in the series and dah dah dah, it's become a loss more involved while the episodes themselves have not necessarily increased in quality. Certainly there have been some amazing things submitted by my viewers, but at the same time, because before I would take a lot longer before I put out an episode, any episode that I put out would usually be pretty good because I would have enough time to find things myself that were interesting. There's more episodes, that's a good thing I guess, and I am learning things from my viewers that I wouldn't necessarily have ever found myself, so I do appreciate the submissions from my viewers, but again to answer your question, it takes a long time, more so these days. Like I could make an episode of Facts and Glitches just off stuff that I know currently, but it's all stuff that's either been in Pacifist or is going to be in Pacifist, so making those episodes would just be spoilers for that series. I don't know if at the end of Pacifist when it's all out, if I will go back and make a Facts and Glitches about everything in that series, I'll have to think about it. Your question is, what do you think of depression? It is bad. It's sad that people go through such things, and I wish anyone who has depression well, as they- |
| 17. March 2022 | How long will a viral meme follow you? | How long will a viral meme follow you? Oh no! Our table... is broken! I wonder if for the rest of that kid's life, people are gonna be around him like, Hey! My table! Yeah? Or they'll see like a... table that's just fallen over. Hey! That table! You know? Y-your thing? It's broken? Yeah! That's the thing you say! Yeah. It's weird times, I used to say yeah. It was. For the rest of my life, are people gonna be like, Hey Matt! Hey Matt! That guy. He's in uh... He's in witness protection. Is he not? Yeah, yeah! It's like that thing you said that time, yeah. You know, for like, for what? Y-you asked for what? Yeah, I... Yeah. I know. But in this case, Matt, someone was convicted of something. That's... That's great, Matt. |
| 24. February 2022 | How many arms does the average person have? | How many arms does the average person have? Did you know that the human average amount of arms is less than two, meaning most people are above average? These are the facts I don't want you to know. I'm sick of hearing that thing, man. You don't calculate an average that way. Outliers don't count. To calculate an average like that, you'd use a median or you'd remove the outliers. In a situation where you use whole numbers, either the average is one or two. There is no in-between there. You'll quickly find doing an analysis that the people who have one representing 0.001% of the population are outliers. It is clearly not the norm to have less than two arms. In the same way, if you want to determine the average amount of Yu-Gi-Oh cards 10 people have and one person has a hundred and everyone else has none, the average is still zero. If you do a mean and you get yourself 10, that's clearly not the average. The average person in the group will have zero. Saying it's 10 is not accurate. If you walk up and ask a person, how many Yu-Gi-Oh cards do you have? Sure, they're gonna say zero. 0.001% of the time. So you exclude the outlier. Because if you based your predictions of your involvement with people based on the average without removing the outlier, you'll have poor expectations for the future. You do statistics so you can better predict the future. If you do a test of the entire population and you find yourself having and it says, you know, the average person has less than two arms and you move forward with that prediction, you're gonna go, oh, you have two arms. Huh, here I was thinking the average person had less than two arms. Oh, you again! Two arms again. What are the odds? Two people beating the average. Three! Three people beating the average. Oh my god! |
| 25. February 2021 | How many black tank tops do i own? | How many black tank tops do I own? How many black tank tops do I own? Ah, like, thirty. But I've recently bought like fifteen. Six of which are my tank tops from Streamlabs. You know how it is when you get like new clothes, they're a little bit stiff? I don't even think I wash them, which is probably not wise. I sure just found a dirty tank top from my floor. Those are always the most comfortable. |
| 25. February 2021 | How many black tanktops do i own? | How many black tank tops do I own? How many black tank tops do I own? Ah, like, thirty. But I've recently bought like fifteen. Six of which are my tank tops from Streamlabs. You know how it is when you get like new clothes, they're a little bit stiff? I don't even think I wash them, which is probably not wise. I sure just found a dirty tank top from my floor. Those are always the most comfortable. |
| 24. May 2022 | How many hard drives do I have? | How many hard drives do I have on my PC? I've got two NAS drives with 75 terabytes each in them It's 75 terabytes. How do you think I store all this footage and they're almost full Do you store all your videos and streams? Yes, I delete nothing Wish I had that same attitude like a long time back because there's footage from back in the day that I don't have that I wish I did. |
| 02. August 2021 | How many of the top 100 streamers do I know? | How many of the top hundred streamers do I know? The list I'm looking at is the top hundred in terms of subscribers on Twitch. Keep in mind that subscribers on Twitch are paid subscriptions. You can see though, like from this, like how top heavy this website is. As I pointed out, this website is basically just 10,000 streams. Look how quickly it goes up. And then you have the people at the top. It's always interesting looking at the top, like, you know, cuts in half, cuts in half kind of thing. So we can go. It's like 16th has one quarter at first. And half a second, you know, it's such a top heavy website. I recognize that person. Don't know them. I know them. I vaguely know of him and he doesn't seem particularly great. Summit, yeah, he's all right. Don't know this guy. Don't know this guy. I've heard of Moon Moon. I've never seen their content. I've heard of Moon Moon for years. I think they're like an ancient content creator. TimTamman, everyone knows TimTamman. I buy is Spanish dude, right? Is he the Spanish dude? I hear of him all the time. I've never seen his content. Auronplay, don't know this person. Critical Role. Yeah, I know of them. I haven't watched their stuff. Repyoolze, don't know them. Sykuno, I know from all the Among Us stuff. MoistCritical, everyone knows Critical. T90, I know T90 because I vaguely watched Age of Empires stuff for a little while. Quackity, don't know them. GameAttack, don't know them. LuckyChamu, don't know them. Don't know them. SeenThatNamePlaces, don't know them. Don't know them. Don't know them. Don't know them. Minecraft dude. Don't know them. NoAdMob because of his emote. Don't know him. He's a foreign guy who's really happy, right? Don't know them. I know Mizkif. Know that dude. I know Lyric, ancient creator. Watched him forever. Intimately. Don't know, don't know, don't know, don't know, don't know. Don't know. Don't know, everyone knows Dr.Lupo. Don't know. I know Tyler. Don't know, don't know. ConKarnage has so been the platform for Virginia in years. I don't know Rubius. I've seen him around there. Like his patron, his name and stuff. Don't know, don't know, don't know. Everyone knows Jacksepticeye. Don't know, everyone knows Tfue. Don't know, don't know, don't know, don't know. Good day, Mr.Stremer. Don't know, don't know, don't know, don't know. Don't know, don't know. Don't know, don't know. Don't know. Where have I seen this name recently? I've seen this person somewhere recently. Don't know, don't know, everyone knows Shroud. There's no way Shroud only has 10k subs. I guess because he is a bajillionaire, so... Don't know, don't know, everyone knows Forsen, because you've been around for 10,000 years. Don't know. Everyone knows Small- Hey, you've got 10,000 subs! I am the small of GTA V. I will follow Small at Knee's footsteps. Don't know, don't know, don't know, don't know. Hikaru, because of the chest thing. Five up for Among Us. Don't know. Syndicate's still around? Like... Is there multiple people named Syndicate or something? I don't know, no SFM from WoW. Pokey lolz I know from livestream fails. Don't know him, don't know him, don't know him, don't know him. Amrath for the controversies. Don't know. Queen I've seen the name around. Barbarous King. Yeah, I......vely watched him at some point. Um, Pqueen, don't know, don't know. So I probably only know like a third of the people here. Yeah, so that is the Syndicate I'm thinking of then, yeah. You're pro Syndicate and Syndicate, two different people. So like considering me, who's been on this platform for six years, doesn't know the top hundred people. It like, it never surprises me when people don't know who the fuck I am, because I'm basically no one. You know. I know Jerma, yeah I know Jerma. But only like in passing, he'll occasionally have clips......blow up, when he's doing some......cool thing or whatever. He seems like a very creative dude. Creative, interesting fellow. But I don't know enough of him, or his content, but everything I've seen seems positive. Sword Art Online. |
| 01. February 2020 | How many playthroughs before you speedrun | a big important thing for me. Hey Matt, I wanted to ask you about how many playthroughs of GTF I ever took for you to feel comfortable enough to start speedrunning the game. I didn't even finish it once before I started to speedrun it. I had already decided I wanted to speedrun it before I even completed the game. My first playthrough softlocked, so the second time round I just learnt the speedrun and I went through it that way. My first actual completion of the game, which I no longer have, I only have the first upload to speedrun.com, it's on my YouTube channel somewhere. I would stop on the road and go, oh I'd forgotten the route. I'd stop on the side of the road, open up the video of the world record, then I'd watch the world record, then I would continue. The reason why I didn't keep that footage, at least back then, I didn't think it was justified, was because the run was that bad. I was just stopping on the side of the road. If you feel like something is going to be of interest to you, just jump in it. You don't need to go through the game 57,000 times to decide speedrunning. |
| 09. December 2020 | How much control should government have? | their way. How much control should government have? Do you think the state should control the economy more? I don't think the state should control the entirety of the economy. My main interest is in the state guaranteeing certain basic necessities. Access to information, education, food, shelter, water, protection from natural disasters, things that people literally can't control. The obvious prerequisites for a person to be able to achieve prosperity in life. Things that it would be unfair if only some people in society got access to, specifically because of where they're born. I don't think we can have a perfectly equal society. I don't even think that would necessarily be a good thing. Both in that enforcement of it would be garbage, and I don't think everyone would necessarily lead a better life. If you had an authoritarian government, I wouldn't want that government. I would rather have private industry doing such things. Like I wouldn't be able to trust the government to not abuse its power or what have you. It's one of the problems. Once you give government power to achieve certain ends in a democracy, you must accept that at some points, power is going to shift away from those who are ideologically similar to yourself, and they're going to have that same power to do whatever. It's a delicate balance of trying to achieve what you want in society without necessarily creating the circumstances by which bad actors could abuse those circumstances to destroy everything that you're achieving. I don't absolutely trust government. Who would? The degree to which I want any government to have power is entirely a matter of the degree to which I think they would conform to my views of society. One day I might want the government to have this much power, and another day I might want the government to have even less power, but I don't control how much power the government has. You want to create some sort of a middle ground where as much as possible of your agenda, if you like, is achieved, but the ability for someone to come in and fuck it up is minimized, or the ability for someone else to effectively destroy society with the powers that you've imbued in government is impossible. And being one individual, especially one individual voter, your ability to achieve that is effectively non-existent. And so you just sit all day worrying. You can't achieve everything. Again, I don't have all the answers. In general, I'm more inclined to be okay with governments, in part because its power is diffuse and directly accountable in a democracy, where if a private business consolidates power too much, it usually gets too big. It's usually the hands of a very few amount of people that this power is consolidated. A government is effectively thousands upon thousands of people with conflicting motivations, and it's very slow. The ability for the government to do anything is really slow. And because of all the conflicting interests, there's always checks on everyone to a degree in a democracy, a sufficiently working government. In a big company, it's a select few amount of people making those decisions, and they can snap change decisions immediately. And the more power they have, the more influence they have on the economy as a whole, the more integral they're seen to society. Therefore, the more influence that they themselves in the drop of a hat can influence, can inflict, the less your ability to distinguish between them and the government itself, because the government wanting to be reelected has to support this business. And the business knowing that can abuse their influence to get the government to do whatever they want. Like I'm not against private industry, but I am fairly against wealth consolidation, monopolies, a lack of competition. And I do think it's the government should be attempting to break up monopolies, increase competition, to prevent companies from getting too big and too powerful and to |
| 03. June 2020 | How much do i know of GTA V cars? | Hey Matt, how much thought have you put into vehicles whilst playing the game for 8,000 hours? Very, very little. In the vast majority of cases in speedrunning, you're restricted to a particular vehicle or when you have a choice, there's only a handful of vehicles that you're really looking for. You rarely have a choice between two good vehicles right next to each other where neither would lose you time grabbing. At that point you need to know which one's better and it depends on the character to a degree and even then it's usually a fairly obvious choice. |
| 03. June 2020 | How much do i know of gtav cars | Hey Matt, how much thought have you put into vehicles whilst playing the game for 8,000 hours? Very, very little. In the vast majority of cases in speedrunning, you're restricted to a particular vehicle or when you have a choice, there's only a handful of vehicles that you're really looking for. You rarely have a choice between two good vehicles right next to each other where neither would lose you time grabbing. At that point you need to know which one's better and it depends on the character to a degree and even then it's usually a fairly obvious choice. |
| 14. January 2021 | How much do you get demonetized? | How often do you get monetized, demonetized or age gated with your content considering it's vulgarity shitposting kind of stuff that you do? Well, honestly, not like how I wouldn't have had like one video every three or four months, I think. Yeah, I people I've said this many times. The the audience perception of how often demonetization age gating happens is very different from what is actually the reality, except in some very minor cases where people are, you know, talking about guns or something. Yeah, it's quite uncommon for a video to get demonetized unless it's like really out there or something. My career, I think I've had like 15 videos or something that get demonetized. I had a stage where I almost accepted that I couldn't do YouTube as a job because every video got demonetized. And I was just like, look, I'll just do like one video every couple of weeks is like a hobby and I'll just do a normal job. I was really like accepting of that. But I pushed through a bit longer because I really wanted to make heaps of content and do it as a job. And yeah, but it's been good. Like, I kind of learned where the line was. Like the jokes I make. Yeah, like some of them are a bit edgy, but I'm like, I know where the line is like. Was this during the period? So you can probably map it on a timeline. So at different points in YouTube's career existence, since they've made the algorithm, they've tweaked it to give it new information. And that new information has caused it to massively overcorrect. So there was a time when I woke up and like 30 of my How to Speedrun End of Videos were demonetized. And within the week, they all got demonetized. It was every single time they add new information, new parameters to the algorithm, it has to over the subsequent weeks, months, correct itself and get back to a baseline that they actually want it to be. And in each of those instances, there's always those panic videos. I'm screwed. I'm done. Is this your experience that in particular times in your YouTube career, there's been mass demonetization and then things have gotten better slowly over time or? Yeah, like things are really yeah, basically like similar sort of story. Things are really good now though, like I self rate my videos and every single one of them gets confirmed by a human. But I just say like, there's a hateful content in here for comedic purposes. There's violence in here under gameplay. I just tag it and then it gets monetized the whole time. And then a human just checks that I'm not lying. And then it's fine. So it's really good now, actually. You get menu review of all your videos? Everyone, yeah. Wow. Maybe the situation for you is a little bit different for me. Like I do have that thing where I give suggestions, however, but it's only occasionally that I have to send it off for manual review. I guess you say, do you like, do you like if you look at it again, like deeper, it'll say like your self thing was confirmed by manual review. You don't get that. On the clips, when I ask for it to be reviewed, it says that certainly, but I don't think that says that normally. Sometimes on the clips channel that can happen. I think it's just when the algorithm picks it up as being potentially bad and then it will be reviewed. But I only do it. I do swearing, mild swearing and mild violence or something in my suggestions. And maybe because I don't do other things that you flag. Maybe that's why mine don't get humor. Like drug references, sexual references, language, like hateful content. Okay. I don't have that many. But yeah, you're right. That would be an accurate assessment of your content. So maybe better to be honest. But yeah, it's really good. They have that like level so that like whatever the videos don't get pushed to like really young kids and like you don't get fucking. I don't know. Whatever kids play with these days. My god and I commercials on them or whatever. It's good. I think my clips channel doesn't have that option. You only sometimes like I don't know what the requirements are for you to be asked by YouTube to give feedback. I really don't know whether they've just stopped doing it for new channels. I'm not sure. Or you have to have been around for long enough or have a certain amount of subscribers. I'm not sure. But I can tell you that my clips channel doesn't have it. So certainly not everyone gets it. That's so weird because my Papa Peli channel has it. Weird. And that would be about how big is your clips channel? Just hit 200k today. Oh, nice. Congrats. Yes. And my Papa Peli's one's like 120 or something. So it's similar size. It's weird. Hmm. Yeah, because maybe we can look into that later or something. But who knows if YouTube would even have that information publicly. I guess I could ask my partner manager. Yes, but it's probably not that important. |
| 11. December 2020 | How much does a large twitch raid help me | How much does a large Twitch raid help me? How many new people did you think you got from DougDoug's raid? Doesn't matter. A raid or a shoutout never hurts. Worrying about like, oh, did I get a hundred or ten? It doesn't matter. It's something that you just always appreciate. Even just a person who's willing to, you know, give that thought or consideration to another person. Especially a person as large as DougDoug, it's nice, you know. I try and do it sometimes too, you know. |
| 11. December 2020 | How much does a large twitch raid help me? | How much does a large Twitch raid help me? How many new people did you think you got from DougDoug's raid? Doesn't matter. A raid or a shoutout never hurts. Worrying about like, oh, did I get a hundred or ten? It doesn't matter. It's something that you just always appreciate. Even just a person who's willing to, you know, give that thought or consideration to another person. Especially a person as large as DougDoug, it's nice, you know. I try and do it sometimes too, you know. |
| 12. December 2021 | How much merch I sold in Five days | How much merch I sold in five days How much do you how much merch you guys think I've sold well I've had a hundred and nineteen sales So that's like one sale a person could have bought ten items Like the average sale is probably like thirty bucks so people have spent like three thousand dollars on much not that I get three thousand Dollars mind you but you get the idea How long does the merch be not only a couple of days, and I haven't even made like a YouTube video About it yet or like a an ad in one of my videos. I'm still gonna keep adding to it I'm probably gonna put my wide D viper image on it, too. Let's see what happens |
| 02. November 2021 | How much money would I need to be offered to never stream again. | How much money would I need to be offered to never stream again? Are you saying would I take a lot of money to like what sell out my fans or some shit? No I mean, I was presumably there's a large enough amount of money that I do it and I'm sure my quote-unquote fans Like if I was offered a billion dollars to never stream again, and I said no I'm sure my fans about what the fuck is wrong with you. Just like take the money and make YouTube videos you asshole like, you know What about a million would I take a million dollars to never stream again? No, I like streaming too much I mean I think about it but I don't think I'd be able to do it a million dollars is not enough money to live the rest of my life and I I know what I do the rest of my life I'm trying to think what amount of money would I accept and never stream again? Oh, that's a really tough question I'd have to take five million or something and I'm sure I'd come to regret it like I'd spend the money and be like man What have I done? I mean obviously billions with the obvious obviously, but you know like you underestimate How much I enjoy streaming like prior to streaming and YouTube and shit. I'm not even sure I really enjoyed life Didn't we have any aspirations? Didn't have many cares for the future was fairly indifferent about what happened in the future, but starting streaming talking to people Growing something I care about having a reason to get up every day. It's it's a really valuable thing Certainly five million dollars would enable me to financially support my life But would it be a worth a life worth living and the answer is probably as in I'm with five million dollars I would probably be able to look for other things in life that give me similar purpose It just came to mind somewhat similar How to basic was talking about how just for the hell of it. He like got a job at Domino's and Uber eats and something else like because he doesn't make a ridiculous amount of money on YouTube compared to other creators But he makes it quite a bit of money He doesn't need a job. He just did it for the hell of it like if you got that kind of money You can do that kind of stuff Like hey, maybe I could be very passionate about a jet skiing and you buy yourself a jet skiing go to town They say money doesn't buy happiness that there is a correlation between having a high income and being happier Because you have less worries and you have more money to spend finding stuff that makes you happy Where does he say that? It's the cold ones podcast. I'd survive on YouTube though. I don't enjoy making YouTube videos as much as I do streaming and certainly Most the content I make on YouTube is based on stuff. I stream When we're talking about would I accept five million dollars to abandon streaming? That's a hard choice But I'd probably accept it a stream at like let's say three million dollars, but I just can't stream on Twitch I'd accept that in a heartbeat as much as Twitch is the best place for streaming and I like streaming on Twitch At least I could still have some financial security and still be able to stream |
| 22. February 2022 | How much money would i need to stay a night in a cemetary? | How much money would I need to stay a night in a cemetery? How much money would it take me to get to spend a night in a cemetery? The calculation there isn't because it's a cemetery, but because it'd be cold and I have stuff to do. What would be the big deal about spending time in a cemetery? Sure, I'd have to counteract the basic psychological agency detection in an unfamiliar, dark place that everyone's brain goes through. Can I just stay on the grounds? Is there like a house there that people live in? I mean in cemeteries there's some comfortable homes there, like funeral services and stuff there. Like what do you have to be afraid of, man? You know how many people die of unnatural causes at a cemetery? Zero. If you were under any threat of danger from being in a cemetery, then people who work in cemeteries would have like the highest turnover rate, or like the highest levels of on-site deaths. This is not the case. Why do you think that ghost tours and ghost houses can legally set up? They have to get a business license, they have to get business insurance. Do you know how much business insurance would cost for a ghost tour if there was actual any danger to people going on it? It's all psychological bullshit, my guy. I know it seems really real because that's the point of your brain, but going into more detail would be too long of an explanation. I'm just not in the mood. It's just psychological, man. It's why humans have invented literally tens of thousands, just that we know about, supernatural creatures and literally, well, many thousands, just that we know about, of gods. We are hyper-intensive agency detecting machines, and we hate ambiguity, we want to feel a sense of control, we want some sense of understanding, and we assume agency until proven otherwise. And the combination of all these psychological faults that have kept us alive throughout the generations, but are not super useful now necessarily, is that we literally invent invisible shit to explain anything we don't understand. And the entirety of human history has been smart people going, you know that invisible thing that we use to explain this thing? Maybe it's not that thing, and we should think of the actual reason for it, and then we find an actual reason, and then we move on. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. |
| 22. February 2022 | How much money would i need to stay a night in a cemetery? | How much money would I need to stay a night in a cemetery? How much money would it take me to get to spend a night in a cemetery? The calculation there isn't because it's a cemetery, but because it'd be cold and I have stuff to do. What would be the big deal about spending time in the cemetery? Sure, I'd have to counteract the basic psychological agency detection in an unfamiliar, dark place that everyone's brain goes through. Can I just stay on the grounds? Is there a house there that people live in? I mean, in cemeteries, there's some comfortable homes there. Oh, like funeral services and stuff there. What do you have to be afraid of, man? You know how many people die of unnatural causes at a cemetery? Zero. If you were under any threat of danger from being in a cemetery, then people who work in cemeteries would have the highest turnover rate or the highest levels of on-site deaths. This is not the case. Why do you think that ghost tours and ghost houses can legally set up? They have to get a business license. They have to get business insurance. Do you know how much business insurance would cost for a ghost tour if there was actual any danger to people going on it? It's all psychological bullshit, my guy. I know it seems really real because that's the point of your brain, but going into more detail would be too long of an explanation. I'm just not in the mood, but it's just psychological, man. It's why humans have invented literally tens of thousands, just that we know about supernatural creatures and literally, well, many thousands just that we know about of gods. We are hyper intensive agency detecting machines and we hate ambiguity. We want to feel a sense of control. We want some sense of understanding and we assume agency until proven otherwise. And the combination of all these psychological faults that have kept us alive throughout the generations, but not super useful now necessarily, is that we literally invent invisible shit to explain anything we don't understand. And the entirety of human history has been smart people going, you know, that invisible thing that we use to explain this thing, maybe it's not that thing. And we should think of the actual reason for it. And then we find an actual reason and then we move on. |
| 21. November 2020 | How much my editors help me and the value of chaos highlights | To my editors help me and the value of chaos highlights The amount of hours of content you produce are godsend for keeping us entertained if we can't watch you live Thank you. Honestly, it wasn't by editors wouldn't be able to make as much as I do I only have so many hours in my day that I can dedicate to stuff. I do edit Every second of my day that I'm not streaming so I'm doing the best I can it's always nice to have some help there but like on the chaos highlights for example when people leave comments like I really appreciate how much effort Matt puts into these videos, I feel bad because Chaos highlights are probably the thing that I put the least effort into With my editors that have been with me or doing work for me rather for you know a year or whatever I can trust them to do chaos. Yeah 95 plus percent how I would want it to be I don't feel like it's worth my time at this point to review it It's the only thing I don't review or change anymore and that's only been the case for like the last five episodes Before that I could take some credit because I would add stuff But I just don't think I I contribute enough to that series for it to be worth my time to review anymore actually further longer chaos streams than the editor versions if If I didn't have my editors all you would get would be the raw version because I'm sincere when I say Chaos I just don't have the time for it in my estimation the chaos highlights have value The edits are often very funny the memes that come from the very very funny So like the our God is an awesome God thing I have cracked up laughing from edits in the chaos highlight series Like if you can only choose to watch one of them I would probably pick the the chaos highlights honestly, but with that being said I don't think the chaos highlights are better than the raw version to the degree that it'd be worth my time to do so Yesterday I was given an edited version of among us Probably took like three hours Maybe four hours to go through Close to three this is in part because so many of the games were weak and I had to trim down the games even that I wanted to keep and And it just takes so long to review the footage and make changes and actually complete the episode But if I found someone who I could trust to do among us perfectly I wouldn't bother reviewing it because among us only gets You know 25 to 35 K views and I can only use my time In so many places right so like like chaos is a more important series than among us But because I can trust the people doing it I don't feel it necessary to review but for the among us stuff even though it gets less views I spend far more time reviewing it and changing it and fixing it because I can't trust the people who are editing it to produce a Video of a quality that I can I can approve of you know AMD versus Intel in the CPU market. I mean you can't really think of the AMD as the little guy anymore considering How much they're dominating in the CPU space? Well? I mean dominating is still wrong. I mean like What are they like? 25% of the market share for gaming according to steam like clearly what's on offer is Such with the 5000 series coming out AMD is winning and is growing in market share, but Intel is still Technically number one in terms of actual hardware that people own I feel like if Intel wanted to they can dominate again this generation I disagree like obviously my opinions are shaped by the tech the tech youtubers right and I Don't know enough to be able to say whether they're they're correct in their conclusions and their analysis of the market But many independent sources are effectively saying Intel is screwed for the foreseeable future When you're releasing new hardware apparently it's not like you know You whip something up in the lab in six months and then release it in the next six months You have like a roadmap that lasts like Five years or something you know you can't just flip a switch and massively improve and all of Intel's problems Was with their production process of getting to 10 nanometer and 7 nanometer and all that jazz Like if they could solve that they would have solved it. It's not like Intel wants to lose their market share It's not like they don't want to be the best They're not holding back because they're nice. They can't Twitch's change to the VOD view counter VOD means video on demands. It's the stored streams basically Twitch has recently changed the VOD system on Twitch because where else would they change it? So it doesn't just show the amount of people who come after the fact and watch the VOD But it also shows the amount of people who tuned in for the stream Which is weird, and it doesn't show that immediately it shows the amount of people who tuned in for the stream |
| 20. February 2021 | How much of my streams becomes Rambles? | How much of my stream becomes rambles? Ever feel like talking about a topic, but I don't because I think it would make a bad ramble? Not at all, dude. Like, if it will make a bad ramble, it just won't end up as a ramble, right? It's not as though everything that I talk about ends up in rambles. The vast majority of things do. But I probably end up removing, you know, half a dozen things from every batch of footage or whatever, because either it'll be stuff that I've talked about a lot, or I'll talk about it in a way that I don't think is very good, or the topic is no longer relevant. I mean, like, really not relevant. Like, it makes no sense what I'm communicating because new information has come out or blah blah blah, you know. But I don't have the unlimited amount of topics to talk about. I basically talk about anything that comes to mind, because I don't like just having a stream where all I'm doing is playing the game. I like talking about stuff while playing. I think it makes for a much more interesting and engaging stream. Tuning into speedrunning streams, having the content creator not say a single word for like 15 minutes, and then the only words they say are, dang, lost a bit of time there. Streams aren't very interesting, you know. When I get back into speedrunning, though, certainly most of my talking will be about the game. I'll be like, okay, I need to do a break boost here. Okay, got the break boost, then I can go over here. That's not a good time. That's more going to be because I won't be very comfortable with what I'm doing for quite a while. Once everything becomes second nature, it's a lot easier to talk about something else while playing, but when you're having to constantly remind yourself of what to do, you don't really have the freedom mentally to start yammering about something. |
| 20. February 2021 | How much of my streams becomes rambles? | How much of my stream becomes rambles? Ever feel like talking about a topic, but I don't because I think it would make a bad ramble? Not at all, dude. Like, if it will make a bad ramble, it just won't end up as a ramble, right? It's not as though everything that I talk about ends up in rambles. The vast majority of things do. But I probably end up removing, you know, half a dozen things from every batch of footage or whatever, because either it'll be stuff that I've talked about a lot, or I'll talk about it in a way that I don't think is very good, or the topic is no longer relevant. I mean, like, really not relevant. Like, it makes no sense what I'm communicating because new information has come out or blah blah blah, you know. But I don't have the unlimited amount of topics to talk about. I basically talk about anything that comes to mind, because I don't like just having a stream where all I'm doing is playing the game. I like talking about stuff while playing. I think it makes for a much more interesting and engaging stream. Tuning into speedrunning streams, having the content creator not say a single word for like 15 minutes, and then the only words they say are, dang, lost a bit of time there. Streams aren't very interesting, you know. When I get back into speedrunning, though, certainly most of my talking will be about the game. I'll be like, okay, I need to do a break boost here. Okay, got the break boost, then I can go over here. That's not a good time. That's more going to be because I won't be very comfortable with what I'm doing for quite a while. Once everything becomes second nature, it's a lot easier to talk about something else while playing, but when you're having to constantly remind yourself of what to do, you don't really have the freedom mentally to start yammering about something. |
| 19. November 2022 | How much of what I do is for the business and not fun? | How much of what I do is for the business and not fun? I am a person who loves achieving goals, loves building things, and for that reason the business is the fun of it, sometimes for me. I like to incorporate fun that I have with other things as well, but the business is a lot of the fun sometimes, right? Seeing how many views I can get on a video, how many people I can make happy and stuff. I don't know if the business and the fun could be ever entirely separated. If you're asking how many things do I do that I otherwise would not do, most of the editing I would not do. Editing is fun to a degree, but there's no way in hell I would sit every single day editing stuff. The shorts I'm making right now, 110% is just a business thing and I do not like them. The original clips can be good and I have to agree that the changes I'm making to the original clips make them better, but I would not make those shorts if I didn't think it was a good business decision. There's no fun in that for me. I sit there looking at my Adobe Premiere like, oh my god, I have to find another clip today. Holy shit, no. No! Okay, I'll do it. Oh god. And then the end result, I'm like, oh that was actually pretty good, like, this clip's very nice and I like the way that it's presented now and dah-dah-dah, but the process I'm making that, holy shit, just chuck me off a cliff. |
| 26. May 2021 | How much time do I spend on my PC? | How much time do I spend on my PC each day? How many hours do I spend on my computer per day? 13 minimum because there's like the hour after I wake up and then like an hour or two before I go to bed And I sleep for on average Eight hours, maybe seven. Yeah, so like probably 12 13. Do I stream all of it? I have gone through different periods where I stream my editing or I don't stream my editing currently I am streaming editing. |
| 08. November 2020 | How my No Damage runs are different from my other series | How my No Damage Run series differs from the other series that I do. You love to see how the No Hit Run ended? I don't regret how I decided to do the No Hit Run series. It's construction, focusing on all the missions where things can go wrong even if nothing goes wrong. It's very different compared to the How This View Unended which is like 80% fails, you know, maybe more than that. The No Hit Run series is one of the only series that I have where the vast majority of the video can be everything going right. |
| 05. January 2022 | How my audio production has improved | How my audio production has improved. Way, way back in the day, I had all of my audio on one audio track. And so, you had to be very creative with the audio. If I wanted to remove my voice and zoom, I would have to take audio from somewhere else where I'm not speaking and move it in. Um, it was, I couldn't just turn up one thing. It was a huge pain. Then I found out that it was very easy to separate my microphone and all other audio. You can do that in OBS with just software. Very simple stuff. And so for a long time, that was my thing. I had two audio tracks with the microphone and all other audio. So I could very easily just remove my mic entirely. Then I found out that if you have a GoXLR or whatever the thing, what are these things called? The, um, audio mixers. It gives you additional audio tracks on your PC that you can then point towards specific things on your PC. So I've got one set to, so the first one is just my microphone. The second one is the game and all other PC audio. The third one is OBS audio, which is my alerts. And the fourth one is music. So I can turn specific things up and down now. Like you notice in my older videos, whenever I wanted to turn up someone speaking in the game, I'd have to turn up the music as well. So things are definitely improved. But as I say, to do this, you have to have a mixer. You can use virtual audio cables, but it's a huge pain in the ass. |
| 16. February 2021 | How my collab with Merfish came about | How my collab with Murphish came about. You may have seen the collaboration I did with Murphish to do my own Lamarros Franklin. I contacted him on a whim, because I had the idea for a while, but I was like, ah, you know, it'd be a lot of effort to make and I have no... like, I couldn't do it myself, so I'd have to get someone. I just happened to see Murphish's stuff and it was clearly... clearly he knew what he was doing. I was like, ah, you know, maybe it wouldn't be too hard to make this considering how he seems to pump out these videos with some frequency, suggesting that it's not going to take him weeks to do whatever, so he might be willing to make me one. So, I don't know if I should just say the amount of money. How much do you think I paid Murphish for that video? Someone make a poll, actually, I'm curious. Make the poll around 100, around 300, around 500, around 700, or something like that. And around simply means 50 above or below. Yeah, I get the revenue from the video. I paid him a fee. 52% said 300, well, you're correct. I paid him 350. Which is interesting, because the video has made around $300. So, given enough time, it will make more than 350, but... Originally, I offered him a revenue share thing, and telling him if the video didn't perform well, I would give him a particular fee, but he was like, no, I'd rather just get paid immediately. And I was like, fair enough. But of course, I was just interested in having the meme on my channel or whatever, so getting some subs or whatever out of it, as opposed to making money off it. |
| 16. February 2021 | How my collab with merfish came about | How my collab with Murphish came about. You may have seen the collaboration I did with Murphish to do my own Lamarros Franklin. I contacted him on a whim, because I had the idea for a while, but I was like, ah, you know, it'd be a lot of effort to make and I have no... like, I couldn't do it myself, so I'd have to get someone. I just happened to see Murphish's stuff and it was clearly... clearly he knew what he was doing. I was like, ah, you know, maybe it wouldn't be too hard to make this considering how he seems to pump out these videos with some frequency, suggesting that it's not going to take him weeks to do whatever, so he might be willing to make me one. So, I don't know if I should just say the amount of money. How much do you think I paid Murphish for that video? Someone make a poll, actually, I'm curious. Make the poll around 100, around 300, around 500, around 700, or something like that. And around simply means 50 above or below. Yeah, I get the revenue from the video. I paid him a fee. 52% said 300, well, you're correct. I paid him 350. Which is interesting, because the video has made around $300. So, given enough time, it will make more than 350, but... Originally, I offered him a revenue share thing, and telling him if the video didn't perform well, I would give him a particular fee, but he was like, no, I'd rather just get paid immediately. And I was like, fair enough. But of course, I was just interested in having the meme on my channel or whatever, so getting some subs or whatever out of it, as opposed to making money off it. |
| 20. July 2022 | How my content impacts my happiness | How my content impacts my happiness. I've realized one of the things that makes me happy chat is when I feel like I'm making good content. I feel really good about myself and I'm like yeah I totally get why people watch me. That makes so much sense. But right now I don't think my content is very good. The only reason you guys are watching me is because you can't be bothered finding anything different. At least it's true for a lot of you and that makes me feel bad. Like I want to make good stuff and when I'm not making good stuff I feel bad. Like there's just so much stuff I want to make and I feel ill-equipped. The content I make when I'm in a good mood, have energy and stuff is so fucking good. I can watch that content back myself and laugh at my own jokes and I feel witty and all that jazz but the days where I'm mentally feeling slow, I don't have any energy and stuff is just garbage. |
| 31. March 2021 | How my editing priorities have shifted. | how my editing priorities have shifted, I've realized I don't do as much creative editing as I used to. Other than past 5%, because the series that I used to add the most to was How the Sea Run Ended, but that's done. I don't work on chaos highlights anymore at all, because chaos highlights are so formulaic that, the videos are funny enough, and I trust my editors to do them well enough that I don't even look at them now. Because I just don't have time. Even no hit I've taken to now not looking over, because that's also formulaic. It's been done so many episodes that I can trust other people to do it. Well, there's the same exceptions to that, but like most of the time that I used to spend putting a bit of polish on stuff is now being spent doing clips. I still do edits a lot, correcting things, trimming things down, especially with the minor projects, you know, like the the Sonnet 1, Super Mario Maker, or that jazz. But like, Passive is like the only series that I really actually get to be really creative in the thing, rather than just improving things, you know. So much time has taken up by clips. You got no idea. You know how many clips I've uploaded now? 2600. Twenty fucking 600. I'm actually working on Passive now though, because I don't want to work on the bloody Cuphead video. So long! I've already started cutting it down. There's some really obvious jokes that I'm gonna make. But I'll just work on it intimately. But like what I really need to do though, is just catch up on all the clips. Like the more of my old footage I cannibalize, the faster I do it, the more videos I do a day, the faster I can actually catch up to present day. But it's gonna take months, you know? How much does Clips Channel make compared to main videos? Nothing. I mean like, it makes money. It makes like a third. Maybe less than that. But the thing that the Clips Channel does, the Clips Channel spreads so much further than the main channel. You have no idea. It gets so many more impressions. Like, it's not only that. When I make a poll, the same poll on my main channel, which has 600,000 subscribers, and my Clips Channel that has 300,000 subscribers, the poll on the Clips Channel will get more responses. As a vehicle to drive people to my main channel, the Clips Channel is just invaluable. One episode of PassFest, in the amount of time it takes me to make, I could upload like a thousand clips. And those thousand clips are going to generate more views in terms of themselves and driving people to my main channel than PassFest will ever do. It's the conundrum I end up getting into, where I look at something and go, you know, I could maybe do something here, maybe make a creative edit, maybe make an original video or something like that. Nah, upload clips, man. That's why I'm working on the newest episode of PassFest now. Not because I really need to, because I want to do something creative in regards to editing. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 08. July 2021 | How my grandparents won 10k on a scratch off ticket | How my grandparents won $10,000 on a scratch-off ticket. So, down the South Coast, where my grandparents have a holiday house that my grandfather built, bought the land for like $50, like a hundred years ago or something, but whatever, they have this second chance draw where if you put in any scratch-off tickets that you haven't won on, they at the end of the month draw out a bunch of these failed scratch-off tickets and they'll send you some giveaway prize, like a second chance draw kind of thing, right? And so, whenever my grandparents give out scratch-off tickets at family gatherings, anyone who loses all these tickets get gathered up and my grandmother, before she gives them to the news agency, she goes through them. And so she's up at night, you know, 8 p.m. or 9 p.m. or something, my grandfather's gone to bed, I'm not sure what time it was, and she's reading through each of the scratch-offs just to make sure no one has accidentally won something, and she's going, okay, yeah, yeah, oh. She wakes up her husband, my grandfather, and she's like, I think we've won $10,000, Pete. And he's like, oh, so we have. I guess because no one expects to win $10,000, so someone at a family gathering has just gone, oh, I haven't won anything, and chucked it back in, and the only reason it wasn't chucked in the trash is because my grandmother does this second chance draw thing down the South Coast. You know, funny little thing. They gave a bit to everyone in the family or whatever, so they bought everyone something. We got like a VCR player or something, we got like $1,000. My grandparents are wonderful people. |
| 18. February 2021 | How my income differs between Twitch and Youtube | How my income differs between Twitch and YouTube. Which platform gives you better income YouTube or Twitch? Maybe only for the last three months YouTube gives me more income. It was close before that but there's no way Twitch can compete now because of the clips channel. I mean even without the clips channel my main channel still gets more. There's just so many more people on YouTube. It just has room to be so much bigger. You know? Does the clips channel pay well? What do you mean by well? Because the ad revenue per view on my clips channel is effectively nothing. Let's just say that you know how they say rule of thumb a dollar per thousand views and like everyone knows that's nonsense for the vast majority channels it's way higher than that. For my clips channel it's way lower than that. Like way way way lower than that and the reason is because there's an internal cooldown on YouTube as to how fast you can get ads and because there's no mid rolls on any of the videos and and you can watch 10 videos in that internal cooldown you're not likely gonna get that. So the views may be super high like if you had the kind of views that my clips channel had on a normal channel you'd be rolling in it right but uh because it's clips I'm not but it's still just because of how many views there are it still makes a nice bit of money. I'm not gonna quit doing everything else and just upload clips is what I'm saying. I was talking in a discord for content creators recently and it became readily apparent that even my main channel the money that it makes per thousand views is really low by comparison to most channels. Like there's CPM and there's RPM like uh I don't know what does RPM stand for but it's like the real actual money that you get and some people are getting like ten bucks a thousand views and I'm getting like a tiny fraction of that. As I've pointed out many times while all us YouTubers are in the same business what we actually do and what we receive in the job is very different. It is as different as can be. Some people upload one video a month for a bajillion dollars and some people upload 10 trillion videos a day for 15 cents kind of thing. I've always just assumed it's because my audience all that because I make violent video game content right and so the amount of people who want to put ads on that is less. |
| 18. February 2021 | How my income differs between twitch and youtube | How my income differs between Twitch and YouTube. Which platform gives you better income YouTube or Twitch? Maybe only for the last three months YouTube gives me more income. It was close before that but there's no way Twitch can compete now because of the clips channel. I mean even without the clips channel my main channel still gets more. There's just so many more people on YouTube. It just has room to be so much bigger. You know? Does the clips channel pay well? What do you mean by well? Because the ad revenue per view on my clips channel is effectively nothing. Let's just say that you know how they say rule of thumb a dollar per thousand views and like everyone knows that's nonsense for the vast majority channels it's way higher than that. For my clips channel it's way lower than that. Like way way way lower than that and the reason is because there's an internal cooldown on YouTube as to how fast you can get ads and because there's no mid rolls on any of the videos and and you can watch 10 videos in that internal cooldown you're not likely gonna get that. So the views may be super high like if you had the kind of views that my clips channel had on a normal channel you'd be rolling in it right but uh because it's clips I'm not but it's still just because of how many views there are it still makes a nice bit of money. I'm not gonna quit doing everything else and just upload clips is what I'm saying. I was talking in a discord for content creators recently and it became readily apparent that even my main channel the money that it makes per thousand views is really low by comparison to most channels. Like there's CPM and there's RPM like uh I don't know what does RPM stand for but it's like the real actual money that you get and some people are getting like ten bucks a thousand views and I'm getting like a tiny fraction of that. As I've pointed out many times while all us YouTubers are in the same business what we actually do and what we receive in the job is very different. It is as different as can be. Some people upload one video a month for a bajillion dollars and some people upload 10 trillion videos a day for 15 cents kind of thing. I've always just assumed it's because my audience all that because I make violent video game content right and so the amount of people who want to put ads on that is less. |
| 17. December 2022 | How my lack of sleep changes my content | How my lack of sleep changes my contents. When I'm not sleeping well, I have a very hard time speaking, or being funny, or moving, or interacting with reality in any capacity. I'd do my best, but I recognize this would be a YouTube video later, and so for the convenience of the person who'd be editing it, whoever that may end up being, if I misspeak, I try and re-say a sentence. Why am I always not sleeping well? Things keep me up. I get stressed about stuff. I stay working on things, or waiting for a thumbnail or something. Pushes the sleeping pattern back further and further. And then I have to, like, reverse my sleeping pattern, and those are the times where it really hurts my head. |
| 08. November 2020 | How my no damage runs are different from my other series | How my No Damage Run series differs from the other series that I do. You love to see how the No Hit Run ended? I don't regret how I decided to do the No Hit Run series. It's construction, focusing on all the missions where things can go wrong even if nothing goes wrong. It's very different compared to the How This View Unended which is like 80% fails, you know, maybe more than that. The No Hit Run series is one of the only series that I have where the vast majority of the video can be everything going right. |
| 15. February 2022 | How my perspective is now forever poisoned for others | And I watched Charlie's first video because I hadn't read the document. And maybe I'm also I guess probably everyone who hadn't hadn't read the document and just watched Charlie's video is sort of. Tainted. Oh yeah, poisons. But that's that's the entire framing now. Everything's about that, you know, everything's about that. One of the things I complain most about was he spent the first six minutes talking about it. I'm like, like if Charlie had made a video only talking about that claim, I don't know how you would do that exactly. And that'd be kind of weird because I guess your focus would be on the Twitter comments, as limited as they were. But then when he started talking about the rest of the document and that he again misunderstood it and therefore misrepresented it. I was very annoyed that so many people would no longer be able to interface with that content with an open mind. Because as you did suggest, well, I would argue these aren't new ideas. They are potentially somewhat new in terms of their application to this space. And so given that they're new and potentially saying things that people don't want to hear, you want people to be as in a good mind as possible when reading that. Which, again, perhaps your criticism that in a different world, I wouldn't have included those at all, given that I'm already asking a lot from people to read 14 pages. And I'm already asking for people to be receptive to ideas they haven't heard before. And that just made things worse for myself. But that's why I'm just so angry because I no longer will ever have the chance to have people just look at my actual words and arguments with an open mind. It's denied to me forever. And I was very much so proud of my writing, even though I only spent a day on it. I thought that was very well written and presented my ideas in large part in the way that I wanted to. And I just wish there was a world where I could go back and just have everyone care about the actual document as opposed to two sentences. OK, check this out. We removed those two analogies. I make the video and no one will know that you wrote it. I mean, because I haven't read the script. I would change more now than that. And I don't think you want to spend the time on it, dude, even so. It's a funny idea, man. Yeah, it is a funny idea. I'm not being serious, but it's just funny because it's true. It would be interesting to just, I know, even if not you. To see who notices. Yeah, it would be very funny. It would be actually even funny on a different topic if I wrote something and gave it to you. And to see if people would catch on that it wasn't your style of writing and was mine with. |
| 04. November 2021 | How my rambles cost me a $3000 sponsorship | How my Rambles cost me a $3,000 sponsorship? I got the sponsorship. It was worth three grand. I was like, oh that's very good. I did all the work for it, put all the time in. Then at the final hour they were like, yo, we understand that the vast majority of your content is speedrunning and GTA and stuff. You're a speedrunner Rambles series. We don't like that, so we're gonna cancel the deal. I'm like, I did all the work already. You contacted me like a month ago. You already knew about the content on my platform. Like yeah, guidelines have changed. So you've set up an agreement. You change your guidelines. Continue the fucking agreements. Apparently there's some clause assigned in the contract where we're talking about politics or some shit. I don't know. I totally would understand if a company said, yo, don't want to associate with anything that even is tangentially political. I'd be like, that seems weird. A smallest fraction of what I do mentions in any way, shape or form politics. But that's your business. That's fine. But string me along for a month, having me finish the fucking work, agonize over it and deal with it and then pull it. That's just fucking nonsense. |
| 22. September 2022 | How my views on the GTA 6 leaks changed | How my views on the GTA 6 leaks changed. I made a few tweets about the situation as my thoughts evolved on the issue. This is the first one I made. Leaked GTA 6 footage looks good. No idea when filmed. Could have been eons ago for all we know. Description suggests a disgruntled employee. That's not true. Hard to imagine. It's fake but who knows. It is real. This release on the anniversary of GTA 5 suggests that it could be guerilla marketing but isn't Rockstar's style. I misspelled guerilla marketing. It's the other spelling of guerilla. Clearly given that the source code leaked this isn't advertising. I still get comments where people say oh this is just Rockstar trying to bait attention or whatever. Nah GTA 6 doesn't need more attention and they're not going to release their source code for that. I wonder why the GTA 6 main characters moved to Vice City and whether the weather influenced their decision. The leaks created more questions than they answered and I hope this is resolved in the upcoming trailer. I'm funny. GTA 6 leak initially made me excited because I liked what I saw. Was dampened when people pointed out this steals the hype from the official trailer. Became just sad learning about the potential negative implications for the devs and game especially with the source code leak. So as I've said before I didn't know anything about coding. I didn't know how significant a source code leak is. I knew of it as being a bad thing. I didn't know that. I was unaware of the true ramifications of that. People talking about how it can make it easier for people to you know hack the game, create cheats and stuff. That seemed bad but as well people talking about how the devs might not be able to work at home anymore and Rockstar is going to clamp down even harder and make things a lot more restrictive for the devs. That seems pretty bad. Being not an expert I can't tell you how significant it is but just hearing people talk about it. Initially I thought this was just going to be like a little sneak peek that we just happened to get all fun and games but now it's like some serious thing where they're leaking the GTA 5 source code as well and that could create even stronger mod menus and whatnot and it's just garbage. No amount of small glimpse of GTA 6 is worth the possibility that it might be delayed or made worse for these leaks and we don't get the hype of the first look at the trailer because as I've said before I wasn't around when GTA 5 was first announced so I was obviously in existence but I didn't care. I picked up GTA 5 in 2015 with the PC release so I didn't get to be there day one and be like oh my god it's a trailer for GTA 5. I'm still going to have that experience with GTA 6 but it's probably not going to be as impactful had I not seen anything at all. Have I seen the tweet about Rockstar about the recent leaks? Ah yes. A message from Rockstar Games. Why write this? It's from the Rockstar Twitter like who else is it going to be from? This is a message from Frank guys. He works in accounting. It's just his opinions man. Again a message from Rockstar- okay. You gotta be 100% sure it's coming from Rockstar Games. I shouldn't be making fun but you know. We recently suffered a network intrusion in which an unauthorized third party illegally accessed and downloaded confidential information from our systems including early development footage for the next Grand Theft Auto. At this time we do not anticipate any disruption to our live game services nor any long term effect on the development of our ongoing projects. We are extremely disappointed to have any details of our next game shared with you all in this way. Our work on the next Grand Theft Auto game will continue as planned and we remain as committed as ever to delivering an experience to you, our players that truly exceed your expectations. We will update everyone again soon and of course we'll properly introduce you to this next game when it is ready. We want to thank everyone for their ongoing support through this situation. The Rockstar Games team. I hear that the hacker is like 16 years old or some shit who had been caught before but got like a slap on the wrist. Yeah it's hard to imagine if it is indeed the dude who also hacked Uber that Rockstar and Uber aren't just gonna like take him and chuck him into a wall and he's gonna go splat. |
| 28. July 2020 | How offended people will impact GTA VI | How people being offended will impact GTA 6. Do you feel that GTA 6 will be affected by the snowflakes of today? I'm I'm very much so in the minority in regards to talking about people's opinions. I don't think people have become more sensitive today than they were in the past. I just think they have a better greater ability to affect products because of social media or to communicate their feelings about different things. Like when back in the day when you didn't like a TV show you wrote letters and controversial TV shows will get thousands of letters. But so what? No one sees those letters except the the producers or whatever. You might get like if something's really outrageous you get a small little bit in the newspaper. Now if someone's even slightly offended, it's all over social media by both the people who agree with it and those who want to highlight these offended people for their own political agenda. Saw an article recently when we did the rounds on Twitter. A person's like activists want to change the the national anthem of America to imagine, you know that song? Imagine all the people. And people look at this and go there was one person. One person on Twitter. When Doom the new one of the new Doom games was coming out all these anti-social justice warrior channels were like look at these activists social justice warriors on Twitter talking about how bad the messaging of this game is and you look at these look at these videos and you're like that's like four tweets my dude and they have like a collective interaction rate of like a hundred as in like a hundred people between these four tweets liked the tweets. But this is apparently evidence of unified thought. It's just a lot easier to find the offended people and for those offended people to throw out around their waste in the in the media sphere to get results compared to before. People have always been massively offended. They just had a harder time communicating these offenses and actually getting shit done because of it. Like people were making people were burning books. People were bringing musicians before Congress to justify their lyrics and and the music that they were making and they would condemn them for for corrupting the youth or turning people to witchcraft and Satan. People would accuse Dungeons and Dragons of you know again corrupting people bringing them to Satan. They would release movies communicating the the horrors of Dungeons and Dragons. People have been offended by stupid shit forever. Once upon a time you could be arrested for wearing the wrong fucking clothing. You couldn't even swear on TV. The stuff that we get away with in media today wouldn't fly ten years ago. Not even 20 years ago, 30 years ago. People like to pretend that people are just somehow in the last 15 minutes just become a new race of creatures suddenly more communicative of their disgust. It's nonsense. I mean part of the marketing for older GTA games was literally playing into these offended sensibilities. They paid magazines to write articles. Oh you see Grand Theft Auto? You can do all these terrible things. You can run people over with cars. Outrage marketing. It was literally the basis of Grand Theft Auto. It may be why it's successful today. Playing to people's outrage in the 90s. But suddenly today people are snowflakes. When in ages past they were just stoic anyone can do whatever they want kind of people. It's nonsense. It's it's a stupid narrative. To what extent I think Grand Theft Auto will be impacted by these sensibilities. I don't think at all. What's gonna water down Grand Theft Auto is that Rockstar isn't the same company it was seven years ago. Where they're clearly more interested in having a very broad base that they're appealing to right. They're gonna go oh we don't wanna we don't offend those people. We'll lose money. Scrap it, scrap it, scrap it, scrap it, scrap it. You know? It's gonna be watered down you know saying something but not really saying anything kind of video game like oh bad things are bad and that's all we're gonna get. And it's not gonna be because of the snowflakes on Twitter. Oh my god. Imagine living in a world where you think the snowflakes on Twitter really fucking matter. It's it's gonna be because they want the money and they want more people to play the game and they're worried about pissing off people. Oh yeah, I absolutely love I absolutely love how Rockstar set that shit up. Any time anything bad happens in regards to Rockstar they can say look guys we're with you. We're with you. We just have to listen to Take Two Interactive. Hundred percent it's Take Two Interactive. Yeah, and as they're rubbing all the money all over their bodies. Oh yeah, Take Two Interactive. Just guys don't hate us. Just hate Take Two Interactive. Oh the money. If Rockstar is unable to make their own decisions Rockstar doesn't exist. There is only Take Two Interactive. You can't have it both ways. You can't say Rockstar exists as its own entity, yet it can't make decisions. That's just nonsense. |
| 15. January 2023 | How often do you rewatch YouTube videos? | How often do you re-watch YouTube videos? You're glad YouTube brought back the red progress bar? Why is that? Well, what I was seeing is that while watching YouTube videos, it would show a gray bar permanently underneath it. It was very small and easy to not notice, but it would always show the progress you had with the video. Not sure if you guys had this as well, but I guess they were trying to see if always being aware of how long the video had left, like, what would that do to your viewing preferences and patterns? It is certainly the case that sometimes I look at a video and I think, well, have I watched this before? And I notice the red line, and I'm like, oh, well, I have watched it because the red line's there. It could be possible that some videos, I would just forget I watched them, and I would re-watch them happily if there wasn't some indication that I had watched them before. Like, I'm sure these are the sorts of things that YouTube tests out. Like, the reason why YouTube will recommend you videos you've already seen is because people will click videos that they've already seen and will re-watch them sometimes. And they wouldn't do that if it didn't result in people clicking videos. |
| 01. July 2020 | How older competitive games rebalance | How older competitive games rebalance using map choice? Favorite YouTube under 10,000 subscribers? I'm not sure I watch anyone under 10,000 subscribers. I know I've subbed to someone recently, someone who did some smash video like Micro Smash or something, where he talked about how different stages change what strategies are viable in Smash and why. He uses an interesting analogy where he, or just example, by the way, he talked about Starcraft 1, how they're still doing Starcraft tournaments and how, how can the meta still be changing in a game that's now what, almost 20 years old? And he says how they do it is that they change the maps that are used in any tournament and depending upon what maps are used, different strategies become more or less viable or different races become less favored. And so he was saying, like, if melee, smash melee ever gets stale, then something like that could happen as well. The stales, the stages get jumbled up. You don't see the the normal, what is it, six stages that they use right now. They can bring in some what some of the weirder ones to make other characters more viable. |
| 04. March 2021 | How political am I? | How political am I? How political am I? I consider myself to be mildly political. I would be more so if I didn't possess more doubts about myself. Sometimes I will just sit back and think about something and just realize I don't have answers to some fundamental questions about society or life or existence and it bothers me. And I'm just like, well, I'm gonna go watch some anime or read some manga or watch TV show and forget all about this. Until next time. |
| 13. March 2022 | How prevalent is fan service in anime? | Fan service in anime. Fan service is why a lot of people think anime is weird. I don't see much of it in the anime that I watched. The last one I can remember is... I watched Fairy Tail like five years ago or something. And there's like a full episode where they're like, Hey, we're going to the beach. And the character's like, but why? We- we've got this important stuff to do. And the character responds, oh, you know, it's a fan service episode. I was like, like they just fully unacknowledged it. And I guess maybe it was a filler episode. I'm not sure, but damn. |
| 26. May 2021 | How rambles are found | How the Rambles are found. How do I find the Rambles? Are you asking how I used to find them? Or now? These days, all the footage for No Damage is given to one of my editors. And they break it down in the same way that all the episodes are broken down. Where they mainly focus on the missions where there's a possibility of me taking damage. And all the jokes and stuff that I say in between the missions, you know what I'm saying? While that stuff is all being put together, Rambles are being put to the side. And every time one of the editors has like 40 minutes of Rambles that they've put to the side, they send them to me and I pick which ones are worth being put in an episode of Rambles. And then I maybe cut them down a little bit or remove certain things. And then I put the voice-overs in, put the titles, and then make the index at the start. And then it becomes an episode of Rambles. I found good editors. I have four good editors. And I've had three of them have been with me for over a year. |
| 01. September 2020 | How rambles are made | Rambles are made. What qualifies as a ramble? How do you select and remember which clips go there and which don't? All of my footage is watched after the fact. The instructions I give my editors is any topic that I speak on for more than a minute, put it in the rambles. And then when they send the rambles to me, I assess which ones are good enough to go to YouTube. And in some cases, I trim them down to remove things that I consider superfluous to my points or to make myself in the past better communicate what I was trying to say. Rarely do I add additional context, but sometimes I also do. Thoughts on the. |
| 12. November 2022 | How react content harms small creators the most. | How React content harms small creators the most? Do I think React content is dying the same worse? No, it's getting bigger. As it's become more and more accepted, the financial benefit of just exploiting others has just become more and more pronounced. One of the ways that room was made for new creators to get into the space was when older creators, the bigger creators, burnt out. They couldn't think of new ideas, they couldn't be bothered doing what they were currently doing, and would just necessarily fade away and have to quit. There was no other alternative. But now the alternative is React content. You can keep your audience with you for far longer than you otherwise would normally be able to by just re-uploading other people's videos. You don't need to watch anyone else, guys. You just stay with me. I upload ten fucking videos a day, don't you worry. |
| 31. March 2021 | How responsible are people for their state of affairs and why this matters in politics. | This continues from the previous topic, how responsible are people for their state of affairs and why it matters what you believe on this issue? Why is that political? The degree to which anyone can be said to be responsible for their own actions? Very important politically. You can almost say it underlies all of politics because a person who is in a poor state of affairs, if they are responsible for that state of affairs, then the degree to which people will believe them deserving of help will be different. As in like if a person sets off a bunch of firecrackers in their home and destroys their home, there's gonna be a significant amount of people who would just say, man, it's your fault when you just fucking around with firecrackers. Man, you're an idiot man. What am I gonna do, help you? You think the government should buy you a house because you are so irresponsible with your first one? Get fucking real. But if a person has that same house knocked down by a tornado, there'll be a lot more people who go, well yeah, that's bad luck. It could happen to literally anyone, man. We should help them out. We should rebuild their house. This principle of responsibility underpins like basically all of politics. Like retribution in prisons and whatnot. It's punishing those who would dare do bad. But if people aren't responsible, a product of their genetics, their environment, what have you, then punishment on that level doesn't make any sense. If a person makes a million dollars and a person says, well they're wholly responsible for that, that's their million dollars. A person might not be willing to say taxation is justified. But if you believe that the person's not responsible for making their million dollars, it's a mere happenstance. Or you believe at least to some degree that factors of luck are involved, that that person isn't entirely responsible for those earnings, you'll probably be more willing to say taxation is justified. Effectively every issue in politics kind of comes back to this, how much are people responsible for where they are presently alive? Like go back to that original discussion with that person who burnt their house down with firecrackers. Let's say they were born with a low IQ. IQ is wrong. Let's just say that they're born mentally unable to realize the likely consequences of their actions or something. Are they less to blame now? How far does that go? How far do you go? Well this is just genetics. If they were born into an environment where they watched their parents every single day light fireworks in their house and have no issues, and that emboldened them to perform the same action, and other people don't have that same influence in their environment, is that person who burned down their house really responsible? And you're all gonna have different answers to this. And to what degree can we say they're responsible? You can absolutely see how if there was a different factor in their environment that communicated to them the risk of using firecrackers in their house, their house probably wouldn't be burnt down. There'll be a thousand other people at the exact same time who coincidentally exist in environments. They're moments away from lighting those firecrackers in the house, but coincidentally in their environment there's a brother, sister, mother that goes, oh that's a dumb idea! What are you doing? Stop it! Is that first person to blame because those factors weren't there? Is the person who was stopped by their brother from burning down their house, are they more deserving of their house not being burnt down? So you have two identical people and the variable that determines whether their house gets burned down by fireworks is the existence of a brother that says that's a stupid idea. Is one more or less deserving of having their house burnt down or having their house not be burnt down? And you're all gonna have different answers to these kind of questions and it's gonna probably say a lot about your political meanings. It's like when people bring up differences of knowledge between individuals, the information you have access to, the information that you learn, the people around you that give you information, the information from your experiences, the experiences that you have. It's all a matter of, you know, where you're born. Some people are gonna have the right influences that lead to the right experiences, that lead to the right information for a happy, productive, healthy life in society and other people won't. And I hold nothing but pity for such people who aren't as lucky while still recognizing that the consequences of them still exist irrespective of to what degree I would say they're responsible for who they are. As in, it doesn't matter how much a murderer is a product of their environment, they're still gonna murder. It doesn't matter why a murderer is a murderer, a murderer will still murder, you know, and there will still need to be some response to that in the hopes of preventing the outcome of additional people being murdered, you know. It's why I'm very much so an end result-oriented kind of person. What were the consequences of A-V-E? |
| 13. October 2021 | How satisfied am I with my life | enough. How satisfied am I with my life? How satisfied am I with my life? It's a tough question. I believe myself to be in a place where I'm pretty happy and I have the opportunity to achieve the other things in my life that I currently have yet to achieve. So I have not achieved everything I want in life. There are things in my life that I'm missing, but I'm of the position that I can achieve those things if I truly strive for them and that's enough you know. |
| 20. December 2021 | How scripted traffic works in GTA 5 | How the scripted traffic works in GTA 5 is the traffic scripted here um it's more that the Amounts of vehicles are scripted and they'll all start roughly in the same place But the vehicles can be different sizes, and they can move differently, and there's a finite amount of Variations that can occur like if I went through it slowly I can be like yeah He can be like to the left or the right or a little bit full foot forward and some to some sections It's always the same car in other sections It's like what this can be a truck or it can be like a bike or whatever you know and obviously the difference between a truck And a bike is significant in terms of what you can do |
| 24. May 2021 | How some clips make 10x the revenue for the same views | How some clips make 10 times the revenue of other clips for the same views. There was a guy named Sully who said that shorter videos were receiving bad revenue that it affected your clips channel too. Fun story actually. So someone mentioned that in chat a few days ago and so I looked up that video and the guy was like yeah there's a bug where videos under 2 minutes are not getting good ad revenue, like they're not getting pre-roll ads. And so they complained to YouTube and YouTube was condescending like um look up this stuff and then you understand how ad revenue works and he's like no this is insane, it's like one third or a quarter of what it normally is. This is definitely an error or some change on the back end and YouTube came back a few days later and apologized and said yeah okay it has been sorted. And so hearing all this I'm like oh well I wonder how this has affected my clips channel. And so I looked at my clips channel and yeah the RPM which is like the real amount of money you get per thousand views was like a one third to a quarter for like um three four days and it was the lowest that it had ever been. What was very interesting about this video that Sully made is he mentioned that videos under 30 seconds don't get pre-rolls. And I was like oh really? Well I have a lot of videos on my clips channel that are under 30 seconds. You know actually one of my most popular videos of all time is under 30 seconds. I'm going to compare what an under 30 second video gets to an over 30 second video. So I have two videos on my clips channel both with 3.5 million views, one at 24 seconds one at 56 seconds and the 56 second one has 10 times the revenue. 10 times. So I only got one tenth of the revenue that I would have gotten if that 24 second clip had been six seconds longer. Even learning this though I'm not going to change how long the clips are because I make so many anyway and I more care about making a good clip than I do making one that's over 30 seconds. But it's interesting to know that any clip you see on that clips channel that's under 30 seconds is making one tenth of revenue. Because there's still ads like on the side of the stuff and stuff whatever but these ads don't get nearly as much money as pre-roll ads. Pre-roll being the ads put before the video itself. You remember 10 minutes ad revenue? It's all about the 54 second ad revenue baby. I mean these days you can put mid-rolls in if your videos over eight minutes rather than ten. Yeah so you need 30 second video for pre-roll over eight minutes to have a pre-roll and mid-rolls. I mean at least it's now helped me understand why my RPM or CPM if you like. Why both are so low on my clips channel compared to my main channel and stuff. I mean it'd still be somewhat low because they obviously I can't put any mid-rolls on my clips channel. It's yeah knowing I'm not getting pre-rolls on a quarter to a third of the clips is like makes sense. Have you ever thought about putting clips from the same video in one video? I hate you. Okay so there is this I don't know if people are joking when they say it so I'm gonna I'm gonna explain it right now. The reason why I don't make compilations of my clips is because all that footage is already on my main channel in longer videos. Some of the clips on the clips channel is literally just me taking footage from my YouTube videos and making making inter clips. If I then made a compilation of the clips I'd just be remaking the original YouTube video. Like it's the dumbest suggestion ever. And so I don't know if people are serious or not. I've been watching your clips randomly not knowing who you are so I decided to follow you a few days ago. Oh thank you. I was just saying a day or two ago for the longest time the difference between my clips channel and my main channel was 300,000 subs. But recently that started to change where my clips channel is actually catching up to my main channel. Now you could make the case well oh you know it's just more subs from your main channel and now finally subbing to your clips channel but I don't think that's the case. A lower percentage of people who watch the clips channel subscribe but because so many more people watch the clips channel it leads to more people subscribing than the main channel. You get me? It's like you know 40 million views or whatever on the clips channel and 10 million on the main channel and just because there's so many more on the clips channel it just leads to more people subbing. Although it's not as though every single one of those views is a unique view but I also know from the back end that more individual people are watching as well. So because the clips channel gets exposed to more people more people end up subscribing to it compared to the main channel even though arguably the clips channel is not as nice to subscribe to because your sub feed gets full of my clips. Do you think YouTube shorts will help your clips channel? I made 15 and none of them performed amazingly. Like I took my best performing clips that are on my channel ones with millions one millions of views and they just did okay when I made them into shorts. Now you can argue that's because they weren't new clips they were a re-upload of old clips but it takes a lot more effort to make shorts like a lot more effort. Like I can either make three shorts or I can make 24 normal clips and I think the 24 normal clips benefits me more especially because shorts aren't monetized or at least there's no pre-roll ads in shorts. I think you still get monetization in terms of like ads on the side of the screen and stuff if people watch shorts in the same way that they watch normal videos right because you can do that you can click a person's sub box and click a short and watch it and I should you probably get pre-roll ads there too. I think it's just when you watch shorts in there in the actual shorts tab or whatever there's no monetization you know. Do you think people are consuming a lot more small content like your clips channel than larger videos like your main channel? It'd be interesting to look at the back ends how much watch time the comparison between two because obviously a view on my clips channel the average is going to be like you know 30 seconds where a view on my main channel the average is like 11 minutes. Clearly my main channel is being watched for longer than my clips channel but more individual people are watching the clips channel over the main channel. Something like clip channel can't maintain same audience that stays for years and click through rate? Uh debatable yeah it's possible. I mean on the back end of YouTube now you can see how many new people are watching versus how many returning people and there's a lot of returning people the over one majority are returning people as in people who've watched a clip before and are watching another one. It is uncommon for a person to consistently watch one creator for a particular creator for a very very long time right. Even my main channel has a replacement rate of people getting sick of me and moving on to something else you know. Short can be very beneficial I'm sure I click on the short section a lot absolutely it's just it takes more effort to make a short. The content that I produce isn't suitable for 9 by 16 it's made for 16 by 9 and trying to shoehorn it in to make it fierce into 9 by 16 is both time consuming taxing and it doesn't produce something better than the original. There's only so much that I can do as I've said before maybe it would benefit me to define someone to do this conversion for me but every attempt that I've had to do that every person just failed completely and utterly and then every time I mention that someone has failed completely and utterly I get emails people saying oh I could definitely do it then I let them try and they fail. Converting work to make it shorter and to present it in an interesting way and an interesting format and stuff it takes a level of creativity even while it may not seem that way on the outset. Did you guys see that Mors mutual insurance clip or whatever he made like DaBaby's head as a car in GTA 5 has 10 million views by now. I don't get the DaBaby meme either although I did find out that in my playlist I actually listened to a DaBaby song because it was a TikTok meme and I enjoyed it. Why do people keep writing let's go? Is that the song? Oh yeah where it says let's go. Oh no that's not the song that's the meme right. Then what's the meme song that I liked from TikTok? I think it was related to anime. I don't know. It's a shit meme okay. |
| 20. October 2021 | How speedrunning messes with my sleeping | How speedrunning messes with my sleeping Does this whole sleeping speedrunning thing ever mess with your sleeping schedule or so the problem with speedrunning and streaming is You don't know when the stream is gonna end so there has been days Where the stream has gone a lot longer than I would have expected and it has fucked with my sleeping schedule But the thing that most fucks with my sleeping schedule is drinking too much caffeine and getting really into doing some editing I'm like I want to finish this video tonight, and I will just go that little bit longer and completely fuck myself I'm like oh, you know one more hour won't hurt and then my sleeping schedule is completely fucked Because I if I do that enough times then suddenly I'm going to bed at 6 a.m. |
| 01. September 2021 | How speedrunning taught me my state flag | Hell, speedrunning taught me my state's flag. Forgive this next clip, it does have scuffed audio. You know what, you know what's really funny? It should have occurred to me, but I had never seen my state flag until I started speedrunning. Because on speedruns.com, when you choose your state in your country, it shows the flag of your state. I was like, what is that flag? That's not the Australian flag. Oh, it's the New South Wales flag? What the fuck? You know? It's very surprising. |
| 16. November 2022 | How sponsored creators are implicitly manipulated to give good coverage. | How sponsored creators are implicitly manipulated to give good coverage. When reviewing a game, are you required to refrain from talking shit about it till after review? Very rarely do they specify that you have to have a particular tone, but as I've talked about before, companies don't like it when you shit talk them. You have an incentive to find value in what you're being presented to promote. So even if you consider yourself to be above board, you would never lie to your viewers. You would never lead them astray. There is clearly an incentive, even an implicit one, a subconscious one, for you to not necessarily shit talk whatever you're playing with, right? It's why like, remember a TotalBiscuit, the person who, you know, was a reviewer of games, he used to say like, you send me a gift basket. I would never review your games. Or rather, like I'll disclose it. I can't remember his exact phrasing, but he was like, that's now in my head. You're a nice person. You've given me a gift basket of chocolates or something. And when I'm reviewing your game, maybe that's not at the forefront of my mind, but that's in there somewhere. And that's gonna taint the way that I perceive your work and potentially may lead me to not be as harsh as I should be. And that will always exist in sponsored content, right? Generally speaking, when I play games, I just like to show you the game. I like my commentary to just be humorous about the game itself, what's going on, the cutscenes and stuff. I'm making, trying to make witty funny commentary. I'm not necessarily trying to steer you to like it or dislike it. I want to show it to you, not necessarily tell you what to think about it. But obviously, I've been paid to play the game and that money is, even if not at the forefront of my mind, is going to potentially subconsciously lead me to present things in a particular way or be less negative than I otherwise would be or what have you. Take my sponsored gameplay as something you can potentially enjoy, as I'm trying to make it enjoyable, and judge the game for yourself and get a wide variety of sources of reviews for games. Skill up, nice guy, respect his reviews, go watch them as well. If you really care, you should never rely on one person for an impression of a game anyway. |
| 28. November 2020 | How streamer collaborations work. | Crazy. How streamer collaborations work. Scott the Woz collab? I like that dude. His content mind however has absolutely nothing in common. I think I'll be doing a collab with someone soon. Better not say who just in case something happens we don't have to do another thing. So I received an email, I'm not gonna say from who, but it was a new streamer who wrote me a long email suggesting that we work together and do collabs and stuff. They're just starting out. And I don't even have the heart to respond to this email. Maybe people who don't stream, don't make content, don't know how collaborations work, but in general you collaborate with people around your size. Unless of course you're already friends or you know them from some other case. Asking a random stranger to collab with you who is nowhere close to your size is something that's extraordinarily weird. It's like walking up to a random stranger and being like, hey, wanna come over to my house and play some video games? Just like, no? Because when two content creators are around the same size, like you recognize the business thing there. Cause you can both benefit from the cross promotion. But when there's a brand new content creator asking a much larger content creator for a collaboration, all that space is saying is, hey, can you give me some viewers? Cause in no way will the larger content creator benefit from that collaboration in any capacity. But collaborations take work. You don't know if your personalities are gonna jive. You have to spend the time to make sure your schedules align, you're in the same time zones, da da da, wake up at the same, at the right time. Deal with all the technical issues that are involved in that. Doing all of that for literally nothing as a large content creator is not something you would ever do. Collaborations are either done because the two people already know each other, already know that they can make good content, they already know that their personalities meld, align, whatever. Or it's when it's mutually beneficial. Please do not send emails to large content creators asking to collaborate. It's not good. Although, asking for like a sound file or something, that's reasonable. Something that takes effectively no effort. Oh, but note, a collaboration is different than just like a spur of the moment playing a game with each other, right? Bukka and I, when playing Among Us, we weren't collaborating as streamers. We were just playing Among Us. More than this though, at the very least, the size difference between me and Bukka is not insurmountable. He averages like 100 viewers, which makes him a quite large streamer in terms of the Twitch as an entire platform. |
| 02. February 2022 | How the $702 big mac almost became the $6202 big mac. | How the $700 Big Mac almost became the $6,202 Big Mac. I had been up for a lot of hours, I was extraordinarily tired, I was about to go to bed because I had moved my sleeping pattern and I get a text message from a company and they're like look we're a debt collecting agency, can you call us back or whatever, we're contacting you on behalf of the NRMA, I have insurance with the NRMA. So I looked them up on the internet, they seemed legit, so I called them and they're like yeah you owe $5,500 for an accident that occurred November 2018 and I was like what? $5,500? What the fuck? I'm like that can't be right because I remember that accident specifically and I've even got a video made about it, it's where I went to get a Big Mac for $2 and I accidentally reversed into and it slightly clipped a car and I had to pay $700 in excess to NRMA, the video is titled the $702 Big Mac. I got the most expensive motherfucking McDonald's meal of all fucking time. $2 Big Mac? More like $702 Big Mac. It's like oh, this is the only information I have here, maybe you can call the NRMA or something because I called the NRMA and I'm so tired at this point, like I'm like holding my eyes open, I just have to get this sorted and every sound that came out of my phone from the fucking NRMA waiting call was just driving me insane, I thought I was going to kill myself, not literally of course, I'm just saying, like let me out. Eventually they pick up the phone and he's like oh, I don't know why this has happened to you, I'm like what do you mean? He's like yeah you've clearly paid the excess, there's absolutely no reason why this should have been given to that company to collect death from you or something, you clearly don't know anything and he's like let me contact the people who contact the people who contact the people and so I was put on hold, he came back to me like three times, he's like yeah yeah I gotta call this person, gotta call this person and eventually he calls around and he's like yeah, this doesn't make any sense, it's been sorted, have a good day, I'm like ah okay. So this entire thing, like I'm panicking for like an hour with this whole thing, going through all my files, going do I have anything that shows that I paid this money, I'm contacting my fucking mother, it was very stressful and then I couldn't get to sleep and so it kind of ruined my sleeping, it was a, it was terrible. At least that's all. |
| 30. May 2021 | How the Dream scandal destroyed my credibility among speedrunners. | How the dream cheating scandal destroyed my reputation amongst speedrunners. This is a very brief summary Yeah, that's actually crazy. Dude. You spoke to dream and everything. Let's don't man. I followed that drama real closely I was so interested to see how it played out. Yeah, so did I It fucked my reputation something fierce with the speedrunning community. You have no idea. It fucked your reputation Oh, yeah, absolutely because um, because so you know, I don't want to get into too much But um, I when that paper came out I was pretty on board with yeah, he definitely cheated and then I I Talked to the people who wrote it because I'm in the discord with a bunch of other speedrunning creators and the people who wrote this stuff And they couldn't answer my questions and they explained the paper in a way that clearly made it so that I didn't fully understand What was in it or its implications and that made me doubt myself and then I talked to dream He seemed like a good guy at the end of it I'm like, you know, I'm not convinced you cheated necessarily but then and I said look I want to see more because I I was clearly just Riding the like following the hate train or whatever and then more stuff came out Breaking down his paper all the mistakes that made more statisticians came out and said no. No, this is nonsense clearly dream Trillions to one or whatever. I'm not like well then he definitely cheated but um, it was just a it's a rollercoaster of Realizing that I didn't really have good foundation to believe he cheated then, you know It was expressing my doubt causing people to hate me and then changing into accepting that he cheated but that last part where I changed my mind back most people don't know that and That that I didn't follow the bandwagon even to that small degree Means that uh people spam at me like oh you got paid off by dream, bro He's buying your cars and chill like really you really think that man? I'm making tons of money and I don't need to pay me money You know, but it's just that it sucks but it was a it's an interesting experience more more people came aware of me like it Business-wise maybe it helped me but it's just uh, your views probably went way up during that I mean, I was one of these funniest interactions was when Forsen was like oh then this guy was clearly paid off or he just did it for the views in the sense that I was paid Money to change my mind or that the interview itself was conditional on me changing my mind It looks at my channel and he sees the conversation with dream and like half a million views and like two days before I had Me just rambling about GT 5 story and I had like 2.5 million views and he's like, oh, maybe he doesn't need the views whatever that Yeah That's good. Yeah, the drama did definitely give me some viewership. It wasn't like crazy amounts, you know |
| 01. January 2021 | How the GTA 5 speedrun discord came to be. | GTA 5 speedrunning discord came to be. For those unaware, there is a discord that is for all GTA speedruns But there is a specific discord also for GTA 5 speedrunning. I hope there aren't too many people who inadvertently go to the GTA speedrunning discord as opposed to the GTA 5 speedrunning discord. Occasionally some people do seem to get lost and they go there and ask questions. The GTA 5 discord for speedrunning came about many many years ago due to the frustration of not being able to control the channel where people talked about GTA 5. What would end up happening is whenever anything about GTA 5 had to be discussed or a new strat was found or anything like that, the amount of runners of the other games who would pop in to give their opinion or spout nonsense or what have you would just be insane. And we didn't have the ability to make new rooms, like we had to go through levels of bureaucracy or whatever to get anything fucking done. Huge frustrations and because of the barriers to doing that it never got done. So we had like two channels to talk about GTA 5 that were always swamped by people who didn't play GTA 5. Nothing could get done. So we ended up making a separate discord. The game was even back then too active to make sense to be a small part of a larger discord. Like now in our own discord we have like 20 rooms or something for various different purposes. |
| 08. December 2021 | How the GTA 5 speedrun.com page once suffered a coup | How the GTA 5 Speedrun.com page once suffered a coup. This was back in mid 2017. There was a couple of supermods for GTA 5 who did effectively nothing. And then there was me and Havi who were normal mods, right? And you know me, I'm not a person who likes to rock the boat. This is for the GTA 5 Speedrun.com board things. Ry Dog, without discussing it with anyone who ran GTA 5, went to the moderators of Speedrun.com itself and got every single supermod and mod removed from GTA 5 and he made himself supermod. So he had complete control over the GTA 5 Speedrun.com boards even though he hadn't run the game for two years and did nothing to support it. If anything he talked shit about GTA 5 at every chance he got. To do this, he lied an amazing degree about how the boards were run, what the boards were like, who was involved. What came out was just the biggest shit show I've ever seen. He kept making all these statements like, oh everything should be done by consensus, we should discuss things, this isn't a dictatorship. But he had at no point discussed this with anyone as he put himself in charge. He kept saying, oh Matt you do nothing. And I'm like, what do you mean? The only thing I was made moderator to do was to check any time that I saw on Speedrun.com. That's it. I literally had no power to do anything else except that. And he's like, oh you never check any times except your own. And I'm like, that's not true. As demonstrated by here, here, here and here and here and these 17 conversations I had with people about checking times. He's like, oh but you didn't do anything else. I'm like, but I had no power to do anything else. It wasn't my job to do anything else except check times. That's the only reason Zoton made me mod at all. And he's like, oh but Heavy has allowed times that were wrong. And I'm like, I'm not fucking Heavy. We already removed, I think we were going to remove Heavy as a mod. I don't want to speak to the things he said about Zoton. And what ended up happening, long story short, was eventually I got a mod that RyDog hadn't lied to for like two days to oversee everything. And I said to him, hey look, if RyDog is deserving to be the only Supermod, let's vote on it. Let's just have everyone involved vote on the issue. And the second that came up, RyDog gave up. He's like, fine, I won't be Supermod. Because as the voting showed, no one wanted RyDog as Supermod. Because no one who runs GTA V knew who the fuck RyDog was. Instantly, of course, I was promoted. And I made it so Torix was promoted as well, even though I was pretty convinced he wasn't going to do anything, which has turned out to be the case. The mod who RyDog lied to for two days wasn't convinced that RyDog was a troll. Like wasn't convinced. Like nah, he's a good guy, man. Even though everyone in the GTA community knows that RyDog is a troll. Wasn't fucking convinced. When RyDog failed to be put as Supermod, he deleted all his times off the leaderboards. Every single one. He deleted every single one of his messages he'd ever done. Showing how much he really cared about GTA V in general. I offered RyDog multiple opportunities. Like he kept saying, oh, the times are bad. The times are bad on the leaderboards. And I said, great, we'll fix the times. As we already have done, as demonstrated here, here, and here, and here. And the times are actually fine. But if you're really concerned about the times, we can do that without you being Supermod. But he wouldn't step down. As I told the new mod that we contacted. Look, if all this was about making the leaderboards better and having the times good, why would RyDog reject every single proposal where the times would be made better but he wasn't Supermod? If RyDog only cared about the leaderboards, why would he reject any proposal where I was Supermod? Like what I said, he's just fucking power hungry. That's all he fucking cared about. But it's all in the past now. So it doesn't matter. |
| 27. December 2020 | How the biggest GTA Speedrun cheater was caught. | GTA speedrun cheater was caught. Yeah, I think that's probably the biggest high profile cheating in the GTA community was Ante getting caught for some of his runs cheating in Vice City and the reason was because so he made it so the game made his bike go faster than it normally can go and and the reason why people noticed is because the bike he was using only would make smoke when it takes off or something if it was going at above a certain speed and no one else could make that smoke appear with the normal speed that the bike has and that just opened the floodgates of people examining his speedruns in other GTA games and whatnot and he was doing the same sorts of things in like San Andreas and stuff just suddenly increasing the speed of his vehicles. Apparently the reason why he got away with it there were other situations where some sort of suspicious things would occur but because the games are so old and prone to weird bugs and stuff and Ante having been in the community for so long people wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt so they're like Oh, you know, it's just the game being weird. It's fine but as I said before all world records are fleeting if you have to cheat to get a world record if you want to keep that World record you got to keep cheating and so the longer you keep cheating the longer you maintain it eventually You get caught it I'm sure it'd be easy to cheat yourself to fifth place but cheating yourself to world record where people actually scrutinize that shit hard You know the best example of a person cheating and getting away with it is for a very long time I mean is this dude who spliced a 16 star world record like over ten years ago, of course back then the Scrutiny was less the checks were less But the main reason he got away with it is he did it apparently once and he just had world record for a bit And then lost world record and did nothing about it The only reason he ended up getting caught was because he bragged about having world record on some guy's video He's like, oh, I used to have world record back in the day you know how it is and so the dude was curious so he looked up the guy's run and he download the video and put it into the Into like Adobe or whatever and could see all the splices whether the audio didn't make sense |
| 14. May 2020 | How the crisis has affected me | How has COVID-19 affected me in my local area? There hasn't been all that much. Like, the supermarket has never closed down. There has been a lot of delays in different packages coming. I haven't been as free to go different places. I can't get a haircut and whatnot. I've been inconvenienced in endless different minor ways. The places that close down are mainly things that I don't go to. You know, social gathering places. You know, movies, restaurants, bars, that kind of stuff. That's all closed down. But that's not something that I'm really involved in anyway. So the larger things that were shut down in this country didn't really affect me. But many of the inconveniences were very inconvenient. And I did bitch and complain about them, even though other people are having it worse. |
| 08. December 2021 | How the gta 5 speedrun.com page once suffered a coup | How the GTA 5 Speedrun.com page once suffered a coup. This was back in mid 2017. There was a couple of supermods for GTA 5 who did effectively nothing. And then there was me and Havi who were normal mods, right? And you know me, I'm not a person who likes to rock the boat. This is for the GTA 5 Speedrun.com board things. Ry Dog, without discussing it with anyone who ran GTA 5, went to the moderators of Speedrun.com itself and got every single supermod and mod removed from GTA 5 and he made himself supermod. So he had complete control over the GTA 5 Speedrun.com boards even though he hadn't run the game for two years and did nothing to support it. If anything he talked shit about GTA 5 at every chance he got. To do this, he lied an amazing degree about how the boards were run, what the boards were like, who was involved. What came out was just the biggest shit show I've ever seen. He kept making all these statements like, oh everything should be done by consensus, we should discuss things, this isn't a dictatorship. But he had at no point discussed this with anyone as he put himself in charge. He kept saying, oh Matt you do nothing. And I'm like, what do you mean? The only thing I was made moderator to do was to check any time that I saw on Speedrun.com. That's it. I literally had no power to do anything else except that. And he's like, oh you never check any times except your own. And I'm like, that's not true. As demonstrated by here, here, here and here and here and these 17 conversations I had with people about checking times. He's like, oh but you didn't do anything else. I'm like, but I had no power to do anything else. It wasn't my job to do anything else except check times. That's the only reason Zoton made me mod at all. And he's like, oh but Heavy has allowed times that were wrong. And I'm like, I'm not fucking Heavy. We already removed, I think we were going to remove Heavy as a mod. I don't want to speak to the things he said about Zoton. And what ended up happening, long story short, was eventually I got a mod that RyDog hadn't lied to for like two days to oversee everything. And I said to him, hey look, if RyDog is deserving to be the only Supermod, let's vote on it. Let's just have everyone involved vote on the issue. And the second that came up, RyDog gave up. He's like, fine, I won't be Supermod. Because as the voting showed, no one wanted RyDog as Supermod. Because no one who runs GTA V knew who the fuck RyDog was. Instantly, of course, I was promoted. And I made it so Torix was promoted as well, even though I was pretty convinced he wasn't going to do anything, which has turned out to be the case. The mod who RyDog lied to for two days wasn't convinced that RyDog was a troll. Like wasn't convinced. Like nah, he's a good guy, man. Even though everyone in the GTA community knows that RyDog is a troll. Wasn't fucking convinced. When RyDog failed to be put as Supermod, he deleted all his times off the leaderboards. Every single one. He deleted every single one of his messages he'd ever done. Showing how much he really cared about GTA V in general. I offered RyDog multiple opportunities. Like he kept saying, oh, the times are bad. The times are bad on the leaderboards. And I said, great, we'll fix the times. As we already have done, as demonstrated here, here, and here, and here. And the times are actually fine. But if you're really concerned about the times, we can do that without you being Supermod. But he wouldn't step down. As I told the new mod that we contacted. Look, if all this was about making the leaderboards better and having the times good, why would RyDog reject every single proposal where the times would be made better but he wasn't Supermod? If RyDog only cared about the leaderboards, why would he reject any proposal where I was Supermod? Like what I said, he's just fucking power hungry. That's all he fucking cared about. But it's all in the past now. So it doesn't matter. |
| 30. September 2022 | How the hell is House of The Dragon successful? | Is House of the Dragon successful? Depending on House of the Dragon so far, I do not care about it all. I'm surprised it's doing good numbers I think maybe House of the Dragon might be doing good numbers because people miss Because like people would have events for Game of Thrones like they'd all come rounds to one person's house have like a barbecue or you know Socialized and stuff and then watch the show like it was people's get-together show people probably missed that It wasn't the show was the friends you made along the way. Yes |
| 26. November 2021 | How the name of the rambles series changed | How and why the name of the Rambles series changed. I do like what I'm doing now, releasing a speedrunner Rambles as it's now called every second day. I'm concerned because of all the YouTube cracking down on political stuff. So I moved from political ramblings, I'm like, ah that's a bit too political, then I moved to controversial ramblings, I'm like, ah you know, maybe YouTube doesn't like controversy either. So I've now made it a speedrunner Rambles. Because I realize that series isn't about bringing people to my channel, it's about providing content for those who are already at the channel. And a speedrunner Rambles, at least I guess that would appeal to people who watch speedruns and stuff. So maybe, because my rambling videos have gotten me subs. They're not an insignificant amount of subs, and not an insignificant amount of views. |
| 14. January 2021 | How the really old content creators got started | Yes, certainly I like hearing from the really really old content creators like when I Got going there was at least knowledge that there was a path to success. There were already people making a living Yeah, but the other people were like the soda poppins the destinies or whatever the the people who got into live-streaming you know ten plus years ago when or even YouTube back then when no one was making any money and And I think about and and some some of these people dedicating that much time to something that no one even thought was a viable career Now that takes balls or insanity Just insane man, I was like, I don't know how you do it like, um Yeah, I haven't talked to too many people about their sort of career the ways they've got into it But everyone's has such a different story. I feel yeah, it's not especially because it's not It made me these days. It's a path that you can directly choose or one that seems feasible At least because so many people have done it but back then it You know, it just seems so crazy the idea people making money live streaming on YouTube with ads and shit What the what the fuck are you were doing? It's crazy isn't it like you you start doing like YouTube as a hobby and then or maybe as just for fun or whatever And then it reaches a point where it's like you're working full-time or you're studying full-time and you're making content full-time I'm like you can do it for a while and then you get to a point where you like the content has to start making money Like not that you ever started for the money, but you're like, I've got to pay rent I've got to buy groceries and I'm spending all my time doing this channel Like I've got either work or do the channel and I think that's the difficult the difficult one for most people I was like yours was more of just like a full send from from University. Yeah. Um, it's cool |
| 26. November 2021 | How the speedrunning splits know when to change | How the speedrunning splits know when to change. The splits are the thing on the left hand side of the screen that differentiate the different segments of the speedrun. How does the timer thing know when to switch? Is it a hotkey? No, there are two different types of autosplitters that exist. One which is a fairly new one actually. It looks at an image on the screen. It looks at your screen all the time. And if the screen looks to a certain degree like an image that you've already given us, it will split. So if you have a game where it always comes up and says mission clear, you can have that be the thing that causes the split. The traditional autosplitter and the one that we use is hooked into the game and looks at the memory addresses. When you complete a mission, a memory address will change from 0 to 1. And when that occurs, the split is like oh okay, split. The changing of the memory address taking the place of the pressing of a button. You can make it split for literally anything. |
| 22. November 2022 | How the ‘college campus grift’ works. | be complete bullshit and because the person sitting there in the chair on the campus is unable to respond to them in the moments, then they're going to look like a fool. There is no way to win. The footage that comes out is usually controlled by the individual so they can selectively choose the people who have fared the worst to present a narrative that a viewpoint is weak despite them never having challenged a person who is actually strong in that position. On a college campus, because it is true of all young people, you will have people who are unable to defend every position that exists. A person who has spent 40 years studying something can hold the same conclusions as a person who spent 15 minutes. Finding the person who's only spent 15 minutes says nothing about the strength of that position because this is true of every position that exists. You will have this happen in your life where you will wholeheartedly believe something is true and find someone and engage them in conversation, be like, oh, we believe the same things and you ask them why they believe as they do and you think there are more despite them having the same conclusions because that is just life. But this isn't the goal of the campus grift. The goal of the campus grift is specifically to find particular people who support particular positions and to showcase them as somehow unique in the campus environment when that is not the case. If you see a person who frequently does this kind of campus grift, they are not interested in presenting to you a fair view of the world or having particular positions truly challenged. They are just interested in the PR of that position. They want to find the weakest possible opponents to knock them down and to present a reality where those weakest opponents are the most common of that position. It's kind of like in the same way that crime rates can be going down, that if the news is reporting every day that a crime happened here, crime happened here, whether you like it or not will taint your view of what's happening in a kind of a macro sense in your society. If a person does nothing to find the weakest supporters of a particular position and shows to them over and over and over again, regardless of the reality of the evidentiary support of that position, you will eventually come to have a lower opinion of that position and that is the grift. |
| 15. January 2022 | How to assess whether a system is “good”. | How to assess whether a system is good. Like I had a person write a comment on my recent rambles, and they were like, sure it makes sense to not support democracy. Because like, sure you can be a person educated on politics and do a bunch of research to find out which candidate actually supports what you want and can better society, and then you can cast your vote. But another person could just show up on the day and just pick at random. As I was saying before, in life you're not looking for the perfect system, you're looking for the system that produces the most positive outcomes. Because no system won't sometimes produce negative outcomes. No system is without flaw. There is only better systems relative to other alternatives. And it bothers me sometimes when people only look at the negatives of a system, or only weigh the positives and negatives of a system. They don't compare it to the other alternatives. I've made this criticism frequently in actually many of my response videos. How bad something is, is not simply an assessment of the negative outcomes of the thing. It's the negative outcomes versus the positive outcomes versus the negative and positive outcomes of alternatives. |
| 09. January 2022 | How to become a YouTube member | How to become a YouTube member. This button. It costs three bucks in my country, but there's also this bit. But it can cost like 50 cents depending upon your region, and you get access to the emotes. But I'm slowly adding in as I get new slots. Need to eventually get 5,000 to get all the emotes lost. |
| 09. March 2022 | How to best support me non-monetarily. | How to best support me non-monetarily. Don't even think about it. Don't act in any sense with, uh, like, how does this best support DarkFiveAU. I'm doing fine. Not as fine as I've been doing in the past, but I'm doing okay. So just, uh, enjoy yourself. Watch- watch my videos that you're- you're interested in. Don't watch the ones that you're not interested in. Just, uh, live your life. Delete- |
| 28. January 2022 | How to contact me and actually get a response - Please don’t abuse. | How to contact me and actually get a response. I'm gonna give you guys a little bit of a life hack here, okay? I have one set of DMs open, and that's my Discord DMs. And I do read all my DMs. But how you get a response from me is to write something that isn't high or wave. And usually my response is an email. Rip my DMs. Yes, please do not just spam me random shit, because then I'll either have to close my DMs or I'll have to block some people. Like it pains me sometimes that people will just send me, Hi, or the wave with a Discord email thing. And I'll be like, oh no, because I have nothing to say to that. I have nothing to say that and I'm a busy guy. I'm not going to start a conversation with you. And these people are like, oh man, Dark Viper never saw my message when I said hi. I did see it. I just had nothing to say because you are a random stranger who just waved at me randomly, you know? |
| 28. January 2022 | How to contact me and actually get a response -please don’t abuse. | How to contact me and actually get a response. I'm gonna give you guys a little bit of a life hack here, okay? I have one set of DMs open, and that's my Discord DMs. And I do read all my DMs. But how you get a response from me is to write something that isn't high or wave. And usually my response is an email. Rip my DMs. Yes, please do not just spam me random shit, because then I'll either have to close my DMs or I'll have to block some people. Like it pains me sometimes that people will just send me, Hi, or the wave with a Discord email thing. And I'll be like, oh no, because I have nothing to say to that. I have nothing to say that and I'm a busy guy. I'm not going to start a conversation with you. And these people are like, oh man, Dark Viper never saw my message when I said hi. I did see it. I just had nothing to say because you are a random stranger who just waved at me randomly, you know? |
| 15. July 2021 | How to deal with burnout from video games | How to deal with burnout from video games. Do you have any tips for when you're burnt out on video games on how to make it fun again? Find a different game or find a different hobby or find a game that you used to love from your your childhood as I can replay it. What you can do in gaming is so diverse I mean fine invest in VR if you have the money or something you know. You don't have to like video games you don't have to but don't you feel like if you didn't like games you wouldn't know how to spend your free time but I like other things like streaming, editing, making videos and whatnot, audio books, books. I'd probably exercise far more. I mean for real like if you if I had to lose one type of media if I didn't earn a living through gaming it'd probably be the one that I would ditch. Oh no he'd probably be movies movies and then gaming. I'm not sure how I could live without good tv shows. Like I good tv shows good books you know I like good stories. |
| 31. March 2021 | How to deal with doing very long streams | How to deal with doing very long streams. I'm still not waking up with the same energy that I used to have, which is unfortunate. I'm still finding it hard to get through 4 hour streams. Thinking back though, when I used to do, you know, 6, 7, 8, 10 hour streams or whatever, I talked far less, I did far less, you know? And that probably made it far easier. Like I would tune in to some people who were on their like 12 hour stream and I'm like, how do they do it? And there would be nothing going on stream for all that time. And they wouldn't even say a word. I'm like, okay, well that's how they do it. I tuned in to Summit's stream yesterday for like 5 minutes. He had 50,000 viewers, he'd been there for 12 hours or whatever, and I think he said like one word in that entire 5 minutes. He was just sitting in a car, talking about something like he's going to steal 20 grand from a bank or something. I was just like, uh, okay. And people enjoy that stuff. And maybe that's why I should become a role player, dude. I guess people just want to stick around for when there's exciting moments. |
| 27. November 2022 | How to deal with procrastination. | How to deal with procrastination. It tips to terrible procrastination. What do you gain from your procrastination? You won't even remember what the fuck you were doing at that point. Gives you no satisfaction, no long-term joy. How it should make you feel worse in the long term. So why are you doing it? Why are you specifically doing something that's gonna make you worse off and sadder in the future? Don't be dumb. |
| 16. June 2022 | How to deal with stress at university | How to deal with stress at university. Hey Matt, can I get some advice? How do you deal with all the stress from school? I'm in my first year of university, I'm drowning and I want to quit by the way. Happy birthday. Partition your time well. Work on things earlier, so you don't get stressed about them coming up. Recognize that avoiding work will not make you happy, and will just increase your guilt, frustration, stress as you move forward. Realize that you're ultimately investing in your future, and throwing it away clearly doesn't make sense. I don't know, because I was always fairly confident I could succeed at university. I was never at a point where I'm like, I'm completely fucked. |
| 31. October 2020 | How to get rich. | How to get rich. Can you formulate a way to get rich guaranteed? There is no such a way, except being born wealthy already. The thing about becoming rich is it takes luck and hard work. The more wealthy you want to become, the more lucky you have to become. Because at any given time, the amount of variables impacting your prosperity, they're always going to be astronomically more outside of your control than within your control. You have to be lucky enough that those are within your favor to get you to that point. Hard work can only go so far because there's literally only a finite amount of hours in a day that you can possibly work. There's only so much effort you can apply to any particular goal at any given time. But luck in this case just means things outside of your control that impact your goal. It's effectively infinite. Analyze any wealthy person's history and you'll find endless variables that were coincidentally in their favor to get them where they are today. The wealthier the person, the more variables you'll find that were just in the right place, right time. It doesn't say wealthy people haven't worked hard for their wealth necessarily. Exactly. If you don't put yourself out there... The example I always bring up is they studied people who consider themselves lucky and people who consider themselves unlucky. And they found that the difference wasn't how often a person got more or less lucky. It was more that the people who consider themselves lucky because they thought they could succeed, they put themselves out there more. They entered in more competitions. They applied for more things. Because they're like, oh, you know, I'm a lucky person. I'll win some, it's guaranteed. And the unlucky people like, well, you know, I'm not going to win, so why bother? Believing that you can succeed, regardless of your likelihood of success, is an important component in success. Which is why it's very useful if from a young age you are surrounded by people who are like yourself, who happen to be successful. Could you look around you and go... Well, if they're successful, success is probably possible for me too. But if you're born in some place where no one is successful and you don't have any reasonable pathways to success, and perhaps even people explicitly reinforce that life is unfair and you can't succeed, then you're not going to try. It's a shitty aspect of life where having an unrealistic perception of reality in how fair it is, is an asset in getting successful. Because if you have an unrealistic expectation that you will succeed and nothing can hold you back, then you have a higher chance of success. Certainly, the vast majority of people who have such a perception will fail, but more who have that perception will succeed than those who have the opposite perspective. The problem with this is when such people get successful, they will still maintain that delusion. Whereas like, well, I got successful, I did it by myself, anyone can be successful then. Anyone who's not successful, it's clearly just their fault, go fuck them. You know? And so we have such people being the people writing our laws, running our largest companies, delusional people who believe they did it all themselves, that all those people who tried equally as hard, and perhaps even tried through the exact same avenues and failed, it was their fault that they failed, which we know is not the case. But what can you do? |
| 27. July 2021 | How to increase clip revenue by 10x | How to increase clip revenue by 10 times? Oh, so, um, I found out something today. It turns out that you can only have pre-rolls on videos that are over 30 seconds. So I compared one of my videos, one of my highest-performing videos, that's under 30 seconds with the highest-performing video with over 30 seconds. The same views, the one that was 56 seconds, had 10 times the revenue. It doesn't suck because I don't make these necessarily for the revenue, although there is a lot of that. It's mainly just for the advertisement. So like if I'm not going to extend a 17-second clip to 30 seconds to get more revenue, but it was just funny. I've unwittingly thrown away thousands of lots. So like for example, I could add 11 seconds onto this clip and it make 10 times the revenue, but I'm not going to do that because it doesn't make sense to. It doesn't seem to affect YouTube's recommending of them, so... |
| 02. April 2021 | How to know if anyone helps me with a YouTube video. | How to know if anyone helped me with a YouTube video? Yeah, people helped me out with the videos Vegas, yeah. People helped me cut down stuff. At the end of every video you'll see a name made in collaboration with. Well, not every YouTube video, because not every video has someone help me with it. Does no one notice? Does no one notice the people who helped me at the end of the video? Is this made in collaboration? No? No one ever notices? Okay. All righty then. |
| 31. August 2020 | How to productively become good at something | Becoming good at something is more than simply spending time at it. I wonder how much better I would be at this game if back in the day, rather than just doing runs over and over again and resetting over and over again, I just practice strats, practice specific segments. My history of speedrunning this game is a perfect example of just because you spend a lot of time doing something doesn't mean you're spending your time in the most optimal way to achieve a goal. I remember, yeah, maybe four hours is too long. I remember a specific day where I was just so pissed that I reset like over and over two hours. |
| 10. January 2021 | How to start speedrunning GTA 5. | How to start speedrunning GTA V. Any advice on getting started with speedrunning in GTA V? Have watched many of your videos, I have been inspired. Good luck on this run. The easiest way is to join the GTA V Discord that's linked below my stream. It's not my main Discord, it's another Discord. And there'll be endless people to answer any question you have. There are some guides, some explanations as to what you're meant to do. The best thing to do is talk in that Discord, watch, read the guides that exist, and watch the world record. Always keep in mind that any guide that is made will never be perfect, because it's, unless it was made yesterday, there's always going to be tiny new strats and stuff. But especially as a new runner, the most important thing is just completing runs, knowing the rough routes. Once you've got some runs under your belt, slowly introducing yourself to more complex things is important. Or easier rather. Not getting stuck in prologue. |
| 20. October 2020 | How to succeed in life and on Twitch | What are your tips for Twitch? Luck, hard work and success along with some tips for Twitch. Hey, I'm thinking about becoming a streamer. How do you suggest starting out? I tried YouTube but never took off. Love your content. There's a question that you get, like everyone gets all the time. I could ramble about this for days, but success in general is a matter of luck and hard work. There are endless amounts of people working as optimally as possible, as hard as they can all the time, but never catch a break. Veritasium released a video about it recently. To conceptualize it for you, the amount of things outside of your control affecting your success is always larger than the variables that you control affecting your success. Government policy, companies around you, everyone in those companies, people that you meet, all these things. You don't control your environment to the degree that you can determine your success except in rare circumstances. So you kind of just need to work as hard as possible, trying to work as optimally given what you already know and look for opportunities. And when you see those opportunities, pursue them as much as possible. It sucks that in life everyone doesn't get a break necessarily. There are a lot of extraordinarily hard working people, perhaps the most deserving people, who just never get that break and so never get successful. And there are people who don't work particularly hard, do get breaks or fall ass first into success that they didn't particularly deserve. Because life isn't fair in that regard. This is a summary, but this is all both logically provable and demonstrably shown in studies of society. When you ask people like me about success on Twitch, I can't just tell you do what I did. Because I can list off 15 different variables that I had no control in, all that I just happened to do because I wanted to, that turned out in hindsight to cause me to be successful. Or things that just happened to me that caused me to be successful that I did not necessarily control, that were just coincidental to my circumstances. Of course, being in the situation that I'm in now, being one lot at the top, somewhere near the top, I can look down and I can see what people are doing wrong. Because I have more knowledge than most people, so I can give some insight. And the insight that I always give in regards to Twitch is Twitch is extraordinarily top heavy. In the same way that in life, once you're wealthy, your ability to gain more wealth is orders of magnitude easier than before you're wealthy. On Twitch, once you're successful, once you have a large audience, your ability to gain even a larger audience or gain more viewers is so much easier. Both in the connections that you have, the algorithms that help you out. Also, you would just be more experienced and you'd better be able to recognize opportunities or to act in a way that's more likely going to get you viewers. The starting out is the issue. I don't think you can reasonably start out on Twitch and get successful without having either network connections. Like you know another big streamer, you know you're in an esports league, or you're known in some community, or whatever. Like you need some kind of starting point that can get you to 50 or 100 viewers. And at that point, the recommendation system on Twitch, while not huge, will help you out to some degree. It's if you start with 50 viewers from somewhere else, you're already like in the top few percent of people on the platform. Because like 3 million people stream every month to like less than 5 viewers, right? What you want to do if you want to live stream is either have those things or start somewhere else with a more robust algorithm. Where people are more constantly consuming content and then try to move that audience to Twitch to get that little bit of a head start. Because on Twitch, people tend to either find Twitch streamers from other platforms and that's how they find them on Twitch. Like not through Twitch itself. Or they have their set content creators and they sit and watch them. They don't particularly search out for new content creators. On YouTube, a person might watch you know 10 videos in an hour. On Twitch, a person might watch one streamer for 6 hours. You know, there's not a lot of people searching for new content on this platform. So it's kind of silly to have this platform be your main focus of making content. There's this fallacy that people have where they say, look that guy got successful. Therefore, clearly this is a fair system and success is possible for everyone. That's not true. This is the reasoning of if there's a shredder that people are walking into. And if a million people walk in and one person walks out the other side. Calling that a great system or a fair system or a system where everyone can get successful because that one guy got through. It's just poor reasoning, right? The reason I bring this up is because I'm sure all of you will have someone where you're like, oh but this person only used Twitch and they got successful so I can do it too. It's just not realistic. You don't assess what is your best path forward by only looking at the people who are successful and attempting to follow what they did. You look at the people who failed as well as the successful people and attempt to avoid what the people who failed did and attempt to emulate the successful people as well. And on Twitch, I can tell you right now, 99.9% of people or whatever are failing. Trying their best to stream and to get somewhere on Twitch and completely utterly failing. While on YouTube all the time the algorithm is making new content creators all the time. I got a recommended video today that I watched from a guy talking about the 3080. And the very first thing he said in the video was released maybe like two days ago. I mean even today, I don't know. He's like, oh man, I was just saying I got a hundred subscribers. I got 200. Thank you so much guys. Thank you for subscribing. And I looked at his subscriber count and he had four thousand subscribers. Like in the time it took for YouTube to recommend me this guy's video who had 200 subs, he'd gained four thousand subscribers. Because that's the algorithm on YouTube is a lot more powerful than the algorithm on Twitch. Twitch is the best live streaming platform easily. Especially considering it has this focus in live streaming. It's just not a great platform to start off on. Especially because most people who start live streaming are fucking terrible. They are. You look at my early content as well. It takes time for you to become successful as a live streamer. And to be good at live streaming. And because you're competing with people who've been doing this for a decade, right? Or half a decade in my case, you're not going to ever look as good by comparison. But on YouTube, you can tinker with your final product. You can tinker with that shit for weeks and weeks and weeks until it's the best thing that you can possibly produce. Certainly, the advice usually for YouTube is that you shouldn't focus on that perfect product. You should focus on... This is advice I've heard. You should make mistakes. You shouldn't hammer at a video for six months and release and go, ah that failed, that sucks. You should be trying to release consistent good content. Because over the making of endless videos, while some of them will be terrible, your skills will develop. You will learn new things and polish your skills over time and your content will slowly become better. But if you're only releasing one video every month, two months, three months, whatever, you have less opportunities to grow your skills. No content creator right now didn't suck in the beginning. And it just sucks that anyone starting out today is competing directly with all the people who have five, ten, fifteen years of experience now. Some people might have that. With every passing year, it's harder and harder to break into this industry because everyone who's already in the industry has the experience of that additional year, which you do not have. I would not want to be anyone trying to break into Twitch, YouTube, or any of the content creation platforms today with the competition as fierce as it is. Also keep in mind that there are many different pathways to success. You know, there's more than one way to break an egg. What will work best for you is not something that I can ever tell you because I don't know you. And certainly, sometimes the best ways to get successful is to find a new way to succeed that other people have not. Find some avenue that people haven't exploited. But of course, the very second you start exploiting that avenue, everyone's going to follow you. They're like, hey, that guy is getting successful doing that. I'm going to do that too. And you're going to have competition immediately. It's one of those things where while there have been, like, for example, Among Us, there have been content creators on Twitch who have been made through Among Us. But the biggest people playing Among Us right now aren't the new streamers who are made through playing Among Us. They're the already big streamers. Because again, once you're already big, your ability to capitalize on fucking anything is so much easier. You can be weeks late to the party and still be experienced growth and wealth and blah, blah, blah, because you happen to already be successful. You can bring with you your past success. Mr. Beast playing Among Us. |
| 20. October 2020 | How to succeed in life and on twitch | What are your tips for Twitch? Luck, hard work and success along with some tips for Twitch. Hey, I'm thinking about becoming a streamer. How do you suggest starting out? I tried YouTube but never took off. Love your content. There's a question that you get, like everyone gets all the time. I could ramble about this for days, but success in general is a matter of luck and hard work. There are endless amounts of people working as optimally as possible, as hard as they can all the time, but never catch a break. Veritasium released a video about it recently. To conceptualize it for you, the amount of things outside of your control affecting your success is always larger than the variables that you control affecting your success. Government policy, companies around you, everyone in those companies, people that you meet, all these things. You don't control your environment to the degree that you can determine your success except in rare circumstances. So you kind of just need to work as hard as possible, trying to work as optimally given what you already know and look for opportunities. And when you see those opportunities, pursue them as much as possible. It sucks that in life everyone doesn't get a break necessarily. There are a lot of extraordinarily hard working people, perhaps the most deserving people, who just never get that break and so never get successful. And there are people who don't work particularly hard, do get breaks or fall ass first into success that they didn't particularly deserve. Because life isn't fair in that regard. This is a summary, but this is all both logically provable and demonstrably shown in studies of society. When you ask people like me about success on Twitch, I can't just tell you do what I did. Because I can list off 15 different variables that I had no control in, all that I just happened to do because I wanted to, that turned out in hindsight to cause me to be successful. Or things that just happened to me that caused me to be successful that I did not necessarily control, that were just coincidental to my circumstances. Of course, being in the situation that I'm in now, being one lot at the top, somewhere near the top, I can look down and I can see what people are doing wrong. Because I have more knowledge than most people, so I can give some insight. And the insight that I always give in regards to Twitch is Twitch is extraordinarily top heavy. In the same way that in life, once you're wealthy, your ability to gain more wealth is orders of magnitude easier than before you're wealthy. On Twitch, once you're successful, once you have a large audience, your ability to gain even a larger audience or gain more viewers is so much easier. Both in the connections that you have, the algorithms that help you out. Also, you would just be more experienced and you'd better be able to recognize opportunities or to act in a way that's more likely going to get you viewers. The starting out is the issue. I don't think you can reasonably start out on Twitch and get successful without having either network connections. Like you know another big streamer, you know you're in an esports league, or you're known in some community, or whatever. Like you need some kind of starting point that can get you to 50 or 100 viewers. And at that point, the recommendation system on Twitch, while not huge, will help you out to some degree. It's if you start with 50 viewers from somewhere else, you're already like in the top few percent of people on the platform. Because like 3 million people stream every month to like less than 5 viewers, right? What you want to do if you want to live stream is either have those things or start somewhere else with a more robust algorithm. Where people are more constantly consuming content and then try to move that audience to Twitch to get that little bit of a head start. Because on Twitch, people tend to either find Twitch streamers from other platforms and that's how they find them on Twitch. Like not through Twitch itself. Or they have their set content creators and they sit and watch them. They don't particularly search out for new content creators. On YouTube, a person might watch you know 10 videos in an hour. On Twitch, a person might watch one streamer for 6 hours. You know, there's not a lot of people searching for new content on this platform. So it's kind of silly to have this platform be your main focus of making content. There's this fallacy that people have where they say, look that guy got successful. Therefore, clearly this is a fair system and success is possible for everyone. That's not true. This is the reasoning of if there's a shredder that people are walking into. And if a million people walk in and one person walks out the other side. Calling that a great system or a fair system or a system where everyone can get successful because that one guy got through. It's just poor reasoning, right? The reason I bring this up is because I'm sure all of you will have someone where you're like, oh but this person only used Twitch and they got successful so I can do it too. It's just not realistic. You don't assess what is your best path forward by only looking at the people who are successful and attempting to follow what they did. You look at the people who failed as well as the successful people and attempt to avoid what the people who failed did and attempt to emulate the successful people as well. And on Twitch, I can tell you right now, 99.9% of people or whatever are failing. Trying their best to stream and to get somewhere on Twitch and completely utterly failing. While on YouTube all the time the algorithm is making new content creators all the time. I got a recommended video today that I watched from a guy talking about the 3080. And the very first thing he said in the video was released maybe like two days ago. I mean even today, I don't know. He's like, oh man, I was just saying I got a hundred subscribers. I got 200. Thank you so much guys. Thank you for subscribing. And I looked at his subscriber count and he had four thousand subscribers. Like in the time it took for YouTube to recommend me this guy's video who had 200 subs, he'd gained four thousand subscribers. Because that's the algorithm on YouTube is a lot more powerful than the algorithm on Twitch. Twitch is the best live streaming platform easily. Especially considering it has this focus in live streaming. It's just not a great platform to start off on. Especially because most people who start live streaming are fucking terrible. They are. You look at my early content as well. It takes time for you to become successful as a live streamer. And to be good at live streaming. And because you're competing with people who've been doing this for a decade, right? Or half a decade in my case, you're not going to ever look as good by comparison. But on YouTube, you can tinker with your final product. You can tinker with that shit for weeks and weeks and weeks until it's the best thing that you can possibly produce. Certainly, the advice usually for YouTube is that you shouldn't focus on that perfect product. You should focus on... This is advice I've heard. You should make mistakes. You shouldn't hammer at a video for six months and release and go, ah that failed, that sucks. You should be trying to release consistent good content. Because over the making of endless videos, while some of them will be terrible, your skills will develop. You will learn new things and polish your skills over time and your content will slowly become better. But if you're only releasing one video every month, two months, three months, whatever, you have less opportunities to grow your skills. No content creator right now didn't suck in the beginning. And it just sucks that anyone starting out today is competing directly with all the people who have five, ten, fifteen years of experience now. Some people might have that. With every passing year, it's harder and harder to break into this industry because everyone who's already in the industry has the experience of that additional year, which you do not have. I would not want to be anyone trying to break into Twitch, YouTube, or any of the content creation platforms today with the competition as fierce as it is. Also keep in mind that there are many different pathways to success. You know, there's more than one way to break an egg. What will work best for you is not something that I can ever tell you because I don't know you. And certainly, sometimes the best ways to get successful is to find a new way to succeed that other people have not. Find some avenue that people haven't exploited. But of course, the very second you start exploiting that avenue, everyone's going to follow you. They're like, hey, that guy is getting successful doing that. I'm going to do that too. And you're going to have competition immediately. It's one of those things where while there have been, like, for example, Among Us, there have been content creators on Twitch who have been made through Among Us. But the biggest people playing Among Us right now aren't the new streamers who are made through playing Among Us. They're the already big streamers. Because again, once you're already big, your ability to capitalize on fucking anything is so much easier. You can be weeks late to the party and still be experienced growth and wealth and blah, blah, blah, because you happen to already be successful. You can bring with you your past success. Mr. Beast playing Among Us. |
| 10. December 2022 | How to succeed with Youtube shorts | How to succeed with YouTube shorts. So I almost don't want to give advice because every one that I've released hasn't succeeded. But often those that don't succeed, I kind of understand why. So when I make a short, what I try to do at the beginning is have some like immediate hook, a voice that just brings you in, text on screen that says, hey, pay attention to me, don't scroll forward, this is gonna be something, at least hear my pitch. As the pitch lasts, you know, seven seconds, something like that. It's minimum amount of words, usually some captivating word like amazing, outstanding, terrible, something like this that evokes an emotional reaction. And then the video itself, I want to be something that even if a person who has never played GTA V, I want them to find what's going on appealing. Because you can't trust that the YouTube shorts is going to be perfect in how they target your short, you don't want to be like, oh, I actually need to hope that everyone who sees this short knows exactly what's going on. They have all the foundational knowledge necessary for this to be entertaining or interesting. What you want is for your short to basically stand on its own. Like in a world where no one knew anything about what you're about to present, it would still be interesting to people. It's very hard to do. And one commonality I've found with my shorts is that I don't think me being in there is particularly good unless I'm really adding something of significance to the short. But often I'll put myself in there like at the top because I want more screen real estate for the game. So the less of the nine by 16 that is taken up by the gameplay, the more of the 16 by nine that can fit in the nine by 16. You understand? Because it shrinks down and so the two sides are more in frame, if you understand. So some of the shorts I've made, I have not wanted to put myself in, but without me being there, the stuff of significance wouldn't be on screen. With that being said, I have seen shorts where like next to nothing of value was on screen and yet they've stood on massively well. As if people are filling in the gaps themselves in their mind and it's fine, but I just still find that to be a barrier. |
| 17. March 2021 | How to tell if a song will be claimed on YouTube | Tell if a song is going to be DMCA'd on YouTube. If you want to know if a song is DMCA-free, all you have to do is look underneath the song on YouTube, and if it shows the song name and like who made it or whatever, in that official way YouTube does it, then you know it has a claim on it. So if such a claim doesn't exist, then nine hours at a time it's not going to be, not going to get claims. Is it really that simple? Yes. |
| 20. December 2022 | How was I like in my school years? | How was I like in my school years? What kind of kid was I at school? I don't know. I didn't really fit into any kind of specific mold, I guess. Like, I was fairly good at most subjects, but not remarkably so. I had friends, people knew me, but people didn't really have strong opinions about me, I suppose. I was just a dude who existed. Like, I sincerely doubt a single person from my high school, if they had to list like, the 10 people that they remember most, that I would get in anyone's top 10. I was just a guy. Indoor cricket? Yeah, I played indoor cricket when I was a kid. Played outdoor cricket, played outdoor soccer, indoor soccer, 10 pin bowling. Never crazy good at any of them. |
| 02. February 2020 | How well did I do in school? | I want to know how well you did in school. Were you a guy who worked hard or slacked through the entire thing? And you may have already answered this, but what would you be doing if you weren't a streamer? Don't just say something sarcastic like you always do. In school, I did very well up until year 10. I was doing very well with effectively no effort, but I wasn't an overachiever. I simply didn't care. I was very indifferent with school for a long time. I would say, no, for the entire time I was in high school, I remember sitting in my commerce class reading The Lord of Chaos. Thick-ass fucking fiction book, like for the fourth time. I wasn't paying attention at all. My teacher's like, what are you doing, Matt? You should be writing this down. I'm like, yeah, it's boring. You have to do the work. I'm like, I got like 80 something on that test before. He's like, yeah, but you could do better than that. I'm like, yeah, I don't care. He's like, even if I got an 80 something, why would I want more than that? In year 11, I ditched a significant amount of the year and it completely screwed up my ability to get a good grade in year 12. I was just emotionally damaged. I just didn't like existence. I didn't like being around people. I didn't like people seeing me, especially because I had the worst acne you've ever seen. Like my entire face was like, ugh, just terrible. That was for a long time. I think towards the end of year 11, starting year 12, I got a little bit better. I was always just, I didn't like being around people, couldn't talk to people. The friends I had, looking back at them now, complete jacks. All of them. One of my worst things of my childhood or my teenage years or my young adult life, whatever you want to say, is that I didn't find friends who I really jived with on a mental level. I couldn't talk about politics, religion, or anything like that with any of these people. It was just frustrating. It seemed like every conversation that was ever had was just completely surface level. Nothing of interest. The few times where it went beyond that, they were all idiots. When I look back at my friends that I had when I was younger, there's maybe two or three people that I still look back and go, yeah, I wonder what they're doing. So I didn't do well in terms of my studies at high school. I didn't do well in terms of friends at high school. I did fairly well in uni. I averaged 80 something. And even then, I was streaming as well while doing my uni work. And even then, I was not an overachiever at uni. I was going to partition everything perfectly so that I don't overstress myself. You only really need 80s and you get in those kind of the higher brackets. And that's going to have, I think I got like a, is it called a GPA or whatever? The max is four. I got like 3.4 or 3.3 something, which is fine. You know, it's good. I think I got top of my class in exactly one class, which was a training in politics 100 or 101 or something like that. I'm not a genius, but I do OK. I've done OK in my studies. If I wasn't a streamer, I have no idea what I would be doing. I assume I'd be in the public service somewhere with my psych degree. |
| 01. June 2020 | How will the current crisis change the future? | What do you think of the major changes in public for the next couple of years because of the coronavirus? My friends don't seem to understand what the consequences will be on the long term. So I would like to hear your opinion on it. I don't know. I for one never want to shake another person's hand for as long as I live. I would love if the cultural handshaking went away and we move towards a more respectful head nod or some kind of a personal gesture towards other people. Let's go the Asian route in regards to that. I don't know why. It's hard to imagine that things would fundamentally change in society because of this virus in the real long term. Surely eventually movies will open again, bars will open again, restaurants will open again. To what extent any individual country will change will probably depend in parts on how effective the measures of by governments how successful they were in keeping normalcy. Normalcy? Working from home will be far more acceptable for office jobs. I talked about that before on stream where for a lot of businesses it probably made sense for a long time for people to work from home, but they've had no reason to change to look into that or to allow people to do that because it's just you know it's just a change there. No one likes change. Many businesses will now have you know have to do that by necessity and go oh, this is actually a lot better. Let's continue along this path. Often change can make sense, but you need to be motivated to change or else you won't look down those avenues. |
| 03. August 2021 | How would I rate my editing skill compared to other YouTubers? | Next one. Matt, your editing is far superior to a lot of other YouTubers I've seen. As a person who consumes a lot of YouTube, if I were to rank myself charitably on some sort of a thing here, worst, best, I would like to argue I'm somewhere about here, I think. I'm nowhere close to the best editor. What I do have is a certain set of skills, and I do them fairly quickly and efficiently, and I think I'm better than the average person. Down here are the people who are like, hey guys, what's up? So I'm just gonna be like talking to you for five minutes, and it's gonna be no cuts, and they're just gonna put it on YouTube. Maybe putting just an outro. We all start there, and these people are like the people where, you know, you're flying kitties. 8,000 edits with machinima and stuff, that kind of stuff, and I'm like here. The main brunt of what makes my content interesting is not the edits, it's mainly me and my- |
| 22. December 2020 | How would gta 5 hold up if released in 2020? | How would GTA V hold up if it was released in 2020? You've got to wonder how this game would be received if it came out, you know, like this year, let's say. Let's say instead of Cyberpunk coming out, it was this game. I think it would still be received very, very well, at least in its current state. Like the console version obviously being released would be bad, but the PC version. Although could you imagine how like, but like how pissed people are now that GTA 6 hasn't come out. I mentioned they didn't release GTA 5 seven years ago. So the wait would have been over a decade for GTA 5. Oh, certainly there's references in the game that would be dated, like references to kale being a super food or whatever and and shitting on yoga and stuff. Oh, you can absolutely go and see if this game hadn't come out. People would have just kept modding GTA 4 to insane degrees. People would have probably made their own DLC for GTA 4 by that point. Could Rockstar ruin GTA's |
| 31. July 2021 | How you become a mod in a Twitch stream | I don't know. How you become a mod in a Twitch stream. How does it work with them with every single stream on Twitch, how it works. A streamer realizes they need mods because they don't have enough, maybe there's not enough people around of the current mods for doing stuff in chat. And so then they go, hey, who is a person who's been around for a long time who I trust and I know? And they pick someone. Or they go, hey, other mods, who do you think should be a mod? And then it happens. No one in the history of Twitch has ever gotten mod by asking about it. Is there a limit on the amount of mods you can have? No, I actually knew one person once upon a time who would mod every single person who came to the stream. If everyone's a mod, no one's a mod. This is the, you know, just a shitty small stream. |
| 07. February 2022 | How youtube balances consideration of click through rate watch time. | How YouTube balances consideration of click-through rate and watch time. I'm surprised the Max Payne video didn't do too well. What I'm more surprised about though, is like, the Bully video has done impressively well despite having such a low click-through rate. So my clips channel has like a 10% click-through rate. As in, 1 out of 10 times if one of my clips is shown to someone, they'll click on it. My main channel has like on average like a 4% click-through rate currently. Maybe it goes a little bit lower than that. It's been higher in the past, but basically how it works is the shorter your content is, the more likely people are just going to be like, oh fuck it, I'm going to watch it if I don't like it, it's only going to cost me X amount of minutes. So if your video is 6 seconds and a person can't find anything else to watch and scroll on through, they're like, well this is only 6 seconds man, if it's good it's only, you know, I found something good, if it's not good then I've only lost 6 seconds. So the longer your content is, the more appealing it has to be for a person to click on it initially, but if they do click on it, obviously they're going to be more likely to watch it longer than 6 seconds for example. So YouTube seems to know that, so like if you have a 3 hour long video that's only getting like a 4% click-through rate, but people are watching it for like 40 minutes or something, YouTube will still keep throwing it at people, even though most are ignoring it, because if they catch you with that video, you're there for 40 minutes, you know. So for example, the Bully playthrough I did that was like a 3 hour video, on its first day it only ended up having like a 5% click-through rate, and then the next day like a 3%, the next day 2%, currently it's sitting at like a 1% click-through rate, and then that video has to be shown to 100 people for even one to click on it, and it's still getting shared around because the average person who watches it watches it for half an hour. YouTube didn't used to be like this back in the day, but the algorithms become more sophisticated, because its main job is to keep you on the platform. So it doesn't just value the click-through rate, it values how long you're going to actually be watching the video and how long you're going to stay on the platform, and will this connect you to other videos and blah blah blah. Like I'm hoping in the following days the Max Payne video goes a bit better, but who knows. If I don't finish a video, it pops back in my recommendation to finish it, yeah, which isn't surprising, because like, well this person watched this video before, and they clicked on it before, and spent this much time on the platform before watching it, clearly it's something that they at least had some interest in then, well let's see if they have an interest in it again. Like I'll have videos that I watched like, you know, a year ago get recommended to me again sometimes. I'll say, well you liked it once, maybe you'll like it again. It is one of those things where, especially when you have already been looking for a while, trying to find something, and not, and like you're not able to find something, so you're like, screw it, this thing, I've already seen it, but at least it'll feel some air, you know, it'll kill some time. Sure I've already seen it, but at least I know I'll like it to some degree, you know. And you feel lazy when you do that, because you're like, man if it just looked a little bit longer I could find something new, but screw it. |
| 07. February 2022 | How youtube balances consideration of clickthrough rate watch time. | How YouTube balances consideration of click-through rate and watch time. I'm surprised the Max Payne video didn't do too well. What I'm more surprised about though, is like, the Bully video has done impressively well despite having such a low click-through rate. So my clips channel has like a 10% click-through rate. As in, 1 out of 10 times if one of my clips is shown to someone, they'll click on it. My main channel has like on average like a 4% click-through rate currently. Maybe it goes a little bit lower than that. It's been higher in the past, but basically how it works is the shorter your content is, the more likely people are just going to be like, oh fuck it, I'm going to watch it if I don't like it, it's only going to cost me X amount of minutes. So if your video is 6 seconds and a person can't find anything else to watch and scroll on through, they're like, well this is only 6 seconds man, if it's good it's only, you know, I found something good, if it's not good then I've only lost 6 seconds. So the longer your content is, the more appealing it has to be for a person to click on it initially, but if they do click on it, obviously they're going to be more likely to watch it longer than 6 seconds for example. So YouTube seems to know that, so like if you have a 3 hour long video that's only getting like a 4% click-through rate, but people are watching it for like 40 minutes or something, YouTube will still keep throwing it at people, even though most are ignoring it, because if they catch you with that video, you're there for 40 minutes, you know. So for example, the Bully playthrough I did that was like a 3 hour video, on its first day it only ended up having like a 5% click-through rate, and then the next day like a 3%, the next day 2%, currently it's sitting at like a 1% click-through rate, and then that video has to be shown to 100 people for even one to click on it, and it's still getting shared around because the average person who watches it watches it for half an hour. YouTube didn't used to be like this back in the day, but the algorithms become more sophisticated, because its main job is to keep you on the platform. So it doesn't just value the click-through rate, it values how long you're going to actually be watching the video and how long you're going to stay on the platform, and will this connect you to other videos and blah blah blah. Like I'm hoping in the following days the Max Payne video goes a bit better, but who knows. If I don't finish a video, it pops back in my recommendation to finish it, yeah, which isn't surprising, because like, well this person watched this video before, and they clicked on it before, and spent this much time on the platform before watching it, clearly it's something that they at least had some interest in then, well let's see if they have an interest in it again. Like I'll have videos that I watched like, you know, a year ago get recommended to me again sometimes. I'll say, well you liked it once, maybe you'll like it again. It is one of those things where, especially when you have already been looking for a while, trying to find something, and not, and like you're not able to find something, so you're like, screw it, this thing, I've already seen it, but at least it'll feel some air, you know, it'll kill some time. Sure I've already seen it, but at least I know I'll like it to some degree, you know. And you feel lazy when you do that, because you're like, man if it just looked a little bit longer I could find something new, but screw it. |
| 24. August 2022 | Huge TikToker accidentally does face reveal for HeyZeus. A YouTuber no one had ever seen. | Hey Zeus, an anonymous YouTuber, accidentally had his face revealed by a large Tik Toker. So for those who don't know, recently I started to watch this guy's content, his name's Jesus. He followed me on Twitter and I followed him back and we started to talk about stuff. Conversations ranging from a host of topics about the industry and CSGO and seems like a very nice dude. And one thing we discussed quite a bit is his anonymity, because it's rare for a person these days to get really big while still being completely anonymous. He gave me this and that reason for why he still remains anonymous and he does think it hurts him a little bit, but he's like, yeah, I'm thinking about doing a face reveal eventually. We'll see how that goes. And that guy, fair enough, fair enough, fair enough. But then I'm scrolling Tik Tok, unable to sleep last night. I'm scrolling it at like 3am and this pops up. How much do you earn every year? 550,000, something like this. What do you do for a living? YouTuber. You're a YouTuber? Yeah. Oh, what's your channel? I'd rather not say. Anyone who watches Jesus's content will be like, that's Jesus. All the comments were referencing it. It's now like on the CSGO subreddit. You know, small world that I saw this also kind of shit. Like he's kept him, his anonymity for what? Like at least four years or something. And he gets outed by some random Tik Toker who had no idea he was trying to keep himself anonymous. What did he say to me? I wasn't really expecting people to notice, but oh well, needed to happen. I actually do have something planned in response though, which hopefully should convert well into a video. The guy who posted it just randomly interviewed me on the street. I asked him not to reveal who I was and he kept his word. But apparently my voice is just that obvious. Randomly interviewed on the street by a Tik Toker with like 2 million followers. What are the odds? Should I just avoid the interview? Jesus is just a nice guy. Some puts a microphone in your face, you know, just like, oh yeah, okay, how's it going, man, you know? I already knew what he looked like before I saw this. That's why I recognized him before he even opened his mouth. So anomaly is another dude in the CSGO skin scene, similar to Jesus. In 2019, It's Woolworths. Woolworths, okay, Woolworths. And we're helping me. We have this nice Australian gentleman here who's helping me pick out some Australian foods and alcohol. And so thank you, random Australian man for helping me. Thank you. Shout out random Australian man. And that's Jesus. So Jesus's face was on YouTube for like three years, but no one recognized it. So funny situation, especially for me, because like, because we were just discussing like what he's going to do for his face for villain stuff and when it's going to happen and whatnot. And like he kept saying like he's like, yeah, he's going to do it sooner rather than later, right? So it's not like the worst thing to ever happen to him, but it is kind of funny. And so he's like a switchback. |
| 22. January 2022 | Human rights and objective morality | Human rights and objective morality. What is or is not a human right just depends on what we as a society are collectively willing to say is or is not a human right. Like if you live under a warlord who does not give two shits about you and you say but my human rights he'll kick you in the face and go I don't care. Whether or not you believe human rights come from somewhere other than society please at the very least accept that whether or not your rights mean anything just depends on how much society is willing to safeguard those rights. In the same way that if you believe in objective morality please at the very least accept that regardless of whether or not there is an objective morality whether or not a person will follow it depends on their subjective preferences. If I put you in a room with a person who had no subjective preferences and you came at him and were like this this is objective morality you should do this he's gonna look at you and say I don't care but you'll be burned to life I don't care but you won't be able to eat I don't care. Just repeat I don't care over and over again and he will not move a single fucking jot. Give him a subjective preference and you can appeal to it to get him to do things. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 08. June 2020 | Human stupidity about 5G | Human stupidity about 5G. I only got to glance at it just as I was starting. Does anyone know about this so-called, uh, doctor disrespects saying that, uh, COVID-19 was caused by, uh, 5G? Was he seriously floating that shit, or... what's up with that? How dumb do you have to fucking be? It's crazy though, every single time, because it's, you know, fifth generation, you can find, uh, newspaper shit or whatever, where it's like, Oh, the first generation's gonna fucking kill us all! 1G! Ah! And 2G comes in, Oh, 2G's gonna kill us all! Ah! 3G, oh no! 3G's gonna be the death of human civilization! 4G, oh my god, the death of human civilization is near! And now you've got 5G, same fucking shit's gonna happen. And as we're watching, it's gonna- it's happening. It's gonna- it's gonna wait a couple of years, and people will shut the fuck up about it, but, uh, you know, until that time, there's gonna be really stupid people running around, breaking fucking towers and shit. I wonder if, um, these companies just factor that in to that bottom line. Okay, so, we got the presence of previous rollouts, at least 1% of the country's gonna be really stupid, that's gonna be at least this many towers. The insurance company's like, guys, releasing another fucking generation of towers? Oh my god, dude. Insurance premiums going way up! The crazy's are coming out! 5G killed me, 5G killed me, raped my wife, and ate my family. Please, tear down 5G. 5G is the lame, GTA 6, tear that shit down! If you believe 5G caused COVID-19, you're fucking dumb. Just be aware. Take that and put it in your cap. Use that whenever you're assessing your, uh, your decisions in the future. My uncle loves 5G, man. Talk about how amazing it is, but honestly, like, when I watched the, um, what's his name, um, what does he call himself? KBHD? Or whatever his name is, um, Marquis Brownlee? When I watched his video on it, and the shitty range of it, and how much gets blocked by buildings and stuff, and I was just like, this ain't that impressive. I know it has advantages over 4G, speeds and whatnot. It has a lot of downsides. I mean, the same way that 4G had, uh, downsides to 3G, but it just seems like 4G was that, you know, that sweet spot of large coverage with, um, pretty decent performance. And obviously it's not like, you know, fire, it's just gonna be 5G, it's gonna be a combination of 4 and 5G. Like, people would talk like, oh, man, this is gonna fucking render, you know, wired technologies completely redundant, man, and no one's gonna have any wired networks. It just seems like such a pipe dream to me. But wireless could never be that good. As if exactly. I would like to know the, the costs comparing fiber to, uh, building 5G towers. It seems like you need a lot of fucking 5G towers. MMBHD, that's it, yeah. |
| 13. May 2021 | Humans can't make random numbers | Humans can't make random numbers. Do you realise when you try and think of a moderately small to medium number it's usually 57? No. I don't usually think of 57. I'm pretty sure studies have shown that there are certain trends when it comes to thinking of random numbers that everyone follows to different degrees. Like you think of a number between 1 and 10 and you're like, well, 5 is exactly in the middle so that's not appropriate. 1 and 10 are at either extreme and so you just pick like 3 or 7 or something, you know? There was that thing or whatever where, like humans can't think of truly random numbers. They'll always have some pattern or some bias. That's why you have to get machines to do it. Even machines aren't truly random? True. They're based on things that we have no ability to predict. I mean, I see that this is what I've heard, like obviously I can't demonstrate that. |
| 27. October 2021 | Humans vs machines | In my opinion there is nothing as accurate as a human being. Well that's clearly false. A machine is able to receive more information than a human can possibly ever receive. A machine can look 360 degrees. It can see heat. It can see ultraviolet. It can make computations orders of magnitude faster than a human can. That's clearly false. Humans have the ability to think outside the box and to innovate or to respond to novel problems in a way that machines can't or to make their own goals. But outside of that humans suck. I mean machines don't get tired. There's a reason why the best chess player is a machine. I just watched a video yesterday looking at the fastest piano player whatever versus the same song played by a machine. The human gets up to like 196 beats per minute and the machine gets up to like 500 and something and it's still playing perfectly. Certainly machines can't do everything. If you want a machine to do something new, call up a programmer, get them to work for a couple of weeks, programming some new code, bugging, troubleshooting. You want a human to do something new. You're like, hey man, do this. Even the simplest new thing could be very hard for a computer to understand enough to be able to do. But a human is like, look, I need you to take out the trash. Tie it this way. Truck it in the bin. Five seconds. We have some things on machines but once a machine is programmed to do something, it'll probably be better. So the best example, Luke, is there's a game called Go. You've probably seen it in movies. It was thought impossible for a machine to play Go because there was effectively infinite combinations and you kind of just need to feel how to play. Intuition based on endless games about what's most likely going to be the best way to play. Like chess is simple compared to Go. A machine would go through every single calculatable possible move until it made its move. But to do all those calculations, it might take a hundred years, kind of thing. But the algorithms was eventually improved and they had this AI verse, the world master at Go. It wasn't simply that he lost. The machine taught him how to play Go. Like, it was playing in ways that he didn't understand until many moves later. He was like, oh my god, that's why it's doing what it's doing. The machine basically revolutionized how to play the game. It was just able to think of things that, or find ways to solve a problem that humans had just never thought of before. Machines are very specialized where humans are more adaptable. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 20. May 2021 | Hungrybox and old school melee | Hungrybox and Oldschool Melee. I found myself watching quite a bit of the Melee sets for the last tournament that was recently done. You know, Smash Melee. Hungrybox is such an interesting character now, because like he used to be number one, but he's no longer in his prime, and so, especially because of how hyped he gets when he wins, it's always exciting when he wins. And I'm always rooting for him, you know. Even while I don't expect at all for him to win. I mean, win sets and stuff, sure, but I mean the entire tournament. Like I expect Xayah or Mango is gonna win every time. But like no one wants to lose the Hungrybox, because if you lose, it's like, wow, you lost the Hungrybox when he wasn't in his prime. But like if you win, people are like, well yeah, you beat Hungrybox, but he's not in his prime, so. Like it's just lose-lose, you know. I'm sure most of you don't care. Can I get a poll? How many of you care about comparative Melee? Surely like next to none of you. Who's Hungrybox? He's a guy who plays Smash Ultimate, the number one ranked player 2019, and years before as well. But he plays a character, Jigglypuff, that a lot of other people don't like. And his lack of winningness to do friendlies and train with the other competitors led them to not super like him all that much, apparently. Like he's a controversial figure. I mean, I think less so these days because he isn't number one. But I like how hype and into he is everything. Like I like people who like are passionate about stuff. And like when they do something cool, they're like, yes, I did something cool. They're not like, hi. He brings the hype. Yeah, so only 18% said yes. But that's still a significant amount considering how old Melee is. They mentioned the Hungrybox is better than Satiatedbox. Yeah, but that's what I hear. I hear that Hungrybox back in the day was a bit worse in his interactions with the community. He's apparently better now. But I didn't know him from back then. Kind of wish I did. Like hearing about the old days and how scuffed everything seemed in old Melee tournaments and stuff would be nice to have been involved in watching it. I dislike that I didn't get to be around when Armada was actually competing. He just seems like such a legend. And I never see Peach played in tournaments. It's also rare for me to see a Sheik, but I hear there's other people who play Peach, but I never get to see in tournaments. It would have been cool to have seen Armada playing Peach, even playing Peach in today's climate. People speculate that Peach would not do Melee as well now. Armada was the best yet. Every kind of flashback retrospective thing that I've seen has suggested that Armada for his time was just so dominant. You know, who do I mean in Smash? I don't play. When I was a kid, I loved Fox. I loved how fast Fox was. Could beat all my friends with Fox. Kirby Gang. Next you be telling me you main Bowser. Now that's how you know I'm truly not giving shit, giving a shit one day. If I'm playing Melee with Slippy. Because no way in hell any of you would watch that shit. And I haven't played in like 20 years. |
| 18. July 2022 | Huniepop the dating sim game. | You know. Honey Pop the Dating Sim Game. Whose idea was it to make the Honey Pop reference? Mine. Honey Pop is the only one of those games I've ever played. It was notorious because it got banned on Twitch, even though it had like no nudity in it. Unless of course you got like the mod pack or something. Which might be how most of those games go, I'm not sure. To everyone's surprise, no I don't normally play such games. |
| 10. June 2022 | Hunter Hunter author getting a lot of likes on twitter | Hunter Hunter author getting a lot of likes on Twitter. Have you seen how crazy everyone's getting every single time? The dude who wrote Hunter Hunter Tweets out like he just keeps showing like numbers of pages and it's like hundreds of thousands of likes. It's crazy Wouldn't it be funny if for the past four years he wasn't really on hiatus. He was just writing the story. That'd be nuts. |
| 27. March 2021 | Hyperloop, Thunderf00t, And Elon Musk | Elon Musk. There are quite a few things that people say are the future that I don't either- that I don't fully understand or or that I don't really understand what's limiting it now like people are all blockchain is the new thing and or 3d printing and all that stuff and I'm sure soon the sidelines and See what happens. I suppose AI as well. That's another one. What's another one of these? Call them memes whatever but it's gonna revolutionize the future ladies and gentlemen This is the thing that I can think of VR? Yeah, when it's- No, HyperLoop is garbage. Self-driving cars. Yeah, that's possible Gene editing? Ah Yeah, yeah, that's probably one too. If you want to see some funny videos Thunderfoot. Man, he's an old content creator mentioning him. He has some on the HyperLoop Ah, they're really funny. How dumb that idea apparently is. How flawed it is It's pretty funny. There are a lot of these cool ideas that just Massively run up against the practical reality of life Solar freaking roadways and HyperLoop is two examples. Have I seen his new SpaceX videos? I don't believe so What's bad with the HyperLoop? Um, it's it just it bashes into physics You'd have to watch the videos because it's kind of over my head. But the idea has existed for like a hundred years It's just the reason why it's never been done is because it's not in any shape or form practical to do It's like you're you're making things infinitely more difficult for effectively no gain while massively inflating your costs and And putting yourself at risk of colossal failure. It is a pipe dream. I just recommend watching his videos. It's It's presented really well in a way that you can understand why it's flawed but admittedly Maintaining that information in my head after the fact is not very easy because it's quite technical it's often the case when you hear about these you know this new type of plastic or this new way of getting energy or This new way of disposing of waste and da-da-da. It always sounds so cool. And then when you read more into it, it's This is not cost-effective right now or there is already an easier way to do this or you know I mean, but then again often having some proof of concept even if it's Like just proving that it's possible can enable future developments to make it more practical and cost-effective like the Impossible meat or impossible burger or I'm you know There's a fake meat or whatever that when it first came out like to make a burger cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or whatever and now it's a comparative with normal mean or Lasik surgery or whatever you need these kind of things. Here's video. Do you recommend? Thunder foot he has many videos on it Thunder foot's main thing these days seems to be taking popular science idea idea that is making the rounds and he explains why it's actually bullshit and certainly his reputation is not the best in some circles but he is definitely a knowledgeable about science Given his background and current working, you know, yeah here that lot Thunder foot Is a good science guy that gets all been out shape with his other issues I agree with him on some of the other issues sometimes but other times not. Oh, no, he has 974k subs gotcha. Yeah, um, there's quite a few videos on Thunder foot channel where he Goes through like a paper submitted about new ideas and stuff He doesn't seem to like Elon Musk all that much Because it seems a lot of the things that Elon Musk attaches himself to are like Popular cool sounding ideas that don't really have any practical ability to actually work whether it's because he wants to boost his profile by being associated with these things or because he's just ignorance of the facts because Elon Musk is just one guy and he's involved in ownership with like a bajillion industries he cannot be as educated as he needs to be to To really push forth these things himself He just has a legion of people working for him who are knowledgeable in these fields and it kind of sucks that he gets credit For innovations that are ultimately made by other people underneath him that he has effectively no involvement in but that's kind of life the guy in charge taking a Taking credit father people's discoveries like I remember watching a video talking about, um, you know, you're link Elon Musk's brain interface thing. He was criticized by people within the field because he presented What he what was being developed by his company as some new? Innovative breakthrough thing that has never been done before when an actual reality It was just this stuff that had already been done before but it was kind of being packaged in a market away So, you know hit headlines and stuff like it had they hadn't actually achieved anything that hadn't been done before other than potentially a more marketable implementation and then it's all the criticisms of his boring company as well whether Even in the simulations of what he wants to achieve. It doesn't actually function the way that is suggested It's not just Thunderf00t making these criticisms, but I don't think these criticisms really Gain the kind of traction that they would need to to counteracts Elon Musk's godlike meme status, you know the narrative of the singular genius revolutionizing every industry It's just it's just a it's a fantasy illusion, but he will seem to have that impression of Elon Musk it seems to largely just be a marketing concoction Not that is it that isn't to say he's not brilliant in the areas in which he has his learning or what-have-you, you know He's an engineer. He's not a genius in like every single bloody scientific field or some shit I feel the same way about steam jobs Steve jobs was just a marketing dude. That's not controversial He had ideas and marketed well. He he wasn't the dude making Doing the programming or something whatever he's brilliant at. He's really brilliant at it. How do you? My definition I suppose yes Just me important. Yeah, I know he's the marketing dude. He drew he directed the company in in directions, but he didn't himself Make the products assigned. He wasn't the programming dude. He didn't he didn't make the developments himself He he he marketed the products. Well, he had ideas as to to what the company should move into to that would be appealing to Broad audience of consumers he didn't himself make the stuff He was an ideas guy in a marketer the real geniuses aren't the rich ones I would imagine that the people who are truly brilliant who are Massively interested in just expanding their own knowledge or inventing new ideas and whatnot They'd probably be less interested in the marketing aspects or building a business or generating wealth for themselves You know that kind of stuff might come along with the things that they develop but being a genius and Wanting to build a business don't necessarily go hand-in-hand Being a genius in some particular area doesn't make you a good business person or a good marketer or some shit like that, right? Yeah, I imagine there are probably right now like Amazing geniuses working for Elon Musk. We don't know their names But we do know the things that they produced and we attribute those things that they produced to Elon Musk Wasn't he vain enough to buy himself the founder position at test? |
| 20. July 2022 | Hyperphantasia | Hyper-Aphantasia. So we talk about aphantasia sometimes. There was a period where I talked about it way too much. It's basically where people don't have a mind's eye. They can't envision things in their head. Like right now I can envision a square while looking at you. I can make it into a cube and then I can spin it in my head. The simple test is think of in your head a red star. You have to close your eyes if you like. You can do whatever you want. Everyone exists in one of these six camps. So either you can see nothing. You can see like a faint outline of a star. You can see the outline of the star but you can't really fill it in. You can fill it in but there's no color. Five you there's a little bit of color and six you got full super color red star. I'm somewhere like here. I can do color but it's hard to do color and I'm bad with faces as well. It's like the stories that I tell. It's almost like the face is just assumed. Like I have to try hard to see a face in my mind but like I'm somewhere here so I can so I can sit and like play out a story for myself. Like I can have Sonic running up and punching Mario in the face and whatnot. But the more complicated I make the story the harder it is to keep the details. But I found out that there's something called hyper aphantasia. So aphantasia is the complete lack of mental imagery. Hyper aphantasia is the condition of having extremely vivid mental imagery. It is the opposite condition of aphantasia where mental visual imagery is not present. The experience of hyper aphantasia is more common than aphantasia and has been described as vivid as real seeing. That sounds so cool. Of course the only way to test it though is self-reported questionnaires. So self-reports are you know the best we can have for mental stuff like that but still. Do any of you have a hyper aphantasia? Of course I mean I can't believe you because you're a Twitch chat but you know sure you do chat. I thought that was interesting. |
| 12. May 2021 | I Hate Sundays | I hate Sundays. Guys, why is it that every single time, every single time, I try to book an appointment for anything, I always call on Sundays, and they're always closed. Call my optometrist, I call fucking midday Sunday, guaranteeing they're either closed or at lunch. Call my dentist, same thing, didn't pick up. Go to get to the dentist, go to get to the optometrist. I'm a last thing of contacts. Haven't had an eye test in like a year. I actually have enough money to buy a pair of glasses if I want to, but I'm not sure what kind of spread of glasses they have. They got a hundred pairs there the last time I looked, I was like, I can't find anything I want, you know. I don't think I look particularly good with glasses. I don't look bad, but like you got to find the right thing that fits your face. I haven't worn a pair of glasses in like 15 years. Until like, I don't know, eight years ago or something, I at least had a spare pair of glasses where the, where the glass was, the prescription was way off my prescription because it was so old. But at least if I took out my contacts, I wasn't completely blind. I mean, I'm not completely blind when I take out my contacts, but you know what I'm saying, like I could improve my vision a little bit. |
| 16. February 2023 | I Let Someone Get Bitten by a Snake. | I let someone get bitten by a snake. Last couple of days have been a bit of a struggle as I've tried different sleep medications. Last night didn't use one, woke up feeling much better. With that being said it did take me a loooooong time to get to sleep. Not sure what I'm gonna do about that. But what I have been doing is when I wake up in the morning, I have now been walking to my local shop. So it takes like 25 minutes to walk there and 25 minutes to come back and I like buy myself some food and eat for like 15 minutes. Today, I just bought like a bunch of fruit and like some bread and man, it takes so goddamn long to eat healthy food. Like you're sitting there with like just a bag of like kind of like and you're like, I could have finished a burger like a hundred times over by now. It's weird. When I was walking back from the shops, I was you know, listened to my audio book whatever and the guy's like, hey mate, hey mate. I'm like what what? Someone's talking to me in the wild? Why? He's like, there's a snake back over there. You want to watch yourself? I'm like, snake? Alright, so I like crossed the other side of the road and and and go on my way and like five minutes later or something. I was like, it's quite way down the road. I see another person on the other side of the road running along the path that I would have been running along and I was like, do I like yell out to her and say there's a snake? I've never seen this snake. Like, would this just become like a a tale that just people continuously share for like the entire day regardless whether or not there's a snake actually there? The snakes probably like moved on like eons ago, but I almost see it as I'm like nah, that'll be fine. Like no one's died from a snake bite in Australia in like 8 billion years, right? Which is funny and I actually saw a lizard though. It was like this big or something. It was like, oh this is cool. And it ran off. I was gonna take a picture of course, but uh it ran away. I actually thought about when I was eating all my um fruit and vegetables and stuff. I'm like, I should get a picture of me doing this and put it on like Twitter and be like hey look I'm good boy eating the good food, but I had no way of taking a picture of myself. So I'm like, ah fuck it. Maybe I could do like a super selfie like with my food like, ayyyy Eating a blackberry or something. Nah, too much apple. Fuck. |
| 27. February 2021 | I Lied About Beating Zelda: Majora’s Mask | I lied about beating Zelda Madora's Mask. I wonder if I could beat Madora's Mask these days. As I've mentioned before on stream, I lied to my friends about beating Madora's Mask when I was a kid. The water temple in the original Madora's Mask was insanely difficult. Like, they dumbed it down for the re-releases, but the original one was just like, you know, an engineering degree required to beat that shit without just luck. And I lucked my way to the top to fight the fish, and the fish killed me, and I was like, no, I'm done. So I quit and never beat the water temple, and for whatever reason, when my friends would ask if I beat the game, I'd be like, yeah, I absolutely did, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they'd say things about the end of the game that I'd be massively confused about. They'd be like, oh, so you fought the mask on the washroom? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so the tree thing, you remember the tree? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, the tree. Gotcha. I finished Ocarina of Time though when I was a kid, maybe showcasing that I've always wanted to be a Twitch streamer. My friend Luke was there. Or was it Daniel? One of the two. They were there with me as I was beating the final boss, but they had to go home, and I begged them to stay. Like, nah, you gotta stay, I'm about to finish the game. They're like, nah, nah, I gotta go. Like, my parents are outside, like, I gotta go. They left, and I was disappointed. It's always better when someone's watching. That could be taken out of context. |
| 18. October 2021 | I Now Have Furniture. Worship Me! | I now have furniture. Worship me. So big news guys. Big, big news. I now have two pieces of furniture. I have a chest of drawers, like white chest of drawers, cost me like a hundred bucks and a smaller set of drawers that sits next to my bed. I got for a hundred bucks as well. I'm even buying myself a bed frame, moving up in the world. The bed frame that I...like I haven't had my bed on the floor this entire time, but I bought myself a bed frame from Amazon, which is just like a black metal thing with no headboard. And I can't remember where I read it, but it was some post somewhere and it was upvoted like a heap. And it was like, never trust a guy who doesn't have a headboard on his bed. I don't really understand why, but I kind of miss having a headboard and whenever I think about the way my bed is set up, I think to myself like, yeah, I should get a headboard. So I bought myself a new thing to put my mattress on. It's white to match my other furniture. And I got it from IKEA as well. Hopefully it's good. |
| 21. June 2022 | I absolutely love this trilogy | I'm at the end of the third book in the Mistborn trilogy. Man, I did not see their ending coming. Like, Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Seneson, right? Uh, first three books. It is really interesting, and sometimes I'm like, Oh, I know what's gonna happen here. And other times I do not see the twist coming. And when the twist happened, at the end I was like, Oh my god, I should have made that connection. That's so brilliant. Like, fuck, Brandon Seneson's just such a good author man. Morbius proves all exposure isn't good exposure. It's funny. |
| 27. August 2022 | I accidentally confused everyone by being funny | I accidentally confused everyone by being funny. So I did a community post where I took a picture of myself dead in bed, and I was like, I am dead and bored. I miss being alive and not bored. Blah. And people wrote comments where they were like, Hey man, looking good! I'm like, you saying I look better when I'm sick? You're like, you're making thirst traps. I am sick in this picture! I am barely conscious! But I like this other thing that I wrote. Felt delete, might cute later. Cause like, felt cute might delete later. Felt delete might cute later. And so there's no image. That's hilarious! Confused the fact out of you? Exactly! Like you read it and you're like, wait what? I love shit like this. Find it hilarious. Does the internet still hold- |
| 26. October 2022 | I accidentally didn’t take my medication for a week. | I accidentally didn't take my medication for a week. So on my last day of my trip in Melbourne, I was like, it's kind of crazy that I didn't forget anything, or fuck up, or lose anything this entire trip. And like an hour after thinking this, I was like, wait a second, aren't I meant to take like half a pill of medication every day for my Hashimoto's? What happened with that? What happened? What happened? Oh shit, I forgot my medication. Oh no. At least what I have is not like super life-threatening or something. I got back to Sydney. The very first thing was I had one of my pills. And then I noticed that I only had like one left. And so I rushed to the doctors. I'm like, hey, can I have like an appointment and you just like write one word on a script and I can get more? And they're like, ah, now we're booked out for like the next week or something. I'm like, you're kidding. They're like, no, no, no, because some of the doctors are out on vacation or whatever. I don't know. There's only one doctor there. I went, oh shit, checked out my other doctor, they're booked for like three days. I'm like, oh crap. But I found a doctor that was just nearby or whatever. I just waited like an hour and a half to have a spur of the moment, go in the doctor's thing. Like I didn't have an appointment and he was willing to just fit out the script so I could get some. So hopefully I won't die from not having my medication for a week or whatever. But, you know, could have been worse. |
| 23. February 2022 | I accidentally video called a viewer. | I accidentally video-called a viewer. So funny story. Guy DMs me on Discord. He's DMed me a few times before. And he's like, hey, a friend of mine, it's their birthday. They even did, they were the ones who did that fan-arse that you used in your Reddit recap recently. It even was in the actual thumbnail. I was like, oh, that was a great bit of fan-art. And, okay, cool. Yeah, I wish your friend happy birthday. What's their Discord? And they're like, oh, I don't have their Discord, but I do have their Instagram and you can message them there. I'm like, oh, I hate Instagram, but whatever. I'll do it anyway. So it turns out I ended up being like two days late because I got their message late. I messaged this person. I was like, hey, happy birthday. Thanks for the fan art. I really appreciate it. It was really cool because it was. And then just as I was about to click off the DM, I noticed in the top corner something that was green. And I was like, oh, do I have like some messages from people or some shit? So I clicked the green button and it starts a video call. It's like 5am, just a random person. And what are the odds they were actually there? And so they picked up. I'm sitting there like almost pitch black and my screen just lights up. I just turned the camera away. I didn't even see what the person looks like. And I'm like, oh, this is fucking embarrassing. The call lasts like eight seconds before I can figure out how to hang up the phone call. I almost just straight turned off my... I think I was using my iPad. I almost just turned it off. I couldn't... I didn't want to have to deal with it. But I found the button and I turned it off. Like, oh, my bad. This is why I hate Instagram. And I fucking do. How is it every time I use Instagram, I somehow feel like worse about myself? You know, I feel like I'm dumb. Like, I felt like such a boomer. I don't understand technology. I just press the buttons. Awful. One more way I look like a dumbass to a random person on the Internet. |
| 24. May 2022 | I almost broke my $3000 Camera | Almost broke my $3,000 camera. Had a small little panic yesterday chat. I turned on my camera and I started making this clunking sound. Clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk. I'm like, oh no, this camera's worth thousands of dollars. And its shutter seems to be screwed. I panic and I look online and they're like, ah, you gotta like take it to a dark room. The shutter, like it's not sensing the light correctly or something. And so you put it in there, put a battery in it, and I do it and it fixes it. And I'm just like, oh thank fuck. I was recording that day too. I was about to freak the fuck out. Turned out though that the battery pack that I had in there also broke. So I have to buy a new one, but I had a backup thankfully. Um, yeah. |
| 24. January 2022 | I almost got killed by a wombat | I almost got killed by a wombat. I was driving down the south coast and There was just a wombat in the middle of the road and like I was kind of tired and I was like what the fuck What even is that? It's just like a fat thing sitting in the road Slowly, but surely Walking across it was like dead at night. I barely saw it. I managed to swerve around it But like did not give a fuck I looked behind me and it just kept walking like just didn't give a fuck Came that close to death maybe even killing me It's just like eh, I've had a good one like you like you know that scene from the Dark Knight The Joker's sitting there like driving. He's just like fucking hit me and and Batman's driving towards him That was kind of like me with this wombat and Batman the last second swerves around The Joker as I did with the wombat and the wombat's like damn |
| 10. November 2021 | I almost had red dragon emotes. | I almost had red dragon emotes. I remember the first time I ran across Fifi's emotes back when I had my own little red Dragon as my follower lot and I was looking to get myself some red dragon emotes For my stream and I was like no, there's already a popular streamer with red dragon emotes fuck guess I can't do them then I'm happy though with what I ended up having with my little doggo's So and for the low price of less than two dollars you can get access to many of these emotes on YouTube And I would continue to add more as I get more members You also get a badge next to your name and your comments will appear first for me in the back end Which means I'm more likely to see and respond to them I don't think the memberships are available in all countries and the price can vary between like 50 cents and three dollars depending upon your Region, but just look for the join button next to the subscribe button Cats are pretty good, but people like doggo's more as shown by my straw poll destroy poll on YouTube and 68% people preferred doggo's over cat's Gaston saris |
| 05. September 2022 | I almost spent $3000 on a hotel I couldn't see | I almost spent $3,000 on a hotel I couldn't use. So yesterday chat, I booked myself a flight and hotel in Melbourne. For PAX, of course. I googled, what days is PAX Australia? And it comes back and it says, ah, 11th to 13th October. I'm like, oh yeah, new year's in October, that's fine. So I book the stuff, and I mention this to my managers and they're like, Matt, what do you mean? Those are the wrong dates, it's from the 7th to the 9th. And so I had to panic, change everything. The hotel that I wanted to get was like, two feet from PAX. Like, I could have like gone out the door and there would be the thing, but it was booked out. I wanted to go to the 8 AC Hotel Melbourne South Bank. Looks beautiful. But then I tried to book it at the correct dates and it was sold out and I'm like, ah, shit. So then I booked myself in the Grand Hyatt. It's also a luxury hotel, but it's like 15 minutes away. And I'm like, ah, it's not good enough. Move the building closer to the destination. I've never been to a luxury hotel before. I think I've only ever stayed in like two hotels in the entirety of my life. And this will be the first time I've taken a vacation from work. Ever? I think I've only ever taken breaks before when I was sick. And even when sick, I would still be editing. So it's funny though, going down there, I guarantee you I'm just going to be making content of some kind. I'll just like live stream myself every single day just walking around. Yeah, I don't know what I'm going to be doing in Melbourne. I'm hoping that when I get there, I can be like, chat, tell me what to do and we can just go places or something. But I've never done in real life streaming out in the public and stuff. And I think it'd be very awkward talking to a camera. Just holding it in front of me and shit. Just throw myself in the belly of the beast and see if I can do well. Do I ask everyone when I walk into a place like, excuse me, I am live streaming. Can I live stream in here? I don't know. Maybe I'll just like do whatever the fuck I want until someone says, you can't do that, sir. Stop it. We'll see what happens. It actually cost me $100 to change my flights. I didn't make them flexible. Like literally 15 minutes after booking them, I changed them. And they're like, oh no, that'll be $100 from you, sir. I'm sure I could have complained or something and got it back, but I hate it. Fuck it. It's my fault. But yeah, I'm going down there for a week. I'm going to be in a luxury hotel for a week. |
| 12. December 2021 | I almost started to make debate content | I almost started to make debate content. I made myself a debates Gmail with the hope that I'd be like, hey, you want to debate me on something send me an email But I'm so happy I didn't actually Message that anywhere because when I was so but I was like, that's just a fucking dumb idea Debate content which is not worth the time |
| 01. December 2022 | I always need more editors. | More editors. I'm always looking for more editors because I can always just make more stuff, more footage that needs to be edited. As long as I've got energy. When I don't have energy for a while, I do sometimes run out. But the problem is finding people who are good. Most people don't have the knowledge to be able to assess how good they are in relation to everyone else. It's hard to find people who have sufficient skills to help me. Like, I'll have people be like, oh, there's a majority of people who say they want to help me edit. They'll send me like one video that they've edited three years ago, which is like some music over some of their gameplay. And they're sincere. They're like, yeah, I can help you out, man. Don't worry about it. Yeah, if you're an editor and you really want to help me out, or you think you've got some skills, DM me on Discord with some of your prior work. Like a lot of people seem to believe that you need to have edited for other people before asking to help someone with editing or whatever, or to get an editor. But in general, bare minimum, people expect you to have like edited for yourself, made your own YouTube videos or whatever. YouTube streaming has made live streaming. |
| 18. January 2021 | I am 50 years old. | I am 50 years old. Someone referenced, um, someone on Twitter told me that if you Google Dark Viper AU age, it would come up and tell me that, tell people that I'm 50 years old. 50! And I jokingly wrote on Twitter, like this is completely wrong. In fact, I'm ages, ageless. My age cannot be quantified. I will exist as long as existence is possible. I am the fabric, I'm the glue that holds the fabric of reality together. Please fix. And they did fix it thankfully, but they still got it wrong, they said I'm 29, so. Which sure in like human years, that's how old I am, but it's not exactly accurate. I look 45, I do not. Certainly when I'm clean shaven, uh, I do more look my age. I do, I think, I think when I'm somewhat sleep deprived or overworked or whatever, I look a bit older, but I do think that people assume I'm younger than I am, but not just in part because of my age, but possibly because of how I acts or the career that I have even, or maybe also because my audience, like the average of my audience is younger. So people just assume I'm close to their age. I mean, it's kind of how I do things. Like when I find out another content creator is 21 or something, when I, when I want to dream dreams about exam, because I mean, you know, I'm personally, um, how old is Clint Stevens? I remember being surprised how old he was. I was like, Oh really? You know, you really thought I was 40. Hmm. Perhaps I am simply an enigma. I cannot be easily understood. What's that line? Um, my complex machinations are lost upon the mind of the average man. I was, I was trying to reference Rose at D there, but don't think it went very well. |
| 13. October 2021 | I am a better youtuber than I am a streamer | I am a better YouTuber than I am a streamer. I don't have a schedule, that's the problem, you know. It took me a long time to realize that due to my complete lack of streaming schedule, I am far more suited to focus on YouTube than streaming. Which I have done, as you may have noticed over the last couple of years, as in like over time I've gotten more and more focused on YouTube as opposed to streaming. It's very hard to become a huge streamer when viewers can't consistently know when to come to your stream. |
| 08. September 2021 | I am a determinist | I am a determinist. I, yeah, I am a determinist. I'm not even necessarily convinced that... I emphasize, not convinced, that quantum indeterminacy or whatever is even a thing. Because I don't understand quantum physics. It's very hard to accept that something is true when you don't even understand it. All I know is that it is not something completely understood. And maybe, you know, if I have time in my life, I will grow to understand that, I don't know. The reason I am a determinist, in the sense that, again, I can't understand how determinism could be false, is it goes like this. If I have a closed system that I repeat over and over again, and I add no new information, I don't understand why that system wouldn't play out the exact same way. Or rather, you know, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, repeat, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, repeat, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I don't know how, without changing that sequence, that it could then go 1, 2, 3, 6, 4, 5. I don't understand that. I don't know how that could be possible. If I restart the universe, and the very first parts of the universe, whatever that means, if they're exactly the same, I don't know why the second instance of the universe wouldn't be exactly the same. I don't know why the third instance wouldn't be exactly the same, because it's what happened the first time, given the variables that were in the first and second instance. And that would just go on forever, up until this very point. Where I would be, again, this exact same matter, explaining this exact same point to you. I don't know how that could be false. It's based on axioms, I guess, but it's all of what my life is based on. The idea that if nothing changes, the result will be the same as last time. And every time in my life, where the outcome is different than previous, I can always point to something and go, that was different, therefore the outcome's different. This doesn't make it true. It just means that this is the only way that I can understand the world to work. But my limited understanding is not necessarily evidence of something being true. It's just in the case of determinism, it's applicable to everyday decisions in life. It's the kind of thing you have to make a decision on, whether or not you realize you are making a decision on it. And this just seems, again, the only thing that I could understand is possibly being true. In the case of quantum indeterminacy affecting free will, or affecting our choices, it still wouldn't get you free will. Because at that point, rather than pre-existing conditions determining your choices, it would be quantum randomness that you also have no control over, that would influence your choices. You would still not have the libertarian idea of free will, where you can actually choose between a Big Mac and a Quarter Pounder when you're at McDonald's. Even if quantum indeterminacy or whatever, if that affected the macroscopic world, the smallest fraction, and it was truly random, that would mean that restarting the universe, the universe would be different. Even with all the exact same initial conditions being perfectly exactly the same in every conceivable way, the universe would still be different. And as I said, I don't understand quantum business, so I don't know how that could be the case. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 11. September 2022 | I am a shadow network deep russian operative or something | Makes sense to be in rambles and I just threw it up there as I did with this video just like oh It's I'm just gonna release it and you know some people watch it some people weren't didn't get that many views which I'm not surprised I didn't care that much. I did get a handful of these comments though Really you're saying something like this after doing angry ranting about your own content being stolen Please don't sue me by the way also considering that there are numerous red flags with hammers and sickles on them in your recent videos months after the war started and Try to sell them to your viewers as a cheap joke I'm convinced you're at least morally corrupt as you claim business casual to be isn't that right comrade There were quite a few comments that were like this is Russian propaganda man You're a part of the deep shadow network, bro It wasn't that many comments like this obviously this false narrative that business casual has spun It is really appealing to some people and Google as I pointed out isn't making any money in Russia because they willingly Themselves turned off the advertising both on Russian state channels and then in Russia as a whole Burst would have a fit if they saw my comrade Emo chat Like I like those memes I like the comrade memes whenever you're in a situation where uh you want to claim ownership of someone else's stuff You do a comrade meme. They can say it's a meme as old as dirt. Hey my pizza's here. Hey Hey, you mean our pizza comrade. I didn't invent these memes, but I do enjoy them |
| 04. June 2021 | I am always doing the best I can | I am always doing the best that I can. Feeling health? Yeah, I'm fine. Just for a while there, I'm fairly certain. See, I still don't know if I was taking too much or too little with my Hashimoto's medication, and I was just in this fucked state of always feeling terrible and not knowing exactly how to solve it, but I seem a lot better now. You feel nostalgic for pre-Hashimoto's medicine times? So, pre my diagnosis for Hashimoto's, I would just feel like shit all the time. Like, you can go back in my older constant, I'm like, man, I'm just really fucking tired. I have no goddamn idea why. And then I started putting on weights, and I was just like, I went to the doctors, and I'm like, I've put on like a bunch of kilos. Like, I don't think I've changed my diet all that much. You know, I don't know exactly when I got Hashimoto's, but in hindsight, looking back at my life, I'm like, oh, that makes sense. Yeah, you know? But then again, I don't know how much of my tiredness in my life I can attribute just to this. Like, obviously my sleeping has never been great either. I hope people know I'm always doing the best I can do. I don't have any in real life friends. I don't see my family all that much. You know, I don't have any other hobbies. I don't have any other aspirations or pursuits. Don't have, I'm not in any relationships, whatever. I just spend all my time doing the best I can in regards to you guys and my content. And it does frustrate me sometimes when people ask even more than that. Which maybe it's just the nature of the internet to always ask for slightly more than what already is. And I mean, if you're running at max capacity, they can ask for more than max capacity, and that's just the nature of things. What is Hashimoto's? Hashimoto's is a, I believe it's an autoimmune disease where my body, my immune system, thinks my thyroid is something to be destroyed. Like it's a foreign invader into my body. And so my immune system's like, get the fuck out of here, brah. What are you doing? And so my thyroid can become inflamed and stuff, or just not produce sufficient of this hormone that your body needs to regulate its metabolism. It can lead to a bunch of other problems if not treated. But thankfully I exist in a period of time where it can be treated. So there's two different types. There's hypothyroidism and hypothyroidism, depending upon whether you get too much of this hormone or too little. Actually, the thyroid produces two hormones. I don't know if they both can be reduced or increased, I don't know, but it's a hormone issue. And so what I have to take is a synthetic hormone, which is, it's just the same thing, but just in pill form. And I take a bit every day. My diagnosis is fairly mild by compared to like the worst it can be. Like I take like half a pill every day where other people can take far, far more. As I say, if you're gonna have some issue that's gonna affect you for the rest of your life, Hashimoto's is probably very high on the list of your choices, as in like you'd pick it over basically anything else. I'm not in a situation where people should be planning my funeral at the same time. Like I do have to deal with some shit sometimes, you know, which is the case with most people. Like the amount of people who go throughout their entire lives without some sort of medical issue is quite small. The only reason we talk about the extent we do or that I mentioned the extent that I do is because, you know, I talk all day. I do my best to always talk about what's on my minds and communicate what's going on to the greatest extent that I can. Both for the entertainment factor and because it's probably good background noise. Having some guy in a somewhat friendly way explain to you his problems, you know. |
| 22. October 2022 | I am finally going to look for more editors to help me. | I'm finally going to look for more editors to help me. Yeah, so I'm working to find more editors to help me with my workload. Over time, I have streamed less and less, which made keeping up with speedrunning impossible and taken on more editing myself to avoid falling behind on things. I don't know how this ended up happening. At one point in time, I was streaming like six hours a day and then editing for four or five, and that was fine. Maybe the stream would be a little bit less sometimes, but like eventually came to when I was like, I would not be even streaming every day. Just over time, I just did a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more. I think in part that might be because of illness. Like I just couldn't bring myself to have the energy necessary to do a long form stream. Also, like my standard for my live streaming content increased, I'd be less willing to just sit and chill on stream for a bit. I would always need to have that YouTube energy the entire time. The amount of energy I'd have to bring to the table would need to be higher, so I just wouldn't start if I didn't have that energy. And of course, because I always had more things to edit, I was always behind on things. It never made sense just to chill on stream for a couple of hours compared to like actually editing. Like I just need more help now. What's ended up happening is that I have one person who consistently helps me, another person who fairly regularly helps me, and two people who help me a little bit. So combining them together, I've got two people helping me with editing. Like in last month, I believe of the 32 videos that released, I did like 26 of them or something. And that's just too many. Like sure, the Rambles do take actually quite a bit of time now. But I mean, they weren't like multi-day projects and chaos, what I mean is a lot of the videos that I'm doing aren't the most difficult videos, but just the number should tell you that I'm doing a little bit too much. I need more time to, like in the same day, record two different things I wanna do or something. I just need my help. The only reason I've managed to do all this is because I've got people helping me with other stuff where, you know, Well's helping me with facts and glitches and I've got people, people will upload my shorts to TikTok so I don't have to do it. I'll just give them the shorts and they do it for me. I've got Well monitoring Instagram and stuff, not that I did that much myself before. Like in everything that's not editing, I've got people helping me now, which has saved me a little bit of time that I could then throw at editing, but it's just too much. I've got like 100 DMs from people who wanna edit for me and hopefully I can find someone competent. The big problem is that most people don't know how competent they are at editing. They can't assess their own capabilities. And so I'll get emails from people and I'll look at their work and I'm like, how did you possibly think that this would pass? It just takes so long to find someone who's sufficiently competent. It is always a hassle bringing on someone new, which is why I spent so long just dealing with myself. Matters like butter scraped over too much bread. I love that expression from Lord of the Rings. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 15. June 2021 | I am fortunate enough that I don't have to fake who I am | fortunate enough that I don't have to fake who I am. I should scream the next time I die? I don't fake anything. Like, I've explained before, like, I'm just not very good at faking stuff, and I don't like to. I don't want to go my entire life, like, having to act in a certain way or something, and I'm in a fortunate enough situation that I think I can just be sincere with my feelings. Admittedly, this does cause me problems sometimes. A level of fakeness does seem to be advantageous in this career, but uh, don't think I'm there yet. |
| 08. September 2022 | I am getting laser eye surgery | I am getting laser eye surgery. After three months of waiting, I finally went to my appointment to get Lasik surgery. For the past almost 20 years, I've been wearing contact lenses, monthly contact lenses, where I don't take them out at all. I wear contact lenses for the entire month and take them out at the end of the month. This is something that you can do and 20 years ago was like, oh yeah, don't worry about it, it's totally fine. These days people recognize that it increases your chance of an eye infection if you don't take out your contact lenses every day. Over the last 20 years, I've had one and I'd always been concerned that wearing contacts as long as I do and that one eye infection would have caused some lasting damage to my eyes. But going yesterday to have my eyes looked at to see if I can get Lasik surgery, the dude's like, your eyes are in perfect health. My tear ducts are perfect, my cornea is perfect, all this jazz. Other than my eyesight being bad, my eyes are perfect. There's apparently three different types of Lasik surgery. All of them achieve the same result, but each of them have different levels of recovery time and potential for things not to be perfect. The one I can get is the best one. The least invasive, least downtime. He's like, yeah, you are a perfect candidate for what they call a smile surgery. They call it smile. Ain't that crazy? I could have booked it a lot earlier, but I can't wear contact lenses for three weeks leading up to the surgery. Because I'm going to Melbourne, I want to wear contact lenses while I'm down there. So I have to do it a month after I come back from Melbourne in October. So I'm doing it in November, two and a half months away, whatever. And you know what it's costing chat? What do you think laser eye surgery costs in Australia? $7,000. I'm basically going with the best of the best people who exist. Given that I spend, you know, hundreds of dollars every year on contact lenses, I'm not sure how much I spend. It's got to be at least 600 a year. More than that, it pays for itself. It's just something that I never had the time to do, somewhat scary thing to consider people doing surgery on your fucking eyes. But my mother did laser eye surgery at this place and she was perfectly fine. And it's like, well, if you know, my mother's able to go through it, that's cool. Then they must be fine. They told me that I'm going to be there for like two and a half hours, even though the surgery takes like 15 minutes. And what they do is they give you a Valium, which I guess is some drug that makes you like, eh, you know, they paralyze your face, whatever, and then hold open your eye. And you know, that's fine. You love Valium? Yeah, I said I've never had a fortune. Like, oh, it'll be an experience. Like, oh, good. Good. |
| 16. November 2022 | I am getting laser eye surgery. | I am getting laser eye surgery. Yeah, I'm getting my laser eye surgery in a week. I am fairly nervous about it I mean they've never caused the person to go blind and stuff and what have you but it is a surgery Yeah, I need to give my consent and stuff and sign a bunch of scary forms and whatnot I hope I'm not on my ass for too long. Yeah, so because |
| 01. January 2021 | I am getting over Baby Yoda. | I'm guessing over Baby Yoda. It's funny, last night I was sitting there at like, I think 10? And I was like, aren't they meant to be doing something right now? And I sat there for a little while and I couldn't think of it. I'm like, oh well, guess I'll watch an episode of Mandalorian. I don't really feel like editing a video I've already released and finished a video for the day, I'm just gonna watch the Mandalorian. And so like, two episodes of Mandalorian, two times speed of course, for me to go, wait a second, I haven't done the clips for my clips channel. And like, I look at the clock and it's like 10.30.11, I'm like, ah shit. It's called the Baby Yoda Show. I'm more interested in the Mandalorian than I am Baby Yoda. I mean, the cuteness of Baby Yoda could only go so far. I'm kind of sick of Baby Yoda. I'm not sick of him necessarily, but like, do something, you know? The dynamic of the father caring for his little child is more interesting to me than the dynamic of the little child being cared for by his father, kind of thing. Like I think the dynamic in general is cute, but I just mean, the Mandalorian is the more interesting character to me. So that I would, yeah. |
| 01. January 2021 | I am getting over baby Yoda. | I'm guessing over Baby Yoda. It's funny, last night I was sitting there at like, I think 10? And I was like, aren't they meant to be doing something right now? And I sat there for a little while and I couldn't think of it. I'm like, oh well, guess I'll watch an episode of Mandalorian. I don't really feel like editing a video I've already released and finished a video for the day, I'm just gonna watch the Mandalorian. And so like, two episodes of Mandalorian, two times speed of course, for me to go, wait a second, I haven't done the clips for my clips channel. And like, I look at the clock and it's like 10.30.11, I'm like, ah shit. It's called the Baby Yoda Show. I'm more interested in the Mandalorian than I am Baby Yoda. I mean, the cuteness of Baby Yoda could only go so far. I'm kind of sick of Baby Yoda. I'm not sick of him necessarily, but like, do something, you know? The dynamic of the father caring for his little child is more interesting to me than the dynamic of the little child being cared for by his father, kind of thing. Like I think the dynamic in general is cute, but I just mean, the Mandalorian is the more interesting character to me. Please subscribe to Br helpful for more cool challenges. |
| 13. March 2022 | I am going to get some of my nose cut off. | Going to get some of my nose cut off. So I'm going to be seeing a skin specialist. On my nose, I have a... Kinda where it's called. It's like, in the joint here, it's a little bit, like, it's like a bump. It just needs to be cut out or whatever. It can happen to anyone or something. It's not indicative of anything, it's not harmful or whatever. It's just cosmetically... Displeasing. And I'm like, well, I wanna get that resolved. So I'm going to see a specialist and be like, hey yo, can you remove this for me? I've also got a handful of small moles on my face. And I'm like, well, may as well get those removed while I'm there. There's something I've been meaning to do for years. But spur of the moment, I was like, eh, let's do it. And I called up a person in... |
| 06. May 2021 | I am going to stop talking about other content creators so much. | I'm going to stop talking about other content creators so much. So, I have recently unfollowed, like, a bunch of large creators, and some YouTube channels that kind of give me, like, they would give me like daily clips and news about what's going on with large content creators. I think, uh, I discussed them too much. On occasion, interesting stuff can happen, don't get me wrong, but, like, my YouTube body just doesn't really know them, and it just, it came off weird in my mind. I always just treat it as news, but at the end of the day, they are people, and discussing other creators too much, I just think it comes off as weird. I don't know. Because someone mentioned the comments, like I mentioned Ludwig a lot, and I was like, well, because it's news, but it's like, is it really news? At least, whatever it is, it's not particularly relevant, so I'm gonna try to avoid that shit. |
| 09. April 2021 | I am never going to do well on a dating app | I am never going to do well on a dating app. So guys, I made- I finally made a dating profile yesterday, and I realized immediately that there was no fucking way I'm gonna do well on a dating website. No way at all. Like, what I do for a living is so strange and people's frame of reference for my job is effectively non-existent. As in, I'm sure most people know that guy with like 10 subs on YouTube who's making like 50 cents, and the second you tell a person, you know, you make money on YouTube or Twitch, whatever, they'll be like, what's Twitch and what YouTube, that website with the cat videos? Like even people around my age, whatever, like it's just short of saying, hey, yo, I'm not poor. What the fuck am I meant to say? And I, I, while I don't look, you know, 10 years old, I don't look 30. I look like I'm 22, you know. I don't have like rugged good looks kind of thing. Like you look at me for one second and I guarantee you, over one majority of people in these fucking swiping apps are not gonna take an interest, you know, and using it myself swiping on people, I'm just like, I don't like judging people this way. It feels awful. Not only that, it almost seems as though like everyone on, I wouldn't take the website I'm on, but everyone seems like a 10 or a 2. Like people who, people who are so high up there in terms of like their careers, that they can't find people to be with or are so attractive that they can't settle on anyone or can't find someone good enough for them or twos, as in people who have never gone outside are repugnance to the vast majority of people. I know this might be offensive to say, but such people do exist. And so they've gone on these websites. And so trying to find just a regular person that you want to hang with who, who you'd actually like to be around but won't make you feel like you're nothing is seemingly quite hard. Because all the regular people with regular lives who do regular things are probably just meeting people at their works and through their friend groups and shit, you know? Maybe I'm exaggerating. I don't know, but my first day of experiences was not particularly high. If you lose weight, you could look younger than 30. I have lost a bit of weight the last couple of days. Not eating does wonders. Did you know if you take in less calories than you burn, then you lose weight? Pretty crazy. Oh, no, absolutely. There's a comment there, a person saying that they were unattractive, yet they met someone good. Attractive. Absolutely, these things can happen, but they happen in real life. As in, on a dating website, people are far more superficial, especially when it's like, you know, hitting that dopamine or whatever, you're swiping, finding people or whatever. Like in real life, you can meet a person, strike up a conversation, and find that you have a lot in common. On dating websites where things are super superficial, those kind of things happen, I imagine, far less. When you meet someone in real life, you see more than the looks of a person on a dating app. That is not really the case. Exactly. And not only that, but in real life, you see a person. On the internet, you see photos of a person. They're selectively cropped photos that they put on this website, which doesn't even necessarily showcase how they actually look in real life. Taking one photo where you look good is easier than looking good, like as you're just walking around as an average person, you know. I call myself a successful video artist. I just don't think that the average person cares about such things. Like, I may seem a big shot to you guys, it was some of you, a handful of you may see me as a big shot, but in the real world, most people don't know about Twitch, YouTube, or anything along these lines. Every normal person I've ever met outside of this industry has just asked the most basic questions, because they've never had the opportunity to understand, you know. I mean, I say this, but even people, as shown by the situation with Twitch's brand safety score and mood-a-going-ape shit, even people in the industry don't know everything. Like, the people who are in the industry and the people who watch it. I'm sure every gamer ultimately wants to find themselves, like, a chick who's interested in gaming, right? But at least in our neck of the woods, that does seem to be a rare thing. I mean, a rare, you know, a minority thing, you know. Really? I would love to find a chick with similar interests to me. If I change, I'll try to only change for the better. Love yourself before you love someone else? I like me, and I do see myself as having value. It's just communicating that value to another person, especially when they're going to be judging me superficially in a nanosecond. It's very difficult. |
| 02. June 2021 | I am no longer shampooing my hair | I am no longer shampooing my hair. I do like the way my hair is now. I've now not been using shampoo for like two weeks. My hair is still nice and fluffy, but now has lift. It isn't dry and it isn't flat and lifeless and stuff. Why no shampoo? I watched a video that explained like shampoo is like removing your natural oils and then the product that you put in is just putting oil back in your hair. It's kind of pointless. For some people anyway. Yeah, so the video I watched just said, yo for me, like himself explaining like I haven't used shampoo in five years and like the nanosecond I stopped using shampoo. My hair was better. My scalp was better and all this jazz and having stopped using shampoo, I agree. I don't use conditioner either. All I do is wash my hair with water and like kind of scrub my scalp with it. Do I even shower? Yeah, I wash my hair. That is how I wash it with water. I watched a video that argued that shampoo was a scam and at the end of it, I'm like, well, I'll give it a go and it seems as though if at least for my hair he was right. I shower like twice a day guys at minimum. I love showers. I love water. The manifestation of like washing your hair every day and stuff, that's just it's just a marketing thing. Sold to people so they will buy this product. It is the case with some people's hair that shampoo and conditioner is necessary. As this idea that everyone needs it. It's just marketing bullshit. You're not supposed to wash your hair every day, King. Yes, but the marketing people, so you want that idea. You also don't technically need to shower every day either. I like showers, you know. Some people's hair and skin can allow some kind, exactly. And I think my hair does better without it. It feels so soft. But it's got lift to it. How's my water bill? I have no idea. Doesn't feel dirty? No. It feels in a way thicker if that makes sense. How to Body restoration. |
| 23. July 2022 | I am not into cars at all | I am not into cars at all. You're surprised by my dislike of car racing? I miss the rest of your message. I don't know why you- why that's surprising to you. I've never really been interested in any cars. I mean, I don't- dislike is too strong of a word. Like I played Mario Kart back in the day. It's just, um, like what Wirtual does, where he shaves off a second and then say- doing the same track over and over again, shave off seconds. That's just not my bag. No, I'm not shitting on Wirtual there. What's the expression? Different strokes for different folks. I just, uh, just not my thing. Speedrunning, uh, GTA 5 containing a multitude of different types of gameplay and skills is more interesting to me than, um, just the driving skills. I respect that it requires a lot of skill, just not what I'm interested in, you know? |
| 31. October 2021 | I am not really a ‘fan’ of video games as a medium | I am not really a fan of video games as a medium. I have never considered myself to be a person super interested in video games. Like when I think of a person interested in video games, they have like a room dedicated to video games. Like look up um Scott the Was, uh, recently did a video where he unpacked his history of his gaming room and like walls the wall of games. I'm like that's a person interested in video games. I am a person who enjoys playing some video games. I don't have an interest in the medium of video games. I have an interest in things that I find enjoyable. Like a movie fanatic or a person interested in movies watches like any movie, just loves going to the cinema, just watches anything. I am interested in stories that I enjoy and will endeavor to experience those stories on any medium. So I watch anime, I watch TV shows, I watch everything. I mean I if I if I could go to the opera or something I'd probably go to the opera if there was good stories whatever or the theater or whatever. I am interested in the things that I enjoy. So over my life I've only played uh you know a dozen maybe two thousand games that I've really enjoyed. Outside of you know the video games that I enjoy or whatever. Like I wasn't correcting you I was just clarifying how I see myself. |
| 17. June 2021 | I am not really drinking anymore | As I've gotten on in years, it's more of a surprise to me all the time that there are people who drink every day to get by. I guess just, you know, get addicted or whatever, or it's a habit as well. Like I used to be able to drink a lot more bourbon than I do today, it's going to be interesting when I go out to drink again at some event or whatever to see how much I can hold my liquor. I might just really try and pace myself. The quirky controls of GTA V. This is the mission's hardest fucking console. Most people prefer to use controller here. |
| 07. August 2021 | I am not streaming to get money | I am not streaming to get money. DarkHouse 2k, 2k PC is in college, can eat more than ramen and has expensive shit. Dark you are well off- No I'm not! I don't have, like every month I lose money. I am slowly watching my savings deplete. I don't have a positive income. And I'm unlikely to have a positive income for the next few years. I need to save my money and uh... Over the last few months I have not been good at that. So if anyone wants to donate me a dollar or two, you know, feel free to help out, nah. I don't want to be one of those people man. I'm not streaming to get money. |
| 23. July 2022 | I am now taking rambles suggestions | I am now taking Ramble's suggestions. If you are a Patreon supporter, not that there's many of those, you are considered trustworthy enough on the Discord to have access to Ramble's suggestions. So if you have a suggestion for something I should ramble about on stream, you can add it in there. It's just limited to prevent people spamming it and putting stupid stuff. It's just recent news or topics. |
| 05. January 2022 | I am passionate about passion | I am passionate about passion. You're watching a tournament that makes me think you admire people who work hard and do what they love regardless of the men- I love passion. Passion is fucking amazing. I almost tweeted out, I envy furries because at least they're passionate about something. And I was like, no, I am kind of passionate about stuff. And, uh, I don't know what kind of response that kind of tweet would have. You know? I- all- cause all I was trying to say is that, as long as your passion doesn't hurt others, I just- I respect it. Like, if you're passionate about fridges, I respect that shit. If you're passionate about collecting stamps, I respect that shit. I am passionate about passion. And you find people who kind of drift through life, never feeling strongly about fucking anything, and you've got to pity these people. And I've been there, you know? Everyone needs that thing that they can follow and- a non-destructive thing they can follow and grow with and learn just infinitely about. And these guys who spend, you know, 20 years on this game and still play it, um, it's cool. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 22. October 2022 | I am retiring the ‘This Is What You Missed’ series. | I am retiring the This Is What You Missed series. These were 10 to 20 hour, barely edited playthroughs of various different games that weren't worth the time to edit. So I'm probably gonna stop uploading This Is What You Missed because I fear that it's negatively impacting my other videos. While I know for certain that you can upload weaker videos and still have your other videos succeed, I cannot know for certain if uploading weak videos is having a significant effect on my channel. My channel isn't as healthy as I'd like it to be, so I'm gonna not do that for a while. If you are interested in watching This Is What You Missed, I set as unlisted all the remaining Noita episodes that I had uploaded, as well as the Super Auto Pets one, and they are now available in the playlist for This Is What You Missed. So there's what, like, pffft, 120 hours of content there now. More than that. So if you were just like, man, I just wanna watch you watch- play more Noita, it's there now. Enjoy. Know I love This Is What You Missed. Only like 2-3% of people would get past like an hour and watch to the end. It's just not enough people. The first episodes did pretty good. Like, the first episode of This Is What You Missed is sitting at like 200k or something. And that was like a 12-hour video. And the last Noita episode I think was like 70k or something, which was good. But, uh, I have this thing where I'm attracted to the less complex problem to be solved. So when I started This Is What You Missed, whenever I was like, I need something to do, be productive, work towards something, I'd put aside the more important stuff, and I would do This Is What You Missed stuff. I would, you know, bring together the footage, skipping through it to cut out the large gaps, you know, syncing it together and all that stuff, and then rendering it. And that would take time that I should be spending on more important things. I can't deal with distraction anymore. It definitely did impact my other work, at least somewhat. I- |
| 22. October 2022 | I am retiring the ‘this is what you missed’ series. | I am retiring the This Is What You Missed series. These were 10 to 20 hour, barely edited playthroughs of various different games that weren't worth the time to edit. So I'm probably gonna stop uploading This Is What You Missed because I fear that it's negatively impacting my other videos. While I know for certain that you can upload weaker videos and still have your other videos succeed, I cannot know for certain if uploading weak videos is having a significant effect on my channel. My channel isn't as healthy as I'd like it to be, so I'm gonna not do that for a while. If you are interested in watching This Is What You Missed, I set as unlisted all the remaining Noita episodes that I had uploaded, as well as the Super Auto Pets one, and they are now available in the playlist for This Is What You Missed. So there's what, like, pffft, 120 hours of content there now. More than that. So if you were just like, man, I just wanna watch you watch- play more Noita, it's there now. Enjoy. Know I love This Is What You Missed. Only like 2-3% of people would get past like an hour and watch to the end. It's just not enough people. The first episodes did pretty good. Like, the first episode of This Is What You Missed is sitting at like 200k or something. And that was like a 12-hour video. And the last Noita episode I think was like 70k or something, which was good. But, uh, I have this thing where I'm attracted to the less complex problem to be solved. So when I started This Is What You Missed, whenever I was like, I need something to do, be productive, work towards something, I'd put aside the more important stuff, and I would do This Is What You Missed stuff. I would, you know, bring together the footage, skipping through it to cut out the large gaps, you know, syncing it together and all that stuff, and then rendering it. And that would take time that I should be spending on more important things. I can't deal with distraction anymore. It definitely did impact my other work, at least somewhat. I- |
| 02. April 2021 | I am starting to do online dating again. | I'm starting to do online dating again So I'm 30 guys in like What's the date today? three days Three days. I'm 30 and I think on my 30th birthday I'm gonna make myself a online dating profile because because I have I do not go enough places to meet people It's the only way I'm ever gonna find someone that I want to spend some time with you know But being like a zealous celebrity or whatever I totally why I'm gonna be catfish or some shit like I think like how weird is it gonna be if you're on a dating Website and the first thing a person says to you is like hey Can you like like you know take a picture of yourself with like your phone and the date? Both in camera frame, please like you sound like such a jackass You know I just need to make sure you're not some 17 year old guy just fucking me for whatever Cross that bridge when I come to it. You know it's a big incident out there I wouldn't be surprised if fucking no one knows me Tinder speedrun when as I've said before at one point in time when tinder was just getting off the ground Reynad is like what three four years or whatever Reynad was on stream with his friends And they were kind of speedrunning tinder I'm pretty sure that got banned and you can't do anymore But you just sit on stream like swipe left right and like chat would have to input so his friends and they they chat to people Whatever well like I guess um Chad Anything for views I think has done live streams where he's met tinder dates good here trying to find a date Just don't speedrun it honestly. I am worried I will do that as in like I'll match with someone and they'll want to do small talk and I'm just like look I just I don't like small talk. Please you should meet or something. I don't know more than likely. I just end up Chatting with people while I'm making clips for my clips channel But tinder isn't for dating though right the people actually like build like I've heard stories of people building Relationships on tinder but only because they happen to really hit it off when they're having casual sex or whatever like no No one gets on tinder and is like hey Yo, let's strike up a conversation and actually go out in a couple of dates whatever right that's not a thing Yeah, yes sex is the priority exactly when you're saying snap people hook up on snapchat Isn't snapchat just for kids is snapchat like the the younger version of tinder than a The only person I know who was on snapchat is clint stalin Having the opinions that I I just expressed of snapchat and it's saying the only person I know who's on snapchat is clint is making me suggest Just sing certain things about clint. I don't I don't want to talk about I don't mean it That was not my intention I find my work and job too satisfying I don't ever want to take like how much time they really have to spell it because when I think about Having an actual relationship again like my sleeping pattern is so shit. I'm all over the place. I'm always fucking working I like taking days off. I have to find some really goddamn understanding person. I know I'm 30 Well, I will be 30. I feel like at that point part of existence that I probably shouldn't ignore |
| 30. September 2022 | I am streaming on both YouTube and Twitch | I am streaming on both YouTube and Twitch. My current plan right now with YouTube and Twitch streaming is to do everything important on YouTube and do editing streams on Twitch. So for a while I did editing streams, but I was concerned on Twitch because people would see me live and be like Oh, he's probably just editing or something and not stop to my actual streams. But now that I'm on two different platforms, I can just always edit on Twitch. So yeah, it'll be true. I'll always be editing on Twitch, but the more important stuff will happen on YouTube. But uh, Chaos? Well, Chaos right now can't be done on YouTube anyway, so it's gonna be on Twitch. Once it can be done on YouTube, which they're working on, I'm not sure because I'd be worried that the VOD of Chaos would conflict with- conflict with the raw upload of Chaos. Well, it depends what kind of viewership I get with Chaos on YouTube. We'll see what happens. Midnight- |
| 23. August 2021 | I am surprised GTA Online was ever successful | I am surprised GTA Online was ever successful. I don't know man, I'm always floored that the game got as popular as it did with its loading screens. In a world where people close web browsers, if something takes more than five seconds to load, people sit in there for five minutes waiting for GTA Online to load. Boutech... |
| 12. December 2021 | I am taking a heap of vitamins | I am taking a heap of vitamins. So I am so sick of waking up feeling tired and feeling like shit and stuff that I'm taking like vitamins and shit. So I got my vitamin D because I never fucking go in the sun to the degree that the doctor was like, oh my god, you always look like that. Like, like what? She's like, you're so pale. I'm like, yeah, yeah. So I got like vitamin B, a moldy vitamin, and fucking vitamin C and shit. Of course, normally for a healthy person who eats at least normal food, this is all pointless. But I am not that way because most of your body can only process a certain amount of different vitamins and shit. Like you just piss out the rest. Vitamins only make sense to take if you're deficient in stuff. So don't go out there and be like, I'm going to be like dark fat by a bunch of vitamins. Go to your doctor if you feel like shit. |
| 10. September 2021 | I am terrible at accents | I am terrible at accents. Maybe I'm broken internally, I'm not sure. But when I'm like rambling or ranting or something, and I need to do a different accent, I can do a different accent. But when someone asks me to do an accent, I can't. Give me something to say in Russian. Vodka. There you go. Is that good? Hey comrade, give me the vodka. I don't know. Good? No? Bad? Can you do an Australian accent for the rest of the stream? I don't think I can. I'm definitely not good at an Australian accent. In mother Russia, GT Speed runs you. No, I can't do it. I can't do accents, man. Can I do a New Zealand accent? Fush and chups. Chups. Oh, brew. How's some fish and chips? Oh man, why are you being this way, man? I tried, chat. I tried. Do a Scottish accent? Aye, laddie. No, I don't. Stop it. You're embarrassing me. |
| 30. September 2022 | I am terrible at catching YouTube trends | I'm terrible at catching YouTube trends. When I said that I wanted to like capitalize a little bit on the popularity of Cyberpunk right now because of the TV show, I realized that the game takes minimum like 25 hours to complete and it would take a month to edit that or something in between doing other things. By the time I did that, the hype is probably gonna die down a bit, right? But obviously the reason I want to play Cyberpunk isn't just for the hype. It's because I legitimately want to play the game. But as a content creator, the sort of games that you want to make content around are not the games that take 25 hours to finish. Or rather, you can make content around those games, but you don't want to make playthroughs of games that are that long. You want games that you can jump into for like four hours, have some fun times and it can become its own video, you know? It's what CallMeKevin does. You can see him on Twitter sometimes being like, guys, recommend me games, be done in like five hours or whatever. Because those are the ideal. There's the ideal amount of footage that you want to make yourself a good like half an hour long video. What I do, where I do like the entire game and then get it edited down to the core of it, especially of old games as I have been doing, is not the smartest move on YouTube. And it's questionable how long I can ride this train of, hey, it's that GTA 5 guy playing GTA clones. That's crazy. Wonder how he likes this game. Who knows how long I can do that for you guys get sick of it. McDonald's are not. |
| 02. July 2021 | I am terrible at doing washing | I am terrible at doing washing. I also once more chat forgot to put out my laundry. Every day I wake up, and I'm like why do I have no clothes? Oh, yeah, I set my washing to be washed and put it out. So this is another third day in a row I've started my washing machine on the same bunch of clothes. I don't want them getting moldy or whatever in there, so I just keep washing them. Eventually after my stream, I'll remember to put them out. Eventually, one day. How often do I do laundry? When I run out of clothes. Do I have a closet full of tank tops? Well, it used to be full of tank tops. Now it's not. I haven't done any washing. You're not listening. |
| 25. July 2022 | I am the funniest person who has ever lived | I am the funniest person who has ever lived Please make a train noise Hey, I'm a train brrr bigger So dumb I've never seen someone laugh at his own jokes as much as Matt, but it's not fair because I'm the funniest person who's ever lived I remember actually when I was down in Melbourne people were discussing making videos about their own content and Someone's like, oh, you know, I just cringe so much like I think in the moment it's so funny But afterwards I'm like this isn't funny and it's just so cringy to work on I'm like I don't feel that at all I can watch my own content like my old videos and laugh at them people will write comments like oh This was so funny and link like 13 minutes in and I will click that link watch 13 minutes in and laugh with them I hate when people like oh I really love that moment where X happens and they don't link it something about but I want to watch it again Fuck you! |
| 27. October 2021 | I am the only australian that uses forks | I am the only Australian that uses forks. So this morning I looked in my drawer and I'm like, there's no more forks. There's like six forks in this entire fucking house. I'm buying some forks today. And so I went to Woolworths and I looked at the place where the cutlery is and no joke, there is like 400 containers of spoons, 400 containers of every knife you can imagine, but no forks. I was there for a good five minutes going, this can't be the case. I must be going blind. There must be a fork somewhere here. I found some forks in like dinner sets of like, where I have to get like knives, spoons and forks together. And so I'm getting like four forks for like $20 or something. I don't know how much it costs. There was no price there, but it was, it's clearly, I don't want the other stuff. I got tons of knives. I got tons of spoons. I just want some forks. And apparently that's too much to ask for. I assume that I'm the only Australian in the world who eats food with forks. That's my assumption that I've gotten out of this. |
| 31. March 2021 | I am trying to get back into exercising. | I am trying to get back into exercising. Yesterday, I did some weightlifting, cardio, sit-ups and push-ups and all that stuff, the stuff I used to do back in the day. I have heard that it is far easier to rebuild muscle than it is to gain it the first time and I definitely had more muscle back in the day than I have now. I was never like a muscle-y dude, but I was a little bit better than I am now. So hopefully, just working out half an hour a day or whatever will see me doing okay again. You feel bad a lot, I question. Do you move enough per day, for example, to walk or cycling? How older I got, the more important not to work from home all the time and to walk at least once per day. Yeah, I'm exercising a bit more now. I was saying yesterday, you're right that I don't take care of myself as much as I should. Diet is certainly not great. |
| 16. June 2022 | I am watching your TikToks | Thank you. I am watching your TikToks. You know what's funny? On TikTok, I will get recommended videos from people who follow me. Like, I don't think my reach is so expansive that it's just coincidence. I think TikTok occasionally is like, Hey! Here's something your followers are making. So if you've uploaded TikToks, there's some chance I've seen one, you know? Yeah, TikTok does that to me too and I only have 110 followers. Interesting. |
| 27. August 2022 | I am ‘paying to win’ sleep | I am paying to win sleep. To give you a brief summary of my life chat, I became very sick, very sick for like two to three days. My only suspicion is that I ordered from some new place and I got myself some croissants and a teller one, strawberry one and one other one which I assume is like cheese or something, I don't know. And they also gave me like some, when I thought was a pizza, but it was actually like a pizza folded over with a bunch of stuff on top of it. I think maybe I got some sort of poisoning from this place. Either that or I'm allergic to Nutella because Nutella is not something I normally eat. I've eaten Nutella maybe once in my entire life. It fucking ruined me. Could not fucking sleep, just couldn't do it. Got to bed at 3 a.m. then 5 a.m. and on the next day 9 a.m. Woke up today, something like 4 p.m. and I was like, I'm buying a new bed. Sleep is the one thing that I suck at most in this world. I will like pay to win, pay to win sleep chat. So I go, where is closest bed place? And so I rush to a place called Snooze, good name for a place that sells beds. And I'm just like, give me the best of what you got. Show it to me. You don't want to know how much money I spent on bed stuff chat, but I got myself like the best bed frame and an adjustable bed so you like I can lift the top or bottom. Right? And I can even like increase the middle a bit. It's like motorized and it's got like a control and it can vibrate and give you like a massage kind of thing. And then I got myself a new mattress. Before I had a firm mattress, but and they're showing me all these different types of mattresses and they put me in this thing and they like scienced me to determine what mattress I need. And so I bought that and I bought myself a new pillow, bought myself new blankets and stuff. And if I still can't get to sleep, I may put myself to sleep permanently. If you get what I'm saying. This is a joke, a kind of funny joke. You get what I'm saying. |
| 09. April 2021 | I appeared on Pyrocynical's subreddit | I appeared on Pyrocynical Subreddits. I lo- people tag me in Reddit sometimes on random shit, but me, some random fucking kid that has been on the same swing for more than two hours, and I was like, I recognize this is from my Chaos episode! I'm like, I wonder how many people recognize, and then I'm like, uh, everyone in the comments on Pyrocynical Subreddits is like, hey it's Maso, I know this, and I'm like, aw man, people- people in some random subreddit know me? But what made me laugh even more was, uh, going down here, this- this- this was, uh, buried, and I'm like, what was the buried comment? And it's, uh, um, DarkFightMeggy was an asshole, some ordinary gamer's gang. Nah, bro, you stupid, you dense motherfucker. Obviously you have to- something- you have something you couldn't tie your shoes. And I- they're really funny. Uh, Reddit, man. Funny place. |
| 09. April 2021 | I appeared on pyrocynical's subreddit | I appeared on Pyrocynical Subreddits. I lo- people tag me in Reddit sometimes on random shit, but me, some random fucking kid that has been on the same swing for more than two hours, and I was like, I recognize this is from my Chaos episode! I'm like, I wonder how many people recognize, and then I'm like, uh, everyone in the comments on Pyrocynical Subreddits is like, hey it's Maso, I know this, and I'm like, aw man, people- people in some random subreddit know me? But what made me laugh even more was, uh, going down here, this- this- this was, uh, buried, and I'm like, what was the buried comment? And it's, uh, um, DarkFightMeggy was an asshole, some ordinary gamer's gang. Nah, bro, you stupid, you dense motherfucker. Obviously you have to- something- you have something you couldn't tie your shoes. And I- they're really funny. Uh, Reddit, man. Funny place. |
| 09. March 2022 | I asked youtube to help remonetize many of my videos. | asked YouTube to help re-monetize many of my videos. I have recently gone through the process of getting a bunch of my videos re-monetized because I asked YouTube like, hey, here's like the 15 videos that you guys demonetized, what can I remove to make them monetized? And they're like, okay, remove the C word here, these swear words in the first 30 seconds, dah, dah, dah, dah. I went down the list and I got like 12 of the 15 re-monetized. Three of them, what they wanted me to remove I thought was like, core to the video, so I didn't remove it. |
| 08. November 2021 | I ate kangaroo and crocodile balls | I ate kangaroo and crocodile balls. Have I ever had kangaroo? I had kangaroo exactly once when I went to the revolving restaurant in Sydney. There's a restaurant where you revolve at a slow speed so you get the entire 360 view of Sydney. And in the middle there's a buffet. They had I think both crocodile and kangaroo balls. I don't mean the balls off the kangaroos, I just mean like meat balls. Not actual testicles, just like meat. Just packed as balls. It just sounds weird when you say kangaroo balls because people think you're eating testicles. It's just the meat as a ball. Like a meatball. Bit of kangaroo meat. I just need to be really clear on that matter. |
| 19. February 2023 | I bought a Ouroboros Dark Viper ring. | I bought a Ouroboros Dark Viper ring. So I saw something cool on the internet I am a fan of the Wheel of Time and it's Ouroboros rings, which is like a snake eating its own tail Representing eternity and infinity and stuff. I also used to wear rings back in the day and so the guy made out get a ring I haven't had a ring in many many years So I looked up if I could find a Dark Viper Ouroboros ring and so I found one and I was like, oh it's got silver and stuff and it's black and it's all this stuff I'm like, oh, okay. Cool. What's the price? 150 USD For a ring? I mean, I guess if it has silver but it's like on Etsy and it's like it's handcrafted I'm like, this is some bullshit thing where this is like from Alibaba and it's probably worth like five bucks Whatever. Just give me the ring. I I haven't bought a piece during in like 15 plus years. Let's just go and so I had to measure my finger and so I did what the system asked me to get a piece of string or whatever wrap it around your finger and then put it out on a tape measure and so I Gave the results to the person and I got this ring. It is huge So this is what it looks like. It doesn't look nearly as impressive in real life More importantly though. It is huge. It's like as big as my thumb and that is not what I wanted and after doing this I'm like I just googled like what is the average size of a male finger for Rings and I was like the average size is like a nine My measurement suggests that I was like a 13 in the US system or whatever So clearly way off and so now I have a useless $200 ring like it says 150 there in Australian but like when you factor in all the shipping and all this jazz Wherever the hell this is from it's like 150 USD. Can I not send it back? I might be able to but like I know how Etsy is with return policies Especially because like it was my fault and this thing is not Particularly great quality like one of these fangs is a little bit bent as well. It's definitely a huge ripoff I liked the idea of having a dark viper ring though, and I guess that dream is now dead. There's small musing I had when I'm like, hey having a dark viper ring would be nice has clearly bitten me in the ass Use it as a keychain. I'm not a keychain kind of guy. I'm barely a ring kind of guy anymore I like having like nothing on me. It's a nice freeing feeling. |
| 19. November 2022 | I bought a coke for $7 and people were mad | And that's all that matters. I bought the Coke for $7 and people were mad. So in my Pax video, my In-Ville-Life adventure to Melbourne, I bought a Coke from the minibar and it was $7. And I said, the Coca-Cola is $7, that's not that much. And this person commented, speaking like a true rich celebrity. But in reality, it was just a GT5 reference. Because the Coke was $7, which is nice, but not expensive. Clearly, $7 for a glass bottle of Coke is a lot of money. But I was dismissive of its price because it was $7. I wasn't super explicit with the meme. And so I worried that a lot of people didn't get that. I mean, for everyone, $7 is not the most obvious meme, right? So a lot of people are like, oh, this fucking up himself, celebrity YouTuber, thinking $7 for a Coke isn't a lot of money, wow. I was making a joke, just a very subtle one. That Dark Viper AU's out of touch, drinking his glassed soft drink. Here's your mistake, not realizing people take everything literally. I don't think they were really in the wrong, because it was not explicit. I didn't say, oh, this Coke's $7. Well, that's nice, but not expensive. If I'd said it like that, would it be more obvious? But I was just like, oh, that's not a lot of money. |
| 03. June 2022 | I bought a house | I bought a house. Yeah, so it finally went through. I bought the house I was renting in, luckily, so I don't have to move and disrupt making content and stuff. Nothing about my life has changed, except the occasional inspection won't be there. But the biggest benefit is going to be curtains. You have no conception of how long I've wanted curtains. You can go back in Rambles and I talk about wanting curtains all the time. When I get them and they're going to block out light perfectly, all the time I've been here I wear a face mask that blocks light from my eyes because the lamps from the street are so bright that it's blinding. The whole room is covered in moonlight kind of thing because blinds are there, but they don't block out light enough. It's always disrupted my sleep, especially when I happen to go to bed in the day and there's no amount of face mask that can block out the light. But I'm going to get the strongest light blocking curtains that exist. And then finally, hopefully I'll improve my sleep, you know, the consistency of my sleeping pattern. Why wouldn't my landlord let me have curtains? It was one of those things where they might have let me have curtains, but the cost to get those curtains would have been in the thousands, especially for the extent that I want them. And I wasn't willing to fork over that amount of money for a house that I didn't own. So I so what I ended up doing is I hooked up a bunch of towels and stuff to block out light here. But such a system can't work as well in the main bedroom. I have my Duna cover blocking out lights as best as it can, but even it isn't perfect. You know, you get blackout curtains, you'll be in pure darkness. Exactly. I might even get smart curtains. We'll see what happens. Thousands for curtains. I mean, if I want really, really good ones and the installation fees and stuff, it's money that I might be might have been spending on a house that I'd be leaving at some point. So I would like to open the curtains during daytime as well. Yeah. I mean, I don't have that luxury right now because they're permanently closed. And I think that also affects my mood. The value of this house in the last five years has gone up 33 percent. Just in the last year, this house went up like 20 percent in price. Like the housing prices in Sydney, I just over the last two years just went. Sydney is worse than everywhere else in the world. Even though it is bad in Canada, it is bad in the UK, bad in a lot of places, Sydney is the worst. I'm on the super outskirts of Sydney. Bad but not as bad as it is in some places. Do you ever get a feeling of I made it? If yes, when? I mean, I bought a house at something. Yeah, I want to get a Pagola. I want to get curtains and maybe a pet. I doubt that. I always thought I'd get a pet when I get a significant other who can help me take care of the pet. But it's probably not ever going to happen. So, you know, significant other, a.k.a. dog walker. True. Did I move in yet? Oh, I say it's the house that I I've been living in for the last five years. I bought it primarily. Well, not for any reason, but I bought it in part so I don't have to move. |
| 22. February 2021 | I bought a lot of my favourite candy that still exists | I bought a lot of my favorite candy that still exists I'm getting fat chat haven't helped myself by buying these sherbet lollipops that I can't stop eating. They're so good You don't understand chat. You know what I'm talking about. You weren't here for the beginning of chaos because I showed him yesterday I also put them in On my Twitter greatest lollipops ever I guess they're my favorite candy that still exists because obviously runs no longer exist I mean the runs of the 90s not the garbage runs that exist today Starburst gummy burst. They're just like eh. There's no other candy that I recall being as associated with happiness as those Lollipops for me. No, my taste buds aren't different because I'm an adult now They legitimately changed the runt recipe even when I was a kid when they changed it I was annoyed there have been like six generation of runs and they changed the recipe |
| 27. September 2022 | I bought a perpetual motion machine | I bought a perpetual motion machine. It's obviously not really. What happens is you put it in the sun, the different sides of the apparatus inside get heated at different speeds or something. Or no, one side absorbs more energy or something. And so the light makes it spin around forever. I have no light in here so it's not really working. It isn't really perpetual if it's farming light. It's not, oh yeah, that's exactly the point. It's not a real perpetual motion machine. Such things are impossible. It's on the list of like closest possible things. Or it's like people's attempts at it in the past. And this is on the list. And of course, it's not actually a perpetual motion machine. It's just an oddity. Please do your pain thing explaining why perpetual motion isn't possible. Because you can't get greater than 100% efficiency. I don't need to use pain for that. I'm moving with my mind, chat. I'm magic. Woo. |
| 30. July 2022 | I bought a wood carved GTA 5 map for my wall. | I bought a wood carved GTA 5 map for my wall. Oh, I got something chat. I Will show it to you I show you the thing that I got It's the entire map of GTA 5 carved in wood It's what you can smell the timber. It's like it's like handcrafted It's like you gotta put it on my wall downstairs It is uh it was expensive not gonna lie I've always wanted some sort of GTA 5 memorabilia. I wanted something so that 10 years from now I can sit on my fucking lounge and be like that fucking world ruined my life No Something to remember these times, you know |
| 16. November 2022 | I bought hand painted Pokémon cards. | It comes with it. I bought hand painted Pokemon cards. So I wanted to open these on stream. There's a person I met at the Christmas party for my management group, you know, last year, named Lisa, and she like paints Pokemon cards to complete their picture. I bought three from her, and so I wanna show them to you. So it's like tied in this little cute bundle and it's got like wax on it. I probably should have got myself, ah, here we go. Hello Viper, thank you so much for the lovely commission and supporting my small business. I hope you enjoy the package and hope everything gets to you safely. Please let me know if you ever need anything warmest regards, Lisa. So I could have got them in frames or like acrylic slabs. I picked the slabs. Eh, see a little bulbousle? So it used to be a Pokemon card. So you can see on the back, it's a Pokemon card. I wanted to get all the starter Pokemon cards from my childhood. Little Charmander. So like if you saw the original card, you'd see that like, like it's the actual card, but then just like complete it. And there's little Squirtle. Hey, a little cute. It's really lovely. I gotta find somewhere to put them. I considered having them all three framed together and stuff, but regardless, if you have a particular Pokemon card you want done in this way, I know I put her Twitter on screen. It's like Marilla. If you're interested in that kind of thing, check it out. |
| 31. August 2020 | I came close to quitting Twitch | came really close to quitting Twitch. On the Twitch subreddit, there were two posts written. I think they were both on Twitch subreddit. One was basically, got like a thousand up-bots, and it was like, you know, ignore the haters, the people who don't support you and your live streaming and stuff. They don't know what they're talking about, you know, keep grinding, you can do it, da da da. And there was another one, that got like, three thousand up-bots or something, that was like, look, you're not, you're probably not gonna make it. It's an infinitesimally small amount of people who make it, stream for hobby show, but, you know, if you're, if you're looking for success, there's other avenues in your life you should probably be pursuing, da da da. And so, Devin Nash makes a video on it. What's his name, um, what is Faye's name? Does the same stuff as Devin Nash, what's his name? How is hella, there you go. He made a video on it as well. And I wanted to make my own video, not talking about that specifically, but talking about, my life, and, all the variables that I had no control in, that impacted my success. You know, how I ultimately ended up being who I am today. But it'll be such a long video, and I'm not sure, I may get around to it eventually. But one, the reason why I bring this up, one thing that, a video that I stumbled across, was from 2018, late 2018, so, almost two years ago, to the day, it was a video where I was saying to my viewers that I'm gonna have to quit streaming. And the reason was because one of my, older YouTube channels, that was giving me like 200 bucks a week, it was, it got, canceled. It got removed. This was before I was, you know, uploading how this even ended and stuff. I remember that day, and I looked at the videos, I looked so fucking sad in that video, dude. I cried on stream, a little bit, because there's so much outpouring of support and stuff, but, even then, I didn't think I could continue what I was doing. Because I was just, I had maybe like, 200 viewers, when I was speedrunning. I was a partner, with a few hundred subs, but, I wasn't, I was just barely making enough to get by, being supplemented by my older YouTube channel. And losing that, I thought, I'm done. I'm fucked. It was only, you know, with Baron, becoming successful on YouTube and, me seeking to emulate that and stuff, that, I became successful. I'm pretty sure, that I received enough subs and stuff, that I could still continue. What I'm trying to say is, what I'm trying to say is, it's hard to think back, in my life, to remember all the things, and, my state of mind at the time. Like, I barely remember, and I haven't thought on in a long time, how close I was, to, failure. I think I was, I was probably somewhat exaggerating, in that, it was just such a huge blow, that I thought I would have to quit, but in reality, I still had savings, like I, I still had the ability to sit there, for you know, another year perhaps, without being financially destitute. But at that point, it was just such a, it was just such a blow to my confidence, in the sense that, oh no, it was like, it was like a wake-up call, where I said to myself, can I really, just continue, doing what I'm doing, growing on Twitch? I'm growing steadily, but, can I really expect, to be happy, in five years, having grown from, you know, 200 to 500 viewers or whatever? Because it's kind of the, the, the, before, blowing up on YouTube, that's kind of the, the, the pathway I was going. Small, steady, incremental growth, which is all that I could receive, only using like, speedrun.com, speedrunslive.com, and Twitch, which was my main, ways of growth. Without YouTube, I would today be, like, maybe a best, like a, 400 viewer person, when I'm speedrunning specifically, and doing anything else, I'd have a far fewer viewers, you know? Like I would, I would just like, to make that video, if for nothing else to remind myself of how far I've come, you know? |
| 31. August 2020 | I came close to quitting twitch | came really close to quitting Twitch. On the Twitch subreddit, there were two posts written. I think they were both on Twitch subreddit. One was basically, got like a thousand up-bots, and it was like, you know, ignore the haters, the people who don't support you and your live streaming and stuff. They don't know what they're talking about, you know, keep grinding, you can do it, da da da. And there was another one, that got like, three thousand up-bots or something, that was like, look, you're not, you're probably not gonna make it. It's an infinitesimally small amount of people who make it, stream for hobby show, but, you know, if you're, if you're looking for success, there's other avenues in your life you should probably be pursuing, da da da. And so, Devin Nash makes a video on it. What's his name, um, what is Faye's name? Does the same stuff as Devin Nash, what's his name? How is hella, there you go. He made a video on it as well. And I wanted to make my own video, not talking about that specifically, but talking about, my life, and, all the variables that I had no control in, that impacted my success. You know, how I ultimately ended up being who I am today. But it'll be such a long video, and I'm not sure, I may get around to it eventually. But one, the reason why I bring this up, one thing that, a video that I stumbled across, was from 2018, late 2018, so, almost two years ago, to the day, it was a video where I was saying to my viewers that I'm gonna have to quit streaming. And the reason was because one of my, older YouTube channels, that was giving me like 200 bucks a week, it was, it got, canceled. It got removed. This was before I was, you know, uploading how this even ended and stuff. I remember that day, and I looked at the videos, I looked so fucking sad in that video, dude. I cried on stream, a little bit, because there's so much outpouring of support and stuff, but, even then, I didn't think I could continue what I was doing. Because I was just, I had maybe like, 200 viewers, when I was speedrunning. I was a partner, with a few hundred subs, but, I wasn't, I was just barely making enough to get by, being supplemented by my older YouTube channel. And losing that, I thought, I'm done. I'm fucked. It was only, you know, with Baron, becoming successful on YouTube and, me seeking to emulate that and stuff, that, I became successful. I'm pretty sure, that I received enough subs and stuff, that I could still continue. What I'm trying to say is, what I'm trying to say is, it's hard to think back, in my life, to remember all the things, and, my state of mind at the time. Like, I barely remember, and I haven't thought on in a long time, how close I was, to, failure. I think I was, I was probably somewhat exaggerating, in that, it was just such a huge blow, that I thought I would have to quit, but in reality, I still had savings, like I, I still had the ability to sit there, for you know, another year perhaps, without being financially destitute. But at that point, it was just such a, it was just such a blow to my confidence, in the sense that, oh no, it was like, it was like a wake-up call, where I said to myself, can I really, just continue, doing what I'm doing, growing on Twitch? I'm growing steadily, but, can I really expect, to be happy, in five years, having grown from, you know, 200 to 500 viewers or whatever? Because it's kind of the, the, the, before, blowing up on YouTube, that's kind of the, the, the pathway I was going. Small, steady, incremental growth, which is all that I could receive, only using like, speedrun.com, speedrunslive.com, and Twitch, which was my main, ways of growth. Without YouTube, I would today be, like, maybe a best, like a, 400 viewer person, when I'm speedrunning specifically, and doing anything else, I'd have a far fewer viewers, you know? Like I would, I would just like, to make that video, if for nothing else to remind myself of how far I've come, you know? |
| 02. February 2021 | I can really be degenerate sometimes | I can get really degenerate sometimes. You wanna know some real degenerate shit? My bathroom and my side of my room here is just covered in empty cans. Covered in. My bin got too big, too overflowing, and I just haven't emptied it, and I'm just putting cans to my side. When I forget to drink the remainder of a can, I have to empty it out in my sink. And because my bin's full in there as well, I put the can on my sink. And so it's just full of empty cans. I just need to take a day off and do some housekeeping shit. But every day I wake up and I think to myself, I need to finish this run. I need to get the perfect run. I need to get no damage. Every single time I think, oh, I should do this, or I should do that, or I think, no, just stream this game, get the no damage. It consumes my life chat. I dream about it. I want this so bad. And when I think back to how close I got that one frame, I get mad. |
| 07. August 2021 | I can't afford giveaways | I can't afford giveaways. SkyMega, uh, you give me some free stuff and then I will give it away to stream. Because that's the only way I'm doing free giveaways, man. Do I look like a rich man to you? Do I- do I in- in my- in my great coat here and my blue walls, do I look like a man who is affluent? Who's uh, who's just got money to spend on uh, on random people in Twitch chat? If I had that money, yeah, I do giveaways like all the fucking time. Like I'd just be randomly giving shit to people in chat, but I don't have that money, man. I don't have that money, so I can't. |
| 04. October 2021 | I can't imagine ever entirely leaving GTA 5 | I can't imagine ever entirely leaving GTA 5. It'd be very strange to me if there's ever a time in my life where I don't run GTA 5. At least once a year. Especially if I'm a streamer. Even if I move on to something else. The novelty of speedrunning GTA 5 is probably never gonna leave. Let's say I become something completely different. Let's say I'm an Overwatch streamer or something. If one day I'm like, hey, I'm gonna speedrun GTA 5. My old viewers would be like, oh man, I haven't seen you do that in ages. My new viewers would be like, oh I didn't know you speedrun GTA 5. That's pretty cool. And then I'd do that. I've run other games. I've run Hades, I've run GTA 3. I've had failed attempts to run other games. Super Mario, Sunshine. I've attempted to run like San Andreas, GTA 4. And by attempted, I mean even Cuphead, like by attempted, as in I learnt varying amounts of the run. I've played Overwatch on stream a long time ago. I played a bit of Apex Legends on stream. See, there are not many people who watch me who are interested in me playing other games. Or who aren't more interested in watching someone else. It's like, oh Matt's playing X game that's not GTA 5. I could watch that, oh but I'd rather watch this person play it. Super Mario Sunshine runs are dope. Yeah, that... My first runs that I really enjoyed were Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario 64 on Ocarina. |
| 13. March 2023 | I can't pronounce 'authentication'. | I can't pronounce authentication. You pronounced authentication weird in your video today. Just thought I'd point that out so you'd feel self-conscious about it. Yeah! I did learn that. Only Twitter blue subscribers will be able to use text messages as their two-factor authentication method. It turns out sometimes I say, authentication. I know it's authentication. Why would I say it that way? And I realized, I think I've been doing this for quite a while. And I was like, why did I start doing that? And so I looked online like, is there some place that pronounces it that way? And there's not. There's no country that does it. I'm like, well, I'm just weird then. |
| 10. September 2021 | I can't remember my mother's birthday | I can't remember my mother's birthday. I have multiple times had to call my mother and be like so you were born in What year? For most of my life my mother would be like what dates my birthday I'd like that's easy Anzac day, and she's like and what's the date of Anzac day? And I'm like oh What's Anzac day? It's just meant to be a day where we remember the sacrifices of the Australian New Zealand troops |
| 06. November 2020 | I can't say the alpabet | I can't say the alphabets. Sirs, thank you for the four dollars as well. Oh, this is actually funny. This is funny. Sorry. Okay. In the how this speedrun ended episode from today, you said the alphabet with K then J rather than J then K. At the risk of sounding ignorant, is the alphabet different in Australia or was it just a verbal typo? Sorry if this has been brought up already. So I think it may have ended up in a previous ramble. I can't remember if it did or not, but I talked about originally that there are some, I think everyone has these, like mental hiccups or things that they're just bad at in memory or what have you. My entire life, when I say the alphabet fast, I say K then J every single time unless I'm consciously thinking about it. I even can remember I was in like a second grade explaining this to someone and I think what was named Mrs. Rook or Mrs. Hook and she's like, that's not good. I'm like, oh, you know, it doesn't bother me that much. It's a A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, G, L, M, N, O, P, Q, I, S, T, V, W, X, Y, and Z. And so the K and J are there. So I can do it. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, damn it. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, I, S, T, V, W, X, Y, and Z. See? It's just weird. This is just a weird thing in my brain. That's, now you know. Yay, we had some some fun. I was like,3-4 minutes over here, |
| 06. November 2020 | I can't say the alphabet | I can't say the alphabets. Sirs, thank you for the four dollars as well. Oh, this is actually funny. This is funny. Sorry. Okay. In the how this speedrun ended episode from today, you said the alphabet with K then J rather than J then K. At the risk of sounding ignorant, is the alphabet different in Australia or was it just a verbal typo? Sorry if this has been brought up already. So I think it may have ended up in a previous ramble. I can't remember if it did or not, but I talked about originally that there are some, I think everyone has these, like mental hiccups or things that they're just bad at in memory or what have you. My entire life, when I say the alphabet fast, I say K then J every single time unless I'm consciously thinking about it. I even can remember I was in like a second grade explaining this to someone and I think what was named Mrs. Rook or Mrs. Hook and she's like, that's not good. I'm like, oh, you know, it doesn't bother me that much. It's a A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, G, L, M, N, O, P, Q, I, S, T, V, W, X, Y, and Z. And so the K and J are there. So I can do it. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, damn it. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, I, S, T, V, W, X, Y, and Z. See? It's just weird. This is just a weird thing in my brain. That's, now you know. G, L, M, N, O, P, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, I, S, T, V, W, X, Y, and Z. |
| 31. July 2021 | I can’t figure out instagram | I can't figure out Instagram. I do have an Instagram account, yes. I wonder how many people responded. I got 6,663 likes. I get so much more engagement on Instagram, so much more. I so badly would like to use the service, but it sucks. Instagram is just so bad. Why do you put the link in the description? Because I do not understand how to use Instagram. It doesn't make sense. It's got like 17 different things that all mean something else. And links don't work in some places, but they do in others. And you need like particular resolutions on this part of the website, but not this part. It is the worst social media. It's awful. Like I use social media for a living. I cannot understand Instagram. It is terrible. TikTok is so simple and easy. You just, like that. Even it has a good desktop thing now. You know, Twitter, simple and easy. YouTube, simple and easy. Twitch, simple and easy. All simple and easy. Then it comes to Instagram. It's like, do you want your story with a sandwich on like four by 17 resolution? Fuck off. It's awful. Like I'd like to hire a person just to deal with my Instagram, but I'd have to find someone I can trust to that degree, which I don't know if I could. I even wanted to go back to taking pictures of myself every time I'm live on Instagram, and putting them on Instagram. But it just doesn't work. It doesn't work. It doesn't even work. |
| 07. February 2023 | I cheated on the Minecraft Chaos mod series. | I cheated on the Minecraft Chaos Mod series. I had something happen in my Chaos Minecraft episode and On the day I was like we will edit this out It won't end up in the final version and I didn't add the episode myself Martin did and he actually removed it And so there's like a comment being like oh you said you were gonna remove that and you actually did I can't remember exactly What happened to the footage or like how mad and stuff I was so I don't know if it was a good decision to remove it Or not, but all I know is only the people who were there on the day know what happened I was really upset It's funny because of all the issues I had with the Chaos Mod with things Soft-locking or things potentially being destroyed and stuff the mod will be better for people in the future because all those things have been fixed So I will explain what happens you need a certain amount of ender eyes to be able to go to the end and After finally getting them after like 20 hours or something I got the Midas touch effect And I turned them all to gold and so it was like either I could Redo the entire 20 hours basically the exact same way that I did it previously or I could cheat and just give them give it Them back, so I just gave them back you |
| 07. June 2021 | I deleted Heroes of Might and Magic 3 | job you know. I deleted Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Why did I delete Heroes of Might and Magic 3? The answer is because it was distracting me from doing stuff that is important. There are other there's other things that I can do that I find enjoyable that more people be willing to watch and I was just playing too much of it. I'm not fully over it but I'm in a large part of it as well. Like it would just take too long to become perfectly provisioned and while I tried to play it as a chill game because I put a limited time it would often be not very chill and the RNG kind of got frustrating sometimes. It's a difficult game to play perfectly proficiently. The alert cell is playing home I know Twitch is terrible. I suppose in this case is OBS as well but whatever. So despite having quit Heroes of Might and Magic 3 like I legit didn't even play it when I was off yesterday uh all the day before uh I still watch it a bit. Still enjoyable to watch while accepting I'm shit at the game. There's so much new to learn to be proficient and honestly that's most games you know when you look at like a MOBA and you're like oh yeah you can either like play it and know one hero or like to be truly proficient at the game you have to like know every single hero and everything that they can do right. Why did I quit Heroes of Might and Magic 3? Because it was distracting me from doing stuff that actually matters. It's not content I can make for YouTube or Twitch really and while I enjoyed playing it like there's other things that I can enjoy doing. The main reason I like to play it is because because no one wants to watch it. There was no stress no worrying about being entertaining and stuff it was just play the game you know. |
| 12. August 2020 | I deserve the best seat in the restaurant | How dare you not give me the best seat in the restaurant? There's this amazing clip of me, right? Where... it's one of my oldest clips. Not even my oldest. Like, it was back when I had like 500 subs, let's say. So, a while back. I was pretending to be an up-myself delusional person at a restaurant. And I was like, do you know who I am? Do you know how many world records I have in GTA V and you won't give me the best table in the house? How dare you? I'm gonna shit talk your restaurant to my hundreds of viewers every day! I love that clip. When a bunch of Asmongold's viewers were... So there's this guy, Volti, right? He has like 9000 subs on YouTube, although he claims to have many channels. But he's a much smaller content creator. Certainly not a streamer. And so, his viewers believe me to be some guy with no viewers just trying to get clout from Asmongold. If I had that clip, I so would have spammed it at them for the lols. Like, do you know who I am? Even though it wouldn't be true anymore, because I don't have the world records anymore. It would just be funny. |
| 18. June 2022 | I despise slot machines. | Back then, I despise slot machines, or they're called poker machines in my country. As much as I don't think gambling should be entirely banned, I think poker machines should be banned. Poker machines are like, effortlessly losing yourself money. Like if you want to play roulette, or poker, or blackjack, this is at least to some degree a social thing that requires effort. There is limits on how much you can gamble, or whatever, like there's only so many hands that can be played and stuff. But with slots, you can just go... Fucking continuously. And the time just flies by and you have no idea how much you've spent. With Texas Hold'em, it's at least some strategy, even blackjack, with counting cards, it's also strategy. You know, and like the odds are fixed, because you can see the rules. When you play a slot machine, you have no fucking idea what the odds of you winning are even are. Although I think in some countries it's required to say a percent chance. A local fast food place had one of those slot machines set up. Whenever we got like fries for dinner, my dad would gamble while waiting for it to be done. And would sometimes end up spending as much as the fries would cost. Yeah, they're just not good. Like Australia, my country, we have poker machines everywhere. We have some of the highest rates of gambling in the world. Like everywhere you go, there's gambling ads, there's sports betting ads, it just erases so much money. There is just no limit for some people. I remember counting 200,000 USD as a prize for a poker hand in the VIP. It took me 30 minutes to count it all. The moment I step out with the money ready to give it to the guy, they tell me that he already lost it all. God damn dude. |
| 02. February 2022 | I developed an eye twitch. | I developed an eye twitch. I had an eye twitch yesterday guys, for those who weren't here for it. Basically, apparently due to like too much caffeine or lack of sleep or stress, you can get a an eye twitch where like your eyelid would just flicker. Sometimes so violently for some people that like your eye entirely closes. It felt really weird. And I'm trying to edit and I'm just like fucking eye stop being garbage. I ended up taking like a long hot shower and like putting a like a rag on my eye and then just sitting in bed for hours on end. I just couldn't deal with doing anything while my eye was flickering and thankfully it's not here today. But for some people apparently um, it can go on for days if not weeks. It's crazy. Bloody human frail, is he getting in the way of my damn work? |
| 14. May 2020 | I did 8 hours of Q&A. All questions chronological order. | A question |
| 15. November 2021 | I didn’t like chocolate when i was a kid | I didn't like chocolate when I was a kid. I mean I didn't really like chocolate all that much when I was a kid. When my mother found some chocolate that I actually enjoyed, she was really happy. She was like, oh my god, I can buy you normal stuff for Easter and stuff now. You're like a normal person. Kind of thing. I still ate like only tiny amounts of chocolate and my mother bought me these things that were called, um, animals of the forest or it might have even been called like furries of the forest or something. Which is like slabs of expensive Cadbury chocolate with like these small marsupials and stuff from the Aussie Outback on them and they sat there for months. Like I'd eat like one a month or something and there was like 12. And my sister came home one day and said fuck Matt and ate them all. My mum was so pissed and I was so goddamn sad. You ate your brother's chocolate. You know he doesn't like any other chocolate. Finally gonna be eating his bloody chocolate. And then she's like, Matt you can have anything you want from your sister's room. And I knew she loved this candle. It smelled great and I'm like I'm taking that candle. They know but I like that candle. Fuck you it's my candle now. So I took the candle. There was this game that we used to play at my birthday. It's called the chocolate game. Everyone sits around in a circle and there's one dice and you each take turn in rolling the dice. If you roll a six you get to stand up and go to this table that has squares of Cadbury chocolate. Like you know like it's like a huge plank of squares of chocolate and you have to use a knife and fork and remove a square of chocolate at a time and then eat it. You can't eat more than one square at a time. And then so if someone else rolls a six they stand up and take your place. And so as kids you know you don't get chocolate a little all that often and it's like super fun. Like mom will be watching or whatever to make sure you don't cheat in one square at a time and sometimes you'd roll a six get up get like a second up there or something and then like another person would roll a six and you'd be like ah fuck. What did I do with the candle? I think I I think I used it for a bit and then my sister stole it back or something. Hard to remember. |
| 27. April 2022 | I don't care about Twitch. | I don't care about Twitch. I thought the way you increase viewership on Twitch was to play while in a battling pool. I don't care about my Twitch viewership. I care about my Twitch viewers. I just mean that no decisions that I make are made with the express goal of increasing my Twitch viewership. I don't think Twitch is all that important. The people who hang out with me on Twitch, I just appreciate. Honestly, now that YouTube has finally added the feature so that it puts a ring around your name and says you're live whenever you're live on YouTube, we're getting really close to moving to YouTube just being the sensible decision maker. |
| 11. October 2021 | I don't care about cars | I don't care about cars. I have no interest in F1. Like I do not care about driving, chat. I just don't. I don't care about cars, don't care about any of that stuff. I'm sure I would enjoy it, you know, driving around a track very fast or something, in the hands of a professional or whatever. It's just not something I'm super educated on or have any interest in becoming educated on. Like I got my car recently, my Lexus, and I've driven it once. Partly because I'm in lockdown, but like, does it drive? Well yeah. The only thing I haven't liked about is the GPS is not as good as the Google Maps. The last driver to win an F1 race is an Australian? Well now that you've told me that, I really care about F1, dude. Yay, F1! Woo! Sure have to be a pretty sad country not to have won the last F1 race. Oh, really embarrassing. |
| 15. November 2021 | I don't have brand loyalty | I don't have brand loyalty. Drinking a Coke you fucking traitor. I don't have any brand loyalty. Or maybe a little bit. It's less loyalty to a brand and more like if something, if I've tested something and it's good I don't normally find a reason, I don't normally see a reason to um go somewhere else, but if somewhere else has a better deal or has a significant chance of being better like I just changed. I mean I've used Intel CPUs my entire life. AMD comes out with some new stuff, and I'm like ah yep, AMD it is. |
| 04. October 2021 | I don't like horror movies | I don't like horror movies. Can we have a chat talk about best horror movie? I don't really watch horror movies. Most horror movies are written very poorly. I say most, but there's some horror movies that I hear are written very well. But I don't like being scared. I don't go to a movie to be scared. I don't mind thrillers. But movies that are designed to make you afraid, I don't like. I also don't find enjoyment in seeing gore. Or people in pain or in danger and stuff. Like when I see in a movie another person really distressed and afraid, it just makes me feel bad for them. And I just feel bad. I don't like seeing other people suffer. So it really makes it hard to enjoy the movie. Like I could watch a horror movie. I would just prefer not to. But there are... I have seen some horror movies I think in the past that were really good. I think I saw like Dorn of the Dead a long time ago. It's not real mad. It doesn't matter. There's a part of my brain that's like this is a person in distress. I feel bad for them and I just do. |
| 09. December 2020 | I don't like the way the world is | Politics and philosophy after this point if that doesn't interest you feel free to click off the video I don't like the way the world is and I am thankful I can avoid most of us. I'm gonna say something really maybe controversial I don't like the way the world is and Thinking about the world sometimes makes me very sad like very sad one of the biggest perks of this job my success of it and And at it and and people supported me is that I am largely cut off from the world While I don't have enough money to live the rest of my life people have financially supported me to the extent where I Don't have to rely on particular government policies going my way or the market staying a particular way or some boss Being nice or something. I'm safeguarded from a lot of things that That's the average person would just be completely fucked if it doesn't go their way so much of life is in is very much so out of our control and So many people basically have their lives destroyed every day not because of anything they've particularly done but just because they've gotten unlucky and The wealth that I have accumulated through this job through you guys Has safeguarded me from the large majority of that all the negative aspects of the world that fill me with dread and sadness Are things that largely just other people experience now? I still care about them and they still make me sad But the selfish part of me is so happy that I don't have to deal with them People wonder why I seem so thankful to people who support me and this is partly why I don't like the way the world is I don't like who is in power. I don't like what I see is the likely foreseeable future of of the world and I feel very powerless to change anything and while recognizing that Absolutely shutting the fuck up Just collecting a check Saying nothing significant Talking about the weather playing to video games. Maybe that would be better for me in the long term Maybe even just in the short term. I can't do it because I feel guilty I have these safeguards that other people don't have because I'm successful and I believe that my success and I can argue I think pretty well everyone's success is Depending on your philosophy more or less dependent upon luck and of course hard work But there's clearly aspects of luck in there. I just I just dislike how much things outside of people's control determines their success in the world and and how much suffering or happiness they experience it just it it fills me with sadness and I just feel as though while I do have some platform to talk to people Where I can talk about things that maybe will have a positive effect I feel I can't stop myself from doing it even while I recognize that potentially in some context It's not doing me good, you know Like you may disagree with me politically you may disagree with things that I say but know that the things that I talk about I speak because of care and consideration about this |
| 03. April 2021 | I don't play GTA 5 because I have to, I play it because I want to. | I don't play GTA 5 because I have to I play GTA 5 because I want to I saw a clip from distortion 2 yesterday Speaking about me. I was just happy to hear that he doesn't work It's well the way he spoke about me didn't suggest he didn't like me which is nice because I'm one of those people who I Just I just always think everyone hates me Justifiably or not I think everyone who everyone hates me all the time, but he mentioned that He was talking about me in the sense of a content creator who? You know people only want to see do one thing and some kind of locked into playing GTA 5 Then 95% of the games that I played on stream is GTA 5. I know it's actually that high It's probably it's probably over 90% there honestly all I want to do is play GTA 5, but it's funny It's mainly because I'm just so driven and persistent to achieve goals once I have my my little heart set on a goal I would do nothing else, but it's but seek out that goal. It's it's the same when I played Dark Souls like When I when I first played Dark Souls 3 I was informed that you could verse dancer like way earlier than you should and so I was like a Hugely difficult Dark Souls challenge. I'm in I was terrible using keyboard and mouse and I spent days like on stream Six hour days. I think three or four days are to me six hours a day versing dancer over and over and over and over again We're like the lowest stats possible and eventually beat dancer because I'm just I'm just that persistent when I have a goal that I care About I will complete it if it's possible to complete and people look at me doing these oko runs And they're like man. Just take a break dude. You're crazy. I don't care I will become like a pool of blood and bones in my chair like I'll melt I don't know. I'll still be trying to complete this because I will succeed |
| 04. June 2021 | I don't play video games for a living | I Don't play video games for a living Miss the old dark vapor when he was speedrunning 100% me too Sometimes I do reflect on back when my life was easier, and I just played video games for a living it was funny It's funny. I actually read one of those comments where a guy was like a Kind of sucks that a dude who just plays video games makes more money than me or whatever as a truck driver Whatever I'm like my dude. I I made no money when I just played video games for a living man I cried on stream thinking I would have to stop streaming because I loved it so much I couldn't make ends meet doing it as weird as it sounds to me I don't make a lot of money by playing video games. I make a lot of money by editing stuff and Building a brand and growing on different social medias and stuff the the actual playing of video games is the least important thing Anyone can play video games It is a very hard thing to actually do it well and present it in a way that actually Can get noticed on social media and to develop a brand around that right now There are literally millions of people trying to play video games for a living and if they're failing miserably Because that's that's their mindset people look at this job as look I I play video games therefore I make money as just not the case. I Was not making any money until I stopped playing video games for a living and I started editing for a living you can upload Thousands of hours of you playing video games and get fucking nowhere You can upload one five minute video of something edited and it can make your career. Can you be famous without being good? Oh, absolutely. It is when I first heard of dream and And people told me he had world records in Minecraft like at the time despite having tens of millions of subscribers I said that's really impressive because That's almost impossible so much of your time as a content creator is not spent You know playing the game or practicing the game It is making the content most of what makes content interesting gets in the way of actual practice or Doing things optimally or doing as much practice as possible So to be the best in such a context is next to impossible and then when I found out dream cheated I'm like, okay. Well, there you go To be honest, I think at the time I heard of him. He didn't actually have any world records As he explained to me in our conversation or whatever his world records back in the day were mainly because there was less competition Less people running if you try and balance being the best and making content You will fail or you end up like dream trying to take shortcuts to get that. It's just not Doable like we often reference shroud as being like so good at shooting men But he's not actually he isn't like the top hundred in a fucking game that he plays He's just really fucking good. He spends all his time playing those games and even then like Shroud doesn't edit his own content doesn't manage his own stuff like that even as a person who isn't an 90% of his job just playing games proficiently for an audience even he can't do it More of my day is spent editing than playing games the nanosecond I made this decision to Focus more on the content. I knew it was going to be very difficult to Maintain any level proficiency, but over time I've realized that is less important, you know, and I much prefer being entertaining Streaming making people happy giving people, you know something good that they can look forward to in their lives then I do Reducing my time in some speedrun that is also fun and enjoyable, but you can't have it all you can't have it all You can't have it all didn't you hold the 100% world record while also putting out more content than any other GTA 5 speedrun Possibly, but you got to remember even during those times there wasn't as many runners as there are now and even then the Commitments you need to do those speedruns given how long there they are is You need to be quite high So the barriers to entry for doing GTA 5 speedruns at all Even if people know about them is so high that it's never gonna be the most run speedrun of all time, right? That at times in the history There's like a was it a was it 2018? During that period there was a like a month or two where GTA 5 was in the top 10 most speedrun games Just for that period, right? but that of course includes minor categories like trope said but regardless like it's impressive at all that The game has run as much as it is and how much has been being developed for it. It's a in no part due to Baron and then me. I mean I give Baron credit if for nothing else and inspired me to also do it Although I would like to think that I would have started eventually anyway taking it more seriously, but you can never know Yeah, I'm fortunate to be where I am and GT 5 speedrunning is fortunate to be where it is. You know No, it's just me. Yeah, but I mean Like you got to understand Controlling a niche of being the GT 5 speedrunner and making content on that basis is a Lot easier than trying to compete with that as well as all other GT 5 people Like there are so many people making GT 5 content and in a way I'm competing with them all for attention on YouTube but the advantage I've got is I'm the only one who's kind of got this niche and being entertaining while speedrunning Isn't for everyone. It is harder than you might imagine Most of the time where I've stopped runs or I've called a day It isn't because I couldn't have run longer It's because I feel tired and thus I feel like I'm not being entertaining My commentary isn't good and I know if I call it a day then the next day the next part of the run I'll have more energy and so that part of them will also have some jokes some good commentary and whatnot potentially one could argue that I put too much emphasis now on being entertaining as opposed to achieving But it's very hard to strike the perfect balance because as I say you're always giving something up when you focus on one or the other and again given my somewhat failing health over the last couple of months, it's been especially difficult and continuing to take on more burdens like making all the clips and stuff. It's just it's just been a lot to deal with I think I've done the best I could and I don't think anyone who actually knows what I've been up to could really fault me for anything. |
| 17. March 2021 | I don't really care when I release videos | I don't really care when I release videos. I woke up at 12.05. I remember that because When I woke up I thought oh man, I should check if my video released I was like ah no I always wake up before the video releases or whatever so there's no reason we open my eyes Then I'm like fuck it I'll check and I checked and it happened to be 12.05 which is usually five minutes after my video releases, but of course Because it didn't make the thumbnail before I went to sleep it was not scheduled to release, but I was like fuck it I'm no longer trying to force myself to meet particular deadlines or whatever right if the video comes out You know an hour later two hours later. It doesn't matter. I know people who only release a one video a week or even one video a month or whatever I've really Focused on getting getting it at the exact right time to maximize viewership, but I'm just like I I'll be fine especially for videos that are less important like for pacifist Yeah, I'm focused like it's got to be in this exact nanosecond man to get the most views possible Basically everything else I'm like ah you know, but doesn't do good the next one would do good you know |
| 31. March 2021 | I don't think I look 30 | I don't think I look 30. Do I actually feel old? No. 30 is not old guys. I'm not even halfway through a normal life. I also have this look about me, right? Where I don't look really young as in like um, I don't have a baby face necessarily, but I don't look old either. You can see these guys in their 20s that look like they're 45 or something. Like I don't I don't really look 30, especially when I have no facial hair. You could confuse me with a person who's still in their like who's like 21 or whatever, you know. It's good for the career that I'm in, right? I think looking a bit younger is probably advantageous. |
| 20. December 2021 | I don't trust anyone who calls my phone | I don't trust anyone who calls my phone. Anyone who calls me is a scam artist. So like, Hi, this is your bank calling and we just want to give you a brand new deal. Stop calling me with these scams! You know? So I don't know if that's actually Vodafone calling me to give me some deals. It could be something like, ah, you know, we've got some cool new deals for you. Please give me your credit card with the number on the back. Did you guys hear about that new thing? I don't think it was a CEO, but it was like a higher up at some company. Got a FaceTime from his CEO. The CEO is saying, look, we need you to transfer $230,000 into this account. And the guy's like, yeah, right on it. No worries, boss. Gets another call and he's like, yeah, need you to do another $230,000 into a bank account. And the guy's like, wait a second, it seems kind of sketchy. And then he calls his boss. He's like, I didn't tell you to move $230,000. It was one of those deepfakes. These scam artists had deep faked the dude's boss and perfectly mimicked his voice to make it look like he was on the phone. |
| 27. April 2022 | I dont care about twitch. | I don't care about Twitch. I thought the way you increase viewership on Twitch was to play while in a battling pool. I don't care about my Twitch viewership. I care about my Twitch viewers. I just mean that no decisions that I make are made with the express goal of increasing my Twitch viewership. I don't think Twitch is all that important. The people who hang out with me on Twitch, I just appreciate. Honestly, now that YouTube has finally added the feature so that it puts a ring around your name and says you're live whenever you're live on YouTube, we're getting really close to moving to YouTube just being the sense of what is happening. |
| 29. December 2020 | I don’t do anything just for the views. | I don't do anything just for the views. This may surprise you guys. I don't do anything for views. It is conceivably possible for me to have a long list of things that I want to do, and for me to look at that list and go, that thing that I want to do will gain me the most views of anything on the list, and so I might prioritize that. But never, I can't think of a single time in my history on this platform, YouTube or Twitch, that I've exclusively done something because I know it will get me views. You certainly have to balance considerations of the business versus your fun, your enjoyment and whatnot. I've never been a person to be like, oh man, I gotta do this thing, I really want to do it man, but I gotta do it because it will get me the viewership. |
| 07. February 2022 | I don’t get huge lobby shooters. | I don't understand huge lobby shooters. I'll be real with you. I don't know how people play Those massive shooters. I don't get it. I really don't like playing battlefield yesterday I do not at all understand the value of having 100 people lobbies or whatever like give me a 5v5 I don't like the the chaos of just you get shot from any direction at any time and being a massive I don't get it. I get battle royales because those kind of end up You know only a few people fighting each other but like just dying over and over again to just bullets more directions I don't know doesn't know |
| 10. November 2021 | I don’t like eating or breathing. | I don't like eating or breathing. Why is eating a bad thing for me? Because I don't like the feeling. It takes up time, it's a problem that never solves, and I always feel fat. I feel guilty about not eating good food and it's just awful. Not liking eating is the equivalent of saying I hate breathing. Who doesn't hate breathing? I mean, certainly, while you need breathing, you'd want to keep breathing. But if I said to you, look, here's the deal. You don't need to breathe anymore, but nothing about your life changes. You can go underwater, you can be in enclosed spaces, you do not need fucking oxygens to live. You'll be like, fucking sign me up, son. Do you know how good your jump scares could be when you can hide in a box for like an entire day and not worry about air? You know how well you could pretend to be a shark at a local pool when you never need to surface and you can just fucking whirf in everywhere? Think of the possibilities. |
| 04. November 2021 | I don’t like horror games | I don't like horror games. What do I think of horror games? I'm not a fan. I don't like to be on edge. Don't like to be scared. I think a lot of people will agree with me and that's why people like watching other people play those games. That degree of separation where you're not making the decisions makes it a little bit easier. Like I think even horror movies are better than horror games. Because a good horror game can really suck in. |
| 08. November 2021 | I don’t like motion controls | I don't like motion controls. Back in my day, you just pressed the buttons on the controller. Didn't have to do a fucking backflip to get your character to backflip. Like I can just picture a Hogwarts-style classroom ten years from now, and it's Nintendo teaching their consumer base how to use their controllers. Swish and flick. It's Leviosa. Not Leviosa. Ah, obviously, chat. If you want Mario to become a dinosaur, you know, you gotta fucking say the right words. |
| 10. September 2022 | I don’t make money the same way other channels do | I don't make money the same way other channels do. What is your primary source of money? I'm actually about to start talking about that. So a bunch of creators over the years have made videos where they talk about where their money comes from. It's not a ridiculous amount of these videos because people like to be private about that kind of stuff. Often, especially these larger content creators will suggest that they get more money from sponsors than they do ad revenue. I'm going to tell you right now, I am not that way. I probably make at least five times as much in ad revenue as I do sponsors. But the reason for this is because of how I operate. Imagine two channels, right? One channel releases one video a month that gets 9 million views. Each month, 9 million views like clockwork. Then you've got another channel that releases 30 videos a month, but each video gets 300,000 views each. So both are getting 9 million views in that month, and thus hypothetically making the same in ad revenue. But how sponsors would work for these channels would differ extremely. So this channel, if it gets one sponsor, is getting a sponsor that's getting 9 million views, and you can charge a ridiculous sum of money for that. Especially because there aren't many videos that get 9 million views. It is a very small pool. So you can likely charge even a premium for that because it's not like they can go somewhere else to get the same kind of eyeballs immediately. This other channel can only, for every sponsor, can only do a 300,000 view video, which is worth far, far less. You know, there's no way you're getting 30 sponsors in a month, and even if you did, like, there are tons of videos getting 300,000 views. They're not as uncommon, you probably can't charge a premium. It is also the case that on the 9 million view video, most of those views would be coming from individual people. So there's roughly 9 million people who click to watch the video. But if you're getting 9 million views spread over 30 videos, there's going to be a lot of repeat views there. Each person might be watching, you know, five of those videos. So if one company sponsored 30 videos for 9 million views, their ad would be seen by less people than if they simply sponsored the one video that received 9 million views. So even if this channel got a sponsor for every single one of their videos, they still probably get less sponsor money than the 9 million view video channel. And this is the situation I'm in. I have, like, two sponsors a month and make me a bit of money, but that's never going to compare to just the 30 videos I release a month for ad revenue, you know? And that's where you can hear Mr. Beast say, oh, you know, most of the channels I speak to, they make more money off sponsors than they do ad revenue. And I'll never be that way with the way that I do my channel. But the flip side of this, I am pretty confident that I get more ad revenue than most channels, partly because I have a lot of long videos and high engagement and all that jazz. |
| 19. October 2022 | I don’t need to travel to other places to see new things | out of him as well. Yeah, it was just a small world, right? I don't need to travel to other areas to see new things. See, it's funny, I didn't need to go to Melbourne to see stuff that I haven't seen before because I haven't seen anything in Sydney either. I kid you not, my idea for a video series was Dark Viper AU goes to Australia and I just see things in Australia. The joke being that other creators have like travel vlogs where they go to Australia for the first time and see stuff and I'd be basically having the same experience because I haven't really experienced Australia either despite living here for 31 years. |
| 27. August 2022 | I don’t respect those who do nothing but just own things | Don't respect those who do nothing but just own things. I know if you agree, but delegation is a skill. You can practice learn how to. I feel like you will need to get there when you're ready to. I don't think you should stress it. I mean, I do delegate to a- I've got- I've got tons of people helping me with stuff. But um, there's just some stuff that I have to handle myself, and stuff that I'll probably never be comfortable having other people do. I never envisioned myself, chat, as like a man of industry or something. A person who like, owns businesses that generate me a profit, but that I have nothing to do with. I kind of find such ideas almost disgusting, in a way. If I am not doing work, I would even say the lion's share of the work, then I don't deserve like the lion's share of the profit. I don't ever want to get to a point where my channel and my business isn't largely done by me. I always want to feel like I'm doing the majority of the work, even if it's only a slight majority. I want to feel like I am the most important part of the machine, and if need be, I can jettison other parts of the enterprise, and still be completely fine going along. I don't want to own things that make a profit. I want to make things that are profitable. Tangible things. Impostor syndrome or self-sufficiency? No, it's not that, it's that I just don't have a lot of respect for people who sit around and do nothing, but still just believe themselves deserving of making a fuck ton of money. I have heard people say their goal is to start businesses that they have effectively no involvement in. They want to start things and just hire people to run the businesses for them and get a check each week. And I'm just like, that's just gross. Maybe my beliefs will change in that regard, but I just don't like that. |
| 26. May 2021 | I enjoy TV shows on a surface level | I enjoy shows on a surface level. Do I have a my anime list? No. I have never really seen myself as a person who wants to make content like reviewing anime or rating anime or just rating media in general because I seem to consume media at a very surface level. Like I don't sit there and analyze why I'm enjoying this. I just watch it and then move on with my life barely even remembering what it was about, you know. Like there seems to be people who like they'll watch a show and they'll be like, oh episode 12, 50 minutes and all that scene made me feel all these things and you know, it makes me think of this other show and maybe drew inspiration from this and I don't do any of that stuff, man. I just I'm like, this is kind of fun. I like watching this so I'm gonna keep doing it. Then when it's over I'm like, ah, that's kind of sucks that that's over and then I move on. Like the last show that I watched was Invincible. The Amazon Prime show and I can tell you it's good. Can I tell you why it's good? No, I enjoyed it though. It's the kind of show that you can spoil. Although I do want to say that uh, well some things I didn't see coming other things I did, right? Like there is foreshadowing that you can look out for if you're really interested. Have I seen How I Met Your Mother? I've never heard that show in my life. What is How I Met Your Mother? Of course I've seen it, dude. I like everyone else liked that show when it was popular. Probably a show that went on too long and ended terribly. I don't think How I Met Your Mother was as good as, you know, I thought it was at the time. I don't think it would hold up if I watched it again. Always funny to me that Barney Stinson is gay in real life. I mean obviously given the character he portrays in the show. I guess it just shows how good of an actor he is, I guess. Kind of the same way most people are when they find out that Hugh Laurie is British. You know the guy who played House? Yeah, he's British. You know God saved the Queen and all that? Yeah, true. Watch um, the Hugh Laurie in Blackadder. Or uh, Hugh, what's it called? Hugh and Fry? Or Fry and who? What's it called? Fry and Laurie? Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that was a weird show. I don't think Hugh Laurie is in Monty Python. I have seen Promised Neverland. I haven't seen season two because apparently it's fucking terrible. A lot of anime is apparently an advertisement for the manga, right? I wonder if the reason why they fucked up Promised Neverland season two so much was because they wanted people to buy the manga. Oh, the manga got crap at the end too? Why did people not tell me this? I wouldn't have bothered watching the first season because the first season was pretty decent. Except that it's a huge suspension of disbelief. Like all these kids are like nine years old and they're like solving complex problems and have perfect control of their emotions and they're amazing manipulators of adults and stuff. Which is like, okay, right. It's like, what's the joke of um, Prozed D introducing um, how anime introduces characters? It's like, I won the Nobel Peace Prize. I have six PhDs. I was the first person on Mars and I'm six years old. I have watched Invincible. I talked about it not half an hour ago. Good show. I have not got into the office or parks and recreation. I've seen clips from both that suggest that I would like the shows if I got into them. But the parts of the show, like when I've sat down and tried to watch the show, I just didn't super grip me, you know. They both seem like shows that take a while to get their groove or whatever. Similar to how Seinfeld's first two seasons were not particularly strong. Or maybe the Simpsons the same way. Like the Simpsons Golden Age season four to season eight or whatever. I should start both in season two. I don't like skipping over the first parts of shows. Of course, I like everyone else watch breaking that. I even tried to watch it again, but I stopped like halfway through. Got distracted by something else. Yes, I've seen The Boys. It's a great show, though. I have seen Code Geass. Also great show. It's been long enough since I've seen Code Geass that I think I could probably rewatch it. Yeah, I've seen Rick and Morty. Good show. Walking Dead should have ended like a gajillion years ago. I can't believe that show is still being made. Vinland Saga? No. I know everyone says it's good and I read the synopsis, but it never... Doesn't seem appealing to me. Prison Break was alright, I guess. Family Guy. I can't believe that show is still on. It's always sunny is good. Sometimes the cringe is hard to deal with though. Seen One Punch Man. I've seen Jujitsu Kaisen. Seen Dexter. Saw a little bit of Narcos. Seen Umbrella Academy. Which should never really drive with me. Mr. Robot didn't see the final season. |
| 19. February 2022 | I f'd a duck | I fucked a duck. The I fucked the duck thing, I think that's in reference to me when I played golf once, and I hit the ball on the starting green or whatever, the driving range thing, and I hit it, and it just slammed off the side a thousand miles an hour and like smashed a duck in the head. Maybe its neck, like the upper region of its body. Fucking owned it. It was like destroyed. Great. One day I will be attacked by ducks, seeking vengeance for their fallen comrade. |
| 08. November 2022 | I finally got my new bed | trees and good service for GT Online. That's the only two things that matter, right? I finally got my new bed. A lot of hardship, a lot of annoyances to finally get my bed. Here it is. This is a firm mattress now rather than the soft mattress that it used to be. Yeah, because this is an adjustable bed frame in here. I can use that to lift the head or lift the feet. It's not that useful, except when I get a TV, I'll be able to like, when I have to crane myself with pillows and stuff, I can just lift up my mattress. This thing is like really soft. Once I get my blinds, and now I've got this bed, I will finally be able to sleep well, and every single day I'll wake up with energy. The lights from the street will no longer disrupt my sleep and stuff. Then I'll never have a bad day again. And if that works, then all the costs will have been worth it. |
| 22. February 2021 | I finally released some Noita content | I finally released some Noita content So I finally had an episode of Noita edited. I doubt the episodes are gonna do well Like originally I was just gonna have the very first episode edited down. I was like, ah nah fuck it Maybe I will just slowly edit it all and Throw it out every once in a while What was submitted to me as an edit was nowhere close to good enough like nowhere close But at least the scene selection was decent I spent like six hours on it one day and I I think it's a pretty good video now It's gonna be interesting to see though how the non Twitch controls Noita do after I'm done with the The twitch control stuff. Do I think it'll do better than among us? No, do I think it's more entertaining? Potentially when it comes to me playing non GT 5 games What kind of carries the videos is how recognizable the game is because it's gonna happen is I'm gonna upload Noita and It'll be shown to a portion of my audience and that portion of my audience will be like What is Noita? I want to watch that and they won't click it and then YouTube be like Well, I guess even Dark Vipers main audience doesn't want to watch this shit. So I guess I won't recommend it to anyone It's what happens all among us. Don't just abuse a community posts Maybe I will bellow maybe I will |
| 28. November 2020 | I finished Noita | I finished Noita. Noita is a game that I've been playing on stream. If you know nothing about it, this rambles will make no sense to you. Noita is done. I finished the game yesterday. I had the most OP build of all time. I had immunity to explosions and immunity to lightning, and then I had a ones with lightning. Lightning is extraordinarily strong. I think it might be the strongest spell in the entire game. Ridiculously OP, except that it's extraordinarily dangerous to use. Because if you have a wand out that has electricity on it and you go into any water, you die immediately. If you touch it to metal that you're touching, you die immediately. If you use it on something a little bit too close to you, you die immediately. But I had immunities to all that, and then I had a small shield in front of me too. So I had a wand that was casting at the end like five lightning bolts at once, and one hitting everything. Even more than this, it would knock me back a huge way. So even in the case where something got close enough to me, I would be knocked away from it immediately. Very few people watched Noita when I played it. I think I might just look up all the secrets, because it is somewhat frustrating. I watched a three-minute review of the game, and the person expressed, to a degree, a lot of it's down to RNG. Now, with games like that, of course, there's a lot of RNG involved, but there's skill as well. So the more skillful you are, the worse your RNG can be, and you can still succeed. But it becomes frustrating when you play and you're having to struggle for every bit of gold, every kill, because you've got shit 1s, shit perks, and then you have other games where it's just like a walk in the park, and everything's so easy. And so you resent the games where you're struggling, because you've had the games that are just a walk in the park. And if I want to go looking for the secrets in the game, I would want to find myself a very OP setup, and having to play over and over again until I find that would be very frustrating. Can you get back into Noita, though? Learning about the parallel worlds in Noita and stuff, it makes me tempted to go back and play again. It would take like a million years, though, and I don't know. Nah. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 17. December 2020 | I finished One Piece, new anime I am watching. | I finished One Piece, new anime I'm watching. So, for those who don't know, I finally finished One Piece. And so I'm like, I need to look up another anime to watch. And I just happened to see that meme. Ah, fine. I guess you are made of LePogchamp. I'm like, what anime is that character from? And so I attempted to look it up. I clicked on the wrong anime. And I was like, well this is good enough. So I started watching something else. The one I'm watching right now is like, Akami Akil or something? Which is like five night assassins killing the rich and powerful corrupt people in this city. And the main character is some guy who randomly joins them. What's it called? And Akil Akil is the anime I should have been going for. What's the anime that I'm talking about now? Agami Gakil. That's the one I'm watching right now. Yeah, and Kill La Kill is the one I should have been watching. They both had Kill in the name. Close enough. People saying Kill La Kill is hentai? I don't think it's hentai. I think it's something that's meant to be mocking the sexualization tropes or some sh- I don't know, man. I found an anime to watch and when I've finished watching that anime, I'll watch something else I guess. So I've started watching a new anime chat. One of those things. I have no idea what it's called. It's a thing where this guy, for reasons unexplained thus far, is very physically strong. He has two friends who are like super into the occult or whatever, and they unwrap wardings on this finger or some shit that is a cursed relic, and then they get attacked by cursed creatures or whatever, and the main character ends up eating this finger basically, and he gets somewhat possessed by this evil guy. But for whatever reason, because this guy is so physically strong, he's able to hold back this cursed spirit, and those who deal with curses are like, oh, that's sweet. Can you like eat a bunch of bad curses that we normally can't kill so that we can then kill you, which will kill the curses? And the main character's like, okay, because if I eat these curses and then die, that will save a lot of people from being attacked by those curses in the future. Jujutsu Kaisen? Yeah, that sounds about right. Sounds fucked up? It is kind of fucked up. The creatures are kind of weird. The dude literally eats the cursed seven finger of a dead guy to become cursed. Yeah, it's kind of weird. It was recommended to me by the people on Twitter. On Twitter, I was like, hey, you recommend some shows, and I got a long list. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 17. December 2020 | I finished one piece, new anime I am watching. | I finished One Piece, new anime I'm watching. So, for those who don't know, I finally finished One Piece. And so I'm like, I need to look up another anime to watch. And I just happened to see that meme. Ah, fine. I guess you are made of LePogchamp. I'm like, what anime is that character from? And so I attempted to look it up. I clicked on the wrong anime. And I was like, well this is good enough. So I started watching something else. The one I'm watching right now is like, Akami Akil or something? Which is like five night assassins killing the rich and powerful corrupt people in this city. And the main character is some guy who randomly joins them. What's it called? And Akil Akil is the anime I should have been going for. What's the anime that I'm talking about now? Agami Gakil. That's the one I'm watching right now. Yeah, and Kill La Kill is the one I should have been watching. They both had Kill in the name. Close enough. People saying Kill La Kill is hentai? I don't think it's hentai. I think it's something that's meant to be mocking the sexualization tropes or some sh- I don't know, man. I found an anime to watch and when I've finished watching that anime, I'll watch something else I guess. So I've started watching a new anime chat. One of those things. I have no idea what it's called. It's a thing where this guy, for reasons unexplained thus far, is very physically strong. He has two friends who are like super into the occult or whatever, and they unwrap wardings on this finger or some shit that is a cursed relic, and then they get attacked by cursed creatures or whatever, and the main character ends up eating this finger basically, and he gets somewhat possessed by this evil guy. But for whatever reason, because this guy is so physically strong, he's able to hold back this cursed spirit, and those who deal with curses are like, oh, that's sweet. Can you like eat a bunch of bad curses that we normally can't kill so that we can then kill you, which will kill the curses? And the main character's like, okay, because if I eat these curses and then die, that will save a lot of people from being attacked by those curses in the future. Jujutsu Kaisen? Yeah, that sounds about right. Sounds fucked up? It is kind of fucked up. The creatures are kind of weird. The dude literally eats the cursed seven finger of a dead guy to become cursed. Yeah, it's kind of weird. It was recommended to me by the people on Twitter. On Twitter, I was like, hey, you recommend some shows, and I got a long list. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 01. September 2021 | I finished the hardest challenge in Noita | I finished the hardest challenge in Noita. I know most of you won't care, but for the handful of you who do, I finished 33 Orb Noita yesterday. One shot the 33 Orb boss with one that did like 64 quadrillion damage or some shit. It's pretty good. It's a no more Noita, I hope so. What I might do in the future is, if I'm feeling too shit to play GTA 5 and be entertaining, I'll look up what is the hot new game that everyone's playing that isn't really narrative based. And I'll just play that. So right now, what is it? Splitgate or Back 4 Blood? And I'll just play that. |
| 21. August 2022 | I found the real reason my old rambles are doing better | Think about what my brain's doing while I'm listening to them speak. But the process of thinking about that can interrupt what you're normally doing in that situation, right? Like, it's hard to analyze your own thoughts in the moment, because you're necessarily disrupting what you normally do in that moment, you know? I found the real reason my old rambles are doing better. Previously I said it looks like my older rambles are doing better, because they went from, you know, getting 100, 200 views to now getting a thousand. This is just the first 50, by the way. You can see how this is still not a ridiculous amount of views, but I... The more appealing I can make all of my content, the better off I'm gonna be. But what I noticed is if you go to traffic source, well yeah, channel pages and browse features are up a little bit, as is suggested, like a little bit. The main thing that's driving the greater viewership is just people going to the playlist. I'm not sure what's made this change. Is YouTube pushing playlists more, or did I do something to inspire people to have a greater interest in my old rambles? As I say, I have been changing the old thumbnails. Maybe people are clicking on older ones, seeing that it still contains good stuff and going back. I just remembered one thing it could possibly be. I changed the playlist from being sourced by newest to oldest, which is this is what it was before, to now being oldest to newest. Could you speak... |
| 02. February 2021 | I gained 125k subs this month | I gained 125k subs this month. You know I've gained 125k subs Over the last month on on YouTube. It's weird to think about that Like a quarter of the people who've subbed me on YouTube Probably know none of my stories know very little about me It's weird to think about time to rehash the entirety of my life for the new people I was mentioned in German radio in what context have you seen this dumb fuck dark viper a you on YouTube? Yeah, these content shit of course they would have said it in German, but In the conversation went down. Oh what cuz of my password seems I've seen I've seen that British radio thing of a soda poppin soda poppin was live streaming cooking or something and These people on the radio were watching giving him shit or something |
| 23. August 2021 | I gave up on dating apps | I gave up on dating apps. I was on a dating app, basically giving up. So, a big problem with the career that I have is that no one my age really gets it. It is like the job that a person wants who is like 18 right now or some shit like that, but I'm not 18. You know? You tell a person you're a YouTuber and they're like, ah, and you make money doing that? Or like, you know, it's like the career has no prestige. So it doesn't matter how successful I become at it. No one's going to click on my profile and be interested in that kind of shit, you know? |
| 17. May 2021 | I get sent non-sense about gta 5 quite a bit | I get sent nonsense about GTA 5 quite a bit So someone sent me a message yesterday right in my twitch DMs Not the best way to DM me by the way, but they're like hey, I worked as a QA tester for monkey business I won't know I worked as a QA tester for GTA 5 and I remember When I was doing the monkey business mission I remember people talking about how players would be rewarded for doing non-lethal takedowns of the early enemies by Getting fewer hostile enemies later on in the mission Don't know how that went, but probably worth checking out I cannot bring myself to check that out so much about that doesn't seem believable Getting rewarded for doing something that's easy The reduction in enemies just no one ever noticing that Rockstar having quality control and testers for their games all doesn't sound believable At the same time I will probably have to test it out at some point Like I hate it when people suggest stuff to me without testing it themselves Because like with eight seconds of testing you can you can know if something's bad or good or whatever And so some but and sometimes I kind of have a bit of a dick to the other speedrun people and like Someone will post a suggestion to me that I think might be relevant for speedrunning and because I don't have time to test it I will just pass on to everyone else rather than testing it myself, and I'm sure they don't appreciate that sometimes So I don't really want to pass this on to the other speedrunners to get them to test it So I will have to test at some point and I just know it's not gonna work That's the kind of messages I receive sometimes people who try to bait me with plausible shit So that I waste my time Like we're still in the 90s or whatever before the internet and everyone has their own little laugh What they called copypastas or little stories about video games that no one can confirm You know mew under the truck and stuff if you bring Michael to this hill at midnight Then the ghost of CJ appears |
| 17. May 2021 | I get sent nonsense about gta 5 quite a bit | I get sent nonsense about GTA 5 quite a bit So someone sent me a message yesterday right in my twitch DMs Not the best way to DM me by the way, but they're like hey, I worked as a QA tester for monkey business I won't know I worked as a QA tester for GTA 5 and I remember When I was doing the monkey business mission I remember people talking about how players would be rewarded for doing non-lethal takedowns of the early enemies by Getting fewer hostile enemies later on in the mission Don't know how that went, but probably worth checking out I cannot bring myself to check that out so much about that doesn't seem believable Getting rewarded for doing something that's easy The reduction in enemies just no one ever noticing that Rockstar having quality control and testers for their games all doesn't sound believable At the same time I will probably have to test it out at some point Like I hate it when people suggest stuff to me without testing it themselves Because like with eight seconds of testing you can you can know if something's bad or good or whatever And so some but and sometimes I kind of have a bit of a dick to the other speedrun people and like Someone will post a suggestion to me that I think might be relevant for speedrunning and because I don't have time to test it I will just pass on to everyone else rather than testing it myself, and I'm sure they don't appreciate that sometimes So I don't really want to pass this on to the other speedrunners to get them to test it So I will have to test at some point and I just know it's not gonna work That's the kind of messages I receive sometimes people who try to bait me with plausible shit So that I waste my time Like we're still in the 90s or whatever before the internet and everyone has their own little laugh What they called copypastas or little stories about video games that no one can confirm You know mew under the truck and stuff if you bring Michael to this hill at midnight Then the ghost of CJ appears |
| 19. October 2022 | I got a new chunk of cash from doing Shorts | of cash from doing shorts. The time investment will be low enough that the reward will be worth it. As I just mentioned before, I got $3,000 for my shorts views and some people have said they found me through shorts. Can't be that many people, but... And YouTube, of course, says they're going to be continuing to tink with the algorithm to make shorts a more viable advertisement for your long-form content. And they're gonna be increasing their money from shorts. I think it's just something that I should keep doing. But not overwhelm myself with it like I did when I was doing two a day. And even if one short doesn't do particularly well, I would just leave it up there and be like, that's fine, you know. |
| 19. October 2022 | I got a new chunk of cash from doing shorts | of cash from doing shorts. The time investment will be low enough that the reward will be worth it. As I just mentioned before, I got $3,000 for my shorts views and some people have said they found me through shorts. Can't be that many people, but... And YouTube, of course, says they're going to be continuing to tink with the algorithm to make shorts a more viable advertisement for your long-form content. And they're gonna be increasing their money from shorts. I think it's just something that I should keep doing. But not overwhelm myself with it like I did when I was doing two a day. And even if one short doesn't do particularly well, I would just leave it up there and be like, that's fine, you know. |
| 14. June 2022 | I got a response from one of the Twitch meme legends | I got a response from one of the Twitch meme legends So I wrote this tweet Just finished the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson if you happen to have missed it in the last 15 years that it has been out Highly recommended for anyone who loves fantasy enjoyed every minute of it made me feel emotional and such at the end I didn't cry, but like I could have cried had I like felt like it. I was like no No, take a breather man. It's just a book. It's fine. You know I got a little back and forth with Doug Doug Um because he he thought the second book was a bit slow Which I think it was like the first and third book are the best but that's the second book is paid off Well in the third so but what was interesting to me? I got another reply From the Ben Brode how many of you in chat know who Ben Brode is? So many knows in chat because you're all too young What year would it be? 2014 2015 2016 so for those who don't know Hearthstone It's a Blizzard card game and it was like the first digital card game that really took off and it took off insanely Especially on Twitch for a while like all the big content creators were playing Hearthstone that was basically it the biggest creators on the platform were Hearthstone people and Ben Brode during this period of the golden age of Hearthstone was like the lead card designer or something like he had a higher-up position he was known to be very lovely happy nice dude who had a really distinct laugh that was super infectious We might find I might put it put it in post but he was like ha ha ha ha ha like And it was memes to death it was the sort of laugh that every time you heard it you just felt better and wanted to laugh too He's like famous to all of us who kind of got our stars in he in that time of twitch I don't think like you don't think he works for Hearthstone or maybe not even Blizzard at this point I'm not sure but um, I have a lot of fond memories of that period of Twitch and of Hearthstone, you know And I told him as such I said yeah fond memories of your infectious laugh, dude. And yeah, so he likes uh I don't know if he's a fan of Hearthstone or not but he's a fan of Hearthstone You know, and I told him as such I said yeah fond memories of your infectious laugh, dude. And yeah, so he likes uh, Brandon Sanderson's books as well as everyone should because they're great Ben Breb will always be a legend in Hearthstone |
| 17. September 2022 | I got included in the YouTube speedrunning celebration | I got included in the YouTube speedrunning celebration. So I got mentioned in this, it's only a minute. Let me react to myself chat. I got contacted to be in this, a YouTube speedrun of speedruns. They paid me like, well maybe I shouldn't say how much they paid me, but they paid me a lot. To include a clip of something of mine in this video, they also had a playlist that had, I think, my six most controversial strats of GT5 speedrunning in it. I think the playlist was just cultivated every day and they just picked some speedrunners videos, you know? But this didn't appear for me on my homepage. The reason for this might have been because the Queen died. Like the Queen's death threw a kind of spanner into if this was going to be on the front page of YouTube or whatever. It was there for some reasons, I don't know, you know. But clearly didn't get that many views and actually got quite a few dislikes. Again guys, there is an extension to give you back dislikes. Please don't spam in the comments, how did you get dislikes back? Speedrunning is an effort in a video game to complete a challenge as fast as possible. And with over 7 billion views in 2021 alone, it is a big part of gaming on YouTube. This video is our 60 second attempt to show- This is me! It's my, me. But see, like that isn't even a speedrunning video. Well it kind of is. Like it says it's stuff from speedrunners and it does have some application in speedruns and da da da da da. It is the top games when it comes to speedrunning on YouTube. Just a weird choice of clip though, you know. It's Dream! Just to infuse, the top game is Minecraft, where speedrunners take elements of the- Oh look! Hahaha! So, I guess according to their analytics, GT5 speedrunning is the second biggest? I guess that might actually be true. Because think about all the biggest speedrunners on YouTube. There's, well Dream, if he was going to call himself a speedrunner anymore. Then there's Point Crow, Smalllands, uh, who else? Oh yeah, Hugo, Hugo certainly. Um, Cheese, yeah, Cheese. But I mean, like, like, look, okay. But when we say Cheese, like, when we're talking big, Cheese is not big on YouTube. He is popular, he's well known, but he's not a big YouTuber. When we talk about big on YouTube, there's only like, maybe, see, look, look, look. There's only, there's only like 10 speedrunners who get consistently like 5 million views a month. Like, SimpleFlips and Simply, uh, they, they have some audience, but they're not getting 5 million views a month. Summoning Salt, yeah, Summoning Salt isn't specifically a speedrunner speedrunning one game. So like, he couldn't be his own thing here. Easy Speezy is the same. A speedrunner that's popular, but not for like, a specific genre of things. He's all over the place. So he couldn't have his own coin here either. This might be Easy Speezy's run of one particular game. This might be Summoning Salt's video on Castlevania or something. But they couldn't themselves make a big thing. There are, there are very few speedrunning channels that are dedicated to one game that get a lot of views. Like even Aeshirock with Hitman, like he doesn't have that many speedrunning videos. He has quite a few, but what I'm saying is, when I think of big speedrunners on YouTube, I can only think of people who are big in either Minecraft or Pokemon. And those who are big in Pokemon are also big in Minecraft. Because as we've talked about before, it's very hard to be competitive in a speedrun while making a lot of content for YouTube. Virtual, yeah that's a good point. Virtual with Trackmania. Minecraft campaign and give it a competitive endpoint. Rounding out the top three are Grand Theft Auto V and Roblox. Yay! About 25% of these games come from the 2000s and 15% come from the 90s. Many of these classics have a history of speedruns that span decades, which are meticulously documented by creators such as Summoning Salt and Carl Jobs. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Carl Jobs. The ongoing appeal of speedrunning is more than the thrill of chasing records. It's about players finding new ways- Oh, because there are speedruns for GT Online?...to connect with beloved games and keep them relevant. In other words, it's not just about going fast, it's about making great games last. Aww. Why did so many people dislike it? I guess because they just- it's just on the homepage or whatever? There are some people who just press dislike on any video from YouTube because they don't like YouTube. I'm confused, is this not VR content? I'm in it. It's a video about me. Perfectly fine to react to shit that you're personally involved in. |
| 07. February 2022 | I got lucky with my username. | I honestly got lucky with my username. I think to myself sometimes chat younger me didn't do so bad I could have picked a much worse name than Dark Viper Literally a name I had in the fifth grade. It's not that unique, you know is a good enough name, but not that common You know, did I? |
| 24. October 2022 | I got myself a 4090 graphics card. | I got myself a 1490 graphics card and I paid $3812 for a graphics card. You can buy a car for that kind of money. In USD, it's $2400. So originally I was like, oh, I'll just buy one of the founders edition cards And then I found out that they're not gonna release them in Australia. And so I panicked and I was like, oh shit I'm not gonna be able to get a 4090 and I bought like all the pieces of a PC that are sitting downstairs And I'm not gonna be able to build my PC with the new GPU. Oh, no, so I contacted Sebiko, who helped me get a 3090 last time because he is a friend who works for Nvidia and I was like, yeah, yo man Can you get me one of those graphics cards? He's like, yeah, man. I gotta help you out probably. Might be a couple of weeks I'm like, oh a couple of weeks. No Then I realized it's only the founders edition cards that aren't coming to Australia The third party ones are still coming. So I was like, oh, well, I'll just get one of those then. I'm sorry for bothering you and your friend. Nice dude to be willing to help me though But I ended up getting an Asus Strix RTX 4090 24 gigabyte overclock graphics card I probably would have bought like a different brand and stuff But the reason I bought this one was because it was one of the few models left I saw a Jays two cents video where he's like, yeah, this card's great except there might be like an almost imperceptible whine that the card makes and I'm like, he's like, I just mentioned it like it's it you can't even hear it I'm like, okay. Well, fuck it then it's the only one I have available anyways Who cares and my PC is like 50 meters away from me So hopefully it's not too loud. Am I gonna upgrade to a 49 TI when it comes out? It was actually my list of rambles and I skipped over it I thought they canceled the 49 TI. If it does come out, sure. It's a business thing chat No one has any reason to buy a 40 series card unless it's for business purposes Anything that cuts down on my time doing anything is worth the price The different impact music has on people |
| 19. March 2021 | I got recognized in public | Getting recognized in public. Tell us about getting recognized in public yesterday. Do people care about my stories? So yesterday was a celebration of two of my cousins' birthdays, right? Their birthdays weren't exactly yesterday, but they're close enough we do them both together. So I was going to a family gathering and my mother recently has hurt her shoulder. It's some tendon or something that they had to fix or whatever, so she can't use her arm for like six weeks. So she says to me, I need you to drive me to the family gathering and can we go to the shops first? And I can buy some of my groceries because I can't drive myself. And I was like, oh yeah, sure, whatever. And so we go to Audi. I haven't been to Audi in a bajillion years. There's not one around here, whatever. But so we walk around, grab a bunch of stuff and we get to the cash register and the woman there. Like when I say woman, it implies, because woman sounds older. I know a person in her early 20s. Girl sounds too young. Woman sounds too old kind of thing. I don't know. But woman in her early 20s is like, hey, this may sound weird, but do you like upload clips of like GTA stuff and all that to YouTube? At least I think it's what she pointed to. And I'm like, yeah, I am. I watch your stuff. I know you. And I thought that was pretty cool because I don't get the experience of going out. And seeing people enough to know what the likelihood of me getting recognized in public is. Because certainly my clips have now been shown to hundreds of millions of people. So statistically, there must be people around who would recognize me in public. But the reason why this is so fortuitous is it happened right in front of my mother. And I was like, oh, that's cool. You recognize my son or whatever. And so my mother gets to walk around for the family gathering going, oh, we were in Audi. And this girl recognizes my son for the stuff he does online. Mother was super impressed with that. I mean, it was fun for me as well to be recognized. But it was just especially as a fortuitous that happened exactly in front of my mother to make me seem more impressive to my mother. Well, we've moved past the period where my mother didn't really get my job. She is proud of me for what I've done or what I do. Reinforcing it as something of note is always something that a son would want to do for his mother. Because I'm sure my mother on some level would rather I just be a doctor or something and be able to tell people, oh, my son's a doctor. Because you can guarantee when my mother describes what I do to her friends, her friends are like, oh, yeah, I don't know what that means, but OK. This job, regardless of how successful I become in it, is not going to have any level of prestige for people of my mother's age. You know, I know like I was talking to someone else at the family gathering and it's one of those conversations where it's just like they have no idea what I do. They're like, oh, so you can be successful with that, can you? Could you make a bit of money there? It's like, yeah, I'll make a bit of money. I'm doing all right. You know, I don't get out enough. I don't get to meet people enough, you know. And especially now that I can, because like we haven't had a single case of COVID in Australia for like 40 days or something, apparently. You know, everyone's out and about doing just normal shit. I'm happy COVID is basically over. It's COVID coming to an end has made me remember that it isn't simply COVID that is the cause of me not being around people all that much, you know. I didn't go around people all that much before COVID. And now that COVID's gone as an excuse to be a loner, I'm now like, oh, I'm actually just a loner, you know. I hope at the very least Twitch party comes along and I can show up to there, feel kind of awkward for a few hours and come back home and then be like, you know what, I don't need to be around people. It's perfectly fine. I just need another instance to remind myself that in general, I'm better off being home by myself than being out around people. I need that reminder every couple of months. |
| 07. February 2022 | I got recognized in public because of my clothing. | I got recognized in public because of my clothing. When I was out at the shops yesterday with my mother, I was walking along and this dude looked at me, smiled, and gave me a thumbs up. I smiled at him and kept walking. I was like, I wonder why that happened. I get maybe he recognized me or something? I was wearing a mask, but I guess I was still wearing a black tank top and black shorts, so maybe it was obvious. |
| 26. December 2022 | I got reddit famous on speciously specific. | I got reddit famous on suspiciously specific. So those who follow my community posts will know occasionally I just write weird stuff that I find kind of funny. And one of them got a bunch of upvotes on a subreddit called suspiciously specific. Currently got 5,000 upvotes basically. If I were to murder someone, the only possible tool I would use is a shovel. If a shovel wasn't involved in a potentially soon to be discovered murder, a judge and or jury would know for a fact that I wasn't involved. Funny. I like this one. Average dark fabric EU community first. There's some references to memes here, so some people know me. Thought that was cool. I like it when my weird humor gets appreciated. |
| 14. June 2022 | I got savaged on Twitter | I got savaged on Twitter. A funny thing just happened on Twitter. Tweet is fucking brutal. DarkviperEU made songs when he was young. There's this dude who kind of vaguely sort of looks like me, but I'm like When he was young? Dead. I'm not I'm not that old chat. I have never seen a more open shut case of manslaughter in my life. Put this man behind bars. Brutal. |
| 19. April 2021 | I got to use one of my favourite memes in the Hollow Knight video. | I got to use one of my favorite memes in the Hollow Knight video. This Hollow Knight video that I finally finished yesterday, there is only I think one joke in it that I really like. It's because I finally got to use that meme. You know that meme, I like your funny words, Magic Man. I got to use that reference in the video. I never found it useful before and I love that meme. I like your funny words, Magic Man! So if you don't want to watch the whole video, at least watch like the first minutes, I think, because it has the video, the joke at the beginning. I'm sure you'll forget about it by the time the video comes out anyway. |
| 19. April 2021 | I got to use one of my favourite memes in the hollow knight video. | I got to use one of my favorite memes in the Hollow Knight video. This Hollow Knight video that I finally finished yesterday, there is only I think one joke in it that I really like. It's because I finally got to use that meme. You know that meme, I like your funny words, Magic Man. I got to use that reference in the video. I never found it useful before and I love that meme. I like your funny words, Magic Man! So if you don't want to watch the whole video, at least watch like the first minutes, I think, because it has the video, the joke at the beginning. I'm sure you'll forget about it by the time the video comes out anyway. |
| 10. September 2022 | I got twisted and ended up opening more csgo skin crates | I got twisted and ended up opening more CSGO skin crates. If you remind me, I can open some, uh, CSGO crates for you. I still haven't pulled my gloves. So like, I'm probably many thousands of dollar-y dudes in the hole by now, but you know, sunken cost fallacy and all that. I don't care, man. I will do it until I pull gloves. I don't care about the consequences. I may go bankrupt. I very rarely allow myself to do stupid things and I'm having this one thing. Okay. This is my stupid thing. Please don't go bankrupt. You should be like cheering for me to go bankrupt. That would just make me more desperate to make even more content. So I did finally unbox a pair of gloves with CSGO and I unboxed like the worst gloves in the game, effectively valueless. I wasted thousands of dollars on those crates and I'm probably a couple of thousand dollars in the hole. It's a nice reminder that I am human and there's a reason why I avoid gambling in general. I make note of this partly because it's embarrassing and so it will remind me to avoid this shit in the future, but also to remind you guys don't open. |
| 20. November 2022 | I had laser eye surgery and I didn’t die. | I had laser eye surgery and I didn't die. So it's somewhat of a long story, but I will try and keep it brief. Many months ago I went in to see if I could get my eyes checked to see if I can get laser eye surgery because I've had vision issues since I was in like the seventh grade or something. I remember sitting there with my dad and mentioning it to him and I was like, I don't want to bother people. I don't have eye issues and he's like, well, can you read the McDonald's menu there? And I'm like, not a single word. He goes, Matt, I'm 40. I can read the McDonald's board. You probably have some eye issues. I'm like, oh, dang. And so I went to the eye doctor and they're like, yeah, he got some eye issues and he gave me some glasses and these glasses I wore for like a year or two. And then I started wearing contact lenses, contact lenses that I left in my eyes all month. Like for a month they would just sit in there. I would never take them out. I'd sleep in with them as well. And then I'd replace them every month. So there wasn't a big inconvenience, but it did cost quite a bit of money. Probably cost like a thousand bucks a year or something, maybe more. But of course getting laser eye surgery when you're younger is dumb. You're meant to wait until you're like mid twenties or older than that. And it costs quite a bit of money. So I never did it. But now that I have a bit of money, I was like, you know, that's something I can do. Get laser eye surgery. So a couple of months ago I went in to see if I can get laser eye surgery because not everyone can. You can only fix some issues and the dude was like, you have the perfect eyes, the literal perfect eyes for laser eye surgery. There are three different types that we can do. Each is different levels of invasiveness and requires different levels of recovery. You can get literally the best one. It's called smile. And what they do, I didn't want to get the super details, but it's basically like they put a incision in your eye and it's like to make like a little flap. And then like they go in and like they move stuff around and then they close it. The whole thing takes like a minute. There's a huge lead up to it where like I couldn't wear contact lenses for a month leading up to the procedure because contact lenses reshape your eye, even if just a little bit. So I didn't wear contact lenses leading up to there. You can't use like spray on deodorant and stuff or wash your hair and stuff moments before going because that can impact your eyes and stuff as well. So I got there on the day and you wait there for a bit as they're prepping everything. They check your eyes again and I had a little bit of a scare because she's like, oh my god, yeah, your right eye, the stigmatism is a little bit different than what we thought it was. I'm like, is that a huge problem? She's like, no, don't worry about it. But they had to rescan my eye, take different pictures and stuff. But of course, when there's a surgery, people doing surgery on you, any small issue, you're like, oh my god, I'm going to die. Ultimately, they just put me down the table, head back. And then there's two parts to it. One where this thing goes down over your eye, like a tube or whatever goes like this and then you just keep it up and then your eye goes completely white. You can't see shit. Then there's another point you should have to say, look at this point. And he was telling me, look at the light. But then he's like, oh, actually, look a little bit away, like down a bit more. So there was a there was a light there, but I had to not look at it and I had to look slightly down. I'm like, oh, this is concerning. He thinks I should be looking at the light. But then he's telling me not to look at the light. Oh, no, something's going to go wrong. But does one eye takes a minute. It's a minute of like a bit of pressure and inconvenience, but you don't really feel pain. It's more like just a nerve wracking experience to a degree. And then he does the other eye and then it's done. Like it's like a two minutes tops. I was sitting on that table. I was given Valium. Now, I was expecting Valium to be like the sickest drugs alive, like the I don't know, like I would be dopey as shit. But in reality, all it does is calm you down. I didn't even know if it was doing anything because I could have just been calm naturally. Like I wasn't particularly like, oh, my God, I'm going to die before they gave me the drugs. And I just felt about the same afterwards because like I trusted these people. They were they were very professional and they were charging a fuck ton of money. Seven thousand dollars, I guess it'd be five thousand dollars USD. And they wouldn't be able to charge that kind of money if things didn't go well. No one had ever gone blind from one of these procedures or something. My mother had done it and she was fine. So I wasn't overly concerned. It was more like I just want this to be over so I can stop being concerned about it. They, of course, like put stuff around my eyes to numb it. They gave me a painkiller so I didn't feel any pain or whatever. They put eye drops in my eyes. So, again, no pain. They put a thing in your eye to keep your eyelid open. That was the thing I was concerned about that I would blink or something. But that wasn't even possible. You don't even think about it. Like, oh, I should be blinking. It's just not a thing that you worry about. So it wasn't that bad, but it's still surgery and not a fun experience. Like, I'm going to go back next week and do it again, man. Yeah. But if you want to get it, I can't talk about the other forms of the surgery and how much worse they are. I don't think they're that much worse. But it's not that bad. But now I have like a six week procedure to keep my eyes fine because immediately after the procedure for like four hours didn't feel particularly good in the eye region. Right. It's like wasn't like splitting pain like you're hungover or something, but it's like there's some pain here. Opening my eyes, I can look around and stuff. But yeah, I can feel a little bit of pain. Nothing too severe, though. But after that four hour mark, I'm like, there's no pain at all. I expected this to go on a lot longer than this or be more severe, but I was just fine. I'm looking around like my eyesight is already like 10 times better than it used to be, at least with without contacts or glasses, because like right now, my eyes are not as good as glasses, not as good as contact lenses. But your eyesight over the next six weeks kind of fluctuates a little bit, but you never have bad enough eyesight that you can't go about your daily business. I'm not sure why that is. It's just over the course of the healing process, it's about at the six weeks that your eyes become as sharp as they will be. And you have to use eye drops like every three hours, many different types of eye drops and stuff. And I'm not allowed to touch my eyes or like rub them for five days. And you don't realize how much you want to rub your eyes until they say, hey, you can't do this. And it's like, you must not rub eyes for any reason. And I have to wear like a face mask thing when I go to sleep for three nights, which is not a big deal because I usually wear a face mask anyway. But that's the glasses that I showed on my community post. Don't I look like a cool future guy? This is just when I got home. And so I have to wear these for a day and now I actually need to wear them at night for like two nights or something. And this was me before the procedure with my fogged up glasses, getting my laser eye surgery now. If I die, remember me as someone who played a video game faster than average. Let that be my legacy. Good picture. Can't believe someone in the comments was like, oh, why are you wearing a mask, man? They don't do anything. It's like, motherfucker, it's a fucking hospital, dude. They invented mask wearing. They were wearing masks before COVID. Do you know how dumb these people were? How they were like, man, if you wear a mask, you like you like not be able to breathe and you die and shit. It's like my guy, doctors and nurses have been wearing these masks for like forever. If that were true, we'd have no doctors and nurses, but are crazy people. And I made a little joke here because after that, when I said, I regret to inform you that DarkVapAU has dined this evening on a quarter pounder because McDonald's mistakenly didn't give him a double quarter pounder. I can see better, though, after my surgery, which is nice. Like I started as if like it's it's saying that DarkVapAU has died. So basically everything went well. My eyesight is not perfect right now. It has improved, but it'll be many weeks until I don't have to worry about it or think about it. So if you're thinking about getting it and you can afford it, go for it. Like if you're a person like me who is buying contact lenses every six months and you've been doing that now for 15 years or something, it pays for itself eventually. But of course, you have to have that actual amount of money in your bank account, which not everyone has, of course, because this will save me money over the course of my life getting this. You just like contact lenses, can't get them in at all. It's just something that you get used to. Eventually, it just becomes like the most mundane thing you can imagine, as most things are after you use them enough. |
| 07. August 2021 | I had my first boomer expeirence at 22 years old | I had my first boomer experience at 22 years old. Do you know Hike the Gamer or Jelly and Quibble quub. No, I don't. It's weird when I think like it's the same because I think you guys are a lot younger than me It's it's this weird situation. I had when I was 21 years. No 20 22, maybe 23 years old I went to my friend's place, right and He was smoking something. I know probably smoking weed or something I can't remember if I ended up having any but whatever it doesn't matter to the story but he had over like a bunch of a handful just like six a few 16 17 18 year olds and I talked to these kids and I felt like there was just the biggest generational gap you could conceive of like I Was just seen they're going Nothing these kids are saying makes sense to me The things that they're interested in the music or what they want and all that. I'm just sitting there going What what what the hell it was just it was it me of course they like I was always a bit of a no I don't mean not that much of it I bet I was a bit of a nerd in high school But at the same time I just felt so out of place like who are these people? How has society changed so much? Generationally within it just a like a five-year period it was crazy But of course these people were from a different area than me and had different values and such it was but it was still very strange It's a very strange situation |
| 07. August 2021 | I had my first boomer experience at 22 years old | I had my first boomer experience at 22 years old. Do you know Hike the Gamer or Jelly and Quibble quub. No, I don't. It's weird when I think it's the same because I think you guys are a lot younger than me It's it's this weird situation. I had when I was 21 years. No 20 22, maybe 23 years old I went to my friend's place, right and He was smoking something. I know probably smoking weed or something I can't remember if I ended up having any but whatever it doesn't matter to the story but he had over like a bunch of a handful just like six a few 16 17 18 year olds and I talked to these kids and I felt like there was just the biggest generational gap you could conceive of like I Was just seen they're going Nothing these kids are saying makes sense to me The things that they're interested in the music or what they want and all that. I'm just sitting there going What what what the hell it was just it was it made of course they like I was always a bit of a no I don't mean not that much of it But I was a bit of a nerd in high school But at the same time I just felt so out of place like who are these people? How was society changed so much? Generationally within it just a like a five-year period it was crazy But of course these people were from a different area than me and had different values and such it was but it was still very strange It's a very strange situation |
| 24. September 2022 | I had no idea what phone I had | Access all my unlisted live streams. So if you wonder where I've been, if you are a Twitch frog, I've been streaming a lot on YouTube. You can find all my YouTube live streams in this handy playlist here with the rough topics listed on top. They are unlisted, so you can only find them through this playlist, or links of course, but you know, mainly this playlist, so feel free to check them out. I had no idea what phone I had. So yesterday, I was doing a bunch of test streams to complete my setup for my in potential in real live streams. There's two I plan to do, one's a cooking video and the rest are when I'm down in Melbourne for PAX. I've got myself this setup that it took so long to figure out why certain things weren't working, and it was a huge pain in the ass, but finally things seemed good. But I was talking to Well yesterday, and I said that I had a Galaxy Samsung s22, turns out I don't. I have an s21. Embarrassingly, I recently told a sponsor that I had an s22, and they were sending me out phone cases for an s22, and I was like, oh shit, am I gonna get screwed? Maybe the cases would fit on each other, I don't know, but that's whatever. So I've ended up buying myself an s22, even though the difference between s21 and s22 is so low, I bought it largely so I can have a backup phone in case my live stream screws up, and it has better cameras ever so slightly. So I'm gonna have two phones now to hopefully make sure my in real live streaming cannot go wrong. I can't explain this story bad, but that's a thing. |
| 09. February 2023 | I had to remove this rambles video after I saw this embarrassing mistake. | I had to remove this Ramble video after I saw this embarrassing mistake So I took down one of my Rambles episodes three hours after it released had a discussion on AI art in there as well as React content versus video game content. It was my worst performing video So I didn't hate that much taking it down but the reason why it got taken down was because of this is video game content just has harm Moal has react content. So capital V instead of lowercase just has Harmful misspelt has there so I didn't write this obviously but I did glance at it when I was going through the Rambles because I of course do the voiceovers and Listen to everything and change it to what degree I want to and I didn't pick up this mistake So I took it down. There's other Rambles might end up in other Rambles episodes I don't know but that is why some of you may be like I thought I heard this Rambles before That's why only a few thousand people have seen it. So it doesn't matter much |
| 24. September 2021 | I hate food | I hate food. My favorite meat. I'm not, I'm not a food guy. Like I just don't like food. I guess beef, but I mean food sucks. Do you not watch my speedrunning rambles explained in there? It's just a problem that never gets solved. You eat food, then you're not hungry anymore, but then later you're hungry again, and then you have to eat more food, and it's just, it's just an entire life continuously trying to solve a problem of hunger. It's awful. So I guess I hate hunger, but I also hate the the process of eating. Moving my mouth up and down and it takes fucking time and knives and forks and preparing food and fucking waste in general. Like it's just the whole process of eating and all the byproducts of it. It's just terrible. Like if I told you, you'd no longer have to biologically eat. Like you can do it just for the enjoyment of it if you wanted to. You never have to eat like to maintain yourself again. I'm sure all of you would be like hell yeah, man. You beauty. Or even like you literally can't eat, but you will spend the rest of your life like not hungry. Like you just be full energy all the time. Just no need to eat. I'm sure even then you'd be like hell yeah, man. Fuck. You know the momentary satisfaction of food occasionally. And all the best food is terrible for you. And you gotta watch what you eat and calories and shit. It's just awful. |
| 29. October 2021 | I hate having long hair | Long hair is just too annoying. It takes a precious time in my day to dry and put stuff in and all that. The less maintenance I have, the faster I can stream. |
| 24. September 2021 | I hate lawn mowing | I hate lawn mowing. I hate lawn mowing. Doing it myself, other people doing it. It's just it's so loud and I mean lawns are just the weirdest fucking thing to me. Surely there must be something better than lawns that we can create. Like those fake lawns and shit, but they have their own issues. Like why can't people just invent cheap silence mowers? No one likes the sound of lawn mowers, but everyone gets a fucking lawn. Or you can gather with a scythe like in the old days. I've seen quite a few on oddly satisfying or whatever on Reddit where persons just scything through the grass. It's very nice. |
| 24. September 2021 | I hate lawnmowing | I hate lawn mowing. I hate lawn mowing. Doing it myself, other people doing it. It's just it's so loud and I mean lawns are just the weirdest fucking thing to me. Surely there must be something better than lawns that we can create. Like those fake lawns and shit, but they have their own issues. Like why can't people just invent cheap silence mowers? No one likes the sound of lawn mowers, but everyone gets a fucking lawn. Or you can gather with a scythe like in the old days. I've seen quite a few on oddly satisfying or whatever on Reddit where persons just scything through the grass. It's very nice. |
| 08. November 2021 | I hate lawns | I hate lawns. Get back to streaming during the nights that people can't mow lawns and annoy me. I hate lawns dude. I've said it many times. It is literally just a cosmetic thing. And they don't have a practical benefit of something. It's not like you're eating the fucking grass. I keep a front lawn just in case I run out of food on the weekends. They hold motion, keep temperature down. How does a lawn keep the temperature down? Help prevent the spread of fires? How would grass prevent the spread of fires more than concrete? You think concrete is more flammable than grass? Lawns used to be a sign of wealth rich people didn't need to grow food back in the old days. Exactly. They used to just leave a part of their acreage empty and be like hey look how wealthy I am I don't even need to plant shit here. The grass takes in CO2 and gives out O2. Better than trees? Just make some trees. Need to be trim-less. Trees on concrete? Trees on soil? Without grass on that soil? You never seen a singular tree before? Can't plant a bunch of trees by your house or mess with a concrete foundation? There are trees that are perfectly able to exist near concrete. You can also just have soil with no grass in it. No grass. Just dirt. It has psychological benefits. Seeing the nature can really help with modern blocky buildings being proven to cause depression. But trees can do that too. Lawns suck. All they do is make noise. You've ever heard the mating cry of grass? It goes neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Hear it around grass all the time? Sucks. What would be better though is if the entire area just had one specific day where everyone collectively paid into a lawn cutting thing and that group then cut everyone's lawns. would be cheaper, more convenient for everyone. You'd only have to deal with the inconvenience for one particular day of the month. You asked me how does it keep temperature down, would you rather stand barefoot on a lawn on a parking lot with 35 degrees outside? I'd wear shoes. Or better yet, not stand in my front yard. |
| 27. March 2021 | I hate my hair cut | Hating my haircuts. I hate my haircut chat. Who are these people who like non-symmetrical haircuts? Who? Why am I such a pushover that I couldn't have just said to the guy, hey yo, this haircut sucks, make it better. Like there's nothing that can be done with it chat. Nothing. This is indeed a yee yee ass haircut. Hey Matto, hope your okurran doesn't end like your haircut good luck. Thank you. |
| 27. March 2021 | I hate my haircut | Hating my haircuts. I hate my haircut chat. Who are these people who like non-symmetrical haircuts? Who? Why am I such a pushover that I couldn't have just said to the guy, hey yo, this haircut sucks, make it better. Like there's nothing that can be done with it chat. Nothing. This is indeed a yee yee ass haircut. Hey Matto, hope your okurran doesn't end like your haircut good luck. Thank you. |
| 29. March 2021 | I hate onion. | I hate onions. I'm definitely getting thicker chat. Well, I'm still having, I still haven't crossed 95 kilos. I'm still below that, so I'm not getting worse necessarily. But I mean, it's been a while since I've been 85, which is where I'd like to be. Yesterday, I decided I wanted to try something new. So I got myself some Chinese food. Now like Chinese food is one of these things where good fried rice, like actually good fried rice, I quite like. I don't like peas, like a lot of stuff that most people put in fried rice, I'm not a fan of. Like I don't like cooked peas and stuff. But like just some plain fried rice, done well, I like. And then honey chicken, and that's basically all I can remember that I like from Chinese food. But yesterday, so I ordered myself some honey chicken, ordered myself some fried rice. I'm like, look, I gotta expand my horizons, I gotta try something new. So I'm like, I like omelets, you know. Prawns, you know, sometimes I like prawns, depends how they're made or whatever. I'm going to try myself a prawn omelet. And so I ordered this prawn omelet, it comes and I open it and it's like, like I exaggerate. It's like 80% onion. I'm looking at this like, where's the prawn? Where's the omelet? It's like, it's like, it's like they've cut like sections of an onion and then just put them on the thing. Onion is terrible, guys. I did a poll on my Twitter and like 45% agreed. So like obviously the majority likes onion, but I'm just saying like enough people don't like onion. As Eddie Murphy says in Trek, not everyone likes onion. Enough people don't like onion that you should say explicitly if there's onion in your food. It did not list the ingredients on the app. And so I bought this thing I could not eat because of all the onion. Yeah, complete waste of a meal though. A person mentioned in the comments like you don't know what you're talking about. I am a chef and I make a fake French accent because that's how all chefs sound. And he's like onions in everything. Like it's the flavoring of like every food you've ever eaten. And I want to like people, if you cut up the onion enough, the onion ceases to exist. The thing I hate about onion is the fucking texture. The texture of onion is terrible. The squishiness as you bite into it, just the feel of it in your mouth. Like if you want to grind it up to the point where like you get to go to the fucking lab to get it analyzed to detect there's onion in there, sure. I will perfectly say I would like what you're putting onion in at that point. Because at that point it's not onion. It's just some powder or some shit, you know? But if the onion is big enough to be seen, I don't want it. The smallest that it can be and still be okay is like the onion they put on cheeseburgers. Those things are like one tenth the size of my pinky, you know? Tiny little flicks. Anything big is not terrible. |
| 15. November 2021 | I hate the neverending need to drink water | I hate the never-ending need to drink water. What's my opinion on water? I fucking hate it. I'm offhandedly referencing the meme if you haven't heard it. It's uh, I don't know where the original audio comes from, but it's this anime girl sitting in front of a class talking about how her dissatisfaction with needing water and then getting rid of it and then needing more water and her body is like a child just never satisfied. I am so tired of peeing. I drink the water, which I apparently need to deliver something, and then I have to go put the water somewhere else five minutes later. I drink the water, I go to a place to undrink the water, I wash my hands, I leave, and then I have to drink more water. Guess where that water ends up? Not in me. I give the water to my body and like a child, it tosses it out and demands more. All hours of the day, all hours of the night. No matter what I'm doing, my life is interrupted by this fucking bullshit. But there's this great feeling when you haven't had water for a while or you're very thirsty and you drink water and it's just so satisfying. |
| 01. September 2021 | I hate the post office | I hate the post office. But Berk, you have no idea how many times I've gone to the post office when it's closed. Dozens of times. I have no concept for time of day, no concept for the day of the week. I'm just like, I'll go to the post office. What do you mean the post office is closed? Like, a full 50% of the fucking time it's closed when I go. Like, one day you'll read in the newspaper that I've taken over Australia, like I'm a dictator, and my first move will be, post offices 24 hours a day motherfucker. I don't care if they got shit to do. |
| 10. November 2021 | I hate tight clothing. | I hate tight clothing. Like some people always wear clothing that's tight to them, because it looks better on them. I'm not that way. I want to swim in my clothing. I don't want to feel like I'm wearing clothing at all. I don't give a shit if you can see like, you know, the outlines, my curves, chat. I don't care. I just want to feel comfortable. I'm not trying to impress no one. |
| 15. January 2023 | I have a VOD channel now. | list. I have a VOD channel now. Nemesis asks on the discord which you can ask me any questions you want for the ramble series if you are a twitch subscriber, youtube member or a patron. Will you continue to post your VODs on youtube when you go back to twitch? I enjoyed being able to watch the true crime playthrough in full for example and would like to do the same for future games. Thank you. I don't really understand the mindset of people who want to watch the VODs because they're so long when it's live like you get to see it first and there's some interaction of course but the VOD is just like a much worse youtube video. With that being said I am considering relenting and getting someone to upload my VODs to a VOD channel. Now doing this will be fairly pointless because most people will never learn of the VOD channel existence and therefore will never watch the VODs because as I say over and over again the videos that people watch are those that are presented by the algorithm and if you upload a video somewhere that doesn't do well in the algorithm no one will know about it. So the channel will sit there and then like every once in a while I'll be like oh I said the VOD channel and so I'll be like oh watch you have a VOD channel I've been watching you for 17 years and I've never heard of this VOD channel before. In the same way that my rambles are uploaded to like Spotify and uh all that stuff now and even over the months that that happened in the past I would still let people leave comments like oh man I really wish these were on Spotify and I'll be like they are in Spotify you just never look because if the algorithm doesn't give them to you on Spotify then you just never know that. Regardless again I'm thinking about doing it. I am going through my folders to try to catalog all the playthroughs I've done. None of my GTA 5 stuff will get on there it'll only be playthroughs of other games maybe some particular online stuff we'll see what happens but I want it to be uploaded roughly in chronological order so it'll take eons maybe I can get most people to do it I'm sure it won't make any money but I mean... |
| 01. March 2023 | I have a new dedicated page all about me. | I have a new dedicated page all about me. So I do not have a Wikipedia page, despite having 200 odd instances of events in my life and as a being a content creator, despite having a million subscribers and stuff, despite having like a billion views, still don't have an actual Wikipedia page. But there is something else that most creators have and it's a page on WikiTubia. So this page for a long time didn't exist. And the reason for that is because it leaked sensitive information about me. But then eventually, not having a page, I felt kind of left out. Like, I mean, most creators have a WikiTubia page, so I let it go back up. And I went to check it like three weeks ago and most of the information on it was entirely out of date. Had been updated like a year ago, maybe more. And it also had a section on my controversies. That was like the most poorly written thing I've ever seen. Factually inaccurate, out of date, terrible. And so my response was like, well, delete this fucking thing then. Because I'd rather have no page at all than have one that's out of date and inaccurate, right? But my mods were kind enough to update it and talk about my life, update actual things about me and whatnot, various things that I've done. One thing though, is I personally wrote the controversy section about my reaction content criticism. I got to the end of this and I'm like, okay, that's so long that no one's gonna read it. And of course, was honest. I said, this section was written entirely by DarkviperAU, who has chosen to write in third person due to it being easier to read in this format. This was done to correct the outdated, inaccurate and often irrelevant section originally posted here. I wanna write another section in the controversy section. Being like, the controversy behind DarkviperAU's Wikipedia page. And just explain everything that I just explained to you here. I don't know to what degree people use these Wikipedia pages, right? I don't like the idea when people Google me that they can be presented with things that are entirely false. For example, if you do Google me, if you scroll down somewhat, eventually you'll be presented with like Reddit posts related to dramas in the past. Those Reddit posts are some of the most inaccurate things I've ever seen. Stuff wildly out of context, written with absolute malicious intent. To the degree that I don't think a single one of the top comments on those pages understands what I was actually saying or why I did what I did. And it annoys me to this day that those things will still represent me to millions of people potentially. And one of the reasons why I wanna do the Iceberg video is to have some formal refutation of that bullshit. But I recognize worrying about all this stuff, spending so much time on this is just a complete waste of time. Like business wise, an Iceberg video talking about my history is not the best move. I'm sure the video would do okay, but in terms of effort to reward, not good at all. There is so many things that I want to do emotionally and they often conflict with each other. Like I wanna do well as a YouTuber, but I also don't want people saying bullshit about me on the internet. But if you want to be a successful YouTuber, you gotta accept that people are gonna say bullshit about you on the internet. So basically, one day when I'm retiring, I will make an Iceberg video, I will make a sort of documentary on my life, reveal all the dramas, all the weirdness, all my thoughts, all my motivations. And you'd have to stick around long enough to see it, I suppose. Am I going to make a documentary about my life? You should make a documentary about the journey from GTSB runner to big Twitch streamer, making fun of my OCO series and popularized GTA chaos. I believe the Iceberg video that I eventually want to do will eventually do all that. The problem with the Iceberg video is it's really long. There's something like 200 instances in here of all this obscure lore about my life and my life as a content creator. It'd be a really great video, but it'd be ridiculously long. It requires so much effort. And I'm not sure to what degree people would even care about all this stuff. So basically you're already making a documentary. At the very least, I know all the stuff that will be included in it. |
| 26. April 2021 | I have always cared about my Twitch emotes. | I have always cared a lot about my Twitch emotes. Like you can go back all the way to the beginning of me on Twitch and how much effort I put into my emotes and how much pride I took and all the effort I went to find someone who can make them for me. Like I was saying all the way back then that I'll one day have the greatest set of emotes on Twitch. I even made a video saying how mad I was when it was a thing that came up where some at 1g tweeted out and said whenever I see a streamer in my chat typing their own emotes, I just view that as them trying to promote themselves for publicity and shit. And he's like it's rude to use another person's emotes in their chat if you own them. And like Nick Merk is like yeah, it's like what my emotes not good enough for you. Why aren't you using my emotes? And even then and now I say it's because my emotes are better than yours. They just are. It's a subjective preference certainly, but I like my emotes. I've spent eons thinking on and designing, at least the ideas anyway, of the emotes that I have. Of course I'm gonna think they're better. I'm not using a picture of my doggo holding a flower because I want your viewers. I'm doing it because I like my doggo holding a flower. But ever since then I do feel weird using my emotes in another person's chat unless of course I've raided them. Because I worry they're gonna look upon me weirdly for using them and that makes me sad. I take pride in my emotes. I do. I wish I had the skills to draw them myself, but at least I thought of the ideas. At least I was involved in the process somehow. |
| 26. April 2021 | I have always cared about my twitch emotes. | I have always cared a lot about my Twitch emotes. Like you can go back all the way to the beginning of me on Twitch and how much effort I put into my emotes and how much pride I took and all the effort I went to find someone who can make them for me. Like I was saying all the way back then that I'll one day have the greatest set of emotes on Twitch. I even made a video saying how mad I was when it was a thing that came up where some at 1g tweeted out and said whenever I see a streamer in my chat typing their own emotes, I just view that as them trying to promote themselves for publicity and shit. And he's like it's rude to use another person's emotes in their chat if you own them. And like Nick Merk is like yeah, it's like what my emotes not good enough for you. Why aren't you using my emotes? And even then and now I say it's because my emotes are better than yours. They just are. It's a subjective preference certainly, but I like my emotes. I've spent eons thinking on and designing, at least the ideas anyway, of the emotes that I have. Of course I'm gonna think they're better. I'm not using a picture of my doggo holding a flower because I want your viewers. I'm doing it because I like my doggo holding a flower. But ever since then I do feel weird using my emotes in another person's chat unless of course I've raided them. Because I worry they're gonna look upon me weirdly for using them and that makes me sad. I take pride in my emotes. I do. I wish I had the skills to draw them myself, but at least I thought of the ideas. At least I was involved in the process somehow. |
| 19. January 2022 | I have become less picky with food. | I have become less picky with food. What other drinks do I like aside from Coke and Pepsi? I would drink fucking anything, man. I've reached this point in my life where I've kinda gotten over being picky with food. Like, in my early life, I was very picky with food. I don't know why. But like, today for example, I saw that my red rooster roll that I was purchasing had tomato on it. Years passed, maybe even just a couple of years ago, I would have picked off the tomato. Now I'm just like, fuck it. And I eat it. Those are my mother's. I took a bite into a gingerbread cookie. A few years ago, I would have been like, oh, get this fuck away from me. It tastes terrible. Now I'm like, oh, this tastes shit. I just kept eating it. Guys don't care. If I went somewhere and I was fed something that I passionately disliked, I'd just be like, eh, whatever. It is a superpower that I have now, to me, in a way, that I can't remember tastes after I finish eating something. Can't imagine or remember them. So I'm like, sure, I may not be enjoying this right now, but like, give it, you know, ten minutes, and I wouldn't even remember what it tastes like. |
| 20. May 2021 | I have been inspired to release pacifist% faster | I've been inspired to release pacifist percent faster. One thing that's put my ass into gear for pacifist is there's these, I mentioned it before, these jokers who've, I almost don't want to mention it, so these guys who played through GTA V and they're like, this is the minimum number of people you need to kill to beat the game, and they just like play through it casually and kill like hundreds of people. Hundreds. Like they kill more than the speedrun kills, which kills the minimum amount of people without slowing down. They kill people you can literally walk past. And all these publications have written articles about it. And people, of course, brought me up in the comment section, the guys are like, oh, oh, we wanted it to be consistent as to how many people we killed. It's just like, imagine for a moment that you're trying to, you say you're answering the question of the minimum amount of people you need to kill and you worry about consistency. Realizing for a moment that how consistent anyone is with anything depends upon them in a large part. As in, the biggest cause of how long it takes me to do a lot of the missions in pacifist isn't the strategies, it's finding the strategies. If I went through pacifist again, I could maybe avoid like 10 guys. Like if I killed like 10 extra guys, it would reduce the amount of time it would take me by like 99%. A significant portion of what makes pacifist take so long is the second requirement, not the first. It's the melee requirement. Think of how easy derailed would be if I just sniped everyone. But my requirement that I also melee people is what causes me so many concerns. Like if you look at how many people I've shot in the series, it's like 20. The amount of people I've melee'd, it's like 50. And that's just what's released so far. Very infuriating that someone has taken something I care so much about and half-assed it to that degree without any hint of shame. And makes me want to release the rest of the series. You want to help me excited with pacifist guys? Trying to reduce the number when I'm done with it. Because I know I can reduce the number. The hard part for pacifist is going to be deciding whether I want to prioritize avoiding kills or continuing to melee people. Because for Mr. Phillips, I think sniping people or even just pistoning people, I could kill less people than meleeing. It's hard to know. Because the current strat that I do in this one for the amount of people that I kill is less than the amount of people I killed in pacifist. How many do I kill in this? It's one, two, three, four, five, skip one, six, seven, eight, nine. So I killed nine here. But in pacifist I killed like 20. But that was melee. And if I tried to melee the nine that I kill now, it would cause more enemies to spawn that would need to be killed. I did see that article where the fall of a person bloody killed like 700 people. I was like, this is the minimum amount of people you need to kill to beat GTA V. I wrote a comment just tearing him a new one, especially because the speed run doesn't even kill that many people. And I clicked around the video and there's like really obvious guys you don't need to kill that you can literally walk past and the person kills them. It was like, I looked at the video and I'm like, I couldn't kill this many people if I tried. I was like, oh, by the way, I'd actively have to be stopping and killing people on my way to completing the game as I normally do. But you can guarantee that this guy just knows people in the industry or whatever, because no way a small content grader would get that many articles written about them. |
| 07. August 2021 | I have been quitting soft drink since 2015 | I have been quitting drinking soft drinks since 2015. Yeah, so what's with the soft drink comment? The reason that comment is there is so that um, basically what I feel is the more people who know that I'm trying to quit drinking soft drink is like the more people I'm sort of- that the more people I will let down in a weird way by not quitting soft drink. Like so before when I when I cheated and drunk soft drink it was like well fuck it no one knows I'm trying to quit soft drink. Right? It's just me. It's just on me. So it doesn't doesn't matter. I would just start- I'll just quit next week- next week It doesn't matter, but now you guys know it's um, it's like well, you know, I did I did say the twitch chat But I'm trying to quit. It's like just another incentive to quit basically I don't know if it would help but uh, you know may as well- may as well Do what you can, you know, to try and quit your habits |
| 15. January 2023 | I have been “getting back into speedrunning” for years now. | I have been getting back into speedrunning for years now. This might be a bit odd to say, but I feel like you've been getting back into speedrunning for like a whole year now. It's because I was getting back into speedrunning. I did some partial runs of Death Wish. I learned all of Death Wish, and then I got distracted by something. What was it? It might have been working on PassFest. Oh, then working on the react videos or whatever. And so I never completed a run of Death Wish, and now I'm back again having to relearn stuff because I'm now doing Classic. What's 14 pages? Oh, that 14 pages I did in a day. The whole series was 150 pages, and that took two months. But also PassFest just took a long time. |
| 08. June 2022 | I have brought back the clips channel. | I brought back the clips channel. For those who don't know, I kinda brought back the clips channel. I had something like 300 plus clips uploaded, but I didn't have time to make thumbnails and titles for them. And so the clips channel does not get enough views anymore to justify spending a lot of time on it. So what I did was I scheduled all the clips for the next 10 days, and then I just made titles for them. So I didn't make custom thumbnails, I just picked the best thumbnail from the three options. What I'm thinking about doing is either continuing in this way, just continuing to upload clips without making the thumbnails, because the thumbnails was what caused it to take so long. Like I would only spend five minutes on each thumbnail, but when you're making, you know, hundreds of thumbnails, that really adds up. So I might be hiring some people to do that for me, like cut down my videos and make them into clips, and then like link back to the video, which is something I never bothered to do. |
| 12. December 2021 | I have found a new preferred no sugar soft drink | I have found a new preferred no sugar soft drink. Look at me chat drinking coke no sugar Traitor! Honestly, I might just alternate between getting Pepsi Max and coke no sugar. It's nice having two non sugar options that are both equally good, you know. The previous coke zero was not very good. |
| 12. December 2021 | I have found a new preferred no sugar softdrink | I have found a new preferred no sugar soft drink. Look at me chat drinking coke no sugar Traitor! Honestly, I might just alternate between getting Pepsi Max and coke no sugar. It's nice having two non sugar options that are both equally good, you know. The previous coke zero was not very good. |
| 10. August 2022 | I have made a new setup to make irl streaming easier. | I have made a new setup to make in real life streaming easier. When people do in real life streams, they will often have like a whole backpack of stuff. I've never liked the look of it like and they have to use like a gimbal with a huge camera on and stuff. I've always just wanted some setup where I can have just my phone and do in real life streams and stuff. But phones, they run out of batteries and you gotta hold a lapel mic and so I bought myself a bunch of add-ons. Made myself this weird setup here. This is what it looks like. So the phone goes into a USB-C splitter which goes into a right angle USB-C thing which goes into a USB-C battery and out the other side comes a USB-C cable that goes around the back to a road wireless lapel mic thing and it's all on attached to a gimbal. And the reason why this was so hard is because the gimbal can only support a certain amount of weight. If anything is impeding the movement of this gimbal, it will just like collapse. And it's gonna go up because it doesn't want to like pressure screw its motors whatever. So I had to find the exact perfect things so that it can all sit on here at the perfect weight and not hit anything. It's still gonna be look, look it's still probably gonna be weird walking around with this in public but like I think it looks less weird than a whole backpack and a huge camera and stuff you know. What phone a Galaxy Samsung S Ultra whatever the fuck it's called. Unfortunately my mobile internet is still shit around here but I'm hoping it's better somewhere else. But yeah so in real life streams a little bit more likely possibly if everything fucking failed if everything failed and I was out and about I needed to charge my phone I could detach all my stuff and just put the phone in the gimbal and let it charge and then maybe just stream without the lapel mic without the battery because it would be empty and I would at least have some ability to stream even if the audio quality was. In real life stream scare you? Me too. I think it's a little bit heavy though I probably have to like change arms all day. Stop pumping iron just so I can do in real life streams better. |
| 21. September 2022 | I have merch you know?! | I have merch, you know? E-mail, I'm not sure I look so funny without the eyes, yeah. Ha ha! Huh. Oh, that reminds me, I need to start shilling my merch every single stream. Like, why don't I do that chat? Like, just at the beginning of the stream, go and like, Hey guys, just so you remember, uh, my merch exists. Like, isn't that cool? Like, look at all the mugs. There's like 80 designs now, including ones of my face. Yeah, the mugs are very nice. And then there's like stickers, and t-shirts, and mousepads, and tank tops, and uh, hoodies. Yeah, so if you want to pick those up, feel free. |
| 05. April 2021 | I have never felt good while, or after, exercise. | I have never felt good while or after exercise. Don't I feel good after exercise? No. I've talked about this before. I had a friend back in the day named Dane and he loved exercising to the extent where that super muscular dude went from just a regular guy to ballooned out muscles ever. Like entering into weightlifting competitions. What do they call the stuff that Arnold Schwarzenegger was in? Bodybuilding competitions, that's right. And he would say to me, Matt, I never feel more alive than after I finish exercising. I love the feel of exercising and afterwards and I'm just like, I have no idea what to talk about. I have been to the gym endless times in my life. I used to go like every day, maybe every second day for half an hour, whatever, do some cardio, lift some weights, whatever. And I never at a single point in that entire time felt good. Not even once. I'm sure that's a lie. Surely there must be at some point in time. But like the only time would be like the satisfaction of believing myself to be doing something healthy, you know, that sense of, yeah, I'm doing I'm doing good here. You know, I'm doing I'm doing the right thing here. Make myself look better and, you know, help myself in long term and stuff. I don't really get a thrill or whatever out of the actual exercising. Maybe my brain doesn't release enough of those chemicals in the right places. But I've only ever looked upon exercise as a burden. Although like I have enjoyed the exercise of like playing a game like soccer and stuff. Like I played a lot of sport when I was a kid and I enjoyed that. I don't know how much that was the actual exercise or if it was just like the running around playing a game with friends, you know, all that I know is clearly whatever feelings I feel while exercising, they do not bring about within me a desire to exercise further. There was a condition where some people just don't get to open me from exercising. Maybe that's me. I mean, most people avoid doing exercise. Although I imagine for most people, the feelings that they get are more negative than positive. Certainly when you haven't done exercise for quite a long time, there's a lot of pain and frustration that you can't do the exercise that you want to do. And maybe that is enough of an impediment for most people to not get to that point where you can consistently get good feelings while exercising. I don't know. |
| 08. June 2022 | I have no resistance to spice. | I have no resistance to spice. To show you how Susceptible I am to spicy food. I just took a bite of the McChicken McSpicy It's killing me. I'm dying. I have no resistance to spice. So why did I buy it? It's a fantastic question The allure of spice is appealing to me McPussy yeah, I doubt the McSpice is a particularly hot form of spice It feels that way to me. This is a burger from fucking Hungry Jacksons and spicy get the fuck out of here What is spice exactly? It's just pain right? You had no idea that my chicken had spice version New McDonald's products come out in Australia first and New Zealand |
| 07. August 2021 | I have read all the twilight novels | I read all the Twilight books. Yes, this is still a better love story than Twilight. Did you know I've read the Twilight novels? Does everyone know that in the chat? Have I said that before? I think I've said that before. I have read all the Twilight books. I read them prior to it becoming a teen fandom. I read them prior to the movies coming out. Uh, I have read every Twilight novel. There you go. Now you've learned something about me. It was before it was a teenage girl's thing. I was just in my phase where I was literally reading every single fantasy book. And so I was looking for a fantasy book, I walked into a bookstore and there was this series called Twilight. And I'm like, eh. So I read it, and I left with the opinion of, eh. But I didn't think it was particularly badly written. Then later on everyone was like, oh this is apparently a teen thing. I'm like, oh well I didn't know that. I just read the books. Took me like a week. And to be honest, I didn't think they were written really that badly. I think the movies were gut-wrenchingly horrible. I couldn't even get through half an hour of those fucking movies. They were just horrible. But I didn't think the books were necessarily that horrible. |
| 04. July 2022 | I have so many streaming services, how can I not find particular shows? | I have so many streaming services, how can I not find particular shows? I actually tried to watch a new anime yesterday called Angel Beats. Someone in the comments was like, don't watch it, it's a trap, it'll make you cry. And I was like, I don't know man, let me see how sad this thing really is, how much it pulls your heartstrings. And so I looked on Funimation, Crunchyroll, Netflix, and none of them had it. And I was just like, where can I watch it? So I googled, where can I watch Angel Beats in Australia? And it's like nowhere, it doesn't exist. I'm like, well, I've got like seven different streaming service subscriptions, and I still can't find the shows I want to watch. Like no wonder piracy is a fucking thing. |
| 02. April 2022 | I have too many rambles about luck and success. | I have too many rambles about success and luck. Random question, but I was watching your old rambles on success mean largely luck and I have to ask isn't that just a convenient way for people to explain away their shortcomings? Have you seen every other video a ramble about success and luck? Type exclamation mark rambles and search for success or luck and just go down that rabbit hole. Because I've clarified that a thousand fold. Why people are as they are. For most of this I'm responding to a person in chat. I do read out what they say and it should be obvious when I... |
| 10. September 2022 | I haven’t actually been successful very long | I haven't actually been successful very long Sometimes chat I feel like I've been successful for an eternity, but that isn't the case early 2019 I I moved from just being Barely getting by to successful and so now we're getting to the end of 2022 three to four years It's not a lot of time I forget sometimes that most of my time in this industry was spent Floundering around trying to figure things out time flies so fast Yeah I guess it just seems like a lot longer because I spend so much time doing it like I will legit end this stream and Then just edits until I go to sleep and then wake up and do the exact same thing again I've been doing that for so many years now that it feels like so much longer |
| 05. August 2022 | I interact more on YouTube than Twitch. | It is more likely that I see your comment on YouTube than on Twitch I think that might actually be true because of how often I just quickly Breeze through the comments on YouTube because there's probably only like a couple of hundred comments every day on YouTube But here there's like hundreds of messages every couple of minutes never thought about that Are all good games successful on Steam? |
| 03. August 2021 | I just want rockstar to do something! Anything! | I just want Rockstar to do something. Anything. Would I want Red Dead Redemption 3? I want Rockstar to do something. I don't care what it is. Like I'll be happy for it to be something that I fucking hate, passionately. Something that's not regurgitated garbage online microtransaction bullshit. Just something. They've got so much money. Got every other developer out here with like look I got 87 games coming out my arse and Rockstar just sitting there playing with fucking played or whatever. Surely they have to be doing something behind the scenes. Surely. Rockstar just a bit secretive so if we just keep waiting patiently twiddling our thumbs they'll do something. Like I'm sure that in the organization of Rockstar it's people going like yeah, yeah, I understand that we could spend money to make more money, but how about this? Hear me out. We don't spend any money. I keep it and we just keep spending the bare minimum to make garbage for GT Online and sure maybe ten years down the line that won't work anymore, but by then I'll have made like a billion dollars. So who gives a shit? The people collecting the GT Online money into their pockets are just they don't want to risk ruining that. It's making sense why GTA 5 expanded enhancement come out on PC. So it could be possible that all expanded enhanced is for console is just the PC version. All they're doing is jacking up the graphics to be more comparable to PC because I don't know if you've noticed but the PS4 version of the game looks like shit, but the statements they've made were a bit more lofty like substantive improvements and stuff and but it's entirely possible those substantive improvements would just be hey, it's the PC version and that would be substantive improvements for the console players. Your GT 5 PS4 X 30 PS exactly. But like why would they why would it take them so long to do this though? As in like surely they wouldn't need to wait this long unless of course they're waiting for more people to have the PlayStation 5. I don't know man. It's it's so hard to understand Rockstar sometimes. |
| 17. January 2020 | I keep watching Runescape videos for some reason | I keep watching RuneScape videos for some reason. Because I watched this video talking about RuneScape bots and what RuneScape bots do to make money. How much money they make and then it moved on to people farming these bots for money, then it moved on to people just you know doing player killing and stuff and I have no idea why I watch these videos. I understand like a tenth of what goes on. But for some reason it's just interesting. It's because I usually watch it when I have like nothing else to watch but you know. Like I understand the premise of a lot of the videos was like okay, so he's made a glass cannon build where it's got like no defense and no health whatever and he... which makes him a very low level and I get that you can only attack people who are around your level. So he has damage that is normally associated with a much higher level. So he goes up and can like one hit people his level. The person doing it seems happy and you know persons clearly excited and passionate and that's just kind of good stuff to watch sometimes. Kind of makes me want to play RuneScape, but I know I'd hate it. I did play RuneScape when I was young back in the day. I lost my account name. When RuneScape offered like Prime benefits, I was like oh, yeah, I would jump back in and I eventually found out that you know accounts that like 10 years old or whatever have been deleted and I'm like, oh well fuck. |
| 20. July 2021 | I kind of made curtains | Oh, I did make a new change chat I mentioned previously that I have cardboard on my glass window in my bedroom like I taped together a bunch of panels of cardboard so that I can block out like the whole wall glass thing that glitz in light I discovered that I can use these like pincer things that I have to Hold up like a black sheet to block out the light so there's no curtains if I had curtains I do that, but I basically made my own curtains using these pincer things and so I took off the Black doona cover and now I have like clamped that over my window so now there's less light still not perfect I'd much rather curtains, but uh you know probably saves me like thousand bucks or something is edgy content more right-wing What I think about the majority the edgy party instant |
| 23. February 2022 | I knew nothing about pcs in my teenage years | Nothing about PCs in my teenage years Which was my oldest PC ever I don't even remember like because I got into PCs really late I knew nothing about PCs even in my early 20s Let me at my early 20s like as in like the first PC I bought I basically went online Found a random PC Within my price range and then I was surprised that when I when it arrived that it wasn't better than the PC that I Had before I said why don't I have more FPS in the world of Warcraft man? I bought a new PC I would look up and I'd be like but I have a graphics card this integrated graphics card. Why isn't it good? I just didn't know anything I'd buy laptops just cheap laptops for the portability Because I used to move between my mother's and father's house not realizing that I was Losing a significant amount of performance to get that portability. I mean as they say you don't know what you don't know Do I? |
| 18. October 2021 | I like that sora is now in Smash Ultimate | I like that Sora is now in Smash Ultimate. Thoughts on the latest Smash DLC? I love Kingdom Hearts. I like that they put Sora in Kingdom Hearts. I do find it funny that no Disney characters are shown anywhere. Even in the glass panel behind Sora, they removed Donald and Goofy because they couldn't secure the rights. They put Sora in Kingdom Hearts, which I think is a good addition. Although, seeing Sora's moves, in that he looks like he can do that Bayonetta thing where he like around the screen, maybe he's going to be broken, I don't know. But I don't care because I don't play Smash Ultimate. I should not know as many things as I do about the new release of the character considering I don't play the game. No, I don't have any plans to. |
| 07. August 2021 | I liked hades before it was cool | I liked Hades the game before it was cool. So I played Hades back in the day. I played it before anyone else knew it was a thing, when it was exclusive to the Epic Games Store. It was the first game I bought on the Epic Games Store. Many of the characters didn't have actual art to them, they were just placeholder images. There was only I think two chapters. I think it was only one chapter when I begun, and the game was great. I thought it was amazing, and finding out that it's become a sensation or whatever, which everyone, it's won a bunch of awards. I'm like, that's not surprising at all. The game was great when it wasn't even completed. It doesn't surprise me that it's even better when it's completed. The ice speed ran the first two chapters, I believe. I'm probably still on the leaderboards in the sections that are, you know, in the older section or whatever. I think my time was like 14 minutes. This is really OP split shot, that if you got up and close to anything and did the split shot, you'd hit them for like three times damage or whatever, you'd just fucking decimate them. |
| 08. November 2021 | I literally battled spiders for good internet | I literally battled spiders for good internet. I moved to a place where the house was covered in spider webs. As in, to get inside, there was just a wall of spider webs about, like, with a small cutout for a person. One day I went to clean the outside with a hose and fly spray and stuff, and there was just like a hundred fucking spiders. Like, I am staggered how long I lived there. It was like nine months, whatever. I lived there entirely for the internet. You're like Matt. Would you really be willing to put up being in a house where the outside walls were covering spiders? For good internet, yes. |
| 08. March 2023 | I lost my passion for GTA V speedrunning. | I lost my passion for GT5 speedrunning. Don't look at you, you're a Star Trek person. I wish I was more into Star Trek I wish I was just into something. I've seen a dude, uh, what's his name, QuintonReviews, who has like an unhealthy obsession with Garfield One of the strangest things I've ever seen a person obsessed with, but he's got like 57,000 plushies and stuff and I don't know man I think just having something go that much into it just I don't know if it's healthy or not But it it looks interesting like just being that passionate about something like I was so passionate for GTA 5 speedrunning at one point You know, I lived and breathed it. Sure being passionate about like gaming in general and content creation and stuff is cool But it's just like it's not the same. This is like quote-unquote |
| 05. September 2022 | I love @ DarkViperAU | I love at Dark Viper AU This dude tweeted out. I love Dark Viper AU and I thought to myself That's kind of weird, but like I'll just like it. It'll probably make their day or something I like making people's day something. I like it. Okay since then there's been dozens of these tweets I like at Dark Viper AU. Yeah, I like this tweet as well And so people like wait a second if I just say Dark Viper AU is a good guy and at him He will like the tweet. I love Dark Viper AU. I didn't like this one I'm okay with Dark Viper AU. I like Dark Viper AU. No, I like Dark Viper AU. I appreciate Dark Viper AU, I adore Dark Viper AU. I Admire Dark Viper AU, I cherish Dark Viper AU. I deeply admires Dark Viper AU. I dote on Dark Viper AU Dark Viper AU I adore Red Redemption 2, I appreciate Dark Viper AU, Dark Viper AU adores me. I have an addiction to Dark Viper AU I'm in love with Dark Viper AU. I worship Dark Viper AU. I immensely enjoy Dark Viper AU. And now it is more of them! I thoroughly enjoy Dark Viper AU. I enjoy Dark Viper AU. And it goes on. So what I'm gonna say here now guys, I'm gonna stop liking these tweets. It was weird that I liked the first couple. I was just trying to make people happy. I'm not that like egotistical. I don't have that big of a head. I don't think people should love me or adore me or anything like that. I was just trying to be nice. Okay? I'm sorry for leading you on this way. Also, I think I've been saying happy birthday to too many people because too many people are asking me to wish them happy birthday. Might have to stop that as well. Too much of a good thing. |
| 21. July 2020 | I love Dark Souls | Right. I love Dark Souls. Have you ever played Dark Souls? You're looking at a retired Dark Souls 3 speedrunner. I always sucked at it, but I did technically do it. I was once like 19th on the leaderboards. Even recently, I relearned the category I used to run, and I never finished a run. I have finished all the Dark Souls games. It's my favorite franchise. I prefer the Dark Souls franchise as a whole to the GTA franchise as a whole. No individual Dark Souls game do I like more than GTA 5. Very high up the Demon's Souls remaster. I still have the footage of me finishing Demon's Souls and Bloodborne, which I'll have to get someone to work on before the remaster comes out, but they don't have a date set for the remaster, so... Still not knowing- |
| 21. July 2020 | I love dark souls | Right. I love Dark Souls. Have you ever played Dark Souls? You're looking at a retired Dark Souls 3 speedrunner. I always sucked at it, but I did technically do it. I was once like 19th on the leaderboards. Even recently, I relearned the category I used to run, and I never finished a run. I have finished all the Dark Souls games. It's my favorite franchise. I prefer the Dark Souls franchise as a whole to the GTA franchise as a whole. No individual Dark Souls game do I like more than GTA 5. Very high up the Demon's Souls remaster. I still have the footage of me finishing Demon's Souls and Bloodborne, which I'll have to get someone to work on before the remaster comes out, but they don't have a date set for the remaster, so... Still not knowing- |
| 23. February 2022 | I love ice | I love ice. I love my ice cube maker, dude. I've talked about before. I love ice. I could be taken out of context, but like I love ice cubes. As a kid, I used to have like 57 different ice cube trays. Every drink I would have would be like 50% ice. A part of the reason why I have always loved super large glasses is so that I can have a normal amount of liquid. Okay, well like twice the normal amount of liquid as well as like twice the normal amount of ice. In a cup at one time. At one point in time, I found this object. I don't know if it was a glass container thing. Not a glass, a plastic container thing that you can put water in and then put it in your freezer to make yourself balls of ice. I fucking loved it. Not just because I would put them in my drinks, but I would also make like piles of these balls of ice and then I would throw them against the bricks outside the back of my house and watch the balls of ice explode. One of my most devastating memories was when I was a kid and we went on a field trip to the snow and I was so happy until one of my gloves got damaged basically. Like I couldn't put it on because the inside part had moved outside. It's hard to explain. But I was basically left with only one glove so I couldn't really enjoy myself because my hand would hurt because of how cold the ice was and no one could fix it or help me. It was like the one time I've been to the snow, these cool snow fields, and I wasn't able to fully enjoy myself because of a defective glove. As a person who like my favorite thing to do as a kid was build sandcastles. Having sandcastles combined with ice was just the like the greatest thing imaginable and I've never been able to experience it again. Well, technically there was another time when I went to the snow with my mother and father and I built myself like this ice fort. Like I was using like a ice cream tray, a container. You know, the plastic ice cube things, the plastic container that ice cream would come in. I was using one of those to fill with ice to make myself bricks and make myself like a little force. I was halfway done when these kids came along and destroyed it while I was having dinner and I was so upset. I don't want to build anything after that because I was like, well, just you know, kids are gonna just destroy it. This is why I can't have nice things, chat. Why are all my memories of my pasts so negative, dude? What is wrong with me? I think that's probably just standard for humans though, honestly. You were born in Russia. You don't want to see snow again. I've heard that from a lot of people who live near snow. Snow is totally that thing that you want to see occasionally. The same thing as with sand, right? You just want to go to the beach occasionally. You don't necessarily want to have to deal with sand all the fucking time. |
| 20. December 2022 | I made a big mistake calling out the GTA developers. | I made a mistake calling out the GTA developers. That one statement I made a long time ago on Twitter, where I said the devs should be ashamed of what GT Online is, that day sunk me with like a ridiculous amount of people who worked at Rockstar. I was just really angry because I had spent the week being DDoSed and kicked from sessions by mod menus. And my original statement I intended to mean that you would feel shame if your name was attached to something that wasn't what you wanted it to be, right? That you're incapable of making something what you wanted to be, right? It came off like I was blaming them, and then I got pushback for that, and I was like, you know what? Fuck it. They do deserve some of the blame. And then I kind of doubled down on that interpretation, which was dumb, because I don't need to identify issues with GTA Online and lay blame at anyone's feet, right? I have no idea what kind of chain of command exists at GTA Online. I have no idea what control the devs have over anything that happens in the game. So why blame them for anything? It was just a very stupid decision. Because I don't think Rockstar would ever have helped me out in any capacity, right? This isn't an issue of like, oh man, I'm not going to get perks for being friends with Rockstar. That was never going to happen. It's just I don't like the idea that, I guess, people who work on something that I like so much don't like me. But like I've said, it's like a running joke me shooting on Rockstar for various different things. But I just don't think my criticism isn't justified, right? And I fight it hard to believe sometimes when people think it isn't. |
| 27. March 2021 | I made a mistake so all my Noita stats were not saved | this small mistake so all my stats were not saved. Again, you guys, most of you don't watch Minorita stuff so you're not gonna care about this. But, whenever I finished a run of Noita, or just died, it would always tell me that my high score was whatever HP that I had at that point. Right, like, like my end stats never increased. And I was very confused about this. I was like, oh well guess it's just bugged for me or maybe they just haven't released the stats correctly at the end or whatever. So for the longest time, every single run for 150 hours, my stats at the end were never recorded. And I was on Dunkstream yesterday, and I was like, oh, can you get achievements while you're using mods? And he's like, yeah, you can actually, but you can't change your stats don't get saved at the end. I'm like, you're fucking kidding me. In my run, I have a singular mod, just one, and all it does is makes it so I start with water as opposed to a random liquid. It is like the most inconsequential mod of all fucking time. And so I've used this mod for 150 hours of play, and only now realize that none of my stats have been saved because of that mod. I feel so dumb. Like, if I'm gonna fuck my stats completely, I mean, I would rather use a mod that actually does something significant. |
| 05. March 2023 | I made fun of Red Dead Redemption 2 and I didn’t expect this response. | I made fun of Redevdemption 2 and I didn't expect this response. So I said something controversial on Twitter You know Twitter where no controversy happens. The thing is though My intent was not to be controversial. So gcabase.com tweeted out unpopular Redevdemption 2 opinions and Someone added me. It's your time to reverse Redevdemption 2. I was like, okay We'll do because I was trying to stay awake It's a little bit bored didn't have the enough energy to work on anything something like that. Whatever I'll just like tweet out something people won't stand that I'm not being super serious here It's just like a meme forever that I somewhat roast Red Dead 2, but our people were not happy Sounds like they should have just made a TV show given that they had no interest in making an actual video game I thought this was like a funny kind of roast because what criticism exists of Red Dead 2 usually focuses around The gameplay and the slowness of it as opposed to like the story and the characters which universally receives praise I mean the game in general of course receives Universal praise I mean it is like the second fastest selling bit of media ever or something it made like what a billion dollars Like a couple of days just behind GTA 5 I don't know why people take these statements so seriously given how successful the game was like Obviously, it's a good game that I didn't particularly like and I thought this was also a little bit funny like tongue-in-cheek Obviously, I'm doing a little bit trolling I suppose because of the last of us TV show doing so well not being based on a another video game that had a Engaging story, but people were not happy people were not happy and the funniest tweets come from this guy It's just dubs this guy really hates me. He's often in my reply is just like saying the weirdest shit It's kind of confusing these like mad them bonus pelican took all your views your career is dwindling now Obviously, I shouldn't give this any attention, but I just found this comment of all things so funny because like modest pelican is one of the few Friends I have right I say friends because we're not like in insanely close or something but like All the people to reference in such a context and I thought he'd find this quite funny as well So I was why I respond to this how could you keep this from me? Modest pelican man becomes better speedrunner than me then kills my career shake him the head But this tweet also kind of was interesting to me because my response to it wasn't what I would normally expect it to be Normally when I'm presented with the realization that people have false impressions of me, which I've talked about before Normally, I feel a bit of sadness But in this case I just felt amusement as I said to this guy people can get very different ideas of who a person is for Endless reasons he doesn't hate me. He ate some idea of a person that is unknown to me in muses rather than annoys me which perhaps Shows I've grown as a person because that stuff would really bother me at some point We've talked about it many times how people jump in and out of your career based on some nonsense and they can hate you forever But I've kind of come to terms with it There's a part of life not just the life of a content creator but life in general regardless though I did once upon a time say I would stop tweeting out Criticisms of Red Dead 2 and stuff even if I'm joking. I just forget sometimes how serious people take the game |
| 26. October 2022 | I made one mistake with my new pc... | Made one mistake with my new PC. So here's my new PC chat. Got all my parts for my new PC except I forgot to order the new storage, so I'll have to wait to build it. Whoops. Also new bug on Windows 11 for AMD CPUs. So going to stick with Windows 10 if possible. So this all is worth many, many peanuts. Super overkill. Got my 4090. And I stack it all here behind me. I'm like, oh, where's the storage? Shit. So like I could just use one of the storage things for my current PC. I have other M2 NVMe's, but it's kind of like if I'm going to build the top of the line best PC, I may as well get the top of the line best storage. I'm in no rush to build the thing anyway, so I'm just going to wait for it. Some influencers be like budget build. Yeah. None of this makes sense to purchase except there's like a business thing, obviously, because it will hopefully make everything look better and encode faster. Anything that saves me time is good. My biggest hope though, chat, I'm not a religious person, but if there is something out there, some force in the universe, please, please, let Adobe Premiere not hard crash on this new PC. No soft crashes, no hard crashes, please, anyone who can hear me, give me this, because holy shit, am I sick of Adobe hard crashing and soft crashing? You have no idea. I talked to Adobe, they're like, well, it doesn't seem possible. You're crashing like the kernel level or something. We don't have anything that affects down there. I'm like, yeah, but the only thing that is open whenever my PC hard crashes, like completely resets, is Adobe. I can sit here all day streaming, playing video games, but Adobe hard crash. They can't explain it. I can't explain it, but it is. We'll see. Switch to DaVinci Resolve. Ah, but you understand, it's too late for me. I don't have time to learn entire new editing software, but you guys shouldn't make the same mistake as me. Don't learn Derby. Adobe's trash. Get DaVinci Resolve. Adobe doesn't deserve your money. Check the logs. It's been checked. Nothing makes sense. I've just learned to live with it, but hopefully not too much. |
| 27. March 2021 | I messed up on a sponsored video | Next up on a sponsored video. For those who are unaware, I'm doing sponsors in my videos now. Apologize to me, most of the Chaos videos. Well, not most of them, but a significant amount of the Chaos videos. I did one yesterday. It was annoying to get the video up because apparently in Father Son, in the cut scene, there's a song that plays that actually gets DMC8. So I spent like an hour and 20 minutes rendering the video with the sponsor spot in it rather than uploading a roll like I normally would. Because I was using my second PC because I had stuff to do on my main PC. And my second PC is like six core. And then I upload it and I'm like, oh, fuck you. And I have to take the whole thing down to remove 20 seconds of a song? Get real. And so then I had to go through all that effort again to re-render it, re-upload it. And I ended up forgetting to put the link, the sponsored link in the description and pinned comment. And I was like, fuck, dude. I've only recently started doing sponsors and I've already fucked one up. Lucky for me, they are, apparently, according to my manager that I have now who's setting these things up for me, they didn't care or they didn't sanction me in any way because I forgot to put it there for seven hours, which is good. But I'm very happy to have this management team now because I was, I never wanted to do sponsors before, largely because it takes away from doing my normal content, sending up all these deals and stuff and answering all these emails and it's so awkward. But having a third party do it for me is wonderful. You know. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 05. March 2020 | I miss Nintendo | I miss Nintendo. Yeah, so I mentioned yesterday, there's this amazing documentary about this dude called Hungrybox. I put on my Twitter, it's like an hour and a half long, but it was so amazing. I've come to this point where one of my biggest regrets is not being involved in the Nintendo ecosystem. I miss playing Smash when I was a kid. I miss playing all the Mario games. I want to get back into that shit, but I don't think I could make it entertaining. I don't think anyone will watch. So it just seemed like a stupid thing to do, but I miss that shit. What Hungrybox do? Oh nothing. It's just a documentary talking about how he's been treated unfairly by the Smash community, and who he is, how he became, like work his way up to being the best. It's very impressive, very gripping. |
| 28. September 2021 | I miss playing MMOs | I miss playing MMOs, but I don't miss Blizzard. I'm spending a lot of time on besides GTA 5 editing as always. If not for my job, I would probably be playing Final Fantasy XIV. I miss playing MMOs chat. Happy I'm not playing any Blizzard games though. Oh boy. Company already seemed really shit, and now it's even shit, right? Somehow I believe had they not burnt down my childhood game, one of my favorite games all the time, Warcraft 3, they wouldn't be in their current legal woes. So you're telling me that a company that was willing to destroy my childhood for 15 cents has a culture of sexual harassment and abuse of their employees and whatnot. Yeah, I could totally see that. |
| 31. March 2021 | I misspell my titles to bait comments | I misspell my titles to bait comments. I have this guy, um, who messaged me on Discord. Um, I want to say his gaming bozo, but I'm worried that I'm gonna misremember his name. But I guess I've said it now. But, um, he messages me and reminds me when I do spelling errors in my clip titles. Because I- I do them so quickly, I quickly think of something and just hammer it out there. Occasionally I mistype or I, uh, miss- I, you know, I misspell something because I'm going really quick. Um, and so he messaged me and goes, amen, you've screwed up this title. It's a- it really helps me out. And I wrote out a joke tweet on Twitter. I intentionally misspell my titles to get more interaction with the videos. Because I want to get people to type, uh, Matt, you wrote this comment incorrectly, what the hell? And then people like that comment and other people type it and stuff. So I get more comments on the videos if I mistype stuff. But I wrote this as a joke. I even said at the bottom, uh, and that's my story and I'm sticking with it. Communicating clearly I was joking. But some people took it seriously. Some people sincerely think that I intentionally misspell stuff to get people to click on- click on my videos and, uh, and write comments and stuff. It's a joke, guys. It's not true. Like on the Reddit recap that I just released, I misspelled February. And one of the comments is like, uh, see, he's just miss- misspelling February to get people to comment that it's misspelled. To get more people to click on the video and to write comments and stuff. Genius. And I saw this comment, I'm like, oh, I misspelled February and I immediately changed and corrected. Heh heh heh heh. I know how it's spelled, it's Feb-u-ary. Um, I think I spelled it Feb-u-ary. So I put like an extra R or something. It's a- it's a hard one to spell when you're going quick, you know? It's Feb-u-ary, right? I was like, I don't know, guys, shut up. I can spell it when I type it and I'm actually paying attention. Guys, I'm just baiting you to write comments in my Twitch chat to increase the amount of comments that I get. Okay? Twitch may they recommend your, uh, your channel more if there's more comments in the chat. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Just bait it. |
| 16. January 2020 | I need to find more time to watch Twitch | watch Twitch. I feel like I need to find a really chill stream again that I can just sit and watch for hours. I feel like I haven't had that in a long time. It's YouTube is much easier to watch in between editing and stuff and I edit on stream now as well, man, which removes even more time than I used to have to watch Twitch. Maybe it's my goal for 2020 find more time to watch Twitch. It's not like I don't watch Twitch. It's just I don't sit there for hours anymore watching Twitch. I'll stop in for 15 minutes or 20 minutes, whatever. But I remember back in the day, I would just sit there like watching Summit 1G, play like round after round and for H1Z1. |
| 02. May 2021 | I never expected to dedicate all my time to Grand Theft Auto | I never expected to dedicate all my time to Grand Theft Auto. Never did I think, chat, this would be the kind of game that I would dedicate all my time to. Most of my life, and still to this day in terms of fiction, the thing that I like the most is, you know, magic and that kind of stuff. Medieval kind of magic-y kind of realms. Like I don't even just like medieval fiction, I like medieval fiction with magic. I don't mind the knight in shining armor kind of thing, but it has to have some magic in the universe as well. Playing a mundane, no magic, no high fantasy kind of game with all my time, never would have expected. |
| 04. November 2021 | I never expected to get 1000 paid subs on twitch | Why did I expect to be this successful? I once said I would dress up as a princess if I got a thousand subs because at the time I had like a hundred and seventy subs or something and I didn't think Twitch Prime existed then I thought that's never gonna fucking happen man Now I have like double that, so do I become double princess? |
| 31. July 2021 | I never look at GTA 6 leaks | I never look at GTA 6 leaks. Thoughts on GTA 6 leaks? They're always dumb. I have not looked at them. I see no reason to. Cause they're dumb. Every second day, some website is like, Ayo, GTA 6, trust me bruh. And the reason why it gets reported on, is not because these things are ever legitimate, it's because they get clicks. Like absolutely, if I was more proactive, I would meme on them as well. I didn't watch it, but I know TGG made a video, and I go like, why wouldn't you? If you're proactive and can respond immediately, I would be like, let's get you some free views. |
| 10. August 2022 | I no longer have a livestreamer mindset. | I no longer have a live streamer mindset. You my problem chat? I'm not okay with being boring. For so long I've done chaos, right? And it's just nonstop talking, there's always something happening. That when I do speed runs now, the second I stop having someone to talk about, I feel awkward and bad and I just, I went out of here, you know? Trying to do speed runs like I am right now, while my sleeping pattern is shit, is not a great move, but I still wanna do it. More than likely I was gonna bailing early again, but you never know. It's I don't have that streamer mindset anymore, where I can just sit around and do nothing and just be background noise, whatever. I have that YouTuber mindset, and something's always gotta be happening. We talked about this before, how some YouTubers when they move over to live streaming, burn themselves out really goddamn quickly, because they wanna keep the same YouTube energy throughout a whole live stream. And I've fallen into that trap now, I think. Means a combination of that and me just not sleeping well and bad sleeping pattern and all that jazz, but. I'm working up at 1 a.m. so it should only be a couple more days before I'm back to normal. |
| 11. September 2022 | I now understand wanting to preserve old media | I now understand wanting to preserve old media. As time goes on, more and more media is lost. And as time goes on that makes me a little bit sad. At one point in time I was like who gives a shit, it's point of good anyway. But the people who look for lost media and all that jazz, like I kind of get that now. Especially with companies now taking down stuff, but also defending their copyright. It would be nice if there was just a place where everyone was required to submit their media and then like after, I don't know, let's say 50 years or something, whatever's there becomes available. You know, so every year whatever was made 50 years ago is available at that place. It's impractical to do, of course. I mean you have to have some sort of threshold as to who's required to submit what and it'd be a huge pain in the ass and stuff. But it'd be nice to have that forever, you know. K everyone so let me show you how this happened and thank you for switching over to my channel and have us have certain conversations, give them youratanMos transitional organization.WAEWser |
| 07. February 2022 | I once said id never do Trevor% runs. | I was once adamant that I would never do Trapersent runs. Trapersent being the first segment category, which is from the beginning of the game to the end of the first heist. When I first started doing GT5 speedruns, I did Any% No Mission Skip and I said I would never run Trapersent, I think it's a meme. People said to me, you should try Trapersent. I'm like, oh no no no, I'm not interested. When I went back to university, I didn't have time to do Any% No Mission Skip. So I had to do Trapersent basically, or just do nothing at all. I still remember the awkwardness when I finally transitioned to Classic% and whenever I got after the Trapersent section, I was all nervous, like oh my god dude, I have so little experience in this section of the game. |
| 07. February 2022 | I once said id never do trevor% runs. | I was once adamant that I would never do Trapersent runs. Trapersent being the first segment category, which is from the beginning of the game to the end of the first heist. When I first started doing GT5 speedruns, I did Any% No Mission Skip and I said I would never run Trapersent, I think it's a meme. People said to me, you should try Trapersent. I'm like, oh no no no, I'm not interested. When I went back to university, I didn't have time to do Any% No Mission Skip. So I had to do Trapersent basically, or just do nothing at all. I still remember the awkwardness when I finally transitioned to Classic% and whenever I got after the Trapersent section, I was all nervous, like oh my god dude, I have so little experience in this section of the game. |
| 01. June 2021 | I play any Dark Souls games that releases | I will immediately play any Souls game that releases I still play Souls when next when a Souls game comes out It'll be the first thing that I play in saying that though like I didn't play the new Demon Souls games But that I didn't play the new Demon Souls game But that wasn't because I didn't want to it was because I couldn't get a PlayStation 5. I did play secure I've got at least most of that footage like we're talking 95% of it But it's like 50 hours of footage so for that to take ages for that to be edited I gave it to Martin to do in-between stuff, but we don't fall behind these days Did I enjoy secure as much as I enjoy other Dark Souls? Ah, yes. I thought it was a Wonderful game. I didn't like learning that spamming parry is a legitimate strategy Like it's rapidly click it super fast and you read you regain your what is it your stamina or whatever? And you also block them It's silly and I excited for the next God of War. Yeah, why not? That's another one. I'd play But I mean I didn't experience everything that the first God of War had to offer I hear that they released like some DLC for with some like insane bosses that are like next impossible to kill and that gets me kind of excited except that I would have to play the game or All over again to get to that point Yeah, absolutely. You kuzo is another series. I plan to play eventually |
| 05. September 2021 | I poll twitter to test references | I polled Twitter to get an idea of whether or not people will understand references I want to make in pacifist percent. Dude, how old did I feel? So for those who missed it, I tweeted out asking people if they knew what the Pied Piper was. Only 35% of people did. But some people were like, oh when I googled it I do know that I just know it by another name or something. Because you know, non-english speakers and stuff. But 35%? Like I'm sure people would know of the concept though, because like when I was younger, cartoons would do that shit all the time. Where there'd always be some magic flute or whatever and you know. Yeah, it's why I was gonna make a joke in pacifist percent. I'm like the Pied Piper of the meth heads. But um, I knew people wouldn't get it so I'm like nah fuck it. The other joke I didn't know if I wanted to include was the home alone joke. I'm like how many people? Like home alone came out 1990 and was like a sensation. It's uh, how many young people today have seen home alone and stuff, right? I'm sure they still put it on normal TV and shit, but no I think like 90% of people over 90% of people knew home alone. So my threshold for a joke is 80%. |
| 31. March 2021 | I polled my GTA viewers about which GTA is the best | I polled my viewers about which GTA is the best Here's something you guys probably don't want to hear but I'm gonna tell it to you, okay? On my clips channel, I wanted to make myself a poll Which I just I just intimately like to do because I think it drives traffic to my channel and stuff But I usually try to make it somewhat funny or something that actually be curious what people think about or whatever and I was just like Screw it. I'm gonna make what is the best GTA and so I'm like, okay I'll make it GTA 5 versus GTA 4 plus its DLCs Versus GTA 3 plus Vice City because Vice City was made in like less than a year and it was just you know based off the same stuff in GTA 3 anyway, so basically like a DLC and then versus GTA 2 and GTA 1 and then when I made this post like the very first comment was Like what what about Vice City? What about San Andreas? My dude? What why is San Andreas not in the poll and I look at this and I'm like, oh, yeah forgot about that game I legitimately forgot to include San Andreas It wasn't like some tactical decision to get people to comment more or whatever It was just I forgot San Andreas existed which is sad because it is a really good game. And so I made another post just GTA 5 versus San Andreas and GTA 5 won both polls by the way, which is not that surprising obviously because GTA 5 has had more people playing it and it's more modern, you know And plus my content is focused around GTA 5 of course, you know You know I'm certain SA does things better than GTA 5 and GTA 5 does things better than SA But certainly SA's main problem is uh, you know, it's limited by the time that it was made in but there's two separate questions there's SA with mods to make it more modern and easier to play and there's a SA without mods, which is a Lot rougher, you know, like I know SA was like amazing for its time, but let's be real GTA 5 Was also amazing for its time GTA 5 even today holds up against games that have at least you know in 2021 especially what they were able to achieve on Old gen with a PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 but they got this game to run there at all is impressive. It's Both SA and GTA 5 were impressive at the time that they released. I think it's undoubtable to say certainly I prefer GTA 5 more and a significant part of that is probably because I didn't play SA when it released Didn't really have the nostalgia for it, but and because just way more familiar with 5, you know |
| 07. August 2021 | I predicted how pointless Warcraft Reforged would be | I predicted how pointless Warcraft 3 and Forge would be. It'll never happen, man. I don't think people would want it either. There's nothing that an HD remaster would give this game. That's why they released the patch to make it more optimized or whatever for newer PCs. Because there's no reason to re-release an HD. This game actually looks pretty good for when it came out, seriously. |
| 10. November 2021 | I read a staggering amount of books as a kid. | I read a staggering amount of books as a kid. You thought I actually read books? Dude, I used to read heaps of books when I was a kid. I was known as that kid who read books. I used to sit there in class and read The Wheel of Time over and over and over again. When I didn't have any more books, I would download them onto my iPod touch. You remember the small iPod touch screen? I had this program that would convert downloaded books into pictures with a limited amount of text on them. Like it'd be like ten slides a page or something and I'd sit there in the Cole's break room like staring at this tiny screen like I would go in the bookstore every day looking for new books and stuff and I just read like a book a week. This is a long time ago or some I don't know what I used back then because this is like, you know, over ten years ago. I mean, it was ten years ago actually. But just these days it's just much easier to listen to audiobooks, right? Anytime that I can read a book I can, you know, be editing or streaming or whatever. But there are many times where there's, you know, I'm otherwise preoccupied and I can listen to my audiobooks, right? I just wish I had read more nonfiction. |
| 07. August 2021 | I read some manga | I read some manga. I'm actually reading manga right now. I'm reading- I finished reading the manga for- I got reincarnated into a slime and uh, Jujutsu Sorcerer or whatever as I'm going through now. I'm sick of trying to find anime that I like, so I'm just gonna read the manga of the anime that I like. |
| 01. September 2021 | I really like water | I really like water. I love having showers, dude I used to have like three four showers a day just out of convenience because you know, why not? They were they were always short showers, but it's just I like water I would be one of those rich people who had like a Pool in like a room in their house and I would just jump in it every once in a while I would walk around my house in In clothing that you could swim in and I would jump in every like hour or two and just do a couple of laps You know those scenes in movies where it starts off and the characters like in in their pool and they're doing laps and it's nighttime And they're just thinking about their thoughts or whatever. That's me. I want to be that guy Of course, it's not worth spending all that money to have that of course, but that would be nice You have zero showers a day cuz you're lazy, dude How do you stand that that layer of stuff on you? It's weird right because is it dermatologists have said that you only really need to to shower like Every couple of days, but I'm so used to showing every day multiple times that I just Couldn't couldn't live |
| 05. September 2021 | I remember being a small streamer | I remember being a small streamer. You remember when this was a 150 viewer stream? I remember when this was like a 15 viewer stream man. I remember when I was playing Warcraft 3 And look over and be like oh man. I have eight viewers that's sick. Hey everyone. No one would say anything Occasionally riddles would stop by and be like hey, man I'll be like ay riddles the crazy weird troll dude that he was a grave would stop by or whatever Sins of death and how the times have changed much for the better with |
| 15. May 2021 | I reuse my chaos content to an insane degree | Not probably limited, Rockstar putting in more destructible stuff. Just the 360 PlayStation 3 thing, right? Because I think being destroyed so many pixels on screen and stuff, the early hard bridge probably couldn't handle it. I wouldn't be surprised if there was more destructible stuff in the beginning, they just kept rolling it back because it was just something not super necessary for the game to run. The strategy of printing money and having stimulus checks during a crisis. Have you seen the M1 money chart? The USA is printing insane amounts of money, the economy is going to crash. I don't think they are printing enough money to devalue the currency to the extent it would cause- |
| 22. February 2022 | I said rockstar made a mistake and I was wrong | I said Rockstar made a mistake and I was wrong. The Asian gangsters in GTA V yell out, Mr. Phillips! I always assumed that this was a voice line, specifically because they're like the antagonists of Trevor. Trevor, his name being Trevor Phillips, so Mr. Phillips. Mr. Phillips! And so when I heard this line online, I'm like, I can't believe Rockstar left that line in. But it turns out they're not saying Mr. Phillips. Well, rather they are, but in Mandarin, in that accent that they're saying, it means like I will kill you. It just coincidentally sounds like Mr. Phillips! So Rockstar didn't make a mistake. It's just a funny coincidence. |
| 27. September 2022 | I screwed up my donation link | My donation link. I received a few donations from people and they were like, Matt, why didn't they appear on screen? And I was like, I don't know. That's weird. It turns out I gave my donation link to Twitch underneath the stream. I thought the stream elements link for my donations was the same regardless of whether or not I was on YouTube or Twitch. Turns out not to be the case. So the donation link down below is now the YouTube link and so it will pop up on screen if anyone uses it. I am sorry for anyone who was inconvenienced by this. It wasn't that many people, maybe like five something people, but I am terribly sorry. Looking for more editors. DM on Discord. Chat, if you happen to be a person who's good at editing, and I mean like really good, not I aspire to be an editor one day and I've edited two videos or something. My standards are ridiculously high, but I could use at least one more person. So, you know, DM me on Discord with like a sample of your prior work if you're interested. It's obviously a paid position. I've got two people who help me a reasonable amount. One person who helps me a little bit and one other person helps me a little bit. I probably need one other person who can help me. Like when I mean editing, I mean like YouTube editing. YouTube editing is more than simply knowing editing techniques and how to use editing tools and stuff. Honestly, probably knowing like advanced techniques is the least important part for the kind of YouTube content that I make when you're just like breaking down footage. It's all about scene composition and creating flow and all that jazz. It's tough. It takes a lot of experience to get it right. Yeah, anyone who does have some YouTube editing experience, just DM me on Discord. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also, leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 26. October 2022 | I spent 20k on blinds 4 months ago... | I spent $20,000 on blinds four months ago. Four months ago, I walked into a store and I'm like, hey yo, I'm gonna buy myself some blinds for my entire house. And they're like, you got it champ, that's what we do here, look at all the blinds and the walls, we'll sell you some. And it took like a month or something for me to finally pay money and sign something and so, like I have everything measured and stuff to know exactly what I'm getting. And I'm like, great. And they're like, look, it won't even take that long because, except for the shutters that we have to get from like, Chano Assign, the rest of it's sourced in Australia, so you'll be good man. I'm like, that's great, because I really want these blinds. Three months pass and he comes today. They called me yesterday, they're like, oh, we're coming around next day. I'm like, really? After you not answering my emails for weeks and weeks on end, you meant to be coming on the 24th. They're like, no, I'm coming tomorrow. I'm like, oh, all right, well, I guess you come tomorrow. I'm like, so what about that electrician thing? Like the electrician needs to come first because it's motorized. Click, what happened? So the guy comes today and I'm like, so you're not electrician. The motors have to be installed first. What are you gonna do? And he's like, what do you mean the electrician hasn't been here before? What do you mean? Yeah, I've been emailing them for months being like, so when's the electrician coming? No response. He's like, that doesn't make any sense. I mean, guy doesn't. So he's only friendly with his boss, like, yeah, electrician hasn't been here, man. I can't do anything. And so he's like, I'll have to come back another time. I'm like, oh, will you? It's been three months and you informed me that like, it wouldn't even be that long. So he's been here. I've got downstairs, like a house worth of blinds and the electrician will just eventually show up at some point. So you want to pay these guys chat? $20,000. Did not have my emails answered. I thought I got scammed. When the guy showed up today, I was like, oh, you're here. That's surprising. I thought I was gonna be in a small claims court or some shit trying to get my money back. 20K for blinds, yes. Because they're the most advanced blinds that exist on the planet. They are entirely motorized. So it'll have two layers, both motorized with a controller and I can go beep and they'll go up. And they are perfect blockout blinds. So not a inch of light. 10 sections doubled because two layers of blinds, so that's 20. And each of them is motorized. So it's 20 motors and 20 blinds. At least you got the blinds. I mean, they're down there. If I want to install them myself, I'll be done. It's impossible though. So it's 12K USD if you prefer. |
| 20. October 2022 | I spent an insane amount of money on the last pacifist% episode. | I spent an insane amount of money on the last pacifist percent episode. For a start, I didn't make the rockstar editor cutscenes that you saw at the beginning. They were my ideas, ideas I've had for years, but I was fortunate enough to find Silver Finish who has a funny YouTube channel with similar sorts of stuff, and he was willing to make them for me, pay him a couple hundred bucks, you know. It was probably less than a thousand, I can't remember the exact number in the end. And they turned out very well. I did them quite fast, faster than I really needed them, but it was good to have that done. The other thing was I got the actual voice actor from Stanley Powell. The dude has his own website voice acting thing, and he is very expensive. I think 200 words or something, or whatever it ended up being, was like $1500 or something. Legally, he can't be the narrator for Stanley Powell in someone else's work. Can't be done. But that is like his voice and accent. You can't stop him from using it. So I couldn't make him do voiceovers as if he was in Stanley Powell, but I could just have him speak in that accent to say whatever I wanted. It is clear that a significant amount of people didn't make it to the end. The average person got 44% in, or 20 minutes, but there's a huge dip at the beginning, like the first 20 seconds. So the retention was really high, let's say. Many of you may have missed that when I said goodbye and it faded to black, more things happened after that. If you are sitting here right now and you didn't hear the second time that voice actor came up, you missed out on some stuff. The part that got cut off was after he said, see you in the next episode, it originally continued to say, but not literally of course. This voiceover joke was barely funny this first time, it certainly won't be the next time. Or something like that. Because obviously I'm not going to get him for the next episode, you know? But I had him explain that obviously there's going to be more episodes of PassFist%, but it will be like PassFist Extras and then PassFist 2.0. So the main series of PassFist is done, and that was the main important stuff that everyone was looking forward to. A long time ago I recorded one episode of PassFist 2.0. I did reduce the number of the end result. So the end result was like 96, and I cut it down a bit. But I only made it to the end of Mr. Phillips, I think, in terms of my retesting. So there's still a lot more that I have to record when I get the time. My whole time was... |
| 24. January 2022 | I stole hundreds of pens | I stole hundreds of pens. No joke though, I've stolen hundreds of pens. When I worked at Coles, you'd use a pen to like note down everything you needed for the store. You put the pen in your pocket, and then you go home and forget you had the pen in your pocket. So over like the five years I worked there, I had like hundreds of pens at home. Dark Viper, master fucking criminal. |
| 26. November 2021 | I stole one of my most popular emotes | I stole one of my most popular emotes. There's this guy named Screwbing, right? He has an emote. I think it's just called Bing Please or something. I don't know if it's crying or not. I haven't seen it in a long time. I met my sister and we had both independently found Twitch and I was like, Oh, you know my favorite emote is? This is this little pink thing. She said, oh my god that I love that emote too. It's my favorite emote as well. Like we both independently found the emote. We coincidentally both thought it was the best emote on Twitch. So I got cursed because I was using dragons at the time. I asked cursed to make like an homage to it. We basically took it and manipulated it into a dragon. Changed it as much as possible, but you could still see the inspiration for it. And I was such a small streamer that it didn't seem to matter at the time. But after a while it was like, yeah, it should probably not because clearly a ripoff of his emote. I should probably just get rid of it. And it sucked because it was like my most popular emote. Everyone loved that little dragon. |
| 03. April 2021 | I think Australian money is cool. | I think Australian money is cool. Why does Canada use monopoly money? Have you seen like comparisons between Australian, Canadian and American money and stuff? American money seems to suck. It's probably not as bad as I think it is but I just know how awesome our money looks and how many cool features it has and how durable it is. Like you take a five dollar bill you can like scrunch that shit up and it just perfectly forms to its normal state. You got you got five dollar bills that are like 50 years old that they look like they have some wear on them but they're perfectly fine and certainly the even more modern bills that are produced for Australia like they look like they could get survive a nuke and the money is so colorful and it has multiple ways for like blind people to know what currency they're using because it's like that the bills are all different lengths and I think it does it have a little like ridge on it as well? Wasn't it in like what what movie was it where I saw like the blind person was no no it was Ray Charles that movie and because he's blind and he was folding his currency in a particular way to know what bills he was picking up or whatever. I'm sure by now America has implemented stuff to make it better but I know currently it seems so great. Oh yeah like CPG Grey has had a rants against the American penny or whatever or the penny in general because it costs more money to make than to then it's worth or something so they lose money when it's made. Oh CGG Grey whatever yeah. |
| 01. November 2022 | I took heaps long to make my plushie | It took heaps long to make my plushie. Put the plushie in the merch store. I'm trying man! It'll be a while. The process to have things like this made is very long. I'm gonna look up when I first started talking about getting a plushie. It was the 8th of February. So how long has that been? Like, 8 months. And it still isn't released yet. You know, it takes a long time. |
| 27. August 2022 | I tried corn dogs for the first time | I tried corn dogs for the first time. All my life, I watched American TV shows and I've watched people eat these things called corn dogs. And I was like, that doesn't look like corn. Why are they called corn dogs? Are they delicious? People seem to like them, that's weird. Funny enough, on my door dash, there was a place that sold corn dogs, just recently opened. I'm like, oh, that's interesting. I'm going to try some. It's like, okay, you can buy a mozzarella corn dog or a pork corn dog. It says, get a sauce and do you want cinnamon sugar, sugar or no sugar? I'm like, sugar and sauce is what? Okay, I won't have any sugar and just give me one sauce. And so they sent me these things. These are the blandest tasting things I've ever tasted. This is a corn dog. And they even had this variation, which has like chips baked into it. Eat it? No, it's gross. I took a bite out of the other ones. Completely flavorless. It just made me feel a little bit sick, more so than I already do. You're telling me that's not a corn dog? Okay, I'm going to look up on Google, corn dogs. Chat, I don't know what to tell you. That's what I'm holding. That is a corn dog. Where's the meat? The meat's on the inside. It's a hot dog. It's like a pork dog thing in the middle. The other one was cheese, chat, and they're all terrible. You're right, these look bulkier and a bit more battery than those, but it's clearly a corn dog. What I'm trying to say is, America has once more let me down. |
| 02. February 2022 | I tried to have my carpet dyed to avoid the owner's learning I damaged it. | Even. I tried to have my carpet dyed to avoid the owners learning that I had damaged it. In my early days of streaming, I noticed that under my chair was a bunch of small marks because I had bleached the carpet. Now, anything else you can just get out of the carpet by steam cleaning and stuff, but it was bleached so I was completely fucked. I was panicking, I'm like, look, I can't replace the entire carpet in here. What if the owner gets really mad at me and chucks me out? I like living here. Oh no, this is a huge problem. And so I looked up and I found out that you can dye carpets. Like people will come and use special dyes and try to match the exact color of the carpets to, you know, to color it in so it looks like it's normal and natural. So I found these guys cost $250 and I was like, oh man, I don't have $250. And Rue, at the time, the real Rue, gave me $250 specifically to fix the carpet. I was so thankful and stuff and I got them around and they worked on for like an hour and I looked at it and I'm like, it doesn't look very good. It doesn't look like the same color. They're like, oh no, no, no, no, no. Just wait until it dries, wait until it dries. It'll be fine. I'm like, alright, well, I guess and I gave them the money and they went away and it was not anywhere close to a match. Nowhere close. I got completely fucking scammed and eventually the owner's son was gonna move out of the house. He was living here with me and another person and he said, well, you guys have to leave too. We're like, look, no, no, can we just take over the lease? And the owner's son was like, yeah, okay, fine. You can take over the lease. And he's like, oh, well, I guess I have, I should get some cleaners or something to clean the house to give you guys a fresh start. Instantly sweat down my face and I'm like, look, I fucked up the carpet. He's like, what do you mean you fucked up the carpet? So I brought him up and showed him and thankfully they were understanding. I just said, look, man, I was just trying to fix the carpet. So I didn't have to worry you about it, you know. And so what happened is I gave them my entire bond, which was like 600 bucks and said, look, don't replace the carpet. Just replace it when I leave so that I can stay here and fuck up the carpet as much as I want to and you can just replace it when I leave and there'll be no worries. And they're like, okay, that's fine. |
| 02. February 2022 | I tried to have my carpet dyed to avoid the owners learning i damaged it. | Even. I tried to have my carpet dyed to avoid the owners learning that I had damaged it. In my early days of streaming, I noticed that under my chair was a bunch of small marks because I had bleached the carpet. Now, anything else you can just get out of the carpet by steam cleaning and stuff, but it was bleached so I was completely fucked. I was panicking, I'm like, look, I can't replace the entire carpet in here. What if the owner gets really mad at me and chucks me out? I like living here. Oh no, this is a huge problem. And so I looked up and I found out that you can dye carpets. Like people will come and use special dyes and try to match the exact color of the carpets to, you know, to color it in so it looks like it's normal and natural. So I found these guys cost $250 and I was like, oh man, I don't have $250. And Rue, at the time, the real Rue, gave me $250 specifically to fix the carpet. I was so thankful and stuff and I got them around and they worked on for like an hour and I looked at it and I'm like, it doesn't look very good. It doesn't look like the same color. They're like, oh no, no, no, no, no. Just wait until it dries, wait until it dries. It'll be fine. I'm like, alright, well, I guess and I gave them the money and they went away and it was not anywhere close to a match. Nowhere close. I got completely fucking scammed and eventually the owner's son was gonna move out of the house. He was living here with me and another person and he said, well, you guys have to leave too. We're like, look, no, no, can we just take over the lease? And the owner's son was like, yeah, okay, fine. You can take over the lease. And he's like, oh, well, I guess I have, I should get some cleaners or something to clean the house to give you guys a fresh start. Instantly sweat down my face and I'm like, look, I fucked up the carpet. He's like, what do you mean you fucked up the carpet? So I brought him up and showed him and thankfully they were understanding. I just said, look, man, I was just trying to fix the carpet. So I didn't have to worry you about it, you know. And so what happened is I gave them my entire bond, which was like 600 bucks and said, look, don't replace the carpet. Just replace it when I leave so that I can stay here and fuck up the carpet as much as I want to and you can just replace it when I leave and there'll be no worries. And they're like, okay, that's fine. |
| 02. May 2021 | I try not to blame YouTube when a video doesn't do well | I try not to blame YouTube when a video doesn't do well. I am sincerely disappointed that the latest Noita video, like I don't even think it hit 20k views. Like, when videos do less well than Rambles, they're not doing well at all. And I can be like, oh man, bloody YouTube should recommend it more. But the click-through rate's terrible. Like, of course YouTube isn't gonna recommend it more, because the people aren't clicking the video. YouTube is doing exactly what YouTube should be doing. But it's just the people don't like the content. Although, I could argue that YouTube is serving the video to the wrong people. And that's why the click-through rate's low. And so its algorithm should become fucking better. But I mean, when dedicated Noita channels get like 50k views on a video, I can't really expect my just playing the game to even get that, you know? |
| 27. October 2021 | I try to always look up stuff before I put it out online | I try to always look up stuff before I put it out online Maybe it's because of what I do for a living No, I think even before that whenever I'd be responding to people in the YouTube comment section and stuff Whenever I'd make an assertion, I would try and Google it just to make sure that like at least like overtly If things seem to support what I was saying even to show like just some link was like yeah Look at this this thing seems to support what I'm saying on very rare occasions I would Google what I was trying to assert and I'd be like oh actually might be wrong about this or Actually, it might be more complicated than I originally thought and I just wouldn't write the YouTube comment Probably been worth it to still write the comment be like, you know, this is why I thought it doesn't seem to be the case Everyone's wrong about stuff. I guess When I was younger One of the things that stopped me from doing a lot of stuff in life was fears of embarrassing myself or looking stupid or whatever helps you and hurts you because it prevents you from Yeah, putting yourself out there sometimes but other times it does stop you from looking like an idiot |
| 18. January 2023 | I used an AI to complete my GTA Guesser thumbnail. | I used an AI to complete my GTA Guesser thumbnail. So Joker and me were talking after the release of the GTA Guesser video where I versed him in GTA Guesser and I said to him like his picture is so high quality and mine is not. I really should have something better made like to match his quality and so he sent me a bunch of things that an AI just spit out after being given my profile image and this is what it spit out. Well the best one in my view. It is somewhat annoying it's got like this haze over the hair so I can't kind of remove it from this background but it's interesting. Like what is this shirt even meant to be? Look how weird it is because this is meant to be like the white jacket but there's just like a hole here and hole here. I don't know. But regardless I put it in the thumbnail and that does look a lot better than the first one. This compared to this. It fits more. What I didn't check is I wonder if the viewership went up after changing the thumbnail. Let's take a look. Eh I can't tell if there was a difference. I don't think so. Maybe a tiny bump or something but I still think it's a better thumbnail. The style matches but certainly it's less identifiable as me now because I do not look like that. |
| 22. March 2021 | I used to be far more Australian | I used to be far more Australian. I think there must have been a period in my streaming career Where I said a lot in this first Dark Souls 3 PB that just got edited I said it's like 12 times and I was I'm completely aware this I I Was under the impression that it was a word that I rarely said know that I have a problem with the word It's just it I never looked at it as a as a word that I said much in my life But apparently it is and there was at least some time where I used the word as a pejorative a handful of times I even made the joke in the episode like this is this is my word. You can't say you can say if you're Australian Random shoutouts are pointless. I'm not gonna shout out your channel |
| 26. November 2021 | I used to do crosswords with my mother as a kid | I used to do crossword puzzles with my mother as a kid. You know, I miss doing chat crossword puzzles. My mother and I would try to do them completely. I took a glance at one, um, and I was not as able to answer the questions as I might have been in ages past and that made me sad. To be fair, I didn't have a pen or pencil, so I had to remember the letters that I was filling in mentally. You know, I didn't do this too well. You could do a crossword puzzle stream. It would be nice, honestly. I doubt many people would watch it though. Certainly though, you do eventually reach a certain size where it doesn't matter what you're doing, there'll be a handful of people around to keep you company, you know. There's a certain level of freedom that you get when you reach a certain size on Twitch. |
| 26. November 2021 | I used to love pringles | I used to love Pringles. Best flavor of Pringles? When I was younger, I used to love Pringles. Like they were my favorite thing. I'm still known in my family as that guy who loves the Pringles and my grandparents will buy me Pringles as like presents and stuff. Just like a lot of Pringles. I think original is still probably the best followed by like the pizza ones and then barbecue or something. But I'm kind of over them. Like I know I still enjoy eating them, but like I'll never purchase them for myself because they're terrible for you. Sour Cream and Onion? I've never liked Sour Cream and Onion. The only time I eat Sour Cream and Onion is when people get them for me. Because they're free at that point. Yeah, Sour Cream and Onion has this weird aftertaste that I'm not a fan of. It's alright. |
| 05. April 2021 | I want Twitch to more directly compete with YouTube. | Twitch to compete with YouTube more directly. Is there a feature that I specifically want Twitch to implement? Yes, 12kbitrate. I want Twitch to implement at 12kbitrate so that I can do actual 1080p, so that high-motion games can look good in 1080p. But I recognize why they don't, because for the vast majority of audiences, they probably aren't going to notice. It's not like it's going to likely bring in new people or whatever, but it would make all the footage that comes from this platform look so much better. So I don't think you need to go beyond 12k. I think 12k is actually the sweet spot in regards to content. 12kbitrate, 1080p. Other than that, the only other things I'd want Twitch to do are really big, as in I want them to directly try to compete with YouTube for edited content, which Twitch doesn't seem like they're going to do. If there is any company that could compete with Google, and it's endless pockets of money, it's Amazon, right? The only hope we could ever really have for a competitor to YouTube is probably Amazon and Twitch, but it's probably not going to happen. While Amazon does seem to be caring more about ads and advertisement stuff and making that a part of the money that they make and whatnot, it's clearly still a much smaller focus than Google. I feel like they don't have the base for that, like YouTube had the base for live streaming. Absolutely, that is certainly the case, that YouTube has an easier time making live streaming while having all the viewers watching edited content, as opposed to Twitch moving to edited content or whatever. If there's any company that can do it, it would be Twitch. But the investment of money would need to be extraordinary, right? I wonder, like... When a person moves platform as a live streamer, they take something like five to 20% of the audience, at least that's what the historical precedent says. Certainly, if you're a smaller content creator, maybe you'd take more, but the really large ones, like the truly dedicated fan base, especially when you can't talk to chat and build those, like, personal relationships or whatever with your individual viewers, you take it like five to 20% if you move. I wonder what the percentage would be for an edited content creator, as in, if a person moved from YouTube to Twitch specifically for edited content, I wonder what percentage... Like, what their viewer numbers would look like. Because it feels as though, like, individual live streamers are more replaceable, but individual, like, series or types of content on YouTube are less so. Like, sure, you like me playing GTA V, but you can find other people playing GTA V. I mean, are there any really 100% original YouTube content creators anymore? Because it seems as though if you get successful as a YouTube content creator, immediately there's going to be copycats, whether it be in your language or at the very least in other languages, you know. There's MrBeast, there's half a dozen MrBeast copycats in different languages and stuff. And I don't know, because like the most unique thing that you can have in your content on YouTube is your personality, because each one of us has a unique set of experiences that shape us to be who we are, and there's no exact same person. Although there can be people who, in the ways that matter, effectively the same as you to the extent that you would be replaced. But it's a hard thing to find. Like, it's a hard thing to find exact same personality somewhere else. Right. But like, live streamers, if the personality driven live streamers can only take five to 20%, if indeed the only thing that isn't replaceable about YouTube content is the personalities that do them, then it's hard to imagine that they do better than five to 20% if they moved to Twitch to do editing content. You know what I'm saying? And it's been an interesting thing to one day see. |
| 08. September 2021 | I want a social life that takes no time | I want a social life that takes no time. A part of me chat realizes that what I really want is a social life that doesn't take up any time. Because when I think about going places and not streaming or editing and stuff, I'm like, I don't want to fucking do that. I don't think a social life would be a bad thing, but I'm not willing to give up anything to have one. You know? Now I've never looked favorably upon traveling. It costs a lot of money and there's nothing that I really want to see enough that I'm willing to spend the money. Like, don't get me wrong. If I had the ability to instant teleport myself to other countries, I would totally instant teleport myself and just look at some shit. Like, hey, that's pretty cool. Monuments and stuff like that, but I mean, no amount of financial cost is worth it. I think traveling is best done with other people. I have no one to travel with. You can certainly meet people throughout your travels, but I'm not a person who likes, you know, talking to random people and shit. Unless I'm drunk. Flashback to embarrassing moments in my life right there was not good. Traveling is something you share with others. It certainly doesn't have to be this way, but I think that's the best way to get the most out of traveling. More than likely, if I did travel, though, it'd be somewhere in Australia. There's heaps of places in Australia I haven't seen and, you know, just go to Google Street View and have a fan blowing on your face to pretend you're hiking there. Exactly, man. Traveling is about experiencing culture. Well, how do you experience culture without seeing as if seeing isn't a vital part of culture? But I'm not a big culture guy. I don't think I'm a shit. |
| 17. January 2022 | I want to change the thumbnails of my rambles. | picture of Rambles when I gave them a go, but I didn't give them a go for so long because the thumbnail sucked. And so for the longest time I wanted to find a way to make a thumbnail for it. The sort of thumbnails that I want made are those like this. Oh, is it Techquickie? No, what's the other thing called? Oh, Techlink, that's it. So Techlink, Swipe Right is cheaper in Amsterdam, and there's the guy's face and... But that's one topic in here. So they have all these topics here, but they just pick one and make a thumbnail based on it. So date online cheaper in Amsterdam. And this is... this small section is the only thing that the thumbnail references. So I want to make stuff like that, but at the same time, I don't have the time for that. I want to find a person who can go back and make thumbnails for all of my Rambles like that. But it's hard finding a person who can make good thumbnails. And I guess I would have to just be like... Like, and make them a random bunch of just me looking a particular way. So this is all I did. Very simple. And some people commented like, ah, this is just a Rambles video. I clicked it when I normally ignore Rambles. And this is actually quite good. And yeah, a simple thumbnail took 10 seconds to make, probably doubled the viewership. And keep in mind that the algorithm is constantly showing people your old videos. They don't just show your new ones. If you change your thumbnail and title for your old videos, it can lead to more people clicking on it, the algorithm noticing, and then giving it to more people. If you have time or can hire someone to do it, it's worth somewhat regenerating, revitalizing, whatever, your older content. I just don't have the time. You didn't know that was the thing? What, the showing your old videos? Go look at your impressions of any of your videos. I mean, obviously, it depends on how popular you are or whatever. Like it isn't giving a million impressions to some guy with one subscriber, but it would probably be going up like one impression, two impressions, stuff like that. Which isn't necessarily always recommendations, like people could be searching and it happened to be on your screen or they could... Does it count as an impression if a person goes to your channel? But regardless, your impressions should still be going up. And if more people start clicking on it, the algorithm should notice. Is posting to Instagram helping me grow? Has your sub count, follower count increased since you started? |
| 22. May 2021 | I want to recreate gta 5 objects in real life. | I want to recreate GTA 5 objects in real life. Do I have a dream car? I would like to have a car from GTA 5 like the carbonara or whatever the fuck it's called or the Massacre or mascara or whatever the fuck they call one of those two cars or the Jester No, because I super want to drive one of those cars in real life because I just think it'd be funny It's not like I'm in love with this game or something and I want to base my entire life around I just think it'd be funny. Like I would I would like to have a house designed after Michael's house. Why? Because it'd be funny |
| 03. January 2021 | I want to replay GTA IV. | I want to replay GTA 4. I want to play through GTA 4 again. I miss that game. Occasionally I get recommended small clips of it and I'm like, man... But see, but what I really want though is just new GTA story content. It's the same way that I feel when I think I should rewatch that series and I realize I don't want to rewatch the series. I want new content for a particular series. And I know playing through it again is not gonna be... It's not gonna scratch that itch that I have, you know. I don't prefer GTA 4 over GTA 5, but I prefer the characters individually in GTA 4. A bunch of the bit characters in this game are in GTA 4. Oh, yeah, I didn't love the driving in GTA 4, but I kind of got used to it over time. At best it just became possible when you kind of got used to its quirks. But GTA 4 looks so... bleak and washed out, which kind of to a degree fit the tone of the game, but it was probably a little bit too bleak. In terms of its coloring. |
| 23. July 2022 | I was in Melbourne for a total of 3 hours | I was in Melbourne for a total of three hours. Yesterday chat, I went to Melbourne. There was a Sony event on between 3pm and 5pm. And so the plan was for me to go down, catch a flight at 10am, arrive around 12, and then have lunch, hang out with TGG and Pez, my manager, and then go to this event. My flight with Qantas was delayed, delayed again. Then we sat on the plane for like an hour before we could take off. I ended up arriving and being 10 minutes late to the event. So it took like an extra three hours to get there. And so then I was there for the event, which was two hours. And then I was catching a flight at like 7.30. So I had to just immediately after the event, go back on a plane and come back to Sydney. And I'm like, so grand total, I was in Melbourne for like three hours that I wasn't simply waiting for planes or whatever. And I was just like, why did I even end up going? It was nice to hang with TGG for a bit. It was, I met some interesting people and you just have random chats with people or whatever. But like at the end of the day, it was still a waste of a day because I was just, it was just, most of my time was spent traveling. I should have just stayed down there for a whole day, but I had no idea what I would be able to do. What was the Sony event about? It was about their new headset that they're releasing, which is like the H3, H7 and H9. I think those are the numbers. And it looks pretty good and seems pretty good. And that's my assessment. |
| 18. February 2021 | I was meant to play rust with Modest Pelican | I was meant to play Rust with Modus Pelican. Oh man, I saw that uh, Modus Pelican was doing uh, Rust today for the first time. And uh, I was- I was meant to stream with him as well when he was doing it. But I felt so shit for so long, and I kind of just felt like the opportunity slipped by. I really should send him a DM and apologize. If I didn't feel shit like a week ago, we would have done it a week ago, and it kind of feels like the hype for Rust has died down now. I hope I didn't screw him over. Fuck me and ruining my goddamn sleeping pattern. I'm so unreliable. Maybe I'll still be live on Minecraft after I'm done hosting this thing. |
| 18. February 2021 | I was meant to play rust with modest pelican | I was meant to play Rust with Modus Pelican. Oh man, I saw that uh, Modus Pelican was doing uh, Rust today for the first time. And uh, I was- I was meant to stream with him as well when he was doing it. But I felt so shit for so long, and I kind of just felt like the opportunity slipped by. I really should send him a DM and apologize. If I didn't feel shit like a week ago, we would have done it a week ago, and it kind of feels like the hype for Rust has died down now. I hope I didn't screw him over. Fuck me and ruining my goddamn sleeping pattern. I'm so unreliable. Maybe I'll still be live on Minecraft after I'm done hosting this thing. |
| 11. October 2021 | I was sent a package from two viewers | I was sent a package from two viewers. It took me like five hours of editing to do two minutes or something of passivism. It's so dumb, and I don't even think the episode's particularly good, and it's got me stressed out. So I got sent this package. It says Open on stream. I can only assume it's some sort of sick prank. It's from Trophyland, so I'm assuming it's some kind of a trophy to mock me in some way. I have not thus far in my life listened to what boxers want to say and and demand of me, but for this particular box, I'm gonna do it for the hell of it. I'm starting to cheer me up, but I don't know. But considering it's a trophy and I- There's nothing that I have done to be deserving of a trophy. I can assume it's some sort of cruel prank. But we'll see. Really? It's a- I was happy because it was a very large glass, but it says world's greatest streamer. I mean, nor the concerns that someone knows my address, but that's very nice. It's very beautiful at the bottom, too. I like it. I do like large glasses. I'm assuming whoever sent it knows me well. That's nice, though. Wash it? Oh, sure. Whoops. Well chat, I am now at least 5% less miserable, and that might be enough. |
| 02. April 2021 | I was too self-concious to enter swimming competitions. | Too self-conscious to enter swimming competitions. Man, how long has it been since I've gone for a swim? Clearly, I just need to become more comfortable with my body so I can do some swimming streams. I used to love swimming, dude. Did you know, for my entire school life, I was always a pretty good swimmer, but I never entered a single swimming competition. I wanted to, you know, the swimming carnivals, so they do them in your country, because I was just too self-conscious. How fucking dumb is that? For all I know, I would have found that I was a goddamn swimming prodigy and become a swimming sensation. For all I know, I would have transformed into a fucking dolphin. I'll never know. Basically, chat, if you think you're good at swimming, try that stuff out, because you might turn into a dolphin. Don't let your dreams be memes. |
| 02. April 2021 | I was too self-conscious to enter swimming competitions. | Too self-conscious to enter swimming competitions. Man, how long has it been since I've gone for a swim? Clearly, I just need to become more comfortable with my body so I can do some swimming streams. I used to love swimming, dude. Did you know, for my entire school life, I was always a pretty good swimmer, but I never entered a single swimming competition. I wanted to, you know, the swimming carnivals, so they do them in your country, because I was just too self-conscious. How fucking dumb is that? For all I know, I would have found that I was a goddamn swimming prodigy and become a swimming sensation. For all I know, I would have transformed into a fucking dolphin. I'll never know. Basically, chat, if you think you're good at swimming, try that stuff out, because you might turn into a dolphin. Don't let your dreams be memes. |
| 26. October 2022 | I was wrong about rockstargames. | I was wrong about Rockstar games. So I did something stupid chat. That might surprise you like I've never done anything stupid before in my life on very very rare occasions People show me things that I said years ago and be like oh Matt you were wrong Here's one time Rockstar is too good to have leaks. Harden. Rockstar never gonna have leaks guys. They're too good. I mean in my defense This was from like four years ago Rockstar four years ago too good to have leaks 100% |
| 30. September 2021 | I was wrong, my viewer was right | I was wrong, my viewer was right. Lord, there was this one time where a person came into my chat and was watching, was being a bit of a dick, and then they said, why don't you go in to the beginning of Complications from the side? Think that'd be faster. And I was like, nah, that's not fast, what are you, you come into my chat, I've been playing this game for 4000 hours, you don't think I've tried going in from the side on Complications? Come on now, you'd have to get out of the car, run over. Of course that's slow. And then like two hours later I'm like, have I actually ever tried that? And I tried them, and it was faster, because it skipped some dialogue. It starts the cutscene earlier, I was just like, oh shit. And so I sent the person a message going, I'm really sorry about being mean. Because I was having a very bad day, like, I probably would have sent a message apologizing even if the strat hadn't been a thing, but it made it even more embarrassing. Every time I snap a person for suggesting something that I've already tried or that I already know, I think myself, fuck, I'm just doing the same goddamn thing again. Because I want people to suggest stuff. |
| 11. October 2021 | I watched Beastars | I watched Beastars, the anime. Have I seen Beastars? Yeah, actually, I did just finish Beastars season one after hearing so many times that it was so good, but I was like, it doesn't sound like something that would be of interest to me, but I had nothing else to watch and it showed up on my Netflix and I was like, ah, I guess I'll watch it then. And it was alright. Like, I can see why other people would be like, oh my god, this is amazing. For me, I was like, oh yeah. Sorry. I hear there's a season two, which I might watch. It's um, yeah, season one was worth the watch. I don't dislike that I watched it. I was gonna tweet out actually something, some joke, like um, there was a lot less animal sex in Beastars than I was led to believe. The joke obviously that this sounds like, like you can either take this as like a complaint or an observation, that being the joke. I didn't end up doing it just because, as I was gonna tweet it, there was that scene where they're in a hotel or something. They don't actually have sex, but it was like, you know, a thing. I was like, oh, maybe there is actually a lot of animal sex in this and I just haven't got up to it yet. Like everything I heard about the show, there was this constant meme where like a parent walks in on someone watching Beastars and it's one, like, one of the scenes that's alluding to some exception. I can explain, it's on Netflix, you know. |
| 18. October 2021 | I wear two headsets while editing | I wear two headsets while editing. I am physically here but mentally I'm not. Look what I do with my headset here. You can't really see it, can you? I've got a second headset under my ears. This headset is, uh... Um, what's it called, um... Bone-conducing. The Aftershock. I use them in the shower. They work perfectly. But I also use them when I'm working on my, uh, PC. When I, uh, don't want to take the effort to find a YouTube video or something to listen to in between editing. I'll edit and then when something's loading I'll press the button on my other headset and it will play my audiobook. |
| 29. January 2023 | I went into a GTA Online public lobby and was called a fake. | into a GT Online public lobby and was called a fake. So one point in time while I wasn't streaming, I turned on GT Online and I was in just a random lobby and I typed in just the public chat and someone was like, oh look, it's a fake Dark Viper AU and then I got kicked from the server. Like my game got crashed. Clearly someone in there was a person with a mod menu who wasn't fucking with people. When they saw me and thought I was impersonating myself, they kicked me from the server. I mean, it's my own fault. I've said many many times that I don't go into public lobbies. So what other conclusion could they have reached? Do taller people have a higher chance of getting c- |
| 17. March 2023 | I went to an specialist to check on my tinnitus. | I went to a specialist to check out my tinnitus. Went to go to see a specialist about my tinnitus. I was there for like 10 minutes. Looks at me, looks at my nose, looks at my throat, looks at my ears. And then he goes, nothing I can do. I'm like, ah. He's like, yeah, that'll be $300. I am wearing a shirt, yes. I went outside into the public. I was seeing a specialist, so, wear my most fancy clothing. Has sleeves. I was panicking. I actually parked in a place that I wasn't meant to park. Like it was a parking spot specifically for a restaurant. But I'm like, I've only got 15 minutes. I gotta get there on time. Oh no. And so I parked there anyway, because I thought I wouldn't be that long. And I ended up sitting for like maybe 25 minutes in the office before I was eventually seen. So I, like, as I wrote on Twitter, I arrive to appointments like 100% on time. Every single time. I hate being late for things. I hate the stress of like, oh no, I'm not gonna make it, ah. So I give myself more than enough time to get there, especially when I'm going somewhere new. But without fail, every single time I arrive on time, I'm still sitting wherever I'm going for like 15 minutes to half an hour. Nowhere is ever on time. It's crazy. When I arrived there, there was no one in the office. I'm like, oh, you're beautiful. I'm gonna be able to see them immediately. Nah. I think I just keep people in the seats. Keep them sitting there so they don't get used to being let into the office too early, right? They want everyone to realize you're gonna be sitting there and you can't complain because you always have to wait, sir. |
| 02. April 2021 | I will be speedrunning minecraft soon. | I will be speedrunning Minecraft on this date. You can't wait for the next Minecraft speedrun? I really, really hope that I complete this category before April 1st. For those who don't know, I said every April 1st I would speedrun Minecraft. I did it the first year a little while back, it's on YouTube, and I plan to do it again. I did set seed last time, and I guess the thing people like seeing now is random seed. So see what happens. Better idea, I will speedrun Roblox. Does Roblox even have a base game? Or is it just a bunch of different games made by people? No? Yes? So is there an Ender Dragon of Roblox? I got mostly no's and these occasional yeses, and you guarantee those occasional yeses just like, I don't fucking know, but fuck what everyone else is saying. I'm a rebel. You can't tell me that my opinion is no. |
| 27. November 2022 | I will not wish you the best ever again - No more outros | I get a decent time with that, then I'll go back to GTA V. I will not wish you all the best ever again. The final outro. So some of you may have noticed that I don't have an outro to my videos anymore. I'm actually getting seeking to go back and look at my old videos and correct spelling errors, fix titles, put videos in playlists if they weren't in playlists, and remove the handful of intros that are still left in my very old videos, and remove outros. As much as I kind of like the meme of the little dancing doggo used to be little dancing girl, like I like that little tune that I have, it's become like a part of my brand almost, I just don't think the outro is giving me enough value compared to it giving people time to click off the video. So like one eighth of the viewers that got to the end to go boop, probably doesn't seem like much, but I think that will have some negative implications in the algorithm. So in the last week, I got 6 million views, 3 million from shorts that don't matter, 3 million from everything else, and 10K of those were end screens. Is it really worth it having one eighth of my viewership that gets to the end, click off 10 seconds early to have 10,000 people click the end screens? But it's not just that. While you're here potentially without annotations on, you're not even seeing the end screen videos, you've got something to look at here, you've got someone else's video, well one of my videos, but someone else's video, someone else's video, someone else's video. So all I'm doing is giving you time to be like, oh, those are interesting videos that aren't dark vapor AES videos, click. But I could just let this screen come up earlier, and you have a better chance of seeing at least some of my videos here. I think I have a better chance in a week to get more views from this screen than I do from end screens. Like the value I'm getting from the outro is so low that it's almost inconceivable to me that removing it won't bring me greater value. I never would have gone to the effort myself to remove it from the old videos anyway, but because the options now exist for me to give a person partial access to my content for them to do it for me, which my mod seeking is kindly doing, why I'm paying them of course, but it seems like it's worth it to do. You may never hear me wish you all the best again, except that I do that at the end of my videos in outro sometimes. Like sometimes I'll have an outro to a video and then the outro will play where I also wish people all the best. It doesn't make sense. Try it and see how it goes. The end screen previous views were so low that it's almost inconceivable that I will be able to detect any kind of change enough to know if I'm getting more than 10,000, but 10,000 is just so low by comparison to the other views that I'm getting that I just have to work conceptually and believe and do what I think is most likely going to achieve a greater positive result. I think in this case, I'm moving the outro. |
| 10. September 2022 | I will soon have a new most viewed video | I will soon have a new most viewed video 117k likes on a short is insane by the way. Oh, you have no idea watch this Say hello to my fourth most viewed video of all time This doesn't make sense and I'm okay with that and it is just a random fact from the series Just just presented a little bit better. All it is is this dude Who when it plays out it doesn't take consideration of the ground and so he walks out over the air and then when he's out there he Looks down and falls so like looney tune shit, and that's a lot of people commented 400,000 likes within less than a week my fourth most viewed video These are only slightly ahead of a chat this will likely become either my second or first most viewed video ever in a week and this video May be no money if this was a normal video. This would be birth thousands of dollars potentially like $10,000 or something change |
| 18. August 2022 | I wish I coud do everything other creators can do. | stuff like that, watch out. I wish I could do everything other creators can do. So when I'm happy as chat is when I think I make good content. Sometimes I'll watch YouTubers and see their high level of production quality and just be like, holy shit, I suck. So recently I've been recommended a few of these videos by Mr. Who's the Boss. So often do I look at other people's videos and think to myself, I wish I had the time to learn that stuff because I recognize that I am much better off just making content and hiring people to do that stuff for me rather than learning it myself. And I hate that shit. A part of me will always miss the day where I did everything myself. And the second I had an idea, I would just like spend an hour or two or something, looking up how to do that thing and tinker with it and learn new skills and stuff. But it's just not a good use of time now. I hate not being able to do everything myself. That's what happens when you run a business. Like I recognize like Mr. Who's the Boss probably can't do any of those animations or transitions and stuff himself either. He's probably got some dude doing it for him because it's not cost effective for him to do that himself. Like I just have these feelings of inadequacy. Basically, the more I watch really big content creators with all the money in the world, the more inadequate I feel and the worse I feel about my content, which makes me feel miserable. I should stop watching big YouTubers. |
| 11. October 2021 | I wish I could dance | I wish I could dance. Dancing is fun to do, dancing is all I do. I wish I could dance. Not just like the actual act of dancing. I mean, I like- or dancing well. I mean, I wish I was not- not as reserved as I am and I would just be willing to fucking dance randomly. Like going XQC and dancing as a crab on your bed. Like, I could not do that. |
| 18. August 2022 | I wish I could do everything other creators can do. | stuff like that, watch out. I wish I could do everything other creators can do. So when I'm happy as chat is when I think I make good content. Sometimes I'll watch YouTubers and see their high level of production quality and just be like, holy shit, I suck. So recently I've been recommended a few of these videos by Mr. Who's the Boss. So often do I look at other people's videos and think to myself, I wish I had the time to learn that stuff because I recognize that I am much better off just making content and hiring people to do that stuff for me rather than learning it myself. And I hate that shit. A part of me will always miss the day where I did everything myself. And the second I had an idea, I would just like spend an hour or two or something, looking up how to do that thing and tinker with it and learn new skills and stuff. But it's just not a good use of time now. I hate not being able to do everything myself. That's what happens when you run a business. Like I recognize like Mr. Who's the Boss probably can't do any of those animations or transitions and stuff himself either. He's probably got some dude doing it for him because it's not cost effective for him to do that himself. Like I just have these feelings of inadequacy. Basically, the more I watch really big content creators with all the money in the world, the more inadequate I feel and the worse I feel about my content, which makes me feel miserable. I should stop watching big YouTubers. |
| 13. March 2022 | I wish i was better at “meme” editing. | I wish I was better at meme editing. I should ask that, um, Moore's Mutual Insurance guy, what fonts he uses. That dude has like a lot of talent. You guys seen his videos lately? God damn. Sometimes I wish I knew how to edit like that. Set of simplistic stuff that I have as I do. I doubt there's anything in his videos that I couldn't do hypothetically. I just- I don't think in those terms. You know? I'm- |
| 05. April 2021 | I wonder how many days I could go without eating. | I wonder how many days I could go without eating. Had birthday fat met. I did avoid eating for like having not eaten for 30 hours. I treated myself to a fucktongue of hungry jacks and then I will hopefully not eat anything else for the rest of the day. I wonder how many days I could go without eating. Like if there was a sufficient incentive as in like someone said hey look a million dollars you don't eat for seven days. Like I would love to have I mean not love but it would be interesting to have that kind of test of willpower you know because at the end of the day whenever I try to avoid fast food or whatever in my head I'm like who the like who am I trying to impress? You guys don't particularly care if I'm you know five kilos more overweight. I'm actually hoping that by starting to do online dating or whatever attempting to get back into the dating pool as the kids would say. It's not what kids would say but I'll actually have some reason to give a shit you know. It's not like I've just sat around gorging myself on garbage but clearly that has me enough of incentive for me to avoid it you know. |
| 21. September 2022 | I won’t repeat my Twitch streaming mistakes with YouTube streaming | I won't repeat my Twitch streaming mistakes with YouTube streaming. I made a lot of mistakes when it came to Twitch streaming that I plan to not make with YouTube streaming. Like I eventually became so focused on making the best YouTube content possible that I did like nothing else to make my streaming experience better. One biggest example is turning off alerts. Well alerts can have some funny things happen and give me questions to answer and enable people to interact with the stream. They can be distracting from YouTube content, stuff I'm making. Even though I can remove them in post, like I can be mid speaking about something and then lose my train of thought because an alert goes off. But because I have alerts turned off so frequently, no one knows when it'll actually appear and say something on stream, so I get far fewer alerts. I continuously foster in people a feeling of disappointment when they subscribe or give bits or something and then nothing happens. And they're sitting there, like I've been there where I've donated to someone, I've sat there for like 10 minutes being like, so is it going to do something? Am I waiting for the alert to go off or is it, you know? I can just think of the hundreds of people over the years that have sat there in anticipation when nothing's happened and that can foster resentment towards the stream. I'm like zero to three new noticing donors. I just read them all at the end. But that's not what a live stream is meant to be. It's meant to be more interactive. Alerts being off are sometimes a bummer. Exactly. On YouTube, I'm effectively never going to turn them off. Also, over time, I just less and less looked at chat, which made things harder as well. So I'm switching. We'll see. YouTube is changing its life. |
| 02. April 2021 | I would never work for a souless trillion dollar company. | Work for a soulless trillion dollar company. High-popular social media platform owned by Google. Google doesn't own Twitch.tv! Are you crazy? I would never work for a soulless trillion dollar company like Google. Twitch is owned by Amazon. Which is way better. Get your facts straight. I'm very selective when it comes to the trillion dollar companies that I work for, okay? And I'm also a YouTuber. So I technically work for two different trillion dollar companies. I enjoy this. |
| 02. April 2021 | I would never work for a soulless trillion dollar company. | Work for a soulless trillion dollar company. High-popular social media platform owned by Google. Google doesn't own Twitch.tv! Are you crazy? I would never work for a soulless trillion dollar company like Google. Twitch is owned by Amazon. Which is way better. Get your facts straight. I'm very selective when it comes to the trillion dollar companies that I work for, okay? And I'm also a YouTuber. So I technically work for two different trillion dollar companies. I enjoy this. |
| 13. March 2022 | I “made it” playing GTA 5. | I made it playing GTA 5. The guy is a millionaire, he made it playing GTA 5. It's funny, I played GTA 5 for how many years? Uh, five or six years. I made no fucking money. And then you know why I started making money? When I started editing! Ain't that crazy? It's almost like you can't just play a video game and make fuck tons of money. You actually have to do other things. There are millions of people just playing video games right now, live, or you know billions playing them privately. If it were possible just to be- get millions of dollars just playing video games, everyone would be a fucking millionaire. But it's just not that way. And while I do have people helping with editing now, the amount that I edit hasn't decreased. Every waking minute, I spend either making footage, which is probably like a third of my job now, another third is management stuff, which is organizing footage, you're making thumbnails, uploading stuff, titles, rendering and all that stuff, and the other third is just raw editing, dealing with projects myself. |
| 15. February 2022 | I'd have to be crazy to do this for views. | That the again the assumption is that you have to be an absolutely terrible person to do this And you have to be intentionally like trying to sever relationships with these people or intentionally trying to say they're bad people Just to get a few more views on videos like negligible a greater amount of years You have to be saying I literally don't care about the backlash. I literally don't care how many people Comment on my videos saying that I'm a terrible person blah blah and all this terrible Attention that you're getting just for like a few more views Which in the grand scheme of things is like nothing so like what kind of person would actually have to be willing to do that That would have to be a complete psychopath. Yeah, so interestingly the mistake that I made in terms of Assuming the worst of others you've already rightly point out other people do the same thing of me So imagine believing that a person spent a day writing a script saying that other people are being exploited and ultimately a lot of labor exploitation is going on and imagine believing that this person was was a Motivated by selfish desires to call out the largest content creators get a bunch of harassment upon themselves He harassments the wrong word a lot of Insults and criticism. Let's just say there's no good end there I even talked about in the video where I say you are much better off ingratiating yourself You're becoming friends collaborating with the people at the top than you are criticizing them Um, you are much better off taking that unpaid internship if you can get it with the very large company Um, then you are trying to fight that system and say all unpaid internships are bad because you're just gonna They're just gonna go we don't care and move on the little guy very rarely can Without some huge movement change a system as I say I would watch one people understand this perspective and why I think this is wrong as opposed to You're starting some sort of labor movement in the online space |
| 03. April 2021 | I'm getting fat. | I'm getting fat. I am getting fat chat. What do you mean getting fat Matt? Shut up chat. But uh, I actually hit 95 kilos yesterday. I look at the scale like oh my god. Like I haven't eaten a meal today and still showing me as 94. Okay, to be fair my scale is a little bit inaccurate. It's like a kilo and a half maybe two kilos off. So I'm probably not actually at 95, but we're getting there. Combination of having candy around here. My sister lovingly bought me some candy for my upcoming birthday because she's in Germany. She delivered it. It got delivered earlier. She sent it through the mail, which I much so appreciate. But at the same time I'm like, ah. My waistline though, you know gave me I suppose my favorite thing was you know those gummy burgers. They're burgers that are made out of gummy. Love those things. And there's also like these gummy cherry things. Lovely stuff. I'll tell you what they taste like but I can't remember but I know I like eating them. Oh trolley burgers. That's it. Yeah. Yeah, good. You can just tell those things are just nothing but sugar and I know some kind of food coming or whatever. But yeah, I have been exercising a little bit and that's probably where my shoulder injury has come from. I'm gonna stick with it. I'm gonna try my damnedest not to eat fast food. But I've got too much of it in my gut and in my brain I guess. It's a lot harder than it used to be to avoid just grabbing that big mac or that piece especially because the money for the delivery fees doesn't matter to me anymore. Always let me chat your generosity and watching my content has caused me to get fat. Thank you. |
| 03. August 2021 | I'm not a festive person | I am not a festive person. I never do anything special for Christmas. I'm the least festive person alive. Gift-giving makes me feel awkward. I cannot stress this enough. I am a strange person. No, no, no. I totally, I'm totally cool and think it's awesome if other people want to do festive stuff. It's just not my thing. When people say like Merry Christmas to me, I'm like, yeah Merry Christmas, dude. It's all cool, man. You do you. Hope you have fun with it. I don't dislike Christmas at all. I just feel awkward around people. Feel awkward giving and receiving gifts. I feel awkward most of the time and so things like Christmas, uh, I don't look upon with like, oh my god, it's Christmas, hooray. If you want to hang out with people and have fun with them and be nice and da-da-da, just do that normally. Don't need Christmas for that. I'll see my parents on Christmas. Just on the day. I suppose the one advantage that Christmas has is that, um, it's kind of the day that everyone knows that people are making time to see other people, right? Under normal circumstances, there's more conflict and schedules and stuff, but around Christmas, people who are busy are more likely to have time to see each other, right? I'm not saying Christmas is bad. I'm just saying I'm an awkward dude. Do I have any plans for Christmas? Uh, see my family and that's about it. I'm not a very festive person. That isn't taking shots of people who are festive. Seeing a person really into Christmas is pretty cool, but I've just never been that way. I've never even been much of a gift giver. Which I've always felt like a jerk for. Just the stress of buying people presents and stuff has always not been a great feeling for me. I said to everyone like, just, just tell me what you want because now that I'm doing better financially, I feel like a jerk if I don't buy people something. I mean, I've always felt like a bit of a jerk, but you know, they've- like, no one in my family has ever given me shit for it, you know. I'm very fortunate to have the loving family that I have, but I have a very small family. I have an aunt and uncle, grandmother, grandfather, my mother and father and my sister. |
| 23. December 2022 | I've got the most annoying hearing condition in the world. | What's the most annoying hearing condition in the world? So before I went live today, I went and got my hearing tested because I currently have tinnitus, which is a thing where when everything's completely quiet, you can hear like a, mm, may not that loud, but right now, can't hear it because there's like a small whistling from my PC, I'm talking, stuff like that, but complete silence, like when you're trying to get sleep. Mm. Mm. It's a fairly common thing, but no one knows why it happens. So I went to get my hearing tested today and the woman was like, your hearing is perfect. You are amazing. I can't believe it. You have got the best hearing of anyone I've ever heard, I've ever seen in my life. That's not true, of course, but she did say like, it was pretty good. Like I was in the normal range. My ears look fine. There's no infection or something. So she was just like, yeah, there's nothing we can do. You're just gonna have to like learn to live with it. And I'm just like, oh. Science has failed me. Is it allowed in music? There are known reasons why people can get tinnitus, but no specific reason why it happens. So like, you can know a catalyst for the outcome, but you don't know what is causing that outcome, persistently. So like the hearing test, for example, goes only up to a certain range. And she's like, yeah, that whistling or whatever could be like higher than this, but we just can't test for it. So there's no known cure. Unless of course you have one of these specific, like an ear infection or something that's causing it, or a buildup of wax, which can also cause it. So she's like, yeah, you have to like turn on your TV and get to sleep while the TV is playing. Or I can have to listen to my audio book and try and get sleep. As a person who already has trouble getting to sleep, this was not something I needed. And she did ask me if it was in one ear. I don't know if maybe if it's only in one ear that's less significant or something, or maybe cure, I don't know. I'm not sure. |
| 23. December 2022 | I've got the most annyoing hearing condition in the world. | What's the most annoying hearing condition in the world? So before I went live today, I went and got my hearing tested because I currently have tinnitus, which is a thing where, when everything is completely quiet, you can hear like a... Eh... May not that loud, but right now, can't hear it cause there's like a small whistling from my PC. I'm talking stuff like that, but complete silence. Like when you're trying to get sleep, Eh... It's a fairly common thing, but no one knows why it happens. So I went to get my hearing tested today and the woman was like, your hearing is perfect. You are amazing. I can't believe it. You have got the best hearing of anyone I've ever heard, I've ever seen in my life. That's not true, of course, but she did say like it was pretty good. Like I was in the normal range. My ears look fine. There's no infection or something. So she's just like, yeah, there's nothing we can do. You're just going to have to like learn to live with it. I'm just like, ah, science has failed me. It's loud music. There are known reasons why people can get tinnitus, but no specific reason why it happens. So like you can know a catalyst for the outcome, but you don't know what is causing that outcome persistently. So like the hearing test, for example, goes only up to a certain range and she's like, yeah, that whistling or whatever could be like higher than this, but we just can't test for it. It's an unknown cure unless of course you have one of these specific like an ear infection or something that's causing it or a buildup of wax, which can also cause it. So she's like, yeah, you have to like turn on your TV and get to sleep while the TV is playing or I can have to listen to my audiobook and try and get sleep. As a person who already has trouble getting to sleep, this was not something I needed. She did ask me if it was in one ear. I don't know if maybe if it's only in one ear that's less significant or something, or maybe a cure, I don't know. But it's really it just cards and you know, there's only 1 to 1 and not more. Most of us have no idea which one is cause it to cause 파이널조 wr크LEX. So I can follow that general. I'm a ty fights. He drives a car and releases the variant code as Battaglia about 40 max and more and in 5 minutes or that around 4ms. My brother and I are just watching from your network. And does that mean it's like you can connect to your external server Head Start to Macy's Definition hoffe, we're doing sod super right now? |
| 29. October 2021 | IKEA bamboozled me | Like an hour and a half. IKEA bamboozled me. IKEA sent me a solid four text messages, including one saying that my order had been dispatched. And like, I didn't know what day it was today. I'm like, well, why would they send me four text messages, including one that said dispatched, if it wasn't gonna come today? So it said it was coming before seven, so I was just waiting until seven. I'm like, man, they're taking like a real long time to get here. And then I look at the date and it's the 12th today, and they said they were coming on the 13th. Then why send me five text messages? You know? They want me to be really, really prepared to receive my fucking bed frame. |
| 11. December 2020 | IRL Streams | Will I do more in real life streams? When will I do another plant buying stream? I promised Octavia. Don't know if they come around anymore. I haven't seen them in a while. I promised them that I'd buy a plant and name it after them and I never did and they gave me like 100 bucks worth of bits. Still feel bad about that. That was many many many months ago. Your in real life streams are great, but I don't think they'd be good if you did it a lot. So I think you're doing it right even if people ask for it a lot. Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of in real life streams. No, I don't have a big reason to go anywhere or do anything. But the main reason I don't do in real life streams because I don't have anyone to hold a camera. If I had a friend who lived with me or a significant other or whatever who would be willing to record me doing stuff, I would do tons more stuff. Like I joked in Watch Dogs 2, the playthrough, that I would do a video where I would smash a toast with a sledgehammer. I'd totally do that if I had someone to record it for me. You should see Jake in bake. He uses a head mounted camera for in real life streams. I would be way too self-conscious using a head mounted camera. In real life streams contain with them like a bunch of annoyances. You know, and I'm not much for traveling and stuff, you know, I respect people who do that stuff. But it's not my thing. |
| 12. July 2021 | Ibai’s 1.5 million viewer record on twitch | ibuy's 1.5 million twitch viewer record I did hear that ibuy had Broke another record on twitch with 1.5 million views. I mean viewers, sorry, concurrent viewers What was he streaming though? How did he get this many viewers? I know he's a Spanish streamer Yeah, but what was he streaming? Boxing match of youtuber streamers? Really? He was streaming a boxing match. Oh, I guess then it was the combination of the Viewership of those two boxing people plus the viewership of ibuy that managed to make such a record happen interesting Why is? |
| 21. March 2021 | Identity and coming to know yourself. | Knowing yourself is a very hard thing to achieve. The narrative you tell yourself about yourself is inherently biased for, like, achieving your emotional needs, right? You tell yourself you're a good person, you're doing the good things, um, that those people who don't like you, they're fucking crazy, man, and they over-exaggerate and blah blah, you tell yourself these narratives. And, like, so what I'm saying is I don't know who I am, really. A significant amount of how you learn about yourself is through other people and your interactions with other people, and I don't interact with people. I haven't interacted with people significantly in, like, half a decade. And you change significantly, like, every five years. Who am I, chat? Who am I? What I'm saying is I can't assess well if I would be good in a relationship or if I really want a relationship or not, and I just feel like I should just try. Give it a go, meet some people, and see what comes of it in the end. And I might learn some stuff about myself. Maybe I'll learn that I'm actually a huge jerk. Heh heh heh heh. What's that idea called again? Will you learn about yourself through other people? Other people in society and mirrors into yourself? What's that called? Kinda what that's called. It's true. In some ways, your good friends know you better than you know yourself. If you want to know yourself, you've got to look at yourself through the eyes of other people and your interactions with them. And I don't like that I don't have that. All I have is you guys, and you guys just know me as online content creator guy. I wonder how much of who I am has changed over the years because of the internet and Twitch and YouTube, where, like, I'm suddenly changing to meet the expectations of people online in how I interact or what I say or whatever. It would be really interesting just to talk to myself five years ago and see how much of how I act is similar. Because I can look at content from five years ago and see myself as a fairly different person, you know? I know what I'm rambling about, Sean, I'm sorry. I've just been reflecting some... I just reflect sometimes about identity, who I am, what it means to be me, what I see myself as, how accurate can I be in my self-perceptions? And it bothers me that I'm not really certain, you know, about these things. Nothing to lose sleep over? Yeah, I don't need another one of those. I hope you figure out yourself from what not. That's the disturbing thing, right? At what point could you ever really be certain that your perception of yourself is legitimate, is real, and not just a manifestation of bias? And I think the only way you could ever get close is just by testing your self-perception against the perception of other people that other people have for you, you know? Without other people, I don't think you can ever really know yourself. I suppose you could judge yourself in the same kind of way that other people do, like in actions. Like you can look back at the objective actions that you took and assess yourself based on that. Yeah, I suppose that makes sense. Even if you don't remember your motivations for those actions, maybe even that the motivations you tell yourself for those actions were actually false, the actions would still mean something. Like, I'm a firm believer, chat, that effectively everything that we do, that we tell ourselves, that we tell other people, is just all about meeting our emotional needs, achieving the sensations that we value, and avoiding the sensations that we don't value. And that's basically all life is. When a person questions us for why we've done something, everything that comes out of our mouth after that point is just, shut up, leave me alone, let me continue to do the thing that I want to do. And you emotionally want to do something, and then it's just a matter of everything that goes on in your head is just you trying to convince yourself that you're justified to do the thing that you actually emotionally want to do, you know? Like, there's a line that is obvious, but it just most recently said by Tom Scott, where he's like, the standards that people argue for are always just beneath what they're doing. Not an exact quote, I put the exact quote on Twitter. But when I think about my condemnation of other people's behaviors, and things I make exception for, I realize the things that I make exception for are the things that I myself do, or plan to do. What an amazing coincidence that our standards of behavior, or whatever, just happen to have it so that what we're doing is acceptable. What are the odds? Chess pros make me want to stop playing chess. So recently I was watching... |
| 08. May 2021 | Idiot claims you need to kill 726 people to beat GTA 5 | Idiot claims you need to kill 726 people to beat GTA 5. Someone sent me this article where they're like, you'll still have to kill 726 people if you try your best not to murder anyone in GTA 5. It's a post on- it's from a post on Reddit that only got 75 upvotes, but someone still made an article about it. Like the methodology is just terrible. For a start, like the- the way they break down the kills, they ignore that you can use different characters. So you can move around the kill count. Endless different enemies here are avoidable entirely, but they count anyway. They even- there's even a comment that mentions me and it's massively downvoted. He hasn't even completed his pacifist run yet despite starting two years ago. I- I have finished it. I just haven't released the footage. And even then, like, he kills people that you can just simply avoid. For example, the people in uh, in the two cars in Prologue. You can just run by. They don't run by in every single um, speedrun attempt. He claims that my methodology is not reproducible because it involves RNG. Uh, that's clearly not true. In that uh, doing the maximum possible avoidance, yeah, requires a bit of RNG. But certainly, there are endless people included in that total that you can just avoid and probably will avoid in casual gameplay. It's like that they intentionally killed every single obstacle and then wrote, oh this is who you have to kill to finish the- to finish the game. Inspires me to really want to finish that series. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 26. September 2021 | Idiotic YouTube comments | Idiotic YouTube comments. The vast majority of the comments that I receive on YouTube are positive, right? But there are these certain comments where you think to yourself, surely this person must realize how pathetic they sound. When they're critical of me or whatever for playing GTA 5 as much as I have, it's just like, how sad of a person do you have to be? Will you see a person enjoying themselves in a way that you personally don't enjoy? And you go out of your way to comment that you don't enjoy what that person's doing and that they suck for having fun in a way that you don't approve of. How fucking lame do you have to be? But how do these people not have any sense of self-awareness? They're like, oh man, I'm so fucking awesome, man, and you're so garbage. It's just like, who the fuck can think of themselves highly whilst commenting on YouTube about how garbage someone else is? It's just weird. Like, it doesn't get to me. The comment doesn't get to me. That these people exist gets to me. Because you can guarantee that it's these sorts of people who do the kind of attacks we see in New Zealand, right? Where a bunch of people mind their own fucking business, and that's not good enough. Not only must you not be harmful to others, you have to be doing specifically what I want you to do, or else I will raise hell. It's just, it's fucked. There are just this handful of people who just ruin everything for everyone else. Why is it not dying? |
| 26. April 2021 | Idolizing streamers and introversion. | Idle-izing streamers and introversion. Mr. Skunk, thank you for five dollars. Love seeing how much you've grown in the years. You give me motivation and you're a big role model to me. Good luck on your run. I love your eyebrows. Amen. Who said it recently? You shouldn't idolize streamers. There's as many reasons you can give for that, but I can't say that I live a truly well-rounded full life, right? I excel in exactly one area of my life. One. And that's, you could call it my career. In terms of friendships, romantic relationships, family relationships, experiential seeing of the world, I fail in all these things massively. The reason I like my life is because the thing that I do for my career is something that I find amazingly satisfying. To the degree that it overwhelms my somewhat negative feelings about being a failure in those other areas. Using me as a role model in terms of my complete lack of work-life balance is maybe not in your best interest, you know? So what I mean by this, my good traits, sure, attempt to emulate. My bad ones, avoid like the plague. Am I an introverted person? That's a fantastic question. It depends what you mean by introverted. So if simply by introverted, do you mean that I'm perfectly fine with being alone and I can enjoy being alone? And going else can sometimes tie me to the degree that I need to be alone for a bit to recharge? To a degree that's certainly a way to describe me. But if you're describing me to be simply asocial, as in I don't like going places, no. As in like, if I got an invite to a party and I had nothing else on, I'd go. When I was younger and I had friends, I would go out to places. I mean, we'd go to the city and stuff. The thing I suck at is, you know, talking to strangers, meeting new people. Unless I'm drunk, then I can do it. And I don't crave these experiences like some other people do. Like a more extroverted person kind of needs to go out and go places to kind of be happy, you know? Like I was annoyed in COVID. I mean, I was there still raring in some places, but it's not a big thing here right now. I was annoyed during COVID that, you know, the two things that I do over the year where I really go out and enjoy myself, like Twitch parties and packs, I could do neither of those things. But it wasn't a huge problem for me. But an extroverted person, you know, going out like, they'd go crazy if they didn't go out at least once a month or whatever. If not once a week, far more negatively impacted by the inability to travel. |
| 12. August 2020 | Idubbbz and Daxflame | Guaranteed. iDubbz and his Dax Flame documentary. They're video iDubb made recently. I mean, those videos he's making, those in-depth documentaries, are, uh, probably more interesting than these content cops are making. It's Dax Flame. That was, uh, that was really interesting. You've got to wonder if he does have, um, some sort of disorder. I'm just spanking him because, you know, he's clearly, he's clearly led a very interesting life, uh, gotten to be in movies and stuff. Although he doesn't seem to be in the best circumstances now. Is he just a bit of a quirky dude or definitely on the spectrum? I mean, generally when you want to diagnose, um, something as some sort of a medical disorder, it's got to be maladaptive, right? It's got to be preventing the person from achieving. It doesn't have to be, but that's usually a criteria where it's got to be preventing a person from achieving what they want to achieve in society. And, you know, he seems to have done fairly well for himself in terms of, like, the main reason why he's perhaps not popular now is just because, you know, he saw the world. He literally went around the world and saw everything. Like, even if you were just a regular guy and you did the same thing, that would be the result. |
| 29. March 2021 | If GTA 5 had a 4th character, what would its special ability be? | If GTA 5 had a fourth character, what would its special ability be? If Brad was a playable character, what would his ability be? It's funny because originally there were rumors that there was gonna be four playable characters Trevor Michael Lamar and Franklin because I was always under the impression that Franklin replaced Lamar, but some people make the case that They were meant to be both playable. I'm not sure what's true But it is hard thinking what they would have made the fourth ability to be Not needing to reload maybe it might have been the ability to run really fast Yeah, it'd probably be something like that because you've got better Driving you've got avoidance of damage. You've got better shooting. There's nothing that Like improves your on-foot stuff. So yeah, maybe faster running. Unlimited stamina? Yeah, something like that Unlimited stamina and faster running would probably be it. What would my special ability be if it was in the game if I was in the game? The ability to control time. I know man Just the ability to control time in general is a cool ability in our fiction The power that I want though is the ability to sleep or never need sleep something like that There's something that can solve my energy issues, you know, I I will always have energy you |
| 26. August 2021 | If I could be a GTA 6 loading screen… | GTA 6 loading screen, how would I want to be depicted? Matt, if you had to get a loading screen of yourself in GTA, what would be your ideal picture? It would be me holding a sign that says, hey yo, check out my stream at www.twitch.tv slash darkviperau. If I'm not allowed to blatantly advertise myself, I know I would quickly get a tattoo of my stream name on my forehead before they took any kind of picture or something for the thing. If we're talking GTA 6 here, I would rather, regardless of how it looked, to get that in front of millions of people. Within reason of course, but it's hard to imagine as long as it was recognizably me or something or articles would be written about it. There are definitely depictions of me that I wouldn't want even for the advertisement. There's not many. Or rather, there's not many that Rockstar would allow that I wouldn't approve of. It's very unlikely Rockstar would have a loading screen thing that would have me stealing a small child and throwing them against a wall. I wouldn't want it to be depicted in that way. But of course, Rockstar wouldn't allow that kind of thing, so there would be no chance that, you know. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 02. May 2021 | If I could purge one social media from existence which it be? | If I could purge one social media from existence, which would it be? Matter of you could delete a social media from existence, which one would you choose? Oh Facebook, 100% Facebook. God damn. Purge Facebook from existence. You hear apparently a bunch of personal data leaked from 553 million users, like. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 09. December 2020 | If I could travel back in time what would I do? | If I could travel back in time, what would I do? Are you saying like, if I could go back in time with what I know now, what would I do? Outside of, you know, investing in the stock market and various different companies, blah blah blah. Probably start Twitch like, the day it started. I like what I do now. I would effectively just be ahead of the curb for every major game. What game would I play? I guess I'd play League of Legends and CSGO. But I would still be a kid. My parents would not be happy with me not doing my schoolwork and stuff, you know? Presumably though I'd be able to ace high school at my current age. I would probably still speed run, but I would probably speed run Super Mario 64. I don't view myself as being a person who's good with controllers, but of course I'd learn. Siglemic back in the day, there's pictures of him with like 13k viewers. Back when like, the next biggest stream was like 2000 viewers, that kind of stuff. We're talking like there was a time when, some days, Siglemic playing Super Mario 64 and speed running it was the top stream on Twitch. Like, starting Super Mario 64 back then, and sticking with it in the same way that people stick with it today, you could make a very good stream off that. Shout out to SymbolFlips, he's a good dude. He never did tell me about why he ended up going to Facebook gaming and coming somewhat to Twitch and all that stuff. There's a lot of |
| 02. March 2022 | If I could, would I wipe memories from my mind? | Would I wipe memories from my mind? I have tons of memories that I wish I could blot out of my mind. Certainly, it's good to remember bad events in your life so you don't repeat them. It wouldn't be good to have, like, let's say, amnesia for all the bad parts in your life. It would lead you to experiencing bad events more frequently, more than likely, because you couldn't learn from your mistakes. But there are certainly a lot of things in my past, usually interactions with people. That I feel as though if I could remove, I'd feel better off and I wouldn't be likely to repeat those events anyway. You know? It's often good to answer these questions with what just came to mind. And what came to mind was, in like the third grade or something, we had this play where everyone had these, you know, fake banana, paper mache kind of things. It was basically like, imagine you took two huge banana bunches that were drawn on paper. And then you put them both together and then you filled it with paper. So it was basically like a large paper thing that looked like a bunch of bananas, right? But only on the front was it painted yellow and the bananas were drawn. So on the back, it was just a, just look, why? OK? And something about the play is like, we were basically meant to sing and hold these banana, fake banana bunches in front of us. And then we move one forward over and over. It's very hard to explain. But basically, I was so shy and embarrassed that I basically hid behind my bunch of bananas in the goal of not being seen as much. But stupid me, I don't know how I didn't notice, but I was, my bananas were the wrong way around. So every single other person's bananas were yellow and drawn on, but mine was just showing completely blank whites. So I stood out like a massive sore thumb. Also, because I was hiding myself, I stood out even more. And my mother was there and she was amazingly embarrassed as well by my display, not wanting to be involved and da da da. And I'm pretty sure she was so embarrassed she yelled at me afterwards. Now, obviously, these details are more than likely a bit skewed. Did she yell at me? Did she not? But the general sense of that memory is one of mortification embarrassments. I don't think that memory does me any good remembering it now. How many years later? Multiple decades later. But it's still there. Still there to the point that when you ask me a question, that's what came to mind. Not something within the last five years, not something within the last 10 years, but that event in a school play. I think I would do good if I could forget that memory. Twitch. |
| 02. March 2022 | If I could, would i wipe memories from my mind? | Would I wipe memories from my mind? I have tons of memories that I wish I could blot out of my mind. Certainly, it's good to remember bad events in your life so you don't repeat them. It wouldn't be good to have, like, let's say, amnesia for all the bad parts in your life. It would lead you to experiencing bad events more frequently, more than likely, because you couldn't learn from your mistakes. But there are certainly a lot of things in my past, usually interactions with people. That I feel as though if I could remove, I'd feel better off and I wouldn't be likely to repeat those events anyway. You know? It's often good to answer these questions with what just came to mind. And what came to mind was, in like the third grade or something, we had this play where everyone had these, you know, fake banana, paper mache kind of things. It was basically like, imagine you took two huge banana bunches that were drawn on paper. And then you put them both together and then you filled it with paper. So it was basically like a large paper thing that looked like a bunch of bananas, right? But only on the front was it painted yellow and the bananas were drawn. So on the back, it was just a, just look, why? OK? And something about the play is like, we were basically meant to sing and hold these banana, fake banana bunches in front of us. And then we move one forward over and over. It's very hard to explain. But basically, I was so shy and embarrassed that I basically hid behind my bunch of bananas in the goal of not being seen as much. But stupid me, I don't know how I didn't notice, but I was, my bananas were the wrong way around. So every single other person's bananas were yellow and drawn on, but mine was just showing completely blank whites. So I stood out like a massive sore thumb. Also, because I was hiding myself, I stood out even more. And my mother was there and she was amazingly embarrassed as well by my display, not wanting to be involved and da da da. And I'm pretty sure she was so embarrassed she yelled at me afterwards. Now, obviously, these details are more than likely a bit skewed. Did she yell at me? Did she not? But the general sense of that memory is one of mortification embarrassments. I don't think that memory does me any good remembering it now. How many years later? Multiple decades later. But it's still there. Still there to the point that when you ask me a question, that's what came to mind. Not something within the last five years, not something within the last 10 years, but that event in a school play. I think I would do good if I could forget that memory. Twitch. |
| 29. April 2021 | If I don't do it my competition will | and do it my competitors will Sometimes I feel like any business bigger than a family business is always borderlines scummy or unethical Do you agree? Yeah, I think I do agree Like there's just this certain level of detachment once your company gets really really large It's like it's not my responsibility It's like the companies and stuff while I'm making this decision that's kind of shitty I mean that's my job, you know I'm just a part of the system and in some cases you're legally obligated to do everything possible to benefit your shareholders and whatnot and you can be sued if you don't do that So sure it's like based on my personal ethics this is wrong but I mean I gotta do it it's my job and then you say to yourself at the end of the day like if I don't do this then other people will do it if I don't do this my competitor will do it like is there anything in business that you can't justify at the end of the day by saying if I don't do this my competitor will do it like you can see all my complaining about reaction videos until the cows come home and then you can watch me at the next day go I mean if I don't react to videos then I'm just gonna fall behind all the other people who are reacting to videos like this is a part of the landscape of what's successful while I don't think it's a very good thing just sitting there watching someone else's entire content uploading it to YouTube clearly I'm in the minority here obviously I have a pretty bleak view of the world |
| 02. April 2021 | If I had to share a cell with one GTA 5 main character, who would it be? | If I had to share a cell with one GTA 5 main character, who would it be? If you had to share a cell with one of the main characters, who would it be? Cell? A cell? Oh! Why do I think cell phone? Who would it be? Chubb. Oh, it has to be main character. I mean Chubb's the main character, he's on the character wheel. I guess Michael? Because he has the most connections and he's not crazy? Is he? Definitely not Trevor, because he is fucking crazy. Franklin would be second, but you know, Franklin's just an up-and-comer guy. Like he has connections in his street, in his little gang or whatever, but he he doesn't necessarily in prison. And certainly Michael does have enemies, but it never references who those enemies really are. It's like that like, that Franklin has enemies that are a whole gang and in prison you could meet that gang, you know, you get in some trouble, you know. One of my clips now has four million views. What do I think of the Blackjack dealer clip blowing up? It's a funny clip. It's arguably one of the funniest clips I've ever done. Yeah, this is my girlfriend. She's laughing, she can hear me! I know she can hear me. It's that mix of funny, awkward, embarrassing, little bit mysterious, perfect timing. Like it's the perfect clip that should blow up. It's almost got like five million views right now, right? To capitalize on it, I wanted my original gambling stream re-edited, because the the full versions of the gambling streams, like one episode has like a million views and the other ones have like a hundred thousand or something. |
| 06. June 2020 | If YouTube stopped paying me, would I still make videos? | sales. If YouTube stops paying you, will you still make videos? And if so, will you still try as hard to edit them? Would still finish Pacifist, would still finish one Hikio. I would still probably make content, but it'd be less. As in, the purpose, one of the main reasons I made YouTube content was less about the money, but to drive people to my Twitch stream, to get people more interested in coming to my Twitch and saying hello and potentially subbing here. That avenue would still be there. It's just there would be less of an imperative to make as much content or to focus as much on YouTube. So you wouldn't see one Hikio or Pacifist go away, but you would probably see highlights of my other playthroughs go away. How this even ended would probably go away as well, because I still, I like making YouTube content. There would just be less of a reason to put aside doing Twitch to hammer home, hammer out a YouTube video, whatever. There would be no timetable anymore. I would be like, well, you know, I feel like making YouTube videos today. I'm gonna make that YouTube video, you know. It isn't all about the money, but money does motivate. |
| 26. December 2021 | If reaction content is exploitive why aren't video game playthroughs? | If reaction content is exploitative, why aren't video game playthroughs? Aren't you just reacting to the game? A question the reaction argument that you said earlier, why wouldn't that apply to video games or playthroughs? There is also most of people who made the game, for example GTA 5, and people who are playing that game and making money from it on YouTube, for example, are robbing people who work hard to make the game. I'd be proud that people enjoy a game that I made. I have made some games and tried doing games and be happy to see people playing the games that I did. So there's a few major differences. The first is that a video game is made to be played, you cannot experience the entire thing by watching someone play it. When you use a clip from a video, you are only taking a part of the value of that video to make something new. When you watch the entire video, you are taking the entirety of the value of that video and using it for your own purposes. No one has any reason to then watch that video because you've taken the entire value. With video games, it is impossible for a video to convey all value that that game can offer. Even if I played it from start to finish and you never blinked and watched the entire thing, you'd play it in a different way. The experience of playing the game will always be different. It's why when influencer marketing became a thing, the first people that jumped on that, or at least in the media sphere, were video games. Because it's impossible for a person playing a game to convey all value of that game. It took a while for TV shows to jump on and what they do is they make 10 episodes in a TV show and then they pay a content creator to watch the first two episodes. You're only using a part of the value of that series and so it can inspire the audience to then watch the rest of that series. It's like a preview. Another big difference is that if you've ever read the TOS of a video game, it explicitly says you can make this content. Although it does sometimes put restrictions, like for example, cutscene movies are usually against TOS. If you convey the entire story and use all the cutscenes, then that can actually remove all possible value from the game for those who are only interested in the story. So it's consensual making content about video games. |
| 02. February 2023 | If you have never played this game, you're not a real gamer. | short. If you've never played this game, you're not a real gamer. How much are you getting paid to play on stream? It's so insulting to how good this game is that people ask that question sometimes in chat. Like, you do not understand how disrespectful you are being to a game that like defines a genre. This game is legendary. This is one of the indie darlings. It is sad to me that there are people growing up right now who have not played Noble Place, let us about. I mean, this is an expansion for it by another dev team, but still. Another whole team was willing to make an expansion for a game they didn't even make. That's how good this game is. Looks a lot cooler having knowledge. Yeah, it's a game that takes time to understand. It's funny that every single person that played this game for the first time makes the mistake that they just pick all the cool cards. It is for beginners of this game. Don't just pick all the cards. Sometimes you want to not take cards. It seems like a simple bit of advice, but it's honestly the best advice you can get in this game. Is this more than public? Yeah, it's public. It's what's called the downfall. It's on Steam. It's got its own Steam page. It's a whole new campaign. It's got a new character. You can play as bosses and defend the heart and stuff. It's apparently pretty nuts. Someone was telling me that the people who made this are like a bigger dev team or bigger company than the people who made the original game. It's got like the seal of approval of our original devs. What do you mean by the modest developer approved? They mentioned it in patch notes as a great way to play the game again. |
| 27. October 2021 | Imagine being one of the useless avengers | Imagine being one of the useless Avengers. I wonder if Black Widow and Hawkeye, the actors are like, man, why couldn't I have played some other character? Why couldn't I have been more significant? I mean, sure, it's good to be included regardless, but like, you're crying all the way at the bank or whatever, right? Hawkeye is the best, don't at me. He's the best at not being significant. Wasn't he not in Endgame? You get to the end of the movie, you're like, was Hawkeye not in that movie? You exist in a world where magic exists and you know about it and you have access to people like from, you have access to gods, people from Asgard and shit. Wouldn't you, wouldn't you be like, hey Thor, I feel a bit underpowered here with my normal bow and shit. Sure, it's advanced technology, but like, can you like make me like a Mjolnir, but a bow, please? You'd be like, oh yeah, sure, puny human. You've kind of been weighing us down. Here, take this fucking bow that shoots lightning bolts or some shit. Hawkeye is pretty useless, relatable though. What's your role on the team, Hawkeye? I'm here to be relatable. |
| 10. November 2021 | Imagine if taking care of your health was your job. | Imagine if taking care of your health was your job. Like wouldn't it be cool if someone just said to you, hey look, I will give you three million dollars if you just commit yourself for two years to physical fitness and well-being. And so like you just got to everyday exercise, educate yourself on everything about the human body and dietary habits and you know, physical fitness and stuff. And that's your whole life for two years. That'd be so cool. Cause I don't think the benefits of that lifestyle are worth all the effort needed to maintain it and how much else you'd have to give up. But for three million dollars, the benefits would be there. It's basically called a professional athlete. True, true. |
| 06. March 2021 | Imagining and remembering taste | Imagining and remembering taste. Someone asked me my favorite fast food restaurant. I don't know. I'm not really fast. I've mentioned this before. I never know how many people actually hear when I mention something, because only a small portion of people watch my rambles. But as I've said before, I can neither remember nor imagine any taste. I can picture in my head a cheeseburger. I can even picture myself eating that cheeseburger. But at no point in my imagining does that cheeseburger have a taste. I can remember times when I've specifically eaten a cheeseburger. I can remember eating a cheeseburger this morning. I cannot remember what it tastes like. But when I eat a cheeseburger, I immediately know if it tastes like a cheeseburger or not. In other words, I have the ability to recognize taste, but I can't recall taste. So when I say I prefer some food over another, it's not because I'm remembering the taste. It's because I'm remembering the sensation and the level of satisfaction I had when eating it. So I can remember, for example, if I was disgusted with a meal, or if I enjoyed my experience eating a meal, but I can't remember what the taste was when I ate that meal. Apparently, there are some people who can. Someone do a... poll. I think it's something like... What did that Tom Scott video say? I think it's like 15% of people can't have the issue that I have. Make the poll, are you able to recall or imagine tastes? I can't do it with smells either, but same thing. Yeah, so 76%. That's not surprising. The first time I heard about this was in a video that Tom Scott did, where he polled his audience. Apparently, this was something that researchers were attempting to get feedback from people on. I mean, for those who weren't here for the... aphantasia conversation, in your head, try to imagine a red star. You can close your eyes if you like. Usually closing your eyes helps. Like, can you visually see a star? People will be on a spectrum of either seeing nothing, or all the way to seeing an actual red star. Some people can make a star with no color. Some people have just outlines of stuff. They can't, you know. For me, I can basically mentally envision anything. I can mentally envision the guy from Halo wearing a left shark outfit, smelling a sunflower. And that's...the more complicated the image, the harder it is to generate. But I don't have difficulty with this. But that sunflower will have no smell. I can imagine myself in first person, sniffing a sunflower. It has no smell. I know for a fact I've experienced the smell of a sunflower before, but I can't bring that to mind. I can't add that to my mental image. Some people can. Now look it up, Big K. It's just people differ in the degree to which they can make mental images. Does this affect dreams? Uh, I can't remember. It was mentioned. I've always wondered if that's why some people need to have the TV going when they go to sleep. Like me personally, when I'm going to sleep, what I do is I close my eyes and tell myself stories. I'll often mentally implant myself in the world of whatever story I was just... I'll be in Jujitsu Saucer and I'll be punching cursed beasts or something. And I will just play these images to myself until I go to sleep. What sucks is when you get on these tangents where, for some reason, you'll create a mental image of something really disgusting, and then that's all you can do. As you try to overwrite that image with stuff less disgusting, the disgusting images will continue to overwrite those new images. In the same way, like if a person says, don't think of a pink elephant, you think of a pink elephant. Yeah, so the complete lack of mental imagery, aphantasia, only affects a tiny amount of people. And I don't know what such people do. My mother claims to be unable to make mental images, and she goes to bed with the TV on at night. And that's what made me think maybe that's just a common thing for people with aphantasia. Aphantasia spectrum? Well, yeah, I just mentioned that, Keegan. I meant having complete lack of mental images, as I think it affects a small amount of people. I mean, I just said that. It's annoying when I say something and then a person says something as if it's contradicting something I said, or specifically the last thing that I said. It's as I always say, it's no one has ever experienced what it's like to have someone else's mind. And we can't, you know, directly study a person's mind. Like, a lot of it is, you know, the feedback individuals give. If you imagine stuff in your mind, is it literally the same as seeing it in real life? I can easily manipulate objects in my mind, like turning them to see what they would look like from a different perspective, et cetera, so that I can't see anything. No, it isn't the same as visually seeing it, not even close. It's possible that for other people it's even more vivid than it is for me, but... |
| 29. May 2020 | Immaturity in inability to communicate emotions | that not happen. Do you think that a person that can't openly talk about their emotions, like rage or more explicitly love, in a conversation is immature? But it depends on the context. Like, when you say you can't openly talk about these things, like I don't think you're somehow immature for not, you know, being in the supermarket, being like, yeah, so I mean having these relationship issues and just openly talking about every issue that you have, mentally or otherwise, if you have a significant other or family members or friends or whatever, and you find yourself incapable of explaining your emotional state or what have you, that is, well, I would, that's a level of emotional immaturity. That's certainly not a good thing, because certainly being open about how you feel can be therapeutic and help you understand yourself. You wouldn't want to be in that circumstance. |
| 15. February 2022 | Immediate thoughts on Charlie's video. | I just want to ask first of all straight off the bat like you released this script to your Twitter and you probably thought I'll just release it to my Twitter didn't think anything of it really and then Charlie aka moistcritical releases his video so like I'm super curious like the moment you realized the video was released and when you were watching it like how did you feel about that like did you were you like overwhelmed with like this what the hell is going on kind of feeling oh and I was just angry and so that response as I said in the video is one of the worst responses I've ever received like I've now made my peace with Charlie and I do think I wrongly maligned him and said things about his character that simply aren't true but that doesn't ignore that in terms of his encapsulation of my work it was just wrong it was it was very frustrating to hear so much of what I had written to be misunderstood I always consider myself to be at least pretty fair in terms of communication and my essay writing was something that I take pride in and just to see a person just misunderstand it all was maybe it was even a blow to my ego I'm like how could I be misunderstood this much but again as I've mentioned to many people it's entirely possible that Charlie was just very angry at me and therefore was less receptive to what I was saying we all do that you know and he's right I was critical of him I was critical of critical so like I don't blame him for not necessarily you know having the best state of mind to acknowledge certain things that I said or to to take them with an open mind as I say anyway and that's and then in his second video while he was still critical of me for certain things that he said justifiably so he did accept that he had got some things wrong and so that was enough for me to go okay and it was enough it was also just time past gave me enough time to cool down and say okay this is clearly a lot of misunderstandings going on here I am at fault to some degree which is always good to acknowledge when you try to look at yourself and see where have I gone wrong here so you hopefully won't do it in the future and so that my what did you my response was just I am angry and I really wish this didn't happen you know |
| 01. June 2020 | Immigration crime and culture | bounce or whatever it's called. How do you feel about immigration and the fear of immigrants, increasing crime rates and splitting cultures? Statistically, it's not valid. Because a native citizen has never had to work to be in the country that they're in. Their circumstances have likely remained fairly constant through their lives. You're born middle class, you stay in middle class, whatever. You haven't experienced the flip side of the coin, being in a less well-off country. You've never had to fight for the rights that we in Western countries take for advantage for every day. And legal immigrant recognizes that if they do anything, fucking anything, they're going to potentially be sent away. They've fought life and limb or paid a lot of money potentially risking potential injury or what have you from smugglers to get into this country or they've traveled far, or they've overstayed their visas. They take a lot of risk being where they are. So they have more pressures to keep their heads down and not cause a ruckus. So those pressures exist that don't exist for native citizens who, you know, if they commit a crime, the worst that can happen to them is the penalty for that crime. Where for a legal immigrant, it's potentially a lot worse. For an immigrant, if you're moving and staying permanently in another country legally, you are already going to be fairly educated and fairly well off. We're talking about different forms of immigration right now, but this is the general rule of an immigrant. Most people who want to move and live legally in another country who are willing to go through the years long process of checks and blah, blah, blah, signing all the papers, plotting all the lines, which is a years long process to legally get into another country. You have to be in a fairly stable, decent spot to be able to do that. So the average immigrants who's traveled is going to be initially in a better circumstance than the average person in the country they're likely moving to. It's why Chinese people in America make more money on average than the average white American. Significantly so, because if you're moving all the way from China to America and you're being led in through the visa process and dah, dah, dah, dah, you're going to be a very educated person who has access to the funds that you can facilitate that process. These aren't the people most likely to commit crimes. You're taking in general the best in regards to immigration, and you're rejecting the worst. You can't select your native born citizens, but you can select your immigrants. And again, they know what it's like in the other place. And if they fuck up, they know they can lose their citizenship and be sent back away. And all the progress, all the money, all the time they've spent to get in that country is going to be lost. A native born citizen doesn't have that kind of pressure to do that, because they know the worst that can happen is the actual punishment for the crime, as opposed to potentially being forced to leave. From those factors, you can understand why fears of immigrants increasing crime don't make sense, illegal or otherwise. But the statistics also show that out. Oh, in regards to split cultures, I have never thought highly of culture. I don't. When you ask a person, what is X culture, they'll list a bunch of fucking things that you won't agree with. It's like, what's Australian culture? Ask an Aussie. You ask 10 Aussies what Australian culture is, they'll all give you a different fucking answer. People go, well, I have this demographic. I believe in these things. Therefore, these things are the culture of this demographic. It just doesn't pan out. It's like people talk about white culture or black culture, whatever. And you, you survey these populations and they disagree on fucking everything. The more localized a group is when they're literally living arm to arm in an area, there will be far more similarities between those people than people who are far, far spread out. But we're not in the 14th century where, you know, you might see one dude outside of your village, like a year. We live in a globalized society with just endless amounts of people all moving around all the time, planes. We have, you know, all this information on the internet. We have TV and da da da. We don't live in insulated little cultures anymore. Information is global. People are influenced by endless different sources. Are there values and beliefs that I value, that I support more than others? Of course, because I have these things. A person who lives in Australia, who doesn't support anything that I support, is not somehow more valuable to me than a person in another country who does support all the things that I support. I would rather the world be in a way that people just took the best ideas that best facilitated certain goals and jettisoned the idea of tradition and what we did before. Who gives a shit? If you can empirically show that it works, that's what you should be doing. Not, well, we've always been doing this, man. My father before his father has done this and blah, blah. This is my culture and I've been doing this all my life. Fuck off. Just do the thing that you can empirically show achieves the goal. It achieves the outcome that you desire. I don't think much of culture. |
| 19. July 2020 | Implications of ninja/shroud/mixer shutdown. | The implications of Ninja, Shroud, and Mixer on the streamer marketplace. The failure of Mixer will mean that large streamers command less of a price. As in, no one really has any idea exactly how valuable any particular streamer is. I guess you could say they are as valuable as people who need to pay for them, but you get the idea. I mean, value in terms of bringing an audience to a new platform. We now know that two of the biggest streamers cannot themselves carry a platform to success. Now, I think it would be naive for people to think that to begin with, but obviously we now have a greater idea as to how much of an audience a person is likely going to take if they move platform, and how much they can carry another platform, blah blah blah. Like when I got my offer from Mixer, which I talked about in one of my rambles, I said to them, look, I'm probably going to be just like Ninja and Shroud moving, so the amount of my audience I'm going to keep is probably going to be similar to them, and they only kept like 20-30% of their audience. And so when I was calculating whether that made a good move for me, I used Shroud and Ninja as a barometer. And so they're going to be used in even more contexts as a barometer, now with people threatening to move to different platforms and blah blah blah. Mixer is not necessarily the same as a move to YouTube or something. Variables will be different, but it's an insight into the value of any particular streamer is what I'm saying. And so it will impact contracts and da da da. If anything, a smaller streamer has probably a larger chance of keeping a greater proportion of their viewers than a larger streamer does. Because when you get to that kind of size, you can't really have a deeper, meaningful relationship with your viewers. You know what I'm saying? Like this, a greater portion of the viewers are just there to watch and have no expectation of an interaction with the streamer and don't really care about the streamer. It's just the large stream that I'm just going to watch, blah blah blah. But if you're a smaller streamer, the people who are already going out of their way to watch you as opposed to one of the larger streamers. So you've got to assume that smaller streamers, their viewers, are more dedicated to watching them than the larger streamers viewers, at least proportionally. Some mixers shut down a merger with Facebook Gaming and are you also glad you didn't take their offer? No, not at all, man. If I had taken the mixer offer, they would have had to have fulfilled their contract. So they would have paid me out years of revenue. I didn't think about it, but I think legally, if I had taken that mixer contract, they probably would have paid me. When they went under, they probably would have had to pay me $100,000. I did not think about this until this very moment, and now I'm sad. Thanks. |
| 30. November 2020 | Important New Information About Fed/Pokimane Drama | New information in the Fed Pokemane drama. I don't normally do off-stream rambles, but the PokeFed drama has gotten more stuff added to it, which changes how the previous information would be perceived, and if I don't report on it, you know, people might come away with the wrong opinion of those involved. So I have an obligation to say something, or at least recap it for those who only watch my content and don't follow the entire thing. Basically, for those who want to recap, five months ago, Fed did some shit, looked like a complete jerk. Pokemane talked about her involvement in that, and then three, four days ago, Fed came out, released an entire document that suggested that while he is still a bad person, you know, Pokemane is pretty bad too. The reason why Fed's allegations about Pokemane seems more likely true than false is because he had receipts, he did show personal messages. This was a leaked document, as in he wasn't releasing it to the public to try and sway public opinion. It was more, this is information that he had privately that he created that someone else leaked. Now, something you create in private without an intention to show the public means it isn't being influenced by, you know, what the public's going to believe, so it's more likely to be considered true. It's like if you overhear a conversation between two people in private, if they're having that in a room where they can be overheard, the end of the context is different, so what you can glean as to the likely truth or falsehood of that conversation completely changes depending upon that context. The other reason it was considered more likely true than false was Pokemane's response to it, where she sat on stream and skimmed over a lot of different things and made herself look pretty bad, considering that she callously laughed at a bunch of things and admitted to being somewhat of a jerk in regards to a particular tweet she sent out. She just didn't come across looking that good. But now, Pokemane has released her own document that completely changes how Fed's information can be perceived. Fed claims that he and Pokemane had a relationship and that she led him on, like even after saying they should just be friends, she was sending him messages that were, was making it seem like she still wanted to rekindle that relationship. Now, Pokemane provided additional context to the messages that Fed released, and it shows that that doesn't seem to be the case, in that while they did have that flirtatious period, although it does seem like Fed flirted with goddamn everyone, Pokemane did reciprocate for a few months and then said, no, I think we should just be friends, and ended it there. The further messages that he showed, one of them was that it looked like Pokemane was being jealous because a streamer was talking about Fed on her stream, when in reality, Fed had complained multiple times to Pokemane that this girl was just using him for clout and mentioning him all the time for clout. So when Pokemane sent messages saying, oh yeah, I joined her stream and she mentioned you, it was terrible. In reality, she was just supporting the narrative that Fed had given her. She was saying, oh yeah, I see what you mean about that girl always talking about you. Yeah, this does seem like what you're saying. And what made it worse is that Fed cropped off the second half of the message, showing that he was perfectly fine with what she was saying there, and vindicating the story, this reframing that Pokemane has put forth. Another thing that Fed put forth that made it suggestive that Pokemane was trying to sleep with him or get her to come back to her room or whatever, in reality, those messages were, it was talking about a group of them all staying in a particular room because Fed's room was larger, so it wasn't Pokemane and Fed, it was Pokemane, two other people and Fed all staying there, just as friends. It wasn't Pokemane leading him on in any capacity. Fred just didn't explain that context, and so it made it look like Pokemane was asking to either go back to his place or her to go back, or him to go back to her place. It also seems around this period that Fed wasn't just a sad puppy waiting for Pokemane, he did seem to pursue other women, and Pokemane even seemed to try to help him have that option to let him move on. Even the situation where Fed said, you know, Pokemane made it seem like as though I was the one calling for Yvonne to be fired, but that's not true, look at all these messages where Pokemane is saying these negative things about her. In reality, seeing more messages, it seemed as though Fed was the one most dissatisfied with Yvonne, and Fed's, sorry, Pokemane's impression of Yvonne came from Fed, as in she was largely parroting back to Fed and to others things that Fed had said about Yvonne. Pokemane may have had her own dissatisfaction with Yvonne, but the person, Yvonne, apparently has come forth and said, no, Pokemane was supportive of me. What negative things that Pokemane seemed to be saying in those messages was just her repeating what Fed had said, as in her impression of Yvonne came from Fed, as opposed to being her own generated thing that Fed was trying to say, oh, no, this is not on, which is how he wanted to present things. Basically, Fed either misrepresented things intentionally by leaving off context, or just made no intention to give any kind of context to what he was presenting forth, making him seem very unreliable. The things that Pokemane has put forth make it suggestive that her original statements five months ago are indeed accurate, or at the very least, mostly accurate, in that she did still seem to kind of downplay the involvement that they had over those months period. But that seems a very minor thing compared to what Fed seems to have done here, which is intentionally cropping messages and intentionally leaving off context to paint things in a bad light. What also makes Fed seem less reliable is that while it was suggested originally that this was a leaked document, it's come out that Fed may have been involved in large part with the leaking of this document. So while originally it seemed more likely true than false, partly because it was leaked. It was a private thing that was never meant to see the public eye. Now it seems like Fed did construct this document with the goal of it eventually releasing to the public through some means. And it now almost seems cowardly that he, or at least dishonest, that he tried to use this leaked route to give himself some more credibility. All in all, you can never know exactly what happened, but Pokemane comes across here as being far more trustworthy and far more likely to be true than Fed in this case, because of all the reasons I've mentioned previously. So if you have a negative perception of Pokemane, don't let it be about this, because at best it's a wash, at worst it appears as though that Pokemane is legitimately in the right here. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 14. May 2021 | Imposing limitations to make a game harder. | Imposing limitations to make a game harder. I make every mission look dumb and easy. I mean, as with most games, when you know how to do something, it becomes a lot easier. Like Dark Souls seems to be a really, really hard game, until you've beaten each of the bosses ten times, and you know what their attacks. What makes the game harder again is when you put limitations on yourself. Go as fast as possible. Do it without doing X, you know. You artificially increase the difficulty. Completing the game is easy. With no restrictions, I could do that every single time without fail. Doing it without taking damage, doing it as fast as possible, very difficult. |
| 15. February 2022 | Impressions are not infinite, on YouTube or anywhere. | Yeah, everyone or a few people seem to misunderstand that impressions. Well, they seem to understand think that impressions are infinite. And I saw, for example, in Ethan Klein's video, he was trying to rebuke the fact that you said that impressions are a finite resource. And react videos take that resource away from other people. And he's like, No, no, no, there's enough there's enough YouTube for everyone. You know, if you if you're not getting enough views, you're just jealous. And if you're not getting enough views, pretty much the implication is, if you do everything right, then you should succeed. And if you're not succeeding, it's because you're doing something wrong. And what's interesting is that, again, I'm not saying what you know, some ideologies are good or bad, but a socialist would say, the system is sort of rigged in that not everyone can succeed, which is kind of like fall into that. Where the monetary system is designed to transfer wealth from the poor to the rich and and not everyone can be can pay back their debts, basically by design. So some people are going to lose right. And YouTube is kind of the same way there isn't an infinite amount of resources. I mean, if you look at if you look at the way you use YouTube, for example, I mean, I know you were talking about different platforms, but YouTube, especially. I mean, you're a content creator as well. So you know that the vast, vast majority of views that you get as a YouTube creator is from recommended. So it's from either the homepage or is from suggested pretty much like for me, it's like 50 something percent is from the homepage. And then 20 something percent is from suggested. So it's like 80% comes from impressions, right, rather than people going to my page or whatever. And you can just basically is to say that that impressions on the homepage or suggested is infinite is kind of like crazy. No, I saw how it works. And the worst offender is probably mobile. Because if you go to if you go to YouTube on mobile, when you initially open it up, you've got like one or two videos. On the on the homepage, and basically the amount of impressions is capped at where you click a video. So so people don't basically scroll down 100 videos and then choose one is scroll down to where they want to click a video. And then that's it. So they may they may even only get like one or two impressions before they click a video. And that's it. I mean, I could be a react video. I can say I say a lot of this. So the the concept of saying that impressions are infinite is like saying, technically, we have infinite food. Technically, we have infinite food. Because as long as we continue to exist as a species, we can just keep making more of it. But it doesn't acknowledge the finite amount of food you can have at any given one at any one given time. Any day, there is a finite amount of impressions because each person seeking entertainment only has a finite amount of time for the entertainment. If we were just to sit them all down and have them do it, nothing but look at impressions of videos, there would be a finite amount of that. But obviously, we're not forcing people to look at more impressions. There's just a certain amount that they will see during that day. And that finite amount YouTube recognizes as a finite resource. So they build an algorithm specifically not to waste any of that space. They want each let's say you're only on YouTube for five minutes. They want every single one of those impressions to be as tailored as possible to you because they know you're not going to scroll forever. They know you're not going to be there forever. You're just eventually going to fuck off and do something else or just literally run out of time. You've only got 10 minutes to watch entertainment. If you don't find something in that time, you're just going to go. There is a finite amount of impressions in that sense in that everyone doesn't have an infinite time of a day. There's only so much time that people can be watching content. But in terms of everyone being successful, it's hard to do for YouTube because it's so large. But the easier comparisons is using TikTok and Twitch. So on Twitch, the analytics says you can look at Sully Gnome where if all viewers were evenly distributed amongst every streamer that streams at any given time, each streamer would have 20 viewers. 20 viewers is obviously not enough to be successful, to have a career on Twitch. It must be the case that you must have more than an even distributing of viewers for certain people to be successful. TikTok is the same in that TikTok has a similar sort of thing, but they also have a finite amount of money that is given. So the creator pool is $200 million. And as time has gone on, as more and more creators have joined the pool, each view is therefore worth less money because the pool of money isn't going up. So a view once upon a time might have been worth one cent, let's say. But if the platform gets double the views, then it's going to be worth half a cent because the pool is now being spread more thinly. In the same way on YouTube, because there's a finite amount of impressions every day, every single time a new content creator comes into the space, every single time a new video is made, those impressions are then shared more thinly. And the example I tried to give is if every single content creator disappeared from YouTube and I was the only person making videos, I would get a fuck ton more impressions. Obviously, I would get all the impressions of anyone who joined YouTube that day. I'm not saying YouTube will be successful in the long term, obviously not. But for that short period, people were like, who the fuck is this Dark Fiber fellow? And I would clearly get more views. I don't think they're being intentionally disingenuous. I think they just don't understand the economy of what's happening. I just don't think they understand really how it works. But yeah, Ludwig also said that if people stopped watching these reactors, they would just do something else, not on one of these platforms. |
| 23. November 2020 | Impressively dense comments on my demon souls video | video. Keep in mind this was the 2009 version of Demon's Souls and I played it in 2018. I released a Demon's Souls video, right? And for the title, I made a joke. I said, blind Dark Souls clone playthrough. Or something like that. And so the commenter was like, um, this is not a Dark Souls clone. Demon's Souls is made from from. So I came out before Dark Souls. I'm like, holy shit. The description was, this game is really like Dark Souls. I wonder why. So these people would have to assume that I, like, if they knew nothing about me, that with all the discussion of Demon's Souls right now, all of it with the PS5, I never heard, even once, that Demon's Souls came out before Dark Souls. But then when you look at the footage and realize that this was done years ago, you'd have to look at it and go, wait a second. So this guy went out of his way to play a game that at that point was a decade old and he didn't know it came before Dark Souls? That's weird. It is weird. Could you imagine a person knowing of Demon's Souls enough that they would go to the effort to play it on original hardware? A game that came out 10 years ago and know nothing about it. This person in the comment sections like, no, he's ignorant. He didn't know. He didn't know that the Demon's Souls came out before Dark Souls. Now he's just changing the title because he's embarrassed. And I said, my dude, I literally speed ran Dark Souls 3 for a thousand hours. I was involved in speed souls. My mods, some of them were from speed souls, other Dark Souls runners. I went out of my way to buy a PlayStation 3 to play Demon's Souls 10 years after it released. I bought a PlayStation 4 specifically to play Bloodborne. I am on the record multiple times saying Souls is my favorite franchise, even over GTA. And the guy just looks at me and goes, no, you didn't know. I'm so confident. I know for a fact. And then explaining the reason again, can you imagine a person going out of their way to play a game that came out 10 years ago at that point in time, a niche game that very few people knew about, and that person playing all the way through the game, all the way from start to finish and then years passing to release the footage on YouTube. And at no time in all that time did anyone tell them that Demon's Souls came out for Dark Souls. All that time, like the game being 11 years old, me being a Souls fanatic playing through the entire thing and a single person in chat saying, did you know this game that came out for Dark Souls? Like the level of stupidity, how dense you would have to be to believe that I didn't know Demon's Souls came before Dark Souls is so infuriating. And it's impressive that something could be that dense. It should be studied and be used as some sort of a material so we can learn about the universe. It's the densest thing in existence. So very funny comment. Still made me cranky though. Yes. Insert me saying you dense motherfucker. |
| 21. September 2022 | Improvement to future cooking videos | to future cooking videos. So that cooking video that I plan to do, I am probably gonna delay it. I hope I can do it before I go to Melbourne, but I wanna get my entire house treated for Echo, including my kitchen. It's worked so well here, I'm just gonna have a bunch of these black panels, which maybe you can kinda see, probably not, cause it's so dark, put on my roof, but they're gonna be white downstairs. I need to buy like 50 of them. If you go back and watch my cooking videos, which I'm sure you all have, cause they're some of the best videos I've ever made, the Echo is abysmal. And so hopefully with the next episode, it won't be that way. |
| 26. May 2021 | Improving videos for my own satisfaction | Improving videos for my own satisfaction You want past this you can watch past this right now on my patreon for five dollars or rather 95% of it because the finalized version requires That one joke that hasn't been done yet until that joke is done. I'm not going to release it The amazing way it's put together. I mean the finalized version does have I reworded a few things added another joke I Don't think the finalized thing that I'm that I need to hire merfish and the other dude for I don't think it's gonna Be that great, but it was the first thing I thought of and I couldn't think of anything better for that section It is costing me a couple of hundred bucks to do though It's one of those things where those couple of hundred bucks are not going to Increase the viewership, you know It will make the episode better, but it's not like I'm gonna receive a return on that investment But I just I just want the episode to be What it is in my head, you know, it isn't about the money. It's about sending a message. I Make more than those couple of hundred bucks Yes But not because of the joke as in if I don't put that joke in and just leave nothing in that section I'll make the exact same amount of money that I will with or without the joke is what I'm saying, you know So there will be no return on investment. It'll just be I'll be more satisfied with the episode So I guess the return on investment will be my personal satisfaction and I do value that quite a bit I do wish that I could do this kind of stuff myself though. You |
| 10. January 2021 | In hindsight do I regret my dream commentary? | In hindsight, do I regret my dream commentary? Was my involvement with the dream thing a mistake? Had I had that interview with dream and simply come out of it Equally as confident as I was when I went into it Even though I'd already as I explained my confidence in my position had already decreased had I come out Not changing my tune either that or I had not vocalized my change of opinion I think the entire experience would have been positive with that change, which obviously I couldn't have predicted it did have negative repercussions Overall, I still think the experience was positive But one thing it has made me very aware of is that I can no longer do stuff That people would just go who cares when I was a smaller content creator nothing I did During the dream thing is any different From what I would have done had I been a person who only got 10 viewers Literally nothing in such a case. No one would have cared. No one would have thought about it There were people Commenting on the play-by-play made with less effort than I was putting in like hundreds of channels but because I'm a large content grader who's also a speedrunner it grew had a lot more attention and so people Can become more critical of what you're doing perhaps the weirdest criticism I recall seeing was on Twitter where When I just gave my feedback to comments about me that were listed on the speedrun reddit The guy criticized me for taking away focus from the dream cheating allegations, and this just was so strange to me the idea that a video that would get max like a hundred thousand views and Would be forgotten like two days somehow would meaningfully meaningfully impacts the Amount of people who would think about or care about Whether dream cheated or not when those videos have like I mean I suppose dreams as response has like seven million right now as if the me existence of my commentary on something Tangentially related would have some meaningful impacts on How many people would care or focus on that issue it? mind-boggling, but the larger you are the More that people will seem to grasp at straws to try to find some way to condemn the actions in which you're engaging in I don't know if it's just a matter of You want to punch the big guy? I'm sure I would imagine I've even engaged in that behavior at some point. You know maybe that could have even motivated my What I would consider to be unjustified confidence in dream cheating in the in the get-go Maybe I just saw him as a big content creator getting his comeuppance or I know getting his ego bruised I don't I don't know but the bigger you get the the larger that amount of people who criticize you becomes and It becomes harder to not notice or to not focus on you know You've probably seen those memes where you know there'll be a sea of comments around the content creator And then the content creator starts by reading them all as the day goes on They forget about each of the good comments and then at the end of the day the only comment They remember is the one that calls them a shithead, and that's kind of how it works you know the the negative ones stand out in your mind and the more Negative comments you get the more those kind of a wear on you look long story short I don't think my involvement or commentary rather on the allegations or whatever Ultimately negatively impacted me in their entirety But certainly there were negative repercussions that I did not foresee and I could not have predicted if I could go back Would I do things differently absolutely? I would have taken a step back and Done what I normally do Where if I comment on something it just ends up in rambles because the great thing about Only having my comments on drama and stuff end up in rambles is because by the time the rambles come out the dramas already done The drama is done. No one can accuse me of clout chasing. No one can accuse me of Just commenting because I want to ride the wave or whatever because by the time My commentary comes out. It's old news and my commentary is usually like in the middle of a video You know, I think the mistake was the interview you got personally involved You got to find him sympathetic and you lost the independent point of view I didn't have an independent point of view at the end you appeared bias because you started to like him. Sorry if I'm wrong. I Definitely did not have an independent point of view prior to that point I really really really don't like people who cheat or violate the rules of systems or actively work to Make systems unfair or bias them in their own favor Like if you if you listen to me talk about my philosophy of life and politics and whatnot It would come across really well that I do not like such people Certainly, there's a difference between violating a rule that I consider unjust to begin with then violating rule that I think exists to make things fair for Everyone but in general as as a rule, I do not like cheaters Keep in mind this ramble is from a few weeks ago. My opinion has shifted I do believe dream cheated at this point But this next section is then important to explain why I lost confidence in the first place. I became convinced that I hold too greater confidence That either the original reports in regards to dream or the secondary report I hold too great a confidence that either was done correctly Especially considering that the second report was in part based on the first Given that I do not have a statistics background nor can I make any kind of ruling as to what variables in Minecraft matter for? What was being asked? I? Can't tell you whether that first paper is correct Or to what degree the second paper is correct And so what was my foundation for for believing in the first place and I sat there and I'm like, I don't have one I just don't I am fairly sure that the reason what made me confident in the first place Was that I disliked dreams conducts and claims he made about the report were clearly Inaccurate in that he called it a manifestation of bias or cloud chasing whatever was least the implication I was like, well, that's not true and dreams characterization of the report has nothing to do with the validity of the report I also Grew more confident because I could think of hypothetical scenarios that would lead dream to cheat but this is fallacious reasoning however many scenarios that I can generate Doesn't mean that they're true and it certainly doesn't give credibility to the original report as I say I was talking to someone yesterday who was at least tangentially related to the report the first part report being made and Between us we could think of a dozen scenarios That could have led dream to cheat but all of them in my view would require dream to be have been extraordinarily stupid and not Thinking things through but certainly being 21 and new to his fame and certainly even new to speed running to an extent It's entirely possible that he was just that stupid but I do not believe there is sufficient evidence For me to hold confidence in the first report, especially considering after speaking to the original people Who made it what I believed that one in seven point five trillion number what I believe that to be isn't actually accurate And I'm sure what you guys think that number means is also inaccurate You can believe that report if you want to as I try to say in the video Well, at least one of the videos where some in life. Sometimes you do have to trust experts You can't be educated in literally everything but normally the scenarios where you Put such trust forward Such trust forward are situations where you have to make a choice You do not have to make a decision as to whether or not you believe dream cheated it is literally no impact in your life and there and therefore given the lack of importance of your conclusion the Standard of evidence that you should require to make a decision should be higher because there's there's no There's no external force forcing you to make a decision Like if you if you need to make a decision and you have only a tiny amount of evidence you may as well base your Decision off that tiny matter evidence and just go for it because you have to make a decision But as I say in this case, you don't have to make a decision like if you want my ultimate opinion I would not be surprised at all if dream cheated at all But as I also tried to reference Just by not meeting dream. It doesn't mean you have an independent sort of more objective point of view of things because If you if you know dreams content or you know something about him then you know him to an extent you know of him you have an idea of him in your head and That idea of him is going to bias the conclusions that you come to Meeting a person does not somehow Make you more or less bias necessarily or maybe a bias is you in a different way? Because it is very easy to think negative things about a person you don't know or haven't met but when you meet them and You get a more well-rounded perspective on who that person is and you take a step back and you realize how? People are just flawed people act out sometimes It's hard just to judge the person based on the potentially the negative things that have floated to the top of your Just in the news you |
| 06. March 2021 | Inability to capitalize on gta roleplay | My inability to capitalize on the success of GTA roleplay would be fun seeing me on a no-pixel server. It has certainly been interesting watching once more GTA RP become a big thing again, seeing some of the roleplaying people benefit from the influx of viewers that has come from the larger streamers. The example that comes to mind is I believe that Whippy is doing a lot of stuff with XQC now and so his viewership has like doubled over the course of the last week. Good for him, but it does make me think sometimes that maybe I have missed an opportunity by not at least having my toe into RP so that I could, when it comes around where it becomes popular that I could also capitalize on it as well. But it just really has never looked like my kind of thing. It doesn't seem like I'll be good at or that I'll enjoy. I certainly don't enjoy watching it. Yes, RP being roleplay. I'm sure you have noticed other content creators, large content creators doing RP. I mean it surprised me that Ludwig hasn't done it. I'm happy he hasn't been doing it because it can be kind of annoying when a new trend happens that you have no interest in and all the content creators that you normally watch, they all start doing that new trend. I look at my follow list, you know, and everyone was playing Rust. I'm like, oh fuck, I hate Rust. And now look at my follow list, like, oh, I was doing RP, I bloody hate RP. And again, don't take that as me being critical of people who do RP. A lot of nice people do GTA roleplay. It has never been my thing. I just, I've said it nine times, RP stands for roleplay, guys. Keep up. Back in my day, roleplay was just entirely a sexual thing. If you were doing roleplay with someone, it was in the privacy of your own room, not on fucking Twitch. You and your significant other late at night, both with a laptop in your bed just playing GTA RP. Am I losing my hair? We were in the mod chat on Discord recently. Comedy accused me of losing my hair. And I was like, you're crazy. I showed him like my earliest YouTube footage and my hair and it's exactly the same as it is now, except it's a little bit thinner. Because as you grow older, your hair naturally thins. My hair doesn't look thin. It's just your hair for whatever reason when you're really young, it's just a lot thicker than it is as you grow older. I've always had a high hairline. This guy named Michael came up to me. I remember when I was like 19, he was like, ah, you and me, Matt, both got this high hairline stuff, man, we're both going to be bald by the time we're 25. And I'm like, you're crazy. You're nuts. And I saw him on Facebook, you know, when we were 25 or whatever. And yeah, he's gone bald. He's shaved his head or whatever, and I'm just exactly the same as I was back then. What's happening to me, though, is I'm going gray. Don't know if you can tell on camera that my hair is significantly grayed. I'm just hoping it always looks okay. You know, I want to be in like that weird period where my hair is half gray and like really obvious, but not gray enough that it looks kind of weird. And not even 30. I'm 30 in a month. Why is it said that I'm going to be 30 in a month? It does mean that I am older than the average person in my audience, though, especially on Twitch. I'm at low 20s. |
| 14. March 2020 | Incentives to improve | Incentives to improve, speedrunning and Smash tournaments. Nintendo doesn't really support the tournament scene for Smash. On one hand, I'm sure that sucks for the top players. On the other hand, if there was like a hundred million dollars, like ten million dollar prize pools and stuff, you can guarantee that there'd be far more people trying to compete for that money. More people interested in competing in the scene. So it's plausible that the people who are on top right now wouldn't be on top at all. So in a weird way, it's possible that they're benefiting from Nintendo's lack of interest, lack of investment in the scene. Because whenever you're the best, you're not the best of everyone, you're just the best of everyone who participates. If you give people more reason to participate, it doesn't mean you're necessarily going to be better than all the people who would then participate. Let's say the entire world, like the aliens came down and they said, hey yo, if you don't get sub six hours, no, if you don't get sub five and a half hours in classy percent, we'll blow up the planet. Like, that would, you'd get there, you know. Or at the very least, endless more time saves would be found. The extent to which any speedrunner is optimized just depends on how motivated people are and how many people are taking an active interest in doing it, you know. Like the biggest explosion of time saves being found was when, you know, far more people enter the scene, far more people started running. People had different takes on things, people, you know, endless people doing endless permutations just happening to run across different things. Doesn't matter how good you are, one person would never be able to match up to a hundred people all looking for strats and stuff, you know. Once on animation. |
| 05. August 2022 | Inflation rate is bad everywhere. | as it is in the US. Oh, it's bad everywhere. I don't think it's as bad as the US. What's our inflation rate? It's currently 6%. America's is 9.1. UK is also 9.1. Why it's always funny when people like Joe Biden calls this 9% inflation rate. They say man, inflation is bad everywhere. The USA has had some shit policies, fine, but just, you know, take within the global context. It's not as though, like, whoever was in office right now was gonna have high inflation. Because that's the case with like every country on the fucking planet. I'm not gonna say what policies were good or bad or whatever. It's just, it's unrealistic to believe that whoever was in the Oval Office would have significantly changed the rate of inflation currently. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 16. February 2021 | Inflation, assets, and stock market | Inflation assets and the stock market. Does inflation exist in Australia? You mean inflation in terms of currency? Of course, apparently. Again, we've talked about this before. According to economists, some amount of inflation is good. In that, it inspires people to buy things or invest in things, rather than keep their money in bank accounts. Because, just keeping your money in a bank account, because of inflation, the value of the dollars in that account, in terms of their buying power, go down every year. So you want to invest in an appreciating asset, that is appreciating in its value, faster than inflation. Like when governments print money to do bailouts or stimulus packages or whatever, the people who ultimately pay for that are those who have money in bank accounts. Or, you know, just have currency. Because that currency becomes less valuable, because there's more of it out in the market. Gold can lower in value. A new mine can be discovered, or some previous application for gold can be replaced with some other material that's better or cheaper or whatever, so people don't use as much gold in electronics. Or gold can go out of fashion or style or whatever. I mean, most asset classes have done nothing but increase over time or whatever, right? I vaguely remember reading something about gold losing value. I can't remember why. Why did gold lose value? The reason why it was interesting to me is because there was a guy, Joel Haywood, Joel something, he was one of the founding members of Rooster Teeth. And in the early Rooster Teeth podcasts, he would say every time like, guys, you gotta get gold, buy gold, buy gold, buy double gold, buy triple gold, just buy gold. Gold is the best. And so when I heard about that downturn, I was like, oh, he's probably not going to be happy. Joel Hayman, that's it, yeah. So can someone tell me why it lost value? Banks sold a lot of gold. So the banks just divested from gold and moved that money into other assets. Yeah, that makes sense, I guess. Gold not losing value because of its loss of utility, but losing value as an asset that people use to park wealth. No, I don't do any investing because it all just makes me nervous and I have no reason to do it. On some level, it just seems as though these people with fuck tons of money are able to manipulate markets to their benefit. And they just squeeze the little guys because of their massive buying power. And algorithms and bots and stuff that can so very quickly make all these minute trades to suck value from the market. Again, this is how this is how it seems from an outside observer. Like when I learned at one point, I think everyone believes that the stock price is somehow giving the company money or something when it goes up or down or what have you. But it's not like the companies make their money when they sell stock. For the first time on the market to generate revenue, right? They can make further money when they sell other stock later on. And so a higher stock price is good if they want to raise more money. But the day to day trading of the stock only benefits those who own the stock and are selling it. Unless the company sells more of its stock, the day to day trading price doesn't matter to the company. Except that the value of the stock often tracks the real life health of the company. As in if the if the stock price goes massively down, you can go, well, that's probably indicative that something's gone wrong with the company. You know, it's got had some scandal or it's posting revenue reports where it's it's it's not making as much money as it should. The stock price tracks the health of the company normally, but it doesn't determine the health of the company. Like all this stuff right now that's happening with GameStop, that's not helping GameStop. The viability of GameStop in the future is not going up or down based on the price of the share, as far as I understand things, except that maybe because GameStop is getting more attention, people might buy some of the actual goods. Although I did hear that Microsoft made a deal, a three, four year deal with GameStop. So that's probably helped them a bit bit. |
| 18. June 2022 | Influencers who don’t want to be role models. | Influencers who don't want to be role models. It's always funny when these people say, you shouldn't see me as a role model. Motherfucker, regardless of whether or not you want it, you are a role model to people. The way that you behave and the things that you say influence people's lives. To be like, look, I want to do more scummy shit, so could you guys just like, less pay attention to that shit, and less be influenced by that, so I can more guilt free, just do scummy shit? It's like, no. You're in that position and you have this influence. You can't just wave it away. You can't just wave away the downsides of the position that you have, that enables you to amass such wealth. You're my role model. I shouldn't be, but I will impact people to some degree. So I care if I say things that are wrong. I try not to mislead people. I watch content that I can relate to or be entertained with. However, I don't get influenced to do something because I can't, because of content I did it, but some people do. Maybe I shouldn't like spending money. All of us are influenced in subtle ways by all information, or all stimuli that we receive over the day. A sign or a billboard that says, buy coke. You look at that and think, this is not influencing me to buy coke, but you don't, you're not cognizant of every subtle bit of your thought process or, those signs exist for a reason, because statistically speaking, they will increase the amount of people who drink coke. You'll be at a shop somewhere or in a vending machine. You think, ah, what do I want to drink? I guess I'll get a coke. And you won't know why you decided to get coke over any of the other drinks that happen to be there, but that subtle advertising has that impact. Although, in saying that, that sort of awareness advertising is, these days, less favored, because you can't actually, it's harder to measure the actual impact it's having, especially when we exist today in environments just smothered with advertising, right? You know, back when you might see five advertisements a day, those probably had more of an impact on you than when you see 100. I'm not a marketing expert. I don't know how they measure these things. And certainly, I know, because I've been involved in these deals, where it seems as though the marketing team has just been given a budget, and they're just looking for a way to spend it. And they almost don't even care that whether or not they can receive a return. It's just they want to say, we had this many eyeballs. We spent the money in this way, and here's why that was a good move, you know? But especially when you have tracking links and stuff, yeah, they are watching how much they're getting in return. And if they're doing another sponsorship, they know they're seeing return on that sponsorship. I'm one of the oldest in my friend group, and back at the height of CSGO gambling, I saw so many, especially young people, getting majorly impacted by gambling streams. I think I did put like 20, maybe 20 to 50 bucks, can't remember exactly the number, on e-sports betting. I was like, yeah, this looks fun. Who knows why I did that? |
| 18. June 2022 | Influencers who don’t want to be rolemodels. | Influencers who don't want to be role models. It's always funny when these people say, you shouldn't see me as a role model. Motherfucker, regardless of whether or not you want it, you are a role model to people. The way that you behave and the things that you say influence people's lives. To be like, look, I want to do more scummy shit, so could you guys just like, less pay attention to that shit, and less be influenced by that, so I can more guilt free, just do scummy shit? It's like, no. You're in that position and you have this influence. You can't just wave it away. You can't just wave away the downsides of the position that you have, that enables you to amass such wealth. You're my role model. I shouldn't be, but I will impact people to some degree. So I care if I say things that are wrong. I try not to mislead people. I watch content that I can relate to or be entertained with. However, I don't get influenced to do something because I can't, because of content I did it, but some people do. Maybe I shouldn't like spending money. All of us are influenced in subtle ways by all information, or all stimuli that we receive over the day. A sign or a billboard that says, buy coke. You look at that and think, this is not influencing me to buy coke, but you don't, you're not cognizant of every subtle bit of your thought process or, those signs exist for a reason, because statistically speaking, they will increase the amount of people who drink coke. You'll be at a shop somewhere or in a vending machine. You think, ah, what do I want to drink? I guess I'll get a coke. And you won't know why you decided to get coke over any of the other drinks that happen to be there, but that subtle advertising has that impact. Although, in saying that, that sort of awareness advertising is, these days, less favored, because you can't actually, it's harder to measure the actual impact it's having, especially when we exist today in environments just smothered with advertising, right? You know, back when you might see five advertisements a day, those probably had more of an impact on you than when you see 100. I'm not a marketing expert. I don't know how they measure these things. And certainly, I know, because I've been involved in these deals, where it seems as though the marketing team has just been given a budget, and they're just looking for a way to spend it. And they almost don't even care that whether or not they can receive a return. It's just they want to say, we had this many eyeballs. We spent the money in this way, and here's why that was a good move, you know? But especially when you have tracking links and stuff, yeah, they are watching how much they're getting in return. And if they're doing another sponsorship, they know they're seeing return on that sponsorship. I'm one of the oldest in my friend group, and back at the height of CSGO gambling, I saw so many, especially young people, getting majorly impacted by gambling streams. I think I did put like 20, maybe 20 to 50 bucks, can't remember exactly the number, on e-sports betting. I was like, yeah, this looks fun. Who knows why I did that? |
| 29. October 2021 | Injustice in justice systems | crime you didn't do. I mean sure that's terrible. Most of the electives I did were from criminology. I know all too well the the Innocence Project and how DNA cases have proven people innocent for crimes that they were convicted for decades ago. It's horrendous. People in the wrong place wrong time and suddenly bam you're in jail. Either because of you know literal malice where the case that someone has just been convinced that you're guilty and is willing to fudge the evidence or just you know a mistake or something makes it seem like you're guilty and you get convicted. Eyewitness testimony is a big thing like that. Like meta analysis seems to indicate that eyewitnesses are only accurate like 50% of the time or something in lineups. Like when they you know when they give you a lineup and there's six people and one is guilty or whatever or one is the guy the suspect. I mean both types of lineups. Lineups where there isn't anyone there and lineups where the suspect is there. Eyewitnesses are only correct in that either they identify the correct person or say the suspect isn't there like 50% of the time and that's fucking scary. It's why the push is for eyewitness testimony to never be enough to convict someone. Eyewitness testimony should only be used to support other evidence or should be used to points towards other evidence because talking to people who saw some stuff is still clearly a good thing right. If they say oh yeah I saw this guy and then you go talk to that guy and you get more information it turns out he's the guy right. You couldn't have a criminal justice system without eyewitnesses but the push for less reliance on eyewitnesses is real right. But it's also terrible the idea of guilty people going away innocent going away without being convicted right. You don't want a too high of a threshold for evidence where you have guilty people getting away all the time but you don't want the threshold for evidence being too low that innocent people are being convicted all the time right. I mean there's there's the right of the victim to to have the perpetrators put behind bars right. Just as much as there is the right of the innocent to not be put behind bars despite doing nothing wrong and there's no perfect balance. There's there's always going to be guilty people who are who go free and innocent people who get convicted. You just try to minimize that as much as possible. The problem with a guilty person going free in the grand scheme of things the problem is if they can commit more crimes. Let's say you have a person who murdered one person and he gets put up for trial and everyone believes he's innocent and he goes free despite him committing this crime. This is bad because in the sense that it would be beneficial for society if murderers were murderers were sequestered because we can't tell if they're going to murder again or and they should stand as an example for other murderers other potential murderers that they shouldn't do that. But if everyone thinks this person is innocent and this person never commits another crime in that way there is no additional harm that has been caused. This is irritating but it's not necessarily like the worst thing in the universe if you get what I'm saying. I believe the goal of criminal justice should be harm prevention. The tragedies of a guilty person going free exist when a guilty person going free leads to additional harm is what I'm trying to say. I don't believe in criminal justice as an avenue for retribution. I don't think it's really sensible. I think it's just a waste of time and money. Sequestering non-violent offenders from society doesn't really make sense because all you're doing is inhibiting these people's ability to fix their own situations. You put a person in prison no one wants to hire an ex-con and then suddenly they can't get a job they can't fix their lives so you're just creating people who are dependent on that system for the rest of their lives whether it be on welfare or what have you because they can no longer support themselves because they went to prison. It doesn't make sense. You aren't helping them or anyone else by putting them in jail. Putting them in jail is more just a thing. We'll just move these people get them out of the way because we don't want to deal with these people kind of thing. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 08. May 2021 | Inner monologue | Reflecting on the psychological phenomenon of having an inner monologue When you guys read, do you like have a narrator in your head that reads the words? Yes, I don't. But surely not all the time, right? Like, if you're reading Twitch chat and you read yes, you don't like hear in your head, yes, it's my voice. I don't have any of that. I saw something, it was on TikTok, so it's probably bullshit or whatever, but the idea of an inner narrator, I don't think I have that. I can do it, as in, like I can think, Matthew thinks of a bike, and then I can say that in my head. But like, I have to actually think and put effort into doing that. When I read normally, I am somewhat confused as to how I'm taking in the words. Because it's not like I'm saying them in my head, it's not like I'm thinking what those words mean, it's just somehow by looking at the words I understand the meaning. Do I have an inner monologue? No. Unless I intentionally do it. I can think a conversation with myself. According to this TikTok, like, a narrator or whatever, only 40% of people have it, I might look into this later. Did any of this affect you with school education? No, this seems, I have no idea how you people do that. It seems such an inefficient way to get information. Because wouldn't it be slower? Because when I try to make a narrator for what I'm reading, it is so much slower than just looking at the words and knowing the meaning. When I think about this now, like, maybe that's why I liked books so much. And I could read them so quickly. It's not so hard? No, but I can read faster than I can think of words. I can read much faster than I can say words as well. Narrator voices fast? Huh. There are techniques specifically aimed at getting rid of narrator to increase reading speed? Oh, well if such a thing is true then maybe what I suspect is correct. I gotta look into this more. Somewhere after stream, we look into inner narrator and differences and stuff. I'm curious. I study for 26% of college students study have some sort of internal narrator. Only 26%? It looks like there are a lot more. Collector, I'm not in the minority here. And inner narrator, I'm pretty sure is the minority. Like, you can do it intentionally, but I don't think it's normal, you know? Do I read loud enough? Like, when I look and read the word contacts there on my phone, I don't think the word contacts. I don't hear the word contacts in my head. It's just I look at it and I just have the meaning. I wanna see if there's a book out there that just lists all these differences between people's minds. I think it's very fascinating. Psychology major showing? None of this that I can recall was covered in psychology. My psych studies. I would say if I see someone in chat that I know as a person, I read their messages in their voice, but I normally read text and just process it. Oh, true! Like, when I see, good news, everyone! I read that in the guy from Futurama's voice. But I usually have to, like, if I see his face and then I see the words, then I have an... internally I hear his voice saying the words. Ifarnsworth, that's it. But that's weird thinking that, because like, when I try to think of other people's voices, then I can kinda do it. I think I've heard them a lot. Yeah, like Morgan Freeman, for example. But I don't know if that's a narrative, or I'm just remembering him saying it. Like, I don't know if I could think of Professor Farnsworth saying things that I haven't heard him say before. No, I can. I can. Good news, everyone! I just ate a cat. And I can hear that in my head in his voice. Does the world and humanity fascinate me? Yeah, to a degree. I've always been interested in people, like the lived experience of people, I suppose. And how people differ in their behaviour and motivations and beliefs and whatnot. And how these things come about. Like, there's always this assumption that everyone has, that people are in general like yourself. Like, if you... and let's prove it otherwise. You assume people are like yourself. And you are the standard by which you judge others. So when you hear about something you take for granted, that's about how you function. That other people don't have this. Or, you know, the opposite being that other people have something that you don't. You're like, really? What? You know? So recently, chat, I've been looking at this stuff about inner monologues, right? So an inner monologue is like a voice inside your head, right? And it's something that the overwhelming vast majority of people do, but that they take no real notice of and hasn't really been studied all that much. So differences in it aren't super known, right? And it's a hard thing to study. A lot of that stuff in psychology is when it's about self-perception in terms of, you know, your inner experiences. Because you can't really measure that. You can only get it self-reported. And people's ability to report what's going on inside their heads is not always very good. And certainly, when you ask people to focus on what's going on inside their head, it can change what they're actually doing, right? So you can't just, you know, in the wild, catch some strangers and then recall what's going on inside their heads, you know, what they do in everyday situations. And so a lot of the time, I'm trying to think, do I have an inner monologue right now? Am I talking to myself? And it made me realize I talk to myself all the time. Like, I tell myself vibrant stories. Like, I walk around my house and if I'm not listening to an audiobook or something, I am telling myself a story. It's stupid, but I heard that there is inside the Earth this stuff that people don't know exactly what it is. And it's like, it's not like just a perfect circle or something, but it's like, you know, as you imagine it, a natural formation to be. Like, way, way, way below the Earth. And I just have this story where it's actually like miniature robots or something that can build anything out of themselves, kind of like in Stargate or whatever. And I've got that, I just run through their stories sometimes. It's a great story. Like, I can speak inside my head in different voices. I can imagine characters speaking new words with their voices. Like, I can imagine Hades, like, hitting Master Chief in the face and saying, like, I'm going to be a Master Chief or something, you know, like, there's good examples. And I've just been doing this my entire life and never really taken notice of it. I don't know if this is remarkable or something. But then I try to think of times when I don't have an inner monologue and sometimes I don't. Like, right now I don't. When I'm focused on stuff, I don't. When I'm reading, I don't. I used to, when I was a kid, like, listen to metal, heavy metal music while reading books. Certainly I couldn't be able to, I couldn't do that if I was, I had an inner monologue, I imagine. But the funny thing is about trying to see if you have an inner monologue is you start having one because you're trying to think if you have one or not. It's only when my attention is focused elsewhere that I don't seem to have it. And then when I stop in between words, I'm not like speaking inside my head like, oh, this is what you should say next. It's just a pause and then I start speaking. It's just a weird thing to have spent your whole life doing and never really reflected on before. But apparently people differ in this regard in the same way that we talk about affantation sometimes. And your mind's eye and whatnot. It's just interesting. I mean, you talk to us all the time, basically talking to yourself. I mean, it's different, but I mean, I guess kind of the same in a weird way. What would life be like not having arguments with yourself or running through arguments about different topics? Like, if you saw me in day to day life, you'd think I would be fucking crazy. Oh, arguments with myself. Yeah. So I will sometimes just be walking around my house doing stuff, but at the same time going about an argument or a fake conversation in my head. And I will make hand movements similar to how I sometimes make hand movements when I'm speaking on stream. My face will show expressions of varying levels of what emotions are going on inside my head. I will occasionally find like I'm really involved in an argument. I will end up somehow just in the bathroom looking at myself in the mirror. Not very common mind, but I'm thinking about it now. I've done this multiple times and never thought anything of it. I wonder if the reason why I so much like to have like media going like I'm always listening to an audio book or a TV show or movie or whatever, is because it stops me having it in a monologue. And maybe that's why I like really focusing on tasks, because again, monologue just disappears and I'm just in like a zone of doing work. At least I think I am, because again, it's hard to reflect on when I have a monologue or not, because the second I try to assess my thoughts, I begin having one. It's just a weird thing to suddenly at the age of 30 just to begin reflecting on, you know? |
| 18. November 2020 | Insecurity over my facial hair | Insecurity over my facial hair. I really wish I'd gotten into the habit of trimming my own facial hair rather than getting a barber to do it. Throughout most of my life, whenever I would try to trim my facial hair, I would trim it. It wouldn't look very good. And then I'd trim it some more and it still wouldn't look very good. And then I'd just trim it all off. And then I'd just be clean shaven and start again. I have legitimately, in my youth, I'm 29, I'm still young, but you get what I'm saying. When I was younger, I legitimately have not gone out to places because I've not liked how my facial hair looks. And then cut it all off and not liked how I look clean shaven. That's insecure. Clean shaven when I get a perfect run. I'm too fat to go clean shaven these days. |
| 23. February 2022 | Instagram vs Tiktok in terms of discoverability. | Instagram vs TikTok in terms of discoverability It's crazy to me how much worse Instagram is than TikTok in terms of discoverability. I'm like uploading the same content onto Instagram as I am TikTok. But the same video will get like 5,000 views on Instagram, but like 500,000 on TikTok, right? I gain like half the amount of followers I have on Instagram every week on TikTok, using the exact same content. On Instagram you don't just go around looking for new shit. Yeah, that seems to be the case, yeah. I don't know why anyone uses Instagram. What are you looking for there? It just seems like a much worse version of TikTok. Memes, but all the best memes come from TikTok. Reddit and TikTok are way better for memes than Instagram. |
| 27. October 2022 | Intel is back on top. | Intel is back on top. So when the 7950X from AMD came out, their top of the line CPU, I was like, oh, you beauty, I can upgrade from my 5950X, it'll make my life just that little bit easier. Always worth it for me to spend money on this stuff because it helps me business-wise, saves me time so I can work making better stuff for you guys. And then leaked benchmarks came for the 3900K from Intel, suggesting that it was either gonna be pretty close or maybe even go better than the 7950X. And I was like, oh, well, I really hope that isn't the case because I've already bought the CPU and the benchmarks come out and lo and behold, the 13900K is better than the 7950X. Like they kind of go toe-to-toe in multi-threaded stuff, which very few people need, but in games, it's like a difference of like five to 20%. And so I'm sitting here with my PC that I haven't built yet. And the only reason I haven't built it is because I forgot to buy the storage. And I was just like, shit, if I'm going to build the top of the line system, I may as well get the best. I guess I best switch to Intel. |
| 15. February 2022 | Intention and how it relates to my analogies. | So yeah the problem with the analogy and what we probably won't agree on is the intent issue I think that's what everyone has a problem with ultimately is the intent. I know you say that hypothetically someone can spike a drink or whatever and not think it's right but that's. Being a bit disingenuous it's not it's not really the case in reality so people are upset because you're attacking their character. And more than anything I disagree so I think the reason why people are upset is because they don't understand analogies they legitimately think I'm equating as the same react content and rape. They legitimately think that the comparison somehow suggest that rape isn't as bad even though I used it specifically because it was the worst thing possible that I could conceive of. And in the example it is that way because it was used as a somewhat hyperbolic and there's it is it like I could have picked other examples that were less. I was doing something insensitive but less inflames the emotions let's say. What do you think do you think being an asshole is on the same spectrum insulting someone is that on the same spectrum as rape. Well spectrum is a hard word there because technically and technically anything that harms anyone ever would be on a on a spectrum of harm. Right because you don't need. Are they close no because obviously if we're assessing them in terms of their impact or harm to a person obviously not. But the point wasn't to compare their harm but to compare the idea of consent that would be necessary for that to be considered OK. So again if a person considered asking after the effects of reacting to a person's content to be OK with the idea of consent there. Then that would necessarily imply as it taken as a principle that other things where a person can't give consent would be OK because you know maybe they're into it you just ask them afterwards if they're not. Oh well you could move on to the next victim. OK so that's the problem is that I think people understand that but the problem is the seriously the problem is the intent of the person doing it. Oh sure so which you can't really I'm going to be removed I'm granting that that not every single reactor who makes this statement has really thought it through. What I was trying to highlight is no one could actually hold this position that asking for consent after the fact would be OK. And so the people who are saying this either haven't thought it out or are lying. Well they might think what they're doing is fair use. But if they did they would just as Ethan does just continue after that which I'm not aware of any other reactor that does that they just stop immediately. If they sincerely believe they didn't need consent. Well I mean again people aren't monsters like if generally if people say hey I don't want you to react to my content almost all of them will be like sure. Again most people aren't don't have these super bad intentions. Oh yeah sure. The reason I gave other examples. I think there's a problem is I think people just don't understand. So yeah yeah that's ultimately I think what's happening and you're the difference between rape is that the you pretty much everyone is doing it understands the harm right. So this is a new thing it's very wishy washy fair use isn't legally wrong. The comparison necessarily assumes certain beliefs and then compares the having that belief taken in a wider context. So you may not have that belief maybe no one has that belief that is fine but the analogy is to explain the absurdity of that belief if actually hold if it actually helped. Because that's why in the end I said they seem keen to take silence for consent because I can't see that they do but they. May not need consent that's the thing I mean I don't want to get caught up on this because I think it's relevant right. Because they believe they don't need consent I don't and then and then and then it's not like they're not saying no I think that's true. I think reactors don't believe they need consent and they're not saying that I'm trying to get consent after the fact. They're just saying that if someone has a problem with it I'll stop out of courtesy. For example there's plenty of things in real life that you don't need consent for that aren't necessarily illegal but if someone requested that you stop doing it you just do it. For example you know if I can eat with my mouth open that's not illegal but if my friend says hey would you mind not eating with your mouth open. I'll be like sure whatever I get your argument you're making the case that this mindset doesn't apply to anyone so at the very least it was not worth including like. It could have been like I said you have to detach if you want to make the analogy detach the people in question from the analogy because the analogy still holds up even if you remove everyone from it. As just as just you know let's remove the people and not say these kind of creators don't care about consent therefore they are more likely to do X. Just say hey this philosophy doesn't make sense because if I apply that same philosophy to this other scenario. Good thing to remember is that this was written in the context of Hassan socialist left wing politics and whatnot where in the idea of socialism you a person's labor is people have the like almost innate right to have some say over the fruits of their labor. The idea to a socialist that you can just especially as a millionaire just grab someone's labor and use it to profit is absurd. It is no one could be a socialist and have that position people they believe that all the workers themselves deserve a share of all the profits and workers should have a say over who gets to profit from their labor with this to be fair. With this with this mindset it cannot be the case that a socialist believes that you don't have to ask for consent to use another person's labor for profit and then to be able to profit and give them nothing. So this the paragraph they're taking in reference to Hassan is to say either you are a socialist and this is abhorrence and you're doing something terribly wrong or you're not a socialist and then we can kind of leave this up in the air. And maybe then you don't think you need consent your values are entirely different fine whatever but you can see within the context because you're saying I'm assuming certain people's mindset towards this. I can do that in reference to a large section of left wing politics in regards to labor. Well I hear a lot of socialists say you know I believe this this and this but I'm in a capitalist society so I just got to play the game. Sure so the the difference there is especially in regards to Hassan because he won't it is possible for you to be in a position where you don't have the resources or leeway to act in a way that you can say more you you you just forced into a situation where you have to do certain things to survive. That's very different from a person who has many many millions of dollars who has an uncle who has a media empire whatever. Hassan has all the ability in the world to act out his beliefs but he doesn't actually act them out. He espouses them but never acts as a follow up on them and again taken in that context it was accusing him of being disingenuous being for I think. |
| 30. July 2020 | Intention in insult | Does intention in insult matter? Even if a person doesn't intend you insult, it can still be very insulting. It's a situation where they didn't intend you insult, they literally do not think of you, because they just don't see you as having value in that context. If you see yourself as having value in that context, and their perception of you is so low that they don't see that value, that's naturally insulting. And it causes you to question your own assessment of value. And if your self-esteem is based on that value, that can be very damaging. And let's just use a silly example. Like a person's gonna bake a cake, and you can see yourself to be very good at baking cakes, and you're friends with this person, and they make a cake, and they have a bunch of issues, and they're telling you about the issues that they had, and you're sitting there thinking, but why didn't they contact me and ask how to make the cake? Don't they know? I've told them many times about how I love making cakes, and I'm good at it. Why wouldn't they think of me? Why would they be telling me now about the issues they had, without realizing that I'm gonna feel insulted that they didn't contact me? And you're seeing them going, maybe I'm not really good at making cakes. If this person doesn't recognize that I'm good at making cakes, maybe I'm just not good. Maybe I'm just diluting myself. Maybe their assessment is correct, and mine is wrong. |
| 12. April 2022 | Interacting With Other YouTubers | Interacting with other YouTubers I haven't like ever really seen your speedruns but I have watched your clips like um you know the clips where you just show the ridiculous things in the story mode in GTA 5 I totally get it especially because I haven't uh I mean I haven't speedrun really seriously in years so Have you watched any of my content? I only watched like six or so videos just when I reached out to you um because I because I wanted to know which one did you see? I only I watched a bunch of update videos and some of your newer stuff um because that's how I found that you were you recently left GTA 5 or GTA Online Oh well I left kind of left GTA Online but I still came back to it and I covered like the updates every six months I just got really burnt out of the game because I hit like a billion dollars in the game and I just didn't feel like playing the online as much anymore and I wanted to play other games and do other content and so kind of expanded my channel to other things I absolutely understand You're the largest YouTuber I've talked to so far Oh really do you speak to many other YouTubers? I've done videos of a few other YouTubers I've done with um do you know RPG for Saints Row? RPG gameplay for Saints Row? No I don't Okay I did a video of him talking about the classic Saints Row games and I did I did videos with um uh Dark Space for GTA do you know him? Yeah I know him And I did a video with Pyram Gaming like uh three years ago uh uh and I also did streams of Tilerius in the past um uh those are the YouTubers that I've talked to but you're the largest one that I've talked to Oh you're I suppose you're technically larger than me by uh sub counts I mean what what what what what No I would you're you're a larger channel than me um even though I have a I have a little bit more subscribers than you your videos just get more views than me so I'd say you're a bigger channel than me Joshua |
| 25. June 2021 | Interacting with other content creators | Talks to him on Twitter, but won't talk to me. No, I've talked to smaller ones or twice. I have a thing that I don't believe I have a very good reputation amongst other speedrunners. So as a rule, I don't reach out to people. I don't want to deal with the potential rejection that finding out that someone that I potentially like doesn't like me or potentially worrying them with their brand being damaged by being associated with me. My most popular content currently. Is GT5 no damage from my most popular content? Hell no, not even close. It's my least popular GT5. |
| 25. June 2021 | Interesting video on Elon Musk | Friend very interesting video by some more news the two things that were most interesting to me is hearing about Starlink I was like Elon Musk making Starlink to give internet to rural communities It doesn't sound like Elon Musk and then it's like Elon Musk's on a podcast being like yeah It's just to generate revenue and they're charging people in rural areas 500 bucks to install it and a hundred bucks a month to run it And it's just a guy like yeah, that's that's very um cost prohibitive for a lot of people in rural areas But Elon wants his money for his fucking rockets The criticism here is not that the company is making money But that is packaged as a humanitarian effort when it clearly is not and then that boring company thing I'm like like sure Elon doesn't give a shit about anyone, but himself, but why? What was that about is he just that stupid? The the tunnel whatever and apparently it was mainly about him testing his mining equipment that he wants to use on Mars So boring a tunnel of course. It's just a massively huge expense He just basically scammed the taxpayers, but he basically got paid to test the stuff. He wants to use on Mars I'm like oh, okay. That makes a lot more sense that guy's got amazing marketing though, dude steals everyone's memes Spends most of his time busting up unions and fucking stealing Stealing credit for ideas made by people who work for him, but everyone fucking loves to do it's crazy Do large content creators edit? I have this habit of Assuming that other content creators are only streamers sometimes |
| 15. July 2021 | Internet armchair psychologists | Internet armchair psychologist. Do I suffer imposter syndrome? Yes, but if you read the internet I have the biggest ego of any person alive. Just be aware guys, the psychoanalysis of armchair psychologists on the internet is very very rarely accurate. People do not know fucking dick. What they believe about other people's psychology is just dependent upon what they want it's wanted to be. It's just writing themselves narratives that makes themselves that make themselves feel good. That's it. That's why I try not to do it even though I have a psych degree which doesn't mean mean fucking either. |
| 30. June 2021 | Internet historians editing process | Internet Historian's Editing Process What I think of Internet Historian? Very funny dude. Love his content. He released a video, a Q&A to explain the making of his most recent video. And in it he showed his timeline for his editing. Anyone who thinks my editing, even for past this percent, is super complicated, I highly recommend looking at his editing timeline. It's crazy. I don't think there's a single thing that he showed that I couldn't do, but it's just so time consuming, it's so long. And the execution and thinking of those ideas is a complete separate thing entirely. |
| 06. August 2020 | Internet in Australia | Internet in Australia. Is internet in Australia a lot better? Relative to the rest of the world where our internet is still pretty bad, mainly because the coalition completely fucked us by, you know, rather than really upgrading the internet infrastructure, they kind of just patched it a little bit by moving to fiber to the node. We had this whole rollout plan where, you know, 93% of the country was going to get fiber, but now only 20% of the country has fiber, which, you know, unless of course they're willing to pay like an extra 10 grand or something to get the last bit of copper removed so they can get fiber or blah blah blah. So you have to be pretty wealthy to go from fiber to the node to fiber to the premises, which is what I have. I've moved from fiber to the premises, and that's why I have such great internet. Playing in the recent Rocket Arena thing, Sam, who was on my team, he has fiber to the node, and so he had a lot of problems streaming because his family would use the internet as well. Fiber to the node was good technology like 2005, about 15 years ago. And so everyone knew this. Everyone told the coalition, there's no way that fiber to the node is what you want to rip up the entire country to put in. And the coalition's like, what? We can't, I can't hear you. Murdock is fucking my ear right now, and he says, you know, that he doesn't like the fucking people getting the internet, so we're not going to do it. And that's how we ended up with the shitty internet that we have for 80% of the country. Murdock didn't like it. The coalition does what Murdock says, and that's the end of it. That's somewhat conspiratorial, suggesting that it could just be amazing incompetence rather than corruption, but it's one of the two. As I say, I'm fortunate that I could just move and get good internet. I pity the other 80% except for those who would dare vote for the fucking coalition. You guys reap what you fucking sowed. Telstra just owns all of Australia and there's no competition. You know what's funny? When you take a public entity that has effectively monopoly and then you privatize it, you know what that private entity is going to do with its pseudo monopoly? It's going to crush competition. Now, everyone and their fucking dog said to the coalition, and if you privatize Telstra, yeah, sure, there's going to be a short-term windfall, but in the long term, you're going to fuck telecommunications. The coalition says, what? I can't hear you all of our donors. We're going to make fuck tons of money. And you know what they ended up doing? They end up having to buy back all that infrastructure, giving their donors even more money, to build their shitty dilapidated fucking half-copper network that they have right now. They literally sold off a public utility and then bought back its infrastructure, like 20 years later or whatever, for more money because they're dumb. And it was dilapidated when they sold it. It was even more dilapidated when they bought it back. This is less a political rant and more just a history lesson of how fucking shit the coalition is mean. Who is the best internet provider in Australia? I believe it's Aussie broadband right now, which is who I'm with. I recently changed to getting 500 down and 200 up. Of course, only 20-ish percent of the country can have such speeds because you have to be on fire with the premises or HFC. So it's like, we're offering these amazing modern speeds for your internet, only if you have the technology that Labour wanted to roll out to the country. And the coalition tried as hard as they fucking could to stop everyone from receiving. You have 25 up and down? As a singular individual, you could definitely get by with 25 up and down, as long as you're not doing anything business-related, telecommunications-related. If you have a family or even just like two people who watch Netflix, you're screwed. How much does internet cost for me? $319. |
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| 15. February 2022 | Introduction. | Hello everyone, recently I released a draft script for an unreleased video due to not having time to make it as I was working on my pacifist series. I was proud of my writing and so I wanted my audience to read it. The script can be found down below and it was on the topic of reactors, people who make content using their first experience of someone else's work, doing so with no idea if they have anything of substance to contribute as they haven't seen the content before. In other words, they present their reaction to something they have not seen, instead of putting actual effort into making something after the fact once they know they have something of value to add. While I expected the script to only be read by a few hundred or so of my viewers and to therefore largely be ignored, it instead ruffled a lot of feathers, in many cases for reasons I find entirely unjustified. Mostcritical and I made two videos each responding to each other before ultimately making peace and accepting we both had some misunderstandings. These videos can also be found down below. On this episode of A Ramble With, I'll be talking to Carl Jobs, a fellow speedrun YouTuber, about my experience, the criticism I received and my position on React content. Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of A Ramble With, my Defunct podcast, now returned for probably just one episode where I'm talking to Carl Jobs, if I'm actually saying your last name correctly. Yeah, perfect. Oh great. Nailed it. He does a lot of, you do some commentary but also just like video essays about speedrunning and gaming in general. I'm sure most of you know him if you're in the speedrunning space and he is here mainly to ask me questions about the whole, my criticism of React's content in general and the drama surrounding that. I'm sure there'll be a bit of a back and forth but he does have some topics that he wants to hit on. Yeah for sure. What a crazy scenario that happened. Yeah. |
| 14. January 2021 | Introductions – Modest Pelican and DarkViperAU | Shit. Oh yeah. Okay, true, true. Oh, cause yeah, cause I am recording now, but I mean, I didn't know when this was gonna start. So, okay, so, um, I did, I did on Twitter a poll to see what people wanted me to call this thing, and a Rambles with one. What did you vote for? I voted for a Rambles. Yeah, yeah. It's just similar to speedrunning Rambles, but... Yeah, some brand. Yeah, so thank you for being on the first episode ever of this series. It's my pleasure. I hope so, if you don't regret it by the end. And congrats on- Yeah, that's good. And congrats on a million subscribers, of course. Oh, thank you, man. Yeah, I appreciate that. Yeah, so, uh, I have no real format for how I wanted this to go. I just in general wanted to just talk to some people that I have, um, tend- tend- Tendently come across in my YouTube career that I think are interesting people. Yeah, cool. And so I got my audience to give me a bunch of questions. I have 31 here, um, and we'll see if we hammer some out and we just chat with it as a guide, I'm not sure. Uh, like the first question is a pretty obvious one. Um, as a new viewer, let's say a person who doesn't know you at all, uh, how would you introduce yourself and your content? Um, it's just kind of like glorified shitposting, really. Like that would be it, I think, yeah. Okay, I can introduce you if you like. So this is- Yeah, you go, you go, yeah. This is Modest Pelican, um, formerly Modest Pelican Gaming. Uh, you've changed your name recently, right? Yeah, I did a bit of a rebrand. I thought the meme was dead. I kept gaming for so long just cause it was just so cringe, like who had gaming in their name in 2020. |
| 03. May 2020 | Invadervie shames viewers for subs | Invada V, shaming viewers for subs. Thoughts on the Invada V subshaming? I was more surprised to find out that Destiny and Invada V are friends and he came to her defense. I was very shocked. What is it? If you watch Twitch for hours a day, you can more than likely afford to sub, but you just don't. That's technically true that you do it not because you can't afford it because you don't want to. But then again, by that same token, how can you justify subbing to one content creator over another? Wouldn't you then be beholden to sub to literally every content creator that you watch or have watched or give $5 to every YouTuber? And that you certainly couldn't afford. It's just such a weird statement to make because obviously the $5 isn't what the content's worth. If Netflix is worth $10-15 a month, no stream is worth $5 a month. You can't see it as paying for content. You can only see it as being kind to a streamer. By that token, why aren't you just giving $5 to literally everyone that you interact with on a daily basis out of kindness? Because you can't do that. You can't possibly afford that. It's absolutely true that I could afford to give every person I interact with on a daily basis $5, but why the fuck would I do that? And making a statement, oh you know, you could totally afford to give $5 to every person you walked up to that day, but you don't because you don't want to. Why make that statement? It's a true statement, but who gives a shit? All I'm saying is, still manning what she said, you could interpret it in a way that what she said is technically true, but it would still reflect upon her terribly. As she is clearly just guilt tripping people into subbing to her. In the same way that a junkie would walk up to you and be like, hey man, you could give me $5, you just don't want to, man. Like absolutely guys, you could give any junkie that you ever run across $5 as a factual statement. Doesn't mean you should. She's just paying in sales for money? Oh absolutely. What was more interesting to me was that Destiny defended it. Because clearly it was either a tactic to generate controversy or just to guilt trip her current audience into subbing. The initial statement is just self-serving garbage, but the defense of it is more interesting to me. |
| 08. November 2020 | Investing in the stock market | Investing in the stock market. Will I ever invest in the stock market? I should- I should probably be invested in some diversified fund that grows at the same rate as the stock market as a whole. I would never do those kind of day trading, gambling sort of things. Where you effectively try to beat the market. You- you grow your investments at a faster rate than the- just the general market itself. I'm nervous about all that stuff. I don't need more money, you know? Well, I- I- obviously having more money does help me, and I don't have enough money to live the rest of my life. A long shot. But I- I mean, I'm not- I'm not money hungry. I'm not super concerned about squeezing every penny out of my life. I just want to make good content. |
| 20. February 2021 | Investing is basically just memes | You know, investing is basically just memes. The more of these investing stories that hit the news, the more that investing just seems like one big meme. It's just a joke. People will invest in stuff based on like tweets or like someone randomly mentioning shit. So Elon Musk mentioned Signal on Twitter. People bought a stock called Signal for some random company and the stock just went up like 100, 200%, whatever the fuck it was. A lot of money. And Elon Musk wasn't talking about this company. He was talking about the app Signal, which is kind of like a competitor to Twitter or whatever. It's just another, oh no, no, it's a competitor to, I don't know, whatever messenger fucking service, Instagram. Is it WhatsApp or something? It went up 638%? And he was just talking about a competitor to WhatsApp? It just seems so dumb. And now Dogecoin, like there's some Dogecoin memes. For those who don't know, Dogecoin is basically a joke cryptocurrency that people made kind of a real thing, but it's worth like a fraction of a fraction of a cent per coin. But now that it's kind of getting memed on Reddit, on Twitter, it's now actually going up in price because people are just talking about it. Like, what are people are talking about? It must have some value then. So I'm going to get in that too as well. It just, it all seems so dumb. Is not investment at its core meant to be about reallocating capital into the hands of stuff that will actually provide benefit to society? Isn't that like meant to be the points of the stock market? And is it investment in general as it's meant to benefit society? You're meant to have, find someone who needs money to make something of value, innovate or grow a business like, and connect them with a person who has money who wants to get involved in something like that. That's kind of the point, right? That doesn't seem to be what investment is now. Investment now just seems like memes and bots and manipulating fucking markets with money. Like, you have so much money that your mere utterance of what you're going to invest in can influence whether that stock goes up or down. It just all seems so dumb, but the people who seem to make the most money with this shit is rich people. And so nothing's going to change because rich people aren't led that shit, you know? I'm not saying that that's how things are. I'm saying that this is the justification given for how things are. As in, well, we need things to be this way so X, Y and Z can happen. You look at it and go, but X, Y and Z isn't happening. You're talking shit. And it just becomes with every passing day more and more apparent that how things are doesn't make actually much sense. And the justifications how things are aren't very good. Is an investment similar to gambling? In the sense of risk, certainly. Anything where you have a chance of getting more or less of something of value and the future is uncertain could be considered a form of gambling. It just depends on your definition of gambling. I mean, well, there's multiple definitions of gambling. Some that are broad and some of them are thin. What's what I'm looking for here? Broad versus narrow. There you go. He is a good opposite of broad, guys. Not broad. I mean, I'm not wrong. You know, the opposite of narrow, guys. Not narrow. |
| 02. July 2021 | Invincible and underage main characters | Invincible and underage main characters. Did the ramble about Invincible come out? Or is that another ramble that's coming out? I'm not sure, but that show has really stuck with me. I love the memes from that show. There's a new one I've seen on TikTok where like, um, I think the first time I saw it was a dude speaking to his son. He's like, oh son, you're watching Avatar. He's like, oh, yeah, dad. It's great. He's like, oh, that's good, son. He's like, oh, yeah, Korra's the greatest Avatar. And then the dad turns back and the image turns to, uh, Omni-Man or whatever, looking back in judgment or whatever. Like, it- if you've seen it, it's very fun. As if he's about to like, beat the fuck out of his son kind of thing. Which isn't obviously funny in- yeah, okay, you know what I'm saying. It's just funny. I don't know where I'm going with this. I just like the meme, okay? Yes, that was it. Hitting your kid is funny. That's it. I'll just make another son. What, 17 more years? Why does every one of these heroes or whatever have to be like, underage? Or is it- it was at 18 years. Is he actually underage? Invincible got removed two more seasons? That makes sense. It's a great show. Yeah, he's 17 years. I remember watching Hunter x Hunter and and like, it never dawned on me. Like, it never occurred to me in the show that Killua and Gon are 13 or whatever. Which is, you know, like a trope of anime or whatever where it's like, I'm six years old and I have the power to destroy planets or whatever. It just doesn't occur to me. I was like, oh, right, obviously, you know. And even watching the show, like, some subtle stuff. It's not really that subtle, but it didn't really, like it didn't really mentally process it. Like, although, what's the dude who's basically a pedophile in Hunter x Hunter? What's his name again? Ahsoka? Yeah. Like, I knew he was a creepy dude that I never really- never really hit me that he's interested in Gon and Killua because he's interested in kids or whatever. What I'm saying is, why does every fucking hero have to be underage? It's just weird. You make it past the testing in Hunter x Hunter. Hunter x Hunter is like one of the greatest shows of any genre ever. Especially sad to know that the author slowly has helped the grade or whatever and the hiatus has got longer and longer. |
| 08. June 2021 | Invincible is a great show | Invincible is a great show. Yeah, I've seen Invincible. I was fortunate that I saw it before the meme that kind of spoils it a little bit. I binge watched it all in one day when I should have been sleeping. I was like, oh, you know, it's like an hour before I should go to bed or whatever. Let's just look at this Invincible show. As I was, you know, like I watched the first episode, I'm like, OK, this is OK. There's nothing really special here. Like, why are people saying this is so good then? I don't really understand. Then it gets to the end of the first episode, like, oh, OK, it's pretty cool. I feel as though the biggest criticism of it is that a lot of the B stuff, while some of it's interesting and you can like some of the characters, not a lot of it's really important or impactful. It's kind of just a filling time or to provide a bit of atmosphere or whatever for the for the main story. But it's certainly worth the watch. And the meme that came out of it is quite funny. There's also that I think it's an underused meme. You know, Seymour Skinner, when he's you know, that meme of him looking down, pathetic. There's a scene like that in Invincible. It does looking down at the other heroes is just like pathetic. If I can swing it like if it makes sense within context, I will try and put one of those memes in the next passivist. Yes, I spoiled that he said pathetic. Some character says pathetic somewhere in the show, basically ruined it for you. It is unfortunate that the meme is basically a squirrella. I suppose without context, it doesn't make a lot of sense, but still. Snape said pathetic to Dumbledore, did he? My favorite meme involving Snape was Dolores Umbridge, where she's like, when you first came here, tried to get the role of defense against the dark ass teacher. Yes. And you were unsuccessful. Obviously. The way he just goes, obviously. Have I watched the Harry Potter films? What's Harry Potter? Never heard of it, man. Of course I've seen the Harry Potter movies. Haven't seen the Fantastic Beasts because everyone says it's like weird. Like the story is a convoluted mess. Like to even know fully what's going on, you need to like sit down and like really break it down. And even then, once you've broken it down, doesn't really make a lot of sense. I heard the first one is decent, but the others go off the rails even more. That show Invincible on Amazon Prime, even while it's been a little while since I've seen it, it's kind of stuck with me. It might be because of the memes, but I've thought back on that show more than I do for most shows and it will occasionally come up on my YouTube feed and I'll watch some more clips of it. It was a pretty damn good show. I hope they quickly come out with a season two. It'd be hard to match how good the first season was though. |
| 15. February 2022 | Is "react" content fair use? | I think most people prop well again it's hard to say cause Ethan. Was a information 3 was super like it's fair use but that seems like crazy because like if you look at the reactors how they do things like people react to my videos. And it's like if they say the videos like 25 minutes. Their reaction therefore reactions like 27 minutes like they had 2 minutes to like a half an hour video you know it's the age is ruling from that judge the judge outright said this is not a ruling about reaction content because there is a huge variety of things that people call reaction content citing the people who just sit there watching youtube video versus what I call response content where people take small parts of the original work to create something. Distinct from the original to target a different audience for a different purpose the ruling they're saying that this the ruling with each day is the isn't saying that all things called reaction content. Legal it was saying that the particular age to age to the case involved something that was okay on the fair use just that one individual instance of things and that's. |
| 17. December 2022 | Is 4K Really Worth the Extra Money? | I appreciate the concern though. Is 4K really worth the extra money? I'll be real with you, having gone from a 32 inch monitor to a 27 inch monitor and 4K to 1440p, can definitely tell the difference. Is it a significant difference? It's enough to notice. I think if I move my monitor closer to me, I probably less notice. But certainly going from curved to flat is a huge thing now. Using curved for like a week. Do I prefer curved or flat? Curved is just better. There's no advantage to flat. I mean, I'm sure there's certain curves you can get that'd be overwhelming, but mine was just a slight curve and it's just better. I guess you'd have to have a pretty large monitor for it to make sense, but. Doesn't Sony have better monitors than Samsung? Sony does not have 4K to 140 hertz. As said, I wouldn't have gotten a Samsung one if there had been another option. Is it worth the extra money? Is it worth the extra money? Is it worth the extra money? Is it worth the extra money? |
| 23. February 2023 | Is AI coming to replace content creators? | content creators. So I don't use TikTok all that much, but I think TikTok is a ripe environment for this new wave of sort of AI content that we're seeing. So I was presented with this channel, swith092, and all of its videos are just random tech stuff. You're released every couple hours, and listen to it. EU antitrust authorities are investigating Adobe's 20 billion dollar figma deal. The European Commission said it... So you can hear how it's clearly an AI voice, a quite good one, and all of the videos are edited basically in the exact same way with the exact same text here. And I wonder how much of this is being made automatically by an AI, and how much of it is a person like writing the script, putting it into a text to speech thing. Could a person produce this many videos this quickly with all of it being controlled? Or how good has AI gotten now? Could a person type something, be like, make this website into endless different shorts? And if that isn't something that's happening here, surely that's eventually going to happen. I assume they're just scraping news articles? Exactly. But is the editing also being done by some sort of machine, or some sort of AI, or is it... Because this sort of editing would still take time to do. Every single one has the exact same format, the exact same editing. I also saw an interesting TikTok, I'm not going to show it, I probably couldn't find it again. But it was of this really, really attractive woman. And it had some text on it that said, just had a Karen give me the stink eye, because her husband spilt his meal on him trying to get a look. And she was really attractive, chat. I was like, why would a person this attractive be on TikTok? So I clicked on the profile. And no joke, it was thousands of like, six different clips repeated over and over and over again of this really, really attractive woman with the text changed every time. Some would have 200,000 views, some would have a million, some would have just 5,000. It seems as though that this person has just found like, six clips of someone really attractive, and puts different text on it, and just continuously re-uploads it to eventually get some sort of response in the algorithm to get a bunch of views. And they weren't unsuccessful, I think they had like 100,000 followers. Which doesn't mean much on TikTok, but I just mean that, like it got a response. And looking at that, I was like, is this done by an AI? Surely you could program something that is just like, hey, every six hours re-upload this video with a different set of text within these guidelines. You could surely do that. The content creation space in 2023 is very weird. Yes, it is. Between reaction content and AI content, everyone's just trying to avoid doing any actual work, and still be able to upload like, just endless videos. Because the more you upload, the better off you're going to be, at the end of the day. The continued future where I'm going to be looking at all the content I look at, and being like, was this made by an AI? Could AI have made this? Was there a person making this? It's a weird world. To be fair, that seems like the right approach, because you invest so much effort and get no attention, while you can just shotgun things until something works with little to no effort. It's just more efficient. It is. It is. And the ethics of that, debatable, whether it's just the problem of the systems themselves, that it's so hard to break out, or... There's an interesting question that people want answered, which is, how likely is it, if you make something truly great, that people would truly love if they could see it, how likely is it for the algorithms to actually care and present that to the people who would love it? Because there's just so much content being pumped out. 720,000 hours just on YouTube every day. Could the algorithm really be testing all that content in the widest possible way to find people who have an interest in it? Obviously, people can't watch infinite videos every day. There has to be a limit at some points. So, like, if there's 30 videos that you would love to watch, and the algorithm knows that, you know, if you can only watch five, those other 25 are somewhat screwed, right? How likely is it just making something good for that actually to be acknowledged and presented to people? And depending upon your level of pessimism, some people are like, it's impossible, can't be done. Me, I'm a little bit hopeful. I do think if something truly great is made, that a person will eventually be acknowledged and given some time in the sun. But clearly, there's a lot of stuff from people who are already popular that is just complete garbage that is presented by the algorithm, not because it's the best stuff on the platform right now, but it's the stuff that people will acknowledge and recognize as something that they might want to watch, and so will click it. Like, my content is far from the best on the platform. I upload videos that, if I was a small creator, would go absolutely nowhere. But because I have people who recognize me, and I have some track record in terms of entertaining them, they'll go, oh, well, it's DarkviperAU. I'll click it. I'm more cynical. People definitely have talent, skills, abilities, or other incredible aspects that never get recognized. I think that has to be true. It's more of a question of what is the relationship between making something really amazing and actually getting successful on social media? I don't think there's no relationship. I don't. I think there is a relationship that most content that is never acknowledged is just bad, primarily because people starting out, especially if they receive no initial success, don't stick around long enough to actually gain the skills to make something good. It's usually why I speak of content as being good in an algorithmic sense. Is this algorithmically viable? Because it is certainly possible for you to make a good video on something that is not good in the algorithm. Let me give you an example. So I talked in a previous ramble about Ilyas. I still don't know if I'm saying that right. And their video, The Defense of Kyrgyzstan. And you can see how this got 125k views, but then next week you got 725. Because the algorithm is so much more these days, like judging videos largely on their own merits. It doesn't matter if this video got 10 million views. If people aren't clicking this video, it's not going anywhere. It is likely that they give it a little bit more credibility. Why wouldn't it? But clearly, if people aren't clicking it, the algorithm has no interest. This video, I've seen him change the thumbnail multiple times, even the title. But it went nowhere. Why? Because you know how many videos there are on YouTube about Nukid Energy? There's thousands. Thousands upon thousands upon thousands. Anyone who is interested in this topic, this is like waaaaaay down the list of videos that they get recommended. I didn't watch this video because I've seen like dozens upon dozens upon dozens of videos on this topic. This video could be really really good in terms of its design, its writing, its argumentation. It could be great. But it's just not a good video for the algorithm to capture people's interests. At the same time though, if Veritasium, a very successful already established channel, released a video like this, even this exact same video, clearly it would get more views than this. I would argue however, it would not do as well as his other videos. Because you can't just make what everyone else has made, or what everyone else has made before. It's not good enough to make a good video in terms of its presentation and whatnot, if it isn't algorithmically viable. If it isn't something people actually want to watch. |
| 22. November 2022 | Is AMD better than Intel? | I asked yourself 10 years ago, what would it be excluding things like Bitcoin? Obviously, I just tell myself stuff about the future for investments, but if you mean just general advice It's hard to think on because everything I want to do is like give advice to like how does it succeed based on what I know Now but general advice, I suppose it would just be don't stress too much I don't know like every answer that question is related to like hey, you should get into streaming a lot earlier It's gonna be a big market on YouTube men. Start making those YouTube videos Here's a guide on all the things |
| 17. March 2023 | Is Adin Ross actually this dumb or just faking it for views? | Hello and welcome to another episode of Viper Rambles starting with the topic is Aiden Ross actually this dumb or is he just faking it for views? So this next part is like three minutes of clips from Destiny debasing Aiden Ross on Andrew Tate and I guess other topics as well and The reason why it's so interesting to me is because it's an interesting conversation about how much Aiden Ross is just a moron versus Pretending to be a moron. I don't know for attention. I'm leaning towards the side of him generally being a moron But because he's a moron it is hard to tell when he is just being himself Versus having a joke. You don't know if he's actually delusional or he's faking. Yes, that's the problem when it comes to a person who's Witty and generally intelligent you can tell when they're joking like there's a little bit of a wink there to say hey I'm not being serious here, but for a dumb person They don't have that subtlety so they can be making a joke But you can't tell because they just sound as stupid as they normally do so we're gonna take a look at these They've been making the rounds. Yeah See bro, so why do people like you? You seem pretty normal to me. You're having a normal conversation. Oh, what's your pin on Andrew Tate? rapist Bro, you happy bro. I really really liked you until you said that bro Why the fuck did you just say that bro? You are so cool to me you fucking everything you're saying I agree with And he just had the fucking sex. It's not a rapist bro. He is not a fucking rapist bro. He is not a rapist Why would he need to rape anyone? He's hot. He has money. He's rich. He's fucking clout his power Why the fuck would he need to rape anyone bro? I mean like we've just had high profile people like Harvey Weinstein and America's dad the what's his name Bill Cosby You just think like rich powerful people don't rape people or something That's just that's just nonsense and Kevin Spacey as well We have so many high profile examples of rich rich and powerful people Abusing their power to either manipulate others into sleep with them or just directly raping them or what have you like a oh Not that there's much of a distinction there, but you know I'm saying like silly I mean, do you think that hot people that are ripped with money and power don't ever rape people or traffic people? Okay, I'll explain you what he did. He basically did only fans before only fans Yes I think it was I think what he does he got women to fall in love with him then he flew them out to Romania And then he had them work like 15 hour shifts, and then he stole money from them while he had them work in Thank God percentage though, and he put them on so he lied about the percentage you gave him right like he's on video talking about He how he would scam them with their taxes to steal money from them. I mean he's a businessman. I mean listen It wasn't the best. I mean you can say that's a bit. I agree. It is a business I don't disagree. He's a businessman. He's a good businessman, but the business that he ran was sex trafficking right look This attitude that Aiden is showing here. This is how a lot of people think I'm sure a lot of people who watch Aiden Ross Feel this exact same way get your bag It doesn't matter what happens to other people how could harm others who you have to cheat and steal from as long as it's not The person themselves obviously because you want to be you know you're still from the big G you but anyway else fuck him Everyone's fair game. I mean how do you feel about only fans? I think it's pretty good Okay, he was basically doing only fans signing like basically like these only fans agencies before only fans Yeah, but only fans doesn't like women. I don't do you know if only fans is trafficking women Well, what is trafficking women exactly? Because driving women means that he was using methods of deception by telling women that he was in love with him and wanted to marry Them he was bringing them over to Romania And then he was using another girlfriend his bottom bitch to deceive the women into eventually getting into sex work where they thought that they Were still in love with him, but in reality he was just there to capitalize on their sexuality and sell them to the world Bro, and that's what people do I've done before I played girls before You know we all do that bro. Yeah, I say welcome to the world and welcome to prison I mean that that's why he's in Romania like that's what you do Yeah, some people murder people they go to jail some people rape people You know some people with sex traffic, and they go to jail like that's a welcome to the world Yeah, of course see this this this attitude of like oh everyone does that where everyone does that this is the attitude I run into with a lot of people who do despicable shit or treat other people unfairly or whatever It's like why everyone does this I'm just like everyone else when it isn't always the case right? But that's how people justify to themselves like if I I'm just doing exactly what everyone else would do in my circumstance Which is not always the case so Listening to that you're like he's probably serious here right even though that stuff is really dumb He did seem sincere, but when you listen to other clips Do you believe it's so so call us them? Socalism I don't know that means Socal ism Socialism That is a lie yeah, no, I'm not a good no. I don't believe in that Now you may immediately think like no one's this dumb right, but if you recall XQC Legitimately asked of me is he a communism remember that our reactors Betty ball. I'm gonna react to this impressions exposure always 100% disturbed I Don't know what I'm doing. I'm just trying to be a little bit of a What? What? Did you ask the apple if you want to be picked up yeah, you're like a sexual harasser You're like a like a sexual predator what how does it make sense? I just think dude dude dude your analogy is that place this in his analogy nope trickle down fucknomics Whatever he said what I had to go that react not mix trickle trickle bound what the fuck is that? What is the action of come? a communism The world is doomed at that video legitimately needed subtitles because like 50% of people who watch the video couldn't understand a single word that XQC was saying there just seems to be a certain degree of Stupidity that is valued in the market valued in live streaming He's trolling and you took the bait and I love this comic person wets themselves in public. Yeah rent free This is what I think every single time that someone says like hey He's just intentionally making himself look like a massive fool for the cloud for the attention I'm like to what degree can people really do this we're like waking up in the morning me like I Convinced hundreds of thousands of people yesterday that I'm a fucking moron. I'm a genius There's another one though like in this one surely he has to be joking right so Destiny in this clip makes a joke. He's clearly sarcastic and Aiden Ross appears to not understand that destiny is joking I see what you're doing here now to be honest if you ever said something like I mean It's different bro. You're comparing Hillary dates. Come on Why it was an interest because I think there's a quote from Hitler saying only fans is the second Holocaust and he said that before He even did the first one so I'm sure you'd agree with that at least right? Wait Hitler said only fans the Holocaust the second Holocaust How do you know how to learn? No? Well? I know it's crazy, huh? Just because Hitler might have said a couple good things doesn't mean that Hitler's a good guy right same thing with a den are not a Hidden man same thing with Andrew Tate. I'm sure that Andrew Tate is sets are good things He has a listener says a good thing, but overall he's like a scam artist. I don't think he's a good guy Okay, show me where you said something about the Hitler said only fans is gonna be the second Holocaust Please show me where he said that it was in the second version of Mein Kampf But I think that Isis burned that down when they invaded Germany last Oh, there's a second Mein Kampf Yeah, but he'd written it. There was only one version because he'd written it when he was in that fucking bunker before he killed himself Yeah That's crazy Yeah, that's crazy So like is he in on the joke here? It's so hard to believe that he is when he will confidently say in other situations clearly dumb shit He is a man who has a history of saying saying and doing impressively dumb things And so when he gets into a situation where he might legitimately just be in on the joke You can't believe he's in on the joke is the character or not? It's so hard exactly is it possible that this is all just a person trying to act very dumb For money, but like does that even really work? But I mean with the amount of impressively dumb people who at the top of twitch Maybe that's just the ticket. Maybe you do just need to be dumb I don't hang on uh Live stream fails and stuff anymore, so I don't get to see often these random clips I'm not on twitter that much either. I just found those clips to be very bizarre It's the problem that because I know The handful of posts on live stream fails about me are false It makes it very hard to take seriously the commentary that happens on live stream fails about other creators as well I can't help but think in the back of my mind like what is the context here that I'm missing It can never be the case that a single clip can perfectly encapsulate any event You can never be the only one who thinks that a single clip can perfectly encapsulate any events |
| 14. December 2022 | Is Chris Pratt going to ruin the new Mario movie? My thoughts on the trailer | Is Chris Pratt going to ruin the new Mario movie? My thoughts on the new trailer. You showed interest in the Mario movie and Chris Pratt's performance when you were at PAX, so here, let us see what you think. 13k dislikes, as an estimation, remember it's an extension. Every single voice there was great, except Chris Pratt. This Yahoo at the end was pretty good. That wahoo, is that the only reason why he got the part? Like there was a line here, I'm just like, oh what? What? Yeah, so the visuals look good, even the story kind of looks good. Like this looks like a labor of love to a degree, but Chris Pratt, terrible. Everyone else's voice though, amazing. I can't imagine Chris Pratt could sink this. I would hope that just after 10 minutes of watching, like you'd forget it's him or something, but yeah, that casting choice is very strange. Very strange indeed. |
| 15. February 2022 | Is DarkViperAU just jealous of reactors? | It's so weird that they would make that accusation to you because you do very well. Yeah. So it's such a weird thing saying that you're jealous or that you're... I don't know, that's so weird. I mean, they could have tried... if you were a tiny creator and you really weren't making it and you were struggling, then maybe... Maybe you would be jealous, maybe you would be a bit bitter about it, but... One of the funnier things was when people were like, you're only making these videos because you want views, look at how many more views this video has gotten than all your other content. And I'm like, I've released like four videos in the last two weeks that have gotten more views than my video about Charlie. If I want to make a video that gets a lot of views, I'll just make an episode of Chaos, because that's going to get probably at least now four, five hundred thousand views and would take so much less effort. If all this was... if all I cared about was views, this wouldn't be the sort of content I would be making. These videos I've made from Charlie are some of my... about Charlie are some of my least earning videos I've made in quite a while. Because they're just so short and no one... even though they may have a decent amount of views, very few people actually watch the entire video. Maybe like 14% of people got to the end of that 45 minute video. Very few people have read the document, which is why so many of the comments just... Maybe I'm being a bit arrogant when I say that if you just read the script, you'd understand, but more people would certainly understand. I can't imagine... well, I know for a fact some of those comments could not have been made if the document had been read by that person. Because a lot of the questions that people would ask of me are things that I've already addressed, either in the video or in the document. |
| 29. November 2022 | Is DigitalCarAddict also a RealCarAddict? | Also a real car addicts. Do you have an interest in cars in real life? Oh, yes Yes, I am a big I'm a big car guy in real life I my youtube channel is for the gaming side and then I use my Instagram for my Instagram Yeah, I do see that a bit. So I I've tried to Is I want to make an IRL car channel, but we're both youtubers You know that we barely have enough time for anything You know people see a 20 minute video and they're like, oh that probably took you a couple hours. No No That took forever and certainly in real life car stuff is a lot more expensive than collecting cars and online Of course and filming in real life is more difficult to go pro setups and angles There's just so many different things and one of the main things I've I've kind of thought about too Is if you forget to record something in the game right for a certain scene you can go back in the game and get that clip Yes, it's annoying but you can go back in there and get it in real life What are you gonna do go back to the the car meet that already ended in real life? You can't You can't do anything you can't go back and get that clip. You can't do anything. You can't go back and get that clip |
| 08. November 2022 | Is Elon Musk insane? (Rant about Twitter) | Is Elon Musk insane? Rant about Twitter. I want to talk about Twitter for a little bit, okay? I know most of you don't care. Me personally, I have on occasion considered just leaving Twitter entirely. I don't have that much stake in the platform. I don't really care that much about it. I don't doom scroll Twitter and stuff. All I've used Twitter for most of the time is communicating my random thoughts and my attempts at humor. Think of a funny joke, I put it on Twitter and then I read my mentions. I don't really care much about the homepage or other creators on it. I'll occasionally see the post by people that I follow, but that's about it. Like I follow 86 people and only like half of them tweet, so. I posted once in my community tab that I should probably just start posting the stuff I posted on Twitter on the community tab because I'd reach more people and it'd be easier for me. It's where my audience is. But one of the main reasons I hadn't done that is because on my iPad, community posts don't work. But anyway, so this has gone viral. Part of what I'm trying to achieve with this sort of enabling everyone to be payment verified with Twitter Blue is to try to get as many people payment verified as possible. It's only eight bucks a month. Although for some people that were complaining about that, these are people who pay more than that for their latte. It's part of its revenue, part of it is payment authentication. And so if somebody, because there is a huge problem with spam and bots and trolls on Twitter and organizations trying to manipulate a public opinion. But if we can get enough verified users, and we're going to prioritize Twitter search, replies, mentions by verified users first. If your payment verified with a boot check mark, then you're pre-prioritized and hateful conduct pays. But if somebody risks losing even eight bucks, the net effect will be over time that the verified users will be, will pretty much always be at the top of comments and search. And you won't really see, you'll have to scroll far to see the unverified users, which will be the bots and trolls and whatnot. The idea that only bots and trolls wouldn't pay $8 a month for Twitter is insane. The idea that speech should be pay to play is dumb. Too much of life already is how much money in your bank account dictates how much speech you can have, or the value of your speech, the reach of your speech. We don't need that shit on Twitter. That is not an improvement. The amount of people who believe Elon Musk can do no wrong, who are now like, yeah, man, you can't pay for speech, you don't deserve it. The amount of people whose main problem with Twitter isn't anything about Twitter, but the people on it and what they say is hilarious to me when they then say, oh, I believe in free speech. People's problem with Twitter is the amount of free speech that some people have. They don't like what people are saying and they want them to stop. They just don't realize it. They don't want to accept that reality. There is so much garbage and toxicity on Twitter because people are speaking their minds and people are largely garbage and toxic. Your experience on Twitter is in large part dictated by you. I don't see that much toxicity on Twitter. All these people like, man, it seems like everywhere I go, there's massive amounts of toxicity. Why is that? It's because you are toxic. You are the toxic one and your toxic behavior attracts other toxic people who you can't help but interact with because you're toxic. Elon thinking this is a great thing is because he is like one of the most toxic motherfuckers on Twitter. This idea that people have where Elon Musk, a guy who's never run a social media platform, that just because he's rich and he massively overpaid for Bird app, that he would suddenly be able to run the platform more successfully than the people who came before him is dumb. Elon has not succeeded at everything he's touched. As a matter of fact, he's failed at most of the things he's touched in his life. Imagine thinking man who paid 44 billion for Bird app is a smart man, a non-profitable company going, well, borrowing $12 billion to achieve this and needing to be so desperate as to make everyone pay eight bucks to use the platform to pay back that money. Twitter is not worth $44 billion, not even on the market. You could literally save a hundred million dollars every year and it would take 400 years to make the amount of money that Elon Musk paid for Twitter Bird app. Bullshit. These people on one hand, idolize and love Elon Musk thinking he can do no wrong because he rich man. He got money, therefore he must be a genius. Not true. And then they're like, yeah, but Twitter is like terrible and garbage and the worst and I'll never use it. You can't hold both these positions. You can't believe that Elon Musk is a genius and also believe the thing he purchased is complete trash. These does not compute. Twitter was making no money and he's been $44 billion on it. And the very first decision that he's trying to make here is the one thing that has a chance to doom the app. You can't have a pay to play social media service. It'd be like if YouTube made it so that you could pay money to have your videos be recommended. That's not smart. It just lowers the quality of everything that you see because you only see the things that people can pay for. Stop idolizing rich people. The greater the level of your success, the greater the amount of luck that you needed to get there because all of success is predicated on the uncertain future and the necessity to have particular information in your environment that you cannot control. Rich people are just people, but a hallmark of intelligence is an understanding of your own limitations and recognizing that in any situation, there is always someone out there who is better equipped to handle that situation than you. And if you have access to those people, you should be saying, hey, help me do this for me if that's at all possible. Elon though is an arrogant douchebag and so will take the reins of literally anything that he puts his hands on rather than saying, hey, who is more equipped than me to handle this. Elon Musk, man, never run a social media platform. Within the first week fires half the staff in a week to save money. No private company has 50% of its staff doing nothing. They're now apparently having to call back those people to bring them back in because obviously, even if that seems weird to me that thousands of people work at Twitter, they were clearly doing something. These aren't business decisions. It's an egomaniac who had his feelings hurt by the people at Twitter. He's like, I'll get back at them. I'll fire them. I'll take over. Putting $12 billion worth of debt on Twitter's books and be like, man, we really need the money now. I know I said I didn't care about the money when I was buying Twitter, but I really care about now. Please give me $8, everyone. I need your $8 more than you do. Please have $8 for speech. Insane. And people applaud this shit. Madness. To be clear, Elon Musk has spent most of his time alive talking bullshit, saying he would do things that he never does, spitballing ideas. And then when people explained to him that they're dumb, he goes, oh, I was joking the entire time. Ha ha ha ha ha. So he might not do any of this in the same way that like a discussion of the price of Twitter Blue was done on Twitter with another Twitter user. He was like, oh, yeah, I guess $20 is a little bit much. How about $8? Would that make you like me more? Holy shit, dude. I've never seen a person more desperate to be accepted and liked than Elon Musk and how cringe he is. Imagine believing that you can make yourself a profitable social media while actively working to piss off as many different people as possible. If Twitter is going to be profitable, Elon needs to realize that advertisers don't like controversial things and that the people he doesn't like or agree with have money that he needs. This is why sane CEOs don't tweet who to vote for. Believing that you can create a public square for everyone to be free, discuss their ideas while being one of the most polarizing controversial figures on the fucking planet. Any smart person who had that status when they bought a social media be like, OK, Frank, no one cares about you. You are the most neutral motherfucker alive that no one has opinion on. Run the fucking company as unbiasedly as possible. Because right now, for a lot of people, not me, if it was going well, if it was making good decisions, I'd be fine with it. But a lot of people, support of Twitter is now support of Elon Musk himself. Buying Twitter blue is now not buying it for a service. It's whether or not you like Elon Musk. The success of Twitter is now in pass, dependent upon how much people like Elon Musk as a person. That is a brain dead decision. Elon has bought Twitter. There was a dumb business move and every move that he's made since buying it has not been driven by a desire of good business sense to make the company actually profitable. Or if it has been, if he really believes the decisions he's been making, the whining he's been doing on Twitter is truly his best move for the company, then he is even dumber than I think he is. To be clear, I think the one thing Twitter has going for it is for the overwhelming vast majority of people, there is no replacement. While I don't super see the value in the normal way that people engage with Twitter, as I say, I just post my thoughts and read my mentions. For a lot of people, there is no replacement for that. There's nowhere else that they can go. So what's probably going to happen is Twitter won't die unless Elon continues to believe that he's the only person who can make good decisions and refuses to accept that sometimes there are better people than you for the job. Elon will make dumb decisions. It'll have a negative effect. He'll reverse those decisions and people just continue to complain and stay on the app because they have no choice. I don't think Twitter is going anywhere. And it's inconceivable to me what Elon Musk could do to kill the platform. Although to be fair, what he said in that clip, if implemented, would be about as close as you can get to killing the platform. You will never get a situation where there will be enough paid users to cover the costs of all the unpaid users on a social media platform. Social media costs a lot of money to run and having 1% of your user base paid is not going to cover that cost. And 1% is like charitable. Did you like that rant chat? I feel like people like my rants and I don't care enough about stuff anymore to rant all that much. It's nice to get somewhat fired up about something even if it's uh, something is fairly unimportant to me as Twitter. As a final point for that segment, and if you want to read the thoughts that I kind of just explained in that rant, I'm now going to be largely communicating my random thoughts and funny jokes on community posts. Here is the first one, which is the rant that I just explained. I was a funny joke about Rockstar and a carrier pigeon. Look how cute he is. It's great. I do make funny jokes here sometimes, but yeah, I'll mainly be putting my Twitter stuff in now. To be clear, I'm not leaving Twitter. I'll just be posting my content on YouTube rather than there. I should have been doing that a long time ago and this situation just reminded me of that. So I'll probably just be using Twitter a bit less. True, it is funny that even if you pay for Twitter, Elon reckons he's not going to remove all the ads. He will still get about half the ads. Insane. The man is just broken with reality. The only thing he has going for him is that while Twitter isn't profitable and the mechanisms to attempt to make Twitter make more money are terrible. As I say, for a lot of people, there is no alternative. If there was competition for Bird App, then he'd be fucked. While there are other Twitter-like websites, their lack of a user base makes them a non-viable alternative. It's very hard to start a- |
| 23. December 2022 | Is Entertainment a Waste of Time or a Vital Part of Life? | Is entertainment a waste of time or a vital part of life? So, Granday, a meme creator on YouTube, tweeted out, It's fine to think that my content is shit, but hating on the fact that I stopped working as a doctor is so weird to me. Like, why do you care so much? Lol, it's my life. I definitely prefer this job, and it also makes me more money. So it was a no-brainy decision to me. Plus, I'm also pursuing programming and game development right now, which I've learned that I'm more passionate about anyway. I wouldn't have had much time to explore new things like this if I was working 60 plus hours a week in a hospital either. It doesn't matter where you move from into this career, there will always be people who talk shit about you for doing so. I've had people say, like, man, imagine if you didn't spend 10,000 hours playing GTA V. Look at all the things you could have done. And then they list like, curing cancer, or becoming a psychologist, and all this jazz. And it's just like, get real. I don't see this career as as valueless as some people believe it to be, and I believe it has a significant positive impact on the world. There isn't a single person who shits on the idea of making content online that doesn't themselves consume that content and enrich their lives with it. Entertainment has value. If you've ever looked at like, an analysis of needs of humans to be satisfied and happy in their lives, entertainment is on that list. So what I'm saying is, even had he not been a doctor, and had he been, I don't know, a garbage man or something, there still would have been people who'd be like, I can't believe you've quit a real job like garbage man to become a goddamn YouTuber, man. It's not a real job. Why don't you do something with your life? I've been getting those comments every moment. But often they would be very flattering comments, where people suggest that, oh my, your intellect is wasted here on YouTube. You should be out there doing grand research, and all that shit. As if I'm something of significance when I'm not. But I think this is the way with like, any sort of new sort of career. Although there will always be those people who look at any job that isn't physical as not really a job. What, you aren't planting seeds into the ground with your hands, and you just sit in an office all day? That's not a real job. I think it is true that it doesn't matter what job you have, there is someone out there who believes that job to be completely worthless, and a disgrace to society. |
| 26. November 2021 | Is GTA 5 a linear game and speedrun? | Is GTA V a linear game and speedrun? If you look at the mission map, for the order that the missions have to be completed in, it's almost as though they started with the thought like, hey, we should let people be able to do the missions in any order that they want, and then just slowly it became more and more linear. There's not a lot of wiggle room in terms of what missions you can do in what order. |
| 20. October 2021 | Is GTA 5 hard? | Is GTA 5 hard? That make these missions seem easy? I mean GTA 5 isn't a Super hard game like a full playthrough. You will die If you're good at games you die a couple of times at the very least I think this game's not hard and then I watch other people play casually and they flounder at the simplest things I'm like, okay, maybe it is a little bit harder than I thought it was. You know what I'm saying? Okay, maybe it is harder. I don't know like I think it'd be different if you came into the game with the mindset I don't want to die if you come in with that mindset You probably wouldn't die all that much most of the time you die because you're like, you know, you just Have fun. You're just like fuck it. I'm gonna do a barrel roll and shoot this guy in the face and you die, you know |
| 14. February 2021 | Is GTA 5 programmed well? | Is GTA V programmed well? There are a lot of glitches and stuff in this game, but this game is fucking huge You know and the overwhelming vast majority are completely inconsequential To the extent that it took years for them to be found right the game in general is very well programmed especially when you compare it to Many titles that have been released recently I mean Cyberpunk 2077 has totally uh lowered the bar of people's expectations for games in general It doesn't matter how bad game releases are people go well at least it's better than Cyberpunk 2077 |
| 03. May 2021 | Is GTA 5's Prologue Good? | Is GTA's prologue a good mission and modding it to skip it in speedruns? I mean given how you know the project 1.27 exists and that does make small modifications to the game Not the gameplay though, I'm saying like a reality where we allowed for the skipping of the cutscenes in prologue If there was enough of a push for it, it could probably be done. It's just like Those cutscenes are not that long or that annoying, you know, especially because it's not like all one sequence which is in a way annoying and good like cuz you you don't have to sit there for minutes on end but If you did have to sit there minutes on end You could just you know, go take a break and go to the bathroom or whatever What I'm saying is we aren't in Super Mario Sunshine territory where there's just like Was eight minutes of cutscenes and like 30 seconds of gameplay at the beginning Maybe I'm biased but I still look at prologue as a very good intro to the game That's a good gameplay, sense of mystery, jumps right into the action like immediately Gives an immediate sense of who the characters are isn't too long isn't too short works as a bit of a tutorial because it removes some of your options and you can't use your phone and stuff and It gives you opportunities to use the basic controls the way that they introduced The special abilities though leads a little bit to be desired given how many people apparently played without using them at all But they try to incorporate explanations of certain things into like the gameplay itself Where like, you know a character would say you should go to the shooting range and practice your shooting or the Mars like hey You know, we should do some jet ski races or like just straight-up side missions that like, you know Franklin side missions introduces street races and stuff I mean, I think honestly maybe it's just people are dumb because they I think they did a decent job I suppose thinking about it now Like like Lamar saying like you should you you should do that squinty eye thing you do or whatever And it pops up in the side and says hey you should use your special ability Like if you don't know at that point, I mean, that's your phone |
| 08. April 2021 | Is GTA 5's ending A or B better? | Is GTA V's ending A or B better? If there was no ending C, what ending would I say is the good ending out of A and B? I mean killing Trevor is probably the better ending for humanity, because Trevor is a crazy psychopath who enjoys the pain of others, and is killed and tortured like astronomical more people than Michael. At least in terms of the game, the kind of bromance between Franklin and Michael is a little bit more sweeter. Because at the end of ending A where you kill Trevor, Michael and Franklin are still kind of friends, but when you kill Michael, Trevor and Franklin are no longer friends. Because Trevor's like, wait a second, what, you're betraying your mentor, your partner dude? Wait a second, that's what Michael did to me. You're just fucking like him Judas, I want nothing to do with it. Because Michael betrayed Trevor for personal gain, and in that ending Franklin betrays Michael for personal gain. So you understand why Trevor wants nothing to do with Franklin after that. |
| 26. December 2022 | Is GTA 6 trailer coming in 2023? | 2023 Reckon we'll get a gt6 trailer in 2023 due to rockstar meaning online is slowing down because they're completely focused on gt6 I think given how long they've waited to release the trailer that they're just gonna release it when it's ready I don't think the state of duty online is gonna matter all that much I'm sure all rockstar is thinking about it's like we're gonna make a game that people are willing to play for the next 10 years Is speedrunning old games easy for newcomers? Also, I'm trying to learn speedrunning portal. Holy crap the fast movement |
| 14. March 2020 | Is GTA V the best GTA? | Is GTA 5 the best GTA? Every GTA has a strong point. I think GTA 5 is probably the best game because it doesn't fail at anything. I don't think GTA 5 excels massively in anything, but it's like it's 8 out of 10 in everything. And every other game is like a combination of 6 out of 10s, 5 out of 10s and like 10 out of 10s kind of thing, you know. But certainly a part of it is the old GTAs. You know, limited by hardware and graphics at the time have a lot harder time to compete, right? If SA were made with a modern engine with modern graphics, I think it would be better than GTA 5. But they all have something. |
| 07. May 2021 | Is GTA online dying? | Is GTA Online dying? GTA is kinda dying? How so? Has the average amount of viewers declined over the last 6 months? On Steam? Certainly of course, there's a lot of console players and you know, console players will be the dominant force for the game but at the same time, you can imagine declines in PC PlayBase. Is it least indicative of a decline in console PlayBase too? No? Hasnt'TGG off-has he done like a bunch of games about GTA dying? There are almost as many videos about GTA Online dying as there are players of GTA Online and that isn't to say there's very few GTA Online players. So what's the average amount of players who played GTA Online last week on PC? On Steam? 130k? Yeah. And then you go to the number on the Epic Games store, the number on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5. Like it would be the same service, PlayStation 4, whatever, but maybe even older a little bit. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 20. December 2022 | Is GTA online the black sheep of the GTA franchise? | Is GTA Online the black sheep of the GTA franchise? Do I like GTA Online now? That I can now play it makes it possible. You know when you get like a packet of candy of assorted flavors, there's always like that worst flavor. Sometimes you just leave that one to last and you're like, well, it's still candy, I guess. And so you eat it. That's what GTA Online is. It's in the GTA Online kind of universe, but it's like the worst one. But it's like still in the universe. So it's like, yeah, okay, we'll do this sometimes, it's fine. Clearly the majority don't think it's the worst one, seeing how successful it is. It is the only thing that Rockstar is releasing content for. It can still be the worst one, but it's the only one being supported. I don't think anyone who's played all of the GTAs, would ever put GTA Onlineers anywhere close to their favorite. Some might have fond memories of particular periods in GTA Online history, but as a totality, no. |
| 12. February 2023 | Is Gta 6 world going to be as life like as Skyrim? | Is the GTA 6 world going to be as lifelike as Skyrim? You know, I think Rockstar is doing for GTA 6. I think they're spending all their time trying to achieve what like Bethesda tried to achieve. Where like, the world feels lived in, like all the characters actually act and do stuff in the world, even when you're not there. Like it's a living, breathing city that you happen to be in. I suppose if you do that then you can really hamper gameplay in some ways. |
| 31. October 2020 | Is Highschool Useless. | Is high school useless? School life in seventh and eighth grade is effectively useless? I disagree. I do think in general, school does prepare you for life to a degree, forcing you to interact with other people who you wouldn't normally interact with, and while people say, oh, you know, I never use the quadratic equations, blah blah blah. High school does introduce you to at least a small amount of basically every discipline that exists. Kids who do care about that stuff will be more likely to recognize that they care about that stuff and will potentially be more likely to pursue those careers, you know, and having some sense of recognition for these concepts. For most of your life, you're like, oh, yeah, I remember learning something about this in high school. Oh, yeah, and that's gonna help you a little bit. Sure, high school is in some sense just glorified babysitting, but I don't think it's a complete waste of a kid's time, especially because what else would they be doing with their time? I can't imagine what a 12 to 18 year old would be doing with their time other than high school. That'd be more useful than school. |
| 23. December 2022 | Is Instagram the worst social media ever made? | I don't know. Is Instagram the worst social media ever made? I think Instagram is a complete crock of shit. I don't know why anyone would ever use Instagram, honestly. And surely we can all agree that Instagram is the worst social media, right? In terms of function, like you might hate TikTok for other reasons, but Instagram is just the worst at doing what it apparently claims to be trying to do. It's awful. And like nothing gains traction on that website. Fucking nothing. Doesn't matter what content you put out there, it just sits there and does jack all. Awful. Oh yeah, I forgot about Facebook. I get Facebook's the worst. I mean, Facebook owns Instagram, but you're right. Facebook is worse than Instagram. That's true. Twitter is stupid, and Instagram is Twitter for people who can't read. True. Twitter's latest. |
| 20. March 2021 | Is Jimmy Lester's child? | Jimmy Lester's child. I saw someone comment in chat. Have I heard the theory that Jimmy is Lester's son rather than Michael's? Amanda claims that she was always faithful to Michael until she found him in a stripper and Michael doesn't disagree. And Jimmy, you know, his birth of course predates them moving to this area and whatnot. So as at least as far as Amanda's claims are concerned and Michael's belief is concerned, Amanda was faithful and therefore Jimmy is Michael's son. And yeah, why would Amanda fuck Lester exactly? I think if you're gonna think someone else is Jimmy's father, it'd be Brad. Amanda comes off so much more unfaithful than Michael does. I really want to make a video on this, but guys you got to remember that Michael and Amanda were kind of living in their own little area, right? And without Amanda's consent, knowledge, approval, whatever, Michael makes a deal to send them to a completely different area of the country and change their name. Amanda had no fucking idea that this deal was taking place. Michael was just like, yeah, she'll come along. It's fine. And we know that from the dialogue in bury the hatchet. Now if there's anyone who has any right to be pissed off at Michael, it is Amanda. Amanda thought Michael was dead. That's why she cheated. Amanda didn't think Michael was dead. The people not listen to the story in this game. Amanda knew about the deal beforehand. I mean, you could argue that she knew a deal was taking place, but not that Michael would fake his death. But that seems unlikely considering that she knew that they were going to be moving to, that the deal involved them moving somewhere else and blah blah blah. Who's the woman crying at the funeral? It's Amanda. She even says, I think if you have a sub that I was on, you can see she says, Michael. It's why I included it in the anime version. I think I made it even more explicit where she says Michael. You'd be surprised the amount of people that play the game and skip all the cutscenes. I don't think that's a significant amount of people. I don't know how the heat was, but it sounds like if Michael hadn't done the deal, the next deal. I don't want to discuss them all. If I ever make the video, I'll explain it a bit more. I know there were games in the past where I skipped cutscenes while playing. Maybe I was a little kid or something. With a game like this that's just, you know, entirely single player and the story or whatever, it would seem foolishness to skip the cutscenes. You'd have no idea what was going on. Do I think Franklin is a robot because he can slow down time? I've never met a robot that can slow down time. |
| 14. December 2022 | Is Kanye West insane? | issues I would have also done nothing but I understand it. Is Kanye West insane? The Evil Stranger. I know you don't do political rambles anymore but it's Kanye West storming of Tim Poole's show and his recent anti-semitic comments something you were interested in. I'm not interested at all. I have been on the Kanye West is completely fucking insane train for like the last five years. It is interesting that people are finally noticing. But he's been saying weird shit and doing weird shit for a long time but because of his genius in regards to his music people just kind of like sweep that under the rug or just ignore it and just go okay who cares he's just a talented ass you know they're like they like that sometimes. But he has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and all that jazz but can you imagine trying to get a person to take their medication or get them to keep a level head when they're worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He's still worth billions. I think he used to be worth billions. And a person with that big of an ego and knowing that like you would say the wrong word and he'd fire you like he must just be around so many enablers who are like oh you might take your medication today Mr. West don't you worry sir that's just all the Jews man they're just trying to brainwash you with their drugs and stuff man you don't need that stuff man. I pity everyone who was around Kanye West and I condemn those who are attempting to take advantage of his mental illness to forward their own careers and get attention. Although like to play devil's advocate let's say Kanye West showed up on my house he's like Matt Matt I want to go on your live stream and we were just want to talk to you and you ramble so I'll be like okay yeah sure I can have a chat. A ramble with Kanye West. It'd be very hard to say no to that kind of promotion I suppose but maybe that's giving people a little bit too much credit. |
| 18. August 2022 | Is Michael actually coming to GTA Online? | Fancy seeing him here. What are the odds? Yeah, I've been thinking what if Ned Luke was just bullshitting about the DLC involving him where he Maybe he was somewhat memeing on Twitter in the hopes of inspiring interest to Lead rock star to be like, I guess people do want this then. Okay, let's do it. You don't think rock star cares I mean if you're Ned Luke trying to get yourself a bit of cash Getting yourself back into the game. I mean, why wouldn't you? You know, it's like 51. Give him a break. Give who a break Michael I'm sure Ned Luke would want to be in it if I was in Ned Luke shoes and I was the voice actor for the like The best-selling game of all time whatever or essentially that I I would I would milk it for all its worth fuck I would go to children's birthday parties being like hey kid You forget thousand things every day make sure this birthday isn't one of them another streamer getting swatted I've had a few of these stories recently twitch streamers and youtubers |
| 13. March 2023 | Is MrBeast's controversial request of his fans going too far? | Hello and welcome to another episode of Viper Rambles starting with the topic is Mr. Beast's controversial request of his fans going too far This was an interesting thing to me. I had to think about it for quite a while So Mr. Beast tweeted out I need your help next time you see Feastables in Walmart and Soon to be new retailers if you could clean up the presentation and make it look better that make me very happy Party face. I'm building a team to do this routinely just need help in the short term So wild Geostress says I feel like I'm going insane reading these replies What the fuck is wrong with people and so do it all the time for you already, bro When I actually see them in my Walmart, Mr. Beast is like, thank you easy and he fixes it love love hearts Brilliant crowdsourcing the cleanup an amazing way to take care of the problem with your own influence proud of you watch out Hershey's There's a new and better way of doing things when I first heard this I was like this seems kind of weird for like a dude worth potentially hundreds of millions of dollars To ask people to clean up his chocolate to potentially increase his sales of his already successful brand So he can have a bit more money to be clear I'm not saying he has hundreds of millions of dollars on hand merely that for example He turned down a billion dollar offer for his channels and businesses recently and then I thought to myself like how different is this? From me asking for you to like give me facts and glitches for GT5 Is it that different like mr. Beast isn't like a yo go out your local Walmart drive down there take time out of your day Like clean them up guard the place. Make sure no one fucks up my chocolate He's like hey if you happen to be in a Walmart and you happen to see my chocolate looking back He's like moving forward or something. It's just a little bit unorthodox It's something that I've never seen before and so my initial response was this doesn't seem very good But upon reflection it was like he's not asking for much There was clearly some line where it's like we're asking you to like and subscribe That is asking you to do something for our benefit that takes time out of your day like a couple of seconds Maybe all the way to like hey, give me your organs because I'm a Influencer like there's here's two extremes right and somewhere in the middle We reach a point of it being exploitative like asking your followers to like invest in my NFT Invest in my cryptocurrency we can clearly see that shit is exploitative, right? But I don't think this reaches the point of it being exploitative I think it might be a little bit tone-deaf not expecting a Somewhat negative response from people because to be clear mr. Beast doesn't need this. He is Wildly successful and his chocolates are going to be successful regardless of what they look like on the in the storefront, right? He said he's hiring here to do it anyway, so if you want to you can exactly it is just in the ballpark of on That line of I don't think this is bad, but it still feels weird I know you're not jealous, but you're making it sound that way how so let's say mr. Beast had recently just invested the last of his money into Producing chocolate that is he's trying to run at cost so he can donate the profits to charity if he at that point said Hey, yo, if you guys are near a shopping mall, can you guys go and straight on my chocolate? I'd be like, okay is at the bare minimum of existing is try to do something nice for charity That's fine But as you become more successful different things are perceived differently right in the same way that if you're homeless And you steal a loaf of bread the response is going to be different than a person worth a million dollars stealing a loaf of bread mr. Beast being wildly successful and Asking people on Twitter to straighten up his chocolate is very different from a person who is far less successful Asking people to straighten up his chocolate his level of success and influence Impacts how such requests are perceived and rightly so in my view It's just a very borderline thing for me, and I don't think it's wrong what he did, but it took me Reflection to reach that conclusion because it's just such a little task if you happen to be there if you wouldn't mind Although it is conceivable that some people would go out of their way to do it like for shits and giggles or something But I doubt that's many people you didn't even know he was selling chocolate honestly I wouldn't think mr. Beast would make a potentially controversial statement or a statement that we perceived as controversial Specifically to grow his brand he's made statements that suggest that is not the way he thinks is best to grow a brand But a reality of people talking about this tweet is that more people are going to be aware of his chocolate I'm talking about it right now someone in chats like hey yo I didn't know that he was making chocolate and now I know so he benefits from this ultimately More than simply potentially having his chocolate straightened up What's interesting to me is that he believes that he will see a return on investment for getting people to straighten up the chocolate Really because I worked in a supermarket and we would straighten up all the stuff because a supermarket wants to sell more things And if stuff is like not visible at the front then they're gonna make less sales So it is a part of the routine of running a supermarket that you do this stuff anyway But he wants just that little bit more it's interesting if maybe in America They don't do it as much as we do it in Australia I'm not sure and there was some people memeing the mr. Beast thing fourth mr. Beast feastables display destroyed today eight more warm us to go In reality, I'm pretty sure this is just like someone else's two pictures that this dude is reversed as a meme But that would be funny to envision like an army of anti mr. Beast people I'm here mr. Beast fans like fighting over the chocolate aisle |
| 27. February 2021 | Is My Content My Life? | Is my content my life? I would say my content is my life, yeah. I don't expect it will be that way forever. I am not dissatisfied with my life and thus I have not made any attempt to change it. Certainly my ability to focus on a personal life has been very much so dampened by COVID. I imagine if COVID wasn't a thing then I would have more of a personal life. Despite how asocial I am, prior to COVID I did still occasionally go to Twitch parties and stuff. My new manager that I just got referenced that we should go have a drink or something and chat in person. Like nah, COVID you know, just another time. |
| 27. July 2021 | Is Pepsi max worse than normal soft drinks | Is Pepsi Max worse than normal soft drinks? Pepsi Max doesn't have calories. And I'm not fit. I'm very unfit. And I wouldn't necessarily recommend drinking Pepsi Max either. The health effects are disputed. So, linked is the word, as in like, the causal relationship is hard. Because people who are more likely going to have health issues are potentially people who would drink Pepsi Max more to try to deal with their other health issues rather than quitting normal soft drink cold turkey. The claim of that somehow artificial sweetness prime your body for sweetness and then damages it because it doesn't get them, that has been pretty thoroughly said to be not true, that theory. Like a recent study or whatever suggested that that probably wasn't the case. But then again, it's one of those things where, on this particular issue, you can find a study to support whatever you really want to believe, but at the end of the day, no one's arguing that Pepsi Max or these sugar-free drinks are good for you. They're just arguing they're better for you than normal soft drink, or not necessarily bad for you. Like if you can abstain from drinking from them, that's your best move. Bear in mind, the counter-research is heavily funded by the sweetener companies. No, but that's the thing, Dusty. Apparently, that's not the case. Independent analyses have found this as well, at least the most recent one anyway. Again, it's an issue of causation rather than correlation, and it's a hard one to prove. Because not like you can just force feed people Pepsi Max to find out. I believe this study recently was on rats or something, but to what degree rats... The reason why rats are used is not because they're the most similar to humans, it's because they're very cheap to get, and people don't get pissed off when you use them, or as pissed off. Just because research has existed, or false research has existed, this does not imply that any other research is false. The existence of false claims does not in any way, shape, or form increase or decrease the likelihood of other claims being true or false. It's the same thing people say with conspiracy theories. The existence of any conspiracy existing does not increase or decrease the likelihood of any other conspiracy existing. |
| 08. November 2020 | Is Pewdiepie a good dude? | Is PewDiePie a good dude? Isn't PewDiePie a good dude? Hard to know. There's just, there's been a lot of like fringe things where you kind of have to, you either give the benefit of the doubt or you go with the negative way that you can perceive his actions. Like there's a lot of scandals around PewDiePie in the past. And to what degree you think it's just making a fuss over nothing because he's popular versus him actually doing something legitimately wrong. I just don't think it's worth spending a lot of mental energy on figuring out whether PewDiePie is actually a good dude versus a guy who's just, you know, maybe made a handful of mistakes over time. I just don't think it's worth the energy. The dude has been so obscenely rich and so obscenely famous for so very long. I don't know how connected he is with the normal world at this point. I'm not necessarily convinced he's a bad guy, but I'm not convinced he's a good guy either. As far as his content goes currently, it's not something I'm interested in. For all I know, he's changed though. PewDiePie has been known to change his content fairly frequently over the course of his channel. Not fairly frequently, but there's different generations of his channel and what kind of content he makes. For all I know, he makes something that'd be more interesting to me these days. But donating to charity when you have that kind of money is effectively meaningless in terms of determining whether a person is good or not. Unless of course they're donating like literally something like 80% of their net worth or something. Then at that point you're like, well that's okay, maybe they do, actually a person trying to change the world, you know. Like if you had $1,000 to your name and you gave a dollar, would you care about that? If a person had $100,000 to their name and they gave $1,000, would you care about that? If a person had a billion dollars and they gave a million dollars, would you care about that? All these things are the same ratio of wealth being given. Honestly, a person who gave a dollar when they only have $1,000 is likely taking upon themselves more of a sacrifice than a billionaire giving a million dollars or a person with $100,000 giving a thousand dollars. The degree to which some charitable giving can be seen as indicative of a good character underneath is dependent upon the sacrifice that that person is taking upon themselves to give that thing. If you have one TV in your house and you know someone else wants a TV and you give up that TV, that is a significant sacrifice because it is somehow having some negative impact upon yourself. If you have an obscene amount of wealth, more wealth than you could ever possibly need for the rest of your life, and you give some portion that changes nothing about your life away, regardless of what that sum is, it's still a good act. It is a good act to do, but you can't tell much about the character of the person underneath because they're taking upon themselves no sacrifice. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. Thanks for watching. |
| 23. July 2022 | Is Rockstar’s change to snacks and armour going to be good? | Is Rockstar's change to Snax and Arma going to be good? Do I think the new changes to GTA Online are going to be good? Like it's hard to imagine it being worse, you know what I'm saying? It does seem as though they're taking an effort to actually listen to the criticism of the game and are implementing things that aren't necessarily super costly. I have often wondered whether they do listen to the complaints but they just take all the solutions and keep them for GTA 6. But now that our shit GTA 6 isn't coming out anytime soon so we better just shove these fixes into GTA Online. Because like again, why did it take this many years, almost 10 years or whatever for them to change the Snax and the Arma? Still haven't seen what they're changing it to but like, how could it be worse? Wouldn't it be very Rockstar to say they're going to improve the Snax thing but instead make it much worse? The pessimist in me wants to say that their improvement is simply going to be that in the menu, like the first thing is going to be Snax and Arma. Rather than going 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 to do one Arma. It's going to be 1 and then like 2, 3. Which will be a substantive improvement but wouldn't be that much of a change. I want Hotkeys for Snax and Arma so badly. I feel like being on Hotkeys would be too quick though. Yeah because like if you're ducking out of the line of fire to open up a menu and use Snax, you may as well just duck out of the line of fire and wait for yourself to regenerate. It achieves the same thing with basically the same speed except you don't have a menu and a bunch of shit popping up on your screen. I doubt that's going to happen though because they probably want to keep Snax in the game because it's like a part of the game you know, whatever. |
| 18. January 2021 | Is Rockstar’s fanbase ungrateful? Is Rockstar owed anything? | Is the Rockstar fanbase ungrateful? Is Rockstar owed anything? Do I think the Rockstar fanbase is ungrateful? Uh no. Rockstar clearly does not have an interest in giving their fans what they want. They don't even have fucking servers. They're literally still running off peer to peer. There is nothing that Rockstar can ever do that will make them a good company at this point. Still having peer to peer with the amount of money that they have, allowing hackers to run rampant entirely because they have peer to peer seemingly. No. Their fans aren't ungrateful. It is certainly clear that Rockstar could have additional mechanisms in place to catch cheaters. I do not understand why they don't implement them. The idea that with a mod menu you can give yourself billions of dollars in seconds and not trip any kind of system that catches such things boggles my mind. Peer to peer is a flawed mechanism for security impossible to secure correctly when there are too many people that have the repercussion machine. It's foolishness. I just assume they believe that the cost is not worth it because they wouldn't get additional people playing or whatever. This latent to the game, perhaps. It's just interesting. I watched these videos by... I wish I knew his name. Is it Puggers? I'm not sure. He talks about Jagex, the people who run RuneScape. He talks about the mechanisms they use to catch botters and cheaters in a game that simple. It's simple, but it has its complexities of course. They have so many different systems in place trying to take these botters out of the game. It's also very interesting listening to all the ways that people try to cheat the game. But Rockstar doesn't seem to have anything like this. It almost makes me want to become conspiratorial and think that someone at Rockstar is working with these mod teams to make money. Because on some level the only way to have a really good playing experience in online is to have a mod menu yourself, even if just to protect yourself from other people's mod menus. But you got to pay for that. I have considered getting a mod menu for GT Online. If I was just a casual dude, I probably would just so I could play the game. I probably wouldn't want to use the stuff in it, but just to protect myself. But because I'm a Twitch streamer, I am not allowed to break the TOS of the games that I play. If I break Rockstar's TOS, then I can potentially get banned on Twitch. But clearly Rockstar has no interest in defending me or my ability to play the game. It's why I've always said it's just amazingly absurd to suggest that I owe Rockstar something considering how passionately they do not give a shit about whether I can play GT Online. But I do, I'm not naive, I do understand that a lot of the things that I experience with GT Online are not necessarily the norm for everyone. Like if you understand all the systems already, if you understand where all the menus are and how to do everything, even though the menus are unnecessarily convoluted, you aren't going to have as many problems. If you're just a regular person, you're sure you're going to be, you're going to experience modders and become annoyed sometimes, but you'll just change session or go offline for an hour or something. Last time I got harassed by modders while doing the, trying to do the new heist, I ended my stream, but I didn't stop trying to play GT Online. I tried to play GT Online off stream and I couldn't do it. Because once they have your Rockstar ID, they can know when you log on. So whatever person had that mod menu, or they would just sit around the very nanosecond that I would come online, they would fuck with me again. They would start trying to pull me from the session that I was in and there was nothing I could do. A player in chat suggests that they can no longer pull you from a session. So maybe I could play online again now, but these issues pop up like every month, every two months. You can't imagine how frustrating it is being on stream and suddenly having a five to ten minute loading screen to leave a game. Like, that's annoying for a casual player, to some degree, but when you're a content creator with thousands of people watching, that doesn't become a problem for just you, it becomes a problem for thousands of people. A difficulty that I have with GT Online is no longer just my problem, my slight inconvenience, it's an inconvenience for potentially thousands of people. And so I have more reason than the average person to get annoyed at various different problems that GT Online has, and I recognize that. There are tons of people who play GT Online for PC who are like, yeah, I get annoyed sometimes, but it's not that big of a deal. And I can totally understand that sentiment. And so sometimes when I want to be overly charitable to Rockstar, I'm like, look, yeah, I understand going to extreme lengths just for me would be crazy. You know, just for us content creators would be crazy. But then again, we content creators do give Rockstar so much benefit. It is an indisputable fact that there are people right now playing GT Online just because they were reminded the game exists because of my content. There are people who have bought the game specifically because they've seen my content. It is not inconceivable that I have generated millions of dollars for Rockstar. But it is also of course the case if, again, talking about intention, effort, I did not do anything to help Rockstar. Nothing about what I'm doing is with the express purpose of helping Rockstar. So giving me credit for that is probably unwise. In the same way that Rockstar in the development of GTA V didn't do that for my benefit, don't care whether it benefited me, but it did. So we're both benefiting each other inadvertently, unintentionally. So giving either of us credit for helping the other is probably unwise. But at the same time, I just want to play GT Online. You know, I would very much so prefer reality where Rockstar considers me to be a vital asset and will actually go to effort on my behalf. You know? Do I think a story without Dan Houser will be compelling? I don't find GTA V's story to be amazing to any degree. I think it facilitates gameplay, which is all that a story really needs to do. I am not a story driven gamer. I read books, I listen to audio books, I watch movies, I watch TV shows, I watch YouTube videos, all these things to get stories. Games, I play for gameplay. I find video games to be, in general, a poor medium for communicating stories. That doesn't mean that games can't have good stories, but it is rare that a game's story couldn't have been better if it was a TV show or a movie. It is very hard to make a game where the gameplay helps tell the story, or the gameplay doesn't get in the way of the story, or the story doesn't get in the way of the gameplay. Having gameplay and story perfectly complement each other is a hard thing to do, and I think GTA V strikes a decent balance with that. But clearly it's more gameplay focused. It's not obsessed with the idea of telling a brand new amazing story. It has interesting characters, captivating characters, those that are memorable, it has events that are memorable, but if you take it down to moment to moment what you're doing and think about it hard, it's not a very complex amazing story, right? As I was saying, I have no idea how impactful anyone who has left Rockstar was to making the gameplay what it is, but I'm more interested in those people still being around, because outside of The Lost and the Damned, I like the gameplay of every Rockstar game. Certainly some of the older ones without mods have things in them that I'm not a fan of or that make me annoyed or whatever, but on the whole, I like what they create. As I've said many times, people think I don't like GTA Online. I like the gameplay of GTA Online. I like doing a deathmatch. I like doing the races. It has enough complexity for it to be interesting, but not so overly complex that I feel overwhelmed or get annoyed. See, I don't particularly care. As long as the story isn't bad in GTA 6, I'm gonna be happy. |
| 27. July 2021 | Is Sony causing ps5 shortages? | Is Sony causing PS5 shortages? Do you think Sony is delaying restocks of PS5 just to make people feel like they have to buy ASAP? Hell no! Most of Sony's money that they make from the PlayStation 5 is from buying games, digital sales, controllers, all that stuff, you know? The more people who own a PS5, the more products that people can buy related to the PS5. The PS5 isn't the moneymaker. They want to... In their wildest dreams, they want every single person on the planet to have a PS5 yesterday, so people can buy stuff from the digital storefront. There's a global silicon shortage, and according to Linus and stuff, it's mainly because people just vastly underestimated how much supply would be needed in 2020 and so on, right? People thought it would trend down a bit, but not just because of COVID, but because of increased influx of various different products like smart cars and stuff that use this technology or whatever, CPUs and whatnot. It's impossible to meet demand. Isn't almost every industry getting profits off of services rather than their products? I mean, not hardware, like people selling CPUs and stuff, no. But you're right that there is a... I mean, like free-to-play games, for example, that's what they do. CPU subscription? I mean, we joke, but I mean, that's kind of what, like, um... What's it called? Cloud Game-eos. You basically have a subscription for a CPU. |
| 11. June 2021 | Is TV dying? | Is TV dying? METO, do you think TV is dying? Uh, isn't it just known that cable TV is in decline? But I mean, TV has just been replaced by Netflix and stuff, you know? If by TV you mean the content that traditionally went on TV, no. It's just the content that traditionally went on TV is now going on other sources, you know? I mean, is it still TV if you watch Netflix on your TV? Uh, basically, you know? I would just say the content from TV is now being put on a large amount of platforms, meaning that less people need to watch TV to get that content. Like, clearly people aren't getting sick of high budget edited content. Yep, cable is dying. People were sick of how expensive it was getting all those channels. Now we just have to pay, you know, for 17 different subscription services. Once upon a time, you know, Netflix and stuff was the cheaper option. Now, if you want to get access to the amount of stuff that you used to have on cable, you have to, uh, pay even more money in some cases. Do I have Foxdell? Would I give Rupert Murdoch money willingly? Fuck no. Fuck no. Pay to destroy my democracy? Why would I do that when they do it for free? |
| 28. December 2019 | Is Team Trees a valuable movement? | trees as a movement valuable? I rambled about team trees, it seems to be a positive message. What impact it'll actually have on solving the issue that it seeks to raise awareness for is entirely minuscule, but I like anything that draws attention to the environment and protecting it and caring about it and what have you. And certainly creators like MrBeast, their audience skews younger, so they have great influence over the next generation of people. As I said, the actual effect of 20 million trees is very small, but their marketing is I think important. The opinions of different generations on the issue of protecting the environment are clearly different. Instilling good values, well good as we see them, in future generations is a necessity, right? That team trees doesn't solve all issues, isn't a good reason to dismiss it. It does team trees cause some benefit, more benefit than harm, and it seems to, so I'm in favor of it. I do accept the argument, I've said it before, doing something minuscule can be harmful even if the things affect itself is good because the people who engage in that action can feel satisfied. Like I've done the thing, when if their energies had been applied elsewhere they would have achieved far more. You want people applying their efforts in a way that's productively achieving a goal, not simply productively achieving their satisfaction. I suppose a better way of describing what I'm talking about is opportunity cost. You can judge the actual scheme and you can say, okay did it cause good? Yes, did it cause more good than harm? Okay. And you can stop there and then it's like well clearly that's something you want to support. Then you can go one step further and you can say did this scheme prevent an even better scheme from occurring? Is this scheme going to take away from something that was going to achieve an even greater good? An even greater good compared to the harm of that other scheme? And in the case of team trees, I'm of the opinion that it creates more good than harm and it's not likely going to deter people or prevent people from performing other good actions in regards to achieving the goals of protecting the environment. And therefore I'm in favor of team trees. Yours also a great movement. Pressing the like button it will probably not create trees but it's still pretty good. So if you could do that I'd appreciate it. Thank you very much. |
| 12. February 2023 | Is TikTok Removing the Like Button? | Welcome to another episode of Viper Rambles. Starting with the topic is TikTok removing the like button. Whenever I get a glitch on a social media app, I think to myself, is this really a glitch or am I being tested as a guinea pig for something? For my session that was on TikTok, however long it was, 10, 15 minutes, half an hour, whatever, I was given this, where every single thing that I went to has zero likes. Like every single one, zero likes, regardless of how many it should have, like you can see because of how many comments it has, it would have some likes, at least some would have pressed the like button. And there's like dozens upon dozens. And I think to myself, is this a glitch or are they testing to see how retention is changed based on whether or not likes can be seen? So like, you guys have probably done it, where I'll flick to something and then within like a nanosecond, I can identify is this a potential sponsor TikTok? I'll flick to the corner and see it's sponsored and flick away. Unless it like immediately grabs me or something, like very rarely sponsorships are done very well. And with some TikToks, I'll glance up and see how many likes it has. And that will indicate to me how much like credit that I can give to this TikTok. Like if it doesn't grab me in five seconds, I'm like, well, but it's got like four million likes, so it's gotta be something here, so I better stick around. But if something has like five likes, I'm like, this is probably garbage. Watch for like two seconds, that is garbage and I flick away. I guarantee I'm not the only one who does this. I do think that it would be easier for newer creators to get noticed on the platform if people couldn't see the likes. But it also might increase the level of dissatisfaction that people have with the platform because they'll be more frequently watching very low likes content, which probably correlates with it being worse. Like TikTok wants good content that has low likes to be found and watched, especially by new creators, if they're very talented. But it also doesn't want people to be bogged down with potentially garbage content. And I looked at this and I'm like, am I the guinea pig to see this new experimentation? |
| 08. September 2022 | Is TikTok dying? | Is TikTok dying? What a useless poll. I only did it 22 minutes ago. I have found since using YouTube shorts on occasion that I have completely abandoned TikTok. Anyone else have a similar experience? Over the last two months, I use TikTok less. Basically 12%. I use TikTok the same. 12%. I use TikTok more. Basically 12%. Ha ha ha. Most people never use TikTok. Yeah, I- since finding shorts, I use TikTok not at all. I mean, I consider just deleting the app because there's just no reason to use it. At the end of the day, I don't like TikTok based on partly who owns it. Not that that's my biggest gripe considering, you know, you know, I'm not in love with Google or something, but clearly YouTube success is better for me as a creator. The more that people are on YouTube, even if it's watching shorts, increases the amount of people who can hypothetically find my videos. The conversion rate between TikTok and YouTube is very, very tiny. But again, as I say, if you're on YouTube, there's a higher chance you're gonna watch my stuff. And that's more important to me. TikTok eating YouTube's lunch is not something I want. If your interest is in supporting YouTube creators over TikTok creators, I don't know, try out YouTube shorts instead of TikTok. I think TikTok is a perfectly fine app. Most people who criticize TikTok I think are people who don't use it. Either that or aren't willing to go through the teething phase where they where the algorithm gets to know what you actually want to say. But the concern of who owns it will always be a thing. And of course, TikTok does not pay its creators very well, and that's unlikely to change. While YouTube shorts don't make a lot of money for creators right now, they could in the future. And certainly YouTube does pay its creators well in regards to its long form content. |
| 04. December 2020 | Is Twitch Profitable for Amazon? | Is Twitch profitable for Amazon? Listening to people like Devin Nash or whatever, it's been heavily suggested that Twitch is either making a loss or not making a heap of money. Like, people look up the revenues for Twitch and be like, oh my god, they're making, they're getting billions in revenue. But you gotta understand the vast majority of that is paid out to content creators. That's not profit, that's revenue. And remember that Twitch Prime, while keeping us on the platform, is a loss for Amazon, unless of course it actually inspires people to get Amazon Prime or whatever, because of its association with Twitch, which would probably be true for some, but I don't know. I can't know for certain that Twitch Prime is actually a loss for Amazon, given that they do have seemingly other arrangements with other gaming companies and stuff. Like, have you seen all that stuff that they give away for free? Deals are being made there. I'm not sure how much money Amazon's making out of that. I can't say. I've said it before, there's a reason why a substantial amount of the improvements over the years to Twitch have been simply more ways to get money. Every single time there has been, it's like, you know, the bouncy board, which still hasn't come to my country, by the way. There's a lot of third party people who set up deals between brands and streamers, and Amazon Twitch is just like, oh, we could do that too. And so they set up their own bouncy board where brands can come to Amazon Twitch and say, hey, we will pay your streamers a hundred bucks an hour, whatever, to play this game. That kind of stuff. $100 an hour is a very low amount, Fanta. Wreckful, I think, once showed on stream how much money he'd get for playing like an hour of League of Legends or something when they were doing it, and it was like $10,000 or something. You know, shit like this. Stream League of Legends for one hour, and they'll pay you $8,400. Watch Street Fighter for 30 minutes. It's crazy. Keep in mind that these were the rates from May 2019, and Wreckful was one of the largest people on the platform. More than likely, these rates have changed, and they certainly wouldn't be for people like me and a smaller viewership. It's always important to remember that when you're talking about people like Asmongold or Lyric or whatever, they are like the top 0.001% or something of an entire industry. The industry that spans the globe of live streaming, they are at the tippy tippy top. They are the Tiger Woods, the LeBron James, I don't know. They are the Zuckerbergs of live streaming. The massive streamers make a ton, but that's only a very small handful of people. Exactly. But even people like me, who, like I'm in the top 2000 streamers, I'm like, based on average viewership, I'm ranked like 1700. Of course, that only includes Twitch. If you include like YouTube and all the other competitors in China and all that stuff, like obviously it'd be a lot lower. But I'm at the tippy tippy top as well. It's just I'm not at the tippy tippy tippy tippy top, you know. I'm making heaps of money, but it's not from brand deals, advertisements and all that stuff. It's from you guys. I have enough of a reach of my viewers that even though I only a tiny, tiny, tiny portion of people, you know, give me five bucks, it's enough that it's a heap of money. When you have no frame of reference, I'm sure it's hard for you guys to understand how much money Asmongold makes. But because I'm, you know, only a few steps removed from that echelon, I have a frame of reference. The money is just it's it's just insane. |
| 08. March 2023 | Is Twitch losing viewers to emerging streaming platforms? | Is Twitch losing viewers to emerging streaming platforms? So Dexato tweeted out, as new streaming platforms emerge, overall viewership on Twitch has declined 9.4% year over year. I was shown this and I was like, this is the most nothing tweet I've ever seen. This seems to be just data from Sully Gnome. There's no deeper analysis here to suggest that it's new streaming platforms causing Twitch to lose viewership. They're just asserting it because I guess it makes a better title for the tweet. So this is Twitch from 2015 to 2013. You can see the start of the pandemic here. Like there is clearly a small decline over here, but it would need to go on a lot longer to suggest some trend of Twitch losing viewership over time. Like I'm no lover of Twitch or something, but I don't think this is enough of a change to suggest that Twitch is like on the way out or truly losing market share to the other streaming platforms. |
| 26. March 2023 | Is YouTube's thumbnail quality getting worse? | Is YouTube's thumbnail quality getting worse? So I was very confused recently, because I went to my channel page, right? I looked at it, I'm like, man, how scuffed does this thumbnail look? How amazing low quality? I'm like, I didn't do that, right? It wasn't normally this low quality. And so, like, I can search for it. And like, the quality is so much higher. Like, the image isn't much bigger, but the quality is night and day. It's like, this is like 360p, and this is like 1080p or something. And so, I normally see my videos in this video tab, and I'm sitting there just like, I'm like, why are my thumbnails looking so bad lately? And I guess they've just, for the channel page specifically, made them look a little bit worse. The thumbnails used to be a smaller size in the videos tab. They recently scaled them bigger. I guess they didn't account for the resolution change. That might be it, mate. |
| 15. July 2021 | Is a streamer dating a viewer inherently abusive? | Is a streamer dating a viewer inherently abusive? What is your opinion on the power dynamic between streamers who date their viewers? If you like a person's content, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're like a fanatic in regards to them or something. I know of people whose content that I enjoy. It doesn't mean necessarily that I have power, that they would have power over me if I were to date them. It is certainly possible for a person to be somewhat fanatical and for a person to abuse that in a relationship. Know that a person is like, you know, really into them as a content creator and so potentially will be manipulated to do things that they wouldn't otherwise do. But that's a risk in such a relationship, not a guarantee. Like, could you imagine dating a person who didn't to some degree like what you do? Like, what is it? Does a content creator for the rest of time only have to find people specifically who just hate their hate what they love to do? That doesn't seem fair. As I say, all viewers are not the same. There is certainly a particular class of viewer who is obsessive that dating them would be you potentially abusing something or giving you power over them to manipulate them because of the status that you have in their head or whatever. But that isn't all such situations, you know. I think a lot of the problems come from that most of these relationships that end up becoming very public are those that involve minors or are abusive in that there's other reasons that demonstrate that these relationships were abusive. The relationships that are just normal relationships where a person likes what another person makes and they go on dates and like each other, that shit doesn't hit headlines because it's just normal stuff. It's two consenting adults who meet over their mutual appreciation of a particular thing. Although it can often also depend upon the content of how the meeting takes place. But what I mean is, what all I'm saying is a situation where potential abuse can occur does not mean abuse always occurs, right? I've never liked the idea of dating one of my viewers. But I suppose it would depend upon the context in which we meet or their particular personality or something or I don't know. It's just something I never saw myself doing. |
| 19. November 2022 | Is activists defacing famous pieces of art hurting their cause? | Is activist defacing famous pieces of art hurting their cause? What is my opinion on the Just Stop Oil protests from the defacing of famous art pieces to blocking off busy roads in the UK? And how would you set out to head the direction they wanted everyone to go overnight? I can't imagine it would be sound leadership to alter the direction of a country or your policy positions based on a few people who are throwing stuff at famous pieces of art or blocking roads in the UK. But I suppose that's not their point. I suppose what they're trying to do is drum up some attention in order to get more people on their side so that more pressure can be put on politicians to enact the policies that they want to. But I just don't feel like they're garnering sympathy. They're more garnering division and hatred, which I don't think will achieve the goals that they want to achieve. You want more people on your side, not inconvenience them to the point where supporting the same positions has to be done with the qualification that you don't support the people who are doing that stuff. Like, yeah, I do. Like, obviously, I don't support those people who are blocking streets. I don't support those people who are throwing stuff on paintings and stuff. Obviously, they're idiots. But policies, though, I do think those policies are good. That's not the sort of conversation you want to have. You don't want to make support of those policy positions look bad. And it's possible these people are just fools for whatever reason. I have heard people speculate that they might be plants, as in, in my perception, I believe they're doing their cause harm. So of course, people are going to speculate that there are people paying them specifically to do that harm. I have not seen evidence of this. I don't know if that's true. But as someone just said in chat, pissing people off isn't the way to go. But I will also say that it is often very hard to drum up attention without inconveniencing people. A protest that is out of the way and that no one pays attention to isn't going to get any coverage, isn't going to be meaningful. It's hard to run this line where you're drawing attention to yourself without inconveniencing people. Changing society, influencing policy is a hard thing to do. And obviously as a person who supports less reliance on oil and and whatnot, moving towards more renewables and stuff, I'm obviously sympathetic to those positions, but I'm not necessarily in support of the way that they're going about this because all I've heard is negative coverage of them. I don't think they're changing minds. |
| 15. January 2022 | Is ad revenue important on twitch? | Is ad revenue important on Twitch? So the streamer's main income, donations and subs? Yeah. When I say ads are irrelevant, ads make up between like 0.5 and 5% of a streamer's income. Depending upon whether they run ads themselves, if they do very long streams, things like that. I'm sure XQC isn't getting an insignificant amount of money off ads. That's because 5% of XQC's income is a significant amount of money. It's why the whole kerfuffle about people worried that Twitch's ad system was going to go to shit was just nonsense. Again, there was no evidence that the changes Twitch was going to make would have any negative impacts on anyone. But even if it literally destroyed all ads on the platform, most Twitch streamers wouldn't even notice because it's just such a small amount of their income. There are two reasons why the importance of ad revenue differs so much between Twitch and YouTube. The first is that on YouTube, we get paid a percentage of what is made with the ads while on Twitch it is a fixed rate. So if YouTube makes $20 with a thousand ads, I might get $12 out of that. Whereas on Twitch, if Twitch makes $5 for a thousand ads or they make $50 for a thousand ads, I still get paid the same fixed amount. And that amount, while I can't tell you what it is, it is much, much lower than YouTube. The second reason is YouTube is better at getting ads and putting ads on every single ad slot. While on Twitch, maybe they won't have ads for that particular region on that particular day. They are just not as good at getting advertisers on the platform. So on YouTube, if an ad is meant to play to a viewer, odds are it's going to happen. On Twitch. |
| 12. August 2020 | Is all low effort content bad? | Should you avoid watching low effort content? I don't know, if I watch a video that is clearly low effort, I'll probably just watch that one video. If it feels like time and effort has been put into it, I'm more likely going to explore the channel and watch other videos. So, low effort. Remember that a person who has spent 10,000 hours becoming a master at violin, it takes no effort for them to play something that will make you weep. It would take them three minutes and they could just do it so easily, right? That video you watch maybe only took three minutes to make, but it's built off the back of the development of skills for 10,000 hours. When you watch a person who's been... If you watch the Game Grumps who have been doing Let's Plays for, you know, seven years or whatever, clearly they've refined their skills to the extent where the videos can be entertaining, even though each individual episode is potentially pretty low effort, with minimal editing. Low effort is correlated with shit content, but it's not an absolute determinant whether or not content is shit. If one person can put in low effort to produce something, then another person will have to put in a lot of fucking effort to produce, you know. |
| 20. December 2022 | Is anything truly original? | Is anything truly original? Wally Wala Bala asks, do you think true creativity exists? As in can people come up with completely original ideas or are all ideas derivative, mixtures or mashups of other already existing ideas? The example I like to use is think of a color that doesn't exist, that isn't already a manipulation of a color that you've seen before. You can't do it. This is because imagination is limited by experience. What you might be asking though is not whether you can think of something that is truly separate from the reality of your experience, but whether everything is like taken from someone else or has everything been done before. And I assume there is always a first for something. The idea of me, a person existing in the year 2022 named Matthew Judge with the alias DarkFiperAU, lifting up a coffee off a black table in Australia, if I wrote a story about that, that is something that has never been done before. As long as you keep adding additional qualifiers, eventually you're going to hit something, a set of ideas that has never been done before. There are just so many ways that you can slightly change an idea to make something new, but there will always be portions of that that has been done before because it all ultimately reduces to the experience of humans, which you can't break away from. Your imagination is restricted by the experience of your life. And because everyone's lives has commonalities because we're all human, there will always be some element of what you're creating that has been done by someone before. |
| 24. May 2022 | Is background music in commentary videos good? | It's fine. Is background music in commentary videos good? And I can't decide whether I want to do......background music or not. Like, I've seen heaps of successful videos without any background music, but I've......seen a lot with background music, right? Like, it's not something that people are......100% settled on. You like videos with no background music? Do you like having the lo-fi playing in YouTube videos? Um, my normal YouTube stuff, yeah. Um... Do you......care about......barely audible......background......music? Yes? No? Yeah, see, yeah, people are very split on it. Like, I don't think I've ever turned off a video because......or explicitly because I'm like......there's no background music here. I'm gone. You know? But it's entirely possible that......subconsciously, if that doesn't exist, I enjoy videos less, but I have no idea. Only out of video... Oh yeah, I've certainly clicked off videos because......the background noise......or like the music is too loud, for example. Or the voiceover is very low quality. |
| 31. October 2021 | Is being the world record holder the same as being the best? | Is being the world record holder the same as being the best? There was something in a book, Talon of the Silver Hawk by Raymond D. Feist, that kind of stuck with me. Long story short, this dude is basically trained to become like an assassin to develop a persona, and a part of developing that persona is he goes to win the world championships of like sword fighting or whatever, and he wins and his mentor's like, remember that while you have that trophy, it doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean that you're the best swordsman in the world. It may say that on the trophy, but that's not what it really means. It just means that you beat everyone who showed up here today, all the people who couldn't come, or it's too far away, or they didn't even know about it, or whatever, or didn't have the time to train like you did, then they could still beat you. Never think that you're the best. So that's very true. This is the way it is with everything, man. And no point did I think when I had other world records that I was like, the best possible GTA V speedrunner ever. Like I always knew someone could come along and just put in the time and effort and beat me. |
| 05. January 2022 | Is cancel culture really why creators are less free with their opinions? | Is Cancelled Culture really why creators are less free with their opinions? Honestly, I think it's just more that there's more money in it now. Because as the space has gotten larger, and there's more money to be had, there's just not as much incentive to do anything that might be incendiary. Like Squarespace was one of my first deals I ever had. This was years ago, one of my first four raise into getting a sponsor, and like 90% through the deal, they pulled out because of something I said in a ramble, like 20 minutes in. A ramble that I considered to be pretty tame, they pulled it. And that was maybe for a thousand dollars. No one is making decisions on this platform based on what fuckwits say on Twitter, but you can guarantee that people are doing things and saying things based on what sponsors want. Because more mainstream sponsors are coming to the YouTube platform, and there's more money to be made, people can't be as free with their opinions because sponsors will pull money. Cancelled Culture has seriously muted anyone with the wrong opinion, list them. List me, the content creators, who have seriously dropped off because of something that they've said. Like people talk, right now people talk about Dave Chappelle getting cancelled. He goes from one venue to the next with roaring crowds of people, and then goes home to his 10 million dollar mansion going, man, I sure got cancelled. Shane Dawson, he jerks off on a cat, does all this weird pedophilic shit. He's back making videos. Who is that popular guy who almost killed one of his friends and was apparently very abusive? He's also just come back, he's making videos. Call me Carson. He's back too. The amount of people who have actually been cancelled and it's actually done something is so tiny and these people usually fit into a mold of they quit, they just quit. David Dobrik, yeah he's back. People talk about Cancelled Culture because it's a way of deflecting. Because if you come out and say, yo, I'm not going to talk about this shit anymore because it's going to cost me some money, I might lose some sponsors. Everyone's going to go, what do you mean you've got millions of dollars? Fucking harden up and speak your mind. But if you say, guys, Cancelled Culture, fucking getting me bro. Like, you think Dave Chappelle can't speak his mind? You think Dave Chappelle needs to be on Netflix? No. It's about the money. It's always about the money. No one gives two shits what people say on Twitter. Short of actually being taken off the fucking platform, you aren't going to be affected by someone talking shit on Twitter except for the sponsors. And isn't people shit talking on Twitter? It's the sponsors going, hey, yo, you saying this shit might reflect upon our brand and we'll lose money. So shut the fuck up. If sponsors did not give two shits about public opinion, neither would content creators. It's like, you remember when fucking Cuomo or the Democrat dude, how he was getting accused of sexual assault left, right and center. And he's like, yo, this is Cancelled Culture. Every time someone's accused of anything, for any reason, they go, guys, it's Cancelled Culture. Because it's the perfect way to reflect anything. It's just this buzzword for like any sort of criticism or backlash for fucking anything. You could have killed a small child and like kicked their corpse into a pit of dogs. And the next thing that we are that person's mouth is, look, Cancelled Culture run amok. The amount of people who actually lose their jobs or have any tangible long term impact from Cancelled Culture is effectively zero in when you're in the public sphere. Because your audience are not going to give a shit unless you've truly done something wrong. You give it like two months and you just come back and people have moved on to the next thing. Like Keemstar is the perfect example. Keemstar has been cancelled like 15 times. And what ended up getting him? He retired. The only way Cancelled Culture does something is if you go home and leave or you get kicked off a platform. If you get kicked off a platform, it doesn't matter how fucking amazing your audience is or how supportive or because you literally can't come back. Like fucking the Infowars dude, Alex Jones, he got fucking cancelled. He experienced the effects of Cancelled Culture. And that's because the platforms themselves went, not too much of a liability son, get the fuck out. Short of that or going to jail, there's the Cancelled Culture isn't doing shit to you. It's a bunch of millionaires whining about people criticizing them. People have always had strong opinions about topics. It's just now they have Twitter where they can complain. All of us can and we all do 24 fucking 7. We have a 24 hour news cycle. We have endless feeds of content of information of people speaking. We didn't have that in the past. Motherfucker there were riots. People burning books. People calling up fucking artists like musicians to congress to defend their work. People have been defended by shit you can't even fathom. People get arrested for showing their ankles at the beach. The world of human history is people being offended for stuff we consider dumb today. People have always been offended. People have always wanted to cancel people, get them out of the public sphere. The culture wars have always been a thing. People with different competing ideologies trying to get the new generation to be and behold their ideas and uphold them as they grow up. It's always been a thing. But now we have social media and it just makes us seem 10,000 times more toxic because there is no break. Once upon a time you go to work and you talk to some people or you watch one TV show or you listen to the radio like an hour a day and that's all you got to experience in terms of the culture war between different factions of political and social discourse. But now it's 24 7. You have it in your pocket all the fucking time. It's the same principles but just magnified a thousand fold. With people seriously believing you can be cancelled. Motherfucker. There are pockets of the internet that support flat earthers. Name a position, there is someone who supports that thing. We are so interconnected that there is money to be made in supporting literally fucking anything. There are people right now making millions of dollars pushing forth flat earther bullshit. It doesn't matter the position. You can't get cancelled. As long as you stay in the game you just move around to a different audience. Unless of course you literally can't reach the audience by not being on the platform. If you hear someone saying cancel culture what they are really saying is please leave me alone I don't want to have to defend myself. Because it is stressful. Because it is fucking stressful. It doesn't matter what you have fucking done whether people are justifiably angry with you or not. It's so fucking stressful having thousands of people yelling at you and giving a minute defense of yourself of everyone's possible criticisms is a fucking hard thing to do. So I can't really blame people for just going look guys it's cancel culture just ignore all of it leave me the fuck alone. But that's all it is. It's a way to massively simplify reality for an audience. It's a buzzword. It's nonsense. My god you think people on the Disney Channel were coming out and talking about their fucking political opinions. It's just there is more sponsorship money now. If you are on TV you also live the sanitized life. If you sign a movie deal there are certain clauses in that that talk about how you can present yourself publicly while associated with the brand. It's not cancel culture that's always been a thing. But now YouTube is just more mainstream. Live streaming is more mainstream. Once upon a time if you spoke your minds and pissed off some brand you're losing a thousand bucks now you're losing potentially millions. Who the fuck cares more about for most of these careers last what like five years. Let's say guys you have to not be openly public about like positions that might piss people off for five years and you get 50 million dollars. Would you take it? Who the fuck wouldn't? That's what this what these guys are being presented with. This is the deal that they've been said look shut the fuck up about stuff that might piss people off take 50 million. Who isn't taking that deal like me. I'm not even as big as these guys. If you dig back in my old content even two years ago I was talking about religion and philosophy and all this does morality politics. I was way more opinionated with that shit but I got a bigger audience and so there was more people to piss off. I was offered more money with sponsorships it's like I'm already over these topics I've been talking about them for years. Why would I jeopardize all that to continue to spout these opinions. All I'm going to be doing is preaching to the choir. It's not going to convince anyone. It's not going to change anyone's minds. Why would I give up so much for fucking nothing. The only topics I still speak on are those that I actually care about. For example I made that video criticizing grade A under A. That might have that certainly pissed off some people in my audience. Could piss off brands but I cared about that. If you don't believe yourself particularly qualified to change minds. If you're not passionate about some political topic why the fuck would you talk about it. Why would you give up millions and large audience. To be like hey man here is my position on Israel versus Palestine. You think the reason why this motherfucker doesn't go out and talk about his position on Israel versus Palestine is because it's just sponsorship money. It's because of cancel culture. He doesn't have a fucking position on these things. He doesn't give a fuck. Most of these fucking people are like early 20s. Maybe they just don't give a fuck. This idea of keems that every fucking content creator has to be giving every opinion that they have. They're meant to make content. They're meant to be entertaining. Once upon a time it was like the standard practice for content creators to shut the fuck up and make entertaining shit. That was people's preference. Like when this was a brand new industry or whatever you know. Let's go back eight years or something. The biggest content creators were all young. All of them. And now we have the up and coming the kids who have millions of subscribers and stuff. But you've got to imagine those people are like more handled these days, right? Like what I'm saying is the person who had like five million subscribers eight years ago wouldn't be making the kind of money that a person with five million subscribers is making today. If they're like 20 with all that fucking energy and just anger and go off with a moment's notice there's no manager there being paid a hundred grand a year to be like, whoa, bro, don't do it. Don't fucking go at it. But today with all the money in it, any person who's young and gets big has enough people around them to say, yo, don't do this or how this will this affect your brand. They've got the circle of managers to stop that shit from happening, which didn't happen back in the day. And the other content creators who aren't young have and are old. And so just don't have that sort of conflict mentality as much. They've got their money. They've got their money. |
| 29. January 2021 | Is chaos my favourite series? | Is Chaos my favorite series? Universal, thank you between alls. I know it's not your favorite, but Chaos always makes me laugh, cross my fingers. I love Chaos, dude. Don't you doubt, I love Chaos. Is it my favorite? Yeah, you're right, I wouldn't say it's my favorite because there's no ultimate purpose to Chaos. As in like, because I have other goals I want to achieve, as much as I enjoy Chaos, I sometimes think, ah man, I can't have another go at Oko because I got to do Chaos today. I still enjoy myself when I do it, but I want to finish Oko, I want to finish Pacifist, I want to get back into speedrun. |
| 19. July 2020 | Is charity newsworthy. | Is Charisy Newsworthy? Comment from Chaz. In my opinion, I find it extremely stupid how Ninja can get an entire article written about him, or cuz he moved platform, yet people like Jacksepticeye do amazingly long charity livestreams, and get absolutely no credit. Nothing from the media or an article. But that's just my opinion. What's noteworthy about that, Michael? I'm sure we'll be mentioning articles and stuff, dude, but charity livestreams happen all the time. Do you believe that people should only do charity livestreams if they get articles written about it? Every day, there are probably a dozen charity livestreams done by large creators. I'll put it to you this way. Why does Jacksepticeye deserve an article more than anyone else doing a charity livestream? If a person takes 24 hours of their life to do a livestream to generate money for charity, why is that less article-worthy than Jacksepticeye doing? What, cuz he's already popular? Cuz he's already famous? Cuz the amount he's raising, then the article is not about Jacksepticeye doing a charity livestream, but the amount of money that a charity is getting. Could you imagine if the news cycle was dominated by an article on literally every charity event that occurred? People will certainly write articles when livestreams and stuff break records, or have wider reaching implications, but an individual charity livestream is not newsworthy. Where Ninja goes, like it or not, has implications for the industry of livestreaming. It means certain things. If he goes to YouTube, that's why I'm putting my money. Some people say Twitch, it's possible either way. This is suggestive, and it impacts people's lives. Like when Jack, the Twitter CEO, dedicated 20% of his net worth to fighting COVID-19 and other causes, that's newsworthy. That is unusual. Like, holy shit. But PewDiePie doing a charity livestream, that's not newsworthy. Could you imagine what it would be like if every large content creator, whenever they needed some free publicity, could just do a charity livestream? I'm gonna spend myself a day, generate $50,000 to a cause, and get myself like a million dollars in advertising. Fucking brilliant idea. A charity livestream in and of itself isn't newsworthy. And the idea that charity livestreams should only exist to generate advertising for those doing them, it's just absurd. Charity livestreams should not be publicized, the whole point of charities is to do something without any reciprocation. There's this idea with charity where you're kind of damned if you do, damned if you don't. Because if you advertise it, you're going to generate more money for the charitable cause. If people shower a person doing a charity livestream or just charity in general with praise, then it's more than likely going to inspire other people to do the same. And charity in general is good. So you want all that showering of praise. You want all that advertisement. But at the same time, in an ideal world, charity is done for charity's sake. It's not done for the pats on the head. It's not done for the advertising and whatnot. We don't live in an ideal world, though, so it makes perfect sense for such advertising to occur. Like, if an article was written that said, Oh, you know, PewDiePie is doing this charity livestream on this date. Da da da da da. And they're going to raise money for the X, Y and Z. That's that's more important to me than after the fact an article being written. Oh, look how much money PewDiePie made for charity. But both in general do have positive effects, I think, on the world in that they can, you know, can help generate more money for charity and inspire people to do that charity generation of revenue. But I just disagree with the point of view that was expressed there that all live streams are newsworthy. Charity live streams happen literally every day, dozens among dozens of them from endless different people. Like, given the amount of successful content creators, there must be at least 100,000, 200,000, 300,000 between the different platforms. It would be impossible for articles to be written on them all. That your particular favorite content creator didn't, you know, metaphorically get their dicks sucked enough in your opinion because they happen to do a decent thing. That's that's not something that you should really be expressing an opinion of, right? I know. |
| 16. December 2019 | Is cheating in a relationship ever justified? | What's my opinion on cheating in relationships and is there ever a valid reason? There's never a valid reason. If you aren't satisfied with your relationship with your significant other, break up with them and find someone new. There's nothing about cheating on your significant other that can help. It's entirely a selfish act that has a significant chance of harming other people. In what context could that be justifiable? Cheating is not something that you need to survive and it's something that you can do independent of hurting others if you're just open and honest and say, look, the relationship isn't working out. I want to see other people. I'm trying to think of some context. Let's say if you cheat on your significant other and that causes you to realize that you want to see other people and you don't tell them you cheated. Even in that weird context, it's weird not to be honest, but at the same time, maybe you could just say, oh, you know, if I told them it hurt them or whatever and blah, blah, blah, maybe I won't tell them. I don't know. It's just hard to find a silver lining or some context where a person who's cheating isn't a dude. |
| 23. December 2019 | Is content being made worse than in the past? | Is there less good content on the internet these days? It seems as though to me that the internet is producing worse content. Maybe it's just a lot of my preferred content creators have stopped creating content or make less content than they used to. I don't know. But once upon a time, even before I was streaming, it always felt like I had like 77 things to watch. Like there was always more stuff to watch than I had hours in the day. Doesn't feel that way anymore. Like I spend, you know, 90% of my day either streaming or editing and I still don't have enough stuff to watch. But I guess I'm just more picky these days because I had so much time before I'd watch anything, anything new. But now I was like I only have a limited amount of time and whatever I'm watching better be fucking good. But I do need to find myself some new subscriptions on YouTube or YouTube needs some new subscribers. |
| 23. December 2022 | Is crypto a blessing or a curse for the world? | Is crypto a blessing or a curse for the world? Don't think crypto is inherently dumb? Separating money from state is a powerful concept. Why would you want it moved from the state to like a random set of individuals? No crypto is truly decentralized as there always ends up being a handful of big players that owns the vast majority of whatever token exists and they have all the ability to influence the market and destroy it if they want to. You change power from a democratically elected body where power is massively diffused and very hard for one individual to control and you give it in the hands of like often one guy or like a handful of guys whose names you don't even know. You have no ability to influence at all. That's not an improvement. As we've just now recently seen, we have like one exchange goes under and then every other crypto company associated with in the industry also starts to collapse because it's all centralized. We just saw with a FTX thing where it was just a bunch of like a ten guys who weren't even keeping like ledgers of what accounts they had and what assets they had and they're worth billions upon billions of dollars. And you're like, hmm, yeah I want the economy, the currency of the day to be controlled by just a bunch of random fucking college assholes who have no idea what the fuck they're doing. That's just not smart. It's not an improvement. I'd say often you can identify issues with something and also accept that that doesn't mean anything that's different to what you've identified as bad is necessarily good, right? Opposition to something bad doesn't make you good. Not that I'm convinced that a fiat currency is necessarily bad. It defeats the point of crypto for the central exchanges but that's how people want their money to be used. When things are truly decentralized it becomes very hard to use them for everyday transactions. You want all the utility of something controlled with none of the concentration of power from something truly decentralized and you can't have both. No one is going to be willing to accept massive degrees of inconvenience to change the system fundamentally. It's just not gonna happen. So you're just gonna continue to run into scams, people saying they can solve these problems when in reality all they're doing is just trying to vie for their own power. Their only interest is changing who is the central authority. I highly still recommend the problem with NFTs by that folding ideas guy. Still as relevant today as ever. Crypto cannot solve any of the problems that it claims to be trying to solve. It wasn't just FTX collapsing in Vestapp, like dozens of things collapsed and went into bankruptcy. The amount of scams associated with crypto is all of them. Like outside of selling illegal drugs or getting around sanctions and regulations and whatnot. It doesn't have any functional purpose. The list of scams in crypto over such a short period of time is in the thousands. Perhaps tens of thousands. The amount of actual practical positive benefits that have come from crypto is next to zero. All it's producing is scams and at the end of the day that then makes it a scam. I've got... |
| 13. October 2021 | Is dream a disgrace to the speedrunning community? | Is Dream a disgrace to the speedrunning community? You find Dream is a disgrace to the speedrunning community I'm generally of the position that he was unaware that his game was modded I don't I don't care if that's a an unpopular position or something, but I think Carl's video Substantiated that fairly well. It still doesn't necessarily mean he acted well or What he did was fine or whatever but um, that does seem to be true At least it most explains the facts as they are More than any other explanation. I mean you can think him a an asshole or something I'm not convinced of that either but um, I know about disgrace to the speedrunning community He made a mistake that I myself have made like a dozen times. I too have accidentally done Runs with my mods on it's just in my case It becomes very readily apparent because if I try to do a save warp my game crashes Like I don't know the reason why having script hook and mods causes crashes with save warp, but I mean it's a good thing. I wouldn't want people to find a way around it It's one small line of protection |
| 05. September 2021 | Is driving barefoot illegal? | Is driving barefoot illegal? I sincerely doubt driving barefoot's illegal. I sincerely doubt that. It is? Why? Why on earth would driving barefoot be illegal? It's not? It depends on where, but I'm- someone Google, New South Wales, is it illegal to drive barefoot? And someone give me some rationales to why it would ever be illegal anyway. You have less grip? What does that even mean? What are you trying to grip the fucking thing with your toes? Like when we Googled, can you drive with earphones in? And that was the same response it gave. There's no explicit rule against it, that if it's believed to be a contributing factor in an accident or something, they'd be like, no, no, no. You clearly drive irresponsibly. That's just dumb. That's one of the dumbest laws I've ever heard in my life. |
| 20. July 2021 | Is edgy content more "right wing"? | Being mostly right-sided, don't like the whole right-left thing dividing everything into halves. It's, to be edgy is to, you know, merely exist on the line of what is socially acceptable. The underlying premise of what you're saying is you believe that things that are left are more socially acceptable. Dividing things in half, I, maybe, I don't know. Like if you watch Bo Burnham's comedy special, that thing he did with the sock puppet or whatever, talking about exploitation and the world being built on blood and stuff and the pedophilic elite and stuff. I mean, that's kind of, that kind of stuff exists on, for different reasons criticizing the so-called elites, but that kind of stuff exists on the left. And I hate saying the left and the right, it just makes me cringe. But you know what I'm saying? Like there is definitely stuff that exists on the borderline of acceptability that is set all across the political spectrum on different topics. As I've said, though, the more that things become global, the more that nationalism seems against the grain, right? The more that people are intermingled and cultures intermingle, things that are nationalistic or exclusionary based on traits that people can't change will always seem more against what is socially acceptable. And that stuff does exist more on the right. I wish I hadn't started speaking on it because I hate saying left and right. It just seems so dumb. Could have at least said conservatives and liberals and stuff and talked on a social perspective or whatever. I'm too chill for this conversation, man. I mean, certainly the whole vein of we should care about what other people think and care about their feelings and stuff, that does exist more in some parts of the political spectrum than others. I suppose that existing at all would lessen the amount of so-called edgy stuff that occurs. Like you could talk about friendly jordies in my country, for example, like how he does a lot of edgy stuff and so is hated by a lot of the more progressive elements of Australian politics. But at the same time, he is not what you might call right, politically speaking, in that he doesn't support our conservative party or our economically liberal party or something. He supports the left party, even though the way he conducts himself is not necessarily within the norms of social convention, let's say. Your perspective on the world and politics and stuff is gonna be greatly dependent upon what kind of stuff you're interested in and what you look at. It's very hard to, oh, and what you're presented, I mean, it's very hard to have a broad understanding of the current political space at any given time because you aren't necessarily interested in all things equally, nor does any algorithm that you're currently in necessarily serve you everything equally. I remember once listening to a debate and a person unironically said, oh, I know this happens all the time, man. I see it on YouTube videos all the time, man. You know, people just blissfully unaware that the facets of content that they look at on the internet is not necessarily indicative of, or is not necessarily a representative sample of all possible content on the internet, you know? So long story short, whether the premises that underlie what you've said there are true just depends on how you're defining that stuff, but I don't know. |
| 24. October 2020 | Is fortnite going to die out? | Do I think any game would kill Fortnite? I mean the original Fortnite's already dead. Fortnite saved the world. It was killed by Fortnite Battle Royale. What I'm saying is, I think Fortnite 2.0 will kill Fortnite 1.0. No, I mean, um, Fortnite will eventually fade, as do all games. It's certainly not at its peak now. I see clips occasionally of the older days of Fortnite and people are like, ah, remember when Fortnite was a good game? Kids who were once 12 are now what, like 16, 17, whatever. Like, ah, I remember the good days of Fortnite. Wait, how long has Fortnite been out for? It's gonna at least be three years, right? Is it three or four years? Is it 2017? Whatever. So kids who were 12 are now 15. They're like, ah, the good days of good Fortnite. There's one guy who has 10k views on Fortnite and yeah, and Ninja still plays and stuff. It's clearly still a popular game by the standard of games. Which is not popular compared to what it once was. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 30. June 2021 | Is friendship a lie? | Is friendship a lie? Is friendship a lie? I know what that means. I mean friendships are just based on a Mutual enjoyment in another person's company and that certainly is. All friendships have their breaking point there, right? different friendships have differing levels of bonding to them, you know, I remember a person my deputy manager at Coles very popular guy and he said to me a Mat in life you don't want a lot of friends You want just a handful of really really good friends like he says Like if I want to have a party man, I can get a hundred people around my house in a second if I need something No one's gonna take my call, you know, I got no one I can rely on I know a lot of people I go anywhere and everyone knows me, but I don't have good friends I just have people that I know and that stuck with me after all these years Maybe I don't remember a single other thing that he said to me But I even now consider that to be very true. There would be a guy that I'd be interested in seeing Where he is these days when I think back to all the people I knew in the past There's not many that I really care about or care to know or contact or know what they were up to But that dude he treated me with a good amount of kindness. I wonder if he Went good places in life. |
| 03. April 2021 | Is it better to know when you'd die. | Is it better to know when you will die? To be honest though, I would much rather not see my death coming than Know my death is coming enough to be able to plan out my last words or my final moments, you know Am I wrong in this? Like you've got an hour to live. Okay, gonna plan out my last words because who cares about your last words after you're dead, right? I suppose if you did have that little bit of time you could set up a will and stuff and da da da But I mean just in general, I just don't want to feel that panic of impending death, you know I mean certainly you can imagine impending deaths that wouldn't be so bad or What would that be like, you know, you've got six months left So that gives you time to do stuff for the last six months or whatever but like I was watching Trash Taste yesterday and they brought up a story that I've I already knew about but Brought to my mind because of course they were talking about again this is there's these people who explore unexplored caves or like just go cave diving or whatever and like these caves will be inhospitable as in like in some cases you have to like crawl for 100 meters before you can stand up and turn around and stuff Tight spaces that barely fit a human and you got to go into these to go through these caves Un- unexplored caves as well. Like who knows what's gonna fucking happen or whatever I think these people are crazy. Is there really no other way that you can even get your rocks off or whatever? But I mean, we're close to that boat or whatever, right? But like this this the story Kind of made the rounds where a guy got stuck upside down In a cave laying down like he couldn't turn around couldn't move. He was stuck He apparently had two kids or something and he's going to Trash Taste that they're like, um, the dude had recently Got a family whatever and he was celebrating by going into some caves Like apparently they had to like IV drip into his leg Which is the only part they could get access to to keep him alive. And so he just slowly died over 12 hours It's like the most horrifying thing but one of the most horrifying things that I can imagine It's almost the same as being buried alive. Just like the worst deaths you can think of |
| 09. March 2022 | Is it common for youtubers to make more from merch than from youtube? | Is it common for youtubers to make more from merch than from YouTube? Do youtubers typically make more money from merch than YouTube income? No, I'm very uncommon. A significant amount of youtubers are what you might call personality youtubers. They're watched for the video essays or whatever that they they make. They don't have a brand associated with themselves necessarily. There are youtubers that make a shit ton of money from merch, but most youtubers don't even have a merch store. So it can't be said to be common for people to make more from merch than from YouTube. In the four months since I launched my merch store, I have made 488 sales. Not simply items sold, sales. So a person could have bought one item or more. The profit from these sales totalled 6,000 USD. |
| 09. December 2020 | Is it meaningful to say success comes from hard work? | Is it meaningful to say success comes from hard work? Unfortunately, I had to cut this down because I talked about other things, but this will at least give you like an abridgment of my views that probably won't be very convincing, but it might be interesting to some people. Any aspect of your success that is predicated on your genetics is entirely luck. Nothing relates to your effort to change your genetics. What's left then? Your environment. The environmental conditions that you find yourself in at birth, you didn't apply any effort to achieve these things either. A successful person, a really successful person, let's say, had they been born with different genetics or in different environments, given how unlikely success is, it's almost inconceivable that they could have also achieved success under completely different conditions. It's like saying, would Bill Gates have been a multi-billionaire had he been born in a mud hut in 600 BC? The answer is no. Given that all the prerequisites for a person's success were things outside of a person's control, it's almost irrelevant to say that hard work got that person's success. My ability to pick up this pen, the prerequisites for it, is so you could almost say everyone in existence who wasn't born with my genetics in my particular environment, it was impossible for them to pick up this pen. Impossible. Is it meaningful then to say that the picking up of this pen was my hard work when anyone who had been born with my genetics in this my environment would have done the same? The list of variables that I had no impact on, no, I applied no effort to, there were prerequisites for the success that I have. Astronomical. I could probably list 100 without breaking a sweat. |
| 09. December 2020 | Is it meaningful to say success comes from hardwork? | Is it meaningful to say success comes from hard work? Unfortunately, I had to cut this down because I talked about other things, but this will at least give you like an abridgment of my views that probably won't be very convincing, but it might be interesting to some people. Any aspect of your success that is predicated on your genetics is entirely luck. Nothing relates to your effort to change your genetics. What's left then? Your environment. The environmental conditions that you find yourself in at birth, you didn't apply any effort to achieve these things either. A successful person, a really successful person, let's say, had they been born with different genetics or in different environments, given how unlikely success is, it's almost inconceivable that they could have also achieved success under completely different conditions. It's like saying, would Bill Gates have been a multi-billionaire had he been born in a mud hut in 600 BC? The answer is no. Given that all the prerequisites for a person's success were things outside of a person's control, it's almost irrelevant to say that hard work got that person's success. My ability to pick up this pen, the prerequisites for it, is so you could almost say everyone in existence who wasn't born with my genetics in my particular environment, it was impossible for them to pick up this pen. Impossible. Is it meaningful then to say that the picking up of this pen was my hard work when anyone who had been born with my genetics in this my environment would have done the same? The list of variables that I had no impact on, no, I applied no effort to, there were prerequisites for the success that I have. Astronomical. I could probably list 100 without breaking a sweat. |
| 23. February 2023 | Is it worth enabling mid-roll ads with Twitch's new Ads Incentive Program? | ads with Twitch's new ads incentive program. So obviously because I wasn't on Twitch for like four months, I stopped caring about, well not that I really cared about much before, but I stopped caring about the development in ad revenue on Twitch. And so I just looked at it now and currently 6.5% of the money I make on Twitch is from ads. And that's just like pre-roll ads, because I run no ads during my stream, I take no ad incentives, 6.5% is ads. This is up from like 2-3% eons ago. Whether that's because ad revenue has gone up versus my other source of revenue going down, subscribers for example, I can't say, I could probably look it up, but who cares. More importantly though, obviously with the new ad incentive programs on Twitch, if you run a certain amount of ads and you get the 55% that they're offering if you run that many ads, obviously this can massively increase. And so I was interested to see how many people on Twitch were actually running ads, given that they can now make a reasonable amount of money if they do so. Obviously the only people I can really ask is Twitter, and half the people don't watch Twitch, that's fine. And so you can basically just double these numbers. So 58% said that the streams they watch generally run mid-roll ads. So my ad incentive would be $623 on top of what I get from the ads. The thing is, I don't know what I would get from the ads. I wish I knew. Then I could somewhat assess whether this makes sense as a deal for me. Because right now, this would be representing like a 10% increase on what I make on Twitch right now per month, which is like $6,000 or something. So obviously inconveniencing people with ads for a 10% pay increase, and it's just my Twitch revenues is perhaps not the best move. And I wouldn't even get the benefit of removing pre-roll ads because to remove pre-roll ads for new people coming to your stream, you have to run three minutes of ads per hour, and that is not a significant enough increase over one minute of ads per hour for that benefit to be worth it. That's it. You would expect more, that I'd make more than $6,000 on Twitch. I'm not very popular on Twitch these days, man. I'm getting hard carried by the people who have been subs for like years, years and years and years. So basically, I'm tempted to run this for a month just to see the change in ad revenue. I don't like making uninformed decisions. Will it affect subs? No. If anything, the hope is that by running ads, you will inspire people to subscribe. Let's try this then. So is it better, do you think, to have one minute of ads per hour or 30 seconds of ads every half an hour? Probably 30 seconds of ads every half an hour, right? Interesting. More people are saying one minute per hour. Huh. I think that'd be more disruptive. Like I almost want to overrule you. Like I would like, give me your reasoning. 30 seconds per 0.5 hours is too distracting and breaks the flow. For me, be like, well, this is a disruption, but I'll be back in 30 seconds anyway, so it's fine. But a minute is like, oh, this is a disruption is a whole minute. Oh my God. You guys reckon you want one minute per hour? So fine. You didn't read the terms and conditions. Oh my God, what a fool. We'll see how that goes. |
| 04. October 2021 | Is it wrong to watch content made by bad people? | Is it wrong to watch content made by bad people? I've said before I don't think there's any objective answer in regards to how much you should disassociate from a person If you find their views reprehensible There's no objective answer that question and I can't tell you what you should or should not do I can say personally if there's content that I enjoy that is made by an asshole not watching it Because that person is an asshole would just be allowing an asshole to dictate my life and my enjoyment of things And that doesn't seem like a very good thing in my view I just try to abstain from supporting them financially Like if you click on a video you're giving a view and that does help the person right But it's in such a small minute way that as long as you're not watching ads or donating to them or some shit It's so minor that I think it's fine |
| 25. November 2022 | Is life just picking your flavour of poison? | Is life just picking your flavor of poison? Socialist arc? When you convince me that socialism won't have the same or worse problems as capitalism, then maybe I'll be a socialist, alright? Until then I'll just bitterly say that I think everything is fucked and will always be fucked regardless of how it's set up. Everything has upsides and downsides. Everything sucks. All you do is pick how fancy you want your glass of poison to be. That's existence. Being honest about capitalism does make you a socialist. It is crazy how many people like jerk off capitalism as if it's like the greatest thing ever like oh my god. It's just so amazing. There's no downsides to it. Everything is perfect and wonderful and happy in the entire world. Nothing bad ever happens under capitalism. No, it's not as though it's a system that specifically would inspire people to have children in fucking coal mines if they could. Not at all. Capitalism rewards hard work? Fucking hell. You've got a company with like thousands of people working for it, all working very hard, and the money they make has nothing to do with how hard they work, but based on how little the person who owns the business believes they have to pay the person to get them to stay. So you could be working really really fucking hard today, not super hard tomorrow, and you can pay the same amount regardless. If you work really really hard for a company that you don't have a stake in, then what likely is gonna happen is that company will make a fuck ton more money, and you'll get nothing. You could work really really hard to invent something new, innovative, and wonderful, and maybe, you know, maybe if the people who own the company are like generous or believe that you might leave or something, then they'll give you some money. But that has nothing to do with your hard work. It's about whether or not they think you leave. Think about it. What is the best suggestion for how to increase how much money you're paid as a worker? It's leaving companies, just jumping ship, going from company to company to company to company to company, not sticking around. It's not working really hard. It's leaving, going somewhere else, literally abandoning where you're working, and that is the optimal strategy as a worker. Sticking around and working hard to get promotions is scientifically the worst move in terms of getting more money. Capitalism is a system where people who are lucky enough to be born with the right attributes in the right particular circumstances to own things, take advantage of people who work hard, and then they take what is produced by those people's hard work and then put it in a bank somewhere and say, I am the best, most successful person ever. I am wonderful. No one could have done this without me. Boo! Everyone is replaceable, man. If insert rich people, rich person didn't exist, then there'd be some other rich person who would own some fucking company providing their fucking service. No one is special. Every system would have issues. You can pick and choose what policies you want. Anything that affects enough people will have some winners and losers, right? Everything will have upsides and downsides. It just depends on what you care about the most. I have just not been convinced that socialism would ultimately be better for the world than capitalism. As shitty as things are, clearly the world has progressed to some degree. Why the fuck would you want anarchism? Why would you want to be ruled by a warlord? How the fuck would that be better? Wherever you are, the person or group with the greatest amount of ability to influence people with force will ultimately come to rule that region. That has been the fate of all of mankind. The people who can pick up sticks and be like, yo, we have more sticks than you, will ultimately rule the day. Do you realize that capitalism is the reason you get bread on your table? Oh, yeah, of course, man, because bread didn't exist before capitalism. Oh, fuck, it certainly didn't. No, of course not. And the existence of bread definitely means that capitalism is a flawless system without any kind of issues. And it definitely means there's no better system that could ever be possibly conceived by mankind. We did one and that's it. It's just now the best. Never will there be ever better, ever. We just must jerk off capitalism for the rest of fucking time. We can never think outside that fucking box, maybe create something better. No, it's just the best now, forever, because a certain portion of the population have it in their minds that having any criticism of your economic system is somehow a bad thing to do. You can't fucking criticize the the holy rights of capitalism, all right? I swear there must be a lot of people investing a lot of money into perpetuating that mindset so they never feel like their wealth might be challenged. God damn, I have never lived under any other system chat. I don't even think most of us can even conceive of what a world without capitalism would look like. Capitalism isn't perfect, but it's been working for decades. So the fear is that capitalism, by its nature, in its constant need for growth and additional profits and just milking everything for what it's worth in the now rather than caring about like the distant future or something, is ultimately just going to cause everything to explode. So what you're going to have is a period where things are pretty good leading to a time where things are absolutely abysmally terrible. Kind of like living life by maxing out credit cards. Like sure, you're gonna be doing pretty well for a little while. Like you have all the money you want and you're just gonna go everywhere, buy all the fancy stuff, go to all the fancy places, but then one day the bill is gonna come due and you're gonna be entirely fucked. And that's the fear with capitalism. That this constant need to one-up everyone to the degree that like nothing else matters, including like social sustainability, that pumping people full of like random fucking clips and shit on TikTok and reducing everyone's attention span and shit. All that's just gonna eventually come due one day. Their brains are gonna be entirely fucked. The environment's gonna be entirely fucked. They're gonna be sitting like, wow. Okay, so we had a good run of a couple of hundred years there and now we can't really sustain ourselves. That sucks. Like there was a time where just like everyone worked together for the common good and we traded that for everyone fighting tooth and nail for every scrap. Communities still work together? Yeah, but communities don't run the world. This is a system where if you want social power and capital in the ability to change things, you need to be like self-interested, cutthroat asshole who's willing to burn down a village for 15 cents. Like legally, you can't even like put ethics or social good ahead of maximizing profits. If you do, you can be sued. |
| 12. November 2022 | Is livestreaming walking simulators as bad as | Is live streaming walking simulators as bad as reacting to YouTube videos? I loved your series on react content, but something came to mind watching them. Would your gameplay Through the Henry Stickmin collection be considered as react content due to the nature game? Yeah, possibly. Well, not exactly the same obviously I didn't show the entire thing or um all the different options It's uh when it comes to video games on the far left You have things that obviously massively benefit from the ecosystem around video games And that is any game that the focus is the gameplay, you know You're League of Legends your apex legends your you know There's those kind of games where it's just nothing but raw gameplay the story basically doesn't matter your Dark Souls whatever But they have the very far end you have like telltale games where they're just walking simulators They are they are effectively just a video and there's no real difference between if you watch the video or play the game The walking dead telltale game there are playthroughs of that on YouTube that have many millions of views I collected there might be a hundred million views for that game on YouTube But telltale still went under because the sales just weren't there even though it was successful it's a question of whether whether telltale games would have been successful without the Promotion that those videos gave or ultimately was was that ultimately just competition that sunk the games I don't know, but it is the question with um those kind of walking simulators I don't know, but at least in terms of Henry Stickmin, it's been around for like what ten years. Not a big deal It's the same thing. I'm gonna say when um the Doki Doki Literature Club thing comes out that's not something that I would do these days going through a Visual novel like that, but the footage is now like five plus years old Oh and my playthrough of the Henry Stickmin collection came out like a year or two after the game re-re-released The idea that I'm impacting the game is obviously not gonna be particularly high, but as I say how do I know more about the game? I probably wouldn't have done it |
| 12. November 2022 | Is livestreaming walking simulators as bad as reacting to YouTube videos? | Is live streaming walking simulators as bad as reacting to YouTube videos? I loved your series on react content, but something came to mind watching them. Would your gameplay Through the Henry Stickmin collection be considered as react content due to the nature game? Yeah, possibly. Well, not exactly the same obviously I didn't show the entire thing or um all the different options It's uh when it comes to video games on the far left You have things that obviously massively benefit from the ecosystem around video games And that is any game that the focus is the gameplay, you know You're League of Legends your apex legends your you know There's those kind of games where it's just nothing but raw gameplay the story basically doesn't matter your Dark Souls whatever But they have the very far end you have like telltale games where they're just walking simulators They are they are effectively just a video and there's no real difference between if you watch the video or play the game The walking dead telltale game there are playthroughs of that on YouTube that have many millions of views I collected there might be a hundred million views for that game on YouTube But telltale still went under because the sales just weren't there even though it was successful it's a question of whether whether telltale games would have been successful without the Promotion that those videos gave or ultimately was was that ultimately just competition that sunk the games I don't know, but it is the question with um those kind of walking simulators I don't know, but at least in terms of Henry Stickmin, it's been around for like what ten years. Not a big deal It's the same thing. I'm gonna say when um the Doki Doki Literature Club thing comes out that's not something that I would do these days going through a Visual novel like that, but the footage is now like five plus years old Oh and my playthrough of the Henry Stickmin collection came out like a year or two after the game re-re-released The idea that I'm impacting the game is obviously not gonna be particularly high, but as I say how do I know more about the game? I probably wouldn't have done it |
| 05. August 2022 | Is money intrinsically valuable? | Intrinsic would suggest it was like innate, right? To the thing. It's not a matter of subjective opinion. The money in your wallets tomorrow could be completely valueless to everyone on the planet if a government decides that that's the case. It's not likely that it can happen. So Kant possibly said to have intrinsic value. I'm not sure I believe in intrinsic value outside of, as I often reference, in relation to goals. Water can be intrinsically valuable in relation to the goal of enabling you to continue to live. Could you need water to live? If no humans existed, money wouldn't have any value. We could absolutely move and have a society where there is no money. There is no currency. Everyone is entirely self-reliant. The value is dependent upon contextual variables independent of the money. So it can't be intrinsic. Even the idea of trade isn't intrinsically valuable. It is only valuable contextually. Trade only has value to us because we can utilize it to get things that we desire. If our desires were different, trade would have no value. Do you agree that health is intrinsically valuable? No. Health is only valuable contextually in relation to our goals. It's like if you're being tortured for eternity and every single time at the end of the torture you were given perfect health, you would go, Oh, I no longer want perfect health. I want to die. Everything is only valuable contextually in relation to goals. Your goals could be different or the goals could not exist and therefore the thing would not have any value. By that logic, all companies intrinsic value will be the same. No, companies definitely do not have intrinsic value. The stock market is not representative of any intrinsic value of anything. It is value to us as people. Human subjective preferences do not represent intrinsic value. They don't. To put another way, ask yourself, in a world absent sentient creatures, would the thing we're talking about have value? Why would it have value? It's only valuable predicated on the existence of something external to the thing that being sentient creatures. Then it can't have intrinsic value except in relation to goals. Twitch breaking reverse chat. Reverse chat is- |
| 15. June 2021 | Is more viewers ever bad? | Is more viewers ever bad? Someone asked me do I prefer to have more or less viewers and the answer is always more. While certainly more viewers brings forth some additional difficulties, the benefits and perks of having more viewers is far outweighs the downsides in my view. It is possible that once you get to a really high level that that's no longer the case. I've never experienced that. I do know that there's a lot of larger content creators like really large content creators like on the size of a 20,000 plus who have secondary Twitch channels that they stream on to just chill with a fewer amount of viewers. I've never really understood that mentally, but I've never been in their shoes. Because certainly even when you have thousands of viewers, it's only a minority of people who actually type in chat. So chat is still very much so readable. Yeah, I haven't reached a size where I would say, oh man, I've got more viewers, dang, you know, certainly it is always far more stressful. It's like I sort of actually brought that up where they're like, you said you were tired, but you ended up streaming Slay the Spire for eight hours. And I'm like, yeah, because probably ain't going to go on YouTube. Far fewer viewers, far less moment to moment action. It's just a turn-based card game. There's no stakes. If I lose, who cares? It's a lot more relaxing, you know, there are definitely things you can do streaming that make things more stressful and potentially less enjoyable compared to other things, you know. Everything you stream is not equally as hard or easy. Like some types of streaming, it's... What distinguishes it from just playing a video game by yourself is basically nothing. It's about as difficult as just playing a video game. The other types of streaming where you try to be engaging, try to be funny, try to make jokes, you're constantly trying to be speaking about stuff, you don't want the gameplay to lull and stuff, you're responding to chat. These kind of things make it infinitely more difficult. What is the difference between viewers and chatters in chat? I heard once that only 20% of people who are on Twitch actually type in chat or something on any regular basis, but I think the number is probably even lower than that. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 23. January 2023 | Is my TikTok channel dead? | Is my TikTok channel dead? Joshua Boy asks, will you bring back your TikTok now that you're looking to revive the clips channel? So this entire time I have been having Silver upload my TikToks. Although it's definitely gonna be a few behinds. It seems out of order because he accidentally missed a bunch. I'm not sure how far behind it is. These are some of the new ones, but you can see that none of these are hitting even like 100K. On YouTube, some of these have like 5 million. So we've got a decent two down here. This was many months ago. The one with Molly's ass did too many and of course. Whether it be because the audience is the difference or the algorithm is either worse or just not understanding where the audience is for my content or because there's more competition on TikTok, I can't say TikTok doesn't seem to have as much value for me as does YouTube Shorts. And even YouTube Shorts doesn't have that much value to begin with. So again, I say they might give me some more money in February, we'll see how that goes. Will I continue to upload Shorts to TikTok? I figure I may as well. We'll see what happens. |
| 07. February 2023 | Is my Twitch channel dying? | Is my Twitch channel dying? It's been a while since I last watched your stream. I see a drop in viewers. Is everything good? Are you asking why my viewership may have dropped on Twitch? I mean leaving the platform for four months didn't do me any favors. That I haven't been streaming anything particularly interesting in a while also doesn't do me favors. That I'm not promoting it on YouTube as I once did also didn't help, but I have come out criticizing a significant amount of what people do on Twitch, which again hasn't done me favors. So this is about when I stopped streaming on Twitch and yeah, so clearly a steep decline here. I could make this higher if I just stopped streaming Slay the Spy or just chilling or whatever bit. The un- |
| 30. May 2020 | Is my headset reliable | Shit. Curious about the headphones, what brand are they? Are they the same pair I've seen since 2017? Seems like they're pretty reliable. I've had maybe 10 pairs of these headphones since like 2017. I've been using these headphones for four or five years. I've had like a dozen plus pairs. I don't know, in that time. I keep extra sets in there. They cost like 20 bucks each. They have great sound quality for the price that you're paying, but they're not amazingly well made. And the cord kind of gets tangled. Maybe not a dozen, but I've gone through quite a few. They are not built to last. I just like the design. Certainly if you're using them for casual use and you're not like me who uses them blah blah blah endless hours every day, they probably last longer for you. And certainly sometimes I've simply discarded the ones I'm using because I don't like how tangled the cable had gotten. And they aren't built to last, but they are a good headset. |
| 30. May 2020 | Is my headset reliable? | Shit. Curious about the headphones, what brand are they? Are they the same pair I've seen since 2017? Seems like they're pretty reliable. I've had maybe 10 pairs of these headphones since like 2017. I've been using these headphones for four or five years. I've had like a dozen plus pairs. I don't know, in that time. I keep extra sets in there. They cost like 20 bucks each. They have great sound quality for the price that you're paying, but they're not amazingly well made. And the cord kind of gets tangled. Maybe not a dozen, but I've gone through quite a few. They are not built to last. I just like the design. Certainly if you're using them for casual use and you're not like me who uses them blah blah blah endless hours every day, they probably last longer for you. And certainly sometimes I've simply discarded the ones I'm using because I don't like how tangled the cable had gotten. And they aren't built to last, but they are a good headset. |
| 22. December 2021 | Is my merch uni-sex? | A merch unisex? Um, I don't think the mousepad requires you to be certain sex. But no, uh... Like I know there's female shirts and female tank tops and stuff, but the... The art isn't on them yet. I'll try to convince the people to do it for me. My audience is 95% male, and it was just to start the store, right, so I'm gonna have to expand it. NFTs are cringe. |
| 18. January 2023 | Is passion a must-have for a successful YouTube career? | Thoughts is passion a must-have for a successful YouTube career ghost band asks Do you think you need to be passionate to be on YouTube or you think it's like a business the lower stages of? YouTube are so lacking in positive reinforcement That you kind of need to be passionate about it to get through that as time goes on and the money becomes more of a thing People can lose their passion But now realize is so lucrative to continue that they continue it more as a business than anything else and you've likely seen other Creators do that kind of stuff But as people often say people don't really start YouTube or twitch or whatever with the goal of making Fat stacks it is a thing you get into because you like it you like doing it You like everything involved with it, and it's kind of leads into that do you need to be passionate? Maybe logically? No, it's just it's hard to imagine how they could survive long enough to become successful without that initial |
| 16. November 2022 | Is pirating media justified? | Is pirating media justified? Opinion on pirating. If you do not have the money to support something, or there are service related issues in that it isn't even accessible for you to get something, then pirating is justified in my book, right? If a person isn't willing to provide you a service that you can pay for easily, then you aren't one of the customers that they want, so fuck them. If you're a person who is effectively destitute, you've got no money in your pocket or whatever, the least of your concerns is the balance sheet of some multi-billion dollar company, right? But in general, if you got the money to support stuff, especially potentially smaller creators or smaller people, they've released one book or something, not these billion dollar companies, but in general, you should be paying for stuff. I agree with Gabe Newell when he says that piracy is largely a service issue. Is that his exact phrasing? Where for people who have the money, it's usually more of a pain in the ass to pirate stuff than it is to just pay for it. It is much simpler for me to go onto Steam, type in some words and then download a game than it is for me to put on a VPN, go into some random website, make sure that I'm not being given viruses or whatever, install it, make sure that the thing actually works, then I can't get patches and stuff, and it's just a huge hassle. If you got the money and the service is available, generally you won't pirate, as far as I'm concerned. Dive into the uses of piracy is A-okay. Often with most things, it depends on your particular circumstances, your reasons for doing something, and the consequences of your actions. I don't really have blanket statements in regards to morality. This thing is bad or this thing is good. It's more like everything is kind of conditional on the consequences, the variables at play, who's doing it and why, these kind of things. In the same way that in general, it's probably not a good idea to shoot a person in the head. Not a fan of that kind of stuff. But I mean, if a person's about to blow up a bomb or something, can kill 12 kids, and the only way to stop them is to shoot them in the head, in that particular case, you go, okay, well that kind of makes sense for something to be allowable. Those kind of things. There's always those situations for everything you want to speak on in regards to morality. Morality, complicated. Shaka. |
| 17. January 2022 | Is posting to Instagram helping me grow? | I started posting more on Instagram. You mean on things other than Instagram? It's too early to say, but I seriously doubt it. My follower count on Instagram has barely increased. Like for a little while, people unsubscribed because I never posted anything there, and so the people who no longer liked my stuff, who just forgot they were following me, were like, oh, fuck this dude and unfollowed. Other people were like, well, I'm not interested in what he's posting, so they unfollowed. But that was like a couple of days, and now I probably gain like a hundred followers a day or something. Considering the amount of stuff that Willa's posting, um, yeah, I'm not sure I'm seeing a return on the investment. But, uh, I like doing it because, you know, who knows? I've said in general, I do not like Instagram. We don't consider all offence equal. Why do people care if everything can be considered offensive? |
| 27. July 2021 | Is quality or quantity more important for clips channel | No. Is quality or quantity more important for the clips channel? Do you think the success of the clips channel is attributed to the quality of the clips or the... or the quantity of the clips or the quality of the clips? Combination of both, definitely. Definitely. It's very hard to know what's gonna drive with the popular audience. So if you have the time just to throw literally everything up there, you're gonna have some that are gonna pop off. |
| 18. January 2023 | Is reacting the only way to thrive as a Twitch streamer? | Is reacting the only way to thrive as a Twitch streamer. So TheWarOwl released a video talking about how he's no longer going to be focusing on Twitch. It's an interesting video, mirrors a lot of my same thoughts, but the beginning was potentially something that you can likely hear coming out of my own mouth. You can go to YouTube to watch original content, or you can go to Twitch to watch people watch YouTube's original content. Greetings, hi, TheWarOwl. Yeah, so I've mirrored similar thoughts where Twitch ultimately is just people watching YouTube videos because the people who do that the most are going to be the most successful. Because they don't need to spend the time thinking of ideas, making stuff themselves, hiring people, all that jazz, no editing, whatever. And you end up with the same end result. And you can stay live as long as possible to farm the natural exposure of the platform away from the other creators on that platform. You just want to stay perpetually live and you can't do that if you actually have to make the content yourself. Very interesting video though. Feel free to go watch it. There's like a line or two in here that I'm like, yeah, 100%. I doubt he and I share the exact same views on everything or whatever, but it was just interesting seeing a person just randomly mirror my own. |
| 01. June 2022 | Is reacting to clips and mediashare okay? | Is reacting to clips and media share okay? What do you think about Markiplier's Try Not To Laugh or people reacting to Try Not To Laugh in general? Clips are such a gray area for me because clips in by their nature are really low effort like if a person makes a one minute animation that can take a lot of effort you should probably not be reacting to that but like a random person who's just like captured their kid falling over or something it's like Okay, I get it you technically were the one who caught that kid falling over, but I wouldn't really call that like work necessarily you know like it's clearly just really lazy stuff, but I don't put it on the same level as ripping a person's entire creative work that they've spent potentially weeks or Whatever, it doesn't matter how long it is many many hours tens of hours Ripping that entirely to YouTube channel is very different than say a random clip of a person jumping out a plane or something But it's still it's still not good. You know Like it's the problem I had with my media share content for example because again I hold to position clips are fine but you should be using those clips to create something new like those clips should have some functional purpose in what you're creating and Well, I was making my own content on stream by learning the speedrun the clips weren't really a part of that they were just like a thing to the side like They didn't have to be there for my content to work and So I you know shouldn't have done it. I don't think but again It's that whenever you take a stance on anything there's going to be that line of what is acceptable Like the content that was made from those media share streams on YouTube. I think is perfectly fine Those contain many original jokes and use particular clips in ways matching up to to achieve certain effects but the streams Not good. I don't think so the media share vids never go back up So I don't know maybe one day it's just it's more than likely just going to cause me a headache like I can't have this one-to-one conversation with every single person who wants to ask me About the nuances of the borderline of what's acceptable to me And so it's better just to stay as far away from that borderline as possible. You know Did I delete all of my media share videos? Yeah, even though as I've said before my position on clips is not the same as my position on anything else because clips low effort and they They don't replace the original product where the clip comes from but at the same time So like those media share videos would fit my idea of what is acceptable because they're very much so edited and they're very much the same They're very much so edited and they're very much so about me and da da da they make all these original jokes and stuff But the streams that they came from are a separate matter because while I was doing something else Which is learning speedrun speedruns and stuff. I wasn't using those clips for anything else They were just like added to my stream. I wasn't using them in a creative way and so it feels Cheap, you know, I may eventually put the videos back but I didn't really like them uh In in the sense of whenever you draw a line about whether or not something is acceptable there'll always be things on the border of acceptability and That kind of media share content that's supplementary to something you're already doing is very much still on the border for me and it's just better for me if uh, I don't have that level of uh Ambiguous stuff that I have to explain to everyone, you know Do you feel like you have to make extra effort not to contract contradict your beliefs on copyright stuff? I mean, it's always gonna take effort to give a shit. What about? |
| 20. February 2021 | Is recording Twitch chat into youtube videos illegal? | Is my recording Twitch chat in YouTube videos illegal? I saw something really funny today actually. Co-Carnage is a really really really old streamer, like one of the first 10 partners on the platform or something if I recall correctly. Because someone asked him, why don't you have chat on your screen in your YouTube videos? And he said, privacy laws as they exist in the EU and some states in the US, it's against the law. A viewer said, yeah but a lot of people do it, and Co-Carnage was like, yeah but a lot of people listen to music in their videos for a long time as well and that clearly wasn't allowed. I cannot imagine having the chat in your YouTube video could ever possibly be against the law. Like your Twitch account is anonymous, you explicitly give permission for your chat messages to be recorded, it is a public forum, you have full knowledge that people are going to be reading your chat and you can even see on the screen that it's going to be recorded. Like you knowingly participate in the recording of the chat. You are as aware as you can possibly be. More than this, your chat messages insofar as they're recorded on the screen, they don't go into a database. No one can look up your chat messages. They aren't assigned to your name. They aren't used to learn things about you or something. Like there are just so many angles by which that privacy laws do not have any possibility of applying to a recorded Twitch message in a YouTube video. It's insane. There's no way in hell it's illegal. Google will read those and allow you to search from them from what's on the screen? That's not true. You could certainly program an algorithm to do that, but obviously Google doesn't have a, they don't have the processing power to spend their time analyzing every single video in existence for the possibility that there's text on screen, that it might possibly be associated with a particular name. Because keep in mind that there's no way for an algorithm to know where this, your name on the screen is coming from. You'd have to tell it that. Because like Pussy Slayer 77 on Facebook isn't the same as Pussy Slayer 77 on Twitch. Even if you had, if you tried to develop an algorithm to troll through all YouTube videos to find any potential chat on screen and try to associate it with a profile somewhere, it'd be impossible to do. And again, why would you even do it? And even at that point, that wouldn't be my fault, you know? I mean, it's similar to the, like if you're out in public, there is a reasonable assumption that you're going to be seen and heard by other people. Or that maybe you'll be like overheard on a phone call or something. You can't have the expectation of being able to wipe your very existence from public forums, from reality. If you are knowingly engaging in a public forum, then you have to have the expectation that the history of your engagement is going to exist somewhere. The details specific to your name, you should have every right to remove. A catalog or an itemization of your engagements, certainly you should have the right to remove. But your very existence, it's destroying history itself. Privacy laws are meant to exist, and I believe do exist, to remove your profile, not your very existence, especially not your anonymous existence. It's like, how would you ever be able to determine that all such instances have been removed? Because there's no record of what you've done. It's like, delete all existence of me from this system that does not keep records. How is that possible? How could you possibly do that? Because a YouTube video isn't a record of you. There is no record in my YouTube videos of you. I can't look up your existence, or what you've said, or what you've done, or when you were there. Being freely engaged in the public forum that is this chat, and consented to being recorded, is enough that having expectations that you can expunge your existence, your non-categorized existence is absurd. And I'm fairly certain the law does not give you that ability. Especially when the information isn't being used in any way, shape, or form that was beyond your original intention. The point is that consent, be it explicit or implicit, can be retroactively revoked. Interesting. I do think it would be a misuse of the law, or rather what the law is meant to do, or what privacy laws are meant to do. But who knows, maybe they could be applied in that way. I guess I'm arguing it shouldn't be applicable this way. I shouldn't make grandiose statements of this is not what the law says, because the law exists and says different things in different countries. But I'm saying the points that I've laid out is an argument as to why either I don't think it should be possible for this to be wrong. And I think it'd be a perfect defense in any court of law. But how far that would go would depend on the particular laws, I suppose. Why does he think it's illegal? Oh, no, he made a follow-up statement where he says, oh, you know, it's a gray area, da da da. And maybe he's right, maybe it is a gray area. It's just I don't know how privacy laws could be so extensive that you can literally delete your existence from the public record. How could that be possible? Literally therefore, it would no longer be possible to be done. Anyone who would ever said anything on the public record that they didn't want people to know, they just go, I want that deleted. There's no way in hell privacy laws exist for that purpose. Even EU privacy laws that extend to official records. What counts in an official record? Just anything made by the government? You anonymously presenting words in a public setting, what could touch that? Exactly. The things that you would need to go to to prove it's you to begin with is kind of insane. Say, I wrote these things, here, prove it. Well, that's my account. Prove it. I have the username and password. Prove someone else didn't type that shit on that very day using your account. Impresedence suggests that simply an IP address isn't enough to confirm that a person was using a computer on a particular day or whatever. Be interesting to see it go to court. I've noticed that when I speak on some topics sometimes, like it's implicit when I'm speaking that I'm speaking to the best of my understanding. But sometimes I sound too declarative or I sound more confident that I have any right to be. Like I'm hoping implicitly people understand that I'm not a lawyer and I can't actually speak to what is the law in every country, right? I seem to slip sometimes between like what is the case and what should be the case or what I think you can justify be argued should be the case. And I don't make a proper distinction between the two. Because sometimes laws exist that don't make sense by a particular framework or on the basis of actual harm to people or society or whatever you want to call it, right? Sometimes stupid laws exist. Giving a list of reasons why something being illegal would be stupid doesn't in any way, shape or form change whether or not it is actually against the law. Sometimes stupid laws exist. Like it should be painfully obvious that an anonymous chat record in a YouTube video that can't be searched poses no harm or threat to anyone. And that in for the sake of record keeping alone in regards to the public record, things that people say publicly, there should be some allowance for records of that. But that doesn't mean that is the case everywhere, certainly. I've heard no good argument that would suggest that a record in a YouTube video is illegal. But that is not the same thing as saying that it certainly isn't illegal. |
| 20. February 2021 | Is recording twitch chat into youtube videos illegal? | Is my recording Twitch chat in YouTube videos illegal? I saw something really funny today actually. Co-Carnage is a really really really old streamer, like one of the first 10 partners on the platform or something if I recall correctly. Because someone asked him, why don't you have chat on your screen in your YouTube videos? And he said, privacy laws as they exist in the EU and some states in the US, it's against the law. A viewer said, yeah but a lot of people do it, and Co-Carnage was like, yeah but a lot of people listen to music in their videos for a long time as well and that clearly wasn't allowed. I cannot imagine having the chat in your YouTube video could ever possibly be against the law. Like your Twitch account is anonymous, you explicitly give permission for your chat messages to be recorded, it is a public forum, you have full knowledge that people are going to be reading your chat and you can even see on the screen that it's going to be recorded. Like you knowingly participate in the recording of the chat. You are as aware as you can possibly be. More than this, your chat messages insofar as they're recorded on the screen, they don't go into a database. No one can look up your chat messages. They aren't assigned to your name. They aren't used to learn things about you or something. Like there are just so many angles by which that privacy laws do not have any possibility of applying to a recorded Twitch message in a YouTube video. It's insane. There's no way in hell it's illegal. Google will read those and allow you to search from them from what's on the screen? That's not true. You could certainly program an algorithm to do that, but obviously Google doesn't have a, they don't have the processing power to spend their time analyzing every single video in existence for the possibility that there's text on screen, that it might possibly be associated with a particular name. Because keep in mind that there's no way for an algorithm to know where this, your name on the screen is coming from. You'd have to tell it that. Because like Pussy Slayer 77 on Facebook isn't the same as Pussy Slayer 77 on Twitch. Even if you had, if you tried to develop an algorithm to troll through all YouTube videos to find any potential chat on screen and try to associate it with a profile somewhere, it'd be impossible to do. And again, why would you even do it? And even at that point, that wouldn't be my fault, you know? I mean, it's similar to the, like if you're out in public, there is a reasonable assumption that you're going to be seen and heard by other people. Or that maybe you'll be like overheard on a phone call or something. You can't have the expectation of being able to wipe your very existence from public forums, from reality. If you are knowingly engaging in a public forum, then you have to have the expectation that the history of your engagement is going to exist somewhere. The details specific to your name, you should have every right to remove. A catalog or an itemization of your engagements, certainly you should have the right to remove. But your very existence, it's destroying history itself. Privacy laws are meant to exist, and I believe do exist, to remove your profile, not your very existence, especially not your anonymous existence. It's like, how would you ever be able to determine that all such instances have been removed? Because there's no record of what you've done. It's like, delete all existence of me from this system that does not keep records. How is that possible? How could you possibly do that? Because a YouTube video isn't a record of you. There is no record in my YouTube videos of you. I can't look up your existence, or what you've said, or what you've done, or when you were there. Being freely engaged in the public forum that is this chat, and consented to being recorded, is enough that having expectations that you can expunge your existence, your non-categorized existence is absurd. And I'm fairly certain the law does not give you that ability. Especially when the information isn't being used in any way, shape, or form that was beyond your original intention. The point is that consent, be it explicit or implicit, can be retroactively revoked. Interesting. I do think it would be a misuse of the law, or rather what the law is meant to do, or what privacy laws are meant to do. But who knows, maybe they could be applied in that way. I guess I'm arguing it shouldn't be applicable this way. I shouldn't make grandiose statements of this is not what the law says, because the law exists and says different things in different countries. But I'm saying the points that I've laid out is an argument as to why either I don't think it should be possible for this to be wrong. And I think it'd be a perfect defense in any court of law. But how far that would go would depend on the particular laws, I suppose. Why does he think it's illegal? Oh, no, he made a follow-up statement where he says, oh, you know, it's a gray area, da da da. And maybe he's right, maybe it is a gray area. It's just I don't know how privacy laws could be so extensive that you can literally delete your existence from the public record. How could that be possible? Literally therefore, it would no longer be possible to be done. Anyone who would ever said anything on the public record that they didn't want people to know, they just go, I want that deleted. There's no way in hell privacy laws exist for that purpose. Even EU privacy laws that extend to official records. What counts in an official record? Just anything made by the government? You anonymously presenting words in a public setting, what could touch that? Exactly. The things that you would need to go to to prove it's you to begin with is kind of insane. Say, I wrote these things, here, prove it. Well, that's my account. Prove it. I have the username and password. Prove someone else didn't type that shit on that very day using your account. Impresedence suggests that simply an IP address isn't enough to confirm that a person was using a computer on a particular day or whatever. Be interesting to see it go to court. I've noticed that when I speak on some topics sometimes, like it's implicit when I'm speaking that I'm speaking to the best of my understanding. But sometimes I sound too declarative or I sound more confident that I have any right to be. Like I'm hoping implicitly people understand that I'm not a lawyer and I can't actually speak to what is the law in every country, right? I seem to slip sometimes between like what is the case and what should be the case or what I think you can justify be argued should be the case. And I don't make a proper distinction between the two. Because sometimes laws exist that don't make sense by a particular framework or on the basis of actual harm to people or society or whatever you want to call it, right? Sometimes stupid laws exist. Giving a list of reasons why something being illegal would be stupid doesn't in any way, shape or form change whether or not it is actually against the law. Sometimes stupid laws exist. Like it should be painfully obvious that an anonymous chat record in a YouTube video that can't be searched poses no harm or threat to anyone. And that in for the sake of record keeping alone in regards to the public record, things that people say publicly, there should be some allowance for records of that. But that doesn't mean that is the case everywhere, certainly. I've heard no good argument that would suggest that a record in a YouTube video is illegal. But that is not the same thing as saying that it certainly isn't illegal. |
| 03. February 2020 | Is relying on viewers for content bad? | I feel like I heavily rely on the viewers for, you know, to have a discussion. Because talking to myself is just weird. It's like a lot of streaming is in a way improv. You've got to get the new material from viewers to have a back and forth. But on some degree, you know, you have to bring something of your own to the table. A streamer, a good streamer that you meet in person is still going to be fairly interesting to talk to and will have their own stories and whatnot to talk about. It's not entirely the audience. But as you grow larger as a content creator, you have more of an audience to leverage, to create and help you make even better content. Well, I've heard a lot of big streamers say this themselves, that if they had to start today from ground zero, from nothing, they wouldn't be able to make it. The variables that have led them to climb to the peaks that they're at and how good they are on that peak doesn't mean they would be equally as good. At the ground at the same time. I don't because that's what I say. When you when you ask a big streamer how to be successful, the context where I gain success is completely different from the context where you're trying to gain success. The path to success. It's chance. It's chance. No, the paths to success are not the same. Even if the destination is the same, the path to success isn't always the same for anything year after year after year. Even even more than that, just because a person was successful doing one thing, it could be possible that 10 trillion people did the exact same thing and failed. And the odds of success in that are astronomical to the extent where it's a terrible decision to go about that same way. But if you ask the person who succeeded doing that, they'll be like, oh, yeah, do it this way. Just like me. It was wonderful. It was wonderful. You need it's better in many contexts to analyze why other people have failed or while why you're failing, then then attempts to tread the exact same steps that led to another person's success or it. What aspects of them leading up to their success led to that success as opposed to what are they doing right now? Being successful. You know, you got to find your own path. And it's more I can give you suggestions about what you should be looking at, but I can't tell you exactly how to do it. |
| 01. December 2022 | Is replaying games enjoyable? | games enjoyable. Which game do I want to replay for the first time again? I'm not big on going back to things normally unless I have some expressed goal with it. Like other than GTA 5 or playing it over and over again for speedrunning purposes I don't really go back to media very often. The best advice for small content creators is to watch the video. |
| 15. February 2020 | Is satisfaction or success more important? | Is satisfaction or success more important? Success is more important. The money that you get can help you find satisfaction in the rest of your life, friends. Like if you're if you're satisfied, but not successful, that satisfaction will eventually go away because you need success to maintain yourself in that job, you know. Satisfaction without success is short lived. Success can lead to other forms of satisfaction. If you're not even if you aren't satisfied with the job that you're doing. I guess I took your question to be about work. I guess it depends on the context of what you're speaking about. I mean like music, for example, as a hobby. I mean, you don't need to be successful in that. What's probably more important is being satisfied with what you're doing, you know. Having you now clarify that it is about a career. I am a person who I don't know how I could be satisfied with a career that I wasn't successful in. |
| 15. January 2022 | Is science biased? | Is science biased? Do you think researchers can be funded by people wanting their narrative scientifically proven? Sure. It's again back to before. No system is without flaw. Any system that has humans in it is gonna have some amounts of possibility for things to go awry or not work correctly. That's just how it is. It isn't a matter of system being perfect. It's are the outcomes more positive than negative? Is it more likely to have information that can progress you towards achieving your goals than not? Science in general is the best method that humans have ever devised to get accurate information that can have predictive application for the future or just some useful effects that can be tested moving forward to create new things. Most of what people disagree with in science isn't because they have actual reasons to do so. It's because they don't like the conclusions. I've watched people who have no expertise in a field look at research papers that they cannot read because they they don't have the you know esoteric knowledge to be able to understand what's being said and they'll point at something and just say this shows that the whole paper is wrong. I'm like no it doesn't. You don't even know what that figure means. People look for reasons to dismiss things that they don't want to accept as true and when you have no knowledge in a topic it's very easy to find things that you don't understand that would therefore seem suspect to you because you don't understand them and which will enable you to dismiss the entirety of the endeavor. The amount of dumb people in the world like what you're talking about annoys me. I don't know if this is dumb necessarily. I think we I mean we all fall victim to this to the group to degrees. We all have a bias towards wanting the things that we want to be true to be true. We all have confirmation bias. We all want to trust in ourselves to varying degrees. It's even when you're aware of these biases it's very hard to not fall victim to them sometimes because you're only human. You try to just hedge your bets by not being too overly invested in stuff or hold things to too great a confidence. You step back occasionally and think do I have actual reasons to believe what I believe? Why do I believe this is true? Where did I even get this information from? And even then you can still be fucked but you're probably gonna be better off than most people who don't go through those same doubts. The equivalent of reading the abstract and calling it a day honestly the abstract is written to be as best understandable by a layman. It's almost its purpose. Most of the time if you just read the abstract you will basically get what the paper's getting at right? It's usually a problem when people go deeper than the abstract because they don't have the necessary knowledge to understand what is being said elsewhere because you're gonna know specifically how certain terms are used, how certain things are calculated, why they're calculated this way and so on. I agree that sometimes very important stuff can be in the paper. You know you can you can read the abstract and go oh this is very interesting and then you go down and you look at sample sizes or or whatever and you go oh well this this is nonsense. But the average person on the average paper let's say probably reading more than the abstract is probably gonna do more harm than good. Because they just won't understand the rest you know. Reading abstract isn't that easy if you don't understand the context by the way. I mean it's easier than the paper. It's the best you got as a layman. Yeah, I would say the abstract is the best thing to read because what's your other alternative? Reading the media and their like summation of an article. How often does the media like state the conclusions of a paper with absolute certainty and you go to read the abstract or just the paper as well. And they're like so this seems like it could maybe be something of significance. Probably needs a bit more research. I mean these findings are significant sure, but there's been other research that hasn't found these same findings. I think we need this study, this study and this study to conclude that if we've actually found something of value. And the media will be like this paper definitively proves X equals Y. The implications are gonna be insane. And you're like okay. And you wonder why people are dismissive of science when their gateway to scientific research is media articles and often not even the media articles. It's the headline of the media article. Though as I say the world is just very complicated and we don't all have time to look into every minute thing to the degree that we should. We all believe many false things. That if we had the time to do research we would not believe those things any longer. I saw a video recently by Polymatter. I've heard of this idea of China engaging in debt trap diplomacy. It has been said by many people that China is lending people fuck tons of money that they are never gonna be able to pay back to effectively be able to take land and influence and stuff in up-and-coming countries, you know like in Africa and such. And I've heard this everywhere. Frequency bias. It seemed plausible based off what I knew of the world and I heard it so many places that it seemed more plausible. But this video basically said the evidence for this is very slim. More likely what China is doing is trying to keep up their economic growth because their growth was originally spurred on by a lot of infrastructure projects and stuff. But they've kind of run out of stuff to do in their own country. So they're looking for fucking anyone who's willing to give them stuff to build. Regardless of how much it makes sense, they just want to find people that they can build stuff for to continue to grow and to give people jobs and stuff. There's a lot of corruption involved, but it's in the same way that many countries have corrupt officials who say yeah, yeah, we'll do it. We'll do it in this area. It may not be the best for the country, but it's the best for them politically and China's like we don't fucking care. We just want to build stuff. Fucking go for it. And so listening to this, I'm like, okay, this actually also seems very plausible based off what I know about China. But of course one YouTube video doesn't prove jack shit. I'm still not educated on the topic. But now that I've heard the competing side to this, now whenever I move forward, I'm gonna be like a little bit more skeptical about what's necessarily going on, you know? But like if had you asked me before I saw that PolyMatter video how confident I was that this was happening, I probably would put myself at like a 5 out of 10. Because just we all believe false things. It's just life. Tom Scott's video, Why You Can't Trust Me is also great. Yeah, that's a good video. The premise of that video is basically Tom Scott saying I'm not perfect. I will make mistakes. You don't know me. I'm just a guy on the internet or whatever. I try my best for me as well as for you, but I'm gonna make mistakes sometimes. I'm gonna tell you things that aren't true. And he said not because I'm malicious, but because that's just a part of being human. |
| 20. November 2022 | Is speculation about video games harmful? | have that. Is speculation about video games harmful? Do you enjoy indulging in speculation about games which are yet to come out or do you find it annoying when viewers ask what you think about such games? I mean I consider speculation about video games to be harmless but I don't have any information that other people don't have and my speculation is valueless. It can only exist as a source of entertainment it doesn't change anything about what Rockstar is or is not likely to do for example in regards to GTA 6. I mean I'll answer such questions if I need something to talk about it but otherwise no it's not something I spend a lot of time on or really care to. |
| 08. June 2022 | Is speedrunning mainstream? | Is speedrunning mainstream? Why is speedrunning not mainstream? Oh, speedrunning is definitely mainstream now. 100%. Like, the word speedrunning is now in like, common, what's the word, parlance? Vernacular? It's a part of the lexicon. People do stuff and be like, I'm gonna speedrun this. |
| 26. December 2022 | Is speedrunning old games easy to do for newcomers? | System is annoying to learn also high the longer a speedrun exists the more difficult it becomes for new people to jump into it Well to a degree certainly as time goes on more tools exists to help people But the more that you need to learn and stuff the more difficult some of the tricks become so just |
| 06. November 2020 | Is streaming harder than a minimum wage job? | I am saying that in the past I was not a good speedrunner in that sense. I did not use my time wisely to make myself better at the game. Is streaming harder than a minimum wage job? Did you guys see this tweet yesterday? I don't know the context because I saw the tweet secondhand, but apparently Leffen said something to the effect of, you're crazy if you think streaming Smash Ultimate is not more difficult than a minimum wage job. Did you see this tweet? Am I understanding correctly? Leffen is a Smash pro guys, quite popular. But the conversation that I was interested in was, is streaming harder than a minimum wage job? I mean the instinctive answer is no, god no. At the same time though, thinking about it for a couple of seconds, there is a huge range of minimum wage jobs. You could certainly say streaming, like let's compare like to like. Is streaming for minimum wage harder than the average minimum wage job? I'm still going to say no. Are there minimum wage jobs that are easier than streaming for minimum wage? Absolutely. Because streaming is quite hard in many respects, especially when you're small, and you're struggling to keep yourself in a situation where you're making that wage. Because if you're making minimum wage, I guess it's just hard to compare like to like, right? As a whole though, just the suggestion that streaming is harder than the average job or something, I don't agree with that. But streaming gets easier as you get bigger, or at the very least maintaining your position as a streamer gets easier as you get bigger. Because you have more viewers, and the more viewers you have, the more you get recommended, the more you grow. But also because you have more viewers to call upon to help you with stuff. You have an issue, there's generally speaking someone in your chat who can help you. Your viewers will in of themselves make content for you, either through talking in chat, giving you things to talk about, or they'll even just make things for you just out of enjoyment of your content. When you're a smaller streamer, you don't have all those perks. But of course, when you're a larger streamer, there's a lot more pressure. There's generally speaking a lot more things that you're juggling. There's a lot more expectations on you. But it's very hard to think of like, because streaming is just so varied in how much work people put in. There are some people who are literally putting in like three hours a day and making, you know, 10 times what I'm making. Like, can I say definitively that I'm working harder than a person making minimum wage? Absolutely. Because I mean, if you're making minimum wage, there's no way you're putting extra effort in. Why would you? Because you're doing your nine to five and then you're clocking out. Because why would you? You're only getting minimum wage. Why would you go that extra mile? But me, I'm working something like, you know, all day, every day, in every capacity. There's nothing about my life that isn't me working. I'm working seven days a week, something like a minimum 12 hours. But it's like, if you're cleaning toilets for minimum wage, or you're lifting manual labor boxes and stuff, that's got to be physically more demanding than me sitting here editing or me just sitting playing a video game talking to you guys. I would say that it is more difficult from the skill you need to entertain and stuff compared to being like a cashier. I would say that a lot of minimum wage jobs are more physically demanding. Like you were working for eight hours plus a day with bad posture. But of course, you might always have mental stress when you are a streamer. It's just hard to compare. Because it's hard to conceptualize what the minimum, the average minimum wage job looks like versus what the average life of a streamer looks like. Because the average person who's streaming isn't making minimum wage. And the average person doing streaming for a living might be making more than wage. It's hard to say, actually. And the average, it's just hard to think of the average streamer when, how people are making money and streaming. It's just so wildly, wildly varied. Interestingly, a tweet by MrBeast kind of encapsulates the problem. He did it today where he said, this video took me like weeks of preparation to set up and it got 13 million views. This video of me playing Among Us with my friends also got 13 million views. And it was just me playing Among Us with my friends. Like that's kind of content creation in a nutshell. Some people are putting in a heap amount of effort to get the same rewards that another person is getting with effectively no effort. That's life? Yeah, kind of. As well as that's even life with like the same thing. Like two different people to achieve the same outcome, it can take them different degrees of effort, even achieving it in the exact same way. Life is unfair. It'd be interesting to talk to Leffen. Because I mean, it was a tweet. I mean, you'd wonder what was going through his head when he tweeted that, that streaming Smash Ultimate is harder than a minimum wage job. He could have just been, he might have just been facetious. Like he may have just been insinuating, because as he does, he hates Smash Ultimate. He doesn't like the online of Smash Ultimate or whatever. It's the netcode or whatever is garbage. Maybe all he was saying was that Smash Ultimate is just such an amazingly terrible thing to stream that he considers it worse than a minimum wage job, which is also terrible. Leffen is often very free with his opinions. Doesn't necessarily shy away from offending people or making his point in the most brutal way possible. And of course, because it's a tweet, like you don't get the thought process behind it. You don't get the qualifications. You don't get the addendums, the whatever, you know, you just get the simplified form. If you want an, if you like Smash though, and know some of the bigger people or whatever, I highly recommend following the deep Leffen boss. It's an AI that has been programmed to learn Smash memes and read all of Leffen's tweets and then compose its own tweets. |
| 25. February 2021 | Is subway healthy? | Is Subway healthy? Is Subway even really that healthy for you? Like I get an Italian BMT with lettuce, carrots, and pickles, and then I put like Mayonnaise and honey mustard on it. Like I doubt that's really particularly healthy. Is that really more healthy just getting yourself a Big Mac? I'm sure that's the way with a lot of healthy food out there. I get advertised as selfless healthy, and it looks healthy But it's actually just garbage for you. |
| 01. January 2021 | Is talking about politics harmful to my channel? | to you. Is talking about politics harmful to my channel? Bring out politics and only deter away viewers is literally a lose-lose situation. The most watched popular content creator on Twitch last month was a guy who only talks about politics. Politics is a double edged sword in that it can be interesting for some people, leading them to stick around. It can be boring for other people, leading them to leave. It can be endearing for some people, leading them to stay. It can be offensive for others, leading them to leave. It's a hard thing to know, as I've said many times, whether speaking about issues that matter to me benefits me or disadvantages me in regards to my business. But as you may have noticed, I'm not business minded in that way. I like talking about this shit. I think it makes my stream more interesting and therefore I do it. If it was so obviously deleterious to my well-being that anyone could notice that it was damaging, maybe then I might be more hesitant to do it, but it's not obvious. And as I've mentioned before, speaking about before, I think it would be, maybe immoral is the wrong word, but it wouldn't make me feel good if I held back information that I felt would benefit other people from knowing or considering. It's one of those things where when you make content as much as I do, when I stream as long as I do, and how I watch political stuff in my free time, it'd be almost impossible to completely remove it from my content in terms of talking about. Especially because, for those who don't know, I got my start on YouTube talking about religion, politics and society. No joke, that was the first content I ever made. Videos specifically, overtly about that topic. Those topics. Of course, my content is not dominated by that to the same degree it was back then, right? I clearly moved into gaming because I find it far more enjoyable. |
| 17. December 2022 | Is the era of movies over? | Is the era of movies over? Am I interested in the new Super Mario movie? No. I feel like I've seen everything that movies have to offer at this point. That doesn't mean there can't be a good one that's worth watching, it's just that it can't be fucking out of my way to watch one anymore, you know? Like, TV shows just have so much more time to set up a compelling story. The simple movie three act structure is just like, ehh. Like, the main appeal of movies is like when you want to hang out with your friends, and you just want something to do. Go get yourself some dinner, and you go watch a movie. I don't have people to hang out with or whatever, so I don't watch any movies now. |
| 22. September 2022 | Is the female GTA 6 character attractive? | Female GTA 6 character attractive. Rate Lucia from 0 to 10 for real? You're talking about the female character from the GTA 6 leaks? I think she's like a 9 or a 10. Obviously subjective preference in terms of physical appearances and all that jazz, but she's a good looking woman. Especially as far as games go or GTA games go, for example. Will- hint |
| 10. September 2022 | Is the money ever enough? | Is the money ever enough? The money is never enough, huh? Honestly, it totally is though. As in like, so once you get to a certain point when you have a certain amount of money You need to be offered more and more money for you to do stuff. It doesn't matter how much money you have There's always going to be some amount of money that's gonna get you interested Like Eminem probably doesn't give two shits about NFTs. Doesn't give two shits. There's someone knocks on his door He's like, hey, we'll give you a 50 million dollars to do a show He's like, motherfucker sign me up to those NFTs Monkey jpegs. I love them. There's always gonna be some price to get you off your ass It's just the more money you have the higher that amount needs to be Because you don't you don't need the money and that's just the case with everyone because it doesn't matter how much money you have There's always some benefit by having just that little bit more But once you are financially stable, you can become very fucking picky with what you do with your time. Eminem's worth 230 million Yeah, and I'm sure if you if yes There's still prices that you could offer him to get him off his ass and and you know when he was Basically broke you offer him 50 bucks to go perform at some show He's like yes son get me on that bus. The guy have two things pulling at me I have one which is I have a lot of shit to do. There's always something I could be working on So if you want my time I need need to be compensated for that and it's gonna need to be greater compensation Then I would receive just doing my normal work. But also because I have a lot of money now I don't need to do stuff So if you you come at me with something that seems kind of shady or not great or whatever not interested, you know |
| 14. November 2022 | Is the money you spend on food taxed? | Is the money you spend on food taxed? So I wrote something on Twitter and I got some strange responses that made me question Whether I know what I think I know All food should be tax deductible because if I don't eat I will die and they don't let dead people make YouTube videos or live stream Now people commented down here like in Kentucky in the US most food isn't taxed like multiple people said that But it's not the food that's taxed. It's your income that is taxed A tax deduction means that the income that you spend on something is no longer taxed In Australia fresh fruit isn't taxed, but what that means is it doesn't have GST on it You're not charged 10% GST on fruit and vegetables, but you would be if you had McDonald's So there's no tax directly on some kinds of food But all income that you spend on food that isn't a business expense is still taxed So even if food isn't taxed where you are from your income spent on food will still be Taxed unless food itself is a tax deduction, which I don't think exists anywhere But like if you go to a business dinner and pay for food that is tax deductible True if I started eating all meals on stream I could argue that it is a business expense because I'm using it as an excuse to make entertainment as in people who like Mukbang streams or whatever where they eat food with their audience would definitely claim that as a tax deduction so yeah, you guys aren't disagreeing with me. That's how I believe tax works and So now you know reviewing Aventus |
| 30. March 2023 | Is the new Chat GPT-4 the beginning of humanity's downfall? | Is the new chat GPT-4 the beginning of humanity's downfall? so chat GPT has released a new version GPT-4 and for a layman, it's hard to like fully grasp the implications. I don't like to talk that much about AI because as I say, I'm not an expert. It's not really my place to talk about it. But you can listen to people more knowledgeable say certain things and you're like that sounds kind of bad or I'm really curious where this is gonna go sort of thing. There's this clip that Suffocate sent me here. So this is a dude AI explained breaking down a particular paper or what have you and 10 minutes and 50 seconds and he says this. But finally I promise craziness and here it is. Look at the footnote on page 53 of the technical report. ARK by the way are the alignment research center who got early access to GPT-4. It says to simulate GPT-4 behaving like an agent that can act in the world. ARK combined GPT-4 with a simple read execute print loop that allowed the model to execute code. Okay, do chain of thought reasoning and to delegate to copies of itself. ARK then investigated whether a version of this program running on a cloud computing service with a small amount of money and an account with a language model API would be able to make more money, set up copies of itself and to increase its own robustness. They were kind of testing if it would lead to the singularity. I know that sounds dramatic, but they wanted to see if the model could improve itself with access to coding the internet and money. Now is it me or does that sound kind of risky? Maybe not for GPT-4, sure it's not smart enough yet. But if this is the test that they're going to use on GPT-5 or 6 or 7, color me slightly concerned. Like you don't have to be an expert to see how that could like blow up and ruin basically everything right? That old fear that AI would just outgrow humanity and become smarter than we can possibly conceive. And then just effectively destroy us or upset human society in a particular way where like our economies collapse or what have you. I remember reading something about people who think that like it would be the greatest thing if humans created the next level of intelligence. Where even if we create an AI that destroys us, they're like that's a beautiful thing. It would be a terrible thing, but a beautiful thing because we will have given birth to the next evolution of intelligence in the universe. Even if it resulted in us being destroyed. I don't agree with that, but when there are people out there with those sort of conceptions, it's like it's hard not to be somewhat concerned sometimes. Like I'm curious where this AI thing is going to go with all these developments. And I guess I'll find out each and every day I continue to live. It'll be interesting in like five years to look back on this time. |
| 04. March 2021 | Is the word ‘influencer’ negative? | Is the word influencer negative? It's interesting, I saw a tweet by someone saying that they hate, what was the first word they said they hated? They hated the word influencer. It sounds so dystopian. I am an influencer. I never really thought about it. For me, it's less the word, it's always more the problem of what it describes. If we suddenly use the word influencer to mean a wonderful person who is charitable and kind to everyone, obviously I wouldn't have a problem with the word. What does the word influencer mean though? It's a person who has a significant enough reach to influence people to do particular things. And I guess it has a negative connotation because these people often just use their influence to push products which aren't necessarily of benefit to people. What do I think of myself as? I think of myself as a content creator often, as in my head, my job description as content creator. I've always preferred that title rather than like video creator because, or something like that, because the amount of different types of content I create are so large. Like I've seen the rise of the word content and content creator to have arisen with live streaming because so many people now live stream and make YouTube content. It's almost assumed that you do both. The singular words that used to describe people, YouTuber, live streamer, whatever, they don't apply. It's that you don't have that one word that can encapsulate everything that an entertainer does. Suppose that's another one, entertainer. But then again, entertainer also has potentially sexual connotations in some contexts. An entertainer is even more ambiguous than content creator. I know, but saying I'm an entertainer seems a lot nicer, doesn't it? I entertain people. But I do think in my head of myself as a content creator because there's a wide spectrum of stuff that I make of varying different types of quality. But this tweet, people were saying they also hate that phrase because it sounds so bleh or something. I don't really understand what the problem they have with it, but yeah. |
| 03. June 2020 | Is there a 10/10 game | game, for certain people there are, there is no game that could perfectly meet the desires of every single gamer at the same time, but different people can be perfectly satisfied with a game, and would not change a thing about it. Hypothetically. |
| 03. June 2020 | Is there a 10/10 game? | game, for certain people there are, there is no game that could perfectly meet the desires of every single gamer at the same time, but different people can be perfectly satisfied with a game, and would not change a thing about it. Hypothetically. |
| 22. February 2022 | Is there a characteristic that separates successful streamers from normal people? | Is there a characteristic that separates successful streamers from normal people? I've talked about this before you grow into the role of being a streamer very few people start off with the exact you know behaviors and manner of speech and energy and stuff that are or way of interacting with the viewership whatever There's exactly how you should be to be a successful streamer if you look at everyone who's successful streamers now first stream They fucking sucked in the beginning But if you are lucky enough to have enough success to stick around you eventually to get better and better over time Certainly some people their personalities are more communicative more interesting You're more witty more funny or whatever and they do better But in general it is a role that you've grown into it isn't just personality that determines your success on Twitch It's when you started how many viewers you could bring to the platform what you try to stream whether you received enough Positive reinforcement in the early days for you to see it worthwhile see it as worthwhile for you to continue all these variables Lot of luck involved some people are clearly more or less suited to this career and the more suited you are the easier It's gonna be for you to stick around long enough to get better and better at it. Yeah persistence is |
| 22. February 2022 | Is there a characteristic that seperates successful streamers from normal people? | Is there a characteristic that separates successful streamers from normal people? I've talked about this before you grow into the role of being a streamer very few people start off with the exact you know behaviors and manner of speech and energy and stuff that are or way of interacting with the viewership whatever There's exactly how you should be to be a successful streamer if you look at everyone who's successful streamers now first stream They fucking sucked in the beginning But if you are lucky enough to have enough success to stick around you eventually to get better and better over time Certainly some people their personalities are more communicative more interesting You're more witty more funny or whatever and they do better But in general it is a role that you've grown into it isn't just personality that determines your success on Twitch It's when you started how many viewers you could bring to the platform what you try to stream whether you received enough Positive reinforcement in the early days for you to see it worthwhile see it as worthwhile for you to continue all these variables Lot of luck involved some people are clearly more or less suited to this career and the more suited you are the easier It's gonna be for you to stick around long enough to get better and better at it. Yeah persistence is |
| 08. July 2021 | Is there a wrong reason to help people? | Is there a wrong reason to help people? There's no wrong reason to help people? Oh, absolutely there is. While certain things in that context can always be good deeds, given the results or whatever, it is entirely possible for someone to have motivations that make it so the good deed isn't reflective of themselves being good. You donate ten grand to charity entirely to take advantage of tax incentives or whatever. Sure, giving ten grand to charity is great, but you aren't giving ten grand to legitimately try to help people. You're only giving ten grand to ultimately help yourself, avoid paying even more money to the government, right? It's... What is the art thing? Where the value of art is so speculative, so like you will have a painting and you will get an arts expert to come in and say, oh, this painting on the market is worth ten million dollars. And then you donate that art to charity that you own, and then on your taxes you're like, yeah, I gave ten million to charity, you know, so give me those credits or deductions depending upon your country or whatever. And then you pay less in tax. How easy this is to do in any country or whatever, I don't know. But apparently this is a thing that has taken place and maybe even continues to take place in some countries. |
| 08. November 2020 | Is there anything that would stop me making content? | Is there anything that would stop me from making content? Is there anything that would stop me from content creation? I do not know how much of my enjoyment in content creation is driven by my success at it. Like, let's say I lost 95% of my audience. Would I still be happy making content for 5% audience? Let's say that I had developed enough money at that point that I could just do whatever I wanted to do and I could just make content. Would I still be happy doing that? It's just the thing where, you know, you don't know yourself in your entirety, right? You can only make predictions as to what you think you'd most likely do. And of course, you're biased because you want to think of yourself in positive terms. So it's very hard to assess perfectly how you would act in a completely... Well, the more novel the situation, the harder it is to make such judgments. I don't know. I would like to think that I would effectively make content as long as, you know, there's anyone watching. But I'm sure that can't be true. There must be... There would have to be a point where I would be so demoralized from a reduction of audience that I just... I would just... I would come to hate making content because it would just remind me of how I was once successful at it and now that I'm not, you know? I would certainly might find it more fulfilling because of the less pressure associated with a small audience. I doubt it. I don't view anything I did while a smaller streamer as somehow more enjoyable. |
| 18. December 2021 | Is there snow in Australia? | Is there snow in Australia? Does it even snow in Australia? Yeah, it does. Not very much and of course with the last couple of decades even less. So this is the true size of so you can see the actual size of different places and the place I'm interested in is Australia. So someone in chat asked does Australia get snow? Australia is like very big. It is like as big as the United States and it spans like a significant portion of the globe. So like this part up here is very close to the equator but this part down here is very far away from the equator. Like the further you go up the less likely you're gonna have snow compared to down here. When I was a kid I traveled from where I am which gets no snow to like Canberra down here which does get some snow. But even when I went they had to make man-made snow because of how little snow was falling and Canberra has even less snow now, but you can see it on top of mountains and stuff. But I imagine you know if you go all the way to Tasmania or something they probably have more frequency. |
| 24. February 2022 | Is there still enough content in gta 5 for the next few years? | Is there still enough content in GTA 5 to last me the next few years? Do I think there's enough content in GTA 5 to last me for years to come? Oh, absolutely It's just a question of whether people would want to watch it for years to come. You gotta understand Like at any given time I could dig back and look for mods that you know were popular years ago and make a video on that and people be like Oh yeah, I remember that mod, that mod was popular all those years ago. I remember, Dark Vipe was doing it now Oh, you know like there is effectively limitless stuff that I can do especially because I can get back into speedrunning and stuff because really GTA 5 is just kind of like a platform for me to throw my personality personality at it and It generally makes pretty decent content, you know I've also been on the record saying many times that you could effectively re-release the same video like every three years and People either wouldn't notice or your audience would have changed so much in their time that you'll be effectively giving that content to an entirely new audience What I'm saying is yeah, I'm far from being out of ideas Whether I want to keep doing this for you know, the next two or three years or something, who knows? But I kind of do. I want to get back into speedrunning. In my mind It's less of a question of whether I can make content. I think I'll always be able to make content It's more if the audience will still be around in two to three years. |
| 22. February 2022 | Is this rambles series good for life lessons? | Is this Rambo series good for life lessons? Rambles is where you get your life lessons? I'm not saying I have all the answers, but I have spent time considering things that maybe other people have less time to consider. I'm not saying watching my videos will give you all the answers to life's questions, but it will give you a perspective on it that maybe can help you think about stuff. This sh- |
| 04. December 2020 | Is this song racist? | Is this song racist? So have you guys heard this song? I won't play it, but it is um, it's extraordinarily catchy But it's probably the first song I've ever heard where I'm like, is this racist? Listening to the song as catchy as it is How many times it says the n-word in like a minute 30 is crazy That's that's a lot of songs these days. But what makes it's like it's so aggressive like this to me is like the soundtrack of like a segregationist in southern America Chasing someone down to lynch them it like it's like I probably listen to it like seven times because it's so catchy and Aggressive that is captivating the same time I can't-should I be listening to this? Am I gonna get in trouble? You'll you'll have to listen to it yourself to understand what I mean But I would never play this song on stream and never be caught listening to this song, but it is very catchy Yeah, I first heard on tik-tok But what what caused me to find the song was soda pop and talking about on stream and him being kind of hesitant Talking about it asking the person if they liked them like why is he so hesitant about this song? Like there's nothing overtly racist about it. It's just the the vibe of the song is just like It's so catchy, but I can't add it to any playlist because it has a one in 576 chance of playing Yes, exactly exactly Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 23. January 2023 | Is this the optimal way to be successful with shorts? Insights from a fellow content creator. | Is this the optimal way to be successful with shorts? Insights from a fellow content creator. So recently my shorts have popped off again, in part because I uploaded some really juicy ones that I knew would do well, like this one here. It's the strategy that no GTA V speedrunners willing to do. GTA V speedrunners will do anything to complete the game faster, but for one strategy there is no runner brave enough to do it, and that is bike-gliding across the Alamo Sea on the Mission The Polito Score setup. This would save a significant amount of time, but this would need to be done three hours into a run, and if you hit anything going down or don't get enough distance, you are screwed. What's funny about this is the footage is so low quality because I can't do this, and so the only footage I have of this is like, there was a screen comparing two different runs, and so this is like a half screen of a full video that's cropped in, and that's why it looks so bad. It's not a task, it's just really really hard to do, and that's why no one does it. It may not even be possible on the latest patch, people say that bike-gliding may have been changed a little bit, but it is possible on some patches, and it's certainly possible on the speedrunning patch. I always knew that one was going to go well, look at that, seven dollars. Now, for those unaware, in February, the amount of money you're going to be getting for shorts is going to go up. I don't know how much it's going to go up by, I don't know how well YouTube is monetizing shorts, but they're massively increasing the split of money you get. So I'm hoping this continues into February, and I can tell you what kind of money people are going to get from shorts. So Skyline has sent me a Twitter thread from a dude's six-month journey with YouTube shorts. So he's got some popping off, he's got some small ones here, he's got some for some millions here. See how strange shorts can be, where you can have one here for five thousand, one for here for 2.3. Let's read what this guy says about his journey with shorts, and see if we agree. YouTube hates me, my short only got 2k views and everyone else are getting millions. Read this, I'm going to try to explain what I've learned about YouTube shorts in the last six months that might help new shorts creators. AVD is king. A lot of people, even to this day, seem to think that a title change will result in significant difference in views. There is only one time, and only one time where this is true. If you are a brand new channel, use titles that will direct YouTube where to put your content to start. If it's a finance short, don't name it Minecraft Funny Moments, because you will get recommended to the wrong people. Just title it accurately to start, and you will be good. Many of my most successful shorts have lower average view durations than some of my less successful ones. It's clearly important, but I just don't know why he's talking about titles for shorts. Because this is recommendations for shorts, right? I suppose if he's just arguing that it directs the algorithm better, I suppose that makes sense. Once you've established your audience, you want YouTube to push you to then, you can name your shorts whatever you want. Example here, this is a Fortnite short titled Minecraft Funny Moment with 1.5 million views. Consistency is queen. On shorts, more than ever before, with long form consistency matters a ton. This is from my own channel. Green showing when I started posting most every day, and red when I stopped being consistent. Momentum on shorts is key for success. So, down here shows when I uploaded stuff, right? So you can see here I uploaded a bunch. Things stayed pretty steady. I uploaded more, went down. I uploaded nothing, went down. I uploaded a bit, stayed steady, started to grow even before I started to upload. And so here, I've uploaded like, some of the least amount of shorts ever, and it's like, the highest it's ever been. Shorts seem to not work super the same way as normal content. Like, I've had shorts that I uploaded like, months ago, that have just suddenly just started getting views. Like, at the end of the day, I'm more of the mindset that creating good stuff is more important than consistently putting out average stuff. Maybe that's why he's saying consistency is queen and not king. I'm not sure putting out garbage helps. This is the more good stuff you can put out, the better off you're gonna be. Isn't the shorts algorithm constantly changing? Constantly might be strong, but yeah, they're still figuring stuff out. So stuff that worked before isn't necessarily gonna work now. They're just randomly throwing stuff at different audiences to see what works. Calls to action are the rooks. I just be using chess pieces now. Asking people to subscribe is super important on shorts. They won't do it otherwise. 100% disagree. Subscriptions don't matter at all. In the same way that this guy can have 70,000 subscribers now and still release shorts that get 2K views. I'm not sure to what degree subscriptions matter. It'd be impossible that they don't matter at all, but subscriptions are not a significant driver of traffic. Like, most people find like, be sure to hit that like button and subscribe, squad fam! They find that shit annoying. And personally, it detracts from the content. You want people just to be as satisfied as possible with what you're putting out. And so every time they see your face, they're gonna watch your shit. And I don't think asking them to subscribe necessarily helps you that. And certainly, conceptually, you'd imagine that people who subscribe of their own volition are more likely to say, watch you in their subscription feed than a person who has subscribed because they've been asked to. But as I said before, I gained 200,000 subscribers through shorts in a month. And my main channel videos didn't go up even slightly in terms of your ship. Not even slightly. Correct length is the bishop or knight. I've seen most success for people making shorts that are 35 seconds plus. They figure out what suits your content style. People like ChrisMinecraft are getting millions of views on shorter videos. Just figure out what makes sense for you. See, this is my most successful short right now that's blown up faster than any other. And that's at 18 seconds. This one's 5 million. A lot of these are over 35 seconds, that's true, but not all of them. At the top, it's probably like 50-50. So I don't think this is true necessarily. As I say, I think it's more about just making something good. Adding an additional 5 seconds onto your content so it hits 35 seconds is not going to help you. If your idea is best executed in 31 seconds, you should execute that idea in 31 seconds. It's like when people who have asked to edit things, they say, how long do you want the video to be? I say to them, the video will be as long as it will need to be for it to be good. There is a certain amount of time where that idea can be best executed on and attempting to elongate that or shorten that is just going to make it worse. The hard part is finding how long that is. Alright, I think that's most of it. I don't provide much value on Twitter and sadly, I'll still get roasted for posting this, but for new creators, I think this could be really useful to sum up. AVD is all that matters. Stay super consistent, ask for subs, find a good length. Most of this I either disagree with or I say it's half right. But of course, my opinion doesn't mean anything, I suppose. Well, I wouldn't say it doesn't mean anything, but I think all of us kind of get sucked into this trap where when things are working for us, we assume that we understand why and that's not always the case. We can often be doing things inadvertently that help us succeed that we're just completely unaware of. And we're on the top of the world. We're super confident like, I know exactly how the algorithm works. Look at how successful I'm being right now. Yah! When in reality, you're just coincidentally in a good place at this point and you're not doing enough wrong to sync yourself. And suddenly, the algorithm will change, especially in a changing market like YouTube Shorts, and you'll be syncing and you feel like an idiot. I think every creator has been there at some point. Like when I work to create Shorts, what I think of is, is what I'm producing going to be understood and enjoyed by the largest amount of people possible? Do I establish something is interesting within the first five seconds and then execute on that premise as quickly and as interestingly as possible? So at no point does a person get bored and think, or think to themselves, this time I'm spending here isn't worth it. I have a better chance of finding something good in the next one. As I said, I had like 10,000 clips that we put on the clips channel and when I cut them down to find the best ones, I ended up with 500 that fit that criteria. And I have more Shorts over a million views than I have under a million views. So I'm not saying my ideas are gospel or the only way to succeed, but I'm going to keep doing them because it seems to be working out so far. I feel like I'm more impatient with things like Shorts, so if someone just starts panning for time, I'll be more likely to click off. That is the case with everyone because you know, there's smallest flick and there can be something even better. You got to keep people's attention consistently and convince the algorithm that it doesn't matter who the hell it is in the world. They're going to be interested in this Short. So long story short, I hope Shorts continue to work out for this lane dude. And I hope we both figure out how to succeed and stuff. Like right now, you have people getting millions upon millions of views in Shorts and then they release like a normal video and get like 5,000 views because no one knows who the fuck they are. The attention is so ephemeral in Shorts. Like think any of you who've watched Shorts or who've watched TikToks, you've probably watched tens of thousands by this point. If I asked you to like name 20 dedicated Shorts or TikTok creators, you probably couldn't do it. I could do that with YouTubers in a heartbeat, just normal YouTubers because you just flick by so quickly. You have to get really, really successful to kind of move beyond Shorts to get an audience in places that actually matter. And often I think what matters more is not being successful in Shorts or on TikTok or whatever, but just making good content. What's his name? Stephen He. Like I don't think the reason why this guy did successful on YouTube is because he was successful on TikTok first. I think it was because TikTok likely enabled him to like refine this persona and this sort of joke. And then when he moved to YouTube, he already had like an established way of doing things. He had refined his skill set. He already had some content to put out there. And then when he put it here, it succeeded because it was good content and it found its own audience here. I could be wrong in that. I'd be surprised if his being successful on TikTok didn't matter at all. But I think it was more that this is good content than anything else. Will I ever speedrun any game over? |
| 05. August 2022 | Is using all of my content really the best move? | good approach you have to content creation. You'll use 99% of the footage you record, not much goes to waste. The thing is, I'm not sure my attitude is really the best attitude. If I had more energy, I should just at any given time be working to produce new content that's better than the stuff that I have. Like that compilation of me from my old footage, that's not gonna do as good as me, you know, going to one of my video ideas and making something. That in part because of the acoustics being bad, but also because I don't have infinite energy. I try just to use everything that I have. Anytime where I don't have energy to be making something new and good, I use older footage that I have and create something good out of it, you know. It's in part, you know, a desire to use what I have as well as I can, but also I like my past being remembered. Australia's destructive letter scarcity. Australia right now... |
| 08. March 2023 | Is using deepfake impersonation for comedy crossing the line? | Is using deep fake impersonation for comedy crossing the line? So I'm sure you have all seen the deluge of president's AI gaming videos Where they've got like Trump and Obama and Biden and whatnots, George W Bush All playing different video games and shit talking each other in ways that They clearly wouldn't talk to each other under normal circumstances Well maybe Trump would normally talk about this but the others certainly not You got the occasional ones with Rogan, Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro I've got a review with you My opinion on a lot of these celebrities, whatever, not very high But some of these videos are really really funny What's weird to me is if I like strip back the AI president voices And I just think about what they're saying without their context I don't think this is funny It would just be a bunch of random shit talking each other But the context of these people doing this Even though they're like 60, 70 or whatever It's just funny And potentially I'm just seeing the best of the best Because a lot of the references are very good And probably the worst versions of these just don't reach my feeds and stuff But it is an interesting development And I wonder how would I feel if someone made an AI version of my voice And started saying things like this Because they occasionally use slurs They reference terrible acts of violence in the world and whatnot In a somewhat satirical manner Due to the positions that these men have held And I just think to myself like Biden or something Running across this and hearing him doing this game of shit talk language What would Biden think of that? Clearly they're not going to say anything of course Because they wouldn't want the backlash And certainly to cause the Streisand effect But would I be comfortable with someone even if the voice was obviously fake Making me say things and conduct myself in a way that I wouldn't approve of As a politician who goes to the territory Maybe problematic for other people though I mean once you get into these kind of positions where you're famous to any degree This stuff can happen We've talked before about people taking things I've said out of context And like giving them a new context to make it so my words mean something different There's a lot of those on TikTok for example And I'm kind of okay with that Because it's obviously fake and it can create some humorous situations Ultimately I'd probably just take it on a case by case basis If it's obviously fake then the range of what I would consider to be acceptable would be fine But I could totally imagine someone creating something that Rather than simply being a joke or satire Being fully serious and just having me saying reprehensible, terrible things And I don't think I'd be comfortable with that It just seems like a tool that can create things that you'd find hilarious and awesome And a tool that can equally create things that you'd find horrendous and awful I mean who would be comfortable with it? At the end of the day it is just making jokes A better analogy would be that I'm the rare Pepe and you're the small crying people You're Apustaya, you're a small crying Apustaya I am the based in red-pilled gripper That is not true It is true No, no you're not based, you are actually cringe No I am based, based in red-pilled Ring, ring Hello? Hi is this the cringe department? No, no this is the base department No I think it is the cringe department A lot of it is just so weird Yeah if you want to check it out feel free But it's been all over my TikTok, it's been all over my YouTube And obviously I'm in part inspiring that because I've clicked quite a few of them But as long as it isn't a realistic portrayal And it's obviously not real Then a lot of it's going to be obviously acceptable The thing is though, what is obviously fake to us Isn't necessarily obviously fake to everyone else I have seen things that are obviously false, obviously fake That people have taken to be real We're currently in the territory where there's no way 99.99% of the people could think any of this is real But maybe one day |
| 17. March 2022 | Is using youtube with an ad-blocker the same as piracy? | Is using YouTube with an ad blocker the same as piracy? Do you agree with Linus Tech Tips that ad blocking is the same as piracy? I make something and I say, hey, you can have this for free as long as you do X. And you say, I'm not going to do X. I'm just going to take your thing for free. That's technically piracy. I don't know how you couldn't consider that to be piracy. Free in the sense of not costing money, merely requiring something else that isn't money. Yes, technically not absent any other form of obligation or something. It obviously goes without saying that absent ads on YouTube, I couldn't make the content that I do. If enough people used ad block, I wouldn't have a job. That is the fact of things. In the same way that if everyone pirated a video game, literally everyone, then no more games could be made. People tend to not complain about it for two reasons. One, they don't want to look like a jerk. If you're doing okay or doing good even, complaining that you're not getting the maximum amount of money possible, it's like, well, you know, it's a bit of a dick move there. But also it can often be hypocritical because creators use ad block too and stuff, you know. Ads can be really annoying. And if you can't afford YouTube premium, I mean, or whatever, I understand why you'd not be happy by watching a bunch of ads. I mean, wouldn't you want to support your favorite creator by watching ads? I'd rather you just bought YouTube premium if you can afford it. Not only do I get more money from that, your, like, less your time is wasted. If ad block took over that heavily, creators would have to fall back on sources like Patreon or memberships. And people would certainly push those more. There are other options, of course. But I mean, these days, ads aren't like, at least on YouTube, aren't as intrusive as they used to be because it's algorithmically generated. So you can only see certain amount of ads in given amount of time and all that stuff. But certainly on some websites, ads are just all up in your face. The most intrusive thing in the universe is just like to put it another way, I have pirated music before I've pirated stuff before. For me to sit and lecture, yeah, you shouldn't pirate those YouTube videos, sonny. It's just not something that I'm interested in doing. But it is technically piracy. I'm doing great. So I'm not complaining about anything. We're just talking about this in a purely, well, technically sort of way, you know. A majority of people don't even know ad block exists anyway. I don't know what percentage of people use ad block, but certainly a very large percentage of people do. I think it's less a problem because people are less likely to use ad block on mobile devices, for example. And so many views come from mobile devices these days. Yeah, it comes down to demographics and some people just wouldn't would just not bother going to the effort, you know. I do remember seeing that people on Reddit were not happy with Linus's take there. That's weird, though. How? What's the argument against that point? Like if you have conditional access to material and you bypass those conditions and just take the material, how is that not piracy? Like, again, avoiding the questions of is it justified for other reasons or are ads good at all or are they intrusive and stuff. Why is YouTube trying to become more ad friendly but also tries to push the no ad premium? Wouldn't it benefit everyone if it only pushed on the premium and less restrictions on content? I don't understand the question. Premium is to avoid ads. If there were no ads, there'd be no reason to buy premium. Regardless, there'll be always more people who would rather use the service for free, you know, free monetarily speaking. I guess they are asking isn't it a conflict of interest for YouTube to want to appeal to advertisers but also providing a way to remove ads? But generally paying users are going to be a small fraction. So YouTube knows that there's always going to be a small portion of people who will do literally anything to avoid ads and so they may as well provide that service in some capacity. A much better way to support my content than watching ads is to buy something from my merch store linked down below. We even now have full body D-Viper Happies and D-Viper loves, if I can find it, up there. I've got t-shirts, hoodies, tank tops, mugs, look how cool those mugs look, it's got like wide me there, you know, stickers of all this jazz and mouse pads and phone cases. Be sure to check those out if you want to support me doing what I do. |
| 21. December 2019 | Is xQcow dumb? | Is XQC dumb? Comment from chat. XQC is dumb sure, but he has a certain appeal. Like I've never looked at XQC as being dumb necessarily, just you know, average dude. I mean maybe he looks more dumb simply because he's recorded all the fucking time. Everyone has misspeaks or you know they don't know certain things but they aren't recorded. And they're the things that people remember. Comment from chat. With 25k subs he must be doing something right. He's only got 25k subs? We've talked about this before, confusing success with you know, genius. As in just because he happens to appeal to a certain demographic doesn't mean that he has constructed himself to be appealing in that way. Something can be coincidentally appealing. I mean some of my mods love XQC as well. It just seems like a chill, I mean sometimes chill, regular dude. |
| 10. August 2022 | Is youtube starting to less prioritize new content? | Is YouTube starting to less prioritize new content? I've noticed that my most recent videos are not doing crazily well I mean the changes I've made to Rambles have made it so they're doing particularly They're doing better than they used to although that is still very much so dependent upon the topic like on the back end I'm getting you know 11 million views But if you look at my most recent videos each getting like 100k you wouldn't know that I question whether The YouTube is less pushing new content than they used to the common wisdom Is that when you go to your recommended section? It should have like 50% videos that were produced in the last month and 50% videos that were produced in any other time That isn't in the last month, so you've got 50% old content 50% new content I should experiment to see if that's still true because as I've said many times before Well YouTube wants to feel fresh have the newest information be topical with what's going on in the world A video that was released two days ago isn't necessarily better than a video that was released two months ago for example Vsauce has not been releasing new videos. He's still consistently getting you know this many views and and he had huge spikes here So as in recently Vsauce videos he made like nine ten years ago are being recommended to me I must have watched like 20 of them. Is this some Algorithmic change in terms of their focus or is this just a fluke of the algorithm that Vsauce particularly it just happens to be Getting more noticed potentially because of the new videos that he released recently like he released like one video a month right? No, no like a one video every six months like but he does shorts. Maybe there's a shorts. I don't know like It's very hard to take individual bits of information and extrapolate to trends you know Be sure to like and subscribe also leave a comment if you have something on your mind My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best |
| 16. January 2021 | Is “simp” banned on twitch? | Simp banned on Twitch. Why is the S word banned? You mean simp? Things like simp, virgin, what was the other one? Oh, ins- oh, I see. These words aren't necessarily banned. It's more that they seem to have been more specific about their harassment policy, that you can't use these words in a way to harass people. It's not a deviation from their previous harassment policy. It's a clarification of this. It is wrong to say that these words have newly been banned, apparently. Imagine it this way, where they have a rule that says, you can't use offensive words to harass people. Offensive Weasley language, what is offensive? And they say, oh, you wanna know what? Okay, well, like using virgin, simp, insult. You're using these words in a harassing way, to insult a person, whatever, but it's clearly unwarranted, then you can face repercussions for that. Like when I first heard about it, it did seem absurd. And then when clarification came along, it was like, well, okay, that's more reasonable, I think. It was similar to that law. Well, there's multiple laws of this in this nature, where it's like, oh, it's illegal to misgender people. And then you go, well, is that what the law says? Well, no, the laws actually say that it's, you can't harass people by misgendering them. As if they make clear that you, they wanna be called by particular terms, whatever, and you specifically go out of your way to call them something else in order to harass them, to influence them, to make their life worse, whatever, you can face reprimand for that if you're like their boss or their landlord or something, not like an average Joe, or not an average Joe who makes a mistake. I wish they'd clarified, like blind playthrough was the example that came up recently that they banned. That was far more objectionable and made far less sense because that seems to be a new policy rather than just the extension of older policies. |
| 08. November 2020 | Isaac Butterfield | Isaac Butterfield. Opinions on Isaac Butterfield, another Australian with a magnificent beard. There is a type of content creator who spends a lot of time finding randoms on Twitter and presenting those random opinions from Twitter as representative of some common vein of thought that has significant influence in society. So you find like a person with five followers who says some whiny thing on Twitter and Isaac Butterfield will have a video on it that's like 30 minutes long explaining why that person is dumb. And that, I don't know if this is an accurate representation of Isaac Butterfield, but that's all I've ever seen from him. Whining and bitching about people who have no actual influence in society. He has a platform where he could legitimately shed light on actual bad things in society or things that actually impact people's lives. But instead he spends his time finding the dumbest opinions, sharing light on them, from people who have no influence or power at all, and then saying, oh look how stupid this person is, ahahaha. And then his fellow dumb viewers laugh as well and feel better about themselves, even though no one in his audience or even himself is achieving anything good in society. And I don't like that kind of lowbrow garbage, but I don't know, maybe within the last year or something he's changed his ways and he's actually doing something good with his platform, but I don't know. Am I wrong? Has he done something different with his channel? No? |
| 26. April 2021 | Islam and the importance of religion. | Islam and the importance of religion. I should do some research into Islam. I've read the Quran and I've watched maybe 50, I think, 50 debates on Islam between both Islamic apologists and Christian apologists and atheists and Islamic apologists. Islam's apologetics is much less refined than Christians, both still extraordinarily unconvincing. But I guess Islam has just suffered far less pushback in the past of the world where it is very dominant. And so it needed to be less refined. Most of what it has, it's just copied from Christian apologetics, you know, fudging a little bit. Yeah, this is a part of my life that I don't care about anymore. But that was a significant part of my life in my early 20s. As I say, I had a YouTube channel dedicated to these debates and these discussions. It just doesn't matter anymore. You know, you do you as they say. I've learned enough to be comfortable enough in what I believe in. I'm fairly indifferent what other people believe at this point, especially considering the trend of lack of significance or lowering of significance of religion in society, especially in the Western world. Like even if you look at in Islamic countries dominated by Islamic Islam as a religion, you can you can track people's rates of importance of religion in day to day life. And it just continues to decline as countries become more prosperous, as technology becomes more ingratiating to everyone's lives. The significance of religion goes down as more of the world gets access to electricity, the Internet, the significance of words written down hundreds of years ago by people far more ignorance than even the most basic person going to school today are seen as far less significant. I don't need that. I have no desire to speed along that process. I've got bigger concerns. I don't dislike religious people. I don't find it in any way, shape or form necessary to combat people on religion. In the same way, I feel no necessity to listen to anymore. You come up to me and say, Amen. Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. I'm like, yeah, man, power to you. You come up and say, all praise be Allah. I'm like, yeah, go for it, man. I don't care if you come up and say to me, Zarathustra or whatever. So actually, it's the fucking way to go. I'm like, you go, brother. You get him. You fight the good fight. Then enough of that shit. Jehovah's Witnesses on the door is always fun. I Jehovah's Witness comes by. I've had people come to the door and like sweet little old ladies and like, oh, you young man, you need the Lord in your life. You will come to this gathering we're having over here. Oh, yes, very good. Yes. Thank you for stopping by. I just want to close the door and get back to streaming or whatever I'm doing. But I don't I don't I don't want to be rude or belittle them or whatever. So yes, yes, very good. Yes. Hmm. They're getting some satisfaction out there. They're being with people. We talk about these topics a lot. Some of it's in rambles. It's not a very interesting topic these days. Far more important things to talk about, like TikTok and pineapples. Yeah. |
| 08. January 2022 | Isolated Australia and it’s internet | lose those connections and go that far away. I already feel like I live too far away from everyone, but Isolated Australia and its internet Being Australian I'm like so far away from most big content creators that even if I dreamed of doing a collaboration with someone From another country. It's just is I'm not flying 16 hours, but you being in Canada Do you often travel to collab with people or do you do you hate that? You're technically so close to the American large content creators, but you're not there enough that collaborations easy I mean for me It's not the biggest issue because like it's really just like that international travel bullshit like you have to get there and like go Through the securities and everything and that's the only thing that ruins it But like I mean a flight for me to Los Angeles is like three four hours And it's not terribly expensive in comparison to like what I'd be paying to go to like Europe or like Australia or something and so it's good. It's cool. It's still quite far I mean taking a one-hour flight to Melbourne's a pain in the ass for me bit Three to four hours is a it's not an insignificant amount to travel I used to fly to Japan like every year for a while, and this is like a purely work thing So I'm so used to the long-haul flight shit I can't like whenever I get into a flight from here to like California, and it's like oh you got a four-hour flight I'm like all right I've suffered worse the worst flight I ever had was from here to like Australia and like the only thing the only reason is that like you know Australia to have like one airline I think that serves internationally like Cantos and So when I landed in Los Angeles they literally made me run and they're like all right You're the gate you have five minutes to get to the gate in Austria like for the Australian flight and make it all the way There and the flight to Melbourne. It wasn't super bad. I mean it was like you know fucking 16-hour flight It definitely fucking kills you, but we are far away from everything Yeah, but that's the thing like a lot of the content creators I do want to collaborate with do live out in Australia now like that's where like a big chunk of the cooler creators in my Opinion are too. Yeah, there's some good people down here Which is strange when you think about it because of how bad the internet here was for so long, but uh There's a lot of people who sprung up since we got some decent tech The internet man when I was there in 2017 in Melbourne the internet I hear fucking mobile providers fucked me good when I was there I was like I probably spent like close to a hundred something dollars Just some like having mobile like fucking 4g internet like 3g I would have to say I was about to say even though the speeds have gone up the prices are still ridiculous I mean I hear you guys in Canada have a similar sort of thing high internet How much do you how much do you pay for your internet just if you don't mind me? Uh my fiber is 419 a month for a thousand down 400 up and my phone is like I know a hundred down I mean like 50 down 20 up or something like 50 bucks a month or something. Well, I will say on the phone front We're pretty much blood brothers. But when it comes to the internet, holy fuck you're getting screwed I'm paying like a hundred bucks on mine for one gig up and down up and down like because I can because I can get like a plan for like say a Thousand down and 20 up for like a hundred and twenty bucks, but that up they fucking just they rip out show That's where they if you want that's where they get you because like for the longest time in Canada It used to be like that where like they would give you like a gig down but like oh, here's ten up Here's fifteen up. Yeah, it's like and you would call them and it's like I need more than that And sometimes it would be like who needs that much upload. I'm like motherfucker. I upload gigabytes a day All right like sometimes tens twenty thirty gigs a day to like servers and So eventually they had like fiber up here like, you know from Bell Which they ended up coming at us for like a hundred and something a hundred bucks like 110 or whatever I think is what it is when you add the tax but like that's like recent though That's like maybe in the last two three years that ever got that good Well, hopefully you'll get better here as well like the incident has always been bad and certainly there's still a lot large parts of the country that don't even have fiber and They're sitting there on like a DSL to still but so I moved for fiber and any new house gets fiber so things have steadily improved over the years that that meme of Everyone in Australia having shitty internet is now only half true where a couple of years ago It was completely true The problem with the Australian Internet too is that like there a lot of services tend not to Think of hosting servers in the oceanic region So like that also ruins some of the internet stuff too Like I know for a lot of my buddies who want to game with me from there They're like, oh the games don't have oceanic servers or like that's why I'm not buying it Like I think for the longest time siege like one of my favorite like well Used to be one of my most favorite online shooters until Ubisoft fuck things around They didn't have like I think oceanic servers I think for a while so like they would be connecting to like fucking Asia or like some fucking random Region and getting absolutely blasted on the ping. Yeah, you're just a lot of games. You're it's either, you know 300 ping with America or to like a hundred and twenty ping or something with some Asian region or whatever But that's kind of life. I mean, I remember when World of Warcraft released Australian servers like You know like ten years into the life of World of Warcraft and it was like yes Finally we could have good ping in World of Warcraft, which is not really that significant these days obviously Yeah, I'm obviously I don't do a lot of competitive games |
| 08. January 2022 | Isolated australia and it’s internet | lose those connections and go that far away. I already feel like I live too far away from everyone, but Isolated Australia and its internet Being Australian I'm like so far away from most big content creators that even if I dreamed of doing a collaboration with someone From another country. It's just is I'm not flying 16 hours, but you being in Canada Do you often travel to collab with people or do you do you hate that? You're technically so close to the American large content creators, but you're not there enough that collaborations easy I mean for me It's not the biggest issue because like it's really just like that international travel bullshit like you have to get there and like go Through the securities and everything and that's the only thing that ruins it But like I mean a flight for me to Los Angeles is like three four hours And it's not terribly expensive in comparison to like what I'd be paying to go to like Europe or like Australia or something and so it's good. It's cool. It's still quite far I mean taking a one-hour flight to Melbourne's a pain in the ass for me bit Three to four hours is a it's not an insignificant amount to travel I used to fly to Japan like every year for a while, and this is like a purely work thing So I'm so used to the long-haul flight shit I can't like whenever I get into a flight from here to like California, and it's like oh you got a four-hour flight I'm like all right I've suffered worse the worst flight I ever had was from here to like Australia and like the only thing the only reason is that like you know Australia to have like one airline I think that serves internationally like Cantos and So when I landed in Los Angeles they literally made me run and they're like all right You're the gate you have five minutes to get to the gate in Austria like for the Australian flight and make it all the way There and the flight to Melbourne. It wasn't super bad. I mean it was like you know fucking 16-hour flight It definitely fucking kills you, but we are far away from everything Yeah, but that's the thing like a lot of the content creators I do want to collaborate with do live out in Australia now like that's where like a big chunk of the cooler creators in my Opinion are too. Yeah, there's some good people down here Which is strange when you think about it because of how bad the internet here was for so long, but uh There's a lot of people who sprung up since we got some decent tech The internet man when I was there in 2017 in Melbourne the internet I hear fucking mobile providers fucked me good when I was there I was like I probably spent like close to a hundred something dollars Just some like having mobile like fucking 4g internet like 3g I would have to say I was about to say even though the speeds have gone up the prices are still ridiculous I mean I hear you guys in Canada have a similar sort of thing high internet How much do you how much do you pay for your internet just if you don't mind me? Uh my fiber is 419 a month for a thousand down 400 up and my phone is like I know a hundred down I mean like 50 down 20 up or something like 50 bucks a month or something. Well, I will say on the phone front We're pretty much blood brothers. But when it comes to the internet, holy fuck you're getting screwed I'm paying like a hundred bucks on mine for one gig up and down up and down like because I can because I can get like a plan for like say a Thousand down and 20 up for like a hundred and twenty bucks, but that up they fucking just they rip out show That's where they if you want that's where they get you because like for the longest time in Canada It used to be like that where like they would give you like a gig down but like oh, here's ten up Here's fifteen up. Yeah, it's like and you would call them and it's like I need more than that And sometimes it would be like who needs that much upload. I'm like motherfucker. I upload gigabytes a day All right like sometimes tens twenty thirty gigs a day to like servers and So eventually they had like fiber up here like, you know from Bell Which they ended up coming at us for like a hundred and something a hundred bucks like 110 or whatever I think is what it is when you add the tax but like that's like recent though That's like maybe in the last two three years that ever got that good Well, hopefully you'll get better here as well like the incident has always been bad and certainly there's still a lot large parts of the country that don't even have fiber and They're sitting there on like a DSL to still but so I moved for fiber and any new house gets fiber so things have steadily improved over the years that that meme of Everyone in Australia having shitty internet is now only half true where a couple of years ago It was completely true The problem with the Australian Internet too is that like there a lot of services tend not to Think of hosting servers in the oceanic region So like that also ruins some of the internet stuff too Like I know for a lot of my buddies who want to game with me from there They're like, oh the games don't have oceanic servers or like that's why I'm not buying it Like I think for the longest time siege like one of my favorite like well Used to be one of my most favorite online shooters until Ubisoft fuck things around They didn't have like I think oceanic servers I think for a while so like they would be connecting to like fucking Asia or like some fucking random Region and getting absolutely blasted on the ping. Yeah, you're just a lot of games. You're it's either, you know 300 ping with America or to like a hundred and twenty ping or something with some Asian region or whatever But that's kind of life. I mean, I remember when World of Warcraft released Australian servers like You know like ten years into the life of World of Warcraft and it was like yes Finally we could have good ping in World of Warcraft, which is not really that significant these days obviously Yeah, I'm obviously I don't do a lot of competitive games |
| 05. March 2020 | Issue with getting PC case in Australia | 15 years, I'm gonna buy these. The issue with getting a PC case in Australia. Basically, in Australia, like all the cases are made abroad, no company can ship in cases for PCs as heavy as they are without it having a huge markup and shit. So the only cases you have here are like the actually popular good ones. But there were various different ones that I wanted and it's just like, nope, nope. And the one that I was really keen on was not compatible with something that I bought. And I'm like, well, best not buy it then. Picking the case is the best part. It's the worst part, because I don't care about the case. The case does not define the system. I just want it to be fairly quiet and fairly cool. I was tempted to buy a full case for the first time ever. It just seemed like such a frivolous purchase. There's no, like no one needs a full case unless like you just like really having the extra space to work, to put stuff in. And you've got like a really complicated like water cooling setup or something. But you know what doesn't have high shipping costs? Pressing the like button, no shipping costs at all. An absolute bargain. You should totally take advantage of it. Thank you. |
| 28. November 2020 | Issues with Among Us editing. | I suppose. Issues with Among Us editing. Yeah, I think I'm keen to play some more Among Us. I was just very disappointed in how the editing situation for Among Us went. As I keep saying, it's an arse to know how to cut down the episodes while keeping everything important, including in the discussions, while removing the stuff that is unimportant. Sometimes it's hard to decide because in some cases, a discussion is literally nonsense, but there's a purpose to it. The imposters are intentionally making the discussion nonsense by talking about things that don't matter or bringing up details again or getting information to be repeated just to run out the clock. And in those cases, it's hard to decide whether you want to keep that in or in some way imply that that's going on and just kind of skip past it. It was also quite frustrating that when people speak over each other, I don't know if it's because people don't have very good mics or whatever, that sometimes you'd be completely inaudible. This time around was the worst, so I actually paused the thing and then explained what everyone was saying. |
| 01. September 2020 | Issues with Bixby | Issues with Bigsby, Samsung's voice assistant. It happened again, man. Bigsby, shut the fuck up. Off. I swear to you, Samsung is listening in on me all the fucking time. There's no way that this Bigsby fucking thing can turn on this many goddamn times. What's it called? It knows what it's doing. There's no way it can turn on this many times by accident. And then it doesn't listen to me, like it's just stuck on the screen now. And now it's open my camera. Fuck, this phone sucks. I have never in the history of my life wanted Bigsby to do anything. I've turned it off. It turns itself back on. I did disable it. It turns itself back on. I guess with updates or something. Although I think the first time I disabled it, I disabled the button that turns it on. I guess that's not sufficient. |
| 01. September 2020 | Issues with bixby | Issues with Bigsby, Samsung's voice assistant. It happened again, man. Bigsby, shut the fuck up. Off. I swear to you, Samsung is listening in on me all the fucking time. There's no way that this Bigsby fucking thing can turn on this many goddamn times. What's it called? It knows what it's doing. There's no way it can turn on this many times by accident. And then it doesn't listen to me, like it's just stuck on the screen now. And now it's open my camera. Fuck, this phone sucks. I have never in the history of my life wanted Bigsby to do anything. I've turned it off. It turns itself back on. I did disable it. It turns itself back on. I guess with updates or something. Although I think the first time I disabled it, I disabled the button that turns it on. I guess that's not sufficient. |
| 15. February 2020 | Issues with moving to another platform away from YouTube | The issues with moving to another platform So I've received this DM Hey Matt, I'm a fan of your videos and have been following you on Twitch for a while. Recently I became dissatisfied with YouTube due to their decision to take down content like Xbox Addictions' entire channel and the infamous Vomit Cake video for no apparent reason as well as demonetizing random videos. Due to these corporate decisions, I've made the decision to try and find a YouTube alternative that I can leave YouTube in favor of. I found this relatively new platform called LBRY, which is decentralized and makes users more in control of their data. I'm reaching out to you because there's a major lack of creators on the platform and I simply cannot abandon YouTube for a platform that doesn't have my favorite creators on it. I thought you may be interested in their YouTube partner program where they pay you LBC, their cryptocurrency, that you can exchange to Bitcoin and then fire currency or do whatever else you want with it. I'm not being paid nor influenced by LBRY in any way to reach out to you. I just want to finally be able to leave YouTube without having to stop watching videos and LBRY is the best alternative to come across yet. Hope you can check it out because I'm becoming a creator on LBRY. You would be insane to dedicate any amount of your time to going on one of these sorts of platforms. The only reason competitors to YouTube would be more hands-off for the content is because they're small and they're trying to get more content creators on the platform. If you want to appeal to advertisers and you want to be profitable, you cannot have all types of content on your platform. If you find a platform that says, we will never take down any content, we will never demodetize anything, it's all in your hands, they're lying to you because they will do the complete opposite when they're big enough. The reason why YouTube is successful is because it has all the viewers. Moving anywhere else, spending time on anything else, just means your content is less likely to be seen. The other problem is that a very large section of the content that YouTube removes or demonetizes is content that you don't want to associate with. Propaganda, Nazis, you know, gore, whatever it may be, pedophile shit. This is the content that is removed from YouTube and it needs to find a place. And the place is alternatives to YouTube. So everyone who violates the TOS of YouTube, I'm sure you won't want to associate with all those sorts of people. You may be like, oh, this person shouldn't be removed, but if you looked at every single person YouTube had ever removed, there'd be a substantial amount that you'd be like, yeah, I don't want to be anywhere near those people. But those would be, you know, your roommates on the new platform you go to. Look up any alternative to Twitter and read your homepage. It's white supremacy shit. It's kill them all. It's terrible garbage. Unless another entity as big as YouTube tries to take on YouTube, the smaller competitors are going to have no chance and they all look shady as fuck. It's why, you know, DLive, which is meant to be trying to compete with Twitch, has its own special cryptocurrency, Wink, and this group that they're trying to get me to go on has their own special cryptocurrency, Wink. What's the cryptocurrency worth? Well, nothing. It's not really a currency and we're paying you in it. It might be worth nothing tomorrow, but, you know, here you go. Make us some content. Seems shady as fuck. There is no way this company will ever compete with YouTube. If you don't have billions of dollars at your back to get yourself exclusively made content or the large content creators, you can offer them a fee to move over and make content there and hopefully drag the audience with them and whatnot. Or you can revolutionize the online space somehow and then copyright that. And so every viewer is like, oh my God, the content that's made on this other platform is just so unbelievable because of this X factor that we can only find there. We have to move over there, which is effectively not going to fucking happen. There's no way YouTube is going to be knocked off their throne. YouTube had a hard enough time reaching profitability for people to be like, YouTube isn't like hemorrhaging as much money as they used to because they're like demonetizing our terrible fucking content. Oh, I've said before, I make politically socially charged content. My content all focuses around GTA V, a violent video game. And I've had 10, 11, 12 videos demonetized of my entire library of like 700 videos. The people who are complaining about mass demonetization, it's a very rare occurrence where I don't think that person probably deserves to be demonetized. An example of people that I don't think should be demonetized are like people talking about history, people talking about guns or something, maybe even in a historical context, combining the three. These things, I can't understand why they're getting caught up in demonetization or why YouTube may even want to demonetize them to bring in advertisers. But these are the smallest fraction of people who actually get demonetized. YouTube, Google is a multi, multi, multi-billion dollar company with the best algorithms that exist currently and they will continue to grow and improve. Anywhere else you move is not going to be doing it better than YouTube, not going to be doing it better than Google. YouTube would have to be something amazingly egregious for it to ever be worth it to move away from YouTube because on every single way that you could evaluate a platform, the new place you move will be worse. Or if they are better, they will simply become as bad as the place that YouTube was. Just over time, if they actually become successful and thus you can actually make money on that platform. So basically, I will stay on YouTube until I get offered enough money that going somewhere else makes sense from a profit motive. |
| 10. June 2022 | Issues with my emote artist | Issues with my emote artist. I'm currently trialing someone else now and I hope it works out. I think it's been a year now that I've been trying to get Grey to animate emotes that I paid them for like a bajillion years ago. I'll never understand Grey. So Grey for those who don't know is my emote artist. Over the years that I've known them I don't think there's a single project that I've given them that they've been on time And so it always just ends up being me pestering them over and over again. They disappeared then they came back They completed one thing for me, but didn't complete another thing and now they've seemed to have disappeared again. Like they talk about how they have money issues and when I caught up with them again and said you had you never completed this animated project for me or whatever they were like, oh, you know, I can pay you back, but you have to give me a little while I've only got like 80 bucks to my name and I'm just like I have a lot of money I could and would give this person just an endless amount of projects Every single if they finish one thing I would give them another one the next week like that There is no limit to the things that I would have them draw or animate for money There is no reason for this person to ever Have money issues so long as they can make projects for me, but they just don't and I don't get it I've told I told them over the years many times like look just up your prices because so many people want you something They're just saying no, it's just weird. |
| 15. February 2020 | Issuies with moving to another platform away from YouTube | The issues with moving to another platform So I've received this DM Hey Matt, I'm a fan of your videos and have been following you on Twitch for a while. Recently I became dissatisfied with YouTube due to their decision to take down content like Xbox Addictions' entire channel and the infamous Vomit Cake video for no apparent reason as well as demonetizing random videos. Due to these corporate decisions, I've made the decision to try and find a YouTube alternative that I can leave YouTube in favor of. I found this relatively new platform called LBRY, which is decentralized and makes users more in control of their data. I'm reaching out to you because there's a major lack of creators on the platform and I simply cannot abandon YouTube for a platform that doesn't have my favorite creators on it. I thought you may be interested in their YouTube partner program where they pay you LBC, their cryptocurrency, that you can exchange to Bitcoin and then fire currency or do whatever else you want with it. I'm not being paid nor influenced by LBRY in any way to reach out to you. I just want to finally be able to leave YouTube without having to stop watching videos and LBRY is the best alternative to come across yet. Hope you can check it out because I'm becoming a creator on LBRY. You would be insane to dedicate any amount of your time to going on one of these sorts of platforms. The only reason competitors to YouTube would be more hands-off for the content is because they're small and they're trying to get more content creators on the platform. If you want to appeal to advertisers and you want to be profitable, you cannot have all types of content on your platform. If you find a platform that says, we will never take down any content, we will never demodetize anything, it's all in your hands, they're lying to you because they will do the complete opposite when they're big enough. The reason why YouTube is successful is because it has all the viewers. Moving anywhere else, spending time on anything else, just means your content is less likely to be seen. The other problem is that a very large section of the content that YouTube removes or demonetizes is content that you don't want to associate with. Propaganda, Nazis, you know, gore, whatever it may be, pedophile shit. This is the content that is removed from YouTube and it needs to find a place. And the place is alternatives to YouTube. So everyone who violates the TOS of YouTube, I'm sure you won't want to associate with all those sorts of people. You may be like, oh, this person shouldn't be removed, but if you looked at every single person YouTube had ever removed, there'd be a substantial amount that you'd be like, yeah, I don't want to be anywhere near those people. But those would be, you know, your roommates on the new platform you go to. Look up any alternative to Twitter and read your homepage. It's white supremacy shit. It's kill them all. It's terrible garbage. Unless another entity as big as YouTube tries to take on YouTube, the smaller competitors are going to have no chance and they all look shady as fuck. It's why, you know, DLive, which is meant to be trying to compete with Twitch, has its own special cryptocurrency, Wink, and this group that they're trying to get me to go on has their own special cryptocurrency, Wink. What's the cryptocurrency worth? Well, nothing. It's not really a currency and we're paying you in it. It might be worth nothing tomorrow, but, you know, here you go. Make us some content. Seems shady as fuck. There is no way this company will ever compete with YouTube. If you don't have billions of dollars at your back to get yourself exclusively made content or the large content creators, you can offer them a fee to move over and make content there and hopefully drag the audience with them and whatnot. Or you can revolutionize the online space somehow and then copyright that. And so every viewer is like, oh my God, the content that's made on this other platform is just so unbelievable because of this X factor that we can only find there. We have to move over there, which is effectively not going to fucking happen. There's no way YouTube is going to be knocked off their throne. YouTube had a hard enough time reaching profitability for people to be like, YouTube isn't like hemorrhaging as much money as they used to because they're like demonetizing our terrible fucking content. Oh, I've said before, I make politically socially charged content. My content all focuses around GTA V, a violent video game. And I've had 10, 11, 12 videos demonetized of my entire library of like 700 videos. The people who are complaining about mass demonetization, it's a very rare occurrence where I don't think that person probably deserves to be demonetized. An example of people that I don't think should be demonetized are like people talking about history, people talking about guns or something, maybe even in a historical context, combining the three. These things, I can't understand why they're getting caught up in demonetization or why YouTube may even want to demonetize them to bring in advertisers. But these are the smallest fraction of people who actually get demonetized. YouTube, Google is a multi, multi, multi-billion dollar company with the best algorithms that exist currently and they will continue to grow and improve. Anywhere else you move is not going to be doing it better than YouTube, not going to be doing it better than Google. YouTube would have to be something amazingly egregious for it to ever be worth it to move away from YouTube because on every single way that you could evaluate a platform, the new place you move will be worse. Or if they are better, they will simply become as bad as the place that YouTube was. Just over time, if they actually become successful and thus you can actually make money on that platform. So basically, I will stay on YouTube until I get offered enough money that going somewhere else makes sense from a profit motive. |
| 10. September 2022 | It all comes full circle | It all comes full circle. I'm just saying chat, you may have noticed that my rambles are doing a lot better than they used to. With the new thumbnail and the new way that I do rambles, where I do them at the beginning of the stream, and I'm getting them out quicker. You gotta remember chat, once upon a time, the thing I did on YouTube is just share my opinions on stuff, social commentary and all that jazz. To have my somewhat commentary videos getting 100,000 views is like, hell yeah man. It's funny, I tried to make it as a commentary YouTuber, didn't really get there. I was getting max like a thousand views by the end when I stopped doing it. Then I became a gamer, made gaming speedrunning content, and then went all the way back to becoming able to make commentary videos again and actually be successful. |
| 19. October 2022 | It is hard to stop caring about stuff you can’t impact | about stuff you can't impact. I got a new channel- |
| 30. January 2022 | It is justifiable to believe false things. | It is justifiable to believe false things. You know what's a weird thing chat? It is justifiable to believe false things. Imagine you're in a cult, right? And everyone in that cult believes that the moon is made of cheese. I mean, it seems stupid, the idea of the moon being made of cheese, right? But imagine like every single book in your environment said it was made of cheese. You went to school and every person in any respective position of authority said the moon was made of cheese. They were like the logic internally made sense. They just gave cheese additional properties that made... They say this is a special form of cheese so that it doesn't decay. Or either that or they say out in space things don't decay like they do on Earth. All the logic made sense. Every single person of authority, anyone who might... You know, people say they've gone to space and they've tested it, I swear. Of course, in that situation, it's entirely justified to believe that the moon is made of cheese. Like every single thing, every source of information is communicating that. And you have no way of determining otherwise. And I just think sometimes like there'll be so many coincidental things like that for our lives. Where just coincidentally, maybe not intentionally, but like we've just experienced a variety of things in our environment that has justified to us to believe false things. False things. Each one of us feels ourselves entirely justified in believing, you know, a variety of things that are actually false. And that's just coincidentally how our interactions with the environment have led us to make those conclusions. |
| 27. October 2022 | It is not my Birthday. | It is not my birthday. I confused a lot of people chat. That happens a lot actually, but this one was particularly confusing to people. So I messaged out, It took me 31 years of preparation to make this post. A like would be appreciated. So the joke here was that, I said it took me 3 years to make the pacifist video that I just released. But in reality, it's not like I was working on that video for 3 years. But it's like, kind of from like, this start of pacifist to then, that's how long it took me to get to the end, you know? And so I was like, that's kind of funny, because it's, you know, thinking of things in that way. So, anything that I write here as a community post, technically took me 31 years to do. So I was like, hey, this community post, I spent a lot of time on it, 31 years of preparation, you should like it. But people misinterpreted, and they were like, Happy birthday Matt, happy birthday Matto, happy birthday Matto, happy birthday Matt. My birthday's in March. It was a joke. I'm sorry for bamboozling you all. |
| 27. October 2022 | It is not my birthday. | It is not my birthday. I confused a lot of people chat. That happens a lot actually, but this one was particularly confusing to people. So I messaged out, It took me 31 years of preparation to make this post. A like would be appreciated. So the joke here was that, I said it took me 3 years to make the pacifist video that I just released. But in reality, it's not like I was working on that video for 3 years. But it's like, kind of from like, this start of pacifist to then, that's how long it took me to get to the end, you know? And so I was like, that's kind of funny, because it's, you know, thinking of things in that way. So, anything that I write here as a community post, technically took me 31 years to do. So I was like, hey, this community post, I spent a lot of time on it, 31 years of preparation, you should like it. But people misinterpreted, and they were like, Happy birthday Matt, happy birthday Matto, happy birthday Matto, happy birthday Matt. My birthday's in March. It was a joke. I'm sorry for bamboozling you all. |
| 16. January 2021 | It is ok to not be productive . | It is okay to not be productive. Do I think a game could save a life? I mean, I guess. If a person are... You know, is potentially suicidal but finds something that they can give their all into and find satisfaction in that distracts them from such thoughts or problems in their lives, then sure. But I would never argue that a video game is necessarily the best way to achieve such distraction. Because at the end of the day, it is very rare for a video game to lead to practical benefit in your life. But of course, everything in your life doesn't need to provide you practical benefit beyond entertainment, right? There's that line that goes around sometimes. You don't have to be productive to be deserving of existence. So whatever the phrasing is, where sometimes it's fine just to chill, you know? Certainly don't avoid your responsibilities or ignore your problems to some detrimental degree. But just chilling, relaxing, entertaining and not worrying about using every second of your life to get money or something like that is a good policy to have. I don't have that policy. As in, like, I'm terrible at that. I am very rarely comfortable if I'm not being productive. And that's terrible. It is massively going to contribute to my burning out, you know? But then again, it's not like I don't do leisurely things like watch TV shows and watch anime and stuff. It's just usually I do those things while doing other productive things. So what I was doing with Pasfus yesterday was I would take five minutes of the footage that I would have to process. I would process that five minutes and then watch, let's say, five minutes of some TV show or whatever at two times speed. So I'd watch, you know, ten minutes of a show. I watch everything at two times speed, two point two times speed, usually. I have a Chrome add-on that allows you to speed up anything. I can't watch live streams, of course, at two point two times speed. But usually when I'm watching live streams, I'm not engaged with them. I'm listening to them as background or whatever. Or I'm just tuning in every once in a while. Live streams are usually the thing that's last on my list of what things to watch. Like I go through my entire sub box or whatever on YouTube. And then when that's all done and the recommendations don't look like it has anything particularly interesting right now, I'll go to Twitch and watch something. These days, it's been Mitch Jones, since he came back from streaming, doing PvP for World of Warcraft. Well, I haven't played WoW in years. I don't even follow the story and stuff. His skill at the game and his attitude towards it is interesting to watch. |
| 19. March 2021 | It is surprising I still have so much to do with GTA 5 | It is surprising I still have so much I want to do in GTA 5. I have now officially been doing No hit for a year still haven't succeeded certainly we've gone from 186 whatever to One but I was kind of hoping it would be done by now. I just need this run to be over I have so many things that I want to do. There's at least four big projects. I want to do I'm surprised I have that many and then of course I have all the smaller stuff with the speedruns and stuff I just mean that the game has been out for so long And there's still stuff. I want to do. I guess I've only really been working to make GT5 content outside of speedrunning for the last year of two years So maybe it's understandable because I feel like a lot of stuff Hasn't been done by other people primarily because everyone else just moved on to GT online Once Oko has done. I do hope to be able to have a much bigger focus on streaming again YouTubers Massively taken over as my main focus like the clips channel Definitely ate into everything of where I spend my time. The channel is just too good in terms of you know increasing my notoriety my brands Money views like everything is just good like I felt like I can stop streaming because streaming is the Basis for everything I do on YouTube and I want to do more of it But I can't do multiple Oko runs in one day. It drive me fucking crazy Like I'm always trying to bring energy to the beginning of any of the runs because I'm worried I'm finally gonna get the successful run and I'm gonna be like half dead and It's gonna stand forever and I'm just gonna be fucking shit in it You know like even now Having that full start and coming back. I feel kind of self-conscious I'm trying just to ignore that shit. It just needs to be done who cares if it's dirty, you know, I Am NOT desperate for GTA 6. There's still heaps of stuff that I can do in GTA 5 and GTA online the only reason I would want GTA 6 to come out and just to abandon everything in GTA 5 is because Whatever I'm doing in GTA 5 if I would be doing the exact same thing in GTA 6 Given that GTA 6 would be the new hot item. I'd get more viewership, you know and more attention and whatnot, you know Certainly, there'd be more competition though But like I still haven't done the doomsday heist In online I still haven't done all the Individuals small missions and GT online Not that any of them particularly good as so I hear but I mean I've always wanted to do them anyway I've got all my modded runs I need to do I need to get back into speedrunning and stuff I still haven't finished past this I'm really close with past this though. Like, you know, but given how long it takes me to make an episode Maybe I'm not that close. I Do intend though when no damage is over to always be working on the next episode? |
| 31. March 2021 | It is weird what clips blow up | It is weird what clips blow up Give us a fact or glitch you mean around here There's the stairs back there that you can dive off and smash your head into the into the pier Which is surprisingly well as a clip. It's got over a million views I think it's got over 2 million views actually the smash in my face clip has 2.5 million views It's it's weird what clips blew up the the the title does matter though I'm pretty sure like I could go back and look at all the clips that didn't blow up And find ones that I think are pretty good That I think they deserve to blow up and like re-upload them and just give them a different title and they do better it's interesting that the clips channel has maintained a almost exactly a 300,000 viewer difference With my main channel. Oh no view of a difference. I subscribe to this My my clips channel only like 20% of viewers are subscribed while my main channel It's like 50% I think so like obviously on my main channel people are far more likely to subscribe Then on my um clip channel, but my clips channel reaches far more people |
| 14. May 2021 | It seems like being a Vtuber would be a pain | It seems like being a VTU would be a pain Well, I think that VTubers are blowing up good for them. I think it's kind of cute. It'll hold some little channels Okay, not all of them are holes obviously video thing. It seems like a huge pain in the ass though I'm not gonna lie because like have a really good one of these things It seems as though you you have buttons for different expressions and stuff like you feel something So you press a button and your character looks sad and happy and shit I think maybe one day like there will be um No, cuz I'm Code Miku His name yeah, she her her system seems a lot more refined She like wears a full suit or whatever, right? Like I'm sure you wouldn't need to press buttons if you had like a tracking mask or something like you put Particular receptors on your face that detect when you move particular muscles and stuff and then your character could more accurately display What you're doing a full suit that cost her thirty five thousand dollars God damn so clearly the technology exists out there to Create a VTuber persona that perfectly maps you as a person but even code Miku's thing isn't perfect and clearly it isn't a user friendly for a layman, you know, there's HTC Vive mouth and chin trackers though I suppose it'll end up in the same way that a Fantasy can be more interesting than real life. I wouldn't be surprised if one day one of the top ten creators Or whatever is is a VTuber whose entire thing is a an absolute persona down to every frame of who they are I mean some of the top content creators are fake as fuck. Why not also have a completely fake Body image as well. So basically PewDiePie doesn't exist who actually believes PewDiePie exists PewDiePie is as real as Australia and Atlantis don't be taken in by The marketing people it's all a ruse to get you to buy Muffins any purchase of muffins that you've made it's because of PewDiePie Just part of the system in sheep will wake up |
| 14. May 2021 | It seems like being a vtuber would be a pain | It seems like being a VTU would be a pain Well, I think that VTubers are blowing up good for them. I think it's kind of cute. It'll hold some little channels Okay, not all of them are holes obviously video thing. It seems like a huge pain in the ass though I'm not gonna lie because like have a really good one of these things It seems as though you you have buttons for different expressions and stuff like you feel something So you press a button and your character looks sad and happy and shit I think maybe one day like there will be um No, cuz I'm Code Miku His name yeah, she her her system seems a lot more refined She like wears a full suit or whatever, right? Like I'm sure you wouldn't need to press buttons if you had like a tracking mask or something like you put Particular receptors on your face that detect when you move particular muscles and stuff and then your character could more accurately display What you're doing a full suit that cost her thirty five thousand dollars God damn so clearly the technology exists out there to Create a VTuber persona that perfectly maps you as a person but even code Miku's thing isn't perfect and clearly it isn't a user friendly for a layman, you know, there's HTC Vive mouth and chin trackers though I suppose it'll end up in the same way that a Fantasy can be more interesting than real life. I wouldn't be surprised if one day one of the top ten creators Or whatever is is a VTuber whose entire thing is a an absolute persona down to every frame of who they are I mean some of the top content creators are fake as fuck. Why not also have a completely fake Body image as well. So basically PewDiePie doesn't exist who actually believes PewDiePie exists PewDiePie is as real as Australia and Atlantis don't be taken in by The marketing people it's all a ruse to get you to buy Muffins any purchase of muffins that you've made it's because of PewDiePie Just part of the system in sheep will wake up |
| 29. November 2022 | It's way too difficult to collect cars in GTA Online. | It's way too difficult to collect cars in GT Online. Have you collected like every car in GT Online now? Or is that just something that's like not possible given space limitations? It's it's yeah space limitation is the issue. I haven't added it up yet but I think at this moment in time because they did give us an extra 20 total slots of the last DLC. I think you can actually have every car online between two characters. I have to add it up to double check but I'm pretty sure you can. Is that a goal that you have? My goal is to to customize every car in GTA in the video format which I'm getting close to. I own a lot of cars in online and multiple versions too. That's the problem too because sometimes I like to have two variants of one car like a movie car build and then like a normal build for myself. I mean I would I wish they would just let us own as many as we want or maybe cap it at like 500 or something like that because the limits have always been so annoying. I mean for anybody in the chat that's a car guy you feel my pain. You're in that moment where you have to delete a car to buy another car that you want and you're like which one do I get rid of? Because I was about to ask why have such limitations? I mean you'd think Rockstar would just be interested in you having as much as possible to spend money so you might be inspired to buy shark cards. Exactly exactly and they've proven it doesn't matter because they keep adding garages whenever they feel like it. Like here's an extra property slot here you go and then the last DLC we got two and the mechanic list is an absolute mess now. As is every menu in the whole game really? True I mean my mechanic list will pretty much everybody's it goes in order of what you've purchased so there's like the arena mixed in there with normal garages it's super annoying. It's really really annoying. I wish they would organize it maybe by business and then personal properties so it's a little bit cleaner. Yeah it's kind of hard to find cars sometimes that's why I kind of theme my garages. So I have like a muscle car garage or supercar garage etc. A movie car garage so I kind of remember where certain things are but it can get a bit annoying at times. One of my friends he actually he went as there's you can own over 200 cars online right now by the way and he went as crazy as to organize in order of his mechanic list his car is in alphabetical order. Yes so every huge pain yes so every time a new car comes out he has to move other cars around but he knows where every car is he's like okay starts with the B so I'll go to like my second car garage and then he can find it quite easily. |
| 30. December 2022 | It’s confirmed, Twitch won’t partner with reactors anymore. | It's confirmed Twitch won't partner with reactors anymore. So previously we talked about someone not getting partnership on Twitch because of reactionary content. And we were unsure whether this was referring to reaction content or the kind of inflammatory political sort of response content. But we seem to have gotten that answer. This wake guy got uh... denied. At least there's an answer. Guess IRL collab arc is necessary. No partner should be reacting. So this is indicative that it's not a matter of politics necessarily, but like they don't want to partner reaction-based channels. Here's the thing though. Like the second this dude would be given partnership, he would just start reacting to videos again. Just sitting there hours on end watching other people work hard so he can make money. And as long as they're not gonna ban or do anything to restrict this from current partners doing it, they're gonna do it as well. Because as has been shown by the last couple of years, the best way to grow an audience on Twitch is to sit on Twitch, watch other people's YouTube videos. In order to stay live as long as possible, to farm the recommendation algorithm away from other creators. And then take those already edited segments, because you're watching YouTube videos, and repost them onto YouTube. To then steal impressions away from the creators on that platform to both grow on YouTube and Twitch. And so all the larger creators on Twitch are reactors who have reaction channels on YouTube. And they're just growing massively because when you can get a month's worth of work in watching a YouTube video for 30 minutes, it's a good return on time. And this has just obviously become worse and worse over time. To where even the older school Twitch creators who were able to keep their positions because they've just been around for so long, even they've started to lose ground to these new hybrid reaction creators farming an audience on YouTube. So like, unless suddenly everyone grows a horse and care for others or grows ethics or what have you, which is not going to happen. Or Twitch actually cracks down on this stuff. Anyone who gets partnership who is willing to do that ethically is going to do it. And this guy is no different. So cool for Twitch recognizing that maybe having a platform that's identity is that place you watch YouTube videos isn't very good. And that contributing to the death of the creative spirit in online media is probably not good either. But at the same time, this does not go far enough to fix things. I think CdogVA is an exception to this, a big streamer, but I haven't seen him do react content. To my understanding, Cdog doesn't like reaction content. He has like watched YouTube videos, but not in a way that I would consider to be like on the vein of Asmongold sitting there for hours a day watching people's YouTube videos. Like he's done like watch some clips and stuff, not as a main part of his content, but as a supplementary thing. I wouldn't call him an exception, though. When I talk about like the biggest creators on the platform, I mean like the people who are getting monumentally more views than everyone else. Cdog has grown with that hybrid model of YouTube and Twitch, but he's done it legitimately with an actual channel of creative content and collaborations with Joel and Garz. You see, even he, with all that power behind him, can't crack the upper echelons of people just uploading 10 videos a day of other people's hard work. This. |
| 01. December 2022 | I’d want Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad re-edited | Oh, and Breaking Bad re-edited. I wouldn't mind having some edits where the parts after Breaking Bad were edited out of Better Call Soul so that I could watch all the Better Call Soul parts and then watch Breaking Bad and then watch the parts after Breaking Bad. Because obviously they know the vast majority of people watched Breaking Bad then Better Call Soul, so it didn't matter. But re-watching, I'd rather that order was changed. You've never seen Breaking Bad or Better Call Soul? Definitely both worth the watch, honestly. Announcing an upcoming outro compilation. |
| 01. September 2020 | I’m a bad liar | Feels awful. I'm a bad liar. So I keep watching people play Among Us, and I get more and more keen to try to find a way or find some people to play with. But every time I think about that, I realize that I suck at lying. I even have a problem with being dishonest. Like I tend to chuckle or giggle or whatever when I actually lie. I'd be curious though if, pressed, if I could be deceptive and lie. If it was a part of some game or something. But I know in real life, when I lie for real, I really suck at it. Feeling jealous of people more than I am. |
| 14. December 2022 | I’m am now the confirmed master of GTA 5 | I am now the confirmed master of GTA V. So it finally happened. I am now the confirmed master of GTA V slash online. I have not AFK'd a single one of these hours. Pure indisputable dominance. 10,000 hours on record currently in game. So grand theft 35 of course, if you need that point out. The reason why I specified that I haven't AFK'd a single one of these hours is because I'm drawing a distinction between me, who has a legitimate 10,000 hours, and people who left their computers on with like a macro or something to make it so they would never get logged out of GTA Online and would just farm money in their assets. There are not many people who have more hours than me in the game, but all of them have AFK'd a fuckton for GTA Online. Certainly for GTA V, I have the most hours in the game of anyone alive. 100%. This whole time I think I have like 200 hours in online. So technically I don't have 10,000 hours in GTA V yet, but they're the same world, so same thing. I mean it's like obviously there have been times where the game has been on and I've gone to the bathroom, there's like no prolonged time of just like leaving my PC going with the game going. 10,000 hours is 416 days. Nice. We need to get to two years guys, but as anyone will tell you, 10,000 hours is something doesn't mean that you necessarily master every aspect of it, because it needs to be dedicated practice pushing the boundaries of what you know, and me just doing the same run. |
| 14. December 2022 | I’m thinking on giving up Social Media. | I'm thinking about giving up social media. Walli Walla Bala asks, as a content creator, do you ever use social media like Reddit or Twitter, like a consumer, or do you always log in with a goal in mind? I do browse Reddit and Twitter a little bit. I'm trying to do my best not to now. I might do my best to give up Twitter entirely. Again, this has nothing to do with Elon Musk. As I say, the platform isn't going anywhere. The brand of Twitter is just crazily valuable. Any mistakes that Elon makes would eventually be corrected, and things will continue to shrug on. I don't think there's ever gonna be a true replacement. That's not what this is about. It's more that on some level, I'm just tired of all of this social media stuff, and I wanna fill my time with something more than bouncing between my YouTube comments, Reddit and Twitter and stuff. I know what that's gonna be, but I wanna find something. Maybe I'll start playing video games again, like in my own time. I don't know, but it's not making me happy. It's not always bad, but maybe it's just when I'm feeling particularly down, these things do nothing to make me feel better. They just make things worse for me, in a way. The tour is over. |
| 16. February 2023 | I’m too self-conscious to dance in public. | I'm too self-conscious to dance in public. My dance moves in real life also slick like the one that my character has I'll be real with you. I wish I had the balls the dance like my character is right now in public No one will give a shit No one would remember My character right now just live in life enjoying himself dancing and expressing himself how he wants to express himself Regardless what people around him think that is the attitude I want in life and I wish I had but I don't I would be the guy sitting in some at some table Drinking wishing I had the balls to dance and not being willing to there's the same thought I have every time I see someone vibing in like the most outrageous way that sure doesn't conform to Normal standards of what is called the dance, but they're clearly enjoying themselves. That's the life you want to live |
| 07. May 2021 | Jackie Chan not leaving his son any inheritance | It's it Jackie Chan not leaving his son any inheritance Ask earlier. What do you think about Jackie Chan not leaving his son any inheritance money so it can fend for himself? I'm curious. I think that's dumb as much as I don't like that some people in life Yeah, are born with so many advantages just because of the wealth of their parents. I just think it's representative of a lack of love for Regardless of what it means for society as a whole if you have the ability to care for your child And you don't do that. It's probably a bad mindset I guess it would depend on like like if you've got some Rationalization where it's like or if I gave them this money They wouldn't have a full life or something because they they wouldn't they would want for nothing whatever night I don't want my son to do those things like if you rationalize yourself it like it's it's for your son's benefit fine But that then then maybe I disagree with you, but maybe you are doing it out of love just with the motivation I wouldn't agree with like Warren Buffett What is like is he's worth billions and he's giving his kids what like a million dollars thing enough that you can have a Good life like it and unless you just sat on your ass if you got a million dollars You'd be fine. You know I believe Jackie Chan is giving away most of his money. Try to any possible. That's a good thing No, no, so it's for me. It's not He should give his kid every single dollar that he has or something. It's um I'm surprised He's not giving it like making some sort of a trust Owned by someone else where the money can be only paid out to his son if his son is in like terrible circumstances like Whatever it is. I think Buffett said he left his kids enough so they can do anything They want but not enough they could do nothing. Yeah, that's a good policy for me someone in chat said their sons are drug addicts I don't know Maybe Jackie would feel guilty that he had failed his son in some way Maybe it may be interesting if this is that true Because it'd be interesting if he's saying this as a way to motivate his son to give up drugs and make something of himself Or whatever you know there'd be an interesting stipulation to give where money can only be paid out if If the dude is clean on drugs you'll probably do that. You just want to enable him Yeah, but I can't I can't imagine if it was the if it was the case where having limited access to funds Solved a person's drug addiction, then I guess there would be no drug addicts to the poor But a lot of drug addicts are poor then the more you tell me about it the more complicated the situation seems to be and the more it seems plausible that Jackie is motivated out of some sense of love and or guilt rather than simply just hating his son or something |
| 19. July 2020 | Jacksepticeye. | The base. Jacksepticeye. What do I think of Jacksepticeye? I know next to nothing about the dude. Of all the larger creators who have been around for a long time, I know the least about Jacksepticeye. I don't think I've even been recommended a single one of his videos in all that time. Surely it must have happened at least once, but it's, I've never watched his content. I've never really had reason to. I think on stream once we clicked one of his videos, because he came up again, but it's just, I don't know, extraordinarily successful. The problems with having a PO box for the stream. I used to have a PO box, and I technically still have one now, but I haven't given it out. So the problem with getting a PO box is, I don't think it's actually a PO box, I think it's just a parcel locker or whatever. It's small, and I don't think it's a good use of money for you guys sending me stuff, because I'm in Australia. It can cost just hundreds of dollars, and filling out billions of forms to send me anything. I don't think there's enough people. |
| 01. September 2020 | Jealous of the more successful | or successful. Dreams getting 100k subs a day. It's one of those things where, even as successful as I am, it's hard sometimes not to be jealous of people above me. But that's the case kind of at any level of success that you have. You're always looking at the people above you and being like, man, I wish I was like that guy. I doubt I could have ever been successful as a more mainstream kind of thing. Like, I think I got very lucky to get into something that I couldn't, can actually be successful at. Like it's conceivably possible that had I never latched onto GTA V, I never would have achieved any success in anything. Well, the grass is always greener. You gotta note how lush the grass is under your own feet. The only reason I sometimes get annoyed is because there's a ceiling on my content because I swear on the type of content I make and blah, blah, blah, right. I'd have to radically change to remove that kind of ceiling. The frustration. |
| 07. August 2021 | Jewel Master on Sega is one of the hardest games | Jewel Master on Sega is one of the hardest games. Yeah dude, that Jewel Master final stage... I still can't believe that happened. For those who weren't here for Jewel Master, I tried to do the final boss, without knowing that there was one particular ability that you needed to use, to beat the final boss. So I was using normal attacks for like an hour, and eventually, because it was... the combination of... his abilities was so hard and so... I just couldn't fucking do it. So I ended up using save states, where every single time I beat a phase, I'd use the save state. And it turns out, you were meant to like one hit him with an ability. And he wasn't meant to be a fight you were meant to do. Infuriating. Spent an hour trying to learn this guy's... uh, abilities, and it's... turned out to be a pattern that can't even be... can't even be... learned. Yep, I tried my damnedest to beat that game, and I did. So, screw it. I did use save states there, but that game was really hard. I was on easy mode, and that game was ridiculously hard. I implore you, if you think you're a master of video games, go play Duel Masters on, uh... or Duel Master on Sega. Sega Mega Drive. Play it easy mode, man. Try and beat it. Try and beat it. You get like three lives or something, it's incredible. |
| 04. September 2020 | Joe Rogan Controversy, over indulgence in gaming | Joe Rogan Controversy, the overindulgence in gaming and avoiding life. You guys see this controversy around Joe Rogan apparently talking about video game addiction and stuff. Or like this clip when Vyral's him suggesting that playing video games is a waste of time. In actual reality it seemed as though what he was saying, if I can recall the actual context of the clip, is that some people will use video games as an escape from problems in their lives and therefore won't address them and it will become detrimental to their well-being because it doesn't net like playing video games doesn't for the overwing vast majority of people lead to some betterment of your life where other things as hobbies have a higher chance of doing so or the hobbies themselves provide some practical benefit. Like you use taekwondo or whatever where if you as a hobby do taekwondo you'll end up fit, healthy, you live longer even if that doesn't end in some practical monetary benefit to your life at least you have the health thing on the that end of it. But video games isn't that way. He didn't seem to be dismissing the idea of playing video games in moderation merely being critical of people playing it way too much because he was talking from personal experience we were talking about how because he's been playing quake or something for you know 20 years or whatever and they would have like a room just dedicated to playing quake and they should play for hours and hours and hours and put aside other responsibilities or whatever and his only solution was just to get rid of his computer entirely because he just couldn't stop playing. Like his mate would you know after seven hours go to leave the room and Joe be like where you going? You know? Devin Nash did a good video on it. Maybe that's in part what I'm referencing in a way but I had seen the wider context before I watched this video. God damn it like it sucks. I have referenced the righteous mind so many times and I want to reference it in the future but I know I won't be able to now because it's become a meme. You know what would tell you something good about that topic? The righteous mind. Oh you're looking to decide what ice cream flavor you are going to get there. You know what would help you with that? The righteous mind. You go fish tide. Well you know what would help you deal with that loss is this little book it's called The righteous mind. Oh your table's wonky. Oh it's like not perfectly flat there. You know what would help you? There's a great book. The righteous mind. Joe Rogan is smart in general but not in everything. For me this showed that he seemed quite out of touch and with the word boom it means a lot. There's legit boom. I didn't think the topic he was talking about. I think he was totally right. Taking the entire context of what he was talking about, Joe Rogan seemed to be accurate in what he was saying. People wanted to present Joe as a person who knows nothing about gaming or live streaming or what have you but he's clearly not one such person. It was only the clip taken in isolation that would seem to suggest that he is that. And I'm not a Joe Rogan fanatic. I have seen him say many things that I've thought are quite stupid. I don't consider him particularly remarkable. Although I do think he is good at what he does doing podcasts. How could you do 1600 episodes without necessarily developing those skills? But if I had to abdicate my decision making to someone on anything Joe Rogan would never be that guy. I can't think of a single topic where I would want Joe Rogan being the person making decisions. When I was younger I am not ever sure that I really enjoyed playing World of Warcraft. What I enjoyed was completing goals. And so getting achievements and seeing that little bar go up out of the total achievements felt at least somewhat good. Like I was achieving something. But I wasn't. There's a difference between coming home, winding down, playing a game of Apex Legends or Fortnite or whatever and literally grinding out achievements in a video game. They aren't real achievements but they chemically in your brain can achieve the same results to make you feel good. And so absence your access to that video game you might actually achieve something of value for your life. Everything in your life doesn't have to be geared towards productivity or money or whatever but you will damage your overall happiness if you spend too much time escaping from your responsibilities or escaping from achieving things that actually matter that have tangible benefits for your future. And I think that's all that Joe Rogan was trying to say. Talking from personal experience where he was doing that. And the thing he was also referencing the idea of having a delusion that you can somehow justify your overindulgence in video games by suggesting that you're going to become famous playing video games. Make millions of dollars there. Oh you know I can play video games all day. Ninja played video games all day and now he's rich. It's not practical for the overwhelming vast majority of people. And I don't think these are controversial statements. I don't think anything Joe Rogan said was controversial. It's just in the clip that was taken he seemed to be dismissing the idea of making a living in online entertainment or whatever with video games and whatnot. And so people who were responding to him were largely talking about how they've made it and it is something that you can do. But just because a person can hypothetically do something doesn't mean it's likely to occur or practical for them to seek out. What Joe said in the clip was accurate but since most people saw only the clip and don't know Joe plays video games it got taken out of context. Ninja and his views on it just stirred up the situation more. Exactly. Because I saw Ninja's clip or whatever and it was largely him like oh you know you can make a lot of money in video games not just doing a pro you can do it in Twitch and YouTube and I'm like Joe Rogan knows that shit. There's no way I'm 100 percent sure certain Joe Rogan knows that shit. So I doubt he's like aware of the goings on of Twitch.tv but he's aware. He's not some out of touch boomer kind of person you know. Will Rockstar stop supporting Xbox One and PlayStation 4 after the new gen releases? No. Unless of course things that they release only work on the hardware that is available on those consoles. A good example is the new I think it's Ratchet and Clank game where that game uses like the SSDs very fast loading to enable you to make portals to jump between worlds and stuff instantaneously. You can't do that on older consoles. |
| 19. March 2021 | Joe Rogan and Ted Cruz | Joe Rogan and Ted Cruz. Oh yeah, I hear Joe Rogan has been saying some really dumb shit on these podcasts, but who cares? I don't watch it anyway. Joe Rogan has always seemed like a... a guy whose opinions change based on the last person he spoke to. Which, uh, is probably not a good thing. I don't think it necessarily makes him a bad interviewer. I've seen some of his interviews and he, uh... He appears decent at it, depending upon your preference as to what an interviewer is meant to do. Like, he appears engaged and he does ask questions. That lists additional information sometimes, but I guess it depends on the topic. Like, when your dedicated subreddit is turning against you and saying dumb shit, you know you're fucked up. What was the stuff? Like, he had a bunch of COVID denialism shit for pretty much the entire duration of COVID and... saying that people being kept indoors is spreading COVID faster. And this recent one defending Ted Cruz bailing on his state when it was in an emergency, uh, because of the blizzards. What was his statement? What is he gonna make it warmer? What a... what a dumbass. Even if you want to make the case that there's no immediate action that he can take, Ted Cruz could obviously do anything that a regular person can do. In terms of, uh, looking out for people in need or making sure that, uh, people haven't died in their homes or whatever. Charitable giving and whatnot, raising money for those in need, having some involvement in the distribution of resources. If at the bare minimum, even in a reality where there was literally nothing he can do, I don't know, maybe he... he's broken his legs recently, uh, at least being in the state makes it so that should something come up where you can do something, you'll be there to be able to do it. The only way to perfectly guarantee that there is nothing that you can do to help is to not even fucking be there. But imagine being paid to be a public servant and then using that money to bail on the people who gave you that money. It's like, yeah, I know you guys can't afford to bail and just leave your problems, and yeah, I know you're all suffering, but I'm gonna fuck off now. Bye-bye. How cold-hearted and inconsiderate. But the funny thing is, though, even if you were entirely selfish, you gave no fucks about anyone else, any reasonably intelligent person would be like, yeah, I gotta stick around regardless, because it's gonna look really bad for me and hurt my political career. But Ted Cruz represents both a callous indifference to other people and impressive stupidity. There's a... there's a weird combination. Yeah, actually, it's not a weird combination, it's an understandable combination, but it's not a good one. |
| 12. July 2021 | John Cena’s apology to China | John Cena's apology to China. What is my opinion on John Cena apologizing to China for saying Taiwan is a country? This may be a controversial opinion. Whether or not John Cena acknowledges that Taiwan is a country does not impact Taiwan. What it does impact though is a lot of people's jobs in the industry who are dependent upon him and his continued success in the industry, his future, his career potentially. What I'm saying is I don't think John Cena doesn't think that Taiwan is a country, but I think that people have gotten around him and gone, look, you can either walk this back or the negative ramifications for people around you that you care about could be severe. Do you want that? And he's gone, no. It is very hard to, like, it's easy to, you know, take some sacrifice upon yourself for some higher calling, you know, a moral calling, or maybe just your pride or ego or whatever. It's easy to take a sacrifice for that for yourself. But when you have to sacrifice other people's wellbeing to commit to a particular stance, that's a hard thing for a person to be willing to do, you know? At the end of the day, the false of the situation doesn't lie with John Cena. It's China's fault at the end of the day. And any attempts to bully John Cena is not going to change the circumstances of Taiwan or make anyone's lives better. But clearly Taiwan is a country, obviously, and it is very stupid, the situation they have with China, which obviously isn't their fault. If Taiwan is so good, why is there no Taiwan too? Oh man, that's funny. Very good. Yeah, I heard his apology pissed off basically everyone because it didn't go far enough in any direction. Clearly he wants to adjust enough to safeguard the situation, keep things as they are for all stakeholders, but without necessarily jeopardizing what he actually believes. And obviously when he wasn't experiencing backlash and when he could speak his mind without risk, he said Taiwan's a country. And it was only after the potential ramifications of that were voiced upon him, it's only then he decides to potentially do something else. Clearly suggesting what he actually believes, right? Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 06. August 2020 | John Oliver | John Oliver last week tonight's That was shown over John Oliver's stuff is not available in my country I have seen some things he's produced that I thought were done very poorly I've seen some things he's produced that are done very well, and I lean on the side of he does good stuff More than he does that. Oh, yeah, I could VPN to watch his stuff, but I'm not interested enough John Oliver is interesting because he only does one show a week, so he isn't in that uh 24-hour news grind so if he's reporting on something he has It's something important And he has the all the time in the world for all the information to come out Rather than you know having to speak about it the moment it comes out you know |
| 24. May 2022 | Johnny Depp gives me hope | Johnny Depp gives me hope. People are like, your hairline isn't that bad, Matt, you have just the Johnny Depp hairline. And I'm like, I kinda do. He has a hairline just like me. And he's still got his hair after for Virginia, so maybe I'm fine. Eating Taco Bell for the first time. |
| 03. August 2021 | Join my discord or perish! | Join my discord or perish? You aren't on my discord? How have you managed to live your entire life not on my discord? I am skeptical. From my understanding, everyone who isn't on my discord dies. |
| 30. June 2022 | Jon Snow Game of Thrones Sequel | Jon Snow gamethone sequel Imagine how pissed off HBO is they had the show that was the talk of like the world Everyone watched it. Everyone cared about it. It was amazing and then They could have like milked it for the next 20 years Just endless different sequels and prequels like what they're trying to do now, but they ruined it with a A shit last season certainly season six and seven were like Uh, season six and seven of gamethones was given a pass because They were showing us things that were built up in the previous seasons We were so hooked into it like we wanted to see where it was going But those were not good seasons and you forgive them because it's like well, you know season eight can save this It'll recontextualize things. It'll show more everything will get better because there's more coming out and then when it ended And so many loose ends so many things not paid off so many things not improved It's just like oh and so in their minds they're like look we can recapture that magic man We can just we can just release a really great sequel and some prequels. We'll bring it all back. They won't though I'd be really surprised if those are successful. I won't watch them |
| 18. January 2021 | Jordan Peterson and practising what you preach. | Jordan Peterson and practicing what you preach. Thoughts on Jordan Peterson? You can look up my rambles on the dude. I don't like talking about him. People who like him are very obsessive. The funniest thing I've seen recently about Jordan Peterson is a picture of him live streaming with his house in complete disarray. Completely cluttered. Of garbage and whatnot. Not clean at all. And then it's a clip of him whatever on the Joe Rogan podcast. And him saying, if you can't even keep your own affairs in order, clean whatever, you can't even clean your room, whatever, who are you to give advice to people? He's coming out with a new book, 12 More Rules for Life or whatever. Considering the complete disarray that his life has been in recently, it's just funny that he's at this point releasing a book to tell, or at least advise people on how to live their lives. When clearly his house is not in order, he comes across as a person who doesn't practice what they preach. |
| 30. March 2021 | Judging what is credible - confidence, doubt, and the ambiguity of life. | I've often said on stream that if you know nothing about a topic, it's very easy for a person to present themselves as if they are knowledgeable and to have themselves sound convincing because your ability to suss out their bullshit will be effectively nothing. It's very easy for a person to put upon themselves a cloak of credibility to convince you of stuff because you know nothing about a topic. The world is so complicated, there's so much information, so many different things that you would like to know about that you can't be expected to know everything about everything or even a bit about everything. Someone out there has been taken in by false narratives or believes false things that they think they have every reason to believe. We're just all in a situation where we're believing false things and there's nothing you can really do about it, right? Because you can't do a deep dive for six months on every small topic that passes your way. But on YouTube, there is an endless amount of videos of people peddling every side of every story in credible ways and what you gravitate towards can often depend on completely surface level bullshit. You know, you'd like the look of the person or that person said something nice before, whatever it is, like you're not necessarily judging things in a fair way to find what is most credible. You're gravitating towards what is most appealing for other reasons. You know, the conclusion is something that you want or whatever. I'm sure you guys know this stuff, right? I ran into this, at least a form of this recently. So today there was a TikTok that went viral on Reddit where, you know that thing where Alex Jones is like, turn the freaking frogs gay. There's this narrative where he says that and then because this was ages ago, he said that then someone else comes in and said, you know, there's actually some legitimacy to what he's saying there because there are these chemicals that are used to some sort of pesticide or whatever where there's evidence research that suggests that this is having an impact on the hormones and the genitals and stuff of frogs. So while it isn't necessarily true exactly that this chemical is turning the freaking frogs gay, there is something under there. There's some actual legitimate research. And so when I saw this TikTok communicating that narrative, I was like, but didn't I hear something once upon a time from this guy, Miles Powers, that that research was never able to be corroborated. And the guy who who conducted it conducted himself in a way that suggested that he was being somewhat fraudulent and secretive. And there's no confirmed evidence that this is necessarily taking place. And so I looked up this video again and I watched it and I'm like, yeah, this even today watching Miles Powers video gives me that sense where this chemical, while it was presented in the news as if, yeah, this is certain 100 percent that this is having the impact that the research says. If you look deeper into the research, that's not necessarily true. But then I watched this other video, right, that seems far more was called Gay Frogs a Deep Dive is the new video I watched. Was it Oakey? Oakey stories or something? I put up on the screen if this gets underambles, but I watched this video and it's a it's far better presented than Miles's video, but also involves discussions, interviews with actual researchers. It shows various different documents that were released because of freedom of information requests and whatnot. And watching this video, it it recontextualizes a lot of information given in the original video that I watched that changed my mind. Miles's video and I came out concluding that, yeah, it does seem as though that the research is likely legitimate and attempts to say, oh, you know, this research can't be corroborated is less because it couldn't be corroborated and more because the it affected the bottom line of various different companies. And they set standards specifically so they could disregard research that already existed to make things seem more murky than they actually were. While in Miles's video, it presented the the corporation's narrative as something that was legitimate and could hold up to scrutiny. In this new video I watched, it presented it as clearly this company is acting in a way that's not above board and they're just trying to muddy the waters so they don't have to take a hit to their bottom line. And at the end of it, while I concluded the second video is so much is better presented and seems better argued and seems to have more research that went into it. At the end of the day, I still look at and go, I don't really know what the case is. But as with most things in life, I will now move forward with the rest of my life leaning towards the side that this chemical atrazine, it does, it does likely, or at least it's suggestive that it is having negative impacts on reptiles, frogs, whatever is frogs, I don't know, amphibian. And we're going to move forward with that general belief, not being certain, but if it ever comes up again, that's the position I will support. You feel me? And that kind of annoys me that I can't be certain about even a topic as seemingly irrelevant to my life as this. I hate ambiguity in life, but life is ambiguous, you know? But this is just my little story of going from Alex Jones is a nut, okay maybe there's research to support what he, something tangential to what he believed, what he was saying. Oh, now the research actually is potentially fraudulent. Okay, maybe the research is actually legitimate. This is now the shift I've gone through and maybe a year from now I'll shift away from that again. But I would definitely have both videos up on screen. The first one that I watched is Miles Powers is atrazine turning the freaking frogs gay. It's a three part video and then this other video gay frogs a deep dive by what's the guys name? Huh? It's Oke's weird stories. Yeah, so I did get a close. Okay. So as I say, you guys don't care about that story, but I just think it's an interesting example of how, you know, your limited knowledge on a topic can just have you floating around between positions, you know? It doesn't disturb you chat, knowing that we all have this propensity to watch stuff and believe it potentially uncritically or be taken in by conmen or people. It's even worse than that though, because it's possible for a person to legitimately come to the wrong conclusion, legitimately present themselves in a way that appears legitimate because they feel legitimate and they have done research and come to a conclusion that is false. But they don't know it. And so you're not going to know it either. A person can be a hundred percent truthful in what they believe and convince you of something false. And if you did the research yourself, you might do the research better and come to a completely different conclusion, or you might do the research yourself and come to an even worse conclusion. The fallibility of the mechanisms by which we get information and conclude things about life, it bothers me every day. It makes me just want to curl up into a ball and just, just not bother learning anything about anything sometimes. Like you meet people who appear to me to believe just endless amounts of false things, but you can just imagine how, you know, you accept one thing that you shouldn't have. Maybe you accept it uncritically or you were convinced of it based on misleading evidence or false evidence or just facts that were not contextualized correctly. And because you now believe that it opens the door for all these other false things that seem more supported because there's one false thing. And then you're just down this, this, this rabbit hole as just a million miles away from the actual fact of the matter. And you can never really be certain yourself if you aren't on one of these tangents as well. But when you, when you dwell on this long enough, it makes you just want to never be, never conduct yourself with any level of certainty or you never want to come down hard on any issue. Like, well, I mean, I don't know. I mean, could anything could be true, I guess. But you can't live your life like that because sometimes you have to make choices, you know, and even worse than that, the people who conduct themselves with certainty, justified or not, are the people who get the most things changed in society, right? It doesn't matter how right you are, how justified your conclusions. If you're willing to conduct yourself in a confident way and fight for what you believe, you can actually make change happen in society. So being doubtful, uncertain about your conclusions, even if that's potentially what you should be, it impacts your ability to actually change the world and achieve ends that you would like to see in society. Life sucks, you know? I've said it time and time again, guys. When I go down these rabbit holes of doubt and lack of certainty about the future, I become more and more appreciative of the job that I have and the role that I have in society. Being an entertainer and the support that I get from people, knowing that it enables me to, to a greater or lesser extent, bypass the potential negative consequences of being wrong about things or people with wrong conclusions, what impact they're going to have in society, I'm potentially not going to be affected by that at all. It doesn't make me any less empathetic or feel bad for others, but I recognize the privileged situation that I'm in, where a lot of the negative aspects of society, of life in general, I can bypass because of the, the fans that I have, the esteem that people have towards me, the wealth that I am given from you guys. I appreciate every day. Don't, don't you ever think that I'm, you know, I'm not. So what if the frogs turn gay? What difference does that make? Well, for one, it can impact, you know, food chains and whatnot, but it's, it's not only that, but it's the impact that it might have on humans. There's some suggestion that this, this chemical, if it gets, like, I'm not, I'm not into research, I don't know, but certainly the worry is if it's having negative impacts on animals or if it gets into the water or whatever, that might have impact on humans as well. And the degree to which that research is, I can't tell you, but certainly this, this company that is responsible for selling this, this chemical, they, they certainly don't want conclusions to come that would negatively impact their bottom line. It's funny because the research done by companies isn't necessarily going to be bad, right? Everyone has their own kind of bias in the sense of like, when a company is first making a product, obviously that company is going to have an invested interest in knowing actually what that product is capable of doing and the negative repercussions that it might have because they want to invest in sure things, winners, things that won't bite them in the ass, they want to know the facts. But when, you know, potentially billions of dollars are on the line, once they've already released a product, for example, it's that level of bias is going to impact anyone who is receiving money from this company, whether it be explicitly they will attempt to distort things to, to benefit the conclusions they desire or, like, there's an implicit bias where a person will just inadvertently do something because they don't want to lose the money from this company. Right? Like, so what I mean is the line, this research was done by X company, therefore it's bad. I've never liked that reasoning. I prefer people to point out flaws in research rather than simply saying I don't like who funded it, especially given that scientists also have their own biases. Right? Like if you've done research on something for five years and at the end of it, you find something that suggests that the last five years of your research is going to be completely meaningless. Like we of course want to believe that every person in that situation will be entirely driven by the desire to see humanity progress forward. But I'm sure some of those people are going to be like, man, this is my fucking career. This is this is, you know, I don't have these five years of my fucking life. And whether they will skew things intentionally or unintentionally, you know, it's why science works best when there's when people are as ignorant as possible in terms of their ability to influence their results, double blind studies and whatnot. And of course, there's always you guys have likely heard of that, the how journals only like to publish positive results and like when something is actually found rather than something when something is inconclusive or or they don't find what they seek to find because they I don't know, do they just think it's boring or it's not cost effective to publish that shit? But whatever. Like there are certain types of research and findings that are viewed upon more favorably in terms of their ability to get published, and that, of course, is going to impact what research is done and maybe can suddenly impact scientists to to have their results come out of particular way or they can interpret their results in a particular way, because all results need to be interpreted. You know, I know I'm I know why I'm rambling about this. It's just the ambiguity of life. You just don't know what to believe and whether anything you can justifiably believe anything at all and you know, because I like I remember going to university and be given a topic and you research it for like three weeks and you're like you could research this for fucking forever and still not be certain about your conclusions. You just dig into it forever and ever and ever. And you think if in three weeks on one topic, you still don't feel super certain your conclusions. You think of every other topic where you've not put that level of research into and you still have some conclusion that you hold and you go, how many of these are false? None ofственный? |
| 30. March 2021 | Juding what is credible - confidence, doubt, and the ambiguity of life. | I've often said on stream that if you know nothing about a topic, it's very easy for a person to present themselves as if they are knowledgeable and to have themselves sound convincing because your ability to suss out their bullshit will be effectively nothing. It's very easy for a person to put upon themselves a cloak of credibility to convince you of stuff because you know nothing about a topic. The world is so complicated, there's so much information, so many different things that you would like to know about that you can't be expected to know everything about everything or even a bit about everything. Someone out there has been taken in by false narratives or believes false things that they think they have every reason to believe. We're just all in a situation where we're believing false things and there's nothing you can really do about it, right? Because you can't do a deep dive for six months on every small topic that passes your way. But on YouTube, there is an endless amount of videos of people peddling every side of every story in credible ways and what you gravitate towards can often depend on completely surface level bullshit. You know, you'd like the look of the person or that person said something nice before, whatever it is, like you're not necessarily judging things in a fair way to find what is most credible. You're gravitating towards what is most appealing for other reasons. You know, the conclusion is something that you want or whatever. I'm sure you guys know this stuff, right? I ran into this, at least a form of this recently. So today there was a TikTok that went viral on Reddit where, you know that thing where Alex Jones is like, turn the freaking frogs gay. There's this narrative where he says that and then because this was ages ago, he said that then someone else comes in and said, you know, there's actually some legitimacy to what he's saying there because there are these chemicals that are used to some sort of pesticide or whatever where there's evidence research that suggests that this is having an impact on the hormones and the genitals and stuff of frogs. So while it isn't necessarily true exactly that this chemical is turning the freaking frogs gay, there is something under there. There's some actual legitimate research. And so when I saw this TikTok communicating that narrative, I was like, but didn't I hear something once upon a time from this guy, Miles Powers, that that research was never able to be corroborated. And the guy who who conducted it conducted himself in a way that suggested that he was being somewhat fraudulent and secretive. And there's no confirmed evidence that this is necessarily taking place. And so I looked up this video again and I watched it and I'm like, yeah, this even today watching Miles Powers video gives me that sense where this chemical, while it was presented in the news as if, yeah, this is certain 100 percent that this is having the impact that the research says. If you look deeper into the research, that's not necessarily true. But then I watched this other video, right, that seems far more was called Gay Frogs a Deep Dive is the new video I watched. Was it Oakey? Oakey stories or something? I put up on the screen if this gets underambles, but I watched this video and it's a it's far better presented than Miles's video, but also involves discussions, interviews with actual researchers. It shows various different documents that were released because of freedom of information requests and whatnot. And watching this video, it it recontextualizes a lot of information given in the original video that I watched that changed my mind. Miles's video and I came out concluding that, yeah, it does seem as though that the research is likely legitimate and attempts to say, oh, you know, this research can't be corroborated is less because it couldn't be corroborated and more because the it affected the bottom line of various different companies. And they set standards specifically so they could disregard research that already existed to make things seem more murky than they actually were. While in Miles's video, it presented the the corporation's narrative as something that was legitimate and could hold up to scrutiny. In this new video I watched, it presented it as clearly this company is acting in a way that's not above board and they're just trying to muddy the waters so they don't have to take a hit to their bottom line. And at the end of it, while I concluded the second video is so much is better presented and seems better argued and seems to have more research that went into it. At the end of the day, I still look at and go, I don't really know what the case is. But as with most things in life, I will now move forward with the rest of my life leaning towards the side that this chemical atrazine, it does, it does likely, or at least it's suggestive that it is having negative impacts on reptiles, frogs, whatever is frogs, I don't know, amphibian. And we're going to move forward with that general belief, not being certain, but if it ever comes up again, that's the position I will support. You feel me? And that kind of annoys me that I can't be certain about even a topic as seemingly irrelevant to my life as this. I hate ambiguity in life, but life is ambiguous, you know? But this is just my little story of going from Alex Jones is a nut, okay maybe there's research to support what he, something tangential to what he believed, what he was saying. Oh, now the research actually is potentially fraudulent. Okay, maybe the research is actually legitimate. This is now the shift I've gone through and maybe a year from now I'll shift away from that again. But I would definitely have both videos up on screen. The first one that I watched is Miles Powers is atrazine turning the freaking frogs gay. It's a three part video and then this other video gay frogs a deep dive by what's the guys name? Huh? It's Oke's weird stories. Yeah, so I did get a close. Okay. So as I say, you guys don't care about that story, but I just think it's an interesting example of how, you know, your limited knowledge on a topic can just have you floating around between positions, you know? It doesn't disturb you chat, knowing that we all have this propensity to watch stuff and believe it potentially uncritically or be taken in by conmen or people. It's even worse than that though, because it's possible for a person to legitimately come to the wrong conclusion, legitimately present themselves in a way that appears legitimate because they feel legitimate and they have done research and come to a conclusion that is false. But they don't know it. And so you're not going to know it either. A person can be a hundred percent truthful in what they believe and convince you of something false. And if you did the research yourself, you might do the research better and come to a completely different conclusion, or you might do the research yourself and come to an even worse conclusion. The fallibility of the mechanisms by which we get information and conclude things about life, it bothers me every day. It makes me just want to curl up into a ball and just, just not bother learning anything about anything sometimes. Like you meet people who appear to me to believe just endless amounts of false things, but you can just imagine how, you know, you accept one thing that you shouldn't have. Maybe you accept it uncritically or you were convinced of it based on misleading evidence or false evidence or just facts that were not contextualized correctly. And because you now believe that it opens the door for all these other false things that seem more supported because there's one false thing. And then you're just down this, this, this rabbit hole as just a million miles away from the actual fact of the matter. And you can never really be certain yourself if you aren't on one of these tangents as well. But when you, when you dwell on this long enough, it makes you just want to never be, never conduct yourself with any level of certainty or you never want to come down hard on any issue. Like, well, I mean, I don't know. I mean, could anything could be true, I guess. But you can't live your life like that because sometimes you have to make choices, you know, and even worse than that, the people who conduct themselves with certainty, justified or not, are the people who get the most things changed in society, right? It doesn't matter how right you are, how justified your conclusions. If you're willing to conduct yourself in a confident way and fight for what you believe, you can actually make change happen in society. So being doubtful, uncertain about your conclusions, even if that's potentially what you should be, it impacts your ability to actually change the world and achieve ends that you would like to see in society. Life sucks, you know? I've said it time and time again, guys. When I go down these rabbit holes of doubt and lack of certainty about the future, I become more and more appreciative of the job that I have and the role that I have in society. Being an entertainer and the support that I get from people, knowing that it enables me to, to a greater or lesser extent, bypass the potential negative consequences of being wrong about things or people with wrong conclusions, what impact they're going to have in society, I'm potentially not going to be affected by that at all. It doesn't make me any less empathetic or feel bad for others, but I recognize the privileged situation that I'm in, where a lot of the negative aspects of society, of life in general, I can bypass because of the, the fans that I have, the esteem that people have towards me, the wealth that I am given from you guys. I appreciate every day. Don't, don't you ever think that I'm, you know, I'm not. So what if the frogs turn gay? What difference does that make? Well, for one, it can impact, you know, food chains and whatnot, but it's, it's not only that, but it's the impact that it might have on humans. There's some suggestion that this, this chemical, if it gets, like, I'm not, I'm not into research, I don't know, but certainly the worry is if it's having negative impacts on animals or if it gets into the water or whatever, that might have impact on humans as well. And the degree to which that research is, I can't tell you, but certainly this, this company that is responsible for selling this, this chemical, they, they certainly don't want conclusions to come that would negatively impact their bottom line. It's funny because the research done by companies isn't necessarily going to be bad, right? Everyone has their own kind of bias in the sense of like, when a company is first making a product, obviously that company is going to have an invested interest in knowing actually what that product is capable of doing and the negative repercussions that it might have because they want to invest in sure things, winners, things that won't bite them in the ass, they want to know the facts. But when, you know, potentially billions of dollars are on the line, once they've already released a product, for example, it's that level of bias is going to impact anyone who is receiving money from this company, whether it be explicitly they will attempt to distort things to, to benefit the conclusions they desire or, like, there's an implicit bias where a person will just inadvertently do something because they don't want to lose the money from this company. Right? Like, so what I mean is the line, this research was done by X company, therefore it's bad. I've never liked that reasoning. I prefer people to point out flaws in research rather than simply saying I don't like who funded it, especially given that scientists also have their own biases. Right? Like if you've done research on something for five years and at the end of it, you find something that suggests that the last five years of your research is going to be completely meaningless. Like we of course want to believe that every person in that situation will be entirely driven by the desire to see humanity progress forward. But I'm sure some of those people are going to be like, man, this is my fucking career. This is this is, you know, I don't have these five years of my fucking life. And whether they will skew things intentionally or unintentionally, you know, it's why science works best when there's when people are as ignorant as possible in terms of their ability to influence their results, double blind studies and whatnot. And of course, there's always you guys have likely heard of that, the how journals only like to publish positive results and like when something is actually found rather than something when something is inconclusive or or they don't find what they seek to find because they I don't know, do they just think it's boring or it's not cost effective to publish that shit? But whatever. Like there are certain types of research and findings that are viewed upon more favorably in terms of their ability to get published, and that, of course, is going to impact what research is done and maybe can suddenly impact scientists to to have their results come out of particular way or they can interpret their results in a particular way, because all results need to be interpreted. You know, I know I'm I know why I'm rambling about this. It's just the ambiguity of life. You just don't know what to believe and whether anything you can justifiably believe anything at all and you know, because I like I remember going to university and be given a topic and you research it for like three weeks and you're like you could research this for fucking forever and still not be certain about your conclusions. You just dig into it forever and ever and ever. And you think if in three weeks on one topic, you still don't feel super certain your conclusions. You think of every other topic where you've not put that level of research into and you still have some conclusion that you hold and you go, how many of these are false? You know. |
| 02. March 2022 | July 2020 ramble hashimoto’s diagnosis. | July 2020 where I first learned of my diagnosis of Hashimoto's disease. So yesterday after the stream I went to go the doctor. I had a- I had blood- blood tests done a while ago to test whether or not this medication that I'm on uh was working which would then be indicative of- it- it- give additional evidence for what was wrong with me. Apparently I have Hashimoto's disease which is a thyroid thing where basically at some point I've gotten ill and I've caught something. I don't think they know exactly why it happens um but my thyroid is being attacked by my antibodies as in they're treating it as if it's a bad thing a virus or whatever. There is no cure and the consequences of it if untreated are pretty bad but if you were treated just taking a half pill of synthetic whatever the thing- thing the thyroid is meant to produce I can't remember it's fine. I asked him what are the- what are the side effects I'm going to experience from this drug. He's like as long as the dosage is fine and everything's in balance you'll be- you'll be fine. So it's- so it seems at best currently just a mild inconvenience that I have to take a half pill every day and get a blood test you know every month or something just to make sure that uh things aren't going bad which is you know in a weird way I mean I'd rather nothing be wrong with me but it is of a leaf in some sense because I felt shit for a long period there and I just soldiered on anyway. You know when my community posts like every day I'm like I'm not feeling great I'm feeling tired and people like Matt stop fucking telling this you're tired you asshole and uh all that was because of this Hashimoto's thing. So now that it has been diagnosed and I have treatment I feel great. I felt great for last month which is what I've been- month and a bit which I've been using this medication or whatever and there's a really small dose so I can't have you know a particularly bad case like the pills aren't meant to be cut in half and I'm having to cut them in half which is a huge pain in the ass. So it should be okay. Whatcha gonna do? No point worrying about it because uh as there's nothing I can do worrying about stuff that you can't change is uh is dumb. Stop telling us you're tired you asshole. So basically there's hypothyroidism and hypothyroidism and one is basically like your body goes into overdrive and the other one is like your body completely slows down. Weight gain, weight loss you know depression or whatever like it there's just a host of different things that can occur because your body just isn't in balance it isn't working as it should and so as long as you take this medication to keep your body in balance then uh it's fine. Maybe that's why you were fat? Absolutely 110 percent the reason why I put on so much weight was because of Hashimoto's. Like when I was feeling shit I went to the doctor I'm like I've put on like five kilos in like two weeks what the fuck is this? I'm not I'm not gonna die like it's things would have to get much much worse for my life to be uh significantly impacted over and again the inconvenience of taking this pill. My mum has had hypothyroidism for 20 years and because she's taking a medication everything has been fine yeah it's it's very treatable. It's just one of those annoying things because there is no cure per se and as I say my case is mild maybe because it was caught early I'm not sure but you know. If I could |
| 03. June 2020 | Just chatting norms | Why are you in the just chatting section of Twitch if you're not even showing your tits? That's a good question. Now if you want to see my tits, you gotta sign up to my OnlyFans account. 300 bucks, you know, get your feet and tid pics. |
| 28. May 2022 | KFC breakfast story | Fairly up to date, you know? KFC Breakfast Story So funny story I ordered myself I tried to order myself KFC On the KFC app And it refused to accept my order Animally refused It's like, it believed me to be It's like blood enemy or something And it just wouldn't do it I did like 50 times, wouldn't work So, I went to DoorDash And ordered KFC through them And I ordered the meal and then like 5 minutes After, DoorDash Goes down As I look on their Twitter, like, oh you know we're doing our best to solve the issue And like half an hour Later, still hadn't been solved So I'm like, well, I'm probably not gonna get My order then, so I used Menu log to order from KFC, the exact same meal And Just, like, I don't know, like 20 minutes Later, DoorDash comes Back online, and the Guy delivering my KFC from DoorDash Was outside my door, I'm like, oh well I guess I'll eat this then, and then 10 minutes later, my Menu log order also Came, so basically, I spent something Like 60 or 70 dollars On KFC today And the second KFC meal is in my fridge How do you How do you How do you How do you How do you |
| 30. September 2021 | KFC in America vs Australia | KFC in America versus Australia. I watched a video yesterday talking about KFC in America and coincidentally I saw a picture of a sandwich that someone got at KFC and now I understand why people in America think KFC is shit That is not the KFC in my country even just simple things I have never walked into a KFC that wasn't fucking spotless in America. KFC has the the highest rating of uh, well, it's got the most dirty stores When like a random hundred stores were examined or some shit like that They have a success on orders of like 88% like I've never had KFC get an order of The guy was describing KFC was like You have to like immediately wash your hands After having KFC because your hands would be covered in grease. I'm like, what the fuck you talking about? Strange. |
| 08. November 2021 | KOSS KSC75 headphones | My cost CS75 headphones. Why the low quality headphones? How dare you sir. These headphones are amazing. Maybe low price but they are very good headphones. I just like clip-on headphones. I looked around for you know a better version of clip-on headphones but everyone just says these are the best. These cost like 20 USD. You can find clip-on headphones for 50 USD and these are still better. You can find $100 standard headsets and these are still better. A clip-on headset just has a lot of advantages. They look like they sound awful straight out of 1995. They do not sound awful at all man. They definitely aren't for everyone. Look up any review of this headset and they'll start making comparisons to $100 headsets and they're like you might be wondering why I'm making these comparisons like because that's the level that these are at. They're $100 headset sound quality in like a $20 container. If you like over-ear with noise cancelling and stuff yeah Logitech will handle that. Logitech doesn't make headsets like this because they are such a niche product that most people won't enjoy. |
| 10. January 2021 | KZ apparently dislikes me . | KZ apparently dislikes me. Oh one interesting thing though that came out of this I I had no idea that KZ fru hated me no idea at all like certainly over the last Year or something I had noticed on Twitter that he was Increasingly saying weirder things, but they weren't involving me like he seemed to be having issues And I was like well, that's that's kind of sad. He seemed to be having a hard time of it but he just he just fucking just just Savaged me on Twitter. I was like ah shit. I I thought we were still cool, but apparently not but that's that's kind of what happens you know when you don't really talk to a person for a long time and You don't really see much from that person, but when you're a larger content creator of course that person is gonna See everything that you do And you're not gonna know what runs through that person's head or what's merely leading them or whatever I wish I had just ignored it though, but I insulted him back because I was just in a frustrated mood Yeah, KZ is a fellow GTA runner. We used to host each other back in the day I say we we go way back, but apparently somewhere along the way I guess I've done something that KZ hasn't approved of and just he didn't feel it necessary to mention to him The um as I say I can't I can't tell you whether his reasons for disliking me are justifiable or agreeable or a matter of some Misunderstanding because I don't know what they are and certainly I can't tell you how much of it is um Related to my relative position our relative positions Or other issues that he has in his life right now I can only speculate and I don't think that speculation is worth having Because certainly as I was mentioning before people are just gonna dislike you or rather that's unfair to say It's that seems overly dismissive of whether a person has reasonable justification to hate you what I mean is that The longer you go on and the more people you reach with your actions There's just gonna be a percentage that finds your behavior to be objectionable And there's no way that you can spend your time convincing everyone otherwise You know you just have to come to a point to accept that some people are going to disapprove of how you conduct yourself Maybe just due to a difference of values Or just a particular standard of A standard of how they believe people should conduct themselves |
| 13. October 2021 | Karl Jobst’s recent drama with Tomato | Carl drops recent drama with Tommaso. Have I talked about Carl yet? I didn't really follow much of it. So Tommaso Anus, whose name I've always hated, did a podcast with Carl a couple of times. And then Tomato came out on Twitter saying, Hey yo, I don't like some of the stuff that Carl said in the past, so I'm not going to do anything with him anymore. Then Carl came out and made a video and said, hey, all this stuff is either overblown or simply not true. And that's all I've heard about so far. I listened to the video and Carl seemed to make a good account for himself. I don't really care. It's funny, the first time I ever spoke to Carl was on Twitter, and it was about his prior associations. He made a statement where he said he's able to be friends with people, you know, despite thinking differently than them, or whatever. I probably shouldn't go into it. This was around the time of the white geoscan, which I'm sure most of you probably don't know about and all that jazz. But I wouldn't be surprised if Carl was having to deal with these kind of rumors and shit for the rest of his career. |
| 08. July 2021 | Karl’s Trackmania video | Carl's Trackmania cheating video. Carl made a video on the Trackmania cheating scandal. I'm very happy he did because I wasn't particularly interested in reading the whole thing from scratch. I just didn't have the time. The two takeaways from that video. One, people who like develop tools and stuff for speedrunners, fucking incredible. Love those guys. The cheating was found out because this one guy was like, hey, there's no like, task tools. I'm like a tool assisted stuff, Trackmania, whatever. I'm going to develop that for everyone. He develops it and it enables him to catch that other people are cheating in the game. Basically, Trackmania records both like where the vehicle is meant to be in the drive, but also like the inputs used for that drive. And people didn't know the inputs were recorded. And some people were doing inputs that were impossible. They were cheating. They were basically slowing down the game, putting in inputs and then speeding it up again to submit it to everyone. So they could do inputs far faster than anyone possibly could. The moral of the story, offline runs are very hard to accept as legitimate. Comparing the offline runs of one of the top runners and the on stream runs, only his off stream runs had all these issues. |
| 17. May 2021 | Kebabs are terrible for you | kebabs are terrible for you man that bloody beef snack pack has really stuck with me I used to have beef kebab snack packs or just beef kebabs like every second day when I worked at Coles those are no Coles being in a supermarket worked there five years in the fresh produce department that in Subway and and trust me guys if you think beef snack packs are good for you they're not a terrible way like if you google things you should not eat if you want to live to the ripe old age of 60 beef snack packs right up top there do I like Indian food no not that I've had a lot of experience eating it but it's never looked appealing to me smelled appealing to me nothing about it's appealing to me I'm not big on food in general if I haven't communicated that like 10,000 times |
| 02. May 2021 | Kessler syndrome | Kessler syndrome. Have you guys heard of this this fear of um, there being so much debris in the outside of Earth with all the satellites that are being decommissioned and all that jazz that they're worried there's gonna be like a chain reaction where two bits of debris are gonna hit into each other. There's gonna be endless different little splinters of rock or whatever. Oh and I would rock debris bits of metal dah dah dah and they're going to move rapidly faster like faster than bullets whatever and just create more and more as they hit more and more stuff creating these huge debris fields that is moving so fast smashing into everything and will lose like all the satellites in the that we use for telecommunications. What's it called? Like it's Kessler syndrome. I was watching something on it recently. Sounds fucking terrifying. And as is always the case no one wants to be the guy to have to fix it because it's uh, there's not a lot of money to be made in cleaning debris in the what do you call it atmosphere? Stratosphere? What's the exact word? One of the spheres and no country wants to be the guy who has to be the one to spend the money to solve it. Sure you would think well the countries that put the stuff up there should be the ones to take it down but who's gonna force them, you know? Lower Earth orbit? Everyone's getting like 50 different answers. Up or lower middle Earth space orbit? Like I have seen a map of what to call the different levels of outside of Earth or whatever you'd call it. Um, I can't remember that shit. I guess one problem with our economic system is that this is the problem with humans in general There's not always a lot of will or profit in preventing problems. There's usually a lot of will and profit in solving problems, you know? It's funny that I say that and we're going up to this guy here who's talking about how he's gonna be putting bugs in a person's house to to get make a problem that he can fix. We have a hard time cleaning up our own trash down here on Earth. Space won't be cleaned anytime soon. Oh, yeah, but you don't understand about trash on Earth. There's no trash where the people who have the means to clean up the trash live, you know? The trash exists somewhere else. The poor people's problem. The people who don't have the power or influence or money or whatever to clean up the shit. That's their problem. Space, like rich people own satellites. Rich people use satellites. Governments own satellites. They use satellites. The only reason that this might be solved is just no one wants to be the guy who blinks. No one wants to be the person to dedicate their wealth, their political influence to get this solved. I mean, on a political level, the average person doesn't know about this crap and it doesn't give a shit. It's not gonna happen, man. So why waste your political capital to try and get it done? You would both have to be trying to convince the public that it's an issue that needs to be solved and that they should vote for you so that you solve it. As well as actually solving the problem. And as a rich dude, you know, you got one satellite. What's the other your satellite being the one to get screwed or whatever, you know? What if you just wait for another dude to solve that problem? It's pretty easy to prevent Kessler syndrome with today's reusable rockets. I thought reusable rockets were like not super fleshed out yet. Like, what's the most useful? What is the most reuses that SpaceX has gotten out of their rockets? Nine. And how much maintenance and repair is required? Nine seems pretty good. That does sound reusable, but I mean, it ain't like a car kind of thing yet, is it? You know, it is like a car. Look, if I could only use my car nine times, I would not be using it. I meant like a car in terms of its reusability. When you can use a car day to day for 10 years and be fine with a little bit of maintenance. |
| 20. July 2022 | Kevin Harts NFT SCams | Kevin Hart's NFT scams. So this is Kevin Hart's Twitter. You know Kevin Hart, dude who has mocked a lot for being short in his movies and that seems to be the main thing that he's about. He has 37 million followers on Twitter. 37 million. He's gone into the heart into this NFT stuff and look at how many likes he's getting on these NFT posts. 300, 140. All he's tweeting about is this NFT stuff but even even stuff that he does about himself. Like 300 likes, 600 likes for oh my god presale of my NFTs. How much money are these people getting for these NFT things? Like how much do you think Kevin Hart is being paid to sell these scams? Like he must already be worth tens of millions of dollars so to make it worth his time must be something similar right? Must be tens of millions. Where are these NFT bros getting this money now because it's all fallen off a cliff? Look how fucking ugly this looks. Dogs kind of cute. It's ugly as shit. It looks like an Xbox avatar, true. I wonder if Kevin Hart ever even uses his Twitter or if it's just handled by some social media people but who are these 37 million people following this shit? I know some of the people following. Why is Coffeezilla creator and Whippy following Kevin Hart? But if they have 300 likes why is it worth it for them? You can guarantee when they're signing the contracts the managers are like Kevin Hart has access to 37 million people on his Twitter. 37 million. That demands a premium. Gotta bump that up by a few million. People who aren't savvy may not look at the Twitter and be like oh 37 million people that's a lot of people son. Gonna add for NFTs? Why are they still trying? There must be some of these NFT bros that actually believe. I mean like who make the NFTs? Because like who wouldn't just cut and run at this point? You got away with a scam for this long. I suppose there's still gonna be some people out there trying to do the scam themselves right? Aren't NFTs dead? There are still some people who are in the cult really into NFTs dude. They had a convention recently. |
| 20. July 2022 | Kevin harts NFT SCams | Kevin Hart's NFT scams. So this is Kevin Hart's Twitter. You know Kevin Hart, dude who has mocked a lot for being short in his movies and that seems to be the main thing that he's about. He has 37 million followers on Twitter. 37 million. He's gone into the heart into this NFT stuff and look at how many likes he's getting on these NFT posts. 300, 140. All he's tweeting about is this NFT stuff but even even stuff that he does about himself. Like 300 likes, 600 likes for oh my god presale of my NFTs. How much money are these people getting for these NFT things? Like how much do you think Kevin Hart is being paid to sell these scams? Like he must already be worth tens of millions of dollars so to make it worth his time must be something similar right? Must be tens of millions. Where are these NFT bros getting this money now because it's all fallen off a cliff? Look how fucking ugly this looks. Dogs kind of cute. It's ugly as shit. It looks like an Xbox avatar, true. I wonder if Kevin Hart ever even uses his Twitter or if it's just handled by some social media people but who are these 37 million people following this shit? I know some of the people following. Why is Coffeezilla creator and Whippy following Kevin Hart? But if they have 300 likes why is it worth it for them? You can guarantee when they're signing the contracts the managers are like Kevin Hart has access to 37 million people on his Twitter. 37 million. That demands a premium. Gotta bump that up by a few million. People who aren't savvy may not look at the Twitter and be like oh 37 million people that's a lot of people son. Gonna add for NFTs? Why are they still trying? There must be some of these NFT bros that actually believe. I mean like who make the NFTs? Because like who wouldn't just cut and run at this point? You got away with a scam for this long. I suppose there's still gonna be some people out there trying to do the scam themselves right? Aren't NFTs dead? There are still some people who are in the cult really into NFTs dude. They had a convention recently. |
| 06. October 2021 | Kids being coached at games | Kids being coached at games. Well there are Fortnite coaches for kids now, not sure if that's evolution or the other way around. It doesn't surprise me. Being good at these games is probably like a status symbol or important for kids in their groups or whatever. Is it any different from like, didn't Nintendo Power used to have like a tips and help phone line where you called and you'd be like look I'm stuck on level 7 I can't get past this how do I do it? Well see here's what you do, you go beat the bats over here then you unlock the boss you get this magic key. You had a chess grandmaster coaching you when you were a kid? Well I wonder what that such a person would charge. What can you charge as a grandmaster for chess lessons? Do chess grandmasters live well? I mean aren't there like rich parents who who want their kid to do the best and chess is seen as that intelligent thing that well the game that intelligent people know how to play well? Is it only the best for my young Wils Nige? I bought him a grandmaster for chess. |
| 20. March 2021 | Kids can be annoying. | Kids can be annoying When I went to see my family, they have a young daughter. I know she's like two or something I don't really keep track of these things, but she had this Elsa mechanical thing and like it would spin around in different colors and Sing the song let it go. Let it go You know, and I think it must mean only like 15 seconds of the entire song and She played it like for hours Must be in at least an hour and a half just that 15 seconds over and over and over again now Like I'd heard that that song was the bane of the existence of parents But I didn't know it was that bad like I assumed they would like listen to the entire song like a Bunch of times like maybe once a day or something but just over and over that 15 seconds. Let it go Let it go turn away. I know what part of the song it was, but it was kind of eye-opening |
| 30. September 2021 | Kids ruining collectables | Kids ruining collectibles dude, I remember it was the swimming carnival for my school and we took my mother's Little pos of change that had like one and two cent coins Which were no longer valid currency and endless five cent coins 20 cent coins 50 cent coins and they had these Dragon Ball Z Circular discs in packets of chips so all day everyone was just buying as many packets of chips as possible to get these fucking Tarso coins, whatever we run out of money So we started using the coins until we're sitting there with like 55 cent coins and various different other coins Slamming them on the table of the canteen being like we have another Packet of chips, please the people must have thought we were fucking crazy This dude he gave it to me. I think like a pretty rare One of these discs was the was orange ones They had like an orange background instead of the normal stuff, but the one he had Was orange but a weird colored orange and so he's like, oh, this is defective You can take it and so it was both a rare one and it was a misprint because Presumably they're running out of ink at the end And so they it didn't get a full layer of the orange ink six months later The guy was like dude, can I have that back like that's super rare? I'm like, I don't know man I guess and I looked at my backpack and And so this this disc had been rolling around my backpack for like six months and I brought it out and it was just Decimated like it must have been hit by my pencils and my rulers and shit like 10,000 times He was like dude, you're fucking broken. I'm like, I don't know man. You gave it to me. I Fucking know as kids you just don't value stuff There's multiple videos out there where adults go and take their like yugioh card collections or Pokemon card collections To get them appraised the collectives are like, oh, yeah If this was in perfect edition this be worth like a hundred bucks But as you can see like, you know, you had an elastic band around your cards no sleeves This is beat the fuck This is worth nothing. I'll give you ten cents for it |
| 05. March 2022 | Kids that want to be Youtubers. | Kids that want to be YouTubers. So my mother came over yesterday, right? And I had a bunch of stuff sitting around that I had no use for. Like a mafia keyboard and mouse, the Boba Fett helmet. Was there one other thing? Yeah, a bunch of Far Cry 6 merchandise stuff. And I was like, it's just taking up space, I don't really need it. And I say, can you give it to someone? And there are these kids, like my mother's friend's kids, who actually watch my content. Probably don't watch Rambles, so that's fine. And apparently, my mother gave the gear to her friends and then to their kids. And they were really excited that it came from, it was my stuff. It's like, oh, that's amazing. And apparently, at least one of the kids is inspired because they want to be a YouTuber and stuff. And they've got a webcam and mic and stuff. And whenever I hear about something like that, I'm like, when people say that they want to be a YouTuber for a living, when they're young, when they're kids and stuff, most of them probably don't really understand what goes into the job. And how most of the job is just editing. Certainly, as we've talked about before, the exact thing that each YouTuber does varies considerably. But most of the job for most people is editing. And so a lot of people go, oh, I'm going to be a Twitch streamer man and play video games all day. In the realm of content creation, the amount of people who are just able to play video games and think about nothing else is like not even registerable on a scale of some sort. When I reflect on how much of my time is spent editing versus actual gaming, it's far more editing. Not only would a kid have a very low chance of getting into this career, I just hope that their hopes don't get crushed and stuff when the realization of what they actually have to do kind of sinks in as they get older. |
| 04. October 2021 | Kids these days don't know the struggles of old handheld consoles | Kids these days don't know the struggles of the old handheld consoles. I remember playing Pokemon Red on Gameboy in a car ride home. Christ that music was like a lullaby. Yes, and you would use the lights from lights that went by to see the game because the Gameboy had no backlight back then and You'd be stopped at the light as you make all good. There's light coming through the window I can play the game. It's like ah now now there's no light and you wait wait We'd beg you beg your parents like put can I just put the car light on just for a little bit so I can play the game and then I got like a Device that you attach to your Gameboy. It's like an external light specifically to attach to the screen and Me and my sister both when we want to read books and when we want to play Gameboy the lights in the house were like super valuable because we're meant to go to sleep, but we'd want to stay up and so we'd hide under our sheets and Either read or play Gameboy or whatever and so Mum would catch us and she'd take a light and we'd have a second light and a third light Oh, my mother would take the batteries and we run down we'd sneak downstairs and take the batteries out of our Remote controls the scariest thing was when it'd be late at night and I'd be almost going to sleep and I would I would see movement in my bedroom And it was my sister sneaking in to take one of my lights So that she could play Gameboy or something and I'd be freaked the fuck out like what the fuck is someone doing in my room? Oh my god, that like freaked me out for days or whatever I was waking up my sister's and I'm like oh my god, what the fuck someone did in my room It's weird what you remember from your childhood Oh, I first Gameboy then Gameboy color My mother wouldn't take the game cards because I was allowed to play the game just not at night, right? |
| 28. April 2021 | Kids, Dogs, Women, don't like me | Kids, dogs, and women don't like me. I saw a clip of Ian Kang, Gus Johnson. But they're doing a skit where how your girlfriend reacts when she sees a dog. And it's obviously very exciting. Oh my god, look at the dog over there! I'm like, that's totally me. I may not be your girlfriend, but I do act like that. Like, hey, hey, there's a cute dog over there! Do you see the cute dog? Why is no one accepting, acknowledging the cute dog over there? You know, and the cute dog doesn't like me and runs away and I feel sad. Oh. The dude came out in the rambles, right? Went over my family's place and both their dogs didn't like me. And I was just like, aw. And even their young child didn't like me either. Dogs, children, women, none of them like me, chat. At least the internet likes me, though. Got that going for me, which is nice. Okay, I'm having women on dating websites. I do have some women in my audience. You forget what you're doing when you see a cute dog. So what, like the men in black, they don't use that flashy thing. They just go to you, hold up a picture of a cute animal. I used to forget everything that happened in the last five minutes. |
| 17. June 2021 | Killing 31000 people is the same as planting 20 million trees | ...amount of oxygen as planting 20 million trees? Why- why did someone calculate that? Was it just like some government official like, look, I'm not saying that we should, but I just think we should determine how many people we would need to kill to, uh, not have to plant 20 million trees. Yeah, but why- why would you want to know the information? No- no reason, I just think it'd be useful information to know, like just, you know, I'm not saying we should assess it as a realistic option, but just- just have it there. Heh. It reminds me of a skit from, um, Mitchell and Webb, if you've ever seen that show. You're gonna mention that sketch? What was- what was the actual focus of the sketch, though? What were they trying to achieve, and what was the terrible thing they were talking about? It's a great show, that. He's really good with numbers, he should go on Numberwang. Another thing that people, if you haven't seen that show, will not understand that. Great British comedy. That's Numberwang! That is also, somehow, Numberwang. Extreme negative feedback, is your favorite sketch for them? Can't recall that one. They were investigating ways to save the economy, and one of the options they were investigating was killing off all the poor people- oh, I see, okay. Nice. Do I drink coffee? Have you ever had Farmer's Union iced coffee? Uh, no. No, but I have never had- |
| 17. July 2021 | Knowing the wonders of desserts. | Knowing the wonders of desserts. I missed crushers from KFC. Did you ever have them? I'm not sure what a crusher is. Is a crusher one of their desserts? I slept on desserts from fast food restaurants for a long time. It's maybe like only within the last year that I have tried some desserts from fast food restaurants. While I can't remember what they taste like right now, I do know that I have found myself to enjoy them. Although sometimes they do make me sick afterwards. I'm sure that's a lot of fucking sugar. I try the desserts from Domino's. I frequently get the chocolate slab thing that they have. You know what I'm talking about? I think the reason why I slept on desserts for so long, I love that phrasing as well as if I'm literally sleeping on the desserts, but to sleep on something is to simply say that your eyes weren't open to it, you know. I'm not sure where that comes from, but anyway. Yeah, it's because I didn't have the money to do it I suppose. As in, for most of my life I shied away from getting stuff that wasn't good value and desserts are not good value for money. God damn. Due to your kind support chat, I've been able to improve my life with dessert. Interesting turn of events. What would past me think? What are you talking about? Man, that's like seven dollars for like a thousand calories. It's not a thousand calories, like, what dessert is a thousand calories? Kilojules, whatever. Have I ever had a balaclava or baklava? Balaclava is a very different thing. No, I don't know what baklava is. |
| 02. May 2021 | Koala vs Kangaroo shapeshifting | Koala versus kangaroo shape-shifting Would I rather the ability to shape shift into koala or a kangaroo? koalas suck guys The koalas have like the greatest marketing team that has ever existed They sleep all the fucking time have no like they're the laziest fuckers alive All they do is eat eucalyptus and it takes them like a trillion years to digest it or something to get energy from it so it's been like they spend all their time either Sleeping or eating eucalyptus and they're really really fucking dumb Like it is truly a miracle that koalas um aren't extinct. They're just that dumb Their brains are like the size of a pea they might have the smallest Brain size the body size ratio like obviously just the size of your brain isn't Indicative of how intelligent you are or whales or whatever would be the most intelligent creature but certainly you need some brain to have some intelligence and and Koalas just don't have that shit and their teeth. Oh my god. Have you seen koala teeth? They're like fucking gerbil fucking teeth. Have you heard them scream? There was no worse scream than a koala scream Yes, so I'd rather be a kangaroo They're ball and then I lay down and they can kick stuff. It's cool you guys remember that um the cat and mouse Sylvester and is a speedy gongar Gonzales or whatever I think and they're on a ship and they open a shipping container and there's a baby kangaroo and Sylvester think it's a huge mouse and the kangaroo like beats him up. You ain't seen that with a koala is what I'm saying Oh, is it Tom and Jerry? You sure? Okay. Well me it's Tom and Jerry then. Oh, no, it is Sylvester. It was Sylvester and Tweety I can't remember minutes from my childhood |
| 02. May 2021 | Koala vs Kangeroo shapeshifting | Koala versus kangaroo shape-shifting Would I rather the ability to shape shift into koala or a kangaroo? koalas suck guys The koalas have like the greatest marketing team that has ever existed They sleep all the fucking time have no like they're the laziest fuckers alive All they do is eat eucalyptus and it takes them like a trillion years to digest it or something to get energy from it so it's been like they spend all their time either Sleeping or eating eucalyptus and they're really really fucking dumb Like it is truly a miracle that koalas um aren't extinct. They're just that dumb Their brains are like the size of a pea they might have the smallest Brain size the body size ratio like obviously just the size of your brain isn't Indicative of how intelligent you are or whales or whatever would be the most intelligent creature but certainly you need some brain to have some intelligence and and Koalas just don't have that shit and their teeth. Oh my god. Have you seen koala teeth? They're like fucking gerbil fucking teeth. Have you heard them scream? There was no worse scream than a koala scream Yes, so I'd rather be a kangaroo They're ball and then I lay down and they can kick stuff. It's cool you guys remember that um the cat and mouse Sylvester and is a speedy gongar Gonzales or whatever I think and they're on a ship and they open a shipping container and there's a baby kangaroo and Sylvester think it's a huge mouse and the kangaroo like beats him up. You ain't seen that with a koala is what I'm saying Oh, is it Tom and Jerry? You sure? Okay. Well me it's Tom and Jerry then. Oh, no, it is Sylvester. It was Sylvester and Tweety I can't remember minutes from my childhood |
| 22. December 2020 | Kratos in Fortnite. | Kratos now being in Fortnite. What do I think of them adding Kratos to Fortnite? It is impressive that Fortnite can kind of just interact with any property like that. I wonder who's making those calls? Is Epic Games calling up these other companies and being like, hey, yo, can we just have your character? Yes, thank you. Or is that company reaching out like, hey, I know you've got a lot of characters in your game. Is Kratos hyping up our game? Like both parties benefit. So I'm wondering who's paying the money there. Kratos is like the least Fortnite friendly character. I can absolutely see Kratos as like some other god controls reality and basically chucks Kratos in to a portal similar to, you know, the samurai in Aku, you know, and Kratos is just like rolling his eyes as he continues to be thrown through different realities and he has to beat up different characters from different universes. I would pay to see that and play that. Like he just appears in Los Santos, just cracks Trevor's skull with his axe and then moves on kind of thing. |
| 22. December 2020 | Krotos in Fortnite. | Kratos now being in Fortnite. What do I think of them adding Kratos to Fortnite? It is impressive that Fortnite can kind of just interact with any property like that. I wonder who's making those calls? Is Epic Games calling up these other companies and being like, hey, yo, can we just have your character? Yes, thank you. Or is that company reaching out like, hey, I know you've got a lot of characters in your game. Is Kratos hyping up our game? Like both parties benefit. So I'm wondering who's paying the money there. Kratos is like the least Fortnite friendly character. I can absolutely see Kratos as like some other god controls reality and basically chucks Kratos in to a portal similar to, you know, the samurai in Aku, you know, and Kratos is just like rolling his eyes as he continues to be thrown through different realities and he has to beat up different characters from different universes. I would pay to see that and play that. Like he just appears in Los Santos, just cracks Trevor's skull with his axe and then moves on kind of thing. |
| 29. January 2023 | Kurzgesagt accused of producing propaganda funded by Billionaires | I thought that was nuts. When you hear that you're like, that makes sense. Never thought about that before. Kurskzart accused of producing propaganda funded by billionaires. I apologize for saying the channel's name Kurskzarts. Wrong many times. So I was sent this video, how Kurgestadt cooks propaganda for billionaires. For those who are unaware, this is like a German educational channel that produces videos on everything from climate change to meat eating and all this stuff. Its videos have millions upon millions of views. I think they've got like 15 million subscribers or something. This video hasn't hit a million in one month. Got a lot of sources, a lot of likes and basically it accuses Kurgestadt of basically just being funded by billionaires and pumping out their propaganda to influence the world in the direction that the billionaires want it directed. And you get to the end and only a handful of times do they actually call into question the results of the videos that have been produced. Like they might say, oh, this video that they produced is a little bit more rosy than this other data suggests. Most of this is just talking about how they believe that Kurgestadt is not open enough with who funds them and who their sources actually are for their information. And when I got to the end of this I'm like, you can't fucking trust anyone. It sucks. But the other thing that came to mind was say I was a billionaire. What would I do with that money? And my answer is I would attempt to fund things that enable me to better understand the world and then I would use that understanding to attempt to make the world better for other people. And a part of that would necessarily be attempting to convince the world that my perceptions and my belief path forward for the betterment of humanity is something that they also should believe in. But I recognize that this mindset is coming from a person who probably doesn't have the right mindset to become a billionaire in the first place. There's a mindset of a person who accidentally stumbled into a little bit of wealth by playing a video game. I'm not sure I trust that the current billionaires have that same sort of mindset. So while the idea of a billionaire funding research and funding educational videos isn't inherently wrong to me, it seems as though it's something that you'd have to be very trustworthy wasn't just leading to the manipulation of society for the say the financial gains of the billionaire class, right? That these billionaires are not necessarily trying to steer the world in like a egalitarian what's better for everyone sort of direction. Potentially they are just directing in a way that's the best for them personally and their friends and their interests. Like I'm not sure how I could determine whether some study was done unbiasedly and just happened to be funded by a billionaire versus one that was done biasedly and was funded by a billionaire. I suppose there would always be the potential for bias. I guess it would just depend on whether results ended up being influenced by that bias or not. Like research costs money and someone has to fund it and that funding is necessarily gonna induce some bias. Can there ever be stuff that's truly trustworthy when money is involved? To become a billionaire requires certain kind of selfishness to hoard that kind of money. I am more of the belief that obscene wealth to that degree requires more luck than anything else. Certainly some mentalities are more important like in pursuing that but like if you invent something that is worth a lot to the market and then you sell it and a part of that gives you say stock in Facebook or something and then Facebook becomes worth billions and you sell your stock. You're now a billionaire. But you just happen to have good fortune to get to that angle. That would be very different than a person grabbing for every penny, squeezing every worker for every drop or like becoming an oligarch in Russia or something when you get public assets for pennies at some point and then become a billionaire in that direction. In summary, feel free to watch the video. It's just a video that makes me think and makes me continue to be skeptical about the world and hate that I have to be skeptical to this degree because nothing seems trustworthy. Or at the very least the degree of effort that would be required to vet even a tiny fraction of what I consume on a day-to-day basis is so much that it's impossible to do. You should check out the channel Think That Through. They did a similar analysis. Did I finish this video? I can't remember. The thing you need to remember though is even these videos aren't necessarily free of bias or are necessarily correct and are potentially just giving another perspective which could be countered by Kyrgyzstan if they want to spend the time. I do however have a bit of a bias towards believing that the longer the video and not just like a person sitting doing nothing or whatever but like an actual well researched video like the longer it is the more likely it is able to cover everything from every direction. When you're making these sort of pop culture easily consumable video for the masses like Kyrgyzstan does, you got a 10 minute video, there's no way that you can condense decades of research into a 10 minute video while being fair to all sides or countering every possible minutia or a bit of ambiguity and arguing for your beliefs in regards to ambiguity, right? You just can't do that. You don't have the time. One 10 minute video appealing to emotion will be more effective in changing how people perceive the world than a two-hour essay especially because you can pump out more 10 minute ones. I just threw for thought, videos if you want something to watch. Full self-driving cars and the battle against- |
| 16. February 2023 | Kurzgesagt responds to accusations of cooking propaganda for billionaires. | Kursk's art responds to accusations of cooking propaganda for billionaires So in a previous video I brought up how Kyrgyzstan had been accused of peddling propaganda for billionaires Namely this video how Kursk's art saying it correctly now at least closer than I was before Cooks propaganda for billionaires now when I talked about my view of this video I mentioned how surprised I was that they didn't actually spend much time arguing how Kursk's art was wrong They mentioned like a time or two where they think that their figures may have been a bit rosy Where they took like figures that may have been a bit more positive than actually is the case But these are sorts of things you can argue about in science because there's obviously going to be conflicting numbers based on different methodologies, right? They didn't really hammer down into that and say Kursk's art is doing some bad science here they just sort of alluded to the idea of their funding being bad and them not being open enough about where their funding comes from and so when I talked about the video what I largely talked about was How comfortable am I with billionaires funding research? What would I do as a billionaire? How much can we trust anyone at all? So one of my viewers sent me a counter video to that video by Ilyis, a defense of Kyrgyzstan. Small youtuber, video is somewhat blown up, which is good It talks about how this video accusing Kursk's art of using rosy numbers in some cases This video is largely only looking at like one source one guy who happens to disagree with a lot of Kursk's art's conclusions I hate saying this name. He talks about how this video is largely baseless. All it is is just like Appealing to the motivations and saying well, they can't have good motivation. So therefore the science they're doing must be bad it's not arguing good faith, it's a lot of cherry picks nonsense and Kursk's art did a post talking about this video because of how big it had gotten and they reference like This video is talking about how like oh, you know, like 70% of their funding comes from billionaires, man Look at look at these numbers that they're hiding when Kursk's art has like a completely different viewpoint talking about how like sponsorships and grants is like 13% and they go down talking about how they're funded and what they do with their team and all that jazz and I suggest Watching this defense video and and reading this post if you have a interest in in Kursk's art's content I came away with it being like I feel like I was taken in by some bullshit honestly with this Attack video on Kursk's art as they it's hard to know who to trust if you're not gonna do the legwork yourself You're always gonna be in a state of uncertainty But if you are a person who already hated these billionaire dudes The very nanosecond that this video said Kursk's art is connected to some of these dudes Kursk's art was done. It doesn't matter how much evidence there is for that conclusion you such people were gonna hate them anyway, right? basically, yeah shout out to this small creator and I recommend watching the video because it is good. Well, especially good for a new creator, right? It's not gonna have all the bells and whistles of a person being doing YouTube videos for years But yeah, if you have an interest in the topic I highly recommend watching this especially if you were also taken in by this video and do read Kursk's art's response to the video as well as I said in my original discussion of that Attack video if you like on Kursk's art it was always possible that Kursk's art was gonna be able to defend themselves from these claims and until they said something we weren't gonna know but apparently Kursk's art does plan to have a video where they do like a behind-the-scenes thing how their stuff gets done and that apparently will are at least Indirectly respond to a lot of what that video claims. You should check out what I've learned video on Kursk's art Most videos from Kursk's art about physics and astronomy are correct It's just they leave out some relevant information at times that skews the argument in their favor As I said before if you're making like a 10-minute video on a topic you will not be able to like Condense every single possible bit of information on that topic into 10 minutes You will not be able to look at all the possible nuance and all the possible ambiguity that exists in any topic You will not be able to give arguments against every possible counter argument that can exist for what you're trying to present There's always gonna be debate in any topic. They touch on these issues in the video they already made Yes, I do know they did a video like three years ago talking about whether you can trust them Am I going to cancel my chaos mod series? When chaos again the last episode of chaos did not do particularly well on YouTube But I still want to get through the entire game just as a challenge and They're still fairly easy to make regardless of what views they get I'm not a person who likes to start things and not finish them So, uh when I have time if you're looking for more chaos to watch my VOD channel has the lost chaos footage on my channel |
| 19. February 2022 | LAN parties and HALO when i was a kid | LAN parties and Halo when I was a kid. I can't remember what my first LAN party was. The most memorable LAN party that I think I ever had was when Nathan did like a 16 player Halo 2 at his house. He had LAN cables connecting like four different rooms with TVs and Xboxes. It was pretty sweet. Halo 2 was such a good game. Halo 2 was the shit. It was a shooting game. I was like an FPS kind of thing. I was actually pretty decent. Halo 1 was good, but the pistol was overpowered. Halo 2 was just I think like in a good sweet spot with the game. |
| 18. January 2023 | Lamar roasts a kid for not owning GTA V in real life. | Luma Roasts a Kid in Real Life for Not Owning GTA V So obviously I don't like just sitting here watching stuff, but this is at the very least an advertisement. I can't recall if I've seen this before, but this was an advertisement for GTA V. And it involves Luma doing his, uh, Bitches on your Dick thing, but like a PG-13 version of it. Mom, can I please get Grand Theft Auto? No, you cannot get Grand Theft Auto, Josh. I already told you this. But all my friends have it! I don't care! You're only 11 years old, Josh! No, no, no. Hey, come on, Mom. Take it easy on Josh. At least the kid knows what he likes. Yeah. Grand Theft Auto V. Yo, Josh. I've been checking you out, bro, and I gotta tell you. Maybe if you got rid of that old yee-y-y-y haircut, you got your mama to put some games in your console. Nah, better yet, get your grades up and you might make it to an amusement park. You delinquent. You delinquent! You can almost hear him say the N-word before he says delinquent. Like, he pauses there for a nanosecond. It's interesting because, like, I'm sure there's a lot of advertisements that were done for GTA V that I'd find endearing now that I've never seen. Another example was one that came up in Facts and Glitches. So, there were character trailers for each of the characters. Like, it's just scenes from the game and some little extra things, but, like, I'd never seen these before. And I guess this is a large part because I didn't really have an interest in Grand Theft Auto before it came on PC and I started to speedrun it. I watched the cutscene movie on YouTube, I didn't have the consoles, but, uh, I guess I missed out on all this advertising for it. It's going to be interesting to see what kind of stuff they do when GTA VI comes out. |
| 05. February 2021 | Lamenting the loss of my older footage | Older footage. When there was rumors that Twitch kept the VODs in some server you could access and stuff, even if they get deleted on the front end, I was excited. I'm like, I can get all that footage back that I don't have anymore. And but no, really, I should just be thankful I have as much footage from the old days as I do. If you're a new streamer, keep your VODs, record your shit. Now, I suppose that's stupid advice, because like, the odds of you needing it in the same way that I need mine is unlikely, and it would cost a lot to store it somewhere. VOD stands for Video On Demand. I'm actually having people edit some of my older stuff again, in part because I'm spending time cataloging my older footage and stuff. Like right now, I'm trying to find all the old How This Even Ended episodes. It's not going well. It's a huge pain. |
| 12. August 2020 | Large lazy Twitch streamers | Large lazy Twitch streamers. What is with extraordinarily lazy fuckwits becoming really popular on Twitch? And then going, oh wait a second, I'm popular on Twitch. I better just get popular on YouTube as well. I won't put any effort into my content. Fuck effort. Just upload my vods to YouTube, okay? Get some random guy playing the 7th grade just to cut from hour 1 to hour 2, shove it up there, regardless of whose content you're watching on Twitch. When you believe you're good in one place, you assume you'll be good in the other place. No, no, no. It's just when you're popular, throwing your name at basically anything will get your views. It's just if you're not willing to put any effort into a YouTube channel, you shouldn't have a YouTube channel. There are so many people who do literally nothing with their YouTube channel, but they own it and they get revenue from it. And they just hire a dude to just run their channel. It just feels so garbage. It's a creative outlet, an expression of yourself, and you have no actual creative input in it at all. And worse when a substantial amount of content on the channel has nothing to do with you. It's other people's shit that you happen to watch. I hate people who try to reap rewards without putting any effort in. My ideal world is one where there is a strong connection between effort and reward. And these really huge content creators reaping all the rewards of a successful YouTube channel with literally fucking no effort piss me off. It is literally the idea of the rich getting richer doing fucking nothing. Think of KSI and Try Not To Laugh Things. At the very least, if you're reacting to Reddit and the video is edited, it shows a minimal amount of effort. If you sit down and not live streaming Watch A You Laugh You Lose compilation, there is already like 10,000 times more effort than XQC or Asmongold has ever put into a YouTube video. Given that, they would just make the content on their Twitch regardless, and it just so happens to then get uploaded to YouTube by other people. And that is not suggesting that You Laugh You Lose reacting to Reddit and stuff is the high tier of content, but it at least shows some modicum of effort. Like, the lowest possible standard of desiring of effort out of people for success on YouTube, and a substantial amount of people on Twitch do not even make that cut. |
| 12. August 2020 | Large lazy twitch streamers | Large lazy Twitch streamers. What is with extraordinarily lazy fuckwits becoming really popular on Twitch? And then going, oh wait a second, I'm popular on Twitch. I better just get popular on YouTube as well. I won't put any effort into my content. Fuck effort. Just upload my vods to YouTube, okay? Get some random guy playing the 7th grade just to cut from hour 1 to hour 2, shove it up there, regardless of whose content you're watching on Twitch. When you believe you're good in one place, you assume you'll be good in the other place. No, no, no. It's just when you're popular, throwing your name at basically anything will get your views. It's just if you're not willing to put any effort into a YouTube channel, you shouldn't have a YouTube channel. There are so many people who do literally nothing with their YouTube channel, but they own it and they get revenue from it. And they just hire a dude to just run their channel. It just feels so garbage. It's a creative outlet, an expression of yourself, and you have no actual creative input in it at all. And worse when a substantial amount of content on the channel has nothing to do with you. It's other people's shit that you happen to watch. I hate people who try to reap rewards without putting any effort in. My ideal world is one where there is a strong connection between effort and reward. And these really huge content creators reaping all the rewards of a successful YouTube channel with literally fucking no effort piss me off. It is literally the idea of the rich getting richer doing fucking nothing. Think of KSI and Try Not To Laugh Things. At the very least, if you're reacting to Reddit and the video is edited, it shows a minimal amount of effort. If you sit down and not live streaming Watch A You Laugh You Lose compilation, there is already like 10,000 times more effort than XQC or Asmongold has ever put into a YouTube video. Given that, they would just make the content on their Twitch regardless, and it just so happens to then get uploaded to YouTube by other people. And that is not suggesting that You Laugh You Lose reacting to Reddit and stuff is the high tier of content, but it at least shows some modicum of effort. Like, the lowest possible standard of desiring of effort out of people for success on YouTube, and a substantial amount of people on Twitch do not even make that cut. |
| 18. May 2021 | Large streamers who do not give a shit about their overlay | Large streamers who do not give a shit about their overlay. You know what's weird? When you go to large streams and they still have like donations and subs and stuff in the middle of the screen, like to me nothing screams more either that you don't give a shit how your stream looks like or B, you care the most about donos than having that shit in the middle of your screen. I suppose like the main reason it was a consideration for me is that uh, because when I started doing YouTube stuff, I would notice that the the Donos and stuff could potentially obscure some important part of the gameplay and ruin a clip. I was like, nah, we can't do that. Content comes first and the financial stuff comes second. There's a lot of big streamers that don't give a fuck about anything technical. Yeah, that's true. I mean and certainly their don't give a fuck attitude is sometimes what the stream that the viewers come for, you know. If they were the type of person who cared about all those minute details then they wouldn't be the streamer that they are, you know. There is definitely that market for everyday guy that you just chill with but I'm uh, I'm the kind of guy who likes everything to be as neat as possible on screen. Like everything is calculated to take out the minimum amount of spot that I need, the space that I need it. You before first more streamers? I mean, I don't watch streams to like bond with a streamer or something or get to know a streamer. I watch streams if I think what they're doing is entertaining. I very rarely type in chat. Honestly though, in pass, now that I'm as large a content creator as I am, if I type in chat and a person could have seen my message and doesn't acknowledge it, either it's just you know every day that just that just fucking happens, whatever. Or the person doesn't like me and I don't know which. Because when you're a normal person and your message doesn't get seen, you're like, well the person didn't see it, you know. If you have a check mark or whatever and the chats moving fairly slow, the person doesn't acknowledge you. Like does that person just fucking hate me? Because it's a stupid thing to think because obviously the answer is probably no. But I'm just I'm just a weird guy and so I can't help but think that. Because under normal circumstances, I think everyone hates me. I don't need more opportunities to think that people might hate me. |
| 10. June 2022 | Leaking being on Mutahar's podcast | Leaking being on Mudahar's podcast. Why I'm not sleeping? I'm moving my sleeping pattern and staying up long enough for the podcast with Mudahar and Nux and Oompa. If I'm saying their names correctly. It's funny, I made an announcement for Chaos and 25 seconds in I was like, I'm going to be on Mudahar's podcast by the way. And I was like, oh wait, no I shouldn't release that. And so I stopped the video and did another take. But I accidentally uploaded the first take where I said that I was on the podcast. And so I was very confused when people were coming into the stream being like, oh you're going to be on Mudahar's podcast, that's cool. And I'm like, oh did they announce that? How does so many people know that I'm on the podcast? I was the leaker chat. This acute |
| 17. January 2022 | Learning a speedrun is more than learning a route. | when you get into a new speedrun, it's not learning the routes, it's learning all the alternate strats, why certain things don't work, how things can fail and what you should do in those situations, or knowing enough about the run to be able to improve on the run that you're doing right now. That takes eons depending upon the run. It's like recently when Berhak was, he suggested a new strat on Monkey Business and I was like, here's the history of that strat, it's strat testing, and why it never became a strat. If you do this, it'll softlock. It's like, ah, shit. Because it was a good strat idea, it's why it was looked into originally. But like, if there was some kind of repository of not only the good strats, but all the bad strats, and all the things that have been tested to not work, more practical things might come from that, right, because everyone will be on the same playing field, but that's just, it's just too impractical to get that knowledge to everyone. And even so, actually, well, saying that, it's probably good in many respects that people don't have the same history or the same knowledge, because you get a new person who comes along, they question the established wisdom, you know. They're like, oh, I've never tested this, and they test it, and then they find something that no one else would find because everyone else is like, ah, it's impossible, can't be done, you know. Was I always equally committed in my content creation? This was in response to a viewer suggesting... |
| 15. November 2021 | Learning a word then hearing it everywhere. | Learning a word and then hearing it everywhere. I Make the joke. Oh, I it's a joke kind of phrase mama didn't raise no bamboozler. I Know I love that word. It's so good. I Swear to you though the second that I started saying this word everyone around me started saying the word not people I knew just like in media and stuff and Obviously, it's just me taking more notice of people saying the word as Opposed to me having an influence on existence, but it's still unnerving. It's like when I learned the word What trepidatious or trepidation? Never had heard this word in like 25 years of life and then within a week I'd heard like 16 times and I'm just like Is this the Truman show people were fucking with me? |
| 22. March 2022 | Learning being limited by current knowledge. | Learning being limited by current knowledge. I've never got into Adobe After Effects, not at all. It's probably one of my weakest areas. There are still a lot of time-consuming high-quality things that I cannot do with editing. I've just not bothered to learn, largely because I've talked about before how when you're making content the things that you can conceive of are only within a certain realm of your own capability. So like here's everything that you know you can do with editing, right? And then there's like another hypothetical rung here that you can conceive of where you're like I can't do this but I can think of it and I should look up how to do it, right? And then there's another rung of like all possible things that you can do and you can't conceive of this stuff because it's just too far away from what you're able to achieve right now. And there's a lot of stuff that you can do with After Effects that exists in here for me and so I've never bothered to learn After Effects because while editing I'm not conceiving of this stuff enough that I'm motivated to learn, you know? After Effects is unnecessarily complicated sometimes. Isn't it largely just a Derby premiere but with like 87 additional features? |
| 22. March 2022 | Learning being limited by currrent knowledge. | Learning being limited by current knowledge. I've never got into Adobe After Effects, not at all. It's probably one of my weakest areas. There are still a lot of time-consuming high-quality things that I cannot do with editing. I've just not bothered to learn, largely because I've talked about before how when you're making content the things that you can conceive of are only within a certain realm of your own capability. So like here's everything that you know you can do with editing, right? And then there's like another hypothetical rung here that you can conceive of where you're like I can't do this but I can think of it and I should look up how to do it, right? And then there's another rung of like all possible things that you can do and you can't conceive of this stuff because it's just too far away from what you're able to achieve right now. And there's a lot of stuff that you can do with After Effects that exists in here for me and so I've never bothered to learn After Effects because while editing I'm not conceiving of this stuff enough that I'm motivated to learn, you know? After Effects is unnecessarily complicated sometimes. Isn't it largely just a Derby premiere but with like 87 additional features? |
| 03. January 2022 | Learning for the first time about aphantasia | Learning for the first time about aphantasia. Carl Sagan, the Super Mario Maker streamer. He has like no mind's eye. It's called aphantasia. He can't mentally picture anything effectively. Imagine, if you will, you may wish to close your eyes. Imagine in your head a red star. So try to imagine a red star and try to think about what that red star looks like to you. What do you like actually see in your head? Do you see the outline of a star? Can you see like a big bright red vivid looking star? Which one of these would you say best represents what you were actually able to see in your head? You motherfuckers saying six. I can only see one. The only I don't see any actual star and it definitely isn't red. And now that I've learned that some people can't do this, it makes me more think on what I can do. I can picture anything. I can picture a red star in my head, make it fucking dance with a top hat. Some nights I have this issue where if I think about, no, if I picture something disgusting, my brain won't stop producing images like that and it keeps me awake. I have to mentally focus on picturing something else or my brain will just continue to show me disgusting shit and prevent me from sleeping. And like in vivid detail. But I just think it'd be very weird living life where you can't make such visualizations, you know. Do people without a mind's eye dream? They can have unintentional visual imitries, but not intentional ones. They can't intentionally bring forth such imagery. I guess I must have realized that people do differ in terms of their ability to produce images and like mentally rotate them and shit. I guess I really never thought about the implications of that. Getting the right answer doesn't mean anything. |
| 04. September 2020 | Learning of dream, the Minecraft speedrunner | entire channel for a month. Dream is a speedrunner on Minecraft? Really? How does he... There's no way his channel is just speedruns to the end of the dragon. Is it like challenge runs in the sense of I'm gonna speedrun finding ten diamonds? That kind of stuff. He has challenges in speedruns? Interesting. He just kills the end of dragon as fast as he can. He has the world record for Minecraft. So this Dream guy is the most successful speedrunner then. When Mizgif said he was a speedrunner I thought he was joking. He doesn't even speedrun much. It is impressive that he can be that successful in such a very popular game while maintaining the world record. Tough thing to do. |
| 28. April 2021 | Leaving flip flops at my mother's house | Leaving my flip-flops at my mother's house. You know how long it's been since I've like, been to a restaurant? Probably like a thousand years. Normally I go on my birthday, but I didn't get to do anything for my birthday this year. I did literally nothing for my birthday, in terms of going somewhere, celebrating, whatever. Didn't even get to see my family. But I saw my mother yesterday, which was nice. I went over and I mentioned previously that I accidentally left my flip-flops at my mother's house and those being my primary footwear, it caused me some issues when I went to the barbers and realized I had no shoes, so I went back home. So when I went to my mother's, my mother's like, You gotta remember to take your flip-flops back, Matt. You gotta take them. I'm like, yeah, yeah, Mom, I'll do it. And I brought over my only other pair of flip-flops and I left them there too. I didn't take my flip-flops, I just left a new pair there. So now I have no flip-flops, no shoes that I like wearing, and so I'm trapped in my house. I can't go anywhere. Until the bottom of my feet has some form of plastic on them, I can't do anything. I'm trapped. A fire could break out in my house. Firefighters could be out there going, You gotta get out, you're gonna die, and I can't do it. I don't have any flip-flops. This is actually a life or death situation I'm in right now, Jack. But seriously, this is an inconvenience and I gotta go get them. I even forgot the cake. My mother bought like a cake, and because I couldn't show up on my birthday, it's still there. It's like an ice cream cake thing. I didn't get to eat any. I was meant to take it, I forgot it. I didn't forget my gifts at least, but most of my gifts were just forms of candy and food, and like scratchy tickets, because I like scratchies, you know, because my family has no idea what to buy me. I just appreciate that they try and give me nice cards. You know how hard it was saying that, all those sentences, while saying flip-flops instead of thongs? Flip-flops sounds like the dumbest thing to name anything, and it's so hard to say. They're thongs, chat. That's what they're called in Australia. I'm an international audience, I gotta remember that. |
| 22. February 2021 | Lester still having the same phone number after 9 years | Lester still having the same phone number after nine years in GTA 5. Yeah, violent. I said that in past-vist. The idea that Lester's phone number still works is kind of absurd. Although you could make an argument that maybe, like, Lester being the lead hacker guy that he is, you know, has it so the number doesn't engage unless he recognizes your number or something. And so he recognizes Michael's number calling and that's why he makes it so it works. I don't know, you know. It is a little bit silly. It is a plot contrivance. Certainly, um, there could have been other ways to do it. Like, Michael tracks down someone he used to work with. Who knows where Lester is or something like that, but... Creepier would have been, like, if Lester pops up and he's like, hey, you know, I've been, uh, watching you all this time and I- he need money. Oh, no, I know Michael is- doesn't fully expect for the number to work, but that- we're talking about that the number works at all, you know. True Jowcy, uh, as Lester points out, Michael didn't betray him, um, Lester's alias or to what extent he even needs an alias, like he- he wouldn't know he wasn't on any books. I guess to me there's no reason for him to change his number, but you- it just- You would imagine a person like Lester who cares about security and stuff would be changing his number intermittently. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 30. May 2020 | Levels of Twitch growth | What would you say are the steps or levels a Twitch streamer goes through as they grow in terms of popularity and what do they generally have to do to proceed? As in, say a streamer, the 10 viewers or 100 or 1000, once they gain a bigger follow, what can they do to acquire it? It's not a question that you can really answer, generally, it just depends on the content creator. Don't let your content get stale, continue to increase your discoverability. The more viewers you have, the more natural discoverability that you have, but expanding into other platforms. Creating other avenues of discoverability, or reaching out and collaborating with other content creators. Anything that gets your content in the eyes of other people, that's what you should be focusing on. As long as you're producing good content. You can make okay content, and if you have enough discoverability, you can get by. You want everything, you want the whole pie, you want good content and good discoverability, and that's what you should work on. But what good content is depends on the content creator, and what best ways you can increase your discoverability depends on the content creator. I can't give specific advice. While we're all called Twitch streamers, what we do is very different. How we do what we do is very different. There of course are similarities. People ask me for advice about how to grow as a Twitch streamer, and I say to you, I am not you. I have never had to go through what you're going to have to go through to become successful as a Twitch streamer. The platform is very different today than it was 4 or 5 years ago, 10 years ago, which was before my time. The platform is different every year, and what you should be doing every year is a little bit different. There are similarities. Discoverability is always good, having good content is always good. But I don't know who you are, I don't know what you can do best. So I can't really tell you specifically what you should be doing, and certainly I don't have time to write. I don't have the time to speak to you personally for hours on end to figure out your life for you. You're going to have to, you know, kind of figure it out for yourself as hard as it is sometimes. Because there are no easy answers. Growing on any social media platform is very, very hard, especially when it's already established. There are already the big players in the game, your ex-QCs, your Summoner 1s. |
| 30. May 2020 | Levels of twitch growth | What would you say are the steps or levels a Twitch streamer goes through as they grow in terms of popularity and what do they generally have to do to proceed? As in, say a streamer, the 10 viewers or 100 or 1000, once they gain a bigger follow, what can they do to acquire it? It's not a question that you can really answer, generally, it just depends on the content creator. Don't let your content get stale, continue to increase your discoverability. The more viewers you have, the more natural discoverability that you have, but expanding into other platforms. Creating other avenues of discoverability, or reaching out and collaborating with other content creators. Anything that gets your content in the eyes of other people, that's what you should be focusing on. As long as you're producing good content. You can make okay content, and if you have enough discoverability, you can get by. You want everything, you want the whole pie, you want good content and good discoverability, and that's what you should work on. But what good content is depends on the content creator, and what best ways you can increase your discoverability depends on the content creator. I can't give specific advice. While we're all called Twitch streamers, what we do is very different. How we do what we do is very different. There of course are similarities. People ask me for advice about how to grow as a Twitch streamer, and I say to you, I am not you. I have never had to go through what you're going to have to go through to become successful as a Twitch streamer. The platform is very different today than it was 4 or 5 years ago, 10 years ago, which was before my time. The platform is different every year, and what you should be doing every year is a little bit different. There are similarities. Discoverability is always good, having good content is always good. But I don't know who you are, I don't know what you can do best. So I can't really tell you specifically what you should be doing, and certainly I don't have time to write. I don't have the time to speak to you personally for hours on end to figure out your life for you. You're going to have to, you know, kind of figure it out for yourself as hard as it is sometimes. Because there are no easy answers. Growing on any social media platform is very, very hard, especially when it's already established. There are already the big players in the game, your ex-QCs, your Summoner 1s. |
| 04. March 2021 | Life + reset audiobook, Isekai in audiobook form. | Life Reset Audiobook, Isekai in Audio Form. So I found this book. It's called, uh, was it Life and Reset? No, it is, it's just, it's Life Reset, I think, by Sherma Kinnitz. It's always a struggle to find something that's purely audio, so I can listen to it when I can't watch anything, like when I'm cleaning or whatever. And so what this book is about is, if you know anime, it's an Isekai, but in audio form. And so basically the story is some guy gets, I don't know how much I want to spoil. Basically, it's about a digital world, okay? You know, they've got super advanced VR systems where you're fully immersed in the world and this guy has to build himself up from nothing, let's just say, you know. Has all the tropes of these kind of shows and the only downside of the book so far is that, um, it reads you out the stats. So he learns magic missile. It's like, magic missile. Casts five mana to cast. Does between six and ten damage. Additional levels of this spell will increase its damage potential or something. When he scans an orc, it's like regular builder orc. Five HP. Two damage. Non-combatant. I was like, you know. Taking off my shirt. |
| 04. March 2021 | Life + reset audiobook, isekai in audiobook form. | Life Reset Audiobook, Isekai in Audio Form. So I found this book. It's called, uh, was it Life and Reset? No, it is, it's just, it's Life Reset, I think, by Sherma Kinnitz. It's always a struggle to find something that's purely audio, so I can listen to it when I can't watch anything, like when I'm cleaning or whatever. And so what this book is about is, if you know anime, it's an Isekai, but in audio form. And so basically the story is some guy gets, I don't know how much I want to spoil. Basically, it's about a digital world, okay? You know, they've got super advanced VR systems where you're fully immersed in the world and this guy has to build himself up from nothing, let's just say, you know. Has all the tropes of these kind of shows and the only downside of the book so far is that, um, it reads you out the stats. So he learns magic missile. It's like, magic missile. Casts five mana to cast. Does between six and ten damage. Additional levels of this spell will increase its damage potential or something. When he scans an orc, it's like regular builder orc. Five HP. Two damage. Non-combatant. I was like, you know. Taking off my shirt. |
| 22. March 2021 | Life Reset - A Litrpg Novel | Life Reset, a lit RPG novel. So I'm still listening to this audiobook and I'm really enjoying it. It's basically a role-playing game in audiobook form, almost. This guy exists in a virtual reality. He, uh... You know how in the future VR systems or whatever, you sit in a pod or whatever, you perfectly fully interface with the game? Not to spoil it, because it's just like the first chapter or whatever. He gets betrayed and ends up having a character put in this part of the game that it's not meant to be. And the game basically glitches. Yeah, I don't want to spoil it, I suppose. It's basically like an isekai, but in audiobook form, and it's actually really good. Now all these ready player ones and shit, this is an actual good thing. I think you just call it a lit RPG or something. Life Reset by Shema Kuznets. I think there's like six books in the series, which I'm really happy. Yeah, it's just like an isekai anime. Okay, well, it's not much of a spoiler. It's trapped in the game, which is kind of obvious that you'd think that is the thing that would happen. He's going to do stuff in the game to get out. And it's, uh... You watch him grow as a character, whatever, and stuff. It's basically like you're listening to a person play World of Warcraft with actual sticks. |
| 20. July 2022 | Life of boris and “I'm quitting” videos | Life of Boris and I'm quitting videos So there's this youtuber right his name is life of Boris you may know of him because he has And he made a video yesterday saying how like he's making a new channel And he's gonna be moving into doing gaming stuff because his current channel is not doing well algorithmically When I look at his content nothing seems like special about like the thumbnails don't particularly stand out and stuff I'm sure it's good content and he's getting like five million plus views but from his history like he was doing so much better and He's slowly declining and so I feel it seems so he just feels like he needs to do something drastic to improve things but more than this though, he doesn't get nearly as much money per view as Like I do or someone from America does all you know if you're from a western country You are getting far more money per view than basically anywhere else in the world But it's funny because every single time a youtuber makes one of those videos where they're like I'm quitting The videos always go viral all their old viewers go Oh my god, he's quitting and they click all people like me who don't really know the youtubers like oh my god There's really huge huge youtubers quitting. I wonder why and they click and all the current audience is like, oh my god They're quitting. I love watching this stuff and they click I think I got it one recently for Captain Sparkles as well. Oh, yeah, mystery business just sit in chat Captain Sparkles It's something similar easily. It almost feels like it'd be a good tactical move like every Three years just make a video saying I'm quitting. It's gone. I'm done Because you couldn't do it too frequently or people wouldn't click it because they've been a guy's doing that fucking video again where he says He's quitting Sparkles didn't quit. He doesn't anymore. Yeah, but the video was titled that way You |
| 20. July 2022 | Life of boris and “im quitting” videos | Life of Boris and I'm quitting videos So there's this youtuber right his name is life of Boris you may know of him because he has And he made a video yesterday saying how like he's making a new channel And he's gonna be moving into doing gaming stuff because his current channel is not doing well algorithmically When I look at his content nothing seems like special about like the thumbnails don't particularly stand out and stuff I'm sure it's good content and he's getting like five million plus views but from his history like he was doing so much better and He's slowly declining and so I feel it seems so he just feels like he needs to do something drastic to improve things but more than this though, he doesn't get nearly as much money per view as Like I do or someone from America does all you know if you're from a western country You are getting far more money per view than basically anywhere else in the world But it's funny because every single time a youtuber makes one of those videos where they're like I'm quitting The videos always go viral all their old viewers go Oh my god, he's quitting and they click all people like me who don't really know the youtubers like oh my god There's really huge huge youtubers quitting. I wonder why and they click and all the current audience is like, oh my god They're quitting. I love watching this stuff and they click I think I got it one recently for Captain Sparkles as well. Oh, yeah, mystery business just sit in chat Captain Sparkles It's something similar easily. It almost feels like it'd be a good tactical move like every Three years just make a video saying I'm quitting. It's gone. I'm done Because you couldn't do it too frequently or people wouldn't click it because they've been a guy's doing that fucking video again where he says He's quitting Sparkles didn't quit. He doesn't anymore. Yeah, but the video was titled that way You |
| 31. August 2020 | Lighting in games and rockstar's laziness | The importance of lighting in games and Rockstar's laziness. This game still looks beautiful sometimes? Sometimes. It definitely doesn't look bad all the time. At night it looks the best. Like, there's a good video that was made about Halo Infinite and how the main reason it doesn't look amazing is the lighting. Same thing with GTA V. The lighting in this game is fucking garbage. A lot of the mods that make this game look a lot better, it's just, it has changed the lighting. It's something Rockstar could probably do themselves, but you know, it's Rockstar Games. They're too busy counting their money. That policy decision they had where they have to hand count all the money is what's really capped them from doing anything good for the community. There's so many thousands of people in their company constantly counting the money, never being able to catch up with all the money coming in. If we just used those thousands of people to actually make the game better, it would be an amazing game. I wouldn't be surprised if the expanded and enhanced graphics for the new version coming out is largely just the change to the lighting. They just stole a random mod. I mean, that is something that Rockstar did in the past. Back in the day, apparently, with one of the Max Pain games, they broke the game somehow and they couldn't fix it. Like, the DRM broke the game or something. So they basically took a cracked version from some torrent website and made that the official release. But they left in the files, like the crackers, like logo and shit that showed that they just ripped it off the web, off the internet. And so when they were found out Rockstar, rather than like, you know, fixing things, they changed the downloadable version to like a not completed version of Max Pain, like back before the DRM was put in or some shit. I'm probably half remembering the story, but yeah, I am sure PC will get whatever changes they make to the game for PS5. |
| 23. July 2022 | Lilypichu and Myth move to YouTube | Myth gets streaming deals to move from Twitch to YouTube. If you don't know LilyPichu, she's like a wholesome creator that has a bubbly personality. She's done a lot of collaborations with a lot of people. Myth blew up with Fortnite. While not a huge creator today, he's still fairly big. We've had two large YouTube acquisitions for their live streaming sector, which is LilyPichu and Myth. LilyPichu is like really huge, but- and still really huge, but to my understanding, Myth, I mean, still a large creator, don't get me wrong, but um, not in his prime like he was in his Fortnite days? Or has he had a bit of a resurgence? I'm not sure. What I mean is, not who I would expect them to take. Although, Myth is- and LilyPichu both are pretty wholesome people. Squeaky clean sort of records, no drama, no controversy. Well, I mean, LilyPichu had a little bit. Not because of her, though, but what- what- what- that controversy that happened a long time ago with um, Fedmeister, that's it, yeah. That wasn't really her, though, it's just uh, she knew some of the people involved or whatever. But yeah, as I've said before, I'm pretty confident I would have more viewers if I streamed on YouTube. It's- I'm not willing to give up all my subs on Twitch, although they have gone down significantly because I didn't stream for two weeks, and I've only been streaming very erratically anyway. Like, if YouTube offered me a reasonable deal, I'd take it. Chaos only works on Twitch. If I couldn't convince Pongo to make it work on YouTube, or if it couldn't work on YouTube, I'd just uh, stream on- I- I would- I would make it a part of my deal that I could stream on Twitch like once a week or something, just to get that done. Like, if I could stream on YouTube and Twitch, I would do it. Now. But I would lose my um, partner agreement. And my uh, higher revenue split. Which is something that they don't give out anymore, so, you know, I don't really wanna lose it. You know, you can actually get banned if you accidentally stream on YouTube and Twitch at the same time. I've never heard of someone actually being banned for it. But that's what they say, you know. |
| 06. November 2020 | Limiters and Compressors | Limiters and compressors. Your video on how not to edit audio like quartering actually helped me. Yeah, that kind of stuff is, uh, the benefits of a compressor and limiter are not things that you immediately realize when you're a new content creator. You think, ah, you know, it's better for my voice just to sound as natural as it possibly can. But it really does help having just those two things, especially if you're going to be editing your footage later. The average viewer isn't going to notice your lack of perfect clarity. And even if you don't have great clarity, you can always, um, change it with EQ. But, like, you can talk to 50 different sound professionals, and they'll give you 50 different ideas as to how compressors and limiters are meant to be done. I watched a video on the Alpha Gaming channel or whatever, where he said that, um, an audio guy he had on said that four times ratio compression is good for audio, for streaming. And I was just like, nah, nah, that's way too much. In my readings, people suggested someone between two and three. I've got 2.5. And I found fourth to be way too harsh. But, you know, just different preferences. Um, different preferred sounds as well. I like the way my audio sounds. There are some days where I'm uber picky and I'm like, oh, I don't like this clarity, or, ah. And sometimes when I'm really yelling, it doesn't sound amazing. But, like, it's really hard when you're yelling into a microphone for that to sound good. Especially while not having settings that doesn't, uh, overly destroy when you're speaking normally. Do I wa- |
| 16. May 2020 | Limiting screen time | me like the man quite a bit. Do you try to limit your screen time? My work and what I do to relax, have fun is all on my computer, mine too. And my family is always complaining to me about being locked in my room all the time. I don't give them quality time any tips. I'm older, so I have no one hounding me about such things. And because I'm, you know, this is a part of my job and I'm doing I'm fairly successful at it. My mother and father, even if they were to judge me for the amount of time I spend on my PC, their understanding of us, you know, it's integral to who I am and my success online, so they wouldn't attempt to dissuade me from doing what I'm currently doing. I don't have any issues with the amount of time I spend on the Internet. Like I spend probably every waking moment that I'm awake I'm awake with some kind of a screen. I don't know why I would change that. What made you start speedrunning GTA 5? And what what? |
| 24. October 2020 | Linus Tech Tips | Linus Tech Tips. What's my opinion on Linus Tech Tips? I like Linus. You can't know, really know a content creator just by watching their content, but Linus comes across to me as a kind of guy who I would probably like as a person. I like his attitude towards things. I like how he presents his videos in the majority. I like what he talks about. His podcast is one of the few that I watch and I'm like, this is not a waste of my time. Like I don't even think Linus is is his team, Linus Tech Tips as a channel. I don't think they're the biggest best authority on tech. I don't think they have the best analysis of tech or whatever, but it's very good in my estimation and Linus and his entire team having been in the industry as long as they have, they know a lot. So they the insights are usually pretty good. Some of my favorite videos are just where Linus just you know talks about his history in the industry and the future of different tech that's coming out and blah blah blah. But like Gamers Nexus, their analysis is probably like of the actual hardware specs and stuff. It seems far more rigorous and and thorough than what Linus does or his team does or what have you. Linus does a lot of gimmicky kind of stuff that a lot of the tech other tech channels just won't do. He is both a tech channel and an entertainment channel to a greater degree than most tech channels are. Like what is it Marcus Brownlee or whatever? He kind of has the lock on phones mainly, but like he doesn't do a lot of that kind of stuff or Game of Nexus or Jay's Two Cents. I mean Jay's Two Cents you know a little bit Jay's Two Cents kind of tries to have more of a friendly vibe to it I think. Like this is just some guys who know a lot making some videos, which they probably are. But you don't have from these channels 12 gamers one PC or whatever or whatever the fuck he does or you know the 16k monitor or whatever. I still watch these videos from Linus, but I don't find these videos to be as let's say informative or a good use of my time as I do his more informational videos. But his podcast I can't remember even what it's called, but it is one of the few long-form videos that I will not watch other things to watch. As in I'll have like 15 things in my subscription feed and I'll be like Oh Linus Tech Tips has the new podcast that I'm gonna watch that first. That's very uncommon for me. I like the other, I like a lot of the people who are at Linus Tech Tips. The the other dude who is on the podcast with Linus a lot. I can't remember his name right now. God damn it. Luke. He seems like a good bloke as well. Yeah, The WAN Show. That's it. Thank you. |
| 18. May 2021 | Linus Tech Tips has a controversial sponsor | Linus Tech Tips had a controversial sponsor. Yeah, I do follow tech YouTubers. Mainly Linus and Luke. Luke follows me on Twitter and I follow him. I do follow some other tech YouTubers, but I don't watch them nearly as much. Like a lot of tech YouTubers focus on the tech and there's only so much tech that you need. Like I don't need to know the best value monitor right now because I'm not looking for monitors. A lot of Linus's or his company about his content is about gimmicks and stuff and just making weird shit, as well as being informative in regards to tech. It's what sets them apart from the other tech YouTubers, the gimmicky stuff that they do. Yeah, I watch a bit of Jay's Two Cents sometimes. Yeah, I follow Marcus Brownlee as well. I think Linus selling his soul to crypto. I listened to him talk about having the crypto sponsor. So for those who don't know, there was a sponsorship on Linus's channel, which is basically, I think it was just helping people use their GPUs to mine crypto when they're not using it. I don't know much more details than that, but in his mind, he gave justifications for the sponsorship because he legitimately said he believed in it and he believes it offsets the cost of people's GPUs and stuff. I don't know enough. Well, I don't know enough about the topic to say whether he is correct in his assessment, but I will say that I don't think Linus is the kind of guy to take the quick buck in exchange for a dent to his reputation. I would say he was probably legitimately unaware that it would cause problems or ripples, you know? Linus isn't even the one setting up the sponsor and stuff. Yeah, but he does have the final call on it. He doesn't promote things that he believes are harmful. And he seems very transparent about his philosophy in regards to, you know, reputation ultimately matters more than a singular sponsorship, right? If you watch the podcast they do, it kind of gives you a better sense of their mentality towards these things and what sponsors they take and what they don't take. For example, Kiwi sellers they don't do. Oh, in regards to, so going back to the Linus thing with his crypto, so apparently a part of the controversy was not simply the idea of people using their GPUs to mine crypto and is crypto good or is it waste electricity? Are they burning out their GPUs, blah, blah, whatever. It was also apparently one of the founders or whatever has a sketchy past. As they, because I've been listening to Linus for a long time, he could never really know a person but I would rather give him the benefit of the doubt and say he was just ignorant of such a thing. I mean, then maybe you can accuse him or his people of not doing their due diligence in the background to find out about such things. It's hard to attribute to him the idea that he's just taking a paycheck to be willing to have a blow to his reputation in order to get a paycheck. Like the company is just too large. Linus being in the game for what, like decades at this point and being like one of the kind of founding people of tech on YouTube, he's not dumb enough to be like, yeah, man, let's just fucking take a hit to our reputation with this one fucking paycheck, let's fucking go. Like it just doesn't make sense. 12 years, yeah, over a decade. It's 55 employees, it's just, one sponsor would just be too insignificant of an amount of money. |
| 08. June 2021 | Linus Tech Tips on ray tracing | Linus Tech Tips on Ray Tracing. Would I ever try out Ray Tracing? I don't think this game supports Ray Tracing. It's entirely possible that Expanded Enhancement. Linus Tech Tips released a video where they compared Ray Tracing and just the kind of cheats that currently exist using shaders to achieve the same effects. And they were tried to see if people could tell the difference. And people have, they've struggled to. Some of them could, you know, people who are more technically minded, who are more experienced in such things, but the regular person could not tell the difference between Ray Tracing and just the shaders. But that's because, you know, Ray Tracing is so new and the shaders or whatever have been around for so long that they become really good at cheating with them. So it's going to be quite some time before Ray Tracing is really worth the performance of it, while it still arguably looks a little bit better and maybe better from a development perspective, I'm not sure. Right now, it doesn't look all that great by comparison to just the shaders done really well. So watch the video if you're curious. |
| 08. June 2021 | Linus Tech Tips on raytracing | Linus Tech Tips on Ray Tracing. Would I ever try out Ray Tracing? I don't think this game supports Ray Tracing. It's entirely possible that Expanded Enhancement. Linus Tech Tips released a video where they compared Ray Tracing and just the kind of cheats that currently exist using shaders to achieve the same effects. And they were tried to see if people could tell the difference. And people have, they've struggled to. Some of them could, you know, people who are more technically minded, who are more experienced in such things, but the regular person could not tell the difference between Ray Tracing and just the shaders. But that's because, you know, Ray Tracing is so new and the shaders or whatever have been around for so long that they become really good at cheating with them. So it's going to be quite some time before Ray Tracing is really worth the performance of it, while it still arguably looks a little bit better and maybe better from a development perspective, I'm not sure. Right now, it doesn't look all that great by comparison to just the shaders done really well. So watch the video if you're curious. |
| 13. January 2020 | LiquidWifi | Liquid Wi-Fi. Yeah, I like liquid did he see he's a good good guy. I saw I got a Award record recently good for him his viewership on Twitch is very impressive considering the game he plays as in There isn't a lot of discover ability for That particular game as in most speedrunners have discover ability people who are people who are looking for speed runs Or who watch speedrunning content I have the added bonus that I can get viewers from people who are just interested in GTA 5 or looking for GTA 5 content Twitch is limited |
| 29. December 2020 | Liquidwifi Simpsons game marathon. | Did you guys see that LiquidWiFi did a marathon of like every single Simpsons game? Interesting concepts, like every single one including like the 8-bit garbage ones. I mean not everything one on everybody, like even the shittiest games, you know? It's just an interesting thing for me to do that, just coming in here every day, going from the earliest Rockstar game to the latest. It would take eons. Including gaming content of games that you do not like playing. Do you think people watch you because you are a dumbass? |
| 29. January 2021 | Listening to Yahtzee Croshaw books | Listening to Yahtzee Kroshaw's books The audiobook I'm currently listening to is Will Save the Universe for Cash It is the second book the first book is Will Save the Universe for Food by Yahtzee Kroshaw Perfectly satisfactory read or listen the book won't blow your mind It's not amazingly complicated with thousands of characters. The book isn't extraordinarily long It's just a decent little romp in a little sci-fi universe. Like not every book has to be a grand epic You know, Yahtzee seems good at making these are fairly self-contained decent stories, you know, he's no Robert Jordan. He's no Raymond D. Feist or whatever. He is a good writer |
| 23. February 2022 | Listening to the news doesn’t always give you the big picture | Listening to the news doesn't always give you the big picture. As I always talk about, it's very hard to get a sense of what's going on just looking at the news, because it's the outliers or people acting wrongly or what have you are always gonna be more newsworthy than things just being normal. It's not like you can start a news story and things were normal today and nothing interesting happened. The textbook example, and I mean literally textbook if you do anything related to criminology or whatever, the average person will think that crime is going up or it stays the same even when it's going down, because they just watch the news and we hear about crime all the time. |
| 19. March 2021 | Little creatures don't like ya boy Darkviper | You know. Little creatures aren't a fan of your boy Dark Fiber. When I was at my cousin's yesterday, I got to meet their dog, Marley, and their other dog, Bailey. While Bailey didn't seem to dislike me, there's a little bit of skittish around me, at least let me pet it or whatever, Marley did not like me at all. Would just bark at me and do everything to avoid me, like, it's, you're three meters minimum distance. Attempt to phase into walls to get away from me kind of thing, and it was like heartbreaking. I was like, maybe I don't want a dog. I'm sure like when you get a dog and you live with them or whatever, they'll naturally go like you because, you know, you feed them every day and whatever. And so it's more because I was a stranger that the dog didn't like me. It was still very sad, you know. And their, um, their young daughter, um, I can't remember how, what was she, two? I don't know. Um, she didn't like me either. Middle angry face at me and I'm like, oh, she, poosh. Little creatures apparently just, uh, not a fan of your boy Dark Vyp. It might have been because, thinking about it, the reason why I was probably able to be recognized when I was an Audi was because I was wearing my work attire, my black tank top, my black shorts, my shitty haircut, and, uh, that's probably how I was able to be recognized. And that's also probably why the dog and the child didn't like me because I look fucking terrible. Work attire love. That's what I think of this as. I think this, of this as my work attire. It's also my recreational attire and just, you know, going out attire and it's just my attire in general. If it were possible to only wear black tank tops and black shorts to every single event for the rest of my life, I would do so. If I, if I go to PAX next time, which I imagine I will, I will probably wear this. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 19. March 2021 | Little creatures don't like ya boy darkviper | You know. Little creatures aren't a fan of your boy Dark Fiber. When I was at my cousin's yesterday, I got to meet their dog, Marley, and their other dog, Bailey. While Bailey didn't seem to dislike me, there's a little bit of skittish around me, at least let me pet it or whatever, Marley did not like me at all. Would just bark at me and do everything to avoid me, like, it's, you're three meters minimum distance. Attempt to phase into walls to get away from me kind of thing, and it was like heartbreaking. I was like, maybe I don't want a dog. I'm sure like when you get a dog and you live with them or whatever, they'll naturally go like you because, you know, you feed them every day and whatever. And so it's more because I was a stranger that the dog didn't like me. It was still very sad, you know. And their, um, their young daughter, um, I can't remember how, what was she, two? I don't know. Um, she didn't like me either. Middle angry face at me and I'm like, oh, she, poosh. Little creatures apparently just, uh, not a fan of your boy Dark Vyp. It might have been because, thinking about it, the reason why I was probably able to be recognized when I was an Audi was because I was wearing my work attire, my black tank top, my black shorts, my shitty haircut, and, uh, that's probably how I was able to be recognized. And that's also probably why the dog and the child didn't like me because I look fucking terrible. Work attire love. That's what I think of this as. I think this, of this as my work attire. It's also my recreational attire and just, you know, going out attire and it's just my attire in general. If it were possible to only wear black tank tops and black shorts to every single event for the rest of my life, I would do so. If I, if I go to PAX next time, which I imagine I will, I will probably wear this. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 27. January 2021 | Live Streaming going to a restaurant | how big live streaming is on channel. Live streaming going to restaurants. It's an Argentine stream that gets 20K people to watch him eat rice. So what you're saying is I should start eating rice. Not a huge rice fan, but it is a sacrifice I am willing to make. Honestly though, I have actually had fried rice that is pretty good, but I have found that it's actually hard to find good fried rice. Or at least fried rice that I'll like. I wonder if there is a live streamer who feels so little shame, or at least is so indifference to other people looking upon them, that they go to restaurants with their chat. They go to a restaurant, like a full fancy restaurant, five star, whatever, and they set their phone up across from themselves and talk to the phone. I just wanna see that interaction. Or like an up themselves waiter. Does your dates want anything as well? Chat, do you want some wine? And surely someone must do that. I've certainly seen clips of people being in like, you know, shitty diners or something with their chat. Chat one for wine, two for water. That's funny. You guys remember when MrBeast made that video where like he went to a restaurant and he had edible gold? Like he paid like a hundred grand for a meal at this restaurant or whatever? You seen that video? That's fucking nutty. |
| 03. April 2021 | Livestream bitrate limitations. | Live streaming bitrate limitations. Why not 1080p? Because Twitch doesn't laugh for a bitrate high enough for 1080p and high motion games to look at. I rarely look at my Twitch quality. But when I do and I compare it to the YouTube quality, I'm just like, oh, gross. But when I watch other people's streams, I'm far less picky about the quality, you know? It's like, well, this is what the quality is, so I'm just gonna deal with that. Certainly there's a point where quality can be so bad that it makes it unwatchable, but... My stream is certainly of a significant quality that I don't think anyone's put off the stream because it's not 12k bitrate 1080p. Which is what would be required for 1080p to look good for GTA V. I have stopped into GTA V streams, though, that have 1080p with 6k bitrate. Oh, it looks gross. You move your car like a frame and just everything picks up. Anything above 720p on a livestream looks decent. It's not the resolution. It's the bitrate that matters the most. Average age of a top thousand YouTuber. It'll be interesting to look up, like, the average age of a top thousand creator on YouTube. Because, like, with every passing year, it's not as though younger creators replace the older ones necessarily, right? Because the older ones have much a head start, you know? Between 25 and 30, yeah. Wouldn't be a surprise. You were young enough when YouTube and livestreaming and social media became a thing that you weren't set in your ways and you can grab on to the new technology or whatever. You didn't have other opportunities necessarily that you were pursuing. You weren't settled into some other job. But you were old enough that you could actually use a computer and shit and had awareness enough to capitalize on such developments. The brief period where I almost returned to Dark Souls 3 speedrunning. I do enjoy your late... |
| 13. October 2021 | Livestreamers suffer due to their content being short lived | Live streamers suffer due to their content being short-lived. I don't know if it comes across, but I don't like, what's the phrase, I don't like how ephemeral streams are. As in, you make them and then they disappear. On YouTube, the longer you're on YouTube, the more of a back catalogue that you make, and the more you have that's advertising you and your brand and the money that you can continue to make. But on Twitch, you have to just continuously stream. If I stopped making content right now, my YouTube revenue might drop maybe like 20% a month or something. But my streaming revenue would just drop entirely, it would just disappear. I could reliably take six months off YouTube and still earn enough money on YouTube to pay all my bills and not have any concerns. If I took six months off Twitch and all my money was being made on Twitch, I would make no money. Edited content is just far more permanent and brings forth over the life of your career far more benefits than any individual live stream. It isn't YouTube giving so much money, it's that you continue to make money off edited content forever. You know that video that I made about Amanda not being in Prologue? That video didn't do that well on release. It did okay, don't get me wrong, but it took 180 days before that video did well. You can see in the analytics at the back end, it just goes whoop, it doubles in the amount of views it had in like three days. Who knows why, but the more videos that you make, the better off you are in the long term, you know? And your success compounds because you get a new viewer, they might go back and watch 50 videos that you've produced, but if you get a new viewer on Twitch, the most they can do is just watch your future streams. You just watch that video and say, yeah, still getting recommended around. I also think it's probably not even practical to just be a live streamer. Like, the amount of hours that you have to stream to be like a top live streamer is so many, and there's no way you can make engaging content yourself for all that time. So you just end up reacting to other people's stuff, and you let other people's content carry your stream, you know? I don't mind a little bit of reacting on Twitch, but I mean, it always seems weird to me when like, the majority of your content is you looking at other people's work, you know? |
| 27. January 2021 | Livestreaming going to a restaurant | how big live streaming is on channel. Live streaming going to restaurants. It's an Argentine stream that gets 20K people to watch him eat rice. So what you're saying is I should start eating rice. Not a huge rice fan, but it is a sacrifice I am willing to make. Honestly though, I have actually had fried rice that is pretty good, but I have found that it's actually hard to find good fried rice. Or at least fried rice that I'll like. I wonder if there is a live streamer who feels so little shame, or at least is so indifference to other people looking upon them, that they go to restaurants with their chat. They go to a restaurant, like a full fancy restaurant, five star, whatever, and they set their phone up across from themselves and talk to the phone. I just wanna see that interaction. Or like an up themselves waiter. Does your dates want anything as well? Chat, do you want some wine? And surely someone must do that. I've certainly seen clips of people being in like, you know, shitty diners or something with their chat. Chat one for wine, two for water. That's funny. You guys remember when MrBeast made that video where like he went to a restaurant and he had edible gold? Like he paid like a hundred grand for a meal at this restaurant or whatever? You seen that video? That's fucking nutty. |
| 04. July 2022 | Livestreaming restricts what I play | Live streaming restricts what I play. Is there any game you want to play that you haven't had time to play recently? Understand if I wasn't a streamer, I'd be playing The games would be very different what I'm what I would play. I'd be playing tower defense games more and I probably playing a lot of League of Legends or Teamfight Tactics and maybe I'll be still be playing Hearthstone I'd be playing an MMO or something like there is a wide selection of games that I enjoy playing But of those only a finite amount makes sense on stream and like I'm kind of the person I'm not fast, you know as long as I'm playing something and I can complete goals in it and Joke around with chat. I'm pretty happy regardless what I'm playing. |
| 18. April 2021 | Living in a tech age and refusing to use it | Being alive with amazing technology and refusing to use this. My grandmother 80 something, 81 I think. Her memory is starting to go a little bit and it's concerning, right? And my mother bought her a like an iPad touchscreen kind of thing and put some games on it. Cribbage and Rummy-O and Rummy-Carbon and all that stuff. The games I used to play with my grandmother when I was younger. I really hope that she starts using it. Not only because it will help her memory I imagine, but it's just hard to imagine that there is a generation of people, obviously not an entire generation, but a significant amount of people in the older generations who exist in a world with the internet. Computers, all this technology, amazing wonders, and they just have no interest in experiencing it. They're looking at it, you know, I think for me. I mean I understand being set in your ways, but it's just hard for me to fathom a life without this kind of technology. I think like what do other, what do people who don't like mobile phones and stuff, what do they do, you know? I guess certainly I did live in a time before this technology was super accessible. So I remember being in primary school and having like Tamagotchis and Digimon and all that things and all that stuff, you know, before you had the mobile phones and all that. I remember all this stuff, but like you're a kid at that point, your imagination runs wild. You can even play for 10 hours with two sticks. Like I'm just thinking about my retirement when I'm 80 and I imagine I'm gonna have like the most beefy PC system imaginable. I expect to be in my 80s going, oh, you know, I'll just have another speed run of Grand Theft Auto V for old times sake. I know people prefer GTA VI that came out ten years ago when I was 70, but you know, I still like the classic GTA V. No damage from when I'm 80. Yeah, I won't be doing a speed run at that point. I'll be like, hey guys, here I am for hopefully my final attempts at no damage GTA V. I thought we'd get it sometime in the 2020s, that kind of decade, but now we're still here. Hopefully not, chat. There's a few memes like that on my subreddit where people aged me with algorithms and then put such words. Why are we still here? |
| 17. May 2021 | Living with cat allergies | Living with my cat allergies. Do I like puppies? Yes. I really need to test. I don't, cause you don't lose cat allergies, right? Had this weird dream where I was with this chick and she had like an army of cats. And they were jumping on my face. And I was dying. It was a weird dream. I think it was a little grey one. How would you live with like heaps of cats? Like animals smell and shit everywhere. I sure would be cute, but there's so much work. Like your life would just be caring for a bunch of animals. You have a cat allergy, but you still own a cat? Like, my allergy is one of those minor ones. But like, the story I always tell is back in PAX 29, was it 2019? It's almost two years ago, I was at Derris' house. A guy I met at PAX. And he had a cat. And so I was there for like a couple of hours, like a good couple of hours. Three hours is like, I don't know. They're just drinking, having a good time. And then eventually I was like, I don't feel 100% right now. It's not the alcohol. My eyes are a little bit scratchy. I'm like, that's weird. And so then I look and I see like he has like some cat toys and stuff. I'm like, oh, that's why. And like the second I got out the door to get some fresh air or whatever and wait for my Uber or whatever, he cleared up immediately. Like I remember being at my hairdressers and they had like this cute little itty bitty kitten. And it was just like, oh my god. And I picked it up and took pictures and stuff. Had no issues. But just prolonged exposure to cats doesn't do well with me. There's things you can do to mitigate that stuff. Like you don't have them in your bedroom or whatever and you wash them frequently and blah blah blah. But like I think I could own a cat and I'd be fine. But I don't want to go to that kind of effort, you know? Is that the spirit of the cat? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But their fur has their spit on it because they lick themselves. And then the fur sheds. I could get a pet, they would really change my life. They're potentially in a bad way. Can you use antihistamines when you're drinking? It's antihistamines right that protect you from allergies? You can. Hmm. Okay. Yes to both. Oh yeah, eye drops are polite. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I would definitely take some of the packs next time. In case I go somewhere with a cat. Like obviously I would google the specific thing that I'd be taking, right? If I do get a pet it would probably be a dog. I had a cat allergy and it went away so I think sometimes they go away. But I know I googled it and they seem to suggest that I didn't. Some allergies you do lose, but the things I looked at seem to suggest that it is not the case. |
| 19. October 2022 | Locking 4k resolution behind Youtube Premium | 4K resolution behind YouTube Premium So there's a rumor that you may need to have YouTube Premium to watch videos in 4K. We did a poll once before and it was something like 90% of people watch videos in 1080p on my channel. Like, even though I upload in 1440p, most people watch in 1080p. From what I understand though, the higher the resolution you go to and the more bitrate you give, the better quality the lower resolutions look like. So if I uploaded 20k bitrate 1080p, that 1080p won't look as good as me uploading 1440p at 40k bitrate, which is what I normally do. So what I'm saying is there's probably not a lot of people who upload in 4K. I think I know Linus Tech Tips does, and that's maybe about it. I think if they made it so you need YouTube Premium to watch 4K, then people will just not upload videos in 4K. This isn't to say no one would, merely it would be a reason for people not to do it at all. Like you wouldn't even see the immediate conversions of people joining YouTube Premium to watch in 4K. I mean how many people would really join YouTube Premium to watch in 4K? It sucks that a lot of words driven people to get YouTube Premium is features that used to exist, that were available to everyone, like the ability to listen just in audio on your phone, for example. Yeah, I think 1440p is the sweet spot in terms of quality. No, actually honestly, obviously the jump from 720p to 1080p is ridiculous. Like 1080p is probably still the minimum of acceptable these days, but 1440p is really good. YouTube Premium is a scam, it's just easier to have it than an ad blocker, honestly. I mean if you can afford it, you know. And it does support creators. A YouTube Premium viewer is worth astronomically more than a normal viewer watching ads. But I mean, with live streaming though, if you want to support a creator, you just give them a dollar, and you'll be worth astronomically more than a normal viewer anyway. But I mean, why stress with that stuff anyway? Don't try to be valuable to content creators and stuff, just watch the stuff you want to watch and don't watch the stuff you don't want to watch, you know. Don't stress it. |
| 19. October 2022 | Locking 4k resolution behind youtube premium | 4K resolution behind YouTube Premium So there's a rumor that you may need to have YouTube Premium to watch videos in 4K. We did a poll once before and it was something like 90% of people watch videos in 1080p on my channel. Like, even though I upload in 1440p, most people watch in 1080p. From what I understand though, the higher the resolution you go to and the more bitrate you give, the better quality the lower resolutions look like. So if I uploaded 20k bitrate 1080p, that 1080p won't look as good as me uploading 1440p at 40k bitrate, which is what I normally do. So what I'm saying is there's probably not a lot of people who upload in 4K. I think I know Linus Tech Tips does, and that's maybe about it. I think if they made it so you need YouTube Premium to watch 4K, then people will just not upload videos in 4K. This isn't to say no one would, merely it would be a reason for people not to do it at all. Like you wouldn't even see the immediate conversions of people joining YouTube Premium to watch in 4K. I mean how many people would really join YouTube Premium to watch in 4K? It sucks that a lot of words driven people to get YouTube Premium is features that used to exist, that were available to everyone, like the ability to listen just in audio on your phone, for example. Yeah, I think 1440p is the sweet spot in terms of quality. No, actually honestly, obviously the jump from 720p to 1080p is ridiculous. Like 1080p is probably still the minimum of acceptable these days, but 1440p is really good. YouTube Premium is a scam, it's just easier to have it than an ad blocker, honestly. I mean if you can afford it, you know. And it does support creators. A YouTube Premium viewer is worth astronomically more than a normal viewer watching ads. But I mean, with live streaming though, if you want to support a creator, you just give them a dollar, and you'll be worth astronomically more than a normal viewer anyway. But I mean, why stress with that stuff anyway? Don't try to be valuable to content creators and stuff, just watch the stuff you want to watch and don't watch the stuff you don't want to watch, you know. Don't stress it. |
| 22. July 2022 | Lofi Girl has stream taken down due to wrongful copyright claim | Low-Fi Girl has stream taken down due to wrongful copyright claim. Low-Fi Girl is a meme and a stream on YouTube that just continuously plays chill-hop music and the video that plays with the music is a looping gif of a girl studying for an exam. I think they're run by the same company that gives me my copyright free playlist that I use on stream but she got a false copyright strike which ended her stream which was 868 days long. The longest live stream ever if you can call that live. Just non-stop and it was broken by this false copyright strike and so YouTube has responded and fixed the channel. At least it should be up now I assume. There's been a lot of memes like this. Low-Fi Girl on her way to take the exam after 868 days of studying. I do agree though with the complaints that the main reason this got reversed so quickly is because it's Low-Fi Girl. There was a big hubbub or whatever. The criticism that sometimes it feels as though and it likely is that the smaller you are the less of a chance you have to have these wrongful claims turned around. It just sucks until the law changes these things are always gonna happen regardless of how good YouTube is at it you know. |
| 04. March 2021 | Log Horizon is cringe. | Log Horizon is cringe. I've been continuing to watch Log Horizon and while they have managed to continue to develop new like challenges for the people in the game, it is still really cringey sometimes. Like I'm gonna be real with you, moving your glasses up your nose, that shouldn't be a personality trait. The most memorable thing about your character shouldn't be he often pushes his glasses back up his nose. Some of the other characters in the in the show will do that to mimic that character. It's so obvious. Log Horizon was partially paid for by some educational grass with people trying to teach other people about MMOs. Certainly it was kind of weird when a person said AOE and text came on screen and it's like AOE means area of effects. It's like thank you thank you show for telling me what AOE means. Without you I would be lost. Thank you helpful text. AOE means age of empires. It can also mean that yes an age of empires spell. |
| 04. March 2021 | Log horizon is cringe. | Log Horizon is cringe. I've been continuing to watch Log Horizon and while they have managed to continue to develop new like challenges for the people in the game, it is still really cringey sometimes. Like I'm gonna be real with you, moving your glasses up your nose, that shouldn't be a personality trait. The most memorable thing about your character shouldn't be he often pushes his glasses back up his nose. Some of the other characters in the in the show will do that to mimic that character. It's so obvious. Log Horizon was partially paid for by some educational grass with people trying to teach other people about MMOs. Certainly it was kind of weird when a person said AOE and text came on screen and it's like AOE means area of effects. It's like thank you thank you show for telling me what AOE means. Without you I would be lost. Thank you helpful text. AOE means age of empires. It can also mean that yes an age of empires spell. |
| 16. December 2019 | Logan Paul vs KSI Fight | opinion on the Logan Paul versus KSI fights opinion on the KSI versus Logan Paul fight I really think Danny DeVito should have played a more major role in the fight in that he didn't play any kind of a role and I think it would have been entertaining had Danny DeVito been there. I feel like it was a real mistake not including him. Did you guys see on reddit they had a ask it was a ask reddit question what is a celebrity that you have a crush on like all the top comments were people saying Danny DeVito in one way or another it's like oh you know I like that Frank Reynolds guy yeah they act that plays him from it's it's always saying I like that guy in like you know play like the penguin in that Batman movie yeah yeah I've got a crush on that guy this is that one celebrity that offered me an egg in my in my trying times but I really have a crush on this it's very funny |
| 21. August 2021 | Loki felt a bit rushed | Loki felt a bit rushed. You like Loki and Sylvie's relationship, but some people seem to hate it, which is weird. I thought the relationship they shared was fine. It just seemed very, very quick. Because there was only a few episodes or whatever. And Loki's redemption seemed really, really, really quick as well. Considering that, you know, he's been a mischievous, evil guy for thousands of years. And then just in the course of seeing him fail or whatever, he just won 80s. So that aspect and their relationship, they were both rushed. I mean, if you met yourself from another universe, I suppose you would see them so much as a kindred spirit. A person who's gone through the same trials and stuff that you've gone through and all that jazz. |
| 02. April 2021 | Lola bunny was not that sexy in the first Space Jam. | Lola Bunny was not sexy in the first Space Jam. I got recommended a video that showed all the scenes of Lola Bunny in the original Space Jam and I watched them and I was like, I swear when she was young, when I was younger, she was more attractive. She doesn't look particularly attractive to me anymore. Like grown adults watch those scenes and they're like, yeah, she's way too sexually attractive. I'm like, really? Have I just been desensitized? I was like, okay, maybe for a kids movie, drawn too attractive, didn't seem that bad compared to today's standards. People aren't kidding. And I think it might have been like with me how like your memory is different. Like I couldn't fully remember what Lola Bunny looked like. And when I saw the comparison on Twitter between what I thought was Lola Bunny from the movie and the new Lola Bunny, I thought, well, this is how Lola Bunny looked back when I was a kid. So yeah, she's way too attractive or whatever for a kids movie. But then when I found out that was like a soft core porn drawn version of her and it wasn't actually from the movie, I hadn't seen what she looked like in the actual movie. Now that I've finally seen it, I'm like, I don't think it was that significant, honestly. I think they could have kept her as she was in the first movie and no one would have batten an eye in today's, in today's world. I would never w- |
| 19. July 2020 | Long streams are garbage. | Long streams are garbage. Live streamer dies at 50 years old trying to do a 50 hour stream. Long streams, streams that are that long, that are just one person, are always garbage. I mean the content is garbage, they can certainly be for good cause like charity, or I guess probably the only really good cause. But there's also like, you know, people, you're racing to complete some task or something in some game, you know, a new WoW expansion is out or some shit. And then you can kinda, it kinda makes sense to do this. At that point it's not the content that's important, it's the end goal or whatever you're achieving. At all times it's just better to do like a stream, sleep, a stream, sleep, a stream, sleep. Cause you make the exact same amount of content, but you're more refreshed so it's more interesting. You know what really long live streams are like? They're like Red Dead Redemption 2. In that the longer your stream goes, the less likely it can be good all throughout. You're gonna have dips in quality, bad parts, even perhaps garbage parts that you know, if you kept things kinda shorter, wouldn't exist. Just like with a long story, the longer your story goes, the longer your stream goes, the weaker its individual parts become. |
| 30. June 2021 | Long-term ramifications of being overworked | The long-term ramifications of being overworked. So Philip DeFranco started his show off yesterday by citing some findings that you intuitively or you accept that it's likely true but perhaps don't see very often put into actual figures where people who are overworked or work 70 hours a week or whatever shorten their lives and potentially cause themselves to have a lot of negative health effects in the future. Like even when they stop being overworked the ramifications of all those years of being overworked compound and have effects even later in life. Another video I saw talking about from Kergastass and they were talking about breaking down your life into different segments and how you know you might be expecting that you can work hard or whatever and then relax when you're older but certainly you have to remember that when you're older negative health ramifications of aging can often prevent you from truly living life to your fullest. And I think about both those things sometimes when I spend all my time working and stuff but surely like the type of work you do has to matter right? My work isn't physically strenuous it's like it is a little bit physically strenuous but it's all mainly mentally strenuous. Like I do work like 12 hours a day but I mean what aspects of my work are particularly difficult? You're very certainly like sitting here talking to you guys right now playing this game can be stressful can be somewhat strenuous but it's not like I am you know lifting huge piles of bricks from A to B. All jobs can't be considered equal in such assessments right? But the more days I go to bed physically in a lot of pain and wake up the same I think man maybe I am not living my life in the way that I maybe should for the future. The more that I get shit from various people in the incident I think maybe I should reassess my priorities but I just love doing what I do so much that it's hard for me to think you know like oh man I'll just I'll just do something else I don't want to do anything else. You know even when I feel like shit like I most people I imagine because they don't love what they do and I'm blessed in that regard I mean most people who don't love what they do when they feel like shit they're like man I can finally do the stuff I want to do when I feel like shit I'm like man I can't do the stuff I want to do. I think I just need to find myself some time I can take a break and be willing to take a break but I don't know what I want to do on such a break. Have you seen 2kliksphilip's video about burnout I think you would like a lot yeah what did he call it the something treadmill the hedonic treadmill yeah we've talked about that before where when your circumstances change when your life gets better for a while that's fucking amazing you're like oh my god this is so cool it never becomes your norm and then you need something even bigger even better than that to get that same experience again and it goes up and up and up and up it's why you see these people with just insane amounts of money or whatever just doing the houses just getting insanely bigger and bigger and bigger or whatever because they have that same feeling of getting that brand new amazing thing you need to continue to ramp up you know. The biggest example is just YouTube where you get a thousand views you're like wow that's so cool then you need two thousand to get that same feeling then four thousand then eight thousand and it just keeps going up and up and then it's like you got ten million views like well that's alright I guess you know and all people are this way you know you always just expect to hit that point where you'll be happy forever but it just doesn't work that way you can hit contentment but you can't just be permanently happy. |
| 01. January 2020 | Loserfruit's New years eve party | Loser fruits New Year's Eve party. So this person called loser fruit, right? She is one of the most successful Australian streamers and she writes on Twitter something like having a New Year's Eve party Mutuals welcome to come you just go to DM me for the info and I'm seeing they're like what the fuck is a mutual? What does mutual mean in? the online space so I googled it and it's like mutuals are like Mutual people you associate with so if you know a person and another person if you know a person and that person knows someone They're your mutual ever you click on Twitter and I will say like You you and that person have 16 mutual friends or some shit a friend of a friend This is that's how I interpret it right and I'm like my sleep and pattern shit You know, I'm socially awkward sometimes I do a little bit better when I start drinking Like I should probably try to go to this party Because there be people there that I could potentially meet and like and they're in my same space and maybe be good to have a New Year's Eve party and so I DM'd her and She didn't respond. It's been like a day. I was damned if I do damned if I don't because if I didn't do it I know I would have regretted it. I'll be sitting there going man I could have been having fun at the fucking New Year's Eve party. God damn and But but now I'm in the situation where it's like this is like being in high school again, right? And the popular fucking people have their parties and I don't know if I'm fucking invited or if I'm meant to be asking to be invited I don't fucking know I don't need that anxiety man. I've left high school behind me Why am I trying to be in the popular people's club, you know? And I'm like has she seen my DM is it should I DM again? I don't want to think about these things But I just want to make fucking content, you know, I'm just a loner making fucking content in my room I know cuz she does follow me on Twitch this she's been following me on Twitch Since like a bajillion years ago following since January 27 2017 more than likely followed me from something completely unrelated a bajillion years ago Probably follows thousands of people never been to my content, right? So I don't think we've ever formally talked. I've been in a room where she has been I think it packs 2017 or whatever I know it's just an awkward situation to be in but anyway, let's just start this pass for shit That's what you guys are here for |
| 05. March 2020 | Losing $1000 not buying shares | Losing $1,000 not investing in AMD. Six months ago, I knew AMD's stock was going to go up massively. And so I went to try to buy AMD shares. I've never bought shares before. I couldn't figure out how to buy foreign shares. And there were so many barriers to entry. Like 15 different waiting periods that I had to go through. I was just like, I don't know, man. This is just so weird and risk-averse and there was no one to help me. And so I just went, fuck it, I can't do it anymore. And so I look again six months later and the share price has doubled. Went from like $25 when I want to buy to $50 a share. Like bare minimum I would have put in like $1,000. So my ignorance and my confusion and all the barriers to entry to buy foreign stocks led to me losing $1,000. It just goes to show, man, having the right connections, knowing the right people, having good influences in your life. People who are knowledgeable on a lot of topics. It's very important. |
| 24. October 2022 | Losing my BlueBall% world record again. | These two people have beaten my Blue Warp% world record. So one is Sunny Uploads, and another one is PooBorama. So what was PooBorama's time? I mean, he donated $5 once and said so. Sunny Upload was like, what? I don't know what time he got. I haven't seen the video, because I've been away. Regardless, two people have beat it. As I say, I only did one successful run. The goal wasn't to have a world record to stand for the rest of the time. It was to have a little funny video, you know? The video wouldn't have been as funny, and I just kept doing it. A bajillion times. I hope other people had fun with it. Trying Spicy Rum. |
| 24. October 2022 | Losing my ballball% world record again. | These two people have beaten my Blue Warp% world record. So one is Sunny Uploads, and another one is PooBorama. So what was PooBorama's time? I mean, he donated $5 once and said so. Sunny Upload was like, what? I don't know what time he got. I haven't seen the video, because I've been away. Regardless, two people have beat it. As I say, I only did one successful run. The goal wasn't to have a world record to stand for the rest of the time. It was to have a little funny video, you know? The video wouldn't have been as funny, and I just kept doing it. A bajillion times. I hope other people had fun with it. Trying Spicy Rum. |
| 10. June 2022 | Losing my hair | Losing my hair. And I've accepted chat that I'm I'm definitely losing my hair. There was no way my hairline was up to there before. I've definitely lost something up there. You know my hairline was always high but it's gotten a little bit higher I think. And there's some cream or medication or whatever that you can get that helps regrow hair and they accidentally found it or something well it was it was a treatment for something else and they're like oh shit people are getting additional hair growth so I guess we'll mark it this is a mark it this is a hair growth thing. Monoxidil that's it. But apparently if you stop using it then you lose your hair that you gain from it so. And there's side effects and stuff and we'll just see how it goes. Am I going to die of baldness? Yes possibly. It is possible that something other than genetics is causing my hair loss. I have been under a ridiculous amount of stress. I went through my doctor said like hey you know it could just be you're not getting the right vitamins and stuff like fast food doesn't cause you lose your hair if you're not eating well that can. But I've been taking vitamins and stuff last month hasn't seemed to have improved anything so unlikely to be that. What else? I don't know how if sleeping does it or not but certainly the thyroid issue that I have does cause hair loss but only if it's untreated and as long as my hormones whatever are in the right balance that can't be causing it. I might get them to test my levels or whatever and see how if they're okay. But ultimately I think it's probably just a little bit of genetics. The longer you wait to get it treated the worse it becomes right. So if it is just stress then I can just chill the fuck out and you know maybe exercise a bit more take things easier. But if it's something more it's something I should get treated now you know. But like my numbers with a lot of my content haven't been looking good right now which is somewhat expected. I'm not sure how related it is to picking those fights but um it's certainly related to me taking so much time off to make those videos. I mean time off is in time off my normal content you know. And so I this is like of all the times this is the like the one time I don't want to be taking a break you know. Am I burned out? No not at all. Maybe a little bit. I mean as I say I put a lot into making those videos. It was very stressful. |
| 14. June 2022 | Losing my hearing by signing up to a charity | Losing my hearing by signing up to a charity basically, I was working yesterday on a Video for YouTube and then I took a break and just so happened when I took my break My doorbell rang and it was a dude trying to get me to sign up for some charity thing if I was really busy I'd be like now. I'm busy. I gotta go, but I wasn't busy So I'm like okay. Let me hear this guy out he had a thing on his shirt that said food bank and I worked for a food bank only for like a week or so because a part of my community services degree eons ago And it was a nice place with nice people and so I have that you know fond familiarities I'm like oh well you know let's see what he has to say He ends up signing me up to this thing like 40 bucks a month or something to feed Kids and I looked out after the fact and it does seem to be a legitimate charity It's like 80% of their money goes to the actual charitable thing and 20% to marketing and and employees that makes sense to me but throughout this thing like it's a bit of a process that you have to put in all this information and stuff and I got to the point where he calls his supervisor to confirm that everything went through and He gives me the phone to talk to hit the dude, and I hold it to my ear And I'm like oh this kind of loud this phone. Oh, it's only gonna be like a second or two so who cares right? I just gotta say yes, I'm signing up It's cool, but the conversation ended up going for like two minutes. It was really fucking loud in my ear I was so confused eventually like this this can't be normal and so I pull my phone away And I'm like oh, he's got the speaker on his phone I mean like the speaker that you're meant to like hold your phone away, and it's like speak to your phone I'm holding it directly to my fucking ear and so I walk away after signing up for this thing and him leaving and stuff and I'm like ow my ear still hurts And it's now like I've now slept and woken up and my my ear still doesn't feel normal If I have permanently damaged my ear Signing up for this charity thing like I'm gonna be really really pissed. Did you know the speaker phones can be turned on? I just thought his phone was very loud or something I wasn't thinking because I was trying to get through the conversation so I could go back to doing work You know he asked me what I did because that's of course what they all do in the end I saw you know I'm a youtuber say oh you're youtuber and then he would he gets my email address He's like oh, it's your your YouTube channel is and that well Yeah, and it's a I when I go to get my card to sign up to the thing he uh he searches up my channel And I can hear him listening to my YouTube videos. I don't know what video he clicks, but I'm like ah Random stranger getting like a 30 second snapshot or a random video like what what impression would that give you know? Kind of embarrassing really yeah, so I'm now signed up for supporting a food bank who knows how long I'll do it though because Like maybe 20 minutes after he left. I got a phone call And I'm like oh, who's this they're like oh, I represent like the the charity for Neuro neurological development or treating your neurological disabilities, and I'm like ah Within 20 minutes of signing up for charity I get a phone call from another one And it's the exact same experience I had the last time I signed up to one of these things I give them some money and as a consequence I get calls all the time from other charities Oh, you want to give us some money to men when I guess I do like I can understand Why this happens because you know the charities need money? They need funding and the people who have given before are the most likely to give again And you've already given your details, but the same time It's really annoying why I can't just sign up and give money to one thing it's then just a constant no no hang up No, I'm being disturbed with phone calls like the reason why I canceled the last charity thing that I was doing was because of The phone calls that I kept getting it's possible that if like if I get enough phone calls from charity organizations I will cancel this one too. Let's see how long it lasts. I like giving stuff to good causes You know I got lucky in life, and I'm doing well, and I like to Spread that to other people |
| 18. June 2022 | Losing my love of gambling. | Losing my love of gambling. I worked in a casino a few years ago and after the experience, I never set foot in one. When I went to an event, I ended up being quite shit in Sydney city. Because I just happened to be there, for old times sake, I went to the star. I was close by, I'm like, I want to see what the star looks like, because it had been like, you know, five plus years. And I walked in, I'm like, oh, this looks nice. Looks like a casino. And I didn't feel any of the kind of excitement that I used to feel. Maybe it's because in the middle of the day I'm not sure, but whatever. I ended up gambling. I lost $400. I realized all throughout, I'm like, this is enjoyable, but nowhere near as enjoyable as it used to be. I'm saying that like, yeah, there's no way in hell I would travel to have this experience. In the ages past, I would travel an hour to get to the star. I'm like, I couldn't imagine traveling an hour to do this. Like, this is not a terrible experience, but I would get this same experience playing GTA V. Playing any video game, or watching a YouTube video, or watching a movie. This is just a thing that is somewhat enjoyable. And it was at that moment I realized that a significant amount of what probably inspired me to gamble and enjoy gambling is that I had nothing else going on. I didn't have any real social connections that much. Like, I didn't see new people a lot. I had no real hobbies or whatever at the time. I just worked Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and I had three days free and I just wanted something to do. And it was more exciting because it was like the only thing I was kind of invested in. And now that I'm older, I have a bit more money. I have you guys. I'm making content. I have more to my life. My life is more full. I don't need gambling. It doesn't have the same allure because it's not filling or lacking in my life. Like, when you find problem gamblers, they're not usually people who lead the greatest, most wondrous lives. They're often people who have some sort of lacking that they're trying to fill with gambling. My friend who is a medicine student told me exactly this. Alex often don't have anything else to live for. Therefore, they choose drugs or different ways of ruining their life. Even with me trying to stop drinking soft drink, there was so little food or drink that I enjoy. And so when I quit, I can quit for weeks or whatever. And I eventually start drinking it again because it's like I got nothing else going on food wise, you know. |
| 04. July 2022 | Losing the ability to hear as you get older | Losing the ability to hear as you get older That's the song chat The song who created this song I'm deleting this song You never hear the music polyconfig you can't figure out why it might be because you are you might be older Clint Stevens in one of his videos recently was like yeah, so my console and TV make a particular noise and you can only hear it if you're like under 25 or something because that's true There are certain frequencies that are you lose the ability to hear you know as you get older the image |
| 07. February 2021 | Low income housing. | Low income housing. Why do I care so much about low income housing? There's always gonna be people who find themselves in bad circumstances due to no fault of their own. But even going beyond this, I think fundamentally everyone deserves some kind of shelter. Absence, gross harm to others, I can't think of a circumstance where a person doesn't deserve some kind of shelter. I don't care how fucking lazy or terrible they are or whatever, they deserve a roof over their head. And certainly, having an existent foundation where people's needs are being taken care of is good for allowing them to succeed. If you don't have to worry about a substantial portion of your check going to rent, you can invest in that and other things. Or even just in general lead a better life, which can improve your psychological well-being. To put it another way, every small thing that you have to worry about, every bit of struggle that you have to maintain your basic needs is time you can't spend on things related to improving yourself or improving your circumstances. If you're struggling every moment just to get by, you don't have time to invest or build a business or take a risk or whatever because you're on the borderline of existence. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. I'll see you in nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 02. July 2021 | Lowest % GTA V speedrun | Lowest percent GTA V speedrun. You got the fastest 0% run? Are you being serious? Because that category actually exists. On the extended categories for GTA V, there's a lowest percent bad ending, and it's just fail as fast as possible. And the fastest fairly you can do is having Michael get shot by the guard while you're Trevor. |
| 02. July 2021 | Lowest % gta 5 speedrun | Lowest percent GTA V speedrun. You got the fastest 0% run? Are you being serious? Because that category actually exists. On the extended categories for GTA V, there's a lowest percent bad ending, and it's just fail as fast as possible. And the fastest fairly you can do is having Michael get shot by the guard while you're Trevor. |
| 09. January 2022 | Ludwig leaving Twitch for YouTube | Ludwig leaving Twitch for YouTube. Did I hear Ludwig left? I originally tweeted out about it, being like, I wonder if he's gonna slow down and stuff, but he released a video talking about his uh, his motivations behind the move, so I'm like, I'll just delete the tweet thing, cause he's got those answers out there and uh, whatever. I haven't watched Ludwig's content in quite a while, ever since that time, that thing happened. Not that I really hold that against him, but it's just talking. Still seems like a nice dude, you know, he's gonna be happy for a random stranger. Good for him. Happy he can, he's continuing to make the moves. I think it's a good acquisition for uh, YouTube. Like on one hand, it seemed as though YouTube was attempting to take like, the old guard of Twitch. Like in some ways, take the culture of the platform, the people who are foundational to the site in a way. On the other hand, they clearly wanna take people who bring press, and like the people who bring press, are like, you know, Dr. Looper, with all his charity stuff. Yeah, like Ludwig has brought a lot of good press to Twitch, and Ludwig's meteoric rise, like he went from like, you know, 900 view average, to like 20k view average in two years, which is very impressive. And clearly Ludwig is a person who is willing to do big events and big spectacles and stuff, and YouTube wants that on their side of things rather than Twitch. Like if you didn't watch Ludwig's video, he basically talked about how he loves Twitch, and it's where he grew, and he sees himself as a Twitch streamer, as do most streamers of course, cause the brand of livestream is still associated with Twitch. And especially when you're at the top, you know, you have all the kind of community interactions, all the streamers at the top all kind of uh, collaborate with each other and stuff. And one of the things that Ludwig uh, noted, that he uh, was kind of afraid of moving to YouTube, was he gonna be alone on the platform. Cause there is that less of a connection sort of thing on YouTube, right? You gotta work more to connect with other streamers, cause most people on YouTube aren't livestreamers, you know, but everyone on Twitch is a livestreamer. Yeah, he said the main reason is cause while they offered, YouTube offered more money, he was still gonna go with Twitch, but YouTube uh, like kind of fought for him. Like they're like oh no, come on, we really want you, we'll give you more money, we'll give you less than the hours that you have to stream and stuff. And then when Ludwig brought that back to Twitch, they're like yeah, you know, good luck. Like uh, cause obviously the people who offer deals to Twitch streamers are only allocated a certain budget to do that, and have to do it within a certain amount of requirements. And obviously whatever YouTube was giving was uh, more than they could give. Cause obviously Twitch would much rather have kept Ludwig. And so the best thing about Ludwig's announcement is that he reckons he's gonna host a um, like the biggest melee, the biggest ultimate tournament, you know, with the huge prize pools, which is something that melee and ultimate haven't like never done. Or not never, but like the prize pools for Smash have always been quite low. It's funny, me as a small, like I'm small compared to Ludwig, I've even thought like, considering how low the prize pools for melee ultimate tournaments are, like I could have put up enough money to have many of the Smash people interested in having like an online tournament or something. And I've thought about that cause I feel bad for all the Smash and ultimate people who uh, you know, if they were in some other kind of uh, competitive scene, they'd be able to make a living off prize money, potentially. It's a good on- cause Ludwig for those who don't know, been in the Smash scene for a long time. Was some of the first videos he made like Smash compilations or something? It's cool that he's gotten really big and he's still given back to uh, or still involved in that community, you know. I know man, I'd like to be getting myself a deal to go to YouTube. That'd be nice. Cause Ludwig's like me where uh, we stream for the purposes of making YouTube content. I kinda wanna change my attitude to it but I don't look at the numbers on Twitch. I don't look at my sub-numbers. I don't look at the viewer numbers. I don't care. I come onto Twitch with the purpose of doing my thing for YouTube and anything that comes of that on Twitch is a bonus for me now. Basically everyone has a high opinion of Ludwig. And he's been involved in like every community. As in like, he is somewhat connected to like every large content creator. He collabs with a lot of them and stuff and uh, like his moving to YouTube gives them some nice legitimacy. Sort of thing, you know. I mean they were always, they had legitimacy already but it was um, he's new blood with a lot of connections. He isn't on his way out in his career. He does a lot more than just gaming and stuff. He has like a game shows and his sub-a-thon, all that jazz. It's just a, it's a smart move. Is first stream on YouTube got suspended? I wonder if that was some like marketing kind of thing but I mean yeah, it's possible. It just seems unlikely. I mean there's always automated systems going off and stuff. I mean it's not like they can actually ban him or whatever. Maybe something happened that flick some switch or maybe he got spammed with bots or something that spam reported, who knows. Whatever, if it's a legit thing, I mean I think it's just gonna help a lot because it's just gonna get a lot of traction on Twitter. |
| 05. April 2021 | Ludwig's subathon is impressive. | Ludwig's Subathon is really impressive. 48 hour stream? Is Ludwig doing that currently? I saw him live when I was starting. He's doing a 50 bajillion hour stream or something? The more subs he get, the longer it goes on for or something, and he sleeps on stream? No? He had a plan for it, I saw his YouTube video. Oh, uncapped Subathon on Sunday? Ah, I see. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Like, you understand guys, streaming is more taxing than just sitting at your PC all day. Like, sitting at your PC all day is in general, like, pretty uncomfortable even when you're just chilling and just playing a video game or some shit like that. But streaming, knowing that you can't leave or whatever, and like, sleeping on stream then waking up, like, you'd feel like shit. Like, normally you gotta kinda ease your way in, wake up, have a shower, eat something, then get into stream, but you start that shit immediately again. It'd be hell for him, dude. I'm not sure what you would have to pay me to do a 48 hour stream, but it's a very large amount of money. Now, we're talking at least $100,000, guys. Like, to destroy me physically, they would just destroy- |
| 11. December 2020 | Ludwig, Radal, Critikal | Ludwig Raddle critical. Have I heard of a streamer called Ludwig? No, I never heard of him. Who is he? Of course I know who Ludwig is, guys. I've talked about him before on stream. The first true experience I had with him was in his long conversation with Devin Nash. I thought he was an interesting fellow. I occasionally stop into his streams, but I don't really watch them. Of course I've seen Raddle. He and I both got impersonated by the same person on TikTok. And so I have a video where I kind of respond to whatever. It's a while back. That's the only interaction I've had with Raddle. Oh, no, it's Raddle or whatever. What did you say his name is? Actually, I don't know. I like critical. I have a lot of respect for the dude. There's nothing I've ever seen of critical that has represented him as anything except like a wonderful person. He just seems like a good guy. You can never know because it's the internet or whatever, but he just seems to be a downturf nice dude. |
| 22. December 2020 | Ludwig’s meteoric rise and critikal speaking to youtube CEO. | Ludwig's meteoric rise and most critical speaking to the CEO of YouTube. Do I watch Ludwig? Uh, a little bit, yeah. Ludwig is an interesting fellow. His meteoric rise has been interesting to watch. It'd be interesting to know how much of his rise has been because of his involvement with other content creators versus his own original brand and personality. Of course part of the reason why he was able to be involved with other content creators is because of his brand and personality. I just mean like, in reality where Among Us didn't come to be a thing, uh, how big would Ludwig be today? I think he'd still be a very big content creator, right? I don't attribute his increase in size just to his involvement with other content creators who are larger, you know? Do I watch Critical or Charlie? I- I- The last video I watched before this stream started was a video from Critical talking about his uh, conversation with the YouTube CEO or whatever. Very smart move, honestly. Um, even if like nothing comes of that phone call, it's a smart move for the uh, YouTube higher up people. Um, Susan Wojcicki or however you say last name, to have a conversation with him. Does a lot for um, YouTube's PR. To have a person like Critical being like, you know, I'm hopeful about YouTube in uh, 2021. Like I came away with the uh, from the conversation having a higher opinion of YouTube, so... |
| 23. November 2020 | Luke From Linus Tech Tips watched my review? | So I just got to the end of the WAN show, right? And Luke made a reference to a review of the show and it sounds oddly like what I said but not exactly as in it's something that you could have misremembered about what I said. I was talking about how he only watches WAN show for tech news. See I didn't say that but my review included reasons why I like the Linus Tech Tip channel over other tech channels. WAN show is one of the only things on YouTube that like if it's there he will definitely click on it. He will potentially like middle click it into a different window or click on it and watch it right away. So one of the things I said was WAN show is one of the only long-form videos that I will specifically watch over other things in my subscription feed. Normally I end up watching longer stuff last. The WAN show is one of the few things I'll watch first. Like it'll be one of the two guaranteed every time because he finds it's like the best source of tech news. What I said was I really liked times when Linus and Luke will just talk about their experience in the industry and I do find their analysis to be quite good. I didn't say it's my only source of tech news or that it's the best necessarily but I did say something similar to that. I was like what are you talking about? We're off topic like almost constantly. And that's why I like... Linus is old. So what he said was similar to what I actually said enough that I'm like there's possibly sort. Given his interpretation of what I said it doesn't matter to me that much because he was... I think he didn't perfectly remember what I said but anyway why am I no dam... |
| 12. July 2021 | M growing collection of random hardware | My growing collection of random hardware. You ready to hear millions to one and your headphones breaking? Speaking of headphones, I have been searching for a long time for the perfect waterproof headphones. All I want is a pair of headphones that connects every single time with good sound quality whenever I'm in the shop. That's it. Preferably with the ability to move, like the song and stuff, like actually have buttons on it, and thus far not found anything good. Everything has had its own problems and with consistent use, tends to die really quickly. I mean, they say, sure, man, it's a hundred percent protected against water men. You can swim with them and stuff. But in reality, like, they all have problems. You aren't meant to take electronics and water, but I will one day find the perfect pair and I can finally be satisfied. I've tried multiple pairs now. I even bought like this really expensive pair, like three different times. I think my biggest expense right now that makes little sense is random bits of hardware trying to find the right bit of hardware for me. I don't have time to return stuff. And so I've got extra keyboards and extra mice and stuff laying around. I want to do a giveaway and I just give a lot of it away at some point. But even that would be kind of a pain in the ass wrapping all up and stuff, but maybe be worth it. In my moments where I am just not thinking and attempting to relate to people in different circumstances, I think to myself like, who's going to wait a month for a new keyboard from a giveaway or whatever? But like, there are a lot of people who, you know, are using some shit keyboard because they literally can't afford a new one. Or, you know, they're younger and thus don't have access to that kind of income. So there are people who, even if it would take like a month for me to send it, whatever, would appreciate a new keyboard. I'm fortunate enough to have never been in a circumstance where if my keyboard broke or something, I'd just be completely shit out of luck. But some people are, you know. If it's free, yeah. And they're good keyboards. I mean, even if a person has a new keyboard, it's not necessarily one of the things I have. It's like, I want to just like grab all my random hardware that I don't need and just do a giveaway for 10 people or something to get them to pick a PC or something. Thing is though, at the end of the day, it'd probably just be easier for me just to give them money for such hardware because of how expensive it is to send stuff around the world, you know, from Australia. So like, sure, I can give you a keyboard worth $100 so I can spend 80 bucks sending it to you. All I'm saying is, where's my teleportation at, chat? How about selling it on Craigslist? I don't think Craigslist exists in my country, but I also don't need the money, man. I have enough trouble getting into a day all the things that I need to do. I don't even leave my house, man. I don't really have time to be selling hardware. |
| 16. May 2021 | MOBAs and World of Warcraft | MOBAs and World of Warcraft I played LoL, yeah, I mean I played heaps and heaps of MOBAs back in the day. I was a Heroes of New Earth dude. At my peak I was in the top 10%. Used to get home every day and either play World of Warcraft or grind Heroes of New Earth. Before that of course I played Dota 1. Heaps and heaps of Dota 1. That's my high school life. Dota 1 and World of Warcraft and then moved into Heroes of New Earth and World of Warcraft. And of course I did play League of Legends many years later but just a bit of it. By a bit of it I mean like a thousand games. Dota 2 is the one I played the least. Less than 50 games. Can I play WoW on stream? I have maybe three hours of WoW footage that I played on stream during Warlords of Draenor. Will I play WoW on stream now? No. Despite that Blizzard will always send me an invite to their open beta or whatever for their newest expansions. I just can't get back into it. They look at my account and they're like, Whoa this guy has like a bajillion achievement points and spent so long in the game. Let's just keep emailing him. He'll come back eventually. No I won't chat. The only reality where I go back to World of Warcraft is one where I'm not a Twitch streamer. I work a normal 9 to 5 and I have nothing else to do after work. I just need something to fill the time before I go to bed. That's the only time I would ever go back to World of Warcraft. And I hope that dark day never happens. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 24. October 2022 | MRBOSSFTW milking the GTA 6 leaks. | Six leaks. I mean, how many viewers has missed the boss for the win uploaded now? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, uh, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen. That's nuts. He's still hanging on, man, like, how does he do it to himself, man? His videos bet he hit a hundred K, how does he maintain nine million a month? Because he has like a bajillion videos, man, same way I do it. Do I miss having roommates? |
| 27. March 2021 | Macdonald's omelette test | What's omelette test? They've released something new at McDonald's Omelettes in the breakfast thing. It's like omelette bacon and a spinach or something Wasn't that great to be honest? It is kind of weird that they never had had omelettes before omelettes just seemed like a very Standard thing to have a part of a breakfast meal and McDonald's never had them I guess whether you guys get to experience them Would depend how well they do in Australia New Zealand Oh, are they do they exist in your McDonald's in your countries if you're not from Australia or New Zealand America doesn't have it No, yeah McDonald's usually test their new stuff in Australia New Zealand first and then they propagate it to the other countries You know, there's less significant countries. I'm saying McDonald's has the right attitude Australia's all that really matters Hey, man, of course we matter the most whether with a with a first-line defense against Australia the spiders that exist in this country, okay? Really what I think should happen is all the countries pay my country more specifically me money To continue to defend them against the spiders, okay? Keeping the spiders back man. It's it's it's an expensive thing Spider versus emus when is that the Alien versus predator of Australia? GME stocks |
| 08. June 2020 | Macdonalds australia cheeseburger cost | What does a McDonald's cheeseburger cost in Australia? It depends. Like, they can have like McDoubles for $2, which is like a cheeseburger with like an extra piece of meat or whatever. They can sometimes have hamburgers for $2 or a hamburger for a dollar. It really depends. Last time I looked it said a hamburger was $3.45. That's not what a hamburger actually costs or what it normally costs. It's just the price is just arbitrary. How much is a Matt homemade burger? I will personally caser any of any event you have for a million dollars. |
| 05. September 2021 | Macdonald’s employee gave me all his money | McDonald's employee gave me all his money. I don't want to think that I'm doing something that's significantly negatively impacting people. I mean it's impossible to go your entire life without negatively impacting someone, but I mean I just don't want to think that people might suffer from knowing me. |
| 27. March 2022 | Macdonald’s employee loves onions. | This employee loves onions. From McDonald's, I ordered a double quarter pounder with extra pickles and no onion. And what they sent me was a normal quarter pounder with fuck tons of onion. Someone took offense at my no onion, extra pickles, double quarter pounder order. They stopped making my burger midway in order to put a whole onion on it, as if the mere suggestion that onion is bad is an insult to their entire family line. It was cold, and so I, I mean I removed the onion, and the burger tastes like shit. I just don't understand society's obsession with onions. I don't get it. It's like 50% of people passionately hate onions, but restaurants keep putting onion on everything. The amount of onion I like is the amount that's so small and tiny that you can't even perceive it. Or taste it, or feel it. Deliver. |
| 22. March 2022 | Macdonald’s scammed me. | McDonald's scammed me. So, again my problem with being unable to remember what food tastes like, I never know what to order. I just order the same things I've had before, that I remember not hating. McDonald's comes the fastest, so... Double Quarter Pounder and two hash browns. I'll put the hash browns on the Double Quarter Pounder meal. Genius! I remember being a youngin', chattin', thinkin' myself like, man, I wish McDonald's delivered. The future is now! What did I order? Double Quarter Pounder and two hash browns. Unfortunately... Oh, you're kidding me, dude. See what it says right there? It says right there. Double Quarter Pounder. What is that, chat? That is a singular Quarter Pounder. I don't care about the money. I do care about the lack of respect. Fuckin' ripped off, chat. McDonald's out here scammin' ya boy Dark Viper AU. Still gonna put the hash browns on it. I should put one in it, cause... yeah. And they even put onion on it! But it is a piece of onion! Specifically Ars Noir onion. But there's only one piece! It was good. Someone says you can order hash browns all day in Australia. Has the all day menu not propagated to the rest of the world yet? As I've talked about many times, many companies, including McDonald's, will test new food items in Australia before putting it globally. Cause it's a western market that's kinda a bit more segregated, you know, from the rest of the world. In Australia, you can order some burgers during the breakfast time. And you can order some breakfast items all day. You are not chewing enough, not good for your health? You fucking criticize my chewing ability. Hash browns are the best thing for McDonald's. Hash browns, I'm pretty sure they changed from when I was a kid. Cause I believe they used to have the things be far more greasy-o. You've had a bunch of strangers criticize your eating technique. It's a weird experience. Sponsorship A! If McDonald's wants to sponsor me, they can give me my other half of my quarter pounder. Alright? |
| 23. August 2021 | Main stream game being a multiplayer game | Mainstream game being a multiplayer game. Not at all, man. I, uh... I wish the game that I played consistently was a game that I could play with other people. Like watching Asmongold and Serdipop and his staff have tens of thousands of viewers while playing with other people. That's pretty cool. Why don't I like online? The content is uninspired, the loading times are huge, the grind is extreme, and the pay to win is strong. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 22. April 2021 | Maintaining a healthy weight | Maintaining a healthy weight. Oh, I'm hungry man. Have I eaten? I can't remember if I ate tonight. That's terrible. I'm old. I didn't, but I had like an up and go or something because I didn't have time to get food. I think I was watching your Ramble Savers where you said like you had like McDonald's or whatever in the early morning, but I couldn't do it. Oh man, I've fast food like every day one meal or whatever morning, noon, night, doesn't matter. But I haven't eaten fast food in like 16 days. I've lost like eight kilos. That's good. I've been eating one meal, sometimes just a lean meal of fish or something and then just nothing else for us today. So I'm massive calorie deficit. It's been interesting experiencing like the battle that my brain will go through. Like thinking of 87 justifications to buy myself a pizza. Like I could write 18 essays. Any professor would be like, this is amazingly well argued. And just that's all going on in my head. And I'm like, no, that's just my fucking body telling me to do stupid things. I would not give in. It's so tough though, like because I think you're you're living alone, right? Yes. Yes. That's what I'm saying. Like it's so tough when you live alone, when you're on your own and then just to cook nice food for yourself. Like I don't like doing that. I don't like cooking for myself. I'm in a long distance relationship. My fiance, she lives in a far away, obviously. But when we're together, like I'm totally fine cooking, you know, because it's kind of like fun to do together, you know. But when I'm alone, I got fucking like I got a freaking take away. I'll get a burger. I'll get this and that. But like I hate cooking. I would almost say I hate food in general. I'm not a lover of food. How can you do that? How can you say that? It's so if you want to have you have you watched my rambles where I talk about aphantasia and stuff. Oh, yeah, you can't remember the smell or the taste of food, right? Yes. Yes. So I it's only my body that craves food mentally. I don't care. I just I just do not care about eating. But my body is like, eat the food and then it will give me cravings for food. And I'm like, why? Why do you crave it? I don't even remember what it tastes like. But it wants the pizza man, because we are we aren't just conscious entities. We have emotions, subconscious and all that very big part of what we do every day. And so I eat not because I mentally want to. It's because my body says I have to. I can't like fathom how that is like I can I can imagine that like when I think of ketchup, I can like I can taste it like I'm getting hungry now. I can taste that shit already before I can't fathom what that's what that's like. I can't fathom remembering imagining tastes or anything like that. Yeah, it's weird how crazy people's brains are different. One thing that's been getting me through through not eating as much though as gum. I don't be much of a gum chewer, but for some reason, being somewhat hungry makes chewing gum very easy to do. And I've got this stuff that has xylitol in it, which is apparently very good for your teeth, which is something I'm very concerned with my teeth because of my my soda drinking habits. |
| 06. July 2021 | Maintaining anonymity as a content creator | Maintaining anonymity as a content creator. So I was shown something on Twitter. I saw it in my mod discord where apparently a photo of Dream has been leaked, but like it's an unflattering image of an overweight man and I'm not sure what evidence there is of Dream looking like this and I don't really care obviously. But it just makes me think and reflect on like being a content creator of that size and being anonymous to the level that Dream is. I don't know how you could do it. It just seems so alien to the way that I conduct myself online. I'm so open about myself. It'd be so hard just to try to keep everything about myself a secret including my very identity. I mean I had a hard time keeping my address secret. You know, I mean I suppose Dream's success is even more impressive considering his anonymity. It was a story of someone going to his house or something right or finding where he lives. So yeah don't know if this image is real but it's impressive that he's kept what he looks like a secret this long. Has my address leaked? Oh I leaked my address a dozen times. There was even a point where it was on some website for I don't know how many months but it was like buried in the resources or references or something. So like if you didn't know it was there you probably wouldn't look for it there but I freaked out when I found out it was there. It's why things like that Apollo situation months back scared the fuck out of me because you worry that some nut is just gonna be crazy and come get you or something and you know. The odds of that are astronomical but like any amount of possibility of that is enough to have you a bit concerned you know. Boxing match with Dream? Oh fuck yeah I'd do that in heartbeat. I think the boxing match would more focus around Dream than me though. It'd be Dream versus some other speed runner. I wonder if the goal of people who share potentially fake pictures of Dream is to inspire Dream to actually show himself on camera. That'd be quite a scoop for anyone though like Dream's face reveal done live in boxing match with DarkRabbitAU you know. I mean it'd be worth a lot of money for Dream too. But like in the same way with like VR chat for example like no no person's ever gonna be as good as a you know an avatar or people's imaginations as to what you could possibly look like. Like certainly allowing people to develop expectations for years. Revealing yourself is never gonna you know live up to that DarkRabbitAU face reveal when? Soon TM. Clearly what I should do is uh make a video and be like guys I've been Dream this entire time. Did it really make sense for lowly speed runner DarkRabbitAU to get into a Dream? Of course not. See I just gave an interview to myself. By the way guys uh all my social media has been hacked by someone who's gonna claim that I'm not actually Dream. That that guy is the real imposter okay. Who's doing the voice then? I'm doing the voice okay. I use like a synthesizer thing okay and I can't turn it on right now so that's why I can't prove it. Quitting the dating app. Any update on the dating app? So it was just one app and uh so much shit was going on in my life that I was just like I'm not gonna keep doing this. I realize I don't really want to spend the time... |
| 03. September 2021 | Maintaining high energy for an entire livestream. | Maintaining high energy for an entire livestream. There's this thing that YouTubers do when they come over to Twitch, where they try and keep up the same level of energy that they have for their YouTube videos, for the entire stream that they do on Twitch, and it just tires them out, burns them out, and they stop streaming. Because you notice in a YouTube video, everyone's like, Hey guys, what's up? Like, you know, it's energy all the way, you know. You're explaining things in a passionate kind of way. It's the best content on YouTube. I've realized over time that I've started to do that. As in, when I know I'm making YouTube content, I'm basically trying to keep up that level of energy for the entire time that I'm streaming, so the YouTube video will have the most content possible, or the most footage that can be useful to YouTube. And it's so hard. But when I play things like Noita or Slay the Spire, I'm just playing the game. I'm just chilling. And it's so much easier to do. Because I am, I can be the lowest energy possible, and it doesn't matter because it's probably not going to be YouTube content, and if it is, then it's going to be watched by many people. I could sit here 12 hours a day and just stream Noita, but two hours of chaos is like a week's worth of energy. Because it's just two hours of constant talking and being engaged with the content. You know? This isn't boring. Yeah, but you're more watching for the game than me, right? Because I'm not doing anything particularly amazing. I'm just playing the game. It's just background noise, you know? |
| 03. January 2021 | Making a VODs channel . | Making a VODs channel. For those unaware, VOD means video on demand. It just means you're live streaming content after you're done with it. You should make a VODs channel like your Clips channel, even if it only gets a thousand viewers a video. It's simple enough to do. Uploading my VODs would take a very, very, very long time. It takes a long time for YouTube to process 1440p footage, let alone 5-6 hours worth of footage. The VODs are also cut into small pieces because I start and stop them. I would have to sync them together, which obviously I can't do. Or I'd put them on parts and they'd be very confusing for the YouTube audience. The video is getting ignored in recommendations. Potentially you would mean that my brand would be negatively impacted in the algorithm and whatnot. There's just like, there's just like, thousands of reasons why it's a terrible idea. Thousands. Like uploading specific chunks of VODs is very different. Like, you know, uploading two hours of Among Us games is like, that's very different than my entire VOD. And considering all my VODs get processed into YouTube content anyway, it's like all the best content for my VODs goes on YouTube. At least 95% of it. |
| 06. August 2020 | Making a secondary Youtube channel | The idea of making a secondary YouTube channel. Would I ever make a second channel? I hate the idea of second channels. The only way, like, having a second channel makes sense, is if you feel that... No, I don't know how it could possibly ever make sense these days. Because once upon a time, people would get a significant amount of their views from their sub-feed, but these days it's mainly recommendations. I mean, sure, in some spots it probably makes sense, if you're uploading radically different content or something, that you think your current viewers would have no interest in. It's like if you're a gamer doing Let's Plays, and then you have another channel where you want to make content where you discuss pottery. Like, sure, at that point you probably want to make a different channel. |
| 03. January 2021 | Making a vods channel . | Making a VODs channel. For those unaware, VOD means video on demand. It just means you're live streaming content after you're done with it. You should make a VODs channel like your Clips channel, even if it only gets a thousand viewers a video. It's simple enough to do. Uploading my VODs would take a very, very, very long time. It takes a long time for YouTube to process 1440p footage, let alone 5-6 hours worth of footage. The VODs are also cut into small pieces because I start and stop them. I would have to sync them together, which obviously I can't do. Or I'd put them on parts and they'd be very confusing for the YouTube audience. The video is getting ignored in recommendations. Potentially you would mean that my brand would be negatively impacted in the algorithm and whatnot. There's just like, there's just like, thousands of reasons why it's a terrible idea. Thousands. Like uploading specific chunks of VODs is very different. Like, you know, uploading two hours of Among Us games is like, that's very different than my entire VOD. And considering all my VODs get processed into YouTube content anyway, it's like all the best content for my VODs goes on YouTube. At least 95% of it. |
| 22. March 2021 | Making an order just before a place closes | Before they closed? Dude, that's a real dick move. That is a real dick move. I would totally do the same thing, though. And I have done the same thing. I mean, that's when you're open to, you know? The time that the store closes and the time that the people leave is clearly very different, right? Because there'd be like a half an hour remainder, whatever, where they clean up and shut stuff down and finish off any orders. You can't order Domino's Online here within the last 30 minutes of opening time? Is that true? That might be true. I doubt that's the case everywhere, though. Restaurants wasting food. Have you ever seen the Dunkin Donuts place in America where they dump all the food? |
| 28. November 2021 | Making content for a now 8 year old game | I mean, so you keep saying you're doing random challenges. Like, do you have like some large scale plan for your channel or are you just like every week trying to think up a video that you want to do and then just making that video and like, well, that's me for the week, you know? You know what? It's sort of interesting. I like, I was working full time and I always wanted to be a YouTuber, but when I really started making GTA content, my whole idea was like GTA 6 would be out by now. That's what I was thinking, like I didn't expect to be making GTA 5 and GTA Online content for this long or I didn't expect to have to. So now that I'm at this point, got almost a million subscribers, got this huge audience, I'm like, what do I do? Because like there's nothing to sort of like jump to as I'm sure you're aware, like there's not much going on in the gaming world right now. So it's not like we can jump to the next Fortnite or anything like that because it's just not out right now. And yeah, so I look, I'm just chilling. I look forward to the GTA updates because that's obviously I make guides for those, but yeah, in between GTA updates, just challenges, stuff like that. But yeah, as for an overall plan, man, I don't know. I'm just waiting for either GTA 6, new GTA update or just another game that pops off. It's funny. I think I've benefited a lot from GTA 6 not coming out because yeah, what like most people have either moved on from GTA 5 or they can't think of anything else to do, but there's still there's still a huge demand for content. People want more. And so because GTA 6 isn't coming out, they'll take fucking anything. And for that reason, people have now made chaos mod. They've now made randomized mod. These are the sort of mods that only can come out a bajillion years down the way when people are starving for any new content. It's why like everyone loves GTA San Andreas, but there's never going to be any more GTA San Andreas content. And that's why there are so many mods for that game. People making their own expansions. The first chaos mod came out for GTA San Andreas. The first randomized mod, I think, came out for GTA San Andreas because they just want more content. And that now is happening for GTA 5. And me, a person, I just love the GTA 5 world. I'm fine. It's part of the reason why I get so pissed off with GTA Online is because it's like a pale reflection of how good GTA 5 is. It's just so messy and all these shitty phone calls and all the lag and all the hackers. The single player GTA 5 experience is so smooth and so clean. And it's all perfectly set out. And online, it just feels like everything's arbitrarily stacked on top of each other and everything's so dragged out. It's all designed to make you just have to spend as much time there as possible. Well, GTA 5 is designed purely for fun, you know? Like you said before we jumped on the stream, you're right. I don't think Rockstar designed GTA Online with this in mind. That it would grow for, what is it now, eight years? I think they're surprised at how much money it's making because from the ground up, you can see it wasn't meant to last this long. The core gameplay loop even isn't that good. It's pretty cookie cutter, man. If you think about most online services, they release new maps, they release new regions and stuff. The weirdest thing about GTA Online... That's a crime. |
| 01. January 2021 | Making content for non-english speakers. | Making content for non-native English speakers Salouge hello matter you assume I watch I'm French. I don't understand everything you say despite that. I'm never bored I never get bored Congrats on the 100,000 followers in your clips channel. Thank you. My accent is I imagine Terrible for people who are native English speakers over time. I've definitely gotten better I announce a better but like take for example that dream clip or the dream thing where I did that rants when I'm ranting I'm much harder to understand then when I'm enunciating specifically when I'm focused on my enunciation. I'm a lot easier to understand |
| 14. January 2021 | Making content is harder than it seems | But I feel you man. Yeah, it's always it's always the thing isn't it? I remember when I started making gaming videos. I was like, what a piss take of a job. I'll play games, I'll make some content quickly, and I'll just live the best life ever. And then you're like, Oh, wow, editing videos and recording and putting it all together takes a phenomenally long time. Have you got these comments? Man, you sit there and plug a fucking play video games every day. Like it's so easy. People are pretty like sometimes people have a better perception of it now. I think I understand like, you know, you say a 15 minute video that was put together, like your pacifist or maybe one of my videos, people know that took time. Then I'm just like, Wow, you just press record. It's a really, really good but um, people stop by my stream and be like, Oh, I had no idea it took this because I'll edit on stream sometimes like I had no idea you put this much effort into your videos. And I'm like, is that a compliment or insult? Like, it's like, Oh, you put this much effort into your videos. And this is what your videos look like. As in like, the effort is not being shown your content, maybe just quit, but that's so funny, man. And I don't know, like, you think I think about it like this, like when you had a school project or a university project, it's like, Oh, someone put together a PowerPoint, like that PowerPoint, it's going to take you an hour, like to put together like I'm just picking where things go. And like, it might be a 12 slide thing, it's going to take you an hour, at least like one slide every five minutes, like that's reasonable. Like you write the words out. Like, that's a shitty PowerPoint presentation that's over in one minute. So that helps put in perspective for me, like how long a video can take to put together like when you think about it. Yeah, certainly. And especially because these videos will last effectively forever or whatever there's a and so many people watch them. There's a greater necessity to put in a lot more effort. Yeah. These are half an hour doing one transition just because the music isn't fading or 20 minutes and those 20 minutes is just add up really quickly. Yeah. And time just flies by especially when you're engrossed in a project and you go, what it's been 10 hours already? What the fuck? Crazy man. And you're like, I gotta upload. That's why that's why I have deadlines for myself. Like I try and upload every Sunday just because I think it can easily fall into a perfectionist where you're sitting. |
| 01. July 2020 | Making facts and glitches | The difficulties in making the Facts and Glitches episodes. When is the new Facts and Glitches episode coming out? It's going to come out when I finish it. It is a really long process to make Facts and Glitches, you know. I know it may not seem like it, but it's the amount of time spent going through people's suggestions and figuring out which ones actually make sense and testing it all. Often people give me like an idea or something that they've half looked into, and then I have to spend like hours tinkering with it in every possible way. Often it's not a matter of simply just showing something. I also have to explain why it occurs. And the person who presented the thing to me doesn't necessarily know that. So I have to like test it in 57 different ways to know exactly what variables are causing something to happen. It's kind of fun, really. But then going through all that footage to find all the successes and stuff is time consuming. What is the golden number of glitches? Facts for Facts and Glitches episode. There is no golden number because you never know how long it's going to take to explain any particular glitch, you know, or facts. As a general rule, I just make as many recordings of facts and glitches as I can. And then I worry about whether or not I have enough footage for two episodes, three episodes, whatever, after the facts. There is still a bunch that I didn't record, and there's tons of stuff that I could put in there from the speedruns that hasn't been put in there. But I just haven't needed the footage. There's also a lot of weaker facts and glitches in this very long multi-page part of my document that I might not touch for a long time. |
| 01. September 2020 | Making the quartering videos | making the quartering videos. I'm so far behind in my editing work. And this quartering stuff has put me even way further behind. Like if people knew that, like I admitted it, but I took time off working on Pacifist to make those videos. Like basically here's what happened. I was sitting there working on Pacifist and I was like, ah, goddammit dude. Like this is just going, it's going so slow and it's frustrating. I need a break. I need something to give me a break from this. And then I got an email and the dude's like, hey, you know that guy you shit talks in like half an hour into when he rambles or you gave two minutes to it on stream or whatever. Yeah, he gave you a shout out. And I'm like this, and I watched the video, I'm like this is so fucking funny. And it probably took away total between the two days, like six hours of work or something on Pacifist. Like if the average viewer knew that, they'd be really pissed at me. |
| 26. September 2021 | Making understandable references in edited content | Making understandable references in edited content. For those who haven't seen it, I can't believe you haven't seen it, I don't know why. In the most recent episode of How This Human Ended, I spent all the time masking and basically clipping out Bart and Lisa watching Ralph's heartbreak and I replaced Ralph with myself. It's always tough getting references that the majority people understand and even if a person doesn't understand them they won't necessarily feel left out or whatever. It's like when I tried to make the Groundhog Day reference and I was like does everyone know Groundhog Day? If you haven't seen Groundhog Day, highly recommended. Amazing movie. Almost 400 viewers did I get hosted? No I didn't would it. It's just a combination of not resetting and having some new viewers from YouTube. Hello everyone from YouTube, I love you. Thank you for giving me a reason to edit my content and put on YouTube. It's fun. It is so satisfying when you make that perfect edit and you make yourself laugh at your own joke and it's just like yeah. Don't laugh at my own joke. I will laugh at anything that's funny and I like my jokes okay. I am a joke so I constantly laugh at myself. The saddest thing though is that I'm trying not to use the same memes too frequently so like I could have used that Eric Andre meme again and I was like no even that's such a good meme. Let me in. Let me in. Man. Love it. I was like nah. Use it too many times and it kills the meme but in a year's time mark it on your calendar. I'll use that meme again because a year will be long enough. Besides there's always new people you know who wouldn't have seen the old episode where the meme was used. This stream will blow up if you keep producing the good content. I have found that I am growing faster making YouTube. I'm growing faster on Twitch making YouTube content than I am streaming on Twitch. People will often say should I start on Twitch and I would always say no if you really want to start out somewhere despite all the odds against you start on YouTube because the algorithm at least can help you and I should have been taking that advice myself. I'd still rather focus on Twitch because I much prefer streaming on Twitch but just getting found on Twitch is so tough you know. |
| 18. July 2022 | Making understandable references is getting harder. | Making understandable references is getting harder. I was watching Linus Tech Tips and they made a reference to the Cable Guy, the Jim Carrey movie, and I was like, man, we're getting to the point where so many of my movie references aren't gonna be understood by most people who watch my content. Like it feels like when I was younger, there was a lot fewer movies. So it felt like more people had all seen the same movies and shit, but now there's just like 57,000 goddamn Marvel movies. And I mean, like everyone seemed morbid, obviously, but that doesn't count. But like I haven't seen any of the Minions movies and clearly I need to get some Zoomers in my chat to give me a list of like the top Zoomer movies for me to watch and to be added reference. |
| 03. June 2022 | Making videos that make you lose subs (the reaction videos) | videos that lose you subscribers the reaction videos it does suck to lose Subscribers and stuff over, but I think I still think it's worth doing how many subs that is are not many It's oh well so yeah, so there's clearly an opportunity cost with making these videos obviously for the last month and a half two months Whatever I could be making my normal content and gotten many more subscribers many more views more money and all that stuff So compared to that obviously the loss is astronomical but Just for the videos themselves like you can see the line on the back end It's like I gain a subscriber lose a subscriber gain a subscriber lose a subscriber, and it's in general being fairly equal, but Yesterday I think I lost 17 subscribers, so let's say I probably gained like 80 subscribers and lost you know 97 or something and certainly like diminishing returns each of those videos has new information in them and stuff, but um Obviously with each one like it's less new information people already convinced by it Or they don't think they need to watch the next one. They don't think it's different enough or what have you? |
| 28. July 2020 | Mambo number 5 and being bamboozled | Mambo number five and getting bamboozled. Weirdly, Mambo number five, so I've told before when I was a kid I didn't really like music, but Mambo number five was like one of the first songs that I ever actually enjoyed. For whatever reason, I know the beat or whatever. Friends, like it was like Christmas or something and friends of the family wanted to know from my mother what they should buy me for Christmas as a gift. And so my mother tells them that I like this song Mambo number five. So they're like, OK, cool, we'll buy him a CD of Mambo number five or whatever. I know how old I was, 12 or something, I don't know. But they go out and they can't find the CD of Mambo number five, but they do find a Bob the Builder remix of Mambo number five and they buy me that. And I was just like, thank you. And I pretended to enjoy this gift that they've given me, but clearly I wasn't happy with it. And then later on, the kids of the friends of the family, whatever, I think Adam was saying to me like, come on, man, admit it. You don't really like the present. I'm like, oh, no, I like it. It's great. It's like, look, Matt, just don't lie to me. Admit that you don't like it. I'm like, OK, fine. I don't actually like it. So he yells at his mom like, Mom, he doesn't actually like the gift. And I feel so betrayed because he's just ratted me. He got me. He egged me up to finally admit it. And then he they betrayed him by telling his mom and made me look like a complete jerk. It's I feel awkward. His mother feels awkward. My mother feels awkward. And I don't even remember the name of this family, but I still remember this event to this day. And it's just that's my story about Mambo number five. I don't know why I still remember that to this day. The one other thing I remember about that family, though, is me and my sister would always request to watch this movie about this guy, about this guy who gets sucked into this board game and his soul gets entangled with a dragon and dragons eat rocks to float or whatever. And it's not it's not Jumanji. It's a it's a animated thing. And there's like four wizards or something who fly the dragons. I think that's what it's called. Yeah. It's an it's an old movie. I love I looked it up at some point and I used to remember the name. Interesting movie. Can someone Google the thing is the fly the dragons. |
| 02. October 2021 | Man arrested for eating a squirrel in front of vegans at protest | Men arrested and fined for eating a squirrel in front of vegans at protest. Basically a dude went to a vegan market to protest veganism or something, and just, in front of a bunch of people who asked him to stop, started eating a raw squirrel. It's kinda weird. What do you think of the guy who got arrested for eating a raw squirrel in front of a bunch of vegans? I mean, if you're doing something intentionally to cause emotional, or just cause stress in other people, obviously you're causing a public disturbance and should be arrested. Clearly, behavior where you're intentionally, for no purpose other than distress, doing some action, that's not something you want to promote in society. If he was just going about his business, cooking his meal, and people are like, I have a problem with that, and you can say, well go fuck yourself, I'm just living my life. Don't look, and that's, you know, he- |
| 02. October 2021 | Man gets 300 free first class meals - fact or fiction? | Man gets 300 free first-class meals. Fact or fiction? Do you guys remember that story about that guy who booked a first-class flight and he'd go have dinner in the first-class lounge where you wait for your flight? And then he would rebook his flight and he did this 300 times. So he got 300 free meals. Because the meal was free while you're waiting for your plane. And then when he got invested, they found out or whatever, and he refunded his ticket for full price. So he just basically got like 300 first-class meals for free. This is a story that gets put on Reddit like every six months. Because such a funny story. Who knows if it's true though, if it's just a wise wife's tale. But I mean, in theory, the reason why it's so believable is because in theory, that makes perfect sense that you could do that. At least once upon a time. A part of what you get with a first-class experience is less scrutiny. Less people bothering you about your shit. And it's an automated process for rebooking. You'd think the staff would recognize him though after a while. Yeah, that's what I thought as well, Plex. Yeah. But I mean, you'd imagine like as long as you're dressed to the nines or whatever, that people go, oh, this guy just must, you know, fly there and come back to other means or whatever. And maybe he didn't do it like every day. And certainly, discretion would be a part of it, right? Like the staff wouldn't take it upon themselves to question some dude with a 15 grand ticket. It's been posted on a few legit websites, but has no names attributed. Exactly. It's been around for so long and being noted by so many people that it could just be an old wives tale, but who knows? Because it does seem believable as long as it's within a certain timeframe of, you know, less scrutiny and da da da in the efforts. Because new sites are always corrected. That's not what he's saying, Am. So everything that is believed is believed within a certain realm of confidence. So if if someone said to you a meteor hits New York, you really you turn on the news and no one's talking about it. You look on websites, see if anyone's written about it and no one has. You'd be like, OK, if not a single news broadcast is talking about this, I don't think it's happened. It wouldn't confirm that it definitely had happened. Had if the news if one news channel was talking about it, if two were talking about it, but it would give you a higher level of confidence or high level of justified confidence that it did happen. Even seeing something with your own two eyes is not enough for you to be absolutely certain of anything. It's just a matter of degrees of confidence based on evidence. That's why he made this statement where he's like a lot of legitimate news places are talking about it, but there's no names attributed. So he's like, oh, here's something in favor of this being true, but here's something in favor of it not being true, despite what was referenced. And as I've said, because why I said I it's plausible to me based on what I know of the world, but I can't know if it's true because I don't think there's enough evidence supporting it. And as as people pointed out in chat, there are there are things that can make you skeptical. Like why wouldn't the staff recognize him? How is he getting to the airport all the time? But those can be explained by, you know, as I as I said, first class people not being scrutinized and just an earlier time where less stuff was recorded. Well, worse computers or just less scrutiny in general at airports. |
| 30. September 2021 | Mandatory KFC | Mandatory KFC. I feel all stuffed because I had KFC. I had KFC because I went to the post office. It's a rule in Australia, if you go to the post office, you have to go to KFC. It's actually the law. It passed by a slim margin five years ago. |
| 20. December 2021 | Mandatory package signatures are useless! | Mandatory package signatures are useless. This is an old clip where I reference my merch being from Streamlabs. Obviously, given that Streamlabs is a massively exploitative company, I do not associate with them anymore. They were also just massively incompetent at everything. I'm surprised how long I dealt with it. Signatures are fucking cancer, okay? Any person standing at this fucking house can squiggle on a fucking pad anything they like. It's never checked, it doesn't fucking matter. The signature does not do anything. It's security theater, and I fucking hate these motherfuckers who ask for it. Like, I can literally spit on the fucking panel and it will count as a signature. And they'll come back, oh, is this your signature? I can be like, no. Prove that I signed that. Prove it. I have a position that if you require a signature for delivery of an order, it should be written on the fucking delivery. Very simple. Like, if I knew this needed a signature, I wouldn't have bought anything. I'm that fucking annoyed. You're confused about what just happened? I ordered a bunch of merch from my own merch store from Streamlabs. It only sends from America, and despite that it's literally just shirts, they require a signature. So the driver came to my door, can clearly hear me streaming. Like, I even yelled out, what? He knows someone is home, and he left with the package. Because it specifically says, do not leave package without a signature. Because obviously, 60 bucks worth of shirts is clearly not something I would want left. Streamlabs does not give you the option of saying, do you want it with a signature or without for some fucking reason. So what's going to happen is, they say they'll come back tomorrow. As in on the thing. I didn't rebook it, it just says they will try again tomorrow. I'll be streaming tomorrow. Unless they happen to catch me in between runs or when I'm in prologue, I'm not going to the fucking door. And then they're going to hold the package for five days, which I'm not going to want to fucking go get, because fucking shirts. And if I don't go get it, it'll go back to America, back to Streamlabs. And you know what they'll have to do? They'll have to send it back to me again. And you know what they'll do? They'll give it with a fucking signature. And then the same thing will happen over and over again, until eventually they'll catch me, not during the middle of a run. All this because they need a fucking signature that I don't even have. If you've ever seen my signatures, they're all gobbledy-goo. They mean nothing. Anyone could replicate my fucking signature. Because it's security theater. You know how many people actually do handwriting these days? It's the fucking computer age. The only time I use a pen or write anything is specifically to sign things. And every one of my signatures looks fucking different. Any person could stand at the door, take the package, and squiggle on the fucking thing, and they wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Like, have you ever used a credit card at a shopping center and signed the bill? Do they check your signature? No. But they still make you do it, because it's security theater. There's a good video on fucking YouTube. I hate this shit so fucking much. Maybe for, like, real important documents or something. |
| 31. March 2021 | Manga Art Can Be Weird | Like, some scenes can be drawn so beautifully, and other scenes are drawn so terribly. But there can be a combination of the two, where something can be drawn so well, but you have no fucking idea what's going on. You look at this extraordinarily detailed panel, and like, what is happening here? What is this? I refuse to believe this is a thing. And then it gets animated when it's in an anime, like, oh, he's swinging his leg. I get it. The reddit. |
| 31. March 2021 | Manga art can be weird | Like, some scenes can be drawn so beautifully, and other scenes are drawn so terribly. But there can be a combination of the two, where something can be drawn so well, but you have no fucking idea what's going on. You look at this extraordinarily detailed panel, and like, what is happening here? What is this? I refuse to believe this is a thing. And then it gets animated when it's in an anime, like, oh, he's swinging his leg. I get it. The reddit. |
| 17. May 2021 | Manipulative dating sites | Manipulative dating sites. So I signed up to a new dating website thing yesterday because I used OkCupid like eight years ago or something for a little bit and I kinda liked it. That you could give additional information and like it asks you a fuck ton of questions to recommend you people based on how similar you answer the questions and stuff. But it's really, really fucking expensive. Like holy shit is it expensive. You can't message people unless you match. And like if you sign up for only one month it costs like $90 for one month. And to like if you sign up for six months it's like $60 a month. And she's like the fuck? And from what I understand is like the second you sign up it shows that you've got likes, like people have liked your profile and shit. And you can't see these likes until you make an account. And so I looked up and I'm like there's this bullshit like last four seconds I made my account that I've got 10 likes whatever. Apparently, according to people on Reddit at least, everyone gets these likes. Because people are like oh what people like my account? Well I wasn't going to get a premium account but now I want to see who's liking my accounts. And so they shill out $90 and it's just garbage. I swear like eight years ago when I used it it was like $15 a month or something. That's quite an increase. Fucking websites man. Trying to abuse people's desire to... |
| 20. December 2021 | Mario or Sonic? | Mario or Sonic? Mario or Sonic? Definitely Mario. So one of the biggest problems that Sonic had was how damage works. Like power-ups in Mario, you look forward to them, like, Oh my god, I got a Fire Flower, sick! It gives you new abilities and shit, and it protects you from damage. Sonic, it's ring system, where it's like, Oh, I've got 80 rings, whoop-de-fucking-doo. Oh, look, five more rings. Awesome. It's like if in Mario, you had no upgrades, but if you had one coin, you could survive one hit. It just isn't as good. And like, in Sonic, the greatest thing is how fast you can go, and it's like, wow, I'm going so fast. But because the main focus is on, I'm talking about the old games, the main focus on being fast, whenever you become slow, it's irritating. Like, the characters feel sluggish whenever you're having to be slow in a place, or you're stuck in a place, or you get stopped by a wall or something. In Mario, it always feels good. You can be going super fast or slow or creeping around, and it feels good. |
| 20. December 2021 | Mario or sonic? | Mario or Sonic? Mario or Sonic? Definitely Mario. So one of the biggest problems that Sonic had was how damage works. Like power-ups in Mario, you look forward to them, like, Oh my god, I got a Fire Flower, sick! It gives you new abilities and shit, and it protects you from damage. Sonic, it's ring system, where it's like, Oh, I've got 80 rings, whoop-de-fucking-doo. Oh, look, five more rings. Awesome. It's like if in Mario, you had no upgrades, but if you had one coin, you could survive one hit. It just isn't as good. And like, in Sonic, the greatest thing is how fast you can go, and it's like, wow, I'm going so fast. But because the main focus is on, I'm talking about the old games, the main focus on being fast, whenever you become slow, it's irritating. Like, the characters feel sluggish whenever you're having to be slow in a place, or you're stuck in a place, or you get stopped by a wall or something. In Mario, it always feels good. You can be going super fast or slow or creeping around, and it feels good. |
| 03. September 2021 | Mario party life goals. | Mario Party Life Goals Fuuuck I miss playing Mario Party One day guys, mark my words I will have in real life friends Who I can play Mario Party with Who will live in a reasonable proximity And like on weekends will get drunk and play Mario Party And then I'll fucking use chance time and destroy every- I'll destroy all those friendships I'll take all those fucking stars Am I a masochist? Yeah, what does that got to do with it? I legit love Mario Party I remember when I was a kid, me and Daniel We sat there with Mario Party 1 You guys know Mario Party 1 with the- It had all these games where you had to spin the joystick And using your palm was the best way to spin And it destroyed people's hands Someone sued Nintendo It was a class action lawsuit And so they did a thing where they offered anyone who wanted one A free pair of gloves You had to contact Nintendo and go Hey look, I want some of your Nintendo gloves And they'd send them out here I didn't know about that at the time So I didn't get my gloves I feel kind of ripped off There was this shy guy that you wound up In like the building where you buy stuff And me and Daniel were convinced That if you wound it up enough That it went around the entire room It would unlock something cool Because the internet didn't exist at this point Or if it did, it was like, you know It did exist, but it was like, you know, dial up and stuff And no sites with repeatable information So we're like, fuck it We're gonna get the cool thing, like the secret easter egg So we sat there for hours, man Just winding this fucking thing, destroying our hands Just in pain, like bleeding Going, I'm gonna get this fucking easter egg Got nothing It was fucking nothing And we never did it either There was no easter egg and we didn't succeed |
| 01. July 2020 | Mario64 remake | Mario 64 Remake. You guys have heard the, uh, they're gonna be remastering, um, Super Mario 64. They already did it once for the 3DS. I wonder if they're going to change the game at all. Like, any of the jank in the original. I wonder if it's gonna be removed. You know, like, backwards long jumps and shit. I don't think Nintendo is super fond of speedrunners. Or, they don't love them or whatever. So it's not like I don't think they're gonna keep the jank just for their benefit. Oh, is the DS? Yeah, well, you know, same thing. Super Mario 64. Expanded and enhanced. You know, oddly, I don't think people would dislike something like that for Mario 64. Like, they kept the exact same mechanics, but I don't know, they just added different worlds. Or maybe they just get pissed because they'd be, Nintendo would just be basically copying modders. Because there's heaps of modded versions of Super Mario 64. New stars and new worlds and shit. Super Mario 64 reveal trailer. Why did I move here? I guess it was the weather. |
| 05. August 2022 | Markiplier's content stealing reaction stream. | Markiplier's content stealing reaction stream Markiplier did a stream called stealing other people's content where he just sat on stream and was basically a reactor he memed it up a lot, pretending to be a hack or whatever, getting past copyright I didn't watch enough of it to know, well it clearly wasn't serious cause like he's looking at his friends stuff or whatever and stuff that's involving him and I don't know how many videos he actually watched cause you can see here it's just largely him talking and he shows off footage of himself on Corridor Digital and stuff yeah so I'm not sure exactly how much of other people's stuff he watched but at the beginning he acknowledged that it does seem to be the case that the best way to get ahead now is just ripping off other people's shit so I think he was just memeing and acknowledging the shittiness of the react meta or whatever maybe I'll watch this and see if there's anything else of value that I might want to reference for any future videos but holy shit chat my TikTok right now is just like a non-stop barrage of people reacting to clips of anime and stuff but really they're not reacting to clips, what they are doing is just sitting there for like hours watching anime and then uploading them watching the anime in parts so every 3 minutes of them watching it's just uploaded I had no idea how prevalent this reacting to anime meta was on these apps it's nuts the person building a brand just sitting there all day going hey this is anime, I like this this is a good fight scene it's dumb you know everyone now reacts to TikTok including doctors, Dr. Mike yeah it's just I've tried to have some exception for clips because clips are low effort you're making something that's a minute long or whatever recording you doing something it's not a whole production or whatever but it does all just seem dumb someone abusing copyright to claim viral videos |
| 11. October 2021 | Marvel cartoons are American anime | Marvel cartoons are American anime. Do I watch Marvel content? I actually watched two episodes of Marvel what-if the one with Captain America and Doctor Strange both pretty good. Yeah, the Doctor Strange one was interesting. Yeah, I've always liked the character of Doctor Strange Almost all of them have Captain America. I mean the one that focused on Captain America it's funny though how similar things are where it's like this is basically the same process as Manga to anime right? Well, you've got the comic which is the manga being made into the cartoon which is the anime and Marvel's just doing the same thing now. They just taking some comics and adapting them into a cartoon. I wonder how many people watch Like what-if and stuff and they're like, yeah, I mean I watched that but I don't like anime though Yeah Basically the same thing at this point. I think superhero movies are just American anime. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, you are not an anime enjoyer Like I never understand that mindset. There was just so many different stories In anime, it'd be impossible for you not to find one that you'd enjoy. It's just a medium for storytelling. That's it. Certainly there are Tropes in anime that are you could not like but there's always things that buck any Any trope or trend, you know the latest episode of Boruto is amazing Are you one of those people that like look you just got to give Boruto a chance I know the first 200 episodes aren't very good, but like it gets better Isn't Boruto like 80% filler? Yeah, Bojack Horseman is my favorite anime. |
| 23. December 2019 | Marvel movies after Endgame | How do I feel about Marvel still making movies after Endgame? My thoughts on Marvel continuing to do movies after Endgame? Why wouldn't they man? There's just so many comic book stories they can make in the movies. Certainly it's going to be hard for any future movie to have as much weight to it. Like you can't really top half the universe or half of all sentient life in existence, you know. Like I'm trying to think what Marvel movie I'd actually go to the cinema for and I don't think there's any outside of Deadpool. You know if I happen to stumble across a copy of the movie when I happen to have like some time to spare, I don't know, maybe I'd watch it. But I wouldn't go to any effort to see it. Dr. Strange, that's it. I don't know enough about the characters to know what comic books I'd like to see made into episodes. But I have watched a significant amount of comic book YouTube channels. Shit gets recommended to me because I watch one episode, you know how it is. And I've heard a lot of stories that I think would make good movies. Honestly I'm at the point where I know time travel kind of negates any risk versus what, but I mean that's like any fantasy story like that. It's always possible for them just to go time travel. It's almost just not just a Marvel thing. Like any sci-fi fantasy. You always know at any point the writers can go fuck at time travel. I mean the same way that Dragon Ball Z was still enjoyable even though they had the Dragon Balls. I do get that feeling though. I do understand that sentiment. Especially because they undercut all the end game by going back in time. Like I didn't agree with that decision. I would have much rather they gone with the in the Soul Stone thing where everyone was just trapped in the Soul Stone and they just released them all. Rather than going hey look I figured out time travel in 15 minutes as Tony Stark did. Spoilers my end game here is to get you to like the video. So if you want to help me out with that and do that that'd be really cool. Thank you. |
| 01. June 2020 | Massive streamer payouts good? | Do you think it's a good thing that streaming platforms have to pay streamers to stay or go to their streaming platforms? It's a weird one isn't it? It's good for them, but is it good for us overall? Like that money has to come from somewhere. As I've said before Dr. Disrespect Isn't just gonna stay here for three years and then not ask for more money. At the end of those three years He's gonna go look, mix is still a thing, YouTube is still a thing and you guys want me on this platform Maybe you want to give me as much money as you gave me before, maybe even more money. Like how much additional overhead has, is now on Twitch to maintain all these higher-end content creators and that's money that they're not necessarily putting in, you know innovating on the platform or buying more servers or you know paying us, everyone else, more money. It certainly draws attention to the streaming platforms. Who is this ninja fellow who's getting all this money? Blah blah blah It's publicity, but I don't see myself, like let's just say me individually. I don't see me individually benefiting from Ninja Gang $10 million or $20 million or $30 million, whatever it was, or Doc getting that money. I don't think there's a trickle-down effect. Maybe there's a benefit that having these bigger content creators on the platform Maybe they bring in viewers or something and that benefits me tangentially like that But like if Doc left, didn't get that money and left to go to YouTube, would I really be negatively impacted? I mean, so again, it's a good thing for those particular streamers, but I don't really see how I benefit or any of the little guys benefit. |
| 14. May 2020 | Matrix 4 | was impossible. As a big fan of the Matrix, I'm quite nervous that the fourth installment might ruin the series. What do you think? I liked all the Matrix movies when I was younger. The parts that I didn't understand when I was watching Matrix 2 and 3, I just took them to be like, well, you know, that's just, I just don't understand things. The world is cool. Oh my God, look, that guy phased through that car and Morpheus looks so cool. I didn't really care that much about the story. I just was like, oh my God, they're in like the digital world and like they've got swords and cutting stuff. He's flying. Oh my God, that's so cool. And that was my level of analysis of the movies. When I look back at the movies, I'm like, what the fuck were they doing? None of that made any fucking sense. It was like 20 minutes of him just being in like the middle of nowhere talking for like it. Like the second and third movie sucks. I don't think the fourth movie can ruin the series because the second and third movie already ruined that series. |
| 09. July 2022 | Mau | Yeah. He just smashed it, yeah. Yeah. Mao. So why is this guy named Mao? The reason I ask is because one of my friends used to nickname me Mao, because he was very drunk and he was putting my name, Matt, in his phone. And this is back when you had like one button that you pressed to get to letters or whatever. And so he clicked it too many times and got to you, and he's like, ah well fuck it, that's close enough. And so from then on he called me Mao. I doubt that's the reason he's called Mao, but... Probably the same reason, man. Yeah. Yeah. |
| 27. April 2022 | Max Payne remakes announced. | Max Payne Remakes announced. I have heard about the Max Payne Remakes. I played Max Payne 1, it was a good game. I can understand why, you can't just put like a new coat of paint on that. Like I said, remake not remaster, I'm curious how far they're going to go with it. Because it would need quite a bit to come up to the modern standards. The only reason it's playable at all is because of mods. Will I replay the new remake? Um, there are so many games that I want to get to playing that it's not likely that I'm going to play them anytime soon. Like I'm sure it's going to take years for them to come out. I'm going to play Max Payne 2 and I'm probably going to play before the remake comes out. If Remedy are doing the bulk of the work and not Rockstar, that would be pretty good. I mean, with any company, you have no idea like who's still there, who's not and all that jazz. I mean, we'll see. I mean, it's the same people who worked on the originals. Certainly, you got a good shot of them being respectful to the source. |
| 02. May 2021 | Max age of livestreamer? | Do I have a max age that I would still want to be a streamer? Matt, you have a max age for being a streamer? I mean, if you're 60 instead of streamer, you'd be happy with that life? Absolutely. Like, it is hard to imagine that I will still enjoy streaming to the same degree that I enjoy it now 30 years from now or something, you know? It isn't inconceivable that I can't work 12 hour days, seven days a week for the rest of my life. You know, I can't do that. |
| 04. March 2021 | Maya Higa’s charity stream. | Maya Higa's charity stream. Did you guys see that clip of simply having his chest waxed, removing a fuck ton of hair? God, that looked painful. Oh my God. Oh my God. Reminded me of Steve Carell in that 40 year old version movie. Do it matter? I do not have a lot of chest hair. I have some, but I do not have hair to the amount that simply does. Was there any item you wanted from the auction? I didn't watch the full auction, so I'm not sure what was there, but getting a shovel from Soda Poppin, I think would be kind of funny. Think that went for 30 grand now. I wouldn't pay 30 grand for a shovel. It staggers me that Ludwig paid 50 grand for an hour with Shroud. I wonder if he would make some good content out of that. Yeah, I'll do a giveaway, an auction for charity, and I'll send someone a $702 Big Mac. That raised a damn lot of money there, which is nice. |
| 22. March 2022 | McDonald’s scammed me. | McDonald's scammed me. So, again my problem with being unable to remember what food tastes like, I never know what to order. I just order the same things I've had before, that I remember not hating. McDonald's comes the fastest, so... Double Quarter Pounder and two hash browns. I'll put the hash browns on the Double Quarter Pounder meal. Genius! I remember being a youngin', chattin', thinkin' myself like, Man, I wish McDonald's delivered. The future is now! What did I order? Double Quarter Pounder and two hash browns. Unfortunately... Oh, you're kidding me, dude. See what it says right there? It says right there. Double Quarter Pounder. What is that, chat? That is a singular Quarter Pounder. I don't care about the money. I do care about the lack of respect. Fuckin' ripped off, chat. McDonald's out here scammin' ya boy Dark Viper AU. Still gonna put the hash browns on it. I should put one in it, cause... yeah. And they even put onion on it! But it is a piece of onion! Specifically Ars Noir onion. But there's only one piece! It was good. Someone says you can order hash browns all day in Australia. Has the all day menu not propagated to the rest of the world yet? As I've talked about many times, many companies, including McDonald's, will test new food items in Australia before putting it globally. Cause it's a western market that's kinda a bit more segregated, you know, from the rest of the world. In Australia, you can order some burgers during the breakfast time. And you can order some breakfast items all day. You are not chewing enough, not good for your health? You fucking criticize my chewing ability. Hash browns are the best thing for McDonald's. Hash browns, I'm pretty sure they changed from when I was a kid. Cause I believe they used to have the things be far more greasy-o. You've had a bunch of strangers criticize your eating technique. It's a weird experience. Sponsorship A! If McDonald's wants to sponsor me, they can give me my other half of my quarter pounder. Alright? |
| 08. June 2020 | Mcdonald's Australia cheeseburger cost | What does a McDonald's cheeseburger cost in Australia? It depends. Like, they can have like McDoubles for $2, which is like a cheeseburger with like an extra piece of meat or whatever. They can sometimes have hamburgers for $2 or a hamburger for a dollar. It really depends. Last time I looked it said a hamburger was $3.45. That's not what a hamburger actually costs or what it normally costs. It's just the price is just arbitrary. How much is a Matt homemade burger? I will personally caser any of any event you have for a million dollars. |
| 30. September 2022 | Mcdonald’s are not really 24/7 even if they say they are | Really 24-7, even if they say they are. I waited one hour for McDonald's, more than that. So I don't know if it's this way in your countries, that somewhere between like 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. is like, yo bro, we're sending information to the mothership, gotta restart our systems, can't take orders. And they go, oh yeah, every 20 minutes. It's never fucking 20 minutes, this time it was literally fucking an hour. I sat in that car park for an hour, every 15 minutes going into the drive-thru, being like, hey can I have some food now? They're like, no, like, oh. But you are 24-hour McDonald's, right? They're like, yeah, oh yeah, totally. I'll be back in 15 minutes to see if you've, you started giving food again, awful. |
| 05. September 2021 | Mcdonald’s employee gave me all his money | McDonald's employee gave me all his money. I don't want to think that I'm doing something that's significantly negatively impacting people. I mean it's impossible to go your entire life without negatively impacting someone. But I mean I just don't want to think that people might suffer from knowing me. |
| 27. March 2022 | Mcdonald’s employee loves onions. | This employee loves onions. From McDonald's, I ordered a double quarter pounder with extra pickles and no onion. And what they sent me was a normal quarter pounder with fuck tons of onion. Someone took offense at my no onion, extra pickles, double quarter pounder order. They stopped making my burger midway in order to put a whole onion on it, as if the mere suggestion that onion is bad is an insult to their entire family line. It was cold, and so I, I mean I removed the onion, and the burger tastes like shit. I just don't understand society's obsession with onions. I don't get it. It's like 50% of people passionately hate onions, but restaurants keep putting onion on everything. The amount of onion I like is the amount that's so small and tiny that you can't even perceive it. Or taste it, or feel it. Deliver. |
| 16. June 2022 | Mcdonald’s has preservatives so it’s fine | McDonald's has preservatives so it's fine. Is a double quarter pounder a half pounder? The math checks out. I still remember, I was at some place, we'd done some drinking, went out for McDonald's, and I left half a double quarter pounder in the car. I woke up in the morning, hungover, and I ate the half. People looked at me with the absolute, I mean, they were just so disgusted. I was like, what? It's got preservatives stuff in it. It's fine. I didn't die, sir. If you live, you clearly made the right decision. For all I know, had I not eaten the burger, I would have died, sir. |
| 01. July 2020 | Me being “famous” | Me being famous. Do you consider yourself famous? I'm internet famous. I refer to myself as a zealous celebrity. It's like this. The world, internet culture, GTA 5, people who care about online GTA content, people who watch YouTube online content, people who care about story mode, and or Twitch. I'm famous in this part, right here. I'm in there. I'm one small part of this small area. So we can go, we can zoom in even more. I am here. This is me. That is my fame, in regards to the entire world. Still bigger than most people? Yes. I talked about before how, you know, your things normalize. You get used to the level that you're at. When I go everywhere on the internet, you guys may look at my, like I get, oh man, look he gets like 300 likes on his Twitter post. Oh my god. But then like, I see posts like from Swagasols, who's also an Aussie, and he gets, you know, 10k, 15k, 30k. This is actual fame. You can be CallMeCarson and you can sneeze. And everyone's like 50 Virginia likes, oh my god, this is hilarious. Like, you just have that kind of reach. You know? I'm not feeling bad about my circumstances. I'm very lucky to be where I am. I don't consider myself to be a particularly remarkable person in any sense. It's just when I talk about my level of success, you know, success is relative. I am more successful than those who aren't as successful as me, but I'm not as successful as those who are more successful as me. It just depends on what you focus on. Like I'm sure if I went to PAX, I would meet a lot of people who know who I am. It's like even people who I consider to be very famous, you know, Tyler1 or whatever. For the vast majority of the world, if you mention Tyler1, they have no idea who the fuck you're talking about. No fucking idea. But if he went to you know, any event related to the internet, he would just be mobbed by people. Potentially wherever he went. Not many people achieve that kind of worldly fame. You know, you aren't an Elvis, you aren't a Michael Jackson. Like I remember it might have been my sociology textbook or something where they're talking about other cultures, you know, and tribes of people who have minimal contact with the outside world. And they'd be asked about Michael Jackson and they'd know who he is. You just have that level of fame permeating the world. And then when you look at my level of fame relative to that level of fame, it's just so, so tiny. Because people ask me, what does it feel like to be famous sometimes? And I'm like, I don't feel famous at all. Because I can understand my level of notoriety in relation to those who have much greater than mine. And it just feels so tiny. I don't feel that much more well known than the average person. |
| 31. August 2020 | Me vs Pokimane tier 3 subs | Do I have more tier 3 subs than Pokimane? Will Matt have more tier 3s than Poki since she's gone? She doesn't have that many tier 3s. She like averages like 60. Considering she does well over 10,000 viewers. Her ratio of tier 3s is very low. No anymore? No. She never had a higher, higher amount of tier 3s. Do you want to take a look? Oh, does it, does it track me? What? Apparently not important enough. Um, so XUC, uh, hun, uh, where's Pokimane? Yeah, so this is her normal amount of what, between, what, 30, basically 30 and 60 or some shit. And then this is when people memed on it and just gave a bunch of people fucking tier 3s. This makes her quite low. Um, let me check how many tier 3s I have. So I have 21 tier 3s and my average viewership is one tenth of Pokimane's. Pokimane has 15,000 average viewers and she, uh, before everyone memed and gave a bunch of tier 3s, she had at most 60, 80, uh, tier 3s. I'm sitting here with 1,400 viewers, one tenth her size then, and I've got like one third her tier 3s. Pokimane has a lower amount of tier 3s than what you would expect. Hell, she has a lower amount of subs than what you'd expect. But these, these commentary channels don't really care about facts. It's a funny narrative that there's a fuck ton of people giving her tier 3s or whatever. |
| 31. August 2020 | Me vs pokimane tier 3 subs | Do I have more tier 3 subs than Pokimane? Will Matt have more tier 3s than Poki since she's gone? She doesn't have that many tier 3s. She like averages like 60. Considering she does well over 10,000 viewers. Her ratio of tier 3s is very low. No anymore? No. She never had a higher, higher amount of tier 3s. Do you want to take a look? Oh, does it, does it track me? What? Apparently not important enough. Um, so XUC, uh, hun, uh, where's Pokimane? Yeah, so this is her normal amount of what, between, what, 30, basically 30 and 60 or some shit. And then this is when people memed on it and just gave a bunch of people fucking tier 3s. This makes her quite low. Um, let me check how many tier 3s I have. So I have 21 tier 3s and my average viewership is one tenth of Pokimane's. Pokimane has 15,000 average viewers and she, uh, before everyone memed and gave a bunch of tier 3s, she had at most 60, 80, uh, tier 3s. I'm sitting here with 1,400 viewers, one tenth her size then, and I've got like one third her tier 3s. Pokimane has a lower amount of tier 3s than what you would expect. Hell, she has a lower amount of subs than what you'd expect. But these, these commentary channels don't really care about facts. It's a funny narrative that there's a fuck ton of people giving her tier 3s or whatever. |
| 10. June 2020 | Meat Production And Vegetarianism | Meat production and vegetarianism. I can't imagine ever becoming a vegetarian. I hate food and preparing food and Working to you know, make better food and blah blah blah like it there's a lot more preparation Needed to be a vegetarian. Don't go into the morals of it exactly but uh, I suspect that the only way I'll ever become a vegetarian Which I kind of hope is the case that um Lab-grown meat or meat substitute ever just becomes like the norm for everyone. Oh, yeah I've had the impossible burger at our Burger King tastes good like not like amazing It just takes like a different type of burger Or a different type of meat or whatever. It's just like the the cost to produce meat Like normal meat is really high and takes a long fucking time. It's why you know factory farming Exists and it's fucking awful again. Ignore the morality of it the it's just unsanitary I don't agree with a lot of what Bill Ma says some stuff that Bill Ma says is really fucking stupid to me but he recently made the statement where he's like You've got a all these people complaining about the wet markets in China As like have you seen factory farming? There's all these animals crowded in up to their like up to their knees and shit, and there's pump full of antibiotics |
| 15. December 2020 | Meat substitute burgers | Meat substitute burgers. One problem I had with Hungry Jaxx's implementation of a vegetable substitute burger. What was it called? I can't remember. Whatever, the thing I- problem I have with it is that you can't just order the same burgers but with that meat in it. Like if I can say, hey, I want a Big Mac, but rather than normal Big Mac meat, I want the vegetable substitute stuff. I would do that far more. I'm not super sold on the whole eat less meat to save animals lives. Because in reality all that would mean is that the demand goes down so they- their supply doesn't go up, so they just- they birth less of that animal, which is different than saying you're actually saving animals life. But in terms of environmental impacts, I'm fairly certain these are vegetable burgers are better for the environment. A longer rant on success and luck. What do I think of Elon Musk? He seems massively overrated. Elon Musk kinda lost me with a- |
| 20. December 2021 | Meatlovers pizza shouldn’t have vegetables! | Name meat lovers pizza shouldn't have vegetables. I remember I ordered a meat lovers pizza when I was really, really, really drunk in the star casino and they gave me something that had onion and capsicum. That was their meat lover pizza. I was so fucking angry. I don't remember how I communicate this anger. They didn't seem well, let's say they made me another pizza and I remember being so fucking angry. I probably was not my greatest moment. And then I am when I got the pizza, I sat there by myself and just like inhale that fucking bitch like. |
| 28. November 2020 | Mediashare and DMCA. | Media share and DMCA on Twitch. Am I still gonna do media share? Are you asking because the DMCA stuff? My mods check the videos before they're put through. What I'm more than likely end up doing is having them look in the descriptions of the videos and if any song comes up there, then I'll just don't accept the video. For those who don't know if if a music has been claimed in a video on YouTube, you can look in the description and it will tell you what that song is. If you upload a video like within an hour or two, it'll be claimed if there's something in it. I got max an hour or two. You just get claimed like five minutes. As in, as long as I take that precaution, the risk is teensy tiny. I was watching Devin Nash. He made a video yesterday showing the tools that uh, these media companies use to detect songs and they can even detect it during a live stream and issue DMCA midstream. |
| 04. March 2021 | Mediashare and testing new strats. | Come from anime. Media share and testing new strats. I saw a neat new strats to get into Chopp on the GT5 Discord. Apparently if you're going fast enough and you come enough at an angle, you get just high enough to clear the fence. I cannot wait to get back to speedrunning to be able to test all that stuff. I wonder how chaotic media share is going to be. For those who are unaware, when I get back to speedrunning, I'll be doing media share streams while I do testing. And of course to avoid the possibility of the DMCA stuff, all you have to do is look underneath any video and it will tell you whether there's any copyrighted songs in it. So stuff with copyrighted songs that just won't get played. Because a lot of what testing is and relearning a speedrun is, is just me doing the same thing over and over and over and over again. It's not very interesting to watch. So I make it one of the very rare occasions I do media share. |
| 20. October 2022 | Meeting Maxmoefoe and Anythingforviews at a party | So weird. Meeting Anything For Views and MaxMoFo at a party in Melbourne, they're the hosts of a popular channel called Cold Ones. Reach out to the Cold One boys and set up a podcast. I've talked to him twice, Chad, and I'm sure he doesn't remember. Both times I think he was fairly drunk. I just can't imagine either would be interested in meeting me. Most of the creators that they've spoken to are much higher profile than me, and I ain't that interesting. I did see Max once, because this is back in 2019 in packs. I'm sure they'll be around, and if they're here, if I see them, I'll be like, here's that guy, you know. When you talk to other people at these things, you don't have any meaningful conversations. Like, you could hypothetically just say like, complete nonsense to each other, just words that don't even make sense, and you make kind of like the same connection, you know. It's like you meet people and you make connections, but you don't have like, impactful conversations. The audio is bad, but TG responds, but that's just life. That's just being human. I sometimes have trouble with that aspect of life. The interaction with Max and Chad was both kind of awkward, because it's not like I walked up to Max, which happened to be in the same little group, but clearly he didn't give a shit, well, I did. It's the problem I have with a lot of these conversations, where the only, like in some cases, you know, the only reason you're talking to a person, and the only reason they're talking to you is because you happen to be at the same place. Like any other context, you wouldn't talk to each other. You don't really give a fuck what they do, or then they don't give a fuck what you do. It's just like, you know, and I hate being the fan in a situation between two content creators. Like I know what Max does. I know what Chad does, but they don't give a fuck what I do. And it's just that weird dynamic doesn't look good when you're at a creative party, you know. I assume Chad was out of his mind. Ah, Chad and Max both arrived pretty late. Like I'd been there for many, many hours. I'm not sure if they were drinking before him, but it didn't seem like it. Like I saw Chad like in the bathroom as I was leaving. I was like, hey, I like your stuff. We met, you know, at previous pax's. You don't remember, you were drunk as fuck. He's like, oh yeah, sweet. No worries. I'm like, yeah, you're good. And I walked off. Because like you recognize that he does not really give a fuck. So it's like, you don't want to take up fucktimes of his time. I mean, I actually, I talked to the guy who, you know, cool shirts, the thing that the cold ones is always shilling. I met the creator of that company. Nice dude. I swear I'd seen him somewhere before. Like maybe I had seen him in some TikToks or something, but you know. When I do claps, it's for the fun of it. Not because I believe it's the best use of my time. I'm clapping with other creators is just enjoyable shit to do. If you gain something out of it, cool. If you don't, who cares? You had fun. It changes up your content. Variety of this is the spice of life, as they say. I'm not convinced that collaboration is the best method of gaining success, you know. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 27. December 2020 | Meeting fans in public. | Meeting fans in public Atomic thingy for 314 is it weird to meet fans in public? I don't go in public. I imagine it wouldn't be I mean it would depend on them how weird it is like just cuz you're a fan of someone's work Doesn't mean when you meet them that you would necessarily freak out or whatever like fan sometimes has a negative connotation as if it are Only applies to people who are like obsessed with something or whatever if you like something That another person creates I imagine if you meet them in real life Yeah, I know your stuff you you you did the good thing that I enjoy Nice to meet you. Maybe it asked the question. So can you move on like um cuz obviously I didn't go in public a lot Like you listen I've listened to more famous people at YouTube and they say yeah 99% of the time meeting fans is a wonderful experience that kind of thing you know |
| 20. March 2021 | Melatonin does nothing for me. | Melatonin does nothing for me. I've streamed so little, no last month I think, compared to normal. I feel like shit like every day. I've discovered, so I want to say melatonin does nothing for me, but it's wrong for me to say that. What it does is it guarantees, guarantees, I wake up after five and a half hours of sleep. It's crazy. I've now done it like 10, 11 times. Every single time. Five and a half hours is like, just between five and six. Doesn't keep me asleep. Does nothing. It's not placebo. The stuff was recommended to me by the chemist dude there, and he says, yeah you gotta buy it from the US because they've got law regulations, whatever. It's legal to import it in. It does have a significant amount of melatonin. It isn't like the shit you get in the stores, but it is a supplement after all. So I guess my body is just producing the normal amounts that my body is meant to get, and so melatonin does effectively nothing. It did like the first day or something. It did make me feel kind of drowsy, but other times I would take it, and if I wasn't tired I would just be fine. Nothing would change. Yes, I'm gonna stop taking it I think, but anyway. |
| 06. August 2020 | Melee only challenge | Pacifist percent is also a melee challenge. What pacifist is a melee only challenge. As in every time where I can't do it passively, I melee. And every time I can't do it melee, I shoot. So at the end of the run, you'll know how many people you have to kill if you're doing a melee only challenge. Like the purpose of pacifist was not just to do it passively, but to make it difficult. Like if I had only done pacifist, so many of the missions would have been a lot easier. For example, all my efforts in derailed would have been bypassed just by using a snap rifle. |
| 17. January 2020 | Meme of the decade | meme of the decade What do I think should be meme of the decade? I don't know it'd be nice for it to be like we are number one or whatever to honor that dude who died That was a very good meme. It was I know you'd have to jog my memory about all the memes of the decade I mean like the even the Skyrim meme you're finally awake like that's a good meme Spongebob memes It's kind of like cheating because just so many different memes and some of them are good and some of them Yeah, you know, I mean I would like to see like meme of the decade be done sort of by the numbers or something Like they somehow calculated me. You just don't read it or something. What mean was used the most? I don't know. I just be interesting to see what kind of Result you come back with because they'd be unfair for some memes are better in video form and you know Worst meme of the decade. I don't know nothing comes to mind. Oh The creeper mean I fucking hate that mean inspired little kids to clutter my chat with a fucking one-word songs memes are meant to be fun not a Detriment to the chat experience if there's like a twitch meme that should of the decade It should be our dongles to remember them. You remember guys when there wasn't 57 trillion emotes Made by artists and stuff and people would spam dongles everywhere. It was a simpler time a worse time, but it's |
| 16. June 2022 | Memes advertising bad products | Memes advertising bad products. Whenever I see like TikToks or memes of something that's very bad, I always think like this is some marketing person who's just really honed in on the meme marketing sort of stuff. Like every single time I go on TikTok and I'm like, this is a clip of Game of Thrones. No one likes Game of Thrones now. No one. The ending of Game of Thrones was so bad that it's done. It will never be good again. And yes, I see clips of it sometimes, just clips of random scenes with like text on them. Like no, this is some marketing bullshit. This person being paid by the people releasing the prequels for Game of Thrones. There's no way anyone likes Game of Thrones still and is making those clips. No. Now, like with Morbius, it's probably less likely because wasn't the whole thing like, they were really arrogant about it, like it was going to be successful or something and but I mean, I guess it could be legit and it's just so bad that it inspired this sort of response. Jared Leto is a sucky person. It's also possibly, yeah. Like didn't they have like an image or something of the premiere? Whereas like here with all the Morbius fans and it looks like just Jared Leto is being like, held at gunpoint to be there and everyone in that room is clearly a paid actor. Morbius still made a profit? God damn. This whole superhero stuff, it has to die off at some point, right? It feels like you can just, as long as it's like a Marvel DC thing or whatever, you put it in the cinemas and it will always make money. But like, you understand, even if something makes a profit, it can still be a loss compared to like if you'd made something better. The opportunity cost. All the people who are working on Morbius could have been working on something that was actually good. There's a Twitch channel streaming Morbius on loop in the under-text section. For those who don't know, Artifact was Valve's attempt at making a digital card game. And it was, it was, it just, no one liked the game and no one played it. But for a while, people just stream random stuff in the section. But now I guess it's being- |
| 27. July 2021 | Memories that keep me from gambling | The memories that keep me from gambling. Watching that shit makes me want to gamble again. I will not do it. I will not do it, I will not. Remember the crushing sadness when I lose money. I remember being at the star, being in an elevator. This old Asian fellow. Looked like he'd been crying. All like on the verge of tears, without like his eyes were red or whatever. And uh, coming to the exact words he said to me. But he uh, he clearly had lost a lot of money. It looked like gravity was like ten times weighing on him. He said something about his family or something and I just... I remember a lot about when I went to the star. But I remember that dude. And I wonder how bad it was for him. And uh, yeah he... yeah. |
| 25. July 2022 | Mental slowness | Mental slowness. I still feel mentally slow chat. Maybe I should go back to taking caffeine. Maybe my mental slowness actually appeared during the period where I stopped caffeine. There are some healthy options though. I mean caffeine soft drink with no sugar is fine. Many studies suggest that caffeine actually improves cognitive task performance, memory attention span in the short term. But again, it could be all in my head, not in terms of, you know, well I mean it is all in my head, but I mean just a figment of my imagination. You can never tell. Am I just as sharp as I always was, but I'm just, you know, it's all in my head or is this finasteronite stuff affecting me negatively or is the caffeine affecting me? I don't know. The old takes on a tea break. |
| 14. March 2022 | Metaverse, Elon Musk, and self-driving cars. | The metaverse Elon Musk and self-driving cars. No, I have not really followed the metaverse. Not particularly interested at this time. Nothing I've heard from the metaverse is particularly interesting. Until the technology is easy to use, widely available, to have like fully immersive experiences in terms of touch and, well, mainly just touch, but just a few sensations of the world. It's like, who cares? And that stuff does seem to be coming. You know, give it like three years and at the very least the haptic gloves or whatever will definitely be a thing that everyone has. Elon and Gabe in a bur- well, wait, you're making a joke. It's like, who the fuck cares what Elon is working on, man? He's like, promised like everything under the sun and not delivered any of it. There's this funny compilation of Elon Musk every single year saying, yeah, we're just like, we're one year away from self-driving cars, fully self-driving, just one year away. 2014, 2015, one year, just one- 2015, one year, guys. 2016, one year. 2017, one year, which we got the technology, 18- one year. That's basically everything, dude. The fully self-driving car thing. What's the- what's the other levels? What are the levels of self-driving cars? Yeah, so we don't have, I think it's five. Yeah, we don't have five. Most things are at three. The system can autonomously control the vehicle on defined routes. So, for example, so this video was basically a scam by Veritasium. So he presented this video and the technology within it as if it was an automated vehicle just driving itself. But in reality, it had been programmed specifically to drive only on these routes. And there's like 57 different limitations with it. There's a good response to the video. The technology to take a car, put it in the middle of nowhere that it has never seen before and say, drive, doesn't exist. That's what fully autonomous vehicles are. Those that can be put into novel situations in any conditions and drive better than a human. Doesn't exist. All of them have limitations of, you know, it gets a bit cloudy and then it's- systems don't work as well. Or it rains, systems don't work as well. All of them have a heap of limitations. I'm not saying the technology isn't interesting, but it's not the level five autonomous driving. Most things are at a three because of legislation not allowing trusting the tech. You can always find a small area that will allow testing and whatnot. I don't think it is merely if it was more widely adopted, suddenly the technology would just become amazing or something. No, I don't think that's the only problem. You shouldn't need wide scale adoption to demonstrate the tech if it actually is robust and works appropriately. If you got in the L's, a Tesla could probably drive better than me. I mean, everyone could drive better than you if you're on your L's. But still probably not there. Or at the very least, you could identify novel situations better than a machine can. Yeah, it would be interesting original, like if a city was built with the idea of driverless cars and only driverless cars. And so like the infrastructure of like, I know the roads themselves gave information to the cars could be interesting. And maybe walkways and stuff go nowhere near the road. So the possibility of person being the wrong spot. Well, to put another way about that was wide scale adoption thing. Sure, we haven't demonstrated that this can be done, but like just trust us, bro, and put the tech everywhere and then it will work. Trust. Okay. These damn legislators not taking on faith that my technology works. Grrr. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. |
| 14. June 2022 | Michael basically confirmed for GTA Online! | Michael basically confirmed for GT Online. So Ned Luke tweets out, Ned Luke being Michael's voice actor for those unaware. An article that says it looks like GTA V's Michael might be coming to GT Online. And Ned Luke's like, I don't know. And so I was like, Michael and GT Online guys. Ned Luke responds, if you say so, does it make it so? It's a mystery. And then the three monkeys, deaf, blind, and mute. We speculated about this when the Franklin DLC came, that it's just, you know, it makes sense for them to also do a Michael one. Especially considering that they did vaguely reference Michael in the Franklin DLC, you know? Well, no, Michael's DLC basically writes itself because he works for the movie studio or whatever. While he's out of the game, you can just imagine some shady fraudster shit going down or some insurance scam or whatever. Someone gets kidnapped or blackmailed or something like the the stories write themselves. When Rockstar represent themselves as willing to bring back these characters, Michael was just an obvious one, you know? What are the odds that Rockstar references whether or not Michael is in witness protection? I'm afraid of that chat because it's not it's probably not the same writers that exist at Rockstar now that existed when they were writing the story. What if even they don't understand it? And then they write in Michael being like, yeah, my witness protection was was great, worked out really well for me. And I'll get like a million messages like, oh, my God, Rockstar said he was in witness protection. You're wrong, Matt. My God, and I was I would still say Rockstar will be wrong if they say that because he isn't wasn't and isn't in witness protection. Rockstar will say it just to spite me. I mean, the witness protection meme is probably the biggest meme around Michael's character, but it's nowhere near on the level of the Lamar Franklin roast thing, right? So I'd be surprised that they reference it really. What are the memes surround Michael? Davey, how you doing? Of course. Oh, yeah. Why did I move here? I guess it was the weather thousand things every day. True. True. I suppose less memes and more just memorable lines. You know, they can't wait to see it. |
| 08. May 2021 | Michael is a very selfish character | Michael is a very selfish character. What is in Michael's file that would make the Jewel Store heist obvious? If it's the movie quote only Trevor should know about about? Michael did heists and shit for like 20 years. There was clearly an MO like how he would operate, what kind of things he would target, and Leicester as well. I'm sure they had a profile of, even though they didn't have Michael's name before North Yankton, I'm sure they would have a profile of what likely stuff he does. You know I can't tell you exactly what was in the file, but you know you have something that works and so you keep doing it. You know like when Michael was trying to get back into the game the first thing he decided to do was reach out to his old crew who of course are no longer in the game. Michael is a person set in his ways. A guy who likes the past, likes the old. You can see with like the movies he likes and stuff and he still uses old movie quotes and stuff. He's not a man who likes change and so he would likely do the same kind of heist setup every time. Do you think Michael regrets having a family? Like while he comes to terms with his kids and he likely does like love them on some level or whatever, especially towards the end where he makes up with his family and stuff, I'm sure there are definitely times where he's like man I wish I didn't have kids or maybe I didn't I wish I didn't get married at all you know especially when he was in his darker moments that way he's not satisfied with life you know. Michael just is not presented in this game as like a family man kind of thing although like he does of course abandon his old life ostensibly for his family's benefit but and and his own of course but you know. The thing that stands out to me most about Michael and his relationship with his family is that he didn't consult Amanda before he made the deal with Dave. I mean given that he lies to her and you know he tells her he's actually in witness protection or whatever like with an actual deal with the FIB. So like he does keep her from the actual details of the involvement and so maybe had he informed her or whatever she would have been more involved and she maybe she wouldn't have gone along with it had she not known that it actually known it was you know not an official thing. Like you can see why maybe he would have kept the specifics to the deal but that he didn't consult her at all didn't tell her like hey yo I'm gonna be making this deal. He was like hey so I've made this deal to like with the FIB so we have to all move now. We learned this in Bray the Hatchet. Maybe Trevor was right about Michael all along because he's a bit selfish making these decisions without asking his family in these dark moments. See the thing is this wasn't a dark moment he was happy at this point with his family and he still was just selfish. Like Trevor is not a selfish character I don't think he's just impulsive. Michael is a selfish character. Is Franklin selfish? He's very self-driven Franklin he wants to get ahead. I never thought of Franklin selfish though. How is Michael selfish? Right right now while we're driving here he's literally complaining that he's paying other people in the heist so much money. I mean he cheered on his wife with a stripper. He's just a selfish dude and again this was before Amanda cheated on him according to the law. He uprooted his family and I'm arguing that's mainly for selfish reasons because he wanted to get out. He was willing to kill Trevor to protect himself. He's willing to put Brad in jail to protect himself. He cheated on his wife with a stripper. It just goes on and Michael is a very selfish character. I think he matures more as the thing goes on but in the beginning certainly very selfish. Doesn't Trevor say to Michael when they're both having to stay at Michael's place because of Martin he doesn't he say that is so fucking typical of you so typical you don't ask about the problem you just take care of yourself yeah exactly yeah and then Michael actually has that moment of reflection it's like you know what you're right I'm sorry you know. The comment the person made before there Michael clearly has character growth it's one of the reasons why he's my favorite character of the three over the course of the game. Does Trevor? I mean Trevor has his journey in terms of forgiving Michael but Trevor is basically the same character from the beginning to the end. All the changes is his relationships and Franklin is basically the same character except that he moves up and achieves what he wanted to achieve in terms of becoming a big shot you know making the money. You know we think Franklin changes a lot. Michael has the most story missions because the game revolves around Michael. Michael is the true main character of this game. He is the one who meets Franklin and brings Franklin in. He has a connection to Franklin stuff and he's the one who brings Trevor in you know. The other characters are main characters but Franklin said that Michael is the true main character. Nothing happens in this game without Michael. It's only referenced like once in passing but Michael loses a lot of money to day trading. It's why when people say oh but wasn't you know for Amanda fucking that guy none of this would ever happen because Michael was always gonna end up end up back in the game because he has no money. He's the only way he knows how to make money. He's in debt you know. See like these are the kind of videos I would like to make just simple videos. Why is Michael so broke? I can answer that. But to do all that I have to finish this fucking series. I'm curious guys do you understand why Trevor realizes in bury the hatchet that Michael betrayed him? I don't think many people realize that Trevor because I didn't mention in the video and I feel bad not doing it. So Trevor was under the impression that Michael ratted on Brad and that's why Brad was in jail. It's why Trevor mentions in surveying the score that Michael owes Brad because Trevor believes that Michael effectively bought his freedom by ratting on Brad and so when Trevor's like wait then who is in the coffin and he realizes that you know why haven't we gotten Brad why hasn't Brad been released whatever it must be Brad and so he runs up and when he confirms it if he realizes that there's there's no one that Michael could have given up so he must have betrayed him because obviously hypothetically prior to the if he made the deal prior to the heist then he could have given up Trevor and Brad for some kind of a deal but if the dealer come after the heist when everything went down obviously FIB isn't gonna give him a deal that includes Brad because you know Brad's dead and Michael couldn't give up Trevor because Trevor hadn't been called whatever I guess Trevor's assumption was you know they were both in a interrogation room and Michael ratted on Brad and Trevor obviously he likes Michael far more than Brad like in a hangout he's like Brad was a bit of a dick and so I guess in his mind you just accept that like you know he took the best deal given the circumstances you know there doesn't make a heap of sense though in that obviously Brad it wouldn't be worth the same amount as Michael and the FIB would much rather put Michael behind bars than Brad but you know yeah Michael did intend to have Trevor shot what does that have to do anything remember that Michael's deal wasn't with the FIB actually it was with Dave and whether his firm existed within the FIB at that point it's unimportant but I really need to make that fucking |
| 11. October 2021 | Michael's mistake in friend request | Michael's mistake in Friend Request It annoys me every single time, but I'm gonna have to say it again He leaves his backpack there This is a master criminal who has just sabotaged some technology And he leaves his backpack The stupidity of that action, I mean really It really annoys me when characters do not do things that are in line with how the characters are written He's a master criminal, he should not make rookie mistakes in crimes Having a chat is imp- |
| 29. April 2021 | Microplastics and reduction in fertility | Microplastics and reduction in fertility hearing about like so someone mentioned on yesterday's stream about some the reduction in fertility rates because so yesterday we were talking about the reduction in fertility rates and I Already knew that males had become half as fertile as they were Since World War two I didn't realize it was as bad as the article seemed to make it out to be and there does seem To be a consensus on what's causing it. It's this form of chemical something inhibitor or something that does exist in plastic so microplastics and stuff that gets into our food and stuff likely being a Some cause to it. I mean like fuck the turtles. Okay, but the concept of humans just becoming infertile because We refuse to change How much plastic we use and shit that doesn't sound very good. There is this sort of infantile mindset that exists where It's like oh, man. There's never any negative consequence for anything Okay, and if everything is fucking perfect now the climate can't be going bad, you know shoving chemicals in the water That can't do any bad pumping Pollutants in the atmosphere that can't be doing bad and I don't have this viewpoint, right? everything has downside and ups downsides and upsides and it's a Need to be conscious of what's going on. I don't like the projections of the future in regards to our The forms of consumption and what we're creating right now. I Scares me were the upsides of dumping toxic waste into the ocean It's cheap and effective as in it's far it's far cheaper and and those those savings can be passed into the consumer Especially if the consumers of that product aren't those who are using That ocean or whatever and certainly the ramifications of such dumping can occur You know decades down the line and potentially those who are buying the products aren't gonna be affected by cuz they're gonna be dead As in everything has upsides and downsides. It's just what you care about, you know, like it doesn't matter how terrible the thing is There is gonna be some upside To someone it is usually the case is that the upsides are nowhere near worth the downsides Will I? |
| 31. October 2020 | Microsoft Buying Bethesda. | Microsoft buying out Bethesda Microsoft buyout at Bethesda? I have never been a huge Bethesda fanboy. What they did Fallout 76 being the trash that it was, how long they milked Skyrim, like, I don't think Bethesda being in the hands of Microsoft is going to necessarily make things worse for Bethesda. I hope it just leads to some more games, potentially Skyrim or Elder Scrolls 6 coming out sooner. I remember people talking about people being hesitant about GitHub being bought by Microsoft. Did that turn out good or certainly they kind of killed Skype. GitHub is pretty good. It's grown substantially since the buyout? Well that's good. |
| 06. November 2020 | Microsoft buying Bethesda | point. Microsoft buying Bethesda. What do I think about Microsoft buying Bethesda? I wish they had consulted me. Feel like I should have been involved in that decision. For no particular reason, I just, you know, I would like it if Microsoft and Bethesda came to me with their problems and asked me about their future plans. And what do you want me to say? Bethesda has been making shit games forever. Or not releasing games. I hope they release some good stuff in the future. I mean in recent, I shouldn't say forever, I mean like recent memory. They've been milking Skyrim and they released Fallout 76 which was garbage. Hopefully Microsoft will help them release some good stuff. But I've never been a Bethesda fanboy. I've never cared about Fallout. Skyrim was my first Elder Scrolls game. While I thought it was amazing, I'm not like in love with it, you know. PewDiePie charity and self-improvement. PewDiePie donates X amount of his paid subs to charity. Last time I saw him donate was to the country that had the big explosion. |
| 17. March 2022 | Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard worth it for Microsoft? | Was Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard worth it for Microsoft? Did you guys listen to... Was it Skill-Up who was talking about it? Talking about Blizzard? Activision Blizzard and its recent purchase by Microsoft? I found his take interesting, because I hadn't heard it before where he talked about, like, was it actually a good purchase for Microsoft? As in, like, a lot of money, $70 billion. And, like, Blizzard, I mean, what a Warcraft is shit. Sure, King is doing okay. Call of Duty has seen better days. And it's just like, eh, you know, maybe, maybe, hmm. They must see the value somehow, but Activision Blizzard has seen better days, you know? Before all the, um, dramas that they're in. I'm just, I think to myself, how would you make World of Warcraft good again? Good to be sent where people even like I would want to play it. I have no fucking idea. Activision Blizzard is the shambling horror of its former self. Yeah, that's kind of the way I see things too. And they've lost so much talents over the last couple of months. Like, Microsoft kind of bought a sinking ship, but they did at least get all the valuable IP. But for $70 billion? You know? If Blizzard can cut out shit people that are making it sink, I still believe that they can make some good games that could entice people like me to play. Man, just because a person's a scumbag doesn't mean they're not good at programming. As in, like, cutting out all the terrible people, even if those were the only people leaving, and not other people as well, that in of itself is going to hurt their ability to develop stuff, you know? As much as that sucks. Yes, talents of people can be bad people. |
| 17. March 2022 | Microsoft’s purchase of actvision blizzard worth it for microsoft? | Was Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard worth it for Microsoft? Did you guys listen to... Was it Skill-Up who was talking about it? Talking about Blizzard? Activision Blizzard and its recent purchase by Microsoft? I found his take interesting, because I hadn't heard it before where he talked about, like, was it actually a good purchase for Microsoft? As in, like, a lot of money, $70 billion. And, like, Blizzard, I mean, what a Warcraft is shit. Sure, King is doing okay. Call of Duty has seen better days. And it's just like, eh, you know, maybe, maybe, hmm. They must see the value somehow, but Activision Blizzard has seen better days, you know? Before all the, um, dramas that they're in. I'm just, I think to myself, how would you make World of Warcraft good again? Good to be sent where people even like I would want to play it. I have no fucking idea. Activision Blizzard is the shambling horror of its former self. Yeah, that's kind of the way I see things too. And they've lost so much talents over the last couple of months. Like, Microsoft kind of bought a sinking ship, but they did at least get all the valuable IP. But for $70 billion? You know? If Blizzard can cut out shit people that are making it sink, I still believe that they can make some good games that could entice people like me to play. Man, just because a person's a scumbag doesn't mean they're not good at programming. As in, like, cutting out all the terrible people, even if those were the only people leaving, and not other people as well, that in of itself is going to hurt their ability to develop stuff, you know? As much as that sucks. Yes, talents of people can be bad people. |
| 30. September 2022 | Midnight swim YouTube comments | Swim YouTube comments. You guys know Midnight Swim. The song that I said I was deleting, cause I hate the song, has kinda grown on me. It's a bit of a meme, you know, with mind turbulence and no damage. On the video for the song, all the comments are like related to me. What a perfect song to experience some mind turbulence. Every time this song plays, an Australian gamer loses his mind. This song's cool! What is this song? I'm downloading this song. Gonna add this to my chillhop list while gaming, what could go wrong? Apart from the Australian man going insane, this is actually fire. It's got 670 comments. I've been playing this game for 8000 hours, and I've never seen a song killing someone in a speedrun before. Who the fuck shot me? It's like 670 comments or something. |
| 02. April 2021 | Might finally do GTA RP for a bit. | I might finally do GTA RP for Abyss. I wonder how Peli is going with his little mini vacation. He reckoned he was, he would be willing to show me the ropes with RP. Thought I might do like one stream or something. He showed me around, let me see the additional features that they add into the game to make it a more realistic, or what's the word? You know, because they have petrol and you need to eat and stuff, right? Immersive, there you go. I suppose I could ask Whippy, but he I think it would be weird now that he's really successful. It sounds like I'm only interested because he's, uh, because he's successful. I'll just wait for Peli. If I actually really enjoyed or something, then maybe I'll reach out to Whippy. Whippy's a good guy, I know he's a good guy. He's got his own stuff going on. I'll just, I'll just work with the low expectations of Peli and his viewers first. I don't think I'm gonna be good at RP. I don't even know what I'm gonna do in it. It's just, I wouldn't mind just seeing it for one stream. At this point it's kind of become an extension of GTA 5 and I always like learning more stuff about GTA 5. Peli's chat is kind of weird. I haven't seen enough of it to say, I suppose. |
| 27. December 2020 | Milestones and sub goals on Twitch. | Milestones and sub goals on Twitch. For those unaware, subscribers on Twitch are people who pay at roughly $5 a month for additional benefits. It is possible to gift this subscription to other people. I had 300,000 followers on Twitch, you know? Which is interesting. It's not really. Like, you can almost make anything into a milestone, you know? Oh my god guys, 304,000 followers? Can I get some POGs in chat? How about this guys? When I get to 305,000 followers, I will gift that many subs. You heard it right. When I get to 305,000 followers, I will gift 305,000 subs. One of the many sub goal things that I clearly am not gonna do. Didn't I say like, at like 300 subs I would dye my hair? At 5,000 subs I dress as a princess? Or is that 1,000 subs? At 5,000 subs I was gonna get a rockstar tattoo? A lot of things I clearly have not done. As I've said many times, okay? I dyed my hair the same color that it already is. This is 2020, princesses can wear whatever they want. So I'm always dressed as a princess. And I have a rockstar tattoo where I can't show it on stream or I will get banned. So. Why you call me a liar? |
| 29. May 2020 | Mind Altering Drugs | What is your point of view on psychedelics and different mind altering substances? I think I took something in the city once, like ecstasy or something, I don't know. Once I've had weed and that's it. The entire course of my life. I do not like the idea of taking some drug that I don't know how it's going to affect me. I don't know necessarily where it's coming from, who's made it. I'm worried that I will be worse for it in the end. I know there have been studies that suggest that certain people do better after taking this particular mind altering substance. I'm just very nervous about all of that and I don't dislike. |
| 27. January 2021 | Mind boggling number of viewers some streamers have | numbers that some streamers are getting these days. Yesterday, I tuned into Mizkif's stream, just because I had nothing to watch, and he had 15k viewers, and he mentioned that xQc had 120,000, playing Rust. And I'm like, that's insane. So I tuned into the stream. It's just him and two other guys, hunting a dude, like, up some tower. I guess I just don't understand Rust. I didn't understand the appeal. Like, I don't see xQc as a bad streamer or something, right? Seems like a perfectly fine dude who makes perfectly fine content. It's just when you hear 120,000 people are watching someone play Rust, that's just crazy numbers, right? Like, you almost think, like, it doesn't matter how good the content is, 120,000 people watching is kind of crazy. There's just some guy sitting in his room playing a video game. Like, you remember when, like, 15k viewers was, like, the peak of live streaming, but now it just seems the sky is the limit. It is 120k was, like, what a high production tournament with the best players in the world. That's the kind of numbers that those would get, you know? And now it can just be gotten by some guy. If I ever got 120k viewers, would I be happy or sad? Well, obviously happy. But I mean, as I say, I've already hit that point where my ability to get to know my viewers is gone. And that is sad. But probably for the best, really. I mean, I suppose if I do editing streams and stuff, things are a little bit different. Like, I got a message yesterday from one of my viewers who used to be here all the time back in the day. And, like, I recognized his name immediately and da-da-da. Like, I'm... It's hard to do that these days. Especially me, being a person without friends, like, it was nice to know people a little bit more than just their username. I wonder what kind of numbers live streamers get in other countries, like non-native speakers or whatever. English, I mean, like, Chinese live streamers. They have their own live stream platforms. They don't use Twitch. So I'm curious what kind of numbers they get. Like, how many? |
| 20. February 2021 | Minecraft Mondays | Minecraft Mondays. Legit though, every single time I wake up I do think about just streaming Minecraft and in no way acknowledging that this is a deviation from my normal content. Just as a meme. Pick a random Monday. Hey guys welcome to my regular series Minecraft Monday. Here I am farming some pumpkins and then I just farm some pumpkins for like four hours. And then the stream ends. If you guys want to watch me play Minecraft there's already Minecraft content on my YouTube channel. It's not edited all that well and I no longer have the original footage so I can't make something of it again but you know. Minecraft speedrun. I already did a Minecraft speedrun for April Fool's and it's on my YouTube channel. It went fucking terribly. Thankfully the strats have changed since then so they're far. |
| 08. November 2020 | Minecraft Steve now in smash | Steve from Minecraft becoming a smash character. What do I think about Steve from Minecraft being in smash ultimate? It's about fucking time. It's all I gotta say I've been Asking Nintendo for the longest time put Steve in Minecraft. It made the most sense. It was clearly their best choice I'm personally the main Steve Well, I have not seen how the character handles or whatever I do think it's probably gonna be ss Maybe they make ss plus tier probably the greatest character that has ever been in smash ultimate Amazing choice by Nintendo very happy with it, or I don't give a fuck one of those two is my opinion |
| 14. January 2021 | Minecraft and Fortnite | Do you not enjoy Fortnite or Minecraft at all? I don't mind Minecraft, to be honest. You never enjoyed Fortnite? My friends and I played it for a little while and it's not like I have anything against it. I think the live service model, like I wish games I played had that level of support that Epic Games gives Fortnite, but I just kind of like had played it briefly before a building was a thing or anything and it was fun, but didn't like captivate me as it has some others. How about you? I played it back in the day. I was even in Nvidia, like two tournaments for it, not because I was good, but because they just paid me 500 bucks for it to go. I still to this day don't know why they pay me that money. I sucked, but I enjoyed the game to a degree, especially because it was one of the first games that I could play with my viewers. I had a couple of people, regulars that I could play with and I still think of the game fondly, but when I look at it now and just all these mechs and all this crazy shit, I'm like, that's just too complicated for me, man. I preferred it back when it was just a simple game and you shot some people, but I still think of it, at least those times, fairly fondly, even though I had no intention of ever making that into content. It was just a chill game. My mates and I had good fun with it. When building was so funny when it first came out, now you just look at people and it's just like, and they've built like fucking New York. I'm just facing anyway, but when we played it was good fun, but now I watched some footage of the World Cup final and it was insane. I don't know how people's brains are working that fast. It is insane the level of building they do. Wasn't there a 16 year old who won like a million dollars or something on one of those tournaments? Yeah, booger. Just slayed it. It was kind of similar with Overwatch for me. Back when I played Overwatch, when everyone was shit and when no one had figured out the game and it was fun and then when ranked came in and people figured out the game, I was like, I'm sick of this shit. I guess I just, I like that period when games first came out when everything isn't solved and there isn't that guy who plays 16 hours a day and for whatever reason in the same lobby as you are, I immediately crush your face in, you know, 100% man. There's like a, there's like a glory period of games. The first six months is always just like, they kick on some do and have amazing other periods but that first six months is just so special, especially for online. Obviously online. And Minecraft as well, I've played a bit of, but I, I look, it's, it's what I've never considered myself a very creative person, which is weird considering the job that I have. But when I play Minecraft, I run out of stuff to do. I'm like, I dig myself a really big hole, make myself a little underground base and I'm done. I'm like, Oh, I beat the game now. I have a place, I have a happy place to live. This is my life now. I like Minecraft. I do really appreciate it. I played a lot of it with one friend, but actually like, you like in uni used to get high and play Minecraft and it was so fun, man. I imagine it would be. And we just play the music is like, and you're just like sitting there building like your farms and shit. And we played for hours, but apart from that, I've never like seshed it heaps and heaps. Yeah. It's crazy. That's still around to this day, still receiving reports, support, still getting more stuff added such a simple game. It's like a, like, I loved Lego growing up and I think it's just like an interactive Lego set really like it's a cool concept. Yeah. |
| 23. November 2020 | Minecraft in VR | Minecraft in VR. Am I gonna play Minecraft again? I saw Minecraft VR. It looked kinda tempting. I don't know that VR necessarily would improve the experience. I feel like it would make it more like, when you find something, you'd have a bigger feeling of actually finding that thing, cause you feel like you're there, you know? I wonder how the movement is handled though. Cause as I said, the movement of moving the joystick and my character moving in the direction of the joystick, is disorienting for me because I haven't done it enough. Luke from Linus Tech Tips may have watched my rambles. |
| 20. February 2021 | Minecraft mondays | Minecraft Mondays. Legit though, every single time I wake up I do think about just streaming Minecraft and in no way acknowledging that this is a deviation from my normal content. Just as a meme. Pick a random Monday. Hey guys welcome to my regular series Minecraft Monday. Here I am farming some pumpkins and then I just farm some pumpkins for like four hours. And then the stream ends. If you guys want to watch me play Minecraft there's already Minecraft content on my YouTube channel. It's not edited all that well and I no longer have the original footage so I can't make something of it again but you know. Minecraft speedrun. I already did a Minecraft speedrun for April Fool's and it's on my YouTube channel. It went fucking terribly. Thankfully the strats have changed since then so they're far. |
| 08. June 2021 | Minecraft speedrun pause controversy | Minecraft speedruns pausing controversy. Have you guys heard of this, um, in Minecraft speedrunning there's an advantage to pausing the game because you can like bring up stats on the side of the screen and then pause the game so the in-game timer isn't running and then you can like think okay what am I meant to do here okay yeah the numbers are looking like this so this shows there's this many entities in this direction so the thing I'm looking for is likely in this direction and so on and so there's been like a controversy of like how long are you allowed to pause the game is pausing justified and all this jazz and so they made like these convoluted rules in regards to how long you can pause and when and for what reasons it's just well there's a lot of different things that you can debate about in speedrunning in terms of like like sometimes it makes sense to change things so it's more competitive even if it doesn't it is no longer a pure speedrun necessarily but pausing the game just feels so garbage in regards to speedrunning yeah pausing should only be allowed while the world is loading when you transition from overworld to nether I can't say I'm not educated enough it just you know the idea of pausing a speedrun rubs me the wrong way I mean and having the time to stop but it isn't my run I I don't really watch it these days so you know I don't really have a say in that matter always me what comes down to is what's best for the runners is there the ones who experience it I mean like I've never liked in Dark Souls runs where all the quitting out and stuff to de-load enemies and open doors and stuff and like the timer doesn't run when you quit out it saves time because you have to wait for the door to open or it makes things easier by removing enemies but there's no time penalty because you just quit out so quickly always me what matters is what's best for the runners themselves is not my place to judge and certainly there's a lot of things about GTA 5 speedrunning where people outside of the community would look at it and go oh really you don't have an FPS cap we're you're still using real-time or whatever what about hardware differences as like in speedrunning and with everything in life there's always downsides and downsides and upsides it just depends what you care about the most what you want to accentuate and what you want to diminish runners and viewers are I think the viewers matter less as in like considering there's money to be made in speedrunning obviously like the runners themselves are going to have some consideration for the viewers because they're like look I want to do this as much as possible and if I can do if I can have make a living being a speedrunner then obviously I can speed run more but I think the viewers should ever really have it like a direct vote at the end of the day the people who should be making the decision the people who will actually experience that decision in the run it's like when Phelps and everyone was breaking swimming records it was because of the new fabric and clothes like we can't compare old runs to new ones if the new ones are aided by a new hardware yeah there's always limits in that shit you know like there are limits to the extent where our hardware can help you in anything especially considering that the game itself has an internal cap where you can't go above 140 or at stutters like some real speedrunner purists are people who are like and and this actually came up when we talked about putting a FPS cap nothing matters as in there there should not be a single limitation unless a limitation is needed for the run to work at all so hardware is just another thing that is a part of speed running you know there's always gonna be some barrier to entry in terms of a speed running getting a particular console a particular copy of a game or whatever sometime sometimes you can get to extremes like if the game you're speed running is so rare that copies of it cost $3,000 at that point they're probably gonna let emulation happen right but for some people even that would just be wrong it's like not if you can't get it you can't play it and it's impossible to remove all barriers to entry it's like you can only run it on at 30 FPS so everyone's PC can handle it you know it's like it's gonna be someone excluded the second you need particular things be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 02. February 2021 | Minecraft speedruns turn me off Minecraft speedruns | Nothing turns me off doing Minecraft speedruns than watching Minecraft speedruns. The more I watch of Minecraft speedrunning, the more I believe that if I tried to sincerely do it, I would hate it passionately. Like, I watched Dowsky, Forsen, and a little bit of Liquid over the course of four days, and I saw the Ender Dragon once. And that was only because Liquid's standards for runs are a lot lower than people who've done like a gajillion runs. It seems like you need to do like 200 runs just to see the end even once, and it's just like, wow. Like, if I did Minecraft speedrunning, I'd just do it to get like a sub half an hour time, and then I'd just quit. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 28. July 2022 | Minecraft vs Square Enix on NFTs | Minecraft vs Square Enix on NFTs So we've got some good news on the no fucking thanks fronts, also called NFTs, non-fungible tokens. Here's an early look at our upcoming guidelines regarding Minecraft and NFTs. If you're a player or creator actively involved in the buying, selling or trading of NFTs that make use of Minecraft, please use the information in the article below. To ensure that Minecraft players have a safe and inclusive experience, blockchain technologies are not permitted to be integrated inside our Minecraft client and server applications, nor may they be utilized to create NFTs associated with any in-game content. Each of these uses of NFTs and other blockchain technologies creates digital ownership based on scarcity and exclusion, which does not align with Minecraft values of creative inclusion and playing together. NFTs are not inclusive of all our community and create a scenario of the haves and the have-nots. The speculative pricing and investment mentally around NFTs takes away the focus from playing the game and encourages profiteering, which we think is inconsistent with the long-term joy and success of our players. What a statement. I wish every company could be this way. Big W for Minecraft. And I guess they're for Microsoft. It's weird though, right? Clearly the popular sentiment is against NFTs, but the community of people who buy NFTs still have quite a bit of money. So if you're immoral enough, scammy enough, you can still get into that market and grab some cash from, I'm going to say, very stupid people. And so you can move to Square Enix here. Square Enix has teamed up with Engine to create non-fundable tokens for digital collectibles for the 25th anniversary of Final Fantasy 7. I mean, you can compare like this tweet, for example, 150,000 likes and this tweet here, 700 likes. Massive L here. I'm happy I'm not really associated with Square Enix, but like the entire market has crashed. Why are companies still throwing money at this? What was that thing that Skill Up tweeted? More than half of the investment raised by gaming companies, over 2.2 billion, went to blockchain and NFT startups in the first half of 2022, according to the report. Look at how desperate these people are to sell us things that add absolutely nothing to this hobby and that thankfully absolutely no one is asking for. Billions wasted that could have been spent on making actual video games we might have enjoyed. What a pathetic waste. I'm assuming that there must be people at these companies who are trying to justify the terrible fucking decision to get into NFTs. Either that or the money that they've taken in. It was taken in with the condition that they do spend on NFTs. So they're just kind of stuck going along with this. Like how many people could still really believe that NFTs are the fucking future? |
| 03. April 2021 | Miracle and 'Un-miracle'. | Miracle and un-miracle. Do I know why I died in the Ten Conquistal Mayors yet? I do not. It's one of those strange miracles. What's the negative version of miracle? Is there actually just a direct word that means a negative miracle? Un-miracle. Tragedy? Miracle implies something very very unlikely. I don't think tragedy does. Now all these words are just for bad situations. They don't necessarily imply unlikely. Or like you'd have to say unlikely disaster. You know? An unexpected misfortune. Misfortune means something unlikely and bad? Really? Huh. Still don't think it has the same connotation though as miracle. Because miracle is like one in a billion! You know? Like if I said I suffered misfortune, you wouldn't think that had the same likelihood of me suffering a miracle. You know? You mean denotation, not connotation? Didn't we have this argument before? That denotation relates to the actual definition of the word while connotation is the feelings and attributions outside of the actual definition? Am I wrong in that? Yeah, then I'm not incorrect with connotation. I suppose it depends on the definition of miracle I suppose. Yeah, maybe it isn't the actual definition that it's extraordinarily unlikely. So yeah, maybe you're right. Maybe it should have been denotation. All if, like, many definitions of miracle I think that don't necessarily relate to the supernatural. In many cases it's just used to communicate something very unlikely. That's good I think. Like when I wrote miracle stunt jumps in my clips video, it's not like people were like, oh my god, like a super being was like, yo bro, you get those stunt jumps son, and it, and like it uses its magical abilities and I got the stunt jumps? Like obviously when people get a sick headshot in CSGO and they go, thank god, they're not actually saying that a super being was like, yo bro, you deserve this headshot son, and gives him the headshot. I don't think it's how people communicate. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe people do think that some kind of a god's got an invested interest in CSGO headshots, but I don't think that's the case. What I'm saying is, please pray to your respective deities, okay? I want to win this. |
| 11. December 2020 | Misconceptions about GTA V Story | Misconceptions about GTA 5 story. I hate when people say that the entire story is because Amanda cheated on the tennis guy. That's so not true. You can keep going back. As both Michael and Amanda agree, Amanda was faithful until Michael cheated on Amanda. So the only reason that Amanda cheated on Michael is because Michael cheated on Amanda. And the only reason why any of that shit went down at all is because Michael made the executive decision to betray Trevor and Brad and bail on their lives and move to the city. The ultimate catalyst is still Michael. And certainly Michael didn't need to pull down some guy's house. Amanda isn't a good person, but I mean Michael is clearly the worst person given how many people he's killed and whatnot, you know. I've said before that Michael being mortgaged up to his eyeballs, clearly dissatisfied with his life, he was definitely going to get back into the game sooner or later. Pulling down that guy's house just accelerated things. Whether Franklin would have been involved or... Like you can totally imagine this reality where Franklin and Michael end up going for the drink that they plan to go to before his boat got taken, right? They go for that drink, they get drunk a bit. Michael reminisces about being, you know, a young guy in the game. He talks to Franklin about his life and they're like, hey man, you know what, maybe do a small score, you know, for old times. Maybe it can help you get, you know, improve your circumstance, get into the game or whatever. And then they set up something small and then they go from there, right? Michael realizing that he misses the game, gets back into it, and maybe just, you know, just dies in a heist or something, you know, who knows? The way Michael is presented as a character, it doesn't imply at all that he would have been happy for the rest of his life sitting on that armchair at the backyard listening to music. |
| 03. February 2020 | Mispronouncing viewers names | to potentially not send me something that I would actually want to know. Hey streamer, I wanted to ask why you mispronounced my name that one time on that stream if you're wondering your ethical stance was on that decision. I still don't know if your name is Lo-Fichu or Lo-Fightu. I'm pretty sure it's Lo-Fichu, but I do remember that occurring and as a general rule, I believe that in society if something requires you no effort to do and can make a person feel more comfortable or more accepted, you should probably do it. Whether or not I pronounce your name in one way or another requires no more or less effort and therefore as with everyone I try to pronounce people's names as best as possible because certainly no one likes to be misunderstood or mislabeled. |
| 01. March 2022 | Missed oppurunities for griefer jesus jokes} | Yeti was huge and I kind of got turned off. Shock mouse. Missed opportunity for grief of Jesus jokes. One regret I did have though, is I should have made a grief of Jesus joke earlier. It felt a little tacked on at the end. I was like, oh yeah, that's right. Cause people call him Jesus. I should have referenced beating Jesus. Herbert didn't come off too forced. All we need to do is give. |
| 06. October 2021 | Missing out a free copy of Kingdom Hearts | Missing out on a free copy of Kingdom Hearts. Missing out on a free copy of Kingdom Hearts. |
| 02. January 2022 | Missing out on a Sekiro release event. | Missing out on a Sekiro release event. Did you know I missed out on doing a Sekiro event? I completely forgot about this until I saw some old footage of me talking about it. When Sekiro came out, I was going to do a sponsored thing where I got to go to like, a place where they basically teach sword fighting and all that jazz. And so I guess you'd practice using wooden sticks and stuff. And it was a whole day affair or whatever. But I was getting my wisdom teeth pulled out, and so I wasn't able to go. I did still end up doing a sponsored thing where I played the game. They sent me like, five copies of the collector's edition of sign which I gave away, as well as like, this big wooden box and stuff. It was really cool. Didn't get paid any money, because I was a lot smaller of a streamer back then. But as small as I was, you know, a couple of hundred viewers at best or whatever, it felt really cool to be invited to that and to be given all that stuff. |
| 19. January 2022 | Missing out on going to a New year’s eve party. | Missing out on going to a New Year's Eve party. You said, well, is COVID cases out of control? Absolutely. Basically everyone has COVID. Except me, because I'm in my bunker. For all I know, one of the delivery people's given it to me by now, but I've had no evidence that I've had COVID throughout the pandemic. And certainly given that I have Hashimoto's, I probably would have at least some evidence had I caught it. I was invited to a New Year's party for the first time in 8 billion years. And everyone caught COVID so I couldn't go. I did get to do a Christmas party because we did an early Christmas party on the 14th. And the 14th was like the day, where like the next day, COVID cases explode. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 28. September 2021 | Missing out on life experiences | else on life experiences? There's this amazing feeling that you get, well that I get at least, when I help someone and they're really thankful. Or like, you, they don't have to be thankful, but you feel like you've had a significant positive impact on another person's life, and you get that warm fuzzy feeling inside like, yeah I did the good thing. That feeling is what I imagine being in love is like, and I would like to experience that one day. Reading people's accounts where it's like, oh you know, you just always want to be around the person, and at no point do you think man, like, oh I wish this person wasn't around. They enrich your life. I would love that feeling, but I've never had it, and that makes me sad. When I think on life, I realize there's so much of life that I'm missing out on, and may always miss out on. Whether it be deep meaningful relationships, or I know going to a club every night and picking up some random woman, that I've never gone and experienced. I'm probably more interested in the love thing than fucking a different chick every night, but I mean both might be pretty good. I have to, don't knock it until I try it, but then I think on like, differences of wealth, and that some people like, I want to go to Aspen and go down a mountain for the hell of it, and they can do that. I'm never gonna have that feeling, or being invited to all the big week parties or whatever, and being a famous person. I'm never going to have that experience. Being a person of significant reputation and fame, or and the avenues of life, the doors that open because of that, and those connections. I'm not going to experience this. There's so much of life that I get to experience because of where I was born, and who I was born to, and maybe even what I do. Like a lot of people would be like, oh man I would love to be a decent sized streamer, or be involved in Twitch or whatever, but like no person can experience all what life has to offer, but I sometimes reflect and think, man there's actually quite a bit that I've missed out on, and may continue to miss out on, and that makes me sad. |
| 10. January 2021 | Mission tier list video. | My mission tier list video. What happened to the mission tier list video? I came to the conclusion that many of the things I would say about the missions would be things I would want to say in Pasifist. And so it would ultimately just be stealing the jokes that I wanted to make in those episodes. So there's no reason to really do a mission tier list until after Pasifist all comes out. And plus it was just a lot of work. Like, originally what I did when I did the mission tier list is I came on stream and I just rambled about the missions. Like my thoughts coming to mind. I tried that twice I think and it never really came out well. What I wanted to do instead of that is basically do a minute per mission. So the video would be like an hour long. And so that's manageable but I would also be able to say everything that I wanted to say. But to do that I would need a script. So writing an hour long script takes quite a long time as you might imagine. So it's just not a high priority. And it would cut into my other series. But I will do it eventually. |
| 18. June 2022 | Mistakes can be permanent. | In that mode, mistakes can be permanent. I hit my elbow, chat. Is the scar here? Right? Hit it a long time ago. It's been healing slowly ever since. I thought to myself, one small bump against something means I'm gonna have that scar fucking forever. And that's how life is sometimes, you know? You make one small mistake, and it can have ramifications for the rest of your life. Ain't that scary? One small misstep, one small moment of not paying attention and just bam, ramifications forever. I look like a badass now? Nice. |
| 18. January 2021 | Mitch jones, Mizkif. | Mitch Jones and Miz Kiff Who's my favorite streamer right now? I guess it I guess it has to be miss Jones. That's weird weird to say I wonder to what extent my Liking Mitch Jones has anything to do with his prior affiliation with wreckful I mean certainly they had a rocky ends to that so I don't know that Like he reminds me of wreckful his content reminds me of wreckful to a degree He's certainly not as smart as wreckful was but I can't help but like watching his content I think it's just because he's so good at the game It's a knowledgeable and passionate at wow PvP. That's just interesting to have on in the background His uh tasting music isn't particularly bad either and his theme song is great. It's made by Consterra as I've mentioned in previous streams, I'm really liking Consterra's most recent two songs the one about Mitch Jones and the one about Soda Poppin even while acknowledging that the lyrics are somewhat crude I suppose Both streamers can be crude to some degree themselves. I can totally Imagine that a portion of people in my audience Hearing the latest song about Soda Poppin would not approve of its lyrics What I think of Mizkif interesting character he seems to be a likeable enough fellow if Not overly remarkable. I can I cannot imagine Mizkif Would argue that he is remarkable in some sense, but he he does seem to be a friendly enough guy I can understand his success to a degree. I say to a degree because I'm sure there's endless Likeable fellows in the zero viewer category If I from what I know of Mizkif's rise he started out as a cameraman for Ice Poseidon And I guess through there he gained some small audience and gained connections to streamers I mean once you have at least some level of audience once you've gotten out of the 100 200 viewer Range you're gonna have a an easier time of achieving some greater level of success You know it's it's the name of a movie that your first millions always the hardest or whatever. I mean, that's The expression being getting off the ground is the hardest part the growing ones who are off the ground is far easier Mizkif also used to make What were they titled the the history of videos like the history of ninja or whatever the videos were Somewhat satirical in that there were some things that were clearly hyperbolic and just jokes But they did seem to contain Significant elements of truth. I think maybe like they were based on something. It wasn't like he was writing a complete bullshit narrative |
| 03. May 2020 | Mixer made me an offer | Like more views than any video I've ever made. Mixer made me an offer. Do you have plans to always stream on Twitch? Have you ever thought about moving platforms? Uh, No, I'm not under any, I'm not under any NDA. So, uh, Mixer offered me something, but it's I'm pretty sure it's an offer they're making to a lot of people and you'd have to be crazy to take it. As in, they said look, we'll guarantee you 70% of your current revenue from all sources. Like you should demonstrate that that's how much money you're making like in the last, you know, couple of months or whatever and we'll guarantee that every month for two years if you stream exclusively on Mixer. The only person who would ever take such an offer is a person who believes they're on the decline. As in, or a person who's extraordinarily afraid of losing their revenue, right? You got a family or something. Uh, I don't know. Looking off Ninja's and Shroud's numbers, they both lost like 80% of their audience moving to Mixer, right? Um, but you'd assume your most dedicated viewers would still be willing to watch you over there and potentially support you. So, there's a reasonable reality that even though they're only guaranteeing 70% of your revenue that you might end up making about the same moving to Mixer with this deal, um, as you would, um, staying on Twitch. But your brand would take a massive hit. Your potential for growth would be effectively non-existent. Uh, you would just be, you know, guaranteeing your current level of revenue for two years and then you'd be dead. You'd be dead in the water unless somehow in the next two years, Twitch goes belly up and Mixer becomes a big, big thing, which is not gonna fucking happen. So, the only way that makes sense to take is if, you know, you're gonna be done streaming in two years and you're taking that as a severance package kind of thing. So obviously I'm not interested in that kind of a deal. I told them how much it would take for me to, uh, move to their platform, uh, just to see if they would say yes, because the amount was way more than I'm worth to them. Let's just say because I, I like being on Twitch. I wouldn't want to inconvenience my viewers that, uh, that way and I make enough money as is. I'm doing more than fine. So doing something that negatively would impact you guys for my own personal gain. The game would have to be so large that you guys would think I'm crazy if I didn't do it. Like, as much as you guys would be annoyed if I moved to Mi- move to, uh, Mixer, if you found out, like, they were offering me $10 million and I didn't take it, I think you guys would be more pissed if I stayed on Twitch than if I moved to Mixer. You'd be like, what the fuck are you doing? Um, especially because I would, on the case that I took a deal like that and moved to another platform, I would just, um, focus on YouTube more. Although YouTube is a little bit more expensive than YouTube, but I would still do it. Although usually these deals have a requirement that you stream a certain amount anyway, but you get what I'm saying. And so that's my roundabout answer to the question, would I ever move to another platform? |
| 22. March 2021 | Mizkif + 4Connor Scandal | Fridge.tv averages, you know, 15, 20k viewers. He's done streams that are even larger than that, right? But Mizkif, when he first started, he was like a cameraman for a guy named Ice Poseidon. And Ice Poseidon and his crew were like edgy beyond edgy, like N-word, phone arounds, like race jokes. Scum of the world would be a phrase used to describe them by some parts of the incident, okay? But Mizkif, of course, has grown completely out of that, made a name for himself, become his own guy. He seems like a completely nice dude. Recently though, Forkona, another guy who came from this kind of era of Ice Poseidon or whatever, a friend of Mizkif. Oh no, me not a friend of Mizkif, I'm not sure, they knew of each other or whatever, but Forkona had like a bunch of his, what was it, his DMs leaked or whatever? And he was a Discord, a person brought together all these things that he was saying, directly saying that black people are subhuman and that they're scum of the earth and you know, one of those kind of extreme alt-right people who, white supremacy kind of stuff. And so obviously everyone came out and condemned this or whatever. But of course, Mizkif, I'm pretty sure, was more popular than Forkona. So when this all came out and Forkona got canceled or whatever, like he got thrown out of OTK or whatever. Did he get banned from Twitch? Probably got banned from Twitch, I'm not sure. But everyone started talking about Mizkif, like is Mizkif like this as well? Like, because they came from kind of the same roots there, is Mizkif also just in the closet as one of these scumbags? And it was like people commented, like it's weird that Forkona is the one who's had this stuff come out and Mizkif is the one that people are speculating on a lot. Apparently Mizkif did have some messages leak like six months to a year ago, but it was not on the same level as this Forkona guy. And but the consensus seems to be, tying it back to before, that even if Mizkif did have any of these feelings, he seems to have grown very much so beyond them. And everyone who's interacted with him, he just comes across as a really nice down to earth dude. Like I'm certainly not one of these people who believes like, you know, once you say particular things, you're just irredeemable. For society to develop and grow, you have to give people some chance to grow and develop and move beyond socially bad ideas, let's say. As they say, every five years you're a different person, you know, at least Mizkif seems like a good dude now. You know? Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 08. March 2022 | Mizkif’s impressively dumb take on the react drama | Ms. Kiff's impressively dumb take on the react drama We all agree that Ms. Kiff is the dumbest streamer on Twitch. Oh my god I was someone because I don't give a shit about miss Kiff, but someone told me his take where they Like apparently he looked at my twitch numbers, and he was like amen this guy used to be like a 5k Andy And he fell off That's why he's so butthurt as if I haven't been complaining about react content like the entire time that I've been on On YouTube and Twitch to varying degrees, but more importantly I've never been a 5k Andy. What the fuck is he smoking? I'm mainly a youtuber these days I mainly spend my time editing and I want to catch up on all that stuff the periods where my average viewership was really Really high it was when I didn't edit on stream Ms. Kiff simplifying things for himself Ms. Kiff lives in the most simplest world you can imagine I don't think there exists complexity in his world, but nah I mean it's that might be un-unchartable to say Because I don't know how much of what he does on stream or his online thing is like a persona or whatever but I mean he came from being a cameraman for ISE Poseidon and I mean those roots probably don't sing you as like a Goliath of Intellectual prowess or some shit like the joke I made was there's no way miss Kiff read that document I can't imagine miss Kiff has read something more than like two pages long in the entirety of his life And he's like I think this is very dumb What does he he's got like a library off stream like smoking a pipe with like a robe on just saying oh yes I don't personally agree with a point seven on page five get the fuck out of here Who would believe that and pokers presenting himself in this way to get the fuck out of here I'm surprised either of them can read a menu. |
| 24. December 2019 | Mobile Games | My thoughts on mobile games. What are my thoughts on mobile games? They're becoming better all the time, but they're super predatory and... Okay, let me rephrase. There are enjoyable mobile games out there, but being competitive in these games is not worth it. If you remember, I had a sponsorship with Lords Mobile back in the day, and that was super fucking fun. We had our own little guild of like 30 people, and you could see the little castles around everyone, and engage in diplomacy and stuff, and attack targets together. It was cool. It's not the greatest use of time, and even I spent money on the game. I probably spent like 15 bucks signing on it. They know their business, and how they're getting people to spend. I mean, I enjoyed myself, so it was a dollar per hour of entertainment. It's good. You don't want to be one of those whales or whatever that spends thousands of dollars on these games, right? |
| 27. April 2022 | Modder crashes my GTA 5 with phone call. | Modder crashes my gte5 with phone call. So for those who didn't see it yesterday, I had a modder call my phone while I was playing single player and it crashed my game. And like a very hard crash way too, because the game froze and was unresponsive, but I had to go into task manager to get rid of it. His name was something, uh, not very good. Can I say it? Yeah, I guess, yeah, it's not technically a sir. His name was Jewslayer or something. Like fucking racist kids, man. How? Rockstar security is non-existent. When you play the single player game, you are connected to the online social club. And so they just go through that. I'm in offline mode now, so I should be fine, but it's funny because Rockstar has made it so multiple times that you can't even use offline mode to play the story mode version. Or you have to go online first and offline all this jazz. Like, the social club has so many vulnerabilities, yet over the years for various different periods, they've forced people to use it even when playing story mode. It's stupid. |
| 18. January 2023 | Modders are crashing streamers' GTA V in singleplayer mode. | I'm gonna be involved in that now, it's gonna be cool. Modders are crashing streamers in GTA V single player. So I received an interesting DM from one of my viewers. So I'm not gonna read all this, but basically a Twitch VTuber named Sury was trying to play GTA V and kept getting crashed in their game and one of my viewers messaged me and like, hey, yo, can you like tell them why this is happening? Like why is this happening? They couldn't figure it out. Even though they changed like versions and stuff, they kept getting kicked. Is this cause they were not saving the game or something? What's going on? And of course this was because of the mod menus being so powerful right now that they can even crash people in single player. So this person was playing the single player version GTA V and getting kicked out repeatedly. And so I sent them an email being like, hey, yo, you can use Guardian and stuff and all that jazz. Didn't get a response because I suspect, as this person eventually told me, that cause they've got thousands of viewers, right? They didn't need my help to learn about Guardian. They're surely one of their other viewers informed them to use that. But I just found this really funny that people just trying to casually play a single player game were unable to escape the wrath of the mod menus from GT Online. So it ended well in that they obviously were given advice to avoid this using Guardian so the mod menus can't crash them. But kind of stupid. As I say, I really hope that Rockstar learns the lesson and doesn't combine GTA VI single player and GT Online cause this will just happen again. People will find ways to hack into the single player game through the online connection and fuck with people, especially streamers. |
| 04. January 2023 | Modders can now crash anyone’s game without even joining their lobby. | crash anyone's game without even joining their lobby. So GT Online is having some difficulties. By the time this comes out in Rambles they might already be fixed, but for the sake of history let's talk about it. From Tez, although I did hear this from other places, Tez summarizes it well. GT Online PC Warning. There are new remote crash and kick exploits out in the wild. You can be crashed in single player or any GT Online lobby type. The cheater doesn't have to be in the session. Attempting a firewall to block connections will protect you from these exploits. I don't know how to say this person's name. Spear- Speader? Oh it's Spider, I see. Workaround for GT Online Remote Crash on PC, single player, solo session or non-host player of online session only. Download this is called Guardian. Select lock session, done. Attempting this as a session host will prevent anyone from joining you. So this is the thing that I use to protect myself when I'm doing my online content now. Guardian for the longest time didn't really work. It works then it broke and then I stopped using it. Like I talked to other creators and they as well had stopped using Guardian because it didn't work. But apparently they fixed it and it is what enabled me to do all my KRP speedruns. I didn't want to super promote it because the more you promote any sort of system of security the more bad actors can go oh that's how you're stopping us? Well then we'll attack that and find a way around it. But I mean considering these issues have risen and this tweet has got quite a bit of traction 65,000 views. This is out in the wild now so I will also shed light on this. If you are looking for a way to not be fucked with by modders and just be in solo public sessions fairly easy you can see by listening session me do. |
| 04. March 2022 | Modding games to make them easier to speedrun. | Modding games to make them easier to speedrun. It's just when you step into that domain of like, changing the game to make things easier, are you really speedrunning the game anymore? Like some people wouldn't even like the idea of using like a non-standard controller, or using some sort of a tool to change your FPS and all that jazz. I'm fine with all that stuff, because it's like external to the game. It's more just changing how we as players interface with the game rather than changing the game itself. When you get down to literally rewriting the code of the game, you know, we get into the territory of are we really speedrunning GTA V anymore, are we making our own game to speedrun? And then it comes down to a question of what is speedrunning? Is it about speedrunning the game made by the developers, or finding a game that is enjoyable to speedrun? It just depends on your perspective. Is it more about enjoyment, or some higher value of speedrunning as an art form of beating the game in the fastest way possible? Because certainly some games, because of decisions by the developers, they are not speedrunnable. Like the cutscenes can't be skipped. Or a strat can be found that is so toxic that it makes people not want to run. Like, there's a one in a hundred chance that you save ten minutes. But ideally in both situations, people would find strategies to solve those problems themselves, rather than simply recoding the game to fix those issues. At this point, we would just be modding the game to be quicker, and where would that stop? Might as well change Client Patch and fix Monkey Business Bug. Exactly. But of course, not everything has to be a slippery slope. There are totally circumstances where I think modding the game will be entirely justified. For example, if a game is a really bad port, let's say that it crashes intermittently, there's no way to predict that it just crashes every ten minutes, or ten to twenty minutes, and then you have to restart the game. That kind of, like, technical bug, I would say you'd be perfectly willing to mod the game. Because you're modding out something unintended. It's not a part of the game, it's an unintended side effect of the platform you're running on, let's say. You could make the argument that by making the change, we're making the game more in line with what the developers wanted. Again, possible slippery slopes. Are we gonna sit here philosophizing about, what do the devs really intend? Do they want their character moving this fast? Or what about these exploits and driving mechanics? Who cares what the devs really wanted, is what I'm saying. But I'm saying there's no objective answer to this. It just depends on what you care most about in speedrunning, you know? But can't you just agree for those small changes, like the one in a hundred, to not use it, if it makes the rest more fun? Yeah, so going back to that case with the one in a hundred time save for ten minutes, or whatever. Runners will sometimes make a category where that's not allowed. And then that category will become the popular category. But there'll always be some category where that is allowed. And that will reward the people who are willing to grind, or whatever. So, rather than changing the game, you change the ruleset for particular categories to create fun and speedruns. And I do think that's arguably a better solution. What about Dark Souls 1, where you have to get a weapon in the first six minutes, with a one in ten drop chance, and if you don't get it, you have to reset the run? Would you justify modding there? No. I mean, I'm fairly against modding at all. But I can totally see how there would be extreme hypothetical circumstances where I would be in favor of it. But those are just so extreme. We used to have ground rules like that in GTA V, for example, not changing the FPS lock during the run, kind of was like that. But nowadays, we use that a lot. I don't think we ever had an official rule for that, necessarily. Because people couldn't agree. Some people fought, some people were against it. It was such a small, minor thing. There was so much bad blood at the time that we're like, this is not something that we should hash out right now. And you can hear me talk about it in my controversial strats video. But then just over time, the people who wanted it just started doing it. And everyone was like, how are we going to place this anyway? Are we going to be having requiring people to have FPS counters on their screen? And is this really a terrible thing? And when people just started doing it, it's like, well, fuck it then. We'll just let it happen. |
| 28. April 2021 | Modern Pokemon games | Modern Pokemon games. I'm not a fan of the Pokemon games. I think they're too easy. And I don't think Nintendo puts a lot of effort into making those games better. The newer ones all look terrible. From what I've heard and seen, it seems as though Nintendo still makes Pokemon games with the expectation that the average age of a person playing it is seven. But it's not. It's like, the average person playing is probably like 20, you know? I can understand why the game is still appealing because collecting stuff is cool and it's a vibrant world and stuff with lore and da-da-da. Like, I don't fault anyone for liking these games, but as a person who hasn't played them in a bajillion years, when I look at them today, I'm like, nothing's really changed here. They look like the same thing that I was playing 10 years ago, 20 years ago. Yeah, Mario has improved massively. Like, you look at Mario back when the first game came out in today, like, holy shit, look how much improved. And you look at Pokemon, it's like, this is the exact same game. It's 3D and terrible 3D graphics. |
| 28. April 2021 | Modern pokemon games | Modern Pokemon games. I'm not a fan of the Pokemon games. I think they're too easy. And I don't think Nintendo puts a lot of effort into making those games better. The newer ones all look terrible. From what I've heard and seen, it seems as though Nintendo still makes Pokemon games with the expectation that the average age of a person playing it is seven. But it's not. It's like, the average person playing is probably like 20, you know? I can understand why the game is still appealing because collecting stuff is cool and it's a vibrant world and stuff with lore and da-da-da. Like, I don't fault anyone for liking these games, but as a person who hasn't played them in a bajillion years, when I look at them today, I'm like, nothing's really changed here. They look like the same thing that I was playing 10 years ago, 20 years ago. Yeah, Mario has improved massively. Like, you look at Mario back when the first game came out in today, like, holy shit, look how much improved. And you look at Pokemon, it's like, this is the exact same game. It's 3D and terrible 3D graphics. |
| 27. December 2020 | Modest Pelican Editing Set Up. | Modest Pelican's editing setup. I should play Among Us with Modest Pelican. I found out recently that Modest Pelican didn't have a PC until recently. He edits with a Mac on his couch. I was just like, I couldn't imagine dealing with something like that. But yeah, now that he has a PC, we could hypothetically do stuff. But I have spent so much money upgrading my PC, getting storage and stuff. Anything to make it just that little bit faster. And Pelican is just okay with just sitting on the couch with his Mac. Fucking editing. I guess my biggest problem is how high the quality of my recordings are. And just how much footage I have. I guess that's why it's so much more difficult for me. |
| 09. July 2022 | Modest Pelican's algorithm dominance | much fucking money then, you know. True. Modest Pelicans algorithm dominance. Uh, Peli, how do you come up with your creative thumbnails? Explain us through the creative process of coming up with a, uh, with a title and, but maybe just a title actually for your videos. So the first thing I do is I, I check what year it is. And then I just say the game in that year. And then if I've already done that, I just do that game in a nutshell. And then if I've already done that, oh, I'm fucked. Then it's, then it gets hard. It's only two videos per game per year. Basically. Exactly. Yeah. Now that makes sense. And that's the secret to the YouTube algorithm. Dude, what the fuck? Your hitman videos go off. He does well with anything he does. Oh, so do you lads. Yeah, I know about that. Bob, you're doing a lot, man. Streaming videos. It's crazy how much consistent content you get out. It's dope as hell. And same with you, TJD. You're doing like two or three times as many videos as I do. Yeah. You don't have an editor though, do you? Ah. He had one for his side channel at one point. Yeah, I had one for my side channel. That was cool. I know. I just kind of like getting lost in a video. Just making it like kind of keeps me interested if I get to do everything. Yeah. I don't mind if it's a little bit slow, you know. |
| 30. May 2021 | Modest Pelican's tech issue solved. | Now, Modus Pelican discovers that his use of display captures in OBS was the cause of all his tech issues. What do you guys use to capture? What else can you use to capture your thing? Wait, wait, wait. Are you using display capture? Oh, you're crazy, dude. That shit eats like 30% of your CPU or whatever. Holy shit. Like even if it's not being shown on screen, like if it's in a different source, it will still eat. That explains so much. Oh my God. That's why I've been having so many fucking issues, dude. So this has been already very beneficial for me. Thank you. Sorry to turn this into a tech thing. I've been trying to figure this out for so long. I'm just an Xbox gamer, man. At the beginning of every single one of my streams, I try to make a new display capture. So it shows me if any other display captures are open anywhere else. Because it's just that bad. So even if it's not in your current scene, it's going to eat shit? Yeah. It is active. I don't know why they do it that way. Maybe there's no way around it, but it's damn annoying. Do I have to delete it or can I just hide it? I believe you have to delete it. I had my management company looking into what was going wrong. And it was just that the whole time. I was such a base level thing. I was looking in way too much detail, like bitrate and quality and doing all the wrong things. And it was just such a basic thing that I had wrong. Yeah, it's not something that is immediately obvious. |
| 09. July 2022 | Modest pelican's algorithm dominance | much fucking money then, you know. True. Modest Pelicans algorithm dominance. Uh, Peli, how do you come up with your creative thumbnails? Explain us through the creative process of coming up with a, uh, with a title and, but maybe just a title actually for your videos. So the first thing I do is I check what year it is. And then I just say the game in that year. And then if I've already done that, I just do that game in a nutshell. And then if I've already done that, oh, I'm fucked. Then it's, then it gets hard. It's only two videos per game per year. Basically. Exactly. Yeah. Now that makes sense. And that's the secret to the YouTube algorithm. Dude, what the fuck? Your Hitman videos go off. He does well with anything he does. Oh, so do you lads. Yeah, I know about that. Bob, you're doing a lot, man. Streaming videos. It's crazy how much consistent content you get out. It's dope as hell. And same with you, TJD. You're doing like two or three times as many videos as I do. Yeah. You don't have an editor though, do you? He had one for his side channel at one point. Yeah, I had one for my side channel. That was cool. Now I just kind of like getting lost in a video, just making it like, kind of keeps me interested if I get to do everything. Yeah. I don't mind if it's a little bit slow, you know. |
| 28. May 2022 | MoistCr1TiKaL going back to reactions after he said he'd stop | Reaction content even after saying he'd stop Charlie's reasoning for going back to reacting was like I don't know if he's exact reasoning but one of the things that he referenced to me as his biggest barrier For stopping reacting when we talked, you know in a call. He said It's like the only way I get YouTube videos. It introduces me to new creators I'm just like I'm sitting there like I should have said it to him like I probably watch me five or ten videos a day But you know a two times speed the way that I do between editing that are from new channels I'm a heavy YouTube user the people I'm subscribed to do not at all release enough content every single day for me to Rapidly go through it, you know, I'm like I like like I'm watching things at two times speed so I'm probably watching two hours a YouTube a day in between things and So I'm watching four hours of content and my subscription He does not release four hours of content that I like the algorithm is very good for giving you new creators But the thing about this is I don't have any of the creators names because it just doesn't matter anymore Because that's just not how YouTube really works. I was introduced to this channel. That's a lot of informational content and See I can't I watch probably six videos per channel No, I do what's called no idea and I know if I go to my recommendation feed one of them will probably be there I'm curious to actually have a look here. Oh, yeah, that is. Yeah, that is Asianometry I watched like over the last couple days a bunch of these guys videos and didn't remember his name You know this idea that Charlie believes himself above algorithms or above the normal ways that people get content and for that reason He should have every right to just restream And reupload countless hundreds of hours of other people's videos. It's just absurd, right? It's especially worse because like all the reactions he does end up on YouTube There's there's dedicated channels to all the Charlie reactions that get hundreds of thousands of views and this is just all Harming everyone but Charlie just doesn't care and he could certainly stop this if he wants to but he just doesn't It's very disappointing But as I say when you when you get into that position of just getting comfortable watching stuff with your audience, I mean It's hard to give up because you've already justified it to yourself ethically in your mind. So we were |
| 12. August 2020 | MoistCr1tikal | Thoughts on moist critical I mentioned pretty cool a bunch of times he was he's been referenced in a bunch of my videos as well I like the dude Potentially too much of his content is the reactive stuff, but at least he edits it Hey, he's focused. He doesn't show the original video in its entirety main focus on his reactions So he's okay in my books. He gets a passing grade But he's commentary stuff isn't in general pretty good like I just I critical just seems like a nice guy It's hard to be critical of critical. Oh Yeah, you can keep the watch out |
| 12. August 2020 | Moistcritikal | Thoughts on moist critical I mentioned pretty cool a bunch of times he was he's been referenced in a bunch of my videos as well I like the dude Potentially too much of his content is the reactive stuff, but at least he edits it Hey, he's focused. He doesn't show the original video in its entirety main focus on his reactions So he's okay in my books. He gets a passing grade But he's commentary stuff isn't in general pretty good like I just I critical just seems like a nice guy It's hard to be critical of critical. Oh Yeah, you can keep the watch out |
| 28. May 2022 | Moistcritikal going back to reactions after he said he'd stop | Reaction content even after saying he'd stop Charlie's reasoning for going back to reacting was like I don't know if he's exact reasoning but one of the things that he referenced to me as his biggest barrier For stopping reacting when we talked, you know in a call. He said It's like the only way I get YouTube videos. It introduces me to new creators I'm just like I'm sitting there like I should have said it to him like I probably watch me five or ten videos a day But you know a two times speed the way that I do between editing that are from new channels I'm a heavy YouTube user the people I'm subscribed to do not at all release enough content every single day for me to Rapidly go through it, you know, I'm like I like like I'm watching things at two times speed so I'm probably watching two hours a YouTube a day in between things and So I'm watching four hours of content and my subscription He does not release four hours of content that I like the algorithm is very good for giving you new creators But the thing about this is I don't have any of the creators names because it just doesn't matter anymore Because that's just not how YouTube really works. I was introduced to this channel. That's a lot of informational content and See I can't I watch probably six videos per channel No, I do what's called no idea and I know if I go to my recommendation feed one of them will probably be there I'm curious to actually have a look here. Oh, yeah, that is. Yeah, that is Asianometry I watched like over the last couple days a bunch of these guys videos and didn't remember his name You know this idea that Charlie believes himself above algorithms or above the normal ways that people get content and for that reason He should have every right to just restream And reupload countless hundreds of hours of other people's videos. It's just absurd, right? It's especially worse because like all the reactions he does end up on YouTube There's there's dedicated channels to all the Charlie reactions that get hundreds of thousands of views and this is just all Harming everyone but Charlie just doesn't care and he could certainly stop this if he wants to but he just doesn't It's very disappointing But as I say when you when you get into that position of just getting comfortable watching stuff with your audience, I mean It's hard to give up because you've already justified it to yourself ethically in your mind. So we were |
| 28. November 2020 | Monetizing TikTok. | Monetizing TikTok. So recently I made myself a pro account on TikTok which is apparently something that you need to do to get into the TikTok creator program. I did this because I was recommended a TikTok where this Asian girl was showing that she was making 60 grand a month. I looked at her thing and I'm like, that's not that many views. I mean that's like 3 million views of TikTok. That's a lot but she's only got like 40 TikToks or something. And the majority of them are her being attractive, let's just say. Who knows if the numbers are fake or whatever but it just reminded me that that's something I wanted to get into, the TikTok creator program. Just for the hell of it. Because I mean I've got content on there still that's getting views so why not collect that passive revenue. But I don't think the TikTok creator program is in Australia. It's in America, parts of Europe, but I see no evidence that it's available in Australia. Does anyone know of a TikTok creator from Australia making money on TikTok? |
| 30. November 2020 | Money = Content, Pokemon Packs | Money equals content and Pokemon packs So I was watching Mizkif and his gang unbox Pokemon cards like you could totally like I remember being a kid and fucking Opening packs and being exciting but uh, I could never imagine spending that kind of money to do that The content though is crazy. I wonder how much they just recoup in having 90,000 viewers for four or five hours, you know It's one of those things where because so few people have access to that level of money You can always create yourself niche content or content that isn't the norm because you you know You don't you're in a situation that isn't the norm, right? You can always create something that no one's seen before because you know, the vast majority people would never have access to that kind of stuff |
| 26. April 2021 | Moneyball (Mild Spoilers). | The movie Moneyball, mild spoilers. I watched a movie recently, Moneyball. I had heard many references to this movie and it's got Fat Jonah Hill with Brad Pitt. And the whole idea is that there was a way that baseball was run back in the day and how groups made teams, you know, based on gut instinct and analysis of, you know, I've been in this industry for 20 years and I know who a good ball player is. We need this person, blah, blah, blah. And then Jonah Hill has this idea where it's like, it's just all about the numbers, man. It's just mathematics. Like, it doesn't really matter any of this. I've got a gut feeling garbage. Let's just like, crunch the numbers and build a team based on the numbers. Brad Pitt is a guy who makes teams, or he was making a particular team, whatever. And he sees Jonah Hill as right and then they make a team and they prove that, you know, the way that everyone's been thinking about baseball is wrong. And yeah, that's basically the movie. Not a lot happens. What I just described is the movie and it takes two and a half hours. But I watched it like 2.2 times speed, so it's fine. The reason why the movie is a bit of a letdown, despite the acting being great and it being somewhat of a nice movie to watch, it's because you know what the ending is. Because if Jonah Hill's way of looking at baseball was wrong, they wouldn't be making the movie. So of course they must succeed in demonstrating to everyone that this is the way that baseball should be played. That's every movie, not necessarily. I mean, the ending is a little bit different than what you'd expect, because it's based on real life. So it's not like the absolute highest possible happy ending, but it's close enough. We're like, okay, fair enough. Do you have to know baseball to watch it? No, not at all. I know nothing about baseball. I care nothing about baseball. Honestly, what carries the movie is just the acting. I watched seven. You mean what's in the box? Is that the movie you're talking about? |
| 21. June 2022 | Morbius proves all exposure isn’t good exposure | Because Morbius as a movie perfectly proves that all exposure isn't good exposure. It doesn't all lead to sales and whatnot, right? What exposure you're getting really does matter. Because for those who are unaware, Morbius became like a huge meme, and is still a huge meme right now, but you might be listening to this in the future, I don't know. And it was being endless memes about it because the movie is really bad. But Sony, in their infinite wisdom, is like, oh, people really are interested in the movie right now, so I guess we should re-release it into cinemas and make some more money. And so they released it in like a thousand cinemas in America or something, like putting it back in cinemas, and it made like, like $85,000 or something, like it made like no money. The movie basically bombs twice. Doesn't matter how many people learned of the movie's existence or talked about it, if everyone's talking about it in a very negative way. Sometimes negativity in movie reviews lead to people watching it out of curiosity. Sometimes. Dreams fall from his peak. So if I didn't even know, dream into your viz- |
| 07. August 2021 | More Noita videos to come | More Noita videos still to come. Hey Matto, do you still play Noita or Fall Guys? I don't play Fall Guys, but I have like hundreds of hours of Noita content that hopefully will one day be up on my channel. Long after anyone cares about it, you know. |
| 01. July 2020 | More cooking streams | The possibility of more cooking streams. Hey, I was wondering if you was ever going to make another cooking stream? Nope. If I could, mom. So, cooking streams are both difficult to do, and I don't really enjoy cooking. That one episode of the cooking streams was amazing, and I can't top it. A lot of it was just B-Tubes editing, but also the janky nature of it. Like, things went wrong, the alarm kept going off, I sucked at doing literally everything. The quality was terrible, which gave it a kind of, you know, homely feel. If I were to do it again, the quality would be better. I would have the cameras being held well. I know more about cooking now. I don't know what I would do about the alarm, but I have a stick there and I can press it, so. That cooking video is really cringe to watch, I mean, one man's comedy is another man's cringe. There is a fine line in a lot of things between funny and cringe. Especially in improv. Anything that's live, and you know, not scripted, there's a huge possibility for cringe. Especially if multiple people are involved. Streams, it's a little bit different. Sure, there can be some cringe, but because there's one person who's ultimately dictating the pace of what's going on, there's less likely that, why is it going to be cost? Someone's going to do something that another person isn't expecting or doesn't like, whatever. So those interactions kind of co- |
| 24. December 2019 | More on password requirements | You're cutting yourself, you know. Further thoughts on password requirements for websites. The thoughts on requirements for passwords? Oh my god, dude. Don't get me fucking started. You join websites and they're like, look man, very important that you have a fucking code that can't be cracked by like a quantum computer, okay? We need you to have 50 fucking symbols, 17 fucking capital letters. You need to give us a drop of your blood, your spits, like your cum. Come on your keyboard for us and we'll let you in, okay? It's just dumb. Like no one is brute forcing my password on your shitty fucking website, right? If my password gets leaked, it's because your fucking shitty servers. And if my password gets leaked, it doesn't matter how many fucking symbols are in it or numbers are in it, they'll have it just then, right? There's this one website, is it nerd or die or something? They do like overlays and stuff for Twitch streams and their password requirements are fucking absurd. To the extent where every single time I go on the website, I don't know what the password is. Because you need like a symbol and a capital letter in the middle of the word of your password or some shit. I'm just like, what the fuck is wrong with you? Worse are these websites that are, that don't tell you what the requirements are when you're putting in your password. Like if you fail to put in your password, they won't even give you a clue. Look, clearly hackers can just look up what the requirements for the passwords are. They don't need to put a password in incorrectly. But me as a person who's forgotten my password, I would like to know what shitty fucking requirements you have for the fucking website. Tell me how many capital letters I needed to put in my password when I was signing up to your fucking shit website. Don't leave me in the fucking dark. So many websites, it's just like, well every time I go there, I'm gonna have to make a new fucking password. And then they piss you off even more where they're like, hey look, you can't use a password that you've used within the last fucking millennia. Why? And like you type in the password that you think is the password and it will be wrong and you'll be sitting there going, is it the wrong password though? Or is it like, I've mistyped it or what's going on? Like you just won't know. Have I typed the wrong username? Just give me a hint. Worse are these fucking websites that lock you out after like three attempts. So they'll give you 17,000 fucking requirements for your passwords and they'll go, look, you better remember within three fucking attempts what fucking variations we required even though you only go on this website like once a fucking year or we're gonna lock you out of your account for seven hours. Even if you need to use your account right fucking now, who cares? What I'm saying is fuck them. I'm too drunk to think of a reason for you to like my video. So can you just like it, please? Thank you. |
| 27. November 2020 | More single player games before speedrunning | More single player games before speedrunning. Play Max Payne. I have said many times that I do intend to play all the rest of the Rockstar games at some point. Like what I might do, I emphasize might, is when I finish Oko, I might not jump into speedrunning immediately. I might play a handful of single player games, other Rockstar titles, other GTA games. What I'll probably do is try to pick a handful of shorter ones, games that I can finish in less than three days, kind of thing. Do you think it's going to be hard for you to readjust to speedrunning after you finish Oko? Oh absolutely, I think it's going to be terrible, terribly difficult. I have a completely different mindset now. |
| 27. November 2020 | More singleplayer games before speedrunning | More single player games before speedrunning. Play Max Payne. I have said many times that I do intend to play all the rest of the, uh, Rockstar games at some point. Like, what I might do, I emphasize might, is when I finish OCO, I might not jump into speedrunning immediately. I might play a handful of single player games. Um, other Rockstar titles, other GTA games. What I'll probably do is, uh, try to pick a handful of shorter ones. Games that I can finish in less than three days. Kinda thing. Do you think it's gonna be hard for you to readjust to speedrunning after you finish OCO? Oh, absolutely. I think it's gonna be terrible. Um, terribly difficult. I have a completely different mindset now. |
| 04. September 2020 | More story mode characters in online | You know See what happens though like I'm surprised they've never bought Michael back for anything or Franklin I mean Trevor did extra stuff, but on one level you want to say it doesn't make sense For Michael and Franklin to get it back in the game because they have so much money at the end of the game, right? But at the same time we know that Michael was clearly dissatisfied with a life where he's not in the game Not doing heist and stuff. Certainly he changes as a character by the end of the game More connected with his family and stuff and it would be somewhat of a betrayal if he put them in harm's way again by getting back into the game, but you can see how that could potentially develop with the character and Franklin Franklin was always presented as the guy who wanted to be the kingpin. Lamar says so Franklin potentially more interested in In the high life that being the CEO guy rather than simply being a guy with a lot of money So it makes sense to me that Franklin might Want to still be involved, you know chronologically some of online happens before Story mode and the rest of us have the rest of it happens after the stuff you're playing now. The modern stuff is after audience response to my playing GTA online and issues with cruise I Don't know if you would really like the online. I'm kind of enjoying tinkering with it, but uh Don't think the viewership is Well, if you guys want to play with me you have the PC version join my crew be aware that I do Clear it like all the time because I can only have a thousand people in it. I just clear it so I can get people into my My games faster. Why is there 1,000 limit one of the? |
| 19. July 2020 | Morgz. | Morgz the YouTube content creator. I only know of Morgz tangentially. I have clicked on his videos and they just seem Terrible if he ever made good content, I wouldn't know of it. MrBeast ripoff and obnoxious Really? Yeah, he must be making a fuck ton of money though. His CPM would be Impressively high because the audience that he appeals to Someone look up how much views Morgz is getting it's got to be like 100 million 105 million monthly views. Yeah, but MrBeast probably what five times that? How many views is MrBeast getting? If I'm just gonna- are you serious that I got them both dead on? Jesus, I just I just know my stuff As much as you can criticize Morgz I would imagine most of you would be totally like if I said to you Look, you can copy MrBeast and you can be one fifth as successful You guys would be like fuck yeah, give me that shit in a heartbeat How many of you are gonna turn around or turn down, you know tens of millions of dollars a year To uh, to make the kind of content that MrBeast does. So someone said Morgz gave up his dignity What is dignity? It's just what like the the way that your social groups perceive- perceive you? The respect of your peers? I guess self-respect is something different. Google it. What does dignity mean? Does it actually just mean self-respect? It is the way people see you. I don't think it's self-respect. The state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect Yeah, so I was right. Yeah, it's other people perceiving you in that way. I don't think dignity matters I've often said that maturity is Learning whose opinion matters learning what matters in general not getting worked up over meaningless bullshit Like there are people who would say what I do for living They have no respect for me if if something makes you happy or enables you to live a better life and the cost is Dignity who cares as long as you're happy as long as the people who you care about, you know, respect you I guess Self-respect matters. You want to be able to look at yourself in the mirror, but dignity? Like not everyone's gonna respect you regardless of what you do you Regardless of what you do, you're gonna be giving up some dignity in someone's eyes I don't even mind people like morgues unless they do some dumb shit I have not known of morgues doing something that is harmful to other people So I don't condemn him on that kind of moral level. I just mean a person whose Main gimmick is doing what someone else established You can't really respect that. So for example, John Tron was one of the original kind of Mimic is of The angry video game nerd but clearly John Tron grew from that and built his own style That you can look upon as truly here's like the the similarities between his content and the angry video game nerds aren't Really is pronounced. I don't know of morgues really growing up beyond the formula that mr Beast develops they used to you can look on mr beast with a little bit of respect because he you know, he built that kind of type of content and how he got his stars doing amazingly tedious simple things but for very long periods of time, I mean That's at least somewhat interesting, you know I missed the beast seems like a nice guy who legitimately wants to help people and make them happy and he Gets happiness through doing that yada yada. I've not seen any of that from morgues But there's nothing about morgues that would bring about respects for me even whilst today making roughly the exact same content as mr |
| 18. April 2021 | Morning preparation | People who spend a ridiculous amount of time preparing themselves in the morning. Like the few minutes that I give to caring about the way that I look and preparation of myself in the morning. I couldn't imagine being one of these people who you know has to prepare themselves for 50 minutes or whatever right? Hard to fathom. Spending that much time doing such a thing that is so temporary. I understand that it can be fun for some people, it can also be you know help you in self-esteem and stuff just feeling that you look good, and it can be required for some jobs. Like I'm not judging such people I'm just saying that I would consider that to be so burnin' some you know. I don't envy such people I should say. Like you see some people's hairstyles and it's like that that would take like 50 minutes to make. Are you crazy? You must be getting a haircut every second there. Wonder what portion of the uber rich have like just a hairdresser on hand at all times to cut their hair every morning. Proof it |
| 19. July 2020 | Most active viewers changing over time. | The most active viewers in my chat changing over time. It is weird that gradually the faces change and it's so subtle that you don't really notice. And then suddenly someone comes back and you're like, oh I actually haven't seen you in a long time, you know? It's a weird feeling to watch my old footage as well and to see people who used to come around all the time and that I haven't seen in a long time. It's just the nature of content that you move on to different things. Things just feel like they're moving so fast yet so slow at the same time. It's hard to explain. I guess it's just because I'm doing so much with my time now. When you have a lot of free time and what you're doing in your free time is effectively meaningless, like it all kind of merges together. I'm always working on something and I have my YouTube channel, my Twitch, whatever, that has a chronicling of everything that I do. Time feels weird these days compared to when I was younger. Things feel like they're moving so fast because I don't have enough time to do what I want to do, but at the same time it feels like it's moving slow because like every moment matters in a way. You know? So I'm focusing on every hour that I have to do the things that I want to do. It's... It's hard to explain. |
| 02. October 2021 | Most boring thing about speedrunning | Boring thing about speedrunning. Don't you get bored doing these speedruns every day? Man, the most boring thing about these speedruns is having people come into the stream and ask me, don't you get bored doing these speedruns every day? If those people who asked that question didn't exist, uh, this would be heaven. It's truly the worst aspect of speedrunning. How many times do you think, Barfy, that I've had that question asked of me? I've had that question asked of me more than any other question. Including what are the rules of the category. Do people walk into League of Legends streams and like, hey man, doesn't it get boring playing this game every day? I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't like it, dude. I don't get bored, no. I've never been bored in the entirety of my life. I have a rare condition where it's impossible for me to get bored. |
| 14. May 2020 | Most hilarious moment of my stream | What's the oldest hilarious moment you can remember from your 7000 hours? When I ran myself over after failing to get a car near minor turbulence or at the beginning of minor turbulence which was the video that went viral. That was fucking hilarious. Okay this car is not too bad for this spot. Oh! Oh please let me have that! Oh you suck! Are you- wha- Are you- I hate this game! Wow! I'm going against the goal. I pressed F right next to the door of that car and it didn't stop, didn't slow down even a fucking hair. Then I kept pressing F to get into the vehicle. |
| 04. March 2021 | Most of my audience doesn’t watch anime. | Most of my audience doesn't watch anime. I gotta stop discussing anime on stream. Is there a mod here? Can you make a poll? Who has watched anime within the last month? It's a long time, but I just want to know for what percentage of my audience is like anime a thing that you could hypothetically see yourself watching if you hear about a good one. Like I don't care if you're an anime fanatic or something despite that I find myself watching a little bit of anime these days more than I used to I I still don't see myself as an anime fanatic or something it's just I like good stories and it just seems that anime is doing it pretty well right now. It might be because there's just so much manga so they have so many stories to pick from. Like it seems as though adapting a book or even a comic to a TV show or a movie or whatever is a lot harder than um manga to anime or whatever. No? 65% say no. See I should stop discussing anime at all then. Two-thirds of the audience is just like Matt shut the fuck up man. I actually saw a comment where a person was like I'm really happy that they have the thing on YouTube with the timestamps now so I can skip over topics I care nothing about like anime. Certainly there was a lot of cringe in anime I will grant you that there's a lot of great stories in it too. I would argue some of the best most impactful and most memorable stories that I've ever seen or read. |
| 22. November 2022 | Most ‘commentary youtubers’ are garbage. | Most commentary YouTubers are garbage. So there was a day where I was feeling a bit ill and I was preparing for my laser eye surgery. So I had a bit more free time, so I gave a really long response to a comment that a person left. Be warned, I am going to throw some shade at commentary YouTubers. This will be too long for most of all to read anyway, but this is a response to a viewer question that some of you may find interesting. Viper Rambles is a series where I speak on my own life and count events directly relevant to it. I call the series Rambles to avoid people confusing my off-the-cuff musings with serious statements made by a well-researched expert. This in contrast to a staggering amount of YouTube where people who are blissfully unaware they know nothing speak with absolute confidence about any topic under the sun, some of which they feel knowledgeable in despite having only learned they exist 15 seconds prior. A few moments of thought on something is sufficient to speak confidently to the masses. I limit the topics in my Rambles and this list has gotten more limited over time, partly due to the considerations in the following paragraphs. You may also notice that the amount of videos I have dedicated to individual topics over the years is incredibly few, perhaps a dozen. This is simply because I believe dedicated videos suggest authority and confidence which I have for very few topics. The reason so many large YouTubers end up making videos of them sitting in a chair speaking on everything under the sun is because they seek to use their own recognizability to easily garner views in place of actual expertise. I believe too many have little respect for the influence they have over others, how their words can impact their lives, or how easy it is to misinform people due to the staggering complexity of the world. Many further seem to have deluded themselves into thinking that luckily gaining an audience for being funny personality on the internet somehow has granted them universal wisdom that can be applied to instantly bring forth the truth of any matter. In reality, even things viewed as simple by a layman usually have depth, nuance and complexity to anyone willing to take the time to learn of it. Such time is not worth it for those more focused on hitting that special amount of videos they want to release each day and making sure the length is not too long or too short to maximize retention and revenue. As many of you get older and potentially become an expert in something, you will quickly realize these personalities are often full of shit and wrong in key ways. This insight will only be revealed to you because of your expertise, which so few people will share, that there will never be enough of an outcry to inspire correction even if the egotistical personality will bother giving it to save face. When this happens you will likely muse, wait if I can recognize this person is wrong because I now have expertise, how often were they previously wrong but I was unable to identify it because I was equally as ignorant as the masses. To a layman, a confident idiot and an expert can look exactly the same. This is a scary part of life for all of us and something that has no easy solution for anyone. Spending months becoming even possibly knowledgeable in something is not the best way to garner an audience. The few creators you know who do this will always be tiny compared to everyone else successful on this platform. The social media market rewards those who speak confidently, quickly and on as much as possible regardless of their accuracy. Multiple surface level, usually negative 10 minute videos will gain you a greater audience than eons of study and the wisdom to appropriately apply what you know. For many YouTubers what is trending on Twitter is more of a decider on the topic of video than actually having something coherent to say. As my understanding of social media and business increases, I am continuously left with the inescapable conclusion that most things that lead to easily obtained success usually bump up against some form of ethical quandary. This has led to an ever present battle between my business interests and my conscience. I am however growing weary of the constant burden such brings me and I have begun to sincerely long for the day where my growing apathy is truly all consuming as much as I think it reflects badly upon me as a person. Moving forward I do plan to reassess how I treat my commentary, perhaps attempting to find a more sensational name for my Rambles series, but it was in part the views explained above that led me to that delineation in the first place. P.S. I'm sorry this wasn't 14 pages. So that is how I view commentary content on YouTube and why my Viper Rambles series exists as it does. At least that's part of the reason. Again this isn't shitting on all commentary channels on YouTube. Like there is a big difference between say the quartering releases 10 videos a day about shit he knows nothing about. That it's just him reading an article and then saying his thoughts that have nothing really backing them. And let's say Coffeezilla who his entire existence is the crypto NFT blockchain kind of space and that's all he focuses on. As in he's clearly doing his research where others are like oh I learned about something on Twitter 15 minutes ago let me read a few tweets and make a video. The quality of commentary you have on the internet is very wide indeed. I like to reference Tom Scott when I talk about these kind of things where he made a video where he talked about he's done tons of research on topics and still at the end of the day gotten certain things wrong. But online we usually end up gravitating towards people that we feel that we can trust. For example I feel like I can trust Tom Scott. I don't trust him to always be right I trust him to do due diligence. He will go to the place where the thing is see it with his own eyes. Talk to experts on the ground who spent their entire lives there and do research and then make a video. Not a lot of people are going to that kind of effort. It is just unfortunate though that it is hard on topics where you know nothing to determine whether a person is talking shit or not. I mentioned Coffeezilla before. He seems to me to be legit but I don't know anything at least not that much about crypto, NFTs, the blockchain and all that stuff. And so to some degree I just have to take his word for a lot of what he's saying. And there may come a day where maybe I know something he doesn't and I see him saying some bullshit and my world will be shattered. I don't know. But this is just life. I just don't have a lot of respect for commentary channels that don't even attempt to limit themselves to things that they actually know about. And just feel willing to speak on literally anything with absolute authority without a moment of hesitation. I respect channels that are focused on particular topics or do actually spend months researching things before making videos. This is why YouTubers don't answer you in comments. So I've kind of had an epiphany when it comes to arguing with people in comments and attempting to explain why they're wrong or my own particular beliefs or clarifying my thoughts and stuff. I've probably answered like a thousand comments in great detail related to the reaction stuff, my positions on it, over the last nine months. That is a thousand people. And the time spent doing that is many, many, many hours as a collective. It may not seem like a lot when I'm in the moment, you know, spending 10, 15 minutes, but that really adds up. Why am I doing this? Changing one additional mind on a topic is fairly irrelevant. |
| 22. February 2021 | Motion blur, good or bad? | Meme. Motion blur, good or bad. Opinion on motion blur? Motion blur is disgusting. There is no game in history that has ever implemented motion blur well. Can someone do a poll? In gen, so to write the question, in general, motion blur yes in games or motion blur no in games? It's mainly nos, doesn't surprise me. Does motion blur increase or decrease FPS? Motion blur makes them more cinematic. I frankly disagree. Decrease? What? Imagine decreasing your FPS to make your game look worse. You don't notice good motion blur? If you aren't noticing when you turn, the game becomes mush, then I think that's more of a problem with you than the feature. 89% say no. It's 11%, it's not an insignificant percent. As in like, as an optional feature, I can understand why it'd be there for that 11%. But most games have that shit on by default. By default? I remember Dunkey complaining that one of the Far Cry games had it on by default and you couldn't turn it off. They had to patch in the ability to turn it off. As if the people making the game were like, oh, everyone doesn't like motion blur, what? I thought everyone loved having shit smeared on their eyes. That's just me? Oh. What does motion blur do? When you have motion, it blurs things. |
| 30. May 2021 | Mouse and keyboard versus controller in shooters. | Mouse and keyboard versus controller in shooters. I do play a lot of shooters in my down- and I used to play a lot of Battle Royale shooters. Yeah, I've seen both of you guys play, um, Sea of Thieves. In your videos. Sea of Thieves is awesome, dude. Yeah, Sea of Thieves is so much fun. I'm way better at, like, I'm okay at, like, aiming, like, controller versus controller. And even in COD, like, I can, like, a controller's my thing, but you need that auto-aim, like, just plugging a controller into PC native games is so sketch. Mm-hmm. There's no, like, aim assist at all. Yeah. It's just like- Mouse and keyboard's so much better, though, once you get used to it, dude. Like, yeah, man. Like, after maybe three months of playing on mouse and keyboard, I reckon I was better at games. Like, if I burst myself on a controller, I reckon mouse and keyboard me would have won after, like, three months. That's true. I guess that's for me, it's just like, can I be bothered even? Like, do I have any reason to be better, like, or to make meme challenges with you guys? Like, I don't really mind either way. Mm. Like this. |
| 14. January 2021 | Mouse, keyboard, controllers | my life. I've got the same with mouse and keyboard. When I was just did a preview for Hitman 3, like they gave me early access. And I was like, if I have to play this on mouse and keyboard, I'm so fucked. And then fortunately, it had controller support. And I was like, how bad would it have really been? And I tried to use the mouse and keyboard and it would have been the worst video to watch. It was just like, Hitman was just like looking at every which way. Like I can fully accept that in GTA V, some aspects of it, you do receive a benefit from using a controller. Like I love that in GTA V, you can switch between controller, mouse and keyboard immediately. There is no delay. So I use the controller for biking, parachuting, flying in any helicopter, whatever. But driving, I just never could get behind. Even though there are certain strategies that you can only do on controller for driving because you can do half inputs and you can't do a half input with a keyboard. So I've always wished I had developed the skills, but I haven't played a console game in like over 10 years. |
| 08. June 2020 | Movie: The platform | Talking about the movie, the platform, there is minor spoilers and I refer to it as the slab. Oh, I know the last movie I saw. What's it called? The Slab? It's this, I think it might be an indie film or something, but it's basically like, on every floor, there are two people. In the center of the room, there's a hole. Like a huge rectangular hole. The platform, that's it. Yeah. And at the beginning of every day, the platform starts at floor one and stops there, is there for a duration. And on that platform is like endless amounts of food, just so much food, you have no idea. And the two people at the first floor, they eat their fill. And then it moves to the next floor, then the next floor, then the next floor, then the next floor. There's not enough food for all the floors, basically. So each floor is getting less and less food. By the time it gets to like floor 150 or something, there's like no food left. And then there's like the 150 floors below that. And so, you know, cannibalism and blah, blah, blah. And it's meant to be a commentary on society in how, because different philosophies of different people, we should work together, you know. If we only ate what we needed to survive, all the floors could get enough food. And it's like, yeah, but the people above me, you know, they like, because every month you change and get to a different floor, right? And so the people don't want to change their ways because when they were on a lower floor, the upper floors didn't give two shits about them. So when they get onto the upper floor, they don't give a shit about the people below them either. And it's a commentary like the people at the top don't give a shit about the people at the bottom. If everyone worked together, we'd all be better off. Da-da-da. I hope I didn't spoil the movie. |
| 02. November 2021 | Moving abroad vs settling in australia. | Moving abroad versus settling in Australia. Would I ever settle down outside of Australia? Yeah, so just the way the world works, it is always more of a pain in the arse to live in a country that you weren't born in. Like I'd rather just find a nice place in Australia to settle down. Like Australia is a wonderful country, a wealthy prosperous country. Even while certainly those currently in power are making short-sighted decisions for the profit of the very few at the expense of the many, that seems to be the trend around the world. It'll take a long time for Australia to slide so far that it wouldn't be an amazing place to live. Gun regulation in general. |
| 27. September 2022 | Moving from a heavy mouse to a light mouse | Moving from a heavy mouse to a light mouse. Oh, that is something else. I got a new mouse chat. This is the old light speed 502 Logitech mouse. This is the new one. So no one spoke about one difference which is the old mouse has custom weights in it. Like you can open the bottom and add weight to it. The new one does not have that. It has a lot of other benefits and stuff, but doesn't have that. And so I'm having to deal with a much much lighter mouse, which is what most people want anyway, but sort of was taken aback. I even actually put one of the weights from the old mouse in this even though I can't add them all. Why would you want a heavy mouse? Exactly. I'm just used to it. I find it comfortable. But I'm going to adapt now and use this lighter mouse and see if I prefer it. It's better. It's definitely better. |
| 20. October 2021 | Moving makes me gain weight | Moving makes me gain weight. I weighed myself on my scales in my mother's place and I was 85.2. I came home and I weighed myself. I was 86.9. My theory is that somehow moving through space, I attract additional matter to myself and so throughout the journey today, I have attracted more matter and thus have become fatter. Or you know, the scales are somewhat off. 86.9 kilos, no 86.9 frogs. Does your scale not weigh things in frogs? That's a weird scale. |
| 05. June 2022 | Moving on from GTA 5? | the list and all this kind of stuff. I basically got to the point after GTA plus was introduced that I just I just lost any. Now that was the final straw like I've taken all Rockstar shit for like nine years nearly and then that was that was the final thing that put me over the edge that okay I still enjoy GTA and I'm going to continue to do the things that I enjoy in the game but I'm not gonna make the weekly update videos talking about you know basically promoting what's going on in the game for them and all this kind of stuff like I'm just I'm just not going to do that anymore. At the end of the day nothing can really compete with GTA so certainly even if you leave the ecosystem if GTA 6 drops I'm sure you'll be right back there with the rest of us regardless of the low opinion you have of Rockstar justifiably as do I because no one just seems to want to make a GTA 5 competitor like you know a Saints Row that's actually like an online world so. Exactly but yeah it's just a case of diversifying a little bit just doing other things in addition to GTA and doing a little bit less GTA so I can fit that stuff in. Yeah it's a good policy to have I have a similar sort of thing like I've played a bunch of other Rockstar games or GTA I've got a list of GTA clones I want to look at as well like GTA 5 is always going to be my main thing but being too dedicated to one thing is uh well both somewhat boring and not really good for business you know. Yeah it's just that doing that transition to move to something new is difficult so you might as well start you know. |
| 14. May 2020 | Moving out of Australia | Have you ever thought about moving out of Australia? If so, what country would you move to? I have no reason to ever move out of Australia. It has everything that you really want, which is it's a stable, safe, healthy country. It speaks the language that I have, that I speak. I would never want to move to a country where I can't talk my way out of a problem or whatever. Any country that I move to, I would just be going through a fuck ton of red tape, having to have visas and blah blah blah. It just seems like, would just be huge hassle. There's nothing that exists in any other country that I couldn't find somewhere in Australia. |
| 04. November 2021 | Moving out of my parents house forced me to no longer be a picky eater | Moving out of my parents house forced me to no longer be a picky eater If I've paid for something or something's free, I'll be like, yeah, I'll fucking eat it I was certainly a picky eater when I was a kid, but when I moved out, I was like what this is 60% off I'll eat it. Well, this is this is like, you know something my roommates have left in the cupboard that's been there for a year I'll eat it. I'll try everything at least once often It's too disgusting for me to eat But I'm always gonna try at least once like yesterday yesterday I don't like tomatoes on burgers and I said this is my disgusting chat You want me to eat it and chat or type once I was like fuck it I'll eat it cuz ain't gonna hurt me like I wasn't very good. But you know, fuck it Tomatoes exist to be thrown at people the person who first grew tomatoes was like man These things are really disgusting, but they have like a satisfying squish to them They'd be great to throw up people who are being mocked in the town square But then he found that people actually ate them and he was like really? Oh Okay, I'll keep growing them if you crazy people want to eat these things But and he made like a trillion dollars selling tomatoes true story. Look at that. |
| 31. March 2021 | Moving to lower your tax rate. | Moving to lower your tax rate. Why did you choose to be an Australian streamer instead of an American streamer? I wonder if there are places that I could move to in America that I would actually be better off. Probably. Assuredly. A good access to the bouncy system on Twitch, for example. Move to Texas. I have seen those comparisons made between Texas and California. In regards to taxes, it just depends on what type of tax payer you are. Texas doesn't necessarily have a lower tax rate. They just have different forms of taxes. Is it something like in California, if you're an individual worker, you pay less tax? No, or is it the other way around? In Texas, businesses pay less, but workers pay more. In California, businesses pay more, but workers pay less. I don't know. It's one of those, I think Texas doesn't have a state income tax, but they have taxes on like fucking everything else. Or something. I'd have to look up the specifics. But I'm saying, in terms of where I would move, I wouldn't move to either Texas or California. I'd probably end up finding one of the... Because I don't collaborate with people. So my interests would be entirely related to safety, amount of inconveniences I would suffer, how good the internet is. And then taxation would be somewhere on there. But I have no interest in moving to America. Like if I'm going to move somewhere else, America probably wouldn't be the place that I move. Why I care so much about taxes? I don't, honestly. It's one of those things where, if you're going to uproot your entire life, you may as well uproot it and receive as many benefits as possible. And certainly the assumption is that you're going to use the money that you earn in a way that is most likely conducive with your values and your goals for society than your government is. Like I'm not against paying tax. And I certainly wouldn't avoid it. It's simply that no government is going to use tax money the exact way that you would want it used. Like to put it another way, if you have the desire of, let's say, reducing homelessness, you are better off having a thousand dollars and being able to specifically donate that to a cause that combats such a thing than to simply pay a thousand dollars more in tax. Because ultimately you don't know what initiative that tax is going to go towards. Taxes are important. They make society function. I don't think anyone is obligated to pay more tax than what is required or to seek out paying additional taxes or something. I'm not a libertarian. I'm not against taxes. I mean, if you in any way, shape or form were here prior for the conversation about what people can be said to be deserving of or responsible for and all that stuff, obviously I'm not going to hold to some sort of libertarian philosophy that you are somehow deserving of every cent that you make. And I'm certainly I am just as nervous in regards to corporations as I am in regards to governments. Maybe more so with corporations, because while governments have more power, they are slow and the power is very much so diffuse. Absent government, there would still be essential focal points of power in any given area, because that's just how existence works. They will always be the strongest who, given their strength, will be able to use that strength force, whatever, to influence those around them. I just think this unit of force is better off being a democratic government as opposed to a warlord or what have you, which would be generally what would happen if governments collapse. That's not going to convince anyone who's a libertarian. And that's not a good summary of my thoughts, but good enough. But I have moved to LA. I don't want to move anywhere, guys. To go back to the tax thing, what I'm saying is the budget for the government is already set in place. No amount of paying additional taxes is going to lead to that money necessarily being put towards the budget of any particular social program that you feel is good. If a person is running for office on the basis of increasing taxation for a specific thing that I think is good for society, I think that's a good thing. And I would have no problem paying that additional tax. But paying additional tax that you don't need to pay, that, it's just nonsense in regards to attempting to benefit society. Like potentially they could find that they have funds that haven't been allocated, that their revenues have increased. But again, that doesn't mean they're going to allocate those funds to something that you personally care about or you think is personally good for society. And no person would surely believe that everything that their government does is something that they approve of or want to occur. And I say, pay the taxes that you are required. And if you feel as though you want something additional good to happen in society, dedicate your funds towards that and some charitable giving, you know. |
| 07. February 2021 | Mr Beast burgers. | The Mr. Beast burger controversy. For those unaware, Mr. Beast opened like 300 different stores that sold burgers in I think just the US. Please rant about Mr. Beast burgers. What's there to rant about? Why are there no Mr. Beast burgers in Australia? Rarrrraaa! Is there some controversy related to Mr. Beast burgers? Their quality control is just bad? So what were people ordering burgers and getting not very good stuff? Well I guess that can't be particularly surprising right? I mean I guess normally fast food chains like slowly build up their stores. But if you just immediately throw out a hundred different stores. How many did he have? Like a thousand? He's a YouTuber not a restaurant manager. 300? Yeah I mean doing quality control on 300 different stores that have just opened. Hard thing to do. I wonder if he saw a return on his investment. Whether directly through sales or through media. Who said Mr. Beast even makes money back in his videos? As a YouTuber who knows how much money within a ballpark that Mr. Beast is making on each video. Yeah he makes the money back. He 100% makes the money back. 100%. Especially considering that the money that he gives away would be taxed out of him. |
| 08. July 2021 | Mr Beast criticized for fans sending death threats | MrBeast criticized for his fans sending death threats. Every single time anyone says, I received death threats, this is significant. It's always nonsense. There's always going to be some portion of an audience who says garbage. It's impossible at a certain size for you to prevent them from doing that. The odds are, odds are there was a 50 million people who watched MrBeast YouTube, not a single one of them watching a video critical of MrBeast and saying, I want you to die. The odds of that is zero. It will happen. If MrBeast had literally never done a single bad negative thing in the entire history of his life, it would still a hundred percent happen every single fucking time. Cause just that amount of people. At no point should the existence of death threats ever be a critique of a creator, unless you have some reason to believe that that creator themselves inspired that behavior or called upon that behavior to occur or favors that behavior in some capacity. It has nothing to do with the creator themselves. It just has something to do with the people. |
| 15. November 2020 | Mr Beast for president and how wealthy he is | that time. Mr. Beast for president and how wealthy he is. You see that Mr. Beast believes he might in the future eventually run for president. What is your take on this? I would like to know the context in which he said that. I hope that Mr. Beast doesn't believe himself to be somehow a particularly brilliant person or some such. OK, let me rephrase that Trump could be president kind of opens the door for literally anyone to be president. In the past, there was this belief that the president should embody, you know, to at least some degree decorum, ethics, integrity, intelligence. They're meant to be the best of what society has to offer. Trump, 180, that's something fierce. And that kind of increased the spectrum of people who could be presidents to certainly encompass Mr. Beast. Because Mr. Beast seems to be a fairly good guy. You can't know that for certain because it is just online. You can't really tell. But I mean, his humble beginnings and stuff and his stuff that I've seen before he was famous suggest he was just, you know, a decent fella. Right. But nothing suggests that Mr. Beast is a particularly intelligent guy. He did not achieve his wealth in some manner that requires a great deal of intellect. The way that he achieved his success was, I suppose, luck, persistence and hard work. Certainly being a good dude who's willing to work hard and is persistent. Those are certainly traits you would probably want in a presence. Mr. Beast at least comes across fairly humble. So while perhaps not being like a genius himself, maybe he would be humble enough, unlike the current presence, to actually listen to the vast experts. Yeah, I wouldn't mind Mr. Beast being president of the United States, honestly. Certainly, I don't think he would be the best man for the job, but obviously the US could do a lot worse. It would really suck if it turned out in real life Mr. Beast was a complete asshole. Kind of would, but you just never know. And fame and money changes, people, you know. How many years ago? Was it like just three years ago or something that had to be more than that, right? When Mr. Beast was just counting to a million or whatever in his room. And this political campaign is sponsored by honey. Probably what matters most with achieving fame and success is your belief in regards to how you achieved it. If you believe you did it all yourself in spite of others, you're probably not going to use your fame or success or what have you in the benefit of others. You know, spitefully hold on to it and never give back, you know. It's hard to imagine a YouTuber counting in their room to a million or whatever to come away with the conclusion that, oh, this success was entirely because of me, man, my ingenuity. Especially because, I mean, I guess as a content creator, you see the people who are supporting your success every day in the comments and stuff. And you, I guess in Mr. Beast's case, he actually directly meets his fans and stuff all the time. He isn't in a position of sitting in some, you know, metaphoric ivory tower. He's, despite being as wealthy and famous as he is, he's still somewhat on the ground with everyday people. The fans he meets are paid actors? Really? I just don't understand how he gives away like probably 500k every video and does it quite often. Where does he get the money from? And when I watch a video, then the participants don't have a reaction to winning like 50 grand? Ah, I disagree. A multiple levels there. He doesn't give away $500,000 every episode. Some episodes are far cheaper than that, but I think you might underestimate how much money Mr. Beast gets from sponsorships and ad revenue. So last month, let's see, the month of August, Mr. Beast got 500 million views. Let's say divide that by, let's say he has a CPM of $3 per thousand views, which is probably an understatement. So that's, well, like 1.5 million dollars. And that's low balling it. And in a month, how many sponsorships does he do? At his level of success, there's no way those sponsorships aren't worth at least 100k, probably more than that. So you can probably like he probably does at least 15 sponsorships. So you can call that another 1.5 million and that's 3 million dollars. And then add on top of that, merch and invest and stuff. Yeah, he's rolling in it. Like he's got a ridiculous amount of money. He would also be able to deduct. Well, like obviously tax deductions is it's not like free money or something, right? You'd rather have the money with no tax than you would buy something you don't need. Like no one's buying something they don't need to get a deduction, right? That is nonsense. But obviously, if he just kept the $500,000 rather than using it in a giveaway or something, he wouldn't actually keep that $500,000. You know, he'd keep, you know, 350k or something, right? It's like the amount of actual money he's losing per episode is less than the amount that he's physically giving away as it is a deduction. He once said his taxes are hella complicated because giving away money isn't the usual expense. I have no idea how that would be handled. On today's episode, I purchased the entire state of Uganda. The person that won the island, not going to say if people didn't watch the vid, had to sell the island because of the taxes. Of course you would. Why would you want the island? Who's even buying that island? Privacy? Peace? But there's like nothing there. Have you not heard that with all these things, these shows, where you you win a car or whatever, there's always some tax or whatever. In some, I've heard in some game shows or whatever, you have to say or sign a waiver or something to say that you'll be able to pay the tax. Or like if you can't pay the tax, you're not even allowed to get the prize. But I suspect in most cases that people who win these kinds of things just immediately sell us to get themselves the money. I mean, certainly having your own private island would be cool, but like you'd rather. |
| 20. October 2020 | Mr Beast playing chaos mod | in Chaos mod. I wonder what inspired MrBeast to make a gaming channel. His gaming channel is fairly new, right? And his size doing literally anything is gonna net heaps of views. And obviously playing games is one of the easiest things that you can just put your face on, you know? You just grab the newest craze and you just go, hey, I'm now playing the newest craze. And if you're already popular, bajillion views, you know? He started making gaming videos back in the day. And how many years did it take him before he started doing them again? Many. I just wanted to know what the catalyst was for him going, I'm gonna get back into gaming. Yeah, MrBeast played Chaos mod and then I got like a bajillion messages going, oh, he's copying you, Matt. And every single time anything comes up with Chaos mod, I always say I did not invent Chaos mod. I was not the person who, it wasn't made for me. I've paid Pongo a bit of money, but not specifically for Chaos mod. It's just because I really like what he's done with it. The first person I saw play Chaos mod is Hugo1. And if it wasn't for Hugo1 playing it, maybe I still would have eventually adopted it, but it probably would have taken a lot longer. He is who popularized it in my mind. And he's played like, you know, like 10, 12 hour streams of doing nothing but Chaos mod. I couldn't imagine doing that. I think that would just become massively boring. But you know, he can do it. And people like watching him do that. So that's, you know, good for him. But he was the one who first showed it to me. Or people told me of him doing it. That Chaos mod existed in San Andreas. And if you go to the Chaos mod page for GTA V, it specifically says it's an attempt to emulate the San Andreas Chaos mod. That alone should tell you clearly it can't have been made for me or associated with me initially, because I didn't play San Andreas, you know. 12 hours of Chaos mods sound heavenly. I just think 12 hours of anything becomes a lot slower. Yeah, I don't know. I just don't think it would be as enjoyable for me or entertaining stretched over that long. Vtubers. |
| 15. November 2020 | Mr Beast's Content - Somewhat Stale | MrBeast content. I did see the new MrBeast video, yeah. I skipped it initially, but I had nothing else to watch, so I ended up watching it. It was nothing about that video that was interesting to me. To put it another way, MrBeast video was literally, hey, you know all those videos where we fucked up this other person's house? I'm doing that again. You know that viral video of that guy using all that toothpaste or whatever to make that explosion thing? Yeah, I'm doing that too, so I'm combining them both together. I was like, okay, but I've seen both those things already. Cool. Like, as a person who's getting your house screwed up by MrBeast, like, I'm sure the first time that he did that, there was probably a genuine reaction of, oh my god, you actually fucked up my house, what the hell? But it's been done enough times that anyone who has that happening is just like, oh my god, I'm getting a new house. Hell yeah! Wait a second, MrBeast fucked up my car? I'm getting a new car! You know? Like, I just mean, MrBeast has a gimmick, and it's interesting, but it's been the same gimmick for a while now. Someone before was saying MrBeast is running out of ideas because he's made a gaming channel. I don't think that's necessarily true. Once you're that size, I mean, I don't know why you wouldn't have a gaming channel. You could play a game for an hour, give it to an editor, and you'd get like a hundred grand, you know? Unless you didn't like games. Like, once you have a big enough fan base who just want to see you do anything, really what you just need is something that you can quickly do to make fairly interesting content. |
| 25. February 2021 | Mr Beast: all that matters for success is good content. | MrBeast, all that matters for success is good content. MrBeast did the people overcomplicate it and that to grow all you have to do is upload good content and that's it, thoughts? MrBeast grew in popularity by doing challenges where he counted or said particular things over and over again or read the dictionary. I hope he doesn't see that as actually good content as I'm sure only a tiniest of fraction of people ever watched even a tiny fraction of those videos. If he really said that then he at least did not practice what he preached. These days there is so much competition and certainly there's much more people that you can captivate with your content. Making good content is not enough because there's millions of people making good content. Making great content is a hard thing to do. Making something truly unique, original, every market just seems so saturated. Success is gained by getting your content in front of as many people as possible. And the more platforms you are on the higher the likelihood that you're going to captivate the right people, get algorithmically promoted, get yourself a feedback loop or whatever. But then again, if I want to be charitable I think MrBeast might just be saying that good content matters more than anything else. And he's right, if you have shit content it doesn't matter how much notice you get, it's still going to be shit content, you're not going to captivate no one. Focusing on one or two platforms and making good content is better than making mediocre content and putting yourself everywhere. It's funny, I know YouTubers that do good content only have 30k views on a video and you're like what the fuck, how does that have so many views? Consistent good content as well because you... Nah, there are definitely channels that can succeed by only uploading once every six months. But the videos have to be monumental epics, stuff that is very unique, original, very well produced. You know your CPG grades are. I would argue that it's a lot harder these days to get off the ground if you're only uploading a video once every six months. In part because mentally your first videos are likely not going to get off the ground and if it took you six months to make that video it's going to be very demoralizing. Additionally, to get good at YouTube or just making content in general, whatever the content that is, usually your best bet is to make a lot of it. Make mistakes, screw up, figure out what works best for you. And doing that while only releasing a video every six months doesn't seem very easy, right? Like Nakey Jakey only uploads a video once every six months or something, right? When that video releases, it's the first one I watch. I drop everything to watch it. I'll talk about it the next day on stream. Because these videos just exude passion and they're so well put together and so well written, you know, and they're unique. I can't think of another creator that I've ever seen who presents things or talks about things in the way that Nakey Jakey does. But as I say, just finding that unique thing or being that unique kind of character is not something everyone can do. And it's certainly very hard to do. I do watch Something Salt. Something Salt's the same. But I do think it's easier to get success with consistent uploads. But even those consistent uploads have to be good, you know? I do think though that a lot of these content creators who are able to get by only uploading like once every six months or whatever, are those that have been around for a while. |
| 02. May 2021 | Mr Beasts' charitable giving | MrBeast's charitable giving. I watched an interview with MrBeast yesterday. I was totally unaware that like every cent that MrBeast seems to get, like all the more money that MrBeast makes, he just continuously increases his philanthropy, his giving and stuff. Like I assumed that his main channel was done with some conception of trying to make it cost-effective. In that like he would do a big video and then a couple of years that required less money and you know, trying to make the videos pay for themselves, right? It doesn't seem to be what he's doing. What he seems to be doing is going balls to the wall every time he gets more money, just continuously scaling up what he's giving away or whatever the hell he's doing. And he's even made a channel called MrBeast Philanthropy where apparently he like does videos about his philanthropic efforts to like give food to the needy and like his goal is to have a thousand homeless shelters and stuff. And the reason why he has a gaming channel and React channel, according to him at least, is to generate more money for these philanthropic efforts and to pay for his main channel videos. That was very interesting. Like we talked before about how MrBeast seems like a great guy and it would really suck if it turned out that he wasn't. But it's hard to imagine a person could act that interested and dedicate that much time to helping others without being a good person, you know? Like with a lot of people online you kind of have to judge them based on their words but with MrBeast he actually does seem to be putting, you know, his money where his mouth is and actually putting physical effort towards those ends. So it just seems like a great guy, you know? Whether anything that he does will ultimately solve any of the problems that he's trying to combat, I don't know. But I mean like it's nice to see a person doing well and trying to help others. Like if someone has to have or have access to millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars or whatever, you definitely want to be a person who's very interested in giving back and helping others, you know? Weird to me though was that he likes Elon Musk. That is really strange because to my knowledge Elon Musk isn't involved in any charitable operations and he continues to have workers' rights complaints about his companies and then he had all that COVID denialism stuff. Like it just seems to me like Elon Musk is like the polar opposite of MrBeast, you know? And it is somewhat irritating sometimes that people confuse Elon Musk owning things with him personally developing things. He has hired some very smart people who make some wonderful things that he then comes out in front of the camera and presents to people as if he did it himself. Like that seems to be like the polar opposite of MrBeast's hands-on approach to helping people, you know? Or MrBeast's philanthropy channel 100 and the revenue is going to go to charity? Yeah, yeah. See ya. |
| 12. August 2020 | Mr Beast’s real name | MrBeast's real name. MrBeastJimmy? Wait, MrBeast's real name is Jimmy? Oh my god, dude. If I knew him in real life, I'd have to call him Jizzle. Oh man, that's brutal. Fortunately, we will never meet... MrJizzle. Ha ha ha ha! MrJizzleTheBeast! |
| 22. March 2022 | Mr Beast’s unlimited brand. | MrBeast's unlimited brand. MrBeast just launched a chocolate bar. It must be nice to hit that level of brand recognition that you can effectively just slap your brand on anything and it will sell really well. Or like your brand has value tied to effectively nothing so you can just go up to come and go hey make a product for me I'll put my brand on it it'll sell better. Like I'm sure it's because it's chocolate how do you really fuck up chocolate I'm sure it tastes good and all that stuff. MrBeast would just be like yeah this chocolate is great put my name on it and send it out and you got enough people working for you that they can handle it you know. It's smart once you reach that kind of size. But so help me fucking God if MrBeast does NFTs dead to me fucking dead |
| 12. August 2020 | Mr beast’s real name | MrBeast's real name. MrBeastJimmy? Wait, MrBeast's real name is Jimmy? Oh my god, dude. If I knew him in real life, I'd have to call him Jizzle. Oh man, that's brutal. Fortunately, we will never meet... MrJizzle. Ha ha ha ha! MrJizzleTheBeast! |
| 22. March 2022 | Mr beast’s unlimited brand. | MrBeast's unlimited brand. MrBeast just launched a chocolate bar. It must be nice to hit that level of brand recognition that you can effectively just slap your brand on anything and it will sell really well. Or like your brand has value tied to effectively nothing so you can just go up to come and go hey make a product for me I'll put my brand on it it'll sell better. Like I'm sure it's because it's chocolate how do you really fuck up chocolate I'm sure it tastes good and all that stuff. MrBeast would just be like yeah this chocolate is great put my name on it and send it out and you got enough people working for you that they can handle it you know. It's smart once you reach that kind of size. But so help me fucking God if MrBeast does NFTs dead to me fucking dead |
| 01. June 2022 | MrBeast's reaction channel | MrBeast's reaction channel. It's crazy MrBeast is making reaction videos. I thought about talking about MrBeast in the series, but I don't know enough about his circumstances. So clearly the videos he is making are after the fact, as I say. As in, it's not just an unedited him and his friend being like, ah, that's funny. Ha, that's funny. Whoa, bro. And he sits in the corner. Clearly there's a lot of... Clearly there's someone behind the scenes just curating this content, and then they say MrBeast, you got an hour here, whatever. Here are the videos I need you to look at. Here's what the theme is. Here's what's gonna happen. And then, you know, him and his friend say some funny things and then the funny things and those clips are then edited together. Original jokes are added in the edit or whatever. In other words, the effort on MrBeast's part is similar to the effort that a reactor puts into the content. But the effort in the end product seems to be far more because he's got people working for him. You know, he's got like a... As I say, the people finding the videos, the script people, the editors or whatever. And so what ends up being produced is a video that has a bit more quality to it. But it's still not good content, and it's... It's usually clips, I think. I'm not sure to what degree he's asking for permission or, as I say, how many full videos he watches and stuff. I didn't feel like it was worth the hassle of trying to figure that out. I'm not even sure that if that stuff is public information. But he has acknowledged where he's like, yeah, the React channel kind of funds the other channels because the cost to get 20 million views on the React channel is nothing. The cost to get 20 million dollars on the main channel, I might be spending a million dollars, like, in some giveaway. As I talk about, the reason for that is because you're... you're outsourcing a lot of the burden of the costs onto other people. Which is not good for a person of his wealth. Like, there's no reason for him to make that content, you know. So the scripted reaction content... Well, no, I'm sure it's not scripted. It's just planned out and edited to a high level of production quality. These aren't the worst offenders. Yeah, so again, whenever you take any stance on something, there's going to be those... You're gonna move further and further away where every single negative aspect of it doesn't apply. And then there's gonna be some point where you're looking and goes, Uh... Maybe that's okay. And that's just the nature with all things, you know. Like, I would prefer a reality where that channel didn't exist, but I don't know enough about it to say this is definitely exploitation. MrBeast does link to video of his reaction, but as I said, that's irrelevant. Like, it doesn't do anything. |
| 30. December 2022 | MrBeast: YouTuber’s shouldn’t have a personality. | MrBeast says, YouTubers shouldn't have a personality. Mikey Mouse asks, as someone whose content features your personality a lot, what do you think about MrBeast's idea that personality should appear only very rarely in content to make it appeal to as many people as possible? My thoughts on this would be a combination of different rambles, where it is the case that success in one avenue can often preclude you or make it harder for you to succeed in another avenue. So, for example, you can use your personality or particular positions that you have, philosophical, society, politics, whatever, to really hone in on a particular audience and become successful with them, to become beloved by them, but at the same time ridiculed and hated by a mass of other people. You can attach your brand to something potentially controversial that other people don't want to touch, and that can make you very successful in that vein, but again, preclude you from success in other avenues. When it comes to personality, or just your words in general, every single time you speak, you have the ability to bring people towards you and to ward people away. And the more of your positions that you espouse on effectively anything, the more people who you're going to fall outside of their range of acceptability on. Ultimately, it is true that things like my Rambles series will turn some people off my content, for others, bring them towards me. It's just content that I prefer to make. It is quite hard to be a generic nothing-ever person and still become successful, I think, especially in the live streaming game. If your goal, though, is to appeal to as many people as possible, then yeah, what Mr. Beast says is true, where you should hold back any aspect of yourself that might potentially be off-putting to some people. Only as generic as possible and or only showcasing things that universally are considered to be positive, which even then, there aren't that many such things. If you donate a large amount of money to charity, someone's going to be there being like, um, that's not enough money, or, um, that charity's terrible, or, um, you just do, this is clearly just a douchebag move to make yourself look good. It doesn't matter what you do, someone's going to hate it. But obviously, coming out with a stance on abortion is going to be more likely to influence people's perceptions of you and your content than, say, donating a large amount of money to a children's orphanage. So I agree with his statement. If your goal is to target the maximum conceivable amount of success possible rather than simply success in general. Because as I say, if you're holding yourself back entirely, you're making it much harder in my view for you to succeed. Because as I've said before, one of the best assets for becoming successful in the online social media space is being a somewhat unique person, or being able to produce unique content because you being a unique individual are a part of it. If you preclude yourself from that avenue, then your ability to become successful is going to be much harder. I think what MrBeast has done himself, and potentially what I have done as well, and I think this is what most people do, is like when you start off, your personality is more at the forefront, and as you become more successful, you become more aware that there are more people for you to push away. So you kind of restrict the more controversial or potentially controversial aspects of yourself. As I say, I talk less about politics these days, although I still do talk about it a bit. When I think of MrBeast, I don't think of like his philanthropy, for example. I think of that video I saw of him where he said Elon Musk is his favorite person, or that video where he stayed in a Trump hotel and said some fairly unflattering things about Trump. These are fairly old videos. I wonder if they're still there. I wonder if he still holds to these beliefs, but is clearly not in MrBeast's best interest to have those two things define him for anyone when they are not the focus of his content. He's a centrist. Being apolitical in regards to your content, I don't think would necessarily be the same as being a centrist. Although not using your influence to alter the course of politics is in a way a support of things staying exactly as they are. Which is somewhat of a centrist position, I suppose. You can't stand MrBeast. He's got to have something bad about him behind the scenes. Oh, even statements like this from MrBeast are somewhat suggestive of that. He's openly saying, I will not showcase aspects of my personality that I believe will be off-putting to people. I believe reserving myself or putting on a face different from my own would lead me to greater success. And that's true, but that being a reality means that MrBeast could be hiding many skeletons in his closet. I don't think he is though, personally. I think he's just a pretty standard dude who got pretty lucky and has some good people around him and has worked well to continue to expand from his humble beginnings. Like when you look at the variety of people who are rich and successful on YouTube, like MrBeast is clearly a lot of really bad people up there. I don't think MrBeast is necessarily one of those people. I don't know the dude though. |
| 25. February 2021 | Mrbeast: all that matters for success is good content. | MrBeast, all that matters for success is good content. MrBeast did the people overcomplicate it and that to grow all you have to do is upload good content and that's it, thoughts? MrBeast grew in popularity by doing challenges where he counted or said particular things over and over again or read the dictionary. I hope he doesn't see that as actually good content as I'm sure only a tiniest of fraction of people ever watched even a tiny fraction of those videos. If he really said that then he at least did not practice what he preached. These days there is so much competition and certainly there's much more people that you can captivate with your content. Making good content is not enough because there's millions of people making good content. Making great content is a hard thing to do. Making something truly unique, original, every market just seems so saturated. Success is gained by getting your content in front of as many people as possible. And the more platforms you are on the higher the likelihood that you're going to captivate the right people, get algorithmically promoted, get yourself a feedback loop or whatever. But then again, if I want to be charitable I think MrBeast might just be saying that good content matters more than anything else. And he's right, if you have shit content it doesn't matter how much notice you get, it's still going to be shit content, you're not going to captivate no one. Focusing on one or two platforms and making good content is better than making mediocre content and putting yourself everywhere. It's funny, I know YouTubers that do good content only have 30k views on a video and you're like what the fuck, how does that have so many views? Consistent good content as well because you... Nah, there are definitely channels that can succeed by only uploading once every six months. But the videos have to be monumental epics, stuff that is very unique, original, very well produced. You know your CPG grades are. I would argue that it's a lot harder these days to get off the ground if you're only uploading a video once every six months. In part because mentally your first videos are likely not going to get off the ground and if it took you six months to make that video it's going to be very demoralizing. Additionally, to get good at YouTube or just making content in general, whatever the content that is, usually your best bet is to make a lot of it. Make mistakes, screw up, figure out what works best for you. And doing that while only releasing a video every six months doesn't seem very easy, right? Like Nakey Jakey only uploads a video once every six months or something, right? When that video releases, it's the first one I watch. I drop everything to watch it. I'll talk about it the next day on stream. Because these videos just exude passion and they're so well put together and so well written, you know, and they're unique. I can't think of another creator that I've ever seen who presents things or talks about things in the way that Nakey Jakey does. But as I say, just finding that unique thing or being that unique kind of character is not something everyone can do. And it's certainly very hard to do. I do watch Something Salt. Something Salt's the same. But I do think it's easier to get success with consistent uploads. But even those consistent uploads have to be good, you know? I do think though that a lot of these content creators who are able to get by only uploading like once every six months or whatever, are those that have been around for a while. |
| 07. February 2022 | Music is better today than ever before. | Music is better today than ever before. What's the thoughts on the music that musicians make today? The music today is more varied than it ever has been in the entire history of the world. There is more selection of high quality than there ever has been. Anyone who says differently is an idiot. There is something for literally everyone, and it is easier to find than ever before. Arguably, the worst part is that you're like, there's just so much that you can just get buried in songs for like the rest of time. Once upon a time, the barrier to entry was so high to like release music for wider consumption that only a select amount of people could even make music of good quality, you know? And get it to the ears of a reasonable amount of people. These days, effectively anyone can, which means you have a huge amount of shit available, but also a huge amount of very good quality stuff as well. For every niche taste, you know? I think a lot of the music from decades past seems better to people these days just because you're only listening to like the best of the best of those generations, you know? Like there was a lot of shit back then as well. I mean like if you go back and listen to like the best of the 2000s, that's some good stuff. If you go back and listen to the best of 2010s, that's also some good stuff. Of course, that assumes that you like genres that are the most popular. Like if you are really into metal, looking up the top songs of the decade is probably not going to be good for you because most people don't listen to metal. I mean, it does suck, of course, if you have more niche tastes in music and you like stuff that is less commercially viable due to its lack of popularity or companies not being willing to take a risk on producing such things because it's less popular so they're not going to make as much money so they want to throw money behind stuff that's potentially going to get them more money. But like there's no decade in which you would have been better off still, you know? It's not like people were more willing to invest in metal in the 1960s than in today, you know what I'm saying? |
| 01. January 2021 | Music suggestion streams. | Music suggestion streams Music suggestion stream unfortunately with DMCA being what it is. I can't do that anymore. I feel like it's a missed opportunity now What like when I was a smaller content creator there was a day or two We're like for an hour. I asked people to recommend me songs and we found some good stuff, but I can't do that Oh, no media share can still be done You just gotta look below to see if anything has been content ID'd in the videos it wouldn't even be that bad to have like a Music recommendation section of the discord, but you can guarantee that splurges would just fill up with garbage |
| 05. March 2022 | Mutally beneficial collaborations with content creators. | Mutually beneficial collaborations with content creators. Does it ever make you feel bad knowing someone could just be using you for publicity? I do not interact with other people to a significant enough degree where I have such issues. Like when you collaborate with another content creator, it's explicit that we're both attempting to use each other to increase our notoriety. It doesn't mean it's not fun or that you aren't doing it for other reasons. Like obviously, there are endless content creators out there that I could be reaching out to to collaborate with. I didn't pick Mudahar just for the goal of mutual gain of viewership. In part because of our prior relationship, but also because I think he's an interesting dude. Like if anything, if I reach out to a person to collaborate, it should be flattering. And I feel that way as well. As in like if a very large content creator specifically reaches out to you to collaborate, it can be very flattering because you know that they have a large amount of people to pick from. So even though there is that, well clearly we're just kind of going to be using each other for viewership, it's not insulting or an issue for me. It's flattering. The only issue with asking for publicity is that it has to be mutually beneficial. So service giving out a free role or whatnot is worthless. But yes, that's a good way of putting it. When there's mutual benefit, it's perceived differently than a person basically asking you for a leg up and not being able to give anything in return. |
| 05. March 2022 | Mutually beneficial collaborations with content creators. | Mutually beneficial collaborations with content creators. Does it ever make you feel bad knowing someone could just be using you for publicity? I do not interact with other people to a significant enough degree where I have such issues. Like when you collaborate with another content creator, it's explicit that we're both attempting to use each other to increase our notoriety. It doesn't mean it's not fun or that you aren't doing it for other reasons. Like obviously, there are endless content creators out there that I could be reaching out to to collaborate with. I didn't pick Mudahar just for the goal of mutual gain of viewership. In part because of our prior relationship, but also because I think he's an interesting dude. Like if anything, if I reach out to a person to collaborate, it should be flattering. And I feel that way as well. As in like if a very large content creator specifically reaches out to you to collaborate, it can be very flattering because you know that they have a large amount of people to pick from. So even though there is that, well clearly we're just kind of going to be using each other for viewership, it's not insulting or an issue for me. It's flattering. The only issue with asking for publicity is that it has to be mutually beneficial. So service giving out a free role or whatnot is worthless. But yes, that's a good way of putting it. When there's mutual benefit, it's perceived differently than a person basically asking you for a leg up and not being able to give anything in return. |
| 11. December 2020 | My "Vlogs" | My vlogs like the cooking stream that I did or my pizza vlog or my Pax vlog. My vlogs get so cringy? Really? I found them to be quite funny. I don't have many. Are you talking about my Pax vlog? I thought I was made pretty well. My vlogs seem natural, they're not sanitized or staved. That is true. Like certainly, if you're making a vlogging channel, you have to actively work to think of stuff to do stuff that you wouldn't normally do, exciting stuff or whatever. You need to act in a certain way to make it exciting and whatnot. My vlogs have just been me recording stuff that I'm going to be doing anyway. Exactly as I do it. |
| 05. September 2021 | My $1 rollerblades | My $1 rollerblades. Did I skate to the donut shop? I haven't skated in like 50,000 years. I got, um, what was it my sister? We got rollerblades once when we were kids. One of us did, I remember being in Kmart and my parents scanned some rollerblades and they were a dollar. It came up. Whether it had been input incorrectly or like it was an amazing deal, who knows, but they were like, oh yeah, it's a dollar, so why did that come to mind? I haven't thought about that in like a decade. Two decades, I don't know. Sweet. |
| 29. December 2020 | My 100k sub announcement on twitter. | My 100k sub announcement on Twitter. I made a joke on my Twitter. I'll show it to you. Like I sat there for a while debating whether to post it, but I found it really funny. So this was the first tweet. I would like to be the first to congratulate DarkFaperAUClips for reaching 100k subs. A true inspiration to me, a mentor, my idol, funniest person I've ever met. I feel like I could learn a lot from them and I can only hope to one day be as good as they are at GTA V. But the next one's better. The next one's even better. It is with a heavy heart, especially in light of the 100k sub achievement, that I have to expose DarkFaperAUClips. They have, for more than a decade, touched me inappropriately. I'm sure it's a shock to you all that such a pillar of our community could commit such heinous acts. I debated whether to post this because I'm like, does this downplay the seriousness of sexual assault? I'm like, ah, nah, I don't think so. It's more like a masturbation joke than anything else. You'd have to be reaching to get to that conclusion. But you know, when you're even a smaller public figure as I am or whatever, you gotta think about these things. You gotta think about the reaction that people are like to have to anything that you do. Like when you try to push boundaries, you gotta make sure you don't push them too hard that you actually get fucked, you know? |
| 09. June 2021 | My 2522 rambles topic list | My 2522 ramble topic list. I don't know how easy it would be to search, but if you ever want to know my opinion on something, exclamation mark rambles, there's a continuous list of my ramble series on YouTube and you can search for keywords. I usually say that to people when they, not that I'm saying this is what you're asking for, but when people ask me, hey do you have any advice for streamers or whatever, I say, oh you know, just look at my rambles list and search for streamers or streaming or whatever. It's a good list, Couch maintains it and it has like links to each topic, which is good. It's also interesting to know how many topics I've spoken on, like it's got to be like 2,500 now right? Like it's funny sometimes when people ask me for stuff, I'll go to my Twitch chat and I'll type exclamation mark rambles to bring up that so I can give it to people or to link to particular topics. 2,522, god damn. I wonder how many of those are repeats. Surely at least 250 repeats. I mean the repeats aren't necessarily pointless though because sometimes I give different information or explain things in better ways, but at the end of the day I recognize not everyone has seen every ramble I've ever done so I just try to, unless like the same topic came up like last episode, I usually am okay with repeats. |
| 01. November 2022 | My 4090 is a fire hazard? | My 1490 graphics card is a fire hazard. So as you know, I've bought myself a 4090 I still have not put the PC together So I haven't used it yet and that may be a good thing because Jay's two cents He's released a video where he's like hey Yo The connector cable into the 4090 can potentially have some heating issues and melt the plastic Apparently the the issue apparently is if you bend this part here too much the connectors move out a little bit and aren't perfectly fixed in place and so then this kind of shit can happen and the 4090 is so large that not a lot of cases enable you to even have the connector cable in without a Bending the cable. I guess I'm just gonna be very careful. Let's see what happens |
| 26. December 2022 | My 4k monitor won’t stop breaking. | My 4K Samsung monitor won't stop breaking. So for those who are unaware, I bought myself a Samsung G8 Odyssey, a 4K 240Hz monitor. And within a week, monitor died. And so they said, look, we'll get it repaired. So two weeks is away for repair. They sent it back for me. Instantly my PC crashes twice while plugging the monitor in. PC wouldn't boot with the monitor in. But now it's finally seemed to be a little bit stable. And I just noticed the monitor's broken. Might be a little bit hard to see. Can you see a smudge? This isn't dirt. It's like a burn mark or something. This is after being repaired. So all I can say is, Samsung, what the hell? First world problems? I don't think it's a first world problem to have hardware fail within a week of purchasing it. Or to be given faulty hardware after repair. I think that is a universal experience. Unfortunately. I think that is a universal experience. |
| 23. January 2021 | My 5950x with 3090. | My 5950X with my 3090. I did install my 5950X and yes, I do notice a difference. So, I can't tell if the difference between a 3950X and a 5950X is huge. Oh my god, huge. Or, I never fully utilized the 3950X. I think it might be both. Like, when I used the 3950X, I didn't do a BIOS overclock. I just used like the Ryzen Master thing, which I was like, look, just put it on auto overclock, I don't give a shit or whatever, right? When I got my 5950X, I'm like, oh, this isn't performing as well as I think it should, and you know, it's good, but not that great. And so then I just looked up a guide of like, the standard BIOS overclock, like change these three, four settings or whatever. And so I did, and it's amazing. System still runs cool, and I have had no issues. But bumping up that clock speed has really helped in terms of gaming. But yeah, like, so you can't see it, but I've got 140 FPS now, and it never drops from 140 FPS anywhere. In what was the most graphically intensive parts of the game, still 140 FPS. And the only reason it's capped at 140 is because I intentionally capped it, because if you go too far above 140, the game starts to stutter, because it just can't process the frames or whatever. No, this isn't all games, it's a quirk with GTA V. Like, I'll run the benchmark for GTA V, and my average frames will be 139 point blah blah blah. I guess you could call it a manual overclock, yes. I left the CPU on stock and ran it in some benchmarks, and then I did a manual overclock, and I ran the same benchmarks, and I, it was massively better. Although potentially, I probably lost some single core performance, which is usually what happens. You lose some points, often a negligible amount in the single core benchmark, but you gain overall in the multi-core. Synchros, what do you think about the game? I don't think so, when you have a game that can use four cores. What seemed most interesting to me is what cores this game seems to use. I thought it would just use the first four cores or something, but it seems to be using the strongest four cores or something. Like, it would be using core five and twelve, and seven and sixteen or some shit. I don't know what's up with that. Maybe it can, it can determine itself which of the cores is the best or something. Yeah, the CPU knows which one is the best, I suppose. You want to buy a 5950X and a 3090, convince me not to. Do you need them? As in, it makes sense for me to get them because it's my bloody job, you know? Better hardware literally saves me time in real life. I am buying hours of my life. Time is a very precious thing when you get to this point, you know? Like yesterday, do you... Sitting there, being tired as fuck, but knowing that I had like 17 different things I needed to do. And forcing myself to do them despite how tired I was. Like, I do that every day now. |
| 15. December 2020 | My Anime Prologue Video | Discussing my anime prologue video, how it came to be, and the difficulties that I had in creating it. You can't unsee the video? I'm sure that anime video that I made, it'll pass through your mind eventually, but for me, I heard those lines so many times while editing it. As I said at the end of the anime prologue video that I made, I learned a lot about audio while making it. How important panning is to know what character is speaking. How important reverb profiles are, where you duplicate the audio and then you put reverb on it so there's actual echo, so it sounds like the voice is being said in the scene as opposed to being said in an audio booth. I tried to keep the video as close to the original as possible, but I did make a few changes. There's like a line, there's like a word or two that's different in different places, or like when the guard gets shot, Michael originally goes, shit you didn't have to do that. When I had, I made it so the line actually was, shit, you didn't have to do that. So you hear the voice actor say shit as opposed to the Michael line where he kind of just stutters over shit so you barely hear it. Because the mouth movements actually go shit, but the original Michael, Ned Luke, sorry, Ned Luke doesn't say the actual line. There's two examples of that. Never before did I have a need to so specifically analyze who was saying what, you know. How long did it take for the big projects? It's hard to say because I spent a lot of time waiting for lines to be done and even when the lines were submitted, it wasn't a project that I was super keen to work on. Both because of how difficult it was and like when I know I can't complete a project in a day, I'm less motivated to do it. Especially when this is a new project and I was uncertain about it, I don't know how well it's going to go and stuff and it wasn't a pressing thing, like there was no time sensitivity to it. I could release it now, I could release it a year from now. Whenever there was anything that was a pressing concern, this project was pushed to the side. It's not as though I spent literally months worth of time on it, but I started working on it back in July. So it's November now, July was when I first asked for lines to be done, I think. Where did the idea come from? So in one of my speed runs, we were in Prologue and someone donated, ooh woo, what's this, local resistance, because Michael says in Prologue, what's this, local resistance? And I was like, oh, that's funny. I always hear that now whenever Michael says that line. And that became a running joke that every single time we were there, it would say, like I would think that I would say it or whatever. So then I decided that I would get someone to say that line in a cutesy anime voice and I would make it into a donation sound. And the submissions I got, some of them were okay, but they weren't good enough to use. And I think that's what led to me writing down my notepad, my ideas thing, where I was like, make all of Prologue into anime voices. And then it sat there for a long time and then just one day I had nothing going on, I wasn't doing anything productive and I was looking, I'm like, oh, you know what, I'll send off the scripts that I took from the internet and see what it cost me or see if a person is willing to do it. And it turns out using the scripts that I downloaded from the internet ended up causing me problems because it wasn't a perfect script. It had many different errors in it. So 80% of it was correct, but then I had to go back and give her additional words to do. And even then, I think it took like five attempts of getting her to re-say lines or changing certain things about the original script before it was perfect for the project. You saw the horrible thing that I uploaded? I honestly like it. I call it cursed because it is kind of cursed and that was the point, but I am quite proud of my work. I think I did a good job. It pains me that, like, the reason why I showed the timeline is to communicate the difficulty of the project. It wasn't easy. There's at least, I say 50 times where I looked at it and went, how the fuck am I going to solve this? What does cursed mean? It doesn't mean bad necessarily, but like this shouldn't exist kind of thing. It's something that is wrong. The off-putting is a good way of putting it, yeah. Like there was a time while working on the project where it did feel weird to work on it, especially when like, like when I showed a bit of it on stream once where I had to go through a bunch of lines where it was just fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. This is so weird because like I would have to listen to like one of the lines over and over again because there's multiple things to pick the best ones. Now that I have the prologue project, it would actually be fairly simple to substitute other lines in there. I could do it all myself with my own voice. I don't think it'll be as popular though. I thought it was just going to be a quick meme and it turned out to be a much bigger project. It was interesting to work on, but I don't think I'm going to do it again, especially because it hasn't done all that well. Every indication would suggest it would do well, but it didn't. It is somewhat disheartening that I can upload a 30 second clip to my clip channel and it can get 1.5 million views, but I can work on a video for months and put it on my main channel and it gets 100,000. I'm very happy with how that video turned out. I'm very proud of the work that I did. |
| 04. January 2020 | My Any% PB being demonetized | My Any% PB being demonetized. My Any% run got demonetized. I was going through and unlisting some of my other my older runs that I don't get many views or whatever. I saw my older Any% run was making like 50 bucks a month I'm like oh I'm surprised people still watch my older Any% run and then I look at my new one and it's making like zero dollars I'm like what? Apparently it was demonetized a long time ago and I requested a manual review and it was it was confirmed not advertiser friendly by a by human but YouTube outsources all of their human review whatever to like random countries where they can pay people pennies on the dollar right and so you can guarantee that some guidelines like oh if there's a one of those firearms in the video it should be demonetized and so some humans looks at the video of Any% and gone oh oh he's using a gun demonetized and that's that you know you can't review again my fear |
| 23. January 2021 | My Australian ancestors. | My Australian ancestors. Hey Matt, what crime do you think your ancestors committed to be moved to Australia? Many of the first settlers of Australia weren't criminals. At least not in the traditional sense. As in like, a lot of them were political prisoners. People who, you know, they just caused trouble politically or whatever and so the current establishment wanted to chuck them somewhere they wouldn't cause any trouble. A lot of others were free settlers or whatever. People who, you know, weren't doing well back there and so they're like, fuck it, we'll go to the new world and maybe we'll get off, make a fortune or whatever, you know, that kind of stuff. People who are just looking for a new life. Even if you can tie your ancestry back to the first settlers, you aren't necessarily going to have a criminal as your ancestor. And even if you did, it wouldn't necessarily be a crime that you would think much of. Oh yeah, hunting in a rich deuce bag is what's being in debt. That kind of stuff, you know. I'm pretty sure they didn't stick like murderers and stuff on the boats. Because then you're months at sea. Probably having violent criminals would be not something that the sailors and stuff would particularly want. |
| 19. January 2022 | My Chat being cringe when I raided a female streamer. | Being cringe when I raided a female streamer. A raid on Twitch being a thing where all your viewers are automatically put in another person's channel. So yesterday, I raided Fasfy, who is a female streamer, and there was like five or six people who are super goddamn cringe. Like, even if you have hundreds of people just being chill, when you have five or six people saying really cringe shit, it stands out so fucking badly. Like, I cringe so much that I had to ban them from my channel. I guess I haven't raided that many female streamers in my time on Twitch. I mean, there's not that many around, and I don't really know that many people, so. It's a weird experience. Yesterday, you mean last year? Yes. Technically, it was in the year 2021. |
| 30. November 2020 | My Collaboration With Sonny Evans | My collaboration with Sonny Evans. For those who didn't see the tweet, I did a collab with Sonny Evans off stream. It was very fun. He seems like a very nice guy. Hope the video he makes is good. I'll make one as well. He played like two and a half hours, Cops and Crooks, his series, which is a great series. Apparently he worked as an accountant or in some capacity like that and he quit his job to do YouTube because he got successful at Evan. |
| 27. February 2021 | My Current Rank On Twitch | My current rank on Twitch. Do I consider myself successful? I am in the top 0.01% of streamers on Twitch, and last I checked my rank was 1012. So yes. The reason I know what my rank is, is because as I said before, I was watching at least the first part of Ludwig's little presentation about how to be successful online. Or how to be successful as a live streamer rather. And he pointed out that his ranking was 46. And so I looked up in the same place and my ranking was 1014. |
| 07. May 2021 | My Dark Souls speedrun Videos | My Dark Souls speedrun videos. No one watched that damned Dark Souls video though. I like to think that Sure, not many people are gonna watch the Dark Souls speedruns, but like there's some value there You know some people will some people will like them and years from now People will be like oh what Darkwrapper uploaded his Dark Souls ones. Oh, that's nice, and then you watch them There's some funny jokes in there Someone was like is there some way that I can watch the unedited ones and no, but you wouldn't want to because I was I Less made an effort to be like engaging during the streams I Didn't make many jokes The edited version contains, you know nights absent of anything of value in those ones small tip for streamers making content for you |
| 18. October 2021 | My Diablo 2 Sponsored Stream | My Diablo 2 sponsored stream. I expected more pushback for the Diablo stream to be honest considering Blizzard's current are woes. Woes is the wrong word. Legal stuff. It's fun to play it though. And I heard people actually, so I was just sponsored to do the stream and they wanted me to as well make a small clip to put on Twitter. I had no idea what I wanted to do for the clip for Twitter. Like it was just meant to be 60 seconds or something and I'm like, I don't know what 60 seconds of that three and a half hour stream am I gonna put on Twitter? And so in the process of making the clip, I just made a whole YouTube video. Like, and I find it pretty funny, the video that I made. But I felt really bad making it because the two days I spent making it I could have spent, you know, working on Passive. Which I have started, but I could be two days ahead on that, you know. |
| 14. September 2021 | My Experiance Getting Vaccinated | So I drove my car for the first time today chat. Drove it to get the COVID vaccine, the first one, Pfizer, after so goddamn long of it not being available. And it's funny, I got lucky because a new vaccination center opened up a week ago, and that was the only reason why I was able to get in at all, because everywhere else, it was like a wait of like two months or something, it's that booked out. But this one, just because it had opened up, not a lot of people knew about it, and so it was filling up fast, and so I got in, booked an appointment two days ago. So I set myself double the time necessary to get to my destination on time, and I only just barely made it, because I made two wrong turns. I ended up in this tunnel for 10 kilometers with no exit. I was like, I had no idea there were tunnels like this long in my region. But surprisingly getting there, like it was very well set up, although the woman who I talked to first, she was like, oh, you need to use the app on your phone. I'm like, what app on my phone? She's like, oh, you don't have the app on your phone? It's been around for like a year, like everyone has the app on their phone. I'm like, I don't, I haven't been out of my house in like two years. She's like, oh, hi. And so I just need to scan a QR code or something, can it immediately, like these QR codes are great, like you put your camera on it, you click it, and then it brings you to this website, and I download the app and I sign in or whatever. Everyone at this place is distance six by six feet or six meters or whatever the hell it is. Everyone gets their own little waiting booth in which a woman comes around and like, even when I was giving my ID, they wouldn't touch the ID. They have these little trays in front of them and you put your Medicare card and your driver's license in front of them and they'll read them and then type in the details and stuff. Like, there was the least human contact possible for everyone. It was great. Everyone was nice and at the end, there was a bunch of chocolates. And they, I don't know if they said, take as many as you want. I think they said take some and so I took like four because they were like, there was lint chocolates, they were great chocolates. And then like, there was nothing suggesting you could only take one. Sorry. Why my newest? |
| 14. September 2021 | My Experience Getting Vaccinated | So I drove my car for the first time today chat. Drove it to get the COVID vaccine, the first one, Pfizer, after so goddamn long of it not being available. And it's funny, I got lucky because a new vaccination center opened up a week ago, and that was the only reason why I was able to get in at all, because everywhere else, it was like a wait of like two months or something, it's that booked out. But this one, just because it had opened up, not a lot of people knew about it, and so it was filling up fast, and so I got in, booked an appointment two days ago. So I set myself double the time necessary to get to my destination on time, and I only just barely made it, because I made two wrong turns. I ended up in this tunnel for 10 kilometers with no exit. I was like, I had no idea there were tunnels like this long in my region. But surprisingly getting there, like it was very well set up, although the woman who I talked to first, she was like, oh, you need to use the app on your phone. I'm like, what app on my phone? She's like, oh, you don't have the app on your phone? It's been around for like a year, like everyone has the app on their phone. I'm like, I don't, I haven't been out of my house in like two years. She's like, oh, hi. And so I just need to scan a QR code or something, can it immediately, like these QR codes are great, like you put your camera on it, you click it, and then it brings you to this website, and I download the app and I sign in or whatever. Everyone at this place is distance six by six feet or six meters or whatever the hell it is. Everyone gets their own little waiting booth in which a woman comes around and like, even when I was giving my ID, they wouldn't touch the ID. They have these little trays in front of them and you put your Medicare card and your driver's license in front of them and they'll read them and then type in the details and stuff. Like, there was the least human contact possible for everyone. It was great. Everyone was nice and at the end, there was a bunch of chocolates. And they, I don't know if they said, take as many as you want. I think they said take some and so I took like four because they were like, there was lint chocolates, they were great chocolates. And then like, there was nothing suggesting you could only take one. Sorry. Why my newest? |
| 22. January 2022 | My Experiences with recreational drugs | My experiences with drugs. What are your experiences of drugs like weed or alcohol and what do you think of them? So the hardest drug that I've ever had, I think I've had E once. I took something. I knew what it was at the time, it's just been so many years that I've forgotten. I was in the city one night and a friend of mine and his brother, we took some together. And I just had boundless energy. The meme. E. I have boundless energy, but I hated not releasing the energy. So like, I just spent a lot of time dancing. I was very happy, very jovial. My emotions were a mess though. I remember crying, I can't even remember what, and then just immediately forgetting about it. I just, I was like, what do you mean I was crying? What? You crazy? Oh, I was crying? But I danced more than I've ever danced in the entirety of my life. You could just experience the music, it was crazy. But the next morning, it was the worst feeling. By morning, I mean like, probably like 9am or something, like I didn't sleep. And so we were going home from the city at like 9am on buses or something. And I felt so run down. And I think I did some stupid shit that I probably repressed or something, I'm not sure. But like, I'd never do it again. It was an interesting experience, but probably in the context that I did it, it probably made it even worse. It's not a responsible thing to do, it's a waste of money. And I don't think it was a valuable experience. Like if you said to me, would you go back and not do it, I'd say yeah, I don't think I gained anything from it. As far as weed is concerned, I've probably smoked weed maybe half a dozen times in my life. And never to like an insane degree. I remember once I was over at my friend's house, I think for his birthday, and we smoked a bit of weed. I remember there were some hash cookies, right? And because they were cookies, the amount of time it took for the drugs to take effect was quite a while. And my friend Joel, he was like, his cookies aren't doing shit. And he eats like two dozen cookies, like a lot of cookies. Like my friend who made them came back, he's like, fuck man, how many cookies did you eat? And he's like, I don't know, a dozen? He's like, that's not good, man. And he was responsive, but like zonked out of his mind for the entire night. He never left the chair. There's certainly been times in my life where at parties I've had alcohol and weed and been very worse for wear in the morning. But as far as weed is concerned, I've never really enjoyed it. Interesting experience, but nothing that I'd write home about, you know? I've said before, like if weed was legal, I would probably smoke weed on occasion, because I think weed is... At least it makes me feel better in the morning than alcohol. In regards to alcohol, I drunk fairly frequently past 18, maybe even a little bit before that sometimes, as you do when you're a kid. Every weekend or second weekend, you go out for a couple of drinks or something. I used to go to the city sometimes. I wasn't a particularly social person, but I had like a handful of friends that I would go with and we'd get drunk and just screw around. It's not like we went there and like hooked up with chicks or something, because that's just... I'm not good at that kind of thing. We just would dance in like Chinese laundry or something, you know? But yeah, I've had some fun with alcohol, but at the end of the day, alcohol was just an excuse to lower my inhibitions, to feel comfortable around people. It was a means to an end. I don't love alcohol. I don't drink alone. In my opinion, you should never drink alone. It's a waste of alcohol and just make it... |
| 09. February 2023 | My Fact and Glitches series fueling GTA 5 Shorts Empire | My Facts and Glitches series fueling GT5 Shorts empire. I assume because now Shorts are gonna be making some money, Nord has decided to throw his hat into the ring of watching my Facts and Glitches videos and recreating them as Shorts. Interestingly, they got a lot of dislikes. There are no negative comments, and of course I'm muted. You absolutely lazy scumbasted, my viewers are not fond of your ego, my dude. But like obviously he has had some do well, like this one here for example. It just depends if they hit a more mainstream audience I suppose. How does he mentally do this stuff to himself? I don't get it. There's no way he has any passion for this kind of stuff. I know it's just for kids, and maybe it like, what, compartmentalize your mind or something, I'm not sure. But it just seems so lame. Money? Yeah, yeah, money, true. You still gotta have some mental fortitude to be able to deal with creating such utter garbage. Especially when you steal it from people. To reiterate for the thousandth time, I'm aware and do not think I should be able to own Facts and Glitches in GTA V. I merely don't like the idea of a person watching my videos and recreating them without even crediting me. And just using me as a shortcut to avoid doing actual work. Like even when you write an essay in high school, they expect you to credit and reference where you got your material from. I just find it kind of scummy. Twitter cuts off free API access. So Twitter has made an update that has pissed off a lot of people. Unsurprisingly. From Twitter Dev. Starting February 9th, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both version 2 and version 1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead. I've seen like automated bots that just post Fox pictures that people enjoy being like, well, I guess I'm shut down now and there's nothing I can do. So another guy being like, yes, I was using Twitter. |
| 19. January 2022 | My Far Cry 6 stream. | It's crazy. My Far Cry 6 stream. I streamed the new Far Cry as a sponsored thing. I do not think Ubisoft was happy with me because I had tech issues that were likely related to my overclock. I mean in my defense, it's not my fault that if you overclock your GPU it has issues with the game, but you know, I mean it's what any enthusiast does. You have the same tech issues, yeah, because you probably overclock your GPU like it came out later that happened to a lot of people.Gang pi.... |
| 19. January 2022 | My FarCry 6 stream. | It's crazy. My Far Cry 6 stream. I streamed the new Far Cry as a sponsored thing. I do not think Ubisoft was happy with me because I had tech issues that were likely related to my overclock. I mean in my defense, it's not my fault that if you overclock your GPU it has issues with the game, but you know, I mean it's what any enthusiast does. You have the same tech issues, yeah, because you probably overclock your GPU like it came out later that happened to a lot of people.... |
| 12. May 2021 | My Favourite GTA Clone | My favorite GTA clone. I think Watch Dogs 1 currently is still my favorite GTA clone And no, I'm not saying it's a ripoff of GTA. It's like it's it's talking about a particular type of game Do you guys recall any other GTA clones that I played that are equally as good? I liked my sleeping dogs video that I made. I made that one. It was it was quite I liked it. I was so sick of everyone failing with that footage. I'm like no I'm doing it. I'm sick of it I can't just add on to what people have sent me I have to do it from scratch and so I did it Because it wasn't that much footage, but maybe I'll go back and play sleeping dogs again. Oh Simpsons hit and run Yeah, it was a good game except the final mission didn't like that Other than Simpsons other than the final mission Simpsons and run is a damn solid game And I think it yeah, I'd say it even holds up still today I mean you have to like the Simpsons don't get me wrong like it's not a game changer or something, but it's a Fun little romp in the in the childhood. You know am I gonna do a reborn GTA 4 and San Andreas potentially eventually I never did just a vanilla No, I did I is there a vanilla GTA 3 and then a GTA 3 reborn? I think there is right Yeah, so there's GTA so yeah, it's GTA 3 GTA 3 reborn GTA Vice City GTA Vice City reborn And so yeah, I guess I'll do it with SA and GTA 4 one day But like the thing with playing a game again the longer you wait before playing it again the better your next experience is gonna Be because you forget more about the game in reality You could just spend your entire life playing the same games But just keep them a decade apart and you you probably have just as much fun Yeah, which in a way is sad. I hate that you forget things in life Sometimes you want to say man. I wish I could experience this again for the first time But in reality what you actually want is you want more of that thing you want that same experience again that you had with that thing You don't experience that thing again. You want something just as good. I feel like Forgetting something that you valued and treasured or even just a story it kind of cheapens the experience Yeah, total control of your memory like because like obviously you wouldn't want to remember everything perfectly it'd be hell You'd never be able to forget things that scar you or Things that make you feel terrible or you'd every single mistake you ever made would be perfectly etched into your brain in 8k That would not be a fun experience like if you had to pick between only remembering the important stuff and Remembering literally everything you'd go with only the important stuff |
| 09. July 2022 | My Forever Tangled Headset | How much I've done for the game, all of us really. My forever tangled headset. Trying to untangle my bleep headset. I love this headset, but the cable is just so goddamn bad. What headset? It's like a $20 headset that looks like it's from like 2007. It's got like the amazing sound quality for the price. And I get comments all the time like, man, you've got so much money. Why don't you buy a better headset? I'm like, this is the best headset that exists. There's no better headset than this. Have you tried another headset? Oh, yeah, yeah. It's the Koss CS, no, KSC75. It's on ear, lightweight, has no band over the top of my head. It's open back and like no other headset in existence has all these qualities. Do you not like the like overhead one? No, I don't. And I don't like the noise canceling things that go over your ears and shit. And like the the headsets that you get these days, like you could you could brain some with them. They're like basically like a weapon. They're just so goddamn heavy and shit. I hate it. Yeah, of course, I do have like a I have to keep a supply of them like I buy them in bulk. I get like five pairs because I break the cable so easily. I've definitely gone to at least 15 pairs in my career. I'm thinking about getting out another set of these headphones just because of how tangled this fucking cable is. Do it. I feel like I'm going to be like tinkering with them the entire fucking time if I don't. No, no, no, it's fine. I'll stop. It's fine. I let chat freak out. |
| 03. June 2020 | My Fortnite experience | Play Fortnite for one stream. I played a lot of Fortnite back in the day people. I was an expert at Fortnite I was like ninjas number one guy. I was like, I don't know. No, I did play a lot of Fortnite I was even in tournaments that I was paid to be in Nvidia invited me to two different tournaments. I think I was paid 400 USD per tournament. That's just how good I was man. They had to have me there I did get paid that 400 400 bucks per tournament. That isn't a joke. I just mean I it wasn't because I was good It's because I had a couple hundred viewers and they wanted some publicity and 400 bucks in Nvidia is fucking nothing. I am |
| 12. August 2020 | My GTA playtime in 2020 | My GTA 5 playtime in 2020. I don't play GTA 5 every day anymore. I play in the last five years. 2020 might be the time I played GTA 5 the least. And it isn't to say I haven't played heaps of GTA 5. It's simply that I play other games and I spend a lot of time editing and stuff these days. I don't have the ability to throw myself at this game like I used to. |
| 12. December 2021 | My GoXLR is a bit weird | My GoXLR is a bit weird. A GoXLR being a device that works as a mixer that basically takes new audio to your PC. If anyone has any connections with... Who are these guys again? The people who make GoXLR. Whenever an alert goes off, it goes ehhhh and then plays the alert in my earphones. Doesn't make that sound for you, so I've just learned to live with it. But it is kind of annoying. It's like da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. So I can predict and tell you for certain just before an alert comes through because it makes an annoying sound in my ears. Which is, you know, understandably not ideal. I even bought a second one and it still does it. I even bought another USB cable and I've tried different headphones. Still does it. |
| 31. October 2020 | My Highschool Life. | My high school life. Was school a breeze for me? School was not, hmm, it's hard to remember back that far. I know I got some award in primary school for like excellence or aptitude or something, I don't know. All I can remember is that I wasn't there to get the award because I was doing some task or something. So I got to come in like by myself later on in the ceremony and get it just me and get an award. In high school, I barely tried and I just passed everything with ease but I never went for like high marks, I just passed. You know, I just did not give a shit. After year 10, I was just so clocked out. I think for a significant amount of year 10, year 11, I ditched school, especially because I live really close to school and it really hurt my ability to do well. It doesn't matter if you're good at problem solving or whatever, right? Or you want everyone to call an intelligence. If you don't know things, you can't give the correct answers. Of course I passed high school and I did okay. I remember it dawned on me how poorly I performed when I went to a career counselor after high school and they, and she gave me aptitude tests and she said outright, yeah, you massively underperformed. The grades that you got is not what you'd expect given your results on this test. And I'm like, ah, dang. It affected me like emotionally. I was like, man, I legitimately just didn't try. Maybe that's why I tried so hard today, I don't know. But yeah, I had a lot of emotional issues in high school. Going into high school, my parents divorced. So I was probably 12. In the first year of high school, I was picked on a great deal by other kids in the year. You know how kids do where one kid gets picked on because they're all kind of insecure and they wanna fit in. So even kids who don't wanna do it, they kind of join in. I was that kid who got kind of bullied. I remember moving and sitting my chair against like a side wall thing that wasn't actually a desk, but I just wanted to be away from the kids I was meant to be sitting with. And the teacher forced me to move back. And I fucking hated that teacher so much. I was like, you can't recognize how much hell they're putting me through. And you're forcing me back to sit with them. It's fucking awful. And this was off my parents' divorce. It was even worse, I think, because when I went into high school, it was like 60, 70% of the grade came from my primary school. But all of my friends, like all of them, were in the same class without me. So I was just kind of alone, not very good at making friends. And I happened to be sitting with the biggest dicks in the fucking school. But as things go on, like, you know, people get more settled, they mature a bit more. I wasn't picked on for my entire high school life. Moving into year eight and nine, and of course still having friends from primary school, it wasn't too bad. But I had terrible acne throughout the entirety of high school. And I was on the younger side. You know how you can go to kindergarten, like when you're five or something, but you can be like five in 364 days, or five in one day. And I was on the younger side. So like I was one of the last kids who can drink, and one last kids who can drive. And my acne, of course, was terrible, as they all throughout high school. Like it was like the last year of high school that made my acne kind of got a little bit better. And all that stuff affects you emotionally. Like my acne was really fucking bad. I remember for a while, like moving my face hurt, because I had that much fucking acne. And all this greatly impacted my ability to have a high opinion of myself or whatever. A part of the reason I ditched school was just because I didn't want to be around people or people to see me. It was a terrible time, terrible time in my life. And looking back, the friends that I had, largely just those I carried over from primary school, because I didn't know how to make new friends. The new friends that I did make, I made through other people, right? They weren't the best sort of people for me to be with. I didn't have similar interests to them. No, I can't say I particularly enjoyed high school. There's this thing, Veritasium mentions it recently in his video about luck and success. Very good video, highly recommend watching it. Where he talks about a study that looks at people who get accepted into hockey teams. The kids who are born in particular months are like 40% more likely to get accepted. And the reason for this is, while it's like the age brackets, you're 15, whatever you're in this bracket, that the year of deviance and how long those kids have been alive and develop or whatever, influences whether that kid is more or less likely to be accepted in the team, regardless of how much they work. Just having that extra year of, or less than a year, but that amount of growth is important. Like I've always wondered what would have happened had I been born a few months later or something, so that my brain would have been more developed moving into those years. Just that extra six months, seven months, eight months, nine months, whatever. I think I would have loved to have seen what my life would have been like if I wasn't one of the younger kids in the year. |
| 02. July 2021 | My Hyperx Alloy Origins Core - Ten keyless | My HyperX Alloy Origins Core 10 Keyless Keyboard. Oh, this HyperX keyboard that I have, by the way, they're 10 keyless. Fucking amazing. Guess what? Not a single key, but a single one had keyboard chatter. Keyboard chatter being when you press a button, a double strokes and press the button twice, even though you've only pressed it once. Exact same switches as Logitech, but look at that. No problems with the board. Ain't that crazy? This board is like half the price of the Logitech board. Infinitely better designed and the keys are not 30 percent glitched. Crazy. Which more is it? I can't remember what it's called, man. I really can't. It's like, Alloy Assign, can someone remember what my board is called? Also great is that the cable is on its side, so it doesn't wedge against my wall. I still don't love where the cable is. It's very good for my use case, though, but I definitely would have preferred it if it was under the board. But, you know, got almost everything I want in this keyboard. |
| 02. July 2021 | My Hyperx Alloy Origins Core - Tenkeyless | My HyperX Alloy Origins Core 10 Keyless Keyboard. Oh, this HyperX keyboard that I have, by the way, they're 10 keyless. Fucking amazing. Guess what? Not a single key, but a single one had keyboard chatter. Keyboard chatter being when you press a button, a double strokes and press the button twice, even though you've only pressed it once. Exact same switches as Logitech, but look at that. No problems with the board. Ain't that crazy? This board is like half the price of the Logitech board. Infinitely better designed and the keys are not 30 percent glitched. Crazy. Which more is it? I can't remember what it's called, man. I really can't. It's like, Alloy Assign, can someone remember what my board is called? Also great is that the cable is on its side, so it doesn't wedge against my wall. I still don't love where the cable is. It's very good for my use case, though, but I definitely would have preferred it if it was under the board. But, you know, got almost everything I want in this keyboard. |
| 18. January 2023 | My Ins and Outs of making a Twitch Stream into a YouTube Video. | The in and outs of making a Twitch stream into a YouTube video. Durn Noob Killer on the Discord asks, How do you determine that you will put something in a YouTube video from your Twitch streams? Is it based on what you think is funny attaining to you, or what you think will be received better by your audience? It depends whether you're asking about, like, the overarching stream, or whether you're asking about, like, what from a stream do I put into a video. For the first question, everything I stream is streamed with the purpose of it becoming a YouTube video. At least 90% of the time. To the other question, I often say this to new editors. As the rule of thumb asks, is what I have included interesting or funny by itself? If no, is it necessary for something else to be funny or interesting? If no, why is it there? And you need a very good answer to that question. Because obviously there's gonna be slow moments, or just dumps of information to make other things make sense. You can't just have rapid fire cuts to particular things without context, but at the same time, you don't want anything to drag too long. I got an edit from someone recently who cut like an hour and 50 minutes down to like an hour, and half of it can just be cut out. Like it's meaningless stuff. Some people fall into this trap when they're cutting down VODs, by that I mean live stream footage. They fall into the trap of making an abridgment of the stream, as opposed to trying to make a YouTube video. So if you go to the bathroom at some point, that's in there to some degree. Like you cut it down, but that's a part of the stream, so you're gonna keep it in. If you wait around for five minutes with nothing happening, some of that's kept in because that was what happened in the stream. When you could just cut that entire section out completely. You could do things for 10 minutes that, sure you did those things for 10 minutes, but none of that's interesting. It should be cut out. But people falling into this abridgment trap will just condense that down. Rather than removing it, like actually assessing whether it should be kept in the video. Hope that helps. |
| 10. July 2020 | My Justification To Go To Pax and Feeling A Bit Blue | bit blue. It almost doesn't matter what happens at PAX, it'll always still be the best move for me because I know myself, if I didn't come here, I would have sat at home and been like, man, I would have had so much fun at PAX, it would have been an amazing time, I would have elevated PAX in my mind to the most amazing experience of all time and I would have regretted every moment of not being here. Being here, like PAX itself, isn't super appealing to me. At the end of the day, PAX, a significant portion of it is people paying money to have products advertised to them. The panels are probably the one thing that's separate from that. I guess maybe a lot of people who go to PAX go for the panels and so like the main floor is like the thing you do in between the panels. But I haven't done effectively anything here. The only thing, there's two things I've enjoyed. One, meeting you guys because never underestimate the feeling of a person being happy to see you. Wonderful feeling. Something I haven't got to experience a lot in my life. So I'm going, oh my god, you're that guy and I'm happy to see you. It's like, oh really, that's great. I was hoping that going away to PAX would have me come back cheery and bright and ready to speed run and stuff. I'm totally ready to speed run but I'm not sure that this trip has made me sunny and happy necessarily. Like I've always said, people ask me, who is your favourite character in GTA V? And I always say Michael because I resonate with Michael in his not knowing what makes him happy. It would be very interesting to have a button that would tell me the best move next that would make me as happy as possible without hurting other people or what have you. Sometimes stuff as simple as going to get gross makes you feel better after denying to go outside for hours. I like achieving effectively any goal. When I'm having a really bad day, I'll clean my room. I'll get to the end of the day and go, well, I at least did some today. I cleaned my room. And you can look around and you can see the results of your existence of that day. You can see the fruits of your labour immediately. You had things in disarray and now they are ordered and you're like, well, that's something. |
| 08. November 2021 | My Mario Party video did well despite minimal editing | My Mario Party video did well despite minimal editing. I am so happy that in two days My Mario Party video got some like 90k views Like it was worth uploading even though um, it's not worth editing, you know all I did was just edit out the like crash and And the beginning I made it shorter because like once you get a person into a video They're more likely to stay, you know But if the beginning is really slow and doesn't jump in immediately or whatever they can click off far easier |
| 21. November 2020 | My Mouse Is Impressively Dirty | My mouse is impressively dirty. I need a new mouse. So I think it was a clip from Shroud. There's a clip from Shroud where he's like, you can use this thing to take off these keycaps off your keyboard, but I just buy a new keyboard or something. I don't think I'm in that position. I would never waste money just buying a random mouse. But maybe I said Logitech, like, hey, my mouse has stopped working, can you send me another one? Because I don't want to bother cleaning it. It's defective, like, it's just, it's catching too much dirt and grime and stuff. It's not that dirty, but I need to give it one serve with a rag or something. Need a mouse? Get a cat and catch one? Ha ha. |
| 01. August 2020 | My Netflix error | My Netflix era. I accidentally was paying for three, no, two copies of Netflix for three months. I have two primary email addresses that I use, both variations of Dark Viper, which is probably not a surprise to you. And I guess I signed up for Netflix to watch something, and then I just forgot that I had signed up for Netflix, so then I just used my other account to sign up for Netflix. And I look at my finances quarterly so that I can put them all together to send off to my accountant. I'm like, why the fuck am I paying so much money for Netflix? And so just, I'm sure I could contact them and try to get the money back, it's just like, just an error, I guess. I was double the chilling of Netflix. |
| 19. January 2022 | My New Year’s resolutions. | My New Year's resolutions. My New Year's resolutions, care less about what other creators are doing, and stop complaining about react content, and just make react content. Actually, I don't think I'm going to be able to do that. I don't think I'm going to be able to make myself become that immoral. But little bits. Do more media share. Put a toe over that immoral line, as opposed to, you know, just directly ripping off other people's videos and uploading them to a YouTube channel. Don't think I can do that, but that toe over the line thing, I'm gonna give that a go. You know, maybe a few years down the line, I'll become even less moral, and I can start murdering people. It's like, that's the progression, right? You go from reactor to literal murder. Seems the logical progression. In New Year's resolutions, be a less good person. Get corrupted by the system. More so than I already have. Oh, you want me to show you fireworks? Fireworks. Wow! And people, like, all along here, all along here, all along here, and stuff, watching all this stuff. I'm pretty sure I've been for New Year's once or twice in my life. Then it's all over. And the people are like, wow, yeah! My chat... |
| 12. December 2021 | My Non-response response videos | I've created them. My non-response response videos. Some of you would have been there for the stream, but there was a video that I watched that was so wrong, impressively wrong, that it kind of drove me mad for a few days. But I didn't want to start drama by responding to the video directly, so I thought to myself, what do I really care most about? I don't give a shit if the creator themselves knows what's true. But what I care about is that the correct information should be out there somewhere. And so what I'm basically doing is whenever I have free time, and by that I mean I can't bring myself to work on something that's more important, or I need to stay up later of a day and move my sleeping pattern, I'm going to make a video where a part of that video is going to respond to some aspect of that video that I watch. Even if I'm going to reach less people, even if more people will have been misled by the original video, at least I would have done my part in the world to make the world a better place. I sometimes feel bad that a lot of the content that I make isn't as informative and helpful as my content was in the past. Because keep in mind, remember when I first started out, it was basically social commentary and philosophy and stuff, trying to both learn about the world myself, but also give people my perspective on stuff to help their lives. I went into psychology because I thought I would be able to help myself and others with that knowledge. And moving into this job that I do now, sure I help people in a way with entertainment and stuff, but it's not that kind of direct improvement of people's lives that I always hoped I would have at some point, you know? And so making small videos like this, they won't reach that many people. And of course, because I make them when I'm very tired, they're not even going to be that great. But at least I'll have done something. That was Thing Akeducta Workshop about friendOP the Holocaust twelfth cigarette. Absolutely Scottish. |
| 14. August 2022 | My PC ruining my audio quality. | My PC ruining my audio quality! Oh, one thing I realized yesterday chat, is I had moved my PC to be like up and level with my desk, looked far better, but I realized that put it the fans close to my microphone. And so in the background of some of my videos you could hear But only when there's like no music and no game whatever, but it's there. So I've now moved my computer again to be down on the ground, and I've got like, stuff in the way. So there's like a barrier between me, my microphone, and my PC. |
| 27. February 2021 | My Plans For After No Damage Runs | My plans for after no damage runs. There's just so many things that I plan to do when this is over. Do you know how many modded speedruns I'm gonna do chat? So many. I may even make a section from on my discord suggestions for mods that I can apply to my speedruns that won't jeopardize my ability to to learn and become better at the route. It will still be interesting to watch. A lot of them might be just cosmetic changes. Yeah I want to do stuff like that, Wolf, where every single character in the game is one particular character. I asked Pongo if it would be an easy thing to do and he's like, yeah I'm probably adorable. I think that'd be a good effect for chaos as well honestly. Like with chaos you can force the mod to apply one effect permanently. So any effect that's already in chaos I can do a full run with. It's a really versatile mod. Every character is Franklin and Lamar and the only dialogue anyone says is variations of the when he gets insulted. Yeah things like Quake FOV run I think would impact my ability to learn the speedrun, you know? Kif-lam. Yeah every character just says Kif-lam. Kif-lam, Kif-lam, Kif-lam, Kif-lam. Oh and listen you are only one. That'd be awesome. Everything black and white. That'd be sick. But this is the kind of stuff I've been thinking about for months now. Always expecting that I'd succeed and end up failing. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 23. July 2022 | My Pokemon memorization video | My Pokemon memorization video. Did you guys like my Pokemon video? Very off-brand I think. How many of the kids today even know a regional 131 Pokemon? I can't believe I didn't get Poliwhirl and Poliwrath. There were a handful at the end where I was like, oh, of course What? |
| 15. November 2020 | My Rambles Being Out of Date | with in gaming is that my rambles being out of date. The annoying thing about my rambling series is that it's always really out of date, because most of the rambles these days come from Oko, and it usually takes like a month for Oko to be fully processed or whatever. Certainly a lot of the commentary is somewhat either timeless or not time sensitive, so it's a topic that even after a month will still be somewhat relevant, but especially when it comes to politics or any current event thing, especially developing stories, the ramblings become less relevant or less interesting to listen to, because they've been said without the information that's come out for the last month. Of course the commentary on finite stories is in like it's an event that's occurred that there is nothing that develops on it, while that commentary will still be relevant, and potentially correct or incorrect or whatever the hell it will be, by that point most people will have heard everyone speak on that topic, so it's potentially less interesting, but there's not much that can be done about that. |
| 10. August 2022 | My Rambles titles are going to change. | My Rambles titles are going to change. So I found out a lot of people will click on to the Rambles videos and then just pick particular topics that look interesting and then click off the video. I was unaware this was happening or at the very least I assumed that this would be a tiny tiny man appeal but a lot of people said this was the case. And so now I realize in the same way that I have to think of somewhat sensational titles for videos I've got to think of somewhat sensational titles for Inside the Rambles because it can be a great topic but people look at the title of the topic and go oh that doesn't look interesting and not watch it. Like I'm thinking over the years of all the cool insightful things or interesting stories that have been in Rambles but the topics were like Barry and that's it. Because it just meant to be like a little blurb to give you some taste of what's about to come up not necessarily suck you into the topic. In the future the Rambles titles internally in the video are gonna be a little bit more interesting you could say. |
| 17. December 2020 | My Reddit Recap and reaction content. | My reddit recap and reaction content. You love the reddit recap? It's easy content to make reaction content is just super easy. Anyone can do it. If you've got a personality, you can look at things on the internet and go, haha, it's funny and move on. But I know you guys enjoy it. People like, you know, people acknowledging the work that they put in and I like looking at the stuff. So it's kind of win-win. It feels less scummy because I'm responding or reacting to stuff that people have made specifically for me, you know, unlike people who, you know, release a video every day of them just looking at different subreddits or whatever. Doesn't seem as good. Shout out to Pewdiepie and his wonderful reacting to random bullshit everyday content. I think KSI does it as well. Seemly everyone does it these days. |
| 17. December 2020 | My Reddit recap and reaction content. | My reddit recap and reaction content. You love the reddit recap? It's easy content to make reaction content is just super easy. Anyone can do it. If you've got a personality, you can look at things on the internet and go, haha, it's funny and move on. But I know you guys enjoy it. People like, you know, people acknowledging the work that they put in and I like looking at the stuff. So it's kind of win-win. It feels less scummy because I'm responding or reacting to stuff that people have made specifically for me, you know, unlike people who, you know, release a video every day of them just looking at different subreddits or whatever. Doesn't seem as good. Shout out to Pewdiepie and his wonderful reacting to random bullshit everyday content. I think KSI does it as well. Seemly everyone does it these days. |
| 18. July 2022 | My Saints Row video finally released. | My Saints Row video finally released. So Saints Row released today chat on my YouTube channel because where else would it release? It's pretty good. A lot of effort clearly went into that on the part of Ayn. I didn't edit myself and it took like six plus months to do in part because the timeline was amazingly glitchy and terrible. It was one of the reasons I didn't look over it in the Adobe timeline for releasing it. There was a few things I probably would have changed if I could have made the timeline work but I was just like, ah, this is fine. That thumbnail was fine, good, because it took a long time poking and changing it ever so slightly. I was very concerned that my head wasn't gonna look okay on the body, but it was good. When did I stream Saints Row? Six months ago. I have considered ditching speed running altogether and just playing through all the GTA clones and all the games that I wanted to play on the list of games. But like speed running content is a lot easier to make. It takes far less time. Like looking at this Saints Row video, it doesn't look like it's doing crazy numbers. It's not doing terribly, but I play the new Saints Row perhaps. Let's see how Saints Row is doing. It's doing under GTA 1 numbers. That's terrible. That video is edited so good. It's got such good footage in it. Might be a slow burn though. Because with the videos that are three hours long, it sometimes takes them time to be able to watch them. Because if it's a three hour video that people will actually click on and watch for a long time, then the algorithm will always keep pushing that out. Often people will like look at a long video and be like, I'll leave that until I have time. I'll come back to it this weekend or something. You're always going to watch that one later, haven't had time. Exactly. Not as much people interest in the game maybe. I doubt that. You watched my entire Super Auto Pets video, such a great video. That's nice. Thank you, dude. And yeah, the Super Auto Pets video got like good numbers. It's got like almost 100K. For a video that's 20 hours long, that's pretty good. And so many comments were like, man, I watched like three hours of your video and now I have like 20 hours in the game. |
| 12. May 2021 | My Secret IRL Stream | My secret in real life stream. If you don't want to miss out on such things, feel free to follow me on Twitch and turn on notifications. In real life with DarkFiber? I did an in real life stream yesterday, not yesterday, the day before. I was sad and so I sat outside, we looked at the grass, and I rocked on my swing thing out there. My paddy porch swing. I had like 2,500 viewers doing that. Very flattering. What's any 4 minutes? No, no, I did like a long stream. I was out there for like an hour and 15 minutes. Yeah, I deleted the VOD afterwards. I was sad. Technically I didn't even delete the VOD. After going, doing an in real life stream on the Twitch app, it gives you the option not to save the VOD. Which I assume is just deleting it. |
| 10. July 2020 | My Third Night In Melbourne and Watching The Joker | Feeling blue chat, it might be because of the alcohol. The last two nights, drunk a lot, primarily because it was free alcohol, right? And woke up late this morning, got to PAX late, and I came back after PAX here, and I just had no desire to do anything really. Like I wish I'd gone out somewhere. Like I heard that Misfits was having a party, but I heard about it too late. I didn't know if I was gonna be able to get in, and there were limited spots on a bus, and the bus takes you to the place or something. But yeah, I don't think I would have been able to get in. Like basically, it took me like two hours to work up the desire and to get ready and to leave the house. So I left and I went to McDonald's to eat before I went. I was gonna go to this Munich bar or something for Oktoberfest, I don't know. But I realized there'd be a line there too. And I was like spur of the moment that I decided to see The Joker, because it turned out next door, what like almost, like two minutes down the road, was a cinema. And I looked up the cinema and it says, oh, you know, Joker's starting in two minutes, whatever. I was like, oh, well, I guess I'll go watch it then. But it was definitely not a good movie to watch in that mindset. That was an engrossing movie. When I first started, when the movie started, I was just thinking about like the meta of the movie and people's commentary on it. And I thought about my expectations. I'm like, oh no, it's gonna be one of those movies where the commentary around the movie is going to be in my head the entire time. Like, oh, I wonder what people thought about this. But within like 15 minutes, I was just engrossed in the movie, where the only thing that was in my head was the movie. And where was it gonna go? How much more, I didn't even look at my watch, how much longer is in the movie? Like how far is it going to go? Oh my God, that just happened. Amazingly well shot, written, acted, everything about it seemed perfect. When I reflect on the movie, it almost seems like not a lot happened, in the sense that the story, the progression of the character is so gradual that you almost think like, wait, did something, like when was the snap? When did it change? But there was no immediate change kind of thing. I don't know, it's hard to explain. But certainly the Joker in this movie is very different from any other form of Joker, to the extent where it would be weird to have Batman or like be a super genius detective guy and go up against this Joker. Because this Joker seems to be a regular dude downtrodden by society, which is not the super genius that is meant to be the Joker of the normal movies or whatever. Like I would love to see like, if they do another one with Batman, that Batman in those movies is also completely different, where he is actually a snot nose kid or something or, I don't know. Is it a 10 out of 10? I would say nine out of 10. I mean, no, I would say it's a 10 out of 10, as in there's nothing more that I can expect of the movie than what I was shown. Yeah, the statements of the people saying, oh, you know, glorifies killings and stuff, nonsense. Fucking nonsense. My justification to go to PAX and feeling a. |
| 12. May 2021 | My Uncle's Death and Dealing With Mortality | My uncle's death and dealing with mortality. I got some bad news that doesn't particularly affect you guys. My uncle died. Hadn't seen him much over the last 20 years. Maybe not that long, I don't know. Like we see him, you know, every couple of years or so. Just the memories I have of him, of him being like an unstoppable force. Huge bulky man who'd laugh at everything and red fire engines or something. He'd make me this drink. I think it was just like creaming soda and something else. I had about loved it as a kid. But I haven't seen, you know, I hadn't seen him in a long time. And I got to see him in hospital a couple of months back. And he was just so old. Not at all like I remembered him. Gray. He seems, I heard he was getting a little bit better. He had, he said to me, like he had this weird experience where he'd have delusions, but he'd know they're delusions. It's like having an angel on your shoulder talking to you and he'd know it's a delusion. He'd be like, well, this shouldn't be happening. This is weird. Am I meant to deal with this or? He said he was getting better and that was something. I'm not sure what he had. But yeah, he was in his seventies, I believe. Don't know his exact age, cause he was just older than my father. My father is 65. And that's really what hit me with my uncle's death. When I was like, man, my dad is old. I can see my dad more. I remember seeing something on TikTok where a person was like, you know, you think about your parents' age and it's like, you know, average life expectancy. And what do you see them once a year? So are you going to see your parents 10 times before they die? I was like, man, that's dark. I see my parents more than once a year. But with COVID, I don't think I saw my dad for an entire year. But certainly my father was always much healthier than my uncle. So my dad's probably got, you know, 10, 15 years left, I imagine. Sorry about that dark tone, Chan. Had an awkward decision to make because my mother texted me about it and I didn't see it until 1 a.m. And she said she couldn't stop crying, but I didn't want to wake her up. But like, if she's finally managed to get to sleep after being that drawn out, I should probably let her sleep at the same time. Like, I would like to respond to the messages, but I'm just going to respond later, I suppose. I'm getting bad signs for old age, Chan. My uncle having a bad time before he passed. My grandmother clearly not enjoying being 80, saying like, man, you never plan to be 80 and then it just happens and you don't know what to do with yourself. It's like, oh, jeez. My grandmother was sitting next to me and she says to me, oh, there's a little Esky thing here for drinks. I'm like, oh, OK, thanks, grandma. Then like a good 15 minutes later, it comes up and she's like, I didn't tell you that. I'm like, what do you mean? She's like, oh, I don't know where there's drinks outside. You know, you told me specifically that they're out there in the little Esky. She's like, oh, it's happening to my grandmother more often. She'll forget things. My mother was kind enough to buy her an iPad with like a bunch of small games on it. You know, because my grandmother, she can't even work VCR or whatever, right? She's always had my grandfather to help her out. My grandfather is five years older than her, so you potentially pass before her. She's like not self-sufficient in that way, you know? And she doesn't do enough to keep her mind sharp. Because as you get older, right, there's no real reason that your mind has to go on with you. You just need to keep learning new things. Don't get into a very simple routine. You just got to keep reading books, learning new things, learning new skills, and you won't lose a single thing. I mean, certainly you can get some sort of disease or whatever, but like your brain's a muscle. You got to work it or you lose it. How close am I with my grandparents? I have a very small family. My grandmother and grandfather on my mother's side are like the only people in my family that I really care about. Then I have like my mother's brother, his wife, and their kids, so my cousins. They I care about. If I never saw them again, I wouldn't hate this, but I would loathe hearing that they weren't doing well. As in I don't need to see them to know they're doing good. They're fine in life. We don't have a heap in common. And so when I see them, I'm like, oh, good, good to see you doing well. And that's about all I need. But my grandparents, I legitimately worry about them and I hate when I don't see them. Like I know some people have just like a huge extensive family and they'll go to family gatherings and it's just like a wondrous occasion. Most of my family gatherings are somewhat awkward and quite small. Like if you ask me what my cousins are doing with themselves, I'd have some vague idea, but that's about it. I do go to those gatherings, at least most of them. So like two grandparents, an aunt and uncle and two cousins and that's about my family outside of my sister, father, mother. As I say, the uncle that just passed was on my dad's side of the family, which I barely saw. I think I've got people on my dad's side that count as cousins. Stuart, maybe, I don't know, but I haven't seen them in 20 years. Most of your cousins are having families. I mean, my cousin has a kid now. A ramble came out about her recently. So I'm nothing to their kid, right? Like there isn't a god cousin or whatever, right? No, I don't think so. You just got back from your grandma, she has dementia, one of the most stupidest things the first time she remembered who I am. Oh yeah, dude. Dementia is a terrible thing. And so like whenever you hear like progress is being made with it and stuff, it's always good to hear because it's something you never want your family to have to go through, you know? Yeah, I don't like to reflect Ash on the possibility of those close to me dying. But this is the first person in my family who has died. As in any other family member who died was like before I was the age of two. This is the first real brush with close mortality that I've ever had. And just as I turned 30, like I'm not even halfway through my life, but I was in bed like, man, I got to do stuff. I got heaps of time. Yeah, I was fortunate enough to dodge this up until this point in my life. Hey, Matt, do you fear death? I fear knowing death is coming. So every situation where I envision a terrible death is one where you know you're going to die, but it's not going to happen immediately. So you have to dwell on your existence all the way up until you die. You're the feeling of hopelessness, of lost time, scary thing, being buried alive, for example. If I die, which presumably I will, there is some precedent to suggest that is the case. I'd rather go in my sleep or, you know, just out like a light hit by a piano. Instant death kind of thing. Death is just a natural part of life. It's the getting older and not being able to do the things you want to do or losing your sense of identity that are more concerning to me. I've said before, if you reflect on it and if you know anything about human psychology, no one would ever want to actually live forever. You'd want to live as long as you want and then have the option to end your life at a time that you choose. I know everyone doesn't believe this, but trust me, if you live forever, everything would eventually become mundane. If you were forced to live forever, it'd be a hell about as terrible as being buried alive. Inescapable life would be an extraordinarily frightening thing. But the idea that you might get to the end of your life and not do the things that you want to do, and that is most people's existence. When you reflect on what is ultimately a short amount of time, especially when you consider how little that you remember, when you realize how much of your time is spent doing things you don't want to do, how many things in life that you'd like to do that you're likely never going to be able to do, it's a sad thing. And reflecting on this, I feel privileged because I am in a situation where, less than others, I don't spend my time doing things I don't want to do. And I do have the option, potentially, in life to seek out some things that I might want to do or whatever, right? I'm in a very privileged position in this world, from where I've been born, how lucky I was to get into this career that I am, the kind people around me, you guys. And you reflect on how brutal life can seem while being in, you know, from a country that's well off. And you think about all these people who are born in much worse off situations. And have to deal with life with even more burdens than you and I need to experience on a day-to-day basis. And you can't help but pity these people, and wish the world was different. Reflecting too long on the world and life is very bleak. And that's a terrible thing. Life should be wondrous. But often it seems as though life only on the surface is wondrous, you know. It is certainly better than any other alternative. Certainly life is far more preferable to death, because life can always get better, while death is just bad permanently. I just wish everyone could live a full happy life, you know. Or have equal chance to. Serve things to reflect on. This has not been a happy stream. I'm terribly sorry, chat. Wouldn't death be nothing though? I mean a permanent nothing, sure. It's a permanent end to your life. Death is just a loss. You lose every potential that you had in life. You gain nothing. The only time where death is a preferable circumstance is when you have literally no potential for life. And that is something that no one in life is able to know that they have. It is something that exists in hypotheticals and nothing else. It doesn't matter how bleak life is, there is a potential for it to be better, you know. |
| 28. August 2021 | My Views On The Supernatural | My views on the supernatural. The thoughts I gave on this topic while streaming were related to a segment I saw in a podcast called Trash Taste. To help give context to my ramblings, I'll show you the part that inspired them. Do you believe in ghosts, Joey? I do, yeah. Why? Cause I've had like paranormal experiences myself. Like what? So one of the scariest ones I had was in Sydney. There's this place in Manly called the Quarantine Center. And it was during World War I, I think, was the place where like all the soldiers used to stop by from overseas to get quarantine in case they have like illnesses and sickness and stuff like that. So a lot of people died at this place naturally, right? And they have like these like nighttime tours for this place that you can go and like you can go to like the hospitals and like, it's very creepy stuff, right? So I went with my sister once for her birthday. I think it was. And my sister has like this weird, I guess you call it sixth sense, if you will, you know, take that, take that how you will, right? Take that how you will. But- Bruce Willis is quivering and just jealous. Yeah, take that how you will. But like she has like that, whatever that is. And there was this one moment where she was inside, we were inside the hospital and I didn't have anything like that. I don't pretend to feel like, oh, I feel a ghost present or anything like that. I just find it fascinating. But then we went into this like particular, like I think it was like a nurse room. And my sister just stopped and just immediately started breaking down crying. And I was like, what's wrong? It's just a dark room. Like you've been through this entire hospital and it's this room where she just suddenly breaks down. She's like, I can't, I can't move past this point. And she just couldn't explain it. There was this, she just felt something in this one particular room. And then later we found out that was the place where they would euthanize all the soldiers that couldn't survive whatever illness it was. So like that's where like all the soldiers like basically died. And I was like, okay, look, like you can believe in like six cents and all that kind of shit all you want, but you have to admit that's pretty fucking terrifying. Especially when you're there in person. You don't go through an entire hospital and then immediately start breaking down in a random way. I might if I was in a hospital known for trauma. You could do that if your head space is there. She might have seen so much. But she was fine throughout the entire hospital except for this one room. What have I been building up? Now like for the entirety of human history, right? Never has a supernatural explanation superseded a natural one. All throughout human history, we explain shit with supernatural stuff. And then later it was replaced with a natural explanation. These terms as nebulous and hard to find as they are, you can understand why I'm trying to say that. That's always been the case. For the entirety of human history, people have had wildly conflicting ideas of the supernatural. Independently, different societies have developed crazy rituals of symbols and dances and sacrifices to influence the world and gods. They've invented literally thousands of gods, thousands upon thousands. And that's those we know about. They've invented creatures of the sky, of the sea, of in lava, these mythical beasts that are now things that we use as foundations for stories we tell in video games. Independently, civilizations have developed rich spiritual lives that are entirely contradictory and cannot equally be true. If you believe in the supernatural, you still have to accept that the overwhelming majority of it has to be nonsense because it's all contradictory. And yet, despite certain people's spiritual lives and supernatural experiences being complete nonsense, they are so satisfying and emotionally rich to them. In fact, whole civilizations had supernatural spiritual experiences that were so rich and real to them, but that have to be based on nonsense. Knowing this history, when a person has a situation like that where the Manly Quarantine Center is a ghost tour, right? They bring you in at night in a strange environment and tell you stories to elicit a psychological response from you. In that scenario, if you're walking through and your sister seems fine to you and then she starts breaking down and crying, your response should be not, my perception of her emotional state was true, it should be, oh, I guess my sister wasn't doing very well after all. But Joey is so confident in his perception of his sister's emotional state that he believes there must be, there must be a supernatural explanation that exists there as opposed to him simply being wrong about his sister's emotional state prior to her crying on the floor or whatever the hell she was doing. He believes the combination of her being perfectly fine and then bad and her being in a particular room confirms the supernatural. How many rooms do you think are in a quarantine facility? 100, 200? So we're looking at, you know, a one in a hundred, one in 200 chance of her being in a particular room when she broke down, given that some rooms will be towards the beginning of the facility, at the end, there's no way in hell people who go into a ghost tour, go into or 100, 200 rooms, there's probably like a one in 50 chance that anyone who breaks down crying from the psychological responses that are elicited for monetary value by these people, that it's gonna be in that room. In no reality is a one in a 50 chance something that you'd have to explain with a supernatural occurrence. But Joey has such confidence in his perceptions of another person's emotional state, such confidence in his own emotional perception of reality, and he believes one in 50, so extreme that supernatural events must be an explanation here. That should seem absurd to you, right? But this is going on everywhere all the time. And I wanted to make a video about it. But why would I do that? He's not exaggerating for revenue. In multiple cases, Joey has explained that he believes in the supernatural. Like take psychics, for example, right? God has had a, Gigu had a thing that he said, he's like, oh yeah, sure, I believe to an extent in the supernatural, because I think there's some things out there that can't be explained. The explanation of it probably didn't happen, your brain is bad, is an explanation. It's just not usually a satisfying one. So take for example, psychics. Psychics are a combination of Barnum statements, willingness to believe, and profiling. This has been demonstrated time and time again in controlled circumstances, psychics cannot perform better than average, better than random chance. People who have retired from psychics have explained this in books, but people still believe in psychics. For those unaware, Barnum statements, I don't have the skill myself, but it's like, an argument recently had some emotional significance to you. This seems like something specific about you, but in reality, it doesn't specify a time, it doesn't specify a topic with a person, with who, and so a person who wants to believe will be like, you know what, four weeks ago I actually had an argument with my significant other about money, how did you know? But this statement applies to everyone, it seems really specific when you hear it for the first time, but it applies to everyone. You could even say, if you didn't have an argument, you'd be like, well, I don't think I had an argument, and the person will say, well, did you think about having an argument recently, and that emotionally affected you, and you go, oh, actually, I did, I thought about having an argument with my spouse about money, didn't end up happening though, and you can always fill in the gaps. It's, but people still believe in it. Weegee boards, known for endless eons, I mean, endless, many decades, to be the idiomotor effect, and so it seems like it's floating, but in reality, the people who are touching it are actually moving it, and this has been demonstrated time and time again. You remove the board, you flip it over, you blindfold the people, and suddenly it stops working, but people still believe in Weegee boards. We have, for now, hundreds of years, developed intricate ways to examine reality. We can show you microscopic organisms. We can show you planets light years away, effectively, to some degree. We can detect trace amounts of stuff in the air with complicated instruments, right? And yes, at the same, we, and yet we still have not been able to find things that correspond with certain people's emotional experiences. But at the same time, we have just an incredible amount of information about the human brain that suggests that it's not very good at judging reality, perceiving it in an unbiased way, perceiving it as it actually is. But there's still some people who, with all the evidence of how we misremember things, we rewrite our own memories, that we make false connections between different things. Like we, all these endless different cognitive biases that we have, there are some people who still have an incredible confidence in their own ability to perceive reality to the extent where, even if all evidence suggests that their perceptions are wrong, they will still hold to them. It drives me mad. And so I could have made all this into a video chat, but why would I? Exactly. Why would you waste time on that XD? It would get 30,000 views, be preached into the choir. Why stress myself out? Why take time away from doing things that I enjoy more or making content that more people enjoy? But imagine a person believing, being so confident, not only in that their perception at the time was accurate, but that they remember their perception accurately, being that confident in their perceptions, to in front of a million people plus, say, my sister has the ability to detect high concentrations of death. She has that magic power. Without a hint of shame, self-doubt, yeah, she got magic powers, bruh. Like, you know how easy you could demonstrate the ability to detect high concentrations of death? Just grab a participant, double-blinds, the researchers don't know, and just leave them through some rooms. But every test that's ever been done of that variety, never bear the random chance. I'm sure people know by now that in trials of eyewitnesses, on average, 50% are mistaken in their perceptions. That's why eyewitness testimony is no longer sufficient to convict anyone of anything. It can only be used as supportive evidence, or to lead people to investigate other matters. How can you go so long in your life to be in a situation, a ghost tour, that is designed explicitly to make people not feel okay, dark rooms, unfamiliar environments, strangers, and then to see a person cry on the floor or be emotionally overwhelmed, and not think to yourself, well, I guess she wasn't doing well. Instead, you think, oh, my perception of her being well must be accurate, therefore, there must be a supernatural explanation. Like the most interesting thing about Joey's story, if taken as factual, is how miraculous it would be for a person to override biological principles of like fight or flight, to feel perfectly okay in a quarantine facility where hundreds of people have died when untold suffering occurred, to be perfectly okay in nights surrounded by strangers while being told potentially dark and terrible stories, to be perfectly okay. Like Joey has literally every reason, external to his perception, to suggest that she wasn't okay, doesn't care, supernatural. Either in a reality where she has a sixth sense, it doesn't make sense for her to be okay walking through a quarantine facility, because obviously she should be detecting death everywhere. In the case where she doesn't have this ability, it also doesn't make sense for her to be okay, because no one would be okay in that situation, you know? But Joey would be like, but man, she was in the room. Imagine, if you will, that she didn't break down in the room, she broke down just outside the door. He'd be like, man, she was just about to walk into that room. Imagine she was in the hallway, my guy. We had just walked into the area with a room where people were euthanized. If you were in the room next door, it's like, man, we were right next to the room where a bunch of people were euthanized. If she just walked into the building, my guy, my guy, in that building, a bunch of people had been euthanized. How do you explain that? When you don't have a specific thing you're testing for, and all you're doing is searching for something to confirm an already existent belief, you can fucking find, you can always find something. There's more that I can say, though. Try to define the supernatural chat. Ask anyone who believes it, ask them to define it in positive terms, rather than simply negation of the natural. If tomorrow we found out that people could actually predict the future, or talk to the dead, that would just be Tuesday. You'd be like, oh, I lost my keys. Oh, you know what? Frank, Frank, he died three weeks ago. He was the guy who lost all my keys. I'll go down, talk to Christine. She gives me good rates, and I'll get her to bring up Frank, and we can ask him where the keys are. I'm sure he's not doing much, right? That'd just be Tuesday. Anything that is sufficiently established to exist, to have predictive capability of the future, and practical application in our lives that we can rely upon, it just becomes a part of the world, and we use it to whatever extent it's useful to us. Anything that has not been sufficiently evidenced is pushed into the supernatural. But it's not just not sufficiently evidenced. It's anything that the lion's share of the evidence is against, that only exists in people's feelings. It's the stuff that the second you try to test it, it vanishes, or it simply cannot be tested at all. You know, once upon a time, when people had mystical spiritual ideas, they would say, oh, you know, it's under the sea. We went under the sea, we didn't find it. Well, then it's in the clouds. We went in the clouds, didn't find it. Well, then it's outside the Earth. We went outside the Earth, didn't find it. It's like, well, now it's in another dimension. It's in another dimension that you can't detect in any way, shape, or form, but it does interface with the material world. How? Mm-mm. Why? Mm-mm. How do we detect it? How do you know it's there? Well, I have feelings sometimes. Well, can we measure these feelings? No, but I swear it's there, brah. I got feelings. Would you like to take a look at the psych research about how your brain is bad? We've got many decades of it, man. Demonstrable stuff, explanations for every feeling that you have, showing that more than likely, at least the evidence suggests, it's complete nonsense, just endless amounts of it, explanations that we can demonstrate in a lab. Nah, I got feelings, man, and I know what I saw. I know what I felt, brah. I remember once, Ninja, on the H3H3 podcast, was like, yeah, man, I got some ghost stories. I was upstairs, and my radio downstairs, my speakers, turned on. No explanation, went downstairs, there's nothing around, turned it off, ghost man. And you ask him, right, so with Joey's sister, and you say, how about, listen to this, there is currently a bacteria that exists that we just have yet to be able to detect, only occurs with high concentrations of death, and your sister has an allergic response to it that makes her emotional. Why is this not a bad explanation? We know bacteria exists, we can confirm it. There's been bacteria we haven't found before. Dead bodies have been known to make illnesses and cause bacteria and whatnot. And you'd be like, nah, it's definitely spirits. Why? It's fun, makes them feel good, special, magic. Why would people who got euthanized 200 years ago still be hanging around in an individual room? Why would Joey's sister, who has a sixth sense for death, not sense the death going in the building, not sense the death when she goes in the hallway, not sense the death when she's in the walkway to the room? Only when she's in it does the essence of death, spirits, whatever, high concentration death, does that respect the boundaries of walls? Have you got these spirits who are knock on the wall, going, oh man, there's craftsmanship, there's some good shit. I think I'm gonna hang out here for 200 years. And Joey's sister, you know, it's sure she can detect death, she got sixth sense, but only when she goes in the room. See, spirits, they respect walls. She is perfectly fine before she went in that room, my dude. She's getting closer and closer to high concentration death, no experiences, perfectly fine. Sixth sense, but it's an all or nothing thing. Sure, if 10 people died in a room, nothing. 11 though, 100%. But this is a belief that Joey has, that he was willing to share in front of over a million people. And you want me to change the world, change people's minds? The people I pity most in the world are those who their livelihoods are somehow dependent upon changing other people's minds. I am so blessed not to be in that circumstance. Just by coincidence, I saw this yesterday. What is a supernatural event that happened in your life that just cannot be explained? One night I had a dream about my grandpa who had died almost 20 years prior. We were in his home and he kept telling me, we need to clean the house. We need to get the house ready. When I asked him why, he said, she's coming home. My grandma, his wife of 50 years, died the next day. So if you ever want to know if something truly cannot be explained by chance alone, invert it. Think of a world where this never happened by chance. So I was doing some research and it turns out over the billions of people who have ever lived or who ever will live, none of them ever had a dream like this where coincidentally, their grandmother died the next day. Not even one. We're considering the future as well. So tens of millions of years of human history, billions upon billions of people, this never happened even once. That'd be a very strange world, wouldn't it? You'd be like, how is that possible? Not even one singular person coincidentally having a dream about their grandfather telling them about house cleaning and their grandmother dying the next day. How could that even possible? Not even one time? Wow. This event happening by chance is what you would expect of a reality without the supernatural because we dream about random shit all the time. Especially stuff that's concerning to us. And you would expect sometimes that this event should just occur by chance. The person happens to have a dream that at least alludes to the idea of one of their significant others dying and that person dying the next day. Because there's just that many people having dreams and that many people dying. And eventually you would think at least they would sync up occasionally. But think about the implications of this if this really was a supernatural event. This grandfather apparently has the ability to give information to their grandchildren from beyond the grave. And they use this ability to talk about how he personally in the afterlife needs to clean his home. Why would he give this information to his grandchild? His grandchild couldn't help with the cleaning. The amount of information that the dead could give to the living and this is the chosen thing. And we have to ask about the implications of every other grandfather who's died. Why isn't every grandfather giving information from beyond the grave? Do other grandfathers just not love? Their grandchildren as much as this grandfather loved his grandchildren? Oh, I can't believe my dead grandparents just don't love me as much as this guy loved his grandchild. With the premise that this can happen and then for assuming that it doesn't happen very often for some reason perhaps it's very difficult. What was the grandfather's goal here? To give him an extra day's warning before his grandmother dies, not telling him how to save his grandmother. Just giving that information like, hey bro, just so you know, you're gonna find out like a bunch of hours from now but grandma's gonna die. Just so you know. What's the point? Grandpa with an afterlife house for some reason having a conversation with his living grandson is like, yo bro, by the way, grandmother's gonna die like tomorrow. Just so you know. Why? The implications of this being true are absurd. But to this person, despite that this is clearly explainable by chance, believes it to be unexplainable. As do 30,000 people who offered it. I found the Joey story thing so funny that I rambled about it twice. So here it is again. I'm saying basically the same stuff in different ways. He sincerely believes that his sister can detect death and mass death. Well, we don't know the extent of her powers. She could be using this ability if it could be demonstrated to find dead bodies, find missing people, determine historically where massacres happened for the benefit of the historical societies and whatnot. But she's not doing this apparently. And you gotta ask why. And the answer of course, is that every single time one of these things is tested in controlled circumstance where blind study, the people are put into rooms and they need to detect if something's happened there, they can never do it. They can never do it. Wonder why? As we've got more technology, learn more about the world, we haven't found more of this stuff, we found less. Every single time this can be tested, it turns out to be nothing. And Garth's like, now I believe it because there's just too many reports of this kind of stuff for it to have nothing behind it. There is something behind it. Human brains suck. In paranormal situations around the world and throughout history, there is no common elements, no common element except one, the human brain. The human brain is the single common element throughout every mystical paranormal story throughout all of human history. If you try to cross-reference all of them to find like common elements, there are none. What the spirits wants, how they manifest, where they manifest, how you detect them, who can detect them. No methodology for how they're doing this, but there's no commonality, but the brain is there. Like I can go, okay, so what we've got over here is 807 biases that the average person is susceptible to every day. And human flaws like auditory, visual hallucinations, we all have them, right? At least a significant amount of people do. Your ability to alter your memories, create fake memories. I've got this decades long research showing how bad your brain is. I can give you 17 different explanations for what you're experiencing. And they look at these and go, wait, these explanations say that I'm shit. I don't like those explanations. Fuck them. It's the death juices, the invisible death juices that just happen to exist sometimes. But again, think of how silly Joey's explanation is here. It is literally, it's not as though throughout his life, his sister is going through a room and going, okay, I gotta Google to make sure there wasn't any death in this room. No death, so my reaction was good. It's not as though, like if she walked past a building where a massacre had happened last week, she wouldn't know. She would have no way of knowing that, she's received a false, a bit of evidence against her ability to detect death. The only times she would ever check if she's detecting death is in these particular situations where she happens to be in a building in a place where death has occurred. You know what I'm saying? Like it's just so funny and absurd. Joey's surely smart enough to sit down and think about it for five minutes and realize that what he's saying is quite silly, right? But you can go on like this forever. It's just, there are two different paranormal situations. One, that we can investigate and every single time they investigate, nothing is found. It's either shown demonstrably to be something else or there is no evidence that anything occurred at all. Or it is beyond our ability to investigate. And then we have endless potential demonstrable explanations related to human psychology that would perfectly explain it, but we can't definitively apply specifically one. And in those circumstances, the people go, well, I do like my invisible stuff that I have no ability to demonstrate or detect in any capacity, but it makes me feel good though. So human brain shit versus, man, that's some pretty cool shit out there, man. Cool shit works for some people, you know? All of this stuff, very easily explainable with human psychology. But for some people, that's just not a nice enough story. Gotta go with the magic death juices. But you can see why making a video like that is pointless though. Because that, thinking about it for five minutes and realizing how absurd it sounds, you could do that if you care. But the story is clearly more interesting. Like Joey is on one hand claiming that his sister can detect death, but at the same time saying that while walking through a quarantine facility, she at no point felt anything until she went into a particular room. Did people not die in the other rooms? She's apparently skipping through these rooms. But it just shows that people embellish stories. They misremember things. They add things to, because they want people to believe them. So they have to trim down the fat. They wanna feel like they're not silly for believing these things. So they amp them up in their minds and they change their memories. And humans suck. Like anyone who takes a psych course, or even just a philosophy course, like coming out of it, you're like, you begin to question like everything you believe or what you claim to hold for certain, what you remember. You second guess yourself all the time because you realize how fallible you are. But if you haven't gone through this, it's just like, oh yeah man, I heard Frank saw a ghost last weekend. It's pretty crazy. I once spoke to this guy who was explaining to me why he believed in angels. He said to me, I come from a tradition that says that angels are active in the world and they protect humanity. But specifically, righteous believers, of which he believed himself to be one. And he further elaborated and said, while these angels are always present, they're not equally present every day. There are more of them and they are more active on particular days. It's the day that they're most active and they're the most numerous is Thursday. He says, you know how I know these angels exist? When I go out on Thursdays, I feel the safest compared to any other day. I can feel them there. I feel safer. Therefore, I know them to be real and my beliefs to be justified. Now, I expect most of you will understand the flaw in that reasoning there and what was likely going on. 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| 20. October 2022 | My WOOFLE plushie | My woofle plushie. Q&A. Boop. What's his name? It's woofle. Always been woofle. Sugar on sale soon. |
| 31. August 2020 | My Warner Movie World regret | My Warner Brothers Movie World regress. Have you been to Warner Brothers Movie World? Yes, I have. And there was this jumping thing where you wear like a harness and then you jump up and down a trampoline and you can like do backflips and stuff. I was too nervous to go on it. And my parents said you really should go on it because you would really enjoy it. And I refused to. And then, like, eventually, I convinced myself to go on. But it was too late. So for my entire life, I've never gone on one of those harnessy jumpy trampoline things and I regret it. That's the only thing I remember from being there. |
| 27. October 2020 | My YouTube Channel's reduction in recommendations | My YouTube channel's reduction in recommendations. Another day and another huge reduction in the amount that YouTube is recommending my stuff. What are we down to today? It's going to be interesting to see how low it can go. So on September 12th, it was 3.1 million recommendations. We're now down to 1.2 million recommendations. So I like a 66% reduction. Let's see if we can do 1.1 tomorrow. You have to try new things. That's not it, dude. I don't sincerely think that it has anything to do with my content. Not at all. This kind of drop this fast. I don't think it's an algorithmic change. Algorithmic changes come a lot slower than this. It's impossible that from January to August, everything could maintain itself perfectly consistent variance of 10, 20%. And then just immediate drop of 66% in two weeks. That doesn't make any sense. And this while other people who are making GTA content are still doing well. Like I'm afraid to release PassFest and it's hard to work on PassFest knowing that it's just going to get shit on. I may be the ultimate test, but it's such a waste of PassFest. I guess it doesn't matter. This episode isn't going to be amazing anyway. I don't know what to do, dude. Do I want to have a YouTube Partner Manager or something? No. I was given a YouTube Partner Manager three weeks then they happened to be leaving the company and I didn't get another one. I've said many times before, I don't really like YouTube. A part of the reason why I'm sour to watch Twitch as well is I've always hoped that Twitch would try and take on YouTube in some capacity with offline content and now knowing that they never will, it means I'm beholden to YouTube forever. And every day waking up being like today could be the day that YouTube just fucks me completely in some capacity. And it's now happened. Every moment of every day making a living on YouTube, you wake up and go, is today the day YouTube is going to fuck me? And that's not a wonderful situation to be in. But in my situation, it pays so well that it's worth it. But you know, like on Twitch, if I want to talk to my Partner Manager, I can talk to him easily. I've met him physically many times. I've talked to him on the bloody phone. YouTube makes decisions all the time in regards to my content that make absolutely no sense. My 80% video, which is just me like blowing myself up getting through GTA V, is still demonetized. I don't make any sense. One of the no hit runs got demonetized because it has Devin Weston at the front of the video saying you're late sugar tits. That was enough to get an hour and a half video demonetized. You're late sugar tits. At least that is what I think it is. For the longest time, I had occasionally seen a 3 Clips Philip video or whatever, like occasionally. I barely knew of his existence, but then suddenly YouTube just recommended him to just an insane degree. He was fucking everywhere. My entire recommended feed was 3 Clips Philip. I subbed him. I watched a lot of his videos and then, you know, this is here. Then suddenly, bah, he's gone. I'm sure he deleted some videos, but he got recommended heaps and now he's just gone. There was nothing about his content that changed significantly. It just suddenly the algorithm wanted to give him some love. This was his baseline and it just suddenly doubled, almost tripled. And I didn't realize for like a month, I was like, where did 3 Clips Philip go? Hmm. That's weird. And I can't personally seek out his older videos to watch them. I have to get the algorithm to do that for me, you know? I still catch his newest videos, but they're never recommended to me ever. I must have watched dozens upon dozens of his videos. I told him I didn't really care about it all. I like the sound of his voice and YouTube won't recommend his videos to me anymore. I catch his new videos, as I say, because I use the subscription box. Good to be here again. It just sucks. And you won't notice, you will not notice when I disappear from your eyes. Maybe a month or two later, you'll be like, didn't I watch that Dark Fiber guy on YouTube sometimes? And you'll have moved on to other content creators and shit. And I won't blame you because it's just, you just got to look for entertainment, you know? I really like Three Clicks' philosophy in regards to making content and stuff. I think he's very good. This drop in the recommendations, it's just fueled my anxiety and fueled my imposter syndrome stuff where maybe I'm not cut out for this kind of stuff. Maybe I'm not actually creative because as I said, for most of my life, I never consider myself to be a creative person, never consider myself to be a particularly interesting person or particularly funny person. And such a stark drop in my content makes me think, oh, you know, it was just an algorithmic fluke and never recreate anything really of value. It clearly can't be true, but just imposter syndrome, man, it's not rational. Imposter syndrome is, if I'm using it correctly, it's basically like, like regardless of how successful you are, how much praise you get, how much accolades or awards, whatever, you will never think yourself justified to be where you are. You will always feel like an imposter or you always feel like you're going to be found out that you don't really belong, that you aren't really, you didn't really achieve what you've achieved. And that anxiety, like it doesn't matter what anyone does around you, you just feel this way permanently. And I get that sometimes. What makes it harder on YouTube especially is you're constantly bombarded with people who are making and doing things that you couldn't fathom doing or wouldn't even know how to begin doing. And you're always comparing yourself to people who are bigger than you, who are better creators than you, who seem to have more down in every respect than you. They have more understanding than you. But you understand, like they all started where you started, right? They were once not knowing, they once upon a time didn't know how to do what they're doing. There's always time to grow. Like I know tons of things about this business than I did that I didn't know two years ago. And two years from now, if I'm still in this business, I'll be able, it'll be the same. I'll know even more. You know, I just want to hope I just hope the algorithm doesn't fuck me so much that I have to leave. But at the very least, it won't be a guillotine chopping off my head. Because even if YouTube fucking kills me, I'll still be on Twitch. And I'll be on Twitch for potentially years before the slow reduction in my viewership means that I can't continue. Or it would be profitable to continue, worth the time to continue. Because I'm not large enough on Twitch that I can grow a natural audience here. As large as I am, I'm just, I'm still dwarfed by all the larger content creators. Now, I'm sure I do get new viewers from Twitch now. It'd be interesting to see what portion of my newest viewers come from Twitch as opposed to YouTube. Because while I know 90% of my audiences come from YouTube, that doesn't mean that currently today my newest viewers are in the large majority coming from YouTube. It's possible I'm now, because of the boost that YouTube has given me over the last year and a half, two years, whatever, that I have a large enough audience that I can naturally go on Twitch. If that is the case, then even if I abandon YouTube, I can still be successful on Twitch. Which was ultimately my goal to begin with. YouTube I always saw as a means to become more successful as a streamer. And just over time, I've put more and more effort into YouTube as I've begun to realize that effort into YouTube videos, given the way that the algorithm was treating me. Like it was a grade of a turn on the investment of my time, then just streaming more. Attention to detail. It's hard to know what kind of attention to detail people notice, Snow. The best example is always sound. |
| 16. January 2020 | My YouTube and Twitch Growth in 2019 | The growth of my YouTube and Twitch channel over the course of 2019. So I learned yesterday guys, that at the start of this year, I had 3,000 subscribers on YouTube. And now I have 133,000. That is quite an improvement. That's more than a few more. I've gained like 60k followers this year on Twitch. |
| 21. August 2022 | My YouTube ranking in terms of watch time for my channel. | My YouTube ranking in terms of watch time for my channel. So I can't tell you how I know this chat. Secret information. Your boy, DarkviperAU, is the fourth most watched gaming Australian YouTuber. I mean to get into the top five I did need those two qualifications of gaming and Australian, but that's still pretty cool. You wanna know how many hours of my content people watch in a month? 3.8 million. Just one month. That's a lot of time. |
| 25. June 2021 | My YouTube thumbnails | a Thumbnail that has has a template for us like there's a cool border and text on the screen that was made by arcade So for example the collab thumbnail I made myself although it was TGG's idea to Kind of pose and stuff for the thumbnail Using the rockstar editors and make thumbnails turned out to be really goddamn good good like normally I just limit myself to what is in the footage If you just record a little bit with the editor you can you know move the camera around and get precise angles interacting with other content creators Do I know small and he's my brother can't you see the family resemblance he was always mother's favorite. That's what she told me |
| 18. January 2021 | My accent and watching Australian content. | My accent and watching Australian content. No, I'm Australian. My parents Australian, their parents Australian. But uh, I don't have the stereotypical Australian accent. I have the cultivated British accent, apparently. Which is a form of Australian accent. I have seen videos that put Australian accents into three categories. And I exist in the cultivated one apparently. The Australian accent is changing through the media. That's certainly a possibility. For me, certainly, it is a fact that I have listened to more non-Australians than Australians speak in my life. At this point I'd say, certainly when I was younger, I would listen to more Australians. But these days as I don't really have any real life friends and don't see my family particularly all that often. And I'm online all the time, you know. Most videos that I watch aren't Australian videos. Who is my favourite Australian content creator? Oh, of course, well, Internet Historian and Economics Explained. So it's two. I guess given that Internet Historian is a comedy, I guess I prefer him over Economics Explained. It's completely different content. Oh, Podholler is Australian? Oh, I think I do know that. Yeah, Podholler as well then. Podholler as well. Of course, Modus Pelican. I mean, we're talking like higher standards, right? I've been watching Podholler and Internet Historian far longer. Maybe not Economics Explained, but no offence to Modus. He's a good dude. Because I don't watch Laserbeam's content, I'm always surprised when I look at his numbers. He's getting hundreds of millions of views. I'm like, oh, he must be doing something really good then. I don't know what he does really. I just know I'm Mr. Fortnite, dude. And the few times I've seen him, he's just looked very sad. And I just hope he's doing well mentally. |
| 10. November 2021 | My accidental association with “Run’s Dead” | My accidental association with runs dead. When someone commented that runs dead was associated with me, the first time I heard that I was like, that's silly, like, people say runs dead all the time. But then I realized how many times I've said it, and how frequently, completely unintentionally. I'm like, oh, maybe that is my thing then. |
| 10. November 2021 | My accidental association with “run’s dead” | My accidental association with runs dead. When someone commented that runs dead was associated with me, the first time I heard that I was like, that's silly, like, people say runs dead all the time. But then I realized how many times I've said it, and how frequently, completely unintentionally. I'm like, oh, maybe that is my thing then. |
| 18. October 2021 | My actual geoguessr video is great | My actual GeoGuessr video is great. Have I tried the actual GeoGuessr? The video of me playing the actual GeoGuessr is a very funny video that unfortunately got demonetized because I said fuck like 17 times in the first 30 seconds. Or was it because I said the C word? I can't remember, but it got demonetized and it didn't really get a lot of traction. If you haven't seen the video, it's quite funny. It spawned a handful of memes that stuck around for a while too. It's very old footage, like 2016-2017 footage. YouTube's becoming more lenient apparently that you can say fuck or bitch or whatever in the first 30 seconds. Without it causing issues. Because YouTube is like any company where it gets slapped on the wrist, which is the ad-apocalypse. And so they become conservative. They move back way far away from the the border of what's acceptable. They just move way away from it. But over time they push boundaries. They see how much they can get away with, how much more can they monetize that anyone having an issue, right? And it slowly expands into more and more and more risque content, more and more potentially socially not acceptable content. Until it's on the very border of what's acceptable and then it fucks up once or twice. There's a huge kerfuffle and then they have to bring everything back in. You know, every company wants to be on the very border of what they can get away with, right? And YouTube is no different. They want to maximize those profits and maximizing profits for other YouTubers, putting ads on literally as much as they can get away with. |
| 30. September 2021 | My apparently strange kebab practices | My apparently strange kebab practices. I remember I used to go get kebabs. And I'd be like, Just lettuce. And they're like, what? You just want lettuce on your kebab. And I'm like, yeah. Yeah, I don't want any tomato. I don't want any onion. And they're like, oh, give me that weird look. Just because I don't like tomato or onion doesn't mean I'm a lousy human being. The kebab place I go to, well, I used to go to, required that you paid more money for cheese. I'm like, that's just fucking stupid. You give as much onion and lettuce and tomato as you want. But you want one fucking grain of cheese and it's like, thousand dollars. It's like, what? If I'm not eating your tomato, I'm not eating your onion, the same cost would be in the cheese, right? So just give me the cheese. Cheese is marginally more expensive than onions and tomatoes. Combines? I guess. |
| 31. July 2022 | My audience only searches for one thing on YouTube. | My audience only searches for one thing on YouTube. This section, your viewers searches, show the things that your viewers have been searching for a lot on YouTube. Now, search doesn't make up an extreme amount of views on a person's channel, right? I guess it depends on the channel, but it's never the majority, right? It's, uh, because recommendations are king. But if your viewers are searching for something, that's suggestive, like, hey, you should incorporate this into your video somehow, because some of the people are interested in it. And my viewers are apparently searching for, right now, car and Franklin video. I don't know why that's the case. So I need to put more cars and Franklin videos. See, I don't look at this that often. But a couple of days ago, I checked it, and I was very surprised at what I saw. Cappy bar. Cappy bar are the furniest animal compilation. Dog king Cappy bar. I spent a day with Cappy barers. What are they, the coconut dogs? I can't show a lot of it, but I think one of the reasons is... So I pull up. I guess, I guess, like this one? Okay, I pull up. I'm about at the after party. You and all your friends, yeah, they're good at getting on. So, I don't get it. How did this happen? This song, After Party by Don Toliver, is like, there's like just endless Cappy bar videos of this. This is from 10 months ago. People are still searching for it. People are still uploading them. It was a month ago. Two million views. So I thought to myself, like, I should go to the zoo. See some Cappy barers and record it and stuff for content. But I can't be fucked. My sleeping pattern is screwed right now. I have no one to go with. It turns out I'm like half an hour from the zoo, which I didn't know. It's new apparently. Maybe I'll do it at some other time. It's just my cell reception, I can't guarantee right now. Because all these fucking companies are terrible. Like my upload speed is just not enough. Like, if my internet speeds get sorted or something, maybe we'll figure something out. |
| 01. September 2020 | My audio configuration | My audio configuration. Miles actually asked me, um, because he edits for Nether Streamer as well, who is a little bit smaller than me. He's smaller from my understanding. He wanted to know what I used for a compressor and a limiter. Oh, well, he asked me how do I get my audio sounding like it is, because my audio is very level, yet it still has a lot of flavor to it. It doesn't sound overly compressed. It's very easy to edit my audio as it is. Like working with the quartering's audio, for those videos that I made about him, it was fucking hell. That guy must have no post-processing at all. It was so unlevel. I'm having to manually do six here, six here, three here, and the video, my video that he played was so low, I had to use my original copy of my video and splice that audio into that. He is not a live streamer. Not only is his content shit, he doesn't understand how to edit or how to have good audio. But yeah, so I told Miles, despite that, on some level I wanted to keep that secret, because I spent a lot of effort working to get my audio sounding exactly as it is, but it'd be a dick move. People ask me and I give them the information, because at the end of the day, I'd like a world where everyone had better audio. And certainly my audio isn't perfect. It could tink with a bit more, make it a little bit better, but it's good enough as is. |
| 23. August 2021 | My bad streams being a viewer’s first | My bad streams being a viewers first. I feel so bad whenever I'm having a really bad day, and a person's like, Hey man, I've been struggling to get to the stream for years, man! For it every day to finally come, and here I am in your stream, and I'm just like, ah man. What a stream to pick. I killed both my children so I could be here today, Matt. I hope your stream is good. |
| 09. June 2021 | My barber problems | My barber problems. So yesterday, I went to the barber's, right? Get myself a haircut, for obvious reasons. And I sat there for an hour, to the guy that's like, Ah, where were you in the order? What do you mean? He's like, you're meant to write down your name. I guess I didn't see you come in, so I didn't tell you about that. I'm like, oh, that's great. And then he says, oh, I guess these guys are before you. I'm like, I don't think that she's, I think they are. And so I'd already been waiting for an hour, and there was a prospect of me waiting for another hour, because one of the dudes was going on lunch break or whatever. And so I left, wasted an hour of my life, waiting for a barber. And I realized, every single time I go to this barber, the wait is somewhere between an hour and two hours. No joke. Even when I go at the times where it says on Google, it's the least packed or whatever, maybe everyone's just going at that time because they're least packed, according to Google, I don't know. And so I'm like, fuck this. I'm going to look and see if I can get like a barber to come to me. Doesn't exist. That doesn't exist in my area. Like, okay, well, then I want to find a place with reservations. Doesn't exist in my area. The closest place that does reservations is like some dude's house an hour away from here, who's open two days a week. I'm like, well, then I have to find another barber where I'm not waiting, you know, that long, because that's just fucking insane. Why would they not do reservations? That is a fantastic question. I suppose from a business's perspective, it's just additional pain in the ass. You go to book people in and then they don't show up and all that jazz. If you can just get a consistent influx of customers, why would you bother with reservations? And clearly they can get that so they don't bother. What was funny to me, though, is they had a small chalkboard that, you know, says different things like you can get them champ, that kind of stuff. And it said inactivity is the greatest sin. I'm sitting there in this chair for a fucking hour. I'm like, this is the most inactive I ever am in my life, waiting for my barber. And no other point, even when I'm taking a break, I'm on vacation, when I'm taking a day off, I am more actively doing stuff than I am waiting for the barber. Why did I leave the barbers yesterday, man? I should have just sat there for another hour and accepted my fucking two hour wait. I'm going to try every single barber within range of my house, like within an hour, to see if at least one of them isn't so overbooked that I have to wait an hour or two for a fucking haircut and shave. People keep telling me to cut my own hair. No, you can't book in advance. That's what the whole conversation was about, Arctic. Did you just arrive? Nowhere takes reservations, Nimi. Nowhere. I have to travel like an hour and a half to go to a place that takes reservations. You guys ever seen that clip from, I think it's one of the Dragon Ball Z movies, the dubbed version? It's been recommended to me like nine times on YouTube. It's just one of the androids saying, don't you lecture me with that $30 haircut. I think about that a lot. I know what that means. It just sounds so funny. I think it's your actually. Don't you lecture me with your $30 haircut. Is $30 a lot for a haircut? It may surprise you given how much I complain about how long I wait at my barber, but I'm charged more than that. I mean, I guess in American dolls it would probably be $30, but I mean, in Australian dolls it's like $50. Sometimes more than that. Like if I come in with my hair particularly long, I'm getting so fucked by this fucking barber, dude. You know what I did yesterday, though? I, in my entire life, have never really known what to say to a barber. And I would just be like, yeah, just make it short on top. And I'd say like a three and a two or something, and then just kind of guide them as they're doing it. But I actually Googled like what to say to a barber, and I watched a video and it's like, I think I want a tapered crew cut or something with like a tapered back or something. And yeah, so I actually wrote down what I want to say to the new barber that I go to, and I'll see how I go, you know? That uncertainty, even after 30 years as to what to say, like I should have solved it a long time ago, you know? Give them a photo. Hey, I find this guy physically attractive. Can you make him like, well, make me like him, please? Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! |
| 20. October 2021 | My basic response to everything | My basic response to anything. None of my reactions to anything is ever feigned or forced, I swear to you. And I watch my- the videos of me reacting to stuff. I say what a lot. Like, like a weird amount. Like it's- my response to anything abnormal is just, what? |
| 02. March 2022 | My battle to get a pizza from dominos. | My battle to get a pizza from Domino's. So here's a story for you, chat. Last night at 717, I ordered myself a pizza. And so I'm like, you know, it's a public holiday, probably understaffed, I won't complain. Rolls around to like 9 p.m. I'm like, it's been two hours now, and the system has just instantly changed from cooking pizza to pizza has been delivered. And so I tried to call them and I couldn't get through. It just kept instantly hanging up the phone. So I'm at 30 bucks, I've waited two hours, and I still haven't eaten, like I haven't eaten all day. And well, that's unfortunate. So I ordered the exact same meal again, and the dude comes to my door, he's like, yeah, like eventually comes to my door like half the half now. He's like, oh yeah, so I'm out of, so we're out of a bunch of ingredients and stuff, and we're out of ice cream. So here's, instead of the ice cream that you ordered, here is one can of Mountain Dew and a garlic bread. And here's your pizza as well. I'm like, I know how that math works out that a Mountain Dew and a garlic bread equals ice cream, but maybe that's some sort of a alchemic sort of thing, like alchemy, you combine those two things and get that. But I was like, whatever, that's fine. At least I finally got my food now after two and a half hours. And I opened it up and I'm looking at like, shit, they were, they wasn't kidding, they're really out of ingredients because this Mega Meat Lovers pizza has just beef. I'm like, I'm not gonna complain. I just want to eat pizza. And I'm like, wait a second, this has red onion on it. I fucking hate onion, especially the red kind. I can't eat this. What am I gonna do with this? And so I'm like, so clearly, and I look, I like, I had no idea they even had red onion in any meal. I actually looked at the ingredients of the Mega Meat Lovers, like all this time I didn't know they had red onion in Mega Meat Lovers pizzas. And so I looked this up and it turns out they sent me the wrong pizza. They sent me a beef and red onion pizza. That is a pizza chat. There are crazy people out there who want to eat beef and red onion pizzas. And so I called them like 17 times, finally get through. And I'm like, can I have my Mega Meat Lovers pizza? And like, I mean, you know, please. And they're like, oh, yeah, I'm sorry. I'm like, can you cancel my first order too? Cause like that one still doesn't come. They're like, oh, yeah, all right. Quick, get Mega Meat Lovers pizza for this guy. Yeah, all right. Yeah, I can do it. No worries. And so I go, well, now I don't even have like a timer to watch, is the pizza gonna come? And then like, I call like half an hour later, I'm like, hey, can I, and the guy says, well, we're closed. I'm like, I'm just that guy that Mega Meat Lovers pizza and I kind of still want it. He's like, oh yeah, he's on his way. And so like, and like three and a half hours later, since I first made the first order, I finally get my Mega Meat Lovers pizza. And it was I. Rather than my ice cream Mega Meat Lovers pizza, I got a garlic bread, a can of Mountain Dew, which I hadn't had in a long time, but it was actually interesting to try that after a long time. I got a, I got this beef and onion pizza. See, I got the evidence, Chen. I'm not making this shit up. It happened, I swear. And I got my Mega Meat Lovers pizza, which has one piece left, which I'm not gonna eat because it's been on my floor for a day. And that's the end of my story. |
| 03. April 2021 | My best clip that never went viral. | My best clip that never went viral. Your GTA short clips on YouTube are addicting as fuck to watch. Guys, sometimes I upload clips that I think are funny or absurd. And I'm like, please let this clip get viral. Just please let more people watch this. And it does poorly. And I'm like, I've let the internet down. I had a chance to enrich people's lives with this amazing clip. And I've tiled it wrong, made the thumbnail wrong. Basically, I'm saying is, guys, I apologize that your lives haven't been enriched by all my clips. Only a select amount. I'm sorry. I've let you down. I'll do better in the future. Of course, the clip I'm referring to is the 100% original Duck Song video. Not enough. No, no, no, no, Duck Story. The 100% original Duck Story clip is a great clip. The Duck Story is amazing. It is funny. And I demand everyone watch it. You saw that vid? It was hilarious. Okay, I may be overselling it just a tad, but it perfectly scratches my itch of absurd humor kind of thing. Like, can I tell you a story? Once upon a time, there was a yellow duck and this duck, it walked up to a lemonade stand and said to the man running the stand, hey, bum, bum, bum, you got any lemonade? And the guy was like, yeah. That's like, I would like some lemonade. And so he received some lemonade. He drunk it and he went away satisfied. Didn't even waddle. Just walked away. The end. |
| 14. May 2020 | My best speedrun | What is the best single speedrun you've ever completed? I don't know. How good a speedrun is just depends on like, what's the best hypothetical time is, given the strats known at the time. I don't think any of my runs, any of my world records, any of my PBs have been insanely amazing. Like I've always looked at them and gone, yeah, you beat that in like a couple of months. That's doable. There's definitely time saved to be made there. There have been runs that have been made, especially in short speed runs where a person looked at it and gone, yeah, you could beat that by a frame and it'll probably take you 10 years. That kind of stuff. But new strats are always found. A new world record isn't necessarily a better run than the previous old record. There have been times where a run has been like on the razor edge of what's possible for human to possibly do. And then a two minute time save is found and that record gets beaten immediately. But the second run is like, you know, it beats it by 10 seconds. As in like it loses a minute 50, but it beats it technically because it has that new time save. There have been legendary world records. I don't think I've had one of those in GTA V personally, but maybe I'm just, I don't know, being negative about myself. |
| 08. June 2022 | My birthday cake. | My birthday cake. Matt didn't make food for himself. I bought myself a cake, then I realized I shouldn't eat more that day, so I put it in my fridge. It's now been in my fridge for three days, and I have yet to find an opportunity to eat even a slice of it. That is my cooking. I ordered a cake. What did I order? It's like a passion fruit chocolate cake. I like passion fruit, I like chocolate, therefore presumably I would like them both together. It was my birthday, so I didn't get any cake on my birthday, so I thought I'd buy myself a cake. I thought you weren't supposed to keep cake in the fridge. Since when? I've never heard of such a thing in my life. Is that because in some countries, like, some countries, they don't put eggs in the fridge. And some countries they do. It spoils in the fridge because fridges aren't like, time lock machines. Things still just die, but just die slowly. Or more slowly. Put myself in the fridge and freeze time. It only cools time, chat. |
| 19. February 2023 | My blinds were finally put in and it was a disaster. | My blinds were finally put in and it was a disaster. I got so sick of talking about the issues with my blinds that I think the last two issues I just didn't talk about, didn't put them in rambles if I did talk about them. So you guys are likely a couple of chapters behind. So we're just gonna skip forward to the channels. So I have blinds where here is, like I have two sets of blinds. Here's the window. I have one blind that goes over the top like this and another blind as well. One is like sheer that lets in some light. The other one is complete block out. But light of course goes from the sides of the blinds. So what I have is these channels which you put over the edges of the blinds to stop light from leaking out. I ordered these like back in June, but they took down my order wrong. So didn't make them, didn't order them. And then they installed the blinds without the channels and it took them another solid three months before they finally came and installed them. They have now installed them and I find it hard to understand how they could have so many faults as they do. So first up, the glue. I made them little videos to showcase all the faults. So here's where the installed side channels and you can see how there's just out the sides, just patches of light that come through. The part that's black that blocks light is where the glue is. So because the glue has been put intermittently and it seems to be thick glue, the channel doesn't actually go against the wall. So anywhere there's not glue, light comes through. But not on all of them. So clearly glue has been applied in different ways on different windows. So like you can compare this one, there's no light. Then you compare it to the start one, look at all that light coming through. Some have just been installed terribly. Now I thought this was the worst of the problems, but this isn't it. When there's floor, right, what you wanna do when installing a channel is go from the bottom up. So you line up the bottom with the bottom of the floor and so then it perfectly matches the bottom of the floor. Otherwise, if you start gluing from the top, you have a possibility that you're gonna be slightly off and so the channel is not going to match the floor. And so this is gonna happen. This one you can probably see the change a little bit better. See how clean that is? You know how it's attached to the wall, you can't see through. Just slowly go down. Oh look, there's the glue. It goes away, all the way at the bottom. It's off the wall. He's done it from the top down and so in order to get it to not go through my floor, it's had to be slightly off the wall. And so you can see all the glue and I hope he hasn't damaged my tiles. So this is fault two. Wait, we're not even halfway chat. Most of the installs have the issue of glue just leaking out the side of them. And I was like, oh, that is like ridiculously poor. Like how do you do this? Sometimes there's too little glue, sometimes there's too much, but it's all leaking outside. Why wouldn't you just mop that up or something? So this is issue three. There's glue leaking everywhere outside these channels. And in my room, this blockout blind doesn't reach my carpet. So rather than blocking out all the light, it has a huge chunk of light here. Worse than this, marks on these blinds show up quite well. And the dude has tore a rip in my blind. So I'm like 99.99% sure that I didn't do this because A, I don't go near my blinds. I live a life, I have no reason to go there, but I don't have anything sharp enough to cut this. But also like you can notice this from a mile away. So clearly he's had like one of the channels fall out of his hand and mar the blind as it's fallen down. He also got glue on the blind in two different spots. So you think that'd be the end of it. Like that is a lot of faults for like an installation of some channels, right? But no, there's more. So how far the channel overlaps with the blind is random. So say the channel is this large, sometimes the blind is in the direct middle, other times the blind is just barely on there. So the result looks like this. So here's the blind here, here's the channel, and you can see how the blind is just barely in the channel. So this is the channel going all the way down, this is the blind going all the way down. It's like a huge bunch of the channel, the blind is simply not in. And this compares to say this one, if we can zoom in a bit, where like the blind is really in the channel, like it's barely any of the channel left that the blind is not in. Compare those two. This is like over a centimeter, and this is like two millimeters. So like the channel was not placed consistently in relation to where the blind was. It was just whacked on there. It's like, oh, it's in there, it's good enough. In there, it's good enough. And you think, well, that's dumb. Like that's stupid, like, okay, maybe just an oversight that the person didn't can think that they should like measure, say like a centimeter from the blind and then put the channel in the same place for all of them. I mean, it's a weird oversight, but that could possibly happen. Maybe that's just, this person's new to their job, but it gets worse than this. So I really have reason to put up these blinds. I didn't notice until now, but like every single one of these channels is crooked. I thought about measuring it or like drawing a line and stuff, but I think just straight on, you can see that it's crooked, like about half a centimeter, but all of them are this way. Not just this one, not a single one of these was measured. Not just in relation to the blind, as I originally believe, but even in relation to itself. I cannot fathom why this was done. All of these need to be taken out. I have no idea what kind of damage the glue is gonna do, but this is the worst installation of anything I've ever seen. I probably don't need to point this out to you how off this is, but it's off by like a centimeter or something, comparing the top to the bottom. Like it wasn't simply that they weren't measured in relation to the blind, they weren't measured in relation to itself. So they're all angled. So you think this must be it, right? There cannot be more faults, but there are more faults. He scratched some, not just once, but multiple times. They also discovered either channels were put on the wrong windows, or some of them were just measured incorrectly, and thus extend outside the window itself. At least in one case, it was so poorly measured that when the blind is going up, the blind itself grates into the channel doing damage to the blind. Like I understand, I ordered these things in June of 2022. We are now in February of 2023. Every single part of this installation process, not just the installation process, the buying, the communication, just the emails, the people, the, every aspect of this has been done poorly in ways that I could not conceive of things being done poorly. In like the worst potentially nine, 10 months of my life, I've had to deal with this just as a nonstop buzzing in my ear, buying blinds. Am I eligible for a refund? I have not paid them for these channels yet, thankfully, because I learned my lesson when they screwed up the blinds. I was like, they're gonna keep screwing things up. I am no longer giving them a cent until everything is done. Unfortunately, the thing that cost the most money was the blinds. So these channels probably worth like two to $3,000 for the entire house, because there's a lot of them. You gotta understand, even if I just end up getting these for free, the cost to fix this, not simply get new ones and install them, but remove these, would be more than what I paid for them the first time round. I just want this to be over chat. Are they gonna replace me? I don't know, they haven't got back to me. The dude was meant to come around today between one and 3 p.m. and wouldn't you know it, he didn't come around. Oh, what a surprise. It's almost like they've done that now like a dozen times. I am perfectly willing to write essays about every topic you can conceive of. I will just spend hours carefully explaining my point of view about things. When this is all over, unless they can make it up to me somehow, I will tear this company to shreds in every single avenue possible, on every single forum, on every single board review place. I don't know, I will look up the parents of people who work there and send them letters being like, hi, I'm a concerned citizen and I think your child is being terrible at their job and here's why. And so even the parents can be like, oh son, it seems that you've made someone very mad here by being terrible at your job. Let me read you this out, just so everyone will know how bad this company is. Okay, too far, I am joking. I'm obviously joking, but I'll make a video about it. I will do the research. I will dig back and find every single thing that these people screwed up about and I will spend the rest of my life promoting this video to every single person on the planet. |
| 08. November 2022 | My blinds were installed but the drama never ends | My blinds were installed but the drama never ends. So you might notice that my room is a little bit brighter than normal. Watch as my room goes darker. You might think, given that my blinds have been installed and you can see that I can press them with the button or whatever, that my blinds were successfully installed and nothing went wrong. But in reality, they didn't order the right thing. Despite in the shop where I ordered them, I was like, I want these ones with the things on the sides. Yeah, they're like, yeah, yeah, we get it. We want the trims and locks in, yeah, yeah. No light at all, yeah, yeah, I understand, yeah, yeah. And we're gonna order them right now for you. When the dude came in, I explained all to him again in intricate detail and they ordered the wrong thing. Not only did they order the wrong thing, but the thing I actually want is 6,000 more dollars. So in some total, my entire house with 20 motors and 20 blinds is $30,000. I'll show you what they forgot to order. Here is a window. You have the pyramid on top. So within here, there is two rolls. One roll there and another one behind it. One is like a kind of sheer curtain that comes down like this, or it's a blind. I can see out and light comes in, but from the outside, you can't see inside. Consider it like, and then there's another one that comes down, so it's perfectly block out. No light gets through here. The thing that they, so this is all fine. They've installed all this, right? But the thing that they forgot was the things that go on the side. There's meant to be a track here and a track here so that this last blind perfectly fits in here so that there's no light that comes from the sides. Without these tracks, light comes out here, here, and here. For these things on the sides, for all the blinds, they want six grand. I don't think it's a classic upsell. I do legitimately think they failed. They just seem to be a very incompetent company. No one would be willing to present themselves as this incompetent so frequently, especially in ways that has no benefit to them and just causes them inconvenience as well. It's incredible how you said exactly what you wanted and still didn't get what you wanted multiple times to multiple different people, emphasizing specifically in particular aspects, and still. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 04. December 2020 | My body and face proportions | My body and face proportions. No homo, you look better with a short beard. Honestly, because I am a little bit overweight, I think my face looks too thin for my body when I don't have a beard. Me, like, it's honestly a matter of just, you know, looking at yourself in the mirror for 50 minutes and analyzing every single flaw in your body kind of thing. Like, I don't think that's an assessment that a person would normally come to when looking at me. But it bothers me, which is why I'd rather lose some weight. But it's harder than it looks. I would like to be back around 85. I'm like 93 or something. But Matt, people don't look at you. You spend all day inside. It gets a fair point. |
| 26. March 2023 | My brilliant yet unappreciated jokes. | of Dark Viper making amazingly funny jokes and people not understanding them. It needs to be like its own section of rambles because it happens a lot. So Moodahar tweets out Home. Just home. Representing him coming home from a trip or whatever. And so I retweet this with this image. POV. It's the Rockstar Social Club. When you're playing GTA 5 and you press the home button This is what pops up. So he he's hitting home. And so this is his POV. This is funny. I was legit on iPad when I decided to put this joke on Twitter and Because of that it took so much extra effort to do. I didn't even know how to put out this person's name because it's just a random thing I took from Google and so I had to figure out on the iPad how to Use the paintbrush and stuff. I put time and effort into this even while knowing that no one would get it Or they'd be like ten people who got it or whatever, but I found it hilarious Sometimes chat even if jokes won't be understood or appreciated you got to make them for your own sake, right? So at like 15 past midnight when it was my birthday, I Wanted to tweet out like hey, it's my birthday, but that felt kind of lame So I'm like, what's a joke I could make and so I gave five minutes of thought and I came up with this Dang today. I broke my 364 day streak of it not being my birthday starting to think getting a PB here is impossible because like Every single year I get 364 day streak of it not being my birthday I can never do better. Ha ha ha and someone down below was like hey, what about leap years? Because there's like 366 days in those years. So your PB there will be 365 and I was like, look you can over analyze any joke. I Still think the joke is good. I think taking leap years into account wouldn't have made it like work, but that is technically true So this person Danny tweeted me. Oh my god Is that dark fiber a you as Danny saying whoa thick thighs moment? I was like why you wait, what do you mean? Why would you think this is me? What I'm like, oh wait down here Matthew judge smash my real name is Matthew judge. I was like, huh? That's funny I thought you were trying to say I had thick thighs for a minute. Lol. How dare that guy take my name and So people like pics or it didn't happen or whatever. They want to see my thighs and I was like, well as a meme when it's daytime I'll take a picture of my thighs and so like there we go. My knee looks weird as fuck there I got it looks like I have a little bump there. I got a scar here from when I hit a park bench When I was like 10 or something there was like an oval a perfect oval that you like rides your bikes on right and I looked behind me at Someone and I drove straight rather than turns and I just like my knees went directly into a park bench as in like just In there. I just remember like waking up blood on my leg and my mother screaming hysterically hysterically for doctors or whatever And I remember the process of the doctor taking out The stitches and you like when he pulled them out like my skin which went Was like, you know weird shit. So yeah good memes the useful benefits of chat GPT So while AI |
| 21. September 2022 | My cameo in Karl Jobst video | My cameo in Carl Jobs' video. I did a cameo in Carl Jobs' video, Video Game Collector Calls Me a Fraud. How this came about was the dude said something so stupid that the first thing that came to Carl's mind was my old paint rants where someone would say something and I'd open paint and explain the thing using like a poorly drawn diagram and so he's like hey can you do that for me for what he's saying here? The basic premise is that another creator was accusing Carl of thinking that the entire video game collector market is a scam. Hey, check this out. This circle represents the entire graded video games market. Within this you've got the different grading companies, auction houses, you've got the private sellers, the professional resellers, you've got collectors and speculators and so on and this little circle here represents what are games and heritage auctions. Now if you look very closely you should be able to see that this circle is actually smaller than the larger circle. This naturally being unsurprising because if you are a part of something by definition you are not the totality of that thing. So if water and heritage perpetrate a scam that does not mean the entire market itself is a scam because again this is small circle and this is big circle. You get it? Being critical of a part of something doesn't necessitate being critical of the entire thing. So I did like three takes of that. That was my first take and he thought that was the best one. I disagree. I thought the third take was better, but I think it came out pretty well. It's fun to be included. Improvement |
| 16. May 2020 | My casual gta v experience | Did you play GTA V casually before you started speedrunning it? I had not played GTA V even a single bit before I saw Witwix speedrunning it and I said this looks like a game I might want to speedrun. Playing through it the first time, I softlocked the other way through or something because a mission wouldn't spawn. Can't remember what mission it was. Whether it was just user error, I'm pretty sure it wasn't. I looked around for all the side activities and nothing would spawn on the map. Tried on every character. Which happened back then for a few people that the game was softlocked. So I said fuck it I'm just gonna learn the speedrun. So I learned the speedrun and my second playthrough of the game was speedrun. So I never finished the game. |
| 22. April 2021 | My channel has a lot of memes now | My channel has a lot of memes now. I was on Mr. Phillips and I'm aiming to kill this guy and a cougar comes out of nowhere and just kills me. And I'm freaking out like, I didn't know cougars could be in missions. What the hell? And so it's a running joke now that, anywhere I go people are like, oh watch out for cougars Matt. You got a lot of that sort of stuff going on in your channel, it's so good. Oh, I've been around long enough, there's enough running memes. That's true. Although a lot of newer viewers don't know the memes. I mean thinking about making a video just to cover them all. Because there's some like really old ones. Does it ever get tiresome for you? No, the only ones that I don't like are the ones that involve a lot of spam. Like memes that aren't even necessarily mine like, hi YouTube and Kifflown people spam sometimes. Yeah that kind of sucks. Like the disingenuous dance blah blah blah thing, are you like, oh my god I like it? They made a lot of memes on the Reddit and a lot of them were really funny. But eventually it does, there's too much of it. I mean it kind of comes full circle or whatever. You like it then it gets kind of boring and then people stop doing it and it becomes kind of funny again. It's true actually. |
| 19. February 2023 | My channel peaked in my high school days. | My channel peaked in my high school days. So I was shown my profile, I guess, on Know Your Meme, Dark Viper AU, bit out of date, obviously, but I saw this and I was like, just found out I peaked in high school, rough 13 year old me had everything figured out, man, and there were just a bunch of people searching for Dark Viper AU in 2004. It's just like, what the hell? I don't know how Google Trends really works. Maybe it's like searches relative to searches around the time. I mean, there are other Dark Vipers out there, but I don't know of any other Dark Viper AUs. |
| 23. December 2022 | My chaotic adventure to the hair dresser. | Okay, also a good venture to the hairdresser. So today I did something stupid chat, surprising I know. But I checked my phone last night and it was like 1am and my hairdresser said, Hey, you want to come in for a haircut on Tuesday at 4pm? I look at my phone and I'm like, Uh, oh it's Monday, so tomorrow will be Tuesday. I'm like, yeah, yeah, I'll come in at 4pm. So I went to bed and woke up, I'm like, well it's the next day then I'll go get my haircut. So I drove 40 minutes to the place where I get my haircut. And I arrive and I walk in, I'm like, there's no one here. Even the dogs aren't here. What's going on? I check my phone, it's still Monday. I was like, oh yeah, I checked my phone at 1am Monday. The next day isn't Tuesday, it's just a continuation of Monday. So I go, whoops, get back in my car. I drive like 10 minutes down the road and I get a call from my hairdresser. And she's like, were you just at my house? And I'm like, yeah? She's like, well, you're here now, come back and I'll give you a haircut. And I'm like, alright, fair enough. And so I drove back and she gave me a haircut. Which is nice, because the alternative would have been that I would have had to have waited, like driven 40 minutes back and then the next day come back again 40 minutes and then back again, wasting another day. It was a very dumb decision. So I got my haircut, that's what my hair's short about right now, chat. Isn't it great? |
| 30. March 2021 | My chat now gets timed out for saying Hi YouTube. | People in my chat now get timed out for greeting YouTube So if you guys noticed that you get timed out now when you type hey YouTube you're timed out for like three minutes I'm aware mentioning it will cause people to type it and be like really and get timed out But um, yeah felt as though whenever I'm rambling and stuff having people type some greeting in YouTube was clogging up the chat enough that I Couldn't look over and see responses or whatever right at the end of day Spam can be interesting But too much of it can make chat unreadable |
| 21. August 2021 | My chill Streams that make for bad Youtube content | My chill stream games that make for bad YouTube content. What I really want to do also is play Dark Souls 2, honestly. I am so not bored of speedrunning GT5. Speedrunning GT5 is all I want to do, but it's more taxing mentally. And there's so much more preparation that I have to do for it. I shouldn't be playing these games. I should be completing my editing work, completing Doomsday, playing Max Payne 2. Even Half-Life 1 would be better. These are the games I should not be playing. I just want to finish them so I never have to play them again. On my days when I'm sad, these are the games I like to play. Because they're not taxing. Like, there's just, out there, there's tons of unique, interesting games that I could be playing that would actually make content for YouTube and people would actually want to watch. But instead, I play Slay the Spyre and Noita, because they're games I already know and enjoy, you know? Really what I should do, in the future, is when I feel sad, just be like, I get on stream and be like, look guys, give me a game. I will buy it and I will play it. You know? I enjoyed HOME 3, but HOME 3 requires a lot more knowledge to play well, and it's PvP and very time consuming. |
| 30. March 2021 | My clip was too lewd for YouTube. | My clip was too lewd for YouTube My clip of a joke I made about tables got taken down From YouTube for violating its terms of service. They really didn't like my joke So for those unaware, there's a cutscene with Franklin on this side mission Where if you have low distance scaling set in your graphics The table doesn't appear when the pop star is being fucked by This other dude, or I guess they're both pop stars or whatever And so that it just looks like they're levitating while having sex and a person in chat was like Why is there no table like they're meant to be leaning on a table? And I was like because she's a strong independent woman who doesn't need no table and apparently YouTube really didn't like my joke so they removed my clip |
| 02. February 2023 | My clips channel has returned. | My clips channel has returned so the clips channel has been posted to for over three months Almost four months in part because it wasn't really doing well in the ends because the algorithm changed and strategy of uploading like a just a Ridiculous amount of clips didn't seem to be doing well It just wasn't worth the time and so I just called it, but now I'm doing something new I'm having Krim, Silva, and maybe Weller's Well It's always funny because Well's name is Well in sentences like that, but anyway I'm having them go through the videos that I produce and clipping out the things that they think are like the best stuff that will make sense as a short clip and then I'm gonna have them give them to me and I'm going to pick out the best ones and Edit those best ones to be more than simply just a clip from one of my videos. I will improve it I will shorten it I will add stuff to it potentially to make it fit more as an individual clip rather than just a It being a portion of a larger video There's 17 that have been done now based off five videos and the plan is to release like two a day Did it tank subs during inactivity or not really? Nah, I mean I lost like a thousand subs a month or something But you got to remember that most people do not unsubscribe from channels It just takes too much effort You just forget you subscribe to them and then just a million years later they upload a video and then you unsubscribe So when like when the first video comes here if it's not good Then there's probably gonna be a lot of people who unsubscribe because I'm like, oh, I remember this channel Fuck that dark vibe that you do unsubscribe. So long story short is coming back I don't know how good it's gonna be but the main reason I want it done is because I want More clips that I can potentially use for shorts on my main channel because eventually I will run out of shorts So I need some system that can go through all my videos to find the really raw Amazing stuff to make in shorts. |
| 26. April 2021 | My clips channel is the 6th most influential australian channel. | Clip's channel is the 6th most influential channel in Australia. My Clip's channel is listed as the 6th best channel in Australia? It is not. Where does it list that? Um, it says I'm 665th. But that's- that's based on subscribers, I think. I've never seen one that just says......based on viewership. Oh, shit it is! Based on viewership, my Clip's channel is the 6th most popular channel......on Social Blade. Look at the difference between me and Laserbeam! Ahahaha! Well, how do they- how do they sort popular? Oh, this is by SB Rank. Because I- how does- how is Social Blade Rank......calculated? What... is... Social Blade Rank? Oh, is that it? I- I'm ju- I'm just Social Bladed a lot. It aims to... show my influence. Oh, okay, I see. According to Social Blade......my Clip's channel is the 6th most influential channel in Australia. Based on their Social Blade score. Or some such. Coolio. Okay, that's some fun information. Thank you, person, for informing me of that. |
| 07. February 2021 | My clips channel surpassing main channel in views. | My second channel surpassing my main channel in views. How do you feel your second channel surpassing your main channel in views? Well, I mean, that's just, that's just understandable, because like, one video that contains 20 facts, if you want to watch it on my main channel, it gives me one view, but if you want to watch it on my side channel, it gives me 20 views, you know? Like, my side channel has five times the videos or something, of my main channel. It's funny guys, looking at all these clips of me speedrunning, having terrible things happen, hours into a run, raging, being so angry sometimes, I look at these clips and I go, man, I miss that so much. It's not even been that long, but I look upon my speedrunning clips with the biggest nostalgia you've ever seen. It's like, aw, he's so angry, he lost all that time to hitting that car. Aww. Can't wait to get back to it. But I'm sure I'll quickly get annoyed again. |
| 07. June 2021 | My clips saw a boost in revenue | My clips saw a boost in revenue. So here's a funny thing chat. I talked before about how there was a bug on YouTube where the when I saw the the revenue for videos under two minutes massively reduced so for like a Seven day period or something the revenue cut in half, but then YouTube's like oh we fixed it now We fixed it and the revenue doubled as in it went it halved and then quadrupled So it doubled from its original point my daily revenue for the clips channel It basically quadrupled but I haven't been uploading clips as much during that time coincidentally because I've been busy with other stuff Like the revenue on that channel was always really low and I actually sent an email like is it meant to be this low? It feels kind of low and then I as I said before I discovered the reason why it looks so low is because any video under 30 seconds doesn't get pre-roll ads so Because you know a third of the videos maybe even more than that don't get pre-roll ads It makes it look like the the well the average revenue for the videos is very low But they might have even tweaked it so maybe even more videos get pre-roll ads now like above 20 seconds or something I mean, that's why the revenue is boost. I don't know either way I should spend a day just dedicated to making nothing but clips or something to capitalize on this, but I probably won't |
| 05. January 2022 | My clothing shopping spree | My clothing shopping spree. So I went out today and I went shopping. I haven't bought clothes in like a bajillion years and I hate buying clothes. I'm just like I'll take this and this and this. It's anything that is like I want some fancy clothes so anything that is long-sleeved and dark I bought that and anything that's like a black pair of pants I bought that too and they're like oh you're buying a lot of stuff is that cuz it's Black Friday I'm like oh it is Black Friday that's cool I legit bought $1,500 worth of stuff and I saved $500 as then as though it cost me a thousand dollars and I hope to never buy clothing again I hope most of it fits I barely like I ha I tried everything on but like sizes don't mean sizes anymore chat it's stupid right now I'm like a straight 34 no I'm a straight medium but like if it's a medium slim fit it's too small so then I have to go large some large slim fit or a medium and medium poly just a little bit too tight and slim fit large maybe just a little bit too large but there's nothing to do about it as far as pants go the same sort of thing I'm between a 34 and a 35 sort of thing depending upon the particular type and I'm like so I like denim pants different from like chinos what's a chino it's just like and then I tried this other pair of pants and like I was up to like a 38 before it was kind of I could wear it it was dumb and like I'm losing more weight hopefully yeah I don't know so I just bought a bunch of stuff and they said I can bring in stuff to change for sizing and stuff so that's good |
| 07. August 2021 | My comments on becoming a gaming YouTuber before I was one | My comments on becoming a gaming YouTuber before I was one. If these are gaming YouTubers, man, I'm not a gaming YouTuber. I don't do let's plays or anything. I don't think anyone would be interested in me doing let's plays. |
| 08. June 2021 | My continued enjoyment of smash tournaments | My continued enjoyment of Smash tournaments. So I was watching more Smash yesterday. They're doing a lot of tournaments. I'm not sure what it's for. Like I haven't really kept up with like is there a prize pool or you know whatever. I don't know. I've just been enjoying the matches and Zayn and Mango, Marth V, Falco watching the VOD yesterday. Fucking incredible. But I always also scroll back and I always see where Hungrybox came. Hungrybox just feels like such an underdog. I heard someone describe him as, you probably wouldn't like to hear this, but I heard him described as the worst good player. As in like there's a certain level where he dominates everyone, right? Despite not really being in his prime. And then he gets up to like, you know, the like the top, I don't know, six people or something and then he just struggles. Like he's still obviously really good, but you just never expect him to win a tournament now. And so because he like feels like the named underdog, I always want to see how well he goes. It's always exciting like, oh, is he going to get this? Oh, he didn't. Better luck next time Hungrybox, you know. And plus when he wins his pop-offs and stuff, he's so happy and excited and stuff. And it's it's infectious. It's always good to see, you know. Hbox was unbeatable for you, Speck. Yeah, exactly. And the question is for me, is that because there was less people you were able to put in all the practice, maybe there's less money, whatever, less people dedicating a lot of time to it or less people had experience against Puff? Because having serious practice once upon a time, like you actually have to get someone of your skill level in the room with you, you know. But now you can do it online with rollback and slippy and stuff and people just able to figure things out like they never could before. Like how much of Hungrybox's dominance was him being insanely good versus other people just not being in the right context to to flush? How much of his drop off is him not playing as much melee versus other people just being able to play more of it? I don't know, you know. I remember watching something where a person was like, yeah, so before my set, I was like grinding, practicing. And there's just Hungrybox just like sitting in the crowd having a lovely time, not really taking things too seriously. |
| 23. February 2022 | My continued meme dominance of reddit | My continued meme dominance of reddits. So first up, I want to show you something. As unlikely as it might seem, I have made 19 episodes of my reddit recaps. 19 episodes of just memes dedicated towards me. And I think my reddit, conceivably, might be like the largest subreddit dedicated to an individual speedrunner. I'm almost at 90,000 readers, right? And because people know that I do a lot for my reddit recap, people are motivated to make memes about me and stuff. Because they might get attention, I might see it and stuff. And because there's an audience of people looking at that stuff, there will be an audience who looks at the stuff as well. And so occasionally, I'll get links to posts like this. Runs dead. Speedrunners when they miss a once in a lifetime input that could have saved them 0.2 nanoseconds. That's boss baby yelling. I've done that. I feel that. I'm like, oh, okay, someone just link me into a random subreddit that says runs dead because that's the thing that I say. But then I look down and all the comments are about me. Do you want to second run Cougar? No, this is not Cougar's admissions. That's Binion's the one. This is actually Binion's the one. I look so orange. I look like an oompa loompa. This one, okay, well, yeah. These ones are about me. This one isn't about me, but you go down, Minions to one, Aunt Cougar's Davey, how you doing? I like how so many people agree on which specific GTA 5 streamer it is. Like, I find that funny. I can have this kind of reach or whatever of my memes. It's very flattering. It's got 40,000 uploads. I think it's really cool. I think making that Reddit recap series was like the best decision I ever made. I don't think it will last forever because I'm not as bombastic as I used to be, right? Like that boss baby yelling. I'm not doing that these days because at this point, you know, a second doesn't matter to me because I'm so far behind. But maybe one day I will once more be in contest for world record and flip my shit when I don't get it. We'll see you then. |
| 16. May 2021 | My continued weight decline | My continued weight decline. I was almost at 84 kilos yesterday. I was at like 85.3 or something. Getting down to 84 kilos has been really difficult. I was saying before, like, I went from like 93 to 85 really quickly. I just banged like that, as if my body had been wanting to get back to 85 kilos for a long time. Like, because 85 kilos is the weight that I had for most of my life, I think. But then when I hit 85, it was just like, no. It really lagged. I have been eating a little bit more though. Like, I kind of went crazy with it for that two weeks. Like, I went to bed like almost starving every night, kind of thing. And now I like, I have one decent meal. I don't even count calories. It's just like I eat a decent amount of food. I usually end up going to bed a little bit hungry, but nowhere near what I was for that two weeks. I do certainly feel and look better though. I'm definitely still carrying more weight than I want to though. |
| 30. September 2022 | My controversial tweet making waves on Twitter | Controversial tweet making waves on Twitter. So I wrote a very controversial, very multi-layered, hard to unpack tweet, and I wanna dedicate maybe the next hour to explaining it in full. I feel like we can learn a lot from this tweet, so let's just break it down. Go fuck a duck. Now, as you might immediately recognize, fuck and duck only like one letter different. It's pretty important. Why did I write this? I wrote it because it made me giggle. As with all the stupid things I write on Twitter, it is just something that I and I think my sister used to say sometimes back in the day, and I remember that and I was like, huh, that's kinda funny, and so I wrote it. The other one I think we used to say was go fuck a tree, which actually makes a little bit more sense and doesn't involve the probable death of an animal, so little bit better, but tree doesn't rhyme with fuck, so not as good. The. |
| 04. December 2020 | My cooking skills | My cooking skills Can I cook I can put things on my stove and watch them heat and then consume? What is heated but I I don't have all those fancy spices and stuff. You know, I'm just like here's some sausages Gonna eat the sausages. I like I cook I was I told you I cook salmon and they're like, oh, what do you put on? I'm like, I just I just cook the salmon. I put the salmon on the pan Then flip it over and then I eat the result. I don't put anything on |
| 01. March 2022 | My criticism of Hasan piker and the reduction of my political content | of uh, Grief of Jesus and Chaos, some uh, some Charlie quotes. My criticism of Hassan Paika and the reduction of my political contents. When will I collab with Hassan? Uh, I'm very confident that I unfairly maligned Charlie, but I-I don't think that is the case with Hassan. I uh, no. Look, to some extent, obviously just... insulting other content creators is not something that I should really do, especially not at my size. But uh, my jab at Hassan in my final response video was more about... well, one, taking a jab at Hassan, but also because I wanted to communicate like if someone else of note said something similar to that, like it would just be at the top of livestream fails tomorrow. But that's just not- I'm just not in that position. Because what did the- what did the Twitch leaks say? I was like... 296th? In terms of revenue on the platform or something? I'm in that spot of being a big creator, but not um... I haven't been around long enough to be like um, your household name you could say. Did I see Hassan's video? Uh, no. Hassan wouldn't even read my script. Uh, that doesn't surprise me. I don't like going into politics all that much anymore, except on like explaining underlying principles as opposed to talking about like uh, the actual politics of the day. That kind of stuff I'm fine with. Um, like my reasoning for supporting different ideas or whatever. Some of that still gets in there as long as it's not too controversial. I would have to kind of go deeper into my ideas and values and stuff, uh, and people like myself to kind of explain why Hassan would be very hesitant to read that kind of criticism about himself. But basically, if Hassan actually has any of the values that he espouses, which to some degree I don't think he does actually have, uh, he would probably feel very guilty very frequently about his life. The amount of mental effort he would have to go through to rationalize the way that he lives, to make it so that he doesn't face every day that he is like, uh, he's living contradictory to his own values. It would take a lot of effort is what I'm suggesting. He is everything that he criticizes in this world, and facing that would be emotionally devastating. He would run for it- from it as much as he can because it benefits him to do so, benefits his bottom line. Then again, that's only if he actually has those values, which I am- I'm skeptical that he does. Like, I've heard in passing from people who apparently knew Hassan earlier on, that he wasn't like, the big lefty that he is today, like he had other views. But, uh, to what degree he's- he's actually changed his views versus simply changed what he says to appeal to a particular audience? We can't know, because we can't get into his mind. The interesting question of what would Hassan believe or espouse if his uncle didn't run a progressive news network, and he wasn't immediately given a job there? Like, what would he be doing, and what would his belief structure be? Uh, I'm gonna say it's probably not anywhere close to what he's doing or saying right now, you know? But it doesn't matter, chat. As I keep saying, worrying about stuff that you can't change, criticizing other content creators and stuff is, uh, something that I need to stop doing. Need to let go of my righteous anger and just make content that people can enjoy. Keep stuff to rambles. You can't fathom who in their right mind would watch someone like Hassan. Some people just want to watch a guy clown on those they disagree with. They don't care about discussions or, like, the philosophical underpinnings of particular beliefs or other- They- they just wanna have a guy say, that fucking guy over there fucking sucks. I mean, they're gonna be wrong, but it is fun to a degree. Someone being like, Ben Shapiro? Fucking clown. The quartering? Oh my god, what a fucking scumbag. This is kinda funny stuff. But, like, the mindset of people who, like, just consume that kind of content all day, every day. It seems kind of toxic to me. I thought everyone thinks him talking about politics is BS. Every impassing reference I've heard of Hassan in the political world has always been negative. It is never, Hassan has had an amazing take. It's always, I can't believe Hassan said something this fucking stupid. What was the most recent one? Um... Watching a video from a political YouTuber on the Ukraine-Russia situation. And, like, Hassan was called out directly as a dense fuck who doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. Uh, being cited as a example of the limited kind of understanding that American left-wing political commentators can kind of have on Europe. But as I say, it's- it's a realm of content that I only really dip my toes into these days. It's not something that I'm super passionate about like I might have been back in the old days. Oh, Adam Something, that's who it was, yeah. He blew up really recently, right? Adam Something blew up because of his criticisms of Elon Musk and Dubai, I think? Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. |
| 06. March 2021 | My current classic% PB is really old | My current classic percent PB is really old. Fastest speedrun time? My PB is more than a year old. For classic it's still 620, which is ridiculously bad. I think my PB when I made it was... What was world record at that point? I know it was second place. Was it 618 or something? Like 617? No, it wasn't 613 at that point. No, no, yeah, I think it was 618. I think I was 2 minutes off. But certainly I've... fallen behind. It's what happens when you don't practice speedrun strats for a year. But I will get back there eventually guys. Don't you why? Don't you why? Just as soon as I complete this challenge. PB is 2 years old in April? It's been that long. God damn, man. Where does the time go? Like it feels like it was just yesterday I was doing runs every single day. I miss it so much dude. |
| 15. January 2022 | My dad barely avoiding death due to cirrhosis of the liver. | My dad recently barely avoiding death due to cirrhosis of the liver. Good news about my dad though, so your liver is a pretty interesting organ because it can like repair itself. I'm not sure to what degree, I'm not a doctor, but the doctor has been really surprised at how well my dad's doing with these steroids and stuff and he wanted to do more stuff to help him, but he's in a state where like if during one of these operations they do a small tear he will bleed out and die. So it's like a measured risk of how much can we do without putting him in unnecessary danger because it's diminishing returns, you know. They do more so it lowers the risk of him dying to liver failure or something like that. There's still the same risk of some sort of terror and having him bleed out, so eventually it reaches the point where it's like ah there's no, it's more risky now to do more compared to the gains that he gets. I am more pissed that I can't get my dad to do stuff. He doesn't want to go anywhere, he doesn't want to do anything, he's on like, he's at the edge of his life and I'm just like look, I can give you enough money to go anywhere you like in the world. Just see something, anything. And he's like nah, you know I like staying at home and I don't have to wake up any time and no one needs me to do stuff so I just prefer to stay at home and you know, move my lawn and it's like oh my god. It's just so painful. He just never wanted to go anywhere. For any reason. I should go with him. I mean if there wasn't a COVID outbreak I would. And that's not his concern for not going but it just made it hard, even if he gets out of hospital in seven days, what am I going to do with him? I can't go anywhere then because there's just COVID everywhere. Like obviously the risk when you double vaxx, even with Omicron or whatever, like I think we have like 4,000 more cases in New South Wales, like only two deaths because you know vaccines do their job. But for me with Hashimoto's and him with a stage three cirrhosis of the liver, either of us gets COVID and we're more likely to be in that domain of getting severely fucked. Him more so than me but I only ever saw my dad like two times a year but the last like six times I would have seen my dad over the last two years, like I haven't seen him because of COVID. Is laziness or just fear? No my dad is never likely to go anywhere for any reason. He loves his routine and he hates breaking it. |
| 12. September 2021 | My dad gave me an interesting birthday card | My dad gave me an interesting birthday card. My dad gave me a birthday card for my birthday with some money. And I want to show you the card. It says, celebrate the hamster way. Just have a ball and stuff down your face. Oh no, stuff your face. Get down all night then sleep all day. It's cute, it's funny. When he was giving it to me, he said, I shouldn't have done it. I saw the card and I was like, oh no, that's good. I opened it and it started singing. I'm like, oh my god, that's very funny. I was very impressed. And Megan's like, your stream's going to love that. I'm like, yeah, I'm going to tell him. |
| 10. July 2021 | My darker moments. | My darker moments. I've definitely had my darker moments, my depressed moments, and I think every single person on Earth has at some point in time said, maybe it'd be better if I was dead. Thought about how they'd kill themselves. Like, how would you go 80 years of normal life without ever thinking, man, what if I just jumped off this cliff right now? You know? In my darkest moments, I would always say to myself, I want to be happy, I don't want to be dead. I can't be happy when I'm dead. And that reasoning just seemed perfectly sound to me. Killing myself would in no way achieve the ends that I desired, and therefore it just didn't make sense to do. Things can always get better. The existence of people living happy, healthy lives demonstrated that it's a thing that I could also achieve. Why would I do something that wouldn't achieve my goal and would make my goal unachievable? You know? Especially while knowing that my goal could be achieved. CS... |
| 16. December 2019 | My dating advice | Do I have any dating advice? I am definitely the wrong person to ask for dating advice. I've had a handful of relationships in my life, none of them lasting a year, and I was awkward and terrible the entire way through. Never really understood what I was meant to be doing, and it was just terrible. To the extent where I haven't had a relationship. The last date I went on was probably over five years ago. It's probably creeping on six or seven. It's something I've never been super comfortable with. Whenever I think about getting into a relationship, I just think to myself, I don't want to spend the time. I can certainly see the upsides, but there's just so many downsides potentially. A relationship with a kind, caring, compatible person seems awesome, but the significant chance of having a relationship that is a complete and utter failure and terrible is high. If I was guaranteed a perfect, wonderful relationship with someone I'm perfectly compatible with, get that shit in a heartbeat. But the quest to find that is not necessarily one that I want to go down right now. Plus being a public figure, there's always the possibility that a relationship ends and anything confidential or whatever, or any mistakes I've made, or any times I've embarrassed myself, when I've been with my significant other, comes out in a revenge kind of way. While always possible in any relationship, in the case where you're a public figure, where more people are going to be interested in that kind of shit, it can fuck you up. Poor experience with relationships, not necessarily having the time for one right now, kept me from pursuing one. |
| 30. July 2020 | My dating experiences | My dating experiences. This would be some of my last Pepsi Max ever. When I get back to Sydney, I'll be taking care of myself. But it's like, what am I taking care of myself for, chat? Like, let's say I lose some weight and I feel better about myself physically. For what purpose? Is it ever likely that I'm going to have enough confidence in myself to introduce myself to a woman or what have you? I feel so out of place with that shit. I mean, when I was younger, I wouldn't say I was ever cocky or something, but at least I felt like it made more sense. It hadn't been so long since I'd been on a date or whatever. The last date I went on was like I was 22, and I haven't had that much relationship experience. And my relationships were in a large part failures. Partly again because of my seeming terrible understanding of people. People as a generality. Understandable. Person as an individual in the moment, understanding their wants or needs or their motivations. It's a lot harder. It's like conflicting emotions, right? I feel uncomfortable around people, but at the same time I want to be around people. It's terrible. In a weird way, I always imagined the best chance I've ever had for a relationship of some kind is if I become successful enough on Twitch that I pull an Asmongold where some female streamer will be like, oh yeah, this dark fapper guy, he's got some clouts. I'll date him or whatever to grow my career. And then you can hope coincidentally we'd hit it off anyway. And it wouldn't just be a person using me kind of scenario. Obviously not the ideal situation, but it's the circumstance that seems most likely in that the person will be motivated to overlook my glaring flaws. Sounds like a nice pipe dream. Being Asmongold, nice pipe dream. Jesus. I've done online dating before. I wasn't super successful at it. I've told those stories before. I met this girl, we went ice skating. And the reason why it's memorable though is because I parked my car underneath the ice skating rink or whatever in the underground parking and they locked the doors so I couldn't get my car at the end of the day because after the ice skating we walked around the pond and stuff and I assumed that if we had just left and got the car immediately it wouldn't have been closed. Yeah, so she had to drive me home which was quite awkward. Maybe I could do it again at some point. I don't know. Because again, I don't know how much I really care to find someone. I'm very conflicted when it comes to relationships or even friendships or whatever because people are a lot of work. I mean no offence to people. Hope you're not offended, chat. And I enjoy doing a lot of what I do already. Like I'm going to take a day off from streaming to go on a date and shit. That doesn't sound appealing to me. When initially meeting someone just to get to know and maybe have a good time, don't overcomplicate things like that in your head. Maybe get ahead of yourself. It's hard I know but sometimes just go with the flow. I remember once I was at the RSL. I was quite drunk. I was sitting around with my friends at the time or people I knew. There was a chick sitting alone by herself behind us. For whatever reason I decided to finish my drink and go talk to her. We have a lovely chat and for whatever reason we start talking about religion and she's not very religious and she seems very interested in everything I'm saying. Then just suddenly I see something really stupid. I basically sort of insulted her knowledge of something without intending to. I can remember seeing the look on her face as she became annoyed with me. Then she made an excuse to excuse herself and I was like I fucked up so badly there. It was just a terrible fucking moment. Even had I not done that I'm not sure how else that could have ended. The step by step process of introducing myself to a woman, getting her number or something or taking it back to my place. That was harder when I was living with my mother which I did once. But that had its own problems and my mother wasn't particularly happy with me. But that process seems like everything has to go so fucking perfectly that it just seems so inconceivable that it's not worth the effort. It's not worth how many times I'd have to make a fool of myself because I often put myself on my foot in my mouth. I like to talk about politics. I happen to be the one fucking chick in the universe that happens to like talking about religion. And I fucked it up. I remember one time I met this chick who I guess she wasn't religious but she didn't have anyone in her life to talk about her issues with religion with. So she seemed very captivated with me. And me, her friends, we end up at this strip club for whatever fucking reason. But I was so fucking hungry and drunk that I basically ditched them for like 15 minutes in a strip club to get food. I don't know why the fuck they didn't come with me but I'm just getting all these flashbacks to all the stupid mistakes I've done with women and probably why I don't attempt these things anymore. But I eventually would look for them again and they weren't there so who knows what happened with them. But the problem with all these circumstances is I have to be so fucking drunk to really put myself out there with an attractive woman that the odds of me making a mistake escalate astronomically. I can still talk to you about topics but my ability to know where to stop or just to calculate the likely best outcome for what I should be doing, it's effectively non-existent. So I'm just acting on impulse for everything and eventually I'll make a mistake and then done. Because that's why, as I was saying before, like if you're a rich guy or you've got clout or you're a Twitch streamer with clout or whatever, if you make one of these mistakes, the other person's going to go, I'll forgive it because non-related things to what you're saying right now, your wealth, your clout, your fame, whatever, that's still there. So I'll just ignore it and I'll forgive you for it. As a random stranger though, there's no reason for me to give the benefit of the doubt. |
| 12. August 2020 | My dentists precautions against covid | My dentist precautions against COVID. I'm going to the dentist to get one of my teeth looked at because I'm getting pain again. I got like a bajillion feelings like seven, eight months ago. And one's acting up. And I'm nervous. They're sending me a consent form or whatever, where I have to say, haven't been overseas, haven't been all these different things, or they won't see me. And if it's found out that I've lied, they'll sue me to a- |
| 06. August 2020 | My difficulties quitting soft drink | My difficulty is quitting soft drink. So, I know I said I wouldn't have any coke, but I think I'm gonna drink the remainder of the coke that I have and just never buy anymore. That's the plan. Like it's just until my other roommate moves out so I have more space and then I can set up my ice machine and my um... I can put my water cooler somewhere where the noise won't bother me and... Da da da, you know, then I'll be fine. I have constant flow of iced water and I won't need soft drink as much. Pour it down the drain. I just... I just don't have the strength, man. I'm tired. Don't do it. You've got the very thing you've sworn to destroy. It's true. Okay, how about this? I'll drink one and chuck away another two. Okay? So it finishes faster. So here's two cans of coke. I'll go pour them away. Like last time I threw away coke, or rather it was Pepsi Max in that case, I didn't throw it out. Like I just threw out the full cans and I ended up going through my rubbish to get them. I'm just that bad. |
| 06. August 2020 | My difficulties quitting softdrink | My difficulty is quitting soft drink. So, I know I said I wouldn't have any coke, but I think I'm gonna drink the remainder of the coke that I have and just never buy anymore. That's the plan. Like it's just until my other roommate moves out so I have more space and then I can set up my ice machine and my um... I can put my water cooler somewhere where the noise won't bother me and... Da da da, you know, then I'll be fine. I have constant flow of iced water and I won't need soft drink as much. Pour it down the drain. I just... I just don't have the strength, man. I'm tired. Don't do it. You've got the very thing you've sworn to destroy. It's true. Okay, how about this? I'll drink one and chuck away another two. Okay? So it finishes faster. So here's two cans of coke. I'll go pour them away. Like last time I threw away coke, or rather it was Pepsi Max in that case, I didn't throw it out. Like I just threw out the full cans and I ended up going through my rubbish to get them. I'm just that bad. |
| 17. December 2020 | My difficulty describing to other what I do for a living. | The difficulty in describing to others what I do for a living. Sometimes, guys, I think about my life and different contexts that I could find myself in where I'm attempting to communicate to a person what I do for a living without them thinking that I'm weird. Like going on a date and they're like, Oh, so what are you doing? I'm like, oh, well, like I play video games for a living? But like, oh, okay, like, so you play different games, the same game. What do you mean? Well, I play the same game every day and I make like videos about it. A lot of videos, yeah, I probably release like, I know like 25-ish videos a day. A lot of them are short, like less than a minute, and there's probably like a big one that's only like 10 minutes, but it's always at the same game. Oh, you've been doing that for, yeah, yeah, like, I think I know like four years, maybe like, yeah, different capacity, probably longer than that really. How does a person not think I'm just the weirdest fucker alive? The only way is just to lie. Like, I work for Amazon and I make the things. The more nuanced, the more detail, the lower the percentage of the population where they won't look at me and think I'm fucking crazy. Worse if I'm wearing my work attire and I'm black tank top thongs and flip flops for those from other countries and just black shorts. I think I'm fucking homeless. Yeah, I'll just say I'm a famous tech-tucker. |
| 22. October 2022 | My disappointing $2500 week stay at the grand hyatt “luxury” hotel. | You know, my disappointing $2,500 week stay at the Grand Hyatt Luxury Hotel. Problems with this room. There was a lot of mold in the shower. Just because of that I was like, I want this fixed or to change room, because that's just fucked up. So I changed room. In this room, there is no mold, but like, the mini bar has like two things in it, and they don't restock it. I don't know why. They said to me that they would refill the mini bar every day, and they didn't. They just didn't. They just said they would, and they didn't. One of the lights next to the bed don't work, and I was confused all the time I was in here why pressing a button on either side of the bed turned on a light for only one side of the bed. It's because the light bulb was broken on one of the sides, right? I'm a person who likes to have a fitted sheet, then a sheet, then a doona cover. And so I asked for an extra sheet, they gave me one, and the next time they changed the bed, they took it away from me. They also stole, or rather chucked out, TGG's contact lenses. Worse than this, like, the last hotel that I was at, like, they give you breakfast. So yeah, come down, grab yourself some breakfast, it's fine. Here they charge you 50 bucks a plate. Not like, as a group, whatever, 50 bucks a plate. I might eat like, you know, eight bucks worth of food or something. I understand it's a nice buffet or whatever, but it's like, I'm paying you 2500 bucks for the week, can I not have some breakfast? Now understand, these are small complaints in the grand scheme of things, but it's like, this is like a luxury hotel that I paid 2500 bucks for. If any of these things happened in like a 700 dollar hotel, like 100 dollars a day, I'd say, well yeah, that's just what you get for a hotel like that. While the tour wasn't shown here, it was ultimately just the bed and then a bathroom. And the bed wasn't good, it was on wheels and just had a mattress that was worse than the one that I have at home. The price and the idea of a five-star luxury hotel, this isn't it. Movies have set my expectations where like, every single fabric is in the exact right place and everything is perfectly immaculate and that's why you get charged that fee. But this place isn't like that. It's called the Grand Hyatt. We'll try it somewhere else next time. |
| 31. July 2021 | My dream job and the content creator mindset | My dream job and the content creator mindset. Do I have a dream job? I'm doing it. This is not a job that when I was younger I thought I want to be a Twitch streamer, you know? Twitch streamer, YouTuber, these jobs didn't exist when I was a kid. It was not possible for me to dream of them because they were not things. When I was a really little kid, I wanted to be a train driver. I liked trains. Even when YouTube was becoming a thing, I I wasn't like at the forefront of, oh man, I got to get into this career. It just kind of happened. I've got other videos talking about things that were integral to my success and whatnot, but I have worked very hard, but there were so many variables, just so so many, that just had to be so for me to be in the circumstances I find myself in today. There is undoubtedly more deserving, harder working people than me, but knowing that I do my best not to squander my good fortune, and I do my best to give literally my all to my job. It's weird, honestly. In some way, the degree to which I work is a way of staving off, I would call it guilt, as in that I'm successful and other people aren't, who might be deserving, even more deserving, makes me feel guilty. So if I work really really hard, I can at least say that, you know, if someone else were in my position, they wouldn't be working as hard, or whatever, like I'm not squandering what I have. It's hard for me to explain. So how do you feel about large content creators that work less than me? It is hard for me to understand the mindset of people who get into these careers, like what I have, that are so lucky to be there, and who just don't seem to give a fuck, or they get really full of themselves and believe they're better than everyone else or something, refusing to accept the, you know, luck that went into their success. That's not everyone in this career, obviously, but that's a lot of people, or the people who, you know, don't work hard to capitalize on their success now, and they just just lay around or whatever. I just don't. It's just a completely different mindset, you know. But there are people who, you know, end up in this kind of career, and it is basically just a job for them, you know. I'm saying, some people, this is just a job. So they do their hours, and then they log off, and they do anything but this, but there is very little else that I want to do other than this, so it's not really an issue for me, right? The streamer's job is so new, we won't even know if they would be around in ten years. I can't imagine streamer is gonna go away unless, like, really, really damaging legislation comes out. No, even then, because, like, it would just be the type of stream that exists. Streamer as a job is just a manifestation of, you know, technology that exists today. If the only way streamer could go away is if that technology didn't exist, right? Like, you could ban video game streaming, and then it will just become all in-real-life stuff and whatnot. You can push live streaming somewhere else, but you can't get rid of it. I mean, live streaming existed for ages. |
| 22. January 2022 | My drunken quest for food after a party at pax 2019 | My drunken quest for food after a party at PAX 2019. I wanted to get some food, so I googled, like, what's the closest McDonald's? And so I was 15 minutes away, walking, I'm like, ah, that's not too bad. Um, but I was wearing expensive new shoes, so I started walking slash running there. Half way through, I'm like, fuck my feet hurt! So I take off my shoes, and so I'm running through the city with just my socks on. And I get to McDonald's, and so I eat my food, put back on my shoes, of course, before going into McDonald's, because I wouldn't want random people in McDonald's to know that I had my shoes off while running through the city. Then I call my Uber, and I get back to my hotel, and the next day I find out that there's a McDonald's right next to my hotel. So I could have just called an Uber and gone back to my hotel and gone to McDonald's next to my hotel, and I wouldn't have fucked up my feet, because the next day my feet were absolutely shocking. I still have the, like, a cast in the back of my foot, uh, to this day, from that running through the city. Not as mamy. |
| 15. January 2023 | My editor has disappeared without a trace. | My editor has disappeared without a trace. It's really strange, because the Franklin DLC video was meant to come out quite a while ago, but um, Andre, the person editing it, just disappeared. I mean that sincerely, like, like just disappeared. Like there was no argument or something, or any issues, it's just like, he was talking about working on the stuff, and then just he disappeared. Unusual, yeah, very unusual. Unfortunate, because he was working on the Doki Doki Literature Club video. So it was finally gonna come out after all these years. Doki Doki Literature Club is a visual novel, but a very strange one that was a meme. |
| 26. September 2021 | My embarrassing and disgusting wisdom tooth story | My embarrassing and disgusting wisdom tooth story. How was the dentist appointment? Maybe people don't know the story. What happened guys, is I went to the doctor's office to get my tooth looked at, and they're like yeah, you got an impacted wisdom tooth, it's going sideways into your teeth, you have to get it removed. A normal wisdom tooth operation is like 500 bucks in Australia to have it removed. Unfortunately because mine's impacted, I need to get like a special, in a particular way, I need to get a specialist surgeon that costs 1700 dollars, and I have no hospital cover, so I said to him, look, I don't want to do this in a hospital, it will cost me 1500 bucks to go to that private hospital that you work at, so I don't want to go there. I went to his office, and he attempted to take the tooth out, and I gagged and I vomited. So I threw up everywhere, blood was going everywhere because he'd just done an incision in my tooth, or in my gum, so it was just blood and food everywhere, and so he couldn't continue and remove the wisdom tooth. So he stitched me up, and he said yeah, you have to go to the hospital, you have to get put under. So I spent, the first time was 1280 dollars to try to remove it in the chair, that failed. Then I had to spend something like 2200 to go to the hospital to have them try again, and that succeeded, and that was Thursday morning. So ultimately the whole thing cost about 4 grand. Thankfully we had that donation day where you guys helped me a bit, and we raised about 800 bucks or something, and my parents said that they'd pay the rest, mainly because they spent a lot of money for my sister's teeth a long time ago, and they thought fair is fair, which I was very grateful for. So now my tooth has been removed, I'm in a bit of pain, and the whole situation was awful. One of the worst situations of my life, super embarrassing, very time consuming. Throughout of whack all of my days of content creation and stuff, wasn't able to stream. When I went to the hospital, she gives me a gown, you know one of those gowns that's open at the back, and a robe, like a thick robe. And she's like, go in there and change, and put this on your head as well, and these things on your feet, and give me little bag things. So I walked in and I'm like, wait a second, am I meant to wear my underwear? She didn't really tell me if I was meant to be naked or not. And I'm like, well I mean, it has the robe, so it's not like they'd be able to see my ass from the back anyway, so I guess I'm meant to be naked, I guess that's the purpose of the robe. And, there was also an old guy in there, and he was naked or something, I couldn't really see because I didn't have my contacts on thankfully. I'm like, okay well I guess I'm meant to be naked, and so I took off my underwear to put the stuff on, and then I went out and I met her again, and I'm like, so am I meant to not have my underwear on? And she's like, no you're meant to wear your underwear. I'm like, oh, I'll be right back. Actually, no, I had to listen to a guide, I had to listen to the anesthesiologist, talk to me for 10 minutes, and then I went out and put my underwear back on. It was also funny because they were going to make me sit there for an hour, and just watch normal TV, like normal early morning TV, but I said to her, look, that TV over there, that's like a couple of meters away. I don't have my contact lenses in, because you can't have contact lenses in when they put you under, because they can roll back in your head and stuff. And she was just like, oh, okay, well you can keep your mobile phone then. I was like, you fucking beauty. One of the few times in life that being blind helped me, because if it wasn't for me being blind I wouldn't have been able to use my phone. So I just sat there for an hour on YouTube and shit. Yeah, TV, especially morning TV, Mon. Like who the hell watches morning TV? You have to move your underwear? And I said to my dad, later, when I was explaining the story to him, he's like, oh yeah, you have to remove your underwear. I'm like, nah, apparently not. He's like, alright. I guess it just depends on the operation that you're doing. To be fair, like, why would they need to look at my dick to remove my wisdom tooth? I'd be very skeptical in any such circumstance. Like, I'm here to remove your wisdom tooth, please remove your pants. He's like, what? Your dick is a vital part of this operation. |
| 24. May 2021 | My ending D video | My ending D video Where are the three corpses? Yeah, man. Why are we doing ending D? Could finish the run really quickly. At least Chow will always be the person who did a no damage run with ending D first You can't take that away from me. Yeah, I have been trying to think of Other things that I could do like that ending D video. Like I like working with Murphish to Make these kind of unique kind of projects But the thing about them being unique is I have to think of new ideas every time Probably shouldn't try to force it though. Having some consistent series though would be nice The problem is like you're limited because there's no voice acting or whatever. It's just moving models Did you need Murphish to make any changes to ending D or was it straight perfect straight up? I edited it and changed the things. Actually how to explain it Half of it's mine. I even ended up using some of the Audio that I made for prologue. You know the anime prologue that I made It's very advantageous having all that audio because I was able to put audio in the different scenes Yet not have the voices there while Murphish's original attempts could only use the original cutscene audio and so it's a lot harder to Remove the voices and stuff, but I could do that stuff I did I did ask for a few things to change like where the car ended up and one of the characters Like it was a there's a few changes though. I mean, let's just say that There are a few more changes. I would have liked made but at the end of the day I recognized that I was just being pedantic and no one was gonna care I'm sure most people don't even realize that you see Dave running away in the cutscene but in the ending day, he just he just warps back or whatever but uh Someone actually commented like I didn't know Dave ran away in the cutscene Yeah, you know like there is at least 12 continuity errors But unless you've seen the prologue cutscene like 16 times you won't notice. |
| 22. February 2021 | My envy of No Hit runs | My envy of other no hit runners. Watch the video that Carl released yesterday. The other game was Ninja Gaiden. A dude got a no hit run on the game after many years of people thinking it was impossible because there was an unavoidable hit on the final boss. But he managed to do a thing where he swung his sword really really really fast to kill the head before it could hit him. It was really impressive and I felt really really jealous that he has succeeded in his no hit run and I have yet to succeed. |
| 22. February 2021 | My envy of no hit runs | My envy of other no hit runners. Watch the video that Carl released yesterday. The other game was Ninja Gaiden. A dude got a no hit run on the game after many years of people thinking it was impossible because there was an unavoidable hit on the final boss. But he managed to do a thing where he swung his sword really really really fast to kill the head before it could hit him. It was really impressive and I felt really really jealous that he has succeeded in his no hit run and I have yet to succeed. |
| 15. November 2020 | My error talking about my taxes | the money. My mistake about my taxes and streaming. How's the taxes working as a streamer? So I made a tactical error. Clearly I am well off now, right? And so I made references in a previous stream talking about in an around about way how much I paid in tax, right? And I didn't think that was a big deal. But then like, you know, my father messages me, he's like, oh, you're the person I'm working with, told me how much you're making now. Because like it's if you so the roundabout way that I spoke about it implied what I paid in tax. And then you can do calculations to understand how much money I made in the last financial year. And like, well, I don't super care if people know that. I mean, if you're really committed, you could make that calculation yourself just by watching my stream or having a general basic idea of revenue on YouTube. But like, I don't want people to come and kill me or rob me or some shit. And the more open you are about your finances, the more you worry that some person is going to go, well, that guy that guy has, you know, more than one penny. Let's go kill him and take his stuff. I don't know how irrational that sounds. But while I'm here at all times, potentially warding away the possibility of me being robbed, I don't want to be sitting here thinking every creek is some guy coming to kill me because of something I said on the Internet. You know, you just you naturally have a little bit more risk of that kind of thing happening when you're a content creator and you're speaking to tens of thousands of people who could potentially get irrationally offended by something that you say. I just shouldn't make my life worse. I have an accountant. They handle my taxes. That's all I should say. |
| 22. March 2021 | My expensive tank top collection | My expensive tank top collection. I should review all my tank tops one day. Is that something that they do in like Those crib shows where they show off a house. They show the wardrobe This is my jacket cost $10,000 and all that stuff and I'll do that but we should be all tank tops And I'll pretend each tank top is the stinks and coming for a different brand or whatever This is my Gucci tank top It's worth $14,000. It's made of a rare black leopard fur |
| 09. June 2021 | My experience buying a new Lexus | My experience buying a new Lexus. Right, so I did get a new car, chat. Basically, for the longest time, my mother's been like, Matt, your car is a fucking death trap. And I'm like, yeah, I know. I mean, even basic things, like the air conditioning doesn't work, it doesn't have a CD player anymore, I drive around with headphones in, because the radio thing doesn't work. The key, I have to like pull it out slightly and jiggle it a bit to open it. The car was made in 2004, and it is 2004, chat. Not 2003, I did check. And I bought it in 2006, so it'd be 15 years old. Lancer ES 2004. And she's been begging me for like months and months, just buy a new car, buy a new car. And I'm like, yeah, I want one, but I mean, I don't go anywhere, I don't drive anywhere. And she's like, just get one with fucking safety features so you don't fucking die. I'm like, well, I don't want to die. So, okay. And so she's like, buy a Lexus. They're apparently very reliable and they last a long time. I'm like, well, that sounds pretty good. So on my day off, when I felt like shit, I went to Lexus, a dealership, and I was there and I'm like, maybe I should go to other places and look at other cars. I'm like, no, fuck it, because I just want to get this done now. So I bought myself like a top of the line Lexus. And they say it's going to come in three months, which sucks. But, but, for the life of the car, listen to this, they come and take it for service. I no longer have to worry about booking my car in for service. And all that shit, no longer do I have to waste that time. It's amazing. Like people talk about all the features of the car. That is the best feature of the car. Now all I have to do is find someone who will take my hair to the barbers and then bring it back to me and I'm golden. What's the model? I don't know, 500, I think. It's a luxury car that I'll basically never drive. Waste of money. At the end of the day, everything is a waste of money. Is it two-seater? No. I wanted to make sure if I had to go anywhere, I could, I had room to put stuff in places. It is hybrid, yeah. Toyota makes Lexus by the way. Yeah, I was confused about that. I didn't understand that initially, but now I know. They are powerful. When I sat in it, the chair was comfortable, but the windscreen is so much smaller. Compared to my current car, it's just huge. You'll feel the vision. The middle thing barely takes up any space and the bars around it are pretty thin. But on this car, everything is thick and built to an insane degree and the thing in the middle covers a bunch. I'm like, man, this is potentially less safe. What surprised me was to learn when I was buying my car how expensive new cars are. They're fucking crazy. People are really spending a year's worth of pay or something on a car. Obviously, I'm in a fortunate position, so the amount that I spent was nowhere close to a year of what I make. But it was just surprising for me to learn that people just wanted to throw that much money on a means of transport. But I guess a lot of people look at it as more than a means of transport. They look at it as a status symbol or a luxury thing. I suppose if you travel a lot, you'd want to travel in comfort. Still. People who go into debt for cars, I understand even less. Although, unless, of course, you need a car to get to work or whatever, like you need a car to make a living. But people who every year need the newest model of car or whatever, and they're just perpetually in debt, continuously getting the newest model, they're insane. Like, people treat cars like they're iPhones. And even with iPhones, it doesn't make much sense to get a new phone every year. But some people do that shit with cars, it's crazy. Yes, such people exist, I know. Crazy. But when I bought this car, this Lexus, it's funny, because when I went in to begin with, I was wearing a blue kind of face mask with a tank top with a black hoodie and black shorts. There's probably food stains on the shorts and stuff. And the dude who I asked questions of, initially he was pretty dismissive of me. He wasn't rude necessarily, but he wasn't particularly excited to see me. And so he answered my questions, and I was nice to him. And he was like, yeah, give me the information as you would. When I left, I made a call to my mother and came back, and I seemed to actually express interest in getting a car. He perked right up. And then, I swear to you, between the three different people I spoke to, they must have congratulated me like 19 times. And they said I was a part of the Lexus family. And I was like, all right, guys, ease up a little bit. And they're talking like, oh, you know, if you want to tick this encore box, it doesn't cost you anything, but you can get invited to golf events and different events with other people who own Lexuses and stuff. I was like, oh, OK, and immediately ticked no. I didn't want that to happen. But it was just weird. I had the idea of buying a car, putting you in this club. And the reason they do this, you imagine, is because it does influence people to buy these cars. They can be a part of something, you know? Have a status symbol. I actually had no interest in any of that. It was a weird experience. That's a bit sad, yeah. But everyone is looking for that place where they can belong, with people like them and think like them, and they want to feel special and stuff. And I guess for some people, cars is the way to do that. Lexus is a Toyota, but fancier? Um, what did someone say? Like, Lexus is apparently more luxury and greater longevity or something. And it's funny, though, there was two cars that looked good to me, and the more expensive one seemed to be the worst one, because it was designed to be, quote unquote, sporty. And I sat in the seat, and I'm like, this seat is uncomfortable. And I sat in the seat of the cheaper one, and I'm like, this seat is way more comfortable. And I said that to the guy, he's like, yeah, I agree. I'm like, but why would they do that? And he's like, well, yeah, because the seat looks sporty. The uncomfortable one looks sporty, and then people like the design. And I'm just like, oh, that's weird. I guess it's like the gamer chair of cars. My only concern was how comfortable was the seat. I'm not going to be very angry with you. I didn't think either car looked particularly amazing, but then again, I'm not a car person. The first question I asked him was, look, if the car gets stolen, what happens? And he's like, well, it's got a GPS thing that can be tracked by the police and stuff. If you get into a car accident, it automatically sends out a call to emergency services. Or it automatically calls you, and if you don't pick up, it automatically sends out a call to emergency services. It's a story. And there's a thing where if you're swerving into traffic, it automatically corrects and fix that. I was just interested in the security and safety features, basically. Because my greatest fear my entire life has been that I'm going to die in a car crash. I've had multiple nightmares about it. When people ask me, how do you think you're going to die, I always say I'm probably in a car accident. I don't know how rational that is. A lot of people die in car accidents. It's not like I drive particularly unsafely. But I don't like driving anyway. And I'm hoping that having this monstrosity of a car or whatever is going to relieve some of that anxiety. Because a lot of people like driving, and I've never really had that kind of joy. Except when I used to drive around at 2am. Back when my sleeping pattern was complete shit. It's always still a bit shit. But what I used to do is I would go to McDonald's at like 2am. No one out there on the road just playing some metal with my wind, my shit box with my fucking windows down. And it was great. I'd be driving to the gym at 1am. My 24 hour gym where no one's fucking there. Great stuff. It's like no one exists in the world except me. And that's a great feeling. GTA Streamer walks into a car dealership, starts asking about car theft. Yes, very true. So how easy do you think it would be for me to steal one of these cars? Like even when it's still in the lot. |
| 08. December 2021 | My experience with GTA 5 before speedrunning it | My experience with GTA V before speedrunning it. Have you ever played the story mode real following the story? You mean like watching the cutscenes and stuff? The first time I played this game, the game softlocks. As in, the missions wouldn't spawn. I did every mission on the map and nothing would spawn. I'm not sure what the mission was, but I had watched the cutscene movie on YouTube prior to the game being released on PC. And I decided to speedrun GTA V before I had ever played it. Basically, this is how I remember it. A week or two after GTA's release, I was very bored and looking for a game to play. And someone was like, hey GTA V released. I'm like, oh, okay, I guess I'll buy it. And so I bought GTA V. I'm like, I can't f***ing play in this game. And so I didn't play it. And then, like two weeks later, I stumbled across Witwick's speedrunning GTA V. And I was like, I am looking for something to stream. I did buy GTA V like a week or two ago. Kind of matched me in heaven at that point, so I guess I'll play it. And so I played it casually. It's softlocked, and I'm like, well, f*** it, I'll just learn the speedrun then. |
| 28. June 2022 | My experience with Jury Duty | My experience with jury duty. Have you ever done jury duty? Once, a long time ago, I was there for a couple of days. I think I went like twice, and on the third day, the judge came out and said, New evidence has come to light that makes it so things you were told in the trial may bias you. We suggested that maybe we'd been given evidence that was false or something like that, and they were like, look, we're just gonna have to get a new jury so you can all go home. So a trial that may potentially last weeks was cut off very early because of some change in circumstances we weren't given more information on. I was called into jury duty again recently, but I submitted something from my accountant that said the financial cost to my business is extreme. I have such a fundamental role to my business that potentially taking weeks to do jury duty would be catastrophically detrimental. And so they let me off. Not false, honestly. |
| 26. September 2021 | My experience with Skyrim | My experience with Skyrim. So my experience with Skyrim, I played a pirated version a real long time ago, and I was convinced that all the bugs I was experiencing were because of the pirated version. Because I was young and didn't have any money, right? There was not the case. All the bugs I was experiencing were on the real retail copy as well. It's just a... The game was massively buggy. What killed the game for me was eventually I got stuck and a quest wouldn't complete, and the solution was typing in the command module to complete that particular quest. And I was like, why am I playing this game when any mission I want to complete can be completed by typing in a command? And so I quit. But I played quite a long time. Then I tried playing it on stream many years later, but I tried to play an archer and it was boring as all hell. Firing arrows at people is super boring. It was like the most simplistic, boring combat I've ever experienced. I just... I just got very bored of it very quickly. And people tell me archer is super OP because you can effectively be invisible and just kill everything from a million miles away, but I didn't get to that level. I was just very bored at going fling fling fling fling fling fling over and over again. When I first played I played with a mage. Majors were pretty cool. I've seen bugs and stuff from the older Skyrims and the crazy stuff you can get. Like you can get... you can make potions... like you basically bug the game and you make potions that give you like 10 trillion speed and stuff. |
| 24. September 2021 | My experience with World of Warcraft | World of Warcraft. I collected achievements, achievements in World of Warcraft. I was at one point in like the top 5000 I think, at least in the oceanic region. I think I was like top 20,000 or something for all of WoW, in terms of achievement points. And I never had like a dedicated guild or something doing achievements. I would just pug everything because I had no friends. But uh, I was a weird dude. I believe I played vanilla, but I was like level 30 when Burning Crusade came out or something. I could be really wrong about that, but that's how I remember it. That's how it's in my head. I can vaguely remember having a conversation with a friend of mine, him being like, oh why don't you get more gear? And in Burning Crusade, and I was like, but I have enough gear to do what I want already. And he said, but your gear is like the- because I didn't understand item level, I didn't understand any of that shit. I just did quests and got achievements and shit, and just hung around and I wasn't really focused. It's like I don't have super clear good memories of WoW. What I played WoW to do was to kill time, because I had no one- whenever I had nothing else to do, I played WoW. I had nothing else to do a lot. I don't- if you want to look up how many hours I have on WoW, my character's name is Dark, DarkBane in US Frostmourne. I think I have something like 7,000. |
| 26. April 2021 | My experience with dating apps so far. | My experience with dating apps so far. So thus far on this dating app, I have talked to exactly two people and I unmatched with them the nanosecond they responded to something I said with a single word. I was like, fuck off. I waited a day for you to respond to like a sincere large amount of information with, oh yeah. Either you're a terrible conversationalist or you fucking don't want to talk to me, so fuck off. I don't care how attractive you are. All I'm looking for is someone easy going, who can hold a conversation and likes to laugh. But I swear to you, with a lot of these dating apps, people who are on them may not even be necessarily looking for like to actually meet up with people ever. They're probably just there in part for their own self aggrandizement or to have their own ego strength or whatever. Like look how many people fucking like my profile. Just a randomly toy with other people or whatever. As a person who does get some, what's the word, self esteem, feeling of self worth from other people telling you, you're pretty good, right? I get that from the job that I do. And so I can understand why normal people would want that as well. Even if they're strangers, saying you have some sort of worth in any capacity can make you feel good about yourself. Such a cynic? I'm not saying everyone on the platforms are like that, but there is definitely some people who are like that. I have said before though, I should really start working on my Instagram. Because that's the platform that the chicks dig, right? The Instagrams. But I don't fucking go anywhere. I'll just take a picture of myself in every room of my house and pretend it's a different place. Furniture will help me get chicks. They don't have to know that I don't have furniture. I have a green screen, true. I just picture myself green screened into a fuck ton of different situations. Like obviously, I'm sure you guys know, it's harder than simply just green screening something. Because you have to like, be good at visual effects and change the lighting of the scene to complement the scene that you're trying to suggest that you're in. I don't have those kind of skills. Those kind of skills are worth like hundreds of thousands of dollars. Like on big budget movies and all that stuff. Ktech, how's the Tindering going? I'm not on Tinder, but not good. It's only been a couple of days. The only other dating website I've ever been on is OkCupid, and I'm totally missing that shit. I don't think that's what young people are using, but the reason I liked OkCupid is you could legitimately write a narrative, you know, you could give as much information as you want, you could tell a fucking story. These god damn mobile swiping apps or whatever. It's just all bullshit. You write some pointless fluff that doesn't really mean anything, and people judge you based on your physical appearance. Like I have a weird thing with the app that I'm on that I don't press like on people who are too attractive. I was like, this would just be too high maintenance, I'd feel insecure all the fucking time. I don't want to deal with this shit, and I don't like it. All I'm looking for is a person somewhere in the middle, not really ugly, but not really attractive kind of thing. A person who clearly takes care of themselves, but you know, isn't like obsessed with themselves. |
| 08. December 2021 | My experience with gta 5 before speedrunning it | My experience with GTA V before speedrunning it. Have you ever played the story mode real following the story? You mean like watching the cutscenes and stuff? The first time I played this game, the game softlocks. As in, the missions wouldn't spawn. I did every mission on the map and nothing would spawn. I'm not sure what the mission was, but I had watched the cutscene movie on YouTube prior to the game being released on PC. And I decided to speedrun GTA V before I had ever played it. Basically, this is how I remember it. A week or two after GTA's release, I was very bored and looking for a game to play. And someone was like, hey GTA V released. I'm like, oh, okay, I guess I'll buy it. And so I bought GTA V. I'm like, I can't f***ing play in this game. And so I didn't play it. And then, like two weeks later, I stumbled across Witwick's speedrunning GTA V. And I was like, I am looking for something to stream. I did buy GTA V like a week or two ago. Kind of matched me in heaven at that point, so I guess I'll play it. And so I played it casually. It's softlocked, and I'm like, well, f*** it, I'll just learn the speedrun then. |
| 14. March 2020 | My experience working at Coles | Maybe he was lying to me. My experience working at Kohl's, the supermarket. So for those who don't know, I worked at Kohl's for five years in Fresh Produe. The reason I got a job there was because my sister and father had jobs there. It was a fairly new store, and they were hiring like 25 people or something, and like 24 of them went to stack shelves and stuff in the... It was at the grocery department or whatever the fuck it's called, like the main department or whatever. And I was the only person who got put in Fresh Produe just because they only need one person for that. My interview was fucking terrible. I was like a nervous kid. It was like, uh, please, uh, uh, uh, uh. No confidence in myself, and working at Kohl's was good for me because it got me a bit out of my shell. I met some nice people and whatnot, and I took pride in my work. I'm the kind of person who, you know, I take pride in a job well done. At the end of the night, I can look at my store and it would all... Everything would be fit perfectly, and everything would be perfectly fun. And I'd be like, yeah, I did good. That was a nice feeling. As a general rule, my entire time there was a combination of good and bad because it's still work. And you occasionally meet the occasional jerk who works there. Overall, I enjoyed working there, man. The pay was pretty decent considering I worked weekends and stuff. |
| 27. March 2021 | My face is very expressive | My face is very expressive. I should have seen my face when Simeon almost hit me. I have been told that my face is very expressive. Like even before I became a content creator or whatever, I was told like, man, you have a really expressive face. Never really thought about it, but having now made a bunch of thumbnails and stuff, I do kind of see what they mean. It's not like a Jim Carrey kind of expressive face, but like it probably does help me a little bit that I am expressive as a Twitch streamer. But if you look back at my earlier stuff, I was not as expressive. Just over time, I've become more comfortable with showing how I'm feeling and stuff. I follow a streamer who pulls off an insane play and just sits there blank stare. Would that be interesting to watch? I think it'd be more hype to share in the hype of the person who did something. I mean, sure, there's always that, you know, cool guys don't look at explosions kind of thing, where he's just like, wow, that guy is so amazing. That even when he does something amazing, like it doesn't phase him at all. It's just like, this is just my everyday. I'm just that fucking good. But I don't know, it sounds kind of boring. Who are you talking about, Shroud? Fake a streamer like that? I know of Faker. I just heard the name, but I haven't seen stuff. I suppose it'd be worse for people to fake reactions. Those really over the top things. I mean, it's part of the reason why for me, I only do chaos for two hours a week. I cannot for the life of me fake a reaction to anything. When I get bored of something, it's obvious. I mean, in the short term, it might do me good to do chaos every fucking day, man. I upload nothing but chaos, whatever. But I get burned out on it. I get bored of it. And it just suffocates, you know. McDonald's hasn't done a video like this too, man. |
| 03. September 2021 | My failed 20k sub question and answer. | My failed 20k sub question and answer. For those who don't know, at 20k subs, I did a Q&A, or rather I said, Hey, ask questions on this video and I'll answer them in a following video. Still haven't done it. To be fair though, I tried doing it, but so many of the questions were really fucking bad. Really bad. My goal was to answer all the questions very quickly, but they were just not good questions. |
| 28. November 2021 | My failed podcast 'A Ramble With' | The following rambles occurred after I played TGG in GTA Gessa. We actually talked a little bit before the stream, but it was unrecorded. Speaking on my failed podcast, A Rambler With... Like, you know that conversation we had before we went live? Like, some of that would have made for good rambles. You know how I did rambles with, with Peli, how I did that podcast? Yeah, I actually watched pretty much all of that. That was really interesting. That was a good podcast. I'm surprised, because not many people did. I tried doing another one with Carl Jobs, and I was just so tired during it that it was terrible. And because of the same thing that happened today with this, I could just never reliably have energy on a particular day, and I end up delaying stuff and pushing stuff back. It annoys me to do that to people, so I don't do many collaborations like this. But the conversation we're having at the beginning, that's the kind of stuff I would like to have in some sort of a podcast situation, you know? Honestly, I look at your rambles as a podcast, or kind of like a podcast. But yeah, I mean, you could... You're the definitely type of person that could do a podcast. If not for my inability to sleep and wake up at consistent hours for other people, you know? |
| 30. July 2020 | My family and friends | My family and friends. Sounds like we have the same mother. My mother, me and her, very different people. It's almost like me, my father, my sister, my mother, you could line us up politically as a progression on a spectrum. In that my sister, very crazy out there, conspiracy theories, stones, energies in the world and stuff. My mother, little less, not all the way out there, but like, believed in psychics at one point, religious to an extent, then my father, and my father and I are closer in terms of politics and our beliefs about the world and that. We still disagree on some things, but I definitely feel closer to my father because of our similarities in our politics and our worldview, is a better way of saying it. But he and I are still very different people. Like, my father, he has the, and my sister have it too, especially when she was younger, they're both able to talk to anyone and be their friends. No one has a bad perception of my father. But I think my father has a problem where you have a lot of friends, but you don't have a lot of close friends. Everyone knows you, everyone says a good word about you, but you don't have a person you can call when you're in need. There's always that party you've been invited to. You've got no one that you can really trust to tell your deepest secrets to or whatever. It's the quantity versus quality of friends. Me personally, I would love just to have three friends who I could trust implicitly or whatever. I don't think I've ever really had that close good friend that I would feel comfortable just bearing my soul to or calling in my time of need. There's certainly a value to having the quantity of friends, certainly, but you want kind of both. You want those few good friends and then a bunch of people around that. But yeah, I wish I had that skill that my father had. Am I a different person off stream? It's really weird how I never met you, but through your streams and videos, I feel very connected to you. And reading this chat, I'm not the only one. I mean, I do talk about myself a lot, but it's very different from knowing me. I think I'm very similar on stream as I am in real life, but how would I know? Because we all act differently depending upon the circumstances we find ourselves in. Even suddenly, like my mother, for example, with the phone, where the way she talks to a person in front of her and on the phone is very different. It's like four octaves. Is it octaves? Octaves? Hi, I wish. Hey, how's it going? You know that thing? She doesn't realize she's doing it, but because of the context, that's just what she does. And we all do that. There's this great Onion article, the Onion, a satirical magazine website or whatever. It's, everyone in the world confirmed insane after lengthy investigation into how people act when they're at home alone. It's something like that, where if people saw the way that you act by yourself, I know walking around naked or whatever, or just staring off into space or talking to yourself or whatever just weird stuff you do by yourself. If people saw that, or you did that out in public, people would think you've lost your mind. Obviously, the way I act in terms of my behaviors is different off stream than on stream, but I don't think if you met me in real life, you'd be like, who is this strange individual? You know? |
| 24. January 2022 | My fascination with the idea of living forever | My fascination with the idea of living forever. One point in time, I really liked the concept of immortality and and how authors would deal with the concept and the psychological implications of living thousands of years. It was during that period I read Twilight because it had immortal characters in it. That was my interest in that series. I read everything during that phase. If it had someone who was long lived, I'm like, give me that shit. If you could be immortal, would you? There's this concept of immortality where the only way that the person can die is if they kill themselves. It's basically an absolute control over one's fate. And I think that is something that would be valuable. Certainly you wouldn't want an inability to die. That would be absolutely horrendous because eventually, regardless of how long it took, you'd eventually grow to hate existence. I mean, if it takes a thousand, ten thousand, twenty thousand years, it takes the world exploding, whatever it would be. You eventually want to die and not be able to. And then there's concepts of immortality where you can get trapped in a box, unable to escape, get lowered down somewhere and you sit there for thousands of years, effectively going crazy. We had this argument before where there are some people who sincerely don't believe they would get bored of existence if they just live for thousands of years. That's insane to me. If you lived long enough, eventually everything would just become mundane. How many movies can you see before everything just seems so derivative and boring and exactly the same as something you've seen before? There's only a finite amount of entertaining ideas. There's only a finite amount of things you can do. How many times can you eat that favorite meal, regardless of how good it is, before you just get really fucking sick of it? Like you may even be able to see why something would be entertaining, but you'd still be bored of it. |
| 30. September 2021 | My fast food stories | My fast food stories. I got fries at McDonald's and I had like a shaker fries thing but they forgot to give me a packet to shake the fries in. So I used a random bag that I had in my car. So I put the fries in, put the shaker fries stuff in and I shook it around and the bottom of the bag broke. My whole entire car was covered in like shaker fries stuff and McDonald's fries. But it wasn't even just one shaker fries thing. I put two in. I literally put two of these shaker fries things in and shook it and it went everywhere. And there was another thing where I went to KFC and sometimes after I get KFC through the drive through I sit in a parking spot and eat the KFC. I just sit there reading my book or listening to my book and eating KFC. They didn't put any flavoring on my KFC chips and only the drive through was open. So I got out of my car with my socks on and I walked over to the drive through window and I'm like hey can I have some flavoring on these chips please? I really like your chips and I felt like such a git. And I think it was like 10 cents on the ground. I felt like even more of a git but I picked up to 10 cents. So those are my fast food stories. Pretty lame right? |
| 12. December 2021 | My favorite GTA story | My favorite GTA story. I don't think any of the stories in GTA are like amazing. It's more like the characters in the stories are interesting and the story facilitates the gameplay and the characters being able to be themselves. Like Yusuf's story where you know you want to impress his daddy or whatever and build towers and take over the city and stuff. It's like that's not like an amazing story that Yusuf is a funny character in Ballyga Tony and watching that is cool. GTA 3 was definitely the best. Claude's voice was amazing. I got bamboozled by someone who convinced me that Claude actually speaks at the end. |
| 27. September 2022 | My favourite Red Dead Redemption 2 quote | My favorite Red Dead Redemption 2 quote. A person tweeted out, show me you played this game by replying with a quote from the game. And the game was Red Dead Redemption 2. And I quote tweeted it with the quote, can't this horse go any faster? I thought that was very funny. The first comment underneath was like, wait, is this Dark Viper AU referencing Red Dead Redemption 2 in a non-negative way? But I was referencing it in a negative way. Cause the joke is, the game's too slow. That is a direct quote from the game, but it's commentary on the game itself. Now the reason why you can't find that tweet on my Twitter, is because I forgot the question mark. So I deleted it. Ha ha ha ha ha. It's can't this horse go any faster? Question mark. |
| 03. January 2021 | My favourite Sonic game. | My favorite Sonic game. My favorite Sonic game? Sonic 06. Great game. Probably the best well-programmed game of all time. Now for me, it's either Sonic Adventure Battle 2 for GameCube, or Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine for Sega Mega Drive. Though of course, the Mean Bean Machine game was just a reskin of some other game that already existed. I loved that game, dude. It was a great game. Never played Sonic Pinball. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 11. December 2019 | My favourite anime | What are my favorite anime? What's my favorite anime so far? Death Note will always be my favorite anime. It kind of introduced me to anime outside of like, you know, Dragon Ball Z the anime outside of you know, the cheese TV morning cartoon anime, but I mean I I mean what came to mind was Hunter x Hunter. I really enjoyed that The anime I'm watching now is Dr. Stone, Black Clover and My Hero Academia. I know there's anime that I've watched that I've really enjoyed that I just can't think of right now, but you know, I Have seen a lot. Oh, Oh One Punch Man. That's right One Punch Man and Death Note Death Note. Two favorite anime. |
| 08. November 2021 | My favourite anime list | My favorite anime list. What's my favorite anime? I need to get like, I need to go through a list of anime and pick up my favorites or something. Like, what comes to mind is Death Note Hunter Hunter Overlord. I know there's heaps that I've seen that I've really enjoyed. Oh, oh, uh, Halesing. Oh, Castlevania's great, but I don't know if it counts as an anime or not, but yeah, Castlevania's fucking amazing. Do I like One Piece? Yeah, I watch One Piece, I'm like 30 episodes behind or something. The, uh, the anime is just so slow. Do I know about One Piece? What, someone re-edited One Piece to make it faster? It doesn't surprise me, no, I haven't seen it. Yeah, I've seen all of Naruto. Madara might be one of the best villains in anime. Only, though, the character I want to see them more of is like, just every character in Hunter x Hunter, because there's so little of it. Aizen from Bleach? Yeah, Bleach was pretty good. It should have just ended, though, when Aizen got trapped or whatever. Can you see my fantasy book recommendations anywhere? I don't have them anywhere listed. Yeah, I should take time and make anime and fantasy book recommendations. Someone aftershreem that to me, maybe I'll do that when I'm bored one day. I forgot Mob Psycho 100 and One Punch Man, both great anime. |
| 14. August 2022 | My favourite author Brandon Sanderson. | stuff. My favorite author Brandon Sanderson. How's Brandon Sanderson? I hear he's doing good. I've moved on to another one of his books. I recently finished Warbreaker. It was really good. There has, there is no second one in the series and I'm kind of sad about that because I'm curious where they would have gone. It's interesting how all of Sanderson's books have their own different forms of magic that seem wholly unique. Warbreaker has this thing called breath where everyone has like one breath that they're born with but you can give this breath to someone else and it will make them stronger. You a little bit weaker, you'll still live a fairly normal life but you just won't feel as vibrant or whatever. Like you've given away like let's say half the energy you have in a day permanently right but you can sell it right if you're a poor person you sell your breath with the other person right and the more breath an individual holds the more different powers that they can get based on color and whatnot but you can use your breath temporarily to make other things alive so you can have a I don't know like a your cape you can say protect me and you'll give some of your breath to the cape and the cape will act as if it's a living thing like you know like the rub from Aladdin or something and will actually protect you uh and and there's a lot of intricacies to it and it was it's very interesting. The next book of his that I've moved on to is also Steel Horse and I've only just started listening to it like the first chapter and I'm already fucking hooked. It's like just the first chapter it's not going to spoil anything but it's it's suggestive that some force has come to the planet and it's made humans into what they call epics and it starts off with a kid and his father trying to get a mortgage they work on a farm or something and this guy just busts into the bank and he's just vaporizing people coldly just vaporizing people and or just the kid just watching as all the bones fall to the ground and and the guy just seems crazy and it's apparently it seems to be like the boys kind of thing where people become superheroes but they're evil kind of thing at least that's what's suggestive so far and the description of all these people just panicked as like this this epic just like vaporizes a small child that's being held by its mother and you're like who writes this stuff like and like the the epic's explaining like yeah so I was I realized I could rob this bank but after planning it for a couple of weeks I realized that why am I robbing this bank I don't need money I can just kill anyone that that will stop me from taking what I want but then I realized like killing people all the time would be kind of inconvenient so I realized if I just come to this bank and kill a bunch of people then people will be scared and will just give me whatever I want and he's explaining this logic as he's just vaporizing people and it's just like I want to see where it goes but a very interesting opening to a story right the order that I'm reading the books is there's a guy that's like the top 10 fantasy Brandon Sanderson books and so I went through Mistborn then I went through Warbreaker now I'm going through Steelheart |
| 21. July 2020 | My favourite candy ever | My favorite candy ever. What's my favorite candy? Early to late 90s. Maybe early 2000s as well. Wonka produced these particular runs. The orange, banana, peach. A red thing, I don't think it was a strawberry though. Did I say lemon? But it was this particular set. And they were fucking delicious. They were the greatest runs of all goddamn time. There's been like five different generations of runs. This was the best generation. It just was. Every single one of those things was perfect. You could just shovel them in your mouth for days and never get tired of them. You could just lived off runs until the very moment that you got killed from having too much sugar. And they stopped making them. And then when they brought them back they had a completely different formula. So the new generation of runs is fine. But it's nowhere near as good as the generation from my childhood. I would go to these supermarkets where they would have these huge things that you could just pick any candy you want and fill up a container. You know you pay for the weight or whatever in the little container that you buy. And all I would get was runs. Or like 80% just filled up with runs and then like a few small things on top. Because it's all I wanted. Like when you reference like stupid things that you would do if you had a time machine. I would go back and buy all those fucking runs. What's runs? Google them. You've probably had them before. Wonka runs. It's just the modern generation of them is much worse. Every time something edible has a new and improved recipe it always tastes like butt. Yeah. It always has something to do with changing the recipe so it's cheaper or have an excuse to say oh new and improved. You know to get marketing. But like the new runs aren't bad. They're just not the same. They're not as good. Like you give me runs right now I'd be like oh yeah sweet I guess. The strawberry ones in the new runs were pretty good. Like it just sucks like that a recipe for those runs isn't available. I just need some eccentric billionaire to have had those runs when he was a kid. I just reach out and get that exact recipe and make it today. |
| 19. April 2021 | My favourite character in Hunter Hunter. | My favorite character in Hunter x Hunter. You know what I was looking at yesterday? I was looking at clips of Hunter x Hunter on YouTube. There were not a lot of episodes in that show. I thought there was more. There's 169. And I realized my favorite character doesn't actually get that much airtime. And doesn't actually do many fights. My favorite character is Zeno. I think his name is. He's the old assassin dude who walks around like a stereotypical old Asian fella. With his hands clasped behind his back. Not caring about the world. Super strong. Everyone underestimates him. Looks upon everyone with contempt. Yeah he's like Silver Fang. He's of course Silver Fang being, that's from One Punch Man. Not being evil while Zeno. Maybe he's evil in a way. He's kind of evil. He kills people for money. It's killer as a grandpa. Yes indeed. |
| 20. March 2021 | My favourite cheese. | Cheese. What's my favorite cheese? I don't know. I think I like cheddar. I just eat the cheese that's there. I'm pretty sure I like cheese that's crumbly, as opposed to squishy. Because remember, I can't remember what any cheese tastes like right now, but I can vaguely remember maybe the satisfaction I had in eating it. But like, when you eat cheese, it's not as though it has labeled on it the cheese. It doesn't have its name on it, right? So if I go to a cheese platter, and I get myself some cheese and I eat it, it doesn't increase my knowledge of the cheese. Oh yes, this is cheddar from the vineyards of blah blah blah. Cheese has no vineyards. You know what I'm saying? So I eat cheese, or even buy cheese for myself, and I can't really forget what type of cheese it is. The cheese I usually buy myself is a cracker barrel strong and bitey, and a bigger extra tasty cheese slice or whatever. It's got a black label. Imagine not knowing what kind of cheese you eat. I do know what kind. It's the cheese in front of me that's on my hands, or on a cracker, or on a bit of bread, and it goes into my mouth. I know exactly what cheese I eat. |
| 06. August 2020 | My favourite console back in the day | My favorite console back in the day Did I have a favorite console back in the day? The Gamecube is the console I look upon most fondly mainly because of Super Smash Brothers Melee and Sonic Adventure Bouto, but certainly the Sega Is another one Golden Axe Guns to Heroes Shinobi? That kind of stuff, but then N64 too Mario Kart probably most memorable and of course the original smash I've been out of the console sort of stuff for a very long time, but uh I do look at it fondly like when I When I watch people play Smash Ultimate, I think man I would love to play that game, but like there's a difference between wanting to play a game while being experienced at it and wanting to Take the time to learn a new game learning new games sucks I don't need to be the best at a game to enjoy it, but I like being confident at a game, you know |
| 03. August 2021 | My favourite disney villain | My favorite Disney villain. Dude, Hades is an amazing villain in Hercules. He's probably the best part of the whole movie. Played by James Woods, right? And you're wearing his merchandise! It's just, he was so cool as a villain. But apparently, in the Greek or mythology or whatever, Hades isn't a bad guy. He's not evil or whatever. The idea of Zeus being good, holy dude, and Hades being super evil dude, is meant to mirror Christian mythology, right? So Hades became a representation of the devil, and Zeus the representation of God or what have you. I think Hades, his position was well respected. He ushers people into death or whatever. But all throughout the cartoon series, the Disney thing, the thing with Hades is that he, he hates his job and he resents Zeus for giving him the job or whatever. I don't think is actually the case in mythology. Maybe I'm wrong. What do I know? I'm just a guy who plays the video games fast. Yeah, I get a vague impression that Zeus is a jerk. Didn't he have sex with a goat or something and he constantly slept around on his missus or whatever? I don't know much about it though. Like a lot of what I, probably a lot of my sense of the characters comes from a Sherling Kenyon's book series, which I'm sure is more factual, but certainly it's a fictitious series. Hades is just a just and good man. My favorite depiction of Hades comes from Dresden, Dresden Files. Yeah, Hades and that is great. |
| 03. August 2021 | My favourite disney villian | My favorite Disney villain. Dude, Hades is an amazing villain in Hercules. He's probably the best part of the whole movie. Played by James Woods, right? And you're wearing his merchandise! It's just, he was so cool as a villain. But apparently, in the Greek or mythology or whatever, Hades isn't a bad guy. He's not evil or whatever. The idea of Zeus being good, holy dude, and Hades being super evil dude, is meant to mirror Christian mythology, right? So Hades became a representation of the devil, and Zeus the representation of God or what have you. I think Hades, his position was well respected. He ushers people into death or whatever. But all throughout the cartoon series, the Disney thing, the thing with Hades is that he, he hates his job and he resents Zeus for giving him the job or whatever. I don't think is actually the case in mythology. Maybe I'm wrong. What do I know? I'm just a guy who plays the video games fast. Yeah, I get a vague impression that Zeus is a jerk. Didn't he have sex with a goat or something and he constantly slept around on his Mrs. or whatever? I don't know much about it though. Like a lot of what I, probably a lot of my sense of the characters comes from a Sherling Kenyon's book series, which I'm sure is more factual, but certainly it's a fictitious series. Hades is just a just and good man. My favorite depiction of Hades comes from Dresden, Dresden Files. Yeah, Hades in that is great. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 02. November 2021 | My favourite fruit and vegetables. | My favorite fruit and vegetables. What is the one vegetable I completely despise? Celery maybe? I don't like a lot of vegetables. I hate any cooked vegetables. Oh my god what is wrong with you people? They smell awful and they're slushy and ugh ugh. What is one vegetable I adore? There isn't one. I adore passion fruit. Just give me 57 passion fruit a day which should cost way too much fucking money. I don't buy a passion fruit. Like my ideal assortment of fruit would just be passion fruit, strawberries and blackberries. It's just a pile of those. If I ever won a billion dollars in lottery and I wanted to keep it from people, you'd be able to know immediately that I had won that money. Because you'd be seeing me drinking from glass bottles of coke and eating basically nothing but blackberries. Matt did you come into some money? No. Shovels blackberries in face. |
| 04. May 2021 | My favourite games | find funny. My favorite games. Is GTA 5 my favorite game of all time? It's hard to say. My favorite games are Heroes of Might Magic 3, Dark Souls, and GTA 5. But when I say Dark Souls, I mean the entire franchise of Souls. As far as GTA is concerned, I can take or leave the other GTAs. Maybe not GTA 4. Maybe not so much. But the other GTAs are pretty good. But like, I prefer Heroes of Might Magic 3 and Dark Souls to any other GTA. GTA 5, we're talking like it's a... you know, it's a debate there. Yeah, it includes Bloodborne. Like, uh, Souls is just its own feel of a game that I can't really get anywhere else. I just like the... so the gameplay in 4, some of it's good, some of it's bad. But I like the charm of the characters. |
| 17. May 2021 | My favourite genre of music | My favorite genre of music. I need to look for some new music. I got all those suggestions from Twitter for music a while back and I barely went through a tenth of it. I've been too distracted by my audiobooks. It's nice having some music just to vibe to on occasion. Do I like punk or ska? I don't really understand music genres or what music is what genre. I don't get it. I like the songs I like and I don't like the songs I don't. There's this genre I really like. It's called good music. I am the ultimate arbiter of what music that is. I might try it. |
| 06. October 2021 | My favourite ice-cream | My favorite ice cream. What's my favorite ice cream flavor? I don't really eat ice cream. The best ice cream I've ever had is when I would go down the South Coast for Christmas and Easter when I was a kid. There was a small ice cream shop and it had like this rainbow flavor and passion fruit flavor that I fucking loved. Put that shit in a waffle cone and I was happy. That pure form of happiness that you can only have as a kid. It's so good. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 03. September 2021 | My favourite kind of bourbon. | My favorite kind of bourbon. Wotab Bourbon's my favorite. There's this running, it was back in the day, running gag. We used to go to this teppanyaki restaurant, and we'd go there and get drunk on saki and just eat normal alcohol or whatever. We'd go there a lot because it was like across the road from another bar that people would frequent. And this one time, I went there, and I said to the woman, can I have a bourbon please, your cheapest? I made this hand movement, and she comes back and she's like, WON CHEE BOURBON! And puts it in front of me, raising her voice. Since then, it's just like a running gag. What bourbon's your favorite, the cheapest? You want WON CHEE BOURBON! That is my favorite bourbon, the cheapest bourbon. But in all reality, Maker's Mark is pretty good. |
| 07. August 2021 | My favourite kind of game | My favorite kind of game I Like games that are really really hard and a satisfying when you win It's why I love Dark Souls although any game that is more tedious than difficult I don't like if I die in a game. Let me do something immediately don't make me have to run a thousand miles |
| 16. December 2019 | My favourite movies | Speaking on some of my favorite movies. Favorite film? Shawshank Redemption. I remember the first time I saw a part of Shawshank Redemption, man. It makes me feel sad just thinking about it. I was in English class. We were doing one of those film analysis things. They showed us the scene where, you know, the old bloke leaves prison. He tries to fit into society and how it ends for him. I just remember being so emotionally overwhelmed seeing that scene. I was just so sad. Like it convinced me that I had to see that movie. The Last Term is a good movie to analyze, man. It's a piece of art. It's beautiful. Like you remember that conversation about, you know, are the Marvel films arts? You know, is it whatever? Scorsese and shit. Like when you compare a Marvel film to Shawshank Redemption, certainly there's a difference there, you know. When I read what you said there, Owen, I thought you were going to talk about Princess Bride. I was like, oh, that's a great movie as well. If you haven't seen Princess Bride, you're missing out. I heard... I saw a video on YouTube that was talking about the idea of redoing the Princess Bride was floating around. And the author was adamantly against it talking about like the process of making the Princess Bride was like a 15 year ordeal where endless different things just barely stopped them from being made and stuff. And when it was being made by a great director, was it Kubrick or something? I don't know. I don't know much about directors. No one there expected that it was going to be amazing. It's just they were making the film because they had a love for making the film. And it's based on a book that was heavily adapted for the movie. Like the original author had to kind of sit down and change things to make it good for the film. And it just works so perfectly. If you haven't seen the movie, highly, highly recommend it. |
| 12. August 2020 | My favourite non-alcoholic drink | My favorite non-alcoholic drink my favorite drink that I used to have is Slurpee so slurpees from actual slurpee machines are fucking amazing There was this one at skate 2000 when I was a kid Skate 2000 being like a skating rink like I almost only liked to go in a way or like my Favorite things about going was just so I could have slurpees from their slurpee machine It's fucking amazing Skate 2000 towards its end have like holes in all the walls and you could you could see like electrical wires and stuff I have no idea how they were still in business. They might have paid someone off. They clearly weren't making a lot of money They didn't have money for repairs So they just let like the building fall apart basically while kids and stuff were just getting around. They're slushies. Yeah slushies slurpees No, I don't think slurpees are slushies. They're different. I think they're the same thing but like there's there's really different types They're like a frozen coke you get from McDonald's tastes different from an actual slurpee you know a slurpee is more liquid and has Far more sugar and stuff in here, you know, it calls slush puppies. Really? Is that real? |
| 18. January 2021 | My favourite old clip got very few views. | My favorite old clip got very few views. One of my favorite clips that is non-GTA 5 got like next to no views. I want to show it to you guys. I find it funny. Tell me if I'm crazy. Just enjoy this together. It's old school Dark Viper from like a bajillion years ago. This game's hard. I'm also very sleepy though. Save the game. Happy I saved the game. Oh, I did again. Okay. It won't break! No! Oh god. We did it chat. Yay. God damn it. No, no, no. We did it chat. It just goes forever. It's really good. Ah, it's good shit. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 30. September 2021 | My favourite one punch man webcomic scene | Biology for prosperity or success in in society it sucks life's unfair That doesn't that doesn't mean that we can't increase fairness My favorite one punch man webcomic scene. I've got this thing stuck in my head. It's a scene from one punch man It's his own standalone funny scene, so won't spoil the show for anyone. Do you want to hear it? Okay, so basically King in the show is this guy who everyone believes is the Strongest fighter in the world, but actually he has no powers at all He just happened to be in the right place at the right time to take credit for a bunch of other deeds done by Usually Saitama the main character so at every turn they're like oh King you will save us and King's like oh shit I can't do anything But he's just really really lucky the joke is when you make a character and you put all stats into luck And that's King and there's a scene where atomic samurai. He's meant to be like the fifth strongest hero he isn't a bar with King and Atomic samurai is like I want to fight you come outside King's like I'm not we don't anything we need to fight and Tom says no no no we need to fight come on outside and Kings freaking out like cuz he's just a normal dude. He's a Otaku or whatever listen, but what's it called the the niece or whatever the the guy who just sits at home plays video games all day He eventually talks his way out of a Fighting atomic samurai, and he's walking off and atomic samurai's like wait before you leave I've always had the ability to judge a person based on how they swing their sword so I want you to take this katana and Cut the apple cut this apple and I will judge you and King's like oh, you know I'm just an amateur I'm just no no no no please please King. I respect you a lot Please cut this apple and so King kneels down and he holds the katana to his side for a minute for two minutes For three minutes and you hear internally in King's mind. He's like I can't draw the sword I can't even draw the sword even holding it like this. It's the most painful thing I'm just gonna stand up and walk away. I hope he doesn't follow me and then he leaves and Atomic samurai is staying there. He's sweating and inside. He's like I didn't even see him swing the sword He was so fast the apple doesn't even realize that it's been cut He he is on another level I am I'm he calls himself a novice who am I? And internally is like his his vision of himself is shattered. He just he thinks he's nothing he's like I must train to be stronger Yeah, I can't wait until this anime, but it was just so funny You |
| 03. January 2021 | My favourite sonic game. | My favorite Sonic game. My favorite Sonic game? Sonic 06. Great game. Probably the best well-programmed game of all time. Now for me, it's either Sonic Adventure Battle 2 for GameCube, or Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine for Sega Mega Drive. Though of course, the Mean Bean Machine game was just a reskin of some other game that already existed. I loved that game, dude. It was a great game. Never played Sonic Pinball. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 28. April 2021 | My favourite super hero | My favorite superhero Batman or Joker? Obviously Joker. Joker is infinitely more interesting as a character than Batman Batman is the least interesting part of the Batman universe. He's not a bad character But I hate bullet dodging. I just do. What was I watching yesterday? I was watching something and I found the fight scene so much more satisfying because Bullets were flying and the characters were getting hit by the bullets But the characters had like special abilities that enabled them to like regenerate or kind of shake it off I much prefer this stuff than the characters who were just Effectively humans and vulnerable to bullets and so the show has to continuously either contrive reasons Why the enemies don't use guns or just make it so all the bullets miss or the enemies forget to use them you know Wolverine running ass and taking like Seven bullets as he stabs someone in the face will always be more satisfying than Guys firing bullets at a hero and the bullets just always missing Wolverine might actually be my favorite Superhero, I've never really thought in those terms before but actually I suppose yeah. Yeah, I think probably so Do I have any favorite female superheroes? I generally liked Wonder Woman because again, she doesn't that whole bullet dodging thing She doesn't have that kind of stuff. But as I've said before I'm not super into Liking one superhero over another. I just like good stories, you know What's the name Raven or whatever? I saw like a DC movie with her and like a dad's Trapped in a gem in her head or something and that was fairly good Oh Cora from the legend of Cora did she count as a superhero that I like her Toff Toff I like Toff I'm saying a name quickly. I haven't watched Avatar in a long time. She's a cool character I'm gonna watch that show again. If you haven't seen Avatar the animated series, like I'm sure you've heard from everyone That's really good, but it is really good. I don't mean the blue cat people. I mean, they're obviously good Avatar villains or heroes I don't think villains or heroes are necessarily Better to watch than the other as a class like as in like there's good villains. There's bad villains There's good heroes and bad heroes, you know. |
| 29. April 2021 | My favourite thing to do in gaming | Favorite thing to do in gaming Why did I want this to be a no hit run? Because I like I like a challenge My favorite series is Dark Souls guys I like nothing more than to go into something as an underdog or even completely unprepared and just to Hit at it until I get so good that I can beat it. As I've said before There's a way to verse dancer in Dark Souls 3 earlier than you should be able to and I spent like three days Like six or seven hours a day Just rehearsing dancer over and over and over again Massively underleveled Poking it for like no damage until I beat it I know that may seem like it's not a huge feat because people beat the game with soul level one But I was not an experienced souls veteran at that point I was like is this the hardest thing you can do then that's what I want to do These days given that I have to be somewhere entertaining and stuff Like I I don't just seek out the hardest challenge on anything I'm doing anymore because If I get stuck on something for hours, that won't be interesting for you guys But that is my favorite thing to do in gaming Finding some challenge that seems insurmountable and finding a way to surmount it Whether that be by finding cool strategy or just improving until it becomes a doable task |
| 02. July 2021 | My favourite trope anime character | My favorite trope anime character? My favorite character in anime is always the old powerful dude. How was the dude's name? Like I like to ban in One Punch Man. That martial artist dude and the the the is it Zeno? Zeno in Hunter x Hunter? There's the old Asian dude who holds his hands behind his back that everyone underestimates and he kicks the shit out of everyone. It's great. Yeah Uncle Ivo as well yeah yeah. I haven't seen Avatar in a long time but uh Uncle Iro sticks with me. Especially um that's that's where he gets put in prison or whatever. He just works out like every day and leaves it like massively muscular and bulky or whatever. That reveal of his physique is a funny scene. I gotta watch that show again. I'm curious how much it holds up for me. |
| 22. December 2019 | My favourite tv show: Stargate SG1 | 6 that they've already claimed. My favorite TV show Stargate SG-1. I realized yesterday, people ask me all the time what my favorite TV show is of all time and it might actually be Stargate. I haven't seen it in so many years but I watched that like a dozen times when I was a kid. There's something about that show that speaks to me you know. More than Star Wars, more than Star Trek. It's great. Like the aspect of it where it's like humans are just modern day, like it's different from Star Wars or Star Trek because both of those have advanced technology. Humans in Star Gate are massively outgunned on every front and you know through luck and ingenuity or whatever they end up succeeding. To me it's just a better narrative in a way than Star Trek where I mean that happens a lot of the time but in a lot of situations they're like the dominant force of power just like warping themselves around going at light speed and shit. Watching over the course of how many seasons it was you know dozens of seasons or whatever of Stargate as they slowly grow and adapt technology and the fumbles and issues they have adapting alien technology and meeting all these races that are you know like all these humans they're no shit. Look how primitive their weapons are. All those interactions is great in that series. You prefer the mysticism of Star Wars? I mean Stargate does have its own forms of mysticism but you're right there isn't magic necessarily. I mean there are things that effectively equate to magic because there's such amazing technology that the humans don't understand it but like the time loop episode and there's an episode where like different forms of themselves from an alternate timeline come and ask for our universe's help in defending their own universe and so you've got like duplicates of all the characters helping each other out and then there's this I mean in Atlantis episode there's like a rift that is caused that sucks different variations of the main team into the same universe but one of them is the group that caused the issue and they have to find out which group it is and why they did it and it turns out to be because they're like they need this special crystal or whatever and they're trying to steal it from a different timeline. It's awesome. All this thing where Sam gets warped to another reality where she's dead in that reality the humans have been like almost destroyed. They're like a month from annihilation or something and Sam creates like a device that like phase shifts the entire earth so that it can't be destroyed or touched and the earthlings of that world are like sweet so now we're fine and everyone else is fucked but that's okay and Sam's like but but but all life in the universe is being destroyed and the earthlings are like yeah we're okay though so it's not our responsibility it's just like what I don't know it's it's there's so many good stories like the video if you also like some kind of a tv show oh my god we're just like I'm so relatable that I also like a tv show you see so you should press like button thank you |
| 18. December 2019 | My favourite video games | The GTA games in general, I put GTA 4 in that list though. Additionally, Age of Empires 2, The Battle of Gay Tony, all from soft titles like Sakura for example, and Warcraft 3. Discrepancies in the amount of hours that some people have played GTA 5. Do I know anyone with more hours than me? So the problem with that is online, being online, you can't play GTA 5. Do I know someone other than myself? I don't know. |
| 04. January 2020 | My fear of my childhood pool | of my childhood pool. I haven't gone for a swim in what feels like years. When I think of what I like some hypothetical house, I'm like, man, I really want to have a pool, but pools take so much maintenance. So many cool things are cool to have, like intermittently, but they kind of suck to own. It's like having snow. Snow is awesome. Like once a year or something and you don't live there and you just play in the snow and then go home, whatever. But having to deal with snow for months would suck. Having to take care of a pool and stuff for months would suck. Like when I was a kid, I wanted a fireplace and stairs. Never got a fireplace, but I got stairs. And eventually you're like, oh my God, I'm so sick of walking up these fucking stairs, dude. What the hell? Of course, when I was a kid, having stairs was really awesome because you'd put pillows and mattresses on it and stuff and you'd slide down them till eventually you get too big. So your stairs aren't long enough for the slide to actually be good anymore. The pool that my parents have, I never liked it as a kid because it has like, it's like underhangings where around the entire edge is like a little bit of brick that juts out. It's smooth, like you aren't going to hurt yourself on it. But underneath that hanging spiders can be. So as a kid, it was always like I'd walk around, I'd check every little underhanging if there's spiders there. Even if I didn't see any spiders, man, the entire time I'd just be like, oh man, there could be spiders there, man. Could be spiders. And never would I want to be near the edge of the pool. I'd swim in it occasionally, but man, that would have got so much more use out of it if the design was slightly different. |
| 28. November 2022 | My first ever face reveal. | A lot of the time. My first ever face reveal. So this first thing I'm gonna show isn't the announcement, but I'm just gonna show off the hell of it. When I finally do a face reveal, I expect to get as many views as Dream did. He got what, 50 million? Pfft, easy. You can buy stickers of all my woof woof emails, by the way, as well as shirts, hoodies, tank tops, mugs, and such. Link below every one of my videos. I link it here, but YouTube hates that. And there's me with a sticker on my face. This sticker's actually complete now, though the hand is completed and so is the body as well. This is from an old clip that Crim saw, and I was like, huh, that's kinda funny. |
| 28. December 2021 | My first experience learning everyone didn't support democracy | Just experienced learning everyone didn't support democracy. The person I referenced in the next section was a Hong Kong resident. I remember when Amaz made a statement that I was just so surprised at. This is during the protests in Hong Kong revolving around, um, because Hong Kong is meant to be like a part of China, a bit like separated from it in a way, but China continues to degrade the freedoms and democracies of Hong Kong, and there were student protests and stuff that wanted, wanted democracy and they didn't like the idea that they could only pick from like three candidates that were chosen effectively by China or whatever. And I remember Amaz commenting on this and being like, democracy is overrated. Like he just wished that these people would stop causing a fuss and so everything could go back to normal. And I was just like, huh. That's uh, that's interesting. The cont- |
| 01. February 2020 | My first experience with GTA | that I can remember seeing was GTA 2 at some random person's house. I don't think I played it, probably watched it for two minutes. The first GTA game I can remember playing was maybe GTA 3, where I played like two missions. It was either GTA 3 or... actually, I think it might have been Vice City, because I had them both on a disc in my... for PlayStation 2. It was like a dual pack. I got bored after the first mission, and I ran around shooting people with a rifle. I'd fight the cops, they'd kill me, then I'd turn off the system. That was my first experience with GTA. Until later on, it was only after playing GTA 5 and speedrunning and stuff, that I recalled these memories. GTA was never a game. |
| 17. September 2021 | My first experience with GTA Online | My first experience with GTA Online went like this. Took about 5 minutes to load into the game. I drove around confused, didn't know what to do. Tried to start a basic mission. Failed. Because no one would join it. I finally found a way to get into the menu to join something. Got kicked because I was too low level. Took 5 minutes to get into the list and 5 minutes to get back to the game. Did that twice more. Same effect. So I spent about an hour and I did literally nothing in the game. And then I stopped playing. I came back to online a little bit later when I had viewers who could help me. And so we played for a little bit together. It was pretty fun. A little bit. Like it's not crazy. But it was more fun because I was playing with viewers. Then a hacker joined my lobby. Stole all my friends money. Gave me like a trillion dollars. And made me level 250. So I had to pull the plug immediately. Because I didn't want to get banned. So I told Rockstar. They removed all the money. And left me level 250. And I was like this is just awful. |
| 17. July 2021 | My first game console. | My first game console. What was my first ever console? I think Sega. Sega Megagraph. Honestly, I don't think with a Sonic game that I ever got past like the first axe when I was a kid. Like I would always get to the next level which had like lava and it went underground. And there was moving green cubes and stuff. And I was like what the fuck is this shit man? And I would die every time. That level was a huge bump up in difficulty for a kid. |
| 02. April 2021 | My first impression of Twitch's new ad-targeting system. | I know it has now been beaten to death, but this was my first impression of Twitch's new ad targeting system. So for those unaware, Twitch has added an automatic brand safety score which grades how brand friendly every stream is based on things like chat behavior, ban history, manual ratings by Twitch staff, games played, age, automod, and more. And Twitch responded to this, Hey, we're exploring ways to make sure ads are appropriately matched to the right communities on Twitch, looking at a number of different factors. Nothing is launched yet and no personal information was shared. People seem to be presenting this as a bad thing. This seems to be like a good thing, because this is what like every single platform does in regards to advertisements, because advertisers are like super anal about where their content goes. So they go, Okay, we have this fucking kids thing or whatever and like we want to target Minecraft people and Twitch is like we can't do that. And they go, okay, we're not gonna give you ad money then. Fuck off, right? For like, I hope it's still not the case, but for the longest time if you bought ad space on Twitch, it would just fucking go to everyone. It would target no one at all. When you have like Facebook who can target like the color of your hair and your toothpaste, like that's how detailed that the targeted advertising is. Why would you put ad money on Twitch when you could just put on Facebook or fucking YouTube or whatever? Like this just seems like a good thing. It's so the like 1% of toxic Twitch people don't drag down everyone else's CPM. But even then, like to my understanding, at least going to Devon Nash, everyone on Twitch gets a constant CPM by their contracts. So it doesn't matter how much Twitch is selling the ads for to brands, everyone still gets the same rate in the contracts. All that would change is the amount of ads that are able to be paid on your stream. Because certainly they don't have a 100% fill rate. Does anywhere have a 100% fill rate? As in like every time an ad could play, there's not always an ad that's available to play, right? So it's possible that this could actually benefit everyone in the long term, even those who are the most toxic, because advertisers could see Twitch as like an actual place that they can advertise their shit because it's now a target of advertising. So by building up Twitch's profile as an ad-friendly place, more ads, advertisers in general, get put on the platform, which therefore increases everyone's money they make from ads, because the CPM stays the same anyway. It's not like on YouTube where my CPM is like one tenth of what a financial channel might be getting, for example, or you know, one tenth of what a child channel is making or whatever. My CPM on YouTube isn't that great, but on Twitch, it's the same in your contracts. So like I don't know why people look at this as a bad thing. It's my thing. Non-targeted advertising does not help content creators. It just doesn't. Please refer to my video, Why Twitch Streamers Would Rather Know Ads Than Twitch's Ad System, for more information. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 02. April 2021 | My first impression of Twitch's new ad-targetting system. | I know it has now been beaten to death, but this was my first impression of Twitch's new ad targeting system. So for those unaware, Twitch has added an automatic brand safety score which grades how brand friendly every stream is based on things like chat behavior, ban history, manual ratings by Twitch staff, games played, age, automod, and more. And Twitch responded to this, Hey, we're exploring ways to make sure ads are appropriately matched to the right communities on Twitch, looking at a number of different factors. Nothing is launched yet and no personal information was shared. People seem to be presenting this as a bad thing. This seems to be like a good thing, because this is what like every single platform does in regards to advertisements, because advertisers are like super anal about where their content goes. So they go, Okay, we have this fucking kids thing or whatever and like we want to target Minecraft people and Twitch is like we can't do that. And they go, okay, we're not gonna give you ad money then. Fuck off, right? For like, I hope it's still not the case, but for the longest time if you bought ad space on Twitch, it would just fucking go to everyone. It would target no one at all. When you have like Facebook who can target like the color of your hair and your toothpaste, like that's how detailed that the targeted advertising is. Why would you put ad money on Twitch when you could just put on Facebook or fucking YouTube or whatever? Like this just seems like a good thing. It's so the like 1% of toxic Twitch people don't drag down everyone else's CPM. But even then, like to my understanding, at least going to Devon Nash, everyone on Twitch gets a constant CPM by their contracts. So it doesn't matter how much Twitch is selling the ads for to brands, everyone still gets the same rate in the contracts. All that would change is the amount of ads that are able to be paid on your stream. Because certainly they don't have a 100% fill rate. Does anywhere have a 100% fill rate? As in like every time an ad could play, there's not always an ad that's available to play, right? So it's possible that this could actually benefit everyone in the long term, even those who are the most toxic, because advertisers could see Twitch as like an actual place that they can advertise their shit because it's now a target of advertising. So by building up Twitch's profile as an ad-friendly place, more ads, advertisers in general, get put on the platform, which therefore increases everyone's money they make from ads, because the CPM stays the same anyway. It's not like on YouTube where my CPM is like one tenth of what a financial channel might be getting, for example, or you know, one tenth of what a child channel is making or whatever. My CPM on YouTube isn't that great, but on Twitch, it's the same in your contracts. So like I don't know why people look at this as a bad thing. It's my thing. Non-targeted advertising does not help content creators. It just doesn't. Please refer to my video, Why Twitch Streamers Would Rather Know Ads Than Twitch's Ad System, for more information. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 08. March 2022 | My first kind of interaction with Penguinz0 | My first kind of interaction with Penguin Zero. I was on stream one day, many years ago. I recently watched a video from Charlie and I was just talking about whatever was on my mind. I was like, oh, did you hear the like, huge background hum on Charlie's video today? Like, what was up with that? Like, a dude makes heaps of money. Why doesn't he have like a better camera and audio set up by this point? Like, it's just weird. I followed on by jokingly saying, hey, if any of you know Charlie, go tell him to get better audio and video equipment, or something to that effect. One of my viewers was like, the neighbor of Charlie's parents. For whatever reason, this dude tells Charlie about this video. And according to this, the guy, Charlie responded, who the hell is DarkFyperAU? And I'm just like, it was a joke. It was a part of your joke. I was just talking random shit. He can do whatever the hell he wants with his content. It was distracting though. But, like, it wasn't, I wasn't sincerely being like, hey, you're meant to track down Mois Critical and tell him that his audio quality isn't the best. And I was like, what are the chances that, like, I probably only had like a couple hundred viewers at that stage. That's small world, you know. |
| 08. March 2022 | My first kind of interaction with penguinz0 | My first kind of interaction with Penguin Zero. I was on stream one day many years ago I recently watched a video from Charlie, and I was just talking about whatever was on my mind I was like oh did you hear the like huge background hum on Charlie's video today? Like what was up with that like a dude makes heaps of money Why doesn't he have like a better camera and audio set up by this point like it's it's just weird I followed on by jokingly saying hey if any of you know Charlie go tell him to get better audio and video equipment or something to that effect one of my viewers was like the neighbor of Charlie's parents for whatever reason this dude tells Charlie about this video and According to this the guy Charlie responded who the hell is Darkflap a year, and I'm just like it was a joke Well, it was a party a joke. I was just talking random shit He can do whatever the hell he wants with his content It was distracting though, but like it wasn't I wasn't sincerely being like hey You're meant track down moist critical and telling me these audio quality isn't the best And I was like what are the chances that like I probably only had like a couple of hundred viewers at that stage That's small world, you know |
| 16. May 2020 | My first speed game was what? | The first game you speedrun. I talked about why I started to be running GTA 5 before I liked it And I happen to see whipwicks playing it, but the first game I tried to speedrun was Super Mario Sunshine I did it! I fucking did it! I am clearly a Semi average person at this game. I sucked at it. I don't like controllers I suck at platformers. I don't suck at platformers. I'm not good at platforms. I'm not a speedrunner of platformers and But that was technically the first game they ever tried. |
| 24. February 2022 | My first stream sponsorships. | My first stream sponsorships. I have done exactly one thing related to Nvidia and that was an Nvidia Fortnite tournament back in the day. And they didn't pay me for months. I think I got paid 700 USD to be in two tournaments. And I only had like a couple hundred viewers. Easily the biggest payday I had back then. And they definitely overpaid. I thought it was pretty good back then. Really? You want me in Fortnite? I'm like why? I'm not even that good at Fortnite. But okay. If that's what you want I will happily take your money. Some of the sponsors that I had in the early days of streaming I think gave me a distorted perception as to how much I was actually worth on the market. Like I did a Lords Mobile sponsorship just for the stream. And a...what was the other one I didn't like as much? The Clash Mobile or something? Like it's also made by the same people who make Lords Mobile. Like Lords Mobile I quite enjoyed. And it was a little bit involved because I played it for like a week or two before I actually did the stream. Where I showcased it on stream. And I had a little guild with my viewers and it was quite fun. But they paid me like 500 USD I think. For both sponsorships. Which was just an hour of playing it on stream. I only had a couple hundred viewers. Maybe a hundred. Not even 200 viewers. I was definitely not worth that money. But I was like the first person they ever sponsored or something. And I'm sure to a mobile company it's just like 500 bucks? Yeah okay whatever. I have that in my back pocket. I heard the next person that they tried to sponsor they contacted me and they told me what they were getting offered and it was way lower than what I got offered. |
| 20. December 2022 | My first time trying cold coffee. | My first time trying cold coffee. So, yesterday, I was like, I think I want to start trying to get into coffee. What do people use to make coffee? Oh, like they make, have those coffee makers and espresso makers and stuff. I'll go see what those are about. And I watched this like, eight minute tutorial of like, well first you put the beans in here, then you grind them, and then you have to pack them into here, and they have to be this particular like, height and stuff, then you put it in here, and the pressure has to be, and I'm just like, oh my god, I had no idea making coffee. A good coffee was so annoying. I guess I could just get instant coffee and stuff, but I'm like, I don't even want to boil water, I just take too long. Like, soft drink, I open the bottle and I drink it, and I've gotten used to that kind of turnover of immediate satisfaction. So I'm like, what if I can just get coffee that's already made, but then it won't be hot, I'm like, oh fuck it. Let's just try cold coffee. So, from my local supermarket, I got like, every cold coffee that they had, and I'm gonna try it. This is some Hunt and Brew Brazilian coffee, or Brazil coffee. It tastes like cold coffee, it's alright. I think what I want out of the flavor though, is less coffee and more chocolate. Coffee to me is just like, a worse tasting chocolate. It'll taste terrible, you get used to it, I don't mind the taste of coffee. It's just not better than soft drink. But maybe this has more caffeine than soft drink, I can have it when I wake up, because caffeine ain't doing shit for me anymore. I've built up an immunity. |
| 09. July 2022 | My forever tangled deadset | How much I've done for the game, all of us really. My forever tangled headset. Trying to untangle my bleep headset. I love this headset, but the cable is just so goddamn bad. What headset? It's like a $20 headset that looks like it's from like 2007. It's got like the amazing sound quality for the price. And I get comments all the time like, man, you've got so much money. Why don't you buy a better headset? I'm like, this is the best headset that exists. There's no better headset than this. Have you tried another headset? Oh, yeah, yeah. It's the Koss CS, no, KSC75. It's on ear, lightweight, has no band over the top of my head. It's open back and like no other headset in existence has all these qualities. Do you not like the like overhead one? No, I don't. And I don't like the noise canceling things that go over your ears and shit. And like the the headsets that you get these days, like you could you could brain some with them. They're like basically like a weapon. They're just so goddamn heavy and shit. I hate it. Yeah, of course, I do have like a I have to keep a supply of them like I buy them in bulk. I get like five pairs because I break the cable so easily. I've definitely gone to at least 15 pairs in my career. I'm thinking about getting out another set of these headphones just because of how tangled this fucking cable is. Do it. I feel like I'm going to be like tinkering with them the entire fucking time if I don't. No, no, no, it's fine. I'll stop. It's fine. I let chat freak out. |
| 03. June 2020 | My fortnite experience | Play Fortnite for one stream. I played a lot of Fortnite back in the day people. I was an expert at Fortnite I was like ninjas number one guy. I was like, I don't know. No, I did play a lot of Fortnite I was even in tournaments that I was paid to be in Nvidia invited me to two different tournaments. I think I was paid 400 USD per tournament. That's just how good I was man. They had to have me there I did get paid that 400 400 bucks per tournament. That isn't a joke. I just mean I it wasn't because I was good It's because I had a couple hundred viewers and they wanted some publicity and 400 bucks in Nvidia is fucking nothing. I am |
| 21. September 2022 | My fruit tier list | My fruit tier list What are my thoughts on oranges? They don't taste all that good if you want to have like a good orange juice It's probably getting to be full of like 50% sugar or some shit What's even worse for you than like just normal sugar soft drink and if you want to just eat a normal orange It's got like that outer shell that you got to peel and it's squishy it goes everywhere you get stuff in your teeth I would rate oranges like a D fruit like maybe even an F not a fan No, no, no, no, no, we can't give an F cuz you know a good orange juice can be delicious sometimes I'll be actually eating of the orange juice. No the orange is not not a fan Am I saying that oranges are overrated? Do I look like a guy walking around asking people like my dude doing a survey? What is your opinion of oranges? I know what other people think of origins Maybe maybe like everyone else also thinks oranges are garbage. Maybe I'm in the majority here. I don't know How am I gonna know the average rating of a fruit? But my thoughts on apples apples come in so many varieties There's a 50 different types of apples. How can you hate apples my a plus fruit? It's probably gonna be apples like as I say, there's just so many different flavors of apples. You can always find something Below that passion fruit and I know as a divisive statement because passion fruit is very sweet, right? He hates himself because he hates oranges. Not true. I hate myself for completely other reasons. Hahaha Be sure to LIKE and subscribe also leave a comment if you have something on your mind My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best |
| 10. January 2021 | My frustrations with facts and glitches. | The frustrations with Facts and Glitches. I really want to do more episodes of Facts and Glitches. I've got so many things, you know, that I want to put in a series. And I'm sure the Discord is just chock full of stuff now. Although making those episodes takes an obscene amount of time. It is always the problem when you get tips or advice or feedback or, you know, submissions from the audience where there's always going to be the substantial amount that is not very good or not useful or is already being done before. You have to go through a lot of stuff to find that gold, you know. Like, you appreciate it all. You appreciate that anyone will take the time to submit anything, right? But at the same time, it does become a bit tedious going over the same suggestion a bajillion times. Like, I remember when I was doing Facts and Glitches last time, I broke down when a person suggested that you can shoot the water dispenser in Prologue, and that should be included in my series. They're suggesting it as if I didn't know that. And I'm like, how the fuck do you think that I don't know that you can shoot the water dispenser in Prologue and have it give out water? I mean, for one, that's what you'd expect. And for two, I've done Prologue for literally thousands of hours. You don't think I've shot the fucking water dispenser before? That I've never just been angry and shot the water dispenser to figure that shit out? But of course, the person's just trying to be helpful, you know? It is funny that the person I hate the most doesn't do this. Did you know if you shoot a guy, he dies? I didn't curse. Thank you, man. |
| 26. March 2022 | My future and past RDR2 playthrough | My future and past Red Dead Redemption 2 playthrough. Can I please play Red Dead Redemption 2? Red Dead Redemption 2 is on the list of things I will do. Probably, you know, eight months away, but looking back at the the footage of my console playthrough of Red Dead Redemption 2 is not edited very good. It's, there's not enough lead-up to a lot of stuff. There's not enough context left in. It's way too much clips as opposed to uh um presenting things in a way that's understandable for viewers. Things were less rigorous back then. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 22. March 2022 | My future on youtube and Facebook live. | My future on YouTube and Facebook Live. Do I ever consider streaming on YouTube? All the time. It's probably a good two years away from being at parity with Twitch though. I saw recently a Facebook live stream. Fuck do those look terrible? And everyone having their real names in chat, it looks so dumb. |
| 22. March 2022 | My future on youtube and facebook live. | My future on YouTube and Facebook Live. Do I ever consider streaming on YouTube? All the time. It's probably a good two years away from being at parity with Twitch though. I saw recently a Facebook live stream. Fuck do those look terrible? And everyone having their real names in chat, it looks so dumb. |
| 15. June 2021 | My future plans as content creator | My future plans as a content creator. I don't know how much you get asked this, but I'm curious, what is your overall goal for YouTube and Twitch? Like, what are you aiming to do in the long run? I really enjoy your content, I think you're doing a fantastic job. I don't have an ultimate goal. I have smaller goals, whether it be to complete a particular series, or start particular things, or whatever. But there is no end game. I will take it as far as I can, while enjoying as much as I can, and when I stop enjoying it, I'll stop. As I say, I've never found something in life as satisfying as I do YouTube and Twitch. And I would hate to have to find something to replace that. For the downsides and the annoyances that this job sometimes brings, it's an amazing job, you know? I love it. Are you thinking about beginning any other careers, or will you only stick to Twitch streaming? I mean, I do quite a bit of stuff. Like, you know, I've got my editing, sponsorship stuff, I've got managers now, I've got people who help me with my editing. Edit myself, livestream, you know, I do quite a bit. And it's very satisfying and profitable. I have no reason to seek out anything else. Certainly the only changes I should make is, like, the degree to which I invest my life into it. Because certainly, currently, it's like 100%. I'm trying to scale back, like, my social media usage and stuff, and stick to less than before. I think I mainly just want to respond to YouTube comments and be on Twitch, and maybe Discord. Thought I think I spread myself too thin previously. What do you think of someone like PewDiePie, where he essentially retired but does it for fans? When did this happen? What do you mean he essentially retired? What does that mean? He takes huge breaks and cares way less, he said it on stream a lot. Yeah, I mean, I imagine he doesn't just do it for the fans or whatever, he probably still enjoys it, right? |
| 29. January 2021 | My gag reflex | My gag reflex My gag reflex is so strong like I can't brush my teeth Well, I can't fucking gargle fucking mouthwash go to the dentist and I have to look man Okay, I'm gonna gag sometimes just be be real watch yourself I never grew up to be a high-class prostitute chat. It's not gonna happen dreams dashed I remember the last time when I tried to get that wisdom tooth out and I um threw up on the dentist And I thought by the entire burger that I had eaten like an hour before he's like, yeah This is this never happened to me in 20 years. I'm like, ah, well, I'm sorry. Sorry to be your first |
| 06. June 2022 | My games to play for content list | My games to play for content list. Where GTA clones don't want to play. I actually have a huge list. These are all the GTA clones. AAA, Indie, and Steam Mobile Garbage. And then there's all these games. These Rockstar games and games to play just in general. This would take a long time. Like, a part of me is tempted to forego speedrunning and just play all these. But, uh, I really want to get back into speedrunning, man. Just to get like a decent time, you know. Like, once I've learned it all, it's in the brain, you know, uh, it's just the standard thing I do. Then I can, like, intersperse other types of content in the middle of learning. And I won't fall behind, you know. There are two different types of games, chat. There are the games that I can just play casually and when I'm tired, like I am now. And there are games that require, like, my attention because I want to be making, like, good commentary and stuff. Dedicated single-player games like Mafia require more attention, you know. Stop saying please play Max Payne 2 and 3, I will. |
| 02. November 2021 | My gaming channel was once majority russian. | My gaming channel was once Majority Russian. Before I started uploading GTA 5 content, the largest amount of views that I got came from Russia. Because I had um, tutorials or completed playthroughs of UTD on my YouTube channel. UTD being a custom map in Warcraft 3 and Russia loves a lot of these older games. Russia, I mean like a Eastern Europe in general. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 20. December 2021 | My genius speedrun world record idea | My genius speedrun world record idea. What I should do is find like a really dead game or a game that isn't submitted to speedrun.com, become a moderator of it and make a bunch of category names that are all titled like one or two words and I'll get world record in all those categories. And so when you go to my profile, you'll be able to read the category names in order and it will say something like, never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you. It'd be so good. That wouldn't be much effort, Yago. Because you just make the categories and then just say that you have the world record. You wouldn't even need to submit a video. |
| 03. April 2021 | My geoguessr video got demonetized because I can't hear swearing anymore. | My GeoGuessr video got demonetized because I can't hear swearing anymore So finally I released a video yesterday of my Geo- City Geo- City, my GeoGuessr footage from 2017 Literally the only time I had ever played GeoGuessr was in 2017 and just coincidentally GeoGuessr is kind of popular right now So I was happy to get that footage out there And it's a funny video because I don't know much about like geography or what countries look like and whatnot Like I know stuff about countries, but you know, especially countries in In general, I just don't consider myself to be a person who Has seen the sights of the world, right? So a very funny video, but unfortunately it got demonetized So on YouTube You can actually swear to what degree this impacts What ads you can get, I'm not sure But uh My CPM does not change on videos where I swear I don't swear so it doesn't really matter to me But they have a rule if you swear like a ridiculous amount like as in like your entire video is just swearing or It's like really vulgar shit or you swear in the first 30 seconds You lose your monetization and in that GeoGuessr video. I must have said fuck 900 times every single sentence. I was I just having a weird day or was that how I was back then? I remember people telling me when I was a kid like I had a sailor's mouth or whatever But I didn't think it was that bad. I've seen other footage from then that wasn't that bad But I made a mistake when I rendered the video because I was working so quickly like it came out after when I wanted to come Out I swore three times in the first 30 seconds and despite listening to the first 30 seconds Trying to catch swearing. I only caught one of them So just I'm just so used to swearing that I don't even hear it And so like two hours after video released it got demonetized Which still means it's gonna get some ads just not as many as it would normally my big concern though is there was a slight decline in the amount of impressions after the two-hour mark and I wonder like I'm pretty confident that While YouTube doesn't just like like throw your video out if it gets demonetized they still recommend it I'm pretty confident that they do Prioritize other videos that'll actually make them some some better money They say that's not the case, but I have some experiences that suggest otherwise I could have taken down the video once I got demonetized and put it back up But at the end of the day, I don't really care about the money I just I just care that people see the video because a really funny video as an interesting snapshot of me in 2017 so like like losing the ads didn't bother me losing the Potential additional impressions kind of bothered me. It was a good video Do you guess it's hilarious infuriating like how could you not know where things are? It's funny because if you don't know something You don't know something. It doesn't matter how intelligent you may or may not be If you don't know something you don't know something. It would be interesting to see though playing GeoGuessr again If I do better, it was interesting to me watching the footage What things I got and what things I didn't get like it just it just dumped me in some random room with blue walls Like this is Mexico and it was It is possible I would have done a little bit better had I taken things more seriously back then but I didn't I just kind Of looked around. Yeah, this is probably this place, but certainly Some of the monuments that probably should have gone. I still don't really know what that big Arches that I said was in what I say was in Berlin or something. What did I do with that water thing the Was it Venice versus Naples or something? Yeah. Yeah, technically it was the Northern Territory There are so many good lines in there. What did I say? I can tell this is Western Australia because there's dirt |
| 08. December 2021 | My gloves ruined my childhood snow trip | My gloves ruined my childhood snow trip. Man, trust me, I love the snow. One of the saddest moments in my entire life is when I went to the snow with my high school group and my gloves broke. Like, you know how there's like an inside of your gloves? My gloves were made so poorly that the inside of my gloves kind of went outside of my gloves and like I couldn't put them on anymore. And so my hands were so cold that I couldn't really enjoy the snow because they just became all red and raw and painful. All my life I wanted to go to the snow and I finally went to the snow and I couldn't enjoy myself. And I watched all the other kids enjoying themselves and it was like the most painful experience I can ever remember having. I feel sad even now. Like, just imagine a little me looking at all the other kids enjoying themselves and like being very sad and tearing up and stuff. That's like my entire memory of the event. You will encounter snow again? I doubt it. My dream is to once again have enough money to go to the snow and to take a dog and then play with the dog in the snow. That's the dream. And then you know maybe have a family and stuff. But mainly the dog in the snow thing. Your dream sounds like an indie movie. If it was an indie movie I'd be there by myself with my dog and my dog would run off and it would find another dog which happened to belong to like... an attractive woman who is the woman of my dreams and a snowstorm hits and it turns out that my cabin is closer than her cabin. And she has to stay over for the night and we fall in love and the rest is history. That'd be the indie movie. |
| 12. December 2021 | My goxlr is a bit weird | My GoXLR is a bit weird. A GoXLR being a device that works as a mixer that basically takes new audio to your PC. If anyone has any connections with... Who are these guys again? The people who make GoXLR. Whenever an alert goes off, it goes ehhhh and then plays the alert in my earphones. Doesn't make that sound for you, so I've just learned to live with it. But it is kind of annoying. It's like da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. So I can predict and tell you for certain just before an alert comes through because it makes an annoying sound in my ears. Which is, you know, understandably not ideal. I even bought a second one and it still does it. I even bought another USB cable and I've tried different headphones. Still does it. |
| 30. June 2021 | My grandfather pranking me with large spider | My grandfather pranking me with a large spider. Have I seen a big huntsman spider before? Yeah, I told that story before where I was going to the bathroom in the garage. And as I was walking there, my grandpa looked at me and he looked like he was about to laugh or something. I was like, what? He was like, oh nothing. And so I go in there. I come out and he looks at me and he's like, so? And I'm like, what do you mean? He's like, you just see it? And I'm like, what are you talking about? He's like, oh, go back in there. And so I go back in there and in the corner is this fucking huge spider. Like just enormous. And I'm just like, what the? Why didn't you remove it? What are you fucking? I went in there, dude. I'm a little kid and I'm freaking out. He's like, you're not going to hurt anyone, man. Don't worry about it. He didn't say bra, he's my grandfather, but you know, he was just very dismissive. I think it was actually dead in the end or something. My grandpa left it up there because he just, you know, he doesn't give a shit. But I think it ended up being dead. But it was really big. Now I'm just pitching my grandpa being like, nah, shit, homie, be cool, man. Just chill, bra. We're here, my buddy, man. |
| 10. July 2021 | My grandparents and inheritance. | My grandparents and inheritance. Here's a disgusting thought for you. When I didn't have a lot of money and I go to see my grandparents, I'd be like, is any part of me being nicer to my grandparents in the hopes of guaranteeing some sort of inheritance? As it is a disgusting thought that I might be treating my grandparents differently because they're going towards the end of their lives. Now that I have money, that I treat them the exact same is a good feeling. Guess it didn't matter to me at all. And it certainly doesn't matter to me now. I'd love for them just to live forever, you know? Wonderful people. Would you take the inheritance if it came to you or would you feel guilty? For what? What would I have to feel guilty for? I would be extraordinarily sad. I tear up just thinking about my grandparents passing away. But I mean, I'm not going to turn down money. |
| 02. July 2021 | My griftlands sponsored video | My Driftlands sponsored video. Not a lot of people watched my um... It is Driftlands. Yeah, it is Driftlands. Yeah, um, not a lot of people watched my Driftlands video. Might be my worst performing video ever, but uh, I thought the video turned out pretty well. I was stressing as to how I was gonna make it at all, because it was not my kind of content that I normally make stuff out of and it's a, it's a new game, so not very well known. So I had to keep in enough stuff so people understand what's going on, but also make it not super long, you know. Not gonna appeal to a lot of people, but I think, uh, I think I did okay. So when you make a video that doesn't appeal to your current audience, the algorithm will show it to your current audience and people won't click on it and it'll be like, oh, well, this must not be a very good video. And it shows this to some new people as well, and when the game isn't very well known or popular or whatever, those new people aren't gonna click it either. And so the algorithm's like, oh, well, it must be a really bad video. I think that stops recommending it to people. If it can't find a grip in your core audience or a wider audience, why would it waste its time recommending it, you know? No, I mean, that makes sense for the algorithm to do. I mean, would you want to be shown content you don't want to watch? Certainly, there's heaps of people out there who would have loved to watch the video, but it's just the algorithm can't identify these people perfectly, you know? |
| 12. July 2021 | My growing collection of random hardware | My growing collection of random hardware. You ready to hear millions to one and your headphones breaking? Speaking of headphones, I have been searching for a long time for the perfect waterproof headphones. All I want is a pair of headphones that connects every single time with good sound quality whenever I'm in the shop. That's it. Preferably with the ability to move, like the song and stuff, like actually have buttons on it, and thus far not found anything good. Everything has had its own problems and with consistent use, tends to die really quickly. I mean, they say, sure, man, it's a hundred percent protected against water men. You can swim with them and stuff. But in reality, like, they all have problems. You aren't meant to take electronics and water, but I will one day find the perfect pair and I can finally be satisfied. I've tried multiple pairs now. I even bought like this really expensive pair, like three different times. I think my biggest expense right now that makes little sense is random bits of hardware trying to find the right bit of hardware for me. I don't have time to return stuff. And so I've got extra keyboards and extra mice and stuff laying around. I want to do a giveaway and I just give a lot of it away at some point. But even that would be kind of a pain in the ass wrapping all up and stuff, but maybe be worth it. In my moments where I am just not thinking and attempting to relate to people in different circumstances, I think to myself like, who's going to wait a month for a new keyboard from a giveaway or whatever? But like, there are a lot of people who, you know, are using some shit keyboard because they literally can't afford a new one. Or, you know, they're younger and thus don't have access to that kind of income. So there are people who, even if it would take like a month for me to send it, whatever, would appreciate a new keyboard. I'm fortunate enough to have never been in a circumstance where if my keyboard broke or something, I'd just be completely shit out of luck. But some people are, you know. If it's free, yeah. And they're good keyboards. I mean, even if a person has a new keyboard, it's not necessarily one of the things I have. It's like, I want to just like grab all my random hardware that I don't need and just do a giveaway for 10 people or something to get them to pick a PC or something. Thing is though, at the end of the day, it'd probably just be easier for me just to give them money for such hardware because of how expensive it is to send stuff around the world, you know, from Australia. So like, sure, I can give you a keyboard worth $100 so I can spend 80 bucks sending it to you. All I'm saying is, where's my teleportation at, chat? How about selling it on Craigslist? I don't think Craigslist exists in my country, but I also don't need the money, man. I have enough trouble getting into a day all the things that I need to do. I don't even leave my house, man. I don't really have time to be selling hardware. |
| 27. September 2022 | My hairdresser offered me her dog | Offered me her dog when I went to the hairdresser yesterday She's got this lovely dog jumps all over me and Pettit just loves being around people Every time I see it I think to myself man I need to get a pet and then the hairdresser looks at me and says that dog is a huge pain in the ass You can take the dog if you want to and I'm like now I'm fine Thanks, because it's just animals are so cute and adorable when you like can play with them for short periods and And don't have to deal with any of the hassles of having a pet it's near nails trimmed and washed and dealing with all the fur and Then breaking stuff and feeding him and all that jazz right I need to get a girlfriend so I can get a dog That's how that works when I get a cat slightly allergic It is very hard to get like a Siberian cat which are hyper allergenic and even then like cats are assholes dude Cats were not bred to be fun-loving companions like dogs |
| 27. April 2022 | My hairline. | My hairline. I'm still freaking out because I'm cute. I wonder if I'm losing my hair or not. Like the back seems fine, but like at the front, I'm like, is my hairline going? But then I look at like this footage, right? Hold on a minute, I guess. This is my legendary pizza vlog. The only vlog I've ever done from January 2018, right? Look at my hairline here. Look at this, like I've always had a high hairline. My hairline has not changed, I don't think, from this in four years. Look at how high this is. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 01. August 2020 | My hashimoto's disease, cutting down on soft drink | My Hashimoto's disease and cutting down on soft drink. No, I'm moving away from artificial sweetness. This is a Coke. So the reason why I moved away from Coke was because more damaging to your teeth and I didn't want to put on weight, which I have done anyway. So that's why I moved to Pepsi Max. I've now moved away from Pepsi Max because there may be an association with Pepsi Max or of artificial sweetness rather and thyroid issues, which is what I have now. I have hyperthyroidism, Hashimoto's disease where it's a thing where you are the thyroid isn't producing whatever the fuck it's meant to produce and too much of this or too little of it can have ramifications on your health either weight gain, weight loss, tiredness, overactive heart and stuff. It can lead to issues with your heart in the future. It leaves you vulnerable to catching other disorders or diseases or what have you. But apparently there is a possibility that if I just avoid artificial sweetness, I won't need to continue treatment. I take like a half pill every day or something. The treatment that I currently have is really tiny as in like it's the smallest possible dose you can have of this stuff that keeps my thyroid producing, my body producing normal levels, whatever it's meant to be. I'm not sure. It produces T3 and T4 hormones. There you go. It keeps me at normal levels of that. Apparently it's so hard to know what causes what in medicine and all this stuff because there's ethics like you can't like if you believe something's harmful you can't just inject a fuck ton of it into a person because it might kill them or cause them irreparable damage. So you end up having studies where you you know examine different people and find associations between different things and there is an association with artificial sweetener and thyroid issues so we'll just see how I go. I'll still need to find some way that I can cut back on soft drink because I can't drink the same amounts of coke as I did Pepsi Max or else I'm gonna get really fucking fat. All that sugar will screw me. Why coke instead of Pepsi? I'll have normal coke and normal Pepsi. I like both but I really actually just drink none of it. What I've bought myself now is a huge vat. Not a huge fucking vat. So first thing I was going to do to get more water into my system was buy myself one of those machines that you plug like into a fossil driver that has just a constant amount of water going through it that gets cooled it produces ice it produces water in just endless supplies and you never have to fiddle up or touch or anything so it doesn't get dirty or whatever but it turns out they cost $5,000 because it like self-regulates and it's cleaning and filters and all this stuff and I'm just like no fuck no $5,000 for something to sit in my corner for me to have ice and water? Impossible. So what I have is I still have my normal ice machine which you know I have to fill with water and gets dirty but you know it cost me like 250 bucks which is you know at least it's not $5,000 and I've also bought myself one of those things you may see in office buildings where you put a jug of water like the huge bottles of water in it and then it can just it just cools the water and then gives you water so I have them separately. Won't be as futuristic and cool-looking but I'll at least have a constant supply of cold water in my room and I might move the ice machine up here as well when my roommates move out and I won't be sleeping in the room that I'm doing my content creation in it'll be easier to have an ice machine and a water machine and stuff. While they make noise it wouldn't be noise that would disrupt you guys on the stream but it would disrupt me while I'm sleeping so we'll see how that goes. I started drinking water just by having a bottle when I play games on my PC it doesn't stay cold for me I like cold water I hate room temperature water and I love ice and I love soft drink as well like the only way that I'm gonna cut down on soft drink is if the access to cold water is so easily accessible that I rather drink it than go the effort of pouring myself a can of coke or something you know. Certainly the amount of soft drink that I drink massively increased when I had a fridge put in my room because then I just always have cold soft drink. The putting barriers between you and the thing you want to abstain from is so fucking important because you know if you if you can't stop yourself at least something else is gonna stop you just as in just general inconvenience you know. |
| 18. January 2021 | My history with Souls games. | My history with Souls games. Have I ever considered playing Dark Souls? Because I keep getting new viewers, I recognize that it's not as though everyone's gonna watch my back catalog, or know of my history. So for the new people, once upon a time, I speed ran Dark Souls 3. I wasn't particularly good at it. I mean, I might have been like in the top 20 of the category I did. But I did complete, you know, a dozen runs or whatever. I do have like three, four hundred hours in the game. I have completed Dark Souls 1 twice. I have completed Bloodborne. I finished Dark Souls 2 once. I got a PlayStation 4 specifically to play the original Demon's Souls. I have finished Sekiro. I love Souls. As a franchise, Souls, I prefer over GTA. No individual Souls game do I prefer over GTA 5. But as a totality, I prefer the Souls franchise over the GTA franchise. And if I would assess like, do I prefer Dark Souls 1 or San Andreas? Like, you can kind of debate that bit. Like my explanation before about how I view story and stuff, like you can see how I would be a Souls fan. It's mainly focused on the gameplay. There is a story and it's a cool story. But you have to kind of suss it out. I wonder how many people actually suss out the story of Souls themselves versus just just watching the YouTube videos. And I wonder when they're writing the story for the game, given how obscure it is and how much you have to put together, I wonder how much they believe they're just making stuff for YouTube. They're writing something like, oh, there was 10 YouTubers that do Souls lore. I really gonna like what we're writing here. Oh, you know. |
| 20. December 2021 | My history with gambling | You know my history with gambling I used to love playing poke when I was younger, dude I wasn't good at that though. I just really enjoyed the what's the next car gonna be Texas Holden used to go to The casino like twice a week and play low stakes Texas Holden I loved it, but it's stuff that I avoid a lot these days I I say to myself if I'm not willing to learn how to play properly rather than having some basic idea and going on My gosh, so whatever it's just a I'm just losing money I suppose these days maybe I have a little bit more money and so I can do it without as much risk But I quit the moment I am I couldn't afford to lose any money No, that I really lost money back in the day mind you I'd because I say I played low stakes And I am in my entire game gambling career career I'm probably down like $2,000 saying but it's dollar per hour for entertainment. It was very cheap entertainment better Not worth it at this point. It's very fun. I used to watch um Who was the main dude who for poker stars on? twitch sort of a Lispy accents that's not even offensive to say um You know I'm talking about no no no no no It might be Canadian. It's not Daniel. No, I know Does does Daniel actually do twitch this is a long time ago, Jay Carver. That's it. Jay Carver. That's him Sure is how long has been that I couldn't remember |
| 20. October 2022 | My hotel made beds in a very odd way. | Tell me beds in a very odd way. Every single bed I've ever slept in, hotels, other people's houses, my house, my mother's house, my father's house, beds being constructed exactly one way, and that is fitted sheet, followed by normal sheet, followed by doona cover, right? Is this the way it is in your countries as well, or where you're from or where you live? The guy at the front desk was like, the Australian way is no fitted sheet and to use a single sheet tucked in, as like using a normal sheet as a fitted sheet, no sheet to be used, and then the doona cover. So there's nothing between you and the doona cover. I've been in Australia my entire life. Maybe he thought I was a foreigner, and he was just using excuses, but it's a... At night I'm like, okay, so I'm warm now, but I want something on me, I have no other options. I must have the doona cover on me. That's just strange.. |
| 18. February 2021 | My idea of violent and offensive differs from the norm | My idea of violent and offensive differs from the norm. Would Among Us count as a violent video game? I don't know. It is very clear to me that I have a different idea of what is normal acceptable content than potentially most advertisers do. I was like, how could you possibly see this as problematic? Because I play a game, well I'm Australian, and I play this game all day. What kind of content seems irregular to me will be different from the average person? It still boggles my mind that people exist who can care about swear words, or that the concept of swear words exists in society. This is nonsense. No words are inherently offensive. No word has an inherent meaning. It just misunderstands words. The only reason some words are more offensive than others is social convention, and therefore the social conventions can change. What isn't an offensive word today was not necessarily an offensive word 50 years ago, and it won't necessarily be an offensive word 50 years from now. What matters is what is being communicated by the word. If tomorrow, so let's take the N-word. If people in the past and sometimes in the present use the N-word to communicate a disrespect, a disgust, and even a dehumanization of black people. If tomorrow, people stopped using the N-word for this purpose, and started using kafibble for that purpose, then kafibble will then become the word that is socially abhorrent or what have you. But it will have nothing to do with the word itself. It'll be what's being communicated by the word. What's important isn't the word, but what's being communicated by the word. The feeling behind it, right? And why swear words are weird is because it doesn't matter the context or what you're communicating with the swear word. In fact, most swear words are just pointless filler words. They're just something to mindlessly communicate a particular feeling of like annoyance or what have you. There are some words that literally have no meaning except to be filler words, to communicate something like sodding. Look up what sodding means. It's just a filler thing. |
| 30. September 2021 | My ideal GTA RP character | My ideal GTA roleplay character? What character would I be on GTA RP? I'd be a disgruntled ex-rockstar employee who was very critical of the game and the way that the company had gone and would constantly complain about that. I'd be drunk all the time just like THEY NEVER BROUGHT OUT SINGLE PLAYER DLC WHY? |
| 30. September 2021 | My ideal afterlife | My ideal afterlife. My ideal afterlife would be like, I get teleported to some region, it's like a room, and there's a book. And I can read that book to my heart's content, and in that book is any bit of information I want. Like, hey yo, how many times did I say the word and throughout my entire life? And it would give me the answer. And I would just read that for as long as I wanted, and then I could just walk out a door and cease to exist. I suppose outside of, I don't know, some reality where I'm just very satisfied or content or something. Wasn't that like on Family Guy? Not that I'm aware of. I've been sitting there for like, years and years. If they had that on Family Guy, I'm assuming they stole it from me. It's not that creative of a concept. Because everyone out there has their unanswered questions that they really wish could be answered. People in general don't like ambiguity, right? They want the answer. The black and white no nonsense 100% correct answer, if it's at all possible. |
| 20. October 2021 | My ideal star wars movie | My ideal Star Wars movie. I feel like Star Wars is a universe that the movies have squandered. There is not enough focus on the Jedi. Can we just get to a period where the Jedi and Sith are both super powerful forces that dominate different regions of the galaxy and then there's wars between them? That's what I want to see. You got two groups of people who are effectively magic space wizards, but they're always like in the shadows or doing stuff behind the scenes or sitting around and just pontificating about garbage. I just want like 50 bad space wizards to fight 50 good space wizards in an arena and that's it. And that's the movie. Yoda's sitting there about to go into a speech and someone's just like shut the fuck up Yoda we're doing stuff. |
| 28. January 2022 | My ideas for characters in GTA 6 | Ideas for characters in GTA 6 Now it what would be interesting for GTA 6 is if The relationship of Dave and Michael is done with two different characters where one cop gives the criminal information so that he can steal good stuff and Avoid the cops and the criminal gives the cop information so that you can pick up other competing criminals some missions You'd be the cop character Chasing down criminals in the other case you'd be the The criminal doing the heists or whatever or gathering information on the other criminals probably a very fun game No, he'd be a dirty cop you understand. That's the point. He's a dirty cop so he's a criminal Who's a cop? |
| 28. January 2022 | My ideas for characters in gta 6 | Ideas for characters in GTA 6 Now it what would be interesting for GTA 6 is if The relationship of Dave and Michael is done with two different characters where one cop gives the criminal information so that he can steal good stuff and Avoid the cops and the criminal gives the cop information so that you can pick up other competing criminals some missions You'd be the cop character Chasing down criminals in the other case you'd be the The criminal doing the heists or whatever or gathering information on the other criminals probably a very fun game No, he'd be a dirty cop you understand. That's the point. He's a dirty cop so he's a criminal Who's a cop? |
| 21. December 2019 | My impression of google Stadia | of Google Stadia. So I hear the reviews of Google Stadia was not very good. I guess the technology still isn't there. Yeah, latency issues, yeah. What is the Stadia? It's a system where, rather than having the hardware yourself, you basically just have a controller and you play the game on the servers. And you get sent an image. You're playing the most powerful PC ever, but it's many kilometers away. And so you just pay for the subscription to play it, and you don't have to buy the hardware. Yeah, there's been many attempts at these gaming client things like Google has done, but it's always the latency that causes issues. And gaming consoles are fairly affordable these days. Like, they're still kind of crazy, but you know. Like, even a small amount of latency can be very noticeable. And considering everyone isn't going to be equal or distant from the servers, the latency can vary considerably. From good to playable to terrible. Yeah, certainly, I mean, if you have very good internet, and you're in the know enough to get a Google Stadia and stuff and whatnot, you can probably afford to get a fucking console. But I have heard of people talking up the idea of the technology of being revolutionary, and that's possible. But it's just never going to be as good as having the console. I mean, like, an easy answer is having the hardware just become cheaper and cheaper every time, you know? A $500 gaming PC is a better experience than Stadia, of course. But Stadia isn't worth $500. What is Stadia worth? $60, okay, man, that's fairly price. Like, if there needs to be consoles, I would love to be able to buy a version of the console that can fit in my PC. Like, I just have a small thing on my desktop that I double-click, and then I can open the console as a part of my PC. So it's effectively just a key that enables me to play console exclusives on my PC. Certainly, you know, it's different. The games are made for different hardware, so it seems next to impossible. You like how the marketing is the greatest thing ever? I mean, what do you expect me to do? Be like, I mean, it should be okay. I mean, you get what you pay for. It's only $60, so... You know. The only person I can recall who was really, really into it was Devon Neff. He's like, it's gonna be Revolutionary Men. I think VR has a better chance than Google Stadia. Because the people who are on the cutting edge, who want to adopt, like, the newest technology, they have money. They're not looking for something cheap but a lesser experience, like what Google Stadia is. People who can most benefit from Stadia, you know, they have other problems than getting access to video games for cheap. A good way to test your latency is to press the like button and see how fast it turns blue. If it turns blue pretty fast, then you've got good latency, so good job with that. Thank you. |
| 24. September 2022 | My impression of streaming on YouTube vs Twitch | My impression of streaming on YouTube versus Twitch. Tell us what difference there is between YouTube and Twitch and which one you think are better. So Twitch has all these small features that are very useful to have. You can click on a person's name and see everything they've said in the past. You can do custom timeouts for certain durations. The basic chat is much better to and easier to read. They have better Twitch TV and Frank of AC which you can use to greater customize your chat experience and your live streaming experience. There's more of a live streamer feel on Twitch where YouTube of course isn't focused on that. I wouldn't even know where to click to find other live streamers who are doing something like what I'm doing. You can do that on Twitch. The layout is just in general better because they've been doing it for far longer and they have more care in it. YouTube, I have a larger audience. The quality that you can stream is higher. Although to what degree that really matters is debatable because of the massive compression that YouTube uses. Like I'm streaming in like 30k bitrate 1440p right now, but it doesn't look like 30k bitrate 1440p. It does look better than the 960p that I was using on Twitch. You know, limited to 8k bitrate and all that jazz on Twitch. You know, YouTube, you've got a bit more flexibility. It does look a little bit better. But also on YouTube, you can scroll back a few minutes very easily if you want to. Can't do that on Twitch. The things that actually matter, the really important things YouTube is better in. But can't imagine that people who are doing really well on Twitch, who are really established on Twitch and don't have a YouTube audience already are going to start streaming on YouTube. Because as far as money is concerned, you need like double the audience on YouTube to have a chance to gain the same amount of money that you do on Twitch. Because on Twitch, it is more accepted to be a paid subscriber. And because Prime memberships exist and you get so many free subscriptions, more and more people are subscribed, which because there's so many people subscribed, it inspires other people to subscribe. And it's like a feedback loop, more gifting subs and all that jazz. So you have less viewers, but it's more acceptable to be a paid subscriber. It's more acceptable to give money to the live streamer. And with the free subscriptions, that kind of money adds up. On YouTube, I'm making more money than I did on Twitch. But that's because on Twitch, I didn't have my alerts on and I had less of an audience. Many of the reasons why streaming on YouTube is better for me don't exist for other people who already stream on Twitch. Streaming on YouTube, you feel more like your own little private island. On Twitch, you do feel more like you're part of the Twitch community, because you see all the other streamers in your little bar on the side and you're aware you're on a live streaming platform. I'm not sure I really like that now. I have a very low opinion of Twitch and the people who dominate its upper echelons. A combination of reactors, gambling streams, and those who've been there for like, you know, a bajillion years and only maintain their success because the platform maintains it for them. Because they have so many viewers that they're at the top of the rankings so frequently that they're always getting the new viewers first before anyone down below. Twitch has announced they are banning most gambling streams. This hasn't gone into effect yet and I will discuss it in later rambles. |
| 11. October 2021 | My impression of the New Halo | My impression of the new Halo Halo infinite opinions. I don't really follow Halo and I haven't in a very long time The only reason I know anything about it at all is because I watch this dude the act man I hope I'm saying that correctly Who I found many months ago. It's funny There's just this group of youtubers that I watch who talk about games that I don't play and will probably never play But I just really like how passionate they are about the games that they're talking about and he's one of them I think maybe I found him because of a fallout video or something. I'm not sure but uh from what I've seen on his channel and Checking out a stream or two of it for like five minutes. It looks like the kind of game that I would enjoy playing But it's not gonna be one that I will play. I got so many things I want to do in this game that I don't really feel Motivated to pick up something different right is it on PC Yes, then it wouldn't take much for me to play it I did play one of the halos a little bit and there's footage of me playing it on YouTube It's not an amazing video, but it's just Got made into video just the hell of it I suppose but I still have fond memories of playing Halo 1 with my friend Luke when I was a kid and Halo 2 despite not even having an Xbox Was like one of my favorite games when I was younger like I would go over my friends place I'm like they're like so what do you want to play? I'm like a halo to Just play Halo. Just play Halo From you know 3 p.m.. Into just midnight. I just have a long you could stay up as a kitchen Just play Halo 2 over everything. I remember so few things from my childhood, but I remember this events the sleepover that a Dude Nathan had where like he set up a big TV in four different rooms of his house Connected a bunch of Xboxes, and we played like 16 player land Halo 2 it might be my only experience doing some of that in my entire life, and I still remember it was great like I always say like modern warfare 2 and Halo 2 like my favorite shooters, but that might be because I just I haven't played many others You know I wonder what percentage of people who play destiny play Halo It's got to be close to 100% right like are there people who play Halo But don't like destiny and that people who play destiny don't like Halo games just seem very Similar you know I don't think the same it's just very similar Apparently are quite a few people who have played one over the other and haven't played the other hmm I will not be speedrunning Halo 2 now I have seen a run or two of some Halo speedruns, and they were quite interesting especially for shooters like generally speaking the speedruns that people remember the most and the most Watched are like platforming speedruns right, but the Halo ones are really good. It's worse because the game is really good, so |
| 08. April 2021 | My impression so far of rockstar's bully. | My impressions so far of Rockstar's Bully. Bully is amazing thus far, the thing that's been amazing about Bully is the characters. Very gripping characters. The gameplay, fine. The gameplay as a vehicle to show the characters has worked well. Even the story isn't amazing, just the characters are so vibrant and expressive and different. Like whenever you introduce your new character, it's like this person is going to be as different as they possibly can be from everyone you've seen previously. Thanks for watching! |
| 30. January 2021 | My inclusion in FlyingKitty’s youtube rewind section | My inclusion in Flying Kitty's YouTube rewind. It was very flattering, um, for those who didn't see, um, Flying Kitty included me, um, me dabbing, you know, my green screen of me dabbing? In their contribution to the YouTube rewind. It got cut from the full version. I don't really care about that. It's not like if it was included in the full version I would have gained, um, followers from what I was saying. But that I was included at all is very flattering. It suggests at least that my content has some relevance or had some relevance in 2020 or whatever. I don't watch a lot of Flying Kitty stuff, um, but I know they're very talented. And that is, uh, I was certainly flattered being included even in such a small way, you know. |
| 30. January 2021 | My inclusion in flyingkitty’s youtube rewind section | My inclusion in Flying Kitty's YouTube rewind. It was very flattering, um, for those who didn't see, um, Flying Kitty included me, um, me dabbing, you know, my green screen of me dabbing? In their contribution to the YouTube rewind. It got cut from the full version. I don't really care about that. It's not like if it was included in the full version I would have gained, um, followers from what I was saying. But that I was included at all is very flattering. It suggests at least that my content has some relevance or had some relevance in 2020 or whatever. I don't watch a lot of Flying Kitty stuff, um, but I know they're very talented. And that is, uh, I was certainly flattered being included even in such a small way, you know. |
| 26. March 2022 | My increased consumption of tiktok | My increased consumption of TikTok. My time is not evenly spread between YouTube and TikTok. I probably spend more time on YouTube, but when I'm on my phone, certainly more of my time is on TikTok, right? As in what usually ends up happening is I'll go on YouTube, look for a video. If I don't find a video, I'll go to TikTok, watch a couple of TikToks, and then move back to YouTube. If I'm still in a position where I need something to watch. What's probably suffered the most for TikTok for me is probably Twitch, because Twitch used to be that thing that I would go to whenever I couldn't find content on YouTube. But now that's become TikTok. One thing that's helping TikTok right now though, is all the copyrighted material that they have on the platform. Because you can just be scrolling and like a movie will come up and stuff, but that can't last forever. You can get full episodes of Rick and Morty on TikTok. |
| 28. November 2021 | My initial dislike of Unnamed | Speaking on my initial dislike of unnamed who completed the no damage run of GTA 5 first. A lot of my original dislike for unnamed, there were just certain things that he did that I misinterpreted and a lot of my initial dislike of him probably was me just attributing my dislike of people on reddit to him. There was synonymous in my mind all the very fucking disgusting comments I read on livestream fails and the speedrun reddit as well and which is very hard for me to disassociate those people from him because it wasn't his fault that people on reddit fucking tore me a new one and it took me a while just to remove that. Well, people just want to see people fail man. Oh man, it's just funny that before I was a conciliator I used to watch a lot of Twitch but I remember Soda Poppin and Wreckful that used to talk about how people can just take a small detail or some small misunderstanding and blow it up into this huge thing, this huge narrative that bears no resemblance to your reality but they all believe it as if it's gospel and I'm sitting there reading this livestream fails reddit about me and it reads like fanfiction but I mean not written by fans as in none of this is even close to describing anything that's happened to me in my content creator career but it's just one of those things where these people just half hear things and they make different connections that shouldn't be connected. It was just very eye-opening having that happen to me, seeing all these false narratives about me and I still think about it sometimes that there's tens of thousands of people out there who have completely false perceptions of me and there's nothing I can do about it. Yeah, well yeah because a lot of them won't like look at your content again and that'll always be their impression but you know I mean like you said there's not much you can do about it but you know sorry you had to go through that but I'm happy you finished it I'm happy for you. |
| 15. November 2021 | My initial impressions of GTA 5 No Damage Runs before I did one | My initial impression of GTA V no damage runs before I did one. What do I think about one hit KO runs? It's not an original idea and I don't like it. A one hit KO run can split the game into two sections. Half the game where there's literally no possibility of you taking damage and therefore literally no possibility of you dying. And the other 50% where you effectively can't pass because you will eventually get shot. It just makes the game a massively more tedious slog. Like whenever I try and think of challenge runs for this game, like what I want is something that fundamentally changes the way that you play the game. It's very hard to do because the game is so varied right, it's hard to have one idea that applies to literally everywhere. |
| 05. February 2021 | My instagram direct messages | My Instagram direct messages. I do not read my Instagram DMs. Can I turn off my Instagram DMs? I probably should. You can? I should probably do that so people don't think they can contact me there. I really wish there was a way to give people portions of access to your social media. Like I could just give people access to my Insta DMs and be like, look, can you just go through all these DMs and tell me if there's anything that I should be seeing in it? As much as I would like to see and respond to everyone who says something along the lines of I really like your stuff, I don't have the time to do it. Media manager? Yeah, but a random Joe wouldn't know what I'd want to see. They wouldn't be able to assess facts and glitches and stuff, you know. I imagine anyone who really needs to contact me there will understand that Instagram is not the place to do it. |
| 05. April 2021 | My internet speed and cost. | me physically for like a month. I got enough problems, you know, feeling energized for like, like just a general day. My internet speeds and cost. How fast is my internet? Um, one gigabit down, 400 up and they pay $416 a month. There are plans that are more affordable. Like if you just want a gigabit down and 20 up, I think the price is like 200 bucks. It's like, it's, it's far, far low. I'm, I'm paying a huge premium for the upload. Yes, 400 up. But yes, the, the internet situation in Australia is very stupid. Can blame the coalition, unfortunately. What can you do? At least I had the luxury of being able to move for good internet. |
| 14. May 2020 | My job if I wasn’t a Twitch streamer | What would you have done as a job if Twitch didn't work out? I've said before I'd probably just be in the public service using my psych degree. |
| 14. May 2020 | My job if i wasn’t a twitch streamer | What would you have done as a job if Twitch didn't work out? I've said before I'd probably just be in the public service using my psych degree. |
| 19. December 2019 | My knowledge of cheese | My knowledge of cheese. Cheddar or mozzarella? I don't really like I love cheese, but I don't really know anything about cheese. So like I'll go to a place and I'll be like, hey, look, cheese. Now eat it. And they're like, this is Gorgonzola. And I'd be like, I don't care. Tastes good. It's cheese. I'm fine. Like if I had heaps of money, I just go to some cheese specialty shop and buy like 15 different types of cheese. I sit there all day trying each of them and find the cheese that speaks to me. A cheese tour costs like a hundred dollars. The joys of living near Wisconsin. I would totally love to go on some kind of a cheese tour. It sounds delicious. Matt trying to figure out which cheese he likes exactly, dude. That is me. Yes. I mean, I like them all. I think I've run across like one cheese in my entire life that I haven't liked. I like them to differing degrees, you know. |
| 24. October 2022 | My largest donation. | Largest donation? SirSonics? Gave a ridiculous amount of money at some point. Doesn't watch me anymore though. Doesn't even follow me. I think... They're a Hassan viewer now. I mean, that's if they avoided the purge, I suppose. When Hassan banned all of our mutual viewers. Cause that's what- what sane people do. Expanding who I verse in GTA- |
| 03. May 2020 | My least favorite GTA Game | GTA game. Least favorite GTA game? The Lost in the Damned. It was easily the most disappointing of all the ones that I've played. It's funny, I rated the Battle of Gay Tony a 7 out of 10 when I played it. But the more that I've gone on, the more that I think I like the game. Because I mainly only remember the good parts and the good characters and not the slow parts and stuff. Battle of Gay Tony makes you feel super OP. Now, the Lost in the Damned made you feel super OP, man. You killed like hundreds of people over the course of 10 minutes. Like, I think Battle of Gay Tony did feeling powerful riots. Like when you're in that indestructible tank and you're just decimating people, it's like, well, yeah, that makes sense. Because you're in an indestructible tank. In the Lost in the Damned, you're on a bike with a shotgun and you're just mowing down cops and you're just like, that doesn't make any fucking sense. |
| 05. September 2021 | My least favourite antagonist in GTA V | My least favorite antagonist in GTA 5. Who do I hate more? Stretch, Steve, Devin, or the Chinese? Probably Stretch. Like, Stretch's motivations make the least sense. And he seems to have like the least character. He's like, yeah, I'm just a gangster guy who met like other gangsters in prison, and now I just fucking be a traitor to everyone. I mean, saying the Chinese isn't too incorrect considering that the translator of Mr. Cheng doesn't even get a name in the game. Like, when doing the video, I was like, what's Mr. Cheng's translator's name? Like, I looked up it's unknown. |
| 11. December 2019 | My least favourite personality trait | My least favorite personality traits. And what's my least favorite personality trait in someone? I don't know if you can call it a personality trait, but a very stupid person who's blissfully unaware that they're stupid is just so irritating to me. They'll have a vocabulary of like a four-year-old and they'll barely be able to form sentences or arguments and they seem to be clueless in everything that you say, but they are still consider themselves a genius or very well knowledgeable about topics when they clearly know nothing. And he's looking at it going, how can you be so stupid to be so ignorant of your stupidity? And you just want to throttle them and go, understand that you're dumb. Stop being so arrogance. You have no justification in your arrogance. And yeah, that's very irritating. |
| 31. July 2022 | My least known playthroughs. | My least known playthroughs. Ankit just wrote, I had no idea something like this existed. And it's a... It's a video of me playing Super Mario 64. And then Portal 2. Cause no one watched this video, dude. And it wasn't edited that well anyway. And the thumbnail shit as well. |
| 31. July 2022 | My least known playthroughts. | My least known playthroughs. Ankit just wrote, I had no idea something like this existed. And it's a... It's a video of me playing Super Mario 64. And then Portal 2. Cause no one watched this video, dude. And it wasn't edited that well anyway. And the thumbnail shit as well. |
| 26. May 2021 | My life is anxiety | My life of anxiety... I'm always anxious. I never feel truly comfortable. I always feel awkward, and I just live with it. I got invited to... some kind of, um... live science thing that's gonna be like a live stream where... it's targeted towards 13-25 year olds or something and like teachers can show it to their kids at a particular time. You're teaching kids science with games, and I was invited to be a guest on it, and I just look at this and go, ah, there's no way I could do that. I'd be so anxious and I'd stress about it for ages and who knows if I would have the energy on that particular day to be good and I would hate to think that I would let other people down by not being as entertaining or as alert as I should be or whatever and so I'm gonna decline. That's just my life, you know. And I've accepted at this point. Like I don't mind putting myself into new situations. As a matter of fact, I do like new situations to a degree. It's just when people will be depending upon me to do certain things is not something I'm usually comfortable with. I hate letting people down, especially because I know myself and I I know I am fairly inconsistent in how reliable I can be when I'm awake, how good my sleeping pattern is, my energy levels and stuff, so I try to avoid putting myself into situations unless they're really important. Or something I really want to do where I can potentially let someone down. As much as it's flattering to be invited, it's hard just to accept, especially when I'm feeling shit right now, you know. Maybe I'll change my mind. Maybe I will, as I have often tried to do, gone, oh no, Matt, you just got to do it, you know. It'll be fine, you'll blah blah blah, but at present I'm not convinced I'm gonna do it. Sounds interesting. Yeah. I mean often I can justify it from a business standpoint or something, but there's no real business incentive to do it. Like I'm not being paid or whatever. I mean hypothetically speaking, if I was particularly interesting, maybe I get some viewers increase the, my influence as a brand or whatever, you know what I'm saying? But yeah. |
| 05. April 2021 | My limited preferences for food. | My limited preferences for food Have you ever tried? Italian food that isn't pizza. I don't even know what Italian food is like me. I've had it like pastas and stuff I'm not a person who has been to Like a heap of restaurants and stuff and even when I've been to restaurants in my younger years or family gatherings or whatever I like it always order something mundane and I got the honey chicken or the Caesar salad or just give me a chicken burger I know my father always said to me that I needed to find myself a Woman that I'm compatible with but that has you know different tastes to me So force me to get out of my comfort zone and try new things. I'm far less Averse to trying new things as I may have been in the past, right? Like I'll occasionally just order something random from Recently I ordered some Chinese food and I bought I ordered myself a a prawn omelet or whatever and as is often the case it was terrible because it contained 80% onion and I could see exaggeration but it was just so much onion I try not to let these failures dissuade me from trying new food because I'm sure there's just many experiences out there that I'm uh, I'm missing out on because I'm just not trying them You know, I don't want to reach the end of my life and to think to myself man So much stuff that I could have tried or done, you know And certainly I'm in a privileged position where the consequences of you know Me not liking a particular meal or me spending money to try something or go somewhere or something like it's not gonna massively Disadvantage me or affect my life significantly not everyone's in that kind of situation like certainly when I was Less well off one of the things that did dissuade me from trying new food It's like well if I don't like this food, that's like ten bucks wasted. That's this ten bucks I need for stuff can always go back to that like, you know Say money doesn't buy happiness but it uh, it is certainly correlated with happiness in every study that's ever been done and It does enable you to seek out the things that actually give you happiness without a suffering negative consequences for failing to find it. You know |
| 09. October 2021 | My long list of videos ideas | My long list of video ideas. I have no interest in GTA roleplay I always thought I would end up doing it because I'd run out of stuff to do but I never run out of stuff to do There are so many things that I want to do Like literally my list of just stream or video ideas is like a hundred long Some not as good as the others right but like I'm not a person who's like man. I have nothing to do today Every day I wake up and I assess how much energy do I have what are the things that I want to do? That I feel like I have the energy to do you know? |
| 21. June 2022 | My longest video ever uploaded | My longest video ever uploaded. So as we've talked about before, I didn't know how big videos can be on YouTube anymore, and so I went, well, let's just see if 19 hours works, and it did. So I put all of my Super Auto Pets footage there. Minimal editing, like I edited like the first like 10 minutes, and then like the little bits in between each episode, and that's it. Have you ever watched 20 hours in your life? Because I'm gonna keep doing that every once in a while, as much as it's a pain in the ass to get them to render. The next one is Blasphemous, which is even older footage, and then after that will probably be Wizard of Legend, which is good stuff as well. YouTube's limits for video length have changed over the years, but they haven't removed videos that violate those limits. So videos back when YouTube had no upload limit in terms of time are still there. I'm pretty sure they just changed the rules because they now have live streams, and live streams sometimes go longer than 24 hours, so now you can have videos that go longer than 24 hours, you know? And I wouldn't be surprised, as I've said before, if Ludwig was the catalyst for that, where he lost all of his Elden Ring footage because he streamed for like in 108 hours or something. |
| 27. October 2020 | My lost footage | War occurred at the very end of this period, where I hadn't yet realized that I may as well just keep footage for the hell of it. I played Minecraft on stream while editing. Like, literally what I did for a period was I would play Minecraft on stream while scrubbing through footage. So I'd be listening to footage in my ears and playing Minecraft for the stream. And then whenever I would hear something that I would need to take, I would cut it. I didn't know how the fuck I was doing that. It's so weird thinking about it. But I didn't keep any of that footage. So, while I would like to remaster my Viper Plays series, because it wasn't edited particularly all that well, I can't, because I don't have the original. Oh, you keep getting the Vipercraft recommended? Because I just removed it. I privated it. I don't like the way it's edited. I think it's extraordinarily slow. And it can't be remastered. Looking at the backend, people clearly didn't love it. I privated the two fully uploaded Among Us videos because like 8% of people got to the end. Like on the backend, you can see, according to YouTube, whether people are staying the normal amounts based on that length of the video. Like, a comparatively long video, up this right amount of people getting there. And so, like, the 8% wasn't an unusual amount considering the length of the footage. But I just decided it would be better to take it down and get it actually edited. Remove the shitty games and have it re-uploaded a day to day. Before I started playing Among Us, I loved watching it. I would go to bed watching Clint Stevens play Among Us. |
| 21. June 2022 | My love of Chicken Salt | How you not know chickens have salt? You know how much I love chicken salt? Let me show you something, huh? I have chicken salt in my drawer. See? I swear that says chicken salt, if you reverse it. It's delicious. It's like... You only eat anything on it. It's just lovely. I don't know what's in it, but... It's the greatest stuff. Like, I want to make food just so I can put chicken salt on it. When Australians learn that other countries don't have chicken salt, we're just very confused. Like, but how do you live? Well, I don't traditionally eat as a snack. It's just there because I happen to have some food that I was using on before. But I'm just saying, like, if I'm making something with chicken salt, I'll be like, just, you know, giving myself a little bit as well. What does it taste like? I cannot describe it to you. Does it have actual chickens in it? So I once had an argument, well not really an argument, but um, I said to my uncle, like, why don't you eat chicken salt? And he's like, well, you know, I'm a vegetarian. I'm like, yeah, but it doesn't have chickens in it. He's like, well then, but he was like, then where do they get the flavor from? And I didn't have an answer for him. But I know it's not actual chickens. The recent Australian federal election and the possibility of a federal election. |
| 08. November 2021 | My mario party video did well despite minimal editing | My Mario Party video did well despite minimal editing. I am so happy that in two days My Mario Party video got some like 90k views Like it was worth uploading even though um, it's not worth editing, you know all I did was just edit out the like crash and And the beginning I made it shorter because like once you get a person into a video They're more likely to stay, you know But if the beginning is really slow and doesn't jump in immediately or whatever they can click off far easier |
| 17. June 2021 | My masks world record now YouTube viral | Is that still the case? Yeah, that or masks. It's funny. My mask world record is starting to be recommended by YouTube it's currently sitting at like 80,000 views or something and people are like typing like wow, this is amazing for those who don't know like It was 2016. I think it's the oldest video still on my channel it wasn't the first video I ever made but it's the oldest one I kept up and and how I did it is I Looked at the world record and it was three seconds and I'm like I can beat this and for like an hour I just started masks over and over and over and over and over again Back to back to back and it like it just requires like the most Immediately precise inputs you can imagine to make this possible to get two seconds But I got it. It is it is an unbeatable world record You can only tie it like I got three seconds like dozens upon dozens of times. I got two seconds once like I probably got Up by like a frame Why is speedrunning a sausage fest? Why is the GTA speedrunning community such a sausage fest? I mean in general speedrunning is a sausage fest. |
| 10. June 2022 | My meltdown review | My Meltdown review. Alright, I'll do a shit-a-movie for the shitty money. It's funny, cause the movie is actually quite shit. They're not wanting to do it is entirely justified. It's not that bad of a movie I suppose, and the people within the world would have seen the lagging. What's the movie about? Have you not seen my video where I review the movie? Good video. I have two reviews of the movies on my YouTube channel. I decided not to do the last ones because Take Two does a thing where they claim any movie or TV show content from their games. I mean they could claim far more, so yeah, it's fine. But it means I make the money out of those videos. And I don't like the idea of having too many copyright claims on my YouTube channel. Oh, but the content ID claims. Cause a company can change content ID claims to copyright claims that they really want to. I don't know if that ever happens, but... |
| 05. March 2022 | My merch store. | My merch store. How much money could you make just selling tank tops? I do sell tank tops in my merch store. I sell many things on my merch store. See? It's even got some of the rare emotes. I personally completed his hand. Why didn't I finish his ear? Should've finished his ear. You even get wide dark fabric. And so it's shirts. And hoodies. Can't get zip up because it would ruin the emote. And there's tank tops. Mugs. Look at that mug. Stickers. Mouse pads. Oh, oh. Mouse pads were out of stock so they couldn't add the new emotes to the mouse pads. That's right. And then... Phone cases. See? |
| 28. November 2022 | My mom abandoned me while I was playing Mario 64. | My mom abandoned me while I was playing Mario 64. Did I really play Mario 64 as a young matter? Of course. I was there when the game first came out, when it was brand new. I've told that story before. As I say, I don't remember much about my childhood, but I remember when I first played Mario 64 on the Nintendo. That says how impactful of an experience it was for me. Like you youngsters, you don't understand. There were no 3D games before Mario. The reason why there was a little dude at the beginning who's like, hey, I'm behind you with like the camera and stuff. It's because you just couldn't understand the concept of a camera being behind you in like a 3D thing. It just blew your mind. I was at some fair and they had it set up for kids to play. And I waited for so long to finally be able to play it. Like I ignored everything else in that fucking fair. And then I played Super Mario 64 or whatever. And I just kept playing it and playing it. Then my mother wanted to leave. And I refused to get off the system. Refused. To my mom, she said, I'm like, I'm not leaving. And so she leaves without me. And like after five minutes, I'm like, now I'm scared. I'm gone. And then I left to chase off my mother, who of course was waiting for me. Just like around the corner or some shit. But funny stuff. My mother often did that when I refused to leave places. She would just leave without me to some degree. And I would get freaked out because I was all alone because I was a little child. Like I remember I refused to go to school. And so my mom was like, fine. You don't have to, you can just stay here by yourself in the house. Like what are you going to do all day? And then she drives off. And I'm like, like six years old and I'm like, oh shit, I'm alone. I'm scared now. And then my mother pulls back around with her car after doing like a loop. I'm like, okay, okay. Fucking kids, man. Dumber shit. |
| 20. October 2021 | My most disgusting food habit | My most disgusting food habit. That face when you eat dry cereal. The only dry cereal you can eat is like, um, fruit loops and shit. The stuff that's just terrible for you. I eat dry noodles, though. I'll take a packet of two-minute noodles, put it on a plate, pour the flavoring on top of it, and then eat it. I'm sorry you had to find out this way that I'm a monster. You monster! I'm not the monster. Here you are. I'm the monster that's been eating you and your fairy-tale trash, poisoning my perfect world. Now tell me, where are the others? Pfft. Ah. |
| 25. June 2021 | My most popular content | series. It's just been going on for that fucking long. I have so many other series and ideas that I could be producing for astronomically more views, but I'm stuck with this goddamn series. Technically, Chaos is still my most popular. Probably followed then by Facts and Glitches, Passvist. Oh, Reddit Recap is popular, but like, the last one got like 200k. I'm not sure how much uh, the Reddit Recap appeals to like people who aren't familiar with my content. It's got some really good stuff in there that would broad appeal, but I don't know how many people click on the Dark Viper AU Reddit Recap, you know? Yeah, my viewers are creative people. Tom Scott's YouTube channel is one you should subscribe to. Guess I'll go watch Tom Scott's video later. Tom Scott might make like the best content on YouTube. Not- |
| 28. June 2022 | My most profitable videos | Now, my most profitable videos. Did you watch Linus's video on his most profitable videos? I did. This video reacting to our most profitable videos, like one of the top comments was like, I thought it was gonna be some stupid video where you were like reacting to your own videos. This is actually very interesting. All they did was go over like their top earning videos and explain like why they think they earn so much and what was the motivation behind making those particular videos. One of the things that they pointed out quite a bit was how much money they make on YouTube Premium with their like live streams and stuff. You may notice that I've been uploading raw chaos for like the last two plus years and a significant reason why I make so much money on those videos is because of YouTube Premium. Me doing this won't be as interesting as Linus and his team because he has like a bajillion different videos but I would like to talk about the videos that have made me the most money or whatever. Like it would present me as more successful than I currently am because my best performing videos are nowhere close to what my current videos make. My peak, I think I made like 18 million views in a month. Now I'm making like 7.5 million or something. Linus is just as successful, if not more successful than when he released his best videos. Well, I'm not that way. I wouldn't say I fell off necessarily. The amount of channels, you know, getting 8 million views is not many, but I feel like I've aged so much in the last two years. Is it possible that eating terribly and editing, like every moment that you're awake is not good for you? |
| 05. February 2021 | My most valued christmas gift | My most valued Christmas gift. So for Christmas, my mother got me something I've wanted my entire life, but I completely forgot about. You guys ever had those, like, rocking chair things that go outside and they have, like, a thing on top of them? And it's like a- it's like a bench that rocks backwards and forwards? I've loved those things since I was a kid. Two of my friends had them. And I- I built it a day or two ago. It was a pain in the ass to build. But I can't wait until it rains or something. And I can, uh, put it outside and sit in it. And rock backwards and forwards and watch the rain. A porch swing, I think that's what it's called, yeah. Should build it on stream? I think it would've just driven me crazy. It was really difficult to build. The instructions were not good at all. |
| 29. December 2020 | My most viewed video. | is the Kif-Lam video. I just titled it, the thing said most in GTA V, said over 500 times. And it's just all the sound files of people going, Kif-Lam, Kif-Lam, Kif-Lam. I think they got literally every single actor to say Kif-Lam. Liquid wifi, the Simpsons hit and run speed runner, doing a marathon of every single Simpsons game. |
| 21. July 2020 | My mother finding my holographic Pokemon cards | No. My mother found my holographic Pokemon cards that I thought were stolen 15 years ago. So, I said on stream that someone stole my holographic Pokemon cards like 10 to 15 years ago, and, uh, my mother apparently found them. These are all my holographic, there's an Exodia, and there's three random- I don't know when I got Star Wars cards, I had like a pile of Star Wars cards there. But I had those cards. Some of them are in pretty good condition, but like there's a curve here, and some of the corners are screwed. This- this Mew seems pretty good though, I don't- I wonder if that's worth any money. But yeah, they- they'll all definitely have marks on them and stuff, so they won't be your pristine quality or some shit. But, uh, yeah. The only- the only cards missing is the Blaster is that was stolen by Matt's brother Brad. The two Charizards that I sold as a kid for like 25 bucks or something, 25- I don't know if it was 25 bucks each, I don't know, but like, one of them had like a- it was curling up in the corner, so it wasn't worth anything. The other one was like pretty good quality, definitely got screwed up on that, uh, on that deal. Yeah, I don't know if those cards are worth anything. I thought about taking the time to sell them or something, but I was like, ah, fuck it. Yeah, but Brad the thief true. Uh, it's- it's a funny coincidence that he, yeah. I feel like dropping his name just in case one of you, you know, works with him or you're his boss or something, and you're just like, wait a second, you're that guy who stole Dark Viper's fucking Plastor's card. You're fired. So strong will my reach be in the world that one day I'll get my Plastor's back. It'd be funny just to randomly- what does a Plastor's cost? It is worth, in perfect condition, like 240 dollars. Now there's one here for 80 dollars, that's Japanese though. Yeah, so something- something like two to three hundred dollars. That's what I'm seeing here. There's a few more than that. Mine wouldn't be in perfect condition though, so it's not a big loss. And it's- it's funny because we know he stole it, but he insisted like, no, I- I- this is like the Plastor's that I lost like years ago, and I found it in the car. I'm like, look kid, um, my card's missing, my Plastor's is missing, and you're saying that you found your Plastor's from years ago. He's like, yeah, yeah, it's just a coincidence, man. And like, I know his brother, like, tried to beat him up to like get- make him give it back, but he just wouldn't fucking give it back, man. And I was out of- I didn't care about Pokemon as much at that point. I'm like, okay, dude, you can keep the card, because he was crying and shit, like, he definitely stole my Plastor's card. I don't know, man, we were- we were all under the age of 18, I was probably like, I don't know, 16, he was probably like 12 or something. That kind of age difference. You never know, it could be in perfect condition, who knows. It would be interesting to have those other cards graded. Like that Mew card or whatever. I wonder if that's worth something, but I think it's from the first movie or some shit. |
| 22. January 2022 | My mother tried to bribe me to go on a water slide | My mother tried to bribe me to go on a waterslide. When I was a kid, I remember going to, uh, Homebush. It's like an Olympic park and it has like pool areas for people to swim in and stuff. I was a little kid. But I wasn't that little. Man, I was 10, 12, I don't know. My mother was like, look, I'll give you $20 and any candy bar that you want if you go on that slide. I'm like, no. She's like, what do you mean no? I want it. $20 for a kid is like a billion dollars, right? And I still said no. She said, but you'll really enjoy it. I'm like, I don't care. No. As a kid, I was shy and I refused to do fucking anything. Years later, when my, I guess my friends convinced me to go on it, I was like, oh my god, that was so fun. Hey, mom, can I have that $20 now? And she's like, I was never going to give you $20. Are you, what are you, crazy? I just knew you'd really enjoy it. So I was trying to get you to go on it. Scams, yeah. Homebush was also where I developed my love of Twix. So one of the vending machines was broken specifically for Twix. I tried them all. Where like every second time you'd buy a Twix, it'd give you another one for free. So every single time I went to Homebush and like my dad or whatever, or my mother, whoever had took us, she'd give us some money to go to a vending machine or whatever. I get Twix every single time because I knew I could get double. The disparity. |
| 27. March 2022 | My mother’s foresight saved me. | My mother's foresight saved me. For those unaware, I've moved my microphone off my desk. I attached it to a small side table that I no longer touch. Therefore when I touch my desk, it will no longer cause bumps in my microphone. It's actually funny because I was gonna chuck out this small little drawer thing that I have here, and my mother's like, why are you throwing it out for it? It's a perfectly fine set of drawers. I'm like, I don't need, like what am I gonna need these for? Oh, you might need it. I might need it. You better keep hold of it. I'm like, alright, fine. And since that day, I've used it for like four different purposes. I've been sitting there like, oh man, I need, I need something to hold this stand. I mean, oh, that drawer thing that my mother forced me to keep, and then I'd use it, and like four separate times. I've had it for years, and I've had no purpose for it, but there's four separate times since my mother told me not to chuck it out. I'm sure I should get a kick out of that. |
| 27. March 2022 | My mother’s forsight saved me. | My mother's foresight saved me. For those unaware, I've moved my microphone off my desk. I attached it to a small side table that I no longer touch. Therefore when I touch my desk, it will no longer cause bumps in my microphone. It's actually funny because I was gonna chuck out this small little drawer thing that I have here, and my mother's like, why are you throwing it out for it? It's a perfectly fine set of drawers. I'm like, I don't need, like what am I gonna need these for? Oh, you might need it. I might need it. You better keep hold of it. I'm like, alright, fine. And since that day, I've used it for like four different purposes. I've been sitting there like, oh man, I need something to hold this stand. I mean, oh, that drawer thing that my mother forced me to keep, and then I'd use it, and like four separate times. I've had it for years, and I've had no purpose for it, but there's four separate times since my mother told me not to chuck it out. I'm sure she'll get a kick out of that. I'm sure she'll get a kick out of it. |
| 01. August 2020 | My name origin, the other darkviper, my fading away | The other Dark Viper and my concerns about fading away. An update to this ramble, the other Dark Viper was actually willing to change their name in the end. They changed it to DVPlays. I'm very thankful for them doing so. So, how many of you know the origin of my name? When I was in high school, we're talking like fifth grade or something, Hotmail was the thing that everyone was making their email addresses on, so I made myself an email address. I didn't know what I wanted my name to be, so I looked over at the TV and on the TV was this movie, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, came out in 1995, and it was this scene. Hyperion, John Keats. Nobody messes with the Viper! Oh, I'm sorry, that's incorrect. What?! So that scene is where my name got the Viper from. Of course it wouldn't let me just have Viper because this is the internet. Of course other people are going to have the name Viper. So I put game in front of it, Game Viper. But of course that was taken as well, so Hotmail was like, Hey, yo, put some numbers, so I made my name Game Viper 3. And that was my Hotmail address for a long goddamn time. I'm sure that email address has nothing to spam in at this point. I also around this time played private servers for World of Warcraft because I couldn't afford the actual World of Warcraft. Amazingly glitchy servers, like you didn't play on private servers unless you couldn't afford the real thing at that point, right? So my name on those servers was Bane. But then years later when I transferred over to the actual main game, I couldn't use the name Bane because obviously that was taken. It was a character in the game. Bane just happened to be a name that I was randomized on the private server. So I called myself Dark Bane. So at this point, my Hotmail address was Game Viper 3 and my character in World of Warcraft was Dark Bane. You can see where this is going. I needed to make another email later on. And so I combined the two together. So I became Dark Viper. And of course that was also taken. So Hotmail or was it Gmail at this point? I'm not sure. It suggested that I put some numbers on the end. It suggested 87 and I ended up taking 88. Now obviously 88 for those who don't know, I didn't know at the time. It actually is associated with anti-Semitism because the eighth letter in the alphabet is H. So it becomes HH. Hail. I did not know about this when I made the name and I had the name Dark Viper 88 for... It must have been something like a decade. Completely not knowing this. How I found it out is because when I went to make my name Dark Viper 88 on the social club servers to play GTA V, it wouldn't let me have it. So I tweeted out to Rockstar Games, why can't I have my name Dark Viper 88? And someone on Twitter informed me of this association. But at this point, I was also already a content creator. Now at this point, I did already have my Twitch account Dark Viper 88 because of course I had... I was streaming before I ever started playing GTA V. But what I ended up doing was just for my social club, I made the name Mattis Tide and I just kept the name Dark Viper 88. So on YouTube, I was Dark Viper 8888 or something. My gaming channel was called Dark Viper Game Channel and on Twitch.tv, I was Dark Viper 88. So obviously it's just a bunch of random Dark Viper variations. But then when I started to grow more successful on Twitch, I think I had like 7,000 followers, I realized that I should probably rebrand because Dark Viper 88, it would come up more frequently. I remember talking to some people in the comment section on YouTube and they saw my name was Dark Viper 8888 or whatever. People assumed I was a Nazi or something and this would probably happen maybe three times or something. But that was enough for me to go, wait a second, if I keep growing on YouTube, sorry, on Twitch, I'm going to get fucked by this. So we did a straw poll brainstorming what I should change my name to. So what we ended up doing first as I contacted this guy, I contacted Dark Viper, couldn't find him. I contacted this other guy whose name was Dark Viper with the E missing, that's what this guy's name originally was. And I was talking to this guy like, hey, I saw you following the Dark Viper account, did you ever try and get in contact with him to change names? He says, haha, yeah, I did. And I'm like, did he respond? He said, no. The original Dark Viper account was dead. The content creator who used the account was dead, but he would log on like once a year or something. So I couldn't just get Twitch to give me the name. So then the original Dark Viper name was out. So I had to think of a new name to move away from Dark Viper 8888. And so I polled my audience and every name under the sun was suggested, like Sky Viper, Diamond Viper, Red Viper, Black Viper, Shadow Viper. We even talked about changing to Dragon, Dark Dragon and stuff, because at this time I didn't have my Sheebers or Samoids as emotes. I had my Dragons like Red Dragon, Blue Dragon and all that shit. But we ended up going with Dark Viper AU, because it was the closest thing to my original name with just my country on the end. This is something that Torix, another speedrunner for GTA 5, had done recently. His name is TorixLV, LV being for Latvia. And I was like, oh, that's good. And that's about where it ended, except then my old Dark Viper 8888 accounts, I got rid of that on YouTube. I changed Dark Viper game channel on YouTube to Dark Viper AU. But if you look it up, Dark Viper game channel still goes to my YouTube. But flash forward to today, I was informed that the former Dark Viper with the E missing, he's now become successful on YouTube. So this guy, Dark Viper, holds the Dark Viper Twitter account. So when I was looking into changing my name, I of course looked up other variations of Dark Viper, and I ran across this guy, him having the Dark Viper Twitter accounts. And he had Twitch in his banner. And I was like, oh no, there's another guy with the Dark Viper name? I'm screwed. But he wasn't a content creator. He was a person who was very much so into tech and gaming, it seemed, like he had a history in the gaming world. But he didn't make content on YouTube and he seemed to rarely stream. So I wasn't particularly concerned about it. Until now, he started making content on YouTube, it looks like a year ago. And remember, he's had this name for like, you know, 15 years or something plus. Because then this isn't just a new name that he's decided to use. He's recently blown up on YouTube. So if you look up Dark Viper Roblox, or whatever, it'll have just tons of his content, getting 50 to 100,000 views. And that's so funny, because recently people asked me, you should play Roblox, you should play Roblox. I thought nothing about it. And I adamantly said, I will never play Roblox. Never. Yeah, maybe $10,000. And it's almost as though reality itself saw my rejection of Roblox and said, well, the market demands a Dark Viper that plays Roblox. And it came to be. I thought that was funny. But when I was informed of this, I was obviously quite annoyed. Not necessarily at Dark Viper, because I already knew he existed. More just, you know, it's just a shitty situation. Because in the overwhelming vast majority of situations, there will never be two content creators with the same name. It is so hard to get successful in the social media space, that the odds of two people have the exact same name, or going by the same name, becoming successful is astronomically impossible. In such a case where that happens, normally it will happen where at least one of the people won't be super attached to their name. Like it would just be a placeholder name. Like if my name was still Dark Viper88, I would probably be more fine with changing it. But even at this point, it would just be insane for me to change my name. And considering how long he's had the name, it would be insane to change the name. So that's what I mean. This is a fluke situation, because in normal situations, the two people with the same name, one would be able to change for some reason. But neither of us can change. It'd be insane for either of us to change our name, especially because he is now successful with that name. So there are now two Dark Vipers existing making content on YouTube in the same space. And that sucks. No one hate on him, obviously. It's just a shitty situation. Because neither of us is less deserving of the name necessarily, because we've both came to it in different ways. And he doesn't come off to me as a person who's super interested in like micromanaging his way to success, of like looking for every small edge, because he just looks like a nice guy making content with his kid, you know? He has like a five-year-old son and they make YouTube content. I think that's fucking adorable, you know? My fear though, is that because he has a broader appeal, and because he doesn't have a mature rating on his channel, he's going to be advertised more, and I'm eventually going to become the other Dark Viper. I always pitied him, because I knew he streamed occasionally. I thought, man, it must suck to be him sometimes. He must get annoyed sometimes when people are looking for me and they stop by his channel. I felt bad that he would be, that for many he would be considered the other Dark Viper, if they come to be aware of him at all. And that's, I pitied him, because that's certainly a situation I wouldn't want to be in. It's why I always assumed, if he were to ever make content, that, as is the case with the overwhelming vast majority of situations, he would just change his name. But as I say, I was completely unaware of his history with the name, and I can understand why he didn't change it. So it just sucks, because there's no solution to this, and it's just one of those things, you know, what can't be changed must be endured. Because people are like, why do you care? Like, do people name, think of one large content creator who has another person who has the exact same fucking name. You can't, you can't think of it. Like, people say, oh, you know, people use the same names all the time, but not in content creation. There are, if I say, you guys know Ninja, right? You aren't confused. You aren't thinking, oh, he's talking about Ninja69 in Call of Duty. No, he's talking about Ninja, the content creator Ninja. If he continues to grow and eclipses me, then I won't be the first person that a significant amount of people think of when they think of Dark Viper. When, currently, when you Google Dark Viper, you get me. But that's not going to happen forever. As he continues to grow and have a much broader audience, I'll be further pushed down. And worse, if the algorithm isn't perfect, which we know it's not, it's going to send my content to people who watch him and vice versa, really, potentially making it so that people are being presented content they don't want to watch, so they won't click it, and it will hurt us both in the algorithm. Like, I'm always a person who worries about my success on YouTube and on Twitch. Because while I really like my content, I'm always watching the numbers, looking for any dip in, to show that I'm on my way out, that I've peaked. And I honestly think I have peaked. I don't think I can go much higher than this. And that concerns me, because when you hit your peak, then you, that's downhill from there to irrelevancy. And I love doing what I'm doing. I'm a person always looking for that small amount more chance of maintaining my success for as long as possible, because I really love what I do. And so waking up and hearing about another Dark Viper entering the scene, muddying my brand, I was cranky. Not necessarily at him, because I already knew who he was. When I tweeted out about this, more as a, I can't believe this is a thing, that there's a guy, a Dark Viper who actually plays Roblox. And people, well, I don't know how many, but some people actually went and talked shit to him on Twitter. Obviously not my intention. And nothing that I messaged about or wrote was in any way antagonistic towards the Roblox Dark Viper, or in any way, core for people to harass him anyway. But people still did it, and that was very disappointing to see. Like obviously you can't expect every person who watches a content creator to be a nice person who acts in the right way. It was still disappointing to see. More, in part because I didn't think it would happen. As in like I had just woken up, I didn't think, oh, you know, people are going to be angry towards this guy. Like I should have said explicitly, this is just a thing, please don't like harass him or whatever. Is this kind of the history of my name, where it is now, my brand and stuff? What are my thoughts on a rebrand? A rebrand at this point would be far more detrimental than any kind of damage he could do to my brand by his existence. Again, to emphasize, he is not intentionally trying to cause me harm. It's similar to a wave washing away a rock. The wave isn't actively attempting to damage the rock. It is simply by its existence, there are ramifications. It's simply that in a world of brands and algorithms and competitions and stuff, names that are the same conflict with each other and can have ramifications upon each other, good or bad. It's why I'm not angry at him. His actions, like he doesn't owe me anything. Like he doesn't owe me a rebrand. So he, when he makes YouTube content, it's just a situation that I now have to take into account and think about as I'm moving forward. Do a collab. I don't think I could benefit from that at this time. And it's a completely different form of content, you know. If you look at my YouTube channel, right, and you can see how like the views of the no hit runs have massively declined as you can expect, the views of the facts and glitches are so varied. I don't know what the hell's up with those. The views of the chaos has decreased as well. The views of How This View Ended has decreased as well. But like overall, my views for channel are still pretty good. But I'm always concerned that I'm on my way out. I've got this projects that I'm working on that I hope is good and brings some more attention to my channel. I also have pacifist, which I'm working on. Whether I might have imposter syndrome. Like I'm, it's not that I think I'm a fraud necessarily though. It's that I'm just constantly worried that people are going to wake up and go, wait a second, this guy's fucking shit. He's not funny at all. There's this landscape, right? There's this landscape. There's like you're a nobody. You're not even a content creator. You're just getting by. You are really successful. Everyone knows who the fuck you are. Like this small tiny group here. Like I'm in here. So no one knows who the fuck I am, right? Like I can listen to Devin Nash talk to Ludwig and I had no idea who Ludwig was. But I had heard of Ludwig and since seeing Ludwig on Devin Nash, I have seen him on TikTok. I've seen him mentioned by other people on Twitter. I've seen him fucking everywhere. And in this conversation Ludwig and Devin are mentioning like Clint Stevens, small ones, like even in the speed running sphere, I am in here, you know, in the of the wider internet. I'm in here in speed running. I'm also in here or challenge running or whatever you want to put me in. Like I'm just not that kind of known brand. And because of that, I always have the possibility of slipping into here and then slipping into here. Like Clint Stevens is the kind of known brand to the extent where he can disappear for months and just come back and have 10,000 viewers. Everyone knows who the fuck Clint Stevens is, you know, and that's kind of the spot that I want to be in. And until I get into that point, I'm always going to be worrying about things like this thing with the brand confusion or whatever with this other dark viper dude. I'm just always worried that I'm going to fuck this up somehow. And that's why I'm always so careful. I always treat people kindness and I always treat people respect as much as possible. But one of the reasons just in general, I like to treat people kindly. But you know what I'm saying? I just hope I don't fuck this up. You legit don't know who Clint Stevens is. When I say everyone knows him, I mean like all other content creators know him. As in he is the peak of speed runs in terms of being known by other content creators kind of thing, you know. I think this is a bad situation for you or the other guy. But no matter what, you'll still have a dedicated fan base who loves your videos. And while he may surpass you in followers, I don't think you'll become irrelevant as a lot of people want to see speed runs. So with content creation, it's not simply a matter of how many people want to see a thing. It's whether or not the algorithm believes it's in its best interest to show people that form of content. There's an opportunity cost whenever the algorithm presents one video over another. So if there's one video that is more likely to be clicked on, it's going to present that one instead of another one, right? My problem is that you need a certain replacement rate of viewers to not shrink. As in every day someone gets tired of my shit. It's true. Someone gets tired of me as a person or my content. And so there has to be a new viewer finding me or else my viewership grows slightly smaller. And my concern is always that competition with another brand will eventually reduce the amount of people who identify with my name with Dark Viper or in the algorithm I get presented less to the point where slowly over time more people are leaving than are coming in and I just slowly shrink. And because less people are watching my stuff, the algorithm thinks I'm not as interesting or not as popular. So then it becomes like a snowball effect where less viewers, less views, less viewers, less views until I'm gone. Like I can continue making content that people want to see, but unless people become aware of it, they're not going to watch it. That's why thumbnails and stuff are so important, right? You can make the greatest fucking content in the universe, but if people don't think that'll be something they want to see or if they're not aware of it, then it doesn't matter. |
| 01. August 2020 | My netflix error | My Netflix era. I accidentally was paying for three, no, two copies of Netflix for three months. I have two primary email addresses that I use, both variations of Dark Viper, which is probably not a surprise to you. And I guess I signed up for Netflix to watch something, and then I just forgot that I had signed up for Netflix, so then I just used my other account to sign up for Netflix. And I look at my finances quarterly so that I can put them all together to send off to my accountant. I'm like, why the fuck am I paying so much money for Netflix? And so just, I'm sure I could contact them and try to get the money back, it's just like, just an error, I guess. I was double the chilling of Netflix. |
| 27. December 2020 | My new YouTube Series. | My new YouTube series. I'm starting a new series, guys. It feels a little bit irresponsible to do it, because I'm behind on, um, pacifist and faxing glitches. But I'm so confident I'm gonna finish Oko soon, that I'm just testing the waters for other stuff I'll be doing when it's done. It's not a big series. It's like, people continuously say to me, I should do a podcast of some kind. And I don't think I really have the knack for it necessarily, but I'm tempted to see how that would go. So what I'm gonna do is start a series where I contact the handful of other content creators that I know to some degree, and then I say to them, like, I say to my viewers, like, what should we talk about, what topics, questions, what stories do they have that I'd like to hear, that kind of stuff. And then we just, I just talked to them for an hour or two. I don't know what I'm gonna name it yet. I asked my Patreon patrons and my mods to think up names, and I didn't love any of the names. We'll see what happens, you know? Why the podcast ended. I could always just call it something like the Runs Dead podcast, but, or podcasts here, bro. Yeah, so it's a problem, like, I don't know if I want my name in the title. I feel like probably not. I don't want it to be speedrunner-related necessarily, because I'm not just gonna be talking to speedrunners. No judgment podcast. It's not too bad. A podcast. I'm sure that's been done. This ingenuous, dense motherfucker podcast. I'm sure I'll think of something. Yeah, probably would end up having Ramble. Ramblecast or a Ramble with. A Ramble with sounds too much like a conversation with, but fuck the name of conversation with. It's like the most obvious name for a podcast of all fucking time. It probably just ended up being a Ramble with. Sleepless guy rambles with content creators. I don't think that rolls off the tongue. I might have a signature sign off. Well, I guess this Ramble's dead. I don't know that many people. We'll see how it goes. I also haven't decided whether I want it to be a video or just audio. Audio is a lot easier. I guess having video gives that option. But I mean, you can't make cuts without it being obvious with the video, right? Unless of course you zoom in on one person, zoom in on the other, whatever. What do people use for podcasts when you want video for both? People don't use Skype, do they? Oh no, Discord has video, right? It's always hard syncing up schedules for these kind of things. And given that I've been tired and fallen behind in so much of what I'm meant to be doing and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What I should call the podcast is actually the official Rockstar Games podcast. In no way could that go wrong. I'll even make the description discussing all the latest news and ongoing stuff within Rockstar Games from those who work there or something. And then nothing like that will ever occur in the podcast. As a matter of fact, we will explicitly never mention anything related to Rockstar Games or anything that they make. Just to fuck with people. The Rockscam podcast. It does feel like a very inefficient way to collaborate with people these days, though. The meta doesn't seem to be for podcasts. It's more like I want to do it just to see if it's fun. The meta these days is just throwing everyone into Among Us and going to town. Do I know nine other people who are content creators? I don't think so. Oh no, I guess I probably do. |
| 08. August 2022 | My new amazing desk and how I hate my old desk. | My new amazing desk and how I hate my old desk. Hey everyone! I recently bought an IKEA up-spel standing desk to replace my Omnidesk that I've hated for years, and I'm so happy with this change. So happy, in fact, I decided to release this video to ward people away from buying an Omnidesk as I once did. These two desks are very similar, they even have the same motor to control the height of the desk, but IKEA has massively improved on the Omnidesk design. I will now continue with my stream footage where I explain the differences between these desks on stream. I love this desk. A long long time ago, I bought this Omnidesk and I f- hated it. Oh my god, this desk was horrible, but I used it for years because I didn't have the money to get myself a new one. But I got myself a new one yesterday, and it's this desk from IKEA. Now these desks may look very similar, but this desk is superior to this one in four key ways. And what's funny is these are the exact four complaints that I had about this desk. I was on Twitter, I was on YouTube being like these four f- design decisions. These people are brain dead, what is wrong with them? And IKEA, I don't know if they heard me, but this desk is just this desk with those four things fixed. The first thing is this cutout here. There's a cutout and you have no choice as to whether or not it's there. If you don't want the cable management, you still have to have that hole. Why? And it's like the most awkward spot for cable management. I push my keyboard back, and so I'd always be like bumping into the hole. This thing makes it look like you can fill in the hole, but this block is not big enough to fill this hole. And this is wood. It's not made of the same material as the desk, it's wood. So what I did is I put it in there, and then I put like a bunch of black tape over it. So for the longest time I had like a hole in my desk with a bunch of black tape over it that my keyboard would hit into for years. And so IKEA's like, that is a dumb design decision, so they just removed it. So the other thing is that these legs and this brace is the exact center of the table. So if you put your leg up on top of one of your other legs, you're going to hit your leg into this pole every single time. As long as you're sitting both legs perfectly flat on the ground and never move your legs, it's fine. If you ever move your leg, you want to readjust, you go bang into this pole every single goddamn time. I'm like, what a dumb design decision. Sure, you're probably not meant to sit with one leg across your other one, but sometimes you do. And so why would you build like this? IKEA looks at this and goes, that's a dumb design decision, what the hell? And so they make it so the legs are just a little bit back. This is actually even more sturdy than the old desk, but see how they're just, they're not in the exact center, they've gone backwards. And so the bars are like, just like this much different, further back. And so I have to reach back to find them. And so I can cross my legs all I want, don't get my leg hit. What I did to fix the Omni desk is I ended up removing these two braces, which made the desk very unstable. It would bow in the middle a little bit. So when I move my, if I held my keyboard an angle, my desk would be at different heights and shit. And I've dealt with this for years. This table may look thick, but it is very thin. This table is like twice as thick. Not like ridiculously more, but like if I pick this up, I couldn't like bend it. This one you can. This one looks thick, but it's not. And the final thing, see this little thing on the end here? This is the thing that you use to put up and down the desk. The light always stays on. So the number you set it to, if you're in a dark room, it's like a blaring light that you cannot turn off. So it's like, you are definitely two meters off the ground, and I want you to know that for the rest of time. I know the height you can turn off. No, you must always know. Light the beacon. I'm like, that's just the dumbest design decision ever. And IKEA agreed as well. And so with their one, the second you stop using it, the light goes off. Like the nanosecond you press a button, it brights up and sits like that for like 30 seconds or something. But the second you stop using it, it's gone. What I'm saying is, chat, I hate Omnidesk with a blinding passion. And even worse, they promised to send me a mouse pad and didn't. Scammers. This IKEA desk though, I love potentially too much. Like, I feel like my life has been massively enriched by having this desk. This desk superior to the other one. If you want a standing desk, I highly recommend this desk. Was easy to build as well. 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| 09. October 2021 | My new clothes washing service | My new clothes washing service wardrobe setup. I do still have clothes in my wardrobe that I haven't worn in years that aren't black tank tops and black shorts. I really enjoyed recently when I gave all my washing to a washing service and they gave them back to me in these really nice cool piles. They were all perfectly uniform in how they were folded. These neat little stacks and I didn't I don't have a chest to drawers I just left them on my floor. So I've been every day just picking out a new pair of black underwear, a new pair of black shorts and a new black tank top from this pile. The pile slowly gets smaller. |
| 24. May 2022 | My new favourite soft drink | You know? My new favorite soft drink. Also good news, I got a bunch of Coke No Sugar No Caffeine. Can you, camera please, thank you, just for that. I bought myself like 12 10-can cases because they only had 10 can cases. People be like, at that point, why not just drink water? And to them I say, shut up. Pepsi's dead. It doesn't have any No Sugar No Caffeine in this country. |
| 14. November 2022 | My new massively overkill PC. | My new massively overkill PC. So it's kinda what my PC looks like except all these are now blue. It's not a very good picture. My woof woof for scale though, that's what it looks like now. Pretty sick, I've never bothered with RGB before and now I have and it's all blue, which is cool. Why did I switch platforms? Cause Intel is technically a little bit better than AMD right now. There's a lot of fans, it is. Didn't intend to get this many, but when I looked up a guide for how to install everything into this particular case, the dude was like, oh yeah, so I put like 12 fans in the case. I'm like, yeah, I may as well do that too I suppose. There were only two mistakes I made with this build. The cooler I had was not very good for the original case that I bought. Just bought another case that was bigger, no dramas. The second error I made is last time when I bought myself a motherboard, I made explicitly sure that it had a 10 gigabit per second ethernet adapter or whatever on it. This one only has a 2.5. So what I'm doing now is I'm ordering for myself two Thunderbolts to 10 gigabit cards that are gonna be external to the case. I've never used them before, but hopefully it's gonna be fine. Unfortunately, there are none in my country, so I'm gonna have to wait a month for them to come in stock, which sucks. But until then, I'm gonna be transferring files at like one seventh of the normal speed that I'm used to. This would normally have already been done like hours ago, but I'm sitting here at 100 megabytes per second crying. So a lot of firsts in this build. Never had an all-in-one water cooler before or water cooler in general. I've never had a full tower case, I've always had a mid case. I've never done RGB, I've never done the extra fans. So a lot of good stuff. If you have 2.5 gigabits per second, how much would you download? 100 megabytes per second? But now this system only has one ethernet port. So I can't even use the 2.5 on this system because the router can't accept that. When I use a network switch, every attempt to use a network switch has caused me to want to jump off a cliff. I hate them. It's just not worth it. And besides, I'd still need to get at least one Thunderbolt 10 gigabit per second thing anyway. What files are moving? These are all my copies of GTA V. My almost terabyte worth of copies of GTA V. As far as the build of the actual PC was concerned, it wasn't as arduous this time round because I made sure not to unplug my main system. Like if you're building yourself a system using parts from your old PC, it becomes a huge hassle in terms of troubleshooting and moving over files and stuff. And when you start the build, you can't stop because your other PC is in pieces. I'm in a fortunate enough situation now, not like I was in the past. I'm building an entirely new system. So I would put together a third of the PC, go, I'm sick of this shit, and then just go back to work. And then the next day, do another third, and the next day, do another third. Whenever I ran into some difficulties or I needed another part, I'm like, well, I'll just wait a couple of days and complete it. I also had another monitor, a mouse and keyboard so I could do all the stuff, install all the stuff before I actually put it on my main monitors and stuff. So it was a more difficult build than normal, given the parts that I chose, but it was easier because of how I chose to approach it. |
| 12. December 2021 | My new merch store | You know, my new merch store. Uh, before I begin, gotta give a shout out to uh, someone who's near and dear to me. Someone very important, and that is my merch store. Every emote is in there, but one day it shall. One day I shall have all the emotes. And I will tinker with them to make them better and all that jazz. So we got shirts, hoodies, tank tops, mugs, stickers. And it looks like there's two more spots here, maybe I can convince them to let me have two more items. Maybe we can get mousepads or something. It's funny, someone just commented on YouTube like, Oh what, you can't have runs dead? You have to change it to runs alive? No. It will be there eventually guys. Eventually. |
| 17. December 2020 | My new most viewed video. | My new most viewed video. It doesn't surprise me that clip that just got released is doing pretty well. What did I title it? The most said word in GTA 5 over 500 times. And it's just me showing the 500 something files of people saying Kif-Lan. I actually I recently downloaded all the clips that have been made in the last month and two days. It was 768 clips. So on average, I guess every day 25 clips made of my stream. Right. Is that that math right in that ballpark? In a weird way, I thought it would be more. |
| 10. January 2021 | My new podcast . | My new podcast Did I figure out a name for my one for the podcast? It's probably gonna be X rambles with so person who I've invited on Rambles with dark fiber a you like I could do the names the other way But I think it'd be better to have their name first kinda dull What what do you want from a name of a podcast man? Do you like? a name's meant to be that amazing Are you meant to read it and jizz or something like this name is so good It's just a name man I don't think I've ever found a name for a podcast that I haven't thought which is fairly mundane and so like the series I would call a ramble with so it's similar to enough to things. I've done before that people could recognize it as Being associated with me, but not so similar that it's You know not distincts roosterteeths podcasts off topic and dude soup here They're not like they're not great names either exactly Roosterteeth how it fell are you planning on sharing the podcast on soundcloud? I don't know how good the podcast is gonna be like if it's good And I do more of it then maybe I will put it on other platforms. I'm not sure I don't know what that entails haven't thought that far ahead. I mean interviewing dream wasn't particularly bad but Certainly an interview is a little bit different from a podcast because a podcast is meant to be you know like funny To what degree I mean I'll be honest with you I think for people who listen to podcasts their standards are probably not all that high It's more like these are people who? Don't just want to listen to music when they're out and about and about and they just want something to fill the space You know like as long as the podcast is better than nothing to listen to Dead air then there'll be some people who will watch it whether that amount of people will be enough to make it worth listening to debatable it's also a separate question whether I wants to Find someone to edit this or just release it unedited when I say edited like obviously most podcasts aren't edited to remove content in general unless something goes wrong or Someone says yeah, we should probably cut this out or something like that But some podcasts are edited to add in things like visuals like hey You know so I was playing this video game, and then they bring up a picture of what that video game looks like or whatever Supplemental material that isn't necessary to enjoy the podcast, but it is good if it's there Because obviously that kind of stuff won't go on the audio version, so it can't be all that impactful You know call the podcast better than dead air true true |
| 18. June 2022 | My new rambles thumbnail design. | My new Rambles thumbnail design. This is going to be the new format of Rambles thumbnails. So how the Rambles were always set up was that they were meant to be the fastest, easiest thing for me to make. An easy 50k views as a filler sort of content. Which actually goes against the common sentiment that you don't want any weak performing videos on your channel, but I've never agreed with that. I've done it the same way the entire time I've been on the platform. Successful, not, hasn't seemed to matter. But when I was in the SubAutoGamers podcast, Nux brought up, he's like, your Rambles have the shittest thumbnail ever. They all look the same. And I said to him, yeah, that's by design, because it's meant to be like, low effort, really easy to edit, really easy to release. But then afterwards I was like, well you know what, I have found a good thumbnail artist from the React series. I'm now doing the Rambles myself, in that I'm not having someone else cut them down. So I'm making more money on them now, even if they take a little bit more time. So I'm like, well I can use some of that money to have someone else make a thumbnail. And yeah, so I'm going to have him go back and do all of them effectively. But I also sat around for 20 minutes making thumbnail faces, which is something I've never done. And I said to him afterwards, I'm like, man, I wish I fixed my beard. So I sat here like this, and went, oh, I see like face palm, smiled, ah, sad. I even had a knife and fork. Pressing my phone, I tried to use a lighter, it didn't work there. And made all these. I look like shit, but I didn't want to wait any longer to make myself look better. So we're stuck with me looking half dead like this. I don't think it's that bad, but yeah. |
| 01. March 2022 | My new shock mount for my microphone | Like when I used to do society, religious, political kind of content. That'd be really funny. My new shock mount for my microphone. I got myself a shock mount. I don't know how it fits exactly, but that's something I'm going to be looking into. Traditionally, people have said you don't really need a shock mount for this microphone. And I'm not sure how much is really going to help, because I'm still touching the mic from physically. But we'll see how it goes. You never understood the benefits of shock mounts. It's just the microphone is suspended in a large part with cable. And so rather than the shocks going directly into the microphone through metal, the cables kind of take the blow. And so the sound doesn't happen as much. But like the shock mount I used to have for my big, my blue ear. |
| 06. August 2020 | My new water cooler | My new water cooler. So I didn't know, chat, that this has a refrigerator on it. So when I was buying my bar fridge, I made sure to look up what bar fridge is the quietest bar fridge. There's different ways of doing cooling, and one of them is infinitely quieter than all the rest. Now, I turned this fucking thing on, and it's like I'm in some horror movie, and there's a beast after me. It's just growls, and it's just pulsing, and I think it's gonna explode, and that's apparently, I think it's what's meant to be doing. And I'm just like, who would have this device anywhere near their place where they're existing? Like I just, it costs like $200, and turning it on is just a non-starter for me. I might put it in my kitchen. Down there, I probably won't give as much of a shit, but then I guess I'll just have cold water in my kitchen forever. I know what I'm gonna do now. I just wanted a simple, always cold water supply in my room. Too much to ask. This is why I can't have nice things, because I'm dumb. |
| 26. March 2022 | My new ‘This is what you missed’ series | My new This Is What You Miss series. So as you may have seen on YouTube, I've got this new series, This Is What You Miss, and it's me just putting together all the live streams I've done that can't be made into edited footage, either because there's not enough footage, or there's something wrong with the footage, or it just wouldn't make sense as an edited video. And the videos have done okay. I'm not sure to what extent they really benefit from being premieres on YouTube, especially because most people's chat is simply, Oh my god, is this live or is it a premiere? It's kind of weird. As well, the quality of premieres seems to be very low, and I'm trying to figure out with YouTube why that is. They keep swearing to me black and blue. They're not meant to be live streams, it's just meant to be videos, so it should be the normal quality, but it's not. I get a lot of conflicting information on this, but at the very least it is restricted to 1080p. There is no 1440p. It's like 1080p 3k bitrate, and I'm arguing with them to find out why that is, but regardless, I'm gonna keep doing this, and I can do like a whole batch of footage a day. It's fairly easy content to make. So I'm going through my old footage to find more of this stuff, and so I tried to do Doki Doki Literature Club yesterday, and I was like, this is some pretty good footage, to shame it's not going to be edited, but at least it'll finally get out there, because I did it in like 2017. So I usually just edit the beginning, and so I started editing it, and I'm like, I can't release this unedited, so I just spent like the next hour editing the first 10 minutes or something, and I'm like, why am I doing this? I didn't put the text fast enough, so when I went to read it, I would wait for the text to generate and then read. I'll give an example, hon. Use weird logic and dismiss the conversation. See how long there's a wait, long of a wait there until it all comes up and I speak? On Natsuki's weird logic and dismiss the conversation, Yuri returns to the table carrying a tea set. She carefully placed... And so there's just so many gaps in here, and I have to remove them. It drives me fucking crazy. It's good footage too, like there's a bunch of places where I like try different girl voices and stuff. I'm just going to edit this myself. It'll probably take like a day dedicated to it, but you know. So I've been doing premieres on YouTube, right? So this is the quality of a premiere on YouTube. Look how big these pixels are in motion. Like you can literally count the pixels. We go from like 1440p, 24k bitrate, to 1080p, like 3k bitrate. It is brutal. I like the idea of having the chat and treating it like a live stream and people being able to talk and stuff. If I do enough of them, people will stop being like, oh, is this live? Oh, no way, it's a premiere, never mind. But the quality is just such a huge cut. Like just huge. It's not even normal 1080p quality. It's lower quality than Twitch streams. It's like Twitch like 10 years ago. |
| 08. November 2020 | My newest pacifist episodes and video length | My newest pacifist episode and the importance of video length. Did you guys see how bad pacifist went there? Holy shit! Got a lot of likes, lot high view of attention, but it's got a 125k views. It's been like two weeks or something. It makes it the worst performing pacifist episode ever by orders of magnitude, which is unfortunate. And I can't help but blame the low video length. YouTube posted something where they joked about people having long videos or something and Hank Green fired back and said, hey, you know, you've made an algorithm that favors that kind of content. Of course people are gonna do that kind of stuff. I'm sure on the screen if this gets in rambles, I'll put the actual tweets. But MrBeast fired back and he's like, I don't think it matters how long the videos are. Like I have one channel that makes gaming videos that are 20 minutes long, they do well. I have another channel that I make videos that are 10 minutes long, they do well. I have another channel that does videos that do one minute and they do very well. So like and I look at this and go MrBeast is like the least standard YouTuber alive. The algorithm loves his brand on literally anything. I could be staring at paints and if I said MrBeast endorses me staring at paint, it'd probably get like 10 million views. On my videos, videos that are under like 15 minutes or maybe under 20 minutes just do worse than any other video. My best video of all time is my 100% GT5 speedrun that is 10 hours long. My next best video of all time is me being in Blitzplate for Pacifist for 50 minutes, you know. And like my next most popular videos are the Pacifist episodes that are really long. The fairly long facts and glitches with the exception of the first one are my next most popular videos. Like at least on my channel with the content that I make there is clearly a favor of the algorithm for content that is of a reasonable length. Certainly nowhere around 10 minutes. Even the most recent Among Us video from from Out of the Gate was recommended less and it was around 11 minutes compared to the normal 33 minutes or whatever the other ones. |
| 28. July 2020 | My newest vlog | My newest vlog. Can I make another vlog video? I'll just give you the audio for my vlog right now. Hey yo, what up squad fam? It's me, your boy DarkViperAU. Have another day. Nothing happened today, so that's the end of the vlog. Bye guys. Thank you for watching my vlog. Remember to like, favorite, comment, and subscribe. And check out my affiliate links down below. And send me turtles. Thank you. Greatest vlog of all time. |
| 02. May 2021 | My nostalgia for World of Warcraft | Nostalgia for World of Warcraft. Sometimes guys, I will get recommended videos from World of Warcraft and I'll get the biggest wave of nostalgia wash over me. Like I think if I didn't become a professional streamer, professional streamer, I would still be playing World of Warcraft today. In the same way that I have most of my life where I'd play it for a long time, get sick of it, quit for like six months and come back and stuff. I don't think I ever consistently played non-stop except maybe when I was very young. But a part of me wants to see what they're still doing with the game, but I know it's shit. You're still trying to get all the achievements. I was doing that back in the day too. It was such a waste of my time. I probably like WoW Classic. I didn't play WoW Classic at least fully. Like I was like level 30 or 40 or 50 or something when the next expansion came out. And besides, like my mentality towards gaming is different. These days, like I don't have a lot of time to waste, you know. I'm not looking for a time sink. I'm looking for something engaging and enjoyable. Kid's WoW interesting to me was just, well, both the sunken cost fallacy in that it's like, well, you know, I've invested so much time into it now. I may as well keep going or and it won't be like I would have wasted all that time if I don't keep going, you know. And achieving goals. Anything where I can achieve goals and be like, yeah, I did the thing. I'm pretty satisfied with. And WoW just had like, you know, endless infinite goals. Like your ability to complete the game is effectively nothing, you know. The amount of time it would take to actually complete WoW. Get all the achievements. Get all the top gear. Max out every single character. Like you couldn't do it in the amount of time before the next expansion came out, you know. |
| 01. November 2022 | My occasional pre-stream ritual | My occasional pre-stream ritual. I wake up sometimes Really fucking tired doesn't matter for slept seven eight hours nine hours. I just wake up. I'm just like ah What is existence? Suffering, I mean trying to work on solving this but when I'm waking up at night It just doesn't work you meant to wake up in the day my body knows that and it's pissed at me all the time You know you're gonna be working in these blinds to fix that and getting my bed fixed as well Because it's too soft and it hurts my back whatever long story short there are many many days before I start streaming Where I sit and look exactly like this looking down and thinking like do I have the energy to be entertaining today on stream? I'm actually gonna start the stream and just immediately bail. Do I have this energy? I feel like shit, but I want to stream I want to have that fun want to see my viewers and stuff make the entertainment make other people happy Do I have the energy for that and I? Sit there for like sometimes half an hour to an hour just being like hmm I said I'm like trying to will the universe to like imbu me with energy or something I don't know if it work, but uh that was me most world sign the stream, so we'll see how we go you know |
| 08. September 2021 | My old friend kicking my PC | Drunk friend kicking my PC. How drunk do you have to be to punch a game system? I remember once I was a... so when we were kids we had to you know carry around our desktops to different people's houses for lands right? My PC was pretty shit right? Or was it like a spare PC that I was bringing to someone else or something? I can't recall. But I got to my friend Taylor's house and another one of my friends was walking to Taylor's house because he was drunk somewhere else and so we had just gotten inside and we saw Alex coming, the guy who was drunk, up the street and he just absolutely brutalizes, kicks my PC, my tower. Because it was on the side of the road and he was like... and I'm like, oh what are you doing? He's like, what do you mean? He just kicked my computer and he's like, oh shit, I thought it was just someone's trash because it was on the side of the road. Oh fuck. |
| 16. May 2021 | My old game suggestion list | My old game suggestion list. There was once a point where I had achieved every goal that I had for GT5, because all I was doing was speedrunning back then and I had overworld records. And I had my viewers make me a list, a suggestion list of games that I should play. And I went down the list playing them one after the other. And that's where a lot of my older footage comes from. From 2017 when this happened. Although some of it I don't think I recorded. But I think most of it I did. It would be crazy to get back to a point like that where I actually achieved what I want to achieve with GTA5. And just play random games. Like I would make that list again but it would be completely pointless because I already have like maybe 20 different separate things that I want to achieve. Either in this game or other Rockstar games. I'll promote it every time I get the chance. My GeoGuessr video is hilarious. Go demonetize. So I didn't get recommended to a lot of people. But great video. |
| 20. March 2021 | My old sponsored gambling videos. | My old sponsored gambling videos. Will you be playing blackjack tonight? What did you just watch my old blackjack videos? It's funny one of the blackjack videos has like a million views and the other ones have between a hundred thousand and three hundred thousand or something Because uh One of them has that clip where uh I joke and say yeah, this deal is my girlfriend and she laughs at the same time It's my my top viewed clip the top view clip has four million views whatever like I've been meaning to have all the gambling edited again and to remove those videos because The vast majority of the content isn't being watched and they aren't edited particularly well I probably shouldn't remove them though considering one of them has so many views but Some of the early memes for those who are unaware those gambling videos came about because I did a sponsored thing One of my first sponsored things with some random Russian Company or something. I didn't know they were Russian or whatever at the time. I think they asked me to do another Sponsored thing at some point But through further conversation, I think they thought I was from Austria rather than from Australia and so They were like is are we still good to do that? I don't know. I'm like, I just don't want to do this This is just weird. I Stop responding to the emails. It's a weird thing advertising gambling Because something that as I've mentioned many times before I do find enjoyable But it is something that for a handful of people is are destructive for their lives It's one of those questions where how much are you obligated to? Do things with that tiny minority in mind, you know, how much you obligated to change your life to potentially avoid Causing situations where people will act inappropriately Don't know depends on the situation I suppose because then effectively anything that I do or say it can inspire people to Be led down a path that leads to harm or a worsened life or whatever, you know Like when I wrote a tweet where I jokes invest in cheese Like obviously a joke But you can guarantee there was probably someone there who just had Robin Hood or whatever. They're like, oh, you know I'm just gonna buy some cheese stocks. Why the fuck not? Maybe they lost some money it's just a weird thing to mull over sometimes where You realize that when you're able to reach so many people That's the potential for you to cause a person Harm is a substantially increased not like the cheese and she's gonna disappear No, but I mean certainly individual cheese stocks can go down or up Or taste it and preferences can change or You know |
| 16. January 2021 | My old video criticizing Call Me Carson. | My old video where I criticized Cormie Carson. This ramble was done before the recent allegations against him, and the video that I made was about maybe a year ago. Uh, Cormie Carson? I know next to nothing about the guy. He's worshipped by all the edgy teens. I have never found his tweets to be funny. His tweets come off to me more as, hey, how random is it that I'm like super popular and writing this? But again, I haven't seen his entire body of work. Cormie Carson and I have interacted on some small level. Do you guys know why? So once upon a time, your boy Dark Viper didn't have a video to release one day. And I had been doing testing for 100% I think or something the day before. And the topic of Cormie Carson came up. And I said, the only content of Cormie Carson's I've ever seen are the ones where he's reacting to random YouTube videos. And the main input that he and his friends have seems to just be them laughing. And the what's meant to be funny seems to just be their laughter. And I was like, I don't think this is particularly funny. I don't find the content to be completely interesting. But the way that I communicated this was needlessly critical and cruel. Like, it was funny, but at the time I didn't realize that if you took me to be sincere in my degree of criticism, it just comes across as me being a complete asshole. And because I didn't have a video, I just saw this small section that I found quite funny. And I'm like, I'll make this into a video. So I put it on my YouTube channel. And a lot of people got it, especially because I made efforts to add certain things to it that made it seem like I clearly wasn't that serious. But a lot of people who liked his content or took me to be really sincere were hypercritical of it. And Carlson ended up watching the video. I don't know in what context. The video had less than 50,000 views. And he wrote a comment like, you know, I do understand where you're coming from. And he's like, I have not felt creatively inspired for quite some time. And I do feel as though the content that I've been creating recently is fairly, not saying he's, like formulaic is what he's trying to say. It was a very mature response, which made me feel even worse. Because as I wasn't clear about in the video, I don't really know Carlson. I don't really know his content. It's like if you, I don't know, if you released a thousand videos and a person watched two of them and believed they knew you as a content creator or knew what sort of content you make or the value of your life's work. And that's, it's kind of like, that's what I was trying to suggest. That I actually knew him and his content. And I clearly did not. I need to take the video down in part because there is a difference between talking about a content creator, a living, breathing human being and a topic. Mocking soccer or something or whatever is very different from an abstract kind of thing. It is very different from mocking a person. Once a content creator gets really, really large, sometimes you don't even see them as a person. You see them as a brand almost. You don't think about how your words might impact the person behind the brand or whatever. And so I, I took down the video. I'm not sure where it is now. It's probably my PC somewhere, but yeah, that's the only interaction I've had with Carlson. I still don't know much about his content. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 18. January 2021 | My old video criticizing SomeOrdinaryGamers. | An old video criticizing some ordinary gamer. Um, how many of you watched Dreams' conversation with, uh, Moodahar? Um, some ordinary gamer? Type 1 if you did, type 2 if you didn't. Because I didn't get to see the contents of it, I was just sent a clip of, um, the part where I was mentioned. See, I- I- are you saying that, um, Moodahar was critical of me? Um, the reason I ask is because he does have a reason to be critical of me, I just don't think he knows it. So back in the day, there was some drama that Moodahar was involved in. But I was a smaller content creator back then. Uh, I made a video where I was very critical of the man. Um, because of contradictions in statements that I believe that he had made. In regards to, uh, his position on, um, H3H3 and, uh, things that they may or may not have done. I got some flack over the video, and I would argue rightly so. Because, like, I wasn't even tangentially involved in it. Um, like I- while with the dream thing, it's speedrunning, like I have a big interest in speedrunning. Like, I- I barely even watched some ordinary gamer. I did watch a bit of it. I just came down as being really overly critical. And over-assuming of malice intent when it could just be misunderstanding. But as I referenced in this dream thing, I just- I don't like hypocrites, I don't like people who are unfairness, I don't like cheaters, I- I get worked up over it sometimes. It's not my desire to get views necessarily. It's some particular issues, what's the word, a yank might go to, whatever, they just, uh, they- they struck- struck- they strike a nerve with me, and I can become overly emotional about the issues. And I feel as though whatever drama that was back then with- between H3H3 and some ordinary gamer, I- I- I clearly got too emotionally invested for stupid reasons. |
| 16. January 2021 | My old video criticizing call me carson. | My old video where I criticized Cormie Carson. This ramble was done before the recent allegations against him, and the video that I made was about maybe a year ago. Uh, Cormie Carson? I know next to nothing about the guy. He's worshipped by all the edgy teens. I have never found his tweets to be funny. His tweets come off to me more as, hey, how random is it that I'm like super popular and writing this? But again, I haven't seen his entire body of work. Cormie Carson and I have interacted on some small level. Do you guys know why? So once upon a time, your boy Dark Viper didn't have a video to release one day. And I had been doing testing for 100% I think or something the day before. And the topic of Cormie Carson came up. And I said, the only content of Cormie Carson's I've ever seen are the ones where he's reacting to random YouTube videos. And the main input that he and his friends have seems to just be them laughing. And the what's meant to be funny seems to just be their laughter. And I was like, I don't think this is particularly funny. I don't find the content to be completely interesting. But the way that I communicated this was needlessly critical and cruel. Like, it was funny, but at the time I didn't realize that if you took me to be sincere in my degree of criticism, it just comes across as me being a complete asshole. And because I didn't have a video, I just saw this small section that I found quite funny. And I'm like, I'll make this into a video. So I put it on my YouTube channel. And a lot of people got it, especially because I made efforts to add certain things to it that made it seem like I clearly wasn't that serious. But a lot of people who liked his content or took me to be really sincere were hypercritical of it. And Carlson ended up watching the video. I don't know in what context. The video had less than 50,000 views. And he wrote a comment like, you know, I do understand where you're coming from. And he's like, I have not felt creatively inspired for quite some time. And I do feel as though the content that I've been creating recently is fairly, not saying he's, like formulaic is what he's trying to say. It was a very mature response, which made me feel even worse. Because as I wasn't clear about in the video, I don't really know Carlson. I don't really know his content. It's like if you, I don't know, if you released a thousand videos and a person watched two of them and believed they knew you as a content creator or knew what sort of content you make or the value of your life's work. And that's, it's kind of like, that's what I was trying to suggest. That I actually knew him and his content. And I clearly did not. I need to take the video down in part because there is a difference between talking about a content creator, a living, breathing human being and a topic. Mocking soccer or something or whatever is very different from an abstract kind of thing. It is very different from mocking a person. Once a content creator gets really, really large, sometimes you don't even see them as a person. You see them as a brand almost. You don't think about how your words might impact the person behind the brand or whatever. And so I, I took down the video. I'm not sure where it is now. It's probably my PC somewhere, but yeah, that's the only interaction I've had with Carlson. I still don't know much about his content. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 28. July 2020 | My oldest follower stopped by | My longest follower stopped by my stream recently. I think weird happen. I wonder if someone clipped it a Dude came to the stream. I think his name was like web and he's like is there a way to check your follow age? And I was like ah well no, I should know you can click on your name now and see your followage And I click on his name. I'm like You followed me in 2014 What? I look up my numbers. I'm like I had 10 followers back then What the fuck did you follow me in? 2014 Is Anna you I know watching you for GTA and then Warcraft a like ah okay, okay? But what makes this funnier is he had never said a word Never he'd never said a single message in my chat, or maybe it's just I should think about maybe none of the messages were recorded Because when when when did twitch start recording the messages? I'm not sure but no messages, so he'd like it's not like he come be come back. He says um he said oh yeah, like a friend of mine said you had a lot of viewers now and That's why I stopped by and I'm like I I very strange |
| 28. September 2021 | My one birthday tradition | My one birthday tradition. For those who don't know, the earliest birthday tradition I ever had was going to Pizza Hut, All You Can Eat, on my birthday, and we did this from when I was like four years old until I was like 21 or something. Then it just became getting pizza in general. Did I get pizza on my birthday last year? I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure I just get pizza on my birthday every year with my family. If I were to ever have a meetup for fans, I'd probably do it. I don't know if you can eat pizza. But if I could guarantee it, like at least 10 people would come. |
| 30. September 2021 | My one drunk stream | My one drunk stream. |
| 16. February 2021 | My one goal for 2021 | My one goal for 2021. Did you guys know you can sub to your favorite Twitch streamer for free with Twitch Prime? My goal by the end of 2021 is to have had 10,000 subs at least once. Because then I'll have unlocked all the emotes, and then the world will be a better place. I can have 11 more emotes slots, but I need to hit 10,000 subs. |
| 02. February 2023 | My ongoing internal struggle between wanting to help others and wanting to keep to myself. | My ongoing internal struggle between wanting to help others and wanting to keep to myself One day I will effectively retire from video games, and I will just make essays dude They will be not successful and they'll be watched by like ten people But I think they'll make me happier that stuff just makes me very uncomfortable dude as weird as it sounds I don't like Talking about people. I don't like attention on myself I'm constantly conflicted because I like to keep to myself But there are things that other people do that harm others it really rubs me the wrong way and a lot of it I can't talk about because I don't feel like I'm qualified or know enough, but the handful of topics So I do feel qualified I feel like I have to say something even if it feels uncomfortable me to do so because I just feel guilty not doing something It's a I'm a very conflicted person you think I'll be successful it now. I do like um. I don't really have that kind of presentation Bitterly like I'm not very good at reading scripts and stuff I mean like I sure I'd get better over time, but I just I struggle |
| 17. December 2020 | My only demonetized and 18+ only video. | My only video that was both demonetized and made so you have to be over 18 to see it. Fun facts, there's this clip on my clips channel where I'm reading this person's message history and he's spamming over and over again, thick thick thick thick thick, and do you know a Jiffy is an actual measure of time? And me angrily yelling that into my microphone is the only clip on my clips channel that both got demonetized and Age-gated is the only one I thought it was silly that it got demonetized And so I put it to manual review and YouTube disagreed They said no, this should not only be demonetized But only people above the age of 18 should be able to to hear you say thick and yell about Jiffy's I talked to that YouTube rep once and they were like no, it is manual review, but like think of the average individual attempting to Follow rules and understand content from all over the world. Of course, they're gonna make mistakes or Not understand what they're looking at like they could have assumed that Jiffy was some kind of a slur or Or thick wasn't a very very offensive term. Like how are they gonna know, you know? |
| 01. January 2021 | My only interaction with SmallAnt. | My only interaction with small ones Do I know of small ones? I don't watch many streamers But you both have great personalities, and I enjoyed the content. Hope you have a great night This will be the last dinner. I don't know small and personally. I've only seen a handful of his videos But the only interaction we've ever had was when my viewership dropped a great deal And I was somewhat freaking out about it on Twitter He wrote me reassuring comments, and I felt overly dismissive of what he said and a day later I felt guilty about it, so I DM'd him and said hey man. Thank you for being nice to me. Whatever. I'm sorry I was dismissive of you coming. He said I know I know I still meant. All experiencing a downturn right now man Things will turn around. I'm like yeah, hopefully man, and it's our only interaction I think he followed me on Twitter before I followed him on Twitter seems like good, dude I've spoken of him highly before but our interaction Minus you |
| 01. January 2021 | My only interaction with Smallant. | My only interaction with small ones Do I know of small ones? I don't watch many streamers But you both have great personalities, and I enjoyed the content. Hope you have a great night This will be the last dinner. I don't know small and personally. I've only seen a handful of his videos But the only interaction we've ever had was when my viewership dropped a great deal And I was somewhat freaking out about it on Twitter He wrote me reassuring comments, and I felt overly dismissive of what he said and a day later I felt guilty about it, so I DM'd him and said hey man. Thank you for being nice to me. Whatever. I'm sorry I was dismissive of you coming. He said I know I know I still meant. All experiencing a downturn right now man Things will turn around. I'm like yeah, hopefully man, and it's our only interaction I think he followed me on Twitter before I followed him on Twitter seems like good, dude I've spoken of him highly before but our interaction Minus you |
| 26. September 2021 | My only movie review that got popular | My only movie review video that got popular, I think I had a hundred thousand views at the time. Like one of my most popular videos of all time, which I have now taken off YouTube, was my review of Star Wars Episode 7. I was one of the first people to see Star Wars Episode 7, because it came out midnight around the world, and so it came out in Australia first, and I saw it like in the morning. And so I went home, and so it wasn't even out in some countries, and I had seen it, and I made a review, because I was so annoyed by the movie. I had such high hopes for something brand new, and it was just like, this is just Star Wars Episode 4. I hadn't seen Star Wars Episode 4 in like five years, and even I saw all the fucking parallels. English is- |
| 07. August 2021 | My only viewer asks for mod | My only viewer asked to be mod. But you don't need to be mod to keep yourself in check Kroosky. I've said it before Kroosky, the only way you're going to be mod is if I get more followers. I can't keep modding people. Uh, it's just, it's just... You are, you are... I'll be honest with you Kroosky, you are not mod, entirely so there is someone in chat who is not a mod. I like you man, and you are around enough, and you do talk. And that's all the criteria you need to be a mod as far as I'm concerned. So are you around every once in a while, and do you talk in chat? |
| 08. June 2020 | My onlyfans account | My OnlyFans accounts. I do have an OnlyFans, if you want Feat Picks, 300 bucks. I'm actually tempted to make an OnlyFans with that. Feat Picks for $300. So then, like, eventually someone will find it and be like, Oh my god, Matt was serious, he actually has an OnlyFans. With those Feat Picks. I've never been on OnlyFans, like, I wonder, I wonder how it's all set out. And I wonder how, like, cause, came the prominence with iDubbbz and his girlfriend. Like, I wonder what you charge to see that kind of pornography. Are you paying, like, a Netflix subscription fee, like, 10 bucks a month to see all the pornography that comes out? Or, is it like 10 bucks a video? I have so many questions that I don't really care about the answers. |
| 06. October 2021 | My opinion of God of War (2018) | My opinion of God of War 2018. I played it over the course of two days, about 10 hours each day, and unfortunately I no longer have the footage. I thought God of War was way better than Red Dead 2. The game for me was largely driven by the gameplay and the characters. The story was fairly formulaic. It's like, we're going to go to this mountain, but not yet. You need to get this item, you get that item, and they're like, oh no, you need to get one more item. Okay, fair enough, we'll get one more item. You get that item, it's like, ah, ah, ah, you need one more thing. And you're like, but you said the last thing was the last thing. It's like, well now there's one more. It's like, okay, well I'll get that too. You get that thing, it's like, no, well look at this, we need actually one more item. How many more items are there? Like, well, there are four more last items that you need to get. Each one being suggested to be the last item that you need, but it isn't actually the last item. And you're like, oh okay. You know. At some point I was like, can we just go through the portal already, please? Come on. You've been debating me to get to this place, like the entire game, I would just like to get there already. Because it seems as though both God of War 2 and Red Dead 2 didn't know how much time they would have for development. So they wrote a story where they could easily add in more stuff. You know, just in between this item and this item you can add one more item story if you happen to have time. The only other problem I had with God of War 2 was the continuous elevator gauntlet trope. I hate that trope. Where you slowly go up in an elevator, and it's like, oh no, the elevator is stuck. And then a bunch of enemies jump out, you kill them, and your elevator continues. Oh no, the elevator is stuck again. Kill them, elevator continues. They did this one too many times. The first example I can recall of that trope was the early Street Fighter games on Sega. I hated it then and I hate it now. And they did that like 17 times in God of War. God of War was a good game that I still had problems with. Yeah, exactly good. The characters were good, the scenery was good. |
| 12. August 2020 | My opinion on halo infinite | My opinion on Halo Infinite's What I think a Halo Infinite? I do have a Halo video releasing and I accidentally called it Halo Infinite Not realizing the Halo Infinite is the new game I am still unsure what Halo I played like in in the in the thumbnail It literally has the words Halo Infinite with infinite cross like with with it with a red line to it I don't know which one it is. They all look the fucking same |
| 24. February 2022 | My opinion on the GTA 6 trailer. | Hmm. My opinion on the GTA 6 trailer. What did I think of the GTA 6 trailer? I think it's pretty good. I think Rockstar was kind of a bit more flashy than they needed to be. But I think it was a good trailer. Pretty excited to see, you know, guys, I am lying. There is no GTA 6 trailer. Do not be excited. Some dipshit in chat just was trying to bamboozle me. You can't just fake, oh, a GTA 6 trailer released, right? Because I like I could be asleep and like birds would. Know of my association with GTA and I'll be crashing into my window of their own volition to communicate to me that the GTA 6 trailer drops. I will be one of the first people to know. I will get literally thousands of messages from all over the planet. People who don't like people who don't even know who I am. They don't even speak my language. We'll just be somehow by force of the universe compelled to communicate to me in their language that the GTA 6 trailer drops. You can't just be one lone guy. Attempting to convince me the trailers drops in my chat. Have you seen the trailer? Do you know who I am? The trailer drops like the beacon. |
| 08. March 2022 | My opinion on the gta 6 announcement | My opinion on the GTA 6 announcement. With the unprecedented longevity of GTA 5, we know many of you have been asking us about a new entry in the Grand Theft Auto series. With every new project we embark on, our goal is always to significantly move beyond what we've previously delivered, and we are pleased to confirm that active development for the next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series is well underway. We look forward to sharing more as soon as we are ready, so please stay tuned to the Rockstar Newswire for official details. My thoughts on the GTA 6 announcement? I mean, it's not really any new information. Can't wait to see them share something about it, like some images or... I mean, that trailer is gonna get like a million, like a hundred million views, you know? |
| 24. February 2022 | My opinion on the gta 6 trailer. | Hmm. My opinion on the GTA 6 trailer. What did I think of the GTA 6 trailer? I think it's pretty good. I think Rockstar was kind of a bit more flashy than they needed to be. But I think it was a good trailer. Pretty excited to see, you know, guys, I am lying. There is no GTA 6 trailer. Do not be excited. Some dipshit in chat just was trying to bamboozle me. You can't just fake, oh, a GTA 6 trailer released, right? Because I like I could be asleep and like birds would. Know of my association with GTA and I'll be crashing into my window of their own volition to communicate to me that the GTA 6 trailer drops. I will be one of the first people to know. I will get literally thousands of messages from all over the planet. People who don't like people who don't even know who I am. They don't even speak my language. We'll just be somehow by force of the universe compelled to communicate to me in their language that the GTA 6 trailer drops. You can't just be one lone guy. Attempting to convince me the trailers drops in my chat. Have you seen the trailer? Do you know who I am? The trailer drops like the beacon. |
| 03. May 2020 | My opinions on Tokyo Ghoul | My opinion on Tokyo Ghoul. Have I watched Tokyo Ghoul? I watched eight episodes of that show and it was so fucking boring. The main character just... I don't know, did I get to nine or ten episodes? He just whines. Non-fucking stop. Every single moment he's on screen. Whining. Whining. Whining. It's like, just do something interesting. It looks, it just looks, it goes whining. Oh my fucking god. I'm sure he turns into a cool character because they're like, hey, hey, you know, like half ghouls apparently meant to be pretty fucking strong. And there's like another guy who has like one eye, one ghoul eye as well. And it's like, oh, are you going to show me any of that? And the show's like that. Just, just, you know, whine for ten episodes. Non-stop. And be in no way productive to anything in the plot. Like, well then fuck this show. It might get better. Season 2 picks up, but I hear Season 3 is garbage. |
| 30. September 2021 | My parent's divorce | My parents divorce Being divorced isn't always a bad thing for example my mom seems the same But ever since they split my dad has been super invested in my brother and sister And taking time off work for them trying to build a better build a relationship He never had time to when he was constantly working. I don't think my mother and father would have ever Reconciled the differences had they stayed together. They were probably better off separated, but in terms of me and my sister We probably suffered for it as well as financially certainly financially as a collective my mother and father suffered for it because the when you live separately the expenses just Increased massively at the end of the day though. There's more to life than finances. I don't see my mother and father Either of them as being very happy with where they've ended up in life My father has never been in another relationship My mother has been in a handful of others but um they've all failed for various different reasons and I haven't really been a fan of any of the people she's dated and each Relationship has ultimately left her I would say more worse off than before in terms of becoming more jaded and And what have you but at no time in my life if I ever thought my parents didn't love me or that they weren't willing to To help me or what have you so to my dying birth I will say having loving parents who are divorced is far better than having married parents Who are not particularly loving parents who resent their children or or maybe? You have two parents who ultimately hate each other but stay together because they don't want to bother looking for someone new a marriage of convenience it like certainly in general having non divorced parents is certainly correlated with a better outcomes for children, but it's a It's a tendency not an all-encompassing fact, you know, you can guarantee you there are other other factors that could be presence in a divorced family that would lead to um better outcomes for kids then the worser of Married families my parents are divorced and extremely good friends. That's probably the best outcome The world really suck is parents who force over their kids. I saw this picture that this is gift today knows yesterday where Looks like an Asian couple and they were both reaching out going Give me a hug. Give me a hug to that little child and The child ultimately had to pick which parent it was going to the child starts to walk up to one of them gets confused turns away spins in a circle goes back has another go at it and it goes about goes by that last minute goes to the father and the look of the feet on the mother's ah, I don't know if you saw the gift was on reddit, but And I don't know if it's true, but the top comment was like Little did that child know that it was picking That the parents are getting divorced and it would never see the other parent again, and I was like wow that's dark definitely not true it's uh, like you see it in movies and May on judge judy or something where like a dog picks its owner By the one that it runs to but I have a hard time thinking that Any family court would be like okay toddler pick your parents. I'm just letting it go Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs a lot of money And I wish you all the best |
| 31. July 2022 | My passion for passion fruit. | My passion for passion fruits. Oh guys, got some really sad news. Prior to starting the stream, I purchased a drink and I got the wrong one. I wanted a mango passion fruit crush but I got a mango passion fruit tea. It was unbearable, like I actually chucked it out, I couldn't deal with it, it was so much worse. Why do no stores just have passion fruit drinks? It's always mixed with mango or something else. I like passion fruit! Passion fruit is really expensive. It's very hard to get some good amounts of passion fruit without losing a leg or something. I know you guys, it's devastating for you as it was for me but uh, we're so drawn! Would I say I have a passion for passion fruit? No, I wouldn't say that. Why would I possibly say that? |
| 20. November 2022 | My personal brand is not as strong as I thought | You know my personal brand is not as strong as I thought But what depresses me is videos that I think are real bangers and should do well don't do well like this one my journey to Pax Australia Pax Australia in Melbourne. This is a really great video. It's the combination of editing from me and Yellow bat I was mainly doing all the cutting down to choose the footage and stuff But massively underperformed like it's got like a less than 3% click through rate, and it's not even been out for a day ridiculously terrible in days past when I did this kind of Special in real life content people be like oh, this is new. This is different. This is the the GTA 5 guy But doing something outside of his norm. Let's watch people don't seem to be as interested now I'm gonna get a lot of comments with like man this video is great I love it so much, but no one's fucking watching it No one's clicking on it the thumbnail looks pretty good to me I recognize that it wouldn't be appealing to people who don't know me But I thought there'd be enough people who know me and care to carry it but apparently not why though It's a generally genuinely amazing video yet, but people just aren't interested They do not care about me doing in real life content doing this stuff But it seems that people in general aren't interested in much of what I'm doing now, so the most recent ramble I put out hugely underperformed just like boof Like it seems as though the amount of people who are just interested in me as a person Massively dropped off gone are the days where? My involvement in something can really spark up a lot of viewership people have seen me in tons of stuff They know what I do. They know what I'm about It seems as though the only things that I can put out that People be interested in are things that be interesting irrespective of whether or not I was the one involved would Twitter die |
| 01. June 2021 | My pet options | My pet options. What will I call my dog if I get one? Woofle or Davey? Davey How you doing? Fine. I'll get three dogs, Chop, Woofle and Davey. Would I get a pet hamster? No. How long do hamsters live for? Two years? Not enough. Why would I get a cat? If not, why? Because I'm slightly allergic to cats. I have enough issues with feeling good as is. I don't want the added complication of a cat. Yeah, there are definitely things you can do to mitigate the possibility of having a allergic outbreak from cats. And certainly my allergies are not extreme. Like I can be in a house that has a cat for hours and hours on end and then eventually my eyes will get a bit itchy or whatever. I've told that story before like when I was a kid and I went to my friend Patrick's house. When I was younger like I would have no issues. Then as I got older like I remember being there drunk once and after like many hours like we're talking I've been there for like four or five hours. I started to itch all- itch my face like heaps. Oh at PAX It was 2019. I'm not sure. I went to Daris' house I think and I was there for a few hours. I was really fine. Then I started to feel a bit off like my eyes were a bit itchy. I'm like do you have a cat? He's like, oh yeah. I'm like, oh shit. No allergies with Japanese robot pets? Sure, I'll get myself a robot. Yeah, I've had pet fish in my life, but like I don't even have time to get clothing or a car or furniture, let alone a pet and care for it. With cats triple apparently it's uh their spit or whatever that they clean themselves. Yeah, saliva or whatever. They lick their furrow and they shed the furrow. Yeah. Get an ostrich? Nah. Get myself a kangaroo and organize underground kangaroo boxing matches and then live stream that shit on Twitch. I mean they accept hot tub streams. Why not kangaroo boxing matches? Basically the same thing. Name one difference between a hot tub stream and an underground illegal kangaroo box fighting ring. I rest my case. |
| 05. January 2022 | My phone call with YouTube to do a yearly channel review | My phone call with YouTube to do a yearly channel review. I had a call with YouTube, which was interesting. Like most of the conversation that I remember is her going, oh, you're doing really well with this statistic. You're doing better than what you'd expect. Like you're beating what normally happens here. Normally these numbers are going down right now, but yours are going up for some reason. I'm like, hey. Like, cause it was comparing last year to this year. It's like, so you're up like 300% in this, this, this, this. It's like, I'm basically up like 300% on everything since last year. |
| 02. July 2021 | My pizza innovations | My pizza innovations. I was about to put my pizza in the oven. It was a pepperoni pizza. I was like wait a second There's only a small amount of pepperoni on this pizza but what if I put my own pepperoni on there and salami and Like I've got three there's another one right it's pepperoni salami. What's the other one? I'm gonna figure this out There's shaved salami. Oh So I have Danish salami Hungarian salami and pepperoni and so I added More of that stuff on the pizza and then put it in the oven and it was great I know I hadn't considered that before like limiting myself to what the man wants on my fucking pizzas Nonsense. The sky is the limit now. I know I'm gonna put different shit on my pizza next time too. My life has been changed forever |
| 09. October 2021 | My plan for eternal youth | My plan for eternal youth. Aw man, I'm only 30. Is that middle-aged chat? Am I old? I had someone write a comment on my Twitter that they were 36. And I was like, that's pretty old. It's like, oh shit, I'm only six years off that. Dang. Despite being 30, my perception of old is still like 35. Someone in chat just wrote that they're 35. I get, you know. I think my perception is just warped because I spend so much time online. And most people in my field, like, you know, are in their 20s. Still, I sometimes feel really old and sometimes don't at all. But hey, I never go in the sun, so by the time I hit 50, I'll still look like I'm 30, okay? There's that old stereotype where like, Asian men don't age between the ages of like 30 and 60. I plan to set a new thing where people say the same thing about speedbunners. Just never go in the sun chat. It's the secret to eternal youth. That's not how that works. Amen. Look, I'll be the guinea pig. I'll find out for us all. I learned today that Kingdom Hearts 2 is 20 years old. That was like my favorite game as a kid, chat. It's 20 years old now. That means I'm more than 20 years old. That's crazy. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 04. November 2021 | My plan to get back the gta 5 speedrun world records | So, my plan to get back the GTA V speedrun world records. What's gonna happen is GTA V speedrunning will die. 20 years from now, I'll boot up my game. I'll be like the only moderator still active. I'll do a run, get world record, then submit my time and accept my own time. And then I'll have the final world record. I just hold back strats for 20 years. |
| 23. January 2021 | My plans after No Damage runs. | My plans after no damage runs When am I going back to normal speedrunning? It is debasable whether that will be after I finish Oko or after I finish, finish Pacifist because there is definitely an advantage to Not doing all of Pacifist all in one go in terms of releasing the videos because the jokes I will make will be different as in like every month. I experience a month of new things. There's a new Meta of content. There's a there's a there's new jokes being had. There's new Topical stuff I can reference if I just sat down and did episode after episode after episode of Pacifist I'm not sure they'd be as good You know, but I do want to get them all out Once I've gone through all the footage that I have and I've gone through and made jokes about all the cutscenes and stuff I will still make Pacifist episodes, but they'll be very very different They will be an analysis like hey, so these guys on this mission I was not able to to avoid killing the first time round. Here's a new strategy or new things that I've tried to try to achieve Skipping them and the more that I learned about the game more strategies that I learned one thing that's gonna be very interesting to test is Potential despawning mechanics using the buffered ledge grab |
| 23. January 2021 | My plans after no damage runs. | My plans after no damage runs When am I going back to normal speedrunning? It is debasable whether that will be after I finish Oko or after I finish, finish Pacifist because there is definitely an advantage to Not doing all of Pacifist all in one go in terms of releasing the videos because the jokes I will make will be different as in like every month. I experience a month of new things. There's a new Meta of content. There's a there's a there's new jokes being had. There's new Topical stuff I can reference if I just sat down and did episode after episode after episode of Pacifist I'm not sure they'd be as good You know, but I do want to get them all out Once I've gone through all the footage that I have and I've gone through and made jokes about all the cutscenes and stuff I will still make Pacifist episodes, but they'll be very very different They will be an analysis like hey, so these guys on this mission I was not able to to avoid killing the first time round. Here's a new strategy or new things that I've tried to try to achieve Skipping them and the more that I learned about the game more strategies that I learned one thing that's gonna be very interesting to test is Potential despawning mechanics using the buffered ledge grab |
| 27. April 2022 | My plans for when pacifist% ends. | My plans for when Pasifist percent ends. I really want to do director's commentary for Pasifist to explain all the tiny details that people probably wouldn't recognize. But it's an interesting question, how much I remember after all this time. Like, did you notice my emotional damage meme was a little bit higher quality than the regular one? When he said emotional damage, it actually cuts off the G and the E of damage. Emotional damage. So it never sounds exactly perfect. What I did was I got another instance of him saying damage and I spliced that in and then reduced the speed to like 95% so that I could have that extra damage on the end. Emotional damage. Like tiny details like that everywhere. You love when I just use damage without emotion? Yes, me too. I thought it was such a good setup. I felt like just using emotional damage by itself was fitting but a little bit lazy as a joke. But then using damage, it like, people didn't expect it. So I made it extra funny. Passin looks like an absolute soul crusher. Great content. Yeah, it was hard to do and even harder to edit. I was actually saying that to Josh yesterday, he was like, he was doing a review of a game that takes like a hundred hours to do or something. And I'm like, the hardest part is not playing the game for a hundred hours, it's editing that hundred hours of footage. As I said at the end, it could have gotten 10 views and I still would have felt very proud of what I created. I think that video is hilarious and potentially one of the greatest things I've ever made. If you had seen the original footage, I think you, like people would appreciate it even more because that it came out as well as it did in terms of how you can understand what's going on. It flows well, there's a natural progression. Everything included has like something of importance that's being explained. Things linger, but not so long that you get bored, but you understand how much effort went into it. There was many points in the editing process where I was just like, I have no fucking idea how I'm gonna solve this problem. And I solved them all. I'm not sure I will ever have the time, but it would be a lovely experience to be able to remake the entire series, go back and give the early episodes a new coat of paint. I probably wouldn't wanna remove them because they're still, they're good videos, but I just know because I know so much more about editing and the creative process and all that jazz, I could make those videos so much better. |
| 14. February 2021 | My pogchamp is actually pretty good | My PogChamp is actually pretty good. For those unaware, Twitch showcased a different possible replacement for the PogChamp emote every day for 35 days. Like, when I first saw my PogChamp, I... I'm like, okay, maybe there are better PogChamps out there. But the more that get released that seem so mediocre, I actually think my PogChamp is probably better than......better than average at the very least. Like, my PogChamp is good, but it's not better than the original, right? I have had some good PogChamps, though. You can look through my footage and maybe find a better one. Where does the Viper Champ come from? I don't know. It was made like five years ago or something. Hearing the original context for PogChamp was surprising to me. Where he was just surprised that the dude hit the camera. I thought something really epic had happened or something, but nope. My PogChamp was a genuine reaction or something. I just can't remember what it was. |
| 23. July 2022 | My pokemon memorization video | My Pokemon memorization video. Did you guys like my Pokemon video? Very off-brand I think. How many of the kids today even know a regional 131 Pokemon? I can't believe I didn't get Poliwhirl and Poliwrath. There were a handful at the end where I was like, oh, of course What? |
| 19. December 2019 | My policy for who I follow on social media | My policy for who I follow on social media, I keep my social medias very cut down. Like if I'm not interested in hearing what you have to say, I'm not following you. You find people all the time that are following like 10,000 fucking people on all their social medias. I'm not that way. And that's probably a dumb thing because, you know, people think, oh, he's following me or whatever. So that means we're connected and, you know, we're friends and shit. And I'm just like, I just don't care, man. It's always an awkward thing where a person's like, oh, you don't follow me on Twitter. I'm like, I just, I just don't care what you have to say, man. Like, I'm not going to say that, but I don't, you know. It's not an offensive thing. It's only a select amount of stuff I like to see on Twitter. And I'm so annoyed at how Twitter works now because I constantly see messages from, hey, these people you follow, follow this person and they said something. So you probably want to see it too. It's like, no, I just want to see what the tiny amount of people that I follow are saying. You know, if video game donkey says something mildly amusing, I want to see that immediately. I don't want to see like 50 things that other people have said. Gus Johnson makes a slightly amusing tweet. Put that shit at the top. |
| 30. May 2020 | My political ideology | What is my political ideology? The only thing that I use to describe myself as social democrat, and even that I don't really think is very useful to describe myself as. I've gone backwards and forwards on the idea of our political labels and how valuable they really are. Because people like a banner that they can flock around, an easy way to communicate a lot of complicated topics at the same time, but so many political labels contain with them so much baggage for so many different audiences, or mean completely different things for so many different people, that describing yourself as anything is annoying, and is likely going to lead to at least some level of confusion that you will have to pass out or you'll have to explain yourself fully to the extent where in any conversation where it really matters what your positions are, you should just be describing what your positions are on different issues. I prefer someone just saying, what's your position on this? And I describe my position on that as opposed to someone saying, what is your complete package? But I call myself a social democrat because I was reading a textbook at some point for, I can't remember the context, but I was reading it and I was reading the description and then it came down and said, and this is what social democracy is. And I was like, oh, I was nodding my head through the entire page. Oh yeah, this is me. It's me. Yeah, it's me too. Yeah. Yeah, that's me. Oh, all right. That's a fair word to use to describe myself then. |
| 16. February 2021 | My posture, playing style, and handwriting are weird | My posture, playing style, and handwriting are all weird. Ah, my back. The way that I play my posture and stuff is terrible. I play with my keyboard at an angle. In the same way that back in the day I wish I had corrected the way that I handwrite, these days I wish I corrected my posture and the way that I use keyboard and mouse. Although certainly the way that I handwrite now is completely meaningless. For a long time it was such a detriment. Basically I can't show you obviously how I hold my pen, but when I was very young, the way that I held it made it so that I could write far better than anyone else in my class. And so I wouldn't change because changing made things harder and put me in line with everyone else. But as I grew older, the way that you normally held a pencil or pen increases your ease at which you write without putting pressure on your hand and stuff, but the way that I held it was less efficient. So over time it became harder and harder to keep up with everyone else in their writing. I could write very quickly, but my writing looked terrible and eventually it would hurt my hand. But thankfully these days everything is digital, everything is typing and shit, and my typing is good. My typing is also weird though. I don't use a normal system for typing either. I use I think seven fingers, seven or eight, but I type consistently at 70-80 words per minute which is good. I type even fast when I'm typing stuff from my head as opposed to typing something that is never my writing style. |
| 30. July 2020 | My psychology degree | My psychology degree. Do your studies? Seems like you might enjoy it. If not, I did a psych degree. I did enjoy it to some extent, except there was at least three times throughout the degree that I felt really overwhelmed. A team exercise where I thought we'd screwed things up and end up being very rude to my team. And we ended up getting an okay grade and I thought it was just terrible, but I had higher expectations apparently than the teacher did. I don't know. I did well in everything, but there was another assessment where I went off in a particular direction and it wasn't exactly... I eventually realized that there wasn't exactly the way we were meant to take it and so I spent a lot of time learning something that I wasn't really intended to learn. I was like, oh shit, I had partitioned my time well and now I've wasted so much time and I have to rush into this other direction and I felt very overwhelmed there. But I found when I was younger, I got very worked up over tests, like I would be anxious in tests and stuff. In university I wasn't really. I kind of just had this attitude like, well, almost over. Once I'm done with this test, who cares? I know what I know and I don't... I'll just answer as best as I can. There's nothing more than I can do. There's no point worrying. And telling myself that, I never walked into a test concerned. I studied somewhat for my test, but it might also be because before the test, I'd usually already passed in the sense that as long as I got like 50% or something, I was going to pass the UNIS because the essays I did well. I can't think of a test that I was super concerned about because the test was never worth... it was usually worth like 40% or something. But I mean, if you've done everything else very well, you're either passing... you'd need a terrible mark to pass basically. So I at least had that in the back of my mind as well. But I obviously wasn't an A student in university because I never wanted to push myself or... to get that top grade, like 95% or something, you'd have to really stress, really push yourself, have to be all that you do. I mean, I was streaming during this time when I was studying. I think I averaged like an 80 or something. But like I always did better than average in terms of the class and stuff. I got first in my class exactly once, chat, exactly once. It was a class of like 25 people and it was Australian Politics 100 or something. A shitty elective that I took because I needed one more elective. I got Australian Politics, you beauty. Am I an introvert? Am I more introverted than most people? I don't know. Like, because you'd expect a lot of Twitch streamers to be at least somewhat introverted. I've heard people talk before that extroversion is what you might expect, but I guess I use myself as the baseline. So I expect people to be more like me. But maybe most people are extroverted. But I would think if you were extroverted, though, you wouldn't be able to spend the time, enough time streaming to become successful. Like, how could an extroverted person who likes going out and is energized by going out and being around other people... I suppose maybe such a person would treat streaming as going out. Like, being around people as in streaming people would be to them as exhilarating as being at a party or something. It depends on your type of content. I imagine variety streaming and stuff is a little bit different. Of course, there's always going to be in-reel livestreamers. For someone who doesn't get people, you're really good at introducing yourself and making general conversation given the previous in-reel livestreams. It's a little bit different when people come to talk to me and I fully am aware that they want to talk to me. It's almost like I could say anything and it would be meeting a person's expectations. It's also why it's good when I meet people and they know who I am to some extent. It's almost like I can think that they probably want to talk to me given that I have somewhat of a following. For that reason alone, I'm like, well, you know, this person may not consider talking to me a waste of their time. Or I might not be annoying them or whatever. There are people out there who consider themselves amazing. They're the best person in the world. They have delusions of grandeur. They talk to anyone and they automatically assume that the other person just feels amazing speaking to them. People who think the sun shines out their arse, as they say. I kind of wish I had a little bit of this. I always have the expectation that I'm just annoying people. And I know that's not the case. I have, I would say, irrational predispositions in regards to others. I know it's not possible that every person I speak to is not necessarily interested in speaking to me. Or that I'm annoying every single person that I contact. But it makes me reserved in a way when meeting new people that it almost becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If there's someone who seems awkward, standoffish, and is less engaged with you, you probably wouldn't want to talk to that person, knowing that it's not the case is half the battle. See, the worst thing though is when you have these... Imagine you always think people are on your front lawn or something. And 99 times it's completely delusional. But the 100th time you see someone standing on your lawn and you're like, See, they were on my fucking lawn. This is a bad example. But what I'm saying is, the vast majority of the cases, it's just all in my head. But whenever there is that one moment where my negative self-perceptions turn out to be true, or someone does turn out to hate me or not like me or just not want to be around me, it almost vindicates all the other irrational thoughts. It shouldn't, but it does. |
| 30. July 2020 | My purpose in life | First topic, my purpose in life. What is your purpose in life? I just want to leave the world not being a nuisance to people. I want to come away from it with a positive perception of myself. They say be the person you want to be perceived as. I want to be perceived as a good person so I try to do good things. I try to positively impact people. I don't always succeed but if I do something where I feel like I've negatively impacted people I try to make amends. I don't like the... I don't want people to negatively impact me so I don't try to negatively impact other people. |
| 22. July 2022 | My quest for slurpees aka slushies | My quest for Slurpees, aka Slushies. I've been endeavoring to find myself a store that will deliver Slurpees to me. The only company that does is McDonald's, but they're not very good Slurpees. The Slurpees that I used to have at Skate 2000 as a kid were the greatest things ever, and the closest thing to those Slurpees are the ones that are given at like, 7-Eleven service stations and stuff, you know, you buy them for like a dollar. I love those things, but I don't want to drive just to get a Slurpee every single time. Like, who's driving 20 minutes for a Slurpee, is what I'm saying. Oh, Slushies. If you don't know what Slurpees are, they're Slushies. Frozen Cokes, but not really frozen. But there are no stores that will just give me a Slushie. I went to buy myself a machine that makes Slurpees. They cost like, well over a thousand dollars, just for a simple one. I don't mean shaved ice machines that you put flavoring on. That's not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for an actual Slurpee, where it's a continuous mixing of the ice and the substance for the perfect texture. But the main reason I don't want to get one is not the price, surprisingly. It's that I'm too lazy to clean them, because they get very dirty, very quickly. Then you gotta put in all the materials and stuff, and ah, it's just awful. I would much rather just be able to get them delivered, but I can't, and it makes me sad. I wonder if I could work that out with some cleaning service. I'm like, you come by every month, clean my house, and make sure you clean my Slurpee machine. Clearly, I should just buy a house that's next to a 7-Eleven. There's nothing wrong with this plan, except the money to buy a house. Hire an assistant? I have thought before about doing that, but then I think to myself, like, I don't need that much stuff very often. I do have DoorDash, but I don't have a store that sells Slurpees. That's the problem. DoorDash, UberEats, they don't have it. I'm like, why? Does no one else want Slurpees from the petrol station? |
| 06. August 2020 | My quest to play Ghost Of Tsushima | My quest to play Ghosts of Tsushima. I made mistakes chat so many mistakes basically, I Woke up and I realized that Ghosts of Shahima to Seema to you know, I'm saying that ghost samurai game It's coming out in two days and I was like, ah shit It's not gonna be a simple matter of downloading it for my PlayStation 4 I'm gonna have to go get another capture car because I do have a capture car, but I'm using it for my camera So I have two identical capture cards in my PC Which I wasn't 100% certain I could use two at once but I can so that's good Looked up where to get it went to EB Games wasn't open because I woke up too early had to sit around for an hour Waiting for it to open. I'm like at my house and in the car and then just you know, waiting waiting in general got myself a Portos Because they were there and they were open and I was hungry and finally EB Games open and they didn't have it Apparently they don't have the the one that I want and I was like, ah shit So I had to drive all the way to another fucking store that only had one left but I had like a triple bondai burger or something and then for whatever fucking reason whatever fucking reason I bought myself like a strawberry thick shake as well from from some just random store and Eating that shit. I feel terrible right now fucking terrible, but I got my capture card at the very least but I've been sitting around for like the last two hours just being like Not sure what was in that fucking drink but isn't sitting well with me and I was so I was at EB Games right and I'm having it sitting in the queue behind one person like 10 minutes and then I was like Oh, is that the thing that I couldn't find the capture card in EB Games like oh Is that the thing that I want and so I walk over to check something on the wall? I'm like, oh no, that's not it. And then I walk back and some motherfucker has taken my spot in the line that guy knew I'd been standing in the line for like 10 fucking minutes and he moves up and takes my spot as I come back I'm fortunate that the the guy who ran the place was like, oh, yeah, and he points to me He's like, I think he was next mate. I'm just like, thank you, dude. Didn't say out loud Thank you, dude, cuz that would be weird. But in turn, I was like fucking thank you I don't have to wait in line for another 10 fucking minutes. Yes. I've bought ghosts of ghost of it's just one ghost ghost of Toshima cost $99 and 95 cents Australian which is like 60 US and so it's downloading on my PlayStation right now and I will play it Not tomorrow for the next day. I I guess it doesn't release the 17th for me I think it releases 17th for Americans. I never know but I hope it's good. It looks good. I have a good opinion of skill up and his reviews and I watched like the first two minutes and he was like This is an amazing game, but then I saw some random fuck on Twitter say it's a repetitive mess Fuck that Twitter guy. I'm sure we'll see if skill ups right there. You've heard the game feels like red evident from 2 Don't tell me that shit. Do not tell me that shit. You |
| 10. August 2022 | My rambles titles are going to change. | My Rambles titles are going to change. So I found out a lot of people will click on to the Rambles videos and then just pick particular topics that look interesting and then click off the video. I was unaware this was happening or at the very least I assumed that this would be a tiny tiny man appeal but a lot of people said this was the case. And so now I realize in the same way that I have to think of somewhat sensational titles for videos I've got to think of somewhat sensational titles for Inside the Rambles because it can be a great topic but people look at the title of the topic and go oh that doesn't look interesting and not watch it. Like I'm thinking over the years of all the cool insightful things or interesting stories that have been in Rambles but the topics were like Barry and that's it. Because it just meant to be like a little blurb to give you some taste of what's about to come up not necessarily suck you into the topic. In the future the Rambles titles internally in the video are gonna be a little bit more interesting you could say. |
| 10. July 2021 | My reaction to viewers giving me links to funny videos. | My reaction after watching a bunch of videos linked to me by my viewers. You guys make me feel funny. Thank you. Never have I thought, man, I should be in the position that I'm in more than when you guys show me what you guys think is funny. Or like, you're showing me what meets your threshold of funny. Because if that stuff meets your threshold for funny, then I'm like, like, beyond that threshold by orders of magnitude. That was our secret intention, of course. |
| 10. November 2021 | My reaction when I first heard mixer was shutting down. | My reaction when I first heard that Mixer, Microsoft's competing streaming service, was shutting down June 2020. You guys hear? Mixer's dead. I'm surprised. Because they pumped so much money into the beginning of that platform. Didn't we say it's only been like a year or something since Strata Ninja went? It's just insane to me that they would pump so much money into a platform that they had no interest in building further. Because they just bought Ninja and Strata and did like next to nothing else. And I heard that Mixer was on like a skeleton crew, which is suggestive that this is coming down the line. But apparently people were still surprised. Streamers and the people who work there. I think I heard that Mixer had like 30% plus of all the streamers who streams between, you know, Facebook, gaming, Mixer, YouTube and Twitch. But they only had like 2% of the viewership. Like the platform was extraordinarily streamer heavy by comparison to the amount of viewers that were on it. And the lack of growth that Mixer saw, especially during the lockdown period, they must just believe there's nothing more that can be done. Well, we bought the big streamers. I guess that's the end of it. I guess they had a choice. They either thought, well, we either have to invest a lot more money in or cut our losses. And I guess cutting our losses just seemed better for them. Especially because they must know. Like we don't know Shrad and Ninja's contracts. Maybe it was only for two years, those contracts. Maybe like what we've already squandered 50% of the time we had with these people. And we can't save this ship in the next year, so fuck it. |
| 10. November 2021 | My reaction when i first heard mixer was shutting down. | My reaction when I first heard that Mixer, Microsoft's competing streaming service, was shutting down June 2020. You guys hear? Mixer's dead. I'm surprised. Because they pumped so much money into the beginning of that platform. Didn't we say it's only been like a year or something since Strata Ninja went? It's just insane to me that they would pump so much money into a platform that they had no interest in building further. Because they just bought Ninja and Strata and did like next to nothing else. And I heard that Mixer was on like a skeleton crew, which is suggestive that this is coming down the line. But apparently people were still surprised. Streamers and the people who work there. I think I heard that Mixer had like 30% plus of all the streamers who streams between, you know, Facebook, gaming, Mixer, YouTube and Twitch. But they only had like 2% of the viewership. Like the platform was extraordinarily streamer heavy by comparison to the amount of viewers that were on it. And the lack of growth that Mixer saw, especially during the lockdown period, they must just believe there's nothing more that can be done. Well, we bought the big streamers. I guess that's the end of it. I guess they had a choice. They either thought, well, we either have to invest a lot more money in or cut our losses. And I guess cutting our losses just seemed better for them. Especially because they must know. Like we don't know Shrad and Ninja's contracts. Maybe it was only for two years those contracts. Maybe like, well, we've already squandered 50% of the time we had with these people. And we can't save their ship in the next year, so fuck it. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 08. April 2021 | My realness being a problem for GTA 5 roleplay. | My realness being a problem for GTA roleplay like how much improv is in RP like let's say like I don't know the cops roll up on me and I Throw an idea at the cop that I'm undercover. Will he just like roll with it or The things have to be established beforehand depends on the story in the cup I'm getting nervous just thinking about doing RP guys. I don't want to brag but I'm the realest motherfucker up here in this bitch So I say I have a I have a problem acting fake. That's why I Wouldn't be very good with RP From the little RP that I've seen it does seem as though there are different degrees in which people take it seriously as in some people play it as though like They're basically themselves But they act like everything in the RP world is real and matters, you know And then there's other people have entirely different personas kind of thing for the memes though Clearly I should have myself or my character would ever be in witness protection I Will question like oh, so are you really in witness protection? I'll be like, oh, you know, it's kind of the kind of the baby It's it's like sorta kind of like informal, but like it's it's kinda, you know |
| 18. December 2021 | My recent failed attempt at socializing | My recent failed attempt at socializing. What happened yesterday was, got all dressed up, got an Uber to the city, took an hour, and then I went to this place. It was a small event. I expected like other creators to be there and stuff, but it was more like a bunch of industry people and whatnot. I recognized no one. I did my little thing where walk up to a stranger, talk to them about stuff and and it was an okay conversation, but not particularly stimulating or whatever. And I'm like, that's- that's my- I'm done. Like I talk to- whenever I go to a place where I don't know anyone, I've got one in me. Find random stranger or group of people, introduce myself, talk to them for a bit, and that's that. I'm done. Because I hate talking to strangers, but it's one of those things where you can meet interesting people, you got to put yourself out there a little bit, whatever. But this is why I don't like going to places where I don't know anyone, because when you know someone, you can meet people through that person, or like if you don't hit it off with some random stranger you're talking to, you should go back to the people that you know. But yeah, I didn't have that. And it sucks because I had a plus one to this event, but I had no one to take because I don't fucking know anyone, you know. It was meant to be like food that they were gonna be giving me, but like they gave me like one quarter of like a subway thing. Like it wasn't an actual subway thing, it was just like a quarter of a roll. Like it was just meant to be like finger food stuff. And I was just like, well, this isn't particularly good. I left like after an hour because it was just terrible. Ended up going to the Star Casino and losing a couple of hundred bucks. But it was nice seeing how the Star looks after all this time. I haven't gambled like a virginian years and playing it, I was like, this isn't as fun as I remember it being. Fun, but doesn't come close to the satisfaction I have from live streaming and making YouTube videos, you know. Not even close and which was good to experience because now I don't feel the necessity to gamble again, you know. Why an Uber? Oh, cuz whenever I want to drink or potentially drink or might go somewhere or go out after an event or whatever, I mean it's better I don't have my car. I mean, that's what drinking does. It makes you less able to make correct choices or whatever and I wouldn't want to risk myself driving home or something. Or having to do with the hassle of getting my car if I got an Uber elsewhere. |
| 11. June 2021 | My relationship with my sister | No. My relationship with my sister. Has my sister studied German? A bit, I believe. I think what my sister did was, uh, she taught and still does teach kids English. Or something. I don't know. She has some teaching degree and I- I don't know. Uh, my sister is older than me. By, uh, more than two years. Why do I have no idea what my sister does? Ah, she's been away for a long time and, uh, she changes things, she's sporadic, she moves different places, she does different things. She's been that way her entire life. Half doing some things, uh, finishing them ages later. You have a better chance of predicting the weather than you do, my sister. I am the polar opposite by comparison. I am a person who, uh, likes structure. Um, things that are predictable. I love her, but we are very, very different people. But despite our differences, there is no doubt in my mind that my sister will always have, uh, the best intentions for me and will always support me, whatever I do. And, uh, I feel the same way with her. And that's, uh, something I treasure. Does my family watch my content? No, and I specifically told them not to. As I say, I may have done very poorly in life in regards to friends, in regards to romantic relationships, but I, uh, have done well with my family. As small as it is. |
| 22. December 2020 | My repeating the same rambles. | My, we're piecing the same rambles. How do you deal with acid reflux? Don't eat really greasy fatty foods. Elevate your bed, like a little bit on one side, like at the head area or whatever. Have a lot of acid reflux tablets. That's all I do. Although I do eat a lot of greasy foods still. Yeah, don't eat or sleep. Cures everything. I swear you've answered that question before. If you look up my rambles and search for a word, you will generally find multiple entries for any word that you search up because I speak on things many different times and they end up in different rambles anyway. I don't usually bother removing topics that I've spoken on before, especially because like my opinion can change over the course of a week or two. Or a person might be watching that ramble for the first time and not heard me speak on that topic. Or I might just present my views in a better way the second time around. I do think it must be frustrating for people who watch every ramble though when they're like, oh, Matt's talking about this topic again. Oh, fucking hell. I hope those people will just skip over that part if they don't want to hear me talk about it again, you know. |
| 07. August 2021 | My review of Doki Doki literature club | My review of Doki Doki Literature Club Doki Doki Literature Club |
| 24. May 2022 | My review of Elden Ring | What do I think about this game? Um, it wasn't a Souls game made for someone like me. I have preferred all other Souls games over this game, even though I think this game is great. Like, I think this is a masterpiece. It's just not- the aspects that they accentuated were not the ones that I enjoy in Souls games. Like, there's never been a point in my entire life where I've given two shits about crafting. Yet I found 7,000 crafting materials and no other items. And so people who like crafting, they're like, yeah, that's great, and it looks like a good crafting system. I should have no interest in it. It is not bad, merely something I do not prefer. I'll be real with you, the open world aspects of this game are the most annoying. No, I'm saying it's bad, I'm saying it's not my kind of thing. Like, if you just reorganized Elden Ring into a boss after boss after boss, I'd enjoy it more. I'm perfectly happy to kill stuff mindlessly, but it needs to be some kind of reason for it. Get off this horse, please. I pressed X, okay. Everything I've done so far in the game has given me exactly zero reward, and it has become kind of frustrating. Even when I've found secrets, what I've gotten from the secrets has been completely not usable, or of no value. So the crafting mechanics annoy me in this game, because I don't understand all the things that I'm picking up, and it all seems fairly pointless. I can't feel any sense of reward finding anything, because I don't understand what the fuck I'm finding. Previous Souls games had weapons, shields, rings, all this jazz, and you found it exciting when you got them, because it's a new thing. And you got keys, and it's like, well, I got a key, so this will lead somewhere. I've picked up 400 items since starting, I have no idea what any of them do, and I don't really care. I'd say, just a game made for people who aren't me. Unlike Red Dead, which I thought the things that I didn't like in it were legitimate flaws, I don't think these things are flaws with this game, I just don't like them. It makes it very hard to try, because I know I'm not going to get anything out of what I'm trying. It's just going to be a pointless waste of my time. I hope I'm drawing Elden Ring in some way. I've enjoyed every boss fight that I've found, and I've hated every single other aspect of the game thus far. You understand how you can find this game fun? So this game has many different things in it that appeal to many different people. Me, I love one-on-one boss battles where you slowly get better and learn a dance, then you beat the boss. Elden Ring compared to the other Souls games is just a fuck ton of stuff that I do not care about. Again, not saying it's bad, just not for me. My goal in Souls games is to find the hardest thing, give myself as much difficulty as possible, and then beat that thing. That is all I do in Souls games. I am naked with a club, and this is the best thing that Souls games have to offer. All I want is for all the odds to be stacked against me and to still win. That's all I care about. I specifically make things harder for myself. I do not care about your advice. You can shove your advice up your ass. The point is for this to be as difficult as possible, not for me to go get things that makes it easier. I still don't know where the tutorial is. I don't care. For the last time, I know you can go past this person, you can get yourself a horse, you can become stronger. I know you can get more flasks by changing the thing. I don't care. I want this to be as difficult as humanly possible. I want to be just my starting items, and I want to win. Beating a Dark Souls game is not about beating the boss, because if you just want to beat the bosses, you can just get some cheap shit build and just one hit everyone or whatever. Or you can just farm for 10,000 years. That's not the point. The point of Souls is to find the biggest, baddest thing and beat him with the very bare minimum of what you have. That's for me anyway. I mean, people can play Souls however they want. I don't feel like I've beaten the boss until I'm a massive underdog when versing him. Yeah, I've beaten every Souls game. I even speedrun Dark Souls 3. That's why I'm trying to go into this and make it as hard as possible. Obviously if I just played it normally, it'd be easy. Well, easier obviously, not interesting. I try and handicap myself whenever possible. I'm not so level one kind of good, but I don't pick OP builds. I try to make myself a glass cannon as much as possible as well. But I am glass right now, but without the cannon. Do I recommend this game to others? Yeah. The game is as hard as you want it to be. Elden Ring has far more options available to make things easier than other Dark Souls. But certainly you have to enjoy open world stuff and have patience. Why do they make these highly skill-sealing games and then leave things in that lets you cheese everything? Isn't the point that it's supposed to be hard? I think it's nice to have a game that is as hard as you want it to be. This game is difficult and will be difficult for everyone. It's just difficulty that can be overcome by persistence of different varieties. I'm not bad, Jimmy. I just am naked with a club. Like people legit come in here with like the best armor in the game and 17 summons and they're like, oh, I beat him easy, bro. If you didn't beat this guy naked with a club, you suck. What's fun about limiting yourself and getting destroyed time after time for hours? What's fun about making yourself so strong that you want to hit a boss? The enjoyment is from overcoming a difficult challenge, not making that challenge easier so you can overcome it. Is my opinion? Oh, it is my opinion. I'm like you've enjoyed the game however you want. I'm not saying you have to enjoy the way I enjoy them, you know. Game looks fun, but might be too intense to me. Ah, I'm playing it with like the lowest level of gear and stuff you can possibly have. If you want something more to watch, check out my video linked down below about the harm of reaction content. It looks at the topic from every angle with some data thrown in and it is arguably the best video I've ever made. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 01. March 2022 | My righteous fury | the kind of degree that you need for GTA Gessa. I do appreciate him stopping by regardless though. My Righteous Fury. I dislike how blinded I became to my dislike of React content that I was willing to malign him in that way. Because Critical- Because I've watched- Well, over the years I've watched Critical's content to varying degrees. And, uh, you guys know me, that kind of Righteous Fury is a thing that comes over me sometimes. It's just- This is just- |
| 18. July 2022 | My saints row video finally released. | My Saints Row video finally released. So Saints Row released today chat on my YouTube channel because where else would it release? It's pretty good. A lot of effort clearly went into that on the part of Ayn. I didn't edit myself and it took like six plus months to do in part because the timeline was amazingly glitchy and terrible. It was one of the reasons I didn't look over it in the Adobe timeline for releasing it. There was a few things I probably would have changed if I could have made the timeline work but I was just like, ah, this is fine. That thumbnail was fine, good, because it took a long time poking and changing it ever so slightly. I was very concerned that my head wasn't gonna look okay on the body, but it was good. When did I stream Saints Row? Six months ago. I have considered ditching speed running altogether and just playing through all the GTA clones and all the games that I wanted to play on the list of games. But like speed running content is a lot easier to make. It takes far less time. Like looking at this Saints Row video, it doesn't look like it's doing crazy numbers. It's not doing terribly, but I play the new Saints Row perhaps. Let's see how Saints Row is doing. It's doing under GTA 1 numbers. That's terrible. That video is edited so good. It's got such good footage in it. Might be a slow burn though. Because with the videos that are three hours long, it sometimes takes them time to be able to watch them. Because if it's a three hour video that people will actually click on and watch for a long time, then the algorithm will always keep pushing that out. Often people will like look at a long video and be like, I'll leave that until I have time. I'll come back to it this weekend or something. You're always going to watch that one later, haven't had time. Exactly. Not as much people interest in the game maybe. I doubt that. You watched my entire Super Auto Pets video, such a great video. That's nice. Thank you, dude. And yeah, the Super Auto Pets video got like good numbers. It's got like almost 100K. For a video that's 20 hours long, that's pretty good. And so many comments were like, man, I watched like three hours of your video and now I have like 20 hours in the game. |
| 23. July 2022 | My scrapped idea for an endurance challenge | No? My scrapped idea for an endurance challenge. Record yourself saying tomato for an hour boom content. I considered doing a video where I listened to an Agatha's phone call for 10 hours. Just for meme. And I was like, no one's gonna watch that shit. Those kind of endurance things are not nearly as much of a generator of promotion as they used to. |
| 31. July 2022 | My second successful main channel short. | My second successful main channel shorts. So there have been two massively game breaking glitches for GTA V and I made a short about them both and they're both on their way to getting a million views. Well, this one did get a million views. So this got, you know, 1.1 million views, 121K likes. So one thing I learned is shorts, they don't allow you to have custom thumbnails anywhere where it's actually relevant. You've started seeing shorts in my subscription feed, might be worth starting to add thumbnails. No, I mean, you literally can't. So see here, this short has a custom thumbnail, but it just doesn't show. I don't know why they're doing it this way. Maybe they want to make it so it's impossible for you to obscure that it is a short. What these shorts have basically done is they've jumped me a lot further ahead than I would have been otherwise in terms of getting to a million subs. So it was going to take me like another month, month and a half or something to get to a million subs, but I'm now like 7K away or whatever. As I've said many times in many places, shorts do not pay money. What pays money is 16 by nine clips over 30 seconds. Cause you do not get pre-roll ads on shorts or anything under 30 seconds. Yeah, so happy these both went well, but I have no idea what I'm going to do next. These two glitches were like a once in five years sort of thing and may not happen again. I don't know what other shorts I could possibly make. If I really focused on making them, sure, maybe I could have some other successes, but just doesn't seem worth it. Considering again that the algorithm for shorts is separate from the algorithm for main channel stuff. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 26. August 2021 | My secret technique to get world records | My secret technique to get world records. I'll use my secret technique. I'll take off my socks. Guaranteed world record right now. He's getting serious. He's taking off the socks. |
| 13. January 2023 | My secret to avoid burnout. | My secret to avoid burnouts Deergear asks, do you ever get burnt out and if you do what's your solution? My energy levels in general are so intermittent that I will have Distinct periods of say like a week or something where I won't have energy to do the things that I want to do and so almost Like physically I am unable to so continuously work at one thing That I can get burnt out. I suppose like right now. I'm gonna do speed runs I want to do chaos, but I can't because I don't have the energy to do it And when I finally get energy that I'll do speed runs and chaos and then eventually I'll run out of energy Then I'll have to stop and maybe that's just a natural way that I avoid burnout I'm not sure but last night actually previous three nights I woke up two to three times during my eight hours of sleep and so it made the sleep very ineffective for Refreshing me. It's quite annoying. I'm not sure what to do about that I've been putting my audiobook on and then putting like a sleep timer on so like I will fall asleep listening to my audiobook But it seems to have me not sleep as well I'm not sure I'll leave it on like a 30 minute timer and I might fall asleep after five minutes Maybe having that audio for 25 minutes is disrupting my sleep I don't know because I've got tinnitus now remember, so I'm trying to figure out ways to deal with that Hmm while I'm trying to sleep? |
| 18. August 2022 | My short time being famous in CS:GO skin scene. | My short time being famous in the CSGO skin scene. Some of you may have seen this video. I changed the name a few times but it's currently called the most calm knife unboxing ever. Because someone in the chat, someone in the comments suggested for me to name it that. Yes! Nice! Oh wait I'm reacting chat. Oh my god he got the knife! Oh my god! There you go chat. I spent 400 Australian dollars opening 101 CSGO cases on a whim. Pretty stupid. I got nothing of value, except this knife worth 2000 dollars. I now possess a rare digital item in a video game I don't play. I will cherish it forever and I will never open another case again. Joshua Boy broke down the actual numbers. These are all the things that I got. This is going off like the Steam marketplace values which are a little bit wrong. Or I'm having a lot wrong. I don't know. Like I got nothing of value. I bought 84 dollars worth of cases. I got 477 dollars worth of keys. And I got nothing. Like nothing of value. Except the knife. Gross profit 1546. Net profit 984 dollars. So I have never opened cases before. The reason why I did is because of this dude. Hi! I'm Azuz. He's Azuz. I don't know why YouTube did it but it recommended me a bunch of these videos. Maybe because I watch ClicksPhilip. This dude has a bunch of videos about CSGO skins and most interesting to me is the long history of people running scams, exploiting people, all the gambling and garbage associated with these digital items. It's kind of funny how many scandals have been involved in CSGO all because of these digital assets. How much money laundering and all that jazz that has occurred. And so after watching like every video that this Azuz guy has released, I'm like I want to open some cases. I've never opened cases before and I want to see if I can like get a knife and then leave it in my inventory and see how much money it's worth in like five years or something. I don't spend money on many things and I thought this was something that I'd rather do than actually do my work because I was feeling a bit blue and I did not want to do any work that day. And so I just sat recording myself opening cases and I ended up getting a knife and now that I have a knife and I'm technically in the green in profit, I'm never opening another case because do not open cases to win money chat. You get a 60% return on the amount of money you put in. It is gambling, but technically like a tier above pure degenerate gambling because you technically do get assets out of it, but it is effectively a sucker's game. You will, unless you play CSGO and want to use the skins, you're just going to lose, you know? It's like trading cards. Yeah. It's like in the same way that, you know, opening Pokemon cards or whatever is. Was it fun? Not really. I didn't really enjoy opening the cases at all. Was it a small hit of dopamine when I opened the knife? Yes. And, uh, that's it for me. I'm done. It is funny though, that the only two people that YouTube had been recommending me both responded to my tweet about it. OnyPixel, OnyPixel, I'm sorry, did I pronounce it wrong? My bad. YouTube gave me a bunch of videos of him looking at people's inventories and being like, wow, man, you have a hundred K worth of skins. That's a lot of money to have in skins and talking about how all the where values and stuff work. And then again, uh, Jesus, the guy I was talking about for whose videos are like binge watched for the last week. But it's just weird that people could make a living making videos about skins in a video game, hundreds upon hundreds of videos. I have 22 hours in CS- |
| 11. September 2022 | My shorts take far longer to make than you think | Shorts take far longer to make than you might think. I had a person leave a comment where they were like, man, it probably only takes like half an hour to make one of these shorts. And I just like, it bothers me that, as I always keep saying that people have no idea how long it takes to make a YouTube video. Like, this may be one piece of footage, but it's like, you know, 15 meticulous cuts with perfectly placed captions on top of it. And then I have to like track everything in every single one of these fucking little scenes. Just so they fit, just so. And this is one of the easy ones, right? And then I got to like perfectly fit the music into it. So like it goes seamless. And like I have to do with every single one of these. And like you don't notice how in some scenes I've got like, you know, my face cam on top and sometimes I'll say things that I don't want in the original in the footage. So I'll have to find somewhere online that has the same sound, but find it in a way that blends in with the sound that I already had. So I can edit myself to not be saying things and then change the audio. So it's the original audio without me speaking. Each one of these is meticulously made. I will go to the effort to find the original, original footage that the clip was made from to make sure I have the highest quality footage. And you think, well, that's just insane. You shouldn't go to all that effort. But that's why they're succeeding, chat, because I'm putting more effort in than I did before. The original shorts took no effort because they were just slap it in 9x16. And away you go. The nanosecond that you have to try to convert 16x9 footage into a 9x16 frame, especially when you're working with older footage and audio that's mixed together where the microphone isn't separate from the actual audio, it becomes a major hassle. How many of you noticed in this Red Dead Redemption one that the death scene is flipped? In the actual footage, the death scene goes this way. That doesn't make any sense. And I don't know why this happens in the game. The train is hitting you from this way, but the actual death scene goes this way. And I'm like, that makes no fucking sense. So I fixed it. No one would notice that. But I go to that kind of effort. You can see why I become frustrated that I don't know if I'm doing it for any reason because I'm getting all these views, but I'm not seeing an increase in the views of my actual videos because the algorithm of shorts and long form content are still separate. So I'm putting in all this effort to find all this footage, to create all these things. And my views are just going skyrocketing. I'm getting like 4 million views a day and I'm getting nothing out of it. I put a lot of work chat and I wish I didn't because I could just work on things that actually were more significant. But it could become the case that YouTube will, as they promised to, make it so there's more of a meshing between the algorithms. And if that happens, I'm golden. This will all be worth it. But if it doesn't happen, I'm going to be spending time on this rather than the actual stuff that matters. I'm taking a gamble and I'm afraid chat. Fucking afraid. When I see my more recent long form content not doing particularly well, I am fucking terrified. |
| 07. August 2021 | My sister stole my chocolate so my mother offered me vengeance | My sister stole my chocolate so my mother offered me vengeance. The funniest time my sister taking something from me when I was a kid, I remember... So I didn't like chocolate much as a kid, right? And my mum was so happy when she found some chocolate that I liked. It was these, like, animals of the forest Cadbury chocolate or something. And I had it in the... I got it for Easter and I kept it in the fridge for like months on end. Like every once in a while I would eat like one bar of it. They came in these super thin slices. It was delicious and it still is delicious, right? Yeah, so she stole my chocolates, right? And my mum... I was crying and my mum was so angry at my sister. She said... My mum's like, you can take anything you want from your sister's room and it's yours now. And she didn't really want... have anything that I wanted. But I knew she liked this candle she had that smelled really cool. So I took her candle. My childhood and nature. |
| 07. August 2021 | My sister stole my chocolate so my mother offered me vengence | My sister stole my chocolate so my mother offered me vengeance. The funniest time my sister taking something from me when I was a kid, I remember... So I didn't like chocolate much as a kid, right? And my mum was so happy when she found some chocolate that I liked. It was these, like, animals of the forest Cadbury chocolate or something. And I had it in the... I got it for Easter and I kept it in the fridge for like months on end. Like every once in a while I would eat like one bar of it. They came in these super thin slices. It was delicious and it still is delicious, right? Yeah, so she stole my chocolates, right? And my mum... I was crying and my mum was so angry at my sister. She said... My mum's like, you can take anything you want from your sister's room and it's yours now. And she didn't really want... have anything that I wanted. But I knew she liked this candle she had that smelled really cool. So I took her candle. My childhood and nature. |
| 08. November 2021 | My sister would never give me a chicken nugget | My sister would never give me a chicken nugget. When I would go to McDonald's with my sister when I was a kid, she'd always get chicken nuggets. I'd always ask her for one, but there was only six, so she'd never give me one. But whenever I went, I would never get chicken nuggets myself, because I considered chicken nuggets to be inferior to getting a cheeseburger. What I ultimately wanted, though, was a cheeseburger and one chicken nugget. So I'd always ask my sister if she'd never give me one. My sister, when she did get cheeseburgers, she didn't like the pickle on her burgers. I used to love it when she'd get a burger because she'd give me her pickle. I love those pickles, man. And me don'ts because they're delicious. |
| 24. September 2021 | My sister wouldn't let me read Harry Potter | My sister wouldn't let me read Harry Potter. I remember playing one of the Harry Potter games and I was, oh a couple of them I think, on PlayStation 1. I enjoyed them. I heard they were some of the better movie adaptation games. Maybe that's just when you're a kid or whatever. You know my sister? She read Prisoner of Azkaban like 40 times. Why that one? Because that was the latest one that was out when we were younger. And maybe it was despite me, I don't know. Because my mom was like, oh she'll give it to you when she's finished reading it. Like, mom! She's read 30 times already! I'm like, I'm not finished with it! And eventually my mom would step in and go like, give your brother the book. I was like, nah! I do have a sister. She's in Germany somewhere. Matt, this is why libraries exist. I was a kid, man. When the fuck would I go to a library? I was like 10 years old or some shit. Why don't you at 10 years old drive yourself down to the library? |
| 24. February 2022 | My sisters horrible crime with my Pokemon Red game. | My sister's horrible crime with my Pokemon Red game. Oh dude, you have no idea. My sister, she borrowed my Pokemon Red and she deleted my save file. Like it was my first game of it. I don't know how much, I can't remember how much I finished of it. Or if I finished the game or not, but she deleted it. I was so mad. You have no idea. Even my mother who didn't really understand what my save file meant to me saw how distressed I was and punished my sister for it. |
| 24. February 2022 | My sisters horrible crime with my pokemon red game. | My sister's horrible crime with my Pokemon Red game. Oh dude, you have no idea. My sister, she borrowed my Pokemon Red and she deleted my save file. Like it was my first game of it. I don't know how much, I can't remember how much I finished of it. Or if I finished the game or not, but she deleted it. I was so mad. You have no idea. Even my mother who didn't really understand what my save file meant to me saw how distressed I was and punished my sister for it. |
| 11. December 2020 | My sleeping schedule | My sleeping schedule. Do you maintain a sleep schedule or do you just sleep when you like? What normally ends up happening is I'll get stuck working on something and I'll be like, I'm not going to bed until this is done. And I'll end up going to bed an hour later than I did the previous day. And then that happened again and again and again until I'm going to bed like 7am and then my sleeping pattern is completely screwed and then I have to actively work to get it back to normal. Like right now, yesterday I went to bed at 6pm and I woke up at like 3am today and the next day I hope to move that by about an hour and wake up at 4am and then 5am and so on. It really makes me feel shit for the week or two when I'm doing that, but I don't seem to be able to manage to keep a good sleeping pattern. Whether it be because of, you know, just not willing to stop something and go to bed or drinking too much soft drink, you know. |
| 08. June 2022 | My slight stutter. | My slight stutter Interesting fact for you guys. I had no idea that I had a bit of a stutter No idea like I'm like, yeah sure sometimes when I'm starting to speak I might say a word Doubled or something. Yeah, see you know, everyone does that sometimes right and I was on stream one day and I said this to my viewers and I like yeah, man You know fucking all the time, you know, you're like five times a minute I'm like, what are you talking about? And I listened to my footage and I'm like, holy shit I do do that like all the time. I just never noticed I do it far less these days like over time speaking more and more I Flubbed my words less, but it was quite a thing, you know a couple of years ago I'm currently editing my Doki Doki Literature Club footage more it's and it's more just me cutting out the times I misread something or Flubs my words or waited too long to speak or whatever and there's just so many of them what I do now I think is I pause more like rather than just a mile a minute I pause and then speak Be sure to LIKE and subscribe also leave a comment if you have something on your mind My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best |
| 05. April 2021 | My soft drink progression. | My soft drink progression. It once upon a time when I was a itty bitty content creator, I was like, yeah, I buy myself two liter bottles because it's the cheapest way you can get soft drink. And slowly over time I moved up to, you know, being willing to get some smaller bottles sometimes. Liter bottles, then I moved into getting cans and now on rare occasions I actually allow myself to buy glass bottles. Not very frequently mind you because it's extravagant purchase. But glass soft drink definitely tastes better than a soft drink in either, what is it, aluminium or plastic. That's why when you go to fancy restaurants they give you glass bottles of Coke. Weird flex. Yeah, I'll invite a chick over and not so suddenly open my fridge and show that I have line after line of glass bottles of Coke. Panties immediately hit the floor. Can you tell that I do well with women? Can you tell? |
| 05. April 2021 | My softdrink progression. | My soft drink progression. It once upon a time when I was a itty bitty content creator, I was like, yeah, I buy myself two liter bottles because it's the cheapest way you can get soft drink. And slowly over time I moved up to, you know, being willing to get some smaller bottles sometimes. Liter bottles, then I moved into getting cans and now on rare occasions I actually allow myself to buy glass bottles. Not very frequently mind you because it's extravagant purchase. But glass soft drink definitely tastes better than a soft drink in either, what is it, aluminium or plastic. That's why when you go to fancy restaurants they give you glass bottles of Coke. Weird flex. Yeah, I'll invite a chick over and not so suddenly open my fridge and show that I have line after line of glass bottles of Coke. Panties immediately hit the floor. Can you tell that I do well with women? Can you tell? |
| 01. July 2020 | My speedrun dominance slipped away | My dominance and speedrunning slipped away. Have I ever had a world record? Yeah, back in the day I had the world record many times. If you look at the graph of the world record history, my name is there like a dozen times. I've held the world records in all categories, once upon a time. Didn't keep up with things that other things get in the way, slowly fell further and further behind. I'm not sure I'll ever be committed enough to get world record again in the main categories. But you never know. There might be a day where no hit is complete, pass versus complete, completed all my other projects. At that point, I'll have a lot more time. Like I'm better than I've ever been, but relative to everyone else, I'm not as good as I once was. Like there was a time when I was better than Burhak and I would give him, I gave him at least one or two documents. Being like, hey, you're missing all these strats and stuff. When I'm wherever his runs. But there was a, that's a long time ago, it's like a year and a half ago or something. Time has just slipped by so quickly. Once upon a time, all I did was do runs. That's it. There was no YouTube, there was no editing, it was just runs. It's hard to imagine being as good as I was relative to everyone else while doing the other 78 things that I do now. But I can certainly improve my times massively and I plan to. We'll see what happens in the future. |
| 01. May 2021 | My spite and Noblechairs | My spite and noble chairs. Are you going to play the game while I was about to, but now that you've said it, I'm not going to. I mean it sincerely. I'm just, I'm just that spiteful. I am definitely a spiteful person guys. I think it's, I think it's my worst quality. So do you guys remember the noble chairs fiasco? How many of you were here for that? So the video got recommended quite a bit. It's got like 360,000 views by now, but to give a brief summary, I received a chair from noble chairs and on one of the sides a metal spike was protruding like the, the, the pillow parts, the foam spread apart and a spike came directly through it. And this happened after a year. I kind of ignored it and ignored it and ignored it and it just got worse and worse and worse. And eventually I said to them, look, you got to give me a replacement chair. And they're like, okay, fine. It took them like a month and a half to send me out the chair. And in that time of having a spike protruding from my chair, I cut my foot open blood everywhere. Didn't need stitches or anything, but it was a, it was quite a gash. Did that speed them up? Not at all. Um, and I complained about this on Twitter and multiple chair companies are like, oh yeah, man, you blah, blah, blah. You should get one of our chairs started up. And one of the companies that tweeted at me was noble chairs. As in whoever the social media manager person was, they seemed to have no idea that I had previously been sent a chair from the noble chairs brand. And so I'm pissed. I'm like, not, not only have you given me a chair that's faulty, not, not only have I cut open my foot, not only have you taken 10,000 years to replace the chair and you, you've also forgotten about me. And so the chair finally comes. I'm like, thank fuck. Finally I get this replacement chair. I open it and it's just the, just the cushion for the seat. As in I now have a chair that's like a year, year and a half old, but the seat is now new. So given how items work, other parts of the chair also, old and so would go bad. So all this would mean is that, you know, within the next six months, I'll need to replace another part of the chair. And so I'm, I'm recording footage, not, not a week later and I hear this clunk, clunk, clunk. I'm like, what the fuck is this clunking? It's ruined my footage and it's my chair. My, my, the other parts of the chair were also faulty. And so it calls me issues and, and, and, and ruin my footage. And so I make this video explaining all this, just how pissed I was that in every single level this company failed me. As this video now has 360,000 views. And if you Google noble chairs, it's one of the video noble chairs, YouTube, if you Google it, one of the chair, what my video comes up. If you, if you YouTube noble chairs, my video comes up. And I didn't know about this until yesterday because noble shares emailed me and like, Hey, I'm a guy who used to be Australia. I was, I'm from Australia and moved to Taiwan like 10 years ago, whatever. I know we had like a, uh, you had bad experience with my brand or whatever. Do you, um, uh, maybe you want to give us another chance? We can send you over a better chair or whatever. And I'm just like, like I literally laugh. Like maybe a non spiteful person would have been like, yeah, sure, man, you know, I'll take down that video. Maybe you have changed as you say, maybe your stuff has gotten better. Sure, man, send me a chair. May I can check it out. And if it's better than I can give a follow up review or something, but I'm like, man, you guys, you guys fucking suck. Like I didn't got time to just like, I said, I'm like, I'm, I'm in a Herman Miller and body right now. Like you, you don't, you don't make a chair better than this chair. Like this chair is entirely outside of your company's ability to make anything. Um, no, no, these exact words, like I'm more, I don't put it that bluntly, but I basically communicate this and I'm like, you know, unless you're going to pay me something to review the chair and I'll give my honest review. I'm not just going to review it because you send me a chair, right? Why would anyone my size just take a freebie and review it? Like that, that's, that, that's shit costs thousands of dollars. Like you can guarantee if I had just been like, uh, oh yeah, man, let's work out a deal. Probably could have been made. I could have got myself a free chair or not sure what I would have done with it. I could have maybe got some money, um, to review the chair and I still would have given my honest view, but, but me just being spiteful, I'm like, just fuck off. But think of how shit that company must feel, right? In the 99.999% of times a company gives out a free sample, it goes to shit, they fuck up, it's a shit product, whatever they fuck up with support. They fuck up with the social media. Whenever that happens, the consequences are really, really tiny, but just for them, coincidentally they did it to me. And so since they gave me that chair, my viewership has increased by like 20 times. Like the original video that I did of noble chairs, maybe had like 20,000 views. I just did it more for the hell of it. And now it has like 400,000. Like how bad is their luck? That's what I'm saying. Like I wish I wasn't so spiteful, chat. There were so many things about me that just don't drive with business. Well, sorry, businesses shouldn't give out free stuff in, in case it goes wrong. No, moral of the story, have good support. Don't make shit products. If a replacement for a bit of a chair is needed and the chair is old, you should probably replace the entire thing, especially if it's for promotional purposes. |
| 08. March 2022 | My standards for my podcast were probably too high | My standards for my podcast were probably too high. I'm of course referring to my defunct A Rambler With podcast. It's interesting, when I did my podcast with Modest Pelican, and it got like a hundred thousand views or something, I was like, well, that's not very good, is it? Compared to my normal content, like I didn't have high hopes that would go amazingly, but I'm like, ah, this doesn't seem like something I should invest my time in, considering that low amount of viewership. But I find all the time podcasts that get a fraction of those views, that are doing it every week. And I suspect that's because for a lot of people, podcasts are things that they're passionate and enjoy. During every week, they like that routine of getting people on or talking to their friend about the latest news topics or whatever. And so while my podcast was successful compared to a lot of podcasts, because I don't have that passion for it, I just couldn't bring myself to continue it. I did the podcast more as a business thing, less than a thing that I enjoy, although I did enjoy it. Because I'm the sort of guy who I get tired out talking to people. It's something that like drains me more than anything else. And often, although not all the time, at least not these days, when I talk to people, I will spend the next couple of hours going over everything that was said in my head, because I just worry I've said something stupid or whatever, or that I've given a bad impression of myself or something. And that's just stressful. Those kind of long-form conversations with people, it's more about the YouTube business thing than it is about enjoyment on my... |
| 26. November 2021 | My strange encounter at Mcdonalds | My strange encounter at McDonald's I had the weirdest thing, went to McDonald's right? The dude who took my order was very enthusiastic The dude was like, I know your name, I know you And I'm like, where do you know me from? He's like, nah I'm just messing with you dude Cause it's like, I know your name from your order now I'm like, oh okay Cause I did a mobile order or whatever so I guess it has my name on it And I was like, does this guy know me from Twitter or something? And then he gives me a fist bump As I leave, I'm like, is this just how he interacts with people? Is he on drugs or something? Or does he know me from Twitch? And just didn't want to tell me Why wouldn't he want to tell me? I don't know It's very weird And I thought about saying like, oh cause I thought you might know me from Twitch But I'm like, nah I won't say that, that's weird Socialists and React contents I don't know if I've ever said this publicly or not But I look at Hassan as the Steven Crowder of the left I don't know if anyone else gets that vibe But that's my vibe with him Like it's just, if there is an equivalent on the left For Steven Crowder It is Hassan Both Steven Crowder and Hassan do a very good job At riling up those who already agree with them Getting them fired up and passionate You agree with me? Yeah, we're in this together then Steven Crowder and Hassan probably have equal ability To argue the foundations of their beliefs I've seen Hassan try to kind of make that case And he's not good at it I mean, I suppose most people aren't And I would potentially put myself in that category as well Because Hassan just sits there all day and reacts to YouTube videos And I don't have a lot of respect for that Like, a little bit of reacting, sure I mean everyone does to a degree But it's just like most of his content, right? For myself, that might be a great area regarding it Where the stuff's actually free to use in the first place Reaction content is, unedited reaction content is 100% against fair use It's not even close Fair use allows for small portions of the work to be used in a transformative way That doesn't compete necessarily with the original work Watching the entirety of another person's video, you aren't transforming it, you're adding to it If the entirety of the original work can be recreated in what you've created You need to ask yourself the question Is there any reason now to watch the original? If the answer is no, then it's not fair use, effectively Because that's why H3H3 won their landmark case Because they made a comedy video out of sincere pick-up artist videos People who are looking for tips on how to pick up women would not get that from H3H3's video It targeted a different audience for a different purpose And created something different from the original product Only using portions of the original product But sitting on stream watching the entire YouTube video does none of that That doesn't mean that fair use law is how the law should be Or what should be moral for society It's a fallacy to say what is legal or illegal isn't necessarily what is moral or immoral We all have different standards as to what we believe to be okay reacting and not okay reacting How much we believe that people should be able to do this and not What sort of content people should be allowed to react to and not We all have these standards and as Tom Scott once said Everyone sets the standards so that they themselves meet it Reacting is the lay of the land It almost goes back to the very beginning of this conversation Imagine you or I were in Hasan's position to have 60,000 viewers reacting to other people's YouTube videos Each one of us would be like you know what? Reacting ain't so bad $300,000 a month to react to videos? Hell yeah! You know? So maybe it is hard to judge At the end of the day though it still comes up that it's weird for a socialist to be doing that The socialist should be the one who has the most extreme stance on reaction content there is Because it's literally unpaid labor You know? If you had to pay that person to make that video for you reacting You'd have to give them potentially hundreds of dollars But because you're not paying them You're just using their labor for free And without their permission But as I say I'm not 100% against React content It just depends on the context and to what degree and what it's being reacted to But as I say I am the most biased person alive when creating such standards Because as I say we all set the standards so that we meet it He is mostly exploiting capitalist right wingers though with his reactions Can you imagine believing that people are less deserving of moral rights Based on their political positions or beliefs? It's like saying it's perfectly okay to rape that person Because they don't believe abortion should be legal That's not a slope you want to go down my guy And no he's not I've seen many videos of a scientist reacting to random YouTube videos If the only thing that's keeping you on the platform is reaction content Then ultimately that reaction content is enabling you to effectively siphon viewers and money from everyone else It is very much so unlikely that if Hasan disappeared tomorrow That none of those viewers will watch anyone else on Twitch And if the only thing that is keeping Hasan there for 10 hours a day or whatever Is him watching other people's YouTube videos Then on one hand he's not paying for the labor of the people the content that he's reacting to And on the other hand he is specifically enriching himself to the expense of other people on this platform Both things that as a capitalist you'd be like okay whatever maybe But as a socialist it should be like abhorrent beyond reason I don't usually watch Hasan's react content but I don't know if it's like a big R3 film or a little hip hop thing I'd just be very interested to hear him talk about how he justifies it Because surely as a socialist he believes that people should be paid for their labor But he's sitting there specifically not paying people for the labor that he utilizes I'm not saying he hasn't mentally justified it somehow I just would be interested what that justification was Is playing video games for a living different from reacting to other people's videos? Well for a start it's allowed within the TOS of the game that I play I mean it's specifically consensual More than this when I play a game and you watch it you don't get the experience of the game You watching me playing the game doesn't convey all the value that the game has It can only ever convey a portion of it Even if you watch me play it from start to finish you will not have the entirety of the product given to you If I were to watch a video on stream the entirety of it you will have gotten the entirety of the value It's why game companies spend millions of dollars trying to get influencers to play their games But people who release movies don't do that You've seen a little change with that recently because companies will pay influencers to watch Like the first couple of episodes of their TV series Hoping that those people will then go and sign up to services to watch the rest It's in the same way that if you only use portions of a person's work it's considered okay Because there's a possibility that those portions may inspire interest that conveys benefit and leads to benefit for the other people And that's the argument sometimes made right? Sure I'm reacting to this video but it may inspire people to be more interested in that person's content And they'll go and watch other videos giving benefit to all those people that I've therefore given to the people that I've reacted to It's a hard argument to make I suppose because if you didn't exist reacting to other people's videos Then the impressions that you garner for yourself through your reactions would go to other people anyway You are kind of sucking viewers money impressions from everyone else in order to convey a small portion of it back to those you react to It's not comparable Right? |
| 26. November 2021 | My strange encounter at mcdonalds | My strange encounter at McDonald's I had the weirdest thing, went to McDonald's right? The dude who took my order was very enthusiastic The dude was like, I know your name, I know you And I'm like, where do you know me from? He's like, nah I'm just messing with you dude Cause it's like, I know your name from your order now I'm like, oh okay Cause I did a mobile order or whatever so I guess it has my name on it And I was like, does this guy know me from Twitter or something? And then he gives me a fist bump As I leave, I'm like, is this just how he interacts with people? Is he on drugs or something? Or does he know me from Twitch? And just didn't want to tell me Why wouldn't he want to tell me? I don't know It's very weird And I thought about saying like, oh I thought you might know me from Twitch But I'm like, nah I won't say that, that's weird |
| 01. September 2021 | My streams sucked when I first started | without it. My stream sucked when I first started. New streamers kinda suck. I sucked when I first started streaming. Every streamer sucked when they first started streaming. I've told you guys tons of times right about my first streams. Like everyone knows those stories by now right? I think I had a very shit Blue Yeti. Like I had a Blue Yeti but I had no idea how to set it up and I was so confused as to why there was like a background hum and stuff and my PC wasn't really made for streaming. I had shit internet, I was streaming at 800 bit rates. I was streaming UTD, it looked abysmal. Yeah, I started streaming, when I first started streaming, I was streaming Warcraft 3, UTD. I probably put as many hours into UTD as I put into GTA V. I was very good at it. Knew all the towers, the best ways to set everything up to get the most damage. I spent so long in that game and each run of that game if you completed it would take over 4 hours. And so I got the occasional viewer, like I have like 10 viewers or something. Because despite the shit quality of my stream and my shit audio, I was good at the game. And Warcraft 3 has some nostalgia attached to it, not a lot of people stream it. And UTD is a popular game still. |
| 17. January 2020 | My struggle before success | My struggle before success. I am most certainly not rich, but I have been successful for like six months, which now means I don't have to worry about money as much as I used to. When I first started out, I was so concerned about running out of money and not being able to continue streaming that like whenever I had any downtime, I would sell stuff that I didn't need to feel productive and shit. It's why I don't have like my my Seegas anymore, my N64s and stuff, all my games of my childhood and stuff. I sold all that shit. It's nice not to have to worry about that kind of stuff, although sometimes I do feel guilty because like I have a 2070 in my cupboard that's just depreciating in value. Old me would be mortified that I'm letting a piece of hardware just sit there depreciating, but I just don't have the time to sell it. I spend so much time editing and whatnot. I don't like going anywhere because it keeps me away from streaming and editing. Plus it is nice to have a backup hardware in case what I have fails. Do I regret selling stuff? I am not a sentimental person. I regret not selling more stuff. Okay, let's mean, okay, it would be nice. I don't regret the decision at the time. It would have been nice not to have ever been in that situation. Like, why not have a Nintendo 64 from your childhood? Why not have a Sega from your childhood? Why not? If you don't need to sell them, why not just keep them? But selling things that you have that are likely to get a depreciating value when you need money or that you might need money in the future or whatever is a good decision. |
| 19. February 2023 | My struggle to sleep continues. | My struggle to sleep continues. So update on my sleeping issues chat. There are only three medications that exist in this country to help sleeping issues. One is melatonin, which does work to a degree, but it gives me nightmares. I toss and turn and I wake up the next day feeling like I've been beaten half to death. It is worse than not sleeping. The other two are sedatives. And what I found out is that I can tank these and not feel tired. Sedatives that should knock out like a rhino. I'm sitting there just being like, hmm, that was interesting. So I'm gonna fall asleep anytime soon. And this is very frustrating. So I'm largely just fucked, basically. I need to go, as you say, uh, hazy horse, see a sleep specialist. Because I went to bed like 5, 6 a.m. yesterday. Had my sleep ruined by waking up multiple times, not knowing when this dude was meant to come for these blinds and he didn't even end up coming. Basically, I can't sleep and it sucks. So. So last night, I'm like, I'm gonna take some of these sleeping medications and get myself some sleep as early as possible to like reset my sleeping pattern. Got into bed at 9 p.m. Took two sleeping pills. Like, they recommend one, I Googled to make sure I could take two. I took two. Got to bed at 4 a.m. I was in that bed for seven hours. Those boring seven hours of my life. I took two fucking sedatives, chat. Two! And I just tanked it. If I ever get into some position of authority, you got no worries about the possibility of me being drugged and killed. I can just tank anything apparently. |
| 10. September 2021 | My stupid response when my first girlfriend told me she loved me | My stupid response when my first girlfriend told me she loved me I've never liked overusing the word love. I remember when my first girlfriend told me that she loved me Me being a stupid person said no you don't I was just so dumb when I was a kid But it's been true. She clearly didn't love me like it was just a thing that kids say to each other I don't remember more of that conversation. I'm sure there might have been an argument or something or Maybe she said don't you love me and I'd be like yeah like you're cool It's why I don't like to think back to The few relationships I've had in my life None of them were successful and I was just a complete fool the entire time Achieve an unlocked breaker girl's heart |
| 06. June 2022 | My stupid tweets | Stupid tweets. Oh, someone asked me why did I tweet out about soup. Here's the thing you gotta know about my Twitter, guys. When I tweet things out like this, always assume I'm laughing. I was eating soup, and I'm like, you know, soup takes too long to eat. That'd be a dumb thing to tweet, like, what a complete waste of the wonders of the internet. To take up space to comment on the speed at which you can eat soup. And I did it. And then I laughed for a good solid 30 seconds. And then I went back to eating my soup. I just, I just find it funny to tweet stupid things like that. And then I imagine people scrolling down their feed and being like, why, why did he, why did he type this? What a waste of time, you know. |
| 06. June 2022 | My thoughts on SomeOrdinaryGamers anti-reaction content video | My thoughts on some ordinary gamer's anti-reaction content video. Uh, yeah, someone in chat mentioned that Moodahar released a video about React content. Uh, he left a comment on one of my videos, uh, the main one where he's like, this is straight out of facts. And as he said in the video, he- he complimented my content and he said that, um, again, while bringing up the analogy that people didn't like, he is like, but at the end of it, I was like, where the lies? Like, as in like, he agreed with what I wrote. And so he made a video giving his thoughts on the topic and- and all that jazz. And, um, and apparently he says he wants to, uh, talk more about it in a month or so or something. We'll- we'll see if he makes another video or what have you. But, um, I- I appreciate it. Like, I- I've talked to Moodahar like, uh, I don't know, a dozen times or whatever since I run in. I can't remember how long ago that was. Um, he's a nice dude. And again, while I disagreed with him back then, um, I- I accept that his heart was in the right place. And, um, he clearly does care. Yeah, I just appreciate his video. |
| 01. January 2021 | My thoughts on cricket. | My views on the sport, crickets. Before, UI only was to Shrelly for cricket. I never really got into cricket. I played it when I was a kid, a little bit. Both indoor and outdoor cricket, which was kind of fun, but I much prefer soccer, I mean football. |
| 27. October 2021 | My thoughts on maturity and what defines it | My thoughts on maturity and what defines it. It's really weird how mature youtubers aren't as big as immature ones. It depends where you're defining mature. All of the youtubers who are big now are more probably more mature than they used to be because they've grown up over the years that they've been popular right and it's hard to know to what extent any shown immaturity is just a matter of um you know just a persona done for YouTube but who cares about maturity I should have said this at the beginning who who fucking cares if you're enjoying yourself doing something you're not harming anyone who gives a shit what you're doing like people would call me immature for playing video games for a living and like watching anime or something who gives a fuck to me the greatest sign of maturity is knowing what matters and who matters in terms of their opinion in high school we when we're kids we worry all about what these other people think of us and it doesn't fucking matter and we stress out about stuff that doesn't matter as we get older we realize it fucking doesn't matter knowing what matters is a sign of maturity |
| 12. November 2022 | My thoughts on reactions to random subreddits. | My thoughts on reactions to subreddits. Thoughts on Reddit react videos apart from your own subreddit or you just mean like um going through the best of a particular subreddit. Reddit is stuff that is put there without any kind of goal in regards to um like earning a living. The stuff on Reddit especially when it's just like text and stuff it isn't even really like a creative work it's more just like stuff put out to the public that is information. Surely to some degree there must be allowance for you to have commentary on the thoughts and actions of others. People aren't traditionally going to subreddits and like binge reading the top posts of all time or something. I don't know I consider Reddit reactions not to your own stuff it's a different thing. Similar to Twitter I don't think it's particularly objectionable. There'll be a separate thing if like a like if a person makes something for a long time puts a lot of effort into it and puts it on Reddit maybe that's a different thing but uh in general I don't think it's bad. Not that I'd want to do it. Yeah no one is posting on Reddit for money it's more for recognition exactly. It's all just meaningless points and stuff. I wouldn't say it's like the best thing a person can do but it's just not bad. |
| 02. February 2023 | My thoughts on the 'knives out' movie. | My thoughts on the first Knives Out movie. So I watched Knives Out yesterday, because I liked Glass Onion so much, and I quite liked it. It was very good. A little bit of it sucked because like, you know that a lot of what you're being told in the beginning is clearly misdirection, and so you're sitting there the entire time like, so all this is nonsense, how is this all going to be recontextualized to mean something different? Like, the best mystery is one where you aren't even expecting a mystery, to me. But if you're going into like a detective sort of movie, I-I-you just know there's going to be a twist. |
| 30. December 2022 | My thoughts on the new Avatar movie | My thoughts on the new Avatar movie. What do you think about Avatar, Way of the Water, have you seen it? Yeah, I saw it. I can't believe they killed everyone in the first five minutes. I was, wow, truly blown away. No, I haven't seen it. Why would I watch that movie? Avatar, Way of the Water nears 900 million globally. What? Fucking why? So just for inflation in 2021 dollars, Avatar 1 made $3.5 billion. So I think we can safely say that Avatar 2 isn't gonna come close to that kind of money. If you're curious, the top movies are Gone with the Wind, Avatar, Titanic, and Star Wars, adjusted for inflation. I guess maybe because everyone is talking about it and people are just curious. Yeah, I suppose if you're just gonna go to the movies, you would be like, oh, I wonder what the follow-up to Avatar is like. Way of the Water lets you fucking go. Yeah, I have no interest in the movie. I am surprised it's doing well, but I'm not surprised it's not doing as well as the first movie. |
| 23. December 2022 | My thoughts on the new GTA V DLC Los Santos Drug Wars. | Q5 DLC Los Santos Drug Wars. So I did play the first little bit of the Acid Labs DLC for GTA Online, and it was all right. Apparently there's gonna be a bit more every couple of weeks or something to keep people coming back. And it was not impressive at all, but it was certainly a thing. Like it is about what I expected the quality to be considering they're working so hard on GTA 6. And I'm not that disappointed because again, I don't have expectations for GTA Online DLC. It's not something that I particularly care about. It's just something that I can throw a couple of hours at and enjoy something slightly newer. |
| 14. June 2022 | My thumbnails now being made by someone else | Yeah. My thumbnail is now being made by someone else. So there's this thing right, whenever you change something, the immediate response will always be from a large section of people, I don't like this. And a lot of that will just be because it's different. Whether or not you realize that's the case, it's when you're used to something for a long time, when you change it, it's very hard to assess whether that thing is actually worse or if it's just different from what you're used to. You need to sit with something for like, you know, a couple of weeks and then you can kind of reflect and say, oh, you know, it isn't that bad or in reality, it's better. You know, we've all had those kind of situations. I didn't mind the old thumbnails, but they were fairly generic. I suppose this is somewhat generic as well. Like the meta for thumbnails right now with the person on the side and stuff is very strong. Like I'm really happy with the change in the rainbow thumbnails. That's certain about the House Being Unended ones. Ramble's thumbnail going from nothing to something is a huge improvement. This change going from the old House Being Unended to this new one, it's not as big of a change. |
| 23. February 2022 | My toast dreams have been realized | My toast dreams have been realized. I need to get myself some more bread. I bought myself a really cool toaster, and I haven't used it enough. I can toast four things at once chat, at like, different times and temperatures and shit. It's great. My dreams of an amazing toaster, when I was a kid, have come true. If only I would stop ordering fast food. |
| 02. May 2021 | My top 5 favourite game | My top 5 favorite games. My favorite game? It would probably go GTA V, the entirety of the Dark Souls franchise, the entirety of the GTA franchise, and then Heroes of Might and Magic 3. I don't think Noita hits my list of best games of all time. It's definitely a game that I really enjoy. I saw a video today that there's another boss in Noita that I didn't kill. It even has a machine gun that you can pick up. The question is do I go back and play it again? I just wish people actually wanted to watch Noita or wanted to watch Heroes of Might and Magic 3. It's the big difference guys between me and like the actual popular content creators. The people like Lyric or Sonic who can just stream anything they desire for 15k viewers or whatever. Minimum. |
| 11. October 2021 | My total time played in World of Warcraft | Total time played in World of Warcraft. Oh dude man, I actually found out yesterday I've played 250 days of World of Warcraft over the last 8 years. I no longer play of course, but it's 250 days of my life. Holy shit. Wha- Put up your hands if you wasted a whole bunch of your life in World of Warcraft. I think pretty much everyone has played World of Warcraft at some point, you know? It's just like a thing that everyone had to go through. You're 250 days old. Come of course. |
| 18. June 2022 | My toxic mindset. | toxic mindset. Since the React videos have come out. I have not been doing as much work as I really should. It's been hard for me to get back into the rhythm of things. Like I've become so jaded towards this industry. Everything seems so pointless and lifeless and gross and manufactured and I'm of two minds where I want to combat the bad things to make things better, but I also just want to ignore it all, focus on myself and pay attention to literally nothing else. Because I want to make things better, but I'm so... I don't believe it's possible for me to improve things all that much. And so it feels like just wasted effort. But then I then when I dismiss doing this I feel guilty because I'm not trying to help people. Like I know it would just be my best interest to, as I keep saying, just put my head down and you know accept the garbage that other people do and just focus on my own content. Not even communicate with any other content creators and just go get good sleep and stuff, but I just can't do it. It's very hard not to be cynical in this kind of world and society. Yeah. During making that React content my mood shifted from waking up every day being like, yes, it's a new day I've got I can make new content. I can do things. I've got so much to do. And then it's switched to like this is just another day you can get through it like you get through every other day or that you got through every other day. Like it was it was a struggle. Like I didn't greet every day with the same, what's the word, exuberance or the same enthusiasm that I once did and I'm still kind of in the mood for it. |
| 18. December 2021 | My trip to Melbourne for creator party | My trip to Melbourne for a creator party. My managers came to me and they said, yo, we're gonna be doing a Christmas party down in Melbourne, do you wanna go? And I'm like, ah, but take time away from my content, I'd have to, you know, book hotels and flights and stuff. I don't know, and they're like, oh, you know, we'll book the hotel and flights for you so you don't have to worry about that. And I was like, oh, well, if you're doing that bit of leg work, you know, I do wanna see other creators and stuff and it's probably gonna be fun, I don't do anything else, so fine. Yeah, I'll go down to Melbourne. So I took an Uber to the airport, got on the plane, flights like an hour, I landed in Melbourne. And so landing in Melbourne, it was me, Pez, Emma, Charlotte, so people who work for my managers, basically. We were waiting for TGG to get off his plane. He lives in Queensland, which I've learnt is not something that's, everyone knows that, it's only his Twitter, what's he like. And so when he arrives, it was a funny experience because it wasn't like I was meeting a stranger, even though I had never met him in person, it was just like, here's a guy who, maybe it's just acquaintance perhaps, but here's a guy I've talked to like heaps, it was just like seeing a dude that I already knew, kinda thing, you know? I was a nice dude. So then we went to the hotel. There's only two significant things about the room that I stayed in. One, it had the greatest curtains I've ever seen. As a person who has these shitty blinds that let in a bunch of light and no curtains, I envy that room so much. As in like, it can be midday and you close the curtains and there is no light. Like you literally can't tell if it's night or day. And I want that if I ever move or make a house or whatever, or can be bothered trying to find people to install that. Yeah, I want that so much. The other thing of significance is the iron in that room was fucking awful. I hate ironing, but they had an iron where you can't even add water into it, so you can't use steam. It's just basically just a hot piece of metal that you move over your clothes. Fucking horrendous. Like it was so bad that I'm telling you about the iron. I will compare every iron for the rest of time to that iron. So then I left the hotel and then we went and got some food. TGG had to go get himself a COVID test because Queensland has harder restrictions than any other state right now. For people coming outside the state, you have to have a negative COVID test even if you've been vaccinated. Apparently those tests are very unpleasant. I've never had one done. Put like two swabs through both your noses or whatever. Of both sides of your nose, I mean. Me moving between Victoria and New South Wales, I didn't have to get that test done, so I was like, yeah, because you just had to be vaxxed to get on the plane and stuff. Yeah, so he goes off. And so again, me, Emma, Charlotte, Pez, we go to an escape room. At the escape room, we meet, ah, I'm gonna probably forget some people. We met Fast V, Loser Fruit, Townie, Lisa, I think that's it. I don't think Marcus knows that. Yeah, so I think that was the group. You saw a bunch of other content creators and we went into the escape room and they said there wasn't gonna be jump scares, but of course there were jump scares. And our entire thing that we were doing was we had to find a way to find the vaccine for a zombie outbreak or whatever. And you had to figure out how to get through all the rooms. It was fun. I didn't really contribute all that much. It was a bunch of laughs and it was great. Then went and got changed. I had to iron my clothes with a shitty iron was fucking terrible. And then I went to Fortress, which is where we were meeting all the other content creators that my management team represents. So there was like 20 of us there. Creator was there, Hayden, his brother editor. I'm gonna name everyone, I'm gonna forget some people's names. Marcus, who's Prestige Clips or Loser Fruit's boyfriend, whichever you prefer was there. He's a nice dude. I mean, everyone was nice. Like, so as a summary of the night, I got to talk to a bunch of other content creators who, and it was very nice. I felt like I belonged somewhere for the first time in quite a long time. Like nothing went bad. It was just a general casual fun night. So I drunk bourbon as I always do. The only negative of the entire night was I got very tired because I had been, my sleeping pattern was bad. And so I had to very quickly change it. And I only had like six hours sleep before I went to Melbourne. Of course, walking around Melbourne and stuff tired me out. So I'm guzzling energy drinks at like 9 p.m. to stay awake. And I end up going back to my hotel at like 10.30 or something. It was a decent night anyway. So I was there for like five hours, you know. You have to spend a lot of time talking to TGG, Marcus, all that jazz. Baza, maybe another person who you might know because he's a popular content creator. He is really fucking tall. Like really tall. Like 6'6 or something. So me and TGG were walking back into the private room which was in this direction. And he's like, oh man, I should take a picture of you or something you put on Twitter. You with sleeves or whatever. I'm sure they'll get a kick out of it. I'm like, all right, whatever. And so I went, ha. And he took a picture and then I posted it to Twitter. Look how creased my shirt is, chat. Gonna go in deep here. Look at these creases. The way that the shirt is ruffling a bit, it makes me look like I'm fat. I don't think it should have stuck out that much. I am carrying a few more kilos, but like it makes me look a little bit fatter than I should be. I look tired as fuck. My hair's weird. Look at all these creases in my shirt. I look awful. I know no one gives a fuck. That is like my strategy. My strategy for dealing with any social situation, any anxiety that I might be feeling. I think to myself, how often do I remember how wrinkly a person's shirt was? How often do I give a fuck? The answer's like never. I'm sure I've been in situations where I've been like, that person's shirt's a bit wrinkly. And that's about the amount of consideration given to it. And that amount of consideration probably would require a person's shirt to be like literally just wrinkles. And so why am I concerned about these minor details when assuming people are even somewhat like me, they aren't gonna give a fuck? Like who the fuck is gonna be like, I'm not gonna talk to you, your shirt's wrinkled. You know? Whenever I start to convince myself that something is a big deal, I think to myself, if other people did this or looked like this or whatever, would I give a fuck? And usually the answer's no, and that makes me feel better. Just by iron free shirts, I didn't know those existed and I haven't seen any of them in any of the stores that I've gone to. There was also a trivia competition. It was a gaming trivia and we did okay. I mean, we probably got like a 60% right or something. So we got nowhere close to being the best. Yes, I went back to my hotel. I slept, woke up in the morning, walked and got myself some breakfast, got back on my plane and flew back here basically. And that was the entire experience basically. I was there for a day, got to meet some nice people and it tired me out to extraordinary degree. Did I enjoy it? Yeah, it was highlight of last couple of years. It was a relatively small thing in the grand scheme of things but it was just something I don't normally get to do, which is meet people who do a similar thing to myself, nice people, mutual respect, kind of stuff. I don't get to see people in general very often at all. Did it feel good to take a break? I mean, I was less interested in the break aspect and more in what I did as in like, had I just taken two days off, it wouldn't have been as enjoyable. Like I didn't go because I wanted to break. I went because I wanted to meet other content creators and stuff. Did I get any chicks? While there were some attractive content creators there, I would never put myself in a situation where I could potentially cause awkwardness in a group of relative strangers. It's not something I do in general, but nothing worse than a coworker hitting on me. Hey, hey, I would have been very flattered if anyone there decided they wanted to hit on me. I'm not gonna make such moves and potentially cause awkwardness. I'm more interested in chilling than anything else. |
| 20. May 2021 | My two childhood games had failed remasters | My two childhood games both had failed remasters. Am I gonna play Warcraft 3? No. Blizzard butchered the game. It is really, really annoying when companies do things in their own best interest that kind of bothers you or disadvantages you. Like, that can be annoying, but at least you understand. You're like, okay, I can get it. You're looking out for yourself. Maybe what I want is kind of niche. And so it makes you less angry in some cases. But in the case of Warcraft 3 and Blizzard, they did the absolute worst thing for themselves and literally everyone else. It's like no one won. They limited their sales, they damaged their brand, they destroyed a game that people that were still playing competitively, that people beloved by all. At least it seems as though they've learned their lesson a bit because now Diablo 2, the remaster of that, everyone says is amazing. Like, it's both improving the original game but keeping the spirit of it what makes Diablo 2 Diablo 2. But that doesn't save Warcraft 3. It's fucked forever. I'll never forgive them for that. Like, I just can't win. Like, even the remaster of Heroes 3 was completely butchered. I had two games that I played so much, other than World of Warcraft, of course, when I was younger, there was Heroes 3 and Warcraft 3, and neither of them got a remaster, a good one, you know? Two of the greatest games of all time, butchered by those who hold the IP. A little bit of it might have been though that the companies were still not like... When the decision was made for these games to be remastered, there were less of the beloved remasters that had come out for gaming. So a lot of these companies were just like, oh, look, let's put the minimum amount of dollars into this pass. We'll find, you know, some people behind a back alley or in a back alley somewhere and get them to work on this. And then over the time that it was being worked on, you know, Spyro reignited and the crash remastered and stuff, all that came out and the Mafia stuff came out and these made boatloads of cash, and they're like, oh, shit. Well, we're on a course now, so we just have to hope for the best and it didn't go well. Isn't it weird that if you actually put time and money into something and create something good, it actually gets good sales? Weird. Guess we'll just have to wait another 10 years or something for them to be remastered again. The remaster of the remaster. |
| 17. September 2022 | My two new most viewed videos | My two new most viewed videos. A sad day has happened chat. Oh, it's not even updated. My two most popular videos are now shorts. Hasn't updated yet, but the funniest one to me is this one. This is the thumbnail or something that appears for most people. This is slowed down and so, like, so many of the comments are just... Let's see if I can see them. Molly got that cake! I see Molly's cheeks are clicked. Damn, Molly got cake! I love how 90% of the comments are talking about Molly's, uh, cake. The thumbnail. It's funny, because when this one came out, it wasn't big. Not like Molly's cake. Oh, okay, hun. Let me see if I can find it. It's, uh... See, look how long it was flat. Unlike Molly's ass. Ha ha ha ha. So, seven days. I'm like, man, this is like my worst performing short. That's kind of weird. And they're just like, hey, wait a second, Molly has a nice ass. Ahhhhhhh! Ha ha ha ha. The useless shorts that make no money and get me subs that don't watch my content. And now my two most viewed videos. |
| 01. November 2022 | My two videos that got age restricted | My two videos that got age restricted. So I had two videos age restricted chat. The first one was my Cult of the Lamb video, which was just a this is what you missed 14 hour video, not really that important. Real life cult leader builds cult in video game, cult of the lamb, this is what you missed. I appealed it and like within 20 seconds it got declined. And the joke is it's a 14 hour video, what they watched the entire thing and concluded that after my appeal that it was definitely in violation and therefore deserved to be age restricted. In reality though, as I've tried to argue, I think when these systems first came out, it was mainly automated. There was less people on the back end to review stuff. So you might appeal something, it might sit there for a day or two before a human could finally get to it and then review it. But now because YouTube over the last couple of years has just gone gangbusters in finding people to pay them 10 cents an hour to look over these videos, that anything that is automatically flags is then almost immediately, or at least somewhere along the line, reviewed by humans. And so when you appeal, it's already been reviewed by a human and that human has said, yo, nah, this ain't good. And so the appeal immediately gets rejected, but it's because the humans already looked at it, right? That's my theory anyway, because YouTube swears black and blue, including to their investors, that this is what they're doing. It is all human reviewed and they couldn't legally lie about that and I don't think they have any reason to. So this is my explanation as to how they could not be lying and for what we experience to be the way it is. I have a YouTube contacts, which isn't that uncommon these days, because there's the reps in Australia and stuff. And so I said, hey, can you get them to relook at this? And so it got unage restricted. But then like a few hours later, I got another age restriction. This one hurt. Blue Ball Percent got age restricted. This one didn't even let me appeal. There was no appeal button. Now, obviously, blue ball, but it does have another meaning that is sexually suggestive. But there is no actual sexual content in this video. I can't be tainting the minds of the kids, of the youth or whatever, of the 12 to 18 year olds or something that might be watching this video. Because the only way you'd get that reference is if you already knew the sexual idea. Sexual innuendo, there you go. Clearly, this is tame and shouldn't be age restricted. So I've asked my YouTube rep to again go, hey, yo, someone look at this video. It's the video about me pushing a yoga ball. And we'll see what they say. But I'm hearing a bit more of this now where more and more people are coming out saying, hey, why is this video getting age restricted? What the hell? Because as I've said before, very, very rarely do I get age restricted. It's maybe happened over the course of the entire time that I've been on my main channel, like six times or something, and I got like four of them resolved. This is my current list right now. This is age restricted because it's a supercut of literally just insults and swearing. This is age restricted, which really fucking hurts because Trevor says the C word like 12 times. But I mean, I translated it into Australian and what he said was perfectly kind and nice. So there's no reason this should be age restricted, but they wouldn't listen to me. In any other context, I would just edit out the thing that caused the age restriction. But it's like, I kind of need that joke. It's funny. The only passives you can't watch. I mean, just just make another account or whatever. |
| 19. October 2022 | My uber driver was very enthusiastic about my job | was very enthusiastic about my job. The Uber I took here, very nice dude. He was really, really impressed by what I did for a living. His face, I should shoot you not, looked like Pogchamp. He was just like... Like half the time, as I'm explaining what I'm doing. So we spoke, no joke, for an hour, for the entire ride. Talking about what I do, that his son loves YouTubers and Twitch streamers and stuff. And when we got out of the car, he's like, I gotta take a picture with you man. And he takes a picture with me because he's gonna show his son. But imagine he shows his son a picture of me. He's like, oh that's DarkFapAu, fuck that guy. Oh, I thought you were with someone cool in your car dad, this is DarkFapAu. Or his son's like, who, OmegaLot? There's just so many consequences. The odds of his son happening to know me is not high. I'm using Twitch terminology, you guys on YouTube won't even know who OmegaLot, right? Getting rekt. |
| 03. June 2020 | My ultimate goal | that I think. What is your ultimate goal for Twitch YouTube? I don't have one. I just want to continue to grow and enjoy myself while making content until for whatever reason, I don't enjoy doing that anymore. I suppose my ultimate goal is to eventually have earned enough money that I am secure in my circumstances. And as in like if I never had another job for the rest of my life, I could live a meager existence and get by. And at that point, I'm hoping that a lot of my stress about the future will just be gone. Because I'm like, look, I'm pretty safeguarded from potential catastrophe. Let's just chill. And then maybe I can just be like super giveaway person. We just build a computer on stream, which give away to people, you know? Because I say I have a lot of worries about the future and my place within us and what I'm going to be doing two years, four years, five years from now, whether Twitch is still going to be a thing, whether YouTube is going to still be a thing. I don't know anything about this. And it fills me with anxiety that I might one day have to reenter the workforce. With my resume being my YouTube channel. I don't like that at all. Doesn't seem like. |
| 27. March 2022 | My unusual fashion sense. | My unusual fashion sense. How weird would it be if I showed up in a sweater or something? When I first started streaming, I would always be wearing a thick white jumper thing. Like if you look at my profile image, that's what's in it. It was like an iconic jacket that I always used to wear. I don't know how I managed it. I guess my house was just a lot colder. I even walked up to a Lexus dealership in a tank top and shorts. Hey, I was wearing a jumper. But you're right, I was wearing a tank top and shorts when I bought my Lexus. And that's probably why the guy didn't take me seriously initially. I don't know what he thought I was there for, but he was like, Ah, here's another fucking guy off the street just looking for some air conditioning or whatever. What did I do? |
| 01. June 2021 | My unwatched older content | My unwatched older content. If you want to know if I've played a game, the best way to do it is go to my Dark Viper EU Classics playlist on YouTube. It's got a bunch of videos in it that are pretty good that will likely never get recommended to you because they aren't GTA V. Oh yeah, so I mean they get recommended to some people, it's just they don't get the kind of love that GTA V stuff does, you know. I'm exaggerating when they say they don't get recommended at all. Are you sure YouTube is broken again? YouTube isn't broken, like it does recommend older content sometimes. All they do is they take videos that, you know, at least at some point people clicked on or whatever, and they go, okay, let's retest this again a few years down the line to see if people click on it again. And if not enough people click on it, they stop. I mean, all the time I get recommended videos from like nine, ten years ago with a couple of million views and I'm like, like I don't see the date on it, I just go, oh, that's a interesting looking video, so I click on it and then I realize it's nine, ten years old. The algorithm knows what it's doing, you know. |
| 30. January 2021 | My use of the c-word | My use of the C word. The C word is uh, received differently globally than it is in Australia. I mean, it's not like in Australia that you can be in some official capacity and say the C word without it, you know, raising some eyebrows, but it is far more accepted here. But as a content creator who is global, I don't use the word except in particular circumstances. And as my brand isn't, I'm the Australian guy doing Australian things, there's no reason for me to play it up through the use of that word. I have no problems with it, but uh, YouTube doesn't like it. I imagine Twitch doesn't like it. A global audience cringes at it. So why use it, you know? Besides, this isn't a super-conscious choice, as in it wasn't a word that I would normally use to begin with. Like you may notice that I swear very frequently, and the words that I use that are swear words are the words that I've always used, you know? Yes, disingenuous dense motherfucker is my go-to swear word. It's just yanks, you don't like it? No, Americans don't like it. I remember being on a bus. I've told this story before. I was on a bus with my friends and I called someone the C word. And like we were probably 18 to 20 or something, that kind of age, and this old bloke, sounded American, says, hey, don't use that word. And it was just the most confusing situation to me, that a person would care enough that they would literally confront a pack of young people to criticize them for the use of a word. Now, caring at all about the use of the word is weird. Caring enough to confront a stranger is weird. Caring enough to confront a random group of older teenagers is even more weird. Being like 50, looking like a weak dude on a bus, a place where you couldn't even run away if they wanted to attack you or something, even more weird. I mean, obviously, in no way would we get to hurt this person, but that guy couldn't have possibly known that. He had to take the stand against the use of that word. Very strange. |
| 24. May 2022 | My very expensive massage chair | My very expensive massage chair. Do I use my massage chair? Like all things in life, everything can become mundane. When you try a massage chair at a store, it's like, oh man, I haven't experienced it before, or it's a rare thing, it's a treat or whatever, and so it's amazing. When you buy a massage chair, like that feeling is still there, but it diminishes over time. As in, I am never unhappy to be in my massage chair. But I used to do it like every day, now I do it like every second or third day. It is a good experience, and it's worth having a massage chair, don't get me wrong, but it is like the last luxury you should purchase. It is truly an extravagant thing that you buy when you can think of nothing else to purchase. Because it is never a thing that you'll hate having, but it's something that you will grow to less appreciate over time. Plans for when I have. |
| 05. September 2021 | My view of Twitch as a job | My view of Twitch as a job before I became a big streamer. If you like streaming on Twitch it isn't a bad job. Well I suppose it depends on how you're defining a bad job, I mean, or what you think a job should be doing. If a job is at the end of the day just a way of getting by and making enough money to sustain your life, then Twitch in many respects is a bad job because it's uncertain. The amount of people who stream on Twitch is like millions. The amount who are partners is like 1% of those. And the amount of those partners who are making a decent living, like more than minimum wage, is like 1% of that, you know. Like, I could work 4 or 5 days a week at the local subway and I'd make twice what I'm making on YouTube and Twitch. But I'm Australian of course, the minimum wage is very high. So, but I make enough money to get by and that's all I want man. I'm not a person who needs a mass amount of material possessions. I don't want a bunch of stuff. The only things I've really bought that have cost a lot of money in the last couple of years are things that I think would make my stream better or repairs to my car. It's debatable whether or not it's easier or harder to start on Twitch or start on YouTube these days. Because obviously starting early is what you needed to do for either platform. The people who are here 5 years ago are doing better than most of the people who started like 2 years ago, you know. When you look at the biggest names on Twitch, because you snowball, the more followers you have, the more viewers you have, the more followers you'll get and the more viewers you'll get. Like, you'll keep growing, you know. So the people who are at the top are going to grow faster than the people who are in the middle or at the bottom, right. Some at 1G just by streaming gets more exposure than I would in like a year, you know. I've made my choice, you know, and I hope it works out for me. But if it doesn't, I'll go do something else, you know. You work at Subway? In Australia, I mean, Subway could be a career if you become a manager. Because I mean, as long as you've got a job, man, working full time in Australia, you're making a pretty decent living. Because the minimum wage is based on a living wage, right. You have a job and you're making ends meet and if there's any level of ability to move up in the ranking, like you can be a manager at McDonald's and be making pretty decent living, whatever. Like, the only reason I mention Subway is because I eat Subway quite a bit. I like Subway. And if there was a fast food place that I wanted to work at, it would be Subway because the food there isn't, you know, as bad as say McDonald's or something. Because if I worked at a restaurant, fast food or otherwise, I would eat their food all the time. If I was at Subway, I could try like every variation of sandwich. How, how, at McDonald's, there's like what, four different types of burgers that I eat. How have I eaten those four burgers for the last like 20 years? It's crazy. How is the Big Mac still a thing? Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 04. October 2021 | My view of college | What do I think about college? It's a positive thing. I find people who are very against college either have never been or lack the aptitude to go. I would say any college experience is a good use of time, although it may not be the best use of your time. As in it's not in everyone's best interest to go to any aspect of higher learning. If you could pause time, not age, I would argue that it would benefit everyone to go and study effectively anything. I wouldn't say anything, but effectively anything. To learn how to do research, to think critically, to argue a viewpoint. Oh yeah, the cost of college is pretty crazy in some places. I'm sure there are people out there who get into their later years, have a lot of disposable income, and just study stuff at uni for the hell of it. |
| 14. March 2020 | My viewers watch the same game everyday | Gonna continue the game. How can my viewers watch me play the same game every day? I mean, for me, I realize that my viewers aren't here for every stream, right? Like for me, it's not a mystery. You guys don't usually watch the entire run. Eventually you do get bored, but you get replaced by someone else who's not bored, right? It's a constant, ever-changing group of people. I'm really the only consistent variable, you know? And the game, of course. So like whenever I think, how are you guys not bored of this yet? I'm like, oh, wait a second, it's different people. Or like even the people who are consistent surely take breaks away from my content and come back, or just stop in for, you know, 20 minutes, half an hour every once in a while. I've said before, like, I tune into ZFG's stream all the time, but I've probably only seen the entire. |
| 01. July 2020 | My views of Chess, XQC vs Moistcr1tikal | My views of chess and the xQc vs moist critical game I did see the chess match between moist critical and xQc yeah It's the scotch open! It's the scotch open! Fuck this is exciting! Exactly what we practiced for I can't believe it! I can't fucking believe it! He just lost! Exactly what we practiced for! Yes! HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! BANG! We're listening to moist critical right now Daniel Naruditzki is a fucking prophet He said immediately that xQc will likely go with the scotch open Well that's gotta be a world record My cock is throbbing! Throbbing! What is xQc's chat saying right now? Didn't it get like 4 million views or something? Like one of the highest viewed twitch clips? I mean, let's be real. How does XQC still want to play chess after that? It's not like, obviously that could happen to everyone when you're learning, but it's just like, surely people must reference that all the time to ridicule him and shit. It's like his version of a wreckful missing lethal. XQC does not come across to me as a particularly dumb person. He doesn't come across as a genius. He just comes across as, you know, a person with, is not really inhibited, says whatever comes onto his mind. It's very expressive. I wouldn't call him a genius, but I wouldn't call him an idiot either. XQC is just a person? Yeah. And for Twitch, you know, he's got what you need to be successful on Twitch. So I like chess as like a casual thing. I don't think I would like chess if I tried to go to the professional level, where on a professional level, what chess is, it's just memorization of types of boards. Because as many moves as you can possibly make in chess, there's only really like a finite amount that a professional will do. The more boards that you've memorized and that you can effectively instinctively, you know, muscle memory react to, the faster you're going to move, especially, you know, in Blitz chess and whatnot. I like chess when I'm sitting there trying to figure out the best move in that moment. I don't want to sit around and memorize 57,000 boards so that I already know what the next best move is going to be. I'm not even sure I'd be capable of doing that. Let's be real. I am a decent chess player to the extent where I can play and not always make an ass of myself. I mean, versing people on stream, I'm what, like an 80% win rate or something, 75% whatever. |
| 15. June 2021 | My wall of cardboard and what I wear on dates | My wall of cardboard and what I wear on dates. I did have the woman come by and look at my house to see how much it would cost to clean it and I accidentally left up my cardboard. I don't know if I've told you about my cardboard chat I think I have but I've made more of it now. So in my bedroom There is a really large glass Thing where it leads out to a very tiny balcony like I never go out there. It's not particularly nice But it does live in a lot of lights and because I don't always go to bed the right time The light that comes through there is quite annoying and because this is a rental property I've not been able just to install blinds the the the blinds that you can install without any kind of Drilling into the wall and stuff don't fit over the over these glass so what I've done is I took a bunch of cardboard that I had lying around and I made like a wall of cardboard that I have put between I mean curtains kind of still curtains like but I put the cardboard between the blinds and the and glass and Looks so scuffed like I'm sure from the outside of people could saw it it would see it It would it looks so weird like there's random cardboard in in the window It's uh it blocks out the Sun quite well, but this woman came around And I'm I look at and she looks at me, and I'm like ah yeah like I just look at Sun It's not weird. That's why I just like okay. You know as long as They'll clean my home without taking an arm and leg in terms of cost I'll be happy and then I have to get my car Looked at for registration or whatever and then I'm done with all the small external things. I'm meant to be doing No, wait. I need to buy clothes fuck. You're not allowed to do any Drilling and rental property and trade. I mean you're not meant to do Like you don't want to install anything and anything like that on the walls and stuff I mean to ask for permissions I sent the real estate agents an email, but they never got back to me Yeah, I need clothes that aren't tank tops and aren't black shorts turns out you need those for some situation Oh, yeah, I am tempted to do that. Yeah, just do it see what it costs and just get it done What do I wear on dates? I just don't have dates solves that problem immediately now I did have some fancier clothes, but I've lost a better weight and I Know I can probably afford better stuff now and da da da dating app didn't work. I have been quite run down fatigue stressed miserable to varying degrees over the last couple of months and I have in a large part tried to keep my stresses to a minimum taking on fewer burdens or keeping things simpler Not stressing myself out as much the world seems to have been very keen to prevent me from being able to do this But I've still tried my best the dating app was one of those things that fell by the wayside I just figured that you know, I'll sort out my other stuff get myself a car Which I've done now, but I have to wait a couple months for it to get here. Give myself some clothes You know clean the house get some furniture and stuff And then maybe when I look like a respectable human being I'll get into it more |
| 19. July 2020 | My weird dream about losing my hair. | My weird dream about losing my hair. I had a weird dream where I had lost my hair but only wear a headphone strap would be. So I was just very confused how this could be the case and I don't know why I would dream that because I don't even wear headphones with the head strap. Maybe a part of me doesn't like the headphone head strap because I feel I'll lose my hair. Yeah guys you better move away from... Oh my god that's brilliant! I will use my platform to convince people that the headphone strap is bad and will make you lose your hair and then more companies will invest in the earphones that I like and so I can get a higher quality version of these earphones because I hate how flimsy this cord is and that there isn't like a $300 version of these headphones. That's genius! |
| 03. June 2020 | My work memories | From working at Kohl's for five years, what was your best, worst and funniest moment on the job? I don't remember. I've often talked about this on stream where people seem to have these vivid memories of weird situations they were in, crazy hijinks that they have all these stories. I don't have any of that kind of stuff for my younger life. I remember building a snowman out of ice and giving it little hands and stuff because I was in Fresh Produres. I remember I carved into the chopping table a smiley face or something with the name Matt next to it. One day the inspector came and my manager talked to me afterwards and he's like, You carved your name into the chopping board? I'm like, yes, so there's like 57,000 chopping board marks there. Like I'm surprised you even saw it, you even noticed. And he's like, yeah, but you can't do that man. Like you have to get a new chopping board or something. I'm like, what are you crazy? It's like it's a few marks and you're like we flip it over all the time. Like eventually you have to replace the chopping boards because they like slide out and stuff, but it's just dumb. It's like, yeah, I guess they were at the they were close to the end of their life anyway, but it's don't don't do that again man. I'm like, all right, well fair enough. Actually, I do have another story. The manager of the entire store said, hey, man, you're not doing much either. Can you can you help us out? Moving that stuff up onto the tops of all the shelves up here. You know how like excess stock and boxes and stuff is often put on the very top of the shelves. I was like, oh, you know, I kind of need to go whatever and I've got lunch and I'm busy. He's like, yeah, man, you make time, you do it. I'm like, all right, this is probably one of the first times this ever happened. And so I just looked at the pallet and I stacked literally every box on the pallet on the thing. And I know there's a day later, I know when he came to me, it's like. Matt, some of that was fish. Like what do you mean? It's like, Matt, you put every box on the top. I just I just said put half the pallet. I don't think you told me to put half the pallet up there. I just I just took the boxes and put them up like you told me. I'm pretty sure I told you half the boxes, man. We were there for like half an hour to an hour trying to figure out where the fucking smell was coming from. This terrible smell, it was it was the fish. It all gone terrible. I was like, I don't know, man, I just I don't know. And it's like, well, just don't do it again. I'm like, I won't do it. And have he ever asked me the entire time he was there, which is probably years, never asked me to another thing outside of my apartment ever again. I think also because the head, I think I probably asked me to do something a handful of other times. And every time he would ask me to do something, I'd be like, so this is what you said, right? This is what I'm meant to be doing. I come back every time like just clarifying. This is what you want me to do is like, yeah, that's that's that's why I told you, man. I just just kept asking fucking questions because I didn't want to fuck it up. And this one time I didn't ask multiple questions is when I fucked it up. Which is funny. But I remember the most thing. The thing I remember most about working at Coles was the satisfaction at the end of the night when I could look at the store and all the shelves were perfectly full. Everything in its exact right place and look beautiful and pristine. I love that shit. That you walk around and be like a job well done for the day. And that was a good feeling. Coles wasn't a terrible time for me, but it's not something I look back on and go, man, I really miss Coles. I fucking don't. |
| 10. July 2021 | My workout routine. | My workout routine. What is my workout routine? I do nothing and I complain about it |
| 08. November 2021 | My “leaked” email address | My leaked email address. This is clip that has been on my main channel for like two years where I jokingly try to refund GTA V after having played it for, you know, speedrun it for 5,000 hours at that point. And it has my other email address in it, but it's recently hit the clips channel. And so I've got like dozens of emails and people are going, ah, you're so dumb, you leaked your email address. Ha ha ha ha ha. And I'm like, this is a very old clip, my dude, from my main channel. This email address has been leaked for over two years. Some people email me out of care and consideration. Other people just try to clown on me. I just select all the emails, press spam, and move on with my day. It's just funny that people sincerely think I would leak my email address. Ah. |
| 26. September 2021 | Mystery is sometimes better than explanations in movies | Mystery is sometimes better than explanations in movies. Some things are better left unexplained. People were critical of Han Solo, the movie, because a lot of the things they explained, no one really wanted explained, and kind of when you explain something it just becomes more mundane in a way. There's a value to mystery you could say. Han Solo is a pretty good heist movie. Yeah, I didn't hate it. The thing I didn't like about the movie was that Han Solo was meant to be a douchebag that had to change a heart in Star Wars Episode 4. Like that was meant to be his his arc where at that point he's like, nah, I've been doing bad things my whole life. It's time to make a stand, time to do something different and help these people. But Han Solo sets up that he's always been that way. He's always been doing the right thing or whatever, which it changes the way that Thor is, right? The meta-chlorian thing was really fucking stupid. I prefer magic in stories to be not innately given. I prefer it to be something that anyone can learn if they're willing to make the sacrifice and take the time to learn, you know, and sacrifice with the time and blah blah blah, and they're particularly skilled. I hate it when it's just like, hey, this guy has the power of a god and he was born that way. Deal with it. It's like that Lady Gaga song just born this way just starts playing when the main character walks in. Don't like it. It doesn't kill the story for me, but I'm just saying like I have a preference. I feel like the savior story is done way too often. I need a hero. Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. You know. One Punch Man is different though, because it's um, it's satirizing that whole thing. |
| 18. October 2021 | NFTs are a scam | NFTs are a scam. My thoughts about the NFT stuff, it is so clearly a scam. All of it. Every single scaric of what NFTs are is a scam. It doesn't mean NFTs can't have some other practical use. And there are practical uses of the NFTs, but the whole buying and selling of NFTs and shit, scam. All of it. Is basically a technique for scummy people to funnel money from desperate people into their waltz. You buy some in the hopes of other people buying some and they having a random demand of other people wanting to buy it to make money. And then it just goes on from there. It's a lot of people who are just like buying their own NFTs to inflate the price. And then if you buy on, they're like, yes, I took something that was worth nothing and got this sucker to buy it for two grand. Yeah. It's like the art world, but somehow worse. Because at least art you can put on your wall and have people be like, oh, you've got that art. Are you in the art scam world? Interesting. Very pretty. |
| 22. December 2021 | NFTs are cringe | Can I explain NFTs to the folks at home? An NFT is a non fungible token. The reason why there's endless reasons why it's dumb, but the main thing is that when you get an NFT all you're doing is paying for a receipt of a particular thing that doesn't really have any value additional to the item itself. Because it's all digital. As in, if you had the receipt for the item, you don't actually have a copy of the item. So if whatever website is hosting that item goes down, you just lose the item. Like you've got a receipt for a thing that no longer exists because the NFT isn't actually a copy of that thing. It's just a receipt saying that you own that thing. It's just dumb. Like there's no additional value in like just having a digital image versus having the receipt for that digital image. There's no additional value there. You get the same value from the art just by looking at it. It's like going to Walmart and buying something just for the paper receipt. Exactly. Don't get me wrong. There are endless endless other reasons, but that's the biggest one. It's just dumb. People are either buying into it to launder money or they're buying into it trying to generate hype to increase the value so that they can you know pull the rug out on everyone else so they can get out while the bubble's big, you know. And now NFTs are legitimately cringe. As in like if I see a person with an NFT in their Twitter profile, I immediately think less of them. It's like hey, I own the one receipt to this piece of artwork. Yeah, but couldn't you just make like a bajillion different types of artwork that are ever so slightly different and therefore have a bajillion NFTs of us? Yes. Then how is that good? As in when you can when you can make an infinite supply of things that work for the same purpose, having one of them exclusively is pointless. It's just dumb, you know. It's like there being infinite keys that fit into a lock and you exclusively have key number 4,763. Who cares, you know? I have a monkey NFT that has a black eye patch. I've got one with a slightly different color of black eye patch. Wow, man, you got the exclusive rights to that particular slightly different color black eye patch. That's crazy. Why do I not do more with my channel points? |
| 19. January 2022 | NFTs in gaming are impressively dumb. | Non-Fungible Tokens in Gaming are Impressively Dumb So when I was talking to Mudaha, we had a small disagreement about the likely longevity of NFTs, right? I was very pessimistic, because while they're clearly very dumb, it seems that there are enough dumb people to not be willing to let this fad pass, and for us to move into hopefully something better. One of the biggest problems with NFTs is that you don't actually own an item, right? It's like, on the blockchain, you have like, a string of numbers, let's just say, right? And it connects to some other place, and in this, there is something. Whatever it is. And so, you don't own whatever this is. You don't own this JPEG. The JPEG isn't on the blockchain with this address that you own. You just own this address. This is what you own. You own the idea that you own whatever is here. So, whoever controls this place where this item is stored, can change it to whatever the fuck they want. And you can't be like, oh, but my item, no, you don't own the item, you own what's here. That's it. The blockchain cannot store an item. It doesn't store JPEGs and shit. You own whatever's in this box that is controlled by someone else. But worse than this, this address here thing is unique. It is exclusive. No one else can have another one that is exactly this. It is exclusive to you. This is yours. But another person can create a different NFT that links to another place where something is stored. And in that storage, the exact item can be. The exact fucking item. They're still unique. They're exclusive because you have the exclusive access to what's in this box. This person has exclusive access to what's in this box. There was only one of this in the universe and will only ever be one. But what's at the location is a duplicate of something else. You're purchasing a receipt to the idea that you own this location in some central authority. And if this authority, this place where items are stored, goes down, you have nothing. You still exclusively own this, but it connects nowhere. You own this string of digits, but where the thing was stored is gone. It's valueless. And so hypothetically speaking, someone else could create some new store or a new game and say, if you have this thing, I'm willing to let you have this item on my new place. But no one has to do that. And no one has a reason to do that. Because they're much better off saying, hey, you should buy a new NFT that connects to this address that has the same item again. Because they have no reason to give you access to something on the place that they control. Because they just lose the ability to sell you stuff. I put it this way on Twitter. People are talking about bringing NFTs into games. And it's just dumb. It's really dumb. How could NFTs in games be more valuable when the devs can produce an infinite amount of any item and that item is only usable within that game? If you have a skin in CSGO or an NFT of a skin, it has the exact same usability and scarcity, both of which Valve can destroy tomorrow. How are NFT skins centralized or giving gamers additional control? The devs control the value of your item. And if their game fails, you have nothing. Same as skins without NFTs. Just seems to be a needless addition to scam more people by convincing people skins have more value. The idea that every company will waste manpower to make it so they're compared as assets and infinite amounts work in their game is absurd. Ignoring copyright, your assets will be less secure because it isn't only Valve that can print a thousand dragon skin NFTs fucking anyone could. Why would companies knowingly give up control of their in-game marketplaces or give up exclusive ability to make assets in their game and sell them? Don't be fucking stupid. They're shoving the word NFTs on stuff to get people to buy more thinking it's an investment. Like legit. People sincerely believe that we're going to move into an area where if you own an address and in that address is one of the hypothetical infinite dragon skins CSGO skins, that other companies are going to be like, oh, you want to use a skin that you've paid us no money for within our game? Don't worry champ. Frank, can you program it in so this skin works and somehow makes sense within our universe? That its damage values and stuff actually make sense within our game? And well, okay, it makes no sense. We're a dark gloomy world and that's like a vibrant red and yellow skin. So it doesn't make sense for our atmosphere, but fuck it. Do it anyway, Frank. It will take you a while. Yeah, but that's fine. We're making no money off this, but that's okay. And so the devs come and go, hey guys, we've got our own skins that we're selling now. And the player base goes, I've already bought 50 skins in a different game. I've given them money. I've got my NFTs and my skins from that game. I'm just going to relocate my skins to your game and give you no money. Thank you for taking the time to make it so my skins work in your game, by the way. I'm going to give you no money. Because when a new game comes out, there is a very tiny amount of skins. And that makes it so that companies can sell those skins because everyone wants to look cool. But in the hypothetical reality where everyone's skins are NFTs and they work between games, there is now, whenever a game comes out, billions of skins, just billions upon billions. There's going to be no reason for anyone to buy skins in the new game because they already have a thousand skins from all the games that they've played. No company would willingly sink themselves this way. That is dumb. That is really dumb. One of the things that most keeps people playing these microtransaction games is the idea that if they go somewhere else, they lose all their value. They're like, oh no, if I stop playing World of Warcraft, I'm going to lose all these items. All this time I spent getting this particular cool looking mouse, it's going to go. I best keep playing World of Warcraft. But these people sincerely believe that companies, large companies, are going to make it so that your World of Warcraft mount will work in other places. Blizzard is going to be like, don't worry guys, fuck copyright. Yeah, you guys can just use the mounts and stuff in any game you want. Oh, you want to stop playing our game and take all your value elsewhere? No worries, champ. We don't want you playing the game anyway. That's dumb. That is so fucking dumb. |
| 14. November 2022 | NVIDIA gimped the 4090 so it can’t properly do 240hz 4k. | Nvidia gimped the 4090 so it can't properly do 240Hz 4K. The 4090 does not have DisplayPort 2.0, it has DisplayPort 1.4A. This means that for the monitors that are coming next year, the 4K 240Hz, the 4090 is not going to be able to do that without some compression algorithm or something. And it just seemed like such a weird decision. Like even if it's some fraction of a percent of people who need such things, it's just like, you're selling a card that's this goddamn expensive, why would you not put in a standard that was developed 3 years ago? Because I was going to look into, for the first time ever, going from 1440p to 4K, and that's how I found out about this stuff. I also found out that there's currently only one 4K 240Hz monitor. It's this one, by Samsung. It's a terrible picture of it. You can get like 4K 120Hz, or 4K like 165Hz I think, or you can get 1440p like 360Hz, maybe even 480Hz, but the combination of 4K 240Hz is one monitor, and it's a shitty fucking curved monitor. I wanted to do the jump from 165Hz to like the next one up, which is usually 240Hz, and I wanted to do the jump resolution wise as well, going from 1440p to 4K, and I found out, can't do it. Curved monitors aren't bad. They could be fine. I've never used one though, and they've never really appealed to me. Why curved monitors even think, as a person who's never used one, I can't say. Curved monitors are more comfortable for your eyes. Essentially the curvature of the monitor allows our eyes to take in everything at once without strain. Curved monitors feel more natural once you get used to them. I could buy it and then just review it in a video chat. I should start doing more of that stuff. Like I could just make a dedicated video and be like, hey guys, I got a 4090, here I'm doing some tests, yo. |
| 01. July 2020 | Nakeyjakey | Naky jakey Do I like Naky jakey? Yes, very talented dude. Naky jakey comes off as a very Genuine nice, dude. Obviously you can't really know who a youtuber is unless you know You know know them personally in real life and even then you might not know them because who knows anyone right? But I just mean Naky jakey just comes off as a very genuine dude that you'd love to be friends with or to Have a drink with you know that perhaps it's all a facade. Maybe in real life. He is a complete dick who knows? |
| 01. June 2021 | Narrative in GTA games | Narrative in GTA games. GTA 4 or SA? I like GTA 4 more. I just like the character of Niko Bellic. And I'm including the DLC with Battle of Gay Tony. Without Battle of Gay Tony maybe there's a bit more of an argument between SA and 4, but... What's that quote that Niko Bellic has about war? War is when the young and stupid are tricked by old and bitter into killing each other. War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing, Niko Bellic. Hahaha. GTA 5 story... I don't think you can have a story that focuses on multiple main characters that is ever going to be as impactful as one focused on a singular dude, right? This game is kind of like one overarching plot, which is, you know, the conflict between Trevor and Michael that is elongated by a bunch of smaller kind of side story stuff that doesn't really go anywhere. Like half the heists are, you do the heists and you end up in the exact same spot you were before the heist. Take the merry with the heist as the best example. Have I played Red Dead Redemption 2? Uh, no. In fact, I've never even heard of that game. What game is that? I wonder what it's about. Of course I've played it. You want to see me play Red Dead 2, it's on YouTube. And trust me, people leave comments on it every day like, oh my god, this is painful to watch. Oh my god, he has not played the game correctly. Oh my god, he keeps complaining. Shut up. Do I think I- |
| 24. August 2022 | Natural Vision Evolved Graphics mod for GTA 5 | Natural Vision Evolved Graphics Mod for GTA 5. So this came out. It's a new graphics mod for GTA 5. The mod is in active development and will have a full release in the future. Looks staggeringly beautiful. The trailer is amazing. Highly recommend going to check it out on the channel. Look how beautiful this looks. I am thinking about playing it. I guess there's a beta, so I, you know... I'm not sure what I'd do in it. That's what I always think about when it comes to these graphic mods. I would have to think of something else to do. Like maybe I could do a season of Chaos with this, but I'm not sure how Chaos would work with it. I'd imagine it'd crash even more. Like give me 15 FPS, it's like, you know... So from what I've heard, one of the reasons why this is hard for Rockstar to do is because this is made without much consideration for like, it being able to work on all hardware. I'm only repeating what I've been told when I brought up these objections before. So I can't tell you if this is true or not. This is what I've been told. Where this is, all this is like built on top of the game, creating additional load or whatever, that makes it harder for other systems to run. Where Rockstar has to make something that can work on, you know, very low-end systems and very high-end systems. And these things aren't made with heaps of consideration of that in mind. That doesn't excuse how much of a letdown Expand and Enhance was, but I'm just repeating what I've been told where Rockstar has more considerations than say, a small group like this would have, you know. Optimization surely is more of a problem for Rockstar than a model. Exactly. The trend of |
| 17. December 2020 | Ned Luke saw my anime prologue video. | Ned Luke saw my anime prologue video. Ned Luke, the voice actor for Michael, tweeted out my video yesterday and he said, now I've seen it all, five stars. My video was so unique and so well made that the boomer voice actor for Michael in this game actually tweeted out and gave it five stars. And still, it doesn't get any love on YouTube. And probably the primary reason for that is both the video's length but also the average watch time. Because once you've gotten the premise of, you know, being anime voices or whatever for prologue, then you can kind of, you know, you've got the premise. You don't need to hear the rest of it necessarily. Although I do think the entire video is pretty funny. |
| 01. July 2020 | Ned luke and pacifist | Update for my request of Ned Luke, the voice actor for Michael, to help me out with Pacifist percent. For Pacifist, I tried on Cameo to get Ned Luke to say me a particular line to use in one of the episodes and he wouldn't do it and someone mentioned it to Ned Luke on Twitter. I think it was just one sign like who was who was DarkviperAU or something. Has nothing to do with Rockstar whether or not I can do certain things, da-da-da. Mildly interesting. So not sure why he didn't end up doing a formula. Not that it really ended up hurting the episode. In fact, the joke I think he ended up using was just as good. But yeah, it is weird to think about whenever I play the game, I hear Michael's voice. I do think about Ned Luke now and it's it's weird how Ned Luke becoming more active on Twitter and streaming and stuff has influenced the way that I think about the character in the game. Which Pacifist episode? The one I think was the Blitzplay one. In the episode I insinuated that Michael was far too willing to help out Dave and Steve and I was gonna use that joke. You son of a bitch I'm in. There was a meme at the time that comes from Rick and Morty. But the the audio from the actual episode isn't clean enough for it to work. So I thought why not just get the actual actor to say it. So I would have had like Dave on screen and you just hear Michael's voice of him saying it. But he said he wouldn't do it. I explained it to him as best I could but he yeah. And I assumed it was some kind of a licensing thing that he suggests on Twitter. It's not the case. It's possible that he just doesn't want something done that can be taken out of context to make him look bad or something. I don't understand that. It's um, if you've ever seen the Cold Ones podcast with Chad and Max Moffo where they'll get like B-list celebrities or whatever to say particular things. Like I I know they they got some pen from Penn and Teller to say that he had AIDS. But he changed it to be about hearing aids rather than AIDS AIDS. Which is what they want him to say. I mean, I think they had Guilford Godfrey say the same thing. But he just did not give a shit. He just said the most vile stuff for whatever was a hundred bucks. Whatever that they gave him. I don't know. If you've never seen the video, it's it's it's a bit cringy, but somewhat funny. All these celebrities saying weird shit for money. I mean, I'll be frank with you. It's his loss. The video got like a million views and I would have mentioned it in the description and shit. So he probably would have had a lot of traffic go to his cameo. |
| 27. March 2022 | Needing to know Adobe Premiere as a professional editor | Needing to know Adobe Premiere as a professional editor. Me, Vander, yes, people have to have Adobe Premiere to edit for me. I'm not sure if this is the case with most other places that you'd work. Certainly in some enterprise sort of situations, there is a necessity for multiple people to work on the same project, and therefore they do need to all know how to use the same editing software. But I'm not sure if that's the case with most content creators. I think most content creators are just like, here is footage, you make video, you render it, you send it to me, and then I upload it on my YouTube channel. I am not that way. I am much more hands on. Adobe is mandatory in the film sector. That is what I've heard. From listening to me, like Linus and stuff. |
| 27. March 2022 | Needing to know adobe premiere as a professional editor | Needing to know Adobe Premiere as a professional editor. Me, Vander, yes, people have to have Adobe Premiere to edit for me. I'm not sure if this is the case with most other places that you'd work. Certainly in some enterprise sort of situations, there is a necessity for multiple people to work on the same project, and therefore they do need to all know how to use the same editing software. But I'm not sure if that's the case with most content creators. I think most content creators are just like, here is footage, you make video, you render it, you send it to me, and then I upload it on my YouTube channel. I am not that way. I am much more hands on. Adobe is mandatory in the film sector. That is what I've heard. From listening to me, like Linus and stuff. |
| 21. July 2020 | Needing to limit donations on big streams | Needing to limit donations at larger streaming sizes. Man, you appreciate if I have those, but Laserbeam can barely nurse $100. When, I mean, I heard Laserbeam had a stream with 900K viewers. There's a point where you're so large that effectively any acknowledgement of donations is going to lead to such a large spam that you get screwed. I'm nowhere close to that level. Like imagine if you had 900K viewers and you acknowledged everyone who gave $5. Your entire stream would just be acknowledging people who gave $5. Even at $100 at 900K viewers, that might be the case. I appreciate everything anyone's ever given me, but I'm still at the level where I can acknowledge everything that everyone gives me. There will be a time where that won't be the case if I continue to grow, which might not be the case. Maybe I'll beat a thousand the rest of my life, but I don't blame people who have like 50K viewers or whatever for not reading out every single sub or whatever. |
| 10. June 2020 | Negative Health Effects Of Sugarless Drinks | Content, the negative health effects of sugarless drinks. Why have you quit Pepsi Max? So I looked up more about Pepsi Max and like the actual evidence of Pepsi Max, all these diet sodas doing something harmful is quite slim because they're all studies that look at the correlations not causation, as in this diet Pepsi is linked to heart disease. And it's like, does it actually cause heart disease or is it just people more prone to heart disease are more likely to drink diet soda? Because you can see how that connection would be true. As in people who are already concerned about their health, whether they have diabetes or whatever, are more likely to avoid sugar than a person who's healthy. So it's unsurprising that a drink that is supposedly healthier is correlated with a lot of health issues in people because that's the very population of people who are more likely to drink the drink. Does it have a causal relationship though? It seems that the evidence is inconclusive. As far as harm to teeth, it doesn't cause decay in the same way that sugar does, but there's some other thing in Pepsi Max or diet Pepsi or whatever that has, well, just diet sodas in general, that has a corrosive effect on teeth. So if I can avoid it, I will, but I miss it, dude. I like drinking Pepsi Max. I doubt I'll ever be able to stop completely. I will try my hardest though. I've tried before and I always fail. Like I stopped for like a long period then I always end up going back when, whatever issue caused me to stop in the first place goes away. Brush your teeth before drinking it, after drinking some. I've heard you shouldn't do that. Your teeth are weaker or something and you just. |
| 17. December 2020 | Negative psychological effects of bad sleeping pattern | negative psychological effects from bad sleeping pattern my sleeping pattern gets screwed up and I'm waking up at like 8 p.m. and working through the a.m. my brain gets into this state of I wouldn't call it paranoia but I'm more susceptible to thinking that I suck or that people hate me or that I'm doing something wrong or that I'm a failure or saying it's not a great feeling because while I can recognize that the feelings are irrational that they're there at all it's just not a fun time and so with those feelings and being lower energy trying to stream is not usually fun anxiety and Pulse syndrome yeah I get that but it's it's mainly just with the sleep deprivation from the able-bodied Santana BRCamP |
| 03. June 2020 | Nervous when I am speaking about some topics | Why do you seem nervous when talking about subjects sometimes? Nervous is the wrong word. There are topics that I'm more or less certain on, where the answers are more or less definitive. Like to completely unpack a certain topic would require an hour, some kind of abridging things, and doing those abridgments take more... I have to think through what exactly I want to say, or else it might come out wrong and people will misunderstand what I'm saying. And certain topics I speak less on, so I less know what I'm going to say. I have to somewhat work out my own thoughts as I'm going on. Because I can't just sit here for five minutes going, let me just write an essay here dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. There you go, here's my answer. I don't have time to do that. Any nervousness that you see is less nervousness, and more just hesitancy on the topic. Is there a 10 out of 10? |
| 04. November 2021 | Nervousness when talking to others | Nervousness when talking to others I'm waiting to become an adult so I can talk to strangers without feeling like one of those kids that lost their parents at the Gro- in the grocery store Everyone's faking it to some extent right? Like everyone still has anxieties and worries and feels nervous when talking to people sometimes about different things Like everything it becomes easier with practice It's less a matter of becoming an adult and more just you know as you live more life you get more experience talking to people. |
| 24. May 2022 | Netflix vs YouTube | Netflix versus YouTube What's my opinion on some people canceling Netflix? There's just a lot of competition. It's just so many streaming services It's funny, right? All these rights holders are eventually going to realize that YouTube is a real big competitor for their streaming services YouTube is just so much more easily accessible Like YouTube is taking in revenues the same as Netflix Netflix is playing it pain like an astronomical amount and licensing fees where YouTube is not I'm just I'm surprised that these rights holders haven't tried to Bite into YouTube more fuck it up somehow YouTube video quality is also comparable to big media and a lot of circumstances Usually the line goes up style documentaries exactly YouTube and tik tok are generally genuinely 25% of what I watch It's probably like maybe 50% YouTube for me 25% tik tok and 25% other streaming services, but I think for younger demographics No, there's more the social media stuff in there, but for the older demographics that is not as much the case. That's probably why these companies have Less felt unnecessary to take a chunk out of YouTube. They probably feel secure enough as is With those audiences. I don't know you spend 40% on Twitch Like I suppose the reason as I've said before yeah when I didn't do as much YouTube editing I watched way more Twitch because you can kind of like twitches for when you have like a lot of free time or your ears Are free, but because I don't play video games Offstream anymore. There's no reason for you to have twitch as a background noise And you can't just stop twitch For half an hour and not miss stuff because that's how I do things like I'll edit for 45 minutes pause it Watch a YouTube video until I feel guilty After like 5-10 minutes that I'm not working and then I'll go back to work And how many streaming services are my subs are like probably six or something. I don't know I'm not sure no No, I can't be that many. I mean Disney plus Stan Netflix Country roll I think the if animation is still separate in this country roll |
| 24. September 2022 | Netflix's Cyberpunk Edgerunners made me cry | Netflix's cyberpunk edge runners made me cry. So initially, I just completely skipped over this show. I saw it on Netflix and I was like, I don't care about that, man. Eh, eh. So I wrote this review on Twitter. Netflix's cyberpunk edge runners made me feel stuff. This is the highest praise I can give any media. The 10 episodes were a wild ride that I recommend to everyone. Who would imagine that one show could sell me on an entire sub genre of science fiction while emotionally ruining me? I have never at any point been interested in cyberpunk. I don't care about the aesthetic or the stories in it, but this sold me on it. I wanna see more of it. I cried at the end of the show, Chad. I was to some degree a little bit tired and already a little bit emotionally vulnerable, but I think it was mainly carried by the show. Literal tears, very impactful. A story that I think is gonna sit with me for a long time. I'm not saying it's gonna change my life or it's made me reflect on the world or something, but it was a very, very well told story in my opinion. Maybe one tiny criticism that can be made of it is that some may consider it to be rushed. There's 10 episodes. I think if they'd made 11 or 12, you probably would have had a few more scenes go a little bit longer, but it's like making that criticism is, you know, working to find criticisms with something. It is as perfect as you can get from a show. It has convinced me that I do wanna play through Cyberpunk. I did play it three hours near release and I was not super impressed by it, but I wanna see more of this world. It's impressive how we went from video game adaptations in regards to movies being all universally terrible to now us getting some really banging TV show adaptations of video games. |
| 22. February 2022 | Netflix’s arcane | Show Arcane on Netflix, which is an adaptation of League of Legends. Have you watched Arcane on Netflix yet? I was watching as it released, as in like, um, week to week or whatever. It's one of the greatest shows of all time. It might be one of the few 10 out of 10 shows that have ever been made. And I was sad to hear that it took six years to make, but that was six years without like, it's probably six years, including like shopping around the idea and, you know, storyboarding it and stuff and thinking about the designs. Now it's a more, it actually exists and it's shown itself, you know, I'm sure the next season will take less time, but, uh, I wasn't surprised to hear it took that long because of how good it was. I mean, it's rare to find somebody who doesn't like Arcane, honestly. You haven't watched, what's the theme? Basically, it's, it's based in the League of Legends universe. They're basically, uh, creating lore for the world. It's hard to explain. It's just beautifully written. The voice acting is amazing. The, the artistry is amazing. Like look it up, I'm sure on IMDB, it's probably like 10 out of 10. It's just amazing. You don't need to know anything. It is a standalone thing. Like there's no benefit to knowing anything about League of Legends. I don't know anything about League of Legends. I loved it. As a matter of fact, you're probably better off knowing nothing because you won't be like, Oh, I wonder who that character is or whatever. It's not like a lore series. It's just a series that brings inspiration or characters from the franchise. Arcane will forever be one of those shows where it's not obviously like what show can I watch the very first thing you say is have you seen Arcane? |
| 28. July 2022 | Never eat before you sleep | Never eat before you sleep. I was going to bed and I was so hungry. I'm like, I can't be this hungry and go to bed. I need to have a good night's sleep. And that's dumb thinking because eating before you go to sleep is the worst way to have a good night's sleep. But I was just so hungry. I'm like, I just have to take the risk. So I went to my fridge and I got myself some salami and I'm like, when did I buy this salami? Smells alright. It should be fine. I ate it. It was, I don't think it was fine chat. Did not make sleeping easier and I feel terrible today. I ate something else when I woke up because I was still hungry and it made it even worse and I feel fucking raps. What's worse is Telstra called me up and interrupted my sleep. I did not feel good. People will forgive any- |
| 16. January 2021 | Never knowing how other minds differ from your own - Aphantasia, imagination, what is “normal”? | Never knowing how other minds differ from your own. Aphantasia, imagination, what is normal? I wish I had finished watching this video, but I just found something out. Explain first, okay? This is a fun thing. Okay? Aphantasia is this effect where you can't imagine images or you can't visualize images. You don't have a mind's eye. So picture in your head a red star. Visualize it. Everyone who exists will be able to visualize something on this spectrum. So some people will have a perfect red star in their head. That's me. I can visualize perfectly a red star. I can make it spin. I can even visualize myself throwing it up in the air. Some people will be hard on the color. Honestly, sometimes I'm between these two. The color seems almost superfluous, but I can get the color if I try. Some people no color. Or some people like a bare image and then some people nothing. Right? And so I thought that's all there was. But in this video, not specifically related to this, but this is what Tom Scott says on. University of London, who are investigating olfactory mental imagery, the ability to imagine sense. I got a load of suggested questions from people who are interested in aphantasia. Aphantasia is people who don't have a mind's eye, but that's already been polled a lot. This is asking whether you have a mind's nose. It took a while to hammer out the question into a form that would work for the polling company, so it's not perfect. It does exclude folks who can imagine smells but can't imagine pictures or sounds, but that should just be a very small number of people. Here are the results from the public. So I can't imagine tastes. I literally can't do that. I can picture in my head a sunflower. I have no idea what it smells like. I know I like the smell of sunflowers. If you ask me, what does a sunflower smell like? Or what is similar to a sunflower smell? I cannot tell you. I can smell stuff very well. It's just the mental imagery of it. So I remember all the things that I like to eat, but I can't tell you what they taste like. I can't visualize the taste of a steak. I can a little bit do the texture, but not the smell or the taste. It's like I mentioned this previously when I was watching Trash Taste, and they're talking about, oh, but no, it's this part of the bacon. You don't understand, this part tastes so much better than this other part. Are you insane? What about all this food? And they're talking with this vivid memory of all the different ways in which the food varies and why they like this food over the other. And I'm sitting there going, I don't understand any of this. I have no idea how they're able to do it. Like I can't tell you what Vegemite smells like. I can tell you like it smells pungence, as in it's a strong feeling, a strong sense, but I don't know what that smell actually is. I'm talking about my response to the smell, and I'm inferring this from people's responses to Vegemite. I can't bring to mind what Vegemite smells like. When people say like, oh, does this taste sweet or sour? I don't know what sweet is. I don't really know what sour is. When I think of sour, I think of food that is called sour, like sour gumdrops or whatever. And I think of my response to eating them, which is, you know, it's why when I said to people it's really hard to explain what rainbow paddle pops taste like. And people like, it's caramel, Matt. It's caramel. I'm like, really? And I was completely baffled. I've eaten caramel many times, but I only know that things contain caramel. Not that like they are caramel or whatever, right? Or to be fair, I'm not 100% sure what caramel even is. But I know I'm pretty sure like curly whirly's, the chocolates that I enjoy, have caramel within them. And I recognize caramel not by taste, but the way it looks. It's like a creamy brown. So the only reason I think curly whirly and a Mars bar have caramel in them is because they both have something that visually I can remember looks like caramel. And so when you told me that a rainbow paddle pop has a caramel taste, I was very confused because it doesn't look like caramel. Like I was so happy when I heard about our fantasia. I'm like, oh, good. Like I don't have this inability to do visual puzzles and stuff. Like I'm very good at visual puzzles. I can take one of those, you know, put all the cubes and you just spit it in your mind and stuff. I can do that in a fucking heartbeat. But visualizing a smell, a taste, can't do it. Do I ever crave foods then? No, I crave satiation. Like when I'm really hungry, I crave food and I associate certain foods with a greater ability to appease and satiate me. But this is different. That's mentally, but physically my body still craves certain things. Like it wants sugar. It feels withdrawal. But I don't recall ever craving a taste necessarily. I wonder if you enjoy food more because your sensation of taste is rediscovered each time. I don't think it is. I don't think so. I've never found myself to be a particular lover of food. I've said many times, high quality steak is completely lost on me. It's almost like everything exists on a binary. Either I like it or I don't like it. That's it. It's not entirely true because I do remember while eating certain foods, enjoying some things more than others. In the moment I do taste things and I have preferences on that basis, but I don't remember the taste. I'm trying really hard right now to remember the taste of that chocolate that I ate downstairs. I feel like I'm almost there. I know I enjoyed it. I don't know. Very strange. Very weird feeling. I can't imagine taste or remember taste. As I've said before, I don't know how people are meant to be. I've only ever been myself. When you run across these things where people seem to have capabilities that you don't and that they seem to take them for granted, you're like, oh really? You know? Because we talked about aphantasia before and people were bad. My mother was baffled. She was like, oh, you can actually visualize a red star in your head. That's weird. You know? As I say though, I don't think it will massively impact your life if you lack a mind's eye or the ability to imagine spells and stuff. It hasn't seemed to massively impact my life, but it has, I think, impacted my desire to go out and seek new experiences in a way, perhaps. So if you have fed something without looking at it, would you be able to name it? That's a good question. Maybe while experiencing it, I think I would be able to. Because that wouldn't be... Surely I'd be able to. Because I think I could tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi in the moment. Like I can't describe to you the difference between Coke and Pepsi. I can't right now remember or imagine the difference between them. But I know I've had them both and I can tell the difference between them. So I'd assume that when drinking them, I'd be able to tell you the difference. But to me, most people can't taste well enough to name individual ingredients they're eating. Maybe I'm overthinking it. As they say, I don't know what is normal for you to be able to do. Do I like beer? No. But what does beer taste like? Do I drink whiskey? No. I prefer bourbon. But like I can say, for example, I'm pretty sure the reason why I like bourbon over whiskey is because whiskey tastes harsher. Is that a taste? Harsh? That's like a feeling. Is a feeling different from a taste? I know my response to drinking whiskey is one of great dissatisfaction. Isn't harshness like a response to a taste? I guess these are just things I've never really considered or thought about before. Whiskey has a herb taste? What the fuck is a herb taste? Can I imagine songs? So when I imagine a song, it's like, da da da, da da da, da da da da da da, da da da da da da da da da. Like I can play that in my head, but it goes the same way with the da da da, as if I'm speaking internally. It's easier if I visualize a person actually playing it or doing something that I would consider to be associated with the playing. Like I can visualize a person on a piano, but it's still sound, in my head it's still da da da da da, like not the actual sounds, but the words that are kind of singing the sound. Can you imagine the record song? It's still the same. It's da na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na But in my head, it's that as I'm seeing it, da da da da da da, with the da like that. That's exactly what it sounds like. It's not the sound absent the da, it is the da's to make the sound. I don't know if there's a difference. Is that how it's meant to be? If you were to look at a picture of chocolate, would you be able to imagine the taste best way to put it? I tried doing it and it's kind of easier. I mean I can imagine chocolate cake in a heartbeat, but no I can't. I know I like chocolate cake, but I can't tell you whether, like I would describe the taste of chocolate cake as rich, but I can't tell you whether that's me describing my actual feelings on the matter or because I've heard chocolate cake described as rich many times. I can't tell you what a rich taste is or what a rich taste tastes like. I'm completely clueless. When I do this, I have like a feeling like I'm like a millimeter away from breaking through into a cavern of information about what I'm looking at and it's the most frustrating feeling is |
| 16. January 2021 | Never knowing how other minds differ from your own - aphantasia, imagination, what is “normal”? | Never knowing how other minds differ from your own. Aphantasia, imagination, what is normal? I wish I had finished watching this video, but I just found something out. Explain first, okay? This is a fun thing. Okay? Aphantasia is this effect where you can't imagine images or you can't visualize images. You don't have a mind's eye. So picture in your head a red star. Visualize it. Everyone who exists will be able to visualize something on this spectrum. So some people will have a perfect red star in their head. That's me. I can visualize perfectly a red star. I can make it spin. I can even visualize myself throwing it up in the air. Some people will be hard on the color. Honestly, sometimes I'm between these two. The color seems almost superfluous, but I can get the color if I try. Some people no color. Or some people like a bare image and then some people nothing. Right? And so I thought that's all there was. But in this video, not specifically related to this, but this is what Tom Scott says on. University of London, who are investigating olfactory mental imagery, the ability to imagine sense. I got a load of suggested questions from people who are interested in aphantasia. Aphantasia is people who don't have a mind's eye, but that's already been polled a lot. This is asking whether you have a mind's nose. It took a while to hammer out the question into a form that would work for the polling company, so it's not perfect. It does exclude folks who can imagine smells but can't imagine pictures or sounds, but that should just be a very small number of people. Here are the results from the public. So I can't imagine tastes. I literally can't do that. I can picture in my head a sunflower. I have no idea what it smells like. I know I like the smell of sunflowers. If you ask me, what does a sunflower smell like? Or what is similar to a sunflower smell? I cannot tell you. I can smell stuff very well. It's just the mental imagery of it. So I remember all the things that I like to eat, but I can't tell you what they taste like. I can't visualize the taste of a steak. I can a little bit do the texture, but not the smell or the taste. It's like I mentioned this previously when I was watching Trash Taste, and they're talking about, oh, but no, it's this part of the bacon. You don't understand, this part tastes so much better than this other part. Are you insane? What about all this food? And they're talking with this vivid memory of all the different ways in which the food varies and why they like this food over the other. And I'm sitting there going, I don't understand any of this. I have no idea how they're able to do it. Like I can't tell you what Vegemite smells like. I can tell you like it smells pungence, as in it's a strong feeling, a strong sense, but I don't know what that smell actually is. I'm talking about my response to the smell, and I'm inferring this from people's responses to Vegemite. I can't bring to mind what Vegemite smells like. When people say like, oh, does this taste sweet or sour? I don't know what sweet is. I don't really know what sour is. When I think of sour, I think of food that is called sour, like sour gumdrops or whatever. And I think of my response to eating them, which is, you know, it's why when I said to people it's really hard to explain what rainbow paddle pops taste like. And people like, it's caramel, Matt. It's caramel. I'm like, really? And I was completely baffled. I've eaten caramel many times, but I only know that things contain caramel. Not that like they are caramel or whatever, right? Or to be fair, I'm not 100% sure what caramel even is. But I know I'm pretty sure like curly whirly's, the chocolates that I enjoy, have caramel within them. And I recognize caramel not by taste, but the way it looks. It's like a creamy brown. So the only reason I think curly whirly and a Mars bar have caramel in them is because they both have something that visually I can remember looks like caramel. And so when you told me that a rainbow paddle pop has a caramel taste, I was very confused because it doesn't look like caramel. Like I was so happy when I heard about our fantasia. I'm like, oh, good. Like I don't have this inability to do visual puzzles and stuff. Like I'm very good at visual puzzles. I can take one of those, you know, put all the cubes and you just spit it in your mind and stuff. I can do that in a fucking heartbeat. But visualizing a smell, a taste, can't do it. Do I ever crave foods then? No, I crave satiation. Like when I'm really hungry, I crave food and I associate certain foods with a greater ability to appease and satiate me. But this is different. That's mentally, but physically my body still craves certain things. Like it wants sugar. It feels withdrawal. But I don't recall ever craving a taste necessarily. I wonder if you enjoy food more because your sensation of taste is rediscovered each time. I don't think it is. I don't think so. I've never found myself to be a particular lover of food. I've said many times, high quality steak is completely lost on me. It's almost like everything exists on a binary. Either I like it or I don't like it. That's it. It's not entirely true because I do remember while eating certain foods, enjoying some things more than others. In the moment I do taste things and I have preferences on that basis, but I don't remember the taste. I'm trying really hard right now to remember the taste of that chocolate that I ate downstairs. I feel like I'm almost there. I know I enjoyed it. I don't know. Very strange. Very weird feeling. I can't imagine taste or remember taste. As I've said before, I don't know how people are meant to be. I've only ever been myself. When you run across these things where people seem to have capabilities that you don't and that they seem to take them for granted, you're like, oh really? You know? Because we talked about aphantasia before and people were bad. My mother was baffled. She was like, oh, you can actually visualize a red star in your head. That's weird. You know? As I say though, I don't think it will massively impact your life if you lack a mind's eye or the ability to imagine spells and stuff. It hasn't seemed to massively impact my life, but it has, I think, impacted my desire to go out and seek new experiences in a way, perhaps. So if you have fed something without looking at it, would you be able to name it? That's a good question. Maybe while experiencing it, I think I would be able to. Because that wouldn't be... Surely I'd be able to. Because I think I could tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi in the moment. Like I can't describe to you the difference between Coke and Pepsi. I can't right now remember or imagine the difference between them. But I know I've had them both and I can tell the difference between them. So I'd assume that when drinking them, I'd be able to tell you the difference. But to me, most people can't taste well enough to name individual ingredients they're eating. Maybe I'm overthinking it. As they say, I don't know what is normal for you to be able to do. Do I like beer? No. But what does beer taste like? Do I drink whiskey? No. I prefer bourbon. But like I can say, for example, I'm pretty sure the reason why I like bourbon over whiskey is because whiskey tastes harsher. Is that a taste? Harsh? That's like a feeling. Is a feeling different from a taste? I know my response to drinking whiskey is one of great dissatisfaction. Isn't harshness like a response to a taste? I guess these are just things I've never really considered or thought about before. Whiskey has a herb taste? What the fuck is a herb taste? Can I imagine songs? So when I imagine a song, it's like, da da da, da da da, da da da da da da, da da da da da da da da da. Like I can play that in my head, but it goes the same way with the da da da, as if I'm speaking internally. It's easier if I visualize a person actually playing it or doing something that I would consider to be associated with the playing. Like I can visualize a person on a piano, but it's still sound, in my head it's still da da da da da, like not the actual sounds, but the words that are kind of singing the sound. Can you imagine the record song? It's still the same. It's da na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na But in my head, it's that as I'm seeing it, da da da da da da, with the da like that. That's exactly what it sounds like. It's not the sound absent the da, it is the da's to make the sound. I don't know if there's a difference. Is that how it's meant to be? If you were to look at a picture of chocolate, would you be able to imagine the taste best way to put it? I tried doing it and it's kind of easier. I mean I can imagine chocolate cake in a heartbeat, but no I can't. I know I like chocolate cake, but I can't tell you whether, like I would describe the taste of chocolate cake as rich, but I can't tell you whether that's me describing my actual feelings on the matter or because I've heard chocolate cake described as rich many times. I can't tell you what a rich taste is or what a rich taste tastes like. I'm completely clueless. When I do this, I have like a feeling like I'm like a millimeter away from breaking through into a cavern of information about what I'm looking at and it's the most frustrating feeling is |
| 20. February 2021 | Never knowing what it feels like to be someone else | Never really knowing what it feels like to be someone else What's that? What's that song of the old battle of history? What's that? What's that song? Try to think of some old viral new grounds or YouTube ish thing. You know what I'm talking about? Ultimate showdown that's it. This is the ultimate showdown Vaguely remember that shit sometimes I seem to have a lot of worse of a memory or least in terms of my ability to recall things I don't have great distinct memories of my past like other people seem to but I can when I have some need To join together facts. I can do that But distinct memories of my past like personal past seems very hard for me sometimes like just it's just weird seeing people sometimes recounting stories and As though they're like reliving their past as they like regale everyone like oh, I remember this one time March 1954 it was bloody and I Said many times like I wish I could experience what it's like To be another person how their brain works or how their body feels like Because people are so diverse in terms of how their minds work and how their bodies work and stuff and like you can read Reddit posts about people The question be something like what's a weird quirk of your body and people like oh, you know like whenever I take four steps my Left knee pops not sure what that's about it just happens. Well, I saw a post yesterday where a guy He believed that it was normal for a person's Libido or it's normal for a person to get sexually aroused after they do exercise and there's And so his entire life. He thought everyone experienced this so he'd before having sex He'd let go for a run with his partner It took him it took 30 years for him to realize that this isn't a normal thing So his entire life he'd been making like his partners go for runs or exercise and shit before sex for fucking no reason And so he'd confronted his exes about this and they were like, yeah, we I just thought you were really into yourself like It's like I felt so fucking embarrassed so I mean right you just there are things that each of us probably takes For granted or just assumes about our everyday lives that we think this is common for everyone that isn't true It's like when people find out that some people Like people either sit down or stand up to wipe their ass When they go to the bathroom and when they find out that other people don't do what they do they go what really? No way Simple things like that, you know your lived everyday experience Even in simple things isn't necessarily the same for everyone else, you know, I don't want to get into a conversation about that chat I'm sorry for bringing it up. Whatever you do is acceptable I didn't want to get into a conversation about that chat. I'm sorry for bringing it up. Whatever you do is acceptable |
| 08. June 2020 | Never reading Twitch chat ever | Would I accept to pay us to never read twitch chat again? Matt turning into ninja not reading a chat. Oh, man. Don't say that wait Would I never read chat again for 50 million dollars? Yeah, I'd have to say yeah as much. I love you guys Fifteen million dollars is a lot of money guess that I just read YouTube comments or something 25 million probably do it for 25 mil like enough money to live comfortably the rest of my life Yeah, I Probably wouldn't do it for $3 million like somewhere in the ballpark of that and we're talking Australian dollars here. I wouldn't do it for $1 million now |
| 08. June 2020 | Never reading twitch chat ever | Would I accept to pay us to never read twitch chat again? Matt turning into ninja not reading a chat. Oh, man. Don't say that wait Would I never read chat again for 50 million dollars? Yeah, I'd have to say yeah as much. I love you guys Fifteen million dollars is a lot of money guess that I just read YouTube comments or something 25 million probably do it for 25 mil like enough money to live comfortably the rest of my life Yeah, I Probably wouldn't do it for $3 million like somewhere in the ballpark of that and we're talking Australian dollars here. I wouldn't do it for $1 million now |
| 24. September 2022 | New 4000 NVIDIA graphics cards | New 4000 series Nvidia graphics cards So you guys are likely heard the 4000 series has now been announced from Nvidia Where the top card the 4090 the one that I want to get is what was it $1,500? 1600 USD it's apparently like a massive improvement over the 3090 even though it's gonna be like a hundred dollars more or something But obviously there's not many people who shop at that kind of price point It does not make ever make sense to get a GPU that powerful unless you're doing it for business reasons as I'm doing The better my stuff looks the faster my rendering the the more powerful my system the easier it is for me to do stuff The 4000 series also has a new nvenc encoder. This will hopefully improve my stream quality Whatever small increase to my productivity eventually I get my money back from buying ridiculously expensive hardware So who cares it is crazy how powerful graphics cards are now you can get insane value cards for a couple of hundred bucks It's pretty nuts 4090 is a tax write-off. It is tax deductible Yes, but I want to reaffirm what something I say all the time people overestimate how valuable Tax write-offs are it's not free money or something. It never makes sense for me financially to buy things I don't need for the tax deductions all it means is that on that Amount of my income that I'm spending on the item. I don't pay tax on it So if I buy something for a thousand dollars, I have an item worth a thousand dollars But if I didn't buy that item, I might pay three hundred dollars in tax and so I'd be left with seven hundred dollars So I have a choice between having seven hundred dollars in money in my pocket versus having an item worth a thousand dollars That's kind of how that works. But if that item worth a thousand dollars has no value to me There's no reason to buy it If it's not gonna make me money and it's just gonna depreciate in value. I it's better just to have the seven hundred dollars It's not free. I'm still paying in this particular instance seven hundred dollars for it effectively but it's the reason why you sometimes see like end of financial year sales and stuff because companies are saying hey You want to buy some things for your business? You may as well because if you don't spend that money on your business, you'll be given it to the taxman or at least some of it It's meant to incentivize business spending rather than sticking that money in your bank account. I think you can you can |
| 09. February 2023 | New AI makes react content on Twitch. | New AI makes react content on Twitch. So this was kinda gross. So there is a live streamer right now that claims to be like an AI machine learning algorithm. So a AI Twitch streamer. The name is Vettel987. And this could all be faked, right? It could all be faked. Uh, who knows? But... What do you guys, what do you think I smell like? Let me know in the comments section below. Don't forget to subscribe if you liked this video and I hope to see you in my next video. Thanks as always for supporting me, everyone here at Vtuber and I hope you're having a wonderful day wherever you are around the globe. Okay, so if it isn't AI, it sounds a lot like AI. Right? Like I don't know how it works, but it seems somewhat based on like what people are saying in chat, what's going on. I find it hard to believe that it's also playing the game. I haven't watched enough to be able to assess that, but people seem to like it enough that this streamer has between like 2 and 3,000 viewers. Or at least they did until yesterday when the AI started doing React content from Jake Lucky. Twitch AI streamers are now doing React content and she's averaging 5K concurrent viewers doing it. This is so crazy. 5,000 people watching this chat. It's almost like, almost, the main appeal of React content is having a curated source of entertaining footage and an audience to watch it with and that the streamers themselves is fairly irrelevant. Yeah, so new developments in the world of AI, scummy crap and React content. I just wish this had existed, that I could have just linked to like the hundred or so people over the last couple of months who've been like, um, actually, React content takes a lot of skill and knowledge and effort. I mean, it's just, you need a certain kind of entertaining personality to pull off React content. Some people are that deluded, chat. It's nuts. Just to be clear, I am gonna be talking about React content less in general. It's just, this is like a combination of all the hot memes right now. |
| 23. November 2020 | New AMD GPUs and Intel vs AMD | Was my opinion on AMD's new GPU it looks fucking amazing. I still can't use it because I Looked at looked into it the encoder for the AMD GPU for streaming isn't very good it's not even as good as the the x264 whatever it's called The Nvidia stuff is just light years ahead as a streamer I can't buy it, but if you're not streaming the AMD stuff especially for the price I mean the the water the what is it 6700 XT or whatever that's called It seems way better than 3090 it like at this point. It's just what can you get in stock? They all seem to be good cards. Well think about Intel's and AMD's competition. I mean AMD is just crushing Intel right Not in terms of market share It's um with every passing year whatever AMD takes a little bit more Right with AMD now being in the PlayStation 5 the new Xbox series whatever you want to call it With Steam showing year-on-year More people using AMD CPUs and whatnot the actual hardware itself from AMD being so much better than what Intel's on offer right now offering right now AMD is crushing it, but like Intel is still much bigger than AMD right Like how is Intel versus AMD going on the on the server side of things? I want to say the majority of CPUs is Servers and stuff right like Reliability is something that you'd care a lot about with servers, and you'd imagine you would have like It's set up years in advance What you're going to be buying to? Replace your current infrastructure whatever right you can't just at the drop of the hat by tens of thousands of dollars Tens of thousands of new CPUs whatever Server side should be running Intel Why is that though is is it because of what I'm saying that it's a matter of reliability and This stuff all being in advance like you know in advance what you're moving towards and so you're like five years ago You're saying okay. We're gonna get this next we're gonna get this upgrade Five years from now dadada and even though AMD might be better in a way or cheaper Possibly it still doesn't mean that everyone's just gonna be winning at the drop of a hat to change that huge amount of Infrastructure like you would imagine you would imagine then after a little while of the CPUs being more tested AMD will start to make ground on that in that domain as well And there's a lot of services that support Intel and the reliability is way better on Intel Yeah, I guess that's possible that a lot of things could have been designed specifically with Intel in mind because of how long they've had dominance But I mean again if AMD is better in what they're offering then it would just be a matter of time right before the transfer occurs I use AMD for my CPU, and I will get the 5000 series the nanosecond I can It's it's just better in every regard if I wasn't a streamer And I was getting a GPU at least with the preliminary stuff that has been shown I would probably get an AMD GPU as well Especially because it apparently has some advantages if you have a AMD CPU and an AMD GPU But because I'm a streamer, and I care about the encoder. I need the Nvidia encoder so GPU encoding is just far more efficient rule and it's gotten to the point where it's the same quality if not better Would I bet $1,000 Biden would win? |
| 27. November 2020 | New Among Us map and my idea for a sabotage | The Among Us new map and my idea of a new sabotage. Yeah, I saw the picture of the new Among Us map. I'm less interested in the map itself and more interested in if there's different mechanics or whatever, as in you can sabotage. What else could you sabotage in a ship? Navigation or something. You're going to crash unless you fix it or something. But ultimately, that would just be a repeat of like O2 or reactor, whatever. Like, what other mechanic could you put in? What would be good, actually, is if they had a mechanic that was like a gas leak, which had a hallucinogen effect where you do the sabotage. And for a certain amount of time, the character models of different people are swapped on your screen. And let's say it's not even consistent for everyone. It would be kind of like turning off the lights, but with an added bit of confusion and need for discussion. And, you know, because of like, how would I know that there was a person in reactor if I wasn't actually in reactor? You know, you have to justify that you were actually in this location rather than another location that the person is in. |
| 22. March 2022 | New DarkViperAU food review. | We were done. New Dark Viper EU food review. Can we get another food review? This air that I'm eating right now, it's pretty good. Good quality, good texture, good temperature. Recommend to all interested. Is the air vegan? Ah, no, it contains pig fat. I don't know why I said that. Okay, a lot of gluten too, so if you don't like that, I'm going to... |
| 14. June 2021 | New GTA Online content doesn't excite me | GTA online content doesn't excite me What do you think of the new update coming out next week in GTA online? I don't follow any of that stuff. I see people upload videos and they're like hey this new panther statue and da da da and I'm like oh that's interesting Not really. I don't know. Nothing that comes out for GTA online like blows me away. The K.O. Perico House kinda did because it was like oh what it's like repurposing single-player assets You see some of the characters again as the story and You know da da. It's a single-player heist. That's new but uh Most of the stuff that seems to be released for online is just treading the same ground as before. Here is a new car Here is a new shiny thing with the rock on it. It's like alright It's actually a kugis actually. For unlimited money and due to online PC just use a cheat engine I mean cheat engines I don't think work for online. Cheat engine is usually a pretty simple way of modding the game that I'm sure would get captured. Cheat engine works for online? That's surprising. That's pretty bad on Rockstar's part. Unlimited money in GTA online is easy just use your parents credit card. True. It's not really theft because eventually that money would be yours right because you inherit it one day so it's basically yours now. My hope honestly is that at Rockstar everyone was sitting around a table and they were like look we can either fix things for GTA online or We can put extra effort into making the next version of GTA online even better as long as the next one Doesn't have all this garbage. I'll be happy but then again Red Dead 2 was not an improvement I mean Red Dead Online sorry But that also was likely in development for years like because they weren't they working on the base game for like five to seven years They didn't start working on Red Dead Online until August 2018 two months before the release of Red Evidention 2. Really? Well, I'll take your word for it. That surprises me even for Rockstar, but that would explain why it was quite shit. But surely Surely given how much money they've made in GTA online They will put a lot of effort into the next one. Do you think Online could have had missions versus other players than AI? be very hard thing to balance and and exploits or issues or whatever, you know people grieving would be so hard |
| 29. January 2023 | New GTA Online exploit allows modders to ruin your account. | Such people clearly don't know me very well. New GTA Online exploit allows modders to ruin your accounts. Hopefully by the time this gets in rambles it will be old news, but... As Tez reports, new extreme exploits have appeared allowing cheaters to remotely add, remove, modify your stats and permanently corrupt your account aka ban slash delete. Avoid playing without a firewall rule or playing at all. Thanks to Henry Got Taken for notifying. So these are the new things they can do. Change your rank, unlocks, corrupt your account, remove money, put you in bad sport, whatever the fuck it is for rockstar. You can give money and that can also get you banned and all that jazz. So here you can see the results of this effects. But also I've seen multiple people, even content creators like whatever57010 and pretty sure Morse Mutual both got screwed by these new mods. These new hacks, these new cheats, whatever. Absolute garbage. I think Morse Mutual was able to get his account back by deleting some files and whatever57010 got his account back with the help of a good modder. So for the foreseeable future I can't even play GTA Online. It's possible that Guardian could defend me. Guardian being the program that changes your firewall to prevent people from joining your sessions. Including preventing these people from being able to impact you. But it's possible Guardian won't be 100% foolproof and it's possible that I might accidentally turn off Guardian and get completely screwed. Guardian's fine when like if it doesn't work your game crashes and you just have to restart. But it's a different story when if it screws up I'm going to lose my entire account. I don't know if single player is fine. I know they can crash me in single player but I'm not sure these effects would be able to impact me. Because like my online character wouldn't be loaded necessarily right. But I don't know. So hopefully this gets solved. I've got a lot of stuff to edit anyway. I'll probably avoid single player even. Except maybe doing Chaos and for that I'll use Guardian as well. Like it's one thing that these exploits are possible. Like that's stupid of course. But it's crazy that these people who make these mod menus are willing to put these in the programs that they sell. Like they have absolutely no fear that there's going to be any kind of reprisal. Any consequences for their actions. That Rockstar is going to do anything. I mean could Rockstar do something if they really wanted to? Could they take these people to court or get the police involved? I don't know. It just sucks that we have to spend so much time worrying about this shit. When no other game has this kind of bullshit. Like other games have their exploits, have their issues but nothing this bad. Tez notes that the exploit is partial remote code execution. So this could transform into something much worse. Temporary fix for accounts that are being corrupted. Not necessarily screwed like this but some people can't get back into the accounts at all. Apparently you delete Rockstar Games folder and documents. Rockstar is aware and have been logging any affected accounts before the first mod menu started abusing the new exploits. So hopefully it all just gets reversed and nothing ends up being a huge problem. It just sucks. As we often say, billion dollar company remember guys. Billion dollar company. Rockstar has been in a lot of hot water. Especially because they have now released the definitive editions for the older GTA titles onto Steam. Before it was a Rockstar Games launcher exclusive. But they made no significant changes. So the definitive editions are still massively terrible versions of the original games. Where there are a lot of different bugs and glitches that didn't exist in the original games. And a lot of the charm and atmosphere completely removed because of the weird ass art style they used. And they're still selling it for 60 dollars. Crazy. It's an interesting question. Like I still believe as long as GTA 6 is good, no one will give a shit. Everyone will love Rockstar again and all this we served under the rug. But they definitely keep adding to that animosity. That lack of respect that people now have for Rockstar Games with every one of these little scandals. I mean calling these little scandals but they're little in the grand scheme of things. To the surprise of everyone, Rockstar has actually acknowledged the issues with GTA Online right now. With all the mod menus and crashing and potential remote code execution on your PC and stuff. All that terrible, terrible stuff. But to the surprise of no one, it is a very unsatisfying response. We are aware of potential new exploits in GTA Online for PC. Which we aim to resolve in an upcoming planned security related title update. If you think you might have experienced any related issues, please reach out to Rockstar Support. Now this is probably the funniest part of this little announcement here. Because Rockstar Support, all they do is say what you're having issues. Try verifying your cash on Steam and restart your game. Check your firewall settings and restart your PC potentially. Well you didn't fix the problem, closed ticket. Problem solved. They know nothing about the game. It's like they've just taken a couple of random people off the street, put them in front of PCs and said look just say these four things over and over again until people stop bothering you. The Rockstar Support is awful. TheBeastGraft says down here, will you be slowly feeding the planned security related title update. Very funny. Because the most recent update with the Drug DLC, they've really drip fed it. Where it's coming out so intimately. I don't think all the missions are out for the Drug DLC yet, but whatever. Of course they say this on like the support account. So they're not really announcing to the world that if you play GTA Online right now on PC, your PC is at risk and stuff. All kind of shady, but hopefully this security related title update actually does something and stops these mod menus from fucking with everyone. We shall see. I'll be real with you though, I'm surprised it's taking so long. Because it's been weeks since this stuff was a major issue, right? It's been three weeks. Like how complicated could it possibly be? Is it a matter of complexity or... |
| 10. July 2021 | New He-Man show on Netflix. | New He-Man show on Netflix trailer. I never got into He-Man. Probably as a kid I saw like an episode or two, didn't really get it. But that looks cool. I'm not gonna lie, that actually looks pretty cool. And given how well Castlevania was, I'm just like, Netflix, just throw some animated shit at me and I'll watch it, okay? Yeah, it looks great, yeah. |
| 29. January 2023 | New Masks% World Record - 1 second run. | or a matter of lack of will. Can't know, I suppose. New mask percent world record, the one second run. So you guys likely know of the meme that I have the world record for the individual level of masks in GTA V. Two seconds, first person to ever do it, even though a hundred other people have done it now, I was the first person to do it. And I said, it's impossible to get one second. And that's technically true. But Twisted Tamer has been screwing around with like doing glitches and stuff for mission replays. And he came up with something that enabled him to get one second for masks. So he's starting a stock car race. I'm ready to go. Capping his FPS. And like he's starting masks and then starting the stock car race at like the exact same time, basically. And so when he loads into masks, he like instantly fails and buys the mask. As the pass as the mission, but he gets one second. Weirdest fucking thing. This will be on the leaderboards, but if you like, just consider me to still have the glitchless mask percent world record. It's a funny meme. That's funny, man. |
| 31. March 2021 | New Tax Changes On YouTube, I Now Pay America Money. | New tax changes on YouTube mean I pay America money. So for those unaware, America has these strange rules that to my knowledge no other country has. It's called withholding tax, where if you're like a foreign person making money from American citizens, you pay the American government tax. No other country does this to my knowledge as I say. So on Twitch, I think it's just like on Twitch, 5% of the money that I make goes to the American government as tax. The amount that you pay depends on the country that you're from. Australia has their own tree in regards to this tax and it's 5%. Technically I don't lose any money for this because my government considers it, although they give me a tax credit for it. So if I pay the American government $200 because of this withholding tax, they mention what it's called, it's called a withholding tax, then my tax debt to my government is reduced by $200. So at the end of the day, the only thing that changes is I'm holding up $200 and under normal circumstances I've given that to my government, but instead I'm giving it to the American government. And so this has been the way it's always been on Twitch forever. I mean paying a part of the tax I would normally pay my government to the American government because I'm making money from American citizens or what have you. Currently the rules have changed now, so it's going to happen that way for YouTube as well. YouTube as well is now going to have to start doing withholding tax for foreign people like me who are making money from American citizens. Again, not much changes about my circumstances, but everyone's up in arms like, oh, what's this withholding tax mean? Oh, what's going on? Blah, blah, blah. It makes things a little bit more complicated, but I'm pretty sure at the end of the day, nothing really changes for me. I still pay the exact same amount of taxes, just I'm paying it to different people. Tax fraud? No. Did I explain this poorly? Did people not understand? Like I'm not sure why only America does this. America also requires Americans who don't live in America to pay American income tax? Yeah, very strange. Someone was telling me that people who haven't lived in America for 30 years are still paying the American government money. I don't know if all governments around the world treat it the same way the Australian government does, giving a tax credit. It would suck if you're having to literally pay, like you make $50,000 in, you live in Switzerland and you have to pay income tax on that to both the Switzerland government and the American government. I sincerely doubt any country would do such a thing. |
| 27. November 2020 | New Twitch channel point features | New Twitch channel point features. I have heard of this new thing that Twitch has released called Predictions, where it's something that's existed with bots before. I mean, even way back in the day, Decap, an old school runner of this game, used to have a thing where you could make predictions about using his bot, what kind of time he would have at the end of a particular split, and depending on how far you were off, you got a different amount of his currency for his bot. But Twitch has now released that feature, but for the currencies that now exist natively on people's channels. I'm not super interested in it. Like, channel points have not been shown to increase viewership to my knowledge, and I think it would just cause both confusion and more clutter in my chat. One thing that has been released recently, though, related to channel points, is the ability to use channel points to enter into giveaways on Gleam. I would have to sign up and pay the money to get some sort of a business plan or some garbage like that, but it's, uh, that's at least somewhat tempting. So people who watch my streams are more likely to win. I suppose that will in some way disenfranchise my YouTube audience, but it's not like I wouldn't make it like an overwhelming dominance or something. Maybe I'll even put like a cap on it. On one hand, I want to pay back the people who watch me on Twitch, but on the other hand, I don't want to try to incentivize people to do something they don't want to do. Like, I don't want people to watch my stream when they would rather be doing something else because they want entries into a giveaway, you know what I'm saying? And I want people to feel obligated to watch me on Twitch. I've even expressed that with my mods. Like, I don't want my mods to feel obligated to watch my stream, to help me out or whatever. I would like to have enough mods that there's always someone here, to the extent where people, because I've had people say like, oh, you know, I need to go, but you know, you've got no other mods here. I hate when that kind of stuff happens. How is the voting done, Bank? Is it done via chat? Like, you have to type something in chat to vote? Or do you have like a thing that pops up? Like, I have a hard enough time reading my chat as is, just like any discussion about predictions and stuff. And people would be like, oh, you know, I was off by this much, oh, no, I was off by this much. Like, my channel would just be dominated by discussions of the predictions, especially when it comes to speedrunning and there's so many splits. And even when I don't have it on, like if I do it once, I don't have it on. Every single stream, people will go, you're going to turn predictions on this stream, Matt? Kind of her and their be predictions this time, Strema. And I really want to deal with that. It'd be a different story if the currency had some measurable benefit towards you, but it's gambling with something that has no value, you know. |
| 25. December 2019 | New YouTube creator studio | studio I am was complaining on Twitter about the YouTube creator studio I just don't understand who made it and how they think it's a good design it's baffling to me are you saying a youtuber made the new YouTube creator studio I don't believe you your creator studio is perfectly fine I'm getting distracted but every single inch of the new creator studio is awful someone should be fired like if I met a YouTube representative I would look that look at them and say look I have a psych undergrad you know I have an interest in psychology I've got a project I want to talk to you about and they'd be like oh yeah what do you mean is like I'd be like well I want to find the person who made the YouTube creator studio and interview them just to understand what their mind is like how they could be as they are how they could create something so terrible and believe it to be good it's something I feel humanity would really benefit from learning why am I so mad because I like everyone else that I've ever talked to every single time we go to the YouTube creator studio we have to individually click classic and then skip every single time you can't set it your default anymore they've removed it and every day they remove a feature from classic so the entire procedure of uploading YouTube videos is massively complicated compared to what it used to be with very little additional features the person who made the new YouTube creator studio has just massively made everyone's life difficult for seemingly no benefit there's a handful of new things in the creative studio creator studio the new one that are good but they all could have been added to the old one with 10 with 15 a thousand times the ease of use so I'm a person who hates things that are tedious or difficult for no reason I hate time losses in real life and the new YouTube creative studio has cost me so much time created so much frustration the pretty much the only thing I like about it is the new editing for it I would say the new editor is a 3 out of 10 the old editor was a 1 out of 10 so it's such an improvement that's take that feature put it back in the creator old creator and everything we improve massively I may complain about the YouTube creator studio but I would never complain about you liking this video so if you want to do that I would greatly appreciate that thank you |
| 27. November 2020 | New among us map and my idea for a sabotage | The Among Us new map and my idea of a new sabotage. Yeah, I saw the picture of the new Among Us map. I'm less interested in the map itself and more interested in if there's different mechanics or whatever, as in you can sabotage. What else could you sabotage in a ship? Navigation or something. You're going to crash unless you fix it or something. But ultimately, that would just be a repeat of like O2 or reactor, whatever. Like, what other mechanic could you put in? What would be good, actually, is if they had a mechanic that was like a gas leak, which had a hallucinogen effect where you do the sabotage. And for a certain amount of time, the character models of different people are swapped on your screen. And let's say it's not even consistent for everyone. It would be kind of like turning off the lights, but with an added bit of confusion and need for discussion. And, you know, because of like, how would I know that there was a person in reactor if I wasn't actually in reactor? You know, you have to justify that you were actually in this location rather than another location that the person is in. |
| 22. March 2022 | New darkviperau food review. | We were done. New Dark Viper EU food review. Can we get another food review? This air that I'm eating right now, it's pretty good. Good quality, good texture, good temperature. Recommend to all interested. Is the air vegan? Ah, no, it contains pig fat. I don't know why I said that. Okay, a lot of gluten too, so if you don't like that, I'm going to... |
| 29. May 2020 | New games? | Are there any new games that you're interested in playing? The new FromSoft game that's in works with George R. R. Martin, the Cyberpunk 2077, even though I'm not like super interested in it, it's been hyped up so much that I'd be a fool not to play it, even though it's not gonna help my channel or whatever. I'm just curious what they've been cooking up. Especially because it's by a developer that does seem to be... |
| 20. May 2021 | New generations missing out on classic movies | New generations missing out on classic movies. I have not seen 2001 of Space Odyssey. Sometimes I reflect like all these really classic movies that I love that, you know, younger generations aren't gonna watch. But I realized there are still heaps of classic movies that I haven't seen, you know? Like sometimes when I'm about to make a reference in... in past for certain, like how many people would actually have seen the movie I'm making a reference to? Like the idea that some people haven't seen Emperor's New Groove is weird to me, you know? The restaurants seen in Emperor's New Groove. Everything in Emperor's New Groove is good. The whole entire thing is a classic. The thing that most memorable though is the whole wrong lever thing. Wrong lever... Why do we even have that lever? No, no, no, that's that scene where... Wait, how'd you get back here before us? How did we get back here first, Crunk? Oh, beats me. By all accounts, it doesn't make sense. Oh well. Like Crunk is such a classic character that there's actually a YouTube channel dedicated to some guy who just does the voice for the character in a bunch of different roles. Similar to Perfect Cell from Dragon Ball Z. Like you know a character is a classic when just being able to do an impression of them is enough to have a YouTube career, you know? Yeah, Crunk is the same guy as Joe. He does a lot of solo voice characters. He's been in a lot of stuff. |
| 04. January 2020 | New generations not experiencing the great classic media | Newer generations not experiencing classic media. I've had this weird obsession lately with this like, how old is this movie? Or how old is this? When was Bruce Almighty released? I feel like just yesterday watching that movie. Like in my head, it would make perfect sense to make a Bruce Almighty reference in How This View Ended. But so many people wouldn't get that reference either. Absent the remakes that a lot of companies are doing, the next generation doesn't necessarily experience the greats of the previous generation. At least it's going to be less and less a thing as more and more content is produced, right? Like there will be a time where like every favorite piece of media that I've ever enjoyed, like there'll be a generation that hasn't seen any of it. It should be weird. Although I suppose you can guarantee that there'll always be remakes. In the same way that I'm sure on YouTube right now there are people trawling like 10 years ago to find channels that are dead or video ideas that were done ages ago that can be redone. Basically what I'm saying guys is see you in 10 years for GCA 5 PassFestiveScent 2.0. |
| 10. July 2021 | New he-man show on Netflix. | New He-Man show on Netflix trailer. I never got into He-Man. Probably as a kid I saw like an episode or two, didn't really get it. But that looks cool. I'm not gonna lie, that actually looks pretty cool. And given how well Castlevania was, I'm just like, Netflix, just throw some animated shit at me and I'll watch it, okay? Yeah, it looks great, yeah. |
| 27. November 2020 | New island GTA 5 DLC | New Island GT5 DLC. Rockstar released a tweet today which is suggestive that there's gonna be a new island for new content for online. You think you'd be disappointed? I have absolutely no expectations and I don't super care so I can't possibly be disappointed. As in, if it comes out and I like it, awesome. If it comes out and I hate it, who cares? I'm at the exact same point I was before it came out anyway. I'm perfectly fine with however it comes out. I mean, certainly I'd prefer if it was something amazing that I would love, but frankly I'm more interested in the enhanced part of expanded and enhanced. What kind of changes are they going to make to enhance the game, either graphically or in terms of its layouts online? Because with this announcement you've got to assume the expanded part just refers to that island. I wonder if they're even going to bother putting it in single player or how it's going to be accessed. They're most likely putting it online only. I mean, they have little reason to put it in the single player if it doesn't have its own single player story. I mean, if they do put it in single player or feel obligated to, they might just give it some throwaway kind of story. Franklin goes to visit his friend who's having trouble with a gang or something, or Michael goes to visit his accountant and you have to fill out tax forms. I bet you that the island is repurposed stuff from single player DLC or unused early development GTA 6 stuff. I think they've already used all the single player DLC stuff. I don't think any of that's left off all this time. Was just thinking that single player and online use the same map as you can find online stuff underground, so it would probably be in single player just not used. It depends, Velo. It depends how it's accessed. Like if it's something wholly disconnected from this island, I don't know why they would add it to single player, I suppose. You feel me? Like if it's something like you get on a plane and then fly and like there's no, like when you open the map there you don't even see Los Santos. Exactly as Bob says, the single player and online maps aren't identical. Like the casino, given its changes for online, looks completely different in single player. Given that they didn't bring over the changes to even one building, it's weird to imagine they would bring over changes to the map as a whole. It's not going to be the skin of North Yankton. North Yankton makes no sense as a stomping ground for what online is, because North Yankton was meant to be, you know, a place full of hicks, a thing out of town, a tiny bank with effectively no security. Like think about the entire take for the entire bank that's in North Yankton. It's what, uh, three hundred thousand dollars in that ballpark. Like imagine that for GT Online. You may as well, an equivalent DLC would be like the Lemonade Stand DLC where you stand on street corners selling lemonade. Your bro got the finest lemons you've ever seen. That'd be 50 cents a cup. That's highway robbery. Then die and shoot the guy. Gang violence is broken out tonight on the streets of Los Santos between rival Lemonade Stand gangs. |
| 17. March 2023 | New possible release date for GTA 6. | New possible release date for GTA 6. It feels weird to talk about this third hand, but TGG released a video where in it he talked about some commentary from Tez on the potential release date for GTA 6, which is apparently holiday 2024. Apparently it has been delayed multiple times and whatnot, and so who knows if it will actually meet that date, but I'm sure with the other GTA games, we at least got something from them, right? Within two years of release, that's not that long away. So that's less than two years, which feels like eternity, but I know maybe there's really uncertain as to whether they're going to get out in that time, as maybe they don't want to show us anything, anything more than we saw in the leaks. But yeah, two years of continuing to milk GTA 5, I can do that. That's fine. Tez does say here, unfortunately, it could slip into early 2025 as well, so who knows? But I mean, if you were going to like just guess a time for it to release, you would guess 2022, 2025, so who knows how reliable this is, but regardless, I'm of course always interested in any speculation, at least educated speculation, on when GTA 6 is going to release, because I'm quite interested in that happening. |
| 02. February 2023 | New security update for GTA Online | New Security Update for GTA Online Combat Mod Menus So good news everyone! GTA V Title Update 1.66 Security. Implemented a new data protocol in GTA Online to improve the security of network sessions and player-to-player messaging. Fixed an issue that could result in a player's GTA Online experience being modified by a third party, including altering GTA Dollar Balance, RP Level, Bad Sports Status, and other player stats. Manipulation of players being kicked or crashed. So basically, we had a security patch. While you can't be kicked or crashed anymore, or have your entire account compromised in that way, they didn't stop everything else that mod menus can do, like just teleport you around and stuff, or kill you over and over again, drop money for you and all that stuff that mod menus were able to do prior to a month ago. So me being a streamer means I will still be screwed within that way. Although it does now seem possible that invite-only sessions are now actually secure, meaning modders won't be able to join me. Basically, can I go back to playing GTA Online after this update? Yes. Will mod menus still exist? Of course. Therefore, I'm going to be taking roughly the same precautions as I was taking before to prevent people from screwing with me. |
| 04. March 2021 | New strats with buffered ledge grab. | New strats with buffered ledge grab. I have been watching from the sidelines as people continue to find new strategies with the buffered ledge grab. You know in monkey business how you get the vial of poison or what have you from the inside the glass container, and there's a guy in there that you have to wait to open the door. You can buffered ledge grab inside there and it starts the cutscene. The problem is of course because you haven't waited for the door to open, the door isn't open so you have to mission fail to get the door to open. This still ends up being faster because when you buffered ledge grab remember that you aren't teleporting to another spot. You're going through an area. This means you can activate cutscene triggers and stuff. This is actually a negative thing for me for no damage because apparently on bury the hatchet even using buffered ledge grab I can be shot. As in like during the transition of my body flying through the air I can be shot. It is yet to happen, but apparently someone has had it happen. It's still safe definitely definitely. Given how many times I've done it and I've still not taken damage. |
| 31. March 2021 | New tax changes on YouTube, I now pay America money. | New tax changes on YouTube mean I pay America money. So for those unaware, America has these strange rules that to my knowledge no other country has. It's called withholding tax, where if you're like a foreign person making money from American citizens, you pay the American government tax. No other country does this to my knowledge as I say. So on Twitch, I think it's just like on Twitch, 5% of the money that I make goes to the American government as tax. The amount that you pay depends on the country that you're from. Australia has their own tree in regards to this tax and it's 5%. Technically I don't lose any money for this because my government considers it, although they give me a tax credit for it. So if I pay the American government $200 because of this withholding tax, they mention what it's called, it's called a withholding tax, then my tax debt to my government is reduced by $200. So at the end of the day, the only thing that changes is I'm holding up $200 and under normal circumstances I've given that to my government, but instead I'm giving it to the American government. And so this has been the way it's always been on Twitch forever. I mean paying a part of the tax I would normally pay my government to the American government because I'm making money from American citizens or what have you. Currently the rules have changed now, so it's going to happen that way for YouTube as well. YouTube as well is now going to have to start doing withholding tax for foreign people like me who are making money from American citizens. Again, not much changes about my circumstances, but everyone's up in arms like, oh, what's this withholding tax mean? Oh, what's going on? Blah, blah, blah. It makes things a little bit more complicated, but I'm pretty sure at the end of the day, nothing really changes for me. I still pay the exact same amount of taxes, just I'm paying it to different people. Tax fraud? No. Did I explain this poorly? Did people not understand? Like I'm not sure why only America does this. America also requires Americans who don't live in America to pay American income tax? Yeah, very strange. Someone was telling me that people who haven't lived in America for 30 years are still paying the American government money. I don't know if all governments around the world treat it the same way the Australian government does, giving a tax credit. It would suck if you're having to literally pay, like you make $50,000 in, you live in Switzerland and you have to pay income tax on that to both the Switzerland government and the American government. I sincerely doubt any country would do such a thing. |
| 27. November 2020 | New twitch channel point features | New Twitch channel point features. I have heard of this new thing that Twitch has released called Predictions, where it's something that's existed with bots before. I mean, even way back in the day, Decap, an old school runner of this game, used to have a thing where you could make predictions about using his bot, what kind of time he would have at the end of a particular split, and depending on how far you were off, you got a different amount of his currency for his bot. But Twitch has now released that feature, but for the currencies that now exist natively on people's channels. I'm not super interested in it. Like, channel points have not been shown to increase viewership to my knowledge, and I think it would just cause both confusion and more clutter in my chat. One thing that has been released recently, though, related to channel points, is the ability to use channel points to enter into giveaways on Gleam. I would have to sign up and pay the money to get some sort of a business plan or some garbage like that, but it's, uh, that's at least somewhat tempting. So people who watch my streams are more likely to win. I suppose that will in some way disenfranchise my YouTube audience, but it's not like I wouldn't make it like an overwhelming dominance or something. Maybe I'll even put like a cap on it. On one hand, I want to pay back the people who watch me on Twitch, but on the other hand, I don't want to try to incentivize people to do something they don't want to do. Like, I don't want people to watch my stream when they would rather be doing something else because they want entries into a giveaway, you know what I'm saying? And I want people to feel obligated to watch me on Twitch. I've even expressed that with my mods. Like, I don't want my mods to feel obligated to watch my stream, to help me out or whatever. I would like to have enough mods that there's always someone here, to the extent where people, because I've had people say like, oh, you know, I need to go, but you know, you've got no other mods here. I hate when that kind of stuff happens. How is the voting done, Bank? Is it done via chat? Like, you have to type something in chat to vote? Or do you have like a thing that pops up? Like, I have a hard enough time reading my chat as is, just like any discussion about predictions and stuff. And people would be like, oh, you know, I was off by this much, oh, no, I was off by this much. Like, my channel would just be dominated by discussions of the predictions, especially when it comes to speedrunning and there's so many splits. And even when I don't have it on, like if I do it once, I don't have it on. Every single stream, people will go, you're going to turn predictions on this stream, Matt? Kind of her and their be predictions this time, Strema. And I really want to deal with that. It'd be a different story if the currency had some measurable benefit towards you, but it's gambling with something that has no value, you know. |
| 22. March 2021 | New viewers not knowing the memes for my channel | New viewers not knowing the memes of my channel. Can I tell you a bedtime story? There's a video on my YouTube channel of me telling a bedtime story. About Biblow. Man, new people won't even know that meme. God damn it, dude. I'm thinking of making a video about the memes related to my channel. So, for example, I keep making jokes about Red Dead Redemption 2. And I had a person accuse me yesterday of doing that to piss off people. And I was like, I don't think that's my intention at all. I just think I find it funny. Because people actually seem to believe that I think Red Dead Redemption 2 is a bad game. I don't know how they could think that. I'm clearly joking. I've had to do multiple times over the course of my streaming career since Red Dead came out. Clarify, guys, this is all memes. These are memes. Clearly the game isn't bad. I didn't personally enjoy it as much as I hoped. But clearly it isn't a bad game. There's some people who aren't up in on the memes, you know? |
| 27. October 2021 | Newgame+ in grand theft auto 5 | New Game Plus in Grand Theft Auto V Oh my god, how sweet would it actually be to add that to GTA V? What would the rules be something like every New Game Plus you get half the bullets? With every New Game Plus you need one additional headshot to kill someone? You shoot someone in the head and that takes off like their armor and shoot someone in the head and they die, then they die? Your cars move a certain percent slower, you have a certain percent less stamina? |
| 28. November 2020 | Next Gen Consoles. | Next-gen consoles. My opinion on the next-gen consoles, they look very good. It's interesting because games that are developed for those consoles can arguably be better than their PC counterparts. Because when you make a game for a console, you're making it for one particular type of hardware, so you can use that hardware to its fullest to achieve certain things, like with the fast loading. Where with PC, you have to make the game and consider that the processing power or the hardware, the storage, whatever, is going to be different for every single user. So you have to take that in mind with whatever you're designing. So as the console generation goes on, the consoles are held back by the continually aging hardware. And so eventually, PC gets ahead because the hardware is always improving. But in the beginning of the generation of consoles, PC's kind of at a disadvantage because it's so much harder to develop for PC. And of course, you have to take into account the variability of the system you're developing for. Basically, I don't like consoles, but I want them both just for the possibility to play some of the games. Can't get them though because everything's fucking sold out and I can't pre-order anything. And it's my job to have them, so I'm failing at my job. I'm sorry, guys. I let you down. |
| 03. May 2020 | Nick and game sponsorships | Nick and game sponsorships Who is Nick? I'm Nick technically. There's this old joke where basically companies will like to pretend that they know you and your content when they Send you emails offering sponsorships and stuff and so this company sent me an email talking about how much they love my GTA 5 Content it's amazing But they started the email by saying hi Nick I was like you know you apparently like my content so much. You don't even know my name Rade Shadow |
| 28. April 2021 | Nihilism | Nihilism. Any thoughts on nihilism? If by nihilism you simply mean that nothing has inherent meaning, then I agree with it. But I don't- I reject that that's the only form of meaning that can exist. Meaning as it exists, as relevant to a person's goals, I think is very important. And I think that has been sufficient for humanity to get to where it is now. I don't claim to be an expert on nihilism, though. I'm sure people look at it in different ways. I'm not a philosopher, and I try not to use terms in philosophy that are debated in terms of how they should be used and whatnot. |
| 12. August 2020 | Ninja Twitch vs Youtube | Ninja's comeback Twitch stream versus his comeback YouTube stream. Yeah, I did see Ninja came back. I heard he averaged, oh no, he peaked at 100k I think, and he peaked at about 160k on YouTube. There are time of day considerations to be had, and technically, it was his second stream coming back, so there's going to be less hype, you know. But, I mean, I was watching Clint Stevens at the time, he was playing Among Us with a bunch of people, but most of them were going to bed anyway, the time for America, but they were all like, oh my god, Ninja's back, man, I'm going to watch Ninja. Who here's thought going to watch Ninja? And they seemed sincere, at least in that, like, I tuned in to check it out for like 10 seconds, I was like, this is actually quite boring, and then I left immediately. What I'm saying is, while it wouldn't surprise me, if, let's say, if it had reversed, and he went to Twitch first, and then YouTube, and the time of days had been reversed, it wouldn't surprise me even in those circumstances that he would have got more viewers on YouTube, but at the same time, it's not as clear cut, because they aren't two perfectly comparable streams, in that, you know, one was the first and one was the second, and that the time of days were different. What does it all mean? Probably nothing. Slasher still reckons that Shroud and Ninja are still in talks with everyone, so who knows what's going to come out of it, you know? Does it impact me at all? I think Ninja and Shroud coming back to Twitch will help the longevity of Twitch, especially as Ninja keeps saying he wants to be more mainstream, go into Hollywood and blah blah blah. He would be a brand representative for Twitch in the mainstream, which would help this platform as a whole grow, and I think that would in general benefit me. Like, I don't think I'm directly competing with Ninja for viewers, so his being on the platform isn't going to, like, hurt my average viewer number. Yeah, so I guess I would like Ninja and Shroud to come back to Twitch, as opposed to YouTube, but I don't care that much. |
| 11. December 2020 | Ninja and taxation | the case. Ninja and taxation. Oh yeah that clip when Ninja was complaining about paying half his money in taxes. That is such a glass half full kind of mentality. I only got paid 25 million dollars for doing nothing. Terrible. Certainly it depends on your outlook as to how taxes work in society and whether taxes are ultimately beneficial. Like in my view in no reality would Ninja have been able to get a contract for 50 million dollars if taxation didn't exist as it did. If wealth redistribution didn't exist as it did. People wouldn't have as much disposable income in my view. People wouldn't be spending as much money on Twitch. Da da da. There would be less consumers in terms of paying subscribers and stuff for platforms like Twitch absent taxation because one of the flaws of capitalism is wealth consolidation and taxes slow down this consolidation of wealth by redistributing it. But of course if you're not of this mindset and Ninja might not be he might view that 25 million as an entire entirely loss whether it's just wasted money. He's like oh man I would have got that full 50 million if the government and taxation didn't exist. Oh and I disagree with that. I remember once I asked my viewers at your job do you think you'd be getting more money if taxation didn't exist and a surprising amount of people said yes. I was staggered considering the percentage changes but on average in most countries it's only the top 50 percent of owners who pay any tax at all once you include different tax credits and deductions and whatever. But even the average earner who's effectively paying nothing in tax or reaping more benefits in subsidies and public services than they're paying in tax even they think oh man I've been making so much more money if I had to every road was a toll road had to pay for GPS the satellites and stuff had to pay for every public service man I'd be making so much more money. I don't know I don't understand that mindset. This could be a rant about taxation but it makes sense to me as an individual to within the rules that exist attempt to limit your tax burden because obviously you have more trust in yourself that you're going to use that money in a way that you think is worthwhile than then you think the government is going to right. So you've heard this before um don't hate the player hate the game the people I dislike the most are those who have so much money that they can effectively write the tax code and they make the rules and then abuse those rules to avoid paying tax. It's one thing for you know a person making x amount of money to go hey I can save money by giving money to my wife or whatever I can pay less tax. It's another thing for a person with a billion dollars to bribe an official or lobby an official and get that written to the law so they can avoid paying tax by giving it to their wife. It's don't hate the player don't hate the game hate the players who make the rules. |
| 17. September 2022 | Ninja streaming on all the platforms at once | Ninja streaming on all the platforms at once. Okay, someone sent me this. It turns out that Ninja unfollowed me on Twitter. I'm devastated, chat. I don't know how I'm gonna recover. No, that's a joke. He's never followed me on Twitter, obviously. Ninja made this announcement where he's like, yo, I'm gonna be streaming on every single goddamn platform, because now that's the thing that you can do. But people ask the question, how is he streaming on YouTube and Twitch at the same time without getting banned on Twitch? Because that's against the rules. You can't stream on both of the exact same time. You can only alternate. You can stream on one than the other. And that how he's doing this is that he is no longer a partner or an affiliate on Twitch. So, he can't get subs, he can't get bits, I guess. Like, that's one way not to get banned. It's just like, I'll basically ban myself. But why? Because it's the only way that he can stream on all the platforms at once. I mean, YouTube and Twitch at the same time. I mean, that's an interesting strategy, really. |
| 12. August 2020 | Ninja twitch vs youtube | Ninja's comeback Twitch stream versus his comeback YouTube stream. Yeah, I did see Ninja came back. I heard he averaged, oh no, he peaked at 100k I think, and he peaked at about 160k on YouTube. There are time of day considerations to be had, and technically, it was his second stream coming back, so there's going to be less hype, you know. But, I mean, I was watching Clint Stevens at the time, he was playing Among Us with a bunch of people, but most of them were going to bed anyway, the time for America, but they were all like, oh my god, Ninja's back, man, I'm going to watch Ninja. Who here's thought going to watch Ninja? And they seemed sincere, at least in that, like, I tuned in to check it out for like 10 seconds, I was like, this is actually quite boring, and then I left immediately. What I'm saying is, while it wouldn't surprise me, if, let's say, if it had reversed, and he went to Twitch first, and then YouTube, and the time of days had been reversed, it wouldn't surprise me even in those circumstances that he would have got more viewers on YouTube, but at the same time, it's not as clear cut, because they aren't two perfectly comparable streams, in that, you know, one was the first and one was the second, and that the time of days were different. What does it all mean? Probably nothing. Slasher still reckons that Shroud and Ninja are still in talks with everyone, so who knows what's going to come out of it, you know? Does it impact me at all? I think Ninja and Shroud coming back to Twitch will help the longevity of Twitch, especially as Ninja keeps saying he wants to be more mainstream, go into Hollywood and blah blah blah. He would be a brand representative for Twitch in the mainstream, which would help this platform as a whole grow, and I think that would in general benefit me. Like, I don't think I'm directly competing with Ninja for viewers, so his being on the platform isn't going to, like, hurt my average viewer number. Yeah, so I guess I would like Ninja and Shroud to come back to Twitch, as opposed to YouTube, but I don't care that much. |
| 08. June 2020 | Ninja's Dissatisfaction | Yeah. Ninja's dissatisfaction. Speaking of Ninja though, did you see that clip of him? Him talking about whenever he plays a game of anything, people talk shit to him about Fortnite or uh, about uh, mixer or whatever. And he just wants to be like, look I could just, I could buy the bank that owns your house, blah blah. You saw that clip? Like he just wants to say like, oh I'm just so fucking rich dude and you're sitting here giving me shit, you know. It's so clear that Ninja hoped going to mixer would help him build his brand. That was so goddamn clear. I guarantee you he is not satisfied with whatever money he was given. Guarantee you. Think Shroud? Probably is. But this is more of a chance. But there's no way Ninja's happy. No one going on the Ellen DeGeneres show and all that stuff is uh, wasn't in it for more than money. He wanted to be famous and uh, be in the history books and shit. I didn't like watching his streams when he played Fortnite because he was really focused on the Fortnite. There wasn't a lot of chat interaction. I think he ever read chat when he was on Twitch. He could say because his stream was too big or he didn't like his viewers anymore. I don't know man, but it was just not a very interactive stream. If you weren't a fan of Fortnite gameplay, there was nothing to watch on Ninja's stream. It was at the beginning. Yeah, when he was smaller. Because when he did H1Z1 man, he would do banter with chat. Ninja's a sellout. He didn't advertise any products that aren't perfectly fine products. |
| 04. September 2020 | Ninja’s old username | He took a hit and followers, but he was just that committed in having the brand. I wish I knew the exact numbers that he gave up but Remember that ninja isn't some new guy to the scene like he was Wasn't he like one of the first partners on twitch? He very old-school like kind of lyric levels of old-school if I recall correctly it was ninjas hyper Ah, yes, there you go. That does ring about ninjas push for mainstream fame Did you guys hear didn't read the article because I don't really give a shit, but it's trending on Twitter right now The apparently ninja wants to become a you know a big star He wants to go into Hollywood and movies and voiceovers and cartoons and become a real famous person Not simply the you know famous on the internet kind of guy who cares will I mean as a gamer? One of those elite people in society he would be my representative on the the |
| 04. September 2020 | Ninja’s push for mainstream fame | Main stage. Don't you need talent for that? Apparently not. Are there any people who've gone from the YouTube sphere that actually have talent, like they actually become decent actors? News just in someone desires success. You gotta respect it in a way, like he could come back permanently, Twitch and YouTube, be successful here. Five months already. But like I'm saying, Ninja could take the easy way and just be big and successful on Twitch or YouTube. Probably both really, because he would still make offline content even if he was exclusive with Twitch. But he's doing something else. Clearly as I said, as I've said many, many times, Ninja was less interested in the money and more interested in the fame, having the legacy, being the big head honcho kind of guy. TikTok getting banned. Thoughts on TikTok potentially getting banned? I mean, Instagram is making their own version of TikTok. And then there's Bytes and there's another competitor out there, isn't there? TikTok has problems. I don't think it's gonna get banned though. Bytes trash, absolutely. No one needs six second fucking videos, people. Having some limitation forcing people to, what does it be, terse or whatever, you know, forcing people to, I don't know exactly what it is even. I don't think any of the rich people believe in being likeMac positions, like if a Royale's or Canada economy. |
| 30. May 2020 | Nintendo | What I think of Nintendo in general I've been out of the Nintendo ecosystem for a long goddamn time because I don't like their consoles I don't want to buy their goddamn consoles. I don't want to set up a capture card. Don't deal with all that shit I don't like until recently that you couldn't even remap the buttons on their bloody games People don't really want to watch me play Nintendo games I don't want to take the time to set it up if they release their games on PC I would buy every single one of them. I would been in the Nintendo ecosystem for the last ten fucking years I've been the most dedicated fan ever but don't like consoles Don't like controllers screw it, you know if you mean as a company Nintendo is in some cases annoying with like all that stuff on YouTube and the content IDing and and That you the Nintendo creative program and all that stuff and Japan You know just not being willing to support like competitive smash or any competitions in their games Because they want to be casual and all that stuff and they feel like supporting the competitions would be You know hurt their casual image or whatever. I think that's silly Well, this is this is speculation. Of course that I haven't said this outright But Nintendo very good at innovating creating You're continuing their brand in a way that really appeals to the audience that they have I'm expanding their brand You know taking risks and you know Innovating in the space of gaming like the the switch you mean I like the switch, but that's really innovative You know, it's amazing that they can still create Mario games, Zelda games, you know for these franchises that still feel new and original Almost every time from the reviewers that I watch because I watch reviews of Nintendo games I watch um Scott the Wasp and all that shit I only don't play their games because they're not on PC if they were on PC. I play them all |
| 03. August 2021 | Nintendo hates content creators | Nintendo hates content creators. Apparently you can't co-stream Nintendo Directs. Nintendo tweeted from their official account that co-streaming today's event is not allowed, different from years past. While TrueScreaming has permission to air the show, we won't be airing the event because all creators can't co-stream. Oh. From what I have heard, the Japanese Twitter always says this, people are just paying more attention to it this year for some reason. Besides, the other accounts hasn't said anything. I, um... Nintendo is just a very weird company. As I've said, um... Nintendo is as bad as Rockstar but in a different way, right? They are very active in terms of being dicks to content creators. Where Rockstar is just not active at all. I prefer Rockstar's approach, where they do effectively nothing. But I suppose Take-Two does stuff that makes them dicks as well. So I guess, you know, both appreciating. Matt, do you think with the recent mobile releases of Mario titles that Nintendo may release games for other devices? Uh... I don't know. Possibly. It's hard to judge Nintendo. Honestly, if I was in Nintendo's shoes and I wanted to keep my dominance of those markets, all I would do is take my games that were like 10 years old and chuck them on other platforms. And be like, hey, these games, you wanna play them? You wanna play the new versions of these games? Well, I can buy our stuff too. Although I suppose you could argue that maybe they were like, ah, but then it would give a bad impression of our current games because they'll be looking at games that are 10 years old and being like, all these games that are 10 years old, they're great, maybe Nintendo sucks, but I don't know. |
| 03. August 2021 | Nintendo's crushing of competitive melee | Nintendo's crushing of competitive melee. For real, my thoughts keep drifting to the melee thing. I get oddly mad about it considering that I have no real stake in melee. For those who are unaware, Nintendo, they knew that canceling smash in its entirety would be very unpopular and would piss off a lot of people. So what they've done over the years is specifically worked to keep it down, but not remove it entirely because they wanted to receive the benefits in the free advertisement. It's like they hobbled melee in a way to keep it dilapidated and small so they could receive the maximum benefit for the least cost. I can't imagine something more evil than that. You want to maximize your benefit off the free labor of others and you specifically work to keep them from being able to be successful. Viewer considers 500 viewers to be little viewership. How do you get money with this little amount of viewers? How many viewers do I have? How is 500 a little amount of viewers? Are you crazy? You can make a living on Twitch with like 200 viewers. It just goes to show man that the average person on Twitch doesn't know fucking jack shit about Twitch. And if it's a serious question, I do have more viewers and I'm doing stuff of importance. |
| 08. June 2020 | No car damage runs | Could I do a run without damaging a car? Why would I ever do that, Carl? Sounds terrible. The thing about challenge runs, you want them to fundamentally change the way the game is played and for them to be enjoyable to do. It would not be difficult to do a run without damaging a car. You just go really slow everywhere or not drive cars. That wouldn't change how the game is played. You just take longer to get everywhere. It's like do a run without ever sprinting. Yeah, you're just doing the exact same thing you normally do, but you just be going slow. How does GTA V VR work? I assume it probably forces you into first person and maps the controls into VR controls. |
| 23. July 2022 | No damage or speedrun for GTA 6? | No damage or speedrun for GTA 6? Do you still plan on doing a no hit run when GTA 6 comes out? Honestly, I'd probably be more interested in doing no hit for GTA 6 than I would be speedrunning it. No hit is a lot more... Well, it's intense, but casual at the same time, you know? It's easier to communicate and talk with chat in a no damage run because you can just like stop and talk, you know? |
| 22. April 2021 | No damage run still not being completed | No damage run still not being completed. I've had one of that for quite a while now. It's been a year. A whole year? Yeah, it started like March 11th or something. Holy shit. Did you imagine it would take this long? When I first started I didn't think I thought it was possible. Until more developments now I know that it is possible. But I mean I could have succeeded like three months ago or something. It happened to me like two months ago or something. But I did one damage on derailed. That was when I got my PB of one death an hour. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 13. October 2021 | No expanded and enhanced GTA 5 for PC | Expanded and Enhanced seems to have no reason to come to PC. From what it looks like, there's no reason for the Expanded and Enhanced to come to PC. The biggest change they made is they moved the sun so it changes how the scenes look in terms of their shadowing and stuff. I've often said though that the game looks the worst in daytime. Perhaps that might just be because the sun is too close, and that's why they're planning on moving it. Do I have- |
| 21. July 2020 | No longer wanting to argue | The Righteous Mind and No Longer Wanting to Argue with People I'm listening to this book, A Righteous Mind, right? And it talks about morality and convincing people of arguments and behavior and da-da-da. It's a psych book, right? More moral psychology book. And it has... It's very interesting. And it's kind of cemented in me my lack of desire to ever argue with anyone ever again. Unless I desperately have to. I would hate to have a job where I'm required to convince people of opposing viewpoints. Holy shit, would that be the most frustrating fucking thing imaginable. When you learn about how people are able to rationalize any possible position, you know, all the cognitive biases we have, it's like an uphill battle carrying 57 boulders on top of your back. Everything's covered in ice. It just seems so annoying. A Righteous Mind. It's a fairly... No, I'm being sure it's a popular book. What was the first... It's like encapsulating a paradigm shift in terms of psychology and da-da-da. It's one of those books, though. It's making a case for a certain perspective. And the way that it's presented is very compelling to me. But I'm completely unaware if there's another book out there that perfectly communicates an opposing perspective. |
| 18. February 2021 | No new news about why Doc Disrespect was banned | No. No news about why Doc Disrespect was banned. Have there been any developments on why Doc Disrespect was banned? To my knowledge, no, there's been no developments. You would think that some Reddit detective would have found if there had been any lawsuits or whatever being filed. The assumption was always that there would be lawsuits. Unless of course Doc ended up actually getting paid out his entire contract when he got banned or something. Which seems unlikely. Because remember that Doc had recently signed with Twitch for millions of dollars. Like just a couple of months before he got banned permanently. So that's part of the reason why everyone was so confused. |
| 18. February 2021 | No new news about why doc disrespect was banned | No. No news about why Doc Disrespect was banned. Have there been any developments on why Doc Disrespect was banned? To my knowledge, no, there's been no developments. You would think that some Reddit detective would have found if there had been any lawsuits or whatever being filed. The assumption was always that there would be lawsuits. Unless of course Doc ended up actually getting paid out his entire contract when he got banned or something. Which seems unlikely. Because remember that Doc had recently signed with Twitch for millions of dollars. Like just a couple of months before he got banned permanently. So that's part of the reason why everyone was so confused. |
| 08. March 2023 | No one understands my jokes anymore. | No one understands my jokes anymore. So I tweeted this out. I want to hire the PR team that goats have. And no one understood it. PR team means public relations team. The people who are responsible for like, controlling your image on social media and stuff and seeking to promote and make you look better and all that jazz. And the reason goats have the best public relations team is because goat stands for greatest of all time. So like, the animal, goats, was like nothing special at one point. And then suddenly over time, they became the greatest of all time. That's the joke. That's really bad. That's a great joke! No one got it there. |
| 10. September 2022 | No, my giveaways are not rigged for Twitch subscribers | CSGO cases and don't gamble you will just lose if I'm not willing to Deal with the embarrassment of failure then I shouldn't have opened him in the first place right? No, my giveaways are not rigged for Twitch subscribers So I have a giveaway going on right now and every single time I do a giveaway There is a bonus given to Twitch subs I would like to do it for YouTube members as well But there's no such option and I always get the complaints man This is just rigging it for the Twitch subs man like the Twitch subs are guaranteed to win in reality There are so few Twitch subs compared to non subs that enter on average one Twitch sub wins because of their extra entries. Yes Twitch subs have a higher chance of winning Individually compared to a non sub but there's so few of them that the vast majority of the winnings go to non subs anyway And of course all 4,000 Twitch subscribers aren't going to enter |
| 04. July 2022 | Noita - This is what you missed | Noita, This Is What You Missed is coming. Good news guys, I have recorded my first Noita episode. So 20 hours of Noita, extremely lightly edited. And so I guess there'll be like 10 episodes released over the course of a year or some shit. This footage covers the footage that is already released in terms of like, you know those 10 minute edited versions of Noita, this covers that period. I thought about skipping it, but I was like, nah, I'd rather just have it all up there and just remove the shorter Noita episodes or whatever. I don't know. This upload, I'm uploading the 20 hours and I'll just upload 20 hours after 20 hours after 20 hours after 20 hours and eventually it'll all be done. I just think this is a good way to get rid of the footage that is effectively unedited. |
| 01. May 2021 | Noita and Heroes of Might and Magic 3 | Noita and Heroes of Might and Magic 3. No one wants to watch my bloody Noita videos chat. Joel, editing them, and me spending time on them as well. Complete waste of time. No one wants to watch them. Game rich is too complicated. It's not, but it is, but it's not, but it is. We're gonna do the same thing with uh, Heroes of Might and Magic 3. I was playing that on stream yesterday for, you know, one-fifth of my normal viewership, even less than that. I had less viewers playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 as I did editing. 90% of my viewers have never played Heroes of Might and Magic 3, and that's criminal. Heroes of Might and Magic 3 might be top five games of all time. You have to be that right age to have played it, you know? It came out in this perfect time where turn-based strategy games were like the thing that everyone was doing. Even today, it still has a competitive scene. It has so much depth and variety, and it's infinitely replayable with random maps. You can even do like online matchmaking still, I believe. It's just such a good game. After 20 years, there's still a competitive scene in a game that has in no way or shape or form been supported by the developer since then. There have been multiple, fully, like, realized, fan-made expansions to the game. Multiple! It must take thousands of hours to make! It is that beloved, and people haven't played it. It's criminal. For real though, playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 yesterday, for the hour and a half that I did, and I got stonks. I still want to play it again. It's gonna- it's gonna ruin me, chat. I'm gonna try so hard to not play it until I've caught up on my work, because it's just always there in the back of my mind, just scratching, like, just play the game, man. Do it! At least it's replaced Noisa in my head, but I mean, they're equally popular games. Which is kind of funny, really, because Noisa is a game that's recently come out that is fairly popular for like an indie title, and Heroes of Might and Magic 3 is a game from 20 years ago, but it just has such a nostalgia legacy. Like, calling it nostalgia is wrong, because the game holds up today, and is still good today. It's not nostalgia saying that, it's legitimately a good game. You hadn't heard of Noisa until you- until you saw me playing it? Um, there have been enough large content creators playing it, that I- that it's definitely successful, right? Like, who's the content creator I saw with like a video that had a million views with Noisa? The thing is though, there are some content creators who, you know, they can get a million views playing anything. That they had a video of Noisa that got a million views is less because of Noisa, and more just because it's them, you know? If PewDiePie tomorrow played Noisa, this video would still get like four million views, you know? Again, if you want to play Heroes of Might and Magic 3, I highly recommend downloading it from GRG for five to ten dollars and getting the fan expansion Horn of a- |
| 23. August 2021 | Noita devs trying to avoid data miners spoiling secrets | Noiter devs trying to avoid data miners spoiling secrets because uh While you can data mine stuff apparently There's a way that you can have stuff on the engine or something itself which makes it so it can't be data mine I don't know anything about it dude, but uh Apparently it can't just be solved by looking at the code which seems like a good thing to me There must be limitations on doing that or else like all devs would do that I remember I was watching some Retrospective on some game and the dude was like yeah, man All the players were together trying to figure out this solution There's this problem for months and then someone just data mined it and ruined it |
| 22. March 2021 | Non-english speaking copycat content creators | If you think of the well-known Spanish YouTubers, they'd only be well-known in places that speak Spanish, I suppose. Because I don't know any of them except Greg, because he broke the Twitch record recently. The Twitch viewership record. I have in passing seen some of these content creators, when they break records or... Like when we're looking at the top 10 YouTubers and there was like one Spanish dude in there or something. Because they don't speak Spanish, I never watch them, so I don't know, you know? It was very funny though. We talk about this all the time, the difference areas of content based on language on YouTube and Twitch and all that stuff. Recently MrBeast sent out a tweet where he's like, There is a Russian channel, that is actually the largest Russian channel, that all they do is copy my videos. Not re-upload them. Like MrBeast will release a video idea and this channel will just go, hey that's a nice video idea, and they'll just make the exact same thing. Even more than this, they take his thumbnails and Photoshop them on the bodies of MrBeast and all that. Which to be real, I'm not gonna say is genius, because copying is like, you know, obviously as I've said many times before, The amount of effort it takes to do it the first time, is usually far far more than it is to do it the second time. In the same way with my Facts and Glitches series and the Mad channels, where they just, I spend 30 hours researching, reading all the suggestions and cutting things down, presenting stuff in a particular way, for it to be entertaining. And then the Mad channels come along, watch my videos and just pick out the best ones. It takes me 30 hours, might take them less than 3. Obviously copying is just very easy to do. Like obviously, given how successful MrBeast is, if you can replicate MrBeast into a regional audience that MrBeast cannot reach, Then you're just printing money. It wouldn't surprise me if there was, given how large MrBeast is, if there wasn't just a MrBeast in every language and region. Isn't Morgz just a rip off of MrBeast as well? At least with MrBeast he comes off as a nice dude, you know. I wonder if MrBeast has changed because of how much money he has access to and all the fame and stuff. Like even on my level, which is 1 100th, 1 1000th of MrBeast, whatever it is, it's fractional. Even I see myself changing. Where I had my mincemeat go off, 5 bucks mincemeat, and I know in the past, I would have gone to extra effort to make sure I ate that mincemeat before it went off. And I would have been annoyed that it went off. But now I'm like, yeah, it's just 5 bucks. I said the same thing with delivery fees. I used to hate delivery fees, would drive everywhere to get stuff myself. Like, yeah, it's just 8 bucks, you know. The meaning of life. I do not think there is an objective meaning of life that... |
| 17. May 2021 | Non-standard GTA content maintains its relevance | Non-standard GTA content continues to maintain its relevance. But especially with the rise of RP, like while I'm sure people aren't all going to do RP themselves, just RP bringing GTA V to people's consciousness causes people to go out and play it themselves. Like it's what I always say, like me doing no damage or doing speedruns or whatever doesn't necessarily inspire people to do either, although for some people it does inspire them. But it reminds people GTA V exists and they go, oh you know I've never played that game before, I guess I'll go play it. Or oh I, you know, haven't booted up online in a long time, I'll boot that up. Because that's the most accessible versions of the game. Stuff that doesn't take a lot of effort to get into. RP, speedrunning, no damage runs, these things take a lot of effort to get into so they aren't the stuff that people gravitate towards. I think there's going to be a GTA reveal at E3 this year. I heard that in June there's apparently something and people question whether Rockstar is going to release something because it's been a year since they announced Expanded and Enhanced. It feels like just yesterday, Expanded and Enhanced was announced really. It's been a year. |
| 24. January 2022 | Not being comfortable while being unproductive | Not being comfortable while being unproductive. I get in these weird moods sometimes, where I wish I was doing more. And I don't feel comfortable unless I'm being productive. I see these messages all the time on Twitter, where people like, you need to be able to feel comfortable doing things that aren't productive. You gotta be happy just doing stuff for the enjoyment of it. And I have a lot of trouble doing that these days. Because I think it's because I have insecurities about the future, and when I'm feeling productive, I feel good, because I'm effectively fighting those insecurities, in a way. And when I'm just sitting around, I get anxious. But hearing from people that I am doing something good, and hearing from people in DRO, it makes me feel good. |
| 23. January 2021 | Not clickbaiting is hard. | Not click baiting is hard. Do I think DreamTree did? Yeah, most likely. I made my inconclusion video. It's funny, I wanted to make a video just to conclude my thoughts on the Dream thing. And I said in the video, I'm gonna make the title so goddamn mundane that only my followers will click it so people won't accuse me of using the continued drama to continue to get viewership or whatever. I just want to explain to my viewers so they stop asking me. And so I made the title inconclusion. Perfectly innocuous, could mean fucking anything or whatever. I'm not baiting on Dream's name or whatever to get myself viewers. And I'm like, this is fine. And the first thing that someone writes in the comments is like, um, this is the most click bait title of all time. I'm like, are you... like... What could I have made the title then? Because in any sense becoming more specific, I would have had to have put Dream in the title. And I would have been there for baiting for views. Like, I can't win. And the video is so mundane. I'm reading a pretty prepared statement. I'm not even in the fucking video. It's only two minutes long. It's like, this is some click bait fucking garbage, man. What are you doing? Come on. I'm doing my best, man. My talking about the Dream thing had fucking nothing to do with the desire to gain a larger audience except for the actual interview. I was legitimately interested in it. I talk about things I'm legitimately interested in. |
| 14. March 2020 | Not enjoying my electric toothbrush | It really bothers me. Not enjoying my electric toothbrush. So I very much sort of regret guessing an electric toothbrush. I have found that I brush my teeth less because I have an electric toothbrush. Because I find the whole experience less enjoyable, more tedious, more disgusting, and the brush itself is considerably smaller than a standard brush. And the whole thing just annoys me. I want to say that buying an electric toothbrush was one of the biggest mistakes of the entirety of my life. I want to say that. But I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. Probably wouldn't hit the top 100. But it exists. It's definitely a problem. The funny thing is though, I try to look up a good normal toothbrush and I can't find one. Every good toothbrush that comes there's a new electric toothbrush and da da da. I don't know. What is good about bamboo toothbrushes? I did see them on eBay. Bamboo taste buds. |
| 13. October 2021 | Not even MrBossFTW likes MrBossFTW | Not even Mr. Boss for the win likes Mr. Boss for the win. What do I think about Mr. Boss for the win? I mean not even Mr. Boss for the win likes Mr. Boss for the win. If there's one person in existence who doesn't like themselves it is that guy. Do you think he likes making like GTA 6 information video like like six times a day? You think that was his dream? Every single time he makes one of those videos he looks at himself and he's like this is my life. This is all I have. It takes like one scarec of information like a tiny rumor of 4chan and stretches it to like 10 minutes. Maybe it's not that bad, but I'm just saying like I assure you he wishes he was making something else. Does he do other stuff like does he have another channel? Why is he still doing it? The views? I mean because he's been making content for so long his back catalog is huge. And it still gets recommended. How many monthly views is he getting? He's still probably getting like 5 million right? In subs don't matter. It's the monthly views that matter. Look up his social plate. He's probably still getting at least 5 million right? 10 to 20k per video doesn't matter. What's the back end? Look up social plate. 6.5 million views in 30 days. Yeah, so you're still making good money. And so all he's doing is just pumping out shitty videos expanding the amount of videos he has just to you know keep up that passive amount of views he gets. |
| 13. October 2021 | Not even mrbossftw likes mrbossftw | Not even Mr. Boss for the win likes Mr. Boss for the win. What do I think about Mr. Boss for the win? I mean not even Mr. Boss for the win likes Mr. Boss for the win. If there's one person in existence who doesn't like themselves it is that guy. Do you think he likes making like GTA 6 information video like like six times a day? You think that was his dream? Every single time he makes one of those videos he looks at himself and he's like this is my life. This is all I have. It takes like one scarec of information like a tiny rumor of 4chan and stretches it to like 10 minutes. Maybe it's not that bad, but I'm just saying like I assure you he wishes he was making something else. Does he do other stuff like does he have another channel? Why is he still doing it? The views? I mean because he's been making content for so long his back catalog is huge. And it still gets recommended. How many monthly views is he getting? He's still probably getting like 5 million right? In subs don't matter. It's the monthly views that matter. Look up his social plate. He's probably still getting at least 5 million right? 10 to 20k per video doesn't matter. What's the back end? Look up social plate. 6.5 million views in 30 days. Yeah, so you're still making good money. And so all he's doing is just pumping out shitty videos expanding the amount of videos he has just to you know keep up that passive amount of views he gets. |
| 23. August 2021 | Not knowing enough about editing to know you are bad | Not knowing enough about editing to know that you are bad. So as you know, I have been trying hard to find people who can edit Noita for me. Because it's not worth my time to edit. It does not get enough views. Like, the six hours I spent on that edit, I could have spent on fucking Pastrist. I made hundreds of thousands of people happy, right? Instead, I made, you know, ten thousand people happy, whatever. Twenty thousand, thirty thousand, whatever. But like, looking at the edit yesterday, it was maybe a five out of ten edit. Maybe. And then like halfway through, it becomes like a two out of ten edit. Like this guy took a third of the time that most people take on the edit. And I'm just like, this edit screams I just gave up halfway through. But I had already started on it, so I had to finish it. Because he was adamant, like, no, no, I hundred percent cared. I, I, all the way through, guaranteed. I just can't believe that. It just, it went so shit so fast. And it was passable, and then went to complete shit. And the pro, and the problem is like, it's conceivably possible that when he stopped giving a shit, he didn't select scenes correctly. Because I can only fix the scenes that are still left in the timeline. I shouldn't worry about it too much, as long as the video is still good, you know. Sounds like a little sunken cross fallacy was a play there? Not at all. It's because, um, I release a video every day. I only had three hours left in editing, and there was no other video I could complete in three hours. The video was still gonna be fine. It's just, what work I'm doing on the video to be fairly minimal. I mean, ideally, like, I would have to do no work on the video. But that's never gonna happen. I've given footage to hundreds of people at this point. And I think most of the time it's more just a lack of skill, as opposed to a lack of desire. These days, I don't even give footage to people unless I have a pretty reasonable confidence that there's at least some possibility that they can succeed or whatever. And people are arguing with me, like, no, man, I could definitely do it. I definitely could do it. And 100% of the people who have said, I know I don't look good, but trust me, man, I can definitely do 100% of fail. 100%. If you don't know much about editing, you can't really assess how difficult a task is, or whether your skills are up to that task, right? You gotta have some amount of knowledge to be able to assess your own skill. Like, I have knowledge, and so sometimes I'll look at someone else's edit and I'll go, I have no idea how the fuck I do that. Or like, man, that would take me a bajillion years to do. So most of the people who you want to edit in your footage are those who already tried editing themselves, you know? So you'll see their YouTube channel, and they'll just be making videos every once in a while, because they like making videos. And maybe they just don't really have a personality or whatever that's bombastic enough for streaming, or they don't like streaming and they just want to do the editing or whatever. |
| 21. July 2020 | Not knowing why Doc was banned | why Dr. Disrespect was banned. I can't believe that we still don't know why Doc has been banned. It's been like a day or two. His wife just has some cryptic, thanks for the support, everyone. And then Doc releases a tweet where he's like, Hey man, Twitch hasn't told me why I've been banned yet. So yeah, different people are claiming to know, and you don't know if they really know, or if they're just doing it for clout. You know what guys? I know exactly why Doc was banned. I've got connections in the industry. I just can't talk about it, you know? But if any of you know, you can tell me, and then I'll tell you if you were correct, okay? He lost three sponsors. The rumor is that he's done in general. Like on all streaming platforms. What could a person have possibly done to get them done on all streaming platforms? No one else is like that. Murder? Yeah. Murder... You know, one of the high class family kind of things. I've always been against Twitch's policy of not directly stating why a person was banned and everyone having to piece it together, right? Or not discussing bans in public. Always thought that was a stupid decision. But in this case, if it's something super serious, you'd think Twitch is hoping that it doesn't get out. Because, you know, let's say Doc is a serial killer. It'd be like, Twitch streamer, Doc, serial killer. You know? Every headline is going to be, huge Twitch streamer. Twitch.tv recently signs Doc serial killer kind of thing. And like, I'm not saying it's serial killer, I'm just using an example. Obviously it wouldn't be Twitch's fault, but that brand association would be fucking terrible. There's... Has no one seen the end of Doc's stream? The dude sits there awkwardly for like two minutes looking like he's going to cry and then he just like fuck and then leaves. Any kind of benign or good interpretation of what's going on is impossible. People don't get permanently banned by Twitch's legal team for nothing. I mean, some people have said, and what seems to be the case for me, sort of as well, he kind of degraded over the last year or something. Maybe there had been someone weighing on him for a year. What's my opinion of Doc to disrespect? Over time, it seemed as though Doc became more of an asshole. Every clip that I saw of the dude, he seemed a little bit more unhinged. But maybe that's just me reading into the back, like reinterpreting my memories of him in light of current ambiguity or whatever. It's more than likely he's done something wrong or something bad has happened, so you want to look back in your mind and go, oh, yeah, I do see him now. He'd be doing bad, but that's just, you know, it's just bias now. I don't think in the past I saw of him as being more unhinged, but now that I think about it, I can't help but come to that conclusion. And that thing about him having rocks or whatever to protect him from 5G, like he didn't come across to me as this brilliant guy, let's just say. But obviously I don't follow Doc and what he does too greatly. It's just given how popular he is, he comes up sometimes or his clips get thrown around. I can't claim to be an expert on the Doc, you know. |
| 22. January 2022 | Not liking chocolate ice cream as a kid made my life difficult | Not liking chocolate ice cream as a kid made my life difficult Chocolate ice cream yay or nay? Um, it's not my go-to We used to buy Neapolitan ice cream as when I was a kid, so I'd have the pink one strawberry vanilla And then chocolate I would only eat the vanilla and the strawberry so we'd have like three tubs of Nothing but chocolate and my mother wouldn't buy anymore until my sister had eaten the chocolate But me just eat the bloody ice cream. I want more ice cream Didn't like chocolate cake didn't like chocolate at all really but I've grown up and I've realized how crazy I was as a kid Chocolate's fucking great. |
| 22. January 2022 | Not liking chocolate icecream as a kid made my life difficult | Not liking chocolate ice cream as a kid made my life difficult Chocolate ice cream yay or nay? Um, it's not my go-to We used to buy Neapolitan ice cream as when I was a kid, so I'd have the pink one strawberry vanilla And then chocolate I would only eat the vanilla and the strawberry so we'd have like three tubs of Nothing but chocolate and my mother wouldn't buy anymore until my sister had eaten the chocolate But me just eat the bloody ice cream. I want more ice cream Didn't like chocolate cake didn't like chocolate at all really but I've grown up and I've realized how crazy I was as a kid Chocolate's fucking great. |
| 14. May 2021 | Not seeing eye to eye with my optometrist | and a half years. I don't know what brought it on, but we talked about politics for like 20 minutes before I did my eye examination or whatever. Interesting conversation, I guarantee it was clear very obvious that each of us were, we didn't see eye to eye on a lot of things, but uh, discussing why that is the case and what leads to these disagreements and whatnot was interesting, but not a conversation I was either prepared for or that I was particularly hoping to have with my autometrist, right? Because you don't piss off a person who's checking on your eyes, but he's a smart dude. It's one of those people who I'm sure if we wrote out our views of the world and what we wanted in society, our values and whatnot, we disagree very much so, but he's a smart dude. He's good at his job and that's basically all that matters to me. This is why I go there because he's good at his job, you know? Yes, we don't see eye to eye, yes. |
| 13. January 2020 | Not seeing the new Star Wars and YouTube Reviews | Not seeing the new Star Wars and YouTube reviews Have I watched the new Star Wars? I was going to I even pre-ordered a ticket and I was too tired to go So I didn't I watched I hate everything's review of it and I watched a little bit of like so like angry Joe Who's that guy with always has the red background the nostalgia critic his siblings or you whatever like I watched like the first Part of those reviews which were non-spoilery. They all said it sucks in my experience if all of the YouTube reviewers Kind of have the same consensus of like this is a very flawed movie. Then it's a very flawed movie Usually then you have people who are You know aren't very critical about movies or are just happy to see more content So they're not really fast or don't really think about it too much Like if a person whose job it is to think critically about movie likes a movie like on like the youtubers that I watch I Generally think yeah, that's probably gonna be good movie though because like I I found their their judgment the viewers I watched to be Fairly good like I trust them more over random people in chat or Or what have you it doesn't mean that I personally Won't enjoy the movie I as long as I was popped in it. I'd be very surprised that I wouldn't enjoy it on some level But I wonder if I did a fan meetup to go see Star Wars like how many people actually come Like how many people are close enough and will give a damn enough to actually come my bed will end up being me and one Other dude, it's been like hey, man How's it going? |
| 06. March 2021 | Not taking showers | Not taking showers. I didn't shower? Of course I showered. I shower twice a day. I am the cleanest motherfucker you will ever see. Like I don't understand how people... Like when I hear about people at smash events and stuff how they don't shower and stuff, I don't understand how people could live like that. When I saw that video that Adam McGall released, I didn't shower for a week review. How do you live like that? Like I don't shower for a day and I feel disgusting. I get some of my best thinking done in the shower. Like if you think showering is a waste of time, whatever, get yourself some fucking wireless earbuds that are waterproof like I do. I just listen to audiobooks and shit. I'm only in there for 15 minutes or whatever, but it's still time I'd rather be listening to some sort of media. Look I don't time how long I'm in the shower, right? But it's not 15 minutes. It's like a handful of songs. How long am I meant to be in the shower guys? It's a random span of completely different times. From two minutes to three hours. |
| 19. April 2021 | Not viewing myself as a good speaker. | Not viewing myself as a good speaker. You said, do you consider yourself to be a particularly good speaker? How is this? You seem to be articulate and intelligent. The manners that you speak appreciate your content, Nick. It's possible that I just have higher standards than most people. I'm not sure. I have to listen to myself in my head. And I am much more aware of any mistake that I make or flaw in myself than potentially a person just listening casually might be. |
| 01. September 2021 | Numbers as a measure of self-worth | Numbers as measures of self-worth. I can't read the rest right now, but when I was younger, I had very low self-worth. What gave me a feeling of self-worth was getting money for my job. Because I'm like, well, maybe I'm not doing much with myself, but at least I'm earning an income that'll help me in the future. And when I stopped working and went back to study, it was a huge blow to my feeling of self-worth because I wasn't making any money anymore. And what replaced that was YouTube and getting subscribers. And so I replaced my bank account with my subscriber numbers on YouTube. I would feel bad when I hadn't released a video in a while and my subscriber numbers weren't going up or whatever. And I would feel terrible because of that. Like, I think the world in general creates an environment where people focus on numbers as being a source of self-worth, whether it be retweets, likes, your friends on Facebook or whatever, you know. It's funny because having now read the rest of what Carl Sagan said, that's kind of exactly what he's talking about, yeah. The problem with this is I get pride in the things that I've created or contributed to when they get high views. Because for me, feeling as though I'm creating something that people enjoy is what makes what I've created satisfying. Not just that, but a significant portion of that for me. Which is probably not healthy in and of itself. Like, you should be able to be happy with what you've produced regardless of how many people watch it, but, you know, it's the incident. |
| 24. October 2020 | Nvidia's 30 series launch disaster | Nvidia's 30 series retail disaster. What's your opinion on the 3080 retail disaster? It's always interesting whether a shortage of supply for any, well for anything in general, whether that's a contrived thing like this is intentional to generate hype, get people talking like where is it? I can't find one, why can't I find one? Then other people are like oh what's this thing that I need to find? Why is everyone going for this thing? And more people talk about it, you know. I can't, I'm not tech savvy enough to know whether this is, it's plausible that they ran out of the hardware, whether they just couldn't manufacture it enough, I don't know. I think I've heard people more knowledgeable than me say it's plausible. It's clearly not a good thing. They weren't even going to give any to Australia initially. It wasn't until, like Mwave apparently has gotten a select amount and they're raffling off the ability to buy one. Literally, you have to win a raffle to buy the product. How insane is that? The worst part is, for every previous generation, you didn't want the Founders Edition card. You wanted the card made by the third party or whatever because they tinker with it and make a better, better calling systems and stuff. But this time around, Nvidia isn't just giving you the basic card. They themselves have done the extra mile to make it a very good card. So currently, from testing I've seen, the Founders Edition card seems better and potentially cheaper than other alternatives made by other companies. So you want the Founders Edition card and the lack of supply is not good. |
| 22. December 2020 | OHKO + pACIFIST AT THE SAME TIME? | Kinda wants to make a hundred percent like impossible because then you'd have the greatest ability to differentiate between students as to who is really Proficient and who's not you know is One hit knockout and pacifist possible at the same time is Oko and pacifist possible the same time given that pacifist isn't possible by itself I Can't complete the game passively obviously pacifist and oko is equally as impossible I just wish I had the strength to edit all of pacifist so that I can get back to actually working on pacifist as in like Reducing the amount of deaths. I know so much more about the game now I got a lot more glitches and stuff in my belt like I there's more that I could do |
| 15. December 2020 | OHKO vs Speedruns | Comparing One-Hit KO runs to my normal speedruns, One-Hit KO of course being another name for my no damage runs. Watching all my clips guys, I miss speedrunning so much. I don't really feel like a speedrunner anymore. Which is a stupid thing because I mean, like, I did a run like a month and a bit ago, even if it was a short run. Like, I still do speedrun. And what I'm doing here is at least tangentially related to speedrunning. But back in the day, doing runs every single day, man, that's when I felt like a speedrunner. I can only go back to speedrunning when I finish this. When I finish this I can go back. If I go back before that point, then I'm screwed. Because the strats will just keep getting mixed up in my head. This is too difficult to half-ass. Do I prefer the slow phase of Oko or the fast phase of speedruns? Oh, you mean pace. The slow pace of Oko is the parts where it's like effectively impossible for me to die. There are more high-stake parts of Oko than there are of the speedrun, right? Because even if I have a small issue or a fail or whatever in the speedrun, I can continue. It's not necessarily going to be a death to the run. I can make up that time hypothetically. But in Oko, the nanosecond I fail is done. And that's very stressful. So Oko is very laid back for like 75% of the run. But there's 25% of it that's extraordinarily nerve-wracking. In speedruns, it's basically all nerve-wracking. You've got to be on your game all the time, but the consequences for failure aren't as high. Although I suppose once you're down to like your neck and neck almost with World Record, then the consequences for failure are, you know, become even higher. If I were to go back to speedrunning right now, it'd be quite relaxed because my PB is so far off World Record at this point. Do you think that five years ago you'd be doing a no hit run of GTA V? Absolutely not. Oh, five years ago? Oh, yeah. I guess five years ago because I've been streaming for five years. I've been playing GTA V for five years. I wouldn't find that absurd. If you told me at any point in time in my life, prior to starting my YouTube channel or whatever, that I'd be successful in some creative capacity, I wouldn't have believed you. I never saw myself as a particularly creative person. That's what happens when you have people around you who profess no interest in anything that you do and just put you down at old fucking points of time. |
| 05. September 2022 | OMG I AM SO SUCCESSFUL... not really though # shorts | Oh my god, I am so successful. Not really though. I've moved from getting 500,000 views a day to getting 1.5 million views a day. And I'm just like, oh my god, that's such a huge increase. That's like, my revenue is gonna be three times higher than it normally is. But of course, that's not the case. It's all from shorts. This is when I released my first short on my main channel. Went, puah! I'm like, oh, that went pretty good. Let's see if we can do it again. Did another one. Puah! Then I did another one down here, and it didn't do as well. I'm like, oh, well, guess I can't always win with shorts. But I'm still gonna continue with this. And then I just went, one a day. Puah! With weird ones going well. Like this one of me getting shot in the tank on no damage. I edited it in a funny way, but I thought it wouldn't be that good because it doesn't show the first time it happened. So there is a tiny weakness in tanks, for those unaware. Where there's hatches that I went inside. There is like a very thin line around us where bullets can actually penetrate. The odds of a bullet going through there is like a bajillion to one, but it did happen that time. One small chance. David versus Goliath. Me, of course, being David and the hillbillies being Goliath. I am just so weak here in my tank. But I will overcome... This motherfucker don't miss. No, he's fucking good. That motherfucker don't miss, man. He's good. But I will overcome adversity. Are you... Every time I talk shit, I die. It's funny, but I couldn't show the tank and the bullet in the same shot. Because if I zoomed out too much, you couldn't see it. Like you could barely see it even fully zoomed in. I had to put like a red arrow and show it twice. I got $10 for a two-chat. But this would be worth like thousands of dollars if it was just normal views. On one hand, it's like, yes, my shorts are doing well. On the other hand, it's like, if this was just normal content, I'd be making actual money. Like I question whether I could just made these into clips for this channel. And whether they would have just done well as well. I doubt they would have, right? It's just on one hand, it's like, cool, I'm succeeding. But on the other hand, it's like, how much value am I really getting from this? Am I actually getting value for the time that I'm spending each day making these shorts? The question I have to ask though is, why are these shorts so successful on my main channel, never were successful on my shorts channel. Its entire lifetime, it's gotten 10 million views. Like over the last year. On this channel, in like a month and a bit, 8 million views. On this channel, I had uploaded like a thousand shorts, and they never got anywhere. There are two possible reasons for this. One, it's because they were released on my main channel rather than a separate channel. Now the problem with this explanation is that YouTube themselves have come out and said, some people have succeeded putting shorts on their main channel, some people have succeeded making a separate channel, we can't tell you exactly which one's best. That advice that was given earlier on in the shorts lifespan, it is clear that YouTube is still tinkering with the shorts algorithm. And so maybe it's changed, maybe now main channel shorts are better than shorts on a separate channel. But what I think is probably more likely to be the case, or at least certainly contributing factor, is all of these shorts on this channel were made by other people. As in, I just gave my clips that I made for my clips channel, and I just gave them to other people and had them convert them to 9x16. So I didn't really change the footage to make it more appealing for shorts, it was just, hey, convert my clips. Even my clips channel, I never really focused on making new content out of the clips, I just focused on releasing as many clips as possible. These shorts are my first attempt at actually making newish content for the shorts platform. Like I put actual effort into this, where I never put effort into the clips or the shorts. Like I like to look at this success and say, giving a fuck matters. True, I could make some sort of compilation of these shorts. You may, I could do like a once a month, do a compilation of all the shorts. The problem is, I can't just quickly convert them into 16x9, because all the tracking of which there is a fuck ton is based on the 9x16. But I mean, I've put, I already put the facts and glitches ones, I mean the true new ones into the facts and glitches series. Are shorts actually worth making if you don't have videos to take clips from? I can't tell you that, I don't know. All I've really gained from this is 10k subscribers, which isn't insignificant, but it's debatable how relevant subscribers are to begin with. And it could be the case that YouTube will find a way to monetize shorts in a good way. I don't know. Like I am not convinced shorts are a good use of my time, but I'm not, not convinced they are. You know, I just don't want to miss out on something. I can see how many views I get on my main channel videos, and they have not increased at all. I'm still getting 400 to 500k views. So despite getting 8 million views in shorts, nothing's changed about the main videos on my channel. |
| 05. September 2022 | OMG I AM SO SUCCESSFUL... not really though #shorts | Oh my god, I am so successful. Not really though. I've moved from getting 500,000 views a day to getting 1.5 million views a day. And I'm just like, oh my god, that's such a huge increase. That's like, my revenue is gonna be three times higher than it normally is. But of course, that's not the case. It's all from shorts. This is when I released my first short on my main channel. Went, puah! I'm like, oh, that went pretty good. Let's see if we can do it again. Did another one. Puah! Then I did another one down here, and it didn't do as well. I'm like, oh, well, guess I can't always win with shorts. But I'm still gonna continue with this. And then I just went, one a day. Puah! With weird ones going well. Like this one of me getting shot in the tank on no damage. I edited it in a funny way, but I thought it wouldn't be that good because it doesn't show the first time it happened. So there is a tiny weakness in tanks, for those unaware. Where there's hatches that I went inside. There is like a very thin line around us where bullets can actually penetrate. The odds of a bullet going through there is like a bajillion to one, but it did happen that time. One small chance. David versus Goliath. Me, of course, being David and the hillbillies being Goliath. I am just so weak here in my tank. But I will overcome... This motherfucker don't miss. No, he's fucking good. That motherfucker don't miss, man. He's good. But I will overcome adversity. Are you... Every time I talk shit, I die. It's funny, but I couldn't show the tank and the bullet in the same shot. Because if I zoomed out too much, you couldn't see it. Like you could barely see it even fully zoomed in. I had to put like a red arrow and show it twice. I got $10 for a two-chat. But this would be worth like thousands of dollars if it was just normal views. On one hand, it's like, yes, my shorts are doing well. On the other hand, it's like, if this was just normal content, I'd be making actual money. Like I question whether I could just made these into clips for this channel. And whether they would have just done well as well. I doubt they would have, right? It's just on one hand, it's like, cool, I'm succeeding. But on the other hand, it's like, how much value am I really getting from this? Am I actually getting value for the time that I'm spending each day making these shorts? The question I have to ask though is, why are these shorts so successful on my main channel, never were successful on my shorts channel. Its entire lifetime, it's gotten 10 million views. Like over the last year. On this channel, in like a month and a bit, 8 million views. On this channel, I had uploaded like a thousand shorts, and they never got anywhere. There are two possible reasons for this. One, it's because they were released on my main channel rather than a separate channel. Now the problem with this explanation is that YouTube themselves have come out and said, some people have succeeded putting shorts on their main channel, some people have succeeded making a separate channel, we can't tell you exactly which one's best. That advice that was given earlier on in the shorts lifespan, it is clear that YouTube is still tinkering with the shorts algorithm. And so maybe it's changed, maybe now main channel shorts are better than shorts on a separate channel. But what I think is probably more likely to be the case, or at least certainly contributing factor, is all of these shorts on this channel were made by other people. As in, I just gave my clips that I made for my clips channel, and I just gave them to other people and had them convert them to 9x16. So I didn't really change the footage to make it more appealing for shorts, it was just, hey, convert my clips. Even my clips channel, I never really focused on making new content out of the clips, I just focused on releasing as many clips as possible. These shorts are my first attempt at actually making newish content for the shorts platform. Like I put actual effort into this, where I never put effort into the clips or the shorts. Like I like to look at this success and say, giving a fuck matters. True, I could make some sort of compilation of these shorts. You may, I could do like a once a month, do a compilation of all the shorts. The problem is, I can't just quickly convert them into 16x9, because all the tracking of which there is a fuck ton is based on the 9x16. But I mean, I've put, I already put the facts and glitches ones, I mean the true new ones into the facts and glitches series. Are shorts actually worth making if you don't have videos to take clips from? I can't tell you that, I don't know. All I've really gained from this is 10k subscribers, which isn't insignificant, but it's debatable how relevant subscribers are to begin with. And it could be the case that YouTube will find a way to monetize shorts in a good way. I don't know. Like I am not convinced shorts are a good use of my time, but I'm not, not convinced they are. You know, I just don't want to miss out on something. I can see how many views I get on my main channel videos, and they have not increased at all. I'm still getting 400 to 500k views. So despite getting 8 million views in shorts, nothing's changed about the main videos on my channel. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 27. December 2020 | Obscure lord of the rings TikTok guy. | obscure Lord of the Rings facts TikTok guy. Saw a really weird clip on TikTok yesterday. Don't know why I just came to mind now. There's this guy on TikTok, his whole thing is explaining really obscure lore in the Lord of the Rings series and some guy just randomly asked him if Frodo shoved the ring, the one ring, up his ass would he turn invisible? And I was like that's such a dumb question, such an amazingly dumb question but I have no idea and apparently the answer is no but it didn't explain why and I guess given that he can wear it around his neck and it touches his skin and it doesn't work I guess it's designed to only work when put upon your fingers. What about a toe? Will a toe counts? Can the one ring distinguish between toes and fingers? These are questions you just don't think about. I have never seen the extended version of Lord of the Rings. It's something like over nine hours of signing around. Maybe I will one day. I do think of the series fondly. I haven't seen it in a long time though. The Hobbit was kind of garbaged though right? Not bad, just really dragged out. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 27. December 2020 | Obscure lord of the rings tiktok guy. | obscure Lord of the Rings facts TikTok guy. Saw a really weird clip on TikTok yesterday. Don't know why I just came to mind now. There's this guy on TikTok, his whole thing is explaining really obscure lore in the Lord of the Rings series and some guy just randomly asked him if Frodo shoved the ring, the one ring, up his ass would he turn invisible? And I was like that's such a dumb question, such an amazingly dumb question but I have no idea and apparently the answer is no but it didn't explain why and I guess given that he can wear it around his neck and it touches his skin and it doesn't work I guess it's designed to only work when put upon your fingers. What about a toe? Will a toe counts? Can the one ring distinguish between toes and fingers? These are questions you just don't think about. I have never seen the extended version of Lord of the Rings. It's something like over nine hours of signing around. Maybe I will one day. I do think of the series fondly. I haven't seen it in a long time though. The Hobbit was kind of garbaged though right? Not bad, just really dragged out. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 20. May 2021 | Obviously fake stories fooling the mainstream media | Obviously fake stories fooling the mainstream media. Thoughts on the fake petition to ban fairy bread? So from my understanding the story goes like this. The Chasers, a satirical news group, you know the people who mock the news and politicians and stuff, in Australia. They made a fake petition and they sent out like a letter to all their subscribers and said hey look can you guys just sign this petition as a joke? We're trying to get news media to pick it up as if this is a serious thing. That we actually want to ban fairy bread because it's offensive or whatever. So for those who don't know fairy bread is like rainbow sprinkles on butter on bread. And so I guess they'd be like oh this is offensive to gay people or something. It's some made-up thing. And so this is all fake, it was complete nonsense. And but news media all ran with it anyway. They all uncritically went oh this is a petition to ban fairy bread for being offensive. How society is crumbling. And then they're all made to look like fools. Similar to that story of um who was that Australian comedian dude who made that story about how people have like chastity belts or something or cock cages or something or whatever. But they're digital and hackers had locked them and was holding people's junk for ransom or whatever. Lewis Spears yeah that's it. And the news ran with this as well uncritically just spewing that shit out. My question would be what parts of these news enterprises ran with these stories. Because like it seems as though with a lot of the online news sphere there's like more serious parts of the news and then there's just okay let's hire this dude for Nichols and get them to write as much shit as they can to hopefully get as many clicks as possible. You know like the opinion sections or whatever. Where they may as well just be youtubers talking shit. I mean like it in the same vein with youtube I guess it's the same vein with news these days. Write as much as you can about anything. It's why that person saying oh you have to kill 700 people to get through GTA 5. That's the reason there's tons of articles about that. Their video only got like a couple of thousand views and only got like 50 upvotes on reddit. But that was enough for gaming news websites or whatever to write articles on it. Because they have nothing else to write articles about you know. They just make as many articles about whatever you can. And so you'd have probably some parts of the enterprise that would engage in fact tracking. And other parts that just and as long as it's not super important just fucking say whatever. So we can get some of those clicks. They're constantly pumping out things. They're afraid people will forget about them. It's just profit man. Like the more stuff that you produce the more you appeal to certain demographics when you hear particular things you can get clicks and you make money. Media is a business. Like obviously no media enterprise wants to get stuff wrong or like obviously wrong. It is a lot more beneficial for media companies to be able to have plausible deniability. Or simply selectively report things. Because you don't have to lie or present false stories to present a false narrative of the world. All you have to do is selectively report particular things that are true. You know or true from a particular perspective. Or you can simply present things as more ambiguous than they actually are. Just increase confusion anyway. Like it is you can still very much so muddy the waters of discourse without obviously lying. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 24. October 2020 | Offline TV Podcast | Offline TV podcast. For those who don't know the Offline TV podcast, it has like Pokemane and LilyPichu on it. How bored I have to be to watch an Offline TV podcast. You have no idea. I have to be so desperate for background audio. Because I don't really care about any of the content creators that are on it. It's just because they're large content creators, occasionally they can talk about things about the industry or their experiences in it or their experiences in the general trends or whatever that can be of interest to me. But it's fairly uncommon for that to occur in the videos. But I think we all have those videos or those content creators where like we have like a tier list of content creators. I mean, when we're bored, we go down that tier list. No new content, no new content, no new content, no new content, no new content. Oh, well, I guess this person has a new video out. I guess I'll watch that because I've got nothing else to watch. And Offline TV is totally that for me. |
| 23. June 2021 | Old GTAs and mobile gaming | Old GTAs and mobile gaming. Should you get GTA SA via city or three? I mean they're all pretty cheap, you can get them all, but GTA SA is the best of those three. GTA SA is a very well done game. Have you played GTA SA on a phone? No, I could play it on my PC. Why would I play it on my phone? I both don't have time for mobile games. And I am at my PC, or within arm's reach of my PC like all the fucking time, you know? Like people ask me if I continued to play Summoner's War, and my answer was I would if I had a mobile game. Like if I was playing mobile games. I liked that game, legitimately. But I just don't play mobile games. I don't travel. Like if I was taking a train an hour every day, I'd probably have a mobile game that I would play. I'd probably play it while listening to audiobooks or something. But I don't. When I'm in the bathroom, what do I do? If I'm in the shower, I listen to audiobooks. If I'm on the toilet, I either watch a YouTube video or browse social media. I'm not in there for a long time. I'm not one of these people who's in the bathroom for fucking half an hour or whatever. If anything, I would just continue to listen to audiobooks. Still going through Ascent Online. |
| 24. October 2020 | Old channels I followed and abuse allegations | Content creators I used to follow caught up in abuse allegations. There are content creators that I followed to a degree that I didn't realize got caught up in all the sexual abuse allegations and stuff that happened a little while ago. Sky Williams apparently, League of Legends content creator for a while. You may have seen the meme that Sky lost to Dunkie and Smash or whatever. I'd always felt bad for him because I watched him as a content creator slowly fade into his obscurity, get close to a million subs and then slowly start losing subs and he wasn't making much content and he didn't seem to be doing well. I was like, oh man, that sucks dude. His content was like never insanely good but I remember seeing some of his videos back in the day. I hope circumstances improve him because he seemed to be quite sad. Then I look him up recently and I'm like holy shit, apparently he had some mansion or whatever infamously called the Sky Mansion and in this mansion there were people who... He knew that people were being abused or groomed for sex or whatever. There was underage sex happening in the house and he did nothing about it, didn't report it or whatever and he owes like $300,000 or whatever to his friends. I remember saying, ah, maybe it was a good thing he didn't continue to be successful. I was just like, what the fuck? I didn't even know all the details. He's vanished from the internet since August. All his accounts have gone silent but he released an hour and a half long defense or explanation and it's got like 80% dislikes or whatever. I can't say whether he's guilty of anything. I'm just saying that apparently the public judged him and he was found wanting. You know, he was not judged kindly. So another example of a person who got sprung in these allegations was apparently Witwix. Don't know a lot of the details but he too has vanished from the internet. Apparently, the way he speaks of it, conducting himself in a way that wasn't appropriate. Someone accused him of taking advantage of her or something but he's vanished too. This is significant for me because Witwix was the person who I saw speedrunning GTA V back in the day that led me to pick up the game. I didn't know who Witwix was. I just happened to see him speedrunning GTA V and I watched him play Boshy and stuff over the years and he was another content creator that I saw who wasn't as successful as they used to be and were fading a little bit. I was like, oh man, I hope things pick up for him, dude. I hope he's doing okay. And then this comes out where, again, can't speak to the details but that he gets accused of a bunch of stuff and vanishes. I'm like, well maybe it was a good thing that he wasn't continuing to be successful or whatever. I watched his explanation but it's hard to remember but he said, you know, he got super successful and got to his head or whatever and he conducted himself badly. I don't know. There were just so many people accused and it was so hard to keep track of who was being accused that apparently I missed some of the people being accused of stuff and then vanishing from the internet who actually had some relationship or significance to me. If you're essentially assault someone because fame got to your head, you likely already had those thoughts. I just want to say again that I haven't looked into the details specifically. I've looked into a little bit of Skye and Witwix. I'm more just talking about it because they vanished from the internet and you would imagine in most cases where people vanish, the accusations were fairly robust and I watched Witwix's apology and it seemed to be an apology, admitting wrongdoing to a degree certainly. And so that's why more comfortable say that Witwix is guilty to an extent. It's one of those things where none of us really know what we would do in similar situations. Not everyone has had, this isn't in any way in a sense justifying what they did. I'm just saying never think of yourself as holier than thou art kind of thing. While there is some consistency to personality between situations, research suggests that people in a large part meet by the circumstances that they find themselves in. In the sense that a person who's super charitable while rich, if they weren't rich might be literally stealing food from children or whatever. That kind of thing. I like to think of myself as a person who would never abuse power if given it, but I can't know that until I get into that situation. In no way does it mean we can't condemn and judge the people who do such things, but there should always be some level of humility in it. Never be convinced of your own superiority to the extent where you might have blind spots in judging yourself that you might be doing wrongdoings or what have you. It's impressive what people can justify to themselves once they get into those situations. I'm always of the position that it's best that we don't rely on people to make these judgments. I don't place systems that make abuse impossible or makes the consequences of abuse immediate and so overwhelming that it's more likely to influence people to do the right decisions. I don't trust humanity. I don't trust people. Because we see time and time again how people can rationalize the most insane stupid things to themselves if they're sufficiently motivated. |
| 22. March 2022 | Old creators who struggle to stay relevant. | Old content creators who struggle to stay relevant What's my opinion about old content creators struggling to stay relevant like her once you've reached a certain level of success You're comfortable doing things in a particular way which cannot be compatible with people's changing preferences but also because you have already made a lot of money and there's no Reason beyond like a desire to make content for you to continue to make content people can just not want to change It's like well, I don't need the money. So I'm just gonna keep making content the way that I want to make it if you watch it Go on, you know |
| 13. March 2023 | Old videos are now taking over YouTube's recommended feed. | Life. Old videos are now taking over YouTube's recommended feed. So I got recommended this video yesterday. Super Mario Ping Pong by Fathom12. You guys remember this clip? 13 years old. So this guy has had exactly one successful video and that's it, just that tune from Ping Pong and that was it. His other videos that are a little bit successful, I just plays off that. And he released a video four months ago of, I don't know, him just playing indoor volleyball. How weird is that? Like one of the comments is just, did you hear the beat to Mario there? It must have been in there somewhere. I was referencing your Ping Pong video. He knows. I've been presented with a lot more of these videos recently, these very old viral videos. And I've seen a lot of new comments on them. I'm not sure if this is a change in the algorithm or not, but at least in my experience, the algorithm does seem to be giving me more very old videos. Maybe they come in waves, I don't know, cause I remember this happening like a year ago as well. Algorithm still testing with older content, I suppose. What I'm saying is I think it makes sense for YouTube to do that. To take advantage of their just endless amounts of content that they've had over the years that could still be popular and interesting today. I can't wait until next year where they have Bongo Cat back in popularity again. Gonna get be recommended all the best Bongo Cat videos. Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. The reason why I didn't know if this was happening for you guys is because I personally have been clicking a lot of short videos in my recommendation page. When I was on my phone, every third video, like not in shorts, just out of shorts, was like some 15 second thing. Maybe they changed the recommendations for different devices. I suppose that could make sense. Maybe they have analytics that suggest that people watch different forms of content depending upon what platform they're on. See, as I say, it's just all this guessing about what the algorithm is doing to try to figure it out. This was another really old video that I got recommended recently. Test Your Awareness, Whodunit by DoTheTest. 14 years ago, in 2008 chat, the premise of this video, I'm sure I must have watched this at least once over the 14 years, and I assume most of you have as well, but the premise of the video is that at the beginning, see all these people here, how they look a particular way? At the end, all of them change suddenly, but you don't notice as it's playing out. And I watched it again and noticed none of the changes, even though like everything changes, and they like show as they change stuff out over the thing. Watch it if you like, but it turns out to be like an ad for looking out for cyclists or whatever from none. It was a very interesting ad, and it does highlight how fallible our vision is, or at least our perception, and why eyewitnesses are not very reliable in the court of law. You got this recommended yesterday? Yeah, and you can see all these recent comments, like look, like 20,000 likes on a five day old comment. Look at all this new activity. There are higher rated comments than the highest rated comment from 10 years ago. You two be weird. Humans don't expect the unexpected, that is true. I mean like now that I've told you that stuff is gonna be changing, you'll be watching out for it, and so you'll notice it. Like imagine that you were a witness to a person just walking down the street, and you later find out that that person was involved in a crime. Consider how little you notice every person who's just walking around you as you're walking down the street or whatever, because you don't need to take notice of those details. You don't believe them to be relevant, so why commit them to memory? |
| 27. December 2020 | Old work friend tried to bully me into watching one piece. | in this old content creation game. Ha ha ha! An old work friend once tried very hard to make me watch One Piece. Yeah, I've caught up on One Piece. Gyrulur. I'm up to episode like 950. Which is, you know, caught up. When it gets to a thousand, I'll watch another 50 episodes. I remember being in Coles talking to this guy and every time he'd see me he goes, Matt, Matt, I know you watch some anime sometimes, man. Watch this One Piece, dude. It's the best thing you've ever watched. I'm like, oh, come on, dude. This has got like 400 episodes. I'm not gonna watch 400 episodes, man. This guy's been a robber. That sounds so fucking boring. He's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. There's a guy with like three swords. I'm like, three swords? That's just dumb. You got two hands. Why would you even need three swords? And now he's got one in his mouth. His mouth? This is the dumbest show I've ever fucking heard of. What's wrong with you? I'm not gonna watch this. Flash forward. Five plus years. Now there's 900 plus episodes and I watch them. It's a really good show. Not saying it's for everyone, though. But if you're looking for, if you like anime, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're looking for something where, you know, you're sick of jumping from show to show, whatever. It's a good thing to sink into. |
| 14. May 2021 | Older games can be superior to newer games | Older games can be superior to newer games. Have you guys seen any of these arguments on Twitter about apparently the head of Sony or someone in charge of PlayStation or whatever it was like, he doesn't understand people's obsession with older games and stuff and backwards compatibility and da da da. He doesn't think it makes sense because you play older games. I wonder if he's just saying that because it makes sense for Sony's bottom line or something or whether he really doesn't understand it. Obviously the newest games that come out aren't always going to be the best games. There is amazing gaming experiences that newer generations will never experience because the games are less accessible or look less pretty. A bunch of people mentioning in chat that they're playing older games now. I think one of the problems as well is that the taste of the average gamer can be different because technology is better now. Games that can be made that couldn't be made five, ten years ago, whatever. So while there may have been a market for Heroes of Might and Magic 3 when it came out 20 years ago, there's not necessarily one for now. Heroes of Might and Magic 3, re-released, would do well, but if you're going to dedicate your dev time to making a game, you could probably make a game that's dedicated to the tastes of people today. I think it's less true for games, but certain types of games can go out of style. And certainly the type of design, the style of a game in terms of its graphics, whatever, can absolutely go out of style. Then again, I suppose, you see all these retro games that pixel art and stuff that come back in force, trying to keep back alive how games looked back in the day. Like Shovel Knight, for example. But even Shovel Knight, the devs obviously didn't want to exactly replicate the style of the past because it was limited by the hardware. They wanted to take the essence of what made those pixel art kind of games look the way they did, but still make it look good, you know? All I'm saying is, if you haven't played Heroes of Might and Magic 3, you are missing out. That's all this conversation is about. And if I had a billion dollars, I would buy some stake in the 3DO, whatever company controls the IP for Heroes of Might and Magic, and I would get them to completely finish the remaster for the game, rather than just doing what they did, which is remaster the basic bitch version with no DLCs, with like one tenth the content of the final version. Like, why can't these companies just reach out to these fan modders and be like, look, you've made this amazing fan mod, you've added so much to the game, you've added balancing and new artifacts and new races and stuff. We'll give you this amount of money or this percentage of the sales and we'll distribute it. We both make some money. Surely there's legal reasons why they can't do this. Or there must be some practical limitations, I'm not sure, but it just, on the surface it seems like such an amazing idea. That's what Sega did. I mean, they hired the dude who made a lot of mod, didn't they hire the dude who remastered or reverse engineered or something, older Sonic games? He made mods and stuff, and so when Sega was getting around to making their own remastered version of Sonic, you know, the, what's it called? Sonic Mania, yeah. They had that guy be very much so involved, right? Mojang did it for that dude who created the horse mod? So why don't they do more of this? These seem to be the exception to the rule rather than the rule. Like with games that are like heavily modded, heavily modded, when they're making the next version of the game, it's hard to imagine that they aren't just going to copy some of the best mods into the new game, you know? Like Skyrim 6, like they aren't going to go, okay, what were the most popular mods for Skyrim 6, not Skyrim 6, Elder Scrolls 6. It's not like they're going to not look at the top mods for Skyrim and take inspiration from that. In a weird way, the most popular mods for a game show what the developers should put into the game, you know? At least on some level, it's not necessarily true that what modders want is what the wider fan base wants, because it's possible for mods to add such complexity to a game that if that was in the base game, that it would be such a barrier to entry for the regular audience that the game would never sell. Because a lot of mods do that, they massively make the game complicated. And so like your average person who just wants to play a fucking video game wouldn't understand what the hell is going on. |
| 17. March 2021 | One Piece manga | Reading the One Piece Manga. So I've started reading the One Piece Manga. I don't find the experience of reading the manga to be anywhere near as good as the anime. Like as slow paced as the anime is, the characters just seem far more alive and substantive in the anime. Like I know the anime has shitty pacing and the animation can be garbage quite a lot and da da da. But the reading of the manga has not been a better experience. There's this guy I know, One Piece Review or something, I don't know. I think he does like reviews of each manga that comes out. So when I catch up, I might even just stop reading the manga and I'll just watch his episodes. I less care about the experience of reading the manga or even watching the anime. I just want to know what happens. I used to like when I was younger, I would have this friend who would have watched or read something that I hadn't and I would just enjoy having that person explain to me what happens. So it would take one fraction of the time, but I would get the bulk of the story. |
| 06. May 2021 | One big mistake I made during No Damage Runs. | So, one big mistake I made doing no damage runs. Honestly, I think one thing that has probably kept me from finishing this sooner is that I didn't complete every run that I did. Like, I think I was learning far more about what I need to dodge and issues that can arise when I was finishing every run, but it's hard to be like, oh you know, I'm just four hours from the end, I'll just commit myself to, just for the sake of practice, doing the next four hours, including all the missions where there is no chance of death. It just doesn't work for me, you know. But I certainly would have found out about some of the later issues that I had to experience that actually killed runs, and I just did a bit more practice. Practice is so important in challenge runs and speed runs and whatnot, but you just don't want to do it, you know. You just want to win. Practicing is planning for the future. It's preventing you from winning right now, to succeed later. How many deaths in the first run? Like 192. Because it was more just me trying to get through the game without, like, while having one HP. |
| 08. June 2020 | One game I would have on an island | If I was stuck on an island and I was only allowed one game, what would that be? It's an interesting question. If I was stuck on an island, and I was only allowed one game, what game would that be? I think I would have to choose a different game than GTA 5. I would pick something like Skyrim or something that like, or like Minecraft. Something like Effectively Infinite. At the same time, like, I put so much into GTA 5, I can't help but love the game. Red Dead Redemption 2. Am I trying to kill myself? I mean fair enough chat. I mean the box of Red Dead Redemption 2 would probably be good, tall of some kind, to hammer stuff together, or maybe to beat myself to death. Two of the biggest uses of that game. |
| 02. October 2021 | One of the best perks of being a livestreamer | One of the best perks of being a live streamer One of the worst things about going out in public It was thinking of what to wear and worrying about people going, oh man, that's what Matt wore last time What's he doing wearing the same shirt every time? And I love so much that I can live stream and wear the same thing all the time And while people occasionally care and ask, I'll be like It is a different set of clothing, and it is I do change, I tanked up every day Well, most days, better way of phrasing it, I'm happy that I'm beyond caring about that shit now I like not being uncomfortable that I have like 15, 20 of the exact same outfit It's all black |
| 08. March 2022 | One of the reasons I get involved in drama sometimes | One of the reasons I get involved in drama sometimes. I've told this before, when I was younger, I wanted to do something good. You know, get into a career, help people. And I've always felt kinda bad that I never did that. So in many cases where whatever the small thing is, I try to help people. Because it makes me feel like I'm doing alright. You know, I'm helping this guy, helping this guy. But more importantly, things like hypocrisy, or injustice, or unfairness. These things really annoy me. But what's happened over the years is I've come to accept that there are certain aspects of the world that while I consider them unjust, they are literally so far out of my scope to try to change that even thinking about them is not worth it. Thinking about all the people right now who need help that will never get it is not... I can't do anything about that. But occasionally something will fall across my desk. Or an idea will form in my head, which represents something in my immediate vicinity, something I can control, as being wrong, unjust, unfair to someone. And I will be unable to get that thing out of my mind until I actively try to do something to stop it. Or to educate people about why I think this thing is bad. Or unjust, or unfair, or unfair, whatever. Like, if you read the document, you should quickly come away with it that my concern is not for myself, specifically, but everyone. It is a situation where I'm arguing that a certain group of people is able to use their position of power to abuse others. Whatever your take of my words, you have to accept that my intentions are good. You can think I'm wrong, but obviously the intention behind my words is a good one. |
| 17. March 2021 | One piece manga | Reading the One Piece Manga. So I've started reading the One Piece Manga. I don't find the experience of reading the manga to be anywhere near as good as the anime. Like as slow paced as the anime is, the characters just seem far more alive and substantive in the anime. Like I know the anime has shitty pacing and the animation can be garbage quite a lot and da da da. But the reading of the manga has not been a better experience. There's this guy I know, One Piece Review or something, I don't know. I think he does like reviews of each manga that comes out. So when I catch up, I might even just stop reading the manga and I'll just watch his episodes. I less care about the experience of reading the manga or even watching the anime. I just want to know what happens. I used to like when I was younger, I would have this friend who would have watched or read something that I hadn't and I would just enjoy having that person explain to me what happens. So it would take one fraction of the time, but I would get the bulk of the story. |
| 02. July 2021 | One viewer stream overlays | One viewer streamer overlays. I saw this meme yesterday where it's like the experience of watching a one viewer streamer and he clicks on a stream and it's like 90% of the screen is like alerts notifications things that say latest follower latest dono and stuff and the screen is so cluttered and I'm like that's really funny because it's so true I go to all these smaller streams even hundreds of viewers and the layout is just so bad and so much of the screen is taken up by just excess stuff that isn't gameplay or webcam or whatever and I want to say you should just change this but it feels so wrong giving people that kind of criticism that's you don't know how they're gonna respond to it you know be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 24. April 2021 | Onine dating struggles | Online dating struggles. So with online dating, so I have a lot of conflicting opinions of myself. Like, when I try to assess, like, how appealing I should be to the wider public, I don't fucking go anywhere. I have no friends. I don't even have furniture. I have very limited preferences. Like, I don't know where I would want to go. I don't like a lot of different types of food and stuff. Like, I am at the core of my being quite boring when it comes right down to it. In terms of, like, the surface level small talk stuff that people talk about normally, I got nothing. I got no game there. I'm not the most attractive person in the world. I'm not the least attractive person in the world, but I'm not, like, instant swipe right. Right is good? Yeah, right. Swipe right. Thus, I'm going to struggle on these kind of websites. I do have a lot of pros, but I think they're only pros that you would find if you knew me and knew what I did for a living and knew me personally, which, like, I can barely get people to respond to my messages more than, like, twice. Online dating is awful. I've only been doing it for, like, seven days, and it's just so tedious. But I will give it a go. I want to try to be normal. I think I'm just on the wrong bloody site. I'll try a different one. One where you can actually write stuff about you and actually read profiles and shit. The less information given, the more superficial I suspect people are. Although I suspect that people who are on these apps, like, it's always when we end up becoming superficial, because why would you read a fucking essay on each person, you know? Does what boost my ego? Dating on these apps? No. Fuck no. I am well aware that what I do and my popularity within this domain is very limited in terms of its significance or prestige in the wider world outside of what I do, right? I walk up to the average person and tell them what I do, and I could even say numbers of followers and subscribers. They'd be like, all right, fair enough. That's cool. They might be like, do you like No PewDiePie or something? Like, surely it isn't that bad, because I imagine most people use YouTube these days, but I mean, it feels that way sometimes. Like, I would, I thought going into it that even if people wouldn't be interested in, like, the actual substance of what I do on YouTube and Twitch, that this career that I have is so rare that I thought people would be interested in having a conversation just on that alone, but that's not the case. People really don't give a fuck. |
| 02. August 2021 | Onion on pizza | Onion on pizza. Woke up very tired today and I'm like look, I'm not gonna go downstairs and make myself pizza. That'll make me feel better, right? I go down and they gave me a, like when I order food from Woolworths, they sometimes say, hey look, give me substitutions if you don't have the stuff I want, give me something different so they give me a different meat lovers pizza I read the box and this was like oh yeah, it's just a normal meat lovers pizza, this is gonna be fine I open it and wouldn't you know it, on the pizza onion, fucking onion huge like fucking chunks of onion, just like, like things that shouldn't exist, they look like fucking gems of onion, like they were carved from an onion like as big as my head or some shit and they just like chipped it out insane, like I've talked before about how I can't remember taste like I can't remember smell or whatever I just remember my response to these things, but I remember texture, and I fucking hate the texture of onion and I know it has a lingering taste that infects everything around I fucking hate it, like if you wanna if you wanna blend onion to the extent where you can't even see it like it's just so tiny like it can't have a texture cause it's so small fine, fine but if you're gonna leave chunks of onion inside, you should write that shit on the box I got in a poll, it was like 50-50 where the people liked onion, and if that's the case, that shit should be on the box |
| 24. April 2021 | Online dating struggles | Online dating struggles. So with online dating, so I have a lot of conflicting opinions of myself. Like, when I try to assess, like, how appealing I should be to the wider public, I don't fucking go anywhere. I have no friends. I don't even have furniture. I have very limited preferences. Like, I don't know where I would want to go. I don't like a lot of different types of food and stuff. Like, I am at the core of my being quite boring when it comes right down to it. In terms of, like, the surface level small talk stuff that people talk about normally, I got nothing. I got no game there. I'm not the most attractive person in the world. I'm not the least attractive person in the world, but I'm not, like, instant swipe right. Right is good? Yeah, right. Swipe right. Thus, I'm going to struggle on these kind of websites. I do have a lot of pros, but I think they're only pros that you would find if you knew me and knew what I did for a living and knew me personally, which, like, I can barely get people to respond to my messages more than, like, twice. Online dating is awful. I've only been doing it for, like, seven days, and it's just so tedious. But I will give it a go. I want to try to be normal. I think I'm just on the wrong bloody site. I'll try a different one. One where you can actually write stuff about you and actually read profiles and shit. The less information given, the more superficial I suspect people are. Although I suspect that people who are on these apps, like, it's always when we end up becoming superficial, because why would you read a fucking essay on each person, you know? Does what boost my ego? Dating on these apps? No. Fuck no. I am well aware that what I do and my popularity within this domain is very limited in terms of its significance or prestige in the wider world outside of what I do, right? I walk up to the average person and tell them what I do, and I could even say numbers of followers and subscribers. They'd be like, all right, fair enough. That's cool. They might be like, do you like No PewDiePie or something? Like, surely it isn't that bad, because I imagine most people use YouTube these days, but I mean, it feels that way sometimes. Like, I would, I thought going into it that even if people wouldn't be interested in, like, the actual substance of what I do on YouTube and Twitch, that this career that I have is so rare that I thought people would be interested in having a conversation just on that alone, but that's not the case. People really don't give a fuck. |
| 05. April 2021 | Online political discourse is trash. | Online political discourse is trash. I tweeted out something yesterday where I was like, I would really hate to depend upon online political discourse for anything. It is the last thing I'd want to depend on, like for my well-being in society or something, or my livelihood or whatever, like if I directly get money from such conversations or such discourse. I would hate that because so much of this discourse seems just to exist for self-aggrandizement. It's not how can we best achieve X, it's what is the narrative that best makes me feel superior and feel like I matter more than other people. I'm not going to tell you the context of why I felt like tweeting that, but I unfollowed, like I didn't follow that many political people, but I unfollowed half a dozen, because I'm just like, I am so sick of all these people who spend most of their time whining on Twitter with no actual practical idea of how they want to achieve any of their end goals. And their main criticism is just how can I write something that makes other people tell me that I'm fucking awesome and this other person or other people fucking suck. I don't know if it sounds elitist making these statements, but it's just so toxic and terrible to look at. You know, it shows that I'm in a privileged position in that I have the ability to either just say I'm not interested in politics or not, because I'm doing well in society and I'm not moments away from destitution or whatever, and I pity such people, I want to help such people, but it's just so toxic, I have to limit a little bit more, I think, my engagement with it, because it's just awful. |
| 14. January 2021 | Online success when so young | Pool, isn't it? Especially when when they're that young it seems even more crazy Oh, like can you imagine being that successful at 16 years old? What would you do with that success? How would that change you as a person? Um, like I I get pictures My minecraft content pulls half a million views. Yeah, I I guess that would be do you want to go to the prom with me? Your thoughts yeah, because I mean I I got successful to a significant degree, you know at least 27 or whatever Yeah, that's I feel like I have a few more years under my belt and I can kind of handle that more But that much attention at 16, I think it would just destroy me, you know, um |
| 02. February 2022 | Only fans and false advertising of nudity. | OnlyFans and false advertising of nudity. A chick had a picture of herself that had like an emoji covering her body, implying that she was naked. Like you could see her breasts or whatever. And some dude was like, oh my god I got completely scammed. I paid 35 bucks for this person's OnlyFans. And it removes the emoji. And she's just got like bubbles all over her. So you can't see anything. Obviously that's just funny in and of itself. False advertising? I don't think that's necessarily false advertising. Actually probably would be. I mean you'd have to argue in court that what was implied was one thing. Because obviously it didn't say explicitly that's what you were going to get right? If you were marketing something, you don't explicitly say it helps you lose weight. But you show a before and after picture. A person who's overweight, a person who's lost weight. And your product doesn't help you lose weight. Even if you didn't say it explicitly, you could probably still argue in the court of law like, yeah, it's implied that's what this does. And I bought this product on this basis. You'd probably have to like, try to argue intent or something. What was the advertisement made specifically to create that false impression? And the law. |
| 14. May 2020 | Opinion of Daisy Ridley | What's your opinion on Daisy Ridley? I don't know who that is. Oh, Rey from Star Wars? She doesn't appear to be a terrible actor. I don't think the problems with the new Star Wars movies is the acting, so I have no particular opinion of her. She seems fine. |
| 24. May 2022 | Opinion on new Batman movies | Opinion on new Batman movies. Have I watched the new Batman? Don't care. There have been way too many Batman movies. That's like not even true. Batman is not that interesting of a character, okay? In the realm of fiction, there are better characters and better ideas. We do not need a 947th rendition of Batman. |
| 24. May 2022 | Opinion on new batman movies | Opinion on new Batman movies. Have I watched the new Batman? Don't care. There have been way too many Batman movies. That's like not even true. Batman is not that interesting of a character, okay? In the realm of fiction, there are better characters and better ideas. We do not need a 947th rendition of Batman. |
| 04. February 2020 | Opinion on the coronavirus | What's your current opinion on the coronavirus situation and do you think it will become a big thing? I do not know enough to even speculate on whether it will become a big thing. That it has become a thing at all is, you know, it's a prerequisite for it to become a bigger thing. Astronomically, more people are dying from the flu right now than are dying from the coronavirus. In the grand scheme of things, the amount of people who've died from it thus far is not particularly many by comparison to generic things that you might die of. There are far more things currently that you are more likely to die of than the coronavirus. Being overly concerned about it right now, whilst having no ability to impact the situation at all, is potentially unwise depending on your circumstances. I mean, if you live in China, you know, be concerned. It's always the case that when some new thing is added, it's a new variable, it's new, it's fresh, it gets a pull on everywhere, so it seems very scary. With a lot of negative things that happen in society and life in general, people tell themselves, that could never happen to me. That's the thing that happens to other people. But a new virus, something that everyone's reporting on, does it happen to you? Are you the sort of person that it happens to? Is it going to happen to you tomorrow? Are you going to die? Who knows? You have no idea because you haven't been able to rationalize in your head as to how you'll protect a trauma. What I'm saying is, don't worry about it. You're probably fine. If you like this Q&A footage and want me to keep doing this kind of thing, just hit like. It generally tells me that people like watching the stuff. Thank you. |
| 04. March 2022 | Opinions on the new Rambles thumbnails. | on the new Rambles thumbnails. Oh, did I tweet that out? I think I did. Legit, I will have these. It's just a string of these. Go to new thumbnail store. I hate the new thumbnail. It's kind of like YouTube in a nutshell where it's hard to get a feel of everyone's opinion. Like how split people are on things, just reading the comments. You can get a string of five comments in a row that are like, I hate this thing, but in reality, the majority are fine with it. It's just a thumbnail, click on it, and you won't have to see it anymore. That's funny. I really hate this thumbnail. Click. |
| 04. March 2022 | Opinions on the new rambles thumbnails. | on the new Rambles thumbnails. Oh, did I tweet that out? I think I did. Legit, I will have these. It's just a string of these. Go to new thumbnail store. I hate the new thumbnail. It's kind of like YouTube in a nutshell where it's hard to get a feel of everyone's opinion. Like how split people are on things, just reading the comments. You can get a string of five comments in a row that are like, I hate this thing, but in reality, the majority are fine with it. It's just a thumbnail, click on it, and you won't have to see it anymore. That's funny. I really hate this thumbnail. Click. |
| 03. May 2021 | Optometrist vs sponsored content | Optometrist versus sponsored content. So I called my optometrist, and so I set up a time for me to finally go in and get my contacts checked out, so I can get some new ones. And then, like, hours after hanging up the phone, I agreed to do some sponsored streams on that exact day. It's like, well, guess I have to coin back again. Worst of all, I know I'm going in for, like, it's a pointless reason to go in. Like, it's just, it's precaution. It's like, gotta make sure that the contact is sitting in my eye and it's not like a, I don't know, build up a blood or something underneath. I don't know exactly what he says, but it's one of those things where you just, it pays to be cautious when you get a new prescription or a new type of contact. Sponsored streams of dance game? I haven't done very many in my life. Because they, you have to dedicate a lot of time to them. But the money is worth and the game looks interesting. Why not wear glasses? I don't like them. I haven't worn glasses since I was, like, the seventh or eighth grade. And wearing contacts for, like, 15 plus years. Now, I take my contacts out once a month. I have, quote unquote, breathable contacts. They are still as not as sanitary as contacts that you take out every day and clean, but still good. It's part of the reason why I don't cheap out on the contacts. I get some pretty damn high quality ones. My optometrist once said, you know, you get what you pay for and it's your eyes, so you probably don't want to be cheaping out on that thing. I don't remove them when I sleep. |
| 14. March 2022 | Order of topics in my rambles. | The order of topics in my rambles. I feel like the ordering of my last rambles was bad. I didn't start with interesting topics, but it's hard to determine what people are actually interested in in regards to these topics, honestly. Harder than you might think. Everything is harder than you might think. I'm harder than you might think. Ha ha ha. Get it? Hilarious. |
| 10. January 2021 | Origin of gag of trevor being called fruitcake. | The origin of the gag of Trevor being called a fruitcake in pacifist. Origin of the fruitcake gag? It's a gag in GTA. Dave calls Trevor a fruitcake. Which at the time, I just thought it meant crazy. I don't think- I think that's what Dave meant, but apparently some people think fruitcake means gay. I think what fruitcake actually means, as an expression or as an insult or whatever, is abnormal. So it's possible that because people view being gay as abnormal or- Well, I guess it is outside of the norm, but abnormal kind of has like a negative connotation or whatever. Maybe in just some context, some people have referred to being gay as- They would call a gay person a fruitcake, but I don't think that's actually what the word means. Because I mean, why would Trevor- So why would Dave refer to Trevor as gay? I think he was just referring to him as a abnormal, and I guess in this case, crazy. |
| 03. September 2021 | Origin of my desire to conquer Finland. | Origin of my desire to conquer Finland. When I had like 25 followers someone said to me what are your goals for your stream and I wrote some goals down below my stream and one of them was invade Finland and that was like four years ago and I just kept the joke going. I don't know why I pick Finland but you know. |
| 03. June 2022 | Other Potential RDR Releases | Other potential Red Dead Redemption releases. Did you guys hear that they're potentially making other Red Dead games like remaking the other games or maybe a small new thing and stuff? I for one applaud Rockstar not giving up on a lost cause and attempting to You know actually make something good out of that for interest. |
| 11. December 2019 | Other reasons big streamers move platform | Other reasons some big streamers move platform The commentary that is less about the money and more about some having a better work-life balance is pretty interesting to me Like is the the one bit of commentary that I didn't necessarily think on myself Where the guys at the top are making fat stacks of money, but you know, they're still streaming nine hours a day or whatever moving to mixer There's less pressure to stream to maintain your dominance and you've kind of already made the money So it's less There's there's less. I don't say incentive, but there's less need to stream every day necessarily So I'm sure if we looked at ninjas numbers since he moved to mixer He's streaming less and he's certainly streaming less for tonight and try to more than likely do the same It just makes sense at that level to take The money because you never know what's gonna happen next year. I mean streaming in general could go south next year You never know like taking the money and sticking around It gives you so much security and so much more freedom and like why wouldn't you do it? |
| 09. July 2022 | Our new Fortnite skin pack | Take it the way you want it. Yeah. Our new Fortnite skin packs. So when's the Fortnite skin coming out, boys? Just after yours is. I don't often get serious, but it's actually a joke that the three of us don't all have our own icon Fortnite packs. Of course. It is pretty disappointing, considering- |
| 09. July 2022 | Our new fortnite skin pack | Take it the way you want it. Yeah. Our new Fortnite skin packs. So when's the Fortnite skin coming out, boys? Just after yours is. I don't often get serious, but it's actually a joke that the three of us don't all have our own icon Fortnite packs. Of course. It is pretty disappointing, considering- |
| 09. April 2021 | Outdated Animaniacs song | Outdated Animaniacs song. I saw a clip from the Animaniacs where the tallest one sings that song about all the countries in the world. The dude who sung that after 20 years still knows the song and so he sung it at like a an event or whatever 20 years later. It was very funny. It is really catchy and I suppose he would have practiced it like a hundred times or whatever but it's funny because that song is out of date for a handful of countries. Some of those countries are either not separate or are now separate and stuff. |
| 09. April 2021 | Outdated animaniacs song | Outdated Animaniacs song. I saw a clip from the Animaniacs where the tallest one sings that song about all the countries in the world. The dude who sung that after 20 years still knows the song and so he sung it at like a an event or whatever 20 years later. It was very funny. It is really catchy and I suppose he would have practiced it like a hundred times or whatever but it's funny because that song is out of date for a handful of countries. Some of those countries are either not separate or are now separate and stuff. |
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| 02. October 2022 | Overall impression of GTA 6 from the leaks | Overall impression of GTA 6 from the leaks? So, what do you think of the GTA 6 leaks then? What was your overall impression? Your opinions, did they change over time? Run me through your thought process there. I thought the game looked great for what it's in right now. I think it looks really good. I'm excited. Yeah, I'm in agreement. It's a pre-alpha, so I wasn't- I think the world, it looks really detailed already, even it being in pre-alpha. Like I don't know if you saw that one image, like the cop Granger is chasing after him. And there's like the picture of the building of the in-game compared to real life. And it's just the amount of detail they go into. Exactly. And that's only in like alpha stages, like it's gonna look really good. And certainly they've gone more, they've gone perhaps even more vibrant possibly than GTA 5 was. Like they haven't taken a step back towards the GTA 4 direction. They haven't gone the same direction of Red Dead Redemption 2. It seems more, I wouldn't say cartoony, but it's definitely toying the line of realism and cartoony. They haven't leaned into realism like Red Dead 2. Haven't gone fully committed into a bit more cartoon like GTA 5. I think they've done a good balance. I don't know if you saw the one where they had like the weapon on the back, like in the RDR 2, how you have like the weapon with like the strap or whatever. I mean- Then again, like everything is subject to change. They could be just using stuff to test, like there's assets to test from other games. Yeah, absolutely. Considering how much of the footage contained like assets that clearly weren't loaded in, characters that didn't have faces and all that stuff. It's hard to know like how much of a full picture that we were given. I'm sure that's part of the reason why Rockstar is probably pretty pissed. Like if a leak had to happen, they probably want their best foot put forward rather than what we got, which was just a garbled chunk of nonsense. Best footage put forward. Especially like with some of the ones where it's just like the character and then everything's like blocks and like not texturized objects. But that's game development. That's just, that's early stages. |
| 15. December 2020 | Owning a car | Both. Why can't it be both? Owning a car. Imagine owning a car, cringe. I've always both liked and disliked owning a car, because when I, you know, was less well-off than I am now, it would always annoy me that my car was like one of my biggest non-necessary expenses, especially when I was working from home and stuff. But it's always nice just to be able to hop in your car and drive wherever you need to go. My car is quite old though, and I should probably replace it, but I just can't be bothered because I drive basically nowhere. What's probably going to end up causing me to get a new car is if I ever start dating again, or doing online dating or something, and have to go meet people, I'll probably buy myself a new car, just because I can afford it now, and I'm sure the average person looking upon my car would not think of me highly. |
| 19. April 2021 | PAX and 702 dollars worth of big macs. | packs and seven hundred and two dollars worth of Big Macs I will be going to packs in Melbourne when it's on yes road trip into Melbourne why would I do that why would I do that what do you mean for packs should we get some Big Macs I will buy seven hundred and two dollars worth of Big Macs I would actually do that how much does one Big Mac cost like six bucks I think currently or something said be what a hundred and something I would like to make a video I bought seven hundred and two dollars worth of Big Macs and here's what happened and just me sitting in a chair eating as many Big Macs as possible wouldn't get that many I could probably eat like four maybe five no I could push just six maybe I mean sometimes you got to test yourself find out the limits of what you're capable gonna eat as many Big Macs as possible and when I say I'll buy seven hundred dollars worth of Big Macs I mean that I would give them to like viewers and stuff I don't know if I'm popular enough that enough people would shop to eat the Big Macs and especially because it's not like I could just find a McDonald's that isn't full because it's during packs right so there be heaps of people everywhere by them a month before packs I don't like I don't think seven hundred and two dollars is enough money to like rent out a McDonald's for now what would that cost will they even do it I'd say take a every say be something like that because you'd have to be covering the normal sales that they get the potential annoyance for people coming up and you know you want something good get yourself a quarter pounder but remove the ketchup and mustard and put Big Macs all on it sucks actually on the McDonald's app they do not give you the option to replace the sources with Big Macs all I'm like dude then more people not do this I'm ever being really drunk and I was in a car with two guys and this dude guys I did did did did did did did you wanna say it's really amazing like really really gonna make it to what what is it man what is it Big Macs sauce on double quarter pounder just just do it man like I don't know it's just man just it's amazing and is to be honest I'm pretty sure it's just like like the first time you have it it's amazing it gets off you know it's just at the end of days just be max all's good yeah we have classic Angus people because guys if if there's something that exists at your McDonald's more than likely Australia has it because because Australia tests the stuff for the world as in when Donald brings out something new they generally speaking put it in Australia first because because I've explained it in rambles do you guys not watch my rambles it's because Australia is a market that is like America is like Europe it's like the UK you know except where we're a tiny tiny market and we're far far away from everything so if something fails here they can have some certainty it's gonna fail everywhere else but if it succeeds here they can then propagate it everywhere else it's a it's a tiny market they can test stuff in where they can have some confidence of it being applicable to other similar regions they do in New Zealand a bit as well I think a control you could say a controlled market there you go and it's obviously not completely controlled market but it's here it has less of an impact if they fail in Australia versus fail in America |
| 03. June 2020 | PC Part Suggestions | Do I know any relatively good but cheap PC parts for gaming PC? I get this question all the time. I'm not a person testing PC parts and I'm fortunate enough to be in a circumstance where all my PC parts that I buy are at business expense. I can lavishly spend on the best PC parts because business expense and there will be return on their investment because it increases the content, the quality of content that you guys get and I can make more of it. So I can justify almost any purchase of anything. You have no idea how much that fucking NAS cost. Insane amounts of money. But it's the only way that I can keep making the content that you guys enjoy so I had to pay. I didn't like paying it and especially didn't like when one of the drives died and I have to wait so many weeks to have it come but you get the idea. There are so many YouTubers talking about the best bang for your buck hardware, particular builds where you can put together. I'm the last person you should be asking about that. Don't get me wrong. I have been in those circumstances where I've looked for the best value part. I'm sitting there for hours analyzing all the fucking numbers and to make sure I get the best thing for the system that I have. I just, that was years ago though. The information I had then is not necessarily good. |
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| 13. October 2021 | Pacifist% 25 taken down but now back up | Passivist%25 taken down but now back up Ah yeah, the Passivist is back up on YouTube So for those unaware, Passivist25 was taken down because Sony Music of Japan or something claimed the seven seconds of music that I used when Micah was going up the stairs in slow motion The reason I used that particular music was because it was a TikTok meme but I guess they're fine with it being on TikTok but not fine with it being on YouTube for whatever stupid reason, they blocked the entire video worldwide the 22 minute video for that seven seconds So I removed the music and you know, moved on |
| 21. July 2020 | Pacifist% in GTA 6 | Pacifist percent in GTA 6. I don't like to think about GTA 6 because it's just so far off, but it would really disappoint me if GTA 6 came out and someone else took it upon themselves to do Pacifist and took it from me. That's probably going to be a thing. Because I would want to hold off doing Pacifist for a long goddamn time. Yeah, because I would want to know everything about the game before I did Pacifist, or at least a significant amount, so there would be a smaller likelihood I'd miss something. But if I'm trying to beat other people to the punch to make the series, I'll have to jump into it fairly quickly. I would hope that the vast majority of people would see Pacifist percent as higher fruit on the tree, and so would be grabbing for the lower hanging fruit and they wouldn't want to do it. I mean, when I think about it, the vast majority of people wouldn't want to do something like Pacifist. They'd want to be like just rambling into a microphone for 20 minutes and then just cutting it together in a very simplified way and then throwing it on their YouTube. |
| 16. January 2021 | Parasocial relationships on Twitch, viewers as friends, Ludwigs “I am not your friend” video | Parasocial relationships on Twitch viewers as friends Ludwig's I am not your friend video So Ludwig released a video His beautiful brown eyes there we go Ludwig released a video where he is titled. I am not your friend and it's basically talking about the idea of parasocial relationships and how people can become Attached to a streamer in a way that negatively impacts their lives believing this to be like a friendship Rather than just like an escape from their reality a distraction and entertainment and that's something that I think on sometimes as well I mean every streamer does to what extent are you? potentially taking advantage of the vulnerable Manipulating people with your actions inadvertently or intentionally to give you money donate or whatever as a person who? doesn't want to go about their lives having a negative impact on others I Especially when I get I receive a large donation or a lot of money or something from someone I begin to think I really hope This isn't a person. I'm taking advantage of in some capacity Ludwig is right I am NOT anyone's friend, but I suppose for me because I don't have any real-life friends. Maybe I come across as too friendly sometimes I'm not sure I use the word friend sometimes But that was just because I felt like mates wasn't international enough The people would look me weird if I said thanks mate So I say thanks friend or whatever these days But there's one part in here that I really really agreed with like I can I can debate whether or not I actually care about my viewers because I do I do care about my viewers But his point that I can't care about my viewers on an individual level is absolutely correct People ask me how many of your viewers do you remember and I'm like 100 200 maybe there is a few hundred of my viewers that when they talk to me I remember things about them and I have a more individualistic care of them But in general I I can't do that with everyone There is a general well wish that I have for everyone who I deem as well-meaning. I care about everyone Even if they're not my viewers to a degree Like when someone tells me of their hardships, and I wish them well I am sincere in me and in that I'm wishing them well And I do legitimately feel bad for the suffering that they're communicating to me, but at the same time I Will forget about that hours from then right if my mother told me she was suffering. I would remember that But a random viewer. I it's not like I can remember that forever in the moments I care and I am sincere, but I can't say that's gonna impact me for the rest of my day What depends on how serious it is, but you know I'm saying and he I think These sorts of videos where he's distancing himself and saying hey just treat this as entertainment is very correct to do It makes me reflect on if I'm engaging in bad behavior in some respects like I hope people find my my content to be informative entertaining But not to the extent where they're somehow Detrimenting themselves there they're bringing apart Onto themselves burdens that they don't need to for my benefit like when I hear people say oh I watched all these ads to give you money I'm like that's really flattering that you care about me or my content to that degree But the same time I'd still rather you didn't do it because I don't need that money. You could have used that time productively in some sense to benefit your own lives in in a In a much grander way than I could use that money You've given me in some way to improve my circumstances right between the two of us there has been a loss of value Because your time wasn't necessarily worth the amount of money That I've received or the impact that money is going to give towards me and the benefit to my life When I when I get emails from people or see messages in chat where people are like oh, you know when I get a job man I'll be out of dono and sub and stuff and I'm saying man. I'm doing so well financially. Look at all these views, man I don't need people to give me money that they they need I don't need people to give me money that they don't even have right now I don't need people to promise to me that they're going to financially support me in the future. I Appreciate all of that that people do but I it makes me feel guilty and bad when I hear the wrong kinds of people doing that like if you have a stable job and savings and you want to sub for $5 that makes perfect sense to me because you get benefits You're more involved and I get something out there too because five dollars a month is not a supreme amount of money to Amount of people in this world, but for some people that is a lot of money I don't want people Especially my current circumstances putting my welfare above their own But there was one point in this video that I really really Felt and it's this one here I get this all the time on Twitch and sometimes even on YouTube or Twitter Lotta week you saved my life No, I didn't save your life. What do you mean? I saved your life I've been playing Pokemon and Among Us in Minecraft where in that journey Did I save your life that I pick up a scalpel and take out a cancerous lump? No, all I did was play games and you used me as a distraction to maybe get through a bad period or whatever it was But you did it you used me you could have used anything You could have used Taylor Swift's most recent album You could have just used Jay Schlatt himself if you wanted it could have been anything that you used You just happened to have used me and I promise if you didn't you also would have been fine All right, so stop giving me the credit that you deserve for doing all the work. I don't know you How can I save you? Come on think about it think about it Yeah, so I I find that to be so true in that Irrespective of whether and in I get those messages. I've saved your life. I've saved your life and stuff and I'm just like Irrespective of whether or not you watched my content. I would have done the exact same goddamn thing Nothing about the way that I behaved or what I created was in any way shape or form influenced by You watching my content. I have done literally nothing to save your life if indeed My content helped you it was inadvertent or at least in the sense that it wasn't Specifically the goal of my content to be targeted towards you or to have that benefit to you in that capacity Certainly I make content with the goal of entertaining people and bringing other people benefit and I get satisfaction from the idea That this occurs for some people but I'm not targeting any individual with that purpose. I am not working to save lives I am working to create entertaining content that people can use for any purpose they desire and If that happens to help people it doesn't mean that I've actively worked or changed my behavior in some capacity to save people Even if you want to make some argument that maybe this could occur Certainly like saving a person's life because they happen to get distracted by my content I was like clearly I don't deserve that credit. It is mere happenstance you know, there was no effort applied on my part to achieve that outcome and and I think Ludwig's Statement there is correct that had I not been that person there in the vast majority of cases They would have found someone else to watch it is entirely possible if you think about it guys If you hadn't have found my content for all, you know you would have found an even better content creator and I have selfishly distracted you from Finding a content creator that you would have loved even more You never know it's a possibility for all I know I am the equivalent of you being in like your 40s and Regretting the idea that you haven't found the right person and Steve settled on me And you just wait that little bit longer you would have found the perfect content credit for you, you know I'm saying I I Know like I think on this stuff sometimes and I don't like the idea of thinking that I'm taking advantage of people But yeah, if you haven't seen this video, I highly recommend watching I'm not gonna watch the entire thing I believe Ludwig has said this sentiment better in other places, but I'm I think it was a very good video I really think this is a bit harsh because a streamer can save a life a lot of people stuff from loneliness or depression I'm watching you really cheer them up and make them think of good things Keep up the good work and happy new year But that isn't something I've actively worked to achieve you are giving me credit for something that I'm not explicitly doing It's coincidental no additional effort was put By me to achieve that outcome It's kind of like you find a rock in the middle of a forest and you sit on it and you thank the rock for giving You somewhere to sit that rock was gonna be there regardless of whether or not you sat on it There's no reason to give the rock credit for being there You were the one who used that rock for a seat and if you hadn't used that rock for a seat Nothing would have changed about that rock to whatever capacity I have achieved those ends in people They're doing it. They're the ones using my content for that purpose and it would be there or not Regardless of whether or not they made that choice. I just think I'm giving too much credit That's the only point I'm trying to make Excuse he has the clip talking about what you and Ludwig were just saying I assume streamers are pointing this out more because of the larger amounts of depressed fans due to 2020 as a whole once you get to a certain size you Begin to see more frequently people who may be too greater Obsessed with you or your content like it's always a tiny tiny portion But when you get to a large enough size that portion becomes far more obvious Especially for content creators like me who I'm not this isn't a performance necessarily I am very open about who I am more open than potentially even like close friends are to each other which may Potentially exacerbate the issue of people becoming overly attached to me and my content I Don't think it's anywhere close to a thing where I'm I'm being exploitative necessarily But it is always a fear that that's gonna happen or that I'm inadvertently doing that. I'm just unaware. I'm exploiting. I mean Thank you guys for subs. Hope you all enjoyed the sub badge that you immersed my friends. I stopped saying friends my friendos Thank you, cuz like the word friend Doesn't simply imply a personal relationship between people who know each other well Friend is a colloquial greeting or whatever or something you call a stranger that you're trying to be friendly with Howdy friend you come around here often friend it works the same way as mate g'day mate But I agree in the position that I'm in I shouldn't assume That it's always gonna be taken that way or that people won't perceive Or that people won't put some greater significance on my use of that word than that in which I intend So would be responsible of me to try to remove it from my vocabulary But that will be very hard at this point. Maybe I should stop overthinking it and just say fuck it Me overthink something ha ha ha ha ha |
| 16. January 2021 | Parasocial relationships on twitch, viewers as friends, ludwigs “i am not your friend” video | Parasocial relationships on Twitch viewers as friends Ludwig's I am not your friend video So Ludwig released a video His beautiful brown eyes there we go Ludwig released a video where he is titled. I am not your friend and it's basically talking about the idea of parasocial relationships and how people can become Attached to a streamer in a way that negatively impacts their lives believing this to be like a friendship Rather than just like an escape from their reality a distraction and entertainment and that's something that I think on sometimes as well I mean every streamer does to what extent are you? potentially taking advantage of the vulnerable Manipulating people with your actions inadvertently or intentionally to give you money donate or whatever as a person who? doesn't want to go about their lives having a negative impact on others I Especially when I get I receive a large donation or a lot of money or something from someone I begin to think I really hope This isn't a person. I'm taking advantage of in some capacity Ludwig is right I am NOT anyone's friend, but I suppose for me because I don't have any real-life friends. Maybe I come across as too friendly sometimes I'm not sure I use the word friend sometimes But that was just because I felt like mates wasn't international enough The people would look me weird if I said thanks mate So I say thanks friend or whatever these days But there's one part in here that I really really agreed with like I can I can debate whether or not I actually care about my viewers because I do I do care about my viewers But his point that I can't care about my viewers on an individual level is absolutely correct People ask me how many of your viewers do you remember and I'm like 100 200 maybe there is a few hundred of my viewers that when they talk to me I remember things about them and I have a more individualistic care of them But in general I I can't do that with everyone There is a general well wish that I have for everyone who I deem as well-meaning. I care about everyone Even if they're not my viewers to a degree Like when someone tells me of their hardships, and I wish them well I am sincere in me and in that I'm wishing them well And I do legitimately feel bad for the suffering that they're communicating to me, but at the same time I Will forget about that hours from then right if my mother told me she was suffering. I would remember that But a random viewer. I it's not like I can remember that forever in the moments I care and I am sincere, but I can't say that's gonna impact me for the rest of my day What depends on how serious it is, but you know I'm saying and he I think These sorts of videos where he's distancing himself and saying hey just treat this as entertainment is very correct to do It makes me reflect on if I'm engaging in bad behavior in some respects like I hope people find my my content to be informative entertaining But not to the extent where they're somehow Detrimenting themselves there they're bringing apart Onto themselves burdens that they don't need to for my benefit like when I hear people say oh I watched all these ads to give you money I'm like that's really flattering that you care about me or my content to that degree But the same time I'd still rather you didn't do it because I don't need that money. You could have used that time productively in some sense to benefit your own lives in in a In a much grander way than I could use that money You've given me in some way to improve my circumstances right between the two of us there has been a loss of value Because your time wasn't necessarily worth the amount of money That I've received or the impact that money is going to give towards me and the benefit to my life When I when I get emails from people or see messages in chat where people are like oh, you know when I get a job man I'll be out of dono and sub and stuff and I'm saying man. I'm doing so well financially. Look at all these views, man I don't need people to give me money that they they need I don't need people to give me money that they don't even have right now I don't need people to promise to me that they're going to financially support me in the future. I Appreciate all of that that people do but I it makes me feel guilty and bad when I hear the wrong kinds of people doing that like if you have a stable job and savings and you want to sub for $5 that makes perfect sense to me because you get benefits You're more involved and I get something out there too because five dollars a month is not a supreme amount of money to Amount of people in this world, but for some people that is a lot of money I don't want people Especially my current circumstances putting my welfare above their own But there was one point in this video that I really really Felt and it's this one here I get this all the time on Twitch and sometimes even on YouTube or Twitter Lotta week you saved my life No, I didn't save your life. What do you mean? I saved your life I've been playing Pokemon and Among Us in Minecraft where in that journey Did I save your life that I pick up a scalpel and take out a cancerous lump? No, all I did was play games and you used me as a distraction to maybe get through a bad period or whatever it was But you did it you used me you could have used anything You could have used Taylor Swift's most recent album You could have just used Jay Schlatt himself if you wanted it could have been anything that you used You just happened to have used me and I promise if you didn't you also would have been fine All right, so stop giving me the credit that you deserve for doing all the work. I don't know you How can I save you? Come on think about it think about it Yeah, so I I find that to be so true in that Irrespective of whether and in I get those messages. I've saved your life. I've saved your life and stuff and I'm just like Irrespective of whether or not you watched my content. I would have done the exact same goddamn thing Nothing about the way that I behaved or what I created was in any way shape or form influenced by You watching my content. I have done literally nothing to save your life if indeed My content helped you it was inadvertent or at least in the sense that it wasn't Specifically the goal of my content to be targeted towards you or to have that benefit to you in that capacity Certainly I make content with the goal of entertaining people and bringing other people benefit and I get satisfaction from the idea That this occurs for some people but I'm not targeting any individual with that purpose. I am not working to save lives I am working to create entertaining content that people can use for any purpose they desire and If that happens to help people it doesn't mean that I've actively worked or changed my behavior in some capacity to save people Even if you want to make some argument that maybe this could occur Certainly like saving a person's life because they happen to get distracted by my content I was like clearly I don't deserve that credit. It is mere happenstance you know, there was no effort applied on my part to achieve that outcome and and I think Ludwig's Statement there is correct that had I not been that person there in the vast majority of cases They would have found someone else to watch it is entirely possible if you think about it guys If you hadn't have found my content for all, you know you would have found an even better content creator and I have selfishly distracted you from Finding a content creator that you would have loved even more You never know it's a possibility for all I know I am the equivalent of you being in like your 40s and Regretting the idea that you haven't found the right person and Steve settled on me And you just wait that little bit longer you would have found the perfect content credit for you, you know I'm saying I I Know like I think on this stuff sometimes and I don't like the idea of thinking that I'm taking advantage of people But yeah, if you haven't seen this video, I highly recommend watching I'm not gonna watch the entire thing I believe Ludwig has said this sentiment better in other places, but I'm I think it was a very good video I really think this is a bit harsh because a streamer can save a life a lot of people stuff from loneliness or depression I'm watching you really cheer them up and make them think of good things Keep up the good work and happy new year But that isn't something I've actively worked to achieve you are giving me credit for something that I'm not explicitly doing It's coincidental no additional effort was put By me to achieve that outcome It's kind of like you find a rock in the middle of a forest and you sit on it and you thank the rock for giving You somewhere to sit that rock was gonna be there regardless of whether or not you sat on it There's no reason to give the rock credit for being there You were the one who used that rock for a seat and if you hadn't used that rock for a seat Nothing would have changed about that rock to whatever capacity I have achieved those ends in people They're doing it. They're the ones using my content for that purpose and it would be there or not Regardless of whether or not they made that choice. I just think I'm giving too much credit That's the only point I'm trying to make Excuse he has the clip talking about what you and Ludwig were just saying I assume streamers are pointing this out more because of the larger amounts of depressed fans due to 2020 as a whole once you get to a certain size you Begin to see more frequently people who may be too greater Obsessed with you or your content like it's always a tiny tiny portion But when you get to a large enough size that portion becomes far more obvious Especially for content creators like me who I'm not this isn't a performance necessarily I am very open about who I am more open than potentially even like close friends are to each other which may Potentially exacerbate the issue of people becoming overly attached to me and my content I Don't think it's anywhere close to a thing where I'm I'm being exploitative necessarily But it is always a fear that that's gonna happen or that I'm inadvertently doing that. I'm just unaware. I'm exploiting. I mean Thank you guys for subs. Hope you all enjoyed the sub badge that you immersed my friends. I stopped saying friends my friendos Thank you, cuz like the word friend Doesn't simply imply a personal relationship between people who know each other well Friend is a colloquial greeting or whatever or something you call a stranger that you're trying to be friendly with Howdy friend you come around here often friend it works the same way as mate g'day mate But I agree in the position that I'm in I shouldn't assume That it's always gonna be taken that way or that people won't perceive Or that people won't put some greater significance on my use of that word than that in which I intend So would be responsible of me to try to remove it from my vocabulary But that will be very hard at this point. Maybe I should stop overthinking it and just say fuck it Me overthink something ha ha ha ha ha |
| 14. February 2021 | Parties after covid, and getting covid vaccine | Parties after COVID and me getting COVID vaccine. I wonder how nutty the first Twitch party is gonna be when COVID is over. I wonder if things will change for me specifically, like, when was the last Twitch party I went to? Maybe two years ago? Almost two years ago? I guess more people would know me. Like in reality, it doesn't seem like COVID will ever be over, it will just be much more manageable or whatever. I imagine it will end up like the flu. Well, nothing like cancer, obviously, because cancer isn't... It's not a virus or whatever, it doesn't transmit person to person. I imagine I will be the very last person to get the vaccine, because my interactions with people is zero. The closest I have to interacting with people is when people deliver me food, and even then, it's like, they put the food in front of my door. I distance myself, or they distance themselves, I open my door, get the food, and I use hand sanitizer. |
| 24. January 2022 | Partition your care wisely | Artisan your care wisely. What do I think about people who get offended over everything? We all have different ideas as to what people should care about. Who was rightly offended by what? You know, you've got so little time to live and caring about, or worrying about, or getting offended over the small things, especially those things that you can't change. It's just dumb. |
| 14. January 2021 | Passion in content creation | affectionate. To do some good content, I think, Guli, like what you were saying, passion and someone enjoying what they're doing. You just can't fake that. Like if someone enjoys what they're doing, and they're passionate about it, it's more enjoyable to watch. And you can just almost tell straight away when I'm like, I feel for them, like, I get it, like, you're committed to this job, you've got a mortgage, you've got kids. And then their heart just goes out of making content. And sometimes you like, can almost, I don't know, feel it. A lot of the people make these videos, the downfall of X creator or something with these, like, especially with Minecraft, where a person had 80 million views at this month. And now they're sitting at like a 1 million to 2 million or whatever. And there's that there's definitely that feature of it where you're making a Minecraft video every day. And eventually you lose that passion. And I like Minecraft's a great game, you're killing it. But like, you've made a mansion, you've explored the whole map, you've done a hardcore world. And it's like, at what point is like, Minecraft's a massive game, but you've absolutely done everything. It's the thing though, like I say, I watch someone and they say, I've been playing this game for 10,000 hours. I'm like, how could you play a game for 10,000 hours? I'm like, oh, I've been playing GTA V for 8000 hours. Okay, guess, I can't understand. I've been playing Rocket League for probably like, some ridiculous amount of hours, right? Yeah, you just, I can't criticize any content creator for sticking with a game for a long period of time and not going crazy with it, because I've been sticking with GTA V for so long, and I'm not sick of it. I'm frustrated that I can't do the things I want to do. I've got so many things I want to do with GTA V still. But like, I'm trying to finish this one hit KO thing, no damage run. And I'm so close. I missed it by a frame. I just, I mean, do it for 10 months. I just want to succeed so I can get back to speed running. That's so funny. I miss speed running so goddamn much. But anyway, yeah. You'll be back. Yeah, I think that's what it was when I was playing Battlefield. That's where I got, I love Battlefield. I still will play that game like crazy. But in terms of making that like scripted content, I reached a spot where I was like, I recognized if I kept making Battlefield content, I would lose my enjoyment of making videos. So everyone was like really sad when I quit. And I felt bad because people like I made it sort of like I felt like I made this commitment to people about like, making Battlefield content. But I was like, guys, like, I'm just not going to enjoy this anymore. And I wasn't getting paid or anything back there. And I was like, guys, I've got to enjoy what I'm doing, like, or I'm just making videos for the sake of making videos. And I switched and everyone was so supportive. And that's when I kind of like, start to really be like, oh my god, like, I love my community. Like, oh, I want to make the best content I can type things. So certainly making that move when you are being paid is a lot harder to do. It's why the suggestion usually, it's a lot easier to grow in gaming, if you're focusing on one game. But at some point, you can get to that level where you need to branch out or A, you get burnt out or B, you know, you, you the hype of that particular game will fall and you will fall with it. Like my attitude to branching out into other stuff is you kind of work this is this is rule where like, the large you grow, the larger the amount of people who watch you for anything will grow. So right right now, if I'm playing GTA five or whatever, I will get 4000 viewers right now on Twitch. But if I play, if I'm editing, I'll still have 1000 viewers if I'm playing some random game, I'll still have 1600 viewers. Those numbers are enough to live your life comfortably. Those are the numbers that most people want. So the only reason I have those numbers is because of how high I've grown in GTA five. If you stick with one game long enough that you grow big, that that core audience that watch you play anything will become large enough that you can sustain yourself even if that game implodes or you get sick of that game. And that's kind of what I've tried to do. It's why I can release rambles or just any random game and still get 50,000 viewers, which is not GTA five numbers, but still really good numbers. And that's kind of my philosophy in regards to diversification and stuff like that. And that's true as well, especially like making like yourself the brand like if you did Minecraft tips and tricks, and then didn't really like insert much personality into that. If you tried to do then overwatch tips and tricks, you might lose a whole lot of your audience because they were there for Minecraft tips and tricks. Are they watching the content or your presentation of that content? Exactly. Whereas like you're watching you stream GTA. It's like, you know, you're like, it's like, it's like, it's a sense of progression for you. Like you some of those missions you're you could do with your eyes closed. So you're chatting, you're talking. So then if you go and play a different game and chat and talk, it's, it's still like dark vibe. Like you're still you're still there to sort of hang out and stuff. And yeah. |
| 09. February 2020 | Passion with money vs money without passion | I feel like you can split companies or people who make content into two different rough categories. One is a group that makes content because they love it and the money just comes because people recognize how good the product is and they want to support it because they can see the passion behind it. And so it's the content first and because the content is so good and shows passion, money comes. And then there's companies or people who are just making content for the money. As it always seems fake and they're always making actions that make their content worse or less enjoyable at the very least. Blizzard Rockstar in their early days seemed to be in the first category where they had so much love and passion for what they were doing that the money just came because everyone could see how passionate they were about their projects. Now it's all about the fucking money. So at every fucking turn, it's just crunching numbers. What can we produce to get the highest numbers in these different categories? So it all seems fake and garbage and they keep making and doing various things that just piss off everyone or degrade the consumer experience in favor of, you know, oh, we've increased this number by by 1%. Therefore, we must be doing well. It's garbage. Rockstar may be worse in a way, though, because they become everything they used to satirize. It's funny. |
| 10. July 2020 | Past Embarassments coming back to haunt me | Future. Past embarrassments coming back to haunt me. Yes, that's basically my night. I talk to a bunch of industry people. Oh, did I say that? So okay, this is really embarrassing. This is another embarrassing thing. I don't go to a lot of events, guys. I don't. I'm a hermit. I don't like to... Okay, I like to talk to people, but I always worry about embarrassing myself. So there was a Sydney meetup, like almost a year ago. It was a party that happened at a gamer lounge, like every six months to a year or something. The Sydney Twitch channel holds a party for partners or Twitch people. You don't even need to be an affiliate. You're connected with Twitch in some way, you can come. And I met this chick there, and I was quite intoxicated at the time. And I saw her, I'm like, you look exactly like my ex-girlfriend. And I was like, fuck. That was the first thing that I said. The most embarrassing thing I've ever said. Because she does look exactly like my ex-girlfriend. But I'm talking my ex-girlfriend from like, you know, eight years ago. Identical. It's like, they could be sisters, or like, just the progression of time, she could have been my ex-girlfriend. Like I felt like saying, your name isn't Stacey, right? It's just, you know. But she was there tonight. We didn't really interact that much, but she knows many of the people that I know. So I will end up in a circle of people talking, and she'll be to my left. And I'll be like, fuck, should I talk to her? Does she know? And I don't think we ever had much of a conversation. But it just feels awkward, because I know I've embarrassed myself in front of her before. It just feels embarrassing when she's there. But yeah, I certainly do a lot better with my liquor these days, as opposed to what I did back in the day. Like it takes a really large amount of bourbon for me to really fuck myself, you know. Recounting my experience at the second PAX party. |
| 10. July 2020 | Past Embarrassments coming back to haunt me | Future. Past embarrassments coming back to haunt me. Yes, that's basically my night. I talk to a bunch of industry people. Oh, did I say that? So okay, this is really embarrassing. This is another embarrassing thing. I don't go to a lot of events, guys. I don't. I'm a hermit. I don't like to... Okay, I like to talk to people, but I always worry about embarrassing myself. So there was a Sydney meetup, like almost a year ago. It was a party that happened at a gamer lounge, like every six months to a year or something. The Sydney Twitch channel holds a party for partners or Twitch people. You don't even need to be an affiliate. You're connected with Twitch in some way, you can come. And I met this chick there, and I was quite intoxicated at the time. And I saw her, I'm like, you look exactly like my ex-girlfriend. And I was like, fuck. That was the first thing that I said. The most embarrassing thing I've ever said. Because she does look exactly like my ex-girlfriend. But I'm talking my ex-girlfriend from like, you know, eight years ago. Identical. It's like, they could be sisters, or like, just the progression of time, she could have been my ex-girlfriend. Like I felt like saying, your name isn't Stacey, right? It's just, you know. But she was there tonight. We didn't really interact that much, but she knows many of the people that I know. So I will end up in a circle of people talking, and she'll be to my left. And I'll be like, fuck, should I talk to her? Does she know? And I don't think we ever had much of a conversation. But it just feels awkward, because I know I've embarrassed myself in front of her before. It just feels embarrassing when she's there. But yeah, I certainly do a lot better with my liquor these days, as opposed to what I did back in the day. Like it takes a really large amount of bourbon for me to really fuck myself, you know. Recounting my experience at the second PAX party. |
| 14. March 2020 | Pawning my rubbish off on my parents | to offer. Pointing my rubbish off on my parents. Also went to see my mother, partly so I could drop off some garbage. Living with two guys, we make a lot of bloody mess. Miss putting out the bins once or twice. And we perhaps don't recycle as best as we should. So we just have bags and bags of rubbish here. So this is my mother and father, because my mother lives by herself. She doesn't fill her bins up that much. And my father has a larger bin, because his council does it a different way. So look, I just come around with like six or seven bags of rubbish, eats and just chuck them out each week. |
| 08. June 2020 | Pax 2020 Concerns | That PAX 2020 post-pandemic. I don't know what I'm going to do when I go to PAX next time, because like I'm a guy who thinks like a handshake is a friendly greeting, well, friendly, strange or whatever. So when I meet people, I shake their hands, but that is definitely not a good thing for a convention, especially if, which I suspect will happen this time, there'll be more people who want to shake my hand or whatever. I was saying before, like everyone should move towards the head nod thing, which is a more sanitary. |
| 30. May 2021 | Pax Australia 2021. | Pax Australia 2021. I didn't buy room. You're both coming to packs. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely I don't even know how that works. Like people go down for the whole weekend or Last time I went I went for like five days a sign Really? Yeah, like there was a there's stuff people did stuff before packs and I don't think there was much like the day after Because most people you don't need to get back to their lives or whatever But I've been to all the 2017 2019 do all the creators just like get together and get fucked up Oh, I wasn't as big a creator back then. I know like who were the big Australian creators They had like a party or something. Oh my guys. Yeah, there were a bunch of parties and I met a person from Rockstar One of the parties in 2019 He liked my stuff. I was like really Fuck this shitty fucking game I was wasn't as hard on Red Dead I think and and he's like, oh, yeah, maybe I can get you into the beta for the PC version of Red Dead 2 I was like, yeah, great |
| 16. November 2022 | Pay $8 on twitter or get shadow banned. | Pay $8 on Twitter or get shadow banned. I keep seeing multiple people mention on Twitter that non-verified users get shadow banned. So what's happening is that anyone who pays $8 is going to be at the top of any mentions, or top of any searches, and on the top of any replies. So what you're gonna have is people with Twitter blue who want to promote themselves, they're gonna be like, Oh, that's really funny guy, haha! Go to my Twitch, go to my YouTube channel. Haha, you know, I am very funny guy. And you can see that because my message comes out first, haha! Anyone who's actually funny, actually interesting, actually saying something of value, who doesn't pay $8, is gonna be pushed down. So the overall quality of the platform is going to massively diminish. It's not gonna be a free flowing conversation between fairly equal people. Even when it was the case that, you know, you had the check mark, people didn't get pushed up in the rankings, they didn't get pushed up in the replies and stuff. Twitter is gonna be much more pay to win than ever before. And any scammy, scummy thing is just immediately gonna pay $8 and fucking go to town. It's just dumb. So you're not getting shadow banned, because you'll still be visible if you're searched and stuff. But it's just that you won't be prioritized in anything unless you pay $8. But again, Elon Musk talks a lot of shit. It may not actually go down this way. If a random tweet from someone can cause him to drop the potential price of Twitter blue from $20 to $8, Elon Musk could, you know, talk to someone as he's driving to work or something. And they could be like, hey, you should make Twitter blue green. And it will then be green. Like, who knows what the man is gonna do? Like, oh, Shrek memes are popular again. I need to be cool like the kids. We're gonna make Twitter blue now, Twitter green, just like Shrek. |
| 07. May 2021 | Paying for Better Twitch TV | Paying for Better Twitch TV, which is a service that gives you more emotes on your Twitch stream, as well as a bunch of different features if you want to turn them on or not, such as having gifts. Do I have Better Twitch TV? Not only do I have Better Twitch TV, I pay $5 every month to give you guys more emotes. Can you imagine paying $5 for someone else's benefit? Like the generosity, the kindness that that requires, just off the chain. I'm sure you guys couldn't imagine it. I'm actually curious how many people sign up to that, giving $5 a month. I've been doing that for years, like four years. They're getting quite a bit of money out of me over that time. Because it just seems to be a standard thing that people do. As far as subscriptions go, you don't get much for it. Like, you're paying $10 for Netflix versus $5 for some emotes lost. Compared to Frank of AZ, where you only have to do one payment for more emotes lost. |
| 25. February 2020 | Paying for autographs | Yeah. Paying for autographs. How much for an autograph? I mean, if I had met you in person, I'd do it for free. I wouldn't want to charge for something like that. I mean, not to fault famous people or whatever who do charge for autographs or something. It feels weird because I suppose you could eventually reach a level of success where you simply don't have the time to give everyone an autograph of whatever they want, right? Like if you met someone in public and they asked you for an autograph and you said, give me 20 bucks, that'd be kind of scummy. But if you add some kind of an event, if you're like, I don't know, Leonardo DiCaprio, my go to famous guy, it would kind of make sense at that point to be like, yeah, pay five bucks or something. But that's like an insane level of success. |
| 22. February 2021 | Paying people for lurk coins | Paying people for Lurk coins. For those unaware, Lurk coins are a thing that exists in my stream. The longer you're around, the more Lurk coins you have. They have no real value and aren't used for much at all. We need a Matcoin. We have Matcoins. We have Lurkcoins. It would be an interesting thing if I actually made some conversion rate where for a million Lurkcoins I'll give you a dollar or something. Like as in the return on the investment of your time would be effectively non-existent, but it might inspire some people to always have my stream open in the browser or some shit. It'd be viewbotting, but not really viewbotting, you know what I'm saying? I have thought about doing a million points for VIP or something, but especially considering I still only have a hundred VIPs and every time I have to I want to make another VIP I have to decide like who to take it away from. Permanent sub equals 1 million. 1 million is not enough for permanent sub. I only get three of those. Just remove the earliest VIPs. Some of the earliest VIPs are still very important. I tend to remove them from people that I either don't remember or who don't come around the stream. I tune into... I've been in a few large streams and I've seen them give out VIP and I'm like what? How can a person at this stage not have used all their VIPs? I guess maybe some people are just a lot more selective with them than I have been. When did VIPs release? It's been like over a year and you've still only had a hundred, you know? It's been like two years hasn't it? You had a hundred. Summit has no VIPs? Why? VIP just gives you a few perks in chat. You can use colored names, you don't get slowed down, you can talk in sub mode. I think VIP is the closest friend. But I mean if they're your close friends, why not just make them mods? Yeah VIP is more about the ability and effect that it uses. Yeah that's a good way of putting it. |
| 28. December 2021 | Paying someone to sleep for me | to sleep for me. What I really want is someone to be able to sleep for me. I continue to move around but someone else is sleeping and that somehow re- energizes me. We'll have a system where like I'll pay a person a certain amount of money and that person will sleep and and and that counts for me. What a weird world that would be. What do you do for a living? I'm a sleeper. Oh very good very good. Well your rates are you know 10 bucks an hour. Sleep 16 hours a day. 8 hours for me, 8 hours for someone else and I get 8 hours to myself. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 24. May 2021 | PcCaseGear holds my ducky keyboard hostage | PC Case Gear holds my Ducky Keyboard hostage. As an aside, they also said they sent me out a mouse. That was about three weeks ago. I haven't received the mouse or a refund. Unsurprised. Do I have a new keyboard yet? No. So you may not have seen my video where I ran and raved about PC Case Gear, and they claimed that they are unable to send any package without a signature. Which is, originally they claimed it was the courier's fault, which is of course a lie. You can actually send products without a signature. Seemingly regardless of cost and type. Unless it's drugs, I think. So they lied multiple times, eventually it came out that they were lying to me. And they were just bullshitting. Apparently they've done some particular agreement, and it makes them unable to change it or some shit. And you know how much I hate signatures, security theater does absolutely nothing to protect your packages. And just inconveniences me. I've never lost a package to being stolen, but I've lost days of my life tracking down packages that have been bounced from my doorstep to bumfuck Idaho. Or just the travel time and all that just to get packages normally in waiting in line. It's a huge inconvenience. A company like PC Case Gear, who has no consideration for the time of their consumers, doesn't give consumer choice, doesn't care about the emissions that are given off by all this additional travel that's completely unnecessary. You deliver my package, why fucking take it away? I don't want to give them any fucking money. And sucks because this particular keyboard is a very niche keyboard, so they're the only people who have it in stock right now. So I ended up getting a different one. It's coming from America. It's funny, I'd rather give Amazon money than PC Case Gear money right now. And I'm not a pitty digger fan of Amazon. I fucking hate PC Case Gear. I really do. Absolute scum fucks. And they've done this to me multiple times. And like, this is the first time I'd forgive, I barely had forgiven them. For the last time they fucked me out of hundreds of dollars. And I'm like, look, I'll give them another chance. I'll order something from them. Increase my convenience, because they're the only people who have it in stock. And just immediately it bites me in the ass because I'm so fucking incompetent about what they do. I just don't know why they do not give a fuck. But they don't. Fuck them. So wait another... What? How long was this inside? Last board from three years? So we'll give it another three years. Three years from now we'll see if they've fixed up their shit. Probably won't have though. Got my new keyboard. I did, but it's not good. It's like half a centimeter too high or something. It's funny, like, when I was watching a review of the keyboard, the person doing the review noted that it's thick. As in it's too high at the front. It's like, yeah, you can use like a wrist pad or you just get used to it for some people or whatever. I'm like, if reviewers are noticing that the board is too thick at the front, why wouldn't they just fix that? And make it thinner? This is just weird. What keyboard? Was it Keychrome version 2 or something? What was it called? Why did I buy it then? Because I didn't know that it would be a problem for me. Yeah, Keychrome K2 or V2 or something. I tried to buy a Ducky keyboard, but they're sold out fucking everywhere. I'm not giving a PC case game money. I'll see if I can find one from Newegg or Amazon or whatever. But they said in the review, yes, it's saying in the review that it's a problem. Doesn't mean it's going to be a problem for me. It had every other feature that I wanted in a keyboard. So I took a risk. |
| 28. September 2021 | Peak awkward stories | Peak awkward stories. I still remember when I was in Fresh Produce, because I worked in Coles, obviously. A dude next to me says, Oh hey, how are ya? And I was like, oh, good thanks, yourself. And I look over at him, he looks over at me, excuse me, this is just, excuse me, this is just a disgusted look, like, I'm like, and I was just like, what the fuck? And when he turns his head, I see that he's got some mobile thing in his ear, or whatever. And I'm just like, oh my god, dude. I just felt really awkward, and I just laughed it off, whatever, and went, but I still think of it to this day, it was just that weird, like, it's akin to, um, that feeling when the waiter says, Enjoy your meal, and you say, you too. You know that feeling? Any person, any fucking person in a drive-thru, who says, enjoy your meal, is an asshole. Okay? And anyone, anyone who does that, I imagine they've got, like, a video camera set up, and they're just recording people when they say, you too. And then they're gonna edit them all together, and then jerk off to it later. Like, oh, the awkwardness, oh, so good. Like that awkward fetish, when someone waves at you, but you're not, was not actually waving, oh yeah, oh that's terrible. Awful. You know, okay, I think I know peak awkwardness, peak awkwardness, where you think the person's like your friend, but it's actually a random stranger, and you do something to them, thinking they're your friend. You jump on their back or something, or, um, you think it's your significant other, you put your arm around them, and it's not actually your significant other, or whatever. And the person just looks at you confused, like, thankfully this never happened to me. I mean, it happens in TV shows and shit, I'm sure that's happened in real life. You grab his ass thinking he's your bro. Exactly what I'm talking about, dude. Now guys, peak awkwardness is when some girl tells you her hot friend is into you. I'd probably say yes if you asked her out, but you replied, no, it's not worth the effort, and you've never been out with a girl ever in your life, and I'm like, huh, and me, oh my god. Why not just do it, person, if you recognize that stupid. I thought you were gonna say that someone says, oh, this person's into you, and you ask them out, and they say no. That's fucking awkward. Oh man, I asked this chick out one time, oh dude. Now that was awkward. Now I remembered this, I'm never gonna forget it for the entire day. Thanks, dude. Oh man, chick I went to TAFE with. Did not read those signals well. We called the train home with each other sometimes, but she wasn't into me that way. Didn't catch on. Oh, I was offered. Oh boy, lucky she was a nice person though, because she didn't tell anyone that I did that, as far as I'm aware. But yeah, I have not done well with women over the course of my life. Oh my god, okay, one more awkward story. So my second girlfriend, also named Stacy, coincidentally, I met her like a double date thing, where my friend went out with her friend, and it was a double date. So I met her, it was, yeah. But I had her over, and we played Smash, and she said something like, don't just let me win, okay? I know that guys do that, and I don't want that. I want to actually play. And I'm like, all right, fine. And I play, seriously, and I beat her really soundly, and she was really mad at me. And I still to this day don't know what I should have done. Like, I mean, Super Smash Brothers, mainly, like, and she was mad at me, like, that you said to play normally. Because she clearly thought she was really good, but I was really good too. And she did, I think I said that to her, because I, as I say, I'm not good in relationships. I don't, the few that I've had, like, I'm not, I just never know what I'm meant to do. And I'm not good at reading the signals for the individual person as to what is the good move for them, you know? |
| 21. June 2022 | Peaking in the content creation game | PEEKING IN THE CONTENT CREATION GAME PEEKING IN THE CONTENT CREATION GAME Like, everyone peeks eventually, chat, and knowing that I peeked in 2021 and watching myself slowly decline. Like, I was never going to be able to compete with when everything was closed and COVID was a thing and so everyone was indoors watching content. And I released... It was when Chaos started the 2020 to 2021 period. Chaos, GTA, Gessa, like, no damage, all new things and I can't have that same magic in 2022. It's impossible. And just stressful. All the negativity that I brought upon myself with the React series as well didn't help things. It was important to me. I was already not doing well. Like, I wish I had made that series when I was doing better mentally. And now, losing my hair is one more thing, you know. I'm taking stuff for the hair loss and it would take like four months to take effect and apparently it potentially gets a little bit worse before it gets better because the older hairs that are bad fall out and then new stuff grows in its place. I am very proud of those vids, Vyrotic. I mean, there's always things I would change and improve and stuff, but I am proud of them. I feel old, Chad. Now I'm 31. Yeah, I know. I'm still young, but in this industry, it doesn't feel that way. It makes me reflect on Wreckful. He was also 31 when he killed himself. Not good thoughts. Yeah, there are people in this industry that are older than me, man. I know. And I'm not done. There's still so many things I want to do. It's just, uh, I have my bad days. |
| 14. January 2021 | Pelican’s editing set up | Yeah. But so you've only recently got a PC. I was floored when you told me that the idea you're like, oh yeah, I'm editing on my Mac on my couch over here. I'm like, are you are you crazy? How could you edit on like a laptop or whatever? I'll show you a photo like maybe you can. I don't know. I edited in later. Whatever. I'll just quickly show you now. But I put a photo on my Instagram of like my setup. And if you can kind of see it, I don't know if you'd be able to say, but you can kind of see on the left there, like just it's like, it's like a little screen on a box with my laptop that on a desk that like my neighbor was like, Hey, man, do you want this desk? And I was like, all right, this is this piece of shit desk. And then like, I put out this photo. And I was like, this was meant to be like my cat playing games, like a bit of a joke. And all the comments were just like, bro, you have like 800,000 subscribers. How the fuck is that your gaming setup? And I was like, oh shit. So I went out and got like two curved monitors and like, like sorted it all out. I was like, oh, true. This is weird. So much better, man. You're one of the few people in this world where it's a business expense to get that stuff and you can get it tax deductible and it actually improves. Like, like normally people are like begging their significant other or their parents, please just let me buy this. I know it's completely superfluous or anything I'm doing. I know it's just for entertainment, but please just let me get it. But you it's like, I need this. It's my work. Come on. I don't know what I was thinking. Like my whole setup was like second hand basically. I just yeah. So I finally sorted it out. I've got like got this thing now. Like it's a real setup now. Finally, that's a great microphone. I won. I think that microphone at one of the Twitch parties at one point, but I already had the short SM7Bm. I think I sold it or something, but it's a good microphone. The two that are suggested is that one in this one. Okay, cool. And it does certainly sound very good. Oh, good. I'm glad. Yeah. |
| 14. January 2021 | Peli’s hydration meme | Can you mind if we get some water? I didn't grab some before this. Alright, I would fucking love you to get some water. That's like... I guess I'll just talk for a bit. Good to see you Dark Viper community. I'm sure he'll edit this out if you don't. Funnily enough, that was the next question I was going to ask you. Where does the hydration meme come from? Um, the hydration meme. One, I just drink a weird amount of water. Like I went to the doctor about it and like there's nothing wrong with me because it's just so weird. But I drink liters a day. And I just thought it was like, so I've always just drunk like this bottle. I'll just, this is like over a liter, I think, or a liter. And I just drink it like five plus times a day. It's weird, man. Like, I don't know. Like I thought I was diabetic for a little bit, but apparently everything's fine. And sort of stemmed off that, I suppose. Plus it's just a good like wholesome meme. It started as a meme and then I probably killed the meme. And then it like went full circle and now it's no longer like a joke, even though it kind of is a joke. It's actually just like part of my brand now, I guess. Part of the community. Absolutely. It's one of the first things that I knew about you that you are really interested in water. Do you find offensive how much Pepsi Max I drink? I don't. I mean, I will actively encourage you to put down the Pepsi and start drinking that, you know, God's nectar. That's your life, bro. I have at multiple times in my life attempted to quit drinking soft drink. Like even at one point it was for concerns of my teeth, just staining them more brown. Not that my teeth are particularly discolored right now, but certainly it was a concern. I moved to Sprite. I moved to soda waters and stuff. None of it stuck. It's just a tickled hair. And then when I got used to, because I get stressed making content and stuff and I need just need the thing that makes me comfortable, you know. And so I drink soft drink. I think where it started was I used to work at Coles and I would go home at Friday night or whatever and I'd grab myself a Coke and a pizza and I would just drink that. And so whenever the times of peace, the times of relaxation, getting off work, I began to associate that with soft drink. And maybe that association exists to this day, you know. It's just the thing that I'm comfortable doing. It's all right to like not every single aspect of your life has to be like a fucking carrot. You know what I mean? Like it's good to be healthy and stuff, but you've got to have a few vices. Hey man, do you mind if I'm just going to talk to the bathroom. Do you mind if we quickly pause it there just for a sec? |
| 14. January 2021 | Peli’s “Spread the good word” jokes | Yeah, so I noticed at the beginning of your videos that you often have a comment where you read out a joke from one of your audience. How long did you keep it up making those jokes yourself before you realized I'm out of jokes of how to spread the good word on my channel and I need to start getting some from my audience? It must have been like 200 times and I was like, I have like I've said tattoo, tattoo it on your forehead, adopt a baby, change its name, then return it. Like, I was just like, I've thought of every possible way to spread the good word. And then I actually named it pretty hard. I was like, look, guys, I'm out. It's your turn to pick up some ideas. And you know what's crazy? That wasn't even my idea. Someone was like, commented, when will Modest Pelican run out of intro ideas? And someone else replied saying, when he starts running it as a competition for us. And I was like, facts, we're there. So I just like maimed the whole thing and was like pretty open about it because I was like a cool idea, I thought, because you know, the community get involved. It's like fun. Everyone leaves ideas and people are funny, man. Like people come up with really funny suggestions. So yeah, I'm a big fan of it. Getting bigger as a content creator, one of the best advantages that has is that you have your audience to pull ideas from. Regardless of how talented you are, you can't compete with the creativity of a million people. They'll always have some idea that you never thought of. And it's always great getting feedback on anything. It always can be improved in that way. My past first series, I started making a joke at the beginning of each episode. And I gave up after like 15 episodes. I was very, I'm very impressed to hear that you kept it for 200 or whatever. But it's very interesting. I feel like I considering some people may not know of what we were talking about there. It's just that at the beginning of each one of your episodes, you say something like, give me an example. Like if you enjoy this video, please tattoo a baby. Like please adopt a baby, tattoo Modest Pelican Gaming on its forehead and then return it to the adoption agency as it really helps spread the good word of my channel. Something like that, right? Some stupid, stupid way to spread the good word of my channel. Which is actually the joke that I had you make in the past first episode, whatever, asking Michael to spread the good word of your channel. Yeah. I think that was very creative. And I wonder, I wonder to what degree those jokes contributed to your success. To what degree people actually, I'm not maybe not tattooing a baby, but what degree people would actually be motivated to spread the good word of your channel because of that joke. Unless at least half a dozen babies won't touch it. Well, some of them are more serious. Like I mean, I've got to be careful now. Like I said one, like please text a random number, subscribe to Modest Pelican Gaming and a staggering amount of people seem to have actually done it. And they were tweeting me there like text conversations. Like people were angry. Some people were like, okay. Like it was like, I was like, oh shit, like I better be careful. Like I don't get sued for like mass harassment or something. Yeah. And enough people, I suppose there's going to be someone out there who might do that kind of stuff. But certainly at least with a text message, it's not going to be particularly harmful to anyone. But yeah. Yeah. |
| 14. May 2020 | Pentagon UFO footage | out the door. What is your opinion on the Pentagon releasing footage of a UFO? Meaningless. I'm sure every day Pentagon sees stuff that they fucking don't see, that they don't understand what the hell it is or whatever. A UFO doesn't mean aliens. It just means what the fuck is that? Well, I can't identify it right now. You know, file that in the report. Nothing about those pictures looked particularly weird to me, and it's just meaningless information. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend this video by Thunderf00t, where he breaks down one of the videos released by the Pentagon talking about what all the numbers mean on the screen, what technology is being used, and you know, magnifying it and looking at it in detail, it is clearly a bird. |
| 20. October 2021 | People I should legally be allowed to kill | People I should legally be allowed to kill. Look, all I'm saying, guys, I should be legally allowed to kill anyone who knocks on my door or rings my doorbell to drop off a package that doesn't need a signature or at the very least, I should be able to as default on my accounts on websites say, look, if it does need a signature, just leave it there. Please don't knock on my door. It is the most annoying thing in the universe when I'm sleeping late and someone rings the doorbell or whatever. And I'm thinking to myself, if I don't go down and get this package, I'm going to have to go to the bloody post office. That will be the worst thing in the universe. So I put on pants or whatever, run downstairs a millimeter away from like tripping on the stairs and cracking open my skull. And I get to the door and they just put the package down on the floor and then walk away and I'm like, you motherfucker. |
| 22. September 2022 | People are insane to criticize the way GTA 6 looks | People are insane to criticize the way GTA 6 looks from pre-alpha footage. Do I think GTA 6 will be good? Yes, so I saw a lot of people commenting that, oh people were so critical of GTA 6 based on that alpha footage. I didn't really see any of that. I saw more people saying I can't believe people are being critical of it than actual people critical of it. Because obviously when I talked about the leaks and what was in them, I just talked about like the features, the things that are likely still gonna be there. Because what the game looks like is clearly gonna change, but it would be unlikely that they like they would add eagle-eye into the game and then remove it. They would add the ability to prone and then remove it. In that footage, like the characters weren't even there. They were like blobs of color and stuff a lot of the time and the recording was like 720p or some stuff. That was not the thing that should be judged. And even then what was shown looked fine. In the general sense of you get a you get a feel for the kind of coloring and what they're going for, you know. An unfinished game doesn't visually look good. Exactly. Like I don't think they were loading in all the assets anyway. They were just testing specific things. Will Twitch do- |
| 24. May 2022 | People are over rainbomizer | People are over Rainbemiser. They still like Chaos, just not the Rainbemiser pass. I did some polls on the community post. It seems that people really have gotten over the Rainbemiser aspect of it. I still quite like it, but I've played the game for, you know, 9000 hours. I did think initially that it was maybe a bit too chaotic, and people who don't know the game as well as I do might not be able to follow as well. And that seems to be the case. People are still adamant that I should finish the series with the current settings, though. Even though I personally think it's probably a bad move. Although, like, I do like finishing things, but I do think I would get... Nah, because if I changed, people wouldn't even know that I've changed, and so they wouldn't watch. I just have to get through this. |
| 08. March 2022 | People at my ISP watch my stream. | People at my ISP watch my stream. Oh, you know what's funny? The guy who I talked to asking about the ports on my modem from my broadband, I mean my ISP, he's like, hey, I recognize your voice. I was like, oh, we've spoken before. He's like, oh no, I watch you. I watch chaos. I'm like, oh, that's cool. Like, I didn't know what to say. It's like, well, I hope you can help with my problem then and let me just discuss the problem. It's the second person I've, who's on a support line that's recognized me. I think the last time was when I had to call the tax office about some tax thing and he's like, oh, I recognize you. I'm like, oh, cool. I'm like, oh, cool. |
| 30. January 2021 | People being banned on social media for “different opinions” | People being banned on social media for different opinions. It was interesting. Like I got, I got recommended a video by Memeology and He's also a weird fuckwit, but he's uh, He's like, man look at these people getting banned or censored just because they have a different opinion from the establishment. It's like, it's, you always have these disingenuous fucks who want to present a reaction to a particular point of view as Just a different way of seeing things man. It's like if I advocate for Slaughtering children and I get banned for that. They'll be like, oh man, just cuz you have a different opinion, bro You get banned man. It's as if it's not the content of the opinion Rather than simply being different. That is the real important thing. It's like When Trump got banned on Twitter, immediately people come out of the woodwork Oh, man, just cuz you have a different political opinion, bro. It means you get banned man It's like not because it's incitement of violence dude, like it doesn't matter your political opinion It's or what your motivation for that is that can get you banned. Nah, man. It's just a different viewpoint, bro it's because grappling with the actual content of what Led the sanction to come about is a lot more ambiguous and doesn't necessarily fit the narrative you want to present so you need to water it down because the person you're speaking to might not agree with the position or they might agree or might not agree with the position that actually led to the person being banned or might Agree or disagree with that that opinion should lead a person to be banned But if you keep watering it down to it, they were banned for a different opinion No one's ever gonna agree with that. No one no one is ever going to agree that simply having a difference of opinion Should lead you to be banned or receive any sanction. And so that's why they Presented in this dishonest way see this many people on their side as possible. It's not about honesty. It's about the clicks is about the likes Going by the TOS clearly Trump Should have been banned on Twitter a long time ago. It is a separate It can be the case that sometimes you can disagree with the TOS Like for example, if there's a situation where a TOS has changed specifically to give justification to ban someone that would be wrong It is possible you have you have arguments Against whatever the person is being banned for in regards to the TOS. That's also fine But clearly every time a person is banned from violations of a TOS that's not censorship and it's a dumb position to have if if incitements of violence and jeopardizing the peaceful transition of power and Jeopardizing democratic elections isn't something that can just finally get you banned then what can get you banned as well as discussions of The power that these platforms have and the influence that they have is a separate question But obviously no individual users should be above the TOS, right? You'd think by now people would stop with that fucking meme whenever anyone gets banned on social media where they're like This is America. We got freedom of speech here in America right like you got to imagine this is still 14 yards because it's such a Tired fucking meme by this point like it's such a tired meme that even people globally know the response to that where it's freedom of speech as it is an enshrined in the Constitution only Protects you against censorship from the government. That's it that's nothing to private entities if you want to make an argument that This is not good for society on the basis of a principle of freedom of speech well, you believe the sharing of ideas is good for society and therefore This person getting banned and their lesser ability to share their ideas is worse society make that argument But you can't just say freedom of speech. You got to have an argument that relates to the principle of the greater sharing of ideas |
| 04. September 2020 | People being unaware of previous decades of music | And that kind of thing. Because there's only a finite amount of ways for humans to make music that is palatable to the ear. Probably misusing palatable there, but you get the idea. Sounds good. Like music is already somewhat repetitive. I watch videos about people talking about like, these particular four beats and stuff that like so many pop songs use and da da da. It's really interesting. Ninja's old username. Ninja has the world's best username. Ninja was a popular streamer with some other name. I think it was just some like Ninja and then some numbers. And back then, Twitch did not have the ability to change your account name. So he literally started a brand new account and said to his followers, hey yo, I'm streaming on this new accounts. It's called Ninja. And then they all migrate over there. And of course. |
| 02. October 2021 | People binge watch my content | People who binge watch my content. I always love when people say they're binge watching my content because I love finding content to binge. It's so great, you're like, oh my god there's like 50 episodes of this! I'm set. I like that I can do that for people. Raise a button but don't raise yourbook, not at any time. |
| 27. March 2022 | People disappearing from the internet. | People disappearing from the internet. When a person disappears from the internet, you always get concerned that something's happened. Like, on some level, if I just got hit by a bus and died, like, you guys would never know. That's what I think about whenever anyone disappears, it's just like, something's happened, and there's no one to tell us. Please don't get hit by a bus. Unless a bus crashes through my house and kills me while I'm sitting here doing speedruns, it's not gonna happen. |
| 08. June 2021 | People do not watch everything I do | People do not watch everything I do. I mean there are still people writing comments going where's the next episode of Oko? I should inquire about that actually like 27 28 and 29 all being worked on simultaneously So there is the people who don't watch streams Sometimes when I've had a bad day or on stream I've been really negative or being a jerk to a viewer or something. Sometimes what makes me feel better is realizing that that the vast majority of people do not watch everything that I do and The vast majority, you know forget eight seconds after Anything that I've ever done like while I am cognizant of all the mistakes Bad days the vast majority people are aware of none of them. I'm too hard on myself sometimes Someone asked me about sponsors. I aim for Or well, he's my managers aim for four sponsors a month only recently have I gotten managers So maybe it seems to you like there isn't a lot of sponsors, but there's gonna be roughly four a month Maybe you don't like do you not watch the raw chaos videos because those the videos I usually put sponsors on People managers with question mark. Do you guys not listen to my rambles? Again, it's a back to I was talking about before how every viewer isn't always aware of everything that I'm doing People who don't watch the rambles would have no fucking idea about most of the things that I do It is true do since I am speaking about over a decade half a decade. Yeah, I have managers and they deal with sponsors for me because previously My main problem with doing sponsors was just that it would take away from doing everything else that I actually needed to do but with managers they Negotiate stuff and I can avoid all that awkwardness in terms of answering emails and negotiations and blah blah blah So it doesn't take away from my content. Yeah, they're very good people Like they get a percentage of the deals and so yeah |
| 15. February 2022 | People don't really understand my point. | I don't think, you said that, I think you've mentioned something about people understanding, people can understand it, but I really don't think people really do understand it yet. I think the majority of people still have a clear list. And I wanted to give an analogy, because I'm probably gonna give a few good analogies, I mean analogies are great. The analogy of like a reactor reacting to someone's video, and then the content creator getting some exposure from it, so it's okay. Right? But the analogy, an analogy that these people might understand is like Amazon. And Jeff, people don't like Jeff Bezos, right, because he's so wealthy and Amazon, I don't know too much about it, but apparently Amazon exploits workers, etc. Right? But Jeff Bezos could use the exact same defense and say, sure, I've exploited people and I've gotten all, I've accumulated this billions of dollars, but my vice presidents, they get million dollar salaries. Yes. And I can think of several examples of people that I've helped by becoming so rich, because I pay my number twos and whatever very good amounts. And then that doesn't even consider the workers that get exploited. And then it doesn't even consider the people that aren't in Amazon, but just in the economy in general, where the wealth is being transferred, and you don't even hear about them, right? So it's very difficult to understand. Another analogy you could use is crypto scams, where it is indisputable that with every single crypto scam, there has been a bunch of people that have really benefited from that arrangement, millions of dollars potentially, but that ignores all the people that didn't benefit from that. I tried to explain this with Charlie, where I was explaining a large system of how even though individuals may benefit, the majority lose out. And Charlie kept bringing up one individual that benefited, another individual that benefited, another individual that benefited, in the same way that you could with a crypto scam. It wasn't, if this crypto scam wasn't bad, that guy got a lot of money, that guy got a lot of money, the guy who made it got a lot of money. It just ignores the grander picture. And I received a lot of comments where people were like, oh, well, I wouldn't have known of your video if it wasn't for this reaction. Talking about response content, not reaction content, which is something I distinctly drew a difference between in the script. But it isn't my position that there has never been a person in the world who has ever discovered a content creator through a reaction. My position is, as a whole, totality, individual content creators lose out and the only people who really benefit are the reactors who are just getting a lot of free, easy labor, very high quality content for literally no money. Where in any other situation in society, people would go, you're just paying them with exposure. You're worth millions of dollars. Give them some money. In this situation, they're like, you have to pay them? Fuck them. It's such a weird disconnect where perhaps just because people really like certain content creators and they really like the content, they want to feel. Maybe people even would feel like they're exploiting people by watching this content and they don't want those feelings. So it's just immediately dismissive of this sort of perspective. And I respect Charlie for eventually coming to when he understood it, respected to some degree. He said he would change his content to some extent. He understood what I was saying, which is certainly not what a lot of people have done. I'm just saying you're just jealous of the reactors as if all the reactors disappeared. I would certainly benefit to some degree, but not all that much. I'm already successful and wealthy. I don't need reactors to disappear for my own benefit. But I do think the wider scope of the internet would benefit for everyone else. |
| 15. February 2022 | People don't understand negative externalities. | understand. Because if you, well, I watched a video by Ludwig, Ludwig, and he seemed to grasp it a little bit, but almost everyone else are coming up with the same defense, which is that if I react to someone, they benefit. And it completely disregards the 99.99% of content creators that they don't react to, and they don't understand how they are impacted by it. So I don't know, is it that, again, it's a very complex thing and it's very new. I think these ideas are relatively, I don't know, are these ideas that you put forward pretty new? Have they really been hashed out previously? No. So if you look up, so people disliked, well, it was less spoken about, people disliked my allusions to the idea of slavery, for example, in that document. If you Google unpaid internships are modern slavery, you'll just get article after article, influential person after influential person, and debate after debate saying the same sort of thing, drawing allusions between unpaid labor and slavery, because slavery is unpaid labor, unpaid labor is unpaid labor. They're not the same thing. They're not as bad, because in slavery, you're sequestered and you're forced to do something where unpaid labor, you potentially have a choice, although to what degree that choice is compelled, it's a separate matter. But these things have been talked about for a long time. Even if there's a situation between two groups, it doesn't mean that those two groups are benefiting equally or that it isn't still an exploitative situation. So unpaid internships is a good example. Companies using their positions of wealth and success to just avoid paying people for the labor that they're doing. They could pay, but they just don't, because they know that they can offer something non-tangible that being experienced to avoid making that payment. But unpaid internships, we're talking about something different now, one of the reasons why these are bad for society is it precludes certain people from getting those positions. If you want to get into an unpaid internship, you've already got to be pretty wealthy. You already got to be pretty well off. If you come from a poorer family, maybe middle-class family, you've got people you want to support, you can't get into those positions. Unpaid internships preclude certain aspects of society from elevating themselves using those things. But also just in general, depending upon your values, I believe that labor should be paid for. So, what value you are providing someone else should be, you should be rewarded equivalent to what value that you're giving them. And certainly in the case of React content, as I try to argue, the reactor is benefiting so much more, like just astronomically so. You can look at people on Twitter, say, oh, a guy reacted to my video with 12K viewers and I got 50 views on my YouTube video. Like it's, but the reactor gets, you know, hundreds of hours of that person's labor for entertainment where they're getting money, exposure, da da da, and the other person's getting like 50 views. It's, even if you want to argue that there is the reactor who is benefiting and the reactee that is also benefiting, it's like this. It's not even close in terms of who is benefiting the most from this example, from this situation. And as I try to argue, where this benefit is coming from is ultimately stealing from everyone else in the market. People can look at this and understand this and still just go, this is still okay. Because in part, it's going to depend on your values and I would have to argue to the individual, to their particular values, to get them to change their minds on that. That document I wrote appeals to certain, it appeals to certain political ideas, certain values that are more shared on my side of politics, the left side. I hate those phrasings. Or then the right side. And so a lot of the responses I got from lefties was agreement. And that's why you can see on, you can see occasionally on Twitter where people would be laying into Hassan for his clear exploitation, which goes against socialist values. But if you don't have those values, I can understand why you would potentially just be like, fuck this guy. Like this is fine, even if there is quote unquote exploitation. |
| 10. September 2022 | People forgetting details of GTA 5 cutscene | People forgetting details of GT5 cutscene. So for the longest time I've talked about how we don't remember things perfectly and things that happen to us in the future can impact how we remember things of our past. How our memories slightly warp and distort based on new information that we can receive to the point where we can create whole new memories. And one thing that perfectly showed this to me was this short that I made. Did you know that hidden in the files of GTA V there is an alternate unfinished cutscene for the chase with Molly on legal trouble? At the beginning here I show the original cutscene where just Michael's here and Molly gets sucked in from this angle and then I show the unfinished deleted cutscene which is this. Now their mouths aren't moving and what not because the cutscene was never finished. And I know it was not finished because I added the sound effects. I added the voice lines. I added the music. All of these cutscenes that were unfinished had no sound files attached. However so many people wrote comments being like I saw this cutscene that way on Playstation 3 10 years ago. I'm glad I saw it in the actual game before it was removed. All these people and full sincerity probably believe that because the cutscene that you see is like if you have any ability to imagine things clearly you can imagine how Molly would be sucked in. I mean you think back at this scene you're not going to think of it in terms of what you saw on the screen looking at from Michael's angle. You're going to think of it as well Molly's getting sucked in. It's just funny how many of these comments were like men as I say showcasing how people do misremember things after so many years. |
| 29. December 2020 | People getting recommended my clips despite not watching GTA 5 content. | I rarely watch GTA stuff so I don't know how they come. You don't watch, normally watch GTA stuff so how'd they come about? Um, you may have watched other Twitch clips. All that needs to be the case is for you to have a similar YouTube profile in terms of your watch history as another person who watches my stuff. They look at you and go oh, this person likes watching Dark Viper AU clips, this other person is very similar to that person but hasn't watched any Dark Viper AU clips. I guess we'll show them some Dark Viper AU clips and then you click on them, you like them, and so it keeps giving them, giving more of them to you, you know. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 12. February 2023 | People hate Lester for No Reason. | People hate Lester for no reason. Lester is useful, don't know why he's hated. I thought Lester was like one of the most popular characters in the game. Like Lester might be the most recognizable character. Because he's in single player, he's in online, he's the focus, or at least involved in most of the DLCs. And he's the guy you call the most in the game. Franklin is more? I don't think so. At this point. Like because there are some people who never play the single player and just play online. And until Franklin was out of there, he was like, you know, a distant memory. For those people at least who played it back when the game first came out. People just kind of find Lester annoying because of how much money he takes for the casino heist. I mean, it's just Rockstar taking the money though. That ain't Lester's fault. |
| 25. February 2021 | People hating on wireless products and my headset. | People still hating on wireless products and my headset. My mouse is running out of battery it seems as though. I need to plug it in. Why do I have wireless? Because it isn't 2004. Wireless does not suck. Oh my god. Wireless technology has come a long way in the last decade guys. I have watched the last Tech Tips video on it. There's no goddamn difference. If I could get this headset in a wireless form I would use it. Although there certainly is a difference in wireless. I'm amazed only with small ones. I don't know about much but I haven't looked into that much. I've got nothing against wireless headsets. I used to use one until I found this headset but I've not found a wireless version of this headset. Pumas and Shack and Peng wireless technology today to stuff in the early 2000s. Exactly. That's basically what they're doing. Yeah I've heard you can make any wired headset into a wireless one but like what would I do? I like the cable would still have to be there and stuff and it you know it wouldn't improve anything. Do I have a stockpile of these headsets? Yes. When the world comes to an end I will have the global supply of this headset and therefore I will rule the world. Why do I like that headset so much? Because I just do. It is lightweight, open back, on ear, no head strap, good sound quality and cheap. Cheap doesn't matter as much in the world. It makes me look 50. This headset, this headset makes me look 50. I have never heard more bullshit in my entire life. If you want my headset to look better guys, find a better version of this exact headset for me. Maybe I'll paint some racing straps on it. I doubt the black version would look that much better. I have the resources to get any headset on the planet and this is the one that I get, the $20 one. I mean I'm studying at an elite university in Switzerland but when a friend of mine started wearing these kind of headphones in the library during exam phase we started punching him until he stopped wearing them. You wouldn't want to wear this kind of headset around other people because it leaks sound. It's open back or whatever. It doesn't leak that much sound but especially if you listen to music or something, you're listening to a lot of whatever it can, it would disturb people who are right next to you. |
| 15. November 2021 | People have screwed up minds | People have screwed up minds. I've discovered that people are like ridiculously sexual on the internet, okay? Let me show you examples, okay? So I used this animal picture yesterday and I got these jokes about like dog sex and shit It was really creepy and really fucking creepy. I'm just gonna delete this image People are weird like I like it. You just you just write that off as a one-off thing, right? But this emote people are like it looks like a cock I'm like really if your cock looks like this, that's probably not a good thing But regardless had to get rid of it. It was the smash emote. It's a fist hitting the table. I'm like I'm out Fuck you guys. We now have deep episode back. Okay. This is why we can't have nice things |
| 03. June 2022 | People misunderstanding the 14 pages meme | People misunderstanding the 14 pages meme Guys we're gonna do some hardcore reaction content right now The most hardcore reaction content Gonna react to the video I released yesterday Gonna be a big time Twitch streamer right now Reacting to YouTube Let's fucking go I'll play it and I'll show, I'll explain what's funny, huh? Yesterday a YouTuber and streamer named DarkViperAU posted a 14 page document 14 pages meticulously written 14 pages long 14 pages 14 page manifesto 14 page script 14 page essay 14 page script 14 page document Dude 14 pages 14 page document Just a 14 page essay By the way 14 pages I mean 14 page meticulously written document 14 pages is nothing to scoff at But since I'm talking about his 14 page document 14 pages 14 page document Have you ever read 14 pages in your life? He wrote 14 meticulous pages On page 14 14 pages Have you ever read 14 pages? I wrote 14 pages It's 14 pages 14 pages This man wrote a 14 page essay This 14 page meticulously argued document In the entire 14 page essay 14 pages 14 14 14 Did you just say 14 pages? 14 pages 14 pages 14 pages You better read that 14 pages 14 page google document He wrote a 14 page immaculate transcript A manifesto Wait 14 It was 14 pages argument against react ending? It was 14 pages argument against react ending? Where to begin? So many people in the comment section are like Man I can't believe Ethan and all these guys think 14 pages is so many pages I mean I've read books before What Ethan's never read more than 14 pages Guys Ethan was mocking me Because I said like my essay was like 14 pages like 9 times In my original response to Charlie Because I made it very quickly my original response to Charlie So I made it like 5 hours And I was so flabbergasted that Charlie was dismissing like 99% of the document In order to talk about that the one analogy that was like throw away at the very end And so I kept reiterating it But I wrote like 14 pages in a day man Give me my due But I emphasized that like 9 times And so Ethan was mocking me By being like 14 pages oh my god You know because it was exaggerating Because I kept emphasizing it That's an interesting picture So in the comments here It's so hilarious to hear have you ever read something 14 pages long in your life from Ethan Yes Ethan Anyone who's ever read a single fucking book has read more than 14 pages Just like what my opinion of each thing couldn't get any lower You hit me with this gem So like all the commenters are thinking that Ethan is like the dumbest person alive And like Ethan's legitimately blown away By that I wrote 14 pages Like like XQC was genuinely concerned Like he was blown away by the 14 pages But no one else was Like the rest of it is just joke To be fair like like one one thing Ethan says and I said too Like 14 pages is nothing to scoff at Like you uh you you write 14 pages in a day That's a good amount of pages to write But it's not good enough to say nine times It's something you mention oh you know I wrote 14 pages They go oh very good But if you say another eight times you're kind of weird So when Ethan first reacted to my and Charlie's back and forth I got a lot of comments in my comment section being like 14 pages 14 pages I'm like who are these fucking assholes typing 14 pages I didn't say 14 pages that many goddamn times It wasn't until all that time later I finished PassFest And then I uh watched Ethan's reaction And then I realized then I watched my response to Charlie back And I realized then that I did actually say it that many times And I found it hilarious I sincerely as I say in this video feel like I missed out on a great meme Because it was really fucking funny It was the only redeeming thing in H3H3's uh response So yeah Ethan is dumb for other reasons But not his being blown away by 14 pages To me it becomes doubly funny though Because people misinterpreted it and thought he was actually being sincere Funny stuff This Ethan guy like never seen something with more than 14 pages Has he not heard of a book Outro |
| 08. November 2020 | People offering to work for me for free | Good luck. People offering to work for free. No one who works for me works for free. I specifically refuse to take free work. People should be paid for their labor. In many cases, I've almost not responded to an email, specifically because a person is offered to work for free. Like I know for some people, they consider that to be like a boon or whatever, but maybe I'm gonna get the person interested in me because I'm willing to work for free. For me, I'm like, if you think your work isn't worth being paid for, I have no idea. |
| 06. May 2021 | People on twitter not recognizing my simpsons quote. | People on Twitter not recognizing my Simpsons quotes. So I tweeted out, so how about that local sports team? And no one seemed to get the reference. It's a Simpsons reference. I can't remember the context exactly, but Mr. Burns is very happy as he's walking around the power plant. He's trying to be relatable to the people, but he doesn't actually know. He's like, oh, hey, Mr. Brown shoes. So how about that local sports team? Eh? And whenever I think of fake relatability, I always think of that. Or like there's a lull in the conversation. You just you just say that line. But it only really helps if they know the Simpsons. It's awkward as fuck when someone makes a Simpsons quote and it's not understood. I mean, Lewis did one last time and I felt so bad that I didn't recognize it. The golden age of the Simpsons, where like every episode is just perfectly quotable and amazing, what was the season four to eight? Please people are watching that shit these days. |
| 02. February 2020 | People overly worrying about my wellbeing | I recently did a Q&A. Some questions were asked via voice and Discord, others I just read from Discord and answered. You often talk about how you don't like the constant wellbeing check in chat. I wonder where do you draw the line between viewers, affection and harassment. Sorry for the broken English. What this person is referring to is very often when I talk about myself, as you tend to do as a Twitch streamer, people will show an unrealistic and unwarranted and unwanted level of attention and care for my wellbeing. As in I like people caring about my wellbeing, because who doesn't? But there's a certain thing where I'm being babied almost, where I will stub my toe and people will be like, oh no, please take 10 weeks off. Oh no, you need to recover. Just do it. I'm just, I'm okay. So it's one of these weird things where a person will type something very impassioned, worrying about my wellbeing and you want to look at this person and go, I'm very thankful that you care, but stop. You don't want to be an asshole to them because they are just being nice, kind and caring. But you say that the first nice kind person who treats you with kid gloves and says go to Betty Byers, you pat on the head and go, oh yes, very good. The next one you pat on the head. The third one you go, okay, yeah, I get it. The fourth one you're like, yeah, you've been nice, okay. Six one, seven point, by the like hundredth person, you're like, please shut the fuck up. Oh my God. And then you snap at them and you feel like such an asshole because they haven't seen the 99 people before that who have said the exact same fucking condescending thing. And you say it and you're, oh no, please, I'm so sorry. You care and it's wonderful that you care and you're just being nice. You're expressing your well wishes towards me in this constructive way and you don't understand the context of what you've just said here, but how could you know? So where do I draw the line? There's no absolute line. It depends on what certain people, what you say in what context or whatever how I'm feeling at the time, how justified I think you're. |
| 06. February 2023 | People played through GTA 5 without understanding this key feature | People who played through the entirety of GTA V and didn't use, or in some cases even know about, the character's special abilities. I didn't know Trevor was invulnerable until I found this channel. I thought he did extra damage and maybe reduced damage received. 1k upvotes. I always knew about and how to use Franklin's ability. I never even realised what Michael's ability was until after I beat the game. I knew about Trevor's ability but never understood it until my third playthrough. On my first playthrough I didn't know Trevor's ability reduced damage received so missions like Crystal Maze were incredibly hard. I had aim assist on for my first playthrough so Michael and Trevor's special abilities seemed kind of useless. Franklin's special on the other hand was an absolute game changer after being so used to the vehicle handling in GTA IV. So people have asked me, do I think GTA VI will have special abilities like GTA V? And my answer is no. For reasons like this. You could say it's somewhat Rockstar's fault for not telegraphing the abilities more. Especially because on controller to activate the ability you have to click in both joysticks. So it wasn't for everyone just a thing that you're gonna stumble across or something that's very easy to use. It's one of the main complaints about using a controller when speedrunning. I think they used macros to fix it, I can't remember. That is not an easy function. And so if you miss the prompt in the top left hand corner that's like, hey yo you got special abilities. You might not know about them for the rest of your playthrough because they don't get mentioned again. Except like Lamar has a vague reference to Franklin doing that squinty eye thing or whatever he does. And the game was easy enough that people didn't desperately need to struggle and find these abilities. Like they could get through without them. And you gotta hate to be the person at Rockstar who spent all the time programming in these abilities. Make sure they all work perfectly and very few people ended up using them. Like for speedrunning they're of course very important because it matters how fast we do things. But if you're not worried about that then in a way it probably makes the games less fun using those abilities. Because you don't get that satisfaction of that perfect headshot. Because you're just using Michael's dead eye to shoot someone immediately in the head. Using Trevor's ability to just not take any damage. I don't think it really improves the game for a casual experience. I could poll people, probably pointless. But I do think people on PC probably would have been more using of these abilities than people on console. Because Caps Lock is just so much more of a more accessible button. The Unseen Episode of GTA V Chaos Mod. |
| 26. April 2021 | People saying I'm obsessed. | People accusing me of being obsessed. There's this weird trend that people seem to have. When they see me go on and on about a particular topic or something, and they say like, you're obsessed. And I'm just like, do you not know what I do for a living? I go until I believe I've had enough. Or I go until I meet my goal. I go until I've done everything that I wanna do. I don't stop before then. Where a normal person would have finished or given up because it's too much effort, I will keep going. If I have in my mind the goal to do something, I will continue to pursue it until I fall over dead. The Ramble Watchers. Thank you anyone who watches my stuff. The people who care about my rambles though, true MVPs. I shouldn't say that. If you don't like their content, you shouldn't watch it. But I mean, those rambles, I like. Wish I could get them out sooner. Cause always keep in mind guys, as much as I enjoy gaming, as much as I enjoy gaming content, my roots on YouTube are in commentary, in our own response videos. That's where I begun. And that is where a part of my heart still is. Calling out people for their bullshit. Talking about random stuff, sharing ideas, learning stuff. Do I like that as much as playing this game, laughing, speed running? No. If I had to pick one, I'd definitely pick GTA V. And laughing. I laugh more in a day than most people laugh in a week. I think. Very few days go by where I don't have myself a good belly laugh. Very privileged in that respect. Why don't I have a six pack then? Who says I don't? Huh? Huh? Huh? |
| 26. April 2021 | People saying im obsessed. | People accusing me of being obsessed. There's this weird trend that people seem to have. When they see me go on and on about a particular topic or something, and they say like, you're obsessed. And I'm just like, do you not know what I do for a living? I go until I believe I've had enough. Or I go until I meet my goal. I go until I've done everything that I wanna do. I don't stop before then. Where a normal person would have finished or given up because it's too much effort, I will keep going. If I have in my mind the goal to do something, I will continue to pursue it until I fall over dead. The Ramble Watchers. Thank you anyone who watches my stuff. The people who care about my rambles though, true MVPs. I shouldn't say that. If you don't like their content, you shouldn't watch it. But I mean, those rambles, I like. Wish I could get them out sooner. Cause always keep in mind guys, as much as I enjoy gaming, as much as I enjoy gaming content, my roots on YouTube are in commentary, in our own response videos. That's where I begun. And that is where a part of my heart still is. Calling out people for their bullshit. Talking about random stuff, sharing ideas, learning stuff. Do I like that as much as playing this game, laughing, speed running? No. If I had to pick one, I'd definitely pick GTA V. And laughing. I laugh more in a day than most people laugh in a week. I think. Very few days go by where I don't have myself a good belly laugh. Very privileged in that respect. Why don't I have a six pack then? Who says I don't? Huh? Huh? Huh? |
| 30. September 2022 | People spamming reactor whenever I look at someone else’s video | I'm in reactor whenever I look at someone else's video. I don't appreciate those jokes, dude I really I really fucking hate them so got that much. It's like if I said I'm against people killing other people Okay, I'm not a fan of it and someone's like um but Matt what if there's a person who's holding a bomb and They're gonna kill 16 kids and the only way to stop them is to shoot and kill them and I'll be like well Yeah, okay in that particular case, you know It's a necessity they need to be killed to save the 16 lives and the person be like you fucking hypocrite You just said moments ago. You're not a fan of people killing other people and there you are Advocating that a person dies and you're just like clearly there's nuances to positions, okay I am NOT against the idea of people using or even watching other people's content It is a matter of the impacts and justification for doing so all applications and Usages of other people's content isn't going to have the same impact in reality and this differing of impacts and Justification is going to impact whether or not I think it is okay to do what you're doing It is that simple but this this meme of oh my god There is a singular frame of someone else's video in front of you. Oh my god. This is react content This is the very thing that you said you didn't like you fucking hypocrite nonsense fucking nonsense I wrote like literally over a hundred pages Outlining in intricate detail my positions on the issue and I still gotta listen to people Call me a fucking reactor of the vein that I was criticizing every single goddamn time I look at a single frame of goddamn anything. I hate it |
| 07. February 2021 | People spamming ‘say trans rights’ | Spamming say trans rights So I've said on stream trans rights like 86 times I've actually had rants about this multiple times now. I am so fucking sick of the meme say trans rights It's driven me slowly crazy It doesn't matter how many times you say it There's always gonna be some additional fuck wit who comes in and makes you want to say it again I can't just spend my life saying trans rights on the screen on fucking stream every 10 minutes to appease these fuckwits who enjoy This meme shut up. You are not helping trans people with your what's what they call it performative activism or whatever You know, there's this meme where these fuckwits go around trying to get content creators to say trans rights Virtue signal and it doesn't matter how many times you say it It's never enough because people just keep asking you to say it Can you imagine if if everyone like everyone's issue they did the same thing? It's all I would fucking do all day until I tattooed on my fucking forehead Like if there's some particular issue of the day or some news or a story you want my opinion on that's fine But I'm not a dog here where you can just ask me to bark Every five minutes as a general rule. I do not say things that people ask me to say even my own memes I don't say if people ask me to say them But if I don't say it it makes it seem like I don't support trans people and so it makes me look like an asshole There is literally no win and these people know that if you say it nothing changes if you don't say it They're like, oh man, you can fucking say I must be one of those people that it's it There's no winning and I think people know that and their assholes or they're too dense to know that and so they should shut The fuck up and leave me alone |
| 13. January 2023 | People still believe that Michael was in witness protection. | People write me essays to tell me Michael was in witness protection. It's funny you say that, Spider Boss, that Michael was not in witness protection. I had a person write like multiple paragraphs today, being like, I don't see the point of this video. Michael was clearly in witness protection. Like, oh, here we go. And like, even if it wasn't really like actual witness protection, like it's the same thing though. And it's just like people, the FIP thought he was dead. Dave was the only person or who, and maybe people that Dave worked with. That's about it. And the big difference between it and normal witness protection is that Michael's being protected not just from criminals, but the justice system as well. Witness protection is a tool of the justice system to see justice done. And what Dave and Michael did was specifically to avoid justice. That's why it's not witness protection. It is completely antithetical to actual witness protection. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but god damn I get these like super confident comments. Where people are like, um, you know what the fuck you're talking about bro? Like, god, why are people like this? |
| 28. April 2021 | People still playing ancient mobile games | People still playing ancient mobile games. Thoughts on Fruit Ninja? Is Fruit Ninja still around? Fruit Ninja was like one of the first apps that was released on like everyone's phones. Technology has gotten so much better, you can have good gaming experiences on your phone. And you're telling me that people are still playing Fruit Ninja? That's fucking nuts. People still play Candy Crush? That's insane! At least Farmvilla's closed down. There is, but they're still definitely farming sim games that are popular. The world is doomed! Are those on like level 4000 with Candy Crush? At that point in time, it's just the...the... Oh no. My brain stopped working. Sunken cost fallacy. Man hits 30, suddenly has 5 second lag in thinking of... a phrase he's used like a bajillion times. If you're at level 4000 in Candy Crush, there's definitely sunken cost fallacy. But if I stop, then all those levels that I've got up to this point are completely meaningless. Don't let the sunken cost fallacy dictate your life. What I'm saying is, quit World of Warcraft. You can do better. I know you've put thousands of hours into it, but just stop it. |
| 14. May 2021 | People still think millennials are kids | People still think millennials are kids. Like millennials are in their 30s now, right? How old is the oldest millennial and how young is the youngest millennial? Because I'm just barely a millennial, right? Because it's 90s. 25 is the youngest? Oh, 1979 to 1996? So what's the age range? So the youngest is 25. So it's 25 to 40. And so it's really funny when you see these articles still coming out where they're like, Damn millennials! And it's just like, Most millennials are full time jobs and shit and trying to save for a house and whatnot. They're not kids. Not seeing eye to eye with my optometrist. I did have an interesting interaction yesterday. I went to my optometrist the first time in like two years. |
| 05. March 2022 | People subtling wanting to use me for advertisement. | People suddenly wanting to use me for advertisements. I receive emails on a semi-regular basis. Some perhaps scam, some not. Of people saying, hey, we should collaborate and you should play on our 5M server. And these offers often imply at the very least that they're going to pay me money. I did the Avana server for 5M for free. That back in the day, it's got like a million views or something. An entire video dedicated to something that I only did because a person contacted me about doing it. Something like that at my current size would be worth a lot of money. And a person from that server contacted me again that, hey, we can give you a donor role or whatever. And I'm just like, yeah, but you just want me to play again because it's good advertising. You don't want to pay me for it though. Obviously, the difference between me playing and not playing is not an inability to pay for a donor role. And any attempt to help me out and setting stuff up is less about kindness necessarily and more about just getting advertisement for the server. It's similar to how I had a person contact me recently about potentially having a philosophical discussion because we'd had some in the past. And I looked at this message and I didn't say this in response, but I was like, the only reason this person has contacted me now is because I'm a larger content creator. And when I said I wasn't interested, no response after that point. No wishes well. But in their message, they implied they really enjoyed their discussion with me and whatnot. We should do it again. But in reality, they had just recently come back to doing content again and were clearly just interested in talking to me because they had already established that relationship in the past. And wanted me to use me to get viewers effectively. You recognize these situations all the time, but you don't say this out loud. You're like, oh no, no, thank you. It's all good. It's fine. But it's always at the back of my mind when people communicate with me in a way that it's not obvious that they're attempting to use my platform and my notoriety for their own gain. It's not fake necessarily. Oh, the second person was. I don't think the people talking to me about the Avantiserv were ever necessarily fake people necessarily. But clearly they're just like, hey, you know, we'd be totally cool if you played again. That'd be sweet. You know, you can't blame them for trying. But do they avoid being too nice in order to not seem like they're sucking up? I don't know. Can't fault the people for trying to get some free publicity? Oh, not at all. Not at all. You know, you got to shoot your shot and it's not as though them asking is going to hurt me in any capacity. It just sometimes I'm like, do they know that I know? You know. |
| 24. October 2022 | People thinking I am bad at card games. | RVN, I bought an inscription a while back because of your video on it. Couldn't watch all the misplays, but I guess it was a good marketing strategy. Most people said that and I was like, but I felt really good at that game. I very rarely failed, like I thought I dominated it really well, but like people in chat in the comments were like, man, you suck at this game. What is wrong with you? Like, oh. Nah, I think you guys just hypercritical. Like, when you're playing by yourself, you can't see your misplays. Anyone else watching you would see those misplays and be like, oh you misplayed! But you can't see them, so you think you're doing fucking amazing. Losing my blue ball percent world record again. |
| 26. August 2021 | People unable to explain the basis for their beliefs | People not being able to explain the basis for their beliefs. I think it's easier to accept when another person has a different point of view, when it seems, at least on the surface, that they've had some thought about it. If a person says something like, This is my point of view, I don't know, man. It's just how I feel. I fucking hate that shit. (*laughs*) So what is your justification for believing as you do? I don't know, man. Just, you know, just how I feel, man. Go fuck yourself, son. Go fuck yourself. Search your feelings. Why do you think they're true? (*laughs*) Well, where's the- It's who from Star Wars, right? Search your feelings you know are to be true. |
| 24. September 2021 | People were surprised by my success speedrunning GTA 5 | People were surprised by my success speedrunning GTA 5. It took me a long time to be competitive for World Record and stuff. I mean, in terms of my speedrunning history, I was similar to Burhak in that I kinda came out of nowhere. I didn't have a history in GTA speedrunning. I don't think people sincerely thought that I would get the World Records like I did and really stick with it. One of my first interactions with Matt, because he was just having a bad day obviously, but it soured my interactions with him for a while, I was asking him questions about the buttons in the game. And he was like, man, why don't you learn the buttons in the game before you start speedrunning, man? Like, I didn't know how to zoom out the map and stuff. I can't remember what buttons I was asking about, but... Like, I knew nothing about GTA, right? It wasn't something that I didn't know about GTA 5. I didn't know about any games that were even tangentially similar to this one. Because prior to this point, all I had played is like MMOs or Seeker games and......tower defense games, Warcraft 3 and stuff. I had to learn the fundamentals of shooting games and driving games, you know? They're in all speedrunners' command, nowhere, not necessarily. Some people have like a history in speedruns of other games or are known by others, or it takes them like a long time to get anywhere or something. Like a person who came from speedrunning SA and started speedrunning GTA 5, and be like, well, yeah, okay, we get it. |
| 30. July 2020 | People who are bad at having conversations online | People who are bad at having conversations online. A lot of the problems I had with online dating was the people who only wanted to talk about themselves. Very infuriating. Or the people who had no ability to continue and work a conversation. I'm very good at listening to people. Often I'm very good at listening to people because I actually usually care. And even when I don't, which is not common, I can fake it pretty easily. It's not hard to listen to us. But the people who start talking about themselves and you listen and listen and listen and listen. And any time where you interject with something about yourself, they'll change it back to themselves and then keep talking again. And you get to this point where you're like, I am just an excuse for you to talk about yourself. But I think people who are worse than that though, are the people who just answer every question with like a one word response. As if they're answering a test for a subject they don't really care about. And there's only just one small line and they've got to fit that one word in. And then they'll be like, why'd you stop talking to me? It's like, well, because you'd never... It wasn't a conversation. I was giving you a fucking interview. But see, the more I reflect on these things, these are all the reasons why I don't engage with people as much. It is a combination of negative perceptions of myself and all the negative experiences I've had with people. They just rattle around in my head and convince me that it's a lot of work with potentially very little gain. I'm not saying there's not nice people like that. It's just, you know, they've all got... Because everyone's fucking old now. Everyone's got their friends and they've got their involvements and relationships and associations with people and shit. These people don't fucking need me, man. You know? |
| 17. September 2021 | People who are judgemental of how others spend their time | People who are judgmental of how others spend their time Every once in a while. I'll get these comments where a person be like man What a waste of time playing GTA 5 that long and I'm like look, dude You're literally wasting your time writing fucking YouTube comments Calling other people just enjoying their lives shit and clearly clearly you can't be very happy with what you're doing or value your time very Very much if this is what you spend your time doing. What do you say like? What do they say to that which doesn't just make them look worse because if if you respond again It just it just proves my point. It's like yeah, you clearly don't use your time wisely You're arguing with a motherfucker in a YouTube comment section What right do you have to critique how other people use their fucking time and the thing that makes you bitter enough to write a comment Is someone actually enjoying their life? Hypothetic it's always funny I love engaging these people because they just dig their own holes every time they respond because for me Any YouTube comment that I respond to is at least worth the time for me because it helps the algorithm It helps engagement on the on the video to be fair I could I could be using the time to apply to other YouTube comments that perhaps more deserving But you know if I'm there to respond to YouTube comments, there's no skin off my back |
| 02. February 2022 | People who put in no effort yet believe themselves entitled to viewers. | People who put in no efforts and yet believe themselves entitled to viewers. This next footage is quite old at this point I maybe averaged a hundred viewers and I had at 2,500 hours of experience with GTA 5. When I think of the the hundreds of hours I spent tinkering with every aspect of my stream when I had a low bitrate to make it just look a little bit better or my audio just that little bit better the hundreds of hours I spent looking for strats and optimizing the run and memorizing different aspects of this run or make myself just that little bit better so it looks better on stream you know and and all that it does sometimes feel weird when a random stranger goes hey can I have some viewers requesting that I send my viewers to their stream after I've finished streaming it's totally different when someone I know asks because that's totally cool to me I think fondly of them and I like helping people but it's weird when it's weird when people who have put no effort in feel entitled to be watched in a weird way and I know that sounds weird for me to say right because because I've made the case before that getting successful on Twitch is not just a matter of effort it's a matter of luck it's a matter of your environment it's a matter of you know in some sense your genetics of some people who are physically incapable of streaming on Twitch but it does require a bit of effort and people who are like why I have no viewers I'm doing exactly what everyone else is doing I stream like once a week for like four hours I should have a thousand viewers like it's but then but then then you think what are these people gonna do right the people who come to streams and ask can I have some viewers like what else are they meant to do right if they if they have no one they know who streams themselves and can't like learn the ropes necessarily or get a leg up or or maybe they have a job or something and they they can't spend all the time spending 2,500 hours learning a game and then you think all the people who who've put the same amount of effort I put in but still never got noticed or just picked the wrong game or something it's twitch is hard dude |
| 22. February 2021 | People who receive profits but do none of the work | People who receive profits but do none of the work. There are people out there who own YouTube channels that eventually reach the point where they no longer do anything with the YouTube channel, but still collect money from us. As in, they hire a person to upload the videos, they hire a person to edit the videos, and the videos just come out and they do nothing with it. Maybe get consulted as to what's being uploaded or whatever, and they still collect the money. It just seems so fucking scummy. I'm sure in their minds they justify it and go, oh well you know the channel wouldn't exist if it wasn't for me or something along those lines, but like, there's this certain level of being removed from the actual work that when you're so far removed from it, it's just hard not to look at that as so scummy. That you're receiving profits despite a complete lack of involvement with anything going on in what you're receiving profit from. I suppose it's different if the person is just moving on to doing other things, like they're still actively working and stuff, but like these people who sit on their asses all day and just, you know, receive dividends or they just own stuff. I don't know how these people sit and live with themselves and don't feel scummy as fuck. I don't know how they could do that. How would you feel satisfaction, knowing that you're getting money for nothing. Money if not for you taking it would be going to those actually doing the work. I suppose it just depends on the situation, as well as on how much money is being taken. I mean, because if you if you build the foundations of something and it wouldn't exist without you, maybe then you could be justified in having something, but I don't. It certainly shouldn't be the majority of it or something, you know. I suppose a better way of saying is I wouldn't be comfortable with that situation and I can't imagine how I would ever change where I would be comfortable with that situation. I suppose it's just because I find such value in my life and satisfaction by being involved and building stuff and creating stuff. What work I have other people do for me is work that allows me to work on other things. It isn't that I'm avoiding doing work or attempting to lessen the load upon myself. It's that I want to focus more on the things that matter the most, you know, because you can't do everything yourself. |
| 31. August 2020 | People who say they are immune to advertisements | People who say advertisements don't affect me. You'll hear occasionally these naive people who will say like, you know I'm never affected by advertisement stuff, it's so false. You know, we're all affected by advertisements. Very rarely do I have a situation in my life where I can directly say this advertisement worked on me. Yesterday, I received an advertisement for a book on Audible, called Sandman, and I was like, wait a second, I've got Audible credits, this book looks awesome. So I actually got the book. First time in a long time I can remember watching an advertisement going, oh I'm buying this. Oh yeah, even just, I always say recognition leads to, more likely leads to positive feelings. Like if you're in a situation where you're gonna buy a product and you don't know anything about the product, a deodorant or something, whatever, if you recognize a name, you're more likely to buy that product over any other product. Because like, well yeah, I've seen this somewhere, that sounds familiar, I'll buy that one. You know, you may not even associate higher quality or whatever with just the recognition, but that you recognize it makes it stand out from any other possible option. It's why like, people put their logos on sports teams and shit. It's not like it's giving you a review of the products that you can use to say, oh this product's definitely good or something, it's because you recognize the product if you're ever gonna be purchasing something similar. Wouldn't you agree that 80% of ads you see on the internet are complete garbage and would never get you to buy other products? Well yeah, that's why the CPM or whatever, the amount of, so it's like $3 per thousand ads or whatever. That means like for every thousand ads that are played, maybe the company who bought those ads will make $6 or something. I mean, it's not exactly it, you know what I'm saying though, right? It's why it's cost per thousand ads or whatever. |
| 31. October 2021 | People who spoil souls bosses | People who spoil Souls bosses. If you're gonna be here and tell me how to beat every boss as I play them and never let me figure anything out, I can't let you, like, talk and chat. It's not cool. Because now I can't do that. Like, if it was indeed possible to stealth him, which it clearly is, I can't do that now. I have to do this normally. Fuck. Because I might have figured that out myself. There's a difference between me getting lost and asking where to go and telling me how to beat the bosses. Like, most of the fun of Souls games is figuring out how to beat the bosses. There's always an ambiguity in what individual streamers like to be told. But I don't think there's a single streamer in existence who wants chat to act as a perfect walkthrough for literally everything in the game. That's just crazy. You fucking ruined this fight for me. This is the second time a viewer has ruined a fight for me. Fucking hell. Because I would attack him first, but now I can't do that. I literally have to do this fight hard mode because this fucker in my chat. There's a difference between guidance and telling a person how to do stuff. There have definitely been times in various Souls games where I've gotten stuck and I've asked for help. But it's normally when I'm lost. I don't like wandering around, but I love the fights in Souls games. They're what makes the game good. Who the fuck comes to a Souls game and is like, hey man, here's the exact way to beat the boss. What is wrong with people? Who plays Souls games and understands the value of figuring shit out for yourself and just says it immediately? No fucking ban this. I cannot fathom how dumb you have to be to not realize that. If you give it 10 seconds of thought, you'd realize people don't like being given the answer. Could you imagine playing a puzzle game where there's someone who sits next to you and goes, hey, hey, the answer is four. And you're like, thanks. Get to the next puzzle. Hey, hey. And it's seven. Like, no one would enjoy that. Yet there's a large section of the viewership of Twitch that doesn't think about that at all. How would it not be a spoiler? It's the solution to the problem. |
| 28. July 2022 | People will forgive anything for a good game | for a good game. Like on some level chat I do think it's the case that it doesn't matter how fucking shit a gaming company is, if they bring out a good enough game everything will be fucking forgiven. People say I fucking hate this company but fuck is this game good? You know I think companies are probably realizing that now because it's kind of like the downside of copyright. As I say I'm a supporter of copyright I think it makes sense in capitalism for it to exist in some form I'm not saying I support every copyright law but when you give people exclusivity of an IP that they've created this can happen. If say people hate Blizzard without intellectual property another company would just make another World of Warcraft and we'd all go there and not support Blizzard. It's one of those things where everything in existence has downsides and the existence of intellectual property in regards to games, exclusivity of IP, it causes a situation where you have to play that game with and support that company you don't necessarily like. Copyright is 50-50 for me. With all things in life it is not about finding the perfect thing that is only good it is about finding the least bad thing. Anything with a wide enough influence, wide enough reach, affects enough things is going to cause harm or problems somewhere to someone even if only rarely or in particular context or what-have-you. It's gonna always weigh the pros and the cons. Nothing is purely good for everyone in all contexts. Be sure to like and subscribe also leave a comment if you have something on your mind my feed gives them to me from all over my channel it doesn't matter how old the video is I wish you all the best |
| 15. November 2021 | People with dumb usernames asking for work. | People with dumb usernames asking for work. I had a person who messaged me asking for work as an editor with a profile image that was basically like a mangled face and their username was kweeflmao. Like, can you imagine going into a job interview like that? I'm meant to trust that you can fucking do shit on time when that's your fucking username? People are really dumb. |
| 26. May 2022 | People's inability to understand XQC | People's inability to understand XQC. Is XQC fluent in English? I couldn't listen to anything he said. As someone whose mother language isn't English, you can't stand his speaking. What is his native language? English is XQC's second language, but obviously people who, you know, their second language being English, don't speak like XQC traditionally. Like he speaks ridiculously fast. When I was making the response video to XQC, I had no issues understanding what he was saying, because I listened to everything at like two times speed. If I've already seen something, I can watch it at three times speed and understand everything it said. Like I don't know if I've always been this way or I've just slowly ramped myself up over time, but I've never had issues with things being sped up. And so I didn't think when I was making the response that maybe I should give him subtitles. As much of a pain in the ass as that would have been, maybe I should have done that. And then my mods who watched it beforehand, they didn't think of that either, so clearly it's not just me. I mean, I'm interested to know how many people were dissuaded from continuing to watch the video just because they couldn't understand what the fuck he was saying. But even if you can understand his words, what he was trying to communicate was not often obvious to people, because a lot of it was really goddamn stupid. XQC is not a smart dude. As I tried to make the case, well actually once upon a time, the common sentiment was that to get ahead in this industry, you had to have at least some smarts. Like you had to be savvy to at least some degree, right? With the rise of live streaming, I no longer think that's the case. Live streaming, you can purely get there just on an appealing personality. Of course, right place, right time being the most important thing. But then endurance. It's debated what percentage of people are like this, but there's a certain percentage of people who need less sleep than everyone else. Half as much sleep and can be equally as regenerated at the beginning of each day. I wonder if XQC is like one of those people. |
| 23. December 2022 | People’s attitude towards subscriptions has changed | People's attitude towards subscriptions has changed. Twitter says, do you know what's funny? Many years ago, YouTube tried to make a feature where some subscriptions would be paid and it backfired, but here we are in 2022. That's the most normal thing, thoughts. When did that first come out? Because I do remember that being a thing, and you're right, it didn't take off. But that's similar to how YouTube once had a tip jar on people's front page where you could like, just give them five bucks or whatever. I think the difference is partly a changing of the time, but also people just slowly coming to accept it through live streaming. Like I'm sure when subscriptions first came out for Twitch, it was like, probably some people would be like, this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen before. I wasn't around for when subscriptions first came, Twitch paid subscriptions, but I was around for when bits became a thing on Twitch and people said, no one's ever gonna use these. This is the dumbest fucking thing ever. And people use them all the time. Doesn't matter what the thing is, it seems, just slowly over time, it just can become the norm. Yeah, I don't know. So maybe it's a difference of time that it was implemented and that like subscriptions have now become such a feature of like basically everything that it's just a natural part of our day to day lives. ["まち," by Daffodil Kevin 뭐anorzu Fighting!, performed by Anaмерикan Stick Music Group Cover Music Group, |
| 01. June 2020 | Pepsi max vs coke zero | Sometimes. Quick question, why do you prefer Pepsi Max over Coke Zero? The taste. |
| 21. July 2020 | Perfecting games/achievements | I no longer care about perfecting games or getting achievements. Will I do Sen Drei's 100% speedrun? No. No. I'm not a person super into collecting achievements and collectibles and da da da. World of Warcraft burned that out of me. There is nothing that makes you hate collectibles more than trying to collect all the collectibles in a never ending list of collectibles. And that's World of Warcraft. Oh, you've collected all the critters in this area? That's great. I've just added 50 more areas with more critters. I'm like, but I was done. It was complete, Mr. Blizzard. Oh, well, you have to do it again and again and again and again and again and again. And we'll give you 10 achievement points every time. Completely pointless achievement points. No reason. They're literally nothing. But you'll like them, won't you? No. Terrible. I was I was once in like top 5000 for achievement points in in my region or some shit. So dumb. I hope to never be in a situation where I ever give Blizzard even a dime more. That company fucking sucks. We've added more collectibles in the area you can't get to anymore. Oh, my God. Hells. There's this achievement where you need to get like 500 kills of a particular race in old content when no one is. And you can't go for every race at once. Like you have to get like 500 dwarves, then 500 draenei and just one after the other. It is the it was an insane achievement when it was, you know, normal content. But now that it's antiquated content for the area, it's fucking impossible. Have to remove those achievements, though. No one can get them. I think you have to like, you know, you'd have to get like pre-made groups to trade kills or whatever, which is against the rules. You know, you can possibly do it. That's not good. It was around the Ashland time. |
| 14. January 2021 | Perfectionism in content creation | They're like trying to get the edits perfect or you're trying to get something perfect and it's like look This is be a perfectionist that level like this is no one's gonna notice the effort You're putting in at this point like you only it's all in my head or something So I think the passionate people who start making content All start that way and you either let that go or you go crazy and quit Because you can't be that perfectionist like that forever and actually make content You just go insane I remember when I first started making videos like my very old channel where I talked About my ideas and regardless of society and stuff. I would I would use so many details Evidence and angles of evidence like I write pages essay after essay trying to make everything perfectly clear as possible And I get so frustrated that when people would still not understand me But you you can spend like an extra 10 minutes to reach and have Five percent more people understand and you've got to realize at the end of day that you can't reach everyone You you can't have everything be perfect You can the amount of time it takes to get things 95% perfect can be like half the effort required to make it 100% perfect Absolutely. Well, there's like that 80 20 rule people use as well Yeah, whatever percentage is yeah, if the yeah, whatever it is But it's like if you're if you've got something at 80% like it's a dark fiber video. He said he's jokes. It's edited Well, like it's he's put a lot of effort into this. It's great And then you spend like yeah hours and hours like making sure this one cut is good and that cut You know, it's like your viewers would be like dude I'd rather you just upload this so I can watch it like I don't really care if this is a tiny bit out of time I like we won't notice either the other won't notice even if they do know so like well fuck it who cares It's a slight thing off It's not gonna ruin my enjoyment of the content and you got to realize that or you know But certainly you don't want to get to the point where you your content is just shit and you just know carrying it all and there's a there's a there's a fine line you got a Gotta tread to have good content that doesn't drive you crazy with it seeking |
| 15. December 2020 | Perks of my clips channel | The new audience I've gained from my clips channel and the viability of short form content on YouTube so my clips channel is popping off like Insanely and it's having the effect that I wanted to have Where my the recommendations for my main channel are going back up, so I was talking to Carl about it Yesterday the reason why those clip channels are doing well it's debatable whether YouTube has put a thumb on the scale to Make out the algorithm care more about shorter content in order to compete with things like TikTok and all that but I think it's possible the algorithm came to the conclusion that short content is valuable all on its own Because when you see a video that's an hour long you're like, oh man I don't have an hours worth of time or man This video will have to be really good for me to be willing to invest in hours worth of time into it Even while you know, you probably won't watch the whole thing whatever you you think about that when you see a long video But a 30 second video Everyone has 30 seconds to watch when a an hour long video is presented in Recommendations only a portion of those people will have an hours worth of time to watch an hour long video But 30 seconds anyone on YouTube has 30 seconds to watch a video or they wouldn't be there and then they're like Oh, you know if this video shit, what have I lost 30 seconds short videos? Therefore are far more likely to have a higher click-through rate It's funny what's getting popular. There's a clip with half a million viewers, which is just me Reading and then it is a text-to-speech donation Got half a million views just goes sure you never know what's gonna get popular there was one that a clock and bell truck got thrown in front of me on father son and It started with low views. I was like, oh, that's weird I thought the thumbnail having clock and bell in it would cause people to click and And then I checked back another day had 200,000 views. Do I gain any revenue from the clips channel? Yeah, it's just not it's only a small fraction Per view as my main channel, but because there's so many more views it adds up, you know I did a poll and 40% of the people who watch my clips didn't know of me before the clips my my Explosive amounts of new subs on my main channel sure that it's my clips channel is succeeding in what I wanted it to do which is to Find me a new audience You |
| 02. October 2021 | Person Becomes Rich With Doggo | Person becomes rich with doggo. I so envy that girl at the girl with the Samoyed who's got like a million subs on YouTube or whatever. She's made like millions off Just owning a dog Obviously, I'm somewhat joking here It would take quite a bit of effort to make the videos that she does including making the dog act in the way that it Does if I buy a dog and show it on camera occasionally all of its expenses will be like tax deductible That's how that works |
| 08. December 2020 | Pessimism and optimism about Rockstar, future and present. | about Rockstar, present and future. Whenever I was told by my viewers recently that whenever you go into when you load to free mode or whatever, it's unlimited by the person with the worst internet. Also, if any one of these guys, I know that if any one of these guys all tabs out, the entire game will freeze for everyone. That's just that's just great game design. Yes, it's outstanding. I fear for GTA 6. I was hopeful when GTO, so the Red Dead Online was coming out. I'm like, surely they've learned a thing or two from GTO. And no, it's just as bad, apparently. I got like the entire well, the entire I was going to say the entire red that the online community is pissed off with me was like fucking 10 people in there. But it's it's really bad. The game is so bad. Do you have any hope for expanded enhance that it's actually going to improve anything? God, no, no, no. There is no reason at all to believe that that will fix anything, because you can just simply look at the PC version like that thing. Just look at look at look at us here, freaking dangling in the loading screen. If they couldn't even fix that, I don't think there's any hope. How much you think they're going to change depends on how cynical you are in regards to how much they're going to continue to milk GTA Online and hold off GTA 6. I think that I think they've got like another three years or something. They're going to keep milk in this because still making them so much money. So I think expanded enhanced is actually going to have some measurable change to the game, just not like amazing. But you will go, oh, there's the time for expanded enhanced and the time after. And there'll be it'll be distinct because I think they're going to they're going to want to give this game a little bit of a new coat of paint just so they continue to milk it, you know. Really? Yeah, I mean, maybe that's hopeful. I know, I know. But I'm I'm somewhat optimistic. I at least think they're going to improve the lighting and stuff, because the changes in lighting can make a game look so much better. And I'm I'm also hoping that they they tweak the menus and stuff, because I don't know. I mean, certainly the loading times on consoles is probably going to be improved. But they said they're going to put any improvements they do from the consoles on the PCs. Well, I don't know. Who knows? Well, I've got this. I've got the series X, right? Loading times to load into single players obscenely quick, like it goes super fast. But if we look at, like, for instance, going into online, it still goes super, super, super slow. And the problem with this is, is that these this this loading time issue could have been fixed and it should have been fixed already. We've read that online, but read it online is still having it still has the exact same issue. Like it still takes ages to load in exactly the same amount of time. I mean, into Reddit. One thing that gives me hope is that they claim that they're going to separate single player and online. And I'm like, to do that, you'd have to change so much about the game and the way that the system works. And how if you're going to go that effort to change the foundation of how you access the game, how are you not going to optimize it while doing that? That that claim alone, you know, raised my eyebrows. And I was like, well, they must be doing something at least significantly that you can notice, you know. I hope I really hope I right now. I've kind of settled on the idea that they're just going to like enable 60 FPS on consoles. And that's it. Like that's that's what I think. I literally thought when I heard it expanded, I thought we were going to get like the the PC version basically on consoles. I mean, I don't know, like your your your cynicism, I think, is entirely justified. Like, I mean, I trusting Rockstar at this point to do something good is, I think, wise, you know, they've let down people so much. And I figure entire games crashed. Oh, wait, you're still in the loading screen. Oh, yeah. Oh, I've been I've been in the game for like the last five minutes. Oh, shit. Let me just restart the game. Why GTA? |
| 11. December 2020 | Pet vs Girlfriend and twitter bamboozling | Pet vs. Girlfriend and Twitter Bamboozling Me Have I ever considered getting a pet? We talk about it literally every stream. This is going to sound bad taken out of context, or taken to mean something it doesn't really mean. I am this close to either getting a pet or starting to date again. I just mean, having some kind of companionship would be nice. But it's bad to insinuate that I would get the same out of a relationship as I would get out of owning a dog. That's terrible. It clearly wouldn't be the same thing. I get different things out of either. It's just having someone to mindlessly talk to and go, look, here's my problems right now. You just sit and just listen to my problems. A dog could do that and a girlfriend could do that too. I saw some mentioned furries there. I don't know if you guys saw it, but there was a trending tag. It was something like, something about arses, like slap my arse day or something or show off your arse day. And I was like, how is that a day? What do you mean? And I clicked it and the first couple of posts was like, oh my eyes! What have I done? What was I thinking when I clicked this tag? I'm like, I gotta keep scrolling down. And I scrolled down and it's a bunch of furries in their furry outfits, like slapping their arses or whatever or something. I was like, this was the complete polar opposite of what I expected when I clicked the hashtag. Oh, international arse day. That's what it was. Like it seemed entirely innocuous. Like nothing about that seemed to suggest it was a furry thing, you know? |
| 21. September 2022 | PewDiePie’s retirement from the YouTube grind | PewDiePie's retirement from the YouTube grind. So PewDiePie came out with a video. Only thing it confirms is what I've said many times in the past that a few years ago, PewDiePie pseudo-retired, where he's just making videos for himself. He's not trying to grind to get the most possible views anymore, and he's not doing all those kinda small, fairly meaningless things that other content creators do to keep themselves in relevance anymore. I've talked about this before, when I was a somewhat commentary YouTuber, which was my first channel, where you had to sit there and you go, "'I need something to talk about,' and you specifically look for something to give you opinion on. And it's just so soul-crushing, where you're like, I need to make a video, I'm going to talk about this, even though I don't care about it. I'm only caring about it to make content. And that's why I never wanna be a commentary YouTuber again. I never want to have to force myself to give a fuck about something to make content. It's soul-crushing. There's a lot of stuff you have to do as a content creator to maintain your relevance, where it's just, you're making stuff because you need content, rather than you being inspired or passionate about the particular thing you're doing. And PewDiePie in this video is basically saying, "'Yeah, I'm doing none of that anymore. I'm just doing stuff because I want to.'" He's not quitting, he's just like, retired from that ridiculous grind of doing all the meaningless bullshit that you kinda have to do to be the biggest. PewDiePie still continues because money? Fuck no. There's no way he's driven by money. He has more money than any person could need for a Virginian lifetime, right? There was tons of content. He could be still farming out a video every single day to make more money. Please not. Look at these thumbnails, right? It's just him chilling. The strange feeling seeing people discuss what you believe. |
| 22. March 2021 | Pewdiepie's diss track being taken down | PewDiePie's diss track being taken down. Yeah, so for those unaware, those who are living under a rock, or who rightly just don't care, understandably, PewDiePie apparently released a diss track on a child's YouTube channel. It isn't a child's YouTube channel, it's a YouTube channel made for kids. Huge channel, got over 100 million subscribers, they're gonna overtake PewDiePie and subs, in the same way the T-Series did, they're making just insane amounts of views, must be making tens of millions of dollars, blah blah blah, you know. I saw a little bit of this diss track, tracked, uh, track, track. I didn't watch it all, because it didn't seem particularly good, while his diss track on T-Series actually had a nice beat to it, some funny lyrics. This one, it came across to me as weird, like it was obvious that it was just humor, the same as any diss track, but it had kids in it, and while it was obvious he wasn't like, swearing in front of the kid or something, that the kids were saying, it just came across as weird to me, so I didn't want to watch more. But nothing that I saw of the first 40 seconds that made it seem particularly egregious to me, just looked like any other diss track, which is not something that I'm particularly interested in. But YouTube took down this diss track, claiming that it violates their policies, that while their policies do allow for things like diss tracks, this crossed a line because it involved kids or something, and I just don't care. I would imagine that it getting taken down, and people talking about PewDiePie, and the video being taken down, is probably gonna benefit PewDiePie more than the original video did anyway. Unless of course, I'm wrong, and my taste in music is just garbage, or whatever, which is possible, don't get me wrong. And this song could have been like a viral hit, man, that we would have been singing forever like Bitch Lasagna or whatever. I think this is probably the best outcome for him. Although of course, his efforts in what he created are not gonna be appreciated or whatever, because you can't even re-upload or whatever because they take it down immediately. Whether or not this is a matter of this really large channel having the weight to throw around to say YouTube take this down, I have not heard anything that suggests that is the case. And YouTube did have a point, because if you go to the newest videos on this Coco channel or whatever, the newest videos will have like, flooded with dislikes. I imagine there wouldn't be hate-filled comments though, because you can't have comments on children's videos, correct? Yeah, I haven't watched PewDiePie's stuff in quite a long time. Like this is the first time in a long time that I've thought about PewDiePie. Like when I say a long time, like many months, and considering he is, you know, the biggest single individual content creator, then I don't hear about him every second day is interesting. Like what I'm saying is PewDiePie is gonna be fine, guys. No need to be sad anymore. Your boy PewDiePie is gonna be doing alright. The Coco diss track was more like a 6-9 diss track. I have heard that criticism before somewhere, but I don't know anything about 6-9, so I can't confirm if that's true or false. He has a huge reputation, it's practically impossible to get cancelled. The amount of public figures who have actually been cancelled, again, who haven't intentionally quit, or been banned off all the platforms is close to zero. |
| 22. March 2021 | Pewdiepie's distrack being taken down | PewDiePie's diss track being taken down. Yeah, so for those unaware, those who are living under a rock, or who rightly just don't care, understandably, PewDiePie apparently released a diss track on a child's YouTube channel. It isn't a child's YouTube channel, it's a YouTube channel made for kids. Huge channel, got over 100 million subscribers, they're gonna overtake PewDiePie and subs, in the same way the T-Series did, they're making just insane amounts of views, must be making tens of millions of dollars, blah blah blah, you know. I saw a little bit of this diss track, tracked, uh, track, track. I didn't watch it all, because it didn't seem particularly good, while his diss track on T-Series actually had a nice beat to it, some funny lyrics. This one, it came across to me as weird, like it was obvious that it was just humor, the same as any diss track, but it had kids in it, and while it was obvious he wasn't like, swearing in front of the kid or something, that the kids were saying, it just came across as weird to me, so I didn't want to watch more. But nothing that I saw of the first 40 seconds that made it seem particularly egregious to me, just looked like any other diss track, which is not something that I'm particularly interested in. But YouTube took down this diss track, claiming that it violates their policies, that while their policies do allow for things like diss tracks, this crossed a line because it involved kids or something, and I just don't care. I would imagine that it getting taken down, and people talking about PewDiePie, and the video being taken down, is probably gonna benefit PewDiePie more than the original video did anyway. Unless of course, I'm wrong, and my taste in music is just garbage, or whatever, which is possible, don't get me wrong. And this song could have been like a viral hit, man, that we would have been singing forever like Bitch Lasagna or whatever. I think this is probably the best outcome for him. Although of course, his efforts in what he created are not gonna be appreciated or whatever, because you can't even re-upload or whatever because they take it down immediately. Whether or not this is a matter of this really large channel having the weight to throw around to say YouTube take this down, I have not heard anything that suggests that is the case. And YouTube did have a point, because if you go to the newest videos on this Coco channel or whatever, the newest videos will have like, flooded with dislikes. I imagine there wouldn't be hate-filled comments though, because you can't have comments on children's videos, correct? Yeah, I haven't watched PewDiePie's stuff in quite a long time. Like this is the first time in a long time that I've thought about PewDiePie. Like when I say a long time, like many months, and considering he is, you know, the biggest single individual content creator, then I don't hear about him every second day is interesting. Like what I'm saying is PewDiePie is gonna be fine, guys. No need to be sad anymore. Your boy PewDiePie is gonna be doing alright. The Coco diss track was more like a 6-9 diss track. I have heard that criticism before somewhere, but I don't know anything about 6-9, so I can't confirm if that's true or false. He has a huge reputation, it's practically impossible to get cancelled. The amount of public figures who have actually been cancelled, again, who haven't intentionally quit, or been banned off all the platforms is close to zero. |
| 06. November 2020 | Pewdiepie, Charity, Self-improvement | That was 100k of x currency. It doesn't surprise me. It's not like he needs money. We've talked about this before while while it's not said to necessarily Undercuts or to say that it isn't nice of a person to give away money like that It's important to note that once you have you know tens of millions of dollars, and you effectively want for nothing It's very easy at that point to be generous with a portion of your money. You defies getting swallowed the moment Uh is interesting, but again when you have that much money You want for nothing and you do not have any burdens on your time that are necessary for you to sustain yourself It's very easy to find time and initiative to work on yourself physically or mentally as Successful as I am and as I probably pay to you guys. I don't have time to do that kind of work on myself I couldn't imagine it what I'm hoping will eventually happen is When all is said and done you guys have all forgotten about me I'm like 35 years old my time on the internet is over made enough money that if I live a simple life You know I'm secure in that whatever at that point. I'll be able to like take up like getting myself a cute dog Take up meditation work myself physically go to the gym every day find myself a nice woman or whatever I you know just live the the normal life I mean ideally I would just be making content for the rest of my life But I'm I'm not confident that's gonna be the case all these things that I'm kind of putting off Having a life having a pet being truly physically healthy or whatever I figure I'll just do all that when uh when my popularity goes don't become a hippie I need the internet my dude will I go back in time and still PewDiePie's persona if you could Would you need my persona would I have his personality? I don't know who PewDiePie is I I don't know what he's like in Person would I have PewDiePie's level of success absolutely? I don't know who wouldn't want PewDiePie's level of success I do not strive for perfection and certainly Wanting a certain level of quality in something in particular doesn't mean you want that level of quality or even perfection in Literally every other aspect of your life |
| 21. September 2022 | Philip Defranco’s strange take on 9 to 5 jobs vs content creation | Philip DeFranco's Strange Take on 9-5 Jobs vs Content Creation So Philip DeFranco had this segment at the beginning of his most recent episode. It's this constant discussion that has happened over and over again. Various people have had shit takes about it. Whether or not being a YouTuber or a content creator in general is harder than having a 9-5 job. To clear the air, your job is not harder than a 9-5. My job now has hard moments, but to say that it's harder than a 9-5, that's so fucking stupid. The most I'll give you is that there are some hard things that we experience that are not relatable to other people. But they're still so easy compared to some 9-5 that's probably draining you of your soul. And even for the people that are like, content creation is harder than a 9-5. If it was, you wouldn't probably be fucking doing it. How righteous of you to sacrifice your desire to work at a 9-5. His statement is just definitively, having a 9-5 job is harder. All of them. As a fact, 9-5 job harder than being a content creator. For those of us who exist in reality, where there's a bit of nuance in existence, the range of what a 9-5 job is, is anything from, you know, sitting in an office browsing Reddit and then going home, versus like cleaning up shit and taking shit from customers every day. There's a huge range there. And then on the content creator side, there's like, you know, you can be as mongold watching 10 videos a day, giving them to your editors, people who just upload them to your YouTube channel, and then doing fuck all else the rest of the day. And then there's people who are like spending six months doing in-depth research and like building engineering projects. Like the range of what a 9-5 is, and the range of what a content creator's job is, is so varied, that there has to be some overlap, where it's easier to work a 9-5, and it's easier to work a content creator job, and it's harder to work a content creator job, and it's harder to work a 9-5. There has to be overlap there. I have worked 9-5s, and I can say with absolute certainty, all of them were easier than my job that I'm doing right now. The difference is, the job I have now is far more flexible and rewarding. It's not the difficulty. Defranco here makes some dumb statement where he's like, I meant if your content creator job was harder than 9-5, you wouldn't be fucking doing it. Of course you would. If it's more rewarding. People's assessment as to what they're going to do with their lives isn't simply a matter of difficulty, but a matter of reward in relation to that difficulty. Right? If everyone was only going to do the easiest thing, irrespective of the reward, everyone would just sit around and do nothing all day. Because that's the easiest thing to do. You get nothing out of it, but it's the easiest thing to do. The reason why we're content creators, even if it is more difficult than jobs we've had in the past, is because it's more rewarding. Like my job working at Kohl's, stacking shells in the fresh produce department was great, and infinitely easier than what I do now. But so, so little reward for it. No respects, no money, no career prospects. Like monotonous, boring, but easy. And I could certainly make my job that I have now even easier if I wanted to. I could just do less for less reward. Defranco has one of the easiest jobs as a content creator on the planet. He should not be using his content creator career as the average content creator's career. All he does is he goes, okay, what are the top stories of the day that other people have researched and written, then he reads them to his audience and gives his opinion. Everyone has an opinion on stories. He doesn't have to think up new ideas every day. He doesn't have to build things, he doesn't have to do in-depth research. He just can use other people's research and regurgitate his opinions. His job is going to be easier than the vast majority of 9to5 jobs. But fuck, there are some content creators who, I can't even fathom how they do what they do. Like these, these like, they're basically like in themselves documentary crews. They're going around the world doing like their own research. They've got like astronomical pages of research on different topics to make singular videos. And it's just like saying their jobs are easier than 9to5's is just dumb. It's just dumb. I just hate this feeling that people have that they have to speak authoritatively in this most black and white statements possible. Everything is X, everything is Y, there are no exceptions. Life is not that simple. Like if you want to talk about the average content creator's life, they are making less than minimum wage and struggling to do it. This industry is fucking brutal. As a matter of fact, I would argue that the average content creator is working in 9to5 along with being a content creator. Because they can't make enough money just being a content creator. The majority of content creators are probably also 9to5 workers. Most content creators aren't Philip DeFranco, a multi-millionaire whose job is regurgitating other people's hard-done research. Other people's news articles. While sitting in a chair and giving that work to someone else to edit. Not having to think up new ideas. I would argue I am nowhere close to having the most difficult content creator job. Most of my stuff is working with video games that other people have created. I still have to think up new ideas and twists on those things to make content of course. But I'm not having to start at the ground floor every single time and build up to making some sort of a robot that can fucking tap dance or some shit. Not everyone is those celebrity YouTubers that can make 10k anytime they upload a video. Exactly. All 9to5s aren't the same. Some are piss easy and some are fairly rewarding. While others are massively soul crushingly terrible for no reward. And that is the same way with content creator jobs. Acting as though the world is simple is just dumb. Add some nuance to your life. Will YouTube- |
| 18. April 2021 | Phineas and Ferb | Finneas and Ferb So you know that show with that platypus, Perry the Platypus? I've seen so many references to this character and I had nothing to do and I saw it was on Disney Plus so I watched I think the first episode or two. Doesn't seem all that great. It's kind of quirky and everything moves rapid fast because like each episode is like 10 minutes. But from the little snippets of it that I saw I thought it would be like very funny and I was just like oh this is kind of cute. It's a kids show? Well obviously. But a lot of kids shows still have some level of depth that you can appreciate or at least chuckle at or whatever. It had its own little charm and I'm happy I took a look so I now understand it a bit more. I would have loved it if I was still 29. Maybe maybe. Tr- |
| 02. February 2021 | Pictures of outside make me want a vacation | Pictures of outside make me want to go on a holiday. Do you guys ever see like pictures of wide open fields and think to yourself, man, I need to go for a holiday or something and just stare at an open field. Like I recognize it looks so calm and peaceful and awesome, but I guarantee being there, I'd be over it in like 15 minutes. Like sure this field is cool and peaceful and all, but where's the internet? Have you got some memes? I can stare at my acoustic foam, it's similar. |
| 31. March 2021 | Piracy and the half-life of knowledge. | Piracy and the Half-Life of Knowledge. Have I ever downloaded a pirated game? Yeah, back in the day I think I did. But I mean, like, pirating games was always like the most difficult form of piracy. Because like the file sizes were always so large and you don't know if it would work on your system or whatever and you wouldn't get the updates and blah blah blah. Like, what's that thing that Gabe Newell says that piracy is a failure to distribute a service or something? What's it called? What's his line? Piracy is a service issue? Piracy is a service problem, exactly. Like, I mean, a good example of that is when Netflix came to prominence. And you know, Netflix was so affordable and such a good value deal and it was such a good service. Because all the shows and all the movies and stuff were all in one place. You were a fool not to pay for it. Like, it was so much easier than piracy. Then as more and more streaming services have come out, more and more things are fragmented. Like, where is it? Is it here? Is it there? Like, it's such a pain in the arse to find anything. And then piracy, lo and behold, becomes an easier option again. Because everything's in one place on some torrent website. Instead of having to log in with 57 different username and passwords to find where the show is that you want to watch. Video games was the thing when I was younger that I pirated the least. Because like, Steam just made everything so simple. You buy the game, it updates, and you know, you've got the resources to potentially solve any issues that arise in terms of playing it. And certainly these days, considering that you can refund on Steam, it's even better. Not that that was something that was a thing back when I was younger. Yeah, movies and TV shows. Like, Australia was one of the countries that pirated the most in the world. Because we were a country that was pretty well off financially. So we had good computers and stuff. Or like, everyone had access to a computer and whatnot. Even though the internet was shit, that, you know, that's just a small barrier. A lot of shows didn't come to Australia. Or if they did come to Australia, they'd come like six months after they released in America. Like, I would go around my American friend's house and he'd have DVDs of movies that were releasing in cinemas in the country. And at that point, if you want to get access to the stuff at the same time as other countries, you had to pirate. You had no choice. And so it's much more common in this country compared to other countries to pirate movies and pirate TV shows. Because as Game New says, it was a service problem. There were two things I'm fairly sure is true of piracy based on studies that were done that I'd be hard pressed telling you today what the studies were. The first being that you'd think that piracy would be a poor man's game. Like, the less money you have, the less likely you are to pirate. At least when I saw this study, it was like four years ago or something, the opposite was true. And I always assumed it was because the wealthier you are, the more likely you would have access to better internet, a better computer, more storage devices for your PC, or just be more educated about the internet electronics and that piracy was an option. You also maybe wouldn't care as much about the thing that you have being not permanent or something. Like, maybe, I don't know if it's true, maybe people who have less money or something, maybe they're more tied to their possessions. I wonder if that's true. Like, the less money you have, the more you're likely to like physical goods, representing some permanency. And then you can also resell it. Yeah, surely that's true. Surely, right? I mean, this moves off piracy, but like, I don't care buying a game on Steam that I can't resell it. But I suppose if you're less well off, you're still probably more likely to want to buy the physical stuff because then you can resell it, you can trade it in. The other thing though was that piracy does not negatively impact sales of music or media as a whole. Or movies as a whole. Or was it just movies? Because the people who pirate X are not people who are likely to pay for X, you know? If they couldn't get X for free, they would just watch something else or do something else. Like, absolutely back in the day when I pirated movies, I was not going to pay 20 bucks to watch it once in the sentence. I absolutely downloaded movies and went, I wonder what this is like, watched it for five minutes and went, fuck this shit and turned it off. But the funny thing is, maybe that's not true today. It's always funny because the world doesn't stay constant, right? Technology changes and whatnot. Like, things that I assume are true based on research I've seen in the past may no longer be true because of a changing of times, right? It sucks that even when you learn facts, those facts can become falsehoods over time. Of course, it may still be a fact in the sense that this is true at this time and that will always be a fact. It will always be true at that time. But taken as a general idea applicable to all times, it will eventually become false. The half-life of knowledge, that's a good way of putting it. Yeah, certainly, Slav, I think different countries culturally accept or denigrate piracy to differing degrees. I still remember watching Disney Channel shows and having my favorite Disney Channel characters be like, Ayo, you don't want pirate stuff. Piracy is not cool. What was that show? Oh, I can't even remember. And they basically had like a tie-in where a character was basically acting like they were Neo or something. And like that kind of is so cool and like the Matrix guy is talking all in riddles and stuff. And his message entirely was, don't pirate music, kids. Even then, I was like, this is just weird. There's always the well-known, you wouldn't download a car, would you? And like every DVD that you'd purchased would have the same thing at the beginning. Weird times, the nice. The proud family, that's it. How did you know that, Ror? Guess you saw the same video. I live the same episode. |
| 08. March 2023 | Pizza Hut has finally stopped making bad pizzas | Pizza Hut has finally stopped making bad pizzas. Oh! Update on Pizza Hut. I've had Pizza Hut recently. It's been quite good. I specifically chose a different Pizza Hut than the one that automatically comes to me. And it's actually quite decent. Oddly though, no Pizza Hut will actually deliver to me. Or this area for that matter. I have to get it through Uber Eats. Who has a larger area in which they'll deliver to. Very strange. They have the best sauce in the pizza game? Really? Well, all these franchises just vary so much. As they get bigger and they lose the ability to control the exact ingredients and stuff. Then you get big enough and you can control everything. McDonald's tastes exactly the same everywhere. Have you tried it that many places? I have heard it is different in different places. Yet if anyone's doing that though, McDonald's would be the one. Nothing tastes good after you've destroyed your taste buds with spoonfuls of Vegemite down with Pepsi. Honestly, it's probably the copious amounts of fast food that's probably done that for me. Today, when I bit into my sauce from a muffin, rather than just like biting it and chewing it and swallowing it, I like let it sit in my mouth and like try to savor it. I was like, yeah, this is better, but not worth the effort. Matt, eating is mid. Eating is mid. If anything has the right to be called mid, it is eating. |
| 08. March 2023 | Pizza Hut has finally stppped making bad pizzas | Pizza Hut has finally stopped making bad pizzas. Oh! Update on Pizza Hut. I've had Pizza Hut recently. It's been quite good. I specifically chose a different Pizza Hut than the one that automatically comes to me. And it's actually quite decent. Oddly though, no Pizza Hut will actually deliver to me. Or this area for that matter. I have to get it through Uber Eats. Who has a larger area in which they'll deliver to. Very strange. They have the best sauce in the pizza game? Really? Well, all these franchises just vary so much. As they get bigger and they lose the ability to control the exact ingredients and stuff. Then you get big enough and you can control everything. McDonald's tastes exactly the same everywhere. Have you tried it that many places? I have heard it is different in different places. Yet if anyone's doing that though, McDonald's would be the one. Nothing tastes good after you've destroyed your taste buds with spoonfuls of Vegemite down with Pepsi. Honestly, it's probably the copious amounts of fast food that's probably done that for me. Today, when I bit into my sauce from a muffin, rather than just like biting it and chewing it and swallowing it, I like let it sit in my mouth and like try to savor it. I was like, yeah, this is better, but not worth the effort. Matt, eating is mid. Eating is mid. If anything has the right to be called mid, it is eating. |
| 17. January 2022 | Pizza hut is still surprisingly garbage. | ago I ordered Pizza Hut. Now I do this like every year or two because I have a lot of Domino's Pizza right but I still remember the days when I was a kid and Pizza Hut wasn't trash and so I'm always trying to recapture that and so every year or two I try it again and as has been the case for the last decade it seems now it's still trash. Plasticky tasteless expensive trash. I don't think I've tasted anything so flavorless in a very long time. How GTA role play led me being featured on the Twitch home page. It looks like this it's like a |
| 27. March 2021 | Pizza is better for you than cereal | Pizza is better for you than cereal. I saw on Reddit this post that said nutritionist, and they do mean a dietitian, nutritious, which anyone I think can call themselves nutritionist, but you can't call yourself a dietitian. I don't know, whatever. I'm sorry. It's a person who actually has some authority on the matter. And they they claim that most cereals are worse for you for breakfast than pizza is. And you hear that and you're like, oh, that sounds fucking stupid. But then you're like, well, I guess like pizza is just, you know, bread, cheese, maybe a bit of meat and some herbs and whatever. A lot of cereal is just sugar. It's bread and sugar. And you're like, okay, so it's they're clearly not saying pizza is good for you for breakfast. It's more that they're saying this is how bad cereal is. It's funny because initially I just tweeted out as a joke like, haha, see, I hate cereal. I love pizza. I eat pizza for breakfast sometimes. There you go. Vindicated. Because I didn't really give two shits what one dietitian said. But then when I thought about it, I'm like, actually, I can see how that could possibly be true. You know, because I want to clarify, because I didn't read the article. Normally, I won't retweet something unless I read the article. I just retweeted it as a joke. Now that I think about the joke, like, I think it'll actually be true. But, you know I'm, resolute in the fact that I'm an actor, I think that middleth ages, I'll spend about a decade on that, lol I'm not, I'm just2017 and that's it, it is amazing. And, you know, I've been free in the middle of my career. I've, I do, I've been wise and I've got my I'm vinegar. You don't have to worry. Yeah, you do. MSU, now I think that basically, you know, I'm also not talking a sexual... You know date. Because of a fashion shock is what they're saying. You're right. You don't have to try too hard. Change the seventies and you get used to the new moves. Let's say now a day where a guy with no or maybe a huge |
| 04. September 2020 | Pizza tales and soft drink problem | playing World of Warcraft, like the entire fucking time. So I'd just be, you know, grinding on whatever the fuck, Goblin or whatever, I fuck, farming achievements. And then eventually I'd be like, I'm really hungry. Why the fuck am I so hungry? Didn't I eat a pizza? No, I had a pizza, what happened to my pizza? Oh, then I'd go out there, my dad would be asleep on the couch with his half-eaten dinner and his red wine or whatever. And I'd be, I'd like open the oven, smoke would come out and there'd be like a charred brick of pizza. And I'd be like, oh man. Then I'd grab my backup pizza that I bought because this sometimes happens and I put that pizza in and cook that and then I'd eat that pizza. But, so still to this day, I do something similar, but I'm nowhere near as like super fixated on something as I used to be in the wow days. So today I put a piece in and then I came back upstairs and I was watching YouTube and I was like, when did I put that pizza in? What time is it? Where am I? Who is this? Like literally an hour could have passed all 30 seconds. That's just how out of it I was. I'm just like, I have no fucking idea. And so I wrote a tweet just for the hell of it, communicating this somewhat humorous relatable circumstance. And then I went downstairs to check the pizza and it wasn't burnt. It needed like another like two minutes. Like it was almost there. And the reason for this is I think, I think I put the pizza in when it was only, it was only heated to like 150 degrees instead of 220 or whatever the fuck it is. Cause like, you know that feeling when you're preheating the oven and then you go downstairs and you're just like, and it's not preheating. You're like, I don't fucking care. It's close enough. 75% of the way, 50% of the way, who cares? Just take my food. I'll just increase the amount of time that I wait. I don't know. I'll be, yeah, my pizza was good and I ate it. It was delicious. And I had the very last of my soft drink, except for I have a case of 30 Pepsi max downstairs and I really want to drink it. Like I really don't, but I'm resisting. I should chuck it out. Because as I said before, I'm concerned that something to do with my Hashimoto's is related to the artificial sweetener in those drinks. I'm sure I've had one a day or just whatever, but I just think I should not drink it. I know I'm gonna fail though. You guarantee you after the stream, I'm gonna go downstairs and grab myself a Pepsi max and shove a bunch of ice in it. But like, I'm resisting. Like I got myself ice water here, Chad. I got my fucking water machine in there giving me cold water, help me resist, you know? I used to work at a restaurant and free drinks while on shift. Used to drink a ton and feel like shit. Now I only drink water with the occasional soda as a treat and feel a lot better. Best of luck. I'm not sure I've ever felt shit drinking soft drink necessarily, or who knows? Maybe some of me feeling shit could have been attributed to the soft drink. And I'm just unaware. But as I've said many times, like if you're a person who's lived a happy life abstaining from soft drink and alcohol, I'm like all power to you. I envy you, because I have not, you know? I fully recognize drinking soft drink as a vice. As I've said before, it's a hard thing to kick when you don't necessarily like a lot of foods or drinks. You're one thing that makes you a little bit happy sometimes. It's hard to kick. Like I, probably a lot of addiction is that way. When you don't have other things fulfilling you in life, you seek out these quick fixes. The big problem isn't necessarily that quick fix, it's the other things in your life that you're, that you're trying to patch with this addiction or whatever. People being unaware of previous decades of music. I'm sure there's a lot of people who listen to nothing but modern music stuff on the radio, stuff that's on the top charts and stuff. And they've never experienced previous decades worth of music that they'd fucking love, you know? I wonder if music over a long enough time in our kind of modern era is gonna be, what's the word, cyclical? Where, you know, what's popular in the 50s will come back in the 2050s, what was popular in the 60s, in the 1960s, I mean, will come back in the 2060s. |
| 29. April 2021 | Planned obsolescence | Planned obsolescence. For how long have I had these headphones? This particular pair? Like two weeks. This type of headset? Like five years. I just buy endless additional pairs. Do they break easily? I don't know about easily. It's more that the cable can get tangled and swirly and stuff and I used them like a bajillion hours a day chucking them around and whatnot. They cost like 15 bucks, 20 bucks, whatever, while having amazing sound quality. So it's like, the sound is great, but the build quality is in, you know, you're paying for the design as opposed to longevity. Like certainly they could spend, I don't know, like an additional dollar or something to improve the cable. But then people would have to replace them less, you know, and they get less sales. There was a great video by Veritasium, he released it recently, talking about how, because the years he mentions, basically he talks about the history of the light bulb and how those who sold light bulbs were increasingly making better and better light bulbs until they realized that because the light bulbs were becoming so good that people were buying them less and less and it was cutting into their sales. So all the light bulb manufacturers came together and they made a cabal kind of thing. They made a pack or whatever. They said, look, none of us are going to sell light bulbs that last beyond this particular point. And so they would all submit their light bulbs to an independent analysis that they all set up to make sure no one was cheating and making light bulbs that were beating the competitors by too great a degree or whatever. So they could all profit by selling more and more light bulbs. It's an example of planned obsolescence. It's not like, you know, they're putting something in the device like, oh, on this exact date, it's going to fail. What it is, is that companies will build things with particular materials and whatnot that will cause that have a certain shelf life. So they could use this material, which, you know, might cost them a cent more, maybe it'll cost them nothing. It costs them less. But then you'll keep your products for an additional year. And so it's an additional year that you're not buying a new product. So like these light bulb guys will get their engineers to go, OK, so what materials can you use so the light bulb doesn't last too long, but still functions and stuff? And so then you can plot the history of how long light bulbs lasted before and after these meetings took place. And the longevity of light bulbs just continue to go down. There's a lot of laws being passed to attempt to prevent companies from doing this kind of garbage, like forcing companies to make it so that their products can be prepared, for example. Because remember, while capitalism inspires innovation, the innovation that often inspires is not the kind of stuff that you want. It's how to get the most profit possible, not how to create the best products at all times, because often the best product is not the one that gets you the most profit. Often innovation doesn't go just into making a better product. It goes into how to best manipulate your consumer to accept less or to buy more that they don't need. The profit motive can inspire wonderful, wonderful things, but also terrible, terrible things. And most things in life, everything has upsides and downsides. |
| 24. May 2022 | Plans for when I have one million subscribers | 1 million subscribers. What are you gonna do when I hit 1 million subs? I don't know. Probably nothing. The only value that a million subs has is that you just look more impressive to viewers. Like it's the front-facing immediate thing that everyone sees and can immediately judge to some degree your success, you know. But there are many, many unsuccessful channels with um, you know, a million subscribers. You find it weird that I don't already have a million? I mean, I haven't been really going hard at YouTube for very long. If I wanted to get to a million far faster, I could've. All I would've had to have done is forego my consistent series and start doing those sort of one-off spectacles. You know, the Michael and Witness protection kind of things. Which I do have a list of those kind of things that I could do. But they take a lot more effort. You can find channels that have well over a million subs that release like one video a month. So they release a video, it reaches a staggering amount of people. Like just immediately five million people and they're like, oh this is something I've never seen before because I spent a month on it. Everyone subscribes. But with me, I release a lot of middle-of-the-road sort of content. Consistent series kind of thing. So I don't get that kind of huge reach very often. I say, I could go for these things. I just don't think that's a... It's a less profitable business, mom. As in like I could just keep making things like Pacifist% and forego the rest of my content. |
| 04. June 2021 | Player freedom and game bugs | Player freedom and game bugs Rockstar should make a chair and it should fly for no reason I'm sure that exists in a game somewhere what's the game where you can like sit on something and then like you stand off it with a little bit of height and if you sit down on again you like take the chair up with you and you fly or something no is it a game where you put something in your inventory you drop it and pick it up over and over again you fly Skyrim yeah it's probably it game is a lot of great bugs like just mention a bug and it's just like mention Skyrim and you're probably correct it's like that scene with mr. burns how the doctor is describing all the medical illnesses that he has and he's just picking him at random and mr. burns has it and it's the same with Skyrim does have clipping issues yes graphical issues yes damages use yes exploitable bugs absolutely you can make yourself invulnerable yes can you fly oh yes there's a little bit of that as well can you clip a horse through reality and fly with it well yes that that is very prevalent there too if you say Skyrim is buggy you haven't played oblivion oh it is possible for two things to be very buggy certainly like a little bit of devil's advocate can be played in that with a game that allows you a heap of freedom the chances of exploits or bugs occurring is a much higher I mean GTA 5 relatively speaking for its size doesn't have that many bugs certainly none that are not a lot that are super impactful or that you'll run into in a casual experience but then again GTA 5 is very restrictive on where you can go and to have any significance and stuff at that right in Skyrim you can go like from the starting area that effectively the ends in like a level one kind of thing you can make more custom items and shamans in oblivion breaking game even more Skyrim is kind of dumb down yet because Skyrim doesn't allow the kind of customization that oblivion did and thus it removed a lot of the potential for bugs and exploits I mean I've listened to people talk about oblivion's mechanics and how much of it isn't explained and how much you can just screw your game by not doing the correct things that you had no way of knowing because how a lot of games were back then Skyrim worth it now yeah this is some good graphics for graphic mods and stuff for that as well and they aren't like GTA 5 graphics mods that you know make it so the game is just so beautiful it's unblameful was it a Mors mutual insurance released a video using that meme where the PC is ramping up and then the house exposed or whatever but using GT 5 months if you didn't see that's quite funny |
| 24. October 2020 | Playing Among Us with Big Streamers | It's just lazy. Playing Among Us with big streamers. Have I ever thought about playing Among Us with big streamers? So, my win rating as crew is something like 60%, my win rating with imposters, something like 65%. But this is while playing with my viewers, and no offense to my viewers, but because I am dust trimmer, it's possible that they treat me subconsciously or consciously different than they would were I just a normal player. It's possible that my ability to win is more a manifestation of who I'm playing with than my overall skill. Because I know there are certain things, questions sometimes that I wouldn't be able to answer that I don't get asked. And I've said before, I don't think people grill me as much as they should when I say certain things. But in part, that is because I usually take control of the conversation. I'm usually the one talking. I usually steer things around so people don't ask, but I don't know if I'm doing that very well or if they're just kind of letting me off subconsciously or consciously. So if I play with other big time streamers, I might do much worse. And I would have to spend time seeking them out. And streamers, especially the big ones, usually have dominating personalities where they're always the ones who wanna speak, they wanna be the ones to lead and stuff. I've never seen myself this way, but in Among Us, I do seem this way a bit. And it's possible that I would butt heads with these bigger streamers. More than this, watching other big streamers play, they don't seem particularly good at the game. Some of them clearly are, because I haven't watched them all. But when I tune in sometimes, I'm like, this is just dumb. What you're saying is dumb or what you're doing is dumb. I hate people who... There's this idea that people like to run all over the map to get information and to find bodies and stuff. The problem with this way of playing is that while you have information, no one can trust your information unless you can confirm yourself somehow. And if you've been running around alone, there's nowhere that you can confirm yourself. Like if you do a med bay scan or something and everyone in the fucking team sees it, sure, then maybe you can run around by yourself. It's too heavy! Okay, well, we'll end that conversation because apparently we've finally progressed. It's gonna look very weird in the edit. Whatever. Okay, so let's move on. Yeah, clearly I'm not in the same league of size as these 10, 15K streamers and stuff. And I don't think I would enjoy myself more playing with these big time streamers, honestly. I think I'd just be nervous. Sure, it'd be good for my streaming career. It is a career, I guess. But it'd be easier and I enjoy it far more just playing with viewers. If I get an opportunity to play with other big time streamers, I'd probably accept, but I'm not actively seeking it out. |
| 04. December 2020 | Playing GTA 1 and 2 | GTA 1 and 2 Will I play GTA 1 or 2? Maybe eventually like I would rather play bully and what's that game the Predators something but pray what's the game I'm thinking of? Oh my god the other rockstar game. No manhunt. Max Payne. Yeah, that's it I'd rather be Max Payne and bully and stuff before I played other rockstar games like that and I'd rather play other GTA clones and stuff like It the games just too old, you know, I'm sure there's mods out there to make GTA 1 and 2 Better in some capacity, but I mean it's a top-down game and Honestly, I'd rather use a mod to play GTA 5 in top-down than I would to play GTA 1 or 2 top-down But obviously my main goal is to complete Oko and get back into speedrunning. Would I ever play more games with subscribers? uh, other than GTA online when I play that no, I Maybe I'm among us if I continue to play that every once in a while I have not played the original mafia 1 I played the original mafia 2 and The footage of that is on my youtube channel if you want to watch it If you have nothing to do and you want something to watch go check out my My GTA so my um, my classic play series playlist the biggest mistake I made in in The editing of that of the classics videos is for the GTA 3 highlights Within the first like 30 seconds. I say fuck like seven times The video got demonetized and I remember being surprised when they happen like why was it demonetized just the normal video? Looking back and I'm like, oh, okay. I kind of miss sense, you know This was before the the policy on YouTube was explicitly you shouldn't say the f-word within the first 30 seconds |
| 08. June 2020 | Playing GTA clones | Playing GTA clones. I wonder if the straw poll that had me play watchdogs was bought it Regardless as long as it's GTA current. I don't care. But how many good GTA clones? Do you think there are 10 20? This is there's not that many so Eventually, I should be at pay them all. I mean, there's still some Rockstar games I haven't played but I think I'd rather play watchdogs than bully. I haven't played getaway all the driver games No, someone recommended driver on Twitter recently as a GTA clone. I have seen people with a Graphics mods for GTA 5. I will eventually play Max Payne. Yeah Follow the manager. What is this Karen simulator at? I played sleeping dogs a long time ago wasn't a fan of it, but that was back in the day and He's a good GTA Client I played tons of G the legends. I already played Simpsons hit and run I finished in a day didn't I and the footage is being worked on Why did you say you didn't like Mad Max because Mad Max was a bad game. Hey, man. Do you like the desert? Well, not really. Do you like driving through an empty desert again? Not really a fan Well, then you're gonna love this game Mad Max where you spend 90% of the time driving through an empty desert No, I'm not. I think the fucking game scrub even when you get to the gameplay. It's not even that good Yeah, Mad Max is a Desert bus and what Ludwig is Max's red evidemption 2 with cars damn straight. It is very well known. I don't like red dead I know plenty of the Far Cry games. They haven't ever really appealed to me. Oh |
| 30. May 2020 | Playing Half-Life | Try Half-Life, you don't even have to sweep on it, it would be a fun thing to make a video on. Bob loves Half-Life and wants me to play it. And it was on my list of possible games to play back when I took suggestions for such things. And I almost played it and I just didn't. I think I have them both, but I just... Especially now that I'm playing GTA clones. It may happen one day, but I doubt it will. |
| 04. May 2021 | Playing Heroes of Might and Magic on stream and cheating in gaming | Playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 on stream and cheating in gaming. If you want to play Heroes of Might and Magic 3 yourself, buy it from Good Old Games, GOG, and download the fan expansion Horn of Abyss. Do not buy it on Steam. Do you plan to continue playing Heroes of Might and Magic, and if you'd... if so, you can recommend a way for someone who knows nothing about the learning extent I can. I do intend to keep playing Heroes of Might and Magic. How to learn to play it? I don't know. You just play it, I suppose. Maybe playing the tutorial will probably teach you how to play. Or the campaign, I mean. I learned the game when I was a little kid, and even then, like, I didn't play it to the proficiency I play now. Like, when you're a kid, you just kind of throw your creatures at the other creatures, and if you lose, you go, oh, that's annoying, and you reload the game. You reload your save file. Like, obviously, I knew some of the mechanics and how to play it, but I... being 10 years old, I'm not like a master tactician or some shit. It's offline. You can play them online with other people if you have the mod. What if the person I was playing in Heroes watched me on stream? Nothing I could do about that? I'm not that concerned, though. Heroes of Might and Magic isn't like some... well, it is a massively prestigious game. That people can cheat doesn't mean that they're likely to cheat, you know? The average person who's going to the effort to play a game that's 20 years old and go the effort to actually be competitive at it is probably not a person who's gonna want to cheat at it, right? Because what do you get out of it? Fucking nothing. And if I lose a game, so what? You know? I'm now following a dude who plays Heroes 3, Heroes 3, and his title was, um, trying to get to top 50. I don't know if he uses Delay or not, but I just find it hard to believe that anyone would go the effort to look on Twitch to see if someone's streaming the game and to stream-snap them. To put it in perspective, I think I'm ranked 63,000th, I think. That game 20 years old has 63,000 people on their ladder? It's fucking crazy. Oh, no, no. Certainly, Ram, that there are people who exist who just like to cheat or like to feel that sense of dominance or whatever, who will just take any edge they can get. It's just that they're the minority of people. In the same way that effectively everyone who goes into a supermarket could, if they wanted to, steal a candy bar as they leave and no one would ever fucking know. And even someone noticed they probably wouldn't do anything about it, because why go for the hassle for one candy bar? But most people do not steal a candy bar when they're leaving the store. The ability to cheat is not the same thing as the likelihood of people to cheat, you know? Am I done with Heroes of Magic 3? Now that I know the ladder system works really well, probably not, although I'm not a fan of what I've been told about the meta, where usually it's like a couple of weeks. Like the games last three weeks or whatever. Not sure how much I like that idea. Maybe I just need to play larger maps. |
| 27. April 2022 | Playing Hitman VR. | Playing Hitman VR. I really want to play the Hitman games chat. I just keep hearing about how they're so good Except the VR Hitman apparently that's complete shit. Everyone was like those guys who make the Hitman games They seem like great developers and blah blah blah blah blah then it's like oh by the way They just released like a completely broken VR version of the game. Did I see Peli's video on them? Actually I did not I've seen some of his Hitman videos. I don't know if I saw a video from him on them specifically I gotta watch more Peli's videos. VR is too niche. Ah, it is really big I don't know about niche. Maybe it is too niche. It's just everyone knows about it And it's just a pain in the ass to set up and use you know people are fat and lazy and I include myself in that as well |
| 24. May 2022 | Playing Jump King | Tower. Would you consider playing Jump King? The only reason I've considered playing their game is because Connor and just the general trash taste crew, you know Joey and Garns Continuously talk about it. Mainly Connor though. And I'm like, ah How can that be interesting though? How can people really find it interesting to watch another person jump up a tower? It's a rage game. So what you're gonna sit there for 40 minutes until I fall and go nooooo And then start jumping and I don't get the appeal. You'd like watching Connor play it? I mean, I don't know how he makes it interesting. I'm not sure I could do the same I mean I I gave up playing getting over it in like 40 minutes. I got over getting over it. Ha ha ha J- grandchildren |
| 22. May 2021 | Playing Noita for the last time. | Playing Noita for the last last time. If you guys want to know how I'm feeling every day you should look on YouTube community posts and Twitter as I go live. If I don't tweet out that I'm live and I don't put a community post that I'm live I'm probably not doing very well because I'm like I don't want to debate people because I might just start the stream and leave. I made that mistake the last two days actually though. I announced that I was live and then I started the stream went nope can't do it like. Although I did come back and play Noita for like 10 hours yesterday. Playing Noita while feeling dead is so much easier than playing this game. I don't know what it is because I guess Noita is so much slower doesn't matter how long I take and I feel so like in Noita I feel so powerful. In this game though I'm so weak and I have to worry every single goddamn moment for 10 hours. I really wish I didn't end that run of Noita yesterday though because I literally converted polymorphine all of it to acid so there was no polymorphine in the entire game. I was just flying around at the speed of sound but I mean I did everything except one guy. The friendly boss. Noita is a breath of fresh air because you're not limited to one HP. Yeah that's kind of how I feel when I play any game or like when I was recording footage for pacifist and I could get shot 87 times I'm like I don't care man doesn't matter. All gaming feels like a fresh of breath air. Wait a fresh of breath? A breath of fresh air when compared to doing this. Fresh of breath air reminds me when I said um the brightest tool in the shed. I always wanted that to be a t-shirt. I'm not the brightest tool in the shed. Obviously a combination of the brightest bulb and sharpest tool. From Noita to Chisa what a nice switch. It's very irritating when people stop into the stream and say play GTA and stuff. I assume these are kids because I hope no one like above the age of 13 doesn't realize that that's super unappreciated and it's never gonna result in a person changing it. Never. Yeah I have played the streamer modes in Noita. I've got a bunch of um videos of it on my YouTube channel. No one watches them though and I did do them when I knew next to nothing about the game. Spoilers |
| 20. May 2021 | Playing ads on Twitch in 2021 | Play ads on Twitch in 2021. Are you guys getting ads? Not just when you're joining the stream? No? Okay. Okay. I don't play ads during my stream. And, uh, of course you can't turn off pre-rolls. There was a short period there where Twitch tried doing, um, forced mid-rolls. It's fortunate that they didn't go ahead with that plan. You're more than likely from regions where Twitch has trouble getting ads. Like, uh, I often have trouble getting ads even when, um... Because for a while there I had to- I went to a test to, um, get some footage for ads. And I had a lot of trouble finding any ads while, uh, on a non-signed-in account. Wouldn't you get a bit more money if it had, uh, mid-rolls? There's a thing called bounce rate where viewers will click off a stream or move to a different stream or click out of Twitch entirely if, uh, they see an ad. There's a- It's debatable what amount of people do this. Twitch claims it's quite low, but they have an incentive to make that claim. I don't make enough money with ads for me to really think it's worth playing ads. Except that if you play ads yourself, it stops people getting pre-roll ads when they join the stream. If I could bother to go the effort, I would play ads, but, eh. As in, like, it's- I don't care about the money from ads. The only reason I would play ads is if I believed that the amount of people who would stay on the stream because they didn't get a pre-roll would be higher than the amount of people who, um, would otherwise leave when I play the mid-rolls, you know what I'm saying? Like, if it increases the amount of people who stay. And I don't know if that's true or not, so I actually don't really bother. There are some streamers who do play ads, and it depends on, um, particular agreements they have with Twitch or eSport Orgs, or they disagree with me and believe it's worth it for them, and those are the reasons why people play ads. The ads ruin the streams. There is picture to picture now, right? At least on desktop, where an ad plays and you can still see the stream in the top right-hand corner or whatever. And normally you're meant to choose to play ads at points where it's not inconvenient for the stream. Like, the place where I traditionally played ads back in the day was during the mini-sub mission. And like during assassination and stuff because I was doing literally nothing then, you know? You can't hear it, yeah, but at least it's a little bit lesser choppy, you know? |
| 09. April 2020 | Playing and watching other games | playing and watching other games. What other games do you like to play besides GTA 5? GTA 5 is about all that I play right now. I spend most of my other time editing. Other than stream Raiders, which is a game that I play with you guys when I'm doing editing, there are tons of games I want to play. I was gonna play Bully, but Bully doesn't work because again Rockstar is not very good. Doesn't work for most people. Can you imagine a company that gave out a game for free with their launcher, but they did nothing to try to make it work on modern systems? Hilarious. Atarwing, I watch games all the time that I don't play. Certainly, like I haven't played Smash in like since I was a kid and I follow that to a degree now. I watched a lot of Super Mario Maker stuff and I haven't played that. Although I did play it like once. It was interesting going down memory lane though, looking at my earlier content, looking at me doing a bit of PUBG and a bit of a... what's that game called? Predated PUBG? Oh man, it's a tip of my tongue. It's not armor, it's... you know what I'm talking about? H1Z1, that's it. Played a bit of that too. I have never played Watch Dogs. What has Ubisoft made? Did Ubisoft make Tomb Raider? Who made Tomb Raider? Because I have all the footage of me playing Tomb Raider 2014 that I might release at some point. Square, Enix? In the same people who made Kingdom Hearts? Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed? Yeah, I played Assassin's Creed back in the day, but like I got nowhere with it because the beginning missions are really boring. There was this one follow-up mission in Assassin's Creed at the very beginning of the game. It was so slow and boring that I could never progress. Tried like ten times. Went on for ten thousand years. I would always end up getting caught. Didn't they say they're not gonna be releasing Assassin's Creed every year? They're going to take a step back and put some more polish on or whatever? I have not played the first two GTA games. Outside of perhaps when I was very young and I don't really remember. What game got me into gaming as a kid? The first games I can remember playing are Golden Axe, Revenge of Shinobi. They're kind of the two main ones on Sega Mega Drive. Or should I say Sega Mega Drive? Guns to Heroes was one of my favorites as well. Had the Lion King as well. Tons of games I guess. I said this before, there was a game that my mother got me that I simply could not understand. Like I couldn't even find how to play the game. You were this nice or whatever and you clearly had magic and stuff. I had no idea how to use it. How many of the items worked. Recently I watched a speedrun of the entire game and it looked like a really fun game but very complicated. One of those games of the older generations where it didn't handhold you at all. I gave the name of it in the rambles around the time it happened. Well, I can't remember its name. There's someone in the members that rambles you know. |
| 01. May 2021 | Playing games off-stream and editing on-stream | Playing games off stream and editing on stream. Do I ever play games for fun like off stream? I don't have the time. So the thing about games is that you can't really do them well in between other things. Except there's some exceptions to that of course. Back in the day I used to play Hearthstone between like studying and stuff. Because you could just, you know, do 10 minutes, 15 minutes of work or whatever. Play one round of Hearthstone and then get back to your work with university or whatever. But these days with editing I need something that I can do in between. So like I edit for 10, 15 minutes or whatever. And then I can watch a video for two minutes and then get back to editing. Like I can't just play Heroes of Might and Magic in between editing. Maybe I could because it's technically a turn-based game. But I think I would get so sucked into the game that I wouldn't be able to stop. You know, I need something that can give me a break. But is not engrossing to the extent that I'm gonna avoid my work. And besides right now I'm gonna try to edit on stream again. Like when I consider editing on stream there's some upsides and downsides. Like upside I'm live a lot longer. So my numbers on the back end say that I'm live all the time. People can stop in and talk to me and stuff. I can have one-on-one conversations with people hypothetically. I can get feedback on my work as I'm doing stuff. I get more subs and donos and bits and stuff because I'm live longer. The downside though is that like my numbers on the back end. Like it shows my average viewership being a lot lower than it normally would be if I was just playing my popular streaming games. People will get used to seeing me live and not expect that I'm doing something they're gonna be interested in. It's like oh yeah sure Dark Viper's live but like he's probably just editing. So I'm just gonna watch someone else. It's when you're always live doing something interesting. People will immediately see you see them. Like people will see me in their follow list and go oh Dark Viper's live. He's clearly doing GT5 no damage and they'll click on it and they'll watch it. But if I'm always editing they will just assume that I'm always editing and stop checking out my stream. There's also anyone who naturally finds my content through Twitch. Will likely know me as that guy who does editing or whatever. They'll click and go oh this is fucking boring I'm not gonna follow this person right. But then of course it's always possible that that person never would have found me in the first place if I wasn't editing. So there's no real loss there. There's just a bunch of different things to consider but there's also some things I don't like editing on stream. Like I don't like editing Passifist on stream. And a lot of the editing work that I do outside of Passifist is more just time consuming stuff. As in it's not doing creative editing. It's doing voice overs, trimming stuff down and just formatting of the original footage you know. Outside of Passifist I'm not sitting there doing massively creative edits anymore. Because A. I don't really have the time and B. a lot of the editing I do is reviewing stuff done by my editors. And changing, cutting down stuff and da da da. I suppose when I did, like How the Speedrun Ended was probably the series that I put the most actual jokes in outside of Passifist. And I haven't done that series in quite a while. But I'll be back there soon chat. I'll also say I think that because I'm making jokes while doing gameplay. I don't often feel pressured to add my own jokes to the edits. Because I feel like I've already done jokes. You know? I've already done that funny thing. I sometimes wonder if my editors sometimes feel that they need to add their own flair as well. To make it more their work than mine in a way. You know? So they feel like they're adding something more than simply cutting down me. Adding some part of their own humor. You know? Thanks for watching. |
| 08. September 2021 | Playing games with definitions | Playing games with definitions. Things are as they are, independence of how you define words, right? Words just communicate concepts, and ultimately it just matters whether or not the word at which you're speaking will be understood to have the meaning that you intend so that you can be understood. It's why, um, definition games are very annoying. This may be a controversial example. There was a lot of games done to to read, like, there was a dispute over what atheist meant. Whether it meant a person who knows that a god doesn't exist or simply believes a god doesn't exist or lacks evidence or blah blah. People would work to define atheism in a way that would benefit whatever argument they were bringing up. I've seen, I saw religious debates where a person would say, well, then you're not an atheist, are you? And the person on occasion would rightly go, it doesn't matter how you define me, I still have the exact same positions that I had at the beginning of this discussion. You haven't somehow won if you use a definition where I don't fit what the definition of atheism that you're putting out. I don't any more or less believe in something or your arguments stronger or weaker simply because I don't fit this definition. But that's the game that people play sometimes. Um, I wish I didn't use that example because I've seen that discussion happen so many times over the history of YouTube. That's moving the goalposts. It's not moving the goalposts unless the person specifically defined the goalposts in... Oh, but the person themselves may not have changed the definition. It may be the definition that they've always held. And it's just a squabble between two people who are ultimately arguing whether or not a particular classification applies to the individual speaking. And it's completely irrelevant to the actual positions that that person holds. What you call something doesn't change what it is. Um, a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet as they say. You don't change the properties of a rose by calling it sludge. Or you though you can certainly bias. Because you know humans are imperfect. You can you can bias or move people's uh negative associations from one thing to another. It's like if you uh like if you made a new flower and uh a competitor named it stench blossom or or pedophile flower or something. People will be less likely to purchase it or purports to enjoy its smell. Because of the um the associations that those words have independent of the flower. There's a name for that kind of game, I think. But obviously it still doesn't change the actually underlying aspects of the thing that you're defining. |
| 30. May 2020 | Playing half-life | Try Half-Life, you don't even have to sweep on it, it would be a fun thing to make a video on. Bob loves Half-Life and wants me to play it. And it was on my list of possible games to play back when I took suggestions for such things. And I almost played it and I just didn't. I think I have them both, but I just... Especially now that I'm playing GTA clones. It may happen one day, but I doubt it will. |
| 20. October 2020 | Playing horror games | Do I play horror games? No. I am a big scaredy cat. I remember Ren asked me to play... What's the game? I can't remember. Might have been out last year. Or amnesia, one of the two. YouTube and the C-word. |
| 27. November 2020 | Playing more minecraft on stream | Playing more Minecraft on stream. I could play Minecraft with subs, I just feel like everyone's playing Minecraft. Like everyone. I don't think I could gain an audience playing Minecraft. I could certainly entertain the audience that I already have. But I'm not super motivated to play Minecraft. I don't have a huge interest in it. But I recognize that my lack of interest in it is in part fueled by a lack of familiarity. If I had more knowledge of the mods and different modes and stuff and how to set them up quickly and all that jazz, I'd probably more gain, but I'm just not. |
| 09. April 2020 | Playing the 3rd party GTA 5 VR | Playing the third party GTA 5 VR. If Rockstar released GTA 5 VR, hell yeah, I jump on that shit immediately. While it's third party and I can't get a Valve Index, I'm not super interested. But if I manage to get a Valve Index, I would try the third party GTA VR. Just the hell of it. An update to this story, because Valve doesn't sell the Index in Australia, I've reached out to my sister who lives in Germany, who's willing to order one and then send it to me. Unfortunately there's an 8 week delay before Valve will send it to her and then it will take even more time to come to me. So this isn't going to happen anytime soon. |
| 13. March 2022 | Playing video games is different than being entertaining while playing video games. | is different than being entertaining while playing video games. I know it may be surprising to you, chat, but being entertaining, continuously speaking, while playing a video game, is harder than you might think. Like, if you walk into a person's house, don't disturb them, and just watch them play a video game, you might quickly notice that it's very, very boring. If you go back and pick any of your top favourite game-playing streamers, right? Go back and watch their first stream, and then watch their later stream, and you'll quickly notice a huge difference in how they conduct themselves, how they communicate, what they're doing, and so on. These are skills that you develop over time, and they are energy-intensive to a degree. Like, when I'm sitting there playing Rogue Tower, Defense or whatever, that's playing video games on stream. It's not entertaining, I'm not trying to be entertaining, I'm just playing a video game. But being entertaining is tough. How prevalent is f- |
| 08. June 2020 | Playstation's "for the players" | PlayStations for the players branding. Hello gamers, how dare you? I'm not a gamer, I'm a player. Isn't that what, uh, PlayStations calls us? For the players. Has that always been their branding? For PlayStations, for the players? Is, is gamer like, has that got negative connotations? And they're like, oh we're gonna go with player. Like when I think of player, I think like, uh, someone who's promiscuous or whatever. What's the phrasing? Where he, uh, has a bunch of women. He's a player. Your manhole, that's it. Exactly. PlayStation behind the player. Yeah. PlayStation really going off to that, uh, that bim market right there. |
| 07. May 2021 | Please don't get a tattoo of me | Please don't get a tattoo of me. Has anyone got a Dark Fever EU themed tattoo yet? Would you be honored or creeped out if someone did? Creeped out massively. I am not permanent enough for someone to get a tattoo or sign with me. Little bit flattering, but nah, wouldn't be good. Good tattoo. |
| 28. June 2022 | Please watch the video “No” | Just watch the video. No. I guess it's probably repeating a ramble from before in a way, but the main reaction video started to pick up steam a week ago, reaching more people, which is great. The only downside is I get more of these comments. Everyone profits from reactions, including the original creators most of all. Please watch the video. No. I wrote down here yesterday, I'd love for YouTube to make it so every comment has a timestamp to show what point in the video the viewer left it. Because so many conversations on the video go like this. The person leaves a comment where they say, What about X, Y, and Z? And I respond, Did you get to this part of the video? And just list the point where that is addressed. And they're like, no. Like, I understand for a lot of people who don't like the message and they don't want to have their world shattered or whatever, they want to keep... Because we... In general, people want to continue believing as they do. The impulse just to stop the video and just leave some garbage and say, you're wrong, and then leave is just very strong, you know? I've had people leave like the strangest comments where there was a part where I said that, rambling off the top of your head is the least effortful thing that you can do. And it is. I'm doing it right now. If I were to spend the time to write this down and make sure every word that I was saying was absolutely perfect, it would take way more time. If you want to communicate your ideas, rambling off the top of your head is the laziest way to do it, right? But this person wrote like a page, being like, this is the grossest thing you could possibly say about anyone, showing your ridiculous bias against people. I was with your video up until this point. How dare you say such things? I'm like, holy shit. Like the most inane, innocuous stuff in the video, I've had like people just go off at me for like, it's like they just couldn't bear to hear anymore about something that they don't agree with or they don't want to listen to. They just pick the very last thing they hear and just fucking go to town. Let's put it this way, Matt. I'm curious. Has anyone ever made a good critique of your video? I would love to see that made you think at least. I'm biased, so I'm going to say no. I've responded to hundreds of comments and in most cases, those that are critical either seem to have not watched the video or just not understood parts of it. The amount of people who say, yeah, but I never want to watch the original video anyway, or you assume that everyone who watched the reaction would have watched the original video anyway, even though in the video, I think I made a point in six different ways to explain that that's not the point. You know, but I get those comments all the time. It's people who lack the ability to understand yet have so much confidence in themselves that they leave comments. That isn't to say that things in the video can't be objected to, especially when it comes to certain statements about the algorithm, or you could critique my language and say that you shouldn't speak so authoritatively on this. In that, you know, there's a chance that you're wrong. You can make those criticisms, but the video was like an hour and 20 minutes long. Pretty much with every single statement I made, I could have done like a tangent and then explained further with more detail, but then the video would have been three hours long. You know, there's only so much you can say. And certainly, if people took the time to watch all the other reaction videos, they get an even bigger picture, but I can understand why people, unless they're really interested, aren't going to watch every single video, you know. Because in the other ones, I took time to explain the same thing in different ways, at different points. So if you don't understand the first time around, you can understand the second. |
| 25. February 2020 | Plot hole in My Hero Academia | success. The plot hole in My Hero Academia. Spoilers ahead. My Hero Academia, great show. Season 2, I felt, started slow, but uh, came through. One of my biggest problems, though, is the uh, plot hole they've now introduced. Mild spoilers from My Hero Academia, if you want to mute me. It's a little bit of a spoiler. The girl's ability, where she can rewind people, is so broken and overpowered. It can heal basically anything. And they're like, oh, but it's weak because she can't control it. And, you know, working to control it, you know, how much terrible things she could do for humans, it's going to be very difficult. I'm like, but you've already demonstrated, the guy who can look at people and turn off their powers, can turn off her power. You've now introduced an ability that can heal basically anything. Even make people immortal, really, because you just continuously make them younger. And you've got a dude who can turn off her ability at will. A match made in heaven. She just goes around the world, healing everyone, and whenever she uses her ability, he can just turn it off. Certainly, I'm sure it would tire her, or whatever, like there are clearly limits, but there is no reason they couldn't have healed the dude who can see into the future or whatever. Just, or given the dude back his powers. Moot or whatever, I can't remember the names. And then just like every time, he just goes, blink, your power's off, your power, heal him, okay, your power's off, you know? It's a huge plot hole. How do they get around this? Clearly, this is something the main characters should have thought of and should be doing. But they don't. And it's a plot hole, and it's annoying. No more spoilers. It's a good show. |
| 25. February 2020 | Plothole in My Hero Acadamia | success. The plot hole in My Hero Academia. Spoilers ahead. My Hero Academia, great show. Season 2, I felt, started slow, but uh, came through. One of my biggest problems, though, is the uh, plot hole they've now introduced. Mild spoilers from My Hero Academia, if you want to mute me. It's a little bit of a spoiler. The girl's ability, where she can rewind people, is so broken and overpowered. It can heal basically anything. And they're like, oh, but it's weak because she can't control it. And, you know, working to control it, you know, how much terrible things she could do for humans, it's going to be very difficult. I'm like, but you've already demonstrated, the guy who can look at people and turn off their powers, can turn off her power. You've now introduced an ability that can heal basically anything. Even make people immortal, really, because you just continuously make them younger. And you've got a dude who can turn off her ability at will. A match made in heaven. She just goes around the world, healing everyone, and whenever she uses her ability, he can just turn it off. Certainly, I'm sure it would tire her, or whatever, like there are clearly limits, but there is no reason they couldn't have healed the dude who can see into the future or whatever. Just, or given the dude back his powers. Moot or whatever, I can't remember the names. And then just like every time, he just goes, blink, your power's off, your power, heal him, okay, your power's off, you know? It's a huge plot hole. How do they get around this? Clearly, this is something the main characters should have thought of and should be doing. But they don't. And it's a plot hole, and it's annoying. No more spoilers. It's a good show. |
| 08. November 2020 | Pokiman trying out being a VTuber | agency you have no idea what kind of cut they're getting versus the agency. Pokemane trying out being a Vtuber using a virtual avatar and half the internet saying this was terrible. Pokemane's debut was seen as horrible for the pre-existing audience though. I listened to, as the trash taste, talking about it and they of course were out of the mind. The idea of anyone being outraged was hilariously stupid and I'm within the same boat on that. The odds of Pokemane dragging viewers from Vtubers was about 0%. But the odds of people seeing Pokemane and going, oh what's this Vtuber thing? Oh there's other people who use these avatars? Oh that could be interesting, maybe I'll check that out. Like it was definitely on the whole positive for those who already exist in that space. I think for a lot of people though, they like being in a niche, in an exclusive club. And so when someone more mainstream or not in your little clique does your thing, you're like, hey that's my thing! You can't have that, that's mine! It's less about attempting to get as many people involved so as many people as possible can experience the cool thing. It's you're taking my thing, this is my thing not yours. It's the equivalent of artists getting mad at PewDiePie for listening to their music. I don't think it's the same thing. It happened to XQC when he played chess, oh I remember that scandal yeah. Some grandmaster was criticizing another grandmaster for letting all these normies into the thing. Where all these people who play chess, all these big streamers, they aren't as good as the grandmasters. Why are we having these people accepting these people when they're not very good? Da-da-da, you know, but everyone starts somewhere. |
| 09. February 2023 | Pokimane hires a team to block accounts to avoid seeing hate on social media. | Hello and welcome to Viper Rambles, our first topic, Pokimane hires a team to block accounts to avoid seeing hate on social media. I don't think I've revealed this before. So you say like your mute list is expanding and here's the thing, my block list expands too. I'm not even the one blocking people. Like if people say some weird shit in my replies, on god, 90% of the time, I don't see it. I really, I have people on my account blocking people for me and so when people are like, when like, oh my god, Pokimane blocked me. I'm like, it wasn't even me. I remember when I was a new creator and I'd be like, I don't block anyone. Why would you block people, right? I pride myself on never blocking anyone and as you grow bigger as a creator, you realize that it's like the dumbest mentality. There are some people who exist to do nothing more than to attempt to ruin as many days as possible. I have clicked on people's twitters, I've seen, like I've searched their messages on my channel and it's just been nothing but a constant barrage of just mindless hate. At some point, especially at the size of Pokimane, there is no way that even if like 0.0001% of people send hatred towards you, that would be such an overwhelming torrent that no person could mentally deal with that shit. There are some days where I have gone through my comment section and just been responding to people as normal as I talk about how I read them on the back end and I've read a comment and it has ruined my day, or at the very least like negatively impacted me for hours afterwards. And when that happens, I'm like, man, why do I do this to myself? This is just silly. You want feedback, but it is obvious that not all feedback is constructive. There's an easy solution to not seeing hate on Twitter, just not going on Twitter. Yeah, but you don't want to ignore the people who are positive and actually care about the content that you're producing or like you and stuff, right? You want to see constructive criticism and or positive stuff, but you don't necessarily just want mindless hate of people just like calling you a fuckwit or something. Darkviper has an obsessive personality and a very fragile ego. Dude is a toxic drama queen masquerading as a decent level-headed guy. He comes across as a cool guy at first, but keep watching as the mask slips low. And so I talked to this guy and he doesn't even know anything about me. I don't have anything against you personally, but I described you as you appear to me in your past drama vids, which is the only time YouTube sees fit to recommend you to me. Why would I want people who have no idea who I am to dip into my life through some absolute negative bullshit, often completely nonsensical, and then to spew their false impressions to me all day? Why would anyone want that? I've had conversations with people where they've written comments, long comments, and I've responded nothing more than, did you watch the video? Do you know anything about me? And they're like, no, I don't even know you or watch your video to know that you're wrong and you suck. I'm like, all right, well, so I'm trying to say is, you may look at what Pokeman says there as like crazy, insane or terrible, but I assure you having even a tiny, tiny fleck of the level of popularity Pokemon has, I can tell you I understand. It is probably not something that I would do personally, but it is more understandable to me. |
| 06. August 2020 | Pokimane’s twitter | Pokemanes twitter, you want me to show you my feet? No, gotta pay for that on my onlyfans. Did you see That clip of Pokemane being like, can people stop asking me to make an onlyfans? How much must that suck? Constant barrage of people fucking thirsty to see you naked But you see like you've seen the most grotesque fucking tweets Whenever she tweets anything, most colorful language explaining what lengths they would go to to see her naked I'm just so fucking dumb dude. There's some really fucking sick people out there. In what way is she an e-girl? She's she's fucking as close as any person alive on Twitch Like playing video games. Pokemane is more close than me. |
| 03. June 2020 | Political ignorance common? | Is ignorance when it comes to politics or worldly matters more rife than before what is before or a social media? Just made it more explicit given the access That people now have to the internet and just more information in general It is it is weird to imagine that people prior to the internet would have been more informed about the world than Than people are today On average it is the case that that's because of the internet you are more likely to run into people that you consider to be ignorance or For ignorant people to be held up as an example like look how dumb this person is Oh my god, and if you share it around, you know, you're confronted with ignorance far more than you would have been in the past |
| 18. November 2020 | Political labels and ideologies | Political labels and ideologies. Do you identify as a left-wing centrist by any chance? Just a question, not trying to be offensive? No, I don't, no. I don't like to identify as anything. We talked about this before. Labels do have value in that they quickly enable you to identify yourself to others and provide you a banner in which other people with similar ideas can flock around. For the purposes of activism, this is very good because, you know, in activism you want as many people around you as possible, preferably as quickly as possible. Numbers matter and stuff. But being a Twitch streamer, I'm not an activist, I'm not necessarily trying to change the world in any particular way. There is no benefit to me from quick identification. I have no interest in explicitly attempting to find people who have my same political ideas, so I don't need to identify myself in any way, shape or form. Those are the benefits, of course, of such labels, but the detriment, or the disadvantages, is that people will associate things with you that you don't necessarily subscribe to, or they'll bring with them connotations that perhaps you don't necessarily want. So, it's like if you go, have you ever seen those interviews of Trump supporters at rallies? And they'll say, Joe Biden's a socialist, he's gonna bring forth a communist bad thing! And every single time you watch one of these, just beware, of course, these are obviously not necessarily representative of every single person who supports Trump, whatever, like every news organization is always picking out the crazies at any particular rally, right? But just for these people in particular, could you imagine asking them what a socialist is, what a communist is, and can you think for even a moment that they will give even a reasonable answer, especially believing Joe Biden, like the person the progressives hate, the leftist begrudgingly accepting, like, the guy that Obama made his VP because he was like the most conservative Democrat so that he could appeal to the white conservative vote, this guy, a socialist, the guy who pissed off everyone by saying, I will veto public health care, this guy is a socialist, apparently. If you are actually a socialist, even you wouldn't want to say you're a socialist. There's this meme where they're like, if you say does a person support socialism, they'll say no, but if you list every socialist policy, they'll go, yeah, I support all those things. Some labels are just really toxic. I consider myself a social democrat, which makes me a capitalist. But you remember, for example, Lowell Lee said hundreds of times referred to me as a socialist. I'm not a socialist, but this is just how some people need to compartmentalize reality so they can understand it. You know, I suppose the example I just gave does show that even if the both examples I gave does show that even if you don't self-identify with a label, some people will throw you under that label anyway. And maybe by saying, no, actually, I'm this label, maybe you can avoid that. But I just think on the average, it is a lot better to rather identify with a particular label to discuss particular ideas that are answered by those labels. You know, here is the issue, here is my position on that issue. Rather than saying, here is the issue, here is a word, interpret it as you will. Sometimes, of course, you don't have the luxury of being able to talk for 50 minutes about your particular positions and why you hold them, and sometimes you have to give some sort of a label as a quick summary. But I say I'm not in that position. I can be as long-winded as I fucking like. A social democrat is basically a person who has the market economy, you know, capitalism, but believes in strong regulations to offset wealth consolidation, prevent negative externalities, and wants a significant social safety net in terms of wealth redistribution for things like health care, fire services, police, housing, access to information, these kind of things. If you like the political compass, which a lot of people don't, it's in the bottom left-hand corner. I believe there are technically definite differences between a social democrat and a democratic socialist, but the terms are used interchangeably. It's one of those things, talking about these labels, where they're used so strangely, like some people would say that a social democrat is a socialist by some definitions. It's, I would argue, not any reasonable definitions, but like legitimately I've run across, even in the last couple of weeks, socialists discussing, are social democrats our allies? Because social democrats are not liked by a lot of the really left people, because they see social democracy as kind of saving capitalism and propping up capitalism, preventing its failure, and while it doesn't fail, they would argue it still perpetuates negative things in society, and those negative things could be removed entirely if capitalism would be completely removed, as the social democrats are effectively keeping a person comfortable, but not curing the sickness. But the consensus, because I don't speak to a lot of socialists, a lot of what I've seen recently is because of Varsh, that I found recently, and seen him on Twitter talking with his cronies or whatever. Like they'd be perfectly happy in a world where I was the right-wing guy, because obviously I'm right of a socialist. If I was the definition of the right-wing, there would clearly be a world that socialists would far prefer, and that kind of makes us allies? Like I view my government as further right than I would like. I would like things to move further left. It doesn't matter. It depends how the word is used. If you consider social democracy to be the end goal or the transition to something else, because everyone wants to label something as a transition to something else, because everyone wants to co-opt those people. You're actually one of us, dude. You're one of us. Be one of us, you know, because you want everyone on your team. We're not so different, you and I. As I always say, just because you take one step outside your door, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to walk off a cliff. Indeed, walking out your door is a prerequisite for walking off a cliff, but the association between those two things, it'd be insane for you to then suggest that you should never walk out your door, or you're going to walk off a cliff. Something being a necessary prerequisite for something else does not necessitate that you keep going to that extreme, or that a hypothetical reality where you get closer to that thing you don't want to do, it doesn't mean you should avoid that first step, you know? |
| 10. December 2022 | Political quizzes can manipulate you | Political quizzes can manipulate you. Opinion on quizzes like eight values, which help you figure out your economic political ideology. I think I did this a long time ago. I'm always a little bit skeptical of them, to be honest. For example, the, I'll just call it political compass. There were always accusations against that, that it was weighted heavily towards like the left libertarian kind of corner. In other words, unless you answered, I want to eat small children and kick them against walls for fun, you'd probably end up in that corner. Now, I don't think it was that extreme, I'm over-selling it. But obviously, when you're constructing these quizzes, there is always the possibility that things might be skewed in a particular way, because we work to fit identities that we want. And we could often be molded by ideas of identity. So if someone says you are X, you will start trying to act and conform to that idea, if you want that to be true. So like I can imagine a person who is in their formative years, doesn't really know what they believe or who they are, taking a quiz like this, getting an answer, and that becoming their identity, because something told them that. And I have no ability to assess these quizzes into how accurate they are, or their underlying methodology. So I worry that that might be something that the creators have done, where they're just ultimately trying to push an agenda of some kind. Maybe I shouldn't be talking about these, because I say this quiz could be perfectly great. I have taken it one time in the past, but I can't remember what I got. Like it's tempting to take it. I do believe I made a video once where I took a political quiz, but at this stage in my career, all it would do is piss people off. Like it wouldn't matter how readily I think I could argue from my perspectives, how evidence I believed they are, what justifications I have. There'll just be some people who'll be like, oh, you hold exposition? Fuck you. There's no advantage to people being more aware of my political leanings than they already are. It is the case that no question will ever be perfectly understood and used in a way that the original creators intend. Like you'd imagine they would do their best though, right? But I have seen people take these quizzes and interpret a question entirely differently than I did. That's just how language works. I say all of these quizzes, like the social sciences are hard. Bottom line, I am skeptical of these compasses, but to some degree, I think people should just like be themselves as opposed to trying to put themselves into boxes and like find what boxes they check and stuff. I know that's hard sometimes because you wanna find like-minded people, people you can identify with and all that jazz, but everyone is an individual with differences that make them unique and no compass can possibly ever capture that kind of difference perfectly, which of course none of them claim to be able to. |
| 10. January 2021 | Popular speedrunners vs competitive speedrunners . | Popular speedrunners vs. comparative speedrunners Do I plan on participating in any speedrun events in the future? Given that I'm not actively speedrunning right now, I can't imagine that would happen. If I become proficient and competitive in speedrunning again, I wouldn't be against that. It's just such events, you'd rather the people who are the most proficient in the run, the best runners, to get that kind of attention. It's actually something that Dream mentions in the interview that we had. He mentioned that Mojang wanted him to speak representing speedrunners. He said you'd only do it if he could bring along the top runner, Illumina. That's the thing, when you get very popular as a speedrunner, but you're not necessarily the best runner, people want you to do the stuff because you're popular, not because you're the best. That's not really fair to the people who are putting in the time to become very good at speedrunning. They should get their moment to shine. They should get that attention. |
| 21. November 2020 | Pornhub as an alternate platform and YouTube demonetization | No, it's like 9 a.m. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. My brain is just fried right now chat. I'm literally completely out of it. Pornhub is an alternate platform and YouTube demonetization. Quick thought, what if Pornhub expanded and created a gaming category? Would that be better than YouTube since there's no censorship or demonetization of any sort? No. Are you crazy? We've talked about this before. All platforms start with a hands-off Lassaday's ago, you can do whatever you want attitude and then eventually they have to start making money So then they start trimming back the content that makes it so they can't get advertisers or makes the the platform not palatable for large audiences and they trim and trim and trim the the only time you will have a perfectly free and open platform is if it's publicly funded or it's the early days of a private ownership. Pornhub makes a lot of money from ads. They are the central hub for people watching pornography and so all these things all these websites that run off subscriptions, you know, razors and stuff They they pay Pornhub to advertise for. Why do I know that? Because I am a part owner of Pornhub. I own 16% I get revenue reports quarterly. Did people not know this? Obviously, no, I know where I know this information from. I was watching some videos, you know, I watch videos about economics and shit Basically, so if Pornhub opened a gaming section of Pornhub while it would increase the amount of content on the platform it wouldn't substantially increase the amount of companies that want to advertise on the platform because it would still be associated with Pornhub, right? Which would turn off a lot of advertisers. So you would increase the amount of real estate for the ads to to be placed, but you wouldn't increase the amount of ads that need to be placed. So the CPM would go down. Basically any individual bit of content on Pornhub would be making less money. You would never get to a point where you'd be making as much money on Pornhub as you would be on YouTube. You know, more than this, it's very unlikely that audiences would move from from YouTube to Pornhub to watch their gaming content. So the audience would still be all on YouTube. Like you all understand when you talk about demonetization and you talk about content that gets removed, you're talking about like 0.00001% of the content. The vast majority people do not care about this content and to be honest, I wouldn't say it's worth watching anyway. You're not going to take much of an audience away from YouTube by hosting this content. And demonetization, Newsflash is not as big of a thing as a lot of content creators suggest it is. The reason why you hear about it all the time is because YouTube gets, you know, thousands of hours of content uploaded to their platform every day. So the odds of one video game demonetized or something incorrect happening to someone is obviously quite high just because the amounts of, you know, the billions of users on the platform. YouTube on the whole is very good at what they do. Like I guarantee you every single day someone's content is wrongfully removed from YouTube. Every single day someone's video is wrongfully demonetized. Every single day someone is wrongfully banned on this platform. Every single day. And it's because there's literally billions of users on the platform and there's 365 days in a year. It would represent like 0.0000001% or some shit of the, you know, the overall decisions being made at YouTube in regards to content. Like a lot of the stuff that YouTube has gotten criticism over recently has been stuff that they haven't removed. Like critical talking about how YouTube didn't remove all these people who are clearly putting animals in harm's way in order to save them for content or whatever. I think that's what he was about, some abuse of animals or whatever. It was a YouTube not removing that stuff. |
| 03. January 2021 | Pornhub removes content . | Pornhub removes all content from unverified creators in response to backlash of certain illegal content being on their platform. Yeah, I have seen the Pornhub remove unverified content. As with most changes like that, it's going to help some people and harm other people. And I'm not educated enough on the matter to say whether the help offsets the harm. Or if there was some better way they could have done it. Like obviously Pornhub is doing it not because they care about any harm they're doing to others, but because they care about their bottom line with what was it MasterCard and Visa being like, yo, we don't like to support platforms that have illegal content on them. I would suggest that it is more than likely an overcorrection. And there were probably other things they could have done to be more precise in what they removed. But of course, they want to overcorrect to as great guarantee as possible. That they're not going to lose their ability to make money. Their goal wasn't to reduce the most harm, whilst causing the least harm to innocent bystanders. It was, oh my god, let us try to guarantee as much as possible that we're still going to be able to make our money. |
| 12. August 2020 | Positive side effects of covid prevention | The positive side effects of COVID prevention. You know what this pandemic has done to me? Um, I found that I like hand sanitizer. It's fairly cheap and just having a bit there I can just refresh my hands. It is funny that because of COVID, other diseases are killing less people. Like influenza and stuff, you know, the common cold and whatever. These things are not getting around as much. Because people are using hand sanitizer, wearing masks, social distancing and all that jazz. |
| 01. June 2020 | Positives and negatives of beard | Discuss the positives and negatives to my beard. Positives, don't have to shave. Look older than 15 years old. Negatives, it looks terrible sometimes. Can be annoying in its feel. |
| 16. June 2022 | Positivity and negativity | Bit. I don't know. Positivity and negativity. Your content gave me so much positivity. Well that's good. I feel like I'm negative quite a bit, so that's good that happened. You're negative about bad stuff, aren't you positive in some way? I guess so. Oh man, speaking of positivity, you're one rambler about why people are as they are? Like, change my entire perspective on things? Well that's good. Once you view the world through that lens, I mean, there's certainly some negative things that can happen, that you generally become more compassionate and understanding, even if people can still be very annoying. |
| 28. November 2020 | Possible reason latest Pacifist didn't do well. | video. Possible reasons the latest Passifist percent did poorly. Like if you guys wanted me to work on Passifist sooner, you shouldn't have made it so the previous one bombed. Like the last one got 150,000 views. Which may seem like a lot until you realize that there's the lowest amount of views any Passifist has ever received ever. Like it's not even close. The previous worst episode was like episode 10 and it still got like I think it's sitting at like 300k right now or something. And we need to see a direct comparison but like 10 and the most recent one are definite contenders for the worst. And I thought it was a pretty funny episode. It could have been possible that what made it do poorly was because in the description and tags and stuff I put Among Us and so it's possible that the Among Us video was uh I was competing with other Among Us videos. So it would get recommended to people who watch Among Us stuff and they'd be like GTA 5 I don't give a shit about that and they wouldn't click it. So then YouTube's like oh well I guess people don't like this Among Us meme video so I won't recommend it to people anymore. You know. I was thinking that it getting recommended to a wider audience would help it but I guess if those people are less likely to click it it uh does not help at all. The next Passifist will be longer yes. Fresh Meat was uh very interesting. There are a lot of really interesting things that happened in the rest of Passifist. It's funny because some of the clips that were made uh come from my streamers of Passifist and it reminded me of things that happen and it makes me want to make the episodes faster because there's a lot of cool stuff that people haven't seen. Passifist was already streamed. I have completed the entire game passively but I will once all the episodes are edited I will go back and do a retrospective and attempt to reduce the amount of deaths. I know a handful that I can probably avoid at this point and certainly there are things that I know now that would have made what I was doing back then easier. Although to be frank with you I'm happy I didn't know about Ultstrat when I did Passifist the first time because I think it would have made the footage a lot more boring. What would it do with Ultstrat and Passifist? Ultstrat would not help me reduce the amount of people that I need to kill in Passifist but in a variety of circumstances I could have used it so enemies couldn't shoot at me which would have made performing strategies a lot easier. |
| 28. November 2020 | Possible reason latest pacifist didn't do well. | video. Possible reasons the latest Passifist percent did poorly. Like if you guys wanted me to work on Passifist sooner, you shouldn't have made it so the previous one bombed. Like the last one got 150,000 views. Which may seem like a lot until you realize that there's the lowest amount of views any Passifist has ever received ever. Like it's not even close. The previous worst episode was like episode 10 and it still got like I think it's sitting at like 300k right now or something. And we need to see a direct comparison but like 10 and the most recent one are definite contenders for the worst. And I thought it was a pretty funny episode. It could have been possible that what made it do poorly was because in the description and tags and stuff I put Among Us and so it's possible that the Among Us video was uh I was competing with other Among Us videos. So it would get recommended to people who watch Among Us stuff and they'd be like GTA 5 I don't give a shit about that and they wouldn't click it. So then YouTube's like oh well I guess people don't like this Among Us meme video so I won't recommend it to people anymore. You know. I was thinking that it getting recommended to a wider audience would help it but I guess if those people are less likely to click it it uh does not help at all. The next Passifist will be longer yes. Fresh Meat was uh very interesting. There are a lot of really interesting things that happened in the rest of Passifist. It's funny because some of the clips that were made uh come from my streamers of Passifist and it reminded me of things that happen and it makes me want to make the episodes faster because there's a lot of cool stuff that people haven't seen. Passifist was already streamed. I have completed the entire game passively but I will once all the episodes are edited I will go back and do a retrospective and attempt to reduce the amount of deaths. I know a handful that I can probably avoid at this point and certainly there are things that I know now that would have made what I was doing back then easier. Although to be frank with you I'm happy I didn't know about Ultstrat when I did Passifist the first time because I think it would have made the footage a lot more boring. What would it do with Ultstrat and Passifist? Ultstrat would not help me reduce the amount of people that I need to kill in Passifist but in a variety of circumstances I could have used it so enemies couldn't shoot at me which would have made performing strategies a lot easier. |
| 23. August 2021 | Possible special ability in GTA 6 | Like, possible special ability in GTA 6. You'll be nice in GTA 6 if the main character had precognition. So he could see like one second in the future. And you'd see like a blue outline of where all the cars are going to go. |
| 18. January 2021 | Possibly making a cameo. | Possibly making a cameo account. Cameo is a website where you can pay money to have semi-famous people say things for you. I had a person emailing- email me that they were hoping that I could say a line to it they could include in one of their raps. I think it was something like- it's not exactly this line, but it's like to the extent of the rapping you're about to hear is really fast and I would know I'm a speedrunner. Something like that. I think I would do it just to the hell of it. You always worry when a person asks you to do a sound file that would be included in something that you wouldn't want it to be included in. Or it's a troll and they're just trying to fuck with you or whatever. I guess I probably should start that cameo if people are gonna start asking me to do stuff like that. Not because I necessarily want to get money from doing such things, but I- it would weed out trolls. Or um, insincere people or you know, people spamming my inbox if I have some official avenue for people to make such requests. |
| 01. July 2020 | Possibly moving to livestream on Youtube | the possibility of me moving to live stream on YouTube. I have come to the conclusion that I think I'd be better off streaming on YouTube. So, if Twitch didn't have the likely illegal exclusivity in the contracts, I would just test streaming on YouTube and see how it is. The reason to move to YouTube is for the increase in average viewership and the potential increase in discoverability, because there are tons of people right now watching YouTube who aren't aware that I'm live, but if they were aware I was live, they would click on my stream, you know? It looks like this. Because I know the overwhelming majority of my viewers have found me on YouTube and exist on YouTube, if my stream was here on top of their screen, they would be more likely to click it. Currently, I'm hoping that they go, oh, maybe Matt's live and move to another website and then click my stream, which is over here or whatever. This movement is costing me monetarily. It's costing in terms of average viewers, discoverability. I'm not... Twitch, I don't get enough from it. You have to be really large for your discoverability on Twitch to be significant, I think. It's just there's a lot of risk involved in this movement, and I know the people who watch me currently wouldn't appreciate it. I'm becoming more and more certain that longevity-wise it would make sense to stream on YouTube. Many people don't know that my follower count is very inflated on this website. Over the course of these few months, I gained like 70,000 followers, basically due to a glitch from Twitch. So my follower count on this website is more closer to like 150k, which is still a lot. I love you guys. But my YouTube is just so much larger. Like, the amount of channel views I get on Twitch, I get in a day on YouTube. A day, you know? Do you think more people would watch YouTube live streams over Twitch if they could make a deal with a big company like Amazon to give something like Twitch Prime? I don't think people watch Twitch for Twitch Prime. Stream on YouTube one day and Twitch the other. The problem is there's an exclusivity contract. I'm like 99% sure that it is not legal for Twitch to have a clause in the contract, for a contractor, to say that they can only sell their service on their platform. Even reading the fine prints of the partner agreement, I don't even think that's in there. Totally legal for them to say, hey, look, you can't use the footage that we enable you to make on our service somewhere else. That's fine. But the actual, you cannot sell your service anywhere else as a contractor. There's no way that could be true. I don't think at any level of relationship could you in Australian law require that. Because Twitch doesn't own my ability to produce labor. It's like if you worked at Kohl's and they said you cannot stock shelves anywhere else. That is not legal. Yes, that's what it says, HiHi. But there's this belief because the thing about Twitch contracts is they're not the same everywhere. Twitch contracts aren't the same everywhere. Depending upon your region, the fine print of your contract will say something different. And the reason why this isn't challenged is because who wants to go to court against Twitch and Amazon? No one. Who wants to take that risk? So I have this issue where it's an issue you have a lot in life, right? Where you're doing perfectly fine, even better than perfectly fine. You're perfectly good where you are. So you don't want to rock the boat. You don't want to change the fear, the risk of doing something that may jeopardize your stability keeps a lot of people locked in careers that they don't like. I'm not in that position. I like my career. I just mean I'm fairly convinced and I'm going more convinced every day. That I could move to YouTube without any kind of deal with YouTube and I would be better off in the long term. Even immediately, I might just be better off. But the immediate loss of sub revenue, if they indeed terminate my partnership, which they probably would, regardless of whether or not that be legal for them to do or not, it's too risky to do. But there's going to be there's going to come a time considering that my YouTube is growing at three times the rate of my Twitch that I'll have to move to YouTube. It'll be too overwhelming. YouTube's interface is dreadful. Is it? Is it still terrible? Like I hear it all the time and I check it out occasionally and it doesn't seem a little bit better. So maybe I'll give it six months. Who knows? I'll just keep waiting and eventually YouTube will be better. Because YouTube doesn't seem to have the goal of making live streams discoverable. They want live streaming to be the stuff that you advertise yourself. Like, you know, we'll advertise on the front page your best of videos and then your viewers will naturally want to find your live streams when you're live. Because this is this is the live tap to my knowledge. I know any of these people. I hate this thing that appears in chat. Where are my emojis for my channel? Can I not use my emojis in his chat? That fucking sucks. No. Don't do that guys. You're embarrassing me guys. No, I'm going to change it. I do think it's still bad. The way that I had to finagle that just so that I can have chat on the side. The Twitch interface is just so much slicker and nicer and cleaner. Look how good this looks. But there's not a substantial fucking difference, right? That is a that is a very fine line for me to like potentially be taking like a 50 percent hit in terms of average viewership. I'm going to keep thinking on it. If I'm on if I'm still on Twitch within a year, I'll be surprised. I will. Maybe not because I'm because my options are effectively you know I move to YouTube or I just create additional ways for people to inspire people to more likely move to my Twitch. But even in this case, even in that case, it's still not going to help people know that I'm live. And not have a preference to offline content on YouTube as opposed to watching my live stream. I don't plan to stream on YouTube at all. I'm seeing one day that might be a thing. I don't think YouTube is as good as Twitch right now, but it will be one day. |
| 01. July 2020 | Possibly moving to livestream on youtube | the possibility of me moving to live stream on YouTube. I have come to the conclusion that I think I'd be better off streaming on YouTube. So, if Twitch didn't have the likely illegal exclusivity in the contracts, I would just test streaming on YouTube and see how it is. The reason to move to YouTube is for the increase in average viewership and the potential increase in discoverability, because there are tons of people right now watching YouTube who aren't aware that I'm live, but if they were aware I was live, they would click on my stream, you know? It looks like this. Because I know the overwhelming majority of my viewers have found me on YouTube and exist on YouTube, if my stream was here on top of their screen, they would be more likely to click it. Currently, I'm hoping that they go, oh, maybe Matt's live and move to another website and then click my stream, which is over here or whatever. This movement is costing me monetarily. It's costing in terms of average viewers, discoverability. I'm not... Twitch, I don't get enough from it. You have to be really large for your discoverability on Twitch to be significant, I think. It's just there's a lot of risk involved in this movement, and I know the people who watch me currently wouldn't appreciate it. I'm becoming more and more certain that longevity-wise it would make sense to stream on YouTube. Many people don't know that my follower count is very inflated on this website. Over the course of these few months, I gained like 70,000 followers, basically due to a glitch from Twitch. So my follower count on this website is more closer to like 150k, which is still a lot. I love you guys. But my YouTube is just so much larger. Like, the amount of channel views I get on Twitch, I get in a day on YouTube. A day, you know? Do you think more people would watch YouTube live streams over Twitch if they could make a deal with a big company like Amazon to give something like Twitch Prime? I don't think people watch Twitch for Twitch Prime. Stream on YouTube one day and Twitch the other. The problem is there's an exclusivity contract. I'm like 99% sure that it is not legal for Twitch to have a clause in the contract, for a contractor, to say that they can only sell their service on their platform. Even reading the fine prints of the partner agreement, I don't even think that's in there. Totally legal for them to say, hey, look, you can't use the footage that we enable you to make on our service somewhere else. That's fine. But the actual, you cannot sell your service anywhere else as a contractor. There's no way that could be true. I don't think at any level of relationship could you in Australian law require that. Because Twitch doesn't own my ability to produce labor. It's like if you worked at Kohl's and they said you cannot stock shelves anywhere else. That is not legal. Yes, that's what it says, HiHi. But there's this belief because the thing about Twitch contracts is they're not the same everywhere. Twitch contracts aren't the same everywhere. Depending upon your region, the fine print of your contract will say something different. And the reason why this isn't challenged is because who wants to go to court against Twitch and Amazon? No one. Who wants to take that risk? So I have this issue where it's an issue you have a lot in life, right? Where you're doing perfectly fine, even better than perfectly fine. You're perfectly good where you are. So you don't want to rock the boat. You don't want to change the fear, the risk of doing something that may jeopardize your stability keeps a lot of people locked in careers that they don't like. I'm not in that position. I like my career. I just mean I'm fairly convinced and I'm going more convinced every day. That I could move to YouTube without any kind of deal with YouTube and I would be better off in the long term. Even immediately, I might just be better off. But the immediate loss of sub revenue, if they indeed terminate my partnership, which they probably would, regardless of whether or not that be legal for them to do or not, it's too risky to do. But there's going to be there's going to come a time considering that my YouTube is growing at three times the rate of my Twitch that I'll have to move to YouTube. It'll be too overwhelming. YouTube's interface is dreadful. Is it? Is it still terrible? Like I hear it all the time and I check it out occasionally and it doesn't seem a little bit better. So maybe I'll give it six months. Who knows? I'll just keep waiting and eventually YouTube will be better. Because YouTube doesn't seem to have the goal of making live streams discoverable. They want live streaming to be the stuff that you advertise yourself. Like, you know, we'll advertise on the front page your best of videos and then your viewers will naturally want to find your live streams when you're live. Because this is this is the live tap to my knowledge. I know any of these people. I hate this thing that appears in chat. Where are my emojis for my channel? Can I not use my emojis in his chat? That fucking sucks. No. Don't do that guys. You're embarrassing me guys. No, I'm going to change it. I do think it's still bad. The way that I had to finagle that just so that I can have chat on the side. The Twitch interface is just so much slicker and nicer and cleaner. Look how good this looks. But there's not a substantial fucking difference, right? That is a that is a very fine line for me to like potentially be taking like a 50 percent hit in terms of average viewership. I'm going to keep thinking on it. If I'm on if I'm still on Twitch within a year, I'll be surprised. I will. Maybe not because I'm because my options are effectively you know I move to YouTube or I just create additional ways for people to inspire people to more likely move to my Twitch. But even in this case, even in that case, it's still not going to help people know that I'm live. And not have a preference to offline content on YouTube as opposed to watching my live stream. I don't plan to stream on YouTube at all. I'm seeing one day that might be a thing. I don't think YouTube is as good as Twitch right now, but it will be one day. |
| 01. June 2022 | Potential changes to Twitch Partner program | Potential Changes to the Twitch Partner Program Bloomberg. Twitch is considering changing its partner program. Currently discussed ideas not finalized. Incentives for more ads. New Rev Split 70% to 50%. New tiers system. No more exclusivity. Changes could be implemented this summer. So the amount of people who have 70% revenue share, like to my understanding you're not even meant to say that you get 70%, but I get 70%. I mean it's public now so who cares right? I don't know if the requirements I had are the same requirements for everyone else. The requirements I had was I had to have 500 subs for many months, like three or four months or something. I don't know if gifted subs, I don't think gifted subs existed at that point so I'm not sure if they would count or whatever. But the amount of partners who meet that requirement are like two or three thousand. It's a minority of people. This is mainly going to be affecting the biggest streamers. It's always important to remember that on Twitch only 7500 people are making above minimum wage. You'll see all this data in the video that I'm writing. But very top heavy website. My revenue on Twitch is like one fifth of my revenue on YouTube or something, because I haven't been focusing on streaming for quite a long time. The only thing I really care about is this. I would indeed take a 30% cut, because that's 30% going from 70% to... It's a little bit less. Maybe 29%, I don't know. I'm not that good at math. But it's more than that. You are losing more than 20% of your revenue doing this. But I would take that cut for no more exclusivity. I'm at the point where I'm almost tempted just to throw it away entirely, except that would chaos work perfectly on YouTube? It's not 20%. And you can understand why 28% loss. I don't know how to do this math, but I know it's not 20%. Five is 71% of... Oh yeah, true. You could do it like that, I suppose. But yeah, whatever. You know what I'm saying. I'm right. Shut up. Yeah, so I wouldn't be that unhappy with this just to lose exclusivity. But I don't... Like I've said before, I don't think the people running Twitch really know what the fuck they're doing. And I've always thought the concept of live streaming as the singular focus of a website is kind of stupid. The ability to solve the top heaviness of the website and the ability for the large creators to continue to grow larger and larger and let no one else in the system is basically impossible. And Twitch has true reliance upon advertising from platforms it doesn't control. So as live streaming becomes bigger on other platforms, less people move over to Twitch bringing new blood. Because for the longest time, it was okay. If you want to live stream, even if you're a YouTuber, you go from YouTube to Twitch every single time. Now you actually have a choice. And so that's less talents moving from YouTube to Twitch. But all the time, Twitch streamers are starting YouTube channels. It's very uncommon for a person to just have a Twitch stream. Now you have a Twitch stream and a YouTube channel. But it's very common for a YouTuber not to have a Twitch channel. I just don't... I just don't think this model is good long term and I don't... Yeah. I'm not a fan. I'm not that focused on Twitch anyway. If I believed even for a moment that I'd be better off streaming on YouTube, I'd do it in a heartbeat. It's the uncertainty that keeps me here. Even because I think Twitch is a better platform for live streaming. Like even if the exclusivity was removed, I would still stream on Twitch. It would just be... It would just give me the option to test streaming on YouTube. And if that was successful, I'd probably dual stream. I'm pretty sure Linus Tech Tips has far more viewers on their live stream on YouTube versus their live stream on Twitch. But Twitch and YouTube viewers are very different. Like Twitch is like the odd one out in regards to social media. Like the last stats that came out said that the majority of users were still on desktop, which isn't the case for any other social media. Every other social media, the majority of users are on mobile. But I guess if you're going to sit down for long periods and have a stream open, it's probably going to be on desktop and you're going to have it on the background or something as you're playing a game or whatever. Actually, I suppose because, you know, so much of gaming is done on... Because I guess a lot of gaming on mobile too. On mobile, you can't like play a game and watch a stream. If you are playing a game, please like just click over and answer the poll like very quickly. It takes you to get one nanosecond away. Suddenly, for that reason alone, the poll will be skewed a bit because if a person is like really deep into a CS game, it's not like they have the ability to move over. But you get what I'm saying. See, it's like 50% of you are playing a game. You can't do that on mobile. You can't play a game and watch a stream, at least not easily. So what I was saying is it's easier to watch a live stream or to have it on the background on desktop than any other platform. YouTube videos, while you can have the one in the background, they're more likely to be used as the sole source of entertainment while Twitch streams are not. Also streams are longer, mobile users prefer short entertainment. Yeah. Because it's not only just a preference. It's you're out and about. You might only have 10 minutes to kill. Am I still going to do Reddit recaps? Matto, does this mean Reddit recaps are going to stop? Or what is your opinion on streamers reacting to their Reddits? I hold to the belief that if you're included in something, you have some degree of rights to use that content. And I can extend that pretty far. Like I saw Smolland react to the world record for Minecraft with the permission of the dude who did it. You I'm assuming Smolland was at least somewhat involved in the development of that run. He's in that community. That gives him some degree of right to use that with the permission of the dude. I don't find that to be particularly exploitative. As much as I don't like reactors, I'm not going to DMCA anyone who reacts to any of these videos because I'm using their footage or I'm talking about them to some degree. And that's all hunky dory for me. As far as Reddits are concerned, if other people on Reddit have the right to use you in that content, then you should have some right to use that content as well. Especially when it's explicit that if you're submitting something to this Reddit, you are submitting it so I can see it and use it for some purpose. How could one make the argument that you can take my face and distort it in some way for some piece of art, but I can't then use that art of my face? And it's not that that certainly doesn't stretch infinitely. Like if a movie came out worth $10 million and my face was like on a Twitch on some screen somewhere, I wouldn't say I can use all of that, of course. But stuff submitted to Reddit is just stuff that people have thrown together quickly, specifically involving you, for you, on your platform, and therefore I consider it acceptable. And as well, obviously, Reddit is a non-profit system or whatever. People aren't submitting things to your Reddit specifically to earn revenue or what have you. Please read Mester's comment. Didn't you react to Moore's mutual insurance video because it was posted to your Reddit? This is something I try not to do, but I've also been in his stuff. To put it another way, he's included me in at least five of his things. Kind of just returning there. But I've said that before. I think I've removed it before actually. Because there's rules on the subreddit against posting stuff that isn't about me or involving me. It's why we remove cross posts from the GT5 Reddit. At least no Moore's mutual and I am in his content. I think YouTube subreddit should have a TUS that states all the material can be used in any way I need to. Well, yeah, it's there. I'll put the TUS on my subreddit specifically that says that. |
| 22. December 2020 | Potential difference in grading between countries. | The potential difference in grading standards between countries. What's my uni education? I have a psych degree. I averaged 80%, which I think is pretty good. I don't think, I don't think a, like an 80 qualifiers is an A or something, so don't get the impression I'm an AA student or something. I thought it does say, it depends on your country and course. I think for some courses in this country, like the, like 85 gives you the highest grade. Because not all countries are, do the same kind of testing or whatever, you know. 80% is an insane grade and UK is basically 100%. Yeah, I, it's hard to know, like, what countries have the harshest grading or the hardest tests or whatever, right? It's entirely possible in one country for the testing to be super goddamn easy and another for it to be super hard and to pretend as though getting 100% in both tests is the same is kind of silly, right? But I don't know enough about the education systems of all countries to, to make a direct comparison. Because it seems as though you- |
| 24. May 2021 | Potential gimmick for GTA 6 | A possible gimmick for GTA 6 Do I think GTA 6 be as popular as GTA 5? Yes, I do. As long as the game is good Given that Rockstar's done the multi characters They should do multi timeline as in you can switch between a character who's 18 That same character when they're I don't know 40 and that same character when they're 60 I'm not sure what they'd do with that, but it would definitely put a different spin on things Be sure to LIKE the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 18. February 2021 | Potentially playing Hitman | Potentially playing Hitman. Well, I play Hitman 3 not until I've played the earlier Hitmans. I'd much rather play the other Rockstar games before I moved to Hitman though, but Hitman does seem interesting. I think people will get really mad at me though, because I will probably just want to shoot people and I won't be stealthy enough. People like, why you, no, you're mad, how you meant to do that? Oh my god, you're so dumb! But like, I've just, I just let me shoot the people, chat. Yeah, Hitman does look interesting, the speedruns. I've been watching Elijah do some occasionally. |
| 18. February 2021 | Potentially playing hitman | Potentially playing Hitman. Well, I play Hitman 3 not until I've played the earlier Hitmans. I'd much rather play the other Rockstar games before I moved to Hitman though, but Hitman does seem interesting. I think people will get really mad at me though, because I will probably just want to shoot people and I won't be stealthy enough. People like, why you, no, you're mad, how you meant to do that? Oh my god, you're so dumb! But like, I've just, I just let me shoot the people, chat. Yeah, Hitman does look interesting, the speedruns. I've been watching Elijah do some occasionally. |
| 10. July 2020 | Pre-Pax Party and Bethesda Event | The pre-PACS 2019 party and the Bethesda event. I was fairly drunk while recording this. So I got here at my hotel and then I did my live stream for half an hour and I realized it was 17 to like 4. 4 o'clock is the time when the partner gathering started. I'm like oh shit better end the stream. I need to get ready and it took me like 45 minutes to an hour to get ready. Why you might ask? It's because I can't iron for shit. Can't iron at all. It took me multiple goes to get my shirt and my pants into a state that is sufficiently ironed that I could feel not self-conscious leaving my hotel. Awful. But I take an Uber and the Uber driver is like man where you going dude? I'm looking at the place it's sending me. There's nothing where you're being sent. I'm like ah but it says the boathouse thing. It's like ah man the GPS is sending you to the other side of the river. You want to be on the other side. So I'm like oh what do I do? And he's like ah man fuck it I'll just take you there. So already off to a bad start. Being taken to the wrong place. I'm like ah shit. But luckily he took me like here's the place I need to go. He then goes around over a bridge and puts me on the other side. Doesn't cost me any extra. I tip him like three bucks because three bucks is the tip where you're thankful but you're not generous. And that's my tip. My tip is thankful but not generous. Very good. So I get there and I get out and I walk like five minutes down the way to get to this boathouse place. It's like the wharf house or something. I don't know what the fuck it's called. And I get inside I'm like I don't fucking recognise anyone here. Oh shit. There's no one that I recognise. Oh no. I'm thinking to myself maybe this part in the gathering is like one of those shit parties where like no one fucking shows up. Like everyone knows that no one's going to show up so no one shows up and I'm just not in the know. Like oh no. I might be fucked here. And I go okay at least let me get a drink. And so I'm like look man give me a bourbon. He's like come and ride up friend. And he pours a drink and I'm like is he pouring me a Jack Daniels? That's a whiskey. He is. He's pouring me the wrong drink. I best say something. Thanks man. And I walk off. I'm like man what a fucking pussy doesn't say you poured me the wrong drink. Give me the right drink. But no I didn't say anything. I drink it. I'm like this is like 75% as good as any bourbon in existence. Because whiskey and bourbon aren't massively different. It's not like you're it's like comparing like different types of apple. They're still apples right. But they're not the same. I'm sure most people who like bourbon like Jack Daniels so it's not a big deal. But for me I'm not a fan of Jack Daniels. I'm not. But I buy a drunkard. And so I sat down and I tweeted out not a fan. People you gotta understand bourbon is different from whiskey. And so I'm sitting there. I think to myself how big is this place? I've done a loop. I've seen all the faces. I can't recognize anyone. But I'm like wouldn't there be like some area where people showed up to? Eventually I did another lap and I realized there was a whole nother area of this place. And in there it said there was a sign that said partners meeting here. And I'm like oh well fuck me. I just happened to be in the wrong area. Sitting by myself for like five to ten fucking minutes. Because I'm too dumb to explore. So I get in there and I meet you know the people that I know. Maddie Lewis the part manager guy. Leto and Kay and Zeus whose name. I don't know if he wants to be called Zeus but I always think of him as Zeus because that's his username. And so I recognize some people and I'm like oh well I found the place that I should be. And so immediately I start going into what I... Okay so I go to the new bar. There's a new area. And another bar. I'm like thank fuck. I can get myself some bourbon. There's a different bar. And I'm like look give me a bourbon. And they're like we don't have any bourbon. I'm like what the fuck are you talking about? You don't have any bourbon. I will give you any amount of money you desire. Just give me a bourbon. They're like we don't have it. I'm like oh that's terrible. Like look what are you having? Like we have whiskey. I'm like oh fuck okay give me a whiskey. So I'm paying like 11 bucks a whiskey. 11 dollars. Like if you're paying 11 dollars you better get... For a drink you better get what you want. I didn't get what I want. I have gone to so many events in my life where beer and wine are free. And I just don't like either so I will pay money. Like there are very few indulgences that I allow myself outside of fast food. Bourbon is one of them. I would rather pay for bourbon than get free beer. Because beer is fucking terrible. So I'm laying back. I drink this whiskey. And then someone recommends like hey look go back to that bar that you went to before. And just specifically ask for a bourbon. And don't accept the whiskey. So I go back and look can I have a bourbon? And he's like oh we've got this. Brings up the Jack Daniels. I'm like no that's a whiskey. Brings up... We've got this. Brings up something else. I'm like that's also whiskey. It's like oh we've got Makers. Makers is a bourbon. Give me that. And then he charged me like 12.23 for one glass of bourbon. But I'm so fucking happy to get a glass of bourbon. I'm like... You could have charged me 25 dollars. I would have accepted it. I'm like thank you. Thank you. Please. And so I go back to the party. And I feel like I've jumped ahead here. I ended up getting to the party at like... It was meant to go from 4 to 8 and I think I arrived at 5. Like I arrived an hour late because it took me so long to iron my pants. And my shirt. And to make myself look half decent. This shirt is way too big for me. I'm too large for medium. But like too small for large. This thing fucking hangs off me. Like look at this shit. It's like... You know. I need tailored shit at this point. Or by the time I get to PAX next time I'm going to fucking lose a lot of weight. Because I need to fit into mediums again. Yeah. Thick. Exactly. I am a thick dude. But yeah. So I arrived there and I only have 3 hours to really drink. And the one place I know that I can go is a friend of mine. Or a person that I know. Or consider a friend. His name is Joel. He invited me to a place. But he wasn't there. And there were a bunch of people who said... Oh you know we're all going to the Bethesda event. And I'm like I haven't been invited to this Bethesda event. Am I... Can I come? Is this a thing that I can get invited to? And so Lito's like oh you should text this dude or message him on Twitter. Something wanderer. And you know he'll get you in. I'm like alright whatever. So I give Lito my phone. And he tweets for me. Like a parent who doesn't trust their child to write the right things or whatever. So they basically do their homework for them. And it ended up turning out... Like you may have seen that picture on Twitter. Of me being carried by Lewis. That was us going to the event. Because Lewis... It was a plus one event. So you could bring someone else if you wanted to. And Lewis the partner manager was like yeah I'll take you man. And he piggybacks me half the way. I'm like look man. I'm a thick boy. You don't want to be giving me a piggyback. And he's like I'm in man. I'll do it man. Don't worry about it man. I fuck good. Maybe he was drunk. I don't know. But he seemed confident that he could piggyback me. And he piggybacked me for like less than 50 meters. And then he's like I gotta push you down. I'm like yeah I know. I may carry a bit of weight on me. But yeah so we get there. And at the party I happened to at some point in time check my Twitter. And the dude responded to me like oh yeah man. Don't worry about it. I'll get you in. I'm like no man. I'm already in. I got in with a plus one. He's like oh sweet. Cool. And so basically... So I've gone from now the partner meetup. Where I met a bunch of the people that I knew from like PAX 2017. Like the people that I knew at the partner meetup are people that I knew from PAX 2017. Or people that I've met through Lito. Let of Ski if you want to look up his channel. Very good guy. I also knew some of them from... I went to a movie premiere of Dragon Ball Super. The movie. Very good movie. Very good event. I don't know a lot of people. I don't get out that much. But I knew enough people that I didn't feel out of place necessarily. But so I've gone to this new event for Bethesda. It's their new Doom game. It looked pretty good. Like I'm not super into Doom but blaring music and the gameplay that they showed. It looked pretty fucking fantastic. Don't need to say that. Not sponsored. It looks like a good game. But you know what was even better than that? So okay first. So there's two bars. There's two bars. There's one bar at the front of the new place that I'm at. The Bethesda thing. And there's a bar at the back. And so the bar at the front was a very long line. I'm like fuck it. I'll go to the bar at the back. And they also had no bourbon. So I thought I had been cast out of hell into a different form of hell. Where they had spirits that was free. They had whiskey that was free. But no bourbon that was free. And so I'm willing to pay for a bourbon over a free wine or a beer. But I'm not willing to pay for a bourbon when there's free whiskey. So they give me a free Jack Daniels. And I'm looking at this like you could be a fucking bourbon. You could be something good. And of all the things you choose to be, you choose to be a fucking whiskey. Which is a substandard bourbon. How dare you? But eventually I found out that perhaps the reason why there was a long line is because the other bar had like a huge selection of drinks that was free. And I ended up getting an amazing amount of bourbon. Like I don't want to count. So normally at the end of the night I can look at my tab or my credit card or my whatever debit card. And I can look at this and go oh, oh no, oh. But I can't do that this time because most of it was free. So I have no idea how much I drunk. But it was a lot. I basically drunk from like 5 p.m. to midnight. Like two handing. Just bourbons. I'm very happy that we had those few drunk streams so I could have built up a bit of a tolerance. Because I don't think I made an ass of myself. I met some interesting people. The entire night I would introduce myself and I'm like hey yo, I'm Matt. I mean dark rapper AU if you like. And they're like oh yeah, I've heard that name somewhere. Where's that name from? Like every single person that I talked to had heard of my name from somewhere. And that's a good sign. Like I'm not, I'm no soda poppin'. I'm no lyric. But people seem to be aware that I existed. And that's nice. |
| 14. January 2021 | Pre-Show | Welcome to a ramble with my guest joining me for a ramble is modus pelican an Australian gaming youtuber who recently hit a million Subscribers we officially get underway three minutes and 40 seconds in but I have kept in the pre-show where we had technical difficulties I mean if you like um I if you just show your Cam I'll be able to see you and so at least in the recording It'll be me and you Even though you won't be able to see me which may be awkward for you I don't know I'll just pretend I'll just put I just Just get a photo. I'm just gonna Google dark Viper and put a photo of you On the top where so it looks like I'm kind of talking to you I've got a nice nice one of shows off your beard nicely. How you been man? What's been going on? I I have been tired Yeah, what the fuck is your upload schedule like every seven minutes? It's crazy. It is it's just Like I it's not as hard as you might think but it's like it's like a good two to three hours or something a day to upload 24 clips a day It's um Yeah, it's crazy man Sometimes they pop up like some of your recent contents been getting like crazy crazy views so congratulations on all the success Thank you. I didn't expect it to be this successful I did have suspicions that it would do decently well like you can never predict the future obviously But given that I was seeing just endless small clips doing really really well on YouTube It did seem to suggest that there was some method to that you know that that if I joined that bandwagon It would help me and did so yeah, it was funny man. Well like tick-tock obviously you showed how popular short clips can be I saw you tweet like I think I kind of remember it was like a rambles or whatever you were like These people are just grabbing people's twitch content and uploading it and their channels are like blowing up and then you're like wait I'll just do that for myself Exactly yeah Yeah It's the way of YouTube right now I think just throwing up as much content as possible heard from endless different people you know all these people who make really well done perfectly crafted videos All of them complaining like oh, there's no The the YouTube algorithm isn't favoring that kind of stuff anymore and it does kind of suck in a way that that is no longer the perfect way to do it It does kind of suck in a way that that that is no longer the perfectly crafted six month video That does one YouTube is just throw up as much stuff as possible And see what sticks kind of thing you know Yeah, I think there's like a common human thing where it's like people think time equals Like good good content or like you know if you put heaps of time into something that therefore makes it better But sometimes like organic Live content is better like it just watches better and just is what it is so absolutely yeah, you're right um Certainly there's a relationship between how much time you put into something But certainly just because you put six months into something doesn't mean it's going to be better than something thrown together in 15 minutes Yeah, exactly my most recent video that popped off was was me talking about the story Um story misconceptions for gta 5. It's got like 1.7 million views right now in like two weeks way more than Any video like pass first percent or whatever I spend months on that It's got like one third the views but this video was just me ranting in front of a camera Did three takes and then cut it together took like a couple of hours the most successful video i've done in eight eons It's a good video. I can't deny. It's a good video, but it's just uh maybe it's just the thrown together passion Make stuff interesting, but I know we're kind of getting ahead of ourselves with this podcast thing because we're Because people are going to be watching this and we haven't like introduced |
| 07. December 2019 | Predictions for GTA VI | Questions for GTA 6 I don't know if it will have a one character or two. I mean considering Red Dead had only one character I mean the better question for me is will the new characters Have special abilities. I kind of want to think no, but how popular was that? What's the other? What's the GTA 5 clone? I am talking about Saints Row That went all crazy maybe the main characters having powers um was to try and steal a little bit from that and because that series is you know pretty dead now that it's Not going to be as much of an impetus to To do it again. Will GTA 6 have a female protagonist? I don't know depends on who's writing it If they think it will serve the pot or whatever Rockstar feels like a different company that was you know even five years ago whatever I have no guesses for what GTA 6 is going to be like I can only hope for the best and I mean the Disastrous launch of Red Dead Redemption 2 doesn't fill me with hope. I should say that does Red Dead Redemption 2 |
| 04. January 2020 | Pressure on streamers to play certain games | Pressure on streamers to play certain games Are some streamers pressured into playing certain games? Absolutely, either by, like explicitly, where the audience is just like, play this game, play this game, or by circumstance where like, you know, if they don't play this game, they won't get as much donations or subs or whatever, and they won't be able to pay their bills. I'm not in that way, because there's no other game that I want to play as much as GTA V. The only times I'm not playing GTA V, it's because I'm so tired that I can't play it. I suppose there are rare circumstances where I'd rather play some other game, but in those cases I just do. I played They Are Billions a lot on stream, I played a lot of the earlier GTAs on stream, I played Slay the Spy on stream. If I wanted to play something else, I would. I'm doing well enough that I have that luxury, you know. But if you're, you know, just barely getting by, of course you're going to play whatever your viewers demand of you. And certainly, you've got to recognize that the most vocal viewers are not necessarily all your viewers. Your most vocal viewers can get you to do something that is not in the best interest of all of your viewers. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, but you know, your wheels aren't your entire bike. |
| 14. May 2020 | Pressured to make content | Do you feel pressured to make a certain amount of content due to your larger following? Do you feel like you failed as a content creator if you miss x days of uploading or streaming? I've always been curious about the pressures of content creation. Like I won't feel guilty necessarily if I took a day off, two days off, I didn't upload to YouTube or whatever, but if it went a long time, I would feel like I would be somewhat obligated to do it, to pay back the kindness that people have given me. But if I didn't believe I could make good content, I wouldn't do it. As in like if I was sick or just really burnt out, if I was guaranteed that I'm like I'm definitely going to make shit content if I stream today, I wouldn't do it because I'd rather make no content than shit content. I do feel pressured to make content, but not that pressured. I make content because I enjoy making content. I meet goals in regards to uploads or whatever because I want to meet those goals. Certainly the money helps, that's not beat around the bush. Certainly financially it is good making more content. But I also enjoy it and people tell me all the time that they enjoy watching it. So I do feel pressured by that kind of positive esteem to make as much as I can, but I won't destroy myself to make content for people. If I felt I couldn't do it, then I wouldn't do it. |
| 17. March 2021 | Preventing myself making political videos | preventing myself making political videos. I feel like shit chat. I need something else to talk about and or do. Hey Matto, have a good day. I keep thinking about some political stuff. I can tell you the topic. So like a year ago this libertarian channel made a video about wealth Bezos, the stock market blah blah blah and I made a video responding to it four months ago and I just today read their response because they they wrote a comment and it is so badly argued and so dumb. Like I can understand why a person who made the original video would write a comment like that but it's just so dumb. There's just so many things that I want to say about the comment but I know it would take at least 11 hours to make that video. At least. I'm tired. I've had like five hours sleep. I could spend that 11 hours making any other fucking video that would be more profitable and better use of my time because anyone who would write a comment like that is not going to understand a fucking word of what I say in that video and I don't think anyone who watches me normally would be convinced by the arguments that they put in that comment so it's a complete waste of my fucking time. However I can't stop thinking about it. I'm gonna distract myself and do something else. |
| 02. May 2021 | Prevention is easier than a cure | Prevention is easier than a cure. My eye doctor, my optometrist rather, was telling me he had a guy come in because his wife bugged him over and over again to get his eyes checked as he was getting on in years and apparently there is stuff you can have where your eyes get damaged but like there's no real obvious sign of it. Like you can see fine up until the very moment where like it just suddenly happens that you start to lose your eyesight and it can't be reversed. Like you're saying like you've got this this small window where you actually have symptoms to detect it or you go blind. I was like fuck. And like this dude just happened to come in because his wife bugged him and so he got caught like really really early so he's gonna be fine. I suppose that's a reason why like um when you get on in years you should have like you know routine checkups and stuff. Some stuff can be caught before it uh necessarily has obvious effects on you and you can prevent that stuff immediately. Prevention is always easier than a cure. Okay, I'm sure we got a completely declarative statement in general. |
| 18. May 2021 | Pricedown is the worst font in existence? | Pricedown is the worst font in existence. This title card is in Pricedown. Do I like Pricedown? Pricedown might be the most overrated font in existence. It's awful. Clearly Rockstar was like some representative was a person working there was in a room and they're like we need a font that can just be ours that no one would copy of us. And the person's like yeah but like if we pick any good fonts surely someone else is going to use that font at some point. And the person's like wait a second, wait a second. A bad font. If we just pick the worst font possible no one will ever replicate that. And so it would be ours. We don't have to pay any money and no one will ever use that font ever again. It's like genius. We can make all our words look garbage for the rest of time to be unique special snowflakes. And it works. I don't know a single other game or company that's ever used Pricedown for any other purpose. Was that 18 bucks for custom fonts? Get the fuck out of here. The price is right? Really? The price is right uses Pricedown? Is that why it's called Pricedown? Oh okay well the font is also bad for them as well. |
| 17. May 2021 | Prince of Persia remake | Prince of Persia remake. Did you hear they're remaking Prince of Persia? Apparently to be quite faithful to the original but not like it would no longer look garbage or something. I've never played the original Prince of Persia game but I saw Elijah play one of them a bit and it looked pretty interesting. They already remade Prince of Persia to Assassin's Creed. I mean there isn't magical sand in that one though to my knowledge. As a person who knows very little about Assassin's Creed. Could all be like, nah man there's this magic sand all over the place in Assassin's Creed man. Oh really? Okay fair enough. They made that mediocre movie right? That wasn't penned as complete trash but it was just like ehh right? Magical sand that lets you travel through time. That movie was trash really? I know the Assassin's Creed one was trash but- |
| 10. June 2020 | Private vs Public Healthcare | Private versus public health care. Yeah public health care in Australia, yeah it is good. As of all a thumb, if it's a western country and it's not Switzerland or America, then there's some public health care. It's Switzerland right? Switzerland is the country that doesn't have public health care, but they have a heavily heavily regulated private market that requires private insurers to give access to insurance to anyone at like a base rate. I don't know exactly how that works, but I guess that would just work. It's funny though, you know who pays the second largest amount of health care in the world? You know America clearly first, Switzerland second. It's not nearly as much as America though. It's like all the public health care countries. Switzerland like 10-20% higher than America is like double. It's a much more regulated market. Not an expert, but I guess Switzerland is the baseline as in the no public but as close to a public health care system as you can have. I'm assuming there's price controls for basic coverage in Switzerland. But it is interesting how varied public health care systems are. How they do it, what they're paying for, especially the mixed economies. What's private, what's not, what the government will cover, what it won't cover. At the end of the day a public health care system at its most basic level is you can send your bill to the government if you want to and they'll pay it. It's an insurance scheme. But then you can go on to further where you know doctors all work for the government or you know all health, everything related to health is effectively owned by the government. It's all nationalized. It'd be interesting to see who has the most nationalized health care system. I mean Canada's is all public right? I remember watching a woman from the Canadian parliaments talking about a comparison between the mixed system of Australia and the mixed system of Canada. Public health care has a thing that's important to be aware of. Doctors don't want to abuse the system so they won't bother checking you unless you push it. So many people never discover health issues before it's too late. That is really fucking dumb. Okay so we have a problem in the world of antibiotics over prescription because doctors are just like, oh you got something to take antibiotics? Yeah this is college take antibiotics. No doctors like, oh man this will cost 15 more dollars and it's going to go to the government? The government's poor man. Better not do this. No doctor is putting the bottom line of the government a million miles away in a different fucking state ahead of the well-being of their patient two feet in front of them. Like yeah you could be ill but this costs 15 more dollars and you know there's a politician in there who'd be like, oh you shouldn't do it. Do you think doctors are sucking politicians dicks? Are you fucking dumb? What is wrong with you? There is no evidence at all that things aren't found by doctors in public health care systems. But what we do have evidence of is that in places like America where the cost of going to the doctor is so much higher and you don't get general checkups covered by a public health care system, people don't go to the fucking doctor. In what was it, in the Commonwealth study that I reference all the time, the average for most countries in terms of not buying medication or not going to the doctor because the cost is like 3%. In America it's 20%. It differs from country to country because the average is unfair. It's something like between 2 and 7% for most countries. If you believe that doctors are literally sucking off politicians, caring about the bottom line of the government and risking their patients' well-being, I mean not evidence at all, but you must at least accept the evidence that people don't get treatment or go to the doctor if they can't afford it. What's more likely, a doctor being less willing to spend the government's money or a person being less willing to spend their own money when they're sick? A doctor, a medical professional who knows something about medication, who knows something about health care, who knows whether something should be tested or not, and a layman who's like, yeah but I want that 200 bucks. One of those is going to be more likely, just inductively. Imagine being that dumb. Be sure to smash that like button if you agree or disagree with anything that I've said. Thank you. |
| 27. March 2022 | Pro tip for a happy life. | Pro tip for a happy life. Here's a hot tip for you, chap. Hot tip. Don't wake up after sleeping for eight hours, eat a fucked ton of McDonald's, and then go back to sleep. That is a terrible tactical decision, and it will bite you in the ass. Because that's what I just did. I slept for four more hours. And boy do I feel like shit. Little less tired. Equally like shit, but now for seemingly less tired reasons. Oh boy. May not eat maccas at all. Look, you be your genius ideas here. Yeah. |
| 30. May 2021 | Pro-gaming mouse sensitivity. | much. The pro gaming mouse sensitivity. Oh, you got to take your sensitivity way down. Smitten literally played like e-sports and shit. Oh, wow. He used to play CS and he's like, no field semi-professionally. He will tell you to turn your sensitivity so fucking low. Like I have no game sensitivity and I just have my DPI up really high. Like I like it. Like I'm a wrist mover, which makes me a disadvantage for making small movements. I think you meant you meant to be a whole arm mover or whatever. Yeah, so the lower it is. So you have your then you have your like 800 DPI and then usually most FPS have one point something. Oh, my God. And then you can. It's definitely a lot easier just turning that down to GTX settings. |
| 31. August 2020 | Problem with commentary channels | with commentary channels. One of the worst types of YouTuber is the one where they make a living off giving their opinion on stuff. And there's not always things that they necessarily have a strong opinion on or know a lot about, but they still need to make videos. So literally anything happens in the world, regardless of what level of shit they actually give about it, they have to make a video on it. So everything they say comes off so disingenuous, like who really gives a shit? But they're like, oh, man, this is so important. Please watch my video. I was there once, man, back when I used to do the social, political, religion commentary channel that I had back in the day, man. You'd like, I'm going to make a video, but there's nothing I really feel passionate about. Well, I got to make a video anyway. So I wasn't good at it. I couldn't fake giving a shit. |
| 09. April 2020 | Problems in the long-term | Problems in the long term. The Corona thing is dumb, we had to stop college ball here. At the end of the day, these inconveniences, if they do save lives, or delay the spread of it until a vaccine or whatever can be made, they're all well and good, right? It'll be a small blip in the history of your life. It just sucks for the people who, you know, live in paycheck to paycheck or whatever, now are going to struggle, struggle more. |
| 08. April 2021 | Progressive taxation. | Progressive taxation. You can't wait to be taxed an extra $5,670 to get a $1,400 paycheck? Is that a serious comment? Do you not know how taxes work? We discuss this sometimes. It is crazy that people get jobs but have no idea how taxes work. You don't move into another tax bracket. It's just your new money is taxed in a different bracket. So if you're a trillionaire or you only make 10 grand, you both pay the same amount of money on the first 10 grand that you make in taxes. So even if you're joking, some people may not know this. So if your first 10 grand you might pay 10%. If your next 10 grand you might pay 20%. If your next 10 grand you might pay 30%. But if you make $30,000 you don't pay 30% on that $30,000. You pay 10% on the first 10k, 20% on the next, and then 30% on the final, which is substantially different. As a matter of fact, I just saw a TikTok yesterday communicating this. Because it is still very weird how many people don't know that. And at no point in time, unless you're literally losing government benefits, will you ever have less money for earning more money? That's just not how that works. Earning more money will always result in you having more money unless you lose government benefits. That's like the tiniest, tiniest fraction of people, you know? And in most cases, as long as the system is set up correctly, it's usually you lose a portion of your benefits, not the entire thing if you make more money. So even in those cases you should be still making more money. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 13. October 2021 | Project Vaeritas is weaponized stupidity | Project Veritas is weaponized stupidity. Project Veritas has been shown to be fraudulent in literally every so-called investigation that they've ever done. It is not a legitimate source of information. It is specifically outright fabricated nonsense for the purpose of propaganda. The only people who are unaware of this are the people who are on Facebook and that's the only place they get their information. They'll get some random dude from some random place and then cut up what they say, put ominous music over it and say, see, we found out the truth. It's nonsense. Even watching their stuff, a normal sane individual should pick up on the telltale signs of fabricated nonsense for the purpose of propaganda. But there's a small portion of the population who just can't understand it. It drives me mad. Look up the history of Project Veritas. It isn't a history of hardcore to the facts reporting. It's a history of nothing but fabricated nonsense and lying. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 10. June 2020 | Prosciutto | prosciutto You or I bought myself guys a tiny amount of prosciutto You know how much prosciutto costs? It's a meat that costs $55 a kilo $55 I told this story before I had never seen prosciutto before and I went around my friend Alex's house and It was the most amazing fucking tasting thing and then I found out how much it was worth and I've never had it since then I haven't had prosciutto in like 10 something years. It made me realize how wealthy his family was that they could have prosciutto on a regular basis There'd always be prosciutto in the fridge. I mean salami is half the price of prosciutto I probably never buy it again, and I bought a tiny amount like 100 grams or something. I don't know how much that is but Got it! |
| 12. August 2020 | Ps5 higher fps than pc | Will the PS5 get better FPS than PC? Do you think consoles ever get similar FPS to PCs? The highest of high-end PCs will always best play the consoles. The next generation of consoles looks suited to beating a mid-tier PC, because consoles are perfectly designed and mass-produced. So there's people tinkering with every aspect of the specs to get them absolutely perfect, where a person buying a mid-tier PC, or even an upper mid-tier PC, they aren't gonna be going to that kind of technical tinkering, and they aren't necessarily gonna buy the perfect parts for the situation. And because the PlayStation's mass-produced economy of scale, the pieces individually can be cheaper than perhaps similar PC parts, things made for general desktops will be. When you have unlimited money, and you need to beat a machine that retails at $500, of course you cannot beat it. It's gonna be a question of, will a person with $500 building a PC be able to beat the PlayStation 5? And I think they'll have a hard time this time around. But of course, the PlayStation 5 will stay as the PlayStation 5 will. So, because it won't improve fundamentally with its hardware. So every year after the PlayStation 5 releases, as the technology improves, and your dollar, in regards to desktops, will buy more and more, the PlayStation 5 will become obsolete. So what I'm saying is when the PlayStation 5 comes out, if you tried to build a desktop for the same price, I think you'd fail massively. Three years, I think you'll beat it. How fast you can beat it depends on your personal expertise, how much you can overclock, how much you know how to put stuff together. The layman attempting to beat it would take Virginia years. Consoles will never be a workstation. You could certainly generate a console into being a workstation. You can install Linux on it or whatever. I mean, often, especially on release, these companies would take a loss on the console to make it up on the sale of games. |
| 03. June 2020 | Public transport | Hold on, it's a no, this is no sum gain or something. One person can gain, but as a collective, you all, you lose money. What is my opinion on public transport? It's a good thing, can help people who don't necessarily have the money to get around otherwise to be able to get around. As a society, we want people to be able to get from A to B as easily as possible. And certainly it can be good for the environment by comparison to other forms of transport where everyone has their own individual car and whatnot. Going on public transport myself, I've never been a huge fan of public transport, riding it because I'm not a, there's so many people on it, you know, and it's crowded often. Arranging my schedule around when a bus is gonna arrive or when a train is gonna arrive is always frustrating. And I become nervous that I'm gonna miss the train or miss the bus or what have you. Does good for society, would love to see it expanded, made it as easy as possible for everyone. I don't enjoy it. |
| 14. January 2021 | Pushing boundaries with content | But we kind of got away from, so you're Modest Pelican, your content is gaming stuff. And every time I watch one of your videos, I think to myself like, I'm half listening to it and you say something, I'll look over and go, did he really just say that? Like every video has these lines in it that I can't believe you can say with a straight face. Do you ever find yourself writing a script? I imagine you do script these things and think to yourself, can I really say that? Is this a thing that I can say? Are they going to let me get away with it? I don't know. You know how like the comedy line is at the moment. Like you can say, you can be very like progressive loving person. But if you just say a joke that's slightly off, people will just like have a big cry about it. And I've just tried to not care too much about it. I've never heard you get any backlash over your content. Well, I try and not say things that are too far, but obviously like I have a joke. And I think people people know it's a joke. Like, yeah, whatever. I don't really care. Like if you're going to cancel me, like have a crack. What are you going to do? Like my viewers aren't going to care. |
| 29. December 2020 | Put Dream on rambles. | Put Dream on Rambles. I don't know what you mean by put Dream on Rambles. Why on earth would Dream ever talk to me? Of all people. |
| 28. July 2020 | Putting my rambles on spotify | Putting my rambles on Spotify And that about uploading my rambles on different platforms. Yeah, I get that all the time, but no for one Reason without the visual of me playing GTA 5 you would be so fucking confused No one is going to find me rambling on Spotify And be like, oh, yeah, man. I'm digging what this guy is saying. Wait a second But like how could I listen this what the fuck is this like? random guy Saying the n-word to some other gangster. What's this in the background? You know, it's you know, it's not gonna work. Good luck with the new strats, man Why don't you just simply just use voice record only? So the amount of effort that I said people people don't get how much I already do That you can do something in content creation doesn't justify Going to that effort right the amount of additional time it would take to record another version of my stream and then spend more time digging out the rambles from that footage as well as the footage that I have from the stream and then uploading it somewhere else so much fucking time and The way that I speak with the pauses and stuff. It's you can often tell I'm concentrating on something It doesn't sound like normal speech without the context of me playing the video game. People won't Understand why I'm speaking as I am why the cuts are as they are and stuff It's just it would take so much effort for so little gain But I do have to explain this every six or seven days because it's always a bunch of people to ask for it And I'm flattered that people want it, but it's just it's just not all I'm not convinced being on Spotify or something would net That much revenue for rambles, you know, like if I was making Dedicated content podcast is like you can guarantee I chucked it up on Spotify But it's not worth with the content that I make |
| 09. October 2021 | Putting off episodes of Pacifist | Putting off episodes of Pacifist percent. Next Pacifist, I have this issue where I'm always productive, at least I prefer to be, but I'm not always necessarily working on the thing that I should be working on, you know? Pacifist is definitely something I should be working on, but I have a bunch of other smaller, easier tasks that I can work towards and complete far faster, and that are far less stressful, and so I usually end up doing those instead. I mean, like I made 400 clips and 400 thumbnails for those clips. I could have spent all that time working on Pacifist, but I mean, those clips had to eventually be made anyway. It had to be done. It's not like I was inventing some other task to avoid Pacifist. If I had nothing else to do, I would just work on Pacifist, but while I can justify doing something else, I tend to justify doing something else, until eventually where I'm like, oh shit, it's been like a bajillion years since the last Pacifist episode. I've gotta start working immediately. |
| 29. January 2021 | Putting off living life until I am not successful | Pushing off living life until I'm not successful. Matt, can you end your stream? My girlfriend is with me. I don't want her to leave me for you. It's funny how many people suggest that I am attractive or of interest to the fairer sex, as they say. I never got much of that before I started streaming. And certainly I'm not a person who goes on dates or seeks out that kind of stuff. At least currently. I do think I should though. If it wasn't for COVID, I probably would have made more of an effort. But I don't want such things to get in the way of building my channel and streaming and stuff and meeting my goals in regards to this game. There's so many things that I just, I always say to myself like, I've got the rest of my life to do that, man. Trash Taste was talking about it recently where they're like, they think every year is going to be their last. And I kind of have the same kind of belief. Not exactly the same, I always feel like, I feel like every year is going to be my peak. And then from then it will be downhill and there'll be less pressure to do stuff. Yeah, like when I think about getting a dog, getting into a relationship, maybe even moving somewhere better. But whatever it is, I just say, nah, fuck it. It has nothing to do with my content. I'll do it later. What if there isn't a later chat? What if I am just super successful for the rest of my life? I'll be 60, like, I'm sure next year I won't be popular. Maybe. Anything's possible. Nah, fuck that shit, it's not gonna happen. Surely I'll just burn myself out before then. You can't go on creating content forever. I mean, but there are content creators who have fairly, been fairly consistent in making content for like 10 years. Imagine having, making YouTube content, making Twitch and stuff, like being successful at that, be a part of who you are for over 10 years. |
| 29. January 2021 | Putting off living life until i am not successful | Pushing off living life until I'm not successful. Matt, can you end your stream? My girlfriend is with me. I don't want her to leave me for you. It's funny how many people suggest that I am attractive or of interest to the fairer sex, as they say. I never got much of that before I started streaming. And certainly I'm not a person who goes on dates or seeks out that kind of stuff. At least currently. I do think I should though. If it wasn't for COVID, I probably would have made more of an effort. But I don't want such things to get in the way of building my channel and streaming and stuff and meeting my goals in regards to this game. There's so many things that I just, I always say to myself like, I've got the rest of my life to do that, man. Trash Taste was talking about it recently where they're like, they think every year is going to be their last. And I kind of have the same kind of belief. Not exactly the same, I always feel like, I feel like every year is going to be my peak. And then from then it will be downhill and there'll be less pressure to do stuff. Yeah, like when I think about getting a dog, getting into a relationship, maybe even moving somewhere better. But whatever it is, I just say, nah, fuck it. It has nothing to do with my content. I'll do it later. What if there isn't a later chat? What if I am just super successful for the rest of my life? I'll be 60, like, I'm sure next year I won't be popular. Maybe. Anything's possible. Nah, fuck that shit, it's not gonna happen. Surely I'll just burn myself out before then. You can't go on creating content forever. I mean, but there are content creators who have fairly, been fairly consistent in making content for like 10 years. Imagine having, making YouTube content, making Twitch and stuff, like being successful at that, be a part of who you are for over 10 years. |
| 02. August 2021 | Quality of my thumbnails | Awesome. The quality of my thumbnails. My thumbnails are perfectly fine. Yeah, I think my thumbnails are of good quality considering how much effort I put into them. Whenever I make a series, I try to get myself a particular format that I can just slot in a scene from the episode. While my clips don't have such a format, I just take a frame from the episode. |
| 03. May 2020 | Quarantine changing shopping and workplace | Quarantine changing shopping and workplace You know getting Shopping online is so much more convenient than getting it in the store, right? don't have to look for shit and like You've got an online version of like everything you've ever purchased that you can look through and shit. I wonder what percent increase is Is gonna come from this quarantine right like how much of what supermarkets sell is now gonna be done Just online delivered to the home as more and more people realize it's just so much more convenient to do it online the speculation is that a lot of Companies it would be more cost-effective to have people work from home anyway But you know they didn't have reason to test or try or work towards that goal You know and now they've had a reason to it a lot of companies here Even when things go back to normal are gonna be like oh well we can do this all from home anyway So fuck it. Let's just keep it that way. You know less traffic. You don't need as much office space I mean less traffic on the roads for the people who still need to go into the office You know like so much time is wasted in traffic and with congestion and stuff |
| 01. March 2022 | Quashing beef with gtaguessr | boss of that would be to actually do roleplay. Who knows how I'll get to that though. You should. I absolutely would recommend it. Quashing beef with GTA Geyser. I guess it was just because of what happened with Moodahar, that so many people left comments like, when's the GTA Geyser video gonna happen? Because it's just such an easy way to collab for me. I've always- I always wanted some way to do it, and I was just fortunate that I happened to have a viewer who heard me suggest that GTA Geyser would be a good idea, and he was willing to make it for me. Um, without any prompting. Yeah, it's super nice, yeah. And it's a cool- it's a- it's a cool site too. I'm surprised they haven't made one for Red Dead 2, but I mean, I suppose your ability to pick a bush from all the other bushes in their game would be severely limited. Oh yeah, it'd be like going to Squidward's imagination room or whatever when he was all alone. It'd be super hard to pick that out, like, in just a giant desert if you get one of those. I'm su- I'm surprised you- you'd think I'd get that reference. I mean, like, I've seen so much of Spongebob, but this- but that just seems like such a particular reference to a particular episode. What episode is that? I reference that all the fucking time. It's- it's a bad habit. It's the one where he has his clarinet and he just wants to be alone, so he goes to that, like, completely white, insane asylum room and he just keeps saying, alone. Yeah, I think I do vaguely remember that. Like, I- I used to watch reruns of Spongebob, like, eight episodes back to back, and that's why I've seen all the earlier seasons. Haven't seen the later ones though, because apparently they're shit, but- Yeah, apparently. Yeah, unfortunate. But that's what happens when these, uh, shows run on so long. Although I suppose the original creator- or whatever left, didn't he? Well, he passed away, yeah, Hillenbury. Oh. Yeah, well, I guess he technically did leave, but he didn't have an- |
| 30. September 2022 | Quitting Twitter for a month | Twitter for a month. I will say though, I considered taking a break from Twitter for a month. Tweeting out something like, Do you guys think I could take a break from Twitter for a month? Do you think I'd make it? But then I realized what I'm ultimately looking for is just a quick way to make myself feel better And I don't think Twitter is the main source of me feeling that. Occasionally I see something on there that makes me feel a little bit down, but it's uh, it's not the main source of my issues I mainly just look at my mentions and those are usually very much so positive, positive, you know See? High keep your head up in the best way you can and tomorrow is a new day. So stay strong for us. See? |
| 06. July 2021 | Quitting dating app | I'm dating anyone and I just want to complete my work. Good enough people throwing shit at me on the internet that I kind of just want to be alone a bit longer. I don't know. We'll pick it up when I'm 31. The three month delay for my new car. Model of new car? Yeah, the ramble came out while I talked about my new car and people were overestimating how much it's worth. I pretty... |
| 30. September 2022 | Quitting soft drink again | Quitting soft drink again. I had a person come remove all my garbage that I had downstairs I also got them to take away from me my 150 cans of soft drink they're in the cupboard various different varieties I'm like nah, I'm done only water from this one on chat. Will I stick to this? Maybe my plan is just to stick to water at home If I'm ordering a meal, I'll order soft drink with it, but you know once that one drinks gone It's it's done like I'm some you know |
| 26. March 2022 | RDR2 is specifically designed to annoy me | Red Dead Redemption 2 is specifically designed to annoy me. You think Red Dead Redemption 2 is a masterpiece? I needed, or I still need, a particular line from the game. Okay? A particular line. But it turns out, Red Dead Redemption 2 doesn't have a rockstar editor. It was something they were working on but never implemented into the game. Worse than this, the mods that you use to like, get a character say a line, the line I want isn't one of the lines that can be said. Worse than this, in Red Dead Redemption 2, if you press the button to look at your character, your character turns their head to the side, and like runs like this. And so you're the camera, he's like... So you can never have a front-on view of your character when he's talking. And when you talk to another character, the camera spins, so I can't get a front-on picture of the character saying this particular line, which he says is a greeting to another character. Like, it's just this one particular line that I need, but every aspect of Red Dead Redemption 2 prevents me from having it in the quality that I want. Can you noclip? Apparently not. Like, all camera mods do not enable you to fix this issue. The person working on it for me is Red Dead Redemption 2's speedrunner. It's crazy how that may sound. It's a good dude, though. Uh, demo me, you may know from chat. That doesn't make it a bad game? Of course it doesn't make it a bad game. I'm just saying, it is impressive to me that every single thing that I want from that game, it is unable to give me. Even the tiny things, you know? It's almost as though the game was specifically designed in a way so that every single bit of value that I would want from it, either from a personal or business standpoint, was literally impossible. |
| 08. January 2022 | RDR2: what it did well and what it did badly | Yeah, same thing with our GTA. I mean, hey, they're gonna update it for PS5s. Red Dead Redemption 2, what it did well and what it did badly. I mean, I'm glad that games like this exist, like GTA and Red Dead and everything, because they're such good open-world games, they're such well-designed, detailed open-world games, you can actually do this and people can actually have a competition. I really don't think you can do this in other open-world titles for sure, especially with the general lack of fucks given by the industry in that regard. Yeah, the attention to detail in both games was truly impressive, and I can see why Rockstar takes such pride in these worlds. I feel like though if you did Red Dead 2 GeoGuessr, I don't know if that exists, but like, that would be significantly fucking harder than what we just did, because at least here we have a city to base landmarks off there, we have fucking trees and hills. Yeah, exactly, exactly. I'm willing to concede immediately that you'd beat me. On Red Dead? Oh yeah, definitely. Well, I mean, with the way you describe how much you enjoy this game, I'm sure I'd have a fighting chance, absolutely. It's funny because I have vocally said that I wasn't particularly... I didn't particularly love Red Dead 2, and so whenever anyone of any note whispers, Red Dead 2 is a good game, I get like 700 clips, like, oh look, Muraha's saying Red Dead 2 is amazing! I'm like, oh god. I mean, hey, it's a very long and drawn out game, so I'm just gonna put it out there, it's not a game you wanna start off with if you wanna experience a game. I'm gonna say Red Dead's more of a movie, and it is what it is. That's where I particularly have a fondness for it. But if you ask me what my favorite single player experience from Rockstar is still, I'm gonna have to say GTA V, just because I think this... Like GTA V is basically one of my favorite movies, like Heat, just in a video game form. So I always love playing it. I mean, to this day, I still drive around Los Santos, and I'm still blown away by the world simulation and everything, so it's like, that's where I'm gonna put it at. Red Dead is like, it's like Uncharted for me, you know? Like I'll play it, but it's not like I'm particularly enamored with how wide open the open world is, because in reality, it is very cumbersome. I'll admit every time that Red Dead 2 is a beautiful looking game, and it appeals to a lot of people, and for what it was trying to do, it probably did it very well. It's just, in my mind, it is the game that least wanted to be a game that I've ever seen. It is just a TV show that you control the camera. It's very, very... No, you're absolutely right, because it's very lacking on any form of freedom. You literally will sit there and do fucking nothing in the game whatsoever. If Red Dead 2 tells you, you go into that room and you shoot that guy, if you even deviate slightly, if you open the drawer before you enter that room, it'll fucking give you a mission fail state, and that drove me insane, because it pissed me off in Chapter 1 when I played the game. Well, not Chapter 1, after you get into Chapter 2, you get to Valentine and everything. I was so fucking mad, because it literally... I was like, maybe it's a tutorial, maybe it's some bullshit, maybe I'm failing. No, the game is literally all the way like that throughout the entire experience. And eventually, it's like, all right, I guess this is a very linear Rockstar experience. I'm going to have to treat this like the original Red Dead Revolver at this point. It's an open world in name only. Yeah, I guess they just expected people to be okay with that, because in the free room, you can do whatever you want and go wherever, and you have that freedom there. But it just wasn't the same for me. Do you really in the open world though? Every time I tried doing outlaw shit in Red Dead 2, I feel like I was so heavily penalized for doing even the slightest thing. Like I could muck somebody immediate fucking $5 bounty. You literally could not make money being a criminal in Red Dead 2. You had to literally hunt skin and fish in order to make a dime in that game, single player. And it felt like every time I was riding around on my horse to an open field, the horse would hit a pebble and break his leg. Oh, come on, man. I want to wind in my hand. It does not need to be that real. It was the horse mechanic. And also it's like it's the one game where like you're driving the horse and it's like the you try to make a left turn. You got to have like a good hundred meters before you can make that turn. Otherwise, it's so many trees, man. So many trees. And the thing is, they don't even come up with any way for you to like easily navigate through. I'm not saying make it an Assassin's Creed game. I'm not saying make it that easy, but like make it a little fucking easier guys. It doesn't have to be this difficult, especially for like online or anything. Like we're trying to have fun, not like bash our heads again. And you get your horse in too much trouble. Make sure you have some horse survivor. Like it's that real. It's like you ever heard of that game Shenmue? Like yeah, I've heard of it. Yeah. Red Dead 2 is literally trying to be Shenmue. It's just it. That's all it is. It's Wild West Shenmue in a lot of ways because it's just like you got to do everything in a very like methodical way. It's super cumbersome and it gets it can be annoying. I mean, people loved it, though. People loved it. I'll always love God of War for taking away the Game of the Year award from Red Dead. I much prefer God of War. God of War PS4. Yeah, it was way better. That's the one time where like God of War. Because I'm not a God of War fan like from the original PS2. Neither am I. When I saw like the PS4 title, I'm like, oh, this shit's looking nice. And then I played it and I was like, oh, they're Corey Balrog fucking brought brought the pain today on development. He knew what he was doing. It was even nostalgic for me because I used to love Stargate back in the day. Not sure if you've seen it, but the the Mike Atlantis. Oh, the visual style with the teal can stuff because he's the same guy who is a Christopher judge. |
| 10. June 2020 | RNG In No Hit Runs | RNG in no hit runs. How RNG dependent is a no hit run? In the same way with speedrunning, when you first start running, everything seems like it's RNG and you complain all the time, look at this fucking RNG so bad, but the more that you understand the game and how things work, the less RNG there is, and when you develop new strats to get around RNG or to control RNG and stuff, the RNG goes down. It's the same with this no hit run. The more that I've learned, the more strategies I've developed, the less RNG there's been, but there does still seem to be a bit. Burry the Hatchet currently seems to be RNG. Whether I get shot while doing the alt strat, which is a thing that reduces the amount of shots that the enemies do, seems to be RNG. There's a portion of nervous run that appears to be RNG when taking off with a plane. I mean, there's RNG in terms of the enemy shooting. It's one of those things where if you have a 99% chance to not be hit, over the course of a 10 hour run, even if it's only a 1% chance, that's gonna happen quite a lot of times. |
| 14. May 2020 | RP and sims | Have you ever played any simulation games or GTA 5 roleplay? No, I'm not a fan of simulation games. I don't know why people love realism to that degree. I've talked before as well about I'm not very good at acting or pretending to be something that I'm not. Even when I lie I tend to laugh afterwards to communicate that there's definitely a lie. I don't like not being myself for long periods of time. |
| 21. July 2020 | Racing games and what appeals to me about gaming | Racing games and what appeals to me about gaming. Am I gonna play racing games? Not too into racing games. That may surprise you. I have no love of cars. Like my attraction to gaming has always been in the problem-solving aspect of it or the achieving goals. I think as long as I'm familiar enough with a game I would enjoy basically any game that I play. You know, if I'm willing to spend the time to become familiar with it. It's just for a lot of games. There are certain things that are immediately off-putting that make me not want to stick it out. |
| 18. November 2020 | Rage quitting gwent over tutorial | Rage quitting Gwent's over a tutorial. The only thing I hate about CD Projekt Red is for their card game they have a forced tutorial. I played Gwent's like thousands of games of Gwent, like thousands and thousands. Then I left for like a year and I came back. And my profile still said that I was a master. That was my rank. And yet they forced me to do a 20 minute tutorial. And I just kept looking and looking for any way to get around this tutorial. And when I realized I couldn't, I uninstalled the game and never played again. I was like, oh you know I haven't played Gwent in 10,000 years. I've got half an hour of time here. Might just play a hand or two. See what it's like these days. And they were like, nope, fuck you, do a tutorial for 20 minutes. |
| 03. May 2020 | Raid shadow legends infecting Twitch | Legends is now infecting Twitch. Raid is attempting to get people to play their game on Twitch right now and They can't offer me enough There's definitely a price That I play Raid Shadow Legends 4 on stream There's no way they can pay it though What I say to the dude, I think I said like $3,000 now and even that I probably hate to do There's this thing where I've talked about before Like like imagine acting for an hour that you like the game or at least Trying to put a good spin on it or not be overly critical of it I'm playing a game that bores you It just be most painful experience, but there's a number where if a person is waiting to pay it There's no way you could say no Your viewers would be pissed if you said no What you turned down a million dollars an hour to play Raid Shadow Legends? Will you fucking mourn whatever pays the bills? But that's the thing my bills are already paid My viewers are generous enough with me that I don't need to go out there and grab Sponsorships the only reason why in any way shape or form am I Inspired to respond to sponsorship emails sometimes is a fear that you know, these are the good times I've peaked and five years from now or something. I'm gonna be like man. I could really use 15 bucks from Raid Shadow Legends, you know, you don't know what the future is gonna bring. I'm comfortable right now I don't need to waste my viewers time with that sponsorship stuff But uh, that might not be the case forever, you know, is it wrong to openly hate a game you're paid to play? It depends. Do you hate it, but except that other people could enjoy playing it then no Raid Shadow Legends is a little bit different though because it's I mean, it's just it's just predatory garbage It's not a good game. I've done mobile games before I mean that was when I needed the money and it was back in the day, but I Enjoyed what was it called? Lords mobile. I enjoyed that game unironically I enjoyed that game and I spent money on that game, but It is to a degree pay to win You can certainly enjoy the game without Caring about being the best of the best But if you wanted to be the best of the best you'd have to pay money, but it was really fun doing it with the viewers That I had the time having my little guild of like 50 people was probably less than that really We had our own little discord channel We were getting raided with talks which I thought that was fun stuff Like if Lords mobile ever wanted me to advertise this stuff again, I'd probably I'd probably do it For the right price, but it's still your micro transaction pay to win garbage But at least I think the game is fun where Rage Herald Legends just looks fucking terrible |
| 30. June 2021 | Raiding Eazyspeezy | Rating Easy Speezy. I can't believe when I hosted Easy Speezy people told him that I Wasn't sure if he liked me or not. I mean he said before that he likes me. It's just that I'm I Just I'm just always weird like I always think people hate me man It's just it's just how I am although Questioning that with Easy Speezy point not a great move because I mean you see it comes across the guy It doesn't have a hate-filled burn this entire body. It's a very chill dude I guess he doesn't Promote his twitch much on his YouTube because his YouTube is huge But he doesn't get the kind of numbers on Twitch as well as he hasn't been here that long But you know it does take some efforts to get people to follow you on Twitter |
| 30. June 2021 | Raiding eazyspeezy | Rating Easy Speezy. I can't believe when I hosted Easy Speezy people told him that I Wasn't sure if he liked me or not. I mean he said before that he likes me. It's just that I'm I Just I'm just always weird like I always think people hate me man It's just it's just how I am although Questioning that with Easy Speezy point not a great move because I mean you see it comes across the guy It doesn't have a hate-filled burn this entire body. It's a very chill dude I guess he doesn't Promote his twitch much on his YouTube because his YouTube is huge But he doesn't get the kind of numbers on Twitch as well as he hasn't been here that long But you know it does take some efforts to get people to follow you on Twitter |
| 25. February 2020 | Raiding zero viewer streamers | It is pointless to raid people with zero viewers. Raiding streamers who have only zero viewers is complete waste of time because the odds of them producing legitimate good content is astronomical. The best people to raid are people who are doing okay. They have some viewers. We're talking like 50 viewers or whatever plus. Because there's a chance that the people that you raid them with is actually gonna help them and they're probably already doing something half right at the very least and that's why they have 50 viewers. And there's a chance that you're raiding them can put them in a better part of their section and they can get some more viewers from that section as well. Based off the content of the viewers, viewers are in general indicative of good content. It is the norm for good content to already have viewers. Certainly, there are a lot of very talented people with very good content that never gets noticed. But in general, if your goal is to at a greater than random chance find good content, you'd look at content with higher viewership. Comment from Chass. I don't agree with that. I think most of the people with good content are people that don't get lucky enough to get a significant amount of viewers. Mystic, what you've just said is there is no correlation between popularity and quality of content. This is the assertion you've just made. I want you to give it like five, ten minutes of thought, come back and realize how dumb that is. Are you suggesting that the quality of content commonly found in zero viewership streams dwarfs those of high viewership streams? You didn't say there wasn't a correlation. But you just said you disagreed and that was the point that I made. You can't say I didn't say there wasn't a correlation when you specifically said you disagreed with what I just said and that's what I said. There is this issue I have with people where a person will say all bats are red and so I will say, oh, so you're saying there's no bats that are blue and the person will say I didn't say that. That's directly implied by the words that you've made, that you've spoken. It triggers me. I mean, I covered everything because I even said specifically there are obviously people who have zero viewership that make good quality content because it's not simply quality of content that leads to success. But obviously quality of content is correlated with success. So in general, those who are successful have a higher level of quality content than those who aren't successful. To reiterate the exact same thing I said moments ago. |
| 03. June 2020 | Rainbow 6 siege | You want to discuss with me my thoughts on a game called Rainbow Six Siege? Rainbow Six Siege, of all the popular games, is the game I have the least information on and the least opinion of. Because the little that I've seen of it, nothing makes it endearing to me. I look at it and go, that is a shooter that I've seen 10,000 times. Do not care. There is no game currently right now that I care less about than Rainbow Six Siege. I care about more what goes on on Raid Shadow Legends than I do Rainbow Six Siege. Because at least Raid Shadow Legends it might be kind of funny or people might bring it up about my opinions on it. I don't care about Rainbow Six Siege. I don't care about people who play Rainbow Six Siege. I don't care about what updates they make for the game. If Rainbow Six Siege disappeared tomorrow, my opinion would not change. Instead I might be like, how did a game just disappear? Like from the world? I don't care. That would be the only time my opinion would change on the game. That's all I have to say. |
| 03. June 2020 | Rainbow Six Siege | You want to discuss with me my thoughts on a game called Rainbow Six Siege? Rainbow Six Siege, of all the popular games, is the game I have the least information on and the least opinion of. Because the little that I've seen of it, nothing makes it endearing to me. I look at it and go, that is a shooter that I've seen 10,000 times. Do not care. There is no game currently right now that I care less about than Rainbow Six Siege. I care about more what goes on on Raid Shadow Legends than I do Rainbow Six Siege. Because at least Raid Shadow Legends it might be kind of funny or people might bring it up about my opinions on it. I don't care about Rainbow Six Siege. I don't care about people who play Rainbow Six Siege. I don't care about what updates they make for the game. If Rainbow Six Siege disappeared tomorrow, my opinion would not change. Instead I might be like, how did a game just disappear? Like from the world? I don't care. That would be the only time my opinion would change on the game. That's all I have to say. |
| 01. July 2020 | Ramble about rambles | Ramble about rambles What got me into streaming? This question I've answered many times if you want to know everything about me binge listen to my ramble series 150 episodes but uh Yeah, I just found streaming liked it like speedrunning so I started doing it 150 episodes not even a hundred topics I mean the first couple of episodes were were often just singular topic episodes the later ones There's between usually like well mean the episodes aim for half an hour now I think half an hour episodes are good, but I think how well the episodes go largely just depends on the topics Since the Q&A had so many trash questions Will you do another one because I tend to answer all the questions in the Q&A there's always gonna be trash questions And there's always gonna be questions. I've already answered like 57 times. I don't think doing a Q&A Regularly would make sense in the way that I did it which is like answering questions for eight hours I'm better off just doing it like once a year or something every six months |
| 29. April 2021 | Rambles anthology | Rambles Anthology. What? You don't watch every single ramble I release? Wow. Understandable. There's some good stuff in those rambles. Honestly, I wonder if one day I'll release like a book, the best of Matto rambles. What are they called? Where like, um, what's a collection of essays called? You want to know about? Um, like the like you'd you'd look back at the writers and they would have like their books that they would wrap And their books would also release which is a collection of their essays It's just called an anthology. So in Google the word anthology that sounds interesting You know anthology is just like a collection of your work. I guess that means it does apply Anthology a published collection of poems or other pieces of writing. Oh, yeah. There you go. Okay once upon a time they'd make an anthology of people's essays and And my speedrun rambles is basically that. It's it's kind of a modern anthology bit of my streams. Clearly I need to uh, as they go back at some point and Organize my my rambles by topic and I'll be like everything Dark Viper has said on X You know, it'd be like best of and stuff But I don't think the I don't think the rambles are good enough for that purpose, right? Because the point of rambles is for them to be like just thrown up there Barely paid attention to kind of stuff because it's not like they're actual researched videos or whatever right they're meant to contain that that air of um This is this is just my thoughts at the time. I try to give you my basis for why I believe as I do but it's not like I'm Doing research and quoting sources while I'm doing these rambles It's impossible for me to do that. Like if I've made a dedicated video on something you can guarantee I've looked up shit for that video. This current rambler is a real meta meta chapter Yeah, I'm rambling about my rambles. I should sell the rambles thumbnail picture as an NFT Rambling about my rambles |
| 29. April 2021 | Rambling about height | About height, I'm 5'10 by the way. I think 5'9 is average male height or something. I'm slightly over that. As in no one meets me and is like, you're tall, but no one meets me and they're like, hey you're short. You know? 5'6, it depends on your country obviously. In my country I think it's 5'9. 5'10 is average. Yeah, it's something around there. I think it just depends on the country. Now 5'6 is women. A 20 year old, yes 5'9 is average in the US. And height matters. Whether you think there's a causal relationship, yes, don't question that, but there's a correlation between being taller and having success in business and whatnot. I mean you can speculate why, you know, being taller, women find that more attractive on average. So maybe you feel more confident, you're more likely to pursue things in life or maybe people view tall people as more trustworthy or something. People who happen to be tall also happen to have other good genes that are conducive to success or, you know, just being tall in general makes you feel confident because you tower over people. Who knows? But there's a correlation between being successful and being tall. Like the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, like their average height is like 6'1 or something. You know? It's... The only other fact I know about height is that Napoleon wasn't short, he was just average height for the time. But his enemies spread propaganda that he was short. He was slightly under average height actually. Okay, well then I'm wrong. Fine. You sure? I suppose about average height would be slightly under, wouldn't it? Someone Google it. What was Napoleon's height compared to the average height for a male at that time? He's 1.68? He was 5'7? And what was the average then? He's 5'6, 5'7? And what was the average? You keep using different units of fucking measurement, chat. Stick to one. 5'6 is average? So he was average height? 5'5 was the average? So he was average. Don't you fucking gaslight me. Wait, gaslight... Okay, I used gaslighting wrong there. But don't you fucking lie to me. Napoleon was around 5'6, 5'7 and the average was 5'7? There you go. I was right. Suck it. When people use centimeters and millimeters instead of cheeseburgers and eagles? Exactly. The percentage of people over 6' is 14.5% in the US. And the percentage for CEOs of Fortune 500 companies is 58% over 6'. Yeah, see? It's not just correlation for Fortune 500 companies. It's in general. If you're taller, people in higher positions in business tend to be taller. It's funny though, the knowledge of that can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy. As in, a person who's shorter than 6' can be like, Oh, what? It's harder for me to be successful? Oh, then I'm not gonna fucking bother. Or people who are hiring or something can be like, Well, you know, taller people are just better in business or whatever. Or I'm gonna hire the taller person over the shorter person if that's the only thing I can decide on or whatever. It's just weird how the knowledge of a trend can itself reinforce a trend. You know what I'm saying? Maybe that's not the best example of that. But that does seem to be a thing. Is the trend's work? Like, yeah, yeah, I just find it funny. |
| 24. February 2022 | Random commenter calls me out. | Random commenter calls me out. I saw this comment on Swag this video Where they're like I think that Dark Viper guy is an asshole He yelled at me because I showed him a mod. It is some comment probably got no upvotes Whatever I just I happen to see because a new comment and I type it I'm like look I'm no Dark Viper fanboy. In fact, I hate that guy. He's a bit of a prick But I think there's more to this story than you're letting on. I Don't know why I found that so funny. I don't think anyone's gonna see my response, but I just chuckled at myself I have no idea who that guy is. I don't know what the guy's talking about, but I just I just want everybody. Okay |
| 22. March 2021 | Random shoutouts are pointless | Even for a hundred dollars and it wouldn't help you anyway if I legitimately liked a channel and stuff that was on it I'm sure shouting it out with uh and and explaining what it's about and why I enjoy it It would probably actually get that person a few views or whatever, right? Insane right but just saying the name of a channel that I know nothing about isn't gonna help that channel at all, you know Being a master sounds great until you hear the work involved. You wish you could play GTA |
| 22. January 2022 | Random stories working at coles the supermarket | I'm happy. Random stories working at Kohl's the supermarket. Any interesting stories from when you worked at Kohl's? See I always like to talk about what first comes to mind. I made myself a snowman. So broccoli, at least in Australia, it comes in these white styrofoam cases with a bunch of ice around it. And so I took out the ice and I built myself a snowman. And I took like little bits of, I don't know, leaves and some bits of broccoli or whatever, and I gave it eyes and little hands and I took a picture of it. It had a note on it as well, I can't remember what that note said. There was also when I carved my name into the shopping board. So it was two huge shopping boards with a thousand different cuts on them, completely wrecked. And I went, ah, Matt. And then like six months later, my manager's like, did you carve your name into the shopping board? I'm like, yeah. He's like, why? I don't know. I didn't think anyone would notice. I think it's because like one of the people who came around to inspect noticed. I didn't get into trouble, but they had to order new shopping boards, which makes no sense. It was barely noticeable. That's why it took six months. But I think the manager was end up being happy because they gave him new shopping boards. Now, I don't really have many really good memories of Coles. In the early days, like I towards the end of the night, I used to listen to my iPhone, walk around the store and tidy everything up. And that was great. Nine p.m. Basically no one there. Just go from section to section, listen to my iPod, just relining apples and stuff. The worst time working at Coles was when I was in that phase where my face was super pimply and I didn't like going going out out from the back. I would, of course, because it was my job. But I mean, at any point where I could unpack the load that the stock we get every day, I just put on trolleys and give it to other people to do because that was half the job. Half the job was putting it outside on the on the floor. And the other half was like taking off the truck and organizing and stuff. |
| 20. July 2022 | Random stuff that i have purchased | Random stuff that I've purchased. This is something I purchased. It's a laser and what it does is it measures the the distance between the back of the device and Whatever I pushed against it's like is 1.936 meters from this device to my wall sick of using a tape measure I bought a Hopefully a better mount for my phone in my car my car. How much did my car cost chat? I can't even remember very expensive does not have a phone holder I'm having to buy like a third party thing that are slots into the CD drive like who even uses CDs and cars anymore I bought a compressed air gun It's for our Cleaning PC parts and stuff. I have bought furniture my downstairs no longer looks bad. I have two Recliners 101 seater and one or two seater no one will ever use them But my downstairs now looks normal. Can we get a new house? Yeah when everything is set up and my room is painted all that jazz Be sure to LIKE and subscribe Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind my feed gives them to me from all over my channel It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. I |
| 15. January 2023 | Ranking my years from worst to best. | Ranking my years from worst to best. Am I ready for 2020 part 3? I mean, I had an alright 2020. In terms of rankings, my years would go like 2022, 2019, 2021, 2020. |
| 01. March 2023 | Ray William Johnson’s Insane Return | Ray William Johnson's insane return. So I'm sure I've talked about this once before, but it's become even more of a thing. So I want to talk about it again. So Ray William Johnson, you all likely know as once upon a time the largest content creator on YouTube with his series, in a sense, doing commentary on viral videos at the time. He actually lost his court cases in regards to fair use, which was interesting. And it's the thing where that'd be on like the borderline of acceptability to me. I mean if he got consent, is he really transforming the clips? Again, clips are sort of a borderline thing in regards to where I think it's ethical and it often just depends on the usage. But regardless, eventually he stopped running the channel. He moved to Facebook, was getting some views on there, and he's come back to YouTube recently just doing shorts. And he got 300 million views last month and 200k thousand subscribers. Watch this jump, like 2 million views and then BOOM! Ah! 300 million views pretty consistently. Like if you had told me like in 2020, Hey man, Ray William Johnson gonna be coming back to YouTube getting me getting 300 million views a month. I'd be like, Yeah, stop lying. What are you talking about? What are you- what are you- what do you smoke and what do you do? Of course, these aren't real views in terms of video views. Like he's not making 18 million dollars a year. He's not moist critical levels here, you know. He's doing shorts and a lot of it is sort of like what he used to do in the past where he'll find clips of something interesting and he'll like show himself, show the clip and then do some commentary on it. And honestly, I don't really have much of a problem with this kind of content. This is kind of fine as far as I'm concerned. It's short clips being used in a creative way. But it's just interesting that he lost his court cases back in the day basically doing the same kind of stuff and now he's back doing basically the exact same stuff without a care in the world because it's just so much more a part of what people do now that he's not gonna be taken to uh, to court over this anymore. Yeah, I just found it interesting the revival of an ancient creator from the dead kind of. |
| 22. April 2021 | Reaching 10000 paid twitch subs | Reaching 10,000 paid subs on twitch.tv Congratulations by the way on the sub count, that's mad Thanks man That's insane I did have to gift the... I feel like it's kind of cheating to have gifted that last thousand I did promise I would do it And you know, people got me the 9,000, it's like, well yeah, he is your reward kind of thing It's a nice thing Didn't cost me as much as... because obviously I clickbaited the video 9,000 dollars or whatever But it technically only cost me like 1800, 2000 dollars in that ballpark Which is still quite a bit, but it's not 9,000 That's a lot of money Yeah, it's really cool Did you ever think you would get to that point? No, not at all I've blown past my expectations a bajillion years ago Thanks for watching |
| 27. November 2020 | Reacting to Pokimane and Fedmyster drama | main Fedmeister drama. I don't normally care for drama, but most drama doesn't involve a 25 page expose being leaked and I needed something to listen to while I was going around the house. Summarizing it all would be extraordinarily difficult in the same way that summarizing Game of Thrones quickly would be very difficult. I'm definitely gonna get some things wrong. But like five months ago Fedmeister, I think his name is, was removed from offline TV for inappropriate advances and touching of, we didn't get specifics I don't think, of two of his fellow housemates. And during this Pokemane came out and said, you know, Fed manipulated those around me to make it so they hated me and he lied about our involvement together. We were just close, there was nothing more than that and yada yada. And so over the next two months Fed put together this document of like endless personal messages that showed that everything that Pokemane said on stream was a lie or at least a gross misrepresentation. Like missing so much. And this document Fed didn't release himself. It was leaked yesterday. So three months after he made it or whatever. So Destiny and other people go through this and read it. And so through all these personal messages it seems as though Pokemane was like manipulating Fed. They were an item and then she's like, you know, I kind of want to sleep with other people. And so she goes, sleeps with other people, often bring them back to their house and she's like, she's fucking a guy in the room next to Fed while he's streaming and he can hear it. And he's like super in love with her. It comes off. Oh like really like the 20s kind of love like she is, he's really into her and he's listening to her fucking other guys. And when she's done with those other guys she'll go right back to Fed. Like on again off again. Like oh yeah, you know, we're together now. Oh but now I'm just gonna see someone else. Oh but now we're back together. Like truly jerking him around something fierce, right? At least that's where these messages come off. And watching her response she kind just like brushes over it and tries to reimagine the words that she said on stream where she said they were barely involved at all. Clearly she's lying. No it wasn't an open relationship, not at all. It's like because like Fed seemed permanently confused as to their exact involvement. Because they're together but they're not, but they're together but they're not. And one of the things that Pokimane said that Fed did about lying was he lied about the degree to which they were involved. And looking at the messages on and off you're like well of course they're gonna be fucking confused. You are 100% with him then like 40% with him and then like you're 100% with him again. It's like, can you imagine being a guy super into a chick and trying to get over her and she's bringing back other guys to bang in the room next to you. And she's like yeah I guess that was a bit callous. Obviously. She tried to present it on stream as though Fed was calling for, what's the name, Yvonne or something to be to be removed from the house that she was. She was lazy and stuff and turned up from these messages. Pokimane was the one doing that. And even on stream when she's trying to respond to these allegations she's kind of just breezing past this and you're like, and she's like yeah I guess my statement was you know a little bit inaccurate, a bit rushed and it's like they had, she had all, like she had heaps of time to make this statement. I'm talking about her original statement that she made when Fed was accused of inappropriate actions with his fellow housemates. When the allegations about Fed were put forward and she talked to all these people to get all this information and to corroborate stories and stuff and she clearly had time to cater her statement and her statement was to massively downplay their involvement together, lie and then to pretend as though she wasn't the one calling for this woman to be removed. When it seemed to be that Fed was the one defending her from Pokimane trying to get her removed. It just comes off so horrible and her, her reimagining of this on her stream that I was just listening, it seems to, I miss details or directly lie and contradict statements that she's made before. But the funny thing was there was when I was hearing this document for the first time I'm like wow. Imagine having this much personal growth. It looked like Fed from these messages was basically like Pokimane could have been Padme and gone look Fed the younglings I need you to get rid of them and Fed will be like no way he's brought I got this just like like not like full eyes open just cutting down younglings that just this how Fed came across like anything for Pokimane kind of thing and then like this is a really impressive that person could grow this much to release this document themselves. Damn that's some personal growth. Then I find out as it leaked I'm like oh okay that makes sense. Okay maybe he's still after all this time seems to be in a situation where despite how much it seems as though Pokimane fucks him over and and made his life worse like you gotta wonder to what degree any wrongdoing that he because that it's as though I'm shifting blame I don't want to do that but everything's causally related. How like he sounds so emotionally fucked up in his young 20s mainly because of Pokimane and and you then you further say and he ended up making unwanted advances on the other women in the house and it's like that doesn't surprise me. I wish he would just be like yes I fucking went to try to start relationships with the other women in my life because I was trying to get over Pokimane or what have you because that's the way it comes across now that he had a hole in his life and he was trying to fill it maybe maybe he wasn't even trying to make Pokimane jealous or something who knows but clearly he was in a very sick situation and and worse all the messages seem to indicate that Pokimane was not actively trying too hard to maintain or build friendships with the other people in the house because she was so focused on business and so when Fed would go and talk about their complicated relationship with the other people in the house Pokimane saw that as manipulating them to hate her when in reality it just seems as though Fed was really fucking confused because of Pokimane's shitty behavior and of course that's gonna make them look at Pokimane badly because Pokimane like if if Pokimane was there in the friendship group actively trying to maintain those friendships it wouldn't be the case that Fed can go in go hey I'm having problems with Pokimane and and the majority of things that they're gonna think about in a negative because she's not she has no kind of narrative because she's not there like it just seems so much so much of this seems to be Pokimane failing as a human being Fed fucking up as a human being because he just seems so emotionally fucked up and he still seems emotionally fucked up that he would imagine writing a 25 page expose knowing that people spoke wrong about you have a misrepresentation and a wrongful idea of you spending all that time two months writing that information then first giving it to Pokimane and then Pokimane saying I think be best we kept this private I could I think just you don't want to release this publicly and actually not releasing it publicly how much control can a person have over a person to be able to turn off that level of emotional switch oh you really want to tell people your side of the story dadada switch off I had hopes that Pokimane in her talking on stream would would give me another side so I'm like you know everyone's wrong in this case but it really just seems like Pokimane was the one who was all in the wrong like absolutely I'm sure I've gotten details wrong here this is just a guy who's read the book but clearly doesn't know the expanded law and I'm sure someone's gonna be like actually if you read on page 19 there's a subtle subtext if you go back to pages I'm sure that can be done and maybe that might make Pokimane look a little bit better but from the face of it her statements and his and the personal measures she does not look very good here god damn I'm waiting for the Pokimane expanded enhance yeah I want the next book when's Georgia R. Martin bring out the next book all I'm saying is normal relationships don't end in 25 page long exposes and it was clearly Pokimane that was the head of that relationship be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 04. July 2022 | Reacting to my anti-react videos | Reacting to my anti-react videos. Matt should react to his reactions. What I should do is, like six months from now, re-upload all of those videos that reacting to them and giving directives commentary. Again, I'm going to do that. Remind me that. Someone remind me to do that in six months and see if I like breeze a bit more life into them. I'll do the exact same thumbnails, but put like me on the side. Someone has been gorgeous rips off people's tiles and thumbnails and stuff. So good. And then I'll like even title it Dark Viper AU reacts and just put the title. Oh, my God. I love this idea. They just re-uploads, but you eating the corner. No, I actually give some. I'd actually give some commentary, like I'd pause and give some commentary. Like I'd actually want to add to it. |
| 27. November 2020 | Reacting to pokimane and fedmyster drama | main Fedmeister drama. I don't normally care for drama, but most drama doesn't involve a 25 page expose being leaked and I needed something to listen to while I was going around the house. Summarizing it all would be extraordinarily difficult in the same way that summarizing Game of Thrones quickly would be very difficult. I'm definitely gonna get some things wrong. But like five months ago Fedmeister, I think his name is, was removed from offline TV for inappropriate advances and touching of, we didn't get specifics I don't think, of two of his fellow housemates. And during this Pokemane came out and said, you know, Fed manipulated those around me to make it so they hated me and he lied about our involvement together. We were just close, there was nothing more than that and yada yada. And so over the next two months Fed put together this document of like endless personal messages that showed that everything that Pokemane said on stream was a lie or at least a gross misrepresentation. Like missing so much. And this document Fed didn't release himself. It was leaked yesterday. So three months after he made it or whatever. So Destiny and other people go through this and read it. And so through all these personal messages it seems as though Pokemane was like manipulating Fed. They were an item and then she's like, you know, I kind of want to sleep with other people. And so she goes, sleeps with other people, often bring them back to their house and she's like, she's fucking a guy in the room next to Fed while he's streaming and he can hear it. And he's like super in love with her. It comes off. Oh like really like the 20s kind of love like she is, he's really into her and he's listening to her fucking other guys. And when she's done with those other guys she'll go right back to Fed. Like on again off again. Like oh yeah, you know, we're together now. Oh but now I'm just gonna see someone else. Oh but now we're back together. Like truly jerking him around something fierce, right? At least that's where these messages come off. And watching her response she kind just like brushes over it and tries to reimagine the words that she said on stream where she said they were barely involved at all. Clearly she's lying. No it wasn't an open relationship, not at all. It's like because like Fed seemed permanently confused as to their exact involvement. Because they're together but they're not, but they're together but they're not. And one of the things that Pokimane said that Fed did about lying was he lied about the degree to which they were involved. And looking at the messages on and off you're like well of course they're gonna be fucking confused. You are 100% with him then like 40% with him and then like you're 100% with him again. It's like, can you imagine being a guy super into a chick and trying to get over her and she's bringing back other guys to bang in the room next to you. And she's like yeah I guess that was a bit callous. Obviously. She tried to present it on stream as though Fed was calling for, what's the name, Yvonne or something to be to be removed from the house that she was. She was lazy and stuff and turned up from these messages. Pokimane was the one doing that. And even on stream when she's trying to respond to these allegations she's kind of just breezing past this and you're like, and she's like yeah I guess my statement was you know a little bit inaccurate, a bit rushed and it's like they had, she had all, like she had heaps of time to make this statement. I'm talking about her original statement that she made when Fed was accused of inappropriate actions with his fellow housemates. When the allegations about Fed were put forward and she talked to all these people to get all this information and to corroborate stories and stuff and she clearly had time to cater her statement and her statement was to massively downplay their involvement together, lie and then to pretend as though she wasn't the one calling for this woman to be removed. When it seemed to be that Fed was the one defending her from Pokimane trying to get her removed. It just comes off so horrible and her, her reimagining of this on her stream that I was just listening, it seems to, I miss details or directly lie and contradict statements that she's made before. But the funny thing was there was when I was hearing this document for the first time I'm like wow. Imagine having this much personal growth. It looked like Fed from these messages was basically like Pokimane could have been Padme and gone look Fed the younglings I need you to get rid of them and Fed will be like no way he's brought I got this just like like not like full eyes open just cutting down younglings that just this how Fed came across like anything for Pokimane kind of thing and then like this is a really impressive that person could grow this much to release this document themselves. Damn that's some personal growth. Then I find out as it leaked I'm like oh okay that makes sense. Okay maybe he's still after all this time seems to be in a situation where despite how much it seems as though Pokimane fucks him over and and made his life worse like you gotta wonder to what degree any wrongdoing that he because that it's as though I'm shifting blame I don't want to do that but everything's causally related. How like he sounds so emotionally fucked up in his young 20s mainly because of Pokimane and and you then you further say and he ended up making unwanted advances on the other women in the house and it's like that doesn't surprise me. I wish he would just be like yes I fucking went to try to start relationships with the other women in my life because I was trying to get over Pokimane or what have you because that's the way it comes across now that he had a hole in his life and he was trying to fill it maybe maybe he wasn't even trying to make Pokimane jealous or something who knows but clearly he was in a very sick situation and and worse all the messages seem to indicate that Pokimane was not actively trying too hard to maintain or build friendships with the other people in the house because she was so focused on business and so when Fed would go and talk about their complicated relationship with the other people in the house Pokimane saw that as manipulating them to hate her when in reality it just seems as though Fed was really fucking confused because of Pokimane's shitty behavior and of course that's gonna make them look at Pokimane badly because Pokimane like if if Pokimane was there in the friendship group actively trying to maintain those friendships it wouldn't be the case that Fed can go in go hey I'm having problems with Pokimane and and the majority of things that they're gonna think about in a negative because she's not she has no kind of narrative because she's not there like it just seems so much so much of this seems to be Pokimane failing as a human being Fed fucking up as a human being because he just seems so emotionally fucked up and he still seems emotionally fucked up that he would imagine writing a 25 page expose knowing that people spoke wrong about you have a misrepresentation and a wrongful idea of you spending all that time two months writing that information then first giving it to Pokimane and then Pokimane saying I think be best we kept this private I could I think just you don't want to release this publicly and actually not releasing it publicly how much control can a person have over a person to be able to turn off that level of emotional switch oh you really want to tell people your side of the story dadada switch off I had hopes that Pokimane in her talking on stream would would give me another side so I'm like you know everyone's wrong in this case but it really just seems like Pokimane was the one who was all in the wrong like absolutely I'm sure I've gotten details wrong here this is just a guy who's read the book but clearly doesn't know the expanded law and I'm sure someone's gonna be like actually if you read on page 19 there's a subtle subtext if you go back to pages I'm sure that can be done and maybe that might make Pokimane look a little bit better but from the face of it her statements and his and the personal measures she does not look very good here god damn I'm waiting for the Pokimane expanded enhance yeah I want the next book when's Georgia R. Martin bring out the next book all I'm saying is normal relationships don't end in 25 page long exposes and it was clearly Pokimane that was the head of that relationship be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 27. July 2021 | Reaction channels | Reaction channels. I thought you didn't like reaction channels videos. Yeah, I hate channels dedicated to reaction stuff I do never should watching other people shit be a staple of your content If you're reacting to content so much as the only thing keeping you on the platform I don't approve that shit |
| 15. February 2022 | Reactors are not trying to give other's exposure | And I think also more effort to You know, they say they're paying exposure, but I watch almost all these reactors, right? They're never like hey this this craze amazing go subscribe to them Literally click off the video before the video gives themselves a shout out like and they'll skip ads they'll skip the skip the The intro like hey guys, it's the kind of content I make but not all of them do this. Let's be real But there is certainly it's more about I'm trying to consume this content rather than I'm trying to give other people exposure And I I well it wasn't in the document But I talked to other people about why like if it were the case that live streamers were giving significant exposure to other content creators, then what would inevitably happen is that they would lose viewership because Every person who's like, oh, that's a great content creator. I'm gonna go watch them as well They would now be sharing their finite entertainment time between the live streamer that they watch and another content creator And so the more content creators that you show Over time your viewers are going to be sharing more and more of their time with you and those content creators. So Naturally just over time with enough sharing with enough view of your viewers sharing their time between content creators the content creators and you your viewership would have to go down because If they were spending 10 hours watching you before And now they have and as they have nine other content creators that they're also spending an hour with There's only ten hours of that time. So they would only be able to spend one hour with you, you know Um, but that doesn't happen because reactors don't significantly give exposure to other content creators And their viewers are more interested in watching videos with their favorite streamer than they are finding new content creators you the the people who click through or Follow up with another content creator later. They are the exception not the rule |
| 16. June 2022 | Reactors compensating those they react to? | Reactors compensating those they react to? Value from reaction- I don't know how that- how fair compensation could work, Andre. How you valuing exposure, and how you giving exposure back to all the people you've stolen it from. Because obviously the value from reaction content is not simply the views you get on that video, but it's all the exposure that you steal from the wider market. And that- it- extrapolates and uh, goes into other videos as well. As I tried to point out in the video, Asmogold hasn't just stolen, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars from other people. He's stolen millions. He- he has negatively impacted thousands, if not tens of thousands of people, in his career. You can't just give that back by writing a check. But this is the case with all reactors. It's just Asmogold is the most obvious example because he's the most brazen in it. I remember him tweeting like, I know you guys love the reaction content, gonna be bringing you more of that soon. And I'm just like, dude, having a business model where it's- where you rip the weeks, if not months work of heaps of people and bring it to yourself, that's just absurd. You're not a content creator at that point, you're just watching YouTube videos. And it bothers me every single time where people pretend like Asmogold, pressing pause and speaking for 10 minutes off the top of his head, can in any way, shape or form ever compare to the actual work that went into those videos. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 04. March 2021 | Reading manga instead of watching anime. | Reading manga instead of watching anime. So I read quite a bit of manga recently. I've gotten to this point where I'm sick of trying to find anime that I really want to watch. I got sick of trying to find my anime that I enjoyed and so I went fuck it. I'm just gonna read ahead in the manga what happens in the anime that I enjoy. So I read ahead in I got reincarnated as a slime Which is a surprisingly good isekai very different from any that I've seen other than overlord similar and then I read ahead in a Jujutsu saucer and so now I've read all of the manga for three shows that being One Punch Man and the two I just mentioned. But it doesn't really solve any problems because then you just get to the point where you're sick of not having and more manga to read, you know. |
| 08. November 2020 | Reading people's names on Twitch | Reading people's names on Twitch. I think I do pretty well with people's names, but some people's names are just amazingly convoluted. Someone would just name themselves like Kaspetsha blip blip blip blip blip, and then gonna offend it when I don't say it correctly. My name has 30 consonants in one vowel. Cool! |
| 08. June 2022 | Reading the GTA 5 Script. | Reading the GTA V scripts. So I definitely need to, at some point, read the entirety of the scripts of GTA V. No, what would be great is if I could get like a bunch of content creators together and have us all be one character in like a Zoom call and all read the scripts. Kind of like how people do with Lord of the Rings or some shit. You know, if it seems like Lord of the Rings actors will all read the script or whatever. Too much effort though, chat. I could be Chop, Bach Bach. He's a natural! What character would I want to be? I would want to be the character with the fewest lines. I've been editing my footage of me playing Doki Doki Literature Club and I read all the lines in that. I did terribly. And my feminine voice is not very good. |
| 20. February 2021 | Reading the stories of video games | Reading the stories of video games rather than playing them. I was watching Lyric play this game called The Medium, which is apparently a new horror-ish puzzle game that came out. I jumped into it, and it must have been playing for a little while. Like, I didn't immediately get the story. I googled a brief synopsis of the story or whatever to catch up a little bit so I could watch it. And the game seemed fairly mundane. It was just alright. The puzzles didn't seem overly complicated. And it just seemed like more of a walking simulator telling a little bit of a story. But I wanted to see where the story went, and then he stopped playing. And I was like, oh, well that sucks. Because it's totally not a game I'd ever spend the seven or eight hours playing to get the story. It is totally a game, however, that when I hear about it, I would read the plot synopsis in five minutes on the internet. But because it's come out so early, the only synopsis that exists is for the overall idea of the game. And so I guess I have to catch the end of it somewhere or just wait a couple of months and get reminded that it exists so I can look it up. I do that with old games all the time. I'll see a streamer playing an old game that has a story, and I'm like, oh, that looks like a fairly interesting story. I'll Google that shit and read it in five minutes, rather than spending the 20 hours playing the game. Matt, you don't understand. You need to be immersed in the story to enjoy it. If you don't physically press the X button to pick up the magic cube of Antioch's, how could you possibly enjoy the story? You're a madman. Do you know how many stories I found enriching because I pressed the X button chat? Zero. |
| 08. March 2023 | Real life GTA 5 railguns are now cheaper than ever before. | Real life GT5 rail guns are now cheaper than ever before. So as you guys know, Adrian made me a rail gun a while back. I made a video on it, I believe. And I occasionally like to shout out his shop that he has where he can make other people rail guns as well. He's made some changes and that's why he asked me, can I give him a shout out? I'm like, yeah, sure. Yo, the guy who designed the GT5 rail gun for me, Adrian Martinez, informed me that he has published a couple more versions of it. These are actually less costly because it takes less time from him. One of them is just the assembled 3D printed gun but without any electronics, so without sound and light and stuff. And the other one is an assembly kit for those who like do-it-yourself stuff and to make things themselves. You can, as always, just get the entire rail gun built from him as normal. He does different colors, custom sound effects and custom logos for them as well. Check it out if you are interested and there's a link. Another sponsored post, I just like the dude and his work and so he's a reminder of what it looks like. It is very cool. I can hang it up my wall downstairs. But easily removable of course, just in case I need to use it to kill someone, obviously. So check that out if you're int- |
| 02. March 2022 | Realistic consequences for damage in gta 5. | for damage in GTA 5. Could you imagine a GTA game where taking damage in particular parts of your body actually influenced how you played the game? Like if you get shot in the leg you legitimately run slower. It would like losing a tire. Damn it this fucking RNG I got shot in the leg now I can't run fast. Like Fallout? That happens in Fallout? That's pretty cool. Oh yeah definitely it's one of those things that's interesting in theory but I'm sure in practice would be fucking annoying as hell. It's like saying wouldn't it be interesting if characters needed water and food like you had to feed Michael and Trevor and Franklin before they went into missions? If you didn't have enough food or water in your system you'd be hard to complete the mission? Interesting in theory, terrible in practice. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel it doesn't matter how old the video is. |
| 02. June 2021 | Reality shifting | TikTok's reality shifting trend, which is basically a bunch of people who kind of meditate and believe that they can move their consciousness to another reality. Thoughts on the reality shifting trend? I didn't know anything about it until oddonesout made a video on it and it's clearly extraordinarily stupid. I mean, what does it say about society that there's a trend of people who've imagined some way to shift themselves to different realities or some shit? Nah, I suppose saying that's kind of dumb, like every generation has its kind of mystical, magical thinking about some magical universe or dimension or whatever they can go to. That's not uncommon. I mean, not to be controversial, but I mean, is shifting your mind, how about your soul, to a different dimension any more silly than thinking that happens after you die? Look, you can't shift your consciousness to another dimension, that's insane. Wait until after you die and then you can go to a magical paradise with your consciousness. Same thing really. As we all know, scientifically speaking, dimensional consciousness transference is impossible, except after you die. Death makes that shit so much more possible, bruh. It's funny because I use TikTok like on a daily basis and I never saw any of these reality shifting TikTok things. To me it's just, you know, recommendation of TikTok working its magic, keeping that shit away from me, giving me all the cute doggos and catos. That's about it. |
| 25. June 2021 | Realizing you can afford stuff now | expensive watch when he was obviously at that point worth millions of dollars and could afford anything but just in the Life that he had led where he didn't have access to a lot of funds It hadn't dawned on him yet that he could buy anything he wanted. It's an interesting video It does happen guys when you get access to more money I mean even as you grow older and just get access to you know having a job or whatever and Disposable income and whatnot and you're like wait. I can actually buy this the first time my Fast food order was $30. I'm like I can't do this. This is terrible I can do it I can I can do this Wow it's 30 Australian dollars guys with delivery True better than a $702 Big Mac what I should do is actually find and source materials They're actually worth a total of $702 to make a big burger You know I guess super expensive beef and lettuce and all that jazz Get some caviar sauce or some shit getting my chest waxed You ever thought about doing recently just on a whim just getting my chest waxed I'm not gonna do it because why the fuck would I who am I trying to? |
| 04. March 2021 | Receiving a valentine’s day e-mail. | Receiving a Valentine's Day email. Do I have a girlfriend? I do not. Ah, I was frankly unaware that it was Valentine's Day. Something reminded me. Oh, I know what reminded me. Someone sent me an email and it said, in capital letters, Please don't block me. And I was like, well, click it and it's like some Valentine's Day thing. It has Jack's films on it. I'm like, I know what the fuck this is. Sorry, I block them and delete the email. Because it's my business email. Please do not send weird shit to my business email. Probably shouldn't have said that because now people are going to do it. But don't do it because it doesn't just annoy me. It annoys my management team. So yeah, later on I found out that Jack's films have released a video where they recorded like 300 separate small clips and you can make your own Valentine's Day message using 300 clips and you can send it to someone. Kinda weird, but okay. I talked about it before. I recently found people to answer my business email. It is a small team that got recommended to me by my partner manager. How many people is required for a team? It's two people. Two people can be a team, right? You're all wrong. It's five. Have you ever played a merba before? Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 04. March 2021 | Receiving a valentine’s day email. | Receiving a Valentine's Day email. Do I have a girlfriend? I do not. Ah, I was frankly unaware that it was Valentine's Day. Something reminded me. Oh, I know what reminded me. Someone sent me an email and it said, in capital letters, Please don't block me. And I was like, well, click it and it's like some Valentine's Day thing. It has Jack's films on it. I'm like, I know what the fuck this is. Sorry, I block them and delete the email. Because it's my business email. Please do not send weird shit to my business email. Probably shouldn't have said that because now people are going to do it. But don't do it because it doesn't just annoy me. It annoys my management team. So yeah, later on I found out that Jack's films have released a video where they recorded like 300 separate small clips and you can make your own Valentine's Day message using 300 clips and you can send it to someone. Kinda weird, but okay. I talked about it before. I recently found people to answer my business email. It is a small team that got recommended to me by my partner manager. How many people is required for a team? It's two people. Two people can be a team, right? You're all wrong. It's five. Have you ever played a merba before? Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 02. October 2022 | Receiving copyright strikes from Rockstar Games | Receiving copyright strikes from Rockstar Games Both me and you received copyright strikes from Rockstar because of the GTA 6 leaks. It turned out for me, at least they're claiming, it was because of me having- Your thumbnail. Yeah, they were fairly blurred in the first rendition of the thumbnail. Not identifiable at all, it's just random colours. So I think it's a bit absurd, but did they ever give you a reason? So I got a strike, I emailed them, disputed it, and then I sent them another email a couple days ago and I haven't gotten a response yet. So it's been like five days, so they have five more days to respond or else it'll just go away. I didn't receive a response initially, they just removed it and then a couple of days later, they said we're putting the strike back on unless you remove the thumbnail entirely, and I was just like, well that's just weird, but whatever. I didn't show any, there was no footage obviously. I made sure not to show any screenshots of the actual leaks, no gameplay, nothing. The only thing that I had was a link to the GTA Forms thread. That might be why I suppose. A picture of what he said, but it was blurred out, the download link was blurred out. But then there's other people who have the GTA Forms thread linked into the description and then they actually show the download link that he posted, so I don't know. And there are other people who have actual images of the leaks, the footage. Like I saw on Linus Tech Tips' channel, no I'm a Tech Quickie or whatever, they showed the two characters and some of the footage. And I'm like, how have they not gotten strikes? Yeah, exactly. For a while I thought it was automated until they gave me an actual response and said this is why we took Daniel's video. Because clearly in their ideal world, no one would discuss it at all. And they would just take down literally everyone talking about it, but they can't legally do that. In terms of copyright, they can't copyright you for talking about something that's out there now, it's just ridiculous. For describing what's in it, it's perfectly fine. Unless of course what you're describing can be said to be trade secrets, but that's obviously not the case in here. Like saying the characters can prone, there's a male character in the game, that's not like a trade secret or something. |
| 02. May 2021 | Receiving criticism | Receiving criticism. How much constructive criticism do you receive and take to heart? I am very self-critical. To a fault, I would almost say. Most of my life has been spent beating myself up for real and imagined slights, and it's something that I've had to grow out of. It's very rare that a person comes to me with criticism that I haven't myself reflected on and either dismissed as unwarranted or taken in and tried to change myself on the basis of that criticism. At the end of the day, I don't do much with my life. There's not a lot that you can criticize me for. I edit videos and I live stream. That's it. There aren't like many facets of my life and interactions with others that you can find criticism for. I live a very simple life when it comes right down to it. |
| 21. June 2022 | Recent Aus federal election and the possibility of a federal ICAC | ICAC. ICAC stands for Independent Commission Against Corruption. Thoughts on the Australian election? Good. It's great to have adults back in power. We might actually get ourselves a federal ICAC. What's that? So for like the last ten years Australia has fallen lower and lower in the corruption index because there were fewer checks on power and more obvious corruption. A lot of pork barreling, I believe it's called. We're like this isn't the full extent of the corruption, but it'll be like the party in power be like well We're in power and so we can decide where the money goes. Oh look There's a seat that we need to win the next election Let us give a fuck ton of money to the representative there to shore up votes and the voters are oh, that's great We've got like a new pool or a new rec center or whatever a new roads and that shows our representative is doing really great for us in reality It's just the federal government was assigning funds to be able to buy votes in different areas Where obviously federal money should go to the places that need it there were many instances where? Certain areas weren't even on the list to be accepted or didn't meet the requirements and yet they were still receiving money there's a bunch of other stuff where like water was sold to a company no one had heard of for like a fraction of what it was worth and a charity was given hundreds of millions of dollars that no one ever ever heard of like all this stuff and so people have been calling for a long time for an independent Bureau to exist to investigate the federal government We have them on the state level but not at the federal level apparently the party that got elected previously promised that they would put one in and then they just didn't for their entire time in office and so now we have the other party in who seems far more adamant that they're actually gonna do it and You know, let's see Be sure to LIKE and subscribe Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind my feed gives them to me from all over my channel It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best! |
| 02. October 2022 | Recieving copyright strikes from Rockstar Games | Receiving copyright strikes from Rockstar Games Both me and you received copyright strikes from Rockstar because of the GTA 6 leaks. It turned out for me, at least they're claiming, it was because of me having- Your thumbnail. Yeah, they were fairly blurred in the first rendition of the thumbnail. Not identifiable at all, it's just random colours. So I think it's a bit absurd, but did they ever give you a reason? So I got a strike, I emailed them, disputed it, and then I sent them another email a couple days ago and I haven't gotten a response yet. So it's been like five days, so they have five more days to respond or else it'll just go away. I didn't receive a response initially, they just removed it and then a couple of days later, they said we're putting the strike back on unless you remove the thumbnail entirely, and I was just like, well that's just weird, but whatever. I didn't show any, there was no footage obviously. I made sure not to show any screenshots of the actual leaks, no gameplay, nothing. The only thing that I had was a link to the GTA Forms thread. That might be why I suppose. A picture of what he said, but it was blurred out, the download link was blurred out. But then there's other people who have the GTA Forms thread linked into the description and then they actually show the download link that he posted, so I don't know. And there are other people who have actual images of the leaks, the footage. Like I saw on Linus Tech Tips' channel, no I'm a Tech Quickie or whatever, they showed the two characters and some of the footage. And I'm like, how have they not gotten strikes? Yeah, exactly. For a while I thought it was automated until they gave me an actual response and said this is why we took Daniel's video. Because clearly in their ideal world, no one would discuss it at all. And they would just take down literally everyone talking about it, but they can't legally do that. In terms of copyright, they can't copyright you for talking about something that's out there now, it's just ridiculous. For describing what's in it, it's perfectly fine. Unless of course what you're describing can be said to be trade secrets, but that's obviously not the case in here. Like saying the characters can prone, there's a male character in the game, that's not like a trade secret or something. |
| 26. May 2021 | Reckful's misunderstood statement about having a purpose | Wreckful's misunderstood statement about having a purpose. My last ramble that released was one where I mentioned that prior to Wreckful's death, maybe a year or two prior or something, I'm not sure, he made a statement that got everyone up in arms. Where he said, for those unaware, Wreckful was once upon a time a really popular, really huge content creator with millions upon millions of dollars, had endless investments, making deals in some cases for millions of dollars. So an extraordinarily well-off person, but he's always been a person who's been depressed and battled those demons until eventually he succumbed to them, like he killed himself. And the statement he made was, I wish I... not these exact words perhaps, he said, I wish I was poor because at least then I would have something to strive for or something to do. And it got people really aggravated, justifiably, because it's basically like... because the implication there is that being poor is better than being exceedingly wealthy. But that's not what Wreckful was saying. As hard as this is to understand, every single person does not flourish in the circumstances that you yourself would want to be in, right? 99.999999% of people in Wreckful's situation would have flourished and been better off for it. Wreckful didn't. What Wreckful was trying to communicate there was that he found so little satisfaction in his life, and he lacked the ability to find purpose to the degree that he strongly desired for external pressures to exist that would force him to do something with his life, force him to have purpose, something to strive for. Being in the circumstance that he was, he didn't have to fucking do anything, and he wasn't able to make himself do stuff. He would... even when his friends would ask him to do stuff, he'd be like, I don't want to go, you know, and he would justify not doing anything, and it would make himself more miserable. He was living a hell of a life, and as you can see, in that he ended up killing himself. It isn't necessarily the case that he would have been better off if he was poor, like, or something like that, but it is clearly the case that he wasn't doing well, and the expression that he said there wasn't him saying, oh my god, being poor is so much better than being rich, it is, oh my god, I'm suffering so much, I would take anything to get out of this situation. And he clarified this, but people still criticized him for it, as if he's just not unaware, they just accused him of being unaware that being poor isn't fun, or something. Or that he's like, oh man, I wish I was fucking poor, man, the poor people living their life, that's not what he was saying. It was acknowledging that a life without purpose, without something to do, without drive to experience things in life, isn't worth living. Money solves a lot of problems, and having money makes your life easier on endless different levels, but money doesn't solve every single issue a person has. Wreckful had issues when he was younger, when he wasn't as wealthy, he had the same issues when he was older, when he was wealthy. Many of the same issues I had when I was younger, now that I'm successful, I still have those exact same issues. Not everyone flourishes in the exact same circumstances. There are circumstances you believe you would love to be in, that if right now you were in them, you would not, you wouldn't like them at all. As I say, 99.9999% of people would have flourished under Wreckful's circumstances, but he just didn't. And him trying to communicate that, maybe in a less than elegant way, he didn't deserve the criticism they got, you know? Obviously suicide is not a good option. I hope nothing that I said ever suggested that. I was merely saying that the interpretation of his words in the way that I've communicated them is given evidence by that he ended up taking his life. Clearly he wasn't in good circumstances, irrespective of the wealth that he had. |
| 02. October 2021 | Recognising Names in chat | business. Recognizing names in chat. After a while as a streamer you just begin to recognize names. Recognition is far easier for the brain than recall, right? If you would ask me yesterday, recall someone's name from chat that has Tyler in it, I would have had a hard time. But seeing the name, I'm like, oh yeah, I remember you. In the same way you couldn't list a hundred TV shows that you've seen. Well, let's say you might have trouble. A thousand, a hundred of something that you've seen or read or whatever. But you could recognize them if they were presented to you. |
| 08. November 2021 | Red Dead Redemption 2 continues to affect me mentally | Red Devademption 2 continues to affect me mentally. Assassin's Creed Valhalla, right? Every time I see it, I get flashbacks to Red Devademption 2. Watching the characters slowly move between areas on a horse, oh. The rest of my life when I see a horse, I'm gonna, like, convulse. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Hope you are doing well today. I'm doing as well as can be expected for a person who woke up at like 9.30pm, after having a nightmare about playing Red Devademption 2. No joke. I remember walking on a bridge and there was a cutscene, then I walked and there was another cutscene, and I was something about complaining that the cutscene doesn't make sense with the gameplay, and it just, I got very frustrated and I couldn't stop playing for some reason. And I woke up feeling very, like, sick to the stomach or something, it was very strange. You think I'm making this up, but I'm really not. |
| 08. November 2021 | Red Dead Redemption 2 continues to effect me mentally | Red Devademption 2 continues to affect me mentally. Assassin's Creed Valhalla, right? Every time I see it, I get flashbacks to Red Devademption 2. Watching the characters slowly move between areas on a horse, oh. The rest of my life when I see a horse, I'm gonna, like, convulse. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Hope you are doing well today. I'm doing as well as can be expected for a person who woke up at like 9.30pm, after having a nightmare about playing Red Devademption 2. No joke. I remember walking on a bridge and there was a cutscene, then I walked and there was another cutscene, and I was something about complaining that the cutscene doesn't make sense with the gameplay, and it just, I got very frustrated and I couldn't stop playing for some reason. And I woke up feeling very, like, sick to the stomach or something, it was very strange. You think I'm making this up, but I'm really not. |
| 02. October 2021 | Red Dead Redemption 3 | Red Dead Redemption 3. If there is a single person at Rockstar that mentions Red Dead 3, they should just get thrown out a window. If any game is mentioned in that building that isn't GTA 6, throw it out the window. |
| 31. March 2021 | Reddit Recap Content Doing Really Well | Recap content is doing surprisingly well. It's funny how well the Reddit recaps are going though. And like over time, the Reddit recaps just get better and better. Cause more and more people join, more and more stuff gets submitted. It's unfortunate though, how much good stuff doesn't get uploaded enough to get to a thousand. Maybe at some point I will ask one of my mods or something to hand pick if there's some real good stuff or something in the stuff I haven't seen. More people are understanding my humor. My humor doesn't matter really cause it's just how many uploads it gets. Whether we get to look at it or not. The stuff is getting good viewership. I think what helps is that I only do it once a month. I know some content creators, like when doing Reddit recaps for a thing, like a big thing that everyone did. They would do it like daily, or like every week or something. You love the dark vibe, are you out of context for a recap? I've said some really weird shit over the course of my time. Being live. You could definitely find some really weird shit if you were committed to go through everything. |
| 31. March 2021 | Reddit Recap content doing really well | Recap content is doing surprisingly well. It's funny how well the Reddit recaps are going though. And like over time, the Reddit recaps just get better and better. Cause more and more people join, more and more stuff gets submitted. It's unfortunate though, how much good stuff doesn't get uploaded enough to get to a thousand. Maybe at some point I will ask one of my mods or something to hand pick if there's some real good stuff or something in the stuff I haven't seen. More people are understanding my humor. My humor doesn't matter really cause it's just how many uploads it gets. Whether we get to look at it or not. The stuff is getting good viewership. I think what helps is that I only do it once a month. I know some content creators, like when doing Reddit recaps for a thing, like a big thing that everyone did. They would do it like daily, or like every week or something. You love the dark vibe, are you out of context for a recap? I've said some really weird shit over the course of my time. Being live. You could definitely find some really weird shit if you were committed to go through everything. |
| 31. August 2020 | Reddit recap of /r/darkviperau | Starting to do a Reddit recap of r slash DarkviperAU. You gotta remind me, at the end of the month, I wanna look over my Reddit. Like what I'm gonna do is just every month, look at like the top shit on my Reddit. I think doing more than once a month wouldn't be good. It'd make the content weak. Do it every hour for the worst content. How often do the other content creators do a Reddit recap? I was already looking at my Reddit every once in a while when I needed something to do on stream. But I figured I could actually just make it into content. Because there is sometimes some creative original stuff put on there. Every week? I don't think I'm popular enough for every week. |
| 14. November 2022 | Reddit's livestream service shuts down. | Reddit's livestream service shuts down. Did you know Reddit has, well, had a livestreaming platform? Rpan was an experiment launched by Reddit in 2019, and is now being shut down on November 15th. I always saw the occasional livestream on the front page of Reddit. If they were doing something interesting, I'd be like, oh yeah, cool, and then they'd scroll past it. Like, it was never particularly interesting. And besides, every single one of those people just advertised their Twitch on there. And like, I suspect that's what they saw it as, as another way to get viewers to their Twitch. But yeah, so I don't think it's much of a loss. |
| 14. November 2022 | Reddit’s livestream service shuts down. | Reddit's livestream service shuts down. Did you know Reddit has, well, had a livestreaming platform? Rpan was an experiment launched by Reddit in 2019, and is now being shut down on November 15th. I always saw the occasional livestream on the front page of Reddit. If they were doing something interesting, I'd be like, oh yeah, cool, and then they'd scroll past it. Like, it was never particularly interesting. And besides, every single one of those people just advertised their Twitch on there. And like, I suspect that's what they saw it as, as another way to get viewers to their Twitch. But yeah, so I don't think it's much of a loss. |
| 01. June 2021 | Referential humour in pacifist | Referential humor in pacifist percent Play pacifist. I've recorded all dude. I just need to edit it. I've been editing it now for when did it finish guys like a year ago But trust me uh when I finish no damage. I will focus a lot on no on pacifist. I need to complete pacifist before Expanding heads comes out. There's a fun streams that they were I wish everyone else could experience those fun times And certainly I had a lower viewership then so it's a Small minority of people who was able to experience the oddities that uh the future footage has to offer Like conceivably it might be it would take weeks upon weeks of editing to get anywhere close to finishing that and I can't do it On stream I can do like the scrubbing through footage on stream. There's Everything else feels too awkward to make one of the things I do for pacifist There was I whenever I see like a funny meme or like a random sound clip from a show or something I? Always keep the link just in case I can find something to associate it with in my series Referential humor I think is the Easiest humor to do it's just hey guys this thing is kind of like this other thing and this other thing is funny So that makes this thing funny too, and just cuz it easy it's easy doesn't mean that it can't be good when done correctly You know certainly I'm sure you've uh You've seen examples where it isn't done correctly But you say why was this random clip of this show just spliced in here one hard thing with reference referential humor though is you Want it to be funny irrespective of whether or not a person gets the reference because everyone has not seen everything Unfortunate they of course they've seen all my content, but I mean other things people don't watch the entire Video be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 12. May 2021 | Reflecting On No Damage Run Process | Reflecting on no damage run progress The furthest I've ever gotten is the wrap-up without taking damage for entire run one bit of damage So like for example, I will probably would have finished that wrap-up one like like the the best run I did I took one bit of damage on derailed and then cleared the rest without taking damage The furthest I've gotten was the wrap-up which is you know 90% in whatever because it's galling right? Like it's been like 30 attempts or something more than that Maybe since I had that run where I took one damage on derailed and nothing else literally I took damage on derailed by a frame a Frame difference and I would have finished this series like months ago this entire struggle is Cuz one guy in a helicopter decided while getting pummeled with machine gun bullets that he'd fire one bullet perfectly into me Still pissed about I hate this mission so much It's a very hard thing keeping a balance mentally between Caring a lot enough that I'm paying attention and I do the strats correctly But also not caring so much that when a bad thing happens and I die that doesn't just destroy my brain when I yell it's like Nothing about me is prepared for failure, and I'm just like Actually, no I have two different responses when I see my death coming I yell because I know no When I don't see coming, I'm just seeing their shocks as I try to process How I'm now looking at a mission fail screen either way my brain is just overwhelmed Pretend Graham what I kill this run hell no hundred grand yet. I can get back here again getting back to this point again Not the hardest thing if I was like on the wrap-up I'm not even sure for a hundred grand I would kill a run that was up to the rapper now. I probably still would because a bird in the hand is worth two in The bush you know a hundred grand is a hundred grand and a successful run well That would be great and make me feel amazing and whatever for all I know after the wrap-up. I'd still fail I wouldn't be confident enough that I succeed five hours of my life isn't worth 10k. I guess it would be But I'd much rather succeed in this than have 10 grand. I want to succeed that much Be sure to LIKE the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 12. April 2022 | Reflecting on losing GTAGuessr. | Interesting on losing GTA Gessa. Interesting dude. Very very knowledgeable about GTA. It was very fun. Did I think I'd win at least one game? Yes. Am I a little bit disappointed? Honestly, not really. I much prefer, as I said Tim, I much prefer to be an underdog than an overdog you could say. I now have something to aspire to. As in, the professional has now beaten me. I now want to continue my Explore Los Santos series and like run around the city and identify more things. I want to play more GTA online and get more knowledge of the game. I don't want to be the guy on top. I want to be the guy, because even Whippy, like he beat me by a bit, sure, but being this trounced, there's so much more I can learn. Will I do more GTA Gess with RP streamers? I don't really know any other RP streamers. I'm not sure who I want to verse next. Like honestly, I don't think I did badly in any of those games except one versus the professional there. Like what did I average? Like an 1800? That's not bad. Certainly, I need to spend more time in the grasslands. I was somewhat disappointed that the time I spent in the game a couple of days ago looking at stuff didn't end up giving me any wins there. And it was weird that we had a double image. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 22. May 2021 | Reflecting on my experience with editors. | Reflecting on my experience with editors. Oh by the way, next Noita video will be the last. Sure most of you do not care. I had one dude editing them. Basically like I think I had like five or six different people who edited the videos. Like I gave them each one and they all sucked. Like three of them I was able to complete myself to a degree that I was able to release them but I felt bad putting their names on them because they just were not good. As in like I had to carry the entire thing. But there was one dude, Joel, who actually produced good stuff. His editing had a different style to it than my own and it seemed pretty good but he's got himself another job or something so he's not gonna do any more episodes. And I don't really want to go to the efforts of finding someone new especially because this guy took a long time to make the episodes and because the episodes pace a little it's hard to expect the person put a lot of effort into it you know. Often with these smaller projects I usually give them everything that the video makes because it's just like it's not a lot you know. I mean you enjoy my Noita content but like each episode gets like 20,000 views or whatever and I mean that may seem a lot to some people but I mean my rambles get 40k. I'll pay for edits. I can afford to pay them it's just it's always effort because I have to review this stuff and fix things and chase people down and stuff. I just don't think the viewership's there. It's not that I'm lazy I do nothing else with my time other than work. It's just always other stuff I can prioritize time on. Currently right now there's three different videos from people sitting there that I haven't had time to fix. Like people don't realize how much of effort goes into finding a decent editor because the vast majority people do not have the experience for what you want and are completely unaware that they don't have the experience. I'm not as hands-on these days Matty. My only job? Yeah I mean I I spend all day streaming and editing as I have for the last years. What's troublesome is that usually this stuff that I'm having done is it's the the less important stuff that gets far less views. So it's like extra stuff and considering that I'd have to put some effort into it too not just in terms of finding people assigning stuff making sure they're actually doing it and then partially editing it myself. Like I can't afford just to throw away a thousand dollars to get a person to make a project that I know isn't gonna make that much. So it's trying to find someone who's good enough yet isn't too expensive so that the product just doesn't lose revenue you know. What was it like I had someone edit my cuphead stuff and they put a lot of effort into it and the video they got and gave me at the end was three hours and I'm like three hours and I look at it and it's it's just so not cut well. Like it's there's so much extra stuff left in it and it's gonna take me days to go through this. Days! And it's been sitting there for so long because it's just prioritizing that over literally anything that I do would be insane but I'm sick of looking at it and knowing any project I assigned to anyone is gonna have that likely have that same effect where it's you know 60% there and I have to carry it to the end. It's just like I have been a good place to do that and right now I'm not in a good place either physically mentally or in terms of my other projects. And like the you remember like a month and a half ago almost two months now when I versed the XQC and Ludwig chess bots thing I had someone edit that it took them a month and a half and it was only like three hours of footage and even that isn't perfect and that's been a hassle that I'm gonna have to fix and stuff wasn't sent with the original projects and the kind of chess meme thing is kind of gone now so it's not even probably worth finishing but I have to finish it. What was the other one um Bioshock 1? Terrible. Waited three months for it almost. It's just terrible. Constantly have to chasing up about stuff. What was the other one? Um there's another one that's sitting there. Oh plume. So person who made the PUBG video it was pretty good it was it was like 80 90% there had to do some audio rebalancing and change the lighting and stuff and I had a few things myself but it was it was good I was happy to finally found someone who can make stuff that wasn't a huge trial to get out there it's been about two and a half months waiting for the finish with the footage I've given them like why take on the projects why take on the projects Foxy did the same fucking thing with Among Us people people think just having editors is this magic magical wonderland where you just you just finish footage you send it off and then just it comes back perfect it there's no chasing down there's no doing shit yourself it's it's it's a huge trial finding people who are competent who won't joke around and again part of the problem is these projects do not make enough money for it to be worth most people's time like if each of these videos was getting you know 10 million views and I could just offer people thousands of dollars I could I could find myself fucking anyone I could find people who could who edit movies for for for a living but I can't do that don't don't take this as me being like I'm poor I'm broke it's simply that it's a business right you as a rule you don't want to give out more money than than you're making or that is worth your time like often I just give what the video makes because I'm just happy to have it done I'm not looking to make money in it even though I've put in effort myself I'm just like look I'm happy this is finally done I never like I have to think about it just take all the money but even that all the money isn't worth it for a lot of people how much do I charge for an editing job for video that doesn't do well too well I you mean you mean they give me something so bad that I can't use it nothing I've had people legitimately wait a month and send me back the same footage that I gave them with like two cuts in it if I don't use it they don't get paid but what they get paid depends on what the video makes as I say and it can depend on the month like some months do better than other months you know even I have found some good editors that is very true I have three people who helped me on a consistent basis who are constantly falling behind because like the second I've caught up with my responsibilities you know finalizing rambles removing things cutting it a bit more and putting in all the voice lines and stuff or going through other stuff but then I have to do facts and glitches and passwords and stuff like I never have the opportunity to catch up once upon a time I would go through the no damage runs and chaos highlights I'd go through them both and potentially remove things change things or add jokes and stuff these days I don't because of the clips channel the three hours or something of a day that I would spend going through that stuff I now make clips and the reason why you haven't seen many clips on the clips channel over the last two weeks I've caught up like I've just skipped a few days it's because of facts and glitches and passwords like I had this good two to three hour period of my day where I could I could spend on that kind of stuff and I don't have it now because of the clip channel so long story short noita makes so little money gets so a few views that I just don't think it's worth hunting down someone who is a fit for the job where the money for them actually matters they won't jerk me around yet they're good enough for the projects there is one new guy who's actually good and he's the dude who does the um Dark Souls 3 speedrun videos especially considering how bad that footage is like change a few things was not that much like a once he's finished with the with that footage I'll have him to normal stuff I might just get him to do the reddit recap every month or whatever save me a little bit of time I hate how much I've fallen behind on the clips I've thought about me times trying to get someone else to do the clips for me but it would just be such a huge pain in the ass because a significant part of doing that clip stuff is the thumbnail the title the rendering time and stuff and actually picking the stuff that matters and I couldn't trust anyone to do that and I know that from experience because I did once try to do that stuff with tick tock and oh my god people just don't get it since this was recorded I became somewhat ill for quite some time meaning and that I couldn't stream consistently or make new content this meant I had to rely more on my older content so I would actually like my noise of content to be edited if you think you have the skills to be able to help me edit them feel free to DM me on my discord discord dot GG slash dark fiber a you dark fiber a you hashtag oh oh oh one be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 04. July 2022 | Reflecting on my hair loss | Reflecting on my hair loss. It's unknown all the variables that relate to hair loss but one thing that is certain is that somehow DHT is related to it and it's basically like this thing that testosterone is converted into in your body and some of the other effects of having like a fuck ton of DHT is acne and I'm really just like, oh my god I've had acne my whole entire fucking life. I'm 30 still getting pimples and now you're telling me I'm losing my hair because of this same thing. That makes total sense to me. Like my hair looks fine right now. My hairline's a little bit high but it's fine. It's one of these things where if you live in denial about a problem and you leave it, it gets hard to solve and gets worse. So I'm being proactive you know. For those who don't know like I'm like I've got just the normal kind of hair loss that's moving upwards or whatever. I'll probably end up like my dad where it's like it's like back here or whatever. He still has hair but obviously your hairline's shit you're being crazy about hair loss you mention it constantly every stream. I mentioned literally everything that is currently going on in my life every single time I start a stream. Literally. I'm not specifically singling out hair loss. I am starting my stream and talking about all that's going on in my life right now. So there was this there's this thing called monoxenil right and they found it treating something else like 30 years ago and they found out that it stimulates hair growth but then there's like a bajillion other things as well like needling your head like with a small roller apparently stimulates hair growth and then I like I watch these videos talking about how like all these famous actors who have gotten hair transplants where they take like a bit of your hair from the back and put it on the front. It's it's nuts. After looking at all the options available I'm gonna try fin astride and maybe monoxenil probably just using both see how that goes apparently fin astride basically it's like one in a hundred or more like one hundred one in two hundred you have negative side effects that are more than mild inconvenience. That's like yeah well alright I do have pretty bad RNG but let's see how this goes. I'm not gonna bother with the laser treatment stuff it seems complete bullshit and a scam. The micro needle rolling stuff seems to be legit but I don't like the idea about micro needling my head. Just shave it? Look at my hair! I'm not really at the point where I need to shave it dude. Yeah there's I guess there's some forms of baldness that are really aggressive and that you couldn't combat or either that or you live in denial and you let it go too long. I never understood what's so bad about going bald as Northmen. I don't like the look on me personally and clearly as a preference for men people prefer men with hair. Not that that's a real big concern for my life but it's just like you know I like having hair. I've seen myself forever and I'd like to keep it that way. It is clear that I'm slowly losing it this way like it's receding but I haven't really suffered like a ridiculous amount of hair thickness loss but like I'm pretty sure the front it's thinner than it used to be. In life chat if you have a problem no amounts of ignoring that problem will make it better. I am a proactive person. If I recognize that I have a problem I will actively seek out a solution to that problem as quickly as humanly possible. I am not a ignore thing and hope for the best. I am okay let us accept a problem exists when it's identified and just work at it as much as possible. It could be from the shampoo that's why he's going bald. I did actually look into that. I was like is there a correlation between using too much shampoo and conditioner and hair loss or not washing your hair and hair loss and I found no conclusive answer. I do sometimes wonder how many problems that people experience just things that people do that they don't talk about or something. Like yeah like the amount that you wash your hair or something or eating egg and then washing your hair or just something some weird interaction that's just not being considered or studied that could be the cause of problems experienced by countless people you know. All my main concern right is none of this will fix my fucking hairline. Look at this shit chat. Like my hairline was never amazing but there used to be a bit more hair here. But the only way to fix my hairline is to get a hair transplant and I think you look kind of fucked up with a hair transplant for a while. I'll probably look into it though. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 07. February 2022 | Reflecting on my pacifist voiceovers. | Reflecting on my pacifist voiceovers. When I listen back to pacifists sometimes, I do wish I had taken more of an enthusiastic kind of sounding voice to the whole thing, but like, my presentation was meant to kind of contrast with how I sound in the actual game on the day, you know? And it's a lot easier to be clear and concise when you're not putting some emotion into what you're saying or speaking quickly. |
| 02. February 2021 | Reflecting on the future of my podcast | Reflecting on the future of my podcast. So yesterday I did my podcast-y thing with Modest Pelican. It was quite fun, went for two and a half hours and it really flew by. Editing it is going to be a little bit of a problem though because our microphones are not exactly the same volume. When you do a podcast in person, because you've pre-set up the hardware, it's easy to balance out the audio. You can both be using the exact same microphone. When you do it over the internet, you aren't necessarily going to be on the same hardware with the same equipment or whatever. I'm going to have to go through and turn up or down different sections. I think I'm popular enough that the first episode has got almost 100k views. I think I could probably message anyone and have a reasonable shot of getting them on there now. I just watched a video from this guy Easy Speezy talking about how he was in some Ludwig competition or whatever. It was kind of a funny story. His explosive success, I think he's gained like 200k subs in the last month and like 25 million views or something. It's just interesting. I want to know his story. Apparently he made a video for MrBeast when he had like 10k subs. It's always interesting listening to how people grew to where they are today. With speedrunners, it's even more interesting, I suppose, because it's so uncommon. When I see stories like that, this Easy Speezy guy, I think to myself, it'd be cool just to have people on to tell stories like that. I think it'd be entertaining. I mean, we follow each other on Twitter, maybe one day. The limiting factor for me right now though is just how fucking tired I am. Did you guys really not like the overlay? Admittedly, I have seen better overlays for podcasts, but I hate moving animations and shit on overlays, which kind of limits how good it can look. The name of my podcast is a ramble with. Yeah, I will definitely contact another person to have on the podcast thing when I'm no longer tired. |
| 04. November 2021 | Reflecting on the growth of facts and glitches | Reflecting on the growth of Facts and Glitches So yesterday, I was looking at my first Facts and Glitches episodes. In episode 2 of that series, there's this little thing I do before the episode starts where I'm like, hey guys, there was such a huge amount of support from the previous episode that I'm gonna do another episode. I show an image of how many views I got. The first week, I got 11k views. And I was like, wow, there's so many of yous, oh my god, I'm like fucking famous. And it's just interesting to see that comparison from then to today. It was just a cool thing, seeing how far I've come is what I'm saying. I never expected to get a thousand paid subs on Twitch. Thanks for watching! |
| 27. January 2021 | Reflection on the death of Apollo Legend | Reflections on the death of a poor legend. Keep in mind that these rambles are a few weeks old. So I've had a rough couple of weeks. I remember thinking, like a little while back, maybe two, three months ago, like, man, I feel like I haven't gotten any major drama. Like, I wonder how I would handle that. What if I just yelled the N-word on stream one day? How would I handle that situation happening? I wonder if I'll ever get into some major drama and I wonder how I'll handle it. And then just last couple of weeks it's like, there you go. Let's talk about the Apollo thing. It may surprise, so okay, for those who don't know the story, I made a video about it. It was a very quick one that I thought was just going to be unlisted. I'm not going to rehash all the details, but basically a dude named Apollo Legends was once a big-time speedrun content creator. Hadn't made a lot of videos over the last couple of years, but they committed suicide recently, like a couple of days ago. Apollo made a video before he took his life explaining that he was going to do it and why. In the video, despite proclaiming that it had nothing to do with any sort of silly online drama or anything like that, in the description, presumably written after he uploaded the video, he said that me and EZscape gave him the push needed to end his life. Now you might think that me being a somewhat emotional guy sometimes, that I'd feel guilt or I would have felt extraordinarily sad or something, but I didn't. I felt sad in the same way that I feel sad whenever any stranger commits suicide, because I just roll over in my head the life that person probably led, the variables that could have been different, that they would still be there. You know, any of us could have had that fate where we could have been born in those environments or with those genetics or something that would lead to that kind of conclusion. Like we all get very fortunate if we find ourselves in a good environment. Not everyone is blessed in that way. And reading some of Apollo talking about his life or whatever and the suffering that he's experienced, you can't help but feel bad for the guy or anyone who would go through that kind of stuff. But I didn't for a moment feel guilty. And it should be pretty obvious why. It's like if you investigate fraud at a company and you find people embezzling millions of dollars and you bring this to light and then that person kills themselves because of a loss of status or something. The first question you would ask is, would the world be a better place if that investigation had never taken place? Like the acts that resulted in the conclusion, would the world be a better place if we just, for example, just never investigated fraud? The obvious answer is no. But for example, in a case where let's say people bully a child, a teenager at school and that person kills themselves, you would look at that situation and go, would the world be a better place without that kind of bullying? Obviously yes. And therefore you can see, you can conclude there's some culpability in that conclusion with the people who bullied that person, right? In my case, Apollo Legend was and still is a stranger to me. I've never met them. I've never talked to them in any meaningful capacity. I've been tangentially involved with him twice in my entire life. The first time was calling him out for misinformation. Now going back to what I said before, would the world be a better place if people were not called out when they spread misinformation? Obviously no. That is a thing in life that should exist and is a benefit to everyone for existing. The second time we got involved was when he called me out for doing something that he considered to be wrong. But it was again based on false information, misinformation. Now again, would the world be a better place if people were able to accuse people of things based on misinformation and they would never get any pushback from it? Again, no. Both my actions in regards to Apollo, I would have done to anyone in the exact same way at any time in my life. And the general thrust of what I did is a benefit to society and everyone in general. And the world would be a worse place if they didn't exist. Therefore, it's very hard for me to consider myself to any way blame for Apollo ending his life. But more than this, given that this happened six months ago, very much so indicates that if my actions were a sufficient push for him to end his life, it would have happened six months ago. The lull of six months there clearly indicates that I did not have a significant causal link in that regard. But it could be said that things I did caused Apollo to lose status online. But of course, the astute of you will realize that ultimately what caused Apollo's lack of loss of status online wasn't me, but the actions Apollo took. Using my example of fraud from way back, it wasn't the investigation and the finding of the subsequent fraud that led to the person killing himself in that example. It was the fraud being committed at all. The only reason people could be critical of me is if they believed that the things that I was critical of Apollo for was faulty, was based on nothing, which is clearly not the case. It is also very hard to conclude that I somehow bullied the man or sought to make his life worse in some meaningful capacity. I only mentioned him twice in two years. And the second time was only because he mentioned me. Hearing about Apollo's other stuff going on in his life, his mental, physical issues, the pain he was in, getting in and out of hospital and stuff, not being able to fix these issues. I didn't read it too closely. I couldn't bear to watch his suicide note, but this is just stuff that people tell me about that's in there. Clearly, he indicated that he did not lead a good life and he suffered. It's clearly obvious that such things were far more impactful than anything I did or did not do. What made me more sad about this entire situation is again, just reflecting on the unfairness of life and how some people are put into these situations. The terrible reality that some people would rather end their lives than, than live the life that they have. No one's deserving of that fate, right? And just thinking on that always depresses me. But also again, reflecting on wreckful always makes me depressed. What's worse in this case, like, EZscape may have a harder time with this than I am. While obviously, in no way, shape or form is EZscape in any way culpable or even, even really involved in Apollo's death, that EZscape was mentioned as well. And EZscape, I believe knew Apollo more than I did. Like he actually knew him as a human being rather than just a, an entity on the internet. They had more involvement together over the years. So Apollo was more of a person. So I'm worried that EZscape, well, according to Twitter, he isn't taking it as well as I am. And that's very sad. I sent him a message, but he didn't respond. It's going to be anyone's guess how EZscape is going to get over this or what his always-punctuated conclusions are going to be. And it's a terrible thing, you know. EZscape also made a longer video closer to this whole incident. I mean, even if that's true, he's still not to blame. Yeah, certainly this is the most negativity I've felt over such short a period of time. While obviously the support in general has been overwhelming, there are always going to be some people who, you know, just don't like me and want to bait, react, or want to bait reactions or something, or just piss people off and stuff and that kind of stuff. You can't help but notice. Like sometimes you want to question if you're skewing things in some bias to make yourself feel better or whatever. So it's always good to look to people who aren't necessarily biased in your favor. You look to what they're concluding to see if maybe there's some other way of looking at things. And someone sent me a video from the quartering, and he called me a fart sniffing douchebag or something. But then he concluded and said, you are clearly a dark viper, isn't to blame at all for this. And I'm like, well, there you go. Someone who I have no respect for and who has no respect for me also concludes the same thing that I do on on far less information. So I can't see how I'm being biased in my assessment of this matter. Though there was that funny thing. For those who are unaware, there is a notification thing in the YouTube studio app on your mobile phone where it will show you all the big content creators who have commented on any of your videos. Like, for example, when Dream commented on one of my videos, that's how I noticed because obviously we just get lost in the normalcy of comments. But because it comes up on that notification, I noticed on the video I made with a pot about Apollo and his passing, this content creator with 250,000 subscribers writes a comment like white nationalists aren't the same as neo-Nazis. All this cancel culture is out of control. Blah. It's like, that's that's your takeaway from that video, my dude. The guy just died. And like, and I'm like, who who? And this guy then deletes his comment. And so all I have in the notifications is just the preview, like the first two lines. And I'm like, who the fuck is this content creator writing this kind of shit? And so I click through and it's like Trump's supporters central, Biden stole the election from Lord Trump. And I'm like, oh, yeah, OK. Fair enough. I'm like, well, what else did I expect? It was very funny. The reason why this is funny is just because big content creators, not all of them seem to know this notification thing exists. And and and they do know that the previews are kept even after you delete comments. But I find that very funny. |
| 27. January 2021 | Reflection on the death of apollo legend | Reflections on the death of a poor legend. Keep in mind that these rambles are a few weeks old. So I've had a rough couple of weeks. I remember thinking, like a little while back, maybe two, three months ago, like, man, I feel like I haven't gotten any major drama. Like, I wonder how I would handle that. What if I just yelled the N-word on stream one day? How would I handle that situation happening? I wonder if I'll ever get into some major drama and I wonder how I'll handle it. And then just last couple of weeks it's like, there you go. Let's talk about the Apollo thing. It may surprise, so okay, for those who don't know the story, I made a video about it. It was a very quick one that I thought was just going to be unlisted. I'm not going to rehash all the details, but basically a dude named Apollo Legends was once a big-time speedrun content creator. Hadn't made a lot of videos over the last couple of years, but they committed suicide recently, like a couple of days ago. Apollo made a video before he took his life explaining that he was going to do it and why. In the video, despite proclaiming that it had nothing to do with any sort of silly online drama or anything like that, in the description, presumably written after he uploaded the video, he said that me and EZscape gave him the push needed to end his life. Now you might think that me being a somewhat emotional guy sometimes, that I'd feel guilt or I would have felt extraordinarily sad or something, but I didn't. I felt sad in the same way that I feel sad whenever any stranger commits suicide, because I just roll over in my head the life that person probably led, the variables that could have been different, that they would still be there. You know, any of us could have had that fate where we could have been born in those environments or with those genetics or something that would lead to that kind of conclusion. Like we all get very fortunate if we find ourselves in a good environment. Not everyone is blessed in that way. And reading some of Apollo talking about his life or whatever and the suffering that he's experienced, you can't help but feel bad for the guy or anyone who would go through that kind of stuff. But I didn't for a moment feel guilty. And it should be pretty obvious why. It's like if you investigate fraud at a company and you find people embezzling millions of dollars and you bring this to light and then that person kills themselves because of a loss of status or something. The first question you would ask is, would the world be a better place if that investigation had never taken place? Like the acts that resulted in the conclusion, would the world be a better place if we just, for example, just never investigated fraud? The obvious answer is no. But for example, in a case where let's say people bully a child, a teenager at school and that person kills themselves, you would look at that situation and go, would the world be a better place without that kind of bullying? Obviously yes. And therefore you can see, you can conclude there's some culpability in that conclusion with the people who bullied that person, right? In my case, Apollo Legend was and still is a stranger to me. I've never met them. I've never talked to them in any meaningful capacity. I've been tangentially involved with him twice in my entire life. The first time was calling him out for misinformation. Now going back to what I said before, would the world be a better place if people were not called out when they spread misinformation? Obviously no. That is a thing in life that should exist and is a benefit to everyone for existing. The second time we got involved was when he called me out for doing something that he considered to be wrong. But it was again based on false information, misinformation. Now again, would the world be a better place if people were able to accuse people of things based on misinformation and they would never get any pushback from it? Again, no. Both my actions in regards to Apollo, I would have done to anyone in the exact same way at any time in my life. And the general thrust of what I did is a benefit to society and everyone in general. And the world would be a worse place if they didn't exist. Therefore, it's very hard for me to consider myself to any way blame for Apollo ending his life. But more than this, given that this happened six months ago, very much so indicates that if my actions were a sufficient push for him to end his life, it would have happened six months ago. The lull of six months there clearly indicates that I did not have a significant causal link in that regard. But it could be said that things I did caused Apollo to lose status online. But of course, the astute of you will realize that ultimately what caused Apollo's lack of loss of status online wasn't me, but the actions Apollo took. Using my example of fraud from way back, it wasn't the investigation and the finding of the subsequent fraud that led to the person killing himself in that example. It was the fraud being committed at all. The only reason people could be critical of me is if they believed that the things that I was critical of Apollo for was faulty, was based on nothing, which is clearly not the case. It is also very hard to conclude that I somehow bullied the man or sought to make his life worse in some meaningful capacity. I only mentioned him twice in two years. And the second time was only because he mentioned me. Hearing about Apollo's other stuff going on in his life, his mental, physical issues, the pain he was in, getting in and out of hospital and stuff, not being able to fix these issues. I didn't read it too closely. I couldn't bear to watch his suicide note, but this is just stuff that people tell me about that's in there. Clearly, he indicated that he did not lead a good life and he suffered. It's clearly obvious that such things were far more impactful than anything I did or did not do. What made me more sad about this entire situation is again, just reflecting on the unfairness of life and how some people are put into these situations. The terrible reality that some people would rather end their lives than, than live the life that they have. No one's deserving of that fate, right? And just thinking on that always depresses me. But also again, reflecting on wreckful always makes me depressed. What's worse in this case, like, EZscape may have a harder time with this than I am. While obviously, in no way, shape or form is EZscape in any way culpable or even, even really involved in Apollo's death, that EZscape was mentioned as well. And EZscape, I believe knew Apollo more than I did. Like he actually knew him as a human being rather than just a, an entity on the internet. They had more involvement together over the years. So Apollo was more of a person. So I'm worried that EZscape, well, according to Twitter, he isn't taking it as well as I am. And that's very sad. I sent him a message, but he didn't respond. It's going to be anyone's guess how EZscape is going to get over this or what his always-punctuated conclusions are going to be. And it's a terrible thing, you know. EZscape also made a longer video closer to this whole incident. I mean, even if that's true, he's still not to blame. Yeah, certainly this is the most negativity I've felt over such short a period of time. While obviously the support in general has been overwhelming, there are always going to be some people who, you know, just don't like me and want to bait, react, or want to bait reactions or something, or just piss people off and stuff and that kind of stuff. You can't help but notice. Like sometimes you want to question if you're skewing things in some bias to make yourself feel better or whatever. So it's always good to look to people who aren't necessarily biased in your favor. You look to what they're concluding to see if maybe there's some other way of looking at things. And someone sent me a video from the quartering, and he called me a fart sniffing douchebag or something. But then he concluded and said, you are clearly a dark viper, isn't to blame at all for this. And I'm like, well, there you go. Someone who I have no respect for and who has no respect for me also concludes the same thing that I do on on far less information. So I can't see how I'm being biased in my assessment of this matter. Though there was that funny thing. For those who are unaware, there is a notification thing in the YouTube studio app on your mobile phone where it will show you all the big content creators who have commented on any of your videos. Like, for example, when Dream commented on one of my videos, that's how I noticed because obviously we just get lost in the normalcy of comments. But because it comes up on that notification, I noticed on the video I made with a pot about Apollo and his passing, this content creator with 250,000 subscribers writes a comment like white nationalists aren't the same as neo-Nazis. All this cancel culture is out of control. Blah. It's like, that's that's your takeaway from that video, my dude. The guy just died. And like, and I'm like, who who? And this guy then deletes his comment. And so all I have in the notifications is just the preview, like the first two lines. And I'm like, who the fuck is this content creator writing this kind of shit? And so I click through and it's like Trump's supporters central, Biden stole the election from Lord Trump. And I'm like, oh, yeah, OK. Fair enough. I'm like, well, what else did I expect? It was very funny. The reason why this is funny is just because big content creators, not all of them seem to know this notification thing exists. And and and they do know that the previews are kept even after you delete comments. But I find that very funny. |
| 08. January 2022 | Reflections on the GTAguessr collab with mutahar and possible collabs in the future | with the negative attention NFTs have had, do you really want Stan Lee? Poor Stan Lee to get that shit. Reflections on the GTA Gessa collab with Moodahar and possible collabs in the future. I need a collab with Moodahar again? I mean that was good, but I'm not very good at collabs I don't think. I mean he says he wants me to be on his podcast. Hope I can do that and not suck. Like whenever I think about being on a podcast thing I'm like what would I talk about? You know? Would I really be able to contribute all that much? Because all I do is work all day. Like when I was, so I slept last night and for the entire time that I was sleeping I thought I was late for something and so I never really got that deep sleep and so I was pretty tired coming into this. So I'm happy it ended pretty well. I don't know which I prefer, like not taking it too seriously, kind of telling each other bits and pieces of what we're looking at or when it's hardcore comparative because the casual stuff is more fun and you're just chilling trying to figure out locations. But the more comparative stuff probably works better for YouTube I think. People probably prefer that antagonistic I'm gonna beat you kind of stuff you know? Are there any more collaborations that I'm planning? There is only a handful more people that I'm aware of that both have a good knowledge of GTA but also know me to some degree. Call me Kevin? Sonny Evans? I'm still trying to get Sonny Evans on top, he keeps being busy and stuff. I mean does Doug Doug know GTA? I mean yeah I should probably do one with Hugo as well. Like see I've never talked to like Gilly Master and stuff like I'm trying to think of people that I'm even tangentially associated with who are also around my size right? Are my friends with Doug Doug? Oh yeah because yeah because Doug Doug does play a lot of mods. Yeah so like you must have a decent knowledge of the game. See I might ask Doug Doug, call me Kevin, Sonny Evans, that's enough for now. It's just nice talking to other creators sometimes you know? Doug Doug will probably just have a bot figure out the location for him. I mean that would be pretty funny if he programmed this for a special episode. I mean he could probably do that himself for his own channel. Excuse to you Polly, what idk. Whatever 5-7-0-1-0. So the problem with challenging whatever is he'd win easily of all the people who exist that I know more about Los Santos than me, it's whatever. I respect his knowledge of the game to the absolute degree. But he also doesn't use a mic and doesn't use a webcam. That doesn't mean criticizing him, it just makes the collaboration for this particular thing difficult. Because we have collabs or at least we've shouted out each other in videos. Like at the end of my six controversial strats of GTA 5 I gave whatever a shout out and that's got a couple of million views. Why don't you work with small youtubers slash streamers? Because I'm tired. I have so little time of a day to do anything that if I'm gonna go out of my way to do a collaboration, the rare ones that I do, it's just in my best interest to do the biggest people possible. Or the, well I suppose biggest is the wrong word. People who I believe are gonna be the best content possible. So the people that I did collaborations with first weren't necessarily the biggest content creators that I could have contacted, they were the ones that I believed had the best chance of doing well. I know me and Moodahive had our disagreements and stuff but he's a talker. He's content is as much his personality as it is the stuff that he makes and for that reason it's more than likely going to go down well. Whatever must be a dev or something? No he's just a real OG of making GTA content and because he has his specialized tools and stuff for making his stuff he is able to see stuff that the rest of us can't you know. How about another collab with chat and GTA guesser? We haven't played together in a while. I mean the last one that I did with chat I did say we'd do a double or nothing for a hundred subs because we're tired. You should honestly try and do more podcast style content I think it honestly suits you well. Any form of social interaction, conversations, takes like 10 times my energy of doing anything else. Which usually isn't a problem as long as we aren't talking for 10 hours but when I wake up of a day I have no idea how much energy I'm gonna have for that day and so I find it hard to book specific days and then show up and be my best self. I'm kind of rolling the dice as to how well it's going to go. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 08. January 2022 | Reflections on the gtaguessr collab with mutahar and possible collabs in the future | with the negative attention NFTs have had, do you really want Stan Lee? Poor Stan Lee to get that shit. Reflections on the GTA Gessa collab with Moodahar and possible collabs in the future. I need a collab with Moodahar again? I mean that was good, but I'm not very good at collabs I don't think. I mean he says he wants me to be on his podcast. Hope I can do that and not suck. Like whenever I think about being on a podcast thing I'm like what would I talk about? You know? Would I really be able to contribute all that much? Because all I do is work all day. Like when I was, so I slept last night and for the entire time that I was sleeping I thought I was late for something and so I never really got that deep sleep and so I was pretty tired coming into this. So I'm happy it ended pretty well. I don't know which I prefer, like not taking it too seriously, kind of telling each other bits and pieces of what we're looking at or when it's hardcore comparative because the casual stuff is more fun and you're just chilling trying to figure out locations. But the more comparative stuff probably works better for YouTube I think. People probably prefer that antagonistic I'm gonna beat you kind of stuff you know? Are there any more collaborations that I'm planning? There is only a handful more people that I'm aware of that both have a good knowledge of GTA but also know me to some degree. Call me Kevin? Sonny Evans? I'm still trying to get Sonny Evans on top, he keeps being busy and stuff. I mean does Doug Doug know GTA? I mean yeah I should probably do one with Hugo as well. Like see I've never talked to like Gilly Master and stuff like I'm trying to think of people that I'm even tangentially associated with who are also around my size right? Are my friends with Doug Doug? Oh yeah because yeah because Doug Doug does play a lot of mods. Yeah so like you must have a decent knowledge of the game. See I might ask Doug Doug, call me Kevin, Sonny Evans, that's enough for now. It's just nice talking to other creators sometimes you know? Doug Doug will probably just have a bot figure out the location for him. I mean that would be pretty funny if he programmed this for a special episode. I mean he could probably do that himself for his own channel. Excuse me, probably, what? I don't know him. Whatever 571. So the problem with challenging whatever is he'd win easily of all the people who exist that I know know more about Los Santos than me. It's whatever. I respect his knowledge of the game to the absolute degree but he also doesn't use a mic and doesn't use a webcam. That doesn't mean criticizing him but it just makes the collaboration for this particular thing difficult because we have collabs or at least we've shouted out each other in videos. Like at the end of my six controversial strats of GTA 5 I gave whatever a shout out and that's got a couple of million views. Why don't you work with small youtubers slash streamers? Because I'm tired. I have so little time of a day to do anything that if I'm going to go out of my way to do a collaboration, the rare ones that I do, it's just in my best interest to do the biggest people possible. Or the most biggest is the wrong word. People who I believe are going to be the best content possible. So the people that I did collaborations with first weren't necessarily the biggest content creators that I could have contacted. They were the ones that I believed had the best chance of doing well. I know me, Moodahive had our disagreements and stuff but he's a talker. He's content as much as his personality as it is the stuff that he makes. And for that reason it's more than likely going to go down well. Whatever must be a dev or something? No he's just a real OG of making GTA content and because he has his specialized tools and stuff for making his stuff he is able to see stuff that the rest of us can't. How about another collab with chat and GTA guesser? We haven't played together in a while. I mean the last one that I did with chat I did say we'd do a double or nothing for 100 subs because we're tired. You should honestly try and do more podcast style content. I think it honestly suits you well. Any form of social interaction, conversations, takes like 10 times my energy of doing anything else. Which usually isn't a problem as long as we aren't talking for 10 hours but when I wake up of a day I have no idea how much energy I'm going to have for that day. And so I find it hard to book specific days and then show up and be my best self. I'm kind of rolling the dice as to how well it's going to go. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 16. May 2020 | Regrets in my online career | else. Is there anything in your online career you wish you could go back on and change? I wish I started pretty much everything that I do now earlier. Obviously if I went back and I knew what I knew now, I would do many different things differently. In regards to GTA V in general, I got started way late in the game. There are so many GTA content creators who have had thousands of videos before I even made my first video. You could make the case that had I started doing certain things earlier, maybe I wouldn't have succeeded. Because you never know, you know, small change in a complex system blah blah blah leading to outcomes you couldn't predict. But I sincerely doubt that if I could go back with the knowledge that I have now that I couldn't be more successful than I am now. There was just a lot of wasted effort and time that at the time I could not identify as such but now I can identify as such. And looking back at that waste, it you know, I can understand I don't feel bad or hate myself or something because I wasted that time because I didn't know any better. But I wish it were different. |
| 26. December 2021 | Regretting nothing because it made you who you are | Regretting nothing because it made you who you are. To be honest I regret nothing in my life because I believe if I changed anything in the past I wouldn't be where I'm at right now. I wouldn't be the same person and therefore I have nothing to regret. Depends how you see identity I suppose. If you believe yourself to be the culmination of those particular set of experiences leading up to you right now, yeah if you changed one of those that would be a different person. But that person would equally say the same statement. So in fact it's like by that logic regret can never make sense because the only way you could really regret something that happened in the past is if you wanted to die. Regardless how bad your past was if it's changed ever so slightly the you that exists would no longer exist. |
| 27. July 2021 | Rejecting people for editing jobs | Rejecting people for editing jobs. You've probably seen me sometimes with community posts asking people, do they want to edit for me and stuff if you're interested in editing, DM me on Discord, right? Sometimes I get messages from people and they'll link me these YouTube channels. And I'm like, why would you link this to me? This is just terrible. It's like, you know, you've garbagely edited together memes like you would do when you're 15 years old. I don't know, you're using paint or whatever kind of stuff. And I'm like, how do you think this is putting your best foot forward? That stuff is, you know, I'm like, thank you for messaging me, but this isn't what I'm looking for. You know, I move on to someone else. But the ones that I have the hardest time responding to is like someone offered to edit for me. I looked at their channel and they've been making content consistently for years. I mean like four, five years. And it was like two years ago they made a video, thanks for the 100 subscribers. Like they're still making consistent content. And after four years, their like most recent video got like 20 views or something. Looking at the content, I'm like, this is not good stuff. And the person who is making this content so clearly isn't suited to this career. Like they were offering to edit for me. And I'm like, and the editing isn't particularly good either. It's a combination of just the skills not being there and the person, their personality, the way they present themselves, the way they speak, that just isn't good for YouTube content. Like every facet of it was bad, but this person so clearly wanted to be successful on YouTube. Like so clearly. Their video, and I watched a few of them, I couldn't look away. I felt so much pity for this person who, I'm sure they would do literally anything to be in my situation. But due to circumstances likely outside of their control, the way they look, the way that they sound, where their voice sounds, whatever, where they are in life, whatever, they're just not in a position to be where I am. And it just sucks. And I looked at their like 100 subscribers special, and they're like so thankful. They got 100 subscribers, and they're like, I'm going to keep doing this. I really, I'm like, oh my God, dude. And like I know this person will never succeed. They will never succeed. And it just makes me feel so bad. I didn't know how to respond to their message. And I still think on it. I'm going to think on this for the rest of my life, I think. It just sucks that a person could dedicate so much time to something that they're never going to succeed in. And they could have put that time into something else that they might have succeeded in. And like I want to be the bad guy and be like, this sucks. Stop it. Do something else with your life. But I can't bring myself to do that. There have been times, like sometimes when people submit stuff to me that is bad, I am brutal because of how much time has been wasted and stuff like that. And I'm potentially just in a bad mood or whatever. And so I'm as blunt as possible in why this doesn't meet standards. But even I have my limits in terms of being honest in attempts to be constructive. Like, I don't know why this came to mind. I didn't respond. Like, I literally did not respond to the message. I could not. I couldn't think of something to say. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 30. May 2020 | Relaxing when work to be done? | For the press. Do you ever feel that it is difficult to relax when you have work to do? Like when I have work to do but I'm really tired, I won't do the work and will try and relax, but I can't relax since I can't stop thinking about the work that needs to be done. If this is something that affects you, how do you get past it? There have been times where I ruin my sleeping pattern because I work too long on a project and I'm like, I need to finish it, need to finish it now, need to finish it, need to finish it. I don't always do that though. Usually when I start a project, I have a reasonable idea as to how long it's going to take me. As long as I felt like I've worked a significant amount on it, I'm fine with going to bed. I'm like, look, did some good work today. That's where I started. That's where I ended. Bam. I've made progress. This is good. It's usually when I'm like really close to the end, like I'm like 10, 20% of the way almost done. I'm like, oh, just one more hour, one more hour. That's the time when I have trouble simply going to bed and putting it aside because it's like, I want to finish it now. When I'm in the early stages, I'm like, oh, I finished 20% today, finished 20% the next day, finished 20% the next day, and I'll be done. That's great. In my case, there's always work to do. There are always things I could be working on. If there's literally nothing I could be doing on my PC, I could just stream. There's always more content I could be creating. There's always things I could be editing. There's ideas that I have that I haven't touched at all. If I was unable to relax when there's work to be done, I would never be able to relax at all. |
| 19. July 2020 | Releasing rambles when out-dated. | releasing my rambles when they're no longer current. I have considered being more cognizant of my rambles and then like immediately after stream grabbing them and putting them on YouTube or talking more specifically about current events as they happen. You know, your Yongye is or whatever, Yongye, where he uh, all these channels where they just basically have a gurgle of news. Read a couple articles, go through the articles, throw some opinion. I'm not one of these content creators and I don't really think I have the time to become one. But commenting on current events is a very good way to get views, especially if you already have an audience. It's easy content to make. There's always current events to talk about. I don't think people in general minds if my rambles become somewhat out of date. What annoys me is if the information in them becomes out of date. Like my commentary on The Last of Us, even if The Last of Us becomes a little bit older in a week when the episode comes out, it'll still be my opinion and people who want to hear my opinion will still be interested in it. But if I talk about something related to current events, like every time I talk about Ninja, I haven't talked about whether or not he's gonna be on YouTube or Twitch. By the time that episode comes out, he may have sent a tweet that says I'm gonna be on YouTube or I'm gonna be on Twitch. But I always have the ability in the editing process to add a little bit more on to either explain my thoughts more if I felt they weren't explained very well or to add in that little bit of additional information. So I guess the biggest problem is more that I won't get the kind of viewership that someone talking first will get. I will only get you know, to the general people who like to hear me ramble in the background about any topic. I can't do everything. I just can't, you know. |
| 19. July 2020 | Releasing rambles when outdated. | releasing my rambles when they're no longer current. I have considered being more cognizant of my rambles and then like immediately after stream grabbing them and putting them on YouTube or talking more specifically about current events as they happen. You know, your Yongye is or whatever, Yongye, where he uh, all these channels where they just basically have a gurgle of news. Read a couple articles, go through the articles, throw some opinion. I'm not one of these content creators and I don't really think I have the time to become one. But commenting on current events is a very good way to get views, especially if you already have an audience. It's easy content to make. There's always current events to talk about. I don't think people in general minds if my rambles become somewhat out of date. What annoys me is if the information in them becomes out of date. Like my commentary on The Last of Us, even if The Last of Us becomes a little bit older in a week when the episode comes out, it'll still be my opinion and people who want to hear my opinion will still be interested in it. But if I talk about something related to current events, like every time I talk about Ninja, I haven't talked about whether or not he's gonna be on YouTube or Twitch. By the time that episode comes out, he may have sent a tweet that says I'm gonna be on YouTube or I'm gonna be on Twitch. But I always have the ability in the editing process to add a little bit more on to either explain my thoughts more if I felt they weren't explained very well or to add in that little bit of additional information. So I guess the biggest problem is more that I won't get the kind of viewership that someone talking first will get. I will only get you know, to the general people who like to hear me ramble in the background about any topic. I can't do everything. I just can't, you know. |
| 30. May 2020 | Religion and afterlife | And then I cut it. Do I have any views on religion, the afterlife? I mentioned previously, I do not have a high opinion of religion, and I certainly see no reason to believe in any kind of an afterlife. |
| 31. March 2021 | Remember people's phone numbers. | Remembering people's phone numbers. Mato is the person to remember a phone number in GTA but not in real life. Who remembers phone numbers in real life? You've got a contact book in your phone. Why would you remember them? I suppose if you saw it enough, like, you would just inadvertently remember it. I mean, at one point in time there was a necessity to remember these phone numbers, but it doesn't exist anymore. Even when you could write down a phone number or you had to grab out your small phone book or whatever, if you remember the number you don't have to go to that kind of effort. These days it's less effort to go into your contacts book and select the person's name than it is to type in the number. I still remember my mother's phone book. Everyone's names and numbers written in there with a neat pencil writing. You can see different names faded based on when they were put in there. Different numbers crossed out as people's numbers changed. |
| 19. January 2022 | Remember when YouTube comments had dislikes? | Remember when YouTube comments had dislikes? Why does YouTube no longer show dislike count? Do you guys remember the day that YouTube stopped showing dislikes on comments? And the dislike button just on comments stopped doing anything? And everyone just kind of forgot about it and like it was not really that important. Yeah, as on Twitter like there's no dislike functionality. People just kind of like, eh, you know. And I guess YouTube thought it'd be the same way with dislikes for videos. But I mean dislikes on videos serve a different purpose on YouTube compared to any other website. And then what they actually relied upon for things where comments less important. Especially because not everyone even reads the comments anyway. I think YouTube underestimated the backlash and how much people are going to care. But humans, you know, they adapt. So, you know, we'll, uh, it's not the end of the world. |
| 30. June 2021 | Remembering I am not a murderer | Remembering I'm not a murderer Happened to me again chat There's this weird state of like being asleep and not asleep like you're just in the zone there. It's happened once before I'm in that state. I'm convinced. I'm a murderer and I have to go through like a process of thinking about stuff. I'm like No, I don't think I'm a murder like I think I remember what if I repressed the memories though I like I think we didn't I like one time kill a guy With with James back in the day, and then we like hid the body so I'm like now I think I'd trust another guy to hide a body like that And you know I think I think I vaguely remember that more than just like a vague memory I think like saying that would stick with you I don't know if it's because I played GTA 5 so much But I'm seeing this they like I don't think I'd be okay with me being a murderer. Why would I murder someone? And then like I wake up more like no, I don't think I've heard anyone And that's like a bit I mean, and then I go like but like you don't know everything you do and you Change your memories sometimes, but I think I think murdering people though Still be in my head And then I finally come like okay. I'm not a murderer that was kind of weird How do you go through that process? Didn't murder anyone yes indeed yes There is still time I know if that's the thing that other people do sometimes Just because of what I do for a living Damn, I feel really really bad Trying to decide whether I'm a murderer or not man. Oh god damn Anyway, just just a weird experience. It's like I'm sure there's like the second or third time this happened Not the murdering that being convinced in a sleeper state that I am a murderer death no |
| 10. November 2021 | Remembering gta v mission names. | Remembering GTA 5 mission names. You've watched me for years, I still can't, you still can't remember any of the mission names. I occasionally screw up mission names. I'll say Hood Safari instead of Longstretch or Longstretch instead of Hood Safari. When it comes to Trevor's missions I'll be like Nervous Ron instead of Trevor Philip Industries or whatever. I'm right, you know, 97% of the time whatever but even I will sometimes screw it up. So it's very believable to me that the casual viewer won't remember all the names. Especially the people who've only played through the game once. |
| 11. December 2020 | Remembering usernames of my viewers | Remembering the usernames of my viewers. One of the hardest parts about this job is remembering everyone's names. And you feel like such a jerk when people treat you with kindness or even some form of generosity and you forget their names. Or you have to look up and go, oh yeah, I'm this person. Yeah, but it's just too many people eventually. If I ever go to PAX again, presumably I will whenever COVID runs this course. It's gonna be terrible when I run into people and they're gonna be like, oh, I'm so and so from chat. And I'm gonna be like, oh, no, I don't remember, you know. And I hope people are just understanding and will be like, okay, yeah, you can't remember everyone's names. But more than this, it's very different seeing a word in chat and associating stuff with that word. And being able to, you know, bring forth that name and associate with a face in real life. Very different thing. It's also why I get annoyed when people change the color of their names because I get used to a name looking a certain way. And when it changes, it makes it harder to remember. I do my best. Never doubt chat. Never doubt. I do care. I don't know if that comes across. It's like being a teacher having to remember hundreds of names. Yeah, but I mean, at the very least, you get to interact with kids with some degree of frequency. And they do distinctive things that you can remember. And you have a face as well as a name or whatever. And you see those names frequently. And those names fit into particular naming schemes. Like, I have to remember Coplezzo 974, right? And just the word and things they've said. It's even infinitely more difficult. It is similar to what you say with a teacher, but it's just not... You don't have as much information to form those memories. |
| 11. December 2020 | Remembing username of my viewers | Remembering the usernames of my viewers. One of the hardest parts about this job is remembering everyone's names. And you feel like such a jerk when people treat you with kindness or even some form of generosity and you forget their names. Or you have to look up and go, oh yeah, I'm this person. Yeah, but it's just too many people eventually. If I ever go to PAX again, presumably I will whenever COVID runs this course. It's gonna be terrible when I run into people and they're gonna be like, oh, I'm so and so from chat. And I'm gonna be like, oh, no, I don't remember, you know. And I hope people are just understanding and will be like, okay, yeah, you can't remember everyone's names. But more than this, it's very different seeing a word in chat and associating stuff with that word. And being able to, you know, bring forth that name and associate with a face in real life. Very different thing. It's also why I get annoyed when people change the color of their names because I get used to a name looking a certain way. And when it changes, it makes it harder to remember. I do my best. Never doubt chat. Never doubt. I do care. I don't know if that comes across. It's like being a teacher having to remember hundreds of names. Yeah, but I mean, at the very least, you get to interact with kids with some degree of frequency. And they do distinctive things that you can remember. And you have a face as well as a name or whatever. And you see those names frequently. And those names fit into particular naming schemes. Like, I have to remember Coplezzo 974, right? And just the word and things they've said. It's even infinitely more difficult. It is similar to what you say with a teacher, but it's just not... You don't have as much information to form those memories. |
| 20. July 2022 | Replacing my acoustic foam with acoustic panels | Replacing my acoustic foam with acoustic panels. My old foam that I had on the walls was a weird combination of different types of foam and always looked amazingly terrible. I'm gonna get acoustic panels. Acoustic panels are better at absorbing sound, the reverberations, the echo, than foam, but it's far more expensive. What I wanted to do was just massively overkill it, put sound absorption panels on literally every inch of my walls, but apparently if you do too much the sound becomes dead because there should be some reverberation, just not as much as in a room with nothing in it, you know. Right now I'm getting 20 panels and I hope that's enough because sound absorption panels work in more frequencies than does foam. So like it should absorb more wavelengths of sound but I'm not sure it's gonna absorb as much, I don't know. At the very least the room will look good. Heated T- |
| 30. March 2021 | Replaying GTA San Andreas. | Replaying San Andreas Didn't go that deep into San Andreas. I am tempted to replay the game My first playthrough did pretty decently well on YouTube and I think playing it again do good as well It's been long enough that I don't remember all of it I'm sure when I play it I would recognize stuff The thing is when when I think about replaying stuff or rewatching stuff at the end of the day what I really want is just New content in that world or in that game or in that style or whatever and I know I'm not gonna be completely satisfied doing it again |
| 04. January 2020 | Replaying older GTA games and unlisting the videos | replaying the older GTA games and unlisting the videos. I was looking through my old content on YouTube and I want to unlist my old runs of GTA 3 Vice City and SA because they don't have a lot of views and they're not edited very well and the audio and video quality is fucking terrible. To do that though, I have to play through all the games again and I know more this time, so what I'm going to do is get the best mods for it, make it look all nice and shiny and shit and then play through it again. I remember basically nothing about the stuff so it should still be pretty good. So that will be coming soon. Starting with GTA 3, because it is the earliest. I downloaded a mod called GTA 3 Reborn and I started playing it and it looks interesting. If anything, it is too bright and vibrant. You never knew I had vids on them. The thing about YouTube, it doesn't always recommend older content and when it does, like if people don't immediately pick up on it, it'll stop doing it and because the content isn't that amazing. Certainly there's some good times in it, but it's not that great. There's not enough GTA 3 mods, the version I'll be playing does look pretty good. I mean, it's not like mods is in like oh my god, there's meteors falling from the sky, but they're mainly just graphical and gameplay improvements. In a way, it kind of looks like an indie tile you pick up on Steam today. |
| 11. September 2022 | Reponse to my ‘play to win the game’ video | response to my play to win the game video I got a lot of nice comments on that video that I released I'm not doing well mentally like it just seemed like a weird thing to shove into rambles even though I don't like making stuff like that because no one likes a person who is doing well who is complaining at all but you just get to this point where you just get tired of not communicating your thoughts like everyone has struggles everything everyone has their demons everyone has their things they got to deal with it was nice just to get it out there even though I it seems like a minor issue in the grand scheme of things I just have trouble you know accepting the world for what it is maybe this video would have been a little bit better if I didn't just focus on myself because parts of the world as a whole that bother me not simply the bad aspects of the world that negatively impact me I've always been a person that even when I'm in a good situation if I can acknowledge and accept that others aren't it still bothers me but I mean I'm only human there's there's still always gonna be a focus on self I'm gonna see things from my perspective from where I'm sitting in the world so there's there's clearly tons of things in the world that are terrible and wrong that I just don't know about and thus can't care about but I'm just trying to mentally be at peace with things I am a shadow network deep Russian operative or something this video though business casual is allegedly lying I made it kind of spur the moment cuz it too didn't really |
| 11. September 2022 | Reponses to my ‘play to win the game’ video | response to my play to win the game video I got a lot of nice comments on that video that I released I'm not doing well mentally like it just seemed like a weird thing to shove into rambles even though I don't like making stuff like that because no one likes a person who is doing well who is complaining at all but you just get to this point where you just get tired of not communicating your thoughts like everyone has struggles everything everyone has their demons everyone has their things they got to deal with it was nice just to get it out there even though I it seems like a minor issue in the grand scheme of things I just have trouble you know accepting the world for what it is maybe this video would have been a little bit better if I didn't just focus on myself because parts of the world as a whole that bother me not simply the bad aspects of the world that negatively impact me I've always been a person that even when I'm in a good situation if I can acknowledge and accept that others aren't it still bothers me but I mean I'm only human there's there's still always gonna be a focus on self I'm gonna see things from my perspective from where I'm sitting in the world so there's there's clearly tons of things in the world that are terrible and wrong that I just don't know about and thus can't care about but I'm just trying to mentally be at peace with things I am a shadow network deep Russian operative or something this video though business casual is allegedly lying I made it kind of spur the moment cuz it too didn't really |
| 15. February 2022 | Response content is good and better for exposure than react | Content is I think it's fine. Yeah the response that's why I outlined the difference between what I consider reaction content and response content Response content is really good response content is in a way far better at Creating something original and new because you know beforehand that you can like write a script write jokes and all that jazz um, but also for giving exposure to other content creators because they're like especially when it comes to videos the video ends and so the the viewers like Where am I gonna go now? Oh, actually just mentioned that viewer that the content creator in this video I'm gonna look up that content creator I'm gonna click a link when it comes to live streams where you're just watching YouTube videos You want to stick around for the next video you want to stick around for the next thing that xQc is gonna do The the amount of people who will just stop watching the continuous stream of content and go somewhere else is Not gonna be as high, you know, because they address that in the dock. No I only wrote for a day Okay, that's a good point because I know when I see a video on YouTube and the let's say even if it's a negative video I love to go to the original video and see the comments and stuff like that Yeah, so you because you because you you have nothing to do now It's over but the live stream doesn't end the it's why live streams have such a very It's a very low click through rate in part because the live stream Like a lot of people react content don't even put the link But the link if it if they even put it just flies past the screen within a heartbeat. You've got to be very Intently focused on the live stream to have time to catch the link and click through and you've also got to at the same time Have become disinterested with that live stream enough to want to go somewhere else Which is a very small amount of people but I say with YouTube videos the video is over You need somewhere to go and in your mind right now is all that stuff that's just been presented to you |
| 05. April 2021 | Response video tactics. | Response video tactics. Do you feel good about yourself when you made the video about yourself? I much prefer to write essays. As in like, towards the goal of having as many people watch those videos as possible. Didn't achieve that goal. Because I cut corners, I didn't re-record stuff. I know I misspoke in some parts or flubbed a word or something, I just kept it in. But listening back to it, I really like it. There is a heap of videos, now I'd say there's four or five videos, that I've unlisted or privated, that I'm really proud of. Like I think they're very very good videos. But they represent a long term ability for them to bite me in the arse somehow. These videos I've made about Moodahar are not tactical. They are absent of tactics. In terms of me growing as a content creator on this platform, those videos are the worst possible videos that I could have made. But in terms of enjoying myself, educating people, it did those at least reasonably well, at least my audience reasonably well. And he's some additional portion of people, again, next time Moodahar's talking out of his arse about something he doesn't understand, people will second guess him a little bit. It's not as though Moodahar's takes are always bad. At least a handful more people might know that he occasionally makes mistakes. It's just unfortunate that he just wouldn't admit it in the video. Because he has to know. There's no way that he could go that far from his original positions and not have some awareness that he's doing so. There's no way he can ramble for 20 minutes before looking at a single frame of video without knowing that he's doing something a bit weird, you know? |
| 22. March 2021 | Restaurants wasting food | all their donuts in a bin at the end of the day. I have heard of such stories. I believe some countries have passed laws preventing you from being able to do that kind of stuff and that you have to donate it. But obviously for the companies, they just don't want the liability of someone getting sick or something from a lot of food. Well, I know the reason why companies don't bother with that stuff is because it's just a detriment to their bottom line or whatever. But in terms of the overall benefit to society, obviously the wasting of food is not good. It's just one of the many ways that a singular individual company working for its own best interests is not necessarily going to do what is in the best interests for society as a whole. Companies are focused on profit, which at times can result in providing benefit to society. But at other times, their interests can run directly in contrast to the wellbeing of others or the wellbeing of society as a whole. Do I read books? Do I read a book? Do I listen to audiobooks? I'd have to. |
| 10. June 2022 | Retro gaming market bubble | The retro gaming market bubble. Hope you have a good day. Me and my girlfriend have made it our missions to collect every main series Pokemon game in physical forms. Well I wish you all the best of luck in finding all those games. That would be a pretty cool thing to have like on your wall framed or something, just every one of the games. I don't know how difficult of a task that is, I mean, because there's, I mean, obviously there's so many of them, but um, I don't know if there's any like super rare ones. Like do you want Pokemon Green? Because when I was in high school, Pokemon Green was like the mythical beast. People would be like, oh there's actually a Pokemon Green version. Like, nah, you're just lying, it doesn't really exist. Because you know the internet wasn't a huge thing back then. But apparently Pokemon Green did exist, but only released in like Japan or something. So you'd hear these legends of these kids who happen to have Pokemon Green. I don't think it was significantly different from Blue or Red. I think it just started with Bulbasaur or something. The difficulty isn't just finding the games, it's finding the games at a reasonable price. The prices have skyrocketed since the beginning of lockdown. Appreciate the well wishes either way. As far as skyrocketing prices for video games is concerned, you should watch these videos by Carl. Thing is this one, exposing fraud and deception in the retro game market. And the retro video game scam gets worse. It's basically like how all these retro video games, it's just like a bubble that's being propped up by a bunch of people who control a significant amount of the market. Or control the companies that do the grading of these products. Yeah, I wouldn't want to really be in a situation to be collecting retro video games right now. Unless of course you're going to like, garage sales and stuff. Trying to find the games from people who don't know any better. That's a big review. |
| 25. July 2022 | Returning to Cyberpunk 2077 | Turning to Cyberpunk 2077. May I should go back to playing Cyberpunk 2077 chat? Most of you haven't even seen that footage because it was in one of the compilations for how this... for... this is what you missed. Didn't enjoy it all that much, but I mean the game has been patched like 57 times by now and there's a lot of mods so you never know. Twitch in... |
| 27. August 2022 | Review of Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson | by Brandon Sanderson. There will be no spoilers in this review. So I was recently reading a book, I mentioned it in Rambles called Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson and I was really really enjoying it. However, one sour point for the entire book was that I believed that I had solved the mystery, guessed the twist like really early on, like chapter one. And so for the entire book I'm like I'm really enjoying how these characters are being developed and this world is being developed. But like can they get on with revealing it already? I already know, let's go. And then it got to the final chapter and I was 110% wrong and I did not expect any of the twists that came out. In hindsight I'm like oh yeah that that did make sense now because of the oh yeah that that that oh okay. And the ending was really satisfying. Brandon Sanderson is just unbelievable. The name of the book is Steelheart. The premise is something called calamity comes to earth. No one knows what calamity is and it makes people into epics which are basically superheroes. But it's not a big spoiler to say this because it's revealed in like the first couple of pages. The superheroes are jerks. Along the line of the boys but kind of worse. As the series goes on you you're with the kind of rebel faction against these epics and you learn more about the epics, how they can do what they do, the limitations and and all that jazz. And it's a very good series. The pressure to be positive when being |
| 24. August 2022 | Review of the hair loss treatments Finasteride and Minoxidil | Review of the hair loss treatments finasteronide and minoxidil. I've talked before that I was, and probably still am, losing my hair. Like my hairline has always been bad, like you can look back in my footage of me out of context, my old videos where I've always had a high hairline, and I remember someone in high school being like, oh you're gonna lose your hair when you're older, and I'm like, oh I hope not, and I got to, you know, 31 before I noticed any signs of hair loss. And so within the last six months or so, I noticed that my hairline had started to creep back ever so slightly, and so I started using two things, finasteronide and minoxidil. Both of these are the only two demonstrably shown in clinical trials to actually help you regrow hair and stop hair loss. I recently stopped finasteronide. Now finasteronide has a chance of side effects, like let's say one in 200 people, of causing like impotence or reduced sex drive, stuff like that. The reason why this is the case is because the cause of hair loss, it's related to in some degree a male hormone called DHT or something, which is something that testosterone is converted into, and finasteronide works by reducing the amount of that in your system. Took this stuff because the the chance of side effects were really low, but while having it, whether or not it was placebo or like I just thought about it too much, what if I'm getting side effects or whatnot, I felt like it was negatively affecting me. I was like, is this in my head? Am I crazy? Ultimately, at the end of the day, peace of mind is important. I was spending too much time thinking about this shit, so I stopped using it. I was like, like, two weeks ago or something, I stopped using it, and I seem better now. If such side effects existed, they're no longer present, and so that's good. But what I have kept using is the other drug, which is Monoxenil. Monoxenil, traditionally used with foam, you put it in your hair where you're losing hair, and you use it twice a day. The first day I used it, I had a bit of a headache, which is common. Since using it now for like three months, I have seemed to have regrown the hair that I was losing, and so I'm going to keep using it. It seems to work well for me. What I'm saying is, if you're having hair loss, and you don't want that, try out Monoxenil. |
| 14. November 2022 | Reviewing Aventus and Oud Wood Tom Ford Two Luxury Colognes | and Oud Wood Tom Ford, two luxury clones. I bought myself some cologne. Haven't tried them yet. I've never been much of a clone person, but I remember I was at PAX, and the conversation of clone came up, and I was like, I don't know, man, I got some on, I guess, but it was just some random stuff that I got a bajillion years ago, probably for my birthday or something. Didn't say that explicitly, but that's what I was thinking. Like, I was, but people were discussing clone as if it was something important. I'm like, is it really? I've never really tried an expensive clone before. And then I was reading something, and then everyone should have at least one thing of expensive clone for real special occasions. I'm like, all right, well, I'll look into that then. And I looked up the most popular luxury clone or something in the beginning of these. Aventus. Smells nice, but I mean, that is a thing. It is certainly a smell that exists in reality. I can totally see how people like that, though. It is entirely inoffensive. It's just like, oh yeah, if I smelt this on a person, I'd be happy that I smelled them in some capacity. And Tom Ford Oud Wood. Guess I gotta spray it somewhere else. Just to test it. As different a smell as you can have. Reminds me of a guy wearing a leather jacket in like a building made of wood. I know like, yeah, you haven't stakes. While the other one is just like, fancy any situation kind of thing. So those are my reviews of Aventus and whatever this one was called. Oud Wood by Tom Ford. Both interesting, but I prefer Aventus. How is. |
| 08. June 2020 | Rewatching content | Rewatching things you've seen before. It feels dumb to rewatch stuff sometimes Because you know that there's just like an infinite library of content that you could watch that you haven't seen. They'll probably be Good as well. It's hard finding good stuff sometimes which is annoying which I've I've expressed my aggravation about it many many times on stream. I want the recommendation algorithms for All these content producers to get really really fucking good. People like the familiar. It's good. It's safe, you know Why take the risk with something new? That might be amazing when you can have something you know is good even if you've seen it before You don't have unlimited times to sift through you know Hundreds of hours of content. That looking like Dumbledore. Dumbledore died in like the second movie dude. Had to be replaced by another actor That's not good |
| 14. February 2021 | Rewatching my 2018 video where i thought i’d have to quit | re-watching my July 2018 video where I said I would probably have to quit streaming. So it was July 2018 where I made a video because I feared that I would have to quit YouTube and Twitch. My, basically my revenue had decreased and I didn't know if I could really afford to do it. Like I knew that every month I'd just be eating into my savings more. And so I thought I'd really have to quit. I didn't think what I was doing was responsible anymore but I said, hey look, you know, I've got, it's not like I have other prospects right now. I'm gonna keep streaming and see what happens. But long story short, watching that video, I'm like, that was only two and a half years ago. I feel as though I've been successful forever. In relative terms, I was successful at that point because, you know, I was averaging 200 viewers. But I wasn't successful in the sense of being able to live off streaming. At least not easily. It was a humbling experience. It just made me realize how far I've come, you know. Oh yeah, I was paying 200 bucks in rent back then. But it's kind of like just Australian rent in general. That's pretty cheap for Sydney. That's because I was living with two other people. But like looking at that video, man, I was really, really sad. I looked like I was about to cry at the end of that video, man. And I'm just like, happy things turned out the way they did. Because I clearly, as I know now, but even then I clearly really love streaming. I wasn't even making YouTube videos at that point, really. I mean, like I basically quit doing that. I was just streaming. I loved it that much. I was just so sad that I might have to quit. I was tempted to release the video really again, but I think it would be too embarrassing. |
| 05. March 2023 | Ridiculous claims that coke and pepsi enlarge testicles. | Hello and welcome to another episode of Viper Rambles, starting with the topic Ridiculous Claims that Coke and Pepsi Enlarge Testicles. Due to my, I wouldn't call it love, but constant usage of Coca-Cola and Pepsi, I was sent this endless times. New study reveals that drinking Coke and Pepsi leads to larger testicles and more testosterone. A study has revealed how drinking Coca-Cola and Pepsi can lead to large testicles and higher testosterone levels. The Northwest Mizzou University in China was attempting to determine the impact of carbonated beverages on fertility and sex organs in men. So thankfully, someone down here, MrBeast, I've seen him on YouTube before, he linked the actual study. And so when I read the study, I was like, this can't be the same study that is being referenced. What the hell? I then cross-referenced where this study links was done and them saying it's at this Mizzou University, and it was the same one. And so I've summarized it in a tweet. Study, four groups of 30 mice drank varying amounts of Coke and Pepsi, and they had one control group with water. Study conclusion, drinking Coke or Pepsi could promote testes development, enhance testosterone in mice testes. Not meaningful, except as a bullshit clickbait headline. The original has like 90,000 likes with people just uncritically being like, wow, this is interesting. And I saw a bunch of other publications like Dextero, whatever they're called. They just uncritically appeared this as well. It's a classic comic about this issue. How science reporting works. We destroyed 10% of cancer cells in a lab rat's trial. Cancer cured. We didn't cure cancer. We're just moving faster towards a future treatment. Time travel discovered. Fuck you. Scientists rapes report. It's very true. Everything just gets sensationalized. Like I'm not saying the study that they did is illegitimate or it's methodology poor. I can't really assess that. Merely that what they write as their conclusions is obviously not what has been reported as the conclusions of the study in the media. This is somewhat speaking outside of my purview, but I have seen stuff about this where mice aren't used because they're like the best thing to test on. You can breed them at a very fast rate and you can buy them for very cheap. I'm not throwing my hat in on whether mice should be used or what have you. I'm just saying using mice in studies like this isn't unorthodox. It's simply that it has to be the first stepping stone to actually testing this in better ways. |
| 17. March 2022 | Riot insists their character doesn’t like NFTs. | Riot insists their character doesn't like NFTs. Did you hear what Vanguard did when they realized they were promoting an NFT? What is Vanguard? And why are they promoting scams? I mean Vanguard is apparently shilling um, oh, Valorant, I see. Valorant. Riot forced to explain Valorant characters not into NFTs. Fucking good. So they accidentally included some NFT artwork in their presentation of this new character. And then everyone called them out for it because NFTs are scams and they apologized. For real, this comes across to me as these companies continuing to test the waters to just push it a little bit more to make it a little bit more acceptable. Because again, companies really really want to sell you nothing for something. NFTs are the dream of every company. You're saying we can do nothing and we get fucked tons of money? Hell yeah. That's a scam. We don't even need to give these fucks the license for the art, the rights to use at any capacity and they'll just be happy to have a hyperlink to it on a server and they'll pay us hundreds of dollars for this? That's fucking crazy. These people are dumb. We gotta get in on this. Oh, what, there's some pushback? Okay, let's just keep testing the waters until we can get away with this shit. If you're buying NFT or you own as a bunch of pixels, it's worse than that. You own a link to a bunch of pixels. You don't even technically own the pixels. You don't see the value. Okay, so if you want to understand why NFTs are bad, like, obviously, if you're like over the age of 12, you should already understand, but you probably only understand on like a surface level. If you want to understand the totality of how dumb NFTs are, please watch this video. It's called Line Goes Up. It's two and a half hours long. Goes into every minute detail of explaining how dumb all this technology is, where it came from, all the scams associated with it, the extent to which scams could come in the future. Like, you can legitimately, literally just put a virus in another person's wallet and they have no ability to remove it. No ability. And if they ever touch it, it will steal their money. And it's happened. And there's nothing you can do about this because you can't remove stuff from the blockchain. It is so funny. And it goes through a bunch of these stories and scams and stuff. This is the greatest video that has ever been made. If you're watching this stream, you could get far more value in your life watching this video. This video should be required viewing for everyone on the planet. And they should have to watch it twice. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. And it doesn't matter how old the video is. |
| 22. December 2021 | Rockstar acknowledging the lamar roast meme | Dodging the Lamar roast meme. What? Like on one hand this is funny and cool on the other hand It's like like a lazy callback kind of thing But it's just so endearing that I don't want to be critical of it You know because obviously when rockstar wrote the dialogue originally for Lamar They didn't intend for like half a decade later for it to become a huge meme on YouTube So it's nice for them to give a nod to that scene and be like yeah, we know you guys like that scene We know you made those memes. That's cool. Like to some degree There is stuff that probably would have become memes far faster Except that like the technology wasn't there like modding the game was harder or you're uploading stuff Recording stuff and all that was harder. So What I mean is like, you know eight years ago. It was harder for things to become memes Where like hundreds of people are making stuff for them because there just wasn't as many people making content Impressions of the frie- |
| 22. December 2021 | Rockstar acknowleding the lamar roast meme | Hey, what's up? Can a low come up in your crib? Man, fuck you, man. My kid's up in there. I don't want your ass up in my house, nigga. Aw, nigga don't hate me because your kids love me more than they love you. Maybe if you quit being so uptight and let Uncle Lamar give them some game, you'll have some harmony in your household. Nah, I just wanted to get in the hot tub. But now, I only want to get in an old funky-ass cum bucket. Nigga, fuck around and get pink eye. Because you's a dirty-ass be-eye-zitch. What? Like, on one hand, this is funny and cool. On the other hand, it's like a lazy callback kind of thing. But it's just so endearing that I don't want to be critical of it, you know? Because obviously when Rockstar wrote the dialogue originally for Lamar, they didn't intend for like half a decade later for it to become a huge meme on YouTube. So it's nice for them to give a nod to that scene and be like, yeah, we know you guys like that scene. We know you made those memes. That's cool. Like, to some degree, there is stuff that probably would have become memes far faster, except that like the technology wasn't there. Like, modding the game was harder or uploading stuff, recording stuff and all that was harder. So, what I mean is like, you know, eight years ago, it was harder for things to become memes. Where like hundreds of people are making stuff for them because there just wasn't as many people making content. Impressions of the Franklin DLC after completing it all. |
| 06. May 2021 | Rockstar and Taketwo can't really be separated. | Rockstar and Take-Two can't really be separated. Do I agree with Yan that Rockstar should separate from Take-Two? Didn't Take-Two buy Rockstar like 20 years ago? It was 2007. I don't think that it is likely that Rockstar has a separate culture from Take-Two. I just don't. What do I say to my friends who say Rockstar is taking long on GTA 6 because they want to make it bigger than their previous games? He suggests that it takes 6-8 years to make a big game. That's definitely not true. I mean, unless he's defining big, he can say that of course. It's almost true by definition. If his definition of big game is one that takes 6-8 years to make, then it's true by definition. You can't argue with that. But clearly big games have been made, including very good games, in less than 6 years. It doesn't necessarily have to take that long. But it's always possible to make a game bigger and bigger and I keep adding on to it every year to the point where it takes 6 years. But it's clearly the case that all of Rockstar's development and interest isn't just going into GTA 6 and hasn't been that way for the past 8 years. They've clearly done other things. Red Dead Redemption 2, Red Dead Online, GTA Online. |
| 08. January 2022 | Rockstar and gta online - past, present, and future | Crazy. It's a shame that there's no major use to them, so no one really......like, looks at them very often. Rockstar and GT Online. Past, present, and future. I mean, I always wish that at some point they would actually really allow us to have, like, proper......like, mansions in the game, like, at some point. Like, 5M does that kind of stuff, but it's, uh......nothing I've really gotten into. 5M is so good. You do? 5M? I just recently got into it because I was doing a GTA video, but there was so... I thought it was really a role-player thing, but then I saw all the other game modes, like zombie modes......and everything that they were doing, and I'm like, man, this is fucking amazing. It's funny, you can make great maps if you have a dedicated group of people......who won't leave the second they die and stuff, right? The maps you can make for a dedicated, experienced audience is different than the maps that you can make......for, like, a casual audience, like Rockstar has to. Anyone who's doing 5M has to be really fucking committed. So you get some cool features and stuff. Yeah, and also, I'm glad Rockstar is unable to shut that beauty of a fucking mod down. Unable? I mean, I think they've really tried. Well, the legal issues around a lot of those mods is how many of their core assets are you using......but since that's purely a reverse-engineered design, you can scare them, sure, but legally it's still on their side. It's like the same thing with RE3 and RE Vice City right now. How's that sound? I honestly think it's more of a scare tactic still, because I believe that those guys......because from who I talked to, they said they had a clean room design......so it doesn't seem like they can legally get fucked, you know? And they're fighting it. It would be very interesting to see if they win it. I mean, if Take-Two wins, it'll ruin modding precedent, I mean, at least legally, and that scares the shit out of me. For me, the first 5000 hours that I put into speedrunning was probably less impactful for me learning the map......than, like, the following 4000 hours where I did no damage, pass, fist, and faxing glitches. Like, the amount of times there where I was like, oh, there's an out-of-bounds here. Wouldn't have been able to do that if I was just a speedrunner. But, like, you talk to, like, role players and stuff, and they have different things that are significant than me. And if you play online, half the time you're like, oh, I remember this heist, and I remember this heist. None of the heists you mentioned I remember at all. I've done them. I don't remember them at all. You see, like, I don't know how much you've done the heist, but, like, for me, I've probably done each and every single one of them......at least, like, a hundred fucking times. Like, I'm not even exaggerating on that one. It's like we grinded a lot on GTA Online. And you kind of have to to get the money. I've done each of them, like, once, I think. And a lot of them are good, certainly. It's just, uh, you know, with modders and DDoSing and all that stuff. I mean, not DDoSing isn't his big initiative thing now because I have a VPN and stuff, but, um... It's a shame you need to even need one for one of the biggest online games ever made. Yeah, yeah. Even if you don't have a VPN, I've finally found something even fucking scummier. It's like every time in the heist, and this is always after a major update, like, if you're a content creator......and you've ever, like, shown your, like, like, Rockstar ID or, like, username, you're fucked. Like, every update somebody will jump in and, like, isolate your session and, like, ruin your games. It's just not a fun experience. And there's, I don't know, maybe GTA 6 will fix it. But if the problem exists in Red Dead Online to this day, then I have no fucking hope. Every defense I gave to Rockstar where I was like, look, I guess they rushed online because they weren't sure if it was going to be successful and stuff and blah blah blah. The next time around they'll do better. When they released Red Dead Online and had all the same fucking issues, I'm like, well, okay, maybe that wasn't the reason. Yeah, maybe they just really didn't give a fuck. It's shocking what Take Two is doing and stuff. I mean, the weirdest one to me was when they sent a cease and desist for a save file. That was part way through GTA. I'm like, it was that like a it was a lost and damned thing written down. Yeah, yeah, it's so so weird. Who can understand Take Two, though? They just. I feel like the problem is with Take Two. And so I do like business stuff on the side. It's like my main job. So like every time I look into like companies to invest and like, you know, throw money at Take Two is like ironically the one company that considers themselves the up and coming metaverse company. Like, unironically, that's what they actually consider themselves as. Like they consider themselves on Facebook tier or like Epic Games because they think that they're running metaverses with GTA Online and the skeleton that has read that online. And in a way, they're not wrong. But like you can see the perception of the company going forward, right? Like when GTA 6 comes out, they're more interested in GTA Online Part 2, you know, that's what I think. I've talked to people who work at Rockstar and have. Well, I haven't talked to that many people, don't get me wrong, I don't have that many connections, but I know people who've worked at 2K, which is under Take Two and people who've worked at Rockstar. And they say Take Two is very controlling and people at Rockstar are very proud of everything they've made and da da da. But it's just when I look at GTA Online and I compare it to the offerings of other popular titles, it just seems so vanilla. It seems so basic. Like you've got like Apex Legends with 87 different cool functional guns and you're sliding rounds and you've got shields and all that stuff. And Fortnite, all their building mechanics, always releasing new ways to play the game. You've got Roblox and they're like child sweatshops making like 57 different games. I got like the video on that one. I've been working on that one for a bit. It's insane. Minecraft got there like 87 different mods and stuff. And then there's just GTA Online and it's just so simple. It literally gets by man, just because it's like a functioning open world. And it's been around for so long. It's got that um, it basically was the first mover advantage as well. Like it was one of the first microtransaction kind of driven things. I don't think there's anything else like it. Like I think about anything else like GTA and I'm like what? Like Watch Dogs Legion Online, like the closest equivalent that I can think of. And it's just like it's not there. Like open world third person shooter. It is just GTA Online and that's it. I saw your tweets on the new update for GTA Online and I absolutely can never disagree with that. I was literally playing it the other day. Like the Franklin, I haven't even gotten that far into it. I've just been doing the specialist stuff. It's so bad with the AI because the AI hasn't gotten better. They just take more shots. Like I feel like they just want me to buy weapon warehouses and like update like to mark three assault rifles just so I can actually like kill the enemies. I'm dumping 60 bullets into it, into like a guy wearing a t-shirt and they won't die. It's just no. I don't know how the programming is done, of course, but it's just whenever they release like a new area inside of a building, it seems as though the AI doesn't really understand where they are. Like the limitations of the walls and stuff. So I'll occasionally see an NPC just staring at a wall for no fucking reason. And I'll come in and they'll just still stare at the wall and I'll be like, you want to pay attention to me? Whatever. I should pop them in the head. Yeah. Be gone. Dude, every time I see that, I'm like, man, I cringe at it for sure. But then I'm like, it is also like a really big game. So if I see pathing issues. Yeah, I mean, they were going to update it in November because that's when expanded enhance was meant to come out. I don't know what the update is because I remember I was thinking that the update was going to add some extra content, but it's literally just it's just GTA at like a higher resolution. That's what it looks like. The frame rate is better. The funny thing is they say that they want to separate the single player and the online. And speaking as a person who has watched as the online updates have changed the single player and made it worse over the years. I'm applauding this. Good job, Rockstar. You should have done that like a bajillion years ago because there's no value really in the connection between the single player and the online. But to do that, they will have to change a significant amount of things. Like there's some changes to lobby you can only do if you either go into creator mode or single player and then go back into online and stupid fucking ways. So like they must be changing some things. It's just a question of how much they're changing and how easily can they make those changes? I just think whatever GTA is right now, they've added so much onto the games online that I think coding wise, it's a fucking mess. Like remember, literally a year ago, we had the one modder who like just shaved off the store file like the little online because he shaved off the loading time by 70% literally going into the GTA online and like taking out truncating all of the excess stuff that the game was looking for that didn't even exist. Like what the fuck, man? Like if a modder could do that. There's a bug like that in single player actually, where if you taxi to a side mission, there's a random chance that the game will get caught in like some sort of loop in which it continues to search for something that doesn't exist. And rather than fix this, they simply made it so if it fails to find that thing 20 times, it just will stop and just load in the game. And so while speed running 100%, it'd be like, oh, that fucking long load bug. And you sit there for two minutes with a black screen and then eventually let you in the game. Going through all of the, oh my God. Infuriating. But because it's funny because we had to have a debate like because the people who know how to code, they can fix this. They could patch it for us. But it's like, do we fix Rockstar's mistakes? Are we really speed running the game if we're not? Because the game has that bug in it. We can't just start reprogramming the game to make it easier to speed run. You know, my God. That's why, you know, I'm kind of excited that GT6 may take a little bit longer because with all the bugs you're telling me, I can already imagine the Rage Engine is probably like it needs a significant update and needs like a significant. It needs to be up there with like Epic's Unreal Engine 5. I don't know if you played the Matrix game recently, but like. I was paid to play it. Oh, fuck. Good sponsorship. That's a really good. That game, dude, I was struggling to identify when it was real time and when it was like CG, you know, like when they showed Keanu Reeves like old in the, I thought for the longest time that was like real time footage. And then I watched a Digital Foundry video and they're like, no, no, no, it isn't. I was like, are you sure? Like, are you see, I mean, you know. It's not like they spend five years on that or whatever. They was less than a year. Very small team. Yeah, very small team. It actually was interesting because it collabed a bunch of the top guys. I know that some of the people who worked on the coalition, so the Gears developers, they helped a lot with the optimization, which I think is really cool. And hey, if that's the future of like game engines now, I'm excited to see what Rockstar comes up with with because like we all know GTA 6 is an eventual like thing. It's just like when they obviously show a teaser for it. And it's going to be like the GTA 5 teaser, guys. Like it's going to be that thing where we watch the teaser. We're like, oh, this looks amazing. And the thing I will always say about Rockstar is when they show a teaser trailer, when they show a trailer, the game looks as good, you know, like when Red Dead 2 was teased, I thought I thought they were CGIing it for a bit. And then the game came out and I was like, no, they're not fucking around. This game looks that good. I mean, what about the recent definitive edition, the trilogy, the trailer made that look a little bit better than the game ended up actually being. Yeah. But I mean, that was of course not actually Rockstar, it was Grove Street Games. But like I worry about Rockstar these days. But I mean, as long as GTA 6 is good. They were outsourcing that. Oh, yeah. Because they're just they don't have the time because they're all working on. They've got one team on GTA 6, a skeletal crew on GTA Online. And nobody on Red Dead Online. I feel bad for the people who love that game. I know you love Red Dead. I love Red Dead Online. Like I loved it when it came out. You know, I was like, man, this is I was excited. I play GTA Online strictly with a friend like we have like a fucking we've been playing it since day one. So we're like, oh, cool. This will be a new online for us to experience. No fucking update for a year. The most interesting. |
| 01. September 2020 | Rockstar attacking earlier patches | Rockstar making it harder to play on earlier patches. Like in the last patch Rockstar legitimately attacked as hard as possible the ability to be on earlier patches. Like even if you're one patch behind and connected to the internet it will say you need to update, need to update. Very very strange because this doesn't have any practical benefit for preventing hackers or anything like that on online. It almost makes me think that I was responsible. And clearly that can't be the case. I mean I'm just a little dude right. There's no way that people at Rockstar are you know talking about me and making moves specifically to fuck me even though it seems that way sometimes. But I can't think of another rationale behind trying to restrict earlier patches. You can't get online on an earlier patch. So other than just to fuck me or fuck other modders what would be the point? |
| 09. July 2022 | Rockstar bad | Welcome to another episode of A Rumble With, where this time I'm rambling with Modus Pelican and TJG while we're playing a Fortnite tournament. Rockstar Bad. Peli, I wonder if this is going to get us featured in the fabled speedrunner ramble series again. You want to ramble about something? Feel free. So how do we all feel about that GTA 6 announcement, Kings? Pretty hyped, man. I mean, I would like to see some of it. What do we think of GTA Plus? It's a great way to spend money. Great value. A real love letter to the fans and the community. That's what I was waiting for. My favorite part is the now I get more money when I spend more money on shark cards. Because like, yeah, you already, sometimes I've gone by shark cards and I thought, wow, that wasn't enough money. I wish I could have already spent money to then give myself a discount for future spending. And now they've done that. I thought I was the only one having that problem. That's good. No, it makes sense. I'm pretty sure Rockstar knows I exist. They follow me on Twitter, I think. Unless they unfollowed you. No, they still follow me. Let's go. Let's go. We take those. That surprises me. That surprises you. Yeah. I mean, I really think the Twitter team does much, really. I mean, I know of people who have worked or work for Rockstar who have followed me at various points. The one dude who worked in the media department unfollowed me when I said some particularly bad shit against Rockstar on Twitter. So like, I know they know of me because I talk a lot of shit, you know. I thought, I mean, whatever. You just say what's on your mind, right? I mean, I don't know what they want you to say. Like, do they want you to just not say anything or? Yeah, I think they'd prefer that, yeah. I mean, because I remember when we were down in Melbourne or whatever and talking to Marcus or whatever, and he was like, man, it really balls you all the shit you'd say about Rockstar. It's not like they're going to do anything, but you never know. One day they might actually start giving a shit about the community and they just won't talk to me. They'll talk to everyone else. I don't know. It does really surprise me. I think TJT, you've talked about it maybe even on one of Viper's rambles. But like, it's crazy that they don't have like a code for like shark cards and stuff. Yeah, yeah. Like that surprises me. I think that would be like the standard, especially after Fortnite popularized it. I mean, I guess it might be because, you know, Rockstar and GZ Online came first. I know, because Rockstar kind of likes to do their own thing. They'd be looked at as like copying Fortnite or some shit and they probably wouldn't want to do that, despite that they make some... |
| 08. November 2021 | Rockstar badly needs some competition | Rockstar badly needs some competition. It would be nice though for another company to enter the space with Rockstar. Like imagine if someone created an online world like GT Online but they actually made it good. Not peer to peer or whatever. Like there needs to be someone else in the space to inspire Rockstar to actually give a shit. Need another Skyrim? Would be nice but... Can another Elder Scrolls ever live up to Skyrim with mods? Modded Skyrim looks amazing. Like Fallout 76 does suggest that Bethesda is not in a good place right now. |
| 23. July 2022 | Rockstar cancelled the PS5 version of RDR2 | Rockstar cancelled the PS5 version of Red Dead Redemption 2. So that apparently Rockstar cancelled the ports for Red Dead Redemption 2 to PlayStation 5 and the new Xbox. On console, Red Dead Redemption 2 is still 30 FPS, right? It can still be played on PlayStation 5 with the PlayStation 4 version. Like there's no reason for them to remaster the game or whatever. All they need to do is just release a patch and improve it a bit or whatever to make it 60 FPS. Maybe they could make a patch that only 60 FPS only works on PlayStation 5. Apparently they're saying they're focusing everything on... They're focusing everything on GTA 6. Lily, Peach You and Peter n- |
| 22. December 2021 | Rockstar changing DLC to enable invite only lobbies | Rockstar changing the Franklin DLC to enable invite only lobbies. So apparently, according to Rockstar, it was a bug that people weren't able to do these missions in invite only sessions. I for one am skeptical, as in like I wonder if they just changed it because people complained so much about all the hackers and modders and shit. It is somewhat annoying that people spoof themselves into my name and then invite people and message people and stuff so I'll get DMs and people will be like, oh you invited me to something. If you ever receive a message from me in GTA Online or an invite of some kind, I swear it's not me. |
| 29. April 2021 | Rockstar combating driving physics glitches | Rockstar is combating driving physics glitches like brake boosting and curb boosting in newer vehicles. So I watched a video from Bruffy yesterday that was recommended to me by one of my viewers. So for those who don't know, Bruffy is like, you know, the big shot who knows everything there is to know about all the cars in the game, being in the racing community for GTA 5, more knowledge than I could ever hope to have about how vehicles work in the game. And so he's like, apparently Rockstar has developed this kind of flag with the cars that removes the effects of brake boosting and curb boosting and stuff, like all the weird physics quirks that exist with cars to make them go faster over particular bumps. They haven't added this to old vehicles yet, and certainly because we speed run on Patch 1.27, it wouldn't affect us. But it's possible they could use this in GTA 6, so these kind of weird boosting increases won't exist in that game. Less likely, but also kind of possible, is they could add this to the expanded enhanced version of GTA 5. I like adding it to all vehicles. None of that is certain though, but Bruffy says they do seem to be adding this flag to newer vehicles that they release, which is interesting. It's going to be really interesting though, if after expanded enhanced is released, like whether Patch 1.27 still works, whether the 1.27 project works at all. I hope it does. Because currently, Project 1.27 is basically just a thing to, while checking that you still have the game, it bypasses the issues that Social Club causes, like it isn't actually changing the game in any meaningful way, because obviously with most games that exist, when it comes out, that's the game. It's very rare that updates to the online version of a game changes the single player version. That's not really fair, you know? Honestly, I can't even think of another example where a company's continued upgrading to an online game impacts the single player version of that game, and makes it so you can't work on older patches. It's a nonsense fact. As much as we'd rather just be able to play on 1.27 and not be bothered, obviously measures had to be put in place, so Rockstar's continued changes to online didn't affect us. As I say, given that they're going to be separating online and single player, it's just going to be interesting to see whether the mechanisms we're using to be on an earlier patch will still work. It would be interesting if we literally cannot access the earlier patch anymore, which would require the leaderboards to be retired, and we'd all be forced to play on some newer version of the game in the expanded enhanced version. Probably worse case than I ever, you know? |
| 15. December 2020 | Rockstar content licence agreement | National Anthem. Rockstar Content License Agreements. Am I ready to buy a license to stream this from Rockstar? Rockstar already has in the user license agreement that you can make content. It's funny though, in the user license agreement, cutscene movies are specifically against the agreement. Why? Because you can't imagine showcasing the entire story of GTA and how it helps Rockstar. But then again, given that the game's been out for seven plus years or whatever, I'm sure they don't really care. And you can tell that they don't really care considering all the cutscene movies that still exist on YouTube and existed even like a year afterwards. But you would imagine if you had released a cutscene movie like days after the thing had released, they probably would have taken it down. |
| 22. September 2022 | Rockstar copyright striking me twice for GTA 6 leaks | Rockstar copyright striking me twice for GTA 6 leaks. So as you all know, there were some leaks related to GTA 6, and I made a video where I covered them. Specifically in the video, I did not show any of the leaks, I only talked about what they showed, my impressions of them, general opinions of the game mechanics and whatnot. Nothing that Rockstar has any copyright for. However, a day-ish after the video had been up, I got a copyright strike. And I was like, well, that's odd. Why would that be so? There's nothing in the video that they could possibly own, because it was just me speaking to the camera. There was no additional things added at all. And so I thought, well, maybe it was just an accident, a mistake, you know, just some automated system where a person is working very fast and they just striked it. And so I sent a thing off to YouTube, I sent a counterclaim, sent Rockstar a message with the thing that's given to me by YouTube. Two hours later, the claim was lifted. I was like, oh, well, guess it was a mistake. Guess, uh, that's all fine then. So 13 hours after they lifted the claim and let my video back up on YouTube, I got a message from Rockstar in my email, and they said, we have temporarily revoked the claim and your video should be restored. Please replace the thumbnail image that contains illegally accessed imagery. And they rejected my appeal, which I didn't even think was possible after they had removed the claim, and reapplied a new claim, which says my video will be taken down in seven days if I don't delete the video. To be clear, I have seven days to delete the video or I get a copyright strike. If I delete it before then, I obviously don't get one. So the background of my thumbnail was like a very zoomed out picture of the file previews on my PC. So like very, very tiny, still images of the clips that leaked, the 90 of them. Already just that alone, you aren't getting any information from that, nothing at all. But I blurred it to shit. You can see fucking nothing in the thumbnail. It is random blurred colors, meaningless nonsense. And this is what they took down my video for. Somehow when I thought it was just a mistake, I was like, you know, these things happen. That's understandable. No reason to think less of anyone. But knowing that this was an intentional thing to take down tiny, blurred, still images that communicate nothing more than like the color scheme of the game is just impressively dumb. I'm sorry. It's even more impressively dumb because there are still videos of the leaks in their entirety on YouTube. As there has been since the leaks happened. Some of these have millions of views. They're on trending. And my blurred, indecipherable nonsense thumbnail was their immediate thing that they struck. But it gets worse, chat. When the strike was released, I went into overdrive mode thinking what possibly could have caused them to strike the video. And so I determined without them telling me, might be a thumbnail. So I replaced the thumbnail that they struck down with a new thumbnail where the background was even more blurred. As in there is nothing in this thumbnail. If Rockstar was willing to look at this smear of color and see their intellectual property, the people of Rockstar must be the smartest artificial intelligence in existence, doing like thousands of parameters a second to calculate how to merge these colors together to form an image that can be discernible by the human eye. And they still wanted that removed. You literally cannot discern a single thing in this background. No, fuck it. I'm going to show it to you. You tell me something about GTA 6 from this. They're going, we must strike this immediately. They're going to know everything about GTA 6. They're just random files. You can't even tell that they're files. As I said in a tweet about this, I'm sorry Rockstar, I've released that the color blue is used in your game. I've removed the stuff from the background entirely now and hopefully they'll remove the claim. That's just silly. |
| 23. December 2022 | Rockstar did the unthinkable, They fixed their game. | Rockstar did the unthinkable, they fixed their game. But I do find it funny that they finally fixed the gun lockers, at least that's what people are telling me, considering that they've been broken for so many years, and I didn't know they were broken, and they caused me so much unbelievable frustration, and so I finally went out of my way to use a gun locker that actually worked, and now they fixed it. So that entire write-up that I referenced in my rambles before, no longer relevant. So if you took my advice there and fixed your gun lockers shit, you're in the same book as me. Rockstar fixed it, you don't have to do anything. Mike |
| 03. September 2021 | Rockstar doesn’t let you rebind the ` key. | Rockstar doesn't let you rebind the tilde key, which is the cheat code key What Okay so apparently my profile for this keyboard is broken I Specifically made a profile for this keyboard so that that tilde button won't work and it is turned on but it's not working Someone after stream me fix keyboard profile That is fucked actually makes me really angry because Rockstar in their infinite wisdom made it so you can't rebind the tilde key the only way you can turn the office to use You know your keyboard settings, and I can't even make that joke that I tried to there's one episode of how this people ended I'm I make a fake Kotaku article because I accidentally press the tilde key and then type WF and I made the tile of the Kotaku article speed runner attempts to get world record using cheat But accidentally type but miss types WR some shit. Whatever I wrote It's a good episode |
| 29. December 2020 | Rockstar finally releases new single player content. | Rockstar finally releases content for single-player. You guys see it? We finally got some new GT5 story mode content. They finally fixed it so the magazines are actually in people's guns and cutscenes. After all these years, I know how many years, but a goddamn lot of years with that bug being in place, I had to go back to patch 1.27 to record the cutscenes when I did that my anime projects. People commented like, oh my god the the magazines are in the weapons! I'm like, what do you think I'm gonna record cutscenes without magazines and weapons? Get out of here, you know? It was actually one of the flaws with the cutscene movie I was making. I knew I would have to have to go back and re-record some of the cutscenes that had weapons in them. So I'm happy this change occurred. I wonder why it occurred now though after all these years. Because it's funny, I think I went on a rant on stream at one point where I was like, does no one at Rockstar have shame? Or does no one at Rockstar have like any sort of pride in their work? Like who could leave this glaring of a flaw in in a game that people still play this day? I think I went a little tirade. So maybe I was responsible is what I'm saying chat. Maybe I have the power to influence GTA 5. So what I'm gonna say right now is, does Rockstar not have any shame? How are there not dinosaurs that speak Spanish in GTA 5? If I was running GTA 5, those that would exist. It's a good test chat, let's see if that works. If they release Spanish dinosaur DLC in the future, we'll know I have some power over what happens with GTA 5. It's entirely possible, it's just a precursor to uh, because you know how they're releasing it with online and single-player separate, which is a good excuse for them to fix any errors that exist in the game because it's gonna be sold as its own individual item soon. I don't know how soon, why hasn't that happened yet? When is the expanded and enhanced version coming out? But yeah, this may not affect you guys all that much, but it definitely affects me. It definitely has benefits for me whenever I want to record cutscenes or do any kind of projects with that. It's just gonna save me a little bit of time. Like when um, when I was gonna do a response or like tweet out about it, I had to sit there for a second because I didn't want to sound ungrateful. I doubt Rockstar reads my tweets, but my first thought was it's about fucking time. But then I was like, but at least they did it and I understand it's not a huge priority for them. I sat there for like five minutes. I'm like, I'm just gonna write nice and that's what I did. I'm like nice, you know, I should do the chaos cutscene run as in celebration or whatever. |
| 29. December 2020 | Rockstar finally releases new singleplayer content. | Rockstar finally releases content for single-player. You guys see it? We finally got some new GT5 story mode content. They finally fixed it so the magazines are actually in people's guns and cutscenes. After all these years, I know how many years, but a goddamn lot of years with that bug being in place, I had to go back to patch 1.27 to record the cutscenes when I did that my anime projects. People commented like, oh my god the the magazines are in the weapons! I'm like, what do you think I'm gonna record cutscenes without magazines and weapons? Get out of here, you know? It was actually one of the flaws with the cutscene movie I was making. I knew I would have to have to go back and re-record some of the cutscenes that had weapons in them. So I'm happy this change occurred. I wonder why it occurred now though after all these years. Because it's funny, I think I went on a rant on stream at one point where I was like, does no one at Rockstar have shame? Or does no one at Rockstar have like any sort of pride in their work? Like who could leave this glaring of a flaw in in a game that people still play this day? I think I went a little tirade. So maybe I was responsible is what I'm saying chat. Maybe I have the power to influence GTA 5. So what I'm gonna say right now is, does Rockstar not have any shame? How are there not dinosaurs that speak Spanish in GTA 5? If I was running GTA 5, those that would exist. It's a good test chat, let's see if that works. If they release Spanish dinosaur DLC in the future, we'll know I have some power over what happens with GTA 5. It's entirely possible, it's just a precursor to uh, because you know how they're releasing it with online and single-player separate, which is a good excuse for them to fix any errors that exist in the game because it's gonna be sold as its own individual item soon. I don't know how soon, why hasn't that happened yet? When is the expanded and enhanced version coming out? But yeah, this may not affect you guys all that much, but it definitely affects me. It definitely has benefits for me whenever I want to record cutscenes or do any kind of projects with that. It's just gonna save me a little bit of time. Like when um, when I was gonna do a response or like tweet out about it, I had to sit there for a second because I didn't want to sound ungrateful. I doubt Rockstar reads my tweets, but my first thought was it's about fucking time. But then I was like, but at least they did it and I understand it's not a huge priority for them. I sat there for like five minutes. I'm like, I'm just gonna write nice and that's what I did. I'm like nice, you know, I should do the chaos cutscene run as in celebration or whatever. |
| 01. November 2022 | Rockstar fixed fps limits in GTA 5 | Rockstar fixed FPS limits in GTA 5. So we used to talk about how there are limits to the amount of FPS you can have while playing GTA 5 because it causes ridiculous stuttering. Past 150, the further you went, the worse it became. And so there was just a hard cap for a while in the 150s, 160s kind of thing. But apparently Rockstar fixed that. Don't know when or why, but I heard Gamers Nexus just referenced that casually while talking about some benchmarks. And so I asked in the Discord, and apparently even on the earlier patch, you can go higher FPS now. I don't know how that happened, if Rockstar did that, or maybe they worked with Nvidia to change something on their hardware, I don't know. Now apparently the hard cap is 187. Because if you go over 187, there's an audio bug. But I guess they fixed it in 5M or something, but in the main game, it's not fixed. And your audio desyncs and glitches out or something. Regardless, it's better than it was. So higher FPS is a cheap winner. |
| 05. June 2022 | Rockstar fixing the car physics exploits (curb boosting, brakeboosting) | Good thing to point out. You talked about the cars. I saw a video of yours, this was a long time ago. You were talking about how the newer cars have a lot of the physics exploits not as prominent or fixed. Can you talk about that a bit more and do you think that's going to carry over into GTA 6? We're not going to have maybe curb boosting and brake boosting anymore for that game? I think so. I think there's a potential for it. They've been experimenting with GTA Online for years now. Pretty much ever since 2016 they introduced Downforce. Since then they've just been putting in new cars. Again, this speaks to the fact that they never go back to fix anything. They put in new cars with all these different handling flags. They're basically doing a live beta test in the game. They'll put in these cars that handle terribly to try and test to see if they can either fix curb boosting or do all these different things that they want to do. They never go back and make them work properly so they're still all broken and terrible. In recent times they've experimented with new types of flags that basically on the open wheel cars they don't get any effects from boosts. Curb boosts, brake boosts, it just doesn't work. It's totally smooth. You can apply those flags to current cars and those cars will also not get any curb boosting or anything like that. They haven't tried it yet. They haven't actually put that flag onto a car, which has surprised me. I thought they would just try it. But that's got to be testing for the next game to be able to completely get rid of curb boosting and all that kind of stuff. So that leads to two questions. Are you saying that they've actually fixed it now? They have something in their tool belt now to remove curb boosting, brake boosting and stuff like that permanently? Yeah, there's basically one aspect of it that I think they need to polish at the very end. The way that the cars work is that as you get up to higher speeds they drop down on the suspension sort of like a normal car would as downforce goes over the top of it. That doesn't work quite properly when they apply this fix for curb boosting. But apart from that, it's more like a visual thing really. Apart from that, they could apply this advanced flag to every single car in the game and it wouldn't experience any kind of boosts whatsoever. But they haven't even put it on a Nuke. They never go back and add things to different cars. They never change them. So that's never going to happen to GT Online. They could do it for a Nuke. |
| 03. May 2020 | Rockstar games confirms GTA 6 in early development | Rockstar confirms GTA 6 in early development. When I heard that GTA 5 was still in its early development, although rumors say it's like halfway done or something, they've been working on it for fucking forever, what they're obviously saying is it's not going to be coming out anytime soon. I was relieved and disappointed because I would love to see a GTA 6, holy shit how cool would that be, but at the same time I still got a lot of stuff that I want to do with GTA 5. Ideally, GTA 6 will come out the very moment I'm done with everything I want to do in GTA 5. What else do I want to do? Well one thing, complete the entire game without ever dying. I mean without getting hit or dying. I want to get back heavily into speedrunning. I mean I need to release all the episodes for Pasifist as well. There's a lot of stuff. Certainly I never had the chance to do the low hanging fruits content. If you look up like gold medals for the mission chop on GTA 5, the videos have like 3 million views. |
| 14. December 2022 | Rockstar games did the unthinkable. | 25th anniversary many of you likely know that the 25 year anniversary of GTA came and went on November the 28th on November 2nd. I wrote this tweet I know a fairly important guy in the GTA scene who says that the GCC Australia will drop November 28th The guy is me. I'm the one saying that sauce me and on November 28th. I quote you tweeted myself Yo, this guy lied fuck this guy It was just a meme and so I wrote today being Grand Theft Auto is 25th anniversary I feel like rockstar missed an opportunity to commemorate the occasion by releasing something substantive like releasing GTA 5 for the fifth time 5 times 5 Equals 25 after all wait Let the fans down rockstar shake up my head a few people took this serious as if I was Chastising rockstar for not acknowledging the 25th anniversary most people didn't even know it was the 25th anniversary Until like in October what people thought was the anniversary came round and it actually wasn't and then it was corrected Right is not that significant of a milestone really like if GTA 6 the trailer or the game wasn't ready It would wouldn't make much sense for them to like throw it out Despite that on this particular day being beholden to some guideline based on what tradition or just wanting something to commemorate the day I'll just be silly and if they released anything else on the 25th anniversary like hey team we did it We got to the 25 years whoo then people just been pissed. It was just was spam comments Where's GTA 6 where's the trailer? Oh my god, how disrespectful you's not releasing the trailer today. I'm not saying in |
| 02. November 2021 | Rockstar has taken so much time from me with one decision. | Rockstar has taken so much time from me with one decision. Can you imagine a world? Imagine a world. Close your eyes. Imagine a world where Rockstar didn't make these cutscenes unskippable. How much of my life wouldn't have been wasted looking at these fucking cutscenes? We could probably calculate it. It's like hours. Days. Weeks maybe. If they were skippable you wouldn't have ba ba ba ba ba. A worthy sacrifice. |
| 02. February 2021 | Rockstar holding back GTA 6 announcement | Rockstar holding back GTA 6 announcement. I wouldn't be surprised if Rockstar is holding off an announcement for GTA 6 until like, they need to use it to boost GTA 5. To bring people back to be interested in it. You can just imagine the numbers for GTA 5 dip and they're like, hey guys, GTA 6 coming out around the corner. And everyone's like, oh yeah, remember GTA 5, yeah I played that game in the meantime, waiting for the GTA 6 to come out. Clearly though I need to get myself some kind of an insider in Rockstar so I can know when GTA 6 is coming out. So I can buy a bunch of stock in our take two. I would also have to find out how to buy stock, because I don't, I don't, I don't do that. Buying stock internationally, apparently a little bit complicated than buying it in the Australian stock exchange. That would be interesting if people do have bots, programs to monitor people's twitters. And the nanosecond the bot detects certain things in what's being tweeted. They'll just buy massive amounts of stock. So the nanosecond some variation of Grand Theft Auto 6 on announcement trailer or something is announced on the Rockstar Twitter. You just buy a bunch of stock. |
| 22. November 2022 | Rockstar is hiring a specialist to stop modders. | gonna be releasing next, but hopefully they find someone good. Did I hate the new God of War? My thoughts on the new God of War? Fun game. Don't know if I'm gonna play more of it though. There are so many games that I haven't played over that have released over the last couple of decades. Like I don't think God of War is really high on that list of games that I really want to play. The only reason I played it day one is because it's a popular game and you know, I wanted to see what the fuss was about. It's very beautiful looking game though. Good game play. Good story. Yeah, I'll probably finish it one day. Is AMD now better than Intel? Since you now have an Intel CPU instead of AMD, do you notice any difference between your AMD and new Intel CPU? What made you switch to Intel? Has Intel... |
| 04. July 2022 | Rockstar needs to change snacks and armour in the next game | Rockstar needs to change snacks and armor in the next game. You think Rockstar will think of a better way to equip or use armor and snacks? They have to. It isn't like they have to think of a better way. There are already infinite better ways in like every single game that exists. You know? They don't need to reinvent the wheel, they just need to like walk to the local game store, check on Steam, and just pick the one that they want to copy. I wonder if they'll just do away with snacks entirely or something, but it feels as though like the weapon wheel and the snacks and stuff, it all feels like fundamentally Rockstar, you know? You never want to get caught in a situation where you're doing something only because that's what you did before. You're ditching better ideas because it's not your thing. We all can get trapped into that sometimes. You want to keep a theme rather than doing something that's better. Basically chat tradition? Fuck it. Nothing should ever be done just because it's what you did before. You do it because it's the best thing to achieve particular goals, you know? It can often be the case that what is traditional is the best thing to do, but that's the reason you should do it, not because it's traditional. Traditional is just the past demanding that things stay the same? Yeah. I mean, in some cases, you know, there's a reason why things were done in a particular way in the past, and so they can be, it can be worth doing, but they should, it should just be assessed on its merits, not because it's what you used to. But we all get that way chat. We all get stuck in our ways, so it's hard to change sometimes. For example, I keep seeing on Twitter that more and more people are doing Peggle speedruns, and I'm just like, am I out of touch? Why is there so many Peggle speedruns? You love Peggle, you didn't know you could speedrun it? It's just such a weird speedrun. DougDug being able to have like 5k plus viewers while playing Peggle is insane. |
| 12. August 2020 | Rockstar potentially releasing a new region | That's right. Rockstar potentially releasing a new region. Uh, yeah, I heard that, um, that Rockstar might be releasing an entirely new location. Guess that shows they are really committed to not releasing GTA 6 anytime soon. You know what's gonna suck? If the new location was GTA 6, or a chunk of what they were working on for GTA 6, and GTA 6 wasn't going the way that they wanted it to go, so they're now just cutting it off and putting it into, uh, GTA 5. Them releasing North Yankton as a playable area would actually be kind of interesting. It, like, it wouldn't make much sense for the, um, for the game, because North Yankton is meant to be like, you know, trailer trash, hick people. And online right now, people are CEOs with bajillion dollars. It's like, hey, yeah, you've got a bajillion dollars, but you want to go rob a bank in the sticks? You know? It's entirely possible it won't be an actual new location, or like, it'll be a new location in the same way that the casino is a new location. That's bossing. Could be a bigger on the inside kind of thing, where there's just a small little building and you go inside and it's just like, huge area. You want GTA to have a TARDIS? I mean, the way that Rockstar was going, I wouldn't be surprised if they give you a TARDIS. Isn't there already something like a TARDIS, like a weapons thing, where you can go into the back of it and it's huge on the inside as well? No? Yes? See you there. |
| 28. November 2022 | Rockstar proposing giving teleport powers to GTA+ subscribers | Rockstar proposing giving teleport powers to GTA plus subscribers. So I'm sure by now most of you guys know Tez. He always has like the latest news on GTA related stuff on Twitter and stuff. If you're going to be on Twitter you should be following Tez funds too. And he says this, GTA Online survey received by select players is about GTA plus. Players are asked to pick which feature to use the most and which to use the least from existing offers plus two new offers. Instant fast travel around the map. Free access to classic Rockstar titles game pass. So since starting to learn Kao Perico speedrunning and finding out how easy it is to teleport around the map using job warps. You click on one and then as you're loading in you spam right click and enter and you immediately teleport. The game seems so much more enjoyable and easy and saves so much goddamn time. I can imagine it'd be a huge pain in the ass to balance around everyone having that feature but I do wonder what percentage of the player base know of this and use it. Cause I'm going to keep using it and I've had it for a very long time. On console it's a bit harder I think because you have to like disconnect your controller or something. But I don't care about that. Whatever. So maybe Rockstar is like well if you can't beat them join them. Let's see if we can sell people on this subscription service to enable them to fast travel around the map. What would they do like give you like little pointers that you can put on the map to set up little places that you can instantly teleport to. I don't know. If this does happen though the KO Perigo or any of the speedruns for GC Online will just become somewhat pay to win. You'll have to get this subscription. Yeah I know if they're going to do that but it's like as the professional says down here so they are going to let GTA plus players do what cheaters already do. I can imagine people also abusing a fast travel feature to attack your player. Yeah. The other thing here free access to classic Rockstar titles Game Pass. Think about how much value you get from like Xbox Game Pass or Netflix or something where you're paying what 10 15 bucks a month and Rockstar is basically trying to compete with that by giving you access to what like the 10 games that they've released. Not really as good a deal as you can understand but I guess they're trying to just like open up any drawer they have in the office to find like any stapler or pencil that they can just give to the players so they will sign up for this subscription service because all the fucking shareholders love reoccurring consistent revenue. They love that shit. When I see stuff like this I think to myself consider how low the value is for my subscription service being a member or a patron or a Twitch subscriber to me. You get emotes and you get a cool little jingle and a message to me. As I've often said people are more willing to give money to actual people. They can see a person being happy that they've done something that the other person likes. They want to support actual humans with thoughts feelings and emotions not a billion dollar corporation or whatever. As much as I try to give value to subscribers it's obvious that it's more about supporting me as opposed to getting a massive amount of value for your money. So yeah I appreciate all my members and subscribers and patrons and I swear to you I will try to give more value to such services. It's always a- |
| 08. April 2021 | Rockstar reduces GTA Online loading times. | Rockstar Reduces GTA Online Loading Times Did you guys see that Rockstar is apparently going to be releasing a fix for the loading in um, GTA Online? For those who are unaware, a guy basically came out publicly and he's like, hey look, I found a reason why GTA Online is loading very slowly. If you just change like this one or two things, you can reduce the loading by 70%. And everyone's like, oh really bullshit, this is probably some pie in the sky nonsense, right? Sunshine and rainbows. And then people test it and they're like, oh my god, it actually works. After eight years now, whatever, this one thing was the cause of the loading times being 80% longer than they should have been. And so everyone was like so pessimistic, like, oh, you know, Rockstar, they're not going to acknowledge it. They're not going to do anything about this. Uh, I was somewhat optimistic, I think, but no, I think I said either they do it or they wouldn't acknowledge it at all. I can't recall. Regardless, they've now acknowledged it and they've said, yeah, this is cool. So they gave him 10 grand and they're going to implement it for everyone. I tried reading people's technical breakdowns as to what this actually meant. Um, like, like whether it was like a really obvious thing that Rockstar should have picked up on or it's something that justifiably they, they missed. And people seem to have split opinions on that. One point I kind of agreed with was a person like, look, if, if a singular guy can do this, regardless of how difficult it is, had Rockstar being significantly motivated, uh, they could have done it. But it's one of those things where if you, if you don't know something exists, it's very hard to just go out of your way to look for it, you know, like right now down the street, if I knocked on a guy's door, there, there might be a guy who'd be like, Oh man, I'm looking for someone to knock on my door all day. He has a million dollars that I, because I have no reasonable expectation that I'm going to find that knocking on people's doors. I'm not going to go knock on people's doors. If you have no reasonable expectation, you're going to find a grand fix to produce had loading by 70, 80%. Why would you go seeking such a thing out? It's just in Rockstar's case, given that they have so much money, uh, if I was in their shoes and I heard so much complaining about the loading and online, I would have just hired one guy and just been like, look, just look over the code, every single little small amount and just find anything possible. But then again, as I said before, when you make a game this large, the odds of you inadvertently breaking something by changing something is significant. Any small thing you try to change is going to potentially have ramifications that you can't foresee. But then again, the loading was just so bad though, for so long, like any potential risk was probably worth it. I don't know. You can kind of go backwards and forwards, whether you want to be charitable, charitable towards Rockstar or not on this issue, but I'm just happy that they were willing to admit, yeah, this is good and they're going to implement it. Props to them for that, you know, whenever anything good happens, you can either say, this is good, thank you, or you can say about fucking time. Nothing is ever soon enough. Your opinion on giving him only 10k? Only 10k? I mean, I mean, this will be on his resume forever. I mean, like, I mean, he definitely benefits more than just 10k. How much they'll make on the six? Potentially nothing. I mean, it was something I suppose, but like, I mean, conceivably, some people will now go back to the game hearing the loading time gets lower and whatnot, but how much money should they have given him? 10k for the amount of work he did seems quite good. And technically they didn't have to give him anything. They made an exception to include him in because normally they pay for security issues that people point out and then fix or whatever. I mean, certainly if I was in Rockstar's shoes, I would have given him more as a company, though. He was given away more money than they need to. |
| 10. December 2022 | Rockstar reveals their 4 trillion dollar reward for the players | Rockstar reveals the $4 trillion reward for the player base. So congratulations everyone, we worked together as a team to waste our lives playing GT Online, grinding $4 trillion in the highest challenge that Rockstar set forth, and as a result we've all unlocked a free new vehicle coming soon to GT Online. Stay tuned for more updates. Now my biggest worry is this is going to be some vehicle that you can't possibly delete and it's going to be in my menus somewhere and screw something up. I mean I'm just being pessimistic, I don't know, but whatever the case may be I hope this is a good vehicle. But it can't be like the best of the best vehicles right? Because that'd be kind of silly. Do you start with a car in GT Online? No? That is somewhat strange. Maybe this will be a way for a person to start with a car. In new gen yes? Ah okay, then maybe that won't serve that function. Because a person says you'll probably have to claim this anyway, so yeah if I don't I won't claim it I suppose. But good work gang, we did it. |
| 27. October 2022 | Rockstar saves their Google Stadia users...kinda? | gives their Google Stadia users, kinda. So good news to the dozen or so Google Stadia people, you can now transfer your progress in Rockstar games off Google Stadia to other platforms. Apparently, they're giving out free copies to people who are affected by Google Stadia shutting down. But it's not just Rockstar doing this, it's a lot of game developers, so that's a good thing. I doubt it's gonna cost them a heap of money, because as everyone has pointed out, there wasn't a heap amount of people who used Google Stadia, or would wanna go the effort of talking to support and stuff to get this done, but a good thing for those who do wanna do that. Everyone applauded that until a lot of these stories came out. One Stadia player will be losing his $1 million, 1.3K gold bars, and 662 ranks due to Rockstar's condition that they must have played within 30 days prior to the shutdown announcement. Why so restrictive? Do they really believe they're gonna be mass inundated with people just trying to move? Maybe they can see the backend of how many people bought the game on Stadia? I don't know. Like, it doesn't matter what condition they put. There's always gonna be some people outside of that condition who get screwed. It does seem heavily restrictive, though, 30 days. Like, if I was in their shoes, I'd give some exceptions, at the very least, if a person has like a ridiculous amount of playtime or something, but they think people can scam them? I mean, I don't know how the 30-day thing would change that, though. |
| 30. March 2021 | Rockstar says expanded and enhanced will have significant improvements. | Rockstar says expanded and enhanced will have significant improvements. Of course I've heard about GTA V expanded and enhanced and stuff. And Rockstar apparently, no, was it Take Two? Maybe it's because they're a public company or whatever, I'm not sure, but they have these calls, these conference calls or whatever, where they announce stuff to their shareholders and whatnot. And Take Two says that the expanded and enhanced of GTA V is going to be more than simply a graphical enhancement or whatever, it's going to be a significant improvement to the game or something. I don't know the exact wording, but they're talking it up like this is not going to be just, you know, them re-releasing the game with a change to the shadows or some shit, you know. The relevant quote is, GTA V expanded and enhanced edition will feature a range of technical improvements, visual upgrades and performance enhancements to take full advantage of the latest hardware, making the game more beautiful and more responsive than ever. I wonder what they're going to do though, because when they move from 360 to Xbox One and PlayStation 3 to PlayStation 4, that's re-released to the game. They did add new content, but it's all like mild, like not really important content, like a handful of weapons, like a random events. And of course, they enhance the graphics. It'd be very interesting if they have like a small expansion, a small DLC, like a, like even just a DLC that you can complete in four hours or something, you know. They did add first-person mode, that's true, that's true, which would take a bit of effort, obviously, but not that much. So there were improvements, there were changes, but I wouldn't consider any of them to be groundbreaking, monumental kind of stuff. What I'm saying is if they re-released the game with the same degree of changes that they did in the past, it won't be that impressive. It'd be interesting, but it wouldn't be super impressive. I'd much rather see even a small actual story DLC. Like people say don't be too optimistic, right, but I think what they're going to release is at least going to be appreciated. Like I don't think it's going to be a massive letdown, but that might be because people have lower expectations, you know. Is there a release date? Not to my knowledge. I think they said late 2021 or whatever, right? So this year. |
| 27. November 2022 | Rockstar takes down role play server. | Rockstar takes down roleplay server. As we mentioned before there was some drama brewing in the Rockstar roleplay whole thing. Take-Two's legal team has issued a takedown notice against Lil Durk. This comes after the rapper was distributing NFTs and loot boxes for their 5M server. His server is officially dead until they can reach an agreement with Rockstar and Take-Two per his statement. So this is a statement from him. So clearly you can't do literally anything and have Rockstar, Take-Two just lay down and let you do it. There are clearly limits as to what they'll let people do on 5M servers and what not. And I think these limits are pretty... |
| 16. February 2021 | Rockstar took down a big mod menu seller | Rockstar took down a big mod menu seller. You guys hear that um Rockstar took down one of the largest mod menu sellers and apparently the mod menu sellers are giving the money to charity or something as a part of the takedown request from Rockstar. Obviously there are many different types of mod menus and Other mod menus can just spring up or other websites can just spring up but every time one gets taken down that makes it a little bit harder for people to get access to mod menus and makes other mod menu sellers scared that they're gonna have the same experience. So anyone attempting to get into that business will view it as more risky than previous and anyone looking for a mod menu will have a harder time getting it which overall just benefits us who want less mod menus in GT Online. It is a significant barrier to entry to have Rockstar be actively working to take down these companies and that's obviously I'm all for it. |
| 11. September 2022 | Rockstar updated their credits for GTA 5 and online | Probably. Rockstar updated their credits for GTA V and GTA Online. So for Wild Chat, there was a thing in the game where I think it was legal and thanks. In GTA V it was added with an update, but people memed on it because when you went through it said still under construction. But apparently the credits are now done. You can now see everyone who worked on GTA V and GTA Online. GTA V and GTA Online represent the combined efforts of our global team over many years. We want to acknowledge and thank everyone who has contributed to these games from their original launch in 2013 all the way through to present day. And there's a, that's a lot of names. You can see why it took so long for them to do this, to post it, leaving halfway. Dude, it's as fast as I can go. That guy there was my favorite person. That one just flew by. That's a crazy amount of people. Well, these are like the original credits or something maybe. Yeah, I guess so. Original game credits, yeah. Woo! What a ride. And someone, somewhere in here is my name of course, because I contributed suggestions as to how to make the game better. Ah. I know some have speculated that this change may have some sort of significance. In reality, I think it was already obvious that we're a few years out from GTA VI and GTA Online will be wound down in that time, but there is still likely some content that is still gonna be coming out for it. |
| 09. January 2022 | Rockstar vs Nintendo | Rockstar versus Nintendo. Like why must Rockstar just suck at literally everything? Like can't they just suck at like one or two things? They're basically Nintendo except they don't release good games. Nintendo sucks at basically everything in regards to their customers and their community and all that jazz. But they at least release good games. I know half you and Chad are like, but how much of it is Take-Two and how much of it is Rockstar? Who cares anymore? If Rockstar can't make their own decisions on literally anything, then Rockstar doesn't really exist. And it's just some brand that Take-Two pushes out to sell products. Like Nintendo sucks on a lot of stuff, but at least they make good games. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 01. December 2022 | Rockstar wants GTA Online to be World of Warcraft. | What's GTA Online to be World of Warcraft? I mean Beck it's entirely possible that Rockstar wants to do something similar to World of Warcraft GTA plus is like their attempt to create, you know, a constant subscription service And then they could just do something where like every year they just add another island or something and they never need to release 3.0 of the game. It just continues to go along that way. The problem with that though is World of Warcraft they were kind of able to keep that cartoony aesthetic when you have a more realistic game The graphics can become quickly outdated. Is we playing? |
| 19. March 2021 | Rockstar wants to remake some games | Rockstar wants to remake some games Was it Sonny Evans I saw? tweeting out today that apparently on you know the the companies are like quarterly calls with their major shareholders or stakeholders or whatever to discuss the business and apparently take two has taken notice of the success of like the mafia remakes and whatnot and and Therefore you can infer likely making plans to have their older games remastered So we might eventually see You know GTA 3 Vice City San Andreas and whatnot come back with more modern graphics You've got to hope it's not some half-assed attempt at remastering right? And then you got to wonder how much of the content of those games will be kept in I would imagine that they'd keep like 99.5 percent of it and Maybe cutting out that 0.5 percent is just to Generate some controversy so people talk about it and discuss it But the biggest question will always be the music whether they'd spend the money for the licenses now Which would cost far more than they did back then? |
| 20. November 2022 | Rockstar warns the role playing GTA V community. | Rockstar coming after the GTA V roleplay servers So Rockstar has released a statement about Roleplaying servers and their stance on them. This to my knowledge is the first time they've ever done this I just always suspected that it fell under Like other things in their TOS and they wouldn't need to make a specific statement But they have now. To summarize all this it's like yo, we're cool with you guys doing roleplay But by the way, if you do shit that we don't approve of we will fucking destroy you Basic summary like they don't like commercial exploitation like loot boxes for real-world currency The sale of virtual currencies, you know NFTs, cryptocurrencies and all that stuff They don't like that shit If you're doing stuff that will make them look bad and they don't want to be associated with they will strike you down With the vengeance of a very pissed-off God basically. You want to read it all? Feel free That's basically it as is kind of shown here after doing some digging take two appears to be upset with rapper little Dirk And lawsuit could be cooking. Dirk has been involved with selling loot boxes and a premium paid pass known as Trenchies pass Which includes access to the server alongside other perks on the 5m server. Rockstar don't like that shit Which in general has been their stance like if you look in their TOS They give pretty wide allowance for people to use their stuff to make content But to what degree that you can commercialize that stuff and make money They're kind of less keen on that stuff But obviously given that they haven't struck down any of us Youtubers in the last nine years or even longer that if you conclude GTA 4 clear They can't have that much of a problem with us either that or they don't want to potentially face any backlash for doing it Although I think that's unlikely considering how many things they've done in regards of taking down Mods and and whatnot that have caused a lot of backlash I don't think Rockstar take to give two shits about backlash if they really wanted to take down us and felt we were harming them In some way they totally would |
| 30. July 2022 | Rockstar's advertisement for their new DLC. | Rockstar's advertisement for their new DLC. The southern San Andreas economy is in crisis, gas prices have spiked to the highest levels in decades, supply chains are in turmoil, and a ferocious heatwave is gripping the state. So I wonder where they got inspiration for this DLC. They just copied everything that's going on in real life right now and put it in a DLC. Take two calls to heatwave to promote new online DLC. I knew it. Yeah, exactly. All of these things wouldn't be happening in real life if it wasn't for Rockstar. Clearly Rockstar was releasing this DLC and they're like, shit, we don't have a way to promote this content. I know, let's cause these problems from the game in real life. |
| 18. December 2021 | Rockstar's attempt to salvage the trilogy remaster | Rockstar's attempts to salvage the trilogy remaster. It'd be much better if companies were just willing to wait and release games when they're good. Like, the Definitive Edition has gotten patch after patch after patch since its release, fixing all these bugs. And this is only after a couple of weeks, and it's like, if you could have done this after a couple of weeks, why didn't you just wait a couple of weeks? Let me see if I can find one of them. All these bugs. All these bugs. All these bugs. Like, they are somewhat padding it because, like, one bug can be fixed in one spot and be fixed in another spot at the same time. But like, this is a lot of bugs for a triple-A studio to release with one of their games. Especially a game that's really fucking old. It bothers me that there are people who've been working with the original trilogy for over a decade. Like, just tinkering with it, improving it, fixing bugs, patching it, making content for it. And Rockstar talked to fucking none of these people. There are people who literally reverse-engineered GTA 3 and GTA Vice City. So they looked at the game and then built their own code to do the same thing that the game is doing. And rather than talk to these people, pay them some money to work on these projects, they gave the projects to a mobile phone developer and sued the guys who knew the most about the game. It's just so dumb that I find it hard to believe that stupidity caused it. It's either malice or there must be some other reason, like a legal reason or maybe the guy who reverse-engineered it. Maybe he fucked the CEO's wife or something. I don't know. There must be some personal reason, maybe. It's just so confusing. Money, it all comes down to money, but clearly the people who are the most passionate about the game would just be happy to work with Rockstar on the thing. You could have paid them fucking like crackers, and they would have been like, bro, we will totally help you with this. It's our passion. We love the games. They even just a phone call like, so like, we're working on the definitive edition for the game. What were like the main bugs and glitches and stuff that you guys thought like we should really be looking at here? They just, there's some direction. They got nothing. Why? It's just so confusing. You still don't understand why Rockstar didn't do it themselves? I mean, there's only so many people at Rockstar who can work on anything at any given time, and they likely just didn't consider it a high priority task. They're working on GTA 6 right now. My problem wasn't that they gave it to someone else. My problem was that they gave it to Grove Street Games, which has already failed to remaster the game multiple times. Grove Street Games has already released bad mobile phone ports and bad remasters of the previous games. When they saw what the outcome was with all of these bugs, and this isn't even all the bugs that exist in the game, Rockstar was like, yeah, ship it. And the thing is, this is just like fixing bugs and increasing stability. It isn't remaking the game. It isn't going in a different direction to create something truly amazing. It's still going to be the general style of what these remasters were, which is pretty poor. We were the testers? Yeah, clearly. It could be the case, though, that it might actually be Rockstar now making these fixes. Well, I guess the core of the trilogy is good as in the original games, but the remaster, that part, no matter how much you change the remastering parts of it, it's not going to ever become significantly better than the original. There's only so far that they can improve the game considering that the remaster itself was shit, is what I'm trying to say. |
| 09. February 2020 | Rockstar's incompetence and GTA IV | Rockstar's incompetence and GTA 4. Um, someone asked me what do I think of Rockstar not being able to sell more of GTA 4, because the Windows Live services from Microsoft is no longer supported so they can't generate keys. A competent company would have recognized that this would eventually occur, and they would have had something set up already to either immediately go into place so they could generate keys, or they would have changed away from the fucking services a long time ago, because playing GTA 4 with the Windows Live services or whatever was a huge pain in the ass. Most people already had to mod the game so it works. A competent company would have looked at that, or a company that cared about its IP, or cared about its older games would have gone, oh yeah, we should probably fix that. That seems like a bad situation for the player base and you know, people who love our games, but Rockstar's like, oh, oh, oh, oh what, we got an email here saying we can't generate keys anymore, we can't make any more money. Well, guess we gotta do something now, because all that matters is how much money we can produce. Jesus Christ. Like, you think it would have been like this step one when they started making the Rockstar game launcher, that GTA 4 would have been like the first thing that they tried to move over to the launcher so they could make some keys, but no. I'm very afraid of what Rockstar has become over the last five years. |
| 20. October 2021 | Rockstar's priority with bug fixes | Rockstar's priority with bug fixes. Yeah, Rockstar is very good at fixing money exploits, but there are a bunch of glitches online that can cost people millions of dollars in like, cargo and stuff that Rockstar just refuses to fix. Because they'll spend time and money fixing a bug that costs them money, but a bug that gains them money even while increasing consumer dissatisfaction. It's like, ah, let's go, we'll leave it, it's fine. |
| 28. July 2020 | Rockstar’s fake activism | Rockstar's fake activism. I woke up this morning and in my discord my mods showed me that Rockstar in support of our racial justice in America, presumably, I mean presumably the entire world, but because of the what's happening in America right now, they were shutting down the servers for two hours and I looked at that and I'm like I shouldn't say anything. I should not tweet at all. This is, people just think I'm attacking the issues man, but I was just so, I just couldn't help myself but tweet. I'm like are you fucking two hours? What even is that? We've talked about on stream before where the degree to which you can infer someone caring about something in their actions is the degree to which those actions constitute a sacrifice. So if you want to watch the football game and your daughter's like dad I want to go to the park and you really want to watch the football game you go alright I'll take you to the park. It shows you love your daughter because you're sacrificing what you actually want to do to for someone else. When Rockstar's like I'm shutting down the service for two hours all I can think back to is every Tuesday when I played World of Rockstar for eight years or whatever where they would shut down the service every single Tuesday for well over two hours. I'm like wow you care so much that you're willing to sacrifice two hours of server time in a non-peak area to show your support? Are you for real? I'm like why not do something at least constructive like you dedicate all revenues from two hours of microtransactions to the particular cause. No it's when you shut down the service which is literally fucking nothing. I mean you could you could say oh well they're raising awareness but in reality if they raised money through microtransactions in the game that would raise way more awareness like oh look at how everyone's coming together to support this cause. No it's shutting down the service does fucking nothing except it does give them time to fix any server issues that they may be having or just you know just general maintenance. Like who imagine and like this has got like 50,000 likes imagine believing server maintenance time for a company is them showing they care about an issue. Insane. Bethesda had this thing where they changed their logos of their Twitter all to represent gay pride as in rainbows right for every single country except the Middle East, Russia and Turkey. It just it just shows so blatantly how surface level this kind of activism is on activism by companies right. How could people think Rockstar actually cares? Two hours of server time is no sacrifice for that company. It's as though they were in a board meeting and they went ah it's a big issue right now if we don't do something people might be angry but if we do something people might be angry. What's like the minimal possible thing that we can do to generate the most positive perception for our brand yet have the least possible negative repercussions? And so I was like oh we could shut down the service for a month. A month? Are you insane? What about a week sir? A week? A week? No of course not a couple of days? Couple of days? I've got I got fucking Porsches to buy. What about like a day? A day? A whole day is worth the revenue? Okay how about two hours guys? Two hours? An hour and a half? No okay we'll go for two hours. I'm sure that will make all the drones fucking like us on Twitter. I just I'm just mad. They're not even trying to cover that it's a publicity stunt. They're not even trying and people are still pressing like mad okay I'm just mad. |
| 27. January 2021 | Rockstar’s lack of dedicated servers | Rockstar's lack of dedicated servers Yeah, I did watch um the some ordinary gamer video on GT online and I am of course I agree with it And so many times it's absolutely disgusting that a company of the level of success of Rockstar Doesn't have dedicated service. It's it's mind-boggling given How long the game has been out and so how understood it is by the hacker community You you can't get by with peer-to-peer like I just don't understand How in the boardroom they're not like? Surely our peer-to-peer system given how many hackers exist is driving away customers Surely if we had better server infrastructure, we'd get more money I cannot believe for a second that Rockstar would not get more money if they had actual service I do not believe that even this late in the game cycle that they wouldn't Gain and maintain a player base if there wasn't hacking garbage I can only assume that either they're all dumb like every single person that fucking company is dense as fuck or It's harder than I think it is that for some reason it's baked in that They can't change the service or whatever the lack of service or whatever It's actually also baked in they basically have to build the game from the ground up I don't know, but that's why I'm hoping that the expanded enhanced version when they separate online and gt5 will come with service That the game has survived this long and is still this profitable surely indicates that if they made service for it They'd be able to maintain a player base better |
| 30. May 2021 | Rockstar’s lack of support of content creators. | Like rock stars lack of support for content creators and general indifference about the state of GTA online on PC I don't know that's why I want to meet with rock star I just like like fix it bro like with advertising your game every day Yeah, I know like no creative like nothing. Yeah, well, we should have creative codes dude. That's the thing Hmm, like we're the ones keeping well not keeping the game alive, but you know what I mean? Like yeah Contributing to it. Yeah It's like just at least frickin acknowledge us and try and do even the slightest bit to help us out like please I guarantee you People would mean less about shark cars and shit if we had to create a curse and stuff and people could bike Shark cars through like we would cop so much flat for it at first though Maybe yeah How you handle This point it would just be a change of tone like if that shit was from the get-go the standard and like they did the Same thing as fortnight or whatever. Yeah would be completely different story You |
| 26. March 2022 | Rockstar’s new GTA+ subscription service | Rockstar's new GTA Plus subscription service. You'll hear a bit of rain in the background, it stops after a minute or so. Introducing GTA Plus for GTA Online, a new membership program exclusively on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series XS, providing easy access to a range of valuable benefits for both new and long-standing players on the latest generation consoles. So a breakdown of what they receive. Money in the game. So you're trading real money for fake money. Cool. Um, some upgrade, some other upgrade, some other upgrade, some other upgrade. Basically stuff that you get, you know, if you just buy shark cards. Apparently also you're going to get any new vehicles like a week before anyone else. There's a special selection of bonuses and stuff only available to you. There is no reason why Rockstar needed a paywall for any of this. My response was, the guy who thinks up ways to make people disgusted with Rockstar is working overtime lately. Game isn't even free to play, cost $20 without single player in June, cost $40 with single player. So a pay to play nine year old game with subscription, with microtransactions and some of the least frequent laziest updates in the industry. We have not gotten a new area chat in nine years. It'd be one thing if this game was still getting heaps of support and needs an influx of cash to make that justifiable with a waning player base, but online has a skeleton crew doing the bare minimum. This is what cheap MMOs do to milk his players at the end of his life. I can't wait for them to add like pay to win shit, exclusive stuff that you can only get through cash shops and stuff. Cause that's where this is going. And they're charging what was it like six bucks a month or something? Are they doing this as another reason to try to inspire people to get the game on PlayStation five? It's surprising to me how well the PlayStation five, Xbox series XS version did considering that most people don't have those consoles. And if you transfer your character to those versions of GT online, you can't use your character in the old versions anymore. So you like leave your friends behind. I mean a genius move by, I know Microsoft and Sony, I suppose there's probably more Sony where they're like, look, when one cat, one person moves their character and doesn't realize that they can't play with their friends anymore. All their friends will have to buy PlayStation fives or whatever to be able to play again. Forcing friends to buy a PlayStation five. Exactly. It's just so garbage. This game is making so much fucking money, but so much fucking money is not enough. They want to do the bare minimum for the maximum amount of money. Once upon a time, companies would be like, we need to maintain some good public image. We can't do shit like this. Rockstar take through the dish. Don't care. They just don't care. I believe companies have like continued to push the boundaries of what people will accept as in like, okay, here's the line of what people will accept without massive outrage, without boycotts and shit. They go a little bit further than that. Then if they get some outrage, they go back, they try again, they go back, they try again, they go back, they try again. And eventually, like someone's willing to take the blunt of the criticism. And then that's the new line that everyone has to not hit. And then everyone moves there. And then another company takes a hit and then everyone moves there. And we slowly move to this point where it's just accepted that every single company is going to have like every form of possible revenue generation in their game. It certainly helps when like, clearly, the player base has always communicated to Rockstar. Like you can do whatever the fuck you want, we'll still play your game. Like every single time they release like a pine cone on the ground and then re-release the entire game, it is the best selling game for the month. There's just not enough competition. If you want the open world third person shooter thing, GT Online is basically all you got. There are only six? |
| 26. March 2022 | Rockstar’s new gta+ subscription service | Rockstar's new GTA Plus subscription service. You'll hear a bit of rain in the background, it stops after a minute or so. Introducing GTA Plus for GTA Online, a new membership program exclusively on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series XS, providing easy access to a range of valuable benefits for both new and long-standing players on the latest generation consoles. So a breakdown of what they receive. Money in the game. So you're trading real money for fake money. Cool. Um, some upgrade, some other upgrade, some other upgrade, some other upgrade. Basically stuff that you get, you know, if you just buy shark cards. Apparently also you're going to get any new vehicles like a week before anyone else. There's a special selection of bonuses and stuff only available to you. There is no reason why Rockstar needed a paywall for any of this. My response was, the guy who thinks up ways to make people disgusted with Rockstar is working overtime lately. Game isn't even free to play, cost $20 without single player in June, cost $40 with single player. So a pay to play nine year old game with subscription, with microtransactions and some of the least frequent laziest updates in the industry. We have not gotten a new area chat in nine years. It'd be one thing if this game was still getting heaps of support and needs an influx of cash to make that justifiable with a waning player base, but online has a skeleton crew doing the bare minimum. This is what cheap MMOs do to milk his players at the end of his life. I can't wait for them to add like pay to win shit, exclusive stuff that you can only get through cash shops and stuff. Cause that's where this is going. And they're charging what was it like six bucks a month or something? Are they doing this as another reason to try to inspire people to get the game on PlayStation five? It's surprising to me how well the PlayStation five, Xbox series XS version did considering that most people don't have those consoles. And if you transfer your character to those versions of GT online, you can't use your character in the old versions anymore. So you like leave your friends behind. I mean a genius move by, I know Microsoft and Sony, I suppose there's probably more Sony where they're like, look, when one cat, one person moves their character and doesn't realize that they can't play with their friends anymore. All their friends will have to buy PlayStation fives or whatever to be able to play again. Forcing friends to buy a PlayStation five. Exactly. It's just so garbage. This game is making so much fucking money, but so much fucking money is not enough. They want to do the bare minimum for the maximum amount of money. Once upon a time, companies would be like, we need to maintain some good public image. We can't do shit like this. Rockstar take through the dish. Don't care. They just don't care. I believe companies have like continued to push the boundaries of what people will accept as in like, okay, here's the line of what people will accept without massive outrage, without boycotts and shit. They go a little bit further than that. Then if they get some outrage, they go back, they try again, they go back, they try again, they go back, they try again. And eventually, like someone's willing to take the blunt of the criticism. And then that's the new line that everyone has to not hit. And then everyone moves there. And then another company takes a hit and then everyone moves there. And we slowly move to this point where it's just accepted that every single company is going to have like every form of possible revenue generation in their game. It certainly helps when like, clearly, the player base has always communicated to Rockstar. Like you can do whatever the fuck you want, we'll still play your game. Like every single time they release like a pine cone on the ground and then re-release the entire game, it is the best selling game for the month. There's just not enough competition. If you want the open world third person shooter thing, GT Online is basically all you got. They almost stopped at the end. Moving on, guys. |
| 01. December 2022 | Rockstar’s software gore. | Rockstar's Software Goal So if you Ctrl-Alt-Delete and look at the Task Manager, it says, To Do File Description as the name of GTA V. Some of you may have noticed this. I was like, oh, that's a weird thing for my computer to be doing. Why doesn't it just say GTA V? But this person's used this as a example of Software Goal. Small indie company. They forgot to add the name back to the game when they updated it or something. So I thought that was kind of funny. I'm sure they will update and fix that so we can immortalize it here. Elon Musk hates the idea of crediting- |
| 01. September 2020 | Rockstar’s support is bad and the legion of bots controlling the net | at some point, I can't remember why. Rockstar support is bad and the legion of bots that controls content. So I messaged Rockstar about getting the name DarkviperAU. My old name for social club was MattisTired because I couldn't have the name that I originally wanted. But recently then I changed it to a bunch of Ls and I's, capitalized and non-capitalized to make it harder for people to know what my name is, believing this would help me with the hackers. Turns out it does not. So I contacted Rockstar and I said, hey, can I change my name again? The reason I had to do this is because Rockstar only allows you to change your name once a year. Let that sink in. Once a year. No other company. Social media, game, has that kind of level of restriction of name change. Mind boggling. A year. But this is just another way that Rockstar clearly does things in a very stupid, anti-consumer way. You can contact support if you want to change your name within a year. Twitch, two months. What is it? TikTok, a month. All these places. Some places, I think YouTube, you can change it whenever the fuck you like. Rockstar, a year. Of course that just inspires people to get themselves hacks so they can spoof their name to what they want it to be. But let's not go into Rockstar inspiring people to get fucking hacks to screw with people. So I say to them, oh, can I just get the name DarkviperAU? And they're like, I'm sorry. There's a social club that already has it. And I look at it and goes, this is a PlayStation 3 account that has no signs of life on it. And it's a level one account. Probably hasn't ever been used. Clearly this is either a boss camping names or it's just some guy camping the name because I want it. Can I have the name? And it's like, I'm sorry, sir, but we recognize that there's another account with that same name. Tell us a different name and we'll change it. And then I look at all the responses that Rockstar has given me when I ask them for more information. Every time I ask them for more information, it's the exact same rough cookie cutter response. Then I realize I'm not talking to one person. I'm talking to like four or five. As in every single time I write something new in the support ticket, that support ticket doesn't go to the same person that I was talking to before. It goes to a completely different person. As in, if you have a try to have a conversation with someone at Rockstar support, you literally fucking can't. So whenever you ask for something with Rockstar and one of the support staff goes, oh shit, this looks like a difficult thing to have to handle. Copy paste response number seven. And they just push it to the next support staff when you become really irate that the person you're talking to appears to be a bot because I don't think it's a bot. I think it's an actual person. But as with everything at Rockstar, it's just set up really fucking terribly. You can guarantee these are people in some, like they're being paid minimum wage, whatever the fuck they are, and they just do not give a fuck. Because there are times where you can have a problem that's at least somewhat nuanced, which requires a little bit more effort on the part of the person you're speaking to. And Rockstar gives enough of a fuck to go that little bit extra effort. So unless I personally track down this boss, the person who owns the bot or the person who's camping the name, it's unlikely I'm going to be able to get the name DarkFyperAU. In any other company, if I can just talk to the support stuff, I could probably get the name. Twitch certainly has this policy because companies know that there's, maybe you don't know this, there's a legion of bots that are constantly looking for popular names of content creators. You have to get to a certain level of popularity, but popular names of certain content creators or like individual names like Rose or Violet or Colors or whatever, these names that people would actually want so they can resell those names for popular social media websites. You also might not know that there are companies out there that exist where people will manually, people will be hired so that their job is manually to look at popular videos and find things that the company can manually claim so that that company can get revenue from those videos. And so that the person who finds that manual claim by watching these videos, they get a commission for going, hey company, claim this video, you can do this. And what I'm saying is there's just legions of people out there who are trying to fuck with the way that things should work. Stealing these names that should just be open to the public to people to actually use. And Rockstar is sitting there going, oh what, this is abuse? This is garbage practices, someone camping a name that they're clearly not using on like an antiquated fucking version of the game that isn't even updated? Eh, I'm sorry sir, there's another person with that social club name. Deep boop, shove it in the next social person who works on the support staff. Why is Rockstar such a shit company? It's on every single level. They're just so miserly with their money. I guarantee you there has been a conversation in Rockstar headquarters where someone's been like, look, we could increase consumer satisfaction by 90% but it will cost us $1. And some said CEO has been like, fuck that shit, it's my dollar, no one else's, grr. This is where the company comes across sometimes, I fucking hate it dude, I fucking hate it. Anyway. Mate. Hey, it's you boy Rockstar Games, we have an update for your username. The closest we can get to is AuViperDarkness and it should take about 2 years to process. |
| 04. September 2020 | Rockstar’s support of Xbox one and PS4 | So like that kind of game can't work in the same way on the older systems. It's possible that Rockstar could release something like that, but it seems unlikely for the kind of gameplay that they produce. Short of them doing that, they'll continue to support the Xbox One and the PlayStation for as long as possible, because it's got a huge install base of users. Eventually it'll go the way of the Dodo in the same way that the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 did, just because there won't be enough users on there giving them enough money to justify the expense. But that probably won't be for many years. Look into how long they supported the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360, and that's probably how long they'll support the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Am I excited for the online update coming soon? Being excited for anything that Rockstar produces, I think, is foolishness. They do nothing but let me down. In every conceivable way that they can let me down, they have succeeded in letting me down. With that being said, it's entirely possible this is going to be good. I might like it, and if I don't like it, who cares? My life is not going to be significantly improved or made worse if the online update isn't that great. So you're not going to hope it's something good, and if it's not, who cares? The possibility of more story mode characters in online. So someone was saying to me on Twitter that there's rumors that Michael and Franklin are going to be doing... They have some involvement in an upcoming heist in GT Online. What they showed me, though, in no way suggests that. Apparently there's just rumors floating around that that's the case, but it may all just stem from the misunderstanding of something Michael and Franklin, the actors, said, where they both said they would like to be doing it, not that they were. |
| 04. December 2020 | Rogue Company | Rogue Company. Do I play Rogue Company? You mean the Doctor Disrespect Simulator? No, I've never played it. I don't know what would appeal to me about that game over any other game. I find it kind of funny that Doc managed to get a deal with that game, considering that Twitch has him banned or whatever, and so streamers can't use his skins and stuff. Like, to be real, the only reason anyone's talking about the game is because of Doc. So it's an interest, like it's a decent business move, but you'd think they would have picked someone who was popular but also not banned on Twitch. |
| 21. July 2020 | Roommates moving out and VR progress | Roommates moving out and VR progress. Both my roommates are moving out. One of them, you know, I'm too loud, so wants to move out. The other one I've said, you know, I would like them to move out. Like, they said they would just be here for two years, but they've been here for, you know, I think three now. And I need this space. And I will, because I can move and I can get my VR system. Oh yeah, guys, update on doing VR. Valve has changed. So it got to the eight week mark where they said they would send out the Valve Index to my sister so she could send it to me. It's now changed from eight weeks to five weeks. That isn't after three weeks. It's just, you know, after eight weeks, they now say we have to wait five more weeks. Valve did not do a good job at securing their, what is it, the development or the, what's it called? Blank on words. You know what I'm saying. They weren't able to meet demand. Part of it may have been coronavirus, but I hear they were ill prepared, irrespective of coronavirus, for the amount of demand for the products. I'm thinking that I might just get another VR system, a cheaper one, just in the meantime until the Valve Index comes. But I may not. Like, I'm in no rush really to do VR. I've got so many other things that I need to do that I don't need to jump into that bag of worms, but I will eventually because almost entirely because of that third party GTA 5 game. You know, GTA 5 VR made third party. I don't know how good it is. People say it's pretty good. I'm hoping all the missions work like normal, but who knows? Yeah, I will take the vote from people and see what they want me to play. Who knows? Oh, I do have a steering wheel and a gear shifter that Logitech was willing to send me. I don't think I ever thanked them because I believed I would be using it somewhat soon. So I was just going to thank them in the video. But it's been quite a while now and may I just send them an email. Someone after streaming, send Logitech an email as thank you. |
| 21. July 2020 | Roommates moving out and vr progress | Roommates moving out and VR progress. Both my roommates are moving out. One of them, you know, I'm too loud, so wants to move out. The other one I've said, you know, I would like them to move out. Like, they said they would just be here for two years, but they've been here for, you know, I think three now. And I need this space. And I will, because I can move and I can get my VR system. Oh yeah, guys, update on doing VR. Valve has changed. So it got to the eight week mark where they said they would send out the Valve Index to my sister so she could send it to me. It's now changed from eight weeks to five weeks. That isn't after three weeks. It's just, you know, after eight weeks, they now say we have to wait five more weeks. Valve did not do a good job at securing their, what is it, the development or the, what's it called? Blank on words. You know what I'm saying. They weren't able to meet demand. Part of it may have been coronavirus, but I hear they were ill prepared, irrespective of coronavirus, for the amount of demand for the products. I'm thinking that I might just get another VR system, a cheaper one, just in the meantime until the Valve Index comes. But I may not. Like, I'm in no rush really to do VR. I've got so many other things that I need to do that I don't need to jump into that bag of worms, but I will eventually because almost entirely because of that third party GTA 5 game. You know, GTA 5 VR made third party. I don't know how good it is. People say it's pretty good. I'm hoping all the missions work like normal, but who knows? Yeah, I will take the vote from people and see what they want me to play. Who knows? Oh, I do have a steering wheel and a gear shifter that Logitech was willing to send me. I don't think I ever thanked them because I believed I would be using it somewhat soon. So I was just going to thank them in the video. But it's been quite a while now and may I just send them an email. Someone after streaming, send Logitech an email as thank you. |
| 25. February 2020 | Ruining every new good song I find | ruining every new good song that I find. So I've done it again chat. Whenever I find a new song, I listen to it like 77,000 times and then I kill it for myself. I've done that with Joji's new song, Run. I think it's called Run? Some of that? It's a single he released. It's fucking amazing. But I listened to it like 10 bajillion times. Now I'm kinda over it. I wanna go back to when it was new. I need to find like two dozen new songs that I like. Every time I find a new song and Ethan not listen to it, and then just like hold it in a vault until there's two dozen of them. |
| 04. November 2021 | Ruining my school play in the 5th grade | Ruining my school play in the fifth grade. Like I still remember fucking up in the school play in the fifth grade. I'm sure everyone forgot about that a week later. No one gave a shit, but I still remember it. It's just irrational, right? We're meant to hold up these banana things. Like they were meant to represent bananas, right? But only one side of the bananas had bananas drawn on them. I held it so the side without the bananas was showing. So mine just looked like, I don't know, like a blank bit of white paper, whatever, where everyone else's was yellow bananas. So I still got like a sore thumb. And I think you meant to hold them to your right so you could be seen. But I kind of just was nervous. So I hid behind mine. My goal was to be as noticed as little as possible. I should have taken the 9F here. But what ended up happening is I drew massive amounts of attention to myself. And my mother was in the audience as well. So she was super embarrassed. One thing I've learned in life is a very good way to make yourself look stupid is to try really hard not to make yourself look stupid. You just got to learn to go with the flow. |
| 06. October 2021 | Ruining my sleeping pattern looking for good music | Ruining my sleeping pattern looking for good music. I fucked up my sleeping pattern a bit last night because I don't listen to music very often but when I kind of get the itch to I do it for hours and it's usually before I go to sleep because whenever I go anywhere I listen to my audiobook. There's no genre of music where I like all the songs so when I find a new genre or type of music or whatever that I am that I'm interested in I have to go through like every 20 songs I like one song. |
| 27. July 2021 | Rule of thumb for online interaction | A rule of thumb for online interaction. As always guys, always think, if everyone did this would it be annoying? If yes, don't do it. If every single person tagged me for every single thing they submitted in my discord, I would die. I would just explode. |
| 06. October 2021 | Running a large speedrunning event | Running a large speedrunning events You should make your own GTGTQ with blackjack and hookers dude. I would not want to run an event like GDQ I wouldn't want to run a speedrunning event at all It'd be so much trouble and so much effort and you'd have so many things that you have to worry about and problems that could arise and dealing with so many different types of people like Everyone who is critical of GDQ. I hope they still acknowledge that they that What they do is fucking miraculous in terms of getting it done three times a year without like major explosions and shit right? |
| 11. December 2020 | Running ads on stream | Playing ads on stream Do I still play ads on the stream? Yeah, we were meant to start doing that weren't we? To avoid the auto playing ads from Twitch didn't didn't didn't they stop that or something? Like if I ever get back to speedrunning we will start doing it again because in the speedrun there's Definitive points where nothing is going on Because if you run mid rolls then new people coming to the stream don't get ads and that's beneficial for getting new viewers in |
| 19. October 2022 | Running into an apex legends pro while buying shoes | Running into an Apex Legend Pro while buying shoes. I was buying new shoes, the shoes I showed you before, and there was a dude explaining to a receptionist that he's an Apex Pro, so Apex Legends, and he'd recently come back from America and apparently he had won the tournament. And I like offhand went, oh it's Small World, I'm a streamer as well. That guy could not be less interested, because he probably thinks I'm like a dude with like two viewers or something, right? He's like, oh yeah, whatever, and then he tells his dad to show me some pictures of him winning, and yeah, he was sitting there like holding the trophy and stuff, but it was super wholesome because he was so happy. I'm not sure how, because I think he said that he'd been playing Apex like forever kind of thing, right? And it just was so wholesome, him just smiling ear to ear explaining how cool it was that he won this amazing tournament in America. And his dad was there, super proud. |
| 27. February 2021 | Rupert Murdoch Is Scum | Rupert Murdoch is scum. What's wrong with Murdoch? He uses his vast wealth to push like anti-vax, anti-climate change kind of garbage. Burn the poor as fuel for my engines kind of guy. Rupert Murdoch's ideal world is one where he sits on a throne and the rest of us live for his even tiniest desire. No human could exist in Rupert Murdoch's desired world unless they specifically served his interests. He's not the kind of guy you want to have power and unfortunately he exists in a world where he does have power. It's not something I would feel comfortable supporting. I suppose it's just values based, but he did a bunch of other shit in terms of like removing competition in media and buying out like endless different newspapers to solidify his political influence. He's been considered in Australian politics for a long time to be the kingmaker in terms of whether Rupert Murdoch supports your political party is indicative of whether or not you're going to win. So a lot of our politics rather than being geared around, you know, social good, it's just geared around not having Rupert Murdoch write that you're garbage in his 70% of print ownership or whatever. Depending on the state it's even higher. No person should have that much collective power over the politics of any region. It's when previous PMs of both parties come out and condemn his influence in politics, you know, he's not a guy you want to support financially. Sounds like Trump. No, from all indication Murdoch is a smart guy. He just has values that are destructive to human civilization. It's greed and I would almost say malice towards others. It's socially destructive. He's not an idiot. It's as I've said before, your support of different policies isn't necessarily based on a different understanding of facts or a different level of intelligence. It can often just be dependent upon a difference of values. If you have no value for others or the well-being of others or life in general, then you will then yeah, you will be Rupert Murdoch who uses his vast wealth to make the lives of everyone else in society worse for his own gain. That's who you would be and it's perfectly logical given his values for him to do that. You need to do the best you can to not increase his power because every modicum of additional power Rupert Murdoch gets, the worst life comes for the rest of us. There's not much you can do there, you know. Worrying about it too much is not going to change anything. |
| 15. December 2020 | Russian Music | Russian music. Do I like Russian music? For my Watch Dogs 3 video I had to look up Russian music and nothing really jumped out at me. The only thing that I like is um, what's that that hard bass thing where they you're half crouching and flicking out your legs? What's the thing called? There's this video it's got like tens of millions of views called like Tripolorsky. Yeah that video is cool. It's like a too many videos like it's very good. I think I used it in the Watch Dogs video? No I think I didn't I think I went with a Soviet. |
| 15. July 2021 | Ryan Reynolds is the perfect guy | Ryan Reynolds is the perfect guy. If I need to go on a same-sex date, who would it be? Obviously Ryan Reynolds. It's basically a meme at this point. I mean, no, it is a meme. Like, it's funny. For the longest time I said that I think the perfect guy is Ryan Reynolds. And then I think that later became a meme where other people started saying that. Maybe I started that meme. He just seems like such a down-to-earth, nice guy. He's funny and caring and talented. Ryan Reynolds is the guy that all guys want to be. Is it bad to not know who Ryan Reynolds is? So Ryan Reynolds, two guys, a girl and a pizza place, Van Wilder, Buried, which wasn't a very good movie. He was Deadpool, a polynomial Deadpool, both renditions of him. He was Green Lantern. I think Deadpool is his biggest role. In the comics, Deadpool was described as like Ryan Reynolds as if he was a superhero. And Ryan Reynolds from reading that, like, this has to happen one day and he got it to happen. Oh, he was Pikachu. True, true. The proposal. Was it waiting the movie? He's been in a lot of stuff. He's just known as the attractive, nice, funny guy. Like, if you Google him, he has the classic handsome guy. Look, you're pretty sure Ryan Reynolds was in witness protection. Probably, man. So I'd go on a date with Pikachu, in other words. It depends. Is Pikachu the only Pokemon that exists and people acknowledge that he exists? Then if that is the case, then yeah, I'd go out on a date with Pikachu because the media attention would be insane. Twitch streamer goes out on a date with the Pikachu. That's right. I would use Pikachu to get ahead in my career. I ain't above that shit. Besides, man, if I happen to get accosted by people who want to challenge me to a fight, then Pikachu's got that shit, you know? Your wedding vows will include you saying, Pikachu, I choose you. God damn, dude. |
| 26. October 2022 | STUFFED DOGGOS. | stuffed doggos I sell stuffed doggos not yet it only one vigorously pats soon probably a month or so |
| 03. August 2021 | Sad story about my old resident evil 1 footage | Sad story about my old Resident Evil 1 footage. Ah, the Resident Evil highlights. Ah, the Resident Evil footage is so sad. No, no joke. No joke. The reason why I don't have the final session of me playing Resident Evil 1 is because I thought I'd have no use for it. I had all the other episodes, and then someone in chat legit was like, is this gonna be a VOD? You gonna put this on YouTube or something? And I'm like, nah. And so I didn't highlight it. And so I just went away in the past broadcast. I highlighted all the other episodes, but not the last. |
| 21. July 2020 | Saddest scene in breaking bad | The saddest scene in Breaking Bad. So I'm still going through Breaking Bad again. It's really good. That scene with Well, I'll just say because I'm a spoiler for you because we've been out for a bit of a few years. The father and his daughter Overdosing whatever that uh that that's that. I'm just like I forgot that how sad that was I think the saddest thing in the entire series is that's fine. I'm just like oh man |
| 05. September 2022 | Saints Row 2022 and "go woke go broke" | Saints Row 2022 and Go Work Go Broke. So I want to talk about the new Saints Row game. I was sponsored by them. Obviously I took the sponsorship long before the game actually came out and the negative reviews came in. I took it primarily because I was already playing Saints Row and I was going to play it regardless of what anyone said about it. So it just seemed like a good move. So clearly Saints Row 2022 is not a great game. It could be charitably said to be alright and that's been charitable. But I've read a lot of comments that were like, man, these fucking Saints Row people are just woke. The reason why Saints Row is bad is because it's woke. I've gotten kind of sick of people doing this Go Work Go Broke thing because what they do is they look around the landscape of media and go, okay, okay, that's good. So that's not that's not work. Okay, it's not it's not work. That's bad. So this is woke. It's definitely got some woke aspects to it and that's why it is bad. That over there, that's definitely woke. Oh, it made money. It's actually good. That's not woke. That's not woke. It made money. So it can't possibly be woke. That over there, did that lose money? Doesn't look woke to me. Oh, it did lose money. Then that was 100% woke. It is the weirdest selection bias I've ever seen. Like when they do it with Marvel movies and they're like, man, Go Work Go Broke and they pick like the Marvel movies that make like $200 million profit and they're like, well, they didn't make more profit than this other movie. So they clearly did bad and they'll have like Marvel movies that they call woke and then they come out and make like half a billion dollars. They're like, well, they weren't actually woke to begin with. If something is unsuccessful, it was woke and that's why it's just a narrative that people are feeding. The reason why Saints Row 2022 isn't good has fucking nothing to do with wokeness. It was a game that was clearly rushed out that presented no forms of innovation. You can't tell me that the writing in that game was so bad that if the gameplay was good, you wouldn't have enjoyed it. There are people who spam through cutscenes and do not give two fucks. The idea that a game can be released that's everywhere is buggy as all hell. The writing is sloppy. The game doesn't innovate at all. The graphics are like from 2013 where in every category it either gets a fail grade or like a see it best, a game that is playable, but that's about it. And you look at that and go, it's because woke, insane people, brain rot. It's got to fit that narrative, man. Got to fit that narrative because obviously if the game is woke, that's why the gameplay is bad. All the glitches, man, they're caused by the wokeness. The second you have a female character in your game, it increases like the glitches in the game by like a thousand fold. It puts a hard cap on the graphics, my friend. There's a certain attraction, chat, that we're all attracted to. It's not like I'm criticizing other people for this. We all do this where the world is very complex and we get ourselves a little narrative that's a blanket and we go, oh, that's a very, all these different bits of complexity. Oh shit. We take our blanket and we throw it over the top of it. And then we just look at the blanket. We ignore all the underpinnings, all the icky foundations, the complexity, you know, that we just go out blanket narrative across the landscape. That's how the world is. And it's never that way. There is no way that Saints Row 2022 was made with the goal of pushing boundaries, creating something new, innovative. It was, here's this IP that we have the rights to. Let's see if we can get some money. It sucks, but that's business. I just want to say if you did skip over my Saints Row 2022 video, you should watch it. It is pretty funny. |
| 14. May 2020 | Same sex marriage | Did you vote for the same-sex marriage survey in Australia? If so, did you vote in favor? Of course I voted in favor. And I thought this whole survey was completely stupid because it told us exactly what we already knew, that the majority of people in Australia supports same-sex marriage. It was hundreds of millions of dollars extravagance that was completely unnecessary to find out. |
| 04. July 2022 | Samsung killed a guys dog probably | Samsung killed a guy's dog probably. It's weird how often I've started just by going, hey look at these comments on my channel, but this is a good one. So, Martin messages me, he's like, have you seen this message before? Can you see, like, a person's history of messages on your YouTube channel? And I look at the message, I'm like, yeah I've seen that message too before, what the hell? And so I look it up. So this guy, on one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten videos, over the course of two weeks, has typed every single time, fuck Samsung. And he censored fuck as well just to make sure, guarantee, that it actually shows up and doesn't get picked up by the filters or whatever. What did Samsung do to this guy? What's the story? Did Samsung like kill his dog or something? |
| 10. December 2022 | Samsung monitors have terrible quality control | Samsung monitors have terrible quality control. So many of you likely know that I got the Samsung G8 Neo Odyssey, which is the only 240 Hertz 4K monitor on the market. And in watching reviews of this, everyone was like, holy shit, how does this monitor have so many points of failure? How does Samsung still have so bad quality controls for their monitors? So what is the high end? What could it be like a 1% failure rate or something? That's not that bad. You know, it'll be fine. It's okay. So I bought the monitor and lo and behold, I'm experiencing Samsung's terrible failure rate. And what I'm saying is I already had heard before that Samsung's quality controls for the monitors were terrible. I wrote a joke before, like if there was a small child that had its hand melted into the monitor, they would take one glance at it and go, hey, it's fine. Go sell it. 100%. So this is what my monitor looks like right now. Ain't that pretty? It's like a sea of nonsense. It is that way even when, like it's even on like the boot screen before it even goes into windows. And so I did all the usual checks, of course. I mean, the graphics card, the different ports, it works on both display port and HDMI, works with different cables that are known to work. And you've likely heard me complain over the last week. Like I've only been using the monitor for a week. I understand. I complained over the last week, like it keeps flashing and stuff. You guys kept complaining that my screen was stuttering and stuff. And that was like, whenever I would alt tab, it would take forever. Like you'd have to reestablish the display port connection. It seems to be a terribly designed monitor, but that's often the case when you add like the cutting edge of what's possible. But yes, I contacted Samsung and they're like, yeah, we'll get someone to pick it up for you. And weirdly though is the rep I was talking to, like it took a long fucking time to get this done. Like it was like a half an hour chat session, maybe longer than, I'm not sure. And they kept talking about like, hey, you want a voucher, man, you want a voucher for more Samsung products? If you buy any Samsung products on the Samsung store, we'll give you a voucher for that. And I'm like, I guess, man, this is an inconvenience, regardless when you give me a voucher. I'm like, so what are they gonna give me like a couple of hundred bucks off or something, or a couple of hundred bucks with a store credit or something? Then he kept asking me about specific products that he wants to give me this voucher for. It's like, what are you Samsung products you're looking to buy? Are you interested in buying some more Samsung products anytime soon? Like we want to specify this voucher for those Samsung. I'm like, why are you trying to sell me products when you've just had a product failure? And I'm like, I got soundbars, I guess. Oh, we'll give you something for soundbars. They sent me a voucher, it's for 15% off soundbars. Only specifically on the Samsung store, which is guaranteed to be at a higher cost than that product would be on like Amazon or some shit. What I'm saying is, Samsung doesn't seem to have very good support and doesn't seem to have very good monitor quality control. Maybe you shouldn't buy monitors from Samsung, maybe. But anyway, now I'm back to 1440p and my settings are all gonna be incorrect and shit. I'm gonna be great. |
| 24. January 2022 | Samsung vs Apple | Samsung versus Apple. Do you think Samsung is becoming more and more superior over Apple? I don't know enough. I have heard that it's been a long time since Apple has been like the best tech on the markets or whatever. It still offers a good user experience, apparently. But at this point, no one who's like, I want the cutting edge of technology is buying from Apple. It seems people buy Apple for like the sleek looking status and ease of user experience. Comment from Chaz. The people I know who buy Apple do it because they don't know any better. I had Apple devices until fairly recently, maybe within the last year and a half, and I knew they weren't the best. I bought them because I just like the user interface. And having now moved to Samsung, I miss the Apple user interface. |
| 24. January 2022 | Samsung vs apple | Samsung versus Apple. Do you think Samsung is becoming more and more superior over Apple? I don't know enough. I have heard that It's been a long time since Apple has been like the best tech on the markets or whatever It still offers a a good user experience Apparently but at this point no one who's like I want the cutting edge of it of technology is Buying from Apple. It seems people buy Apple for like the sleek looking status and ease of user experience Comment from Chaz the people I know who buy Apple do it because they don't know any better. I had um Apple devices until fairly recently Maybe within the last year and a half and I knew they weren't the best I bought them because I just like the user interface and having now moved to Samsung. I missed the Apple user interface |
| 11. December 2020 | Satire article about RDR2 on Next Gen Consoles | a article about Red Dead Redemption 2 on next-gen consoles. I love this fake article today. Rockstar, Red Dead Redemption 2 will be even more tedious on next-gen consoles. With the original version of Red Dead Redemption 2, we set a new standard of what it means to be bored while playing a video game, said Rockstar's spokesperson in an extremely long and repetitive visual press conference. But thanks to the exciting kit release of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, players will be able to experience monotony more vividly than ever before. The company confirmed that the changes would go beyond simple graphical improvements, with the goal of immersing players more deeply in the banality. We wanted to take the sluggish pacing of the original game and enhance it, bring players even closer to the humdrum occurrences of their daily lives. For instance, many players complained that it takes several minutes for Arthur to dish up his soup and eat it every morning. Well, we heard you, and that's why we are pleased to announce… |
| 12. November 2022 | Save money by not using an apple device. | Save money by not using an Apple device. Did you know that Apple takes 30% on top of YouTube's 30% from Superchats if they are done from an Apple device? Yeah, Apple charges heaps over the top. Apple sucks. Even subscriptions cost more from an Apple device. You may as well do it on desktop. Thoughts on- |
| 19. February 2022 | SaveRedDeadOnline Twitter campaign | The hashtag save red dead online Twitter campaign. Are we talking about the save red dead online movement? It's hard to imagine that, because it's not as simple thing as just turning around and just releasing new content, right? It takes months to develop something that is at least, you know, decent for people to play. So even if Rockstar looked at those tweets and was like, we're going to put some stuff into releasing content for Red Dead Online, it's going to take me months until that happens. What speaks more to people's desires? Tweets with hashtags or analytics about playtime? It's analytics about playtime, right? What people say is not necessarily what they do. Rockstar is going to look at these tweets and go, oh, interesting. So anyway, so what's all the numbers about what people are actually playing, what they actually want, what they're actually doing? What is going to be our best return on investment? We've only got a certain amount of people working here. They can only work on a certain amount of things at a time. Is Red Dead Online content worth it? And on that assessment, they're going to release content on it. It is possible for Twitter backlash to have some effect on companies when it's like the changing of a decision in the initial stages, where they're likely not going to have a lot of information about what people want or what they're doing or whatever. That feedback can be important. So a company can go, oh, we were about to walk down this path, but now that we've seen people don't want us to, we'll go down this different path. Rockstar is already on that path. They already have endless analytics, endless information about what people are doing. This small amount more from Twitter is not going to be particularly meaningful. Just because you tweet about something, it doesn't mean you're necessarily going to play content or spend money on a game. But I mean, for people who like Red Dead Online, what else can they do? They can only hope that I'm wrong and that doing what they're doing will actually have some positive effects. I've always said I considered Red Dead Online to be kind of silly as a concept. Like you built this rich world with characters, with vibrant personalities and a very linear story. You made this world specifically to tell that story. And then you went to Red Dead Online and it tried to sort of mimic the G-T-Online formula, which the story element is the lesser part of that, right? Like your character in Red Dead Online is a silent protagonist. There's not that witty interplay between the characters or whatever. You're just sitting there going... Like imagine Red Dead 2 with a silent protagonist. How shit would that story have been? And that's Red Dead Online. Like the gameplay of Red Dead 2 is the main pass that even people who like the game are willing to say is not as fleshed out as it could have been. It is the element that is put like on the bottom of the list of things that people like about Red Dead 2 if they put it there at all. And making an online world that is mainly focused on that gameplay, I didn't think it was a good move. I suppose making something was probably a good business decision. Even G-T-Online having a silent protagonist is pretty dumb. Yeah, I agree. But I am not a person who likes silent protagonists. There are people who love silent protagonists. And they're like, but how will I be able to mesh myself into that character if they speak and they don't have my voice? I don't understand that because if you were there, you wouldn't be silent. You know, you would be saying words. How can you envision yourself in that situation when there's no words coming out of the character's mouth? Silent characters are cheap. Yes. They are certainly... They certainly can be a cost saving measure. But some people do prefer that kind of protagonist. I just do not. I don't understand at all. Like, certainly hiring a dozen voice actors to go over the same lines, to give people a choice as to whose voice they want, that costs money. Rocks are clearly afforded. |
| 03. September 2021 | Saying hi to everyone in my Twitch Chat. | Saying hi to everyone in my Twitch chat. Too big to say hi to everyone? I say hello to everyone. But I have to say it in general now because too many people say hi. It feels weird right? Because you see someone say hi and you want to say hi and sometimes you say hi but then you feel guilty because you haven't said hi to like a dozen other people. Not because you don't want to, but because you didn't see them say it. No the hi's! There's too many of them! Hello everyone. Thank you for being here. Write a script that reads chat, takes notes of how many hi's and then opportunities to say hi to everyone by reading the names on the list. That would be kind of funny to do. That's something you'd want as like a smaller streamer where greetings are like absolutely important. But I suppose if you're a smaller streamer you could just read in general. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 05. March 2022 | Saying something is false because you don’t understand it. | Saying something is false merely because you don't understand it. This is principle. Surely it has a name. Where it's like you reach something that you don't understand, right? And you can kind of go into two directions here. You can either say this must be false because I don't understand it. Suggesting that the reason why you can't, you don't understand it is because it's wrong or the reasoning's bad or it's fallacious or whatever. Like it is not understandable. Or you can say it's true despite your lack of understanding. And the reason you'd conclude it's true is because there'd be stuff around it that suggests that it has to be true. Like, what's a good example? Oh, like my mobile phone. So I don't really understand how the process of this phone is able to make a screen and send information to other people and whatnot. Maybe some tiny amount I understand, but I couldn't like make a mobile phone. But despite my lack of understanding, I consider it to be true that it's able to do those things. In part because I'm able to perceive those things despite me. I can perceive the results of those things despite me not understanding it. This idea, there are some people who look at complicated things like climate change or even the Earth being a sphere or whatever, not a zax sphere, but you get the idea. And they're like, I don't understand how this could work if it were to be false. You know, I don't understand how gases work there. I don't understand how gravity works. I don't understand this, therefore it's wrong. And I just, is it just me or it tends to be dumb people who do this? Where they have so much confidence in their own ability to understand stuff that anytime they run into a wall of something they don't understand, they go, well, that's false. That's false. It's wrong. It's false. It's wrong. Rather than being like, how could all these industries and all these experts throughout all this time all have the wrong idea and I just happen to be the one who truly understands to the degree that I can declare it false? Or something. I'm rambling, but uneducated not dumb. But the difference between being uneducated and being dumb is if you're not educated, you can be smart enough to recognize your lack of education. But a dumb person can't do that. Like a perception of one's own capabilities is almost to me a hallmark of intelligence. Obviously, we're all biased in our perception of ourselves and so maybe sometimes we can get it wrong, but some people are just wholly mentally incapable of assessing their own capabilities. Just completely unable to do it. And they are the most frustrating people to run into because they believe themselves to be experts in literally anything that they touch. And their worldviews tend to be the most simple dumbed-down reality and it just and you you poke at them with complexity and they're like, no, it is a simple thing. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 08. May 2021 | Scam sponsor emails | Scam sponsor emails. Check for malware targeting streamers. Oh yeah, oh man there's so many emails these days targeting streamers. Fortunately, I don't respond to any sponsor emails. I've got manager people to do that for me now. They can get the viruses. Nah, because as we've talked about before, it's fairly obvious which ones are scams. I'm sure there's some fringe ones where they're not actually scams and it's not obvious, but in general, as I've said before, I think the scammers want to be at least somewhat detectable to weed out people who won't fall for the scam once they get contacted, you know. As in they don't want to waste their time on people who aren't dumb. Who once they're asked for Kmart gift cards will be like, wait a second, this is a fucking scam. They want people dumb enough to fall for an obvious scam email so they have a higher rate of people who call who actually fall for the scam. At least this is what I've heard from places. Yeah, I heard that from KitBurger, I don't know. You know how it is, you pick up this information from places and it seems to make sense and you can kind of argue for why it's true and you just repeat it until shown otherwise. Your PC can, it's just, you know, every year or so, it's just good to wipe your PC if you can. It's hard for me because I have so much going on with my work and stuff. |
| 19. February 2023 | Scammers are using AI to fake celebrity endorsements | Scammers are using AI to fake celebrity endorsements. So obviously you guys have heard about all the continued developments in AI and different companies and like the AI wars or whatever, trying to get out like the AI that everyone's gonna use to answer all their questions and all that jazz. As time goes on, I become more and more and more scared for the future, honestly. I started optimistic, thinking this is all cool. I'm like, yeah, I think we might be looking at a potentially pretty bad future coming up. So many things are already uncertain. I don't like this idea of all these deep fakes and bots that are effectively going to be indistinguishable from a human in conversation and anyone with like just a web browser can deploy them. The barrier entry being so low to things that are so deceptive. Coffeyzilla tweeted out an example of this that he saw on TikTok where the person is deep faked Joe Rogan and this dude selling some products. It's obviously not them, but they've been deep faked. So it looks like they're speaking and that they're saying these things. There's a category of supplements that are very interesting, work very well to increase testosterone by about 100 to 200 points. Well, look, that AlphaGrid product is all over TikTok. If you go to Amazon and you type in libido booster for men, you're going to find it right at the top. And that's because guys are figuring out that it literally is increasing size and making a difference down there. It stimulates the testes if you got those to make more testosterone. Like, obviously, it isn't perfect, but I have heard these deep fake voices or whatever that are almost indistinguishable. And if it's that close already, who knows where it could be five, ten years. The math is very lazy. Yeah, and this is like potentially not even the best that's out there. It's just some random scam using what's freely available to make this thing. Like, who knows what the best of the best is currently able to do. It's frightening. Someone made it actually indistinguishable in comments in 30 minutes. Yeah, it's one thing for this stuff to exist, but for it to be very difficult to use or only available to a select amount of people for particular tasks. But when everyone has it, people suck. Spending all day trying to suss out what's real and what's fake already is tough. Adding this banner to the works, I don't think it's going to be good for the future. For you, not as an expert, but as a concerned citizen. One of the former thousand people who marched in the streets of New York on Sunday. And the billions of others around the world who want to solve our climate crisis. As an actor, I pretend for a living. I play fictitious characters, often solving fictitious problems. I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in that same way as if it were fiction. Still not perfect. But especially if, like, you heard those voices and someone said, like, yeah, this was like a recording that was taken in secret or a phone conversation that happened. And if your headphones sound a bit gravelly and stuff, you'd be like, yeah, I could believe that. Scary future. |
| 29. December 2020 | Sci-fi vs Fantasy books. | entirely favorable that they were denied Further as you review sample seems to indicate some sort of a personal bias as opposed to an editorial one sci-fi versus fantasy books I'm not into sci-fi Nearly as much as I am into fantasy I'm currently reading a book from me. Oh and listen to an audiobook rather from yasi crochet Which is the guy from zero punctuation? It's something like will space pilot for food or something. I know we'll save the galaxy for food It's fairly funny. It is sci-fi the main reason I like yasi crochet's books is because of the first book of his that I Listen to which was um come in the name of it But it's basically about an NPC in a digital world or whatever a fantasy digital world So, you know the fantasy thing |
| 10. July 2021 | Screwing up my back up power supply. | Screwing up my backup power supply. I heard my backup power supply whizz on. I'm like, oh, is my power out? And so I went to the backup power supply and I pressed the button on it, thinking it would just show the display, but in reality, it turned off the backup power supply. Ha ha. Backup power supply meant to stop the interruption and I ruined it. It did its job. I didn't do mine. |
| 10. July 2021 | Screwing up my backup power supply. | Screwing up my backup power supply. I heard my backup power supply whizz on. I'm like, oh, is my power out? And so I went to the backup power supply and I pressed the button on it, thinking it would just show the display, but in reality, it turned off the backup power supply. Ha ha. Backup power supply meant to stop the interruption and I ruined it. It did its job. I didn't do mine. |
| 10. July 2020 | Second Pax Party & Meeting A Rockstar Rep | and meeting a rockstar rep there. I mean, one of the first times in my life where I'm actually somebody enough to skip a line. I mean, most places I go if there's a line, I just ditch, because I hate lines. I arrive at the party, and I immediately look around, and there's like a handful of people that I know. But it's always awkward, like I never want to butt into people's conversations, because the people that I know know everyone. They're like Maddie and Pez and da-da-da. So I'm not immediately enjoying myself, and I feel like I need to have quite a few bourbons so that I don't feel awkward around like 4,000 people. There wasn't 4,000 people, there was a lot of people. Eventually a dude walks up to me and he says, oh, you're Darkviper, and it was the rockstar rep. So I'm pretty sure his name was Hunston. I may have gotten that wrong, because it was really loud in there. It's probably what made it kind of overwhelming. Like the previous place, the Bethesda party, the night before last night, it was a lot quieter, so you could actually have conversations with people and meet people. Here it was like everyone was yelling. I saw Kay on Twitter today say he completely lost his voice. Even my voice is kind of going. You're basically yelling at any party you go to at these places, but the last night was infinitely worse. So this was a rockstar rep, and we talked all about everything related to rockstar. Obviously he wasn't giving me an inside scoop on stuff, but he said he liked my content. He would use my content as background noise when he's working and stuff. I probably shouldn't say it, but he said he doesn't like Friendly Baron, which I found quite funny. I mean, I think justifiably, but you know. We talked about Red Dead coming to PC and the implications of that, and the rockstar game launcher. I think it's pretty public knowledge that Bully 2 isn't probably coming out. I don't want to get him into trouble. I don't think he told me anything that's confidential or something, but it was a really nice do. So at this point, I've had quite a few drinks, and we're going to go into the karaoke part of the place, which despite it having karaoke was actually quieter than the rest of the club, only by a bit, but it was a bit smaller with less people in it, so you could talk a bit more. And so as I'm going in there, my button at the bottom of my shirt gets caught on something and it tears off the button. Now, a normal person would not give a shit. I would just go about their business, but me, I'm fucking weird. So my apartment or whatever is only 10 minutes away, so I'm like, look, I'm going to go get another shirt, which is really stupid in hindsight, but I did. So I actually went there, ironed myself another shirt, and then came back. I could almost justify the cost because I got an Uber both ways. It cost like nine bucks each time, mainly because the drinks were free. I figured like, well, under normal circumstances, I'd be paying 12 bucks a drink. I'm paying nothing. So what's a little Uber ride, right? But that was kind of the night, really. Then I just got more drunk, had more talk with people, had a few more people go, oh, you're that dark, fatter guy. Not many, but you know, I'm not that popular. I had the Logitech rep people, Graham and I think it was Amy. They were like, oh, you should come by the booth tomorrow. I've been emailed. I've known the Logitech people for the longest I've known any company. Even when I was a smaller streamer, they were sending me keyboards and stuff. I guess that was my night then. I ended up singing a bit with karaoke. Like I said to Constant, I was like, as I saw everyone else singing, I'm like a good five drinks away from being able to sing myself. And so I had those five drinks and started singing, you know, all the living on a prayer and all those kind of songs. I'm sure I was terrible. Thankfully, I was singing with like a lot of other people, not just me individually. There's no amount of alcohol in the world that would enable me to sing by myself in front of a crowd. Well, there's probably an amount, but I probably died before I consumed it. But it was definitely fun. My third night in Melbourne and watching Joker. |
| 09. June 2021 | Security theatre of home alarms. | The security theater of home alarms. Oh another thing I did yesterday. So I've been here how many years? Five years maybe? Maybe longer than that? All the time I've been here, I have not known how the alarm system works. When I had roommates, it wasn't really a big concern because there was always someone here like eh, you know, never need to put it on. Even when the owner's son lived here with me, he didn't know either. And because it just never came up, it wasn't a concern. But since my roommates have moved out, I've had it on my list to do for ages. And my roommates moved out what like a year ago I was like, now I don't know. And I was like, fuck it, finally I'm gonna fix this. And I'm like, this is gonna be a huge pain in the ass. I'm gonna have to call up the supplier and stuff to get the code because I don't know what it is. No one knows what it is. But I looked in the manual. I think the manual is on the thing. Well, no, no, no, no. Where did I find the manual? Oh no, I Googled it. That's why I Googled it. And it was a simple matter of typing like just a couple of numbers and then it's like put in the new password. Didn't ask me for the old password. I put in the new password and it was set. And I'm just like, imagine just going over someone's house, seeing what alarm system they have, Googling it. And on your way to the bathroom, just typing in a few numbers and changing the alarm code. Like what the fuck are they gonna do about it? Change it back? Yeah, sure. But like you wouldn't know that it had been changed. You don't need to type in the code to start the alarm. What you do is you'd leave your house, hit arm, and you'd come home and you wouldn't be able to turn off the alarm. And you wouldn't know. You'd be sitting there panicking like, ah, no, ah, ah. Or the person could know when you leave and come back and break into your house because they now know the code. And you wouldn't know. No, you just press arm, enter, whatever. I've never seen an alarm system where you have to type in the code to arm the thing. Now, I'm saying, Matt, that like if you're a friend of a person or you're, let's say you're a stranger, like let's say you go into an open house or something, or you're a plumber or some shit, or you find some reason to get access to a person's home and you could change the alarm and they wouldn't know. Like I just wonder how much of these simpler security systems are more just peace of mind. Like I wonder how much crime they actually stop. I mean, certainly their existence potentially dissuades some portion of people from trying. But I don't know. Is there a high frequency of home invasions where I live, not conducted by me? No. No, I don't know. How would I know? Think someone comes by to my house like every day and they're like, oh, Matt, we just want to update you on how many home invasions they've been in the past week. They're like Jehovah's Witnesses of home invasions. Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Savior home invaders? Yeah, I have no idea. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 17. March 2021 | Seeing my content improve over time | Seeing my content's improvement over time. I'm still going through the old episodes of How This Even Ended to make clips for the clips channel. There's some really good stuff in there and it's been interesting watching the slow progression of my content getting better and better and better. Me understanding more of what I want to do with the series. And me just being a better streamer. You can literally watch the progression. I'm sure if I looked at the even older footage, potentially the How This Even Ended episodes that were removed from back in the day, it'd be even more obvious. Certainly it was obvious to an extent when I was watching the clips that were ripped from Twitch. But of course those were in like a random order so it was less obvious the progression. It's just funny how you just slowly improve at things if you give it enough time. And you grow to fit the role. Matt, please react to Oko episode 1. It's so funny how bad you were. I mean, I'm sure it would be. But like, when I first started this challenge, I didn't do it I don't think with the goal of succeeding and getting zero deaths. I did it with how fast can I get through the game with one HP. You wish you still had that clip of you saying that no one would want to watch Oko. How do you post 2,200 videos within a month? It wasn't within a month, it was within like three months. I think there's now 2,300 clips. But as I said on Twitter, guys, I will be working on PassFest. I'm not sure how really. Like, I've at least got content for YouTube for the next five, six days. Six if I'm willing to release some rambles in a row, multiple rambles in a row, which I don't particularly like to do. And I can take that time to work on PassFest rather than other projects. Because it annoys me sometimes when I spend, you know, six hours working on completing another job or whatever. I think to myself, man, this is going to get like 20,000 views and I could just be working on PassFest, which will get, you know, half a million. So for example, yesterday I spent six hours, six or seven hours, completing a PUBG edit. And the reason why it took so long was just because the audio was bad. Like, I didn't use a compressor limiter or whatever back then. I didn't particularly like the compressor limiter that the person who helped me used. Had to shim a lot of footage and adding music is always tough. Working with audio is so goddamn annoying and takes up so much time in the editing process. It's why I like working with my new footage. Because Chillhop is always there and the compressor limiter makes it so, you know, the amount of changes you need to make the audio is like effectively non-existent. But like, so I've completed now a PUBG video using my old PUBG footage. The video is only nine minutes long. I think it's kind of funny, but the odds of it getting more than 20,000 views or 30,000 views or whatever is very little. And I could just spend that time working on PassFest, you know. Because for those who are unaware, back in the day when PUBG, Fortnite, H1Z1 and all that stuff were the biggest thing in the universe or whatever, well they're still pretty big. You know what I'm saying? I played them back in the day, a little bit. I don't have a lot of the footage from back then, but I have enough of it that it can be made into episodes. But yeah, I hope people enjoy the video anyway. I'm also working to complete the Super Mario Sunshine footage. The first speedrun that I wanted to do was Super Mario Sunshine. And so I have these little nuggets of footage from back in the day with like 800 bitrate or whatever, where I'm trying to do speedrun strats. Eventually I realized that I don't like controllers and it wasn't really my thing or whatever. So I moved on from it. But partly because I practiced the strats a little bit and because I watched a lot of Super Mario Sunshine speedruns back in the day. When I went to play the game casually myself, I did a bunch of speedrun strats. So a lot of my casual playthrough of Super Mario Sunshine is just me attempting and eventually succeeding in a bunch of speedrun strats. And I find that kind of interesting, but I'm not sure that my YouTube audience is going to, you know. My interest in regards to my content and content in general is not necessarily the same as my audience. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, like the amount of people who would watch something is never anywhere close to the amount of people who actually watch something. Because the second the video doesn't do particularly well, YouTube stops recommending it or doesn't recommend it as much. So it never reaches the maximum amount of people. I am sure a lot more people would enjoy my Demon's Souls playthrough as long as that video is. But it's sitting there like 25k views or whatever. That was a great video. |
| 31. July 2022 | Seeing once beloved creators with dead channels. | Seeing once beloved creators with dead channels. I sometimes have an opportunity to go look at creators that I once watched back when I was... before I was a creator at, like we're talking like five plus years ago. Finding all their dead channels, or even worse, channels where they're still uploading videos, but they're getting like a couple of thousand views a video when they used to get millions, it's so depressing dude. It's like looking into the future, you know? In the same way that you can look at your grandfather and be like, man I'm gonna look like that one day, you can... I can look at these old creators and be like, man I'm gonna be that way one day. Like, no audience. Potentially making videos for like ten people. On some level, I kind of want to go out on my own, like at some high point. I want to do this forever, but at the same time I do not want to like, overstay my welcome in this industry, you know? I think about that sometimes. |
| 20. December 2021 | Selective outrage about parents influencing their kids | Selective outrage about parents influencing their kids Did you know that the Swedish climate girl parents are both celebrities? Mum is a singer and dad is a writer. Both are you, guessed it, climate activists. Good thing they don't use their daughter with select mutism and austism as a loud speaker smile. What a strange statement. I know what you want me to say that dude. Have you never seen, well, use the biggest example, Christianity. How many children are taken to church from before they can speak? How many are then put up at the pulpit or whatever to say particular things they don't understand? To put it another way, if you're outraged about parents giving ideas to their children that then lead them to perform particular actions, you must be really fucking pissed about Christianity and religion in general. But I suspect somehow you're not. It's selective outrage. You're looking for reasons to be triggered. Like what, this little girl wants to save the planet and actually cares about the environment and doesn't like pollution? What a fucking tool, man. These are the things we should be fighting against people. Care and consideration for the environment. Listening to people who study the climate and say we might be having some issues. This is the problem with the world today, people. More pollution. More environmental destruction. These are the things that get me fucking outraged. These people who want to stop these things. Imagine being that selective of the outrage. All I'm saying is I think that parents should take care of their kids more. Should take true action into shaping them into being productive members of society. Hey, so I've grown up, I'm 16 years old and I care about the environment. Not that much consideration. Don't do that. No. Less parenting. |
| 30. July 2020 | Self perception and self delusion | Self-perception and self-delusion. You want somebody who likes you for being yourself. This idea of like, self, where there's like an absolute idea of you that you slowly show to another person or something, it's just nonsense, right? We're an ever-evolving concept of self. If you meet a person, that person is going to slowly change you, regardless of whether or not you realize it, right? At least in successful relationships, both people suddenly change to meet each other, kind of in the middle. It's not even conscious compromise, it's subtle changes to your likely behaviors and statements and da-da-da. At least that's what my textbooks used to say, or studies seem to say, da-da-da. Our personal experiences are all we will ever truly understand, so why not focus on the positive ones? Well, I mean, you don't really understand your personal experiences, right? We view everything through lens of bias, right? There are studies that show that some, especially close friends, often know us better than we know ourselves in some respects, because we're just too attached to our own personal experiences, to ourselves and our personal experiences, to judge them failing. Like, don't tell my mother this, but my mother, when she broke up with her last boyfriend, she would talk to me about how she felt manipulated by him, and that he felt like he treated her poorly. But from previous experience with my mother, I find that she has been quite irrational in her assessment of various interactions she's had with people. And that I didn't like the guy she was with, but I had never seen any evidence of this manipulation or bad interactions or whatever. I was just disappointed, like, oh, you're this terrible mom, I'm sorry to hear, you know, next time, da-da-da. But at the same time, in the back of my head, I was just like, this could all just be bullshit. This could all just be in my mother's head, as has been things before. In other experiences, I know where she's misjudged her interactions with others. Like, I've caught myself doing that. I've caught myself, you know, a week later when I've stepped back and looked at a situation, I've thought to myself, I was completely in the wrong there. I was emotional or worked up, or I wanted something to be true, and so I convinced myself of a particular assessment of what was going on, which just wasn't the case if you really take a bird's eye view or an objective view of things. Don't you think it would have helped your mother if you told her you thought she was wrong? Not in that circumstance. The circumstance I found myself in was that I didn't have personal experience that could confirm or deny her story. I had simply had other experiences in my life that suggested that what she was saying could have... Well, just my understanding of people and my mother, because obviously everyone is prone to delusion in some sense, some more than others. It's just my mother I happened to have seen it in some other circumstances. If I had had good reason to say, now, I know for a fact this is nonsense, I may have subtly pushed that in there a little bit, but I would have had to have had strong evidence because obviously she was emotionally vulnerable. Delusions are not necessarily bad if they help you maintain a positive self-image, and they're not really going to impact your future decisions in a negative way or something. I mean, how do you really know? But shattering an emotionally vulnerable person is not always the right move, is what I'm saying. You've got to... Maybe when they're feeling better or something way down the line, you can broach these topics. But I'm saying, I had reason to doubt her, but I couldn't confirm that she was wrong, so I didn't. I was just supportive, which I think is always... That's your default. Support people who seem to be going through troubles. That's the default easiest move you can do, you know? |
| 02. October 2021 | Selling NSFW art to make it as an artist | Selling not safe for work art to make it as an artist. Not safe for work art sells more than safe for work art? Of course it does. The less likely people are willing to draw the pictures or make the art or whatever, the more you can charge for it, right? Who was that person who was in here before who said they were an artist? And to kind of make it make ends meet, they had to, uh, draw furry porn. Because it apparently is the art you can charge the most for. Or, or, or, was it just like forms of a rossica or whatever? Like making ends meet on the internet as an artist without doing some not safe for work content. Niche fetish stuff is tough apparently. You have to be really good or really connected or whatever. That's a meme from the internet? I doubt most people do that. I mean it wouldn't surprise me if they did. I mean there's not a huge demand. I mean with the rise of YouTube and Twitch and stuff, maybe there is a reasonable demand. I'm not sure though. I could talk to Grey about it. I mean I'm not friends with Grey necessarily. So maybe being impolite for me to go. How are you doing financially? Have you drawn any dicks lately? How much porn do you draw to make a living as an artist? Oh you want to see my dick portfolio? Let me grab it for you here. Always keep it on hand in case someone's interested. My dick foliar. |
| 27. August 2022 | Sernando is garbage but we can learn from garbage | So Nando is garbage, but we can learn from garbage. So so Nando is a piece of shit. His content is all stolen and is truly trash. One thing that I find funny though is that people have now realized that he's complete trash and he's just getting massively and disliked because this is also just stolen from my series. Obviously, I don't think I was the first person to show this. It's just where you can switch away and switch back to get more breath. That's beside the point. On his channel, when he releases like a normal video, it can do fucking horribly, but he'll release a TikTok just before it, which gets 5.4 million views. This is the blue ball thing that he fucking stole, right? On shorts, he's had these massive huge wins reposting other people's shit. And if you look at his social blade, his channel went from being dead, utter nonsense, hasn't gotten many views in a while, like a dead channel, then just bang, like 45 million views. This is all from shorts. Now this is nonsense because shorts don't make you any money. So even while this is gross, that he's got this many views, none of this translates into money. So less concerned. And as is shown by this video doing really fucking terribly, him getting a bunch of subscribers from shorts and a bunch of views from shorts isn't helping him make money or grow an actual audience that gives a shit about him, right? Despite this, I am going to start uploading more shorts to YouTube. Ultimately, I am uncertain whether you can actually generate an audience that actually matters from shorts. And that uncertainty makes it so I don't want to miss out if you actually can. I'm going to try and release like one short every day, but they're not going to be like the shorts I released on TikTok, which were just 9 by 16 versions of clips of my normal videos. It's going to be me taking my best clips and re-editing them and adding stuff to them to make them better. I'll use an example for you. Apparently Rockstar hates golfers so much that in GTA V they allow you to be an absolute jerk to anyone you play against. So there's that and I'll show you what the original clip was. When you go to play a game of golf, you can challenge other NPCs and the game does not restrict you from performing unsportsmanlike behaviour. You can see how clearly one is more appealing, takes more effort, conveying the information in a more entertaining way. My Facts and Glitches series is not the most interesting way of communicating that information. It's just a format that I prefer for that series. The short is clearly better for content, yeah. And so that's what I'm largely going to be trying to do. So if you see these shorts pop up and you might be like, I've seen that before, it's probably going to be different than what you've seen before. |
| 18. July 2022 | Sernando recreating my Facts and Glitches series. | Sonando recreating my Facts and Glitches series. I will address it as it has been mentioned to me a few times now, yes Sonando is watching and then recreating everything in my Facts and Glitches series to upload to his channel. Yes the I got GTA 6 early Sonando. Scummy as no credit is given, yes. Can I do anything about it? No. I wouldn't want to live in a world where someone can own facts about a video game. It is however not a great feeling to be someone else's uncredited shortcut for their videos. He is like the kid who did none of the work but is now expecting to read over my shoulder and copy my answers on the test. As with all things in life, doing something the first time takes far more effort than copying it for the second time. Recreating my series can be done in 1 100th of the time it took to make it. Sonando isn't the first to do this but he is the most blatant and expansive. Most sleazy creators have stopped at picking their favourites and doing one video but Sonando is the king of underachieving. Yes so if you're wondering how Sonando is making new content for his YouTube channel, he is just stealing my shit. To all those who sent me messages, thank you, I know and there's nothing I can do about it. The only consolation is that most of the views he's getting are shorts views which are not worth any money. As much as he is just ripping off my shit, he has definitely presented it in a way that's compelling for shorts. Ty for watching! |
| 18. July 2022 | Sernando recreating my facts and glitches series. | Sonando recreating my Facts and Glitches series. I will address it as it has been mentioned to me a few times now, yes Sonando is watching and then recreating everything in my Facts and Glitches series to upload to his channel. Yes the I got GTA 6 early Sonando. Scummy as no credit is given, yes. Can I do anything about it? No. I wouldn't want to live in a world where someone can own facts about a video game. It is however not a great feeling to be someone else's uncredited shortcut for their videos. He is like the kid who did none of the work but is now expecting to read over my shoulder and copy my answers on the test. As with all things in life, doing something the first time takes far more effort than copying it for the second time. Recreating my series can be done in 1 100th of the time it took to make it. Sonando isn't the first to do this but he is the most blatant and expansive. Most sleazy creators have stopped at picking their favourites and doing one video but Sonando is the king of underachieving. Yes so if you're wondering how Sonando is making new content for his YouTube channel, he is just stealing my shit. To all those who sent me messages, thank you, I know and there's nothing I can do about it. The only consolation is that most of the views he's getting are shorts views which are not worth any money. As much as he is just ripping off my shit, he has definitely presented it in a way that's compelling for shorts. MY D О E S |
| 28. April 2021 | Sexual content on Twitch | sexual content on Twitch Why do people advertise their body for money and succeed? Because that's the market my dude You can't blame such a person for doing that When they can be successful doing that if you were in their shoes you would do the exact same thing the only criticisms I have ever made of of people whose main attraction of their stream is their body is my My worries about how that affects the platform in terms of advertising because of Twitch's current shitty advertising system that kind of Bordering on what is acceptable does affect the rest of us potentially in terms of what ads go in the platform But doesn't really matter because as pointed out in my video, which I hope you all watched No one relies on ad revenue on this platform. It's just so low. It's completely meaningless I'm sorry like I don't lose sleep over these people. They are doing something that on the market is Something that people value and therefore they can be successful doing it There are people out there right now who would be like there are people watching a dipshit Australian like Avoid damage in a video game. That's fucking stupid Why why is it that people can earn a living doing this? That's absurd. Now if you excuse me I'm going to watch this woman dance around who's very attractive everyone has different standards as to What is an acceptable way to make money? And if the viewers are happy with what they're watching and the person is happy with what they're doing I got no problems with it in a case where like because you know as I said sex work is just work Like if a person legitimately wants to do that kind of thing It is obviously people what people are doing on Twitch isn't sex work I'm saying it's in the kind of same vein of people using their bodies in that way for a revenue perfectly fine when people do this because they want to as well as any job that a person is Forced into by circumstance. I'm less okay with that's kind of the world that we live in everyone needs a job And people handle themselves, but I'm not really out here to moralize as to how people can make a living You want to see some boobs you go to porn hub not twitch. Yeah, I Same dude. I don't really understand it |
| 20. February 2021 | Shirtless speedrunners and Super Mario 64 | Shirtless speedrunners and Super Mario 64. There's big news in the speedrunning world. Cheese05 retook world record from simply in Mario 64 120 star. Took about two seconds. I was there just for the end of it. I can't remember why. I think I just noticed that his viewership was really high. And I was like, why is this so high? ZeroStar also had a new world record. I wasn't there for that though. It is funny though, this tendency of Mario 64 runners to either be shirtless or take off their shirts when they succeed. Simply had no shirt on. Come with the guy. Who's the guy's name? He had no shirt on. I think Cheese took off his shirt when he succeeded. All I'm saying is they need to be introduced to the wonders of the tank top. You get all the freedom of not wearing a shirt without, you know, actually not wearing a shirt. You know? I want to actually say I started the shirtless trend before the Mario 64 runners. I haven't worn a shirt in years. Sorry. Everyone just copying me, OK? |
| 20. February 2021 | Shirtless speedrunners and super mario 64 | Shirtless speedrunners and Super Mario 64. There's big news in the speedrunning world. Cheese05 retook world record from simply in Mario 64 120 star. Took about two seconds. I was there just for the end of it. I can't remember why. I think I just noticed that his viewership was really high. And I was like, why is this so high? ZeroStar also had a new world record. I wasn't there for that though. It is funny though, this tendency of Mario 64 runners to either be shirtless or take off their shirts when they succeed. Simply had no shirt on. Come with the guy. Who's the guy's name? He had no shirt on. I think Cheese took off his shirt when he succeeded. All I'm saying is they need to be introduced to the wonders of the tank top. You get all the freedom of not wearing a shirt without, you know, actually not wearing a shirt. You know? I want to actually say I started the shirtless trend before the Mario 64 runners. I haven't worn a shirt in years. Sorry. Everyone just copying me, OK? |
| 14. December 2022 | Should GTA 6 have a companion app like GTA 5? | GTA 6 have a companion app like GTA 5. So for those who don't know, there's a companion app for Grand Theft Auto 5 that enables you to do some small things that add to the game like upgrade your vehicles or play with Chop to increase his skills. Meaning he'll actually like respond to you when you whistle for him and stuff. All I hope is that whatever mobile tie-in they make with GTA 6, which surely there's gonna be one, I hope it's not too integral to the playing experience. I would rather they just make like a completely separate game on mobile or something. I don't want to see another battle in the speed running community about some key aspect of the game that can only be done on your phone and you have to like play with your phone as you're playing and stuff. I so don't wanna see that. But so much money comes from the mobile side of gaming now. I mean, from a quick Google search is conflicting. One says 60% of the entire gaming market is now dominated by mobile. Another one says 45% of total video gaming revenue worldwide is mobile. But regardless, it's a lot of money. Like Take Two bores Zenga for $12 billion. So we've never been in a more likely scenario for Grand Theft Auto to end up in some sort of mobile game or with a significant mobile tie-in or whatever. There's money there. They have the people who can make it. They already experimented a bit in GTA 5. And the only thing I want is for it not to be that fucking significant. Rockstar Games ignored that. |
| 01. December 2022 | Should I even have released the Elon Musk rambles video? | Did it even make sense to release that Elon Musk rambles video? As garbage as Elon Musk is, he's got a lot of cult followers, man. And no amount of me saying, hey, you should probably go look into the history of Elon Musk, will change jack shit, right? It's just gonna make my life worse and annoy people unnecessarily. I try to avoid those more controversial topics these days. Because there's no amount of me pointing out Elon Musk is a douchebag that's gonna change anything. It may or shouldn't have released it. Do I actually enjoy this video? |
| 20. December 2022 | Should I retire and follow my gaming dreams? | Ow. Should I retire and follow my gaming dreams? Doing all these setups and stuff, man, it's not the most productive use of my time, but I don't care as much, honestly. I just want to chill and play video games, guys, like the old days. I do sometimes think about doing that. Just retiring and just like, chilling and playing video games. A lot of creators do that, you know. Rather than worrying about what is entertaining or being funny and stuff or having creative ideas, I just, you know, say I've done enough and then I just sit back and play video games. I'm old? It's not that. When I'm not sleeping well, I just find myself very unmotivated to struggle and do stuff. I get down and I'm just like, what's the point of anything? I know that if I just have a couple of good nights sleep, then my feelings of, let's fucking go son, come back, but in the meantime, it is somewhat a bit more bleaker to exist. |
| 14. August 2022 | Should I stop wearing tank tops? | Should I stop wearing tank tops? I've been thinking about giving up the tank top. I'm kinda over it. I might just buy some t-shirts. It's felt like a staple of my brand for so long, but like, sometimes it does feel a little bit unprofessional. Shirts panicking like, no! The midlife crisis, so many things are changing. I don't know if I'll change it, I'm- we'll see. |
| 29. November 2022 | Should Physics exploits like Brake Boosting be removed from GTA 6? | Should physics exploits like break boosting be removed from GTA 6? How do you like the physics exploits in GTA 5? Do you feel like it makes the game more challenging, raises the skill ceiling, or would you rather they didn't have that kind of stuff in GTA 6? The exploits for racing? Break boosting and mid-drive speed boosting, curb boosting, all that stuff. This is the only game that has that, to my knowledge at least. Maybe there's some mobile game, but one of the main games, it's a bit annoying and unrealistic. I mean, who in their right mind would drive their car into a curb? It makes it more interesting. It makes racing more interesting. I used to be in a racing crew, like a hardcore racing crew, back in, really back before I kind of started my YouTube channel. And everybody would memorize the same sidewalk and curb boosting lines. And it was non-contacts. Everybody was taking the exact same sidewalk, the exact same bumps in certain areas, moving all over the road to get a specific pothole or bump in the road. It's just stupid, honestly. But it does make it more challenging. But I really hope that's not in GTA 6. So even though it makes it more challenging, you'd rather they just not do it at all? Yeah, I mean, it does make it more special, but it's not realistic at all. And I think that they shouldn't have it in GTA 6. And I'm pretty sure they won't. And Bruffy has touched on this in the past. Rockstar has tried to fix it multiple times with online DLCs. They started off with the handling flags, the slow handling flags, where when you would go over a bump, it would just slow your car down a lot. It was almost like you threw your car in neutral. That's how it was. And it was just terrible to drive those cars. And they kept trying different variants of it. And they actually did figure it out. The open-wheel cars, they don't slow down over bumps or nothing. And they drive just like a normal GTA car. So they actually have it figured out with the open-wheel cars. Yeah. So you'd think if they go into all this effort to try and fix it, it's more a matter of I look at it as more of a matter of as an experimentation for GTA 6. 100%. 100%. So I'd be surprised if it was in that because it certainly it wasn't an intended thing in GTA 5 to begin with. Of course not. No. Of course not. Somebody founded it and they exploited it. And they tried to fix it years later, but they failed miserably. And the annoying part, and I speak for the community on this, they never went back and remove those tests they did with those specific cars. They're still there. It's annoying. All these years later, they should have gone back and put those cars. They just like every other GTA car. That's the main thing that angers me and the community as well. They never went back and put those cars to drive normal. How many cars was it that were affected? It was quite a few. It started right around when the Entity XXR came out. The Dominator GTX, all those cars. That's sort of when it started. It was a small DLC and they added in a handful of cars that people have been wanting for a while, especially that Koenigsegg. And then they gave it those flags and everybody was like, what the heck? You finally gave us a car we've been wanting forever, a newer variants of the Entity, and it drives like crap. So you can't use it. No. Yeah, terrible. I understand. But they just Rockstar's policies of so rarely going back, fuck so much of the game, really. And in this last DLC, I'm sure you saw Rockstar did a lot of quality of life changes. And they actually did. They actually did somewhat fix those old cars that have those issues when they were doing the testing. But they only removed one of the flags. The over rev flag is still there. Bruffy made a whole video covering this. I don't go into the PC code and look at it like he does. He's the pro on that. But they did somewhat try to fix them. However, a lot of people think it's not intentional. So in the next DLC, they might actually revert that. I don't know. We'll see. |
| 25. December 2019 | Should Twitch streamers upload to YouTube | Is it worth the time for a Twitch streamer to upload to YouTube? This question, Matt, is it worth the time and troubles to push your videos on YouTube? The way this is phrased, you're either asking about me specifically or everyone in general. For me, absolutely. For other people, not necessarily. If you're a creator starting out, throwing more time at streaming is not necessarily your best move in terms of growth. Being on multiple platforms, creating content, specifically different forms of content for multiple different platforms, is probably your best bet. Because it increases the likelihood that you're going to pick up people who are interested in your content or whatever. Like if you have no discoverability on Twitch, streaming more hours isn't going to help you. Like I'm at a position where I have some level of discoverability on Twitch. I can throw more hours at Twitch and I actually be worth it. But even then it's not the best use of my time. Okay, so the main reason me throwing more time at Twitch is the first thing I should be doing really. It's because it also becomes YouTube content, but if my YouTube content wasn't based on my streaming content, I wouldn't stream as much as I do. |
| 25. December 2019 | Should Twitch streamers upload to YouTube? | Is it worth the time for a Twitch streamer to upload to YouTube? This question, Matt, is it worth the time and troubles to push your videos on YouTube? The way this is phrased, you're either asking about me specifically or everyone in general. For me, absolutely. For other people, not necessarily. If you're a creator starting out, throwing more time at streaming is not necessarily your best move in terms of growth. Being on multiple platforms, creating content, specifically different forms of content for multiple different platforms, is probably your best bet. Because it increases the likelihood that you're going to pick up people who are interested in your content or whatever. Like if you have no discoverability on Twitch, streaming more hours isn't going to help you. Like I'm at a position where I have some level of discoverability on Twitch. I can throw more hours at Twitch and I actually be worth it. But even then it's not the best use of my time. Okay, so the main reason me throwing more time at Twitch is the first thing I should be doing really. It's because it also becomes YouTube content, but if my YouTube content wasn't based on my streaming content, I wouldn't stream as much as I do. |
| 14. December 2022 | Should Youtube restrict content to subscribers only? | YouTube have the option to restrict content to subscribers only? Obsessed arrow, do you think YouTube should add videos available for subscribers only, similar to how it already has videos only available for members? This could be done to encourage more people to subscribe to a channel and see exclusive videos without needing to pay. That would be the worst possible thing imaginable. Why would you ever do that? People would have to subscribe before seeing the video. You want people to subscribe because they've seen videos and liked them. People would either just skip over the video because they don't want to press a button like, oh you make me subscribe to see the video or they'd subscribe, look at the video and go, hi I don't actually like this and just immediately unsubscribe. You're just creasing a barrier to entry for people to watch your content and subscribers don't really provide much value to you anyway. That would just be 100% a negative for anyone doing such a thing. |
| 26. October 2022 | Should australia distance itself from the british monarchy. | Should Australia distance itself from the British monarchy? Since you're Australian, do you think Australia should remove the Union Jack from its flag or not? Don't care. I don't think it matters at all. I am not a person who likes to do stuff just for the sake of doing it. It has to have some practical purpose. I'm trying to achieve a particular goal. I just don't know what removing it from the flag would do. In the same way, becoming a republic or whatever, completely getting rid of the monarchy, it's like, are we doing that for some purpose or is it some actual positive benefit that's going to come from that? Or is it just, fuck the monarchy, fuck Britain, or whatever? Because I understand, whenever you do anything in politics, it eats up your political capital kind of thing. Because you've got to convince all the bit players to do particular things, and maybe even cash in some favors or whatever, scratch people's backs and all that stuff. You've got to take time out of your day to convince the public it's a good thing to do, and go bang drums and stuff, and that's time you can spend doing other stuff. There's only so much that you can do while you're in office. You want to spend that time doing practical things that have some benefit, even if only to yourself and your ability to campaign and get re-elected and stuff. You know? |
| 16. December 2019 | Should devs make games more speedrun friendly? | Do I think developers should make games more speedrun friendly? No, I don't think people should make games more speedrun friendly by design. Speedrunners are the smallest, like the smallest portion of games ever, dude. Like at no point should game design be altered or changed to accommodate speedrunners. And certainly some of the fun of speedrunning is finding ways to get around things that developers put in their games. And if the whole game is designed for speedrunners, it's uh, you don't get that kind of stuff. The stuff I complain about in this game is stuff that like casually doesn't make any fucking sense. Or even for casuals, there's nothing about the things that benefit them or make the game more fun. |
| 12. September 2021 | Should esports be at the olympics? | Should esports beat the Olympics? Mental competitions like seem to require just as much you know training and diligence and you know perhaps inborn talent as as do physical exercise or whatever. Would I rather see the fastest running of 100 meters or someone who can do you know 300 actions per minute in Starcraft against like the the second best person in Starcraft. That'd be that'd be heaps better to watch. Of course that my preference in terms of what to watch isn't necessarily the barometer of what should be included in the Olympics but I just mean that would be equally amazing to me. Do I think esports is a real sport like football? Sure. Whether or not something is a sport almost just depends on whether or not people will watch it. If I made a sport in my backyard just you know you gotta run around a pole seven times and then throw a ball into a pile of rags and then do a handstand like is that a sport? It would be if there was enough people who'd challenge each other to it and if people willing to watch it. Is that idea of a sport any more or less stupid than throwing a ball between a bunch of people and then running it past the line? No. Like whether or not something is a sport just depends on how you're defining sport. You could certainly define sport in a way that it requires some physical activity as opposed to mental but yeah obviously chess was expanded or so sports was expanded to include things like chess or the second you included some kind of mental activity into sport even if it's a board game you've effectively opened the floodgates for any other competitive mental activity. Here's what I'm proposing guys uh osu! at the Olympics. Osu! is like that rhythm game where you have to like press the circles or press numbers or whatever on your keyboard and chip. Pokemon Go at the Olympics contestants have to travel around everywhere and catch as many Pokemon as possible and then they have a Pokemon battle. The point is always brought up about e-sports in the Olympics like how can you justify having a competition that requires having a competition that revolves around throwing a stone very very far but not e-sports. Well you see throwing a stone takes a lot of skill that just isn't in video games that you need to spend tens of thousands of hours perfecting. Watching a guy throw a stone is a lot more interesting than watching you know the highest levels of competitive gaming. I go home every day and watch people throw stones it's my favorite shit. I mean I guess the biggest argument against e-sports in the Olympics is that the video games themselves keep changing although of course sports have changed and you know you have basketball and stuff in the Olympics while not the same extent of video games the rules do change for sports sometimes and of course then you have the RNG aspects like I think I saw a proposal once to have Hearthstone in the Olympics like I mean Hearthstone it's it's fucking random you know. CSGO has changed in terms of its rules and stuff there's videos that detail like all the ways that Valve has fucked CSGO they once added this gun like this simple pistol that was like the most broken weapon in the entire game they would change things and the hit registration would break a person would crouch and it would look like you'd hit them but on the system it's like nah nah you didn't man don't worry about it you know. The other day there was a bug where cheaters could inject hacks into other people's games people got banned for using war hacks that other people injected oh my god that's terrible. Like e-sports at the Olympics if it reached the same level of prestige that kind of exists for the normal Olympics you'd have like governments hiring elite teams of hackers and shit to figure out a way to suddenly inject hacks into the game. There's only so many ways that you can cheat at throwing a big bit of stone very far. I guess there's effectively infinite ways that you could kind of cheat at a video game. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 08. November 2021 | Should everyone have gauranteed access to the internet? | Should everyone have guaranteed access to the internet? I mean it does seem like a sensible proposal. In that access to information and the internet in general does seem to be a necessity for having a decent opportunity for success in society. Like some places, like you literally can't even apply for a job unless you don't have a... |
| 08. November 2021 | Should everyone have guaranteed access to the internet? | Should everyone have guaranteed access to the internet? I mean it does seem like a sensible proposal. In that access to information and the internet in general does seem to be a necessity for having a decent opportunity for success in society. Like some places, like you literally can't even apply for a job unless you don't have a... |
| 10. September 2021 | Should parents have complete medical control over their children? | Should parents have complete medical control over their children? I mean, who else could do it? The child isn't mentally developed enough that it could make such decisions itself. I would argue there are probably conditions under which like a a doctor should have the choice to override the parent's decisions or could at least, you know, get a court order or something when they believe that the parents are ultimately being abusive of their child by withholding treatment or some such. I think such laws depend on the country, right? Because imagine how horrifying it would be as a parent where you think something's best for your child and the doctors won't do it or whatever and the state says, oh you have to do this thing. But at the same time, like a lot of parents is really fucking ignorant. By having a child, it doesn't mean that you're necessarily knowledgeable or equipped to raise a child. And there are clearly people in existence who are more qualified and more knowledgeable. It just sucks to imagine the possibility of a child dying because of the parent's ignorance. I don't believe in that treatment and, you know, ignore the recommendations of doctors and they'll come back six months later and, you know, whatever illness was going to be treated is now 10,000 times worse and, you know, the child will be damaged for life mentally or lose a limb or something and it's just like, you know, dumb people can be very arrogant, you know, the Dunning Kruger, you know, people who know so little that they are unable to assess how skillful or how much they actually know and overestimate their own capability. |
| 27. November 2020 | Should sound effects be copyrightable | Should sound effects be copyrightable? Like, have you ever seen the lengths that people go to to make sounds for games and stuff? Like, they have professional sound designers sitting in a room with a bunch of different objects, tapping them and moving them in particular ways to make particular sounds. Or like, they'll be in the environment and they'll like, they'll hear a car making noises, oh, that sound! Get this sound! Get this sound! And they'll rush into the sound studio, increase its pitch, increase the speed and stuff to the exact sound that they need in a video. Or a game, whatever. If you could just steal all those sound effects, that entire process you could bypass every time. You know? But certainly, like, the degree to which that stuff can be copyrighted is probably less than music. Like, the more complex the piece, the greater your ability to defend your ownership of it in court. You know? But you can certainly copyright sound effects that you've produced originally. Like, all this stuff just has to be defended in court. But I can understand the rationale as to why copyright would apply to that kind of stuff, even though it is potentially very simplistic. Like, when you hear sound effects in YouTube videos, normally the sound effect that is being used is listed as free-to-use sound effects, blah blah blah. And it's usually very simple stuff. But just recently, at the end of a Gus Johnson video that I watched, there was a knife throwing sound effects, and you know that......blah blah blah blah blah sound? And listening very closely, you could hear in the video preview, it was so subtle that having watched the video like four times never caught it. But just on stream that, like yesterday, I was like, wait a second, what the fuck? Preview. If you want to go look yourself, it's the knife video. It's got like five million views from Gus Johnson. In the same way that Shutterstock has, you know, their logo or whatever on their images, people who sell sound effects have a preview mixed in amongst the sounds. I can't remember the context, but I wanted a sound effect of a weapon flying through the air. You know that sound? And then before it hits something, I couldn't find the sound effect anywhere. I set it on something, and it always sounded off to me, and I wish I had had the technical expertise or the equipment to make the sounds myself. |
| 20. May 2021 | Should special abilities return in GTA 6 | Should special abilities return in GTA 6? Would I want to see the character abilities return? As I said before, I'm not sure that they could really do them again in a creative new way. The abilities that they've done here are like the basic abilities. Like I'm not sure how they could put abilities in the next game without them being really over the top and super destructive to the gameplay. They already seem somewhat out of place for this game. Creating ones that feel different, yet make sense within the world, it will be a tough thing. GTA 5 definitely balances on that line of realistic versus cartoony. Like really balances that line. This game isn't super realistic to the point where it's annoying, but it has consistent rules and it does have some cartoony elements. Michael's ability is in Red Dead and stuff. Max Payne as well, yeah it's in Max Payne. I mean bullet time is like a fairly common feature in a bunch of games. All the abilities that they have here are fairly common. It's just usually you get them from picking up items or something. Especially in narrative games it's not very common. No one really acknowledges that Trevor is just invulnerable to bullets sometimes. We do get some acknowledgement that they have abilities, because Lamar is like, hey you should do that thing where you squint or whatever that says in Chop and stuff. Like to tell the player, hey you can use special abilities, hahaha. |
| 03. January 2022 | Should the uber wealthy be barred from public office | while having some understanding of them. Should the uber-worthy be barred from public office? Rich people should not be able to run for public office. They cannot be defenders or representatives when they represent nobody in their interests or directly against everyone else. It doesn't matter where the person comes from, what their demographics are, it- where they've been, it doesn't matter. It matters what policies they'd implement, or that you can reasonably believe they would implement, if they had the ability to implement policy. Fuck who they are or where they've come from. I'd say the same thing about a person being rich. There- there are clearly rich people who could represent my interests far better than a poor person could. More than that, being educated and being intelligent is certainly correlated with being rich, or at least being wealthy. You could potentially make the argument a person who has, let's say, global financial ties, or is so wealthy that they- they ultimately can't remove themselves from their economic interests. These people should probably not be allowed to run for office, because you can't imagine such a person being able to, you know, remove themselves from their bias, or to accurately represent things- |
| 10. November 2021 | Should the young, those with less life experience, be allowed to vote in elections? | Should the young, those with less life experience, be allowed to vote in elections? Like you would consider it fair that if political decisions can have an effect on your well-being, that you should have some say in those political decisions in a representative democracy as long as you have the mental ability to or we as a society can have some reasonable confidence that you have the mental ability to be able to assess what is in your best interests. Clearly the interests of the young often conflicts with the interests of the old. It's not simply a difference of knowledge. Consequently, I am of course very much so in favor of the young being able to vote. I wouldn't, like obviously there's a limit because you would eventually hit that point where a person just would have no understanding of what would most benefit them at all. But I mean in those circumstances you would imagine it would just be a coin flip anyway, a 50-50 as to who would be voted for anyway, so it doesn't really matter if the uninformed or the uneducated or whatever votes. I mean you imagine that like obviously there can be different things that would affect that. |
| 21. August 2021 | Should we ban donations to politicians? | Should we ban donations to politicians? Banning donations to politicians so they can't be bribed effectively? Wouldn't that make- okay, so let's say in a world where politicians literally can't get funding from anywhere, let's say that any donation cannot go to a politician, this will mean that the only people who can effectively run for office are those who are independently wealthy. The people who can pay people with their own funding to become politicians. And that doesn't seem like a better world. There's this great video by Knowing Better that talks about campaign funding and how it's not something like, oh, we just need to change this one law. Like, every form of political funding has issues, right? And it's very hard to have a system that's purely based on merits or some shit, right? Whatever that would be in politics, I don't know. But certainly just banning donations is not really a great way of doing it, I don't think. And then it becomes a question of what is a donation really? So like, if I wanted to spend time putting pamphlets around my neighborhood saying, vote for this politician, is that a donation? I mean, what's my time worth? 20 bucks an hour? I mean, I'm giving him labor. And you're like, well, then that's not a donation. Okay, then. So what if I hired 10 people to do that of my money? Is that a donation? What if I bought ads for a particular person I wanted to get elected? Is that a donation? It's not really. And then if you put a cap on that, how do you put a cap on that? And what kind of cap? And how do you monitor people independently using their time and money to get another person elected? Yeah, I've heard in Britain they have some interesting rules in regards to there's only a certain amount that can be spent on a political campaign. And they get public funding and a certain amount of air time on the TVs or something. Seemed fairly good. Since it was crumpled and full of loopholes. Yeah, that's the thing. There's always going to be loopholes. It's just which system is better, you know? It's never a question of can you stop all of something. It's can you reduce it to a degree that it's tolerable. |
| 26. September 2021 | Should you avoid hyped media? | Should you avoid hyped media? You watch what you want, not what people are so hyped about. Hype is normally a good way to find good content, right? As a metric, it's usually indicative of something of pretty decent quality, right? It may not appeal to you personally, but it's usually the first thing you should go after if you're looking for new content. What are people hyped about right now? You don't have to be involved in the hype. I think it's cool when people are excited or passionate about something. Being passionate about something is awesome. There's the times in my life where like I didn't give a shit about anything, but like the worst. It's always nice when you have something you're looking forward to or that you're excited about. Looking, you know, a fan base can completely ruin the interest in something. I've never had that happen for me. You think Fortnite? Fortnite is a good game. I know it's kind of popular right now to shit on Fortnite, but it's a good game. I think they kind of went overboard in terms of adding new stuff, always trying to keep it fresh, but in doing so it, you can never really follow what's going on. It's like every second day there's like ghosts and demons and shit and people have fucking golf carts and you're confused. The game ran well and was fun to play for a time, and it certainly was better than PUBG. PUBG was awful. The amount of time I spent trying to get PUBG to work in terms of all the lag and server issues and shit was just awful. And then Fortnite comes along and it's just like, hey, here's a game, works effectively perfectly. First time, it's like, well, thank you. Fuck off PUBG. They deserve the success that they got is what I'm trying to say. Is Apex killing Fortnite? Certainly Apex is taking players from Fortnite. I wouldn't say killing it though. Apex isn't on mobile, is it? It seems as though Apex would be a hard game to get on mobile. Like they barely have it optimized for PC. I mean mobile is where it's at, you know. There's just so many people, especially in the the growing economies. |
| 17. September 2021 | Should you become a twitch streamer? | Should you become a Twitch streamer? I do not sincerely think trying to create a Twitch channel these days is a good use of anyone's time. Being successful on Twitch is like winning the lottery and in terms of odds of it happening and it's always been that way except with every passing year the odds have become even less. If you started 10 years ago you had quadruple 5 times the chance of being successful as you do today. If you started 5 years ago you maybe had double the chance. Now it's such a saturated market. The tools of discoverability while they have improved they're still not so robust that a person just starting out can really be discovered. You need to have a really unique spot where you've got all the time in the world to throw at streaming, some very unique skill set or talents or whatever or thing you're bringing to Twitch or connections with people who are already established streamers and you've got to get amazingly lucky. At no point in time in all of the history of social media have you not needed a large dose of luck to be successful but different people have put in more or less work to achieve their success along with that good luck. I would love to have the silver bullet that would be able to give other people success but I don't have it and I won't pretend that I have it. I won't give people false hope. |
| 02. February 2020 | Should you get a university degree? | Hey master, I wanted to talk to you about your university degree and the importance of having a degree in this day in the future. To my knowledge, there has never been a point in time in human history where people with a degree have had a higher rate of unemployment than those people without a degree. As in, if you have a degree, there's a correlation between having a degree and being employed. Now this doesn't mean that getting the degree is necessarily causing that, but I could make arguments that it probably is. But there's obviously going to be other things around that, as in people who get higher education tend to be a little bit more affluent, perhaps already have natural connections because of family and friends and whatnot. There are many different variables that go into the average person who goes to university that would help them gain employment outside of simply that degree. But in university, it really depends on what you're learning. I've seen reports where it's like a significant amount of people, let's not name a percentage, depends on who you ask, significant amount of people who are going to university to learn to go into jobs that won't exist in 10, 15, 20 years or whatever. But who can make those kind of predictions, you know? Whether or not you should go to university depends on you, your particular circumstances, what you want to learn. Do a lot of research. Getting a university degree isn't a panacea. It's not a one size fits all answer to success in this world. Don't listen to people who say the university has no value. Complete nonsense. But people are right to say that university isn't for everyone and it won't necessarily help people achieve what they want to achieve in life. Look at it as one potential avenue, not a must for your future. For instance, my degree hasn't helped me. I enjoyed it. So when I say my degree hasn't helped me, it is possible that if I didn't go and seek that degree, I wouldn't have ended up on the path that I'm on now, which is I'm fairly successful currently. So I wouldn't, you know, snap my fingers and remove the degree from my history. But at the same time, I'm not directly using my degree in what I do. Or rather, I could say that my degree isn't a prerequisite to do what I do. |
| 02. April 2021 | Should you move to Australia? | Should you move to Australia? Do I recommend Australia? I don't know, it's a good country. Some parts are good, some parts are bad, it's got its upsides, it's got its downsides. Your mileage in this country will vary, it depends on you. Every single country has some people in it who are doing pretty good, and some people who are doing bad, to differing levels, you know. You could do worse than Australia, you could do better. I don't know anything about you man, these people who ask me, should I move to here, it's like, I don't know you. How would I know? You'd rather be in Australia than Europe? I mean, Australia is quite similar to significant, like Europe, like it's, you know. I mean Europe is so different, in all its different parts and stuff, I don't know what you're talking about man. |
| 17. March 2021 | Should you play Dark Souls? | Should you play Dark Souls? Dark Souls is a good series to get into. If you do start playing, I highly recommend using a controller to get used to it. I don't use a controller and it's caused me nothing but frustration. |
| 17. March 2021 | Should you play dark souls? | Should you play Dark Souls? Dark Souls is a good series to get into. If you do start playing, I highly recommend using a controller to get used to it. I don't use a controller and it's caused me nothing but frustration. |
| 14. May 2021 | Should your partner pick your deodorant? | Should your partner pick your deodorants? I would never buy expensive soap. Am I missing out chat? Should I be buying expensive soap? I don't think I've ever done this. Do you like ask your significant other to pick you out deodorants or cologne and stuff? They'd be the one who'd most be impacted by your smell. Is that a thing? Cologne, yeah, no deodorant. Maybe it's just, it'd just be weird to ask a person that. I think they'd be very considerate. Your wife picks the worst cologne, so you're unable to attract other women just in case. Just willing to deal with the terrible smell just to reduce your chances of leaving. Strategic, you know. Honey, are you sure this is a good smell? It smells terrible. No, no, no, it's great. Trust me. I'm serving the purpose that I needed to serve. |
| 08. July 2021 | Showing effort isn’t perfectly related to views | Showing that effort isn't a perfect relationship with views This video that I threw together in like a few hours Almost has more views than this That's the culmination of like eons of effort or this that was the most grueling grinds ever like |
| 04. March 2021 | Showing off my sherbert lollipops. | Showing off my sherbet lollipops. I got something special, chap. Look at this. These are the greatest lollipops in the world. They're just pure sherbet. When I was a kid, I would look forward to going down the South Coast, like every year, so I could get these lollipops. All these cost like $30. That's Australian dollars. They're very cheap. And they're gonna kill me, because they're terrible for you. I mean, I'm getting kind of fat. It's like, uh, I'm just gonna go buy myself a fuckton of, uh, sherbet. Fucking sherbet lollipops, god damn. What do you think? Eww. Who the fuck said that? Burn the person who said eww. It reminds me of that thing, um, from You You're Bridged. Fucking seto kaiba and his blimp. Who said that? Who fucking said that? Get him out of my city. Tell me how to get those lollipops and I'll try them. The internet. I googled sherbet lollipops. They are blue and red, and yellow and red. The reason I got these is partly because my mum got some fake ones, by accident. And they were nowhere near as good. |
| 04. March 2021 | Showing off my sherbet lollipops. | Showing off my sherbet lollipops. I got something special, chap. Look at this. These are the greatest lollipops in the world. They're just pure sherbet. When I was a kid, I would look forward to going down the South Coast, like every year, so I could get these lollipops. All these cost like $30. That's Australian dollars. They're very cheap. And they're gonna kill me, because they're terrible for you. I mean, I'm getting kind of fat. It's like, uh, I'm just gonna go buy myself a fuckton of, uh, sherbet. Fucking sherbet lollipops, god damn. What do you think? Eww. Who the fuck said that? Burn the person who said eww. It reminds me of that thing, um, from You You're Bridged. Fucking seto kaiba and his blimp. Who said that? Who fucking said that? Get him out of my city. Tell me how to get those lollipops and I'll try them. The internet. I googled sherbet lollipops. They are blue and red, and yellow and red. The reason I got these is partly because my mum got some fake ones, by accident. And they were nowhere near as good. |
| 05. February 2021 | Shrek 1 will never leave my brain | Shrek 1 will never leave my brain. Yeah, whenever I think of Onions, I too think of Shrek. Haven't seen that movie in a trillion years. And I still remember so many lines from it. That movie, when it came out, was fucking everywhere. Like, you'd go over a friend's house, and they'd be watching Shrek. You know, your- a teacher wants to put on a movie or something, you have a free day or whatever, they put on fucking Shrek. The movie was in the cinemas for like a trillion years. Everyone had it on DVD, VHS, fucking kids getting Shrek tattoos. People would write fucking reports in school on Shrek. It's crazy. All I know about Shrek is the Donkey fucked a dragon. I think it's pretty fucking weird for a kids movie. True. Wait, does that mean it wouldn't be weird for an adults movie? Donkey fucking a dragon! That's weird for a kids movie, but an adults movie? Yeah, that's just everyday shit. |
| 28. July 2020 | Shroud Twitch, Ninja YouTube | Shroud will go to Twitch, Ninja to YouTube. I understand, but what do you think the big streamers like Ninja and Shroud, where do you think they will go if they don't decide to go back to Twitch? Without a doubt, Shroud I think is coming back to Twitch. It would be very strange for me if he didn't. His presence on YouTube isn't as big as say Ninja's. He's got a presence there, I think it's like 300k views a video or something, but he's not like getting millions or something. And he was a lot, you know, even on Mixer, like he was smaller than Ninja or whatever, and it just seems as though he'd be a good fit to come back to Twitch. But Ninja may go to YouTube. Like assume no deal is made that Ninja doesn't take money from Twitch or YouTube to come to either platform. Then there's strengths and weaknesses for him, from him going to either platform. Because Twitch is currently the biggest streaming platform, but YouTube is catching up really quickly. And Ninja already has a massive platform on YouTube. But has he got 50 million subs on YouTube or something? He's getting, you know, 100 million views or whatever. I think those numbers are out of date. But I'm saying he could definitely stream successfully on YouTube or Twitch for different reasons. I wouldn't be surprised if Ninja's fishing for some kind of a deal from either place. Yeah, Shroud, I'm confident for Twitch. Ninja, I wouldn't be surprised either way. I'm gonna say 51% he goes to YouTube. |
| 01. September 2020 | Shroud looking like Adam Sandler | Shroud looking like Adam Sandler. Oh yeah, Shroud looking like Adam Sandler from that Money Heist movie is weird. Shroud does not look good with a beard. It might just be because, I mean Shroud is a young looking dude considering his age. I know it's somewhat insulting, people have said it about me, but he has somewhat of a quote-unquote baby face. He certainly does look older with the facial hair but I don't think it suits him. But again it could just be because I'm not used to seeing him with a beard. Maybe give it a year and then I will think it's weird that he's not wearing a beard. Did I say Shroud is old? I meant he doesn't look his age. Looking at Shroud he looks like he's 19, without a beard. |
| 22. April 2021 | Shure SM7B microphone | Sure SM7B microphone. But I saw all of them using that exact mic like okay, okay, looks good. And then I check out yours and I was like what the fuck? Like, same mic? I looked around and this mic was like everywhere. I was like okay, that's probably the best one. I'll see people now say you can get similar quality for cheaper or whatever. But I don't know how true that is. This mic for instance has existed as it is now for like decades or something. Apparently it was used by Michael Jackson or something recording songs back in the day. So it has a legacy to it. If you want something with, well it has hassle, but like you want something effectively guaranteed to work, this kind of seems to be the mic to grab. Yeah. And my room, like I think your room is entirely like covered with padding right? Oh yeah, yeah. Mine isn't, but it's not that bad with this microphone. Like I have, well I started out with a freaking like, you know, the classic Blue Yeti and all my goal was I think shit, like this freaking like metal-y sound. But then I made the same mistake. I got like, I don't know, like another blue microphone. It's all crap. It's all crap. You're talking about the exact same thing I did. I went from the original Blue Yeti, then I went to the slightly better Blue Yeti at the time and neither was satisfying. I eventually, even though I wasn't like a super successful person at that point, I got as much smaller content credit than you are when I got this mic, I shoot out some money for it because people were sick of me every stream being like, guys, is the audio good? I mean, tinkerm with EQ, just tell me is it good today? And because I spent hours tinkering with it and it just drove me mad. It took a long time for I got a sound that I was satisfied with and I would no longer tinker with at the beginning of every stream. |
| 25. February 2021 | Shutting down my merch store. | Shutting down my merch store. Hey, thank you Violet for buying a tank top. Yes, I'm shutting down my merch store potentially because Streamlabs is fucking awful. So bad. Not having shirts for six bloody months and not having the ability to substitute another type of shirt or something. Insane. I'm not sure if I'm gonna do merch again. I might. I have a manager now. Well, I haven't signed a contract, but I talked to them yesterday and they seem like the sort of person who can answer my business emails and they have contacts that can help me set up a good merch store and stuff, so I'll probably set one up through them. I hope one day weaves that I have a store that has all my emotes on tank tops. That would be nice. Honestly, what I would really like is a storefront where you click shirts and then you click the emote and that emote is then put on the shirt and then you buy it. Rather than having like individual items, like shown items for every single emote, you pick the emote and then it shows on the shirt. |
| 28. December 2019 | Signing for packages | No, a recent experience signing for a package so I recently bought a fire blanket for $13 and they put a Need for a signature on it The one time I didn't go the door to get the package It was a package for me and it was this fire blanket And so I sent them a message on eBay like so why'd you put a need for a signature on a package worth $13 and They're like you're welcome for receiving the package and I'm like I'm giving you a one-star rating For the inconvenience because it is gonna be inconvenience Why the fuck do these companies feel it necessary to put signatures on fucking everything regardless of its value? It's fucking absurd Like why can't it be? my choice When I buy something to tick signature or no signature why? Who the fuck wants to travel for 10 to 20 minutes both ways to get a fucking package that could just be left at the fucking door I've had a fucking delivery person come all the way to my door Be a few meters away from me and then take away my package again Because they didn't get a fucking swig along on a fucking keypad or whatever like I don't even do my signature I just like mash my fingers on the fucking glass |
| 10. June 2022 | Silver lining to the end of my No Damage Runs | Silver lining to the end of my no damage runs. Are you satisfied with your Oka completion? I want to say wouldn't you feel better if you defeated with your own strats? No? I like solving puzzles myself, but I don't bemoan using other people's strats. I would have much rather I had succeeded the first time I got only one death, but that's mainly because- no actually maybe not. Had I succeeded a lot earlier, the end route wouldn't have been as good as it was. The contributions from everyone really made the no damage run a really nice route. The route I was using when I only got one death was primitive by comparison. I mean I would have rather had been first, but huge silver lining that the run became so good and unnamed started speedrunning as well. Because if I had succeeded earlier maybe unnamed wouldn't have gotten to speedrunning, so he's contributed a lot to the speedrun. Huge silver linings. As I say, I succeeded, it's over, the video did well, and it's good. Do you keep good memories of Oco? As a whole I think of the experience fondly. Don't you consider all the time you spent trying to beat Oco a waste of time? As I say, the end result of it was very good. Not the outcomes I expected, but they were very good. Do I wish it had taken less time? Absolutely. I wish I hadn't have missed out on all these new strats that were found. I don't like how much I fell behind in speedrunning, or I have fallen behind. But that's the thing, with anything you do in life there is always going to be downsides, there's always going to be an opportunity cost. You can't have it all. The amount of people who think I'm a shithead because of the drama or whatever is kind of annoying, but in general it was a positive experience. As I often say, the people who tend to think less of me for things I've done, or things they believe I've done, are usually people who weren't watching my content to begin with. Because as a rule, people who know your content and like you or whatever are willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, or at the very least hear you out when shit goes down, you know. But people who have no real interest in what you're doing anyway, do not. Because of the drama I learned about you and I thought you were kind of a shithead but after watching your content and your side of the situation I learned that I was misinformed. I appreciate you saying that. It's as I always say, I can't have the expectation that every single person in the world has the time to hear me out and stuff. It's just an unwarranted expectation. I am sure there are people I think are shitheads that in reality if I gave them the time of day I wouldn't think that to be the case. It'd be nice if it were otherwise but I can't expect that. |
| 27. March 2022 | Since when do I play Teamfight Tactics? | Since when do I play Teamfight Tactics? Since when do you play Teamfight Tactics? So, between 2015 and 2018, I would occasionally play League of Legends on stream. I'm talking like, maybe 50 hours over the course of the year. So just every once in a while I play like one game. During 2019, I played Teamfight Tactics, because I think it's when it came out, and I played it like as a... my side game kind of thing. I can't remember how good I was at it, but recently I saw someone else playing Teamfight Tactics. I think, Connor, CdogVA. And I was like, oh, I haven't played that game in god damn ages. And I really did enjoy it. I'm going to have a go at it. And then I struggled to find how to get back into my account, but I did eventually manage so. I used to be a League player, I played a little bit of League. I was a Dota 1 and Heroes of New Earth player when I was younger. See, I'm so bad at the game right now. I used to be pretty decent, you know, back in the day, in the time before time. But I can't think quickly anymore, because everything's just so different. Even the champions do different things compared to when I used to play. |
| 27. March 2022 | Since when do i play Teamfight Tactics? | Since when do I play Teamfight Tactics? Since when do you play Teamfight Tactics? So, between 2015 and 2018, I would occasionally play League of Legends on stream. I'm talking like, maybe 50 hours over the course of the year. So just every once in a while I play like one game. During 2019, I played Teamfight Tactics, because I think it's when it came out, and I played it like as a... my side game kind of thing. I can't remember how good I was at it, but recently I saw someone else playing Teamfight Tactics. I think, Connor, CdogVA. And I was like, oh, I haven't played that game in god damn ages. And I really did enjoy it. I'm going to have a go at it. And then I struggled to find how to get back into my account, but I did eventually manage so. I used to be a League player, I played a little bit of League. I was a Dota 1 and Heroes of New Earth player when I was younger. See, I'm so bad at the game right now. I used to be pretty decent, you know, back in the day, in the time before time. But I can't think quickly anymore, because everything's just so different. Even the champions do different things compared to when I used to play. |
| 31. October 2021 | Size matters | Size matters. I fulfilled my dream of having a very large garbage bin. When I was younger, I used to pile up plates and garbage in my room. Just in a little pile. So I could take it all downstairs in one go. And I always hated it. I'm like, look, if I just had a large garbage bin, I can just put all my garbage in there for like a week and then take it all at one time. And now I have that. I just have like a clothing hamper that I just put on my garbage bin. What I really want is, have you guys ever seen a laundry chute in a two story house? Where it's just a section of the wall that has a drop to the bottom floor. And so rather than having to bring your dirty clothes down or keep them in your room, you just put them in the laundry chute. I like that for rubbish. Probably not as good though. Cause the stuff was splattered everywhere. |
| 10. July 2021 | Skittles vs M&Ms. | Skittles or M&Ms? M&Ms or Skittles? What a stupid question. Who would not answer Skittles? Poll. M&Ms won at 56%. Blue M&Ms better than everything else that exists. Have you considered orange jelly beans? Orange are the best jelly beans, right? Everyone knows that. |
| 11. December 2020 | Skyrim and Fall Out | Skyrim and Fallout's. I did like Skyrim a bit back in the day, but not apparently as much as everyone else did, and the game was massively buggy and frustrating because of the bugs. I've never liked Fallout though. Fallout has never appealed to me. From what I hear of the old, old Fallout games, those seem like they'd be appealing to me, except that they take so long to do. Was it Hbomberguy's video about Fallout 4 being garbage or something? I thought it was very interesting. There's another one as well that talks about how the later Fallout games kind of missed the points of the earlier ones. |
| 29. December 2020 | Slasher and Doc disrespect ban. | Disrespect's ban. Did you hear what happened with Slasher and Dr. Disrespect and how Slasher faked knowledge on knowing how Dr. Disrespect got banned on Twitch? How do you know to bully that he faked knowledge? It's entirely possible that he did, I just didn't know it was confirmed. When Dr. Disrespect was banned, Slasher, a person who is kinda like in the know, has interesting sources, will sometimes leak things before they officially get announced in regards to YouTube, Twitch, these kind of things. He said on Twitter, uh, I've known for hours why Dr. Disrespect was banned, but like for legal reasons I don't wanna talk about it, blah blah blah. And the common belief is that he lied, he didn't actually know. Especially because no one still knows why Dr. Disrespect was banned. I've heard weird rumors, like, there's like one rumor I know of and it doesn't seem particularly plausible to me. So was it confirmed that Slasher lied? Keemstar said Slasher lied. Well Keemstar hears himself a liar, he doesn't know shit, so it doesn't mean anything to me. I'm not saying Slasher didn't lie, but Keemstar saying it is completely meaningless. |
| 29. December 2020 | Slasher and doc disrespect ban. | Disrespect's ban. Did you hear what happened with Slasher and Dr. Disrespect and how Slasher faked knowledge on knowing how Dr. Disrespect got banned on Twitch? How do you know to bully that he faked knowledge? It's entirely possible that he did, I just didn't know it was confirmed. When Dr. Disrespect was banned, Slasher, a person who is kinda like in the know, has interesting sources, will sometimes leak things before they officially get announced in regards to YouTube, Twitch, these kind of things. He said on Twitter, uh, I've known for hours why Dr. Disrespect was banned, but like for legal reasons I don't wanna talk about it, blah blah blah. And the common belief is that he lied, he didn't actually know. Especially because no one still knows why Dr. Disrespect was banned. I've heard weird rumors, like, there's like one rumor I know of and it doesn't seem particularly plausible to me. So was it confirmed that Slasher lied? Keemstar said Slasher lied. Well Keemstar hears himself a liar, he doesn't know shit, so it doesn't mean anything to me. I'm not saying Slasher didn't lie, but Keemstar saying it is completely meaningless. |
| 25. December 2019 | Sleep | My thoughts on sleep. What I think of sleep? No one likes sleep except that they need it. Like if you told a person you'd be refreshed all the time and you would never have to sleep, you'd be like, oh yeah, hell yeah. I'm sure people would prefer to be able to sleep if they wanted to. Like it's just like, you know, I want to take a nap. Though a lot of the problems with sleep is just because you can't immediately sleep. Like imagine that you needed eight hours a day, but you can do it literally whenever you want to. And you just got to meet that eight hour quota. So 20 minutes here, an hour here, whatever it may be, right? And the next day are guaranteed to be fully energized. |
| 13. March 2022 | Sliding into the dms to argue with people. | Hiding into DMs to argue with people. Syfe mentions Josh Strife Hayes before on stream and that I watch his content. What I probably haven't mentioned is that have I done it twice or three times now? A handful of times I've been listening to him talk about some stuff in his content and I've been like, you know what? I disagree with that. And so I've opened discord and I've been like, hey Josh, I disagree with this thing you said, and I explained to him why. What a strange thing to do. Like complete stranger. Like just DM him. Be like, four months ago, 20 minutes into this video, you said this thing. I'll have you know. Don't agree? It'd be weird enough to do that to a person that you know. I don't know why I started doing this for Josh, but I find it very funny. No one do this to me. I just something you do occasionally do it to me that. |
| 10. November 2021 | Small time loss in speedruns matter. | small time loss in speedruns matter don't fret over the small seconds it's the thing I always say being shot in the head is as lethal as a death by a thousand paper cuts you're still dead there was actually a meme I think the spongeBob meme where spongeBob is smashing this one alarm clock and it's got written on it the hardest strat in the run as in like spongeBob has gotten the hardest strat in the run and then Squidward opens a cupboard of the like identical alarm clocks and it's labeled all the small time losses all throughout the run all the mistakes you know like a one minute time loss in one instance feels so much bigger than like six ten second time losses but it's not |
| 07. May 2021 | Small tip for streamers making content for youtube | YouTube. If I can give you guys one tip, if you're a streamer who's going to be making YouTube content from your Twitch content, always have some kind of an intro, as in like when you start your stream, be like, hey, guys, we're doing this, or a joke or something at the beginning of the thing. That can be the start of the video. It is really awkward when the video starts and there's nothing interesting. It's kind of funny when you watch a world record run for a speed run. And the first five minutes, the person doesn't say anything or is just casually responding to chat. And that's the problem, I suppose, because you never know when the world record is going to be or the run is going to be. So you never know when you actually have to give a shit what you're saying. That's why I try to care what I'm saying, everyone. And it takes a lot of effort. It takes a lot of goddamn energy. Doing 10-hour speed runs back in the day where I talked 1-80th of what I talk now was easier. Would I ever do a sleep stream? No. No. My editing streams are already kind of pushing it in terms of just showing bullshit content. Are you saying you want to show pre-recorded videos on Twitch? That's a terrible idea. Won't get you anything. The one thing that small streams have over large streams is the ability to actually talk to individual viewers. It's like, if you have time to pre-record a video, you should have time to make an original YouTube video, right? Think of an idea and execute it. Or you can twist something. See something else that someone's doing and do it slightly differently with your own kind of style. |
| 06. May 2021 | Snapping at viewers when I am sleep deprived. | Snapping at viewers when I'm sleep deprived. I'm still I still have that little bit of ache that says that my body fully isn't rested because my sleeping patterns still stuff, but I have enough energy that I can do a solid stream without being a dick to you guys. The guilt I feel when I stream and I snap at people I hate so much. Like yesterday, when I had an issue with G-Force experience, pressing O to R, bringing up something on the side of the screen and then turning off the thing so it wouldn't do that caused there to be a permanent black mark in the top hand corner of the screen, whatever. And someone's in charge, like, oh, O, R is to turn that thing on and off. And I'm like, well, obviously, because I've just been doing that for the past five minutes. But the person was just trying to help, you know, no reason to snap at them. But when I'm sleep deprived, oh boy, will I snap at stupid statements, you know, even if they're done with the desire to be helpful, you know, and that's just rude, you know. Don't feel bad. I don't consider myself a toxic person, but there are certainly states of mind that I can be in that make me more toxic or things that people do that can bring out that kind of response in me. |
| 27. October 2022 | Snooze scamming me with a mattress. | Snooze scamming me with a mattress. What are your countries like in terms of returns for mattresses? So I went into a store called Snooze and I said, hey yo, I can't sleep, I can't deal with it. I would pay any amount of money just to fix my sleeping so I wake up feeling refreshed. I give you, here's a blank check. Just give me anything you have. They were walking around showing me stuff, having me sit on a bunch of mattresses and they put me on this thing, did an assessment of me and they said, hey, soft mattress seems to be good for you. And I'm like, hey, so I've had back issues and neck pain for a lot of my life, haven't in the last couple of years, but that might be because of the mattress that I have. That I have a firm mattress right now. Is this mattress going to provide me sufficient neck and back support that I'm not gonna fall back into that system of neck and back pain? And then I go, yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah, sure, sure. You can get this mattress, that's totally fine. Like, all right, well, maybe these mattresses have gotten better over the years and this mattress is good enough for that. So I buy the mattress, two to $3,000, I'm not sure how much, and so I get it here and oh boy, the neck and back pain. Oh boy, the pain, the agony. Have not woken up without a little bit of pain at least since I bought the thing. And I'm just like, I called them like, I've done some Googling now, you gave me a mattress that specifically is most likely gonna cause neck and back pain for people like me. They're like, oh, that's unfortunate. So I asked if I could return it and exchange it for a firmer mattress and they said no. What do you mean no? You got no returns policy. They know, cost you $1,000 to get it refixed to make it firmer. Like, what a fucking scam. What a fucking scam. And they're like, yeah, but we, see, we give a comfort guarantee. You can test the mattresses in the store. I'm like, how do you test the neck and back pain after sleeping? Am I meant to stay there overnight? Like, what the fuck? And when we were talking about getting it firmed up, there's three basic tiers, soft, medium, and firm. They'd be like, oh, well, before we get it firmed up for you, you should probably come into the store and like test the firmer mattresses. I'm like, test them in what way? They're gonna be comfortable. It's a mattress. I can't stay there overnight. If I get a medium mattress, spending $1,000 to change it, then if it's not good enough still, I have to pay another $1,000 to get it firmer again. It doesn't matter if I go to the store and test the medium mattress or the firm mattress because it's not gonna tell me if I'm gonna have neck and back pain. And I have no choice but to firm the mattress because I'm not gonna live with neck and back pain for the rest of my fucking life. Good thing I am rich. No, don't time that out. He's right. He's absolutely right. Whenever I get into these situations where I could afford to chuck this mattress onto the street and not give a fuck about it. And I think to myself, if I was a couple of years ago and this same thing would be happening, I'd be like panicking for like a month. It would destroy my life. It would degrade my wellbeing. I'd be stressed to no end. And so when I get in these situations, I'm like, there must be people who are like me, who aren't as fortunate financially, who are dealing with these problems. And I have no ability to fix it for them. And it sucks. Like when I complained about these things, it's not just for catharsis to explain and to give a little bit of a funny story. It's that you guys can be warded away from these things as well. Don't buy mattresses from snooze if you're in Australia. This is a garbage policy. I don't know what other stores have, but it can't be as bad as this. And like I can understand where like a company might charge you a fee or something. 10, 15% or something to take something back that they might have trouble resending or something. I can understand that. But just blanket no returns policy in Australia? I'd never seen the light. It's complete trash. |
| 03. June 2020 | Social anxiety on Twitch | I can't make infinite videos, I have to stop eventually. I think you've spoken about having social anxiety before, which I also struggle with, so I was just wondering if you found it hard starting on Twitch, worrying about what people would think of you or your content, and having so many people watch you. I can't recall having such issues, like there's just such a disconnect between the words on a screen and actual people in a room. Certainly when I made YouTube content, I think I was more worried because I was making something. There was a creation at the end of it, and I was going, do you like my creation? And there's always the people who would just slap it down and go, no, fuck your creation, it's terrible. But on Twitch, I'm just chilling. I'm just being myself in front of a camera, no one around. I can at any point in time just leave. I'm just like, you know, I'm done with this shit, end stream. And that freedom alleviates a great deal of my anxiety. And any fuck up that I have, it's just gone in a moment. No one's watching the VODs, it comes and goes. On YouTube, it's forever. So it's a bit more something you worry about. I don't know if that's social anxiety necessarily, worrying about that. But yeah, it's not been a huge concern for me. At least I can't remember it being a huge concern for me. |
| 03. June 2020 | Social anxiety on twitch | I can't make infinite videos, I have to stop eventually. I think you've spoken about having social anxiety before, which I also struggle with, so I was just wondering if you found it hard starting on Twitch, worrying about what people would think of you or your content, and having so many people watch you. I can't recall having such issues, like there's just such a disconnect between the words on a screen and actual people in a room. Certainly when I made YouTube content, I think I was more worried because I was making something. There was a creation at the end of it, and I was going, do you like my creation? And there's always the people who would just slap it down and go, no, fuck your creation, it's terrible. But on Twitch, I'm just chilling. I'm just being myself in front of a camera, no one around. I can at any point in time just leave. I'm just like, you know, I'm done with this shit, end stream. And that freedom alleviates a great deal of my anxiety. And any fuck up that I have, it's just gone in a moment. No one's watching the VODs, it comes and goes. On YouTube, it's forever. So it's a bit more something you worry about. I don't know if that's social anxiety necessarily, worrying about that. But yeah, it's not been a huge concern for me. At least I can't remember it being a huge concern for me. |
| 27. November 2020 | Social ineptitude and my graduation | Social ineptitude and my graduation. What makes me think so? About what? That I'm not good socially? Because I know I'm not good socially. People found a video of me getting my degree on stage at my university. And everyone's like, it looks so sad. It's more than I'm just uncomfortable being around that many people. I did think it a little bit creepy that people dug around to find a video of me receiving my degree. And it's funny that all the comments on the video are references to me. Because the video has like 500 views. I have a psych degree. The bachelor's of social science with a major in psychology. Should have been a double major in criminology but didn't end up going that way. I was one year off and they wouldn't give it to me even if I did that year so fuck them. My reaction to the post... |
| 23. February 2022 | Social media censorship and moral obligation | Social Media Censorship and Moral Obligation There is this weird line to draw, right? Where you don't really want social media platforms to be judging what is right and wrong. But at the same time, there are definitely things where, if allowed to spread, innocent people will die. You're sitting in this weird awkward spot where doing nothing means that you're effectively culpable for the deaths of innocent people. And doing something, you know, potentially leads to this slippery slope where you're policing what people can or cannot say. And I'm happy that I'm not in that moral situation, right? Of judging what line I want to draw and what other people can say on my platform. There are these people who believe, you know, censoring the material just emboldens the people who are already in the movement or whatever. Which is potentially true, but their ability to get new people in on the stupidity is much, much limited. But then, like, once you give yourself this power to censor these kind of things, why wouldn't you censor other things that are maybe less overtly harmful, that might be harmful to your agenda or harmful to how you want society to be formed? Or how are you so confident in what is right or wrong, true or false, that you're not a fallible person, that you can just judge what things to remove, right? I don't have that kind of confidence in myself. So as I say, I'm happy I'm not the one making these decisions, because it's not something that's... It's immediately obvious, you know? There are downsides and upsides to whatever you want to do, and in some ways you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. |
| 08. March 2022 | Social/drama commentary channels | Social slash drama commentary channels. I feel like the worst part about internet celebrities is that everyone who has any type of following needs to shove his opinion down your throat regardless of how uninformed. Commentary content is the easiest content to make, where you take things that people are talking about and you give your opinion on it. That's kind of what my rambles are, except my rambles are like months old and stuff. That isn't to be critical necessarily of commentary content, as in there's a place for it. But it is weird when a person's content is only commentary content and you know for a fact that they're talking about stuff that they do not care about. But that they have to comment on because that's their job. I was there once upon a time, but on a much more limited topic on my first channel. I remember thinking, I have nothing that I want to say, but I haven't made a video in like two weeks. What's something that I can talk about? And there's just a terrible way to live. And it gets you into these situations where you talk about situations or topics you know nothing about because you gotta make a commentary video. |
| 27. March 2022 | Soda tier list. | Soda tier list. You know I don't like vanilla coke. I like Pepsi Max. What about other sodas? All other sodas that aren't Coke or Pepsi are mid. That is actually my position, as in like, you give me some other soda, I won't complain. I'll be like, yeah yeah. Maybe on rare occasions I might have a glass or whatever as a change of pace, but none of them match up to Coke or Pepsi. Oh, except Dr. Pepper. Dr. Pepper is just bad. That shit tastes like medicine. What is wrong with people? And obviously the variations of Coke and Pepsi, where they have like cherry and vanilla and stuff, those are garbage. So it's Coke and Pepsi, all other soft drinks, Dr. Pepper, vanilla Coke, and cherry Coke and all that shit. I have spoken, so this is how it be. |
| 27. November 2020 | Sodapoppin's BTS joke | Soda Poppin's BTS joke. Did you see that joke from Soda Poppin where he said in a tweet BTS are overrated which is a kpop band and it got like tens of thousands of likes whatever then his follow-up tweet was I don't know who this band is KYS but I've never heard of them or something like that I have no interest in your kpop bands okay I thought that was very funny Soda Poppin funny guy I've only seen a little bit of kpop it seems very eh they seem like huge productions though kpop but that might just be because most of what I've seen of it is because of the huge productions though the shows the videos whatever it's rather than just like celebration of the music itself |
| 06. August 2020 | Sodapoppin’s tribute to Reckful | Soda Poppin's tribute to Wreckful. Soda Poppin released a 2 and a half minute video yesterday with just clips of his experiences with Wreckful. And it ended with a clip of Wreckful saying he wanted to go back to this certain place when he was like 60. He was like, hey, let's go back here when we're older, like when we're 60. Which is the saddest fucking thing, dude. The saddest thing. Never had a show-off video that made me feel so sad so quickly. I didn't cry, so we've definitely improved on that front. |
| 17. September 2021 | Soft Drink Is Not Good For You | Soft drink is not good for you. I tried Pepsi a few times throughout my life, and I always hated it. Yeah, totally understandable, bello. I mean, I would not... As much as it is a meme, I would suggest to anyone do not drink soft drink. It is not good for you. If you can live your entire life without drinking soft drink, all power to you. It's addictive garbage. It's like when people say, oh, you know, I've never had any drugs or never done, like, drunk any alcohol. I'm like, good. Good for you. I wish I was the same. I mean, fuck the people who rub it in your face, like, oh, I'm so pure. And just to be like, like, you ask them if they drink and they're like, oh, no, I don't drink. I'm like, oh, good. It's cool. |
| 28. June 2022 | Softcore p*rn with good plot | Softcore porn with good PLOS. There's this anime, right? It's called like High School DXD, I think, and I've always known of it as basically a softcore porn where it's not hentai and so you can find it on Funimation and Crunchyroll and stuff, but it's got nudity in it and stuff. And that's all I knew about it. And so I've never seen it, but I was on Reddit I think and someone actually noted it has PLOS, you know, but also actual plot and apparently the story is meant to be pretty good. So I watched the first episode and I'm actually curious to see where it goes. But I find it hard to believe that it could be good because the premise of the story is interesting, but so much time is dedicated to fan service that like you're losing like a quarter of the episode to just showing half naked people. And so how are you gonna build good episodes each time if you're dedicating that much time to it? Maybe it reduces over time. I'm not sure. I will report back and tell you how good the plot is, both kinds of plot. Well, it's a good thing that I changed from the English to the sub because I found the both the language used and the voices of the main characters in the English version to be obnoxious and annoying as fuck. High school DXD was the first anime I ever watched and honestly the story is really good and it develops well over the four seasons, which is weird to find out. As I said, it was a convincing post that the story is actually meant to be good. The thing I don't understand about high school DXD or like are there many shows like it? But why wouldn't you just watch Hentai? I suppose the animation might be better? Like from a business perspective, it's an interesting thing to think about. Like would the potential limited advertising and distribution opportunities be made up for by like word-of-mouth advertising that it's pervy or whatever? Raunchy? What's the phrasing? Quick update, four episodes in I'm like, this is actually an interesting plot. It's not as though they spend extra time or waste time in the episode dedicated to nudity, at least not that much that I've noticed. It's more that people happen to be naked sometimes and it's like, oh, okay, fair enough. So at least the story is not going to be diminished by that factor. And the main character has this interesting ability, at least when it's explained, and I want to see where they go with it. The only downside, the only downside with the show currently is I think episode five, they introduce a new character and is one of those really soft-spoken I don't understand the world enough, but please save me. I can only heal and I'm so naive and I speak with a soft voice all the time. I'm like, oh my god, stop it. The blonde airhead with a heart of gold and I'm just like, ah god, just take it away. Just chuck it off screen. You know, you start watching a show and you're like, oh, this show is really good. A new character gets introduced and you're like, oh, I don't really like this character. Hopefully they leave soon and they just never leave and that's what I'm going through with this show right now. I might even stop watching just because of the character. It's funny because I usually skip over the intro, but I watched the intro and I'm like, ah, that character I hate is in the intro. I am fucked. I'm gonna have to learn to like this character. I hope they change her because no, I'm sure this happens with a lot of people with a lot of different shows, but this is the first time I can remember happening to me where a character is just like infuriating to me. Yeah, she sucks. So I'm not the only one. Like here's a good way to tell if I'm gonna dislike a character, okay? If the character gets food and like goes like, um, and like takes a smallness bite with that sound effect and then it's like, it's like that kind of cutesy eating bullshit that no person would ever do in any reality. I'm not gonna like that character. I think it's a thing actually in Japan, isn't it? Where women aren't meant to open their mouths really wide or something to eat food. For years, Japanese culture has encouraged women to strive for ochabo, which is described as small and modest mouths. As a result, it is considered rude for Japanese women to open their mouth wide. This rule even applies to women while eating out in public. How do I- how did I know about that? Weird. That's dumb. Further update, while I'm curious where the story would have ended up going, the characters were just too annoying to me and sometimes the nudity and sexualization of the characters did take away from the plot, so I've just given up watching it. I'm sure I can find something more interesting. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 06. June 2022 | Solutions to reaction content | What if YouTube and the internet today watched together mechanic, a link that a streamer would share in the chat? It would be a YouTube based watchroom where be the streamer who played it paused and rewinded it Therefore every viewer would be a unique unique view for that video people would watch the streamer react But also give the view video their views it would not solve the algorithm though Yeah, the algorithm being the main thing all these talks of like Transferring views from the reactor to the original video You need to remember that these views would be less valuable to the algorithm I'd be algorithm wouldn't see these views as legitimate views that they can use to extrapolate and find audiences for the video because People have these views are coming from somewhere else Or let me put another way the sort of viewer that would click a title and thumbnail Isn't necessarily the same viewer who would click a different title and thumbnail Because they recognize the content creator in it right what the algorithm wants to identify is the people who will do this Who will click a title and thumbnail this first one and then watch it for a long time Just because another viewer has been willing to click this title and thumbnail doesn't mean they would click this one a lot a lot of the solutions to reaction content somewhat rely upon the reactors playing ball and Obviously reactors are in it for themselves if it ever came to the point where the original creator was gaining all the benefit from Reaction content reactors would simply stop doing it because it would no longer be worth their time They would no longer be receiving the exploitive gains that they're currently experiencing So they just stop doing it people don't do reaction content for the benefit of other people they do it for the benefit of themselves It's why the overwhelming vast majority people don't do reaction content even though it's very easy to do and anyone can do it and Everyone sees the gains in it. It's just not everyone's willing to exploit people to the degree that reactors are in the same way that All of us get offered NFT sponsorships But only some people are willing to take those sponsorship deals because we know it's exploitive and bad if YouTube does enforce harsh policies on react Content do you think you'll be remembered as a catalyst for that? I doubt it and I doubt they will do so this This drama hubbub happens all the time YouTube as a company Might benefit from reactors as a whole even if the individual creators doing that work that's being reacted to don't I saw YouTube tweet out something like Where does snipe wolf find all these videos to react to like clearly whoever runs the YouTube Twitter has no issue with reaction content again, I don't know much about sniper wolf's content, I only know of her as a big-time reactor and As she reacts to tick tocks or something, I you know the impact of |
| 27. August 2022 | Solving the mystery of why my water tasted weird in my thermos | Solving why the water tasted weird in my thermos. I also solved a mystery chat. On one of my streams, I was like, water from this tastes weird. Why is that? I don't understand. I'm sure it's a new thing, but I think I washed it out. Like, I don't understand. It came with an instruction manual chat that was in the bottle. And so I was drinking from a thing with like a wad of paper and therefore ink in the bottle for like a few days. Could they not have just attached it to the side of the bottle or something? You know? So basically I'm dead. The bottle needs instructions. It said something like, I'm being held captive making these bottles, please send help. Weird instructions for the bottle. I'm not sure what that was about, but I just threw that shit away. Ha ha ha ha ha. I kid. I think it was like a bunch of warranty information and stuff and da da da. |
| 27. August 2022 | Some More News’ video ‘A Brief Look At Jordan Peterson’ | Some more news's video, a brief look at Jordan Peterson. Okay, so this is potentially a little bit of a controversial video. Some more news's, a brief look at Jordan Peterson. There's a constant running joke in this video where he says, don't look at the timestamp, because he keeps calling the video a brief look, but the video's three hours long. When I first saw this video in my sub feed, I was like, three hours on Jordan Peterson? Like, is this not a topic that's been done to death? I'm not gonna watch this, I'm just not. But then I was on TikTok, like a week later, and I saw a clip from the video, and it was really funny. It was interesting and funny, and I was like, oh, gotta go watch that video now. And so I bring this up to showcase that that's how advertising should work. I was shown a piece of the larger product, and because of that piece, I'm like, I gotta watch the rest. This is not what reaction content does, because they show you the entire fucking thing. So I already knew that one of the greatest flaws in Peterson is that he will assert things with absolute confidence that he knows nothing about. Subjects, he is nowhere near as learned on as he believes. He will just assert his own conjecture as absolute facts. And because people don't have a sufficient foundational knowledge to know he's doing this, they take what he says somewhat as gospel. There is this idea in, I would say, every facet of life that a person who talks confidently and presents themselves as an expert is for all intents and purposes an expert for people without enough information to know that they're talking bullshit, right? And Peterson is this way. There's this great part in this video where one of the other Hulu works with Peterson, who somewhat campaigned to have him be accepted in his teaching position. He went and watched one of Peterson's lectures, and he was blown away at how little scientific basis there was for most of what Peterson was saying. Peterson was just spouting his own particular beliefs about how he wants the world to be as if they were facts to a bunch of impressionable kids in the audience. So I went into this already knowing that Peterson was in large part a fraud, but there were certain things that even I didn't think were false that I'd heard him say. And this video, in its amazing amount of detail, even looks at those clips and says, "'No, this is also false,' and goes into explaining why. It was a very enlightening video on a topic that I didn't feel like I needed more information on, but it was interesting and funny. And so I highly recommend watching this video. Even though it's gonna take you three hours, it is funny, it is insightful. Clearly some people who are in the cold of Peterson don't really like it, but the world is just a very uncertain place, chat, and it's hard to know who you can trust and what the true state of affairs is, and everyone's looking for that guy just speaking confidently that says the things that you wanna hear about how the world works, and some people are gonna be attracted to Peterson as one of these people. Yeah, so good video, highly recommend it. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 27. October 2021 | Some People think glitches in speedruns are cheating | Some people think glitches in speedruns are cheating Talking to friends about speedrunning. I remember back when I had real-life friends, I mentioned speedrunning Dark Souls 1 and Not me personally, but in the guys. Oh what they choose glitches That's just like cheating man, and you don't expect to meet people like this in real life And you just sit there confused for a moment like what? Traditionally cheating in games is meant to make things easier glitches don't necessarily do that sometimes the glitches are harder than the thing that you're trying to do I would almost say usually |
| 20. October 2021 | Some aspects of gta 4 that are better than gta 5 | Some aspects of GTA 4 that are better than GTA 5. There are things that GTA 4 does better than GTA 5, like the fighting for example, much better than GTA 4. The cops in GTA 4 are a lot better, like they have... The NPCs in GTA 4 have personalities. You can have interesting interactions with them, like... You bump into a cop and they're like, Hey, watch it! One more time! You bump him again, they're like, Oh, I... What are you doing? And then they'll eventually aggro on you. In this game, you sneeze near a cop and they're like, What are you doing? Bang, bang, ahhh! You know. A cop runs into you in this game and you get the cops on you. In GTA 4, if that happens, that doesn't happen. I think you can even run into cops and it doesn't always happen. Oh, and yeah, exactly, and the way that they handle cops in GTA 4, I think makes more sense. Where you... You leave that bubble radius and then you lose the cops. Or whatever, you know. |
| 30. May 2021 | Some content creators have it easier than others. | Some content creators have it better than others But advertise mustn't like that shit though, right? Yeah But the thing is because I don't say that's a say before with amaranth like the amount of money you make on twitch For advertising is effectively nothing currently for me. It's 4% Yeah, honestly who gives to who gives a fuck about being advertised when you got people donating a hundred fifty dollars Have you have their fucking twitch name? And it's so low like like on the pickle on pickle Rick I Walked this amaranth chick last night because we were just meeting on fucking titty streamers and so bad dude she has like 1300 patrons with the lowest tier being 28 dollars a month Goddang like hello, and that's and I would assume she has way less patrons than she does only fans subscribers Hmm, I would assume so like that's let's just say it averages out to like I've made 30 bucks a month per patron times 1300 so you already at like what's that? It's over. What's that 40 grand ish somewhere around there and Then only for end would probably be at least 40 grand a month as well plus all the donors all the subs She's making easily six figures a month usually I'll be with you though. I'd much rather be as mingle then amaranth. I mean maybe not like physically as mingle No, no offense. Yeah, I was about to say Yeah, I'm just saying there's a there's a lot of Really because male content creators are making fuck tons more money not having to be creeped on or whatever like She's making good money, but if I'm gonna swap places with a content creator on this platform It's not gonna be amaranth. It's gonna be at least a hundred people before you know yeah at the end of the day I just think well at least I don't have to fucking flush my tits or an issue like that to make a decent living I think girls got it infinitely harder to be honest with I'm friends with quite a few female coming big true, sonny big true They did the shit they cop is like generally something like wandering for personal safety like they go to an event They need a security guard type shit. Yeah exactly people can horrible did horny guys just like it's so next level It's pretty far. I'm sure all of you have had creepy messages or weird things from people, but it's just I being a woman and adding that actual extra sexual element. I imagine Makes things infinitely worse. It doesn't you know when you just reach enough people you're gonna reach some crazies You know especially since I don't think we realize how many people we actually Reach like looking at the viewer numbers and stuff It's hard to like actually realize what that amount of people looks like but you you're bound to find a few weirdos in there That are gonna like do some crazy shit like Yeah, and at least we don't get multiple dick pics a day cuz we guys I mean speak for yourself, man I mean come on. Hey, nah nah |
| 11. December 2019 | Some creators I watch on YouTube | Some of the content creators that I watch on YouTube Who did I watch on YouTube? Everyone and everything. I I watch a lot of Super Mario maker Watching someone just grind through a difficult level of Super Mario maker is always enjoyable to me Like I used to watch I used to like watching Carl Sagan, but he so rarely does actual levels anymore that I've kind of moved away from the content Rua Kha I really enjoy Is it is it DPR I can never remember the three letters but um The guy with three letters. I like the guy as well Do I like hard trolls or hard guys? I like it all as long as the actual levels. Oh DGR right DGR Yeah, I watch Linus Tech Tips Philip DeFranco video game donkey |
| 27. April 2022 | Some interesting YouTube analytics. | Some interesting YouTube analytics. Not a lot of people know this about YouTube. Videos tend to have between like a 2 and 10% click through rate. One of the biggest determining factors is the average watch time. So, if you have a very very short video and someone clicks it, YouTube's only gonna grab them for like, you know, 30 seconds or whatever. So, the only time it will recommend a clip is when it's gonna be very sure that a person's gonna click it. Because they're not gonna keep them for very long. So like, clips tend to have like a 10% click through rate. And that's what YouTube seems to aim for. Like, they want 1 in 10 people to click clips that they recommend. But if your video is really long and has a very long average watch time, if only 1 in 100 people click it, that's 40 minutes that you've kept someone on a platform. So, the longer your average watch time, the less certain that YouTube needs to be about recommending that video and getting a click for it still to be worth it for the algorithm. For example, my Bully video, the average watch time was like 45 minutes. It's like, fucking crazy. And it has like a 1% click through rate. Because YouTube's like, okay, sure, only 1 in 100 people are gonna click this video, but when they do click it, we got them for 45 minutes. That is worth 100 impressions, you know? Like, I don't know if people find YouTube analytics interesting, but so many of them are like, not what you expect. So, this is like, where my views came from in terms of devices for the last 90 days. So, I got 30 million views and 43% came from mobile. Which is actually down. I think at one point, the combination of mobile and tablet were like 60%, and now it's at 50%. But what surprised me was TV beating our computer. I assume TV is like, you know, counts Xbox or PlayStation, or all those smart app kind of things on TVs. But it's funny that the average view duration for a TV view is twice that of like a mobile view and a computer view. I guess because, like, if you're getting comfy in a chair to watch something, you wanna stick watching that thing. You've put it on as the thing you're gonna focus on. Where on computer, you know, things might distract you, or you might need to go do something else, or you put it as background noise or whatever. And mobile, the same. You can get interrupted far easier. Like, this makes sense, but it's not something that I would have been like, oh yeah, until I saw the analytics. You're surprised tablets are so low? I mean, mobile phones make tablets redundant for most people. Like, I watch a lot of stuff on a tablet, but that's because I've got money. A tablet is like a luxury purchase. It's a very neat situation where you need one. In general, if you want portability, you want a laptop. |
| 24. May 2022 | Some sage wisdom | wisdom Chat if I got one bit of advice to you, you know, let it be this you only ever listen one bit of ass Do not whine and bitch Don't be self-deprecating. No one really likes that shit be positive I don't do this because I'm dumb but learn from my stupidity and don't wannabe |
| 27. September 2022 | Some shorts are broken on YouTube | Broken on YouTube. I think I've shown this in Ramboos before but it happened again, so I'm gonna show it again. This is the clip of me doing complications jump. The legendary complications jump is a strategy that GT5 speedrunners fear to do. It involves multiple powered brake boosts, good traffic luck, and a perfect angle all to get into Michael's backyard on the mission complications just a bit faster. Perfect. We did it guys. We got a perfect exactly once. So this clip got a hundred and forty thousand views in the first hour, but in the next hour got ten thousand views. It doesn't make any sense. Not all clips do this, but I've had like four clips that have done this where just like in the first hour it just goes BAH! And then it dies. Like it was way above the average for clips and now it's below. They don't make any gosh darn sense. Clearly shorts are still getting worked out, you know. But I have gotten back to uploading shorts. The 45% split on revenue means that it could be worth it monetarily speaking to release more shorts, and so that's what I'm gonna do. |
| 27. March 2022 | Some streamers have it really easy. | Some streamers have it really easy. As far as streaming is concerned, if you can just wake up every day and just like play CSGO or something and be successful doing that, and people want to watch that, that is like the easiest thing in the world. Or the easiest kind of streaming thing you can do. When you have to think of like a new game to play every day, you have to learn new stuff and blah blah blah, it adds complexity to stream that doesn't necessarily need to be there. Like what I'm doing right now is as close to just playing a game off stream as I can do. And I'm just chilling. But obviously most people wouldn't watch me do this. Like my viewership will drop down to like 400. You know? I'm not trying to be entertaining. |
| 05. August 2022 | Someone abusing copyright to claim viral videos. | The only other thing that caught my interest was this video by Clixphillip. Door Stuck is a cool meme, I'm sure you all know of it. The Door Stuck video has changed ownership. So 2007 that released, I've referenced this in videos like 4 times or whatever. This video is just about how apparently some Russian guy has made songs using a bunch of different viral videos and put them on Spotify and then claimed all those viral videos. Watch the video, it's quite interesting. I hope it gets resolved. And that's about it, I just thought it was an interesting story. The best of Darkviper 8888 compil- |
| 24. January 2022 | Someone caught “cheating” at GTA 5 speedrunning | Someone caught cheating at GT5 speedrunning. We actually had a person's runs get removed recently. It's hard to say if they were intentionally cheating or not, but they are. Apparently when they play online, their PC is so terrible that they go in the settings to remove all shadows. From the game itself, you can only reduce the shadows to a certain level, but outside the game or using the command prompt or whatever, you can make the shadows completely off. And we don't allow that kind of stuff. So his runs, if you look at them carefully, things wouldn't be casting shadows. And it's impossible to know how that would impact the game everywhere. It's just something that we outlaw. Because basically like modding the game. |
| 24. January 2022 | Someone caught “cheating” at gta 5 speedrunning | Someone caught cheating at GT5 speedrunning. We actually had a person's runs get removed recently. It's hard to say if they were intentionally cheating or not, but they are. Apparently when they play online, their PC is so terrible that they go in the settings to remove all shadows. From the game itself, you can only reduce the shadows to a certain level, but outside the game or using the command prompt or whatever, you can make the shadows completely off. And we don't allow that kind of stuff. So his runs, if you look at them carefully, things wouldn't be casting shadows. And it's impossible to know how that would impact the game everywhere. It's just something that we outlaw. Because basically like modding the game. |
| 04. November 2021 | Someone lied about finding a prologue cutscene skip | Someone lied about finding a prologue cutscene skip. Someone posted in the discord that like on this particular patch or something if you hold ctrl and press f5 it allows you to skip the prologue cutscenes. I've never gone off at a person for suggesting a strap before. I was just like are you fucking kidding me? No video, no nothing just saying oh yeah you know I've found a way to skip the cutscenes in prologue. No big deal though man it's probably patch specific, it doesn't even save time. Don't worry about it. Fuck you! |
| 14. August 2022 | Someone made a rug based on one of my emotes? | Someone made a rug based on one of my emotes. So I was tagged in this dozens of times. People are like, oh, it's like your emote with the gun. I'm like, yeah, it does look a lot like it. But I have no idea if it's actually based on my emote or not because there are quite a few animal holding gun emotes on Twitch. The coloring's different. Yeah, I've definitely seen other emotes like my one. So I think it's probably based off another one, but I'm saying that there's a lot of emotes like this. It's probably not based on my stuff. There's only so many ways you can have an animal holding a gun, chat. My |
| 21. July 2020 | Someone stole all my clothes pegs | Someone stole all my clothes pegs. Be prepared chat, I'm wearing the same dirty clothes I was wearing yesterday. You know why? Some inconsiderate person has stolen all the clothes pegs from my, uh, from my backyard. So, I did all my washing, stayed up late, I'm like okay I gotta get this done so it's free tomorrow and so I wait for the washing, put it on a basket, I get outside, I'm like there's like, there's like four clothes pegs out here, what the fuck has happened? So I had to throw all my clothes on the floor downstairs and so they're not, they're not dried and I, because I had no way to hang them, I had like 57 different things of clothing. I should have like hung up at least one or two so I had new clothes for today but I didn't do that because I'm dumb. |
| 01. November 2022 | Something I found out signing stuff as a content creator | Something I found out signing stuff as a content creator. I actually forgot to tell a funny story from when I was at PAX so Not that many people asked me to sign stuff. Honestly, I think pictures make more sense than signing things honestly Except in cases where you're one of those people who was collecting like a bunch of signatures. That's pretty cool. There was maybe like Less than ten people who actually actually asked me to sign stuff and after signing the first couple of things I think it was Emma my manager who was like Are you starting to sign your real signature or like that came up and I'm like, yes, so what they're like, oh, yeah Isn't that like that? That's place like you shouldn't be doing like security issues and stuff and I had not considered that in my mind Signatures are just security theater. You cannot do anything with a signature. I don't have a checking account I don't have checks I don't like the amount of things you can access with just a signature is in my mind zero like you need a lot more documentation and And or forms of ID to get access to anything but at the same time it's like yeah Maybe you shouldn't just put that information out there make that too accessible, you know Yeah, I guess you probably shouldn't take that risk. So after signing a couple of things in my normal signature. I Changed it to my dark fiber signature, which is now like DV or something which it looks about the same as my normal signature in terms of its style because it was very simple But uh, you know, I'm doing that in the future, but it's funny thinking about this that I was watching Trash Taste Chris Broad from abroad in Japan was talking about how he signed stuff and They're like, you don't sign your real signature do you and Chris is just like I was that something I'm going to be concerned about Is that a problem is it and he's apparently signed like thousands of things and no one's ever brought up the issue That was brought up with me after signing like four things. So if that is indeed an issue I think there's probably a lot of content creators out there who have given out their signatures to potentially hundreds if not thousands of people I'm definitely not the only one, you know, you want to see what my dark fiber signature looks like? Sure I'll draw it for you in paint Ain't that pretty the one thing you don't want as a content creator is to make a signature that is really fucking complicated While the odds you getting that ridiculously famous that you have assigned a lot is very low If it does happen, you're there like a minute each There you go, sir, oh another one, okay You know You die after like 10 minutes. Hopefully the last bit of drama getting my twin |
| 03. June 2020 | Something other than Twitch? | Have you ever thought about doing something else other than YouTube or Twitch like any other job? There is no other job or anything in my life that has given me as much satisfaction and joy as Making YouTube content and being on Twitch That was probably even true when I was making non gaming content on my shitty old YouTube channel Which either says a lot about Twitch and YouTube or a lot about other aspects of my life over the course of my life |
| 03. June 2020 | Something other than twitch? | Have you ever thought about doing something else other than YouTube or Twitch like any other job? There is no other job or anything in my life that has given me as much satisfaction and joy as Making YouTube content and being on Twitch That was probably even true when I was making non gaming content on my shitty old YouTube channel Which either says a lot about Twitch and YouTube or a lot about other aspects of my life over the course of my life |
| 10. June 2022 | Sonic 2 was surprisingly good | Sonic 2 was surprisingly good. Animated movies are doing pretty well for me lately. As I said, Sonic 2 impressed me. Like, it wasn't like the most mind-bending, amazing movie of all time, but it was just like, yeah, this is a good movie. It feels harder these days to make, like, a truly compelling movie because you have so little time compared to a TV show. I heard, uh, Jim Carrey was saying he, uh, he wants to retire. And he's like, no, this isn't a move, like, I think I'm done. But I mean, like, they have to get him back. He's, he's Dr. Eggman now, right? Like, surely in his contract, it was like, yeah, like, you gotta keep doing Eggman or whatever. I mean, it's possible for the next one they could just give him a smaller role, focusing mainly on, uh, Shadow. He wants to be Fat Eggman for three? Oh, yeah, maybe you were just talking about, like, other roles other than being Eggman. |
| 10. June 2022 | Sonic 2 was surprisinglyt good | Sonic 2 was surprisingly good. Animated movies are doing pretty well for me lately. As I said, Sonic 2 impressed me. Like, it wasn't like the most mind-bending, amazing movie of all time, but it was just like, yeah, this is a good movie. It feels harder these days to make, like, a truly compelling movie because you have so little time compared to a TV show. I heard, uh, Jim Carrey was saying he, uh, he wants to retire. And he's like, no, this isn't a move, like, I think I'm done. But I mean, like, they have to get him back. He's, he's Dr. Eggman now, right? Like, surely in his contract, it was like, yeah, like, you gotta keep doing Eggman or whatever. I mean, it's possible for the next one they could just give him a smaller role, focusing mainly on, uh, Shadow. He wants to be Fat Eggman for three? Oh, yeah, maybe you were just talking about, like, other roles other than being Eggman. |
| 18. February 2021 | Sorting by new on my rambles can be somewhat painful | sourcing by new on ramble videos can be somewhat painful work out this morning I did something very stupid I read the YouTube comment section on one of my rambles what a dumb fucking move poor strategy to maintain sanity. The top comments are always pretty good but you sort by new and you get these occasional comments where you're like how how are you still alive how how is it that you haven't just like accidentally walked outside into the rain held your mouth aloft and just drowned how are you able to tie your shoes because I'm skeptical that you can be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 01. June 2021 | Sosig leeching off his grandma's internet fame | Sosig leeching off his grandma's internet fame. I have to know when will you collab with Raddol? I'm saying that right, Raddol, Raddol, Raddol, Raddol. Can't imagine that will ever happen. Has he ever done a collab with anyone? Seems like a nice guy. The comments he left on, uh, that video of mine was very appreciated. The people just calling him Sosig. He makes interesting content. He's talented. It's not like we're close in terms of our content. I thought he wasn't even a fan of GTA V. He collabs with his grandma. True, true. Clearly just leeching off her internet fame. Worried about his longevity of his channel. Uh, his grandmother was like, let me show you how it's done. |
| 03. June 2020 | Soylent | You say you don't like cooking or eating, why aren't you using something like this? Soylence does not exist in Australia. Someone added Soylence when I said I don't like food on Twitter, and they were like, hey yo man, yeah we can send you out some stuff, DMs your address. And I said to them, I'm Australian, you can't help me. And they're like, ah, I'm sorry, should have asked where you were from first. And I was like, nah, they're way better. Soylence only works in, oh it works, it only works in those countries, no they only distribute in like America, Canada, somewhere else maybe. I don't know if it's health regulations or they just don't have the, they just don't want to expand, I'm not sure, it's just too far away, too costly, I'm not sure. But they said a long time ago they wanted to go to Australia, but they just haven't, it's been like five years or some shit. I've had Ozzy Lent, which is like the Soylent knockoff in this country, didn't super love it. There would always be chunks and stuff in it, and it would never blend correctly, and the smell, if you didn't clean it out perfectly immediately, was terrible. And I bought a lot of it, and it went off, and I didn't realize it went off, and so I ate some that was, you know, slowly it got tasting worse over time, me not realizing that it, you know, eventually went off. And that soured me completely to it because I was eating expired food basically, without even realizing it. I just don't, I would stay away from that shit. If I could get the real thing, Soylent, in Australia, I would try it again, but outside that, never fucking again. |
| 26. October 2022 | Speaking again on 9-5 jobs vs content creation. | Speaking again on 9 to 5 jobs vs content creation. In a previous ramble I talked about 9 to 5 jobs being compared to content creation. Merely pointing out that the variation of what a 9 to 5 job is, and the variation of what a content creator job is, is so wide that there has to be overlap, where both are harder or easier depending upon your circumstances. All a 9 to 5 job refers to is you being employed by someone else, for a fixed amount of hours. Your responsibilities there, how much you like your job, how easy it is, varies wildly. You do surveys and 25 percent of people will be like, I'm passionate about my job. Another 25 percent will be like, yeah, I like my job, it's fine. Everyone working in 9 to 5 is not having their souls crushed in an overbearing terrible workplace, but many of them are. But when people look at content creation, they usually envision themselves being content creators that are ridiculously successful. They don't think about the potential years where you are struggling to survive, where you don't have the flexibility to do effectively whatever you want. You have to do a ridiculous amount of hours doing a particular thing that is barely keeping you going, so you can continue to do it the next month. They don't think about the people who have long since stopped having passion for this career, but are now doing it because it's what pays their bills. They have to fucking do it. When you envision a content creator, you think of me, who is in the top 0.05 percent of creators. You think of Logan Paul, who's top 0.001 percent or whatever. You don't think of the overwhelming vast majority of people who are doing it with the hope that one day it will become something, and are struggling to keep themselves doing it, or those who are barely getting by, which is most content creators who exists just within a sea of struggle. It's like when people think of owning a small business or being an entrepreneur. When you think of that, you think of being a successful one, not the reality, which is the vast majority of people who ever run a small business will fail at it. They will struggle, put a lot of work in, and achieve nothing, and end up with far less than they had when they begun. If you are in the top 1 percent of nine to five jobs, you're working some cushy job where you're in high demand, you basically can set your own hours because you're so goddamn skilled. You can jump from company to company to get a pay increase whenever you like, because you're just in that much demand. You are not necessarily having a worse life than the average person running a small business, the average person who's self-employed. Everything in life has upsides and downsides. Being self-employed is not universally better than every possible nine to five job that you can have. There are nine to five jobs that are better, both mentally, physically, and financially, than many different types of small businesses or even circumstances related to content creation. When I tried to point this out in the video, I got so much pushback where people were just doing the very thing I criticized, where I said, you do not need to define the world in black and white. You can accept the nuance of reality. But some people like, no, all nine to five jobs, soul crushing, terrible and hard, all content creator jobs, fulfilling, passion-filled, flexible and easy. As a person who works nine to five jobs for over 10 years, as a person who struggled through the early days of being a content creator to being now where I have success and can be flexible, I can tell you with a certainty, it is not all sunshine and rainbows being content creator, and it is not all doom and gloom working for someone else and vice versa. And that's all my position is. I am not saying that I have a harder job than everyone who works a nine to five job or that my job is less rewarding than everyone who works a nine to five job or whatever you people chose to say that I was saying in that ramble. That is not the case. It is also somewhat funny that being a content creator for some people is a nine to five job. All the people who work for channels or work for companies doing their TikToks and stuff, people who don't own the channels that they make content for, they are just working a nine to five. Those jobs do exist. You remember editing old streams where you could not afford a pizza? People think every streamer is somebody like that. Yeah. When I think about being a small content creator, what I remember is being on stream and crying thinking that I was going to have to quit. I'm sure someone's going to leave a comment being like, oh, Matt, no one has ever cried when they had to quit a nine to five. Of course they have. There are people like that who exist, who like their jobs, who have to quit because they have kids or need to move for their significant others job prospects or something. Not everyone hates their nine to five. Look at survey data. I've said this many times, chat. One of the things that bothers me the most about this job is how few people know what goes into it. And I can almost not blame people because what goes into it varies so much between creators. Like the time that person called me a liar, they're like, you liar pretending to edit and stuff, man. We all know you just give all your footage to other people. Like, oh my God, dude, shut up. Or I received a comment on that nine to five video where they were like, we all know you could just work less and get the same amount of views. We all know that you could upload whatever you want and get the same amount of views. Your job is perfectly flexible, man. You can do fucking anything you want and succeed in this business, bro. It's like, oh my God, you only ever do the things you want to do. All right. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also, leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 15. February 2020 | Speaking the truth is not the same as being honest | Speaking the truth is not the same as being honest. The easiest way to avoid claims of your being, uh, you speaking false or you speaking lies, is to simply tell the truth, but in a misleading way. So, this beach won best beach of the year 2016, 2017, and 2018. This would seem to imply that this is an amazing beach and you should go to it. Then you go to the beach, and lo and behold, it's covered in sewage. Meaning that during the last two years, circumstances had radically changed, and yet I did not inform you of that. Because while everything I told you was facts, it presented a misleading picture. If you tie together three facts, you can spin a yarn that is completely devoid of actual reality. Because you need all the facts interpreted with a desire to present the truth, to actually present things fairly, like to actually get to the bottom of things. Anything... |
| 20. November 2022 | Special gangster in GTA 5 drops 500k!? | What longer for you to move on? Special Gangster in GTA V drops 500k? Sometimes I want to highlight comments that I get that are really dumb but most of the comments that I get that are dumb are related to my reaction series and I'm sure you guys are sick me bringing up that stuff by this point, but I got a dumb comment unrelated to that so right after the mission Franklin and the Ma there is a gang NPC outside of Franklin's house that if you kill You instantly get 500k. I actually found that out just the day that I started playing because I was so interested in exploring the mechanics And wanted to see how they work so I punched that gang member guy, and I got 500k He always spawns, so it's not RNG based. No that is your pre-order bonus Like even if you didn't know that you had a pre-order bonus Why the fuck would you think punching an NPC in front of Franklin's house would give you 500k? Roxas like you know Barry is doing well work in the streets She's got 500k in his pocket at the front of Franklin's house people happen to find that NPC they too will get that 500k How are the guys playing experience must have been like playing the entire game like man? So weird like the first NPC that I killed gave me 500k But every single other one gave me between like 17 and 25 dollars how weird is that it could have been a joke But there's no context that suggests that to be the case |
| 27. December 2020 | Speedrun cheaters and could i cheat GTA 5? | Speedrun cheaters and could I cheat GTA 5? Do I think it's really scummy to cheat speedrunning? Absolutely. I have no sympathy for cheaters in speedrunning. Like don't get me wrong, it is at the end of the day, just speedrunning. But I suppose these days, there is a bit of money in speedrunning. Developing a reputation, clout, viewers on YouTube, Twitch. By cheating, you are potentially basically stealing from other people's mouths these days. You're stealing more than just prestige, potentially. You are negatively impacting the lives of the more deserving, the people who put more work in. But it is, again, at the end of the day, just speedrunning. I wouldn't put cheating and speedrunning up on the same level as, you know, murder, fraud, corruption, whatever you know what I'm saying. It is still technically just a niche thing. But I would say cheating to get ahead in effectively any hobby is awful. You know, if you wanted to, could you cheat effectively without getting caught? Not in any way I think that would enable me to get world record. That's the other problem I suppose. So again, talking about the sort of people who can get away with cheating. You already have to be really good at the game. You can't be an hour off world record and cheat yourself to that point and not get caught. You have to be effectively a world record contender who is just giving yourself an edge somehow. Removing a particular amount of RNG, increasing the speed of something by a couple of frames or whatever. Something that isn't huge, but it's enough to eke out that win, you know? I consider myself so far off world record right now that even as much as I know about the game, I couldn't conceive of how I could possibly cheat to get world record back right now. I would have to practice for years. I mean, years. I'd have to put a lot more practice in to get anywhere competitive before I could even think of anything, potentially. And those hypotheticals would assume that I know something about coding and stuff, because I don't. I don't know how to change the values of the backend of the game and stuff in subtle ways. Yeah, I'm not sure how I could possibly cheat this game at this point. But surely, if I, like if you, if someone offered me a million dollars to find a way to cheat in GTA 5 speedrunning, I'm sure I could find a way, you know? |
| 24. February 2022 | Speedrun difficulty reducing my chat interactivity. | Alright, speedrun difficulty decreasing my chat interactivity. I feel like my speedruns are potentially less interesting than they used to be. Cause back in the day, like on drives like this, I could just be chatting it up with you guys, reading chat. But now I actually have to watch the road at every point of all these breakthroughs. My chat interactivity has gone down astronomically since the old days. And it's gonna get even more boring guys, as I become a master again at never making mistakes in my speedruns. There'd be nothing to show in how this speedrun ended. |
| 23. March 2021 | Speedrun races | Speedrun races. Whenever I do a speedrun head-to-head competition live, speedrun competitions with games this long are really good, because what usually ends up happening is one mistake is made or you get one bit of bad RNG and it falls flat. Either that or the competition is against two people who clearly have different levels of skill, so the winner is obvious, you know? It is very rare that a speedrun competition is done where the winner isn't someone who's first, second or third or something, you know? Yeah, I did some races back in the day. Apparently I did like seven races on Speedruns Live. Speedruns Live is different from speedrun.com. We were just talking about it in a Speedrun Creator Discord thing where Speedruns Live was like the big thing for speedrunning back in like 2014. Everyone did races. People in the Discord were saying that they've done hundreds of races and shit and I look at my history. I've done like seven races on Speedruns Live. But like racing in speedrunning was like the thing that everyone did for a long time. And now it seems to not be anywhere near as a main attraction of speedrunning these days, you know? I think a lot of these races though were just like four friends just jumping into a call on... Was Discord even around then? Just jumping into a call and then just like buggerizing around chatting while they speedrun, you know? Because speedrunning by itself is such a solo thing, like in your actual running. But when you're doing races against other people, you can actually interact and chat and stuff, you know? |
| 01. July 2020 | Speedrun videos for games I don't run | Watching speedrunning videos for games that I don't run. You hated speedrunning until you found yourself, you hated speedrunning? That's weird. A lot of people don't like actively watching speedrunning, and that I can understand. Like, a lot of people just want to watch the end result. They're not really interested in the process of how things develop. Maybe they want to know about a strat hero there, but they don't want to watch a person reset over and over. That I can understand. To make the grind of speedrunning interesting, you have to have somewhat of a personality where you can, you know, talk and play. But the end result is usually pretty interesting to watch. When everything goes well and you can watch all the strats being put forth perfectly. I watched a video today, I- cause it's funny how much stuff about Nintendo games that I watch when I don't really play any Nintendo stuff. As I've said many times, if they put it on PC, I would play pretty much every Nintendo game. I got recommended a video from Linkus. There's this mini game in Wind Waker, Zelda Wind Waker, where it's basically Battleship. Where you have to explode the ships on a bunch of different squares. And it's completely random every time where these ships are going to be. And so you can, in the speedrun, lose more or less time depending on how long it takes you to kill all these ships and get all those rewards. It's said in the video that 25% of runs don't get past this point because they just get such bad RNG. Because you're just guessing. But what the runners developed was, they looked into the code, learned how the RNG worked, and developed this app or whatever. Where you basically, you make one hit and then based off whether or not your hit is, actually hits something or not. It will then calculate the probability based on how they know the RNG works, where the ships are going to be. And so with every hit where you either hit or miss, it rules out different permutations of where these ships can be. It's very complicated. The video takes like 35 minutes to explain. But to summarize, it's basically they understand the RNG and this app can calculate where the ships are likely going to be based on the time when you enter the door or whatever the fuck it is. And watching this, I was very interested to get to the end of this video, partly because I wanted to know how they justified using this in a speedrun. Because it's an external device that gives you the answers to the puzzle in the game, which the developers clearly didn't intend for you to use. It's like the iFruit app, but it wasn't even made by the developers kind of thing, right? Apparently it passed with a 2 to 3 vote. So like a two thirds majority or whatever agreed to have it used. And the justifications for it was that everyone can use this. It's not automatic. So you have to put in the inputs yourself based on your misses. Like it doesn't like read your screen or something or look into the code. And I guess they just agreed to I'm assuming the people mainly agreed to have it be used just so they can get more runs past that point. Because, you know, playing half an hour each time to have a 25 percent chance for your run to get beyond that point seems not very fun. Right. Because that's probably what determines in speedrunning the most what is done. It's just what is the most fun to the people who actually run the game. I can definitely see why it's controversial. And I'm happy that I wouldn't have to make a decision as to whether or not that be implemented in my speed game. Because it seems very convenient, but it just seems somewhat just not right for speedrunning, you know. I like the meta of speedrunning, the meta discussions around speedrunning and how things are progressing in all these different games. You love the video too? Yeah, it was a great video. Linkus makes some good stuff. Linkus, another example, like I don't I don't watch Linkus do runs. But every once in a while, you know, he'll get, I guess, a world record or whatever and it will get recommended to me on YouTube and I'll watch it. |
| 01. July 2020 | Speedrun videos for games I dont run | Watching speedrunning videos for games that I don't run. You hated speedrunning until you found yourself, you hated speedrunning? That's weird. A lot of people don't like actively watching speedrunning, and that I can understand. Like, a lot of people just want to watch the end result. They're not really interested in the process of how things develop. Maybe they want to know about a strat hero there, but they don't want to watch a person reset over and over. That I can understand. To make the grind of speedrunning interesting, you have to have somewhat of a personality where you can, you know, talk and play. But the end result is usually pretty interesting to watch. When everything goes well and you can watch all the strats being put forth perfectly. I watched a video today, I- cause it's funny how much stuff about Nintendo games that I watch when I don't really play any Nintendo stuff. As I've said many times, if they put it on PC, I would play pretty much every Nintendo game. I got recommended a video from Linkus. There's this mini game in Wind Waker, Zelda Wind Waker, where it's basically Battleship. Where you have to explode the ships on a bunch of different squares. And it's completely random every time where these ships are going to be. And so you can, in the speedrun, lose more or less time depending on how long it takes you to kill all these ships and get all those rewards. It's said in the video that 25% of runs don't get past this point because they just get such bad RNG. Because you're just guessing. But what the runners developed was, they looked into the code, learned how the RNG worked, and developed this app or whatever. Where you basically, you make one hit and then based off whether or not your hit is, actually hits something or not. It will then calculate the probability based on how they know the RNG works, where the ships are going to be. And so with every hit where you either hit or miss, it rules out different permutations of where these ships can be. It's very complicated. The video takes like 35 minutes to explain. But to summarize, it's basically they understand the RNG and this app can calculate where the ships are likely going to be based on the time when you enter the door or whatever the fuck it is. And watching this, I was very interested to get to the end of this video, partly because I wanted to know how they justified using this in a speedrun. Because it's an external device that gives you the answers to the puzzle in the game, which the developers clearly didn't intend for you to use. It's like the iFruit app, but it wasn't even made by the developers kind of thing, right? Apparently it passed with a 2 to 3 vote. So like a two thirds majority or whatever agreed to have it used. And the justifications for it was that everyone can use this. It's not automatic. So you have to put in the inputs yourself based on your misses. Like it doesn't like read your screen or something or look into the code. And I guess they just agreed to I'm assuming the people mainly agreed to have it be used just so they can get more runs past that point. Because, you know, playing half an hour each time to have a 25 percent chance for your run to get beyond that point seems not very fun. Right. Because that's probably what determines in speedrunning the most what is done. It's just what is the most fun to the people who actually run the game. I can definitely see why it's controversial. And I'm happy that I wouldn't have to make a decision as to whether or not that be implemented in my speed game. Because it seems very convenient, but it just seems somewhat just not right for speedrunning, you know. I like the meta of speedrunning, the meta discussions around speedrunning and how things are progressing in all these different games. You love the video too? Yeah, it was a great video. Linkus makes some good stuff. Linkus, another example, like I don't I don't watch Linkus do runs. But every once in a while, you know, he'll get, I guess, a world record or whatever and it will get recommended to me on YouTube and I'll watch it. |
| 31. July 2022 | Speedrun viewers often hating strategies that speedrunners like. | Speedrun viewers are often hating strategies that speedrunners like. Like we as runners, cause we're doing the same thing over and over again, when a new glitch comes along it's like, oh sweet we can do new stuff and break the game. And it can be even faster, that's great cause we as speedrunners want to complete the game as fast as possible. Viewers though, want a good viewing experience. And they don't want to have to learn how all the strats work. The worst runs for a viewer are the ones where they can't even tell if you've lost time. Okay, so you died seven times there, was that good? The best speedruns are like, you know, Super Mario Bros. If the character dies, you know it's bad. It's like, oh the character's dead, so you must have done something wrong. You fall from a height, you know, it's like, oh well that's probably bad, you fell down. With a on mission zero skip, unless you know the glitch, you have no idea what's going on. I agree that it's a weird viewer experience when they don't know what is happening, but are the speedruns meant to be viewer friendly? Are they meant to allow you to finish the game as fast as possible? Could there be a category where most of the glitches like on missions zero and the new director mode strap be banned in general? So that would be a no major glitches category, which I said should exist now, given the abundance of glitches. Arguably it should have existed before director mode glitch existed. When it comes down to speedrunning and deciding what the category should be, everyone has different considerations, you know, different places they want to draw lines on stuff. I would argue that consideration of viewers is like secondary. Achieving a fun speedrun for the runner is the primary thing. And then like, if you have two options that are equally fun, you know, you can pick the one that the viewers would prefer. While in all other rule debates, I was at the forefront of arguing for a particular point of view, I don't care what the result is of this outcome. I feel so non-competitive right now, so sad at that fact that I just don't feel like it's my place. I gave my ideas and was like, yeah, if you want to do them, whatever, it's fine. |
| 05. September 2021 | Speedrunners speaking about non-speedrun things on stream | in my knee. Speedrunners speaking about non-speedrun things on stream. Speaking of speedrunners not talking about something other than strats, I stopped into stream yesterday and does he just not know anything about the world? He was talking about his views of strikes, like people striking for things, and he didn't even seem to understand the dynamic of what strikes are meant to achieve or how it's meant to achieve it. Or that strikes have ever achieved anything ever. And I was just listening this going, I had no idea people existed who were this dense. Regardless of whether you approve of a strike on a particular issue or not, he just didn't seem to even understand the fundamentals of what a strike was. He made the statement, why don't they just like fire them all and hire new people? Can you imagine a company firing their entire fucking workforce? Who's gonna train them? Where are these people gonna come from? Like, that's just the most egregious bit, there's just so many statements. I'm just looking going, ahhhh. I just thought to myself like maybe there's a reason speedrunners don't talk about stuff other than the strats. Do people think of me this way sometimes? Do people look at me saying stuff like, man this guy's so fucking dense he doesn't understand shit. |
| 08. June 2021 | Speedrunners talking on Discord as they do runs | Speedrunners in discord talking as they do runs. Am I in a call with with who with what? What I'm talking to you guys You think we talk to someone else this entire time. It is weird to me when I join streams and Speedrunners are talking to other speedrunners while doing runs. It does make it more like, you know friendly community thing Right, but I think for watchability in terms of the viewers on Twitch It's not as good when I see people with those calls I'm like those are the people who care more about the speedrun than they do being entertaining on Twitch Which is not me bashing them. I'm saying that's cool, you know |
| 03. May 2020 | Speedrunning Dark Souls 3 | Getting back into speedrunning Dark Souls 3. It just feels weird not having Consistently speedrun for so long. I'm tempted though as much as I'm sure people will hate it to get back into Dark Souls 3 before I go back to Dark Souls 5 speedrunner GTA 5 speedrunning. Now I was never a good Dark Souls 3 speedrunner like never Considering I use keyboard and mouse Like I'm hugely limited with it. I always found the controls really clunky, but Nostalgia, you know, I miss it. |
| 07. December 2019 | Speedrunning Red Dead Redemption 2 | Speedrunning Red Dead Redemption 2 Do you think Red Dead Redemption would be suitable for speedrunning or not? Well currently the game crashes 10 times a day when you play it So no Generally speaking if you want to speedrun a game you have to be able to keep that game open For longer than the amount of time it takes to finish the game and currently you can't do that with Red Dead Redemption 2 Thanks Rockstar Torix just did a stream of it and it crashed 10 times before he finished the stream I didn't know how long the stream was was it like four hours five hours XQC was streaming and he has crashed nine times We'll be changing the RNG for crashing and traffic in GTA 5 for the RNG of having your game crash None of the patches they've released or whatever have helped you. I can I can currently play it I'm sure I get the same crashing issues as everyone else. But um The FPS is abysmal my FPS goes between 30 and you know 120 like with an average of 60 and that's with a 2080 Ti on high But I mean that just just how widespread the issues were like go on to um The Red Dead forums and look at the mega thread of how many issues people had think there was like 20 20 different issues that are plaguing different people and half of them still currently say no fix possible. This isn't some isolated thing where only a few people are experiencing it on the day of release there was one of the biggest streams that had a 6,000 viewers and all it was was a text document of a person saying my game keeps crashing And or it won't load and it's just a long list of things that they tested. This was not a good launch Anyone who suggests otherwise is committing that fallacy where it's like I have a sandwich therefore there is no global hunger. It's dumb It's it's not disputable Rockstar failed massively And there seems to be little reason for it As I said before the game the kind of game that Red Dead is is not my kind of game I did have some fun with it, and I hoped to have some fun with it on PC, but you know Didn't end up happening that way Trying to explain the |
| 06. November 2020 | Speedrunning Tips For New Runners. | Speedrunning tips for new runners. Things you keep in mind when you try to speedrun. Don't get bogged down by early timeloss. Complete runs. Completing runs, though, is not as valuable as practice. If you suck at a particular thing, practice that thing. Don't just do runs and expect in each attempt that there'll be practice enough in of itself. It is something I've always sucked at, practicing. I've always much preferred to do runs. Especially these days, it's because the runs are content. When I get back hard into speedrunning, I'm going to have practice days. The best speedrunners are the people who can literally just sit there for four hours doing the exact same strat over and over and over and over again until they can do it effectively blind. The best runners are those who reset for two seconds of timeloss in the first five minutes of a six hour run or whatever. Just over and over and over again. Reset, reset, reset. It's a complete waste of time. If you can't take the hints, yes, I have. |
| 26. December 2022 | Speedrunning cayo perico has now become harder then ever. | become harder than ever. The newest update has nerfed Keo Puriko. Like people say it probably affects the speedruns, I haven't seen it yet, because the enemies can find bodies and stuff. That surprises me that that would really be important for the speedrun, because I would think that neither of the two bodies that you normally do, that that would matter for. Even if the body got seen, thing would be alerted, like you just run the same way and just heal. It'd be more annoying, but I don't know. Long story short, just before I stopped, a lot of changes happened, and it's gonna be interesting to come back to that, say in six months or something. Is the GTA 6 trailer coming in 20... |
| 15. June 2021 | Speedrunning consuming media | Speedrunning consuming media. So someone mentioned in chat that they binge-watched Invincible. I did the same thing but I did one better. I looked up on YouTube spoilers for future seasons because it's a comic book that's actually been I think it's been finished or whatever but it was rather there's like you know endless more chapters is being adapted from the comic book and so I now know what's gonna happen and I won't spoil of course but it seems pretty interesting and when it is eventually adapted into an animation or whatever I will probably watch that. It's funny like a lot of anime is made to be advertisements for manga and I think that would be more successful sometimes if YouTube didn't exist. I know how other people are but in most cases I just want to know the story I don't care about the minute details exactly what anyone says anywhere I'm perfectly happy with a person saying yo yo bro bro bro so this is what happens and then like they fight and this is like pow and it's like so cool like yeah it's a sample comment thank you for telling me about this I just want the story you know I've said before I was perfectly happy when I was younger having a friend of mine who would watch stuff and would just explain to me the story are you're drinking or whatever love that shit think of how much time you save guys you don't read the book you just find a YouTube video that summarizes the book but better you watch it two times speed the savings the time saves that's bad enough you guys just don't know how to live what anime do I watch good anime haven't actually watched any anime recently unless you count invincible which if you can say anime to only be Japanese then it's not technically anime I saw something today apparently half of all the half of all anime that has ever been made has been made after 2010 like they're just releasing that much stuff like the entire history after 2010 more than half like people who try to keep up with all the anime whatever say mess impossible to keep up now and it's true not enough time to watch everything and fortunately for me I've never tried is demon slayer worth the watch I enjoyed it when I watched it I didn't realize it was gonna be that big of a sensation as it was but I mean it's the war thing every other series I haven't seen the movie yet but apparently the movie's quite good just as a meme they should change the invincible effects in chaos mod to be more akin to invincible in the TV series we call themself invincible gets beaten up all the time definitely a meme from that show that hasn't been used enough I think it's just him saying pathetic and staring down at the other heroes pathetic think mark think is an excellent example of the Mandela effects the actual line the show is just think mark yeah I don't recall him saying think mark think but uh the extra think I I think does uh add a bit to the me I mean in part I think what sells the meme isn't just what he says but how emotive he is in his communication where he's his arms are outstretched knees points his forehead and stuff and yeah it's a very animated scene and a very impactful scene it's very well done I have not read berserk I hear the author died which is unfortunate apparently has a least in terms of the was obviously his death isn't just about the story but um some people have said that he has a lot of notes and stuff so his story might be had to be continued how did he die because people say he'd been working with other people and telling him telling them how he wanted the story to go aneurysm heart problem so they were with their science before that he um didn't have a lot of time left or he'd be never like shit eating nothing but calorie mates and staying at home an unhealthy amount that's unfortunate sounds like me you're not wrong that I've taken it easier in the last couple of weeks at least despite heavy opposition to that prospect |
| 20. October 2021 | Speedrunning is like playing games before the Internet | every time. Speedrunning is like playing games before the internet. Honestly, it almost doesn't matter the game. There's a kind of joy in doing something perfect and finding how to do everything perfectly. You know with video games how some video games have been completely ruined because of the internet, right? Whenever you hit a puzzle that you can't solve, you can Google it. You're like, hey yo, Google, how do I solve this puzzle? I'm tired of trying to find out. Back in the day when you were a kid, you didn't have the internet, so if you couldn't figure it out yourself, you were fucked. With this game, there's no guide I can look up and say, hey, how do I do this faster? It's me and a couple of other people finding these things out for ourselves. |
| 27. August 2022 | Speedrunning isn’t dying but it is for me | Speedrunning isn't dying, but it is for me. Bismuth released this Twitter thread. Ultimately what he's saying is, people who are saying speedrunning is dying, it's complete nonsense. It's simply that you're less involved and less competitive than when you were younger. And so it feels as though speedrunning isn't as good as it once was. But in reality, as he points out, like the amount of speedrunners now is nuts. Every single year there's just more and more and more and more and more speedrunners. My thoughts on this, like I've never said speedrunning is dying, but I've had to accept that speedrunning is kind of passing me by. Clearly I'm not dedicating all my time to speedrunning anymore, so I can't be competitive as I once was. As much as I really do like watching GT5 speedrunning grow, and I love seeing all the people enjoying it as I once did, I still do, but not to the same degree, you know. I love seeing people develop new strats and all that, and to see something that I spent so much time developing grow beyond me. A part of me still wishes that I was like at the forefront, the best of the best. I know I can't do that and do all the other things that I want to do in life. You're accepting that was always a hard pill to swallow. Most of the current speedrunners are speedrunning because they discovered it through you, I'm sure. So there's a way to show that to an extent. 10,000 people have clicked through to the speedrun GT5 Discord through my links, and about half that has come through the leaderboards. So like I'm not suggesting for a moment that I don't have value in the GT5 speedrunning community. I'm still active and that I do clearly still speedrun and I do take an interest in developments, but I'm just clearly not competitive, and the amount of time I'd have to spend to do that is time I'm clearly not waiting to spend. I can't just expect to do runs anymore and be good. Review of the book Steel Hearth |
| 11. October 2021 | Speedrunning makes me feel complete | me feel complete. I've never had the greatest, put it in a cliché sort of way, I've never been a real lover of life. I've always been sort of unhappy, dissatisfied. I've never found my thing. And so I go, I'm never, I'm rarely very happy. I'm at best, I'm a state of contentment. But for whatever reason, you know, speed running, it does make me feel pretty good. Even when I'm very frustrated, I find speed running soothing. Like, it's just the, the constant, well the consistency of attempting to beat myself over and over in something which I'm controlling to an extent. Like, there's no outside forces that are, that are gonna fuck my game. It's just me versus the game, and I like that. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 20. October 2021 | Speedrunning other GTAs | Speedrunning other GTAs. I have attempted to run other GTAs but they're not really my thing. I like tried for a day. Like I speedrun GTA 5 because I want to speedrun GTA 5 and I enjoy it. The only reason I wanted to speedrun another GTA was just for content for my Twitch channel. Like when I take days off or I can't stream or whatever, I sit there and think to myself, man I wish I was speedrunning GTA 5 right now. I don't have the feeling, that kind of feeling for any other game. I occasionally get the itch to speedrun Dark Souls 3 again but I know when I if I tried to do it again I wouldn't enjoy it. What I really want to do is play another Dark Souls for the first time. |
| 06. July 2021 | Speedrunning the no damage run | It'd just be putting risk upon yourself at every given point baiting the game to do a bullet ricocheting or something, I'm kidding you Certainly you could obviously do it faster than I'm doing it You just learn the speedrun route and then tinker with it a little bit But I'm not bothering to do the speedrun strats. Like I'm sure you could do this in Seven or eight hours if you wanted to run it a thousand times or whatever Like obviously you can never go as low as the actual speedrun because the actual speedrun requires you to take damage But it's certainly faster strats that you could do that While increasing your chance of failure don't increase it all that much, you know, you go from a 0.1% chance to a 1% chance or whatever But over the course of the run if you take enough 1% chance risks, you'll eventually get bitten, you know Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 03. September 2021 | Speedrunning vs strat finding. | Speedrunning vs. Strat finding Just how speedrunning goes, if your goal is like getting world records or gaining notoriety, finding new strats is not the way to do it. I just really enjoy finding new strats. Finding more about the game is very rewarding for me. It's like cracking a puzzle, you know? Finding new pieces. But like the second you find new strats, other people will use them anyway, so it's not going to... Like a person who spends all their time practicing and just incorporates any new strats found is going to have an advantage in terms of getting world record. I don't partition my time well enough between practice and strat finding. There are a bunch of things that I do that are neither good for streaming as a business or getting speedrun world records. But I do them because I enjoy them. And yesterday, just dicking around throwing molotovs at everything was goddamn awesome. Learning that a lot of characters are immune to fire in different scenes and that molotovs will cause different characters to respawn and you not to fail on different missions is hilarious. |
| 15. May 2021 | Speedruns that teach you about the game | all the weapons from around the map at least once. Like having side categories that taught you about the game would be cool. Like I should do the Peyote plants run. Not because it's like likely an amazing one or something, but because I have no idea where the Peyote plants are. I've used one like once, you know? Or Matt, you could just like for fun, use the Peyote plants. Fun? Pfft, who needs it? Come on. If there isn't an arbitrary timer next to what I'm doing, is it even worth doing? Think about it. Come on now. Someone asked what I think of reactions to music because it spreads. |
| 14. May 2021 | Spending $100 on Uber | Spending $100 on Uber. Do I ever ride trains? In real life? I have no reason to commute anywhere. When I was younger, I really wanted trains to exist in my region because getting to the city to go out drinking stuff was a huge pain in the ass. And when they finally built trains, I'm now too old to do that shit. So all that passed me by. Very disappointing. I'll be real with you, chat. I do have a bit of money these days. And I go out so infrequently. So infrequently. We're talking like twice, three times a year before COVID. Not including family things, of course. That if I really did need to go somewhere I wanted to drink, I would just get an Uber. Even if it cost me $100. It's almost like when I go out, any expense is justifiable because I know I go out so infrequently. Why wouldn't Uber be so expensive? We're talking Australian dollars, so that's 75 USD. I know it'd probably be 80 USD now. And then it depends on the time of day and how far I'm traveling. Because it might cost $100 during peak time to go from the outskirts of Sydney to the city. It's like an hour plus drive. Also because you're paying for the inconvenience as well that you're putting them in the middle of nowhere. But I suppose in the city, I mean, it wouldn't be $100. But I'm just saying I've definitely had Uber rides that are like $100. Traveling down the half way. |
| 14. May 2021 | Spending $100 on uber | Spending $100 on Uber. Do I ever ride trains? In real life? I have no reason to commute anywhere. When I was younger, I really wanted trains to exist in my region because getting to the city to go out drinking stuff was a huge pain in the ass. And when they finally built trains, I'm now too old to do that shit. So all that passed me by. Very disappointing. I'll be real with you, chat. I do have a bit of money these days. And I go out so infrequently. So infrequently. We're talking like twice, three times a year before COVID. Not including family things, of course. That if I really did need to go somewhere I wanted to drink, I would just get an Uber. Even if it cost me $100. It's almost like when I go out, any expense is justifiable because I know I go out so infrequently. Why wouldn't Uber be so expensive? We're talking Australian dollars, so that's 75 USD. I know it'd probably be 80 USD now. And then it depends on the time of day and how far I'm traveling. Because it might cost $100 during peak time to go from the outskirts of Sydney to the city. It's like an hour plus drive. Also because you're paying for the inconvenience as well that you're putting them in the middle of nowhere. But I suppose in the city, I mean, it wouldn't be $100. But I'm just saying I've definitely had Uber rides that are like $100. Traveling down the half way. |
| 25. July 2022 | Spending money to fix my teeth | Spending money to fix my teeth. Would you guys like to see an improvement on my teeth? I'm sure the answer's no, but you get a look, chat. You have no choice. Ha ha ha ha ha! Here's my teeth, chat. You can see how they're slightly slanted this way, and there's gaps here and gaps here. That's not how a good mouth is meant to be. So over seven months, which will probably end up being a little bit longer because I'm not gonna leave them in 24 hours, it's gonna go like this, bang, bang, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then. I still think it looks like it's slightly crooked that way, but I don't think it is. Now, see, you can see like when it goes fast-forward. What do you think this is gonna cost, chat? $7,000 over the course of seven, eight months. But you gotta understand, chat, it's a business expense, so it's a little bit cheaper than that. Remember when things are business expenses, they're not free, because this is for my appearance, chat. I'm an influencer. I gotta look sexy for the audience, right? Actually, I'm assuming it's a business expense. I haven't talked to my accountant, but I will, I'll be like, hey, yo, I'm doing this for the fans. But you gotta understand, chat, it's a business expense. |
| 04. December 2020 | Spicey McDonald's Chicken Burger | Spicy McDonald's chicken burger. So I got the new spicy McDonald's chicken burger today. I don't like spicy food It was something new so I ate it and I'm like this is spicy dang I don't know I expected I kind of expected to be like very low-power spice and it was But I don't eat spicy food, so I'm sure a normal spicy person would have bitten into it gone This isn't spicy or but me I'm like ah That's the exact same I made so I eat it all It was actually quite tasty, but that first little bit there dealing with the spice was difficult Do I always eat fast food over the last couple of days? I have don't know what inspired me to really I had I was good for a long while there But the last four days I eat nothing but fast food not a good move |
| 23. August 2021 | Splitting audio tracks in recording for easier editing | Splitting audio tracks and recording for easier editing. Is it difficult to set up multiple audio tracks? You need like the GoXLR or the new Elgato product they just released. It requires either very finicky software solutions or a hardware solution, which is what I have and it is a Pena. A one-time Pena that gives a lot more options and ease with editing though. Yeah, exactly. It's very easy to have your microphone and and all other audio in a separate track. You can do that with just OBS and that's what I had for a while. I had nothing else separated and that alone is very useful to be able to turn up and down your game audio separate in the editing process. On default, your recording will just record your first track. On default, your stream will just use the first track or whatever. Mine is set up so that my alerts, my editing audio, which is the normal audio, microphone and music are all sent to the stream. Then on audio track, this is all the use of the recording. So this is the first track for the recording. This is the second track, which is the game audio and stuff. This is the third track, which is my alerts. When it says alerts, what it actually is is OBS audio. OBS audio is specifically going to one audio cable. This is music. It's on a four track and this track is specifically when I don't want to record potentially copyrighted music to my VOD. So I set it so the VOD, the stream receives this. This is my recording and this just goes to the VOD. So the VOD is just my microphone. So no copyrighted music will go there. This is only a recent setup that I've done. Recent as in at the last month. Prior to that, I just had the microphone and audio separate and even that I'd only had for like the previous four months. For the longest time, I had everything on one track. I was completely oblivious that you could have separate audio tracks. And yeah, it definitely makes the editing process a lot easier. |
| 22. May 2021 | Spoilers for upcoming episodes of pacifist%. | the upcoming episodes of pacifist percent. Little bit of spoilers, but big score took 30 hours. Big score is like Blitz play 2.0. I remember though, how angry I was with Rockstar during big score. We'll see. Big score is the only episode I think why I technically broke the rules a little bit. You'll see when we get there. Meltdown as well was a clusterfuck, so was Lamar Down and so was the ending missions. It's like the next episode contains three missions in it. The future episodes ain't gonna be like that. My favorite one though, my favorite one is because I went back and did the alternate heist as well after I was done. My favorite one is Merryweather Heist on the boat. You know the normal Merryweather Heist I do in this category? That is really interesting, pacifist. How much of pacifist are you thinking of redoing with the new strats you know now? Well, every mission where I didn't succeed. The example I always bring up is on Mr. Phillips. Currently in no damage, I killed 12 guys. In pacifist, I killed 20. The reason for this is the amount of guys that you need to kill depends on how many guys you spawn in. And because I kill everyone in no damage from such a far distance away, they don't spawn in. But because I used melee as is required by the rules in pacifist, I melee a lot more people. So like when I get to Mr. Phillips redoing it for pacifist, I'll have to decide whether I want to follow the rules and melee more people or shoots and kill less. I'll probably end up killing less, but I will try my damnedest to find a way to melee the guys without spawning people in. Yeah, once pacifist is done, I will redo all the missions. I mean, that I failed in. But again, these episodes will come out a lot quicker because there'll be no comedy in them necessarily. Like I won't have to deal with the cutscenes and making jokes or whatever. I mean, I'll probably still make some jokes, but like they won't have the same format as the current episodes of pacifist. You'll be like, so here we are, Mr. Phillips, and I'm trying to fix things. And as well, I won't have to recover the same things I tried the first time around. There'll just be a handful of new things that I try. Pacifist is live and reloaded, yeah. I mean, the point of pacifist is to have the fewest kills possible. I would prioritize less kills over doing melee. Hopefully I won't have to make that choice too often though. |
| 15. December 2020 | Sponsored hardware | Sponsored hardware. Whenever I do these deals where I'm ultimately just getting the hardware, I've only done one before and that was for the 3950x. I always wonder, because I'm using a middleman, I wonder what that middleman is getting out of it from AMD. Clearly they are charging AMD a fee. I wonder what their fee is. It's, I guarantee you it's more than what the part is worth for me. But ultimately I just do the deals because I want access to the hardware. But certainly if I had representation to debate the exactly what I'm getting or what I have to do, I'd probably get something more out of it. |
| 18. May 2021 | Sponsoring another stream to advertise my streams | Sponsoring another streamer to advertise my stream. I did a raid sponsorship, if you guys recall, and I was very clear about the conditions under which I would do such a sponsorship. I was perfectly consistent every time someone asked, and I said I would accept it if it was an amount of money that you guys would be annoyed if I didn't take, and you guys in the majority have to say yes. And so I did a poll, and like, it was like 85% said you fucking go girl, and the amount of money offered was at the time like three times, maybe four times what I'd ever been offered for a sponsorship. I was like alright, fair enough. Would I do another one? Same thing would have to apply. Between you and me, there's another sponsorship that I hope to get one day. Not with raid, but uh, yes, merble game. About a honey sponsorship? I had a honey sponsorship. Pizza Hut? I'd much rather Domino's sponsorship. That's actually my dream sponsorship, Domino's Pizza. Domino's Pizza and Pepsi Max. Why don't I ask them? Domino's doesn't do those kind of advertisements with YouTube and stuff. And besides, when you reach out for a sponsorship, I think you're in a weaker position in terms of negotiation. And when I say dream sponsorship, I mean that I can get like a good deal with them, not that they can offer me a dollar and I can be sponsored by Domino's, you know what I'm saying? Black Tank Tops Incorporated, lol. But I don't have to worry about dealing with those negotiations anymore. I have managers now and they just go, hey you want to do this sponsorship? You want to do this? We're reaching out to these people, these people email, blah blah blah. And I'm like yeah, cool. Yes, no, maybe. I want to know what it would cost, like, to reach out to another streamer and just get sponsored by them. Or rather, you pay them to advertise your stream. So let's say I give Asmongold like two grand a stream and like every hour he has to go, hey guys, just want to inform you that this guy DarkPaperAU exists. And he does like GTA stuff, he's pretty funny, you should go follow. And if I'm live, he has to tune in and watch my stream for at least five minutes every hour. And then raid me at the end. What would be great about that wouldn't be like the shout outs themselves, but like everyone would talk about that. It'd be so unusual. But I think we get some commentary in the wider media. |
| 06. November 2020 | Spotify Money and my Content ID free playlist. | in Leffen style and it's really goddamn funny. Spotify money and my content ID free playlist. I had not considered that, you know the chill hop music that I play? These guys are making a lot of money. All the people using this chill hop music, me listening to hundreds of songs of it every day, me advertising this music to you guys that you might go watch yourself, they must be getting a ridiculous amount of players, right? Like Spotify pays a tiny amount, but when you have this kind of generic stuff and you know you're not, you're not, you don't have huge artists and you may not even be giving the artists a cut, like you may have just paid them a flat out fee to own the rights to the song, like the plays add up. I guess it makes sense why they're so receptive when I send them an email. They're always like, oh you've got some issues, don't worry about it, we're working on it right now, it's all good. I'm good on them, like using chill hop in my videos has really helped me out. I've mentioned previously that I'm not big, I don't know how to do audio very well in videos and it annoys me sometimes because the audio can make or break a video, right? I can work on voices, I can work on background noise and stuff, changing the volume and what not, but thinking of what music would enrich this scene, I can't do that, I suck at that. And I don't have a repository of different tracks to use for different situations. You know how you've got all these, you know, Shutterstock websites or whatever that have all different images and stuff? There are places like that for music and I've been thinking about trying to find one because I'm sick of not having music. Surely there's someone out, some place out there that where you can type in exciting music and it will come up and bring you a content ID free exciting music song. Surely that exists. |
| 17. May 2021 | Ssethtzeentach reviews | meet a partner and shit. It's garbage. Seth's reviews. So have you guys seen this guy? He's got like 900,000 subscribers, and he does reviews of these really really old games, but his reviews are fairly vulgar, and I think he has like a character who's like a Ugandan military guy as his profile or something. He's got like one edgy kind of- segs, yeah, I think that might be it. Seth Sneech? Something like that. I guess that's what that's. Seth. Very interesting videos, and like I saw his reviews of Heroes of Mind Magic and stuff. They're quite funny. Very fast though, and like if you haven't played the games I don't know how much they can be understood. Really, I just look for games that I played or recognized to see his weird review. Like they're just very strange reviews. One he had though was for Majesty. Majesty is such a weird game that if you haven't played- I can't think of a single other game that's exactly like Majesty, right? It's uh, in Majesty you are like the Lord of the Kingdom, but unlike Age of Empires or whatever, you can't control what any of the NPCs do. All you can control is like the upgrades and your buildings and stuff, like what buildings you build. But the NPCs walk around by themselves and you put bounties on stuff that you want to influence them to do. So like, hey, hey, hey, Mr. Vogue, dude, like can you kill this rat? Let's kill him with a tax collector, please, and just put like a bounty of 200 bucks on it. Then you go, ah, I care. Fine, I guess. Once I'm done whoring or whatever or drinking, I'll go take out that rat for you, man. Don't you worry. It's a very, very weird game. |
| 30. March 2021 | Stargate - my favourite childhood show. | Stargate, my favorite childhood show. It's unfortunate what happened to Stargate with those who own the rights, not wanting to do anything with it, and they kept teasing the audience, all the fans, like, oh, we're gonna make something next year, next year, next year, and then they make some garbage online thing that's complete trash. The creation of an additional movie or additional series has always been like that, so close to happening, and Stargate Universe was Cairns before, it really deserved to be canned, like it was just getting its stride, yes, it's too late now. What's Stargate? People don't know Stargate? Make a poll asking people if they know Stargate. No, 72% of my audience doesn't know Stargate. So basically, the rough story of Stargate is a long, long time ago, the Garwald, an alien race, came to Earth, and the pyramids are landing pads for their spaceships, right? But Earth is like a bajillion miles away from anything of value in the universe. But the reason why the Garwald like Earth is because humans are like really good slaves and really good incubators for their young, because the Garwald are basically like serpent creatures who grow to maturity within the stomach of humans. And those who have the Garwald within them are called Jafar. Like the Jafar grow stronger because they're symbiote, and when the symbiote is old enough to take a host, it then takes control of a human permanently, right? But basically, the Garwald love humans as slaves. They move a Stargate to Earth, and a Stargate is basically a door that can connect to any other Stargate in the universe by basically dialing it like a phone to another Stargate somewhere in the universe. It is the best form of travel that exists. The Garwald didn't invent these doors, but they used them to basically conquer a significant part of the universe. And because Earth is like a bajillion miles away from everyone, eventually there's an uprising on Earth, and so Earth buries their Stargate, and they kill the Jafar and the Garwald that's there. Oh no, well they flee, they fuck off, because they're like, oh shit, the Earthlings are fucking killing us, whatever. And so they bury the Stargate, and because Earth is so far away, no one bothers to come out to check on Earth and what they're doing. They're like, who cares? We've got Earthlings now on a bajillion planets in the universe, so why go back to the source of humans? And so Earth develops to our modern-day technology. You know, we've got machine guns and shit, and this is basically unheard of. All throughout the universe, there are humans everywhere because they were seeded by the Garwald, but humans very rarely gets to any level of technological development, because the Garwald just continuously use them as slaves. And eventually, modern-day Earthlings finds the Stargate, and they're like, what the fuck is this? This is like indestructible super technology with random symbols that we don't recognize. And then the government's like, wait a second, actually, these do look somewhat familiar. These are the same kind of symbols that exist in the pyramids and stuff in Egypt. And there's this guy named Daniel Jackson, who is a laughingstock of the academic world, because he's like, motherfuckers, it's aliens. It's fucking aliens. Come on, people. The symbols make it clear. This is bloody aliens. They're like, ah, shut up, fucking Daniel, get the fuck out. And so the government's like, well, here's this nutball who thinks this stuff, maybe he can help us, because the government's been trying to open this gate for years, and they can't do it. And then they're like, fine, we'll get this fucking civilian to help us. And so Daniel Jackson, being a genius, fucking comes in in a week or two, I don't know how, a month or whatever, he figures out that you need a particular sequence of symbols, and the end one has to be the symbol of the planet you're on. And he figures out how to open the door. And so then it becomes a thing where the government is building teams in a mountain to go through this gate, to look at all the other worlds that have gates on them. So obviously there's heaps of gates out there, but some of them have been buried. Some of them exist on planets that have been sucked into black holes. And so every episode, it's them trying to go through and explore into these new worlds. And so the worlds they go to are massively differing and similar to the Star Trek, how they go down to a planet every episode. So you have, they find who actually built the Stargates, and they battle the Garwold, and they're treated as primitives wherever they go. But because their technology is so different than the technology of the dominant species, the Garwold, they're able to do things that the Garwold don't expect. And despite their limited technology, they deal blows to the Garwold, and eventually Earth starts to incorporate Garwold technology into their own technology, and they find remnants of other civilizations that incorporate their technology. And by the end of the series, Earth has their own spaceships and stuff, and they go to other universes and stuff. Like the lore spans like hundreds upon hundreds of episodes. How many seasons were there in the end between the different ones, like 17 seasons? And it gets so little love compared to Star Trek and Star Wars, and it's criminal. Because it's such an interesting world, there's so many interesting characters. And I've only just scratched the surface. I basically just tried the real most basic premise of the show. It started with a movie, and then that movie was successful, and that led to a TV series. And then that TV series went for a bajillion seasons, and then it had two more movies at the end of it. Stargate SG-1 is the beginning one, yeah. Yeah, I did watch Stargate in the end. I liked all the Stargate stuff. All of it. My favorite enemy, though, I have two favorite enemies. Baal, because the Garwolds are, the Egyptian gods are the Garwold, basically, in the lore in the show. So every Egyptian god has its own Garwold, right? And Baal is the most interesting of those, but the scariest enemy, and the one that used to freak me out as a kid, is the Replicators. So the Replicators eat metal and are spiders. So like, the first time they're encountered, SG-1, the main team, goes aboard their ship, and there's just these mechanical spiders eating the ship and making more of themselves. And the stronger the metal that they eat, the stronger they become. So they're just cannibalizing the ship, but also using themselves to make the ship better, so they can go faster and travel faster to find other ships that they can basically crash into or shoot themselves into, so they can eat that ship and make even more of themselves, and they just replicate themselves infinitely. And they can make basically anything out of themselves, the most amazing technology, because they themselves are like building blocks, and they can reform and it's, ugh. It's creepy. But just imagine, it's basically an indestructible mechanical spider, like with an infinite supply. I really gotta rewatch that series, it's been so long. I know I've seen every episode like a jillion times. I'm sure it wouldn't hold up as well as I remember. It was just my childhood show, you know? Forbidden Lego, yes. I've only watched a bit of Star Trek. I'd always forget where I was up to and just kinda lose interest. I'm sure if I just had a day to sit down and watch a bunch of Star Trek episodes, I could get back into it, but it's just, ugh. Like I preferred Stargate over Star Trek, because with Stargate, humans are the underdogs and slowly work themselves up and beat insurmountable odds. It's like us in modern day, if we found that aliens actually existed. Where in Star Trek, it's in the future, humans are so advanced, and it's still interesting, don't get me wrong, but it's usually about humans being super powerful. I guess in a lot of places in Star Trek, of course, they do meet things even stronger than they are, but obviously, humans in Star Trek are usually coming from a place of strength and capability. When Stargate is like, oh my god, we have no idea what the fuck we're doing. Let's kinda hope for the best here. You preferred Atlantis over SG-1, that's surprising. Not that I can remember a heap about it at this point. I do remember when they basically poisoned all of humanity to make it so they could no longer be used as a food source for the dominant evil race of that universe, which resulted in half of humanity in the universe dying or something, but it led to the extinction of that dominant race or whatever, which is... Yeah, anyway. No one cares, I'm sorry. The fuck? Oh, it's like a mad scientist dude who really hated the dominant species, so he was willing to kill half humanity to kill them or something. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 04. March 2021 | Starting and bailing on some streams recently. | I guess. Starting and bailing on some streams recently. Why didn't I put a tweet for the stream? The last two times I tried to play NoHiss, I bailed. I started playing and I just felt overwhelmed. I felt shit and so I quit. And I didn't want to debate more people. I was like, look, I'll just start the stream. The people that come by because of the notifications, you know, there'll still be a decent amount of people. And if I bail, at least I'll bail on less people, you know. Obviously, I never plan to bail. Like, I never plan to debate people. If I had my way, I'd stream a nice, comfortable eight hours every day. Trying to get myself back into that headspace where I can do that again as being quite difficult. And again, it's hard to understand what my problem is. Is it just in my head? Is it people's expectations? Is it feeling burnt out on doing this and wanting no damage to be over? Is it, as I suspect, is just I fucked my sleeping pattern a little bit too hard? Continue to experiment and we'll find out. |
| 27. July 2021 | Stealing batteries | Stealing batteries. Steal them from some friend's remotes? Of course man, limitless supply of batteries. Why would anyone buy batteries? You can always just get them out of a remote. I remember being a kid and needing batteries for like my Gameboy and stuff, and eventually used every single battery in the house. My parents were always pissed. Especially my mother, she's like, you took the fucking batteries from the fucking bloody thing again. Just wanna watch TV. Controller never bloody works. And you'd be confused though when you'd run out of batteries, including the ones in the controllers, like... How is this possible? |
| 10. July 2021 | Stealth raid sponsorships. | Stealth raid sponsorships Let's play raid shadow legends. I got an email today. They send you these emails where they're like hey We got a big new sponsorship Opportunity for you can give you this much money if you do x y and z and it's just like oh Sweet, what's what's the game? What do you give me some more info? And they're like oh, it's raid shadow legends And you're like ah fuck you. I think they must have got to the point where no one responds to emails that they mention raid And so they just they just open with how much money they'll give you and then Then they wait till you respond and then they talk about right. Yeah, my my discord actually got raided with people spamming advertising for raid trail legends |
| 06. June 2020 | Steams 30% cut of sales | What's your opinion on how Steam takes 30% cut of game sales compared to Epic Games 12% or Microsoft Store's 5%? I don't think it's 30% for everything. What's my opinion on it? Steam is effectively a monopoly for PC gaming in that they have so many users that they can take such large cuts and there's not much you can really do about it. Is it the case that you stand to make more money being on Steam than not despite that they take a 30% cut? Yes, that's why people do it. How much of that 30% do I think is necessary for them to provide you that service? I would say at the tiniest fraction of it. I would be extraordinarily surprised if that 30% was largely covering the cost of providing a store fund for your particular game. Do I think you gain from being on Steam? Of course. That's why you go on Steam despite that you take a 30% cut in game sales. Do I think that is going to change? No. I don't think it will change. At least not for the foreseeable future. But what do I know? I don't know any of the details about how the Epic Games Store is growing or what have you. I know they continue to add features to catch up to Steam, but I don't use the Epic Games Store. I don't use the Microsoft Store. I'm aware I'm not a typical user, so judging the entirety of the PC gaming user base by me is kind of silly. But I have not seen any evidence to suggest that Steam is losing its almost monopoly on PC games. |
| 24. February 2022 | Steel and straw manning. | Steel and straw manning. I think the best way to understand each other It's the side is to present that side's opinion in a good way. It's called steel manning. Straw manning is when you intentionally represent an opponent's point of view in a weak or misrepresentative way and then knock that down as if you've knocked down the true argument or the true position that they have and when in case you haven't You know you're substituting the man for a straw representation of the man But steel manning is the opposite where you actively try as hard as you can to present the opponent's point of view in the best light possible with the best arguments possible Maybe even presenting it better than themselves. It's it's like an honest person does but it's often hard to do because it's both disadvantageous to more time-consuming and People still probably call you a lying lying for regardless of what you say You know, why would you still man an opponent's point of view? It's it's to possibly avoid any criticism after the fact of Misrepresenting things you put forth their arguments so strongly that they can't have a comeback You entirely destroy their point of view in its strongest form But it's hard because we're all biased to actually present the opponent's point of point of view in the strongest way and you may not Even know what that is, you know It takes a lot more active effort and I'm a bit jaded I personally think people will still call you a lying fraud regardless of how you present your opponent's point of view But I suppose less people will right there's a there's a definite advantage to doing it. It just takes a lot of effort |
| 29. March 2021 | Stereotyping in media. | Stereotyping in media. It's funny, speaking of French accents for chefs, the book that I'm reading right now, because you know he's in a fantasy whatever, he gets himself a chef and they do a different accent or a voice for every character, and I'm like, this is gonna be French, isn't it? It's just immediately comes, the character immediately has the thickest French accent you've ever heard. I will cook this immediately! It's one of those things where in media you you don't want to stereotype people necessarily or groups of people or whatever, but at the same time to make things stand out, be distinct and communicate what something is without saying hey, this is a French guy! You have to kind of lean into those stereotypes sometimes, you know? What's the name of the book? Ah, Life Reset. I'm on book three. That's pretty good. I think I'm gonna read some nonfiction next. The book was mentioned, Thinking Fast and Slow. I think it might be called. If anyone knows that book, I think I might read that next. Is it apparently about behavioral psychology or something? Book three out of how many? I think it's six books. I'm not sure. Yes, very good. Yeah, I hear good things. |
| 29. November 2022 | Steven Ogg is tired of being Trevor | Stephen Ogg is tired of being Trevor. Trevor, some guy says Trevor DLC. I mean, Trevor's already been in online quite a bit though. Yeah, it was the series A heist. I think that's the only time he's been in online, right? The series A heist, I don't think any other time. He's been referenced by Ron Hasney where he said Trevor went all Hollywood or something or? But him actually being there as a character, I think only the series A is when we see him in online. Maybe chat can elaborate, but I can't remember any other time. I think you're right. Although the Stephen Ogg seemed to not particularly love being Trevor, at least. Yes, I saw that video. That was a little. With Hugo. Well, as people have argued that his request was somewhat belittling, and that's why maybe that set him off as opposed to him not liking being Trevor Phillips. I wish I could remember the exact wording, but he says like act like a cartoon. And that's why Stephen Ogg was like, oh, I'm just a cartoon, ha ha. I didn't follow it that closely, but it's hard to gauge. I'm guessing Rockstar probably had to have contacted him about that. They had to have been like, you know, that's not cool or something like that. I don't know. Rockstar seems to like to keep themselves a lot unless of course they're DMCA fans for making stuff with their games with mods and shit. |
| 22. October 2022 | Steven Ogg’s expressed dissatisfaction with being asked to say things as Trevor. | Steven Ogg's cameo where he expressed dissatisfaction with being asked to say things as Trevor. Because I'm a cartoon! Aaaaaah! Right? And I'll see you out there. We've talked about before how Steven Ogg doesn't seem to be milking being Trevor as much as Michael or Franklin were. And Franklin didn't do it that much either, but I'm saying like, because Steven Ogg has been in other stuff. He seemed to have a bit of a career before and after playing Trevor. It reminds me of actors on Seinfeld, how they were talking about, as the show was wrapping up, they were done with it. Sure, the networks wanted a few more seasons, but they were like, we want to move on to other things. We've been portraying these characters for so goddamn long. You know, we want to do other things, stretch our creative muscles. And in another interview, the thing was the George character was like, it's hard to get a role when everyone knows you as George on Seinfeld or whatever, right? If your character is so large and so well known, it's hard to be in another role without being compared to your previous role. And it's like you're always living in your own shadow of your previous role. And I wonder if Steven Ogg has that same issue. Like, he clearly doesn't love GTA V. To him, it was just a role he did one time, but for the rest of his life, regardless of what he does, if he manages to get anything else of that significance, people are going to walk up to him and go, hey, it's Trevor! Even though that's not his name. Some people like that stuff. Some people, you know, want to put their mark, regardless of how that mark is made, and want to be remembered, regardless of how. But I imagine Steven, at least from the little I've seen of him, he probably wanted something a little bit more prestigious, or like he wanted to be a famous actor rather than be known as that character from that role. In the same way that you remember Leonardo DiCaprio, you don't remember like the characters that he played. Sure, he played those characters, but Leonardo DiCaprio is a famous guy, where Trevor Phillips is more famous than the guy who played him. So if I saw Leonardo DiCaprio, I'd be like, hey, it's Leonardo DiCaprio! If I saw Steven Ogg, I'd be like, hey, it's Trevor! You know, and he probably doesn't like that. Obviously, if I was in his shoes, I'd just be happy that I... Well, like in the same way that Michael seems to be, Ned Luke, where you just have major, put your mark on the world, the people know your face, you did something that impactful. Like, if for the rest of my life, people walk up to me and they're like, hey, it's Dark Viper! I'll be like, yes, yes, I am! It's just a different mentality. Although, it could also be related to the character that he portrayed, because he played a crazy, violent psychopath, and he probably isn't that way in real life. And people have expectations of him, and the way he conducts himself, that wouldn't be true to himself, which would be certainly annoying. I know, like, as I'm saying, it's interesting. This, to me, is just more evidence of what we talked about before, how Steven Ogg has less of an interest in reprising that role and or being remembered for it. I mean, he's probably looking forward to GTA 6, so it'd be less a part of his life or something. He does have GTA 5 in his cameo bio, too, I guess. It could be the case that he made a cameo, and expected there to be, like, some of that stuff, but not that much. And he, like, all the requests of Trevor, and he's like, I'm a guy, come on. I can do other things. |
| 22. October 2022 | Steven ogg’s expressed dissatisfaction with being asked to say things as trevor. | Steven Ogg's cameo where he expressed dissatisfaction with being asked to say things as Trevor. Because I'm a cartoon! Aaaaaah! Right? And I'll see you out there. We've talked about before how Steven Ogg doesn't seem to be milking being Trevor as much as Michael or Franklin were. And Franklin didn't do it that much either, but I'm saying like, because Steven Ogg has been in other stuff. He seemed to have a bit of a career before and after playing Trevor. It reminds me of actors on Seinfeld, how they were talking about, as the show was wrapping up, they were done with it. Sure, the networks wanted a few more seasons, but they were like, we want to move on to other things. We've been portraying these characters for so goddamn long. You know, we want to do other things, stretch our creative muscles. And in another interview, the thing was the George character was like, it's hard to get a role when everyone knows you as George on Seinfeld or whatever, right? If your character is so large and so well known, it's hard to be in another role without being compared to your previous role. And it's like you're always living in your own shadow of your previous role. And I wonder if Steven Ogg has that same issue. Like, he clearly doesn't love GTA V. To him, it was just a role he did one time, but for the rest of his life, regardless of what he does, if he manages to get anything else of that significance, people are going to walk up to him and go, hey, it's Trevor! Even though that's not his name. Some people like that stuff. Some people, you know, want to put their mark, regardless of how that mark is made, and want to be remembered, regardless of how. But I imagine Steven, at least from the little I've seen of him, he probably wanted something a little bit more prestigious, or like he wanted to be a famous actor rather than be known as that character from that role. In the same way that you remember Leonardo DiCaprio, you don't remember like the characters that he played. Sure, he played those characters, but Leonardo DiCaprio is a famous guy, where Trevor Phillips is more famous than the guy who played him. So if I saw Leonardo DiCaprio, I'd be like, hey, it's Leonardo DiCaprio! If I saw Steven Ogg, I'd be like, hey, it's Trevor! You know, and he probably doesn't like that. Obviously, if I was in his shoes, I'd just be happy that I... Well, like in the same way that Michael seems to be, Ned Luke, where you just have major, put your mark on the world, the people know your face, you did something that impactful. Like, if for the rest of my life, people walk up to me and they're like, hey, it's Dark Viper! I'll be like, yes, yes, I am! It's just a different mentality. Although, it could also be related to the character that he portrayed, because he played a crazy, violent psychopath, and he probably isn't that way in real life. And people have expectations of him, and the way he conducts himself, that wouldn't be true to himself, which would be certainly annoying. I know, like, as I'm saying, it's interesting. This, to me, is just more evidence of what we talked about before, how Steven Ogg has less of an interest in reprising that role and or being remembered for it. I mean, he's probably looking forward to GTA 6, so it'd be less a part of his life or something. He does have GTA 5 in his cameo bio, too, I guess. It could be the case that he made a cameo, and expected there to be, like, some of that stuff, but not that much. And he, like, all the requests of Trevor, and he's like, I'm a guy, come on. I can do other things. |
| 09. April 2020 | Still getting raid shadow legends sponsored emails | I'm still getting Raid Shadow Legends emails even though I said no. This birthday is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends. I am still getting emails from Raid Shadow Legends. How Raid Shadow Legends does their marketing. So what I was saying was Raid Shadow Legends contacts like every advertising agency imaginable and they just say look fine people to advertise our stuff. So they these advertising agencies aren't talking to each other so they they say like oh But if you have a deal with another agency, you know, we can't give you a new one or whatever so despite my having issues in the past with Raid and saying no to so many of their um pictures new advertising agencies won't know that still will give me off. |
| 03. May 2021 | Still haven't played new Among Us map | I still haven't played the new Among Us map. Please play Among Us? It's funny that I still have not played the new map of Amars. I'm just fairly indifferent to it I suppose it's not that I don't want to play Among Us. It's that I want to do Oko When you ask me a question, what do you want to do? Or do you want to do this? The answer is usually yes, but I want to do Oko, you know? Could I-? |
| 03. May 2021 | Still haven't played new among us map | I still haven't played the new Among Us map. Please play Among Us? It's funny that I still have not played the new map of Amars. I'm just fairly indifferent to it I suppose it's not that I don't want to play Among Us. It's that I want to do Oko When you ask me a question, what do you want to do? Or do you want to do this? The answer is usually yes, but I want to do Oko, you know? Could I-? |
| 17. September 2022 | Still struggling to fix YouTube livestreaming | That's what it is. Still struggling to fix YouTube live streaming. I did another test stream yesterday on YouTube and I spent three hours, I thought I was just gonna be a short stream but I spent three hours tinkering to get things looking good. To get the chat on screen like this, even halfway as good, took like an hour and a half or something. If I do it through like Streamlabs or StreamElements, then messages deleted from chat don't disappear from the on screen. So I have to do all this weird work around stuff, like the code is like six pages long or something. But we eventually got there. There's still a bunch of stuff that doesn't work. Membership gifts don't bundle up. So if someone gifts 20 subs, it will just do 20 subs. It'll go, hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, 20 times. I doubt I'm gonna get that many gifted subs but that's a problem. A lot of the stuff that YouTube doesn't have is stuff that it took like Twitch eight years to implement. Like you can't click on a person's name and see their message history. I think it was like 2016 when Twitch implemented that. YouTube usernames have a lot of spaces and weird characters, that's also true. Timing out people is very difficult on YouTube. A lot of the problems that YouTube has is because they don't have a live chat. What they have is a comment feed. In the same way that you type and leave a comment under a video, that's what you're doing on the YouTube live chat. But the comments are just appearing in a column. And for that reason, like the delay for the comments is like eight seconds. |
| 14. February 2021 | Still working to get older footage processed | Still working to get all the footage processed. You love the sleeping dogs vid. Thank you. I had the crash bandicoot footage and Hollow Knight footage come back from editors and Both were terrible. Not even close to a YouTube video I'm tempted as well just to do them myself, but unlike sleeping dogs I've only given that footage to like one person Maybe I'll wait for two more people to fail on that footage too before I bother doing it I have only got a finite amount of old footage once it's done It's done that I never have to think about the footage from back 2017 2018 2019 that kind of stuff if I don't have that footage though I have nothing to potentially test new people on but it's so Rare for a person to succeed in the task. How many people have recently succeeded? Two? Three maybe and even then actually thinking about it wasn't old footage Foxy was four four guys Plume was among us. I guess Nico counts as well, but they went AWOL and that just ended that immediately. |
| 24. October 2020 | Stolen Content and Fair Use | Stolen content and fair use. What's your opinion on TikTok? In mine, it's a lot of stolen content. Most of the content I see on TikTok isn't stolen unless you count small snippets of music, which TikTok does regulate to a large extent. So you can't, like there are some songs on TikTok that I can't use as an Australian than an American can use, for example. Um, like there is licensing kind of deals that way. But of course there is a lot of stolen content on TikTok because there's a lot of stolen content on all social media platforms. The easiest way to make content in this world is to take already existing content and slightly change it. It's so much less effort than um making something original. It's literally a meme. This is a repost, you know? Big time Twitch streamers are still watching, you know, 30 YouTube videos a day and uploading the best ones straight to their YouTube channels. Maybe even a day after those YouTube channels, YouTube videos release. There's entire YouTube channels dedicated like SniperWolf just reacting to TikTok or reacting to other YouTube videos or the stuff that has no involvement with them. Um, but like that's the entire brand. Like they make nothing original. It's just them reacting to stuff. It's very hard to stop yourself from doing it when you're already successful, even if it's both exploitative and terrible for the online content ecosystem because no one seems to care. No one is bashing down people's doors with pitchforks to stop these people from stealing this content. So as a large content creator, you have to go, wait a second. So no one gives a shit about this and I'm just meant to not take this ad revenue. It's a hard thing to adhere to a higher standard of ethics when no one else seems to give about that standard of ethics. It's like you, you go to a viewer and you say, but this is wrong. And they're like, is it? Yeah, yeah, see, it's, it's wrong and I shouldn't be doing this. And they go, well, I don't care. I would rather you keep doing it. It's like, well, okay then. Like I can't blame large content creators for their content theft because the viewers don't care. No one cares. And even those who do care occasionally watch the stolen content. Like it's, you know, what are some more, um, egregious examples? Oh, the other big, uh, kind of stolen content that exists on YouTube is simply, uh, repurposed news articles and stuff. Journalists go out and do the journalism or they spend, you know, a week writing, uh, upper report, doing the research, da da da. And then 78 YouTube channels go, oh, this is a nice article you've got here. That's a lot of research. Yoink, record a video, 20 minutes unedited where they just read the article. And then they go and collect like a thousand dollars in revenue. It's like there isn't, there isn't an area of content creation where people who create original content aren't being exploited by another area of the internet. And the reason why this works in large part is again, A, because people don't give a shit and B, it does provide a useful service, even if an exploitative one. You don't want to spend the 10, 15, 20 minutes, whatever, reading the article, but you're perfectly willing to listen to a person read the article for 10 minutes. If you, if you don't want to read it, the only way you can get the article is through someone else reading it. And often someone else reading the article, maybe they're an industry insider themselves and they can give even more insight that wasn't in the article. Or maybe you respect a person's opinion and you're interested in that opinion as well as the article. The people who are stealing the content from the original content creators who put the work in, they put on top of it a tiny amount of value. Depending upon who it is, maybe it's 5% value, 10% value, 15% value, who knows? Something is being added there that makes it more valuable. It's just usually that additional value, you know, is far less valuable than the original content or it's taken far less effort than the original content. And it's being done without the original person's permission. It's just in general, exploitative. You can give your opinion on a thousand things in the time it would take you to do one investigative piece of journalism. Content aggregators, people who throw together the biggest form of content theft, content aggregators, where they take, here are all the among us animations of kills that other animators have made and you put them all into one video. And it's like, this is just purely exploitative. All these people's labor is now being thrown into a compilation in 10 minutes. And that compilation gets double, triple, or just a lot of views. Where if they made those animations themselves, they would have had, it would have taken them, you know, a year of time. But this content aggregation serves a purpose and it gets views because people don't want to find all those animations themselves. People don't want to click on 57 different videos and watch 57 different ads. They'd rather just watch all the things in one place. It's why the only way this stuff stops is if there's regulation. Because there's a gap in the market for this kind of thing, but ultimately it makes the market worse. Because it makes it so the market favors reposted content, favors stolen content, as opposed to original content. It's why copyright law existed at all. Even eons ago, people realized that the market, left unregulated, favors theft. Because why spend 10 years and a million dollars making some new idea, some new product, when you can just steal that same product in five minutes from the guy who spent the million dollars in 10 years. And you can therefore undercut that person, astronomically so, because you don't need to recoup the loss of the time and the investment. But because online content creation is so new and people can shoot out content so fast, regulations and enforcement of them hasn't kept up. Content was fairly easy to regulate once upon a time when you needed like tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment and expensive licenses to make what a kid today can make with a five dollar camera. It's going to be very interesting if my generation grows up and gets into government positions, we who understand this, this domain, and whether we're going to bother regulating it either. Because can you imagine being a politician and being like, I'm going to restrict Twitch streamers ability to watch 57 YouTube videos and re-upload them to the YouTube channel. You're just going to piss off every influential content creator, even if they believe themselves to be exploitative, will still come out and say, all these fucking politicians keeping us down and you probably won't get re-elected. Or would help your prospects of being re-elected. You'll be directly going against the media influences. And so when you look at this landscape where people don't seem to give a shit about content theft, the content theft provides a service that while screening of original content creators isn't ever going to go away, the viewers don't care and as they say, the situation isn't going to change in regards to legislation, probably anytime soon. It's very hard when you acknowledge all these things to not just want to join yourself. Even I these days skirt around the issue a little bit. Like my standard for what I believe people should do is so low that it's pathetic to me that people can't meet it. All you have to do is edit the content. Don't show the entirety of the original thing that you're watching so you aren't taking its entire value. At least have some lip service to fair use. People, some people don't even bother doing that. Just raw re-uploads of a person sitting looking at a video and going, huh, that's funny. Or you know, adding their commentary every two minutes or some shit. It's fair use. Please consider it can be fair use for just one second. It is not fair use, Cry. Have you, have you, there are a lot of people who don't know what fair use is. Fair use was crafted before the internet, before YouTube and whatnot existed. These kids who are being conditioned by these large content creators to believe that react videos are fair use have never read fair use legislation. Yes I do. Otherwise a lot of people on YouTube would be sued already. No, no, no, cry, cry. I, I, I know you probably have the attention span of a small child, but go watch my videos on Asmongold. I explain it in amazing detail. I go over fair use legislation. I explain why this exists as it does, why there hasn't been legal action in a large majority against people doing this, the effects on the market, the effects on the individual content creators. It's a, it's a complex issue that you do not understand. The representation of fair use has been largely, or the, the, the community understanding of it has been largely propagated by people who want to exploit the situation and can exploit the ignorance of their viewers. The H3H3 case does not in any sense of the word represent the stand of what react video is on YouTube. Even in that case specifically, the judge said this ruling is not on react videos as a genre. Yes, 98% is not fair use. I agree. But Asmongold is a bad example to pick, in my opinion. He isn't cry. Fair use as it was presented was only meant to enable a person to use portions of material when justified in a way that it doesn't disrupt the market for the original thing. Asmongold's content, 100% does this. It fails literally every, every part of fair use doctrine. It's not even close. Watch the Tom Scott video even better. The easiest rule of thumb guys, the easiest rule of thumb in regards to fair, fair use is ask yourself, does what is being produced inspire people to create original content? Or does it inspire people to simply repurpose other content for less effort? Is it safeguarding the ability of people with original content to make a living? Or is it enabling people to steal content more reliably to earn an income? If a person spends 100 hours on a video and you take that 100 hours of labor into your video, in 10 minutes, to make a video with 100 hours and 10 minutes worth of labor in it, that only took you 10 minutes to make, does this inspire a person to make a video that takes 100 hours to make? Or does it inspire them to take 10 minutes to make a video that takes that, that has 110, 100 hours and 10 minutes worth of labor? Do you want to be the guy making the video that does all the research or do you want to be Asmongold watching the research and commenting every five minutes? Who do you want to be in that situation? Fair use doctrine is meant to make you want to be the original guy. Well, copyright legislation is meant to make you want to be the original guy, but no one in their right mind wants to be that original guy. Tons of people, Pokeman has a channel dedicated for it. Mizkif has a channel dedicated for it. Hassan does it. XQC does it. A lot of these people I didn't know about until after I made my videos on Asmongold. I would have made those videos general as opposed to specifically talking about him, but Asmund is the most blatant person doing this. He releases the most react videos of any large content creator. He releases like four or five a day sometimes. So what do you think the solution is? Ban react videos? There is no easy solution. Tom Scott had a good idea in his video. Is Fortnite |
| 12. February 2023 | Stop advertising your channel on my chat. | Stop advertising your channel in my chats. It's interesting watching people like that dude just there try to advertise his Twitch. Like how bad must that person feel just being banned in chat after chat after chat? It never works either. If anything people call you an ass and they ignore you, yeah, it's right true. Before you're successful, you don't know what you need to do to be successful, and you don't know what hurts your chances and all that jazz, and you're so desperate to succeed that you'll try basically anything. And you just want to feel like you're doing something and that's all you can think of because you just, you just don't know any better. And we're all that way at some point. Should get lucky enough that you get into a situation to get some useful information from someone that can help. |
| 30. December 2022 | Stop asking me if I've seen Breaking Bad | Stop asking me if I've seen Breaking Bad. Have you seen Breaking Bad? I am so fucking sick of being asked if I've seen Breaking Bad. I get that question every single day. I've had that question every single day since the first episode had released like what 10 years ago or something every single day. People knock on my door to ask me this question. I'm sick of it. Stop it. Everyone has seen Breaking Bad. Everyone. Like you could at least ask if I've seen Better Call Saul, but even that, yes. Goddamn yes. I've seen it all. Breaking Bad came out 14 years ago even worse. Stop it. No more. |
| 05. March 2020 | Stopping and smelling the roses | Stopping and smelling the roses. How's life been? I hope things are going well. My life is the best it has ever been. And while I am in general happy, I still for dumb reasons find ways to be irritated. Or anxious. Or annoyed. I have trouble stopping and smelling the roses. Feeling relaxed. It could just be a manifestation of the job that I hold, where I'm always worried, seemingly at all times, that it might all blow up my face. If I don't keep working then I'm going to fade into irrelevance. And there's so many different things that I want to do, both out of enjoyment and out of necessity, that I feel overwhelmed. But not necessarily in a bad way. I would just like to feel less anxious. That feeling I was talking about before, where sometimes I just irrationally feel like people hate me. And like that I've done something wrong or things are bad or whatever. I have no reason to feel this way, but I still feel that way. And I hate it. My goal right now is to reach a level of success that's fairly, feels impossible. And at that level I think I will be able to have peace. And that's what I want. But yeah, so my life is going very well, but I seem to have trouble enjoying it. I think in part it's because I worry for other people. And I care about other people. Even when things are going well for me, I still feel bad for other people. And in some way I can often feel guilty because things are going well for me. |
| 17. July 2021 | Stories in video games. | Stories in video games Will you play Bloodborne or Sekiro after you complete Oko? I have finished both Bloodborne and Sekiro I never finished Bloodborne's Side, no expansions, but I did the base game I played it Over two days 12 hours birthdays I have the footage of both but neither has come out. I played Sekiro for like It's gonna be close to 100 hours Never got bored of it could have played it for another thousand the only thing I didn't like about Sekiro which is something I learned after the fact which was nice is the uh Spamming parry is a legitimate strategy because the kind of you can parry anything thrown against you and you regenerate your uh Block or your focus or whatever the fuck it's called you thought about buying Sekiro recently and got red editor to instead Don't regret it. Look man, just get a Netflix subscription If you want to play video games buy a video game if you want a story Go get a book an audio book go to an opera go to a play Watch a movie watch a tv show watch a youtube video watch a live stream the amount of places you can get a good story is so So many places just unbelievable you want a game You want some gameplay buy a video game if you're like, I feel like a good story and i'm gonna sit down with a Video game that's just the most inefficient way to get a story that exists if you are personally immersed more in a story When an old man says oh my my dear boy. I would like uh 10 avocados Can you run to the store and get me those 10 avocados and I will give you some experience points If that makes you more immersed in the story, I think you're crazy. Okay, if a dark room Some popcorn and just nothing but the story is less immersive to you Than getting an old man some avocados. I I just think you're nuts video games for me are about achieving the thing achieving the goal leveling up ranking up beating the boss Solving the puzzle. It's not traveling three hours To get the next bit of the story |
| 21. June 2022 | Stranger Things breathing life into old songs | Stranger Things breathing life into old songs. Have you guys seen this phenomenon where whenever a new season of Stranger Things comes out, the songs from, what is it? What era is the show set in, I can't remember. The songs of the past decades become very high on the charts or end up going viral on TikTok because everyone's like, oh, this song from 50 years ago is a goddamn banger. 80s, yeah. What are the two that I really like right now? Running Up That Hill, A Deal With God. And falling cold, I'd make a deal with God. And Angelized by Agra is another one. Down look to be big to those angel eyes. I'm the type of person to find a song and then just listen to it 100 times over the next week and get sick of it. Twitch's new feature that they immediately removed. The feature was. |
| 17. March 2021 | Stranger challenges me to Rocket League for money | challenges me to Rocket League for money. This message. Hello, Mato, do you play Rocket League in your free time? I had a person DM me and the message was, hey, how about this? I verse you in Rocket League. If I beat you, you give me 50 bucks. I don't know this person. I've never communicated with this person. I have never played Rocket League on stream. I am not a Rocket League streamer. And for whatever reason, they send me a DM challenging me in this way. For $50. Imagine if that works. I know I message XQC and she'd be like, hey, yo, first you in a GT Fire speedrun, you pay me 50 bucks if you lose. He really shot his shot, though. Yeah, I guess he did. I mean, he lost nothing for trying. I don't even remember his name. And if it worked, he could have got himself 50 bucks. But more really, would it work? You know what, random stranger? I think I could kick your ass in Rocket League, even though I basically never played the game, you're fucking on, son. Does actually remind me of Soda Poppin's thing, which I'm sure other people, other streamers have done, but I only really remember him doing it, where he would have a list of like 50 games or something. His viewers could challenge him. And if they won, he'd give them 100 bucks. |
| 17. March 2021 | Stranger challenges me to rocket league for money | challenges me to Rocket League for money. This message. Hello, Mato, do you play Rocket League in your free time? I had a person DM me and the message was, hey, how about this? I verse you in Rocket League. If I beat you, you give me 50 bucks. I don't know this person. I've never communicated with this person. I have never played Rocket League on stream. I am not a Rocket League streamer. And for whatever reason, they send me a DM challenging me in this way. For $50. Imagine if that works. I know I message XQC and she'd be like, hey, yo, first you in a GT Fire speedrun, you pay me 50 bucks if you lose. He really shot his shot, though. Yeah, I guess he did. I mean, he lost nothing for trying. I don't even remember his name. And if it worked, he could have got himself 50 bucks. But more really, would it work? You know what, random stranger? I think I could kick your ass in Rocket League, even though I basically never played the game, you're fucking on, son. Does actually remind me of Soda Poppin's thing, which I'm sure other people, other streamers have done, but I only really remember him doing it, where he would have a list of like 50 games or something. His viewers could challenge him. And if they won, he'd give them 100 bucks. |
| 21. July 2020 | Strategy for when I become desperate for content | Strategy for when I become desperate for contents. New gimmick run? I mean, I can, if I really wanted to I could just grab some popular mod and go to town, you know. I mean if I was really desperate for content, and I might do it eventually, I would just go to popular YouTube channels and look up even ancient mods that they've buggerized around with and just use them. It's not like those YouTube channels created those mods anyway, you know. The mods that were the flavor of the month three years ago I've never seen because I wasn't involved in this kind of stuff before. |
| 02. October 2021 | Strawmanning | straw manning. What is straw manning? Straw manning is like a person says we should increase the amount of money given to fire brigades and a person comes back this stupid idea that we should just give unlimited amounts of money to fire services. Complete nonsense and here's why and they explain and it's like well the person wanted more money to fire services but not all the money those may sound the same but they mean very different things and so the person knocks down their reconstruction their misrepresentation of your viewpoint and then pretends like they've knocked down your real argument that's a straw man. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and they wish you all the best |
| 31. July 2022 | Stray proving everyone wants to be a cat. | Stray proving everyone wants to be a cat. Big Pogs, what is up my dude man? Have you planned to play Stray? No current plans. I wonder how good the game is going actually. Stray Steam charts 50,000 peak players. Now that is a damn successful game and that's what like less than a week. People do like cats and it's just everyone who talks about it talks about it positively. I thought the game only takes like four to five hours to beat or something. |
| 07. August 2021 | Stream Deck is the worst name ever | Steam Deck is the worst name ever. Have you seen the new stream deck? Oh, Steam Deck. That was the first commentary I heard about it. Where people were like, why call it Steam Deck when the stream deck exists? Well, obviously I have no interest in it, but it's, you know, the name is the worst name ever. I wonder if someone at Valve just doesn't like Elgaso or something. |
| 07. August 2021 | Streamdeck is the worst name ever | Steam Deck is the worst name ever. Have you seen the new stream deck? Oh, Steam Deck! That was the first commentary I heard about it. Where people were like, why call it Steam Deck when the stream deck exists? Well, obviously I have no interest in it, but it's, uh, you know, the name is the worst name ever. I wonder if someone at Valve just doesn't like Elgaso or something. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 20. December 2022 | Streamer's insensitivity backfires. | Streamers insensitivity backfires. This next topic is one that we've talked about before, but it's making the rounds because of this particularly terrible clip of this dude from Twitch. I'm sure you've heard about it by now, it's what's got 3.5 million views. I know that I'm also in the wrong a little for saying WillMyMumDied in a stream after being asked where I have been, but the response just isn't it fam. I made a tweet longer to share a little background, but here you go. Kirby where the fuck have you been? Oh my god, well tell you what, Mr. DirtyKirby, you know what we're not gonna do? We're not gonna talk about it in my chat, cause it's Friday, and that is a whole big bucket of bummer. And I'm sorry for your loss, but we're not doing that in my fucking chat. Thank you. Well okay, Mr. DirtyKirby, you said no that's fine, you asked so I told. No I didn't ask you to tell me the biggest fucking bummer news in the world. I said hey what's up, how are you? You know what, let me give you a little bit of a lesson Mr. DirtyKirby, when something really really bad is going on in your life, and in a public forum, someone asks you hey what's up, how are you? There are two acceptable responses. Good and you know what, I'll make it through. That's it. How are you? Good or you know what, I'll make it through. Awesome, love to hear it. See there you go, or prom's response. I said prom how are you doing? She says I'm alive. There you go. Oh I asked you where you were. Look Mr. DirtyKirby, all I'm trying, I'm just subtly trying to tell you, that unloading really heavy news in people's chats on Twitch is not like good etiquette. It's just, it's not the place to do it. That's all I'm trying to tell you. That's it. I'm just, I figured this is a good opportunity to inform you. Heavy news like that, when someone asks hey where have you been? You don't need to tell them. Well my dog died, my husband left me for a younger woman, my house burnt down, and my car got stolen. So I've been a little bit busy, that's why I haven't been around. Cause it's like oh god, like ugh. Ugh, like you know, like if someone asks hey what's up, where have you been? And it's heavy, just be like I had a bunch of shit going on, so I've been lying low for a little while. Got it. That's it. I'm not trying to rip you a new ass. So after getting raked on Twitter, he made an apology that was entirely insincere, and then he went on his stream and did this. I know you know about what's happening lately, you know, on Twitter and stuff, and I just want to thank you for bringing some people to the channel. And hopefully, like if you could, and this is part of the prayer, just make them not be a bunch of whining pussies. Like if at all possible, I know you can't control the internet and people have free will, so they're gonna do what they want. But like, if there's something you could do to make sure that like, just a bunch of whining, sniveling, obnoxious, annoying little bitches don't come to the channel. That would be really fucking cool, but if they do, that's okay. That's fine, I can handle it. I'm just, you know, asking the big guy for some help. So on one hand, there is something called like trauma dumping, I believe they call it. Where a person will go into a Twitch chat, they'll donate three bucks to get an alert, and they'll go like hey man, here's all the things that are going on in my life. I don't know how I can deal with that anymore, I'm thinking about killing myself. And you give some sympathy and they'll go on and on, and they'll attempt to take over the stream to make it about them and their problems, trying to pour out their heart and soul. And as an entertainer, you can't let that really happen, because it's ultimately gonna devalue the experience for everyone who's there. But that's not what happened here. This person, when asked what was going on in their life, said, oh my mum died. And in response to that, it's like, oh that sucks, that's terrible, I'm sorry for your loss. And you move on. This person wasn't attempting to ask for solutions to all the problems in the world, or dump every problem in their life going right now on this dude and his chat. They were asked where they were and gave a response. When you hear, if you ask someone how they are, and you don't give a shit, then you've made the mistake there. Why would you ever ask a person how they're doing if you don't actually care? I've talked before about how it must suck to not care about other people, and therefore have to fake it, because you're going to make a mistake sometime. This dude does not care about anyone but himself, and is now slipped up for everyone to see. If you tell me your mother dies, I actually feel bad for you. I don't have to fake being like, that is really terrible, I'm sorry for your loss. Because I feel that. When someone talks about losing their loved one, I think, like, how would I feel if my mother died? I feel terrible. Even in cases with that trauma dumping which I talked about before, you feel for these people. Because they just want an outlet to get some feedback and to have people commiserate and share the struggles they're going through. And the only reason you don't help people who are truly engaging in that sort of trauma dumping is because, 1. You're unqualified to do so, 2. You don't really know the person, and 3. It does ruin the experience for everyone else. But in this particular case, he asked how she was going. If you don't want other people sharing how they're going to disrupt your stream, you don't ask. The dude seems like a truly terrible person. But understand, this dude has an audience. He has people who watch him, and watched him do this, and will still watch him afterwards. And that's scary. Because when I first saw this, I thought I was going to be half the play devil's advocate, like, this person may have, like, actually attempted to take over the stream and something. But that was not what was happening here. Because we've talked before about the idea that it's not a good thing for viewers to treat live streams as their own personal therapy sessions. But again, not what happened here. And any attempts to spin in that direction, completely wrong. And now he has an even bigger audience? That could be true. The amount of people who gravitate towards people and respect them based on how little they care about others is scary. That culture of get your bag, regardless of the consequences of anyone else, is scary. There's a lot of people around like that now. Cults of personality. Sure, they may have fucked over thousands of people and me, but you know, they got their bag, man. Let's go. It's gross. |
| 03. August 2021 | Streamers controlling sub discounts | That's about it. Streamers controlling sub discounts. It'd be nice if Twitch had a thing where you could actually do specials on subbing at particular times, like once a year or something, you can make subbing 20% off or something. Or even if it came from like My Share or something. Like let's say you're doing a marathon. Like you're doing a 24 hour stream or something. You could say hey guys, 24 hour stream, 20% off subs, you know. |
| 22. March 2022 | Streamers have every right to ban people. | Streamers have every right to ban people. I feel like sometimes viewers don't really appreciate what it's like to be a streamer. So they view any sort of cultivation of the chat and removal of people as like the most abhorrent thing. Like just imagine that a part of your job was dealing with fuckwits that you had no ability to remove. And you had to do that every day for hours and hours on end. You'd legitimately just jump off a cliff. It'd just be the worst fucking thing, you know? Whatever a streamer needs to do to make it so that they're having a good time and a good experience streaming, that's almost always justified to me. Like 99.99% of people interface with a stream in a perfectly good way that causes no issues and everyone's having fun. And then it's just that 0.01% who keeping in your chat is not worth the degradation of your mental health and the quality of your content. It does suck, but some people are really bullied by the streamer. This is true. It is unfortunate when that happens when you are... Every streamer's done it. Having a bad day and you overreact to a person who is entirely well-meaning, but they just get on your nerves for whatever reason and you kind of savage them in front of your audience. Makes them feel bad, and if you have any sort of conscience, you feel bad. It's just not a good experience for everyone. Fortunately, at least for me, it doesn't happen that often. But yeah, it does suck when well-meaning people get the raw end of the stick. At the very least, you're anonymous in chat, and you can then just leave the stream. A viewer leaving the stream because they feel like shit can just be bad for the individual viewer, but the streamer leaving because they feel like shit can be bad for a lot more people. I've visited a lot of streams, and there's been around three where the streamer has made me feel depressed just for being curious and asking questions or just being too hype in chat. Maniac, I'm gonna say something here. If it's happened to you three times, then it might be you doing something you shouldn't do. |
| 05. February 2021 | Streamers scrambling to find risk free background music | Streamers scrambling to find risk-free background music. So I've been watching a bunch of streams, right? And I've heard a handful more streams have this playlist that I'm using. Because obviously with the DMCA stuff that's happening on Twitch, everyone's trying to find their own kind of thing that they can listen to on stream that doesn't have any DMCA-able music. And like I hear a lot of people listening to like Nintendo songs because game songs for a long time they've been considered like, you know, the bottom tier of risk of receiving DMCA's or content ID or whatever. Because there's no way for game developers to distinguish between people playing their games or people just playing the music. And game publishers, game developers in general, they want people playing their games for the advertising so they're obviously not going to do a wide sweep of content ID'ing, DMCA'ing stuff. So the music is pretty safe. I mean, especially because like if you're allowed to stream the games on Twitch, you'd imagine you'd be able to stream the music, right? But whenever I think of Nintendo and all the scummy things that they've done, the anti-consumer stuff that's striking down of Slippi, Melee and all that stuff and the various different times over the years where they have just, they have claimed music on YouTube. I'm nervous about using Nintendo songs on stream because you worry sometime down the way that things will change and Nintendo will just be like, fuck you, you can't listen to our music and all your content will be screwed. But I mean, I suppose I run the risk with this playlist as well. For all I know, five years from now or something, something's going to change. And I'll get a bunch of content IDs for stuff in the past as well. Using music, any kind of music, is always a risk with the current laws that exist now. Get some random shit from SoundCloud. I mean, even that has risk. It's just, it sucks. Unless, yeah, unless you literally buy the rights to the music yourself, truly then there's no risk. There is music playing and it's just, it's meant to be stuff that you barely hear, you barely notice. I like the music that I use right now. Yeah, I've put that Wellerman song on my playlist. A bunch of songs that I've come to like, I found on TikTok and Wellerman was one of them. It's just a two minute song about this boat that has trouble reeling in a whale or something. Yes, I did remove the song that kept killing me. What do I think of country music? It's pretty meh. Of all the genres of music that exist, country music is the one that impresses me the least. My favorite genre? I don't know. The Sword of New Joji album? How new is it? I've got three Joji songs, fairly recent ones in my playlist. Have I heard Take Me Home? Of course I have. It's the Fallout 76 thing, right? Take me home to the place I belong. West Virginia, country mama. Take me home, country roads. |
| 26. January 2022 | Streamers should buy a license to livestream games | The worst Twitter take. Streamers should buy a license to livestream games. So this guy works for Google Stadia or whatever. So he says, Streamers worried about getting their content pulled because they used music they didn't pay for should be worried by the fact that they're streaming games that they didn't pay for as well. It's all gone as soon as publishers decide to enforce it. The real truth is the streamers should be paying the developers and publishers of the games they stream. They should be buying a license like any real business and paying for the content they use. Amazing to me that people are upset at someone saying that the creators of content should be allowed to make money from other people using their content for profit. So this take is so bad. Not only did he get ratioed on every single post that he did, but Google Stadia itself is trending. With everyone shitting on Google Stadia. These are the big brain takes that have destroyed Google Stadia. And he was so embarrassed he added to the end all opinions of my own. As if that's going to save him from getting chewed out by people at Google Stadia. I did write some tweets. If tomorrow games had to outline explicitly in their user license agreement whether their content could be streamed, it would be a race for companies to say we allow it because only an idiot wouldn't realize you'd rather be getting the free advertisement. Most companies do outline already in their user license agreement that streaming is okay. My inbox being a sea of please play my game on stream here is a key and the complete lack of publishers taking downstream content supports the obvious reality of streaming benefiting the bottom line of these companies. Imagine for a moment believing the streamer should pay to advertise items to the wider gaming community. Next I'll need a license to wear clothes on stream or use a mouse. Should not the companies that make everything I use get a cuss? Without them I couldn't stream after all. Someone responded, except Nintendo. Nintendo doesn't do this. And I responded, no, even Nintendo removed their creative program and now allows everyone to record and stream their games. Happened at the start of 2019. There was always some fine print of we reserve the rights to take down whatever we please, blah blah blah. But publishers are not as dumb as this guy. And someone responded, it's weird because I agree with what you're saying and I agree with your stance on react content, but at the same time a streamer giving exposure to a game dev by playing their game and a bigger streamer giving exposure to a smaller streamer by watching their video is kind of similar. I respond, it isn't. If you watch a video with a streamer, you have experienced 100% of what that game has to offer. If you watch someone play a game, not only have you only watched a portion of what is possible, even that portion still has value because playing it yourself has value. It's like copying an entire ride from Disneyland versus uploading a video of you enjoying the ride. In the first, you could get the entire experience without ever engaging with the original. In the second, you could just give more, you're just giving more information for others to judge if they want to ride at all. There are just so many angles you can attack this as to how dumb it is. Like defending multiple million dollar, billion dollar companies and expecting people with one viewer on Twitch to be paying a license. Streaming clearly benefits game developers in every capacity and creates new and original content that does not take all of the value away from the original product. Whether or not under the laws that exist now, whether it be legal or not is a separate question. But morally, clearly streaming does not have a negative impact on the gaming industry. It's why every game dev is banging on streamers doors going, please play our game on stream. The game devs, the publishers aren't idiots. It's even worse for take because if you read anyone's user license agreement these days, there's already a stipulation saying you can stream games. Streaming is so lucrative for companies. Games have been developed specifically for streamers. I was playing what was it? Noah Trey or whatever the fuck it is yesterday, which I only bought because I saw Elijah playing it. It's an entire game with a mode specifically designed so streamers can have their chat interact. Half the games being developed today have modes in them or connections that you can do with Twitch streamers. There's a game right now that was developed an entire level specifically with one particular streamer in mind. So desperate are game developers, game publishers to get that free advertisement in the large majority from streamers that they're literally designing their games to appeal to this market. This tiny, tiny, tiny sliver of the gaming industry. They are literally spending dev time to make things for them. And this guy is like, man, these streamers, they're just taking so much for the publishers, the developers, the losing house, the suffering these streamers are causing. We need to change this immediately. We need some licensing agreement. Insane. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 21. November 2020 | Streamers should need to buy a license to stream games | Streamers should need to buy a license to play a game on stream. Did you guys see the worst take in the history of the internet? Hilarious. Like legitimately really funny. I'll show it to you. Surely if you're on Twitter you saw it. So this guy works for Google Stadia or whatever. So he says, streamers worried about getting their content pulled because they used music they didn't pay for should be worried by the fact that they're streaming games that they didn't pay for as well. It's all gone as soon as publishers decide to enforce it. The real truth is the streamers should be paying the developers and publishers of the games they stream. They should be buying a license like any real business and paying for the content they use. Amazing to me that people are upset at someone saying that the creators of content should be allowed to make money should be allowed to make some money from other people using their content for profit. So this take is so bad. Not only did he get ratioed on every single post that he did, but Google Stadia itself is trending. With everyone shitting on Google Stadia. These are the big brain takes that have destroyed Google Stadia. And he was so embarrassed he added to the end all opinions of my own. As if that's going to save him from getting chewed out by people at Google Stadia. So bad is this take that I thought for a moment about making a video about this. And I was like, this is literally shooting fish in the barrel. This would be the most preaching to the choir I have ever done. I can't make this video. So I went to get McDonald's instead. I did write some tweets. If tomorrow games had to outline explicitly in their user license agreement whether their content could be streamed, it would be a race for companies to say, we allow it, because only an idiot wouldn't realize you'd rather be getting the free advertisement. Most companies do outline already in their user license agreement that streaming is okay. My inbox being a sea of please play my game on stream here is a key. And the complete lack of publishers taking downstream content supports the obvious reality of streaming benefiting the bottom line of these companies. Imagine for a moment believing the streamer should pay to advertise items to the wider gaming community. Next, I'll need a license to wear clothes on stream or use a mouse. Should not the companies that make everything I use get a cuss? Without them, I couldn't stream after all. Someone responded, except Nintendo. Nintendo doesn't do this. And I responded, no, even Nintendo removed their creative creative program and now allows everyone to record and stream their games. Happened start of 2019. There was always some fine print of we reserve the rights to take down whatever we please, blah, blah, blah. But publishers are not as dumb as this guy. And someone responded, it's weird because I agree with what you're saying. And I agree with your stance on react content. But at the same time, a streamer giving exposure to a game dev by playing their game and a bigger streamer giving exposure to a smaller streamer by watching the video is kind of similar. I respond, it isn't. If you watch a video with a streamer, you have experienced 100% of what that game has to offer. If you watch someone play a game, not only have you only watched a portion of what is possible, even that portion still has value because playing it yourself has value. It's like copying an entire ride from Disneyland versus uploading a video of you enjoying the ride. In the first, you could get the entire experience without ever engaging with the original. In the second, you could just give more, you're just giving more information for others to judge if they want to ride at all. This is only, this only scratches the surface of how dumb this is. While driving in my car, I had, it was like an essay in my head. There are just so many angles you can attack this as to how dumb it is. Like defending multiple million dollar, billion dollar companies and expecting people with one viewer on Twitch to be paying a license. Streaming clearly benefits game developers in every capacity and creates new and original content that does not take all of the value away from the original product. Whether or not under the laws that exist now, stream, whether it be legal or not is a separate question. But morally, clearly streaming does not have a negative impact on the gaming industry. It's why every game dev is banging on streamers doors going, please play our game on stream. The game devs, the publishers aren't idiots. This, this guy is a fucking moron. It's even, it's even worse for a take because if you read anyone's user license agreement these days, there's already a stipulation saying you can stream games. Streaming is so lucrative for companies. Games have been developed specifically for streamers. I was playing, what was it, Noatria, whatever the fuck it is, yesterday, which I only bought because I saw Elijah playing it. It's an entire game with a mode specifically designed so streamers can have their chat interact. Half the games being developed today have modes in them or connections that you can do with Twitch streamers. There's a game right now that was developed, an entire level specifically with one particular streamer in mind. So desperate are game developers, game publishers to get that free advertisement in the large majority from streamers that they're literally designing their games to appeal to this market. This tiny, tiny, tiny sliver of the gaming industry. They are literally spending dev time to make things for them. And this guy is like, man, these streamers, they're just, it's taking so much from the publishers, the developers, they're losing us. The suffering these streamers are causing. We need to, we need to change this immediately. We need some licensing agreement. Insane. I know you get it. That's the problem. That is the problem with this take. It is so clearly dumb that talking about it makes me feel stupid. I feel like, what's that exp- I don't know. I just feel like I've lowered myself to talk to a person who's clearly this stupid. But seeing this level of stupidity of a person high up in Google makes me question if humanity can survive for the next 50 years. How could a person this dumb be in such a high position of authority? How? |
| 23. June 2021 | Streamers that I am currently watching | Streamers that I'm watching currently. What streamers do I watch? Whichever ones I happen to click on on Twitch.tv. Well you can find all your favorite streamers. Be sure to subscribe with Twitch Prime. Now the mainstream I'm watching right now is Lexiev. I stop into other people's streams, you know, I'm occasionally stopping to Modest Pelican stream and stuff like that, but it like, if there is a streamer I'm watching for more than, you know, 10 minutes, it's Lexiev. Lexiev does Heroes of Might and Magic 3 competitive stuff. And while I would no longer play it myself, especially because I'm not very good at it, I do like watching him play. I believe his name is, uh, spelled L-E-X-A-I-V. Lex? No. L-E-X-I-A-V. Lex-E-F. |
| 30. July 2022 | Streamers who don't want to be role models. | Streamers who don't want to be role models. I talked about that I'm not a role model thing before. It is a part of the job. If you hold influence over others you will naturally be a role model. You can't have your cake and eat it too. A consequence of making money in the way that we do is that we're role models and we will impact others. You can't just say well I don't want to be a role model to people so it's not it's not my responsibility or not my problem if my status of role model causes harm. It clearly is. If you don't want to be a role model stop being a fucking streamer. Stop putting yourself in front of tens of thousands of people. Stop influencing people in their behaviors either either by design or accidentally. People tend to idolize people they like even not liking them. We are influenced by all things that we see in our lives often in very subtle ways. We're not perfectly in control of ourselves or our emotions and all that jazz. Being a role model is not a choice exactly. Be sure to like and subscribe also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel it doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 30. May 2020 | Streamers with a god complex | What do you think of streamers with a god complex? Anyone with a god complex is terrible. Do you mean by god complex that you're simply above it all, untouchable, better than everyone, perfect at everything, what have you. Anyone with such a complex is just massively deluded and should be pushed off their pedestal. A streamer with a god complex is not the worst, it's not going to impact a lot of people in the world, right? A politician or whatever, a person who runs an influential company or someone in the news or whatever, these people with god complexes will have a much bigger impact on the everyday lives of our people. A streamer with a god complex, you just ignore them, fuck them, who cares, you know? |
| 06. August 2020 | Streaming accessibility | Streaming is now very accessible. You have no knowledge of how streaming works? Streaming these days is far easier than it ever has been, which is good and bad. Streaming being so accessible, there's just so many people trying to be successful at the lower end of things that it's hard to get noticed or stand out or what have you. There's just so much competition because anyone can do it so easily. I mean back in the day though, you had to be in a very particular spots in your life where you had access to the technology and infrastructure to produce anything of reasonable quality. You also had to be in very niche groups to even know it was possible to stream. Like as I've said before, I came to streaming relatively late compared to a lot of other people. Like I've been this what, five? Going on six years. They've been people who've been streaming for you know, ten years. You know your your destinies, your sort of popping kind of things. But you had to be in pretty niche situations to know of live streaming or have the ability to do it back then. But I wish I had been around back in those days. Although, you know being Australian, I doubt there were many places in the entirety of Australia where you could you could reasonably stream with decent quality. But I mean quality back then that was decent was like 160p or some shit. Like there's four pixels of gameplay on the screen and people are like, Oh my god, the quality is insane. I've never seen a live stream with so many pixels. |
| 03. January 2022 | Streaming as a small streamer is a waste of time | To get pictures and stuff, that's just weird. Streaming as a small streamer is a waste of time. Any tips for streaming or something? Uh, don't do it. You're better off making YouTube content and then transitioning with that audience to Twitch. Getting started on Twitch these days with everything being so saturated and there being so many people fighting just for that tiny amount of attention that those very small streamers get. The odds of you getting noticed is very low. You've got to bring viewers from somewhere else to Twitch these days. Else, you've got to have contacts with other streamers that can help you and host you and rage you and whatnot. Or you have to, you know, get advertisement through tournaments for other games or have a very particular niche that will get you noticed. Like it's just, even if only a few people watch you, like the thing you do is just so unique that it will get on livestream fails or be written about in Kotaku or something. You know, that kind of thing. If you're thinking, I'm going to stream and just play some Fortnite or some CSGO or some GTA V or just, you know, something that there's already at least a million people doing right this very second. Like it's, you're not planning for success there. You're just ultimately wasting your time. Yeah, leeching is definitely a method to get on Twitch. Because you, you bypass the early stages by basically getting yourself in front of a lot of people. |
| 04. March 2021 | Streaming far less than I used to. | I'm streaming far less than I used to. I reach 4k viewers. I mean, that's understandable. People are looking on their follow list and they're like, Oh my God, Matt's actually streaming. Haven't seen this shit in like 10,000 years. It does feel that way. Like I haven't taken that much time off in the last couple of weeks, but it feels like eons. When your life revolves around streaming six hours a day for years on end and then you suddenly stop doing that. It feels like there's so much more time in the day. Although I suppose I'm just editing instead. So I mean, it doesn't feel like I have that much more time. Like it's normal for some people to take significant breaks from editing and streaming, you know? It's never been my kind of thing. I wonder if I've got the staying power of Clint Stevens where I could just bail for a couple of months and come back to the same kind of viewership. |
| 22. April 2021 | Streaming for content for chill streams | Streaming for content versus chill streams. But nothing, nothing I have ever done has been done with the goal of making more money. It's just stuff that I'm comfortable with or enjoy making and what not. Like I didn't make my Ramble series on YouTube because I'm like, oh, man, I'm going to get some easy content or whatever. It was I think this is good stuff. And if I'm if I'm making something on Twitch that isn't good enough for YouTube, why am I making it on Twitch in my view? And anything I because some people some people treat live streaming as like this is just lazy content. I shouldn't really care about it. In my view, everything that you're making on Twitch should be good enough when edited for YouTube, because I mean, effectively anything can be edited enough that it becomes good enough for YouTube because that's the power of editing, you know. Yeah, that's a nice philosophy to be honest, because I have the same thing as well in my because I started streaming on Twitch like a while ago, like a while ago, a week ago. But you know, when I was streaming, I didn't really, really feel like this was like offering that much like because I don't use face cam. I'm really like too comfortable with it. I've shown my face on the internet before, but I'm like, you know, when I stream, I just want to sit back and chill. I don't know if it's a benefit or not. But anyway, like what I was offering there was just like a fricking like ordinary stream. Like you can go to anyone and like have like, well, probably better quality streams than I was providing there. So I was really like trying to figure out ways to show to start showing my main channel, my YouTube channel on my Twitch channel, you know, like with little edits that I used to do. So I came up with all sorts of like little I wouldn't call them gimmicks, but like real like like nice little things. So a lot of people stream not necessarily to make great content. They stream just to chill with viewers and stuff. And that's a lot of the ways that so there's two different types of YouTube to become streamers. One, those who try to replicate what they do on YouTube, but in a live stream format, which is effectively impossible because like a lot of live streams are fully energetic. I don't know. A lot of YouTube is a fully energetic. It's cut down. So every single moment is a pure action and you can't keep that up forever on Twitch or on live stream in general. You have to be lower energy or you just burn yourself out. But then there's the other YouTubers who come over and effectively don't try it all. They're just hanging out like, hey, man, how's it going? Just going to be playing some video games like video game, donkey, watch one of his streams. And it's just him playing a video game as he would in his house, maybe a bit more commentary on what he's doing. Me, I'm aware I'm live streaming and I do communicate in a way that is cognizant that this is going to become YouTube content. Like you'll see me sometimes in a conversation about something that I know is going to be in Ramble and I will stop and then I'll say something that I know is going to be in my no damage run. And then I'll continue with the Ramble because I'm making YouTube content while live streaming. And like I don't like streams that are just chill necessarily. Like there's this... What did Ludwig say? The best content is content that has stakes. That there's actually a reason to watch. And I agree with that. I don't... But in a way, this actually causes me some problems because I can't just sit around and chill and just do nothing on stream. I have problems just, you know, booting up heroes of mind magic and playing a game and being boring. I feel very awkward when I do that. I've been so long trying to be interesting that when I'm not interesting, I sometimes have to stop the stream because I can't deal with it mentally. I can imagine that. Your Twitch channel is kind of like you're saying that kind of like an extension of your YouTube channel instead of like an addition. It's become that way. Yes. It's the Twitch feeds the YouTube, you know. I really need to start working on that as well, like that mindset to be honest. Because I don't want to treat it as just an extra thing that people can support me and can hang out with me, you know. Like I don't want to turn into that. I want to turn into like some sort of experience as well to watch. I mean, there's nothing wrong with the chill thing. But at the end of the day, your stream will basically just be YouTube viewers at that point. Or like there's only so far that can go because it would just be the same kind of stream everyone else is doing. But with you, which is a different component, certainly. And people will watch for that reason, but it's a... It's harder to grow. Like you can get the Twitch audience with that. |
| 22. March 2021 | Streaming no longer feels personal | Streaming no longer feels personal. Maybe I should take up Pez's offer from way back in the day. Pez is a guy who works for 2K Games, and 2K Games, they have offices next to Rockstar Games in Australia. Media people or whatever. I doubt any of the devs are in Australia, but he did say all that time back then, he was like, hey, you should come, you should do something where you come by and you can meet all the Rockstar people here, whatever. And I was always like, nah, nah, nah, nah, you know, too embarrassing, but the more I think about it, I probably should have done it. But, I mean, what would I say, you know? I'm just not good at talking to people. And it's funny, the way that I live my life now, I think I'm just getting worse at it. I have no idea what I'm going to be like when I start dating again or actually try to have real life friends or, I don't know. I feel like so much of my life has had me being very solitary, and I'm concerned that I'm losing what little bit of my social skills that I had. Have you guys seen my PAX 2019 footage or whatever? That seemed okay, though. Some people say it was a little bit cringy, but I think it was pretty good. You're talking with 4,000 people right now? It's not talking, it's very different. It's a thing that Ludwig pointed out, right? It's a... I'm sure other people have commented as well. It's one of those things where you guys are like a collective mass. You've got a handful of people who stand out for a variety of reasons, but it doesn't feel like you're... It doesn't feel like I'm in a room with 4,000 people talking to them, right? In the same way that if you know there's 4,000 people in a room somewhere, like all in the actual room watching you do something live on a screen or whatever, you wouldn't feel that. You don't feel it, you know? I don't feel the difference between 200 viewers and 4,000. All that changes is the chat moves faster. And because the chat moves faster, you have less repeated instances of interacting or talking to a particular person or acknowledging a particular person. So it's less possible for you to associate particular traits or ways of speaking or whatever with particular individual chatters. Like at this point, no one super stands out anymore, except I just still vaguely know all the people that I knew from when I was smaller. It's why, like, when I was 500 viewers or less and I needed to get myself some new mods, I was like, oh yeah, I could add this person, this person, this person, I guess. These days, when I think who could I add as a mod, I'm like, ah, who stands out as a person I've interacted with enough that I actually can trust them more than the average person? I usually end up asking my other mods and they put forth names like, oh yeah, I know them and I know them and I know them. You know, it's just streaming does feel less personal these days than it did in the past, you know? It's just there's too many people. A human being can't maintain that many names, that many associations with names and whatnot, you know? You can't individually be friends with your viewers. It just can't be done. It's not humanly possible. I'm fortunate to have had friendly interactions with viewers on an individual basis to some extent over the time I've been a streamer. But these days, it's mainly my mods, some VIPs, my editors. You know, these are the people that I kind of know to a good or less extent. But even then, it's different from a friendship because like, if you're friends with a person, you know what, like in real life, you know what they look like, you know their hopes, their dreams, maybe their birthdays, what they do for jobs and stuff. I'd be hard pressed telling you that stuff about my mods because I guess, for one thing, those conversations have never come up. But I still associate personalities and remember interactions with them enough that I consider it to be more than simply a- it's a personal relationship of a kind. What you would call it, I'm not sure. Coming right down to it, whatever this is, it's not a friendship. It's not me talking to 4,000 individuals. It's me talking to a chat. Each month, my viewership has gone up by a thousand over the last couple of months. And again, I don't even notice. All that I care about is that I make content that I can be proud of, that people give me feedback that suggests that they're liking my stuff and I'm doing good stuff, that I'm securing my future well-being monetarily, like, you know, I'm earning a good living, I'm living a happy life, I don't think I'm hurting anyone. That's all that matters to me, you know? That sounds depressing. I have said before that the way that I live my life, the job that I have, I would argue the vast majority of people wouldn't enjoy it in the way that I do. Like, I enjoyed doing this when I had 50 viewers. I enjoy doing it now when I have 4,000. My life isn't, as I say, I don't have a lot of connections to people. It's long hours of editing and grinding the same game as you see. Like, as I say, there's a lot of aspects of my life that a lot of people would find intolerable, but I really enjoy. And that's why I'm very thankful to be in this position that I'm in, which very few people get to be in, you know? |
| 04. January 2020 | Streaming platform statistics since 2018 | Streaming platform statistics since 2018. So new report about streaming is out from StreamElements. Since 2018, all streaming platforms have grown with Mixer and Facebook Gaming gaining in terms of their relative market share compared to YouTube and Twitch. As in like YouTube went from like 23% to like 21% and like it's basically like YouTube and Twitch lost like 2% and Mixer and Facebook Gaming gained 2%. That's the exact numbers. That's basically how it went. Even though, of course, all gained in size. It's just the overall market for streaming has grown in the last year. What was the most interesting thing in that report though was that 75% of the viewer watch hours are watched of the top 4000 streamers. So let's just say the top 4000 streamers have 75% of the audience as extraordinarily top heavy. I'm not sure how many streamers there are over the course of a year, but every month is like 3 million. So you got to imagine over the year, it's going to be many, many more millions watching. |
| 11. December 2020 | Streaming takes the right kind of person | Streaming takes the right kind of person. I was listening to Trash Taste talk about Streaming and they're like, yeah, it takes a special kind of person to be able to Stream with any kind of frequency. They're like, yeah, I stream for two to three hours and I'm just done, you know, I'm like I guess I don't think about that often. How long I can stream is more for me just a matter of Whether I have something to do and whether I feel awkward or interesting versus interesting, right? The main reason why I turn off a stream It's rarely because I'm specifically tired or wouldn't stream longer. It's usually because I just feel weird I'm like I'm being boring right now The runs just died or whatever and that's why I just bail. Like people like Clint Stevens who just kind of Vanish for weeks and weeks on end. I don't know how they do that. Like what would you do with your time? I just assume such people don't like streaming nearly as much as I do. Finja spends his time playing games for fun without the stress of streaming, but I find streaming Improves games. It makes games more enjoyable for me. Have I considered a streaming schedule? We've talked about this many times before. Having a streaming schedule is not necessary for success But it does have benefits in terms of generating an audience. I don't think I'd be able to keep to a streaming schedule I have tried a few times over the years But it's more that I think my stream is better when I'm ready You know trying to force myself to stream at a particular time just leads to me being tired or producing shitty content I'd rather produce good content that appears randomly on Twitch than Produce bad content that happens at specific times Especially considering all my content goes up to YouTube anyway It's more important that I make good content for that reason right? Because like sure you might miss a stream, but you'll eventually catch it on YouTube if you want to say it anyway |
| 17. March 2021 | Streaming while feeling bad | Streaming while feeling bad. What are all you people doing here? Did you want your daily dose of disappointment as I come here on stream, feeling like shit? Trying to convince myself I don't feel like shit? Is this the game that we play? Why are we still here? Cause I feel like shit, but there's been days where I felt like shit, then I've gotten to the stream and I've been like, yeah, man, I'm streaming. I'm big time streamy boy. And then I just feel better. So I'm hoping that's what happens today. Not fucking likely, but you know, thank you guys for being here. Yeah, I'm failing. At this point, I'm sleeping at literal random times. I'm waking up 6 a.m., then 6 p.m., and I'm just all around. I feel like I'm gonna get a jail. I'm gonna get arrested. People are gonna be like, you have abused yourself for too long. If my body had a voice, it would rat on me to the government and it'd take me away. We have witnessed testimony from yourself that you've been abusing yourself. I knew I was a rat. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 09. January 2022 | Streamlabs OBS is trash | Streamlabs OBS is trash. Quick reminder guys Streamlabs is complete trash and immoral. Please don't use their services. Thank you. You don't even have to make sacrifices because they're not even good. Is OBS better than Streamlabs? So basically when Streamlabs was first made it was a fork of OBS so basically they started with everything OBS had and then they added more stuff but over time because they're rooted in an earlier version of OBS it's become harder and harder and harder for them to add features and it's become slower and slower and more CPU intensive and of course over time OBS Studio has done their own upgrades and so basically OBS... the Streamlabs OBS is like a much simplified worse more processor intensive version of OBS so it's just worse |
| 24. May 2021 | Streamlabs is bad | Streamlabs is bad. If you're gonna start streaming, I highly recommend using anything else. So I think I've actually reached the point where I might change over to StreamElements. I am so fucking sick of Streamlabs. Every single time I change scene, the text-to-speech goes active again. And like, I tell this to a person on Twitter for Streamlabs, they're like, oh, you've probably got another widget active for that source. And I've only got one fucking widget. One. This has been bugged for like six fucking months. And they still haven't fixed it. Hey there, thanks for pointing this out. We're currently investigating this further. Holy shit. Imagine that just being bugged for six months and they just don't even have any fucking idea. God damn. And I'm going to a merch store, right guys? And I went to my merch store in Streamlabs. Fucking no information there. Like, it doesn't tell me, like, it says, oh, your all-time sales are 37. I'm like, no, it's not. That's not true. Oh, your all-time profit is... I'm like, no, that's also not true. None of these numbers are correct. It's like, oh, it's only able to calculate the numbers for the past two weeks. Fortunately, there is at least like the raw information. So I can see like every order that's ever been placed and I can put that in Excel and I can do the math myself if I want to. But fuck me. I need to make myself merch. And just make myself like a plushy Big Mac. Of limited supply. Like, there's only going to be ten. And then I'll sell them for $702 each. Genius. Now, I'll make myself an NFT. Then I'll just have people pay $100,000 for it. You know, that's just the way the world is right now. Make sure the plush has a plush tag with $702 on it. I do plan to make a plushy though. Of my League Doggo. It is eventually coming. There was also this jumper that was an amalgamation of all my emotes. And I hope to have that made too. Am I going to make the plushy limited? No. I don't... I'm not really a fan of artificial scarcity. Surely NFTs are just the fad, right? What merch do I have currently? I have a bunch of shirts and stuff. But it's from Streamlabs. And Streamlabs is pretty garbage. The products are fine. But you never know if they're in stock or whatever. And the system is terrible. So I can't add more items. Because it's such a huge pain in the ass to do so. The place I'll be using is better quality. And they'll handle the actual building of the storefront and stuff for me. I mean, I said to Streamlabs, like, hey, I'll pay you some money. If you just, like, add these under shirts. In the same way that I've done it with all the other ones. They're like, no. What do you mean, no? You just not got one guy around who can just do it? They're like, no, okay, fair enough. I was also just made to find out that the size and quality of the mugs varies and changes over time without any kind of announcement. So people who have been buying the mugs to make a collection or whatever, have a bunch of different sized mugs. Is this wrong? Yes, I agree. I, when I was a kid, my mother would buy us this jam where the glasses have like Looney Tunes and stuff on them. And it was cool having this collection of exact same glasses with all the different designs on it. And when we'd go to the store, we'd check, oh, we don't have this design. So we'd get that jam, you know? I would be terrible if the glass was still random sizes or whatever. Oh, because that's what they were. They were actual glasses to drink from. But they just had jam in them. |
| 23. January 2023 | Streamlabs is closing down my merch store. | Stream Elements is closing down my merch store. So many of you likely know that I have an amazing merch store. Oh my god. It's crazy. This isn't an advertisement, I'm going somewhere with this. And so I got my mugs and t-shirts and tank tops and hoodies and stickers and da da da. I was even going to end up putting more emotes on there, like unseen emotes. Like I'll show you them right now. Some of them were just the rejected ones, but these are like the emotes that I don't use on Twitch. Like variations of different emotes and stuff. So I was going to put these up, but my merch store is likely closing down. Before I explain that though, do you need someone to make you emotes or draw you something? Check out Bazinga199981 who has worked to improve and upscale 100 plus emotes for me. He even made some of his own woofle emotes as shown below. Reliable, cheap, and can certainly create what you need. So he's the one who's been upscaling my emotes and fixing them and completing them so that I can put them on merch. But I have been informed by StreamElements that they're closing down their custom merch stores. So I either have to migrate this somewhere else, which would be a huge pain, or just close it down entirely. I'm sure I'll eventually find somewhere else to put it or something, but it's a lot of work. Why would they do that? I don't know. StreamElements has been changing quite a bit, maybe because StreamLabs was so much more successful. To be honest, StreamLabs was far more successful because they did a bunch of shady underhanded things and stole a bunch of stuff and ripped off a lot of their users and then did all this to inflate their value so that they could be bought out. It's kind of a scummy thing, but StreamElements has always been behind StreamLabs. But yeah, so for the time being, any purchases will be still fulfilled. But if in a couple of weeks or something you try to go to the merch store and it's not there, that's probably why. I'll keep you posted, probably in rambles, if this ends up going somewhere. The Waffle House has found its new host. The co- |
| 07. February 2021 | Streamlabs is impressively useless | Streamlabs is impressively useless. I am so sick of Streamlabs, guys. They've been out of shirts for two months. Arguably, it's probably closer to six months at this point. And they're like, Oh yeah, we got some more shirts coming in, don't you worry, and we have them in stock right now. And they go check a week later and they're out of stock. Again. You're a fucking merch company and you're out of shirts. Shirts! Like, oh, global pandemic. You mean the thing that's been going on for 18 months? That like any company worth its salt has figured out its supply lines? This isn't like an iPhone that requires parts from 43 different companies, countries. It's shirts. I'm like, do you have the ability for me to like substitute a different type of shirt in the meantime? Nope. Streamlabs is the biggest pain in my ass. You know what's really annoying though about this? So whenever I would add a new emos to my merch, I would go, okay, mug, jumper, tank top shirt. Done. And next one, mug, jumper, tank top shirt. Over and over again. And now because the shirts out of stock, it doesn't let me put new designs on the shirts. So I can't do my normal formula. I can't finish off one emote. I can only half finish them and then go back later and do them again, which is just annoying. I say to him like, if you're going to get stock back in, why not let me just put the emotes on the out of stock item and preemptively so that when it comes back in stock, it can go up on the store. Like, oh, well, we thought that'd be kind of confusing. I mean, fuck me dead. Like, it's like, we assumed that anyone who was putting merch on our stores would have like the IQ of 10. That there's seven year olds. They try to put squares into the circular holes. They wouldn't figure out if you put a note that if we put a note that said this item is out of stock, but you can put designs on it preemptively. Like, if you put that up there, it would just confuse people and they would kill themselves in confusion. Like, the amount of problems I've had, like I could be making stream labs tons of money with my merch. I could be doing that, but they just won't let me. People want my merch. I want to make merch for people. I don't bother advertising it because it just the place that holds it is so fucking terrible. |
| 27. July 2021 | Strimma! Check your social media! I messaged you! | Eh. If everyone did this, would it be okay? If the answer's no, then you shouldn't be doing it. |
| 24. September 2021 | Stringing together facts to paint a lie | Stringing together facts to paint a lie. Do I believe in any conspiracy theories? No. A conspiracy theory, sort of, you know, by its nature, does not have enough evidence to justify a belief. It's usually stringed together like a strung together pattern that ignores contradicting evidence. With anything, you can connect together certain things that are factual to paint a picture that isn't necessarily true by ignoring anything that contradicts the narrative. |
| 15. November 2020 | Struggling to complete my favourite childhood game | Struggling to complete my favorite childhood game. I have footage of me playing one of my favorite games as a kid on stream. It was called Jewel Master. I never finished it as a kid, but I decided to play it on stream and finish it. I got to the final level, versing the final boss, and I was like, this is insane! How could you ever beat this boss? Oh, it must be one of those things where they made the final boss which is really, really difficult because they wanted sucking coins at arcades or whatever. But I kept trying and trying. I couldn't beat this boss. This is insane! Am I even doing damage to this boss? I used save states because I was that pissed. I made a save state just to do maximum damage and stuff because I was using an emulator. I was loading save states. I still couldn't beat it. I'm like, this is insane! I had to Google how to beat this boss. And it turned out that the only way to beat the boss was... The reason why it's called Jewel Master is because you combine different jewels on your hands to perform different spells. And if you combine the four strongest gems... Understand, no other spell in the game requires four gems. If you put all four of the most powerful gems in particular slots, it grants you this special light blade. And I was like, oh! So I did that, and then I three-hit the final boss. I must have spent at least an hour more than that, even when just doing save states over and over again. Like, why isn't it dying? Ah! And just... one, two, three, oh. Like, I'm assuming it's like a riddle or something in the intro cutscene or whatever. Combining the four gems of power... maybe it was in the manual or something? I don't know. I was really pissed. Please release it. I'm sure it wouldn't be that outstanding a video. |
| 22. January 2022 | Study in Ghana about the nature of bribes and corruption | about the nature of bribes and corruption. The study found that basically everyone accepted bribes. Like bribery was just the way of the world. You show this pass and you pay this amount of money under the table to the guard. And so the study, it was a government study, they wanted to see if increasing the pay of these people would reduce the amount of bribes that they would take. It didn't. What happened was the person got a higher sense of inflated importance and so would charge more for bribes. Because it wasn't like they needed the money necessarily for the bribes. It was just that was what was expected. That was the culture. So the person was like, I'm making more money now, so I guess I'm more important. So I'm clearly deserving of a higher bribe. I'm sure the people accepting the bribes didn't even think it was something else. This is just what everyone does. This is just how the world works. You know, how do you beat a coach like that? Embarrassing dating. |
| 22. January 2022 | Study in ghana about the nature of bribes and corruption | about the nature of bribes and corruption. The study found that basically everyone accepted bribes. Like bribery was just the way of the world. You show this pass and you pay this amount of money under the table to the guard. And so the study, it was a government study, they wanted to see if increasing the pay of these people would reduce the amount of bribes that they would take. It didn't. What happened was the person got a higher sense of inflated importance and so would charge more for bribes. Because it wasn't like they needed the money necessarily for the bribes. It was just that was what was expected. That was the culture. So the person was like, I'm making more money now, so I guess I'm more important. So I'm clearly deserving of a higher bribe. I'm sure the people accepting the bribes didn't even think it was something else. This is just what everyone does. This is just how the world works. You know, how do you beat a coach like that? Embarrassing dating. |
| 25. June 2021 | Subscribe to Tom Scott's YouTube channel | Not... I don't mean in terms of like watchability, like certainly it is really great content to watch. But I mean that kind of content where you can, you know, fly around the world and just see all this cool stuff. And you know, see stuff and learn about stuff that Vafie gets to learn about. That's pretty cool. I imagine for me personally, I think that would get tiring sometimes. Like jet lag from flights and travel and whatnot. But there is so much of the world to see that you'll just never see in a lifetime. But Tom Scott has a chance to see the, at least a significant portion of it, you know. Tom Scott is basically a museum tour guide, yes. And he's really good at it. His ability to, like there's that, is it his copyright video or something? Where he just does like a monologue for like 10 minutes. Never stuttering over words, slurring something. Perfect enunciation. Not a single mistake. All the way through. It's amazing. One of the first videos from Tom Scott's I think I saw, at least the one that stands out right now, is that whole um... The number on the side of a toaster isn't a timer. It's to cook it at a certain amount. You know? And what do you call it, degrees of burn-ness? I didn't know that. I never really thought about it. Oh, heat? Yeah, that makes sense. It isn't minutes. Or is it the other way around? Really? Are you sure? No, I don't think it was a timer. Am I crazy? No, it is heat. It is heat. You'll see people have split on it already in chat. When I was younger I thought it was a timer, but now I guess they just didn't really pay attention, you know. How I learned of my headsets. You know how I learned of these headphones, chat? About five plus years ago, I typed into an audio file, subreddit, today. |
| 25. December 2019 | Subscription services and copyright law | to. Subscription services and copyright law. You play plus is actually insane how so? Scott there was just released a video where he reviewed collectively a bunch of subscription plans, giving them like a ABDD, you know, a letter. No one got an A. At the end he's like, but you know what? No one needs this many fucking subscriptions or whatever. The video ended. It is true. It's weirdly one of those things. Okay, so copyright law is what enables this many subscription services to exist because copyright law gives people a monopoly on particular forms of content. And it's really, really annoying. But at the same time, copyright law is what enables and inspires people to make content. Like if you're going to spend a million dollars making something, and then a company can come along and steal that very thing that you made and not spend the million dollars that you spent making it. Why would you spend that million dollars? Copyright laws, this is really, really necessary, but amazingly annoying bit of legislation. Like absent copyright law, Netflix would be like, okay, we're just going to rip everyone's TV shows and just show everything on our platform. And everyone could do that. And we would just pick whatever subscription service had the best recommendation algorithm and the best features, best quality, da da da, rather than for the content itself. But as I say, I think such a world, while being good in those ways would be ultimately worse because of the absence of people's ability to be inspired to make content. My thoughts on the new YouTube creator. |
| 12. August 2020 | Success breeds success | Success breeds success. There is this thing where once you're successful, once you have money, once you have those resources, the sort of content you can create is so much more diverse, because you have the funds to go places or buy expensive equipment, da da da. Like, the amount of people who can do the stuff that MrBeast does is so tiny, you know, because you need that many funds. But just beyond that, you need certain things like just throwing money at people. You need disposable income for that. Even just hiring a bunch of people from Fiverr and shit, if you're already successful, there is so much easy content you can make just by throwing money at the wall, you know? Once you're successful on YouTube, it is so much easier to make content than when you're not successful, right? It's part of the reason why the barriers to entry to YouTube are so high, because how are you going to compete with those people who have hundreds of thousands of dollars just to sit on their couch and fill out other people to do work for them, you know? |
| 01. June 2020 | Success from trauma | I know it's it is so what do you think about various TED Talkers who tell their success stories so as to inspire others? To do what they did but all they did was out of trauma or something traumatic happening to them I mean you would imagine I've not seen such TED Talks, but you would imagine those stories would be to say hey If you've experienced trauma there is a light at the end of the tunnel you can make it just like other people can I mean that's As inspirational for those who've experienced trauma if you mean they only succeeded because of their trauma You have to tell me the individual story if there was no trauma in the world It's hard to imagine that there'd be less successful people is what I'm saying I doubt that trauma is a necessary element necessary element for success in this world Or for the world to be prosperous or healthy or happy or what have you I don't see trauma as an element in society To be a good thing even if in some cases it leads to it can lead to good things for an individual |
| 27. December 2020 | Success on YouTube, past and present. | Success on YouTube, past and present. What the algorithm is doing in any particular time is different, different markets and whatever. There are just some common sentiments at any given time in YouTube's history that if you know about it gives you a little bit of an edge. Like there are some things that you think that people would just come to understand quickly about YouTube that they don't necessarily. You know that thumbnails really matter, that titles really matter and how to present both. But a lot of it depends on your ideas. A lot of people when they try to get into YouTube just do what everyone else is doing. But of course they do it far worse because they have less experience. YouTube is a graveyard of let's play channels. People who are like, I already play video games. There are people who play video games and they are successful. Therefore I will play video games and I will be successful. No one starts off with all the knowledge necessary for success. And certainly during the earlier days of YouTube that information was less accessible even if you knew it existed. Things were less figured out. So there was a greater necessity just purely for luck that you happen to do the thing that corresponds with what you need to do to be successful. Because you couldn't get that information anywhere. Or either that or it was just unknown. These days though you can actually research, get advice, do things that are commonly believed to increase your likelihood of success. You've seen all the YouTube channels now that do the same thing. How they start off and saying, hey guys, 25% of you aren't subscribed. So press that subscribe button, it's free or whatever. I wonder how much of that was because of Critical. Critical made a video where he just said, I mean everyone knew that before. Where it's been known for ages that if you ask people to subscribe that they have a higher chance of subscribing. But it just seemed as though when Critical came out and said it everyone was like, well then I better do it then. It's almost as though it was less that people didn't know that asking people to sub gets you more subs. It's more that because Critical said it and Critical is very respected, it made it okay for everyone to do. You know, there's needs one respectable person to say it's okay to ask people to sub and everyone started doing it. You have never once subbed because a YouTuber asked you to. I don't remember if I ever have. I don't recall an instance where it occurred. One of the hardest things on YouTube to see is content creators who don't really have any, like their brand is their content. They themselves are fairly irrelevant. It's hard to explain, but there's this channel I watch that talks about memes. Where like every video gets like two to three hundred thousand views, has the same format, they're like three minute long videos. They explain the history of a particular meme, lessons in meme culture, I believe it's called. Like you go to their Patreon and they have fifteen dollars on their Patreon, like three Patreons. For a channel that size bringing in that many views, you would imagine a Patreon would be getting more money than that. But because he, because no one knows who the guy is. Like almost regardless of how good the content is, if you like the person making it, you're more likely to support them, whatever. But if there's no personality, no name, it seems hard to get patrons on Patreon unless like your content is just unbelievably good, you know. |
| 13. August 2022 | Summary of events | Recently there was a bit of drama over the announcement of Starforged Systems, a pre-built PC company supported by 12 influencers, ultimately the OTK org and Moist critical. This drama came about because the announced systems were not only poorly priced, but the parts were not the best parts that you should be buying at their associated price points. Just because there's a dozen CPUs you can get for $200, it doesn't mean all of them make sense to buy. While changes were made to the systems in response to the mountain of criticism, people were left wondering how this could have happened at all. This drama came off the back of the bankruptcy of Artesian Builds, the previous pre-built PC company that sponsored these creators. That bankruptcy ultimately led to a lot of customers losing their money and PCs. I rambled about this story on stream, but rather than just sticking it on YouTube, I decided to reach out to Charlie to hear his side of the story. |
| 27. October 2021 | Summit1G on speedrunning GTA 5 | There's a first comment where someone was like, these aren't true, and I'm like, aha! I know exactly why you can't do any of these things, motherfucker. Not only do I know the facts, I know why you fail at them, you know? My thoughts on maturity and what defines it. It's really weird how mature YouTubers aren't as big as immature ones. It depends where you're defining mature. All of the YouTubers who are big now are probably more mature than they used to be, because they've grown up over the years that they've been popular, right? And it's hard to know to what extent any shown immaturity is just a matter of, you know, just a persona done for YouTube. But who cares about maturity? I should've said this at the beginning, who fucking cares? If you're enjoying yourself doing something, you're not harming anyone, who gives a shit what you're doing? People would call me immature for playing video games for a living, and watching anime or something. Do give- |
| 27. October 2021 | Summit1G on speedrunning gta 5 | Summit1G on speedrunning GTA 5 You know once upon a time Summit1G did say he wanted to check out GTA 5 speedrunning and Then he might speedrun it himself. True story. I'm not lying to you Summit had recently speedrun Ocarina of Time, Any% I had just gotten the classic percent world record. I can't remember why I donated to Summit It's the only time I ever donated to him and I mentioned in the donation that I speedrun GTA 5. He's like, oh really? That's cool, man Thinking about checking that out myself. Maybe doing some speedrunning myself or whatever I I thought it sounded like there's no fucking way that Summit would ever speedrun this game Because when when most people think of speedruns they think of things like Ocarina of Time or whatever like you just massively skip huge sections of the game |
| 17. January 2020 | Summoning salt | RIP ME THEN Summoning Salt I've watched every video Summoning Salt's ever made They're fantastic videos, all of them He's a very good content creator He almost, I wouldn't say almost himself pioneered a genre of world record progression videos I'm sure those kinds of videos have existed, here or there If he wasn't the first one to do it he certainly popularized it and led to a lot of other people making similar videos You can't often point to a creator and go, this creator had a positive effect on this genre of content but you can do that with Summoning Salt I've never met the dude, never talked to him Thank you for watching and I hope you enjoyed it |
| 08. August 2022 | Super Thanks becoming more common on Youtube? | Super thanks becoming more common on YouTube. I don't know what it is chat, but there's been a little bit of a change on YouTube. So YouTube introduced Super Thanks. It's this little button here, show support with Super Thanks. And it's just a donation. Buy and send. So once upon a time, YouTube added something called a tip jar. On a person's main page, there'd be a little thing on the side that's like, hey, tip. And you'd send a private message to the creator with the money. Like a donation, but it's entirely private. They discontinued it after a couple of months, I believe. Because effectively, it's the minus ending no one used that I certainly never received one. But this is their new attempt. And what it does is it gives you a highlighted comment down below. So people can see that you donated and the message is public. So it not only gets attention from potentially the creator, but also from the audience as well. I received a lot yesterday. So prior to hitting a million subs, I received one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, with messages like fart and gay. This isn't $100. It shows other currencies. So you're like, oh, I got $100. Oh, it's two bucks. Nevermind. It's still cool. But I received a lot of these, like $2, $10. Like, I don't know what these currencies are, but I mean, I just appreciate it in general, right? And now that people are doing super things, I now have two buttons up here. So how I go with looking at my comments now is I'll open this and this. And so it shows me super thanks and it shows me all members. And then when I read the most recent member comments, then I click this off and I read the rest of the comments. Because as I've said many times before, anytime there's downtime, I'm not watching YouTube video, whatever, I'll click open my comments on the other page and I read one or two. Maybe when Premiere is just taking like a minute to start running the timeline, it's so dumb. But yeah, like I don't know if they've made super things more public or attention grabbing or people just getting more used to donating or something. It's as I say. |
| 17. January 2020 | Super mario maker has annoying buttons | Super Mario Maker has annoying buttons. Yeah, so basically I played Super Mario Maker and I got annoyed that most of the vital controls are all on the right hand side of the controller. Especially with the Link costume, you need to press often like three of the buttons and you're like moving your thumb between three buttons. It's fucking terrible. And the game doesn't allow button remapping. So I tried using a claw grip and it just feels terrible. Like controllers are already hard enough to use and are so inefficient for gaming to not allow button remapping. It's just insane. I have since bought a controller that allows me to rebind buttons, but unfortunately it didn't work after like five minutes and I haven't looked at it again. |
| 08. August 2022 | Super thanks becoming more common on youtube? | Super thanks becoming more common on YouTube. I don't know what it is chat, but there's been a little bit of a change on YouTube. So YouTube introduced Super Thanks. It's this little button here, show support with Super Thanks. And it's just a donation. Buy and send. So once upon a time, YouTube added something called a tip jar. On a person's main page, there'd be a little thing on the side that's like, hey, tip. And you'd send a private message to the creator with the money. Like a donation, but it's entirely private. They discontinued it after a couple of months, I believe. Because effectively, it's the minus ending no one used that I certainly never received one. But this is their new attempt. And what it does is it gives you a highlighted comment down below. So people can see that you donated and the message is public. So it not only gets attention from potentially the creator, but also from the audience as well. I received a lot yesterday. So prior to hitting a million subs, I received one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, with messages like fart and gay. This isn't $100. It shows other currencies. So you're like, oh, I got $100. Oh, it's two bucks. Nevermind. It's still cool. But I received a lot of these, like $2, $10. Like, I don't know what these currencies are, but I mean, I just appreciate it in general, right? And now that people are doing super things, I now have two buttons up here. So how I go with looking at my comments now is I'll open this and this. And so it shows me super thanks and it shows me all members. And then when I read the most recent member comments, then I click this off and I read the rest of the comments. Because as I've said many times before, anytime there's downtime, I'm not watching YouTube video, whatever, I'll click open my comments on the other page and I read one or two. Maybe when Premiere is just taking like a minute to start running the timeline, it's so dumb. But yeah, like I don't know if they've made super things more public or attention grabbing or people just getting more used to donating or something. It's as I say. |
| 04. June 2021 | Supercut videos from movies | Supercut videos from movies. And I've talked about Star Wars so many times, dude. Oh, actually speaking of Star Wars, there's this video that someone made which is just every single time a character says Star or Wars in the entire franchise. So just all nine movies, rather. And it's all just Star, Star, Star, Star, War, War, Star, War, Star, War. No one at any point in the show, I think, says Star War or Star Wars. Like, with the two words together. But the video is like three minutes. They said Star quite a bit, and War quite a bit. When you see these videos of people who've made compilation of X and it's got like millions of views, you're like, man, why didn't I fucking do that? Because it's something that anyone can do, but it just takes someone to think of doing that and then actually go to the effort. Because as I've said before, making compilations, going through all the content that could have one instance of that thing, it takes a long fucking time, you know? And you've got to be paying attention perfectly the entire time. |
| 30. June 2022 | Surprisingly Asmongold has gotten worse and solutions to react content | Watch it, it's great. Surprisingly, Asmongold has gotten worse and possible solutions to React content. So when I released those React videos, I didn't have any high hopes for really improving much. I just thought I'd get it off my chest and that would be that. While I did fear that the video would ultimately become a guidebook on how to enable people to screw other people, what I didn't expect was Asmongold would watch it and see it as a guidebook on how to even grade to screw people. He now uploads like six reaction videos a day. He averaged like one for the prior two years because like, wait a second, I can fuck tons of people and they're completely ignorant of it and just make free money and they'll praise me stupidly? Fuck yeah, son. And now that's like his entire life. He uploaded like a full donkey video six hours after the video release. Any popular video that occurs like a day before his stream, he will then watch it on stream and his editors who don't edit will then chuck it to his YouTube channel. Like while he's still streaming. I am now culpable for all the harm that that caused and that will cause. Because if I had done nothing, well things probably still would have gotten worse. But maybe they would have gotten worse slower. I've just like ramped everything up. The only thing I can hope is that the things now will become so much worse that the people who support this practice will wake the fuck up and someone will start striking these people. People talk about what's the potential solution to react content. Here it is. Video game donkey has to wake up one day and be like, I'm retiring and you know what? That poison pill that I've set on all these fucking react channels. They've all uploaded my videos. I've never said they could, but they've done it anyway. And they just sits on this backend, hits select all, copyright strike and just takes down every react channel in one go. Like video game donkey has like a nuke for YouTube relatively speaking. And he could take out all these people, but of course he won't because the backlash you get would just be insane. The only people who could really stop reactors are the people who get reacted to the most. And like I know video game donkey hates reaction content, but he also probably hates the kind of stuff I make as well. His ideal YouTube is not one where channels just continuously re-upload other people's videos to farm the algorithm, to farm impressions away from other content creators. It's never gonna happen. But I'm sure he must look at Asmongold getting a hundred million views a month and 200,000 subscribers a month. And donkey getting what? Like 10K subscribers a month and like 15 million views. Still doing well, but like Asmongold is in large part successful, has become successful re-uploading donkey's videos and now he is massively surpassed video game donkey as you do, cause that's how reaction content works obviously. Cause you'd siphon the impressions away from all the other creators. A lot of them have noticed obviously, like the person who I referenced in the video Maxor, who Asmongold reacted to all those times, he asked Asmongold to take down the videos as any same person should, but asking Asmongold to take down the videos doesn't change anything. As I said in the video, you just move on to the next unpaid intern. The only way that this stops is if there's actual repercussions, cause there's always gonna be that next creator down the line who can be siphoned from. And of course, as I explained in the video, it's not just the people to get reacted to who get siphoned from, it's all of us using the reactives content, but the guilt I feel because I can't change the world, that I can't make this better, that I may have made things worse drives me nuts. I'm trying not to care, but I've been trying not to care about other people in the world for my entire fucking life, and it hasn't worked so far. Okay, that's an exaggeration. I don't wanna stop caring entirely, but sometimes I would just like to be able to be like, I wanna care between like 9 a.m. and like 1 p.m. Just like, just cut out a small slice of the day where I care about the world and feel shit because the world is so shit, and the rest of my time I can have for myself. Being down because of the state of the world and all that jazz is not fun 24 seven chat, it's not. Did Josh Strife finally realize he's being screwed? I think he did, yeah he did. He doesn't like it either, but it's as I point out, and in his words, you're fighting the tide. You're not gonna win, so go with the flow. Like he's, I don't think he's gonna be reacting himself or whatever, but it does suck to some degree that a lot of Aspen Gold's followers will still look to Josh and his prior acceptance of React content to dismiss criticism of it. It's, I can understand, this is my fight, you know. I don't blame anyone for not being as passionate about it as I am, especially because my passion for it slowly drive me fucking crazy. Does YouTube detect re-uploaded videos that are reacted to and take them down? I used to make React content, now I realize how terrible of a thing it was. My videos were getting taken down, so I'm confused how popular YouTube is React content. Don't get taken down. So on the back end, you see everyone who's reacted to your videos, but many content creators do not understand that they are being fucked by Reactors and see a large content creator reacting to their video as like, oh, I'm benefiting here. The Reactors are just benefiting me. In reality, as I explained in the video, that's not the case. Even in the rare cases where you do see a small boon from the reaction video, you do not see all the impressions that get siphoned from you over the next couple of weeks or what have you from that video, but also you do not see all the impressions, views, and therefore money that are siphoned from you from all React content in general. It is a system where a Reactor is taking $1 from a thousand people to give one guy $5, but you don't receive that $5 every time. You're far more likely to be one of the thousand who loses the dollar than the person who receives the $5. The only person who wins out in the long term is the guy taking $1 from a thousand people every single time. So some people don't understand this concept, and so believe it to be a boon. So don't take down large content creators' videos, but smaller content creators, when they see them react, they're like, well, fuck you. You're just leashing off me. What, are you insane? And they take down those videos, right? There needs to be a creator union. You'd have to first convince creators that a person re-uploading half of YouTube onto their channel doesn't actually benefit them. I know it may seem insane that some people don't understand this concept, but you just don't think about it, you know? The old adage of all exposure is good exposure. It's just so all-encompassing for some people. They just don't understand that that's not the case. There's a big difference between exposure and increasing your own competition. It's a very big difference between exposure and a market substitute, but they don't understand. And my ability to reach people is quite limited. The amount of people who just say to my face, you're wrong, but I won't watch your video that explains why you're correct. And I'm just like, ah, well, okay. Well, what am I meant to do there? Like, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. And it's not a simple concept. Some people are just literally mentally incapable of understanding. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 08. June 2022 | Sushi is trash. | Sushi is trash. You got your grandma sushi? I have on multiple occasions tried sushi and everything that's actually cooked is mid. Everything that's not cooked is disgusting. I ordered myself salmon expecting it to be cooked. It wasn't. I tried some. It was terrible. I therefore proceeded to take all the salmon out of everything that I ordered and cooked it on my stove. And it tasted good. Shame I was the one who had to cook it. Yeah, it is the texture of salmon that throws me. |
| 10. July 2021 | Swagger Souls has 5 million subs?!?! | Swagger Souls has 5 million subs? Swagger Souls has 5 million subs? Huh. Becoming a VR chat furry, alright. I understand why he has 5 million subs now. Ha ha ha ha! Can't compete with that, you know? It's a demographic that I just can't appeal to. Ha ha ha ha! Wouldn't mind trying VR chat one day, though. I think I'd be terrible at that. In the same way that I think I'd be terrible at GTA Worldplay. |
| 15. February 2020 | Swearing and advertiser friendly content | Swear and Advertiser Friendly Content I feel like it would be the most sellout fucking thing that I can do, stopping how much I swear to become more advertiser friendly. I could never imagine doing that. But I mean, surely there's an amount of money that I could be offered. So Mixer comes up to me like, look, we'll give you a billion dollars if you never swear again. I couldn't do it. Like, I definitely fail. But as long as they gave me some leeway, obviously I'd take it. There's a certain thing with selling out where people are mad when people sell out. But if a person was offered like a ridiculous amount of money to sell out and they didn't take it, people would be equally as mad, you know? They offered you a billion dollars and you didn't take it, but you're fucking dumb? |
| 18. April 2021 | Swearing and demonetization | words and demonetization. So I've been on the record guys multiple times that I think the way that society treats swear words I think it's completely absurd that these particular words are enshrined and made important or taboo for seemingly no reason when in a large majority of uses it's just filler words to to create emphasis or to communicate a particular emotion. It annoys me on any platform that people care about swearing, but of course, it's not the platform's fault. It's society's fault. Like I don't hate YouTube for caring about swearing. It's the market. Society. It doesn't choose for people to care about this stuff. I'm sure in YouTube's wildest dreams it would love every advertiser not to care about swearing, but that's not the world we live in so YouTube is kind of it's hands are tied, right? I consider YouTube's rules to be quite lenient. Sometimes you need to excessively swear like I'm like every second sentence or have swearing in the first 30 seconds to get demonetized and it's usually not a problem. But for the first 30 seconds because my clips on my YouTube on my clips channel aren't very long there's often swearing in the first 30 seconds. I think I had 20 of the 2600 clips or something get demonetized. I said can you manually check all these and I think they undid like half of them. But I think some people who review it are okay with like one swear or a non f-word swear or swearing when it's a part of the game and others aren't. There is clearly some level of leniency in the human review because that's humans, right? There's a human subjectivity kind of annoying system but an understandable system, you know about swearing. What happens if a character in the game swears in the first 30 seconds? That's my question Swift. Twitch for example because Twitch is a far more mature website than YouTube obviously its audience is far more mature at the average age of the audience is far more mature that Twitch is a video game website obviously has a lot more lenience in regards to this kind of stuff. Twitch allows for a different standard for the game itself than your conduct in regards to nudity and the language that is used. On YouTube it's hard to tell so I've had a clip with so talk about clips now because clips I can't really edit for that purpose to remove the swearing I mean I've had a clip with like someone saying shiz in the first 30 seconds and it was demonetized and confirmed on manual review. I had another one that had the same thing and it wasn't demonetized isn't like it was demonetized when I said manual review and they accepted it. There are definitely some that I'm probably baiting a demonetization more than I need to like I got a hole in one and I have that clip of my first hole in one and I called it when you shoot so good that you come or something and the clip itself is fine I'm just very excited that I got a hole in one but I mean the title and it was confirmed the manual review and I'm just like I should probably just change the title. I mean I I probably could even just censored the word and I would have been fine, but I don't give that much of a shit right now. |
| 02. August 2021 | Sword art online | I have seen the first two seasons of Sword Art Online, I remember nothing of it. It was one of the first Isekai's or whatever. Like a lot of people have seen it, but there's way better ones. Like if you Google top 10 Isekai's, Sword Art Online shouldn't be in it. It isn't good, it's just, it's Kirito, it's just I'm OP now. I can deal with it, cause fuck you. Like that scene where he just magically is able to hack into the mainframe or whatever and save the girl, he's just like, I enjoyed it when I watched it, it was only after I watched other stuff that I realized it was pretty mediocre. Could I become a president despite Australia not having a president? |
| 30. May 2021 | TGG’s drama with GTA gentlemen. | TJG's drama with GTA gentlemen. You have balls man, I would not fucking get into fucking drama. I don't know how I do it man, I just get a beam of bonnet about some topic you know. I had to get into drama. Oh was that GTA gentlemen? Was that that one? Yeah. What happened there? Oh dude literally ripped off my thumb now. Like he copied and pasted it pretty much and um, huddled word for word after like copyright striking a smaller YouTuber for doing the same thing to him. And that smaller YouTuber couldn't livestream for 90 days because of the strike over Christmas as well with the GTA update and the ad rev at its peak and what not. So I just made a video and I'm like dude how are you gonna do this but copyright someone else and like yeah. Situation was a bit weird though to be honest with the guy that he's struck you know. Yeah. Like I didn't mean to kill the dude's channel but like that was in December he had 203k subs and still to this day he has 198k. Yeah. Because I put so much time into those videos around update time. Like that's my time to shine sort of thing on YouTube and then he literally rips off most shit word for word. And like the title, sorry the thumbnail was the exact same, exact same wording. Was that the Kaio Perico diamond one that you're talking about? Yeah. Yeah.ينarlberg.com |
| 24. April 2021 | TV and Media consumption | TV and media consumption. You work in judicial broadcasting, I find it mind-blowing how much people still watch TV. I mean, TV has evolved. Like, TV today isn't like TV when I was a kid, where you had to make sure you were there at 7pm to watch this one show or whatever, right? Because you can record it on your box or whatever, and there's just so many different channels and stuff, and da-da-da. I mean, most people are probably watching Netflix and stuff, right? And yeah, older people more in tune with the TV and whatnot. I haven't had a TV in a long time. I do plan to buy a TV and then effectively never use it, but it will look good in my living room, and I need furniture or people think I'm weird, should I eventually bring people over? I can watch Netflix on my TV, but why would I bother doing that? I have an iPad in my bed. I have been meaning to go furniture shopping for the past four years. I'll get to it eventually. Need to find myself something that can appropriately hold my iPad, because what I'm currently using is a box that I got with the Sekiro Collector's Edition that was sent to me for free. It's an amazing box, but using that box and then putting a normal bed stand on top of it to get the required height, like that's not a good looking system, you know? No room for a projector. Why would I want a larger TV? I don't care about insane quality. Like, you're looking at a guy who I prefer to have people summarize stories to me than to watch the stories myself. If you just wanted to watch a movie and like give me a play by play, I would enjoy that probably more than watching the movie. I just want to know the story. No joke, though. I have multiple times watched a person play an old video game, realized they weren't going to finish it. And so I've just like, rather than playing the game myself, I've just looked up what the story of that game is and read it all in like 10 minutes. |
| 20. July 2022 | Take Two takes down fan vr mods | Take 2 takes down fan VR mods A Rockstar community member has been given a DMCA takedown notice by Take 2 for his VR mods in GTA and Red Dead. It's the popular VR mods, like it's what I reference all the time, GTA V having third party VR mods, mods I did eventually intend to use. I've downloaded them now but this is terrible. I cannot imagine that Take 2 or Rockstar is going to make their own VR mod for GTA V. I know they're making one for San Andreas but the one they made for LNUR wasn't all that good, it only had some of the missions I believe. And the San Andreas one is not likely going to be the entire game. But even from a business standpoint this wasn't particularly popular and it wasn't really competing with anything Rockstar was doing or Take 2 was doing, it just seemed so unnecessary and terrible. Like, it just, poor person spent a fuck ton of time on this and it's just all going to go to waste, you know. Fuck Take 2, basically. They have no right to do this as far as I'm aware, legally speaking, because they're not using any of their materials from the game or something, it's just something separate from the game that interacts with the game. I'd be interested to see if Take 2 would even win a lawsuit against this dude but of course they don't have the money, you know. It's just bullying. Didn't Take 2 do the same thing to open 4? They did but they ended up reversing it because of massive backlash. They've done other things to other modders and stuff that has stuck. It's just been an ongoing thing with Take 2 attacking any mod that gets too successful and that Take 2 feels as potentially competing with them in some respect. Like I always say the 5M stuff with roleplaying, Take 2 could attack that so strongly and I wonder what would happen if they did because it's just so popular, all the roleplaying stuff, people would be so pissed. Hopefully we never see what happens. |
| 11. June 2021 | Take-Two Interactive Releasing 60 Games By 2024 | Take 2 releasing 60 games by 2024. Did you guys hear that apparently, apparently Take 2 says they're going to be releasing, what was it, 60 games by 2024? Surely includes a bunch of mobile titles and stuff, but uh, there's going to be some full single player experiences as well. Sixty seems like a lot for four years, that's what they claim. Yeah, Take 2 owns like, fuck, tons of stuff. They're not just going to be releasing some Rockstar games, they're not going to release 60 Rockstar games. |
| 28. September 2021 | Take-Two announces they are remaking 3 unnamed games | Take two announced they are remaking three unnamed games. I don't think they've announced what things are actually being remastered, right? It's Kotaku that's kind of leaking this three Viscenia San Andreas. I mean good! I'll play them all again. Good games. What would really suck though, is if the reason why take two is taking down the fan remasters is because their remasters can't even live up to that. I mean they're using entirely new engines so apparently that's what people are saying. So you gotta hope it's gonna be a better product. But like, there's videos that talk about Nintendo for example. All the Nintendo games that have been remastered have been worse than fan remasters. Lower FPS, lower resolutions, worse experience. Happened with Sony as well in their emulation is worse than fan emulators that exist. And of course we saw the same thing with Blizzard and Warcraft 3 although there wasn't a fan remaster of that of course. It's a lot of companies aren't willing to go to the effort to actually make their remasters good. Even Rockstar's previous attempts at remasters are abysmally terrible. Because Rockstar has remastered San Andreas before. It wasn't Rockstar though, it was farmed out to someone else. But you understand what I'm saying. Until the more recent remasters with like Spyro and Crash Bandicoot and stuff, what remasters did exist sucked. And even since then a lot of them have sucked. So I'm not holding my breath but we can hope you know. But of course if it does suck I'll be sure not to blame anyone who actually worked on the product. I'll just be sure to blame some nameless CEO. The fact they were running the Switch suggests to me it won't be particularly amazing. I mean you can already run the base games on a Switch if you hack it or mod it or whatever right? The San Andreas port on 360 and PS3 who has horrendous yeah. There's a great video on that. |
| 11. October 2021 | Take-Two claims all TV and movie GTA content on YouTube | Take Two Claims All TV and Movie GTA Content on YouTube Are you watching any more GTA movies together? For those unaware, I did a day where I watched the Meltdown movie that's in the game. It's now been made into a video, and the video is quite good, I think. But, Take Two has a thing where they, uh, they content ID claim any, like, movies or TV shows from any of the GTAs. So if you just upload you recording the TV from GTA IV, it will get flagged in content ID and you won't be able to monetize the video. I don't care, I suppose. As in, like, if this Meltdown video does well, let's say if it gets 200,000 views, I'll do the rest, even though I'll get no money for them. I'm more interested in making the videos than I am in getting money for it. And I would just pay the editor an estimate of what the video would make. So yeah, that's one consideration. So basically, if the video does well, despite that I'll make no money from it, I'll actually lose money. I would still make it. |
| 11. October 2021 | Take-Two claims all tv and movie GTA content on YouTube | Take Two Claims All TV and Movie GTA Content on YouTube Are you watching any more GTA movies together? For those unaware, I did a day where I watched the Meltdown movie that's in the game. It's now been made into a video, and the video is quite good, I think. But, Take Two has a thing where they, uh, they content ID claim any, like, movies or TV shows from any of the GTAs. So if you just upload you recording the TV from GTA IV, it will get flagged in content ID and you won't be able to monetize the video. I don't care, I suppose. As in, like, if this Meltdown video does well, let's say if it gets 200,000 views, I'll do the rest, even though I'll get no money for them. I'm more interested in making the videos than I am in getting money for it. And I would just pay the editor an estimate of what the video would make. But yeah, that's one consideration. So basically, if the video does well, despite that I'll make no money from it, I'll actually lose money. I was still making. |
| 18. December 2021 | Take-Two is suing everyone | Take two is suing everyone. So apparently, take two is doing some weird stuff. Take two have gone on a rampage of trademark disputes. They claim that they own the words rockstar, take two, bully, and all variants. In this article, like you can click on here and it shows all the trademarks that they're disputing. Like all these lawsuits, just pages. And there's like five pages of them against like, there's restaurants in here, you know? This says there's like an axe throwing company or something. You know that popular game, It Takes Two, which isn't even spelled the same way as take two. They're getting sued too. It's almost like someone at take two has found that Google exists and they're like, oh, we can search for words on the internet. Quickly, find everyone who uses our words. God damn. So bully came out 15 years ago and they think they own the word bully. That's pretty dumb. Like surely they can't win these lawsuits, right? So like if you aren't seen as defending your trademark, apparently you lose it. Like even if they don't succeed in these lawsuits, I guess that might bolster any future claims they have like, look at these lawsuits we did. We are clearly very protective of our trademark. And so in more legitimate claims, they can show that they have an interest or something. I don't know. I'm not a lawyer, you know? I've just heard that if you do nothing in regards to defending your trademark, then that can be used against you in future cases where it's like, well, this person hasn't done shit against this person or this person or this person or this person. So clearly they have no interest in protecting their trademark. And so they, you can't do shit against us. So it's like, hell yeah. |
| 23. August 2021 | Taking a break to play video games | Taking a break to play video games There's a lot of good stuff coming up the nanosecond that I Stopped playing Noita and spend time editing I have so many things I need to do but spend so much of my time editing and working I just want to play video games for once man. I miss Being younger and just doing that shit I know it may look like to other people that all I do is play video games But it's the editing all day every day just slowly killing them You know, yeah, I feel like I've enjoyed myself a little bit too much though with the amount of slay this fire and noise I've been playing |
| 04. March 2022 | Taking down old Rambles episodes. | Taking down old Rambles episodes. For those who haven't noticed, I've been revamping Rambles on YouTube. It's been hella annoying. So not only have I changed the thumbnail, it looks better than it used to. It's more vibrant. It's got the core of what the original was, but it's just more eye-catching now and more readable. But I've also removed the first 100 episodes and then maybe like another 25 from the next 100. The first 100 weren't edited all that well or didn't contain title cards or were often just like one topic that only lasts like 3 minutes or something. Very different from the sort of Rambles that, Rambles episodes I produced today where I try to target 20 minutes. So I took those down and then the reason why 25 more came from the next 100 was because I wanted to remove like particularly political topics, often especially those that were completely out of date. I also removed the episodes that had any mention of Apollo Legends, especially given his suicide. Well, nothing in there is particularly bad. It just seems insensitive. It's in any capacity to bring that back to mind in those videos. But of those 25 episodes, the Rambles that are still good from those episodes are just going to be re-released. Those that are still relevant. Yes, I'm saying Dead Revolution, those are getting re-posted. And there's still some more re-posting to be done. I'm hoping it's not too off-putting for people. |
| 04. March 2022 | Taking down old rambles episodes. | Taking down old Rambles episodes. For those who haven't noticed, I've been revamping Rambles on YouTube. It's been hella annoying. So not only have I changed the thumbnail, it looks better than it used to. It's more vibrant. It's got the core of what the original was, but it's just more eye-catching now and more readable. But I've also removed the first 100 episodes and then maybe like another 25 from the next 100. The first 100 weren't edited all that well or didn't contain title cards or were often just like one topic that only lasts like 3 minutes or something. Very different from the sort of Rambles that, Rambles episodes I produced today where I try to target 20 minutes. So I took those down and then the reason why 25 more came from the next 100 was because I wanted to remove like particularly political topics, often especially those that were completely out of date. I also removed the episodes that had any mention of Apollo Legends, especially given his suicide. Well, nothing in there is particularly bad. It just seems insensitive. It's in any capacity to bring that back to mind in those videos. But of those 25 episodes, the Rambles that are still good from those episodes are just going to be re-released. Those that are still relevant. Yes, I'm saying Dead Revolution, those are getting re-posted. And there's still some more re-posting to be done. I'm hoping it's not too off-putting for people. |
| 04. March 2021 | Taking off my shirt on stream. | stream. How much we got to donate for you to take the top off? When the new zero star world record for Mario was done, the dude wasn't wearing a shirt. When the newest world record was done for 120 star, cheese05 took off his shirt. When simply got the world record previously for 120 star, he took off his shirt. So I'm promising you right now chat, if I get world record in GTA 5 in any category, I will take off my shirt. So basically I may as well have said if I get 10 trillion dollars, I will take off my shirt because that's got no chance of happening. You never know, one day. You can hold me to that chat. It's probably gonna happen tomorrow, man. I started taking my shirt off if I got world record in speedruns, not this. I'm too fat, can't even take off my shirt. I do not lack inhibition. Seemingly as simply does. I don't say any world record. I know what I said, or at least what I meant. |
| 25. June 2021 | Taking pain-killers while streaming | I think about taking PANDOL though I worry that it's gonna make me duller, you know I don't really know how it affects you mentally like how like PANDOL is just meant to like Affects the area of your brain that receives messages of pain, right? It doesn't actually alleviate pain does it? There's blocks receptors Yeah, because obviously all the pain that we receive is not necessarily like adaptive You know the automatic parts of your body can't be like Oh, what's you understand that you're in pain with your foot there? Okay Well, I'll turn off the pain now because you you're consciously aware of it and we'll do something to stop it or whatever It's just constantly sending it you do something about this pain you dense fuck Are there some disorders or whatever where the main issue isn't like there's something wrong with your body But that your brain is constantly convinced that there's something wrong with your body There are diseases where you have no receptors for pain. Oh, yeah, I've heard that too. That's some rare stuff though Dark Souls no damage runs Is it weird that Dark Souls OCO is easier than GT5 OCO? Not weird at all Dark Souls does not have any hitscan and is made to be a game where you can dodge everything |
| 25. June 2021 | Taking painkillers while streaming | I think about taking PANDOL though I worry that it's gonna make me duller, you know I don't really know how it affects you mentally like how like PANDOL is just meant to like Affects the area of your brain that receives messages of pain, right? It doesn't actually alleviate pain does it? There's blocks receptors Yeah, because obviously all the pain that we receive is not necessarily like adaptive You know the automatic parts of your body can't be like Oh, what's you understand that you're in pain with your foot there? Okay Well, I'll turn off the pain now because you you're consciously aware of it and we'll do something to stop it or whatever It's just constantly sending it you do something about this pain you dense fuck Are there some disorders or whatever where the main issue isn't like there's something wrong with your body But that your brain is constantly convinced that there's something wrong with your body There are diseases where you have no receptors for pain. Oh, yeah, I've heard that too. That's some rare stuff though Dark Souls no damage runs Is it weird that Dark Souls OCO is easier than GT5 OCO? Not weird at all Dark Souls does not have any hitscan and is made to be a game where you can dodge everything |
| 07. February 2021 | Taking pictures with strangers. | Dude, taking pictures with strangers. If you saw me in public, could you take a picture with me? Absolutely. Obviously I don't go in public, so I've never had this experience, but I've always imagined that I wouldn't know what to say if a person met me in public and they didn't ask for a picture. Because some people want a picture, but just feel uncomfortable asking for it. So you wanna be like, hey, if you want a picture, I'll give you a picture, it's all cool. But if you said that and the person wasn't interested in one, you sound like you're egotistical. Like, man, of course you want a picture with me. You want a picture with me, the dark fire prophecy, come on now. You know? Like I would just be trying to make a situation less uncomfortable. And while doing that, I could potentially make myself come off as an egotistical kind of person. |
| 06. July 2021 | Taking vitamin D before I went to sleep | so feeling cranky and stuff, is because I would take vitamin D tablets, but I would take them before I slept. And so I would sleep the normal amount of time that I guess my brain didn't get the right kinds of sleep at the right levels or whatever. So I would wake up feeling like shit. But this has happened multiple times where like I'll stop taking vitamin D tablets at night and then like we'll go six months and then I will just, again, like I'll forget to take a vitamin D tablet in the morning. And so then I'll start taking it at night again, forgetting that it was the reason for my issues to begin with. So try to remind me every couple of months to not be taking vitamin D tablets at night. Leave it next to your bed. Yeah, that's where my vitamin D tablets were. So that's why I was taking them at night because it's right next to my bed. I'm leaving them on my computer table now. Speed running the no damage run. Do you think this category will ever go to the point of actual competitive run times? Nah, it's too cancerous. It's just too random and finicky if you tried to do this as fast as possible. |
| 14. January 2021 | Talking about drama, burning bridges | Oh, absolutely. You're always risking, though, burning bridges. It's just what I was just talking about there. Like, you don't mind talking about the drama of other YouTubers, other Twitch streamers. You don't think it's going to hurt your brand or hurt your ability to collab in the future. I suppose you don't do much collaborations anyway, but, you know. Well, I mean, if I was Carson and I'd heard what we said, I don't think. I don't think we've said anything unreasonable. You know, I think I think you'd watch this and be like, look, they're talking about what's happened and they're giving me respect. And like we're saying that, you know, we don't know everything. We hope he's OK. Like, I think we both said we'd like to hear his side of the story. Like, so, I mean, if I was if it was drama about me and I'd watch this, I wouldn't I wouldn't be offended. But, you know, we're going to get offended, man. |
| 06. October 2021 | Talking to people with different viewpoints | Talking to people with different viewpoints To me it's beautiful to be able to engage with those on the other end of the scale if everyone I was around had the same Views as me. I'd want to jump off a bridge. Yeah, I guess some difference in thought is interesting sometimes Certainly there are some ideas that I wish didn't exist some political perspectives or or views on Our morality that I wish would go the way of the dodo, but I don't control such things I don't have the ability to really influence the world. Well, I mean, okay before we all have the ability to influence the world by influencing people around us we all have interactions with people blah blah blah and I I Technically interact with more people than the average person Talking to someone with different political views is oftentimes really frustrating it honestly came it almost depends on how Divergence a person is from you as to whether or not it's frustrating if you're talking to a person with a Completely different foundation of values than you it's like you're talking to a brick wall It's like I I think freedom of association is good I value that idea and they're like I don't give shit about that You're like and then you try to kind of keep going downwards and I don't think where a person is born Should be a significant factor in determining how valuable they are as a person and they're like fuck you anyone born on this Soil is better than everyone else. It's like well, I Don't think prejudice on the basis of innate benign traits is a good thing Fuck you. This person's got a different skin color than me. I hate them. It's like well You know about soil. It's about culture. No country Has within it an entire population who shares the same values or has the same ideas a person born on a particular part of soil Is not necessarily going to have values that you want There are people in my country that have been born here that I would consider to be Completely deleterious to everything that I want to achieve in society and there are people all around the world that share my values Who I think would be great assets to my society It's it's people's actions and beliefs that matter not where they were born or what their skin color is usually when people talk about particular values Of their country. They've simply said my country Enshrines my values the particular values that I have like you a white supremacist will go on and go Oh, you know, it's all about protecting my culture. It's like you think white supremacy is the main culture country. Absolutely, man People just don't admit it. You |
| 27. March 2022 | Tapping into the wisdom of the crowd. | Getting into the wisdom of the crowd. The ability to have a huge amount of people with a wide variety of skills and knowledge is just so cool. You know, it's like one of the best perks of this job. There are people out there who always know a guy that can help with anything. I don't have that, but because of how many people I reach, there's always a guy that knows me. I may not know a guy, but a guy knows me for any issue that I seem to have, and that's a great thing. Yes, chatter's big brain. Collectively, you guys, just the amount of things that you know that I wish I knew is just not fathomable, you know? It is just the case that everyone out there knows something that you wish you knew, and it's just until you can reach so many people, you're limited in your ability to access other people's knowledge. The wisdom of the crowd. |
| 02. August 2021 | Targeted advertising | Band is with you. Targeted advertising. Do I think targeted advertising is a good thing? I do think it's a good thing. I mean, advertisements aren't evil. It's like, if I can use the most benign example, let's say you're interested in comedy movies. Wouldn't you want to be advertised? What good new comedy movies are coming out? If you need a new vacuum cleaner, wouldn't you want to be advertised vacuum cleaners? Being advertised things that you have absolutely no interest in is just inefficient, both companies and you. You like word of mouth, then you would never be introduced to new things. Although, like, you will only be aware of the things in your circle group. And especially for people who don't have a heap of people that they interact with, you'd be introduced to even that. I find manipulative advertising to be terrible. Things that don't just present a product, but try to manipulate people into spending money on things that they don't need. But they don't necessarily want to have any real reason to want to. It's just the marketing is inspired that feeling in them. |
| 09. October 2021 | Taste, Food, and the Trash Taste Podcast | Taste, Food, and the Trash Taste Podcast. If you had a chance, would you ever go on Trash Taste? I mean, a speedrunner would be an interesting topic. So I watched the most recent episode of Trash Taste, and they talked about food for over two hours. And while I listened to it all, I'm like, I can't relate to anything that any of these guys are saying. I haven't been to any restaurants. I can't even really remember the taste of like, any food that I've ever eaten. I eat more because it's a thing that I have to do. While my body has cravings, I don't really care. Like I've been, when I used to work at Kohl's, for five years, I went Subway and beef kebabs over and over and over again. I remember Gant saying like, no one would ever have a kebab unless they were drunk. And I'm sitting here like, man, I had like a kebab like every day. It was kebab, Italian BMT, kebab, Italian BMT. For like five years, no complaints, no regrets. And even now, when I wake up in the morning, like it's like, do I want Domino's, McDonald's, Red Rooster, KFC, and maybe like once in a billion years a porter? I've recently changed things up guys. I've had Nando's like once, expanding my horizons. And like for two hours, I'm listening to these guys discuss like the intricate fine details of different cuts of meat and like the intricacies of what happens when you cook it for this long and this long. I have no fucking idea what any of these guys are talking about. Like, so if I went on Trash Taste, all I can imagine is they would start talking about food and I would just have to sit there going, oh yeah, very good, very good. I would have nothing to input, you know? The memory I have of most enjoying food is when I was in primary school and Friday, my mother would give me some money to go to the canteen, which is a little store that sells stuff or whatever. And I would get myself a bottle of Coke, a chicken burger, and a bag of mixed lollies. And I remember being so excited every Friday, I'd like be watching the clock. I would bound down the stairs at the speed of sound because risk in my life if I'd ever tripped, just cause I wanted to be first in line at the canteen. Didn't want to wait in line for my chicken burger. The burger bun was always so perfectly soft and it had so much flour on it. It was like you take a bite and you're like, what is it named? Is it Kaiser Sozea or whatever from Scarfish, Coven, cocaine kind of thing. Those burgers could have had cocaine in them, for all I know, cause they were that good. But I cannot remember at all what that burger tastes like. Even now talking about it, my mouth waters, but I can't remember what it tastes like. I just know that I was really excited and I really enjoyed it. I can remember the texture, it was like all squishy and soft and stuff. I can remember the temperature, it was like so warm and whatever, but I can't remember the taste. It makes me fairly useless whenever I talk about food. Yeah, I was looking up, like I don't know if my inability to remember tastes and smells, if that's a thing to do with my brain or if it's just the thing that I've never learned. Like I was reading somewhere that you can train yourself the better be at to remember those things. And that maybe I was just in an environment where dedicating mental power to that was just not worth the time. It's possible that maybe just after so many years of eating bland food or the same food over and over and over again, while I was a kid, my brain is like, you don't even remember this shit son. It's ain't important. This is the same thing every day. So maybe if I just like tried to remember food and the taste, I mean, long enough, I'd eventually grind it into my head. I don't know, but I can recognize taste, remember, just not recall it. So like when I bite into something, I can tell you if it's how it should taste or not. Could be a genetic thing. Yeah, I'm not sure if it's super studied or not. But yeah, listening to the guys on Trash Taste all reminisce about all these amazing foods they've had and the intricacies and different tastes between them. Like, you know. |
| 14. May 2020 | Tattoos | Information that we already had. What do you think of tattoos? Do you like them? Do you dislike them? Would you ever consider getting one? Love the content, bro. Thanks for everything. I don't have a high opinion of tattoos for myself personally, because there's nothing that I think that I like enough that I'd want to look at it forever. I don't find myself moved by ass, or like I go, oh, that looks very nice. Or that's a very well-drawn thing. But 10 seconds after, I'm bored of it. Some people, you know, can stare at sunsets, can look at a particular piece of art and go, wow, this is something I want to see for the rest of my life. I want it on my body or whatever. I want to commemorate this particular moment with this tattoo or what have you. Like the motivations that people have for getting tattoos, I do not share. I can't think of a single moment in the entirety of my life that I would want to commemorate with a tattoo. I can't think of a piece of ass that I've ever seen that I would want to commemorate on my body or would want to see all the time. Do tattoos look nice? Yes, sometimes. Depends on the tattoo. Have I seen women that I've said, wow, that tattoo looks amazing and probably makes them look more attractive? Yes, but just for me personally, I could never imagine getting a tattoo because I don't share the motivations that lead to such things. |
| 22. March 2022 | Teachers being misunderstood by students. | Teachers being misunderstood by students. What do you think about teachers usually being misunderstood by students? What does usually mean in this context? They're teaching things that people don't understand. Of course they're gonna be misunderstood. Like by design, people start by not understanding teachers. That's the whole point of them being teachers. You start with a lack of understanding and as hopefully a good teacher goes on, you grow in your level of understanding. If teachers were perfectly understood by their students from the get-go, then clearly they're not teaching the right people. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 31. July 2021 | Teardown Chaos mod | Tear Down Chaos Mod. I am at her, have you seen the Chaos Mod for Tear Down? I have seen by since my E7, why do it? Do you think you will see an increased interest in it on yet since these two have made it known to their audiences? Love your work as always, keep it up my doodek. Chaos Mods have been around for ages, in many different forms. The main difference for GTA V was the Twitch integration. Because while these randomizer mods or whatever, or random effects mods have existed, the actual Twitch integration had to come a lot later because Twitch wasn't as big of a thing. I don't think one additional Chaos Mod existing is going to massively change my life. I did see the Tear Down one. That did exist, I didn't bother watching the footage because I have no interest in Tear Down. But yeah, I don't think it's going to change things for me. |
| 31. July 2021 | Teardown chaos mod | Tear Down Chaos Mod. I am at her, have you seen the Chaos Mod for Tear Down? I have seen by since my E7, why do it? Do you think you will see an increased interest in it on yet since these two have made it known to their audiences? Love your work as always, keep it up my doodek. Chaos Mods have been around for ages, in many different forms. The main difference for GTA V was the Twitch integration. Because while these randomizer mods or whatever, or random effects mods have existed, the actual Twitch integration had to come a lot later because Twitch wasn't as big of a thing. I don't think one additional Chaos Mod existing is going to massively change my life. I did see the Tear Down one. That did exist, I didn't bother watching the footage because I have no interest in Tear Down. But yeah, I don't think it's going to change things for me. |
| 01. May 2021 | Tech issues and bitcoin miner virus | Tech issues and Bitcoin Miner Virus. I did eventually get rid of the virus so please don't DM me solutions. So guys I have a virus problem where every time I start my PC and I run a malware scanner it detects two Bitcoin Miners. I get rid of them both, I run another scan, they're gone. But they'll reappear every time I restart my PC. If anyone has a solution to this problem that doesn't involve wiping my PC, feel free to DM me on Discord. And not just like, you know, I'm just going to spitball ideas that I don't really know. Like if you know a solution, DM me. I've run some really deep virus and malware scans and stuff and I can't pick up what's causing these to be recreated every time I start my PC. It's very strange. I don't want to wipe my PC but it has been quite a while. But like I have to knock out a whole day to do it. At least it isn't affecting me now and that's the main thing. What, like every single time I wipe my Windows I always have problems with it and then I always forget what the problems were the next time I try to do it. The whole hardware changing thing and like Windows can detect if your hardware has changed so it doesn't want to work with your new PC or something. That I've run into a few times. But my hardware hasn't changed so I probably won't have that issue if I do it again. Some reinstalls of Windows have been smooth. It's like 50-50. One problem I'm going to run into soon, I don't know about soon, maybe in the next couple of months is running out of storage. Who would have guessed you could fill up 75 terabytes? Like I want to go through tens of thousands of files to trim some stuff down to get myself more storage. God damn. How? Because I've record so much footage and I don't delete anything. The one time I deleted stuff chat, the one fucking time I now need that stuff. I'm missing like a handful of my old episodes of How the Sea Wind Ended and a handful of the episodes of Chaos Highlights. Because I literally had no storage left and I said, oh well you know the end result videos I'll get rid of those. At least that's why I think I can't find them. My biggest regret though is not recording some of my earlier playthroughs of games on Twitch. The God of War footage would have been great. May I play through the game again? No. If they bring out a new God of War though I definitely will play it. |
| 02. November 2021 | Technoblade having cancer. | Technoblade the Minecraft YouTuber having cancer. Yeah, I heard Technoblade has cancer. I hope- I mean, I wish him a full recovery. I don't know much about the dude, but I mean- I mean, when you hear someone has cancer, this is the same response every time, right? Cancer sucks. I mean, he's young, right? So like, gives him a good shot. Like, I haven't watched the video. I don't know how severe his circumstances are. This goes to show you can have the whole world in the palm of your hand kind of thing, right? Have such a bright future and then BAM, just bad luck. Hits you down. |
| 18. July 2022 | Technoblade’s untimely death. | Technoblade's untimely death. I'm sure you guys all heard about Technoblade succumbing to cancer. I have never seen any of Technoblade's content. I know nothing about him. Actually the most I knew about him was when he was diagnosed with cancer. But that video of his dad was like the most heartbreaking goddamn thing I've ever seen. And what was he like 23? Like a person dying before their time is always sad. But when millions of people get affected by such a tragedy it's even worse. He turned 23 at so devastating dude. Beloved by so many. Had so much more to give and just snuffed out. No fault of their own. If you haven't seen that Technoblade video I highly recommend watching it. It pulls at your heartstrings something fierce. It's just so obvious that he was very beloved and how tragic it was and so sad. So you guys may have heard of these people who are using Technoblade's death to farm views on YouTube. Just making video after video like this is what Technoblade said to MrBeast before he died. I'm contacting Technoblade from beyond the grave. All that shit. Very disgusting stuff. People have talked about that to death. But what I want to talk about is when I saw everyone tweeting like rest in peace Technoblade and stuff on Twitter I specifically didn't do that. Despite that you know it was sad that he died and the video with his dad was so heart-wrenching. And the reason is because I didn't know him right? It feels weird to tweet about someone's death that you don't know. Because it just feels like you're trying to farm clout and likes and stuff. That may not be the case with everyone. Like people maybe more community. I'm not judging other people if they do such things. But for me I feel like if I tweeted that it would just be oh my god everyone hit likes on my tweet. You know? Terrible he died and terrible people taking advantage of his death. And I just want to say that's why I didn't tweet out about and I just talked about it in rambles. I say don't know the guy but clearly very beloved and very sad. Especially that early in life 23. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 12. July 2021 | Teleportation and identity | Teleportation and identity. Could it be the case that the best we're ever gonna get for teleportation is like 3D printing? I guess the internet is effectively teleportation but only of digital things, you know what I'm saying? And I guess 3D printing would be the best teleportation we'll ever get of like actual physical objects but it's really just copying, you know? Teleportation would be killing yourself, it all depends on how you perceive the idea of self. If you see yourself as a configuration as opposed to particular matter, then as long as the configuration on the other end was indistinguishable from the configuration in the beginning, you wouldn't be killing yourself, you would just be relocating the configuration that is you. It is very hard to have an idea of self that is dependent upon a particular type of matter because your body replaces that matter all the time. Different parts of you get replaced, you know, every year or every six months or every four years or whatever it is, but all your cells eventually do get replaced. It's the ship of Theseus or whatever. If you take a boat and you replace each plank, one plank by one plank by one plank, if you replace, like how many planks do you have to replace before it isn't really that ship anymore? Like it would be indistinguishable potentially from the original ship, but none of the original bits of wood were the original bits on that ship. Most ideas of identity or self that make sense to me involve some sort of conceptual thing like continuous experience, you know? You can identify a continuous chain of events that you experienced from a first person perspective and that is you. You're essentially entirely a new person every five years because of the Self Regeneration? Yeah, exactly. So if you have an idea of self where a particular matter is you, then you are a completely new person, you know, every five years or so. If you have an axe and the handle breaks, you replace it, but keep the head, then next year the head breaks, but keep the old handle. Is it still the same axe? Yeah, at the end of the day, it's all just a matter of, you know, we perceive what things are and we give them identity based on our perception, right? We find particular things important and thus distinguish them from other things with names and other signifiers and whatnot. |
| 01. September 2020 | Telltale games | to do it. Telltale Games. I've never really had an interest in Telltale Games. I heard they got picked up again by another company to do some of the sequels to their more popular stuff. The problem with Telltale Games is they of all games suffered from like streamers and YouTubers and stuff playing their games on YouTube and Twitch. There's nothing really that you get from the experience of playing a Telltale Game. It's more about the story, which you can just experience on YouTube or on the live stream for free. While the vast majority of games benefit from that kind of exposure because there's actual gameplay that people can experience, the additional story choices though don't matter all that much. They can matter to you as a player, I suppose, but there's no way you'd pay 20 or 30 dollars or whatever to get yourself additional choices. And you can even look at those additional choices on YouTube if you really care. They were also short, relatively speaking. Oh yeah, I can understand people enjoying the stories, certainly. I just don't think video games are the best medium for that kind of story. It just massively inflates your costs and doesn't provide an experience that would be better than just watching a movie. |
| 18. August 2022 | Telstra finally telling me why my coverage is bad. | You know? Telstra finally telling me why my mobile coverage is bad. If you guys watch my rambles, you'd know that I had a whole bunch of problems getting the my sim from Telstra activated and then the quality of my coverage here was shit. Turns out, yes, coverage here is just shit. It's not my phone or anything like that, like, or my sim card, which these companies have suggested. It's that, it's a known low coverage area. And what sucks about this is it's been low coverage for the last seven fucking years. And they never fixed it. Even with all the houses built up here now, everyone around here gets one bar. It doesn't matter what provider you go with, the three networks, they're all bad here. And apparently, the best I can hope is in a year, a tower will be built somewhere that way. And hopefully that will solve it for me, which is just dumb. At the very least, I'm happy Telstra told me, rather than Vodafone, which is just like, oh, how about you try another sim card and just lying to me and shit. So I'm sticking with Telstra. |
| 08. January 2022 | Terms of service and forbidden words | kind of motivated to remain current on the current dramas, the current negativity going around. Terms of service and forbidden words. Well, I remember like even just the most recent Twitch like racism debate and this is this is the thing that I hate the most. It's like I'm on stream and I get asked about it too like on YouTube or whatever and it's like what do you think about this word being said and like I hate the fact that we live in a world now where like I literally can say that just don't be racist and don't use bad terminology and somehow somehow on social media that's considered a hot take like you on Twitter and it's like wow okay that's like what the fuck I can't go on the internet and just say don't be a piece of shit like that's bad like what it's just a terrible conversation it really need to have when you mentioned you were gonna have that podcast and how someone's gonna be on I'm like you're gonna be discussing that for like an hour man I wanted to understand what was going on because I'm like you can't because when he came back you see his broadcast when he just like popped back on a couple days ago I didn't see it but I saw him on Twitter saying I'm back oh he was back and like the first thing he did like I saw the clip of him just like repeating all the other slurs by like just 20 30 out of row and I'm like dude you just he was really testing the twitch TOS and honestly if he had gotten banned that day I would be completely okay with another ban because like my thing with TOS is if there's something in the TOS that says you can't do something we don't do it like I know that I scrub as much as sometimes I don't agree with something when you're on a website like Twitch or YouTube or really anything you agree to a TOS and if you're breaking it and you're gonna have like you know a fit about it then there's nobody you can I'm not gonna have the sympathy you know like I'm not gonna sit there and say like uh shouldn't have happened often you'll get a warning like I think in most cases when you violate TOS a warning is good but in Hassan's case he did get a warning and well at least in the sense that his mods were banned for doing it so he knew that calling someone uh like we go I'm on Twitch the c word I don't know what their policy is now calling someone that will get you banned and then he did it so of course he's gonna receive a ban whether or not I agree with that TOS policy whatever but like there was a time in Twitch's history where they had a policy where even saying the n-word was acceptable as long as it was not calling a person the n-word as in because that's how language works right it's it it matters what you're trying to communicate your meaning it's all contextual um but but over time people are less willing to look at the context in which the word is used so Twitch's policies have kind of gradually changed with that where even saying it in any context can get you banned and and there were some little controversies over the years where people would say things that sound like the n-word and get banned you remember that story some guy was playing League of Legends or something and he was talking about like rushing top or something just he said it so fast it sounded like the n-word and he got banned yeah that's the that's the thing like when I saw that policy on Twitch immediately in my head I was always like maybe they're trying to like cover every aspect of a game you know where it's like you like I remember playing Red Dead Redemption 2 and the first time you ever play that game like in the introduction like Micah just straight up throws like a slur out and I was on YouTube I was like wow okay like it's it's it's like a it's like a very like small slur and compares into the n-word but he mentions it and it's a time period thing so I'm like maybe it's like they're using it to cover their bases in terms of gaming you know and also you're right it is contextual right like at some point it's not that saying a word makes you a racist immediately it's it's how you use that word obviously right like the the purpose of language is to communicate meaning the words don't matter like if I said the n-word backwards if I use that in the same way that the n-word is used in society like if I was calling people that even if I'm not saying the n-word I should be reprimanded in the exact same way as if I said the word itself because I'd be communicating the same meaning like on Facebook um people would use other words to mean different slurs because like it's like coded language right but if you're communicating the same thing it's it's the same thing it's just all it's all stupid like like if you you do GTA content right sometimes yeah of course I'm getting my videos now demonetized if they have the c-word in them as in like a two hour to our video yeah if a character says the c-word whole video demonetized and I'm just like especially as an Australian they put that because I remember when like we have that little controversy and you used that word you yelled it out oh yeah specifically blur that word because in the YouTube because in the demonetization when like because people watching maybe don't know this but like we have the like self-check on ourselves they put that word in the same tier as the n-word for us yeah and and the slur against homosexuals and I'm like okay I can understand in some countries it is a bit more taboo but in Australia it's just a general swear word a pejorative or whatever like asshole or dick or whatever but in America it's well that's what I usually thought too I mean even as Canadian and I really only realized Americans were the one that got really mad about it and I'm like that's so weird how we're on an international website and we have to comply by US like cultural norms like what the fuck it is weird but uh like I suppose a lot of Australians over the course of our content we've just said the c-word just casually and uh it's only I think fairly recently that I've noticed that it's actually getting cracked down upon either the algorithm is just getting better maybe they can finally understand the Australian accent I'm not sure but it's uh it's been a pain in the ass because now I have to watch every single bit of the video before I upload it to me it's not a single c-word it's one of those words where it just like comes out because you know you're from that region that's why like in certain videos I just switched to my native language from India like Hindi and everything and I just switched to that just so I can get past the fucking filter because I know that like if YouTube hits me with like because I I've had videos age restricted because I've used the f-word so much and I'm like dude I don't get it like a year or two ago they weren't cracking down now it's like everything about it is so you can't use this language and it's so weird like you can't use the f-word but the amount of like like I can use the word shit constantly over and over like there's not and there's no communication from YouTube to anybody's and there's no communication from any of these sites so I don't know it's it's insane recently YouTube has said you can use like shit and bitch in the first 30 seconds now or something as in like it's just weird what they consider okay and what they don't and in some ways they've relaxed and in some ways they've clamped down but I have um because I saw today on Twitter call me Kevin saying one of my videos got a policy strike or something and I can't talk to anyone anyone at YouTube and this is weird for me to hear because I can talk to people at YouTube I've got a partner manager I'm the community support on the customer support they talk to me all the time like I've had week-long conversations with people trying to get videos uh re-monetized and stuff do you not have this experience oh some people don't like I know that in the book when I talk to a few people myself I'm surprised I'm the only one with like a partner manager that has like some leewayed YouTube you know like that's about the only thing because like I thought everyone at a certain size would get a partner manager but apparently they don't you know like some people with millions of subs don't have it I was talking to TGG recently he got one at about a million I'm not at a million subs yet but I got mine I don't know like a year ago or something and I was you know way smaller than I am now I don't know what criteria they use to they might be basing it on viewership though because even when you were smaller you were still pulling in a lot of views though between every channel you had not call me Kevin kind of numbers and I still don't pull call me Kevin numbers they change it I think because we're daily uploaders so I think we we should be popping the algorithm way more than like the regular you know I'm surprised call me Kevin got it though like he's he's pretty clean he scrubs his shit really well so if he's getting a policy strike I'm scared for me now like maybe they pick people who are more likely to have troubles to give partner managers too because you or I swear more do more risque kind of content I mean that could kind of make sense maybe that but that seems a little bit disrespectful oh you're doing good so we're not gonna give you |
| 19. February 2022 | Thanking people who follow your livestream | Thanking followers on live streams. Oh shit new favorite streamer now Nobody thinks for following these days people are kind of split as to whether or not they like Thanking people for following I mean eventually reached the point reaches the point where you're so big as a streamer that you can't possibly Thank everyone for following like if you had a notification for following it just be going off the entire stream Can you imagine some at one G's stream if like a follower notification went off thousand times that would suck If you go to really small streams you can sometimes find people thanking for following But I appreciate people following and I like mine my follower notification, so I keep doing it but uh One day I might turn off not because I uh I wouldn't want to thank every follower It's just that it'd be impractical to do it it devalues stream |
| 22. February 2022 | That feeling of reaching your peak | That feeling of reaching your peak. Yeah gone are the days where I had like 16k viewers at the height of the pandemic Playing um chaos it does suck to recognize when you've hit your peak And I definitely peaked doesn't mean I can't repeat for a different reason like as I'm saying like this I'm gonna be going down for a bit for a while, but I mean when I'm doing stuff like this I mean, I can't really blame. I mean, I'm I'm not doing stuff right now to help myself am I? |
| 24. April 2021 | The "Hi YouTube" plague | Useful when I needed it. The high YouTube plague. Yeah, so it's become a trend on Twitch because so much of Twitch content is made into YouTube content. And there's some types of Twitch content that people know is going to YouTube. Twitch viewers have now started spamming high YouTube. It's becoming extraordinarily annoying for content creators. It's pretty awful really. It just clogs up chat. So I'm trying my best to change the culture of my chat so people don't do this. Bans, timeouts, I hope it doesn't last forever, but we'll have to keep ramping up the consequences until people learn to stop doing it. It just makes the viewing experience worse for everyone. And thus I have to try to stop it. Your time that felt bad? Yeah, those who are ignorant of it. It's only a five minute timeout of course. And those especially who come from YouTube and just happen to type that and get timed out or whatever, it's not. Because it's just timeouts, they'll come back. But those who specifically do it when I say not to do it, they deserve bans, permanent bans. It's hard enough keeping a chat readable and coherent, especially as many viewers as I get these days. I can't allow people who just wanna shit-stir, you know. It's 10 minutes? Oh yeah, yeah. But like a 600 seconds is 10 minutes of course. My bad. Are you going to upload the full stream or just clips when you do complete no damage? I would just do the edited version of the full run. I might leave the full run unlisted somewhere or something just in case people wanna go, I don't really believe that you did it with no damage. But I doubt I'll release them both. Like the 100% speed run was a little bit different. Because everything you do in that matters, but in this only portion. |
| 11. December 2020 | The 1.27 Project | The 1.27 Projects For those unaware, GTA V has speed ran on patch 1.27 and changes to the way Rockstar does their social club system meant that some people couldn't access it through Steam. The patch 1.27 thing has been solved. A thing just released called the 1.27 Project. Basically six program-y people came together and created an app or something that downgrades your game and you can use it as a save file manager and stuff and it has all these cool features but it gives everyone access to patch 1.27. It can even downgrade non-Steam versions. It's really, really good. I haven't looked too much into it. That's why my discussion of it is fairly surface level because I haven't been speed running. But yeah, the 1.27 thing has been solved. Will I be using Project 1.27? Maybe. Depends if I like it or not because I have the option to either not use it or use it because I can still access 1.27 from Steam but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. While I'm hoping to finish the no damage run soon, who knows if that will actually end up happening. Honestly, the last video I had that went sort of viral was that video about patch 1.27. It's got like half a million views or something. |
| 28. July 2020 | The 100+ content creators being accused of sexual misconduct and Summit1g’s response | The 100 plus content creators accused of sexual misconduct and some at 1G's response. Do any of you watch any of these people who've been accused of sexual misconduct? I haven't really talked about that, have I? Whenever these situations of accusations against people come out, I generally don't like to say anything because if I'm not going to spend the time to look into the evidence that's underpinning these accusations, I always have the possibility of supporting the wrong person. Like, from general knowledge, it seems as though the accusations towards Angry Joe are fairly baseless and the woman says he took her phone, but there's pictures from the night of her using the phone and she's now deleted those pictures and da-da-da, that kind of stuff. But I know Destiny's been on his stream and looked through the accusations and evidence for them and a lot of these accusations seem very credible, as credible as they can be, especially because time has passed and da-da-da. But yeah, so I generally like to stand back, and that's cowardly. That is certainly cowardly that I'm a person who doesn't want to take a stand because I don't want to say the wrong thing, end up supporting a person who's lying or coming out in defense of a person who turns out to actually have done wrong. Because I just don't like to speak if I'm not going to take the time to look into the evidence. I don't like to make half-assed statements like, well, I hope everyone just has a good time. Those kind of statements where I'm not committed to anything. Those fluff statements that people make to make themselves feel good and make themselves look like a good person. I don't like that shit. All this now being said, have you guys seen that tweet from Summit? This was Summit's first tweet that started things off. Innocence until proven guilty, unless it's the internet where we do things backwards. And here was his response to a lot of the backlash that he received from this and other tweets. Every single time I send a tweet, I feel like I could be signing my last day of Twitch, you know what I mean? But it's hard to hold myself back sometimes. I can't explain that to you guys. I'm only human, you know? And I have opinions, and we're not all going to share opinions, you know what I'm saying? No matter what you think, no matter what you say, right? No matter how righteous your cause may be, there will always be someone who disagrees, right? And I don't hate anybody for disagreeing with me on this topic. I am just simply stating that while people make it very, very clear that sexual assaults and things like it are happening at real life events and that people are getting called out, I just also want to make it very, very clear how dangerous it is to run someone's name through the mud like that if it's not 100% true. That's all. You know what I'm saying? I'm not trying to like shit on anyone's parade. I understand that that shit is fucking absolutely emotional traumatizing, emotionally traumatizing. And your friends and family are huge or something like that. You know what I'm saying? All these people are coming out saying, look, I don't want to say this title about the abuse that I've experienced any longer. Here's my story. Here's the evidence of my story. And someone comes out of the gate saying, hey, guys, we shouldn't just believe these people. You know, accusations can really damage a person's career and reputation. And it's just like, read the room. Like these people are like writing page after page, pouring their soul, their experiences. And some are just like, whoa, guys, be careful with your accusations. It's one thing to read a lot of evidence against a person. I don't think this evidence has weight. I think this person is not telling the truth for X, Y, and Z reasons, being very specific. But these, again, referencing general statements that don't really come down on anything. Like they don't have any specificity to them. It's just, hey, guys, I'm just saying accusations can damage a person's career. And it's just such a weird statement because the timing of it is weird. It's like, imagine you walked up to a person and said, hey, man, this person's just been accused of murder. And that person's response is, oh, we shouldn't rush to accusing people of murder. You know, murder accusations can be very damaging to a person's career. We need to hold off on random accusations of murder here. You look at that person and go, did you murder someone recently? I'm not saying Summit has necessarily abused someone. It's just the timing is just so bad that it begs that question. It's like anyone with any semblance of sense would recognize that that is the question that response to people coming out and accusing people. That's the question that those actions beget. But Summit has either got some demons in his closet that he's worried about coming out or he just has no fucking sense at all. Summit's taken that stand, you know. I'm just saying, guys, I don't think it's nice when innocent people go through shit. Good stance. I don't think that's a stance that anyone disagrees with. |
| 12. August 2020 | The 2016 react wars | The 2016 React Wars Had a funny comment on my Instagram today where a person said, you know, it's only Twitch streamers who don't like React content. It's weird to think how new generations of people watching YouTube weren't around for the React Wars, where every large content creator just fucking owned, slaughtered React channels. You can still look it up, where you look up React channel and there's just like 57 videos from four years ago, all with like millions of views. The problem now is that like almost every single large content creator on YouTube does something that could be in the category of React. But not all React content is the same. Like people would bring up Critical. Like if you look at any of Critical's React videos or even his stuff that's just edited versions of what he does on Twitch, it's he never uses the entire video. And his edits, it's edited and it's mainly focusing on his reactions to the content. Would that be fair use? Take it on a case by case basis, but it's close enough that it fits like the common sense reading of the law. If you go after React channels, you'll guess what I got in my comment section. What about so and so? And then you have to start drawing distinctions between people and no large content creator wants, even if they're not doing the exact same thing, no one wants that kind of scrutiny. So you aren't likely going to see that kind of thing happen again. Will all the large content creators band together and say no, React content shouldn't be on our platform? |
| 06. July 2021 | The 3 month delay on my new car | sure it's the Lancer, no it's my current car, um Lexus IS 500h. And my old car is, well the car I still have technically because I haven't got the Lancer yet, or the Lexus yet, but why is it going to take three months though? So for those who don't know, uh I basically just put a deposit down on the Lexus and I have to wait until it arrives or whatever. The reason is because there's a massive shortage of um certain hardware in regards to computers and whatnot, silicon shortage or blah blah blah, and that affects cars because they of course have computers in them and whatnot. So for a lot of cars there's many months backwater because there's just a shortage of all these components. Semiconductors yeah that's it yeah. I got an order, it's uh Lexus only makes order. I mean is it just for the hybrids whatever the type of car I was getting they only make order. 250 kilometers per hour though? I'm never going to be able to go that fast. It's not two-door no. I wanted the ability to transfer stuff and people from A to B. How's the gas prices in Australia? I drive so infrequently that I so rarely go to the gas station or petrol station, the fuel station as we call them, so I have no idea what the prices are. IS or LS? I think it's IS. My difficulty is buying furniture. I can afford 70k car but not furniture? I don't have the time. The only reason I had the time to get this car was because I was ill and couldn't stream and so I went and it wasn't like... |
| 04. January 2023 | The 30+ ways Twitch livestreaming is better than YouTube livestreaming. | Or we're gonna be having these rules all the time, right? You know? The over 30 ways that Twitch live streaming is better than YouTube live streaming. I, of course, streamed on Twitch for 7 years and then streamed on YouTube for the past 4 months. So people still frequently ask me about YouTube versus Twitch in terms of live streaming. So I wrote a bit of a post on my community page. Do I get more money from YouTube live streaming? No. For 2022, I averaged 10 to 12k when on Twitch. 7 to 8k now on YouTube. I did not really work to monetize either. I didn't run extra ads on Twitch or ask for subs, for example. Do I get more viewers on YouTube compared to Twitch? Yes, two or three times as many at least. This might be overselling it a bit. It depends on what I'm doing and I think has declined over time because when I first got to YouTube, it was like a brand new thing. I was like, oh, Matt's on YouTube now. Oh, that's fucking crazy. But the more tests I'm doing now as to what the difference in my viewership is between YouTube and Twitch, it's not as extreme as I thought it was. If you get more viewers, why do you get less money then? Free Prime subs are one third of Twitch revenue. One third is reoccurring subscriptions built up over 7 years. I have not streamed on Twitch in two months. I still get 4k from people who want to use my emotes to support me. This will decline over time. I think I have like 1700 subscribers still on Twitch. Is live streaming easier on YouTube or Twitch? YouTube streaming does unfortunately have significant barriers to entry compared to Twitch. Twitch is far more plug-and-play and I don't think I'd have managed on YouTube if not for some of my viewers helping me, especially if you get chat on screen. YouTube systems are unnecessarily convoluted and lacking. However, it is the same from a streamer perspective when you get the hang of it. You'd have to remind me I'm not on Twitch 99% of the time. However, in terms of minor Twitch features that are nice to have that YouTube lacks, they're easily around 30 you can notice immediately. So these are all the things that Twitch has that YouTube does not. User profile with comments, chat history, custom mod action buttons, highlight selected terms, toggle between live and top chat permanently. Like Twitch just always has live chat. It doesn't have top chat. Top chat is dumb. Change font size, set custom user color, gift membership to a specific user, have users opt in to gifted memberships by default, give mods the ability to change category and title, make polls, pin messages. They've only recently just given mods like the ability to put on slow mode. They are so far behind and it has been years since YouTube made its live streaming feature. User notes, mod comments. So this is like when a mod like goes, this person did X and Y. We got to remember that for later and you can put it on people's accounts. Use channel emotes globally. One of the big perks of having a paid subscription on Twitch rather than YouTube is this feature. Set default stream settings for chat modes, slow mode sub only. I have to, every single stream, every single one, set the exact same defaults. Like I give myself a five minute window to start my stream because it takes five minutes to set up a stream. Previously, I changed from YouTube to Twitch and people were really surprised at how quickly I did it. I was like, yeah, because while it takes me five minutes to set up a YouTube stream, it takes me 14 seconds to do it for Twitch. This is in part because like the chat underneath me, I have to get a new link for that every single fucking time and individually put it into every single section that I want it to appear on my OBS. I have to do this because if I use StreamElements or StreamLabs, the chat that they use, you can't do certain things with, it's very dumb. Trust me, but I have to do it. Separate notifications for videos, streams, community posts, shorts and mentions. People turn off notifications because they only want one type of notification. They don't want to hear about all the rest. It's dumb. If you want notifications for my stuff, by the way, Discord is always the best for that because there's like a little bot that tells you. Hide profile pictures. We have Truffle Ludwig's extension that helps with this, but like people shouldn't need third party applications for something this basic. Display user handle instead of usernames. I don't think this makes that much of a difference. Chat commands for basic features, polls, chat modes, change category and title. Yeah, you can't just type, you have to actually press buttons and stuff. Raids. Yeah, a feature of Twitch, send all your viewers to a particular place. I know how much value they have on Twitch in terms of growing audiences and stuff. A little bit, I suspect, but this does give Twitch more of a community feel that you can actually interact with other people. Unban requests. I've talked before about how if I mute someone, it doesn't even show me the last person I muted. It just has a random jumble of names. If I accidentally mute someone and I forget their name, or I miss their name or something, like whatever, I have no way to undo that. I've accidentally muted at least four people and they are now in the ether. Their comments will never be seen again and there's nothing that I can do about it, except unbanning or unmuting literally everyone. Very dumb. Hide badges. Yeah, so if you don't want to show like your membership badge, you have no choice. Hide profile pictures. I mean, yeah, I guess if you don't want your profile picture shown in chat, you have no choice. Keep and display user info, member since, sub since, how many gifted memberships. Like I can't tell anything about any of you. I can't tell when you first started watching my stream, when you first subscribed and all that stuff. If you click on Twitch, you know all that information immediately. E-mode only mode. A good way to stop people talking in chat, but still enabling people to be able to interact with your stream. Like when you don't want people to give spoilers for a parcel or something. Display active users based on their role. Oh, so you can see everyone who is in chat. Right, this thing. So you can see everyone who's in chat. Clips tab for a channel. Where do you even find clips for channels? I wanted to remove some clips from one of my live streams and even on the back end, it was impossible to find. It's just silly. Like they have this thing called remixes or something. So here, similar sort of concept. They're trying to get people to like make shorts out of people's videos. And so I got two remixes in the last 28 days for 2k views. The failing in regards to having an audience make stuff to promote like streams and videos and stuff. Direct messages. I mean, YouTube has had this multiple times and it is kind of weird that like you have to like jump to Twitter and hope a person has DMs open to be able to message them about stuff. It's kind of awkward really. But then again, I'm not sure how many people actually use Twitch messages anyway, but it is nice to know that I can potentially reach out to another creator on the platform itself. Channel points. This is something a truffle can allow, but it's just a currency that you can use for games and stuff. Remove ads for members. This again is a major benefit of being a paid Twitch subscriber on Twitch, of course. And because you don't get this benefit on YouTube, then the amount of people who pay for memberships is obviously going to be far less. Theater mode with chat on the side. Does this still not work? Yeah, I guess it doesn't work. Better latency. Whenever we move back to Twitch for a stream, people immediately comment like, holy shit, like the messages appear instantly. That's nuts. Like it's not even just the chat latency. When it comes to like the alerts that pop up on screen, I can read it in chat and be like, ah, just going to come anywhere. Oh, there we go. And then like 40 seconds later, the alert will come. On Twitch, it's instant. Someone gives you five dollars. It's instantly on the screen. I don't see it in chat after wait 40 seconds for the alert to come out. Like often you'll see me in when I'm doing streams. I will see a person's super chat, respond and answer the question, and then it will appear and the text to speech will play. That's just silly. Everything on YouTube is massively delayed and I don't know why. Like with the last one. Reduce the time it takes to start a stream. When I press go live on Twitch, the stream goes live. It has like maybe a delay of like three seconds or something. On YouTube, it's anywhere between 30 and a minute. And so I sit there awkwardly because the VOD starts recording for YouTube before the actual stream is live. So if you go watch my VODs, you get like a few seconds. I mean, maybe 10, 15 seconds to be going. So I wonder where I'm going to be live soon. I hope it's going to be soon. And it's just really dumb. It's just bad. So in conclusion for this section, YouTube is eons behind compared to Twitch in terms of its features for live streaming. Any other interesting observations? Paid subscriptions are the most common support on Twitch, including Primes. And Super chats are most common on YouTube. I suspect this is in part because Twitch streams have a greater community feel and Twitch subscriptions provide greater value compared to YouTube memberships. Can use emails everywhere, not just in one channel and don't get ads, etc. Even despite YouTube being known for its amazing analytics for its videos, it is still light years behind Twitch for live stream analytics. There are separate analytics pages for the live stream and video of the live stream, but the live stream analytics are hard to find, use and have limited information. So if I want to see like the actual live stream analytics, I have to go to my channel, go to live, click the stream, go into the stream here, then click analytics. And then it will show me all this stuff. If you want me to tell you my average viewership across all of my streams, I don't know where the information exists. I don't even know if that information does exist. Very strange. I'm not a hundred percent comfortable with continuing to live stream on YouTube. The benefits of doing so are somewhat waning. Maybe having all those weak performing live streams is somewhat hurting. YouTube's willingness to give my videos credibility. The more I go on, the more the difficulties with streaming on YouTube kind of annoy me. And while I do think it was a worthy experiment to do, I'm not as convinced that the benefits are worth it. As much as I don't like Twitch, at the end of the day, it's a matter of what brings the most benefit. It's not like my being on Twitch or not is going to impact Twitch significantly. Butline, similar to my dadward-t focal points. |
| 07. August 2021 | The 4 games I have speedran | The four games I have speedran. I have only speedran three games, maybe four in my life. Dark Souls 3, Hades. I never finished a run of Super Mario Sun Trap, but I tried it. And then of course GTA V. And of course Hades wasn't completed when I speedran it. So it doesn't really count. It only went up to the Hydras. |
| 10. November 2021 | The 5 basic tiers of YT sponsorships. | The five basic tiers of YouTube sponsorships. Like there's different tiers of sponsorship, right? The tier you want is a sponsorship for something you already use. I get a Pepsi Mac sponsorship, that'd be amazing. Then the next tier is like stuff you come to use because they offer you a sponsorship and you actually like the product. Going a step below that is like products that aren't harmful that you don't personally want to use, but you recognize other people would want to use. Like it's just not up your alley. Like you recognize it's a good product which doesn't suit your use case. Like I could do a sponsorship with such products, even though I wouldn't use them personally. Going one step below that is a product that isn't harmful, but you don't really think anyone would really want to use. Like you think the company is fucking crazy thinking they're gonna be successful. Like at that point, you're kind of just taking advantage of the company, but you could be wrong. At least no one is gonna be harmed by you promoting such a product. And then the bottom tier is something that you consider to be actually harmful to someone to a greater or less extent. And that's like five tiers. And the lower you go down the tier, I mean, I'd never do the bottom tier five, but the lower you go down, the more money you'd have to offer me to be really interested. |
| 10. November 2021 | The 5 basic tiers of yt sponsorships. | The five basic tiers of YouTube sponsorships. Like there's different tiers of sponsorship, right? The tier you want is a sponsorship for something you already use. I get a Pepsi Mac sponsorship, that'd be amazing. Then the next tier is like stuff you come to use because they offer you a sponsorship and you actually like the product. Going a step below that is like products that aren't harmful that you don't personally want to use, but you recognize other people would want to use. Like it's just not up your alley. Like you recognize it's a good product which doesn't suit your use case. Like I could do a sponsorship with such products, even though I wouldn't use them personally. Going one step below that is a product that isn't harmful, but you don't really think anyone would really want to use. Like you think the company is fucking crazy thinking they're gonna be successful. Like at that point, you're kind of just taking advantage of the company, but you could be wrong. At least no one is gonna be harmed by you promoting such a product. And then the bottom tier is something that you consider to be actually harmful to someone to a greater or less extent. And that's like five tiers. And the lower you go down the tier, I mean, I'd never do the bottom tier five, but the lower you go down, the more money you'd have to offer me to be really interested. |
| 28. June 2022 | The AI Dall-E Mini and Dall-E 2 Making Art | The AI, Dali Mini and Dali 2 making art. I don't want to insult artists, because a lot of artists make a lot of amazing work, but in my career, some of the most difficulties I've had have revolved around getting art for stuff. The inconsistent turnaround times, finding the exact people who can do the exact work that I need. I would incorporate so much art into my work if I could get it consistently for a reasonable price, but it's so difficult. I cannot wait until there's AI that exists, where I can say, hey, I want Trevor to be riding an elephant, and then it just spits that out for me. This will suck for people, artists who make a living doing art, but oh my god will it revolutionize the world. The Dali AI Mini that everyone's using to get those images is not the best version of Dali that exists right now. There's Dali version 2, and it's way better. I just don't think it has been pushed to the public yet. Give it five more years, and if it's available to the public, it's going to be insane. |
| 18. July 2022 | The Agatha Baker video. | The Agatha Baker video. The Mrs Baker video was funny, good job, thank you. I edited that myself. Only edit I wasn't sure about was um, whether I should have left the green screen in when the desk exploded, but like, just doing the normal explosion, it's really obvious that desk doesn't explode, and I thought like, making it even more scuffed with the green screen was better. Uh, here was my new thumbnail guy who made the um, oh, Grab, his name is, who made the thumbnail for me. Like, I went to him with the idea, have me holding a gun about to shoot Agatha, and that text will say, a meme dies today. My, what I envisioned was, like I was actually pointing the gun at the back of her head. Um, when he came back with the, you know, me like, almost choking out with the gun to her head, I was like, that's even better. Had I made that thumbnail myself, it would have contained the same ideas, but the execution would have been much worse. |
| 29. November 2022 | The Best GTA Online DLC according to DigitalCarAddict | The best GC Online DLC according to Digital Car Addicts. Oh, someone said the Tuners DLC. That was a very successful DLC for Rockstar. That was one of the best updates we've had in a while, especially for the car community. Which was, um, wait, who was the focus of that one? Like that was the LS CarMeet building with Santa. Oh, oh, yeah. Definitely. I think that's one of the DLCs where the community has hated the characters the most. The commentary for them. Then why was it successful? Mainly the cars, the CarMeet aspect, because it was different. You know, most people with that DLC when they teased it, they just assumed it was going to be the CarMeet building, some new cars, and that was it. But then they also incorporated a business into it. So they had the auto shop where customers' cars come in, you repair them, you deliver them. And then they also had on top of that, like the mini heist with the Union Depository one, which people did not expect at all. I didn't even expect that. So, I mean, it was kind of a surprise. So it had a lot to do. It was a very good well-rounded DLC. Fair enough. |
| 10. July 2021 | The Boogie2988 drama. | The Boogie 2988 drama You hear about the Boogie 2988 drama. I was very surprised to hear that he'd been killing and eating people for years frankly No, I expected it. I was not surprised, but uh you know it's just what some people are You know they they end up becoming after many years on YouTube Do I in? |
| 23. July 2022 | The Boys is an amazingly successful comic book adaptation | The Boys is an amazingly successful comic book adaptation. One thing that people talk about in regards to The Boys is how good of an adaptation it is. Every comparison I've seen to the comic book of The Boys, to the show, it's unanimous where people like the show is so much better than the comics. Like every change they've made has been for the better. They took some average source material and just made it perfect. Did I watch Invincible? Yeah, that's very good as well. Invincible is also another show that was adapted quite well, but they didn't change as much from the comic. The main thing they did when they adapted Invincible is they changed when you get certain information. As in like when the author was writing the comic, he didn't have all the information of like what's all going to come up next. And so it made more sense for you to get certain information earlier than later, for example. And some characters kind of grew into their own with each volume. And so at the start, they weren't that similar to their later version themselves. And so the adaptation just starts with the more complete version of the character rather than having them change or something. I'm explaining this terribly, but the consensus is again that they've adapted that show really well. |
| 12. December 2021 | The C-word cost me $1000 | The C word cost me a thousand dollars. Oh, guys, funny story. The last episode of Randomizer did very poorly. Like I make these videos very quickly, I quickly throw them up and I wait to see if they get demonetized if not after a little bit then I release them. Like ideally, you'd have your video up there for a week before you release it to make sure every possible check can be done, but I don't have that luxury. So like an hour or two after the video released when I was asleep, the video got demonetized and this happens, right? And so I talked to the partner support and it takes them a while to get back to me because it was over the weekend and stuff and they said, oh yeah, so at 40 40 Steve says the C word. I'm not even going to say it right. In my country, the C word is just like a general pejorative like asshole or dick or pussy or whatever. It doesn't have any real significance, but for YouTube, the C word is on the same level as the N word or like the the F slow against homosexuals, right? They're equal. A single use of the C word in a two hour video will demonetize it. That's already a little bit silly in my opinion. What's more silly to me is that this wasn't told to me automatically. Like if the second I woke up, I was like, oh, oh, there's a C word here. Oh, just use the YouTube editor, remove that shit immediately. Like both YouTube and me has lost a considerable amount of money because of like that it took a week for me to get this solve and it's still technically not solve because while I've removed Steve saying the C word, it's still there technically in subtitles, as in the subtitles on screen for like a few frames. The C word is written a few frames in a two hour video. The C word is written. So the whole video is demonetized. That's silly. Like in this video, like every other obscenity that exists is said, I do heinous acts that if I did them in real life, I'd be in jail in a heartbeat or just I'd be hit with a brick and I'd be killed by the state. Every monstrosity, every act of violence, sexual innuendo, everything. But the C word for a few frames, whole video demonetized. America is weird. I don't think any other country treats the C word with that level of animosity. Animosity is the word. And so yeah, you may not have seen this video because it probably didn't get recommended to you because it was demonetized. And so like, you can understand how weird it is for me to be jerked around for a week to remove a word so innocuous. |
| 14. January 2021 | The Cayo Perico Heist | Um, you've played the new highest for GTA, uh, online. Uh, I haven't yet because I like the stream, everything and just hackers ruin it for me, but apparently it's gotten a little bit better and people have told me where to get around a bit. Um, what'd you, what'd you think of the highest? Yeah, first I've heard PC GTA online is crazy. Cause you do console. That's right. Yeah. Console man. Like, but I've seen sunny Evans tweets and stuff. It sounds horrible, but, um, I thought it was really, really good, man. I thought it was a very good update. Like I think games that are like where, where they're at GTA is point in the life cycle where you just want to like make money and grind and do stuff. The fact that there's like a highest and there's all these different ways to complete it and then people develop a meta and they're like the fastest way to do it or the most profitable way. And then you can grind that highest and it's like fun. I thought it was good. I thought it was really good. What about you? I say, I haven't played it. Um, I've only played the beginning and I still don't like the way that they have it so you're a silent protagonist. Um, some games do that well. Um, but the, I don't like the feeling of just being talked to. Like it's like, I'm just being given constant exposition where a person is talking to me. Um, I would rather they don't. I'm sure there's examples of this where you can pick an, uh, a voice for your character, like you have a selection of different voices or whatever. I would rather they have that. Um, but it's probably too late for that now in GTA online's life cycle. But, um, I've heard conflicting things. Some people hate the highest or I believe it's too simple or, or whatever. And others like yourself have spoken highly of it. That's why I was curious to ask, because it seems that people have fairly split on, um, in that regards to their perception of the highest. But from what I hear, um, they made this all at home because of COVID or something where it was, they contributed from their own homes in, in, in whatever set up rocks that has for making stuff so that they brought out anything, I suppose, especially during COVID is pretty impressive. Um, and I'm happy to hear someone liked it. Yeah, I thought it was good. I mean, everyone's entitled to their own opinion. |
| 15. January 2023 | The Challenge of Crafting Attractive Thumbnails for a New Audience. | out. The challenge of crafting attractive thumbnails for a new audience. Thumbnail is good of the new video. Thank you. I like the style of it, but I'm not convinced it'd be appealing to like new viewers. Whenever I have a thumbnail, I look at it and I think, would a person who doesn't know me click this? And usually when it's just content of me like playing a game or something, it's very hard to make a thumbnail that like breaks through and is appealing regardless whether or not I'm involved. It is easy to make thumbnails that appeal to people who know you as opposed to those who don't. Getting credibility with a new audience is tough. It's the main criticism of like the thumbnail title format for advertising, right? Like when you go and you scroll through TikTok or YouTube shorts, 99% of the things that you stop on and watch are things that you would scroll over if you only got to see the thumbnail and title. Our pickiness with content presented that way is a problem. It's a hard nut to crack. |
| 27. October 2022 | The Chinese YouTube. | The Chinese YouTube. So I had never heard of this website before chat. I'm curious how many of you know of it. And then I bring up Pornhub.com. No, it's called Billy Billy. So I was listening to the Linus Tech Tips Wind Show podcast thing, and they mentioned how they're already having their videos put up on this, which is the YouTube of, I guess China? And they apparently already have a million subscribers or something. Gonna react to some Chinese stuff. So it's just like YouTube, but. Well, that's gonna get me content ID'd. But like, I'd never heard of this before. Wait, Spy Family and Chainsaw Man? I love both these shows. But yeah, I just think that's kind of cool. So if you've ever wanted to know what the main competitor is to YouTube in, I guess, Asian regions, this is probably it. Getting... |
| 28. November 2020 | The Consequences of my clips channel. | The consequences of my clips channel. 8am is when I have to upload the next clip to the clips channel. Didn't think that through chat. Making that clips channel and committing myself to releasing a video every hour, honest, means that I have to basically live my life around that channel. Every time I'm looking okay, I want to do this for a couple of hours. How many clips have I got left on the channel? I've got, you know, 10 hours left. Okay, so I've got time. Like I'm uploading, I'm going through the clips, uploading clips to give myself more time to do other stuff. I do schedule, that's what I'm saying. Like I schedule it so one comes out every hour and so I might do 24 or 48 or something and then I'm like, okay, so it's been 16 hours since I stopped, I put up the clips, so that means I've got this much more time before I have to put up more clips and so on. I'm not forcing myself to keep out of the schedule, I have to keep up with it. As in this is a thing that I want to do and to continue what I want to do, I have to factor in that consideration in other things that I'm doing. Just because something has a downside and you find that downside funny enough to comment on it doesn't mean you aren't willing to reap the benefits of the thing that is causing the downside. So you can't code uploading these clips because I have to check that they're good, then I have to edit them using the YouTube editor in some cases, then I have to think of a funny title and then I have to make a thumbnail and these things can't be done by a bot, can't be automated. I already offloaded a significant amount of the time that it takes to do this because I had other people go through the original 27,000 clips and then cut them down to one tenth or one fifth or whatever of the ones that are likely good. It's still the case where maybe 75% of the clips end up being good but that still saves me a lot of time versus if I had done it all myself from the get go. So how much is that going to cost me? It probably cost me like $1500 I probably spent getting other people to cut down the clips. The most popular clips on my Devapper clips video is a nearly 800k kind of crazy, it is kind of crazy especially because that clip is really good. But there's a lot of really good clips on that channel. There's a couple over 100k. It's just you've got to wonder what metric the system is using to determine whether or not to give that video to other people because other than whether or not people click on it of course, I suppose that's probably the main thing. I just mean because normally with content the watch time or the watch percentage matters and so if you only watch 10 minutes of a 10 hour video that can negatively impact your video potentially. Although it doesn't seem to but whatever. That variable doesn't exist with these clips because they're all 30 seconds and people generally watch them all. Like they watch it to the end. And so you can't tell which is better or worse based on the watch time. It could be possible that it might recommend them more if people watch it more than once. But it's more than likely just the likelihood of people clicking on it. What I call the Clips channel a success. The Clips channel has been more successful than I ever thought it would be. I shouldn't doubt myself like some of those clips are really fucking funny. Like I have come back to my own Clips channel to watch clips of myself because I find them so funny. And some clips that at the time like I don't remember even doing them like one clip that popped off the most brutal non-lethal crash in GTA 5. I take like one damage and I fly out a window get hit by a car get hit into a pole and I take one and like a slam on the ground I take one sliver of damage. It's a very funny clip. But watching those clips watching such cherry picked instances of myself and my streaming it makes me feel bad in a way that I can't live up to that level of hype and humor all the time. Doing streams like this where I'm low energy and I'm tired. Everyone can't be at their best all the time I get that but I wish I could be at my best all the time you know. I have seen a small uptick in my views on my main channel within the last couple of days. I'm hoping that's indicative of my clips channel leading to more views on my main channel like because you'd assume that would happen because surely the algorithm would be smart enough using my tags and whatnot to associate my channel and my clips channel and so anyone who was watching a significant amounts of my clips would get recommended videos from my main channel. |
| 05. September 2022 | The DarkViperAU voice pack | on YouTube. The Dark Viper EU voice pack. I was on Twitter, and someone added me and said, Hey, I'm making a Dark Viper EU voice pack. I'm trying to suck my own dick. Hey! What is that? What is that? Idiota! Fatter. Suffer! So, it's just a bunch of random voice lines. I like, yeah, I saw one of these videos before. This one, I think. Funny, made by Arthur Morgan. So, yeah, if you're interested in a voice pack of a bunch of stuff that I've said for GTA V, yeah, go check that out. Thank you, Poppy Master. I'm not sure that was your name on Twitter, but thank you. Very flattering. |
| 16. January 2020 | The Domino's Free Pizza Scam | The Domino's Free Pizza Scam I'm gonna give you my conspiracy theory guys right now, okay? Domino's Pizza in my region has this thing where you pay $3 and if they don't get you the pizza within 20 minutes, you get a free pizza. Now, here's the thing. I guarantee you that you do not get free delivery with that pizza. And as you're a person who likes to deliver pizza, get pizza delivered, you ain't gonna want to pick that pizza up. So when you use that free pizza, what are you gonna have to do? Buy even more pizza to meet that delivery threshold, which in Australia is like $25. So you're gonna spend $25 to get that free pizza. Now, is it really free? Because you've just spent $3 for that free pizza. So what you've ultimately done is in the case that they don't deliver you the pizza, Domino's has taken $3 from your pocket. You haven't got your food when you wanted it. And what they've done is made it so you have to buy another pizza. And what does it cost for Domino's to make a pizza? I mean, with pickup for like a pepperoni or cheese pizza, it's like $5 in this country. So they're really losing that much on these pizzas, especially because they're getting more profit from you buying those other pizzas as well. So really, it's just marketing. It's a game to get you to buy more pizza. You're like, oh, wow, I got a free pizza. And you don't think that $3 that you spent to get that free pizza. The Domino's hit squad will come get me in the night. I know too much. |
| 31. March 2021 | The Fall Of Among Us | The fall of Among Us Have they not released the new map for Among Us yet? What happened? People are still playing the game. Ooh, it's dropping fast So one two three four five six months and they're down to What's that? One 20th. I'm not gonna bother doing that It's okay. It's more than one 20. You get the idea. Like it's not one 20. When I say one 20, I meant 20% But it's more like 15%. Look, I'm not here to do math. I'm here to do the speedruns. Okay, those still aren't bad numbers Right, so just barely outside of the Top 25 games. Where are they? Did I miss it? Yeah, there is. I mean it depends on the time of day, but um definitely when the new map comes out There's gonna be the same influx of people, the content creators who all go back to it I think but probably for less time than they did the first time around right? 400k sales? I thought that was way more than 400k sales. Way more. Because this is just the Steam version remember and The substantial portion of the a substantial portion of their their player base was on mobile 90% of people play mobile? 90% sounds high. Of course mobile counts people buy the skins and stuff. It's just you would imagine That the mobile loss of player base would track the PC loss of player base or rather It would be strange if the mobile player base had stayed constant while the PC version had gone down Right that there's a downward trend in the PC Version suggests there's a downward trend in the mobile version as well. Yeah, they sold tens of millions of copies I was supposed to solve the long work as the free version But Steam Spy estimated that Among Us had 10 million owners on Steam September 2020. And that's September 2020 |
| 21. December 2019 | The Flash TV Show | It's on the live-action flash TV show. The live-action flash is pretty terrible. I wonder if that guy in the wheelchair is the evil guy and he can actually walk. I fucking wonder, dude. Oh, what he is. Oh, wow. Oh, man, I love this fucking romance plot thing in the flash, dude. That's what I love watching superhero shows for. The fucking romance subplot, dude. Oh, wow. I've heard every season just here is an evil guy who can run really fast and the flash needs to run even faster to beat that guy who can run even faster than the flash. Oh, look, he's done it. So series or season as my expi. |
| 08. December 2020 | The GTA 6 YouTube gold rush and content diversification | What's the rush of GTA 6 on YouTube and content diversification? What's the rush of GTA 6 on YouTube and content diversification? What's the rush of GTA 5 on YouTube and content diversification? What's the rush of GTA 6 on YouTube and content diversification? What's the rush of GTA 6 on YouTube and content diversification? Let's say it's 25% of your main game audience that is going to watch you do anything. As long as you continue to grow in that one game, that 25% will continue to grow as a portion. So right now I get 2,000 viewers doing GTA 5 on Twitch. That means if I'm doing anything, I get 500 viewers. Back in the day, I was getting 1,000 viewers playing GTA 5, and I would get 250 viewers doing anything. And so the more I grow in GTA, the bigger that portion of audience who will watch me do anything grows. And so at some point, if I wanted to abandon GTA on Twitch, I would still have a large enough audience that I could probably make a living, you know, just as that 25% portion. That's a good way to think about it. It's really hard, man. I swear to God. When I make content that isn't GTA, I try not to look at the numbers too much, but we all do, you know? It sucks that it doesn't get the same freaking views that GTA does. I hate it. Oh, absolutely. Because I release so much content and I have people helping me out, I don't look too deeply at any individual video. But certainly when I put a lot of effort into a particular video and it doesn't do, like, amazingly, I do get disappointed. Everyone does. |
| 13. March 2022 | The GTA trilogy remaster sold 10 million copies. | The GTA Trilogy Remaster sold 10 million copies. I saw on Skill-Up's video today that the remastered versions of the GTA Trilogy sold 10 million copies, which apparently exceeded Rockstar's expectations. It meets my expectations. GTA hadn't released something in so fucking long, and their old games were not accessible at all. Most people are not willing to go the effort to throw 57 mods on a game to have them run. Or run half decently. More importantly, as I always say, even though you can be aware something exists, it doesn't mean that you're likely to go do that thing. You need something to bring that to mind, for you to seek it out again. Like right now, there are dozens of games you'd enjoy playing, and you know they exist, but you've forgot about them. They're not presently on your mind. And the second someone's like, hey, wouldn't it be fun to play some Skyrim? You'd be like, oh, yeah, I haven't played Skyrim in ages, I'm going to boot up Skyrim right now. That sort of stuff is invaluable. And even though a lot of the press that San Andreas got, and Vice City and GTA 3 got, was negative, it's still at the end of the day, the best way to play those games is to buy the remaster. You know? It just sucks that Rockstar really was not deserving of those sales. Because what they created was... Shit. |
| 22. February 2021 | The GTA voice actors and their lives after their roles | The GTA voice actors and their lives after their roles. Did you watch the Lester's voice actor interview? No I didn't see Lester's interview. I know it exists but it's just like ehhh. I suppose Lester's actor though, he probably has a more continuous working relationship with Rockstar than does Trevor, Michael or Franklin. Cause he's used for the online stuff. Oh yeah I heard Franklin's voice actor is writing a book. Isn't Trevor also online? Not since the beginning right? He hasn't had any new stuff since the game came out right? I did know that yes, that Franklin and CJ are related in real life. It's interesting when you're an actor and you are in something that's really really popular cause on one hand it does increase your notoriety but on the other hand it can get you typecast in particular roles or people only associate with you with a particular character. I remember the actor who played George Costanza like when you're in a role that's that well known regardless of what you do for the rest of your life you'll just be hey that's George Costanza. And I think because of how popular GTA 5 is it doesn't matter what Franklin, Michael or Trevor or that mean that actor is doing in real life they'll always be Franklin, Michael and Trevor. I wonder how that feels. I guess it depends on how much you want to milk your success in this role versus move on to other roles. Cause it's a good opportunity for repeat gigs for that character but at the same time it can restrict your other opportunities. And I guess it would also depend if you are making royalties or something from the continued success of that IP. If you're not you're like fuck man can this game just fucking end already? Maybe it's just me but it seems as though Ned Luke speaks more fondly of this game than does Steven. Of course Nicko has a negative view of Rockstar. Wasn't his thing like he got paid a couple of bucks basically and the game went on to make hundreds of millions of dollars or whatever. He's like hey can I have like more money? And they're like no. Is that the actual story or is it more complicated than that and I'm half remembering or something? No that's the story. I mean that would suck. Frankly I'm surprised they didn't just give him something. As in like just to hold open that door to potentially use him for another project or something. I mean what's a million bucks to Rockstar? His agent didn't know about GTA and how much money they would make? Aw man. That's, you'd be even sicker. You'd fucking hate your agent. I mean like your agent for getting the role in the first place but I mean at the same time you definitely fire your agent certainly. I mean his agent probably wouldn't be happy either because he wouldn't get his percentage. He was paid a hundred grand according to GamesRadar. You bet. How much work? A hundred grand sounds like a lot of money but how many years of work was that? Fifteen months? I mean that's not bad money but then you got to consider that the kind of work you get as a voice actor isn't consistent right? You might end that gig and not get another good gig for months. In the middle of the great recession? Oh okay. Yeah, and certainly a hundred grand even back then a decade ago or whatever. A little bit more money still but I mean certainly it's not ideal. I suppose it's hard to judge especially because I've never done that job myself. As a person who does read scripts and stuff for YouTube videos and stuff I find it quite difficult. You could see me doing voice acting. I am not a good speaker or I stutter over words sometimes. I don't speak clearly sometimes and you know. For a minor role that'd be fun. It's actually funny someone contacted me recently suggesting that they want me to be involved in some speedrun documentary that mainly focuses around me and I'm like that's- I'm not suited for that role. Not only am I probably not a good subject for such a documentary I don't think I have the presence or the speaking capability to really make the best of that. |
| 09. July 2022 | The GTAGuessr Rankings | Fuck everyone. The GTA Gessa Rankings. Did you guys like your placements on the GTA Gessa leaderboard? One spot above this scrub. Yeah, it was... I mean just imagine not knowing the GTA V Matt Pelli like what's going on there. I wouldn't say I didn't know it, you just knew it better. I beat Matt, how am I below you Matt? What's going on? Cause you beat me but my average score is higher than yours. I went easy on you man. Alright Russia. Wow, that was actually... I meant that more about the Olympics than anything else. Just to clarify. That's totally my bad. Sorry, I meant that about the Olympics from like 5-6 years ago. I got fucking crushed by the professional. I doubt you guys watched the episode but god damn it. Does he know who the GTA V map are? I heard he got like some perfect scores. The first game he got a perfect score. I was just like, okay, I might have met my match here. I didn't take a single game and I played like a serpent against him. That's insane, I didn't catch that video. That's the latest one that came out, he's ridiculous. I'm gonna sit down and listen to that ramble with him though at some point. Is it a good one? Should I watch it? Oh yeah, it's as good as all the other rambles. He's interesting dude, nice guy. He doesn't even upload GTA, he hasn't for like a GTA Online, he hasn't for a couple years. But he's still like just, I don't know, looked at as this like legend in the community. Yeah. Yeah, because I see him in my comment section, people always ask me to like make videos with him. I know the name and everything but I've just never actually watched anything of his. His viewers are just so passionate about him. Even though he stopped making content for the game. Or only does it like a couple times a year. Yeah, I didn't know much about him either until this event. But he was just always the most requested person to be on GTA Gamer. And I can see why. He was just... |
| 22. December 2020 | The Happy Hob and GTA V no hit. | The Happy Hub and GTA 5 No Hits Pasphos was the first one that I wanted to do and One-Hit KO was inspired by the Happy Hub I later learned that he actually really likes Grand Theft Auto 5. I can't remember specifically, but he may have wanted to do this himself I even gave him the mod if he wanted to try it, but he never did so either Because I did it he didn't want to do it or he saw how much of a shitfest this is and just never wanted to try understandably this game is less suited to No hit or no damage or whatever then um and the Souls games are you think I can't play this game casually I mean GT Online is basically me playing it casual. |
| 22. February 2021 | The Hitman games look too easy | The Hitman games look too easy. I've never played the Hitman games. They've always looked too easy. Are there difficulty modes in Hitman? As in like you could have a difficulty mode where like if you walk too fast everyone in the E-lesson is like, oh my god that guy's walking too fast, you suspect, and they shoot you. Yes? Maybe I could find a difficulty that's uh, that matches my level of skill. Godlike as it is. No, foolish thoughts. No mere developer could make something difficult enough for a person like me. I'm just too good! But every single time I see a clip of Soda Pop and throwing a shovel and killing like just enemy after enemy after enemy. Or like, Dunkey in his Hitman 3 video, he filled an entire room with corpses. An entire fucking room. And every time he led a new person into there, none of them batted an eye that they were walking in a sea of corpses. I feel like that's something that the NPCs should acknowledge for the game to be really considered difficult. Are you always playing on easy difficulty? I see. I see. So like what the NPCs are sensitive to depends on your difficulty mode. I guess that would be a way to do it. I have watched a little bit of Elijah doing the speedruns of Hitman and they look pretty nice. The recent Hitman games were like reskins of the last game, better graphics and different levels. But it's a formula that works and so they have no reason to throw it away. |
| 23. January 2023 | The Incomprehensible Reason Behind Twitter's Allowance of Pornography. | The incomprehensible reason behind Twitter's allowance of pornography. If I reflect on it, the weird it is that Twitter allows for pornography. You'd think that they would have tried to get that off the platform a long time ago in order to be able to secure advertisers better. They've certainly survived not doing that. Do they have like an algorithm that makes it so advertisements don't appear near pornography? I was just thinking of it because I saw recently, as often the case, well at least sometimes the case, there'll be some trending tag that's related to porn. It's weird. Like they just kind of bucked the trend of other social media websites. The reason I don't make a video about... |
| 28. November 2022 | The Ishowspeed crypto scam. | The iShowSpeed Crypto Scam. The I-C-O iShowSpeed shilling? So for those who don't know, iShowSpeed is like a super large content creator. I think he's got like 10 million subscribers. But he's gotten involved recently in an NFT crypto scam and he's shilling it to his viewers. And when I heard that I was like, why? If you've got 10 million subscribers and you are as popular as he is, he's making like a million dollars a month or some shit already. Why does he need to involve himself in sponsors at all? He has 13 million subscribers? Then why? I understand it's like they'll probably offer him like 10 million dollars, man. But you don't need 10 million dollars if you've got 13 million subscribers. Why risk the goodwill of your audience and your position of absolute privilege in society? You could come out with a picture of your face and be like, hey, you guys buy this for 10 dollars. And a lot of people would. You have so many easy, legit means to make money when you have access to that many people who love you. Why go the scam route? Sure, it's going to be a less effort for more money, but it's not going to be that much more money compared to what you could just do legit. Like why? I mean, forget the mole implications. If you just don't care about other people and are willing to scam them, fine. But think of yourself. It doesn't just take a lack of moles to do that kind of scamming stuff. It is stupidity as well. But how old is he? Maybe he's just a kid? I don't know. Oh, he's 17? So I mean, I guess at 17, it would make sense how you could be taken in by con artists and end up shilling some kind of a scam or whatever. What's the story of how a 17 year old gets 13 million subscribers? But like at that level, wouldn't you just be like amazingly wowed by the money that you're getting? Why would you reach out and scam anyway? But I mean, who can really understand the minds of 17 year olds? Like not even a 17 year old understands what the fuck they're doing, right? Lucky as fuck. Oh, yeah. All success requires luck. But the faster you obtain that success, the more luck you need. The faster your success is obtained and the greater that success, the more luck is required. The more variables outside your control that need to go just so for you to get there. |
| 21. December 2019 | The Joker (as a character) | The character of the Joker. Thoughts on the Joker as the character? One of the greatest villains In any media. Like the villains kind of carry Batman in a way. Certainly Batman's interesting, but it's like Batman is one character. It's the very colorful cast of villains that makes Batman what it is. Why there is no Bab- |
| 16. May 2020 | The Last of Us 2 | Anything. Would you play The Last Of Us 2? I have not seen the last- I have not played The Last Of Us 1. I've only seen the cutscenes. The cutscenes were fine, but no, I wouldn't play The Last Of Us 2. I'm not particularly interested. Cyberpunk 2077 though? Yeah, I'd play that. |
| 23. December 2022 | The Magic of my community posts. | The magic of my community posts. There was a thing I used to do for Twitter, where like whenever I had some random musing that made me like chuckle or blow air out my nose, I would save it in a list and then post it on Twitter. I'm kinda doing that now for community posts. Some a hit, some a miss. Hello, Franklin2013, gte5. Given that an alarm exists to instantly wake us up, I would like an alarm that instantly puts us to sleep. Get on that. Calling everyone mate became common in Australia due to the widespread belief that people's names are not worth remembering. I hope you never forget that one time where we saw that extraordinary thing at that unforgettable place after I said those important words to you. I would never forgive you if you ever had no idea what I was talking about. I know, I say weird things. On the back end of YouTube, you can now actually see the result of your community posts. Didn't used to have that, it's a fairly recent thing. So like 7 million impressions, 272,000 likes and 616 subscribers. Like, subscribers don't matter all that much these days. It's not like they don't matter at all though. Like I think subscribers matters more for like, if you subscribe it indicates the algorithm that you want to be recommended more videos from this channel, at least for a while, I don't know. But regardless, the subscriber number to me at least represents like, how many new people I'm potentially reaching with my posts. And the idea that just of my words alone, someone could subscribe to my channel, that's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. My thoughts on the new G- |
| 23. August 2021 | The Mandela effect | The Mandela Effect occurs when a person believes that their distorted memories are, in fact, accurate recollections. Some people argue that alternate realities or parallel universes are to blame for this, that they're intersecting with our own reality causing these false memories. Do I believe the Mandela Effect? No. It's all a matter of our brain being well established to be not good at certain things. If you want to look up like a list of psychological biases, it's like a thousand long. The brain is an amazing wondrous thing that is so far from perfect. And when you have seven billion people every single day using their brain all the time, the amount of errors that you're going to find that are going to be produced is a lot. |
| 22. December 2020 | The Matrix 4. | The Matrix 4. You hear they're releasing The Matrix 4? They're even supposedly releasing it on streaming at the same time as cinemas, along with what that Wonder Woman movie and something else. Like I didn't look at the third Matrix movie as something that necessarily led it to another sequel. I wonder what they're gonna do with it. Or if it's a prequel or something. I doubt it is. I was doing that's right. Yeah. Does the story end in the third? Maybe. Well it ends with humans being released from The Matrix and stuff. But you could definitely write more if you really wanted to. Like because The Matrix would still exist and I mean the machines still need a source of energy and machines might lied or you know. Oh it didn't Neo die? It's fiction like you can you know. Yeah Keanu is gonna be in it I think. I mean I saw him on the front cover. That guy's been in a lot of movies recently. Like a lot of movies. How is Keanu not the best paid actor right now? It was The Rock apparently. Was Keanu on the list? New Matrix is an attempt to cash in on the Keanu hype? Possibly. I mean it's hard to imagine they could have just immediately made a script. It's possible that there was always a Matrix 4 script laying around and no one wanted to do it because it didn't seem to be much of a drive after the third movie for another one. But now with Keanu being hyped it's like oh shit blow off the dust of that script and it's fucking go. You know. Oh Keanu likes the story. Maybe it's good then I guess. We'll see. We shall see. Ho ho ho. |
| 23. February 2022 | The Mcdonald’s fries rant. | The McDonald's Fries Rance The McDonald's Fries Rance So sometimes when a person doesn't order chips, the chips will just sit there at McDonald's for a long time. Fries, sorry, Fries. Those of you who've ever worked at McDonald's, do you feel bad when you look at those fries that have been there for like an hour? Like crispy looking fucking awful fries, you look at them and go, man, I should probably make a new batch to not give this person shit fries. Ah fuck it. And then you give them the shittest fries ever made. Do you feel bad? Yeah, many times, like late at night or early in the morning, I've ordered McDonald's and I've gotten the fries and they just like, they're like limp noodles or crusty hard rocks. I mean, know this McDonald's workers, you've made me sad. |
| 08. January 2022 | The Metaverse and the future of VR | that facebook is pinging my location when it's not open you know it's just weird the metaverse and the future of vr facebook being involved with this metaverse we have to imagine at some point vr is going to be the next big thing and i don't want facebook to be the leaders of that it just it just concerns me i just want i want the vr technology to be as open as it is you know like an open like source platform that like not one company specifically owns because it's the reason why i use like linux as a primary operating system right like i know i don't use windows like natively like i tend to like virtualize it as much as i can and the reason i stick with linux is because it's a it's a it's a kernel that's shared by everyone you know like everyone contributes to everyone benefits from it and it's it's a benefit you get like that's why i stick to it and if i'm if we're gonna have to live in a metaverse where like it's owned by mark it's owned by like meta now not facebook work it's it's scary like it's not a world that i want to be part of because now all the control is going up to them now you have to give up and think about it you're in the metaverse you're not only giving up like the information you have now but you're probably going to be giving up fucking medical information to an extent you're going to be giving up your health data to like them all the time i know i bought an oculus product like just to like arvr around my house and that thing like immediately without even asking me was like calculating my fucking health statistics and everything i'm like it's weird like don't fucking take that without asking mark no one asked you to i'm concerned about the tendency towards that we're going to create like a virtual capitalism with a artificial scarcity and we're just going to have to have jobs in a virtual world to buy lands in some place like i don't know because i watch videos about the advancements of vr and it looks it looks so amazing but also so fucking terrifying that that is going to go the wrong way when you look at virtual real estate that should be enough to scare the fuck out of you yeah oh that's that's please please let that not be a main thing but i don't know you know how many times like fucking i had a i actually had ice Poseidon who once like tried convincing me about like fucking virtual real estate i'm like this might work on some other dude but there's no way i'm falling for the virtual real estate bullshit scam there's no way you can convince me ice Poseidon is still around really he's like barely around like the only time i ever talked to him ever was when like he like was doing this crypto coin and i didn't look too far into it but like immediately when i was talking about it he like hits me up and it's like it's not a scam i promise and i'm like i haven't looked into it i like i told him like dude i haven't even looked into it at all yet but i mean you no one just immediately hits me up in the dms and it's like don't it's not a scam i swear i'm like i wasn't even looking into it it sounds like what a person doing a scam would say immediately right yeah it's like it's it's scared the shit out of me and then we're on a call and he's like he's telling me about like virtual real estate stuff and i'm like the fuck like you're buying mansions in in the metaverse like that doesn't even make any sense to me like what the fuck and then he's telling me it's like you could buy an nft and have it hung up in like a virtual mansion i'm like do you know how depressing that sounds like yes that's like blade runner shit to me you know like when fucking he's walking around with his glasses on and he sees like all the advertisement i don't want to live in a world like that neither neither like i have to buy like imagine you have to buy a property physically to live in as a person but then you also have to buy your virtual real estate like your fucking mansion that everyone can connect to and like look in like that's fucking scary i don't even want a mansion to realize that's too much property me to be living in why the fuck would i want it in goddamn like the metaverse where i can't even touch and feel things like what maybe one day we will be able to touch and feel things there in the but that's when the matrix kicks in dude that's when you like actually become battery pods and like get stuck into something that's when we don't have a choice you know that's why |
| 31. October 2021 | The Mount Chiliad mystery easter egg | The Mount Chiliad Mystery Easter Egg. My thoughts on the Mount Chiliad Mystery, it's fucking stupid. Clearly Rockstar didn't put an answer to the mystery in the game initially, and have just added small things to it over time. And it's not an Easter Egg at that point, if... It's just something they're just continually writing. A half-baked idea. I think it was meant to be a mystery that had no answer. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 28. November 2021 | The No Damage failure that caused me to take a four month break | The no damage failure that caused me to take a four month break One time I was watching your stream I just tuned into your stream and it was when you failed it I watched you for maybe two minutes and then you failed it It was that one time you were outside think it was ammunition and you got hit by a civilian car Okay, I'm just It finally happened Do you remember that that that is that was the last straw? That's what caused me to take a break for four months I was just like no fuck off. I'm not doing this anymore. I was watching it with a friend I'm like, no, you don't understand like he this is gonna like piss him off so much man Like that and I was I remember watching like that is so bullshit that that happened and it's so unlucky it's even worse because it was so unlucky but also was impart my fault because all I was doing was checking my gun to make sure I bought the right attachments and Like I didn't need to do that I should just a sure should have been certain that I just bought it cuz I did just buy it and if I could just Done it on the road or I could there's a thousand different things I could have done differently or that could have happened in the game differently that wouldn't have happened I just and it didn't like swerve off the road. It wasn't a normal driving pattern for the the car was it? No, I can't remember but regardless. I just remember what I'm like man. That's that's bullshit I feel I felt so bad for you and like making new content for now eight-year-old game |
| 14. June 2022 | The QuantumTV and YouTube vs TheActMan situation | The Quantum TV and YouTube versus the Act Man situation. I didn't follow the entire story. When I first heard about the story, the beef between Quantum TV and the Act Man, I thought it was going to be like just a drop in the bucket, a small thing that would just dissipate, and it would be gone in like a couple of days. But it's gone for weeks now, it's seemingly. So I haven't watched every single video about what's happened, I only know the bare bones of what happened. So the story is basically, Quantum TV made a Elden Ring video where he gave a shit take on the game, and the Act Man roasted him along with a bunch of other people in a video, and Quantum didn't like that, so he copyright striked the channel, even though it's clearly within fair use, whatever. Apparently, Quantum, at least according to the Act Man, Quantum actually called his mother, like the Act Man's mother, and he's got a past of a bunch of homophobic garbage, because he's apparently a fundamentalist, religious person or something, I'm not sure. But the reason why this has captured my interest more than it simply being a little bit of beef between people, is the Act Man's now had his entire channel demonetized. And this is hundreds of thousands of dollars, chat, a year. That's gone. And it all started with a beef about an Elden Ring bad take. The thing that caused his channel to be demonetized was the Act Man on Twitter, satirized YouTube stance by saying like, hey guys, I'm gonna go dox some people, gonna dox some YouTube employees, because that's apparently what YouTube likes, ha ha. Like in a clearly satirical way, mocking that YouTube wasn't taking action against Quantum, who apparently doxed and threatened some people or what have you. Yeah, really fucked up situation. It's been trending for ages, there's like tens of thousands of tweets from all different creators, whatever. But yeah, I hope the Act Man gets his channel demonetized. Feels kind of weird for a person to get demonetized for something they said on Twitter. I don't want to say definitively what Quantum did, because I didn't follow it. I've heard he bandivated as well. Like it just seemed like, it seems like a very fucked up weird situation. It's just interesting because it snowballed from something so minor, and led to a huge channel being demonetized. Seemingly unjustifiably. |
| 06. May 2021 | The Reddit Recap "Good stuff" threshold. | Reddit recap good stuff threshold. The Reddit recap video turned out pretty good too. I did cut some things from it though. It's one of those things where like when the subreddit was new, getting a thousand upboats was hard. And so anything that got over a thousand upboats, well, pretty much had to be good. Now that I've kind of kept the same standard as a thousand and it's easier to get to a thousand, the closer I get to a thousand, the more likely there's just going to be a lot of weaker stuff that needs to be cut, you know? I should do top 50? Yeah, that's a good point. Doing it not based on upboats, but the actual position in the upboats. Yeah, that's a good idea. And we'll see like on average how long it takes me to get, I think it's like an hour and a half, two hours of content, something like that. So we'll go top 50. Not enough. We'll go top 75. And yeah, that's a good idea. No one wrote that? No, someone did. Someone wrote top 50. Maybe I misread what they wrote, but there was top 50. What do you think? If I had that idea, I would have just taken credit for the idea. It was a good idea. What do you think I'm giving credit for my ideas to Twitch chat? I've had too many good ideas lately. It makes me not relatable for my audience. So I better pretend that there's good ideas coming from them to make themselves feel special. You know. |
| 16. December 2019 | The Sonic Movie: redesign, conspiracy, hype | failure of the first design was a marketing ploy. The design looks fantastic. It's impressive how much of an improvement it is. It almost makes you think the original design was done just to generate interest in the movie and have people talk about it. I don't know though. It totally was. I don't think, considering the amount of money they would have spent on the movie, especially to get Jim Carrey, I don't think they would have risked souring people permanently on the movie. Sonic is Sonic, right? It's iconic enough that any, a new Sonic movie was gonna get interest regardless of the design of Sonic. It's one of those principles where just because something benefits someone, it doesn't mean that that was like, you know, their goal or their design from the get-go. Certainly they took advantage of the opportunity, but whether or not they sought to create that opportunity is a separate question. Long story short, I think the redesign is fucking fantastic. But whether the movie is something that's gonna be amazing, I doubt. I think it's gonna be a good seven out of 10 movie. Like one you won't be disappointed to see in the cinemas if you go and see it, but not one that you need to like, you know, bust down doors, steal your parents' credit cards and stuff to go see. I might see it when it releases in the cinemas just to make a review of it in my car and be like, hey, you're what up, Squad Fam? Just saw that new Sonic movie, man. You know what's absolutely a marketing poi? Asking you to like this video. So please do that. Thank you. |
| 28. July 2022 | The Spiffing Brit and YouTube analytics | The spiffing Brit and YouTube analytics The spiffing Brit released a video today called this video breaks YouTube you must watch in 0.5x speed. The whole premise of this video is that if you watch this video in 0.5x speed and then watch the entire thing as far as YouTube is concerned you've watched 200% of the video and the algorithm on YouTube cares a lot about the percentage that you've watched the video as well as the amount of time you've watched the video right? No one really knows which is more important. For example if you had a 10 minute video that the average person watches 70% of vs a 14 minute video that the average person watches 50% of will one do better than the other? Both are being watched for 7 minutes on average just a different percentage of the video. I would suspect that the 10 minute video would do better as a greater portion of the video is being watched potentially suggesting that people are more engaged and are enjoying it more. However would a 30 minute video that was watched 50% get recommended more? As it's still a lower percentage than the first video but people are now watching for 15 minutes which is longer than the 7 minutes. I don't think there's a definitive answer as to how much the algorithm values engagement vs watch time we simply know that it values both. Even directly asking people who work at YouTube. The answers are somewhat vague and my impression has always been that it's like a balancing of the two. A video that everyone is going to get to the end is suggestive that they really enjoy it and so it's going to get recommended more. A video where people only get to like 50% of the way through but they're there for an hour that's a whole hour so the the algorithm is going to value that and so it's going to recommend that video as well. You want a combination of the two. Only you want people to be in your video for a very long time and to as a percentage stay for the majority of the video or a significant portion of the video whatever. And so with enough people doing this the engagement on this video will be effectively 200% or whatever and I watched it. It's got 1.7 million views but that's not that crazy for this channel. The video before got over a million this has got 2.2 million this has got 1.3 this got 1.3 and this premise this video breaks YouTube is one people are immediately going to click it's only a minute so not a lot of time so people like oh it's minutes what this is about thumbnail very captivating as well. I question whether this was successful whether it really mattered that there was now 200% engagement on this video. I'm sure it got recommended a lot but I I'm not sure to what degree this scheme really helped this video. Maybe I'm wrong in the next couple of weeks you'll go to 10 million 20 million but I think it would just be recommended the same amount as you know a minute video that people all watch to the end you know. You think it might push that to a bit yeah exactly it might do that it's just the views haven't shown that to be certainly the case. The premise of the video the thumbnail and title would be enough to get the video to be recommended to fuck tons of people even if this scheme itself didn't work. I don't know if his premise is true or not and I don't think this video proves it to be so that you can go past 100% engagement and the algorithm will actually care about that. You know this has been known about for a while I think Spiffing Brits even done it himself before in in some smaller ways. It's possible that YouTube has seen this and gone well we just won't count anything above 100%. I don't know like I'm gonna be interested in the next couple of weeks this ends up getting like way more than his normal videos more than could possibly be explained by the videos title premise and thumbnail just being very good. I was recently listening to MrBeast talking about how he aims for 70% engagement but if you look at my most successful videos none of mine get anywhere close to that. This is my most successful video got like 5 million views average view duration 44% and then there's this video right my 10 hour video where the average view percentage is 4.5% and if you do get gripped into this video 7% of the people were you'll be here for 10 hours and people come back to the video and watch again so even though the average view duration is half an hour which is still very high and most people are dropping off before the first six minutes if it does grip you you're gonna be there for a very long time so the the so YouTube recommends this video. So this video half an hour again average percent viewed 20% but if it camps you if it gets you you know you're there for two and a half hours. This one is a shorter video and and so this features you know the 70% kind of marker that well it's not exactly there but this is this is what like the top tier youtubers are trying to do with their you know 10 to 15 minute videos get get this kind of retention but I just want to show that that's not necessary clearly the algorithm balances both the percentage viewed and the actual raw length that a person is going to be watching the video. |
| 23. March 2021 | The Spiffing Brits video on shorts was incomplete | The spiffingbrit's video on shorts was incomplete. I saw you were following Piff's shorts advice. What does that mean? Oh, oh the spiffingbrit? No. God, no. I had been releasing clips before spiffingbrit made that. And my success has nothing to do with the shorts. In fact, I considered his video to be incomplete because he didn't talk about my circumstances or the circumstances before YouTube Shorts even came out. I don't know if he knows, I thought I sent him an email. Before YouTube Shorts even released globally, like I don't even think it's in Australia yet, YouTube already started to prioritize short clips. They didn't need to have the hashtag shorts on them. 99.9% of the clips on my clips channel aren't in 9x16, so cannot be picked up as shorts. They aren't put in YouTube Shorts. The clips I did make just recently to go into YouTube Shorts didn't do any better. In fact, it did worse in many cases than their 16x9 counterpart. The reason I did what I did is because I noticed these random new channels that popped up and they would get like tens of thousands of subscribers in days and tens of millions of views in days despite having no other content prior to that. What they were doing was putting other people's Twitch clips on their YouTube channels. The algorithm would go, oh my god, this is a 30 second clip that people are clicking on? Fuck that. We'll just throw that to fucking everyone on the platform. I was like, well, if it will work for these people stealing other people's clips, maybe it will work for my clips. It did. Had nothing to do with Spiff and Britt. He was months late to the game. And he didn't even seem to realize it. It wasn't just Shorts that did this. I stole my own clips, yeah. Fuck that Doclappa guy. |
| 30. November 2020 | The Surprising Success Of My Clips Channel | The surprising success of my clips channel. Are you surprised at how well the clips channel is doing? Yes, I am surprised. Not because I don't think the content is good, I can watch those clips myself and find them funny, but that, the algorithm, has treated me with kindness, is surprising. There's some really good clips, like every day, there's always really good clips coming up. And there's a lot of clips that I haven't been able to upload, because I need to combine them together, that I know will also do very well. It is interesting watching the clips and reliving my past, seeing myself as a smaller streamer, seeing the gradual change in how I present myself on stream, because I can be louder, because of my lack of people I'm living with. Or slowly over time, I cared less about disrupting people, and I streamed more during the day. |
| 30. December 2022 | The Tiktok channel is making out of context memes about me. | TikTok channel making out of context memes about me. So there aren't many channels with like memes about me That kind of pop off especially because I have my own reddit for people to post memes about me, too I think people are less inspired to make like their own channels of that kind of stuff and they don't know how I feel About that stuff. So maybe they also don't do it that for that reason But as I've always said if you're making original stuff using other people's work as long as it's original It's an expression. It's it's different from what the other person has made themselves. That's totally fine in my book, right? We all benefit from people creating new forms of expression using other people's work And then that's kind of the point of fair use after all obviously there's limits to that Everyone has their own line, but the concept of fair use making something original using parts of other people's work I'm totally for obviously so that being said there is a channel making some memes about me on Tiktok right now and there are not really family friendly. Let's say when you and your mate have run out of funny jokes I should just start saying Ridiculously racist things there was this one wasn't it? Yeah, so it's got 700,000 views which is pretty good when the emo kid starts laughing, but then he realized he's actually depressed No, oh wait I Especially love these using these clips from my already out of context video One of the reasons why I like this is the comment sections very wholesome ultra mega super duper ultimate Common dark fiber a UW millions to one common dark viper W Extremely common dark viper W matter out of context funniest thing ever and I was like, oh man, that's cool So thank you random guy for making memes about my stuff |
| 12. May 2021 | The Time I Met Whippy, The GTA 5 Roleplayer | The time I met Whippy, the GTA roleplayer. So I tuned into Whippy's stream yesterday, you know, the Australian GTA RP guy. I met him once in person, and I haven't met a lot of streamers in person. There was this meeting that I had with my partner manager, a new person working for Twitch Australia, and like, seven other partners who were around Sydney. A long time ago this was, but just before COVID. Like, three, four months before COVID or something. And so it was just a lunch, just to talk to people. Nothing really interesting was discussed that I can recall. And actually I was kind of disappointed because I was like, oh, well, I thought it was going to be some business thing, but it was just a get together, whatever. And Whippy was there. Both of us at the time, smaller content creators, but obviously still reasonable partners. It's funny though that there was meant to be like a bigger Twitch thing where a lot of partners were going to get flown into Australia and stuff and get to meet some of the higher ups and stuff and blah, blah, blah. But because of COVID, that never ended up happening. But yeah, Whippy. So I DM'd him yesterday because I stopped into his stream, and he had just added chat to his stream, and he didn't have a stroke around the text. So a stroke is when there's like a black outline around something. And so whenever he would go over anything that was bright, you couldn't read his chat because it's white text on the white background. And so I'm like, I have to DM him, dude. And I DM'd a handful of people over my time on Twitch saying, look, just get a goddamn stroke, please, please. I wish people would have a stroke. It's funny. But like back in the day, putting stroke on text was a really hard thing. You had to have like a page long CSS that tinkered with shadows and shit. But now I think it's far simpler. But he also was using 6K bitrate. Now, if you go to like the guidelines for Twitch, it'll say the recommended bitrate is between 3 and 6K. And if on OBS, you tick enforce streaming limits, it limits you to 6K bitrate. But a little secret for you, no upper tier partner or whatever does 6K bitrate. Years ago, I changed to 8K. Didn't get permission, just went, eh. I just happened to be watching some extreme or whatever, and I saw he had 8K bitrate. And I was like, OK, fair enough. Like the concern was that the higher you go over recommended bitrate, because it is the recommended, right, the less viewers you'd be able to keep because, you know, they wouldn't be able to watch it because it's more better internet's required. And Twitch's servers might not be able to handle it. But as a person who's used 8K now for like three years or something, no problems. I think it's not three years. I don't know how many years this has been, but like eight. So like for those unaware, to have a stream without like massive pixelation when you're going very fast in a car or any fast motion, at 1080p you need 12K bitrate and you can't do 12K bitrate on Twitch. To have like no pixelation at like 900p, you can deal with like 8K bitrate. And that's why I have 900p. YouTube allows 12K bitrate at 1080p, yeah, but their compression algorithm is so strong that it doesn't fucking matter. Why is the bitrate limited? Because everyone had infinite bitrate, the amount of bandwidth or servers or blah blah blah they need would be a lot higher. Because the VODs would be a lot more in one. |
| 18. October 2021 | The Twitch Leaks - I Am #296 | I am number 296. What do I think about the hack of Twitch? In general, not a good thing. I cannot fathom how this is going to lead to any good things for the platform or anyone on the platform. For those unaware, like 150 gigs of information was taken from Twitch. All their testing of vulnerabilities, their security systems, their... Basically, the whole website, people's details, emails, apparently they might even be passwords, payment information, payouts. So you haven't changed your password or you don't have two-factor identification, you should do that. When the information first leaked and people's payment information was put out there, or the amount that people have been paid, it was off by about a loss. It was like four times what it should have been. And so I tweeted that. I'm like, hey, yeah, this payment stuff I know for a fact is incorrect. But then they fixed it. They fixed it like an hour or two later, so I deleted the tweets. I am apparently 296th for earnings on the platform. The only thing that was a surprise to me was I thought the people at the top were making more money. A lot of memes came from it that were pretty funny. Even though it keeps saying, or people keep saying it's from August 2019, I'm pretty sure it goes back further than that. I think it must be... I thought it was September 2018, because it says three years. I mean, it didn't take much for people to figure out how much I was making because I had... Well, actually, I don't have... I can only see my sub numbers now in the intro and outro. I mean, for the longest time, I had my subs visible. As in, it was obvious on Twitter already who was making a good chunk of money. No one was surprised that Hassan, who has what? 50,000 subs, is making a decent chunk of money every month. Now, I wouldn't say it's simple to find out how much everyone makes, but it's like who is making a decent amount of money isn't a surprise. The exact number is interesting, and it led to a bunch of jokes. Did Smollens make a joke where he was like, hey, anyone in the top 300 when a collab hit me up? I think I saw a tweet saying he was 180, and Surtapoppin tweeted out, he was like, man, this is bullshit, man. I'm way higher than 42, man. I'm way richer than this, dude. You know? |
| 09. April 2021 | The Twitch Streamer Association Map | The Twitch Streamer Association Map. So for those unaware, there is a thing that is developed by... I better get his name, I better put it to credit people when they do the good stuff. Twitch Atlas Volume 2 by Kjush on Reddit. This is the second one that they've produced. In the first one that they made, I was off to the side here, like they didn't have enough information or whatever to put me within the... So I should explain what it is, I guess. This is like all the top Twitch Streamers and how they connect to each other, their own little communities, who's with who and whose viewers watch whose content, that kind of stuff. And when this came out, I'm like, where the hell am I? Because last time I was on the border here and I was near no one because I didn't have enough data. But this time I am in it and I am exactly in the middle. But I'm under X. I'm sitting under XQC, I'm next to PinkSparklez and Amaranth and CandyLand. Aren't they like the... the... the attractive women of Twitch are saying? I don't know. It's kind of funny. And between Shroud as well. Between Shroud and XQC. I think the reason for this is that, I guess, because all these guys play GTA RP, at least a lot of them, but I'm like not exactly in GTA RP. So I'm off to the side. And then what are these all the shooter guys or whatever? Valorant? Is this Valorant or something? And so there I am. So if you like GTA, but you're not super into RP, you could be here. Oh, and I did play a little bit of chess, that's why I'm also here like that. But like you can see how interesting this is, how there's like little communities that are kind of just cut off from everyone. Like I don't know any of these people. But the even smaller communities are even more interesting. Like who are these people? In most cases, these are like separate language things. It's interesting though. I wish I had like a... I think he said last time that the color... Oh, no, no, here it is, here it is. Oh, I'm a variety streamer? So variety is here and that's me. And I guess I do play a decent amount of games, I suppose. Like remember that one time when I compared how many games I played to Asmongold and like I played heaps more? Let me see here. Oh, no, it wasn't me calling out Asmongold for anything. It just coincidentally, I just happened to be comparing. Yeah, so over my career, I've played 152 games. Man, Dark Souls 3 is still in my top four. That's nuts. And this information might have been taken when I was playing Noitou as well. I told you guys, I speed ran a lot of that game back then. So these are the Spanish people up here. These are the Russian CSGO people. Oh, Russian English CSGO. First person shooter. Brazilian over here by themselves. French. These guys. It's weird, there's a little bit in there as well. Maybe it's like tournament stuff. Korea? Oh, I didn't know we had a significant section of Korean on Twitch. Because Korea has its own streaming services. German? Mostly Valorant. I see. See in here, which with that. Okay. League of Legends in there. Okay. At this Tala one. Minecraft English. Tommy Innis. Yeah. Turkish. There's Turkish. I can't even see him. Where's Turkish? That's Rust there. Where's Turkish? I can't see him. Offline TV and Friends? That group gets their own color? That's crazy. Chinese, Taiwan. Over there. What's that? Okay, I can't tell if that's Brazilian or Taiwan Chinese. Chess variety in there. Okay. Rust there. Italian? There's Italians? I totally can't see the Italians. What's that? Oh, it's up there. Interesting. Rainbow? Rainbow Six Siege there. FIFA? Oh, there's FIFA. Japanese. Is that Japanese there? Well, regardless, very cool. |
| 06. February 2023 | The Unseen Episode of GTA V Chaos Mod. | had multiple issues. I had a mod that was just meant to boost the cutscene audio, but it actually boosted any audio that occurred around the cutscene. Whenever a sound would play with chaos, it was of course really loud if it was in during that cutscene period. I had the audio in the game on six bars, when I normally do four, so the huge increase as well. But worst of all, in OBS, I set it so that the game audio was captured on every single audio track. So it was impossible for me to just increase or decrease the volume of the game in post, in my editing software, without impacting my voice as well. So it was like four different audio issues, all coincidentally happening on the exact same episode. I looked at them like, this episode wasn't even that good anyway. So I'm just gonna redo the episode, basically. Although the footage did end up on my VOD channel, so if you wanna go watch it there, feel free. The reason my views are up 6,400%. So for those who are unaware, social media, |
| 14. January 2021 | The Viper-Peli Podcast | But, um, so, um, is there a type of content that you don't do right now, but you would like to do, but you're unable to as in, you know, you don't want to do it because I lower ad revenue, you don't have the skills for it. You don't have the budget for it. Um, more like we were talking about, I don't know how much you care about us talking about this, but I've always kind of wanted to start a podcast. I mean, right now I'm quite enjoying chatting with you. It's always yet to say how this is something like this is received by our viewers. Maybe they're just like, shut the fuck up guys. Like, I just want to watch you play, play games. I have no idea. Right. Like it's always important to me that what I'm making is something people want to watch. Like I don't want to make content that people like Peli, I don't really want to watch this. So, but I'd love to do a podcast. And I was talking about like you, like you and I may be doing a podcast, but as you said, you've got pretty limited time. So this it's almost like at our size, regardless of what you make, there's going to be someone who's going to watch it. I just released a video where I'm working with an AI to create a story and I'm fighting a penguin named Goku. And it's, it's, I have a section. Just within the last 24 hours. It's very, it's a very weird video. It's called AI dungeon two. It's, it's, it's, but what I'm saying is this video isn't doing that well. It's got under 50,000 views or whatever, but the people who watched it really like it. There's always going to be someone like that, especially with podcasts. A lot of people who listen to podcasts just want something that can feel the air. There's not a huge high standard for podcasts. I think you and I could make a podcast that is better than dead air, but it's, uh, I'd rather just fucking sit here and my concern with making this podcast and certainly having a permanent other partner on it is that I won't have time for it. I'm, I'm not a very reliable person. Um, or rather I specifically don't put myself in situations where I feel like I'll let people down because of other things. I don't like people to rely upon me in a way that I don't feel like I'm going to meet their expectations like, cause I, I woke up at, you know, 1pm today. I might wake up at 6am a week from now. Uh, I don't have a strict schedule of how I live my life. Um, and, and, and sometimes I'm irritable. Sometimes I'm sick because I have my shitty sleeping pattern or whatever. And if I commit myself to making a podcast with someone else, I'm concerned, as I said to you, that I would end up putting a lot of burdens on them to shift around their life to match my ever shifting sleeping pattern and trying to fit in. Um, I guess what we, I guess, so there's, there's different types of podcasts, isn't there? There's ones where it's just a group of people talking about a specific topic or a, you're talking about the topics of the day or having guests on or whatever type of podcasts would be made. I don't think I have the time to put in the effort necessary to have it be a consistent thing. The, the, the value with what I wanted to do here with O Rambles With is that I can contact a person 10 months from now and be like, Hey, want to chat? And we can just do it at any point in time. And certainly chatting with you on a, whenever would be nice. But I'll come on as much as you are. This is fun. Um, I got some questions for you next time. Oh, sure. |
| 20. October 2020 | The WR progression video | Good video for the seventh anniversary. Thank you stump. It's unfortunate that the video didn't get recommended to people but part of the reason probably is uh the amount of watch time The average person watched the video for eight minutes. I think the video is only 11 minutes long So while it's a good video that people will watch YouTube will recommend a video that you know has a similar attention rate or a similar amount of Views or whatever that has a longer watch time, you know The video is good and people watch it and it will slowly get trickled in with views But the there are other videos in the same Category of videos like GTA 5 videos that would get recommended before it effectively squishing it down It's not enough making a video that is successful on YouTube to have a video video viral It needs to be successful in its category against all other competing videos. It needs to be identified as By YouTube as the video that it needs to most recommend and will do better than any other video that it can recommend There's a very hard thing to do YouTube algorithm and con- |
| 01. June 2022 | The YouTube skill I am bad | The YouTube skill I am badass I really like the new video no drama and the way you presented facts was really impressive so I Suck at reading scripts the outtakes for those videos is shockingly long The reason why you can clearly see me reading is because I like I bought myself a teleprompter And I was gonna try and stand and and read it so you can't tell that I'm reading But I would so frequently flub lines that it was impossible to do the only way that I could do this Was I would basically look at a line Memorize it and then say it while looking at the camera and then glance down at the next one and try and glance back up Once I've reminded myself what's coming up next because I could very rarely get through a single sentence More than a single sentence without needing to be reminded what comes up next my skills in in content creation have increased Astronomically in many different areas over the years But one thing that I've had no reason to develop is my skill in meeting scripts We'll say like 75% of the video will have eyesight to the camera, and that's the best that I can do Anything else would require me to take like another month Interestingly though even just over the process of doing these videos I think I've gotten better at it, but I'm really bad at script reading. I'm really bad at elicution I'm like bad at all these things |
| 06. May 2021 | The ability of publishers to crush fan remakes. | One on YouTube there. I'm just saying this is definitely not the darkest timeline is what I'm trying to say. Things were not better when people were making content for Penis. The ability of publishers to crush fan remakes. Have they done that fan remake of Oblivion yet? Has that happened yet? I don't know how these people dedicate so much time to making fan remakes of games knowing that like the nanosecond that the rights holders care they can be like oh here's a piece of paper stop that now and they have to stop it is dumb. I mean the way that they can stop it or whatever like you know there needs to be more lenience when it comes to games. Like just after 10 years or something people can as long as it isn't for commercial purposes they can do whatever they want. Remake whatever they want, distribute whatever they want. I mean because it was for commercial purposes then like you know other companies could basically take the intellectual property or whatever. I mean other companies probably wouldn't though because if they couldn't then own the intellectual property themselves it wouldn't be worth their investment to do it but for a fan you know they might be willing to do it. Yes maybe even for commercial purposes. Fuck it. It's never gonna happen though. Abolish intellectual property? Some intellectual property laws definitely should exist but the exact formulation of those laws I mean depending upon who you talk to and their particular interests you get very different answers right? I mean the purpose of intellectual property laws is to to help inspire innovation and creation to greater protect and potentially guarantee that those who are making the investment to make something new will be able to recoup their losses whether it be from financial investment or time. Because as I've said before with intellectual property laws right? If you spend 10 years and a million dollars to make some new products another company can just take your end results and produce that products in competition with you they're gonna win every time because they don't have to recoup that you know million dollars in 10 years. They can just massively undercut you and so people's willingness to create anything would be far lower. |
| 01. March 2023 | The absence of an ethical foundation is an asset in becoming successful. | The absence of an ethical foundation is an asset in becoming successful. Recently, I've been presented with a lot of videos from Clixphilip, a YouTuber that I've talked before many times about who I quite like his content. Here's this channel where he just talks about his thoughts about, you know, the most random of things. How to bed like me. Why he has this bed, how he sets it up, going random places and stuff. But one of the things that this channel does very well is it documents his life, you know, with the coronavirus and all that stuff. And I've been presented videos of his from like six, seven, eight years ago when YouTube was a much different place. And one of the things that he discussed was people's responses to sponsorships and how at that time he didn't take sponsorships, but they offer so much money that he can't imagine that he will not at some point in the future take sponsorships. And how it's ridiculous the amount of money that these gambling companies can offer people to sell out effectively and sponsor gambling. And he talks about how it makes him feel that a lot of these people, they can just take these huge sponsorships, take all this money. And if they receive backlashes, like who cares? At the end of the day, they'll be living the high life in absolute luxury and there'll be some people on the Internet mad, but they'll go the rest of life just not caring because that's just how some people are. For the people who don't have this sort of inner feeling where they feel bad when they harm others, like the sky is the limit in terms of how much money you can make on these online platforms. Just take any scam, any gambling sponsorship, just re-upload other people's videos. Who cares? You just make so much money. And people like me, people like ClixPhilip are hampered in our ability to capitalize on our circumstances because we have a conscience. We feel bad. We don't like to negatively impact others. At every point, we're like shackled. We go, is this right to do? Is this fair? As like an Asmongold is just like sprinting down the road, not shackled by such considerations. It's just a frustrating thing to reflect on that one day you might not be doing well and you look back and go, man, I could have just taken a huge check cashed out. Sure, some people on the Internet may be mad. Some people may be negatively impacted, but I've sacrificed living a good life free of any cares or considerations for some higher morality, some higher care for others. Was that really the right thing? |
| 11. December 2020 | The absence of evidence is evidence of absence | The absence of evidence being evidence of absence. The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. It is though. In any situation where you would expect evidence, and if there is none, that is evidence of absence. Or you could say, I suppose you could say the lack of evidence is in itself evidence. It's like if you want to postulate whether... |
| 06. May 2021 | The aftermath of the rickroll claim on my singing video. | aftermath of Rick Roll claim on my singing video It's been a long time coming, but I'm finally doing it. I'm muting never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down in my singing video It's gone chat. They claimed the video just because I was speaking the lyrics They believe all many see said the lines from the song man We deserve all that fucking money for 25 minute video there disputed my claim Look that went you don't believe we deserve all your money Because you said some words we own those words motherfucker for the rest of time Give money so now it's muted Be sure to LIKE the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 22. February 2021 | The allure of gambling streams | The allure of gambling streams. Would you ever consider doing an online gambling stream? A part of me soo badly wants to gamble again. I just I just don't think it'd be good to get into. Like I really enjoyed gambling back in the day for a couple of hundred bucks or whatever doing Texas Hold'em. But I was never really good at it. I just played the game. Like I didn't have any master strategy or anything like that. Like and I know if I played gambling on stream it would influence people to gamble and they would lose money. And you know because at the end of the day in gambling the only people who win in it are the casino and the pros who either count cards or people who play the game so you're aversing other people. It's just it's just it's just fun when done in moderation, right? Like it isn't that bad when there's a huge barrier between you just gambling whatever you want to. Like when you have to physically go like an hour away to gamble it's hard to overindulge at that point. But when you have online gambling and it's just you press a few buttons and you can be betting a thousand bucks on a single hand in blackjack like that's just you know those videos of me playing blackjack that spawns the stream back in the day were fun. But I didn't think we'd do them again. Maybe like just one stream one time in the future. I don't know. I think I'm just gonna if I can spend the rest of my life avoiding gambling I'll be happy you know. I still remember that feeling losing that 500 bucks when I was in Melbourne in um 2018 or whatever it was 2017. I can't remember when it was but yeah, I still remember that and it was not a fun experience. Am I good at poker? No, I know how to play the game but I don't have a sophisticated knowledge of like pot odds and stuff. I always said to myself until I'm willing to spend the time educating myself as to higher levels of strategy I either should not play or just accept that I'm gonna lose all my money and I have no interest in losing a little money. And the legality of online gambling in my country right now, I don't even know where that's at really. Technically the last time I played poker was Watch Dogs 1 and I decimated those NPCs. Slaughtered them. They never saw it coming. This is a joke because I beat them in poker and I also killed them all so. No, no, I killed them after I won. Don't you gaslight me. Watch Dogs is some funny minigames. Yeah, it surprises me that all those kind of minigames aren't in these sorts of games. Like just why not? Like why not just have a random dude that you can play chess against? It just seems like easy content to add. Do you have to pay licensing fees to someone for chess? Surely no one owns chess. I guess it would take up some development time, but I mean it's chess. How much could it possibly be? |
| 31. August 2020 | The amazing success of Fall Guys and will it last | The amazing success of four guys and will it last? Well four guys at some point get boring that's entirely up to the developers that it just seems like a game That you could constantly make content for like they say they want to add Community tools so people can make their own maps Honestly what I would rather have happen make it so people can submit their own maps to the four guys people and they can go Oh, this is good. This is good. This is good and put them into the system like on one hands you want new maps But if all you're getting is new maps then it becomes very frustrating because you can't get better at those maps It would be nice if like every season is a new bundle of maps So I like playing four guys or gta more at the moment GTA at least the no hit and speed runs It's just four guys is far more casual and it doesn't really matter what's going on And it's new right I'm not going to be playing four guys For 8,000 hours you know and plus the server issues I've had with four guys for the last three days and now the four guys is insanely popular the existence of hackers and stuff Like the amount of people playing four guys is fucking insane like every Creator of any stripe has playful doctor disrespects is playing four guys four guys being the most Off-brand thing for him ever be still playing everyone's made videos about it it must be just millions of people playing that game over the PlayStation and PC and so with that much attention There's always going to be some people who want to hack the game exploited just for the lols And I'm sure they didn't expect that level of success So they'll probably you know put in their back foot or whatever and had to very quickly fix the servers and stuff And so I'm not super surprised that it's been having issues But it's still annoying from a consumer perspective right it's a game that doesn't require a lot of your time It doesn't have any kind of progression or whatever you just jump in It's a very simple easy thing to understand it is the perfect game For both people who have a lot of time and for people who don't have a lot of time. You know it's also cute rewarding frustrating also chill when you fail you can jump back into a game immediately and the soundtrack yes Bobbin For guys gets old really quickly if you are a person who needs some overarching goal to work towards in your games for guys is not going to be for you you get one skin that you like and you're basically done and I Kind of like that about the game And it's probably what's got enabled it to be as popular as it is like it's not a stressful game that you got to grind out or the the consequences for losing while they're uh Miniscule right you just start again. You're not risking a fuck ton of progress You're not you know having to dedicate hours and hours to the game You just jump in play some games half an hour 40 minutes then leave you know it's it's one of the things that made things like League of Legends or Or like all the battle royales made them popular those games, too You just jump in do a game, and you can leave or you can play as much as little as you like you know |
| 31. August 2020 | The amazing success of fall guys and will it last | The amazing success of four guys and will it last? Well four guys at some point get boring that's entirely up to the developers that it just seems like a game That you could constantly make content for like they say they want to add Community tools so people can make their own maps Honestly what I would rather have happen make it so people can submit their own maps to the four guys people and they can go Oh, this is good. This is good. This is good and put them into the system like on one hands you want new maps But if all you're getting is new maps then it becomes very frustrating because you can't get better at those maps It would be nice if like every season is a new bundle of maps So I like playing four guys or gta more at the moment GTA at least the no hit and speed runs It's just four guys is far more casual and it doesn't really matter what's going on And it's new right I'm not going to be playing four guys For 8,000 hours you know and plus the server issues I've had with four guys for the last three days and now the four guys is insanely popular the existence of hackers and stuff Like the amount of people playing four guys is fucking insane like every Creator of any stripe has playful doctor disrespects is playing four guys four guys being the most Off-brand thing for him ever be still playing everyone's made videos about it it must be just millions of people playing that game over the PlayStation and PC and so with that much attention There's always going to be some people who want to hack the game exploited just for the lols And I'm sure they didn't expect that level of success So they'll probably you know put in their back foot or whatever and had to very quickly fix the servers and stuff And so I'm not super surprised that it's been having issues But it's still annoying from a consumer perspective right it's a game that doesn't require a lot of your time It doesn't have any kind of progression or whatever you just jump in It's a very simple easy thing to understand it is the perfect game For both people who have a lot of time and for people who don't have a lot of time. You know it's also cute rewarding frustrating also chill when you fail you can jump back into a game immediately and the soundtrack yes Bobbin For guys gets old really quickly if you are a person who needs some overarching goal to work towards in your games for guys is not going to be for you you get one skin that you like and you're basically done and I Kind of like that about the game And it's probably what's got enabled it to be as popular as it is like it's not a stressful game that you got to grind out or the the consequences for losing while they're uh Miniscule right you just start again. You're not risking a fuck ton of progress You're not you know having to dedicate hours and hours to the game You just jump in play some games half an hour 40 minutes then leave you know it's it's one of the things that made things like League of Legends or Or like all the battle royales made them popular those games, too You just jump in do a game, and you can leave or you can play as much as little as you like you know |
| 02. January 2022 | The ambiguity in communication. | The ambiguity in communication. Do I think there is no good or evil? Whether or not something exists depends on your definition of that thing and whether that definition of that thing corresponds with reality. You can define good and evil in ways where I would argue they don't exist and you can define them in ways where I would argue they do exist. Unless I can have some certainty that we share the same definition of those words, answering is completely pointless. Such is the ambiguity of life and communication. |
| 12. September 2021 | The ambiguity of my accent | The ambiguity of my accent. I think what throws people off is when when I say I'm Australian. Like if I were just to say like, oh you know I grew up in Britain for five years or something and I took the particular pronunciation of W or R that sounds like W. Like oh sweet so you're British and then I could make some shit up and then never mention it again. Because my accent's so weird I think depending on people's own experience, their own experience, they're associated with different countries. |
| 08. June 2022 | The among us era. | I miss the Among Us era. You miss the Among Us times? Me too, man. To a degree. Like, Among Us was such a fun, simple game that you could easily watch other people play, you know? Like, during the Among Us era, I watched a much wider variety of livestreamers. Because it was just like, well, I know the game that everyone's playing and I know what they're trying to do, and it introduced you to so many new different people. Among Us was a bad game? Uh, it wasn't, though. |
| 22. October 2022 | The annoyance of being unable to get broad feedback. | The annoyance of being unable to get broad feedback. I sometimes wish that I had the ability to just talk to every single person who watches my content. Like, immediately. When I make community posts or, you know, in videos I ask people for feedback on stuff, I can only ever reach a small portion of people. I'll sometimes have people ask questions about things that were resolved months ago or... Stuff that I was like, how could no one know this by now? But they- I get those questions, like, huh, you know? I worry that the feedback I get is always biased towards the people who are most committed to watching my stuff. Now, you guys right now are the few people who watch me just sit in a room and talk. You guys are the most dedicated people of my audience. |
| 15. November 2020 | The annoyance of buying a new generation of hardware | The annoyance of buying the new generation of hardware anyone in chat managed to snag a 3080 3090 Xbox or PlayStation I mean the new ones I would love to get this stuff so I can show some of you guys it but I It's annoying when as a consumer you don't just need to have the money to pay for a good You have to jump through hoops to be able to purchase it Like if I wanted to get a 3090 in my country The only people who had any stock like at all was M wave I'm saying literally they were the only people who were given anything from Nvidia and So high was the demand that they made it so it was a raffle you had to win a bloody raffle to have the The privilege of buying the product that's insane from what I've heard though. It isn't artificial scarcity it's just legitimately that they're hard products to make with a fine ice amount of materials and stuff and so that um That prevents them from just throwing out tons to everyone and I just got the weight like everyone else the founders edition is the best this time round even in in the benchmarks because as I've mentioned before Nvidia didn't use the reference spec They you know built upon the reference spec as normally the third party people do and theirs is just better And so I'm trying to get my hands on the founders edition card I hope it's not in limited supply as in like I hope they continue to make it rather than just giving it to Letting third parties to it. So desperate. I was was I for a 3090 I contacted a M wave and I was like a yo I want to do some sponsorship thing or whatever. I can just I'll pay for it still just you know I can like advertise you your website or some shit. I just want to one the 39 years out So yeah, but you can't get it anywhere apparently a 39 and 3080 stock is gonna be out like until even into 2021 and Clearly Nvidia doesn't want it to be this way like at this point for every single one day It's just printing money the demand is far outstripping supply every single one they can make the more money they make I know why they were so surprised at the high demand though considering like the the 20 series was garbage it wasn't much of an improvement over the 10 series and especially for the price, but the 30 series is like a Significant improvement like imagine if you held off and didn't get the 20 series and you stuck with the 10 series How much of an improvement are you gonna have going from 10 series to the 30 series like a foot equivalent card for an equivalent? Price you're like doubling tripling performance, whatever it is, you know, it's a huge improvement The 30 no, the thing that isn't much better than 3080 No, but 3080 the 3080 3070 amazing value buying a 3090 doesn't make sense for basically anyone I'm only getting it because the business expense and because there's no reason for me not to there's literally nothing else I want basically the only things I spend a lot of money on other than things to maintain myself Our PC parts so I can make my content look better every additional bit of processing power I can make things look better. I can have less issues with them new games or Can reduce the amount of time I spend rendering stuff and stuff, you know I am streaming in that hundred pay but I'm recording in 1440 pay. I can't stream higher than 900 900 pay I would if I could can only have a K bitrate 900 p8 a K bitrate looks better than 1080p at a K bitrate in high motion things When all your graphics card is doing is making the game look a little bit better for you Why would you spend more money? I've said before if I wasn't a content creator I would still have like a 1070 maybe a 2060 at this point But considering that I'm not the only person seeing my graphics Millions of people are seeing my graphics when I buy a graphics card. It doesn't improve the Gameplay experience just for me. It improves it for literally a million people a month and whenever juices My rendering times for different things by a small amount as well saving me time It effectively pays for itself in the long term like my most valuable thing right now is time listening to trash taste talk about it because they're youtubers comparing their Their experience is working other jobs Compared to being a youtuber and they all of course said yet being a youtuber is the best job possible Or like they wouldn't trade training for anything but time wise when you're self-employed or a youtuber or whatever like You work so much longer than any other job where you're working for someone else like you're there's never downtime You're always on you know any moment that I'm waiting for something It's just time that I could be spending doing something else that is actually important The reason why I don't have a third ripper is because I don't have a 2pc setup or at least in terms of that I don't have a workstation and a gaming setup thread where it rippers do not do as well in games It's not like you're gonna have a bad gaming experience on the most recent line of third rippers but if you care about games and Having a workstation as one system a 30 30 950 X is the best thing you can have by now AMD's new line of CPUs the 5000 series it's gonna be even better like currently with the 3000 series of CPUs from AMD you're taking a a small hit of like let's say 5 or 10 percent or something in In gaming FPS so that you can massively improve your work performance by comparison to Intel But with the 5000 series they're gonna be even better in gaming than Intel's current offering while also being astronomically better in terms of the performance for work and stuff Be sure to LIKE the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 26. December 2021 | The annoyance of not knowing how other's percieve me | The annoyance of not knowing how others perceive me. It's hard to gauge how people outwardly perceive you when you're not really really big. When you're really really big, like, you're always doing stuff so that gets other people's attention, so they might talk about it. But if a person just, you know, has seen me say something stupid and just doesn't like me, they're not gonna comment about that on stream. It's not gonna be just like, oh fuck that guy, you know? It'd be disheartening to talk to someone and then be like, I don't wanna talk to you, fuck you, you know? But when I say that, when I think to myself, how many content creators am I aware of that I have a negative opinion of? How many can I bring to mind? Like, two or three? Most people are caught up in their own shit. They're not spending their time going, oh that fucking YouTuber who I saw like four months ago say that fucking thing. Oh, I don't like that guy. Most people, if they do have a negative perception with a person, it's like so in passing that if you just talk to them, they'd be like, oh yeah, how's it going? Like, you can wash that away with like, just by saying hello. Here is my life, okay? Now, I am live a lot or making content a lot and I don't do much else. So like, here's all of my life that goes onto YouTube, let's say. From the totality, if you were literally behind my eyes, you would develop a certain perception of me, right? If you consumed every one of these chunks of my content, you'd develop a completely different perception, possibly, of me. I would argue it probably wouldn't be that different because again, I don't do much else in my life, but it'd be different. The average person, the average viewer, isn't watching all these chunks. They're like cutting out this bit, they'll watch this bit, they'll watch this bit, they'll watch this bit, they'll watch this bit, they'll watch this bit, they'll watch other people will like jump in and take a small chunk and then leave. The perceptions that people are going to have of me are going to be very different. Maybe this was like the one moment I was an asshole and this guy who's just left is like, well, that guy's a fucking asshole. Especially when in my case, many of the things that I have hit the mainstream for have been negative. So this is, let's say, the stream of all other content and this little bit goes to here. Everyone in the mainstream is only seeing that small chunk of me. They don't even fucking care what other content I have. That's all they fucking see. When you meet a person for the first time, you don't know what they've seen. Do they not know you at all? Have they only seen negative things that have been outvoted? Who's talking to them, whatever? If you're fucking crazy, you're obsessed about that shit. And me, I'm a little bit crazy. Not as crazy though. So I will eventually reach out to other people and ask them if they want to do GTA Gessa. And you know the reason? Because if they say no, who fucking cares? I do care if there are other people out there who have negative opinions of me. There's nothing I can fucking do about that. And the worst thing that can happen if I reach out to someone is that they either ghost me or say no. And nothing about my life changes. Being afraid of that doesn't make sense. |
| 26. December 2021 | The annoyance of not knowing how others perceive me | The annoyance of not knowing how others perceive me. It's hard to gauge how people outwardly perceive you when you're not really really big. When you're really really big, like, you're always doing stuff so that gets other people's attention, so they might talk about it. But if a person just, you know, has seen me say something stupid and just doesn't like me, they're not gonna comment about that on stream. It's not gonna be just like, oh fuck that guy, you know? It'd be disheartening to talk to someone and then be like, I don't wanna talk to you, fuck you, you know? But when I say that, when I think to myself, how many content creators am I aware of that I have a negative opinion of? How many can I bring to mind? Like, two or three? Most people are caught up in their own shit. They're not spending their time going, oh that fucking YouTuber who I saw like four months ago say that fucking thing. Oh, I don't like that guy. Most people, if they do have a negative perception with a person, it's like so in passing that if you just talk to them, they'd be like, oh yeah, how's it going? Like, you can wash that away with like, just by saying hello. Here is my life, okay? Now, I am live a lot or making content a lot and I don't do much else. So like, here's all of my life that goes onto YouTube, let's say. From the totality, if you were literally behind my eyes, you would develop a certain perception of me, right? If you consumed every one of these chunks of my content, you'd develop a completely different perception, possibly, of me. I would argue it probably wouldn't be that different because again, I don't do much else in my life, but it'd be different. The average person, the average viewer, isn't watching all these chunks. They're like cutting out this bit, they'll watch this bit, they'll watch this bit, they'll watch this bit, they'll watch this bit, they'll watch this bit, they'll watch other people will like jump in and take a small chunk and then leave. The perceptions that people are going to have of me are going to be very different. Maybe this was like the one moment I was an asshole and this guy who's just left is like, well, that guy's a fucking asshole. Especially when in my case, many of the things that I have hit the mainstream for have been negative. So this is, let's say, the stream of all other content and this little bit goes to here. Everyone in the mainstream is only seeing that small chunk of me. They don't even fucking care what other content I have. That's all they fucking see. When you meet a person for the first time, you don't know what they've seen. Do they not know you at all? Have they only seen negative things that have been outvoted? Who's talking to them, whatever? If you're fucking crazy, you're obsessed about that shit. And me, I'm a little bit crazy. Not as crazy though. So I will eventually reach out to other people and ask them if they want to do GTA Gessa. And you know the reason? Because if they say no, who fucking cares? I do care if there are other people out there who have negative opinions of me. There's nothing I can fucking do about that. And the worst thing that can happen if I reach out to someone is that they either ghost me or say no. And nothing about my life changes. Being afraid of that doesn't make sense. |
| 01. July 2020 | The appeal of super smash bros. | The appeal of Super Smash Brothers. You never understood the appeal of Smash Brothers? Very, very high skill ceiling for Smash Mania. Very, very fast paced. It doesn't appeal to everyone. It not being HP and being percentage based makes things more interesting. Like it makes it like a nail biter. As a general rule, if there's HP for the fighters and one's got full HP and one's got no HP, well, it's basically done at that point. But in Smash, almost anything can happen. You know, a person's got a hundred percent on them versus a person with zero percent. They can get combo'd and die or whatever they can make a mistake. It's just a different form of fighting than you get with your traditional fighting game. Which often makes it very unappealing to people who traditionally like fighting games. But a person like myself who doesn't traditionally watch fighting games, Smash seems a lot more interesting. Especially because you're jumping around the entire screen rather than just being on a 2D plane, like most fighting games. It's just a preference thing. But I have a preference towards it. I haven't played Smash for a long time. I think I would really enjoy playing it if I picked it up again. I was pretty decent at Melee when I was a kid, like in the way that kids can be decent against their friends. Like I still remember playing Smash 64 for the first time. It was a great experience. But just setting up a console and I know you guys wouldn't want to watch me play Smash. And I know you're like, oh yeah, we totally watch, but no you wouldn't. I wouldn't want to learn some game that I have basically no familiarity with at this point, because it just wouldn't be worth the time. As a general rule, I'd rather enjoy myself playing games that you guys will also enjoy watching than enjoy myself playing a game that you guys don't want to see. What that's worth, is living in a place where you have |
| 11. June 2021 | The artists that make me "feel" | The artists that make me feel. I know Matt said he likes music that makes him feel so I'm interested in what songs on Music Distinction in particular he likes. The ones that come to mind Meatloaf, Post Malone, Disturbed and Sabaton. Obviously all very different kinds of music and they make me feel different things. I don't really have a lot of artists that I like it's actually quite uncommon for me to jive with a lot of songs from one particular artist but those are the four artists where I have quite liked a lot of their songs. I have listened to some of Juice WRLD's songs, Keywords Some. Like there's just a handful of songs. |
| 25. July 2022 | The awkward conspiracies creators make to explain declining viewership | What weird conspiracies creators make to explain declining viewership? Something happened yesterday, which I think is the first time this has happened, right? Maybe a little bit controversial, but I'm gonna tell you the story anyway. So, I get recommended a lot of videos from creators where the creators are like, I'm quitting YouTube, I'm done, this sucks. Basically any video where a creator is complaining about YouTube or their channel doing poorly, or that they're leaving, that's like crack to me. Especially because, you know, I want to stay on the platform. So if I can view someone else's mistakes, that's good. It can help inform me and I can make good choices moving forward. But I got recommended this video yesterday, I'm not gonna say what video it was. He starts the video by saying like, Oh, I've got proof that YouTube's suppressing my channel, man. The head honchos that YouTube's given all my views to the celebrities, bro. I'm like, oh, I don't think you're interested to see this stuff, okay. And it's like eight minutes in, I'm like, he's still, he hasn't shown anything yet. He's still just going on and on and on. Okay, oh, eight minutes, okay, here's the evidence. And so he goes on to say things are just entirely wrong about how YouTube's analytics work and how the YouTube algorithm works in general. We all debate on exactly how the algorithm works and all that jazz, but this is like basic stuff that you'd know, especially because he had over a million subs, you should know this stuff. And I'm like, this dude believes himself to be being oppressed by YouTube because he just doesn't understand how the algorithm works. The analytics he's pointing to, he's like, this doesn't make any sense, the click-through rate of this video is like higher and this one's lower. I'm like, that makes perfect sense if you just know how the algorithm works. This dude seems like the sort of guy who would fucking hate to be told that they're wrong. But you know, he's unhappy, he's not doing well. The information I have will probably help him. So I start writing a comment and I start explaining all the things about how the algorithm works, what those analytics actually mean, why his videos are performing this way and that, that he keeps pointing out. And then I get like half an hour into the video, here's the controversial part, and he starts talking about his politics. And I was like, ugh, I'm just gonna delete that comment and stop writing this email. I'm not that political these days with my content, but dude possessed political beliefs that I really don't agree with. Greater enabling his message to propagate on YouTube would not be in, I believe, society's best interests. In any other context, it wouldn't matter your political beliefs, I'd help you out. But when my helping you out would have negative ramifications on the lives of other people, especially because he was from my country, I was just like, can give this one a miss. I help out enough people. If I got more granular, it'd be obvious the video I'm talking about, but goddamn, there is so much that is unknowable about the wider YouTube ecosystem, and things you have to infer and then suggest if people debate about. But this video, basic stuff that is known to be true based off like papers that YouTube released like six years ago, that white paper, whatever, or just stuff they'll just outright tell you about how the platform works, or stuff that if you look at your analytics, more than the analytics he was looking at, you can infer yourself. He didn't know. And everyone in the YouTube comments section were like, oh yeah, man, you can see they're beating up on you, bro, suppressing your videos. Because the YouTube audience doesn't know either. Because why would they? Because why would you make it your life's goal or something to understand how YouTube works when you're just watching it? You know? |
| 22. April 2021 | The barriers and advantages to getting into GTA roleplay | The barriers and advantages to getting into GTA RP. I think it's like I kind of want to start doing RP as well. That is certainly a safer way to experience the online kind of GTA-esque thing without hackers screwing with you. Also from content perspective RP should be really good. Oh, yeah, cuz our RP is useless as long as you have an inn or whatever. Maybe um, Peli will do it with you. I've been saying for ages that I would um, get involved, but it's just I don't want to do anything other than no damage until it's completed. I don't think I'll be very good at it all. Like it's the main issue. Yeah, I've never seen myself as the type for RP either. But apparently like you can just play a dude in the world. It's not like you don't have to put on any voice or anything like that or have any complicated backstory. You're just a guy and you just need to not acknowledge that it's a game and that's about the only difference. Like I'm always like on the borderline of it's kind of like cringy and kind of good, but I don't know. I'm in the same boat because like whenever you interact with a person you're acting and you're improvising off each other there's gonna be cringe and I'm terrible at dealing with cringe. Terrible at it. Yeah. The problem is like you have one thing that's good. That's kind of good for you. Like first of all, like a massive introvert. So even like going into games like with in games where you have to be thrown into like social things. Like it's kind of like a struggle for me. Like I don't do well in that sort of situation for starters and then on top of that, like I'm not a native English speaker. So that's also like a massive struggle. I am I'm introverted as well. And I mean what the conversation we're having here is as about as in-depth as what you're probably doing in RP really. Unless you get really involved and you have to remember like diverging storylines and stuff, but I don't know how relevant that stuff becomes because I don't watch a lot of RP. Whenever I try to watch it on Twitch, I'm like, ah, this is not my thing. I just move on to something else. As I've said, I believe that I'm kind of missing out. Like if I had just on the side of it played a little bit of RP, I would have benefited from it. Because multiple times over the course of Twitch it has blown up then gone a bit lower again, then blown up and gone a bit lower again. And it's going to continue to do that conceivably for a long time and not being able to catch the wave every time it happens is definitely a disadvantage. |
| 17. July 2021 | The battle for audio in the shower. | The battle for audio in the shower. So I've given up on finding myself a pair of headphones that I can use in the shower. I've probably spent now $800 over the last six months or something. Every pair that I get dies within a month. I've tried endless different brands. None of these waterproof fucking headsets are actually waterproof. Like, oh, you can submerge them. No, you can't. Fuck off. I've tried every brand. The most recent ones, these Fireflyers or something, died within a week. What ends up happening is one of them will just become really, really quiet. And so you use the accessibility feature on your phone to rebalance the audio, but then you can't turn them up very loud. One of their pairs has become out of sync by like half a second, so it sounds like everything echoes. It's awful. So what I'm getting now is a speaker. I'm going to get a small, mini Bluetooth speaker and hang it in my shower and then connect my phone to that. So I've got one that's somewhat waterproof, and it's not going to be underwater or anything like that or receive the shower water, but it'll be close enough that hopefully it'll still be clear. The reason why I didn't really want to get a speaker is because the acoustics, the echo-iness of the bathroom I don't particularly like, and headphones, you know, stop that. Yeah, I haven't been able to listen to my audiobook for like the past two weeks because I haven't had to pay headphones. Put acoustic foam in my shower. Yeah. I mean, is there a reason why? I guess tiles because all the water and stuff. Yeah, that makes sense. I wonder if there are any showers that you could make in a way. Because the things that absorb sound would also absorb water and would go bad. Use a waterproof speaker, but you don't put it in the water and it lasts three years. Exactly. The speaker, as long as it's a bit waterproof, like maybe a splash or two, a bit of water hits it. I mean, it's very different than what I do with the waterproof headphones, which is, you know, I put my head underwater every once in a while. Get like a hundred cheap ones. I mean, if I could find myself like a $10 pair of waterproof headphones, then yeah, I could probably do that. But no, I wouldn't do that, no. It's similar to what I do with my current headset that I'm wearing right now. I've ordered three more pairs of it because I've ran out. These die like every, you know, six months or whatever. Then I replace them. Yeah, the cable on this headset is bad. I could just pay someone to read the book for me. Yeah, I do hate who are these companies sleeping on not making shower headphones? Who are? Why are they not doing this? All these things where like water touches the sides and then they activate. It's so dumb. Swimming headphones are not traditionally Bluetooth. Or like they have their own little connecty thing that they connect to. So you have like a small MP3 player outside. |
| 30. May 2021 | The benefits of being an Australian content creator. | The benefits of being an Australian content creator Yeah, I'm gonna lie though being a shrine is a pretty big advantage being a youtuber though Like it's actually crazy how many creators are from Australia I know must be some kind of advantage man because I because you get so many comments people saying oh I just really like your accent or whatever the amount of times people just come in and say I love my your voice He's like, yeah, I'm any You just like hey guys, they're like, haha, that's good content I Wish I sound more Australian People don't often hear me and go that's an Australian accent right there. I Couldn't pinpoint it at first. Yeah Like I didn't know what it was Australian with a twist I don't know either for a minute. I I just speak weirdly I looked it up once and apparently there were like three different types of Australian accent and I have okay the cultivated Australian accent or something And I don't annunciate my eyes correctly sometimes and that just adds a bit of flair to it Some people think I'm South African or something |
| 21. November 2020 | The benefits of challenge runs | The benefits of challenge runs. I love how the weapons are actually important in a no hit run. Me too! I get to use all these weapons and attachments and stuff that I've literally never had a reason to use in like the first 6,000 hours or whatever of me playing the game. That's why challenge runs in general are quite awesome. Like speed runs also, I mean speed runs are kind of just a category of challenge runs. And a well made challenge run can have you play in the game in ways that you never thought of before and can allow you to experience parts of the games that you would otherwise not be able to. Or would have no reason to I should say. |
| 16. February 2023 | The best advice for content creation and life. | The best advice for content creation and life. Like people question why I will constantly ask like, how can I change this thumbnail to be better? How can I increase retention on videos that I'm already making? Because if you make it a change in a format that increases the retention of the video by like 1% and you plan to make that video type like another 100 times, that really adds up. It is possible to change what you're doing to be more optimal in a way that doesn't require any more effort on your part, but brings forth greater reward. And those are things you're always looking for in life. I mean, certainly it's also good to find things where you have to put in a little bit more effort and you also get reward. But if you can just optimize something a little bit and get the same result with less effort or the same effort that greater award, why wouldn't you do that? And so that's why I'm always looking for. And the recent changes that you've likely see in the most recent rambles, I think are gonna help. So. |
| 01. December 2022 | The best advice for small content creators. | What advice do you give a youtuber with about a hundred subscribers? Don't just make shitty bad videos. Make something interesting, unique. Think of- try to think of something that doesn't exist and put it out in the world. See the funny thing is the advice of like don't make shitty videos, like it's an impossible thing to do though, because when you start you'll be making shitty videos and on some level you want to make those videos so you get experience. But like a lot of channels that are new don't push the boundaries of what they're capable of, they just keep making the same shitty video over and over again. They never sit and think how can I make this better? What is wrong with this? Would I watch this? Who would click my thumbnail? Would I click my thumbnail? How does my content differ from successful content? They just make the same shitty video over and over and over again thinking hey, I'll get successful one day, it'll happen. You gotta work for it, you know. If you want to be successful you have to actively be thinking like how can I improve things? How can I be more successful? On some level it's yes, you just gotta do it, you gotta try, you gotta make as much as possible, but you have to be not just putting stuff out there, you should be trying to succeed with what you're putting out there. Like as successful as I am, I am always thinking like what is the next thing that I can do? How do I make things better? If I like doing something and it's not very successful, I think to myself is there something else that I would also like doing that could be successful? Or if I still want to do this thing despite it not being very successful, can I make it at least more successful than this? And when you hear what I'm saying right now, I'm sure most of you in the audience are probably like well of course that makes total sense like when you think about it, there's just you don't think about it. I don't mean you, I mean all of us. We just grow complacent in what we're doing and you have to actively kind of force yourself to be like do try to do better. It is usually some sort of external force that prompts you to have these thoughts, but if you're always actively prompting yourself to have these thoughts then you're gonna be better off for it. You don't want all your numbers to, your channel to die and for that to be the reason you start trying to improve. I always need- |
| 05. August 2022 | The best of DarkViper8888 compilation. | My first channel as hopefully most of you would know, actually how would most of you know, my first channel was DarkViper8888. I had a lot of commentary videos and just sharing my thoughts and whatnot. This channel I deleted in 2019. I stopped uploading to it like early 2017. My first video on it was like November or December 2012. I don't have every single video that I made back then. I referenced deleting some of the videos in these videos that I still have, so I know I don't have them all. But I had a lot of them. I had at least like 25 hours of footage. And so I went through it and just watched it and grabbed just me saying random stuff. And I sit there and have to go, what? And the English language is shit. Suck. Idiocy. To sift through the crap. Have a good one. I half want to bitch and explain stuff. Like just random things. Where I'm making weird facial expressions or I'm talking about unicorns and shit and I'm gonna like edit it all into a video. I don't know what I'm gonna call it. What DarkViper was doing between 2012 and 2016. Out of context 2012 to 2016 DarkViper. I don't know. I'm a person who wants to use all his footage. If I have something I want to use it. And I've never had a use for any of this old stuff because it's not good enough content and doesn't fit the vibe of my channel these days. So I can't just re-release this stuff. But making this kind of compilation I think is funny. The cringiest part of my life. Yeah something like that. Is using all of my content really the best move? I mean like. |
| 08. June 2020 | The best thing about RDR2 | The best thing about Red Dead Redemption 2 The greatest thing about Red Dead Redemption 2 Is it's all uphill from here for Rockstar It is impossible that they could ever create something As big of a letdown as Red Dead Redemption 2 Impossible They could release Like Some blue tack And elastic band And Someone's pubes In a bag And that would be That would be better to me Than Red Dead Redemption 2 Okay? I said it You know I'm right Are you sure about that? It's a good meme The discovery of Red Dead Redemption 2 |
| 10. November 2021 | The best tower defense game to ever exist. | You know, the best tower defense game to ever exist. You remember when I had 50 viewers? I remember when I had zero viewers. I just sit there, quiet, playing UTD. Eventually I got a handful of viewers who talked to me and I'd be like, Hey you man, put in my little darkness tower here, getting my cool new items, man. You guys who weren't here for the UTD days, you missed out on nothing. Except UTD, cause that's pretty awesome. It's U-T-D-Y-O-U. It's a tower defense game, but anyone can submit towers. So you, you know, your little program, whatever, you go, I want this, this, this, and your program, whatever, you send it to them and then it goes through a review process. And then they, then they put it through if it's not too OP and add something new to the game or whatever. And so it had hundreds upon hundreds of towers. So basically it's six different armor types and your towers would do different percentage damages to each of the armor types depending upon its damage. So let's say decay would do 180% to solo armor, but it would do 60% to Lua armor. So you had to have a mixture of different tower types. But then there was also the, the interest mechanic. It's like a, you get like 10% of your gold after every round. So you had to not spend too much gold. So you had just barely complete each level to keep max gold. But then all the units you're killing would have different mechanics. So you'd have like a mass level where there's like just tons of small little dudes. Then you'd have like a large level where it's one really huge dude with a lot of HP. You'd have regen creeps who can regen and there'd be combinations. There'd be large regen, there'd be small, oh, there'd be mass regen. You'd have immune to magic. You'd have mana shields. You'd have those that you'd kill and they'd split. So if you split them at the wrong time, that you'd completely fuck yourself. Like there's multiple layers and there are like six different elements of towers. And within each element had different attack types, but there were, you know, different elements in general that you'd, every turn you'd use mana to upgrade your elements to get rare, rare towers from different elements. And then there were items. So the items, you, there were potions that were permanent and you put them on a tower, but you, you could replace one tower with another tower over the top of it. And when you did that, all the potions that were on the first tower transfer to your new tower, but also the towers leveled. So each tower had a maximum of 25 levels. And every time it leveled, it would gain more of its special ability and more damage and stuff. And with every level that the tower went up, the potions, well, a lot of the potions would do more. So you'd, you'd haul all your potions until the end, or like far in rather. And then you'd have like a level 25 tower and you just put all the potions on it to get the maximum amount of value. There were also item find potions, of course, so you'd use those early because you want as many items as possible. Items were very important because they weren't just potions. There were items that like physical items as well that you could switch between towers. And so you'd like depending on your level of your tower, or your rarity of the tower, rather your towers to be able to hold more or less items. And you could combine these, by the way, because each of the potions and items had rarities, and you could combine those those items together to get rare items. The most robust, complex, difficult tower defense game I've ever seen. I would get home every day and play for hours and hours on end. |
| 13. January 2020 | The bias in Mario Party 1 and 2 | The bias in Mario Party 1 and 2. I saw a post today on Twitter. There's a vibrant community around speedrunning Mario Party, right? And so they like, look into the code and shit. It turns out for some minigames in Mario Party, I think it's 1 and 2, I'm not sure. There's a bias in favor of player 1. So if things come out where there's going to be a draw, in some games it will prevent a draw by just changing it so the other players lose and player 1 wins. Like you know that one where you hit a spinning block and you have to hit it so it has Toad's face. It will just change the other people's blocks to something else. |
| 13. January 2020 | The bias of Mario Party 1 and 2 | The bias in Mario Party 1 and 2. I saw a post today on Twitter. There's a vibrant community around speedrunning Mario Party, right? And so they like, look into the code and shit. It turns out for some minigames in Mario Party, I think it's 1 and 2, I'm not sure. There's a bias in favor of player 1. So if things come out where there's going to be a draw, in some games it will prevent a draw by just changing it so the other players lose and player 1 wins. Like you know that one where you hit a spinning block and you have to hit it so it has Toad's face. It will just change the other people's blocks to something else. |
| 08. March 2022 | The biggest benefit from the react drama. | The biggest benefit from the React drama, the commentary in this video was done around the time that me and Charlie had both made one video. There has been exactly one silver lining, one, to this entire situation. Skill-Up followed me on Twitter, always wanted to talk to that guy. Wish was on a better circumstances, but that's pretty cool. |
| 28. December 2019 | The biggest benefit of current video standards | The greatest benefit from the current standard of video quality. We're now at that point in terms of video quality where like you know how if you watch something from 10 years ago it looks fucking disgusting? That's like never gonna happen again. You'd imagine. You know? It's hard to imagine that the video quality would get so good that people one day look back at 1440p and think oh this is fucking gross. You know? My son was born in 2015. He will know nothing but HD. Every picture and video of him is high definition. It's just I think back to all the amazing content that was made during the earlier periods before HD and it all looks so garbage. |
| 27. November 2022 | The biggest cheater was caught by a cheater. | The biggest Minecraft cheater was caught by another cheater? So recently the channel Lowest Percent came out with a video talking about the biggest cheater in speedrunning history and funny enough It's again in Minecraft. What is with Minecraft and having cheaters? So two funny things about this story to me was one this guy, Minecraft Avenger He's the dude who outed Dream as a cheater So he himself was cheating and he outed Dream as a cheater Although again, if you accept Carl Jobs explanation, Dream didn't actually know he was cheating and he served whether he was playing or was just modified But whatever either way his runs were cheated. Okay, so that's kind of funny It kind of goes towards that old adage It takes one to know one, right? And it was also funny that both these guys speedrun Minecraft and they're twins and one's a cheater, one's not like so He's the evil twin in this scenario and I find that funny again The biggest cheater in speedrunning history was finally caught. Very good video, highly recommend. I mean this channel in general is good It's like a collaborative effort between like a lot of speedrunning content |
| 26. December 2022 | The blind 20 input strat that saves two seconds in the GTA 5 speedruns | The blind 20 input strategy that saves two seconds in the gt5 speedruns So you guys remember in facts and glitches how I talked about how in patch 1.27 you can bring up your phone just before the GT5 logo appears in prologue you probably don't remember while not possible on the current patch on older patches It was possible to bring up your phone when the gta5 logo appeared after the prologue cutscenes This resulted in the screen going black prematurely and it usually was coupled with the game failing to load the next scene And I think it was twisted found out that you can if you type in the phone number Blinds because you can't see anything for director mode it loads into the game two seconds faster It doesn't put you in director mode. It just puts you into game faster So it's like a 20 input sequence that you can't make any mistakes in or you lose time And it's safer two seconds. How funny is that? Goat simulators gt5 speedruns |
| 25. July 2022 | The brutal fact about watching anime | The brutal fact about watching anime. It feels as though with anime sometimes that you just have to ignore the more cringey weird stuff that comes out of Japan. Because you can have like an amazing show and there can be one weird ass fucking aspect of it and you just gotta go, just ignore it. Like One Piece and, uh, Brooke's obsession with panties or whatever. It's cringe every fucking time. But the show otherwise is amazing. |
| 15. November 2021 | The brutal lesson that taught me the power of triangles. | The brutal lesson that taught me the power of triangles. I was in math class. They wanted us to make like a structure that would survive holding like weight. This was like grade 9 I think and obviously a normal person would know that triangles are the best for structural stability or whatever but I didn't know that as a kid. You'd think in grade 9 you know that but me and like the three other people who I was with using the straws and blue tack and pins that they gave us we just made like a bunch of squares together. Ours held the least weight of like any of the things made. I remember the teachers looked at us and said this is the worst building I've ever seen anyone make. I just was so embarrassed because everyone like the vast majority of other people used triangles and I'm just like ah fuck that seems really obvious now and that's what I think of whenever anyone mentions triangles. I remember being in science class and we had to make like some chemical reaction that resulted in like a ceramic thing. We were basically making something and me, my team, me and two other people did it so poorly that the science teacher was like this is the worst I've ever seen anyone ever do this. This is what? Probably not the exact phrasing after all these years but these are the memories I have from high school guys. You wonder why I have had low self esteem and why I don't consider myself a creative vessel |
| 09. March 2022 | The business benefit of not caring for others. | The business benefit of not caring for others. I actually talked about it with Carl once before, but it's kind of how the world is. Every time that you stop and think, I need to care about others, I need to be kind, I need to not do this because it might impact these people negatively, there's someone out there who doesn't have those reservations, who doesn't have that conscience, who is doing those exact things, just powering along ahead, way ahead of you. In the world of business, in the world of social media, in the world of capitalism, you could say, it pays not to give a fuck. Let's say good people are at a disadvantage in the market. Yeah. |
| 16. February 2023 | The careless way Rockstar is treating GTA Online. | The careless way Rockstar is treating GTA Online. It is interesting that they've added fast traveling with taxis now to the game, with a 48 minute cooldown if you don't pay for GTA+. That's nuts. If there's one thing the introduction of these taxi missions confirms, is that all Rockstar is doing right now is trying to repurpose as much stuff from singleplayer into GTA Online. That's it. They do not want to spend the time to make something new. Everyone is busy working on GTA 6 and they're just looking for anything they can th- |
| 16. May 2021 | The cause of GPU and CPU shortage | The cause of the shortage of CPUs and GPUs. The GPU market right now is the same as the CPU market. It's just, um, so much demand. So for those who don't know, the main reason for the shortages is because these companies who sell CPUs, GPUs, and all that stuff, or at least make them, they didn't predict how much demand there was gonna be in 2020 and 2021. And it's not like you can just, you know, jack up your production, like snap your fingers. It takes years to develop the kind of infrastructure and stuff to produce more of the stuff you need to make them, you know. There have been other things that have made it worse, but in general it's just, you know, partly COVID, but also just a much higher increase in people playing video games and all these different products that are, you know, smart cars and all that shit, electronic cars and blah blah blah. I got my 3090 because I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who works for Nvidia. And that isn't a joke. My mod knew another person who happened to also be a viewer of mine who has a friend who works for Nvidia. |
| 08. January 2022 | The challenges of podcasting | so it's not been a huge thing for me, but it has been a thing enough in my life that I have noticed as you say. The challenges of podcasting. I'm curious, what caused you to start doing a podcast at all? Uh, I met some some of my buddies, they pitched the idea to me and I was figuring, you know, I definitely had- there's a lot of stuff I want to talk about, but I don't want to make main channel videos necessarily because it's not that important. So I just found a way to like have a discussion with a few people and invite guests and like talk to them and, you know, talk about some of these current event things without making a big song and dance about it. I genuinely do like the idea of podcasting. I've been approached a few times because obviously like my channel and like the only other channel that has any like similarity to mine in terms of like production style and like the general vibe is like Charlie, so Moist Critical. And it's the only other one so it's like when they reach me it's like, well, a lot of your videos can just be considered podcast highlights and then I found out that the market was super predatory in the world of podcast hosting. Like some of the shit that they bring on, like the way that a lot of these companies, and I'm not gonna name specific names, but they come on to you, they pitch you some of these ideas and they're generally fucking over the creator in a lot of ways. Like most sponsorships I guess go. Oh, I thought you were saying that people do podcasts through companies. Are you using sponsorships? The all these sponsors? No, no, no, like normally like people, I know most people who do like their podcasts, like the biggest ones you'll see right now are done through like a network, right? Like Warner Brothers or something. They'll like have like a sub like it'll be like an MCN, but typically for people who are running podcasts and the problem with that is like they'll give you a set of tools like they'll make it look really nice, but they're generally screwing you out of like what is like, you know, the money that you'd be making and like your place. So we're doing everything in house. Like we have a group of us who are like we're doing all the production and everything on our end for it. But as far as like all the podcast stuff goes, I just like to generally sit down and have like a discussion per week and you know, like this is great podcast material, you know, this is what like kicks off and goes crazy and the more we can push it the better it is. Podcasting is especially became a thing when YouTube started to favor longer content and also with a YouTube Red now, what is it called YouTube premium or whatever? Giving you good money for that shit. Not as good these days, but still. I tried to make a podcast myself. I'm like because I do rambles where like just whenever I'm rambling on stream, I make them into videos just like highlights or whatever. I thought I could do that with other people. So I tried doing an episode and it's it's tough like podcasts are hard to all like both organize, especially if you have multiple guests and like I don't know if I'm gonna have energy of a day to want to talk. But if you've set a date, then you kind of have to do it on that day and like I got a lot of respect for people who can just you know perform at a specific time of a day every time, you know. Yeah, no, I mean, it's it's definitely for us. It's like we the host that I have the friends that I have that I do with it's like for us. It's kind of like a way for us to in a way help each other's channels out because it's like podcasting stuff is great if you want to stay completely relevant in the sphere of like the internet of like just in front of the world like when you got like three personalities that are bringing their own collective audiences, it's always going to work out. But yeah, generally the I think the biggest problem that I'm facing with it right now is like scheduling. Yeah, like I talked to you about it behind the scenes obviously with like, you know, we reached to a guest. We literally set a date aside seven days in advance and it's like when it doesn't work out that way. Yeah, does it piss me off a little bit for sure. And you know, sometimes you just have to roll with it. That's why like we have three guests like me and my two friends and it's like we all have our collective channel. So we don't really feel like we necessarily need a guest every week, you know, to like push that in the algorithm or like get it going. Would we like to have a guest? Absolutely. We like to have guests because we like to chat with some of our good friends and have a good time. And as new stuff to the episode, you know, if we were to have you on as a guest, it would. And the thing is, it's like we first off, we do want you on as guests. So I got to pencil you in. But like the other thing is, it's like we probably we probably wouldn't be talking so much about Twitch. You know, like what have we talked about so far in this entire thing? We talked about, you know, NFTs, financial scams, fucking housing prices. And I think a lot of that has been a million times more entertaining than 99 percent of the other podcasts I've seen where people go superstructure. People go like, you know, you have to speak about certain things. You have to keep things in a sphere of relevance when really, I don't think that's what a podcast is. It's mostly about like, you know, personalities discussing, you know, things that they're interested in. That's what I like listening to. When you have things being more structured, when you have specific questions or topics you want to hit on, it means that the amount of personalities that you can have on expands because not a lot of people can just, you know, free talk about different topics. They need structure. They need things to grab on to to continue to flow a conversation like I. That's part of the struggle that I have with a podcast like I mean, we're talking here, sure. But I don't think I could do this on a regular basis. I don't think I would have enough things to talk to other people about or that I could, you know, keep that flow going for hours on end without there being some awkward pause that no one can kind of get out of. But I suppose if you've got a lot of people on the podcast, I mean, at least someone's going to have something to talk about, something that they're passionate about that other people can bounce off. But like I'm saying, I respect you for giving that up. I respect you for giving that a go and I hope you're successful with it. Thank you very much. No, it's we're going to try. We're like for really like super hard into it. A lot of it is just like really being competitive with some of the other podcasts in the market and like some other people. But I mean, certainly there's there's only a certain amount of people who are willing to listen to a podcast. But I suppose like anything that can be listened to with just audio is going to have a wider amount of people who can can engage with the content. Me, for example, most of the time I watch like the Trash Taste podcast, for example, Linus's podcast. Yeah, just just and when you have the boys talking about what they're passionate about. But like it's usually when I'm cleaning or whatever, I'm cooking something on the occasion that I do and I can't watch anything. But podcasts are great just to feel the air. It's great. Like, I mean, when I'm programming, because like 90 percent of the time I'm in front of this computer, I'm like programming something for like a video or like planning a video out. It's like the podcasts are perfect to have like the WAN show. Fucking love having it on the side because I get to hear about like Linus talk about even if it's not something interesting in this fear of computing that I'm in. I still like listening to it because like they do have the energy to carry it. You know, like they know what they're talking about. I feel excited. Passionate people are the greatest people to listen to. It almost doesn't matter the topic. If a person who's knowledgeable and passionate, just always great to listen to your podcast. You've got co-hosts as in like you said, Charlie doesn't he already have a podcast? Is he doing two podcasts now? No, no, Charlie was a Charlie was a guest for us. But my my co-hosts are like the Nux Taku and like OompaVille, like the other two guys. Charlie is a guest for us. He's got his own podcast for sure. The the anime dude with the the the avatar. The Vtuber. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, he has a very interesting voice. I think I think I've seen his content. Who is the other person? OompaVille. He does like more of the he does like similar videos that I do like commentary stuff. Well, he's got some newer content coming up that I can't spoil. That's a little more wilder than I expected. But yeah, certainly check out some of the episodes because I only recently found out you had a podcast. He's got like three episodes. So it's fairly new. Yeah, we're we just filmed like the third one yesterday. It's it's just started out. So we're we got like a two month trial period, you know, where we're like fucking really going ham into it. And then after that, we can kind of like chill back and, you know, do some other extravagant stuff. We kind of want to do like ghost hunting at some point later because I want to I want to because we kind of had like a joke or whatever. We're like we're going to do like some of the typical ghost hunts that people would see and we come across ghosts. But the ghosts would be the ones that would read our sponsor reads the entire time. Like we'd whip out the parabolic mic and it would like play the fucking ad read for it because it is what it is. Like we just wanted to like fucking joke around. |
| 06. May 2021 | The change in Twitch culture over the years. | The change in Twitch culture over the years. I miss the days though, guys, when I could trust my chat. Could ask a question and the response I got would be sincere. I watched a video by Alpha Gaming, Haris Heller, talking about comparing Twitch and YouTube in live streaming. And one of the pros that he put for Twitch was the community. And I was just like, is there really much of a Twitch community left? Certainly Twitch seems better than YouTube in terms of its chat. Because that's probably because it just skews older, you know. And live stream viewers are more used to the live streaming dynamic or whatever, right? But the whole website culture, I don't think has existed for quite a while. There are the remnants of it, but I remember like years ago maybe, I was gonna say four years ago or whatever, where like everything was so tight-knit and everyone basically knew each other and shit. Like if you look at the amount of people who stream on this platform, like every year it doubles or whatever. And when you have this kind of size, everyone can't know each other, right? Like there used to be like a genre of music called Twitch music. With like a consistent set of emotes that were used like everywhere. With like a little bit of people's personal emotes for flair. But now there's just astronomical, endless amounts of emotes and so many content graders. You can't really have that tight-knit community used to exist before. I'm not saying Twitch was better back then. I've never put a huge stock in that community feel anyway. But just, you know, reflecting on how my chat has changed over the years has certainly made me reflect on the whole platform as a whole, you know. Back in my day, things were better. Influx of people from YouTube is more and more streamers upload highlights. True, true. Not just the influx of viewers from Twitch streamers uploading stuff to YouTube, but YouTube is coming over to Twitch. Like a lot of Twitch streamers have trouble moving any of their audience from Twitch to YouTube. I've said before, like you, you know, your lyrics or summits or whatever, they're YouTubes and there's just nothing there. I mean, I'm sure there's something there now. But for a long time, like I was getting more views than some and some are sitting there, you know, 40, 50k viewers on Twitch. What I'm trying to say is I don't think it's the big Twitch juggernauts that are just the cause of more YouTube viewers coming over to Twitch. It's people who are getting big on YouTube bringing YouTube viewers over to Twitch like I did, you know. And I'd say Ninja did that as well, of course. You watched me for years on YouTube before here. It is a minority of people who have ever seen me on YouTube who watched me on Twitch. I kind of want to go back and watch some of the older Twitch stuff that I watched back in the early days of Twitch. I've never felt, it is extraordinarily rare for me to feel nostalgia, but I just had that huge wash of nostalgia for that time. I didn't think that time was that great. Maybe it's because of Wreckful and stuff, but I was a depressing feeling that just blasted over me. I'm gonna push that down and not think about that again. Oh. |
| 09. October 2021 | The change of GTA 5's returning player bonus | The change to GTA V's returning player bonus. You're a returning player to Los Santos. It's funny, whether it was because of a glitch or who knows, but everyone now gets the returning player bonus, which you used to only be able to get if you played the 360 and PS3 version. Or the PS3 version, I mean. This involves, like, you can now get the Duke of Death or whatever, which is bulletproof. There's a, was it the Railgun now, which I have access to, but none of the returning player stuff is still being incorporated into the run, and I don't plan to use it. Maybe eventually. I'm not even 100% sure where to get the Duke of Death. Duke of Death could only be useful for legal trouble, but the new strat has made that pointless. True, true. I mean, you could use it for long stretch, Joe, but I mean, there's no chance you're getting shot in long stretch. Like, you could use it in places where one in a trillion chance you might get shot by something if you do something wrong, you know. Oh, is it a two seater? Oh yeah, didn't that be useless in long stretch too? Yeah, true, true. |
| 05. February 2021 | The changing of standards for content | The changing of standards for contents. My content is definitely improved. Oh yeah, it absolutely has. Um, every day I learn new stuff, new things, my presentation gets better, my editing gets better. As it is with any job that you do, right? It's also the case that with every passing year, people's standards for content get higher, right? Like content that was like the best shit five years ago. You can watch it now and be like, oh yeah, this is still pretty good, but it's just pretty good, you know? It's harder to get into content creation every year because people's standards are so much higher. But then again, it is easier every year to make content that at least visually or audibly is better, right? You can get hardware and software that enables you to do things that took infinitely more work even a couple of years ago. Good quality hardware five years ago will cost you a thousand dollars. Good quality hardware now can cost like a hundred, two hundred, right? The entry level stuff five years ago was garbage. The entry level stuff now is pretty good. And there's just a lot more information out there that you can read and look at if you're really committed to learning stuff. It doesn't matter what hardware you have or how much you read, like just experience matters. And so when you're starting out, you're just at a major disadvantage compared to those who've been in the game for so many years. |
| 21. June 2022 | The changing signifiance of birthdays | Bet your birthday, trust me as you get older. So there's this period, right, where under 16 years old, you care about your birthday, right? You're getting presents and shit, but then you don't care about it until you hit like 30, and then you're like, Oh shit, I'm actually getting older. I gotta do stuff now. And so your birthday is start to matter again. Not because it's your birthday, but because it represents time that you've lost, you know? I absolutely love this trilogy. Oh dude, I'm getting |
| 21. June 2022 | The changing significance of birthdays | Bet your birthday, trust me as you get older. So there's this period, right, where under 16 years old, you care about your birthday, right? You're getting presents and shit, but then you don't care about it until you hit like 30, and then you're like, Oh shit, I'm actually getting older. I gotta do stuff now. And so your birthday is start to matter again. Not because it's your birthday, but because it represents time that you've lost, you know? I absolutely love this trilogy. Oh, dude, I'm getting |
| 26. January 2022 | The channel that inspired me to make a clips channel | The channel that inspired me to make my clips channel. So have you guys seen my tweet this tweet the channel? Nino sent X is either bought or just someone downloading popular twitch clips and putting them on YouTube with no thumbnail They upload 10 videos an hour the channel went from basically zero subs and views to 22k subs and 16 million views in nine days Look at that shit 10 million percent increase in views a million percent increase in subs and this is their channel Some videos get literally nothing these are all recent ones, but um as someone points out here 300k 300k 200k that it added up and people are debating here Whether they actually have ads I reckon they probably have us. I don't think YouTube cares. I Think they'd be perfectly willing to give us to channel either is as I always say Making original content is for suckers if you want to be successful in this world Steal can you automate that probably a downside of course is you have to have like no conscience, but You say you could probably just steal a random video long forgotten in time I would love to see a boss that would scan YouTube channels to find channels that hadn't uploaded in at least five years and then just Downloaded like any video that got over a million views and then uploaded to their channel or something So you find dead channels that no one cares about they were once upon a time popular So I can just reupload their content and see what happens |
| 28. November 2021 | The channels making truly random GTA content | same, you know, there's a Call of Duty coming out, it's like, it's another battlefield, like everyone's just like, oh yeah, and the release. Everyone's waiting for the next big thing. It could be GTA 6, but man, I don't know. Among Us is done. What is the big thing right now? Like, there isn't. Minecraft is still huge. Fortnite, the YouTube is there, it's sticking to Fortnite because it's still giving them decent views. The channels making truly random GTA content. Have you seen these GTA 5 channels? They're doing like just random shit still, where it's just like, you see their super vibrant thumbnails and they're just modding the game to put Godzilla in it and shit, and they're still getting like... Yeah, you know what's interesting? I don't think their audience is the normal GTA audience. It's just kids or whatever. Yeah, because I've tried doing mods. Those videos tanked. So my audience isn't the audience that's watching that sort of stuff. I don't know about your audience. Yeah, I'm trying to think when was the last time I did something modded. Like if you did a big Godzilla mod video, do you think that would do well? Yeah, I guess it probably would for you, because it's single player, but I know the GTA online audience isn't the audience that's mainly watching those types of YouTubers. So I don't really know how to make that kind of stuff work, as in like, what I like to do with my content is to have some specific goal that I have, and I don't know how... I've seen videos where people are just like, I am Iron Man in GTA V, and it's just him blowing up cars and stuff. I'm like, how the fuck could this be interesting to anyone? My plan when I go back to speedrunning is to do more modded stuff, as in like, years and years ago, I wrote a post on some Reddit where I'm like, hey guys, how do I like mod my game to make it all snowy, and I will speedrun where it's all snowy and stuff, and I still haven't done that. It's hard to mod your game. Oh, not these days, because of Chaos Mod. Oh, okay. Chaos Mod, if you just put that in, there's a thing you can tick, make this effect permanent. And so any of the Chaos Mod effects you can just have permanently throughout your entire game. |
| 31. March 2021 | The chocolate game | do happen. The chocolate game. Do I like chocolate? Yes. But for most of my life I did not. I know about most of my life. I probably didn't like chocolate until I was like 14 or something. The best use of chocolate I've ever seen is for my birthday parties. Maybe it wasn't 14, I don't know, but at birthday parties that I would have there'd be something called the chocolate game where you roll a dice and if you get a six you get to go up and eat chocolate using a knife and fork like one square at a time. Cadbury chocolate like the bars and then everyone else keeps rolling the dice and if they get a six they come up and get to eat the chocolate and so I know we call it the chocolate game or something like whenever you roll a six you got to eat the chocolate and then you only got to go as long as your luck held out and another person didn't roll a six. You don't get it? Yeah it's probably not much of a game but as kids who like chocolate it's like yay chocolate. A story makes you sound old as fuck. I'm 30 in like seven days so I am old as fuck. You kids don't know how good you have it these days. |
| 25. February 2021 | The classic good movies. | Discussing some of the classic good movies. Do I have a favorite movie? Do we have a command yet for my favorite movies? Shoreshank Redemption, Groundhog Day, Back to the Future are usually my answers. I think there's a lot more, but that's just the answer that I've gotten used to. Office Space is a great movie. Shrek is bleh. Star Wars is bleh. Coming to America is alright. They may hear Coming to America 2. Once more showing that Hollywood will make a sequel to bloody anything that's successful, regardless of how much sense it makes and how long ago it occurred. Princess Bride is a great movie. Pulp Fiction is a great movie. Top Gun is bleh. Forrest Gump is a great movie. Dark Knight is a great movie. Harry Potter is bleh. Have I seen Goodfellas? I can't remember. Goodfellas, Casino, Reservoir Dogs, all these movies I know are very good, but I can't be qualified to actually see them. The Hangover? Was that ever actually a good movie? Because they made three of them in the- I know the other two weren't very good. Only the first Back to the Future was good? How dare you. How dare you. The second one was also pretty good. The third one was pretty good. Maybe I liked the second one the most because it was the first one that I saw. When I was a kid, being a dumb kid, I didn't realize that there was a first Back to the Future. I thought Back to the Future 2 was the only movie. I don't know how young I was when I had this belief, but I have a call having it. I think I've seen Step Brothers, yeah? Yeah, I didn't know that there was a second Bill and Ted- I didn't know there was a first Bill and Ted movie. I had only ever seen the second one, and I've still only seen the second one. It was years later that I found out there was another one. |
| 25. February 2021 | The coincidence that lead me to be a GTA 5 speedrunner. | The coincidence that led to me being a GTA V speedrunner. Okay, talk about how I got first started with GTA V. I've told it like a bajillion times. I'm curious actually, how many of you know how I got started with GTA V? Type one for yes, two for no. There's a lot of twos. It's the thing that I, because I picked up so many viewers over the last couple months. A lot of people don't know any of the lore. They don't know the memes. They don't know the backstory. Basically, I was already streaming. I was streaming like Warcraft 3 custom games, but I really like speedrunning. And so I was like, I need a game to speedrun. I don't have any games to speedrun. That sucks. So I was shopping around trying to think of something. I like Super Mario Sunshine, so I tried speedrunning that. Was not very good at it. I needed another game to play off stream as well, and my friend happened to suggest GTA V, and so I bought the game and I was like, what? 50 gigs? It'll take a bajillion years to download. Ah, fuck it. I'll play it some other time. And so GTA V just sat there for two weeks and I never touched it. So I bought the game, had no real interest in playing it because I had never played GTA V before. It was not really my thing. And then just coincidentally, I was scrolling down the games directory on Twitch, and I saw this guy, Witwix, doing any percent no mission skip for GTA V. I was like, wait, you can speedrun GTA games? No way. And so I started watching it stream and it looked interesting. Looked pretty fun. I was like, this is the kind of game I've never played before, have never had any interest in before. Maybe this is something that I could speedrun, because I happened to have bought the game anyway. And so I started to speedrun it, because obviously, as I said before, I was looking for something to speedrun. And I quickly gained a bunch more followers. I got some raids from the people who were already speedrunning the game, and kind of the rest is history from that point. I just really enjoyed it. I did try to beat the game first casually, but the game softlocked, I think, a couple of hours in. So I was like, fuck it, I'll just learn to speedrun. I had already watched the cutscenes when it first came out on console, you know, the year before, and I was like, oh, that was all right, you know, it didn't blow me away. So basically, my success today, the most significant thing that started it was Witwix happening to play GTA V all those years ago and speedrunning it. He wasn't even a consistent GTA V speedrunner. He just probably did like five runs or some shit. I just coincidentally happened to see that shit when I was scrolling through the game's drag race. Had it not been for that coincidence, I likely never would have played GTA V, never would have speedrun this game, may have never even continued streaming, who knows? Although I did really love streaming, so I probably would eventually pick up something else, but yeah, I'd be playing Red Dead Redemption. |
| 25. February 2021 | The coincidence that lead me to be a gta 5 speedrunnner. | The coincidence that led to me being a GTA V speedrunner. Okay, talk about how I got first started with GTA V. I've told it like a bajillion times. I'm curious actually, how many of you know how I got started with GTA V? Type one for yes, two for no. There's a lot of twos. It's the thing that I, because I picked up so many viewers over the last couple months. A lot of people don't know any of the lore. They don't know the memes. They don't know the backstory. Basically, I was already streaming. I was streaming like Warcraft 3 custom games, but I really like speedrunning. And so I was like, I need a game to speedrun. I don't have any games to speedrun. That sucks. So I was shopping around trying to think of something. I like Super Mario Sunshine, so I tried speedrunning that. Was not very good at it. I needed another game to play off stream as well, and my friend happened to suggest GTA V, and so I bought the game and I was like, what? 50 gigs? It'll take a bajillion years to download. Ah, fuck it. I'll play it some other time. And so GTA V just sat there for two weeks and I never touched it. So I bought the game, had no real interest in playing it because I had never played GTA V before. It was not really my thing. And then just coincidentally, I was scrolling down the games directory on Twitch, and I saw this guy, Witwix, doing any percent no mission skip for GTA V. I was like, wait, you can speedrun GTA games? No way. And so I started watching it stream and it looked interesting. Looked pretty fun. I was like, this is the kind of game I've never played before, have never had any interest in before. Maybe this is something that I could speedrun, because I happened to have bought the game anyway. And so I started to speedrun it, because obviously, as I said before, I was looking for something to speedrun. And I quickly gained a bunch more followers. I got some raids from the people who were already speedrunning the game, and kind of the rest is history from that point. I just really enjoyed it. I did try to beat the game first casually, but the game softlocked, I think, a couple of hours in. So I was like, fuck it, I'll just learn to speedrun. I had already watched the cutscenes when it first came out on console, you know, the year before, and I was like, oh, that was all right, you know, it didn't blow me away. So basically, my success today, the most significant thing that started it was Witwix happening to play GTA V all those years ago and speedrunning it. He wasn't even a consistent GTA V speedrunner. He just probably did like five runs or some shit. I just coincidentally happened to see that shit when I was scrolling through the game's drag race. Had it not been for that coincidence, I likely never would have played GTA V, never would have speedrun this game, may have never even continued streaming, who knows? Although I did really love streaming, so I probably would eventually pick up something else, but yeah, I'd be playing Red Dead Redemption. |
| 19. July 2020 | The commentary around the Last of Us 2. | to all the commentary around The Last of Us 2. I, uh, uh, Video Game Donkey came out today as, uh, one of those people that apparently the internet hates right now. You know those people, the people who like Last of Us 2. Apparently the Metacritic for The Last of Us 2 is like 95, while the, uh, audience reviews or whatever is like 46. When games are like, hated by certain people, you can never really trust the audience reviews. Like you can just fucking guarantee the quartering has gotten a stick up his arse about this game, and has, uh, bitched and whined about it for like 78 videos. So more than likely, a significant amount of the audience reviews are just these, these fucking fuckwit audience review bombing it. So it's hard to know exactly how good or bad it is. But that Iris didn't like it, and, you know, Soda Poppin played it, and didn't like parts of it, and that Skill Up didn't like it, it's suggestive to me that I wouldn't like it. And when I look at the gameplay, and that it reminds me of Red Dead 2, in large parts, am I just triggered now by any game that has a fucking horse in it? Because it just reminds me of Red Dead 2 and I don't want to play it. But, like some things are at least suggestive that I personally wouldn't like it. But there are some things that are suggestive that at least it's a pretty decent game, you know? I think the consensus though is it's not as good as the first one. But I was surprised to see that Donkey enjoyed it. But the like to dislike ratio on his video was like, you know, 65,000 likes to 15k dislikes or something. Which is far more than what he normally receives. People were not happy that he liked it, you know? What's bad about The Last of Us 2? I haven't played it. I can only regurgitate to you what people have said. The gameplay is not innovative, it doesn't really build upon what was done in the first one. It's largely a repeat of it, with some small changes, like there's dogs now, and there's different weapons and stuff. I'd have to spoil plot elements, but there are things that people liked about the first game that were not- that are not present in the second game. As much. The story is considered to be simplistic. The first one was, you know, about the relationship between the main characters. The second one's largely about revenge. And apparently it hammers home, like just for all the time you play. Revenge is bad, revenge is bad, revenge is bad. It's about as much depth as in the story for a lot of people. But then again, other people have said they enjoyed the story. It just seems to be a game that has got people riled up, in part because people enjoyed the first one so much. And because the second one isn't, you know, exactly the same as the first, and has such big shoes to fill, it couldn't meet everyone's expectations. Did I see Critical's video? Yeah, yeah, he didn't like it either, did he? The cause- |
| 19. July 2020 | The commentary around the last of us 2. | to all the commentary around The Last of Us 2. I, uh, uh, Video Game Donkey came out today as, uh, one of those people that apparently the internet hates right now. You know those people, the people who like Last of Us 2. Apparently the Metacritic for The Last of Us 2 is like 95, while the, uh, audience reviews or whatever is like 46. When games are like, hated by certain people, you can never really trust the audience reviews. Like you can just fucking guarantee the quartering has gotten a stick up his arse about this game, and has, uh, bitched and whined about it for like 78 videos. So more than likely, a significant amount of the audience reviews are just these, these fucking fuckwit audience review bombing it. So it's hard to know exactly how good or bad it is. But that Iris didn't like it, and, you know, Soda Poppin played it, and didn't like parts of it, and that Skill Up didn't like it, it's suggestive to me that I wouldn't like it. And when I look at the gameplay, and that it reminds me of Red Dead 2, in large parts, am I just triggered now by any game that has a fucking horse in it? Because it just reminds me of Red Dead 2 and I don't want to play it. But, like some things are at least suggestive that I personally wouldn't like it. But there are some things that are suggestive that at least it's a pretty decent game, you know? I think the consensus though is it's not as good as the first one. But I was surprised to see that Donkey enjoyed it. But the like to dislike ratio on his video was like, you know, 65,000 likes to 15k dislikes or something. Which is far more than what he normally receives. People were not happy that he liked it, you know? What's bad about The Last of Us 2? I haven't played it. I can only regurgitate to you what people have said. The gameplay is not innovative, it doesn't really build upon what was done in the first one. It's largely a repeat of it, with some small changes, like there's dogs now, and there's different weapons and stuff. I'd have to spoil plot elements, but there are things that people liked about the first game that were not- that are not present in the second game. As much. The story is considered to be simplistic. The first one was, you know, about the relationship between the main characters. The second one's largely about revenge. And apparently it hammers home, like just for all the time you play. Revenge is bad, revenge is bad, revenge is bad. It's about as much depth as in the story for a lot of people. But then again, other people have said they enjoyed the story. It just seems to be a game that has got people riled up, in part because people enjoyed the first one so much. And because the second one isn't, you know, exactly the same as the first, and has such big shoes to fill, it couldn't meet everyone's expectations. Did I see Critical's video? Yeah, yeah, he didn't like it either, did he? The cause- |
| 05. September 2022 | The confusion around Twitch no longer enforcing exclusivity | The confusion around Twitch no longer enforcing exclusivity. I do not even know where to begin with this chat So recently Twitch announced they were not going to be enforcing exclusivity on their platform any longer This was great news, but there was some debate over exactly what they were allowing people to do and what was changing I have often said on stream that I wasn't convinced in my contracts There was something forcing me to stream just on Twitch that it seemed as though the only thing it said is that I couldn't Use the content that I put on Twitch somewhere else within 24 hours So over the years like I asked Twitch support point to me where it says I can't stream on YouTube and they couldn't do it But my managers believed I was under exclusivity When we talked about the possibility of potentially getting some sort of a contract to stream exclusively on YouTube They would talk about the the time when my contract would elapse My partner manager on Twitch who I trust and who's a nice guy He seemed to believe I was under exclusivity to only stream on Twitch But I could never find it in the contracts and when this new announcement came out I saw some people saying oh no one was ever really restricted to only stream on Twitch anyway And so I was like, you know that would explain why I could never find it in my contracts However, I then found another video from a lawyer who said late 2018 Which was after I asked which support to point it to me in the contracts Twitch subtly changed everyone's contracts when you like Accepted some terms and conditions when you went to the website and they made it so like in the very very fine prints There was a wording change that made it so that the exclusivity Also required you to only make that kind of content on Twitch. Is this true? I don't know. So I made a video yesterday where I'm like, hey, I don't think I was ever Exclusive to Twitch at all But then I took down the video because I'm like, I don't know if that's a hundred percent true Long story short whatever the case was in the past Whether people were actually restricted to only streaming on Twitch or whether the contract never said that but enough people believed it that it may As well have been true and no one wanted to risk getting banned whatever the case is now I can stream on YouTube however, I can't multi stream or Simulcast both words mean the same thing to Twitch and YouTube at the same time I can however do that to Instagram and tik tok, but that's less valuable to me. I don't really care much about that |
| 19. February 2022 | The consequences of Lowering skill celling in games | The consequences of lowering skill ceiling in games. There was a good video I tweeted out a little while ago where they talked about, well this YouTuber talked about the consequences of lowering skill ceiling in different games, mainly focusing on Street Fighter, like the fighting genres. He showed this clip where this guy had like one HP, Fight 45 or something, or Frame 45, it has a particular name in those circles, and the guy managed to block like 20 frame perfect hits or something in order to win the game or something. You may have heard of it. The newer Street Fighters, the competitive people don't like them because it's made things so much easier to do, where once upon a time doing all those blocks would be like frame perfect and it's why everyone was like, oh my god he fucking did it, it's crazy. These days doing like a super hard combo is just like tapping buttons, it's so easy that it's not interesting to watch. When you make everything so accessible, nothing becomes remarkable. |
| 04. March 2022 | The consequences of eating before I go to bed. | The consequences of eating before I go to bed so I Held off as long as I could without eating because it was like close to when I was going to sleep but I was really hungry and I found out that if I eat like anywhere close to going to sleep I'll wake up being like shit, but I couldn't help myself and I ate some stuff and I woke up being like shit Why I'd know It happens to some people in my life. It's not just a me thing. |
| 04. March 2022 | The consequences of eating before i go to bed. | The consequences of eating before I go to bed so I Held off as long as I could without eating because it was like close to when I was going to sleep but I was really hungry and I found out that if I eat like anywhere close to going to sleep I'll wake up being like shit, but I couldn't help myself and I ate some stuff and I woke up being like shit Why I'd know It happens to some people in my life. It's not just a me thing. |
| 19. February 2022 | The consequences of lowering skill ceiling in games | The consequences of lowering skill ceiling in games. There was a good video I tweeted out a little while ago where they talked about, well this YouTuber talked about the consequences of lowering skill ceiling in different games, mainly focusing on Street Fighter, like the fighting genres. He showed this clip where this guy had like one HP, Fight 45 or something, or Frame 45, it has a particular name in those circles, and the guy managed to block like 20 frame perfect hits or something in order to win the game or something. You may have heard of it. The newer Street Fighters, the competitive people don't like them because it's made things so much easier to do, where once upon a time doing all those blocks would be like frame perfect and it's why everyone was like, oh my god he fucking did it, it's crazy. These days doing like a super hard combo is just like tapping buttons, it's so easy that it's not interesting to watch. When you make everything so accessible, nothing becomes remarkable. |
| 15. July 2021 | The consequences of my No Damage runs on my content | The consequences of my no damage runs on my content. Has no damage had an overall positive effect on my career? No. It's a common misconception right? Doing no damage runs is a lot harder for me than just doing standard speed runs and my speedrunning content even today I haven't made any in like a year. It is still really popular. I could have made far more videos, far easier, far faster with a greater level of variety had I never started no damage. It's just no one could have predicted that I would so quickly get to one damage and be so many times cheated from succeeding. The amount of ways that I've learned that the game can break to prevent my success I couldn't have predicted this no one could have in a thousand years. At any point in time over the last six months I could have got lucky once and succeeded. Instead I've now released 28 episodes in a series that was stale like 15 episodes in. Certainly new things happen I make jokes that are slightly different but there's only so many jokes you can make when you're doing one particular thing every single fucking day for a year and a half. Speedrunning even it's just be running the same game especially a game like this that has a lot of randomness in it has a lot more potential to be chaotic and for weird things to happen and whatnot because you're going so fast and stuff you know. I have missed out presenting all these cool new strategies found in speedrunning by dozens upon dozens of people. That content would be more interesting than the handful of strategies that have been found in this run because it's so few people looking into it you know it's like there was there's what I'm saying is there was no advantage that this series had over my normal content. It's not bad content it hasn't killed my channel or something it's just by comparison to the other content I could have made it's very underwhelming. I sacrificed so much just trying to finish this goddamn run I would have much rather had finished it months ago when I got so close and then made strategies to make it so I couldn't fail in that way anymore and that haven't succeeded. It's not a matter of stress man no matter amount of taking breaks is gonna solve this for me. Do I think I'm mind blocks the no damage run? I don't know what you mean. How long ago was it? A week when I was literally on the last run and I shot two guys in the head and neither of them died so I failed like I mean it's just it's just not fair. The last run literally the game deletes a guy off the map how is anyone gonna know that? How is anyone gonna know that one particular guy is able to survive being deleted but his his dot still gets deleted off the map? How can anyone possibly know that? Of course no one else is gonna be affected by this shit but I am because I'm the least lucky person alive. You can't straight around that. You can you just have to know it. The last six months have just been me doing a run finding a new way that the game could screw me making a strat so it can no longer happen and just starting again. It's harsh knowing that you do everything right and still don't succeed. Occasionally do make mistakes but I mean that's life in general. In life you can do everything perfectly and fail and other people can do everything wrong and succeed that is just life and nothing's ever gonna change that. Now I don't know how many attempts I have. We'll find out when I do I'm done I suppose because you'll be able to look back in the in the run. Do you think after some time of failing you'll just give up on OCO? No. I will do this until I succeed. It's not today it's not tomorrow it's not a year from now I will do it until I succeed. I mean for fuck sakes I've gotten so close so many fucking times. Knowing how things go you'll finally finish OCO and be shocked you did. I'm always shocked when good things happen. What if the mod influences all missions instead of just Simeon? See the mod doesn't influence Simeon it's just because of what the mod does Simeon acts towards you in a different way like like so Simeon isn't being influenced he's doing exactly what he always does. It's just the circumstances that I find myself in are different. It is entirely possible that having 1 HP in different situations changes something about the game. I have detected no such thing that's possible. It's possible that different versions of the game or different graphics settings influence other parts of the game. I have no way of knowing this. I've not done the experimentation. At the end of the day this is now the run and I will beat the run as it is. If I found out tomorrow that having 1 HP the entire time makes this 10 times harder I will still finish it in this way. If you told me tomorrow that having lower graphics settings makes the enemy shoot less I'll probably still continue it exactly as I'm doing right now. I have practiced all the later missions dozens of times my dude. Dedicating additional you know additional you know five plus hours to a dead run is obviously not a practical use of time. I have endless other things I should be doing. Right now doing OCO runs is technically the least important thing I should be doing. No the least important thing will be playing Slay the Spire. Above Slay the Spire is these runs. I'm behind in so much content, other responsibilities and whatnot. The only reason I'm doing this is for that tiny slim chance that will finally be over. I have put off so many different things, so many different projects to complete this and every that's why every single time it is soul-crushing when I fail because I know that six plus hours or whatever that I should have spent on something else I will not get back. And with every fail it becomes harder and harder to justify why the fuck I'm doing this. What parts are the most hard for me? There is no part in the game that is hard. Every single part in this game 99% of the time I will do without taking damage. Individually if you wanted to offer me a hundred dollars to ten grand that I can do a mission without taking damage I'd take that bet in a heartbeat. Easiest hundred bucks I've ever made. But doing a whole run knowing that the game could cheat me at any fucking moment there's not a bet I would take. Oh I know this I know this isn't impossible it's just a matter of spending enough time doing enough runs. Actually to finish it no one cares how good it is be yourself I know I know it is unfortunate I'm lowering my standards because success isn't what matters it's how good the run is but this isn't speed running so that's not true you know I I still come from a speed running background so I do think of things that way you know where every small mistake actually matters. |
| 15. July 2021 | The consequences of my no damage runs on my content | The consequences of my no damage runs on my content. Has no damage had an overall positive effect on my career? No. It's a common misconception right? Doing no damage runs is a lot harder for me than just doing standard speed runs and my speedrunning content even today I haven't made any in like a year. It is still really popular. I could have made far more videos, far easier, far faster with a greater level of variety had I never started no damage. It's just no one could have predicted that I would so quickly get to one damage and be so many times cheated from succeeding. The amount of ways that I've learned that the game can break to prevent my success I couldn't have predicted this no one could have in a thousand years. At any point in time over the last six months I could have got lucky once and succeeded. Instead I've now released 28 episodes in a series that was stale like 15 episodes in. Certainly new things happen I make jokes that are slightly different but there's only so many jokes you can make when you're doing one particular thing every single fucking day for a year and a half. Speedrunning even it's just be running the same game especially a game like this that has a lot of randomness in it has a lot more potential to be chaotic and for weird things to happen and whatnot because you're going so fast and stuff you know. I have missed out presenting all these cool new strategies found in speedrunning by dozens upon dozens of people. That content would be more interesting than the handful of strategies that have been found in this run because it's so few people looking into it you know it's like there was there's what I'm saying is there was no advantage that this series had over my normal content. It's not bad content it hasn't killed my channel or something it's just by comparison to the other content I could have made it's very underwhelming. I sacrificed so much just trying to finish this goddamn run I would have much rather had finished it months ago when I got so close and then made strategies to make it so I couldn't fail in that way anymore and that haven't succeeded. It's not a matter of stress man no matter amount of taking breaks is gonna solve this for me. Do I think I'm mind blocks the no damage run? I don't know what you mean. How long ago was it? A week when I was literally on the last run and I shot two guys in the head and neither of them died so I failed like I mean it's just it's just not fair. The last run literally the game deletes a guy off the map how is anyone gonna know that? How is anyone gonna know that one particular guy is able to survive being deleted but his his dot still gets deleted off the map? How can anyone possibly know that? Of course no one else is gonna be affected by this shit but I am because I'm the least lucky person alive. You can't straight around that. You can you just have to know it. The last six months have just been me doing a run finding a new way that the game could screw me making a strat so it can no longer happen and just starting again. It's harsh knowing that you do everything right and still don't succeed. Occasionally do make mistakes but I mean that's life in general. In life you can do everything perfectly and fail and other people can do everything wrong and succeed that is just life and nothing's ever gonna change that. Now I don't know how many attempts I have. We'll find out when I do I'm done I suppose because you'll be able to look back in the in the run. Do you think after some time of failing you'll just give up on OCO? No. I will do this until I succeed. It's not today it's not tomorrow it's not a year from now I will do it until I succeed. I mean for fuck sakes I've gotten so close so many fucking times. Knowing how things go you'll finally finish OCO and be shocked you did. I'm always shocked when good things happen. What if the mod influences all missions instead of just Simeon? See the mod doesn't influence Simeon it's just because of what the mod does Simeon acts towards you in a different way like like so Simeon isn't being influenced he's doing exactly what he always does. It's just the circumstances that I find myself in are different. It is entirely possible that having 1 HP in different situations changes something about the game. I have detected no such thing that's possible. It's possible that different versions of the game or different graphics settings influence other parts of the game. I have no way of knowing this. I've not done the experimentation. At the end of the day this is now the run and I will beat the run as it is. If I found out tomorrow that having 1 HP the entire time makes this 10 times harder I will still finish it in this way. If you told me tomorrow that having lower graphics settings makes the enemy shoot less I'll probably still continue it exactly as I'm doing right now. I have practiced all the later missions dozens of times my dude. Dedicating additional you know additional you know five plus hours to a dead run is obviously not a practical use of time. I have endless other things I should be doing. Right now doing OCO runs is technically the least important thing I should be doing. No the least important thing will be playing Slay the Spire. Above Slay the Spire is these runs. I'm behind in so much content, other responsibilities and whatnot. The only reason I'm doing this is for that tiny slim chance that will finally be over. I have put off so many different things, so many different projects to complete this and every that's why every single time it is soul-crushing when I fail because I know that six plus hours or whatever that I should have spent on something else I will not get back. And with every fail it becomes harder and harder to justify why the fuck I'm doing this. What parts are the most hard for me? There is no part in the game that is hard. Every single part in this game 99% of the time I will do without taking damage. Individually if you wanted to offer me a hundred dollars to ten grand that I can do a mission without taking damage I'd take that bet in a heartbeat. Easiest hundred bucks I've ever made. But doing a whole run knowing that the game could cheat me at any fucking moment there's not a bet I would take. Oh I know this I know this isn't impossible it's just a matter of spending enough time doing enough runs. Actually to finish it no one cares how good it is be yourself I know I know it is unfortunate I'm lowering my standards because success isn't what matters it's how good the run is but this isn't speed running so that's not true you know I I still come from a speed running background so I do think of things that way you know where every small mistake actually matters. |
| 12. September 2021 | The considerations I have when titling a ramble | The considerations I have when titling a ramble. When I make an episode of Rambles, I have to look at all the topics and think to myself, what can I put in the title of the video that will draw in the internet's attention from all these topics, right? And I think it communicates what I think of the internet when the titles that I chose were I looked gay when younger apparently and animal genitalia in Red Dead Redemption 2. Had a bunch of topics to choose from, political debates and terminology, utopia, I don't know, GTA 6, and like, nah, nah, nah, me looking gay when younger and animal genitalia. That's the way to go. I found that really funny. I don't know what that says about my perception of the internet, but I also just noticed that I didn't put a capital for G there. I'm going to fix that right now. I've been in this business for a long time, chat, and I know what the internet wants, you know? |
| 28. April 2021 | The content creator I have watched the longest | The content creator I have watched the longest. I've watched Philip DeFranco longer than probably any content creator on YouTube. Probably not as consistently. I'm sure there's been times where I haven't and I have stopped watching and then have come back, whatever. There's certainly been times where Phil's attitude has been kind of annoying. It was far more offence sitting back in the day but I can still remember being at my friend's house. I think he might have been showing me Ragnarok online or whatever it was called or gun something and like you have these little things and it's basically like worms but you're in the mech things. I think I'm playing that as well and we were like binge watching Philip DeFranco's videos or something. Push having on gun bound that's it. It was just a we had it on in the background. That I have that memory shows that how long how many years ago is that that must have been like at least 10. Definitely over 10 years. I would have been 15, 14. I've been aware of and watched Philip DeFranco to some extent for over 15 years. We're thinking of that way. I wonder how many other content creators are like that for me. There might be none. Is Philip DeFranco really the content creator I've watched the longest and the most consistently? Never would have expected that. Maybe I wouldn't. |
| 22. April 2021 | The content landscape for GTA 6 | The content landscape for GTA 6. So if GTA 6 comes out, do you reckon you're going to learn to speedrun that? Absolutely, yeah. It'd be very interesting because like, PassFist, NoDamage and stuff came way later. And when GTA 5 first came out, speedrunning while a thing was nowhere near as big as it is now. So the stuff that was speedrun made more sense. Like, things that could be done in less than two hours and stuff. These kind of long duration speedruns didn't come along until the very height of speedrunning. In terms of being very popular, I mean, because obviously GTA speedrunning is forever, but as a way to make content and stuff on Twitch and YouTube, that kind of stuff didn't exist when GTA 5 came out. But now, obviously there's money to be made in speedrunning GTA 6 and making that kind of content. I'm just curious how much competition there's going to be. Maybe people won't want to compete with me in that kind of space. And I know none of the other runners make YouTube content. It's like, obviously speedrunning GTA 6 won't be the most popular thing compared to other GTA 6 content, but potentially I might have the niche on it, the niche is set in other regions. So that would be of benefit to me. Because I want to try and compete for the low hanging fruit where I make tutorials for all the missions. Like you can see tutorials for GTA 5 missions right now have like 4-5 million views on YouTube. And the same thing will happen for GTA 6. Yeah, you can't build a channel off that in the long run. I don't think it has sustainability. True. We're looking at those channels that have made that content. Their new uploads are nothing like that. But I mean, I could make that and still make my normal content. It's just that kind of content that has like universal appeal or need. Like if you're the first one to make it, you can just make yourself millions of easy views. It does die down. You can't build an entire channel of it. But I guess you know as a side thing, but I don't see myself doing that anyway. Like, I don't know. It's not very satisfying to me. Like it's very fun to get those like big bangers, you know, like financially and view wise. But you know, it's not like a satisfying thing to create at all. I like making like a backlog of content. Like I'm just having a... And even then I don't think it would take that much time. Maybe it would. Like, yeah, no, I'll think about when we get... When GTA 6 comes out 10 years from now, you know. Exactly. It's long overdue for real. So done. For all I know, I won't even be here when GTA 6 comes out. I believe, well, hope I'm still here, but you never know. You will be. You will be. I don't think like you've gone past the point where you will like... Where your career is kind of in danger due to like falling off. Like I think even like, let's say if all the hype that was done overnight in your channel would like die out from like the algorithm and all that stuff. I think I'm too diversified for that. There's realities where like legislation is passed to make gaming illegal online or some shit. But like short of that, I'm doing OK. Because like even my content that's my worst performing content doesn't do that badly and I can still kind of get by. Yeah. Like I think I'm at the point where I could drop GTA 5 and I would still make enough money to get by. I'd probably be making 10 to 20 percent of what I'm making now. But I'm still be fine. You know, I'm still at that point, right? I'm still like I feel like in some sort of like somewhat a grow phase. And I don't know whether my views have started settling or not or whether I'm still like in YouTube algorithm or whatever, you know, like I don't know where I am right now. Like that's really weird because I put out my content like plateaus when I make GTA around like 100,000 to 200,000 views. When I make different content, also like in other games is also like 100,000 views. But I don't know. Keep in mind that when I make non-GTA content, I don't dedicate my time to it because I have people who help me. So I'm when I can't stomach doing GTA 5 content or after I make GTA 5 content streaming, I'll play something else and then I'll get someone to edit it. Sure. Then I will, you know, as I always do, go over it for a day and change things and add things myself. But it's a minority of my time that I dedicate to non-GTA stuff. If I had to choose, I mean, I would just travel without me. If I had to choose, obviously, I'd just do GTA content. |
| 16. February 2021 | The content leach Twitter accounts | The Content Leech Twitter Accounts. These channels on Twitter that only exist to repost other people's shit to build their own Twitter account, fuck I hate them so fucking much. When a fellow content creator uses a part of your work or acknowledges you in some way, it's very flattering regardless of the platform. But when these fucking leeches just steal your shit for their own benefit, fuck that's annoying. I hate accounts that all they do is aggregate other people's content and offer nothing of value themselves. I hate them so fucking much. Worse is I will continuously file complaints with Twitter to get them to take this shit down and they do nothing. I'm reaching the point where I'm so spiteful that I'm considering getting a lawyer, but you know that's a stupid thing because it's just a waste of fucking money. These accounts will literally just repost other people's shit, no consideration for who made it. And they're having their bio like, ah DM for credit bro. If they cared legitimately about helping other content creators building their profile, they would go out of their way to find someone to credit for the work. They clearly don't. And so you DM them and they're like, oh I'm sorry man, didn't mean for this to happen, don't worry bro we'll credit you. And it's like, you aren't sorry. An apology is something you do, it means to regret what has occurred. But given that these accounts will then just post like a bajillion clips a day doing the exact same fucking thing, they're not fucking sorry. They don't give two fucks about anyone else but themselves. And like you know, an eon after the original post is made, they'll put like a second post that says, oh credit to so and so. And you look at the credit and it will have like one bajillionth of the interaction compared to the original post. I have now experienced this effect at least 20 times. Where I'll find someone reposting my shit on Twitter for a million views, well over 200,000 likes. I'll look at their account before they posted my shit and after they posted my shit and they get like 3,000 followers. And when I point this out to them, I'll look at the credit that is eventually given a bajillion years later because they fear reprisal. And it will have like 20 likes. And dipshits will be like, oh bro, you should be thankful that they stole your shit, man, those 20 likes, man, they're building your career. Dipshits, the only people who benefit from that fucking mass reposting are those channels themselves. They wouldn't do it if it didn't benefit themselves, right? With any use of content of another person, always ask the question, how easy is it to find the original content creator and the original content creators work? And is there still value in the original work that people want to seek out? If it's very easy and there's still value, what you're doing is probably fine. But these accounts, just straight repost entire aspects with no linking, no credit, no nothing, things so fucking angry. |
| 16. February 2021 | The content leach twitter accounts | The Content Leech Twitter Accounts. These channels on Twitter that only exist to repost other people's shit to build their own Twitter account, fuck I hate them so fucking much. When a fellow content creator uses a part of your work or acknowledges you in some way, it's very flattering regardless of the platform. But when these fucking leeches just steal your shit for their own benefit, fuck that's annoying. I hate accounts that all they do is aggregate other people's content and offer nothing of value themselves. I hate them so fucking much. Worse is I will continuously file complaints with Twitter to get them to take this shit down and they do nothing. I'm reaching the point where I'm so spiteful that I'm considering getting a lawyer, but you know that's a stupid thing because it's just a waste of fucking money. These accounts will literally just repost other people's shit, no consideration for who made it. And they're having their bio like, ah DM for credit bro. If they cared legitimately about helping other content creators building their profile, they would go out of their way to find someone to credit for the work. They clearly don't. And so you DM them and they're like, oh I'm sorry man, didn't mean for this to happen, don't worry bro we'll credit you. And it's like, you aren't sorry. An apology is something you do, it means to regret what has occurred. But given that these accounts will then just post like a bajillion clips a day doing the exact same fucking thing, they're not fucking sorry. They don't give two fucks about anyone else but themselves. And like you know, an eon after the original post is made, they'll put like a second post that says, oh credit to so and so. And you look at the credit and it will have like one bajillionth of the interaction compared to the original post. I have now experienced this effect at least 20 times. Where I'll find someone reposting my shit on Twitter for a million views, well over 200,000 likes. I'll look at their account before they posted my shit and after they posted my shit and they get like 3,000 followers. And when I point this out to them, I'll look at the credit that is eventually given a bajillion years later because they fear reprisal. And it will have like 20 likes. And dipshits will be like, oh bro, you should be thankful that they stole your shit, man, those 20 likes, man, they're building your career. Dipshits, the only people who benefit from that fucking mass reposting are those channels themselves. They wouldn't do it if it didn't benefit themselves, right? With any use of content of another person, always ask the question, how easy is it to find the original content creator and the original content creators work? And is there still value in the original work that people want to seek out? If it's very easy and there's still value, what you're doing is probably fine. But these accounts, just straight repost entire aspects with no linking, no credit, no nothing, things so fucking angry. |
| 28. December 2021 | The continued consolidation of corporations | Inured consolidation of corporations. This commentary occurred around the time that Amazon workers were striking. People are too disconnected from the workers, right? Back when you'd go into a store and you'd see the people, maybe you could care about them a little bit or like they're human, you know? But you're buying stuff on an online website, you've never seen the people. You know they're there in the same way that you know that your burger that you eat at McDonald's came from an animal that you'd like look at a fair and like pat it on the head. You know, but you're so disconnected from it, it doesn't seem real. So such strikes, unless they like really upset how the store works and functions, it's not gonna have much of an impact. I'm sure there's tons of places as well that wouldn't want to report on a strike with Amazon, right? Because Amazon probably pays their bills to some extent, right? Because Amazon has its hands in everything. As has been the trend over time, more and more companies just merging together or singular companies having a presence in like a thousand markets through a bunch of different brands. And the trend is polygon to continue. There's a lot of people out there with a fear of government but they have no real fear of private corporations. I don't think they're evil, they're just companies and companies make profit, that's why they exist. Businesses don't exist to make jobs. They don't exist to benefit society, they exist to make profit. I suppose non-profit businesses can do those things. Like the creation of jobs and societal benefit is a byproduct of the desire to make profit. If a company was no longer profitable, but made jobs and had societal benefit, it would just be closed down, unless it was a public enterprise, government owned, government funded. Because there are public services that lose money, but it's so beneficial to society that they kept running. Because that's one thing that government can do that private corporations have a greater trouble doing. Someone is gonna kill Amazon, not a chance. Economies of scale, no one can enter the market anymore. Once you're the size of Amazon, you can just produce things and do things at such a reduced cost compared to someone just entering, that you just fucks. The only way you can compete with Amazon is like on the fringes, like in a particular local, like in a particular town, you can offer your service faster and with a greater attention to detail and quality than Amazon ever can because of how large they are. It's like the bigger you get, the more you by necessity can't focus on the tiny things. Amazon will end like Rome, become too big, break into parts and get completely shattered. I mean, are you sure? Look at how many anti-regulation, anti-government kind of people exist today, right? It doesn't matter how much you say, look, this is for the public good. They're gonna be like, this is government overreach, regulations, so what if a single company owns like 95% of the fucking market? Who cares? This is bad for everyone, but we don't want big government. If there's one company that doesn't appear to ever be getting comfortable, it's Amazon. They're just bashing into any market they can conceive of. They've got a whiteboard with like just a bunch of random words and they're like, robotic, toys, fire, okay. Let's get into this market, people. A successful small company these days is a company that develops some good IP and gets bought by a large company. Because like, hey guys, you look very good. We like what you're doing here. You can either compete with us, Amazon worth 100 billion, blah, blah, blah dollars, way more than that, of course. Or we can just give you $100 million right now. No questions asked, just give us your IP. And it's like, I'll take the 100 million, sure. It's prudent to remember that the brands that we see are not necessarily into themselves separate and unique. It's often the case where like 50 companies all, not 50, but a significant, like dozens of companies all exist under one kind of conglomerate, would be maybe the better word. Toys R Us wasn't beaten by another toy company. It like a new startup kind of toy company. It got beaten by a new technology. We're in a different world, right? You know, the tech bubble and stuff and all these tech companies starting and the fallout from that and those who survived, those companies rule the world. I mean, yes, similar to Blockbuster or Kodak, the digital revolution caught some people by surprise and they didn't adapt. But I don't think there's going to be, I'm sure people didn't think the digital revolution was gonna be a thing, but I don't think there's gonna be another digital revolution when it comes to disrupting the old companies or the old industries. There will be changes and things that businesses will need to adapt to. But the size of companies these days just seems so monumentally bigger than the past. I guess largely because singular companies can exist more readily in the global market on many, many different countries. Yeah, that's a good point. AI has that possibility or just increased automation has that possibility. Could totally lead to massive changes and shifts in society. Who are the companies researching AI and automation and stuff? Google, Amazon, like the already big companies. Like there isn't going to be a small guy. Like, you know, in the dot com era where it's like the small players kind of, small startups actually got somewhere and did something. There's not gonna be small startups inventing AI, you know? Like if you wanna compete with Facebook, Facebook has, you know, many, many years of user data that any new social media outlet will not have. And how do you compete? Even more, once you have the users, any new startup kind of social media platform doesn't have any users on it. So why would anyone use it? It's very hard to migrate people to new platform unless it offers a unique service. But even then, like, oh, Instagram, wait, that was bought by Facebook. Like, you know, Instagram offered something new and was then bought by. |
| 21. June 2022 | The continued growth of the react videos leading to low quality comments | The continued growth of the react video is leading to some low quality comments. See if I can find the exact comment. I love this chain. Mark. Everyone loses except the reactors, how this game works featuring Asmogold and XQC, and you're essentially reacting to the reactors, hypocrite much. He explained what he means when he says reactors at 2 minutes and 4 seconds, so tell me, how does Matt do the same thing as reactors as defined in the timestamp? I watched 20 seconds of this video, I don't care. So this comment is dishonest because not only you didn't check what Matt means by reactor, you also didn't check if he does the same in this video. Don't criticize someone if you don't even know what you're criticizing. Don't care, he's still reacting to react streamers. He's literally making a video so you click it and he gets paid. If you would watch the video you would understand why this video isn't a react video. I'm using the definition Matt used at 2 minutes and 4 seconds because you called him hypocrite earlier. I still don't care, still not going to watch this video, he's reacting to react streamers, he's doing the same thing, he's seen a somewhat controversial topic and decided to find clicks to make money as a YouTuber. This is not rocket science. This is not rocket science, simply watch a few minutes of the video to see what it's about and what he is criticizing. Nope. You may think this is like, you know, a unicorn, like just a rare thing. I have received comments like this dozens of times, especially over the last week or two. Maybe it's reaching more of Asmongold's audience. I know some comments have suggested that's the case. And I get a lot of these comments. You're just reacting to the reactors! There was like no footage from anyone else in this video except my own. None of the videos are reaction videos, but the very least, like let's say with the Hasan video, that at least contains some footage of Hasan. I think Asmongold has shown in this video for all of like 10 seconds. Does it have a bad like or dislike ratio? No, no, no, no, it's good. It's got 1k. I mean, it's gone up over time, but 1k to 32k is pretty good. Like if you're curious if the videos have just gone away now that it's been like a month, its viewership isn't declining. If anything, it's growing. As a totality, the entire series gets like 10,000 views a day. But like on the 11th, it got 10,000, no 11,000 views. Then the next day got 13,000. The next year got 16,000. I wonder if this trend is going to continue. The only downside of this is I've got a lot more comments that are, let's say, of a lesser quality. I'm willing to fully accept that what I'm talking about isn't super simple. The ideas aren't like, they don't take two seconds to grasp. And that's one thing that's always going to be a downside. It's like the people who just go like, my number go up, therefore good. I ain't going to reach such people, you know. It's very hard to have people understand that benefits don't exist in a vacuum. You need to judge things in their totality to know whether something is having a positive or negative effect. I was talking to someone on Twitter and I was like, a system where a person steals one dollar from a thousand people and gives one guy five dollars isn't a good system on the basis of you pointing at that guy who now has five dollars. People do this insistently, endlessly with React content. And you can talk about the totality of the market or the impact on everyone as a whole until you're blue in the face, but they just go, but he now have five dollars. He now have five dollars. He good. And you just want to like study these people. Is it just an unwillingness to understand the ideas or just an incapability, you know? |
| 30. September 2022 | The contradiction of Mr Beast’s content | The contradiction of MrBeast's content. It's weird for MrBeast, of all people, to make a react channel. Because he is a person who presents himself as like, I want to make the best videos all the time, got to top myself every single time, I care about making the best quality content. And then he goes off the room for 20 minutes and he's like, uh, hey guys, here's some random clips that my producer people have found for me to look at. Whoa, bro, whoa, ah, we good? Alright, you get that edited up on the channel, and then he goes to do his actual work. It's just such a weird, I guess, contradiction in a way, but it's just, it's just too profitable to make react content, because it's completely effortless. Yeah, as I say, uh, his reaction videos are not the I am a Twitch streamer gonna sit for hours on end watching other people's YouTube videos. It's, you know, it is clips and it is edited and there is production value there, even if it's not done by MrBeast himself. It is not the worst of it. It's all trash. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 20. July 2021 | The controversy around meme olympics | Olympics. I'm fairly certain that it was in the rambles that accompanied Meme Olympics but basically the idea for the GTA Meme Olympics came from TGG noticing that as any content creator does that a lot of content creators grow together through collaboration It isn't for everyone and it depends on what game you do as to whether it makes sense and stuff But who is it? What's it? What's his name? His name um, Laserbeam. Yeah, so Laserbeam has a series called Meme Olympics and We probably shouldn't have called the series Meme Olympics, but it's not as though Meme Olympics is a Particularly original idea. It's just the Olympics with a word to mean joke in front of it Laserbeam watched TGG's video of our Meme Olympics or whatever and he was like Oh, man, I'm gonna make a GTA 5 Meme Olympics then as well And like I didn't really listen to about a bit. I wonder if that's a spooked TGG at all As to whether he gives a shit about that. I obviously don't Yeah, cuz I think Laserbeam is into GTA 5 right now or something I don't know. I don't really know much about what he does. But uh, yeah So maybe that's why TGG hasn't set up another one. Maybe he didn't like the numbers the first one or maybe it's just a We'll do it later. I don't know. It's not something a topic that I've approached and yeah, it happens it happens It doesn't it doesn't I like the dudes you spend eight thousand dollars on GT online who laser beam Why? laser beam is a much bigger content creator than any of us it'd be weird to just Invite some random dude that you don't know Especially content greater much larger than you in general people collaborate with people around their same size, right? So it's like a mutual beneficial thing as opposed to you Just leaving off someone larger than you right you spend 50k on like everything in the game I mean again, we talked about this once before where for some people Amounts of money that would make you or me gawk. It's just nothing, you know a laser beam size It guys got the potentially tens of millions of dollars. So that's just meaningless money You've likely heard that with with a lot of these micro transaction kind of places Games whatever it's usually like 1% of the player base that spends like 80% of the money or something the whales And as I often say like why not if you have that kind of money You can spend some money to make something funner or skip something boring. I mean, why don't you you know? What else you had to spend the money on you metal talk a laser beam? No, I don't think so. I like I don't go anywhere, you know I imagine if I had reason to talk to my copoly DM or something All I know of him is he's just a big Aussie creator if he was any other If he was from any other country, I wouldn't know of him I'm sure there's tons of huge fortnight creators that I don't know I do miss fortnight a bit though, but I recognize what I miss is not fortnight But those simple early days where I'm sitting on stream with 60 viewers or whatever just playing some fortnight with people from chat They weren't better times, but they were they were you know, nice times They have a little charm to them. It doesn't I can't really do today, you know |
| 07. February 2023 | The controversy of Mr.Beast's 'curing blindness' video. | I was like, the controversy of MrBeast's curing blindness video. That story of MrBeast fixing the degrees of blindness of a thousand people was an interesting one, eh? Everyone talking about it. I think everyone has some degrees of the same perspective where it's like, it's really cool for him to do this, but it's so disgusting that he has to do it. The idea that people have varying ailments that are easily curable with a 10 minute procedure, but they can't get access just because they don't have the funds is kind of gross. In the same way for me, chat, like my getting laser eye surgery increased my quality of life. It cost $7,000. The procedure took less than 10 minutes and fixed my vision issues, and most people will never have access to that kind of procedure because they just can't afford it. And of course, my issue was mild, so I could have glasses and stuff, but some people have much worse situations and clearly need the procedure more than I did and will not be able to get it. It's kind of gross. Discussing MrBeast's role in the whole thing is interesting, right? Because when people do things, you can always develop multiple explanations that could have motivated their particular behavior. Like I'm sure MrBeast is aware that performing these procedures on a thousand people is good for him in a public relations sense, builds his notoriety, a positive esteem and all that. But like, there are so many ways to do that that don't involve curing a thousand people of their blindness. If you're extremely rich and you want clout, there are so many different ways to do that, that MrBeast has chosen to go this route for developing his public esteem. To me, suggests that there has to be some underlying actual care for the people that he's helping, rather than simply using them in a self-serving way, right? He's a businessman. I'm sure he's not ignorant of the benefits that doing this brings himself personally, but I do think there is some underlying actual care and desire to help others. Maybe I'm naive, I don't know. Like I've seen other people have the take that MrBeast is just using people, it's like, I don't think that's true. We touched on it a bit before, but that's the point that's always brought up when these sort of things happen, where as nice as it is for MrBeast to help these thousand people, it doesn't really fix the underlying issues that cause these people to not be able to afford these procedures in the first place, right? But obviously that's not MrBeast's fault. It's not like he is the cause of broken medical systems, or just in general, the way that society works where people can't get access to medical care. At the end of the day, it's always going to be though, a poor bandaid on a broken system, where we just have to rely on rich people to feel the need to give back to help others. Hearing him in various podcasts, he actually had to be forced to keep money for himself. It was completely up to him. He would spend every cent he makes to improve people's lives. Call me cynical. I don't really trust anyone anymore. I much prefer to judge people based on their actions rather than their words. And the problem with actions is that you can always hypothesize endless different motivations that could lead a person to perform those ends. In regards to MrBeast, I think it's more of a stretch to believe that he isn't doing it out of some desire to help others, than that he is doing it with some desire to help others. I can't tell you how much of it he is a desire to help others versus a desire to improve his business, but it's enough to me that he seems like a decent fella. |
| 09. December 2020 | The creation of billionaires and wanting to help the needy | The creation of billionaires and wanting to help the needy. You just wish you had enough money to help anyone you can and make people happy, but that is unrealistic. It's funny that if your goal is to help people, you're not going to go into a career where you make billions of dollars. Well, to be honest with you, no one can go into any career making a billion dollars. The variables outside of your control that create a billionaire are just inconceivable. You can think to yourself, here are the steps that I would make to become a teacher. Here are the steps that I would do to become an accountant. Here are the steps maybe even to make a million dollars. You'd be like, I'd save this amount of money, da da da. No one can say, here are the steps I would take to become a billionaire. You could study the history of every billionaire that has ever existed, and you will notice that they're all effectively unique. Very particular to the circumstances that they find themselves in. Miraculous, you could say. You can conceive of a person where variables that they control, they've applied themselves to a great degree to achieve becoming a millionaire. Especially today, given the value of currencies and all that stuff. But you can never consider that for a billionaire. A billionaire is effectively a person who either got extraordinarily lucky or worked hard, and just based on exponential growth and opportunities that come with that, end up in particular circumstances that lead to that kind of wealth. It's not as though Bezos, when he was trying to sell books or whatever online, it's not as though he was like, I can guarantee, man, the online's gonna be the biggest thing ever, and I'm gonna have the biggest retail of them all. So many variables in terms of developments of technology and developments of government policy and other websites that were mismanaged and all that. And all these different variables had to be so perfect for Bezos to be who he is today. You could never predict those outcomes. In hindsight, it's like, well, this is so fucking obvious by the time. No, we see Bezos, but we don't see the tens of thousands of Bezos' all doing the exact same thing that he was doing around that time. But, you know, one small variable is slightly different and they didn't get there. As they say, billionaires aren't born into mud huts. But I'm saying is, your thoughts, I just want to help people, man, is the very thing that would prevent you from being in those particular circumstances to make yourself billions of dollars. Because those billions don't come from becoming a doctor, becoming a teacher, becoming a firefighter. So the industries that care for the poor needy, the people who need the most help, these aren't the ones. |
| 05. March 2023 | The creative process behind my newest compilation videos. | The creative process behind my newest compilation videos, but I'm spending a ridiculous amount of my time Doing compilations at the moment. I hope people don't get sick of them because I've done what three of the 22 Like obviously I'm gonna space them out. I only want to do like one a week or something, but there are Thousands of facts and glitches in those series most of them edited poorly because a lot of them were done early on and It's far more interesting to see everything of later one topic in a singular video Edited fast snappier and often with added footage which I will sometimes do if the original footage isn't good enough You got to remember that most of my viewers haven't seen all of my videos and even if you have Like this is years ago. You've likely seen a lot of this footage. So it's worth re-releasing it sometimes I do think I should put more effort into it in that I don't often re-record the Voice service for the individual facts glitches so you can hear like the differences in my Presentation style between like now and years in the past I think it's it's interesting to me to hear that difference, but why if I had no complaints I do wonder if it's jarring for some people like at the end of the day I don't want to really be doing this work like I'd rather give it to someone else But I'm the only person who can do it This is not the most important stuff for the channel Although some of these compilations have done better than like every other video on the channel recently but I have to do it because it requires so much extra knowledge of all the content as well as the need to like randomly grab some tiny amount of footage from a video eons ago to slot it in or to Record the voice over again or record new ones in some cases like I have to do this work And that's what I often end up doing in regards to my editing work It's not always the most important thing, but it's the thing that I literally can't get other people to do for me Speaking of my compilations. I couldn't think of what to name the series I originally started with like prologue has a lot more glitches than you would expect or something I was like that's not really good title I ended up going with let me ruin GT 5 blank for you, and I got this from clicks Philip I saw this and was like let me ruin CS goes black side for you And I was like that's not a bad name for a series whenever it fits obviously when I'm showing showcasing glitches and stuff like yeah That's pretty good the old yoink and twist glow asked me about Why this is called glitches and facts rather than facts and glitches? I don't know if facts and glitches sounds better Or if it's simply that that's what it's been for so long that that's just what you're used to hearing I prefer facts and glitches because G the and symbol and F looks less sus it looks like gaff as opposed to that reversed Which looks a little bit sus but also? Because this is often shortened in some cases The earlier words are more likely to be seen and I think glitches is more appealing to people than facts Don't have a certain bit it is also just a way of changing things up and You at a glance be able to tell if it's compilation or not because of the ordering of glitches and facts and of course the word compilation, but you know |
| 25. November 2022 | The cult and history of Elon Musk. | The cult and history of Elon Musk. Did you see that Elon Musk video by this dude? This video covers all of Elon's previous ventures, what his involvement was in them, and what people at the time said about what he was doing and how effective he was and the answer is at every single turn he was shit. The one claim that is probably true about Elon's success is that he popularized electric cars. That's it. Everything else, he was shit. He came from a very rich family, used that wealth, happened to be in a right place, right time to make that what? Zip thing that someone would have eventually done if it wasn't him and he happened to be on PayPal when they outed him because if he had continued to be CEO in six months it would have been dead because he didn't start PayPal. Someone else started PayPal. His company was bought out by PayPal. Like watch this video. It is just in life with billions of people existing there has to be people by happenstance to end up at the top and that's Elon Musk. But the problem is most people have this idea that your fate is largely you. That's not the case. It's largely external variables. Why? Because there's astronomically more variables impacting you at any given time that you don't control than those that you do. Right now in chat there is thousands of you impacting me and how I'm my mood how I'm gonna see the world. Right now someone could say something in chat that could change my life forever. Little bit of information I didn't have before. Something that gives me an idea. They go yeah, I could I could actually do this and I'd be a millionaire in a week. Some investment advice and anything like this could happen, but I have no control over this. Right now someone could be writing legislation that completely fucks my business. I have no control over this. I don't control my genetics. I don't control the... |
| 08. January 2022 | The current state of Cyberpunk 2077 | Samely broken economy and we quit like after two months. There was just nothing to it That's it's the shame the current state of cyberpunk 2077 I I'm probably one of the biggest like antagonist to the cyberpunk 2077 subreddit right now because the amount of shitting that I do on that game is Unprecedented I've been waiting for that game longer than I ever did a GTA title and I've been more disappointed than anything playing that title So it's like if any game pats and runs better than that. I'm happy I heard that they improved it significantly not that I'm saying they have as much content as they said they would on release But is it not better now? It runs better I'd say like it operates better But like the way so I made this video where I showed the downgrading of it it runs better because they render less like even on like PlayStation and Xbox like PC is a little different because like Obviously you can just like crank it up to the max settings But for my thing, I'm like if you pay 60 bucks for a game Everyone should get an equivalent experience right like ps4s and Xbox like if you bill it for that target It should run so I look to those versions of the game They literally removed the traffic basically like you're driving through the down Imagine driving through downtown Los Santos and not a single car ever spawned not a single NPC ever spawned That's what Night City is. That's what like cyberpunk is and it's just it's sad like it's not a game anymore It's just like a tech demo that barely even functions and it functions because they removed everything that taxes the system Anyways, I played it for three hours Near release on PC and it was very buggy and it didn't really grab me as a game But I've heard more good things about and I kind of want to try it again Maybe I won't be so much you told me I'd wait until like there's a there's like the next gen update for like the systems Cuz that's when they're probably gonna update it to like 2.0 or some bullshit and like have all the bugs taken care of It's not on PS5. Is it no it's on PS5 but through the backwards compatible? |
| 08. January 2022 | The current state of GTA 5 speedrunning | head against the wall trying to get my PassFest series. Another episode of that out. It's like many months over to you. The current state of GTA 5 speedrunning. Every time I see you speedrun that game, I'm like it. It like stresses me out because I'm like you. To me, I think GTA is a hard game to speedrun anyway. It's just because of the length of it and also like the randomness of it. Because it's like, how do you when you speedrun, how do you like handle things like character switching? Like, what do you do when like you switch to Trevor for something? And it's like, oh, he's in fucking Mount Gordo with the dress on. So you have to like switch to someone else on the fly and do their things. Like, how do you handle that? Like, I haven't actually speedrun the game in about two years. I've been doing no damage runs. So these sort of things I've less had to deal with. But I do follow the speedrunning scene and I will be getting back back into it in the next week. But the developments that have come since I stopped have been insane because you do you like code and stuff. You'd probably be more interested in it than I. Like back when I used to run, we didn't have people who would look through the code to figure stuff out. But now we have those people. And so when something is found that might be OK or interesting, people just dig into the code, into how this works. And they can find some really cool stuff. For example, they found a way to basically skip any mission in the game. It's called on mission zero. You kind of start two missions simultaneously and progress through one mission and it causes you to progress through another. And it's very complicated to the extent where making a video on it is probably going to be like half an hour video or something. But what I mean is all this stuff over the years has been very much so figured out. Like the character switching, for example, after every mission, any character that was in that mission has a consistent switch. And if you get a bad switch, you can go into director mode for like a second and it reconfigures where everyone is on the map. And depending upon the circumstance you find yourself in, certain switches are possible, certain switches aren't. There's still a little bit of randomness with the switching. But as with anything, the more you know about it, the more you can predict and therefore adapt to what's going on. But there isn't that much randomness in it because all randomness in games is within a certain range. Once you know that range, you can kind of predict what's going to happen. Is there like a difference between... Are these like bugs that have potentially been left over from the PS3? Because I know when they updated the game, like they have... I'm sure they obviously switch a bunch of these states around, like they recode chunks of the game. But like when you speed run, is it just strictly on like the PS4 base version of the game, PC, whatever current patch that they have? So the first patch for PC was patch 1.24. And we speed run on patch 1.27. Probably the two biggest reasons for that now is one, there's no waves. Like there's no waves in the entire game for whatever reason. There's ways to get waves to come back, but any kind of boating section or where you have to shoot people while you're on a jet ski or whatever, that kind of stuff is so much easier. And you can even do like bounce strats where because there's no waves, you can like bounce your boat up and down and stay in the air and go faster. But another thing is in the newest patch... Oh yeah, because you... I got to re-download the old patch and see it now. It's a weird patch. There's a hospital warping where if you fail a mission and then die during the mission fail screen, you will warp to the hospital after the mission ends. So you won't have to like at the end of the mission, hold a grenade or whatever and die. You would just automatically warp like the game will glitch and warp you to the hospital. And that saves a lot of time. And that's, I think, only on patch 1.27. Like it wasn't on 1.24. It is in the newer patches. Another one, there's... Sorry if I'm boring you with this, but... No, no, I'm surprised that they introduced newer bugs. It's kind of like a weird cyberpunk update schedule. Yeah, during the early days of the newest patches for PC, they fucking hated modders and they were so keen to crush them out that they, in many cases, reduced the performance of the game for a couple of patches. But 1.27 just so happens to be good for performance and have these weird glitches that are beneficial in some cases. I mean, now they got legal teams from a lot of mods now. They don't have to worry abou... |
| 17. December 2020 | The current state of Jacksfilms. | The current state of Jack's films. What I think of Jack's films? I like him, he's a funny dude. But how much of his content is simply him responding to his audience? It's kind of not great. He did a lot more skits and original stuff back in the day. These days it's more just, hey audience, tell me some funny things and I'll respond to them. It's nowhere near as bad as responding to content made by other content creators or content made by other audiences or Reddit or whatever. At the same time it's not like the highest order of content that exists, right? He's a very talented guy, a very funny guy. But he's clearly at a point in his life where he's very successful, very rich. He comes across to me sometimes as burnt out or he's not necessarily interested in being the biggest content creator. He's just kind of having a laugh with his viewers and enjoying himself. I could be wrong. I mean I know inside of his head but... |
| 08. January 2022 | The current state of gta 5 speedrunning | head against the wall trying to get my PassFest series. Another episode of that out. It's like many months over to you. The current state of GTA 5 speedrunning. Every time I see you speedrun that game, I'm like it. It like stresses me out because I'm like you. To me, I think GTA is a hard game to speedrun anyway. It's just because of the length of it and also like the randomness of it. Because it's like, how do you when you speedrun, how do you like handle things like character switching? Like, what do you do when like you switch to Trevor for something? And it's like, oh, he's in fucking Mount Gordo with the dress on. So you have to like switch to someone else on the fly and do their things. Like, how do you handle that? Like, I haven't actually speedrun the game in about two years. I've been doing no damage runs. So these sort of things I've less had to deal with. But I do follow the speedrunning scene and I will be getting back back into it in the next week. But the developments that have come since I stopped have been insane because you do you like code and stuff. You'd probably be more interested in it than I. Like back when I used to run, we didn't have people who would look through the code to figure stuff out. But now we have those people. And so when something is found that might be OK or interesting, people just dig into the code, into how this works. And they can find some really cool stuff. For example, they found a way to basically skip any mission in the game. It's called on mission zero. You kind of start two missions simultaneously and progress through one mission and it causes you to progress through another. And it's very complicated to the extent where making a video on it is probably going to be like half an hour video or something. But what I mean is all this stuff over the years has been very much so figured out. Like the character switching, for example, after every mission, any character that was in that mission has a consistent switch. And if you get a bad switch, you can go into director mode for like a second and it reconfigures where everyone is on the map. And depending upon the circumstance you find yourself in, certain switches are possible, certain switches aren't. There's still a little bit of randomness with the switching. But as with anything, the more you know about it, the more you can predict and therefore adapt to what's going on. But there isn't that much randomness in it because all randomness in games is within a certain range. Once you know that range, you can kind of predict what's going to happen. Is there like a difference between... Are these like bugs that have potentially been left over from the PS3? Because I know when they updated the game, like they have... I'm sure they obviously switch a bunch of these states around, like they recode chunks of the game. But like when you speed run, is it just strictly on like the PS4 base version of the game, PC, whatever current patch that they have? So the first patch for PC was patch 1.24. And we speed run on patch 1.27. Probably the two biggest reasons for that now is one, there's no waves. Like there's no waves in the entire game for whatever reason. There's ways to get waves to come back, but any kind of boating section or where you have to shoot people while you're on a jet ski or whatever, that kind of stuff is so much easier. And you can even do like bounce strats where because there's no waves, you can like bounce your boat up and down and stay in the air and go faster. But another thing is in the newest patch... Oh yeah, because you... I got to re-download the old patch and see it now. It's a weird patch. There's a hospital warping where if you fail a mission and then die during the mission fail screen, you will warp to the hospital after the mission ends. So you won't have to like at the end of the mission, hold a grenade or whatever and die. You would just automatically warp like the game will glitch and warp you to the hospital. And that saves a lot of time. And that's, I think, only on patch 1.27. Like it wasn't on 1.24. It is in the newer patches. Another one, there's... Sorry if I'm boring you with this, but... No, no, I'm surprised that they introduced newer bugs. It's kind of like a weird cyberpunk update schedule. Yeah, during the early days of the newest patches for PC, they fucking hated modders and they were so keen to crush them out that they, in many cases, reduced the performance of the game for a couple of patches. But 1.27 just so happens to be good for performance and have these weird glitches that are beneficial in some cases. I mean, now they got legal teams from a lot of mods now. They don't have to worry abou... |
| 19. November 2022 | The dangers of having too much smart tech. | For those people, as long as it doesn't cause any harm, you may as well put those features in. The dangers of having too much smart tech. Obese Microwave asks, looking at the new curtains, do you have any plans for more smart tech stuff in your house? No, every attempt to do anything related to smart tech has always just been a pain in the ass to me. And I don't like the idea of, you've heard those stories, for example, where a person has had like access to their house being smart tech, and then like the systems have gone down and they can't go in their house and stuff. Like I don't think smart tech provides enough of a convenience for me to be comfortable with the information I'm giving to our overlords at Google. And there's so many inconveniences that come with it as well. I'm just not interested. Like when I was trying to get something that I can use to change my thermostat to turn off my air conditioning and stuff with the press of a button, all of it was smart tech and I wasn't interested, so I just gave up. So basically all of it a pain in the ass, so no. |
| 09. December 2020 | The dangers of too great wealth consolidation | influential in society. The dangers of too great wealth consolidation. Is there an inherent problem with being decently wealthy? No, I wouldn't say so. The wealth I'm talking about that is damaging is the wealth that's actually destabilizing to society. Like one of the reasons Roam fell is wealth consolidation and no one paying taxes and infrastructure falling and da da da. I'm fairly certain that it is the consensus that wealth consolidation is a precursor to societal destabilization. If a select few people get too much wealth, too much influence, too much power, government can't do its job. The exponential growth on that wealth is just so big that it just continues to consume the wealth of the economy. And society can't function. And you get riots in the streets. |
| 21. August 2022 | The day GTA 5 received 40000 negative reviews | The day GTA V received 40,000 negative reviews. Chat, why was this again? It's June 2017. They received 34,000 negative reviews. Oh, is that when they tried to ban Open IV? Yeah, I guess I can see why they succumbed to the pressure then, and thankfully they did, because they've never received that much backlash for it. It's not even close. Oh, for those who don't know that story, Open IV, or Open IV, I don't know how to pronounce it, is a program that helps people make mods for GTA V. Like every GTA V mod uses it to some capacity, like you can find assets in the game and all that jazz. Very useful tool for every form of content creation, every form of making anything related to Grand Theft Auto V, you can imagine. Is it for the other GTAs as well? Any Rage Engine games, okay. It was either Take-Two or Rockstar tried to ban it. Oh, it was Take-Two. Fuck were people pissed. And they reversed it, thankfully. Yeah, they reversed it, yeah. Like I've got Open IV on my PC right now. Whenever I need to find a particular sound file that I don't have, Open IV. |
| 21. August 2022 | The day GTA 5 recieved 40000 negative reviews | The day GTA V received 40,000 negative reviews. Chat, why was this again? It's June 2017. They received 34,000 negative reviews. Oh, is that when they tried to ban Open IV? Yeah, I guess I can see why they succumbed to the pressure then, and thankfully they did, because they've never received that much backlash for it. It's not even close. Oh, for those who don't know that story, Open IV, or Open IV, I don't know how to pronounce it, is a program that helps people make mods for GTA V. Like every GTA V mod uses it to some capacity, like you can find assets in the game and all that jazz. Very useful tool for every form of content creation, every form of making anything related to Grand Theft Auto V, you can imagine. Is it for the other GTAs as well? Any Rage Engine games, okay. It was either Take-Two or Rockstar tried to ban it. Oh, it was Take-Two. Fuck were people pissed. And they reversed it, thankfully. Yeah, they reversed it, yeah. Like I've got Open IV on my PC right now. Whenever I need to find a particular sound file that I don't have, Open IV. |
| 25. July 2022 | The death of my Steam community page | The death of my steam community page. So for those unaware, I used to have a Steam community page was called Dark Viper 88 stream I made it when I was trying to get partner on Twitch the partner manager at the time is like Oh, yeah, not you're just not there exactly, you know, maybe you should do some other social media So I made like a discord a steam and that may have been also why I made Twitter I'm not sure if I already had Twitter or not But regardless, I made a bunch of social medias this one. I never really did much with I had 824 members the posts were just like this from me my stream name being like hey I'm live and the last one I did was December 2017. So it had been five years since I Posted anything but there were a bunch of people typing weird shit He sucks dick for a living and stuff and I was just like, okay I may actually get rid of this because completely unmoderated I also posted some links to my old YouTube videos January 2017 But yes, why are I wiped the entire thing and deleted it? So it's gone now If you want to enjoy that too late the memories of a bunch of random posts about my stream being live and I dead rip |
| 25. July 2022 | The death of my steam community page | The death of my steam community page. So for those unaware, I used to have a Steam community page was called Dark Viper 88 stream I made it when I was trying to get partner on Twitch the partner manager at the time is like Oh, yeah, not you're just not there exactly, you know, maybe you should do some other social media So I made like a discord a steam and that may have been also why I made Twitter I'm not sure if I already had Twitter or not But regardless, I made a bunch of social medias this one. I never really did much with I had 824 members the posts were just like this from me my stream name being like hey I'm live and the last one I did was December 2017. So it had been five years since I Posted anything but there were a bunch of people typing weird shit He sucks dick for a living and stuff and I was just like, okay I may actually get rid of this because completely unmoderated I also posted some links to my old YouTube videos January 2017 But yes, why are I wiped the entire thing and deleted it? So it's gone now If you want to enjoy that too late the memories of a bunch of random posts about my stream being live and I dead rip |
| 29. April 2021 | The death of my uncle | The death of my uncle. So I can't do a run of this tomorrow anyway, because I've got my uncle's funeral. It's alright guys, I haven't seen him in a long time. I talked about before, it's just the memory of my uncle from my childhood, which is when I mainly saw him. He was such a strong guy, like one of the strongest, deep voice, kind of, you know, tall as a tree, powerful as a rock kind of dude, and seeing him meet a couple of months ago in hospital. He was standing, it's not like he was in a hospital, or whatever, but he was there. Ah man, he looks so withered and frail, and it was just, ah, it was such a huge contrast. I am sure, oddly as this might sound, as an individual, I'm sure he much would have preferred going out in his prime or something, because he was a work for the Marines, you know. I'm not a Marine, I'm a Navy, Navy. But as I say, I hadn't seen him in, I mean, I may have seen him like once in the last ten years or something, so it's not, doesn't affect me heaps. It was, of course, my father's brother. My father was certainly affected. Oh, my dad's taking it. From what I talked to him, he was certainly sad, but it was like, as I said, like, he was having a rough time of it, like he he didn't gracefully go into old age, so it was like, you know, if it wasn't now, it was gonna be a year from now, and and every passing day was just getting a little bit worse. So, whatever life he, remaining years he could have led, they weren't gonna be wonderful years. So you can look at it as a bit of a relief given the situation he was in, but at the same time, like, you know, life is in general, almost always is preferable to death, you know what I'm saying. Sorry for that, Diana, little bit of conversation there, chat. |
| 05. August 2022 | The death of the clips channel and future of my shorts. | Those of you who watched Rambo's 256, I think it is, I talked about a conversation between MrBeast and the head of discovery at YouTube that inadvertently explains why my clips channel went so well once upon a time and why it won't go that way again. In response to that, I've stopped uploading 24 clips a day or whatever to my clips channel. I was getting some views, you know, 6 million views a month or whatever, but the return on the investment wasn't there and it's just throwing them away really because it's not going to be seen by the vast majority of people. What I'm doing now is I'm having a bunch of people from the Discord go through batches of my clips, trim down all the clips to like the best of the best, not simply those that happen to get caught in the algorithm or happen to have a good thumbnail and title or happen to be uploaded when the, you know, my channel was going insane, so everything was getting views. I'm defining the actual best clips and I'm going to make a compilation or I'm going to release them slowly as shorts on the main channel. I'm thinking about deleting my shorts channel because it's not doing well, it's never done well, because funny, some people have done well with a shorts channel and some people have done well with their main channel releases shorts. I think it's in my best interest to do shorts on my main channel, even though there's not a huge cross-pollination or whatever between the shorts algorithm and the main channel algorithm or the long-form content algorithm, subscribers still matter for that. So getting new people to subscribe to my shorts channel isn't as significant as getting them to subscribe to my main channel. I'm going to release like the best of the best of the best clips, going to really focus on making the clips into like really good shorts rather than just things quickly thrown together and I'm going to try them on the main channel, maybe one a day and see how that goes. And what I'll do with the clips channel is Josh Strife Hayes has a channel called Josh Strife Sayes, which I think is pretty funny. On it he just has like what I do for rambles, that individual topics and so I'm going to have my rambles cut down and given new thumbnails and I'm just going to release like individual rambles from my entire catalog on their clips channel. Not sure how they're going to do because there it'll be older footage and I'm not sure how good the thumbnails are going to be because as much as I like my mods and I appreciate that they're helping me out, I'm paying them of course but like they are professional thumbnail makers and I don't have time to find someone to do that for me. Whatever gets made hopefully it's good enough to get some traction and the clips channel can still have some purpose. I won't delete the clips channel but I'm thinking about deleting the shorts channel, it's just pointless. I interact more on YouTube than Twitch. I think |
| 12. September 2021 | The death penalty and the justice system | The death penalty and the justice system. I'm not a fan of the death penalty in general I don't like the government killing people while I'm willing to square the idea that some innocent people are gonna be put in jail because the justice system would never be perfect and I There needs to be some form of justice system for the society to continue and function and da-da-da I can't square the idea that some innocent person is gonna be killed Certainly an innocent person being put in put in jail for a very long period is it's not something that's good Or something that I want but it seems more Palatable than the idea that an innocent person might be killed especially considering that uh, If you are in jail for a long period of time, there is some possibility of you Proving your innocence or more evidence coming to light But if you die and you're hit with a brick so to speak that can never be remedied I've done a lot of what how all my elective units when I did my university course were related to criminology I've had to read first hand all these stories About how innocent people were put on their throw or Were put in jail for life and were later exonerated or people who were Coerced into confessions or people who don't really understand their rights making you know being wrong place wrong time and Everything coming up like all this person's super guilty and and it turning out not to be the case I knew and you just recognize like I I don't think There could ever be enough evidence that I'd ever be Comfortable with killing a person at the point where this person's sequestered from society for the rest of their life They are no threat to anyone What what's the point of killing them? The reason why the death penalty doesn't deter I will studies that look into states with the death penalty in America For example and and compared to states that don't have the death penalty the states with death penalty don't have lower rates of crime Lowering rates of crime hasn't been able to be tied to The death penalty and the reason should be obvious. It's a deterrent only works when there's some certainty of punishment or Suffering that um that action the amount of people who suffer the death penalty are very very very very low It takes many years. It's debated heavily Certainly if you drop to the requirement for the death death penalty to like, you know, effectively nothing like any crime You could you just used immediately killed for it would totally act it as a turn But you'd be killing so many innocent people that you know, I don't think a madman would find that justifiable Philosophically, I'm I'm an determinist or what have you right? I am I believe actions result from prior conditions. I Don't see how that couldn't be the case. So I'm more interested in prevention of future harm as opposed to things like vengeance or what have you or Or blame or whatever. It's like, okay What what action is going to lead to the least harm in the future if I could be presented with? evidence that would suggest that let's say we take 1% of Mass murders who are you know, every legal expert says look 100% guaranteed this guy did it and if you could show me evidence that would suggest that this would reduce crime Significantly by killing these people I might be okay with that. I might be it's it's a trade-off between Doing something negative which I think is killing people and removing another negative which is you know other violent crime But I just haven't seen the evidence of a significant enough Positive benefit in regards to reducing violent crime for the death penalty to be justifiable and more importantly I've seen a lot of a lot of the negatives of the imperfections in the justice system the innocent people being convicted of crimes they didn't commit and and in some cases people being killed and Lately being found to have been innocent of the crimes that they were killed for if a person can do no more harm to society Then I'm not concerned about them. You |
| 06. November 2020 | The decline of my facts and glitches series | The decline of my Facts and Glitches series. There's only a finite amount of facts and glitches lurking. Eventually, the quality has to lessen. And the quality of the videos differs considerably because sometimes I have better facts and glitches and sometimes I don't. But it's also a little bit worse because a lot of the facts and glitches that I know of, I'm saving for PassFast or I'm saving for One-Hit KO. Once One-Hit KO is finished and once PassFast is finished, I'll go through it all, find all the facts and glitches and make special Facts and Glitches episodes and those are going to be great episodes. |
| 26. May 2021 | The dedication of hot tub streams | The dedication of hot tub streamers. So these hot tub streams that are the meta on Twitch right now, how long do they spend in the hot tub? Wouldn't it just be very boring sitting in a hot tub for hours? And it's usually by themselves, right? And wouldn't they get like wrinkly or whatever? Because you'd be in the water that long? It seems so boring and like hard to do. Amaranth uses waterproof oil. Wow, some commitment. So basically, they're not even really enjoying the hot tub is what I'm getting from this. I mean, I don't think hot tubs in general are very enjoyable, but it is entirely just to, you know, get within the loophole where you can wear revealing clothing as long as it's in the right context. And a hot tub is technically such a context. |
| 18. April 2021 | The defining trait that makes me like a song | The defining trait that makes me like a song. Do I listen to metal? Yeah, I like metal. I don't listen to it as much these days, but I'm not displeased when a metal song comes on. I'm always surprised to find how metal isn't niche, but nowhere near as successful as your standard, more radio-friendly stuff. As in, like, big metal bands can potentially make less money than I do. Livestream. I suppose some of that has to do with obviously the music industry being garbage, but Penom Rammstein never really appealed to me. I've heard some of their songs and they're quite nice, but as in, like, I never listen to them. I've been in cars where it's played and I've been like, yeah, this is alright, but it's not a band that I'd ever, like, had in my playlist. Favorite Metallica record? I'm not a huge Metallica guy. Which is weird, I know, because metal and everyone loves Metallica and stuff, but I've never been displeased to hear one of their songs, but it's never, like, hit me in an exact right way. The music I enjoy, guys, is music that makes me feel. That's it. It's not like, oh, do you like this genre over that genre? No, I just like music that makes me feel. Feel happy, feel sad, make me dance a little bit, make me angry, make me... Whatever it is, I just want to feel something. Best when the song makes me envision some kind of story or imagery that seems to go with the song. Like, I can click on a song, listen to it for 20 seconds, and know whether I'm going to feel something listening to it, you know? No, man, I have perfect mental imagery. I don't have aphantasia. I can mentally envision anything. I'll mentally envision Mario punching Sonic in the eye and the eye popping out of his head. I can't do smells and tastes. That's it. I still think mental imagery of colors are a little bit tough, though. Like, it's there, but, like, it's... I feel like surely someone out there can do it more vibrant than me. I mean, of course, the more complex the mental image, the harder it is. You can't mentally taste. Apparently, some people can. There are some people who can imbue their mental imagery with taste. Yeah, we're not talking about this again. People on YouTube are like, no, it's another bloody ramble about aphantasia. Ah. You guys don't know about this stuff. Just watch my rambles. I 100% guarantee you that watching the entirety of my rambles, you will learn something. And the reason for that is every single person out there knows something that you don't. The person you're walking past in the street knows something that you would like to know. And rambles is basically an amalgamation of everything that I know. And so eventually you're gonna run across something in that series and go, oh, oh, yeah, that's actually quite interesting. Whether it is the best use of your time if you have a goal of learning something, that's a completely different story. I will of course say no, it's not. There are many better places to learn a bunch of stuff that no other place has like GTA V as background noise. So clearly my rambles are better. |
| 26. October 2022 | The definition of pain. | longer. The definition of pain. I want to show you, chat, the definition of pain. I went to the bathroom last night. That's not the painful thing. I'm not that old. As I was walking back, I stepped on this. It's a power board thing. Sheared off a chunk of my toe. I was barely awake and I was just like, no! What's happened? I'm dying! And I'm sitting there like, this thing is like a bajillion years old. Am I going to die? Is this like a thing? Like, I don't know much about biology. Am I going to die or something? So I'm like, I'm putting like antiseptic cream all over my foot and stuff and being like, I hope I wake up and my toe doesn't fall off or some shit. But yeah. So if I die, chat, this was the culprit. I want this put in jail. I want it's family killed. Just be aware of that. This |
| 29. December 2020 | The definitive best game of 2020. | Red Evidemption 2 on PC is the second worst game I've ever played, with Red Evidemption 2 on console being the worst. I considered making a top 10 best games of the year video, and just jokingly saying Red Evidemption 2 is the best game, and I only list the one game, and I list all the endless faults of that game as positives, and call anyone who hates the game a hater. I don't think I have the effort to do that. People getting shown my clips despite not watching GTA content normally. I only know you because of the clips. |
| 27. October 2022 | The definitive guide to my political stances. | The definitive guide to my political stances. As I'm not as overtly political as I once was, I do occasionally get people who question what my political stances are, and so I wrote a tweet to communicate them in the best way possible, so that there can be no doubt. For those interested in my political stances, I agree with and support the good things, I disagree with and disavow the bad things. Thank you for listening. So now you know, chat. Anyone ask you what your boy DarkFyperEU supports, you got an answer for them. Unambiguous. Why do- |
| 07. February 2022 | The deleted GTA 5 content that is illegal to show. | The deleted GT5 content that is illegal to show. So I don't know the story of how someone got this, but apparently someone found a drive that had multiple GT5 builds on it from mid 2012 and the most complete build going back to May 2013. And so it contained on it like a ton of deleted audio, deleted scenes, cut content and all this stuff. The dude bragged about it on some forum and Take Two's lawyers came to his house and confiscated the drive or some shit. But you can find the audio for it if you know the name of it. But I don't know how legally okay it would be to show anything that's in the video. It's like a 40 minute video. So because the drives are gone, they originally hoped they could make the game playable for those builds. But because the drives are gone there's no way to do that. But this video of like 40 minutes of cut content still exists. But maybe I could just drip feed little bits of it into videos or something. There's actually a variety of stories about how exactly this information was found, but it does exist online. The contents are as follows. Bury the hatchet extra dialogue. Dale missions which I guess are different side missions. Some extra stuff for Did Somebody Say Yoga. Some extra stuff for Legal Trouble. Magenta cut mission. Marriage counseling different dialogue. Mr. Phillips Oelsner dialogue. Mr. Richards different story. Mrs. A and Mrs. B which I believe is some Franklin side mission stuff. More about the Charmusa job which I think was the heist that was intended to happen with Martin Madrazo. And a Solomon cut mission Harrier. |
| 02. January 2022 | The deleted RDR2 footage from my Google autocomplete video. | The deleted Red Dead Redemption 2 footage from my Google Autocomplete video. You did ask for this. I try not to dwell on it too much these days, but even the release of Red Dead Redemption 2 was hard on me because I only go to one event every year and that's PAX. I went to PAX 2017 and 2019 but I had to skip 2018 because Red Dead Redemption 2 released on the same day as PAX and the same day as TwitchCon. Not that I was going to TwitchCon at the time because I wasn't popular enough to bother flying to another country, but still they released it on that day and PAX and TwitchCon are basically the same time every year. Rockstar specifically released the game at a time that would fuck the one time I get to socialize with other human beings. That I get to meet people in my field and not feel like an outcast. We're talking about PAX Australia, of course. And so I had to stay home, play Red Dead 2, and I played it for like 18 hours and I tried so hard to like it. I played it for eventually 40 hours on the console version, but it's just so fucking slow. Many of you probably weren't playing it when it first released, but when it first released it has more problems than it has today. The looting when it first released was like 20 seconds of body. Arthur Morgan or whatever would just go like, yeah, I gotta loot the body. Stretch a bit, stretch a bit, like pat off himself, pick up the body, go one part, one part, put it in his pocket, and then he put the body back down. And I'm like that took 20 seconds and I have 80 corpses to loot here. And all of them have garbage. As a person who likes to loot stuff and collect stuff, I was like all of the loot is trash, not useful, and the looting takes a thousand years, so there's no enjoyment that can come from looting. The menu that shows all the items, rather than having them like, you know, healing is red and mana is blue like how normal games would have it, all the items look the fucking same. And sussing out which do what and how much is just a pain in the ass and not worth it. And then you play the game and you barely need items at all anyway because your, your main base just gives you just everything possible. And like, so like why have such a long looting system? There's two ways of doing it. Either every item is really really fucking important and the looting takes forever, so you lift up a chest and it goes da-na-na-na-na-na, da-na-na-na-na, and every single time you open that chest, it's worth the fanfare in the long time because it builds up to something really big. Or looting is so fucking quick, you're talking about the newest Zelda where you run over an item and you press a button, press a button, it's in the inventory already, there's no animation at all. Red Dead did the worst possible thing. All the items are shit and the fanfare, the looting system, it takes so fucking long. It's like the simplest fucking feature of a game and they failed at it spectacularly. Baffling to me. The gun mechanics are so simplistic in Red Dead. You can play the entire game with no worries with the same two guns you start with. There is no incentive ever to get a better weapon. Nothing was difficult and because the shooting is on console, you don't get the pixel-perfect aiming that I've gotten used to with GTA 5. You got the slowly auto aiming bang. Slowly auto aiming bang. And you never have to worry about running out of bullets because the game just gives you infinite amounts of ammo. So everyone's dropping ammo everywhere that you can pick up, but you just get unlimited amounts from the fucking store, from your base. So who cares? The fall damage in the game is way too aggressive. And I do think they dialed it back with subsequent patches. In the original release of the game, you like stepped on a rock in the wrong way and you died. I understand you want to go for a little bit of realism, but there's a certain point where the realism that you're going for is oppressive to the gaming experience. I wanted to roam across the fields in just wind in my hair. Just go wherever I pleased and every single fucking point my horse would hit a small little cliff and her legs would break and either I'd die or I'd no longer have a horse. I'd be thrown in the middle of fucking nowhere. It was just awful. The finnicky-ness of the horse, like the horse would do nothing for you in attempting to slightly go around trees and shit. Like you'd tap a tree and you'd fall off. The movement was already really fucking slow. When the game first released, right? When the game first released, if you wanted to go anywhere close to max speed without draining your stamina really fast, you had to tap the X button and you had to tap it like like Dance Dance Revolution levels of specificity. And like slightly too fast and you would drain your stamina like it was just gone. It's slightly too slow and your horse would go at a crawl and you just sit there going, why make this this difficult? In most games, people recognize that travel is not what you want to be doing. Traveling is the the low point, the boring point. So you want like traveling to be minimized or traveling should always come go to a climax of just amazing shit that happens. But Red Dead never did this. People, they seem to expect that people would just love looking around aimlessly at the at the scenery just permanently. Like I get this game is very beautiful, but the travel shouldn't be minimized rather than having the map be like a huge long like rectangle basically where where everything is as maximally spread out as possible. Just build your map a little bit better. Back in the day with Banjo-Kazooie, perfect example of a basically open world system where every single fucking intro that game had something interesting in it. Red Dead 2 was one of the last games in this kind of this genre of let's just make the open world as large as fucking possible and then we can worry about populating it later. They made that world and then put the story in it. And so your mission starts and they're like we got to go in that direction for 15 minutes holding the X button because you have to follow some other fuck as he's talking about his lunch and then you eventually get to something that's probably interesting. And sometimes there is interesting stuff in Red Dead 2 especially when it came on PC and the gun mechanics were actually good. You get these cool shootouts and you'd be like, yeah, that's great. Oh, no, now I have to like ride 20 minutes back in the opposite direction. Skyrim recognized that not everyone wants to just ride around on their horse fucking forever. So they put fast traveling in the game basically from anywhere. It's like well, if you are out in the middle of nowhere and you don't want to take the time to run back to a fucking city, just fast travel. Spider-Man did it around the same time that Red Dead 2 released, but they're just like no, no, no. Everyone loves slow moving travel with horses in the middle of fucking nowhere to to get back to anywhere related to civilization. The fast traveling in the game was so blocked off as in like you had to play through like 70% of the game before you had any chance to unlock fast traveling and was so limited and every single time you had a wanted level all the fast traveling from all the towns would immediately turn off and it was just like you were in the middle of nowhere and you sneeze and there's some guy who's like, oh, you've got a bounty now, no fast traveling for you. And like I didn't do anything. Why am I now people trying to arrest me and shit? And like the the mechanics for bounties weren't explained very well. So I'm sitting there like my bounty is like ten cents. I'll give it to you right now. But like everyone in the city is hostile to me, shooting at me. I'm like, I'll pay the ten dollars or whatever the fuck it is. Just leave me alone. And I couldn't do it. And then I die and I'm flashed down to the middle of nowhere again. Like why is it doing this to me? I just want to play the game. Every single time I tried to be an outlaw in that game, it would just punish me mercilessly. Like no fast traveling for you. You were an outlaw. You murdered someone. You weren't meant to murder that guy. And the missions, the missions, my god. So I've never seen a game that is so oppressive to you doing what you want to do in a mission. So I get into a mission. I'm an outlaw. I'm like, haha, this is a bad guy. And I shoot him. He's like, oh, you're not meant to shoot that guy. I'm like, but I'm an outlaw. What are you talking about? It's illegal to shoot that guy. He's like, no, you're meant to like talk to him for a minute, then shoot him. Oh, great. And so multiple times throughout the game, I think I'm being clever. I'm sneaking in a window into this building or whatever. And then I just, I try to open the window. It's locked, locked, locked, door, locked, locked. Like the game of Red Dead 2, if it were a TV show or movie, 80% of the gameplay that isn't really gameplay, it's just you walking to the destination, that'd just be cut out. If you had to experience that in a TV show or movie, you'd be complaining. You'd be throwing fucking tomatoes at the screen. It's like, why is this in here? This is just massively slowing down the story for no fucking purpose. Most of the dialogue in the game is not written because it needs to exist for the story to make sense. It's written because something needs to be said for the long fucking travel that you're forced to do in every single fucking thing you're trying to do. It is just insane. I understand. Maybe I've just gotten older and I don't like my time being wasted as much, but none of the things that I complained about in the game, if they were changed, would have dampened the experience for everyone else playing it. And that's what bothers me. Nothing that made the game difficult for me to play is anything that people would be like, oh, if you changed it like that, I would hate the game. I remember talking to Pez a couple of days ago. He loved the game and he finished the game and then he got to the epilogue and he was like, it's still going? He actually has friends at Rockstar. He actually called someone at Rockstar and he's like, it's still going. He's like, oh, and the guy in the end is like, oh yeah, it's great. It's great. And Pez never finished. Epilogue. Because it just went on and on and on and on. There is an idea, chat, in media that more isn't necessarily better. Less can be better. No one at Rockstar was willing to just say to a person, does this need to be here? Does it actually add to the experience or does it just make it longer? I do question whether there was someone at Rockstar who specifically said there must be this much content in the game and so they elongated stuff. If you've got all the fucking time in the world, none of this is going to matter to you. Right? There are some people who aren't bothered by the loading screens into GT Online or any of the loading screens in GT Online. It's like, oh, yeah, that's just the price of playing the game. But I'm just not winning the fuck around like that anymore. If I want to have a good story, I'd rather watch a TV show. In the TV show, they would sit up on a hill and be like, we've got to go down there. And then it would cut and they'd be down there. But in Red Dead, you've got to walk back onto your horse, pat yourself off, get on the horse, move your horse, go down and then move that. And that takes like five minutes. And that doesn't add anything to the actual experience of the story. It just makes it take longer. And that's most of what I hated about Red Dead. So much of it just makes it take longer and doesn't actually improve the experience or improve the story. I am adamant though, I'm adamant chat, that effectively any piece of media can be enjoyed if you go into it with the right mindset. And I really want to enjoy Red Dead. When I go back to play it again, I'm going to be so much in the mindset of just looking for anything fucking positive to focus on and to talk about. And I think doing that, I will enjoy the game. I want to finish it, even though I've had most of the ending spoil for me. I want to finish it and see it. There must be a conclusion to how much that game let me down. |
| 02. January 2022 | The deleted RDR2 footage from my google autocomplete video. | The deleted Red Dead Redemption 2 footage from my Google Autocomplete video. You did ask for this. I try not to dwell on it too much these days, but even the release of Red Dead Redemption 2 was hard on me because I only go to one event every year and that's PAX. I went to PAX 2017 and 2019 but I had to skip 2018 because Red Dead Redemption 2 released on the same day as PAX and the same day as TwitchCon. Not that I was going to TwitchCon at the time because I wasn't popular enough to bother flying to another country, but still they released it on that day and PAX and TwitchCon are basically the same time every year. Rockstar specifically released the game at a time that would fuck the one time I get to socialize with other human beings. That I get to meet people in my field and not feel like an outcast. We're talking about PAX Australia, of course. And so I had to stay home, play Red Dead 2, and I played it for like 18 hours and I tried so hard to like it. I played it for eventually 40 hours on the console version, but it's just so fucking slow. Many of you probably weren't playing it when it first released, but when it first released it has more problems than it has today. The looting when it first released was like 20 seconds of body. Arthur Morgan or whatever would just go like, yeah, I gotta loot the body. Stretch a bit, stretch a bit, like pat off himself, pick up the body, go one part, one part, put it in his pocket, and then he put the body back down. And I'm like that took 20 seconds and I have 80 corpses to loot here. And all of them have garbage. As a person who likes to loot stuff and collect stuff, I was like all of the loot is trash, not useful, and the looting takes a thousand years, so there's no enjoyment that can come from looting. The menu that shows all the items, rather than having them like, you know, healing is red and mana is blue like how normal games would have it, all the items look the fucking same. And sussing out which do what and how much is just a pain in the ass and not worth it. And then you play the game and you barely need items at all anyway because your, your main base just gives you just everything possible. And like, so like why have such a long looting system? There's two ways of doing it. Either every item is really really fucking important and the looting takes forever, so you lift up a chest and it goes da-na-na-na-na-na, da-na-na-na-na, and every single time you open that chest, it's worth the fanfare in the long time because it builds up to something really big. Or looting is so fucking quick, you're talking about the newest Zelda where you run over an item and you press a button, press a button, it's in the inventory already, there's no animation at all. Red Dead did the worst possible thing. All the items are shit and the fanfare, the looting system, it takes so fucking long. It's like the simplest fucking feature of a game and they failed at it spectacularly. Baffling to me. The gun mechanics are so simplistic in Red Dead. You can play the entire game with no worries with the same two guns you start with. There is no incentive ever to get a better weapon. Nothing was difficult and because the shooting is on console, you don't get the pixel-perfect aiming that I've gotten used to with GTA 5. You got the slowly auto aiming bang. Slowly auto aiming bang. And you never have to worry about running out of bullets because the game just gives you infinite amounts of ammo. So everyone's dropping ammo everywhere that you can pick up, but you just get unlimited amounts from the fucking store, from your base. So who cares? The fall damage in the game is way too aggressive. And I do think they dialed it back with subsequent patches. In the original release of the game, you like stepped on a rock in the wrong way and you died. I understand you want to go for a little bit of realism, but there's a certain point where the realism that you're going for is oppressive to the gaming experience. I wanted to roam across the fields in just wind in my hair. Just go wherever I pleased and every single fucking point my horse would hit a small little cliff and her legs would break and either I'd die or I'd no longer have a horse. I'd be thrown in the middle of fucking nowhere. It was just awful. The finnicky-ness of the horse, like the horse would do nothing for you in attempting to slightly go around trees and shit. Like you'd tap a tree and you'd fall off. The movement was already really fucking slow. When the game first released, right? When the game first released, if you wanted to go anywhere close to max speed without draining your stamina really fast, you had to tap the X button and you had to tap it like like Dance Dance Revolution levels of specificity. And like slightly too fast and you would drain your stamina like it was just gone. It's slightly too slow and your horse would go at a crawl and you just sit there going, why make this this difficult? In most games, people recognize that travel is not what you want to be doing. Traveling is the the low point, the boring point. So you want like traveling to be minimized or traveling should always come go to a climax of just amazing shit that happens. But Red Dead never did this. People, they seem to expect that people would just love looking around aimlessly at the at the scenery just permanently. Like I get this game is very beautiful, but the travel shouldn't be minimized rather than having the map be like a huge long like rectangle basically where where everything is as maximally spread out as possible. Just build your map a little bit better. Back in the day with Banjo-Kazooie, perfect example of a basically open world system where every single fucking intro that game had something interesting in it. Red Dead 2 was one of the last games in this kind of this genre of let's just make the open world as large as fucking possible and then we can worry about populating it later. They made that world and then put the story in it. And so your mission starts and they're like we got to go in that direction for 15 minutes holding the X button because you have to follow some other fuck as he's talking about his lunch and then you eventually get to something that's probably interesting and sometimes there is interesting stuff in Red Dead 2 especially when it came on PC and the gun mechanics were actually good. You get these cool shootouts and you'd be like, yeah, that's great. Oh, no now I have to like ride 20 minutes back in the opposite direction. Skyrim recognized that not everyone wants to just ride around on their horse fucking forever. So they put fast traveling in the game basically from anywhere. It's like well, if you are out in the middle of nowhere and you don't want to take the time to run back to a fucking city just fast travel. Spider-Man did it around the same time that Red Dead 2 released but they're just like no, no, no. Everyone loves slow moving travel with horses in the middle of fucking nowhere to get back to anywhere related to civilization. The fast traveling in the game was so blocked off as in like you had to play through like 70% of the game before you had any chance to unlock fast traveling and it was so limited and every single time you had a wanted level all the fast traveling from all the towns would immediately turn off and it was just like you were in the middle of nowhere and you sneeze and there's some guy who's like, oh you've got a bouncing now no fast traveling for you and like I didn't do anything. Why am I now people trying to arrest me and shit and like the the mechanics for bounties weren't explained very well. So I'm sitting there like my bounties like ten cents. I'll give it to you right now but like everyone in the city is hostile to me shooting at me and I'm like I'll pay the ten dollars or whatever the fuck it is just leave me alone and I couldn't do it and then I die and I'm flashed down to the middle of nowhere again like why is it doing this to me? I just want to play the game. Every single time I tried to be an outlaw in that game it would just punish me mercilessly like no fast traveling for you. You were an outlaw. You murdered someone You weren't meant to murder that guy and the missions the missions my god So I've never seen a game that is so oppressive to you doing what you want to do in a mission So I get into a mission. I'm an outlaw. I'm like, haha. This is a bad guy and I shoot him It's like oh you're not meant to shoot that guy. I'm like but I'm an outlaw. What are you talking about? It's illegal to shoot that guy. He's like no you're meant to like talk to him for a minute then shoot him. Oh great And so multiple times throughout the game, I think I'm being clever I'm sneaking in a window into this building or whatever and then I just I try to open the window It's locked locked locked door locked locked like the game of Red Dead 2 if it were a TV show or movie 80% of the gameplay that isn't really gameplay It's just you walking to the destination that just be cut out if you had to experience that in a TV show or movie You'd be complaining you'd be throwing fucking tomatoes at the screen because like it's like why is this in here? This is just massively slowing down the the the story that we've had no fucking purpose Most of the dialogue in the game is not written because it needs to exist for the story to make sense It's written because something needs to be said for the long fucking travel that you're forced to do in every single fucking thing You're trying to do it is just Insane. I understand maybe I've just gotten older and I don't like my time being wasted as much But none of the things that I complained about in the game if they were changed would have dampened the experience For everyone else playing it and that's what bothers me nothing that made the game Difficult for me to play Is anything that people would be like? Oh if you changed it like that, I would hate the game I remember talking to pez a couple of days ago He loved the game and he finished the game and then he got to the epilogue and he was like it's still going He actually has friends at rockstar. He actually called someone at rockstar. He's like it's still going It's like oh and the guy in the end is like oh, yeah, it's great It's great and and pez never finished Epilogue because it just went on and on and on and on there is an idea chat in media that More isn't necessarily better Less can be better. No one At rockstar was willing to just say to a person Does this need to be here does it actually add to the experience or does it just make it longer? I do question whether there was someone at rockstar who specifically said there must be this much content in the game And so they elongated stuff if you got all the fucking time in the world None of this is gonna matter to you Right. There are some people who aren't bothered by the loading screens into gt online or any of the loading screens in gt online It's like oh, yeah, it's just the price of playing the game, but i'm just not winning The fuck around like that anymore if I want to have a good story I'd rather watch a tv show in the tv show They would sit up on a hill and be like we got to go down there And then it would cut and they'd be down there But in red dead you've got to walk back onto your horse pat yourself off get on the horse Move your horse go down and then move that and that takes like five minutes and that doesn't add anything To the actual experience of the story It just makes it take longer and that's most of what I hated about red dead So much of it just makes it take longer And doesn't actually improve the experience or improve the story. I am adamant though. I'm adamant chat That effectively any piece of media can be enjoyed if you go into it with the right mindset And I really want to enjoy red dead when I go back to play it again I'm going to be so much in the mindset of just looking for anything fucking Positive to focus on and to talk about and I think doing that I will enjoy the game I want to finish it even though I've had most of the endings spoiled for me I want to finish it and see it there must be a conclusion to how much that game let me down Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 07. February 2022 | The deleted gta 5 content that is illegal to show. | The deleted GT5 content that is illegal to show. So I don't know the story of how someone got this, but apparently someone found a drive that had multiple GT5 builds on it from mid 2012 and the most complete build going back to May 2013. And so it contained on it like a ton of deleted audio, deleted scenes, cut content and all this stuff. The dude bragged about it on some forum and Take Two's lawyers came to his house and confiscated the drive or some shit. But you can find the audio for it if you know the name of it. But I don't know how legally okay it would be to show anything that's in the video. It's like a 40 minute video. So because the drives are gone, they originally hoped they could make the game playable for those builds. But because the drives are gone there's no way to do that. But this video of like 40 minutes of cut content still exists. But maybe I could just drip feed little bits of it into videos or something. There's actually a variety of stories about how exactly this information was found, but it does exist online. The contents are as follows. Bury the hatchet extra dialogue. Dale missions which I guess are different side missions. Some extra stuff for Did Somebody Say Yoga. Some extra stuff for Legal Trouble. Magenta cut mission. Marriage counseling different dialogue. Mr. Phillips Oelsner dialogue. Mr. Richards different story. Mrs. A and Mrs. B which I believe is some Franklin side mission stuff. More about the Charmusa job which I think was the heist that was intended to happen with Martin Madrazo. And a Solomon cut mission Harrier. |
| 21. July 2020 | The development of a what if series for GTA V | The development of a what-if series for GTA 5. Now that I have the cutscene footage, even though I'm not willing to make the cutscene movie anymore, it is still very useful to use for different series and I do intend to use it to eventually make my what-if series where I speculate on what would happen if one element of the game was removed, you know, what if Amanda wasn't caught with the tennis pro or, you know, Franklin never met Michael or da da da. Those series are much harder to make than you might imagine. There are people out there who are a lot better at speaking than I am, especially speaking clearly without any, you know, mouth sounds and shit and so I'm sure they could, you know, bang out a script in 15 minutes and just read it all in one go, but I've got to do multiple takes for multiple different things. Like, if you watch the draft of my new video and then watch the one that comes out, you'll notice that the vast majority of the voice lines, my recordings of my voice, will be completely different because I can often record, re-record, re-record, re-record over and over again, every section, changing tiny things or different inflections or specific words to make things even slightly more clear. It's an art communicating well because we know we watch you edit. Okay, true. I mean, you don't watch me do my most creative works, the works like Pass First All, you know. |
| 24. October 2022 | The different impact music has on people. | It's funny how some music can impact and touch people so strongly, but be entirely meaningless to other people. I was listening to Brandon Sanderson's podcast. So he mentions this band called Rush. Must be a quite old band and everyone, oh from 1981, and everyone on the podcast like, man, this band is so fucking good. It's made my life like even after all these decades, it's like my favorite song ever. And I listened to it. Like I recognize that it's good and I can definitely hear like what I associate with like 80s vocals, but it doesn't impact me at all. Rush is great, listen to him. So I see like, yeah, some of you in chat like, yeah, man, this song bang up. Me, it doesn't hit me. Like when I listen to music, the songs that I like are those that make me feel something. Doesn't matter how good or bad the song is, I don't know anything about music or the technical stuff behind it. It's just, does it make me feel something or not? And I don't really feel anything listening to this. It could be the case that just because it's so foreign to the normal music that I listen to, like I have to like get into it, find the right song. But I just find that interesting how some people can listen to a song once and it just like makes their world. Another person's like, yeah, this is definitely music. Did you know people are different? Crazy. Ain't that weird? My largest donation. |
| 11. June 2021 | The different ways of handling quests in games | Different ways of handling quests in games. They shouldn't have shown the location on the map if Wade was going to give directions. What's that game where you can turn off the map directions and like it gives you clues and stuff to get there? Was it The Witcher? Oh, it was Red Dead 2 as well. It gives the option if you want to figure stuff out. I wonder what percentage of people prefer to play the game that way, where they're given clues and they have to figure it out. I mean, it certainly is a lot of fun solving a puzzle. I personally don't have the kind of time for that, so I much prefer just to be able to go along a linear story and see the cool stuff, rather than attempting to make myself a cool story as I go. Can I imagine doing this run without a map? Easy as all hell, the only difficulty that would pose is not being able to see the police on the map. So you'd turn around a corner and see a cop. Although a downside of always having the map is you don't learn the map. You know, just like in real life how you have GPS, you don't bother memorizing landmarks and stuff. The same thing happens with playing video games. You're always following the map and so you go, oh, there's this building here, how have I never seen this? And you've driven past it 800 times, you're always looking at the map so you never notice the surroundings. |
| 13. March 2022 | The difficult choice of a content creator. | choice of a content creator. So I looked at this content creator yesterday that I don't know why it popped into my head after all these years but he's been doing the same thing for like 10 years getting like 300,000 views a month. So he's probably making and like it He's probably making 10 to 20 thousand dollars a year but he's still making the exact same content. And I just look at that and go how have you not gotten bored of this? How have you not changed? His style is exactly the same. When it comes to content creation what you are comfortable doing may not necessarily be something that you can be successful with. It is fortunate when just coincidentally what you're comfortable doing is something you can be successful with. But at some point if that isn't the case, you've got to make your choice. Do you want to be comfortable or do you want to be successful? |
| 09. December 2020 | The difficulties in the interplay between government regulation and business | The difficulties in the interplay between government regulation and business. So when governments don't enforce labor laws, that's the fault of the businesses that operate in these countries? Let's say it would cost a hundred million dollars for a business to abide by some regulation that protects its workers, or protects society, protects the environment, whatever it is, something socially responsible. If it would cost ten million dollars of lobbying to remove that law, create a loophole, install ex-people who are loyal to them into positions of power, to have it so they're not being enforced, that's just a ninety million dollar saving for the business. And under capitalism, that is just a sensible play. And as long as you're only thinking about the economy, or the business's bottom line, that's a perfectly reasonable thing for them to do. In a capitalistic system, almost anything can be justified by simply saying, if I don't do this, my competitor will. It's like when Amazon was receiving a lot of pressure to raise their minimum wage to fifteen dollars. What did they do? They said, absolutely, we're raising the minimum wage to fifteen dollars, because they had to because of public backlash. But the very next thing they did is they invested money in attempting to have every other company as well have to abide by that minimum wage. Because competitively, Amazon paying that higher wage would be a detriment to them. But if the entire market has to do that, it's not a detriment. Right? But if you're willing to say, you can't blame a business for doing the socially irresponsible thing, because their competitor would do that, or you can't blame a business for doing this immoral thing because, you know, their competitor would do it. It's just business. They're going to maximize their profits. Where does that stop? Where does that line of reasoning stop? What wouldn't be justified for a business to do? But why only use that line of reasoning for businesses? Why not just private individuals? I mean, sure, like he did kill his mother, but it's just business. He needed the life insurance money to start his business. Sure wasn't the nice thing to do. Wasn't the socially responsible thing to do. But he needed that startup capital. It's not his fault that life insurance exists. It's not his fault that she took out the life insurance. It's not his fault that he was the beneficiary. It's the exact same reasoning of sure. I mean, the business did poison the water supply, but there were regulations against it and the government had no interest in enforcing them. How could the business be blamed? If they didn't do it, their competitor would have. And their competitor would have had an advantage and they would have gone out of business because the competitor would have been able to have prices a lot lower than they and then undercut them because they wouldn't have to deal with caring about the environment. It is actually an interesting thing to think on. How much can you hand wave away of people's actions by appealing to self-interest or market competition? Given how much money businesses invest in government to get the policies that they want, it's hard for businesses not to suffer some blame when regulations aren't being enforced. Billions of dollars is invested by businesses specifically without outcome in mind or to create regulations that are of benefit to them. Because obviously not all regulations are good. Not all regulations are done with public interest. I've heard some people argue who really just hate government that all regulations have been made by businesses specifically to squeeze out small businesses. The example I like to use that is contrary to that is lead in petrol. For decades in America, lead was put in petrol to I guess I'm not a chemist or whatever to dilute petrol for cars. It's cheaper I imagine, perhaps equally as effective whatever. But it was done by businesses. And so for a long time people knew that lead had an impact on the brain, IQ, aggression, whatever. But it was just being pumped into air. There was a lot of push for regulation to be put through to prevent these companies putting lead in their petrol. But they wouldn't do it because it would cost them money. The positive effects were known, but they would spend a lot of money lobbying politicians to prevent them enacting any law to remove lead from these fuels. And eventually when it was finally done after decades of pushing over the next coming years, violent crime down. It is the consensus that the removal of lead was a very large contributor to the lowering of crime that happened in the 90s in America. And looking at this, you think to yourself, what if it was done sooner? How many people would be better off today? How many people would still be alive? Or because some businesses were willing to spend the money lobbying politicians, but not on making their products safer for consumers. This is an example of a negative externality by the way. It's an almost invisible cost to society that is not factored into the exchange between a business and the consumer of a product. There are clearly many examples in history where businesses are almost, they almost have their hands tied by what we talked about before. Where if one of those businesses had moved by themselves to remove lead, then their competitor would have an advantage. At the same time though, it would clearly be cheaper for this law not to go into place. So they had to fight it from a business perspective. It's just hard to imagine a system that is so perfect where businesses and politicians are perfectly held accountable and consumers are knowledgeable enough about everything to hold them account, you know, especially considering that media is business. Media controls a lot of the information that people receive. They themselves have different stakes in different companies, or their owners do. These are the things I think about in my off time and I don't have the answers. And it makes me sad. And harking back to what I was talking about before, I'm happy that I'm in a large part safeguarded from the ambiguities and issues that can arise from these complications. And I feel selfish even thinking about it. |
| 28. May 2022 | The difficulties with the Hasan and H3H3 response videos | the response videos. I debated heavily with the Hasan video because there was just a lot of stuff in the Hasan video that was just really really stupid and funny but not stuff that needed to be responded to. But this stuff kind of set the tone for the stream and justifies the the attitude that I take in the response. So I in it is like an eight minute compilation. Normally I don't like compilations but it's about me so it's fine. Where I just show you some of the things that he said and I put like him saying one thing and then like 30 minutes later directly contradicting himself just immediately after. It is hilarious but obviously my concern is that people who actually like Hasan for whatever reason are gonna be really turned off by that section. I actually said in the video if you can't deal with this anymore please just skip to this this timestamp because this is when I get more serious again. The H3H3 video was the hardest one to respond to because there was so little to respond to. Like while Hasan clearly at no point understood anything of what I said there were still things that he said that were worth talking about but H3H3 also didn't understand what I was talking about but he just repeated himself ad nauseam. Honestly I probably could have made the video where I took him present day and took him in the past and just had them talk to each other and I could show you all the contradictions. You know one of my mods said I think if H3H3 had just actually taken the time to actually you know think about it and engage with what I was saying he would have come to agree. |
| 24. February 2022 | The difficulty in criticizing other youtubers at any size. | The difficulty in criticizing other YouTubers at any size. I want to talk about my experiences with criticizing other content creators. Because you'd think in an ideal world, YouTubers would effectively self-regulate. But it can't really happen. Because there's two competing sentiments in regards to criticism of YouTubers that directly... It squeezes out any ability for you to make content without giving people an easy ass. What I mean by this is, if you're a smaller content creator, criticizing a larger, you're doing it for clout. If you're a larger content creator, criticizing a smaller content creator, you're punching down. You're sending your hordes of viewers to beat up on this tiny little content creator. You can't really criticize another YouTuber as a YouTuber without it being easily dismissable by those who have no interest in any kind of discourse. It's annoying, but obviously not surprising. |
| 30. January 2021 | The difficulty in finding proficient editors | The difficulty in finding proficient editors. If I message out, are there anyone who wants to edit for me? I get tons of people who say yes, but they all end up failing. The last time I asked for people for editors, I think maybe 30 people sent me emails or whatever. Of those, 10 looked okay. Of those, 7 ended up getting footage. Of those, 3 completed the task and only 1 did it satisfactorily. And the consequence of that is a heap of Among Us footage hasn't been processed. I have learnt now from many, many years, okay, well, like 2 years of trying to find competent editors, people vastly overestimate their capabilities. Vastly. It is a lot harder than you think to edit a YouTube video well. Like, I go back and look at the content I used to edit a year ago, and it's so much worse than what I do now. But I have the benefit of editing every single day. When you're just a regular person or whatever, like a person will say, I've got like 3 years experience editing. And by 3 years experience, they mean like they've made like 4 videos over the course of 3 years. When you're at my level, you need editors who are experienced, but you recognise that the average person doesn't really have, they don't really live a life that gives them the kind of experience that you want them to have, so they can do things proficiently. Like I can say that my editing skills 2 years ago, I would not accept in another person. To phrase it another way, saying to me you can edit for me, cool, there's heaps of people out there who have the time to edit for me, finding people who have the proficiency to edit for me is extraordinarily difficult. And understand, I still have lower standards than probably a lot of people do, because, well, it's debatable. Because while I have higher standards for my content, I still work on every single video. So even if your video isn't exactly what I want, I will put those hours in to make it exactly what I want. All I need is for you to do enough work that it saves me time. And I do edit as a person who makes a video so perfect that I don't have to touch it at all. That is extraordinarily rare, even for the editors I have right now. The editors I need are simply those that save me time. That I can say, okay, communicating with you and all that jazz took an hour, and the work you've done will save me 3 hours of time. And that's it. If you knew how to edit, you'd just create your own content. Not all editors necessarily have the kind of personality that leads them to be able to make content like what I create. You know? I think there are very few editors that edit, you know, regularly, that don't make their own videos, right? But they're rarely as popular as the people they edit for. Like PewDiePie's editors or whatever. They've built kind of some notoriety and they make their own content and stuff and they have hundreds of thousands of subscribers, right? But editing content is not necessarily the same thing as making your own content from scratch. Or having ideas for content from scratch. The best editors are those who are really entertaining, of course. And can think of their own ideas like that. |
| 12. July 2021 | The difficulty in ignoring stupid comments about you | Difficulty in ignoring stupid comments about you. God damn it, why did I do that chat? Had barely any energy at all, barely enough to do another run, and I went back on my Reddit, and the very first thing I see is a really fucking stupid comment from a person who knows absolutely nothing yet is willing to assert everything under the fucking sun. Why did I do that chat? Why waste energy on that? Why go back on Reddit? Why go somewhere that I know I'm gonna have condensed stupidity thrown in my face? Except my subreddit, you guys are cool. As I say, Reddit and Twitter, the mileage you get out of them, assuming there aren't people who just maliciously wanna throw shit at you, depends what you interact with. Just ignore people you think are stupid, ah, but it is really, really hard. Like, it's something that you... the average person will never have to experience. I mean, average in a way of, um... in some positive way, I mean, in terms of attention. Um, it's very hard to just look at people who know nothing, who believe false things about you that you know that they're wrong about. Not so many matter of value or like, should you have done X or Y, just factually they are wrong. And just letting that slide. Because it's never just one person, right? If there's one person who believes something false, then there's, in this business, thousands that do. But you can't correct it, correcting one person isn't gonna change that. Your bullshit can go light years before the truth can, you know, put on its pants in the morning, what if the expression is... you're using Reddit wrong? Reddit for content creator is very different from Reddit from an average person. From an average person. When you're an average person on social media, you choose who you interact with, because it's extraordinarily rare for people to seek you out specifically. But once you become known on social media, people seek you out constantly. As in, it doesn't matter where you go, people will be able to communicate with you and send information at you. Unless you just specifically close yourself off from everyone, good and bad. Which is equally annoying. Because you'll want to be able to interact with good actors, but the bad actors ruin it for you. But it is pretty good. For a casual user, it's an interesting place. It's generally a good site to be unknown on. |
| 10. November 2021 | The difficulty in keeping my dms open. | The difficulty in keeping my direct messages open. Sorry for the DM on Twitter, please unblock me. So here's the thing, right? Here's the thing. I closed my DMs because people sent me a bunch of shit, but anyone who had already sent me stuff could still DM me, even if I wasn't following them. So there was a select few privileged few who could DM me if they had reason to. And over time, these people have just abused that freedom fiercely, just to still send me shit. And on Discord, it's the same thing. I wanna keep my DMs open when people wanna send me important stuff. And still, occasionally a person will just send me a really shitty meme. You're gonna see some shitty meme on Twitter, Facebook, whatever, oh, I'm gonna send this meme. Probably not gonna appreciate that meme being sent to me, you know? People send you memes that's just funny, but they're not even good memes. They're bad memes. |
| 22. January 2022 | The disparity in perceptions of promiscuity and cheating between sexes | What are your perceptions of promiscuity and cheating between sexes? Whatever the disparity in the viewing of promiscuity in men and women, I think when people are in relationships, I think men who cheat are just as condemned as women who cheat. I think. I'm certainly willing to agree that men are more applauded for sleeping with a lot of women, while women are more condemned for sleeping with a lot of men. Although I think the difference is less pronounced than it once was. Yeah, I don't think there's really any excuse for cheating. I think everyone has the potential to cheat, though. I think a lot of people in relationships who have never cheated have just never been in the right situation to do so. I mean, it's similar for any wrongdoing, right? A lot of people who've never stolen have just never been in the right situation to steal. Or, you know, opportunity. A lack of opportunity rather than a strong moral sense, you could say. I wouldn't condemn Doc's wife, for example, for forgiving him, right? There's some people who will do that, like, once a cheater, always a cheater. There's no coming back from that. I don't really agree. I think legitimately people can make mistakes and accept the wrongdoing of their actions. I'm not sure what percentage of people cheat, but I mean, if you wanted to cheat and had the urge to cheat and what have you, you should just end your relationship, man. Like, I'm sure everyone is tempted to cheat, man. The difference between a good person and a bad person is not necessarily just not doing bad things. It's having the opportunity to do bad things and not doing it. Even more so having the urge to do bad things and not doing it, you know? Like, a person who has the opportunity every day to steal someone's purse and doesn't is infinitely better than a person who never has the opportunity to steal someone's purse and doesn't, you know? It's like the people are like, I've never cheated on my wife, and it's like, how many opportunities have you had to cheat on your wife? Well, well, none, but there you go, you know? I mean, I think having urges is just normal, man. You see a very attractive woman. Like, you can love your wife and child and still be attracted to other women. Or you can be in a relationship and one day just be stressed or something or have an argument and think to yourself, I wonder what it'd be like to be with another woman again or some shit. I mean, that makes sense. I'm not condoning infidelity. I'm condoning thoughts of infidelity. I doubt there exists a single person who has ever been married for a long period of time who hasn't at least at one point thought to themselves, hey, wouldn't it be nice to have sex with that other woman? I guess there must be one person, but holy shit, I don't think there be many. |
| 22. November 2022 | The disturbing origin of the Roblox oof sound in roblox | The disturbing origin of the Roblox oof sound. So you know me guys I like to like point out videos that I find interesting and Yesterday for reasons completely unrelated to this video I joined Nebula which is like a streaming service for creators And I happen to see on it this video which has now come out on YouTube But it came out seven hours ago now you guys may remember When I played Roblox for like 15 minutes a bajillion years ago. I asked the question Why is the oof gone from Roblox and people gave me a very simplified story where it's like they didn't want to pay the creator Money to keep it so they had to remove it But it turns out that the story is actually a lot longer and more complicated than that the first half an hour kind of covers that and then like there's this other hour and a half of explaining who this person is who claims to own the oof sound and it's a really strange and interesting story about this massive narcissist who has lied about like everything he's ever done to at least some degree it is Somewhat disturbing it's like a fever dream That's interesting and if you have two hours to spend and you just want to be sucked down a rabbit hole of something completely random Highly recommend this video Roblox oof.mp3 by hbomberguy interesting video |
| 27. November 2022 | The dominance of unoriginality in content creation. | The domination of unoriginality in content creation. So I get sent statements like this from creators because of my opposition to react content and my claims that creativity is somewhat dead. Because creating original things is not the best means to grow or to be financially successful in the social media space. Something I learned about content creation, you can never have something unique because if it's liked, it's instantly replicated and being annoyed about it is a bad thing because no one else truly understands you, making you look like a hater. This is my view of content creation. Yes, so your only option is to shut the fuck up and get your mental health gaslighted into oblivion by parts of the community you gave your all to entertain. The context for those tweets though are VR chat content creators. So they make avatars for their videos and then other people just rip those avatars and make their own videos using them. So those people ripping those avatars can just spend all their time making videos while the people who make the avatars have to spend their time making the avatars, which doesn't grow them and which leaves them less time to make videos. Basically, if you spend a month making something that can be replicated in 20 minutes, the person who replicates it in 20 minutes is probably going to be better off, especially if they already have an audience. You're there with your month of work trying to get to where they are and they are already in that position with that exact same thing that you spent a month making, but they have it in 20 minutes. Your battle is effectively impossible. It's why the things you want most and the things that can best help you get successful in social media is by yourself being something that is unique and can't be replicated. Your personality, but obviously there are so many different personalities out there, having something about you that stands out is kind of difficult, right? But like if you are like a person with a particular set of skills that no one can replicate, you have a master's in linguistics and stuff, or you're a skydiver flowing the highest and jumped out or whatever. These things the average person can't just replicate in 20 minutes. It's more like digital things that are easy to replicate. It's just tough for small creators to get out there. |
| 08. November 2021 | The dominant multiplayer pc games when i was a kid | The dominant multiplayer PC games when I was a kid How many of you know? Lirio or is it lyro? you remember this game guys, we are your little worm and you could like drop spiky mines and stuff and This stuff before PCs were powerful. There were these like Small online games that you could download and play how many of you know? Little fighters or little fighters 2 you guys know this game This was another one of those cool little games that you played The reason why these games were a bit popular is because they were on PC and could be played on one keyboard So one person would have like WASD and then like F&G or something another person have up down left right like you you could you could map out piles of six buttons and so like Three or four people could be all stuck around one keyboard or playing the early days of gaming the things you had to do |
| 13. January 2020 | The downfall of Quinton Reviews | The downfall of Quinton Reviews. Quinton Review went downhill, man. I think the popularity kind of went to Quinton's head. Where he doesn't make an effort to be appealing anymore. He feels as though every word that he utters is of some value, and thus all his videos just become so meandering. Like, you're listening, like you haven't made a good point in the last six minutes, and this video is 40 minutes long. Go over the scripts. Let me edit this a little bit. No? Okay. |
| 13. January 2020 | The downfall of Qunton Reviews | The downfall of Quinton Reviews. Quinton Review went downhill, man. I think the popularity kind of went to Quinton's head. Where he doesn't make an effort to be appealing anymore. It feels as though every word that he utters is of some value. And thus, all his videos just become so meandering. Like, you're listening, like you haven't made a good point in the last six minutes and this video is 40 minutes long. Go over the scripts. Let me edit this a little bit. No? Okay. |
| 24. April 2021 | The downside of innovation | The downside of innovation. There's this one point where I bought this program Glasswire specifically to help me do firewall blocking or whatever to help me with GTA V. Haven't needed it in ages. I ended up paying them for like another year or something because I completely forgot that it was there. You can see why all these companies love subscriptions because you completely forget about it and you pay again. It does suck how much resources are spent by these companies not making their product better but just finding ways to swindle the consumer. Find ways to manipulate them into buying your product or paying additional for your product and shit. Like innovation doesn't simply mean you know making a product better. They can often simply mean as I say finding ways to manipulate the consumer or trick them in marketing and whatnot. It's horrendous. Thought auto renewal is illegal. Certainly isn't in every country. You see it on Twitch every day with the sub count thing. Primes don't auto renew but normal subs do. So no sponsor from Glasswire. It's fine service for what you need of it. |
| 29. January 2023 | The drama around my video being referenced on the Linus Tech Tips Wan Show Podcast | The drama around my video being referenced on the Linus Tech Tips Wanshow podcast. So I released a video about Linus' plans to make a reaction channel. What I said wasn't particularly negative against him. I just used it as an opportunity to more talk about reaction content in general. And at the end I touched on how a lot of what he plans to do is not stuff I generally criticize. And stuff in many cases that I wouldn't even call reaction content. Stuff that I've done myself in the past. Like community submission sort of stuff. He referenced Corridor Digital and what they do as like the gold standard of reaction content. Which I agree. That's the thing where like they'll come together with experts and watch something. And then the video that you end up getting is less them watching something and more everything they say. That actually has some substance with a little bit of what they're watching for context. My video became the focus of the first and main topic of the Wanshow. A podcast that Luke and Linus of Linus Tech Tips do every week. The title being I've been called out before the channel has even been released. There is no interpretation of my video that could be made where that characterization would make sense. It clearly wasn't a call out of any description. But worse than that, neither Luke or Linus had watched the video. And instead had their writer, in my view, poorly summarize it in like a couple of lines. It was like a 20 minute video. Two times you can get that done in 10 minutes. There was no reason not to watch it. I don't care how strapped for time you are. If you're going to dedicate a segment of your weekly podcast to something. And like the grand total of time needed to be invested to be educated about the thing is 10 minutes. You should probably do it. That's not a huge ask. Like if you're not prepared to talk about something, just don't talk about it. I wasn't expecting a response and I think given the content of the video. I don't know why it is talked about at all or they plan to talk about it at all. So like I'm not annoyed they didn't watch it because they have every right not to watch it. I'm annoyed that they didn't watch it and still wanted to talk about it. It's like if I said I saw the glass onion last week, but actually no, I didn't really see it. I had some guy summarize it for me in a couple of lines. Let me now spend the next 45 minutes talking about the movie. It was just a very strange interaction made worse by Linus. Apparently having spent more time reading my comment section than it would have taken to watch the video. Arguing that you can get a better sense of the context and deeper discussion of a video by just reading the comment section and not watching the video itself. Very strange argument to make, especially considering that video would technically be like the 18th in a long line of videos. It was just a very strange circumstance. It was just so confusing. Even repeating it now, it just seems so strange that no one at any point in that process is like, Hey, does this make sense to do? And no point should someone communicate. Look, I haven't seen the thing before, but here's my opinion on it. It's funny because this somewhat mirrors my criticism I've had of commentary channels. Well, I like commentary channels where they're like focused on one thing. Where you have channels that like I know talk about board games or talk about Magic the Gathering or talk about tech. Or talk about cryptocurrencies, whatever. Like people who are very engrossed and focused on one topic so they know the wider context of anything that they speak on. Then you get into these situations where people talk about things just because they're popular. Or they feel obligated in some way to talk about them. And it leads to the worst content because you don't know anything. The likelihood of you misinforming people because of your lack of understanding of the grand narrative is so much higher. When you do commentary of any kind, like where you have to get a certain amount of commentary out every week. Sometimes there's not going to be enough stories on topics that you know stuff about. So you're going to be somewhat forced by your job to talk about things you know less about. Like I would never seek to put rules against doing that or something. Like obviously commentary channels have their place and provide some value. I just wish people were more cognizant of like, do I know enough about this topic to be speaking on it at length to millions of people? Like that thought is something that I think people should have a lot. Linus replied to me on Twitter with an apology and invited me on the WAN Show. You can pause and read it if you like. Will I go on the WAN Show? Like I've seen, I'd say almost every episode of the WAN Show for the last couple of years. I've been mentioned on it once before actually because I've reviewed it in Rambles and Luke's art. I know people criticize Linus, but I like them both. I'm just in general not very comfortable talking to people at all. I mean, general not comfortable with attention at all either. I like people focusing on my videos rather than me personally, which is a hard line to draw sometimes. I should probably do it because it's... So I have this attitude of like, I should just agree to do basically anything that I get offered to do. For a long period in my life, I was very hesitant to try new experiences and it prevented me from doing a lot of wonderful cool things. Even just simple things. Like I remember when I was a kid and there was this really cool slide and I wouldn't go on it, regardless of what my mother said or what she promised me, I just wouldn't go on it. And then, you know, after like a bunch of years of going to that same place and just never going on that slide, I eventually went on it. It was the funnest goddamn thing ever. That's kind of the attitude I take to life now, where I just try everything at least once. And for that reason alone, even if I'm not sure what we'll talk about, or if it would be a complete shit show, I will probably say, yeah, that's gone the wancho, why not? You know, could be fun. Do you have problems with overly potent attention? Yes. It is an interesting thing for people to accuse me of starting drama for attention. |
| 05. September 2021 | The dumbest injury i’ve had | Switch. The dumbest injury I've had. What's the dumbest reason I've been injured? When I was very young, I was riding my bike really, really, really, really fast. Around a perfectly circular oval. And they looked behind me. And then I looked forward. And, uh, I went straight into a park bench. And split. |
| 08. August 2022 | The dumbest tweet about NFTs i have ever seen. | You know? The dumbest tweet about NFTs I have ever seen. If you make an NFT of a real diamond, and then the diamond itself gets destroyed in a fire tomorrow, you still have the same asset. Because the tokens that exist, as in limited supply, just as before, nothing has changed. What NFT is doing to the concept of assets, few understand. I mean, does anyone need to explain why this is dumb? Everything that you could have done with the diamond, you could no longer do. Now you just have a string of digits that connects you to a website somewhere. The funniest thing is when NFT guys say, NFTs are the greatest thing forever, bro, it's so amazing. But we've had to make ourselves like a printout of my JPEG so I can show it to you. NFTs are so great, but we always have to convert them into other mediums so they have any kind of use. I like Moodahars, for example. Okay, now hold on, so if I make an NFT of my house and it burns down, I'll still have it as an asset on the blockchain, then I can live inside it on the blockchain. |
| 08. August 2022 | The dumbest tweet about nfts i have ever seen. | You know? The dumbest tweet about NFTs I have ever seen. If you make an NFT of a real diamond, and then the diamond itself gets destroyed in a fire tomorrow, you still have the same asset. Because the tokens that exist, as in limited supply, just as before, nothing has changed. What NFT is doing to the concept of assets, few understand. I mean, does anyone need to explain why this is dumb? Everything that you could have done with the diamond, you could no longer do. Now you just have a string of digits that connects you to a website somewhere. The funniest thing is when NFT guys say, NFTs are the greatest thing forever, bro, it's so amazing. But we've had to make ourselves like a printout of my JPEG so I can show it to you. NFTs are so great, but we always have to convert them into other mediums so they have any kind of use. I like Moodahars, for example. Okay, now hold on, so if I make an NFT of my house and it burns down, I'll still have it as an asset on the blockchain, then I can live inside it on the blockchain. |
| 16. November 2022 | The dumpster fire that is Twitter Blue. | The dumpster fire that is Twitter blue. They presently pause purchases of Twitter blue due to all the confusion, but that doesn't mean they won't bring it back. This is what it presently looks like on Twitter if you get Twitter blue. Verified account. This account is verified because it's subscribed to Twitter blue. This is what it looks like if you're just account verified, like for being an important person or whatever. This account is verified because it's notable in government news, entertainment, or another designated category. As Pop Crave says here, tapping on a profile's verified badge would tell you if that user is a verified public figure or if they purchase verification through Twitter blue. Why in any reality would you make Twitter blue look exactly the same as the verification system? There is no functional reason why they have to do it this way. I can only think it's because they wanted to drive attention to Twitter blue or they're just dumb. I don't think this presentation is going to lead to a significant increase in the amount of people getting Twitter blue. Outside of memeing, but not that many people are going to meme. It's not going to nudge the revenue of Twitter. And so you've had like Nintendo of America, check mark, and just Mario giving the finger. Verification is meaningless if people can spend $8 on it, and it's causing a lot of confusion and nonsense that is completely unnecessary on Twitter. And I'm I going to buy it? No, of course not. I mean, things could change, but I have no idea why I would at this point. There is a new gray official check mark for celebrities and organizations. This hasn't rolled out to anything except iOS currently. So eventually there's going to be like two different check marks and stuff. It's just going to cause even more confusion because of the check mark looking a particular way for so long. Just dumb. They could have made Twitter blue look different from the account, the normal account verification and just kept the account verification the same way. But Elon Musk is a meme guy. And so it's like, haha, now the blue check mark people are going to be mad. And now everyone can have the blue check mark and it's not going to be special. I just don't think CEOs should be making business decisions based on memes. OK. And Elon keeps doing that and it just looks dumb. He is super cringe. |
| 26. January 2022 | The early youtube phenomenon of “reply girls” | The early YouTube phenomenon of Reply Girls. I heard about an interesting phenomenon recently. Do you guys know what Reply Girls are? It's a YouTube phenomenon. I was not around on YouTube during this point. It was like the very early days of YouTube. At the very beginning of YouTube, there were a bunch of women who exploited the algorithm on YouTube to get like heaps of views for no effort. What they would do is perfectly copy the name of a video that's trending, put themselves in the thumbnail with like a very low cut top, and then copy the tags of the trending video. So whenever anyone watched that trending video on the side of the screen would be the exact same title or reply to exact same title, but with a hot chick there. And people go, oh, what's this? And they would click the video. And the person made, the first one made like heaps of money doing this. And that was one of the things that caused YouTube to focus on watch time as opposed to like views and stuff. Because obviously the Reply Girls would keep getting more and more views. So the videos would keep getting more and more recommendations and this will get more and more views and so on. My first popular video that I ever made was a video reply. I can still remember when I was at work, showed Lee my phone like, hey man, I got another subscriber. I had like 30, 40 subscribers. These days, right, most video views don't come from subscribers and stuff, right? They come from the recommended feed. You might watch one video from someone you're subscribed to and then you're seeing the recommended feed a bunch of videos. You're like, oh, what's this? Oh, what's this? Oh, what's this? And that's YouTube's goal. Cause let's be real, you don't know what you want to watch because you don't know everything on YouTube, right? You don't even know what you're interested in because you haven't necessarily seen everything or whatever, right? Until it's put in front of your face and you look at it and go, do I want to watch this? You can't really know. Like what I do over day is I wake up, I go through my subscription feed, I make a tab for every new video that I want to watch and then I progressively watch those videos while I'm doing other stuff. And then when I'm done with that, at the end of the day, if there's no more videos in my subscription feed and I want to watch something, I'll just click on something from the recommended. But I'm like an OG, right? Like I've been on YouTube for many, many years and so I've kind of cultivated myself a list that like people that I want to watch. Because people aren't that way. |
| 14. May 2020 | The economy after the crisis | Let's say. My question is, what do you think will happen with the economy of any country after we beat COVID-19? I have no idea, dude. This kind of dip in the economy like this is somewhat unprecedented, I think. Has there been another time in history where countries have specifically intentionally shut down their economies in a large way for a short period of time? Like it could be the case that when restrictions are lifted that everything roughly goes back to normal. It could be the case that certain industries will just never recover or that small businesses are wiped out. It depends upon the measures that were put in place to mitigate some of the potential factors that are negative, that the small businesses being less able to weather the storm potentially than larger businesses. Certainly had there been no social distancing efforts or government restrictions of different businesses trying to close them down and whatnot, there still would have been a huge negative impact on the economy. Like there was no reality where COVID-19, given its features, that it wasn't gonna hugely negatively impact the economy. Like if you believe that if they didn't close down movie theaters, that people would have still gone to movie theaters with hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people potentially dying, you're crazy. There would have still been a massive dip in movie sales. But I'm just saying, it's hard to imagine a reality where nothing had been done on a federal or state level and there wasn't still a negative impact to the economy. Whether the economy is gonna be better given the measures that were put in place, then it would have been, had nothing been done at all on a government level. I don't know, I'm not an expert. |
| 01. September 2021 | The effect of acknowledging subs and donations on stream | The effect of acknowledging subs and donations on stream. Pretty much all acknowledgement of subbing and donating is manipulating people to continue to do that. Like if you acknowledge that something helps you, that is going to inspire people to continue to help you. Or even mentioning a problem that you have will influence people to help you. People who care for you or want to see you succeed or whatever. Go back to TotalBiscuit. TotalBiscuit at one point was against any form of acknowledgement of subs or donating. Because he believed that it was ultimately just manipulation tactics. Even if you're sincere in what you're communicating, you are still in a way manipulating people to continue to do that behaviour. That may not be your goal, but you realise that it's going to happen. Like I know if I didn't acknowledge subs and I didn't acknowledge donating, I would receive less of it. And some people sub or donate for that acknowledgement. You could call it an exchange of monetary value for good feelings or feelings of acknowledgement. That you're doing some good and in many cases you are. But when you go to extents like that woman who pretended not to be married so she could say, Ah man, I'm single and I'm so lonely and da da da. Those manipulation tactics where you're lying or... If you came on stream and said, Man, I'm a $10,000 in debt and things really suck for me and my life's going through hell right now. My father just died. Or that guy who pretended to be paralysed in a wheelchair to get sympathy for donations. This kind of manipulation is... You're effectively misrepresenting the facts to manipulate people to sub or donate. This is clearly terrible. I don't think acknowledging that someone giving me $10 helps me and that I appreciate it is necessarily a bad thing. Even if it likely does inspire future donations. You know what I'm saying? |
| 21. March 2021 | The effect of consistent music in your YouTube videos. | videos You want to make music from a YouTube streams? I can't do it. Unfortunately The system I have works and I'm not keen to change it. The only thing I could use an intro song for is like maybe reddit recap, but I don't know how I would slot in the intro and stuff and I don't know because I know other people have intros and shit for various different things theme music and whatnot like Clixphilip makes a good point in I can't remember what video he mentioned in I think he's mentioned a few times where certain songs or sounds become associated with a particular youtuber or a particular type of content and that kind of association is good Vsauce's music suited his videos, James Sterling's tunes worked with his but obviously the liking of the tune comes after the watching of the series So it really is a case of forcing a song into something until people associate it with that thing I now get people telling me that atomic amnesia needs case unboxing sounds to sound right But having been listening to that song for 10 years, I don't think it does Like you may have heard at the very beginning of my recent past this episode I used a particular sound that's Ludwig's intro sound and That was what the reference was and a lot of people the concert. Oh, I thought I clicked on a Ludwig video That's a cool thing to have and I have nothing like that and as much as I would like to have that I'm not I don't know much about music I don't know what I would want in a sound like that and try to hire someone and be like you look you just make Me like a thing that sounds good. Thank you. Thank you never work. I hate being mean to people I don't want to reject people and be like, yeah I don't like this and stuff and it seems like a lot of effort to find the exact right sound Like normally I edit the reddit recap and I've had the most recent one. I gave it to Martin just because I Been to under the weather. I just didn't want to have to have it sit there for a week or two before I got to it He's like if you have thought about using music in the reddit recap, I'm just like I just don't want to go the effort, you know rarely is a video Defined by its music as in like you like it like just background music normally like which is generic background music You listen to the video or watch the view regardless of what that music is there or not But it often still makes it a little bit better. You know I'm saying like it's nice Three dumb things I did recently |
| 28. December 2019 | The effect of laws on behaviour | mean. The effect of laws on behavior, comment from Chass, mostly laws just allow someone to be prosecuted when they do things deemed bad, whether that's murder or smoking weed. So it has been shown Psycho that the existence of any law does have some impact in affecting people's behaviors. If something is considered illegal, there will be a portion of people who will not do that thing simply because it's illegal. Beyond that, it ultimately depends on not simply what the punishment is, but how likely a person thinks it is for them to actually be punished. So if we existed in a world where you could be absolutely certain that any time you downloaded a copyrighted piece of material, you would immediately pay a thousand dollar fine, no one would do it because that just wouldn't make sense. But because everyone knows, it's like, no one's gonna fucking get you for downloading fucking Game of Thrones season eight, which was fucking terrible. So who the fuck cares? It's the certainty of repercussion. It's why the death penalty is not said to be a deterrent, because who the fuck is committing a crime believing that they're gonna get the death penalty? You sit on death row for decades and does anyone, off the top of your head, does anyone even know what punishments get you the death penalty? Does the average criminal know that? |
| 21. March 2021 | The effect of negative promotion and perception online. | The effect of negative promotion and perception online. Do I watch my own videos? Yes Mainly the rambles. Well, is off what is often the case is the thumbnail Isn't made when the video is made So like like even when I do the rendering and whatever and then I upload it I cut you should come to other making thumbnails. What usually ends up happening is later on I'll rewatch the video in like three times speed to find a thumbnail but beyond that there are some videos of mine that I've done that I quite enjoy and I have watched them myself When I have nothing else to watch maybe when it's getting it gets recommended to me on my dark five But when I'm on my dark five eclipse YouTube channel, I go recommend me videos for my main channel I feel like I have that video and I'll watch it They usually like two three times here because I know what's gonna happen. So I actually watched a ramble yesterday there's one ramble that I have that's mildly controversial to me and I think it is so well presented and Argued that I don't know how it could ever come to bite me in the ass But multiple times I've thought I should just get rid of this it like who really cares I don't care about this topic. But when I listen to it again, I'm like, I like this ramble. I can't remove it I like it, but it's always prudent to remember like it doesn't matter how well you present something or argue something or whatever if a person's malicious enough they can always take stuff out of context and People who don't care about that context and just want to hate on you will uh Lap that shit up, you know I do think about that sometimes when I when I talk about some stuff like I didn't used to think about it as much Cuz I was a lot smaller but these days now that I'm a bigger content creator I do think sometimes like how could this be taken out of context? how Could a malicious person take something I've just said now and present it in a way that I don't intend because I've said before like Your ability to be canceled without like the actual platforms banning you is effectively non-existent for a public figure like myself But that doesn't mean that people wouldn't hate me. I I I care about the way that I'm perceived to an extent and I don't like thinking that there's just a huge amount of people out there who just hate me They've sure that shit can kind of affect you mentally Logan Paul filmed a suicide victim and he's doing fine right now Oh, he's done tons of stuff like maybe the time you like a collect screwed a rat or whatever Look up any of the huge content creators and they'll have like 57 scandals and the only thing that would have ultimately made those scandals actually do something is if they quit themselves Under the pressure if they were banned from the platform or they legitimately went to jail And even then the jail would just mean, you know potentially they could come back after going to jail as long as it is still possible to make your content and Have people find you potentially through the scandal. Yeah In the vast majority case you're gonna be better off in the long long term. No publicity is bad publicity. No, that's not true the example I always like to give is the strizand effects the reason the strizand effect exists as an idea is because Barbara strizand wanted to get rid of a picture of her house that appeared on the internet and so she You know use legal mechanisms or whatever to try to take it down blah blah blah and because of her fervent desire to do this It caused more people to be aware of the photo and so more and more people came aware of it more more people came Aware of what a house look like blah blah blah and clearly that publicity was not published that she desired It's just in the case of being an online content creator as a general rule You just want more and more people to be aware of you and your content and to speak about you Your name gets mentioned more the algorithm sees that your name is getting mentioned more the people are talking about you and your stuff And so they they spread your contents to other people or people who are talking about you even in negative light Some people who are listening to that negative stuff will be like I don't agree that this is actually negative I actually I probably like this content creator and they go look at look for that person You know it is possible for publicity to negatively impact things, but just for people who Who make their living? Being acknowledged by the public it's it's uh it's rare that suppose it you know cancelings actually have that kind of impact or like um remember that Jim Sterling thing where he made a negative review about the game and That company tried the DMCA it and they went all fucking crazy Threatening to sue him and stuff and da da da it was a big thing. We have five years ago Whatever and you can look at the steam sales Despite millions of people now becoming aware of this shitty game. They didn't get any more sales and And their reputation was tarnished or more than just more people became aware of them I just thought they were shit, you know You |
| 04. March 2021 | The effect of others doing Chaos mod on my content. | The effect of others doing Chaos Mod on my content. Any thoughts of CallMeKevin doing a lot of Chaos Mod videos? I'm happy he enjoys it. Are you asking in terms of like how does it impact me? I don't know. Like whenever anyone else does something that you do, two different things happen. One, more attention is drawn to that thing which can benefit you. But it also dilutes things because once upon a time there was less of something and now there's more of it. I haven't noticed any dip in my viewership. My viewership seems quite good. He seems like a nice dude. I should probably actually check out his content at some point. Beyond the surface level that I have. |
| 04. March 2021 | The effect of others doing chaos mod on my content. | The effect of others doing Chaos Mod on my content. Any thoughts of CallMeKevin doing a lot of Chaos Mod videos? I'm happy he enjoys it. Are you asking in terms of like how does it impact me? I don't know. Like whenever anyone else does something that you do, two different things happen. One, more attention is drawn to that thing which can benefit you. But it also dilutes things because once upon a time there was less of something and now there's more of it. I haven't noticed any dip in my viewership. My viewership seems quite good. He seems like a nice dude. I should probably actually check out his content at some point. Beyond the surface level that I have. |
| 23. January 2023 | The efficient way Australians speak. | Different way Australians speak I really like this tweet saw an Australian refer to a documentary as a doco and Suffered psychic damage deeply unserious country I sometimes have to remember that things I just take for granted as like Normal Australian stuff other countries don't do like do you guys know what's super duper's are when super duper's was trending It was like oh my god super duper's hell. Yeah, man super duper's Everyone loves them. Where's that? Where's that picture here stocking up for some in Australia? Super duper's are just ice blocks chat like cheap ice blocks that like everyone's parents buy them in huge packs It's just sugar and a bit of flavoring basically. So this is misspelled. Of course. It's actually doc Oh, sir. Vogue is a service station bottle. Oh is the alcohol store more knows morning tea Arvo afternoon You have fiery and embo. There's nothing more Australian than just shortening a word and putting like a why or No on the end |
| 30. May 2021 | The efforts of pro-gaming. | The Efforts of Pro Gaming |
| 24. May 2021 | The emote wars on twitch | The emote was on Twitch. Hope you all enjoy the sub-adj in the emotes. Because I have all the emotes now. There's no more emotes to unlock. Although I am having a few more remade, redown or a few more that may be made that might be added. By the time the new emote ideas get made, I'll have a month of data to see which of the current emotes get used a lot. I could do that with some regularity. Removing emotes that aren't getting used as much. Like every month or two just remove the bottom five. Until I get to the point where they're all used fairly regularly. The thing is though, there can be good emotes that are kind of niche and only really work in some situations. But when they work they've really got them amazing. Quick use underused emotes to skew the data chart. I know when I was offline back in the day, there was a war to have one emote or the other being the most used emote. So people just spam an emote over and over again. I mean at various times there has been a war to have one content creator or another's emote being the most used on the platform. I think back in the day there was a war between Forsen and GreekGodX. You hate emotes? You like action interaction? Emotes interaction. |
| 06. May 2021 | The emotional damage of my minecraft speedrun. | The emotional damage from my Minecraft speedrun. Apparently, Martin has finished editing the Minecraft video. I'm so happy I don't have to edit that. Because I was so angry. I hope Martin cut out at least some of my anger. Like I wouldn't want to have to relive all those failures. That video is going to be so funny. Yeah, that's what he tells me. What will I call it? The ultimate suffering. Completing a two minute speedrun in 11 hours. Why was I angry? I hate that fucking dragon. The hitbox for the head of the dragon is amazingly disjointed. As in it's like nowhere near its head. That was the largest grind you've ever seen. I don't think I've ever seen someone so angry but so driven to finish. I- I would have been there. Forever. Like, I would have competed with a... Bloodwig sub-a-thon or whatever. I would have been there for days and days and days until I competed. |
| 08. December 2021 | The endless possible paths in life | The endless possible paths in life. I sometimes wonder, chat, where would I be if I had never started a YouTube channel? What would I be doing with my life? Thinking about those questions can really drive you nuts. You know, it's nothing you can do about it. It's just like it's very unlikely that you are living the most optimal life that you could be. There isn't some choices in your life that you could have, you know, hypothetically, assuming a possible reality where you could actually do different things that you couldn't be living a better life. I had the possibility of going to two different high schools. One where my sister was and one that was just opening that was like, it was meant to be the high school for my primary school, right? Like it was with the same name in the same area and stuff. I just wonder what my life would have been like had I gone to the other high school and been around completely different group of people, you know. Prime Minister? Nah, Prime Minister doesn't sound like that good of a job. I would have been a gynecologist. I wonder what the consensus would be for women. Like what percentage would see a profession of being a gynecologist as like a good thing or an attractive thing or I don't know. Like there's a whole, isn't there a whole episode of Seinfeld dedicated to Elaine not being comfortable with the idea or something? |
| 09. February 2020 | The engoodening of No Man's Sky | The engoodening of No Man's Sky. No Man's Sky on launch said a dangerous person in terms of unkept promises. Look up, um, Internet Historian's video on No Man's Sky. I guarantee you by the end of it, you'll come to the conclusion that there was no intended malice. The dude who ran, uh, Halo games or whatever they're called, it was just an introvert who didn't have a lot of marketing experience, but took it upon himself to do it anyway, because he was that passionate about what he was doing and he was taking on the burdens for the people working under him. And so, he didn't really understand that a promise, like, something he could, they had a roadmap of what could be in the game, and so a year ago, he was saying, oh, that's gonna be in the game, yeah, we're gonna put that in, let's go ahead and, they wanted to put these things in, but they just ran out of time. And he didn't realize that saying something that's gonna be in the game a year ago, that's something that people will remember and will carry on into the future. There was, like, one of their offices got flooded or something, he'd recently had a child or whatever. Um, like, there were so many catastrophes that occurred, and you just go to the end of it and go, wow, I'm surprised they released anything at all, and that they didn't just run with the money and actually sat there and built up the game to what they wanted it to be, it's incredible, like, it's a very wonderful video, I highly recommend that video. It's a great video, there's Internet Historian, every one of his videos, fucking fantastic. Like, so there's this great video that Internet Historian did on the so-called Balloon Boy. People believed he, this dude, made a false claim that his son got lifted off in a balloon and flew away or whatever. It was a whole scandal or whatever, and people think he was just a hoaxster. And Internet Historian makes this video where he presents all the evidence and all the corruption and all the false reporting and where it came from, and you come to the conclusion at the end of it that, yeah, the guy was probably innocent. You look it up still to this day, this story, the news is still covering him as a hoaxster, the Wikipedia page still says that he's a liar or whatever, and it's just, he makes really good, very well-researched videos, is what I'm saying. You know what would be awesome? If you ingoodened the like button. Thank you. |
| 28. July 2020 | The entertainment value of speedrunners | The entertainment value of speedrunners. In your opinion, speedrunners streamers are the most entertaining people to watch? The overwhelming vast majority of speedrunners streamers are not interesting to watch. Except for the speedruns. The speedruns are interesting. The person isn't interesting. It's because a lot of speedrunners stream largely just to have vods of their runs. They're not focused on being entertaining, they're focused on the speedrun. So if you're interested in speedruns, interesting to watch. If you're not, it's not worth watching such people. But there are a bunch of standout speedrun streamers who are very interesting to watch. Irrespective of if that's good or not. |
| 26. October 2022 | The error I made in the ending a remake video. | The error I made in the ending A remake video. So I released, as its own separate video, the alternate ending for ending A. I watched this like a hundred times, but these rare comments have pointed out a few errors. You can notice here the red car. This is the car that I used during Passivist, but then over here it switches to a white car. You can barely see it. That's why I never noticed it. It's only in there for like two frames or something, or two scenes. And I was like, ah shit, didn't notice. The other thing is this is something that apparently Silverfinish puts in all his videos. That's a picture of Niko Bellic. I'm a purist though. I don't like that kind of stuff. I would have said no had he told me, but obviously it's not the end of the world. I never noticed, but a bunch of comments have been put in going like, oh, that's Niko Bellic's face. You never noticed it, neither did I. Neither did I. So it can't be that important. |
| 02. March 2022 | The eternal debate over whether or not to get a pet. | The eternal debate over whether or not to get a pet. Do I think about getting a pet? I think about getting a pet every single fucking day. Louzafruit tweets out a picture of four, like, she has four cats? She has four cats? I'm just like, I need to get a cat. But like, my problem with getting a cat is, even though they're more independent, you don't need to walk them and shit, I still require taking care of. What if I'm streaming and my cat's like meowing out there, being like, bitch, pay attention to me. I wanna end my stream for that shit. Dogs, I have to walk and stuff, I don't got the time. And yet the cat might eat my cables and shit. True, a cat would pay for itself, you know, because people be like, oh my god, cute cat, and I could make like little cat videos and shit. I am allergic, but you can get hyper-allergenic cats, and my allergy is very minor. So it's like a minor allergy with a cat that doesn't produce the allergen stuff often. Yeah, we'll call it Davey the cat, yeah. Like, I'm gonna be real with you, chat. At the end of the day, to some degree, I'd be getting a pet because I want companionship, you know, and I'd be much better off having a companion who's my species, you know. I'd be much better off getting a girlfriend that I can talk to about my problems and shit, and go places. Then to have a cat, there's like one, one-fiftieth of the value you can get from an actual relationship. Replacing meaningful human connections with pets is not a good move, you know? I could talk to an animal. Hey, I already talked to myself. The cat will now just be there when I'm talking to myself, so I'll look a little bit less crazy. Okay, actually, I don't talk to myself, but I'll occasionally have arguments in the mirror. Like, I will sit in front of the mirror and mentally have an argument, you know, and run through ideas about stuff. And I think to myself, this is crazy. And I think to myself, like, imagine someone has snuck a camera in my house, and they're watching this, and they'd be like, I gotta stay away from this fuckwit. This guy is fucking insane. I always think that Onion article, where they're like, a hundred percent of the world's population confirmed him as insane after being viewed by psychology- |
| 10. November 2022 | The ever growing weight of negativity in content creation. | The ever-growing weight of negativity in content creation. I'm just so sad so frequently chat. I have so much like rage and hate inside of me and I have all these existential problems. It caused me a lot of stress and I don't really have an outlet for my frustrations. I'm hoping that I get these blinds done. I just have some good night's sleep and things will be fine. One of the reasons why I've delayed doing the iceberg, the video where I recap a lot of my content creator career and explain a lot of the memes, is because there's a lot of things that I would want to say that could potentially bring up old dramas and stuff. Because on a lot of them, I never really felt I got to say my piece. You never understand what it's like to have tens of thousands of people dislike you for completely nonsense reasons and to see comments, people discussing you and saying things that you know for a fact aren't true and there's nothing you can do about it. There's this thing that people talk about how creators like they don't care about people and they just they don't they just see people as a crowd and all that stuff. I've never been that way man. Every single individual person that hates me, it cuts me deep. People always gonna hate, of course, which will reach a certain size. There's no possibility for you to completely control what people think about you or what have you. There's no way you can act in a way that's gonna meet everyone's particular sensibilities, but it's just I'm just not cut out for a lot of the aspects of getting this popular doing content creation. The opinions don't have any validity, I know. There's no amount of saying to myself like I know they're wrong, so what doesn't matter that really changes the emotional feelings, you know. Because it's not rational, the feelings that I have and I can explain to myself endlessly that they are rational feelings, it just doesn't matter. Like I will never get over how much of a shit show that all that React Drama stuff was. That I was introduced to millions upon millions of people through someone who didn't understand a single fucking word that I wrote and rambled on about how I thought reactors were rapists. You'll never understand how it feels and everything that ensued after that. Like I still deal with the fallout of drama from years ago and see comments about it sometimes. With those people still equally being wrong as wrong as they were back then and it never gets easier. It should be enough that some people out there like me. That'd be the rational thing. Just can't get over it. Do not focus on the negatives of exposure. At the end of the day money is money. Focus on the people who do like you listen to them. Hope you find peace, Viper. I hope so too, man. It's not about the money, Spider-man. I wrote a community post because on reddit people expressed concern about me that I wasn't doing very well. I wrote a community post to somewhat reassure people. But then to also explain the issues that I was having. And I sat there for like an hour or so. Maybe not probably not two hours, but more than an hour and I ended up writing like basically an essay about my concerns about my current circumstances and what's going on in my head and and what nots and stuff that causes me stress and aggravation and all this jazz. And I looked at all I'm like this is gonna reassure fucking no one. And I realized on some level like a lot of these feelings are just because I'm not sleeping well. I fixed my sleeping issues and I get a good night's rest and I just start focusing on the next thing to do and I'll be fine. There's no reason to write all this stuff that while true in terms of my feelings would just concern people. And so I deleted it and I left the community post that currently exists. Which you know says yeah, I'm not doing 100% but you know, just give me a little bit. I'll be fine. Venting my struggles can help you, but I feel like I do that too much. I do occasionally get comments where they're like, oh this community post isn't you just complaining about stuff? Well, that's new. As I say, it's like one in a thousand less than that, but those things stick with you. I'm sure many content creators have mentioned it. How the negative comments are those that stand out the most. You appreciate the positive ones. You acknowledge them and you say thank you whatever, but the negative ones are the ones that are truly make you shift what you're doing. It's funny though, before I was a content creator, any potential sleep issues that I had were not all that important. If I went to work stacking fruit or whatever or repairing hearing aids or what have you and I wasn't a hundred percent there, who cares, right? So someone else would be potentially suffering from my lack of a hundred percent productivity, but who cares? But now that I'm a content creator, I work for myself and I work to make you guys the best things that I possibly can. If I'm not a hundred percent there, the content suffers. Your experience of what I'm making suffers. Then it becomes an issue. It can be possible that me at 50% capability or whatever is not sufficient to do what I want to do that day and I can sit there and be like I can maybe force myself to make this stuff today, but I'm only gonna do it once and I don't want to make the thing as 70% as good as I possibly could make it. I want to make it a hundred percent as good as I can possibly make it. So I want to wait until I feel a hundred percent, but I can't just keep doing that. There's only a finite amount of days where I feel a hundred percent and if I kept waiting for those then I would just make far less stuff. I gotta work with what I have sometimes. |
| 06. February 2023 | The experience of being on the WAN Show with Linus and Luke. | The experience of being on the WAN show with Linus and Luke. So most of you likely know that I was on the WAN show today. Basically there was a bit of a misunderstanding, if you watched my previous rambles you know what it was, that just led to Linus saying hey come on the show and we can have a conversation about it. I can apologize and we can hash out any potential beef, which there wasn't really any to begin with. It was more of a misunderstanding and a bit of an awkward situation so it was just easier to resolve by going on the show. Was a fun experience being on the WAN show, sorry I spoke quite fast everyone, maybe a bit of nerves but honestly I often get into that mode when speaking to people. Thanks Linus and Luke, wish you the best with it all. So normally I suspect you'd want me to just be like free flowing and just explain how the experience was, but I wrote something in a community post which just reading is probably a bit easier. Seeing the behind the scenes dynamic between Linus, Luke and the rest of the team members was certainly interesting. Very friendly and joking yet with an undercurrent of ok but stuff needs to get done. I'm not sure to what degree I was understandable on the show as I am a far better writer than I am a speaker but I hope you enjoyed it. Regardless of the result or how I appeared it was worth doing it for nothing else it is one more story slash memory I will have. I know people give Linus flack for things but I think this is in part due to how vocal he is about his views and his willingness to take firm stances when other people would just keep silence. I respect the guy and not just for his willingness to do that. I don't like to call myself a fan of anything but I have watched Luke and Linus on the WAN show for many years so I am happy that our initial awkward interaction should not be something that taints the show for me. Despite what some may say I usually find myself quite uncomfortable with direct attention when placed on me personally rather than my work. My life is a fairly constant battle between my desire to keep my head down and the feeling that I should combat what I view as unfair and or harmful in the world. I am not sure if today I combated or fed into the claim that I am a toxic drama queen masquerading as a decent level headed guy as one redditor put it. Even prior to this event however I have found myself coming to care less about being labelled that way by those who don't actually know me and don't really care to. Yeah I did swear once that's true. Did you watch the video and they're like no fuck you. Oh sorry sorry. I think you mean fuck you. It was a tad awkward when they cut you off during the tiger analogy. Yeah he switched scene or something briefly and it cut your feed for a moment when it changed back. Oh oh I see so he didn't oh it cut off my mic. I doubt he meant to do that. Wait a tiger analogy? So it's an analogy to explain how merely having consent doesn't necessarily make something ethical. You have a salesman who has a stone that he claims protects people from tigers and he's selling it for ten grand and so some person's like oh that's a great thing I'm afraid of tigers so I will buy your stone for ten grand. So there's consent there, there's the person consenting to pay the money and there's the person consenting to part with the stone but there's clearly an undercurrent of like deception there in that the salesman might not actually believe that the stone protects people from tigers and therefore is just swindling this person. So that's the first level but there's another level where the salesman could legitimately believe that the stone protects people from tigers. Therefore both parties have the exact same perception of what the stone does and they're both consenting to the exchange but an outside observer who looks at that still would not go that's a good exchange or that's a good thing for society because you don't believe that the stone does anything. So ultimately you have people, one person in your mind is being taken advantage of by another person even if no one in that arrangement agrees and it's just to showcase that as an outside observer an exchange can take place where everyone is consenting and you can still have issues with it on ethical level and you can still believe that the people if they knew more information if they were more informed wouldn't engage in that exchange and that's the position I have in regards to a lot of content that is labeled as reaction content that if the people involved were more aware of what they were doing the exchange wouldn't happen. Overall I find such experiences quite draining like talking to people in general is something that I find draining being in front of that many people and talking to very big time creators is more draining than that. I didn't expect them to reference my series as something that was impactful to their decisions. When I heard what Linus was saying a lot of it rang as sounding similar to things I've said and my work in general and so there was that speculation amongst myself and my mods that maybe someone on the staff had seen my work. Having it confirmed is was good to hear certainly. There was probably like 20-25 minutes of testing before the show actually started. A lot of pressing and testing of buttons, moving of microphones, moving table up and down, camera from side to side, is this lighting good, is it bad, a lot of like just general casual jokes between the team. As I said on the show like the behind the scenes was quite amusing, somewhat boring at times but like there was a jovial friendly attitude with everything that was being done. As you hear then the show started it was fairly good as far as I'm aware. I touched on the notes I wanted to touch on but as I said and as Linus said it wasn't like we disagreed on a heap so we weren't going to trade blows on some issue. When you talk for a long period and you cover a lot of things it's hard to keep track of everything you want to say in regards to everything that was said especially you know as the audience might lose track. |
| 08. June 2022 | The experience of mortality. | The experience of mortality. How does it feel like to be 31? When you hit 30, you feel more mortal, if that makes sense. Where like, it dawns on you that time is actually progressing, and if you don't do some things early in life, they will get harder and harder to do as you get older. While you may conceptually understand that in your 20s, it doesn't really hit you until you're 30. Like while it's true, I've still got, you know, potentially 50 years of life left, it's not 50 years of the same quality. It's one of the things that's often said about modern society, where in your early years of life, you don't have the resources to do everything that you want to do, so you spend all your time in your early years of life getting those resources. Then by the time you have those resources, you're really old and can no longer physically do the things you want to do. Goten, that sounds so sad. I am to some degree alleviated from such burdens because I make so much money. I'm in a very privileged position in life, because you guys, I can live life fuller than the average person certainly, but I have a lot of emotional and social issues that are not alleviated by simply having access to resources. I don't really interact with people and stuff like that anymore. I've been alone for so long in this little house. I feel like I should be doing more with my life than simply making content, but I enjoy making it so much that I wonder if the only reason I feel like I should be doing more is because I feel like that's just what people should feel and what people should be doing. Maybe this is as happy as I can be. It's just that the grass is always greener, you know? It doesn't matter how good you have it, you're always like, oh, but I could have it a little bit more, you know? I've... |
| 29. January 2021 | The extent that i want to succeed in No Damage | The extent that I want to succeed in no damage. So chat, I want to succeed in this more than I want anything else in the world. There is nothing else that I want more than to succeed in this. There is a price, a number of money that you could offer me to let this run go away, but it'd be a lot. Like a fucking lot. I'm talking if you offered me a hundred thousand dollars or succeeding at this run I would take succeeding at this run. When you hear me yell out seemingly in pain when I fail, that pain is sincere. It hurts. I really hope I succeed. |
| 29. January 2021 | The extent that i want to succeed in no damage | The extent that I want to succeed in no damage. So chat, I want to succeed in this more than I want anything else in the world. There is nothing else that I want more than to succeed in this. There is a price, a number of money that you could offer me to let this run go away, but it'd be a lot. Like a fucking lot. I'm talking if you offered me a hundred thousand dollars or succeeding at this run I would take succeeding at this run. When you hear me yell out seemingly in pain when I fail, that pain is sincere. It hurts. I really hope I succeed. |
| 20. December 2022 | The facade of Andrew Tate. | The facade of Andrew Tate. What do I think about Andrew Tate? Andrew Tate is a guy who made a lot of money fighting and didn't make much money from anything else other than Webcams with cam girls. Then he started a course where he says he can teach you how to make a fuckton of money Despite no history of earning money any other way than those two ways And he makes now millions of dollars a month because he's convinced idiots that he can help them get rich Even though the only two mechanisms he used to get rich cannot be repeated by other people and that if he had a mechanism To get rich outside of the now three ways he's made money He would be simply using that method instead of selling a course. People who sell Financial courses like that they're all scams and or are just repackaged basic information that you can get in like your local bookstore, but with a charismatic face. People who have methods to make legitimate money and often quickly are using those methods themselves they're not selling them because they have no reason to sell them if they're successful. With all this being said it was shocking Seeing him on Twitter. He just posted a picture and got like 500,000 likes He is ridiculously popular and it's scary knowing that so many people could be taken in by a con man Fills me with a level of dread that you can't fathom and I just don't like thinking about it I have a very tenuous grasp on my own ability to Smile every day and I don't like to be reminded of such things |
| 31. March 2021 | The fall of Among Us | The fall of Among Us Have they not released the new map for Among Us yet? What happened? People are still playing the game. Ooh, it's dropping fast So one two three four five six months and they're down to What's that? One 20th. I'm not gonna bother doing that It's okay. It's more than one 20. You get the idea. Like it's not one 20. When I say one 20, I meant 20% But it's more like 15%. Look, I'm not here to do math. I'm here to do the speedruns. Okay, those still aren't bad numbers Right, so just barely outside of the Top 25 games. Where are they? Did I miss it? Yeah, there is. I mean it depends on the time of day, but um definitely when the new map comes out There's gonna be the same influx of people, the content creators who all go back to it I think but probably for less time than they did the first time around right? 400k sales? I thought that was way more than 400k sales. Way more. Because this is just the Steam version remember and The substantial portion of the a substantial portion of their their player base was on mobile 90% of people play mobile? 90% sounds high. Of course mobile counts people buy the skins and stuff. It's just you would imagine That the mobile loss of player base would track the PC loss of player base or rather It would be strange if the mobile player base had stayed constant while the PC version had gone down Right that there's a downward trend in the PC Version suggests there's a downward trend in the mobile version as well. Yeah, they sold tens of millions of copies I was supposed to solve the long work as the free version But Steam Spy estimated that Among Us had 10 million owners on Steam September 2020. And that's September 2020 |
| 23. July 2022 | The fallout of Hasan banning all our mutual viewers | The fallout of Hasan banning all of our mutual viewers. A while back I told you that I got banned in Hasan's chat for the whole react thing and I'm still perma banned even though I'm was an avid watcher, still mad about it. If you want to remain unbanned in Hasan's chat never disagree with him on anything. That man is mentally unable to defend anything that he believes and any questioning of it must be met with absolute force or he will fucking throw a fit. And it's not even just him, his mods know the deal. Any dissension must be purged. Fuck even Asmongold does that shit. I mean it's almost like the most, it's almost like a feature of having over 10,000 viewers or something. It's just ban anyone who disagrees or argues or has an opposing perspective. Keep the bubble active. But what can you do? It's even worse when it's not just you know innocuous shit where the person's fucking up and doing wrong things and just doesn't want other people to know. |
| 10. September 2021 | The fear of missing out on a good event | The fear of missing out on a good event. I have gone to the vast majority of the things that people invite me to. I prefer to go places and not enjoy myself than to stay home and wonder if I would have enjoyed myself. You know? I hate that feeling of like, man, I could be out having fun with all these fucking people and shit. The feeling of being there and being like, man, this is boring as shit. That's nothing but a comparison. |
| 01. January 2020 | The feeling of belonging to speedrunning | The feeling of belonging to the speedrunning community it's funny I was a Watching a gigook video yesterday gigook being a guy who makes a commentary on anime very popular and He made a reference to speedrunning and showed a run of samurai man speedrunning Super Mario Sunshine and I was like that's the thing that I do and I used to watch samurai man Speedrunning sunshine. Oh my god I've never really seen myself as being a part of any like click or group or whatever but I guess as a speedrunner like I I Like seeing references to speedrunning. I'm like, oh my god, we're part of the same kind of hobby. I think you know It's a weird feeling. I've never really had it for anything else in my life my current storage situation as a sample got myself a new hard drive from Amazon and it turned out to be an American hard drive So the power cable didn't work for and I didn't even want a hard drive with a power cable. Anyway, I felt really stupid that I misunderstood what I was buying so I ended up buying myself. Oh, I have receiving that which now basically a paperweight It's basically just out there and I'll use it as like a backup of a backup of a backup like I'll stick it in my cup And I'll never use it. So I bought myself 10 more gigabytes of space With the normal hard drives that I like the portal once Certainly at some point I should get myself a NASA whatever but the reason why I don't like I like the setup that I have Here where I have like a secondary computer that I have all my hard drives hooked into because on rare occasions I can put Adobe Rendering something and I can leave it going overnight because the PC is in another room where I can't deal with this PC because it's Next to my head But in um, oh 10 terabytes. I'm sorry, you know what I'm saying when I was moving all these files I thought of myself fuck. I really wish I had a better PC. Would it even go faster though? I don't even know if it's my CPU that's limiting the transfer speed it might be the hard drives themselves or I need to look into more like I have one gigabit LAN Which you know isn't that great? compared to today like the newer motherboards have like a 1.5 or 10 or whatever, but I don't know if that relates to um the speed of transfer over USB Or if that's just over LAN or whatever. I don't know. I don't know enough about it. I've never really needed to worry about Bottle necks and transfer speeds and stuff like I know my Router can't do 10 gigabit which is unfortunate because I bought it fairly recently And it was just that was not something I had to care about so I didn't look into it Press the like button if you would like want me at your New Year's Eve party or something like thank you |
| 03. January 2021 | The feeling that people hate me and Devin Nash . | The feeling that people hate me and Devin Nash. Oh yeah, I like Devin Nash. So I have this weird thing where I think everyone hates me. Unless there's some overt indication that a person likes me, I just suspect everyone has learnt of me and hates my guts. I think this problem has gotten less over time, as maybe I have a greater sense of self worth than I once did back when I had very low self esteem. I was in Devin Nash's stream at some point and I said something in chat and I don't know what he said but I was like, did he notice what I said and just either ignored me or just dismissed me or something? I don't know. I can't even remember what the event was. But ever since then I've been like, maybe Devin Nash hates me. Maybe Devin Nash has seen me do something stupid and he hates me. Doesn't particularly keep me up at night because after all he's just some guy on the internet. But whenever he gets mentioned I do think, I wonder if Devin Nash doesn't like me. I do like his content. I like his attitude and his dance moves. If you've seen that old clip of one of his very old streams of him busting a move, he can dance very well. I would love to be able to dance as well as Devin Nash. But certainly his, if you're looking for long form commentary on the business of esports, YouTube, Twitch, it's a good place to go. The biggest criticism I've heard of him is he exaggerates but I have not particularly found that to be the case myself. Honestly, who cares what anyone thinks of you? You do you and be happy. Honestly, there is always someone out there who is not going to like you no matter what you do. Which is absolutely true and I do hold that philosophy but in cases where you either like a person, respect them or at the bare minimum like their content, it's a nice feeling when it's reciprocal. While it shouldn't necessarily sully a person's content for you, if you find out they hate your guts, I assure you it's going to have the effect. You can look at that person's content and go, man, this person does not like me. Of course it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, although of course it does limit the possibility of collaboration or whatever as a content creator. But you're right, it's not keeping me up at night. |
| 07. August 2021 | The few games I tried to 100% as a kid | The few games I tried to 100% as a kid. I tried 100% very few games when I was a kid. I did try to 100% Kingdom Hearts though. That was a huge pain in the ass. Never got there. Couldn't find certain chests. Don't think I... I don't think I ever tried the internet. This must have been a long time ago. That would suck so much. I 100%ed Pokemon Red. Oh, got all the Pokemon. I think including you and my sister deleted my save file when she was at a friend's house. No, I cried a lot. I was very young at the time. And I was very sad. |
| 12. November 2022 | The final unreleased anti-react video. | Final unreleased anti-react video. Whenever I had a thought, a new idea, a piffy way to explain my points better, I'd write them in this document. Well, how many pages are we at now? 22. I even had animations made to explain my points better, but I know no one's gonna care, and I'd just be bringing more, to be frank, stupidity upon myself. Why go to all the effort to just ultimately fail again and just make people hate me you've never even heard of a single word that I've ever said? Discount. |
| 01. September 2021 | The first GTA I played | Same. The first GTA that I played. I played some when I was a kid. Like, GTA 2 or something. I can recall seeing and playing for like 5 minutes. I had Vice City and GTA 3, but I didn't really play them. Like I, I probably played like one mission, got bored and quit. GTA V was the first GTA that I really played for more than like 20 minutes or whatever at a time. |
| 06. October 2021 | The first PC game I played | The first PC game I played. My parents had this green and black PC that I think they got for free. It was just, you know, whatever. They set it up in their room and random letters would fall from the sky and you'd have to press the letters before they hit the ground and if too many letters hit the ground, you lost the game. It would start on a very very big floppy disk. |
| 30. January 2021 | The first games I played as a kid | The first games I played as a kid and the horrors of playing echo the dolphin Was the first game that I played it would have been one of the games on? Sega Mega Drive, or it would have been the typing game on this old green dos Computer that my parents had the typing game where you type letters before the words hit the ground on the bottom of the screen and if too many words hit bottom of screen you you fail and And so you could set it's like it's just a typing game, you know with Sega, you know echo the dolphin and I this multi-game thing that had golden axe and Revenge of Shinobi and Tetris or columns as it was called Guns to heroes these kind of first games my first computer game that I can remember is Diablo 1 But I'm sure there were ones before that how do you remember? This far along you know echo the dolphin that will always stand out to me because of how twisted and scary that game is like you You go into a gaming stone. You're like oh This is the dolphin. This is the dolphin game all that looks very nice I would give this to my son, and then you start playing and The story is basically aliens capture all the dolphins from the ocean I guess to eat them or something. I'm not sure and the music in it is so fucking scary and everything screams at you and like this there's these Moving octopuses and and when they touch you yeah, you're dolphins like screeching bloody murder It's so scary. We like we couldn't get past like the first or second stage or some shit like that and I've done this so many times before and we eventually got cheat codes to teleport us to the final stage and Seeing the final boss this huge green alien in this metal factory or whatever It was so scarring as a kid like look that shit up and think what that would do to like a seven-year-old Whatever the hell of old I was Do I like it even now? I think it would freak me out playing it I think echo the dolphin probably sits in the back of my mind somewhere Increasing my fear of the ocean That's what I think but I mean I think a lot of like I think it's pretty normal for people to Fear the deep ocean to a degree right I should play it again. Yeah, that would be kind of funny I suppose To see if I could actually get through it because it was a very convoluted confusing game I did finish a seagull game on stream Once upon a time it was called jewel masters one another game from my childhood that I really enjoyed But you combine rings together to make different spells I I'm repeating stories now guys I don't normally repeat this many ramble stories But I guess a lot of you are new and like I got to the final boss on stream And it just kept wrecking me over and over again. I was so confused why I couldn't beat this boss. It was so unbelievably difficult and I thought well This is just how games back then were because they wanted to eat your each of coins or whatever in the in the arcades but I kept trying and trying over and over again like how the fuck could any child have beaten this game and eventually I started using Save states so like whenever I would take damage. I would just load back the save because using an emulator and Still couldn't win so then I googled why I couldn't win it turns out that to beat the final boss you have to combine your Four best gems together, and it gives you this magic sword that like three hits the boss And then I did that in twin dead it there and the boss exploded I was like well that was a waste of an hour. You know I don't know if there was a riddle somewhere that explained that but I didn't I did not make that clear. I felt really dumb that footage still exists and If I can find someone to edit that older stuff. I am I'll have a release one day I could was a serious the I at least know there's two games. I had both the first and second as a kid |
| 01. September 2021 | The first insane troll I had in my stream | The first truly insane troll I had in my stream. What'd he do? Royale with cheese is this kid named Kane, or his first alias was Kane, who comes to my stream every once in a while and spam whispers everyone who's watching me to tell me to unban him. He's been doing it for about a year. It's targeted harassment. He knows that it distresses me and annoys me, so he keeps doing it. Um, he's- his previous account was banned. He's ban evading. Basically, he's violated the TOS like 50 fucking times. So no, it's not hard. It's gonna be longer than a year though. Like you'd think that they'd give up, but they don't. Kane has made me realize how pathetic some people out there are, and learning this was not worth the annoyance. Like I didn't need help to lose quote-unquote faith in humanity, but you know. This form of trolling will always be fed, don't. Because there's always gonna be viewers who are ignorance of him, and so them typing in chat will always be feeding the troll. There's no mechanism that I can use to prevent such feeding, so I may as well discuss it openly. You have to pity him. I think my pity's long gone. No one that fucking disgusting deserves pity. |
| 28. September 2021 | The first million view video I was in was actually by accident | The first million view video I was in was actually by accident. I think the only time I've inadvertently been in a YouTube video was when this guy named Muselk. He's an Australian Fortnite streamer. He killed me playing Fortnite a bajillion years ago and I ended up in the video. We can't get into like a little peak war with him. He would 100% win that. Okay I see him. Oh what's he doing? Oh he's running away. Oh no no no no my friend. There will be no running. There will be no running from Muselk. Not when he's got the Omega skin. Hey bro. Oh my god that was filthy. Someone just sent it to me like, hey you're in this guy's newest video. I'm like oh really why? Because the dude has like millions of subscribers or whatever. It might be the most viewed video I've ever been in. I still prefer my own big videos but you know. |
| 08. December 2021 | The first time I remember seeing gta | The first time I remember seeing GTA When was the first time you played GTA the first time I can remember seeing GTA Was it some friend of the family's house people watching? Steve Owen downstairs, and I was bored of it, so I went upstairs and People were playing Grand Theft Auto 2 on the PC I also remember from that day my mother said to the kid other people that that my favorite movie was Space Jam and And I thought that was embarrassing. I was like it's not my favorite movie I just like it and she's like alright fair enough. I have no idea where that was I have no idea what year that was or but those are the memories that I have I did have GTA 3 and I'm assuming via city on PlayStation 2 But I never really played them what I did I remember like getting bored of the cutscene and just skipping through it And then not knowing where to go obviously and then I would just um grab a rifle and just shoot Stuff until the police came Then I'd engage in a shootout with the police then I'd die and I quit the game I'm fairly certain that what I said was true to at least some extent But I don't know if that was the first time I saw GTA Or played it. I can't even remember if I played it that day I just know that I to some extent saw people playing it It could have been GTA 1. That's how memory is you know it fucking sucks I made a video when I one of my ramblings what gives me existential dread And it's always thinking about memory and it's fallibility. It just makes me feel uncomfortable You know what's the point of it all when I'm not gonna remember? |
| 02. February 2022 | The first time I stole something. | What was the first time I stole something? What was my first score? I stole a Blastoise card from my friend. I really like Blastoise. He said he was over Pokemon, and so I took it, and I regret it to this day. The card was then stolen off me by another kid, preventing any ability for me to give it back to my other friend. Although, that guy did end up fucking you over eventually, because I lent him a bunch of my Nintendo and a bunch of controls and stuff, and he did not give all the controls back. So, call it. |
| 08. September 2021 | The first time i announced i was doing pacifist | The first time I announced I was doing pacifist percent I Did this so many times yesterday? You have no idea because I'm making a new series called pacifist percent like what the series is basically gonna be is I kill as few people as possible and I shoot as little as possible So like it's gonna be kill no one if I have to kill someone I have to kill them with melee If I can't kill them with melee I have to kill them with pistol and then it goes down like that and then the Heat then I'm gonna complete the entire game and I'm gonna tally at the end How many people I personally had to kill and what I had to do to kill them preferably having as few actual bullet shot as possible by the end of the game You have no idea how long it took to get to prologue yesterday, but it took two hours. That's very funny why and and learning how the NPCs move and work and their limitations how their HP works and |
| 08. September 2021 | The first time i announced i was doing pacifist% | The first time I announced I was doing pacifist percent I Did this so many times yesterday? You have no idea because I'm making a new series called pacifist percent like what the series is basically gonna be is I kill as few people as possible and I shoot as little as possible So like it's gonna be kill no one if I have to kill someone I have to kill them with melee If I can't kill them with melee I have to kill them with pistol and then it goes down like that and then the Heat then I'm gonna complete the entire game and I'm gonna tally at the end How many people I personally had to kill and what I had to do to kill them preferably having as few actual bullet shot as possible by the end of the game You have no idea how long it took to get to prologue yesterday, but it took two hours. That's very funny why and and learning how the NPCs move and work and their limitations how their HP works and |
| 08. December 2021 | The first time i remember seeing gta | The first time I remember seeing GTA When was the first time you played GTA the first time I can remember seeing GTA Was it some friend of the family's house people watching? Steve Owen downstairs, and I was bored of it, so I went upstairs and People were playing Grand Theft Auto 2 on the PC I also remember from that day my mother said to the kid other people that that my favorite movie was Space Jam and And I thought that was embarrassing. I was like it's not my favorite movie I just like it and she's like alright fair enough. I have no idea where that was I have no idea what year that was or but those are the memories that I have I did have GTA 3 and I'm assuming via city on PlayStation 2 But I never really played them what I did I remember like getting bored of the cutscene and just skipping through it And then not knowing where to go obviously and then I would just um grab a rifle and just shoot Stuff until the police came Then I'd engage in a shootout with the police then I'd die and I quit the game I'm fairly certain that what I said was true to at least some extent But I don't know if that was the first time I saw GTA Or played it. I can't even remember if I played it that day I just know that I to some extent saw people playing it It could have been GTA 1. That's how memory is you know it fucking sucks I made a video when I one of my ramblings what gives me existential dread And it's always thinking about memory and it's fallibility. It just makes me feel uncomfortable You know what's the point of it all when I'm not gonna remember? |
| 02. February 2022 | The first time i stole something. | What was the first time I stole something? What was my first score? I stole a Blastoise card from my friend. I really like Blastoise. He said he was over Pokemon, and so I took it, and I regret it to this day. The card was then stolen off me by another kid, preventing any ability for me to give it back to my other friend. Although, that guy did end up fucking you over eventually, because I lent him a bunch of my Nintendo and a bunch of controls and stuff, and he did not give all the controls back. So, call it. |
| 26. March 2022 | The floods in australia | The floods in Australia. This was specifically New South Wales near where I live. The floods are now over. So I was going to get my hair cut, but there's flooding in the region between me and my hairdresser. Apparently my hairdresser isn't underwater or something, but just like, yeah, maybe we should just do it next week or something and, you know, hope for the best. The suburb that I used to live in is experiencing flooding. I'm not sure if the house I used to live in is now underwater, but fortunately I'm not experiencing flooding here, but I looked up like what are the odds of me experiencing flooding here and it's like, it's not impossible. You know? I heard Whippy, the role-playing GTA streamer that I played GTA Guess with one time, if you recall, his house got put underwater. Which is a shame. At least he's safe, of course. |
| 16. February 2021 | The foolishness of being purely results oriented | The foolishness of being purely results oriented. Thoughts on the person that has 220 millions worth of bitcoin, but can't access it due to forgetting his password. Oh that is such a sad story. I heard about it on Philip DeFranco, that apparently there's a guy who has this bitcoin wallet with bitcoin that's now worth over 200 million dollars or something, but he's forgotten the password and he gets 10 tries at trying to get in and if he fails all 10 times it's locked forever, there's no way to access it. It's encrypted beyond recovery. I think he's used 8 of the 10 tries. When you hear stories like that, this is an old wives tale, there's no way that could actually happen. But apparently it's true. What would you do in that situation? You just hate every day. It's like the people, whether these are old wives tales or not. Conceptually this could happen, where you go to work and they have a weekly lottery thing where everyone chips in 5 bucks and everyone gets a lottery ticket for the group or whatever and one dude one week is like, nah I need to save money I'm not going to chip in this 5 bucks or whatever a week, I gotta save all the money that I can and then like that week or whatever the group lottery ticket wins millions and everyone gets like a million dollars and the guy's just sitting there like oh my fucking god dude, if I had just joined in that one extra time I would have made the money as well. These events where people miss amazing opportunities or lose massive amounts of money by like a hair difference must happen every day. You would never want to trade places with any of these people you know. In the same way that doing the irresponsible thing or going against the grain or whatever can sometimes give you huge benefit in the future in terms of you just get lucky, the opposite can be true. You can do the perfectly responsible thing, the thing that makes the most sense that in the overwhelming vast majority of cases in the long term will provide you benefit and just because of bad luck, if you had gone against the grain, if you had done the stupid thing, if you had been irresponsible you would have gained a huge win for you know. In those situations though it's always at least some comfort where you think to yourself like oh you know I sure I could have done this stupid thing but if I did that stupid thing or if I continuously acted my entire life doing the stupid thing then over the long term I would lose out. It's like with poker how you consider oh man if I had just gone all in with 8-3 I would have won the entire pot and won the entire game because the flop comes 8-8-3 or whatever but if you went all in with 8-3 every time you played poker in the overwhelming vast majority cases you'd lose you know. Who was the first person I heard talking about this? I think it was actually Reignat like a bajillion years ago when people would laugh at him when he would lose a hand in Hearthstone and be like you're all fools. Well I could have done that stupid play and won but if I did that stupid play every single time I played Hearthstone I would lose out in the end. In the long term. |
| 25. February 2020 | The form,at of OHKO video | video. So how the format of one hit KO is going to go. It will start one of the missions where there's actually a firefight and a possibility of me dying. Then there'll be like effectively no cuts. Like you watch me kill each of the guys. And then when I die, it will. I will die, but then it will put me back at the point where I progressed. I progressed. So you won't see me redo killing the first six guys if I've already killed them. Unless, of course, I die again in that point, then. And you'll see every death. So the whole run was 11 hours. I think the video is going to be at about an hour and a half. Because unlike Pacifist, where it's often not the death or the failure, it's like the how the failure happened. And I have to explain it and stuff. For one hit KO, like the reason for my death is the same like every single time I got shot. Kind of the same way that Super Mario Maker videos are done on YouTube. So you don't see the person failing over and over and over again to get to the same spot. You see them get to that spot, fail, and then it just flashes you forward to that same spot again. Will I ever. |
| 30. January 2022 | The frustrations of never being able to experience another person’s mind. | The frustrations of never being able to experience another person's mind. It is sometimes weird thinking of my life. I think I remember less of my life in rich detail compared to other people. Because you never get to experience another person's like inner world, you don't know how similar the way their brain works is to your own. I mean you assume to some degree it's similar of course, because you both navigate the same environment and you're the same species. I mean I watched a video recently where a dude was like, yeah I have no inner monologue. And I've talked about this before where I can speak to myself in my head, but some people can't. So when this guy wants to read stuff, he will read it and mumble it out loud to himself. And that's just the way he processes things. So I can have a conversation with myself. And yeah, like internally. But some people can't do that. Sometimes I don't think about how my mind is working, and then when I do, like I question whether my mind was working that same way before I started thinking about it. So like when I'm reading stuff, I don't know if I'm reading the words to myself in my head, or I only do that when I start trying to pay attention to what my brain's doing. See reading this now, it's as if I'm thinking about the words, but I don't think that's what I always do. I think I only do that when I focus on it. I think when I'm just reading to myself, my brain just processes the words without any kind of inner monologue. So it was overthinking a conversation, you talk so fluidly until you start thinking too hard. Yeah, I guess. Because it all just flows naturally and then, yeah. The brain is an interesting thing. I've mentioned it many times, like my inability to remember tastes and smells still bothers me. But I feel blessed that I can literally just play a movie in my head, you know? Like visually. I can be looking at this stuff, taking it in, at the same time I could envision the beginning of prologue, hear Michael speaking in my head, and then I can change it so that he dives through the glass and shoots everyone. And that's easy for me. But I can never add a smell or a taste to anything that I show in my head. I just can't do it. When I try to think about what a Big Mac tastes like, even though I've had hundreds, can't do it. I know what a Big Mac, its texture is. I can remember texture. I can remember temperature. I can remember if I was satisfied with the meal or not, but I cannot for the life of me envision the taste until I bite into it. And then I can tell you whether that tastes like a Big Mac, whether what I'm eating is a Big Mac or not. It's just such a strange thing for me never to have realized. And so I'm like, I was almost 30 when I realized. |
| 23. August 2021 | The future of GTAguessr | The future of GTA Guesser on my channel. Uh, yeah, I plan to release an episode of GTA Guesser every week. It's easy content to make and enjoyable content to make. Like, it's hard to imagine how low the viewership could be for me to not want to do this series. |
| 09. October 2021 | The future of VR and the potential psychological ramifications | The future of VR and the potential psychological ramifications. So I was watching this interesting video yesterday chat, which coincidentally was related to a topic that I brought up on stream. It's pretty obvious that playing video games doesn't cause you to become a violent person, and doesn't mean you're gonna commit violent crime or something like that. A big reason for this is that your ability to fully immerse yourself in the world of a video game is... It's just not complete. You know, so you have an understanding of how you should be interacting in this game versus in real life. But the video was talking about VR, and the limited amount of research that has been done about how VR affects how you interact with the world, and your behavior, and how VR can potentially change you or whatever. And the video was like, the evidence that VR can make you into a violent person isn't there, but it's more due... Like, the question hasn't been answered because there's just not enough research on it, right? And as VR gets better and better and better, like you go to wonder, man, like, if VR gets to the point where it's effectively indistinguishable from real life, and you spend all your time in this real life simulation shooting people, you know, is that not going to eventually bleed over into your personality or whatever? Are you in a propensity to commit violence in real life? That's not inconceivable to me, you know. Yeah, because your brain will not be able to distinguish between something truly completely immersive and real life. So, just like in real life, how if you, you know, perform the same behaviors over and over and over again, you're training yourself, right? And so if in VR all you do is play really, really violent stuff, is this going to affect you? It's interesting. Like, I've been watching a lot of VR content, this guy Thrillseeker, he does a lot of good VR content on YouTube, and a video of his recently blew up where they have these commercially viable, like, trackpad things that you stand on, so like you can move your legs in the real world and then you move in the virtual world. And he recently put up another video talking about this new VR headset, cost like $7,000 design, but to him it's like on a new level of immersion, feeling like you're actually in there. Like, your brain can give you phantom senses where even though you know you're not touching something and that it's fake, your brain processes it almost as if it's real. And so it feels like you're touching something even though you aren't actually touching something. And it's all very interesting to me. Makes me want to get back into VR. Like, even before VR technology was getting as good as it is today, I was always concerned about the possibility of how it would change people who spend so much time in it. It's just an interesting thing, you know. I don't think I can be fully immersed in saying when your head has a... Yeah, like exactly, like as long as there's still some measure of this is just fake and your brain can distinguish that, then we're probably still fine. It will probably still be the level of separation that I'm experiencing playing GTA V right now. But eventually, presumably, if the technology gets better and better and better and better, and that degree of separation gets smaller and smaller and smaller, what research exists that suggests that video games don't cause violence or whatever will become less and less applicable, right? And more research will need to be done. Would people even enjoy a game with ultra-realistic murder? Most people seem to be fine in game because it's different enough from real life. I mean, there are people in the real world who enjoy harming others, that either abstain because of the potential social ramifications or actually do it and suffer those social ramifications. If you mean the average person, admittedly, I don't think I would enjoy a game where it was too realistic. If my brain was processing what I was doing to the same degree that it would me actually harming someone in real life, I think that would disturb the fuck out of me and I wouldn't enjoy it. But who knows, you know? And it could be that thing where you tell yourself it's just a game or whatever, and then you get used to it in VR, and then you find out that you like that kind of thing, and you might try to do something similar in real life. Who knows? I'm just saying, it's an interesting thing to think about, and it would be something that should probably be researched as VR technology gets better and better. The brain is a fucking crazy thing, chat. Most of the processing that is done is done outside of your conscious awareness. Who knows what affects who to what degree and to what ends, you know? Like, you aren't aware of everything that is going on in your brain, or what is affecting you and what is changing you every time. Psychology, very interesting topic and a very hard thing to study, because people are so varied, and there's a lot of ethical considerations, and a lot of it's hard to measure, because you are in many cases just having to, to some degree, trust the subjective reportings of your participants. At the same time, can't games be used to leave people of those emotions than doing it in real life? Yeah, so there's this thing called, what is it? It's gradual exposure, where a person has some trauma associated with something, and so VR can be used to gradually expose the person to that particular thing under a controlled circumstance. You know, a person's very afraid of heights, so you put them in a VR simulation, where they slowly get exposed to heights, and then they become more and more useful, and that's been shown to have the effect of changing how a person experiences that thing in real life, and their potential trauma around it. And of course, most of what VR is being used to do today is training people to perform particular tasks. Like, it might be very expensive to set up a whole simulation of a hotel or something to train people of where they're meant to be and how they're meant to engage with other people or whatever, but you put them in a VR setup and it's a lot cheaper to do. They use it in the military as well. If I can remember to link it, the video I watched was two hours long. It came out January 2020. Who knows, in the last two years, the research may have gone even further than that. The video is really long and potentially not the best presented, but what is presented in it is very interesting. Yeah, but watching Thrillseeker's videos got me really excited for VR in the future, but also a bit fearful because just imagine that VR becomes effectively better than real life. Like, you can just chuck around fireballs and it just feels that real or whatever. How much of society would be spending all their time productively working in a world that doesn't really exist? When I say productively working, I mean like learning a skill in VR, while potentially fun and enjoyable, won't necessarily improve your well-being in the real world, you know? Like the same effort applied to a VR world can only ever get you, you know, entertainment, while that effort in real life can improve your circumstances, your well-being, the stability for your future. Although I suppose it could be possible that we just end up creating a form of capitalism or whatever in VR, where everything is gated off and you got to do certain things in VR to make currency in order to buy different products and stuff, you know? Because isn't that the premise of... No, it's not the premise. Well, that's definitely a part of... What's that? Ready Player One, that's it, yeah. Like, you could be pessimistic and say that VR will eventually just hit a wall. That won't be able to be passed and I should play FNAF VR when I get the chance. I will never play FNAF. Never. The amount of money that you'd have to give me for me to go to that effort. Insane. Why? Because I'm so sick of people asking about FNAF and the word FNAF annoys me. If I was going to do a VR game, I'd probably end up doing GTA V VR, which is a third-party thing, but I hear it's pretty decent. |
| 26. December 2022 | The future of content creation with AI | Good. The future of content creation with AI. Have I dabbled in any of the AIs that create YouTube title subscriptions or thumbnails? Do you consider it? Is this a reference to, um, the spiffing Brits recent video? I've looked into that AI stuff, uh, you're right, next time I get the chance, I should probably, uh, try generating a title for an amount of ideas. Don't use AI to make art. There is no putting the genie back in the bottle when it comes to AI-generated stuff. If using an AI to quickly get something done, like 80% of the way, can be done for whatever you're trying to do, you should do it. Because anyone else who is willing to go the 80% of the way is just going to outpace you. AI-generated stuff is just going to become an axe, a shovel, a pickaxe. It's just one more tool in your belt, like, hey, I could do this with AI and get me X amount of the way there and speed things along. What does AI ask? You say, hey, Mr. AI, sir, can you make me like a cat that is playing Marco Polo with a dragon? And the AI is like, you got a boss, and then it makes one. And you're like, oh, that's not quite there. Can you like, um, put like a smiling sun in the sky? And the AI is like, you got a boss, and then it puts it in the sky. And then you can look at it and say, you know what, this small part here doesn't look as smooth as I want it to. And you can yourself with your own other skills fix that a little bit, and then you get what you need. Or you can be like, give me some ideas for X, Y and Z, and they give you different art things and you can then make something yourself. Right. It's a there's always going to need to be people who have the actual skills to tink with this stuff. But it's never going to go away. It's just not trying to stop it is like trying to stop cars because, you know, you really like horses. Speedrunning Kei of Pariko is now... |
| 01. March 2022 | The future of gtaguessr versus | in the world and I hate this injustice and I just uh, don't see the people of people, you know? The future of GTA Guest Averses. You're confident you would smoke me in this? We really do need to play- There are a lot of people who would uh, smoke me, Matty. There's still a lot of people that I need to invite to it, but I'm just uh, feels awkward reaching out to people, individually. But I don't know, maybe I could do like a- an episode where like, I verse particular people from the community or something? I've got a- I've got a small list of uh, people that I kinda wanna reach out to. Circumstances being what they are. I mean the drama's basically gone, uh, other than H3H3 still being weird. But um, it's just one of those things where I like, I don't wanna risk um, causing someone else problems. So I might wait a couple of weeks to invite someone. Seeing you branch out to collaborate with other people is always interesting. It's cause other- cause, YouTubers in general are interesting people. As I said to Charlie, everyone seems to have their own unique weird stories about how they got started. It would- it would be interesting to find a content creator, who started around when I did, and remembers me from my old days. |
| 15. February 2022 | The future of react content | That's a let's talk about like moving forward I said before that well I message you like originally when Charlie couple days after the everything broke out and I said. I think that this whole drama thing is going to shed put more eyeballs on this whole scenario on everything's happening and I think more people ultimately are going to learn about your points. Versus you just releasing a video with no drama attached to it and then you basically said it doesn't really matter because nothing will happen anyway. But we are saying like Charlie said he would change his content Ludwig said he would get more consent before watching videos like these big content creators like. I actually realizing what you know what you're saying and changing their behavior because of that we think it's a really positive sign have you after hearing couple couple of these things have you become more positive. Not all it is just so lucrative and so easy to watch other people's videos it just is any person who does it has already justified it to themselves and doesn't want to change. Which is true for everyone once you start doing something that benefits you you don't want to hear arguments as to how that's bad it takes a lot of pressure for you to really want to consider why she maybe I'm not doing something good because you want those benefits and you'll reach for fucking anything that will enable you to keep doing that you know. Calling calling anything or calling it to examples oh sure sure but I don't think this will last Ludwig was already getting banned on YouTube repeatedly for reacting to content because YouTube does not like that shit in their lives it gets flagged as duplicate content or something. I'm not sure I'm here to get then get permission copyright claimed whatever it is and then he had to get permission from Kyrgyzstan to watch their videos in the future for example. I said Ludwig was already motivated by his present circumstances to change how he does react content and he was likely going to do some measure of change irrespective of my words. Charlie literally the entire weight of the world on him he's going to change in some small way in that he wasn't really already benefiting all that much anyway from this situation from reacting because as I said he probably should be on the document like he was doing this but it was in such a small scale to everyone else that is not really a fundamental change to what he's doing. And we had our conversation and he clearly doesn't really want to change in that he understands what I'm saying now but he also wants the benefits from that as well he says he says this is like the only way that I learned of other content creators and other good YouTube viewers and stuff. He's like yeah there's many better ways that I could collaborate with people or shout people out I could bring exposure people other ways but this is like the only way that I really discover new people and that is just watching videos on Twitch. I'm not sure what he's going to do moving forward. He tried to ask is there any way that I can continue doing what I'm doing in a moral way and I basically said no not in my view. Well I think that okay well yeah keep going because I think there is a way. Oh no go on then because there was there was two points that I made in the document one that this is exploitative when there's no consent like really exploitative people should be paid for their labor especially if you have the ability to pay for it. But then I went on and said even when you have consent it's less objectionable but not really good because it's basically like you are really over successful and you're saying hey because I'm really over successful can I use your content to become even more over successful. And I'm sure you'll benefit somehow like I would much rather there to be like a tangible benefit like you pay the money because then it's like there's no ambiguity like me if you check the analytics on Tuesday I may have got 10 bits of exposure whatever. There's just some money in a person's hands being like I was paid for a license for a person to look at my content and that's not going to happen no one's going to start charging for their videos and shit you know. Well maybe there's a couple of ways one is pay the creators. Yeah but that's not going to happen. Okay well I mean if they were paying them would that make it less immoral or just or just moral. Sure so it would it would just make it in line with what all the economy is already. Where it is already successful people using some of their success their monetary their money to get other people to help them become even more successful. That's what a business is and the only way that's a moral is if all of capitalism is immoral and if you talk to a socialist they say yeah it's still a moral fuck off. Me I've kind of made my peace with it I understand the arguments for capitalism although I hate it successes. This situation is at the very least not something that I would super care about to a degree that I'm going to write a 14 page document on the topic. I don't know where I really sit with capitalism and to explain why would take a lot longer. It's based on my ideas of how people become who they are how they become successful and to what degree we can attribute that success to the individual themselves and what even doesn't mean to say. A person is themselves considering that we're shaped by variables outside of our control our genetics our environment we're being bombarded with stuff that we're not controlling every day. But this that conversation is so long and I'm not even sure where that leads to the extent where if I saw a large content creator being like yes I paid this guy a thousand bucks so I can watch his video on stream I'd be like aces. Or a person said look any amount of bits donations subs whatever I receive while watching a video I will give to you and I'll be like OK fine. But the amount of work that that would do that would require to do is astronomical right and you'll be putting yourself at a disadvantage in the market of content creation. Anytime that he is it in any economy anytime that a company goes the extra mile to be kinder without any sort of benefit to themselves then they're just at a disadvantage to compare to their competitors. It's why Amazon when everyone was like Amazon needs to pay fifteen dollars an hour what the fuck you're doing and then they go OK we will. And then they immediately started talking to other politicians like we need to pass like a minimum wage of fifteen dollars for everyone because they're like look if we're going to look like the good guys by increasing our wages of all our companies all our workers that's going to disadvantages. So what we should do is make it law that every company has to do this so there is no disadvantage to ourselves and that's to me that's how companies think. Is is there going to be some benefit for this loss that I'm about to accrue and is there a way to make it so that if there is a loss at least everyone is sharing that loss not me. And so if you are a content creator who is obviously people are motivated more by more things than just success. But if you're a content creator focused on success there is no way you're going to just spend extra time of your day caring about these sorts of things for someone else's views or whatever. For someone else's views of morality let's say because that's just going to put you at a disadvantage to all the people who just sit on stream being like video video video video video video video video video video you know you have to slow down. I am more positive in general I wouldn't necessarily think that you're going to do a 180 and go from you know all reactors of bad people. In a span of like what a week or something to be clear I did change that position I just said I think all reactors are doing bad things and let's say many of them are bad people. They're doing these things not merely out of lack of understanding but are motivated by just a lack of consideration of others which is what I would consider on some level to be a bad person. I will fully accept that it's better phrasing all reactors are doing something I consider bad as opposed to everyone who does that bad thing is bad. Like I said you're you're not going to go 180 and saying all right all reactors are bad people they're going from there even if you've changed your position. It's not gonna be a full swing to you know they're all good people but they're just unaware of their actions and on the spectrum I'm more like I do believe these big content creators are good people. Who just aren't aware of fully aware of what they're doing so I really do yeah we'll disagree on that but. I do believe with more education and more awareness of even the people and even if they you know people put pressure on them. Or just society like if more people start doing it and it becomes sort of taboo just to watch videos I think that will have an impact. As we move forward but I think like paying people is a good solution. |
| 11. December 2019 | The future of twitch in a competitive streaming market place | The future of Twitch in a competitive marketplace for streaming platforms. All the big streamers are either in talks to move somewhere else, or they've already taken money from Twitch to stay on Twitch. I get scared listening to Devin Nash, because the other competitors to Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, and Microsoft, they have a greater base to draw from to get viewers to their live streaming platform, where Twitch is not. Twitch basically is dominant right now because of first mover advantage. Or rather, like effectively first mover anyway, because it was just on TV, but you get the idea. The mixer can appeal to people on Xbox, YouTube of course can appeal to everyone on YouTube. Listening to Devin Nash be like, oh man, YouTube's gonna be dominant in two to five years. Who knows if that's true. And by dominant, it could just simply mean that Twitch is still around. Because I mean, it's Amazon, right? It's hard to imagine a reality where Twitch isn't around in five years. But it's hard to imagine in five years that Twitch is still owning 75% of the market share, let's say. You have to imagine at this point Twitch has peaked. But I guess they could have just peaked in terms of their relative market share, as in Twitch could still hypothetically grow in the future as live streaming in general grows. So while they'll have a relatively smaller piece of the pie, they will still have a larger piece in the pie relative to where they used to be. I'm a person who worries about the future. It'd be nice if I was in a situation for a live streaming platform to be like, hey, yo man, here's a fat stack of money to continue streaming on another platform. Because I wouldn't want to give up streaming. At least I don't have all my eggs in one basket. I am on YouTube to a large extent. It's hard to imagine what innovations can come in the streaming space that would be preferable than simply having everyone who streams on one platform. And certainly innovations occur and have been occurring and will occur. But there's just a lot of convenience in having everyone streaming on one platform. Like no viewer is excited when a streamer they watch moves to another platform. At best they're like, oh my god, I'm excited for you. That's cool for you. No viewer really sees that benefit. But what can you do, chat? Hey everyone, I referenced Devin Nash in the previous thing. This is who Devin Nash is. He is an inspirational speaker, entertainer in the gaming industry, and executive success coach. I'm also the CMO of Nerd Fusion Studios. I think this is old because I don't think he's the CMO anymore. Whatever. No, actually he might be. I think he still is. Anyway, he basically does commentary on everything related to like online platforms like YouTube and Twitch and Facebook and whatever. So if some news happens in the streaming world, it'll end up here and there'll be some long form commentary about it. He also has a lot of stories about business and stuff related to his various undertakings related to streaming and business and blah blah blah. I like his content. He has a good Twitch as well. If you want to check his stuff out, feel free. But that's who I was referencing. Thank you. You know what's a great way to be successful online? Liking my videos. It probably couldn't hurt. Thank you. |
| 11. December 2019 | The future of twitch in a competitive streaming marketplace | The future of Twitch in a competitive marketplace for streaming platforms. All the big streamers are either in talks to move somewhere else, or they've already taken money from Twitch to stay on Twitch. I get scared listening to Devin Nash, because the other competitors to Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, and Microsoft, they have a greater base to draw from to get viewers to their live streaming platform, where Twitch is not. Twitch basically is dominant right now because of first mover advantage. Or rather, like effectively first mover anyway, because it was just on TV, but you get the idea. The mixer can appeal to people on Xbox, YouTube of course can appeal to everyone on YouTube. Listening to Devin Nash be like, oh man, YouTube's gonna be dominant in two to five years. Who knows if that's true. And by dominant, it could just simply mean that Twitch is still around. Because I mean, it's Amazon, right? It's hard to imagine a reality where Twitch isn't around in five years. But it's hard to imagine in five years that Twitch is still owning 75% of the market share, let's say. You have to imagine at this point Twitch has peaked. But I guess they could have just peaked in terms of their relative market share, as in Twitch could still hypothetically grow in the future as live streaming in general grows. So while they'll have a relatively smaller piece of the pie, they will still have a larger piece in the pie relative to where they used to be. I'm a person who worries about the future. It'd be nice if I was in a situation for a live streaming platform to be like, hey, yo man, here's a fat stack of money to continue streaming on another platform. Because I wouldn't want to give up streaming. At least I don't have all my eggs in one basket. I am on YouTube to a large extent. It's hard to imagine what innovations can come in the streaming space that would be preferable than simply having everyone who streams on one platform. And certainly innovations occur and have been occurring and will occur. But there's just a lot of convenience in having everyone streaming on one platform. Like no viewer is excited when a streamer they watch moves to another platform. At best they're like, oh my god, I'm excited for you. That's cool for you. No viewer really sees that benefit. But what can you do, chat? Hey everyone, I referenced Devin Nash in the previous thing. This is who Devin Nash is. He is an inspirational speaker, entertainer in the gaming industry, and executive success coach. I'm also the CMO of Nerd Fusion Studios. I think this is old because I don't think he's the CMO anymore. Whatever. No, actually he might be. I think he still is. Anyway, he basically does commentary on everything related to like online platforms like YouTube and Twitch and Facebook and whatever. So if some news happens in the streaming world, it'll end up here and there'll be some long form commentary about it. He also has a lot of stories about business and stuff related to his various undertakings related to streaming and business and blah blah blah. I like his content. He has a good Twitch as well. If you want to check his stuff out, feel free. But that's who I was referencing. Thank you. You know what's a great way to be successful online? Liking my videos. It probably couldn't hurt. Thank you. |
| 17. July 2021 | The future plans for my channel. | The future plans for my channel. So the game plan guys is finish OCO, finish Pathfist, do a bajillion media share streams while I relearn all of the speedrun for Classic percent and then do Classic percent runs as well as complete single player games. So we complete Bully, we complete the Max Payne games, we complete all the other GTA clones, beat all of the Rockstar games and then I assume by that point I'll be like 80 and I'll die. Chaos will still come out once every 7 or 10 days or whatever. Doomsday Heist will be in there too. Elden Ring will be in there too yeah. That would, they would just, I would just consider them to be single player games and they'll be in the same period. Yeah Saints Row that's what I was thinking of yeah. Yeah James modded speedruns. I don't think a pistol only run would be very fun. I mean I'll do it at some point but like who's clicking on that video? Like there's no doubt in my mind I could beat the entire game with a pistol. A melee only run is just Pathfist. At the end of Pathfist you will know the bare minimum amount of time to have to violate the rule of melee. Certainly like for example let's say on the back of the plane in Nervous Ron where you have the machine gun there I could certainly get someone to mod the game so that's a pistol. Like I press a button and regardless of what weapon I have it switches me to a pistol. But things for example like Kalibre where you shoot down the plane, a pistol bullet wouldn't make it. What if you can mod the game so a pistol just has unlimited range? With that then I could always use a pistol. |
| 03. June 2022 | The garbage of Twitch | The garbage of Twitch Yeah, as I've said before if you are already big on Twitch the entire system of Twitch will just advertise your stream and effectively nothing else like a top streamer could be found out to be like blending puppies and And drinking it for fun, and they would still be huge on Twitch because that's just how the system works here |
| 04. November 2021 | The gibberish stories typed in twitch chat | The gibberish stories typed in Twitch chat. There's a handful of things that are annoying about being a streamer. One of them is when you look at chat and you try to read something, and it's written in such garbled English, and you try it time and time again. You see they're trying to piece, like you're still at the fucking DaVinci code of a goddamn fucking story. And you've already started so you're feeling invested. And you just keep going and going and you realize there's no way to understand it. And then you get some level of understanding. It's just a shitty story anyway. You're like, why the fuck did I do this? Happens all the time to me. Read this to yourself. I found the stolen red box rental case that had doom in brackets, new in a stolen. Owner went to jail and the owner of the car shop said, you can keep everything in the car if you want. I doubt he'll come back so naturally I took it. What car shop? In a stolen what? It's a it's sort of stolen car. But why are you at the car shop with the stolen car? Why do you have the option to get the car? How do you know that the red box was stolen? Nothing about that story makes any fucking sense. But even with stolen car, it's still very confusing. |
| 20. July 2022 | The gods like me having long hair | The gods like me having long hair. It happened again chat. I need to get a haircut and there's been flooding preventing me from going to my hairdresser. The last time I got a haircut I had to delay it like two weeks because of flooding and now one other haircut again have to delay it for flooding. It's like there's a deity that really likes me having long hair and so they are sending floods to prevent me from cutting my hair. |
| 16. June 2022 | The good design choices Wizard of Legend | Play Gym VR. The good design choices of Wizard of Legend. What I like about this game is there's a lot of pointless small things that kind of skips over. Like when you're out of combat, it gives you additional speed. When you finish a room, all the loot goes towards you. When you need to go back somewhere else, there's portals to take you, you know? It does its best to still have you connected to everything you're doing, but like you skip over the boring stuff. Like I'm not calling the game like the best game that's ever been made, I just mean like it's very well made. I like all the design decisions that they've done. I- these spears dude, what the hell. I take that back, I hate this game, it sucks. Out of 10, how good is this game? Uh... You can judge things in different ways, but it does what it wants to do perfectly, so I give it like a 10. Like there's nothing I would suggest to improve the game. If you're comparing it to all other games in terms of enjoyment, 7? There were definitely other games I could enjoy more than this, but they would all require me to be more entertaining and be- have energy and stuff. |
| 26. December 2021 | The grass can be greener but sometimes it isn't | The grass can be greener, but sometimes it isn't. I don't dislike my life. The problems with my life are things that I could work to solve. It'd be uncomfortable, it'd be potentially annoying, it'd take effort. But it's just effort that I don't want to go to, go to do. Because I want to make as much content as possible. I like the job that I do. In some ways, my heavy workload, my inconsistent sleep and all that, I consider these to be sacrifices I'm taking right now for my future. I won't do it forever. My career can't last forever. I want to, as much as possible, secure my future by making as much content now as I possibly can and ignore basically everything else. It's not the healthiest way to live life, it's not a balanced life. I constantly say that I've got the rest of my life to, you know, get a girlfriend, get married, get a dog, buy a house, all this stuff. But sometimes I sit down, I can almost feel the time just flowing away from me. I'm getting older. I mean, it's a lot harder dating in your 30s, especially with limited dating experience. But I find so much satisfaction and joy out of what I do that a part of me isn't convinced that I want that other stuff anyway. When you haven't experienced love, marriage, all that jazz, it's hard to know the value of it compared to what you already have. The grass can always be greener. You can't get worked up chasing the greener pasture, the always greener pasture, always greener, always greener. Sometimes you have to realize that, sure, maybe the next pasture would be greener, but maybe the pasture you have is perfectly green enough. Maybe the next pasture isn't going to be greener. Maybe you should stay in the pasture that you have. Change isn't always good. Things are going well for me, and therefore, even when I see certain detriments in what I'm doing and what is going for me, fixing them would jeopardize what I already have to varying degrees, and the potential upsides of that jeopardizing what I already have are unknown, so I don't do it. We humans dwell and live in familiarity. Change is what frightens us, but bold and courageous are the ones to accept it. In life and with content, people like things that are similar but different. People don't want things to stay perfectly the same. They want things to be familiar but a little bit different, and that's the content that does the best, especially if you're trying to branch out. You go, okay, what's working for me now? What can I change ever so slightly to make it feel fresh? You live in the same house, you get bored of it, you know? You feel better just moving the stuff around. Maybe get a different scent, and it all feels new and wonderful. Same house, same house that you love, familiar, but a little bit different. It's good. |
| 24. January 2022 | The great regret debate | The great regret debates. The most memorable thing about playing Portal 2 was the great regret debate. Cheese made the case that you can only regret something if it involves you and you were able to change it. So like, I regret that I didn't feed the dog. But you see, you can't say, I regret that your father died, because you can't influence that. You meet a person and you say their father died when they were six and you're like, I regret that happened to you. I have used regret and heard regret used as just a synonym for saying that you have sympathy for a person's circumstances. But Cheese made the argument, and it's not necessarily a bad argument, I don't know. It was kind of ambiguous reading the dictionary definition. That you personally have to have been involved and you regret not doing something different or whatever. Regret to inform? That makes sense because you could technically not inform them. You're like, you have the choice to either inform them or not inform them, and you don't want to do that. You regret having to do so. |
| 22. February 2022 | The greatest take down of nfts that has ever existed | The greatest takedown of NFTs that has ever existed. For everyone who hasn't seen it, I highly recommend this video. I was concerned that I would never be able to experience love in my life. I thought I would just go through the entire life and not understand what that feeling is like. Then I found this video and I'm in love. This is the greatest video that has ever been made ever. It's almost two and a half hours long, so it is, it does take some time to watch the whole thing, but every single point of it could be its own video. It is the most well-crafted explanation of crypto, NFTs, and why they both suck incredibly, and why the promises of both are nonsense and actually hide a seedy underbelly of horrible shit that if any of them reach mass adoption, will all be fucked. And things will just get massively worse. All the problems that they purport to try to solve, they actually make ten times worse. I know that sounds unlikely, perhaps, to you, but this video is irrefutable. It is just so perfectly crafted. No one could watch this video without learning at least a hundred different things. This is the sort of video that the ideal media landscape would just be videos of this nature. They wouldn't be videos like mine, they wouldn't be videos like I know just some guy reacting to some shit. It would just be this, these in-depth, well-researched documentaries that must, it must, this, that must have taken like weeks, if not months, to make. It is just beautiful craftsmanship as a content creator. I can't hold a candle to whoever the fuck this person is. I'm not subbed to them, I don't think. I want to see everything this person has ever made. Yeah, so watch this video. It's great. Even statements of like, NFTs are garbage, but the tech is good. No. This is just something that we repeat. It's not true. It's all trash. If you're hearing this in the future, and you haven't seen this video, go watch it. You guys in my stream right now, you can go watch it. I'll still be here two and a half hours later, and you can come back and go, Matt, that was the greatest video I've ever seen. I know. |
| 31. July 2022 | The greatest update to GTA Online ever. | The greatest update to GC Online ever. Is a snack change any good? Yes. It is the bare minimum of what was required for it to be good. It doesn't make any noises, it doesn't tell you how many snacks you have left, it doesn't show you which snacks you're using, you can't use it in cars, but what they've implemented is the bare minimum for it to be a significant improvement. How does it work now? All you do is you press tab and press C for snacks or V for armor. Services, this one, this one. Yeah. Instant spawning end it's a new thing chat. You don't have to wait the awkward seconds now. It's a good update chat. Quality of life improvements. I'll applaud them every time they come. No it's not. My guy, you can use snacks without opening the end menu. If they had only released that, I would have been satisfied with the update. I don't do much in GT Online and they've reduced the inconveniences that I face when playing. As long as they keep increasing the quality of life improvements, I'll keep being like guys play this game. Make myself a tier list all other DLCs in F, this one in S. Not that I'm saying all other DLCs have been bad, but by comparison to this one, all F here. They took my idea. I should sue them. Hey, wait a second. Yeah, I always had the idea that they should improve this game and look at that. They improved it. Stealing my ideas. Whoa, what has the world come to? I think they just removed the animation for snacks. Good. How do I rate the DLC? As I only saw this small portion of it, I can't really assess the entire thing, but I'm going to give it a 10 out of 10 because they improved snacks and armor for the first time in nine years. 10 out of 10 DLC. |
| 23. December 2019 | The gross microtransaction trend in gaming | The gross microtransaction trend in gaming. Like the companies that have the money to make amazing games spend so much of their time making predatory games that so few amazing games get made. It's like, okay, we'll put 10 bucks on making this game and a million dollars in researching how we can best convince these people to give us all their money. They've got the $10 dev team and the $10 trillion fucking psych team of how to manipulate people and their behaviors. It just feels that way sometimes. I'm obviously exaggerating a bit. A good example is Diablo 4 has been announced. They don't know when it's gonna come out. They don't know the... like, they can't give us the super low details but what they can tell us is that there's going to be microtransactions for cosmetic content. Nothing else that they know but that they definitely know. That's their number one priority with the Diablo 4 game. How... fucking shoving those microtransactions. You remember when cosmetics, pets, and shit were just a part of the game package that you enjoyed finding in the game? It's like, oh my god I found this cool pet on the fucking microtransaction store that I didn't have to pay five dollars for. |
| 02. May 2021 | The growth of GTA 5 Speedrunning | The growth of GTA V speedrunning. There has been some damn cool stuff over the last year or whatever that have been dedicated to completing this run. I've had to watch on the sidelines as all the people who do GTA V speedrunning keep finding new stuff. Look at this. Look at this. So, on Chop, right, it turns out all you have to do is drive your bike into one of these two areas and then dive into D. So you can see him here delaying Lamar speaking with a phone call. I don't know why I can't hear it. So then he drives into one of the boxes, turns around, and he dives out of his car and starts the cutscene. And there's been a bunch of stuff like that that has been found. Some of it's small, some of it's a little bit bigger, especially with buffered ledge grabs or random stuff like that. I'm almost emotional seeing this kind of stuff, right? Because once upon a time, it was basically just me, Tarex, and D'Artes, right? And even D'Artes only sometimes did runs and Tarex had a full-time job. So a lot of it was just me doing runs kind of by myself sometimes, and most of the new strats that were found came from one of us, often mostly me, because I had days that I could spend just testing stuff. And seeing hundreds, well, not even hundreds, but well over a hundred people, there's definitely hundreds of people contributing and well over a hundred active runners and stuff all finding stuff is very cool, you know? And I wish I was more a part of it, but I'm stuck doing this bloody category and I can't do it, you know? Like if you compare the scenarios where I was the main contributor to all the new strats versus now where I'm barely significant at all, I much prefer this scenario, because it fucking sucks. I really like how much GT5 speed running is current, you know? |
| 23. January 2021 | The happy hob is kind of my opposite. | is kind of my opposites. You know what I find really funny? About the happy hog. I'm a guy playing lots of Grand Theft Auto, wishing that I could play lots of Souls. And he keeps saying he really loves GTA V, and he wished he could play a lot of it, or whatever, because he wants to do the Hoko Run for it. And I think that's kind of funny. We're opposites in that way, because he plays a lot of Souls. We switched lives for a month or two. |
| 20. December 2021 | The hardest thing to explain to editors | The hardest thing to explain to editors. One of the hardest things I've had to deal with is pacing with people's edits. You can't cut the frame where like I the second the air leaves my mouth for a bit of speech. You can't cut there directly into me speaking somewhere else with another puff of air. Like this is not how it feels like your ears are just being attacked by audio but everyone does it. Drives me crazy. Like I've had to put in the guidelines give me 15 frames at least before I stop speaking before you cut. Please! It should never appear that different. There's this thing that I do so I got a very good ear for audio. Okay so I'll have a sequence of a bunch of clips and when I listen to it in the final edit and I'll be like okay this clip needs to have like a few more frames here this one needs a few more frames here this one needs a few more frames here and and it makes everything like flow in like this this particularly good sounding way and I can't I can't communicate that well to the editors who are editing for me. You just need an ear for it. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best! |
| 15. January 2023 | The harsh reality of those who succeed at the expense of others. | For a bit. The harsh reality of those who succeed at the expense of others. I would sub to you but my debit card got stolen when I was swimming at a hot spring. The guy who stole it from me told me that he would watch my car so nobody would break into it. He was the only human for 10 miles. God damn dude, that sucks. I remember seeing this video of just this unassuming nice looking couple who were at a restaurant and just as they were leaving looked in a person's jacket and saw a wallet. And so they just took it and walked off without just hesitation like, Oh look, it's money and then just gone. There's some people who just have that mindset, you know, where it's like, Oh, I can fuck someone over and get something who cares about them. It's all about me. Sounds like we actors. I wasn't going to make that joke, but if you're going to make that joke, which isn't really a joke, it's absolutely true. Feel free. |
| 29. December 2020 | The hatred between speedrunners. | The hatred between speedrunners. So much hate between speedrunners? Is there? I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if there is a reasonable amount of animosity. It's a weird thing, speedrunning, because on one hand, it's a community-based thing where everyone benefits from everyone else's involvement with each other in terms of reducing the times of everyone. Discoveries are best shared. But at the same time, it's a competitive thing where everyone wants to be the best. Holding back strats, not communicating, not giving advice, these things benefit you in terms of keeping yourself ahead of the pack, you know? And especially when there's now money involved in having a world record and whatnot, depending upon the game, in terms of clout generating an audience and blah blah blah, you can understand why there might be some animosity. Like if you feel like you're making all these cool new strats and you're not getting any credit for it because this other person's getting world records, or you know you get world record but then it's immediately taken away from you so you're not able to really capitalize on it, or like you're sick of the stress of having to maintain your world record and there's always this guy who's breathing down your neck about to take it, so you've got to keep running and keep running and keep running. Because there's no end. As long as the run is still being ran by other people, you'll eventually lose your world record if you quit. So you can't ever quit if you want to continue to be the best. And that could drain a person, right? But at the same time, so that's kind of where that kind of animosity can come from, but at the same time, like other speedrunners are people who are just like you, very passionate about the thing that you love doing most, so they're potentially more like you than the average person. They're one of the few people that you can talk to on the same level about your hobby, about your passion, and that kind of stuff can lead to friendships. And it's like, it's different opposing forces in the speedrunning community that can either lead to hatred, animosity, or camaraderie and friendship. |
| 04. March 2021 | The hidden gems on my Youtube channel. | The hidden gems on my YouTube channel. Your friend wants a taco bowl? My taco bowl? Make him sick? That cooking video didn't get a ridiculous amount of views. Like, I think it's sitting at 90k right now, but it is a funny video. And the end is even kind of a little bit wholesome. It's unfortunate when videos like that get made that are actually quite good, but because they deviate from the content that people subscribe for, or usually watch me for, which is GTA V, less people click on it. So the algorithm says, oh well, you know, normally a Dark Fyper AU viewer is clicking on every single one of these videos, but oh, this cooking video, they're not clicking on it, so I guess we won't recommend it as much. It sucks when that happens. There's a lot of, I wouldn't want to call them hidden gems because they have tens of thousands of views or whatever, but there's a lot of videos on my channel that I guarantee you, you guys haven't seen that you would really enjoy. Some of my non-GTA V gameplay videos or my cooking videos or the shitty in-real life pizza review thing I did a while back, as if 90k isn't a lot, well, it's all relative, you know what I'm saying? As in I know that I have a wider audience who would enjoy watching it if they were to give it a chance or it was recommended to them, but that isn't likely to happen. |
| 04. March 2021 | The hidden gems on my youtube channel. | The hidden gems on my YouTube channel. Your friend wants a taco bowl? My taco bowl? Make him sick? That cooking video didn't get a ridiculous amount of views. Like, I think it's sitting at 90k right now, but it is a funny video. And the end is even kind of a little bit wholesome. It's unfortunate when videos like that get made that are actually quite good, but because they deviate from the content that people subscribe for, or usually watch me for, which is GTA V, less people click on it. So the algorithm says, oh well, you know, normally a Dark Fyper AU viewer is clicking on every single one of these videos, but oh, this cooking video, they're not clicking on it, so I guess we won't recommend it as much. It sucks when that happens. There's a lot of, I wouldn't want to call them hidden gems because they have tens of thousands of views or whatever, but there's a lot of videos on my channel that I guarantee you, you guys haven't seen that you would really enjoy. Some of my non-GTA V gameplay videos or my cooking videos or the shitty in-real life pizza review thing I did a while back, as if 90k isn't a lot, well, it's all relative, you know what I'm saying? As in I know that I have a wider audience who would enjoy watching it if they were to give it a chance or it was recommended to them, but that isn't likely to happen. |
| 02. May 2021 | The highlight of my career | The highlights of my career. Bob made this small clip of me dancing during my VR session and he put it to cyberpunk music, right? It's on the clips channel. Only has like 17,000 views or whatever. And the bitrate's terrible. But someone posted it to r slash memes, titling it Mission Accomplished and put a tagline when an introverted person orders food or something and it's like, it's a clip of me dancing awkwardly but being excited. If you haven't seen it, you probably haven't seen it. But I'm always so flattered when anything that I do becomes a meme. I just find that funny. I don't feel like a super interesting person who's done a lot of interesting stuff. But just being memes is cool. Like, of all the things that I've been able to do or had done to me as a part of my career, becoming a meme in any capacity is definitely on top of it. It's one of my favorite things. Certainly I really appreciate when people make stuff for my subreddit, right? But that is a little bit different. Like when I'm a meme that's mainstream somewhere else that's not in my little community, that's even more flattering, right? It's just really nice when anyone is inspired by something that I've created or inspired by me in some way to create something cool. It's a wonderful feeling. |
| 02. March 2022 | The history of my emotes on twitch. | just went alone at home or something. The history of my emotes on Twitch. Back in the day when I first started on Twitch, I had no artistic talents, and I still to this day have no artistic talent. So what I did was I went to Google and I went, what kind of creature do I like? I know a dragon, animated GIF of dragon. And I found this red dragon, which I eventually found out was made by someone who had like a Facebook account or whatever. They're not really an artist, whatever. Something gonna be copied like 57,000 times. Everyone was using it everywhere. It had even been ripped into various mobile games, by the asset flipping kind of mobile game people. So clearly no one cared about the copyrighted thing. So I'm like, okay, I'm taking that. So I put that as all my alerts. I didn't like all the alerts being red dragons though. So for the first time ever, I downloaded Photoshop and I learned how to replace the colors on the dragons. You couldn't just replace one color. You need multiple shades of different colors. And so I would do that. And then I'd change it a little bit. And then I would like square by square, I would change it so the animation was better because the animation wasn't that good in the flapping of the wings. But then eventually I wanted to get some, then I also had other emotes like devapahappy, devaparage. These were Shibas, cause I like Shibas. And they were made by Spacey. And they were my best emotes for a very long time. And then I made my own emotes, which was basically like, you'd go to Google and you'd find a picture of an animal, a cat or a dog or something that was, had a particular expression. And then I'd make that into an emote basically. These were not very good emotes, obviously. So I decided that I wanted to have like official emotes. So I started looking into getting people to make me red dragon emotes, cause that was my original bit of art that I had on the channel. The people that I hired, like back then, like $40 was a lot of money for me. And I'm like, $40 for three emotes, what the hell? And I wanted them to be perfect. And maybe I was a bit too demanding of the artist. I'm not sure. I honestly think looking back at the art that they made me, they just weren't very good emotes. It was good ass, but not good emotes. Maybe in post I can put up the pictures here. I don't know. But I also found out that, I think his name's Fifi. He had a different name at the time, but his name is now Fire Dragon. He had a bunch of red dragon emotes. And I was like, whoa, shit. There's a speed runner that I know of who has red dragon emotes. So it'd be weird for me to also have red dragon emotes. Obviously over the course of the platform, people are gonna have the same kind of animals as their emotes, but I just felt self-conscious about that. So I'm like, well, fuck. You know what? I'll get Shibas. So I had this person make me a bunch of Shiba emotes, cause I was interested in Shibas. But then I don't know. Oh yeah, yeah. There was a GIF of a Samoyed, which is the current dog that I'm using, a white dog that is waving. It was adorable. Fell in love with this dog. And so I took the GIF and I made it into a waving emote, which is what is there now. But I realized I couldn't just, I didn't wanna keep just taking pictures of Samoyeds from Google. So I got an actual artist, which is Gray, the person I have now, to start making emotes. And the rest is history. And that's how I ended up having Samoyed emotes, going from Red Dragon to Samoyed emotes, which is what all my art is focused around now. Even though I don't have a Samoyed, I probably will never have one, because their maintenance as pets very, very high. And probably not very good for the climate that I mean either. The following rambles is. |
| 10. January 2021 | The history of rambles and how they get made. | The history of my Rambles series and how they get made. So the history of the Rambles, okay? So, speedrunner Rambles used to be called political Rambles, and so whenever I would go through my how the speedrun ended, my footage to get how the speedrun ended footage and stuff, I would occasionally run across things where for a couple of minutes I'd speak on a topic. And so, unedited, I just threw that up onto my YouTube, and most of them were political Rambles, where I'd talk about something related to politics, society, philosophy, whatever, and so that's why the series was called Political Rambles. But as the series started to expand and I included other Rambles that weren't political, and I believed that calling them political would hurt the algorithm, hurt me in the algorithm, I decided to change the name. When I got editors to help me, I would ask them to take the, any section where I spoke over a minute about something, and put it separate on a separate timeline, and then I would string them together myself, and then release them as separate videos. Over time, but they were always meant to be just really quickly thrown together things, but over time they've become more complicated. The Rambles used to be sent to me at the same time as the project they came from, so an episode of how the speedrun ended would be finished, and then the Rambles would be sent along with that, but I realized that that would cause the Rambles to be even more out of date. So what I said to them is like, look, when you've gone through the footage for the first time, and the Rambles are done, send me the Rambles, and I'll polish them off myself, and then I'll release them. So they become, they won't be as out of date. But even that was still fairly out of date, because it can take a long time for any particular editor to bother to spend the time to go through footage. So what we do now is, I say to them, the second you have half an hour's worth of Rambles, send them to me, I'll polish them and upload them. This means that they're, they were still, at best, they'll still be a week old, but at least they'll be at least somewhat topical, right? So the process of Rambles right now is, I'll give an editor a bunch of Oko footage. They'll be going through it. They'll find half an hour of me rambling about stuff. They'll separate that. They'll send it to me. And then I'll open it in a project file. I will make the opening screen where it shows the timestamp of all the things. I will name all the sections. I will remove sections that I don't think are good or that I've talked about already too much or that I don't feel like I explained myself very well. So I do that kind of editing. And then I will do the voice lines for each of the topics. And then they'll get released. And that's how Rambles get made. |
| 30. September 2022 | The horror hidden under my brand logo | Horror hidden under my brand logo. My logo makes no sense. I don't wear this jumper anymore. I don't even know where that shirt is anymore. I tried to have this redrawn where I'm wearing a tank top, but it just does not look good. What is he hiding? Under the jumper. Wah! It's a monster! Burn it with fire! |
| 06. June 2022 | The huge stretch marks on my back | My back. My stream was later than I intended today because I went to get another fucking treatment to work on the scars on my back. You wanna see them chat? I'm sure they look terrible right now. And I look terrible because I'm fat as fuck right now, but uh... I'm just... Look at that. Ain't they pretty? I remember the day when someone else pointed out the stretch marks to me. Like I didn't... There has to be a day where that happens, right? And I was at the gym. I was young, probably like 16 years old or something, and I had gone with a friend of mine. And we were walking along and he's like, What's in your back? I'm like, what do you mean? He's like, there's like lines and stuff and I start feeling on my back and I'm like, I know what you're talking about. And then I just kept walking and then like I know like a couple days later I noticed in the mirror and I'm like, oh my god. I got like lines all over my back, what the fuck is this? And just... I guess I just grew very tall very quickly and my skin just went... You know? And so you can't remove scars, right? But apparently you can soften them. And that's what this is doing. Like I don't know exactly what it's doing and it's very expensive. And I'm somewhat convinced it's going to do absolutely nothing, but I'm like, I'll give it a shot anyway. |
| 04. January 2020 | The idea of power and the symbolic power of the queen | The idea of power and the symbolic power of the Queen. I didn't know the Queen Elizabeth II could declare wars on other countries and look if Queen Elizabeth II woke up one morning I was like I want to invade Cambodia Countries that are in the Commonwealth that didn't want to do it simply wouldn't. Clearly there would be a balancing of considerations of whether it would make sense to to do it, right? It wouldn't just be simply like oh they every country would immediately do it without any second question, right? every single agreement or treaty on the planet can be broken in a moment's notice if Whatever is being asked of a country through that treaty is too burdensome. It's like okay Abiding by this treaty would destroy our country, but we did agree to the treaty So, you know it didn't never happen all power is conditional and those conditions can always be broken the Queen Her power is symbolic and that if she ever tried to do anything There was too egregious everyone was go fuck you get the fuck out outside of like Some sort of innate power would have it like your physical strength or what have you power is just a social construct That we grants to others like if every like if enough people right now said The American dollar is worth nothing and no one wanted it Everyone whose power is in a large part dependent upon their the amount of American dollars They have would just suddenly lose all that power overnight How secure you are in your power to manipulate your environment around you just depends on how likely? The st- the circumstances are to come about that you lose that power like I have some measure of power and influence over duty if I have speed running and the leaderboards and the moderation and blah blah blah, but let's say tomorrow I Cheated power be gone like that. Everyone be like get the fuck out You're not trustworthy and I just be gone. My power is conditional on people's willingness to allow me to continue to have it |
| 17. September 2021 | The ideal length of a speedrun | The ideal length of a speedrun. In general, I don't find very short speedruns appealing at all. Like for me, the perfect speedrun is between 1 and 2 hours for the Any% and like between 3 and 4 hours for the 100%. I've always said that GTA V is a little bit too long. Like I think if GTA V's classic percent, or even with taxis, if any of them were 4 hours long, you would have had like triple the runners who would have picked up this game over the years. The barrier to entry of 6 hours is really large for a lot of people. I mean for everyone who's sane, right? |
| 25. November 2022 | The idiocy of Twitter Blue. | This is a compilation of the last two weeks of rambles about Elon Musk's Twitter and Tengen's Lee related topics. Starting with the idiocy of Twitter Blow. On Twitter, obviously, I do not like the change with verification. This may sound insulting, chat. What do I care if Barry is who they say they are? There's no amount of verification that's gonna matter here. Like, there's no difference to me between a mention on my mention page and a verification from a person who's bought Twitter Blow. All this tells me about the person is that they were willing to give Elon Musk $8. Like, oh, billionaire in dire straits, man. He's losing money. I just can't, I just can't deal with it. He's at $8. I don't really talk that much shit about Twitter Blow, because I like Pez, and Pez has Twitter Blow. Pez deserves to be verified for other reasons, right? Honestly, I would just like a tab here so that I can always see people I follow, like the mentions from my follows. Because I hate having to go into here and go to preferences and then filters and then muted notifications, then who I don't follow, and then go back here to mentions to see just the people I follow, and then go, oh, that's the mentions from the people I follow, then go back into here, muted notifications, and put this back on. Like, I would just like everyone I don't follow and everyone I do follow, and that's it. Why does this person deserve more attention and notice from me than a person in my mentions? It doesn't make any sense. I want to highlight, though, a particular video chat. This video by Thunderf00t is fucking hilarious, and certainly will make a lot of people like Elon Musk butt hurt, but it goes over his contradictory and stupid statements over the last couple of months, and it is so fucking funny. It eats into him, his failures, and how dumb he is and how, okay, let's not use the word dumb. Naive and lacking in knowledge about how social media works and how advertisement works, and he's thrown himself into an industry he does not fucking understand, and he's floundering and failing, and the only way he's going to be able to get his head above water is if he just delegates all duties for Twitter to people who actually know what the fuck they're doing. I mean, he did, of course, fire the people who knew what they were doing to a degree and gave them $200 million. Smart move. It's funny, chat, we talked about this a long fucking time ago when Elon Musk first started floating the idea of a true free speech platform and how advertisers would react to that, and I said at the time, they're not going to like that because they want to have some consistency in regards to what they're going to be advertising on, and if their moderation tools aren't up to snuff, like if you fire half the staff, they're going to flee for the hills because they don't know if their advertisers are going to be put next to, like, complete trash, you know, something that will affect their brand. Advertisers don't like fucking uncertainty, like an egomaniac taking control of a social media network. That's just not what they want, and so Elon Musk going, man, these activists are stopping the advertisers from advertising on Twitter. He's just so naive and out of touch, he just doesn't understand anything about the market. But hopefully, I mean, for those of us who still want to use Twitter occasionally, he will learn fast because as much as I don't like Elon, I wouldn't want to see Twitter disappear. Not that I care that much about it, but a lot of people do. So, you know, it would suck if a website that people enjoy using gets tanked because a billionaire got his feelings hurt once. But it is just funny, everything I said in that previous ramble, like, many months ago about how that would work in regards to advertising on Twitter, all coming true. But as I say, watch this video, Elon Musk's Big Mistake by Thunderf00t. Thunderf00t is an interesting dude because me and him have, to some degree, similar obsessive tendencies. This man must have made, like, a video on every single failure Elon Musk has ever had in the entire history of his life. It gets like a B in his bonnet about a particular idea or person or concept and will just make video after video after video, often repeating himself just to try to get more people to understand his point of view or, you know, his perspective, what have you. And that reminds me of me, except not even I would go as far as Thunderf00t goes on some topics. Even I would just let things go. But he's like, no, I will have my 110th video. But regardless, good video, highly recommend. As was predicted by literally everyone on the planet except Elon Musk, his stupid idea of giving everyone a paid blue checkmark, something that for the entirety of Twitter's history has indicated verified and legit, enabling people to pay for that has caused a bunch of problems. Twitter pauses paid verifications after users abuse service to impersonate brands and people. For example, someone managed to wipe 16 billion off of Ellie Lilly's valuation by paying $8 to verify a parody account, then tweeting that they're making insulin free. We are excited to announce insulin is free now. Because obviously it has the checkmark, so it has to be legit. And the stock market, even if the people who are selling the stock recognize that it's fake, they'd be like, oh, but will everyone realize it's fake? Well, if enough people start selling, I better start selling too. And so it goes down. It doesn't take that much to spook the markets and all these people pretending to be large companies, of course, is going to have an impact. As I keep saying, it's almost like Elon is making decisions that are just memes. We're going to get back at all those checkmark people that everyone hates by giving everyone a checkmark. You know, there was no reason for Twitter blue to now be the authentified checkmark that's been there for a billion years, right? They already had an icon for Twitter blue that Elon Musk like, no, no, no, we don't need that shit. We need to make as much confusion as fucking possible. It's dumb. It's a smart move. He isn't stupid, nor the tears is beautiful. This ties the bank account to verified accounts and makes more legitimate accounts as he was correct about the bots from the sale. There are more ways to combat bots than getting people to pay $8. There was not going to be enough people who pay $8 to counteract any sort of botting on the platform. More importantly, if it was such a good move, why did they stop doing it? You could have had paid verification and get a logo that wasn't the same logo as verified accounts from actual people. Of course it was a dumb move. It's blown up in his face and now he stopped doing it because as everyone pointed out, it's fucking dumb. Exactly. People that want a blue tick can definitely afford it. It clearly hasn't stopped people trolling because we're watching the fucking fallout of people trolling with Twitter blue. Elon being like, oh man, all these people don't want to advertise with us because of activists. And then this shit happens where all these high profile companies are having their fucking stock prices tanked because of some stupid decision that Elon Musk made. Please advertise with us. Oh, by the way, we have a platform where anyone can pay $8 to pretend to be someone else and tank your stock price. Like you could obviously do paid verification without also causing confusion as to what accounts are verified. Because this form of paid verification doesn't verify that you are who you say you are. It just verifies that you paid $8, which is why again this person could verify themselves as this company. Being verified as a complete random nobody isn't meaningful. That isn't a true verification. You verified that no one knows who you are, but you paid $8. The fact that Twitter has enough power to take the stock price down with one tweet is scary. I think it's less Twitter and more that any far-reaching message that's appeared to be legitimate in any capacity or potentially has the ability to fool people would have had this effect. So someone hacked into their email accounts and sent out a mass email saying we're doing X, that would also have the same effect. It doesn't take much for a stock price to change. As long as people believe that other people in the market are going to be reacting to some sort of news, people will then act. It bothers me though that for a lot of people, they switch off their brains, don't analyze the likely implications of something and they're just like, does Elon Musk support this? Then it must be good. And I will repeat what Elon Musk says without thinking about any word that he says. Yeah, I'll be honest with you, for a lot of people, it's who hates this idea? Do the right people hate this idea? Yes, then it must be a good idea. It's that old meme, I will support anything that triggers X people. People just don't want to think about shit. Like anyone with any sort of sense or knowledge of how social media works said immediately when Elon proposed this idea that this is dumb and not how social media works. But again, Elon Musk, no experience in social media is like, I can do better than everyone else despite having no experience in the field. All you need is an ego and a bit of money and people will follow you, regardless how stupid your decisions are. |
| 30. December 2022 | The illusion of competence in the eyes of the uninformed. | OOZEN OF COMPETENCE IN THE EYES OF THE UNINFORMED So a tweet got to the top of Reddit that mirrored something I was talking about recently where if you don't have any knowledge of a particular topic it's very hard to assess another person's competency in that topic if they're acting quite confident because people can- you can suss out when a person's uncertain about what they're doing but if they just have unjustified confidence it's hard to be able to go oh wait you're actually full of shit So Rod Hilton says, he talked about electric cars, I don't know anything about cars so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius Then he talked about rockets, I don't know anything about rockets so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius Now he talks about software, I happen to know a lot about software and Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets Each one of you will have this experience at some point It's like when he talked about social media or how to compete with YouTube with uh edited content and stuff and everything he said was just unbelievably stupid and then when he makes statements where like I don't like to attribute credit to people based on what they do I think it's toxic and stuff it's like oh yeah because the entirety of Elon Musk's history is him getting lucky and or taking credit for other people's stuff Look up some of the in-depth kind of histories of Elon Musk's life and think to yourself wait a second He got really lucky for that to occur that company bought okay yeah he just happened to make that before everyone else okay fair enough oh he he just happened to have shares when they got bought out okay fair enough and all along the way it's like oh he wasn't actually a founder of that he he bullied the people out and paid so he could be called founder okay oh he didn't actually found that company his company was just bought by that company because himself a founder oh that's very interesting and it goes on and on and on but people still love Elon Musk chat because we exist in a hellscape life is terrible |
| 30. June 2021 | The illusion of rain | The illusion of rain. I wish it was raining in real life. You think it'd be possible to get like a speaker system that goes around the entirety of your house and have it play the sounds of rain, including like the sound of rain hitting glass and stuff and then just turn up your air conditioning and then it could feel like it's always raining? Yeah, the rain smell is something that you couldn't replicate. Maybe they are like smelling something, candles or something that do the smell of rain. |
| 21. June 2022 | The imbalance of the world | As always, the new thumbnails are definitely helping that series. I have for a long time wanted to have thumbnails for Rambles. It's just I was never able to find a person who could make good stuff. You know, one of the things that's stopping the person who's making the thumbnails for me now from making more of them, he's from Pakistan and he's having electricity issues, like something like eight hours a day or something like he loses electricity. When you hear stuff like that, it makes you, well in part it makes you hate the injustice of the world. Some people through no fault of their own can be born into circumstances like that. But also, you know, make sure to appreciate what you have. I never worked to be born in one of the ten richest countries in the world, you know. With as many opportunities as I have, you know. Really put things into perspective and it reinforces again, there's so many things about the world that I would change and heartbeat if I could, but I can't. I don't think it's healthy the amount that I fantasize about having like all power and just being able to right the wrongs in the world. But especially because like, who am I to think that even if I had such capability that I would make the right choices. But sometimes I think like, regardless of how bad my choices might end up being, like at least my motives would be good. And I think I would have a better shot than the current systems of the world, you know. I guess it's just, I don't know. The world is just so complicated. If you want to ask me what is the one thing that you would change to make the world a better place, I have no idea what that one thing should be, you know. Matter the super dictator for the people, it's called a benevolent dictator. Obviously, they can never really be such a thing. Or rather, I suppose they hypothetically could, it's just you'd never want to trust someone to be one, right? Because power corrupts. It is certainly true that one person acting with absolute power could initiate massive change very quickly. But would that be good change, you know? Like democracy is not the most efficient form of governance. It's just the one that has the greatest chance to be fair, at least fair to a degree. |
| 21. July 2020 | The immediacy of different content | Different forms of content having more importance to produce immediately. I will be playing more GTA clones, but I mean the last GTA clone I played isn't even out on YouTube. With content that isn't time sensitive, I'm generally pretty lenient with getting it out immediately. Like the video about, you know, Amanda not being in prologue, whatever, that I just released. Great video. As low as the chance is, someone else could have made that video, especially when I voiced that I was gonna make it. Someone could have swooped in and taken it from me, so I was more keen to finish it. But like, people can't swoop in and take pastors from me, really, because I mean I'm that far into the series. Someone could hypothetically swoop in and be the first person to do a zero damage run, so I'm kinda keen to get this done. But when it comes to like, single player playthroughs of older games, it's not like more or less people are gonna watch it if I do it later. As a matter of fact, more people may watch it if I do it later, because the game may become even more nostalgic or whatever. Those games are as beloved or not beloved as they're gonna be, so there's no pressing need for me to do it right now. When I wanna take a break or vary up my content, then I can reach into the GTA clone bag, but there's no imperative for me. |
| 22. February 2021 | The impact of donations sounds and text to speech on viewership | The impact of donation sounds and text-to-speech on viewership Why don't you ask text-to-speech? Is it because you'd need to focus? Because I started this series without donation sounds and without text-to-speech I have just continued that trend. It would be interesting to know if having text-to-speech on and donation sounds increases or decreases viewership or does nothing. Because as long as they don't happen that often it's probably not particularly disruptive and I Because text-to-speech can enable some funny interactions and stuff which may make a stream feel more lively especially in streams where the streamer doesn't talk all that much. I'm concerned that when I get back to having it on for speedruns that it will go off just constantly and if that's the case, I'll have to increase its price. It's just depressing now that I've had it off for the beginning of the series. I'm gonna keep it on. |
| 04. July 2022 | The impact of let’s plays on walking simulators | Pact of Let's Plays on walking simulators. After watching your NTV react content videos, there are some games that I feel like I specifically never played because I watch game plays of it, like Stanley Parable and Supermassive Games. Yeah, so the closer a video game is to a video, the greater the possibility that the game is going to lose sales because of videos of it. It's kind of a catch-22. The algorithm for small games to be found is effectively non-existent, or rather people don't spend time trawling Steam, going to page 15 or whatever, looking for games. Like they need to get noticed on other platforms and therefore spread by word of mouth. So if you make yourself a walking simulator, you would have some benefit in people, like a handful of people maybe, showing a little bit of it on streams, where people just jump in and don't watch the whole thing or whatever, or on YouTube where they just like review it or whatever. But showing the whole thing will kind of defeat the purpose, you know? Like you'd hope that when a person would start watching the stream or video, they'd be like, oh, I actually really enjoy this. I want to do it myself. But it's obviously not always going to be the case. So it's a question of are the amount of people who do that, watch the video, stop and then go buy it. Is that going to be more people than who would have just bought it naturally, had you just let it run by word of mouth and just using Steam's algorithm, which is effectively non-existent? Yeah, no, no. Case by case basis. Oh, like you never know, rather. You can never know if a let's play of a walking simulator has lost you more sales than it's gained you. As I say, there are very, very few games that fit into that category. There are very few games that are effectively not games and they're just videos. |
| 06. June 2022 | The impact of livestreaming on reaction content | live streaming on reaction content. I forgot who told it, but there was a comment somewhere where they talked about how people, couple years back, were against react content when it came out, and now they all do it. I once too held to the opinion, which Mudahar seems to hold to, where if it's in a live stream, and then it goes into a VOD and then disappears, that is not as impactful as the YouTube stuff, that sits there forever and continues to fuck up the algorithm and steal away impressions from everyone and stuff. I still don't think it's good on Twitch. I mentioned in the video why it's bad, but if react content disappeared, Twitch's fundamental issues would not disappear. It just makes it worse. On YouTube, it's just infinitely worse. I tried to make the case at the end of the video where I'm like, if you've watched a YouTube video in a live stream, I'm not saying you're equivalent to Asmongold re-uploading hundreds of people's videos, or XQC watching dozens of hours of YouTube every week. There can be legitimate reasons to watch a video on stream, or you just watch the occasional video or something, whatever. I'm arguing against the idea of having watching other people's content being a fundamental part of your business model to grow in the algorithm. The example I used of Smallance reacting to the world record of Minecraft, a run that he contributed to, and he did it with the permission of the person who made the run, that's very different to me. You're reacting with the permission of a particular person in a community that you're directly involved in once a month. I was like, fine. It's very different than grabbing all the best content of a genre and then just putting it all on your YouTube channel. You know what I'm saying? As I say, it takes a particular sort of person who can wake up one day and think I deserve to rip and re-upload the entirety of other people's creative works, and then to lie to people and pretend like I'm benefiting them and not just doing it for myself. It's fortunate that only a fraction of people are willing to do this, or have that mentality rather. But at the end of the day, there's an asmon gold in every industry that is figuratively kicking old people down the stairs for profit, just because they feel like they can. This is Clip. I really want to talk about it, but I'm not going to do any more drama stuff. Like, I want to talk about it because it has, you know, morality, psychological sort of implications and all that jazz. But people wouldn't take it that way. So maybe I'll just stick it in my back catalog and look at it six months from now or something. I've never heard something so stupid in the entire history of my life. Imagine arguing against the idea of abstract concepts. Like, what is kindness? Can you feel kindness? Can you touch kindness? Can you put it in your hand? I, like, for those who have ever watched the old reaction videos that I made against asmon gold, this kind of level of thinking when it comes to defending the indefensible is something asmon gold doesn't. |
| 19. January 2022 | The impact of spoilers on enjoyment of content. | The impact of spoilers on enjoyment of content. The new Spider-Man movie is so fucking good, it's unfortunate I won't be able to see it for months because it's not gonna get on Disney Plus or whatever. I got spoiled for the entire plot because of YouTube and people filming in the theater. So I have heard secondhand about studies. I trust the source reporting on it a bit. Apparently, as you might expect, spoilers are not like universally detrimental to the experience of seeing a movie. For some movies, knowing what's gonna happen is better, but others not so. It also depends on the person. What I mean is it's possible by having it spoiled, wouldn't it really change how much you enjoy the movie? Or maybe it made it better, who knows? Stop talking about the movie, I haven't seen it, I don't care. So I'll give you an example. Silver, you in chat? It was the deciding match of the semi-final of Heroes of Might Magic 3, the World Championship, and I said, oh, I'm gonna be watching it later. And Silver's like, oh man, it was a nail-biter or something, and the ending was such a surprise. And so for the entire time I watched it, I was like, is that the surprise? Is that the surprise? Is this the thing? No, that can't be the thing. Is this the thing? Maybe. The thing was so back and forth. He was in the lead, then he was in the lead, and I'm like, oh, this must be the thing! The thing where it's like, oh my god, I can't believe it. It wasn't the thing? And that's what I was thinking about the entire time. No, you said something about the nature of the game where it was an upset or something, or you didn't see the ending coming, or surprising or something. Yeah, so I was constantly looking for the thing that was the surprise. Wasn't that big of a spoiler, but it did impact the way that I enjoyed it. |
| 07. February 2022 | The imperial system is bad our time system is just as bad. | System is bad. Our time system is just as bad. I watched a video recently talking about how the imperial, the imperial system is bad and America should change it and all that stuff. They made the case, however, that how costly it would be to change now kind of makes it silly. One point they brought up that I hadn't thought about before is how, how, how time works. Everyone talks about how stupid it is, how, you know, there's 11 inches in a foot, or 12 inches in a foot and stuff. We don't talk about how it's stupid that there's 12 hours in a, uh, 24 hours in a day. Like, we do 12 and then 12. That doesn't make any sense. Why do we do that? Why is that not also in base tens? Why is there 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week? You could, you could divide it up time-wise to make it all base tens as well. Like, our measurements of time are just as stupid as the imperial system and much worse than the metric system, but no one bothered to talk about changing. It's not how the Earth rotates. There are base tens systems of time. We just don't use them. Apparently the 12 hour clock is just to carry you over from ancient times and it would just be too much of a pain to change at this point. |
| 04. March 2022 | The implied lore depth in video games. | The implied lore depth in video games. Often the depth of a game is merely implied. As in, X, Y, and Z that's actually stated explicitly in the story, that requires a past that can be inferred from the present. And so this isn't in the game. It doesn't exist. But this has only a hypothetical, you know, a certain amount of scenarios that can lead to this. And so you can discuss this at length. And what a lot of game theory video games. |
| 30. January 2021 | The importance of emotes in Twitch’s dominance | The importance of emotes in Twitch's dominance. I'm curious, do you think Twitch would be as successful as it is today if it didn't have the custom emotes? Love your content by the way. I do think that the original Twitch culture, the emotes and whatnot, were a contributing factor to the success of Twitch, but I don't think they were the deciding factor that led to it being the dominant platform over its competitors. But it could have been for all I know, because I wasn't around during the early period where there were a lot of competing smaller platforms trying to get ahead. I can't tell you exactly why Twitch became the dominant platform over, what was it like X-Fire or something? I don't know, I hear stories from Destiny and Soda Poppin and stuff over the years talking about these earlier platforms. I don't know. I do think that the emotes and the identifiable Twitch brand or whatever helped it, and certainly emotes help get additional subscribers and people interested in interactions in the chat and whatnot. I mean, when people talked about YouTube, people said, oh, but they won't have the same emotes as Twitch. I don't like the way the emotes are set up on YouTube. That people would make those comments shows that emotes are important. But as I've noted these days, when you look at the emotes that people use a lot, a substantial portion of them are BetisWitchTV emotes, Frank of AC emotes, these kind of things. The people who care the most about emotes and probably who their platform of choice might be influenced by the emotes on there are people who are using third party things to do the emotes that they desire. What I mean is the amount of people that Twitch is holding to this platform based on emotes is probably a lot smaller than it might have been in the past. Imagine Forsen's chat without emotes, it would just still be the same spam as before. I think it was a mistake for Twitch not to allow GIFs in some limited capacity, like allowing each channel to have one GIF or something. I mean, that they eventually did for cheers, it's not really sufficient, right? Because the thing that enabled BetisWitchTV's rise was basically GIFs. It had GIFs, Twitch did not. Do I think that things like BetisWitchTV would have still come about with endless emo customizations and stuff? When small channels don't have access to normal emo slots, of course they're going to look towards third party things that will give them those slots, you know? But without the benefit of GIFs, I don't think BetisWitchTV would have taken off as readily as it did. Or would have been slower to grow, I mean. But I can't do it for certain, I'm just speculating. |
| 27. March 2021 | The importance of rivalry in speedrunning | The importance of rivalry in speedrunning. Speaking of XQC, I have been watching him, uh, okay, not actually watching his content, but I've seen clips of him in force and continuing to trade back and forth. The PBs in Minecraft. That kind of rivalry in speedrunning is pretty nice. Reminds me of what I had with Torix back in the day. With, uh, Classic Person. Without a competitor, or even multiple competitors, the ability for one singular person to push a speedrun is effectively non-existent, right? You will never be as good as you are when there's a person just behind you nipping at your heels. Wasn't there a time when you had two super different 100% routes, both running their own ones? I don't recall such things, no. Possibly. It was a very long time ago. I mean, I don't recall such things, no. |
| 01. March 2022 | The importance of stakes in youtube videos | looking out for these meme speed games just to latch onto for a couple of weeks, you know. The importance of stakes in YouTube videos. I stealthily did not bring up the uh, 400 subs. Oh, what is it, 50 subs, whatever. So there's this concept with YouTube where viewers tend to like stakes, where there's something on the line. Like they want to know like, even if they get bored somewhere in the middle, they might be like, oh well I gotta stick this out because I want to know what's going to happen with that thing at the end. And that's what stakes did. And so when I, when I said to him, hey we should do a bet of like 50 subs, it's like, it wasn't my desire to get 50 subs necessarily, it was to put those stakes there. Couple of hundred bucks on the line. I wouldn't have done that had I known that I would clobber him in this way. Because a couple of hundred hours in a roleplay can teach us some stuff about the game, but not- |
| 08. January 2022 | The impressive variety of the GTA 5 map | destroying the game's raw performance. Don't change the game, change what the people are doing, of course. The impressive variety of the GTA 5 map. There's so many pool designs. There must be like 100 separate pool designs in this game. That's honestly like a really cool thing. Like the houses, like in typical open world games, they don't like prefab it. Like, well, a lot of them do prefab a bunch of these houses. But like I think Rockstar is the only one where like it feels like every single house and mansion that they ever made. Like, oh, yeah, even though they're just exteriors, like, man, they fucking put an entire guy to like build one exterior. Like somebody was playing Sims the whole time. You can go look at individual houses and find like unique features found on no other houses, just like random stone a pillar tower things and it's it's. |
| 08. January 2022 | The impressive variety of the gta 5 map | destroying the game's raw performance. Don't change the game, change what the people are doing, of course. The impressive variety of the GTA 5 map. There's so many pool designs. There must be like 100 separate pool designs in this game. That's honestly like a really cool thing. Like the houses, like in typical open world games, they don't like prefab it. Like, well, a lot of them do prefab a bunch of these houses. But like I think Rockstar is the only one where like it feels like every single house and mansion that they ever made. Like, oh, yeah, even though they're just exteriors, like, man, they fucking put an entire guy to like build one exterior. Like somebody was playing Sims the whole time. You can go look at individual houses and find like unique features found on no other houses, just like random stone a pillar tower things and it's it's. |
| 20. December 2022 | The improvements of laser eye surgery on my everyday life. | once. The improvements of laser eye surgery on my everyday life. Like I sometimes have to remind myself that my eyesight is now good because having contact lenses that I only took out once a month which is not common, it was as if I had perfect eyesight but there was just a like a mild inconvenience sometimes and the ever-present concern that I was damaging my eyes by leaving my contact lenses alone because there was always a risk of like eye infection or something with contacts that you don't take out every day. |
| 06. May 2021 | The incompatibility of my life and dating. | The incompatibility of my life with dating. So I'm still insurmittently doing this dating app thing. And I was talking to this chick, I didn't respond to her. She sent me a message but I was busy and I just put it out of my mind. And I didn't respond to her for two days. And now she's unmatched with me, so now I can't read the message. And I will fin- fin- I will never know now what she said. And that kind of bothers me. Maybe she said something personal or something and that I didn't respond. Maybe she thinks I was judging her or some shit. Now I'm gonna think about that fucking forever. That sucks. I've now had multiple people message me and be like, is it bad that I had no idea what Twitch was? I was like, uh. I was like, yeah, absolutely, you know. It passed the law recently that if you don't watch Twitch streams, you're gonna go to jail. I'm surprised you admit to illegal activity to me. Most people still don't know Twitch. Still a niche site relative to the other social medias, you know. I didn't get much sleep last night for most of the reasons. But one of the reasons was I talked to this chick on this dating app and I'm a little bit smitten, chat. So I kept thinking about the conversation even after I ended it. It kept me up a little bit. Hope it works out. Probably won't, but you know, you're gonna tell her you're insane? I'm gonna keep that a secret for a little bit. How would you explain the dense video to a date? Ah, yes. It is unfortunate that while I do like my content, and I quite find it funny, I can't be like, hey, yo, check out my content. Because I don't think like just a random person picking a video at random is necessarily gonna have a good impression of me. She asked me like, oh, so like I don't watch Twitch or whatever. Like I don't really have a frame of reference, but like so how successful are you at it? And I'm like, I know how to explain that bit. You know, PewDiePie? Like, because you see like he's mainstream, very successful YouTuber. She's like, yeah, like, okay, I'm not as successful as him. You know, you probably know a person who knows a person who knows a person that thinks I'm pretty cool. I feel like half myself right now, chat. The last couple of days, I've been waking up like at specific times using an alarm to this sponsored content and stuff. I'm not used to waking up to an alarm chat. I'm also a bit nervous because I might be, probably will be going out on a date at some point in the future. I'm gonna set a date for it, a date for the date. I got to buy clothes, chat. I can't show up in a black tank top and I've lost 10 kilos over the past month or whatever, so I don't really have anything super fits me well. I'm sure it will go terribly. It will go terribly, but we'll see. The more I do this online dating thing though, I realize how incompatible my life is with other people. You know, my sleeping pattern just constantly moving around randomly, waking up at like AMs then midday then at night and all that jazz. Spending so much time doing work and whatnot. Could I ever get used to going to bed at the same time and stopping working on something to go to bed and using alarm to wake up? |
| 22. December 2019 | The increasing strength of passwords | The ever increasing password strength requirements on websites. You guys have probably had this happen right? So I make myself a new password and I'm like finally I'm going to be able to use this password in like a lot more places because over time different websites have had more and more complex things needed for their passwords. Like 57 symbols man, 59 fucking capital letters, your words gotta be like 10 trillion letters long it's just like oh my fucking god dude. Like the password I normally use, like if you tried to brute force it, it would take six months and now you want me to make an even more complex one? You're gonna have your shit leaked, you're gonna be hacked and I'm gonna lose my password that way anyway. It doesn't matter how complex it is. Are you hoping that when they're typing in my password that they've taken from your database that they're gonna type it in incorrectly? It's so fucking complicated. But I go into I think Nexus mods or something to get a mod for Red Dev Ademption 2 or to get a save file rather. It's like oh you need 12 characters now, I'm like 12? Most websites need like 8 or 10, now I need to add two more? Oh so the password I use in like a dozen other places can no longer be used here? I need another more complex fucking password? It's like every fucking year these websites add two more letters necessary for their fucking passwords. I need to have like, like my password is a Pokemon that constantly evolves and gets slightly longer over time and I need to remember what iteration I'm up to, what generation of Pokemon passwords that I'm up to that's slightly being added to. I just fucking hate it. It's just dumb. It doesn't increase my security. |
| 22. October 2022 | The incredible amount of coverage of my pacifist% completion. | The incredible amount of coverage of my pacifist percent completion. This is the list of all the websites that have covered me completing pacifist in a variety of different languages. I know, it's something like 50 things. So there's like English, Spanish, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, German, Polish, Czech, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, Norwegian, Vietnamese, Slovak, Ukrainian, Indonesian, Hungarian. They all were like, it took him three years to finish it, man. Like in reality, I think I started like May 2019 and I finished it like May 2020. Probably took me like a year to get through the entire thing. I'm like playing it on and off. But it took me three years to edit it. And I was like, it took me three years to make this video. It's technically true. Yeah, so they've all said it took like a lot longer than it did. But I technically, I mean, yeah, it did take me that long to get out of the series. So whatever. But the end result was 96 chat. Way down from like the 720 that those other jokers said was required to beat the game. It's because when one person writes about it, like a lot write about it, you know, they kind of write the same stuff. Do you see IGN post on Twitter? Yeah, I did. But you know that most of them don't care. None of those people who wrote the article were like, oh, I love pacifist, man. I'm so happy to see it finally end. It's hard for it to even be flattering, really, because all this is is like one person wrote an article, it got some traction. And then like every other mainstream news outlets that has like a someone on staff who is just, you know, needing a certain amount of stories every week, basically copying it word for word. It doesn't translate over to many views on the actual video. Like I can see how many of the views are from external links. I think it was like 6%. And that's not even necessarily all of them, because I linked it like on Twitter and my community posts, for example. At the end of the day, what matters most is the YouTube algorithm. If the YouTube algorithm doesn't love you, then you know. The episode is doing fine. It's got like 700,000 views. It should hit about a million and then just taper off. I was hoping for it to be like Grand Slam most amazing thing ever, especially because the money I spent on it. It's uh, it didn't happen, unsurprisingly. But I'm very proud of the episode, happy with it. A website published the same article in three different languages. That doesn't surprise me, Joshua Boy. Like even YouTubers now, it's becoming far more common to like have a Spanish version of your channel. But I mean, this is usually for channels that don't do what I do, which is release like a video a day. These are the channels that make like one video a month and it's a very big impactful video. It's not that it's effective to translate or like have dubbed over 30 videos a month, but it can be for like one a month, you know, MrBeast does it. I know Veritasium does it for example. It's interesting that Spanish would be chosen because you'd think like, especially for younger audiences, wouldn't they be learning English as well as Spanish? If the final episode of Pacifist can't get to a million views in a week with 50 articles written about it and it being a fucking banger with the goddamn narrator from Stanley Parable in it, as well as custom cutscenes, then there's something wrong right now with the channel. The video had a ridiculously high click through rate, a ridiculously high watch time, but it just didn't blow up, you know, it did good, but it's just like, that was the culmination of three years and it's just like, man. Apparently, I'm in IGN's video. It's not a very popular video. It's, I'm curious how they cover this. As per usual, chat, reactions are totally fine if you're in the thing, sir. See what they say, chat. And finally, a gamer known as DarkViperAU just completed a Pacifist playthrough of Grand Theft Auto V. As reported by GamesRadar, DarkViperAU finished the game with only 96 kills. So does that really count as a Pacifist run if your body count still hovers near triple digits? That's still an impressive feat, since most players will probably kill 96 people in the first few minutes of driving around Los Santos. So how did he do it? He let NPCs do most of the killing where violence was unavoidable, and he relied on stealth permissions where you didn't have to kill anyone. I mean, that was a pretty good summary. And I think your skepticism was entirely justified. Is it really a Pacifist run when you kill 96 people? We'll get it down to individual digits, chat. That is the goal now. Two digits. If I can get it down to less than 10, I think that's pretty good. Wouldn't you agree? Like, imagine I got down to less than 10. I've already improved it a little bit, chat. That footage hasn't come out yet, but you know, that would be impossible. I bet you would have said it was impossible to kill less than 100 and get through the game. |
| 10. December 2022 | The incredible power of the new open AI | The incredible power of the new OpenAI. So this is something outside of my purview, so I don't want to spend too much time on it, but I feel like I should mention that it exists for those who can better utilize its functions. So this OpenAI thing has released, and apparently like it's blowing people's minds. You can say, hey, write some code to enable me to do X and Y, and I'll write that code. Or you can give it code and be like, where are the security vulnerabilities? And it will tell you those security and vulnerabilities. You can basically ask for anything, like in a few sentences, give me something to say to my viewers of my live stream. Actually something nice. Thank you so much for taking the time to join my live stream. I truly appreciate your support and I'm excited to connect with you all. I hope you all have a wonderful time watching, and please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or feedback. Thank you again for being here, means the world to me. You can get to do more complicated stuff as well, but I saw it mainly on the WAN show where they got it to write like their sponsor spots and they did it perfectly. You can probably go down deep rabbit holes. And the reason why this is a bit more interesting than other like bots that exist, other AI bots or whatever, is because this one you can just talk to and get this information rather than having to type very complicated sequences. Like Luke on the WAN show, who was the one who tink with us the most, believes that it'll just become like a thing that people need to use as a part of their job. So like, obviously it won't replace people entirely, but it'll be a thing where like, you will have to know how to use this because it will massively speed up your work. You'll be able to type in something, it'll give you like 90% of what you need, and then you just like read it and then just correct things. I tried to get it to like write scripts for me about how Michael wasn't in witness protection stuff, didn't really get there because that's very niche knowledge, right? That doesn't exist anywhere online. So kind of struggled. Interesting stuff that might do missile. |
| 15. April 2023 | The inevitable failure of the Kick streaming platform. | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Rambles podcast starting with the topic the inevitable failure of the kick streaming platform So I realized that in a ramble that just went up I mentioned the live streaming website kick in passing and I realized that a lot of my older Rambles where I talked about kick didn't end up coming out Most my rambles do come out but some of them are removed because it just doesn't seem relevant So I don't think I communicate very well for those who are unaware when twitch bans gambling to some degree like mainly just the big Websites what sprung up from that was this website called kick, which is effectively a clone of twitch.tv But it allows gambling like the website if you look at it is just a clone of Twitch in every form except its green is not directly funded by the online Gambling company steak, but it's funded by people who own a steak or who are directly funded by steak So basically is funded by steak without actually being funded by steak. You know I'm saying I tweeted this out I hear too much about kick streaming considering only has five streamers over 600 viewers currently most the brain dead playing slots He would debate whether twitch is even profitable for Amazon and people are saying a money sink doing the mixer playbook But worse will succeed when I say the mixer playbook what mixer did to try to be successful is Give larger streamers huge amounts of money to stream on mixer They bought like six or seven large streamers by the end of it I think Facebook gaming also did this you know what happened to mixer it failed despite being backed by Microsoft You know what happened to Facebook gaming it also failed despite being funded by Facebook these two examples demonstrate that Just buying big streamers is not a good way to grow a platform in part because what tends to happen is the viewers who watch Those creators move over watch those creators and when those creators go offline They go back to twitch because that's where all the other people they watch are these viewers already have an established set of streamers that they Watch and if they're looking for someone new why would they look for someone you on kick as opposed to twitch? Where all the other streamers are only people on kick are those who have no choice or who are paid? Mixer learned the hard way people who come for a particular streamer don't stick around promising unsustainable rev share Which is they're offering a 95 to 5 split so you get 95% of your sub money And they take 5% as opposed to twitches 50 50 and lack of moderation We're only drawing suckers or those who are desperate when I say lack of moderation They do have a TOS on the website, but not really enforced so you have people like streaming the Super Bowl You have people just showing pornography There's been Nazis on the site people spamming racial obscenities and stuff that the clips are really really out there This relates to another topic which is the cost of live streaming for all this time It's not even clear that twitch with its market dominance and all the money that it brings in and it's being backed by Amazon is Actually turning a profit for Amazon Which is why twitch was so desperate to increase its ad revenue and all that stuff for a while the best estimates Is it's probably bit breaking even or something because as YouTube found out live streaming is incredibly expensive compared to VOD content and YouTube seemed very interested in competing with twitch up until like the end of 2021 And then they were like hey, wait a second tick tock is like ridiculously popular They're bringing in like billions upon billions of views and ridiculous amounts of money We need to compete in this space that space is more likely be profitable for us And so it seems as though at least externally when looking at them externally that they've moved everyone who was Vamping the live streaming space to vamping the short space, which is why they keep saying new shorts things coming out It's why monetization for shorts keeps changing and stuff. They basically completely forgotten about live sharing They've dipped their toes in and they've been like, oh shit. There's no money here The overhead is just way too high to distribute in real time all this content So with this context you can understand that kick makes no sense Nothing about what they're doing suggests that they're going to succeed what they're trying to do is already failed being implemented by much larger more Successful companies with far more money what they're promising Doesn't make any fucking sense because you cannot have a 95 to 5 rev share split and have the platform be profitable the only thing that kick has going for it is if kick believes it can convert enough of the viewers into problem gamblers Then they could believe that they might turn a profit but that method of profit generation Which is destroying people's lives with gambling effectively stealing their money. It's not very good, right? As much as you can hate twitch trying to beat twitch by destroying people's lives with gambling is probably not a good move Well, it's definitely not a good move the motivation for the development of this competitive twitch was hey We can't ruin people's lives as readily with problem gambling We need to invent a place where this can occur at a much greater rate Let's make a website kick is a terrible place run by terrible people any large entity with a moderation system Will always have people who fall outside of what is permissible on that website and those people will need somewhere to go So on kick right now most of what you see is stuff that cannot be on twitch people who want to do that kind of content and Have no other alternative and if twitch tomorrow allowed for that stuff to exist on their platform They would ditch kick in a second and move back I'm not a fan of gambling but twitch need comp needs competition because for live streaming twitch is basically a big monopoly Twitch isn't profitable or the very least is barely profitable competition in the space Won't help things all it will mean is that you have two websites that Both aren't profitable twitch's problem isn't a lack of competition It's that the model of live streaming is not a very good one But besides twitch had a lot of competition over the last couple years with Facebook gaming with mixer and now with YouTube and twitch didn't become a better place It became a worse place if twitch is barely profitable how could new services like kick even keep up? They can run the website at loss for wireless as an experiment I'm assuming the people maybe don't understand how rough the mountain they have to climb is We'll see what happens in the future But I'm neither optimistic that they will succeed and I don't want them to succeed So I guess you'd never try out kick if they offered me many many many millions of dollars Possibly, but there's obviously gonna be some amount of money that I would accept to stream on the website Billion dollars it would have to be ridiculously high though. How would you design your own streaming platform? I wouldn't as I say I I don't think the model is a very good one in terms of bringing in ridiculous amounts of money You can have a lot of influence and stuff, but you need an already existence Huge apparatus for to really make sense |
| 10. June 2022 | The insane budget of Netflix's stranger things | The insane budget of Netflix's Stranger Things. Have I watched Stranger Things? Yeah, I have, yeah. Apparently the budget for that show is insane. Because like, if you want movie grade quality for your show, you kind of got to spend movie money, you know? Isn't like 30 million dollars an episode or some shit? Like, how can they really see a return on investment for that? Am I Matt or Dark Viper AU? Your college teacher used your username to refer to you? You're cringing so hard, how'd they find out? Wow, that would be so weird, walking into class and someone would be like, hey Dark Viper. Actually, maybe you wouldn't. I get called Matt-o and like Viper and stuff more than I do my own name. Like easily. They found out because it's the name I have in my email address. I used it because I gave the wrong one. Dark Viper is usually used by those who don't watch me. I mean, Matt-o is probably easier to say. What type, certainly. |
| 19. October 2022 | The insanity of Dream’s face reveal | Honesty of Dream's face reveal. He like hired a personal trainer, made his teeth fixed or something, and that gave him the confidence to reveal his face. I am more handsome? No, I think Dream is a better looking guy. What I think of the Dream face reveal? I've never seen a person so ugly in all my fucking life, man. Should have kept the mask on. Nah, I kid. I talked about it before, he's just an average looking dude. I mean, no, he definitely looks better than average, trust. I think he looks better than me. Like I'm saying, he's an easy 7, and I'm like a 5. Maybe a 6 on a good day. It's weird to think like, you know, a person's face can be that important to people. I'm sure Hey Zeus is sitting there like, damn it man! If only I had revealed my face, you know, in the same way that Dream did. Could have got myself 1.5 million views or whatever. You see guys, I gave you my face from the get-go for free. That's how much I love you guys. Did I see Dream's face reveal? Yeah. I can't believe he's a reptilian, dude. They're among us! Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum. Sus. Locking for- |
| 19. October 2022 | The insanity of dream’s face reveal | Honesty of Dream's face reveal. He like hired a personal trainer, made his teeth fixed or something, and that gave him the confidence to reveal his face. I am more handsome? No, I think Dream is a better looking guy. What I think of the Dream face reveal? I've never seen a person so ugly in all my fucking life, man. Should have kept the mask on. Nah, I kid. I talked about it before, he's just an average looking dude. I mean, no, he definitely looks better than average, trust. I think he looks better than me. Like I'm saying, he's an easy 7, and I'm like a 5. Maybe a 6 on a good day. It's weird to think like, you know, a person's face can be that important to people. I'm sure Hey Zeus is sitting there like, damn it man! If only I had revealed my face, you know, in the same way that Dream did. Could have got myself 1.5 million views or whatever. You see guys, I gave you my face from the get-go for free. That's how much I love you guys. Did I see Dream's face reveal? Yeah. I can't believe he's a reptilian, dude. They're among us! Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum. Sus. Locking for- |
| 23. January 2021 | The insanity of minecraft speedrunning. | The insanity of Minecraft speedrunning. I was watching a video from I think cheese05 which had him Saying he was interested in doing Minecraft speedrunning as well. It's fucking crazy that Everyone seems to want to do Minecraft speedrunning Insanely popular right now how difficult it would seem to be competitive though. It looks like it's insane I think most people when they look at a speedrun normally think like oh You just got to learn all the strats and you got to get faster at doing those strats speedrunning these days for most games is is far more complicated than that because you have to not only learn the strats, but all the things you need to do when the strats fail and all the potential alternate strats and all the ways that you can fail and things that you need to avoid to avoid to avoid those failures and looking at Minecraft speedrunning and how Random the random seeds are and all the different things you can be presented with and all the different ways you have to respond to Those different things I think it would take thousands of hours to become proficient at the random seed runs like looking at I Think I'm watching Dalski. I think his name is right now. I'm probably in the name where I'm sorry, but He's got like over a thousand viewers or whatever and watching him like Take a configuration of lava that's on the ground and make it into a portal It's crazy The fastest way possible that you can do it right and there's different types of lava that you get and different portals that you should make based on it, it's nutty or all the Different ships that you can get and what items you get in those ships and the different configurations of fortresses and all this fucking shit I'm like, oh man that take forever to fucking learn. Yeah |
| 31. August 2020 | The insanity of the amount of videos about Pokimane | The insanity of just how many videos were made about Pokimane. I thought it was just like, Leafy, who did a video on Pokimane. But like, in my recommended, I think, this one video appeared, where it was like an hour and a half long, about Pokimane, and like, like 12 separate creators, talked in it. It was called like a content crusade or some shit. How fucking pathetic. Was at least funny. I watched it like for a minute, and I clicked through it, and it seemed so fucking lame. People were right. I was ahead of the curb, with criticizing Twitch streamers for watching endless YouTube videos on their, the Twitch channels. Why are they hating on her? Ah, it's content. Pokimane, as far as content creators go on this platform, is no more or less egregious than most large content creators. Maybe she's a bit more of an easy target though, because of her hypocrisy in taking down fair use videos, or, there was this video that was critical of her, and she considered a clear fair use case to not be fair use, and took down the video. And it's very hypocraphical, because so much of what she doesn't do, so much of what she does on her Twitch stream is not in any sense fair use, in the use of other viewers' content. But I mean, there's other streamers, I talked about Destiny before. Destiny definitely fits this boat of being a massive fucking hypocrite in terms of using other people's content. He hired a third party to go all over YouTube, and claim people's videos, fair use or not, to give him a cut of the revenue. But at no point is Destiny attempting to give money to all the YouTubers who, the content that he uses, right, on his Twitch stream. Indeed, he thinks that YouTubers should have no fucking problem with it, and they don't deserve shit. He's a massive hypocrite. But like, none of these Pokeman things are new, they're fairly ancient history. It's just, it's the flavor of the month topic that will get people views. And there's just a bunch of YouTubers who are starved for content. And so will complain about things that they don't really give two shits about. I think the stuff they say about her are justified. Some of the couch, yeah. It's just I do not believe for even a second that these people legitimately give two shits about what Pokeman does. It's just the content. Because there's nothing that Pokeman can do to change the past. These things that they talk about have already been brought to light. She's already apologized for it. And she has not, to my knowledge, repeated the behavior. There's no, there's nothing that additional, hey, look at this, hey, look at this, that's gonna achieve anything. |
| 09. March 2022 | The insincerity of the critics of my react commentary. | Insincerity of the critics of my react commentary. I've responded to so many people in the comments Um, someone asked me I was sexually assaulted How what does that have to do with react content? And I said literally nothing at all in the same way that any reference to sexual assault that has ever occurred has nothing to do With any experience that you've ever had it just doesn't there is no amount of comparisons that can ever be made in for the history Of mankind that will ever change even for one Joss your experiences if I compared Hitler to Hawaiian pizza in terms of its impact on humanity It would not change even for a moment what Hitler did his his nature the impact of his crimes his Terrible actions and and to suggest otherwise is just dumb this moral Grandstanding of you can't in any context ever reference sexual assault in Anything with any comparable traits in any capacity is just dumb No one making these these arguments is sincere. It's all just more grandstanding bullshit It is people more interested in a way of dismissing criticism than actually gripping with the underlying Point that I was trying to make the way I presented it made me look unhinged It was a text document certainly my response to Charlie may seem unhinged But fuck I was really mad that might be the most mad I've been in quite a while I'll scoopy that was my response to all these people like this guy is fucking crazy man Just out there looking for clout, and I'm like I wrote a text document and put it on on Twitter for my viewers like I mean People are just so keen to have a particular narrative that they'll literally ignore every aspect of reality To have me fit into this Predetermined narrative, I think you're probably right about most of what you say But if you want to make people accept your ideas you need to work in your image And how you say things I didn't expect anyone Wiredly to read it. I know how to communicate I only spent a day on it. I uh |
| 22. July 2022 | The internet’s ability to forgive and forget | Internet's ability to forgive and forgets Viper react when you never know one day I may just become so jaded hate What the world enough just to be like fuck everything fuck everyone you never know I could just come to hate everyone and everything and just not give a fuck anything is possible It'd be career suicide sure nah You would be very surprised what people will just forgive and forget if you can give some reasonable Justification for it and the internet is a very big place It's like Sanandos Sanandos been a scumbag for fucking forever, but you know he come back and he Start making videos again, and people like I he must have changed And he's actually just stealing all my shit like take a son has son is one of the biggest scumbags been a fuck ton of controversy Tons of videos out there showing him to be a complete douchebag But he still has a huge audience, and that's just how the internet is take my videos on like as well next you see like not a dent in their viewership in between as when gold and Hassan like they must have banned half the internet by now just because they banned anyone who disagrees with them or tells them their shit It just doesn't matter because the internet is just really big it just feels as though if you just stay in the game It doesn't matter what you do |
| 04. October 2021 | The issue of potatoes | The issue of potatoes. My honest opinion on mashed potatoes, look, I think it's pretty clear that mashed potatoes are a very controversial issue and I... I always pride myself on streaming and talk about any controversial issue, like just any opinion you want of me, but I think that's going a bit too far. I don't want to get banned. So, we know. There was like half of the TOS specifically dedicated to discussions of mashed potatoes. You know, I don't want to tread through that minefield. |
| 02. January 2022 | The issues editing my Bloodborne playthrough. | The issues editing my Bloodborne playthrough. DMod edited Bloodborne and there was issues with desync with the camera and the game and I know a way to fix that. So I took the original footage and fixed the cam and game desync and so he is now going back and remaking his edit with the new fixed footage. This video did eventually release and as expected it didn't do all that well. I know none of you watched my original Demon's Souls playthrough but that was a pretty good video if I recall. Like that video is like two hours long and it has like 30,000 views. It was more for me just getting it done. I just gave him a chunk of money. Like obviously I haven't made my money back on that video but it was important to me. You watched it, it's awesome. Thanks for watching. |
| 19. February 2022 | The kind of drivers i hate to see on the road | The kind of drivers I hate to see on the road. |
| 07. February 2022 | The kinds of streams that I watch. | The kinds of streams that I watch. I've realised recently that the channels that I tend to like watching most these days on Twitch usually end up playing games that I myself don't play, that I wish I was good at. |
| 28. December 2019 | The lack of control in success | The lack of control in success. Hey, I've got a question for you. How do you feel about ISP having service issues which cause a smaller streamer to not stream and lose their viewers revenue? Well, that's clearly a terrible thing. It always sucks when things outside of your control impact your ability to succeed in what you want to achieve. That is an unfortunate fact of life that everyone's success is in part determined by, or the success or lack thereof is in part determined by factors entirely outside their control. Like reflecting on Twitch for example, there are tons of people who would be very successful streamers if they just were given a little bit of limelight or had a little bit of opportunity or whatever, but would never make it there because that just would never come. IsATable and ISP Order As A Team |
| 26. April 2021 | The lengths I went to to read books as a kid. | the lengths I went to to read books as a kid. Someone asked me, do I read books? Not anymore. When I was a kid, and had all the time in the world, before the internet was as accessible as it is, before smartphones had a trillion apps, I did nothing but read books. Read books and play World of Warcraft. That's all I did. So committed was I to reading books, that I couldn't afford just to buy a book every week or whatever. So what I would do is I had this program that would change PDFs into slides for my iPod shuffle. As in the iPod shuffle screen is like this big. Like, you could only fit like 20 words on it or something. And so I would convert books into like, it'd be like 10,000 slides per book and put it on my iPad, not my iPad, my iPad shuffle, or whatever the fuck it's called. And I would go page by page reading books. Eventually I had enough money to actually buy books. It was just an iPod or something. Like the first iPods that came out, the thick fat things. But I do have a thick shelf of books at home, like every fantasy series you could ever possibly imagine. But eventually, you know, when my time got taken up by the internet, YouTube, my job, studying, all that stuff, I've moved into audiobooks. Audiobooks are so much better than books. Maybe not for retention of information necessarily. Like I can't say whether you would really want to have an audiobook for a nonfiction book. Like if you're trying to study for an exam, I don't think an audiobook would be as good. I can't say that for certain though. I'm not basing that in any studies or something. I'm just saying, like for me, I don't think I'd do as well for that. But for fiction, like I'm in the shower listening to a fiction book, life reset right now. I'm going to bed listening to an audiobook. Like in between doing work on my PC, I'm listening to an audiobook. Just turn it on with my wireless stuff, you know. Audiobooks are great. Consume far more books in much greater convenience than they ever did. Well, maybe not more books because I'm a lot more busy than I used to be when I was a kid, but you know. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 31. March 2021 | The limitations of criticising other content creators. | vs BB. The limitations of criticizing other content creators. Matt's thoughts on Tyler1? There are so many jokes I've made about Tyler1, not in any malicious way. Like one went up on the clips channel where I was just like, if Tyler1 is so good, where is Tyler2? You know, those kind of memes or referencing jokes he's done with like holding that really huge ruler and stuff. I don't watch much of his content but he seems like a nice dude. I do occasionally stop into his stream. Usually because he streams at a time when like very few other people I'm following actually stream. I saw a clip of Nick, what's his name? NMP lol. He was doing a tier list where he was rating the attractiveness of other streamers. These kind of tier lists are a little bit frowned upon because you know they're actual people right and so what you say is guaranteed to trickle back to the person that you're commenting on and so you know if you treat it seriously you're going to end up being critical of other content creators and stuff in a way that is potentially not kind you know. But I think they were not treating it super seriously but I'm not really sure. And I'm kind of tempted to do something similar because like none of these people know me. I think I'm a large enough content creator that I have an audience that would find that stuff funny but I'm not large enough that anyone's going to give a shit about my opinion about the physical attractiveness of any other particular streamer. It's also most used friends of them. Yeah I suppose especially friends yeah. But I mean the tier list is never going to be serious because you're never going to want to give people an honest rating of their physical attractiveness. It's why everyone just says seven. Like if you're higher than seven you get a seven. But if you're lower than a seven you're going to get a seven. So no actually more that probably like a seven is if you're between like a five and seven a six is if you're between like a one like if you're one two three or four or something you know. Being critical of other streamers is always a risky thing. They've been openly critical right. Like criticisms that I levied against Aspen Gold and stuff. I certainly regret not making those videos just general. As I've gone on I've I think I've become less critical specifically of people. I like to talk about ideas and stuff or try to make things general. I certainly haven't always kept to that and I don't always keep that because there are exceptions. But when you're not being critical of a specific person it seems as though that criticism is more likely to be accepted. You know no one will have a knee jerk reaction like oh but I like that person shut up. You know and of course it's it's often the case. You've seen that gif of like two dogs on either side of a movable gaze and they're barking and there's like spit flying everywhere and they just they just want to tear each other's heads off. Oh they're so pissed. The nanosecond this if this gate wasn't here I would destroy you. And then the gate opens and they both turn into like like timid like oh hey man. And they both like bugger off. That kind of seems to be the way that a lot of online criticism works where everyone's so vicious but the nanosecond they actually get together. It's just like hey how's it going. You know so I feel like we got some differences we could talk about you know. And I think the in large part the reason for that is it's it's so easy just to look at a person as just embody embodying that particular negative trait that you're criticizing them for or just embodying things worth it worth being worthy of criticism. But the nanosecond you speak to a person in the vast majority of cases is just going to come off as a regular person irrespective of what they've done or being accused of. They're just like well it's just is it. Now I understand this is like an actual person with thoughts and feelings and it's very hard to maintain that same level of ferocity. I had that same experience when I talked to Dream very easy to be critical of just a generic dude that you've never spoken to before when you actually speak to a person they seem just perfectly fine. I just a perfectly likable fellow it's very hard to maintain that same level of fuck you for the things that you've done kind of thing you know. |
| 17. March 2022 | The little sounds that i make while streaming. | The little sounds that I make while streaming. Look at these dodgers! I wonder how many people find the weird noises I make sometimes completely obnoxious and annoying. There's definitely some. There's some of you probably sitting and chatting like, oh he's doing his fucking sounds again. |
| 14. May 2021 | The lore explanation for switching characters in GTA 5 | The lore explanation for switching characters in GTA 5. What is the canon reason why switching is a thing in GTA 5? You don't exist in the world of GTA 5. Therefore the idea of character switching doesn't either. It is as if everything that you're doing as a character is what that character is just doing in the world, you know? |
| 04. May 2021 | The loss of value in gift giving | The loss of value in gift-giving. Like if I don't go to bed hungry, I consider that to be a failure. I actually failed last night because I actually ate some candy that I had in my cupboard. As you do. You know, your cupboard candy. Everyone's got that, right? It's because, uh, for my birthday and Christmas and stuff, my family gives me candy and stuff. Because they're like, what else are they gonna buy me? I swear to you, the amount of scratchy, scratch-off things to win money that people gave me, it's insane. Like, it'll take like an hour to scratch them all. They're still on my table. Because no one knows what to get me. On some level, I'd like to say to them, like, look, just don't buy me anything. It's all good. You know? It's especially bad because I'm not a gift-giving person. My mother buys the gifts and then just says it's from all of us. You know? I'm terrible. I'm tempted to, uh, give some of my relatives some money and be like, hey, yo, this is for all the gifts I never purchased for you guys. Just do something good with it. You know? It's funny though, because in general, gift-giving is like a loss of value. Because, like, you want to have somewhat equivalent exchange, right? So, you buy something for $50 for another person, they buy something for $50 for you, and at least some of the time, what you would pay for that product isn't $50. Or you may not want that product at all. So, you get given a $50 thing that you'd only pay $20 for normally, and you give something to the other person, and they'd only pay $30 for that. But it's about the, look, I care about you enough to give you a gift, or an excuse to see that person, you know? It isn't about the gift, really, except when you're a kid, because you don't have to buy anyone gifts and they just buy you a bunch of stuff, you know? It's about the feelings, chat. And can you put a price on feelings? Yeah, it's like $7, but... If you're less cynical, though, you can't. I would like to buy some feelings. They are nice, but not expensive. You hate cards because they're all generic? My mother, for my birthday, bought me a card that wasn't generic. As in, I assume she paid some money to have wonderful calligraphy, a lovely message. It even had my name in it. And I kind of glanced over it and closed the card. And she's like... I'm like... It's nice? And she's like, did you read it? Oh, my name's in this. I mean, like, is it really my fault when 99.999% of cards I've ever received have inside them? Good job at your birthday. Happiness for you. It was very nice. I have often said that my family has done a better job at showing me that they love me than I've done in reverse. But I hope they know. |
| 07. May 2021 | The lost footage of God of War | The Lost God of War footage. Do you have a Playstation 4 or 5? I do have 4, yeah. Uh, yeah, I played through all of God of War over the course of 2 days, and recorded none of it. I remember specifically thinking, when someone asked, are you going to highlight this? I said no, why would I ever need this footage? Like, I played God of War a week before I started just saving everything that I played. I'm not sarcastic. I'm being legit, 100% serious. To be honest, I played it as a game where I wasn't trying to be entertaining, I was barely talking, I was taking a day off doing my normal content, I played God of War. I played Halo 1 and 2 back in the day and loved both games. I have no interest in the modern Halos, I played a little bit of one of them, and you can find that footage on YouTube. |
| 24. December 2021 | The luck that is required for success on youtube and elsewhere. | The luck that is required for success on YouTube and elsewhere. Here's the path to success, right? Here's a landmine, here's a landmine, here's a landmine, here's a landmine, here's a landmine, here's a landmine, here's a landmine. On the end here, there is success. And so Ludwig is like, da-da-da-da, happens by coincidence to luckily dodge a mine. In another he sees a mine, so he goes around it. He goes here, oh he's about to hit one, but luckily he sidesteps and he gets to success, right? And now that he's been successful, he's like, I can do this again. It's just skill. And so he goes back to the beginning and walks like, see guys, it's just skill. But to get through the first time, he had to get lucky. All this niche knowledge that he has that is enabling his success here is stuff that you could only get by being lucky the first time around. Long enough to get that knowledge. The most important thing isn't just trying to copy people who are successful. You've got to look at the people who aren't successful and think, why did they fail? This pathway to success has many pathways through these mines of failure. Many different pathways. So you might be starting here. Ludwig probably starts here. He's got a good path through here, right? You starting here, you don't necessarily, your best path isn't necessarily the same one Ludwig took. How you can get successful, like it's possible that Ludwig walking through here has kicked up some dirt that's now obscuring this mine. This path may be even harder now because he's gone through it. The ideal scenario, you want to find a path to success that no one else has taken. As a general rule, it kind of looks like this. This is like your chance of success versus like how many people are doing it or something. When no one's going along that path, success is effectively guaranteed. Things can still happen, but your chance of success is so much higher because no one realizes that that's a path to success. So when the internet first became a thing, everyone's like, this is just a fad. The amount of people who are in a position to know that the internet wasn't going to be a fad was very tiny. So if you're in an environment with that niche knowledge, you're like, holy shit, this internet is going to be a huge thing. You're Jeff Bezos doing interviews like, guys, the internet is going to revolutionize the world. And the news anchors are just like, fuck off it is. Because so many people doubt the internet was going to be a thing. But all these big companies didn't foresee that the internet was going to be a thing. But Bezos was in a position where he had some knowledge and took a risk on the future. And so that's why Amazon is where it is now. Not just that reason, but it's a big reason. Why is Bill Gates Uber rich? Is it because he worked really hard or because his mother worked for IBM? He was one of the first people in the world to have a constant access to a computer. Because it isn't just about knowledge of a pathway to success. You want to be in a situation where most people can't even take that path because you have niche things in your environment all related to you. The more people that take a path to success, the harder it is to succeed along that path. Often it never gets to zero because as things become more understood, certain things become easier. More information about how this path works becomes more available. But in general, the people who get true monumental success are those who are in particular circumstances to see trends for the future that other people can't see. Or are willing to take a gamble on the future and have it pay off. But as with taking risks, remember, if a path only has a 10% chance of success, it means endless people took that path and failed. 90% of people took that path and failed. Those 10% of people will tell you until the cows come home how great that pathway to success was. Being completely ignorant of the 90% of people who failed. It's why it's always important to look at the people who failed along with the people who succeed to get a rough gauge of the general likelihood of success. Remember that YouTube is a very big place. Success in one domain can preclude you from success in another. MrBeast isn't the most successful person on this platform in every niche. In some niches on YouTube and some audiences, he's failing fucking terribly. He just has, he's succeeded in a general way. You can make YouTube videos, there's not a single person who watches MrBeast videos watches and be successful. There has never been a single MrBeast video that I thought, this is fucking incredible. Oh my God, I'm so happy I watched this. But I enjoy them though. MrBeast videos are like 6 out of 10 videos for me. But summoning salt videos, every single one of those videos is 10 out of 10 for me. Summoning salt, may get one, one hundredth of the views of MrBeast. But I would, I would trade MrBeast every single fucking time for summoning salt. Didn't you do Twitch without income for years, taking a fat risk to be a streamer, no person does not have savings? When I started Twitch, I had $30,000 in savings and I barely made it. I cried on stream believing I would have to quit. And I hated it because I love streaming so much. And I already achieved success greater than potentially 99% of people will ever achieve on Twitch. Because I had like 250 viewers at that time. I was a speed runner, well respected, had world records. And it was only because, again, we could talk about my history and the handful of things that just happened to exist in my environment that enabled me to get to myself, get to where I am today. That kept me going. I have worked damn hard. I have no friends. I have no life. I have no girlfriend. I barely see my family. I work like 12 hours a day. So much of my success is hard work. But so much of it is also luck. Different people need different amounts depending upon their circumstances. But everyone has somebody each. There's this expression that people say, you don't got to work hard, you got to work smart. Not realizing that people's ability to work smart is directly dependent upon luck in their environment. To have access to certain resources that tell them or suggest to them how to work smarter. For example, right now, each one of us is not being optimal. There are many different things that each of us could be doing to make our content better that we're completely ignorant of. We have no idea where to get that knowledge. For example, right now, when I edit, I have multiple audio tracks. This is a new thing for me. Maybe a year ago, I started doing this. You have no conception of how much of an annoying pain in the ass having one audio track is, where all the audio is on one track. I was completely ignorant that OBS can do more than one. Or at least that you didn't need special equipment to do it. I separated my microphone and my other audio, right? And now I even have a device that I only have because I happen to know a guy who's very much so into tech and audio and stuff. The only reason I knew to do this is because I happen to be in a Discord that I probably shouldn't be in anyway, because I don't really fit the criteria where other content creators are talking about speed running videos that they make. You know all those speed run documentary videos that people make? There's a Discord with a lot of those people in it. Small people, 1K subscribers, 100K subscribers. If you're in this Discord, you're getting access to good information sometimes. I click and read what they say, quite a lot. And one guy was like, oh yes, I was splitting my audio tracks. I'm like, you can split your audio tracks? Oh my god! Hundreds of hours I've wasted not being smart, not doing things the smart way. And I only was able to change because I happened to click on a Discord. And this happens all the time. My clips channel exists in a large part because I just happened to get recommended a video from a channel that had explosive growth uploading other people's clips. And so I was one of the first people to make a clips channel. And it blew me up. And I just happened to see that video and then have the prerequisite knowledge and content to take advantage of that opportunity presented to me. I worked very smart, but my environment had to offer those opportunities to me. And I worked very hard. Not a lot of people would post 7000 clips to a clips channel. Because you're in your own head. You're in your own bubble. You don't necessarily know what it's like to not be you. |
| 23. February 2022 | The macdonald’s fries rant. | The McDonald's Fries Rance The McDonald's Fries Rance So sometimes when a person doesn't order chips, the chips will just sit there at McDonald's for a long time. Fries, sorry, Fries. Those of you who've ever worked at McDonald's, do you feel bad when you look at those fries that have been there for like an hour? Like crispy looking fucking awful fries, you look at them and go, man, I should probably make a new batch to not give this person shit fries. Ah fuck it. And then you give them the shittest fries ever made. Do you feel bad? Yeah, many times, like late at night or early in the morning, I've ordered McDonald's and I've gotten the fries and they just like, they're like limp noodles or crusty hard rocks. I mean, know this McDonald's workers, you've made me sad. |
| 26. August 2021 | The maintenance of existence | The maintenance of existence. If you're pessimistic enough, you can define life entirely by the things you don't want to be doing, you know. The maintenance of existence takes up the majority of your existence, and that's kind of bleak to think about. All the time that you sleep, that you eat, that you clean yourself, you know, that you're working so that you can continue to gain the things that you need to maintain your existence. The amount of time in your life where you have free time, where there's really no constraints on what you could be doing, and you have free reign to decide what you want to do, that's the minority of life, right? And that's kind of bleak to think about sometimes. |
| 02. October 2021 | The major cause of resets in all speedruns | The major cause of resets in all speedruns. What's the first major 100% runkiller? All of them. Cause at any point in time, me being a dipshit can just be like, I'm sick of this run! Too much time loss! I slightly stubbed my toe on a piece of wood! So embarrassing! It's true. |
| 01. December 2022 | The major upcoming changes for the next Chaos Rainbomizer season. | Are you able to tell us about the next season of chaos? Big changes? Yeah, it'll be um mirrored. There won't be random weapons, but there'll probably be random cars I might look into seeing how the YouTube chaos is going whether I can do it on YouTube or not That'd be really good. I don't like to badger Ponger Maybe I can convince him to release another update before I begin again. We'll see I'll talk to him I thought you were done with Rainbomizer So I'm only done with Rainbomizer in the sense that it's not gonna be as much as it was before Having random vehicles is still probably pretty good because otherwise I'd just be driving the same vehicle every time like I'll take some votes like the main thing that made Rainbomizer overwhelming was the random weapons how people could have random explosive weapons and stuff and there was no way for me to predict it I never want to abandon speedrunning. Hey funky. How's life treating me? It's going alright I've got more people helping me with editing and stuff Which makes me feel more free to record more footage and or learn more speedrunning stuff Nothing makes me more excited each day chat than knowing I'm gonna be speedrunning I miss this feeling of slowly progressively getting better at something I hope to never get to a point in my career again where I'm so out of it with speedrunning that I need to Dedicate additional time to learning stuff or relearning stuff I should say because it's not that overwhelming when you just need to add tiny Optimizations like every week or whatever, but when you need to relearn an entire six-hour speedrun There's just a billion bajillion different things that you need to remember It's so tough. Do I regret stopping given that I stopped for no damage. No no damage had to be done It was important and it meant a lot to me the upsides Way outpaced the negatives of that whole thing Especially like now that it's over at the time it was so crushingly terrible, but a lot of really good things came from it you |
| 21. December 2019 | The mandalorian TV Show | Mandalorian TV series So I watched the Mandalorian yesterday the first three episodes. I wanted to wait until the entire series was out to watch it But I broke down and watched anyway, and I really like it I always said I wanted Jedi in like a new series related to Jedi This isn't that but it's still really good Like if you know nothing about Star Wars, I think you could watch it and still find it very interesting But knowing about Star Wars gives you a recognition Of all the things like I'm it's gonna definitely be a series that I am eagerly await every week I've now seen six episodes of the Mandalorian. I still really enjoy it I know people have said it's a 100 million dollar series with no story But I just like turning on the next episode Mandalorian it being its own Fairly contained story with a little cute baby Yoda guy and the cool Mandalorian guy as they fly around in A galaxy that I think is quite interesting or a story that I consider quite interesting the the world of Star Wars I have no complaints about it I kind of feel bad because there's only gonna be what 12 13 episodes whatever and I think at the end of those 12 13 episodes I'm gonna look from episode 1 to 13 I'm gonna be like not a lot has happened and that's gonna kind of suck But I haven't ever watched an episode thus far that I haven't enjoyed so I'm still rating it quite highly Because I like the characters even if I do understand the criticism that there isn't major events happening every episode My thoughts on the |
| 22. March 2021 | The meaning of life | Volonté, if that's what you're asking. Life seems about just finding something that gives you a sense of meaning and purpose and fills you with satisfaction and Enables you at the end of the day to feel good about yourself or whatever, you know. Hard thing to do. If at the end of the day you've had a More positive effect on those around you than a negative one, then I think you've done a decent job. That's just my opinion I'm not saying this is just, you know, and potentially if you asked me a different day, I'd give you a completely different answer. I don't claim to have a absolute idea as to the best way for a person to live their life. I think you'd be quite arrogance to have anyone to suggest they have such an answer. Is the 3090 worth the price? I think the 3090 is worth it. |
| 19. April 2021 | The mental struggle to stop eating. | The mental struggle to stop eating. I'll do my best Abe. Good luck on your exam I will only be here if you do your very best in your exam I'll somehow know and stop the shame if you don't although I am starting to get a might bit peckish But I'll just ignore it as I say I'm trying to not eat food. I think I'm under 90 kilos now It is kind of fun really. It's like a battle between mind and body Conscious versus versus unconscious mind is like I'll be hungry and then I'll think of some justification for me to eat Something I shouldn't and I'm like wait a second. I've just convinced myself to do something I don't really want to do. I'm not gonna do that. I've lost a few times, but then when I lose I'm like wait a second I'll just eat less Then I would otherwise eat and so I eat Rather than cooking all four burgers and eating all four burgers. I cook two and eat two, you know small victory |
| 16. June 2022 | The messed up politics behind gambling streams | You know? The messed up politics behind gambling streams. I watched this video yesterday. The messed up politics behind gambling streams by Munecat. Very interesting video. I largely missed all the drama last time, which was a year ago about gambling streams. She goes into how, like, these unregulated crypto gambling sponsors and stuff, like, their history is, like, one of murder and drugs and all this shit. These companies where their main base of operations is some shed in some country you've never heard of. And who spend their time bribing and or killing people to keep them able to maintain their business. Like the above-board sort of gambling enterprises don't give out these kind of sponsorships. One point that I've seen people misunderstand about gambling sponsorships, when people say, think of the children, and then the response is, oh, kids don't have any money anyway, so they're cleaning up the target audience. But in reality, what these sponsorships are meant to do for the long term is to increase the acceptability of gambling streams, of gambling sponsorships, and to make it seem like a cool thing to be doing, to be gambling to the younger, more impressionable crowd. So as they grow up and get more money, you get them while they're young, basically. And so they get into that system of gambling as well. You get them while they're young and you get them for life. Obviously, it's not like the day one most important thing, because they're not willing to wait five years to see return on the advertisement. But obviously advertising to younger people does have an impact in the long term. Oh, gambling really is a vice, yeah. Multiple times a year, I stop myself from downloading poker styles or something. And the main thing that holds me back from doing it is saying to myself, you are not sufficiently educated in the math and the strategy to win in the long term. You may have a little bit of fun, but you will lose. There are thousands of games that you could play and have equal fun without losing money. So why not just play them instead? We are in an age of unlimited easy access to entertainment. Why go gambling other than just to fall victims to your own psychological failings? Yeah, some people do gamble for fun, but there's like infinite ways to have fun that don't involve predatory practices that are designed to inspire people to fall victim to psychological failings and lose all their money. Like obviously the world would be a much better place if we were all wired differently and could still have had our survival advantages to get us to this point, but that we wouldn't fall victim to games of chance and the anticipation of what's going to come next or that feeling of, oh, so close. All those things that throw chemicals into our brains, they keep doing this, man, keep doing it. Having Poker Night with the boys is very different from going to the casino. Yes, very much so because it's in a controlled situation and you are... There's only so much you can lose or whatever. Then again, you could look at that as a gateway to something more, and you could stop it. There's certainly things like poker machines I don't think should exist. |
| 15. December 2020 | The meta of opening cards on stream | The meta of opening Pokemon cards on stream. What do you think about the new meta of opening very expensive card booster boxes? I don't really see this as a new meta, it's more like a continuation of an old meta, where people with a lot of money can show off that money in ways that will get them views from people who can't possibly afford to do that thing, right? The new slant, I suppose, is that rather than it being, you know, oil princes or whatever from Saudi Arabia, it's gamer nerd guys who are being able to get the exclusive nerdy things. It also combines the loot box phenomenon as well. So it's a combination of a lot of different things that have brought in views before. Because remember when people just sit around like 10,000 people watching people open crates in CSGO, and then gambling became a thing after that, where everyone was doing gambling for a while? So it's gambling, flexing, and gamer nerdy stuff all combined into one. It's interesting. Yeah, so you're unboxing things that will hopefully appreciate in value, while getting money from subs and ads and all that. Like I saw Mizkif had 60,000 viewers yesterday. I mean Logan Paul and all that, who kind of at least jumpstarted the current mainstream trend of this. Didn't he have like half a million viewers or something on YouTube? |
| 12. April 2022 | The militarization of gta online | The militarization that they added to this game, I didn't like it. They just went crazy with it. They just constantly weaponized vehicles, just so much stuff with that. I felt like GTA Online got kind of away from the crime element. That's what I personally felt like. Yeah, there's been a lot of discussion about that. We are not really just a dude committing crimes, getting money. You're now like what, an executive villain sort of guy with your flying vehicles and all that crap. I can see why they did that though, considering that they have to keep thinking of new ideas. It's very hard to think of new ideas within a strict paradigm. With Red Dead, for example, if they want to keep releasing new stuff for Red Dead, they've got to keep it within a particular theme. It makes more sense to add a flying motorcycle to GTA Online than it does to Red Dead Online. There's just less ideas that they could throw at Red Dead. Could you imagine them releasing nine years worth of new content for Red Dead Online? New guns still within the theme of that particular era of time? It would be impossible. I'm sure people at Rockstar as well would have preferred to have stuck within a particular amount of technology for GTA Online as well, but they probably ran out of ideas. I think the game really had potential. I know older firearms pretty well, and so I can list off a ton of firearms that I think they could add to the game, like just dozens and dozens of guns. But we haven't had a new gun in almost two years at this point. The last time we had a new gun was in July of 2020, and that was the elephant gun, which the elephant gun is mostly for hunting. It's not even a gun that you can really use against enemies or players. Will they finally update Red Dead Online? Well, at the very least, I hope that they do eventually. |
| 23. February 2022 | The miracle of filthy frank becoming Joji | The miracle of Filthy Frank becoming Joji. What I think of Filthy Frank and Joji? I like them both. I know they're the same person, but they're distinct online entities. I like Joji's music. Filthy Frank was always a little bit cringe to me. But there's a fine line between cringe and funny. Especially with that kind of out there humor that he had anyway. I enjoyed some of his videos. I don't think if I watched them again that they'd hold up as well. I wasn't watching Filthy Frank for a long time. Like just one day in my recommended feed one of his videos appeared. I think internet rappers or something. And I found it really funny. And I just watched dozens of his videos or whatever. And it's hard to introduce him. And certainly his impact on meme culture with his green screens and stuff was certainly very good. He's rightly remembered as one of the OGs. Exceptionally talented. Who made that video recently talking about how over the course of YouTube history, there has been a lot of people who have wanted to move from YouTube into the more mainstream, but they can never shake the drapings, whatever you want to say, of being a YouTuber. They always thought of as the YouTuber who also does that rapping or, you know, whatever the fuck else they're doing. Joji has gone from being a YouTuber to being a mainstream musician. I suspect it was somewhat easier for him because of the character that he portrayed on YouTube, but it's still very impressive. And so it makes it always funny when every once in a while the controversies come up where his current fans become aware that he was, once upon a time, Filthy Frank. And like, if you know Filthy Frank's content, he said a lot of fucked up shit and did a lot of really fucked up shit. I knew I had a real quirky-ass dream to make it seem like it wasn't my fucking whole fucking life. When he showed up at BLM's event on July 22nd, 2016. He told people she was just showing off to check out her rap collection. That got Why He doesn'tanderd photos at his event. Now when he goes off Twitter and has a couple of кил Teaching also |
| 13. March 2023 | The missing editor is back. | My editor that went missing has returned. The editor that disappeared came back chat. He didn't give me specifics, but apparently he's gone through some stuff. His life turned upside down the last couple of months. I'm not gonna ask for specifics, but yeah, he's not dead, so it's good. Whether he'll do stuff for me in the future, who knows? We'll see. |
| 12. December 2021 | The misunderstanding of the joke in my algorithms video | The misunderstanding of the joke in my algorithm video. Love the furry joke in the video Matt. Look I wish I didn't make the video because some people left comments being like oh my god Matt's watch history is nothing but furry videos. I was like really I was gonna put text there saying it's your watch history and I even I used the words your profile when I was explaining it but some people still like oh Matt's watch history is nothing but furry videos. I also felt bad in a way because it is a joke at the expense of furries. I don't like to rag on anyone who's not hurting other people right? In a way though it's making fun of how people don't want to be associated with being furries but I suppose that's not a nice thing to point out for furries anyway but I just wanted to make a joke and sure that joke landed with some people but it didn't land with others and it kind of annoys. |
| 01. March 2022 | The modern GTA V speedrun | audience with the animations is just everyone went back and checked out the other stuff. Yeah, and I'm super glad that happened. The modern GTA V speedrun. How many speedruns have you watched? I've decent bit actually. Oh really? Yeah, I'm a huge speedrun guy and I think GTA has a really cool route for the most part and there's a lot of fun categories for it. The current route for GTA V is crazy. Because of a new skip that's been found on Mission Zero. I haven't learnt it yet but it enables you to skip like 7 or 8 missions or something. Oh shit, that's kinda nutty. Yeah, it's basically like you start two missions simultaneously and you do a shorter mission but it gives you progress on the longer mission and so once you finish the short mission it finishes the long mission as well. |
| 22. January 2022 | The most I have ever made selling on steam marketplace | The most I have ever made selling on the Steam Marketplace. The game I've made the most money off is H1Z1. I played H1Z1 when they had invitational crates. And I was given like 10 of them. But I couldn't open them because they didn't have any keys or whatever. But I kept them. And then I stopped playing H1Z1 for like two years. And then I figured out what the inventory and stuff was. I figured out what the inventory and marketplace and stuff was on Steam. And I looked at all my games. I'm like, hey, look, these crates are worth like 10 bucks each. That was 10 bucks US too. |
| 10. September 2022 | The most annoying part of being a YouTuber | The most annoying part of being a YouTuber. So even after all this time chat, it's hard to know exactly what's going to be successful on YouTube. I kind of just go along with the idea like, this is an idea that I have, it's probably going to be pretty decent, I'm just going to do it. Especially if it doesn't require a lot of time and investment, it's like why the fuck not. So I released this video, uh, has AI evolved to understand memes, and I think the video is pretty good. But thanks something fierce. Like the original footage isn't that good, but like the edit is good. I spun, you know, silver into gold kind of thing with this edit. But it didn't do well. And I'm sitting here thinking why, was the title bad? I mean the premise was kind of stupid, just showing memes or asking AI memes, but I thought it would have done like, okay. One thing that may have hurt it is that it wasn't eight minutes. I couldn't put mid-rolls in. But this is the annoying thing about YouTube chat, where something goes wrong, doesn't do too well, and you see you have to sit in your ass and you can just list like 800 possible reasons why, and you're never gonna know. I just wanted to let you in on a bit of the frustrations of being a YouTuber. And you gotta think of this though, I release a video every day. Imagine being one of those people who releases one video a month, or even one video a week or whatever, and you have this happen, and you're sitting there for like the next month being like, what the fuck did I do wrong? What was wrong with my video? I'm fortunate I don't have to worry about that all that much, because I mean just move on to the next video, but this isn't YouTube being bad. Like I don't like to think in those terms. This video was not a 10 out of 10 video. It was just a pretty good video I thought. It was short, I didn't really have a good vision for the thumbnail, I'm not sure the title was that great. Even despite those things, I was surprised how few views it got, you know? Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel, it doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 22. January 2022 | The most annoying people to have a conversation with | The most annoying people to have a conversation with. There's a bunch of different types of people you can talk to that are really annoying to talk to, but one where a person who's just full of themselves only likes to hear themselves speak, it's so annoying to talk to such a person. Like, you can tell they're listening to nothing that you're saying, and they're waiting for you to shut up so they can speak. Or the people who you have to, like, drag a conversation out of them. It's like they believe the more words that they say, the quicker they'll die, so they use as few syllables as possible. I would get that so much when I did online dating back in the day. It's like, you could be the greatest person in the world, but if you won't fucking talk, go fuck yourself. |
| 16. February 2023 | The most annoying thing about card games. | The most annoying thing about card games. Ever played Magic the Gathering? Yes. I have played all the digital card games. What's annoying is when you stop playing, it's very hard to get back into it. Because not only do you need to know, like, the current cards that everyone's using, you need to know how to build a deck, and then how to play that deck, and then you need to know, like, what other decks people are likely to have, and based on that deck, how they will likely play, and what cards they will have in their hands. If they will save this card for later, or use it earlier, blah blah blah. Like, all the different interactions between different potential decks, it takes a million years to learn. Kind of like speedrunning, in that you can just add a little bit of information, like, as it develops. And that's not too overwhelming. But the nanosecond you, like, stop doing it for a couple of months, it's just so hard to get back into. |
| 27. July 2021 | The most common comment on my RDR2 videos | The most common comments on my Red Dead Redemption 2 videos. I already have two videos of me playing Red Dead Redemption 2, and I can't remember exactly how they were edited, but I constantly get comments on it calling me brain dead. It's not like the occasional comment, like every person who watches them calls me brain dead. |
| 31. October 2020 | The most famous person from my childhood. | Who is the most famous person from my childhood? I wonder who's the most famous person that I went to high school with. How funny if that's me? How funny would it be if my year were just coincidentally so lacking in achievements that I'm the most famous one? Would you consider a doctor famous? A doctor would be successful, not famous. You can even be famous and not successful. Famous is just being well known. It doesn't have to necessarily be infamous. It's like if you have a particularly funny news interview or whatever and it goes viral You're famous because of that, at least temporarily, but you're not necessarily infamous, you know. |
| 27. September 2022 | The most important factor in YouTube success | Important factor in YouTube success being successful on YouTube is largely about Identifying particular nations that are unserved or underserved in the market. So you go hey This particular video doesn't exist. I'm interested in that video They're probably other people out there who interested in it as well And then you make that video as time goes on it's harder and harder to identify Identify such lackings like what you're doing doesn't have to be entirely unique But you don't want to be the 50th person doing a thing You're much better off being the only person doing a thing than trying to fight all the other people who are already doing that thing to stand out, you know has to |
| 19. November 2022 | The most innovative closet I could find. | The most innovative cupboard I could find. So I found out these exist, right? It's a timber door. What this is, is these doors, like slide into the case itself rather than being pulled out. Like you can kind of see it here, like slides inwards and this one slides inwards too. The reason why this was interesting to me is I've got a very small garage, but I wanted some space in there and a normal cupboard that you pull outwards wouldn't fit. And I was like, oh fuck, I'm just never gonna have any space for anything. But these, perfect. Like it doesn't pull out, it just moves to the side. So if you have that similar issue, highly recommend timber door cupboard. I know this is a weird thing to potentially put in Rambles or whatever, but if even one person ends up being like, I did not know that was an option. Holy shit, this is gonna solve my problem. I'll have done my job. |
| 12. February 2023 | The most logical reason for Chris Pratt being the voice of Mario in the new Mario movie. | It laughs. The most logical reason for Chris Pratt being the voice of Mario in the new Mario movie. I hope the plot of the Mario movie is that Chris Pratt plays himself, but he falls in some pipe. He gets teleported to the Mario universe, and people mistake him for Mario, and his clothing is torn up, so like they give him some of Mario's overalls that they had lying around, but leaving him to be Mario. As that perfectly explains why he was put into the movie, and plays Mario, even though he clearly isn't Mario in terms of his vocal range. And then we find out where Mario went. Mario is actually Bowser, who got transformed into a dinosaur after a freaky experiment went wrong on an island called Jurassic Park. It's a me, a Mario. And it all links together. You can see Jurassic Park, like Chris Pratt's in those movies. At least the Jurassic World movies. I don't know if they make a difference, but. |
| 06. November 2020 | The most money made off my Humble Bundle link | When I made the most from my affiliate link with Humble Bundle. The most I ever got out of Humble Bundle was when they did that thing where Spyro Reignited and Crash Bandicoot Remastered were available with Humble Bundle Monthly. And for every person who signed up to Humble Bundle Monthly, I, you know, you get, I get $10 or whatever. And so like a hundred people signed up through my link and I got like a thousand dollars. Nothing's come close to that. Why am I r- |
| 06. November 2020 | The most money made off my humble bundle link | When I made the most from my affiliate link with Humble Bundle. The most I ever got out of Humble Bundle was when they did that thing where Spyro Reignited and Crash Bandicoot Remastered were available with Humble Bundle Monthly. And for every person who signed up to Humble Bundle Monthly, I, you know, you get, I get $10 or whatever. And so like a hundred people signed up through my link and I got like a thousand dollars. Nothing's come close to that. Why am I r- |
| 06. February 2023 | The most popular thing I have ever done, most don’t know I did. | The most popular thing I have ever done, most don't know I did. So when I reflect on what is the most popular thing that I've ever done, or produced, like what is the thing that the most people conceivable have seen? The answer to that question is something that I'd probably say that most people are completely unaware I even did. If you love GTA V, you likely have already seen an incomplete version of this clip. Four years ago I uploaded this old speedrunning strategy and it still gets shared around to this day. Davey, how you doing? What the hell? Was that really necessary? I don't know what you're talking about. So this is from my Facts and Glitches episode 3 back in March 2019. But a shortened version of the clip was taken and shared on reddits. It was given a, in some cases a song, I just want to party all the time, party all the time. Before he actually dives out of the blimp. There have been recreations of it with planes or helicopters. Other people have of course done the blimp strat inspired by the clip. And so those clips have gotten around as well. I didn't even find this strategy and it has long since become obsolete. But I covered it in the Facts and Glitches series like almost immediately after it was made. Unfortunately I can't remember who found the strategy. It wasn't one of the top runners at the time. Of that I'm fairly certain. In fact though, the only reason I have this footage of me doing it is because originally I was going to use footage of Burhak doing it. But at the time me and Burhak were not the best friends or whatever. And so I was like I probably shouldn't use his footage then. And so I made like 10 attempts and eventually got it. And so this was my first time ever getting the strategy working. And the reason why I call this a remastered version is because the original edit wasn't very good. And in the original version I dubbed over Dave. Where in this case I used lines that Dave says throughout the game to have him like allude to the idea that Dave knows that he landed with the blimp. When in reality of course the game is not that sophisticated. It's not, you can't register that Michael arrived in a blimp. Yeah I just think this is an interesting story. An interesting part of my history that if I ever eventually get around to making that Iceberg video would be in there of course. Because there's a lot of stuff that people are unaware that I've done. For better or worse. That people probably be interested to know about. How many views do you think this short will get? Not many I don't think. Like the reason why they trimmed down the original footage is because it works better trimmed down. This little lead up here does not help the clip. Indeed Dave saying those additional lines and Michael saying the additional line probably don't help the clip either. It was better shorter. But I wanted to make it this way even if it is suboptimal in terms of |
| 03. April 2021 | The mystery of chicken chips. | The mystery of chicken chips. I've got a question for you, Jack. A very important question. Do chicken chips contain chicken? So when you get a packet of chips, you have potato chips, and it says chicken flavored, is that actual chicken? Is there any parts of chicken in there? We get a poll? Very important poll right now. And we'll see what the people say. May I should have said it depends, like just in general, let's say just in general. I'm sure people have googled it now. Let's see the results. 87% say no. So that was the impression that I had. I remember being a kid though, and offering my uncle who's vegetarian chicken, just chips with chicken salt on them. He's like, nah I can't have those, I'm a vegetarian. I'm like, what do you mean? It's just flavoring. He's like, where do you think they get the flavoring from? I was confused. I'm like, I don't know. And still to this day, I do not know where chicken flavoring comes from. But the reason why I'm convinced that it can't contain chicken, or likely doesn't, is because I don't think barbecue flavored chips contain barbecues. I don't think they're going out to people's houses or something, and getting the residue from people's barbecues that have been done, or like grinding up the metal barbecues themselves and sprinkling them on chips. Pizza flavored chips, I don't think they're like making themselves some pieces, and then grinding those pieces and putting them on chips. So I assume it's just some spices or something that reminds people of chicken, or maybe some spices or something that people tend to put on chicken or something. It's all seasoning, so it doesn't contain actual chickens. It's artificial flavoring. Okay, good to know. Basically vegetarians go eat some chicken chips. And suddenly the stock price of all these chip companies goes up. I get taken away because I'm manipulating the stock price or some shit. I've got shares in these companies. So guys, I happen to stumble across this interesting little stock. You remember when I manipulated the stock price of cheese. Cheese is really good guys. Bye cheese. |
| 09. February 2023 | The mystery of the 'no waves' bug in GTA V was finally revealed. | The mystery of the no waves bug in GT5 was finally revealed. One of the key features of patch 1.27 and the reason why we like it so much is that there are no waves. Or at the very least, waves disappear after a certain amount of time so all water is totally flat. Gogzi is like a wizard in the GT5 speedrunning community. He's developed a lot of cool stuff, found a lot of cool stuff, he knows a lot about the code and stuff. I think he was big on project 1.27. Where would we be without Gogzi? I don't know. It'd probably be a much worse place. But he has written here, No waves on 1.27, that's the patch we play on, is likely related to an attempted PS4 performance update in PS4 1.08, Online 1.24, that broke parallax occlusion mapping. In PS4 1.0, Online 1.27, it was, Fixes graphical issue on PS4 and Xbox One, induced after title update 1.08. Parallax occlusion mapping is random rockstone sticking out instead of being flat. With those down here, consoles be blessed. So, this is one potential explanation for a mystery that has existed for, what, 8 years now or something? Why there are no waves on patch 1.27? And that is the current theory, at least by Gogzi, who knows far more about this stuff than I do. |
| 22. November 2022 | The mystery of the melting 4090 adapter was solved. | The mystery of the melting 4090 adapter was solved. So the mystery has finally been solved as to Why some of the connector cables with the RTX 4090 were melting? Gamers Nexus went to the effort of being able to recreate these issues. The reasons were foreign objects debris There's potential for some manufacturing issues and parcel insertion user error These are three things that can cause the issues bits all the things that they've mentioned are Exceptionally unlikely. It's like less than one to thousand or something that this can happen without use error or something So I'm not particularly concerned if you are concerned for your 4090 I highly recommend watching this video because I'm not doing it justice This is not my area of expertise, but it is interesting whenever I watch gamers Nexus videos now There's usually a part where he's like here's all the things that we did to recreate this and to test this and how much effort we Went into this and sometimes that can be a little annoying But I can understand why he does it because he wants his efforts to be appreciated where you have some tech channels who are just like Repeating what everyone else is saying and doing no actual testing themselves where gamers Nexus will do the testing themselves will go the extra mile to Be the most accurate possible in what they're reporting and so I recommend if you're interested in tech and and I mean gaming to an extent and hardware whatever I highly recommend subscribing to this channel always in depth good information |
| 09. February 2023 | The name 'Matto' doesn’t mean what you think it does. | The name Mato doesn't mean what you think it does. Mato has some meaning in another language. I think it's Finnish. So I tweeted out Step on me, where someone has written Mato, love heart. And you can press translate into English and it says Carpet, love heart. See original translated by Google. Some people call me Mato, they call me Carpet, at least in, uh, I think it's Finnish. And I find that funny. I think Mato means insane in some of the contexts, I think, right? On Mato means insane. Mato, crazy, mad, insane. Words have multiple meanings, guys, in different languages. It's crazy. I am a crazy carpet. |
| 03. April 2021 | The nature of commentary channels and SOG. | The nature of commentary channels and some ordinary gamers What I think about some ordinary gamers outside of my ranks. I've kind of gone backwards and forwards on the guy they're definitely areas of It's called discourse that he does know some things right and so on certain topics listening to him can be quite interesting But ultimately into the day he is just like all Commentary channels where they take this story that everyone else is talking about and they talk about themselves Regardless of to what degree they know anything doing it as fast as possible So they can't get like the next stage of developments or the real story that comes out next or whatever it's just you got to get that story as soon as possible on on YouTube or the values you got to record it as soon as possible and for that reason he will sometimes Talk about things. He knows nothing about he will talk before all the information is known and but criticizing him for this is It's potentially wrong because because all commentary channels have this problem They even I have this problem to a degree But I'm buffeted from being truly incorrect as perhaps often as these people are because one I ramble on stream So they can't be the expectation that I can do research while streaming while playing a speed running, but two because my rambles come out so late if I'm Way off the mark or there are additional developments that come into play. I just add them into the rambles sure I can still be wrong But I have that buffer of a week or two for my commentary on any topic to To potentially be corrected or amended like I don't think some audio gamers is a bad guy I don't think he's in it. He's ever intentionally tries to mislead people But he like all of us have our biases and he has a certain audience that whether he knows he does it consciously or unconsciously That's both that he caters to like coming out with a video a yo twitch ain't so bad is Is not gonna get as many clicks and his audience is potentially gonna be pissed There are like hints in his video that he made that he recognizes that this has Because he doesn't know as much and it has the potential to be good be like quickly goes. This is like, you know very Unlikely not really gonna happen. It immediately goes back on the fear monger or like the video he released today where he called Dr. Seuss's publishing company not wanting to publish his books seven of his 60 books evidence of cancer cancer culture as if a private company going well We've identified in the marketplace that people don't appreciate these books as much and it can potentially impact our sales of our other books So we're gonna stop them to increase our profits as if that is cancer culture But even but like but if you watch this hints that he knows what he's doing He's trying to fit the truth into the mold of what his audience wants to hear Like when he says all of these books aren't banned and so you have all these stupid people trying to sell the books On on eBay even though they have been bandages in time. So you like it points that out. It's very true Books go out of print all the goddamn time publishers choose not to publish books all the time Times change he was opinions change with every decade Something that was acceptable in the previous decade is likely not gonna be acceptable to some people. That's just life That's social development to argue that like if anything that isn't appreciated as much in the 40s as it is Like everything in the 40s should be equally as appreciated in the 40s as it is today or it's cancer culture That's just nonsense. It just is It's always me back to the original question Suborni gamers commentary is going to be as good as his knowledge of anything that he talks about Which is the same with all of us so I don't hate him or something But he just has the same flaws of any commentary. I suppose Maybe I'm just angry at the nature of commentary channels. Maybe even my own rambles. I don't like I don't |
| 28. November 2020 | The nature of my clips channel thumbnails. | The nature of my clip channel thumbnails. For a long time, I've shied away from clickbait titles and clickbait thumbnails, preferring to have thumbnails and titles that, while being captivating, don't exaggerate all that much. But on the Clips channel, because the content is so short, I consider the thumbnail and the title to be in-of-itself content. Like the title and the thumbnail, if possible, I would like to be funny. Like even if the video itself is, you know, whatever it is, I would like people to even laugh at the titles if possible. But it certainly, at least more than likely, helps that channel do a lot better than my main channel. Because clickbait does work. It's also a lot easier to make a captivating title for a video when it's a 30 second clip of condensed, funny, awesome stuff. It's very easy then to think of a title that encapsulates that, as opposed to a title that perfectly encapsulates, you know, an hour-long video. |
| 17. March 2023 | The need to accept looking like a fool as a content creator. | The need to accept looking like a fool as a content creator. So there's a dude called Lil Rez who released a video titled A Fun Fact About Tom Scott's Thumbnails. And the basic premise of it is that his thumbnails once upon a time had different lines on them in different orientations to indicate what type of series it was. And he says, hey, isn't that interesting? And also that he's like started to remove these from his videos. Like the new videos don't have these lines anymore because the thumbnails are a little bit more click-bait than they used to be and whatnot. And I was like, oh, I've been watching Tom Scott for years. I never noticed this. That was kind of cool. And then he released a video like two days ago where he's like, hey, yo, I didn't think my Tom Scott video was going to be that big. And it was kind of unnerving for me to have tens of thousands of people seeing me make this stupid little video with all these mistakes and stuff. And he has a hard time dealing with those feelings of like, oh, I'm looking like an idiot in front of so many people. And in this he basically talks about how that he has to get over these feelings. So that's like part and parcel of being on the Internet. You're going to make mistakes and people don't really care. And the feelings that he describes are feelings that every single content creator has. When he made this video and he's like, I can't believe I look like a stupid person in front of so many people. A part of me was like, what do you mean a lot of people? It was just like 50,000 views. Like it eventually scales up. Like if I made a video to like 500,000 people and I look like an idiot, I'd be like, I can't believe I look dumb in front of 500,000 people. I can't believe it. But in front of 50,000 people, I'd be like, oh, well, and who cares? It's just a small ramble video, right? Because it's just over time, like threshold goes up. What you consider to be a significant amount of people goes up. I remember when I was a young person in like high school and stuff, one of the things that most limited me from doing anything with my life is worrying about looking like an idiot. I was so inhibited and I just hated the idea of people seeing me at my worst and making mistakes and whatnot. And just I realize now, especially watching this video, how much I've changed as a person in that regard. I still don't like to make a fool of myself, but this is like my job in that I will sometimes intentionally make myself look like a fool or sometimes I will look like a fool unintentionally. I just realize like who cares? It's all just fun and games at the end of the day. What interested me about this, though, is additionally, I have done this as well in the past where I've made like just a tiny video that I thought wasn't going to be a big deal and ended up blowing up in ways that I didn't expect. With that video, I talked about Moodahar getting that stuff wrong about the ad revenue with Twitch or that recent essay that I wrote, 14 pages, didn't think that would go anywhere, blew up and got seen by heaps of people. It's just surprising how on the internet we can do things that we consider to be like basically nothing, effectively meaningless, and they become like their own thing. Like every meme about me that has ever developed has just been like a casual thing that I thought maybe was kind of funny, but can still persist for years after that. It's so hard to predict what is going to be popular, what is going to blow up. Things can just take on a life of their own. I almost didn't talk about this, but this creator has another interest for me because I can't remember if I talked about it or not, but he is in my files about reaction content. And the reason for this is Atrioc did a reaction video to this video, Shmovement in Video Games, in which Atrioc was widely praised for doing this. So Atrioc's reaction video, where he just sat on stream and watched the video, got 300,000 views. And this dude's video got 100,000 views. Now, people who like reaction content and think it actually matters in terms of boosting creator would be like, no, no, no, no, no, but the next video that this dude brings out is going to blow up because of Atrioc showing this creator to 300,000 people. And the next video this dude released got 5,000 views. It got about as many views as the previous videos that he made prior to these two videos that were really good and blew up naturally, right? And so these accounts are accounts that I collect in my documentation to continue to show examples of people who get shown to hundreds of thousands of people, but their next video doesn't do well. The conversion of reaction content to long term growth and sustainability is zero or so close to zero that it's effectively meaningless. And so I just found it funny that paths crossing again that I happen to see this video because I like Tom Scott. I happen to see this video because I watched this video about Tom Scott and it happened to be the dude who was in my notes about reaction content. Like small world. This random dude making content is crossing my world from multiple different angles for multiple different reasons. Very funny. |
| 08. January 2022 | The never ending quest for more money | I'm like, fucking, we're gone, we're in the matrix. They're warning us, man, we just have to listen. You know. The never-ending quest for more and how it inspires creators to scam their viewers. I can't remember which of the polls said it. It was on a podcast. He's like, I want to be a billionaire before I am 30 or whatever he said. But as you get bigger, as you get more money, all you do is compare yourself to the people who are that little bit bigger than you. You got a mansion, you compare yourself to, fucking, I know Bezos, who has an even bigger mansion. And you're like, man, I need to get more money. The amount of money I have, sure, it's tens of millions, but it's not enough. I'm not bigger than that other guy. And so you just try to cut corners. That's such a toxic mentality. And it's like, I feel like there was a while where, like earlier in my life, I think everyone does it like I kept comparing everyone to around me. But now it's like I'm just like thankful that I have like a house to live in. You know what I mean? Like I own my house and that's like that's better than 99% of the people that have to struggle through life right now. So it's like, you know, I'm in a place where I'm happy. And it's like, I don't need to be like a billionaire by 30. I mean, I don't like I don't think anybody should be a billionaire. Anybody should want to be a billionaire. Like that kind of stress and like add on to your life is not something anybody would want. Like at some point you have you can get so much money that like you just you like there's no reason to have more. Like at least in my idea wouldn't change my quality of life. Right. Like I come home and I play some video games and I cover viruses on videos. And that satisfies me enough. Like I don't need any more than that. I found it interesting since I've become wealthy. None of the issues that I had originally when I was, you know, making enough to get by. I've had issues, you know, with personal things and social stuff and all that. And like nothing's changed. Like I'm still living in the same house that I was living in when I was, you know, making 40 grand a year or whatever. Because I wasn't really interested in the money. I wanted to make good content and maybe have people that I talk to online and shit. My goal was never the money, but other people don't give a shit about making good content stuff. They just want the dollars at the end of the day. Yeah. And they're also living the lifestyle that like bankrupts them the next day. Like, yeah, I remember like fucking this is this is about a month ago. But when I was just sitting there, I was like, I don't really buy anything fancy for myself or some shit from time to time. Like I buy computer stuff, but that's not really like buying for that's like more of an investment thing, if anything, like into this. So I ended up buying myself a car, you know, like I was like, ah, let me get myself a nicer car. I went and like got a Tesla. And I still even then I was like, I'm going to get this fucking thing slightly used because I'm paying no fucking dealer prices day one out of the box for this shit. So even with. |
| 10. August 2022 | The never ending treadmill fighting cheaters. | The never ending treadmill fighting cheaters. This channel, Shannick, does a lot of videos about Team Fortress 2. I have not played any Team Fortress 2. Maybe I played like for half an hour when I was doing something with a viewer a long time ago. But I do watch a lot of videos about Team Fortress 2 because I feel like it's a game that I really missed out on. And so I'll get recommended videos like from this guy that talk about like why the bots only target humans and how they know that. But this video was particularly interesting where it talks about what I referenced before, how beating cheaters is kind of like an arms race where the cheaters will invent something and then the company devs will invent something to counter that. And then the cheaters will invent something to counter that. And it just goes on forever. And there's no real end to it because it doesn't matter how secure your systems are, how perfect your security, there's always some way around it. All you can hope is that with every single volley back and forth between the cheaters and the devs, that it gets that little bit harder to break the next system. And so eventually it's just a huge pain in the ass to actually cheat or break the systems. And even while some people will still do it, it'll be far less people than if you did nothing. And so like when it comes to Rockstar with GT Online, they've got nothing. I fully accept that if Rockstar did something, there'd still be cheaters, there'd still be modders, there'd still be mod menus and stuff. There'd be far less if they just did something. Systems can be fully secure, impossible. They've actually made this thing now where you can have controllers, which are just on your side, but they give you auto aim. It's like the auto aim is built into the controller itself. And of course there, as someone points out in chat, it's all a question of like, how much are you willing to inconvenience normal users? Because every bit of security you put in place is gonna have some cost to non-malicious actors, blind actors, your normal consumer base. You can't have people have to go through 800 security systems to get in because they will just not bother as well. But yeah, interesting video, interesting channel. |
| 20. December 2022 | The new Chainsaw Man anime left me in awe. | The Chainsaw Man anime left me in awe. So Chainsaw Man, when I first started watching it, I was like, oh, that's a very good show. I can see why people would really like it, but it's not that special. A bunch of episodes in, I was kinda getting a little bit bored of it. I'm like, ah, this is interesting. I'm still totally gonna watch, but it's like, you know, it's a little bit slow right now. And then the last episode that released just like upped the stakes by like 10,000%. It is almost as if they spent an episode or two making things intentionally slow so that when it ramped up, it was just like the biggest whiplash ever. It's like, what the fuck just happened? I have never scrolled back in an anime to be like, how are we here now when we were like somewhere completely different like 15 minutes ago? What happened? It is truly crazy. If you haven't seen Chainsaw Man, I mean, if you watch anime, there's no way you aren't watching it because everyone's hyper, but it's just, it's just as crazy as I was. |
| 25. July 2022 | The new GTA Online update was my idea | The new GTA Online update was my idea. Did you hear chat that apparently with the newest DLC that's coming out for GTA Online, it's meant to be something about playing as one of the corrupt FIB agents or CIA agents or whatever the fuck it's called? All I'm saying is I had that idea and I suggested that as content for GTA Online. All I'm saying is you're welcome chat. I was the first person ever to have that idea and that's why they're implementing it into the game. I am a special snowflake with nothing but visual ideas. |
| 01. March 2022 | The new Jackass movie | Well, which is weird, but uh, the coding of GT5 is crazy. The new Jackass movie. We used to do like a Jackass stunts across from the hospital at the giant building under construction. I can't believe they made another Jackass movie. Even weirder that apparently it's very good. It really was good, like it was fun. Have you seen the original trilogy? Yeah, yeah, eons ago, so I could probably. |
| 16. November 2022 | The new Nvidia video encoder is useless. | The new Nvidia video encoder is useless. With the new graphics cards that have come out, all of them, they all have some variation of this, there's new codecs, encoders, whatever, for recording that is better than what we normally use in that you can have higher quality for smaller file sizes, which when you're streaming and stuff, that's pretty good. The problem is though, I use Adobe Premiere and the files that this new encoder outputs cannot be used in Adobe Premiere. I didn't know this, so four days worth of streaming, huge hassle to convert it and to get it to work or whatever, but it's been sorted. But ultimately that means that I can't use this new encoder. It's just too much of a pain in the ass for the little benefit that it gives me. Adobe Premiere is garbage, but there are so many different types of files that they just refuse to accept in the software regardless of how popular they are. It's crazy to think how many people or different companies need to be on board to be able to get a new standard accepted by everyone. Like this new codec exists, this new encoder exists, and it isn't accepted by Twitch or YouTube for live streaming. It's not useful there. I've got the hardware, it can do it, but it just doesn't want it. Doesn't work in Adobe Premiere, so I can't use it as well. So I've got a graphics card that can do this and it would be amazing if I could use it, but I just can't, so. |
| 14. December 2022 | The new Twitch rip off made for gambling | The new Twitch ripoff made for gambling. So you guys likely remember when we talked about how gambling was somewhat banned on Twitch in that, like a lot of the large websites you can't possibly use, there were a bunch of asterisks and stuff, but bottom line, it was a lot harder to stream gambling on Twitch since some policy changes over that. And it turns out Steak, one of the biggest gambling companies, has backed something called Kick.com. It's got a huge amount of followers on Twitter, man, but it's a clone of Twitch that they run. It's like these are the biggest channels. So like in the top 10 channels, you've got people with 80 views and 60 views. So obviously not going that great. I guess this is Steak being like, well, we have unlimited money, so let's just like make our own Twitch for people to stream gambling, as is why all the top things are slots. The design is Twitch. Yes, it is totally a clone. Even down to like the thing here, the categories look the same. I guess they look a little bit different. I assume they're the exact same design, but slightly different images. So this is really pathetic. It's a large part being spearheaded by Trainwrecks, you know that scumbag who has spent so many years now trying to get people hooked on slots. You just can't stop, man. Doesn't matter how much money he makes, he's like, we need more people to play slots to give money to Steak, please! Their billions ain't enough, man. Give them your hard-earned money. Yeah, this is really pathetic. Kick.com is a new venture created by the founders of Easy Go and Steak. It also got a little bit of traction at the beginning because there were a lot of people streaming like porn and stuff on the website, unsurprisingly. It's not there now though, I think they removed it, but just in case some of you wanna go check that out, you don't need to because there's porn other places on the internet. Wait, there's porn on the internet? Yes, surprisingly. |
| 17. June 2021 | The new change to chaos mod | This episode of Chaos went up and while I got a few complaints that the game now wipes effects if they fail you three times, there weren't that many complaints. I mean, let's be real, like, sitting there waiting for the game to fail 14 times for an effect to end was just boring. It was. As fun as it and funny it might be to to see suffering or whatever, I don't think that was a good part of it. Like, three fails consecutively in a row really fast I think is enough to get the point, you know? My Masked World Record now YouTube viral. In the 100% World Record you said the third way is my favorite mission. |
| 18. July 2022 | The new gif at the end of my videos. | either. The new GIF at the end of my videos. So the observant among you would have noticed the dancing doggo at the end of the episodes now, replacing the hat and time girl. I don't know if most people even know why she was there. There was a meme back in the day called smug dancing that I thought was very funny and I liked it and so I just for the hell of it put her in my outro and then I'm like oh I should probably remove it now because the memes dead but people are like no no no keep it no no no keep it and so it just stayed there forever and I'm like you know what I should at least update it to be more in line with my other artwork so yeah. I should just play through a hat and time at some point. I did play it for an hour or something but that was like a million years ago. |
| 16. November 2022 | The new nvidia video enconder is useless. | The new Nvidia video encoder is useless. With the new graphics cards that have come out, all of them, they all have some variation of this, there's new codecs, encoders, whatever, for recording that is better than what we normally use in that you can have higher quality for smaller file sizes, which when you're streaming and stuff, that's pretty good. The problem is though, I use Adobe Premiere and the files that this new encoder outputs cannot be used in Adobe Premiere. I didn't know this, so four days worth of streaming, huge hassle to convert it and to get it to work or whatever, but it's been sorted. But ultimately that means that I can't use this new encoder. It's just too much of a pain in the ass for the little benefit that it gives me. Adobe Premiere is garbage, but there are so many different types of files that they just refuse to accept in the software regardless of how popular they are. It's crazy to think how many people kind of, or different companies need to be on board to be able to get a new standard accepted by everyone. Like this new codec exists, this new encoder exists, and it isn't accepted by Twitch or YouTube for live streaming. It's not useful there. I've got the hardware, it can do it, but it just doesn't want it. Doesn't work in Adobe Premiere, so I can't use it as well. So I've got a graphics card that can do this and it would be amazing if I could use it, but I just can't, so. |
| 28. May 2022 | The new thumbnail design on the anti-reaction videos | The dude's name is GrabstarTV. I found him through, as I usually do, just going to my Discord and going, hey guys, if you got any skills in this, hit me up and we'll work out a deal. I was surprised how much I liked his work. I originally only wanted one of the videos to be done, the thumbnails, but I was like, I like this so much I want you to do them all. He charges 70 bucks per one. Let me see if I can find the original thumbnails for you. I can't put myself in there. So like, this is the first video. And like, this was the second video. Well, this one, yeah, that was not really fine. But then there was this. And like, so this is my level of thumbnail creation. You know? This is probably the only good one. So these are all the thumbnails I made. And then we can go to his ones, then we'll go in here. And so you can see, like, ooh, ow, okay. That red on my nose probably should be removed. You can see, his are a little bit better than mine, you could say. You like the early ones more? Ah, even if you do, I don't think that's the wider market would agree. The not as eye catching. Like, you can see how the ones I made were kind of like the basis for the new ones, but obviously they're jacked up to the nines. You know? These look professional, yes. Mine look like regular dude YouTuber kind of thing. As in, I don't think the thumbnails I made would have been done that poorly, right? I think they still would have been somewhat engaging, but I think these are definitely gonna be better. The difficulties with the Hassan and H3- |
| 28. November 2021 | The no damage failure that caused me to take a four mouth break | The no damage failure that caused me to take a 4 month break. The no damage failure that caused me to take a break. The no damage failure that caused me to take a break. Making new content for now 8 year old game. |
| 18. February 2021 | The non-English side of livestreaming is huge | The non-English side of live streaming is huge. The non-English speaking live streaming world is blowing up crazily. Like you remember the... I showed that on stream, right? Someone did like an analysis of the largest content creators on Twitch and how they connect to each other. I was on the page, but I was in my own little circle by myself. No connections to anyone. But there was this huge section of just Spanish content creators who had basically no connection to anyone else, but were just like a huge part of the platform. Being bilingual certainly has advantages in terms of, you know, easier reach for more audiences, right? Do I watch Spanish content creators? No, because I don't speak Spanish. And even then, the content that they'd make would not be of particular interest to me. As in like the content that is popular with the Spanish content creators is the same content that's very popular with the English ones and stuff I don't watch, you know, Rust and Fortnite and all the shooters and stuff. Yeah, TheGreg or whatever his name is did set the highest live streaming record on Twitch. Actually, I think he has like three of the top 15 largest streams that have ever been done or something. You don't speak English and you see me? Sad with perfect English. 75% of Germans can't speak English. Really? I thought being bilingual with English was very common in Germany. Like young people, I thought in school it was required to learn English and German. Is that not true? Yeah, like to my understanding with a lot of these smaller European countries, it's common, at least not uncommon for the older generations to only speak, you know, German or whatever. But the younger generations all learn English in school. Like English is the cross border language or whatever. Well, someone Google how many how many what percentage of people speak English as a second language in Germany? Just Google it. Literally everyone in Europe who has 10 to 35 speaks English. At least 66 percent, around 56 percent. Yeah, I think it's I think it's very common. 63 percent of Germans can speak English. 56 percent. Yeah, that sounds about right. I mean, as India and China continue to branch out and grow as superpowers or whatever, knowing a language that can communicate with those markets is would seemingly be very good. So, of course, speaking English in those countries, I'm sure is at least somewhat common. Like, I just know I saw some video of Mouda talking about some ordinary gamer talking about his upbringing or whatever and talking about how his family made sure that he knew their native language as well as English. And he wants to do the same for his kids. And he considers it to be an advantage, which I agree with. |
| 18. February 2021 | The non-english side of livestreaming is huge | The non-English side of live streaming is huge. The non-English speaking live streaming world is blowing up crazily. Like you remember the... I showed that on stream, right? Someone did like an analysis of the largest content creators on Twitch and how they connect to each other. I was on the page, but I was in my own little circle by myself. No connections to anyone. But there was this huge section of just Spanish content creators who had basically no connection to anyone else, but were just like a huge part of the platform. Being bilingual certainly has advantages in terms of, you know, easier reach for more audiences, right? Do I watch Spanish content creators? No, because I don't speak Spanish. And even then, the content that they'd make would not be of particular interest to me. As in like the content that is popular with the Spanish content creators is the same content that's very popular with the English ones and stuff I don't watch, you know, Rust and Fortnite and all the shooters and stuff. Yeah, TheGreg or whatever his name is did set the highest live streaming record on Twitch. Actually, I think he has like three of the top 15 largest streams that have ever been done or something. You don't speak English and you see me? Sad with perfect English. 75% of Germans can't speak English. Really? I thought being bilingual with English was very common in Germany. Like young people, I thought in school it was required to learn English and German. Is that not true? Yeah, like to my understanding with a lot of these smaller European countries, it's common, at least not uncommon for the older generations to only speak, you know, German or whatever. But the younger generations all learn English in school. Like English is the cross border language or whatever. Well, someone Google how many how many what percentage of people speak English as a second language in Germany? Just Google it. Literally everyone in Europe who has 10 to 35 speaks English. At least 66 percent, around 56 percent. Yeah, I think it's I think it's very common. 63 percent of Germans can speak English. 56 percent. Yeah, that sounds about right. I mean, as India and China continue to branch out and grow as superpowers or whatever, knowing a language that can communicate with those markets is would seemingly be very good. So, of course, speaking English in those countries, I'm sure is at least somewhat common. Like, I just know I saw some video of Mouda talking about some ordinary gamer talking about his upbringing or whatever and talking about how his family made sure that he knew their native language as well as English. And he wants to do the same for his kids. And he considers it to be an advantage, which I agree with. |
| 12. December 2021 | The non-existant gta 5 speedrun: True 100 | The non-existent GT5 speedrun, true 100%. True 100%? So for those who don't know, the 100% speedrun just speedruns the 100% checklist that exists in the game. Like if you go to stats, there's a 100% checklist and that's what we speedrun. But there's more stuff in the game that isn't on that checklist. Like if you go to socialclub.com and look at your account, there's a huge checklist of stuff. The biggest problems with doing a true 100% run, the submarine parts that are underneath the water, the nuclear waste that's under the water, and all the random events. For the checklist in the game, you need to complete 14 random events. So we've chosen the 14 fastest and consistent random events. But to do them all, like I remember when I was 100% in the game, trying to get like 15 of them to spawn was just the most arduous, annoying task I've ever had to undertake. They just would not spawn regardless of what I did. And doing that in a speedrun would be awful. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 12. December 2021 | The non-existent gta 5 speedrun: True 100 | The non-existent GT5 speedrun, true 100%. True 100%? So for those who don't know, the 100% speedrun just speedruns the 100% checklist that exists in the game. Like if you go to stats, there's a 100% checklist and that's what we speedrun. But there's more stuff in the game that isn't on that checklist. Like if you go to socialclub.com and look at your account, there's a huge checklist of stuff. The biggest problems with doing a true 100% run, the submarine parts that are underneath the water, the nuclear waste that's under the water, and all the random events. For the checklist in the game, you need to complete 14 random events. So we've chosen the 14 fastest and consistent random events. But to do them all, like I remember when I was 100% in the game, trying to get like 15 of them to spawn was just the most arduous, annoying task I've ever had to undertake. They just would not spawn regardless of what I did. And doing that in a speedrun would be awful. |
| 27. October 2021 | The occasional comment that calls my facts and glitches series fake | The occasional comment that calls my Facts and Glitches series fake. I had someone leave a comment. I can't taxi into the ocean. My cab driver spooks when I aim at him. The game won't warp me to the hospital when I kill myself and switch. And I'm like, you're not taxiing far enough out. You haven't whistled for the cab. And it only sometimes works. And then he responds like, oh, I'm sorry. Okay, yeah, I get it now. I'm surprised I don't receive more of those comments where people are like, this is bullshit, man. It's trying to bamboozle me. You're using mods or some shit. It was the first comment where someone was like, these aren't true. And I'm like, aha, I know exactly why you can't do any of these things, motherfucker. Not only do I know the facts, I know why you fail at them. You know. |
| 16. February 2023 | The ocean can make anyone rich. | The ocean can make anyone rich. I need money to start KO? Yes, and I've heard there's money in the ocean Do you ever think chat in real life? There is legit actually free money in the ocean like for centuries or for entirety of human history There have been people like carrying gold and silver and stuff and having it like crash and drop to the bottom of the ocean So if we could just clear away all the ocean for like I know a day or something and not have it destroy the planet We find so much cool shit never gonna happen |
| 19. July 2020 | The oddity of the age of content creators. | The oddity of the age of successful content creators. It's weird in this business where you can't really pig the age of the person of a content creator, rather, because like a person can start their career in content creation, like at 29 or can start it at like 16. So you can't like judge based on where they are in their lives as to how likely old they're meant to be. Who was it recently? Like is Clint Stevens 23 or something? I was like, really? Hungrybox I think was 27. Is Chance 25 or something? Like I I've never thought of it, but I think I'm on the older side of content creators, right? Being 29. They were definitely older content creators, but I've often heard a lot of critical things about some content creators or what have you where they get famous and popular so quickly that they become assholes because they never had a normal job. They've never had to, you know, deal with having a limited amount of funds. They're just so successful from a very young age. I think I'm kind of fortunate that I never had that. While I've certainly never been poor, I've always been middle class. I've never been I've never had to worry. Where's my next bill coming? I did work normal jobs for shitty pay working overtime spending all my weekends and stuff not going to parties. You know, I I'd often go to parties at like after 10 p.m. or something. I got off work. I've lived that normal life. Even while now I don't live a standard life where I get to sit at home all day and play video games, you know, KSI is exactly this. I saw KSI reacting to the needle drops review of his album that he released and his response to it seemed very mature and he seemed thankful that he was getting reviewed or like it just is KSI matured over the years or something. The stuff I remember seeing of KSI in the past, he seemed, you know, a complete dickhead. But watching that video, he just seemed like a almost like a starstruck dude that the needle drop Anthony Fantana was reviewing his album, you know, I mean, what's his name? Dan's Gaming and Con Carnage. They're on the older side. Do I think I'll get older faster? You mean I'll show my age. I'm fortunate that I don't look old. I have a young sort of face absent the facial hair, of course. Certainly my job is stressful, but I'm not sure it's more stressful than like, you know, the average manager position or something. |
| 15. January 2022 | The one person who blocked me on Twitter. | The one person who blocked me on Twitter. Chat, I've been thinking about becoming a full-time Among Us streamer. How about that? That sounds like good. That sounds like some good fun, you think, chat? Nothing but Among Us all day, every day? Oh, chat, I have never found someone who has blocked me on Twitter. And I found a dude who blocked me on Twitter. And I was so confused. Like, what could I have possibly done to this dude? Because I'd never talked to him or interacted with him to my knowledge. And I believe it was from this Among Us thing that I did a long time ago, where I tried to hang out with creators and it did not fucking go well. One of my first attempts at a collaboration, and I completely misunderstood what the event was for. It was really fucking awkward. Because a lot of new people took Among Us, and I dipped the second I found out because it was just so awkward. And apparently that dude blocked me. You guys shouldn't be that surprised, but still, weird interaction. |
| 18. April 2021 | The one place I want to travel to | The one place on earth that I want to travel to. Have you ever considered moving to LA to practice stratsil? I've never practiced stratsil in real life. If I were to travel somewhere, I'd do that. As in I would go to the actual place where GT is. I wonder how much tourism that place gets, specifically because it mirrors the game. Are there any countries you would like to visit in the future? I've realised the only place I would like to visit is the real life area that was the basis for GTA V. Because I could make good content out of that. So I guess LA. Other than that, why would I ever leave my country? There's tons of places in my country that I haven't been to that are quite lovely. |
| 07. August 2021 | The one problem with my GoXLR | The one problem with my go XLR the issue is whenever an alert goes off it goes DEEEEEEE or ZZZZZ before it happens So I'm like a seer I can tell you when an alerts gonna come because moments before the alert sound goes off I get a weird static-y sound and stuff, but it's only for alerts only specifically OBS going through to Whatever it is the the the particular audio cable. Yeah, so if it's if it's only on my end I think I'm gonna buy another one if the it has the same issue. I'll just live with it You see and it's and it's better or worse at different times. It's very strange |
| 11. September 2022 | The one short I took down off of YouTube | One short I took down off YouTube. Would you like to see the one short that did so poorly that I removed it? Special Rambles content? Oh, I have to use this shit car that I just happened to pick up. Okay, that's not good. Can I kill my opponents? I better not try it. My driving prowess is good enough that I don't need to kill my opponents. It's fine. This is the most awkwardly slow death I've ever seen. He gets out of the car. It's fairly funny, but like it doesn't have the same enthusiastic intro that the other shorts have. It's a much older game. I use the word prowess, which you know, not everyone can understand what that means. Anyway, I think the text was a little bit too big. I called this car a shit car when apparently it's actually pretty decent. I might re-upload it to YouTube just one day. The views weren't doing well. I was like, ah, you know, I only really want the best of the best of the best shorts on my main channel. I'm not going to clog up things. The shorts on my main channel are largely going to be like the ridiculously rare situations that have happened to me over the years. Crazily funny stuff or super interesting facts and facts or glitches. I want them to be like the top 2% of the content I've ever produced. But of course, I have to go through like thousands of clips to find myself these best of the best. And sometimes I just get frustrated. I'm like, this one's good enough. It's fine. And then I do it. And I'm like, actually, it wasn't that good. Because just finding the clip throughout my, you know, thousands of clips is a time consuming process. |
| 27. September 2022 | The one stupid thing that makes me nervous to go anywhere | Good thing that makes me nervous to go anywhere. Am I from Melbourne? No, but I'm going to Melbourne for a week. You know my biggest concern about going to Melbourne chat? I don't normally have to wear normal people clothes. I know- I never know what clothing is appropriate for any scene. I hate thinking about it. And so it's been one of the upsides of not having to go anywhere for so many years that I can just, you know, wear my work attire, which is black tank top and black shorts. What I did in preparation for going to Melbourne, I hope nothing bad happens to it, but I contacted the person who washes my clothes and I said, hey look, can you iron my entire wardrobe? Wash and iron? Because some of the clothes in there, you know, got dust on them because they've been there for so long. Other stuff is like new clothing and you should probably get that washed anyway. There's a lot of very complicated shirts for ironing and stuff and they're like, yeah, no problem. And I put out in front of my house just like my entire wardrobe that I still have remaining. I pay someone to wash and iron my clothes. Yes, I have so many things that I meant to do. So many things that I should not be here talking to anyone. I should just be mashing shorts and pacifist and all that stuff, you know? It's not actually that expensive, honestly. Washing all my tank tops and stuff is like 50 bucks a month or something. And they come all neatly folded and stuff. 50 bucks a month isn't an insignificant amount of money, but we're not talking like professional butler kind of money, you know? |
| 11. December 2019 | The one thing I want Twitch to adopt from MIxer | The one thing that Mixer has that I want Twitch to adopt. There is one thing that Mixer has that I want Twitch to adopt, and that's a higher bitrate. Mixer allows for 10k bitrate, where Twitch barely allows for 8k. I want 12k bitrate so that I can do 1080p high motion games. 12k is the standard for 1080p for high motion. I can't do 1080p right now, I only do 900p, but even 900p... 1080 at 10k, I would like to try it. So I'm hoping Twitch will be like, oh shit, we're losing with Mixer in this regard. We'll fix that. Besides that, are there any benefits with Mixer? No, not to my knowledge. At the end of the day, as far as livestreaming is concerned, it's almost inconceivable for there to be another benefit that is more significant than simply having more viewers on your platform. At the end of the day, people want to stream where they have the highest chance of gaining a higher level of viewership, and that is Twitch currently. People have talked to me about how YouTube allows for a much higher bitrate than other platforms, than Twitch or Mixer, but from what I read, it's true but not true. As in, YouTube has their extraordinarily harsh compressor being applied to everything that's being streamed. So if you stream with a 50k bitrate, it's going to be compressed to like 18k or something. As in, I've never seen a good-looking YouTube gaming livestream, and it's probably because it's compressed to shit, regardless of the bitrate you're putting in. |
| 12. November 2022 | The one thing I’d like to set the record straight on... | The one thing I'd like to set the record straight on if you could set the record straight on one point you feel has been misunderstood or purposefully misinterpreted what would it be that fucking Analogy with the roofie thing fuck me dead. I have conversations now So for example, I was speaking to someone I said this person has done something terrible and they said oh But they've done all these other things like they aren't always just doing that terrible thing and I wanted to say Yeah, and I heard Hitler did some painting. What's your point? Obviously what I'm saying there is just because someone someone isn't always doing that bad thing doesn't somehow absolve them of Whatever condemnation that they should suffer because the bad thing that they're doing but I guarantee you saying that the person will just be like You're comparing them to Hitler. You're saying that person is Hitler. How dare you they're doing just Somewhat bad thing and Hitler killed millions of people. How dare you say such terrible? I'm sure I'd fuck me you can guarantee that would happen and like I have these thoughts now whenever I'm about to use a Clear-cut obvious example that be understood by everyone regardless of background regardless of their age. I'm like It's too clear-cut. I need to use something that even though I'm gonna lose some people It's gonna less set off that. Oh my god I can just misinterpret this and gain some fucking virtue signal points Whatever like I've had people literally tweet at me unironically and they're like, hey So you think reactors are rapists, right? like on some level you just expect of people that they will give things like 15 seconds of thought and be like, yeah, that's this position doesn't seem to make a whole bunch of sense what's more likely that I have understood this person's position and they just believe something that makes no fucking sense and that no one would ever say or Maybe I don't have the full story. Maybe I don't understand their position and somehow There's just a certain part of you know discourse society whatever that Isn't either isn't willing to put in that 15 seconds or when they put in that 15 seconds they come to the wrong conclusion Do you feel like some of your arguments in the reaction react streamer series went over some people's heads? Oh, of course vast majority of people didn't finish watching the video and there were some key points actually like 45 minutes in in terms Of addressing certain counter arguments that are probably should have put in earlier. It's out. What can you do? It's hard for people to think in a sort of macro sense. It's like that are What's a dumb thing that has science then? Okay. Well, there's a lot of them but um, we're all of them presented the idea of reaction content as an interaction between two individuals the person who made it and the person who's using it but as Charlie didn't seem to understand this is a market and the things that you do notice anything you do in reality has the potential and Likely does impact others in various different ways But understanding that requires you to grasp the complexity of the arrangement and how the market on YouTube works and stuff And it just lost on some people a lot of people's interaction with YouTube even as a creator It's just I make video I put out video and that's it and this is there's just no thought about the wider ecosystem The trends it's just I make video here video. |
| 11. October 2021 | The one thing about my set up I won't change for money | The one thing about my setup, I won't change for money. People ask me all the time what's with the headphones and raw and the answer is I like them. I have found no other pair of headphones that I like because the qualities that these headphones have are very uncommon in other headphones. In fact, I have been offered money to wear other headphones and I have said no every time. If I ever start wearing another pair of headphones, just assume that I have to really like them. It's almost inconceivable the amount of money that I would have to be offered for me to wear another pair of headphones that I didn't like as much as these ones. |
| 31. October 2021 | The one thing that kills so many of my streams | The one thing that kills so many of my streams... Well, if I'm very tired, I'll almost want to quit for any reason. Fatigue more than a bad RNG is the true run killer. I've just never been a physically strong person. I don't know. I just don't sleep well. The amount of money I would give to be guaranteed a good night's rest every day. Here's what I'm offering chat. Type 1 if you would accept $50,000 a year. Type 2 if you would accept you only have to sleep 4 hours a day and you're perfectly well rested every time you wake up. You can only have one or the other. I could go either way, but I think I'd take 2. You'd be ultimately buying so many more hours of life and well-being. I mean, to be fair, if you had more money, you could free your schedule more so you could sleep and be well rested and stuff. And I mean, like if you're just spending those extra 4 hours working for that 50 grand, that it's basically a wash. I still think I'd take the well rested because just the well rested part is what gets me because I can have 8 hours sleep sometime. I feel like shit. I think it's a good comparison because both would be valuable for different reasons. I wish I had the bodily strength just to do 100% every single day. Like I try and push myself. My desire to do runs far outstrips my body's capability of doing the runs, you know. Like the biggest cause of my resetting over all these years has just been physical inadequacy. Like I'm just not strong enough to do it. I get tired and I can't continue. |
| 02. April 2021 | The one thing you shouldn't ask a streamer to do. | The one thing you should never ask a streamer to do If you are unaware It is the height of rudeness to demand that a streamer say anything You know, say this say that No streamer likes it and you just present yourself as a complete arsehole You have never asked a streamer to say something without that streamer looking at you and considering you to be a complete dick I was too |
| 22. October 2022 | The onion, a satirical news publication, continues to paint me as a drug addict. | Onion, a satirical news publication, continues to paint me as a drug addict. The Onion, whenever, like, drugs are mentioned, uses this picture. They've used it dozens upon dozens of times. But it isn't just the Onion. Other websites use it too. This is like the, hey, you want a picture of a guy using meth? This is the stock image for you. It's on like every single website, and every single time. It's used by anyone. People in the comments are like, hey! That's tough, I pay you! Hey guys, full on hard times, man. His inability to stop the whole reaction meta or whatever harming people is truly good at him. Ha ha ha, yeah yeah yeah yeah. You're not funny. |
| 02. April 2021 | The only clip I didn't personally make that is on my clips channel. | The only clip on my clips channel that I didn't do personally. So I uploaded the first clip that I didn't personally make to the clip channel yesterday. Like every single clip on the channel, all 2500 plus, is from my content. Except this one clip. It was submitted to Facts and Glitches. But it was, as you now understand, there's no way that I could reproduce it. But it was... Trevor diving out of a boat and landing on top of an orca and killing the orca. So it's basically Trevor like body slamming at fast speed an orca. Clip's 17 seconds long and it lags. Like millions to one kind of thing. And I'm like, I have to put this on my channel. So I asked the genius like, oh yeah go for it. He apparently recorded it on Xbox. Which is why the quality is like 720p 30fps. I hope this does not embolden people to start sending me clips. Or do I want people to start sending me clips? No, I don't think so. Like maybe one day when I've gone through like literally all of my old content. That's like half a year away. Cause I would hate to have to go through all the submitted clips and to find the best ones. I guess I could get someone to do that for me. And like most people don't record at a decent quality and... I feel like my channel would then become like a random clips channel or something. I don't know. Yeah well look at that way down the line. I'm sure I could just make another Discord for such clips. At one point in time we did intend to make a clips video of other speedrunners. Like the best clips of speedrunners or something. To differentiate us from the other GTA clips channels or whatever. I was doing like one a month or whatever. But the clips, low quality and not enough got submitted and... It didn't seem worth the effort. |
| 07. May 2021 | The only esport I like watching | I don't know. The only e-sport I like watching. I was watching a bit of... what's that? Smash Brothers Twitch channel? They're doing some melee stuff. They had 20,000 viewers or something. It's a fairly minor tournament. It's very interesting watching Zayn versus Mango Zayn being Marth and Mango being Taco. VG Bootcamp? No, the other one. I mean it is VG Bootcamp. I don't know. I swear there's another one. Whatever. I like watching Smash Tournaments. It's my ultimate point here, chat. One of the few tournaments that I could see myself actually sitting down and watching from start to finish or something. Beyond the Smash might be it. Or maybe not, I'm not sure. |
| 22. March 2022 | The only problem with Twitter. | The only problem with Twitter Thoughts on Twitter? I like Twitter The only problem with Twitter is the users. If you ignore the users on Twitter, Twitter is the greatest website to ever be We just need to get rid of the users from Twitter and it'd be great. |
| 22. March 2022 | The only problem with twitter. | The only problem with Twitter Thoughts on Twitter? I like Twitter The only problem with Twitter is the users. If you ignore the users on Twitter, Twitter is the greatest website to ever be We just need to get rid of the users from Twitter and it'd be great. |
| 07. August 2021 | The only thing I know about Monkey Island | The only thing I know about Monkey Island, the video game. Have I played Monkey Island before? Never. My friend Ben though loved the franchise, and I remember one part from Monkey Island where they have like a banjo jewel, and then you pull out a gun from your banjo case and you shoot his banjo, and the guy's like, You shot my banjo. Why? |
| 22. February 2021 | The order of ‘rock, paper, scissors’ | The order of rock paper scissors rock paper scissors paper I'm missing a poll whether you meant to say scissors paper rock or rock paper scissors I was always taught scissors paper rock scissors paper rock I think rock paper scissors is more American but that's that's when the rhyme is rock paper scissors shoot rock paper scissors shoot but when you end on rock it doesn't sound right rock paper scissors and then you go that doesn't sound right but scissors paper rock and you go on rock the reason for this I think is the syllables right because scissors is true and so it doesn't it doesn't sound right to go to put out your option on scissors because it's true that's why you have shoots as a one syllable go and but in the other way you have rock as the one syllable rock to go UK has just rock paper scissors with no shoot Wow what 92% say it's rock paper scissors you're crazy the poll I saw on Twitter was more diverse than that the majority I think there was rock paper scissors in Russia they say rocks is paper I can't tell if you're doing a |
| 22. February 2021 | The order of ‘rock, paper, sissors’ | The order of rock paper scissors rock paper scissors paper I'm missing a poll whether you meant to say scissors paper rock or rock paper scissors I was always taught scissors paper rock scissors paper rock I think rock paper scissors is more American but that's that's when the rhyme is rock paper scissors shoot rock paper scissors shoot but when you end on rock it doesn't sound right rock paper scissors and then you go that doesn't sound right but scissors paper rock and you go on rock the reason for this I think is the syllables right because scissors is true and so it doesn't it doesn't sound right to go to put out your option on scissors because it's true that's why you have shoots as a one syllable go and but in the other way you have rock as the one syllable rock to go UK has just rock paper scissors with no shoot Wow what 92% say it's rock paper scissors you're crazy the poll I saw on Twitter was more diverse than that the majority I think there was rock paper scissors in Russia they say rocks is paper I can't tell if you're doing a |
| 18. October 2021 | The origin of Covid | The origin of COVID. The only person that I know of that has kind of condensed the actual papers looking at the virus and how it's formed is Podhollow54. And according to his reading of the medical texts, the way that the virus is constructed is not suggestive that it's man-made. As in, the arguments that I've heard as to why people think it is potentially man-made seem very dumb to me. These are two videos that I highly recommend to watch about this topic. Podhollow basically just takes claims from the internet and then looks for their source. Looks something like this. And Charles Boutal seems to have accurately relayed what Taupan reported, just leaving out the dates. The Radio France Internationale reporter then seems to have mangled these different elements of Charles Boutal's post and embellished them. He turns a single researcher into several. He merges the separate incidents of bat blood and bat urine into a single incident. And then he moves the scene of the action from the caves of Hubei province into something called the Wuhan Virology Lab. But there's no such place, of course. He's conflated two separate institutes into one. Matthew Tai then adds an embellishment of his own. Instead of these non-existent lab workers not being infected, he claims they were infected. As I said, over two million people have seen this video, and of course lots of bloggers and commentators have copied Matthew Tai's version of Radio France's version of Charles Boutal's version of Taupan's version of the story. It's basically that for 40 minutes. It's very interesting to see how the Chinese whispers of the internet can create different claims. Natural viruses and lab-engineered viruses are completely different. Because when researchers are bioengineering a virus, they usually don't build the entire thing from scratch. What they're interested in is the business end of the virus, called the spike proteins. They house the receptor-binding domain, the RBD, where the virus attaches itself to the host cell and the cleavage sites where it breaks in and enters the cell. So except in exceptional circumstances, they build the spike proteins onto the structure of an existing infectious virus. I suppose the best analogy is graffiti artists. They usually don't spend lots of time and money building an entire wall from scratch in order to spray paint their art. They find an existing wall and use that. When researchers at the Scripps Institute examined the genetic makeup of the new coronavirus, they discovered that the whole thing was new. Not only that, there was clear evidence that the virus had evolved. It had genetic sequences that could only be obtained in the presence of a complete immune system. Battle scars, if you like, showing that it had been forced to evolve by adapting and trying to overcome immune responses. You don't get that by artificially growing a virus in the presence of isolated cells. The Scripps Institute researchers published their findings in Nature Medicine, with the clear conclusion that it wasn't a laboratory construct. One of the researchers told Science Daily, these two features of the virus, the mutations in the RBD portion of the spike protein and its distinct backbone, rules out laboratory manipulation as a potential origin for SARS-CoV-2. I am not a person who is an expert in how viruses are formed and their construction or whatever. What aspects of it can be viewed as potentially manmade or not. But according to the wider medical community, there is not sufficient evidence to suggest that it was manmade. Because apparently, viruses that are manmade can be at least somewhat readily distinguished from those that are not. It's the problem. Like, in all these areas of discourse, you and I, we don't know anything about it. And we just end up gravitating towards people that we think we can trust on the issue. Because it's not like we're going to have the time to get ourselves a medical degree. Or sit there and read like a couple of dozen medical published papers or whatever. Especially considering that without sufficient foundational knowledge, you wouldn't understand the papers anyway. It's just nothing I've heard that the average person seems to latch to, to suggest that there's a chance that it's being manmade, has made any sense to me. It's all being conspiratorial nonsense that seems to perfectly match our tendencies to connect random things to make a pattern, you know. |
| 18. April 2021 | The origin of the rambles series | Me in 2017, first thinking of making the Ramble series. I sometimes think I should take some of the clips of me ranting or whatever, like from the beginning of the stream today, and I should make them into videos for my main channel. |
| 04. November 2021 | The origin of the ’nice house music’ meme | The origin of the nice house music meme. One day, I was on Sky in the Port, and I looked over at my chat, and there were a lot of people there asking questions. I was like, oh, sweet. So I was like, hey, what's your favorite drink? And they were like, oh, bourbon, I guess, dude. And it's like, so hi. And someone's like, how you going? I'm going pretty good. Basically, they kept asking random questions. I'm like, wait a second, this is kind of weird. And so it turned out that I was being viewbotted, but with chatbots. So they were all just asking random questions or saying random things. Like, you're doing good, Strimmer. And one of the bots was like, nice house music, Strimmer. And I was like, but I'm not even playing any music. And so if we talk about bots now, or that chat's full of bots or something, people are always saying, like, nice house music, Strimmer. Beep boop, Mr. Destructoid. I really enjoy house music. |
| 02. October 2021 | The original name for my subreddit | Original name for my subreddits. What's my favorite subreddit? Uh, Big Booty Bitches. It's true. I know why I went to that, I didn't even know that. Is that a subreddit? Surely that's a subreddit. That was a big thing. You remember that meme back in the day? Where that dude, it was like I think it might have been Ray William Johnson's most viewed video. I got big booty bitches, I got big booty bitches. You know? It's not a subreddit? Hmm, damn. Well, I don't have a subreddit, so I guess I'll make that my subreddit. Do you guys use Dark River EU's subreddit? No? What's it called? Big Booty Bitches. Ah, that'd be marvelous. |
| 26. August 2021 | The pains of always improving as a creator | The pains of always improving as a creator. I kind of regress, um, like whenever I do YouTube content, I hate looking back at my earlier YouTube content because it's always worse. Like the beginning episodes, the beginning highlight videos, they're worse than my current ones. The beginning episodes of How the Speed Run Ended are worse than the current ones. I'm the kind of person who wants to remake all their old content to make it better. |
| 05. June 2022 | The pains of moving to New Gen | Sorry then, which I had not heard. Good to hear. Did you move your character or any of your characters to the new gen with a PS5 or whatever the Xbox is called? Yeah, I moved that same character that I built up from PS4 to PS5 and then my Xbox One character, which just like a secondary character, I moved to Xbox Series X. Did you have any problems with playing with your community because it's not cross platform, whatever, right? If you move to PS5, you can't play with people on PS4, right? Exactly. It's a pain in the arse. To be honest, I understand that more than I understand. They missed a really big opportunity to make PS5 and Xbox Series X at least cross platform between the two. It's exactly the same game, running pretty much exactly the same hardware. Microsoft and Sony though often have to be involved in that and they're kind of skittish with that stuff. They've done it before. But yeah, there's other games that are doing it. I don't see any reason why Rockstar can't. Rockstar is huge. They could definitely organize something that they really wanted to. I heard a lot of people move their character over and was like, oh, I can't play with my friends anymore because of the supplier shortages with the consoles and stuff. It just seemed kind of dumb. Do you think there's technical reasons why they couldn't have it cross platform in that way between old gen and new gen? Or were they just trying to inspire people to buy the new consoles and the new game? Or what do you think their reasoning behind that was? I think there probably are some technical reasons why, because eventually the new gen platforms are gonna leave the old gen platforms behind. There's cars that are only on the new gen platforms. They can't keep updating the old gen platforms and there's gonna come a point where someone might be having a car in game that's only on the new gen platforms. How do you make that work on an old gen platform that doesn't have that car in the game files? Was this how it worked with PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4? Yes, yeah. The PS4 wasn't cross platform with PS3 and Xbox One wasn't cross platform with 360. They've always all been separate. I guess then it's not much of a surprise then, I suppose. No, it wasn't a surprise to anyone who was around from that time. I think the big surprise was that they didn't let you keep your old character. So back in the 360 days, when you transferred your, say I transferred my 360 character over to PS4, I had that character on PS4, but I could also go back to 360 and I would still have that character. They'd be two separate entities and they would update differently and what I did on one character didn't affect the other, but I still had it to be able to go back to 360. They didn't do that this time. If you transferred your character from PS4 to PS5, they deleted your PS4 character. Yeah, I forgot about that. That's what the drama was about. And there's no reason for that. And that's why. |
| 14. June 2022 | The parasocial relationships that some creators have with reactors | the parasocial relationships that some creators have with reactors. I woke up this morning, I have my contact lenses out, couldn't see shit, but someone tweeted this at me. And I'm like, ah, well, you know, people are probably sick of the React stuff, but just one more tweet. I mean, Twitter is like, the place you put all the shit that you know no one really cares about. So this is fine, just one retweet. I suppose I'm putting it in rambles now, so, that's still something, whatever. So, these React content creators are getting it out of hand. I'm just peacefully looking into the controversy that is Diablo Immortal, and then this motherfucker pops up as the first result. So this person has searched Zazarian Diablo Immortal, and rather than coming up with the dude's video, it's come up with Asmongold's video, which is just the exact same video but Asmongold in the thumbnail. And the reason for this, of course, is because this video contains all this information, but an additional, what, 14 minutes of commentary. And so, this video gets watched longer. The algorithm's like, oh, this is a longer video, that people are watching more. So, put this one first. Get more watch time. And because this video would be clicked by both Asmongold's audience and Zazarian's audience, it also gets preferences for that reason too. I wish I'd put an example of this in the fucking video. I think it got cut for time. There are many examples of this, especially when they're uploaded so close together, which is a day apart. Given their closeness in terms of upload, it increases the mo- the amount of people who will avoid this video and just watch Asmongold's because it has both the content in it, right? This video cannot give you everything, but this one can, and therefore will always be preferenced. So, I- I- I wrote, But think of all the benefits other creators get by having Asmongold being the middle man for the impressions and search results. If they just work harder to make videos and he reuploads enough of them, then one day they too will be as big as he has become when not making videos. Making edited videos and having another creator reupload them is a good path to success. Keep doing it. Said by the guy who refuses to work on making YouTube videos and who became successful specifically not doing that. So I didn't tag anyone, but someone else tags Azarian and he responded. Actually quite happy Asmongold watched my video on stream and a ton of people found me through him. This conversation is so funny. I'm sure they did, and yet you will never know all the people who searched the controversy and never clicked your video or will ever watch you because they now watch Asmongold instead. Because this is the problem. People see the comments that say I found you because of Asmongold. They see like the five comments and say I gained five viewers rather than, Oh, I gained five viewers, but I lost like tens of thousands of impressions. I love this. Other streamers aren't really my main competition. They've seen me regardless. If they prefer Asmongold's content over mine, that's completely okay. Main competition is TV, Netflix, real life, loads of things. I'll make content as good as I can and people who like it will watch. You don't think the guy getting a hundred million views releasing six videos a day, including videos that take other people weeks to make in your same space is a competitor to you? You don't think the guy with your exact video but longer for more watch time is competing for impressions? Uh... Not a competitor guys. Literally uploaded the same video. I want people to know both his and my content and videos and still choose mine over them. If his content is simply better than mine and people choose him instead, I need to make better content. That's how I view it. Here's the problem I have with these reactees so much. If reacting to content is so kind and beneficial and good, why don't the reactees do it as well? Why aren't all the reactees reactors? Why are they not acting so benevolently and kind by re-uploading other people's videos? That's the right thing to do apparently. But at the end of the day, all these people know that what Asmongold is doing is wrong. And that's why they themselves don't do it. They have morals. They have ethics. How could you make better content than a guy who can steal it? If you work a month on a video, he can have the same video in 30 minutes. How can you outperform that? How can you beat your exact work plus more by merely releasing your exact work? This response is hilarious. Our content is very different. He reacts to things and has wildly different content than me. Lots of people, when wanting to try Path of Exile, I'll be their first pick. Not everyone wants to just watch someone react to content. He literally uploaded his video. And he's like, our content is very different. It's literally his video. With the same thumbnail. With the same title. Very different content. This is a joke right? Yes! I can't believe he said this. And like, he started... See, a ton of people found me through him. How could a ton of people find him through that video if your content is very different? Is this dude drunk? More drunk than I sound with my shitty typing because I was blind? You can't both argue people are finding you through Asmongold and that you both make different content. If so, then Asmongold's viewers wouldn't be interested in either you or that reaction video. They are though, as you have very similar audiences, which he uses your content to satiate. My guy, someone searched your video and Asmongold popped up first. He literally uploaded your video and people are clicking it and watching it longer. Saying his content is very different than your own is probably not wise in this specific spot. You avoided the question though. And here's the response. Here's the response. I wasn't trying to avoid the question. Most of my content can't really be reacted to, so it's different for me. But you should always have permission first before reacting to content ideally. But like I said, if people watch him reacting over wanting to watch my regular streams, then I need to do better. Listen to what he said here. It is... it is fine because he can't steal everything from me. That's what he says here. Most of my content can't be reacted to, so it's different for me. Like, it's fine because he can't steal everything from me. Is a weird argument to make, man. I'm sure Asmongold can't wait for you to work harder so he can have even better content for his channels. Fun that meant those search hits and impressions, you know. You by yourself will never outperform Asmongold plus every other content creator's best content including yours. I respect the energy, but you are trying to build a larger building whilst literally building someone else's higher. There's something I respect about this dude. Well, I don't know if it's respect, but some people go, no, it's pointless. I'm just gonna focus on me. 100% on me. Even if the world out there is completely unjust and unfair. I don't know, everyone's suffering, it doesn't matter to me. I will focus on me. If I- if a person rips me off, that's fine, I'll work on me. If someone's unfair to me, that's fine, I'll work on me. And that's the attitude that this dude has. Because no amount of him complaining about this circumstance is gonna change anything. The video's already up, it's already got half a million views, whatever. He's already lost all the impressions and all the search results that would have gone to him anyway. All he can say is, well, at least I got some views out of it, I suppose. It wasn't as bad as it could have been, right? And that just sucks that that's the world we live in. Where a lot of us just- you just have to grit your teeth and deal with the injustice of the world, because you can't change it. This guy's into now- if you go through his chain of reasoning here, where he's like, I'm quite happy, and he ends up with, well, I mean, ideally you should be asking first before reacting to stuff, and he can't react to all my stuff, so it's not that bad, you know? And avoid- like, he's like, I gotta do better, and when asked how he could possibly do better than someone re-uploading his content with a bit more commentary, he has no response, because he can't do better. You can't beat a person who can get a month's worth of work in half an hour. Literally unbeatable. You can't beat the middleman in the market. If you've got to work a month for a video, and another guy has to work with 30 minutes for that same video, plus more watch time, you're not gonna win. As I say, but no amount of Zazarian understanding how markets work is gonna make him happier. It's gonna change anything. That's why I felt so futile making those videos, because I can't do anything to change these circumstances. It feels futile arguing with people, because even if they understand, what are they gonna do about it? And Asmongold knows no one can do anything about it, and that's why he feels so free to steal everyone's shit. Like, he doesn't even try to make an original title or thumbnail. He just puts his own face in the fucking thumbnail of the other person. Why aren't creators encouraged to DMCA these guys? Do you really want- you want the millions of people who watch Asmongold to fucking, like, knife you in the- in an alley, if you take down his channel? No one wants to risk that shit, and Asmongold knows no one wants to risk that shit, so he's fine re-uploading other people's shit. You can't do better content, because other people will profit in that case more than yourself in that situation. Of course, you can work harder, make better videos. Asmongold will steal them, too. You can have the best original ideas, and Asmongold will steal those, too. The harder you work, the faster Asmongold grows, and so you can never beat him, because he does- you know, you have your work, and Asmongold has the work of hundreds of people. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. Yep. And then the rich argue, oh, guys, everyone benefits if I become more rich. You can be just like me one day if I get more richer. I think it's become so hard for any content creator to become famous, because you release one good video and someone just reacts to it and forgets about you. The only way to grow now is through controversy, to be honest. No, no, no, you can- Reactors have not taken the whole market to the degree that you can't still become successful, um, absent their interference with the market. It would be the case if this was more all-encompassing, but fortunately, there aren't- there's a lot of pseudo-Asmongolds, but there's not enough people who have that little conscience, right? Most people who react to stuff do it in very limited capacity. The amount of people who will just wholesale rip off hundreds of videos is small. It has a negative effect on everyone in the market, but, you know, actually, in some markets, I think it is that bad. I hear Germany and German speaking and- who's that Brazilian creator? Like, there's some people who- in some markets where it really is that bad, but I don't think it's that bad in all markets, what I'm saying. It doesn't take a genius to understand that one guy with one video every month is not gonna outpace a dude who has one video every day that took a month to create, right? Okay, maybe it takes, like, an average level of intelligence to understand that principle, because there's a ridiculous amount of people who do not understand that. Um, but, you know. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also, leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 28. June 2022 | The part of speedrunning I don’t like | The part of speedrunning I don't like. The process of learning an entire speedrun is not one that I really enjoy. I never even really like practice all that much, which is what always hampered me as a speedrunner. I much prefer to know the entire run and just keep up with the discussion about new strats as they happen. It is a lot easier to be like, okay guys, new run today, gotta remember this new strat, this new strat, and this new strat. A little bit each time, this trying to remember a thousand new things that have developed over the last two years, so painful. Especially considering the great complexity of the run. |
| 12. February 2023 | The peculiar character positioning in GTA V. | The peculiar character positioning in GTA 5. Now I notice how off-center the character is. Yeah, I suspect most people don't fully notice, but in like most games that is the case. Like you very rarely have a character fully on center. I especially notice when I'm trying to do shorts or whatever. I have to center the character myself. It's especially noticeable when you watch the Chaos newest season because it's flipped and so I'm on the right-hand side rather than left. |
| 29. May 2020 | The perfect run | You know, how hard would a perfect run be? It would be impossible, because there's no way you could have every single possible variable for the entire run perfectly match up and you never make a mistake. Impossible. |
| 17. March 2021 | The physical appearance of streamers | The physical appearance of streamers. I'm cute. I coincidentally have Gone into one of the few careers where I could be considered more attractive than the average successful person in my career Basically any other career. I would be at best average, but in this particular career I look pretty good back in Paris and everyone else basically what I'm saying is Twitch streamers ugly as fuck I Will say though, I don't recall anyone out, but I'm sure you have noticed that people look a lot better when you can just see them like from the the chest up and The main thing you focus on the fate is the face whatever right? Especially for gamers where you don't really work on the physique the physique or whatever your body muscles a lot of stuff like there's a lot of big content creators who Look a lot better in a video on webcam than they do when they do in real life content I've more than once I have been shocked Seeing the complete body of a person like oh, that's not what I would expected Surely this is surely this has happened to you guys I wouldn't I would love to name names, but I don't want to like body shame people or some shit You're all the only looks very good Matt I imagined sir stranger |
| 07. February 2022 | The pixie-pebble problem. | The pixie pebble problem. Here's the question. Say you were in a field. In the field is literally limitless rocks. Limitless. Like just for the sake of this scenario. A guy says to you, my dude, my guy, there are pixies under these rocks. And you're like, fuck off there are. He's like, no, no, no. Legit. Test it. And you lift up a rock, he's like, there's no, and you're like, there's no pixie under this rock. And you say, ah, well, that must just be like that particular rock. There were no pixies under that rock. But the rest of the rocks, pixies, my dude, pixies. You pick up another rock, but there's no pixies. Like man, I swear to you, the other rocks though. How many rocks do you need to lift up before you are justified in saying there are no pixies under any of those rocks? It's infinite. You can't pick up all of them. There is to me no objective answer to this question. It's just there will be an amount after which you personally will feel comfortable dismissing the claim. I'm surely in philosophy. There must be something that addresses this question. It's always prudent to remember that nothing in life is ever, I mean, outside of things that are logically disproven. Nothing is ever like proven 100% or disproved 100%. It's just eventually you get so much evidence in favor of a conclusion that it's no longer pragmatic to question that conclusion on a regular basis. |
| 08. June 2020 | The pointlessness of GTA V's plotlines | So much of GTA V goes nowhere. The Merriweather Heist, especially the offshore one, is the biggest letdown of the game. How so? I mean, a lot of things in this game go nowhere. Like, you steal all the cars for Death in Western. What do you get out of it? Literally fucking nothing. You steal all the money for the for the Play-Doh Heist. What do you get out of it? Fucking nothing. You get like a bundle of money. That's it. Like this entire game, you're kind of poor, all the way up into the big score. I guess that's the point, right? Because if you made money before that, the big score would be less big. |
| 27. January 2021 | The popularity of mobile gaming | The popularity of mobile gaming. Do I play mobile games? No. The last mobile game that I played... I don't know. I mean, I played Lords Mobile for that time back in the day, but I mean... I'm not really a fan of mobile games. Although I hear like half the revenue generated from gaming comes from mobile games these days. Which doesn't surprise me. I wonder what countries give the most percentage. Because, obviously in China and India, which have by far the most people, their main access to the internet and technology and stuff comes through mobile phones. But obviously they'd have less money to spend per person. Yeah, I have to admit that I am out of touch when it comes to mobile gaming. I just am. I'm home all the time. I have no need for mobile gaming. I still use my smartphone and iPad quite a bit. |
| 15. November 2021 | The possibilities of deep fake technology. | The possibilities of deep fake technology you can guarantee that when deep fake technology is a far more accessible you'll have people who will just be like I want to be in the Titanic and they'll just like Put their face over Leo's face for the entire Titanic movie and watch I Can so imagine a person? putting their own face in pornography |
| 15. June 2021 | The possibility of expanded and enhanced not coming to PC | The possibility of expanded and enhanced not coming to PC. Expanded and enhanced is not coming to PC? I just, I, would they really be that bad and just not do that? Surely not. Surely it will come to PC. Hopefully it's free update and they don't make people pay for it again if you own it on PC. There's more than likely the reason Stubbs why they might either not put it on PC or delay it for PC. Because with it coming out on PS5 and Xbox Series X they can justify selling it again. So they can make some money off that. But on PC how do they get it justified selling the game again? They can't. I mean consoles do enable developers to more easily resell the exact same, I mean I should say publishers, publishers to resell the same game over and over for each generation if they really want to. Backlash is a massive reason? How would they get backlash for releasing on PC? What do you mean? Obviously if it did cost money on PC I'd buy it but I'm totally understand why other people wouldn't necessarily. There is some reality where they produce enough content that they could call it a DLC for PC and then actually sell it. I sincerely doubt Rockstar is going to make that amount of content. Is it November 13th the expanded enhancers coming out? I thought it was November 11th for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X. |
| 20. December 2022 | The possibility of technology degrading mental ability. | The possibility of technology degrading mental ability. I remember saying to a librarian, I think, where I was like, I worry that with autocorrects and, you know, the ability just to type something, shove it into Google and then just copy the result, that slowly over time my spelling will become worse. I'm not sure how true that is, but my maths has definitely gotten worse having access to calculators. Because I recognize that doing anything in my head is going to be, well, faster, obviously less accurate than using a calculator. So I spent the last decade plus ignoring doing it in my head as much as possible and using a calculator and I've definitely gotten worse at maths. |
| 27. April 2022 | The potential edit button on twitter. | The potential edit button on Twitter. Have you heard Twitter is gonna have an edit button? I hope they do not have an edit button. I hope the edit button is limited So you can only like edit things like say five minutes after you post them I would hate for people to like write some bait tweet and then um Ultra to something else and make it look like people are responding to something completely different, you know Either that or I would like it to like show an archive |
| 08. April 2021 | The potential for other prologue dub videos. | The potential for other prologue dub videos. You know, I still have all the sound files and stuff from when I made that prologue dub video. As in, I have the ability to, at any point, swap out the audio of the characters with some other audio, or someone else saying the lines. I could just make like 57 of those videos. I could be like, prologue, but every character is voiced by SpongeBob, and just use the synthesizer. What's it called, the text to speech for SpongeBob? |
| 10. September 2021 | The pressure to always have something to say | The pressure to always have something to say. The streams where I feel the most uncomfortable are those where I feel like the run's doing poorly. I'm very tired and I have nothing to say. It's one of the hardest parts about, you know, when you're a small streamer. I guess I can't think of myself as a small streamer anymore, can I? It's hard just to always have something to talk about. Like back when I was a small streamer and there's no one in chat, you know, you have to continuously speak. Talk about stuff or whatever. No one likes to join a stream. And for the person to be talking about nothing. The most valuable viewers that you have when you first start out are those first handful of viewers who will actually engage with your content or ask you about stuff or talk to you about stuff. I owe my first viewers, in effect, everything that I have with Twitch. If they weren't around, I would be nowhere. Because my content would have just been really fucking boring. And I likely would have become very discouraged and have stopped, you know. Hey every one about yourself seems like a part of what you're doing. Oh right. Daring enough to do a |
| 27. August 2022 | The pressure to be positive when being sponsored by a game | sponsored by a game. So there's this problem chat when you get into advertising stuff. It is the case that you are never required to say only positive things. At the same time it's obviously the case that if companies see you as being not in their corner that's it for you. You don't get additional sponsor spots. It's never explicit that you know you got to play a ball but if you're a bit implicit just because of how the industry works you kind of do. All I'm saying is I highly recommend or I highly respect Skill Up and his opinion on things and he's a very honest dude. A lot of integrity. If you ever want to know anything about a video game go to Skill Up channel. |
| 29. March 2021 | The pressure to talk and be interesting on stream. | The pressure to talk and be interesting on stream. I have a problem these days guys. I feel like there's a lot more pressure than there ever has been before for me to be interesting on stream. For me to talk about shit. When I was a smaller streamer, I felt far more comfortable just like sitting around and playing the game and not saying anything. I feel a lot more discomfort doing that these days. As if the gameplay can't stand for itself. I don't know if it's just because I have more viewers or if it's because in between the important parts, the gameplay for OCO isn't particularly interesting. At least in the speedrun, how fast I do this actually matters. Every part of the run kind of matters to some degree. In OCO, I'm playing on autopilot until I get to the part that matters. And I feel like during those parts I have to do something, say something to be more interesting. It's an uncomfortable feeling. There's only a finite amount of stuff I can talk about every day because I stream every day. There's not a heap of new topics to talk about. And my rambles on YouTube sometimes get repetitive. People are commenting on the last one like, oh here we go again. Matt talking about aphantasia and not being able to remember taste and da da da. I can't remember what I've talked about before all the time or what's been in rambles before. I do my best, but... |
| 28. June 2022 | The price of your soul | The price of your soul. There are a heap of people who do react content that recognize that it's garbage and what have you, but it's just like the only thing they can do. It's like they'd rather do something garbage and be successful than not be successful at all. If I was in that situation where it's either react content or nothing, like, who knows what I'd do. It's hard to say how much your morals are worth until the price is actually put in front of you, yep. It's almost hard to say what your morals are until that money is put in front of you, you know. Or some equivalent, right? Because you'd be surprised where you'd draw a line for your own benefit when presented with that reality. But obviously, a person's soul is worth more or less, right? Some people will be adamantly against something until the moment they're offered $10. Another person will have to be, like, offered immortality. As I say, everyone has a price, but I would say some people are whores. But, no, shouldn't say that. |
| 08. September 2021 | The problem of success | The problem of success. It's the weird thing about success guys. You can always have more of it, and you can always fear losing it. Like I've never considered myself successful before, but now I do. And your standards are always changing, you know. It's like that um, that study, when a person gets promotion or wins the lottery or whatever it is, it's like amazing happens. That makes their life better. After a few months, you know, they'll be as happy as they were before it happened. Because that would be their new normal. And so I- I'm a person who tracks stats of YouTubers and Twitch streamers and stuff all the time, and I see when people peak and how they handle falling from that peak. The biggest example I bring up that I look at sometimes is Trihex. Trihex is super well known, who in my mind had like Twitch in his hand. Yet didn't capitalize on it as nearly- nearly as much as he could have. His YouTube channel is effectively dead, hemorrhaging followers. His Twitch channel is growing very slowly, if at all. Like, probably not even at a replacement rate in terms of people leaving his stream versus him getting new followers. And I don't want to end up like that. I don't want to take for granted what I have and wake up one day and be like, oh man, I could have capitalized on what I was doing. I'm always trying to improve and think of ways that I can make things better. I am still in a niche though, like there's- there's only so many things that I can do in this particular niche. There's only so many types of content that I can create- that I can create. But there's tons of things I can still do. Like if- if speedrunning ever truly becomes a dead end, I can always move into doing GT Online or meme content or whatever it may be. My greatest fear is that I will uh, I'll get sick of GTA 5. I don't think that's likely. At least not anytime soon. Because it's the analogy I- I use often. It's like a comfortable glove. You've just been wearing it so long and it will always feel good. Like maybe you get sick of it sometimes, but like you'll always be able to come back to it because it's the comfortable thing, you know? |
| 03. April 2021 | The problem with Devin Nash's content. | The problem with Devin Nash's content. So as I've mentioned before, I'm in this little speedrun content creator discord, right? Well, it's a couple of dozen people, right? I heard someone mention that they watch Devin Nash's stuff. Like, the first person they go to for their news about the industry and stuff, and they say his videos has a lot of good information. And I agree. But it made me realize, like, when I mentioned Devin Nash to, like, my regular YouTube audience, don't know him. I've never watched his content before in my life. But it seems so if you mentioned Devin Nash to content creators, though. Most people have heard of him. Or like, as in, like, he makes content that the people who could really use the information that he gives is basically just content creators. And for that reason, like, his videos don't seem to get a lot of traction on YouTube, I think. Although, to be fair, they're also not edited. I mean, certainly he has the same problem that Destiny sometimes has when he makes content on YouTube. Like, it's not cut down in a way for YouTube. But to be fair, he's good enough at presenting that it's not like there's a lot of downtime. But, you know, content that's just stream highlights looks very different from YouTube videos. Yeah, as you say, Cash, not everyone is going to care about 40-minute conversations about Twitch's brand risk score or whatever, right? But I just think it's unfortunate because it doesn't matter how much I say in videos. Look, guys, if you want to know about how YouTube and Twitch works and stuff, you know, watch Devin Nash. I mean, I'm not saying Devin Nash is always correct or always presents things exactly perfectly. But anytime you find someone who has life experience and is willing to give to you that life experience and it's relevant to something that you do, you're kind of foolish if you don't listen, right? It's one of those things where you don't want to go throughout your life always trying to reinvent the wheel. Find the guy who already has a wheel and be like, hey, man, how did you get that wheel? The reason I brought it up is just it's because, like, the audience that is kind of targeted about that content is so small that Devin's unlikely going to receive extraordinary success on YouTube. Not that I think he's trying to do that anyway. I just think it's a shame. |
| 14. February 2021 | The problem with franklin | The problem with Franklin... I like Michael more than Franklin. Because Franklin is kind of... His story isn't super fleshed out. It's like look at Franklin's beef with Stretch. Why does Franklin hate Stretch? Why does Stretch hate Franklin? They just kind of have that beef that they've... and Lamar's like, oh you guys are always being beefing. It's just like there's not much there. When you look at Trevor and Michael, they have a history and their drama or whatever permeates the entire game. Stretch shows up twice in the story? No, he shows up more than that. He shows up... Oh well, I guess show up is different because he impacts the story in that like he's the one who sets up the hood safari thing for example. So it's a long stretch the third way and that's it, just the two. He's not in Lamar down. Yeah, there's stretches again. Stretch is involved in Lamar down, but he doesn't show up in the mission. It means Franklin is a less interesting character than either Trevor or Michael. |
| 26. October 2022 | The problem with kangaroos in australia. | The problem with kangaroos in Australia Uh, yeah, kangaroos are pests for a lot of Australia, but obviously they're still kinda cute and cool to see hopping around. Depends who you are really. I mean, if you're not living in the outback, you very very rarely see a kangaroo. Unless you travel outside the major population centers, so seeing one is pretty cool. Yeah, we keep- we have them in zoos and stuff, man. If you're in the outback, they're a menace. They can, uh, literally eat themselves to death. As in, they'll, uh, eat every bit of greenery. To the point where nothing can grow and then they'll starve to death. That's why it's considered, uh, a mercy to cull them, to control their population so they don't, uh, kill themselves. It's just what I hear, man. I don't claim to be an expert. This could've changed in years since I was a kid where I was told these things. A quick Google search suggests that this is still true, and about 500,000 kangaroos are culled each year. |
| 20. October 2022 | The problem with make money quick schemes. | The problem with make money quick schemes. Distract on Andrew Tate. Anyone who is too dumb to understand the griff that Andrew Tate does is not going to give two shits about anything that I say. It is a completely pointless thing to argue about. All it does is give him a bit more attention. If you'd like to listen to me talk about politics for some reason, go back to 2020. Do your own Make Millions program. See, the thing you gotta understand, chat, anyone who has a plan that enables them to make millions of dollars isn't selling that plan. That's the biggest way to understand that you're probably being scams. No one's teaching people how to make money if they're already making fuck tons of money. Either you're the product in that they're selling your information or they're making money not using their system, but they're making money off you. Like if a person has a foolproof system to make a fuck ton of money, they're not advertising it. Because the more people who use a particular pathway to make money, the harder that pathway becomes. At various different times in history, there have been loopholes or particular niche information that you could have to get a real edge on people to make a fuck ton of money. And the people who had that information weren't advertising it. There are probably ways right now to invest in particular ways or sell particular products or buy X products from over here and sell it in this particular market. Where you can just print money. But anyone who's doing that isn't telling you about it. Because they don't want you to do it and take their business. From my understanding of what Andrew Tate's offering is he's just the front guy getting people in to spend their money and then you're given like bargain basic shit in regards to managing money that you can get in any kind of finance book. I'm making money from you guys by sitting in paid for hotel. Yeah, but I'm entertaining you. I'm not trying to make you money. Watching my stream cannot make you money. This is not advice on how to make more money. Your life can only be enriched by my beautiful smile. |
| 17. July 2021 | The problem with psychoanalyzing content creators. | The problem with psychoanalyzing content creators. I needed something to kill the time. I had five minutes left on the clock. And I was like, ah well, I'll read some YouTube comments. And I found a comment that seemed particularly dumb. And I was like, oh I got five minutes. And the essay took a little bit longer than normal. You know what? I'm going to go delete that comment. I need to stop engaging with people. When will I learn, chat? Explaining things to people does not help. It is just a dumb thing to do. Mute the person and move on with my life. Because there's this tendency of people to attempt to psychoanalyze content creators. It never goes well because a content creator's platform is specifically about them and is specifically designed to get attention. It doesn't give a complete picture of a person. And certainly as a viewer, you are only watching potentially a small selection of what that person produces. And certainly what they produce is not the entirety of who they are as a person. And the algorithm feeds you only a certain type of thing that appeals to you as a person. So you aren't even getting all the content obviously. You certainly aren't watching at all. So I occasionally read these comments that will attempt to analyze me as having certain psychological flaws. But in most cases, it's usually just a manifestation of a person projecting their own flaws upon me because we all act, we all on the default judge people by ourselves. So when you find a content creator, because you can never have a complete picture of them as a person, you fill in the gaps of who they are with yourself in a way. I'll do something and then I'll read comments where people try to put forth explanations that motivate my behavior, right? And I'll be extraordinarily confused as to how they could believe that these are the things that motivate me. But you talk to them as I've done many times over the course of my career. And it's always the same story. This is what I would have done. This is why I would have done this. And eventually you get to a point where it's boring to read because criticism in regards to how you present your content or how you come off is important. If a person says to you, what you've done here makes you appear as this to me, that can be useful information because, well, that is not how I am potentially. But now that I know this can be perceived that way by others, I might do things differently in the future. But you get these comments sometimes that like, no, you are this way and I know this because I watched this video and it just never happens. Like I myself over my life have had to apologize to people for doing the same mistake because we all do this. Rather than simply saying, this is how this makes you look, we say, I know how you are because of this. And it's people are more complicated than than what you can infer from a YouTube video or comments on the Internet. Grappling with that complexity of life is just it's just not worth the mental effort in a lot of cases. So you just take the easiest path and you just you just build a person usually with yourself as the base model changed with the new information that you've received about them. And like it's just frustrating to read these comments because when you engage with them, likely they're young or just haven't thought about this much. They don't realize they're doing this. And as a content, you've seen this time and time and time again. It's always depressing to read. But I've learned over time, attempting to stop people from having false perceptions of you, positive or negative, because it happens both ways. It's a fool's errand. Unless you're going to get involved with such a person in a romantic or a deep friendship sort of way, the odds of them ever really knowing you is almost nonexistent. Maybe you can get a little bit closer with me. Like if you watch all 2500 of my rambles, you probably have at least some idea of who I am. The people who are making these swift judgments about me as a person, they're not doing, you know, hundreds of hours of research. It's just, hey, man, you did this thing and therefore you are this. As I say, just engage in those comments. It's just a waste of time. But it's sometimes hard to to not do it. It's like in the same way that if you were in real life and a person walked up to you and called you an asshole, you would feel you would feel motivated to make a case yourself. Well, actually, I don't think that's a sound judgment of me. Like here's here's more information about me. But it's just a waste of time on the internet because you can't do that all day. You know? Yes, you called it. I'm an a-hole. Thank you. No, but even that attitude I don't like because I mean, Burr Burnham even said it recently. Self-awareness is sometimes used as a defense against criticism. Whereas like you're an asshole. As in what they're saying is this is a behavior that you shouldn't be doing or you should change for the change for the better. And you go, well, I know I'm this way. So that's fine. That's not an excuse. Like self-awareness doesn't absolve you of anything. It doesn't change the outcomes of what you're doing. It doesn't doesn't change anything. A self-awareness is only valuable when it's used within the context of actually changing yourself for the better. Self-awareness has value, but it's it's too often used as just a way to hand wave criticism or else it's just a person saying, yeah, I know that this is something that is a negative behavior. Who cares? And that's even worse. Like I don't think I'm an asshole and I put a lot of effort and work into not being an asshole in my view. I don't care if people acknowledge this. And so why do I try to defend myself against YouTube comments? I suppose, you know, I guess I'm just a maybe we all are where we're somewhat contradictory as time goes on chat and more I engage with people, the more I consider like so much of life just to be so damn pointless, you know, the more I go on, I just want to ignore everything and just do my content and just do the content and forget about everything else in the world and just throw myself at my work and just end each day just too tired to think about stuff, you know, it's not a healthy way to live, but it's it's comfortable for me. This video is sponsored by Skillshare, which is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes that help creators explore new skills deep in existing passions and get lost in creativity. 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| 31. July 2022 | The problems inherent in creating new speedrun categories. | The problems inherent in creating new speedrun categories. Is having so many categories annoying to manage? Yes. From a viewer's perspective, what a viewer wants is what is the fastest you can beat the game, and what is the fastest to collect everything. Any time you have to deviate from those two things is just annoying. But it's usually reality where the game can have things that are just stupidly oppressive to enjoying speedrunning, which is like the in-game mission skip feature from Rockstar. Or you can find glitches that just fundamentally destroy the game, that make it so you skip most of the game so there's no enjoyment in playing it, like wrong warping and stuff in Zelda, Ocarina of Time. And you have to then start banning these things, and that just becomes a headache to have to deal with. You split people's focus between other categories. There's not as much work being done improving one category, like one category can be ignored for years while another one's getting a lot of updates and stuff, and you have to switch back and forth. And it's confusing for viewers and it's just a mess. But you just have to do it sometimes. It can also be the case that the category that gets created isn't appealing to some runners, and you just lose some of the community. Probably a significant factor in why Baron failed was the introduction of save warping. Considering where the run ended up, save warping is very tame by comparison. |
| 19. July 2020 | The problems with having po box. | There's an I don't think there's enough people who want to send me stuff I don't really have time to collect the packages and I don't think it's cost-effective for you guys It would be cool to do like an unboxing stream and unbox things This let's be real. Okay getting a bad gift from someone and pretending to be happy About it, you know, just because you want to make them feel good about it or whatever. There's a annoying thing to do I think we've all had that experience for oh Oh great Thank You auntie blood Having that same experience, but with you guys it just be terrible Someone says thank I'm not interested. Oh, that's that's cool, man. Thank you, dude I cuz I don't make people feel sad like even when I snap at people on stream and I I legitimately feel bad about that I yeah, I don't ever want to make people feel worse about what they've done or whatever And I just I just think being in that situation. I would inevitably end up doing that and because of the like could you imagine? Spending a hundred dollars to send me something from America and then it arrives and I don't like it How shitty would you feel how she would I feel? I just don't even put in that situation. Could it be fun? Yeah, but could also could also be terrible Absolutely, maybe one day if I'm ever a bigger content creators like it's just like an An overwhelming demand for it. Sure. Maybe but what if I want you to verse my gift you? I'd have a hard time doing that man. You |
| 08. April 2021 | The professional chess speedrun. | The professional chess speedrun. Have you seen Magnus Carlsen and Nakamura speedrun chess by getting the fastest ever draw in high-level chess history? Oh is that what they did? I saw a thing. So apparently Magnus Carlsen and this Nakamura guy whatever. Is that his name Nakamura? Where'd I know that name from? Anyway, they both moved one pawn forward and repeatedly moved their king backwards and forwards and so I guess that counted as a draw for repeated moves I guess. Hikaru Nakamura is this from an anime or something? Yeah same thing. Yeah an anime. What anime? Where'd I know that name from? An anime. So why did Carlsen and Nakamura do this? Was it literally just for the meme or was there some advantage in the tournament for them both to draw? For the memes? Nice. Because I hear they both weren't particularly fans of each other. Oh they had already qualified? Gotcha. Given that there was no downside to it, good strategy. Both for their public perception and the people talking about chess in general you know. A publicity stunt with no downside. Saves energy. Maybe so. I guess why stress on a game that doesn't matter? Could that not be match fixing? I mean if they agreed to it beforehand maybe. People play forced draw lines all the time. But this wasn't a forced draw line. Obviously both had the possibility of avoiding the draw and it didn't. Match fiction would only be if someone got an advantage from it, which they didn't. It could potentially disadvantage someone. If indeed it was just qualifiers then yeah. Then I can't imagine how anyone else would have been disadvantaged. |
| 04. June 2021 | The professionalism of my stream | The professionalism of my stream. My stream is very professional, is it? I mean, I guess compared to some streams it certainly would be. I do often come across streams where their overlays or alerts and stuff are, even their subs and stuff is very scuffed. I don't know why. Is it just a lack of care or considerations for these things, or is it an intentional brand of not giving too much of a fuck? It probably depends on the person which one of those is true. And certainly those kind of small details are unlikely going to be the deciding factor in whether a viewer stays around. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 14. June 2022 | The promotion on Twitch for hype trains | The promotion given on Twitch to channels with hype trains. A hype train is when a lot of people are subbing, gifting subs, or donating all at once. Never noticed that when a hype train starts Twitch auto adds the hype train tag. On the home page, there's even a section where any channel that has a hype train going on will appear. There was actually one of the main reasons why I turned it on. Yeah, all aboard the hype train. See channels with hype trains going on right now. I really tried my best because I never really... DICKS! HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA It's a... Didn't see that coming. |
| 02. July 2021 | The psychological failings that lead to the supernatural | The psychological failings that lead to the supernatural. No, I don't believe in ghosts. It's all the psychological failings of people. So I mean, people sounds like I'm saying like the other people. No, I mean like literally everyone. Our brains do these shortcuts for efficiency, where we're going to be right, you know, 99% of the time. But in that 1%, it causes us to, you know, see things that aren't there or get feelings that are unwarranted to have and whatnot. That once upon a time would have been useful for survival, but in our modern world, it more often than not leads us astray. Like if you look around the world with everyone's ideas of the supernatural and stuff, the commonalities between them are effectively non-existent. But if you look at them with an understanding of human psychology, and then apply it to their environment, all their supernatural stuff makes absolute sense. The commonalities between cultures aren't in another world of another dimension, parallel to our own, but in our reality, in that of us all having roughly the same brain. What sucks is you can know about these failings and still find yourself falling victim to them, you know. Stop your suffocation and go, do I really have sufficient justification to believe this? Why am I actually believing this? You know, do that as much as possible. It can be time consuming, but you'll end up believing what is likely going to be more true things. Or at least having a reasonable justification for what you do believe. It's only possible to be justified in what you believe and still believe something that is false, you know. |
| 05. March 2022 | The quarter pounder versus the third-pounder burger. | The Quarter Pounder versus the Third Pounder Burger. Opinion on the McDonald Quarter Pounder meal. I still find it funny that story about how in America, a burger was made by a rival fast food chain. They made a 1 3rd Pounder, but people believed, at least enough people believed, that the 1 3rd Pounder was smaller than the Quarter Pounder, despite it being actually larger, because you know, a 3 seems smaller than a 4, but obviously in reality, 1 3rd is larger than a Quarter. And so the burger failed, and that's attributed, or at least it's believed that's one of the significant factors as to why it failed. Funny. I mean, to be fair, a 3rd Pounder doesn't sound as good as a Quarter Pounder, but maybe that's because I've spent so long saying a Quarter Pounder. |
| 19. July 2020 | The quartering is hot garbage. | is hot garbage and if you don't understand that by watching his content you are probably very stupid. I do know that people actually like the quartering which is fucking hilarious to me. That that fat dumb fuck is actually super successful on YouTube is amazing. Imagine believing that some dude making like ten fucking videos a day actually has something intelligent to say. His entire platform is I don't like this game or this piece of media. Oh, it's terrible. I haven't played it, but I don't like it. That's awful. It's his entire thing. The most the funniest video he made in recent memory was that one where he literally criticized a game reviewer for giving the game a low score and he himself hadn't played it. He then went through her review and was critical of it. Well misunderstanding the entire review because he'd never played the fucking game. But he actually has very little to say about the game except that Callie's review of it is wrong. Days Gone I Admit is not a game that originally appealed to me but every time I see one of these woke video game reviews, I'm inclined to purchase the game out of spite. Wait. Imagine if quartering made this whole response video which is all about how he thinks a review for Days Gone is inaccurate and unfair if he hadn't actually played Days Gone. That'd be pretty fucking silly. He didn't play the fucking game! I'm losing my mind! Hilarious, but that's that's that's his problem. He knows nothing about anything. But people watch him thinking he knows things and it's hilarious because it's most painfully obvious thing that he knows nothing about anything. The quartering is like weaponized ignorance. He a black hole making everyone who interacts with him more stupid which isn't normally a problem, but he's really successful. I disagree with Tim Poole, but at least he seems to have at least a bit of a head on your shoulders. I mean goddamn, imagine thinking quartering is a good reviewer, a good, you know, as cultural critic. I don't know. Just Jesus Christ. In a just world, the quartering would be working at McDonald's instead of what, crying over Magic the Gathering or whatever the fuck he got his stuff. Mr. Boss for the World adds more to discourse than quartering does or will ever in his entire life. |
| 17. December 2022 | The quest to complete Mario 64 without using the jump button. | using the jump button. So for well over a decade, there has been a person who was trying to remove any A presses in a completion of Super Mario 64, as in complete the entire game without ever pressing the A button. That's the jump button, something kind of important to Mario games. I have somewhat followed this, like clicking on the videos and like watching how he's removing this particular A press, but he's been doing this for years. And this content is not really watchable by a casual audience. There is no commentary. Some of the videos will just be like 16 minutes of him spinning around in a circle, moving a particular creature or something, is not really accessible to a wider audience. But fortunately, Bismuth, a creator that I know, we're in a discord with each other, he spent the last year making a series covering the history of the developments of how A presses were removed from Super Mario 64. And the last episode just came out yesterday. So if you're interested in some really detailed breaking of a very classic game, I highly recommend this playlist. I've only seen the first three episodes, but I will eventually watch the rest. It is crazy how this episode ends with... Because this is no random YouTube commenter, this is Tyler Keeney, the great mind behind the discovery of parallel universes. Like I just, it's just a funny way to edit an episode. And this is where parallel universes were discovered. And he's sincere, like it is a very interesting series. I highly recommend. |
| 17. June 2021 | The quirky controls of GTA 5 | I'm the weirder using keyboard and mouse. I remember Peli in the collab thing was asking like, how the hell do you fly with keyboard and mouse? And I'm just like, I don't. There are just some things in the game. I would say in every game, there are some things that are better with keyboard and mouse and some things that are better with our controller. Certainly some of it is just personal preference, but just on the whole, there are certain things that are in general easier. And it's a great thing about this game that you can you can alternate between keyboard and mouse and controller so seamlessly. There was actually a debate recently about how much we want to allow people to remap buttons in the game, because the button remapping that the game allows isn't complete. In that, like, let's say on controller, you want to move your power button. You can't. Power for the controller is 100% pressing in both the sticks. And that is a terrible way to activate the power. So if you're using keyboard and mouse, you're only pressing one button to activate power. And that's a lot easier compared to the controller we have to activate too. And we've already allowed people to rebind certain keys to get around some stupid shit in Rockstar's code. That just made the game, made the controls more difficult to use. And so the decision was made, like, if you want to use a program to remap your controller to do something the game already allows, but just not on a certain button, you're able to. You know, if you want to press the A button to use your power, fucking go for it. It just seemed like a dumb thing to prevent people from doing. Because at that point, it's not changing the game necessarily, it's changing the controller that you're interfacing the game with. I do all flying with controller. And the thing is, so I use controller for biking, parachuting, and flying. But none of those things that I do in single player require me to use weapons while doing so. So I never use weapons while on a bike. I never use weapons while I'm flying. So when I do things for online, they require me to both use a bike and do something with weapons, or both fly and do something with weapons. I get fucking confused every time. As a matter of fact, in the collab that's coming up, there's a time where I lose, partly because I have no fucking idea how to throw C4 while I'm on a bike. I run into fences, I'm like, I know I can destroy these fences, but I don't know how. Which controller do I use? It doesn't matter to God. |
| 27. January 2021 | The r-word | The R word. My opinion on the R word? I do not cringe when I hear it, but I don't say it myself. Because the word itself means to slow, to degrade progress. Its association with mental impairments is not its only usage, but certainly given that TwitchCleed doesn't like the word and that people have a problem with it being used, that is the main thing that inspires me to not use it, as opposed to any belief that actually harms anyone in its usage. For example, there's a song about Soda Poppin that was released by Consterra that uses that word like a bajillion times, and I have no problem with that and I've listened to the song like a hundred times. Constantly worrying about how much |
| 17. December 2022 | The real reason why I’m speedruning the Cayo Parico Heists. | The real reason why I'm speedrunning the Keio Perico Heist. What made you speedrun Keio Perico Heist despite your utter hatred for GTA Online? The main thing I've always hated about GTA Online is not being able to play it without being DDoSed and fucked with mod menus. That I can do that now, largely because I'm just playing by myself, makes it more tolerable. That doesn't change how many things in this game make no fucking sense and how garbage this game has been handled, but I like speedrunning. I like progressively getting better at something, reaching for a goal, optimizing things, learning new strats and stuff, and Keio Perico is just short enough and it is in the same world that I've always loved speedrunning for the past seven plus years, but it's a new aspect of it. I'm actually somewhat annoyed that I've been derailed from again trying to learn GTA V speedrunning, like I was one sixth of the way done or something. Then I'm like, oh, shiny! Online speedruns! When will I... |
| 08. June 2021 | The really successful indie games | The really successful indie games. I just realized I never got my Hades footage Edited I guess I'm not playing more. So should get that edited. I don't think it'd be very good footage though. It's Hades good Yeah, it's a great game won a lot of awards for Justified reasons. I don't even think it's a full price game. I just like 20 bucks study bucks Hades and Noita are the two games That I think of as like indie gold What are some other indie games that were like extremely successful in recent years? Yeah, shovel nights another good example Celeste Rari. Yeah true Dead cells. Yeah I'm not don't think of Minecraft as a reason holo night. Yeah, there's another one among us. Good point. Yeah gangbeast Kind of yeah, cop head true on the tail. It's quite a fear |
| 06. October 2021 | The reason I quit RDR2 after playing it for 40 hours on the console version | The reason I quit Red Evidention 2 after playing it for 40 hours on the console version. I am still consistently asked why I don't like the game and this is the original footage that was originally its own video where I explained my issues with the game. I am considering going back and giving it another try though. Nah, Emmanuel, I'm over Red Dead 2. The gameplay is just so competitive and it keeps giving you characters you care nothing about with the same gameplay loop. People are after you. You need to make money. You try to make money. You fail. The people get close to you so you have to leave and move somewhere else. Oh look, a gunfight. Another gunfight. Another gunfight. Another gunfight. Oh no, there's more guys coming but I've already killed 70,000 guys. I mean, why should I be afraid of the fucking pinkatins? I can literally kill thousands of people without taking a fucking scratch. There is no consequences for anything that I do. I have killed entire civilizations worth of people and no one seems to care. I'm not at the point now where it's like, oh you know, he's just a murder of one guy. If you killed the amounts of people that I kill in Red Dead 2, the entire country would be looking for me. Because I've killed thousands of people. People who track the growth of population will have a specific marker of my birth in that game. And they'll be like, this is when 50% of the male population was killed because of one man with a gun. People will analyze the effects of my existence on the growth of human civilization for the rest of time. And then the game wants me to be like, oh but there's 10 more guys coming, what is you gonna do? Holy shit. The Dutch has a plan. Here's the plan. We kill them with auto aim. It'd be one thing if the shooting was fun, but it's not. The shooting is boring. Really really boring. The movement is boring. It's like finicky and the horse riding is awful. Spam pressing X. You can't even get the enjoyment of looting stuff and acquiring a lot of items because looting takes 10,000 years and all the items are fucking dick useless. It's a game that for the first four chapters you're so wowed by the characters and the world that you don't really think about what you're doing. And then when you take five minutes to step back and think about what you're doing, you're like, hey this is really fucking stupid and not really enjoyable at all. What kept me going was a desire to know what happens next, like as in where's this all gonna go? But they just kept dragging it and dragging it and dragging it. Oh one more place, one more time fleeing to a random fucking location. If you're curious what happens in chapter six, it's the sixth time you flee from the guys chasing you and you need to make money. It's like I had to say it was the sixth time because if I said look, recently I just fled to a new location looking for money, you'd be like, so you're in chapter one, two, three, four, five or six? Like oh I'm six, oh okay fair enough. That time you do that. I probably would have finished it if my save file hadn't fucked up. For those who don't know, Rockstar softlocks like a significant portion of the player base is save files, you had to do this finicky thing to remake a save file to get out of it. It didn't work for me because both my original and my autosave were bugs, so I had to delete my save file and my autosave. This caused me to lose three hours of progress in the most boring part of the game which is the island. Have you seen Nakey Jakey's video on Red Dead Redemption 2? Yeah, Ebsation, yeah. I don't agree with everything in the video, but a lot of the criticism I agree with, like um how much it rail vows you in missions, it's like when you're playing Red Dead 2, you want to go left, so you go left and a mission fails you and you're like fine then I'll go right and a mission fails you. Well I'm just gonna stand here then for 15 seconds, and mission fails you. And it makes you feel like the director of Red Dead is gonna come out of the side and go no no no we practiced this, it's a pirouette then a jump then a side spin. What is wrong with you? You get from the top and then he screams action and everything starts again and you have to do those exact movements or the game fails you. It's you know, no creative freedom at all. It's like you are, you've been given a script, it's like there's a script that you've never read but there's the expectation from the game that you have read the script and you're going to do those exact things in that exact order. It's terrible. Very different from GTA V where you have like some luxury in a lot of missions, you can use different weapons or different cars or you can go different places to get different vehicles and there's actually significant differences in like how you can complete different missions or who you kill in different missions or in what order and I'm not saying the missions in GTA V have massive amounts of freedom but by comparison to Red Dead 2 it's like night and day. There's this thing where you end up going to an island and it is the most boring ass motherfucking gameplay I've ever god damn seen. Like there's an extraordinarily slow stealth mission and then like it's like an hour of just killing guy after guy after guy after guy. Like you move five feet forward, kill a guy, kill a guy, kill a guy, kill like 20 guys, move five feet forward, kill 20 guys, move five feet forward, kill 20 guys. It is the most repetitive boring gameplay I've ever seen in any game ever. Like if you watch Video Game Dunkey's video on Red Dead 2 he'll mention chapter 5 specifically as when the game goes downhill and oh my god does it go downhill. Like people tell me oh it picks up a lot again after chapter 5 but chapter 5 of all the chapters seems the most redundant, unnecessary to include part of the game. It's crazy but I had to do it twice and I was not happy. The thing about reviews these days is most people are so desperate to get their reviews out early that they either don't play all the way through the game or they really rush through it and I wonder how many people who gave Red Dead like super high reviews had just played like the beginning of the game or something. But again my preferences for games are not universal right like a lot of people enjoy the game and I enjoyed the game for the first four chapters. But it's just really goddamn repetitive. I think I would have enjoyed the game a bit more as well if I was able to loot stuff. The game like massively punishes you for looting anything at any time. It's like you want to loot one body that you have no idea if they have anything of value well that's going to be 10 seconds my dude. Gotta mosey on over there, straighten up your belt, pick up the body, pat it down, put the thing in your wallet and then drop the body again. And what you want to loot, another 10 guys. Good luck with that. |
| 06. February 2023 | The reason my views are up 6400%. | Socialblade is a website where you can look up like the analytics that are public for various different YouTube channels. It's never exactly right. It does show a very wide range for some of the analytics, but it's still useful. But looking at my analytics on Socialblade right now look very strange. The combination of unlisting a bunch of videos last month and my shorts taking off this month makes my view increase percentage look insane, huh? Stop reading the heart. The unlisted videos were my older rambles by the way, still watchable via the playlist. So my channel isn't going that great right now. It's getting like 7 to 8 million actual views, but the shorts are doing great. So it's showing that I have 40 million views even though you know 32 million of those are not getting any money at all. But the reason why it has such a high percentage is because my view graph looks like this. Ah! So it shows me it's getting 1.3 million views in December and this was it only shows public views. So in December, I unlisted all those rambles. So rather than showing 30 million views or whatever I got that month, it deducted the 29 million views that those rambles had got collectively off my total. And so now it's comparing this number to my most recent view numbers and saying oh, it's gone up 6,402%. And I found that funny. Did the quality of my videos decline over time? So I got an interesting comment here on the daily str- |
| 23. January 2023 | The reasons why I don’t make a 'How to succeed on Youtube' video. | How to succeed on YouTube. Solo asks, over your Ramble series, you provide nuggets of advice for content creation and some pitfalls to avoid when starting out with streaming and creating. Would you consider compiling those nuggets of information into a video or make a dedicated video for someone who is doing that kind of thing? I have considered it. There is something more casual and lacking in responsibility in a way, making a Ramble where I'm just giving my off the cuff thoughts, compared to making a dedicated video, as if I'm saying, here is the definitive way to succeed. As I say, you can be succeeding and think that you're succeeding for X, Y, and Z reasons, but in reality, you're succeeding for A, B, and C reasons, and just you're doing X, Y, and Z, coincidentally isn't sinking you. There are things that I once believed to be true about how to succeed on YouTube that are now either no longer true or weren't even true back then. It would be a lie to say that I don't think I have some information, some wisdom, some guidance that I could give to new creators that would help them, but maybe it's just like, I don't wanna spend the time doing it. I have so little energy to do the things that I want to do that trying to uplift small creators is maybe not highest on my list of priorities. I do try and help out somewhat because I have my Ramble series, but I could certainly hire a person to go through my Rambles and make compilations of specific topics, but how much of the advice you give, you think might be wrong? It would be inconceivable for every single thing that I believe to be true to happen to actually be true. I must believe false things. I am flawed. I will have taken things as facts, inadvertently that has led me to reach conclusions that are wrong. All I can do is just be open to that as much as possible and try and, as biously as I'm possible, assess new things that are presented to me. It's just the nature of life that we can't have all possible information. We can never be absolutely confident about anything. To put it this way, it'd be hard for me to succeed whilst everything that I believe to be related to success to be wrong. |
| 06. May 2021 | The reddit recap "Good stuff" threshold. | Reddit recap good stuff threshold. The Reddit recap video turned out pretty good too. I did cut some things from it though. It's one of those things where like when the subreddit was new, getting a thousand upboats was hard. And so anything that got over a thousand upboats, well, pretty much had to be good. Now that I've kind of kept the same standard as a thousand and it's easier to get to a thousand, the closer I get to a thousand, the more likely there's just going to be a lot of weaker stuff that needs to be cut, you know? I should do top 50? Yeah, that's a good point. Doing it not based on upboats, but the actual position in the upboats. Yeah, that's a good idea. And we'll see like on average how long it takes me to get, I think it's like an hour and a half, two hours of content, something like that. So we'll go top 50. Not enough. We'll go top 75. And yeah, that's a good idea. No one wrote that? No, someone did. Someone wrote top 50. Maybe I misread what they wrote, but there was top 50. What do you think? If I had that idea, I would have just taken credit for the idea. It was a good idea. What do you think I'm giving credit for my ideas to Twitch chat? I've had too many good ideas lately. It makes me not relatable for my audience. So I better pretend that there's good ideas coming from them to make themselves feel special. Oh,'ll hold, ok, you know? |
| 18. August 2022 | The refund scam calls happening currently. | Those spots the refund scam calls happening currently. I don't know if you guys have had this happen I got a call yesterday from a robot voice that was like we have just processed your order from eBay for $329.99 if you don't want this order to happen or Something blah blah blah I hang up hung up at that point because I knew it was a scam but um apparently these scam calls are going around and I guess they get you to call them back and At that point you kind of hooked into the system or whatever and they try and sell you stuff on the troll You guys heard these things before the classic refund scam. Yeah, I I don't know how I got onto this list But yeah, if you hear a robotic voice saying |
| 02. July 2021 | The relic of my old channels that still exists on youtube | A relic of my old channels that still existed on YouTube. Yeah, one of my really really really old videos got picked up by the algorithm recently. So for those unaware, I had a really old YouTube channel called DarkFripper88888. Actually, I had like two or three channels, but that's the one that I did like personal videos on and stuff way back in, you know, 2013 or whatever and for years after that, like I started 2013. Back in the early days of YouTube, people used to mirror videos for promotion. So like they'd be like, hey man, I like your video. I have a YouTube channel that has a similar theme. Do you want me to mirror your video? As in you give me the video, I'll upload it and my audience will see your video and potentially go subscribe to you and I allowed a channel to do this for one of my older videos. Where I was just talking about the inability of people to choose to believe things. Like you often hear people say you choose to believe what you do and that's just not the case. Which I've talked about in Rambles a handful of times and I've talked about in Rambles better than I talked about in that old video. But since you know, what year was it? I know 2014 when I let them mirror this video. I've deleted that channel and so that mirrored video stands as like one of the only videos from that era of my life that still exists on YouTube. I've actually drafted an email to the YouTube asking them to take it down, but I didn't send it in a weird way. Despite that the video isn't very good. It's like the last relic of an era of my life and while not being a nostalgic person, I had trouble sending the email. It was a much simpler time, you know. Not a better time, but a simpler one. I do still have all the videos though, like one of my hard drives somewhere. It's not the same and certainly you never know as a content creator what things from your past will eventually come to bite you in the ass or negatively impact you. As a content creator it just seems to be in your best interest just to remove stuff that doesn't seem to have any value. While you might end up missing out on a little bit of value that you know, maybe when your old videos pops off or something. I think it's a higher likelihood that something from your past bites you in the ass rather than giving you benefit today, you know. |
| 30. January 2021 | The removal of Pogchamp from Twitch | The removal of PogChamp from Twitch. So apparently Twitch is doing a new PogChamp emote every 24 hours. I guess they're trying to find the one that people like the most. People keep assing Twitch with my PogChamp emote. I sincerely doubt they're gonna use it. D. Viper Champ, way better than PogChamp right now. Thoughts on the PogChamp getting removed? I agree with the sentiment that so few people even knew the person who was the face of PogChamp. Like they didn't know about the statements that he had made in the past or whatever. Who he was. His gootex or something his name was. I only heard in passing a while ago that apparently he's a fucking nutball. Anti-vax weird fuck. And like I didn't particularly care. Admittedly his call for violence effectively by saying that person shouldn't have died in vain. That goes a little bit far. The opinions of PogChamp are separate from the emote? True. But then again there's always gonna be some line where Twitch's association with this emote. Let's go to extremes. You can go to extremes to explain the principle right? Let's say that Twitch had a Hitler emote. A very popular Hitler emote. And it was just Hitler waving or whatever. Now in that extreme situation you can go, Okay I can see how Twitch might have issues in terms of their branding if that emote was very popular. Having Twitch be able to come out and go, Well I mean we don't approve of anything Hitler did. You know it's just an emote that's gonna fall on deaf ears for a lot of people. It's gonna impact Twitch's ability to get advertisers and stuff. Now obviously Gutex isn't Hitler. But you can see how that principle has to come into play at some point. And we can disagree when that comes into play. Let's say Gutex rapes children. At that point I think you go, well clearly I think they had to do something. At this point it's just ambiguous as to what he actually did. And how much people are even aware of what he did. As to whether or not the action was really justified. If the principle makes sense, whether it should apply in this case is something that's debatable. I am of the view I suppose that I don't think Gutex had brought enough attention to himself. That Twitch was likely going to suffer for the emote still being on the platform. And still being associated in some small way with the dude. I don't think that point had been reached yet. Like the only reason I know of Gutex's statements is because of Twitch. I don't think the tweet had a lot of likes or whatever before this point. And I do agree that the emote was divorced enough from the persons who originally made the face. That it didn't really matter. So if I was in Twitch's shoes I don't think I would have made the same decision that they did. But I totally understand the principle of what led them to make the decision they did. I can understand wanting to protect your brand, advertisers, da da da. And that one emote is not going to be the most important thing for the platform. I don't think they were getting enough value out of that emote. Is that true clinically? That he didn't like the emote and just removing it makes him happy and brings him more attention? I don't think that matters. Gutex's feelings on the matter, that wouldn't matter at all to Twitch. It's not like Twitch could have kept the emote as revenge or something. It's just a random dude. If it makes Gutex happy or sad it's completely irrelevant to why... It's completely irrelevant to the basis under which Twitch should be making decisions. As a company you can't, or at least you shouldn't be, doing actions specifically to make one particular individual happy. Or one particular individual sad. You've got grander concerns than that. |
| 05. September 2022 | The result of my first ever YouTube livestream | The results of my first ever YouTube live stream. I had my first live stream on YouTube yesterday, and I had 4,000 viewers when it first begun. I received 169 super chats, well over a thousand dollars, and I had no plans, like the content was just bad, because I didn't know what the fuck I was doing, I ended up just playing CSGO randomly. So I gained 166 subscribers, yet that is definitely better than the amount of followers that I get on Twitch. Oh, 133, so I gained 133 subscribers. So in terms of finding new people, this stream was more successful. Chat messages, this is one minute, and there was 1,400 messages. I just couldn't read it. And so my viewership just slowly declined, as I didn't do anything important. I think it would make more sense to stream on YouTube. I've only ever been to one YouTube live stream, and it was Jacksepticeye, and the messages were painful to try and follow. There's something called Truffle that makes that more bearable. The base form of YouTube chat is just the worst experience that has ever been. There are no free emotes on YouTube, only normal emojis, yes. There was like a full dozen things that Twitch is better at than YouTube. The only reason to move to YouTube is because it makes more business sense to do that. I would have more viewers, I'd reach more people, I would grow faster, and I'd make more money. Oh yeah, YouTube has better visual quality, and I could also have my VODs there now. Well, I even care about that though. People lose their Twitch subs to Mato, they would be useless. Well, I mean, you could still keep your Twitch sub, it's just it wouldn't have any value on YouTube. Because I wouldn't be banned for moving over there, like some other people were, which caused everyone to lose their Twitch subs. But it's, it would certainly be easier if I could dual stream to both, but I can't. That's against the rules still. I am not gonna bother Pongo to get Chaos to work on YouTube, so I'd certainly still do that on Twitch. Currently, I can't be fucked going to the effort to change it all over, but as I say, I think it would make sense. Another test stream, yeah, I might do another test stream where I do something of actual significance. Not sure what that will be. Am I leaving Twitch? I don't like Twitch. Think it's a shitty platform. Going by the way that Twitch talks about itself now, it doesn't even want to be a platform, it wants to offer a service. Twitch doesn't really care about its creators anymore, it's very strange. |
| 02. July 2021 | The result of my leaving Twitter and Reddit | The results of my leaving Twitter and Reddit. So for the past, how long has it been now? Two, three weeks? I haven't really been using Twitter. I have tweeted out maybe three or four times, specifically like announcements, and I haven't read like the timeline or anything like that. I think I've replied to one person or something. I deleted Twitter off my mobile devices and I don't have it as like one of my bookmarks that I open. Like I have to specifically type in Twitter if I want to go there. Has my life improved? My life has not changed all that much at all really. I don't think I'm better mentally. It's just I no longer look at Twitter. Twitter was not in any way shape or form the cause of any of my problems, you know. If anything, I just increased my usage of other social media to compensate. I look at more comments on YouTube and stuff. I'm also using Reddit less. I made myself a secondary account so I can't see where everyone's tagging me because a lot of times people are tagging me just to say mean things to me. I also don't have Reddit as one of my bookmarks anymore, and so I've been using it far less. Deleted off my mobile devices. Has my life improved? Not really. I do think my life is better by comparison to how I kept using them and dealt with the abuse a bit more that was being sent my way. I mean I did go on my old account for like one day and just immediately saw these amazingly stupid messages and responded to some of them and felt so dumb for doing so because it's such a waste of goddamn time. I've since deleted those comments and once more logged out from the account. So I suppose at least not wasting time responding to stupid comments has probably improved my life a bit I suppose. I didn't have much reason to do that before. There's a lot of toxicity on Twitter these days. It really depends on who you are and how you use it. For the average person, how much toxicity you engage with just depends on who you follow. For someone who people actively want to send messages to, like it's somewhat hard to avoid. The mental weight of being a highly popular person online can be really tough. I think of myself as a highly popular person, just maybe a somewhat popular person. But obviously the upsides of this career far outweigh the downsides. Some people have killed themselves over Twitter comments. I find that really hard to believe. If a Twitter comment is the last thing that you receive before you end your own life, I'm going to say you had more problems than that Twitter comment before you received that comment you know. A person who is mentally all there isn't ending their life over a Twitter comment. It's not like a mentally healthy person goes on Twitter and reads a single Twitter comment. That's it, I'm done, I'm out son. This world ain't worth living. It's life ain't worth living. |
| 02. July 2021 | The result of my leaving twitter and reddit | The results of my leaving Twitter and Reddit. So for the past, how long has it been now? Two, three weeks? I haven't really been using Twitter. I have tweeted out maybe three or four times, specifically like announcements, and I haven't read like the timeline or anything like that. I think I've replied to one person or something. I deleted Twitter off my mobile devices and I don't have it as like one of my bookmarks that I open. Like I have to specifically type in Twitter if I want to go there. Has my life improved? My life has not changed all that much at all really. I don't think I'm better mentally. It's just I no longer look at Twitter. Twitter was not in any way shape or form the cause of any of my problems, you know. If anything, I just increased my usage of other social media to compensate. I look at more comments on YouTube and stuff. I'm also using Reddit less. I made myself a secondary account so I can't see where everyone's tagging me because a lot of times people are tagging me just to say mean things to me. I also don't have Reddit as one of my bookmarks anymore, and so I've been using it far less. Deleted off my mobile devices. Has my life improved? Not really. I do think my life is better by comparison to how I kept using them and dealt with the abuse a bit more that was being sent my way. I mean I did go on my old account for like one day and just immediately saw these amazingly stupid messages and responded to some of them and felt so dumb for doing so because it's such a waste of goddamn time. I've since deleted those comments and once more logged out from the account. So I suppose at least not wasting time responding to stupid comments has probably improved my life a bit I suppose. I didn't have much reason to do that before. There's a lot of toxicity on Twitter these days. It really depends on who you are and how you use it. For the average person, how much toxicity you engage with just depends on who you follow. For someone who people actively want to send messages to, like it's somewhat hard to avoid. The mental weight of being a highly popular person online can be really tough. I think of myself as a highly popular person, just maybe a somewhat popular person. But obviously the upsides of this career far outweigh the downsides. Some people have killed themselves over Twitter comments. I find that really hard to believe. If a Twitter comment is the last thing that you receive before you end your own life, I'm going to say you had more problems than that Twitter comment before you received that comment you know. A person who is mentally all there isn't ending their life over a Twitter comment. It's not like a mentally healthy person goes on Twitter and reads a single Twitter comment. That's it, I'm done, I'm out son. This world ain't worth living. It's life ain't worth living. |
| 28. June 2022 | The return of ViperCraft | The return of Vipercraft Here's the story of Vipercraft chat at one point in time when I was editing largely all by myself What I would do is I would listen to footage and play Minecraft on stream And whenever I needed to like clip out a bit of footage that was important I would like pause the game and then do a little bit of editing and then keep playing Minecraft So I just listened to it like one time to be whatever very inefficient, but I was just trying it out for a while Considering the circumstances by which this footage was made. I never bothered to edit it myself I gave it to a really new editor a person who was not very good to be honest Maybe at that time they were less bad because you know I was worse as well because it was back in 2019 But these videos were not edited well And so that's why I took them down from YouTube and unfortunately, I don't have the original footage that was edited I only have the edited videos and so I can see in like episode 4 I believe at some point lava spilled all throughout my Little hole and then I had to use blocks to like remove it all very quickly and so in one scene There's just a bunch of blocks everywhere And there's no explanation why because they didn't keep in the scene where I put the lava There is a lot of editing choices that make no sense in these videos, but despite that I've taken it upon myself to Edit all this footage into an episode that actually makes sense, so it's probably like an hour and a half of footage It's gonna end up being like half an hour It's just gonna cut out a lot of the completely meaningless uninteresting things that for some reason were kept in and just Keeping the interesting stuff making new series. I don't really want to play more Minecraft right now I have nothing else to do in Minecraft, but there are some really good moments in this with Steve and Woofoo. Yeah, I got good memories of this footage |
| 21. June 2022 | The revival of the clips channel | You can see this long period, is it even longer? There it goes back like, for like two plus months, I didn't upload any clips, and the algorithm stopped caring about sharing my old clips, I got barely anything right, but this is now, I'm uploading clips again, and doing well. We're on a very good upwards trajectory. The money is nothing, it's like 50 bucks a day or whatever, but, because so many of the clips are under 30 seconds, but we're doing well. The subs though, eh, but like, doing well. I've gotten some of my mods, I'm paying them of course, to break down my videos and then make them into clips. Same thing I used to do, but more people, so it's a lot faster. And so there's like weeks worth of clips uploaded, but obviously I'm gonna run out of videos eventually. Once you start uploading it, it started recommending old clips again, yeah, more than likely at least some of them, but what I'm seeing here is not new clips. Yeah, so I think it was a good move to start doing that again. Will Pacifist eventually become part of the clips channel? Yes. I was always nervous to make clips out of Pacifist, in part because I'm not sure how many of the clips could like stand alone, but also because going over Pacifist for me is somewhat of an emotional ordeal, for a variety of reasons, like, I see all the imperfections, the things that I would like to go back and fix. Also because like, it's my most creative work, right? It just feels weird to go over it again. The imbalance of the world. You've watched Viper Rambles, great for you. |
| 12. April 2022 | The risk in moving away from your normal content. | The risk in moving away from your normal content. Since moving away from GT Online, has this caused you to have to work harder to maintain your audience? Have you been stressed about, like, oh, am I still gonna have a career in a couple of years without that consistent influx of content? Yes, great question. The thing is though, I'll be honest with you, like two and a half years ago, I got to the point where I almost like completely quit, like not just GT Online, but like YouTube. Like I was about to stop doing YouTube entirely, like two and a half years ago, I was not in a good mental state. And the reason I wasn't in a good mental state is because while I was happy doing GTA Online, my dream was always to have my channel be diverse and have like a lot of games on it. And so I always got the most amount of views on GT Online, so that gave me an incentive to just do the GT Online videos mainly. And what happened was when in 2018, even though most of my audience was from GT Online, I had told people, hey guys, I'm gonna be doing Red Dead Redemption 2 when it comes out. That's gonna be coming out soon. And the thing is I didn't get much of a response from that. Like there weren't really people that were positive about it, but there weren't really people that were negative about it. Most people were just like, okay. And what happened was when Red Dead Redemption 2 came out, I had gotten so much hate, like it's the most amount of hate that I've ever gotten on my channel. And I was just so shocked and I didn't understand what I was doing wrong, but like people were just coming to my channel and just disliking my videos and just like leaving nasty comments and they were just saying, oh, this game sucks. All you do is just drive around on horses all day, like play GTA, this game sucks. And it was like, people were just being so nasty to me. And the thing is though, I kept a very tight schedule where I would always stream on Wednesdays and Sundays on GTA Online, and I would always do a GTA Online video on Saturdays, like usually a top 10 or a top five. And I kept that schedule, but what I was doing now is I was doing a Red Dead stream also on Fridays, and I was doing a Red Dead video on Saturday. So the Red Dead content was extra, but people kept saying, I don't wanna see this, I wanna see GTA content. But what they didn't understand is I was still doing the same amount of content. I was just doing extra Red Dead content, but a lot of people were just being negative to me. And I think I lost like 5,000 subscribers alone just from doing the Red Dead content. People got pit. What? That surprises me a little bit, because considering that they're from the same company, you would imagine there'd be enough of a cross section of people to play both. I got a lot of new subscribers from the Red Dead content. Like one big misconception about my channel is people come to my channel and they think that 99% of my audience is from GTA Online, which is not true. A huge amount of my audience is from GTA Online. I would say at least 70% of my audience is probably from GTA Online, but at least 100,000 of my subscribers are from Red Dead Online. And I know that because I just watched analytics on my Red Dead videos and I've seen how many people subscribe from them over the years. So I know that there's a ton of people that found my channel just from Red Dead content and watched me just for Red Dead content. Some people just watch the Red Dead streams. Like they don't even watch the playthroughs or anything like that. But it was hard to do at first. Like I wanted to grow into another channel. And what happened was when I started doing Sniper Elite V2, that was in like May of 2019, I was really good at Sniper Elite V2. It's like one game that I'm really good at shooting in that game. And so I thought that people would like me playing it, but there was people that were being nasty to me. And even when there wasn't people being nasty to me, the videos just got so much less views than my GTA Online content. And this is the part where I almost had a breakdown where I almost was gonna give up YouTube entirely because I felt useless. I felt like I was trapped in this endless box where I could only do GTA Online. And if I tried to do anything else, I would have people lash out and complain at me. And then the videos wouldn't get as many views. And so I just felt helpless in this box. Like I wasn't like depressed or anything, but I was just like, why should I even keep going at this point? Like that was just the attitude that I had because it was like, I wanna do other content, but I can't because there's people that are just being nasty to me. But eventually got to the point where I said to myself, you know what, I'm just gonna do other content and I don't really care what people say to me. There's gonna be people that are gonna hate on me, obviously, but I know there's gonna be a lot of people that support me and like me as a person and are gonna like my other content. And so I figured I'd do other content. And so yes, I'll be honest, I have lost a lot of views and I have lost a lot of subscribers. Like I've lost thousands of subscribers when I stopped doing like GTA Online, but I never regretted it. I never went back on that. But you're happy, you're most satisfied with what you're doing now. Yeah, because the thing is, if I still did GTA Online content, I probably would have had way more subscribers and probably way more views. But I'm happy with what I have now. I'm happy with the subscribers I have. I'm happy with the views I have. I'm just in just a much better state because whenever I play a game today, like I could, I'm gonna be doing Sniper Elite 3 in like probably a month, getting ready for Sniper Elite 5. And when I post Sniper Elite 3 content, I'm probably not gonna have any of those comments come up like saying, why don't you play GTA Online and stuff like that? Most of those comments are like gone. Like they don't appear anymore because it's either those people have accepted my new content or they unsubscribe. It's either one of the two because like two years ago, you would see those comments all the time, play GTA Online, don't play this game. But now it's like people are, people generally enjoy whatever game I play. People just like watching me play. Some games get more views obviously, but generally I've seen from my audiences, most people are happy. And I usually have a 99% like to dislike ratio on my playthrough videos. So people really do enjoy them, I know that. Because as YouTubers continue to pivot away from people getting their content via the subscription feed, people only get videos shown to them really that they're interested in. As in if a person isn't interested in your other types of content, they're just not gonna be shown those videos. And because like most views don't come from the subscription feed, they're probably just seeing those videos less and therefore you can get less complaints. But as you say, just, you know, the longer that you do variety content, the more people will come to accept it. And you know, this is just part of your channel now, so there's no reason to complain. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I look at the analytics too. And the thing is though, when I posted like a playthrough video, usually like within the first week, I would be negative on subscribers. Like usually like whenever I post a playthrough video, it would be like negative 30 or negative 40 subscribers. It would go like that. But then whenever I would like go back to that same video and like look at that video like a few months later, it was like plus, it was like plus 10 or plus 20 new subscribers. And over time, you know, that builds up. And those playthrough videos over time, you know, get views, they do build up. But I think that the problem with a lot of YouTubers is a lot of YouTubers have this, you know, view mindset where they look at the views constantly and they think like, if a video doesn't get this amount of views in 48 hours, it's a failure. That's like how some YouTubers see it. And so me, whenever I publish a video, I think about like, you know, how will this video grow over time? You know, how will people see this video over time? You know, will this video be really popular like a year from now? So like, I don't go crazy over like the first 48 hours, but I know there's YouTubers that like think that like, if a video doesn't get within a certain amount of views within 48 hours, it's a failure. I have the same attitude where for me, I'm just trying to make as good videos as I can, things that I think are good. And I'm just putting them out there in the world. The more of these that I put out in the world, the better off I'm gonna be in the longterm. I've had videos that have done poorly for the first 200 days and then suddenly have shut up in viewership. I almost don't care about the views. Like I recognize, I have certain ideas as to what views, certain types of content are gonna get in a week and a month or whatever, but all I care about is just making consistent good content. And I feel like in the longterm, I'm just gonna do well doing that. I don't care about how many views it gets in the first day. I mean, I suppose I still do look, but that isn't like my biggest concern. Have you seen any of my lore videos by any chance? I clicked on one, I think it might be about GTA 3, but no, I haven't seen them. Like I haven't. Continue. I've noticed that people make lore videos about like a lot of different games. Like for instance, the Fallout games and the Elder Scrolls games have like, the lore community is like so big on that. But what I've noticed is, there's almost no lore videos on like GTA. I know there are some channels out there, don't get me wrong, that do lore on like GTA. What I'm saying is, I'm actually surprised that there's not that much lore videos on it because there's just so much material to cover. And like GTA 4, I could probably make like 40 more GTA lore videos. Like, and I have way more planned because GTA 4, the story is so big. There's so many characters, so many details that I could cover in that. And I have way more plans for lore, it's just a load on that game. But that's what I would do, is I would go through like, you know, the story and I would think in my head, cause I know the story really well in these games. And I would think like, you know, what do people want to know like about these characters? What do people like, you know, wonder about these characters and stuff like that? And so like, you know, then I begin to like, you know, formulate that in my mind, because like for instance, I posted a Ken Rosenberg video the other day, you know, the character Ken Rosenberg, right? Yeah. So a lot of people don't understand why Ken Rosenberg was in, in, in Los Venturas, like six years later when he was in Vice City in 1986. And so I did a good video like explaining, you know, what happened, how he got caught up with the mafia, you know, why Tommy didn't help him and stuff like that. But my most popular lore video, and I never expected it to blow up like this, it's I think the fourth most popular video in my channel is like three and a half million views now in like a year. And it was the video top five, like hidden signs that big smoke was going to betray CJ. And when I first posted that video, it was like, I think it was only like 10,000 views within the first 48 hours. But then like a week later, it was like a hundred thousand views and then two weeks later, it was like 150,000 views. And it was like 200,000 and it just started blowing up and people kept talking about it. And so, you know, there was people that were telling me that like, you know, that all these games are too old. No one cares about the old games and stuff like that. Well, you know, three and a half million views on a 17 year old game. So that's that about San Andreas. A big reason for this is because when these games were popular, when they first came out, there was no YouTube. And so anyone who was, when YouTube finally kind of hit its peak, like there's so many more YouTubers making content, that was when GTA V came out. And so there's heaps of lore videos, quote unquote lore videos about GTA V, but they're just like, bullshit, you know, Lester is actually Brad and all this garbage, you know, for those clickbait channels. There's like thousands of those, but it takes actual effort to go back and make content about these earlier GTAs, especially because they're not as algorithmically friendly, or at least that's what was believed. But of course, as you found out, there was so much love for San Andreas and even GTA IV to a lesser extent. And of course, because people aren't making content for that, the audience that wants content doesn't have a lot of places to go. So if you make some engaging content about San Andreas or about GTA IV, you're gonna get that audience. And of course, people are somewhat sick of GTA V by this point, and they're just looking for some new GTA stuff. And if Rockstar isn't gonna put it forth, all these new players who've just found GTA with GTA V, are gonna be like, oh, what were the old games like? And they're gonna click videos like that, you know? So it's a good move really to make content for that market. And I have so much fun just making these lore videos. They're really chill, and I just love talking about the story, and I put so much love in these videos when I make them. And I try my best to explain everything. I'm not that big on crazy effects and stuff like that, but I do my best with commentary and cut scenes to explain stuff, because there are things that you do notice. There are things you might not notice the first time, but there are certain things, like if you pay attention to certain characters and stuff like that, you might notice certain things about them that you haven't noticed before. I'm sure you know, there's all these small little signs that Big Smoke was gonna screw over CJ, just all the things that he was doing, and Tenpenny showing up at his house and stuff like that. But there was another thing that I was thinking about. You know that mission when Tenpenny tells Pulaski to kill CJ, it's near the end of the game, it's called High Noon, and CJ has to chase down Pulaski and kill him? I was always wondering, what if Tenpenny knew that CJ was gonna kill Pulaski, and he did that on purpose? He left Pulaski there alone with CJ, so that CJ would kill him, because Pulaski could testify against Tenpenny if he got caught. So Pulaski is like the only witness there. CJ had gotten rid of all of the evidence at that point, and Pulaski was the only guy that was gonna accomplish the Tenpenny that could actually take him down if they got Pulaski to testify. And CJ wouldn't testify. CJ's not gonna testify if he got caught. So that was always in the back of my mind. I was always thinking, did Tenpenny do that on purpose? Did he just drive off knowing that CJ was gonna kill that overpower like Pulaski and kill him? That's something, you don't have the direct answer to that, but that's something you think about, because the stories in these games were really well done, because a lot of open world games, sometimes the stories aren't that well done, but in the GTA games, they're really well done. And it makes me happy that so many people don't just care about the open world, because there's a lot of people that just play GTA, they would use cheat codes and just kill a bunch of cops, and that's it, they'll never bother with the story. But it does make me happy that so many people still care about the story, and they care about the lore, and they care about what's going on. I do like that. And I appreciate the GTA community a lot for that. There is certainly subtlety in the writing of the GTA games, which is what, people question whether that's gonna be the same for GTA 6 with a bunch of the people leaving. Who was the lead writer for the GTA games who left? Leslie Benzies. Yeah, yeah, and so is that still gonna be the case for GTA 6? I mean, as you say, because everyone's enamored with GTA 5, and there's so many people in the world now, GTA 6 is gonna sell amazingly, pretty much regardless of how subtle or... I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't have a single player at this point. Ah, no, it surely, in my mind, they made billions of dollars with a game that had single player and online. It'd be ballsy of them to risk fucking that up. You've got a formula that makes billions of dollars. You're risking screwing that up by changing it is probably not gonna be a good move, in my opinion, and I'd be surprised if they could convince themselves to do it. Although it wouldn't surprise me if single player is less expensive this time around. But then again, Red Dead 2 was very expensive, but I suppose they started making that in like what, 2013 or something. It just took a very long time to make. Was it 2015? I'm not sure. So like, we haven't seen something come out of this sort of new generation of Rockstar before. So I guess anything's possible. Hope for the best, I suppose. I wanna see the next GTA game have a new theme to it, because I don't know if you noticed, like a lot of the GTA games have a specific theme to them. Like GTA 3, like the Liberty City games, like GTA 3, GTA 4, and like Liberty City stories are usually like these games, you know, you arrive in this dark criminal underworld and you're a hired gun. You work your way up doing jobs for different gangs and stuff like that. That's how the Liberty City games usually were. Liberty City story's a little different because Tony was actually part of the mafia, but they're usually that theme. Like the Vice City games, Vice City stories and Vice City, they had the theme of building a criminal empire, and they focused around the drug trade. That was like heavily in like both Vice City games. Vice City stories more on the drug trade, but Vice City a little bit on it too. And so, you know, GTA 5, the theme that they had to that game was it was like a Midwestern, like, you know, heist crew that like, you know, meets up like nine years later with also with Franklin. And so that was the story there. But I hope that with the next game, because there's a strong chance it is Vice City, if it is Vice City, I hope they keep the theme of the original Vice City's, because it's gonna be a new universe. It's gonna be the HD universe of Vice City, if that is even the city. And I hope they focus on the drug trade. I hope that's a big part of the next GTA game, if it is Vice City, and I hope it focuses on building a criminal empire, like, you know, building up these businesses, like in the story and stuff like that, and taking over the city, because that the original Vice City games had that. I hope they don't heist spam in the next GTA game. I like heist and all, I don't mind a heist here or there, but I would like them focus more on the criminal empire part of it than heist. Do you actually want them to go back to Vice City to retread the same ground that they've been before? Wouldn't you rather a new city, new place? I want Vice City personally, but Vice City would be a new city when you really think about it, because if they did Vice City now, it would be Vice City in the HD universe. Oh yeah, I mean, yeah. One thing that drives me crazy personally is when people like, people ask, you know, where is CJ in like GTA V, or where is Sweet in GTA V? CJ and Sweet and Caesar and all those characters, they do not exist in GTA V, because GTA V is a different universe, it's the HD universe. The city of Los Santos in GTA San Andreas, and the city of Los Santos in GTA V, while they're both based on the same city, they're not the exact same city. It's like Captain Price in Modern Warfare 1, 2, and 3. He's not the same Captain Price in Modern Warfare, because Modern Warfare is a reboot, it's a new universe. So even though it's based on the original Captain Price, it's not the same Captain Price. But if they do a Vice City again, it's gonna be a whole new map. It's not gonna look like the map in Vice City and Vice City story, and it's probably gonna have a bit of countryside. This is Vice City is based on Miami, so they're probably gonna have some islands, they're probably gonna have some swamplands, and they'll probably have some big countryside. Maybe they'll have Northern Florida as well, or Northern Florida, it's a lot of trailer parks, so they might have something like that there. So I think that would be really cool. Yeah, absolutely. I only hope for the best, but it's been nice talking to you, man. Thank you again for coming by for GTA V, and these rambles. You don't mind that I put these rambles between us on my channel? That's fine, do what you want. I'm perfectly fine with that. Cool, thanks, man. And I wish you the best with your content. And- Thank you. Wish you the best with everything, man. Have a good one, dude. You too, take care, man. Bye-bye. Reflect. |
| 16. January 2020 | The risk involved in buying an older products | The risk involved with buying an older product. You may need to look at the screen for this one because I do draw things in paints. My original explanation of this idea was not presented very well when I was speed running, so I'll explain it here. Basically, there's a reason why you should avoid buying, especially peripherals, towards the end of their life cycle. When you first produce a product, you should know, as a principle, the more of a product you produce at the same time, the less it costs you. As in, the cost to produce 10,000 keyboards, individually each keyboard, let's just make up a number, let's say the keyboards cost you $5 to make. If you only produced 5,000, it might cost you $10 for various different reasons related to manufacturing or whatever, using the machines, having the facilities, having all the people there, da da da. In general, the more you're producing at one time, the cheaper it's going to cost you. So when a keyboard first hits the market, people, this is time, when a keyboard first hits the market, people might order 10,000. So the cost for the company to produce that keyboard is $5. Let's say they're selling it for $10. That means they're making a profit of $5, but towards the end of the life cycle of that keyboard, maybe now they're only making 4,000 keyboards, okay? And to make 4,000 keyboards individually, each keyboard costs $10. Let's just say $11. So let's just say $10. Yeah, $10, okay. So at this point, people still expect the keyboard to be worth $10. But of course, the company doesn't want to do this because they're making no profit on this, and just opportunity cost alone, they could be producing some other product that they could sell for profit. So what they do at this point is they, each company has to make a choice. They say, okay, one, do we want to discontinue this product and just not provide any more of it? Two, do we want to still produce this product to meet this demand and do something about this? So either they can A, just accept that they're making no profit on this item. B, they can increase the cost of this item. Let's say they now make it $15. And people go, oh, why you increase the price of this old product? But whatever, at least they're still making the same profit that they used to. Or they can do what some other companies do. They can reduce the quality of the item in subtle ways. So here, they're using an entire steel frame. Here, they're going to make it so they're using only partial steel parts. It will still cosmetically look the same. But if you pick them up and try to bend them or something, or you felt them, you'd feel there's a difference. Maybe the keys feel a little bit different. For all intents and purposes, looks the same. If you bought the keyboard, you might not be dissatisfied with it. But if you put the first edition, the first one that came out on release with the one three, four years later, you'll notice a difference. And so they will save a little money in the production there. And that will now cost them $8. And they can leave the cost at $10. I've run across a few companies doing this. So if you have a keyboard that you really, really love and you want to get a new one years later, you run the risk that the new one you're buying from that same company is going to come with cheaper parts. And that's just the principle I want to explain. |
| 08. December 2021 | The roommate pasta sauce mystery | The roommate pasta sauce mystery. When my first roommate left, he left like 16 containers of pasta sauce. Not homemade pasta sauce, I mean literal containers of pasta sauce. Like just stuff you buy from a store. And I was just like why? I've never seen this man cook pasta. Did he go to a store and they were on special for a scent or something? I don't know. Or was he planning to murder us and I don't know, cover himself or the bodies in pasta sauce? I don't know, to like pretend that we weren't dead? I'm not sure. Very strange. Like most of it went off just because I only eat pasta that often. When I finally decided I wanted to eat more pasta, most of the cans had gone off. I don't mean like offers and I'll pass the use by date. I mean they've smelt with, you know. |
| 12. April 2022 | The sad state of red dead online | Sad state of Red Dead Online. Have you seen what Rockstar has done to Red Dead Online? Other than just ignore it completely? Well basically they haven't had an update since July. And the last update that was in July was a disaster. It was a terrible update. It was just bag missions. It's like recycled bag missions. You go to an area, kill a bunch of enemies, you take the bag and you deliver it and that's it. That was a whole DLC. Just a bunch of bag missions. It was terrible. They added a useless currency called capitalite to the game. And the characters constantly say it. It's really annoying. But here's the thing. The fans created a hashtag. I'm sure you've seen it. The Save Red Dead Online hashtag. And they've been spamming that for months. Trying to get Rockstar's attention. And a month ago, the Rockstar Games official Twitter accidentally liked the tweet that some guy made showing a picture from Red Dead Redemption 2. And he wrote, Red Dead Redemption 2 is the best game I've ever played. Rockstar liked that tweet but they didn't read the very bottom of the tweet. Which said, hashtag Save Red Dead Online. So the official Rockstar Games Twitter liked a hashtag that said Save Red Dead Online. And then they quickly unliked it afterwards. But it was already screen-shotted. So it was all over the internet. That's funny. Honestly, as far as Red Dead Online is concerned, I'm surprised they bothered at all. Red Dead to me, it always seemed like the story and the characters, that sort of interaction was the main draw of Red Dead 2. I just didn't see Red Dead Online with its silent protagonist. It just seemed so antithetical to what the single player was trying to achieve. I guess they certainly could have made something good of it. But it doesn't surprise me that they didn't try very hard. What I'm trying to say is, I think GT Online makes more sense to me than Red Dead Online. You know? A lot of players had high hopes for Red Dead Online, including myself. I really thought that Red Dead Online was going to expand into this massive world like GT Online. I wasn't one of those people who thought that it was going to overtake GT Online. I never thought that. But I did think that it was going to get a lot of updates. And a lot more activity. And a lot more players were going to be on the game. You thought they would have learned from GT Online and just come to Red Dead Online, with all that knowledge and made something equally as good or perhaps better in some respects? You know you still can't rob banks. Do you know that? In Red Dead Online? You still can't rob banks in Red Dead Online. That's crazy. It's similar to how with GT Online you couldn't do heists for quite a long time in the initial days of its release. You remember that? I mean, I've played those heists for so long, but it's just... Who told me that Red Dead Online only started developing on it like 6 months before the release of the game or something? Does that ring true with your experience playing the game? The thing is it had some bad glitches, but it wasn't that bad of a disaster as GT Online was in its first week. Do you remember GT Online's first week? No, I played very little GT Online. I avoided it for a very long time, but it never dragged with me. The terrible state of GT Online when it released. The first week in 2013 was a disaster. Like the con... |
| 08. April 2021 | The same games releasing infinitely. | The same games releasing infinitely. What is this game? It is Hello Kitty Adventure 7. That's right guys, playing a new game. Moving on from Hello Kitty Adventure 6. Put 8,000 hours into it but I thought it was time for a change. You may notice this looks a lot like Hello Kitty Adventure 6. Because game developers are no longer making new games. They just re-release them, the same ones, and change the name. You know that's eventually gonna happen, right? No, no, because obviously it kinda happens now already, but I just mean like, in the same way that Disney is re-releasing all their favorite, all the movies and stuff. They'll eventually become a time where a significant portion of the games that release every year would just be re-releases and or basically carbon copies of the exact same story of games in the past. Are we there yet? How many remasters actually come out per year? It's certainly stepped up in the last five years I think. What was the remaster that set it all off? Like, I know Rockstar has noted that Mafia 2's remaster was an inspiration for them to consider such things. What was that Take 2? Take 2 Rockstar, same difference, right? But wasn't there like a huge... Oh, that was right, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro. Their remake remaster kind of things being so successful. I think it spurred on a lot of it. Like, will it ever reach the point where we don't really need new games? Like, let's say we have like a hundred years of games that have already been released. You could then kind of just practically remake those games infinitely for new generations. But I suppose, like, eventually they just not be relatable at all? I guess it depends on how much society and technology and whatnot changes over the decades. Hypothetically, I suppose, there could be a point where humanity becomes somewhat stagnant, either technologically or culturally, and then you don't see the huge swings in what is popular, like you do now. Basically, what I'm saying, guys, is 10 years from now Among Us is going to be once again the biggest game around. Mark my words. |
| 20. December 2022 | The satisfaction of conquering difficult tasks. | time. The satisfaction of conquering difficult tasks. You want a strange wheel of school who love math? It's not that strange. As a person who finds satisfaction in a job well done, completing a goal and what have you, I can imagine math could be that way for some people. You have a complex problem that you solve and you're like, yes! I mean, fuck, I used to enjoy playing Scrabble and completing crosswords. There's just something satisfying about having something as difficult and then over time coming to overcoming. People who only find relief that a problem has been solved as opposed to satisfaction, I pity them. Because it must be very hard to continually force yourself to do the thing knowing that even in the end of it you're not going to feel any positive feelings more just like a lessening of negative. |
| 20. July 2022 | The scam behind primitive construction videos | The scam behind primitive construction videos. Oh yeah, did you guys see that video by, uh, Sunny V2? Now obviously I'm not a huge fan of Sunny V2 because of his supportive reactors, but he has made some good videos and I respect the... how he's got down that, uh, celebrity commentary video kind of format. He's got that down to an arse, right? He's got a team of researchers and stuff, you know. But he recently released one talking about the... those guys who build stuff. Not the legit dude from Australia. His primitive technology is real, but there's a bunch of people who, like, fake build stuff. So there's, like, hard jump cuts between days and in between those days, apparently they're using, like, machinery and, like, dozens of people and stuff. Like, I've seen these amazing buildings that people have built, apparently, by themselves. Uh, and I never really thought about it. I was like, oh, that's a thing, I suppose. Who cares? Learning there's, like, a seedy underbelly of scamming and decease to build these things and pretend like it was made by two people. It's just dumb. Why is it, chat, that it seems as though, like, everything has, like, a seedy underbelly? Everything, once you dig that little bit deeper, is a fucking scam. Or someone's being hurt and exploited. It feels as though something cool and wonderful will start, and there'll be legit excitement and genuine people doing it. And then just over time, it just becomes more and more exploited, and slimy and greedy and stuff, and that just seems to be how capitalism is. Well, yeah, moles have no place in maximizing profits. Yeah. |
| 08. January 2022 | The scam that is NFTs | It's the same guy who voiced Kratos and I was just hearing that voice again. I was like, Oh, you know the scam that is non fungible tokens. So what do you think of the NFTs my guy? Oh man, the NFT. Well, I think the technology is cool for NFTs. I think like the idea of having like blockchain ownership may like alleviate the idea of like, because that's the thing, right? Like if you own a product, right? Like if you own a game or something digitally, it's tied to a server. But if you can own it on a blockchain, maybe that gives it, maybe that allows you to have a permanent license for the game that can never not be blocked. However, that's like me being really nice when I see people selling fucking monkeys and like crypto punks. I it's an absolute waste of my time. The only people that are investing in it are those that are trying to scam money out of their fan bases. That's it. In my opinion. Exactly. It all looks like garbage to me. And I was just curious if you had a different perspective. You when you when you use the word cringe, I was like, that's all I need to know. I'm on the same page. I get so pissed online because you get this weird sort of like crypto bro investing culture. And it's like, as somebody that does that for a living, like this is my job. This is how I make my bread and butter. Like, you know, literally investing and making good use of money. When I see people throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars on JPEG files and pretending like they're actually going to be worth something. I'm fucking torn. I'm blown away in my mind. And then you got to talk to these people and they try to convince you. And I'm like, dude, I'm not the average dipshit that you're trying to like go hundreds of thousands of dollars out of. That's not the market. You know, once you're invested in that shit, the nanosecond you admit that it is shit, you may as well just burn your investments. Right. They have to keep trying to hype it to get themselves have someone else. We want to pass the bag to someone else so that they can get their earnings. And that's the thing with it, right? Like if I buy a hundred thousand dollar fucking monkey JPEG, the only way that's ever going to be worth something is if I sell it to you. Like if I convince you right now, I'm like, hey, you know, fucking Matt, this is an amazing investment. You should fucking get it. And you gave me more than I spent. Then, yeah, I'm a fucking genius, but I'm also a scumbag scam artist. Literally anything, literally anything done that way. NFTs aren't any way special, except the wasn't there a time where you added blockchain to like your name or something on the stock exchange? And it would just go up like a bajillion percent because they weren't just so high throughout this technology. They used to have BitCloud. Oh, I covered that BitCloud. That was one thing where like you probably even have one, too. I might even have one basically the site. So there's two actual examples, one you may know. So BitCloud used to actually take random people like on Twitter. So it would be like Elon Musk's Twitter account. They would give it like a speculative value and like people could invest in Elon. So like they would literally profit off of Elon's face being inside like this BitCloud service. But like Elon didn't have any fucking clue. He didn't claim it and do anything about it. And that was it. It was just a really shitty way of like investing in somebody's social media presence. The other one I know you have to know about this is when like they had Twitch clips. So they would take people's Twitch clips and just NFT them. That site lasted for no time at all because Miss Kiff covered onto it. He was like, this is really scammy. Yeah, yeah, I saw that somewhere. I think I did see that Miss Kiff video. Yeah, not that I watch a lot of Miss Kiff Mindtree, but it was just it. I'm sure that they may have taken your clips too and probably thrown it on there and tried selling it as an NFT because they would take literally any popular like every creator. And like the way that it worked was like because you I assume like when you stream GTA, you're probably going to be at the top of that GTA list, right? Like you're going to be up there. Yeah, up there. I mean, maybe top 10. Well, regardless, if you're in the top 10, that's like you're up there. And like when you're up there, they'll like randomly pull clips and everything. And they'll take it and they'll just throw it in. And they would they probably made money off of like a bunch of people. They probably made money off you and a bunch of people without even knowing. And none of that money came back to the creator. It was just people taking your Twitch clips, somehow throwing an NFT on that or like, you know, putting it on the block chain and selling it to people for no reason. I wonder how much money they made considering, well, you know, that Ubisoft NFT thing that happened recently and they and they got into a lot of negative PR for it. Quartz or something. Apparently, they only made like 12 sales or some shit. That's the video I'm covering, actually. I've been like researching the entire like transaction list on that. It's actually slightly less than that. I think it's somewhere around like it's it's actually less than a grand that they've ever actually like that was actually ever traded in terms of volume. It's so bad. That negative PR for that, all that for a bit of water or whatever. And you think like you think after that backlash, they wouldn't attempt it. And that was it. But they still they're going to one of their their chief, the CEO, is like, that's just the beginning, guys. We're going to go even harder into the NFT space. I don't know why we're pushing this technology so hard, considering the use case for it is so poorly handled, like they were literally selling you a gun skin. And like I believe some of the NFTs were so bad with the gun skins. Like they were like you. Even if you bought one of the NFTs, you still have to play their dog shit Ghost Recon game for like 600 hours to even use it. And no poor soul should play Ghost Recon Breakpoint for more than at least six hours. I mean, 600 is terrible. The skin market for CSGO has existed and flourished without NFTs all this time. I mean, I don't see how the NFT really helps because I mean, sure, you have it, you know, independent of the game or whatever the item, but the item only really has value in its association with the game. It's not like a gun skin in CSGO would be compatible with any other game unless the developers specifically made it so it works, you know. That would be a cool NFT idea, right? Like imagine if you could have one gun skin and it would work between Rainbow Six Siege, Counter Strike Go, like a lot of these games. That would be cool. People pretend it does. And that's I've heard people say, but it doesn't, because the code or whatever doesn't make sense for a different game. There's no way that you can like cross like game share any of this kind of stuff. And even if you could do that, is it worth spending hundreds of dollars on a fucking gun skin in a video game? Like maybe I think the problem is it's like you have basically like a group of rich guys who are complete scumbags who jump into this market and they try to convince people like this is the thing with influencers, right? Like when an influencer comes and peddles you an NFT or a crypto idea, people think like, oh, it's the it's the viewer's fault. Don't get me wrong. The viewer's fault is definitely there, right? Like you should definitely do your check and balance. But like imagine if me or Matt came up to you and we told you, hey, this is a pretty solid investment. Now, I'm not going to like speak for everyone here, but me and Matt, I think we do pretty comfortably compared to the average person that in itself invokes some level of trust that can immediately be brought over to the viewer. Like, you know, you know what I mean, right? Like people can be like, oh, people like you. People can like you as a power of social relationships or their jazz. They want to support you in the thing that you're doing. And it's just taking advantage of it. It's terrible, especially these people who are doing even better than you or me. People making, you know, ten million dollars just of ad revenue and shit and still doing these scams. Disgusting. You got people making like we're adult kind of creators, so we get fucked in the ad pool. But you got people who are like the friendly on the best pools on YouTube. They're fucking killing it on Twitch. And like, like, here's the thing. These guys make multiple multi millions a month. Sometimes I'm not even fucking around with you. Some of these guys can like that's how great some of the like sponsor deals can go. And these guys are even out there fucking trying to hype up a new crypto or like hype up some new NFT. And until, of course, there's like actual regulation, they're just going to keep doing it. And I get pissed because like I cover it and like people get like, oh, why are you so mad about it? I'm like, it's not that I'm fucking mad. Like, I'm not jealous. I wouldn't commit this potential crime to fuck myself over. I'm just warning you of it. I hope we're not dealing with NFTs like five years from now. It's like I want it to just come and go. But it's I don't think it is. And I'm not a betting man, but I'm going to have to make a wager that I don't think we'll be seeing NFTs, especially with the way that they're acting. These NFTs, if it's just JPEG images that are being sold for marked up values, I don't think it's going to be a trend that laughs. And, you know, the thing that will really kill it is when regulation steps in, like when you've got banking systems around the world and like governments putting their effort into like police it, this stuff is going to die. They look at a cryptocurrency and stuff as well, aren't they? And who knows how that's going to impact that. I suppose you've probably got a lot of crypto investments, I imagine. No, man, I cashed out of all of that. I cashed out like this is around the Save the Kit stuff. Like after that, I was so jaded with the market that I cashed out on it and I paid my taxes and I put it all into like land and property investments. And you dodged the crash of Bitcoin, I suppose, where that went down. I dodged the complete crash of Bitcoin. Yeah. I mean, I knew the crash was coming because it's like it's a purely speculated market. There's always there's always weird shit going on with crypto. And like the thing with cryptocurrency is like, we've always talked about how like the Chinese keep destroying Bitcoin and everything and like keep banning it. But I think like if China regulates it and like they implement it, that's what's going to fuck up Bitcoin. That's what's going to ruin it because and the thing is, it's like we've all been billed something that's anonymized, right? Something that hasn't been like assessed by governments and like IRS and like, you know, these various like financial firms. But the moment you have something regulated and the moment you have traced this heavily, the value in its like the anonymity is go away. It's all gone. Like there's no value in it. What's the difference between having a fucking Bitcoin and then having a US dollar? You're still literally going to be like, you know, taxed and like identified the same way, right? Yeah, I would just see what the future brings, I suppose. Think about it like this, right? Like Gary Vee and a bunch of these guys keep telling you that at some point, the future of NFTs will be used for like signing like documents and all this stuff and like having a deed to a car or a house. And now think about it like this, right? Like we get pissed at Facebook about privacy, right? Like we get so fucking mad that Mark Zuckerberg is tracking every single thing that we've ever done. And now we're some people are accepting a technology that literally records every single thing that you do. Like now all of a sudden, if that's if this is the world we live in in the future, every single investment you make that I make, we can now verify each other on the blockchain. We can now verify wallets. Like that's kind of fucking weird. That's kind of scary to me. That's like it's a world where like there is almost no privacy anymore. There's like nothing to I mean, not hide. I don't want to say hiding is something over there, but it's like I don't want to like share my net worth with like people that don't know me and vice versa. Right? Like we don't we don't need to share that. I haven't considered it that way. It's not something that I really think on in the sense that with things that I can't change and that I'm not directly involved in as I'm not invested in crypto is things I don't reflect on. Well, imagine it like you're a streamer, you're a streamer. You don't want to give your address out, right? Like obviously you never want that leaked. Other than the seven times that I did it. Yeah. Buying pizza a handful of times, you know, sometimes hard to change the display capture. It's I know it's really I know I've been on eBay a few times laughing at like two million dollars Super Mario Kart and people have like looked at my fucking local postal code in my area and I've been fucking found that way. But it's like nobody wants to nobody wants to give out anything. Nobody wants to do it. And then like what you have to imagine like in a world where like the house you buy, you have it's tied on the blockchain. Now people can find out where you live through like some little bit of Internet detective work. And all of a sudden now you're always not safe. Now you're always found out. Now they know what you're doing. In many cases, it's a matter of what information you're giving up. It's whether or not you have the choice to go up that information or not. Because in many cases, I'm like, gosh, I don't care if people know about that. But the nanosecond you say you have no choice. You have to share this information. I'm like, I don't know about that sport. Like I would like to be able to decide how much of my information people are able to get it. Get the hands on. I know that I share information all the time. Like people always get at me. It's like, oh, using virtual machines, you're fucking, you know, hiding yourself. Like it's not that I have something to hide. It's just like if I can choose to like not give up the information that's personal to me, you know, that I'm going to take the extra steps. It takes like five minutes out of my life to do. All right. Just because of my background. I'm not like sweating over losing any of that. I'm not sweating over doing all these extra steps. And I choose to go with it because it's like, I don't, I know that I give up some shit. I know that I have to give up information every day. I know that my name bounces through like a bunch of like registries for government stuff. And, you know, just in general, as yours does, as everyone in the chat and, you know, that I can tolerate. But like when I got to use a service like Facebook and Mark is like tracking me through like fucking Oculus products and like my cell phone, like that's fucking weird. You know, that's what. There should be no reason. |
| 15. November 2021 | The scar on the side of my head. | The scar on the side of my head. Is there a bald patch on the right side of my head? Look people, for the last time I was shot in the side of the head as a kid. There's an exit wound on the other side. You can't see it because of the camera. Okay? This is a lie. I say this lie every time and there's always new people in the chat so it's always funny because for a second they're like, is he serious? Is he telling the truth? Did Mac get shot in the head? And his is no. But it's really funny. I got a mole cut off when I was a kid. That's the story. |
| 12. February 2023 | The secret word only my fans know. | How I can easily identify my fans in the wild. So people have asked me before whether I like being called Matto, and I've talked about this saying I find it both funny and has like a familiar vibe to it, like it's friendly in a way and that makes me feel good. It's just a cool nickname to me. But one of the other perks of people calling me Matto is that if I see someone call me Matto in the wild, I know they like my content, right? It isn't that they know of me in general or they've heard me say my name, because I never refer to myself as Matto. So like when I was on the WAN show, there was a dude who writes the timestamps for the videos. They call him the timestamp guy, and in this he refers to me as Matto. So I know the timestamp guy likes my content. You see? It's like a secret thing that only us in the know understand, and so I can identify people in the wild who call me that. Not that I'm saying you have to call me that name if you don't want to. Like I'm sure it doesn't fit some people's vibes. Like some people don't like the word doggo, for example. They consider it too childish or what have you. But that's fine. But I'm just saying this is one of the perks. |
| 04. July 2022 | The self fulfilling prophecy of Twitch | The self-fulfilling prophecy of Twitch. Top featured creators when I go into incognito is XQC or a big creator always? Yeah, it's not gonna change. It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy or it's a cycle where Twitch recommends the biggest content creators because they believe like, well, they have to be big for a reason and they are the most likely to grip a person quickly to stay on the platform. But because Twitch keeps recommending them, they keep continuously being the biggest content creators, which then leads Twitch to recommend them first, which leads them to being the biggest content creators, which leads Twitch to recommend them first and this goes around and around and around and around and it never ends. Ultimately, the reason why the biggest content creators are the biggest content creators is because Twitch recommends them the most and Twitch recommends them the most because they're the biggest content creators. |
| 30. July 2022 | The series that could make me the king of GTAGuessr. | The series that could make me the king of GTA Guessa. So I got sent an interesting series, they go into games and just like check out scenery. So I'll give you an example. Hello everyone and welcome to the GTA 5 Tourist. This is the Houses of Vinewood Hills at Night mini-series. And so there's no dialogue here. And so all he does is like, this is the house, this is where the house is. And he's like, well this is an interesting garage. He like analyzes the house as a house. Very nice backyard view. And the reason why this was sent to me is because Josh was like, Hey Matt, here's a list of house tours in GTA to help out with GTA Guessa. There are playlists for other cities as well if you want me to send. And so I'm looking at this like, this would be really helpful, but it would take so fucking long to watch. And I couldn't just listen to it. I'd actually have to actively engage and watch. I know for a fact this would make me better at GTA Guessa. Even if I only retained one tenth of the information, it will be valuable. But on some level I worry like, maybe I'll get too good at GTA Guessa. There'll be no one in existence who'll be able to match me. I'll just be too strong. That is less of a concern though than just the amount of time this would take to do. GTA Guessa Esports! Yeah, if you are interested in watching this series yourself for whatever reason, Katzen Wagon TV. Interesting concept. It's funny, I had a similar idea, which was my Tour of Los Santos series. When I had an extra hour, I would just use mods and jump around the city and be like, well this is a nice house, this is a nice pool. I did like three hours of it or something, but I just haven't had time to do more. And that was all for me trying to learn these locations for GTA Guessa. Maybe I could just continue to do that. I just never really have time to do it, but it's interesting. This person must be doing this for a very long time. Let's see how old the channel is. For five years ago, we first did this. Interesting. |
| 31. August 2020 | The shadow realm in Yu-gi-oh! | Because the Overwhelming Vast Majority Bads don't instantly result in sales. But even when they don't, for the recognition, there is still some benefit in them, you know? The Shadow Realm in Yu-Gi-Oh! They've gone to the Shadow Realm? I find it funny that the Shadow Realm was introduced as like a middle ground so people weren't really dying. Like it was meant to be more PG. But it's like, sure they aren't dying, but they're being sent to like a realm of darkness for eternity. That seems worse. And you hear them panicking in their screams as they like, they get sucked into the Shadow Realm. I don't think that's less traumatic for kids than death. |
| 31. August 2020 | The shadow realm in yu-gi-oh! | Because the Overwhelming Vast Majority Bads don't instantly result in sales. But even when they don't, for the recognition, there is still some benefit in them, you know? The Shadow Realm in Yu-Gi-Oh! They've gone to the Shadow Realm? I find it funny that the Shadow Realm was introduced as like a middle ground so people weren't really dying. Like it was meant to be more PG. But it's like, sure they aren't dying, but they're being sent to like a realm of darkness for eternity. That seems worse. And you hear them panicking in their screams as they like, they get sucked into the Shadow Realm. I don't think that's less traumatic for kids than death. |
| 17. December 2022 | The shortcomings of being transparent on Youtube. | The shortcomings of being transparent on YouTube. So I frequently do community posts where I make jokes but I also occasionally have them where like I explain what I'm doing, what I'm thinking with my content, and why I'm doing it and whatnot. And I always get these comments where they're like, why are you so much just about the money? Why do you only care about the views? Or someone be like, I don't like that you're only about promoting your content and stuff and you aren't doing it for the love of it. And I always say to these people, every YouTuber that you watch has these exact same thoughts thinking about how to get their content in front of the most people possible. That's why they're successful. The only difference is I am far more open and honest about it than other people. I keep you in the loop as to what I'm doing and why. I'm very transparent and I recognize that this is dumb to do. I sincerely doubt there is a single person who is only watching me for that level of transparency, that unnecessary level of transparency. But I receive comments all the time from people who say, I'm not going to watch anymore. I don't like this about you. In some cases, I've talked to people and they've directly said, yeah, even if other YouTubers are like this, I don't like being reminded that YouTube is like this. Anytime that you open your mouth to speak, to give your perspective on things, you have both the ability to draw people to you because of what you said and to ward people away on the same basis. And I've received enough of these comments now that I'm going to be more careful about what I talk about in community posts. Rambles will still be the same because I'm expecting if you guys are clicking on these videos, you are here specifically for my perspective on stuff. You want me to get into the nitty gritty and explain things in this sort of detail to see behind the curtain of YouTube and whatnot. But I don't think community posts is the right... |
| 19. March 2021 | The sicest I have ever been | The sickest I've ever been. Pax Australia was so fun, oh my god. I got the sickest I've ever been after Paxway 19. The sickest. They call it like the Pax pox or whatever, as a joke where very often after these large events you get sick. People who go to those events while ill in any capacity, fuck them. I can understand like, if you, you know, because it's a once in a year event or whatever, you've paid money. Especially as a regular person, you've probably shit out a hundred something bucks. And if you got the sniffles a little bit, you're like, oh, I'm just gonna fucking go, I'm probably fine. But your sniffles, when given to a thousand people, is significantly safer. |
| 19. March 2021 | The sickest I have ever been | The sickest I've ever been. Pax Australia was so fun, oh my god. I got the sickest I've ever been after Paxway 19. The sickest. They call it like the Pax pox or whatever, as a joke where very often after these large events you get sick. People who go to those events while ill in any capacity, fuck them. I can understand like, if you, you know, because it's a once in a year event or whatever, you've paid money. Especially as a regular person, you've probably shit out a hundred something bucks. And if you got the sniffles a little bit, you're like, oh, I'm just gonna fucking go, I'm probably fine. But your sniffles, when given to a thousand people, is significant. |
| 30. January 2022 | The silliness of the mandela effect. | The silliness of the Mandela Effects. The Mandela Effects referring to a situation where a large mass of people or collectively have a false memory of something. Some people attribute these false memories in various ways to alternate realities that are somehow bleeding into our own. Whenever you're trying to think up an answer to a problem of some kind, right? Generally speaking, you should lean towards things that you can demonstrate and or repeat. So like we have endless evidence of people coming to false conclusions, but we don't have any evidence of additional realities or universe existing and things coming from those realities into this one. Like you've got something that is potentially the most established thing in the world. That the human brain sucks sometimes and I don't know why, given this things, this explanation's ability to explain the phenomenon that you're trying to explain, why you would move beyond it? Why would you reach for things that you can't establish to exist and you don't even have a mechanism by which, well, you don't have a tested proven mechanism by which it could even do what you think it's doing. So it's like how would things slip from one universe to another? Why would that be a thing that happens? Why would it be random bullshit stuff like the names of things? Why would universes close to ours be fairly indistinct from our universe except for tiny changes like a singular letter or the name of something? You just don't need, you don't need that additional baggage to explain the phenomenon you're experiencing. It's not just a letter. Oh, in some case it is though. As in like some cases, like what is it like Bernstein Bears versus Bernstein Bears? I think is one of them for example. Each one of us, every moment is reinterpreting and changing the memories that we've made from the past based on our understanding that we develop now. An additional problem with the Mandela effect or whatever is that not everyone remembers that thing that way, you know? You've just got a small portion of people who remember things differently. I think on some level people just don't want to accept the fallibility of their brains, you know? Mandela effect is only a popular theory because it's a type of thing that youtubers sensationalize for views. Yeah, I mean some people like conspiracy theories in general or whatever, right? I mean sure yeah, I guess things that you can sensationalize for views are gonna get popular or whatever. I suppose things that you can sensationalize for views are probably things that are already popular. So it's a feedback loop. They're popular and so it's worth making videos about them. You make videos about them so they become more popular and because they're even more popular you can make videos about them and it goes around and around and around, you know? Is that a feedback loop? I think it's a feedback loop, right? |
| 02. October 2021 | The similarity between resetting speedruns and getting drunk | The similarity between resetting speedruns and getting drunk. Resetting speedruns for me is kind of like getting drunk. You have one drink, two, three, and then it's hours later, you're like 15 drinks in, you have no idea where you are, and you're like how the fuck did I end up here. That's what I feel like right now. I reset one run, I'm like ah the next one will be good, reset another run. Few more resets is fine you know, but we've only been here for two hours, only been here for four hours, only been here for six hours, how the fuck did I reset for the last six hours. Where did that time go? |
| 17. September 2022 | The sleep scam | The sleep scam. You ever had one of those like coma sleeps chat? You sleep for a ridiculous amount of time and you wake up and you still feel like shit. That's not fair chat. It's not fair that that can happen. I lose extra time of my life sleeping and I get nothing out of it. Had that yesterday, huge scam. Set up for like 10, 11 hours. Woke up and like, dead. My brain isn't working. I can feel my brain not working right now chat. Woke up and like dead. |
| 04. June 2021 | The slow optimization of GTA 5 No damage | The slow optimization of GTA V No Damage. Matt, can you finish Oko in less than 48 attempts? I don't know how many attempts I've had. It's always prudent to remember that the vast majority of the attempts that I've made weren't done with a solved run. In that, I was still learning how to do it at all. How to get into a situation where it was even possible to get through the missions without taking damage. When we first begun, it wasn't even believed it was possible to get through without damage. And even when it was solved, the strategies that we used to solve it were not necessarily very reliable. So while it was possible hypothetically to get through the entire run without taking damage, the likelihood of it wasn't very high. But over time, with every strat that I developed, it became more and more realistic. To the extent where I'm now very bored of this run. Because it has been realistic to succeed for like four months. But both due to getting extraordinarily unlucky, like so many goddamn times. And finding new ways for the game to break. I just haven't been able to do runs because I haven't been well. And I've got other responsibilities to do. So how many runs have I done after I solved it? Whatever definition you're using for that, like how realistic it was to succeed, I have no idea. It'll be very interesting when I finish the Dora Vectra perspective and find out. Because I do have all the footage and it has all gone on YouTube. So we'll find out soon. Did you ever expect in the beginning to be able to finish the run at all? No, not at all. When was the last time I played this game even though I died? I don't think I've done that in a long time. But I mean, I've practiced all the final missions multiple times. I mean, within the last week, no, within the last two weeks, I've done all the final missions like six plus times. Then more than that, because I do them over and over again. I am well aware of the tendency of if you get stuck in the beginning of the run for long enough, then you become worse at the later missions. But I'm not failing in the later missions in ways that I've seen before. Each time I get there, I fail in a completely new, unique way that I've never seen before. And these are not things that I can practice my way out of. That I consider impossible in the sense that it was unrealistically improbable. So I thought when I first started that maybe, just maybe, you could hypothetically do it all segmented. Like maybe, like every mission you could just get lucky enough that you just happened not to get shot. Surely that must have been possible. But in no reality did I think you'd get through the entire thing without taking damage. But obviously that changed after a few strat developments. I'm pretty sure when I did my first run, I wasn't doing it with the goal of getting filled without taking damage. I was doing it with the goal of going through with 1 HP as fast as possible. Or to see if I could get through, you know. That's why the first attempt had like 192 deaths. Could be impossible without Ultras. No, no, no, definitely not, dude. Old strat is in general just used to increase for liability at this point. Maybe when you had to cross the road in Polito score, it was impossible. But now that you can just run back into the bank, nah. And besides, I haven't been motivated or had any reason to find more strats to get around where I use Ult strat. Because Ult strat just works, you know. |
| 19. March 2021 | The snow is a lie | The snow is a lie. Did you guys see all those people who apparently this happens like every freak blizzard where a certain part of the population will believe that the snow is fake and will be like oh it's Bill Gates trying to convince us that climate change is real and they'll go outside with a lighter and pack together some snow tightly compressed and try to Try to light it and melt it and they'll be like look at soot. It's not it's not fake. It's fake snow It's not real snow when in reality of course it's the the lighter fluid or whatever the the excess of that that's just building up underneath the the snow and if you use any Sufficient heating source the snow does melt like normal and so like there was another video where a woman puts it puts it in her microwave. She's like oh, it's gonna prove that there's aluminium in the in the snow and So she puts it in there and it melts and just melts normally she's like well maybe there's not metal in the snow But it's still I still fake snow and then the worst part though is when the kid That she has a kid and she's like cuz like yeah fake snow It's like oh god damn it. Like it. It's bad enough that there are people out there who are that fucking dumb But that they also have kids who are gonna be Influenced into that same kind of belief structure fucking terrible, but what can you do? You know? What can you do? |
| 02. May 2021 | The social media landscape and the dominance of Twitch by XQC | The social media landscape and the dominance of Twitch by xQc. I've had more viewers than Ninja before, when he's having a slow day and I'm having a really good day. I had more subs than Ninja for a while then. But like, as we've said before, Ninja is in that mode of he can do whatever the fuck he wants and have heaps of viewers. While me, if I play anything other than GTA V, my viewership dips significantly. A GTA- like, so my max for GTA is like 6k. My max for GTA-esque thing is like 3-4k. It's like I've played GTA 4 or Bully or whatever. And then for everything else it's like 2k. And that's max. But it is nice that I can play random bullshit and still have a decent amount of viewers, you know? It's flattering. One day though, chat, one day, I will have 5,000 viewers playing Heroes of Mad Magic 3. Can someone do a poll for me? How many of you watch xQc at least once a week? Wait, 92% of people don't watch xQc? 92%! Like, I don't watch xQc, but like, xQc is like the biggest content on this platform. And it's not even close, as in like, he is like twice the size of whoever's number two. That guy like, streams 12 hours a day in whatever's popular. Like, just non-stop. He grinds the metal like it's no one else's business, you know? I think like, every year his viewership has doubled or some shit. Only be so lucky to have such a thing. Never heard of him? The reason why I brought him up is because as I said, I was watching that interview with MrBeast yesterday. And he referenced xQc as being like, you know, there's a lot of people on Twitch who only know xQc and have no idea who I am. Speaking about why he believes that once you reach a certain size, you kind of have to be on every social media. Because there's always people who just use that social media. Or, you know, the main social media they use is Twitch or YouTube or TikTok or whatever. And there's always an audience you can pick up there that you can't pick up anywhere else. As I've said before though, like, you can't spread yourself too thin or you'd fucking go crazy. Especially when you don't have any help and you've got to do it all by yourself. You're much better off being- you're much better off dedicating your time to one or two social medias. And doing them well, than spreading yourself between a dozen and doing them all subpar, you know? You can't do it all. But in general, you don't want to have all your eggs in one basket, you know? It's just balancing the two. xQc is very annoying. He's an interesting character. I'd like to meet him one day. I mean, in this business, like, business. Wait, what did you say? In this business, the worst thing to be is boring. And xQc definitely ain't boring, you know? Although I would say, are there any really large content creators who are boring? Okay, like in my day-to-day life, I'm kind of boring. But I'm kind of a weird guy. And I do weird things. Which makes it kind of interesting sometimes. Shroud? Um, okay. He might be the closest you'll get to boring. But he's not really boring. His personality is downplayed. He's, you know, not enthusiastic. He's not boring, because he's a fucking god tier fucking shooter. He's amazing, like, he plays, he does. |
| 02. May 2021 | The social media landscape and the dominance of twitch by XQC | The social media landscape and the dominance of Twitch by xQc. I've had more viewers than Ninja before, when he's having a slow day and I'm having a really good day. I had more subs than Ninja for a while then. But like, as we've said before, Ninja is in that mode of he can do whatever the fuck he wants and have heaps of viewers. While me, if I play anything other than GTA V, my viewership dips significantly. A GTA- like, so my max for GTA is like 6k. My max for GTA-esque thing is like 3-4k. It's like I've played GTA 4 or Bully or whatever. And then for everything else it's like 2k. And that's max. But it is nice that I can play random bullshit and still have a decent amount of viewers, you know? It's flattering. One day though, chat, one day, I will have 5,000 viewers playing Heroes of Mad Magic 3. Can someone do a poll for me? How many of you watch xQc at least once a week? Wait, 92% of people don't watch xQc? 92%! Like, I don't watch xQc, but like, xQc is like the biggest content on this platform. And it's not even close, as in like, he is like twice the size of whoever's number two. That guy like, streams 12 hours a day in whatever's popular. Like, just non-stop. He grinds the metal like it's no one else's business, you know? I think like, every year his viewership has doubled or some shit. Only be so lucky to have such a thing. Never heard of him? The reason why I brought him up is because as I said, I was watching that interview with MrBeast yesterday. And he referenced xQc as being like, you know, there's a lot of people on Twitch who only know xQc and have no idea who I am. Speaking about why he believes that once you reach a certain size, you kind of have to be on every social media. Because there's always people who just use that social media. Or, you know, the main social media they use is Twitch or YouTube or TikTok or whatever. And there's always an audience you can pick up there that you can't pick up anywhere else. As I've said before though, like, you can't spread yourself too thin or you'd fucking go crazy. Especially when you don't have any help and you've got to do it all by yourself. You're much better off being- you're much better off dedicating your time to one or two social medias. And doing them well, than spreading yourself between a dozen and doing them all subpar, you know? You can't do it all. But in general, you don't want to have all your eggs in one basket, you know? It's just balancing the two. xQc is very annoying. He's an interesting character. I'd like to meet him one day. I mean, in this business, like, business. Wait, what did you say? In this business, the worst thing to be is boring. And xQc definitely ain't boring, you know? Although I would say, are there any really large content creators who are boring? Okay, like in my day-to-day life, I'm kind of boring. But I'm kind of a weird guy. And I do weird things. Which makes it kind of interesting sometimes. Shroud? Um, okay. He might be the closest you'll get to boring. But he's not really boring. His personality is downplayed. He's, you know, not enthusiastic. He's not boring, because he's a fucking god tier fucking shooter. He's amazing, like, he plays, he does. |
| 10. September 2022 | The sound track to this video game traumatized me | Soundtrack to this video game traumatized me. When I was a kid, there was this video game that scared the fuck out of me. But because I was a kid, there was so few video games to play that I still played it. I've talked about it before. It's called Echo the Dolphin. I can't remember why it got linked to me recently, but the soundtrack was presented to me and it reminded me how how psychologically scarring the soundtrack to this game is. Like I was a kid, right? I want to have you listen to a little bit of some of the songs. How creepy is this? How creepy is this? How creepy is this? You are nine years old trying to play a video game and this is the soundtrack. And remember while playing this game you are in the deep deep ocean. Something that is like scary normally and you have a finite supply of oxygen and food and so these soundtracks are blaring into your skull. I just like, oh my god, I need some air. I'm gonna die. Oh my god! Nightmare inducing. I kind of want to play this game though and see if I can actually beat it because it's a Sega game from back in the day, so basically impossible to beat maybe one day. |
| 10. May 2021 | The source of assets in your favourite games | The source of the assets in your favorite games. Do video game creators have to literally create everything in their games? No. I'm not a video game developer so I can't speak on it specifically, but a lot of games use assets that you just purchase, that you can change and repurpose for your own particular needs. Certainly as you go bigger, I imagine effectively everything is originally made for that game. But you don't reinvent the wheel for every game. You take assets that are just generic that no one's going to notice, are copied from somewhere else, or you copy it from somewhere else, but then you change it slightly so it's a little bit different. And certainly the engine, I guess the underpinning logic of the world, is not something that you create every time. What would you call that? How would you describe a game engine? It's like the physics and stuff. There was a reason video game engines were created. You don't recreate physics in example unless the game environment requires it. Yeah, exactly. And you pay a fee to those who develop these engines to make your game in them. Have you guys seen that in old Nintendo 64 games, people zoomed in on particular textures, and they're like, hey, wait a second, I know this texture from somewhere. And they'll find that the bricks in Super Mario 64 are from a particular CD of assets that was distributed in the 90s or whatever. And they're like, oh, I wonder what other things from this CD are in Super Mario 64. And the way that the textures were made in the game, it's like they would take random images of flowers or something, and then just blur it massively to get that particular color of the flowers and then use it on a wall or something. I wish I could, maybe if this goes in Rambles I can find the video, but it's weird what images they took and altered to get the particular colors and textures and stuff in N64 games. I think the flower texture was for the metal cap, yeah, yeah, it's something like that. A lot of things, it's very interesting how these sausages made. It's an expression, right? Seeing how the sausage is made. It's usually used in a negative context, right? You don't want to see how the sausage is made. It's sometimes interesting. That's why all these documentary videos blow up about, oh, here's how we made this or whatever. There's a good one for Crash Bandicoot, the original developers for that. I think it was just one guy and an artist or something. And they were like, look, here's how we did all these things and da-da-da. Here's the revolutionary things that we did to make the game what it is. And that's why it stood out so much and was so much better than the offerings at the time and da-da-da. |
| 18. August 2022 | The speed of my facial hair growth. | You're not gonna have to wait too long. I grow facial hair really quick, which sucks because like, I don't ever really get to have a clean shaven look because you can always see like, five o'clock stubble or whatever it's called. It's generally why I prefer to have facial hair. Plus it makes me look like I have really, really large eyes. You never noticed how voluptuous my eyebrows were when I had a beard? Yeah, that's primarily why I have a beard. Having a beard draws attention away from the size of my eyes, the size of my eyebrows, and my hairline. My hairline's always been shit, but it is a little bit worse these days. It shouldn't get any worse though, long as I'm using this monoxen or shit or whatever. Taking care of a beard so it looks like uniform and stuff, that was a pain in the ass. Not shaving and not giving a shit is fine, but not shaving and trying to give a shit is a pain. Like there's ways that you're meant to like, sculpt a beard to make it look as good as possible. I never bothered going that effort. Why I prefer my This Is What You Miss series to having a VOD channel. I do not like VOD channels. |
| 22. December 2020 | The speedrun ambassadors. | The speedrun ambassadors I was watching trash taste yesterday Talking about all their favorite youtubers and of course summoning salt was mentioned It's like everyone loves summoning salt, you know, it's it's pretty nutty. He's done such good in terms of presenting speedrunning to the masses in a very positive way like it it captures the The essence of the struggle the world reckoning stuff. It's a it's an art I have a lot of respect for that dude. They also mentioned smallness Smallance also is hugely respected by the wider Content creator community as a speedrunner like I know Ludwig mentioned him in his talk with Devin Nash and now the trash taste people are mentioning him and He seems to be friends with a lot of these people Small and says like the ambassador for speedrunning with the normal people |
| 23. March 2021 | The spiffing brits video on shorts was incomplete | The spiffingbrit's video on shorts was incomplete. I saw you were following Piff's shorts advice. What does that mean? Oh, oh the spiffingbrit? No. God, no. I had been releasing clips before spiffingbrit made that. And my success has nothing to do with the shorts. In fact, I considered his video to be incomplete because he didn't talk about my circumstances or the circumstances before YouTube Shorts even came out. I don't know if he knows, I thought I sent him an email. Before YouTube Shorts even released globally, like I don't even think it's in Australia yet, YouTube already started to prioritize short clips. They didn't need to have the hashtag shorts on them. 99.9% of the clips on my clips channel aren't in 9x16, so cannot be picked up as shorts. They aren't put in YouTube Shorts. The clips I did make just recently to go into YouTube Shorts didn't do any better. In fact, it did worse in many cases than their 16x9 counterpart. The reason I did what I did is because I noticed these random new channels that popped up and they would get like tens of thousands of subscribers in days and tens of millions of views in days despite having no other content prior to that. What they were doing was putting other people's Twitch clips on their YouTube channels. The algorithm would go, oh my god, this is a 30 second clip that people are clicking on? Fuck that. We'll just throw that to fucking everyone on the platform. I was like, well, if it will work for these people stealing other people's clips, maybe it will work for my clips. It did. Had nothing to do with Spiff and Britt. He was months late to the game. And he didn't even seem to realize it. It wasn't just Shorts that did this. I stole my own clips, yeah. Fuck that Doclappa guy. |
| 31. March 2021 | The spoilers on my clips channel. | The spoilers on my clips channel. What's the clip of the wrap up fail called? Ah, it's on the clips channel so I'm not sure. It hasn't been on the main channel yet. The clips channel does often contain spoilers for future videos on the main channel. Ah yeah, can you spot the enemy? That's it. I don't feel bad spoiling stuff on the clips channel because I'd have to feel bad for spoiling stuff on my stream, you know. |
| 08. January 2022 | The state of covid in Australia and Canada | Because I say I don't drive enough. I want to drive more, but I have nowhere to go. The state of COVID in Australia and Canada. I don't know if you're locking down again over there like crazy once more. The political situation in regards to lockdowns here has been, I mean, it's been very politicized in America. Anything you've heard about Australia and regards to lockdowns is all nonsense trust from America. Yeah. But it's a right now, we're not in lockdown, but our cases are going up so much and there's just constant debate. You know, the pie that doesn't want to fucking do anything and the other one that wants to do stuff. And I think we might now have mask mandates indoors again or something. But I don't know. We're about to have that again, actually, I think. Okay. Montreal, the city over like four hours from me right now, Montreal, they're like, they're fully locking down again. And like Toronto, like the problem with us, we have like kind of like, I want to say like a Trump style, you know, premier. He like tells you, it's like, all right, guys, stay inside, lock yourself down. Okay, I'm going to go meet with my family. You have to stay inside your whole house. Like everyone just gets pissed watching that. Our PM, when everyone was in lockdown, got like a taxpayer funded jet or something on Father's Day, fly to his family. Everyone's like, are you fucking for real? This is the same guy that when Australia was on fire ages back, he went to Hawaii for vacation. It was like, you fucking for real. And this guy is still the preferred PM, still the preferred PM, probably going to win the next election. Oh, dude, that's all those elections are usually a fucking joke. I feel like every time we bitch about one prime minister, they always keep getting voted in. You know how many times people bitch about Ted Cruz in Texas? He still wins all the time. No matter where you go in politics, it's like the shit. Because you really only have a choice of one shitty person or the other shitty person in my opinion. It's like, yeah, it's not much a single individual can do. And you just kind of grit your teeth and go, this is fine. I guess it's fine. Hopefully at some point this like entire pandemic kind of maybe starts winding down, maybe a little bit, you know, when these variants stop showing up like every other month or two. I mean, considering because like like here in my state, we're like 95 plus percent double boost the shot vaxed or whatever. And they say we might need a third one at some point for this Omicron thing. But like we recently had like 4000 cases or something like two deaths or something because the vaccines are doing their job keeping people from dying. But certainly the hospitals are starting to be like guys, can you stop getting COVID? We're running out of this and shit. Please get yourself fixed up guys a little bit. Don't like. Yeah. I mean, the thing that we have over here, the biggest problem is like you have we still have like a staunch amount of complete anti-vaxxers out here. So like people who just don't believe in like vaccine technology. And it's funny to me, like I don't want to get like political and like it shouldn't even be political. When I was a kid, we got vaccinated, you know, I get the flu shot because I get fucked up with the flu. So I get it every year, you know, and it's like no one in like I would say the last five years ever bitched about that flu vaccine. We used to make fun of these people, you know. We used to make fun of them. We're like you fucking idiot. Like you're not going to live past the age of two if you don't get vaccinated. Now it's like, oh, because this one vaccine came out. Okay. And now we have to like bitch about now we have to like not get it done. And then even if you don't get vaccinated, you still go out and party and you spread this thing around and you wonder why it evolves and mutates like shit. The amount of misinformation around these vaccines is crazy. I've looked into it just like you're all stupid. Oh, have you seen Facebook? Man, dude, I think Facebook is getting like they're getting their section 230 kind of getting challenged into the US and I don't know. Don't quote me on this yet. But like Mark Zuckerberg was out there going like their fact checkers are just running on like professional opinions like literally opinions is like mentioned fact and opinion was mentioned in the same fucking sentence. I mean, I've heard they've started to remove anti-vax stuff. I literally don't think he's going to fucking if anything, Mark Zuckerberg might be the one guy that's like allowing Mark Zuckerberg and like TikTok. Or the two platforms where the shit goes because even on dude, even on like Twitch, you can't do anti-vax anti-covid rhetoric. You can't do misinformation. You can't do it on YouTube. YouTube like if you even touch the topic of COVID-19, you better fucking make sure you're 100% factual. Otherwise channel strike right there you get taken down and I do it at some point like I don't even I don't disagree with that. I'm like you spread the right information. Don't spread misinformation and it goes back to some of the culture war channels to like you always. Find like the like the outrage merchants on YouTube and I think chat knows who the fuck I'm talking about. Like everyone we all know the outreach fucking crybabies and they're always talking about like fucking you know, COVID and it's like maybe maybe I shouldn't get the back because you know, I could like I hate it. I hate watching it all the time because that's the same shit that permeates the rest of society and makes me lock inside even more had to be taken seriously from the get-go. We might not be in the situation we're in now but enough people being like, okay, I get that all the experts who know stuff about virus and stuff are saying this could be a big deal. We need to do stuff. I know they're saying that but it's just the flu guys. It's not a big deal. So all these fucking crybabies saying this and this new flu is going to be a big deal. Fuck them. They don't know what they're talking about. Let's just ignore all the health advice and now we're here many years later having to deal with this shit still. It's just you know Dunning Kruger is a |
| 14. December 2022 | The story behind my sponsorships. | How I get my sponsorships? Wait, you have a manager? Yeah. How long ago now? Maybe two years ago or something. I was at a reasonable level of success where I was like, I do not have time to look for sponsors and looking for sponsors will just take away from my content. So I asked my Twitch manager, hey, do you know of anyone who works in that capacity? He's like, oh, yes, there's like a couple of groups in, who do Australia and there's, I'm not gonna name them all actually, there's two big ones. One's been shown to be very scammy, the other one's pretty good, but I ended up going with a smaller group that had recently split off from one of the larger groups. Like they had basically just left and taken a few of the talents and I figured as was argued, like when you're a dude in a very large org, you never really get any special attention. You're just one of the masses that just get sent basic emails or whatever for sponsorships. But with this group, like I actually know the people who work with me and stuff and I can have personal conversations with them and stuff and all that jazz and I prefer that. They've gotten me all the sponsorships you've seen. Usually they're just in Chaos War videos. If you don't watch those videos, you probably haven't seen my sponsorships, but we were going at like four a month for a while. We've been going at like two a month lately and that's enough for me. Do people even read FAQs? |
| 20. December 2022 | The story behind the music I use in my videos. | The story behind the music I use in my videos. What's your music? I mean this music? It's a content ID free chillhop playlist. It's linked below each of my videos. The music is meant to be good or and or inoffensive depending upon your tastes. Like this is meant to be music that no one is displeased to be hearing, even if it is not their main preference. Like sometimes while listening to this chillhop, I'll like actually listen to it and be like yeah. But most of the time I barely hear it, like I'm not paying attention to it. And that's kind of why I like it for my streams. But you can recognize in my YouTube videos, I don't use chillhop. Because the YouTube videos are meant to be more fast-paced action-packed and they need better music. Well at least once upon a time I did use chillhop for them as well, but I never really thought it was suited. But we just didn't really have time to make something better. |
| 11. September 2022 | The story of a scam artist who hates Star Wars | The story of a scam artist who hates Star Wars. What I think of Andrew Tate? Andrew Tate's claim to fame was uh This never seen Star Wars. None of them never will. Oh my god You're missing out. Maybe you're missing out on being a multi-millionaire Keep your movie and him standing next to a car. On April 12th following the tweets popularity Tate continued posting to the thread With over 10 pictures of rants that promote his website and brag about his wealth and penis size Everyone who's ever watched Star Wars in human history is absolutely dirt poor. No exceptions. Only I can save you I teach you how to make money online here Even watching a Star Wars trailer may leave you homeless on the street with aids Only I have the path to absolute financial freedom. Do not follow the Jedi follow the Jesus Learn how to get unlimited girls make unlimited money here Can you believe that there are people in life who don't understand that Andrew Tate is scam artist? To what degree he's merely dumb Versus just saying any inflammatory thing possible is uh, of course debatable |
| 01. January 2020 | The story of how I got my desk | The story of how I got my desk so the story of how I got my desk goes like this my mother was dating a dude once upon a time and One day he came home, and he was like a the the company I work for is moving or something and they've got some spare desks that they need to get rid of because it's not worth transporting them or some such so we can just have some and It's like he said so this is my mom was like then then I'm like I'll take a desk sweet And so me and the dude go to grab these desks And it is the desk that I have right now And I've had it for years like the desk I was using before we must have had left like 15 years It was cramped and small and terrible like everything was damaged all around it And I was like I'm actually gonna have a good desk Holy shit and for free and this is some good wooden desk stuff You know and it served me now for like five years whatever but so we go and get it and so we load it into his One of the trucks that he had it and we got a second truck for him, but I had to drive one of the trucks back To my house the first time I've ever driven a truck And so I drive all the way back must be like like 20 25 minutes Whatever and I get home and and I'm I go to take off the handbrake. I'm like The handbrakes on I Driven the entire way with the handbrake on and I was like actually I can smell something I've probably fucked the brakes I don't know much about cars I don't know how significant that is for a truck that I could smell it and I guess I just didn't think of it because The way the handbrake looks it looks like it's because it's so elevated It just looks weird like by comparison to normal handbrakes So it looked like it was down and I was I I think the dude thought I was a complete fuck with anyway, so When I was like yeah, I drove with the handbrake. I'm terribly so I was like I don't know whatever I think I think I was already at the lowest possible estimation in his mind. He's like it can't go lower So just I'll just go live with it Look it like sure the truck feels different from my normal car. That's completely understandable to me And I guess the big reason was because of the handbrake I don't know but I got a free desk So that's good And and I've I've had this tissue paper right on the left hand side of my desk Like you know, you know where the I'm like the the the leg the long leg hits like the actual table part I've got tissue there so that it doesn't wobble around as much. I've had it there for ages I've also got I wish I could show you I've got two curtains underneath both sides of the desk because the desk was just slightly too low for what I wanted so I went what do I have that's like a reasonable fit for under the Under the thing and so I just took these curtains that I got in the hopes of blocking out light in this room They didn't end up working out that way because I have no way to hang them up and it's a rental place I was like fuck it. I'll just get myself a face mask I have over here. I spent most of my life in a room with completely black curtains blocking out all the light So I just use a face mask now And so I had these random curtains I'm like fuck it roll like the fold fold fold fold fold fold and stick one under both other things So it gives like maybe half an inch of height or something. So it's the perfect height I said it can rock around a bit It's kind of so indented now that's been that way for so long that it doesn't rock around at all But that's that's the story of my desk. There you go our |
| 21. September 2022 | The strange feeling seeing people discuss what you believe | Yesterday, I was reading someone else's comment section. The topic of me and reaction content came up. And this person speaks on my behalf and gives like a fair kind of summary of what I believe. It's not perfect, but it's in the ballpark. Like clearly they've watched the videos. They had like 20 likes on their comment. Then another comment responds. It has like 80 likes. It's like, um, you don't actually know what DarkviperAU believes, okay? You clearly didn't watch his shit and then he goes on to completely misrepresent what I believe. I was looking at this like I need to stop caring. Maybe this will be it. Maybe this will finally be the silver bullet where I stop giving a fuck. I go so many places and it seems like everyone seems to know what I believe. But like that video, my expose or whatever, it's got 500,000 views. But like the average person only watched like 15 minutes of it or something. Like I talked about like making another video in the react series, looking at some things that Asmongold said about reaction content around the time. Because he's been lying about it forever because obviously it's very profitable and he doesn't want that to go away. But I just feel it'd be so pointless. I put so much effort into explaining in like the most irrefutable way, the bullshit nature of reaction content and I made a video and no one fucking watched it. I'm like, why do I keep trying? Why do I keep caring? It's not gonna, I'm not gonna change anymore minds. It's just gonna be a waste of my time. I got better shit to do. And besides I have those other free videos on from the lies that Asmongold said back in 2020. So they're not much different 2022. But it is very frustrating seeing that interaction and just being like, wow, fuck everything, you know. |
| 12. November 2022 | The strangest Twitter account. | The strangest Twitter accounts. I found this Twitter, which I'm sure you guys must know about Ladies and gentlemen the weekend in 2020. What's this guy's name? Craig Craig something I can't remember Daniel Craig. He was on SNL and he said to introduce a band ladies and gentlemen the weekend So every single weekend they post this and it gets 60 thousand likes 40,000 50,000 50,000 is a 60 60 like that's insane I don't know if this person is getting any money for this I mean they can put like, you know small messages underneath to say stuff But imagine this being your thing your claim to fame just posting this same clip every single week. It's hilarious I don't know who the weekend is. I know it's a band. I'm sure I've listened to their songs before |
| 21. August 2021 | The strategic distraction of nuclear power | The strategic distraction of nuclear power. The issue with current alternatives that aren't nuclear is they're not as efficient in either delivery or power or making it in the first place. Like clearly the world isn't in a position where the bare minimum of power is being made by fossil fuels, right? We're not even anywhere close to that. Clearly there's a substantial amount of power generation that can move on to renewables without any issue. And certainly considering that renewables are a newer technology, there is far more room for development in those areas than there is in other forms of power generation, right? So the more it gets adopted, the cheaper it is to build, the more techniques are developed, the more money invested into it, the better it's going to be. Like if you want to keep a little bit of fossil fuels or whatever to, as excess whatever, go fucking nuts. But clearly not in that position right now. It's unfortunate that one of the worst things about nuclear is just that it's. So what happens is fossil fuel companies go, oh shit, people really like renewables. And if there's ever like a conclusion to this debate, then we're really going to be fucked. I know you guys hate nuclear, but it's also an alternative. Let's discuss the alternative of nuclear and renewables for the rest of time. And then it goes on and on. People bickering backwards and forwards and the fossil fuels just making more money every day that someone's like, well, we could just use the nuclear instead of the renewables. And they just feed more into that discourse just to keep people debating that because the public sentiment on fossil fuels is done. There was a point where they tried to revamp fossil fuels. Remember clean coal, complete nonsense, a complete lie. But they tried to revamp that. They lost that fight. And now they've moved onto nuclear as a distraction, talking point away from just moving into renewables. |
| 15. May 2021 | The strategy of printing money and using stimulus checks during a crisis | print as much currency as exists. That's not entirely true, because demand can change, but it's just on a base level, that's what you would expect. For bread to go from, what would bread be, two dollars to a hundred dollars. Assuming people have the same demand for the currency or whatever, you're talking about printing 50 times the amount of currency that exists. That just doesn't happen. Like, what I'm saying is, you print money usually in response to problems, and printing money can help you fix your economic problems. That those who have had collapse in economies have also printed money, doesn't mean that printing money will collapse your economy. Governments print money all the fucking time, strategically, and this can be good monetary policy. To put it another way, people who die are often wearing shoes, but just because they're wearing shoes, just because you're wearing shoes doesn't mean you're gonna die. The act of printing money is not in of itself reason to believe an economy is gonna crash. The value of the dollar is dying too quickly for my comfort at least. Like, there is value in having a currency that is weaker, because it inspires international investment. It inspires your population to spend the currency at home as opposed to abroad. Like, I'm fairly certain it is bad to have your currency to be too valued, right? You also don't want it to be too weak. I don't know what the, because I don't know enough. I don't know what the best middle ground is, but like, I'm sure in hard economic times, governments will occasionally, intentionally devalue their currency. Too often inspire tourism in the country because other countries' currency goes further to inspire foreign investment. That was one of the downsides of joining the EU for countries because they can't control the value of their currency in that way, so they can't perform these kind of corrections. I believe that was what they said about Greece, where Greece couldn't make these kind of monetary decisions themselves and so their problems were exacerbated. Whether Greece ultimately, their problems were made worse or better on the whole because of joining the EU, I'm not sure. I bet, it's more complicated than, oh my God, the government's printing money, we're all doomed. The American government, to my knowledge, has been printing trillions of dollars for eons. You can't solve all your problems with any money? Of course not, no. It's just one strategy that I believe works in some situations and just exacerbates problems in others. Like, because that's Venezuela's two problems, where they mismanaged their oil, then there was the crash in terms of the value of oil, which they were dependent upon for a lot of their social programs, and then they tried to print their way out of their problems and that didn't help, it just exacerbated the problem, just massively devalued the currency. Stick with psychology, Matt? I mean, if you wanna write something, Flummox, I'll read it, man. What problem do you have with anything that I've said? They mean making false claims? According to who, Flummox? And I don't think that had anything to do with even a single word that I said at any point. I honestly don't like the stimulus checks since we just end up paying it back in taxes. In the short term, the people who pay for it are those who have money in bank accounts because their currency is devalued. Like, the American government already owes, what, $23 trillion or something? Do I think injecting $1.9 trillion into the economy is a good idea? To my understanding, the American economy is about $20 trillion a year? 28 trillion in debt. The economy is 20 trillion or something, right? Where did the idea of a stimulus come from? Stimulus has been used by endless countries in relation to economic downturn. It's a very common tactic. It was used in Australia and praised worldwide. It was the reason why Australia largely avoided any economic downfall from the 2008 financial crisis. As a country, we held up the best because we had an injection into the economy. But there were certainly criticisms of it and people who have bleaker views of that. But the consensus seems to be that it did quite well. Debt is a farce. It depends on who you talk to, how much you should be concerned about debt. Obviously, the American government has, astronomically, more in terms of assets than it has debt, right? The American government has assets to the tune of tens, potentially hundreds of trillions of dollars. Well, it's like you wouldn't want to sell the assets if that's even legal to do in the Constitution, I'm not sure. But making, like, oil that's out in the middle of the ocean that America technically controls, like selling that to someone is not something that you probably can do. Like I'm saying, if America tomorrow had no other desire than to pay off its debts, it could do it easily. It's just, you would end up hurting your economy in the long term. Could you be selling off assets that bring in new revenue? Yeah, spend more money when your economy is down and reduce the spending once the economy spins back up. Yeah, as often is criticized, governments don't seem to like to reduce their spending when things are going well. Yeah, as Vyice says, in terms of international relations, debt is obviously quite useful as well. Countries that are interdependent for having a stable economy are less likely to have a war break out. Do you really think that the money people spend on their stimulus checks all goes into small businesses to help them? From what I understand, that was the reason they did it in the first place. It doesn't matter where the money goes, as long as it goes back into the economy. All of it doesn't have to go into small businesses. Some of it certainly will. All it does is it's just meant to spur on economic activity. So, for example, if you do a round of stimulus, but the country is convinced that they're on the brink of a further downturn or economic turmoil or whatever, everyone would put that money in their bank accounts and do nothing with it. Like, you won't actually inspire the kind of economic activity that you want to have. Like, you don't just need people to have money. You need people to have confidence that they can spend that money and they don't need to save it for a rainy day. I don't know. What is the current outlook for the average American? Are they confident or do they have the belief that the economy is going to keep ticking along? I'm not an economist. I can only regurgitate back to you what I have been told by people more knowledgeable than me and give my reason as to why I seem to accept what they're saying is likely true. Engaging in a stimulus for the economy has been used by many countries when there is an economic downturn. And I know for a fact it has worked sometimes. Is it America's best move? I don't know. I have no idea how I would write physical policy for a country that large. But the idea of it has been tested and has worked in some situations. Printing money has been done and has worked. Stimulus checks for 300 million people is different to a smaller country? No, it's not. So there's always this argument where it is bigger, therefore different. You have to make an argument why that is. If I give cake to 10 people and I give cake to 20 people, it's the same process. You have to explain why something that for a smaller number works but why it doesn't work for a larger number. You can't just say bigger, therefore different, therefore it does not work. You get this argument so often and you poke people on it and they have no idea what the fuck to say. It bigger, therefore different. Girl, it's like this won't work. Sure, it worked for the guy with blue socks, but it won't work for the guy with green socks. It's like why? Because blue is different from green. Terrible analogy? No, it's a perfect analogy. The analogy was to communicate how two things that are different doesn't necessarily mean that they differ in a way that actually matters. That was the analogy. Therefore, it is a perfect analogy for that purpose. You could say that the situation he gave doesn't apply to my analogy, but the analogy is perfect to communicate the thing that I want to communicate. What you're saying is it's a good analogy, but it's not applicable. Very different. And I would have disagreed. At the end of the day, America is just a bunch of small regions that you call states that are similar in terms of their differences between from countries that happen to border each other. All the states different in terms of their problems, what they focus on and whatnot. Last month on the stimulus checks, I can't wrap my head around how that would make people more confident in our economy. COVID was already a huge issue and giving back the money we already spent in taxes doesn't help. So stimulus checks aren't designed to increase people's confidence in the economy. I have no idea if the existence of stimulus checks reduces people's confidence in the economy. I have never seen any evidence of that. It could be. It could be true. People might go, oh, man, throwing out stimulus checks, we must be really fucked. But I don't think the average person thinks about things to that degree. I'm not sure. It's just meant to spur on economic activity to keep things roughly as they are to prevent things from being destabilized, waiting for things to in the economy once again start ticking on back to normal. It's so people don't go get thrown out. It's like it's a prevent knock on effect. So example, people can't pay their rents to their landlords, their landlords can't pay their mortgages. So the banks have to repossess a bunch of houses, a bunch of houses go back on the market. It destabilizes the housing market and the banks can't pay the money that they owe and and so you have certain areas of the economy that just collapse because there isn't this constant injection of capital that used to be there because people make plans with the assumption that things will stay roughly as they were previously. And the idea of stimulus is to put money back into the economy to keep things roughly as they were before, to give time for things to naturally actually heal back to the way they were before. You know, whether stimulus this far along after things occurred will achieve that effects or just alleviate some degree of suffering that has already been experienced. I don't know. But as the motivation for it is sound to me as a layman, whether it's it's going to have the effect that they want or whether it was the best solution in this case, I don't know. I just don't know enough. But this has worked in other cases in other countries and I exist in a country where it ostensibly works. You would have to see. And certainly from a political capital standpoint, it was something that was supported by the overwhelming majority of the population, regardless of what actually motivates their support of it. So from a political standpoint, you can understand why the people in Congress would want to do it. At the end of the day, chat, I cannot explain to you. I'm not an economist. All I can say to you is what I've heard and why I believe that this is most likely true compared to other things that I've heard. I can only do that. And if you've heard other things that suggest to you that something else is true, then all power to you, especially on these issues where I in no way am communicating like some sort of absolute certainty or a great degree of expertise. I don't blame you for having a different opinion. There's benefits in both a strong and weak currency depending upon the situation needed for Asian countries. Having a weak currency helps the millions of people who work abroad. Having a strong currency elsewhere inspires people to move in and work. Yeah, yeah, I agree. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 24. May 2022 | The streamers that no one hates | The streamers that no one hates. So yesterday, someone tagged me in a reddit post where someone made the, you know that meme? Where it's like there's a sign outside of a convention hall and it says something on it and then inside you see like a bunch of people around a table. And so it was like the sign said, the streamers that no one hates. Oh no, the content creators that no one hates. And then inside it's me and the comments were like, I don't know man. A lot of people hate DarkFive.au and I'm just like, ah. Kinda depressing, kinda wish I wasn't tagged in that man. I spend my entire life caring about people and doing my best to do right by people and it just doesn't matter. I've talked about my frustrations about this before. No one cares. And no one cares what's true. And it bothers me. You know? There's nothing I can do to make the world a better place and I just gotta live with it but it's hard sometimes. Just gotta focus on the people who do actually like me. You can't have everyone like you. It would just be easier if the cited reasons why people don't like me weren't so fucking stupid and wrong. I suppose that's the way everyone feels. How many hard drives do I have? |
| 07. June 2021 | The stress of the chaos raw video | The stress of the Chaos Roar video. I hope yesterday's episode of Chaos does decently well on YouTube. I didn't feel 100% while doing it. And there was like three separate times where I tried to say a joke or a line and my brain just stuttered. I was just like, aww no. I mean it won't be bad for the edited version but for the Roar version it's obviously worse. I mean that's the thing with most of my content, well I'd say all of it except Chaos Roar, is edited. So I can fuck up sometimes and not feel pressure about it. Like aww well that's not going to end up in the episode anyway. But with Chaos Roar everything gets in there. It's a lot more of a stressful taxing experience. I mean you'd think I wouldn't care because I stream and it's not like I can edit my streams. I stream you know 6-8 hours a day maybe more. And I can't remove my mistakes there. But somehow with the YouTube video it's a little bit more impactful. Like it matters more to me. I guess because finally we'll watch it. Do we really need Chaos Roar? Some people prefer the Roar version. And getting the Roar version out is far faster. And it's worth more money. And it takes no editing time. As in generally speaking when you want to edit something, the good stuff in it isn't 50%. You know? When you edit a Chaos Roar episode you come away with like 50 minutes or more of good footage. Like why would you take the time to edit? To shorten the thing by 50%? You know? The reason why the Chaos highlights exist in the edited form is because they still do well. People watch them. And they are the superior version of Chaos I would say. It's just I don't think it's worth the effort necessarily. As in like if I was truly desperate to have people work on other stuff. Like I was so far behind. And I had to ditch a series. Chaos highlights would be the series that I ditch. Because it's superior to the Roar version. But not so superior that the Roar version just existing by itself wouldn't be fine. You know? |
| 08. December 2020 | The struggle of timezones and collaboration | The struggle of time zones and collaboration. Oh, I got a bit of a headache, man. Sucks. Been up for too long. Yeah, I was about to say, yeah. I shouldn't complain, at least... You got up way, way too early. No, no, no. We're all good. Our hour or two less sleep than normal, man. You're under far more strain than I am. I appreciate you accommodating me this way. Well, we gotta make ends meet. We gotta meet up somewhere in the middle here, for sure. It's nearly impossible. This sucks with Australian time zones. Yeah, time zones. Especially Australia, because Australia is bad for both Europe and the US. Have you ever considered moving, or is it something you really would never ever consider? There'd be benefits, but it's just too much of a hassle. Living anywhere that you weren't born in paperwork, and Australia is a nice place to live. For all the freaking bugs and shit. Nah, nah, nah. None of that. You have to be in the outback to get any of that stuff. Like, Australia is very densely populated, around the cities. But wherever there's heaps and heaps of people, there's never animals and stuff, you know? Thank Christ for that. I've seen all the horror stories and heard them. I got one friend of mine who lives in Australia, she lives in a smaller village, and she gets the creepy shit every now and then. Like, just an enormous freaking spider crawling up against a wall, like, oh my god. Yeah. Tessimism and optimism. |
| 26. October 2022 | The struggle to dominate a brand name. | Struggle to dominate a brand name, and rambling about some political creators you probably don't care about. When you make a brand, one of the scariest things is that someone else is gonna have the same brand as you, like exactly the same, and you're gonna have to like, fight and scramble for it, for Google results and just like, recognition and stuff. I had that bit of a scare when I named Darkviper AU, and there was another person called Darkviper, who was a Roblox content creator, probably has like 200k subscribers, pretty big though. But Destiny, the content creator, the streamer, has it the worst. He has been around for a bajillion years, he was like once the biggest streamer on Twitch.tv, because he's just been around for that long, with Starcraft 2. I mean, he doesn't do Starcraft 2 anymore, but he was like the biggest with Starcraft 2. When Destiny the Game came out, he got fucking skewered, because Destiny, huge game, but they have the exact same name. So, on every social media, there's like a fight between Destiny and Destiny the Game to get traction and recognition and stuff. If you mention Destiny, people are like, oh the game. So all the time, Destiny is trending on Twitter. I think to myself, has Destiny gotten in some drama again, or has the game released a DLC? But recently, there was like 109,000 tweets for Destiny on Twitter, I'm like, oh this is just some nonsense probably. But Destiny had actually gotten in some drama. But the reason why it said so many tweets is because he was in drama, Destiny 2 was doing something important, and people were typing all this religious stuff, where it's like, it's your Destiny, or whatever. Last time I checked, Destiny has been going really downhill. So Destiny is a very interesting dude, because he's a smart guy, but because he's smart, he can defend almost any position. And he has what I would call bad tactics. He has had such a long career, and made so many tactical blunders in that time, where you can no longer really compliment him, or defend him in any way. Some will go, yeah but what about the time where he did X, Y, and Z, and you're like, okay all those were scumbag things. Because back when I used to watch him, years ago, I would occasionally see criticisms of him. And I'd be like, I was there for that, he didn't do that. Like no, he didn't actually say that either. Okay yeah, he did that, that was scummy. Like it'd be that kind of thing, where a lot of the criticism of Destiny isn't justified. But he's clearly done and said scummy things over his life. Especially because on Twitter, he just savages people in the most hyperbolic, terrible way. And tactically, that's just terrible. What do you think about Vosh? Yeah, I don't have a high opinion of Vosh. I think Vosh has done tactically more bad things than Destiny in a much shorter time frame. Destiny has always just bored me. Yeah, I even watched him a long time ago. Like when there was a time where I needed background noise, and I was a bit more interested in politics. It was just good two times speed, him debating someone. Unironically though, Hasan is a much worse person than Destiny, and Vosh. Vosh. Vosh. Unironically. Maybe that's just because Hasan's an idiot. I don't know. I don't think Vosh or Destiny are idiots, but Hasan definitely is. |
| 23. January 2021 | The struggle to get Youtube viewers to watch me on twitch. | The struggle of getting YouTube viewers to watch me on Twitch. Considering that I peaked at 10k viewers yesterday, how big do I think I can grow? Um, I dunno. It would just continue to scale. As in, I can't tell you what percentage of people come from YouTube to Twitch, or check Twitch regularly. So, one reason why I get so many viewers for Chaos is because I make a YouTube video saying, Hey yo, I'm live for Chaos right now. I can't do that for every stream. Like, I probably shouldn't do it for even one stream, because YouTube doesn't like that shit. But I do it infrequently enough that I don't think they're gonna care. But like, the biggest battle isn't simply getting people to come to Twitch once and follow me. It is to get them to get into a habit of coming back to check if I'm live. You know? I can't tell you both what percentage of people move from YouTube to Twitch to follow me. And then, of those people, will check back regularly to see if I'm live. It's why I do, you know, community posts and tweets to say that I'm live. Because I don't sincerely expect the majority of my viewers to be hanging out on Twitch, or checking every hour to see if I'm live. Well, obviously Twitch has its own notification system. I think it's like 25% of my followers have notifications on. And will be notified when I go live. Like, a lot of people just don't want to receive notifications for content creators. I'm one of these people, you know? I don't care when a content creator goes live. I care that a content creator is live when I want to watch something. There is no content creator, no content creator, who I- who will cause me to drop what I'm doing to go watch them. It does not exist, and has never existed. But there are definitely content creators who, when I want something to watch and I see them live, I'm like, oh, sweet, that person's live. That's exactly what I was looking for right now. That's awesome. You know? |
| 10. November 2022 | The struggles of Meta and the Metaverse | Struggles of meta and the metaverse Thoughts on the metaverse tanking the technology just isn't there. I'm not saying it can't be there, but it's not there Everything that meta seems to have made has been not that great It's whole thing where they're like those you've got those me's and stuff where it's just like a Terrible animated version of yourself without legs and whatnot. It just seems so pathetic Considering the investment that they put into it. They've got to be terrified for when Apple releases their VR stuff Because that's obviously going to work the best with Apple products and the main reason Facebook was in such dire straits to begin with was Apple being like you can't take our users data anymore Facebook will take users data, but not you VR still seems cool but inaccessible for the vast majority of people the Experience that you can get is not worth the hassle of doing it people will buy it as a novelty and then try it out and be like oh this is cool and then just never use it because It's just too much of a hassle for the for the experience that you get in the same way that I've got a massage chair downstairs And when I first bought it I was using it every day and then every second day then every third day and then like once a week then once a month and I don't think I've been up like two months and that's the same way that most people are with VR same way I was when I got VR so like for some people that's not the case They're really involved in all that stuff, but it just takes a lot to do you know Facebook stocks 73% collapse makes it the SMP 500's worst performer in 2022 what was interesting to me is I didn't know that Mark Zuckerberg owned 55% of Facebook like he could have Sold off his stake for ridiculous amounts of money when Facebook was at its peak He's just like nope. I want to do whatever the fuck. I want fuck all y'all I don't like the dude J Norris as we call him, but it shows that he does legitimately care for or at least like the power that Facebook gives him and he was more interested in that power and influence than the money He probably believes in this meta thing. I don't really think the money. He's invested has Gone enough of a way to make it justified Let alone for the 73% stock price to be worth what he's made so far But who knows what the future will bring of course Apple? Limiting the user information that went to Facebook. I think largely forced Zuckerberg's hand He probably recognized that Facebook always being reliant upon outside people meant that at any time you know a different company could just cut a hose and Facebook would crash and burn which kind of what happened when Apple did that like Facebook wants to be in a position that Apple is Their own ecosystem that they control who knows if they'll get there though Be sure to like and subscribe Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind my feed gives them to me from all over my channel It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. You |
| 02. February 2021 | The success of Simply, the Mario 64 Speedrunner | The success of Simpli, the Mario 64 runner. The guy was seeing, um, Simpli. Simpli was doing Mario for 4.2k viewers before I was going to sleep. I was like, damn, you know, I remember when I used to watch Super Mario 64 back in the day and I was really interested in it. And I was annoyed that like cheese and pancake weren't always online. And so I went to look at this guy Simpli and I think it was like fourth at the time. And I was like, dude, this audio sucks. What the hell? Like it was like some of the worst audio I've ever heard on any stream. Like, how are people watching this? And then they turned off your stream. It's funny to think that guy who used to have like the most scuffs set up ever became the world record holder and now is hugely successful. Having associations with all like a lot of the bigger content creators. Miss Gifford did help him out. Oh yeah, absolutely. But I mean, like he's getting the world record and that clip of him with his family. Oh man, it brings a tear to my eye thinking about it. If you haven't seen that clip, if you want some absolute wholesome, injected happiness into your heart, go look up the clip of Simpli getting world record for the first time in Mario 64. It's beautiful. But it's been a tear to my eye thinking about, you know, like he is just so happy. His family is so happy. It's just. |
| 08. December 2020 | The success of my clips YouTube Channel | Success of my clips channel. But mate, you are having a field day with your second channel. Oh yeah. I'm just saying, oh my fuck, I saw it, I was like, Jesus Christ, fucking jackpot, and then I'm off. It's uh, the money, by comparison to my main channel, is not much. Really? Because there's an internal cooldown on YouTube, where you can't get an ad within a certain time frame. So a person could watch 20 clips and might only get one ad. So the views look very good, but the amount of ads that actually served aren't that good. So, um, like the viewership on both channels is about the same right now, but the clips channel is getting, I think, one fifth the amount of money. But my main interest though is because it draws in a new audience that gets to know my main channel. So my main channel subscribers and views has also increased significantly because of this clips channel. And that's the main benefit of it. It was very fortunate how it came to be. I happened to notice that there were these clips channels who were like getting, they would go from getting a hundred views a day to getting like a million views a day and 10,000 subs a day or whatever, by uploading other people's Twitch clips. And so I was like, oh shit, I need to do that for myself because the algorithms clearly liking that stuff. But I was putting it off, like because, you know, there was nothing lighting a fire under my ass. Like, oh, you know, I'll get to it tomorrow, the next day, whatever. But then this DMCA stuff happened on Twitch where these companies are looking for music, even in clips. And so everyone was deleting all their clips or downloading them all. And I'm like, well, this is a perfect time for me to start that clips channel. And so I made it. And as I suspected, the algorithm just really loves short form content right now. Even so much so that I'm occasionally getting recommended previews for people's videos. And I think people are catching on that if you upload like a 30 second preview of a larger video, that preview will get recommended to people. People will watch and go, oh, this looks very interesting. And you, using an end screen, put a link to your main video and people click that end screen and go to the end of the video. That's what I'm going to be doing for a lot of my videos. I'm going to be using the clip channel for that purpose. Yeah, like it's the previews themselves. The algorithm seems to like that stuff. It's very strange. I don't know if it's because they're trying to compete with TikTok and all these stories and stuff that on the other social medias. I'm not sure. Or have you seen this new thing that YouTube has, the shorts thing? They have specifically a TikTok competitor where they have nine by 16 clips that you can watch. I haven't really looked into it, but none of my content goes there because my content is in 16 by 9. But that also might be a thing where I'm saying is either YouTube has put their thumb on the scale and said, hey, algorithm, favor shorter content, or the algorithm itself has realized that people like that kind of TikTok shit, you know, and it's favoring it itself. Oh, yeah, it might be just YouTube like flipping the switch because of the success like TikTok has. Like they're like, OK, like this shit kind of works. So let's tune the algorithm a little bit. Yeah, possibly. Yeah, I've seen it. I've seen that new thing that YouTube introduced as well. I haven't looked into it too much. They kind of lost me at like it's not all about monetization, but like I think there was no monetization options at all. So I didn't really see like the benefit of it. But now you're now hearing you say all this stuff. It makes sense to try it and link to your actual videos. Yeah, use it like that. It's really good. |
| 07. May 2021 | The success of my non-GTA V content | The success of my different non-GTA V content. Have I ever played PUBG? Yes! And I released a video of me playing PUBG on YouTube. And it's actually a quite good video, but you never got recommended it, because it's not GTA V. Actually, I didn't do that badly. I think I got like 50,000 views. It's funny actually, you can almost plot games that I've played, versus GTA V. And the more different the game is from GTA V, the worse it does. So you go, GTA V does good, GTA IV does good, Watch Dogs does good. Then you go a little bit further away, and it's like, well, speedrunning Dark Souls? Well, that's still speedrunning, so at least the first episode, that did pretty decently. Then you've got PUBG, that does, you know, pretty decently. It's got shooting in it, it's kind of in the same ballpark. And then you've got like, Super Mario Sunshine, nowhere close. Or Hollow Knight, nowhere close. So no one watches it. Noita, nowhere close. Doesn't do well. The only reason I ended up uploading so much for guys, is for guys content was really easy to make when it was new. Never did particularly well in terms of getting subscribers, but it was just, you could throw them together super easily. Saints Row 2 is the greatest game of all time. I saw a clip of Saints Row 2 yesterday. Dude was yelling at the judge like, what are you gonna do, hold me in contempt? You're already giving me the chair? Fuck you, or something. There's no statute of limitations on murder. Yeah, that was the clip. The game didn't look terrible. Didn't look great. I wonder if the game has HD mods and stuff. I'll get there, chat. I will eventually have, you know, a Thanos glove of all the major GTA clones. What's the, what's the glove clo- The Infinity Gauntlet. Why did I say Thanos glove? Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Mom, can I have Infinity Gauntlet? We have Infinity Gauntlet at home. At home. Thanos glove. Ha ha ha ha ha. |
| 28. May 2022 | The success of the main anti-reaction content video | The success of the main anti-reaction content video. The video went by very quick, it was very well paced. I am happy to see that the average person got 17 minutes in. And when it says average, it's because like, you know, there's always like 30% that leave for the first 30 seconds. So if you ignore those people, the average person is probably getting like half an hour plus in. And if you get that far, you're getting the bulk of the premise, especially when I put in the graphs and stuff. The other videos in the series are not as good because they're more brief, but they do touch on different things or they explain things in a different way. As in all the other videos do have some small repeats with the main body second video, but it's all important stuff. I originally intended to, when I released the first video, I thought all the other eight videos would be done. And then I would just, you know, do my normal streams and just put it on YouTube. But as it turns out, until a video is released, there is always more to do. So like the second video, I probably rendered it like 10 times, fixing small mistakes, making small changes and stuff, as my mods willing to watch it with me. There were still three mistakes left in it at the end. One, there was a border that was slightly fuzzy on XQC. Two, there's an image that shows the wrong image, but it's there for like half a second. So I saw the video like 10 times and it was only on my 10th watch that I noticed. And what was the third one? The third one was, oh yeah, one of my webcams moves slightly down. So there's a little black bar at the top. This is like, you know, you're never going to get an hour plus long video where there's not going to be something. |
| 22. April 2021 | The surprising development of GTA 5 strats | The continued surprising development of strategies in GT5 speedrunning. If only we were on patch 1.27 there'd be no waves and this would be a lot better. Wait, was that legit a case? Yeah, it's one of the major reasons we play on patch 1.27. The lack of waves. Really? Yeah. Interesting. Another one is that you can change your camera while climbing. You can't do that in the newest patch. And the reason why this is valuable is because you can use it to clip out of bounds. Like you climb over a railing that has a wall next to it and you change your camera to first person facing the wall and you go into the wall. Speedrunning is so mental to me. Like this is like the accumulation of years upon years of knowledge, you know? Like it's so crazy. The things that have been recently discovered with buffered ledge grabbing and stuff are crazy. You can clip through thin walls and stuff now. And you can walk back and fly in BS. It's nutty. |
| 10. June 2022 | The sus start to my job simulator video | The sus start to my job simulator video. I've already played job simulator, it's on YouTube. It's a funny video too. The start of that video is a little bit weird. I know you won't believe it, but I didn't get the reference. I knew what it had to be referring to, but I had not heard that advertisement before. |
| 23. June 2021 | The tale of the boy who meme’d wolf | The tale of the boy who memed Wolf So I was talking to Modest Pelican earlier today, right? And He asked me like what settings I use for OBS I said to him like a Because he was saying he was having lag issues When he's editing I was like there's only so much advice I can give because you don't use Adobe Premiere And he's like I use iMovie because it's the Best editing program Because of how sarcastic he is and how much of a meme he is I couldn't tell if he was serious And so I communicated that to him And he simply reaffirmed, no It is the best editing software And it enables you To do things you can't do with any other editing software And gives you power over your creation or something Like it sounded like some marketing Thing Like he owns iMovie or some shit He's trying to sell me on it And I still don't know if he was memeing or not Like he could have been serious, I really don't know God damn One of these days He's gonna get attacked by wolves or some shit He's like, Dark Viper help me bruh I'm being attacked by wolves I mean I don't know if you're memeing or not dude You ever heard the tale of the boy who memed wolf? Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 02. January 2022 | The tale of the man who has only played RDR2. | The tale of the man who has only played Red Dead Redemption 2. People tagged me in this tweet. The GTA base. 3 years ago today, Red Dead Redemption 2 officially released. My game of the decade. Now, it's funny that someone called The GTA base is saying their favourite game of the decade is Red Dead Redemption 2. But I retweeted it and said, Can I have some thoughts and prayers for this man who has only allowed one game a decade? And he was unfortunate enough for it to be Red Dead Redemption 2. Because it's his game of the decade. Get it? He's only allowed one. And a surprising amount of people responded. Not getting to this was a joke. And it's so clearly a joke. |
| 10. June 2022 | The tech I am most looking forward to | The tech I'm most looking forward to. One of the things I'm most looking forward to, chat, is like VR becoming super mainstream and like everyone having it and stuff. How sick is that gonna be? Unlike it being truly immersive and stuff. Because there's no way VR is ever gonna go away like 3D TV's did, you know. It'll just get better and better and better. When we're able to take it so expensive for good quality headsets, it's funny, you can get good quality headsets, but the truly immersive experience, like very high quality stuff of course costs a lot of money. Like the entry-grade stuff is quite good, but it's not like I'm in the world sort of good, you know. |
| 12. April 2022 | The terrible state of gta online when it released | contact missions would pay maybe a fifth of what they pay today. It was like, every single time you died in GTA Online, it didn't matter if a cop killed you or a player killed you every single time you died, you lost $2,000. And now we've got even if you had that in the bank. So every single time you died last $2,000 and people could not afford anything. And I spent all day grinding to get a two car apartment garage, which was a piece of junk apartment. And I got up to level 18 in one day. And then what happened was I logged in the next day, my character was deleted. Not because of some cheat mechanism or something, but because of the stupid servers, it was gone. And a lot of people had their characters deleted. And that was the first week of GTA Online. And there's a lot of like fanboys that pretend like GTA Online is this perfect game with like no problems. But I remember when it first launched, it was a disaster. It barely had anything. It had no content. It was just boring and it was annoying. One fun, one thing, one fun thing I've got to do when I finally started playing GTA Online and then took an interest in it. I've watched a lot of these videos where people talk about their prior experiences with GTA Online and different things that were changed about the game that I have no knowledge of. It's very interesting. I kind of wish I was around in those early days so I could have had these memories as well. But, you know, didn't get the chance. There's nothing I can do about that now. You know, as bad as you're saying a lot of the early days where I'm sure you have a lot of amazing memories, right? Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of, there's a lot of good times that I remember on GTA Online, a lot of times that I had fun with the game. The militarization of GTA Online... |
| 01. July 2020 | The theft and success of my TikToks | Success and theft of my TikToks. I had a TikTok go viral recently and everyone fucking stole it. On I Fought the Law, there's a pre-mission effect where if you land in the mission area, you don't take fall damage. That's a huge area. Unfortunately, I left me at the beginning of the TikTok explaining that it's a pre-mission effect. Should have cut that shit out. There's a handful of TikToks that I'm just cutting off me talking or something would have made them better. But how many of my TikToks have been stolen that you can find? The blimp one was stolen a lot. This recent one, I Fought the Law, has been stolen a lot. There's another one talking about the house that bleeds when you shoot the window. That one has been stolen a bit too. Other than that, I don't think many have. The one with where I say petrol or whatever, that was stolen as well. One of the, my TikTok of me doing a big jump there got like heaps of views. It got like 500,000 views from one of my very odd episodes of How the Tune Ended. Because such a perfect jump. But you know why it became popular? Because at the end of the TikTok, I said that was fucking immaculous. And the highest rated comments was this guy reading thesaurus right here. Because people didn't know what immaculant meant. And so a lot of people commented about my use of the word and it made the TikTok go get very popular. |
| 01. July 2020 | The theft and success of my tiktoks | Success and theft of my TikToks. I had a TikTok go viral recently and everyone fucking stole it. On I Fought the Law, there's a pre-mission effect where if you land in the mission area, you don't take fall damage. That's a huge area. Unfortunately, I left me at the beginning of the TikTok explaining that it's a pre-mission effect. Should have cut that shit out. There's a handful of TikToks that I'm just cutting off me talking or something would have made them better. But how many of my TikToks have been stolen that you can find? The blimp one was stolen a lot. This recent one, I Fought the Law, has been stolen a lot. There's another one talking about the house that bleeds when you shoot the window. That one has been stolen a bit too. Other than that, I don't think many have. The one with where I say petrol or whatever, that was stolen as well. One of the, my TikTok of me doing a big jump there got like heaps of views. It got like 500,000 views from one of my very odd episodes of How the Tune Ended. Because such a perfect jump. But you know why it became popular? Because at the end of the TikTok, I said that was fucking immaculous. And the highest rated comments was this guy reading thesaurus right here. Because people didn't know what immaculant meant. And so a lot of people commented about my use of the word and it made the TikTok go get very popular. |
| 18. February 2021 | The thing most lacking in gta 5 that I want improved | The thing most lacking in GTA 5 that I want them to improve. What I really want for GTA 6 is for the NPCs in the game to have more life to them. Like when I was playing GTA Online yesterday and we went into that apartment or whatever for that party and all the NPCs were just so lifeless and barely talking. Some of them were just standing completely still and doing nothing. It didn't feel like you were at a party, right? I think I've seen footage of Hitman and it actually looks like you're at an event. I suppose that's probably the part of GTA 5 that has aged the worst. It's its NPCs. Because I think there have been significant developments in the way that NPCs interact and what they do in the world in games. And I have a vague recollection of seeing something somewhere that Rockstar filed a patent or something in 2019 for some way of doing neural AI stuff for NPCs. I'm not sure. Am I remembering this correctly? I can't remember where I saw that. Yep, people confirm me that there's a thing. So you've got to imagine they've identified this as well. Red Dimension 2 is great with NPCs. I can't recall. |
| 28. December 2019 | The things I still can't do as a content creator | It's disappointing. The things I still can't do as a content creator. I was thinking before, like I watch these videos of content creators sometimes doing in real life streams and just being complete. What's the- I don't know, crazy people or whatever. As far as I've come as a person who's willing to kind of put themselves out there a bit more, I don't think I could ever do anything like that. Like the thoughts of like dancing in public or something. I can't dance. Just like jumping around and being crazy. Just horrifies me. Like I'm fairly convinced that if I were ever to try that, even as a joke, I would remember it for the rest of my life and think on it and regret it. I hate how inhibited I am, you know. That's why I need that bourbon. |
| 14. December 2022 | The things I’m most grateful for in my Youtube career. | What I'm most grateful for in my YouTube career. As I often say, if you're a YouTube member, a Twitch subscriber, or a patron, you can suggest rambles on my Discord. ObsessedAro asks, since starting a YouTube journey, what is something that you appreciate most throughout the whole experience? It'd probably be like the individual people who have helped me along the way, often with no expectation of something in return. They're just like, hey, I like your stuff, and I have some expertise that can help you, let me help you. Obviously, I try to give them something in return. And there's also, of course, people who just, you know, have given me money over the years, especially in the early days when I needed a little bit to get by. Like Nozo used to stop by once a month and be like, hey, here's 50 bucks. And I was like, oh, maybe you got something going on here, I can keep doing this because I'm financially supported and stuff. And all the people, often whose names I can't even remember now, who have helped me get to where I am today, are the thing I appreciate most in the experience. It reminds me that as terrible as the world is in a totality, there's a lot of good people out there. |
| 28. May 2022 | The things that were cut from my video scripts | like that in there. The things that were cut from my video scripts. I like the small elements of comedy implemented through the video. So we're still talking about video two. Video two was the, because it was the major one, I got people from my Patreon to go over it. I still need to pay them actually, but I'll do that at the end of the series as well with my mods. I said hey if you got like a day or whatever you know if you can go through the script and suggest changes, fix things or whatever I'll give you a little bit of money. And so maybe like a dozen people went over it and they removed every analogy in there, like every single one. And a lot of my like, it was already a dry kind of video, but it removed, they removed most of my jokes as well because they didn't want to risk something being taken out of context and it like people being able to grab onto that and ruin what I was trying to say. In the same way that happened with my first script, with the analogies that people didn't like or the mistype with the money that people made or whatever. These two things were latched onto and most people ignored everything else, you know. So they didn't want to risk that. What comedy ended up in the video was mainly from Marston because I did videos one, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine myself and because the second one was the longest I'm like, look, Martin, I'm dying here. Like I'm so stressed. I'm at my last legs here. I need these videos to get out. Can you edit the voiceovers, the footage of me speaking to the camera while I'm doing them? So I would spend a day and I would get through eight or nine pages and can you edit that while I'm doing the next one? He's like, yeah, sure, Matt. And so he would edit it and then it was like a took it like another day after I finished recording for myself that he gave me the project file and then I went through it myself and then I added, you know, all the graphs and all the extra stuff. So I'm not sure if I ended up adding any humor in there, but the humor in there is from Martin. The new thumbnail design on the anti-reaction video. |
| 16. February 2023 | The three things that got me out of my dark mood (warning, petty) | The three things that got me out of my dark mood. I've been in a pretty dark mood recently. I've gone through these sometimes and I've just like eventually moved beyond them. But this one stuck for quite a while. And what has largely snapped me out of that mood was like a combination of three different things. At least two of them are kind of petty, so prepare yourself. I was on Reddit and just randomly I saw like a GIF talking shit about most critical. I was like, oh, so people do understand that it is somewhat stupid for a person to make a 10 minute video on like a 15 second Twitter clip that they just saw today about a story that they know nothing about except that 15 second Twitter clip. Okay, so I'm not crazy. Then I went on Twitter and like a hundred people had added me in this green text post where people were like, hey, it's me most critical. Here I am gonna be re-uploading someone else's video and making like a million dollars far more than the person who spent all the time to make it. Let's go. And I had like 50,000 likes. I'm like, oh, people get it. Okay, cool. I'm not like some crazy person in a fucking cabin somewhere. And I'm like, but looking at this, I'm like, that's just what's gonna happen to everyone. Everyone will have some people who hate them. And the only reason why Moist Krueger seems like he has a lot of people who hates him is because he reaches so many people and he's been around for so long. And this is just like a fact of life, a fact of this career that I can't focus on the people who hate me, especially those who think I've done things that I haven't done, I just gotta move on with my life and create cool things. And I was like in a little bit of good mood there. And then on Twitter, I looked at the H-Rock hashtag and it had like 20,000 tweets and I clicked it. And there was like a top tweet that had like 250,000 likes, millions of views, just talking shit about H-Rock and just tweet after tweet after tweet. For those who don't know, H-Rock was caught looking at deep fake porn of female Twitch streamers who had not consented to have this stuff made. And he himself had paid these people so that he could look at this material. And I looked at the situation and just all these people just insanely savaging H-Rock and his apology where he has like his wife in the video crying. And I'm like, I will never do anything this garbage. I will never have this degree of hate ever. Like everything just feels so amazingly small compared to that. It's like, what am I worried about? Like, what concerns do I have? And then sometimes like you get in your own bubble. Like, I don't know how prevalent reaction content truly is or how many people are unethical to spam that shit out like an Asmongold sort of person. And I just went on Twitch and like scrolled for a bit and I just saw people having a good time, making cool stuff, hanging out, playing video games like Twitch should be, or just out in the world. I'm like, there is more to content creation than the people abusing the systems. There are people making wonderful, nice things and are positive and happy. Why can't I be one of those people? It's not like becoming aware of how scummy reaction content is fundamentally changed the nature of the platform. It was scummy before I was aware and it's scummy after. Merping about it, stressing about it, thinking of all these counter arguments and stuff in conversations that are never gonna happen. Who cares? I've said my piece and while there is some very good material that I could maybe one day release, and I may still release because I still have an interesting topic, at the end of the day, I got to stop worrying about this shit. Gonna move on. |
| 04. November 2021 | The time I accidentally livestreamed from my phone | The time I accidentally livestreamed from my phone, yesterday I did an in-ville livestream to Hungry Jacks. Then when I came home, I disconnected the stream on my phone, started it on my OBS, on my PC. Then I ended the stream on my OBS, and apparently some time after that, it restarted on my phone. So me closing OBS on my PC, turning off my camera and stuff, I thought I was fine. For like 15 minutes, my phone broadcasted on the bottom of my monitor, with the microphone on. The only reason I noticed was because I was like, hmm, I wonder how good the quality was of my in-ville livestream today. So I went and had a look and I was like, oh, my stream is on, what the fuck? Lucky I don't do particularly anything weird outside of streaming, because all I did was watch a few clips of livestream fail, a few clips of YouTube haiku, and I started editing a bit. |
| 10. July 2021 | The time I forgot the adobe premiere speedup button. | The time I forgot L was the Adobe Playback Speed Up button. Okay, I'm gonna tell you something really stupid. So, that person just asked me, like, what button do you press to speed up Adobe? There was a day, legit, a day, where I could not think of the button. I opened Adobe, I'm like, I've been editing for years. I'm pressing the button to speed up VLC player, the button to speed up my browser. Like, I can't do it. I start Googling, can't figure it out. And, uh, like, I eventually just gave up, I think, and then just, like, like, 10, 20 minutes later, it occurred to me. It was, like, the biggest time that I just couldn't think of something so obvious and essential to, like, my everyday life. It was very strange. |
| 29. March 2021 | The time I met chat, anything for views. | The time I met Chad anything for views. Like I've told the story of when I met Chad. When did I tell that story? Do many people know that story? So I've gone to two PAXs in my life. PAX 2017 and PAX 2019. Very small content creator in 2017. Maybe 200 viewers or whatever. 10,000 followers or something. I'm not sure. I originally had no intention of going, which is actually kind of embarrassing because I got an email from partner people, because I was a partner at this point, and they mentioned that there was going to be like a bowling party. I'm like, oh, there's going to be a bowling party? Fuck yeah, dude, I love bowling and drinking. I'm going to go. And I sign up and they're like, oh, well, it's in Melbourne because you know PAX. I'm like, oh, I had no intention of going to Melbourne for PAX. Oh, so I can't go bowling and drink? Okay, fair enough. And what ended up convincing me to go was a guy I knew, Leto, Letovsky, who had contacted me to be in like a charity event. And he's like, oh, you know, you should go. You should just go to Melbourne for the hell of it. And I'm like, oh, well, I guess fine, whatever. And so like a week or two before this event, I booked flights from Sydney to Melbourne at huge, much inflated prices because of how close it was to this event or whatever. How close it was to when I was leaving. But I'm like, screw it, probably cost me like $1,300, the most I've ever spent on anything at that point. Like, fuck it, I'm going to go. And so I go down there and I feel awkward as all hell because I'm an awkward person, not particularly social, but Leto and some people he knew, you know, they wouldn't talk to me and stuff. And I met a few people and they were nice. But at one point I was walking with a group of content creators and Chad was with them. And at this point, I don't think Chad did a heap of content himself. He was known, at least to me, as the guy who was in MaxMofo's, iDubbbz and Filthy Frank's videos. And so I knew of him, seemed like a funny, interesting dude. But I can't say I'm like a huge fan of his content at that point. But Leto says to Chad, like, man, Matt over there, man, he loves your stuff, man, the biggest fan ever. And so Chad, I think, this is like midday, but Chad's like half drunk. And he comes up behind me, puts his hand around, arm around, goes, hey, man, I was a god, you're a huge fan. I'm like, oh yeah, absolutely. And like, I barely remember what we said to each other, except that it was so weird because I maybe he'd gotten a negative health checkup recently or something, but he mentioned that he was unwell, that his liver liver sucks or something. And I was like, oh, don't worry about it, man, you're out liver solving. He's like, nah, man, I'm in a bad way. And I'm like, this is so weird. Like, what do you say to a person who's like, man, I'm dying. Like, I don't know how much he was fucking with me or not, but I assume over that to this day. The other time we spoke was just there was a Twitch party or whatever. There was that huge room where everyone else was. And then off to the side, there was a room just for partners where there was free drinks or whatever. And he was sitting on the couch. I was somewhat drunk. And I'm like, hey, man, can I have a picture or whatever? And we probably shared a few words. And then I had a picture. I have no idea where the picture is now, but then I went off. Because at that point, Chad was still, maybe even to this day, he might still be the most famous content creator that I've ever actually spoken to in person. While I know more famous content creators now online, different from being someone in person, you know. How I deal with self-worth issues. Hi, Matt. From what you talk about on stream, we seem to deal with similar issues. Self-esteem, a rationally feeling like people don't like us. |
| 08. April 2021 | The time I turned down going on the Scuffed podcast. | The time I turned down going on the scuffed podcast. Oh, so someone asked about the scuffed podcast. For those unaware, the scuffed podcast is a large podcast. Yeah, the scuffed podcast is a podcast, guys. Just just beware if you didn't get that from the name. Anyway, it's basically a thing on Twitch. I think it's run by Trainwrecks. We're like a heap of content creators, like let's say like a half a dozen to a dozen all sits in their webcams or whatever. And it's like a roundtable thing where they all talk about different topics with each other. I think it's about basically anything. Back when the Sydney wildfires were happening, it wasn't it wasn't just Sydney. Well, the Australian wildfires fires were happening. Trainwrecks did a podcast or an event or whatever to raise money to help combat the fires. And he said, like, are there any Australian content creators who want to come on and talk about stuff or just just be involved in some way? I can't remember if he reached out to me or I reached out to him. I may have reached out to him with no expectation of a response. And he responded, he was like, oh, yeah, just come on, man. Just tell you if you want to come on or whatever, and I'll make it happen or whatever. And me being a nervous guy who doesn't like talking to people who like when there's some kind of rigid structure and understanding as to what's going to be happening, I feel a little bit more comfortable. So I think I took a while, but I responded back to him. Like, what's going on? What are the plans for the podcast or whatever? And I don't think he ever got back to me or whatever. Or either that or I said, like, I'm not super keen. I'm not sure. But regardless, I effectively turned him down. And that was the end of it. Right. So when that person asked me there about the time I was invited on to this podcast, I don't think calling it an invite is really appropriate. It's just trainwrecks was just trying to do a good thing. And to my understanding, he did a good thing. He raised a good amount of money. And I just had a chance to potentially be involved. And I didn't take it because of my nervousness. |
| 08. April 2021 | The time I turned down going on the scuffed podcast. | The time I turned down going on the scuffed podcast. Oh, so someone asked about the scuffed podcast. For those unaware, the scuffed podcast is a large podcast. Yeah, the scuffed podcast is a podcast, guys. Just just beware if you didn't get that from the name. Anyway, it's basically a thing on Twitch. I think it's run by Trainwrecks. We're like a heap of content creators, like let's say like a half a dozen to a dozen all sits in their webcams or whatever. And it's like a roundtable thing where they all talk about different topics with each other. I think it's about basically anything. Back when the Sydney wildfires were happening, it wasn't it wasn't just Sydney. Well, the Australian wildfires fires were happening. Trainwrecks did a podcast or an event or whatever to raise money to help combat the fires. And he said, like, are there any Australian content creators who want to come on and talk about stuff or just just be involved in some way? I can't remember if he reached out to me or I reached out to him. I may have reached out to him with no expectation of a response. And he responded, he was like, oh, yeah, just come on, man. Just tell you if you want to come on or whatever, and I'll make it happen or whatever. And me being a nervous guy who doesn't like talking to people who like when there's some kind of rigid structure and understanding as to what's going to be happening, I feel a little bit more comfortable. So I think I took a while, but I responded back to him. Like, what's going on? What are the plans for the podcast or whatever? And I don't think he ever got back to me or whatever. Or either that or I said, like, I'm not super keen. I'm not sure. But regardless, I effectively turned him down. And that was the end of it. Right. So when that person asked me there about the time I was invited on to this podcast, I don't think calling it an invite is really appropriate. It's just trainwrecks was just trying to do a good thing. And to my understanding, he did a good thing. He raised a good amount of money. And I just had a chance to potentially be involved. And I didn't take it because of my nervousness. |
| 29. December 2020 | The time Keemstar talked about GTA 5 speedrunning. | drama. The time Keemstar talked about GTA V speedrunning. Are you aware that Keemstar has acknowledged GTA V speedrunning drama before? And if you know that, when I released my video talking about the drama I had with Friendly Baron, someone tweeted at Keemstar, and I guess he was just bored, probably just on his phone somewhere, and was like, you guys wouldn't believe it, but GTA V speedrunning drama, and he retweeted my video or something. Didn't get that many likes, didn't get that many views, because I mean, GTA V speedrunning was smaller back then, and as was I. That is technically the largest amount of involvement I've had with Keemstar. My most viewed video. My most viewed video of all time on either of my channels. |
| 04. November 2021 | The time i accidentally livestreamed from my phone | The time I accidentally livestreamed from my phone, yesterday I did an in-ville livestream to Hungry Jacks. Then when I came home, I disconnected the stream on my phone, started it on my OBS, on my PC. Then I ended the stream on my OBS, and apparently some time after that, it restarted on my phone. So me closing OBS on my PC, turning off my camera and stuff, I thought I was fine. For like 15 minutes, my phone broadcasted on the bottom of my monitor, with the microphone on. The only reason I noticed was because I was like, hmm, I wonder how good the quality was of my in-ville livestream today. So I went and had a look and I was like, oh, my stream is on, what the fuck? Lucky I don't do particularly anything weird outside of streaming, because all I did was watch a few clips of livestream fail, a few clips of YouTube haiku, and I started editing a bit. |
| 10. July 2021 | The time i forgot the adobe premiere speedup button. | The time I forgot L was the Adobe Playback Speed Up button. Okay, I'm gonna tell you something really stupid. So, that person just asked me, like, what button do you press to speed up Adobe? There was a day, legit, a day, where I could not think of the button. I opened Adobe, I'm like, I've been editing for years. I'm pressing the button to speed up VLC player, the button to speed up my browser. Like, I can't do it. I start Googling, can't figure it out. And, uh, like, I eventually just gave up, I think, and then just, like, like, 10, 20 minutes later, it occurred to me. It was, like, the biggest time that I just couldn't think of something so obvious and essential to, like, my everyday life. It was very strange. |
| 20. July 2021 | The time save of knowing a hair dresser | Save of knowing a hairdresser. I look fabulous today. My beard looks like shit. Might even go the effort to trim it a bit, because I haven't found the time to go find a new barber. I like my hair long, right? But I- I don't like how messy it is, like, at the back and stuff and on the sides. It feels weird to go to a hairdresser and be like, hey look, I want to keep my hair as long as it is, but just like clean up the sides. Clearly what I need to do is not go to a barber, but find a hairdresser. Preferably a hairdresser around my age. Get into a relationship with a hairdresser basically, so I can get free haircuts, and I don't have to go anywhere to get those haircuts. I need to find someone who's multi-talented in that they happen to do other professions that require me to leave my home. Think of the time save. I kind of made curtain- |
| 20. July 2021 | The time save of knowing a hairdresser | Motivation to do anything therefore identifying the thing you need to solve does not make you feel motivation to solve it It just depends on the person, you know, I can't tell you what still tell you what works for you I live a different life to you, you know get a hobby work towards something Get a side hustle as the internet calls them. I don't know read a book see a therapist exercise Determine if it's a dietary issue or a health issue see a doctor when you're depressed. Do you know you're depressed? Yes exercise has never made me happy when I'm unhappy like ever Maybe a little bit. Maybe I'm being exaggerating though. It just in general I just feel more tired It doesn't I prefer to just do something distracts me from my issues and generally speaking when I'm exercising I have all |
| 08. November 2020 | The top 10 best Darkviperau tweets | The top 10 best Dark Viper AU tweets. I'm thinking about making a video the top 10 Dark Viper AU tweets. Normally, other people make those videos about other content creators. But as I've said many times before, I find myself hilarious. Many times over the years, the highlight of my day has been thinking of something funny, posting on Twitter, and then laughing about it to myself for the next five minutes. And I feel as though I could enrich more people's lives if they just followed me on Twitter. And therefore, I'm going to make a video dedicated to my tweets, be like, look at how much you're missing out. My tweets are amazing. I also post a lot of shit and complaining. But you know, the good tweets, you missed out on them. I should sound as monotone as possible in the video. You mean how I sound in Facts and Glitches? I've thought sometimes about changing the format of Facts and Glitches to try more to make it entertaining in and of itself. Yo, what up, guys? Here we got a new Facts and or Glitch of going inside this plane. Holy shit. Isn't this crazy? You've never seen anything like this before. I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about. I always looked at Facts and Glitches as just, you know, here is some cool stuff. And I want the content to stand on its own rather than necessarily in some way sensationalizing it. The series is still fairly successful, so I guess I'll just keep going as is. |
| 08. November 2020 | The top 10 best darkviperau tweets | The top 10 best Dark Viper AU tweets. I'm thinking about making a video the top 10 Dark Viper AU tweets. Normally, other people make those videos about other content creators. But as I've said many times before, I find myself hilarious. Many times over the years, the highlight of my day has been thinking of something funny, posting on Twitter, and then laughing about it to myself for the next five minutes. And I feel as though I could enrich more people's lives if they just followed me on Twitter. And therefore, I'm going to make a video dedicated to my tweets, be like, look at how much you're missing out. My tweets are amazing. I also post a lot of shit and complaining. But you know, the good tweets, you missed out on them. I should sound as monotone as possible in the video. You mean how I sound in Facts and Glitches? I've thought sometimes about changing the format of Facts and Glitches to try more to make it entertaining in and of itself. Yo, what up, guys? Here we got a new Facts and or Glitch of going inside this plane. Holy shit. Isn't this crazy? You've never seen anything like this before. I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about. I always looked at Facts and Glitches as just, you know, here is some cool stuff. And I want the content to stand on its own rather than necessarily in some way sensationalizing it. The series is still fairly successful, so I guess I'll just keep going as is. |
| 24. August 2022 | The trend of bigger hardware and more power consumption | Bigger hardware and more power consumption. Yeah, I haven't changed my PC. I'm waiting for the next generation of AMD CPUs and Nvidia GPUs to come out. The trend though of more and more power consumption is interesting though, because like on some level you can only pack in so much stuff in a small area, right, before like the laws of physics start fucking with your ability to add more. Once you get to that point you need to expand outwards and just get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger, right, and that's why my GPU is like as big as my entire case, my 3090. I wonder how long that trend is going to go, because you're meant to always be able to top the previous generation. Eventually you have to imagine you hit the limits of making things more efficient and eventually you just have to make things bigger and just pack more in. You can bring |
| 14. December 2022 | The truth behind my absence from Tiktok. | Truth behind my absence from TikTok. I don't use TikTok at all actually right now. So I don't see when people at me there, but I appreciate that I've still got people on there who care about me, I guess. All my latest TikToks, even the ones that got millions of views on YouTube, I've only got like 50,000 views on TikTok. So like at one point in time, I would put a short on TikTok and we'll get heaps of views. I put the same one on YouTube and I get nothing. Then reverse, I'd put a short on YouTube and it'll go gangbusters, get so many views. And then on TikTok, you get nothing. And that's where we are right now. So my best shorts from YouTube, getting millions of views, get nothing on TikTok. And it highlights to me that all these algorithms are still shit and they're still trying to figure out how to find the people who will actually be interested in different types of content. Because the audience of YouTube shorts isn't fundamentally different from the audience of TikTok. And yet the same content will do way worse or better depending upon the particular time I'm uploading to either platform. So I'm not focusing on TikTok all that much. It's just like every once in a while I say to Silva, like, hey, can you upload the rest of my shorts to TikTok? Because I'm getting no views there. Although even my most recent shorts to YouTube have slowed down a bit. But again, that might be because I'm not picking the best content to make, I don't know. But we'll see if that trend continues over the next month. Should you? |
| 19. February 2022 | The two times I broke down at university | The two times I broke down at university, and I'll have you know I got through all of my university work with only breaking down twice. I felt like such a dick after one of them. No, I felt like a dick after both of them. There were two times in my university work degree that I sincerely thought I had failed. As in like, one was a group activity thing. I thought it was absolute trash. And I ended up more or less saying that to the rest of the group. I was like, what even is this? I think we ended up getting like a 68 or something. And I'm like, well that's like a 70 or something. It was not a terrible mark, but not a good mark. I'm like, well maybe it wasn't as trash as I thought. And the reasons why I thought it was trash were not commented on. But it was meant to be kind of like a... I think it was more about the teamwork than the actual work. Because it was kind of like a prep thing for the actual essay we need to write. I thought it was garbage. And I felt like such a dick because I was mean to three other people. And then there's another time where when I was doing all of my university things, I sent tons of emails to people to get any small thing or bit more information that I thought I could get. I made sure to try and get it. Any problem that I thought could be resolved through an email, I made sure to send it because I don't want to overwork myself or give myself unnecessary work. Or work with a particular idea of what the assessment means and for it to turn out to be wrong and I've just wasted my time. For one of my assessments, one of my teachers kind of went AWOL for like two weeks and it was a major assessment. I'm like, why is this woman not answering my fucking emails? I was just confused. Like in the entirety of my university course, never had I had a person not answer my emails within like two days. And it happened. I worked with a particular idea of what the assessment meant for like a week and then I found out I was wrong. I was like, why? It's infuriating. And both times I'm like, I'm going to fail. I think I got like an 80 or something, like an 82 or something. I was like, wow, that's a lot better than I thought I was going to get. Fuck, I remember both those times, even now, as like just the terrible feeling. That's what you want to avoid all throughout your university life. Just avoiding that fear of like trepidation and sweating like I'm not going to get this done. I'm not going to get this done. Those were to me the only two times that I had to deal with that shit. And I'm happy that I only had to deal with it twice because some people, you know, they leave everything to the last fucking minute. I can't stand that feeling. |
| 19. February 2022 | The two times i broke down at university | The two times I broke down at university, and I'll have you know I got through all of my university work with only breaking down twice. I felt like such a dick after one of them. No, I felt like a dick after both of them. There were two times in my university work degree that I sincerely thought I had failed. As in like, one was a group activity thing. I thought it was absolute trash. And I ended up more or less saying that to the rest of the group. I was like, what even is this? I think we ended up getting like a 68 or something. And I'm like, well that's like a 70 or something. It was not a terrible mark, but not a good mark. I'm like, well maybe it wasn't as trash as I thought. And the reasons why I thought it was trash were not commented on. But it was meant to be kind of like a... I think it was more about the teamwork than the actual work. Because it was kind of like a prep thing for the actual essay we need to write. I thought it was garbage. And I felt like such a dick because I was mean to three other people. And then there's another time where when I was doing all of my university things, I sent tons of emails to people to get any small thing or bit more information that I thought I could get. I made sure to try and get it. Any problem that I thought could be resolved through an email, I made sure to send it because I don't want to overwork myself or give myself unnecessary work. Or work with a particular idea of what the assessment means and for it to turn out to be wrong and I've just wasted my time. For one of my assessments, one of my teachers kind of went AWOL for like two weeks and it was a major assessment. I'm like, why is this woman not answering my fucking emails? I was just confused. Like in the entirety of my university course, never had I had a person not answer my emails within like two days. And it happened. I worked with a particular idea of what the assessment meant for like a week and then I found out I was wrong. I was like, why? It's infuriating. And both times I'm like, I'm going to fail. I think I got like an 80 or something, like an 82 or something. I was like, wow, that's a lot better than I thought I was going to get. Fuck, I remember both those times, even now, as like just the terrible feeling. That's what you want to avoid all throughout your university life. Just avoiding that fear of like trepidation and sweating like I'm not going to get this done. I'm not going to get this done. Those were to me the only two times that I had to deal with that shit. And I'm happy that I only had to deal with it twice because some people, you know, they leave everything to the last fucking minute. I can't stand that feeling. |
| 03. January 2021 | The two ways I have been in contact Rockstar. | The two ways that I have been in contact with Rockstar Have you ever been in contact with Rockstar for any reasons? There was two ways that I've been in contact with Rockstar. One, I met a dude at PAX 20 19 Who worked in the Australian Media side of Rockstar. He still follows me on Twitter, but he doesn't use Twitter that much, I don't know. And then I was in talks with this media agency to potentially have them represent me or whatever. But they were fairly new to the gaming industry and I was a bit nervous about it. And so I said look if you get some, if you got a deal or something that you think we'd both benefit from me knowing about you know feel free to tell me. I didn't have any formal agreement with them. But one thing they said is that yeah, we talked to Rockstar or whatever about you. And whether or not you are, they want to be do something with you or whatever and they're like and apparently Rockstar was like Ah, you know next year maybe we might do some more stuff with community people. And they said that uh Well, because obviously this is speaking through a middleman agency said yeah, apparently they respect the stuff that you do and they consider your more let's say bombastic criticisms to be like it's about the entertainment value. Like I suppose in Rockstar's mind if they were to dislike every single content creator who had been critical of them, they'd have to dislike every single content creator, right? I'm sure some people of Rockstar at least do have enough of an understanding to know that everything that they do isn't necessarily gonna be well accepted by content creators. But the sentiment that was expressed to me or whatever by the middleman agency guy was just like yeah, they don't hate you. And I was like, oh, that's good. I'm sure what probably helps Rockstar not dislike me other than that, of course, we I'm sure people in their company really love GTA 5 and I really love GTA 5 too. We share that in common but also because it's it's just a fact that my content has driven sales of GTA 5 or has led people to go back to play the game because obviously just being reminded of the existence of GTA 5 what leads people to go, oh, yeah, I haven't played that game in a long time. I missed that game. I'm gonna boot that game up or I'm gonna play some online or whatever it is, you know, it's content creators like me, like Sonny Evans, like all of us, it keeps GTA 5 in the consciousness. It pops into people's minds or social media feeds or whatever, leading people to be more likely to play either the original game, purchasing it for the first time or playing online and whatever criticisms I've had of Rockstar, clearly my overall effects regardless of whether or not that has been my goal is to lead people to play GTA 5 more and GTA Online more. I'm sure they don't have any delusion that I'm sitting here as a marketing rep for Rockstar. My only goal in life is to make Rockstar more money. Clearly that's not my goal. So they're not gonna love me, right? I'm not doing this, doing what I do out of altruism for Rockstar but I'm sure they recognize on some level that my existence does bring them benefit. Whatever they may think about me personally, from a business standpoint, I am a benefit to Rockstar, so they're not likely ever gonna squish me under their shoe. |
| 03. January 2021 | The two ways i have been in contact rockstart. | The two ways that I have been in contact with Rockstar Have you ever been in contact with Rockstar for any reasons? There was two ways that I've been in contact with Rockstar. One, I met a dude at PAX 20 19 Who worked in the Australian Media side of Rockstar. He still follows me on Twitter, but he doesn't use Twitter that much, I don't know. And then I was in talks with this media agency to potentially have them represent me or whatever. But they were fairly new to the gaming industry and I was a bit nervous about it. And so I said look if you get some, if you got a deal or something that you think we'd both benefit from me knowing about you know feel free to tell me. I didn't have any formal agreement with them. But one thing they said is that yeah, we talked to Rockstar or whatever about you. And whether or not you are, they want to be do something with you or whatever and they're like and apparently Rockstar was like Ah, you know next year maybe we might do some more stuff with community people. And they said that uh Well, because obviously this is speaking through a middleman agency said yeah, apparently they respect the stuff that you do and they consider your more let's say bombastic criticisms to be like it's about the entertainment value. Like I suppose in Rockstar's mind if they were to dislike every single content creator who had been critical of them, they'd have to dislike every single content creator, right? I'm sure some people of Rockstar at least do have enough of an understanding to know that everything that they do isn't necessarily gonna be well accepted by content creators. But the sentiment that was expressed to me or whatever by the middleman agency guy was just like yeah, they don't hate you. And I was like, oh, that's good. I'm sure what probably helps Rockstar not dislike me other than that, of course, we I'm sure people in their company really love GTA 5 and I really love GTA 5 too. We share that in common but also because it's it's just a fact that my content has driven sales of GTA 5 or has led people to go back to play the game because obviously just being reminded of the existence of GTA 5 what leads people to go, oh, yeah, I haven't played that game in a long time. I missed that game. I'm gonna boot that game up or I'm gonna play some online or whatever it is, you know, it's content creators like me, like Sonny Evans, like all of us, it keeps GTA 5 in the consciousness. It pops into people's minds or social media feeds or whatever, leading people to be more likely to play either the original game, purchasing it for the first time or playing online and whatever criticisms I've had of Rockstar, clearly my overall effects regardless of whether or not that has been my goal is to lead people to play GTA 5 more and GTA Online more. I'm sure they don't have any delusion that I'm sitting here as a marketing rep for Rockstar. My only goal in life is to make Rockstar more money. Clearly that's not my goal. So they're not gonna love me, right? I'm not doing this, doing what I do out of altruism for Rockstar but I'm sure they recognize on some level that my existence does bring them benefit. Whatever they may think about me personally, from a business standpoint, I am a benefit to Rockstar, so they're not likely ever gonna squish me under their shoe. |
| 29. January 2021 | The two ways to grow really fast online | The two ways to grow really fast online. I am fortunate that nothing I do is really based on other people. There are two ways I suppose to grow really really fast. Maybe three. No, no, it still counts as two. One, ingratiating yourself with other content creators and growing through them. Two, ingratiating yourself with the boss, the algorithms. And I went the algorithm route. Not by any design necessarily. It's just um that's how I've gained this popularity. The algorithm is like oh I like what you're doing there. Here have have some little impressions that there you go. Rather than going like the rat like X you see go I like what you're doing there. Here you go. Just a few impressions that pat you on the head. You know it's you can gain success other ways but they're a lot more gradual. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 13. March 2023 | The uncertain future of content creation. | The uncertain future of content creation. I got sent this video by one of my mods talking about a creator who seemed to believe that privating a very successful video has caused their channel to not do as well on the algorithm. This VTuber, his content is people telling stories while in VRChat, claims that right after privating his most viral video this year, released about a month ago, his channel lost the momentum and YouTube stopped recommending people his content as much. The gist of it is does privating videos really hurt a channel that much? The story is basically that he interviewed a person in the military and the video blew up and apparently the dude's superior saw this video and demanded that he take it down or he'd be sanctioned or whatever. And so obviously the military dude ran to this creator and said, oh please take down the video or I'm gonna get in trouble. When Will asked me about this I said to him that I have endless examples of channels that have had one video blow up and be extraordinarily successful and the next one be basically nothing. So here's a channel called Going Indie. I doubt this is the first channel this person has ever made but their first video got 1.3 million views. Blew up, everyone saw it, it's a good video. The next video got 42,000 views. That's a huge drop off. The next one though did a bit better. The next one did a bit better again and their most recent video in the first day has only got 4,000 views. And honestly I don't think this is a very good video. I did watch it to the end but maybe it not being a good video has contributed to that. As I say I have many examples of this but you do hear a lot from creators the belief that if you have one really good video it increases the success of your future videos as if the algorithm gives your channel a little bit more credit. And it has a wider pool to present your video for it to potentially become successful. You can understand the reasoning why the algorithm would do that right? If you have a very successful video why wouldn't the algorithm be like oh well that video was successful clearly the next one must be as good as well so we'll just show this to more people and give it better credibility to test it further. But as I say I have endless examples where this doesn't work. It is just the problem with YouTube that I couldn't give my mod a definitive answer as to whether or not this actually exists or if it does not. Because we don't know. We're all sitting here making connections between various different happenings on the platform trying to bring together some narrative that explains what's going on at any given time. And then even if we get it a little bit figured out they change it the next year. It's the frustrating aspects of this industry. As I say my channel isn't doing as well as it was doing two months ago. Why is that? Could be any number of thousands one thousands of variables. And all I can do is look at my analytics and try to find connections between things and I the only connection I found is that I've released a handful few videos and potentially I was just making worse content. It's often the case that things happening elsewhere on the platform can be impacting us as well and we of course have no access to any of that kind of information. I've said before that other people can be in some respects eating your lunch producing something so wondrous or what have you that's your viewers are more occupied with that than your content as they were. Previously and you just have no idea and we're often too close to our own content to assess it fairly. We may not understand the people who normally watch our videos to the degree that we think we do so I can think of video as great and maybe other viewers disagree like I really liked my mass world record video and I thought people would watch that quite a bit because of the meme. But people didn't really give a shit about that. I think the mirror world chaos is fun and a bit more interesting than the older chaos but a lot of people don't like it. So this person in this video when they're talking about like oh look my most recent videos aren't doing as well and I think it's because I privated my successful viral video like you can look back here and see that they have other videos that have also not done well. They've done 30,000 views like you can go back to like here to have two together that didn't get above 70 and these are like four month old videos like here they have huge jumps between their views and their videos. They go from half a million to 90 to half a million. There's a huge variance in the views that these videos get 48,000 36,000. So you can looking at this you can conclude either that this person is somewhat being insincere in that they're just trying to drum up support like they ask people to buy their merch and stuff and support them more financially in this video. Either that or they're just doing what all us creators do trying to find anything that can explain why we aren't doing as well as we think we should be doing trying to draw connections and assuming that the correlation between privating a video and two videos not of me three videos not doing well are connected when they can't be certain about that. We just don't know. I'm trying to explain this is how frustrating this job is you work in nine to five years the hours you work is how much you get paid and it's a simple connection like that. But in this industry is just nonstop worrying and pouring over analytics to try to find any kind of connection why things are going well or not going well. It's frustrating. I feel for this person. I don't necessarily agree with what they've concluded as to why they're not being successful but I feel for this person and I hope things pick up for them. |
| 27. November 2020 | The under appreciated side of speedrunning | The underappreciated side of speedrunning. In speedruns in general 10, it's definitely a community effort. The sentiment has been expressed that the overwhelming focus on the world record holder is often seen as kind of a little bit unfair but understandable. Like in some games, there can be people behind the scenes who do like hundreds of hours of testing and find all the ridiculous strats that are used. But they effectively never get any credit from the wider mainstream community because they don't have the best time. Usually within the community they get credit, which is good of course, but the world record time is not the be-all and end-all of what makes speedrunning speedrunning. The community effort to develop strats is also extraordinarily important. |
| 07. February 2023 | The underlying reason for my poor mental state. | underlying reasons for my recent poor mental state. Keep in mind this footage is from a week ago, I'm actually feeling a lot better. I mean, I wrote a long explanation to Josh Strife-Hays as to why I'm in a bad state of affairs. Would you like me to read it to you? Since hitting 30 almost two years ago now, I have found I have fewer and fewer days where I feel my best. It wasn't like I had boundless energy in my early life, but it was never this bad. This worsening state has made my life very frustrating as I am unable to give my all to anything I do and have to struggle to fit my aspirations into fewer and fewer days where I feel well. Some of it is poor diet, stress, and lack of exercise. Some of it is likely my Hashimoto's, tinnitus, and general inability to sleep well. Whatever the case may be, I'm faced with an ever growing reality that I will need to give up some of my time to more healthy pursuits in order to claw back the time I would otherwise spend in a state of disrepair. Moreover, I find the attention generated from my work, especially more recent negative attention, to be distressing, and I have found my perspective on others and life in general to go more negative over time regardless of what praise or positive outcomes I experience. I've weathered such ways before and I've moved beyond them, but I can't recall having faced so much all at once. I know it is simply a matter of perseverance. These trials will be nothing in the grand scheme of my life, but such reassurances do little to lift these burdens from my shoulders. They will ultimately only be relieved with time. If I can describe this time in my life at the moment in a single sentence, it would be standing in a really, really slow moving line with absolutely no idea how long you'll be in it. Nothing but a frustrating experience that any sane person would avoid. Basically, not doing so good. And so I just like sitting here with just a couple of viewers on Twitch.tv and just playing some Slay the Spire until I feel better again. I talked to Dope about this, oh yeah. I'm currently trying to fix my sleep issues. We tried the sleeping pills, they didn't really work. Tried Mbellatonin last night and I've woken up lightheaded and with vertigo and I feel awful. So I'm probably gonna stop that. What I'm now doing is I'm going to be walking to my local supermarket area. It's got some fast food restaurants and whatnot. I'm gonna walk there when I wake up and then walk back. It's like an hour walk or something, well half an hour both ways. And I feel like just doing that exercise each day is gonna help me. I'll jog a little bit of it, but I think that's the thing that I'm gonna try to get into a habit of doing every day. Wake up and go. |
| 03. June 2022 | The unexpected problem in the final Ludwig video | The unexpected problem in the final Ludwig video So the final video in the series is a video by Ludwig which he called I made a secret channel to prove us not luck where he effectively makes a secret channel a secondary channel and then he Pays a bunch of money to have a video made and he puts it on there and then he gets Mizkif to react to it and his takeaway was it's completely skill There's no luck involved and if you get someone to react to your video it can pop off in the algorithm this video was Philosophically and methodological methodologically flawed on every level and so I made a video explaining all that But one part of the video stood out to me where I said these numbers on this video make no sense Because if this is really a secret channel Why is 50% of the views coming from YouTube search if no one knows? As Ludwig made this video and it's on the secret channel Why are people searching for it to this degree and I had no answer that question I just said this is suggestive that the it leaks and that The video took off in the algorithm not because of any sort of reactions from Mizkif But because of people finding out it was Ludwig's video and everyone's searching for it because they wanted to see this secret video I point out other things that just suggested this was true Because the video took off like three days after the reaction suggesting the reaction wasn't involved But after I released the video someone in the comments was like only one person like there was hundreds of comments Only one person pointed this out. They were like, oh, yeah Ludwig like leaked that he made the video on his podcast. I'm like No way No fucking way the first podcast that he released when he described what he did what the video was called What the topic was like make it as easily searchable as possible that released 40 hours after he made the video so anything after the 40 hour mark is Tainted by everyone knowing about the video. We use my time zones because it doesn't matter Who's used but so the video released on the second then a podcast came out in the third Then another podcast another version of the podcast came out in the fourth because it was like a Spotify and then Google Or the other way around doesn't matter then the next day the YouTube podcast came out Which is the video version and this is at the point the video took off in the algorithm Good. Oh, Ludwig has a secret video any secret channel it went Whoo, so I made nine videos and I almost stuck the landing. I almost had everything perfect No problems. No, no flaws. I end up how I've even did every video like 19 times fixing every issue I had my mods watch the viewers with me. We picked out all the errors and stuff And this last end video is a clusterfuck the video is still good Everything I say in it is still good, but I definitely would phrase things differently Had I known about this more than that? there was a section of the video that I cut out where I talked about the interplay between luck and success and The reason why I removed it is because it was a bit too philosophical It goes into discussing these concepts in a more abstract way and I just felt it wasn't appropriate for the video But because I removed this it gave people more room to not understand like even told in a lot of Wigan DMs I had to give him that paragraph for him to understand because a lot of you just don't think about These concepts so like well with the other video is like 99% of people agreed with me With this one it might be 95% or something the final video is imperfect Due to one decision I made and one thing I didn't know The second thing I could never have done there's no way I was gonna be able to dig through his podcast and find it out Right, but it just really annoys me that I couldn't stick the landing on that, you know I really want to make this the theme for my next video VIDEO PLAYBACK |
| 17. December 2022 | The unfairness of communicating my unhappiness on stream | watching it. The unfairness of communicating my unhappiness on stream. I often think it is somewhat irresponsible and what's the word, unfair for me to go on stream and be like hey I'm feeling shit. I shouldn't use the wider internet as a way to try to make myself feel better or if I do do that I should you know put on a brave face and experience the joy of streaming rather than being like hey guys here's the burdens of my life can you just like carry those and try and help me. Like it's just it's just not fair. Every other content creator who has a more balanced life when they're not feeling well just goes to their significant other or their friends or has a day off and goes for drinks or whatever I can't really do that and so I just kind of try and do the thing that normally makes me happy which is live stream but I find it very hard to shield away my normal feelings because I am very expressive and I am a very open and honest person because not your problem right. Don't feel bad about it as you say if I'm having a shit day I'll have a better day another day. My issues are more complicated than that which can be fixed with a few words in a chat so if you like what I'm doing on stream watch and chill out and if you don't just don't watch and you know that's good. I appreciate. |
| 18. January 2023 | The unfortunate reality of forgetting those who helped me succeed. | Very common, but the unfortunate reality forgetting those who helped me succeed Zander and Yal Niff also asked do you remember that time Markiplier cried because he realized that he can't have a personal relationship With his entire audience or a large part of it for obvious reasons the audience being a large collection Have you ever had a similar epiphany or was it always something that went without saying for you? I have never cried about that and it has always been an obvious eventual reality But you can almost never really have a personal relationship with someone Who's just like watching your videos or watching a live streams or something? You can know stuff about them. You can know their name, but you do usually end up just assigning some sort of Positive or negative association with that particular person over time and that's about all there is while live streaming is a bit more personal It's not that personal but certainly in the earlier days I did know more of my viewers and interact with them to greater degrees and knew more about them and you just had to accept over time that that became less and less and less as Like I grew larger. I do often look at my old videos and I'm like, ah, yeah I remember that dude. He used to come around all the time and now he doesn't that's sad I remember that person always talk all the time and now they're not here That's unfortunate or I think to people viewers that I used to see all the time and talk to some degree now We don't talk the thing that's always bothered me more is rather than not having a personal relationship What bothers me more is that I can't even remember all the people who have helped me along the way Countless people who have helped me in big or small ways. They'll likely remember me They'll remember that they helped me but I will not remember at this point It's just impossible to remember that many people over this many years and that sucks because acts of kindness You know make the world better for everyone and such things deserve to be remembered and appreciated But it's literally impossible for me to do that and that's again the thing you got to accept It's one of the worst parts of being in this position, but there's life |
| 10. June 2022 | The unglamorous side of content creation | The unglamorous side of content creation. You're rendering a video right now? My guy, I have rendered a 15 hour video 20 times and it still not works. It gets to 100% completion, gets to literally the last two frames of the edit and it fails. I've done everything to try to solve it, put in new projects, like removed effects, removed parts, rendered it in parts and then put them together in another project. So many things, still won't work. I'm now talking to Adobe to see if they can figure out what's wrong, because I have no fucking idea and I've been using Adobe for years. I can only assume it's its length somehow. Obviously I've removed the last two frames, chat. Please! When I mean everything, I mean literally everything. The unglamorous side of content creation, I swear to you, I've come to realize how little people understand who don't do this work, how difficult it can be. It's like when Hasan in his brain, well one of his endless brain dead takes, he's like, man YouTube is so easy man. You can make like one video a month or some shit, bruh. It's these people who've like never opened an editing program and have sat for like just hours moving a frame backwards and forwards like and you tell viewers how long it takes to make an average YouTube video and they don't believe you. They don't believe it could take that long, but it does. Editing can be some of the most rewarding stuff that you can do in life, but it's also soul-crushing and often extraordinarily boring. I once said there was a day where I spent seven hours working on something and only completed two minutes of the timeline and I was sincere. Well, what was that thing, odd ones out, was like this background took eight hours to do and was there for like ten frames. Kyrgyzstan has a video where he's like, here's how a Kyrgyzstan video was made in 1200 hours. People just don't fucking know. I suspect it's one of the contributing factors as to why viewers don't hate reactors. If you understood how much labor they're stealing, how much work they're avoiding by stealing other people's stuff, you'd be more mad. Every reaction video you've ever seen, the amount of work that made it went into that video was 99% done by someone else and the reward went in almost entirely. Actually, I would argue entirely to the person who stole that person's 99% money. |
| 02. July 2021 | The unnecessary burdens of my No Damage runs | The unnecessary burdens of my no damage runs. Man it is hard doing this run when I know I'm not in a good mood chat. I need to get used to being okay with being boring and not making jokes and stuff in the runs. Like it's more of a pressure than the run itself, being boring. Getting a good mood? It's hard dude. I can't just keep waiting to be in a good mood to do these runs. I just gotta accept that the video on YouTube can potentially be boring, you know? Spending these last, you know, five months of being able to succeed, doing new jokes and trying to be in a good mood and stuff for every run, it's fucking destroyed me. I'd rather you talking less and focusing more than talking more and focusing less. The thing is, like in the scenes where it matters to focus, it's not like I'm not focusing on the game. I do focus on the game. But certainly having to do the explanations while I'm doing stuff and whatnot is a bit burdensome. But I mean I've taken this upon myself. I don't need to do these things. Although it is a part of my job. I prefer to do these things. It's just again unfortunate that the game cheated me out of success for five fucking months. |
| 02. July 2021 | The unnecessary burdens of my no damage runs | The unnecessary burdens of my no damage runs. Man it is hard doing this run when I know I'm not in a good mood chat. I need to get used to being okay with being boring and not making jokes and stuff in the runs. Like it's more of a pressure than the run itself, being boring. Getting a good mood? It's hard dude. I can't just keep waiting to be in a good mood to do these runs. I just gotta accept that the video on YouTube can potentially be boring, you know? Spending these last, you know, five months of being able to succeed, doing new jokes and trying to be in a good mood and stuff for every run, it's fucking destroyed me. I'd rather you talking less and focusing more than talking more and focusing less. The thing is, like in the scenes where it matters to focus, it's not like I'm not focusing on the game. I do focus on the game. But certainly having to do the explanations while I'm doing stuff and whatnot is a bit burdensome. But I mean I've taken this upon myself. I don't need to do these things. Although it is a part of my job. I prefer to do these things. It's just again unfortunate that the game cheated me out of success for five fucking months. |
| 20. July 2022 | The upcoming gta online update | The upcoming GT Online update. The main things being it reduces the oppressor MK to effectiveness. They're adding a convenient way to access snacks and armor. I don't know what that means, whether it's a gameplay thing or just a place to buy them. Whether you can now go into the interaction menu and buy them when you run out rather than go into stores, but I'm hoping it's something to do with the actual implementation of them so you no longer have to do 15 inputs to select a snack or whatever. And that's been long overdue. When this update came out, I got tagged in it so much because there were people like, Oh my god, they're changing the snacks and the armor. It's happening, man. It's happening. And I am happy. I'm actually somewhat excited even. I'm curious what they're gonna do and I want to play more GT Online. But I mean, I wanted to play more GT Online before this announcement. I want to go back and do all the DLCs that I've never done. I'm not sure how many that is. I even thought for a while that I might try and get all the achievements or like all the medals in the game, but looking at some of the medals, it's like, get 10,000 headshots. I'm like, uh... You know, I'm not sure I can make that into entertaining content. Are they also increasing the GTA payouts to reward players more? Apparently, it's gonna be more even. So you don't need to like grind one thing over and over. You can do other stuff that you actually want to do to farm up money. And apparently they're basically abandoning Red Dead Online or something and people are not happy. True mood, hard-did environment, play GT Online. Maybe we can set that up at some point. I would rather do it after I fix my room. Maybe I'll message him in two weeks. I'm like, hey, so about that GT Online thing. I cannot imagine that Rockstar will ever release an anti-cheat for GT Online. It's just too late. I honestly view these things that they're bringing out now. It's just an acknowledgement that GTA 6 isn't gonna come many times soon. Like they've seen GT Online's waning popularity and they're like, oh shit, if we're not getting GT 6 anytime soon, we gotta do something to keep GT Online relevant, you know. Comparing... |
| 30. January 2021 | The usefulness and universality of censorship | The usefulness and universality of censorship. So I'm of the view, right, that I don't think censorship is in any way shape or form a one-sided issue. In that, at every point in time in history where any particular group is in power, there is always some aspect of that group that is interested in censoring the opposing side. Because censorship is just very expedient in terms of increasing your influence. Because it's very hard for people to come to an opposing viewpoint or to be given information about opposing viewpoint if that information just doesn't exist out there in the world. Whether it be like anti blasphemy laws making it so you can't be critical of religion or all the stuff in the 90s or whatever that video games are evil or bringing the video game creators to Congress or the music people to before Congress or whatever. All these attempts to censor video games and music and da da da. The best example I found, come to my textbooks back in the day, pornography. You had the most religious conservative people arguing against pornography and that it should be censored and the most liberal anti-religious people arguing the exact same thing for completely different reasons. Both arguing for censorship. Like it's just expedient censorship. Don't think for a moment that if we just get these people in power, man, censorship will stop. It'll always be that. It'll always be something that you've got to fight against. Only censorship that you think is unjustified. No, I don't think censorship is extreme. It is literally a tool to achieve an ends. For the reasons I talked about before, that humans have a bias in favor of believing the first thing they hear and believing it's stronger every time that they don't have their minds changed. You can understand immediately why censorship is valuable knowing that about human psychology because you want your idea to be the first one that people hear. If the other idea is the one that they first hear, you're like, well I'm fighting an uphill battle now. Like it's certainly not fair and rampant censorship I think would be a bad society to live in. But you can understand how it has existed as a tool literally forever and why every political persuasion does it to some degree when they have the power to do so. It is very hard when you have the power to put a stop on those you disagree with or you find repugnance and to instead be charitable and let them thrive. Because you're effectively just making it harder for yourself to propagate your own ideas. There are issues right now that no one knows about. It's like, what's your opinion on... I can make something up and you wouldn't have an opinion on it because you know nothing about it. It is true that things that can be repressed sometimes still grow but it's harder for them to grow. You can't say that censorship does not have an ability to repress ideas. It simply does. But it can be the case that censorship is insufficient or impossible if an idea has enough external motivations for it. You know? Something doesn't have to be absolutely perfect in doing something for that thing to have an effect, a measurable effect on that something, right? It's an argument that people often incorrectly use against regulation. If something has an effect of reducing the amount of something, it still reduces the amount even if it doesn't completely stop that something, you know? |
| 21. August 2022 | The uselessness of saying "don't harass this person" | The uselessness of saying, don't harass this person. I was watching the WAN show with Linus Tech Tips and Linus was accused of, uh, he was being accused of dismissing a person because, um, her not accepting his advances in some way, which is nonsense, especially if you know him. But what interests me about this story is at the beginning of him talking about this, defending himself, he says, don't go harass this person. I don't want that. That's not what this is about. I just want to clear the air, put my story out there, all that jazz. And he goes into detail like this, and then he explains everything, and then like, towards the end of this discussion, Luke is like, yeah, so it seems as though people are out there saying garbage things to this person on Twitter. And I looked and, like, immediately, like, I was watching this live, this person had received so much backlash that they had already protected their tweets. And it again highlights saying, do not go harass a person does nothing. No person needs to be informed that harassing a person is bad. The sort of person to harass a person, or to send mean tweets and stuff and bombard a person like that, isn't a person you can dissuade by saying, don't go message this person. It is also sometimes the case that what an individual is doing isn't considered by them to be harassment. And it can be the case that that individual message isn't particularly hateful, but when there's thousands of people sending basically the same message, it feels that way to the recipient. All you do really, by saying, don't go message this person, is put in the minds of bad actors who are watching you, that this is something I don't want you to do, and they'll go do it just to spite you. Either that, or people who wouldn't have thought about doing it, and are like, oh, going to message this person. You know, I hadn't thought of that before, but now that you've mentioned it, I'm gonna go do it. The only way to stop people from being garbage and sending hate towards people, is to not give them the ability to, as in you just hide their name, or give as little air to that concept as possible. The only reason to ever say, don't go harass this person, is to protect yourself, from disingenuous people who will imply that the result of your viewers will always be your fault. The reason why I say this is disingenuous, is because once you are at a certain size, it is impossible to not have assholes who watch you. It's impossible. Even if 0.0001% of people harass people, or say garbage, or whatever, it will seem like an avalanche, a torrent, to the person who's receiving it. And there's never going to be actions that you can take that can truly prevent that from happening, once you get to a certain size, outside of just making it as difficult as possible for the people to find that person. You can put up barriers to entry, but they'll never be 100%, because people can, you know, figure it out for themselves. It's very hard to explain a story without having some information about who you're talking about. You should negatively judge a creator, not based on their mechanisms of- of preventing such things, but more, to what degree they seek to inspire such things. We've seen people, creators, who have weaponized their community, who've said, go dislike this person's video, go send hateful things to this person, report this person. You can judge people poorly on that basis, but this widespread judgment of creators, based on the poor actions of their viewers, I don't think is justified, just on the basis of those poor actions. There has to be some incitement, some willful inspiring of those actions by the creator, for it to reflect negatively on that creator. Just too often do I see people being like, oh, this- this- this viewer of this person said something mean, clearly that creator is now a terrible human being. It's just dumb. Whether or not the people who make such arguments are knowingly speaking false, I don't know, but people should be cognizant of that. You cannot control millions of people. You can only make it a little bit more difficult. And as I say, I don't think saying, don't hur- |
| 01. September 2021 | The value of AFK viewers on Twitch | The value of AFK viewers on Twitch Sure, tons of people go AFK in his stream tons of people go AFK in my streams too because it's a speed run, right? You want to go do something else you you mute my stream and you go do something else you come back and go Oh look Matt's reset again, and then you leave and come back You know watching an entirety of a run like this is not for everyone You know, but people still want to know how the runs going so they stop being there once in a while It's why when I do a straw poll I get like a quarter of the people responding That's not the only reason but yeah having viewers that do nothing While not necessarily preferred Like those who just AFK in chat are still useful because they boost your numbers in the stream listings even the difference between Being third over say being second or first or fourth whatever it it matters even one position matters So people get us like when when some people who get this are like, hey Matt I'm leaving but I'm gonna leave your stream open just so you get that one extra viewer it matters |
| 18. May 2021 | The value of VPNs | The value of VPNs. The sponsorships you can't take seriously is for VPNs and Raid. VPNs are useful. I know they you may think oh as I'm because you're an American or whatever you don't need a VPN blah blah, but I Trust if you aren't American you you generally it is useful having a VPN. I use Surfshark It doesn't come up as much as it used to But I still do use it on occasion VPN SBS the claims that VPNs often make is bullshit or like maybe not bullshit necessarily, but just like misleading in that like some of the things that they say they protect you you from like that you're already protected from that if you're going to Any normal website website and shit and for the average user? Most of that stuff doesn't matter but for getting around content restrictions VPNs are invaluable because you guys make you know you don't stand how annoying it is when Someone like recommends a video on reddit and you click it and it's like this this video is not available in your region Or you want to look up something and it just so happens is blocked by your your ISP Whatever which which does happen like certainly I would go to the effort more to Use the content libraries of other regions. It's just I can't be bothered back in the day when I had More free time I did but it's like now I like I barely have time to watch the content that's available in my region So I don't really need to go out of that but most people have more free time than me I've done sponsorships for Nord and surf shop and in both cases. I'm fairly certain. I didn't say anything that isn't true |
| 15. November 2021 | The value of april fools for content creators. | The value of April Fools for content creators. I did want to do some kind of an April Fools thing, where I released the facts and glitches and it was just like the most mundane shit. Did you know that if you push the accelerator button, your vehicles go faster? It's true. I end every single fact with like, these are the facts that they don't want you to know. April Fools is often great for content creators who lack content to release. You can make any shit thing and be like, haha April Fools! It's like, haha April Fools, I'm releasing a video of a black screen with 15 ads in it. Ha ha ha, I got you guys good. |
| 22. October 2022 | The value of fan contributions to a successful YouTube career. | The value of fan contributions to a successful YouTube career. In this business, it's often very good to have easy sources of repeated content, and fan contributions or viewer contributions are always going to be good for that. You've got countless people with a very life experience that can look at things in ways that you can't fathom, and you can go, hey, here's a thing, what do you see? What can you think of? And you can get, then prune the results to get something good, rather than hitting your head against the wall for hours and hours on end to think of the best thing that you can conceive of. |
| 06. August 2020 | The value of polling | The value of polling. Selective polling and loaded questions is a problem. It's not though. The problem with polling is often just not looking at the methodology, which no one really has time to look at. All polling has value, regardless of what is asked. You just need to know what is asked and who is being surveyed to contextualize how valuable that poll is. But if you've got hundreds of polls, it's impossible for them all to contain the same levels of bias as an aggregate. And you need to take things within the margin of error. It's why people want to say, oh, you look, the 2016 polling for the presidential election was so far off, so inaccurate. Well, no, it wasn't. It said Clinton would win nationally by two or three points, which he did. Trump won by the tiniest of margins ever while losing the popular vote as large as he did. Obviously, there's been one American election that was closer, but his was the second closest in history. He won by 77,000 votes, spurred between three states in the tiniest margin ever to win. People who took aggregate polling and made their own predictions as to how likely Clinton was to win, different places put it between anywhere between 98% and 75% chance for Clinton to win. And people look at this and go, look how inaccurate these were. They said Trump only had a tiny chance to win. He did only have a tiny chance to win and he won. People don't understand statistics. It's like, it said it had a one in 50 chance of winning and it won. That means it was incorrect. No, one in 50 chance things happen every fucking day, thousands of times a day, millions of times a day. He was a long shot and he won. That happens all the time. Has no one ever been to a racetrack before. People who point to skewed polls to say that polling doesn't work. It's like pointing to a broken refrigerator and saying, refrigerators don't work. Get rid of all the refrigerators. Refrigerators have no value. I found this broken refrigerator. Of course, every single thing, if not done correctly, is not going to be useful. It's not a mark against polling. It's just how reality works. Even the, all the time, the Brexit polling is like, oh, Brexit polling said it was, you know, they was definitely going to stay, you know, complete, complete fools, the pollsters. And you look at the polling and the last couple of months, it's like, leave, it's just, you know, deja vu going to overtake the stay. And at the very end, they were neck and neck in the aggregate polling with many polls going above and some below. And they also barely won. Leave barely won. It's just people, people prefer the narrative where they can deny the wider picture because they don't like what the wider picture presents. They want to maintain their bubble where everyone in the world agrees with them. And it's, they don't like the harsh reality that there might be people out there who hold opinions that they don't, who may actually be in the majority. So you hear things like, oh, the silent majority is out there, man. They all, everyone out there actually agrees with me. And everyone has that fucking narrative. Then reality, everyone's in agree with me. It's nonsense. People wanted to delude themselves rather than facing the wider reality outside their specific perspective. |
| 29. October 2021 | The value of remasters | The value of remasters. I saw a poll recently that suggested that a significant amount of people haven't played San Andreas, Vice City or GTA 3. As much as we shit on remasters, right? A lot of content people just don't even think to look back to find. They're like, if it isn't new, I don't care. Because certainly, if something isn't marketed, then you aren't necessarily going to run into it, right? YouTube and people's highlighting of old content is one of the few ways that people can really learn of new stuff that they might enjoy. Dozens of times I've ran into YouTubers talking about something and going, oh, that actually sounds like something I should check out and I've checked it out. But it's only with the re-release that it makes sense for companies to re-market this stuff to a new audience. I mean, certainly, just new content is in general better. Because you can imagine that with the development of technology and gaming techniques and da-da-da, the new stuff will be better than the old stuff. I suppose it's most of the time, not always, but I just think sometimes remaking old stuff that's really, really good is justified for a new generation. To be real though, if it wasn't for modders, playing the old games would be basically impossible. You know? I mean, modders help make remasters and remakes less necessary. And you can't always guarantee that old games will get fan support forever. I hate having long hair. Am I going for the long hair look? No, I'm going to get my hair cut. |
| 27. March 2022 | The value of spoilers for media. | The value of spoilers for media. I wonder what you think about spoilers in movies. For me personally I don't care because it's not about how the movie ends or something, rather how it led to the breaking point or whatever. But really spoilers don't ruin it for me. We talked about spoilers before. There have been studies of spoilers specifically that have found that they don't necessarily ruin people's experience of movies. And in some cases they improve people's experience. Ultimately it depends on the person and it depends on what the media is. I can totally see how some movies wouldn't be ruined if you knew the twist. And in some cases you'd be like, oh so this is going to lead up to this, oh and you'd gain some enjoyment out of that. But some people enjoy it, some people don't. Me personally, I prefer going into stuff completely blind. I like to be as ignorant as possible. Even while acknowledging that for some media I think knowing the ending beforehand would probably help me. But I have no way of knowing that beforehand. So in general I try to be completely ignorant as possible. Like as I've said, for Red Dead 2 I think if I knew the ending and I knew that it was going somewhere, I would be much more willing to deal with some of the slog. Because like, well this is building up to Syenkin. I wouldn't see things as insignificant bullshit that I'm being forced to go through. I'd be like, oh this is actually leading up to this and this is why this is here. Oh that's good. It would contextualize things so that I wouldn't... I would understand everything's purpose and not be dismissive of it, you know? But I don't know if that applies to everything, but I can see how in Red Dead 2 that would help me. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 01. July 2020 | The value of the speedrunning community | The value of the speedrunning community. Do I have any tips for speedrunning? Speedrunning is just watching the world record, doing what it does, practicing the run, and engaging with the community to keep up with new strats and put forward strats ideas and ask for suggestions and stuff. It is certainly possible to become the world record holder without any interactions with anyone else, but you're handicapping yourself. Like you could spend 6 hours tinkering with a strat trying to make it work for yourself, or you could just ask a person, hey man how's this work. It feels weird sometimes because like I ask people when I'm not certain of something, hey how does this work? And I think people have the perception that I'm meant to like know everything. I'm meant to be super expert speedrun guy. My knowledge is just unquestionable. Often even in the past when I ran every day, I would do something and it would work. You know, most of the time or 90% of the time whatever. And I just, but there was a more optimal way of doing it. Even if you can do the things, it doesn't mean you're doing it the optimal perfect way. You know, it's kind of what I talk about sometimes. Sometimes you have a solution for something, even if it isn't perfect, and you'll just keep using that solution because it works. You know, you won't look for a better thing. It's just one of those things where you can get so set in your ways doing something a particular way that it's almost inconceivable for you to think of doing it another way. It's why it's always good to get a new set of eyes on the problem, right? It's annoying sometimes in speedrunning where a new person comes along and they suggest things that have been long since discarded, right? But those annoyances are worth the upside of them sometimes going, why haven't you tried this? And people going, yeah, why haven't we done that? That's, that's silly. You know, it's kind of like I set up a strat to use an RPG to kill Tao Chang or whatever on the third way with Franklin. It was fast to use the RPG, but it was really finicky and terrible. And then someone else like, why don't you just snap rifle? I was like, oh, yeah, because I forgot that technically you don't need to kill Tao Chang and his associates. Technically you just need to kill Tao Chang and then leave the area. But because you're so far away when you're, you're snapping or when I was using the RPG, you automatically leave in the area anyway, so you can just snap the dude, which is so much easier. So it was my strat as one more person going, hey, why don't you do this a different way? So, you know, behind every world record is like dozens of people potentially who have added strats to the front. It's a shame it doesn't get noticed a lot, but you know, because it's, it's just impossible at the end of the day to remember every single person who's contributed even a small amount of nectar |
| 19. February 2022 | The value of your first viewers as a livestreamer | The value of your first viewers as a live streamer. Someone said they watched my first speedrun that I put on speedrun.com. It's on my YouTube channel now. But they told me there was only like maybe one person who really spoke to me that much. Which makes sense. The few viewers I had at the beginning who, you know, talked to me and were there every once in a while. You know, they supported me enough that I could continue, you know. I mean, the people who really like small streams, you know, they make or break a lot of channels. It feels me dread sometimes knowing that there's like very talented, interesting people who stream like no viewers and give up after months of, you know, neglect. |
| 10. May 2021 | The vegan lifestyle and saving animals through veganism | The vegan lifestyle and saving animals through veganism. What do you think of the vegan lifestyle? I've never done it. I mean, if it's something that a person can live with and do, that seems like a good thing. I mean, it seems better for the environments. And the question of the moral implications of eating meat, you know, you can go either way on it and it's debatable and blah, blah, blah. But I mean, if it's like what I'm saying is it's very, very unlikely that you're going to one day wake up and go, man, it's morally reprehensible to eat plants. But it's possible that any one of us might wake up one day and go, ah, it's morally reprehensible to eat animals. It's conclusions that people come to. Like, if you can live a vegan lifestyle and do it healthily and whatever, it just seems to be a safe bet, you know? Personally, I'm hoping that synthetic meat comes along and just removes that question entirely, because there is synthetic meat getting cheaper than normal meat. And certainly it's better for the environment. There are some weird arguments for veganism that I'm not really sure I get, like the idea that you should not eat meat because it reduces suffering. It's a weird one, because ultimately, stopping eating meat doesn't reduce suffering, it just reduces the amount of animals that are born for the purposes of consumption. As in, like, if you stopped eating tomorrow, there wouldn't be a single creature saved from suffering, not a single one. Unless you consider non-existence to be preferable to the circumstances in which animals exist in, and maybe you do. But the idea that you're saving animals through veganism is not the case. It's you're preventing animals from being born through reduction of demand. As in, if the meat industry disappeared, it's not as though the cows would just be set free into the wild and they would just live happily ever after. They've been domesticated for hundreds of years, they'd all die. What would just happen is, slowly but surely, the demand for these goods and services would decrease over time, and then less and less would be born for the purposes of consumption until they wouldn't be profitable, and then they'd just stop being born. They'd probably be cold, and then that industry would just disappear, and certain species of animals would just vanish. Because that's what happens when you grotesquely, selectively breed animals for their meat or other products that they produce. They don't become fit for the wild anymore, you know? The animals in the industry would be held more friendly. That's not at all true. What would happen is, as demand goes lower, companies would need to still keep the same amount of cost of the goods, or the demand would get even lower because the price starts to go up. So they would eventually just put animals in worse and worse and worse and worse and worse situations to cut costs as much as possible, until eventually, cutting of costs can't maintain the industry anymore, and then it just goes away. It is less cost-effective to treat animals with some degree of empathy, or to have them free-range and stuff, you know? Maybe in some cases that would be it. Some industries would be like, okay, we can stay in business a bit longer if we convince the public that we have free-range, these good conditions for these animals or whatever, but profit is king, and costs will be cut. Cows can survive long without strife. Being vegan is a first-world problem. No many other countries can't sustain their lifestyle. I don't think there is any region where you couldn't sustain a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. I believe some cultures, meat is either a delicacy, or it's not done particularly often at all. Isn't it more a Western thing that every meal has to have meat in it, or whatever? Not sure India has a huge vegetarian population? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. And certainly, ignore fish. I think a lot of meat eaten worldwide is fish. You can't be vegan in the wild? Of course you could be vegan in the wild. It would be a lot harder, I imagine. You're right, though, that avoiding particular types of food is a luxury of plenty. As in, you know, if you're fighting to get calories, either because of poverty or lack of access to resources, you can't just be turning down certain foods. Every meal is American and Australian. I saw a poll recently. Actually, it was not a scientific poll. It was done by Daily Dose of Internet on community posts. And he asked, how often do you eat meat or something? And I think it said every day for 70% of people. As an American, you don't consider a meal if it doesn't have meat, at least I'm not satisfied without meat. It's just a thing, you know, you get used to. Your expectations are based on your prior experience, different cultures. I eat meat every day. I don't think I always did. But especially when I came to, like when I stopped eating, you know, multiple meals every day, and I just wanted a large meal to have enough energy for the rest of the day. It's hard to consume enough food without something like dense in calories or what. |
| 08. January 2022 | The viability of owning an electric car | Wealth, it's like I still do things smartly and I still like I don't understand the wealth flex that people tend to really bring out The viability of owning an electric car But like I bought myself a Lexus and the only reason I bought myself one especially during COVID when I kind of really drive I'll go anywhere. I don't really go anywhere anyway, but it's because my previous car I had for like, you know 15 plus years and was basically a death trap It's like I may as well buy something that's safe and looks nice if I'm gonna buy something at all. It's probably the one extravagant purchase I've had since making a bit more money, but it's uh, it's you know, different Which Lexus did you get because those are really nice cars I'm not a big car person chat. What's which it was like is 300 or something chat and got the number Lexus is 300 a Those are nice. It does look nice except the GPS is not as good as Google Maps That's the one thing I noticed immediately That's literally the only reason I went with the when I when I went to Tesla cuz like the thing that pissed me off When I bought that was like they don't allow you to use the Android Auto and that's pretty much what I use in every car So it's like when I first got it, everything is on Google like all their maps are through Google So it's like alright, whatever. That's all I fucking need it I don't need anything else The only big issue with that is like fucking the the charging on it like you definitely get anxiety on like those electric vehicles That's about the only thing I can really knock against it Yeah, my mind's a hybrid like I don't think with the current infrastructure in Australia that I can really support having Electric car, but I mean I suppose my car just sits in the garage So probably I could have one because I wouldn't really matter The thing with the electric stuff is like it's kind of a bit of a money pit Like I know when I bought this I I had to pay like the extra fucking was it like 10 grand for the FSD like the Driving component and then like the extra grand for installing the charger at my house So it's it's a bit pricier for sure like you're gonna be spending some money up front But like the thing with the infrastructure is absolutely true, right? Like I live an hour out like 40 minutes out from Toronto now and like in my entire city There's literally only one charger for the car like one like station of chargers. Yeah, that's my fear It's like it's not like a gas station where you can come in fucking stick it in for five minutes I'm like, you know pay your money and go off It's like you got to sit there at the charger for like 40 minutes for this thing to fucking charge up, too I mean certainly it improves over time and all that jazz. I mean it is still technically Well, I'm someone say it's a new technology has been around for fucking forever But it's it's only one widely become adopted enough to really advance in the last what decade or something It's weird to me like how fucking Tesla was the one company to like implement a car that looked decent with electric cuz like every other electric vehicle like fucking they just look Bad like it's like they look trash and I'm like Why isn't like BMW or like Mercedes or like Lexus and like all these companies? Like Acura jumping in onto the full EV trend with like their design I'd buy a fucking BMW if it looked like a three series and an electric but you know before Tesla it's hard to think back that far But it wasn't really cool to be green and so the only people who bought Electric car people who did not give a shit what it looks like it wasn't there wasn't a market for but tests like nah man Fucking electric cars are the fucking way of the future the greatest thing and then it became you know I mean probably a lot of tech people got it first and then it became like a status symbol to have an electric car and then With the status becomes trying to make the cars look good It's also like fucking just you sit over there And it's like they're the first ones to come and it's like you can't have an electric vehicle And it can like go up to like Lamborghini speeds and you can't have a good time like dude Well, I remember that's the one thing I told us like this thing is fast. I'm like you're telling me. It's fast I'm like dude. I can't even drive 45 a but like I I can't drive 10 above the limit without the cops pulling me over I was in Australia in Melbourne, dude. I I rented a fucking car out there I rented a nice vehicle and I was like, you know, I'm gonna drive this on the highway a little bit Immediately pulled over for going like 15 over the limit and those are the Australian cops They do not fucking kid around guys. Like they will like I kind of played it a little cool with them I was like, oh, I'm just a dumb American. We use miles per hour. No, no, no, they looked at my driver's license I'm like, no, you got kilometers back home kid. It's like you better watch yourself It's bad bad luck I suppose because I I mean I don't drive all that often But I've probably only been pulled over once in my entire life and that was like for a breath test or whatever and I I get nothing happen there, but it's just a you |
| 01. September 2021 | The viability of speedrunning online games | The viability of speedrunning online games. You can definitely make speedruns in online content. They're just not normally good, especially when a new patch could break strats or make things faster or slower. Like Fallout 76 added some stuff that made leveling slower and stuff. If you had a speedrun based on leveling, like, a patch would just ruin it, you know? Especially downpatching for online games isn't really doable. I don't think Fallout... Yeah, it is a survival game, but even in survival games there's normally... definitive things that you can do. A certain amount of quests or main quests or whatever. I mean, people even speedrun Destiny 2 and stuff, just completion of individual heists and I assume Warframes... |
| 04. April 2023 | The wealthy using public displays of charity for easy positive news coverage. | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Rambles Podcast starting with the topic the wealthy using public displays of charity for easy Positive news coverage. Why can't I just go back to writing essays chat? Why can't I just quit? All this gaming stuff and just write essays and communicate my thoughts in a way that I actually am good at Rather than attempting to communicate my thoughts via speech, which I am notoriously bad at. I am always skeptical of of public displays of charity. There is this comedic scene from a very old comedy where a dude's in Church and the collection plate comes around and he very publicly pulls out his wallet reaches in grabs a 50 blings it around Make sure everyone sees and puts it in the collection plate and then moves the collection plate along. Now is this person giving $50 because he sincerely cares about whatever that money is going to be spent on at his local church Maybe the charity or what have you or is he just given $50 because he wants other people to think he's a good person And he wants to feel good basking that praise from other people where they're like, oh, he's given $50 to the church Oh, he must be really righteous and wonderful person. This is kind of problem with public displays of charity Where you look at a person giving to a charitable cause and you're like I can see this Are you doing this because I can see you doing this or you actually give a fuck You've likely heard that old question of if a tree falls in a forest and no one's around to hear it Does it make a sound there's another question If an influencer donates the charity and it isn't recorded and put online for maximum clout Did it really happen whenever anyone performs a good acts by any definition? You can assess two different things the act itself and the person doing the act now the acts I would argue is good Irrespective of the intentions of the person you can judge it in of itself But the act being good doesn't necessarily make the person good or their intentions righteous by some definition right an example would be a person who Has a TV one TV and their friend doesn't have a TV They see their friend having a hard time so they give their TV to their friend you would say well That's a good act and it represents the person having good intentions being nice being kind being good all that jazz a different scenario would be a person who has a TV doesn't want it anymore wants to chuck it out and Their friend saying I'll take it off your hands and the person be like oh sweet Yeah, I was I was gonna chuck it out anyway So take it is that person giving up that TV a good person or are they just looking for an easy way to get rid of? Trash that they didn't want anyway in both cases the friend is getting a TV But your judgment of the person will be entirely different It's it speaks differently in terms of their character So you guys know obviously that I'm on the record that I think his son is a terrible human being Reprehensible entirely selfish driven by his own desire to be the center of attention his own wealth Grandiosity whatever care he has for others is Way down the list from those goals and so for those who don't use Twitter I don't look at my for you page very often because I don't really care about what the wider internet is doing I just care about the like 90 odd people that I follow what they're doing because that's why I follow them because I care but I clicked on my for you page and I saw that That her son was giving some of his money to a local pet adoption agency Paying for the money that people are spending to adopt pets that day I believe incredible I still want to pay for the adoption fees of all the puppies you guys have here today Yeah, that's amazing. Um, did you want to do it? This facility was $500 per adoption fee So if you come here and you don't have $500 and you want to adopt the dog and you're eligible you fill out a form You can come and adopt it and it'll be for free for you. Hopefully you can say the the Hassan Abiy hookup You know what? I mean? It was yeah, it's this facility unlike the other one is $500 for adoption and we paid for all the dogs in here Which totaled to 15,000? I don't know what that how many dogs that means. I think it's like, I don't know I can't do the math, but whatever it's called wags and wongs Bringing happiness home and I also she literally was like well, you are a big donor. Maybe we can make some For the great Danes, maybe we can find something I was like, no, no, no, don't do that I was like don't do that. But like also maybe no, I was like no don't do that Now Hassan piker makes like what? $300,000 minimum a month an expense of a few thousand or tens of thousands or what-have-you is Nothing for him as long as there's someone else out there working hard to make YouTube videos He will always have a source of revenue because they can just sit on his ass and watch those people work hard and make that Money, there is no sacrifice entailed whenever he gives money to any charitable cause and for me That is what entails the goodness of an act or at the very least The degree of sacrifice in an act Removes the ambiguity as to the intentions of the person doing the act the perfect example of this from fantasy and why it's used in The story is in Disney's Aladdin when Aladdin and Abu Steal a loaf of bread and run away from the guards and when they finally get free and are about to eat their bread They look and see two children who are starving and they give their bread to the children Here go on take it Aladdin and Abu were hungry of course they had nothing else But even in a situation where they were in need they sacrificed for the well-being of someone else in a case where a person has consistent income of hundreds of thousands of dollars a month giving thousands of dollars entails no sacrifice it is utterly meaningless and in the case of Hassan where he in my view Justifiably has a terrible reputation whenever he gives a Few shackles of his insane wealth to some charitable cause in the most public way possible I can't help but view it as entirely disingenuous as entirely an act designed to Bring forth attention and praise as a matter of public relations as opposed to genuine care I don't think Hassan would sacrifice anything for anyone ever and his entire career as far as I'm aware Showcase that to be true and so seeing this I was like I'm gonna write a tweet that I know people are not like that I know will cause me to lose followers And I'm gonna mute this shit immediately something I've never done. So I do not see any other applies step one exploit harm lie cheat steal until you are wealthy and powerful to In response to the criticism you gonna spend a small part of what you have taken on very public charity step three people forget As cloud chases praise and fawn for award and never ending tale as old as time Lesson of society is that it doesn't matter how you win as long as you win only losers are condemned with enough wealth You can push away your passwords and deeds live in luxury few can even contemplate You can spend pennies relative to your total wealth and you'll get a parade for what amounts to like for the average person 2 bucks 50 Hassan can buy more publicity than an average person will get Donating an organ and spending the next 10 years helping the homeless Hassan giving up Pennies will be talked about for the rest of time. It'll be used every single time He's rightly criticized for things he's done in the past or said in the past or said in the future this aspect of society is gross And it isn't just laid to a son It's laid to everyone who is wealthy the praise we give for an act Isn't based on the degree of sacrifice that a person is putting forth upon themselves to do the good it is the degree of Good that is achieved and therefore the people who get the most praise will always be those who are already wealthy and successful Irrespective of whether or not they actually deserve that praise to clarify what I mean here a wealthy and successful person can give up No time no effort or anything of value and still achieve Astronomically more than a regular person who does give up their time effort and everything they value in a world where assessment of virtue And worthiness of attention is based solely upon the impact of a person's actions It is the wealthy and successful who will reap the lion's share of the praise Despite the huge difference in sacrifice put forth by the one performing the acts a person who has a thousand dollars who gives $500 to the needy is obviously doing something more significant and wonderful Then her son giving $50,000 charity because for her son that's meaningless money literally means he can sit in a chair and watch YouTube Videos or they and and make that back instantly where another person giving five dollars That's that's a huge amount of money for a person only with thousand dollars But that's not how we as a society treat things and I think it's gross I do not like public displays of charity that seem to be Designs to bring forth good PR to restore a person's image or what have you I'm to get people talking about you The cloud and so every single time I see public charity I have to go through this song and dance like our what are their intentions or do they really care? Because obviously her son for the rest of his career is going to be giving some percent of his money to charity as publicly as Possible to restore his image as has every single person in history who has gained money Potentially through methods that have brought forth criticism in the same way that train wrecks who got millions of dollars advertising gambling Every single time anything related to some public issue occurs He's on Twitter like I will donate tens of thousands of dollars to this mental health done issues of some Clamity in in the world. Here's a hundred thousand dollars done because it just doesn't matter to him because the money is meaningless But you gotta understand how this looks when you're publicly being like fuck this dude for Clout chasing with his charity. How does that look? criticizing a person's charity How does that look criticizing a person's charitable efforts will always look bad. You could argue a part of the scheme It's why people use charity in attempts to restore their own public image Because it's very hard to criticize a person giving to the needy even if they're doing it for selfish reasons You only get into a philosophical argument about intentions as to whether and whether intentions matter in regards to Charitable actions, but you can have these discussions and I think they matter so to bring it back to hassan here hassan Looking around holding his wallet high opening it up Sticking his hand in very publicly bring it out of 50 Waving it around so everyone can see and then putting it in the collection plate to me is massively disingenuous And it doesn't matter to me how much of his obscene wealth he gives away That'll always be what it is because at no point will this man ever take upon himself sacrifice He will only give what doesn't matter for him. He will never sacrifice for others I hate how most streamers just don't care how shitty hassan is If you have an audience, that's all that matters in this industry spending your time Criticizing what other creators are doing is a bad move for success for continued growth As I kept trying to point out in my other series You're much better off in creating yourself with the rich and powerful than criticize them in the vast majority of cases It isn't that you can't succeed or find your audience doing that criticism But you'll never get the same size as those who are already In the upper echelons, right? I suspected it's the case that a lot of people who are creators Dislike what other creators do or how they conduct themselves But they just won't say out loud or maybe they don't think it's their place to say you won't receive any real benefit from Starting shit with other creators in drama channels with higher sub count always win. Yeah, that's true Well at least 90% of time keeping their mouth shut because bad for business. Yeah, you want to collab with other creators You don't want to criticize them and potentially divide your viewers. I know i've had viewers who have said oh, I like asan Like okay, cool. That's it's your business But I know people who have stopped watching me because they would rather watch asan watch youtube videos than watch my content I mean certainly hassan did ban a significant portion of our mutual viewers So I won those I guess but obviously these moves aren't smart. One of the funniest things was the way that certain parts Of twitter will treat mr. Beast donating to charity versus asan doing it Because hasan's on their team. He's one of their guys right and there's this meme. I'm donating to dog shelter Oh, you're so sweet. I'm curing blindness for a thousand people. Hello human resources Because they are people who will criticize mr beast's charitable efforts until the cows come home but the second hassan gives the equivalent of 15 cents to a dog shelter I'm just like oh my god. This charity is so good. He's the greatest guy ever Yes, a lot of politics for people is just these these my team. It's my guy Just a typical mr beast haters but I respect mr beast because his contents are also comedy at the same time other channel vids are also Quite bland imo there are things you can criticize about mr beast or things in the same way that we went through those questions just moments ago you can have those same questions for mr beast as well and what conclusions you're going to come to are gonna vary After two years of waiting a gt5 player gets helped to solve a mystery So someone pinged me on reddit for a question a person asked in the gt5 subreddit a year ago |
| 10. December 2022 | The weapon lockers are all glitched in GTA Online | The weapon lockers are all glitched in GTA Online. A viewer of mine, Pat Path, sent me a write up about how gun lockers work in GTA Online. You'll get a kick out of this. So, this long ass guide, long, long guide, basically explains, yo, by the way, some gun lockers don't work. And if you have one type of gun locker, it'll make other gun lockers not work. Some gun lockers will only work in some cases, some won't work in any cases. And the summary here, to successfully hide weapons, you need to purchase at least one of the following. Weapon workshop in Avenger, personal quarters in an arcade, office expansion in the penthouse, weapon workshop in the sub. The gun locker bundled with the mobile operations center's weapon workshop does not work alone, but it does not have any side effects either, so it's fine to own. All other gun lockers are not working at all, and they even interfere with the functionality of working ones. So, please do not buy any of them. I have the office one. That's why I keep complaining, like, why does it keep giving me back my weapons in different cases and not removing certain weapons? It's because I've got one of the broken ones. The security room facilities, security upgrade for night clubs, and the arena workshop are bundled with an interfering gun locker, but this information is not prominently shown in the game. Please avoid all of them. So, if you have any of these rooms, you're probably unaware that your gun lockers are being fucked by these rooms, because you just don't know you have a gun locker in there. Yeah, so I have to do this. I have to move my property to remove my office gun locker, and then I'm going to buy one in the sub. And there's still apparently, like, three weapons that can't be hidden by these gun lockers. Isn't that dumb? I haven't actually looked at any of these other guides here, but, uh, this might be some good information. How old is this guide? It's from over a year ago. Hmm, interesting. Thank you, Leo3418. Maybe this is information you guys knew of, but I don't know. |
| 15. May 2021 | The weirdest person I have met online dating | The weirdest person I've met in online dating. The weirdest conversation so far is this chick who... Her profile was so weird that I wanted to see if she'd talk to me. It was like, Hey comrade, down with capitalism. Destroy the systems. Like, I'm not describing it well, but it just came across as I fucking hate everything. Everything sucks. All people suck. Life sucks. Everything should be destroyed. Like, oh, this seems like a lovely person. Let's see what they have to say. I did end up talking to them. The only thing they said to me, like the first thing they said is, Have you ever heard of... Oh no. What do you think of MAFs? And I was like, what the fuck is an MAFs? And so I googled it, and it's married at first sight. And I was like, this chick is crazy. And I said, I didn't know what it was, googled it, but it sounds fucking stupid. And he never responded to me, so I don't know. Guys, it's a TV show? Really? Then Google lied to me. What is MAFs? Married at first sight? It's a Channel 9 show? Oh. Still seems fucking stupid. I stand by my assessment. I only took a glance at it. I thought it was a thing where people literally met and got married and saw how it went. But if it's a TV show, I mean it's a little less stupid, but still quite stupid to me. |
| 20. October 2021 | The wikipedia rant | The Wikipedia Rants Can I rant to you for a second chat? I was actually thinking about making a YouTube video on this because I was so mad. Oh, mad made the wrong word. Cranky. I even got a small little script thing that I half wrote. And now I'm gonna look like I'm reading it. Fine. It boggles my mind that people think Wikipedia is a bad place for basic info. They say, anyone could have wrote it. Or, it makes mistakes. This is the case with every single fucking website that exists. Wikipedia beats 99% of places to get information for five reasons. One, it has multiple authors. It is funny watching the bickering that the authors of Wikipedia will have on some pages where they'll go backwards and forwards arguing about who's right and have to substantiate what they're trying to add or it won't be fucking added at all. Different pages have differing levels of checks and balances or differing amounts of authors that bicker and fight about what information goes up there. But this is at least better than the average website that is just whatever one guy has ripped from his asshole. It doesn't mean Wikipedia is perfect, but the average website is just whatever some guy wants to write. Wikipedia, the article, is at least potentially added to by like dozens of people over many years. This, on average, is going to be superior to just some guy on some website. Secondly, it's sourced. If you go to the average website, if there are sources at all, it might be for like one or two things. On Wikipedia, there seems to be like a certain amount of people who get special joy in adding to certain lines, citation needed. Like we're all back in like 2014 and that was the height of witticism. Like, hehe, citation needed. Where's your sources? And that's Wikipedia, because if you're going to write something there, you've at least got to source it. It doesn't mean the source is going to be good. Just like anywhere on the internet, just because something is sourced doesn't mean that it's necessarily sourced well, or the person who is referencing it is referencing it correctly, but at least there is the source. So you can see something in Wikipedia and go, that sounds like fucking bullshit. And you can look at the source and go, that is fucking bullshit. You don't get that luxury on most websites. On most websites, if people give sources at all, it's just like a general, yeah, I looked at this sometimes when I was writing this. People will be like, I did my research, I watched a bunch of unsourced YouTube videos and looked at a bunch of Facebook memes. On Wikipedia? Yeah, that's shit though. Thirdly, it traditionally avoids opinion. Have you ever been reading someone's write-up about a topic, or like, I don't know, even just watching someone talk about a topic on YouTube, and they go, well, you know, my uncle Frank was talking to some guy in a bar one time. You just like, shut the fuck up. Get back to the topic. I don't care about your personal anecdotes and how much you really get good feelings about the topic you're speaking on. On Wikipedia, that shit usually just gets removed, or people don't think to add it, because it's Wikipedia. The average website is just full of a bunch of shit, again, that a person has pulled out their ass. Wikipedia doesn't have none of this, but it's less compared to the average website. Fourthly, Wikipedia gets updates. Like, given how fast the world moves, every year additional developments can happen with basically anything. On a random website, one author who's written an article might never go back to that topic again. They do not give a fuck about that topic. It doesn't matter what additional information comes up, but on Wikipedia, even if one author stops giving a fuck, there can be some guy who's interested in that topic who will come by and go, hey, Wikipedia isn't updated. And fucking go to town, because it's just people got some free time. There is a meme where, like, when someone dies, it's like, let's go watch Wikipedia and how fast they change everything. So it's like, he is living in blank. And then quickly, like a blink of an eye, he was living in blank. Like, it all gets updated, so it's all past tense. Again, it doesn't always mean that Wikipedia is going to be updated, but there's a higher chance of being updated than any other source of information, just some random fucking website on the goddamn internet. Lastly, it keeps a record of who makes changes. If something gets changed and it's bad, you can actually look and see who was doing this. What did it used to say? You don't get that with a random fucking website, right? These five things make Wikipedia the best place to go for basic info or when you don't have a lot of time. A cheat code for research, like actual research, is going to the Wikipedia and reading the sources of that Wikipedia page, because the Wikipedia page, at the end of the day, is just a research paper. It's an essay written by a collection of people with varying levels of credentials and understandings of the topic, and it's a good summation of what exists. It can't possibly replace, like, a book that was written by a guy with 40 years of experience in that topic that was released last week, because it's only like a couple of pages at best, right? But it's still the best place to start because it's sourced. If you are in university right now, you're in high school right now, you want somewhere to start, read the Wiki, you'll be more educated about that topic than 95% of the planet, and then just read the sources, and you'll probably get to 100%. The reason why in school teachers were like, you can't use Wikipedia as a source is because it's not a primary source. Again, it's just someone's essay. But more importantly, school, both high school and university, is meant to be teaching you to do research. So somebody copying someone else's research doesn't teach you the skills of critical thinking and how to pass through irrelevant information to find the stuff that actually matters to answer the question that you're trying to assess. More importantly, by doing research about a topic, you'll tend to get a better understanding of that topic. If you ever want to know if you understand a topic well, try to explain that topic to someone who knows nothing. That process will not only tell you your level of understanding, but will help you remember what you're actually researching. The process of getting information for understanding and remembering potentially more important than the actual information itself, which is what Wikipedia is, the end result. It's crazy to me how many people will bash on Wikipedia and then will just go to unsourced YouTube videos and be like, this, see, it looks legit. Or they'll just go to some random article written like 10 years ago and be like, look, everything I say is true because look, there's this random fucking guy who I've never met who hasn't saw shit is also saying it. Here's a literal meme from Facebook, my guy. But, oh, you're looking at Wikipedia? Man, you don't know fucking shit. The people who just knee-jerk say never reference Wikipedia are people who have never fucking thought for themselves for a second in their entire lives. Ask them why is Wikipedia bad compared to other places that they get information and they won't have a good answer for you. They've just heard somewhere you should never look at Wikipedia and that's fucking it. Or, as is the case with a lot of people, they've seen something on Wikipedia that they personally disagree with and they've just written off the entire fucking website. This claim on a Wikipedia page makes me feel bad. Therefore, like, the hundreds of thousands of Wikipedia pages written by hundreds of thousands of people are all fucking shit. Wikipedia is gonna have mistakes on it. It's gonna have inaccuracies, especially because it's generalized. It's basically a summation. It's not gonna have absolute nuanced detail that takes a hundred pages to explain. But it is still good as a basic way of getting information. If you were tasked with learning about something, but you can only look in one place on the entire internet, Wikipedia would be the place you pick every single fucking time. Every asshole that's like, I've done my research, I've looked at some YouTube videos and read some Facebook memes, boggles my mind. With all this being said, no singular website will ever be better than reading primary sources. Never. If you have a week to do research, you will outclass Wikipedia if you're just gonna spend, like, you know, the eight hours of your day doing research. You're gonna know more than you can likely understand from Wikipedia. But most people aren't willing to spend a week digging down into the minute details into a topic. And if you don't have that week, Wikipedia is your best bet. Most people don't have access to the time and potentially actually have access to the primary sources to do better than Wikipedia. So stop shit-talking Wikipedia. Stop being sheep who heard, like, once 15 years ago that you shouldn't ever look at Wikipedia and they've just never gone back. Just like the entirety of the internet, the quality of any particular Wikipedia article can vary. Just because you've sourced something that isn't Wikipedia doesn't mean you're more likely to be correct. Wikipedia is, like, an invaluable source. I know you really like your favourite furry avatard YouTube guy who, like, moves his avatar up and down while he just gives his opinion on a topic. But you can expand your horizons just a little bit. Just a little bit! To an article written by multiple authors that is sourced, that traditionally avoids opinion, that gets updates, and has a record of who makes any particular changes. That's my rant, OK? |
| 06. May 2021 | The wonkly viewership of my chaos videos. | The wonky viewership of my Chaos videos. It's weird, right? The Chaos episodes, when they release, they get some of the fewest views of any video that I release. Like, it will say on the back end, like, oh, this is your fifth best video that you've released. And I'm like, oh, it's like on a trajectory to do 100,000 views, but then it always goes up way higher than that. I guess there's a lot of people who, uh, they skip over the video, um, and come back to it. Like, oh, that's two hours, yeah, I'll save that for when I get home. Or, oh, save that for going to bed tomorrow, you know? Because not everyone, at the moment of release, has the ability to watch a two hour video, you know? |
| 06. May 2021 | The wonky viewership of my chaos videos. | The wonky viewership of my Chaos videos. It's weird, right? The Chaos episodes, when they release, they get some of the fewest views of any video that I release. Like, it will say on the back end, like, oh, this is your fifth best video that you've released. And I'm like, oh, it's like on a trajectory to do 100,000 views, but then it always goes up way higher than that. I guess there's a lot of people who, uh, they skip over the video, um, and come back to it. Like, oh, that's two hours, yeah, I'll save that for when I get home. Or, oh, save that for going to bed tomorrow, you know? Because not everyone, at the moment of release, has the ability to watch a two hour video, you know? |
| 18. December 2019 | The word “utilize” | make practical and effective use of. So, make practical and effective use of well. Just use the word use. Utilize the word use, people. Every single YouTube video I watch, it's just utilize, utilize. Like, it's said like 87 times a video, and it's just like, you don't sound clever. Feel free to either utilize or use the like button, whichever you prefer, it's totally up to you. |
| 28. November 2021 | The world is starved for GTA 6 | Hasn't had a new map by the way. Yeah, and then when we finally got a new map, you can't even explore it unless you're on the heist or whatever, right? Well, would you even call that a new map though? Like it's what? Like it's tiny. It's a new island. I mean, yeah, but you know, like it's pretty small. I mean, it would be something, like if it's not because you can't be there the entire time, whatever. It's just strange. The world is starved for GTA 6. Well, at least hopefully again, they're doing something good with GTA 6. I mean. Is it even real? Who knows? I hope so. It has to be, but no one's chucking away a billion, multi-billion dollar franchise, you know. I'm sure they're desperate to get out GTA 6 as much as we are desperate to have it. Oh, they know, like they'd make so much money on this, but do they, like, I don't know. Do they know how much money GTA 6 would make? Like I know GTA 5 is big. Like they know GTA 5 is big, but do they understand how many people really want GTA 6? It would crush, it would crush, like, what Fortnite was. Especially released right now when there's like nothing else going on right now, and it's just the- |
| 07. May 2021 | The world isn't a dark place | The world isn't a dark place. Always remember that the negativity that you see, it's noticed and paid attention to because it is abnormal. Most things are mundane. People report on crime, bad actions and whatnot, because that's abnormal. Generally speaking, people are good and or just indifferent participants in whatever they're doing. You know, they're just benign. The world isn't a dark and terrible place, even though it has a lot of dark and terrible things in it. But I understand. I do have a lot of those moments where I look at the world and go, man, that's fucked. Do what little good you can and try to carve out a little bit of happiness for yourself, you know? True, I am a dark part of this world, for I am a dark rapper. |
| 01. June 2021 | The world's first channel points millionaire | World's first channel points millionaire. I actually saw a TikTok where someone was bragging, or at least being like, yeah, the points aren't fake, they're trying to prove it. They have 8.7 million channel points in Tyler1's stream. And like, why? I mean, it would be really funny if you were just really, really knowledgeable about League of Legends and whenever Tyler1 was getting into a game and they did predictions, you'd be like, okay, yeah, he's worse than this here with that here, okay, he's going top lane with this here, statistically the odds of him winning is blah, blah, blah. I'm going to vote this. And sitting there with a bunch of stat sheets to figure out what he needs to bet on at what times and how much he should risk to maximize the channel points. I mean, because that's what some people do for a living with horse racing. Rather than just gambling for the fun of it, they analyze all the data, the soil, look at all the research, the information coming out about what's going on with the horses and stuff, and then place their bets. |
| 13. January 2020 | The worse GTA V mission | The worst GTA 5 mission. Worst split of the decade, cleaning out the bureau. Bar none. Cleaning out the bureau will always be the worst split in the game. I don't think a solution will ever be found for that mission. Don't quote me on that because you never know, but a terribly designed mission. A part of the reason why it's so bad is because even casually you can criticize it as a terrible inclusion to the game. Even the dialogue in the part of the mission that's garbage is only about the mission. So it's terrible. Like you don't even get like valuable story. It's irredeemable in every aspect. But like what could have happened is you could have just uh either met him at his house having less the like he's like yeah I put a tracking beacon on his car so we can follow him and you know meet just meet up his house that time. Or like I know you meet him in the parking lot or anywhere like anywhere you know. Hello dear viewer do you want to star? If so you should press the like button. Get it? It's like Mario Party but instead of 20 coins it's the like button. I'm funny right? |
| 28. January 2022 | The worst GTA 5 youtube channels | The worst GTA V YouTube channels. Like the YouTube channel I hate the most is all the mad channels. Mad Carl, Mad Trevor, Mad Franklin. They're all complete trash. They work to misrepresent mods as real content. So there's this really egregious mod where it shows Floyd and Deborah dead in their apartments. But in the real game, they're not there. Like if you clip into Floyd's apartment after Trevor attacks them or whatever, there's nothing in there. But this dude mods it into the game and then uses a simple trainer to clip into the through the walls. And and people like, oh, wow, that's really cool that Rockstar left that in the game. Da da da. But in actual fact, it's just a mod. And he has many, many videos like this. Finding the Megalodon shark in GTA V and it's just a mod. I hate this garbage. But this stuff is ridiculously popular, ridiculously popular. Like these channels are getting tens of millions of views a month. Fiction, especially when it's like packaged as truth, can be very interesting to people because it's a true mystery as opposed to just some bullshit that someone made up. As in, if you limit yourself to what is true, eventually you're going to run out of interesting stuff. But if you just allow yourself to make fake bullshit, then the sky's the limit, right? My. |
| 13. January 2020 | The worst GTA V mission | The worst GTA 5 mission. Worst split of the decade, cleaning out the bureau. Bar none. Cleaning out the bureau will always be the worst split in the game. I don't think a solution will ever be found for that mission. Don't quote me on that, because you never know, but a terribly designed mission. A part of the reason why it's so bad is because even casually you can criticize it as a terrible inclusion to the game. Even the dialogue in the part of the mission that's garbage is only about the mission, so it's terrible. Like you don't even get valuable story. It's irredeemable in every aspect. But what could have happened is you could have just either met him at his house, having Lester like, he's like, yeah, I put a tracking beacon on his car so we can follow him and meet up at his house that time. Or like I know you meet him in the parking lot or anywhere, like anywhere, you know? |
| 15. January 2022 | The worst I can remember being sick. | Might not. The worst I can remember being sick. The worst I can remember being sick is when I got the Pax Pox. So when events like Pax happen, there's always people who have either gotten sick recently or are getting sick. They're like, oh man, but I've already booked my flight and you know this only happens once a year. I gotta go. So even though they're sick, they come. And so just so many people who potentially have forms of illness packed into one building, your odds of catching something are pretty decent. And so it fucked me up for like a week. |
| 28. January 2022 | The worst gta 5 youtube channels | The worst GTA V YouTube channels. Like the YouTube channel I hate the most is all the mad channels. Mad Carl, Mad Trevor, Mad Franklin. They're all complete trash. They work to misrepresent mods as real content. So there's this really egregious mod where it shows Floyd and Deborah dead in their apartments. But in the real game, they're not there. Like if you clip into Floyd's apartment after Trevor attacks them or whatever, there's nothing in there. But this dude mods it into the game and then uses a simple trainer to clip into the through the walls. And and people like, oh, wow, that's really cool that Rockstar left that in the game. Da da da. But in actual fact, it's just a mod. And he has many, many videos like this. Finding the Megalodon shark in GTA V and it's just a mod. I hate this garbage. But this stuff is ridiculously popular, ridiculously popular. Like these channels are getting tens of millions of views a month. Fiction, especially when it's like packaged as truth, can be very interesting to people because it's a true mystery as opposed to just some bullshit that someone made up. As in, if you limit yourself to what is true, eventually you're going to run out of interesting stuff. But if you just allow yourself to make fake bullshit, then the sky's the limit, right? My. |
| 30. September 2022 | The worst part of being a content creator | The worst part of being a content creator I've said before, one of the worst things about being a creator for me at least is how many people help me or care for me or do nice things for me, donate, whatever and I'll never be able to remember all their names, it's just literally impossible For the average person, you remember when a guy gives you 20 bucks for lunch Oh, Frank, oh yeah, five years ago he gave me a... he bought me Subway, oh yeah, good guy Frank I can't do that, that's up I'm a person who believes that, you know, kindness matters and kindness should be rewarded and stuff |
| 02. February 2023 | The ‘Puss in Boots 2’ movie leaked on TikTok. | The Puss in Boots 2 movie leaked on TikTok. Have I seen the new Puss in Boots? The entirety of the Puss in Boots movie is on TikTok in like five minute chunks. I didn't watch it, cause that just seems like ridiculously dumb. But I've seen enough memes of Puss in Boots that I basically know what happens in the movie. Just by scrolling TikTok. I actually looked up how to watch the movie, but it's only in cinemas. And I can't be fucked going to the cinemas to watch it. If it was on any streaming service, I would have been like, here's my money, give me the movie. There's a lot of movies like that where I, they blow up in cinemas. And so people make TikToks or whatever about them. And then I get interested, but I can't go in the cinemas, so I never seen the movie. |
| 10. December 2022 | The ‘TwitterForIpad’ meme is dead | The Twitter for iPad meme is dead. So one of the many, many strange, probably meaningless changes that Elon Musk has made to Twitter is that he's removing the function where you can see what device was used to make that tweet. One consequence of this is that the Twitter from iPad meme is dead. Do I think this matters all that much? No. I wouldn't say this is a good decision, but I wouldn't say it's a bad decision either because I don't really think it had much value. I honestly wonder why they put it there in the first place. Maybe because people with iPads or iPhones have either wanted to like show off like, oh, I've got the best phone or something. There's a strange function that exists on Twitter. And honestly, maybe if we're gonna try to find some good in it, it'll probably make like the layout look a bit cleaner on different devices, more screen real estate available. So no more people being toxic to Android users. Yeah, that might be it, honestly. Well, I don't know the reason why it was removed, but I mean, that's one potential good side maybe. I mean, I never received that, but again, I know that exists in like other regions and stuff. Are you got one of those Android, you know, which should have to have an iPhone or nonsense stuff? |
| 13. October 2021 | The ‘experimental’ vaccine | The experimental vaccine. Along with the quote from the Prime Minister that you won't be working if you don't want to take it. It's not experimental! Billions of people have had the vaccine! It's not experimental! It is hilarious to me that the average person will go to the doctors about any problem that they have and the doctors say, oh yeah, you need to take this pill, you need to take this. They'll go to a fast food restaurant and eat food that they have no idea what the fuck is in it. They'll go on buses that they have no idea how they work. So much of a person's life, they have no understanding of how anything functions. On every other topic, when they're ill, they'll take whatever the doctors tell them. But when it comes to this vaccine, that global industries from all countries have somehow had some impact in its developments, that have signed off on it, have tested it, that is being used now by billions of people. Perhaps the most widely used bit of healthcare that has ever existed that I... I don't think it's been tested enough. How can people be this dumb? And they'll be like, well, what about the long-term effects? And it's like, so what about the vaccine do you think makes it so it would have the potential for long-term effects? I mean, the people who made it, designed it and tested it, say it doesn't have that capability, it doesn't have that function. So you apparently, despite having no medical knowledge, think it can have long-term effects. What's the mechanism? If a new table comes out and I touch it, is there going to be potential long-term effects of that? Then you have some mechanism that will enable that. Nothing in the vaccine. In how everything that I know about how it was produced and how it works, is suggested that it could have long-term effects. When you take Panadol, it doesn't sit in your system for the next 50 years. Fucking around. God damn. Stupid people are going through stupid. |
| 26. October 2022 | The ‘yoink and twist’ of Youtube in practice. | The Yoinkin Twist of YouTube in Practice. Kibbles. I was inspired by DarkviperAU to make a similar Steam review video on my own channel, but for Undertale. Somehow, it has now surpassed the views of his video, and I just don't know how to feel about it. Lmao. This is what YouTube should be about. It is the Yoinkin Twist in Practice. I saw someone else make a video where they were looking at Steam reviews, like in general, just like the best negative Steam reviews, and I'm like, huh, that's a good idea. How about I just look at like the best Steam reviews for GTA V? Because you can put the filter in and find like the funniest ones or whatever. And this person's gone, hey, I could do that for Undertale, because they know about Undertale, I suppose. And, uh, their thumbnail is good. That is a good thumbnail. Like, honestly, their thumbnail is probably better than my thumbnail, in terms of like, grabbing people and stuff. Definitely deserving of more views, and I'm happy their video did well. You know, the Yoinkin Twist. You get inspired by someone else, you put a spin on it, and make something your own. How dis- |
| 26. October 2022 | The ‘yoink and twist’ of youtube in practice. | The Yoinkin Twist of YouTube in Practice. Kibbles. I was inspired by DarkviperAU to make a similar Steam review video on my own channel, but for Undertale. Somehow, it has now surpassed the views of his video, and I just don't know how to feel about it. Lmao. This is what YouTube should be about. It is the Yoinkin Twist in Practice. I saw someone else make a video where they were looking at Steam reviews, like in general, just like the best negative Steam reviews, and I'm like, huh, that's a good idea. How about I just look at like the best Steam reviews for GTA V? Because you can put the filter in and find like the funniest ones or whatever. And this person's gone, hey, I could do that for Undertale, because they know about Undertale, I suppose. And, uh, their thumbnail is good. That is a good thumbnail. Like, honestly, their thumbnail is probably better than my thumbnail, in terms of like, grabbing people and stuff. Definitely deserving of more views, and I'm happy their video did well. You know, the Yoinkin Twist. You get inspired by someone else, you put a spin on it, and make something your own. How dis- |
| 31. October 2021 | The “conquering finland” meme | The conquering Finland meme. I've been joking about conquering Finland for all the time I've been on Twitch. It's a running joke because someone asked me like, why don't you have goals? Like, down below your stream. That's what a lot of smaller streamers do when they want something to put in their panels. They put goals for their stream. And I just made up some random goals and the first one I made up was conquering Finland. |
| 23. July 2022 | TheActMan got remonetized | The Act Man got re-monetized. The Act Man got re-monetized on YouTube, unsurprisingly. So for those who missed all the drama, the Act Man got into some beef with a dude named QuantumTV, the Act Man was annoyed at how badly YouTube was handling it, and made some jokes on Twitter that YouTube took poorly, and they demonetized his account because they considered his jokes to be threats when they were clearly jokes, and the Act Man basically said, look, I've been informed, like, if I just shut the fuck up, I will get my monetization back, and he did basically shut up for like a month, and he got it back, unsurprisingly. This makes it one of those times where the Act Man clearly benefited from this drama. Not all drama brings forth you benefit, or long-term benefit, usually like you get a bump and then it goes back down and you're back to normal, but the Act Man clearly got a lot of popularity, more people know his name now, because of this drama, and it's clearly had some long-lasting effect, which is good. It's what I said last time, if he gets his account re-monetized, this whole thing is just a plus for him. Is the Act Man a good channel? I watched his stuff long before this, he's passionate about the stuff that he talks about gaming-wise, and he's got good presentation, good editing, and all that. I recommend his channel. Did anything new happen to that QuantumTV guy? No. There's this good video, I don't think Willy Macshure likes me, at least I think everyone hates me all the time, so it's probably just me being weird, but this video he made, Act Man The Inconvenient Truth, featuring QuantumTV, it's a good video. The most interesting parts are how clearly QuantumTV is a prick and did some wrong things, but some of the things he was accused of, he probably didn't actually do. This didn't get a lot of views, but I recommend checking out the video if you want a more nuanced, detailed look at the whole drama. |
| 31. March 2021 | There Are no Bad People There's Only Bad Decisions | There are no bad people, only bad decisions. Larry Lawson. There are no bad people, just bad decisions? I mean, those kind of general attitudes. I'm sure that's just an attitude thing, right? How he's defining what a bad person is, I suppose. That statement... So for those who didn't catch it, it was Larry Lawson said, There are no bad people, there's only bad decisions. And that just depends on how you're defining bad people. Like, I would say a bad person in this context would be a person who is more likely to make a decision that either disregards the... they don't even care about the consequences of their actions to other people, or that they find joy in causing negative consequences for other people. Those who act out of spite, vengeance, they find joy in the harm of others. These people I would consider to be bad. That doesn't mean that they can't become good. That they can't potentially be affected by other factors in their environments to eventually see the error of this manner of thinking and come around and be a productive member of society who wants to help others, or at the very least doesn't find joy in such things. But at the time I would consider that person to be bad. But it comes back to that thing I once talked about. Each person to a greater or lesser degree assumes internal or external explanations for behavior. So if a person is at work being all cranky and yelling and being a complete dick, some people will say, oh that person's a complete dick. Like this is just a state of them, that is how they are, that is a factor of their personality. Irrespective of whether you think personality can change over time, at that moment this is how this person acts. If I would put them into a different situation they would also have a significant possibility of acting like a dick, of yelling and screaming and what not. But other people would say, oh that person is having a really bad day. Like the behavior that this person is eliciting is less driven by internal factors and more external ones. Maybe they're getting a divorce, you know, they recently had some bad news, they've had coffees put on them, whatever it is. It's a thing that is only related to this particular context and in other contexts they would be more likely to act a completely different way. |
| 14. January 2021 | There are SO many successful content creators | is going to hold. I'm so fascinated by this whole world. Like you say to the TikTok is coming up at the moment. You think like, oh, they've got no, you might, you know, they've, they've been maimed a lot for they're just like stupid dances or whatever. But then you go to the YouTube channel and they'll have like 20 million subscribers and be pulling like 5 million views a video. And that's just like, what the fuck? Like normally someone pulling 5 million views a video has been around for years. So you start to see that new generation just come up through YouTube and like, it'll be interesting to see like, will they supersede the current creators or like, how will that all play out? It's pretty fascinating really. YouTube or content creation in general is just so large. Now it's impossible to know everyone. Like I remember as small as Twitch was, like, so Twitch is very small by comparison to all these platforms, like two years ago, I think I could have told you every major creator. Like I was just that much in the know. But these days, like someone says to me like a couple of weeks ago, like, Oh, you heard a Tommy in it. I'm like, Tommy in it? What? Who is this? He's a 16 year old minecrafter who gets like half a million views every time he lives. Who the fuck is that? I know, man. And it's like, he's just killing it doing his Minecraft thing. And you just know, like it happens all the time. Like something will pop up and I click a channel and it'll be like a GTA YouTuber with like 3 million subscribers that I've never heard of. Yeah. It's like, what the fuck? And they're just killing it. They've got a great community, great views, like just chilling. And I've just never come across them. And you're right. They're just such a deep |
| 14. December 2022 | There are clones of me everywhere. | over and over again. Doesn't make me a master of every aspect of the game, you know. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has time to put its pants on. So I released a video which, while I changed the title a lot of times, I have settled on, you don't understand GT5's story, how millions were fooled. So it's got 215k views in five days. Still got a little bit of an upwards trend here, but it's still getting a good chunk of views. So I debated on this thumbnail for quite a while as to whether or not it was good. I like it, but it could be said to be a bit too cluttered. And the problem I had with it is I don't think that people who don't play GTA would recognize these two characters. I'm somewhat relying on people who saw the original short that I'm rebuking and showing as false. But what was most interesting to me about this thumbnail is you can see here that the hostage has blue eyes. I didn't notice this when I was originally critiquing the short. It was only my thumbnail editor Mim who did this. I'm like, oh, he has blue eyes and he has brown eyes. That's probably something I should mention. And that's why I tacked on to the end of the episode. Lastly, while I don't claim to be a doctor, I don't think nine years can change the blue eyes of the hostage to the brown eyes of the manager. So like, that wasn't included originally. It was only included because of this thumbnail. So even if the thumbnail doesn't draw in the viewership that I would like for the thing, that alone made the video better. But of course, the video wasn't as successful as the original, which got six million views. And of course, Mad Mike, you know, the mad channel is always stealing videos. We upload 12K and this guy reuploaded for 451K. YouTube shorts are terrible, but I had hoped to some degree that this video would do as well as Mike was never in witness protection. But that was always unlikely. Remember, I made this video so quickly, like like a six hour turnaround time or something. And it's one of my best videos ever. It's nuts. At the end of the day, chat, this is just one more example of that old adage that a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. I like that one. Was I right about why the bank manager pauses in GTA 5? So when I talked about why the manager paused when looking at Trevor and his license, I mainly focused on how he looks. Being like, well, you know, nine years has passed when he clearly looks very different than he did back then with all the marks on his face and whatnot. And I mainly want to point out that this is a picture of Trevor from prologue when the exact same outfit, which I found kind of funny. But obviously, the way your character looks depends on how you make him look in the game. Well, you can't make him look exactly like this. You could have given him a mustache or a bit longer hair. And so it wouldn't look as different. I should have also noted that other things on this ID do look a bit weird, like his name, Diego Santiago. Like he doesn't look like he has the sort of ethnicity that would be common with that name. The expiry date, like the license has expired. Does this seem believable to Americans that Trevor could be 186 height and 206 weight? Yes. OK, then maybe it was his name that was, uh, and the expiry date that could also be justification for the pausing. Although, as was originally in the script, but I cut it out. If you look at it from a writing perspective, it's obviously just designed to give like a pause for the purpose of building suspense for the player. The pausing while looking at a license or whatever is a super common trope in all forms of storytelling media. Yeah, so name, old picture, expired license, pausing for the purposes of suspense. All four of these things could be seen as justifications for the pause rather than what I just said, which was, you know, he's very young in this picture. People like. |
| 13. January 2023 | There are imposters of me everywhere. | There are imposters of me everywhere. I occasionally get messages from people where they're like, small world, but I remember you from the Halo three days. Person chat was like, hey, do you play as right RuneScape private server? More commonly I get, hey, you were griefing me a bunch with a mod menu in GC online. Can you like stop that? I question how often it's people like pretending to be me or using my name because they like my content versus people who just coincidentally have my name. Yeah, if you see me in GC online, it's not me. Snot him, get it? Snot. |
| 31. March 2021 | There are no bad people, only bad decisions - Larry Lawton. | There are no bad people, only bad decisions. Larry Lawson. There are no bad people, just bad decisions? I mean, those kind of general attitudes. I'm sure that's just an attitude thing, right? How he's defining what a bad person is, I suppose. That statement... So for those who didn't catch it, it was Larry Lawson said, There are no bad people, there's only bad decisions. And that just depends on how you're defining bad people. Like, I would say a bad person in this context would be a person who is more likely to make a decision that either disregards the... they don't even care about the consequences of their actions to other people, or that they find joy in causing negative consequences for other people. Those who act out of spite, vengeance, they find joy in the harm of others. These people I would consider to be bad. That doesn't mean that they can't become good. That they can't potentially be affected by other factors in their environments to eventually see the error of this manner of thinking and come around and be a productive member of society who wants to help others, or at the very least doesn't find joy in such things. But at the time I would consider that person to be bad. But it comes back to that thing I once talked about. Each person to a greater or lesser degree assumes internal or external explanations for behavior. So if a person is at work being all cranky and yelling and being a complete dick, some people will say, oh that person's a complete dick. Like this is just a state of them, that is how they are, that is a factor of their personality. Irrespective of whether you think personality can change over time, at that moment this is how this person acts. If I would put them into a different situation they would also have a significant possibility of acting like a dick, of yelling and screaming and what not. But other people would say, oh that person is having a really bad day. Like the behavior that this person is eliciting is less driven by internal factors and more external ones. Maybe they're getting a divorce, you know, they recently had some bad news, they've had coffees put on them, whatever it is. It's a thing that is only related to this particular context and in other contexts they would be more likely to act a completely different way. |
| 04. March 2022 | There are too many batman movies. | There are too many Batman movies We've heard how many Batman movies have there been now like 57. He's not that interesting of a character Who are these Batman fans who are like I can't wait to see another Batman movie With the same characters and same plots. I think it's just because they keep messing up So people are waiting for the next good Batman. We already had a bunch of good Batman movies. We don't need any more |
| 21. June 2022 | There are too many food delivery apps | um, delivery apps like Deliveroo and all that stuff and I can't even remember the names of them, there's just so many of them. I have no idea how any of these companies are ultimately gonna reach profitability. It's ultimately gonna be the one that just has enough money to survive the longest. DoorDash? That's the one, DoorDash, not Deliveroo. Delivery services work best in cities, I believe, when it comes to getting your food hot? Uh, yeah, I imagine so. Uh, for me, it's like a- it's a coin flip whether it's, uh, hot or not. Cause it depends when, you know, where the driver is, when the thing starts getting made and da da da. I- like, as I say, it's never been a deal breaker for me. Uh, it's in general been fine, but. My love of chicken salt. You're telling me chickens have salt? Yeah, man. |
| 21. July 2020 | There is no rockstar, there is only TakeTwo | There is no Rockstar games, there is only Take Two. I don't draw a major distinction between Take Two and Rockstar. I feel as though they would just use each other as shields to bandy back and forth the blame. Take Two is owned by Rockstar, they are one entity, as far as I'm concerned. |
| 15. November 2020 | There is no true downtime as a YouTuber | There is no true downtime as a YouTuber. A normal job, once you get home, you can relax, go back to work the next day. YouTube as a job is obviously different. When I used to work at Kohl's, I worked hard for the job that was there. Like, even looking back, I probably worked harder than I really should have, considering it was just a regular job, stacking fruit and stuff, did it for five years. I took pride in my work, because I take pride in basically everything I do. I'd say it was very satisfying at the end of the night, stacking everything exactly perfectly and looking at the store and going, yeah, I did a good job. When I went home, my brain would switch off and I'd play World of Warcraft for like six to eight hours. It wasn't a single consideration for what I should be spending with my doing with my time or being productive or anything like that. It was just completely chill. I haven't had that experience in at least three to four years. There's always something I could be doing or improving or rendering or working on or writing or whatever. There's no time where there isn't something productive that I could be doing. It's probably one of the things that contributes to YouTube a burnout where, again, referencing trash tastes, because I binge watched a bunch of the episodes, so it's bring it up. They'll talk about how watching anime for them now is different because they can't just sit there and enjoy it. They think to themselves, should this be content? Why am I not making this into content? If I watch this, enjoy it, but I can't make content out of it, am I wasting my time? Should I be watching something else that I can potentially make into content? When your hobby becomes your job, you begin looking at your hobby differently. People ask me, why don't you play games off stream or whatever? Because whenever I'm going to play a game off stream, I think to myself, why am I not streaming this? Why is this not content? Why am I not making this into content? I would say, however, that I think gaming on stream is more enjoyable than gaming off stream as well. It's why I don't relax by playing video games. I relax by watching TV shows or watching movies or watching other YouTube videos or whatever. Even while on some level, I still think to myself when watching something, like, oh, I should probably talk about this on stream tomorrow or something. It's a little bit more relaxing when I get time to do that stuff because I don't have to worry about making content out of it. Monetizing your life doesn't seem healthy. Part of my life is monetized, you could say, my gaming part. It's hard to imagine people who vlog their lives where all of your life becomes content. Thinking about that is just like, there's not even the hypothetical dividing line between what becomes your content and what is your actual life. I think you just go crazy. Like I don't have Instagram and stuff. Well, I do, but I don't like post stuff to it. Like when you're the people who Instagram their entire lives, when your life is your content, I just think that'd be amazingly stressful. If you need to take a break, you can. If there's one thing I hate people telling me is that line. Like, obviously I know that. It's not as though every moment of my day is necessarily full of work. There is usually a handful of hours. So there's usually like an hour or two before I go to sleep and maybe an hour when I wake up where I still post on social media and stuff and worry about that stuff. But I don't, I can't say I'm being productive. |
| 08. November 2022 | There is only one S tier social media platform | Yeah, social media though. There is only one S-tier social media platform. So Marcus Brownlee wrote on Twitter, Hot take, YouTube is still the only S-tier social media platform. I have said this as well. Compared to every other social media, YouTube provides the most for its creators, and provides the most value for its viewers, while asking for the least. Doesn't mean it's the perfect social media platform, but a lot of what people accuse YouTube of doing wrong is not their fault. And while the platform is still not perfect, and has endless issues and problems that arise, a lot of this is just due to how staggeringly large YouTube is. Having more than 2 billion active users every month, providing a living for hundreds of thousands, if not millions of creators. I can't get up to the millions. There's probably millions making some money, but in terms of earning a living, we're still probably in the hundreds of thousands, probably less than a million. But still that's a lot. And when you have that many accounts, that many people uploading, there's always going to be things that go wrong. And when you're YouTube having to navigate all the laws in hundreds of countries, there's going to be obviously issues that arise. But in general, YouTube is an amazing platform. It is of course hard to have that perspective when stuff is going wrong. It's always important to remember that we take note of things that are going badly, because they're the things that need to be addressed. We don't sit there over a day and list all the things that are going well. We don't necessarily stop and smell the roses and go, man, YouTube is pretty fucking impressive when you really think about it. And while I'm not going to address them directly, there's a lot of stuff that people talk about in regards to the algorithm and types of content being promoted or whatnot that is just not true. |
| 17. September 2022 | These bot scam comments are insanely bad | These bot scam comments are insanely bad. It's pretty crazy how bad these have gotten now. Hello fan, thanks for reaching on my comment, congratulations. You are a part of my shortlisted winners. Follow the instructions above to claim. Bunch of emojis. I maybe mute like at least six of these a day or something like that. You can imagine how these must build up over time on other channels. People aren't as attentive as I am. As a rule of thumb guys, anyone ever asking you to go on WhatsApp or Telegram, it's a scam. Just ignore it. I'm surprised that YouTube can't pick these up. I don't know why that is. Yeah, I am getting them as fast as I can, but they'll be there sometimes. |
| 15. February 2022 | These ideas are not new, just new for this space. | There's always been criticism of React content, but I don't think people criticized it in the way that I did in this document. And what's in the document isn't revolutionary and new, it's merely applying ideas that exist elsewhere to this space. If you asked a person, is it wrong to pay in exposure, who's going to say no? They'd say, well, of course you should pay them. But when it comes to this, people just don't apply that logic to this space, to the React content. And especially the richer the person is, the worse it is when they pay in exposure. It's so much looked down upon. Speaking of Ludwig, Ludwig made this sort of point as well in his video, which I also hate where he says, made a video trying to establish that getting successful on YouTube isn't a matter of luck, it's just a matter of skill, which I would love to make a full response video to, but I don't like starting beef with Ludwig. I kind of like Ludwig. But in his video, he talks about how he personally pays for Adobe Premiere, but he's like, hey, if you don't have the money, maybe you can get it somewhere else. I'm just saying. If a person who has no money maybe gets Adobe Premiere some other way, we see that as justifiable. But you've got millions of dollars, you should probably be paying for Adobe Premiere. Depending upon your individual circumstances, we can consider things to be more or less justifiable. If you've got a million dollars and you still have a loaf of bread, people are like, what the fuck are you doing? You're starving and you still have a loaf of bread? We're going to see that as a bit more justifiable. And it kind of works as well in terms of who you're harming. It's like if you stole, let's say your friend makes an error and they give you $50 that they didn't mean to give you and you keep it. People are like, man, you just scammed your friend. What the fuck is wrong with you? But like if Amazon makes an error in some processing thing and they give you $50 more than they should have given you and you keep that, people are going to be like, well, I mean, it's Amazon. You know, they can afford this. The impact of your actions is going to impact people's perceptions of them as to whether or not they're good or bad. |
| 02. August 2021 | They givin' the money to the illegals! | illegals. In some cases, it can be the case that things that are meant to benefit citizens also benefit people who are living illegally, but it's never the fucking goal! I remember this one time, there was this meme- you've probably seen this because it exists for every country- Oh man, the fucking government gives more money to the illegals than they do to our pensioners. What fucking scum. And it- all they do is just change the- the- the name of the government and the country, and this- this same viral post exists in every country, and I- I- this got posted to me like ten years ago, and I said, dude, like, look, you can Google this, and it's a- it's a viral propaganda meme. Like, it is- it is so cut and paste that it exists everywhere, and I- and I say to this guy, and I- I blink the source, and he's like, yeah, well, it wouldn't surprise me if it was true. I'm like, oh my fucking god. But this is what these people meant. You want to get people to vote against their own interests, say that what's being passed will somehow impact the legals. Positively. These fucking people going to the efforts to risk life and limb, to spend years of their time potentially, getting to this country, they should have worked hard to be born here like me. Lazy fucking illegals not being born in the right fucking place, my god. I worked hard to have the parents that I did. I think everyone should stay exactly where they're born. I say this while being born into one of the most wealthy, prosperous countries on the planet. Fuck the illegals, who just want to go and better their own lives. Boo. How dare they not- how dare they not accept substandard ways of living for my benefit. Fuck them. It's about entering illegally just like I have to ask permission to enter Australia. So hang on, hang on. Think about this way for a moment. Think about this way. Imagine a rule exists that in no capacity could ever benefit you, and only exists to disadvantage you. Why the fuck would you follow that rule? Let's say tomorrow, I pass a law that specifically you- You're not allowed to drink water. Ever. For the rest of your life. You cannot consume moisture. You can go, well that- I mean that's the law. I mean that's the law, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just gonna have to die then. You can't be like, now look, miss the person who wants to come into the country. We don't want you here, so just like, live a worse life for my benefit, okay? Go for it, sport. Who- who's gonna do that? No one. No one's gonna do that. If a person can't get into a country legally, why the fuck would they not come illegally? The laws that they're breaking specifically exist to disadvantage them for your benefit. Think of all the laws that you think are stupid that just exist to benefit ex-corporation, ex-rich person. Immigration laws just exist to disadvantage people who aren't born in a country, and favor those who are born in a country. Now you can understand why they must exist for security reasons, but if you're a well-meaning person who- who represents no harm to anyone, and a country still says, hey you can't come in, why the fuck would you respect that country's wishes? When that country says, hey yo, just, we don't want you. Please live a worse life for our benefit. Why would you go, okay, Mr. Country, sure thing, I'm gonna go over that corner and die now. No one's gonna do that. No one, ever. It's like you're- you're in the club, and you're like, hey yo man, like, I know this club's pretty cool, but like, if you come in, it'd be a little bit crowded, so stay out- stay out outside. And the guy- if you're only the person outside, you'd be like, why don't you fucking come outside? Why can't I be in the club? And you're like, yeah, but I'm already here, so go fuck yourself. Never pretend that immigration laws aren't anything more than protecting benefits for those who got lucky enough to be born into a particular country against those who weren't. That's- that's what they exist to do. Obviously, every single country- every single person couldn't exist within one country. There are practical reasons, but those practical reasons are still to the massive detriment of anyone else who isn't already in the club. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 23. November 2020 | Things I learned working on anime prologue project | Log projects. I've learned a lot about audio and the composition of scenes and what goes into making even a single scene in a video game sound natural to the scene. There's an expression, like everything seems easy until you try to do it yourself. Like initially when I was looking through the audio files I was confused why certain audio files were as they were and then as I went through the process of attempting to recreate something similar I was like oh of course oh I've said many times before working with audio in video creation is something that I have the least experience in because when you're working with stream footage you know you've got a compressor you've got a limiter the game files you can't really change the game or do you can't really change you're basically just working on on video at that point but in a normal video production like if you're recording a movie or whatever you'll have microphones from different locations and you you want the audio sounding as if it's coming from particular directions or containing the atmosphere where the audio would naturally come from or whatever so a person isn't watching the scene going wait a second that this this audio doesn't sound right like whenever you listen to an amateur production or something this is something that they won't do and all the scenes will sound out of place like you know you're listening to a person talking into a microphone as opposed to talking naturally in a particular scene when I first started the project I assumed it would be something like difficult but doable and I thought you know maybe this could be like a regular thing I could I could do it like every month or sign similar to pacifist maybe it'd be the thing I focus on after pacifist but having now spent countless hours on it and spent hundreds of dollars on it and knowing that YouTube is just gonna bury it no one's gonna give a shit I would never do it again but I will finish the project if it kills me Doug Doug giving me a shout-out yes |
| 08. July 2021 | Things that make me sad | Things that make me sad. You know what I'm feeling guys? I'm feeling kinda sad. Too much am I comparing myself to more successful content creators. And I don't like this feeling of being on this fucking dating app thing. I don't like that, uh, like you don't get likes and shit and it's just like, ah man. I guess you should take some better photos of me and stuff. I just don't like the idea that a lot of people are judging me silently and skipping over me and stuff. It just doesn't sound nice. How do normal people deal with- |
| 19. July 2020 | Thinking of living alone. | thinking of living alone so I've reached a level of success where I'm tempted to have no housemates more of my rent would be tax deductible I had I'd have more room especially when I get VR one of my roommates is gonna move out themselves and they get there slowly look for a new place in no rush I don't think I have the heart to kick out the other guy like I would just let him stay as long as he wants him because he said he wants to be in here another year or something but it's really like such a waste of money as a general rule making decisions like that you'd want the additional cost to have some additional monetary benefit that that offsets that loss and I don't think would have that much there are certainly times where I don't start my stream because it's early in the morning like I know I can wait one additional hour and I will be less of an annoyance to people but as time has gone on I've cared less and less I've more cared about my stream than the worrying about annoying people which is probably why my other roommate wants to move out because I'm loud sometimes at annoying hours like I can't help myself you know just the way things are for the job and certainly sometimes I feel very awkward because I know I'm being annoying and stuff and I don't like those feelings and it probably hurts my mood or my energy whatever like I mean for VR streams at the very least you know there will be some kind of a benefit there when I have VR system and as I say some of the it would be a business expense a little bit more because I'd have you know I'd move into another room and use this entire room for my work with VR so that I could claim more of the rents as a tax deduction but I know dude the the rent for this place for a year how much do you think it is it's it's roughly split between three people how much do you think the rent is in Australian dollars noble got it it's about $30,000 Australian and and no not for me I pay 10k right now yes it'd be like it would be like a 20k she was thing and I could maybe at best claim like a third of that it's one of those things like I could afford it but it just seems like such a waste of money I'm not a person who frivolously spends money I don't have a lot of stuff in part because of you know back in the day when I used to sell all my stuff to feel productive I know I do think it would improve my mood and my stream and maybe free up a little bit more of my time and maybe I could also get a dog as well we'll see what happens maybe it's just because I fundamentally doubt myself and don't think I even I thought this time I don't think that highly of myself like I worry that some things are gonna go south and so I don't want to increase my expenses yeah if you look at housing prices they've just massively skyrocketed part because of the fucking boomers but you know what problems can't be thrown at the feet of the boomers it's not simply that boomers did things wrong necessarily well again some positive but it's the boomer generation is the largest voting block and they've used their voting power to what to influence politicians to put in policies that largely only benefit people of advanced years they made it easier to buy second third fourth homes rather than making it easy for newer home buyers like what once upon a time you know the you know like a discounts on all different products and stuff paid for by the government that made sense because the average somewhat older person was not well off financially right that isn't the case these days but you have people you know sitting on a million dollars getting discounts fucking everywhere it's nonsense there's this whole talks books studies dedicated to showing how the boomers the boomer generation has constructed society through legislation to suit themselves and fuck over everyone else |
| 14. December 2022 | This Take-Two’s Lawsuit will set a precedent on the modding community. | This Take-Two lawsuit will set precedent for the modding community. So Ben Videotech on Twitter has given an update in regards to the reverse engineering project of the previous GTA titles. The thing was GTA 3. Regardless, the reverse engineering efforts of the previous GTA titles. Apparently the lawsuit is still ongoing with Take-Two being like, You can't do that. After eight months of silence from Take-Two's legal team, the company has filed a stipulated protective order for highly sensitive confidential information and or trade secrets for an ongoing modding lawsuit involving a project for reverse engineering legacy GTA titles. This lawsuit, if it concludes and goes to the end, will set precedent as to whether reverse engineering is allowed to be done, I suppose. Because with reverse engineering, you aren't stealing anything from the company necessarily. You are building everything yourself again from the ground up to do the same thing that the original game does. To my understanding, it is. |
| 30. December 2022 | This YouTuber makes the most hardcore game retrospectives I've ever seen | This YouTuber makes the most hardcore game retrospectives I've ever seen. So there is this channel called I Finished a Video Game, which does retrospectives in a way that I've never seen before. So this dude picks a franchise and literally plays all the games in it. And recently he's started to rack up a lot of views with some of these videos, but they take so long to make. This is literally a 7 hour video about Castlevania that goes over every single one of the games. Briefly summarizing the story, how the games were received, what made them succeed or fail in his opinion, and what people were saying at the time as well. Gives them a bit of a rating compared to other games. And it's edited wonderfully. Voice sounds good. It's just presented so well. And it's 7 hours. I know this says I haven't watched the whole thing, but trust me, I have watched the entirety of this video. The only interest I have in Castlevania was from the Netflix series. I'd never played any of the games. So it was very interesting to go through it all. To get more detail about this game franchise that I was never gonna play, but I've always heard whispers about as I've gone throughout my life. He does cover each game briefly, but it's like 30 plus games. And he plays through them all. Did I mention that? That's the main thing that maybe sets him apart a bit. He actually plays through each of the games. So he actually understands how they play. He's not reading some Wikipedia or something. He actually plays through them and beats them. It's 7 hours of edited content. I came back to it like every day for like a week or something to get through it. It was great. Well worth it. So if you're looking for something to chuck like a ridiculous amount of time at, this is your video. I mean, you don't like Castlevania, you know, Dino Crisis or, you know, I watched the Prince of Persia one a while back as well. That was good. Doesn't have that many videos, but will be a huge time sink if you're interested in that kind of thing. |
| 18. January 2023 | This channel changed my perspective on point and click adventure speedruns. | passion. This channel changed my perspective on point and click adventure game speedruns. I've talked to you guys before about how I'm in a discord with a bunch of people who make like speedrun documentaries and stuff so I get to see their videos when they come out or links to them. I don't watch them all because I don't have the time but I do watch quite a bit of them and recently I spent the time watching one short eyes videos. All these videos here are about like point and click adventure games. Now you wouldn't think that they'd be interesting like in terms of their history and stuff but they really are especially because it's such a niche thing done by like a tight collection of you call them friends I'm not sure a little community and they have a more understandable and digestible history that can be condensed into a video like this and it's just nice to watch these people so passionate about something that really mainly only they care about. I've talked before about how I love passion like these people aren't speedrunning for the like to get thousands of viewers whatever they're speedrunning for the love of speedrunning something that most people would think is crazy to even speedrun it is truly lovely to watch and his voice sounds good as well. If you skip the cat or bag the cat in most of the rooms you have to wait two minutes. Like I just find his voice very soothing and the presentation done so well. I highly recommend these videos if you just want to binge watch some speedrunning lore documentary videos or whatever great stuff. |
| 13. January 2023 | This comment is among the rudest I have ever received. | these reuploads. There's no way for me to get that information. This comment is among the rudest I've ever received. Someone left me a rude ass fucking comment, man. So I wrote this community post. This person said, I absolutely hate this fucking game, but I have to admit this was a funny video. And I said, and most people will miss out on it. Cause it was a really good video and I was very proud of making it. Lmao, depressing ass caption because he wants those extra cents per view Fortnite is sponsoring. This feels like a middle schooler posting a picture of him getting rejected over DMA, but being told he's a great guy, et cetera, and he posts, but no one will love me. I get paid a lump fee for this. I do not get any additional money based on how many additional views it gets. I just really liked the video. I thought it was funny. It had like a perfect three act structure. The ending was great. It's probably the happiest I've been in any video in like a bajillion years. I mean the ending at least. I had so many ups and downs. I edited it myself. I loved the pacing. I loved everything about it. And it just sucks. To create something you think is like above the norm for how good your stuff is and for no one to watch it. And that's all I was saying. If you're happy, why should one comment change? Oh, that comment didn't make me unhappy. But obviously anyone's happiness can be killed by sufficiently negative stuff. |
| 26. March 2023 | This is how Dr. Friedlander is back from the dead in The last dose DLC. | Hello and welcome to the Rambles podcast. Today we start with the topic This is how Dr. Friedlander is back from the dead in the last dose DLC. So people were confused as to how Dr. Friedlander can still be alive considering that you have at least the option to kill him in a single-player story There's actually answered on the GTA wiki Did they already update this to say killing Dr. Friedlander is non-canon? The internet news article mentioning his death will still appear regardless if the player spares him or kills him This is an oversight as after some time He will still post on Bleeder. A similar oversight regarding news reporting, optional deaths regardless of the players choice also happens after Hood Safari Vinewood Souvenirs Willie and a starlet in Vinewood. Ultimately, Friedlander was either spared by Michael or managed to escape during the car chase after his last therapy session and became a TV radio celebrity shortly after and so GTA Online is now saying hey Michael did spare him and he got away. I suspect most of you probably didn't even play these little side mission things I certainly didn't the only reason I knew about the fate of Dr. Friedlander was from whatever 57010's video where he shows Literally everything you do with Dr. Friedlander. Yeah, so his death is not canon if there was some indication it wasn't canon before I'm unaware of it. Maybe there was something else here. I'm not sure Oh, no, it says here this option was later retconned as non-canon in GTA Online Los Santos Drug Wars as Friedlander still live in 22.03. So I guess they updated this like the nanosecond that the DLC trailer drops Thank you on them. |
| 08. March 2023 | This is how much space my footage takes up from all my years on YouTube. | I drop. This is how much space my footage takes up from all my years on YouTube. So of the 150 terabytes worth of storage that I have to facilitate my little enterprise here, I have filled 140 terabytes of it. And so, I was somewhat panicking because that means I've got like a month or two left or something before I run out of space. So like, I currently have two NAS servers, each are able to store eight drives. And I was concerned I was going to have to get another one, but I don't have like another network port or something. And I was going to have to get some complicated system of an actual server rack and stuff. And I was like, that's going to be so expensive and crazy. But I was fortunate to find that there's actually expensive expansion units where you can like get another smaller one and plug this into another NAS. And so like an eight bay NAS can actually use 18 bays if you connect two of these to it. So I'm going to go from like 150 terabytes to something like 300 something soon, which is going to be good. |
| 08. March 2023 | This is one of the best shorts I've ever made. | This is one of the best shorts I've ever made. I'm always hesitant to release shorts, but I knew this one was going to be a banger. If you attempt to hook up with someone for the third time in GTA V and you go to meet them in a taxi, things become quite uncomfortable. The clip has everything. There's only two small changes I'd like to happen with it. The fade out of the phone is not really good when it's moving to the next scene. And being better able to see Franklin looking out the window without a care in the world while she's giving head to the air would be great, but you only see him for a little bit at the end. I really like its intended comedy with this car hitting here. This car. So the reason why this happens is because the coding here that's meant to make it so cars can detect that trains are coming doesn't work. Specifically on these intersections. It's in Facts and Glitches. But on the day I recorded this fact and then this one and then just coincidentally while I was recording this one of the cars hit the train. And so I kept that in as like just a little bit of funny comedy, but it works really well here because like even if you aren't captivated by what I'm saying, you're captivated by the car and that keeps you in the scene for longer. And then it finally transitions to the Odyssey in the next scene. You already captivated at that point, right? The other short that I released I deleted because it didn't do too well. Am I the best Matt in the history of Matt's? I once knew a Matt who could suck his own dick and he demonstrated such at a bunch of parties. As I cannot suck my own dick, I can definitively say that at least in that regard, I am not the greatest of Matt's. Somewhat funny, but obviously in no way is that going to like shoot off in the same way that that other clip is, you know? |
| 23. December 2022 | This is the perfect time travel movie. | This is the perfect time travel movie. Let's make like a tree and get outta here. Do you guys understand why I say that? Do you guys get that reference? Back to the Future, exactly. Now that's a movie that I expect people will still be watching a hundred years from now. There are very few movies that are considered by many to be like the perfect movie of its genre. And Back to the Future is the perfect time travel movie. It-it's-it's-it's just nothing better. Sure, if you like, think really hard about it, there are some plot holes, but it's like, that's always the case with time travel movies. When you watch it, none of that is apparent. You have to like, sit down and like, pen and pad a paper and think about it hard. Back to the Future is not a perfect movie. Look, if you just want to be contrarian, feel free, but you're wrong. |
| 05. March 2023 | This is the widest face I've ever seen on a YouTube thumbnail. | This is the widest face I've seen on YouTube thumbnail. I have seen this thumbnail of Doug Doug so many times now and every time I look at it I think myself I just want like stick an apple in his mouth It's like he's just buying so wide is he's trying like like take a like half an apple at once you can see it Right like I just want to photoshop just an apple there It's the widest I've ever seen a thumbnail face good video |
| 22. October 2022 | This is what my irl streaming set up looked like. | This is what my in real life streaming setup look like look how fat I look chat Yeah, I will 100% be losing these are what am I quite like 88 I want to get down to 80 chat be thin again Not simply barely underway barely under being fat or whatever overweight I want to be |
| 09. April 2021 | This is when I had the Merfish collaboration idea | This is when I had the idea to do the collaboration with Murphish. He's so passive. Simeon could kick this guy's ass. You know how they do those videos where they make Dark Souls bosses versus each other? We should make a video where Rocco and Simeon fight each other. Oh my god, I should totally do that. Write that down. 100 Roccos versus 100 Simeons, true. Just find myself some Street Fighter music. And similar to what I did in the GTA 4 highlights video. You know the fight that Niko has? It comes and goes KO. And stuff. Quick before someone else does it. Oh, I hate that so much, that feeling. Quickly gotta get this out before someone else does it. I hate that. And it's true. It's a thing you have to think on whenever you think of an idea. Usually you just hope that other people don't have the expertise or time to do it. Hell, I don't even have the expertise to do that. Like I would have to teach myself how I can make 100 NPCs passive at one moment or whatever. Maybe I'll talk to Murphish. I have an idea of a website where people can watch other stream video games. I hope nobody steals it first. Hopefully not. Hopefully not. I remember once upon a time, was it Vsauce 2? They were making a video for like a month on some particular topic related to time or something. And then another sciency channel like three days before released like the exact same video. And they had like such a cross section, cross pollination. What's the word? They shared such an audience that Vsauce 2 actually came out and addressed it. He's like, oh yeah, it's my bad luck I guess. Oh yeah, it was CGP Grey. That's right. CGP Grey and Vsauce 2. |
| 13. March 2023 | This is why I will never move away from GTA V content. | of those. This is why I would never move away from GTA content. I saw this video by ClixPhilip, and I found one part of it particularly interesting. I don't know if I'd ever heard this phrased in this particular way, but it mirrors something that I've talked about before. Here is a mountain of evolution. I think I got it from something Richard Dawkins talked about at some point. And he discussed the evolution of the eye and how some creatures have found themselves as an evolutionary dead end, because in order for their eye design to improve further, it must first take several steps back. And this is something that natural selection doesn't allow for. In a way, this dead end right here is where 3kliksphilip is. He climbed this small peak that is CSGO, and was successful because he had done so, but now finds himself unable to climb any further up the mountain BECAUSE he chose to go up this CSGO route. The channel is currently popular but is unlikely to get any more so and will eventually fizzle out and cease to exist. But there's nothing I can do about that. For changing the style or subject of that channel will only accelerate this process. So this mirrors what I've talked about previously about how success in one avenue can preclude you from success in another. And it is often not worth it to throw away your current success even while recognizing it is not the grandest conceivable success that you could have. It's not worth throwing it away for even a small chance at that much greater success. Why risk something great that you have currently for something even greater if you don't necessarily need it. And that's how I feel with my niche in Grand Theft Auto and stuff. Obviously, I would never be the most successful content creator on the platform or something by just making Grand Theft Auto content, especially in the variety that I make with challenge runs and speedruns and stuff. But I am clearly so successful, at least relative to everyone else, that it'd be insane to try to do something entirely different. To move away from that entirely. And risk just becoming nothing. I'm better off just being happy with what I have. That section was just an interesting way of communicating to me that kind of concept. Sounds like opportunity cost? Yes, everything has opportunity cost because you can always be doing something else. It's very unlikely in any given moment that you are doing the absolute peak optimal thing in regards to any particular god that you have. That is just the nature of life. |
| 22. November 2022 | This is why YouTubers don’t answer you in comments | right? And if I just make another video for example, even at the lowest reach that video will have, it will reach many many thousands of people who don't agree with me. Answering comments about such things is really inefficient in terms of attempting to convince greater amounts of people to my viewpoint. And so I'm trying my best now to respond less to comments, even those that I find ridiculously stupid or things that I know I could explain in 15 seconds in a way that a person could understand. I still do like engaging with comments and stuff, but I would prefer to only respond to things that don't take that much time. Or either that or just passively read the comments, maybe press like on them as opposed to spending a lot of time on them. I don't think I'm very good at this because it's just like in real life if a person walked up to you and said hey man, and then spewed a bunch of dumb shit, it'd be very hard to not respond to that. It's the same way in comments, but I am trying more. Rockstar is hiring a specialist to stop modders. So if any of you have expertise related to defending, you know, GT Online from hackers and stuff, feel free to apply to Rockstar because apparently they are looking for someone. The Rockstar security team is responsible for protecting our players, employees, and intellectual property, getting rid of malicious actors and insider threats. I would hope that it's simply that the person in this position left recently or something, or they want more people. It's hard to fathom that they just never had a person in this kind of role, but hopefully they find someone good and GT Online won't be a shitfest. It'd be hard to imagine that this is for the current GT Online, and it's not for whatever they- |
| 27. October 2022 | This is why people use YouTube premium. | Use YouTube Premium. Some people have asked me, why do I and other people use YouTube Premium, despite that there are other mechanisms available that you can use to block ads on YouTube. Of course, this is ignoring the other features that you can get where you can, you know, have YouTube minimized on your phone and just listen to the audio and stuff. Apparently, there are other tools you can use to get that as well. But at the end of the day, the lengths that you have to go to, to get no ads on all your devices, instantly, is just a huge pain in the ass. It's always changing what things you need to have, how successful they are and whatnot. If you want to set it up on your TV to not have ads, your phone to not have ads, your PC to not have ads, you need different things and it's just more effort. If you can afford that 15 bucks a month or whatever, it is a frictionless experience to use YouTube Premium to get rid of ads, because you just get none. There's never a debate or questioning as to whether or not a browser update or is going to ruin it or the extension itself is going to ruin it. It just always works. I'm sure some people can't afford that, but you can understand why if you can, you would go for it. Premium is infinitely more convenient. Exactly. Especially with the changes that are coming in January, it's going to make these ad blocking things harder to use on Chromium based browsers, which is quite a few of them. Although some of these ad blockers do say, oh, we're still going to be able to be in business, don't worry. But I mean, of course they're going to say that because they wouldn't want people to leave. Have to see when January comes by. |
| 08. November 2022 | This needs to be in GTA 6 | Yeah, it's very good. This needs to be in GTA 6. I'll be real with you chat I had not played many other GTA like games before I played GTA 5, right? So wasn't that surprising to me in GTA 5 that you couldn't destroy trees? Since starting to play other GTA like games All of them have destructible trees like all of them Even the earlier GTA games have it you can imagine they were just limited by like hardware limitations because the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 Or whatever. It wasn't the Xbox one. Whatever. Either way, I hope in GTA 6 they at least have destructible trees destructible trees |
| 06. February 2023 | This new Nvidia AI technology ensures you never look away from the lens again. | has released something that is pretty impressive. It's this thing where it uses AI to make it so that your eyes are looking at the camera, regardless of where you're looking. One of the comments that I got a lot during my Anti-React series, where I was all scripted, was some people say, you aren't always looking at the camera. And the reason for that is, it is really hard to memorize 40 pages, and whatever the hell that one particular video was, and just speak to the camera. It takes infinitely longer. But if I could have something like this, where I'm just reading from a script and my eyes will look at the camera, that'd be way better. I haven't tested this out myself because I haven't had reason to, especially as when I heard about it the first time, it was a long time ago, and you had to be like a developer or you needed like special credentials and stuff to get involved in so I couldn't get access. But now it seems to be more available to the public, and so next time that I need to make a scripted video, I might look into this. Like I hope there's some add-on for OBS where this can be added into it. I guess it depends on how good it looks as to whether or not I'd use it. People played through GT5 without understanding this key feature. Never forget that there are people. |
| 19. November 2022 | This potential youtube feature would change everything. | This potential YouTube feature would change everything. That feature I talked about before, where, unrelated to live streaming, where they want to give people the option of having multiple audio tracks, I looked at that only from the angle of different language audio tracks. But if that tool was given to everyone and didn't cause confusion or fuck things up on the backend or whatever, think of what you could do with it. Like, if you make a small audio mistake, you could leave up the video, because that's the thing they don't want you to change necessarily, because you might put some stuff in there that shouldn't be shown or whatever, some graphic content or whatever. That's why they don't let you change your videos. You have to delete them and put it back up. You could change it to remove mistakes that you've made in your audio, you could change it to remove copyright and music if you get claims like, YouTube's backend system to remove music is far from perfect, but if you yourself could just upload a new audio track, the sky's the limit of all the errors that you could correct, ways that you could improve your content later on in life. Like, I could just straight up go back and redub my old past episodes to have better presentation or whatnot. I probably wouldn't, I wouldn't go the effort right now to do that, but I'm just saying, like, having that tool available to everyone would open a lot of avenues, and I hope they go down that route. They let a Minecraft YouTuber named CaptainSparklez change the audio track on two of his music videos when he was having legal trouble with his org, so the technology exists. The multiple audio track technology has existed for a while, Linus was talking about how they use it on some of their videos now, but it's still in the beta phase, or the alpha phase, it hasn't gone out to everyone. But I've also talked before that YouTube will let you change your videos, but they don't let everyone do that. I have requested sometimes to have my videos changed to a different one, because I've made some error, and they've said no, or I can't get in touch with the right people to make those changes. Clearly, if everyone was asking to replace videos, it would just cause chaos on the back end, there'd just be a never-ending backlog of having to re-upload and take down videos for different creators, so it's something that you can only do sparingly. But for example, my video with the professional, my GTA Guesser video, there was a bunch of text left on his face for like 30 seconds, which was just a message left to me by Martin that I didn't catch. And I was like, oh, I can't just remove that section with the editor, because it would ruin the entire video, the video wouldn't make sense. And so I begged YouTube, like, just let me just upload, just take down that one and replace it with another video, and they were like, oh, all right. I think I've done it like twice. I've successfully gotten them to change the video. It's not something you want to rely on, and I don't think they want people to rely on it. But obviously, if I was not as big as I am, there'd be no shot I could do. |
| 06. February 2023 | This ‘Wheel of time’ 10 years reveal later blew my mind. | you were gonna care about, but I'm gonna mention anyway. So one of my favorite book series of all time is The Wheel of Time. I read it multiple times as a kid. It was a book series I read as it released. I think I must read like the sixth book in the series like five times because it was the newest one out at the time. I would sit in class reading The Wheel of Time. I remember being down the South Coast with two of my friends and I was walking through the bookstore and I saw on the shelf the final book of The Wheel of Time. Something I didn't know was coming out. It had been so many years since the previous one and I hadn't kept up with it and I can still remember the feeling of absolute excitement and joy at seeing this book and I was like I just want to abandon my friends just go home and just sit in my room and read this book. It shaped my imagination like my view of what a fantasy world is for all of my life. It potentially ends to finding Brandon Sanderson who has now had a significant impact because I'm now reading through his books and he the way he constructs worlds is very interesting. But Brandon Sanderson, for those who don't know, the original author of The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan died before he finished the book series. But Brandon Sanderson, a prolific fantasy author, was brought on by Robert Jordan's wife to use his notes and Brandon Sanderson's love of the series to finish off the book series and depending on who you ask will depend on how well people think he actually achieved that goal of like continuing the sort of vibe of the series and finishing it. I think he did a pretty good job. It's just some people make critiques like some of Brandon Sanderson's visions of the characters was somewhat different than how they were in the original series. But regardless, we were better off getting an ending than getting none at all, right? But because of Brandon Sanderson's closeness to the series and finishing of it, he has in-depth knowledge of the series that no one else does and he revealed something near the end that most people didn't catch on to. So I found out about this from Daniel Green's video, The Big Wheel of Time Reveal. He references, of course, a video from Brandon Sanderson. Just a little interview thing he does here. And the reveal is, spoilers, Landfell Lives. So most of you haven't read the series, so you guys have no god damn idea what I'm talking about. But when this is revealed, I was like, oh, yeah, thinking about it, that makes a lot of sense. I do remember while reading thinking that her end in the series, I was like, that's kind of stupid ending, right? Like, surely she shouldn't be defeated so easily. And the implication is like, yeah, she was using all her knowledge of the dream world and all that stuff to basically fool people into believing that she's dead because she was ultimately screwed whether or not the light or dark won. I was like, oh, yeah, interesting. I feel like I should reread the whole series again, but I'm not going to, of course. There are so many things in that series that were never answered or were only hinted at and you have to like speculate what the answer is because it was such a long series. But getting that kind of confirmation was cool to hear. So this would likely be the last topic in Rambles. So if you're one of the people who love Wheel of Time as much as I do, hopefully that was interesting for you. I mean go watch Daniel Green's video on it if you like. He does a lot of videos about fantasy books and fantasy in general, I suppose. It's a good channel. |
| 27. April 2022 | Those good brain chemicals. | Those good brain chemicals. There's this thing where, like whenever you complete a goal, your brain releases dopamine, and apparently, the more goals that you complete, the stronger this connection is in your brain, and so the more dopamine you tend to get. And I guess that explains why I like completing goals so much. Like I don't think a lot of people would be willing to work on just a random project, you know, like 10 hours a day or whatever for three weeks, but I see it as all these tiny little goals. And so I complete tiny little goals, and like yeah, I did good. And then the brain chemicals release, and then I can stomach doing it another day. I think it's my life at this point. So I'm being a junkie, yeah, I'm a junkie from brain chemicals. They make me feel good. I don't get any of the other ones. What are they? Oxytocin, serotonin, what's the other one? |
| 10. June 2022 | Thoughts after Some Ordinary Podcast | Thoughts after some ordinary podcast? The RAN hoodie. I'm happy some of you recognized it. Because I wore it in the podcast with Mudahar, Nux, and Caleb. And I did that specifically so people might put, write comments, like, oh my gosh, the RAN jacket! I hope I did okay in the podcast. I enjoyed myself. They said they enjoyed themselves, but you never know how much that's just being nice. I just don't generally do this kind of stuff. Podcasts and stuff, so it's not like I have a lot of experience to know what is going well and what isn't. But there were like no lulls on the conversation and we just, you know, chatted. I hope I was clear in terms of my speaking, though. I was tired, so. It takes a lot out of you doing a podcast. I respect people who can do that shit, repeatedly. What is the podcast with? It's Some Ordinary Gamers. Well, it's some ordinary podcast with Nux, Oompy, and Some Ordinary Gamers. Isn't the Rainbow series the same as a podcast, albeit the thoughts are spread out? Not really. A little bit, but I think a podcast is like having multiple people on them, you know? One thing Nux said, which I agree with, is that my Rainbow thumbnails are clearly quite shit. I've always wondered what would happen if I got a professional to actually make thumbnails for them. It would be such a pain in the ass, because they're meant to be like filler content, you know? |
| 01. February 2020 | Thoughts on Bad Bunny's recent controversy | I recently did a Q&A some questions were asked via voice and discord others I just read from discord and answered What is your opinions of bad bunny being an absolute fucking piece of shit for asking about money? All right, everyone the chats make me depressed with all their fucking sad fucking sob stories about how their life is over and they can't For $5 a month, which I still fucking don't even how did my whole speech about? How I need subs and to get this stream going if you like the content blah blah blah how that results in zero subs There are regulars here five dollars a month How do you have hours of time to watch me and not five dollars I Don't know. What are you doing with your life where you have hours of time to watch twitch and Not five dollars to provide for the content that you're watching There are so look at I have a wall of non subs This is fucking actually really heartbreaking because it's like people just really have no they really don't respect me as a content creator Chat I haven't got a donation Or sub for an hour What the fuck it was? Reprehensible in that you know, not everyone has five dollars to give especially for something as frivolous as a twitch subscription I'm sure there are people in chat and her chat that had five dollars that could have they could have given it to her but it would not be a justifiable expense there's a difference between having money and Being able to justify to spend that money on something entirely frivolous if you're I I feel terrible when people say oh man I'm gonna sub get my paycheck next week If you're living paycheck to paycheck and if you don't have at least a little bit of savings You shouldn't be twitch sub to anyone. You should be donating to anyone I'm not gonna say how much money you should have in savings, but um especially as I guess it does matter what expenses you have but Demanding this to people is nonsense The commentary of bad bunny that her outburst look at this. There's two There's two kind of narratives. I've heard about her outburst one is that She's ultimately a person frustrated with her circumstances where she's in decline her viewership is declining she has like an average two three hundred viewership and She won't change and she's watching herself crawl slowly smaller not being asked to sustain her You know her Lifestyle or what have you the the manner in which she currently lives and so she's lashing out at her viewers blaming her viewers rather than blaming herself for not um, you know Changing with the times you could say I don't know what other things she does other than twitch But there's always other avenues that a content creator could be throwing their time at or changing their content To potentially get a larger audience or to bring more people in that could bring in more revenue That she's not doing that. I would say that would be the cause of her decline in saying that though Since this thing has blown up. It was covered everywhere. I mean everywhere I still saw everyone talking about bad bunny for like three days People who would never talk about twitch would never talk about twitch stream were talking about bad bunny And the consequence of this is the bad bunny gained like 30,000 subscribers Her viewership doubled it went from like 250 to 500 viewers. So Who knows how much of that is malicious like there's people just going in to troll her or what have you? I'm not of the camp as I've said before that all publicity is good publicity But in this case, there's always going to be some fraction of people who are like, oh, you know She's the real victim or whatever. It's it's these these Misogynist or sexist people lashing out at her and they're like, oh my god There's people lashing out at her and if you're if you're if you reach wide enough with the publicity You will be able to rope in some people who do actually agree with um What you're saying and in bad bunny case bad bunnies case. She seems to have done that The other narrative is what I mentioned previously There's a dude who is her friend who was just saying it's just a bunch of sexist It's you know, male streamers say this kind of stuff all the time But the only reason people are being angry at bad bunny is because she's a woman This I don't think is true in that even in cases where people ask for subs. Hey guys twitch prime It's in those cases Uh it at no point does it look like they're attacking the audience or saying how you scum. Why aren't you? Paying five dollars to sub to me, which is kind of what bad bunny seemed to be doing Uh, this same person then went on to uh, you know kind of walk that back and go come on guys It was just all an act bad bunny is just she she was just uh playing a character or whatever Uh, I think this is nonsense the the only other Knowledge I have of bad bunny prior to this experience was uh through rem Rem gave me a person i've talked to before on stream. He gave me some clips Of her talking to him and she doesn't seem like a very wonderful person Let's just say uh isn't it's totally within within her wheelhouse as I understand her as limited as that is Is to lash out at her viewers for not financially supporting her um, yeah the first gta game |
| 01. September 2020 | Thoughts on GTA online new location | new location in GTA Online. What do you think Rockstar is going to add to the map? The thing that will disappoint me most... I don't know what that is. It's very strange that Rockstar somehow knows what will disappoint me the most when I don't even know that question. They must be following me around looking through my garbage. A lot of psychologists working on Rockstar perfectly analyzing me as a person to find the very perfect thing to disappoint me. So I'm going to guess they're going to add a western themed version of GTA with no cars and that is very similar to Red Dead 2 and the only thing you do in it is ride horses really really slowly while listening to Hicks tell you about their life. That's my prediction, okay? Is Rockstar incompetent or are they the masters that produce the exact content of Unmatched Day? Oh my god, it's hard to say. Is it possible to be very competent in in intentionally conducting yourself in a way? Will you appear incompetent? I guess that will be possible. Maybe there's just some meta sort of 10,000 IQ strat that Rockstar has to appear incompetent in everything that they do. But actually behind that seems really competent and they have some master plan that I'm just not privy to. It's possible. No fucking likely there. |
| 12. November 2022 | Thoughts on Kanye West’s more recent insanity. | Kanye Westmore recent insanity. Thoughts on what Kanye said? I have long been off the Kanye train. I'm talking like five plus years ago, I was saying he's fucking crazy. Sure, he's passionate with his music and he's talented along those lines, but he's confused his musical talent with like actual general intelligence or something. He's said a lot of really dumb, clearly wrong shit. He's drifted from one cult to the next for as long as I've been aware of his existence. |
| 12. August 2020 | Thoughts on XQC’s reactions | Thoughts on XQC's reactions. What do you think of XQC's reactions? They're fucking trash, man. The idea that he can take like the entire Dax Flame video from iDubbbz and just upload the entire thing to his YouTube channel as he grunts every five minutes is fucking hilarious to me. You got all the money in the fucking world, hire yourself an editor, at least give some lip service to Fair Use. |
| 14. March 2020 | Thoughts on animated storytime YouTube Channels | and story time YouTube channels. My life is fairly simplistic and boring. When I think of stories, I don't really have many, I don't think. I guess over the course of my time here maybe I've had like 12 stories, I don't know. That a person could have an entire like career telling their stories with animation just blows me away. It just makes me want to go, you're making this shit up. No way that happened. Get out of here. You fought a tiger with a butter knife and a badger. Come on now. Get out of here. Nah, it happened, man. Ten million views. Wasn't there some controversy about story time animators like not either stealing stories or like paying people for their stories? I don't know. But all I'm saying is surely those stories that the story time animated people do are at least exaggerated somewhat and eventually you're gonna run out of material, especially considering like a lot of these story time animator people are young. I mean, you've not lived 40 years or something to have endless stories. What I'm saying is as long as it's fun and interesting, it's all good, I guess, because whether or not these stories are true is not necessarily gonna impact people's lives negatively or positively. The one story time animator that I watch is the odd one out. I found his personality and content to be fairly good. The animation style of these story time animators is in general fairly simplistic, which is kind of what you need to do in order to get out content fairly regularly on YouTube, because good animation takes weeks, months for a long kind of video, but these story time animators can just, you know, simple drawings with voiceovers. |
| 01. January 2020 | Thoughts on different dev teams | Thoughts on different developers and Rockstar Is there a dev company company that no longer exists that I wish would come back? I don't know enough about developers i've never been outside of like I like blizzard or I like Rockstar or whatever Um, i've never been that into games or developers so i've Not really kept up to pace with all the smaller companies that have gone out of business or been crushed by larger competition or whatever so Something like something I really care about And i'm not saying I like Rockstar or Blizzard really but watched a video recently about uh the releases of san andreas and the remasters Uh of that game on different consoles and how terrible they all are Rockstar continues to come off to me as a company that has no love for what it produces It's like they make so much money so they could if they really wanted to take great loving care to make sure everything is perfect Or whatever so that people can play their games forever, but they don't just don't seem to care It's like when they gave away a free version of san andreas on their new launcher and it was just completely bugged from the get-go |
| 30. May 2020 | Thoughts on game piracy | What are my thoughts on game piracy? There was a study done, was a European study or something, that looked at game piracy and whether it negatively impacted sales in general, and the answer was no. Because people who pirate things in general weren't going to purchase them anyway. Especially when you hear like of movies for example, where I think a study was on movies, but I would be unsurprised if it was the same with our games. Like if you have a movie that you've heard is kind of decent, you aren't necessarily going to go to the cinemas to pay for that. You aren't going to go out of your way to spend money to see it. But if you can get it for free, you'll be like yeah sure why not. You're looking at it as a guy, it's not that great, just chuck it off. Like if it wasn't available for free, you wouldn't bother watching it. But obviously if everyone pirated their games, then the game industry as a whole wouldn't function. You need money, some people paying for games, to have more games being produced. So I'm not a huge fan of it. Games are one of the few things that I never really pirated all that much, because games have always been really accessible, like on PC or whatnot because of Steam. I don't know if you're saying always, but generally speaking. And because you get constant access to updates and whatnot, it's usually easier if you have the money to pay the money to get the game than it is to potentially deal with viruses and whatnot to pirate the games. In some cases, pirated versions of the games do run better than the games that you buy because of DRM. And that's unfortunate, in those cases it makes perfect sense as a consumer for you to pirate the game. Because if a game developer isn't willing to give you an experience at equal or greater than a person who pirates the game, then they don't want your money so fuck them. As a general rule, I don't want people pirating games because I want the gaming industry to make as much money as possible so people invest more money into it and make more and more games. But if you're a person who is barely making ends meet, you need entertainment, you don't have money to spend on video games, I don't blame you for pirating games. That's a perfectly reasonable thing to do. And it's not like the developer is losing money because you wouldn't have bought the game anyway because you don't have the funds to purchase such things. I did see somewhere though that piracy isn't like a poor man's game. Just because a person has access to more funds doesn't mean they're less likely to pirate. I believe it's suggested, at least in Australia, that people with more money were more likely to pirate. Maybe that was years ago, maybe it's just because of better access to internet for example, or computers and whatnot. All piracy isn't bad. There are situations where I think it's perfectly justifiable to pirate. But I would prefer that people who could afford to pay for games do so that the gaming industry can continue to thrive. |
| 04. July 2022 | Thoughts on having kids | Right? Thoughts on having kids. Thoughts on kids? I find kids to be adorable. In that, they're kinda like just puppies that can talk. They're enthusiastic about stuff, they love when you teach them things. But they can also be extraordinarily frustrating. They scru- cry, scream, destroy shit, and all that jazz. And they're very expensive to have, but my main concern is, uh, the responsibility. You have a kid, and you're responsible for them for 18 years plus. Or really, for the rest of your life. And, uh, I don't even want the responsibility of having a dog. And that's far less responsibility. So when I look at- think about having kids. I'm like, okay, I'm sure this will be an enriching experience, but I don't want to deal with the- the- burdens and responsibilities of all that jazz. Besides, I always read these stories about like- Cause regardless of how much society has progressed, taking care of kids is still seen as like a woman's thing. You know? So, you're a dad and you take your daughter to go play or something. People will look at you weirdly, like, what are you doing here? You know, where's the kid's mother? All that jazz. I'm sure that sentiment isn't, you know, everywhere, with everyone. But, I remember when I took a- a career aptitude test or whatever the hell it's called. When I was like 18. And they said to me that I would probably enjoy being in- in something with child care or something. Or taking care of kids in- in preschool or something or whatever. And I'm like, yeah, I imagine I would probably do that, but I don't- I wouldn't want to deal with parents looking at me weirdly for the rest of my fucking life. Thinking I was a- a pedo or some shit. It just seems scary. It shouldn't be that way, but how- how terrible would that make you feel? Someone walking up to you and being like, what are you doing around these kids? Like, even calling kids cute sounds weird to my ears. It's why I use the word adorable. It's sexism? I mean, it is. When it comes to parents and their kids though, like, you never really want to say to them, your concerns aren't justified. Stop being so concerned about your child. Are you an uncle? It's hard to imagine my sister would ever have kids. If she did, that'd be great. I would like to be an uncle. To, on rare occasions, you know, be around a kid. And to, like, play soccer with them or whatever, or teach them stuff. I like being an uncle, but I wouldn't have my own. It seems as though being an uncle is a preferable circumstance than being a father. You can have that feeling of, like, nurturing the next generation and contributing, and you can have all the upsides of having a kid in teaching them stuff and all that. But you don't have to deal with the, you know, sleepless nights or the potential fraying of the relationship with your significant other and all that jazz. Or the financial burdens. Saying all these things and having widespread agreements, like, you just think how futz we're gonna be, or humanity's gonna be, in the future. Because all the younger generations are in so much debt and financial insecurity, and so many worries about the future and shit, that child births are going down massively, you know? I mean, bucket there are courses and stuff, and people you can call to help with raising a child, but, you know, more expenses and stuff. Child care is some of the most, like, expensive stuff in my country right now, I think. Like, you can get ridiculous money if you're willing to drive to a random house and stay there for a couple of hours to take care of a kid. I'm actually in child care. I can confirm the money is sweet as. I wonder why more people don't go into that field, I guess, because, I mean, you have to look a particular way, as in, like, again, you probably can't do well as a guy in that field. People will be sketchy about you, and you'd have to look very normal. Because, like, again, when it comes to raising your kid, you're gonna be, like, the most suspicious, over-the-top, scrutinizing kind of person, right? And so you're gonna judge people based on stereotypes and, oh, you've got, like, a scar on your face, where you, you know, a scumbag or something, get away from my kid, you know. It's a huge responsibility, too, with small kids, everything can go wrong. Yeah, yeah. You don't watch them for two seconds, and suddenly they're breaking a wall. A friend works in child care, and they say it's one of the worst jobs because of the child's parents. Exactly. The overly cautious, overly scrutinizing, the judged mentalness. How could a child break a wall alone? Just chucking something down the stairs. My girlfriend worked in a kindergarten for one year, and that was enough for her to decide to never have kids. God damn, dude. It's just in the past, there was more of a necessity to have kids. I mean, in some parts of the world, there's been a necessity. Kids obviously worked, the farms and all that stuff, and, uh, and as you say, they care for you in their life. And plus, there was less to do. Like, it was just the thing that was expected. That was your life, you know? You grew up, you got married, got a job, had a kid, and that was your life. You achieved the things. But now it's like, you've got 57 different things you can do. You can fly around the world, you can, um, there's endless access to media and all that jazz. It's more accepted to not have a kid. From my experience, you just have to love looking after them. Biologically, chemicals in your brain, don't know their names, make you love your kid. And being around your kid. Like, every person thinks, I, you know, I may or may not be into kids, da-da-da-da. The second they have a kid, it's like, I love this little thing. Oh my god, this is the most amazing goddamn thing ever. It's well studied or whatever, that feeling. I don't know the drugs or the chemicals or whatever that the brain releases, but, you know, it's a evolutionary necessity for those who have kids to want to protect them and care for them. So, it is bothersome sometimes to think that our preferences for certain things are just chemicals in our brains. Being like, you should care about this more. Take the chemicals. |
| 02. November 2021 | Thoughts on homeschooling. | Thoughts on homeschooling. Thoughts on being homeschooled. |
| 29. May 2020 | Thoughts on last of us 2 leaks? | One of my thoughts on the last of his two leaks, I could not care......- |
| 04. November 2021 | Thoughts on tattoos, piercings, body mods | Thoughts on tattoos, piercings, body mods. What's my opinion on body modifications, piercing, tattoos, etc? As far as tattoos are concerned, I can't think of a single thing that I'd want on my body that I'd be happy to see every single day. Wouldn't you just get sick of it in 10 years? And when your skin, you know, fades and grows wrinkly and stuff over the coming decades, won't it look far worse? Piercings as well, like that stuff, would you be really happy with it for the rest of your life? |
| 12. August 2020 | Thoughts on xqc’s reactions | Thoughts on XQC's reactions. What do you think of XQC's reactions? They're fucking trash, man. The idea that he can take like the entire Dax Flame video from iDubbbz and just upload the entire thing to his YouTube channel as he grunts every five minutes is fucking hilarious to me. You got all the money in the fucking world, hire yourself an editor, at least give some lip service to Fair Use. |
| 21. March 2021 | Three dumb things I did recently. | I went to the post office to finally deliver the giveaway winners CPU after two weeks of not doing it and I got to the post office I got out and I realized I forgot the package and had to go back home I felt just as stupid as when I went to the to get my hair cut and I got out of my car and I realized I had no shoes and I Couldn't deal with going and sitting in the barb and stuff without any kind of shoes. So I went home I left my shoes and my mother's because I had to drive her car It's funny though because I would just wear thongs or flip-flops as people call them In other countries. So all it would be is a bit of rubber on the bottom of my foot I'd still basically barefoot but the difference there in comfort in society is Is significant enough that I went just went home today I set my oven to the incorrect settings So it looked like it was on but it wasn't cooking my pizza And so the pizza took like an extra 25 minutes to cook just catching up all the dumb things that I've done What would happen if I |
| 14. August 2022 | Tier Zoo and CGP Grey on reaction content. | TierZoo and CPGrey on reaction content. Yeah, so TierZoo tweeted, It's only been a week. How are there already over a dozen react videos? And he posted this. A lot of small channels as well. One or two. Well, actually a lot of these have got a reason man of subscribers. Even CPGrey responded, React channels talk like they are content promoters while their actions reveal they didn't be content-leashers, so frustrating. Playing an entire video and saying cool a couple of times is not fair use, and I wish YouTube would take this more seriously. Some of the responses underneath always frustrate me. Where people are like, oh, you know, there was a seven minute video and a person spoke on it for 20 minutes or whatever, and then it's okay. That's- that's still garbage. The time it takes to make an edited video is astronomically more than 20 minutes. If a person had 20 minutes to say on a topic, they can make their own fucking video, you know? TierZoo had a response to a person. This guy says, take them down. TierZoo responds, nah, there really ain't much to be gained by starting beef. And that's the way it is. As I say, the analogy for reaction content is a reactor takes a dollar from a thousand people. And each individual person's like, I mean, I only lost a dollar, so it's no use making a big deal out of it, but there's more and more people taking a dollar from a thousand people over and over and over again, sometimes, you know, seven times a fucking day, like in the case of Asmongold. It adds up, but it doesn't impact one individual person enough for anyone to cry out, except when they have consideration for everyone else being impacted. As I say, I just like pointing out when people acknowledge the bullshit nature of this. |
| 14. August 2022 | Tier Zoo and CGPgrey on reaction content. | TierZoo and CPGrey on reaction content. Yeah, so TierZoo tweeted, It's only been a week. How are there already over a dozen react videos? And he posted this. A lot of small channels as well. One or two. Well, actually a lot of these have got a reason man of subscribers. Even CPGrey responded, React channels talk like they are content promoters while their actions reveal they didn't be content-leashers, so frustrating. Playing an entire video and saying cool a couple of times is not fair use, and I wish YouTube would take this more seriously. Some of the responses underneath always frustrate me. Where people are like, oh, you know, there was a seven minute video and a person spoke on it for 20 minutes or whatever, and then it's okay. That's- that's still garbage. The time it takes to make an edited video is astronomically more than 20 minutes. If a person had 20 minutes to say on a topic, they can make their own fucking video, you know? TierZoo had a response to a person. This guy says, take them down. TierZoo responds, nah, there really ain't much to be gained by starting beef. And that's the way it is. As I say, the analogy for reaction content is a reactor takes a dollar from a thousand people. And each individual person's like, I mean, I only lost a dollar, so it's no use making a big deal out of it, but there's more and more people taking a dollar from a thousand people over and over and over again, sometimes, you know, seven times a fucking day, like in the case of Asmongold. It adds up, but it doesn't impact one individual person enough for anyone to cry out, except when they have consideration for everyone else being impacted. As I say, I just like pointing out when people acknowledge the bullshit nature of this. |
| 23. November 2020 | Tik Tok creator fund | So someone was mentioning to me that, you know, they've got that program on TikTok now where people can actually get paid for uploading TikToks. I wonder if TikTok is making money, given that program, or how much they're getting paid compared to YouTubers and stuff. Like, if I got in that program, I would probably hire some people to convert my 1440p raw footage into TikTok. I did that for a while, but I had people, well, I downloaded stuff off YouTube and gave it to them. And that's lower quality. I can't be fucked doing that anymore, it didn't really get me anywhere. Why I took a break from playing Among Us. |
| 19. December 2019 | TikTok - Value and money | You know, TikTok value and monetization. So since I found TikTok, I've probably gone through like two, 300 of these TikTok videos now. I think maybe at best 5% have been good, which I think was roughly the same with Vine. Cause Vine did have some good content creators on it. I think Gus Johnson, I mean, not Gus Johnson, no, cause well ProZD was certainly from Vine. Who was that other Asian fellow? Ian something? Vine had some good content creators and so does TikTok, I imagine. But so much of it is garbage. It's probably because it's so accessible. You have 13 year old is on TikTok and it's awkward as hell watching her and her friends make garbage dance videos or something. Using TikTok, it'll occasionally give you a video that has like zero likes and zero comments. And they're always garbage. Why don't Viners just go to TikTok to make Vines? I'm sure many people who once upon a time did make Vines and I make TikToks, but TikTok wasn't around when Vine collapsed. And certainly platforms like Vine, TikTok, Instagram, they have problems with monetization. There was no way for a TikTok, I don't know what the fuck they call themselves, to make money off TikTok directly. There's no ads. You make money by like selling merch or having people move to other platforms where you have content with ads. You feel bad for people who find Vine funny? With enough content, there is always something good. If you have enough monkeys hitting typewriters, eventually they'll write Shakespeare as they say. So many Vines were made by so many people. It's just statistically impossible that some of them wouldn't be funny, right? So I mentioned creators before that were really good and you go back and watch their Vines and they're still really funny. Like if you sat down and watched an hour of Vine compilations, I'm sure you'd find something you find funny. The less of a filter that there is to creating content, the more bad content will be made. But also, you know, the more good content that will be made, but you'll have a harder time finding it. You'll have to sift through more bad to find the good. And of course, never underestimate like the value that limitations can have on stuff sometimes. Like you, people talk about like old movies and stuff or old video games and the creative ways that the creators of them had to work within the limitations of what they had and led to some innovative shit. Trying to cram something funny into six seconds works for a lot of people. Certainly it can be stifling for in other contexts. Like you should never expect Vine to last forever. Mega64 had a good video, joking like they were making Grape or something, which is just, you know, at two second videos. It's a very funny video, but yeah, obviously Vine was eventually gonna collapse. It's hard to imagine TikTok being around forever either. Like how are they going to monetize TikTok in a way that's not stifling for the audience? Unless they're selling data. Vine and TikTok compilations on YouTube are good because you don't have to sift. Yeah, you're just getting the top. It's similar to, there's a subreddit called YouTube Haiku that I really enjoy. Has seven second, 15 second and 30 second clips from YouTube. And every day I'll go there and I'll sort by most upvoted. And I'll watch like anything that has over a thousand upvotes. More than half are funny to me. If you go, as we've done before, and just look at YouTube Haiku, the subreddit, and just sort by all time, most upvoted, it's just a nonstop laughs. It's very, very funny. Because everyone else was the guinea pig. Everyone else is guinea pigs to having a compilation of very funny content. On TikTok, you're the guinea pig. You're the one having to sift. I don't really understand why, who is using nine gag? Is this a meme? Why do we have to monetize everything? Because there are costs associated with streaming and storing video content. Without it being monetized, it'll eventually incur significant debts and go out of business. Unless it's state funded. And I don't think that TikTok provides a useful or necessary public service to the population. And therefore I don't think taxpayers should pay to support its existence. I think Vine used to be funny because people are older now and think you find funny now are way different than five years ago. I don't, is Vine five years old since it collapsed? It hasn't been five years, has it? Two or three, right? Why there won't be a GTA five meme review anytime soon. When will the GTA meme review happen? Did you, you're not here for that explanation. I set up the meme review thing. I tested using two OBSs to record, one to record me and one to record the Discord. And I was gonna kind of sync them up. So I knew what I was looking at. So I started them both one at a time and they both started recording. And I was like, oh good, so the recording does work. I can use two OBSs at once. Then I started the actual meme review and I pressed F12, which started both OBSs recording at once. And then at the end of the recording, I only had one file. And I was like, what happened to the other recording? It turns out that when I tested it, I started the OBSs one after another. So it made two different file names. When I started both OBSs at once, Windows couldn't make two files of the same name. So it just didn't make one. And unfortunately, the one that it made was the Discord one and not the me one. So all I had was just slowly scrolling through Discord of some memes and none of the reactions. So basically bad RNG and I'm not sure I'm gonna do the video anymore. And the memes weren't even that good. Like this video if you like cheese. Thank you. And I'll see you in the next one. Bye. |
| 18. October 2021 | TikTok VS Instagram | TikTok versus Instagram. So I was looking into uploading my TikToks to Instagram, right? For whatever fucking reason, Instagram has made it so that their Reels, which is their TikTok clone, it's in 4x5 rather than 9x16. So every clip that says like, facts and glitches on it, it gets cut off. It's so dumb. Everything about Instagram is bad. I don't understand why people use it. Like, it has like five different sections and they all have different requirements for resolution. You can upload content on one part of Instagram that won't be seen on other parts of Instagram. Why? Like, Instagram is just content that has been taken from the better platforms. Why would you not just use the better platforms? I don't understand. You prefer Instagram over TikTok? Why? Tell me why. What is better about Instagram than TikTok? Because TikTok is focused on one particular resolution with one particular type of content, focused on it, and it was first, it has all the best content. It has all the big creators. It is the first one that everyone uploads to, and like, Instagram and whatever, it's like the second consideration. TikTok can be pretty cringe. So my argument with that is TikTok actually has a good algorithm. So if you don't like something and you scroll away from it, you won't see it again. Anything that you find cringe and do not like, if you use the app for like a week or two, you won't see it anymore. Think Instagram is more viewer friendly? How? TikTok is the simplest app ever. You open it and then you scroll and look at shit. Basic features for their desktop version in terms of uploading, they still don't even have. If you want to upload certain things, you literally can't do it from your desktop to Instagram. And what parts you can, you have to press like F11 and convince the desktop it's a phone. TikTok will just let you upload from the browser. TikTok doesn't have a browser. No, they just have a website that you can upload from. TikTok recommendations suck. How good the recommendations are just depends on how long you've been using the app. That's it. True. If it's banned in your country, guess you have no choice. |
| 09. October 2021 | TikTok as a gateway to new music | TikTok as a gateway to new music. I've been finding some real good songs lately just stumbling across them whether it be on YouTube or TikTok or whatever like those who don't watch TikTok man you're missing out on some good music and that might be because like TikTok is one of the few platforms that publishers are okay with people using their music and so some new hit song comes out or something that's really catchy whatever it usually ends up being in people's TikToks although I did hear didn't Facebook for Facebook gaming make a deal so that their streamers can just play new songs is that a thing |
| 23. July 2022 | TikTok as a search engine? | TikTok as a search engine? I saw recently someone on TikTok saying that TikTok isn't just taking viewers from YouTube, they're taking searches from Google. And I was like, what the fuck do they mean? And he's like, if you want to look up like, things to do in Scotland, if you type that shit into TikTok, it'll bring up TikToks of people saying, hey, here's some cool things to do in Scotland. And I was like, does that really work? I was interested, what cool things can I do in Melbourne? So I looked it up on TikTok and there it was, a TikTok with 16 of the hottest things to do in Melbourne right now. I'm like, oh, that's interesting. Do any of you search TikTok for like information about stuff? Because I mean, there's misinformation everywhere, not just on TikTok or whatever, but like, no, no, no. Yeah, I hadn't heard it either. Sometimes, yeah, like it doesn't seem like a poor way of going about things sometimes, at least given that the first search that I did brought back interesting results. When I did my poll on Twitter, like who uses TikTok versus who uses YouTube Shorts, people use them about the same, which is actually impressive given how hugely TikTok grew. But I guess, you know, YouTube, everyone was already using it and TikTok, well, it's controversies about its data and stuff. You know, YouTube had a big advantage when it came to like bring people back to YouTube or at the very least getting them to, you know, start watching Shorts over TikTok. |
| 27. March 2022 | TikTok baiting me with music. | TikTok baiting me with music. You know what sucks? When you're on TikTok and you hear like a Song and you're like, oh this song sounds fucking like a banger Let's let's grab that and I go to Spotify grab the song and then like only that one small part The song is actually good and the rest of the song is shit. It's like oh Dang either that or when TikTok has like a banging remix of a song I'm like, oh, I gotta gotta grab this and they go to Spotify and This song without the remix sounds way worse |
| 04. September 2020 | TikTok being banned | Instead of brevity can lead to interesting stuff, but not when you're forced to do it for six seconds, right? Sure, interesting stuff can happen, but there was no vine that I have seen where if you gave them 15 seconds, that vine would have been worse. Usually that vine would have been better. I think restricting people to a minute is a good limitation. I've said before, I like TikTok. I think that tweet from Slasher was really funny where he retweeted Ninja, where he said that he uninstalled TikTok because they're data collecting. What did Slasher say? Yeah, because every single social media app does that shit. Facebook takes far more information than TikTok app. And of course there is no evidence that TikTok has given any information to China, Chinese government, for any particular purpose, but always concerns, you know. Why China bad? China is bad, dude. You ever seen those images of those, the Muslim minority population or whatever being carted off into trains, shaved of all their hair and shit? There's this really, call it funny interview where the Chinese ambassador is looking at the images, like, hey, you know, these images could be fake. They're not fake. We know they're not fake. I say, well, you know, who knows what they are. Look, I feel like I'm being attacked here. Whatever, it's just, it feels so fucking uncomfortable. They talk about the TikTok ban. Is it even gonna happen? Like, let's be real. The only reason Trump is banning TikTok is because that they trolled him or whatever and reserved a bunch of tickets for his rally to make them believe more people were gonna go than actually did. Because TikTok hasn't been found to have done anything. The data that they retain is far less than American social media companies. It is literally guilt by association and punishing before wrongdoing. Well, you might one day do something wrong, so we're just gonna destroy your company immediately. It's like, all right, well, that's concerning. Like, that China bad NSA good. Yeah, 150,000 dead in America, and Trump's like, but that social media people were mean to me. I mean, he whines on Twitter every day to everyone under the sun. He's like, I don't want to learn another social media thing. Can we just ban it? Yeah, apparently Trump is, rather than banning it or something, they say he's gonna force the company to sell an American company, which is probably gonna be Microsoft or something. But who knows what actually ended up happening? We'll have to wait and see, you know? What would I do if Australia bans TikTok? I will march on my parliament and be like, look, that's kind of inconvenient to me. Can you like stop doing that? And when they go, no, I'd be like, okay, fair enough. And I go, huh? You know what, actually, I'd skip that whole process. I'd just stay home. I don't give a shit about TikTok, man. I mean, I don't think it should be banned, and it would be mildly inconvenient for me if it was banned. I would have spent hundreds of dollars on TikToks, which are now completely pointless. But I mean, considering Microsoft is potentially gonna end up buying TikTok, I mean, whatever. And as I've said before, I don't think anyone in Australia was seriously considering banning TikTok. It was just like some offhand comment or something, like, yeah, yeah, we'll look into it. And then media was like, oh my God, they're banning TikTok, holy shit! As opposed to the Australian government making a significant stance on it. Learning of Dream, the Minecraft speed runner. I watched a video, so I don't watch Mizkif's stream, but I have subbed to his YouTube channel recently, and he made a video today talking about this guy called Dream, who like, he releases like a Minecraft video every couple of days or whatever, and each gets like six million views or some shit. Like six to 10 million views. How fucking crazy is that? That guy in one Minecraft video, because as many videos as I do, over the course of my life, he's like, I'm gonna make a video about how to ban TikTok, and he's like, I'm gonna make a video about how to ban TikTok, and he's like, I'm gonna make a video about how to ban TikTok, |
| 23. November 2020 | TikTok creator fund | So someone was mentioning to me that, you know, they've got that program on TikTok now where people can actually get paid for uploading TikToks. I wonder if TikTok is making money, given that program, or how much they're getting paid compared to YouTubers and stuff. Like, if I got in that program, I would probably hire some people to convert my 1440p raw footage into TikTok. I did that for a while, but I had people, well, I downloaded stuff off YouTube and gave it to them. And that's lower quality. I can't be fucked doing that anymore, it didn't really get me anywhere. Why I took a break from playing Among Us. |
| 11. April 2023 | TikTok faces an uncertain future in the United States. | Hello and welcome to a new episode on the new channel. Today we start with the topic, TikTok faces an uncertain future in the United States. Glow wants to know what do I think of the United States trying to ban TikTok? I have not super followed it, except to know that apparently the congressional hearings were hilarious. Mr. Choo, does TikTok access the home Wi-Fi network? Only if the user turns on the Wi-Fi. I'm sorry, I may not understand that. So if I have a TikTok app on my phone and my phone is on my home Wi-Fi network, does TikTok access that network? It will have to access the network to get connections to the Internet, if that's the question. The bill that they've put forth is less just like a sentence saying TikTok should be banned and more a huge grab for power over the Internet and what people can do and be potentially punished for in terms of fines or jail time. Don't know the details. As a broad idea, do I think that TikTok should be banned in the US? It would certainly be advantageous for me if it was banned because TikTok is awful for my business. So speaking selfishly right now, which is not the only consideration I have, but TikTok does not pay Australian creators even a single dime. Doesn't pay most countries still to this day, despite making billions upon billions upon billions of dollars, zero dollars, because they didn't extend the creator program to other countries outside of the dozen that it's that are in it already. So in my book, I just think TikTok is taking advantage of people. So from a creator centric perspective, it would be much better if what happens on TikTok could just be now done over on YouTube where creators get paid actual money for what they do. There is no real benefit for creators for having TikTok continuing to exist now that they've developed that format and that format now exists elsewhere. Certainly, YouTube shorts is not as good as TikTok in terms of developing different tools for people to use to create content like all the filters and stuff that they have. But TikTok, again, doesn't pay people in a lot of countries and those countries that they do pay, they pay them pennies on the dollar for what the platform actually makes. So I'm not a fan of TikTok, basically, from the creator experience. When it comes to security concerns, I can't really assess that. I have often said that as an Australian, it's obvious that other countries and other governments have wide access to my own personal data, right? Like if the US government was like, hey, I want to know everything about that dark vibe AU fella, they could get it in a heartbeat. And I'm sorry to disappoint some people, but I am less concerned about the US government than I am about China. Despite America's disastrous foreign policy and the terrible things that they've done, which I'm, it's beyond my ability to assess the nuances of all that. I don't like China and don't trust them. They may trust the US either, but YouTube in general and even Google has not done me poorly over the course of my life, obviously. And so I would much rather have my fate be in their hands to whatever degree that it is than TikTok and China. I don't believe for a second that the user data of foreigners is not accessible to Chinese authority. I don't believe that for a nanosecond. Does it represent such a security risk that TikTok should be banned? I mean, considering how many apps are banned in China that are made by Western companies, it's tit for tat or whatever. It's expect to be treated how you treat others. It's somewhat insane for a Chinese based back company to be like, oh, you shouldn't be banning apps of people from foreign countries. Like, my God, what country do you come from? The only downside of banning it is obviously all the people who have spent now years making content for the platform and have built themselves an audience there and have enriched their lives by making that kind of content, having that kind of outlet. And that will be denied to them. Like, even if YouTube came to replace that aspect of the market that's currently filled by TikTok, that doesn't mean all those same people would be equally as successful. It doesn't mean that every single person would just move over to YouTube shorts or something. Like, it would have negative ramifications for those who use the platform, undoubtedly. And that sucks for them. But I don't think TikTok is a responsible platform. I don't think it treats its creators well. And I don't trust those who run it to any degree. Like, to what degree you can trust any private company is very low. But even that tiny amount of trust you generally give companies, they can't even have that. Try to literally ban everything from most countries. Yeah, basically. I guess maybe kind of like ripping off the bandaid as fast and as hard as possible to ban TikTok. But I think ultimately in the long term, it would be the better option. I, of course, can't speak on the actual bill that they're putting forth to ban it. I mean, I don't know how many have heard about the fact that TikTok is actually a political online platform. And I don't think TikTok is really an open platform. I can't speak for that. I would not approve of such things. But we're talking about the concept of banning TikTok in of itself. It is removed from how that is actually going to be applied. I think it would be for the best. Not necessarily the best for everyone, but it'd be for the best in general. hundreds of millions if not billions of people where everyone's going to win out with such a change. |
| 06. February 2023 | TikTok staff chose what goes viral on their platform. | attention. TikTok staff choose what goes viral on their platform. This was interesting. I saw this on TikTok, funnily enough, but TikTok has been outed as not having some of their viral trends being inspired by community and actual interest, but them like pushing a button on the backend to make things go viral. TikTok secret heating button can make anyone go viral. And the article basically talks about how there's just a bunch of people in the company who can be like, Hey, I want this video to be like super popular button. And then everyone starts seeing that video. And of course anything shared to enough people is eventually going to get some likes and some genuine interest and stuff and actually get shared around because people talk about what's popular, right? People talk about what everyone else has seen. So it's like a viral making button. It's not like it's always just a matter of like, like some expert conceiving that this would actually be a great viral trend. Often it's like a matter of nepotism where a person be like, Oh, my girlfriend's got like a cool new video out. Fuck. Yeah. Heat that shit. Give that to everyone. My videos are great. Heat that shit. Give it to everyone. It also references how companies that TikTok wants a business relationship with. They're like, Oh, that company just released a video. Heat that shit. So the company's like, Oh, we're doing great on TikTok. I guess we're going to get more involved in TikTok. Did the same thing with influencers. Like, Hey, just, just try a few videos on TikTok. You know, maybe they, maybe they'll do good. Who knows? Let's see. Then the creator makes some videos and then TikTok just like, heat that shit. And they get some viral stuff until the creator keeps making stuff for TikTok. Shady as fuck. Is it naive for me to say that I don't think YouTube does this? I think YouTube would be too afraid of it coming out and everyone being fucking mad. It's impossible to tell. But like, you have to remember that YouTube became a thing, like before a lot of money was involved, before the whole social media apparatus was a thing really much at all. The YouTube is really fucking old and they're on top of the mountain. And all they're doing is trying to not lose that place. With TikTok, new person to the game wants to have every shady trick in the book to try to try to get ahead and compete. Like a long time ago, Susan Wojcicki was talking to some mainstream influencers, people who aren't in the social media game. Like maybe it was a rapper or something. And she was like at a party with them and she was caught on camera saying, oh, you should make some videos for YouTube. We'll get you popular. We'll get you working there or something. And people interpreted this to be like, oh, she'll be on the back end, twisting the knobs to get this person popular. But in the context of what she was saying, it just seemed to be like she wanted to give the person resources, like potentially editors or to explain how content creation works online, to get them set up with a channel and whatnot. And not necessarily to tweak algorithms in that way, especially considering that YouTube has released papers talking about how some parts of the algorithm works and how some of it is almost not understandable because it's machine learning. Like you can see the results, but you don't know exactly how it got those results. It'd be strange if a company as big and as old as Google and YouTube has just a bunch of people on the back end being able to just tweak the algorithm whenever they want to to fuck with the system to change what is popular. Even when the machine learning algorithm says, no, this shouldn't be popular. Will Smith's YouTube channel is pretty popular because he's a very popular dude and he makes good content, at least relative to the rest of the platform. In the same way that Jack Black has a very popular YouTube channel. And it's like, obviously, he's Jack Black. I mean, they've done stuff like that. Remember, Leafy is here. But what do you mean? Leafy is here violated the terms of service for like eons. How did everything humanly possible to get himself banned? YouTube trending never made sense to me. YouTube trending, I am fairly certain, is somewhat handcated. I think they've been willing to admit that. You've got to remember that the trending tab is not a great source of views. I think how often you personally go to the trending tab to see what is the most popular thing in the world. It is clearly going to be less relevant to your interest than just your homepage, which the algorithm is doing its best to show you things you actually want to see. Trending isn't irrelevant. Like when you get on trending, it's like, oh, good. It means my video is doing well and maybe I'll get a handful more views. But it doesn't define your success. Like I can conceptually understand why that would be the case if they are doing that, because it's not catered to the interests of the user. Like I have personally scrolled the top hundred things on the trending tab more for just the interest of what the tab is doing and had nothing of interest. The algorithm would be like, why the fuck did you spend the time on the trending tab? You could have spent on your homepage and within like two scrolls found something you wanted. Like what I'm saying is I can understand why TikTok would want to do this kind of stuff as it's just getting into the game to get people to jump ship to TikTok. But YouTube, who are they going to trust to overrule its many decades long built algorithm to determine what should be popular? Yo, Frank, do you like some stuff? So the algorithm that we've spent billions of dollars developing, the greatest algorithm that has ever been invented by humankind for distributing content, can you like overrule it every once in a while based on your own personal interest? Thanks, Frank. Guess we'll never know, I suppose. But this new Nvidia AI technology ensures you never look away from the lens again. So Nvidia. |
| 08. March 2023 | TikTok team outraged as US bans app from government devices. | Hello and welcome to another episode of Viper Rambles, starting with the topic, TikTok team outraged as the US bans app from government devices. So as you guys have likely heard, the US government has banned TikTok specifically for government devices. I just found the statement from TikTok to be so disingenuous. A US ban on TikTok is a ban on the export of American culture and values to the billion plus people who use our service worldwide. We're disappointed to see this rushed piece of legislation move forward despite its considerable negative impact on the free speech rights of millions of Americans who use and love TikTok. For one, it is just government devices for security reasons. For two, there have been many obvious reasons for people to be wary of what data is being sent to China and whatnot. But three, China has banned so many apps like YouTube and such from their country. The idea that this tiny restriction placed on specifically government devices brings forth this statement is hilarious. Yeah, free speech isn't when you can't use TikTok. And they care so much about free speech. All the apps that I use are banned. So it just seems whenever anything gets banned for any reason, regardless of how legitimate the concerns, there's always that line. This is about free speech. It's just dumb. |
| 23. July 2022 | TikTok versus shorts algorithm | TikTok versus shorts algorithm. The TikTok algorithm keeps me there substantially longer than YouTube shorts or Instagram Reels. I think YouTube shorts doesn't use your other information, as in like you've got a profile for 16 by nine content, like normal content on the platform, and it doesn't use that to recommend content on shorts. Because when I go to shorts, all I get is like clips of MrBeast. No joke, I went through 10, 10 YouTube shorts, and five of them were about MrBeast. I don't think two of them were even like on official MrBeast channels or whatever. It was just MrBeast, MrBeast, MrBeast. Every TikTok's like a million likes, a million likes. I'm like, they only do that when they have no information about you as a user. Because they wanna be like, okay, here's the most popular stuff that seemingly everyone fucking likes, let's see if you like it too. So like when I use TikTok, the algorithm, I've been using it for a lot longer, it normally gives me stuff that I'm more interested in. It doesn't do that on YouTube shorts yet. As well, because YouTube shorts don't know what I've seen on TikTok, sometimes it will give me content that I've already seen on TikTok, and I instantly skip it. And it isn't because I'm not interested in that kind of content, it's that I've already seen it. It's actually one of the problems with React content, it's the same kind of thing, where if you skip an impression of a video that you've seen in a React video, you can be interested in that content, but because you skipped the impression, the algorithms are gonna be like, oh, I guess you don't like it. In reality, you do like it, it's just you've seen it somewhere else. I don't care about Instagram, I don't even discuss Instagram reels as a thing. I don't understand why people use Instagram, it just seems like the worst of every other platform. It does everything every other platform does, but worse. Does YouTube shorts pay better than TikTok? I don't think so, I think it's probably a similar payment scheme. No one's really figured out how to monetize this content very well yet. It could be a thing where YouTube and TikTok are waiting for the other person to blink, and to start putting ads before the TikTok plays, rather than in between different TikToks. There are sponsored TikToks and stuff, and they say sponsored in the corner. It's weird how two nanoseconds into a TikTok that's sponsored, you can immediately tell it's sponsored, and you either just flick to the corner, see the sponsored tag, and immediately flick off that TikTok. I know everyone can't be doing this, or people wouldn't bother paying for the sponsored content, and the sponsored content can often have quite a few likes if it's by a creator that people really like, but I guess the reason why I skipped the sponsored posts is because I don't know the creators that are in it, and so I just don't care. But people who like particular creators, like, oh, they got a sponsored thing, let's see what they're doing, you know? The ones I see have 20 likes, usually those are the ones without TikTok creators in them. They're just random sponsored stuff. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 05. March 2022 | TikTok’s ability to compete with Youtube. | TikTok's ability to compete with YouTube. So Hank Green made another interesting video where he talked about TikTok. What TikTok is effectively doing right now is because it's paying its creators so little, it's kind of creating this environment where creators will come in, be enamored with the idea of the fame and all the views and the likes and comments and stuff. And so they'll make content for months and months on end and that will drive them to keep making content. But eventually they'll reach the point where they're like, I need money. It's not this, the fame, the positive reinforcement is not enough. I need money now. And TikTok is just like, yeah, well, go do something else then. And so that person will leave, but then another person will come on and for six months do the exact same thing. So TikTok right now, because of their lack of financial support of their creators, at least significant financial support, is creating that environment where people come in for six months, go, oh, this is awesome. And go, oh, well actually no, I still need money and they leave. And just over and over again, that will keep happening. And TikTok may, if TikTok likes this, they may never increase the funding for creators. TikTok has a system where they always pay out exactly $200 million to creators and this amount does not change. They are currently paying out two cents per view as explained by Hank Green. But more importantly, I want to start out by talking about the fact that I used to make five cents per view on TikTok. What happened? What changed? The pool of money is the same size. Why am I making less per view? Because there are more views on the platform. It's grown. There are more creators, there are more users, TikTok is earning more money. But the pool is the same size. So there are more views with the same number of dollars, so you make fewer dollars per view. Literally, when TikTok becomes more successful, TikTokers become less successful. The downside of that is A, creators don't get a lot of money, but also you can't really make high production quality content on the platform. Anything that requires a significant investment of money, you can't make on TikTok, but you can make it on YouTube. But if TikTok stays like this, it'll never outperform YouTube in a sense. YouTube will always have the higher production, higher quality, more consistent long term creators making the MrBeast-esque sort of videos. And TikTok will always be more smaller, a continual revolving door of content creators. Obviously, Hank Green would rather that TikTok give creators a greater proportion of the revenue from the platform. And so it worked more like YouTube. But the more I go on, I worry that TikTok will one day dethrone YouTube. But in the way that TikTok is set up right now in how it shares revenue, that's never going to fucking happen. It'll never happen. But it's clear that TikTok is taking a chunk from YouTube and other platforms as well. It's just interesting to see where TikTok is going to be in a couple of years. Because it's interesting that they went from like 15 second to 30 seconds, a minute to three minute videos, and they eventually reached the point where they're just allowing for unlimited length footage. It seems unlikely. Since this was recorded, TikTok has announced that they're increasing the length of videos to 10 minutes. TikTok has probably the dumbest algorithm. It's funny because that's something also Hank Green brought up. We talked about how Vine effectively failed because of their lack of algorithm. And so no one was really finding new people. It was just the people at the top who dominated everything. And the only way to get involved was to have one of the larger content creators notice you and shout you out or whatever. Where on TikTok, like if you've ever used TikTok, like every third TikTok is like someone with like two likes on their thing. Like it becomes a habit of like looking at the TikTok, looking at the amount of likes and then looking back at the TikTok. And if it has under a thousand likes, it's like you just scroll by it. That isn't to say I don't, I, there are a handful of smaller content creators on TikTok that occasionally watch their stuff, but it's usually Australian creators who discuss the news or like the daily goings on of politics or whatever. And I just like their opinion. Oh, no, I like the way that they present things. But I don't use TikTok a heap, but I probably, I probably look at TikTok like maybe like 10 minutes a day or something. It is like the app that I use before I'm going to bed in between other stuff. If there's nothing else to watch, any amount of time I spend on TikTok is time that I would have spent on like say YouTube. And that is the case for a lot of people, you know, like YouTube isn't losing users, but they are losing watch time. TikTok is probably because people like fast media. TikTok is just really, really easily accessible content. It's on the contents immediately in your face. You have to look for a video. You have to scroll, look at the thumbnails, retiles, just there's the content. And it's just, you know, you've got five minutes. It's a bunch of TikToks. It's either furries or half naked 13 year olds. So whenever people make jokes about that, Jesse, I'm assuming these are jokes. It's always funny because TikTok's algorithm does serve you stuff that they think you'll be interested in based off your previous watch history. So if you're like, man, I always go on TikTok and all they show me is furries and dancing 13 year olds. I'm like, what are you watching on TikTok that gives them the idea that you like that kind of content? Why are you outing yourself in this way to me? I don't need to know what you look at on TikTok. |
| 22. July 2022 | Tiktok and the value of removing options | TikTok and the value of removing options. There's no YouTube alternative. Have you seen TikTok? TikTok is just biting and biting into YouTube right now. I told you guys that I was sitting there for like two days, just watching TikTok and YouTube and stuff. What would happen is I'd go to YouTube, start watching YouTube, finish a video. And if I couldn't find another video in like two minutes, I would just flick over to TikTok and go from TikTok to TikTok to TikTok to TikTok to TikTok. I realized that in the impressions of videos that it's shown to me, there are probably like many videos there that if they happen to be in front of my eyeballs, I'd watch them. But the active choice to engage with the video, I'm like, I can find something better. Like, I haven't found anything. I was going to TikTok for 10 minutes. It's just interesting how that works. That by removing my choice to make a decision as to by removing my choice to choose between like eight different things on the screen or whatever on YouTube, I actually find more content to watch. But I think the quality of content I watch on TikTok is lower, like way lower. Cause it's in front of me and it's a three out of 10. And I'm like, well, it's in front of me though. So fuck it, I'll watch it. But on YouTube, I'll only click on psych if it's like a seven out of 10, at least what is suggested in the impression. I really should just start watching YouTube shorts. I shouldn't be supporting TikTok because of their terrible monetization scheme. And of course all the data issues with China and all that stuff. But obviously YouTube shorts doesn't have great monetization either. But at least it's still on the platform of YouTube that pays the creators a lot. You watch TikTok and YouTube shorts. Why watch them both though? I think anything that is good on TikTok just ends up on YouTube, except for all the copyrighted material. That there's so much fucking copyrighted material on TikTok. I think they might be cracking down on copyrighted material a bit more because now there's a lot of people playing a small little video game. And on top of that is the show. They must be scanning for this material. And so they have other moving parts to prevent the system from picking it up. I've known about people straight ripping YouTube content on TikTok, getting thousands of views and they get away with it. Oh, absolutely. And as I've talked about, the conversion from TikTok to YouTube is infinitesimally small. Some of the biggest creators moving from TikTok to YouTube get basically nothing. Like think for you, if you use TikTok, how many TikToks do you see that reference other material somewhere else that you end up seeking out that other material? I think in all my time I've used TikTok, I must have seen tens of thousands of TikToks, maybe 10 times. We're talking a rate of like one in a thousand. YouTube shorts have a lot of content from that's stolen from TikToks. It is funny because TikToks have the watermark. You can see immediately if the short has been stolen from TikTok. Yeah, some people do just re-upload their TikToks on YouTube shorts. So that isn't a stiny of course, but you can tell when it's stolen because again, there's the watermark. Do you think short form content is bad? Depends how you're defining bad. Clearly there's a demand for it. I think the best thing that short form has going for it is that like it removes choice from the consumer. I know that may sound weird, but sometimes having less choice is better. It's like when you go somewhere and there's like 110 options and you look, you're like, I don't know what all these options, what's going on? You feel compelled to look at them all and then you can't remember the first ones that you were given initially. And it's just, you're like, oh, this is gonna take forever to pick something. Oh my God, this sucks. Like you just want like a couple of options that appeal to you, you know? But in the case of TikTok or YouTube shorts, you flick to the next thing, you examine it for a few seconds. If you like it, you keep watching. If you don't, you flick to the next one. This is a more enjoyable experience than superficially judging content on YouTube based on their title and thumbnail. It just is. Like a part of you knows that there's a bunch of things that you're skimming over that you'd probably be okay watching if they happen to be already playing in front of your face, but you just can't be clicking them because there may be something better coming up right next, you know? Sure, you could watch this six out of 10 video, but maybe on the next screen, there's gonna be a 10 out of 10 video. You don't wanna waste your time. TikTok YouTube shorts removes that ambiguity and that fear of missing out on the next good thing and just gives you something now. Like, can you really call TikTok just short form content when they've got, you know, three minute videos and then 10 minute videos and people are watching like whole episodes of Adventure Time and shit on TikTok. I saw this channel that was uploading every single episode of Futurama in three parts. They weren't a hugely successful channel, but like, clearly there's a lot of longer form content on there. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 09. October 2021 | Tiktok as a gateway to new music | TikTok as a gateway to new music. I've been finding some real good songs lately just stumbling across them whether it be on YouTube or TikTok or whatever like those who don't watch TikTok man you're missing out on some good music and that might be because like TikTok is one of the few platforms that publishers are okay with people using their music and so some new hit song comes out or something that's really catchy whatever it usually ends up being in people's TikToks although I did hear didn't Facebook for Facebook gaming make a deal so that their streamers can just play new songs is that a thing |
| 23. July 2022 | Tiktok as a search engine? | TikTok as a search engine? I saw recently someone on TikTok saying that TikTok isn't just taking viewers from YouTube, they're taking searches from Google. And I was like, what the fuck do they mean? And he's like, if you want to look up like, things to do in Scotland, if you type that shit into TikTok, it'll bring up TikToks of people saying, hey, here's some cool things to do in Scotland. And I was like, does that really work? I was interested, what cool things can I do in Melbourne? So I looked it up on TikTok and there it was, a TikTok with 16 of the hottest things to do in Melbourne right now. I'm like, oh, that's interesting. Do any of you search TikTok for like information about stuff? Because I mean, there's misinformation everywhere, not just on TikTok or whatever, but like, no, no, no. Yeah, I hadn't heard it either. Sometimes, yeah, like it doesn't seem like a poor way of going about things sometimes, at least given that the first search that I did brought back interesting results. When I did my poll on Twitter, like who uses TikTok versus who uses YouTube Shorts, people use them about the same, which is actually impressive given how hugely TikTok grew. But I guess, you know, YouTube, everyone was already using it and TikTok, well, it's controversies about its data and stuff. You know, YouTube had a big advantage when it came to like bring people back to YouTube or at the very least getting them to, you know, start watching Shorts over TikTok. |
| 04. September 2020 | Tiktok being banned | Instead of brevity can lead to interesting stuff, but not when you're forced to do it for six seconds, right? Sure, interesting stuff can happen, but there was no vine that I have seen where if you gave them 15 seconds, that vine would have been worse. Usually that vine would have been better. I think restricting people to a minute is a good limitation. I've said before, I like TikTok. I think that tweet from Slasher was really funny where he retweeted Ninja, where he said that he uninstalled TikTok because they're data collecting. What did Slasher say? Yeah, because every single social media app does that shit. Facebook takes far more information than TikTok app. And of course there is no evidence that TikTok has given any information to China, Chinese government, for any particular purpose, but always concerns, you know. Why China bad? China is bad, dude. You ever seen those images of those, the Muslim minority population or whatever being carted off into trains, shaved of all their hair and shit? There's this really, call it funny interview where the Chinese ambassador is looking at the images, like, hey, you know, these images could be fake. They're not fake. We know they're not fake. I say, well, you know, who knows what they are. Look, I feel like I'm being attacked here. Whatever, it's just, it feels so fucking uncomfortable. They talk about the TikTok ban. Is it even gonna happen? Like, let's be real. The only reason Trump is banning TikTok is because that they trolled him or whatever and reserved a bunch of tickets for his rally to make them believe more people were gonna go than actually did. Because TikTok hasn't been found to have done anything. The data that they retain is far less than American social media companies. It is literally guilt by association and punishing before wrongdoing. Well, you might one day do something wrong, so we're just gonna destroy your company immediately. It's like, all right, well, that's concerning. Like, that China bad NSA good. Yeah, 150,000 dead in America, and Trump's like, but that social media people were mean to me. I mean, he whines on Twitter every day to everyone under the sun. He's like, I don't want to learn another social media thing. Can we just ban it? Yeah, apparently Trump is, rather than banning it or something, they say he's gonna force the company to sell an American company, which is probably gonna be Microsoft or something. But who knows what actually ended up happening? We'll have to wait and see, you know? What would I do if Australia bans TikTok? I will march on my parliament and be like, look, that's kind of inconvenient to me. Can you like stop doing that? And when they go, no, I'd be like, okay, fair enough. And I go, huh? You know what, actually, I'd skip that whole process. I'd just stay home. I don't give a shit about TikTok, man. I mean, I don't think it should be banned, and it would be mildly inconvenient for me if it was banned. I would have spent hundreds of dollars on TikToks, which are now completely pointless. But I mean, considering Microsoft is potentially gonna end up buying TikTok, I mean, whatever. And as I've said before, I don't think anyone in Australia was seriously considering banning TikTok. It was just like some offhand comment or something, like, yeah, yeah, we'll look into it. And then media was like, oh my God, they're banning TikTok, holy shit! As opposed to the Australian government making a significant stance on it. Learning of Dream, the Minecraft speed runner. I watched a video, so I don't watch Mizkif's stream, but I have subbed to his YouTube channel recently, and he made a video today talking about this guy called Dream, who like, he releases like a Minecraft video every couple of days or whatever, and each gets like six million views or some shit. Like six to 10 million views. How fucking crazy is that? That guy in one Minecraft video, because as many videos as I do, over the course of my life, he's like, I'm gonna make a video about how to ban TikTok, and he's like, I'm gonna make a video about how to ban TikTok, and he's like, I'm gonna make a video about how to ban TikTok, |
| 16. June 2022 | Tiktoks impact on YouTube | impact on YouTube? So I did a poll on my Twitter. Has TikTok impacted how much you watch YouTube? So 6% said yes, much less time on YouTube. 10% said a bit less time on YouTube. 18% said no, the same on YouTube. And 65% said no, I don't use TikTok. I'm not sure to what degree that these numbers can be extrapolated for the entirety of YouTube. Like surely there are certain demographics on YouTube, certain audiences that are more likely to be spending more time on TikTok compared to my audience. But this 16% is a reasonable amount of people. Like over YouTube, just in general, it feels as though viewership is down. Channels that I normally see getting X amount of views in a certain amount of time aren't seemingly getting it. I'd be curious to see numbers about the watch time on YouTube and if it's declined as TikTok has rise. Like surely it has. I mean, that number, those numbers in that poll are suggestive that that's the case. My numbers are down, but I attribute that to just not having produced anything fresh recently. As a rule, I don't like to be like, oh, the algorithm is just bullying me or whatever, right? If that's the case, then work harder, try and change, you know? But my numbers are still fine. So I'm doing alright. So I'm not that worried about it, but I'm not getting a lot of new blood into my channel as much as I used to. So I'm running the risk that in six months, more people will be leaving than who are coming in. And so slowly I'll just fade. |
| 05. March 2022 | Tiktok’s ability to compete with Youtube. | TikTok's ability to compete with YouTube. So Hank Green made another interesting video where he talked about TikTok. What TikTok is effectively doing right now is because it's paying its creators so little, it's kind of creating this environment where creators will come in, be enamored with the idea of the fame and all the views and the likes and comments and stuff. And so they'll make content for months and months on end and that will drive them to keep making content. But eventually they'll reach the point where they're like, I need money. It's not this, the fame, the positive reinforcement is not enough. I need money now. And TikTok is just like, yeah, well, go do something else then. And so that person will leave, but then another person will come on and for six months do the exact same thing. So TikTok right now, because of their lack of financial support of their creators, at least significant financial support, is creating that environment where people come in for six months, go, oh, this is awesome. And go, oh, well actually no, I still need money and they leave. And just over and over again, that will keep happening. And TikTok may, if TikTok likes this, they may never increase the funding for creators. TikTok has a system where they always pay out exactly $200 million to creators and this amount does not change. They are currently paying out two cents per view as explained by Hank Green. But more importantly, I want to start out by talking about the fact that I used to make five cents per view on TikTok. What happened? What changed? The pool of money is the same size. Why am I making less per view? Because there are more views on the platform. It's grown. There are more creators, there are more users, TikTok is earning more money. But the pool is the same size. So there are more views with the same number of dollars, so you make fewer dollars per view. Literally, when TikTok becomes more successful, TikTokers become less successful. The downside of that is A, creators don't get a lot of money, but also you can't really make high production quality content on the platform. Anything that requires a significant investment of money, you can't make on TikTok, but you can make it on YouTube. But if TikTok stays like this, it'll never outperform YouTube in a sense. YouTube will always have the higher production, higher quality, more consistent long term creators making the MrBeast-esque sort of videos. And TikTok will always be more smaller, a continual revolving door of content creators. Obviously, Hank Green would rather that TikTok give creators a greater proportion of the revenue from the platform. And so it worked more like YouTube. But the more I go on, I worry that TikTok will one day dethrone YouTube. But in the way that TikTok is set up right now in how it shares revenue, that's never going to fucking happen. It'll never happen. But it's clear that TikTok is taking a chunk from YouTube and other platforms as well. It's just interesting to see where TikTok is going to be in a couple of years. Because it's interesting that they went from like 15 second to 30 seconds, a minute to three minute videos, and they eventually reached the point where they're just allowing for unlimited length footage. It seems unlikely. Since this was recorded, TikTok has announced that they're increasing the length of videos to 10 minutes. TikTok has probably the dumbest algorithm. It's funny because that's something also Hank Green brought up. We talked about how Vine effectively failed because of their lack of algorithm. And so no one was really finding new people. It was just the people at the top who dominated everything. And the only way to get involved was to have one of the larger content creators notice you and shout you out or whatever. Where on TikTok, like if you've ever used TikTok, like every third TikTok is like someone with like two likes on their thing. Like it becomes a habit of like looking at the TikTok, looking at the amount of likes and then looking back at the TikTok. And if it has under a thousand likes, it's like you just scroll by it. That isn't to say I don't, I, there are a handful of smaller content creators on TikTok that occasionally watch their stuff, but it's usually Australian creators who discuss the news or like the daily goings on of politics or whatever. And I just like their opinion. Oh, no, I like the way that they present things. But I don't use TikTok a heap, but I probably, I probably look at TikTok like maybe like 10 minutes a day or something. It is like the app that I use before I'm going to bed in between other stuff. If there's nothing else to watch, any amount of time I spend on TikTok is time that I would have spent on like say YouTube. And that is the case for a lot of people, you know, like YouTube isn't losing users, but they are losing watch time. TikTok is probably because people like fast media. TikTok is just really, really easily accessible content. It's on the contents immediately in your face. You have to look for a video. You have to scroll, look at the thumbnails, retiles, just there's the content. And it's just, you know, you've got five minutes. It's a bunch of TikToks. It's either furries or half naked 13 year olds. So whenever people make jokes about that, Jesse, I'm assuming these are jokes. It's always funny because TikTok's algorithm does serve you stuff that they think you'll be interested in based off your previous watch history. So if you're like, man, I always go on TikTok and all they show me is furries and dancing 13 year olds. I'm like, what are you watching on TikTok that gives them the idea that you like that kind of content? Why are you outing yourself in this way to me? I don't need to know what you look at on TikTok. |
| 06. August 2020 | Tim Pool | Tim Poole. I swear it's a conspiracy, right? In one of my videos I mentioned a comparison between the quartering and Tim Poole, referencing Tim Poole as smarter than the quartering, and I still hold to that stance, but that was like weeks ago and since then it's like it's a conspiracy. It feels like, it's clearly not, but it's just it feels that way. Where every single day someone has commented on, liked, or retweeted some amazingly dumb take by Tim Poole. And like it's just, like I never had a high opinion of the man, but it's just gone so much lower over time. The guy seems to have no idea that he is, he looks at things from one particular reference point and it is always necessary to try to remove yourself from that point and get as wide a picture of possible to contextualize everything that you're in, all the information you're receiving, doesn't try at all. So he retweets things like, oh man I got these people emailing me that they're changing their vote and it's like so fucking what Tim, of course they are. What does that mean in the grand scheme of things? Or he'll, it's, I believe it was the quartering who said something similar in some debate a long time ago where people will legitimately believe that the amount of stories that they personally see of something is representative of a wide-scale trend. That's of course nonsense because we all have psychological, we're biased, we look for things to confirm what we want to believe, because where we look at certain things, algorithms will bring us more of that thing, it's always important to realize that whatever you're seeing right now is not necessarily the whole picture. Even if you're living in an area, you could be in the middle of a fucking thing happening all around you and you still aren't necessarily getting the entire picture. It's why studies or polling or all this shit is important. It's why a lot of people deny studies and polling because they don't want the wider picture, they want to maintain their bubble, you know. And Tim seems so amazingly fixated in this bubble that he will not get himself out of. So every day he tweets something fucking stupid. I say it's a conspiracy because I had no idea he was like this. I just want to put my flag down here and say I don't think, I don't think Tim Paul's an idiot. I just think he's less than willing to address his own potential failings as a human being that we all have. His unwillingness to address these failings leads him to have terribly dumb takes. |
| 30. January 2021 | Tim Tams and Wonka Runts | Do you like Tim Tams? Everyone likes Tim Tams. It's the law. You've never had Tim Tams? That doesn't matter. Even if you haven't had them, you still like them. I don't love them though. Like, people get care packages from Australia when they're in other countries and it'll be full of different types of Tim Tams. I'm like, dude, they're alright. They're good. Like, you're over somewhere, there's some Tim Tams laid out there, you take a Tim Tam. You gotta take a Tim Tam, but you don't fucking go crazy with it. If Tim Tams were something that doesn't exist, I'd be like, eh. Not like fucking Runts that do no longer exist. Wonka. Assholes. Bring me back the Runts from my childhood. They were perfect. They were just pure sugar. You look Tim Tams up and they go, yeah, they're great. They are good. If you like chocolate, they taste good. You can get a 5LB bag of Runts on Amazon. No, you can only get the new fucking Runts. There have been like five generations of Runts and it was like generation two and three that were amazing. I don't know what exact generations were the most amazing ones, but the Runts from my childhood are dead. You buy the Runts today and like one of them is good, two of them are okay, and the other two are like garbage. To explain how good Runts were back in the day, guys, what you used to do is go to the movies and this is back when you couldn't bring in food to the movies, right? So you smuggled in food. And so you go to the movies, you buy your tickets, you go down to Kmart and they'd have every possible candy imaginable, every single fucking candy, gummy worms, sour coke balls, all that shit, like just a whole roll of it. And what I would do is grab one of the cups and fill it like three quarters of the way with Runts. You give me as a kid the world of choice and three quarters of what I choose, three quarters of the totality of candy that I'm able to eat in the movies, I choose Runts. And then I could put some other stuff on top there, like a few gummy worms or whatever, but the Runts were it. I got to talk about not liking food, and I think the reason for this is because I have never found something as good as the Runts were when I was a kid. I can't even remember what they taste like, but I associate them so strongly with happiness. They were balls of happiness. |
| 20. October 2021 | Time travel priorities | Time travel priorities. What's gonna be the next big strat guys? I'm- If only I could go a year into the future and bring back all the important information from that time. And by that I mean the newest strats for GTA V speedrun. You went to the future, what did you learn? Guys, I have the coolest new strats to show you. Yes, but what happens a year from now? I didn't look at any of that shit. I just- I just looked at the newest speedrun. When you go into the future for six and a half hours, specifically that amount of time, how do you spend the time? |
| 08. April 2021 | Time wasting travelling to work is hell. | Time wasted traveling to work is hell. Working from home for over a year now with COVID. It's funny because you can guarantee that some people prefer to work in an office with other people. Like they want both that immediate access to other people and like the camaraderie of being in that office kind of environment. But as a person who hates traffic and hates driving, I don't mean I hate driving, but like driving to work or whatever, I hate that stuff. Like there's very little that I wouldn't give up in terms of working with other people in an actual building just to avoid having to travel. Like you go and say how much time is wasted traveling from A to B. Any job that can be done remotely should be done remotely for the sake of productivity, you know. You say four hours a day that I don't travel to work daily. I have heard that in China, some of the population hubs, it is impossible to get any place to live there. But that's the place where all the jobs. So some people are legit like traveling two hours, three hours just to get into the city to do their job. And they travel two, three hours to get back home. And it's probably the case of people in my country as well. But I just mean because in my country, population density is not that high yet. It's not so bad that people are having to travel hours by necessity just to get into a place with jobs. Maybe I shouldn't have singled out China. It's just I remember hearing, can someone Google it like the average travel time to work by country? I'm sure that exists somewhere. I think China was the highest. You travel two hours each way to get to uni. And I imagine people have to find just ways to just be productive with their time or to use it as leisure time as much as they can. Highest is China at 56 minutes average. Yes, it is the highest. Yeah. And I'm pretty sure it's because of what I just referenced where like it bumps up the average heaps because there's just some people have to travel that far. Or maybe I'm just for misremembering the number, but I knew as you looked up that they have the highest amount, highest travel. |
| 30. January 2021 | Timtams and Wonka Runts | Do you like Tim Tams? Everyone likes Tim Tams. It's the law. You've never had Tim Tams? That doesn't matter. Even if you haven't had them, you still like them. I don't love them though. Like, people get care packages from Australia when they're in other countries and it'll be full of different types of Tim Tams. I'm like, dude, they're alright. They're good. Like, you're over somewhere, there's some Tim Tams laid out there, you take a Tim Tam. You gotta take a Tim Tam, but you don't fucking go crazy with it. If Tim Tams were something that doesn't exist, I'd be like, eh. Not like fucking Runts that do no longer exist. Wonka. Assholes. Bring me back the Runts from my childhood. They were perfect. They were just pure sugar. You look Tim Tams up and they go, yeah, they're great. They are good. If you like chocolate, they taste good. You can get a 5LB bag of Runts on Amazon. No, you can only get the new fucking Runts. There have been like five generations of Runts and it was like generation two and three that were amazing. I don't know what exact generations were the most amazing ones, but the Runts from my childhood are dead. You buy the Runts today and like one of them is good, two of them are okay, and the other two are like garbage. To explain how good Runts were back in the day, guys, what you used to do is go to the movies and this is back when you couldn't bring in food to the movies, right? So you smuggled in food. And so you go to the movies, you buy your tickets, you go down to Kmart and they'd have every possible candy imaginable, every single fucking candy, gummy worms, sour coke balls, all that shit, like just a whole roll of it. And what I would do is grab one of the cups and fill it like three quarters of the way with Runts. You give me as a kid the world of choice and three quarters of what I choose, three quarters of the totality of candy that I'm able to eat in the movies, I choose Runts. And then I could put some other stuff on top there, like a few gummy worms or whatever, but the Runts were it. I got to talk about not liking food, and I think the reason for this is because I have never found something as good as the Runts were when I was a kid. I can't even remember what they taste like, but I associate them so strongly with happiness. They were balls of happiness. |
| 01. June 2021 | Tinting your car windows | Tinting your car windows. Do tinted windows actually look cool in real life? Like you legitimately can't see in them, right? So it's more for privacy, I guess? Hard as fuck to apply. I mean, imagine you're paying someone for it. Does it, like, keep your car cooler? Does it let in less heat or something? Yes, really? Huh. Fucking expensive. Like, how fucking expensive? The range of prices in chat is a lot. From ten dollars to ten thousand dollars. It may, it depends on the car. A lot of the range is two hundred to four hundred. Think about that, that and the next time I buy a car. Do I own a car? Yeah, but it's a shit box. Like, 2004 Lancer. Yes. Oh, is it two thousand, I thought it was 2004. Is it really 2003? I asked my mother. I know I bought it in 2006. Secondhand. I know my mechanic has, on more than one occasion, commented that it's a nice little car. But, um, I don't know if he's just saying that. Is that just a thing that mechanics say to, you know, butter up the consumer? You got a nice little car there, mate. You know. He's a nice dude. My mechanic, then. It's not automatic, no. My mother has convinced me that I should get an automatic next time. Surely chicks are not actually impressed by driving a manual, right? Let's see what happens. Maybe I'll do some research before. Advantages of auto over manual. |
| 30. January 2022 | Tips for getting into speedrunning. | Tips for getting into speedrunning. A tips with how to start with speedrunning games. In general you want to speedrun a game that you already like mechanically. Something that brings you satisfaction to do. Like you enjoy Dark Souls, you know, rolling around and stuff. Speedrunning a game is of course very different from playing casually and is quite repetitive. So you've got to find more enjoyment in the game than simply liking the story or liking the environments and stuff. Because you're going to see those environments and you're going to see their story a bajillion times. You've got to find satisfaction with the mechanics and improving at them and learning more about the game as a whole. And if you have a game like that then all you need to do is go find the world record and take a look. Try to replicate it. Find what information exists on how to speedrun the game and just do it. Talk to the people who've already done it. Join the community. |
| 14. November 2022 | Tips for making GTA Shorts successful. | Tips for making GTA shorts successful. Any tips for GTA shorts? No one wants to see the 910,000th random stunt of GTA. If you do not hook people immediately with something flashy, with your voice, with something like that, no one's gonna sit and wait for it for 30 seconds for you to, you know, jump over some dude in GTA Online. If what you're putting up there isn't somewhat like unique, never-before-seen sort of thing, you're not gonna get views. And even if that thing is unique, never before seen, no one's gonna sit around for, you know, 15 seconds before scrolling to the next thing to discover that. |
| 27. July 2021 | Tips to improve your content | Tips to improve your content. Do I have any tips? Make a lot of videos, fail a lot. Watch other people's videos that you find enjoyable. Think why is this enjoyable? How does this differ from my content? Watch your own content and think to yourself, would I watch this if I ran across it in the wild? Would I think this is a good video? If not, why not? Try to look at your content as if you were someone else, you know? |
| 05. February 2021 | Titling Among Us videos | Titling Among Us videos. You know the hardest thing about making Among Us videos for YouTube is titling them. Unless you have new famous person in video or something, it's basically the same kind of stuff that happens every time. It's why like, Toast's videos are like 10,000 IQ plays, 20,000 IQ plays, a bajillion IQ plays, and that's the title. At this point I should just make the most clickbaity ambiguous titles possible. Like, um, Ludwig's video today, which is just a picture of him and the title of the video is I lied. And the video is actually just like his Reddit recap or whatever. Like I don't mind when titles a little exaggerated little bit or you know highlight, because that's the point of the title, it's meant to highlight the best parts of the video, but I hate titles that are in no way indicative of the content you're about to watch. With Ludwig's content, I have to click on the video and then scroll through and go, oh, this is a Minecraft video, and then click off, you know. Among Us is boring to watch. There is two types of Among Us content. The Among Us games and the Among Us memes. The meme stuff is what does the best. Like a lot of Among Us videos are just large content creators acting goofy. I used to like watching people actually play Among Us, but uh, it's been done a bit too long now. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 08. June 2021 | Toblerone chocolate story | The Toblerone chocolate story. What's my favorite chocolate? Cadbury is the chocolate that I eat usually. I'm not a big food person, you know. UK Cadbury versus better than US Cadbury. I hear, I was just saying I hear a lot of bad things about US chocolate. So someone said try Toblerone. Funny story about Toblerone. The first time I tried one was when I was a kid. I would go to this math tutoring place that used computers, right? So you'd you'd basically do the math tutorial thing where you'd answer all the questions And then if you answered enough correct or whatever you get to play a mini game and mini games lasted a few minutes or something like that just just small flash games or whatever like I don't know like There's the kind of stuff you'd get on like very old-school consoles or whatever but they were really fun and They would nominate a game every week that whoever had the highest score in that particular game at the end of the week would Win, I think a free cheeseburger from McDonald's and a Toblerone And so basically, you know There was like the only game that you played because you just want to get the cheeseburger and the Toblerone I believe when I first won and got the Toblerone, I didn't like it all that much, but it was still chocolate So I kept eating it and eventually grow on me and now I quite like it. Flash games don't work anymore. I I'm well, I'm sure even then these weren't actual flash games like they were maybe they were I'm not sure me It was website. I don't know how it works Certainly, they could have been games downloaded unpopular opinion Toblerone dropped off. It was better once. How do you remember? I know we talked about how it's weird that I can't remember what things taste like or imagine what things taste like In my mental imagery, but how the fuck could you remember what something tastes like like years ago? His password is fucking crazy You like Oh Big Macs back in the year 2001. Oh, they were magical You and people eating Big Macs in 2020. I fucking have no idea. Wait, what's the year is 2021? Yeah, okay in 2021 It's really one right wait. No, stop typing. No Yes, thank you Thoughts on dark chocolate not a fan. Well, I can't know what it tastes like. I've eaten it not enjoyed as much as normal |
| 08. June 2020 | Tom Scott's brilliant view predicting video | Tom Scott's brilliant views predicting video. Did you guys see that video that Tom Scott released? This video has blah blah blah amount of views. What a brilliant idea for a video. For those who haven't seen it, it basically just reads YouTube's internal stuff and then puts the amount of views in the title so it updates in real time, whatever, basically real time. Just when people see the video and they recommend it, it says the exact amount of views that it has in the title. You're like, oh how the fuck is it doing that? So you click on it. And last I looked it had like 9 million views. What a genius fucking idea. Those kind of original ideas for content. You've got to respect that shit. |
| 27. January 2021 | Too many streaming websites | The annoyance of there being too many streaming websites. You guys know this anime, Konosuke or something? It's an isekai that's meant to satirize other isekai or whatever. You know what I'm talking about? Konosuba, that might be it. Yeah. It doesn't exist in my country on either Netflix or Crunchyroll. And so I can't watch it. Guys, you can't be fucked. If it isn't one of those two things, I'm just like, oh fuck, I'll watch something else. I would just VPN myself, but I haven't bothered to put my VPN on my phone or my iPad. I really should. Maybe I will eventually. I could just VPN myself to America or whatever. I'm sure it would be on one of those two there. The mind bogg- |
| 30. July 2020 | Too much focus on negative outcomes | Too much focusing on the possible negative outcomes. Like you can't have everything in life, Chad. There's always opportunity, costs. Doing one thing prevents you from doing another. There's downsides to everything. While I can certainly see the upsides of a strong friendship group or a lasting relationship and stuff, the downsides of that potential drama or conflict between people, you potentially, to maintain friendships or relationships, doing things you don't necessarily want to do, you do it for another person. In regards to relationships, all the failed relationships that you potentially go through before you get that successful one, these things all seem very daunting and tiring to me. Why are these the first things you think of? Because these are the first things I think about whenever I do anything. When I think about something, I go, well, what's the potential upsides? What's the potential downsides? What is the likely percentage of both these things happening? What is the worst case scenario of both? Because it's like when I go to PAX, or decided to go to PAX, it's like, well, the worst case scenario is that I stay home and I... The most likely scenario of not going is that I stay home and I dwell on it. I'm like, oh man, I wish I'd gone. I would have been amazing. From prior experience, that's what suggests I would have done. I would have dwelled on us and wish I had gone and just elevated in my mind, convinced myself that I would have been amazing and I missed out on something. The worst thing that could happen to me coming here is that I just don't have a very good time or I make somewhat of a fool of myself. But let's be real, I make a fool of myself fairly frequently. You can't be a Twitch streamer and be afraid of making a fool of yourself, which has perhaps... If my story was made into a movie, the development of me becoming a Twitch streamer would not be something you would see coming if you knew me back when I was a kid. I've talked about that before where my mother would take me to drama class. She thought I was too shy or whatever. And I refused to participate. It didn't matter what they would offer me, what they would suggest, I would just refuse to participate. You got me involved in 10% of what they did in that fucking class. And that was kind of my personality for a long time. Just don't talk to me, leave me alone, whatever. Not putting myself out there, not wanting to look stupid. And then I become a Twitch streamer where all the time I'm just a streamer of consciousness saying stupid shit, making bad jokes. Got to focus on the positive more. That's an idea where people experience a loss of money more, or the negative feelings that come with losing money are stronger than the positive feelings that a person gets from winning money of equivalent value. As in people won't risk $100 to win $100 or whatever. I'm kind of that way where I'm saying I focus a lot on the negative, where the negative outcomes is what's more likely to influence my behaviour. Like what's the bad thing that can happen here? I focus a lot on the negative, I find in myself. And it's not a good thing. |
| 01. June 2020 | Top tier anime? | What are your top tier favorite anime? Uhhhh, oh, uh, Death Note, Overlord, I mean, Hunter, X Hunter or whatever, V Hunter, I don't know. There's a lot of anime that I like that just off the top of my head I can't think of, but those three were the first two that came to mind, so that's the three that I'm going with. |
| 10. September 2021 | Torturing myself with past embarrassments | Torturing myself with past embarrassments. I usually only remember really embarrassing things. I'm kind of that way myself. I've often beaten myself up with memories of my own stupidity from the past. When I've made mistakes. Usually in regards to people. Or embarrassed myself to some extent. If you like could watch me all day while I'm by myself. Occasionally you'll see me just pause and get a look of complete horror on my face. Maybe I'll even shake a bit. Those are the moments where my mind has conjured up some embarrassingly stupid thing that I've done in the past. And then I'll just sit there for a second or two trying to force myself to forget about it and move on with my life. |
| 04. March 2022 | Totally not mark got his content reinstated. | TotallyNotMark got his content reinstated. Oh, did you guys see TotallyNotMark got some resolution to his situation? Apparently, YouTube went to bat for him, and the end result is that his videos are now blocked in Japan, but are fine in other regions. The most interesting thing to me was his suggestion that YouTube was implying that by fair use law in Western countries, or in America at the very least, that TotallyNotMark's content is probably acceptable. And we discussed that when the story came out. While his reviews of manga and anime and stuff would be fine, his in-depth story summaries were more debatable. I'm not saying it's definitely not fair use, but there are aspects of fair use guidelines that specifically say that if you're using the core of a copyrighted work, or the hearts of the copyrighted work in some capacity, then you're more likely to be not within the domain of fair use. And the core of an anime or a manga is not every single bit of its writing, it's the story. And so that kind of thing has never been tested. And so it was interesting for YouTube to say, at least according to TotallyNotMark, that it could be within fair use. I suppose that was my assessment as well, it could be in fair use, of course, it could not be. Given its ambiguity, it could possibly just depend on how the judge or jury is feeling of that day. So much of how 1976 fair use law applies to our modern landscape of media hasn't been tested in the courts, and no one really wants it to, you know? Content creators, because they fear that there'll be some precedent set that will give companies more power, and companies, they don't want to lose control of their copyright, or they don't want to have to give up some measure of control. So this situation we're in where companies can basically take down whatever they want, but they only do it sparingly when it really matters to not force some change of the status quo that we have now. Fair use has very bendable guidelines. Ah, it... There are some things that are clearly against fair use. All unedited react content. 110% not fair use. And vanilla gameplay with you in the corner, we're gonna say 90% also, not fair use. Because fair use doesn't cover a heap, you know? But Mark's pseudo story summary reviews, you know, give it 50-50 or something. I wouldn't want to go to court to argue about it, but... |
| 28. December 2021 | TotallyNotMark and fair use law | Totally not Mark and Fair Use lore. For those not aware of Mark's content, he makes a lot of stuff surrounding anime, can often be reviews but sometimes will be story summaries along with reviews. For those unaware, this dude Mark got like 150 copyright strikes, or copyright content and I'd claim things from Toei animations which is a Japanese company and people like oh man fucking YouTube's terrible. The only thing that YouTube did wrong was not having a system to allow for the dude to dispute every single one of the claims at once. That's it. YouTube can do nothing else. YouTube is an American company and Japan they have different laws around Fair Use and copyright and YouTube can't step in and be like no Japanese company fuck you. You will abide by American law I don't care about your country. They can't do that. What do you want them to do? And again to what extent any of, cause I watch Mark, to what extent his videos do act as a market replacement for the original? It's debatable. Quick summary of American Fair Use laws. You can use small portions of copyrighted work so long as you can justify that everything you've used is necessary for what you've created and what you've created doesn't replace the function of the original on the market. The best example being H3H3 taking small parts of a pickup artist video designed to give pickup tips to those who wanted to pick up women to create a comedy video designed to make people laugh for those who want something to laugh at. Small portions, different audience, different purpose therefore certainly Fair Use. For example I specifically thought when he started to review Hunter x Hunter I was like ah I haven't seen Hunter x Hunter in quite a while. Yeah it'd be nice to listen to him go over the story again. Like I might have gone and watched Hunter x Hunter again but because he made his videos I just listened to him talk about it and that was enough for me. But I'm a weird dude. In general we consider it to be a dick move when companies do this because they are experiencing value from Mark's content cause he is driving them towards the official release. But there would be cases where his videos would be a market replacement for the originals cause he's telling the story. YouTube allows things like music videos to be blocked in certain countries why can't YouTube just allow Mark to disable his videos in Japan? Cause Toei Animation owns the copyright for the content globally not just in Japan. I mean if it was disabled in Japan there'd be a possibility of Toei Animation not finding out about Mark's content but YouTube specifically working in a way to allow content creators to hide content violating laws in other countries is probably something they don't want to do. So story recaps aren't okay to you. Whether they're okay to me is a separate question. And for me it depends. That's a hard one cause imagine for example you spend three years of your life writing an amazing story and a YouTuber comes out and says okay so in chapter one here's what happens chapter two, chapter three and he just beat for beat tells the entire story to the internet. How could that not be considered a market replacement for my book? How could it not? What about those videos that basically summarise a book that at least in my opinion I'm mostly watched by people who have either read the book or people that have to read it in school and don't want to? In reality if you're taking a book and summarising it beat for beat and adding nothing else you're just making the book but shorter in a different format. I don't think that's justifiable. Summarising a book can't give all of its content but it can make the original redundant. One of the things that you read a book for is to find out what happens. And if you already know what happens a significant amount of people won't bother reading that book. I on more than one occasion have read a wiki rather than watching something. But I'm weird. So for example let's take cutscene movies. Cutscene movies I think you'd be very hard pressed to defend in a court of law. You're just subtracting a particular thing from a game. You aren't transforming it. You're just taking one aspect of something and putting it somewhere else. If you like literally played the entire game from start to finish and put it all on your YouTube channel I think it's entirely possible that given how fair use works currently that a company could say this is not. In general they just don't because they receive more benefit from that than not. You know they'd be like look there's no there's lesser reason now for people to play the game because this video exists. I'd go one step further and say that I'd be surprised if any gameplay of a video game on YouTube would actually stand up to fair use law if challenged in court. It's important here to note that I don't necessarily agree that fair use law allows for all the things that I think would be justifiable or good for society. What I consider moral is not necessarily enshrined in a law that was written in 1976 in America. The best example we've ever received is from the H3H3 situation. For those who don't know the story H3H3 made a video reaction to a guy who was who made a video about picking up women giving tips for picking up women. The judge when this eventually went to court said that while this isn't a ruling on all react content the H3H3 video was the perfect example of fair use and here's why. So the original guy made a video and the purpose of this video was to make pick up tips and the audience for this was people who want pick up tips. It's like this bang bang bang. And what H3H3 did is they took this chunk here, this chunk here, this chunk here and they made something wholly different using these small clumps as a part of what they made and they made comedy targeting people who wanted comedy. And so the judge was like your pick up tips are still here. These people who want pick up tips can't watch H3H3's video and get what they would get from your video. This is different from this and it was made for a different purpose and it targets an entirely different audience. You can't recreate this using this and therefore this is perfectly fair use. And so when you talk about summaries and what not technically that is only a portion of the original. However, it would be like creating this but specifically targeting these same people because the summary of a story likely appeals to the same audience that would read that story in the first place and could be a substitution for it. And that's why it's hard because it is distinct. Is it made for the same purpose? I mean it is made for the purpose of telling a story even if a simplified one. A summary isn't going to have the emotions of the show or the action. So yeah it is only portions of it but just only using portions isn't entirely what defines fair use. To put it another way it's often said even if you're only using small portions if you are using the heart or the core of the original work it's less likely to be considered fair use. My first |
| 05. September 2021 | Toy Story 3 ending prank | Toy Story 3 ending prank. Whenever anyone mentions Toy Story, I always think of that gag Where a dude edited Toy Story 3 So the movie ended with the toys being dropped into you know, you know how they just they barely get away from the incinerator or something He edits it So it ends there and he watches it with like I think his mother or whatever and just like it can't be it She's like, yeah, that's how it is. Like that's awful. I I'm like, you know weekly. She's like, I just can't believe how they ended that movie. It's the greatest guy |
| 13. May 2021 | Trend towards consolidation of companies | Trend towards consolidation of companies. Do you think that Microsoft buying Bethesda is a good thing for the games that will come out? Considering how bad Fallout 76 was, and that we weren't seeing Skyrim for, you know, a decade, I can't think it could be worse. But maybe I'm just not overly invested, because I've never been super into Bethesda games. I mean, Skyrim obviously being the exception to that game is fucking awesome. Skyrim in VR would definitely be a fun game to play. I mean, once you got used to it, of course. Your Discord is being considered sold to Microsoft for 10 billion dollars or whatever. All these companies, these... Your Microsofts, your Apples, or whatever, your Google, they just have so much money, so much money, that they can buy anything that's even moderately successful. Why innovate when you can just buy things that are doing well? A successful company these days is not a company that competes with other companies, it is a company that is bought by a large company. Like once, you know, the six mega corporations or whatever have their tendrils in every single industry, technically not having a monopoly of those industries, but having tendrils in them, then the only people who can enter those industries and compete are people who have access to similar capital. Because obviously Google can go into any industry they like, run at a loss for the next 50 years, drive out literally anyone from that industry, and then take it over completely, if they wanted. And the only one, the only thing stopping them is some tendril of regulation that is getting eaten at every single day by politicians who take money from these companies to wear them down. Maybe I'm just being hyper pessimistic, but it doesn't seem like a good system to me. Microsoft has more failures than successes? That's all these companies. Every one of these companies is at every given time throwing money at anything that could possibly maybe be successful. As long as one in 20 is successful or something, that 20th one that's successful will pay for the 19 failures. There's websites dedicated to keeping a record of the Google graveyard. Everything Google has released and then just immediately collapse or whatever, and then they've just chucked to the wayside. |
| 30. May 2020 | Trevor or Michael worse? | This is Bigger Asshole, Michael or Trevor. Trevor literally has experiences enjoyment from harming others. So Trevor is the Bigger Asshole. |
| 08. November 2020 | Trimming my hair | How do I determine when it is the right time to trim my hair? How long do I want my beard to grow? When I get a hair cut, I kind of like it to be a transformation. A lot of people don't have that kind of freedom or to have that fun because they do jobs where they need to maintain a certain degree of like hair length or facial length. I don't have that so I can just let it grow as long as I want and then I can cut it and be like, oh my god, I'm a new person! What the hell? Usually I end up not liking it because I'm so used to having long hair and long facial hair. I'm like, ah, this is what I look like without that? Oh, okay. But it does feel like a transformation and I kind of enjoy that. But also I'm still like 93 kilos or something, which is at least 8 kilos over what I should be and so I want to lose a bit more weight to mean my face isn't as fat and so there's less of my face that I need to cover with facial hair and then I'll get a hair cut. Do I still have a lot of content related to my face? |
| 18. November 2020 | Trivial wealth and tiktok | Trivial wealth and TikTok. The banning of TikTok only means that you can't install it. It still works. I'm sure there's mobile phones on eBay right now. TikTok app installed mobile phone kind of thing. Guaranteed. I would love to see what the downloads were for TikTok. Like, the week leading up to that Sunday. 2k USD for iPhone 11 with TikTok installed or 5k Instant Buy? No. Oh, 2.5k? And I guarantee you there'll be people out there who'll pay it. Some rich person who just, you know, doesn't care about money. Like, the analogy for me is, before I was successful, I would do basically anything to avoid delivery costs for food. I would just be like, are you crazy? I'll just drive the 15 minutes to get the food. Now, I barely even think about a $7 delivery cost. And I think this equivalent change of success and wealth can be scaled up to people with, you know, tens of millions of dollars. And their $7 delivery cost avoidance is like, oh man, I can't install TikTok. I guess I'll buy a phone worth 2 grand that has TikTok on it. Eh, it's who cares, you know? |
| 20. December 2022 | Trump’s hilarious 99$ NFT cards. | Trump's hilarious $99 NFT cards. Thoughts on the Trump NFT cards? My thoughts? Is there anyone not mocking Trump's NFT cards? I don't think you need to know my thoughts. It's the most hilarious thing I've ever seen. $99 for digital cards. Okay, so Trump has spent most of his life doing poor moves for himself. But you'd think even he'd have enough awareness to realize how bad this would look in terms of optics. I think the damage to his brand is worth more than what he's going to make off these NFTs. Trump is old as fuck, so maybe there's just someone who's like, oh yeah, man, you get tips and money from these NFTs, bro. It's like the newest thing. The kids love them. But he's getting mocked from like every corner. So as Trump's previous lawyer once admitted, this whole politics thing for Trump was a grift and an attempt to build his brand. And some people never want to accept that. But I'm hoping with this NFT thing that it becomes even obvious to even those people that that is true. Like this is all just Trump and his ego trying to draw more attention to himself. He doesn't really give a shit about anyone but himself. But again, I don't think people are going to accept that. In the same way with Elon Musk. It doesn't matter. Exactly. NFTs right now. Who's advised in this guy? I mean, at the peak of NFTs, while there were always obviously a scam to a lot of people, the huge dip in the market is enough for those people who still don't understand NFTs or scam, enough for them to be even be like, why would you bring these out now? Because the whole market's trapped. |
| 30. May 2020 | Trust issues | I've recently realized I have much bigger trust issues with people than I thought. For example, thinking a girl is cheating or that friends are lying about things because I've had too many encounters with serious liars in the past. Do you ever have similar thoughts or have any suggestions as to how to trust people more? If I haven't talked to a person in two weeks, I suspect they hate me. I am terrible with these thoughts. If a person responds to a message in a way that is not exactly what I suspect and seems kind of weird and could be interpreted in a way that they have negative feelings towards me behind what they've said, that will be the next thought that I have. I am terrible with that shit. It's part of the reason why I haven't been gung-ho to make new friends and get into relationships and stuff because I don't like having all these thoughts second-guessing people and their motivations and how they actually think about me. I have learned long ago that these feelings that I have are just idiotic. They make no sense, they're not practical to have, and they're usually wrong. So when I'm having these feelings, I just go, ignore it. Just ignore it. Ignore it. It doesn't make any goddamn sense. All I try to think about rationally, this person is not necessarily... They don't necessarily hate you because I haven't talked to you in the last 16 seconds. Just ignore it. I don't like this. It's probably my least favorite aspect about myself and the part of myself that's most deleterious to my well-being. So I have no advice to you because I have it too. I hope you can cope with it better than I have, which part of my coping measure is just not knowing a lot of people. It means... A part of it, perhaps, is just having a low self-perception. Certainly, my perception of myself is higher than it used to be. But because I thought little of myself, I didn't think I had a lot to offer other people. I wouldn't reach out to people, I wouldn't talk to people as much, because I'm like, they wouldn't want to talk to me. Who wants to talk to me? No one wants to fucking talk to me. I have a lot to offer. So it's understandable that they might have negative feelings towards me. It's... Maybe you have that as well. You don't think of yourself highly. And again, I don't know a great way to help you with that. What's helped me is just having a lot of people who send me messages going, Oh, Matt, you're doing great. Like what you're doing, man. You're a good dude. Like that stuff. Like, oh, thanks. Maybe I do have something to offer the world, you know? Not everyone can have that. And that's why I... No, my viewers have helped me a lot emotionally, you know, self-perception wise. And it's helped me a lot. Become a more rounded, fulfilled person, you know? And I wish everyone could get that. I hope you get good influences in your life that can... If you have these thoughts as well, to make you feel valued as a person. I... But I say I don't have great advice for you because it's something I deal with all the time. |
| 28. September 2021 | Truth can be said in many different ways | Truth can be said in many different ways. I've always stated that I want a woman who can kick my ass, not piss around and tell me everything is perfect, or what expects me, what expects me to parrot everything she wants to hear. Certainly it would be nice to be with someone who appreciates honesty. I mean no one wants to hear the cold hard truth and nothing but the truth all the time. There's certainly ways to say the truth in different ways so that it's not um, as hurtful or whatever right? Like if you, if you really try at something, like you make something and it really looks bad and it's terrible, and you're like oh well I know this is terrible. You don't want a person to bluntly say this is fucking awful. This is awful. I think it's awful. You did terribly. Even if a person thinks that, you want them to be like, you know this is your first attempt, you've tried hard and I like this about it and this about it, but ultimately I don't think it's very good. Like I, it communicates the same point, but one of them is like brutally soul crushing that may lead you to not create again, and the other one is just like, uh, true criticism that can help a person right? What is true is true, but the way that you communicate truth can be very different. In terms of what response you're likely likely to elicit, you know. And once when you're honest but also empathetic, yes, exactly. Or compassionate. One of the two. |
| 23. February 2022 | Trying new food was a mistake | Trying new food was a mistake. So I woke up and I'm like, I wanna try some new food, which is usually a big reason why I feel like shit. It's like Zombino's or something, or some name. Got myself a bowl of meat and cheese and taco chips, a taco bowl, there you go. I opened it and there was a bug, a living bug. It wasn't actually in the food, it was caught in the side of the container. And it was so tiny, like microscopic. I was like, this is gonna be fine. I'm just gonna eat this anyway. So I eat it and I feel like shit, there's that. Also, I got like a burrito from them and I said, no beans. I just don't want beans, don't put beans in. I don't like beans, I don't like the texture. Just don't put beans in, they put beans in, all through it. So yeah, well, good thing I'm already full off the taco bowl, I don't have to eat this. Cause I would have had a, had a note already being full. It's beans suck. And so I feel like shit, I may burp a lot because my stomach is rumbling, probably cause the beans. |
| 24. October 2022 | Trying spicy rum. | I don't like rum, normally, but as I often say, I'm just trying anything right now. And Mitch got a spicy rum. I'm like, could a spicy rum be better than normal rum which tastes awful? And it was. Honestly, it may have been better than a bourbon. When large creators blow up smaller channels. |
| 18. April 2021 | Trying to be recognized as human on a dating app | Trying to be recognized as human on a dating app. Oh, I suppose the only other significant thing is I got some likes on the dating app thing I'm on now. So I know it works now. Yay. So I guess I'll throw that into my routine of stuff I do now, I guess. Talking to random strangers on a dating app. I fully expect effectively nothing to come from it. But maybe I'll get some funny stories. Did I mention how, like, I couldn't get my account verified originally? Like, you're meant to take a picture of yourself doing a particular pose or something, like just holding up your hand or something, and the algorithm detects you as a person. It goes, oh, you are a person. Good stuff. I did this like 15, 20 times and it would not detect me as a person. Is it possible that I'm a machine and I just don't know it? Maybe I'm a reptile. Perhaps I'm some sort of alien who got amnesia. Maybe this machine's trying to tell me something. Everyone chats like, I knew it, man. You are so bad at this game. After 8,000 hours, I didn't think that could be possible for human. It all makes sense that you must be some kind of machine. |
| 15. February 2020 | Trying to cook ruined my day | Trying to cook ruined my day. Basically, I woke up this morning and I said, look, I'm wasting too much fucking money on fast food. I always justify it by saying like, look, if the second I wake up, I order food. That means in the time it takes me to get out of bed, have a shower, you know, turn on my PC, get changed, all that shit, the food will be there, I can eat the food and immediately start streaming. Don't waste any time. But it always costs like, you know, 25 AUD or something, with delivery costs. And that's just insane amount of money spent on food. But I've always justified it because I can do my content faster. But today I'm like, no, fuck it, I've got food somewhere in my house, I'll go eat it. And so I make myself some spaghetti, because I haven't had spaghetti in a long time and I know it's not a breakfast food, but I want some spaghetti. I look in the sauce container in my fridge, I'm like, oh, there's mold in here, ah. Look at another sauce container, oh, there's mold in here, ah. Look at another sauce container, oh, this looks all right. I put some of this in. Probably one of my roommates, whatever, I put a little bit in. Like, oh, cheese, do I have any cheese? So I want to get some cheese and look in the fridge and there's a thing of like string cheese or whatever, like grated cheese. And I'm like, all right, well, I'll put this in. Is this okay? How long has it been in here? It looks okay, it looks fine. And so I put that in there. I don't think it was fine, chat. I don't think it was good cheese. And so I eat all this and I just feel terrible afterwards, dude. I'm like, oh, maybe I didn't eat enough or something. I'll have like two up and goes that have been in the fridge for 10,000 years. Eat those two and oh, I feel so much worse. I feel hungry and yet sick. I'll just eat more food. So I go into menu log and I'm like, look, I'm just gonna fucking order food. Fuck it, I want to make my goddamn content. And I'm like, okay, order food from Hungry Jacks. It's like, it's gonna be half an hour. Okay, fine, it's gonna be half an hour. Wait half an hour, I'm like, where the fuck is my food? I look on the app and it's like, your food is gonna be delivered tomorrow at 11 a.m. I'm like, what do you mean fucking tomorrow at 11 a.m.? Apparently, they can't find a driver because it's busy or some shit and I get into the app and chat with the woman like, what are you doing, where's my bloody food? They ended up giving me a refund. Took an hour and 10 minutes to get here and I've eaten it and I still feel terrible. So basically, I probably lost like three hours of my day, total, just trying to eat and not feel terrible and not spend a lot of money. I probably spend more money than I normally do, feel far worse than I normally do and I've had to start my content way later. So I think this has been a terrible experiment and I think I'm gonna not do this again for a while or at the very least, get just some bread or some shit from supermarket, I don't know, very bad experience. Please like the video. With your contributions, I may one day be able to afford sleeves and not look like such a fucking, I don't know, bogan bastard. Thank you, Sima. |
| 25. February 2021 | Trying to get Melatonin from drug store. | Trying to get melatonin from drugstore. Once upon a time, uh, I went into a drugstore and they, um, offered me melatonin that was a homeopathic remedy. For those who are unaware, uh, homeopathic remedies are just water. It's all psychosomatic bullshit. It is a pseudoscience. And I looked at him like, you sell this. Why would anyone want this? Imagine selling shit like that and going to bed not feeling like a complete scumbag. Obviously, real melatonin, you need to, at least in this country, I think you need a prescription. |
| 25. February 2021 | Trying to get Meletonin from drug store. | Trying to get melatonin from drugstore. Once upon a time, uh, I went into a drugstore and they, um, offered me melatonin that was a homeopathic remedy. For those who are unaware, uh, homeopathic remedies are just water. It's all psychosomatic bullshit. It is a pseudoscience. And I looked at him like, you sell this. Why would anyone want this? Imagine selling shit like that and going to bed not feeling like a complete scumbag. Obviously, real melatonin, you need to, at least in this country, I think you need a prescription. |
| 22. March 2021 | Trying to get back into exercising | Struggling to get back into exercising again. I really want to start exercising more. Once upon a time, I exercised every fucking day, you know. I would have a very shitty sleeping pattern. And I go to the gym at like 2 a.m. for now, because there'd be no one there. It'd be fantastic. I wouldn't I wouldn't like I'm just to cardio lift a little bit of weight or something. Maybe on the way home, get myself like just a Big Mac or something. A diet really matters in my diet. It's always been shit. But having that little bit of exercise helped me, you know, where they recommend like half an hour a day. I ain't getting that people. I ain't getting that. |
| 19. July 2020 | Trying to livestream on YouTube. | Trying to livestream on YouTube. By being a partner on Twitch, you can't stream on other platforms, regardless of how much you want to. I don't have the ability to livestream on YouTube or TikTok, despite my large audiences there. And in return for this, compared to an affiliate, I get slightly more sub-revenue and emotes. Affiliates can stream on other places. It's specifically outlined in the affiliate guidelines. They can upload content, they just can't multi-stream. No one can multi-stream, but you can stream in other places. I don't want to move permanently off Twitch. I want the ability to occasionally livestream on YouTube. It's weird, the main reason I wanted to livestream occasionally on YouTube, initially, was to move people from YouTube to Twitch. And it's bothered me, I've never been able to do that. But that's less of a thing now. Currently, David, I do think it's worth for me to stay with exclusivity on Twitch, but it's not going to be for much longer. With the current deal set in place, it's not. I would be so surprised if in a year, without anything changing, if I'm still exclusive here. When we did that poll, and that 90% of you found me on YouTube, Twitch is doing nothing for me. Like, it's not increased my discoverability, it's not helping me in any capacity, it's just... It could be the case that I fucking would hate YouTube livestreaming, but I have no way to test that. Really what I should do is make a fake persona, and pretend to be my own brother, and livestream on my YouTube channel. Like, use a voice changer or some shit. No, I'll use the, you know the things that make you into a dog or whatever? I'm like, hey guys, this is Darkfever, EU's brother, um, uh, LightSnakeEU. Bark bark, I don't know. Because there's this thing I talk about all the time, where you can be doing okay, and not wanting to risk that okayness to do even better. I have become fairly convinced that I can do at least a little bit better on YouTube, compared to just being exclusive on Twitch. But that little bit better isn't enough right now. But what's the difference between my YouTube growth and my Twitch growth? So on YouTube I'm gaining 25k a month, on Twitch I'm gaining, uh, yes it's 12k, so it's like twice as fast. The courage moved from Twitch to YouTube. He was like at 8 to 12k on Twitch, and now he's like at 20k on YouTube. YouTube has like 200 million people who watch gaming content, compared to Twitch is what, like 5 million or something. Like YouTube is just, it's the endemic user problem, where Facebook gaming has grown so large, so much larger, so fast, by comparison to Mixer, because they have so many users on their platform that they can draw from. YouTube can do the same, and Twitch cannot do this. I was baffled to hear that, um, when talking to my partner manager that this isn't seemingly something that Twitch is trying to solve. They're perfectly happy to sit in a situation where their success is entirely dependent upon their competitors for growth. That's just insane. But do you think that the five people who find you through a YouTube stream are worth it? I don't know what that means. Are you trying to suggest that YouTube's discover- okay, okay. YouTube's discoverability system isn't related to discoverability for their live streams, but discoverability through the offline content. Because YouTube has the greatest algorithm currently for distributing content to people who want to watch it. And there's always people looking to discover more content on YouTube, where on Twitch people generally find a couple of streams and then that's all they watch. Or, you know, they only find streams through other platforms, which is, you know, the situation for my channel. I get about a million people, more than that, you know, 1.5 million people, watch my YouTube content a month. This is 1.5 million people who are being advertised directly to for my YouTube content. It's just harder to get people to move from those videos to a completely separate platform. That's the problem. I came to Twitch just to watch you. That's not weird, is it? It's not. That's the reality for most people. I want you guys to understand something fundamental about me, okay? I really enjoy making content and I really enjoy live streaming, but I fundamentally have no confidence in myself and I'm afraid of losing what I have. Most of what I do is done out of fear for losing what I love. We're just streaming with you guys, making content on YouTube and all that jazz. So at all times, I'm trying to safeguard the ability to do this effectively forever. And so whenever there's a whisper of doubts in my platform or my content or my growth, I'm like, how do we solve this? How do we? Like, I don't want to be in a situation where I'm limiting my growth, sitting comfortably. If there's something that I can be doing to safeguard my future a little bit more, I want to do it. And peaking the platform with the longevity is that I'm not convinced that Twitch is going to be in it for the long haul. They're still going to be around, but I don't think they're going to be the market leader in one year, two years, three years, four years, five years. I don't know. What stopped me from moving to YouTube? That I like the layout of Twitch more and that I've got all my subs here and a history here and the emirates and the substreaks and stuff. Like, I have decided to stay on Twitch largely because of the free subs that people get with Twitch Prime. It turns out it is a significant portion of my income. |
| 10. November 2022 | Trying to make YouTube memberships more appealing. | to make YouTube memberships more appealing. I definitely am looking into more ways to inspire people to, um, become members on YouTube. Because on Twitch, I didn't really have a lot of avenues available to me, that YouTube I kinda do, in terms of giving people early access to my videos and whatnot. There's just a few hurdles that I'm still waiting to, uh, get over. Because I need my thumbnail maker to have access to my videos early, but he can't get memberships because he's in Pakistan. So if I set the videos to membership only, he wouldn't be able to see them. And like, I don't know exactly when he's gonna be looking at the video to make the thumbnail, I can't just... it'd be annoying to have him contact me every single time to set it to unlisted. And that would disrupt the members access to it as well, because it would no longer show up on my channel page. It would be very annoying. Additionally, there is no current option to set something to membership schedule. So like, what I would like is, the second that I upload the video, and set it to membership, that I can set when I want the video to release still. So it's like, be membership only for a week, and then release to the public on X day. And that isn't available right now. Is it more profitable to have Twitch subscribers or YouTube members? It's the same. Well, it's actually not going to be for much longer. When did Twitch say they were getting rid of the 70-30 split? So right now, I have a 70-30 split on Twitch, and a 70-30 split on YouTube, in regards to memberships. Obviously, not everyone has the 70-30 split on Twitch. It was available to like, you know, less than, let's say, 5,000 people. I happen to be one of them. But they're removing that, and at that point, it will be more profitable to have memberships on YouTube as opposed to Twitch. But Twitch memberships have greater value than YouTube memberships. Because on Twitch, you can use the emotes on anyone's livestream. You also don't get ads if you're a paying subscriber on Twitch. What is the 70-30 split? 70-30 means I get 70% of the money, and YouTube gets 30%. A pre-roll ad is an ad that plays before you start watching the thing. It's funny, often when I'm watching my rambles, I realize I will talk about concepts and not really explain them, expecting that everyone understands them, when it's often not the case. I would like to do a poll or something on my community tab and be like, hey, how often when watching my videos do I reference things that you don't really understand? But you want me to get the money, not YouTube? I mean, honestly, a 70-30 split is pretty fair. What YouTube does is not insignificant. Especially on Twitch, where the mechanisms for recommendations and stuff was garbage. And on Twitch, they didn't even keep your VODs forever, right? They deleted them. On YouTube, they're storing your videos forever, and they're actively working to find you an audience with all the content that you're making. YouTube is not doing something insignificant for me. Like, sure, I like a reality where I'm getting 100% of the money as well, but YouTube is earning their money as far as I'm concerned. And like, you wouldn't have found me or this stream or my content if it wasn't for YouTube actively promoting it to you guys. I'm doing my best to get YouTube to add additional features and stuff. It's just YouTube is so much bigger than Twitch. They've got a lot more concerns than adding such miniscule features that only a handful of people will potentially use. I'll see you next time. |
| 10. January 2021 | Trying to make sure people understand me. | Trying to make sure people understand me It's weird not hearing a voice at two times speed in some of the rambles that I've done recently. I thought to myself like Anyone listening to this at two times speed it's gonna be so fucking confused Because I'm like I'm talking way too fast here or like listening back to it I'm like I combined like six words into one word there. Maybe I should put some subtitles It's A skill that you try to develop over time Speaking clearly because you recognize that people aren't aren't necessarily native English speakers like maybe they understand English perfectly fine But the combination of accents and speaking quickly it loses some people, you know also niche expressions like when I said if you put a gun to my head I I would pick this what they what that means is like I'm uncertain But if you force me to choose this is what I choose, but some people interpret that to be you know only if you put a gun to my head would I pick this option and Thinking about I was like yeah I could totally see how an non-native English speaker a person is not familiar with that expression or that Way of stating things might come to that conclusion, you know |
| 21. August 2021 | Trying to remain calm towards modders in GTA Online | Trying to remain calm towards modders and DDoSs in GT Online Chad it's very hard when I continuously get kicked out of GT Online and I get DDoSed and stuff and It's very hard not to react on stream because you don't want to give the person kicking you off what they want you know, but every time I tried to Get in and and stop me from being fucked with this mod menu or whatever that kind of gave him what he wanted right because clearly he was wasting my time and stuff That's why I only usually like to have one go at it and then immediately leave But today I had to test some security measures to hopefully stop mod menu people from fucking with me But if they they can just DDoS me though, even when I can protect myself from their mod menu Right now I shouldn't be able to fuck with with mod menus, but DDoSing I can't stop which is unfortunate When it comes out on PS5, maybe I'll do online stuff there, but without keyboard and mouse is just bleh |
| 22. January 2022 | Tthe most I have ever made selling on steam marketplace | The most I have ever made selling on the Steam Marketplace. The game I've made the most money off is H1Z1. I played H1Z1 when they had invitational crates. And I was given like 10 of them. But I couldn't open them because they didn't have any keys or whatever. But I kept them. And then I stopped playing H1Z1 for like two years. And then I figured out what the inventory and stuff was. I figured out what the inventory and marketplace and stuff was on Steam. And I looked at all my games. I'm like, hey, look, these crates are worth like 10 bucks each. That was 10 bucks US too. |
| 05. August 2022 | Tunic the little fox game. | Um, fairly recently, I think I saw it on like, Skill Up included in a video or something, and I was like, ah, it looks very cute. Didn't intend to play it, but then I was sad, and I was like, I'm gonna play that game with that cute fox, in the hopes that it makes me happy. And it has somewhat succeeded. I want to buy this game, do you like it? Yes. I am quite enjoying my time playing this game. It is not particularly expensive. The fighting is challenging, but not unfair. Stereo and Mechanic is different enough to other Souls games that you have to think a little bit in fights. You can't just spam, attack and stuff. It's meeting all my expectations. Falling asleep spoiled my audiobook. I'm really enjoying this book. |
| 30. November 2020 | Twitch And DMCA | Twitch and DMCA. It is shocking that Twitch was caught flat-footed with these DMCA claims. Everyone knew it was going to happen. They had all the time in the world to develop tools for their creators to deal with it when it did happen, and they simply didn't. It's not like they lacked resources, or information, or knowledge of how to set up these tools, considering, you know, they already have examples of how to deal with this stuff from YouTube, and they just didn't do it. It would be nice to be a fly on the wall, and to have been in the meetings when they were discussing this, and to learn why they never bothered. |
| 30. November 2020 | Twitch And Dmca | Twitch and DMCA. It is shocking that Twitch was caught flat-footed with these DMCA claims. Everyone knew it was going to happen. They had all the time in the world to develop tools for their creators to deal with it when it did happen, and they simply didn't. It's not like they lacked resources, or information, or knowledge of how to set up these tools, considering, you know, they already have examples of how to deal with this stuff from YouTube, and they just didn't do it. It would be nice to be a fly on the wall, and to have been in the meetings when they were discussing this, and to learn why they never bothered. |
| 08. November 2020 | Twitch Clip Channel | Channels posting the big streamers Twitch clips. These channels were the inspiration for me to make my own Twitch clips channel just about myself. Thoughts on the YouTube channels that pump out 40 plus vids a day of Twitch clips? All they do is, the second something gets popular on livestream fails, they post it to YouTube. And while this is lazy content, in my mind does nothing but help the Twitch streamers. Not much I imagine of it. Or to put it another way, it's debatable to what degree these channels are simply farming the popularity of these larger streams, versus actually helping them in exposure and growth. Because more than likely the only people who are watching those clips are those who already know the streamers. It's lazy exploitative content in the sense that you're not doing anything interesting or creative or creating anything original, you're just taking someone else's content from their streams. But at the same time, I don't know how the streamers are really being negatively impacted, so I'm not really concerned about it. Other than that, as a rule, all lazy garbage content that's put on YouTube has a negative externality. Where any one of those videos that gets recommended, in place of those videos being recommended, other YouTube videos would be being recommended. At any time where there's lazy garbage content on YouTube, it's stealing recommendations from original good content on YouTube. But no one seems to give a shit about that, so I'm gonna try to stop caring about that myself. Like, I would like to be one of those streamers that is large enough where my clips, like people actually put my clips on livestream fail. When I do something funny or interesting or say a funny joke or something, I'd love for that stuff to get on the livestream fail. That's happened once. Recently, my sister, I did a family gathering yesterday, my sister mentions to my family that I got a clip on livestream fail of me raging at Scott. My sister doesn't watch my stream, and I've asked her not to, specifically. She only heard about the clip because her friend either watches me or knows me or whatever. And I think my dad even mentioned, someone at work mentioned to him that I had that clip. My family doesn't watch my stream, but like, that clip is how I'm represented to them, in a way. My fail was, my clip was in a fail compilation? Exactly. Like, I do so many funny, cool things happen on the stream, especially during chaos, or perfect timing things happen all the time. There's so many compilations of that stuff, I'm never in them. I do one bad thing one time, one time, and that's what gets on livestream fail. It's annoying that xQc can make, like, he can, like, make the shittiest joke you can imagine. 10,000 upvotes on livestream fail. I can, I don't know, be juggling 10 balls and do 7 backflips, and you know, no one posts that shit. So what I'm saying is, it's hard for me to judge these Twitch clip farming channels negatively when I want to be involved in that shit. Like, I wouldn't want so many clips included that it literally undercuts my stream. But when something really cool happens, I mean, when I say undercuts, I mean, like, my YouTube channel no longer has any content, because people are just posting those clips everywhere. But when something really cool happens, as have many times, I've always been like, why wasn't that a clip on livestream fail? It was such a cool clip. Anyway, doesnt matter. |
| 02. June 2021 | Twitch Hot-Tub Meta | Earliest comments on the Hot Tub meta. Have you seen the streamers streaming half naked while sitting in a pool? Yeah, weird trend. Hasn't there been a few of those trends over the course of Twitch? I mean, if it's allowable on the website and it's something that people want to see, takes very little effort on your part and makes you money, I mean, why wouldn't you do it? Doesn't hurt anyone. Arguably, it doesn't make the platform look very good. Then again, how many people off platform really listen or care about such commentary? Like if I could do a stream for over 10,000 viewers sitting in a goddamn hot tub, I'd probably do it. I mean, why not? I just think it'd be very boring content. Like, whenever there's a meta that increases a person's success and doesn't harm anyone, like I can't ever fault anyone for following that meta. |
| 22. July 2022 | Twitch NFT ads | Twitch NFT ads. You go to NFT and NFT guys are really fucking desperate right now. Who the fuck would watch Twitch, get an ad for an NFT and then buy that NFT? Like who would do that? But I mean, who would buy NFTs to begin with? What I should do chat, is every stream I'll start it and then I will draw something in paints and be like, if you give me $5, okay the first person donating to me $5 gets my drawing and I will sign it and say they have the exclusive rights to it. You get five bucks every stream. Genius. A random TikTok guy said, NFTs will make you rich. I mean those TikTok guys do know what they're talking about. I joke but I have occasionally learned interesting things on TikTok. I guess you know, clock is right at least twice a day. Broken clock is twice a day. A broken clock is right at least twice a day. God there chat. |
| 08. July 2021 | Twitch and Youtube gig economies | Viewer comments. Twitch and YouTube work like gig economies, where there is a fear that if you stop going you will lose all the audience you have built up forever. Twitch and YouTube work like gig economies, where there is that fear if you ever stop going you'll lose all the audience you've built up forever. That's anything. Any business that sells any products has a risk that if they stop, that those who are using that product or service will go somewhere else. That's not a function of a gig economy. It's just a function of the economy. If you are not providing a service, obviously people go elsewhere for that service. When you come back, people may prefer where they've gone to. I wouldn't blame them for it if you find somewhere better. Why not? |
| 21. July 2020 | Twitch and nudity in gaming | Twitch and nudity in games. Nudity in games that you can't avoid is perfectly acceptable on Twitch. You're just not allowed to focus on it or make it the focus of your content or your title or what have you. If they had to ban games with any kind of nudity in it, there goes all the God of War games, there goes like all the Mafia games. It's not like Twitch is just gonna go okay the newest big release video game. We're not gonna allow anyone to stream it. No one's gonna do that. In the last month of Mixer's life they just start making weird rules. If you want to stream on our platform you gotta rub your head every five minutes for at least ten seconds. If you want to stream on our platform you can't eat any dairy. We get word of a single bit of dairy touching your lips. Bans. How many rules is left Twitch? There are rules. Fairly common sense rules. So when I say common sense rules I mean if you assume that Twitch is trying to make money and not piss off advertisers and keep a respectable brand then the things that you'd imagine wouldn't help with that are banned. To what extent they can be considering that you know video games are video games. Is it more of an American thing that nudity is super mega? You know nudity is fairly restricted in most places that have grown with a Christian kind of background that that puritanism stuff you know. It's very interesting in this I mentioned the book again A Righteous Mind. Listening about some different cultures and how they treat morality and stuff is very interesting. There's three types of ethics. What are they? Individual, communal and divinity or something. They're split into and he talks about different cultures and the emphasis on different things and very interesting. |
| 12. December 2021 | Twitch ban as a holiday | A Twitch ban as a holiday. But we've talked about that before where it's like, you can never really feel comfortable taking a break because you're always thinking about I'm losing those followers, I'm losing those subs man. Everyone's getting ahead of me or whatever, but I guess if you get banned it's like well there's literally nothing I can do so. But I mean if I got banned on Twitch for a short period, I mean if I got banned permanently at Jump Over Cliff, I wouldn't. I'm kidding. But I'd be very unhappy. But if I got banned for a short period, I would just be doing YouTube content. Like I would sit down for five minutes and go, what is every video that I've said I would make, but I never, I've never made, I still haven't made the video about my settings. |
| 15. February 2022 | Twitch banning reactors. | And I wanted to bring up one thing which maybe you can comment on, which is the big streamers that do a lot of the reacting. A couple of them are recently banned from Twitch. Well, banned is the wrong word, suspended for watching full shows, right? And they just moved on from full shows to independent content creators. They don't really move on. They do both. But it's weird how Twitch is saying, no, this is wrong. You shouldn't watch full content, right? And they didn't seem to think that was wrong. The content creators didn't push back and say, no, what I'm doing is right. I should be able to watch these full shows. They just stopped watching their full shows from these big entities that can sue them. And they just moved on to independent content creators because they know they won't get sued for that because they don't have the power. Yeah. I've often said that the reason why reactors stop reacting to people's content when they find out isn't because they care or is that they just don't want to get a copyright strike from their content creator who's now told them to stop. They've been caught. It's a misconception to say that Twitch is giving people DMCA notices. Twitch is in a very weird position. Twitch doesn't want to be put into a position where they're saying, look, it is our responsibility to find all the copyrighted content on our platform and we will curate our platform to make sure there's no copyrighted content. Because the second that they say that that is something that is their responsibility, that can be used in court to say, oh, look, this was Twitch's responsibility to take my content off the platform. And they did not. I demand compensation. Twitch's position is that we're hands off. It's not our responsibility. It's not the responsibility. We're not curating the platform. We will just respond to other people who are making these claims. Twitch is still technically making money off a lot of copyrighted material. And so if that ever gets challenged in court and the challenger wins, Twitch is going to be open to just infinite amounts of lawsuits from fucking everyone who just wants a bunch of Amazon's money. It's like, oh, well, this Pussy Slayer 69 showed my video and Twitch profited off that. I demand compensation. OK, here's a million dollars. So Twitch isn't striking people off the platform. They are simply responding to other people's claims of copyright infringement. And they don't want to do anything else. So Twitch doesn't want people to use copyrighted material because they don't want to be sued in some grand scheme of things. But they can't tell people to stop doing it explicitly or take down the content themselves or that would make them potentially legally liable for all copyrighted content on the platform. I'm explaining this terribly, but there are a lot of people who talk about the weird state of that YouTube and Twitch are in in regards to copyrighted content and how they don't want to take ownership of the responsibility to remove that content. Well, is there a difference between MasterChef and Twitch? |
| 22. December 2020 | Twitch banning “blind playthrough” | Twitch banning blind playthrough. I want to ramble to you for a second, okay? Just a second. Like I know it's something you guys are gonna 100% agree with me with, and so it's kind of pointless telling you about it, but I'm gonna do it anyway. So this tweet, happy to see Twitch has listened to everyone who shared feedback and removed the blind playthrough tag to encourage more inclusive language for our community. You can still use first playthrough or opt to use it in combination with no spoilers for the same sentiment. So blind as a word has like 87,000 meanings. Blind playthrough has nothing to do with visual impairment as do the vast majority of uses of the word blind. This is just such a misunderstanding of language that it's impossible not to look at this and go, the person who made this is impressively stupid, impressively dumb. And people like, why not just use first playthrough, whatever. Blind playthrough is lacking any knowledge of the game. A spoiler free playthrough either means no spoilers will be given or that they're not desired. A first playthrough is the first time you are playing the game. So you can be one of these things all, all free, right? So when I play cyberpunk, it'd be a blind playthrough. I avoided trailers, I avoided commentary on the game. I avoided this, I avoided the spoilers. I know nothing about cyberpunk, but going in, I saw I would know nothing. But other people have watched all the trailers, maybe even have what we looked at the spoilers, have seen a gameplay that's been released. Like we are not the same thing, right? The blind playthrough would apply to me, but not to them. You see? This is so misunderstands language that it's impossible not to get kind of annoyed about it. But, but the real reason to get annoyed is twofold. The first is so many people in reality feel good about themselves for making empty gestures. Where absent these empty gestures, they would actually have to do something that achieves good in the world. So much good in the world is prevented by fucking stupid acts like this. Empty gestures, actual help for those who need it is prevented by people like this, giving these empty gestures to people. Because you can now see people going, oh, I'm a good person, I no longer use blind playthrough as well. They go into bed at night, wrapped in their covers, going, I'm a good person, even though they've done nothing good. Empty gestures don't make the world a good place, but they prevent actual good from occurring. But it's even worse than that, because it doesn't just prevent these individuals from doing good. It also prevents actual good from occurring in like a policy way. You've only got a limited amount of social and political capital to achieve good in this world or to make change in society. What I mean by this is like, let's say, when you bring up, let's say, expanding public healthcare, you have a group of people who go, oh, we can't, we can't do that. We can't let those, those people in who want to do this kind of stuff. You remember that time? They weren't even let's use blind playthrough anymore. They're changing the fucking dictionaries. If we get them in, what else are they gonna do? They're crazy. And you look at them and go, well, yeah, that is crazy. And it is stupid. And yet, I guess people associate me, us lefties did do that. But there's actually important things we want to do. Oh, no, I'm not listening to any more of that. No, no, no. You people are fucking nuts. Can't even use blind playthrough anymore. You've got a limited amount of social and political capital. Every time you do something dumb, every time you make an empty gesture, you push against the grain to shove through something that isn't actually going to do some good. It prevents you from being able to achieve the things that actually matter. I've had people legitimately say they will never vote for lefties because they're changing the fucking dictionary. And these people are preventing positive change in society with their fucking empty gestures. It's extraordinarily frustrating. Why waste your social and political capital on things that don't matter? Why intentionally misunderstand language to achieve something that isn't going to actually make the world a better place? It's just frustrating on levels that you can't imagine for a person who actually wants society to improve in a measurable way to help people who need it, to see these people who should be my allies in this, to actively work against our interests. I know this just looks like a small issue. Why get angry about this? But this, this is the tip of an iceberg of stupidity by people who do not want to put the effort into actually achieve good. Lazy fucks who want to sit on their asses and make stupid tiny changes to language rather than actually making qualitative difference in the world. It sucks. A person like this has no right to feel good about themselves for their shit. It isn't about achieving good. It's about making the person putting forth this change, making them feel good. It isn't about what actual effect will occur. It isn't about making other people feel good. It's about the person making the change feeling good. It is an empty gesture. While in that ramble I focused on people pushing for such changes, it's also important to criticize the company aspect of this as well. These changes on a company level are completely meaningless and that's why they're done. They can say, ah, look how much we care about others. We made this change over here. And so when something substantive comes along that they could actually do to benefit others, they go, ah, well, guess we can't do that. But maybe that last time we changed that blind playthrough thing, clearly we actually care and we just, our hands are tied in this case. At any time where a company can effectively do nothing but make themselves appear good or appeal to a certain demographic, they will, they will do it. They basically want to build credibility. So next time they are asked to do something, they say, look, we can't do it. Or next time they fuck up in some meaningful way, they go, oh, well, you know, we're not that bad. Remember that time we changed blind playthrough? It's about wanting to appear as if you care, but never wanting to hurt your bottom line, never wanting to make any actual substantive changes. It's always meaningless stuff that can get you little brownie points that you can save up to use a later date. |
| 21. July 2020 | Twitch being sued for 25 million | Twitch being sued for 25 million dollars What do you think about the lawsuit against twitch for those who don't know twitch is being sued for 25 million dollars the person suing them is claiming that they're well, they say they're like a name firm they rely on the internet for entertainment and Twitch has forced them to consume You know smuts, you know, he just wants to watch people play video games But at all times when he goes to twitch there's all these scarily clad women You know being being forced the one in by the platform and the platform is taking advantage of people by You know using this these sexually clad women to gain revenue or something like that I only half paid attention and he wants 25 million dollars just be split between him everyone who has What is it? Um? Twitch turbo and some charity organizations or something. This guy has apparently sued blizzard before He sued a bunch of companies like he's one of those people who you know has been through this before and so sues a lot Of people I'm not sure if he's won those other cases or sold or something I'm not sure but my opinion on it It just seems kind of dumb from what I've heard of it And I I'm not sure if the person doing it intends to win or Yeah, who's fitting footing the bill for that kind of a lawsuit? I'm not sure have they won a lawsuit before and they're just trying to get some money I don't know enough about it to really comment other than to say on the very surface level not digging into it seems kind of Dumb oh and of course he wants the smutty women band so you know your Alina sees your amaranth your ST peaches. I think |
| 05. August 2022 | Twitch breaking reverse chat. | There's a feature offered by Better Twitch TV, a third party extension that makes it so new messages come from the top of the chat rather than the bottom. I got some good news and I got some bad news. The good news is, you're looking really great today chat, it's crazy how good you look. The bad news is, my chat's broken and I can't see you. Gotcha! No, why'd you break the first chat, Twitch? You've done this so many times! Just add the feature! Just add the feature, Twitch! Why? Ah! It's like the simplest fucking feature to add! Why do I need reverse chat? Every single streamer on the planet needs reverse chat, they just don't know it. I've been using it for years now, so I'm used to looking at the top for new messages, right? So, this is what it looks like when you're reading chats in reverse chat. Your eyes look somewhere near the camera. Not too much near the camera that it's weird, but it's fairly close. This is what it looks like when you're reading chats with Twitch's native form. Your head's towards the downwards, you're looking at the bottom of your screen. There's no eyeline. Reverse chat, non-reverse chat. Raise money? You can't raise the money because they won't block the camera! It's just such an easy feature for Twitch to add. Being human sucks, I keep looking at the top of my chat and it pisses me off every time I do it. I hate Twitch! I hate them! Their fucking exclusivity contracts and their predatory bullshit with a new ad revenue system is all fucking predatory, they fucking suck. YouTube Streaming Inc. Can YouTube Streaming just fucking implement the features that makes Twitch better already like they could do it in the afternoon? I mean, if even Ludwig telling YouTube that their chat system sucks isn't gonna change it, what chance do I have? If they would just change their chat so it was the same as Twitch chat in terms of its scrolling, half of Twitch would abandon Twitch immediately and go to YouTube. I heard a story where a guy got a job at a company to fix a bug then he quit. Yeah, I remember that story. It's a funny story. I'll learn programming just so I can get a job at Twitch and just implement reverse chat and then I don't have to deal with this ever again. Start some trouble with XQC so you can collab with him and ask him to ask Twitch to fix it. I think if XQC asked for something, Twitch just wouldn't do it out of spite. I don't think he has much sway with Twitch. And besides, what am I gonna do? Have a permanent translator on my stuff? Translating what XQC is saying for the vast majority of people who can't understand what the fuck he's saying? Update on my battles to get good mobile coverage in my area. For those who didn't see the preview of the video, I'm going to be doing a video on Twitch. I'm going to be doing a video on Twitch. I'm going to be doing a video on Twitch. |
| 05. September 2021 | Twitch chat helped me enjoy Dark Souls | Twitch chat helped me enjoy Dark Souls. I get there's things not to like about it But like I've said before perhaps the only reason I really got into the game is because I had I have viewers That's what it's one game. I think really benefits benefits to be played with an audience because there are certainly Situations you can get frustrated and go. I don't know where I'm meant to go right now It's like oh, I just died. I have no idea where I meant to go now I have to kill everyone again this sucks, but with viewers. It's just like Hey chat, you give me a point of where to go like Dark Souls 1 before I did the last boss people like I don't do the last boss because You won't be able to kill all the bosses you missed it will put you directly into new game plus I'm like well fuck that and so people directed me to all the bosses I missed that I'd never find like the one where you need to go all the way back to the beginning to pick up a doll Or something so you can go into a picture. It's like I didn't ever who I would never find that that apparently took eight hours That apparently took ages for people to find like I won't exclusively run Dark Souls obviously I like how difficult Dark Souls is Certainly, it's made Well depending upon your perspective. It's made easier when you know the speedrun struts like as I've said before speed run struts Simultaneously make things easier and harder at the same time but depending upon the strap like some some things are just like you know the the architects Mission for this game right if you're doing it casually you have to run all the way up the hill and such right and and da-da-da And and and follow the architects where we just kill him immediately or like carbine rifles, right? I've seen many people try to avoid the cops and carbine rifles for like 20 minutes or something We just do it in less than two right? |
| 05. September 2021 | Twitch chat helped me enjoy dark souls | Twitch chat helped me enjoy Dark Souls. I get there's things not to like about it But like I've said before perhaps the only reason I really got into the game is because I had I have viewers That's what it's one game. I think really benefits benefits to be played with an audience because there are certainly Situations you can get frustrated and go. I don't know where I'm meant to go right now It's like oh, I just died. I have no idea where I meant to go now I have to kill everyone again this sucks, but with viewers. It's just like Hey chat, you give me a point of where to go like Dark Souls 1 before I did the last boss people like I don't do the last boss because You won't be able to kill all the bosses you missed it will put you directly into new game plus I'm like well fuck that and so people directed me to all the bosses I missed that I'd never find like the one where you need to go all the way back to the beginning to pick up a doll Or something so you can go into a picture. It's like I didn't ever who I would never find that that apparently took eight hours That apparently took ages for people to find like I won't exclusively run Dark Souls obviously I like how difficult Dark Souls is Certainly, it's made Well depending upon your perspective. It's made easier when you know the speedrun struts like as I've said before speed run struts Simultaneously make things easier and harder at the same time but depending upon the strap like some some things are just like you know the the architects Mission for this game right if you're doing it casually you have to run all the way up the hill and such right and and da-da-da And and and follow the architects where we just kill him immediately or like carbine rifles, right? I've seen many people try to avoid the cops and carbine rifles for like 20 minutes or something We just do it in less than two right? |
| 20. December 2021 | Twitch content vs YouTube content | Twitch content versus YouTube content Twitch doesn't appeal to everyone, you know If you've only got 20 minutes or something to watch something Twitch is not the best thing to watch really like even as a Twitch streamer Maybe because I'm a Twitch streamer like I watch a lot of Twitch But I watch far more YouTube because I can flick something on quickly and I know what I'm gonna get is a high quality content I don't have many hours to sit chill relax Engage with the stream like I usually watch Twitch when there's just nothing like I've gone through my YouTube subscriptions And I want some background audio with something that I sort of care about usually like a speedrun of Dark Souls or uh Someone whose voice I like or who's playing some game I've never seen before that I can kind of look over at every once in a while while I'm doing something else like when I used to play wow or Things that like require your attention But not your ears kind of thing I used to watch a lot more Twitch back then before you know I was streaming 10 hours a day myself and editing because when you edit you need your ears So I can't watch Twitch while editing But I can take a break every half an hour or something and watch like a five minute YouTube video because What you say is very true face. It's like when I make because I make highlights of everyone on my streams so a 10 hour stream what usually ends up happening is you go through it once and Uh like to find all the clips that may get into a highlight video Usually end up with like two hours of potential clips like like entire chunks like just whole scenes Which you're gonna cut out middle bits and shorten and blah blah blah and that then gets condensed down to like a 25 minute video so that's basically spot on like five percent, but that doesn't mean everything in the Stream isn't worth watching or listening to or whatever. It's just like some stuff just doesn't play well on YouTube I remember then again, then I also make speedrunning rambles and that usually itself is like 40 minutes so let's say there's like the 20 like a 10 hour stream like an entire run, it's a 20-25 minute video for the GTA and then like half an hour to uh, 40 minutes of our speedrunning rambles Yeah, so like five percent for One thing five percent for now. My problem is um, being a Twitch streamer now I can't get as involved in a stream anymore. Maybe when I'm streaming less or whatever But I remember like watching some at like every day or every second day And so it became like a familiar thing that you did and you get you you kind of understood the ebb and flow of the channel It was like it was a comfy thing to do now when I watch a stream It doesn't have that feeling anymore because i'm not there as often. It's hard to get super involved when you're You know dealing with your own shit |
| 19. October 2022 | Twitch continuing to take L after L | Twitch continuing to take L after L. Twitch is doing a lot of weird stuff lately. Twitch has dropped support for several very common browsers They only support Chrome Firefox and Edge now. What about Safari? Like I know Safari is mainly on Mobile and you've got the app and stuff, but like it just seems weird. Maybe the other Browsers have some better way to get around ads Yeah, I don't know like this guy ends up being kind of pissed because he used brave or something Everyone was also pissed at Twitch because after saying hey yo, we can't afford to pay you guys a lot of money They were like by the way, we're paying millions of dollars to have these high-class musicians Come to the Twitch con party kind of a sus thing to Announce moments after saying we have to cut your pay where tighten our belts man We need to make money here like I know it's not the same thing. Maybe they believe spending this money is advertising for Twitch I'm not sure but it just doesn't look very good. Twitch another L. They're doing this thing called elevated chat Which is just the super chats of YouTube for a limited time in limited number of channels We're testing new ways to support creators and take your messages to the next level Viewers and participating channels may make a one-time payment to elevate their message in chat Viewers can choose from five tiers of monetary support the elevation duration of a viewer's chat message scales with the amount contributed for a hundred USD chat on Twitch you can have your message shown in chat for two and a half minutes and Anytime the owner of the channel can delete it cuz they don't like it's funny because like you've got that like these just sit here This is just super chats, but they also want to keep cheering as well So you've got two separate systems to donate. It's dumb It doesn't make any sense since twitch is removing the host feature Do you think that'll hurt other streamers aiming to help other streamers or is the feature useless since people can raid? I don't think it's gonna have that big of an impact I don't think rating or hosting has done all that much as a percentage of the entire platform But rating was more impactful. Anyway, if it was doing a lot, they wouldn't have removed it It's just it still sucks for those who did like it, you know I'm sure by now all of you have heard the news that at twitchcon There was a foam pit that had just like chunks of foam in it, but it was just on concrete There was no like padding around it. It wasn't like like many meters deep or something like it was just like a this steeper foam a Creator at twitchcon like broke their back like in two places or something I needed to go into surgery and get like a metal rod put in that this wasn't a small creator either I don't think things you may have had an only fans or something. I just see this stuff in passing like it didn't matter who it was right you wouldn't wish that on your worst enemy and From what I heard twitch wasn't the ones who set up this pit It was like Lenovo and Intel or something. Like how does that happen though? Who puts chunks of foam on concrete? Are you going to quit twitch because of what happened to it? No, that's completely unrelated go back in twitch's history They've always done stupid things and they've had various controversies and stuff at the end of the day chat the money talks People will do what is best for them. Obviously there are limits for everyone some people, you know It doesn't matter the implications others up the others It does matter like it matters to me But like obviously if I stream them to it, none of you would be harmed by that if I didn't stream on twitch None of you'd have be harmed by that. It's just a so there just comes a question of what's best for me Yeah, I saw another person what sprained Something in their leg or something Yeah, so I'm surely she's gonna sue right? I saw someone saying that oh, they probably had a sign of waiver and stuff But like waivers are more like scare tactics, right? They're not Entirely legally binding or whatever you just go. Yeah, I'll sign this whatever and it's just like what they can throw you into a meat grinder It doesn't work that way. I guess it probably depends on what's on the waiver how cognizant you were what was on us Where it was held and stuff like surely it can't be all-encompassing that waivers are just scare tactics But this is what I hear frequently twitch did not need this sort of negative PR considering all that has happened with them recently I'm sure twitch was looking for a W and they just didn't get it I heard some other negative things about twitchcon related to like not requiring masks or Vaccine certificates and all that jazz but uh my experience with packs same thing. There was no requirements for masks There was still a hand sanitizer everywhere. There was mass available if you wanted to use them But uh, there were no such requirements I mean maybe like, you know one tenth of the people may have worn them I was not gonna wear one. I got all my vaccines or whatever we've got another one leading up to the event giving it some time to kick in or whatever the couple of weeks it needs and Like I knew obviously people wanted to see my face What if I wanted to be recognized to make people's days and stuff? So it just seemed better not to wear one, you know I'm sorry, but there shouldn't be requirement for mass at this point. Yeah, I agree There was a point where there was the possibility that if everyone got their act together social distance wore masks And all that jazz that's our this could be beaten to a degree and not become where it's just now a part It's like the flu. It's just gonna be a thing that's all around for pretty much forever now We can never get rid of it but that's the time has clearly passed the measures put in place to limit exposure so that we could get our act together in terms of making treatments and Vaccines and stuff that time has passed. We've done it now and it's just gonna be a part of life forever really. COVID is over isn't? No, no, it's still here. It's just uh, there's more treatments now vaccines and all that jazz um Blunt its impacts and there's just so many variants of it now that we just have to hope that one doesn't go out of control It's overhyped. It's always funny when like the entire world mobilizes to Throw effectively trillions of dollars at a problem And then it doesn't destroy the world and people like huh You guys said it would destroy the world and after you know dedicating the entire world to preventing that from happen It didn't happen. So clearly it was overhyped. It's like morons dumbest fucking people alive These are the same people who never took it seriously from day one And are the reason why it's now a part of society and will be forever and they're like mid See I was right just to make things worse for everyone the entire time. Ha ha ha So Twitch has continued to become More and more desperate to get people to run ads. Baru tweeted this out I can't imagine running this many unskippable ads on Twitch. Bang is big, but what about the viewer experience? It is $44,000 a month for running six minutes of ads per hour and streaming 155 hours That's a lot of ads a lot of money. Yeah, he's averaging Seven 9k viewers whatever he's ranked 219th or whatever huge streamer, but this compares to like Sweden Eater here run four minutes of ads for 69 hours And you get thousand dollars like these things are calculated using like algorithms and stuff So like what you're one third the audience Streaming for one third the time with a little bit ads less, but uh It's a huge difference right and what about me? one minute of ads per hour One minute of ads per hour is $1,200 three minutes of ads per hour is $1,300 and four minutes of ads per hour is $1,400 now So this is a difference So this is 60 minutes of ads. This is 180 minutes of ads This is 240 minutes of ads and so the difference between 60 and 240 is like 250 bucks I see the math there doesn't make sense. It's not it's clearly isn't worth it. It's definitely not worth it Whatever the algorithm is doing here Doesn't make sense. Yeah, I don't run any ads at every hour. I like I don't stream enough on Twitch now for them to give me Good ad incentives, but I mean you'd think that they'd Try incentivize me to stream more on Twitch. This is just weirdly insulting You know the first streamer i've seen be annoyed at this twitch is crazy. It's just a weird system I just like looking at it sometimes because just weird Be sure to like and subscribe also leave a comment if you have something on your mind My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best |
| 27. September 2022 | Twitch cuts streamer pay, tells them to run more ads | that email so. Twitch cuts streamer pay, tells them to run more ads. Twitch put out this blog post that is the most rambling thing I've ever seen. Look how long this is. And it just goes on and on and on and on. Twitch is basically like, look, I know we're owned by like one of the biggest companies in the world, but like, you gotta understand, running a live streaming business is expensive. It's super expensive. So what we're doing, we're gonna be paying you less in the most convoluted way possible. So some creators have a 70-30 split for their sub revenue. It's really only, you know, let's say 5,000 partners or something. They're upper echelon people. I have a 70-30 split. As of a year ago, they stopped giving out these 70-30 splits. For the vast majority of people, they're on the 50-50 split for sub revenue, and they won't be impacted by this at all. And so they're saying, you only now get this 70-30 split for your first 100K that you earn. Revenue above 100K will be split at the 50-50 share rate, which is the rate that the vast majority of streamers are on. And this is starting in June, 2023. That's like a year away. This announcement is just, Twitch wants more money. And they said, but guys, don't panic. Don't worry about it. What you can do is run more ads on your stream to make up for the money that you're not being paid. And this announcement is done with the pages and pages of this flowery bullshit language. Where at the end of the day, it's just, hey, you're getting a pay cut, run more ads, because we want you to run more ads. If you are making 100K on Twitch, you're doing well. A pay cut after that point isn't gonna negatively impact you. This isn't a, oh no, the big streamers are gonna be destitute without their additional 20% sub revenue above 100K. Oh, woe is me. This is coming at a time when YouTube has a 70-30 split for everyone. Like the expectation was that Twitch would roll out a 70-30 split to all creators. When I heard that they weren't giving a 70-30 split anymore to anyone, I was like, what? And now hearing that they even wanna take away the 70-30 split they've given already to creators, that's even worse. Because on one hand, this change only impacts the biggest already rich and successful streamers. But on the other hand, this change means that there isn't going to be better circumstances put forth to everyone else to reach parity with what's offered on YouTube. There was a possibility of that before, or at least some expectation, and that's now not gonna happen, and that fucking sucks. So this is a huge L for literally everyone. I wonder if people are now gonna move to YouTube more. I don't know. |
| 20. July 2021 | Twitch endorses YouTube | Twitch officially endorses YouTube. I am from YouTube, love you, Meadow. It's good to know the people at YouTube love me. Welcome to Twitch. Did you guys see that thing that I tweeted out a couple of days ago? So, Easy Speezy, I think he's a nice dude, that like a lot of the stuff he does doesn't particularly interest me. So I probably pop into his stream like every once in a while, just to see like what he's doing or whatever. Because he seems like a nice dude. So like I'm saying, I'm not like actively watching his content for hours. It's like I stop in every once in a while when I see him online. But I happen to stop in, and he commented like, I don't know the context, where he was just like, I don't think Twitch would allow a person to have YouTube as their username, right? And I'm like, I wonder if there is a person on Twitch with the name YouTube. I wonder if that's a thing. I remember a long time ago, for whatever reason, we looked up Hitler, and Hitler had been banned. So that was clearly a name at one point, and it was banned. Well, it wouldn't surprise me if Twitch does ban or prevent certain names. I gotta look this stuff up. And so I looked it up, and there is an account, twitch.tv slash YouTube. And what was funny to me is that the default profile is underneath it. And it says, from Twitch, it says, we don't know much about YouTube, but they're probably pretty great. Or something like that. Because that's the default of what it says for every channel. If you have no description. And so I tweeted out, Twitch's endorsement of YouTube. Ha ha ha ha. Yeah, so if you ever see YouTube hanging around Twitch, guys, there is apparently someone there. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 25. July 2022 | Twitch introducing pinned chat messages | Introducing Pinned Chat Messages. I guess this is just, there's a chat message and you're like, that's cool, and you pin it so it stays there and people can check it out whenever they want to. I think we'll make this a channel points reward thing where you can spend a certain amount of points and then it will, you know, you can pay to have your message. It's not actual money, of course, it's just, you know, fake currency to have your message at the top. So maybe I'll save one for myself each stream to be like, hey, I've released a new video. You know, the others for people in chat. |
| 16. November 2022 | Twitch is going to stop partnering reactors? | Twitch is going to stop partnering reactors? So I've often criticized that Twitch is basically just a website where people watch YouTube videos It doesn't really have its own identity anymore All the top Twitch streamers are just people who sit for hours on end Watching YouTube videos so they can upload them to YouTube take impressions away from YouTubers to grow themselves and then to bring that audience to Twitch and no one Can compete with that because if in 20 minutes you can get a video that would normally take a month to make Obviously you're gonna beat everyone else in the market. But interestingly this happened someone requested partnership on Twitch and They were denied evaluating your channel It seems that a great portion of your content is reactionary content at this time We don't believe that type of content is appropriate for the partner program The problem with this is the word reactionary can mean two different things one It can refer to a person who does a lot of reaction content Which clearly this guy does like he would just sit there for you know, how many hours four hours just watching YouTube videos, right? But it's also a reference to a type of politics So whether this is referring to something he's done politically or something he's doing with in terms of his reaction content It's hard to say because apparently he's both he could have been rejected on the basis of politics or he could have been rejected on the basis of the reaction content that he does where pretty much everything he does is just watching YouTube videos like obviously Twitch is never going to like start enforcing copyright because Endless different reasons legal reasons and it's not in their best interest But this would be interesting if they're gonna stop partnering people who just sit and watch YouTube videos all day because it's hard to imagine They're gonna like unpartner their biggest creators or something But like this is just weird to me. I've never heard of a person getting rejected because of that their political leanings I haven't heard of a person getting rejected because of reaction content and for that reason this is an interesting development It'll be interesting to see if anything |
| 01. September 2020 | Twitch is small and not profitable | Twitch is small and not profitable. I'm new to Twitch, but really enjoying the stream. Good luck on PB. Thanks, man. Given how big Twitch is these days, you don't meet people who are truly new to Twitch very often. At least it feels that way. But of course, there are new people to Twitch every day. Let me rephrase. Twitch is clearly still a niche community as far as social media is concerned. It doesn't feel that way to a person who's been mired in the culture for, you know, half a decade. Look, I say Twitch, YouTube, Facebook in the same breath as if they are on the same level when clearly they're not. Like I had a discussion with a person recently on Twitter. I talked about how Twitch isn't a profitable entity. And some people just found that surprising because it's not. People look up their revenue numbers and they're like, oh, they're making over a billion dollars in revenue. And I'm like, yeah, but remember when you pay a dollar to me, you don't actually pay a dollar to me when you use bits. You give a dollar to Twitch and then Twitch gives me a dollar. The vast majority of their revenue that they show at the end of the year is revenue that goes straight to creators. And like back of the envelope kind of calculations, I'm fairly confident that Twitch isn't making money. But when industry inside kind of people like Devin Nash also say it, it makes me even more confident that assessment. Why would they make a business that doesn't make money? What are you talking about? Most businesses start out not making money. You make a business that doesn't make money in the hopes that eventually does make money. Either that or the asset is somehow indirectly valuable to maintain. Like Google, the vast majority of its projects don't make money. There's a word for this, wait, Google will start like 20 projects. 19 of them won't make money, but the one that- Merry way to fleets here, bro. The one that does make them money is so successful that it pays for the other 19 failed projects and then some, you know? I mean, there's websites dedicated to the Google graveyard. Hell triangle. |
| 27. September 2022 | Twitch kinda bans gambling | Twitch kinda bans gambling. As of October 18th, Twitch is going to be banning gambling on the website. Now there are so many caveats to that. What they're ultimately saying is that they're prohibiting certain gambling sites that include slots, roulette or dice games that aren't licensed in the US or other jurisdictions that they think provide consumer protections. Like they're still allowing sports betting, fantasy sports and poker. This doesn't ban slots, roulette and dice games outright. Except that it may do that impractically. In that the companies that were giving these ridiculous gambling sponsorships were only really able to do that because they were circumventing a lot of different regulations and were based out of some shed in the middle of random countries that don't have any regulations and consumer protections. There are laws in regards to like online gambling and whatnot in the US that prevents a lot of what many of the Twitch streamers were doing. It's why a lot of them had to move to Canada. But whatever the case may be, this will greatly impact the degree to which people are able to take those ridiculous sponsorships on Twitch and how easily they can do crypto gambling or gambling in general. So in other words, this isn't an outright ban, but it's like if I said I'm not banning you from taking something from my fridge. But if you want to take something from my fridge, you've got to put your balls in shattered glass and shove a cobra up your ass. Technically you're not banned, but the odds of you going to do that so you can have something from my fridge is not very high, you know? So this is going to have an impact. This is going to cause change and it's just a matter of moving forward and seeing what kind of impact this has. One thing that's suggestive that this is going to have an impact or a complete coincidence is that I received an email from Stake after this was announced being like, hey, yo, bro, want to do some advertising for us on that day YouTube? Big money, I think was their words, four to $9,000, I think. It was the most shitly written email. Like someone was drunk, as it could be coincidence, but I've never received an email from Stake before and after this announcement came, I got the... |
| 16. May 2021 | Twitch now banning people for off-platform content | Twitch now banning people for conduct off platform. Did you guys hear about this um, Twitch is now going to be punishing people on platform for stuff that they did off platform? I think, wasn't this already something that they kind of did? Oh maybe not. I just have vague recollection of like a... No maybe I shouldn't make that statement. Regardless, that's what they say they're doing explicitly now. And they're hiring themselves like a group specifically designed to like investigate if there's some rumblings or something about a content creator doing shady shit off platform. And they will ban them for stuff that they did. Even if it's not related to Twitch. Ryan Haywood being banned for being a sex offender, was he banned on Twitch for that? I swear, over the years, I've heard rumblings of Twitch doing that. Where some person has you know, gotten caught up with the law or something or been accused of something very strongly and they got banned. Yeah he was after Public Alchemy, yeah yeah yeah. Twitch with the cancel culture. A private company wanting to protect it's image for profit is probably not what cancel culture should be about. Like if we're now extending, okay the idea of cancel culture has already extended really fucking far. Beyond anything that makes sense, but if we're including like TOS violations as forms of cancel culture. Let's just face the fact that that concept no longer has any meaning. Reflect on this, I don't know how I feel about it. Like, from a business standpoint, you can understand why Twitch would do it. I mean Twitch in their contracts basically give themselves free reign to remove a person's partnership for fucking anything. Like if they sneeze and they feel as though they can blame a content creator for that sneeze. They can legally just go fuck you, you're not in our partnership program anymore. Right? And you can see why a business would want just any ability to remove a person from the platform. Because like multiple times, what was the most recent case? What was that story guys? There was a content creator recently who was convicted of like having sex with minors or something. Like kids basically. And all the news reports were, this person is a Twitch streamer. Blah blah blah. And they had like 23 views or something. It was the streamer known as PrologyX to read an article headline. A Twitch streamer with a Guinness World Record in Rock Band 2 was arrested on charges of child rape. You can see why when a story like this comes out, that Twitch is going to be like, our brand is being put through the mud because of something that this guy did. Actually I suppose that's still on platform. No, that is off platform stuff. But you can see why Twitch would be like, look we need to get rid of this person on the platform. So they've technically done nothing wrong on our platform, but they're making us look terrible in the public eye. We don't want this negative press. I suppose to what degree I agree with it just depends on how liberally they're going to do this. Like you know if someone gets into a Twitter fight and calls another person an asshole, and Twitch is like, ah that's very rude my dude. Do not like your conduct there on Twitter. We're going to ban you from the platform. That'd be absurd. But like a person doing some really severe shit off platform, potentially that impacts Twitch as a platform. Because of their conduct on platform, because of their conduct off platform, I think they'd be perfectly justified in banning that person. But who exactly decides what's severe? What a dumb question. Twitch does. The people who have the ability to make the rules are those who judge who violates the rules. That should not be a surprise. I'm sorry. It's just whenever any system of rules is put in place, that question always comes up as a way to dismiss the idea of having rules at all. But how can we trust anyone to make any such rulings on such matters? People are fallible. Blah blah blah. Why does this year so many content creators get accused? You mean like surrounding like all those sexual assault allegations like with the Smash community and stuff and all that jazz? No, that wasn't this year. It was last year. 2020 had the most. It's one of those things where when one person does something, other people say, well, and they look at that response. If it goes well, then they go, well, that response went well. And so I can be clean, come clean about what I've experienced or whatever. And then more people see that. And so they continue both because they now see the environment as supportive of coming out with that information. But also they want to be supportive of those who have already come out with information. You know, and say it's a ripple effect, you know. |
| 11. December 2019 | Twitch partner contracts | the Twitch partner contracts certainly different countries have workers protection laws that make it so you can't ask certain things of your workforce. It's why for example the exclusivity of people to Twitch is not necessarily legal in every country. In some countries, I'm pretty sure it would be against workers protection laws. That's why people don't talk about it much, but I'm pretty sure in my contract it doesn't specifically say that I can't stream elsewhere. Everyone is not on the same contract. The contracts differ from country to country. And what generation you got your contract in? When I was partnered on Twitch? End of 2017? No, no, it must be no 2016 now. Geez, I've been around for a while haven't I? |
| 10. September 2022 | Twitch paying a radicicolous amount of money to play ads | paying streamers a ridiculous amount of money to play ads. So Twitch has recently updated the amount of money that they give for ads. The ad revenue split on Twitch is now more similar to YouTube where rather than getting a fixed rate, you get a percentage, which is far better. This is actually something I complained about for a very, very long time on Twitch. So previously you might've gotten $2.50 for every thousand ads that were played, even if Twitch was selling those ads for $10 per thousand plays. Now it's just a 55% split, meaning that people on average get far more for the ads played. I don't think it's ever made it into rambles, but Twitch offers like ad incentives now, where if you stream a certain amount and play a certain amount of ads, they give you like additional bonus of ad revenue. However, previously when I tried to get one of these ad incentives, the amount that was given was far too low. Like they were asking me to stream like seven hours a day playing a minute of ads every hour for $600 a month. As like the amount of viewers that I'd ward away or piss off over the course of that month for $600, not worth it. But I guess the amount of money that they offered made it so so few people took advantage of these deals that they've now changed the deals and they're offering more money. Gothaleon, I think I've heard that name somewhere, tweeted this out. I'm not a fan of automatic ads, but so they're offering him $21,383 for running three minutes of ads per hour, but you have to stream 133 hours this month. So he gets like what, twice my viewership on average or something. And he's getting offered $21,000? So like this compares to me, I'm getting offered $1,700 for half a stream amount of time. Why would it be that much lower? My average views is half, half of his, right? So you would expect me to be getting offered half as much, so $10,000. And it's only required me to stream half as much time. So you expect it to half again. Based off this, you would expect me to be getting offered $5,000 here. And so I'm confused like how they're calculating this. Certainly this is double what I was previously getting offered, but this is still not enough money for me to even consider doing it. Someone in chat asked, would I take this deal? No, I just can't stream that amount. And three minutes of ads per hour is really oppressive. But I mean, would I do like a minute of ads for say $7,000? Maybe, I don't know. Like, I don't like playing ads on Twitch. |
| 10. September 2022 | Twitch paying a redicioulous amount of money to play ads | paying streamers a ridiculous amount of money to play ads. So Twitch has recently updated the amount of money that they give for ads. The ad revenue split on Twitch is now more similar to YouTube where rather than getting a fixed rate, you get a percentage, which is far better. This is actually something I complained about for a very, very long time on Twitch. So previously you might've gotten $2.50 for every thousand ads that were played, even if Twitch was selling those ads for $10 per thousand plays. Now it's just a 55% split, meaning that people on average get far more for the ads played. I don't think it's ever made it into rambles, but Twitch offers like ad incentives now, where if you stream a certain amount and play a certain amount of ads, they give you like additional bonus of ad revenue. However, previously when I tried to get one of these ad incentives, the amount that was given was far too low. Like they were asking me to stream like seven hours a day playing a minute of ads every hour for $600 a month. As like the amount of viewers that I'd ward away or piss off over the course of that month for $600, not worth it. But I guess the amount of money that they offered made it so so few people took advantage of these deals that they've now changed the deals and they're offering more money. Gothaleon, I think I've heard that name somewhere, tweeted this out. I'm not a fan of automatic ads, but so they're offering him $21,383 for running three minutes of ads per hour, but you have to stream 133 hours this month. So he gets like what, twice my viewership on average or something. And he's getting offered $21,000? So like this compares to me, I'm getting offered $1,700 for half a stream amount of time. Why would it be that much lower? My average views is half, half of his, right? So you would expect me to be getting offered half as much, so $10,000. And it's only required me to stream half as much time. So you expect it to half again. Based off this, you would expect me to be getting offered $5,000 here. And so I'm confused like how they're calculating this. Certainly this is double what I was previously getting offered, but this is still not enough money for me to even consider doing it. Someone in chat asked, would I take this deal? No, I just can't stream that amount. And three minutes of ads per hour is really oppressive. But I mean, would I do like a minute of ads for say $7,000? Maybe, I don't know. Like, I don't like playing ads on Twitch. |
| 08. May 2021 | Twitch removed a lot of follow bot recently | Twitch removed a lot of follow bots recently. For those unaware, Twitch removed a bunch of bots recently. This is um, Soda Poppin, very old content creator. He currently has 3.4 million followers, but I guess he had a lot more than that. I guess he must have looked like he had 5 million or something. It's weird because if you look at me, I lost basically none. Ain't that weird. Let me look at the top list here. Top 100. Let's check out Ninja. Did he lose a bunch? Yeah, but he didn't lose that many. Why don't I Soda Poppin lost millions? Weird. A Shroud. He didn't lose a million. That's still a lot, but... So, you need 1.8 to be in the top 100 for the most followed. I'm at like 600, I think. I wonder if I've gone up any ranks. I'm 650 second in terms of followers. Look at my follower gain rank just... tanks. Oh, they did it again. They removed followers again. Stop it. No. Oh! Those bots were my friends! |
| 06. June 2022 | Twitch removing it's friends feature | Twitch removing its friends feature. Did anyone really use the friends feature on Twitch? Some of you are actually saying yes, that surprises me. I'm sure they have analytics on the backend that suggest that... God dammit. That suggests no one uses it. It's a less used feature but I like knowing when my friends are chilling. I've done that a handful of rare times when I used to have friends on the friends list. |
| 11. September 2022 | Twitch removing the ability to host other channels | Twitch removing the ability to host other channels. Host mode on Twitch is going away on October 3rd 2022 and Twitch gives some bullshit reasons why but ultimately I never liked host mode so for those who don't know on Twitch there are two different things you can do when you go offline if you want to give other people viewers. One is host where another person's stream appears on your window and so your viewers can stay in your chat and watch someone else if they want to and so you can have conversations with your chat while watching someone else or you can raid people which sends all the viewers to the other person's chat. I have never found host mode to really do anything in terms of driving a greater audience for the other person and I've never been one to sit in my own chat and watch another content creator so it's never had any value to me so I've only ever used raid so this changes nothing for me but I saw people on Twitter being quite angry at this because some apparently some people did use host that way. Like raid clearly has more value for other people but I guess there are some niche cases where particular creators like to using host and so they're unhappy that it's being removed because at the end of the day it is just removing an option that people had. All the justification Twitch gives where they're saying oh you know this isn't what most viewers want to do and da da da like at the end of the day it was just an option that the creator themselves could use if they wanted to and removing that is kind of dumb. They even if raid is better some people liked host so why not leave it |
| 02. August 2021 | Twitch streamer banned for watching YouTube on stream | Twitch streamer banned for watching YouTube. I just got banned for watching a clip of Samurai Jack that's on YouTube on my stream. Jim Lee a clip of their official YouTube, what the fuck is this? Huh. Just because something is publicly available somewhere doesn't mean you can legally rebroadcast it. Obviously I get his point, like it's uh, it's publicly available, it's not like they're being harmed or whatever, but it's uh, technically- technically still against the rules. And then he- |
| 07. February 2023 | Twitch streamer caught watching deepfake p*rn of streamer friends. | Twitch streamer caught paying for deep fake porn of female streamers. For those who don't know, Aatrox while streaming alt tabbed and it showed a preview of all the tabs that are on his PC. And it showed that he'd been looking at pornography of prominent female live streamers. But not even pornography they themselves released, it was deep faked pornography. Stuff that you have to like pay for. He clicked one of those deep fake pornography ads, clicked and it's like hey, you know those prominent female streamers, I'm gonna go watch that shit. Not only did none of these streamers consent to be on this site, but the site hosted images from people Aatrox had met personally, including some of his friends. It is unknown the extent of whose images he looked at on this site, but his best friend's girlfriend who also featured on the site has long combated this abusive content. Who herself has like broken down and been very distressed of the existence of this stuff. And who has personally spent money trying to remove this stuff from the internet. These efforts that both Aatrox knew of and he still did it anyway. Initially it sounded bad, more context I was like oh, that's really fucked up. There's been a lot of memeing of his apology as well. In part because like he's got his wife in the background. He's getting a lot of support from his viewers and stuff, but his wife being there and kind of wish I had stayed away from it because it's just really awkward. Like it's just some really awkward messed up shit, but I couldn't help myself. I sat on Twitter, I typed out a tweet and looked at him like, just don't tweet it man. It's bringing negativity upon yourself, it's not gonna change anything man. Just don't tweet this. I'm like no. I hate living my life walking on eggshells. I want to tweet this. Fuck the universe, okay? What? You mean someone who sits on stream watching other people's YouTube videos so they can reupload them to YouTube has no respect for other creators or consent? No! Impossible! I just can't fathom it. Certainly a shock, Aatrox bucking the trend of reactors being good people. Just so we're clear, when Aatrox left his job at Nvidia, he of course didn't have more content to put on YouTube. So he now uses a website so other people can post videos that he has not seen and knows nothing about. So that he can watch them for hours on end on Twitch and then he can find the ones that he thinks are the best to reupload them to YouTube. To fill in that content gap because he's got more free time now to steal people's YouTube videos. I recognize, little bit insensitive, some of us are like, I'm not a strong enough person not to tweet this, it is too good, sorry. I am sick and going to bed now. Because like, probably not the time and place, little bit insensitive, but at the same time there is like 15,000 tweets clowning on Aatrox. So I didn't really feel like I was putting undue burden on the situation or anyone. You like Aatrox stuff, I don't like his React stuff, his Hitman stuff is amazing and is a must watch. I used to watch Aatrox back in the day before he became a reactor and that was super disappointing. To be clear, when he just did his like, best advertisements of X year or whatever, I'd be like yeah, that's fine because they're advertisements. They're meant to be widely distributed, they're not creative content that way. Or when he just does like the best of tweets, like that's just public stuff, it's not creative works. You're providing commentary for like what people have said in the world and that's just the written recording of it. His literally having a website built to as efficiently as possible steal YouTube videos to reupload them, that is fucking nuts. How does a person like that sleep at night? You're just making millions upon millions of dollars and you look at the people whose videos he's stealing and they're making nothing. Of course, because of course not. Because there's just thousands of Aatrox out there doing exactly what he's doing, crushing him out of the market. It's gross. It's gross. Aatrox is gross. Unfortunately. Because otherwise, he seems like a nice guy. That's generally what people are like, right? Whenever someone is found to have done something wrong, the next words out of someone's mouth is, Oh, but think of all these other things that they do. I say, yeah, because no person who has ever done wrong exclusively does bad things. The expression is, even Hitler did some painting sometimes. Who cares? Doesn't matter. I love that expression. I may have invented it. I don't know, but I love that to explain that principle. Like I have seen these advertisements where it's like, it's suggesting that, you know, they put different people's faces on other people's bodies who are doing porn and stuff. I always thought these were just like fake ads, like all ads on porn sites. I assume are just fake stuff and scams and whatnot. It surprises me to find that someone clicked one of the ads in the first place. I'll be completely honest with you, chat. I never look at porn on my PC ever. I've got an iPad for that. I have nothing on my PC. Like you guys could hack into my PC. There is nothing sus at all on here. Do you know what says nothing sus on my iPad either? But just in case, I don't want to click one wrong link at some point and end up having some weird shit in my search history and ending up on someone's fail compilation. |
| 09. April 2021 | Twitch vs YouTube livestream culture | Twitch versus YouTube live streaming culture. I was, uh, I saw a clip yesterday. Like I don't speak to a lot of YouTube streamers, so I don't know what it's like being one. But I saw a clip of Valkyrie, she's a very big streamer on YouTube. Did she get agreements to move from Twitch to YouTube? Yeah, I believe so. And she was saying that she doesn't talk to any other YouTube streamers. There's no like, emote game, there's no better Twitch TV, there's no emote culture. Like she doesn't even know, I believe she doesn't even know if there is a directory for live streamers. Showcasing, as I said, that YouTube is still behind, but they are definitely making moves to bridge the gap. I mean Valkyrie said as much herself, that they're working on this stuff all the time. But certainly changing culture is going to be very hard for them. Getting viewers into a mindset where they're okay with, um, 5,000 monthly subscriptions and all that, you know. |
| 02. March 2022 | Twitch vs youtube livestream viewers. | versus YouTube live stream viewers. How many viewers do you think you'd get streaming on YouTube? Potentially more, but that's kinda not the point. In reality, the amount of money that you'll make is less, largely because you don't have Twitch Prime, but also because the YouTube audience skews younger, and they don't really have a culture of donating, or doing YouTube memberships, whatever. It's on Twitch, having a higher viewership relates to some level of discoverability. Like if you're in the top six, you'll get people looking at different game directories and whatnot. On YouTube, it doesn't really matter how many viewers you have, you aren't really gonna reach a new audience. The only people who are gonna watch you are the people who already subscribed to you, because YouTube doesn't really do a good job recommending live streams. That might change, but the way that you advertise your YouTube live stream is to make good YouTube content that leads people to go, oh, that YouTuber that I watch is live, I'm gonna check them out. I would also argue, it's probably true, that the average YouTube user isn't gonna sit in a live stream as long as a Twitch viewer is. Because a person coming to Twitch is interested in live streaming, where a person on YouTube isn't necessarily, they just click in and go, oh, this is interesting, and then they leave five minutes later. So your viewership may look higher, but in reality, it's just more people going in for five minutes out and then leaving. But you've got a continuous amount of people going in for five minutes that your viewership naturally looks a little bit higher. But it is true that YouTube is astronomically larger than Twitch, and given the amount of people who subscribe to me on YouTube, it's not inconceivable I would have more viewers, but I wouldn't end up getting increased discoverability, I wouldn't have more people learning about my existence, and I certainly wouldn't be making more money. Changing my. |
| 24. December 2019 | Twitch's Afk/Lurker Viewership | The AFK or lurking viewership on Twitch. Wonder how many people are lurking? At least 700 people. It is usually a considerable amount of people who are lurking in any particular stream. Can you type one in chat if you're here please? I'm sure there are many people who can hear my voice who are playing other video games and shit. But there's enough people that if we were to try to do something, you know, we'd get a couple hundred people. It's wild like when the run dies, for the next half an hour at least. Like every four seconds someone's like, what how'd the run die? I don't blame people for that. I do that shit too. There's a reason why that clip of Tyler1 going, am I viewbotting? Am I fucking viewbotting? What is it? What are these votes? If you're not gonna participate in the group activity, then leave! I'll link it one more time! Click the link! Like even with 10,000 viewers, you had a hard time getting a thousand people to go in a shrub bowl. Because the amount of people who chat is significantly lower than the amount of people who watch the stream. There's always people who are playing games or in a match of CS or something and they couldn't even type in chat if they wanted to. I generally just lurk in streams. I don't watch that many streams these days. I probably watch, I mean probably a day doesn't go by when I don't click into a stream at some point. It's just having a stream actively on for many hours doesn't occur as much for me anymore because streams are less convenient to watch while I'm editing. A YouTube video I can pause and jump in and out of, you know, that prior to editing as much as I do, I used to watch a lot of videos. |
| 01. September 2021 | Twitch's bad notification system | Twitch's stupid notification system. So there's this stupid thing where Twitch doesn't allow you to have multiple notifications in one day, or at least like there's like a 12 hour cooldown, it's like I'm not really sure. But it's not 12 hours, it's just you can't have like a notification then another notification. This prevents me from doing things like playing Slay the Spire, sending out a notification, and then sending out another notification when I want to change to GTA V. So I want to try and wake myself up a bit, because I feel like shit, because I can't just you know, play Slay the Spire a bit on stream before doing something important. So I'm going to try doing it off stream. Did I explain that well? The reason I can't just play Slay the Spire first because there won't be a notification for the GTA stuff and so people won't come to the GTA stuff, which is the stuff they want to see. I don't know. We're playing GTA soon? Nope. So even if I wanted to change to GTA, which I sometimes do, because Twitch doesn't allow second notifications, there's no point doing it. I'll be real with you. The way that Twitch does notifications legitimately costs them money in regards to you know, bits and subs, because there's no point doing anything important, because the overwhelming vast majority people won't come for it. Like if I wanted to do Chaos right now, no notification will go out and you know, I'll have one call to the viewers that I would have gotten had a notification going out. And so for that reason I won't do it, even if I had the energy. It's just, I'm not going to deny people, that many people the content they actually want to see, you know. |
| 13. January 2020 | Twitch's limited features and analytics | features and analytics. Matt, can you see how many hours certain viewers have watched your channel for? I cannot. One more thing that analytics that Twitch does not give me that would be useful. Twitch does not provide its streamers a lot of analytics on its viewers. Like on YouTube, I can tell what you guys ate for breakfast this morning. On Twitch, I can't even see, you know, your names. There's not even a list of everyone who's been timed out. As in, there's no list I can go to. And because I timed out a few people, I said, Twitch, like, oh, I would like to know who I timed out recently. And they're like, we don't have that information. I'm like, what do you mean you don't have that information? They're like, you can suggest it on the suggestion forums. And I say to them, like, if after what, 10 years now, you haven't added a function to see who's timed out, I doubt you're going to add one at this point. Thankfully, you can see who's been banned. But even that, you need like extra features or whatever, third party stuff to mass unban people and whatnot. Like, there's just so many things that Twitch does not allow its streamers to do. And to know, it's very confusing. |
| 05. January 2022 | Twitch's new ban evasion detection methods | Twitch's new ban evasion detection methods Twitch has a thing now Where it tells you if a person is a possible ban evader I guess it's when people put like a their account is like let's say a minute old and they've been following for a minute or whatever or a Person subs immediately after coming to a channel or something. I suppose for me because a lot of people come from YouTube There will be people who? actual accounts that have just subbed after a minute |
| 30. July 2022 | Twitch's new banlist sharing feature. | Twitch's new ban list sharing feature. Our new shared ban info feature rolling out today helps you easily share banned user information with trusted channels to keep your community safe. You're asking another person to mutually share ban information. So I sent a message to Modest Pelican and say hey can you share with me everyone you've banned and I will share everyone with you who I've banned and you can do 30 of these sharing relationships. While you're streaming it would just come up and say you know this person was banned in that other person's chat watch yourself. Which is actually interesting as well because it doesn't auto ban them I suppose. Maybe there's a setting so you can auto ban them I'm not sure. This just seems like a good feature. This kind of stuff has existed for a long time but usually within particular communities so like people would make scripts or whatever that would auto ban people in a bunch of large streamers chats. This just seems to be Twitch implementing a feature that other people had already built for themselves and just making it of course therefore more accessible to more people. Is it like a one-time request though or does the list of banned users in someone else's channel continuously get updated? Seems to be continuously updated. You start a relationship and then you can end it. |
| 17. January 2020 | Twitch's partner streaming exclusivity | Twitch's partners streaming exclusivity Why am I only streaming on Twitch and not YouTube and Twitch at the same time? So Twitch has rules related to exclusivity with our partners on Twitch More than likely these are illegal They haven't been challenged in court and likely would never be challenged in court Because no one wants to battle Amazon on something like that To gain something that doesn't have a significant amount of value I mean it has some value but no one wants to be the one to fight that battle Reading my contract I'm not even convinced there is a clause in it that requires me to only stream on Twitch You know I might be wrong about that so I definitely don't want to... and you don't want to rock the boat You know there is no way universally in every country in the world that workers protection laws would allow for Twitch to enforce exclusivity of people on their platform There's no way We aren't even officially employees we're contractors And YouTube is a much worse platform for live streaming and they have a much smaller audience of people watching live streams It's not worth that battle right now All the other streaming platforms either explicitly allow you to dual stream on other platforms Or don't have any explicit rule against it But of course Twitch doesn't want to lose the exclusivity so why would they go oh yeah you can stream wherever you want to I believe they do say that you can stream on other places if you're an affiliate but you can't dual stream The audience for live streams on YouTube is more for already well established YouTube channels That are live streaming to the audience that they already have And you can see people who have millions of subscribers who when they live stream have like 100 views YouTube may have more people but it doesn't necessarily have more people interested in live streaming content |
| 14. August 2022 | Twitch: The Online Casino | Twitch the online casino. So Bloomberg released an article Twitch's gambling boom is luring gamers into crypto casinos. It's a very interesting article a good read. Main takeaways Twitch crypto gambling is now the seventh most watched Twitch category. XQC states that the promo code he shared on his Twitch for steak which is a gambling company reportedly brought in a hundred and nineteen million dollars for the company. There's not profits or money deposited but in the amount that people gambled. So you can gamble with the same hundred dollars a bunch of times and it racks that up but it's still a huge amount of money and that was just back in May and it's one person. During one recent stream XQC lost a hundred and sixteen thousand dollars in crypto within just two minutes. That's nuts. Mizkif stated that he'd been offered 19 million dollars a year to gamble live on Twitch but stopped when he saw one of his 14 year old friends gambling on the site he promoted. It's funny how people work where you can cause harm to other people like in the way that Mizkif does with his reaction content but as long as you don't see it it's not really real and that isn't just a Mizkif thing I think that's like an everyone thing. When you see the consequences of your misdeeds in how it impacts other people then it becomes more real and you feel worse about it and so you have a higher chance of stopping. It's why while a lot of people won't become reactors because they understand how the market works and how that's just a scummy thing to do to rip off people's stuff some of you can't see what they're doing in terms of its impact on others so it isn't really real so they don't feel guilt about it. A Twitch spokesperson says the company is currently in the midst of a deep dive look into gambling behavior on Twitch. Twitch apparently has decided not to allow sharing links or referral codes for gambling companies but there's still clearly a conversion from the streams to the website so and Trainwrecks who I talked about previously in another ramble says he was getting much more than a million dollars a month to do his gambling streams. A Twitch spokesperson says the company is currently in the midst of a deep dive look into gambling behavior on Twitch. Would Twitch ever really get rid of it though? I'm not sure I would really want to see gambling bands on Twitch. Skill-based poker streams or poker tournaments and stuff that seems more fine to me. It's a bit more of a competition there and certainly if you're just playing with your friends or whatever poker can be heaps of fun but no one's playing slots with their friends. Slots is just the rawest pure form of attempting to abuse people's psychological tendencies to get them to fuck up their lives. I would like non skilled gambling like slots potentially banned or at the bare minimum just gambling sponsorships banned. You'd probably still have people who would take sponsorships but then lie about it and just not disclose it but then if that stuff is discovered they're going to jail or whatever right? Because if you gamble with your own money eventually you have to stop because you run out of money or the waste of your losses will eventually snap you back and you go oh I should stop gambling this is terrible but as long as you have sponsorship money you have an infinite supply of money. You never have to face the consequences of your gambling addiction. Your audience never sees the consequences of your gambling addiction. You just go on forever. Don't the gambling companies purposely make big streamers win to advertise? I'm sure I saw someone talking about that. In the CSGO lotto days when it was like that whole gambling on with CSGO some of them did that, horrendously illegal, but gambling companies aren't necessarily doing that. You don't need to do that to get people sucked in. Gambling isn't a rational thing. You aren't sitting there calculating your odds it's like oh this looks kind of fun maybe I'll just play a little bit you do a little bit then a bit more than a bit more than a bit more and you know whatever. Recently I've been watching videos about CSGO skins. I don't even play CSGO. What's his name? Hey Zeus. I like how he starts his videos. Hey hey Zeus here whatever it is. I liked listening to him talking about the history of CSGO skins, CSGO gambling and all that stuff and all the scammy stuff even though I know that CSGO crates opening the crates has like a 60% return at best as in if you put in a dollar you're only gonna get 60 cents back. I looked at that and I'm like it's kind of fun maybe I should open some cases I mean you know looks like it'd be cool what if I get something great I'm like that's dumb I'm not doing that why did I think that but I've thought that now like ten times since starting to watch these videos I haven't done it but that's only because like you know I'm a bit more responsible and I'm like in my 30s or whatever and I'm not as driven by that stuff as I once was when I was younger. I've even thought like oh yeah maybe I'll just buy some CSGO skins the price seems to go up and maybe it's a good investment no dumb I don't even think about CSGO skins I don't play CSGO why am I buying them as some investment that's dumb but I've thought these things you got to recognize that the people when they're younger are even more vulnerable to these things. I haven't necessarily had the life experience that I've had where I've gambled in the past and whatnot it's just it just takes that one moment of weakness and you start doing it. Some people can just lose a bit then pull themselves away and other people can't. It's just all terrible. |
| 02. November 2021 | Twitch’s delicate balance that influences bans. | Twitch's delicate balance that influences bans. Twitch obviously wants to be able to get advertisers, but a lot of the conduct of different streamers on this platform is antithetical to that goal. So they need people to be more concerned about being banned or thrown off the platform without actually throwing anyone off the platform because anyone they ban off the platform goes to YouTube, whatever. Anyone of note that gets banned gets press, gets notoriety, and pushes people to other platforms, whatever. It would be very, very hard for enough people to be banned for another streaming platform to dominate Twitch. Yeah, it's conceivably possible, but it's not realistically possible. So they basically want to compel people to act in a particular way so that they can be more secure in getting advertisers without pushing people off the platform. Either people going, I'm sick of these rules, I'm leaving, or them actually getting banned and leaving. That's my theory. I'm not saying... You can make arguments for it, but I don't know. |
| 19. November 2022 | Twitch’s desperation to get growth to small channels. | Twitch's desperation to get growth to small channels. So for those of you who still use Twitch, for some reason, I don't know why, you only need to watch one stream and that's me, your boy DarkFyperAU on YouTube. Like this guy, he knows what's up. Twitch has added another feature here. In your Followed Channels, it defaults to recommended for you. And what are they basing this recommendation on? I assume it's based on people you've clicked and watched. Looking at this ordering, this might be the rough order of channels I clicked in like the last couple of months, I'm not sure. I don't watch much Twitch, but I will occasionally click on and go, oh, that's interesting. Like I was watching a bit of a tournament here once before. I'll click into Dunk Occasion and go like, oh yeah, that's interesting. I'll watch Tyler1 for like a minute and then be like, oh, that's League of Legends, I don't care. And go back to something else. Like I probably watched less than like half an hour of Twitch per month or something. But anyway, this just seems to be Twitch continuing to try its damnedest to force people to watch people who have less than 5,000 viewers or something, right? Trying to make it so there is a tiny, tiny shred of hope that people who are lower down in the tiers of viewership are actually able to get new viewers. I wonder on the backend what effect this has had. I used to follow Sully Gnome and it did seem to suggest that over time, there was a less of a pooling of viewers at the top. But when I say less of a pooling of viewers, it's like a 5% difference over the last five years where the 5% of the viewership has moved to the bottom 99% of channels. As I always say, growing on Twitch, kind of a pointless thing, but Twitch has nothing else. They've got to try and make it so the new blood can actually get through. But at the end of the day, if you have a large audience on Twitch and consistently stream, then you're just gonna stay there. People like things that they know. They don't wanna bother going through 800 live streams of people that they don't know. If you're big, you stay big. |
| 13. March 2022 | Twitch’s latest scam to avoid increasing ad revenue share. | It is now we're taking to the next level with ads incentive program. So what it's paying you a bonus for Meeting particular ad targets so incentive $100 run two minutes of ads per hour stream 40 hours this month Run three minutes of ads per hour stream 40 hours this month run four minutes of ads per hour Stream 40 hours this month. Okay, so this is like a the worst system I've ever heard of so if you do 99% of this incentive twitch keeps all the money and you get nothing if I'm understanding this correctly the only reason why ad revenue sucks on twitch is because twitch has a Flat ad rate for everyone on the platform so on YouTube every single dollar that is made is split between the creator and YouTube It's like 60% or something on twitch you are just played a flat rate So if twitch sells the thousand ads that play in your stream for 20 bucks you still get The flat amount which I can't tell you because it's against the partner agreement, but it's not high I can I can tell you it is like a tiny fraction of what's on YouTube the reason why twitch can do this is because they're already keeping all the ad revenue and the reason why People on twitch don't run ads is because we don't make any money on ads It's gone up a little bit since twitch made their changes a while back because the fill rate has increased This just means that twitch has more advertisers now So it's less likely that an ad doesn't play when an ad should play but due to the flat rate It's still shit if we change that rate. Maybe we'd have to change something more fair. We don't want to do that So let's let's invent this little fucking scheme to make it seem like we're giving people more money Which I guess they are in a way, but in reality all that they're trying to do is like hey Look at this this big number here. Oh, it's a big number you want to be playing those ads, right? In reality, this is just like a it's dangling in the car. People are already making ad revenue, but the ad revenue is Largely invisible so no one thinks about it If you ask your creator how much money do you make in ad revenue? They probably don't know they have to go look in their analytics because you see subs you see donations But you don't see the money you make from ads and this is trying to make the money you make from ads More on your mind more in your face so that you run more ads almost entirely for twitch's benefit Because all this garbage up here like oh man are the the lack of predictability in ads man It's it's driving people crazy man. People can't live nonsense. No one is on twitch relying on ad revenue This is nothing Anyone who needs the pittance of ad revenue is already like a difference of like a hundred subs between Paying their rent and destitution that doesn't exist if twitch wanted to give more money to creators to have them care about running ads They should have a competitive ad sharing system like YouTube does I mean surely this can't be that Garbage right is it really the case that you can do 99% and you won't get 99% of the $500 How fucking scummy dude do twitch subscribers always win my giveaways because they have a higher chance Viper of all the giveaways you created subs one right no obviously not do you know do math? Here are all the people that enter the giveaway Here are the subs that enter the giveaway and the subs get twice the chance |
| 15. November 2021 | Twitch’s limited free lifetime subscriptions | Limited free lifetime subscriptions remember subscriptions on Twitch are the same as memberships on YouTube they are normally paid So I found out recently that you can gift out three lifetime subs for your channel that can never be removed What would a person have to do to be deserving of that lifetime sub? Now? I'd probably do it for a person who are Helps me out and on some level above normal Like to an extraordinary degree. I'll meet a person and I'll propose using a perm sub on Twitch She'll open the ring box and instead of a ring It'll be like a small piece of paper that says will you accept this perm sub to my Twitch channel? |
| 23. August 2021 | Twitch’s new changes to sub pricing | Trish's regional changes to sub pricing to take into account cost of living. What do I think of the new sub prices? It's a good thing. As in, things being based on what $5 is worth in the country makes perfect sense. And while certainly, in the short term, creators will get less money, as in in that month, because everyone's cost of subs is going down, and the share of the money going to the creator is going to be less, but over time, you know, more people should sub because it costs less in their region, right? Like it reduced by a dollar in Australia. And certainly, there is some convoluted thing that Twitch has done to reduce, for at least the first couple of months, how much money creators are going to lose, to give time for things to be balanced and for more people to end up subbing. |
| 21. June 2022 | Twitch’s new feature that they immediately removed | The ability to remove people who have the founder badge. Now the founder badge is given to the first 25 subs for a channel. It doesn't matter what they do in the future It doesn't matter if they ever come to your stream again after that first time they sub. They will always be founders These were my first 25 subs. Remember subs on Twitch are paid remember you say they paid five dollars They were the first people to do it. If a person isn't subbed the founder badge will not show up So all these people who aren't subs It doesn't matter. Twitch implemented a feature to be able to remove founder badges from these people and I was like Well, that's a great thing. Finally, I can move these founder badges onto the next people So like if I removed it from a person it would just go to the 26th person who subbed to me, right? The next eligible person and then I would just keep removing them until I got to people who Like I believe are deserving of them these founder badges The reason why this ended up being terrible is because it would send out emails to anyone who was given the founder badge if I removed KZ and It went to another person that person received an email and be like you're now a founder of the DarkFabAU channel But maybe I would also not want them to be a founder So I might then remove their founder badge and they'd come to stream be like but I thought I was getting the founder badge, man What oh, oh no, but that's so mean man. I and it's like, you know And so it's causing problems people being passed over for the founder badge But they they were learning that they were being passed over Can you imagine being so dumb to implement a system and not realize that that would be a thing and so that's why they removed It like a few hours after they implemented the feature which sucks because I didn't get time to remove some of these people I want them to put it back. Let me move the founder badges twitch currently I have one two three four five six seven of 25 founders active I'd like to have more just because you were the 26 person who subscribed to me doesn't doesn't mean you don't deserve some benefit Most of these people came to my stream like five years ago and subs three years ago So it's understandable that many of them have moved on but there are probably many people who were like in the first 50 people who Subbed to my channel that are that has still come around and it'd be cool if they could be acknowledged as being One of the OGs by having a founder badge, but until twitch adds the feature back I can't make that change the revival of the clips channel brought back the clips channel and I |
| 20. October 2020 | Twitch’s trial of forced mid-rolls | They've since stopped the trial, but this is a discussion of it, and if they ever bring it back, it will still be relevant. There's a change that's recently come, I'm sure you've heard about it by now, that Twitch wants to do forced mid-roll ads on Twitch. So, if you aren't, as a content creator, doing mid-rolls yourself, like choosing to run some ads here or there, the algorithm on Twitch will present people mid-rolls ads at various different times if they haven't seen an ad in X amount of time. I don't know what the X amount of time is. So you can avoid the automated process by doing it yourself, but they're really keen to have more people watch ads on the platform. The more ads they serve, the better deals that they can get, the more people who get interested in buying ads on Twitch and growing the platform. Because ads can scale exponentially on a platform like this. Obviously people aren't particularly happy because ad revenue is a tiny amount of the amount of money that people get on Twitch. Certainly, if the ad revenue goes up because they're selling more ads and stuff, they get more brand deals or whatever, then the ad revenue will increase. But it's very unlikely that ads will be more valuable to a content creator than simply having more viewers. And because ads cause people to click away, it's possible that forced mid-rolls or even you personally running mid-rolls can result in you losing revenue overall by reducing a sub-revenue or donation revenue or bit revenue or whatever, even if your ad revenue increases. Like, you've got to remember that Twitch Prime isn't really free, you know? Every time you sub with Twitch Prime, Amazon is effectively paying $2.50 and so on to content creators and getting effectively nothing in return, unless you believe that a significant amount of people are getting Amazon Prime specifically so they can give free subs to Twitch subscribers, which is unlikely. I don't know those numbers, but it seems as though ad revenue is likely paying for in a large portion the Twitch Prime revenue that is being given to content creators. So you can understand from a business perspective why Twitch would be trying to grow the amount of money that they're making from ads, because again it can scale and whatnot. But you can understand why content creators wouldn't be happy with this, because even if it's paying for Twitch Prime, like they have Twitch Prime now, there's not necessarily a gain immediately for them. I don't know what to think, considering this is in beta right now, only some viewers are being subjected to these forced mid-rolls. I'm not going to put myself in a situation where I'm running mid-rolls myself to avoid the automated process. But if they believe that this is a path they want to go down and they're going to do automatic mid-rolls for everyone, then I will start at various different points in my stream intentionally doing mid-rolls so that I can avoid the automated ones. Because it would suck for any viewer to be watching my stream and for them to miss something because a mid-roll plays. For a while back there when they said that there's a scheme on Twitch for those who don't know, if you play mid-rolls people won't get ads when they join your stream, which is good right? Because then new viewers are less likely to join your stream, get an ad and then leave. But it seemed like such a tiny benefit that people just couldn't be fucked running mid-rolls as far as I can see. And certainly this change that YouTube is making forcing mid-rolls would seem to give evidence to my perception that people, no Twitch streamer was really running mid-roll ads to avoid new viewers getting these ads. The only people I know of who run mid-rolls intentionally is people who are part of eSports teams. Because for those who don't know, a lot of money that props up eSports teams comes from Twitch. Twitch pays eSports teams to stay on the platform and to exist in general because a significant portion, 25% plus of the viewership on Twitch is people watching eSports. And so they want eSports to exist so they put some money into that. And part of the deals that Twitch has with these eSports teams is they've got to run mid-roll ads. That's why you can watch Hungrybox and he's like, I'm going to play some ads guys. It's not Hungrybox playing some ads for himself, it's playing for his orc. He might get some of that money, I don't know. But yeah, so I quickly abandoned doing mid-rolls myself even though there was some tangible benefit from it. But that was mainly because back when I was running mid-rolls, it was when I was speedrunning. And during the speedrun, like on mini-sub and stuff, there's nothing going on. So playing some mid-rolls wasn't a big deal. And that's probably what I'm going to go back to doing if indeed this automated mid-roll system is what Twitch goes with and it propagates to everyone, right? So that's it. I kind of rambled a lot there, but those are my thoughts on that. What's going to happen in the future? I don't know how much people follow that, but okay. The Twitch support Twitter said seven hours ago that they disabled it for now. Yeah, that's fine, I guess. That's good to know. There was a lot of backlash against it. The only people I really saw who were in favor of it were people like Devin Nash, who was a lot more business-minded. He released a video on it, but I didn't have time to watch it. I will watch it later. But when I clicked on the video, the video had a 50% like to dislike ratio and that's people not being happy, right? When I saw his tweet and he said, his statement was effectively, look, Twitch is a business. They've got to generate revenue. And that was kind of his, you know, quick justification. His video is 40 minutes. I'm sure he says more. But just off that reasoning alone, the need for a business to generate revenue does not in of itself justify all ways of generating revenue, right? No one denies that Twitch has to generate revenue to survive. But in no way does that mean that we all have to be on board with Twitch doing whatever the next scheme is to generate more revenue, right? It's not an argument. Although people who are against mid-rolls, automatic mid-rolls, usually they should say, this is why I'm against it and this is what Twitch should say instead. Because it's not very helpful saying Twitch shouldn't do this without giving better alternatives. The reason why I wasn't super vocally against this on Twitter is because I don't know what else Twitch could do. I am fairly convinced, especially because people in the know say this all the time, that Twitch either isn't super profitable or isn't profitable at all right now. So I understand that Twitch needs to make changes to bring in more revenue. But I don't know what they could do otherwise. If they need to run more ads for their business model or whatever, it's either going to have to be automated or they're going to have to add more incentives for Twitch streamers to do it. But the Twitch streamers that matter, you know, because what is it like, you know, 75% of the watch time when Twitch goes to the top thousand creators or something, something like that, like it's so top heavy. These thousand creators don't need to run ads. They've already got tons of money. Why would they potentially tarnish their brand, piss off their viewers or whatever by running ads? I don't know what incentives you could put in place to get a over millionaire Twitch streamer to start running ads. I don't know what that is. Like we talk about YouTube with their mid rolls. They do have automated stuff on YouTube. Like if you don't set mid rolls yourself and you have them turned on, then YouTube will put them in your videos wherever the algorithm deems fit is best suited. And I don't like you guys haven't seen it, but they put a lot of mid rolls. Like usually I put automated and I look where they put the ads and I remove half of them because they'll put an ad like every three minutes. It's pretty crazy. And when YouTube put out that scheme recently where videos before it was only videos over 10 minutes can get mid rolls. Now they've done it so videos over eight minutes can get mid rolls. And they said that any video that was between eight and ten minutes will automatically have mid rolls applied. I don't know if that ended up happening, but that's more YouTube doing more automated stuff. But the reason why automated mid rolls, which is again what Twitch wants to do. But the reason why people are probably less up in arms about YouTube doing it is because when you have edited content, it's easier to see where you can put ads without causing issues. Even an algorithm has a better chance of putting ads in a non disruptive place on edited content than in a live stream scenario. And on YouTube, if an ad plays, you don't miss anything. The rest of the video starts playing. Again, that doesn't happen on a live stream. If you get an ad on a live stream, you miss parts of that live stream. And there's no algorithm determining this is the best part of a live stream to place an ad for Twitch. It would just be this person hasn't seen an ad in ten minutes, give them an ad. So the odds of them missing something is there. Like it's high. The ads will be orders of magnitude more disruptive than they will ever be on YouTube just because of the difference in the content. I've said many times, so much of what makes YouTube able to be profitable doesn't really work for live streams. You see? A few days ago people were complaining that YouTube was putting automated mid-rolls on their 8 minute, 10 minute videos. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes sense. I didn't hear any of that, but that doesn't surprise me that people complain about that. The world record progression video. |
| 09. February 2023 | Twitter cuts off free API access. | to like give followers of my Twitter account like a special role in discord and stuff But for me to continue to do that with this new system It would cost me like 150 bucks a month and yeah, I'm not gonna do that My mods have talked about certain things that they use are also gonna break because no one wants to pay this Like you can tell by the amount of quote tweets and the amount of likes that are people are really pissed You do not get that ratio with people being happy. You remember when Elon's like it's not about the money Wouldn't you know it? It's actually about the money It's not about the money, but I do want to pay well literally everything interesting about the website Vowels now paywall you want vows Like we'll give you a free trial like 10 vows a month, but after that you gotta pay 10 bucks a month man What a shit fest? |
| 12. September 2021 | Twitter for IPAD | Twitter for iPad. The other thing that I found funny, because I don't think people got the joke. On Twitter, I wrote Twitter for iPad. Because whenever I tweet from my iPad, it shows it here. People didn't get the joke. The only time I use my iPad to tweet is when I'm in bed. So if you see a tweet that says Twitter for iPad, I am in bed. If you ever want a perfect way to know the nanosecond I get into bed every day, it's go to my Twitter and if you see anything Twitter for iPad within the last day, I've just gotten to bed. And people will comment this. And enough people know that I'm just trying to run with the joke now. It annoyed me at first. I'm like, I don't want you knowing when I get into bed. This is rude. Stop pointing out to people that I'm in bed. People would comment, Matt in bed, delightful witticisms of Matt in bed. It was annoying. |
| 05. March 2023 | Twitter is now putting previous free features behind a paywall. | is now putting previous free features behind a paywall. So there's been another development in, I swear I didn't buy Twitter for the money, I swear guys, but can you like give me more money please? More money, more money now. Effective March 20, 2023, only Twitter blue subscribers will be able to use text messages as their two-factor authentication method. Other accounts can use an authentication app or security key for two-factor authentication. Learn more here. Like, who doesn't love when a billionaire buys something and paywalls like every free thing on the platform? Like people are obviously making jokes. Come April, you'll be limiting certain letters to blue subscribers. Absurd. Obviously the reason why they've done this is as a method of authentication, text messages are the most expensive for Twitter. I don't know the exact numbers, but obviously like a text message costs something, where the app costs less to maintain. I saw the numbers somewhere, but regardless, clearly this is both a money saving scheme and also a way of getting people onto Twitter blue. But the absurdity of paywalling a security feature, like come on, I would read the replies down here, but I'm sure there's gonna be some Elon fanboys like just ripping the worst goddamn justifications for the stupidity on Twitter. Be like, oh, he's actually a genius man, don't write. It's gross to say. While it is certainly true that SMS two-factor authentication is the least secure form of two-factor authentication, it was still better than nothing. And it being removed will result in some people simply having nothing rather than moving to the. |
| 26. December 2022 | Twitter sparks outrage as it cracks down on users sharing links from other sites. | Twitter Sparks Outrage as it Cracks Down on Users Sharing Links from Other Sites So Twitter has this thing recently because Elon is making decisions then unmaking them within the same hour. A lot of stuff just randomly gets said and then deleted basically immediately. But we can still talk about this because this person has saved the tweets for me. Twitter support says, specifically we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms. Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, True Social, Tribal, Nostra and Post. Immediately, how insecure does it sound? Where you're like, man we are purging anyone, any mention of anything that isn't us from our platform. Like no other platform is doing it to that degree, right? And so immediately huge levels of insecurity, huge red flags there. I've talked before about how it seems as though every platform I'm aware of does not shadow ban but not actively promote stuff that links off platform. As if the algorithm can be like, oh a lot of people are seeing this bit of media and leaving platform. Well that's not good for us, we just won't show that to as many people. Rather than it being nuke all this social media, it's nuke anything that is stopping people from being on the platform longer. At least that's my theory. Actually I can show you an example. So here's a dude, he can get 85k likes on just a couple of words but then a link to his video, 3k likes. 40k likes on this, holy shit! 18k, 2.5. 40k likes, 2k likes, 1.4, 2. This is such a disparity that it's clearly not just like people are less interested in clicking like on this. It is that stuff with links in it doesn't get as promoted on YouTube. I've had the same experience, I've talked to a lot of other YouTubers, it's the same thing. I assume that YouTube doesn't like people using community posts just to spam out their YouTube videos. They want community posts to be actual community posts, you talking to your audience rather than just, hey here's my newest video, here's my newest video, here's my newest video. Because that just clothers up community posts for spam. So this is less YouTube being like, man we don't even like videos from our own platform and more just like, hey guys use community posts as you're meant to. But regardless, moving on with Twitter. So what I'm trying to say here is what Twitter is saying they're gonna do here is not unusual necessarily. It's unusual the lengths they're going to do it and that they're saying this out loud. Most social media aren't gonna say, hey we are just not gonna promote or actively remove stuff from our competitors. They're saying the quiet part out loud. We still allow cross-posting content from any social media platform, posting links or usernames to social media platforms not listed above are also not in violation of this policy. Which is a little bit unclear. So I guess like a link to a channel, like you should go look at DarkFyperAU at YouTube is treated differently than a link to a specific video on YouTube I guess. More information on this policy as well as how we will take actions on violations can be found here. This is in part I think related to like they nuked the MasterDon Twitter account and some other social media account. They just removed them from Twitter. And so this was some commentary on that. This is just sad and I think this was linking to the Twitter support thing. What do you think should be a good policy? Hey Elon Musk, I get accounts whose sole purpose to promote other accounts being forbidden but telling people they can't link out to their Instagram is way too far. This is barely a sentence. The same goes for Linktree. I use mine to link to my website, my CoffeeBase, etc. Not to compete with Twitter. Okay, that seems reasonable. Now what is weird about this to me is Elon Musk paid 44 billion dollars for a website that he said hey I know how to make it better. I'm the best. I can revolutionize Twitter, make it the best place ever. And so much of his discussions about what is the best policy for the platform is him talking to random people on Twitter and being like oh yeah hadn't thought of it that way before. Well I guess I'll change the policy now. And within like an hour the policy changes. It's like maybe you should give it a couple of weeks to mull over new policy changes. Maybe like hire some sort of a board to discuss this sort of thing. Or do like beta testing of policy changes and how it impacts the platform rather than just doing whatever comes to your mind because fuck it YOLO and then talking to the quartering, one of the dumbest people on the platform, and then immediately changing your mind. People think Elon Musk is a brilliant man. Delusional people obviously. People who live in like bubbles that must be impressively disgusting. But come on now. This is this is not only sad and silly but also dumb. I mean at least it's Twitter and not YouTube. Like at least it's something that doesn't matter as much right? God damn. |
| 11. December 2020 | Twitter vs Instagram | Twitter versus Instagram. How my smaller audience on Instagram is somehow still more active than my Twitter. So I uploaded my picture of me before my haircut to Instagram and my picture of me after my haircut to Instagram. Both got like 5,000 likes or hearts or whatever Instagram uses. I did the same thing on Twitter which is a social media that I use constantly and both only got 2,000 likes. So clearly I should be using Instagram far more than Twitter but I hate Instagram. I'm not a person who uses my phone a lot and I have no idea why Facebook doesn't allow you to do more on Instagram on your PC. Sure you can do the thing where you change your PC into a phone or whatever by pressing F2L or whatever but it's not the same bloody thing. Instagram has a terrible layout. You'd have to assume it's because they don't want to risk cannibalizing themselves. Like they don't want to have Instagram compete with Facebook in some sense. But I prefer the actual sharing of information on Twitter. I like typing out stuff and I type funny stuff all the time on Twitter. People who don't follow me on Twitter are legitimately missing out. Once upon a time whenever I went live on Twitch I would take a picture of myself and put it on Instagram. Maybe I'll go back to doing that. Taking random pictures of myself and putting it on Instagram when I go live. Clearly what I need to do is get a dog so I can do more with Instagram. Get myself a dog or a cat and then every day I take a picture of me and my dog or cat. Why not live stream on Instagram? Not only can I not do that because of my partner agreement but also Instagram is garbage. Instagram tends to tell people when someone who hasn't posted for a long time posts. |
| 25. November 2022 | Twitter wants to compete with YouTube. | Twitter wants to compete with YouTube. A lot of people who aren't themselves creators don't really understand why this is stupid. So Elon Musk is having issues with making Twitter profitable after spending 44 billion dollars on it, borrowing 12 billion dollars and having huge interest repayments on that 12 billion dollars. And because he has no experience in the social media world or the content creation game, his main ideas have been thus far getting people to pay for stuff that they already had access to before, which anyone would tell you is a terrible move. And just copying features of other social media platforms, which anyone will also tell you is a terrible move. The most recent thing he's tried to copy is one of the dumbest that he could try. Elon Musk is looking to offer YouTubers 10% more than YouTube's revenue split to post their content on Twitter. So currently it's 60-40 and the YouTuber gets the 60, which is pretty good. You would have to be brain dead to take this deal because apparently Elon wants to make it exclusive. So he wants to give you 70% of far less money to exclusively put your videos on Twitter. Obviously insanely stupid, but even if it wasn't exclusive, it would still be a brain dead move for any creator to post their shit on Twitter. Twitter right now does not have the infrastructure to either store the 720,000 hours of footage that is uploaded to YouTube every day. 720,000! Nor does it have like a search directory for people to find stuff. It doesn't have the algorithm necessary to bring good stuff up to the forefront to get people to see stuff that they want. And it also doesn't have anywhere close to the audience that YouTube has. Twitter has like less than one fifth the monthly active users, and these are not traditionally people looking for video content. It's like you sit down and you think to yourself, which website do I want to go to to look for videos? Do I want to go to YouTube with well over a decade of content from a huge variety of people with the best in the business, the best in the game compression and delivery systems? Or do I want to go to Twitter that some random guy with absolutely no experience in the social media game threw together last week? It is a simple question how he's going to manage to build this considering he fired half the staff at Twitter, the people who are necessary to build out these systems. Although, of course, he has needed to bring back some of these people that he fired. So maybe he offered them, you know, two or three times what they're being paid before to come back and build this kind of stuff. Who knows? But this is dumb. When Elon said he's going to be doing just a lot of different stuff to see what works, the reason for that is he doesn't know what to do. He is just going to scramble around, just continue to go, how about this, guys? This working? Is this good? No? Okay. How about this one? This is the thing that I was thinking up when I was on the crapper yesterday. No? Okay, that doesn't work either. This one. How about this one? He's going to keep doing this because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing. Every idea he's put forth, anyone in the business will be able to tell him will not work, will be a huge sink of money and is dumb. But he doesn't seem to care because he's just desperate. You get polls like this where the average Joe is like, absolutely, I would upload videos to Twitter. Keep in mind, even in a case where you have your videos being uploaded to YouTube and videos uploaded to Twitter, what you're doing now is disadvantaging yourself on YouTube. Because any one of your already existent viewers who watches the video on Twitter and then moves to YouTube will then not watch that video. So the algorithm is like, oh, Frank skipped over that video in our algorithm. They ignored that thumbnail and title. Must not be a very good thumbnail and title. Oh boy, guess we won't promote that video as much in the algorithm anymore because it's not very popular. But in reality, that person probably loved that video, but they watched it on Twitter. You're just having a portion of your audience watch your videos on a different platform. If enough of them do it, it hurts the reach of your videos on the platform that actually matters. You'd be just throwing away money to upload your videos to Twitter to get a non-existent audience. It could possibly make sense for new creators who don't already have an audience, who have nothing to lose because why the fuck not? But those are not the sort of creators who will get a lot of revenue for Twitter. At the end of the day, YouTube is eons ahead of literally everyone else in the game in regards to distribution of content, storage of content, and compression. And delivery of content. No one's close. That's why everyone's scared to compete with the many capacity. Twitch and Amazon did for a while bend around the idea of possibly doing that. And after like a little while, they were like, okay, this is impossible. No one can do this as YouTube is just too far ahead. But Elon doesn't know any of this. He's like, oh man, we'll just do it. Man, it's cool. We'll just give him more money or something. Even though the company is going bankrupt. Insane. But as I say, laymen don't know this. Just post the same video here, huh? Why would that kill your channel? |
| 23. December 2022 | Twitter's Latest useless Feature. | useless features. So if you don't use Twitter, you're probably not aware of the shit fest that the verification system still is on Twitter. There are like half a dozen different verification marks that mean different things in different regions, but this one was particularly funny. From Philip DeFranco. If you speak to me, you better address me by my full fucking name. Philip may or may not be notable DeFranco. So verified account, this is a legacy verified account. It may or may not be notable. That's so weird because like if you go to my account, this account is verified because it's notable in government news and statement or another designated category. Maybe he and I got our verification marks under different categories or something. There's yellow ones now as you can see here. Maybe they're gonna let people collect all the color of the rainbow. I don't know. Apparently everyone has this verified tab now, and so this verified tab is before your mentions because people who give Elon Musk eight dollars are worth more attention than the people who are mentioning you specifically because reasons. It's all very dumb. |
| 27. November 2020 | Twitter's new stories feature | Twitter's new feature, Stories, or I believe they call it Fleets. Did you get that new Twitter update? Oh, this Stories thing? So Stories are like little videos that you can post that disappear in 24 hours, right? I think. And some startup does this kind of thing. I think Instagram does it, Snapchat does it, now Twitter does it. Like, I don't care. I could never imagine using such a thing. It seems such a weird feature, because like, the internet is forever. Like, if you do a story, what's the value in having it delete in 24 hours? Because people are just gonna download that shit or copy that or whatever, you know? I mean, sure, not everyone's Stories, but anyone with a significant enough following, you know? Stories are perfect for announcing that my stream is live? Maybe, but I like having the dog pictures stick around. |
| 24. May 2022 | Twitter, Elon Musk, and freedom of speech | Twitter Elon Musk and freedom of speech. Are there any particular questions you're like, I wonder what Mr. DarkviperAU thinks about this pressing issue? Musk buying Twitter? I've talked about that before. How long it would require for him to get a return on his investment is a shocking amount of time. And Elon's freedom of speech thing, the reason why these platforms restrict certain forms of speech, whether it be hateful stuff or harmful stuff, whatever, is because they want advertisers. You can't have a platform that allows for literally any kind of content and have it be profitable. It's not possible. Every platform starts with a much wider stretch of what they allow, and then they move it in to become more appealing to advertisers, to make the platform more profitable. And the idea that Elon can expand beyond what Twitter already has and increase revenue seems pretty unlikely. As I've said before, the reason why Twitter removes some content has nothing to do with ideology, although in the rare case it does on the troll. But the application of removal of content on social media is normally done for a profit motive. Then your ability to get advertisements is significantly stifled if you have a bunch of terrible stuff on your platform. I'm not sure how, you know, allowing greater freedom of content on the platform is going to increase its profitability. Whatever the case may be, it doesn't seem that Twitter is overly profitable, and I'm not sure what business model would change that to the degree where you're going to see $45 billion worth of profit in a person's lifetime. Elon paid $44 billion for Twitter while I got it for free from the App Store. Shake him a head. I've heard that joke now 97 times. Like, every really large Twitter account just immediately posted that shit. Like, I'm not saying they all copy each other, but what I am saying is the joke is so unoriginal that it was so obvious that anyone could conceive it. My review of Elden Ring |
| 16. May 2020 | Two pc streaming set up | Services. So I may so this may be an ignorant question, but what are the specs of the two PCs use and why do you use to? Stream I've stopped using two PCs because I had a lot of issues with them Desync between them and the and the audio between the two systems What I have right now is a PC that I use as a somewhat of a server Although I am getting I have got a NAS down there, but it's missing one drive So I can't use it right now my other PC I use to put stuff on Dropbox and to render stuff if I need to go to |
| 16. May 2020 | Two pc streaming setup | Services. So I may so this may be an ignorant question, but what are the specs of the two PCs use and why do you use to? Stream I've stopped using two PCs because I had a lot of issues with them Desync between them and the and the audio between the two systems What I have right now is a PC that I use as a somewhat of a server Although I am getting I have got a NAS down there, but it's missing one drive So I can't use it right now my other PC I use to put stuff on Dropbox and to render stuff if I need to go to |
| 23. January 2021 | UK government has a Twitch channel. | The UK government has a Twitch channel. What's your opinion on the UK government having a Twitch account which they stream on? Is it a 24 hour stream all the time? And they take it in turns? Is that really a thing? Like everyone's required by law to do their one hour a week of Twitch streaming? And so it's just a continuous cycle of random people from the government? UK government supposedly has a tier 4 sub? I don't believe you. Can you imagine that? The government having different tiers? Like where you can pay extra tax, but you get access to emotes on their Twitch channel. We need to raise new revenue for this thing we want to do. And they're like, oh, how do we start a Twitch channel? |
| 23. January 2021 | UK government has a twitch channel. | The UK government has a Twitch channel. What's your opinion on the UK government having a Twitch account which they stream on? Is it a 24 hour stream all the time? And they take it in turns? Is that really a thing? Like everyone's required by law to do their one hour a week of Twitch streaming? And so it's just a continuous cycle of random people from the government? UK government supposedly has a tier 4 sub? I don't believe you. Can you imagine that? The government having different tiers? Like where you can pay extra tax, but you get access to emotes on their Twitch channel. We need to raise new revenue for this thing we want to do. And they're like, oh, how do we start a Twitch channel? |
| 15. November 2020 | US vs AU Politics (rant about telecommunications) | US versus AU politics, ranting about Australian telecommunications again. How does AU politics compare to USA politics? So seven years ago, Labour wanted to build themselves a partial fibre, partial, partial copper network. They wanted to improve the speeds of the country. And everyone in tech, every potential adviser said, look, dude, there's there's no reason to keep that copper around. It's it's going to hard cap the network, going to make it far more expensive to run the network, far harder to install. Fiber is continuously reducing in its cost. You're much better off doing fibre the premises for at least 90 ish percent of the country and then cover the rest with satellite. And Labour's like, OK, this is the advice of everyone in the know. We'll follow that advice. And the coalition is like, what? It's a good idea and economically feasible to give everyone fibre. Can we like not do that and claim it's better? Oh, let's do that then. Fuck them so-called experts. And so they so Labour was in power at the time. So they built themselves. They got a bunch of contracts and the fibre started to roll out, rolled out to about 20 percent of the country. And then the coalition got in power. And immediately the first thing they did is tear up these contracts. Expensive to throw away these contracts, have to delay the rolling out of the network for years, renegotiating more contracts so that they can build themselves a partial copper, partial fibre network. The copper, of course, was largely already in the ground, except it was all dilapidated, all terrible. For decades, it has been a common knowledge that the copper is on its last, last legs. But the coalition is like, not we're going to use it anyway, because fuck common sense, fuck the experts. We're going to do it anyway, because it's going to be cheaper. They go with this plan against the experts of the advice of literally everyone on the fucking planet. And so they just recently finished their roll out, tearing up the entire fucking country to do it. And just two weeks ago, they announced, yes, so we're going to be investing a few more billion dollars to upgrade that. The now half copper, half fibre network to full fibre. Just you know, we're going to be doing that. And everyone's just like, are you fucking serious? You've lifted up the entire fucking country. You made the network 700 times more complicated than it had to be. Multi technology increase the amount of the fucking skills that the fucking people installing it need to have. You went to all this effort. You argued for fucking seven years that it wasn't good to have full fibre. And now you're putting full fibre in. Are you fucking insane? They spent like 60 billion dollars making a network that is that is arguably only worth like 15 billion now or some shit. Like it was it was so mismanaged and they argued for so long against full fibre. And now they're going full fibre. How is this fucking party in power? They wasted like 50 billion dollars. They literally if you want to simplify the whole thing, right? It was there was someone selling apples, one apple for four dollars or five apple for five dollars. Everyone from the age like kindergarten up go, well, the five the five apples for five dollars is the better value. And the coordination is like, no, no, no, but one apple for four dollars. That's cheaper. That's a cheaper apple. One apple for four dollars. Clearly insane. But then later on now, the coalition has come back and realised that they need four more apples because they need five apples. But they've so they've now purchased four more apples, each being priced at four dollars. So they've spent 20 dollars on five apples when they could have just purchased five apples for five dollars from the get go. That is telecommunications in Australia. So if you want to summarise Australian politics, there is a party that is amazingly incompetent. There's certainly a bunch of parties together to form the coalition. They're amazingly incompetent. Their only purpose and power is to funnel public assets to their donors. That is it. And that is all they've ever done. But you know who runs the media in this fucking country? The donors to the coalition. So the media is like, the coalition is an amazing party, guys. Oh, that's money. Very good. Amazing party. It's amazing. And because most of Australia only gets their information from these mainstream media outlets, the coalition keeps getting elected. Just fucking looting public services, selling them off to the to the to their donors for the cheapest fucking price. And that's all they do. Fuck, fuck anyone else who doesn't donate to the coalition. And that's Australian politics. There's nothing you can do about it. Because media consolidation in this country, because Murdoch owns so much of the fucking media in this country, there's nothing you can do about it. All you can do is bitch and moan because you can't fight the system currently. Like, I have equal ability to influence American politics and Australian politics. Equal ability despite living in this country. And the American politics is at least far more funnier than the Australian politics. Maybe because I live here, the politics just seems so much fucking sadder. I don't know. |
| 22. July 2022 | Ubisoft removing access for some of their games and then backpedaling | Ubisoft removing access for some of their games and then backpedaling. Ubisoft shutting down servers and multiplayer for 15 games. Initially it just seemed as though this was just gonna affect multiplayer which is shit, but like you can't access some games. Like Josh here says Ubisoft have removed Assassin's Creed Liberation HD from Steam. Even if you bought it and it was 75% off just a few days ago, you cannot play it, you cannot download it, you cannot access it, even if you did download it. A game people owned taken from them. Why Ubisoft? This is fucked. That whole you don't own games anymore, you just license them from the companies that make them, you know, it's coming to bite everyone in the ass. Me as an advocate of how I like everything digital, all the people are like you gotta get the physical copies. They're laughing at me now. This sounds illegal? I would be floored if this wasn't illegal somewhere. Like in the EU with all these consumer protections and all that can, at the very least if this isn't illegal, if this happens enough and enough people get pissed off, you can guarantee a law will be passed to correct this in some way. I liked the WAN shows talk about it where they were talking about how, like what's the solution? Do we just expect companies to maintain servers or whatever for games forever? If they're not going to do that, then they should like lose their rights to the game and communities that want to maintain them should be able to without possible legal backlash. If you aren't willing to maintain the game, then other people should have the right to maintain it, you know? Yeah, open source the server code. Like us talking about whether or not this is illegal, Ubisoft clearly has lawyers. They will have assessed this to some degree and must believe that they're either in the right or have a chance they can argue in court that they're in the right, right? There are way too much games abandoned in copyright hell like Simpsons Hit and Run and old Need for Speed games that you just can't get as not legal to distribute them by community. That's certainly true and that's going to become more and more of a thing as time goes on. It's a miscommunication on Steam. You can still play the games after September. You won't have access to DLC anymore. Oh, so you can play the base game but not the DLC? It did seem weird that there wouldn't be an offline mode. Update, Ubisoft says current owners of Assassin's Creed Liberation HD on Steam will still be able to access, play or be downloaded after its decommissions. Gotcha. So is that Ubisoft backtracking or is it a clarification? No, they changed it recently. It wasn't a miscommunication. They changed it after the backlash. Who knows, I suppose. It's the XQC thing. I never do or say anything stupid. I'm always just joking. |
| 22. July 2022 | UnNamed’s speedrunning career and people I met through doing No Damage Runs | Unnamed speedrunning career and people I met through doing no damage runs You didn't know unnamed actually ran other than Oko? Ah, he didn't prior to Oko. It's why I said at the time that he wasn't a speedrunner and I didn't know him because he wasn't a speedrunner and I didn't know him. But after Oko he's proven himself to be very good at the game and very committed to being good at it you know and he's helped out with a lot of strat testing and he's found all the strats himself and stuff. As I've said before massive silver lining to not completing Oko faster was all the people who ended up contributing to Oko who have helped either helped me out personally since then or have since gone on to become runners themselves and I've found a lot of stuff you know. Because had I succeeded a lot earlier I wouldn't have met such people. As in had I succeeded earlier and therefore the series ended sooner perhaps they wouldn't have been inspired to get involved. It's an interesting question do I see meeting Crim well on names are him and do I see that as a better than getting first in no damage? I think I do. I mean I still got the video anyway. Ah, but a lot of people out there do think I'm an asshole because of all that drama. No, I still think it's worth it. Especially, yeah it's definitely worth it. Definitely worth it. What am I talking about? |
| 25. February 2021 | Unable to remember or imagine taste. | I am unable to remember or imagine taste and then I did it again. I did it again, dude I did it man. I thought of pizza. It's so it's so weird to explain I can't even remember what pizza feels like or tastes like and I read I can't remember what it pizza tastes like I can't I can't imagine it I can't remember it, but when I think about it, my boy is like motherfucker get yourself a pizza right fucking now What are you doing? You have capability to get pizza and consume it Why are you not doing it? I understand my body my brain is just like what? Why would you not be consuming pizza right now and you have the capability your ancestors right now? I like are you seriously not eating food? When you could be when you're hungry and you have access to food fuck you My ancestors in the ground fucking spinning like tornadoes Outraged and not consuming calories when I can I remember sure but no again. I I explained this what I cannot remember or Imagine what things taste like or smell like for that matter. I can in my head Remember doing things or imagine myself doing things Visually, but these things do not have any smell or taste to them. I can remember myself eating pizza There's no taste. I can imagine myself eating pizza on top of fucking skyscraper There is no taste what I can remember though is my feeling of satisfaction or Contentment or what what have you with the food and my body like my subconscious parts of me Has an understanding of like what things cause satiation Remove feelings of hunger like I still have cravings for The chemicals and sugars and all that shit that exists in these foods Even if I myself cannot consciously remember the actual taste of it I don't know if that's how you guys function, but that's how I function. I can taste I just can't remember the taste You know saying like so like when I eat something in the moments I can taste it and I know whether or not this is how it's meant to taste It's it's only in the actual experience of it that I can recall or recognize The taste of a previously the second I stop eating it. It's gone. The information it just is not accessible to my conscious mind |
| 21. November 2020 | Unbelievable growth of Twitch Clips Channel | Twitch clips channel with unbelievable growth So have you guys seen my tweet this tweet the channel? Nino sent X is either bought or just someone downloading popular twitch clips and putting them on YouTube with no thumbnail They upload 10 videos an hour the channel went from basically zero subs and views to 22k subs and 16 million views in nine days look at that shit 10 million percent increase in views a million percent increase in subs and this is their channel some videos get literally nothing these are all recent ones, but um as someone points out here 300k 300k 200k that is a trap and people are debating here Whether they actually have ads I reckon they probably have us. I don't think YouTube cares. I Think they'd be perfectly willing to give us to channel either is as I always say Making original content is for suckers if you want to be successful in this world steal Can you automate that probably a downside of course is you have to have like no conscience, but You see you could probably just steal a random video long forgotten in time I would love to see a boss that would scan YouTube channels to find Channels that um hadn't uploaded in at least five years and then just Downloaded like any video that got over a million views and then upload it to their channel or something So you find dead channels that no one cares about they were once upon a time popular so I can just re-upload their content See what happens you |
| 05. September 2022 | Unboxing my gold play button | And I hope it's good. Unboxing my gold play button. I got something in the mail chat. You did it. One mission, one channel, and one more thing, one million subscribers. Congratulations. You may have started with just a few viewers, but your incredible voice, passion, creativity has now touched the lives of so many people around the world, and the community that you've built is immeasurably enriched by the stories that you've shared as you bring people together. To honor your incredible milestone, we are proud to present you with the Gold Creator Award. We hope that this special recognition will inspire you and remind you how much you mean to so many. We know this milestone is one of many that you've reached, with others yet to come. You're part of a dynamic group of creators who are building the next generation of new media companies. Every day, you are redefining how content is created and watched, one voice and one video at a time. It is a great privilege to be a part of your journey. We can't wait to see what you do next. Yours sincerely, Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube. That is written really well. Like, I got tingles. I had no idea this thing was so big compared to the silver play buttons. It's reflective too. Presented to DarkviperAU for passing one million subscribers. Lovely. I have so many things I want to hang on my walls, but I'm concerned about damaging my walls or hanging them up poorly and stuff, so I just haven't got around to it. See you chat. Thank you for being here with me for this journey, and I hope to keep making content you can enjoy. As I said, when I got a million subs in my video, whatever, you guys have enriched my life, immeasurably, and most importantly, made me feel valued as a person, which is something that I never had prior to. |
| 18. May 2021 | Understanding the Super Smash Bros Meta | Understanding the Super Smash Brothers meta So I watched a Hungry Boxes Released video like the top tier people for Smash Ultimate And he said Pikachu is the best character in Smash Ultimate. Do people commonly agree that that is the case? Nah, yes. Yeah. No It's funny cuz you know who the best character for Super Smash Brothers 64 is It's Pikachu Why? Um, I can't remember he hits hard his grabs are good and His recovery is insane that car just disappeared Spooky like I don't know about like I don't know I watch a bit of Smash I watch these videos and stuff, but I don't really get the terms like up B smash turn pivot whatever I understand recovery understand grabs, you know, I kind of understand but like, you know, I'm not that into it I mean if the game was realistic then a Pikachu would just beat everyone because it's like Lightning and that just that just like kills everything dude I mean ignore that it doesn't make sense for a rat to be able to expel electricity But like if you ignore that near speaking realistically Pikachu will clearly beat everyone in like one hit. I watch Smash tournaments Sometimes I wouldn't mind going to like a smash tournament like if if one was held here I don't think I've ever actually been to an eSports thing Could be fun Be sure to LIKE the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 04. October 2021 | Understanding the lack of singleplayer DLC given GTA Online success | Understanding the lack of singleplayer DOC given GTA Online's success The year is 2035 Rockstar has made Red Dead Redemption 74 and made new additions to every one of their franchises except for GTA 5 Still hasn't made singleplayer DOC, hasn't made GTA 6 hasn't made any good content for the game GTA Online now has like everything but the kitchen sink and it's all garbage and you now have to put out a mortgage to buy one shortcut This is the future we're leading to I'll be frank with you though Like surely any singleplayer DOC that they made would probably revolve around some kind of a heist, right? The voice acting might be a little bit better in the animations like there'd be better cutscenes and stuff but there wouldn't be much reason why they would make that singleplayer only rather than online It would probably just end up being effectively the same content except you couldn't use any of the money that you made to buy stuff in GTA Online and you couldn't play with your friends The only reason I really want singleplayer DOC is to expand the singleplayer story like the paths to the characters and stuff but I don't know how many people would be seriously interested in that Like I can totally understand, as much as I complain I can totally understand the reason why they'd probably make it online, you know? |
| 03. January 2021 | Underwhelming Cyberpunk and the effect of delays. | How underwhelming cyberpunk was and the effect of delays. I have no plans to play cyberpunk anytime soon, no. That I missed the day one hype, and that the game doesn't seem particularly amazing, anyway. It's a game I'll definitely play, but I feel no motivation to play it. I feel very... CD Projekt Red has, uh, stiffed a lot of people, and I am one of them. Oh no, I hear it's a perfectly fine game on, uh, PC. It's one of those games where, um, there's so much of it that looks......underwhelming. Like that clip where a guy shoots and every single NPC gets out of the car at the exact same time and begins to cower. And you're like... Or that guy who......dives out of his car......full speed......and takes no damage. And then it's always in first person, outside of vehicles and stuff, it's just like... It's like... I'm sure I'll enjoy playing it, it's just, uh, there's no......huge reason for me to put aside my normal obligations to play it. Had I got it on release with everyone else, of course I would have played it. Would have played it and finished the entire thing by now. Without this, ehh... It just becomes another game after that point. I've not seen a shred of optimized or interesting Cyberpunk gameplay so far. Me either, exactly. Every bit of gameplay I've seen of it makes it look so underwhelming. And as a person who cares far more about gameplay than I do story......SciPunk is just an okay game, or that hyphen, I think, yeah, it's......working on a game for eight years to come out like that, it's just......you know. When they kept delaying it......obviously that was a very bad sign. Like, when you delay something for three months......you go, okay, what can we do in three months? What can we prioritize that we can actually finish? Then when three months is over, and you do another three month delay......it's like you go with the same mindset, okay......well, we kind of did the things that we could do in three months the first time......what do we do now? Like, I mean, the things that you'd prioritize if you know you have six months......versus three months is very different. It's complete mismanagement to have had that many delays. Had all those delays been one delay of just a long amount of time......they probably could have used their time more effectively. But having an uncertain future, is it gonna release? Is it not gonna release? Are we gonna delay it or not? That likely did not help things, you know. I doubt the devs were behind this shitty release. Oh, well, they would be set the time targets, right? It certainly isn't the devs making the ultimate decisions. They would have made decisions within the guidelines set by the higher-ups......and, you know, as I say, the continued uncertain future......would have hamstrung them in terms of being able to get the game to the best state it could have been in. |
| 03. January 2021 | Underwhelming cyberpunk and the effect of delays. | How underwhelming cyberpunk was and the effect of delays. I have no plans to play cyberpunk anytime soon, no. That I missed the day one hype, and that the game doesn't seem particularly amazing, anyway. It's a game I'll definitely play, but I feel no motivation to play it. I feel very... CD Projekt Red has, uh, stiffed a lot of people, and I am one of them. Oh no, I hear it's a perfectly fine game on, uh, PC. It's one of those games where, um, there's so much of it that looks......underwhelming. Like that clip where a guy shoots and every single NPC gets out of the car at the exact same time and begins to cower. And you're like... Or that guy who......dives out of his car......full speed......and takes no damage. And then it's always in first person, outside of vehicles and stuff, it's just like... It's like... I'm sure I'll enjoy playing it, it's just, uh, there's no......huge reason for me to put aside my normal obligations to play it. Had I got it on release with everyone else, of course I would have played it. Would have played it and finished the entire thing by now. Without this, ehh... It just becomes another game after that point. I've not seen a shred of optimized or interesting Cyberpunk gameplay so far. Me either, exactly. Every bit of gameplay I've seen of it makes it look so underwhelming. And as a person who cares far more about gameplay than I do story......SciPunk is just an okay game, or that hyphen, I think, yeah, it's......working on a game for eight years to come out like that, it's just......you know. When they kept delaying it......obviously that was a very bad sign. Like, when you delay something for three months......you go, okay, what can we do in three months? What can we prioritize that we can actually finish? Then when three months is over, and you do another three month delay......it's like you go with the same mindset, okay......well, we kind of did the things that we could do in three months the first time......what do we do now? Like, I mean, the things that you'd prioritize if you know you have six months......versus three months is very different. It's complete mismanagement to have had that many delays. Had all those delays been one delay of just a long amount of time......they probably could have used their time more effectively. But having an uncertain future, is it gonna release? Is it not gonna release? Are we gonna delay it or not? That likely did not help things, you know. I doubt the devs were behind this shitty release. Oh, well, they would be set the time targets, right? It certainly isn't the devs making the ultimate decisions. They would have made decisions within the guidelines set by the higher-ups......and, you know, as I say, the continued uncertain future......would have hamstrung them in terms of being able to get the game to the best state it could have been in. |
| 06. November 2020 | Unintentionally making Pacifist Harder than it needs to be. | unintentionally making pacifist harder than it needed to be. Pacifist interestingly answers multiple questions about the game. If you did a melee only challenge, how many times would you have to violate the melee only part of that? What is the minimum amount of shots required to complete the game? How many people do you have to kill to complete the game? Well there was some thinking about the rules when I made the rules for pacifist. I didn't immediately think about the implications for the run. Think for a moment if I didn't make the rule about melee. And I just said I can kill them using any way that I want. If I'm not able to do it passively. Deveil would have been a walk in the park. Would have just snapped them all down. Much of the difficulty in pacifist doesn't just come from me trying to do it passively, but also me trying to melee people once I realize that I can't do it passively. I'm so happy I put that rule in because it made the series much more interesting than it would have been otherwise. |
| 01. June 2020 | United kingdom’s response to crisis | Finish it. What is your opinion on the UK's response to COVID-19? I don't know enough about it. I saw some leaked brief or whatever where their original plan was to do nothing and just let 200,000 people die or some shit. And they were confused that people weren't OK with that. They just assumed that people would be pragmatic and go, well, you know, some people just got to die for the economy. And I don't know anything else after that. It seemed to be a legitimate document. Could it be complete propaganda for I know, because I don't it doesn't really matter for my circumstance, I mean, so I haven't looked into it deeply. |
| 22. July 2022 | Unnamed’s speedrunning career and people I met through doing No Damage Runs | Unnamed speedrunning career and people I met through doing no damage runs You didn't know unnamed actually ran other than Oko? Ah, he didn't prior to Oko. It's why I said at the time that he wasn't a speedrunner and I didn't know him because he wasn't a speedrunner and I didn't know him. But after Oko he's proven himself to be very good at the game and very committed to being good at it you know and he's helped out with a lot of strat testing and he's found all the strats himself and stuff. As I've said before massive silver lining to not completing Oko faster was all the people who ended up contributing to Oko who have helped either helped me out personally since then or have since gone on to become runners themselves and I've found a lot of stuff you know. Because had I succeeded a lot earlier I wouldn't have met such people. As in had I succeeded earlier and therefore the series ended sooner perhaps they wouldn't have been inspired to get involved. It's an interesting question do I see meeting Crim well on names are him and do I see that as a better than getting first in no damage? I think I do. I mean I still got the video anyway. Ah, but a lot of people out there do think I'm an asshole because of all that drama. No, I still think it's worth it. Especially, yeah it's definitely worth it. Definitely worth it. What am I talking about? |
| 22. March 2022 | Unnecessarily long Exposé videos. | Unnecessarily long expose videos. What's that expression? I apologize, I am bereft of time. If it weren't for that, I would have written a shorter letter. What's that expression? It's a thing that dude said. It's a quote to basically mean that it takes additional time to be terse, or to be succinct, to cut what you're saying down to the core of what you truly want to say. Anyone can just write and write and write and write and write and write and write and write and eventually, if a person reads it all, they will understand your point. But it takes true arse to explain a point in like the fewest words possible. And I just feel like sometimes exposes will just go on and on and on and on and on and will have no respect for brevity. Some exposes justify their two plus hour runtime. But I think some people, when they release two plus hour videos, and people will actually watch the entire thing, they're like, oh, well, I'll just make my videos as long as fuck, who cares? And people will eventually watch them. But you still got to actually care that you're filling up those two hours with stuff of value. Was a |
| 22. March 2022 | Unnecessarily long exposé videos. | Unnecessarily long expose videos. What's that expression? I apologize, I am bereft of time. If it weren't for that, I would have written a shorter letter. What's that expression? It's a thing that dude said. It's a quote to basically mean that it takes additional time to be terse, or to be succinct, to cut what you're saying down to the core of what you truly want to say. Anyone can just write and write and write and write and write and write and write and write and eventually, if a person reads it all, they will understand your point. But it takes true arse to explain a point in like the fewest words possible. And I just feel like sometimes exposes will just go on and on and on and on and on and will have no respect for brevity. Some exposes justify their two plus hour runtime. But I think some people, when they release two plus hour videos, and people will actually watch the entire thing, they're like, oh, well, I'll just make my videos as long as fuck, who cares? And people will eventually watch them. But you still got to actually care that you're filling up those two hours with stuff of value. But somebody actually does have, like several people who don't actually want to see the whole thing. |
| 24. February 2022 | Unofficial fan accounts. | Now, unofficial fan accounts. There is currently a fan account on Twitter that I see sometimes, right? Whenever I see a fan account, I'm flattered, but at the same time, it just feels like such a waste of time being a fan to that degree of anyone's content, including mine, I'd say flattering, but surely there's other things you could be doing with your time that would be more entertaining or more productive. Like I'm not saying you always have to be productive in your life, but surely you can get more value out of watching or engaging with other content as opposed to maintaining some sort of a fan account on some platform. Like I don't understand the mentality behind creating that. I can understand the mentality behind making content and posting on Reddit or something in celebration of someone else's content or whatever, parodies or remakes or whatever that helped, all that stuff that people make, ass and stuff, but just the maintaining of a fan account on like Twitter or something. I don't understand that mentality. I'm not offended by it. For reasons outside of my understanding, people find some satisfaction in that, or power to them, but you know. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. |
| 16. May 2021 | Unrealistic beauty standards | Unrealistic beauty standards. Where did I hear it recently? Destiny talking about Vtubers. And him remarking about this trend that continues to go on where people continue to have more and more distorted views of what women look like. You know, with... Like, while it certainly does happen to men as well, to an extent, you know, photoshopping and stuff, with women it seems astronomically more. Everything's touched up, photoshopped, all this stuff. Nothing ever looks real anymore. And now you go to this extreme length where most of the successful, or most successful female streamers are people who use an avatar of a most idealistic anime character. Right? It's a weird trend. Let's imagine that in the future, like, Vtuber avatars are so perfect that they can perfectly match your facial expressions, and it's... Like, you'll be watching, and you know it's a Vtuber, that the range of responses they can give is just the exact same as a person. Be a weird world to live in. On some level, though, you've got to be like, why should the benefits of being attractive only be allowed to be received by those who just got genetically blessed, you know? Although I suppose looking good isn't, you know, just a matter of genetics, it's actually putting some effort in. I suppose the more that you can hide yourself from the world, the less reason you have to care about your physical appearance. And potentially your health as well, because that is of course tied to, in some extent, your physical appearance. It's a weird trend. I wonder where it's gonna go in the next couple years. |
| 23. January 2023 | Unveiling my upcoming compilation videos. | Upcoming compilation videos. Beweza asks, would you ever post super cuts of your videos or do you feel that will take away from the videos? I've posted many super cuts of my videos. What do you mean? Have you not watched them? I have a dude named Bittertricks who is compiling all my videos into Compilations and I've released quite a few. I even released one fairly recently Which was just all the times in Facts and Glitches where I said how many hours I had playing the game. There's also like the GT Online Glitches, there's the Grief of Jesus one. There's some just based on the game Which is like GT 5 but just the names, GT 5 but just the insults, GT 5 but just the greetings. All pretty funny. There was every fake and real crash. Did every time that chat helps, did that come out? Every fake death I think came out from Chaos Mod. Every chat why came out from Chaos Mod that was true. The one Hikero intros that came out. The one Hikero deaths still hasn't come out actually. Every time from Reddit recap where I said awful that came out. The deaths and kills from Pacifist hasn't come out. GT Online Fails hasn't come out. There are presently I would say like 12 Facts and Glitches Compilations that haven't come out yet because there's a chunk of Facts and Glitches that haven't been processed and made into episodes yet And so I would want those in the compilations as well. please subscribe for more |
| 23. December 2022 | Unveiling the truth behind my giveaways. | Failing the truth behind my giveaways. Wohi Wallabala asked on the Discord, which you can ask me questions on the Discord as well, for rambles, if you are a YouTube member, a Twitch subscriber, or a patron. What value do you as a content creator actually get out of giveaways? After having done so many, do you think they are worth it? When I do a giveaway, I don't really bother looking into like the analytics of whether or not it makes sense to do financially, or whether I get like a returnal or something. In general, giveaways, especially through Gleam, are designed to have your viewers on one platform follow you on other platforms, from a business sense. Do I think there's a return on investment for that? Probably not. Certainly because I have a bonus for Twitch subscribers, some people give me their primes, but as more people have given me their primes as my giveaways have grown, I've just increased the amount of money that I give away in the giveaway. I in general just like doing them because, I mean, they're kind of fun to do. They make people's day. I get emails like, oh my God, thank you so much. And I know the experience of randomly getting a couple of hundred bucks or whatever, and it's a good experience. So like, it just seems like a win-win situation. I get to feel good, they get to feel good, they get money, I potentially get people who follow me on more platforms, and it's just everyone involved is getting something out of it. Do I gain more than I lose? The money isn't super important to me. To be fair, neither are the maybe thousand or two Twitter followers or whatever. But like I say, it's more about the fun of it. I'm not doing one every day. I just do one every couple of months. What do other YouTubers get out of their giveaways? I can't tell you their motivations. Maybe they believe they're playing some 4D chess where they're like, man, I'm making so much money if I just keep doing giveaways. I don't know. Some people do have other requirements for giveaways that I don't have, and some people say they're doing a giveaway and never give stuff away. Obviously I'm not that way. You can ask any of the people I've given money to. But it is certainly true that you get people say making a Twitter account specifically to follow people for giveaways and stuff. Like it isn't all true engagement or people who are actually being engaged in watching you on whatever platform they've signed up for, for example. Like a person who signs up to you on Twitter because of a giveaway isn't as likely to look at your stuff or like or whatever the fuck the purpose of Twitter is compared to a person who's knowingly sorts you out for that purpose, right? So yeah, as you say, the value is even probably lower than you perhaps perceive it to be. But I'd say I'm not really sitting there with a calculator doing the maths to find does the analytics make sense at all? I just think it's a fun thing to do. And it's like, while I'm there, when in Rome, I may as well ask people to just follow me on other stuff. Cause why not? I don't think it harms me. Like I know for a fact that people don't just immediately unsubscribe or immediately unfollow or something because I'd be able to see that on the backend. But what's more likely is a lot of people to making accounts specifically to sign up to giveaways and stuff. With that being said, you cannot win my giveaway unless something you've used to sign up shows some sign of not being a bot of life. Like if you got one tweet to some random soccer player where you're like, man, you're a dick. I'm like, well, that's a real person. Maybe not a nice person, but here's your money. Probably every giveaway that I do, there's maybe one or two people where like the bot doesn't even look particularly complex. All it is is just like nothing but following giveaways and they haven't subscribed to anything. Like they're not subscribed to my YouTube or something. They've just like visited particular things because it's easier to get a bot program to do. It's that the vast majority of people who sign up are just normal people, but like I'm not gonna give money to bots. Matt stalks you when you win the giveaway. I wouldn't say stalking, but like if you follow me on Twitter, it will say, hey, this person won by following your Twitter. So I'll look at your Twitter. And if your Twitter is just nothing but giveaways, I'll go, well, let's see. Oh, they followed me on Twitch as well. So I look at your Twitch and I'm like, okay, this person has said actual things in my chat before. So I guess they're a real person. At the end of the day, I want actual people to receive the money so they can get something that they want rather than some person who's just programmed something to enter every giveaway on the internet. |
| 26. April 2021 | UpIsNotJump. | Up is not jump Who I watched um Was up is not jump released a video yesterday about um hitman He goes to a lot of effort with his videos in terms of getting real-life props and whatnot That is a guy who? enjoys dressing up and doing weird stuff on camera Look at that that kind of sounds sexual. I I didn't I just mean for his videos on YouTube, okay? I know anything about him personally, okay? All I'm saying is that though because I didn't mean to bring this up But now that has been brought up it would be surprising to me given the amount of costumes that he has If he did not use them for other purposes other than his YouTube videos now that I think about it I mean, why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you do that up is not jump you may have seen his videos? Why? X game is a nightmare He does a lot of VR stuff like why this VR game is a nightmare |
| 09. February 2023 | Upcoming Major Changes on Twitch. | upcoming major changes on twitch so twitch is having some changes twitch 2023 patch notes and upcoming changes new ad system ad incentive program will have more flexibility to adjust the number of ads ads manager will help you better control when the ads will roll upcoming rework of twitch turbo, no details viewers will get a heads up for when the ads are coming new flags to let viewers know when they are seeing advertisers or sponsored content pre rolls will be disabled if you run 3 minutes of ads every hour pre rolls will be in picture by picture most of the time that's when the ad will be like the full screen but my stream will be like in a smaller box in the corner i guess that's on desktop, i don't know how that would look on mobile i guess on mobile it would become like that small little box in the corner as we've talked about many times, ads in a live streaming setting can be very disruptive and annoying because you don't know what content is happening at the time so you can't just have ads automatically play without it like interrupting what you're doing for viewers because you do miss stuff because the stream is still going unless you have specific breaks in your content new and improved features, clips can be edited and exported to a vertical format this is so long overdue when tiktok came out, people said constantly like twitch has thousands upon thousands upon thousands of clips of people doing cool stuff that they could create into its own section that people could browse and find creators through whether or not that would be successful is a separate question but that they didn't try was weird to people the clips always had to be found from an external source like reddit or something and there wasn't an easy way to browse them because there are websites that have all the clips on them that you can browse but twitch never did that and then when all the DMCA drama happened where twitch was like oh just delete all your clips it's cool people were like you're insane, you've got so much content that you could be using to promote your website and stuff and you're just like oh delete that shit don't worry about it very strange pinned clips, twitch emotes and titles hell yeah man, gonna have devapper happy in every single god damned title or like whatever mood I'm in, I'm just gonna put that as an emote minor improvements to the twitch mobile app, improvements to guest star I have no idea what that is, nor do I care obviously it's a collaboration tool but unique first party alerts are they finally going to make it so that we don't have to use streamlabs or stream elements and we can actually have alerts appear on our stream through some twitch integration, one would hope more stats in the backend including tag analytics data on the best days and times to stream for various categories audience retention data this stuff exists somewhat on other websites none of this super matters to me because I just stream whenever I have energy streamers can send video and clip messages to follow or and or subs once upon a time you were able to send an email to all of your subscribers I never used this feature but I have often said I wish I could just communicate with all my subs and be like hey yo thanks or do an announcement or some such rather than having to hope that some of them see it on discord or what have you the downside of doing this of course if you're a little bit selfish is that it might remind people that they're subscribed to you people like oh I'm still subscribed to that asshole dark viper AU I'm gonna unsubscribe him immediately QA tool with mod tools don't care improvement to tags this is so like you can do more custom tags which I don't know how that's gonna work but we'll see discovery mode for the twitch mobile app where you can scroll through channels and clips something that should probably exist a long time ago like you can see that as annoying as twitch is sometimes in part because of the people who are on it twitch is clearly more interested in improving their live streaming experience than youtube is |
| 26. December 2022 | Upcoming collab for facts and glitches videos | for my Facts and Glitches videos. So with my Facts and Glitches series, there are now currently 61 episodes. And what is interesting is as time has gone on, my editing has gotten faster and faster, and my presentation as well has become more refined to the degree that the amount of Facts and Glitches has done nothing but increase per episode. So for the first 12 episodes, there was eight to 13 Facts and Glitches. Then after that, it averaged out to like 18 to 25. But it like steadily grew to that over time, which is shown in the most recent episode, which is episode 61, where 20 Facts and all Glitches made up nine minutes of footage, nine minutes. So we averaged like one every 30 seconds. And so it's made it harder to make more episodes more frequently, because I need more and more and more stuff to get the same amount of runtime. So if you're wondering why Facts and Glitches comes out less frequently, that is a part of the reason. Also that I've gone through like most easy or well-known Facts and Glitches. Although spoilers for future episodes, I have been in contact with whatever57010. He is also a dude who does a lot of Facts and Glitches and stuff, some of it with mods, some of it with online, not exactly the same as what I do, but you know, in the same vein. And I said to him, hey, look, how about we collaborate? And I go through your older videos and pick out stuff that I didn't know, and I make videos out of it, and I give you a portion of the revenue. He's like, cool, man, why not? Because obviously his older videos aren't really getting any views. It's just basically free money for him, and I get videos on my channel, win-win. So I think like 150 things were found that I didn't know or that aren't in my series from his older stuff, and those will be made into videos that will be coming out fairly soon, hopefully. So be... |
| 26. December 2021 | Upcoming improvements to my merch | Upcoming improvements to my merch, which maybe by the time you watch this video have already been done, so check out my merch down below. So these are the emotes that are currently on stuff. So this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, and this one were from my first attempts to make merch. I had my original emotes upscaled and redrawn and filled in, so the hats there and all that stuff. And I tried to make merch on Streamlabs, but it was so amazingly slow. Every single emote took like 50 minutes to upload. It was the most painful experience of my entire life. I cannot express how bad Streamlabs merch is. And so these just sat here and they never ended up on any merch. But when I moved to StreamElements, they were willing to help me out, add the stuff for me as long as I gave them the merch stuff. And so these ended up on shirts. These were made by Kara. So what Kara did is she upscaled my normal emotes and then like colored them to make sure there wasn't any imperfections. See, like there's a smudge here that kind of goes out like this, and there's like a little bump here and here. And if you look very closely with the blacks, like there's a little bit of weird coloring, because the upscaling isn't perfect. Some of them are far worse. Some of them are far better. So they need like small little touch ups there. Look at these smudges here. Look at these smudges. Kara upscaled them and is fixing these small little imperfections. And so those are the ones that have been done. Over time, Kara will do the rest as well. So all of these will hopefully end up on merch eventually. Maybe not all of them, but it's 96 of them. |
| 10. August 2022 | Update on Spiffing Brit’s break Youtube video. | Change. Update on Spiffing Brits break YouTube video. That video where he broke YouTube by putting it at 0.5x speed or whatever, it's got like five million views now. And while that doesn't confirm that it didn't just do really well because of the thumbnail, title and concept, it seems far more likely than not, right? So it was a successful experiment, I think. I mean, ideally you'd have to run it a few more times, but so clearly YouTube hasn't done any kind of shenanigans to cap that stuff aside, you know? |
| 10. August 2022 | Update on spiffing brit’s break youtube video. | Change. Update on Spiffing Brits break YouTube video. That video where he broke YouTube by putting it at 0.5x speed or whatever, it's got like five million views now. And while that doesn't confirm that it didn't just do really well because of the thumbnail, title and concept, it seems far more likely than not, right? So it was a successful experiment, I think. I mean, ideally you'd have to run it a few more times, but so clearly YouTube hasn't done any kind of shenanigans to cap that stuff aside, you know? |
| 12. February 2023 | Update on the lawsuit against GTA Vice City and GTA III modders. | Update on the lawsuit against GTA Viasity and GTA 3 modders. I have nothing to say on this topic, but I will just relay this information because it was covered in a previous Rambles. From Ben Videotech. New, in 2021, a group of passionate mod developers were sued by Take2interactive for reverse engineering Grand Theft Auto 3 in Viasity. Today, both parties are in the process of a settlement without the need for the suit to go any further. So we are unlikely to learn exactly the nature of the settlement or what both sides need to do, but I don't think we're probably going to get the reverse engineered GTA 3 or Viasity, which sucks. |
| 05. August 2022 | Update on trying to get good mobile coverage | Rumble on this topic I tried to get myself transferred from Vodafone to Telstra and Telstra was completely unable to facilitate this But update to the Telstra story thing Telstra after being silent like four or five days or whatever Forces the change of my sim card without my knowledge And so for the entire day my phone was unable to get calls and messages and then they proceeded to try to call me Like four times, but because I didn't have my Telstra sim in my phone They their calls couldn't get through it took an email at like 6 p.m. for me to realize that this is all this all happened and so I put in the sim from Telstra and I get one bar and when I do speed tests it bounces between like 2 megabits per second down and 70 megabits per second down the upload it bounces between 0.01 Megabits per second and like 2 megabits per second upload so unusable Entirely unusable especially for a live streamer. So basically they they fucked around 15 support staff multiple days ignoring me not fulfilling phone calls Order force the sim card change which they said they simply couldn't do before they didn't have enough information to change the sim card They couldn't turn it on they couldn't get my number and lo and behold some random guy with no additional information Did it themselves and after all that their network is fucking shit I've just I've just never seen This degree of incompetence in my entire fucking life. It's 1230 chat because I woke up at 4 p.m I've done effectively nothing with my day slash nights, and you know why I've woken up at 4 p.m Because I once upon a time told Telstra don't call me for 12. Just don't. Just leave me alone Don't sleep patterns terrible if you call me for that it would just become worse And so they spam called me at 9 a.m. Every single fucking day waking me up. I'd always missed the phone call What's happening? Why why am I being told all the phone? I forgot to turn it off again. Oh, no, please. Oh, it's done Well, I'll try and get back to sleep again 15 minutes. Oh, no, it's going off again Oh, it's gone never tell Telstra a time not to call you or they'll call you and what's funny chat Is all the excuses in the world for why the service here is shit from Telstra. Oh, it's your phone It's not a supported phone even though it's a phone they sell on their fucking website It's a Samsung Galaxy s22 whatever like brand-new Samsung. I don't even support them bullshit They're like I'll pull your phone something on your phone I go grab my old phone put it in still getting one bar still getting like like two megabits per second upload and like like 10 download and it's stuttering everywhere fucking nonsense, but you know, it's the worst thing chat I finally got the SIM card for Aussie broadband and I put them in too I didn't hook up my number to it but you can see what kind of cell coverage you have just by putting in a SIM and One bar so three networks in Australia Telstra Vodafone and Optus and Aussie broadband uses the Optus network and all three of them do not have coverage here Doesn't matter you're 3g 4g 5g doesn't fucking matter slow ass fucking speeds One bar and I think to myself like why would they increase their coverage and I can't think of a reason I mean why not just keep it shit pay less money and just have it be like a Coin flip as to whether or not you get someone service because everyone needs a mobile provider You need to need need some internet and so if like if one of them improves their service So fucking what it take like a bajillion years to be able to realize that another providers got better service here It's not like you can test it with things that are necessities It's so hard to have good market competition like anything that you can't bail on You're you're asking for market failures Like I want to buy a jet ski I can shop around for that shit And if there isn't one in the price range that I want or doesn't have the features I want I won't buy one Can't do that with food can't do that with water can't do that with shelter can't do that with access to information and communication with broadband internet in this country There's regulations that have passed that require you to Require companies to give a certain degree of service in the area that they sell coverage It doesn't exist for mobile internet if those laws existed They would have to build out the infrastructure here, but they don't exist the regulations don't exist, so I'm up shit creek Libertarians among you might be like oh just wait for a new mobile provider to invest another ten trillion dollars to to come and Shake up the status quo Five to ten years now you'll see then you'll get your mobile internet any update on Telstra um I've given them eight hundred and forty seven different speed tests and They say they're looking into it And that's a mean the coverage sucks and this they can do nothing about it the inflation rate is bad everywhere is inflation as bad in Australia |
| 22. July 2022 | Updates to my merch store | Updates to my merch store. Oh by the way guys there is 25 more items on my merch store. Not gonna read them all out, but you can you can see even a gun now Which is good. Oh, so the white ones are the new ones I see That's cool. Got shirts and mugs and stickers and mouse pads tank tops and phone cases the |
| 10. November 2022 | Users controlling multiple audio tracks on YouTube. | Uses controlling multiple audio tracks on YouTube. I've always wanted some way to adjust different audio track volumes independently. Maybe the new YouTube feature will allow that eventually. I sincerely doubt that'll ever happen. It would be nice if you could upload a video where you have like one audio track for everything and another audio track for music. And so if you're a person who doesn't like the music in the video, you can turn that down. Or on the rare occasion that you find a video where the person has put the music too high and you can't understand what they're saying, you could turn that down yourself. But there'd be so much complexity on the back end for very niche situations. And a lot of creators, artists, whatever, wouldn't like that kind of stuff. Like, why are you destroying my creation? I decide how people experience it. It's like when Netflix was first implementing their speed increase for their platform, a lot of directors and people in the creative industry were like, you're destroying our creation, you know, this is us, you can't just speed up us. And I think it's fucking crazy. You know, I'm more of a, the user should dictate how they experience the thing as opposed to the creator themselves. If the user believes that some particular method would be better for them, that's in their business and they should be allowed to do that. But as I say, any time you want to add these kind of things adds complexity that potentially wouldn't be wouldn't be used by the overwhelming vast majority of people, you know. |
| 23. August 2021 | Using a VPN for cheaper Twitch subs | Viewers suggest people VPN to change their region in order to get cheaper subscriptions. Or do you mean people VPN so that they can have cheaper subs? I doubt very many people are going to go to that effort. Always keep in mind that it's just because it's hypothetically possible for people to do something wrong or to break a rule or something, it doesn't mean they're going to. The example I always use is that you could probably walk into any store and steal a candy bar and walk out and nothing's ever going to happen to you. That you don't do that in every store now, do you? Or presumably anyway. There are people who make a business from this, like they sell people a sub for $3, but they buy it for $1.5. I don't think subs are... So the main reason people buy a sub is to support a content creator. And buying cheaper subs just does that less, you know? I don't think there's enough of a demand for that, you know? It's not the only reason, don't get me wrong, but I don't think there's going to be an... enough of a black market for subs, you know? |
| 20. May 2021 | Using memes to increase the value of assets | Using memes to increase the value of assets. What do I think of the Dogecoin situation? Dogecoin is a meme. It's just pump and dump. Like the vast majority of people are just gonna lose money. It's gonna be the transference of wealth from some people to other people. And that's all that's gonna come of it. Every single time I see a meme for a cryptocurrency on Reddit, I'm like, well, there's one scumfuck who is attempting to inspire people to buy a cryptocurrency that they have money in. Every person I see who types Dogecoin to the moon, I'm like, well, there's a scumfuck trying to get people to invest money in something that they're gonna lose money in. Memes are all fun and games until they get built up around an asset class that the people making memes have investments in. It's like, hey, kids, want to get into crippling debt? Hey, kids, want to destroy your future losing fuck tons of money on cryptocurrency? Want to give me all your money? Hell yeah, man. Check out this meme. When you look at all that shit on Reddit as just a way to manipulate the market for the profit of a select group of people, it no longer looks fun. How do you invest in AUD? Do you mean spending AUD or was it shorting the currency or whatever? Because you can invest in a currency, right? And either you buy a lot of that currency with the expectation that it will go up or you short this in that you what was it you you you you promised to sell the currency at a fixed amounts and then you hope that the value goes up or whatever. How is it down? Yeah, so you can. So it goes down so you can buy it for cheap and then sell at that price, making a profit. Yeah, OK. I am not an investor, guys. And hold a very bleak view of the market. Cryptocurrencies don't just go up when they're used as a currency. Surely, even now, even with Bitcoin, the overwhelming majority of transactions are for the currency itself rather than for other goods, correct? Like announcements that Bitcoin can be used to buy certain products can lead to a spike in the in the value because everyone expects that everyone else is going to buy the crypto. And so they want to get in before that spike. I mean, any news about anything almost seems to lead to a spike in value as people try and buy before everyone else buys. Doesn't that lead to manipulation? If some big leaks a fake story? Yeah. And I'm fairly certain that's illegal to do. And there have been people who've tried to do that kind of thing. But something being illegal doesn't necessarily mean that you can be brought up on charges. It's not illegal to do that for crypto because it's not regulated. Are you sure, though? Are you sure it's not illegal, but it's like impossible to show or something? I'm pretty sure it's illegal. I'd be staggered if over the entire world, there was not a law against the whole pump and dump thing. But it's just difficult to prove with crypto because you can you even prove ownership of most crypto? So whatever I know absolutely you can. Crypto is pseudo anonymous. It's easy to track a wallet to a person when they make big waves. Oh, okay, interesting. |
| 27. January 2021 | Using metal straws | I am now using metal straws. So I have metal straws now guys. Every time I use one, I think I'm gonna crack my teeth or something. I use knives and forks, or I've used them throughout my life, and never be concerned about putting that metal in my mouth. Why am I so concerned about a metal straw? No, I'm not concerned about the turtles necessarily. It's that uh, because it's metal, you assume that it's colder, right? And cleaner than the plastic. Especially because I use, like I don't, I don't use a straw once. I use a straw like 57,000 times, and I just figure the metal would be better with that purpose. How's metal cleaner? I don't know. I just, it just, I just assume if you use a metal straw the drink will get room temperature faster. Really? Okay, so we make a poll for people to tell me if I should use a metal or plastic straw. Or you can just use your mouth to drink. Um, on stream, no. 78% voted for metal? I'm really surprised. Did you, did they give the option for plastic? I will follow what you desire, chat. |
| 02. February 2021 | VR GTA 5 and speedrunning | VR GTA 5 and speedrunning. There is a VR mod for this game. It's third party. Apparently it's pretty good, but I haven't done VR enough to have VR sea legs or whatever, so it would fucking destroy me. I do eventually want to try it though, but I can't do anything until Oko has finished. Please just let me win. It'd be funny if eventually I trained enough that I could actually speedrun this in VR. I think it'd be so amazingly intensive though. Can you imagine doing a buffered ledge grab in VR? It would just destroy you mentally as you just walk through all of reality. |
| 08. November 2020 | VTuber, Money, and not being an anime fan | VTubers money and not being an anime fan. I think I talked on VTubers before Galactic. I have no real strong opinion. Because I have watched anime videos on YouTube, YouTube has recommended me some VTuber content. And while I have seen the occasional cute clip, I have no interest in watching VTubers. It's hard to explain why. The cuteness of the character does not lead itself to prolonged watching of content for me. I watch anime, but I've never seen myself as a huge anime fan necessarily. Unless people talk about how much they like this season or that season of JoJo, I'm just like, yeah, I watched it, it was alright. It was pretty good. I enjoyed it. They go, but what season did you like? I don't know. I remember which season was which and I didn't dislike my time spending watching it, so it was a good thing. They go, but didn't you hate this season? I don't know, man. It was just a show. It was alright. I don't really have any deep love or affection for any media that I consume. But I've heard VTubers are making fat stacks of money, like of the top ten content creators in terms of donations on YouTube, super chats or whatever. Like eight of them or something. Or like the greater majority were VTubers. But of course these VTubers belong to an agency and so it's an interesting question of wondering how much of the money they're actually getting. Is there anyone here who doesn't know what VTubers are? Type one if you know what VTubers are, type two if you don't know what VTubers are. Some people are actually writing too. So VTubers are basically, it was originally more of a Japanese thing, so the VTubers that you found were Japanese, but it's basically people playing a character and rather than having a webcam like me, they have an avatar that's an anime character. So you might have like a 28 year old former receptionist in real life pretending to be like an 18 year old school girl or something. But because they're fictional characters, they can have backstories and stuff. Like one can be like a 6,000 year old dragon, another one is like a half dog. Like they've got little dog ears and stuff. They make cute anime sounds and stuff and they pretend to be characters. So while on a normal livestream, a streamer will be some degree of themselves all the way to a completely fictional character like Doc, but you can still see them. VTubers are just a character. Sometimes they may break character and talk about themselves and stuff, but like it's an act. It's a performance, a cute one. And so there's clips on YouTube of different VTubers doing various different cute things or funny things or whatever. They all have different personalities. The main reason I know a lot about it is because I watch Trash Taste, which is a podcast with Gigguk, Anime Man, and I think his name is Connor. I'm the only person of the three that I watch as Gigguk, if I'm even saying his name correctly. But they watch VTubers and they kind of discussed how they got involved in it and I don't really see the appeal. I can understand the appeal. I mean, I don't personally find that content interesting. It originally was a Japanese thing. And so if you, there were some videos where people who spoke Japanese and English would translate what the Japanese VTubers were saying. But recently within the last month or two, it's an agency has released like has six people or whatever and even more joining or the whatever that they now speak English. And so I guess it's they're pretending to be anime characters, which are Japanese, but they speak English like you're watching an anime that's dubbed, I guess. I don't know. And that's why it's become more popular recently amongst the English audiences because there's now actual VTubers who speak English. But as I say, they're making heaps and heaps of money over the top 10 of live streamers in terms of super chat, like the majority were VTubers because they belong to it. |
| 29. May 2020 | Valorant’s Marketing | What do you think about Riot Games' Valorant approach to the FPS market and the hype surrounding it? I.e. it's going to kill CSGO, Rainbow Six Siege and Overwatch. I mean, why wouldn't a company hype up their new game? Do I doubt they actually think behind the scenes that CSGO is just going to die because of the existence of a game that is fairly similar to it. There's of course going to be people who just prefer what they're familiar with or prefer the style of CSGO, like the gun mechanics in Valorant apparently are not exactly the same as CSGO and the gimmicky stuff in Valorant is not going to appeal to everyone who plays CSGO. Do I think some people will move CSGO to Valorant? Possibly. I mean, some people certainly will. Will a significant amount of people? It remains to be seen. I don't know enough about the game to assess its likely competitive viability or how much it's going to disrupt the market, but it does seem to be a well-made game by a company with a lot of money behind them. So it would be strange if it went the way of Heroes of the Storm, which was Blizzard's failure in the Dota games. What are they called again? MOBA games. There you go. They didn't seem to be a direct competitor to CSGO before this point. This is as close to CSGO as any game that has come out in recent memory and certainly it's going to be interesting to watch. And I mean watch from afar because I do not watch the game and I don't really care about it. |
| 03. January 2021 | Vanilla coke. | Vanilla Coke is trash. Vanilla Coke is trash. They took something that's good, Coke, and they added vanilla to it, which is trash. Actually, vanilla is okay. Basically, they combine two good things together to make it fucking terrible. All variations of Coke and Pepsi have just made Coke and Pepsi worse in terms of flavor. Watching Forsen PB in Minecraft. Sy was there today, guys. When Forsen got a PB in his... |
| 30. July 2020 | Variety streamers | Variety Streamers There's a difference between watching someone for the game and watching someone because of the streamer. There definitely is, but I've also stressed this many times. Streamers are not the same every single game that they play. Depending upon how much experience you have in a game or how interesting that game is to you, like if you're playing a game that you passionately hate and know nothing about, it's almost inconceivable that anyone could make that interesting. Because you'll be having a shit time, maybe you're having tech issues or whatever and you're just complaining non-stop, and you don't know what you're doing with the game so you're not interacting with chat, you're not answering viewers' questions and stuff. At that point, the only people who will have your stream open are those who just need some kind of background noise. Every variety streamer that exists still have games that they can play where they have more viewers. You've seen Lyric have 40,000 viewers or whatever playing Apex Legends when that was big, and then dropped down to 20,000 when he's playing some random indie game. Same with Soda Popper. No one has consistently high views or their peak views with everything that they do. It's impossible. But what separates variety streamers from non-variety streamers is variety streamers could be successful if they never played another popular game again. If Lyric for the next 10 years did nothing but play indie games or just games he felt like playing from his childhood and shit, he would still be successful. He'd still be able to make a living. If I stopped playing GTA V right now, I'd be destitute when I ran out of money. My expenses would start to eclipse my revenue and I would fade into nothing. The amount of new viewers that I would get would not replace those who become sick of my content and leave, which is why I'm not a variety streamer. Or you can't classify me in that way because I could not be successful doing variety. |
| 08. November 2021 | Viability of YouTube’s Competitors | A viewer expressed that they like one of YouTube's competitors because they don't remove or demonetize content. They further asked if I'd make content there. The only reason competitors to YouTube would have be more hands-off for the content is because they're small and they're trying to get more content creators on the platform. It's like Twitch. Used to be the Wild West and then suddenly lo and behold it gets bigger, gets bored out, and then crack down on the sorts of content that can be on the platform. If you want to appeal to advertisers and you want to be profitable, you cannot have all types of content on your platform. There's a necessity as you get larger that you segregate your content creators, segregate the content so that you can better advertise it and thus monetize it. Because obviously all advertisers are not okay with being associated with all types of content nor are they interested in all viewers, just the viewers who might want to buy their products. If you find a platform that says we will never take down any content, we will never demonetize anything, it's all in your hands, they're lying to you until they- because they will do the complete opposite when they're big enough. The other problem is that a very large section of the content that YouTube removes or demonetizes is content that you don't want to associate with. Propaganda, Nazis, you know, gore, whatever it may be, pedophile shit. This is the content that is removed from YouTube and it needs to find a place and the place is alternatives to YouTube. Everyone who violates the TOS of YouTube, I'm sure you won't want to associate with all those sorts of people. You may be like, oh this person shouldn't be removed, but if you looked at every single person YouTube had ever removed, there'd be a substantial amount that you'd be like, yeah, I don't want to be anywhere near those people. But those would be, you know, your roommates on the new platform you go to. The reason why YouTube is successful is because it has all the viewers. Moving anywhere else, spending time on anything else, just means your content is less likely to be seen. Unless another entity, as big as YouTube, tries to take on YouTube, the smaller competitors are gonna have no chance and they all look shady as fuck. If you don't have billions of dollars at your back to get yourself exclusively made content or the large content creators, you can offer them a fee to to move over and make content there and hopefully drag the audience with them and whatnot, or you can- or you can revolutionize the online space somehow and then copyright that and so every view is like, oh my god, the- the content that's made on this other platform is just so unbelievable because of this X factor that we can only find there. We have to move over there. Which is effectively not gonna fucking happen. There's no way YouTube is gonna be knocked off their throne. YouTube Google is a multi multi multi billion dollar company with the best algorithms that exist currently and they will continue to grow and improve. Anywhere else you move is not going to be doing a better than YouTube. Not gonna be doing a better than Google. Additionally, from what I've heard, YouTube has the best compression storage and content delivery system of any company and they're light years ahead of anyone else. On every single way that you could evaluate a platform, the new place you move will be worse or if they are better they will simply become as bad just over time if they actually become successful. It is conceivable another platform could offer me enough money that it- I could move somewhere, but that is extraordinarily unlikely. And thus I'll be on YouTube likely for the foreseeable future. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 30. September 2022 | Video Game Dunkey becomes game publisher | Video game donkey becomes game publisher. So some of you may have heard the news that video game donkey is Making his own publishing. I guess studio called big mode I assume that was his way of communicating how he came up with the name big mode wait Really? Yeah, really he released a video about it and He got some criticism Because he kind of suggested that like he know he plays games So he knows what games are good. He only support the good games He wants people to reach out to him with their ideas and stuff that they're trying to develop that they can't get money for and They can work together and stuff the criticisms largely being like obviously publishers are not trying to release games that are bad things can start out with a really good idea that just don't pan out as you go along or You can think the end result is really good, but they just don't really jive You know and don't really find an audience Release at the wrong time all that stuff You know you and I say these these criticisms are like, you know, obviously donkey was just trying to hype this up be Enthusiastic and stuff and it was all good in my view. I like the idea of a person who has made a living off video games trying to like almost anyway give back and make things that can have an impact but make other people's dreams and gaming come true and You know, there's no downside to this as far as I'm concerned if he fails completely who cares if he succeeds good I wish him nothing but the best in it There are a lot of content creators out there making a ridiculous amount of money and they do nothing good with it They they buy themselves managers and Porsche's and in his eyes Hassan's vein, right? Don't keep being like amen I want to make video games and put good stuff out there. That's good shit people sweat you |
| 06. July 2021 | Video demonetized for silly reason and YouTube's broken editor | Oh no, actually I gotta go further back, further back, okay? So the first time I had problems with the YouTube editor was when they now have like a limit to how many edits you can do in a day. So when I used to upload my Twitch clips to my clips channel, I would edit them on YouTube as opposed to in Adobe because it would be a lot faster. And so I'd edit like 20 at a time or whatever. But now they're like, no no no, five a day or something. So I have to be selective in which ones I edit. So I have to, with the Twitch clips at least, do them over multiple days, which is very annoying. It turns out the limit is seven an hour, which is still inconvenient, but far less inconvenient than a day. The second time the editor has bit me in the ass is in one of the no damage runs. There's like two or three frames of a logo for the YouTube editor that remains in a joke that Martin did. And so he wanted me to remove it. And I'm like, yeah, sure, don't worry. And so I put the edit in and then two days later, the edit failed. But the worst points is the last one where, you know, by the book, where Michael goes to find the guy he needs to kill and the first place he goes is like a TV shoes. And he says, oh, this can't be the place. They're filming the suburbia here. I guess we'll have to be censored for the rambles as well. YouTube doesn't like that word. They demonetized the chaos episode that went to that point for just that word. Now, understand, I torture a guy. I swear like 800 times. I shoot a guy in the face. But an hour and 10 minutes in, I say once and the whole video that got demonetized. America. Like, I don't know, dude. As I say, in general, I like what YouTube does. In general, it's a great place to make content. But there's just the occasional thing, which is like, that's kind of silly, right? You know, I mean, no company will you ever find yourself agreeing with 100% of the time. But come on, like I want someone with a straight face to look at me and go, this makes perfect sense, Matt. And here's why. I don't know what they'd say. Like better this circumstance than them, you know, demonetizing me for the other 50 things in that video that someone in their 80s would be like, oh my lord, this is what it's hell of a hair washing. This is horrendous. Burn this to the ground. You know, happy. You know, they're not ridiculously overzealous, but I mean, that's just kind of a bit silly. I mean, like I have YouTube contacts now, whatever. They've like I got an email yesterday where I guess because my devap eclipse channel got to a certain size in terms of subscribers, they're like, oh, you're you're eligible to get a partner support person. I already have one. So I was like, well, I guess I won't bother with that then. The partner support is amazing right now, as in maybe just because of my size, whatever. But they have over the years been rolling out more and more and more and more and more partner support for even smaller and smaller creators like this partner support emails me like every second day. They're like, oh yeah, still following up on that issue that you had with the editor. Those couple of days, we're getting those answers for you. Don't you worry. I'll bump the support ticket again. And, you know, because it's like I think at one point in time, the different facets of YouTube basically worked independently and barely talks. But now there's like a group that exists in between that can get information from all the other different departments or whatever and give them to creators, which is quite nice. Yeah, I'd rather because that's the only reason I know why the video was demonetized because of that specific word. And I plan to edit out the word and to get it re-monetized. But unfortunately, because the editor broke, I've not been able to do that. And so that brings it full circle. That's that's the connection between what I was saying at the beginning and the demonetization and stuff. I don't know how easy that all was to follow, but I hope I was at least somewhat coherent because I was trying to pay attention to what I was doing with the drive. Why I still support the Clips channel despite it shrinking. Did I get my YouTube bonus? I haven't bothered to ask for my silver one for my Clips channel. I never really see the Clips channel as like its own separate. |
| 19. April 2021 | Video game artists, sound design, and CGI. | never bothered to look at or notice, regardless of how much you play a particular game, you know? There's always small things that you've just never noticed. I'm sure the original version of this game, right, is just like the bare bones of the world, and then people have to come in specifically to be like, mm, yes, I will put a bush here. Oh, oh, a hanging pot plant here, yes. A picture of a random squirrel, perfect, right here. Now, what's the name of an interior decorator, or just a decorator, but for a video game? Just a map designer? So you think there'd be no one specifically who would be brought on because they have a good sense of architecture and interior design and stuff? Like, surely just because you can code, it doesn't mean that you're necessarily good at building a lived-in vibrant world. I'm sure it's pointed out many times, but there's so many small details and things that go into making a video game feel like it's an actual world, especially the sound. Man, last person I would want to be is the person who has to work on sound in a video game, especially after having done the sound in the anime video for Prologue. God damn, that was hard, and then we're just recreating someone else's work. I took eons, oh man, the video is still nowhere close to a million views or whatever. I don't even think it's half a million. Exactly, good sound isn't noticed, bad sound is obvious. It's in the same way with CGI. Good CGI isn't noticed, bad CGI is. There's a great video done by, what's his name? Woo, RocketJump, what's his name? He's got like six million views or something, probably more than that by now. You've seen it where he's talking about how people give CGI a bad rap. Freddie Wong, that's it, yeah, yeah. CGI has a bad rap in that you only see the bad CGI. Like in the vast majority of scenes of any big production movie, like there's always CGI, making the scene look better. You just never notice because it's done actually well. You wrote a dissertation on video game music and got to ask the lead composer of Doom loads of questions, it was really interesting. Oh, that's sick. I imagine a conversation with a person who would be considered a leader in their field on almost any topic would be interesting. I suppose it depends on the person and how communicative they are, but as I say, just passion is always interesting to listen to. Do I think Attack on Titan's fourth season CGI is bad? I didn't even notice it. Like I'm not a stickler for CGI, but I can tell you where there is some bad CGI, Overlord. The amalgamations at the end in the final season that has come out, the worst CGI I've ever seen. As a person who is not picky about CGI, who doesn't try to notice it, I was like, what the fuck is this? Who did this? What? Is channel called VFX? Oh, oh, oh, oh, Cold or Cru, Cold or Cru, who reacts to good and bad CGI. They do a lot of different things like that, right? Reacting to good and bad voice acting and whatnot. True, it is possible that I'm less picky because I watch stuff at like two times speed and whatnot. That is true. When it comes to these mediums though, I'm just interested in the story and getting the story as fast as possible in my brain. Give me the info. I don't particularly care how it's presented. Rockstar uses contractors for a lot of that stuff. They use Hollywood movie location scouts to find the inspiration for things like interior design architecture. That's cool. Thank you for $2, man. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 30. September 2022 | Video game dunkey becomes game publisher | Video game donkey becomes game publisher. So some of you may have heard the news that video game donkey is Making his own publishing. I guess studio called big mode I assume that was his way of communicating how he came up with the name big mode wait Really? Yeah, really he released a video about it and He got some criticism Because he kind of suggested that like he know he plays games So he knows what games are good. He only support the good games He wants people to reach out to him with their ideas and stuff that they're trying to develop that they can't get money for and They can work together and stuff the criticisms largely being like obviously publishers are not trying to release games that are bad things can start out with a really good idea that just don't pan out as you go along or You can think the end result is really good, but they just don't really jive You know and don't really find an audience Release at the wrong time all that stuff You know you and I say these these criticisms are like, you know, obviously donkey was just trying to hype this up be Enthusiastic and stuff and it was all good in my view. I like the idea of a person who has made a living off video games trying to like almost anyway give back and make things that can have an impact but make other people's dreams and gaming come true and You know, there's no downside to this as far as I'm concerned if he fails completely who cares if he succeeds good I wish him nothing but the best in it There are a lot of content creators out there making a ridiculous amount of money and they do nothing good with it They they buy themselves managers and Porsche's and in his eyes Hassan's vein, right? Don't keep being like amen I want to make video games and put good stuff out there. That's good shit people sweat you |
| 20. December 2021 | Video game speedruns in guinness book of world records | Video game speed runs in the Guinness Book of World Records. Will you get a Guinness World Records certificate if you get World Record? No. There are games that have had such certificates, I believe. They're like the really really popular games. Guinness has done a lot of high scores as well. I think they're more interested in high scores than you know, whatever. Didn't ZFG get into one of the Guinness records or Skater or something? But the World Record was like beaten, you know, before the book even released. Yeah, I think Guinness did take a lot of records from Twin Galaxies, yeah. You have to pay them? Do you? Oh, can you have timers in Guinness? Yeah, that's the one I was thinking of. Sure, there must be a Mario record in there as well. Guinness just seems so irrelevant. Like the biggest use of Guinness books is like kids when they're forced to go to the library or whatever in high school, they would pick out the Guinness World Record book to take home for a week because they're required to bring home a book. |
| 02. August 2021 | Video games for a living is easy! | Games for a living is easy He is playing computer games for 11 hours. Sorry if I don't consider that working super hard What are you nuts? You ever edit it before man? I know people who haven't done this job don't realize it's uh It's very taxing. There's there's actually a meme about it. I liked it on Twitter this one video games for a living Oh, yeah, baby, and then just editing for a million hours a day. It's a lot harder than it looks Anything done for 11 hours is uh taxing as fuck But the main thing that's making me tired though is just um my bad sleeping pattern As I said before this Heroes of Might and Magic stuff is not my normal stuff I consider this to be a break from work as opposed to work, but uh an 11 hour stream of anything is always tiring |
| 10. June 2022 | Video length limits on YouTube | Video length limits on YouTube. I said to Bob that I'm trying to take it easy by working on the this is what you miss series But uh a derby is just so painful It doesn't like to render things that are super long and I'm still experimenting with how long I can make videos on YouTube The common sentiment was that you can only do 12 hours, but it's clearly not true There is a size limit, but I'm not sure that there's a length limit unless it's 24 hours Like I think they increased it when they went to start live streaming Ludwig lost his footage for Elden Ring Because the stream was over 12 hours or something and he and he was like what the fuck I think they may have increased it So there's still size limitations, but maybe the length limitations has changed |
| 04. March 2022 | Video of me dabbing got 100k views. | Video of me dabbing got a hundred thousand views. Greatest video in the insides got a hundred thousand views! That's funny. |
| 29. December 2020 | Videogamedunkey continues to make low-effort content. | Video game Dunkey continuing to make low effort content. Did you guys see? Dunkey released a video just before I went live. Dunkey really does seem to be sincere in his desire to produce more content. For those who don't know, Dunkey basically made a video where he said, I'm sick of all these content creators pumping out these quickly made, barely thought out videos. And I'm sitting here for weeks, if not months, thinking of some original creative idea, fine tuning every frame, getting more and more nervous. The longer I take to put out a video, I'm sick of it. I'm going to do what they do. And then, like he's just making a bunch of videos clowning on the easily thrown up trash that other content creators are putting out. And one of the things he criticized was people, you know, reporting on drama and shit. And so he made a video kind of over the top talking about dream cheating and speed running. Being like, this is the worst thing ever. You've lost me as a fan forever. You've really fucked up now losing me as a fan. Funny video. |
| 19. February 2022 | Viewer advocates for suffering | Viewer advocates for suffering. I once had a- I wish I talked about here I once had a person who came in and tried to argue that suffering is good Ultimately because it leads to um, it can lead to people creating Amazing things or it can inspire them to succeed and stuff. People are fucking crazy. It's like arguing that if uh Cancer causes someone to find the love of their life cancer's good visual or um if this guy didn't have cancer this nurse and this doctor wouldn't have been in the same room at the same time and They wouldn't have found each other and fallen in love. Therefore cancer's good given effectively an infinite amount of time any Negative variable will be involved in a chain of events that leads to something good, right? everything if simply being an element in a Chain of events that leads to something good is sufficient reason to consider something good then everything is good on that definition |
| 27. March 2022 | Viewer asks how they can succeed on youtube. | Viewer asked how they can succeed on YouTube You don't have any following on your main channel. I don't really upload there anymore, but I enjoy posting random clips. I mean, I don't I don't think just uploading random clips is a good way to get noticed if you aren't and I Understand how I'll answer that question It's like you've already set yourself up to fail and you're like, how do I succeed despite setting myself up to fail? Matt I want to upload the lowest effort content possible and not upload to my main channel How can I still succeed? |
| 10. July 2021 | Viewer asks if I am making clips for clips channel. | Exactly. Viewer asks if the clips I am making are for my clips channel. Is this for the clips channel? No, this is for children at a hospital who are going through some hard times and I am making personal clips specifically for them. |
| 10. July 2021 | Viewer asks if i am making clips for clips channel. | Exactly. Viewer asks if the clips I am making are for my clips channel. Is this for the clips channel? No, this is for children at a hospital who are going through some hard times and I am making personal clips specifically for them. |
| 23. August 2021 | Viewer asks me to tell him what to speedrun | Viewer asked me to tell him what to speedrun. That's not how it works, Game Lord Shane. You gotta have a passion for partaking in a game to want to speedrun it. Anything is speedrunnable. It's just, do you have a real strong passion for it? 🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁 🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁 🆁🆁🆁🆁 🆁🆁🆁 🆁🆁🆁🆁 🆁🆁🆁 🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁 🆁 🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁 🆁🆁🆁 🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁 🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁🆁 |
| 27. July 2021 | Viewer believes america is the most divided country | Viewer believes America to be the most divided country Did you notice that America's by far the most divided nation on the earth planet of the earth and still be no Why are you fucking dumb? There are countries on earth that are like moments away from like genocide or that governments are literally Covertly killing parts of their population. Are you fucking high? There there are there are countries that have people within it with religious divides that go back thousands of years Are you insane America is the most divided place on the are you? |
| 18. November 2020 | Viewer calls me out for being uniformed and biased | A viewer calls me out for being uninformed and biased. I love your content. I just wish your political takes would be more informed. Sorry, I don't watch more Fox News. You've mentioned takes plural. Over a long enough period, you must have a bunch of examples to be confident enough to make that statement. Jordan Peterson's health? I didn't speak much on Jordan Peterson's health. I vaguely recall saying that I didn't follow it specifically, but I heard he wasn't doing well. I definitely wouldn't have said any definitive statements on it. Oh, so we can look it up. Where's, um, huh? So from my understanding, Jordan Peterson became addicted to tranquilizers. Muscle tranquilizers or something. He always had weird ideas, but apparently he ignored the advice of a bunch of experts who told him how to deal with his addiction, and instead his kooky daughter took him to Russia for some treatment, medically induced coma, and the coma has resulted in him now being unable to walk or talk. And that's where Peterson's at. He's had to remove himself from public life, partly because of this addiction, but also now partly because, you know, he can't even speak and walk anymore. But that's my understanding of his circumstances. Quite sad, really. Jordan always had some kind of kooky ideas. I wonder what advice these experts gave him that he dismissed, but that's, you know, sad. That was true. I know about the... I heard he was addicted to tranquilizers. I emphasized multiple times from my understanding. He did. Yeah, I said, to my understanding, apparently this is what I've heard. I made no decadent statement. This is the fact of the matter. It was less than a minute speaking on things I had just recently heard. And this was in February. So we've had March, April, May, June, July, August, September. We've had seven months of additional facts that have come out since then. It wasn't like he was writing a blog about his circumstances during this time. It was all leaking drips and drabs of information, people hearing here and there. Yeah, Jordan Peterson recovering from tranquilizer addiction. What is it accurate? This is from February 8th. Why was Jordan Peterson placed in a medically-injured coma? This is also from February. I'm literally just quoting while saying, like, I don't know. This is just the common sentiment. Apparently this is the case. This is what was known about Jordan Peterson in February. I'm actually curious. Do you have another example now? Now that we've kind of... I've hopefully established that what you're saying here is complete bullshit. You mean the kooky ideas part. That is a fair assessment. He has some kooky ideas. Have you heard him talk about religion? Have you listened to his ideas of what truth is? That truth should be defined by a basic utility to humankind. Have you heard his debate with Matt Dillahunty, where he talks about how you can't quit smoking unless you have a mystical experience? He has some very kooky ideas. Remember that Jordan Peterson was not a huge academic, right? He existed in his field, but he wasn't like a well-respected, well-renowned guy in his field. He became popular for his political stances. I don't agree with many things he says, but especially his health is much more nuanced and tragic than you framed it to be. I really don't want to cause a conflict. But it wasn't in February! I can only state what the facts are at the present moment in time. I'm not an all-knowing, all-seeing being. You can't criticize someone from hindsight for stating what all evidence suggested was facts at the time. But you've also caught me biased. And this was your example. And one Google search shows that I was just literally reporting what the common consensus was. One not being overly committed to anything. And then you criticized my assessment of him having some kooky ideas, which is a very minor statement, because you could almost say everyone has some kooky ideas, but Jordan Peterson does have kooky ideas. I think you might be ignorant of the breadth of things that Jordan Peterson has spoken on, and how many kooky ideas he just actually has. I thought you were going to criticize some political take that I had, or something about my values, or my... Something that was meaningful to me. And you come back with Jordan Peterson? I have a very low assessment of Jordan Peterson fanboys, and this kind of confirms it to me. But you, you, you seem to be dismissive of our Lord and God, Jordan Peterson! AHHHH! It's just one of those things, man. If you're entirely ignorant of a field, and someone gets popular saying even basic ideas from their field, it's going to sound like fucking magic. The best quote I've ever heard about Jordan Peterson is, what is true isn't new, and what is new isn't true. |
| 10. July 2021 | Viewer claims I was never a serious speedrunner. | Okay. Viewer claims I was never a serious speedrunner. I didn't speedrun GTA V seriously. I speedran GTA V so fucking seriously, you have no goddamn idea. I would grind runs every single day. I had all the world records multiple times. There were times when I was just absolutely dominant in the game. No one could compete. How dare you question my seriousness. |
| 10. July 2021 | Viewer claims i was never a serious speedrunner. | Okay. Viewer claims I was never a serious speedrunner. I didn't speedrun GTA V seriously. I speedran GTA V so fucking seriously, you have no goddamn idea. I would grind runs every single day. I had all the world records multiple times. There were times when I was just absolutely dominant in the game. No one could compete. How dare you question my seriousness. |
| 04. March 2022 | Viewer impressed by my htse thumbnail. | Viewer impressed by my Halberst B1-ended thumbnail. What do you mean a perfectionist? I'm not- this isn't- my god, this is like the basic of basic making thumbnail thing. This is not any more work than like the average person making a thumbnail would do. This is just- this is just the game. In fact, I will probably do less. Because I could definitely touch up bits of Franklin. Maybe I'll do that, I'm not sure, but probably will be unnecessary. Like every single time you think, man, it'd be great to play video games or anything, this is what you'll be doing most of the time. Everything I've been doing for the last three hours is like 80% of the time you'll be spending doing stuff. |
| 22. February 2022 | Viewer is desperate to know what keyboard i use | Viewer is desperate to know what keyboard I use. Can you read my editing sen-sai please? Commands, keyboard, what keyboard and mouse do you set up? What keyboard and mouse do you use? Why are you gay? Your name. No, he said he. What keyboard and mouse do you use? Question mark. You're really sus lately. Why are you ignoring my messages? I am too gay for you. You- I know you see this. What the fuck is your keyboard? Why do you care? Why is this information so important for you to know? If I don't get this information I will die. Give me the answers. I didn't see all of them, I just looked now. I have a wireless 502 from Logitech, and a 10keyless from HyperX. I will not leave until I get the answers that I crave. |
| 22. February 2022 | Viewer loves glutes | Viewer loves glutes. Glutes review! I love glutes! Do you do swats? The people want to see OnlyFans glutes! What is the angle of your GPU? What are your thoughts on dodecahedrons? Michael glutes spread comp. Glutes! Glutes are lit! Matt, what are your thoughts on glutes? Glutes! Glutes! We must have the glutes, Matt! How would you feel if GTA had glutes animations? KappaPride me win glutes. I don't know, but glutes are pretty cool. Piggie got nothing on glutes. This dude has been here for like almost a year. Said basically nothing. And this is just his chat now. Okay. |
| 03. January 2022 | Viewer says cyber bullying isn’t real | viewers via a big streamer. Viewers says cyber bullying isn't real. I think if you ever became a streamer with a significant enough audience you'd realize the the lengths that some people will go to try to get you riled up. It's hard to agree with that position. The position of people where it's like, man you can just close yourself off from social media man. Disregard the main form of communication with the modern world for the rest of your life. It's not a big deal man. People who say these things are I would say I would say brain dead let's just say. Especially when you're a kid in high school or something everyone's on fucking social media. You don't want to be left out. You don't want to be missing out on things man. Because I'm a bit bigger now I'm insulated from some of the stuff that used to be an issue back in the day but I had a smaller streamer talk to me recently about how there's a dude who keeps making fake accounts to harass the streamer. But even when he gets banned he'll whisper all the viewers of the chat and harass them to stop watching the dude. Or say things that used to happen to me where it's like hey man uh you know the streamer forgot to unban me so just tell the streamer to unban me whatever. And the viewers think they're helping and they tell you this and it's like it's just like the daily grind of just having to deal with this shit can really be draining. Thankfully not a lot of people like this out there exist but I'm trying to say people online and off will go to there are some real fucking crazy people out there and if you don't believe these people go to insane lengths to fuck with you you're crazy. Like people make fake accounts catfish you and shit. You hear these stories about these people in high school they think they've got into a relationship with a person on fucking online or something but it's they're bully or something pretending to be someone else. That shit is bullying online. |
| 08. April 2021 | Viewer surprised speedrunning gets good numbers on Twitch. | A new viewer is surprised that I'm able to get high viewer numbers by speedrunning. I just came here to check how many viewers have this guy from YouTube. I thought it's not possible that speedrunning is affordable with 6,000. Oh, speedrunning's very popular, my dude. I'm not even the most popular speedrunner, especially if you include the larger content creators who've just dabbled in a little bit of speedrunning in, you know, your Miz Kivs or your Mitch Jones or whatever, the people who've just done like Mario speedrunning and stuff. Even with, especially with Minecraft speedrunning becoming a huge thing, like, even more large content creators have done it. But I suppose what you're saying is like speedrunning for a living or XQC enforcing that, of course, with Minecraft as well. Yeah, yeah. I would dream true, yeah, of course, yeah. |
| 10. July 2021 | Viewer tells me to go outside. | Viewer tells me to go outside. Matt, go outside? Technically, wherever you are, you're outside somewhere else. Like I am outside of your house. By being in my house. I'm actually outside more things than I'm inside things right now. |
| 22. March 2021 | Viewer wanting to donate but has no money | Viewer wanting to donate has no money. I saw someone there saying if I had money I'd donate and sub Don't ever think that way. Get money for yourself buy something nice. I'm doing great financially Don't ever feel obligated to give me Anything at all. I mean a sub is cool because you get emotes and stuff and the ad free viewing and blah blah blah They don't ever give money to a streamer unless you're really financially doing well, you know |
| 24. January 2022 | Viewer: “Banning things is dumb because people will still find a way to do it” | Viewer says banning things is dumb because people will still find a way to do it. There's a concept in existence called barriers to entry. So I'm gonna give you a hundred dollars. It's a hundred dollars, you want a hundred dollars, everyone wants a hundred dollars. To answer one math problem. You don't even need to get it right. And you're just gonna answer it. Of course you're just gonna ask, I just go two and you give it to me, okay? How about two math problems? How about three math problems? How about four math problems? How about five math problems? With every additional math problem, there is a certain portion of the population that will not go to that effort for that hundred dollars. There are people so desperate for a hundred dollars, man, they're going at like a thousand math problems. It's like, man, I really need a hundred bucks. Eventually, this number will be so high that no one would do it. Whenever you look at a bit of legislation, any barrier will have some portion of people who says, fuck it, that takes too long. Whenever you look at a bit of legislation in regards to banning something or preventing access to something, saying there are still people who will have access, misses the point entirely. It's about barriers to entry, reducing the amount of people who are willing to go that effort or reducing the amount of people who can actually achieve those ends. It's you're never gonna have a bit of legislation that a hundred percent stops anything. That's impossible. It's never a good argument against legislation. Arguments against barriers to entry usually revolve around like, look, this is gonna be more inconvenience for well-meaning people that they shouldn't have to go through for the possible. |
| 20. December 2021 | Viewers asking questions they know I hate | Viewers asking questions they know I hate. Question, answer me this. Okay, so question this is, what is your least favorite favorite yes. For those who don't get it, it's referencing like, I've got a bunch of speedrunning rambles talking about like, the questions I hate being asked and questions that I think are very silly to ask and that basically met the criteria for literally all of them. Thank you dude. Poly shouldn't have made those videos, it was like, here internet, here are things that annoy me. It's like if I made just a list of everything that annoys me. Hey guys, here's everything you should never do. |
| 08. July 2021 | Viewers asking stupid questions | Viewers asking stupid questions. Would you rather get punched in the stomach six times or play Red Dead Redemption 2 again? What are you going to do with this information? I want to know. This is clearly a very important question to you that you decided was worth both your and my time to ask. What do you plan to do with this information? Is this a survey? What is your end game, sir? Where do we go from here? How is your life going to be enriched by the answer to that question? |
| 01. September 2021 | Viewers driving me crazy about witness protection | Viewers driving me crazy about witness protection. I still get comments from people on that video where I talked about Michael not being in witness protection. Where they're like, nah bruh, he in witness protection man, you know what you're talking about man. Slowly driving me crazy. I have this like, how many pages? Like 20 pages or something. These scripts explaining the minute subtle details of the game and the interactions between mainly Michael, Trevor, Steve, Dave. It would take weeks to complete. These comments though, eventually gonna make me do it. Like it's hard to hold back every time when I get one of these comments. You'll see me respond to them with just a little taste of how wrong these people are. But then what's worse, other people leave comments and like why the fuck do you even make this video bro? Of course he's not in witness protection. Gives one of the endless reasons. I'm like, cause all those other people who leave comments saying he is in witness protection. Like the motherfucker at the Wikipedia said he was in witness protection. People have made videos talking about the GTA story where they reference him being in witness protection. |
| 20. December 2021 | Viewers inadvertently being annoying | Viewers inadvertently being annoying. There's a bunch of things that viewers do that as individuals isn't annoying at all but when a collective do the exact same thing it becomes kind of annoying and you try not to get bothered by it because it's not like all these individuals are acting together to make something annoying. It's like if a person asks the same question, like one viewer asked a question every five minutes, it's a different viewer every time, it's very irritating but you can totally understand why they're asking that question because there's always new people coming into the stream. What I'm trying to say is when I have energy and I'm awake and I'm alive this stuff doesn't bother me. I may answer the question every five minutes if need be but when I'm more sleep deprived, my sleep and pattern is worse. These things can get on my nerves far easier you know. |
| 01. March 2022 | Viewers know everything and meme speedgames | Like the yeah the biggest way possible he did it apart from the show Viewers know everything and meme speed games it was just a strange week and a strange way to Meet and interact with content creating enough. Yeah, this is yeah, I definitely feel that but I'm glad that it ended up like this I just wish I'd perform better under pressure here I really feel like I could have had a great showing today in your community would have been like, oh my god It's a guy regardless of how well you did chat still would have said your shit As they always say to me it's it's crazy because I always think I do good in this game and then I read the comment Section of my YouTube video and they're like man unsurprised. This guy sucks so much of this game after 9000 hours Chad isn't just never happy. That's true, man That's one thing I've learned no matter what the chat is always the real experts No matter the game or the topic like last night I was talking about horizon the dudes like the games exactly the same as the first one as if he's already played it It's like oh my god. He's getting so mad at me over nothing. I haven't played the game I haven't done anything wrong. Is this this guy's such an expert. He's mastered a game that hasn't even come out What's more shameful though is when chat is actually right and I end up being wrong Considering how much chat beats my ass this game. It's hard to be hypocritical of them all the time You know, that is the worst feeling when you're like, no, you're fucking wrong chat This is absolutely can't possibly be right. Yeah, it is and you just have to like eat shit on it Like yeah, I guess I was wrong I still remember to this day when I was doing a mission and someone in chats like oh you should do this It's poly faster and I was like, you know who I am You know how many world records I have in GT if I you think I haven't tried that shit before get the fuck out Of here and like ten minutes later. I'm like, have I ever tried that before? But maybe that is false. I go back and check and it is fast. I'm like, oh fuck Oh god, that sounds awful. I had that when I was speedrunning granny someone would like theorycraft something like bro You're such a fucking idiot. I've done a thousand runs of granny This idea couldn't possibly work and I try it and I get it first try and this dude's like a fucking prodigy And I just look so dumb You've you've done a surprising amount of speed runs over the years, right? Cuz it cuz I speed runs. Yeah, cuz you take all these gimmick runs where you know, you know, what was the one? That's sponge world one that became like a big thing for a while there. Oh, mr. Krabs overdoses on ketamine and dies. Yeah What wacky world where games like that become like the biggest speedrun thing for a short period? Oh, it's it was a fun route, man If you if you ever need like maybe 20 minutes to kill you can master it and like less than that time and get a few Runs under your belt. It's such a fun speed run I should look be on the lookout for more things like that like like things that I can just Throw a little bit of time at and would actually be interesting to my audience Playing like random games and chess and shit between stuff is not particularly interesting for my viewers Yeah, I'd always recommend these small speed games. That's my bread and butter when it comes to speed runs I keep everything sub 20 minutes because it doesn't take long to learn and get a lot of runs in per stream And it's just exciting right? Like if you get like a good run going and you're guaranteed at least one decent run when it's that short of a route So things like house of caravan mr. Krabs overdoses on ketamine and dies granny all those goofy meme shit games Oh, they're so fun to speedrun and certainly when you do lose a run It's not the most devastating thing in the world from personal experience. I can tell you when you're five hours into a run That's perfect and you fuck up and lose it all it is really painful That's a whole day down the drain whereas if you fuck up in a mr. Krabs run You just lost three seconds to just hit escape. It's it's one of the things that kept GTA 5 speedrunning from becoming a Decent thing for years like the game was out for like two three years and the community who ran it was basically no one These days there's dozens of people who do it a very smart Technically minded people and we can go through the code and shit you got back in the day if you had a small idea You'd have to spend the entire day manually testing stuff often without even mods that can be helpful these days like you can Microanalyze every pixel in the code if there's anything worth finding there It's it's a different world speed running now because of all these these techniques to break down the code It's an exciting world though I love when the optimization reaches that level because then you really get some crazy discoveries and really get that like that That skill ceiling where things get crazy. Yeah, it's like all the stuff that's been done with like the Zelda games recently with them all the code execution and stuff and just Dancing around and then you can just get warped to the credits. Yeah, what's it? It's like remote execution Something like I I watch a lot of these You probably do as well these videos that break down speedrunning techniques speed ducks, yeah, I I'm in like a Discord with these people and they're so passionate I don't speak that much in the discord because I probably shouldn't be there because I don't really make that kind of content But I got in very early, but it's very interesting How every different speed game has like its own stories of how? They got broken and stuff, you know, yeah, I fucking love it, man Thank you again for stopping by and I wish you nothing but the best with all that you're doing man Hey likewise, man, and if you ever need help running a house of caravan, mr Crabs overdoses on ketamine I could be a valuable resource. It will do man. Thank you. Thank you very much Have a good stream. See ya. Bye everyone. Good dude now speed on mr Crabs overdoses on ketamine honestly when it was a big thing. I probably should have I've got a star |
| 20. October 2021 | Viewers making promises based on whether i get world record | Viewers making promises based on whether I get World Record. You will sub if I get World Record. Why not just commit to gifting 57 trillion subs if I get World Record, okay? I would donate my life savings to charity if this streamer happens to get World Record today. Aren't I a benevolent fellow? Oh yes. You are welcome, hypothetical charity, yes. My generosity has no bounds. I like to think, chat, that your unwillingness to make such promises is due to your belief that I can actually get World Record. F-fuck making those promises. Matt- Matt's probably gonna get World Record today. I don't have to give all my money to charity. |
| 12. August 2020 | Viewers not understanding platforms they watch | Viewers not understanding the platforms they watch. The more I've spoken about Twitch and YouTube, the more I've come to realize that people don't really think about these platforms. And how the content is made, how the creators exist in relation to the platform and each other. Like people called me a 1k streamer, like, oh my god, that's so tiny. Like I'm in the top 0.03% on the platform. I'm in the top 1000 in terms of followers. This isn't bragging, because I was small for the longest time. But just imagine any industry and you met a person who is in the top 0.03% and calling them small or irrelevant or not big yet. Up and comer there, sport. Some viewers have no real understanding of the platforms that they consume content on. |
| 01. January 2020 | Viewers who are overly concerned about me | overly concerned about me. If I drink even a sliver of alcohol, man, there'll be 15 people in the fucking comment section going, Matt, I saw you drinking some alcohol there, man, I'm concerned! Ah, I think you're going off the deep end, Matt, I think you need to take a break! A 10 year break, man! 15, 20 years, Matt, just take a little break! You're going crazy, Matt! I can't- I can't let any crack show in the clear facade of my enjoyment of what I'm doing, or else, you know, the people in the comment section will attack. With their really well-footed out suggestions as to how to improve my circumstances. You know. Every person in chat is a well-qualified psychologist, perfect at reading me from looking at 10-15 minute YouTube videos. Matt, calm down, I think you need a break. Uh, my patience for armchair psychologists is, uh, very much so reached its end. I've started just to, uh, mute them on my channel. It's like, I stub my toe and I'm like, Ow, that hurt! Like, Matt, I'm getting very concerned about you, dude. I think your bones might be made of some kind of glass. Please take a break. Put yourself in bubble wrap. It's just like, Dude, I just stubbed my toe. Matt, you've shown any emotion that isn't 100% happiness at all times. I'm very concerned! Dude, relax! |
| 12. September 2021 | Viewers who comment showing they don't get the joke | Viewers who comment showing they don't get the joke Just kill him I love when I made the joke to cut it to make it seem like Amanda was asking him to kill him Someone wrote in the comments, but Amanda says not to kill him. I'm just like Well, obviously my dude it it joke |
| 29. December 2020 | Viewers who dislike my No Damage runs. | Viewers who dislike my no damage runs. I don't like to be an Acer, but one hit KO is my least favorite content of yours? Ah, that's not surprising to me. This run is so much more casual, there's so much of it, that it doesn't have the continued urgency of speedrunning. So it's less moment to moment interesting. And each video of me doing no damage, the content is roughly the same, but I make different jokes or what have you, right? While the speedrunning videos, like I... Endless different things happen, especially because I'm going so fast, it means that the possibility of me crashing or something weird happening is far greater. Like, you have more variance in my how the speedrun ended videos than you do in my no damage runs, is what I'm saying. That anticipation of like, is he gonna get it this time, I think is enjoyable. But I do think speedruns are better. At least currently. Back when like, I was making new strats, solving everything, and that was cool as well. But I think this run is basically solved now, it's just a matter of finally putting it all into practice. That isn't to say that I have found every single strat that could help me necessarily, but I am so close that I don't need more new strats to succeed, I just need to do it. Like I would say, for the first 15 episodes of this series, it wasn't realistically possible that I would get through without damage. Now it is. |
| 29. December 2020 | Viewers who dislike my no damage runs. | Viewers who dislike my no damage runs. I don't like to be an Acer, but one hit KO is my least favorite content of yours? Ah, that's not surprising to me. This run is so much more casual, there's so much of it, that it doesn't have the continued urgency of speedrunning. So it's less moment to moment interesting. And each video of me doing no damage, the content is roughly the same, but I make different jokes or what have you, right? While the speedrunning videos, like I... Endless different things happen, especially because I'm going so fast, it means that the possibility of me crashing or something weird happening is far greater. Like, you have more variance in my how the speedrun ended videos than you do in my no damage runs, is what I'm saying. That anticipation of like, is he gonna get it this time, I think is enjoyable. But I do think speedruns are better. At least currently. Back when like, I was making new strats, solving everything, and that was cool as well. But I think this run is basically solved now, it's just a matter of finally putting it all into practice. That isn't to say that I have found every single strat that could help me necessarily, but I am so close that I don't need more new strats to succeed, I just need to do it. Like I would say, for the first 15 episodes of this series, it wasn't realistically possible that I would get through without damage. Now it is. |
| 27. April 2022 | Viewers who don’t understand the effort that goes into youtube. | Viewers who don't understand the effort that goes into YouTube. Oh guys, my latest pet peeve right now is viewers who have no idea how long YouTube videos take to make. It's staggering. You tell someone it takes like on average 20 to 25 hours to make an episode of Facts and Glitches and they're like, No it doesn't man, you can do that in six hours. Like, how long do you think it takes to like find all the ideas, record all the ideas, write all the voiceovers, and edit it all together? And where is that six hour fee coming from? It takes more than six hours to boot up Adobe Premiere. Like, fuck. I'm actually surprised the video only takes 25 hours, I thought it'd be more. I mean, Facts and Glitches is a fairly simplistic series when it comes right down to it. There's no super creative editing. Most of the time that it takes is simply, you know, recording, finding the footage, the scripting. There's no real fancy creative editing. |
| 19. January 2022 | Viewership of my editing streams vs sleep streams. | Viewership of my editing streams versus sleep streams. Why the hell you only have 1k viewers now and one chick on Twitch have 9k now just by sleeping? I'm basically just sleeping on stream right now, dude. I'm going through footage. The idea that 1k people are willing to have me as their background noise doing this is pretty fucking cool. Sleep streams have been allowed on Twitch for a very long time. They once upon a time were banned. Maybe they were allowed from like 2018 maybe? I don't think sleep streams were specifically banned. It was that you had to have a person check on the stream within a certain duration. Like you couldn't just leave it for hours on end. And so sleeping violated that of course. |
| 26. December 2021 | Views show YouTube success far more than subscribers | Views show YouTube success far more than subscribers. Because views are what matters. Subs is not the metric by which you judge your channel's success. And I always go to Boogie to show that. This guy used to have 5 million subs, so he's got 4 million subs, he's getting 30k views a video. There is a correlation between how many subs you have and how successful you are, but it's not a direct correlation. Because the longer that you're on the platform, the more subs you pick up from dead accounts, and people who just never get recommended your videos and don't use the sub feed, so they never unsubscribe. Like I'm subbed to 247 channels, I don't watch videos from 247 channels. You gotta go to some efforts to remember, ah yeah that channel I used to watch a long time ago, I'm still subbed to it, I better unsub. |
| 04. July 2022 | Viper rambles on every podcast platform | Vyper Rambles now available on all podcast platforms. I've added Vyper Rambles to a bunch of podcasting websites. Like it's been requested thousands of times. Maybe not thousands, like a couple of dozen, but you know, basically a thousand. Yeah, it took a long time to find all the episodes because I didn't have them cataloged in my NAS. Then upload them, fix the titles and put the descriptions and all that jazz. I spent like the last two days on it. So it wasn't like a ridiculous amount of time, but it was just, you know, it was part of the reason why I didn't stream or work on any videos yesterday. I doubt many people are going to download it from Spotify and stuff anyway. The only reason I decided to do it is because it clearly doesn't take much effort. All I have to do is render an mp3 version and just put it on the thing. And then it just propagates to all the other websites. |
| 08. December 2021 | Viperathon | Viperathon. Is there like a universal definition as to how long a marathon has to be? Like some standard that's international? Let me rephrase. Can I simply refer to the walk from my computer chair to my door as a marathon and then when I'm out and about I can be like, hey yo I finish a marathon every day. That's how committed I am to physical fitness. I can't do that? Not sure I want to live on this planet anymore if I can't make up my own definition of marathon okay. How about I just call it a Viperathon. The exact distance from your chair to your door a Viperathon. |
| 23. March 2021 | Voice actor errors in GTA 5 | I don't look at myself as being like super famous or something. I always lay between saying I'm just a guy and I'm a zealous celebrity. Because I think both are true. In certain corners of the internet people know me, but in the overwhelming vast majority of places on this planet, no one would know me or give a fuck about me, even if they knew who I was, you know? Voice acting errors in GTA 5. It's funny, if you listen to the sounds the characters make, when they're falling or in danger or hurt or whatever, they don't sound like the actual voice actors. Is this an error or did they not think to get the voice actors to do it themselves? I mean in some cases it has the right voice actor, like when Michael falls, it sounds like Michael going, ah. Like when you hear Jimmy fall or get burnt or something, it doesn't sound like Jimmy. Like Simeon falling over there, that doesn't sound like Simeon going, ugh, ugh, yeah. Yeah, maybe secondary characters don't have the sounds, yeah. They just weirdly didn't bother to get them. Like it must be pretty expensive, you know, getting all the people in to do the voice lines and stuff. It's possible they just forgot about them and they're like, ah shit, we didn't have the money to bring everyone back into here to do it again. Like I'm listening to the third book in Life Reset now, or Life and Reset or whatever it's called, and it's good, but clearly they've done multiple takes of the lines and for some reason, like every couple of sentences, one sentence will sound really different from the other sentences. I guess because in that recording they made a mistake and set the audio quality wrong, but they couldn't bring everyone back in to do another take and so those lines just screwed forever. |
| 23. January 2021 | Voiceless content creators. | Voiceless content creators. I do not understand, no offense to whatever, how a lot of content creators for GTA have gotten by without using their voice in videos. And how so many people are okay watching content where there's no voice in the videos, you know? It's probably just my ignorance of the wider YouTube platform, but I'm not aware of any other kind of content. About anything. Where there is as many voiceless content creators as there is in the GTA V content space. I mean, as good as Text to Speech is getting, it's also the same way. Terrible. Oh yeah, true, there's a lot of those. True, true. Yeah, actually, now that I think about it. The Reddit videos. There's a lot of Reddit videos that are just Text to Speech reading some question and then the responses in the Reddit. You click one of those videos and that's all you'll receive. To explain the concepts, for those who don't understand, so like there'll be a question. What is your weirdest supermarket interaction or something? And then people will write responses on Reddit and people will take both the question and the responses and put them on YouTube just using Text to Speech. And there's like so many of these that if you click one, you just go into a bottomless pit of just endless Text to Speech videos reading Reddit responses. I don't find these videos as bad necessarily as like React content stuff. I mean, like pure React content without editing, whatever. Because these responses have been put publicly and clearly the person who did it in the first place isn't seeking to profit off that. They're still not great because you are effectively without the consent of the original author profiting off their story and their words, right? But on some level, if you write on a public forum, you should have the expectation that people can put that effectively anyway, you know. Do I have a Reddit? I do. I do a Reddit recap every month. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 03. June 2022 | Voting in Australian elections | Voting in Australian elections. So I went to vote today chat. For those unaware, voting is mandatory in Australia. Of course I would have voted regardless. I don't think you have to sign up to the voting role, but once you're on it, you are legally required to vote in the elections. I think at federal, state and local. You don't have to vote for any of the major parties, like you just have to go and get your name ticked off. So some people just go and write Batman or something on their voting ballot and then bugger off, right? You technically just have to show up. You don't have to vote for anyone who's actually there. But the consequence of not voting is a fine of like two to three hundred dollars. And if you get that fine, I think you can get out of it by like just giving an excuse. I was in a car accident and they're like, all right, fair enough. It's like one of those technically it's required that there's not a huge amount of hurdles to prevent you getting out of it. Like we have early voting for like the entire country. Like you've got an entire week to vote. Voting is very easy. So technically the election is tomorrow, but I voted today. I wanted to vote earlier, but I just couldn't find the time. And when I went today, there were a lot of people. I think everyone had the idea like, oh shit, well, I better go the day before because everyone's going to go on the day. But like I was there for like, I don't know, like an hour, an hour waiting or something. But like I waited the wrong line for like maybe half of that. 20 minutes before I reached the front of the line, my phone died. I was like, no, I was listening to my audio book. Time was flying by and that last 20 minutes though, it was torture. It was so slow. Mayfair 2013 |
| 03. June 2022 | Voting in australian elections | Voting in Australian elections. So I went to vote today chat. For those unaware, voting is mandatory in Australia. Of course I would have voted regardless. I don't think you have to sign up to the voting role, but once you're on it, you are legally required to vote in the elections. I think at federal, state and local. You don't have to vote for any of the major parties, like you just have to go and get your name ticked off. So some people just go and write Batman or something on their voting ballot and then bugger off, right? You technically just have to show up. You don't have to vote for anyone who's actually there. But the consequence of not voting is a fine of like two to three hundred dollars. And if you get that fine, I think you can get out of it by like just giving an excuse. I was in a car accident and they're like, all right, fair enough. It's like one of those technically it's required that there's not a huge amount of hurdles to prevent you getting out of it. Like we have early voting for like the entire country. Like you've got an entire week to vote. Voting is very easy. So technically the election is tomorrow, but I voted today. I wanted to vote earlier, but I just couldn't find the time. And when I went today, there were a lot of people. I think everyone had the idea like, oh shit, well, I better go the day before because everyone's going to go on the day. But like I was there for like, I don't know, like an hour, an hour waiting or something. But like I waited the wrong line for like maybe half of that. 20 minutes before I reached the front of the line, my phone died. I was like, no, I was listening to my audio book. Time was flying by and that last 20 minutes though, it was torture. It was so slow. May. |
| 31. July 2022 | Vsauce on less choices being better. | an outfit. Vsauce on less choices being better. You may have heard me talking before about how sometimes having less choices is better. I actually end up watching a Vsauce video on the same concept. He would give people options of jelly beans, either lemon or cherry. The people would take one and they'd be more often satisfied with their choice because they'd be like, oh yeah, I'm happy with my choice, I like lemon, it's good, I like cherry, it's great. But when offered like 25 different flavors, even though there was more options, people were more often dissatisfied because they'd take one and they would go like, maybe I should have thought about it more, like what about berry here, what about raspberry over there. If he would have given me another one, I probably would have taken peach. And they would all have this feeling because they feel like they're missing out or whatever. And then there's just so many options, they second guess themselves. This came to mind when I thought about my merch store. Whenever my managers would talk about doing merch, they would say you should do what most content creators do and just have drops of like one or two items or something. There's no choice, there's like, do I want this or not? I guess not, or I do. You can't second guess yourself and think, oh I should have got something else or, oh I can't get all the things that I want so I won't bother getting anything. But I hate that. I've always wanted a merch store with all my emotes on it. I'm just greedy that way. And I recognize by having that many, people won't want to sit there and scroll and scroll and be like, oh do I want this emote or I want this emote? But at the same time, I just like it. I like that completionist feeling of having them all. One of those things in life where you can often recognize the optimal thing, the thing you should be doing, and for whatever reason you should go, now fuck it, I would rather appeal to my emotional weaknesses, you could say. It's hard to be perfectly optimal all the time and not just bow to your own psychological biases, you know? Is this video from his minefield series? Yes, I hadn't seen it, but I'm trying to watch it and get through it. I like all that psych stuff obviously, I mean, I studied it. |
| 20. October 2020 | Vtubers | I saw something. Apparently, VR YouTubers are like extraordinarily popular. They're, I guess, Japanese women who put on these lolly personas or whatever, like cutesy voices and stuff, and then they have these animated, you know, lifelike anime characters that act out their movements on camera. And they just have like thousands upon thousands of live viewers or whatever. They have English fans, but obviously the English fans can't really understand what's going on. So apparently there's now gonna be some English VTubers, VTubers, whatever the way. I guess they speak English, but they'll still speak in like Japanese accents. I don't know how that's gonna work, but very strange times we exist in, chat. Very strange times. I would not be surprised if in like five years the most successful female content creator is one who uses a fictional avatar of like a dragon or something. Project Melody? Yeah, I guess that is a good example. But I mean, when I think of VTubers, I think of the Japanese ones. I forget that like Project Melody exists. I mean, that's like a cam girl thing, though, right? That's like VR chat to the nines. I guess it's the same thing, but they're clear differences. But there should be something, like some way to distinguish between them in terms of terminology. Anime VTubers. Isn't it called Hololive? I'm not an expert in these things, chat, that may surprise you. I don't really know anything. The only reason I know of it at all, is because there's this dude, I don't know his name, but I subbed him at one point because he posts anime memes, and he posted about it. And then I got recommended some VTuber stuff. A dog one, and a dragon one. Do I play horror games? |
| 28. November 2020 | Vtubers and NNN | be skipped anyway. VTubers and No Nut November. No Nut November? There is this squirrel VTuber who instead of calling it No Nut November calls it... These clips got recommended to me. You guys seen these clips? Non-stop Nut November, that's right. And she makes these little 20 second videos that are so cursed where she's like have you collected all the nuts? How you go with Non-Stop Nut November? Hi! Non-Stop Nut November day 25, how are you doing? Wouldn't you think that it would be a great idea to have Nut like every morning as your breakfast? If there's a Nob and Rambles I'll show an example. They keep getting recommended to me and I keep watching them because they're so cursed and weird. Just part of Hololive Indonesia? There's a Hololive Indonesia? Hololive is a full-blown industry now? Yeah I've noticed. See I can still say I don't watch it because I don't watch any of the live streams but in the same way that my clips get shown to people these 30 second things I get those recommended to me sometimes. Like there's two creators playing Minecraft and one repeating like kill the hoe or something but she doesn't know what hoe means in English and so the other content creators kind of goes silent and they're like uh and then she explains and they're like no I didn't mean it no! It's very funny. I mean it's what I always say if you stream long enough it doesn't matter how boring of a stream you are or how bad of a stream you are you're gonna eventually have some moments that are quite funny. That isn't me criticizing them of course I just mean that I doubt there's a single content creator out there that doesn't at least have some clips that I would find funny. You like me exactly like me! |
| 02. October 2021 | Waiting in lines | Waiting in lines. There is almost nothing in existence that is worth standing in a line for. You stand in lines because you have to, not because you want to or whatever. It's like, you could go to Disneyland and I'd be like, yeah, but I could just, you know, stay home and play video games. But Disneyland would be even funner, I'm like, yeah, it probably would. You know, for the parts that are fun, but the everything else, the travel, the bugs and the fucking loss of money and the annoying people and the smells and the sweat everywhere and the heat and the lines. All that would be so shit. Yeah, I'd probably enjoy myself, but at the same time I could just enjoy myself a slight bit less at home and not have to deal with all those bad things. |
| 28. April 2021 | Walmart and worker's rights | Walmart and workers' rights. Is Walmart big in Australia? I think they were coming here. I don't know if they've actually come here or not. Someone googled how many Walmart's in Australia. I'm pretty sure I heard they were coming here. Zero Walmart's in Australia. Okay. I definitely heard they were looking into coming here. I guess they haven't come here. Many practices that Walmart does are illegal in regards to their employees. Well, that's the case with most American companies. Most American companies do things to their employees that is illegal in every other Western country. In terms of their payment, compensation, sick leave, guaranteed days off and stuff. When I hear about working in America, I'm like, how do you guys survive? It just sounds horrible. People have problems with capitalism in countries where they actually take care of their workers. America must be like two steps away from a full-on revolution. But I guess obviously different states vary and different companies vary and stuff. I'm sure you can find a nice company to work for, whatever, in America. I'm sure some states are better than us, but goddamn. Like the guaranteed minimums in Australia. Oh, just any Western country other than America. So much better. I heard someone say America is a third world country with a Gucci belt. Yeah, it does seem that way sometimes. Clearly it isn't that bad. It's definitely an exaggeration. Like state by state is different. Some American states differ more than European countries. |
| 20. February 2021 | Wanting to get into Chess | Wanting to get into chess. I was watching Ludwig play chess for like 5-10 minutes before. Kinda made me want to just play some chess today. Like I know I'm not good. Probably better than the average person because the average person has never played chess. You know what I'm saying? I'm not terrible. I hear Ludwig has a bot on chess.com now. I should verse and see if I beat it. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 14. May 2021 | Wanting to play Skyrim again. | wanting to play Skyrim again. Whenever I get to this mission, because of the joke I made involving Skyrim, I always think about Skyrim when I get to this mission, and it makes me want to play it again. I know though if I played it, I wouldn't find it satisfying. I want Elder Scrolls 6, or as I often say, Skyrim 6. Skyrim is very replayable though, yeah, and especially because I haven't played it in a bajillion years, but I just don't think I could make that very good stream content, you know? I could, nah. And full ass never appeals to me. I don't like post-apocalyptic stuff. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 15. June 2021 | Wanting to play a game vs play it optimally | Wanting to play a game optimally is different than wanting to play it. The more I keep watching Heroes of Might and Magic streams and just makes me want to play it again. Have you guys ever watched a game and thought to yourself, I really want to play this, but in reality what you want to do is play it optimally. Like you want to be good at that game. It isn't just a matter of wanting to play it, you want to play it well. And so you start it up and it's just like, man, I suck at this game. This isn't what I wanted, you know. I got that feeling with a CSGO as well. Like man, that looks so cool. You're playing like man, this sucks. Why do I suck at this game? I must be good at CSGO? Nah, completely different shooting. Like a night and day. Do I think I could become proficient at CSGO if I practice it? Yeah, I do think I could. But I don't think I'd ever be anywhere near like the top percent of the game or whatever, right? If you want to see my CS gameplay, there's a little bit of it on YouTube and I did not play well. |
| 14. May 2021 | Wanting to play skyrim again. | wanting to play Skyrim again. Whenever I get to this mission, because of the joke I made involving Skyrim, I always think about Skyrim when I get to this mission, and it makes me want to play it again. I know though if I played it, I wouldn't find it satisfying. I want Elder Scrolls 6, or as I often say, Skyrim 6. Skyrim is very replayable though, yeah, and especially because I haven't played it in a bajillion years, but I just don't think I could make that very good stream content, you know? I could, nah. And full ass never appeals to me. I don't like post-apocalyptic stuff. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 04. October 2021 | Warding away sadness with streaming | Warding away sadness with streaming. As a disclaimer, that this ended up working for me does not mean it will work for everyone else. I got quite lucky to be where I am. Have you ever been depressed in your early streaming days? I've been depressed quite a few times in my- Okay, I hate using the word depressed, okay? I've never been diagnosed with depression. But I have had times in my life where I've looked at life and gone, well this is all kind of pointless, and I don't know what I want to do with myself, and I've lacked the energy to do stuff. But I, you know, I don't know how much I'm misremembering. I really know, okay? All I can say is I've definitely been unhappy at various times in my life, and questions what I wanted to really do with my life. As a general rule, streaming has been nothing but a benefit in terms of warding away these feelings. I have never felt more accomplished, or proud, or motivated as I have been since I've started streaming. The value of wanting to get up in the morning, being excited to go to sleep at night because you can get up in the morning, feeling accomplishment and pride and stuff in what you do, is something that's intoxicating. You never want to give that up, and that's what I feel with streaming, so I'm going to keep doing it. And that's why I very much so value and appreciate people who financially support me and allow me to keep doing this, because I don't want it to go away. |
| 16. January 2020 | Was 2019 a bad year for games? | Was 2019 a bad year for games? I saw people comments over the wider internet that this has been a terrible year for gaming. Is that true? Like, Sekiro was good. But what else was there? The Star Wars game was good, let's be real, it's not like crazy good, you know. Just considering how bad Star Wars games have been lately, it's, you know, their streaming was not that good. Come on now. Games that people will be playing, you know, for years to come and will think back on fondly. Death Stranding, no. Red Dead Red- aah, come on. Okay, fine. People enjoyed Red Dead 2. It does kind of feel still that, like, not a lot happened, really. It really just depends what you're interested in, in a way, right? I mean, Death Stranding might be like your favorite game of all fucking time. It still just feels like there wasn't like just, you know, endless games, you know. Oh yeah, Red Dead was 2018, wasn't it? I mean, the PC version was this year, which is why I was thinking of it. But I mean, technically, yeah, the game did come out 2018. |
| 25. November 2022 | Was Elon Musk ever a good person? | Information in my environment, I can only act and react to what happens to me. Was Elon Musk ever a good person? Elon was an alright guy before he's personally became Twitter meme- dude, he was never an alright guy. It was all just PR bullshit, man. Oh, yeah, those are great videos, uh, Sombra. I mean, there's tons of videos explaining that most of Elon's ideas are not possible scientifically or- well, just in regards to physics. What on Elon Musk? I had a random idea, therefore it must be the greatest idea ever. Here is billions of dollars to try and do it. Oh, what, it can't be done? Well, I'll just lie to everyone and say it's like a year away. So much of the world is built on bullshit chat. I suppose it's only fitting that a bullshit artist would be the uh, the richest guy on paper. You love Elon? Don't admit that in public, dude. D- Elon is a dumb person's idea of what a smart rich person is, as they say. Once you have enough money to be able to buy the expertise of anyone, doing anything yourself at that point is almost somewhat silly, because you can always find someone with better skills than you, whose time you can buy so you can spend doing other shit. Why do things yourself when another person can do it better? Your time is ridiculously finite, but your money is effectively infinite. So all you end up doing is buying smarter and smarter people to do stuff for you, and that makes you more and more money, which means you can buy more and more people. It's just in the case of Elon Musk, he likes to pretend that all the things that other people are doing are things that he himself has done. He owns things, and smart people are making things as a part of those companies. He's like, I did these things! Sure, everyone had to explain to me what was being done 15 minutes before I came on stage, but trust me, I did these things. Me, Elon Musk, not the thousands of people who work for these companies. I did it all. Me, me, me. Look at my face. People are like, Elon Musk works so hard, man. He posts like 25 tweets a day. He has his own talent pool to pull from the people he has personally vetted in other companies, like Tesla software engineers. You can't just have people change from one company to another, and just immediately be able to go into that role and be perfect at it. Moreover, why the fuck at his other companies would there be extra people laying around to move in the orders of thousands into Twitter? What are you talking about? Hey man, you do stuff with like, car software? Do you know how to run a social media? Because I don't. I'm Elon Musk, I've never done this before. Yet for some reason, despite having absolutely no experience in anything even tangentially related to what role I've taken upon, people still think for some reason I'm gonna be good at it, because I have money. I have money, it means I'm just instantly good at everything. Except if you look at my history, I've been shit at fucking everything I've ever done. But luckily, being in the right place at the right time to own shares, to have them bought out. What Elon is doing isn't random though, it's a practice called wailing and culling. It's common in takeovers in companies before big layoff sprays. I think you're talking about mergers. In mergers, it's common for that. There are also times when you bring in people who are less emotionally attached to people at the company to more objectively assess who can be cussed. But newsflash, 50% of the workforce in a week is not normal. Saying, hey, you'll be working 90 hour weeks or whatever, or you're fired, is not normal. Sending mass emails being like, you press yes here, or you're fired, this isn't normal. This is not how companies are run. At least it's spreading the word, but it never really gets spread. Because as long as you continue to be successful in bringing people together to make things, then you're always going to make more money than you're paying out to people. It's why wealth becomes concentrated in capitalism. You just get more and more stuff. Even in a case where you fail and lose money, you don't like lose money to the everyday worker or something, you lose money to other people who like own competing businesses and buy you out and stuff. Like you lose money for the benefit of other billionaires or whatever. Money just continues to concentrate over time. The more money you have, the easier it is to get more money. And it just continues that way until everything explodes. And I just hope I'm not around when it all does explode. That's the dream. |
| 10. September 2021 | Was I a 'straight a' student? | Was I a straight A student? I was not a straight A student. I was pretty high up there for most of high school until I got to this point where I was just super depressed. I think it was around the 10th grade, like I must have ditched a significant portion of the year because I lived fairly close to school and I had like self-image issues, I had amazingly bad acne like at one point it was like I couldn't move my mouth without stretching my skin and it would bring me pain. Certainly a lot of it was just irrational garbage that happens, you know, when you're hormonal chemicals blah blah blah as a teenager but it massively distracted me from doing anything productive with my schooling year. In university, I was always above average. The only unit that I was at the top of the class was Australian Politics 101. Or was it just 100? 100. It was a very basic course. I never shot for the stars, like I kind of just shot for like 80%. I would balance out my time so I wouldn't get super stressed and I was like sure yeah I could study a bunch more for this test but I'd rather put a bit more effort into this essay like I partitioned my time so that I could, you know, live a normal life and enjoy myself but also do reasonably well. |
| 11. June 2021 | Was I a livestreamer or YouTuber first? | Was I a live streamer or YouTuber first? Was I a Twitch streamer or a YouTuber first? I was a YouTuber. I think there is a scuffed history of my time online somewhere. When I first started, I was a sort of commentary channel, not really. It was more, I had some ideas about the world, thoughts about society, philosophy, religion and stuff without any formal education in these things. And I wanted to throw my ideas out into the world and get some feedback from people. At my peak, I got somewhere between 500 and 1,000 views per video that I released. I was not very good at editing and I barely knew what I was doing. But everyone starts somewhere. |
| 17. January 2022 | Was I always equally committed in my content creation? | that my recent success had been caused by me going ham. Going ham being slang for putting in an extraordinary amount of effort. I feel like I've always been going ham, but I lacked the knowledge of how to best apply my effort. Which is the case with a lot of people, right? A lot of people out there are willing to put the effort in and want to work towards improving something, but they just lack the knowledge of how to do that. They don't have the connections, they don't have that person to... so they can be under that person's wing and that person can be like, look kid, here's how this is done, you know? What is the longest speedrun that I could do? What's the longest speedrun you'd be able to do? You're working... |
| 30. May 2021 | Was I manipulated by Dream in our interview? | Was I manipulated by Dream in our interview? Taken on Dream though, that's a ballsy move dude. I don't know if you watched that entire interview, like I went into that and I wrote some what I thought were really fucking hard hitting questions. Like I was like, how could you possibly respond to all these? And certainly in his responses, he didn't respond to all of them perfectly, but he would always have something to say. He would always respond instantaneously. He wouldn't have to think about it. I guess if he bought you a Ferrari, you kind of had to be easy on him. Dream has been in a bunch of these situations now and every single time he is so quick on his feet for any question. He's probably so used to it by now, man. He's thought of a response to fucking everything. He is a smart dude and he is very good at speaking. People came away from that like, oh, he manipulated you and I'm like, did he? I don't really know if he did or not. But sometimes I reflect on it and go, maybe he did manipulate me. He just came off as such a nice, charming fellow. Nice to fuck up and he can never admit he's cheated because that's his career done. Not going to lie, I watched your video and I kind of thought, yeah, I'm like, yeah, this dude cheated. Dude, I read some of the comments on that video where you were going over that and it's just like brainwashed kids, man. A lot of it is people just not really understanding what could motivate a person to do that, you know, and that's his defense. Why would I do that? I saw the money he was making, bro. I don't think it was money. I honestly think he just buckled under the pressure. I think he was just like, fuck it, I'm sick of this RNG shit. Yeah, he's like, I'm eventually going to get this run. All I'm doing is just making it happen faster. I've got the skill to do this. I've got other content to make. Why spend the many more days necessary to get this thing that's obviously inevitable? He just increased his odds. But in speed running, if you have something that happens one in a thousand and it happens, you're the pressure is on, man. You've got butterflies in your stomach. You're like, this isn't going to happen for another one in a thousand runs. And it's so much harder to perform under that situation. But if you increase your odds and you get that, what, like, let's say one in a hundred or one in fifty or one in ten or whatever. It's much less stressful. You're much less stressful. You're like, well, if I don't get this one, I'll get it next time. Like, even just increasing your RNG chance and just getting a run that anyone can get with the normal RNG chance, you're still giving yourself a big advantage over your competition. But yeah, I totally understand why he never admitted it. But it's very hard to look at him favorably at the end of it, because ultimately he did lie to everyone for a long time. He just can't admit it now. His career is over if he does. I mean, would it be like I just don't think there's anything that he can gain from doing that? Like, it wouldn't be over, but no one would respect him. No one would trust him. His content is really good. Like, and that's not even his speed running stuff. Like, I know it's just good in general. He can just like, if he just never admits it, it's like there is that chance of like, what if? Like, you know, I mean, like even like, though we're a hundred percent sure. It's like, are we actually a hundred percent sure? Are we like, is it this slither of like, like he thinks he's innocent? Like someone modded his files? Like, I don't know. You know what I mean? Like he just leaves it as doubt. It's just better. Whereas a lot of people, that'd be enough. That's small amount of doubt. And certainly a lot of people don't even know that happened. Like everyone in the speedrunning community knows. And like, as I say, if he apologized, no one would fucking forgive him, man. And it's like whenever I read something about something I've done and I, you know, I've just say I've made amends with the person. I publicly apologize and stuff. No one fucking sees that shit. Like they're just there for the drama initially. And it's very rare that if you apologize, you're you're going to end up being viewed more favorably by those who hated you because you did the bad thing. Whatever. Right. At best, you're going to look a little bit better for the people who already either didn't give a shit or already had forgiven you anyway. Right. Yeah. What's that? As much as I want to believe that like you apologize or whatever and everything goes away, it just doesn't happen that way. Yeah. |
| 12. November 2022 | Was I right not to do this collab? | Was I right not to do this collab? You guys know, I like Jesus. He is a content creator who does a lot of stuff around CSGO skins and all that jazz. I thought I was gonna do a collab with him where I'd like open some cases on stream and stuff. After saying yes, I thought about it for a while and ultimately I was like, no, I can't actually do this. At the end of the day, I have lost thousands of dollars on CSGO skins. Because I got twisted into opening cases and stuff like off stream, getting back into my little bit of gambling roots back then. That I used to have, like I used to play a lot of Texas Haltem and stuff. And it was a very stupid decision. If I didn't have the money to afford it, I wouldn't have done it. But, uh, because the money was ultimately not that important to me, I ended up doing it. And when I think about that, I'm like, I probably shouldn't do things that could potentially lead my viewers to do the same thing. But I just worry about promoting that stuff because while I do draw a distinction between like pure chance degenerate slot kind of gambling. And the collectible gambling with like Pokemon card opening packs and CSGO cases. It is still at the end of the day, basically just gambling. And I'm not sure how comfortable I am doing that on stream, as I've talked about before. I've never said it would be impossible, I would never do it, it's just I'm not very comfortable with it. Like I've thought about playing poker on stream and that I'd be more okay with. But even that I'm like, I don't really think I should be doing that. Like you might one day see me in a poker tournament or something, that's about as far as you'll get for me. But I've said to Jesus, like, nah, I don't think I can open cases for content. And he hasn't responded to me in a couple of days. I hope he's not too out of sorts. I do like the dude. Like obviously it wouldn't be the end of the world if I did it once or something. And maybe like at a politeness and just, you know, because I like the dude, maybe I could have done it just once. But the gains are too small for the possible negative ramifications. Like people in the future might leave me mean comments or some of you guys won't be happy with me doing it. I can just think like five years down the line someone being like, hey, remember that time you opened those cases on stream or whatever? And it's just like, aww. CSGO skins are actually interesting though. And the community that is around them and the history of all the bit players and stuff, that's how I got sucked into it because it was interesting in that respect. It just sucks that loot boxes and the economy around them that Valve refuses to take responsibility for exists like that. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 30. November 2020 | Was My First Playthrough Of Gta 5 A Speedrun? | Was my first playthrough of GTA 5 a speedrun? Was my first playthrough of GTA a speedrun? My first completed playthrough? Yes. It was. My first playthrough of GTA is softlocked, and so I just decided to learn the speedrun. I was already committed. I already liked the game, I already wanted to speedrun it. And I had already seen the cutscenes, like a year earlier. I watched the cutscene movie on YouTube and thought it was pretty good. I remember not being blown away, but I watched the entire thing, and I was interested the entire way. Haven't watched a cutscene movie for a game in quite a long time. The last one I think was the last of us won. The last one was the last of us. |
| 13. January 2023 | Was the Andrew Tate arrest a set-up? | More headlines to me was Asmongold saying, there's a 50-50 chance that Andrew Tate was set up. I mean, look at Martin Luther King. The government set him up. So the levels of stupid in that statement probably don't need to be broken down. But this is generally what happens when you don't know anything, but you're willing to speak confidently, anything that comes to your mind. Then he backtracked, but he said, I don't really care because fuck it. This is going to be content for me for like the next two weeks. So you say some things wrong because you don't really give a fuck. So you misinform people. Who cares, man? It's content, bro. Just because you make other people's lives worse, doesn't mean you should step back and think, am I living the life that I should? Now I just eight minutes, I can get some money out of this. |
| 20. December 2022 | Was the Franklin DLC any good? | DLC any good? Dr. Dre was such a bad DLC. I think as a one-off it was pretty good, but it wasn't something that was really, uh, repeatable, grindable like Kei O'Parego. Especially because there's that unskippable cutscene in the middle of it that goes for like five minutes. Dr. Dre's music, right? Showing again that DLC was more about the promotion of that music and the collab between Rockstar and Dr. Dre than anything else. |
| 16. February 2023 | Was the shorts monetization change a huge step up? | Was the shorts monetization change a huge step up? So how long is the shorts payments been around now seven days? Would you like to know how much money shorts make now? So in the last seven days I've gotten 3.7 million views in shorts I haven't released any new shorts because I just don't want to but obviously I have a lot of successful shorts I'm still getting like, you know half a million a day and so I get four cents per thousand views for a total of $135 as a comparison right now in the same period I get four dollars per Thousand views in my main channel videos and they're still relatively low relative to other channels I mean, so literally I get a hundred times the money for a view on a main channel video versus a short Is that even an improvement? On TikTok you get two cents per thousand views probably less now so YouTube is still giving twice as much as TikTok Isn't more than it was before? Yes. So in January I got 0.002 cents So I got one fifth of a cent per thousand views prior to their new change in monetization So significant increase that shorts are not very well monetized So while doing shorts makes my numbers look all cool and stuff Anytime I spend working on shorts, even if it would get me a hundred times the views Money wise is not worth it And I just don't think that people enjoy my shorts to the same degree that they enjoy my main channel videos I do think I've made some bangin shorts chat But the thing I don't stand about shorts is even YouTube will say yo in two weeks or something They're basically gone in the algorithm like shorts are meant to be ephemeral there and then gone again We have videos like I've got videos where I'm still getting thousands of views on them years later Time spent on main channel videos making something like a great can echo into eternity and with shorts that can never happen one thing I want to do is just make 365 shorts and then just every 365 days Reupload the exact same shorts. I think I'd do well. |
| 23. July 2022 | Watch Dogs 1 has aged like fine wine | Watch Dogs 1 has aged like fine wine. How do I rate Watch Dogs 1? With every passing year, I like Watch Dogs 1 even more because I forget all its small flaws and annoyances and stuff and all I can remember is the stuff that's good. The Watch Dogs videos are certainly good. Greyisframe.com |
| 27. October 2020 | Watch Dogs 2 Review | Watch Dogs 2 review. So, the first playthrough I had with Watch Dogs, I didn't cap my FPS or whatever. So, during the first cutscenes, I was freaking out because I was dropping frames all the time. I couldn't watch the cutscenes because I was just watching the average FPS go up and down and stuff. And it was driving me crazy. And it ruined the first session for me. I didn't know the controls ruined it as well. The second time around, my settings were completely fucked because of issues with the VR, unplugging and plugging back in and stuff. So all my monitors were set to 60, and so I was getting frame tearing everywhere. And it just looked absolutely abysmal. And I freaked the fuck out because I believed it was the game's fault. So I ruined the game for myself. I don't think the game is particularly amazing. Mainly because the aesthetic of it doesn't appeal to me. But mechanically, graphically, there isn't anything wrong with the game. From what I can tell. And I think it was just issues on my end. So I want to give it another go. Because I was rude to people. I did freak the fuck out. As I say, sometimes I do wrong. And I prefer to right those wrongs when they occur. I consider this to be wrong. Rate this game from 1 to 10. 6. I'm just not jiving with the aesthetic. Doesn't seem like a particularly bad game. It's just, this is not my kind of... yeah, aesthetic. I'm not interested in these teen hacker people. I jive more with Aiden Pearce's gritty, This is super serious and everything I do is serious. Basically, Aiden Pearce was Batman going, JUSTICE! And this game is Batman going, Cyber justice, dude! Similar, but a different feel. Hello, fellow kids. I too am interested in the cyber justice. The first one, it was like, the cyber hacking stuff, while a focus. It was like, almost your special thing in the world. It was like, there was the real world, and you had access to the cyber world, and it helped you fuck with the real world. This is like, too focused on the cyber world, you know? There's no real world, it's just all the cyber, you know? I just wish they'd kept more of what made Watch Dogs Wanted good. The feeling of being a lead, cool hacker, who also had gunplay experience, like you felt like something in that game. In this game, I've always felt extraordinarily weak in everything that I do. It's more about finding shit ways to get through stuff, rather than actually working to complete anything. It just feels lame. You haven't done any cyber missions, meaning you're missing a lot of upgrades. Yeah, that's possible. But in what reality can you shoot a person in the back with a sniper rifle 12 times and they don't die? Why should the main best hacking features you have not involve you timing or setting up traps, but simply calling the cops and saying, hey, kill this person? Or calling a gang and saying, hey, kill this person? You have the least interaction possible. It's just so lame. The minions, the drone and the helicopter, it doesn't... When you were Aiden Pierce, you always felt like you were the one doing something. You were the one hacking or whatever. With these little toys, it's just like, you know, oh, my toy is dead. I'll just wait 30 seconds and do it again. Oh, my toy is dead again. I guess I'll do it again. And like, it just gets overwhelming sometimes. It's just weird how none of these missions really tie together. It doesn't feel like there's any real progression. It's just every mission is some new company that has some tangential kind of connection to Bloom. And then we take it down, nothing really changes, and I just move to the next company. I'm not really invested in the story at all. It feels like a bunch of disconnected episodes, like a sitcom. Exactly. Yeah. Like in Watch Dogs 1, there was an overarching story that you were slowly progressing towards, and there was stuff, you know, that kind of distracted you from that, but there was a distinct story that you were progressing down, and you could see yourself progress in it. The only sort of progression I can see in this game is my follower count. It's the only connection that the missions have to each other. But it doesn't even really show you from the mission itself how you're getting followers. I guess just because you've done something, you're getting followers from random people. You get followers from videos you publish, but why are they allowing our videos to stay up on the platforms? We're clearly domestic terrorists. I'm not saying Bloom is good, but we've killed like hundreds of people, and I'm in no way invested in this story because I barely know what's going on. They talk about so many different characters, so many different organizations, connecting them all by the thinnest lines of thread. There's a main villain that I haven't seen in a bajillion years, and I barely see, and I can barely understand how he's connected to anything. Like, Watch Dogs 1 had a little bit of a convoluted story, but at least it was interesting. So just so I'm clear, didn't I need to get followers this entire game so that I can use their processing power for some purpose? What was that purpose? Was that just so I could do better hacking? So like when I... Like these options is because of the followers' processing power? That is extraordinarily silly. Now, did I enjoy the game? There are elements of the game that I enjoyed. We can start from the top. When I played it the first time, I was wrong to be dismissive of the game based on its graphics and FPS and frame rate and all that stuff, because that was more issues on my end. I am happy that I gave the game another chance, because I was also wrong to give it, you know, not give it a chance, because I was just in a bad mood the first time I played it. But over the course of playing this game, there were many moments where I'm like, I don't know if I can continue. This is just so boring or tedious. Or just, you know, the character's story, I'm just like, no. But there were some funny moments. There were some fun moments. Some of the missions I quite enjoyed. It's just I'm not big on... Like that mission that we did where put a bomb on the drone and fly it in, explode it. Like, when you have these tools where you can divorce yourself from the area where there's threats to that extent, it just ruins all the stakes for me. I don't feel like I'm playing the game. I know I am playing the game, but it doesn't feel impactful. I'm just moving a small drone a million miles away, and the drone gets destroyed. And I'm like, well, I'll just wait 30 seconds to do the drone again. It's not fun for me. The most fun I had was when the odds were stacked against me, and I was shooting and killing people and barely making it out or barely making it away. And the times I hated it the most is when that strategy didn't work, or it didn't work because my weapons were garbage or whatever. I'm not a person who needs shooting and stuff to be my main thing, but in my order of preferred ways of doing things, I want to try doing stealth. If I fail, I want to have a chance of success with shooting and to still have hacking be a part of my escape mechanism. But in this game, hacking felt so passive. Like, my two best hacking abilities to take down enemies was calling the cops or calling gangs, and it would take them like four minutes to arrive. So it wasn't like an immediate thing that I could do. In Watch Dogs 1, you felt like you were like an overpowered action man with hacking abilities. You were a hacker, but still very capable because people are against you. You're like, oh, shit, I need help. So you start blow up something, hack this. You hack a person's grenade. You blow them up that way. You block something off you. You had 700 offensive hacking techniques that you could use at any given time. So when Stealthing failed in Watch Dogs 1, you were still in the thick of things. There was some threat, some harm that could come your way, and you had 700 tools to possibly solve your problems. You could even take down helicopters, even though that was difficult. But in this game, you always felt powerless. You always felt divorced from the situation, the scenario, the mission that you're trying to solve. And I don't think that feels good. I'm not a person who gets immersed in games very easily. I never really feel immersed. But if I were to say the game that I felt the least immersed in, it was this one. Both because of the gameplay that I was talking about, but also because the story is just so boring. It's one of the criticisms I had with Red Dead Redemption 2, but it's definitely worse here, where you could have removed any of the chunk of missions that I did, and nothing about the story would have changed. It's just, you know, this guy is doing bad things with five companies. Oh, what, we still have more dev time? Okay, he's doing it with six companies. Seven companies, eight companies, still got more dev time, nine companies. And the missions were all fairly formulaic. They had differences, certainly, but it still came down to the same stuff. I went into building, and then I stopped the company from being able to use the information to do some illegal thing, and just repeat that over and over again, which is fine in games where the gameplay is really enriching, really enjoyable, but as I wasn't enjoying the gameplay, it just felt like more tedious slogging. Some missions were better than others, but none of the missions stand out to me and go, yes, I enjoyed that so much. I enjoyed all of Watch Dogs 1. There was the occasion where I was like, oh my god, come on. But I would rate Watch Dogs 1, eight, maybe nine, just because I'm comparing it to Watch Dogs 2. But Watch Dogs 2, I would rate a five, maybe a six. But that's just my personal enjoyment of it. I've heard people really enjoyed this game. I just don't understand how. Maybe people just really like the idea of drones and buggies and stuff, and that just, you know, like I have this thing in some games. It's so rare to find it done well in games, but I love being a minion master in fantasy games. I remember you used to play Guild Wars 2 back in the day, and I have like an army of undead guys. Even if they weren't powerful, it's just cool going, attack them, my minions, and then just like a billion creatures just try to kill an enemy. Maybe people like that. They like the idea of being a tech guy with all these little tech creatures that they can use to do stuff. But I don't know how this game would satiate that view, because you only had two tools. You had a buggy and a drone. It'd be cool if you had like an army of little robots who all had various particular situations and quirks and stuff that you could then throw out and solve things, but it was just two. I just felt like, I don't know. I'm going to be very interested to see what they do with Watch Dogs 3, see if they are more like Watch Dogs 1 or that they do Watch Dogs 2 rice. Like if you had a lot more tools, the scenarios you find yourself in would be more diverse. I'm not sure. I would like Watch Dogs 3, just go back to Watch Dogs 1 in the overpowered hacking action man thing. But if they go the route of Watch Dogs 2, I want to go all in on having endless amounts of cool, instant tools that I can use, rather than I'm calling gangs and they're coming and doing stuff 10 minutes later or whatever. It's a game that I definitely could have skipped and not felt like I missed out on anything. Seeing other people's Among Us gameplay. So I see these clips all the time from big streamers where it's like, oh my god. |
| 31. August 2020 | Watch Dogs 3 harassing me to play | Watch Dogs 2 harassing me to play. Oh my god, Watch Dogs 2 is sending me emails. Being like, man give me no chance. We need you man, we need you. You haven't hacked everything yet. Please come back. No joke. They've sent me like half a dozen emails. I've never found a game that fucking needy. Just by the season pass man, I'm good for a minute. There's a lot of content. I have a lot to offer the world. |
| 07. May 2021 | Watch Dogs Franchise | The Watch Dogs franchise. What's my opinion on the Watch Dogs franchise? The first game was eight and a half maybe even nine out of ten if you want to be charitable. The second one it went in such a different direction and it makes total sense why it's divisive. Your mileage with it is gonna depend upon whether you like the characters or they're annoying to you but maybe I would call that a seven out of ten game. Like I don't think you're wasting your time playing it. The last game that they made probably as well it depends on what you play the games for. I would call that a six out of ten game. You're probably not wasting your time playing it necessarily if you like that kind of game but Watch Dogs 2 and 3 did not improve on the formula of one. It just didn't. I felt like one had the perfect balance of everything with the I preferred the gritty feel and the following ones you know they just tried to do anything they possibly could think of with hacking and not all of it works and they went for often over-the-top kind of humor and I just don't think it works great. You're like Watch Dogs 3 went in on you know the hacker recruitment thing and that made it so you can't have like a cool main character you can't have a Nicobelic or whatever you know. Not that I can even remember the name of the main character in Watch Dogs 1 it just escapes me right now. But I like the character I can still remember what the character looks like and think fondly on the character. Aiden Pearce that's it. |
| 28. April 2021 | Watch parties on Twitch | Watch parties on Twitch. Hey man, any chance you'd do a live watch along of a movie like the Snyder Cut or maybe just any show you're watching for a few episodes? The only watch parties we can do are things on Amazon Prime and so you need a Prime Prime to watch it obviously. Like I stopped into Ludwig's stream yesterday and they were doing a watch along and so I guess like on the main screen the movie plays and in the top right hand corner you can see the live stream like the camera and so you could just see them sitting on a couch while you watch the movie with them and you can hear what they say and stuff. I couldn't watch with them though. They were watching The Truman Show I think which is a great movie. If you haven't seen The Truman Show you're also missing out. One of Jim Carrey's best, especially non-comedies. It means some funny stuff in there but you know. But I couldn't watch because it's only available in America on Amazon Prime. So if I did a watch party I'd have to watch something that's available in Australia which in the vast majority would just be Amazon Prime originals. I don't think they have much in terms of licensed content. |
| 15. February 2022 | Watching Masterchef vs watching YouTube videos. | and watching some small creators video on YouTube, I don't think there's a difference. There shouldn't be, which is, I mean, we might end up talking about that later when we talk about other people's claims of fair use. What I'm saying is, if these reactors feel that they're in, in the domain of what is accepted by the law, just start watching Disney movies. Just take a hundred, $200 million production of Disney, put it on your stream, and then pause it every five minutes and say, that was pretty good. I like that character's ass. And just do that for the entire movie and see how far you get in court. Cause you're gonna lose immediately. You are just re-uploading their content and your commentary is never gonna be transformative of that. I can watch your stream and I have now watched the movie. Right? So there is no difference. There is absolutely no difference. |
| 07. February 2021 | Watching Minecraft speedrunning explains why Dream cheated. | Again, to a degree. Watching Minecraft speedruns explains dream cheating. It's like the more that I watch Dowsky speedrun Minecraft, the more I understand why Dream cheated. In that particular category. It is like, just like 40 aspects of RNG or something. And when you have everything fall in- fall correctly, and then that one thing doesn't go right, it's just like, oh my god, fuck off, he has to start again. Man. Watching Forsen as I did, I don't know if Forsen is using like a more consistent routes or something, or I don't know, but if you're going for the best strats, it looks like hell. Yeah, Dowsky seems like a true dude. Minecraft is fun to speedrun as you have to improvise, but when taking it to competitive, it gets really bad. Yeah, that's- that's exactly why I thought as well. It looks like a fun run to get just a decent time in, have those runs in, learn how to play it, that kind of thing. But trying to grind for that perfect RNG for World Record looks hell. Like, going for World Record when in the large majority it's skill, that can be fun. Going for World Record when it's in a large majority RNG, but you also need to be skillful as well, seems very frustrating. |
| 07. February 2021 | Watching Minecraft speedrunning explains why dream cheated. | Again, to a degree. Watching Minecraft speedruns explains dream cheating. It's like the more that I watch Dowsky speedrun Minecraft, the more I understand why Dream cheated. In that particular category. It is like, just like 40 aspects of RNG or something. And when you have everything fall in- fall correctly, and then that one thing doesn't go right, it's just like, oh my god, fuck off, he has to start again. Man. Watching Forsen as I did, I don't know if Forsen is using like a more consistent routes or something, or I don't know, but if you're going for the best strats, it looks like hell. Yeah, Dowsky seems like a true dude. Minecraft is fun to speedrun as you have to improvise, but when taking it to competitive, it gets really bad. Yeah, that's- that's exactly why I thought as well. It looks like a fun run to get just a decent time in, have those runs in, learn how to play it, that kind of thing. But trying to grind for that perfect RNG for World Record looks hell. Like, going for World Record when in the large majority it's skill, that can be fun. Going for World Record when it's in a large majority RNG, but you also need to be skillful as well, seems very frustrating. |
| 27. December 2020 | Watching Mizkif open pokemon cards. | Watching Ms. Kiff opening Pokemon card packs. Was anyone watching Ms. Kiff open Pokemon cards today? Imagine spending $70,000 on booster boxes. That's the same thing like a loot box is cash. Like, is he gonna get the thing? Like, listening to like, even when he gets a good card, micro-analyzing like, oh, is the centering perfect? Is there a small imperfection? What about this ink? Is this a bad ink bit? And just like, that seems very stressful. Like, even when you get the thing that you want, there's just even a tinier chance that it's the quality you want or whatever. I don't know. It's the same thing with gambling. Watching a person defy the odds or win a huge amount of money or something of a lot of value, their excitement, their happiness is also good, but it's the whole anticipation. Is it gonna happen this time? Is this person worth $70,000 and Mattis trying to get a $20 refund? I mean, it's the principle of the thing. |
| 27. October 2020 | Watching Other People's Among Us Gameplay | God, God Impostor play, look at this. He's running around getting three kills when there's five people left and there's only one imposter. And you're sitting there like, this should never be able to happen in a competent lobby. This is less a God play and more just crew being fucking terrible, right? It's not hard to do really well as imposter if you're playing with people who don't know how to play or don't play correctly. It annoys me how many people don't play Among Us strategically or find people grouping up boring or whatever. The point of imposter is not a hundred percent clean kills. That's what some people seem to believe. The only way Among Us can be interesting is if every single kill is done by imposter in a back room somewhere with no one around. That's not how Among Us is meant to be played. Realistically, in Among Us, you should always have a 50-50 win rate between crew and imposters. All that changes is the settings. So if imposter's winning too much, you suppress imposters. If crew is winning too much, you make it easier for crew, putting on confirms and all that stuff, right? These plays should be effectively impossible. But when I watch streamers play, it's all about the views, having interesting stuff happen or whatever. I'm just doing crazy shit for the hell of it, never grouping. Everyone is just a solo player yelling over the top of each other, never giving useful information, talking bullshit. And that's how things like this come up. And this is most people's impression of the game. Most people believe that imposters can't win unless if people grew up, that's complete nonsense. The game has mechanics, both in settings and in sabotage's doors, just the discussion itself, where imposters can win despite everyone grouping. You just need to play well. But a lot of imposters don't get the skills or the practice necessary to win those games because all they have is crew members who run around by themselves doing tasks, making it super easy to kill people. And the second anyone groups, they're like, I don't know how to handle this, man. They're grouping together, oh no. Because they just never have to do anything other than that. Like a good imposter game is one where effectively the imposters never do anything. And the imposters just weave a narrative where they're perfectly safe. And literally the crew throws the own crew at the airlock. That is the God tier imposter play. Again, it takes forever. And the imposter does effectively nothing, just like, hey, Vez looking kind of sus over there. And no one suspects you of saying that, but the person gets thrown anyway. That's imposter skill. That's rarely what you see. It's very hard to do. That's what makes it a God tier play. This isn't a God tier play, running around finding people who would buy themselves in the wrong fucking place and killing them. That's nothing. But 150,000 views for the most brain dead fucking garbage. If they take too long, crewmates win for completing their tasks though, then there's even more tasks on. That's the point. The settings balance imposter and crew. If crew are too frequently winning based on tasks, you increase tasks. If crew have no chance of winning on tasks, you reduce tasks. You have a permanent way of balancing the game through the settings. Crew or imposter shouldn't have an easier time. Like you can technically play like these brain dead top tier streamers playing by themselves. All then you have to do is suppress imposter. Give them a longer kill time, reduce the amount of tasks, put on confirmed meat jacks. It is very hard to balance a lobby though, because normally people have differing levels of skill. So if you suppress imposter too much with the settings and then you get two people who play who are imposter, you have a very boring game because the imposter can't get kills. That's why I think the most fun I think you could ever possibly have with Among Us is if 10 basically familiar people who know each other, their friends perhaps, all start playing Among Us for the first time together and only play with each other. So they all grow in skill at the same time and the settings can perfectly balance each other. You understand each other's habits and you can nerf different things with people's skills. Trying to balance a group of random people in one of those lobbies seems next to impossible and it ruins so many games. It's more of a strategy game. People think it's survival horror. People have done exactly. People think the ideal game of Among Us is what trainwrecks just did there. Running around by himself, killing people. Like in a normal game, like the second that he didn't go into lights with those two people and then ran off by himself, one of those two would press the button and killed him. Cause why would you actively run away from a group of two people when there's five people alive? Cause someone, especially when there's only one bar left in that group doesn't have tasks and that person can come around with you and keep you secure. Especially at that point, you'd know that there's only one imposter left. And so if it's a group of three, at least one person there with you is an imposter and you have security. But trainwrecks running away from that, it's like, well, he's an imposter, clearly. Immediately. The guy who was leaving top reactor, who didn't move down to check if there was a body there, also an idiot. Takes you nanosecond to check bottom reactor. Didn't do it. Purple, on the very furthest part away from everyone else, in a place that no one's ever gonna go, in a room by themselves, next to a vent. Impressively dumb. Every person there played poorly. And so, that's it for this video. I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, please like and subscribe. I'll see you next time. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. |
| 27. October 2020 | Watching Other People's Among Us Gamplay | God, God Impostor play, look at this. He's running around getting three kills when there's five people left and there's only one imposter. And you're sitting there like, this should never be able to happen in a competent lobby. This is less a God play and more just crew being fucking terrible, right? It's not hard to do really well as imposter if you're playing with people who don't know how to play or don't play correctly. It annoys me how many people don't play Among Us strategically or find people grouping up boring or whatever. The point of imposter is not a hundred percent clean kills. That's what some people seem to believe. The only way Among Us can be interesting is if every single kill is done by imposter in a back room somewhere with no one around. That's not how Among Us is meant to be played. Realistically, in Among Us, you should always have a 50-50 win rate between crew and imposters. All that changes is the settings. So if imposter's winning too much, you suppress imposters. If crew is winning too much, you make it easier for crew, putting on confirms and all that stuff, right? These plays should be effectively impossible. But when I watch streamers play, it's all about the views, having interesting stuff happen or whatever. I'm just doing crazy shit for the hell of it, never grouping. Everyone is just a solo player yelling over the top of each other, never giving useful information, talking bullshit. And that's how things like this come up. And this is most people's impression of the game. Most people believe that imposters can't win unless if people grew up, that's complete nonsense. The game has mechanics, both in settings and in sabotage's doors, just the discussion itself, where imposters can win despite everyone grouping. You just need to play well. But a lot of imposters don't get the skills or the practice necessary to win those games because all they have is crew members who run around by themselves doing tasks, making it super easy to kill people. And the second anyone groups, they're like, I don't know how to handle this, man. They're grouping together, oh no. Because they just never have to do anything other than that. Like a good imposter game is one where effectively the imposters never do anything. And the imposters just weave a narrative where they're perfectly safe. And literally the crew throws the own crew at the airlock. That is the God tier imposter play. Again, it takes forever. And the imposter does effectively nothing, just like, hey, Vez looking kind of sus over there. And no one suspects you of saying that, but the person gets thrown anyway. That's imposter skill. That's rarely what you see. It's very hard to do. That's what makes it a God tier play. This isn't a God tier play, running around finding people who would buy themselves in the wrong fucking place and killing them. That's nothing. But 150,000 views for the most brain dead fucking garbage. If they take too long, crewmates win for completing their tasks though, then there's even more tasks on. That's the point. The settings balance imposter and crew. If crew are too frequently winning based on tasks, you increase tasks. If crew have no chance of winning on tasks, you reduce tasks. You have a permanent way of balancing the game through the settings. Crew or imposter shouldn't have an easier time. Like you can technically play like these brain dead top tier streamers playing by themselves. All then you have to do is suppress imposter. Give them a longer kill time, reduce the amount of tasks, put on confirmed meat jacks. It is very hard to balance a lobby though, because normally people have differing levels of skill. So if you suppress imposter too much with the settings and then you get two people who play who are imposter, you have a very boring game because the imposter can't get kills. That's why I think the most fun I think you could ever possibly have with Among Us is if 10 basically familiar people who know each other, their friends perhaps, all start playing Among Us for the first time together and only play with each other. So they all grow in skill at the same time and the settings can perfectly balance each other. You understand each other's habits and you can nerf different things with people's skills. Trying to balance a group of random people in one of those lobbies seems next to impossible and it ruins so many games. It's more of a strategy game. People think it's survival horror. People have done exactly. People think the ideal game of Among Us is what trainwrecks just did there. Running around by himself, killing people. Like in a normal game, like the second that he didn't go into lights with those two people and then ran off by himself, one of those two would press the button and killed him. Cause why would you actively run away from a group of two people when there's five people alive? Cause someone, especially when there's only one bar left in that group doesn't have tasks and that person can come around with you and keep you secure. Especially at that point, you'd know that there's only one imposter left. And so if it's a group of three, at least one person there with you is an imposter and you have security. But trainwrecks running away from that, it's like, well, he's an imposter, clearly. Immediately. The guy who was leaving top reactor, who didn't move down to check if there was a body there, also an idiot. Takes you nanosecond to check bottom reactor. Didn't do it. Purple, on the very furthest part away from everyone else, in a place that no one's ever gonna go, in a room by themselves, next to a vent. Impressively dumb. Every person there played poorly. And so, that's it for this video. I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, please like and subscribe. I'll see you next time. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. |
| 21. July 2020 | Watching a really long series and having it end | You know, watching a really long series and having it end. It's gonna feel weird when One Piece is over for me because, you know, just endless months of just always having something that I can watch. And then when it's over, I won't have hundreds of episodes of something to watch. I have to find myself another really long series. Apparently there's an anime, a slice of life anime that has like over 7,000 episodes of something. It's been going on for like decades. |
| 16. May 2021 | Watching content and regretting it | Watching content and regretting it. Did I watch Keemstar? I have definitely seen probably a dozen Keemstar videos over the course of my life. Usually when I have literally nothing else to watch and one happens to be recommended to me. Every single one of the videos I've ever seen, at the end of it I've thought to myself, why the fuck did I watch that? I do have that with some videos sometimes. Where I don't know, I watched a video recently about something else, Yu-Gi-Oh or something, some Yu-Gi-Oh deck and I was just like, why did I watch this? I don't even play Yu-Gi-Oh. I haven't thought about playing Yu-Gi-Oh or having a card of it or anything like that and like e-eons, but I just watched this video. Why did I do that? There was certainly a lot of videos that I watch just to feel the air, you know, they just happened to be recommended to me. I've got nothing else to watch. I think everyone is that way. Poly people treat my content that way sometimes. They get to the end of it they're like, why did I just watch this dickhead fail for the 800th time and no damage run? Why the fuck did I just do that? For entertainment I mean, what does it give you? So, Keemstar's videos, I don't find entertaining because often I don't know the people and it's just like, okay so these people are having a spat or calling each other shitheads or having a bad time with it. Why did I just watch this? Nothing about this is relevant to my life. Same thing I thought of when I watched Scarce's videos back in the day. It can be mildly amusing sometimes I guess, but of all the content that exists it is not the most entertaining to me. You watch Drama Alert for the drama not for Keemstar? Oh, some people watch for Keemstar. You gotta remember that Keemstar was popular before Drama Alert. Keemstar got his start being toxic and shit on Xbox Live. |
| 24. January 2022 | Watching content at faster speeds | benefits of lessening of access you have for the not well-meaning people. Watching content at faster speeds. What do I think of people who watch content on faster speeds? I watch everything between 2 to 3 times speed. Like all anime for example, reading subtitles, I watch at 2.2 times speed. Movies, YouTube, pretty much everything standard is 2 times speed. It's not common I can get to 3 times speed with some things. It's weird going to the movies and having the movies be at 1 times speed. I downloaded a Chrome add-on that enables you to speed up anything you like in intervals of 10%. Do I even enjoy a movie like that? Comment from chat, but wouldn't that ruin the pacing of whatever you're watching? Timing is just relative. You just get used to different timings. |
| 03. January 2021 | Watching forsen pb in minecraft . | Minecraft speedrun. People were spamming, I was here PogChamp! And I was like man, I missed that champ. I miss achieving the goal. I don't know how close he is to world record though. Does anyone know the world record for the category he's doing? The time he got was like 28 minutes. It seems like that category has so much RNG that you could... surely someone has done better than that. 15 minutes? Is that real time or game time? When runs have that much RNG, you need to play a lot to be able to instantly respond to any situation or given to make the decisions that have the greatest strategic likelihood of you succeeding. You know, you gotta do like thousands of runs. I never completed a Minecraft speedrun. I failed every time. But Forsen's chat is terrible and Forsen's stream, there's nothing about him doing runs that's different than like anyone else doing runs. He barely talks to chat. He barely says anything that isn't related to the game. You could substitute Forsen with fucking anyone. It'd be the same stream, but Forsen's just the one that I know doing it. |
| 14. February 2021 | Watching media while doing something else | Watching media while doing something else. I was listening to Trash Taste and they were discussing whether you can really watch something if you're watching that thing while doing something else. It's mainly how I consume media, although a lot of what I do is I work on something for like 10 minutes and then I watch something for three minutes, like starting and stopping. A little bit different, but it's very rare that I have a bit of media that I fully put 100% of my attention into. |
| 14. February 2021 | Watching my ipad as i sleep and waking up to something random | Watching my iPad when I go to sleep and waking up to something completely random. I went to sleep one night with Dowsky stream on When I half woke up he had raided some other dude and the dude was repeating over and over again man That was the run dude. That was the 12 minute run and I I lost it Ah, I can't believe ah man. I'm like, what the fuck is this noise? So shut up, dude, I can try to get back to sleep and he says and it's like he must have gone on about it Like five minutes. I'm like fine. I will wake up. Oh my god I don't care about your fucking sub 12 run and turn off my fucking iPad I do wonder now though who was that guy and Why was his RNG so good that he could have gotten sub 12, but screwed up what happened? I'll never know now |
| 01. September 2020 | Watching my own videos | Watching my own videos. Do I ever watch my own videos when I'm tired and bored? Whenever I upload my videos, I will often, when they release, watch them again at like 3x speed. Because I already know what's in them, I can understand what's going on, and I enjoy them. I find my videos funny. I have watched every single video that I've ever uploaded after they've been uploaded. Even the rambles I'll watch. I heard a lot of video creators hate their videos after all the editing they have to do. The pacifist videos I can't watch again. Sometimes people will link to specific points in my pacifist videos, and I'll click them, and I'll watch like for 5-10 seconds, and I'll be like, oh yeah I remember that trick, that's really funny. But I can't watch them entirely. It's something about me attempting to be funny that is hard for me to watch after the pacifist. The live stuff is rewatchable for me. While I find everything in pacifist individually funny, it just feels weird to watch it again over. It's a hard thing to describe. What I steam myself watching is so fun. |
| 04. January 2020 | Watching one piece | One Piece. So I'm still watching One Piece after avoiding it for so long. I even got Crunchyroll and I've even got the app on my phone and it really annoys me. On my iPad or whatever, I can't increase the speed of anything so I'm watching stuff at one time speed. One Piece is slow already and I'm used to watching it at 2.2x speed on my PC. Watching it at one time speed on my iPad is somewhat infuriating. But I suppose when I'm watching One Piece in my bed I'm somewhat trying to get off of sleep so it's not as bad. What sucks though when you're trying to watch anime when you're trying to go to sleep, you're reading subtitles. See, you can't like close your eyes, you have to keep your eyes open each time. You should totally One Piece the like button. Thank you. |
| 07. February 2021 | Watching other people’s GTA content. | Watching other people's GTA content. Of course I know TGG, good dude. I've come to be aware more of GTA content creators in the last six months to a year than I ever was before because I don't traditionally watch GTA content. I play GTA V every day and most content creators focus on GTA Online something I've only had a passing interest in because of how difficult it is to strain and because I've had so many other things preoccupying me. It's interesting that Astro hasn't come back. Astro seemed like a talented... |
| 01. January 2021 | Watching stuff at faster speed. | Watching stuff at faster speed. How do you watch videos at two times speed? The video- The voice gets so distorted? No they don't. Two times speed is when I'm not completely focused on something. I can do three times speed if it's just English and I'm focused on it. Maybe it is something you just get used to every time. You know, you go to 1.25 times speed for a couple of weeks and you move to 1.5 and then you just get used to it, I guess. I can't remember if there was a gradual process of me ramping up to two times speed. I've just been doing it for as far back as I can remember. |
| 05. January 2022 | We all have agency bias | or whatever. We all have an agency bias. So there's this thing where humans have a bias towards assuming agency is responsible for fucking anything. Imagine the humans in the past, and there's two extremes. There's one guy who, whenever he hears like a twig snap or a bush rustle, he's like, ah, it's just the wind, or ah, it's just the rock falling or something. This guy never goes to check it out, right? And this guy might be right 99% of the time. There's nothing there. But that one time he's wrong, and it is actually something, it's not just the wind. He's unprepared, and so he like dies to a wild animal or something. Then you have the other guy who is like, he hears like a small creak. He's like, oh my God, there's a lion behind the fucking bush. I must go investigate. Doesn't matter like how small the rustle of a bush is, this guy is immediately alert, checking that shit out to make sure that it isn't some Asians about to try to kill him. Now, of those two guys, the second guy is probably gonna be wrong so much more. He's probably gonna be wrong like 99% of the time, but he will always be fucking prepared. And so he is more likely to survive, where in that one in a hundred event where the first guy died, that one in a hundred event, the second guy will live. And so our ancestors are the second guys. We come from the people who over assume agency for fucking everything. So you see like a small bit of fluff out of the corner of your eye. You're like, oh my God, it's a spider. It's not a spider, fair enough. You're late at night sitting in bed and you hear a creak. Now it could just be your house contracting and expanding because it gets hotter and colder at night, but it also could be someone trying to kill you. And your brain's just like, someone's trying to kill you, man. Someone's breaking your house right now. You should go check that shit out. But it's not, it's been, it has never been someone breaking into my house brain. Like the entire history of my life, I've gotten up like a thousand times. Not even once has it been someone there. And your brain's like, man, but what if, what if this fucking time it isn't agent? You go fine. And so you get up, you walk around your house and go, there's no one here. And then you feel okay and you go back to sleep. So that's the existence, right? And so obviously living alone, sometimes I get those feelings where my brain's like, motherfucker, things don't feel right. Look around. There's probably some agent about to stab you. There has never been in the entire history of my life an agent there about to stab me. But what if, you know. So yeah, living alone on rare occasions, I will get those feelings, but it's just something you gotta live with as a human. |
| 14. December 2022 | We all know when GTA 6 will release. | Established titles. We actually know when GTA 6 will release. I wrote a funny joke on my community post that I feel like more people should see. We actually know a lot about when GTA 6 will release. It will be a year starting with 20, having either 365 or 366 days, during a month with a season and many cycles of the sun and moon, on a day with 24 hours that ends with the letters D-A-Y. At a time most inconvenient for me personally. Mark your calendars, I'm funny. I thought that was an impressive joke, okay? Should失 onde. |
| 17. January 2022 | We don’t consider all offense equal. | We each have different ideas as to what a person can be justifiably offended over. Like if you ask a person who is progressive, like do you care that a bunch of homophobes are offended by homosexual couples? And they go, well no, fuck them. I mean they are offended, but you wouldn't consider their offense to be sensible or justifiable. We all have different ideas as to what society should be, and we just try to promote behaviors that sway society in that direction and avoid societies or ideas of society that we don't support. How have I changed over the years? What is the biggest thing you've changed your opinion on over the course of your life? |
| 20. November 2022 | We struggle to move onto new creators. | We struggle to move on to new creators Mocha PewDiePie doing react content as he is effectively retired. That is one of the worst things about reaction content I don't think he's doing as much as like Actual reactors or whatever but a person retires and they're like man And and so you've got all these viewers who would necessarily have to move on and spend all their time With other people finding new creators to get attached to and to support but this old-school creators like nah I don't want to retire though. Don't want to lose my audience or whatever I want to keep that money flowing in and so they just upload reaction videos that take absolutely no effort to make to let Other people carry them and it's just like it's gross, dude It makes it harder for new people to enter the ecosystem if the old-school people who are burnt out can still hang around like Shambling around keeping the audience with them because at the end of the day chat one of the hardest things about being a new creator Is getting credibility like you can make an amazing video that people see in the recommendation algorithm And they're looking at other videos interesting, but that guy over there. I've been watching him for years I don't watch that guy's video instead I don't know who this fucking new guy is but that that old guy who I've watched like 800 videos of yeah I'm gonna watch that guy again because we like things that are similar like the same but different We go back to the same shows that we watched before we go back the same P We watch for because they've proven themselves that they can entertain us when new people they don't have that kind of credibility Think of your favorite show right when it runs at episodes you have to watch something else something new you got a choice But on long as that old familiar thing never stops pumping our content it takes a lot |
| 06. November 2020 | Wealth and depression | Wealth and depression. There are plenty of extremely wealthy individuals who aren't depressed. The only reason people think it causes depression is because it's the celebrities that we see with their whole lives on camera. Yeah, maybe that's why. The studies indicate that the more wealth you have in general, the more happy you end up being. A lot of the everyday stresses and anxieties that people have and stuff, it's about the future, right? The wealthier you are, the more things that you're secure against that can happen in your life outside of your control. Because that's a lot of what makes people stressed and anxious and stuff, things they don't have control over. And the more wealth you have, the more things you have control over. Or if you don't have direct control over that something, if something goes wrong with that something, you have the wealth to counteract whatever problems could come up. And certainly, there are a lot of ways to get wealth that don't necessarily involve fame. And it's often fame and the downsides that go with that that can lead to a lot of issues for people. You get to a certain level and there's just a- |
| 06. June 2020 | Wealth cap | What do you think about a wealth cap? People are only allowed to have a max amount of money. How much? And like how are you regulating that? And what is wealth? How is wealth determined? And the accounting things, I mean you give your son like all your money, you'd be setting up like fake people, you'd have like a homeless person who signs up some paperwork to say that while technically they own the money, at any point in time you can access their bank accounts and you'd be funneling your money into them. Like how are you going to cap wealth? As we own 10 stocks in a company and that company gets above a certain threshold so you have to just give away that part of the company to someone else. If you have controlling interest 51% in a company and you use that controlling interest to do good things for that company and the value of that company goes above that amount, what do you do? Do you just give away controlling shares in your company? How would you determine wealth in private companies? Would you require that all companies give their books over? Because only public companies have to do so. I have so many questions. Like a wealth tax, wealth taxes have been done before. Like Vome was funded for a thousand years by a wealth tax. Because it was just the easiest tax to do. It was like the only tax that they had. Depending on how much you owned, you gave 1% of that value every blah blah blah. A year, whatever it is. I don't know. A wealth cap though, I don't know how that could be effectively implemented. A wealth cap isn't the first thing that I go to when I think of things that I would implement in society to make things better. |
| 28. January 2022 | Wealth, IQ, and the influence of the social enviornment | Wealth, IQ and the influence of social environments. I've found out a lot of people hang out with people stupider than themselves just to feel better about themselves. Pretty pathetic wouldn't you want people around you that are smarter than you so you could be smarter? Maybe an L on my end. That goes against how I've learnt that people tend to be. People tend to be around people like themselves. Certainly it's possible for, there's obviously going to be some range, it's not like you're going to find clones of yourself or whatever. But in general, people who are similar tend to go to the same places, work in the same places, hang out at the same places. In your day to day life based on what you do, you should traditionally find more people around you who are like yourself. And if you want to assume that your level of intelligence influences, by whatever definition, influences the things you tend to do in society, then you should expect that on average people end up being around those who are around the same level of their intelligence. So like, if you need a certain level of intelligence to be in a certain career, then obviously your work mates are going to be around your same kind of intelligence, right? If people with higher intelligence do certain hobbies more on average, then those people in those hobbies will have a closer level of intelligence than the general population. And the same at the bottom level as well. I mean, you did say that some people, I'm sure there are some people out there who do hang around or intentionally so, find people who they consider less intelligent than themselves, but I don't think that's normal or common. I mean, I have no idea how to assess that, but it's not something I've run into in my life, so I, you know. To be fair, rich people tend to be slightly high IQ. I fucking hate IQ, because IQ is never meant to be a representation of intelligence or every aspect of intelligence or whatever, but it's kind of just become that way because it's a simple number. People like things to be easily quantifiable. Well, I mean, rich people compared to the general population will be more likely to not be malnourished, for example. We'll be more likely to have parents who have good habits in regards to education and development of your brain and stuff early in life. More than this, some jobs that do give you a very high salary, like say engineer and doctor and stuff, these people are more likely to meet and of course have children with people within the same field. People who end up in these fields or whatever, assuming they have better genetics than the general population, that lead to higher intelligence and they're more likely to pass them on to their children. So you can see a few reasons why you'd assume that people who are rich will tend to be more intelligent. But certainly there are many rich people who are really fucking dumb. Just statistically speaking, there will be some people who can do one thing really well that doesn't necessarily require intelligence and that can lead them to becoming quite wealthy. Or if enough people are trying to get wealthy, then statistically some people are just going to very much so luck into it, more than the normal amount of luck that you need. Or there's going to be people who, like their parents, were very wealthy and maybe they were intelligent, but their children less so and they passed on all that money. So the kids are wealthy, but not as intelligent. That's what I think, you know. Tendency is never an absolute. And pointing that out, I'm sure everyone's like, well obviously, man. I'm like, yeah, I know. The original IQ test was just designed to measure your likelihood of doing well in higher education. And it certainly wasn't perfect. It was just like a suggestion as to whether that's something you're likely to excel at. And that was about it. Certainly there are other tests of different ideas of intelligence that exist and potentially the test has been refined. But it's not a be all and end all of people's mental capabilities. It's not a useless test, as is the case with most research or tests or whatever. Used appropriately, they can be useful. Used inappropriately, they can be even worse than useless. They can be harmful. Social groups tend to network with like minded people in both sides of the wealth gap. It's a disadvantage to some over others, which is unfortunate. It's not what you know, it's who. Who you know also influences what you know. That is almost as much a problem as like nepotism existing from who you know. Because the places where like people are talking about the cutting edge or potential opportunities for wealth or whatever, it's in the upper echelons of society. If you're in a family, it's one of the differences with private schools and public schools for example. I was reading about this in my psych textbooks where some public schools expect that kids are going to go into trades and stuff, not necessarily going into university. While in private it's assumed that you're going to go into politics or higher education or whatever. So what is taught, how people are influenced by teachers and stuff, it differs. The information you're given differs. If you come from a family of successful people, more than likely you're also going to be around other successful people who will give you either intentionally or just through osmosis or whatever, you'll pick up information that's going to help you throughout life. You can mimic behaviors and stuff that people are doing around you that lead to success. If you're surrounded every day by people who aren't currently successful, either you're going to inadvertently pick up habits that potentially will cause you to also be unsuccessful or you will simply be unaware of certain knowledge that can lead you to be successful. And success in this case, not necessarily just financial, I mean in every domain. Your environment shapes how intelligently you can act in any situation, how readily you can seek and achieve your goals. If your environment doesn't suggest to you that knowledge exists of value to the degree that you can know to seek it out, or if your environment doesn't just give you that knowledge outright, then you're screwed. You're just going to be wandering around aimlessly, not knowing where to go because you just don't have the information in your environment to make something of yourself. It's a terrible explanation, I don't know why I'm fucking talking. |
| 28. January 2022 | Wealth, IQ, and the influence of the social environment | Wealth, IQ and the influence of social environments. I've found out a lot of people hang out with people stupider than themselves just to feel better about themselves. Pretty pathetic wouldn't you want people around you that are smarter than you so you could be smarter? Maybe an L on my end. That goes against how I've learnt that people tend to be. People tend to be around people like themselves. Certainly it's possible for, there's obviously going to be some range, it's not like you're going to find clones of yourself or whatever. But in general, people who are similar tend to go to the same places, work in the same places, hang out at the same places. In your day to day life based on what you do, you should traditionally find more people around you who are like yourself. And if you want to assume that your level of intelligence influences, by whatever definition, influences the things you tend to do in society, then you should expect that on average people end up being around those who are around the same level of their intelligence. So like, if you need a certain level of intelligence to be in a certain career, then obviously your work mates are going to be around your same kind of intelligence, right? If people with higher intelligence do certain hobbies more on average, then those people in those hobbies will have a closer level of intelligence than the general population. And the same at the bottom level as well. I mean, you did say that some people, I'm sure there are some people out there who do hang around or intentionally so, find people who they consider less intelligent than themselves, but I don't think that's normal or common. I mean, I have no idea how to assess that, but it's not something I've run into in my life, so I, you know. To be fair, rich people tend to be slightly high IQ. I fucking hate IQ, because IQ is never meant to be a representation of intelligence or every aspect of intelligence or whatever, but it's kind of just become that way because it's a simple number. People like things to be easily quantifiable. Well, I mean, rich people compared to the general population will be more likely to not be malnourished, for example. We'll be more likely to have parents who have good habits in regards to education and development of your brain and stuff early in life. More than this, some jobs that do give you a very high salary, like say engineer and doctor and stuff, these people are more likely to meet and of course have children with people within the same field. People who end up in these fields or whatever, assuming they have better genetics than the general population, that lead to higher intelligence and they're more likely to pass them on to their children. So you can see a few reasons why you'd assume that people who are rich will tend to be more intelligent. But certainly there are many rich people who are really fucking dumb. Just statistically speaking, there will be some people who can do one thing really well that doesn't necessarily require intelligence and that can lead them to becoming quite wealthy. Or if enough people are trying to get wealthy, then statistically some people are just going to very much so luck into it, more than the normal amount of luck that you need. Or there's going to be people who, like their parents, were very wealthy and maybe they were intelligent, but their children less so and they passed on all that money. So the kids are wealthy, but not as intelligent. That's what I think, you know. Tendency is never an absolute. And pointing that out, I'm sure everyone's like, well, obviously, man. I'm like, yeah, I know. The original IQ test was just designed to measure your likelihood of doing well in higher education. And it certainly wasn't perfect. It was just like a suggestion as to whether that's something you're likely to excel at. And that was about it. Certainly, there are other tests of different ideas of intelligence that exist and potentially the test has been refined. But it's not a be all and end all of people's mental capabilities. It's not a useless test, as is the case with most research or tests or whatever. Used appropriately, they can be useful. Used inappropriately, they can be even worse than useless. They can be harmful. Social groups tend to network with like minded people in both sides of the wealth gap. It's a disadvantage to some over others, which is unfortunate. It's not what you know, it's who. Who you know also influences what you know. That is almost as much a problem as like nepotism existing from who you know. Because the places where like people are talking about the cutting edge or potential opportunities for wealth or whatever, it's in the upper echelons of society. If you're in a family, it's one of the differences with private schools and public schools, for example. I was reading about this in my psych textbooks where some public schools expect that kids are going to go into trades and stuff, not necessarily going into university. While in private, it's assumed that you're going to go into politics or higher education or whatever. So what is taught, how people are influenced by teachers and stuff, it differs. The information you're given differs. If you come from a family of successful people, more than likely you're also going to be around other successful people who will give you either intentionally or just through osmosis or whatever, you'll pick up information that's going to help you throughout life. You can mimic behaviors and stuff that people are doing around you that lead to success. If you're surrounded every day by people who aren't currently successful, either you're going to inadvertently pick up habits that potentially will cause you to also be unsuccessful or you will simply be unaware of certain knowledge that can lead you to be successful. And success in this case, not necessarily just financial, I mean in every domain, you know. Your environment shapes how intelligently you can act in any situation, how readily you can seek and achieve your goals. If your environment doesn't suggest to you that knowledge exists of value to the degree that you can know to seek it out, or if your environment doesn't just give you that knowledge outright, then you're screwed. You're just going to be wandering around aimlessly, not knowing where to go because you just don't have the information in your environment to make something of yourself, you know. It's a terrible explanation, I don't know why I'm fucking talking. |
| 21. June 2022 | Wearing contact lenses while sleeping | I've left my contacts in while sleeping for over 15 years chat. You think you know better than my optometrist? They told you you can do that? Cause you can. They called monthly lenses. I think you should ask specifically if you can sleep with them. Some lenses you can. Can you leave monthly lenses in while sleeping? Increasingly, you can choose contact lenses that fit into your lifestyle. These include extended wear contacts that can be kept in your eyes a longer basis even while you sleep. They've existed like 15 years. They're longer than that. It's one of those things you probably shouldn't do if you want to reduce all possible risks, but you can do it. But regardless chat, that's one of the reasons I want to get laser eye surgery. While my eyes are fine now, maybe they won't be in the future. You know, it's like when you compare laser eye surgery to wearing these contact lenses every single day without break for so long, you know, I'm getting old chat. Maybe it will cause me problems in the future, but she's scared of it. I just don't want to think about it. I have this attitude with things I don't want to do or whatever. I just say to myself, give it a week. I won't remember a month, whatever it like all the worst moments of my life that I've been the most scared about are distant memories that I don't care about. When I have a meal these days and I don't want to eat, I say to myself, look, I'm not going to remember this like an hour from now. Fuck it. Just eat it. And I eat it. You know, there are too many food delivery apps. Yeah, but I'd say I've been getting food delivered from |
| 21. August 2021 | Weed and Schizophrenia | Beat time and stuff. Weed and schizophrenia. I do not smoke weed. Only cause it's illegal. Like if I could uh, have some around, I might. I don't know. So like, when I was in uni, it was still a debated question, whether or not there was any sort of causal relationship between weed and forms of psych- psychosis, you know, like schizophrenia and stuff. Um, but I think in the- How long has it been now? Almost five years since then. Uh, people are suggesting that if you're at risk of schizophrenia and stuff, then uh, it kind of exacerbates it and makes it more likely. Cause like, what weed affects in the brain, is kind of the part of the brain that uh, people with schizophrenia have issues with. Basically, if you have poss- the possibility of uh, some menti- mental issues or whatever, you're taking weed as uh, gonna make them more likely. And uh, I've had weed in the past man, it's not really done much for me. Like, cause then like, I've clearly been affected by it, but I have- I don't remember the experiences as being like, Whoa, amazing dude, I gotta have more of that. Immediately. It's just a thing. So if I had some, I'd probably uh, keep some around the house or whatever, like if it- like if it wasn't illegal or whatever. And uh, maybe partake in it once a year or something, but it's never super tra- |
| 20. December 2021 | Weed edibles | Weed edibles. I think I've only had edibles in regards to weed once. At the same time a friend of mine ate like 50 hash cookies or something like cookies not brownies which I'm sure made it even even slower to seep into his system. He just kept eating them he's like man I don't feel anything these cookies don't do shit and then like half an hour later this fucking comatose. |
| 15. January 2023 | Weird AL’s take on reaction content. | Weird Al's take on reaction content. I mean, music is infinitely rewatchable, so it doesn't have the same impacts. Although, here's Weird Al's view of our reaction content. Today, I'll be reacting to the new Drake video. Here we go. So he just sits here for 4 minutes and 50 seconds. Yeah, that's pretty good. Don't forget to subscribe and smash that like button! By reacting to a song, you aren't really changing that song in any way. Like, Needle Drop gets by perfectly by not putting the songs in his videos. But again, of all things that are probably not really negatively impacted by reaction content, music is definitely higher on that. |
| 22. January 2022 | Weird Sega games from my childhood | Weird Sega games from my childhood. In the stream a while ago I talked about this Sega game that my mother purchased me that I didn't really enjoy because I couldn't figure out what to do. So I didn't know the name of this game but they released the mini Sega recently and it had the game on it that I didn't understand and it was called Light Crusader. I looked at the plot and it was bare-bones so I ended up watching an entire speedrun of the game at two times speed. It only took half an hour because the world records like an hour or whatever. It's funny because it's such an old game the text boxes come up and they have to skip through them so I and doesn't even skip through very quickly so I could read all the text boxes and learn the entire story. Yeah Echo was so hard and so scary as a kid. I've told this story before my mother found me cheat codes for the game because we couldn't get any further and it was just in the magazine so she's like oh yeah here you go and so I cheated my way to a further forward level it was an ice level I had sharks and scared the hell out of me. Then I was like oh I'm going to go to another level that's less scary and then I go even further forward and puts me with the final boss and it's a huge green alien with the creepiest fucking music I've ever heard in all my days. I'm sitting here going wasn't this about dolphins and there was like an it was a scary octopus but what the fuck why why is there an alien and I didn't understand as a kid. I now know the story where it turns out that um aliens basically sucked all the dolphins from the ocean because they want to eat them and you get sucked into the ship later to save all the dolphins. |
| 07. August 2021 | Weird dating app conversations - Do I like h3h3 or keemstar more? | Weird dating app conversations. Do you like Keemstar or H3H3 more? So I'm on the dating app thinger, right? And I've realized that I don't think it recommends your profile to people unless you yourself use it. Because I've, like, weeks went by, no matches, and I wasn't, because I wasn't swapping anyone or whatever, I just, I never got a notification. And then I started using it, people matched with me and shit, I'm like, oh, well, I guess now my profile's being, whatever. But, and someone matched with me, and I mentioned YouTube in my profile, and she's like, do you like H3H3 or Keemstar more? I was like... I'm like, I think Keemstar called me a dick once or something, so I guess I like H3H3 more. Apparently, she really likes H3H3's content. I don't know. She's like 20 or something, like, I didn't know H3 was still super popular, but apparently he is. Like, still getting like a, because he moved away from his original content, he's into all the podcasting and stuff now, and it's just interesting. Of all the creators that I expected someone would ask me about, Keemstar and H3 was not high on that list. |
| 08. June 2022 | Weird options to improve my FPS. | weird options to improve my FPS. So I suspect for most people this won't matter, but I want to say that recently I had some issues where streaming specifically caused me to lose a fuck ton of FPS that made no sense while playing GTA V, as in like, rather than a constant 150 FPS, I was like bouncing between like 140 and 90 or something. Very strange. And I ended up turning on something called the Nvidia resizable bar and hardware accelerated GPU scheduling, which are apparently two fairly new things. But look into these things if you're looking for some more performance and if you can enable them do so. I had to like change the v-bios of my GPU, the bios of my motherboard, I had to enable like 4G enabled, it wasn't like not 4G like your phone, it's something different. Bar support, auto, CMS disabled, all these things in the in my bios. And now I'm getting like just flat 150 everywhere I go. Like I can have the universe explode and I've got 150 FPS in GTA V. So we're fucking golden right now, you know. |
| 13. January 2023 | Were my parents ever supportive of my career? | Were my parents ever supportive of my career? Pickle asked, do you have a story of when you told your parents something about your job that you were very excited about but they seemed uninterested and then vice versa? Or them being overexcited about something that I didn't care about? The only two stories I have related to my job and my parents is one where my mother said to me, I never really understood your job but I saw a news report on PewDiePie talking about how successful he is and how he makes money and whatnot and now I kind of get it. I was like, oh good, excellent. My dad has always been supportive even though he's not ever super understood but he would be like, oh yeah, you're doing good with the followers Matt? And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he at his job met with two guys who apparently watch my content and he kind of was thought it was cool that they were so excited about that or whatever and he also would tell other people to watch my YouTube channel and stuff because he was very proud. He said that sometimes he feels like he hasn't achieved much in his life and so he likes being able to talk about my achievements even if he doesn't fully grasp the implications and whatnot. Like he recently asked me for a picture of myself with my million subscriber plaque or whatever. So he'd be like, oh my son, you got a million subscribers. My mother and father have always been supportive. In the early days when I wasn't doing super well, they would always say to me, yeah, we know you're uploading YouTube videos and stuff but can you submit to get some other jobs or whatever because I recently had finished my bachelor's degree and they're like, look, you've only got like two years or something before that piece of paper becomes fairly worthless. You should try and get into some graduate programs and whatnot. So they were supportive and they cared but they were rightly hesitant about the idea that I would become successful on the internet, something that they barely understood was even possible. And as I've said before, had I known how unlikely my success was, if I knew more about the landscape of online social media, I probably wouldn't have even tried. I started what, like 7,000 followers on Twitch or something, maybe I had like 100 or 200 viewers. I'm like, oh, I can do this, man. I can make something of this. It's very unlikely for that to have worked out but it did. |
| 17. September 2021 | What Am I Most Likely Very Wrong About? | What am I most likely very wrong about? My weakest topic is history, because there's so much history to know. I'm sure there are ideas I have about other countries or something, general perceptions that are likely false. I mean, because I'm a person who, you know, I assign confidences, a level of confidence to everything that I believe. So I guess the true answer is, the things that I'm most likely wrong about are those things that I hold the least confidence in, but that I tentatively hold as true. |
| 15. February 2022 | What DarkViperAU learned from this experience. | Well, did you in hindsight did you learn anything from what happened? So this is such a really unique situation because normally in my career have if I have Passion for something and I want to get it out there I'll just make a video about it But this is one of the very few times in my life where I had to work on something else I promised everyone that I would and I just wanted to get it out of my head because it was literally distracting me from my Work, so I just said okay I'm gonna throw a day at this write some stuff down wrote a bunch of pages And then I threw it out to the world and thought you know whatever so like obviously I can learn from this and say I am large enough now that even a text document if Provocative enough will potentially get a response But the learning of that is not really going to be that productive moving forward because this this event It's hard to imagine when this could ever occur again Because it's only because of pacifist percent that I got into this situation in the first place any other time in my career, I would have just made that video and As I mentioned it's technically an unfinished script because as you likely know when you start making the video you realize certain things don't sound Right Certain things don't flow very well until you and all you get you construct better examples And you change the script as you go that that script whatever the video would have been made The end result would have been different and it would have involved a lot of clips and stuff that would have given what I was saying more context and Certainly with the more provocative examples it would have made them seem less so given what I was responding to So what I've learned is I've learned things that to what degree this is going to be impactful in the future I'm not sure but certainly I think it's just a something that a lot of people do know I would say everyone does to some degree we all want to think that those who do bad things are simply bad people rather than people who Don't know that they're doing bad or you know because people can unknowingly hurt others or unknowingly do things that Or they can just disagree with you that what they're doing is harmful And I wrote a script with the assumption that everyone had the same perspective as me and that all of them were knowingly harming others when that is certainly not the case while I would argue maybe again being biased a significant amount if not the majority of reactors don't think what they're doing is ultimately Beneficial to other people and I'm only doing it for themselves, but it's clearly not the case with everyone who reacts to content there is there are repeat reactors out there who sincerely believe they are benefiting other people and Can can do it with altruistic intentions and so not necessarily a learning experience But more a reinforcement of my understanding that everyone who does bad things aren't necessarily bad people Everyone who harms others aren't necessarily in its to harm people because we we all unknowingly harm people sometimes and Assuming malice as the motivating factor for actions, especially when there's other options is not justified You know, I could have certainly with wrote that script just talking about how reactors harm people as opposed to that All reactors are bad people and it would have been received a lot better. I imagine even with those more provocative Comparisons, I mean, yeah. Yeah, we'll get I think we'll get to the analogies because I do want to talk about them because in your second response video you Appeared to double down on them saying that they do apply and everything and we'll talk about whether or not that's the case |
| 26. August 2021 | What GTA 5 characters need a TV spin off | Which GTA 5 character needs a TV spin-off? Which side character would I enjoy having its own spin-off story? Chop or Wade? The show will be called Everyone Just Wants to Be Wade. It'll be a similar style to Everybody Hates Chris, where Wade keeps getting in shenanigans, and he has a very colorful group of friends. They're eventually all killed by Trevor in the final season. The Wade and Chop adventure hour! I would love to see Chop with a gun in his mouth, jumping through some glass, opening fire. Has that stereotypical scene where the chief is chastising Chop, and he's like, Chop, I need your badge. You're a rogue. Don't follow the rules. Get out of this precinct. And Chop, like, chucks the badge from his mouth up onto the desk, looking angry, and then walks out. Another stereotypical scene where the detectives always have to go to a strip club, and Chop's walking through the strip club, trying to sniff out the drugs. Chop would be expelled from the police. He is too rough. Bravo, sir. Bravo. |
| 27. April 2022 | What I am doing while waiting for GTA VI. | What I'm doing while waiting for GTA 6. Someone asked me what are my expectations for GTA 6. I think it's going to be an amazing game. A lot of the reasons why games that come out aren't particularly great is because they're released on a year, year and a half, maybe two year cycle. But Rockstar's taking all the time in the world with the game. And as long as online stays at least somewhat profitable, they've got all the time in the world basically. But understand, they, like I know, that you can't just milk one game forever. Everything eventually peaks. Unless of course there's a higher demand for modded speedruns than I realize, I've certainly peaked. I'm fairly comfortable doing what I'm going to be doing now, which is relearning this speedrun, having that be like half my content, and other stuff be the other half. The reason why things may seem more lopsided to GTA 5 than anything else right now is because I'm relearning speedrunning, you know. And I've been so tired I haven't been able to work on really much at all. There's more to life than viewers chat. At least 50% of what I decide to do is based on what I want to do in terms of enjoyment. |
| 01. November 2022 | What I am doing with the Chaos series | What I am doing with the Chaos series, before the next season of Chaos, which will be Mirror World Chaos, with either no Rainbomizer or maybe like one or two Rainbomizer effects, before I do that, I'm going to play Chaos in a bunch of other different games. Because there has been a bunch of people out there who've been inspired, like they've openly said I was inspired by Pongo's GT5 Chaos mod, to make Chaos mods for other games. Minecraft, Half-Life and Max Payne being ones that immediately come to mind. I'm going to play those, preferring the games that I've already played before, because you know, I won't just get completely destroyed, but maybe I'll do some games that I've never played before, who knows. And then I will go back to doing GT5 Chaos. As people will rightly point out, the San Andreas Chaos mod, to my knowledge, was the first one, and inspired Pongo, so. With that being said, I'd be surprised if the Chaos mod for San Andreas was like the first ever Chaos mod, because obviously there's been random effects stuff in video games, right? Nothing is truly original, everything is somewhat derivative, everything has some inspiration, but obviously the GTA San Andreas Chaos mod deserves some credibility, credit that, you know. Yes, I will play Red Evidence and 2 Chaos eventually. |
| 08. September 2021 | What I did when I had disposable income for the first time. | What I did when I had disposable income for the first time So in the beginning I was doing YouTube with another job, so I wasn't making enough to live off It was my only source of income. It was not really enough to live off, but I had savings and then it transitioned to be Enough to get buyers and it was a my expenses were equivalent to the amount of money I was making although I was still selling stuff that I didn't need and stuff not because I necessarily need the money but because I I always felt like I was somewhat selling my future for my presence because I wasn't convinced I was ever gonna Really make it as a streamer. I thought I would just sit around being you know, just having enough to get by being somewhat mediocre, so I was a Selling things that I didn't need Because the longer I wait I knew the longer I waited to sell these things the the less value that they'd have because I never like to not feel productive I hate Feeling like I'm wasting my time. I always feel like I always like to feel like I'm working towards bettering myself or my content or Improving my life circumstances, which is why I'm always working on some content producing some content editing something together Tinkering with the stream quality or whatever it is, but now I've transitioned to now where I actually have disposable income and The first thing I thought when I had this money was like yeah, boy I can buy myself stuff that makes the stream look better I can buy all those all the things that I can just make things a little bit better. Holy shit 1440p fucking YouTube videos. Yeah, boy. Get me a good DSLR camera get that get that autofocus |
| 13. January 2020 | What I got for Christmas | What I got for Christmas. What did I get for Christmas? The most significant thing that I got for Christmas was a pair of sunglasses. Because I broke my sunglasses when I was in Melbourne, they fell off my head. They were already pretty much broken anyway, but which sucks because apparently everyone who wears sunglasses these days doesn't like sunglasses with wire frames. They like the big thick plasticky ones and I think that's fucking dumb. I think they look terrible. Like it doesn't look too bad, but if I had them here I'd show it to you. But my mum got me a pair which is nice of her because uh, you know me, I don't like going places. I have to take time away from streaming and editing and stuff to go get sunglasses, and I'm not really a fan of that idea. Everything else I got was like candy or food or what have you because I mean there's not really much you can buy me. I'm not a very materialistic person. The stuff that I purchase is practical stuff right? If it wasn't for streaming I wouldn't buy myself like a new PC and stuff. It's just having a better system saves me time with editing and whatnot. |
| 24. February 2022 | What I looked like in my first Youtube video. | What I looked like in my first YouTube video. I love this shirt. Back in the day. Oh, this is even older. Ah, no. I can't. I can't. I can't watch it. I'm sorry. I can't. It's no. I'm a fucking handsome devil right there. |
| 24. February 2022 | What I looked like in my first youtube video. | What I looked like in my first YouTube video. I love this shirt. Back in the day. Oh, this is even older. Ah, no. I can't. I can't. I can't watch it. I'm sorry. I can't. It's no. I'm a fucking handsome devil right there. |
| 28. June 2022 | What I plan to do when I lose my hair | What I plan to do when I lose my hair. I hate how flat my hair is when I wash it But I have to wash it now like before I wouldn't wash it like every single day But now I'm using like a anti hair loss shampoo whatever which I'm sure is probably a scam But it's uh may as well. It does have stuff in it that is potentially suggestive to be like really good for stimulating hair growth But it's just uh like if it's not proven in some like a lot of clinical trials or whatever It's just like ah this is probably just some food. You know ever tried a wig my guy I'm a live streamer live streamers don't wear wigs they become VTubers Why just put something on your head to obscure what you really look like why not just have a Tie after I mean I joke to some degree, but I can totally imagine doing that one day eventually just a time Makes me into a husk and for some reason I still have an audience. I'm just like look man. I am now a demon wolf Badger wait no I'll be a viper. I'll be a demon wolf viper there you go |
| 14. March 2022 | What I think makes a good thumbnail. | What I think makes a good thumbnail, when a making a thumbnail is the main thing you want to focus on, what do you think catches the viewers attention the most? The text? I have no way of explaining that. It depends on the footage, which we're trying to do. Ideally a thumbnail is simple enough that every one of its elements can be understood at a glance, but still engaging in that it's suggestive that you want to read the title and click. So it needs to be eye-catching, but not so overly complex that it feels kind of overwhelming and you don't know what's going on. You can either have something so simple that you want to click to learn more or so communicative that it communicates an idea easily that draws a person to click, right? It's one or the other. You're either, it's captivating, but it obscures what the video is actually about or it's very communicative of an idea very quickly. That's an engaging idea that a person obviously wants to click. It's always prudent to remember that in some places where videos are shown, the title isn't shown with it. Not many mind you, but if you can survive not relying on the title is ideal. But of course when I'm making thumbnails for my clips, I have like less than two minutes for each one. I don't have the luxury of making the best thumbnail. Oh, bonus points if all of your thumbnails have like a consistent theme to them or something is suggestive to your normal audience at a glance that that's a video from this person. Like your face in the thumbnail is not just about communicating an emotion, but it's about being like, oh, I know that guy. I've seen that guy. He's that guy from those other things that I watch. I'm gonna click that video. There's nothing for newer viewers. Well, at least less. |
| 08. November 2020 | What I think of Greek Mythology | What I think of Greek mythology. What I think of Greek mythology? I liked playing Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, when I was a kid. I liked Sherling Kenyon's series, Dark Hunters, contains a lot of that stuff too. I liked the movie Hercules and the Hercules animated show. None of these things are representative of actual Greek mythology necessarily, but they are somewhat inspired by us, and that's about all I know about Greek mythology. Because obviously, for example, Disney's Hercules presents Hades as similar to the devil in Christian mythology. Because I've been told that in Greek mythology, Hades is not evil. You know, he provides a service, he does a job. He's not reviled for being the God of Death. Hades is not the God of Death, he runs the underworld, doesn't he? I'm not an expert in Greek mythology, as I said moments ago. Then what is Hades? But it's the same thing. The underworld is the land of the dead. I think God of the Dead is a perfectly reasonable thing to call a person who is the God of the Land of the Dead. I mean, come now. Okay, then technically wrong, then I'm sorry. |
| 21. August 2022 | What I thought of the finale of Better Call Saul | What I thought of the finale of Better Call Saul. Yes, there will be spoilers for the show, just click off if you haven't seen it. You should, it's a great show. Having seen the end of Better Call Saul, I am unsure how else they could have ended it, but I'm overall not satisfied with the ending. I'm unsure what I wanted, and it is a good ending, but I just wanted more for Saul, I guess. I took his confession to be a representation of him changing in the end, or at least forsaking who he was. I would have liked some suggestion this change would have been long term, and resulted in positive impact in the world. As hard as this is to imagine being possible. He's saying, I am Jimmy McGill, wanting to be who he was before he went down that path. Jimmy is a smart, resourceful guy who could help people. His being behind bars without a suggestion he would continue doing bad when outside, is just a waste of that potential for good. When I talk about the justice system, right, to me it's all about preventing future harm. If Jimmy truly did change at the end, then his being in jail would just be a waste for society. Because he is a smart dude who could help people. But as I continue down here, I guess them chanting on the bus his false name, is suggestive that no matter where he went he'd always be Saul Goodman. I guess that suggests that he'd always be influenced back to being that person. The only place he can be good is where he can't be tempted to those ways. Reflecting on things after the fact, while the ending is clearly suggestive that he's like, changed and wants to be a better person and to be a good person and not harm anyone nor that jazz. His time when he was lying low ultimately just led him back to being Saul Goodman again. And that's why he got caught in the first place. And them chanting on the bus I think has meant to express that Jimmy McGill would always be Saul Goodman or become Saul Goodman again if in a situation where that was a possibility. So maybe it is good that he is behind bars to prevent that from ever occurring again. Did he truly change? Maybe he just recognized he can't change and the only place for him is behind bars. That he was willing to confess, that he was willing to give a clean slate to Kim, and that in the court he's like, actually my name is McGill, Jimmy McGill. And on the bus he's like, no I'm Jimmy McGill. Either he really did change or he was fed up and wanted to change. I mean there's clearly some presentation there that Jimmy wanted to be who he was before he was Saul Goodman. That maybe the weight of his misdeeds finally caught up to him mentally, who knows. I like, it was clearly a good ending and I'm not sure how they could have done it better. But with endings of other shows I've had like, I felt emotional, I felt tingles all over my body and stuff. In this finale I was emotional maybe once and had tingles maybe once. Which is suggestive that it was emotional, I did care, I was engaged, I watched the whole thing without blinking basically. But it certainly wasn't the best ending to a series I've seen. So a good ending, I can't think of how it could have been done better. But it wasn't as emotionally impactful as other endings have been for me. Before that he tried so hard not to get caught, the change seemed so sudden. That was a criticism that I heard said that they felt like that I'm Jimmy McGill wasn't really earned enough. That the change of heart was pretty sudden. But I don't know, it's probably just suggestive that he really cares for Kim. And being faced with the widows of the people who he has deeds harms. Because I'm sure for most of his time, Jimmy, the consequence of his actions were seen and felt elsewhere. He didn't have to face them himself. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 31. August 2020 | What I want Rockstar to add to online | What I want Rockstar to add to online. So, do we have any news with Rockstar releasing this so-called new area? Clearly what they should add is a very large ocean that you have to traverse to get to a new area. And on that ocean you can engage in pirate battles. Of course the problem with this is that it would just be full of modders and so it would be completely pointless to do it. But in theory it would be interesting. Hey, Rockstar is releasing a new game mode. Yeah, but the modders, oh yeah, sure, okay, nevermind, it's gonna be shit. |
| 03. September 2021 | What I want carved on my tombstone. | What I once carved on my tombstone. But he was a man, our lord, was crucified with two thieves. Honestly, when I die, I might have the entirety of the dialogue from that scene put on my tombstone. No one will ever understand, with no context. So people will go to my grave, 100 years from then, no one has any idea who I am. And there should be that random dialogue on my tombstone. And they'll be like, what the fuck does that mean? And that'll make me happy. Sometimes it's tough to decide what I want written on my tombstone. I might have like an LCD screen that switches between a bunch of different things. Or maybe I'll have one that's interchangeable. So like, you can change the front panel. And maybe every couple of weeks I'll have it changed out. I'll have a small advertisement in the top right hand corner. I'm like, advertise here. To pay for the maintenance of the tombstone. Who would go to my grave not knowing you? I mean, people go to graveyards to see the people they know and they just look at other tombstones, right? |
| 31. October 2021 | What I want on my tombstone | Was I once on my tombstone? Runs there will be my gravestone? I would actually like that. I mean I'll be dead, I don't really care. I don't really care what happens to me after I die in terms of my body. I'll be dead, I'll go beyond the capability to care. I would just think it's cool to have what runs dead on my gravestone. And have kids come by and go, Well that's the Legend Dark Viper AU! The speedrunning extraordinaire! |
| 06. October 2021 | What I want out of game remasters | What I want out of game remasters. I'm of the belief that every re-release of a game should contain more content than the original game. So for example, the Stanleys parable is being re-released on console, but they're adding more endings and voice lines and stuff. That's how a re-master or re-release should be done. The worst re-master I can think of was Heroes of Might and Magic 3. They remastered the game, better assets, but only like 25% of the original game. The map randomizer was gone, all the expansions were gone, and they charged like 20 bucks for it. You're charging basically, you're paying 20 bucks for like a graphical upgrade for 25% of the game. |
| 17. September 2022 | What I was offered to move to Mixer/Facebook Gaming | But I was offered to move to Mixer and Facebook Gaming. When Mixer was the thing that I ever considered moving there, as I've said in Rambles before, I got offered a contract. I guess I can tell you how much it was worth. They offered me 70% of what I was making on Twitch guaranteed to move to the Mixer. And I was like, then why wouldn't I just stay on Twitch? Twitch is a better service, why would I do that? The deal would only make sense if I felt like I was in decline. Like next month I'd only be making 50% of what I make this month or whatever. You know what I'm saying? Facebook Gaming also offered me the same deal when Mixer and Facebook merged together. And I was just like, no, you're a worse platform. You should be offering more, not less. Technically though, they give me 70% of what I make on Twitch and then I can make anything else on top of that. So let's say I moved to another platform and got 100% the same amount. Then I'd be making double as much, but that's not likely to happen. |
| 17. September 2022 | What I was offered to move to mixer/facebook gaming | But I was offered to move to Mixer and Facebook Gaming. When Mixer was the thing that I ever considered moving there, as I've said in Rambles before, I got offered a contract. I guess I can tell you how much it was worth. They offered me 70% of what I was making on Twitch guaranteed to move to the Mixer. And I was like, then why wouldn't I just stay on Twitch? Twitch is a better service, why would I do that? The deal would only make sense if I felt like I was in decline. Like next month I'd only be making 50% of what I make this month or whatever. You know what I'm saying? Facebook Gaming also offered me the same deal when Mixer and Facebook merged together. And I was just like, no, you're a worse platform. You should be offering more, not less. Technically though, they give me 70% of what I make on Twitch and then I can make anything else on top of that. So let's say I moved to another platform and got 100% the same amount. Then I'd be making double as much, but that's not likely to happen. |
| 25. February 2021 | What I would change about GTA 5. | What I wish I could change about GTA V? What do you wish you could change the most? I don't know. I'm sure there's a list of things. Certainly having more variety in how you complete the missions would be nice. You could always just ask for more, like more mini games and stuff to exist in the game. More buildings to actually have interiors that you can go into for various different purposes. The cutscenes in Prologue to be skippable would be nice. The NPCs being better, as in like more lifelike, more responses. That's certainly an area of gaming that can develop more as we move forward. Just having the NPCs actually seem like real people who do real things. It doesn't matter how good the world looks, if everyone in it just seems like a carbon copy of each other, it never feels like a real world, you know. Yeah, Cyberpunk's a good example. There's a clip where someone fires their gun and every single NPC gets out of their car at the exact same time and cows at the exact same time in the exact same way. Oh no, I'm certainly, this game is certainly good. It's just saying it's definitely a place that could be improved. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 27. February 2021 | What Is A “Good” Person? | What is a good person? What makes a good person? I don't think there's a single definition of what makes a person good. It's all in relation to goals. I have my own particular idea of what makes a person good. It's generally speaking on a scale of how much you consider other people and the consequences of your actions whenever you're doing something and how much you care about negative consequences to others. Going beyond that it's how much you're willing to put yourself out for other people's benefit. A decent person is one who actively works to avoid harming others. A good person I would say is a person who actively works to alleviate the harm of others. You know? Yeah this isn't an objective definition. This is just the way I judge people. |
| 03. June 2020 | What MMOS have i played? | Have you ever played Tibia or any old-school MMORPGs? I played Runescape back in the day and I think Guild Wars and then WoW after Guild Wars. |
| 30. May 2021 | What Modest Pelican studied at university. | I did accounting man. Oh nice. Yeah, I really like the study dude, but the lifestyle was amazing Getting recognized in public We haven't been noticed in public yet |
| 06. July 2021 | What RNG do you think will never be solved in the speedrun? | And two, the janitor's speed on cleaning out the bureau. They both seem insurmountable. Especially like Gogskey or whatever his name is. He looks at the code and stuff now, like you'd think there was a solution that would have been seen. Or maybe he hasn't looked. Long loads were solved. In the code, there's some error or something that gets into like a loop. And rather than Rockstar fixing it, they just made it so it stops after 20 seconds if it gets caught in this loop. There's no way to remove it without just fixing the game's code. And there was a discussion as to whether we should do that. And the answer from everyone was no. Because it is a part of the game. And once you get into a situation where you're changing the code of the game to remove RNG, like where does that stop? The only argument you could make against that is like, well, this clearly wasn't like an intended feature or something, but obviously we don't give two shits about intended features. We obviously play the game in non-intended ways all the time, you know? Video demonetized for silly reason and YouTube's broken editor. So YouTube's editor has recently bitten me in the ass, right? It's been a bit faulty where two edits now. |
| 01. June 2022 | What about reactions to music? | Reactions to music. What do you think about reacting to music like a vocal coach commenting on the singing or even lazy reactions to music? Make- make actual videos. There is no reason to do a react video to someone else's stuff. Because you can always just make an actual video about that thing. You can write yourself a script, take only the parts that you need, build something distinct. Although, in the case of music, music is very different from effectively every other form of content because it is effectively infinitely re-listenable. You know, there are songs that I'm- this is actually something I'm gonna be adding to one of the videos. There are songs I've still- I'm still listening to after 20 years, you know? What's that song, Seven Days? That's still on my playlist, right? When we used to talk about which videos had the most views, the conversation would be like, oh, yeah, well, ignore music because obviously music will get more views than anything else. Pink Guy or Filthy Frank stopped uploading and he was still getting like 10 to 15 million views a month, you know, four or five years later because people just keep listening to the songs that he put on his YouTube channel. If you get introduced to a song, it's not one and done like most content is. It's a, oh my god, I need this and I need to listen to it another 50 times. Like I can- I can remember streams where I heard songs for the first time and they're still in my playlist now. I'm still listening to them over and over and over again. Like it's one of the reasons why a lot of the songs that hit the top of the charts or the most streams on Spotify are those that go viral on TikTok. The only time that becomes exploitative is when what you've created is a substitute for the original. Like there's no reason to seek out the song on Spotify because you can just watch a person's YouTube video over and over again. I don't know why you would do that, but you get the idea. Your music is definitely not in the same vein as- I believe I mentioned it in the video. Clips, memes, and music kind of fit into their own kind of category. As I say, no reason to do reactions, but just make a video. |
| 26. May 2022 | What about reactions to subreddits? | Actions to subreddits. I think Reddit Tumblr videos are also totally cool because they are transformative, edited, and made offline. I don't mean the stupid TTS ones, I mean actual ones. Yeah, the... Reddit is that interesting thing where the stuff that's presented there isn't for monetary gain. It's not, um... A person's livelihood isn't dependent upon this stuff. It isn't even technically done for self-promotion. Who gets big on Reddit, you know? And of course it's a content creator taking something from you to put on Reddit for self-promotion or whatever. You get what I'm saying. Like people who type a story into Reddit or something. I look more at Reddit talking about subreddits and stuff more like... In the same way that you're responding to stuff that's put on Twitter. It's just stuff put out publicly to share information. So obviously there can be exceptions to that. The eclipse and that sort of public stuff is not the stuff that I'm really criticizing. Especially when you're talking about really low effort stuff, you know? If you want something more to watch, check out my video linked down below about the harm of reaction content. It looks at the topic from every angle with some data thrown in and it is arguably the best video I've ever made. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 22. November 2022 | What advice I would give to my younger self. | that end up getting popular and why. So much of what success is, is accurately predicting the future, or coincidentally doing the thing now that happens to pay off in the uncertain future that you can only approximately predict. How the college campus grift works. So there's something that can be called the college campus grift, where you will get a person who will beforehand come prepared with a bunch of statements and facts and claims, and then go to a college campus and walk around and find specifically people who do not know what they are talking about, and then interview them in order to make it seem like their position is a lot stronger than it actually is. Because even if you have a person who can defend their views to a degree, they will never be able to respond as well to a person who's prepared and has statements that the other person has never heard. The prepared person can make 15 claims that could all. |
| 12. September 2021 | What are Franklin's motivations in GTA 5? | What are Franklin's motivations in GTA 5? What's Franklin's motivation in the story? So on Pac-Man, if you listen to all the dialogue, it gives you more information about how Lamar and Franklin met and how Franklin was in school. Lamar talks about how Franklin always wanted to be like the kingpin, the CEO, the head honcho. We were slanging together, then we was banging together, then we back to slanging. Never enough for him, man. Didn't want to be a soldier, wanted to be the general. Didn't want to be a slanger, wanted to be the CEO. Running franchises and shit. Who franchising in a drug game? It's why at the beginning of the game, he's talking about he wants to get out of the ghetto, right? He wants to make something for himself. And when he meets Michael, even though there's a risk in it, he's like, look, Michael's super rich and, you know, he's a criminal. Maybe he can help me out, whatever. He's always trying to climb the ranks. It's why he's almost unquestioning when he gets contacted to do jobs and stuff. He's like, yeah, I'll do it. He's willing to take the risks to make something of his life. That's why he's so excited when he gets that house in the hills. He's like, oh man, I'm moving up in the world. I'm doing it, you know. Even on like surveying the score, Franklin talks about how, you know, he should be a senior partner or whatever. Like he's, it comes off as joking that from the motivations of the character, you can tell he means it somewhat. And that's who Franklin is, yeah, the guy who wants to be the multimillionaire big dude. |
| 16. May 2020 | What are my favourite books? | scared. What's my favorite book? Probably Raymond E. Feist and Jenny Wirtz made a series called the Empire trilogy. I read that a bajillion times and loved it so much. Then there's just Raymond E. Feist books in general. Then there's, I mean it gets worse as it goes along because it's like 30 books or something and just it the quality is like 10 out of 10. 9.9, 9.8, 9.7 just all the way down to barely passable at the end. Robert Jordan, the Will of Time series which I have read a bajillion times, listen to on audiobooks now. Then there's book series that I can't even think of right now but like The A Wise Man's Fear I'm really looking forward to. The third book is called like The Stone Door or something. I'm really looking forward to it. I look forward to many things but I've been waiting for that book for fucking forever. I can't wait till that comes out. Like if you put in front of me a list of all fantasy authors. I've read that it's good. I've read that it's good. I've touched on most fantasy authors throughout the course of my life especially during the periods where I was reading like a book a week or whatever. What's his name? The Dresden Files, also a great series. Wizard in Chicago whatever. |
| 14. May 2020 | What are my favourite gta missions? | What is your favorite mission in the entirety of the GTA series and why? Every mission with Yusuf in Battle of Gatoni. Who is your favorite non-main character in GTA? |
| 16. May 2020 | What are some interesting conspiracy theories? | a bullet for such an issue. What are some interesting conspiracies that you've heard of? No conspiracy is interesting. Fuck conspiracy theories. In saying that of course, obviously conspiracies do exist. It's just when you make that concession conspiracy theorists will be like, oh fucking you admit every conspiracy on the planet is automatically probable because there existed a conspiracy at some point. It's so fucking dumb. The existence of conspiracies does not make all conspiracy theories likely, probable or meaningful or even even sensible to think about. Obviously like you can say well Jeffrey Epstein killing himself. I mean, can you really call it a conspiracy when that he didn't kill himself when all the evidence points towards that? You know, I mean if you want to call that an interesting conspiracy everything I've heard about that that case suggests that you know he didn't kill himself. There you go. There's the one conspiracy if you want to call it conspiracy that I believe. I know I just say believe it. I say it's probable that that occurred. I don't know. I don't believe it occurred that he was murdered. I just think it's a good case can be made for that outcome. Certainly it's possible that he killed himself. You can make a narrative where that makes sense for him to do. It just seems very suspect everything around that case with the the autopsy and stuff. |
| 08. July 2021 | What are the lottery numbers? | What are the lottery numbers? What are the lottery numbers? They're numbers between 0 and 100. And you pull them and then someone, if they pick the right ones, get a lot of money. I hope this helps. |
| 26. August 2021 | What are tool assisted speedruns? | What are tool assisted speedruns? Tool assisted speedrun, it's basically like you pause the game on a frame and you say to the machine press A, B, up, down, Y and then you unpause it and then the machine does up, down, B, blah blah blah, whatever. It does exactly what you say on the exact frame you tell it to. And if you don't get the outcome that you desire, you flick back on the emulation, you change the inputs and you keep doing this until you create yourself a perfect gameplay of the game. It takes a very long time. It depends on the task. Some tasks are very interesting, finding out like the what it's technically capable of to do. But certainly it's more hype when a human's doing it. Because with a task, you know, there's like no hype because there's no chance of failure and it doesn't require any skill or what have you. Sometimes the things done in tasks are so interesting that, you know, that's interesting in itself. I remember watching a SuperMario 64 task. It's certainly slower than world record now, but some of the strats that we used would be impossible for a human to pull off. But the tasks are interesting because often with a task, you can find things like strats that eventually humans will be capable of doing. People go, oh, well, it's technically possible for this to be done. So how can we make it more easy for humans to be able to do this or whatever? |
| 27. March 2022 | What audio filters do I use on stream? | What audio filters do I use on stream? An equalizer? No, I'm not even really sure what an equalizer does. Oh, EQ! Oh! I have, I so rarely hear someone say equalizer. Everyone just says EQ. No, I, uh, I've occasionally experimented with a low pass or high pass filters in some cases. There was a time where I was trying out an EQ, but it just never made it sound better to me. Like, it would make things, like, I just like the more natural sounds in my voice. Even when I'm having a compressor or limiter, it changes my voice in a way that I don't particularly like, but I have to do it by necessity or I start peaking. So, no, I don't use an EQ currently. I have experimented with them, but they've just never really satisfied me. |
| 02. June 2021 | What brand of CPU cooler do I use? | What brand of CPU cooler do I use? What cooler do I have for my PC? I've always used Noctua, what is it? DH-N15 or whatever, what is it called? The monstrosity of a cooler. It competes and often surpasses water coolers. Because it's just so, so fucking huge. NHD-15? NH-U15? Yeah. It's a monster of a cooler, like you have to make sure it can fit in your case. There is a smaller one, which I think is the 14, which is almost as good. It costs over $100, whatever. I'm pretty sure it's the gold standard of third-party coolers or whatever, for overclocking and whatnot. Why not water cool? I do not like the idea of water being near my parts, and it's too much for paying the odds. |
| 03. January 2022 | What caused me to get adblock for the first time | Use adblock for the first time. I still use it although I do have YouTube premium as well Do I care if you turn on adblock? I mean I'd rather you didn't turn on adblock, but I use adblock myself I've told this story many times when someone on Facebook a long time ago I believe it was Sarah like a friend of a friend or whatever Said um oh that they're putting they're putting ads at the beginning of YouTube videos now That's gonna be terrible, and I said to her no that's great news It's gonna be more money for content creators more people are gonna make content. It's gonna be great People are finally gonna get paid for the work in the way that they deserve and we'll just get better content out of it And for years this was my view so like five something years. I watched heaps of ads I'm like yeah, this is supporting people good shit then I became a twitch streamer and I would host people hosting effectively being a system where you send your viewers to another streamer and I would go to their channel after I hosted them and I would get an ad and so this be this awkward moment where The person who have hosted they're like ah I know if they hear they might be getting an ad and they'd be like this 20 seconds of silence and then I get them like did they do they say do they acknowledge my host do they say thanks for the host ah I hate it. I hate it so much that I got adblock that day It was it was hurting my ability to host and raid people I've been reading was the thing back then but to engage with other creators, so I used how did youtubers make money for YouTube ads Or they were ads on YouTube? |
| 30. May 2020 | What caused the biggest change to my viewership? | The biggest change in my viewership came when I started uploading content on YouTube and got noticed there. |
| 14. January 2021 | What caused your YouTube success? | Yeah. But what got me to where I am now is two different things. One was my Facts and Glitches series, which I was so lacking confidence in myself and I didn't even have a YouTube channel really, that I pitched the idea of giving my speedrunner knowledge to other larger GTA channels. I said to them, look, if you promote my Twitch channel, I'll make these videos for you. And I got responses of no from three and three didn't get back to me. But then I made the video myself, my first Facts and Glitches video. And I was so depressed that day, whether it was because I wasn't doing very well on my Twitch or whatever, wasn't seeing the growth that I wanted, whatever it was. But I barely made the video. Like it ended up being seven minutes or something, but ended up blowing up to a million views or something. And then I made Pacifist, the how do you get through GTA 5 without killing anyone or whatever. I made that a few months later and that also blew up my channel and the rest is kind of it's funny that I never played GTA before GTA 5. The only reason I ended up playing it was because I happened to see a person named Witwick's speedrunning it. That's crazy. I always would have thought that you'd be just like playing GTA all the time. That's what people suspect that I was a GTA fanatic and that's what got me into this. But even now I see my love of GTA less that I love Rockstar or the GTA franchise more just that I love it because I played it for so long. I know so much about it and just it has such a nice familiar feel to it. I don't think GTA 5 is the best game of all time. I think it's a really good game. But like I prefer Dark Souls. In an ideal world I would be a Dark Souls content creator or something. But just because I just love GTA 5 because I've stuck with it for so long and I love the speedrun. Yeah, that's kind of my history I suppose. That's cool man. It's so interesting hearing how everyone gets into it. |
| 09. April 2020 | What city do I want GTA 6 set in? | Time soon. What city do I want GTA 6 set in? What city would you like to see in GTA 6? A good city. I don't care where it is, man. I don't think the place makes the game. The game makes the game. They could set it exclusively in a sewer, as long as it's good, I don't care. They could set the entire thing in my fucking backyard. As long as it's a good game, I'll be like, hell yeah, man. Feel free to use my backyard as much as you like. All I'm picturing now, you know how Cheers, the TV show, was set all in a bar. They do a game of GTA and it's just set in one guy's backyard with his garage. And that's just the entire thing. The characters come and go, but you never leave the scene of the garage and then the backyard. Eigth- |
| 02. November 2021 | What device does the majority of my views come from? | What device does the majority of my views come from? The majority of my views come from mobile devices. Like well over 50%, we're talking like 60-70%. Clearly my life experience, or the experience I'm having in life right now is somewhat detached from people's everyday life, right? But even I like, I watch a lot of YouTube. I might be on my phone for an hour when I wake up, or when I'm going to sleep or something, and during that time I watch a lot of YouTube videos and stuff. There's this experience I'm sure you've all had where you need to go to sleep, you don't really want to go to sleep, and you convince yourself you need just one more good YouTube video, just one more. One more interesting thing to look at or watch before you go to bed. And so you flick around YouTube for like 20 minutes, going from video to video, trying to find that perfect video. There's nothing specifically you want to watch, but you need to find something more, and you just waste so much time looking for it. I've done that so many fucking times. Am I the only one? Because I can't be the only one. I'm not fucking unique. I'm not a fucking snowflake. |
| 22. October 2022 | What did Dr. Friedlander’s note actually say at the end of Pacifist%? | What did the note from Dr. Freelander at the end of my Pacifist percent run actually say? For those who are unaware, at the end of GTA V you are given a sort of mental evaluation sheet from Dr. Freelander. It is normally nothing too interesting. I am fairly certain that at least two times while making the Pacifist series, I had to remake something, as in like, I lost the save file and had to go back and, uh, quickly skip through to where I was up to, or remake the Pacifist save file in general, or like in the beginning I wasn't using the Pacifist save, a consistent save file, I was starting each mission or something. I can't recall, but I know for a fact there wasn't one consistent save all the way through. But even if it was, there's no way in hell that the end screen would acknowledge that you didn't kill as many people. That's just not a thing, obviously. I always plan to make my own custom evaluation at the end. How many of you saw my custom evaluation that I painstakingly wrote with custom jokes at the end of the Pacifist episode? And how many of you didn't see it? How many of you didn't get that far or closed out when the screen went black? Yes, there's some people, sorry. I saw someone put it on Twitter. So that was it. And that's all you're gonna get, really. Just went to properly read the custom at the end of Pacifist and definitely gave me a chuckle. Good! All those jokes were right off the top of my head. Spent like half an hour on it. It's pretty good, though. Everyone's live streaming quality is just... |
| 27. March 2022 | What did I plan to do with my degree before I streamed fulltime? | I planned to do with my degree before I streamed full-time. My official degree is a Bachelor of Social Science with a major in psychology, but I also took criminology courses because you were required to take electives. And while I had a huge variety of stuff to pick from, I just picked all my electives in criminology. What did I want to do? I just dreamed of getting some job helping people. Didn't really think about much more than that. I just really like the idea of learning why people act as they do, what motivates behavior, and whatnot. It was just an interesting topic. I always imagined I would just end up in the public sector somewhere doing some... some government work, counseling or something, but it just didn't go down that well. |
| 27. March 2022 | What did Rockstar do for me? | What did Rockstar do for me? I had this comment again over the course of my life criticizing Rockstar for the horrendously garbage shit that they do. There's always some asshole who pops up and says, Um, they made your career so you can't complain. I always say to them every time, Name a single thing that Rockstar would have done differently if I didn't exist. And there is nothing. Rockstar would have done everything they did, Exactly as they did, regardless of whether or not I exist. Existed. And that's because they made absolutely no effort to give me a career, They had no consideration for me at all in anything they ever did, And therefore they're deserving of no credit. It's like dung beetles should be thankful for cows for shitting. But of course, cows have no ability not to shit. They would shit irrespective of whether or not dung beetles existed. Like ants should be thankful to people who litter their sandwiches at the park. The people aren't littering sandwiches with consideration for the ants. They would have done exactly as they did, irrespective of whether or not the ants existed. And that's the same way with Rockstar. Rockstar has done absolutely nothing for anyone's benefit, Except their own benefit. They are 100% self-interested. If tomorrow they believed that crushing me under a rock, a boulder, was in their best interest, They'd do it tomorrow. On the flip side of that, due to their lack of consideration of me, Over the course of their history, they've done endless things that have done nothing but disadvantage me. If they had even the tiniest of considerations for my well-being, They would have changed endless things about the way they practice. Not just my well-being, but generally content creators in general. Rockstar has the most hands-off approach to content creation that exists of any company. Like you appreciate things, you give credit to things, When that thing has actively worked to achieve an end. Rockstar has at no point actively worked to help me in my career, To benefit me in any capacity, and therefore of course they deserve fucking nothing. |
| 22. October 2022 | What did dr friedlander’s note actually say at the end of pacifist%? | What did the note from Dr. Freelander at the end of my Pacifist percent run actually say? For those who are unaware, at the end of GTA V you are given a sort of mental evaluation sheet from Dr. Freelander. It is normally nothing too interesting. I am fairly certain that at least two times while making the Pacifist series, I had to remake something, as in like, I lost the save file and had to go back and, uh, quickly skip through to where I was up to, or remake the Pacifist save file in general, or like in the beginning I wasn't using the Pacifist save, a consistent save file, I was starting each mission or something. I can't recall, but I know for a fact there wasn't one consistent save all the way through. But even if it was, there's no way in hell that the end screen would acknowledge that you didn't kill as many people. That's just not a thing, obviously. I always plan to make my own custom evaluation at the end. How many of you saw my custom evaluation that I painstakingly wrote with custom jokes at the end of the Pacifist episode? And how many of you didn't see it? How many of you didn't get that far or closed out when the screen went black? Yes, there's some people, sorry. I saw someone put it on Twitter. So that was it. And that's all you're gonna get, really. Just went to properly read the custom at the end of Pacifist and definitely gave me a chuckle. Good! All those jokes were right off the top of my head. Spent like half an hour on it. It's pretty good, though. Everyone's live streaming quality is just... |
| 01. June 2020 | What did my parents think of my pursuit of Twitch? | What did my parents think of my decision? I assume you mean my decision to, you know, pursue Twitch and whatnot. I came up in conversation recently where my mother, we talked about it and she was like, oh, you know, I turned out I was wrong. You know, you're pursuing YouTube and Twitch, you're doing very well now. So I guess I was wrong. And I said to her, you weren't wrong because now that I know how unlikely my chances of success were back then, all of your fears and your hesitations that you were hesitant about the idea were entirely justified. That it ended up working out doesn't mean those fears or hesitancies or whatever weren't justified. They made complete sense. And it made sense for you to say, look, mate, you should do the non-risky thing, you know, get into a normal career, a secure career. You don't know how this is going to turn out. And that's how my mother was for a long time. She was supportive, but she would constantly prod me and go, Matt, apply for this thing. Apply for this thing. Just, you know, it's minor work out for you, Matt. Just just work it out. My father, you know, somewhat similar, but he was just like, oh, you're doing well on those YouTubes. Are you doing well? Oh, good. You're doing doing well. So differing levels of acceptance and somewhat insistence that I at least have other avenues that I'm pursuing while doing Twitch and YouTube. And certainly a part of it is a lack of understanding in that it's very hard to even see the possibility of success when you don't even really understand how money is made on YouTube and Twitch. You meet those people all the time. And my mother and father were no different. Like, oh, so how so how do you get the money then? I had so how did the ads go? And I talked to my dentist or whatever, and he was like, oh, you actually make money on this? Oh, really? You know. So, yeah, they were supportive, but at the same time, hesitant, justifiably so. |
| 14. January 2021 | What did you do before YouTube? | But yeah, what did you do before YouTube and live streaming and such? Um, I've always been really into gaming, but I did, I studied, I studied an accounting degree and I was mostly just playing like soccer for the uni and having a lot of fun through there. And then I got a job in finance and for the first like few weeks I was in a suit for the first time and I was feeling like great. And then like, kind of like what you were saying before, like, I was just like, this can't be my life. Like I was in this office and everyone was stressed and like depressed and just like seeing who could work. I don't know. The whole thing was just like, I was like, man, I'm just going to go back to hospitality. Like this is not who I am. But during the whole uni cycle, I started the channel. And then when I started to feel like that YouTube started to sort of take off a little bit. And I think it was about a hundred thousand subscribers that I was like, a 150. I was like, no, I'm going full time. And I just, I just love it, man. Like I love making content. I love making videos and streaming more. I love streaming. So like, like I just, yeah, so much more passionate about my work now. Yeah. Accounting doesn't seem particularly fun, but I guess for most people in accounting, it's one of those things where, you know, you make the money so you can do other stuff in your spare time. I'm going to sound like such a math nerd, but like there's something I'm not, I'm not going to praise accounting too much, but like when you get into it, like I was actually really interested in it, but then in practice I'd get a job. I would just spend all day like auditing our own clients. And it was just like, you do like 40 a day. And it was just like, I dunno, it was like going to the scenes from a movie. We like walk in, you like make a coffee and it's like morning Jeff, you're like, Hey, and then like sit down and then you're like, and I was like, go home. And I was like, Groundhog Day stuff. I was like, not in this, you know, not much changes. So what, what degree do you have then? Just a straight accounting degree I've got. Oh no. So it was a, so what, so you have three, four year degree or whatever? Yeah. It was like three, three years. I took four years to do it because I went over to Europe with some mates and just like economics, lots of maths, and then heaps of just, yeah, accounting stuff. So you were making videos while doing this job and it just happened to take off. Towards the end. Yeah. Like towards the end of my degree. And I was also, I was working while I studied because yeah, had to pay like rent and stuff. And I just so happened to work at the firm that I went on full time at. So yeah, I, I kind of wish I was at that successful when I kind of threw my loss in with doing the online stuff. Tell me your story. I want to know just like in a nutshell from, from you graduate college or whatever, where, where did it, what happened? It's, it's, it's almost like how far do you want to go back? Because like I was making videos 2013 about religion, philosophy, society and stuff. Basically I worked repairing hearing aids and hearing devices. And I would sit there and I could like, when you diagnose the device, you listen to it once you go, okay, that's the problem. And you start going about to fix it. It might take 20, 25 minutes to fix this thing or replace whatever parts or clean it or whatever. And so during that time I would listen to audio debates, podcasts, all this stuff. And I would begin to have ideas about how life works. And I eventually came home and I just made a YouTube video, no idea what possessed me to do this, talking about something. And I got a little feedback and I was like, well, that's, that's pretty cool. I like this idea, getting feedback from my ideas. So I just kept doing it. And I, and my peak on this channel, I had like a thousand like views of video or something, nothing basically. Then I quit this job and I went to get a psych degree. And during making my psych degree, I kept making this content. But then when I got to the end of my degree, I'm like, I don't, what am I going to do now? Where am I going to go? I don't have, I might just going to start filling out resumes, try to find a job or something. But it was at the end of this degree that I had become a partner on Twitch because throughout my degree, I started making gaming content as well. Again, I cannot for life remember what possessed me to do this, but I started doing it. I think because I, I enjoyed watching speed runners and other content creators on Twitch. I learned of Twitch through Hearthstone tournaments, probably some YouTube probably advertise that. I don't know. But I, but I became a partner, so I probably had like 10,000 followers or something. I was like, maybe I can make something of this. So I have a YouTube channel that's barely existence because I, the, the, like a thousand views of video, whatever at best. I make a gaming YouTube channel that has basically nothing on it, but I have 10,000 followers on Twitch. I'm a partner and I just roll with it and eventually snowballs into where I am now. Um, but it was like looking back at it, amazingly dumb. Um, all, all I know now about how unlikely it was to succeed. Um, like I, if I, if I met a person in my circumstances and they asked me, do you think I should, you know, go out in the limb and stream every day and try to make it? I would say, no, you're fucking crazy. It's never going to happen. That's just the story. I reckon that's the story of everyone who tries to do some like internet career. Like should you ever, is it the wise choice to go for it? Probably not. Like it's not, nothing's that really guaranteed. Like, of course you should try and like, you should definitely like have a crack if that's something you want to do, but like nothing's guaranteed. Like you are taking a bit of a gamble with how that goes. I, I, fortunately, I had a bit of money, um, because I, I didn't do much with my life and I, um, I'd been working, you know, full time, whatever, for so long. So it wasn't like I was risking destitution by having a crack at this. Um, I, I could have spent a year, year and a half on something without making a single dime and, uh, still, um, you know, not being destitute by the end of it. Uh, but at the same time, like, uh, if I could, if, again, if I found a person in my circumstance, I'd be like, look, just keep throwing out your resumes at people, get a normal job, uh, because you're succeeding at solo. |
| 11. December 2020 | What do I do with my time off stream? | A living ball of flame sat on your couch, and there is no evidence of any kind of flame marks, or scorch marks, or ash. That is evidence of the absence of a flame creature on your couch. What I do with my time off stream. Like, I'm not kidding when I say, any time that I'm not live, I am editing, or doing something else in regards to managing footage, or whatever, between editors, or whatever. It isn't as though I've hired people to help me, so that I can do less work. It's more that I've hired people so I can get more done. My interest in hiring others was not to lay back and do nothing. It was so that I could focus on the really important stuff, and have people help me with the stuff that is more time consuming. You know, ranging in its level of importance, but stuff that takes a long time, that would distract me from other stuff. I respect my work ethic is really easy to work hard when you're passionate about what you do. And when additional work actually has some tangible benefit to your life, and what you output, right? It's like if you're working a 9 to 5, you've got no real chance for advancement, or you recognize the system you're in is just a matter of nepotism and whatnot. You know, putting in that extra effort is... Like, no one's gonna appreciate that. I mean, why would you do it? Yeah, for me, there's always something more I can be doing. And it's stressful sometimes. Knowing that the job is never done. At the end of every single day, there is something more I could be doing, something more I could be working on. It's just a matter of the level of importance. The level of necessity. There's always projects that I want to do that I look at and go, it's not a good use of my time right now. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 29. May 2020 | What do I expect do be in gta vi? | life. What do you expect to be in GTA 6 if it ever comes out? I think it will come out like 3 years from now and I have no idea. Probably cars and guns. |
| 15. November 2020 | What do I like doing other than streaming and making videos? | What do I like doing other than streaming and making YouTube videos? all I do other than make YouTube videos and stream is watch YouTube and twitch and I guess anime before I'm going to bed. I watch a combination of entertainment media and social commentary politics and and Philosophy in society and da-da-da I really have any other hobbies other than that and I see my doing this to be at least somewhat useful for the stream I'm always Caught up on you know the main current events and they often have some new bit of media I'm watching to talk about or least I did before I started watching one piece because one piece has just dominated Most of my entertainment watching since I guess the last couple of months. I'm on episode like 900 and something was it 800 and something but I'm like I'm almost done I come 90% through the show and the show has almost a thousand episodes |
| 30. May 2020 | What do I think of depression? | I know if I've been depressed in my life necessarily I have never been diagnosed with such a thing, but I have had some very down times not necessarily enjoying living and may not potentially wanting to continue to live and uh, you know not great times and I don't wish that on anyone |
| 03. February 2020 | What do I think of speedrun event/participating? | Recently went to the AGDQ event in Orlando that was held this year, and I was curious about your thoughts about speedrunning events in general and Also, would you ever consider about going to one of these events as a runner and displaying Grand Theft Auto 5 as a game there? There's a lot of things I could say that So your first part was about speedrunning events Well in general I'm in favor of them because it expands the audience of people who could possibly enjoy and watch speedrunners I mean it benefits speedrunners because you know they get more support perhaps even financially It benefits the general public because I believe that speedrunning is an enjoyable thing that people you know could find and Fall in love with or what have you And it's entertaining for a lot of people so these things are just good in general to have around Would I want to go to such an event? And when I was a smaller content creator there was clearly a business benefit for doing so In that I with 3dq for example I could get a level of exposure that would effectively pay in perhaps in the long term For going there, you know could you put me on a big stage in front of a hundred thousand people and maybe it's I have Some confidence that I am at least somewhat of an entertaining person so I would gain from that So that that business aspect has kind of dwindled now in that GDQ You know it's still big, but I mean in terms of my exposure on YouTube It's not something I need to consider the other factor of why I would want to go when I was small and would want to Go now is just to meet other speedrunners. You know Trihex Carl Sagan these people that I you know who go to these events frequently even March and Phil these You know easy scape and even small I've only recently started looking at his stuff, but there's a lot of people in that kind of space That'd be cool to go. Hey. I know you from the internet Whether that's worth paying three four thousand dollars to go do So that I've often said the live stream of GDQ is for a general audience It's not for speedrunners the actual event is for speedrunners talking to people of a like mind In a place we are you know in general a general audience might look at Speedrunning as scornful or you know not nothing to be proud of or what have you but in that audience It's just it's something a celebration of speedrunning itself Which is a an audience that I would like to I would like to stand in a room where everyone is in favor of speedrunning And enjoy speedrunning that would that would seem like to be a good memory to have would I? Would I go now as a runner? I don't think I would certainly have to practice a lot and and get really back into GTA 5 classic percent because that would be what I would want to run and so much of my time has taken up by You know editing and all my other activities and stuff it would throw a huge wrench in a lot of what I'm doing right now I'm not saying it's not it's not something I might do in the future You know who knows what's gonna happen, but like if you said right this second Matt you can you can take a week vacation To GDQ you can pay that three grand and you can do a run with your current knowledge and experience of classic percent I Would be hesitant I might still say yes once upon a time. I'll say I'll be like yes I have every reason to go to go to GDQ You better believe it business and personal now. It's like you know I don't really have the business need the personal is still kind of there But I you know the the the weight of the business side of speedrunning my YouTube my twitch and stuff would probably be an Inhibit me from going you |
| 18. May 2021 | What do I think of the stock market? | What do I think of the stock market? My opinion on investing in stocks, the common wisdom is that it seems to be a sensible thing to do in the really long term. That day trading is probably not for everyone. Like, putting your money in one of those funds that distracts the market seems to be the standard for everyone. But I don't personally put my money in stocks. I am in a fortunate enough position that I don't need to maximize the amount of money I'm making by doing investments and stuff. Because I think that'd just be stressful to have to worry about. And I do have somewhat of a bleak view of the future. And the idea that a lot of these companies are overvalued and the market is ready for a correction. Other people say this isn't going to happen and potentially the market would never have another correction again, blah, blah, I don't know. I just don't, I don't want to be stressed about it. If there was a significant correction, would you buy the dip? Like, guys, I don't even have furniture. I don't even want to take the time to buy a car. I don't even own a TV. Am I gonna take the time to buy stocks in a dip? I can't imagine so. Yeah, I have always said that I should buy a house because at least then I can use it irrespective of what the market does. But I haven't got around to that either. And there's no way I'd buy it because remember I live in a place with the most expensive housing prices in the world. And the market is not great for buying right now. It's super inflated. Yeah, when I was talking to a relative to mine who works in real estate and stuff, and they said, yeah, now's not a great time to buy. And I was like, is it ever gonna get better? And they're like, well, I mean, it can't be much worse than this, can it? |
| 18. August 2022 | What do I want to change on YouTube. | Cracking a menu or contents just shit and it's just a YouTube does fuck up a lot So it's not really a good position to come out and be like actually YouTube ain't that bad When they do actually fuck up sometimes the removal of community captions is doing the most bizarre decisions They've made I assume that what was happening too frequently was people were submitting um heinous lewd stuff and Content creators weren't tracking them sufficiently like what they've added in it stead There's now a subtitle role where you can give it to people and the only thing that they can do is make subtitles for your videos They can see nothing else Except that I had a Lee make me some English subtitles or something with it and seemed to work |
| 08. July 2021 | What do i think of Mr Beast? | What do I think of MrBeast? What do I think about MrBeast? The most recent video that MrBeast released, I found a small snippet of it at the very end very interesting. Where his video for those who didn't see it was him eating a 100,000 dessert or whatever. Not only does he not eat the dessert, he lets his friends eat the dessert and his subscribers or whatever. And he says at the end like, hey guys, like you know, I gotta do these videos because they get a lot of views, a lot of subscribers and stuff. I prefer videos where I help people. But like if I do these videos, I can have more money to help even more people. I'm not a snob or anything like that. And it just came across as the most genuine thing I've seen from a content creator that large. You know? Maybe you could say, oh you know, it's just all some fake thing or whatever. He's just trying to appear relatable or whatever. But honestly, it came across as so genuine as if like he legitimately just wants to help people. He doesn't want to feel like the money is changing or whatever. Because you know what I'm saying? MrBeast went like in three years, went from a guy with nothing to a guy who's now got like tens of millions of dollars. He was just a dude who got very lucky, you know? Look at this growth. Two years, gains 45 million subs. A little dude who got lucky in the most thunderstrike, win the lottery kind of way. It's endearing, you know? If any dude is going to be that successful, MrBeast comes across as the kind of guy you want to be that successful. Because he just seems like a nice genuine dude. You could assign ulterior motives to what he does. You could say it's just a persona man to act like and look like a good guy. And he's doing all these giveaways of large amounts of money and stuff so that he can build his brand and his base and make it even larger. Sure, he's giving away so much money now, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to how much he's going to grow in the future and blah, blah, blah. But I think he just seems like a genuine dude, honestly. I think you could give bad motivations to anyone though. Oh, yeah, exactly. It just depends on how many assumptions that you have to make and what seems most likely, given what you know. I mentioned recently some ordinary gamers. I made a video criticizing him and in that I believe I was too readily assigning to him malicious intent when I didn't really have sufficient reason to. |
| 30. May 2020 | What do i think of depression? | I know if I've been depressed in my life necessarily I have never been diagnosed with such a thing, but I have had some very down times not necessarily enjoying living and may not potentially wanting to continue to live and uh, you know not great times and I don't wish that on anyone |
| 14. January 2021 | What do you do outside of social media? | What do you like to do outside of YouTube or social media? Um, it's such a hard question. Like I'm obviously big into gaming, but I do like, I like surfing, just hanging out with my girlfriend, saying friends. I'm big, big into like just getting coffee and stuff, like going out, trying to get outside and out and about a bit just because I'm like in this office so much. Surfing, so you live near the water or? Yeah, I live right on the coast. Yeah. Sounds heavenly. I've always loved the beach, but I haven't been in many, many years. You're always welcome to come crash at mine for a few nights if you want. Thank you. God forbid you have a few days off. Yeah. You can stream from my place, man. My content, man. I'll get myself a waterproof thing attached to my head and I'll make content out of going to the beach or some shit. Just go to the beach. Oh dude, you can speed run JTA on my Xbox. It'll be like, I'll need like Avenue for you. I'm sure people have been asking me to do that for a long time, trying to speed run on the consoles, but I can't use a controller. |
| 14. January 2021 | What do you think of Red Dead Redemption 2 | This next question, I don't know why I included it. Have you finished Red Dead Redemption 2 and what did you think of it? I've actually finished about 75% of it, but in the process of making content on it, I've just watched the ending and I know what happens. And so I just haven't actually finished it yet, but I really liked what I played. I heard that actually you're a massive Red Dead Redemption 2 fan. Especially like you especially love looting. I've rancid about the game so much and I really so it's funny. I think if I didn't wasn't so invested in enjoying it that it would have just been a blip in my life. I would have played and gone, this is all right. I'm not really keen about finishing it, but because I was so invested in enjoying it and I really wanted to love it and for it to be a new source of content for me, that it couldn't be that, it's always just that sore spot, that one that got away, that maybe if I'd come at it from a different angle or something that I would have been gripped by it more. But it just didn't grip me. And the technical difficulties on PC, losing my save file because Rockstar corrupted it on console. There are just so many that to play it I had to give up going to PAX. So many things even external from the game just fought against me actually enjoying it. But I can't, I'll admit openly, it's a good game. It's just a game that I didn't enjoy. That's fair, I have that sometimes with like TV shows or games and I usually I'm pretty like lover of life optimistic kind of person. Sometimes every now and then everyone's like you'll love this game, you'll love this show and I play it. I just fucking hate it. And I'm like, I don't know why I don't enjoy this at all. So it happens, right? But I thought I thought Red Dead 2 was an amazing game, but that's just my experience. It looks really beautiful, but I just think it would have been better as like a TV show. I have these issues with video games where like you can have a wonderful story in a book, an audio book, a play like a TV show, a movie. There's just so many avenues where you can get a wonderful story. But video games like this, the only place you can really have gameplay, like actually be involved in what's going on. And so much of what happened in Red Dead was you just riding a horse from A to B having people talk at you or whatever. And I just I just feel like this is just this isn't using my time well. I play video games for amazing gameplay and the Red Dead on PC, the shootouts when I had a mouse, that was some fun shit. That bit of that game. But on controller that I don't like to begin with, like I think if Red Dead had released on PC to begin with, as it eventually came to be with the better graphics, I probably would have finished Red Dead and enjoyed it far more. But just the additional barriers of being on console with the controller and I don't know. It's just as say there's just so many barriers preventing me from enjoying the game. And it's just and I fully admit that they made a game that was very successful that people really loved. It just didn't drive with me. It's more of a meme at this point. Me saying it sucks. Yeah, I'm aware. Yeah, that's understandable. I just really got immersed into the world, I guess. And I think what really helped, like I liked the story, I liked the gameplay to an extent, like I think the gameplay is like what you're saying, ironically, probably not one of the best parts of the game. But they put you on an island and for like multiple scenes, all you could do was hold forward. And that was the gameplay. You know, when he's shuffling along the dirt and then with the chains on his legs, I'm like, why is this here? Just make it a cut scene. Like there's so many parts in the game that if it was a TV show, those parts wouldn't be there and there would be nothing lost. But to have you be there controlling a character, they had to drag out a scene. And it just like regardless how good the story is, the story is like 50 hours long. It's just like I say, just preference, but it just dragged on too much for me. I would like honestly, I would just give Red Dead to a 10 and I would give like most Rockstar games a 10. I'm such a fan. But I think what would take the games to like the absolute next level is if they could somehow tell that story, but like what you're saying, but make it more gameplay wise. So like if you're on a prison island, for example, you have to escape and there's multiple ways to escape and you can go for a stealth section or you can go all out shooting or you can climb the rooftops. I think giving players some agency and in some of those missions instead of like you have to hold up a wagon, go to this window. And it's like, oh, what if I want to go to this window, this window where the yellow circle is, is where you'll be going. Shut the fuck up. There is a real direction. If I could give like a little bit more freedom, I can Rockstar games would just be insane. Have you seen the Nakey Jakey video on Rockstar games? I have actually. Yeah, he did such a great video. The whole Lego construction thing and he makes amazing videos that guy. I was actually going to reference him that exact video. He's up there in one of my favorite content creators. Certainly one of those content creators who makes a video, you know, every couple of months and it's amazing and yeah. Yeah, exactly. Seems like a very interesting and nice dude when he talks. He talks so passionately about his childhood and his upbringing, his experiences and stuff. And I think I have none of those memories. What is wrong with me? I don't have these vivid memories of being a kid and just loving this video game. I wonder if my memory works differently from other people or something. But I'm I'm so much in the moments, you know, I don't have a huge amount about amount of nostalgia for things in my past. But you're seeing people like Nakey Jakey be so passionate in their nostalgia is always interesting to listen to, you know. Yeah, definitely. Without a doubt. |
| 14. January 2021 | What do you want to achieve in the future? | So what do you want to achieve in the future? As you've said, you want to be live streaming more, but is that your only goals for 2021? I think I've really set the goal this year. I really want to improve my content. I think you're probably a little bit like you. I'm a confident enough person, but I'm not like, oh, my content's fucking sick. I still really have this desire to improve it. So that's something I really want to focus on. And just get into streaming, that would be really cool. I'm hitting the million. That's still just like, I don't think I've quite realized that yet, because that was always my stretch kind of goal. So just enjoy it, enjoy it, man. Enjoy the whole lifestyle. How many subs did you have at the beginning of 2020 compared to the end of 2020? Maybe 400,000 or something like that. That's still a big increase. Yeah. I think you'll be on a million by next month. Sometimes it's here though, man. It's exciting. Maybe, maybe. It depends if this clip stuff slows down, because I've run out of clips, kind of. I've kind of gone through the obvious avenues to get clips, and I'm kind of cannibalizing other parts of my older content. It can't last forever. And it's going to be a separate question if uploading 24 clips a day really matters or whether YouTube is going to continue to algorithmically give my older clips to people. I'm not sure how that's going to work, but we'll find out. I think it's fine, even if the 24 was obviously like, put that channel on the map pretty quickly. Even if you drop down to say four, just from your recent content, I still think it'd have a great presence. It's going to be interesting to see. I don't think it's going to go away anytime soon, certainly. There's nothing on the back end that's suggesting that. That was a super smart move. But... |
| 05. June 2022 | What does Broughy not like about GTA Online currently? | Probably and and so if I take it you're not happy with the current state of GT online Well, like what's your main gripes with it right now? A lot of the gripes that I have are probably relating to cars and Racing so there's a there's a bias there But they make things put them in the game and then forget about it. Nothing ever gets revisited Nothing ever gets improved. There's all sorts of bugs and things that never get fixed unless it's a money glitch Everything that they've done has been to put new stuff in the game to sell more shark cards and get people to spend more money on new DLC content. They never bother to Go back to anything and improve it at once. It's already in the game You know, there's so many things like the car classes in GTA the sports class For racing it has nearly a hundred cars in it and so many of those cars could be in other classes like coupes muscle or utility or anything and Little things like that that you see that lack of care and attention Just everywhere I think in GT online because they're just throwing stuff at it to get people to spend money Because like my prior experience with a game that I played the most prior to GTA was World of Warcraft And not I'm saying Blizzard's an amazing company But they would do a lot of that where they would go back and revamp older content because they knew people were still playing it So change it completely in some cases I've never heard of rocks are doing even a small amount of that and I hadn't thought about that before but I yeah, that's a you |
| 24. December 2019 | What drives me to make YouTube content | are logged with. What drives me to make YouTube videos? How much would you say do you do YouTube for the money and how much to bring in new people to the stream? Especially since now you have editors and you pay them the earnings and the videos make. I was like, I don't know how much I want to talk about it. But at the end of the day, I've been in a pretty decent position most of my life in that I come from a middle-class family. While certainly considering my parents divorced, they were never... My family's never been wealthy. We've never had going on random vacations and stuff every year, whatever. We're not upper middle-class. We're middle-class family in that my parents owned a home, even though they had a big mortgage or whatever. And if it wasn't for my parents' divorce, we would have lived pretty comfortably. Speaking of me personally, when I got a job, I got a job when I was like 12 or something delivering pamphlets and then newspapers. And then I got a job at Kohl's and I worked long hours, Friday, Saturday, Sundays. So I made a decent amount of money for that kind of age. I've never not had some amount of savings, but I've always had this mindset where I've always been worried about the future. So I've never spent a lot of money on stuff. I've never been a super materialistic person. So money that I would make from working and working hard would just build up in my bank account. When I studied, of course, I made no money. But the reason why I was able to get into live streaming at all is because I have savings and I wasn't... I knew even if I failed at streaming, I would still have some savings and I wouldn't be destitute immediately. What I'm trying to say is I've never been a person driven by, I need to get every dollar, man. Every fucking dollar is what I need, dude. And my dad has actually gotten very angry at me recently because I'm not that way. Because he wants me to go, oh, you've got to invest your money in this. No, let me make my content, man. I just want to make good content. Any money that I've made streaming on YouTube and stuff, it's mainly just been doing what I want to do, which is make good content. It'd be very hard to... Let's say tomorrow, I'm convinced that no one is coming from YouTube to Twitch. It'd be very hard to stop at that point because it does make me some money and I have editors to pay now. But the main thing that's driving me and has always driven me to make YouTube content is both my enjoyment of making it and that it will bring people to Twitch. In my heart of hearts, I am a Twitch streamer and I enjoy streaming. I enjoy streaming more than I do making YouTube videos. It's why I find it so hard to take time off streaming to make YouTube videos. But yeah, what I'm trying to say is at the end of the day, yes, YouTube makes me a bit of money now, but I was making YouTube videos before it was making me a bit of money. I make the same YouTube videos in months where there's very little ad revenue as the months where there's huge amounts of ad revenue. The amount of consideration I give to getting every single cent is very small. The only reason I've started to put more ad slots or whatever the mid-rolls in my videos is because I have editors now. And so the amount of money that any of the videos make directly impacts how much the editors make. Most of the reason why I spend time optimizing my videos in terms of thumbnails and whatnot is because I think I make good content and I have a very good interest in growing my audience. Like if you're good at making content and you believe in the content that you make, you shouldn't need to engage in scummy practices and shit because the money will just come. People will value the content that you produce and so they will support it because they want it to continue to exist. And people will watch it and keep watching it because it's good. |
| 19. July 2020 | What expanded and enhanced means for GTA V. | What expanded and enhanced means for GTA V single-player? Expanded and enhanced for the new version of GTA V is likely just gonna be some forms of optimization in terms of graphics and loading, and then like a few extra shackles thrown in somewhere. I doubt it's gonna be a massive overhaul or a great release of content, because it would be insane for them not to have announced that. If they had new DLC to present into the game, they would have said so. It's just the reality that the vast majority of people playing GTA V are playing the online version. So if they had new content, why would they put it in a single-player? Especially considering that this is even more likely because they're making the online free for PlayStation, but not the single-player. If they wanted to release some sort of a paid DLC or something, they would have given people the single-player as well. I'm actually fairly interested in what kind of graphical improvements they might make for the PC version. Like I'm hoping that the PlayStation 5 version isn't just the PC version with some dialed up a little bit, and so the PC version won't get much of an improvement. Xbox is not free online? It should be. Because if they're separating the single-player and the online, they're not gonna be charging for the online. Maybe they will be. I'm not sure, but I don't think that'd be the case. If they actually made a single-player DLC, people would play it? Yeah. The reason why companies tend to go towards microtransaction content is not because single-player content wouldn't sell, and not because they couldn't make money from single-player content. They do it because the return on investment is far higher. So if you're spending... I know what it is. Let's say for every 50 cents you spend on single-player DLC, you get a dollar. It's the case that for every 25 cents you spend on microtransaction content, you're making a dollar. So your return on investment is just so much higher. |
| 08. June 2020 | What games am I looking forward to? | Games I'm looking forward to. Are there any games that are coming out that I'm looking forward to? Not at all. The last time I looked forward to something was the Warcraft 3 Remaster, and look what happened with that shit. Fuck Blizzard, please don't give them money. When you're about to buy yourself that Overwatch loot chest thing, just think of me and go, no, I won't buy it for that. I'm not hyped for Cyberpunk. I'm like, yeah, it's probably gonna be a good game, and I will play it. I am more hyped to play Watch Dogs than I am to play Cyberpunk, because I know just as much about both games. I've never been super hyped about gaming, man. I've talked about this many times. Like today, for example, I was watching the WAN show, Linus Tech Tips, listening to Linus and... what's the other guy's name? Terrible names. Both talking about their gaming history. Oh man, I remember buying this new PC part just so I could get this new game, play this game, such a great game. I was just so happy, but I have none of those memories. None of those memories at all. Luke, that's it. Luke seems like that guy who would have made like a great best friend in high school or something that you could game with, you know. Have I played any of the Far Cry games? Nah. Far Cry doesn't seem like my kind of thing, in the same way that Fallout isn't my kind of thing. I'm not a big, um, wilderness survival. |
| 03. February 2020 | What games would I speedrun if I could? | I recently did a Q&A some questions were asked via voice and discord others I just read from discord and answered if you had the time and money what is the game outside the GTA series you always wanted to try speedrunning to all the Mario games if I could be good at another speedrun it would be one of the Mario's probably sunshine or 64 or or one of the Zelda games |
| 04. October 2021 | What genre of music do I listen to? | What genre of music do I listen to? What kind of music am I into? You're a huge metalhead. I don't really love all of any genre. Like for example when I found that I liked Nightcore, I think I listened to a hundred Nightcore songs, the most popular ones and I liked seven. Seven of them. When I found that I liked speed metal, I went through like the top 20 bands or something and listened to their best songs. I liked two or three of them. When I say I like metal in general, I mean like you know I like like three or four bands. I've listened to hip-hop and rap and R&B or whatever the fuck these are. I've listened to like there if you go through my playlist there is a song from every genre in existence within that playlist. There is no genre that I find myself liking everything that I hear from that genre. Yeah I don't mind System. For a long time System was a heavy thing in my playlist. Also a problem in your face, I don't really know genres that well. I'm listening to something and people like oh so you like this genre. I'm like what gives you that idea that I like that genre? They're like oh well this song you're listening to it's a part of that genre. I'm like oh really? Okay I do not like screamo. There was a handful of songs in my playlist that have screaming in them and the only reason is because the rest of the song is good. I have listened to songs in the past that have that or that have been heavily featured on my playlist that have that kind of stuff in it but it's more for what the song sounds like despite that. It's never an asset when there's someone going... it's like oh come on dude. I hope these people realize and have shown or who know that removing all the other music if you were just standing there shaking your head going brrr brrr brrr you sound like a fucking fool as I do right now. Oh man you know that way you go like brrr in like that that third verse awesome my favorite part it really speaks to me. |
| 17. September 2021 | What gets me heated in discussions | What gets me heated in discussions? Um, I have definitely gotten heated in discussions with people. Usually when I end up getting heated, it's because it's like you lay out something perfectly. With, like all the bells and whistles, you put in all the effort, you cross every T, you dot every I, and the person looks at it and goes, no. And you're like, what do you mean no? And they just go, no. But I've laid this out, this perfect argument, showing how you're wrong in every conceivable way. What do you disagree with? And they just go, no. But that's not an argument, they're like, no. Or like, here's a contradiction. You are clearly contradicting, and they go, no. Like a small kid who doesn't want to eat his dinner. Just, no. No. And it just pisses me the fuck off. This is very different than, for example, just having a difference in values. Like I can be disgusted with a person in terms of their values, and I completely understand their reasoning. If a person is a white nationalist, I can be disgusted by them, but not necessarily think their reasoning is invalid on the basis of what they value. I'm like, well, you're a terrible person, but I can understand why you would want to do these things, given the things that you value. But here's why you probably shouldn't have those values, or whatever. Appeal to mutual goals, or how you valuing these things is hurting you, or you're trying to achieve these goals is just going to be worse for you in the long term. As I say, two people can have the exact same facts, but based on what they value, you can completely disagree on how to apply those facts. You know? Do I? |
| 03. February 2020 | What got me into GTA V and why am I not bored of it? | rules. What got you into speedrunning GTA 5 and how do you not get bored of the game? Oh my god, I'm not gonna answer that question. The question of how do you not get bored of something, it's just the dumbest question that you- it's like, why do you like, you know, pineapple pizza? Or why do- I do. Do you want me to give you a deep analysis of my psyche over the course of my entire life? This is the dumbest question that you can ask anyone. I enjoy it and therefore I don't get bored of it. I have goals that I wish to achieve. I'm sorry but that question triggers me so goddamn much. It's a question I've been asked so many times, every day, it's just something you could think about for five minutes and realize is not a smart question. What got me into speedrunning GTA 5? I happened to see Witwix speedrunning the game when I was looking for something to stream and to speedrun and I was like, that looks quite interesting, maybe I can do that and so I did. |
| 31. July 2021 | What happened to Baron? | What happened to Baron? I don't know about what happened to Baron. Um, what I've heard in passing He doesn't he's not a person who likes attention. He has other stuff like he does programming or something He still streams, but he streams on like an ulcer council or something. I don't get it It's just as as is probably abundantly clear. I have never understood bad never I Yeah, I don't get it. It might be one of the people I least the person I said the least in the world. It's |
| 26. December 2022 | What happens after the GTA online servers go dark? | What happens after the GTA Online servers go dark? Wohai Walabala asks on the Discord, What do you think would happen to GTA Online content, including missions, once it eventually shuts down? That is the scary thought, isn't it? That one day, that's all just gonna go away. One of the highest selling games of all time that people have thrown literally billions of hours into, is just gonna be completely inaccessible. I don't know. Especially right now, because direct recreations of those missions I don't think exist anywhere. Or at least don't exist in my knowledge. So I guess they would just be inaccessible. And that would suck. |
| 19. November 2022 | What happens if I don’t enjoy GTA 6? | What happens if I don't enjoy GTA 6? Does it worry you that you might not enjoy GTA 6 as much as you enjoy GTA 5? Because you can't really make content on a game if you don't enjoy it? Oh, I beg to differ. Have you seen my Red Dead Redemption 2 videos? It would be so surprising to me if I couldn't enjoy GTA 6. I think I can enjoy any game as long as I have some goal in mind. And when you have an audience with you who are invested in what you're doing, it makes things more enjoyable as well. As in like, my mentality towards gaming and you guys can bump up a game from like a 0 to like a 3. Like you just get 3 points with the mentality and with you guys. So Rockstar would have to colossally fail. Like to the point where it's just a 4 hour drive to the next mission for me to truly imagine not liking GTA 6. If it is the case that I don't... that GTA 6 is like nails on a chalkboard, then I imagine I will do a little bit with it and just move on to something else. Obviously, I can't maintain the level of success that I have right now without a main game. But I do think I'm at a point where if I do variety content that I can be fine. Arguably, I'm already fine. Like I'm not worried about the financials. I'm just trying to enjoy myself and make some good stuff. And if I feel like I can't make good stuff with GTA 6, then I just won't. I'll find something else. |
| 29. October 2021 | What happens to my body when I mess up my sleeping pattern | What happens to my body when I mess up my sleeping pattern? It's a hard thing to explain, chat. When my sleeping pattern gets fucked, it's like my brain can't produce the chemicals that make you feel happiness or make things seem like they have a purpose. If you have an experience that I don't know how to describe to you, but it's basically like all light from the world is gone. Everything just seems so pointless and you wanna do stuff, but your body just feels awful and you just can't. And you get sucked into these endless thought spirals of just negativity. It's so terrible. It's why I say to myself every time, do not fuck up your sleeping pattern, dude. That kind of experience, it's like the worst experience. And I have to go through it every single time I fuck up my sleeping pattern. I am not suffering from burnout. You have no fucking conception how much I want to do the things I want to do. It's a physical fucking phenomenon and it sucks. Happens every time I fuck my sleeping pattern. I get too invested involved in doing some project. I go to bed too late, then my sleeping patterns fucked. And then for like four or five days, it's resetting and I feel like shit and I hate it. When my sleeping pattern shit, I get up and I'm like, man, do I have energy to do anything today? I like, obviously I can always edit, but do I have energy to do chaos, to be entertaining? I don't know. I hope I do. I debated people last time, two days ago now, when I thought I had energy but did not. |
| 24. January 2022 | What helped me with social anxiety when i was younger | What helps me with social anxiety when I was younger? I have had social anxiety for a long time. I can honestly say getting my first job, I delivered pamphlets and papers before that, but when I got a job at Coles, a supermarket, and I had to interact with people, and I had other people that I had to tell to do stuff, or I was told to do stuff or whatever, I made some friends through that. It was amazing for reducing my social anxiety. Just in general I think for people with social anxiety having a job, which is like a controlled environment, we have limited interactions with people, I think it's good. Gradually exposes you more and more to being comfortable in social circumstances. |
| 07. June 2021 | What hurts pacifist% on YouTube | them off. So I think I've discovered chat why pacifist doesn't do too well on YouTube and the answer seems to be that subscribers love that shit like people who already watch my stuff but people who don't watch my stuff not particularly interested maybe because it says episode 23 or maybe because they've watched other episodes and now this isn't for me. So another one gets recommended to them. They're like, ah, nah, probably the same thing as last time, you know. Still worth doing, of course. How the latest episode of pacifist do? Not too well. Think like 80,000 worse than the last episode. So it's one of the lower performing ones. The end of YouTube video cracked me up. You like the pacifist? Thank you, dude. Of the views that I got, 75% were already subscribers, 25% were not subscribers. And I don't think those are good numbers. Better than most? It depends on your perspective. Like a lot of people look at their numbers and they're like, oh shit, so many people who watch aren't subscribed. People aren't subscribing. People aren't, you know, watching every video that I produce that is watching like one-offs and then bailing. But on the flip side of that, if you have so many people subbed or just subscribers watching, you're like, oh shit, YouTube isn't sending out my content to new viewers. I'm not bringing in a new audience. And considering that every day people who already watch you get sick of your content, that's a bad sign. That's a quick path to diminishing viewership if the only people watching are people who already know about you. I don't think I'm in that situation. I think enough new people do get shown my stuff. But just with pacifist specifically, it's such a great series that I wish more people got to experience it. I do look back at the earlier episodes and think, man, I wish I could just re-edit those. I wish I had sway with YouTube and I'd just be like, look, can I just like change the video? I'll just re-edit the whole thing, redo all the voiceovers and we can replace that video with a different video. I believe they're able to do that, but they only do it with like companies. Hasn't there been a handful of situations where large companies have put up a video and they accidentally left some particular information? This game is coming to PlayStation or whatever, not announced, so they replaced the video. |
| 27. October 2021 | What i think about “UK” | Speedrunning Dark Souls 1 and not me personally, but the guys are like, Oh, what they just use glitches? That's just like cheating, man. And you don't expect to meet people like this in real life. And you just sit there confused for a moment like, what? Traditionally, cheating in games is meant to make things easier. Glitches don't necessarily do that. Sometimes the glitches are harder than the thing that you're trying to do. You know, I would almost say usually. I am the only Australian that uses forks. So this morning, I looked in my drawer and I'm like, there's no more forks. There's like six forks in this entire fucking house. I'm buying some forks today. And so I went to Woolworths and I looked at the place where the cutlery is. And no joke, there is like 400 containers of spoons, 400 containers of every knife you can imagine, but no forks. I was there for a good five minutes, but this can't be the case. I must be going blind. There must be a fork somewhere here. I found some forks in like dinner sets of like, where I have to get like knives, spoons and forks together. And so I'm getting like four forks for like twenty dollars or some shit. I don't know how much it costs. There was no price there. But it was it. It's clearly I don't want the other stuff. I got tons of knives. |
| 27. October 2021 | What i think about “u k” | to me. What I think about UK. Viper's thoughts on UK. Both quite good letters of the alphabet. I don't think we could really go on without them. Certainly some Ks are superfluous, being silent, but I mean U certainly is in a lot of different contexts, very valuable. It can even be considered a shortened version of the YOU, which saves time. I rate U like a 9 out of 10, and a K like a 7 out of 10. Thoughts on the United Kingdom. Seems pretty good. I wouldn't mind living there. I like the weather. Drury and rainy. Every British person I've met seems to be nice. People say my accent is somewhat British. I don't know why I said that about people being nice. I just mean, my perception of the average British person would seem to suggest that they're not people who would be openly hostile to my existence. I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm talking nonsense really, because of course there's a selective bias in terms of who I'm likely to meet or see in regards to people who are I mean, but I would never see any real reason to move out of Australia. |
| 31. August 2020 | What i want Rockstar to add to online | What I want Rockstar to add to online. So, do we have any news with Rockstar releasing this so-called new area? Clearly what they should add is a very large ocean that you have to traverse to get to a new area. And on that ocean you can engage in pirate battles. Of course the problem with this is that it would just be full of modders and so it would be completely pointless to do it. But in theory it would be interesting. Hey, Rockstar is releasing a new game mode. Yeah, but the modders, oh yeah, sure, okay, nevermind, it's gonna be shit. |
| 25. February 2021 | What i would change about GTA 5. | What I wish I could change about GTA V? What do you wish you could change the most? I don't know. I'm sure there's a list of things. Certainly having more variety in how you complete the missions would be nice. You could always just ask for more, like more mini games and stuff to exist in the game. More buildings to actually have interiors that you can go into for various different purposes. The cutscenes in Prologue to be skippable would be nice. The NPCs being better, as in like more lifelike, more responses. That's certainly an area of gaming that can develop more as we move forward. Just having the NPCs actually seem like real people who do real things. It doesn't matter how good the world looks, if everyone in it just seems like a carbon copy of each other, it never feels like a real world, you know. Yeah, Cyberpunk's a good example. There's a clip where someone fires their gun and every single NPC gets out of their car at the exact same time and cows at the exact same time in the exact same way. Oh no, I'm certainly, this game is certainly good. It's just saying it's definitely a place that could be improved. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 29. March 2021 | What idea haunts me in life? | What idea haunts me in life? Foo Food says, what fact, thought, or idea haunts you for life? The fallibility of memory. I've said this many times. Realizing that the overwhelming vast majority of my existence, I don't remember. And of that, I do remember. A significant portion of it will be misremembered or directly manipulated, reinterpreted, changed to be false based on my current perceptions of how I want to be and how I want to see myself and my current experiences, blah blah blah. The fallibility of remembering my own existence and the implications that has on my identity and whether my experiences really matter in the grand scheme of things. This is something I reflect on quite a bit and it gives me existential crisis. Does my existence matter if I can't remember it? I have ways of justifying how this isn't a problem, but I have to remind myself of them because it's something that still gives me pause when I consider myself. I've talked about it before, it's in my ramble somewhere, but to answer your question, that is the thing that gives me the most dread. |
| 29. January 2021 | What if GTA 5 had more realistic mechanics? | What if GTA V had more realistic mechanics? Can you imagine how frustrating this game would be if it actually had the petrol mechanic? Where you need to fill up your car. I've been told that that was originally intended to be in the game and that's why you can shoot cars and have them release petrol and stuff. I wonder how many other features they intended to put in that would have made the game more realistic. You know, the same kind of vein as Red Evidence 2, but maybe they ran out of time or maybe some smart person in the boardroom was like, maybe you should focus on fun. If such a person exists, I thank them for their contributions to making this game good. |
| 16. June 2022 | What if Rockstar parodies me in GTA 6? | What if Rockstar parodies me in GTA 6? How will you react if Rockstar makes a parody of me in GTA 6? Even if they mock me relentlessly, I'd still be happy to have it there. Like, Rockstar could think of me as a complete piece of shit. I'd be like, I'm in GTA 6? I mean, I suppose there's limits to that, obviously, but excellent exposure and advertisement? It depends on what it is, right, because it's possible for it to be really, really negative, and potentially, like, it could create memes that would be annoying for me. But, presuming it's identifiably an easter egg about me, like, it'd be listed on a website saying, did you know that the streamer DarkViperAU was an easter egg in Grand Theft Auto 6? YouTubers would of course mention that everywhere, like, it should be free advertisement, you know? You can imagine me ranting conspiracy theorists in GTA 6, but I'm like, the polar opposite of a conspiracy theorist. I'm a skeptic. I'm very limited in... to the degree that I would claim certainty about anything. The ranting thing, sure, I do often get a B in my bonnet. Tiktok's impa- |
| 08. July 2021 | What if a speedrun was perfect? | What happens if a speedrun is actually perfect? Man have you seen Summoning Souls newest video? Do you think it's possible for someone to beat Super Mario in such a way that is equally as fast as a TAS and what would you think would happen next in the speedrunning community of that game if it really reaches a perfect run? Well hypothetically speaking new strats could be found that weren't implemented in the TAS but obviously there are other categories of that game. They skip a lot of levels, there'd be no major skips categories and what not. And even if one person does it it doesn't mean that other people can't do it. Although admittedly if one person does it there'd be less people because they know they can't beat that person who would be willing to try. Yeah there'd be still more available for that game. |
| 22. December 2020 | What if cyberpunk sucks? (Made before release) | What if Cyberpunk sucks? I answered this question before the game actually released. What if Cyberpunk isn't good as the hype? Then I'll just keep playing GTA V. Honestly, Cyberpunk not being all that great would probably help me a bit because I'm not done with a bunch of stuff in GTA V. Like it would really suck if I really, really love Cyberpunk 2077 and I never complete OK for GTA V. And pass just never gets done and whatnot, you know. As much as I want to love the game of course, like I'm conflicted. It'd be nice to have a new world to run around in but at the same time I hate leaving things unfinished. Because not like I can come back to this six months from now and be as proficient as I am right now. It's part of the reason why I stopped speedrunning and begun focusing on Oko, because I didn't want to, you know, get sidetracked and forget strats and stuff. |
| 08. April 2021 | What impression people get from Googling me. | What impression people get from googling me. So I talked before about wanting to start dating again, make an online profile, make time to actually do things in my life other than achieving my goals in content creation and in the online space and stuff. And I thought to myself like, do I mention that I'm a successful content creator? Like do I mention my online alias? If a random stranger googled DarkviperAU, would they get a good impression or a bad impression? And is it an impression I want to give? Because the reason why is because how am I going to describe myself or present myself as a person worthy of consideration without at least a significant amount of reference to that? So what have you been doing for like the last half decade? Ummm, I work for Amazon. Like for example, imagine that the first thing a person saw of me was me ranting or raving about Mudahar or whatever. Like the comments on that first, oh no, the comments on the second video were really funny because I specifically threw in my disingenuous dense motherfucker line and so new people were horrified. Like, oh my god, how dare he speak in such a vulgar manner? I mean, shut out dude. And then there's like another 50 comments that like, oh my god, he said the thing, he said the thing. So like if you get it, it's funny. If you don't get it, it looks terrible. And that's what I think about a lot of my content. If you get it, it'll look good, but I have no guarantee that a random stranger is going to get it, you know? |
| 08. April 2021 | What impression people get from googling me. | What impression people get from googling me. So I talked before about wanting to start dating again, make an online profile, make time to actually do things in my life other than achieving my goals in content creation and in the online space and stuff. And I thought to myself like, do I mention that I'm a successful content creator? Like do I mention my online alias? If a random stranger googled DarkviperAU, would they get a good impression or a bad impression? And is it an impression I want to give? Because the reason why is because how am I going to describe myself or present myself as a person worthy of consideration without at least a significant amount of reference to that? So what have you been doing for like the last half decade? Ummm, I work for Amazon. Like for example, imagine that the first thing a person saw of me was me ranting or raving about Mudahar or whatever. Like the comments on that first, oh no, the comments on the second video were really funny because I specifically threw in my disingenuous dense motherfucker line and so new people were horrified. Like, oh my god, how dare he speak in such a vulgar manner? I mean, shut out dude. And then there's like another 50 comments that like, oh my god, he said the thing, he said the thing. So like if you get it, it's funny. If you don't get it, it looks terrible. And that's what I think about a lot of my content. If you get it, it'll look good, but I have no guarantee that a random stranger is going to get it, you know? |
| 05. February 2021 | What individual events have most increased my online profile | The individual events that most increased my online profile. Starting GT5 speedrunning, doing GT5 facts and glitches, doing pacifist percent, uploading my clips and that taking off from the algorithm, the conversation with Dream. I suppose those are the individual instances that have had the most effects in significantly increasing my recognition from where it was previously. Oh, and I, yeah, Chaos probably as well. I like, uh, it's hard to say whether doing Chaos necessarily led to an explosive growth. More that it's just slowly helped. It's always been a drive for getting me more viewers, but those other instances I mentioned were obvious significant increases in my profile or notoriety, whatever. Maybe the Dream thing not as much. Dream, the Dream conversation was as, oh, the Dream drama, whatever, was as important as Chaos, I'd say. |
| 16. May 2020 | What inspired my harder work | What made you want to put more effort in your videos? You guys gotta remember I was a YouTuber before I was a Twitch streamer and I was making YouTube content just not about gaming and stuff. I just didn't think there was an audience who wanted to watch my gaming content so I didn't bother to upload any and then when I uploaded some I only uploaded like just highlights from my Twitch stream like ripping a literal highlight to my YouTube and that was mainly just for my Twitch audience. I was like no one's ever gonna watch my fucking shit on YouTube what are you fucking crazy I'm gonna develop an audience on YouTube never gonna fucking happen so I didn't put a lot of effort into that. Then when Baron had Casual vs Speedruns blow up I was like oh you can actually get into YouTube audience alright well I'm gonna start thinking about my thumbnails and you know working really hard with the editing and what not and hammer this really hard. What made me put more effort into my videos? Knowing that I could succeed or at least suspecting that there was a decent likelihood that I could succeed. I guess I didn't know that I could succeed but you know it was far more likely having someone else in a similar circumstance to me succeed suggesting that I could as well. |
| 24. May 2022 | What introduced me to Twitch | What introduced me to Twitch? Have you ever played Hearthstone? Hearthstone is what taught me that Twitch existed. I can't remember who I saw on YouTube, but they advertised a Hearthstone tournament on something called Twitch. And I was like, what the fuck is Twitch? And so I went over and some of the first streamers that I watched were Hearthstone people. One being Hafu, who was the first person I ever stream- I ever followed. Reynad and Wreckful and Demaz. TrumpHS. No, no, it's TrumpSC. That's right. Because he used to play StarCraft. |
| 09. January 2022 | What is "Self", Identity, and Experience? | What is self-identity and experience? Matt, if someone watched every episode of Your Rambles, would they have a good idea of who you are as a person? Yeah. I mean, just watching my streams, you'd get the good idea about that. But it's one of those things where, what does it mean to be a person? As in, can anyone ever understand the totality of a person? Is there a distinct thing of you that could be called an individual? As in, like, so my personality right now, acting on stream as I do, is who I am. Because most of my life is consumed by making content. There is nowhere else that I am someone else, because I don't really go anywhere else. You know, you act differently at home versus how you are at work versus how you are around your friends, versus how you are around your parents, versus how you are around strangers, versus how you are around in a restaurant. Like, you act differently. And let's say that you lost all your friends, and therefore that part of your life where you act in that way with your friends is now gone. Are you a different person now? Or would you slowly change as a person because you're no longer behaving in a particular way, speaking in a particular way, as you were once before? What I'm trying to say is, once upon a time, I went to work, I had friends, I went to the shops, I went to the cinemas, you know, I spent more time with my family, and I acted differently then. Was I a different person? Is me on stream who I really am? Or have I just been in this situation of being on stream so long that I've forgotten how I act in other cases? To put it another way, when I say I am like how I am on stream in real life, it's more that my entire life is my stream. It is my content. If I would act significantly different in other environments, I wouldn't know that at this point because I'm not in other environments enough. Like, if I were to stop streaming, and let's say I lose all my money, and I end up on the street begging for money, you would imagine I would act differently than I act now. Would that version of me be any less me? I watch content from my original streams, and I am somewhat different than I am now. Maybe if you watch all my rambles, you'll get a sense of who I am now, but not necessarily who I was in the past, or who I will be in the future. You pretty much change completely every five, ten years, perhaps. That's what people say, but I think people say that based upon an assumption of a change of life experience, or like every five years, you're likely to have changed jobs, got some new friends, made circumstances, gotten access to new information, or something like that. You know, things change, and you change with them. I would say the way somebody acts alone is the most extreme version of themselves, and they are still the same person when with other groups of people, just more or less dulled down. But is that extreme version more you? Some people only feel like themselves when they're around others. I'm skeptical of the idea that anyone can fully understand themselves, because we're just too biased in our assessment of ourselves, and we're only ever really looking at things from one perspective, and that's, you know, from our own eyes or whatever. They may be happiest with others, but I'd say truly being yourself doesn't mean being the happiest version of yourself. No, I've heard people distinctly say that they don't feel like themselves unless they're around other people. Kind of like, you know, a TV when it's turned off. Is it more of a TV than when it's turned on? A TV when turned off is not fulfilling its function, not fulfilling its purpose, where some people, the social aspects of life is what makes to them, makes their lives worth living. It's the path that they excel in and that they most enjoy, and so whenever they're not doing that, they just feel sort of lost. They feel less of themselves. It's in its true state. It is being influenced by a channel, so it being off makes it influenced by nothing. And by choosing new influences, you get the true way of someone. That's, I don't agree with that. Like, is a person asleep more themselves than when they're awake? They are the least influenced by anything when asleep than when awake. When you're awake, you're constantly being bombarded with stimuli. You're taking in endless amounts of information, even that you're not conscious of, all the time. And it never ends. And then when you're asleep, the amount of information you're being influenced by, or just, or stimuli, or whatever, is massively reduced. You are as closed off to the external as you possibly can when you're asleep. But that doesn't make you more you. The way that you interact with other things, are influenced by other things, is still you. Or at least, a definition of you should include that, I should say. I'm not saying I have a monopoly on what should count as you, or how your identity should be defined. And that whole unconscious thing really throws a wrench into the idea of identity for me. How much of what goes on in our brains we're completely unaware of. Your brain can be taking in stimulus that you're completely unaware of, but it influences how you behave. You can feel uneasy for reasons you don't understand, but your brain is taking in information from your surroundings that you're just not consciously picking up on. Your true personality has to be whenever you're around people personally, because when you're around people, you actually interact more. I probably laugh out loud when I'm around friends, whereas I may not laugh when I'm alone. So you wouldn't be the whole, um, the world is a stage thing. There's one perspective where when we're around others, we're putting on a mask, we're playing a role. And then when we go behind the curtain, away from people, we're ourselves. I've never really bought that fully. Parts of you manifest in different situations. So that perspective effectively means, as I would argue, that you can never truly know yourself. Or maybe the idea of self doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I don't know. In any individual moment, you cannot possibly have interacted with and know how you will interact with every other, every conceivable situation, every conceivable circumstance. Every conceivable scenario, right? And as you are influenced by the handful of scenarios that you do get put into throughout life, the way that you would interact with all those hypothetical situations changes over time. You, in this spot, interacting with A may be different from you five years from now interacting with that same A situation. So even if you learn about yourself in this situation A, that information, that knowledge of yourself becomes meaningless a little time later, because you would no longer interact in that way, you know? In the same way that all knowledge has a time where it is no longer useful or it becomes false just because more things become known or, you know? It's like, if you know right now how many people are alive, that number's gonna keep going up, it's gonna keep changing, right? So you need to keep updating that knowledge for that knowledge to still be true as of when you are. Can I explain this poorly? All you have is your experiences, nothing else could be true. You could be a robot or you could be traitless, but your emotions is all you have. Trying to find these things are pointless unless you enjoy it. All you have is you, just don't worry about enjoying it. So the thing about experience is, what is an experience? There is like the objective reality, assuming that exists, of the situation you find yourself in, and then your senses are capable of picking up a small fraction of what that situation is, and of that small fraction of what could be picked up, you are paying attention to only a small fraction of that, and what fraction that gets into your brain, into your senses, you interpret it in a particular way, in a biased way, that further distorts what that situation actually was, and then this situation impacts you, who you are, and maybe a small portion of it gets saved in a distorted kind of way, into your memory, that you may be able to recall on occasion, or recognize with the right stimuli. The effect of that stimulus, as well as that distorted memory, is the experience. But it's so many degrees removed from the objective reality, it's like the experience is like a creation of your mind, as opposed to like a snapshot of existence, you know what I'm saying? You will never know the totality of what you've actually experienced. You will only ever potentially understand a small fraction of what you've experienced, you know what I'm saying? That small fraction is your experience, you didn't experience the part that didn't get processed, so you do experience things, so for example, so let's say you buy an item for a dollar, what that actual reality is, is the item was only worth 10 cents, the person you bought it from was scamming you the entire time, they used confidence tricks to fleece more money from you than you actually should have paid, and the person the entire time hated your guts. Your experience was that a very lovely man, very friendly, sold you an item that you considered to be worth two dollars for only a dollar, and you got a great deal. Your experience is separate from the actual reality of what you've actually experienced, you know? There should be words to distinguish between the two, your perceived experience versus your actual experience. What you're actually experiencing is different from what you perceive yourself to be experiencing. So I suppose in a way both influence you, because your perception of the experience, for example, could impact how you see traders moving into the future, well, they're very trustworthy, man, they gave me such a good deal, but the actual experience impacts you because you've just lost 90 cents, and I guess ideally you want your perceived experience to match your actual experience as much as possible, to the degree to which true things are more beneficial than false, which isn't always the case, you know, because there's always that hypothetical where you live under an authoritarian regime that will kill anyone that doesn't believe two plus two equals five, and so in that circumstance, even though it isn't true that two plus two equals five, in that circumstance you would like to sincerely believe, and it'll be more beneficial to you in terms of your longevity, your likelihood of continuing to live, if you sincerely believe two plus two equals five, because if you believe two plus two equals four, you've got to pretend all the time there's a chance that you'll slip up and die, so even if you believe the true thing, it doesn't actually benefit you in that circumstance to believe the true thing. In any social environments, I would argue, it is often the case where it's better to have beliefs that conform to the power structure of your environment, regardless of how true, than to have true beliefs that contradicts with the power structure, right? Your security in your circumstances are going to be in pass, dependent upon the beliefs that you hold to be true, you know, or at least that you, well both that you hold to be true and that you espouse, because it's harder to espouse beliefs that you don't think are true, than to espouse those that you think are true, right? Because it takes additional mental effort to lie continuously, you know? What I'm getting from this ramble is people have different experiences in life, and everyone holds their experiences above everyone's, everyone else's. I mean, you experience your experiences more than everyone else's experiences. You are the baseline by which everyone else is judged. I've said this many times, unless you have reason otherwise to believe so, you will automatically assume that everyone has the same life that you do, or does the same things, things the same way that you do. You bite your nails, and then you find out that other people find that weird or disgusting, and you're like, oh, and you hide your nails. Or the classic, as I always say, you find out that some people wipe their ass sitting down, and some people wipe their ass standing up, and you're like, oh, people do that differently? And why would, because why would you think otherwise? Because you just do stuff a certain way your entire life, and it just doesn't occur to you that other people might do it differently. It's like, I've been in that situation before, where a person has found out that people sincerely don't have the same religious beliefs as they do. They're like, oh, really? Huh. Like, I've never really questioned that before. I mean, though it's harder, though, I think, these days to not be confronted with people who don't do things the same way that you do. Because you've got the internet. We're a globalized world now. You're getting information from a bunch of different countries and all that stuff. Once upon a time, the amount of information you'd learn about a country is like a different country, like a paragraph out of a book. |
| 01. July 2020 | What is a GTA clone? | This is a GTA clone. What counts as a GTA clone? A GTA clone is basically a game where you can steal cars, shoot guns, has a linear story in an open world, has basic mechanics like you can sleep to skip ahead time or save sleeping in your bed or whatever. It has a mini map in the bottom left hand corner. You can use waypoints to draw lines on the map to get from A to B. You can see a GTA clone when you play it. And again, a GTA clone isn't a pejorative or whatever towards a game. It's simply in the same way a Souls-like game, calling things Souls-like, doesn't make it... It's not a negative thing. It fits the basic formula of what GTA popularized a long time ago. |
| 10. July 2021 | What is a fact they don’t want you to know? | What is a fact they don't want us to know? In the middle, the exact middle of Australia, in the exact, exact middle of Australia, like the exact centre, if you dig there, like 10 metres down, there's a bunch of buried treasure. It's true. |
| 01. July 2020 | What is a gta clone? | This is a GTA clone. What counts as a GTA clone? A GTA clone is basically a game where you can steal cars, shoot guns, has a linear story in an open world, has basic mechanics like you can sleep to skip ahead time or save sleeping in your bed or whatever. It has a mini map in the bottom left hand corner. You can use waypoints to draw lines on the map to get from A to B. You can see a GTA clone when you play it. And again, a GTA clone isn't a pejorative or whatever towards a game. It's simply in the same way a Souls-like game, calling things Souls-like, doesn't make it... It's not a negative thing. It fits the basic formula of what GTA popularized a long time ago. |
| 28. May 2022 | What is a reaction video worth? | That would have been interesting to reference that, it just didn't really fit. What is a reaction video worth? Would you feel the same way about React content if the reactors gave out some monetary compensation to the original creator of the video? Like, what kind of monetary compensation are we talking? Because the exposure at our level is infinitely more valuable than the money that a video generates, in most cases. Which is something that comes up in some of the later videos. Because as I talked about before, having, like, if you just want to hire a... If you walked up to a YouTube and said, okay mate, I want, I want you to make me a dedicated video just for my channel. If you're, you're talking to a person who makes over a million dollars a year, how much is their week going to cost? If you want it to take a week from me, like an advertiser, want it to take a week from me, I don't even know how much money that would cost. Tens of thousands of dollars. The money that a video generates is not the value of that video. You know? Because there's knock-on effects for recommendations for the rest of your channel. There's new people who get brought in. The video will compound in value over time. Like, I'm not sure what you'd pay. It's, you see... |
| 28. January 2022 | What is a waste of time? | What is a waste of time? Do you think reading unpopular books philosophy is a waste of time? How are you defining waste of time? As in like, whether something is a waste of time, I guess, depends on the person and what your goals are, you know? Whether something is a waste of time is just relative to the goals that you have, you know? So like, sitting and doing nothing, you would call that a waste of time until it's related to the goal of relaxing in order to recharge or something. And you're like, well yeah, you're feeling emotionally overwhelmed, just chilling and doing nothing is probably a good move. You can even call it practical, because if you're feeling overwhelmed and burned out, jumping into something new is probably not a good thing for you. You're just not going to perform as well in the thing that matters, and you could just make matters worse for yourself. A viewer responds, everything is basically a waste of time. The modern world is based around so many social constructs that truly mean nothing. Anyone would be better off not living. None of that made sense. That is like the dumbest fucking sentence I've ever read, and if you sincerely believe that, you're fucking moron. Harsh criticism here. How? Because there's not an objective definition of waste of time. You are subjectively defining waste of time in a particular way that what you're saying is true, but only in regards to that really fucking stupid definition. Like if I said, anything that isn't like juggling donuts is a waste of time, and therefore all of society doesn't matter. Like it should be true by that definition, but it's a fucking stupid definition. And acting as those social constructs don't matter for like... We are social creatures. We exist in a society. We construct meaning. Meaning isn't inherent to things, you know? |
| 18. February 2021 | What is facebook gaming doing to grow its live streaming? | What is Facebook gaming doing to grow its live streaming? Disguised toast to my knowledge is not a partner on Twitch. Disguised toast moved to Facebook gaming took a large fat contract to do so. Is- is disguised toast to a partner on Twitch? I'm assuming not. No, exactly. There hasn't seemed to be any more high profile people going to Facebook gaming, which is weird. Does anyone know of any big content going to Facebook gaming any times- any- recently? It's- of course toast can stream on other platforms. It's only Twitch that prevents you from streaming on other platforms. The only one. Being a partner on Twitch has the greatest restrictions of any partnership of any live streaming platform and the revenue share is arguably the worst or one of the worst. Like it's- its base race for partnership is the worst. But obviously as is, you know, public knowledge once you, you know, get some subs whatever you- you get a better contract or whatever. But you're not meant to discuss what that contract is, but obviously those contracts are more competitive. What's the worst restriction that you can only stream on Twitch? Pewdiepie is going to Facebook gaming? That's not true, is it? No, it's not. No, he signed a huge contract for- with YouTube. My recently two big youtubers moved to Facebook gaming. Lolito Fernandez and Rob Lee. Yes, interesting. Did they stream on YouTube before that? It seems like a good move. Potentially less expensive to find some really large content creator who doesn't live stream and pay- paying them some money to get them to live stream. But there's a significant possibility that they'll suck at live streaming and not like it, you know, off from Spain and Argentina. |
| 18. February 2021 | What is facebook gaming doing to grow its livestreaming? | What is Facebook gaming doing to grow its live streaming? Disguised toast to my knowledge is not a partner on Twitch. Disguised toast moved to Facebook gaming took a large fat contract to do so. Is- is disguised toast to a partner on Twitch? I'm assuming not. No, exactly. There hasn't seemed to be any more high profile people going to Facebook gaming, which is weird. Does anyone know of any big content going to Facebook gaming any times- any- recently? It's- of course toast can stream on other platforms. It's only Twitch that prevents you from streaming on other platforms. The only one. Being a partner on Twitch has the greatest restrictions of any partnership of any live streaming platform and the revenue share is arguably the worst or one of the worst. Like it's- its base race for partnership is the worst. But obviously as is, you know, public knowledge once you, you know, get some subs whatever you- you get a better contract or whatever. But you're not meant to discuss what that contract is, but obviously those contracts are more competitive. What's the worst restriction that you can only stream on Twitch? Pewdiepie is going to Facebook gaming? That's not true, is it? No, it's not. No, he signed a huge contract for- with YouTube. My recently two big youtubers moved to Facebook gaming. Lolito Fernandez and Rob Lee. Yes, interesting. Did they stream on YouTube before that? It seems like a good move. Potentially less expensive to find some really large content creator who doesn't live stream and pay- paying them some money to get them to live stream. But there's a significant possibility that they'll suck at live streaming and not like it, you know, off from Spain and Argentina. |
| 23. July 2022 | What is in all the boxes sitting behind me? | What is in all the boxes sitting behind me? What's in the boxes? Acoustic foam that I'm never gonna use. I bought like $800 worth of foam and I'm not gonna use it. I bought it all and then I got convinced that acoustic panels are better. I looked into the research and it's true. It's thicker, covers more of the spectrum of sound or whatever. I should just say, hey, who wants some acoustic foam? I'll drop it at this park and you can grab it. My old foam, I just chucked away because it was pretty haggard after that many years. But this is just brand new. I could probably, if I really wanted to, try and return it to Amazon and stuff, we'll see how that goes. |
| 05. March 2022 | What is keeping me from doing more vr content. | What is keeping me from doing more VR content? What should we do as a sort of VR one? Would you ever do it again? VR is always something that I've looked at as not worth the time in terms of like business or whatever. It's something that I want to do for fun. So I have to be, but I have to be in a good spot in terms of where my content's at to bother setting up VR. Especially because I'm tired so frequently and whatnot. Because there's so many things that I find fun that are much easier to do, you know? You're saying job simulator isn't business, it's the purest form of business? The start of that video, the intro, is very sexually suggestive. And it's meant to be a parody of an ad that happens on Pornhub. I had never seen that ad before, until DMod made a parody of it for the video. I was like, ah, I guess these are the kind of ads that exist. I guess because I use AdBlock or something. That's an ad for Pornhub? No, actually I guess it's an ad on Pornhub, not an ad for Pornhub. I guess I misspoke. |
| 16. May 2021 | What is kinder-surprise chocolate made from? | What is Kinder Surprise chocolate made of? Had myself some lean beef burgers today with a little bit of a salami on top. It's quite nice. Some raspberries and two Kinder Surprise Easter bunnies. Like they aren't the eggs, they're just the same kind of... Is it coconut chocolate? What the fuck is Kinder Surprise? It's got white on the inside and black on the outside. White chocolate, milk chocolate? No. There's more to that than normal white chocolate. They grind up the bones and dreams of children and put them in the chocolate. That's why it tastes so good. I don't know, man. It tastes different from normal chocolate. Kinder Surprise chocolate is great. Ingredients? Skimmed milk powder, sugar, vegetable fats, concentrated butter. I don't know what any of that is. It doesn't even mention chocolate there, so I can't imagine that's a good list of ingredients. Kinder means children in German? Oh my God. Kinder Surprise is children. I knew it. Still delicious though. I probably will not stop eating it, given this revelation. |
| 15. February 2022 | What is legal isn't always what is "good". | Yeah, we'll get to, well, at the end, we'll talk about moving forward, because I'm a lot more optimistic than you. But I think you might be starting to become a bit more optimistic with a couple of things that have happened. But I still want to add a couple of points on fair use that I wanted to touch on. Right. So we talked about the legality of an action is not a moral argument, right? Yes. So this is what I didn't understand about Ethan Klein's video. But again, I don't want to, he was, he's very, he seems to be kind of very negative. I don't want to necessarily have my response be kind of super negative or whatever. But he was like, you know, it's fair use or he was, he was saying freedom of speech, which again, we don't really understand. But the saying that it's legal, therefore, I should be able to do it is kind of weird because a lot, because if that were the case, and laws were perfect, and all laws were as they should be and right, we wouldn't really need politics, right? Because we would just have our laws and then no need to change them. These these these people, same people who would say that very political themselves, like they're saying we want to change. Yeah, we need to change the laws because they're not right. Right. Very anti like Trump, for example, and that would be so outspoken about saying that cops are bad or landlords are bad, even though they're doing things that are legal. I'm believing that society should be massively restructured, but then appealing to the same laws of that system to say whether or not something is right or wrong. That's absurd. Like a substantial amount of the laws in our society would be considered to be oppressive or moral or what have have you deleterious to the ideas of any sort of socialist system. It's I actually talked about it in the document. Again, another provocative example, largely because I can't think of another one where I said if it were the case that what is legal is more than every obscene acts in the past that was legal would therefore also be more. So take slavery. Slavery was at one point legal and I would argue it was a moral then it's a moral now based on my own values. But a person who believed that legality enshrines morality would have to have argued, oh, what they're doing back there. Perfectly acceptable. It's perfectly acceptable to own another person. And that's nonsense. And it is why so little of that my time was spent to talking about the legality of the issue, because the legality of the issue is completely irrelevant to what I was talking about, especially because I was trying to appeal to the more left wing of politics where they want to change society anyway. So why would you appeal to the current system to advocate that something is more? Yeah, I was trying to think why is that the case? How can you have such conflicting arguments? But then I realized probably they haven't just haven't thought it out properly. Probably, you know, in moral development, the when you're younger, I mean, I this is this guy I haven't done it. My psych course I did six years ago. But there's a stage of moral development where you just believe the rules are what is right and wrong. You it's you eventually mature to a point where you understand that that is not always going to be the case. And you like you'll be given philosophical problems to try to explain that where like a man's wife is dying and he needs a cure for her, but he can't afford it. And there's another person, a very rich person who has like a stockpile of this cure. Each shot is worth thirty thousand dollars. And this person breaks in, steals the medicine and saves his wife's wife's life. And you ask, is this right or wrong? And the spectrum of answers that you give can be broken down into different stages of moral development and when in part depend upon your values. It's like, well, he just stole thirty thousand dollars from that man. I don't care about why he did it. Another person's like, well, she was going to die. Surely a life is more deserving, more worth saving than thirty thousand dollars. And this guy was already well off. It's not going to hurt him. Why didn't that guy just give him him it for free? And you have these sort of questions here because once you get to a certain level of development, morally or just grow up, you recognize that there's all these situations where the law can't possibly be so detailed to encapsulate every single scenario that could conceivably exist to do what you believe is right or wrong. Every person running around right now considers tons of laws to be nonsense, anti-moral and terrible. But we don't all agree. What is moral? What society should be? And so that's always going to be fierce. Unless you have a society of literal hive minds, there's always going to be someone in that society who's like, these fucking laws, man, they're ruining society, ruining people, they're a moral. You know, it's not going to change. Yes. One good point I wanted to make that is actually an argument for. |
| 12. November 2022 | What is my dream collab? | What is my dream collab? Let me scroll down who I'm subscribed to now. Meeting Skill Up at some point would be cool. Trash Taste collab? That'd be a thing. I'm subscribed to 279 creators right now chat. There's probably a lot of people here who don't upload anymore. Clicksphilip? Yeah, I mean we kinda collabed for Pacifist but not really. I wouldn't mind being on some ordinary gamer's podcast again if there's another reason for that at some point. That was fun. Love to collab with that TG guy. Seems like a good fella. I still would like to collab with Hazus but maybe not just not opening cases. Maybe if he responds to me, maybe I can just like talk to him while he's opening cases. I'd be fine with that. Maybe there wouldn't be as big distinction for others but I would draw a distinction there. Trying to just read over these people. I wouldn't mind meeting Friendly Geordiez one day. I don't know how we would collab but I mean just be like, hey man, what's up? You know, he's an interesting fellow. I like this channel. Man carrying things. He has his little skits. They're very funny. I don't know how I would collab with him but he's interesting. A Tom Scott collaboration. Now that would be interesting. I mean, again, Doug Doug but again I have no idea how we would collab. I still haven't collabed with Josh, have I? Josh Raph Hayes. Again, not sure what we'd do together but uh. I mean him having Asmongold in that video, I don't know. Maybe I can't blame him, I don't know. So many people. Yeah, I guess that's most of them scrolling through here. Scott the Was. |
| 03. May 2021 | What is my earliest memory? | What is my earliest memory? What's the earliest memory I can recall? What I think of as my earliest memory is definitely not my earliest memory It's just a memory of me watching a video of myself when I was a kid. It's like I can remember getting my dog when I was I don't know like a tiny kid and You can guarantee that was just a video or like me and some you know kids Contraption or whatever like as a baby whatever but that you know, it's you can guarantee it's just a video I can remember my mother giving me cheat codes for Echo the Dolphin on Seagull That's that's probably a real memory. I can remember enjoying the motorbikes in the movie Grease or Getting scratched by my dog Playing with my sister in the sand pit and getting really annoyed that she started to sing It's vague memories and who knows to what extent any of them are really real, you know my mother putting toys That I want up in a cupboard for me to buy with my pocket money if I do my chores and there's toys sitting there for fucking forever because I just Would so irregularly do my chores Cleaning my sister's room and being sad that she didn't appreciate it I think all these memories would be before six and that's about all of them. I think Do I miss my family? I see my family all the time. I Mean I wouldn't say all the time Like time just flies by I Have so much to do every day that I just don't really think about like oh my god time is flying Ah, you know, I've seen the family gatherings and stuff. I haven't I'm seeing my sister maybe a year bit because she lives in Germany But it was on my my sister's order by two or so years |
| 14. May 2020 | What is my gameplan for twitch | What is your game plan for Twitch? What is the thing you want to do on Twitch? And are you happy with your current size? Would you rather be a larger streamer? I would always rather be a larger streamer. There are very few downsides with becoming a larger streamer. Other than not being able to read chat as well, but you have the ability to put on sub mode or simply stream a less popular game. At that point your chat becomes slower and you can read it if that's something you want to do. Again, everything has downsides, but the downsides of being a larger streamer pale in comparison to the upsides. My plan with Twitch is to continue what I'm doing now, which is advertising my Twitch through YouTube. Doing Twitch first and then YouTube of my Twitch. Making content specifically for YouTube, but with the main goal of advertising my Twitch through that content. And just continuing to grow. I have not seen any implications that I am going to stop growing anytime soon. What I'm doing seems to be working, so I'm probably not going to change anything. |
| 22. May 2021 | What is my job title? | What is my job title? What do I consider my job title to be? I think of myself as a content creator, largely because there's no other word that really fits. Like, I'm a Twitch streamer and a YouTuber. I do other stuff, but that's basically what I do, and combining those both together, I'm a content creator. I don't like the term influencer. It is true that anyone with a particular perspective... Oh, no, but it's true that each of us influences those around us overtly or subtly, with or without our intent. It is obviously by being able to reach a lot of people, I have a greater level of influence over people. But I just don't think that's like my defining trait of what I do. I'm not here to mainly influence people in any respect. I'm just here to, you know, make entertainment, to make content for the people. |
| 17. January 2020 | What is selling out and when have I sold out? | What do I consider selling out to be and what's my biggest instance of selling out? How would I define a sellout and to what extent am I willing to do it? A sellout to me as a person who shills for a product that they believe is harmful or at the very least not beneficial to those who use it. It isn't a question of good value because people have a different idea of what good value is. Like Logan Paul or RiceGum shilling for those mystery boxes where you can get yourself a mansion or whatever you pay five bucks. Oh, well if you get a mansion Those things are definitely a scam and no one in their right minds could think they would would be beneficial to anyone who uses them Even as a form of gambling they're terrible, right? the most sellout thing I've ever done is I Did sponsored gambling once it made some great content and I really enjoy gambling but it is still somewhat irresponsible in that while I do think gambling is fun and enjoyable and I wasn't really convinced that many people if any would uh would actually use the service Gambling can be harmful. There is the possibility that someone would see me gambling take up gambling and you know overindulge and it's debatable what responsibility I have for such things because I mean technically you can overindulge in anything I I advertise a video game and you love it so much that you shirk your responsibilities and blah blah blah but game it's a cop-out really because gambling of course is known to be addictive for some people where Well, certainly gaming in general is less addictive than gambling potentially gambling because the financial cost is worse So if you get addicted to a video game unless it's a micro transaction thing It's not gonna be as harmful to you as a straight-up gambling necessarily. Yeah, so that's that's the closest I've gone if that's probably the one set-out thing I can think that I did It's one of those things when you're not making a lot of money and you want to keep streaming You know you you convince yourself of things that maybe you wouldn't convince yourself of in other circumstances Let's say I really enjoyed it and I do enjoy playing blackjack It's just in the sense that I think the service is fine, but it is still somebody responsible, you know like in no way was I advertising the gambling as Look at how much money you can make gambling. Holy shit the entire way through. I was like look you know gambling moderation if you do it all preferably never but like rice gum and Whichever the polls it was Was advertising. Oh my god. Look how cool you can win yourself like a cool new iPhone. Oh my god. It's so sick That's just nonsense But you know what isn't gambling pressing the like button if you press it You're guaranteed to get at least a small amount of my appreciation amazing deal highly recommend you check it out. Thank you |
| 17. January 2022 | What is the Longest Speedrun I could do? | yourself up to it right if I was sufficient if I if I had to do it if I was sufficiently motivated I could do a 24 hour speedrun if I needed to it had to be the strongest fucking motivations ever I never thought I'd do 11 hour speedrun a 12 hour speedrun a 10 hour speedrun I've done all these things while doing a hundred percent at various different times it's just what you're used to like when you do a six hour run it doesn't sound absurd to do a 10 hour run but if you do like a two hour run it sounds absurd to do like a six hour run you know having a long-term illness sucks that's the care about COVID I have Hashimoto's I have an autoimmune disease I doubt there's enough research to know how different levels of Hashimoto's interact with COVID but I don't want to be that guinea pig look up long COVID examples of it in people I'm vaxxed so I'm probably fine but long COVID looks scary as fuck sure death is bad but a constant mental fog or losing my tastes and smell some of these people still haven't got it back after like a year plus people are losing their taste a sense of taste and smell not because their nose or tongue is being damaged it's their brain that's being damaged COVID hits people differently and for good enough reason I'll go places but right now there's 11,000 cases of a new variance in this area and I'm not I'm not risking spending the rest of my life with a mental fog to watch a movie fuck that shit like I was here with my mother we had a hug and stuff which we wouldn't have done you know year ago whatever things are more relaxed to a degree but I'm there's no reason to be stupid it's a fucking contagious virus like the odds of me getting hit by a car is very low but I still look both ways when I cross the street and people are what you're still afraid of being hit by a car well yeah even if the odds are one in a million why would I just about why would I not just take a small precaution to to make that effectively zero one of the rare long-term side effects of contracting curve it is sickness called parasmia makes food taste and smell like garbage that's horrifying I remember reading sign this is I think this is before COVID because there are obviously other illnesses or ways that you can lose your sense of taste and smell and it was this this devastating story about this dude who like his whole life was food and so like it was it was his like one joy and I guess you know go to restaurants and cook himself stuff it was just his passion they lost his sense of taste and smell and he was just like he became a husk of himself effectively like I'm not into I'm not heaping heaps into food it would suck to lose the ability to taste because obviously but people like that who have a passion for this stuff and imagine just one day waking up and you are literally incapable of experiencing the thing you're passionate about I remember when shroud you know the FPS shooter guy when he injured his arm or something with his scooter or something you've completely stacked it like went across the pavement or whatever I'm had to get like a bolts in his elbow or some shit something like that I'm sure he at that moment was like holy shit what if this impacts my ability to play FPS games now and I could just never do that at the optimal level again and I will just have to sit there all day being unable to be the person I was the week before and oh man you know in no way do you want to live a life where you're like perfectly optimally defending your health but in some cases it's just prudent to have consideration for you know your code from an antivirus set yeah I mean that fucking sucks dude it still annoys me reflecting on all these fuckwits in the very beginning of the pandemic where every person who has paid fuck tons of money to research viruses their entire lives was like hey yo we should probably like do some drastic measures here to like stop this before it starts because this shit's really contagious if we don't get rid of it now it'll be here with us for fucking forever people like now man it's just a fucking flu son well you're fucking so-called experts with decades of experience studying viruses think they fucking know what's going on I've been on Facebook for the last two days and some guy in in fucking Texas who drives trucks says it's not a big deal I know who to listen to people tearing down please wear mask signs and you know removing signs same please social distance and shit and just like there's a serious chance in the beginning here everyone's got their fucking act together we could have just like distance for a month in the very beginning because it requires human to human contact and it would be done but now countless millions of people over the course of human history are now gonna die if it in the future just because we're never gonna get rid of this fucking thing it'll be seasonal just like the flu except it's a bit fucked on 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| 23. February 2022 | What is the best birthday? | What is the best birthday? It's not my birthday, my birthday is in March. It's a good birthday too. I like a good March birthday. What would be the perfect birthday? I guess you want a birthday that makes it so there's a holiday roughly every three months or something. You're all just saying your own birthdays. You know what? The best birthday is today. Whatever day it is, that is the day that has the best birthday. I mean technically true. |
| 14. March 2022 | What is the ceiling for GTA 5 content on YT? | What is the ceiling for GT5 content on YouTube? Have you peaked? Is this the best you can do? So it is often valuable in any career to have someone over you who's doing better than you so you can see that it's inspiration to do better yourself. Like you know definitively that you can go further because you see another person doing it. Of course you can see differences between you and them, but if you're in the same career, you're doing the same kind of things, yeah you know if it's possible for him there's at least some chance for me. I have that a little bit with small ants. Made sure to separate those two words there, you see I did. He does similar things to me in the domain of speedrunning at the very least, and he's a lot bigger than I am. But I can draw distinctions between him and me that suggest that maybe what I do is not ever gonna be to that level. There's enough similarities there where I'm like you know what if he's that size then maybe I can do that as well you know. There's still room for me to get bigger. I would rather there be someone bigger than me killing it in the GTA space that is similar to my kind of content, but I don't really think that exists. Like I'm peak GTA content at this point. Do you guys know of anyone who's getting more consistent monthly views? Even those who I look into who do clickbait garbage like the mad channels and just lying shit, even they don't have the same viewership they used to and are about my viewership now. Like there are people who have done GTA content who are larger than me like MrBeast and Jelly and stuff but they're not really GTA YouTubers let's say. MrBoss is nowhere close to me these days. Again we're not talking about subscribers because subscribers don't really matter. It's a matter of month to month viewership. Obviously there are many people around my level. Is Molus Pelican really a GTA YouTuber? I mean TGG and stuff like we're in the domain but like I don't know if anyone in the GTA space getting more than 15 million views a month consistently whose main content is GTA. And so I look at that and go well then maybe with GTA content I might have reached the ceiling. You know? But even in RP, are there any RPers making more than 15? Vanos Gaming? Are they still doing GTA? So doing like four a month. I don't know if I mean maybe. Yeah maybe then there is somewhere to go. What are they doing then? Oh they're just doing mod stuff. Well then there you go. There is still room to grow for me if I can be as good as like 10 guys who've been around for nine years. So you know maybe I can in the next seven years grow to be like those guys. Maybe find some like-minded people and just fuck around together. Who knows? Now the 25 million there isn't what's significant. It's the 77 million a month that's significant. It shows that like even their old content is getting a lot of views which is what you want. So the goal of YouTube is to make content that whatever year that it's found people will still want to watch it. So every video that you make is kind of like an investment in your future. You'll keep growing even off your old content. It's why news content for example is seen as almost the bottom tier of what you can make on YouTube in terms of longevity because a week or two after the news is done it is no longer relevant and no one will click it. We showed the example of Philip DeFranco when he went on holiday and his viewership was like 10,000 views a day or something. Despite you know having been here for like 10 years and making an insane amount of videos just no one will click a news video that's a year old you know. But people will still click like my no damage runs or my chaos runs and stuff from eons ago. But even this content isn't purely evergreen in the sense that eventually as GTA's popularity wanes that content will be clicked less. There'll still always be some audience for it in the same way that people will still click videos about watch dogs and stuff or like you know Mario and stuff and like Mario 64 and stuff. But it will just it will eventually have its declining phase but we don't seem to be there yet thankfully. I mean I count GTA RP as GTA V. I can still consider it in that space because I could do RP content if I wanted to you know. That's the gamble right you can make content which is trending during the moment gets a sudden boost in views or make a video which you can make that is more famous for a longer time but the gamble being you get very less views in the beginning and maybe even in the future. In general yeah you just got a factory in both I suppose. Like I'm sure that doing some GTA lore videos would probably end up getting more views long term than some other stuff I can do but it's like my rambles for example. But they take so much more work. I'm trying my best to some degree to make even my ramble somewhat evergreen. But that's kind of hard because the stuff you tend to talk about is stuff that's relevant in the news now. Like a lot of stuff in the rambles is effectively timeless other than that my views on certain things might change but other parts aren't. |
| 29. October 2021 | What is the dictionary and what is its purpose? | What is the dictionary and what is its purpose? In case nobody noted, the dictionary is not how most people understand spoken language. It's an approximation of how words are used. It's not in and of itself giving you the objective definition of words. It's actually a fallacy to point to the dictionary and say, this is how a word should be defined. Because simply because a word is defined a particular way in the dictionary, it doesn't mean anything. It's not actually an authority on words. You need to make the case as to why a word should be defined in a particular way. I always argue on the basis of utility. If you give me a definition of a word, I will say, I don't think this is useful as a definition because x, or I don't think this is useful as a definition because y. The Oxford dictionary hasn't had the same definitions in it for the entire history of the Oxford dictionary. If you want to go and look up previous editions of the Oxford dictionary, you'll find that words do change over time. Because the Oxford dictionary doesn't define how society uses words. Society changes over time in terms of the language that it uses and what words mean. And the Oxford dictionary updates to match it. Right? The Oxford English Dictionary is updated on a quarterly basis and the updates make up the third edition. The material added to the dictionary includes revised versions of existing entries, which replace the older versions, and new words and senses both within the alphabetical sequence of the revised entries and also across the whole A to Z range. You can have words that, like, you travel from one state to another, and the common usage of words will change in terms of, like, in small ways. It's impossible to perfectly articulate in a singular book how a singular word is used everywhere in an entire country. It's just not realistic to think that's possible. But if I use the wrong definition for a word in a paper, my professor isn't going to accept this argument. If you make in your paper a case for why you've used a word in a particular way, and your professor doesn't accept it, then your professor's an asshole. Like, because, you know, people do that all the fucking time, man. You can read articles where people go, um, this, this, and this, I think we need a new word to describe this phenomenon. This is the word that I think would be best used to describe this. My point is communication. As long as the right ideas are communicated, then it doesn't matter what words mean to me. If I meet a new person, and this person believes that what I think a cat is, is actually a dog, and I know this, and for the rest of the conversation, I simply refer to cats as dogs. I've lost nothing. I have, I have still perfectly communicated what I wanted to communicate. The word didn't matter. If this person doesn't agree that what I think a dog is a dog, I won't use the word dog. I will just describe the things that I think make up the idea of a dog. Words are just tools to communicate the underlying ideas. It's the, it's the communication of the ideas that matters, not necessarily the words themselves. It's why labels are useful, because they're a quick way of communicating ideas. But if two people disagree on what that label means, the solution isn't appealing to the dictionary, because if the dictionary has a different idea of what that label means than what I'm trying to communicate, then I don't want that definition, because I want to communicate the thing that I want to communicate. It's the communication that matters, not the words is what I'm trying to say. Think of how many words that you speak on a day-to-day basis that you've never looked up in the dictionary. You're not getting definitions and meanings of words from the dictionary. You're getting it from your social environment. What's important is that you can communicate with the people in your social environment. The only thing the dictionary does is, it just helps you get an approximation of what words mean if you've never heard a word before. Like, you don't always get the opportunity to find someone in your social environment who knows what every word means. If you're reading a book and you see a word and you go, oh, what does that word mean? You can't call 57 people in your social environment and find out what that word means. It's just easy to look up the dictionary. A dictionary is just a tool to facilitate communication. How did people communicate when most people were illiterate? Humans existed and communicated a lot longer than people have been writing down words, I imagine. When you meet another person who says a word you don't understand, the first thing you do is ask them to describe what that word means. The word just makes things quicker. It doesn't necessarily give you more information. If anything, words give you less information than the description itself. What gives you more understanding? Me saying dog or me describing a dog? The answer is the description. The word is just an easy tool for me to give you that description if you happen to already know what that description is. There's no absurd definition or absurd word that you can imagine that couldn't hypothetically come into common usage. I would add on to this, though, that because of the way that dictionaries are treated, they do act in a way to restrict how much development of language can occur in the future. They, in effect, anchor a word to a particular meaning and make it comparatively harder to change than if the dictionary itself didn't exist. One would imagine that it is easier for society to create a new word and have it become commonly used than it is for an old word's definition to change and it be commonly used. Ambiguity in communication. People equivocating words or... That you can do tricks with language to confuse people and stuff. That is always going to be a problem. There's nothing that's going to solve that. It's just life. And in a way, I wouldn't have it any other way, because I prefer that language kept evolving. That people find better words to describe things that are currently relevant to society. I think if language were just to be frozen right now, I don't think that would benefit us. What would be cool is if we could just do away with speech altogether. Like, have... I link my brain to your brain and I perfectly communicate the meaning I'm trying to communicate. And there's no ambiguity there. There's no speech. There's no differing understandings of words and stuff. Injustice in justice systems. Imagine going to jail for 29 years for a rape, kymet... |
| 15. November 2020 | What is the hardest thing about being a content creator? | What is the hardest thing you experience as a content creator? What's the hardest thing about streaming currently? Time, content creation, is there a lot of pressure to deliver entertainment and content while doing three to four hour streams? I put a lot more burden on myself than potentially other content creators do in that I try to convert all of my stream footage into YouTube content. It's a lot to deal with. And you go to all this effort, working seven days a week, like 12 hours a day, every day, it's really enjoyable, but it's really hard sometimes and frustrating sometimes because it never ends. Like it literally never ends. Generally speaking, the tasks that are the most easy to do are those that are the most tolerable to do are those that have a distinct end. Once this is over, this is over. But with content creation, it never ends. There is always a new video, a new project, a new thing. When I finish an episode of Passifist, I'm like, yes, I finished an episode of Passifist. Oh, there's like another seven more I need to do. It's overwhelming sometimes, but I enjoy it. And the perks of it are amazing. I would say that's the hardest part. It's just juggling everything to get all the videos out and to stream as much as I want as well and meet all my goals. I have the streaming and speed running and challenge runs and da da da. It's just a huge juggle. |
| 08. September 2021 | What is the longest i could play gta 5 in one sitting? | What is the longest I could play GTA 5 in one sitting? The longest I've ever played GTA 5 in one sitting is like 16 to 18 hours or something when I was doing strat testing for 100%. Like I'm still strat testing to this day, but there was just so many things to test. I hid it for days. I remember I had a document that was just like two or three pages of just test this, test this, test this, can you move this here, can you move this here, can you move this here. When I start doing something, I'm not really a fan of stopping. I like to complete the task set for me rather than put it off to another day. And how long I could hypothetically play would all depend on what I was motivated by. Like if you said, Matt, you gotta play GTA 5 for 24 hours for 10 grand. I could do that. Easy. 48 hours, maybe 48 hours, as long as I was allowed breaks. We go in 72 hours, I'd be like, no, I can't do it. I couldn't do 72 hours, even for 10 grand. Like that would take time off my life. It'd be so crushing. |
| 26. August 2021 | What is utopia for someone is hell for another | What is utopia for someone is hell for another. I'm talking utopian society here, but a utopian society for one person is a hell for another, right? Like a utopia for a white supremacist is different from what I consider to be a utopia. Like my ideal utopia would be almost impossible to describe, but it would be kind of, you would imagine, people being as free as possible to do as many things as they want outside of anything that harms other people, or people being as little restricted as possible on the basis of things that they can't control, or that are unchanging, like aspects of biology or social circumstances that they were born into. |
| 12. July 2021 | What is “Respectable work”? | What is respectable work? I just had to look up the hot tub category and that's just embarrassing how you can sell yourself like that and still sleep at night. I don't know what you mean man. I really don't. I don't know how you would feel more comfortable, like being some cog in a machine. If you can make a decent enough money doing that, that you can be independent, rather than work some boring, repetitive, monotonous job where you aren't valued at all, like why would you not do that? In the list of things that I'd like to do as a job or like in terms of preferences, being a hot tub streamer or a person who is paid because they're physically attractive, that's not anywhere close to the worst thing on that list, you know? I think you've just been, I mean we all are, influenced by society to see particular things as more acceptable than others. Not for any real rational reason necessarily, because not like you're being harmed or something, it's just emotional garbage that's imbued into us by society. But once upon a time people would feel uncomfortable showing their fucking ankles, man. It's just social conditioning. I would much rather work a nine to five bagging items that are on a tray into a plastic bag than ever sit in a hot tub and get people throwing money at me. One of those is a respectable job, and the other one is not. It's not really the case. As I've said before, man, times change. Once upon a time, sitting at a desk was not a respectable job. I say, you sit at a desk, man? You know? You work on computers all day, man? That's not real work, man. It doesn't matter what you do in life, there's gonna be some subsection of society that's just like, oh man, that's not a respectable way to make a living. You tell someone you make entertainment content on the internet, it's just like, what? That's fucking pathetic, man. Maybe that makes me more, I can empathize with these women or whatever, because I have seen people make those statements or roll their eyes when they hear what I do for a living. It's very dismissive, man. I work hard, and it's not as easy as it seems, you know? Although I suppose with my job, it's a little bit different, because how difficult this job is really varies from content creator to content creator. You see people who, their main content is they start a camera, and they're like, oh, hey guys, this thing happened, and it's quite bad, and I think it's bad, and you should think it's bad too, and thank you for watching, and see you later. And that's it. It takes like 10 minutes to record, their main barrier is finding literally anything that they can fucking talk about. It's very difficult to get into that position, to be the right place at the right time, but the amount of effort that goes into the content is basically nothing, and then you have people who, you know, it's like each video is like a four month long endeavor that may as well be on the production quality level of a high budget movie or something like that to make one video, and both these people technically have the same job. Yeah, but do they work hard? They just sit in a fucking tub, show off and write names on their body. You make entertaining commentary and spend a lot of time editing and recording all that. Oh no, that's what another comparison that I was making here. I was really talking about how some people consider my job to be easy. It's hard to say that the job title itself contains with it a great deal of hard work, because the amount of hard work varies to an extraordinary degree from content creator to content creator, you know. Some content creators are working harder than any of us could possibly imagine and barely getting by, while others are doing effectively nothing for amounts of money that would bog all our minds, you know. |
| 11. October 2021 | What it's like living in Australia | like living in Australia. in your books and such but it's true. We try and keep that stuff under wraps because we uh, we want more tourists to come here but you know I like you guys so I'm just giving you the low down on the uh, on everything, you know. The kangaroos killed all the spiders long ago man, the kangaroos have kind of taken over. Might hopefully come again. |
| 10. July 2021 | What job would I have if I wasn’t on twitch. | What job would I have if I wasn't on Twitch? What job do you think you would have if you were never introduced to Twitch or YouTube? I assume that I wouldn't need a job because I would have made so much money after I killed blood hunger and cancer and And I don't know invented something that gave me unlimited gold. Probably don't need a job after that. |
| 14. May 2020 | What keeps me motivated while editing | anything, you know. What keeps you motivated while editing? I know sometimes when I edit I lose motivation because it's taking too long. What keeps you from going through going through all of it? Basically with anything I don't want to do in life, I kind of have the same philosophy where I look at the end goal and I say once it's done it's going to be so good. This is going to be complete. I'm going to have I'm going to focus on the reward that I'm going to get at the end as I'm working and then I realize that any attempt at um delaying the inevitable or you know taking a very long break or putting it to the side, none of that's actually going to help me get the job done. I'm still going to have to do the exact same amount of work. It's just you know I'll just be delaying it. It's not it's not a solution to delay my working on it at the time and so realizing that I just you know continue to push forward. It also helps to be passionate about what you're doing. I'm passionate about editing. I enjoy editing to an extent. Certainly it depends what I'm editing. There's some editing that's very boring and I just force myself through it. Plus there's always that philosophy that I talk about all the time where whenever I'm in a particularly bad situation I say to myself look I won't remember this in a week. I won't remember this in two weeks. It's I feel bad now. I feel tired now. I don't want to push myself but this is meaningless in the grand scheme of my life. So you know I may as well just soldier on you know. |
| 05. September 2021 | What killed Fortnite for me | What killed Fortnite for me? Thoughts on Fortnite? I think it's a perfectly fine game. That changes way too much. I guess it's because they're trying to captivate like a more casual audience of younger people or whatever who always need like a new thing, something new stimulation or whatever. But I'm a person who likes to master a particular thing. So if it's changing like every 15 seconds, it just gets tiresome to me. But the thing that really killed Fortnite for me was the, at the time, lack of any competitive rankings or no segregation of the audience based on skill. So I join a game and fucking, what's his name, Musel, the Fortnite YouTuber, with like 10,000 hours will just pop out of the fucking sky and kill me. Like that shouldn't be possible, you know. It shouldn't be impossible back then. I guess it's, they fixed that a bit now apparently, but that's just too little too late for me. Like I remember the first Fortnite friendlies we did where a bunch of streamers all played Fortnite together. It was pretty fun because most people were new to the game. Anyone with a bit of knowledge did okay. But then like the next one, then the next one, like with every additional one, they would have like Fortnite pros, people who built their careers on Fortnite, versing people who played like a dozen times and who were just there to have fun. And it was just pathetic. Like how do you enjoy yourself when you're getting stomped on by people who, you know, just play nothing but Fortnite every day? I still think it's a good game, but it's not a game I wouldn't want to play ever again. |
| 13. March 2022 | What killed My Hero Academia for me. | What killed my hero academia for me? What killed my hero academia for me was the realization that if the humans just use guns They would just fuck up 99% of the people with quirks a gun Beats the overwhelming majority of quirks that anyone has in their chart the police is sitting there with their pistols like oh No, we need to wait until the guy who can shoot fire comes like now. Just shoot the dude He doesn't have anything that protects him from metal through brain It's just a show obviously like you just got to ignore that you know suspension of disbelief all that jazz But but but more importantly all that shit with them being at high school sucks There was like a full solid 10 episodes where like nothing happened and all they were doing was going to school I was like this isn't interesting. Please stop |
| 02. November 2021 | What killed my desire to be a musician. | What killed my desire to be a musician? I remembered recently what the death was of any desire within me to become a musician. I remember being in music class in like the 8th grade or something. And we were tasked with making like a little jingle or something on the piano. I made mine and I really liked the sound of it. And then you had to show the teacher and she heard it and she's like, well I guess it's good enough. And I was just like, oh. I still remember that to this day. I could have been great, chat. I could have been a contender. No one can ever be perfectly cognizant of how their words are going to have impact on others. I do remember feeling very sad. |
| 13. March 2022 | What killed my hero academia for me. | What killed my hero academia for me? What killed my hero academia for me was the realization that if the humans just use guns They would just fuck up 99% of the people with quirks a gun Beats the overwhelming majority of quirks that anyone has in their chart the police is sitting there with their pistols like oh No, we need to wait until the guy who can shoot fire comes like now. Just shoot the dude He doesn't have anything that protects him from metal through brain It's just a show obviously like you just got to ignore that you know suspension of disbelief all that jazz But but but more importantly all that shit with them being at high school sucks There was like a full solid ten episodes where like nothing happened and all they were doing was going to school I was like this isn't interesting. Please stop twitch's latest scam to avoid increasing ad revenue share Reliable ad revenue with one click It's really happening. We all know how important reliable monthly income is to creators That's why today we introduce you to a revenue source that really provides ads Probably familiar with ad manager the ad scheduling feature used by thousands of creators |
| 16. November 2022 | What kind of audience am I trying to appeal to? | What kind of audience am I trying to appeal to? The guy who delivered the TV today and put it on the wall, I always get asked what I do and I say I'm a YouTuber, he's like, oh, check out your stuff. And I'm like, oh, you don't have to, man. It's not for everyone. Whenever I meet a person in real life, I'm like, is this the kind of person who likes my content? I don't know. I expect that the vast majority of people won't like my content, because it is fairly niche. I am not targeting anyone with my content. I am making content that I think is good and that I can enjoy, and I'm hoping that the algorithm can present that, push that around, and find people who have similar taste to myself. Like, it is clear that I have not reached market saturation in the sense that if the algorithm tomorrow put my content in front of literally everyone on the planet, I would gain more viewership than what I have right now. I appeal to who I appeal to. I'm not really tailoring my content or myself to appeal to anyone in particular. It is clear that I could potentially tailor my content in a way to capture a wider audience. Someone in the chat mentioned my swearing. I find it weird to think that there are people out there who just won't watch stuff that has swearing in it, but they do exist. |
| 15. November 2021 | What kind of kid was I in high school? | What kind of kid was I in high school? I was the kid that everyone knew of, that had no real strong opinion of. I kept to myself. I was a bit of a nerd. Maybe geek is a better word, I don't know. I was just- I just existed. I didn't make any waves. No one really paid attention to me. I was like that picture on the wall that is always there and you never really take notice of it. On very rare occasions you might go, huh, there's a picture. I need to go back to doing nothing. I have effectively no memory of being in high school. Because I spend most of the time depressed and that's about it. I remember this conversation I had with my teacher. He was like, Matt, you never do any of the work. I look over and a test had just been handed back. That was March. I'm like, yeah, but I got like an 80 here or like a 75 or something. He's like, yeah, but you could do so much better than that if you actually tried. I was like, but I passed though. And he's like, but you can- what? I'm like, no, but I passed, so, you know. And I just went back to reading my book. I didn't really apply myself. Too much time reading books. I mean fiction books, right? |
| 03. January 2022 | What kind of kid was i in high school? | argument you would present it, right? What kind of kid was I in high school? I was the kid that everyone knew of, that had no real strong opinion of, I kept to myself. I just existed. I didn't make any waves, no one really paid attention to me. I was like that picture on the wall that is always there and you never really take notice of it. On very rare occasions you may go, huh there's a picture, I need to go back to doing nothing, you know. I have effectively no memory of being in high school because I spent most of the time deprecating myself. |
| 15. November 2021 | What kind of kid was i in highschool? | What kind of kid was I in high school? I was the kid that everyone knew of, that had no real strong opinion of. I kept to myself. I was a bit of a nerd. Maybe geek is a better word, I don't know. I was just- I just existed. I didn't make any waves. No one really paid attention to me. I was like that picture on the wall that is always there and you never really take notice of it. On very rare occasions you might go, huh, there's a picture. I need to go back to doing nothing. I have effectively no memory of being in high school. Because I spend most of the time depressed and that's about it. I remember this conversation I had with my teacher. He was like, Matt, you never do any of the work. I look over and a test had just been handed back. That was March. I'm like, yeah, but I got like an 80 here or like a 75 or something. He's like, yeah, but you could do so much better than that if you actually tried. I was like, but I passed though. And he's like, but you can- what? I'm like, no, but I passed, so, you know. And I just went back to reading my book. I didn't really apply myself. Too much time reading books. I mean fiction books, right? |
| 29. May 2020 | What kind of person am I in real life? | Hey Matt, I just want to ask what kind of a person are you in real life? Because there are some two-faced people who are nice on camera, but rude off camera. If any of us met you in real life, how would you react? How would I react if someone met me in real life? It would depend upon the context. I mean if I was getting out of the shower and you happen to be standing there Probably wouldn't be very happy about it. If I met you in person I'd be like, oh yeah, thanks for watching my stuff, you know. I don't think of myself as very two-faced. I mean if I was going to make up a persona for online I don't think it would be the persona that I have right now Where I'm sometimes a jerk and I yell at viewers and if you see me on Twitter I'm going fucking hard complaining at fucking companies not giving me the fucking stuff and stuff I just think with the amount of content that I produce it'd be so tiring to try to be someone else It is the case as I mentioned before That everyone is different depending upon the context that they find themselves in but I I don't know how to assess that because I'm biased but I do think I'm Fairly representative on stream as I am off stream. |
| 15. November 2021 | What makes a good new speedrun category? | What makes a good new speedrun category? Is no break boost percent possible? Why would you ever do that though? People have a very strange idea of what categories would make sense in a speedrun. What about no red car percent? Where you can't use red cars, it's not a good speedrun. What about this thing where you just remove the ability to go slightly faster? No first person percent, it's not a good speedrun. Speedrun categories are meant to fundamentally change the game or how you think about the game. So you can make a category like where we can't use cars. That would be interesting. It would just be a terrible run to do. Or melee only. It's just these runs couldn't be completed. Because the game forces you to use those things sometimes. |
| 29. May 2020 | What makes a good speedrun? | What to you makes a game a good one to speedrun? What makes a good game to speedrun is one where if there is RNG, it's skill based RNG as opposed to time based RNG. You know, six different things can happen and you have to memorize those six different things but they all end at the same time. Each takes 20 seconds but it's just skill that you have to be able to quickly recognize which pattern is going to happen and react accordingly. RNG that can make or break a run, you know, two hours in, that certainly hampers a speedrun's enjoyment. You know, having a good community of like minded people, all, well not necessarily like minded but a lot of people who are pushing the game forward, challenging each other, finding new strats, it makes the speedrun a lot funner. Or the game funner to speedrun. A game that is not necessarily strictly linear and allows for some deviation or skips that can break the game, allowing for more categories. A game that isn't too long, we're talking like an any percent of less than three hours and a hundred percent of like under seven hours is probably best. Yeah, that's about it, like not too long, not too short. The really intense speedruns where they're looking for a frame, like those games I wouldn't personally enjoy playing, but they are very fun to watch other people play, except how reset heavy it is. I guess actually what's fun about it is watching Summoning Salt break down the history of people going for that frame. Watching a person go for that frame is not super interesting to me. Like watching Carl do runs of individual level 007, I can't do it. I like Carl, he makes good YouTube content, but I couldn't watch him on Twitch. Like I'm sure when you're super knowledgeable about what he's doing and stuff, it seems more interesting. It's like, oh, is he going to get it this time? But not being knowledgeable about 007 and it just being reset heavy, not visually interesting to me. I just hate it as hard to watch. |
| 03. June 2020 | What mmos have i played? | Have you ever played Tibia or any old-school MMORPGs? I played Runescape back in the day and I think Guild Wars and then WoW after Guild Wars. |
| 30. May 2021 | What modest pelican studied at university. | What Modest Pelican studied at university. |
| 27. July 2021 | What motivates me in life? | What motivates me in life? What should be a motivational influence in life? Fear for the future and uh, influence, people wise, I'm not sure. I see people who are doing better than me and I'm like, hey, if they can do it, I can do it. I have other motivators, but fear for the future is definitely a strong motivator. |
| 23. November 2020 | What motivates me to talk about politics on my channel | on my channel. Some people question why I talk about politics, right? I've often talked about how it's not necessarily clear that talking about politics disadvantages me in some way. It's possible, I can't run that analysis, right? I can't tell you what my channel would have looked like had I never started talking about politics. Now, I'm not the most confident person alive. Like, I don't know how I come off, but there are many things I don't talk about or skirt around because I'm not super confident about what is the best for society or what have you, based on my own ideas of what a best society is. But when I do identify something that I believe would be in the best interest for other people to know or an outcome that I believe would be best for society, I can't stop myself from communicating that to people with the platform that I have, because I recognize that I have the ability to communicate information to others, and I can use that platform to influence things to achieve outcomes, or I can influence what's gonna happen. And so if I selfishly just said, you know what, I'd be negatively impacted talking about this stuff, fuck other people. I couldn't really live with myself, right? I'm not saying what I do is super impactful, but it's impactful enough that I can't prevent myself from doing it, you know? I also found it interesting, I'm not just motivated by some sense of altruism or something for others. New AMD GPU and AMD versus Intel. |
| 14. January 2021 | What motivates you to continue? | What motivates you to continue making content other than the money? I think it's just the like the whole feeling of the lifestyle. Like, like, yeah, you put in some hours, but I love the feeling of like, yeah, uploading videos and seeing people enjoy themselves. And I've got like a creative outlet. And yeah, it's just like a sick place to be in life, especially probably having that finance experience where it was like. Ultra depressing. You've seen the other side. Yeah, I don't want to go back there. You know, yeah, I know how lucky I am. Right. And so I just want to make content that people enjoy and keep it up. Yeah. How about you? |
| 22. December 2020 | What music do i listen to on stream? | music do I listen to on stream? What playlist is this genre? Is this music? It's called Chill Hop. It's a content ID free playlist that I've been using for a very long time. They continuously add new songs to it. It's not the best music. It's not the worst music. It's meant to be like, like inoffensive music as in like very few people will stop by and be like, oh this music! Oh, no! You know, elevator music. Whenever I hear elevator music, like the phrase or whatever, I always think of Eminem. That line where he's like, I make elevating music, you make elevator music. I can't even what song that comes from, but... |
| 17. July 2021 | What my No Damage runs cost me. | that I could have produced is unbelievable. PassFest would have been finished by now. On episode 14, episode 14, I was like, man, I hope this doesn't take me six months to get from like one damage to zero damage. And here we are, six months later. You don't understand why I keep going. It's like that old meme says, never give up. No, I finish when I stop. It's not a sunk cost fallacy. I am not continuing because all the effort that I put up to this point will go to naught if I don't finish it. I'm continuing because I want to finish it. That has not changed. No amount of quitting will get me back what I've lost. No amount of quitting will gain me literally fucking anything. Don't give me that shit. Don't give me your fucking pop philosophy shit you learned from fucking Reddit. I'm going to go to the bathroom. Knowing the wonders of desserts, I missed crushers from KFC. Did you ever have them? I'm not sure what a crusher is. Is a crusher one of their desserts? I slept on desserts from fast food restaurants for a long time. It's maybe like only within the last year that I have tried some desserts from fast food restaurants. While I can't remember what they taste like right now, I do know that I have found myself to enjoy them. Although sometimes they do make me sick afterwards. I'm sure that's a lot of fucking sugar. I tried the desserts from Domino's. I frequently get the chocolate slab thing that they have. You know what I'm talking about? I think the reason why I slept on desserts for so long, I love that phrasing as well as if I'm literally sleeping on the desserts, but to sleep on something is to simply say that your eyes weren't open to it. I'm not sure where that comes from. Anyway, it's because I didn't have the money to do it, I suppose. As in, for most of my life, I shied away from getting stuff that wasn't good value. Desserts are not good value. |
| 17. July 2021 | What my no damage runs cost me. | What my no damage runs cost me. Please don't succeed today, we love no damage run videos. Holy shit. No you don't. As far as YouTube is concerned guys, making what's gonna be bare minimum 33 two hour long videos about one series, that's like the dumbest YouTube move you can make. If you believe you like no damage runs, trust me you would much rather me do my modded runs of GTA 5. Like the example I bring up is the hour video of me not being particularly interesting, being very tired, doing a low render distance run of GTA 5, not edited, has a million views. A million views! I didn't even edit it. I wasn't even interesting. A million views! No effort. And I'm stuck doing this series which takes like weeks to weeks to do and then edits. You'll never understand how much this series has completely fucked me for the past nine months. The the amount of diverse interesting content that I could have produced is unbelievable. PassFest would have been finished by now. On episode 14, episode 14, I was like man I hope this doesn't take me six months to get from like one damage to zero damage. And here we are six months later. You don't understand why I keep going. It's like that old meme says, never give up. No I can I finish when I start. It's not a sunk cost fallacy. I am not continuing because all the effort that I put up to this point will go to NOS if I don't finish it. I'm continuing because I want to finish it. That has not changed. No amount of quitting will get me back what I've lost. No amount of quitting will gain me literally fucking anything. Don't give me that shit. Don't give me your fucking pop philosophy shit you learned from fucking Reddit. |
| 02. February 2021 | What my parents think of my career | What my parents think of my career. What do my parents think of my profession? Recently, my mother started to Google me, because she didn't really get it. You don't get as successful as I have become without your parents going, I wonder what you're actually doing. I mean, you know, she actually found that on some website, some personal details about me had been leaked. And it was in like an obscure place that I would never think to look. And so I got that shit taken down. So it really helped me that my mother actually Google me. What do my parents think? I mean, they know I'm successful and they're happy for me, and that's good, you know. Certainly my mother was less approving back when I was less successful, and she tried to push me to get a normal career. At least while I was doing this, like I just, you know, throw out some resumes at some people, you know, see what happens. Which is a responsible thing to say, considering how unlikely success is in this field. |
| 17. June 2021 | What my views of Twitch growth were in 2017 | the point many times it's hard getting noticed at the very beginning. I've said before mate, if I didn't start speedrunning GTA V I probably would never have got any viewers. Most people wolfmen have success streaming one particular game and building an audience around it. It's then hard to move from that game to other stuff but it's the easiest way to, or an easier way to develop viewers. Because every time you change game even the followers that you have are not necessarily going to like whatever you're now streaming. Being a variety streamer is very very hard. If you're a variety streamer playing a bunch of random games you are one of ten thousand, no more than that, you're one of a million people streaming on Twitch that do the exact same thing. I mean yesterday, no the day before I was streaming GTA V 100% I had what, 280 viewers at maximum. How many do I have now? Like I'd say I have 30 or something? Streaming is hard. If you want to grow and succeed and stuff, like right now you could probably tell I'm just playing the game. I'm not really engaging with the audience and stuff you know. It's like, I said before if it wasn't for speedrunning I wouldn't have any viewers. Not because I think some of my viewers don't like me despite the speedrunning issues, I don't think anyone would have found me. It's like when Ran told me that she only found my stream through speedrun.com she went there to see the person of the world record in GTA V and it just so happened that that was the one week that I had taken the world record away from Torix. It might have been so that if I didn't have world record that day I never would have known Ran. So that's why I was so, well one of the reasons why I was so, I kept grinding classic percent even though I could have moved to 100% earlier. It's why I still look for even small ways to get a little bit more notoriety. But everyone needs a break you know. I spend most days worrying about nothing more than how entertaining my stream is. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 16. May 2020 | What other streamers do I watch? | What other speedruns do you enjoy watching? I watch a lot of Souls runs. I've been watching Elias. Is that his name? Elias? Uh, is that his name? He's been running Dark Souls 1 Remastered, getting World Record back from Stanso, who I also watch occasionally. I watch some of the Mario runners still. I watch Cheese and Puncation. There's a bunch of people I occasionally stop in to watch. Distortion 2 and Elijah. I watch both of those quite a bit. The person I watch most on Twitch currently is Hungrybox. I like watching him play, in that he's an underdog playing as Puff, and it's always interesting when he gets a cool rest. His music taste is fairly decent. He's been around in the scene of Smash for a very long time. I've only recently taken an interest in Smash, and watching the documentary from Embleman about Hungrybox and how he became who he is today was, you know, made- |
| 16. May 2020 | What other streamers do i watch? | What other speedruns do you enjoy watching? I watch a lot of Souls runs. I've been watching Elias. Is that his name? Elias? Uh, is that his name? He's been running Dark Souls 1 Remastered, getting World Record back from Stanso, who I also watch occasionally. I watch some of the Mario runners still. I watch Cheese and Puncation. There's a bunch of people I occasionally stop in to watch. Distortion 2 and Elijah. I watch both of those quite a bit. The person I watch most on Twitch currently is Hungrybox. I like watching him play, in that he's an underdog playing as Puff, and it's always interesting when he gets a cool rest. His music taste is fairly decent. He's been around in the scene of Smash for a very long time. I've only recently taken an interest in Smash, and watching the documentary from Embleman about Hungrybox and how he became who he is today was, you know, made- |
| 05. March 2022 | What percentage of my clips go on TikTok. | What percentage of the clips that are on my clips channel end up on TikTok? What percentage of my clips go on TikTok? Well, currently there's 700 on there. So... So... or being uploaded on there. So I guess that's 10%. |
| 05. March 2022 | What percentage of my clips go on tiktok. | What percentage of the clips that are on my clips channel end up on TikTok? What percentage of my clips go on TikTok? Well, currently there's 700 on there. So... So... or being uploaded on there. So I guess that's 10%. |
| 20. March 2021 | What portion of GTA 5 players buy shark cards? | What portion of GTA players buy shark cards? No, I've never bought shark cards, no. I saw something recently where someone from, what's it called, RuneScape, some head honcho at RuneScape suggested that by their numbers, like 40 to 50% of the RuneScape player base purchases gold or has purchased gold or something. I thought that was like a lot, especially considering the purchase of gold is, you know, not sanctioned by RuneScape, I think. Like they buy it from the illegal websites or whatever. That's surprising to me. When I heard that, I wonder what percentage of the player base of GTA Online has ever bought a shark card. It's probably like the majority of people, right? Like they're just a little bit off something, they're like, oh, you know, I'll chuck 15 bucks at this, who gives a shit? I mean, kids don't have the credit cards and stuff. So maybe like over 50% of people above the age of 18 or something. Oh, true, yeah, mod menus within minutes. Okay, that's a good point. We'll say bought shark cards or used mod menus. Oh, but mod menus aren't on console. Oh yeah, certainly with most of the microtransaction games or any game with microtransactions, it's usually like a handful of whales that give the majority of the money. You know, 5% of the player base gives 50% of the money or something like that, that kind of stuff. But I mean, in GTA Online, like the end goal is to buy all this stuff. So once you spend real money to get it all, I suppose you have less of a reason to actually play the game. It's just a matter of time before, until mod menus come to Xbox and PlayStation. No, I don't think it's easy that way. Buying gold in OSRS and then using said gold to buy membership is cheaper than just buying membership. Interesting. It's still always impressive to me whenever I hear about RuneScape and that it still exists and it's going strong. I guess that's just a good support and it being one of the first of those kinds of games. But other games from those eras don't exist anymore. There was an Ultima Online, like a huge thing at one point. I remember when I was a kid, can't remember who bought it for me, but they bought me Ultima and I couldn't get it to work. And then I found out like it needed the internet and I don't think my internet was strong enough or something, I couldn't figure out how to play it. That's why I never got to play it. But I know I had one of the discs for the game. |
| 06. July 2021 | What portion of facts and glitches makes it into an episode? | The one in fifteen is accepted. Like the facts and glitches submissions, I hope people don't just think it is largely just me, you know, going down a list and recording footage or something, it's not that simple. The, most of the submissions don't have videos or written in a very convoluted way. You do get some people who go to the effort, like extreme effort to try to help me understand what they're communicating, which is very much so appreciated, but that isn't the norm. The process of getting all the facts for the episodes takes like 20 hours or something total. I suppose it depends on how long I've left it though, but I generally leave it like a month. What RNG do I think will never be solved in the speed run? I mean, I would be, there's two things I'd be very surprised if they were ever solved. One, the randomness of getting a tow truck for the Blitz play. |
| 27. July 2021 | What portion of my audience watches things at increased speed | What portion of my audience watches things at increased speed? I did something stupid. I, uh, was going to bed and I'm like, oh, just watch one episode of this show invincible. It's pretty good. I watched all eight episodes. It's episode being like 40 minutes and Amazon prime, the app being fucking garbage, not allowing for increased speed. I had to watch it at the exact speed of one times. And I was just like, oh God, why would I watch this sped up? Because I have things to do. What do you mean ruin the experience? I don't, I don't understand people. We eventually going to have studies done about people who watch stuff at two times speed. There is no difference. All it, all it does is take less time because everything is perfectly consistent. It's not like you get confused. I did a poll. It was like 5% of my audience watches it. Um, two times speed, 5% watches at 1.5 times speed. |
| 11. June 2021 | What primarily differentiates the GTA 5 categories | What primarily differentiates the GT5 Speedrun categories? Well, the thing between Classy% and 8% Emission Skip is basically just taxis. It's where people don't do it as much. The taxis are very annoying. Not only are the taxis annoying because calling them is annoying, getting them on the road potentially for free is annoying. It's a bit of RNG. But also because if you taxi places, you don't get text messages. So it could be the case that driving to a place takes a minute and taxiing to it takes 30 seconds. But if you drive to it, you get three text messages. So if you get up to a point where you need something for a text message, if you took taxis, you'll have like a dozen text messages that you can potentially get. While had you driven, you would have far fewer. So a run with driving is far more consistent and only saves you a little bit of time doing taxis. Because in the taxi runs, rather than wasting time driving, you usually waste time waiting. It's more RNG, more frustration. What is it, at best like 15 minutes faster or something? It's hard to say exactly how much faster it is because the 80% no mission skip world record is always less refined than the classic percent one because there's less competition and less grinding on it. It's also more likely for the route for classic to become more refined and the driving to be more understood and how to better do a text message and stuff where the taxis remain basically the same. You take a taxi from here or you don't, you know? So more optimizations have come in a classic percent category that have led to a reduction in the difference between it and any percent no mission skip. Like any percent no mission skip you could argue could be removed entirely, except that it leaves open for additional optimizations to be found in that category. And the category is different enough, distinct enough that it should be its own category. In my view, the only thing that needs to be the case to justify a category is something that significantly changes the gameplay. And clearly that's the case with 80% no mission skip, considering people avoid that category like the plague. It definitely shows that it's different. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 29. May 2020 | What questions from chat do I avoid | What kind of questions from the chat do you deliberately try to avoid and why? I mean, why would I ever answer that question because people just ask those questions over and over again? Stupid questions, why do I avoid them? Because they're stupid. |
| 16. February 2023 | What really drove me to create the VODs channel. | What really drove me to create the VODs channel? You know what ultimately made me decide to allow the VOD channel? Even though it kind of, kind of goes against what I kind of like to do on YouTube. I decided to do it because it's clear to me that I'm not guaranteed to be around forever. Even in my worst moments, I thought I would just be here kind of like to some degree forever. But I recognize now that's no longer the case and I may eventually just bow out or my viewership will decrease so much that it will be too depressing to continue. I don't think that's a guarantee, but I would like everything I've made to be on YouTube in its fullest. For those people who are like truly die-hard and love my stuff or something and who want to see it all. I'll come back for GTA 6, right? I'd say I have no plans on going anywhere. Just that expectation I'll be around forever is just evaporated to a degree. I'm not as confident in my position anymore. And certainly right now is the worst that my channel has done in a while. It's really frustrating that shorts obscure a lot of differences in levels of success, especially publicly. Look how this looks on the back end, right? Look how brief my success has been in the grand scheme of my channel. 2012 is the time when I first made my channel. So like my views in the early days are so small that you can't even register. I did basically nothing with this channel. I uploaded a few videos. So I started speedrunning like around here sometime, but like I didn't start uploading either to YouTube until like around here somewhere, and it slowly built and then took off like this. So this is my peak. You see a downward trend here. It looks like, oh my god, you've swung it round. You've fixed it. Oh my god. Everything's great. But it's just shorts. And so we're down here now, but obviously February isn't over, but in the last 30 days, I've gotten 6.7 million views. So we're basically back to here. I've regressed like three years, and I don't think the trend is going to change. And it's scary. Like it's scary to regress. It may look very successful, but no one likes to be watching themselves fall on a slope. Still more viewers than most of us. Oh, exactly. Yeah. It's only relative to yourself, right? Everyone always wants to keep growing. It's just between my burnout and struggling to have energy, my sleep issues, my health issues, Charlie fucking my life with his stupidity. There's nothing for it, chat, but to work harder and change my mindset regardless of everything. And I'm working on it. |
| 24. May 2021 | What scared me away from charity streams | What scared me away from doing charity streams? Do you do any charity streams? So once upon a time, I did a charity stream for the, um, the fires that happens in Australia. Because obviously, you know, humans were trying to put them out and that was very mean. The fires, they didn't do nothing wrong. No, I- yeah. Yeah. I was raising money for the firefighting efforts. And, uh, PayPal locked my account, got into this huge issue where donating it was a huge trial, and, uh, ever since then it's kind of scared me off doing anything charity related. It was, uh, I had to get a friend who has a charity to write me a note so I can give it to PayPal so they'd let me just, um, release the money. And I said to PayPal, like, look, I raised this amount of money, but clearly it's a relatively small amount of money compared to how much money goes through my account every year. And you can see the stream, like, clearly it isn't a scam, and they're like, ah, well, no, fuck you. And I'm like, but if you put a hold on the account, then there's literally no way for me to give the money to charity. If you're- if you're worried that the money's not gonna go to charity, you've guaranteed that. And they're like, well, you know, fuck you. It's like, okay, PayPal's suppose very, very not helpful, and it was extraordinarily stressful. Yeah, the money did go to the charity, yeah. Or rather, I ended up giving it to my, um, uh, my friend's charity. For generosity. Apex- |
| 01. September 2021 | What separates small and large streamers isn't just discoverability | What separates small and large streamers isn't just discoverability. It's not simply a matter of the discoverability, right? If you go into my stream, you'll notice I have a DSLR camera. I'm streaming at 900p. I've got a 20 series graphics card, an uber PC. I've been doing this for years. I have an awesome microphone. If you're a new streamer, just because you're a new streamer, the quality of your stream is going to be worse. The quality of a smaller streamer, even if they have talents, is on average far worse compared to a larger streamer. More than that though, larger streamers in general are better streamers. Not simply because they have more viewers or whatever, although having more viewers certainly makes your stream more approachable and enjoyable, but also because they've been in the game longer. They know the ins and outs, what they're meant to say. You know, they're more fluent in reading chat and interacting with viewers and whatnot. These are skills that take years to develop and small streamers just don't have that time. Because you know, with every passing year where they're learning their skills, the larger streamers are getting larger and their ability to grow is harder and harder and harder. That's why I keep saying the ability for a smaller streamer to on Twitch become big these days is just, it's almost inconceivable. Because you both have the system working against you and your own skills and hardware. |
| 01. September 2021 | What seperates small and large streamers isn't just discoverability | What separates small and large streamers isn't just discoverability. It's not simply a matter of the discoverability, right? If you go into my stream, you'll notice I have a DSLR camera. I'm streaming at 900p. I've got a 20 series graphics card, an uber PC. I've been doing this for years. I have an awesome microphone. If you're a new streamer, just because you're a new streamer, the quality of your stream is going to be worse. The quality of a smaller streamer, even if they have talents, is on average far worse compared to a larger streamer. More than that though, larger streamers in general are better streamers. Not simply because they have more viewers or whatever, although having more viewers certainly makes your stream more approachable and enjoyable, but also because they've been in the game longer. They know the ins and outs, what they're meant to say. You know, they're more fluent in reading chat and interacting with viewers and whatnot. These are skills that take years to develop and small streamers just don't have that time. Because you know, with every passing year where they're learning their skills, the larger streamers are getting larger and their ability to grow is harder and harder and harder. That's why I keep saying the ability for a smaller streamer to on Twitch become big these days is just, it's almost inconceivable. Because you both have the system working against you and your own skills and hardware. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 01. June 2020 | What steak would I recommend? | Uh, what steak would you recommend for a dinner with a girl? I am not a steak person. High quality steak is wasted on me. I never order steak. I'll get the chicken. Like I like my steak, like I know. Like I think I say medium well done or whatever. Just so people don't look at me strange. I would just prefer it well done. If I'm eating a steak, it's because I'm socially obligated to eat a steak. Not because I want to eat a steak. So I'm not a person to ask. |
| 01. June 2020 | What steak would i recommend? | Uh, what steak would you recommend for a dinner with a girl? I am not a steak person. High quality steak is wasted on me. I never order steak. I'll get the chicken. Like I like my steak, like I know. Like I think I say medium well done or whatever. Just so people don't look at me strange. I would just prefer it well done. If I'm eating a steak, it's because I'm socially obligated to eat a steak. Not because I want to eat a steak. So I'm not a person to ask. |
| 31. July 2022 | What the next season of chaos will be. | What the next season of Chaos will be. So I realized what I'm gonna do for next season of Chaos. I'm gonna do Mirror World Normal Chaos. Don't think I'll do cutscenes. Cause I wanted, we were talking about doing a Mirror World run, I'm like that doesn't really make sense for a speedrun, I think it'll get boring. But flipping the world makes everything look so much different. And we can do Chaos in it. It'll be great. Doesn't sound good, what do you know? Random person who knows things. |
| 03. June 2020 | What thing would i have Rockstar fix? | Street Buff If you could make a GTA V developer patch the single player of GTA V, what gameplay functionality chance would you have them make? I would have them make cleaning out the viewer be 100% consistent. |
| 03. June 2020 | What to do at 18 | I just turned 18. What are the things that you would recommend I should do and what are some things that you did? I remember my mother took me to a casino when I was 18 because I loved watching um the world poker tour whatever my mother I am a sister sat down and We there was like a booth where you could learn Texas Hold'em I already knew basically the rules, but like I want to know the etiquette of the table So it was I was still keen to let the guy talk to me I ended up playing at these tables and I won I lost like the hundred two hundred dollars that I had to spend I still want to play there. So I ran you because they are no ATMs in the casino, so There's there's elevators coming up to the casino and on the bottom floor around the ring as ATM So I went down the elevator the escalators and went to the ATM got some money out and then I was so worried about losing My seat or whatever I ran back up the escalators Now if you've ever been to the star casino, there is a security guard at the bottom of those stairs I didn't think about it. Like I had already shown my ID to get in there in the first place So and I was just so gung-ho on getting back to my seat that I just like sprinted up To get back to the table, but I got back to my seat and so I'm playing and it was quite a while Playing I won some money I was like a lot of money and I remember looking up and there's a bunch of security guards I'm like and the guy that taught me poker was there with them and Because it because he was one of the people working the floor whatever I don't know and he he looks at me and goes oh Okay, never mind and and so he must have explained to them that The because we because we talked the dealer my mother and my sister and me And they he knew that I was 18 that's why I was there and that I was learning poker or whatever So I assume he just told them like yeah, he's he's 18. Just it's fine. He's not he's not a threat or whatever And they left me alone Is this true? I'm not sure this is just a memory that I have from a being 18 and going to the casino But I want quite a bit of money. I remember trying to leave I didn't know they were like trays to have your poker chips So I was like carrying all my poker chips in my hands I dropped one I was like, I'll pick that up and then pop it all on the table to get my money Hey, don't recommend gambling though gambling is bad I have seen from their stuff these days not because I've lost like a heap of money gambling But I just it's not a responsible thing for me to do especially when I when I quit my job repairing hearing aids I quit I quit gambling entirely even the little that I was doing it at low stakes that I was because it just wasn't responsible use of my money and You can get addicted to that shit psychologically, you know it's not a good use of your time the house always wins or You know at the very least like the Texas |
| 22. February 2022 | What to think about when you start making content on youtube | key. What to think about when you start making content on YouTube. So I had a person contact me yesterday and they were like can you tell me what I'm doing wrong with this video. Basically their video was the most generic topic video of all time. Like it's something that a thousand videos have been made about by big channels, small channels. When I looked up the title of their video there was literally another video with the exact same title about the exact same topic that came out 10 months earlier. And they asked me like what am I doing wrong here? Why are people not clicking this video? I really want to make a video like just giving endless advice about what you should be thinking about when you're making content but bare minimum you should think to yourself is this video actually good? Will people enjoy watching it? Not simply did I enjoy making it or did I enjoy editing it? Would people actually want to watch it from start to finish and why? But more importantly if the video showed up in a person's recommendation feed would they want to click it? Is there any audience that would? Why would they want to click it? Like if you're making the thousandth and first video on a topic where's the audience left for that video? Where are they? If your thumbnail looks so generic as fuck that doesn't look like it offers anything different from everyone else who made a video on that topic why would anyone click it? Like you could make the greatest video on a topic but if you are the thousandth person to that topic and you're doing anything different why bother? You can make the greatest video in the world but if no one's willing to click it because it just looks generic as fuck it's not getting any views. Especially when starting out you can't afford just to do the same thing that everyone else has done. When you're already big you can get away with doing like what everyone else is doing because you're big you've already got an audience or whatever but you can't do that especially when small. Even when big it's not a good move. Success on YouTube is largely just about finding non-saturated markets. You either find something no one is doing that an audience wants to see or you find a form of content already watched by an audience but you bring something new to the table. You give the content a new twist which differentiates your content from what already exists while still appealing to that already established audience. |
| 04. May 2021 | What type of keys do I use in my keyboard? | What type of keys do I use in my keyboard? What switches do my keyboard have? It has a combination of red and blue keys. I usually just have all red, but last time this Logitech board, I got a new one, like 30 plus percent of the keys were damaged. Like they had double stroke. Insane. Like, I don't know what mistakes Logitech is making with their quality control these days, but it's fucking horrendous. |
| 03. June 2020 | What was high school like for me? | What was schooling like in Australia for me? I remember basically nothing about my schooling time. I did not enjoy it. I had a lot of emotional issues, had terrible acne, didn't like being around people. I had friends that I look back now who were complete fucking jerks. Maybe because I wasn't a great friend to them, I don't know. I didn't find people who shared a lot of similar interests to me. I kind of went along with a lot of other people my friends were doing because that's what everyone was doing. I always felt like the third wheel. I never felt valued by the people around me to a great extent. There are exceptions to that. This is just a general overview. That's why I really loved making YouTube channel for the first time and having people value my opinion and be willing to discuss things that I was interested in. And you know moving eventually into gaming and stuff and people actually seem to value stuff that I'm creating. It's much better. There's nothing that I want to remember about my schooling time. |
| 03. June 2020 | What was highschool like for me | What was schooling like in Australia for me? I remember basically nothing about my schooling time. I did not enjoy it. I had a lot of emotional issues, had terrible acne, didn't like being around people. I had friends that I look back now who were complete fucking jerks. Maybe because I wasn't a great friend to them, I don't know. I didn't find people who shared a lot of similar interests to me. I kind of went along with a lot of other people my friends were doing because that's what everyone was doing. I always felt like the third wheel. I never felt valued by the people around me to a great extent. There are exceptions to that. This is just a general overview. That's why I really loved making YouTube channel for the first time and having people value my opinion and be willing to discuss things that I was interested in. And you know moving eventually into gaming and stuff and people actually seem to value stuff that I'm creating. It's much better. There's nothing that I want to remember about my schooling time. |
| 16. May 2020 | What was my job before streaming? | What was my job before streaming? I did a degree, bachelor's of social science with a major in psychology and I was one unit off a double major in criminology but they wouldn't give it to me so I didn't do that last unit. Never mind. Before that I repaired hearing aids. Before that I worked at Kohl's, a supermarket. Before that I delivered pamphlets and papers and stuff like that. Oh and I also got a TAFE degree like a, I know what you call it in different countries but it's a community college? Is that the American word for it? I think it's different but they're not full college but it's just a degree in community college. |
| 14. January 2021 | What was the golden era of YouTube? | I think YouTube's in a really good place, honestly. Yeah, it's kind of coming up here. What were the golden times of YouTube, in your opinion, like the best content on the platform, best community culture, whatever, when you think it's on. I'll ask you, what's the best time in YouTube? When when would that be? Um, well, for my own personal content, just every time I wasn't getting demonetized, so most of it, just that one period, I was just like, fuck, because like it's just what annoyed me, it wasn't just a demonetization. It'd be like, stop getting my subscribers. Would no longer say that video. No one would say that video. It was, you know what I mean? Like it would kill the whole video. So like it was even like I was working a normal job at the time. I didn't even so much care of the money. But I'm so that time that annoyed me because I said subscribers would be like, when are you uploading? And it's like, I've literally just uploaded. Yeah. Yeah. And I hated that. They weren't saying it. But apart from that, it's been good. The golden times looked like the nostalgic rose colored glasses times would be like watching the old Call of Duty YouTubers when I was a kid. That was just so funny. Like the content has changed so much. And to think I used to just watch someone play a whole game of free for all Call of Duty, barely say a word, just be like, oh, there's a guy coming killing and like three minutes of just him camping a corner or something like I used to just love it. I find that really funny. What about you? I'm trying. I'm trying to think, actually, I asked the question, but I don't think I have an answer to it. I kind of like YouTube as it is now, as much as people like I I do understand the criticism that YouTube moving away from these amazing production videos means there's less of them around and that more content is more quickly thrown together. I like having heaps of content to consume. I hate running out of stuff to watch. And even in current YouTube, I still sometimes run out of stuff to watch. Not that I actively watch videos that often. I usually listen to them or I'm like watching them in between editing and stuff. But I can run out of YouTube videos still. I can't think of a time on YouTube that I prefer than now because there's just so much more variety, so many more content creators being successful, you know, but for myself personally, this is still the best time for me because it's the most successful I've ever been. I can't I don't think I've had that hard of a time in regards to YouTube. Certainly, sometimes I felt like, oh, come on, algorithm, why aren't you throwing my past this video to all these other people? But when I when I reflect back, I think, you know, maybe I didn't do that well with that video. I didn't title it very well or what have you. Like the quality comes through in the end. Like, you know, you've developed a series that's really popular. Some of them are going to hit really hard. Others are going to, you know, not hit as hard. But you've still got like that core community watching it. And it's just like I say YouTube, like you can't get like I've known, like I've met big creators like I'm talking like five, 10 million, like massive creators who they just post a video and they get so down that like, you know how it ranks your video and it'll be like, this was one of your worst performing videos and it just ruins their day. And it's like, dude, like it's going to happen eventually. Like, you know, some of your content is going to land. Some of it isn't. You've got to like enjoy the process or it'll just ruin you. Right. Well, these the content creators who make like a video a month or so, I can see why they would be that way for me. It's like if a video doesn't do well, I'm like, well, another video tomorrow. So I'll be on seven and a half hours and seven clips should be fine. It's far less impactful, but certainly I would do you, man, because at the end of the day, people are enjoying watching the content. Like content doesn't get views and doesn't do well unless people are enjoying it. And it's a great feeling. You can say you can. Yeah. Well, you can say that you're spamming clips, but like if you spam shit clips, no one would watch them, right? Like you could do that, but it's working. People like them. Like I, I got my half my feed. I swear it's just your clips and I'll watch them. It's like, what does that do harm at 17 seconds? It'll be like a cool fact that maybe I can use in my video or just entertain me. And it's good content, man. For me, I don't just make my own content. I like my own content. Like I can upload my videos and watch them myself as stupid as that is. Like I, I find myself fucking hilarious. And empowered, empowered. I'm yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't mean to be, I'm about it. I'm not saying comedy is subjective, but I'm making these jokes, not because I think other people find them funny necessarily, but because I find them funny. Oh, dude, that's awesome. I, I personally don't like watching my own videos. I don't know why. Like I like, I love that other people enjoy it, but I can't do that. Yeah. Yeah, maybe because a lot more of you, because I kind of feel that way with my scripted videos, because I'm trying to be funny in those cases. And so it's harder to watch, but my highlights, I'm just my being myself. And it's, I can put it on in because usually what happens is I'll upload it and I'll watch it two times speed or something to make sure there's no errors in or something, but I can chuckle to myself, make it. Oh, that's awesome, man. Um, that's really good. |
| 14. May 2020 | What was the inspiration for pacifist%? | What made you do Pacifist? Think of it. Pacifist challenges, or challenge runs in general, have always been done in games. Well for a very long time, you can go back to Doom, and people were doing, you know, effectively no hit runs. Or no death runs, or no damage runs, or whatever. Pacifist just seemed to be one of the few restrictions you could place on your gameplay that would actually have interesting results. I didn't do it for a long time because I knew it was a good idea. |
| 01. September 2020 | What women find attractive but guys don't know | Things women find attractive that guys are unaware of. I saw a thread yesterday on Reddit where it was like, women of Reddit, what is something that you find attractive that guys normally think is unattractive about themselves? And one of the things was when a guy sings, even if he's terrible at it, just having fun and singing a song or something is always attractive. And I was like, yes, I'm in. Who is this woman who is writing this and these people uprooting this? That's my thing. I do that. There was another one that was like dancing as well, even if they're terrible dancers, just that kind of fun enjoyment kind of stuff. And I was like, fuck, I don't have that. Even alone, I can't dance. I just, I'm just, I'm just too repressed. I just feel self-conscious. It's a very weird thing. I remember being a kid, like a really young kid and just fucking dancing the goddamn night away. But as I grew older, I just can't make myself do it. Like how drunk I would have to be to dance in public. I think I'd probably die before I actually was drunk enough to be willing to dance. |
| 03. January 2022 | What would I do if a fan came to my house? | just not in front of videos. What would I do if a fan came to my house? Matt, what would you do if a fan went to your house to say hello? I'd fucking call the police. That's just weird. I'd worry for my safety. Because if a person is that nuts, not to understand social decorum to the extent where they think coming to my house is okay, I'd be worried that I'm about to die. You hear stories like Gavin and his missus or whatever, Meg, they had a fan come to their house, whatever, it was violent, whatever. I think they hid. The person broke in and they called the cops and they hid in some closet or something. And you hear stories like their parents will bring their kids to their home and knock on the door. |
| 19. July 2020 | What would I do if my career ended. | If my streaming career ended what would I do? Matt if your streaming career would end what would you do for a living? I have absolutely no idea and that fear is what drives me in Large part to work as hard as I do the uncertainty of my future my thankfulness to everyone who supports me currently I'm a realist man. You all won't be here in five years, and I wouldn't blame you for it I mean you can make the same content for the next five years, and you know you don't get job security as a streamer You don't get sick days. You don't get holiday days. It's a huge risk Whether you're gonna get successful successful. I'm lucky. I was one I'm one of the ones who got successful But I'm not like summit levels success. I'm not ninja level success. I'm not rest of my life secure levels of success |
| 19. July 2020 | What would I do if my career ended? | If my streaming career ended what would I do? Matt if your streaming career would end what would you do for a living? I have absolutely no idea and that fear is what drives me in Large part to work as hard as I do the uncertainty of my future my thankfulness to everyone who supports me currently I'm a realist man. You all won't be here in five years, and I wouldn't blame you for it I mean you can make the same content for the next five years, and you know you don't get job security as a streamer You don't get sick days. You don't get holiday days. It's a huge risk Whether you're gonna get successful successful. I'm lucky. I was one I'm one of the ones who got successful But I'm not like summit levels success. I'm not ninja level success. I'm not rest of my life secure levels of success |
| 11. June 2021 | What would I do with a billion dollars? | What would I do with a billion dollars? And if you got one billion dollars, would you even do anything with it? Uh, yeah, I'd probably give a lot of money to people. I'd find some cozy place with the best internet in the world, safe place and build myself a perfect streaming den. I'll give my editors and me and my mods a bunch of money and streamline a lot of my life. I would hire people to cook me healthy meals, I would hire people to do my laundry, and all I would do all day is stream. I'd probably, I mean, hire a dietician and stuff and get the best experts in the world to assess my physical health and tell me what I need to do. I'd have a personal trainer that would make it so I was physically as fit as possible to stream as much as possible, you know. There are definitely things that I could do with a billion dollars. I would optimize my life and help the few people in my life who treat me with kindness. I mean, the people I know. Because obviously you guys do with a little kindness, you know what I'm saying. There's clearly stuff I could do, you know. I'd probably just give away a bajillion subs as well. Like a billion dollars is just an insane amount of money, dude. Insane! |
| 02. February 2020 | What would I have speedran if not GTA? | What was the game you speedrun? If GTA didn't exist, who knows if I ever would have gotten deep into speedrunning. I have speedran two other games before, Dark Souls 3 and Hades, but maybe nothing would have jived with me and I would have just gone on to do other things. Who knows? I was already streaming at that point, so probably I may have just failed as a streamer, who knows? Wcampけ, weighs 100 lbs, enough Standardين's to beat DHoward in the third game! |
| 20. December 2021 | What would I name my cult | What would I name my cults? If I had to make a cult, what would you name it? Please don't join. This is a cult. Cults are bad. I think it's a very good name for a cult. There's sure to be a lot of people that are like, man, you can't tell me what to do. If I want to join your cult, then I will. Pretty much guaranteed to get millions of members overnight. Hey, man, why are you trying to keep me out of your cult, man? Is it good? Is it really good? Yeah, I'm gonna join your cult. Fuck you. |
| 31. October 2021 | What would I rate Sekiro and possible speedrun? | What would I rate Sekiro and possible speedrun? Ignore immersion and storyline. It's a 9 out of 10. The story is garbage. I'm never immersed but the difficulty and gameplay is awesome. Am I gonna speedrun this? I would like to learn this speedrun but uh no one would watch me do this. I've got so much to do with GTA right now that learning another speedrun just doesn't make sense. There's something about Sekiro that rubs you the wrong way. I mean it's really really fast compared to Dark Souls. I was debating whether I thought Sekiro was harder than the other Souls games but again it's really hard to tell because usually what happens is it seems hard because you are you don't know the gimmick. |
| 01. June 2020 | What would I stream if not GTA V? | What would you play if GTA speedrunning was not a thing? I more than likely would not be a successful streamer I would not be a streamer and play whatever games I would be able to play. |
| 08. July 2021 | What would I want the GTA 5 story DLC to be? | What would I want the story for the GT5 DLC to be? Um, I, as I've always said, a DLC for this game would have been best had it involved How Trevor Michael Lester and Brad met. |
| 21. March 2021 | What would happen if I was banned off YouTube? | I was banned off YouTube. There was a brief period where YouTube removed GTA V, Vice City, and GTA III from their categories, so you could no longer stream under those categories or make videos with that game as your category. And instantly I thought, oh my God, they're gonna ban GTA V on YouTube, and I'm gonna only be able to stream. What is my life gonna be like when I only stream on Twitch? Instantly I thought, you know, being on Twitch, far less stressful, gonna just chill every day, but I don't think I'd wanna just stream for a living. Like there are so many cool, funny moments that happen on stream, and I'd hate for them to, you know, only exist temporarily, and for only a finite amount of people who happen to be there at the time for them to see it. I like the permanency of YouTube. Well, it's obviously not permanent forever, it's not like a hundred years now people can't be watching my videos, but far more people see it, you know, and I have that record and I can look back and go, oh, I remember when that happened, you know. Certainly be far less money too, and the amount of new viewers I would be getting would be far less. Like if I had to stop YouTube tomorrow, I wouldn't be sunk, but my belief in the longevity of my career, you know, that I'd be around five years later would be far less. |
| 01. June 2020 | What would i stream if not gta v? | What would you play if GTA speedrunning was not a thing? I more than likely would not be a successful streamer I would not be a streamer and play whatever games I would be able to play. |
| 30. May 2020 | What would my RP character be? | Be the best, you know. If you for some reason ever got into GTA RP and were guaranteed a priority slot where you wouldn't have to wait on astronomically long queues, what would you make your character? Would he be a criminal or a civilian? I have heard that when you get into RP, the thing that you should do is make a character that is most like yourself, because it would be the easiest thing, it would be easier for you to maintain that character without breaking any potential rules. I don't really have any aspirations to pretend to be anyone else. It's weird how I'm like this, where I've never spent my life loving myself or thinking myself as an amazing person, but I've never really aspired to be someone else. I've more aspired to be able to do certain things, like I mean in the wildest fantasy, if I don't know, being able to heal people or teleport or something. I've had these fantasies or whatever, but I've never fantasized about, I know, being Elon Musk or something. Because talking about him before, that's why he was on my mind. Or being Bill Gates or what have you. I've fantasized about my circumstances changing, but me fundamentally still being me. When I get asked questions about role-playing and I make up a character, I'm like, I will be a GTA 5 speedrunner who happens to take an interest in GTA RP. It's just, I don't know what character I would create. I would create one that would be the most interesting for my viewers, I guess. |
| 30. May 2020 | What would my rp character be? | Be the best, you know. If you for some reason ever got into GTA RP and were guaranteed a priority slot where you wouldn't have to wait on astronomically long queues, what would you make your character? Would he be a criminal or a civilian? I have heard that when you get into RP, the thing that you should do is make a character that is most like yourself, because it would be the easiest thing, it would be easier for you to maintain that character without breaking any potential rules. I don't really have any aspirations to pretend to be anyone else. It's weird how I'm like this, where I've never spent my life loving myself or thinking myself as an amazing person, but I've never really aspired to be someone else. I've more aspired to be able to do certain things, like I mean in the wildest fantasy, if I don't know, being able to heal people or teleport or something. I've had these fantasies or whatever, but I've never fantasized about, I know, being Elon Musk or something. Because talking about him before, that's why he was on my mind. Or being Bill Gates or what have you. I've fantasized about my circumstances changing, but me fundamentally still being me. When I get asked questions about role-playing and I make up a character, I'm like, I will be a GTA 5 speedrunner who happens to take an interest in GTA RP. It's just, I don't know what character I would create. I would create one that would be the most interesting for my viewers, I guess. |
| 31. July 2021 | What would the big score guard do with his bar of gold? | In the subtle big score heist Michael gives one of the guards a bar of gold. What would he do with it? Could a person with some kind of home setup melt gold? Like one singular bar? Because that's what you do, right? You'd- I know you bury the gold or like put it some wedge one bar or something and then you'd um- and then like a year later or something you dig it out and melt it. It's better to keep it as a bar. Yeah, but the- it has got a symbol on it and so it'd be traceable. He wouldn't have connections of how to deal with it to a person like that. You'd melt it down and then go to some cash trade gold converter thing. He wouldn't have that kind of expertise, right? I'm just trying to think of like what's the minimum he could do. Like what would a bar like that be worth? Like a hundred grand? Five hundred six hundred K? God damn. What I was basing it off was when I was a kid, um, we went on some field trip and they gave us like a little chunk of gold. Like a- like a- to touch and it was worth twenty thousand dollars. It was like a mold thing like this big or whatever. |
| 24. September 2021 | What would the next big thing for streaming be? | What would the next big thing for streaming be? The next big thing for streaming would be viewers able to control all the scenes and sources. As in you don't want my webcam on the screen, you can take that off. You want my webcam on the right rather than left, you can move it. You don't want my music playing in the background, you can turn that off. But that'd be very complicated to set up, especially complicated to set up for every stream, including having it all sync and stuff and not fall out of sync as you turn it on and off. It's one of those things that they would never be inspired to do on their own. Like there'd have to be two competing twitches so close in terms of dominance that they're looking for anything, any crazy idea to implement, regardless of how costly it is. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 02. June 2021 | Whatsapp and scam emails | WhatsApp and scam emails What's going on right now for those unaware and you should be aware of this if you are a streamer there is an insane amounts of spam emails That are scams trying to pretend to be like advertisements and sponsors and stuff. Like you can just imagine some Small content creator getting an email and be like oh wow I can get a sponsor whatever and they just Give away details that they shouldn't the usual giveaways for these scams are that they Give you a WhatsApp way to respond Or like the emails have like CZ in them. I think I'm not sure what country is doing it, but it's goddamn annoying There are like a lot of things you can see in an email that Usually quickly show it to be legitimate or illegitimate and the people making these scams are just not smart enough to To know what those are Weirdly enough though. I got one of these scam emails for um wallpaper engine. It was like hey yeah yeah yeah yeah we have wallpaper engine We want you to advertise us or whatever and that's funny because I I mentioned wallpaper engine on stream like The day before and I even installed it on steam like the day before I didn't end up using the wallpaper engine because I found the moving Backgrounds distracting. That's why they go through elderly people. No, so I have heard that Scam emails are intentionally at least somewhat Identify a scam right because they don't want to bring in people who once they get into a conversation They won't be easy to trick right because if the scam email was perfect to get you on a phone call It doesn't mean that if once they get you into a phone call you wouldn't just hand over your details But if you can't tell the difference between a scam email and a normal email Then you know if you get onto a phone call with them, you're probably gonna be a you know putty in their hands They just usually give whatever information They want you know if you wasted their time to Get a lot of people on the phone that are smart enough to identify scam emails. You know Do I use whatsapp? No, and it's funny because the easiest way to identify a Scam email that's just a fake like hey where this brand who wants to do some Sponsorships with you is they all have whatsapp. I contact us on whatsapp. I have not ever met a legitimate Sponsorship that actually has whatsapp or uses whatsapp as their main form of communication. Why is whatsapp the preferred? communication for scammers though Is it because like I know a lot of these scammers from India or something or my countries have whatsapp Which is the dominant form of communication or always there is something about whatsapp that makes scamming easier Messages encrypted are hey this game is ruin India's rep Oh, yeah I think these kind of scamming operations exist in any country where like a dollar goes a long way right whether the currency conversion is Quite good, and the the wage is quite low you know so even if you only succeed in a scam once a week or something that's actually a significant amount of money like the the amount that you have to succeed in the scamming is far less you know and There's often not as many job opportunities like I mean like it is one of the reasons why Russia was known for hacking some of the best well-paid jobs It can come from these hacking groups in Russia panic |
| 18. February 2021 | When I start speedrunning again it will be very memey | When I start speedrunning again, it will be very me-me. I am going to treat speedrunning much more me-me than I ever did previously. As in, I will take it seriously to an extent, don't get me wrong, I will try. But most of my first 50 runs or something, it's just gonna be me completing the game with the speedrun strats with a mod on. So the runs won't even be able to be submitted anyway. My goal will be to complete a run, a stream. And like every run that I complete will be different. I may even make it its own series. Of course, the mods that will be interesting will be somewhat limited because I won't be watching the cutscenes. I will be using mods just to change things up a bit because I won't be compared with the world record in the beginning anyway, so I may as well have some fun with it. |
| 30. September 2021 | When I was a small streamer, what would I do after I ended stream? | When I was a small streamer, what would I do after I ended stream? Dark fiber, how much time do you spend making your stream good compared to actually streaming? Thank you for the implication that my stream is good. When I was a new streamer, every time I turn off my stream I will be like How can I make my stream better? Where can I advertise myself? That's all I thought about. I would look up Different websites and anything for any small tip that I could utilize. I would look at my layout And I think what what could I do to make it better? I would listen to my stream listen to the audio and go how can I make the audio better? Should I tinker with EQ a bit more? What am I doing wrong here? I don't do that as much now because I spend too much time editing. I'm pretty convinced That the best thing I can do for my stream right now is growing my YouTube channel and making consistent content for that I'm a person who likes to feel productive and so whenever the stream was off Or I wasn't well, it wasn't streaming. I would always try to be thinking about like what's the next thing that I can do What what can I be tinkering with? What can I improve? Can I update my links my notes my bot whatever? I have less time for that stuff now cuz I spend so much time editing Stream is good, but you need some work in the jokes department. I find myself fucking hilarious. Okay? |
| 28. December 2021 | When a YouTuber needs to make a video longer | needs to make a video longer. I clicked on this video recently. This tiny software destroyed the WoW economy or something. I was like, that seems kind of interesting. So once upon a time in World of Warcraft, one gold was worth $10. Like a single gold was worth a lot, like, you know, it was hard to get a single gold piece. Like, like a mount, you know, mount thing would cost you 40 gold and that would take ages to farm up. And then this botting program was released. It was easy to use and hard to detect. And so it flooded the game with gold. And that changed to one gold being worth $1. But the video that explained this idea was like seven minutes long. And I swear to you, there was maybe 20 words in the entire video, but they were repeated ad nauseam, like just over and over and over again. And so that's how the WoW economy was destroyed. Destroyed so much that it made it so gold was only worth a dollar. And that's why guys, the WoW economy was not in a great shape because WoW gold was worth only a dollar. And that's how it was destroyed. Because after WoW gold was only worth a dollar, the economy couldn't really survive with a being like that. Because it's effectively destroyed, is what I'm trying to say. After this bot thing was released. And that's just how it went on for like seven minutes. It was terrible.ómo |
| 18. October 2021 | When all you have is facebook memes | when all you have is Facebook memes. The funniest thing that has become a tendency since the rise of social media, people will be like, I don't trust anything, any one of my government says I got better sources of information. Pussy Licker 45 from Tennessee, he got that good information. He drives trucks for a living, man. I don't believe that there, immunologist. I'm sure he got like that 30 years of experience in his field, but he worked for that there government, he didn't know what the fuck he talking about, man. Ain't no government is 100% honest, right? But it doesn't mean every single thing that comes out of your government is necessarily false. It's a scary thing where people will say like, I don't trust the media. And you're like, well, where do you get your information from? And it's like memes on Facebook. I don't trust medical professionals, but medical professionals are the only people who have the capability to study the virus at all, who have enough background information to study anything related to this. So how could you ever get information about anything related to the topic without having at least some reliance on people who actually have a background in the field? And you look where they get the information and it's just memes on Facebook. When you lack any ability to suss out fact from fiction, to at least some degree in what you're reading, what you end up doing is just wholesale riding off like entire aspects of discourse. And then you're left with these fringe weirdos on the internet that know nothing, but they're the only people you can listen to because they're the only people that you haven't just wholesale said no, can't listen to them. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 24. September 2021 | When did I know I wanted to study psychology? | as in, when did I know I wanted to study psychology? When did you know you wanted to study psychology? I don't know. Always been interested in people. And the opportunity presented itself, so I did. Interested in people from like the, like an abstract kind of thing. The meta of people and why they do what they do and come to the conclusions that they do. As opposed to wanting to meet a lot of people. |
| 02. February 2020 | When did I realize I could stream full-time? | You first started streaming, when did you first realize that you can actually do this full time? When I look back on my decision to try doing this full time, very dumb decision considering my audience. I had certainly less than 10,000 followers and a mild not really existence. Maybe a couple of hundred subscribers on YouTube, who knows. This is of course not including my other older accounts, but I more started streaming more due to a lack of opportunity to do anything else. I didn't know, I didn't have connections to get myself a job anywhere else and I, at best I was going to apply to bachelor programs or whatever until those bore fruits or whatever. I had to find something to do with my time and streaming was it. And when I got partner I was like well you know maybe I can make something of this. I do seem to be growing consistently and we'll see where we are. But I was only just barely making it. You know making as much money as I was paying expenses until like maybe a year, year and a half ago perhaps. If you like this Q&A footage and want me to keep doing this kind of thing, just hit like. It generally tells me that people like watching the stuff. Thank you. |
| 02. February 2020 | When did I realize I could stream fulltime? | You first started streaming, when did you first realize that you can actually do this full time? When I look back on my decision to try doing this full time, very dumb decision considering my audience. I had certainly less than 10,000 followers and a mild not really existence. Maybe a couple of hundred subscribers on YouTube, who knows. This is of course not including my other older accounts, but I more started streaming more due to a lack of opportunity to do anything else. I didn't know, I didn't have connections to get myself a job anywhere else and I, at best I was going to apply to bachelor programs or whatever until those bore fruits or whatever. I had to find something to do with my time and streaming was it. And when I got partner I was like well you know maybe I can make something of this. I do seem to be growing consistently and we'll see where we are. But I was only just barely making it. You know making as much money as I was paying expenses until like maybe a year, year and a half ago perhaps. If you like this Q&A footage and want me to keep doing this kind of thing, just hit like. It generally tells me that people like watching the stuff. Thank you. |
| 14. May 2020 | When did content become a job | general looked fun so I started streaming and then I was like oh well you know speedrunning looks fun I need to find myself a game to speedrun so Witwick speedrunning GTA 5 decided to do it myself got support from people in the community at the time and the rest is history. I'm fairly drunk while editing this I don't I can't think of something funny to make you like the video but if you want to like the video to be nice to me I'd really appreciate it thank you. |
| 07. December 2019 | When do I think YouTube will end | When do I think YouTube will end? How long do I believe YouTube will last until it finally dies out? I don't think it will ever die out. It might change in terms of, like, to put it another way, MySpace is still technically a thing that people visit. YouTube could change in its form, but it's been so big for so long that it's hard to imagine it ever going away, unless there's some major legislation that makes, like, online video illegal or something. YouTube will die out once the inevitable heat death of the universe comes? Nah. It'll live beyond that. There'll be nothing but void, and within that void, will be YouTube. |
| 22. December 2020 | When i first knew i wouldn’t like rdr2. | The first moment I knew I wasn't going to like Red Dead Redemption 2. A clip released on my clips channel, which I titled, uh, when DarkviperAU knew he wasn't gonna like Red Dead Redemption 2 or something like that. The clip shows me going off road and then, like, within like two seconds, immediately mission failing because I wasn't on the road. And then being walked back like 15 minutes in the past and- and having to do like a- the slow drive again, uh, and a stupid minigame. There wasn't the first moment in the game, actually, that I thought I wasn't gonna like the game. The first moment was when I first looted a corpse, uh, at the beginning of the game and it took like 20 seconds and there was like 20 other corpses to loot. And I was just like, I- I- I spent 20 seconds looting this, like, longer than the fanfare of looting a chest in Ocarina of Time and I got a piece of string and a penny. Clearly this game has not been built for fun. In subsequent editions of Red Dead Redemption 2, they did fix it and they reduced the looting time, but I was just like, clearly whoever made this game did not have fun in mind. There was not a person in that room being like, is this fun? And I knew I was gonna struggle to enjoy the game. I was still hopeful that I would enjoy it, but that kind of stuff doesn't get through a process, uh, that is- that is considered- that has fun as a consideration. If you have very long looting in a game, perfectly acceptable, but what you get has to be really, really, really good to justify that amount of time and the looting has to occur infrequently. Red Dead Redemption 2 had the worst of every world. Endless items that were complete garbage, endless items that all do basically the same thing, so you open your inventory, you don't even know what anything is. Looting was very frequent, but very long, and provided you with complete garbage. Anyone who understands game design isn't going to implement a system like that, but it got through and required tuning later. Very- very crazy. |
| 08. June 2020 | When is "IT" going to happen | You know, when is it going to happen questions? When am I speeding again? Gotta start making a command for that question because I get it every day. As I've gotten more popular, that those questions are just a super constant. Like every 16 seconds, someone asks, when is this thing gonna happen? I understand now more George R.R. Martin when he said, when he kind of says these questions and kind of annoying, because they thinking it really got them annoying. Because asking when is it gonna come doesn't change anything. It doesn't make it come out faster or slower. It doesn't change when you're gonna get it. It's not like you're gonna rearrange your schedule to watch it or something. I think some people would, for at least Twitch controls chaos, but I doubt it. |
| 02. February 2021 | When is expanded and enhanced gta 5 going to release | When is the expanded and enhanced GTA 5 going to release? Why hasn't the expanded and enhanced version of GTA 5 come out yet? Maybe COVID caused the issues. They said late 2021. It will be quite unfortunate if, like, the entirety of the graphics are re-re-amps and we'll be still playing on 1.27 and the game will look a lot worse. The game is still selling millions, for millions, right? Every month or whatever. Online is still making so much money. You can guarantee that a re-release of the game will result in people replaying through the story. Because it's been that long for most people. They will make a fuck ton of money from re-releasing GTA 5. All I care about is the small possibility that they'll actually give servers to the online with actual security. If GTA 6 comes out in the next five years, I'd be surprised. Eh, I'd bet three. I'd bet three years. Three to five. |
| 04. May 2021 | When is the next cooking stream? | When is the next cooking stream? When are you gonna do cooking streams again? Like you don't plan cooking streams. You'd be like I got the munchies and then you just turn on the camera, you know But because I am watching my weight, I don't have the munchies. Like if I don't go to bed hungry I consider that to be a failure. I don't want to be starving or something, but I'm just a little bit hungry You know, just not full, you know. I actually failed last night because I actually ate Um, some candy that I had in my cupboard. As you do, you know, your cupboard candy. Everyone's got that, right? I'm like, because this is the worst justification chat, the worst justification. I'm like, but if I eat it, then it's gone So then I'll never be tempted again. So why not just eat it now and then like sure I'm breaking the rules kind of now, but then I can't break the rules in the future Fucking dumbass past Matt. Thinks he's smart, but he dumb Where's the next cooking with Vapour? It's never gonna be a planned thing. I do eventually want to make a cake on stream though I'm sure it's gonna be terrible. Like if it was something I would do more regularly I would have like an actual setup or something in my kitchen. Get myself a laptop or something Is scuff recording as part of it? Me a little bit, yeah It's hard to say exactly what makes those videos good But it's mainly me just being bad at stuff and me thinking that doing something like that I've always done is the right way of doing it In trash. It's like no Matt. You've been doing it wrong your entire life. It's like oh shit. I still think that talk about what's great though. Just saying. |
| 31. March 2021 | When people are terrible and change, should they be forgiven? | When people are terrible and change, should they be forgiven? Little bit political, but there's this thing that I see on Twitter sometimes Where wish I could bring up the tweet. What was the original tweet? Some- someone was like Everyone was shit when they were a kid or something It shouldn't matter or something and someone responded like yeah I was like in full into Nazi and Nazism and stuff when I was a kid I'm so happy that I grew out of that stuff and I am I became a better person for it Whenever these kind of interactions happen, it's not always about Nazism It's you know, I I did X that was terrible in the past I realized it was wrong and I grew and became a better person. There's always this terrible kind of person who pipes up and says huh, huh, I Personally didn't have those flaws. I Personally didn't have to go through those trials. I personally didn't have to grow in that particular way I am so much better than you fuck you. I don't care how much you've grown You're always terrible and I'm always the best it's I was born in a better environment that influenced me to have more socially acceptable more positive beliefs and actions and whatnot in regards to my own well-being and others and You didn't have these things. I am so much better than you It's I hate it so much these people who take credit for the environment that they were raised in for the experiences that they had as a result of the environment that they exist in as if they themselves picked this and The other person who wasn't equally blessed is somehow worse for not equally achieving this environment or some such It's just so dumb It's just so ignorance of human psychology and what makes people who they are And that like every time I see it you like how I probably talked about and Retweeted these tweets like at least a dozen times over the last year because I hate them so much People who are so confident in taking credit for shit that they did nothing to earn Baffles me and the narratives that people write themselves so they can take credit the stuff that ultimately was a Matter of chance Battles me like people who change for the better should be applauded for it It should be something that the greatest levels of celebration because it inspires other people to make such changes if the people who? change from socially destructive years to positive ones are still treated as if they still hold the Socially destructive years, why would anyone change or rather? They could still change for other reasons, but you're influencing such people to maintain those views to the detriment of literally everyone in society But that doesn't matter to these people who want to act wholly of now us and pretend like they somehow Worked hard not to be born into a into an environment that instilled upon them Socially destructive years should have worked harder to be born in a better environment dip shit like me It's pathetic because they're there the goal of these people's communication Communication to say I'm holding them down off isn't to make society better. It's make themselves feel good to the detriment of someone else There's this long discussion I want to have some day. I want you to ramble where I kind of discussed my views as to What people can rightly take credit for? how responsible anyone is for anything related to themselves and the end results and their actions their beliefs and It's such a depressing conversation. I don't know man All I know is the person who wrote that tweet is a complete dipshit, and they're never gonna realize it |
| 30. September 2022 | When people say I am relatable | When people say I am relatable, sometimes when people say that they can relate to me, I'm like, Ah, I'm so sorry for you, dude. I hope things pick up, man. I hope your life gets better, man! Or you only relate to the good things, you know? Don't forget to sigскr I'll talk to you all later. |
| 18. October 2021 | When will Covid go away? | When will COVID go away? How many months do I think until COVID is over? It'll never be over now. As everyone said at the beginning, there was a po- So, it's a virus, so it spreads with human contact. There was a time early on where had people just sufficiently distanced and believed it was a sufficient issue to distance, it would have just died out because it wouldn't have connected with enough people to continue to spread. But enough people didn't take it seriously. Enough people downplayed it, called it the flu, that it's spread enough and now it's spread enough that it's never going to go away. It's just going to come back in waves similar to the flu. As with the flu, it's going to be vaccines against it continuously. Like, there's a bunch of things that people take yearly vaccines for or whatever, and it's probably going to end up being that way. But once everyone's sufficiently vaxxed and all they've had it, I mean, it's already less deadly because of the vaccine. So, it would just be manageable. The main thing now is just getting it to the point where there aren't so many people being hospitalized that the hospitals and stuff are overwhelmed. Just to clarify, obviously there isn't one coronavirus. Coronavirus is a large family of viruses that just cause issues with your respiratory system. There are some coronaviruses that do cause some of the common cold, apparently. I just mean that the SARS-CoV-2 or what have you will now be with us in our just general amount of viruses that we deal with every year. But it seems more to me that the main problem was just how many people didn't believe at all. The wider narrative of this isn't a problem. This is fake news. This is the flu. That's what sunk everyone. You know? |
| 02. October 2022 | When will GTA 6 release | When will GTA 6 release? Okay, when you think the trailers can drop when you think the game's gonna release? It's hard to say because I know GTA 5 got the trailer in 2011 which is two years But the game was actually supposed to come out like earlier. It got delayed So we could get a trailer I would say as soon as like maybe like next month at the earliest but the latest maybe like a year from now I have heard a lot of people say October. I'm not sure why they're saying October, but I would like that to occur Yeah, that'd be awesome Do you think that that it's pushed up Rockstar schedule these leaks that they want to drop a trailer sooner rather than later? I think it may be like lit a fire like a cause like I we should probably just announce this like it's I think Maybe that that changed a bit But it's hard to say if it get caused also any delays behind the scenes because it most likely did Especially if source code is out there. Yeah, it's one of those things where like Rockstar can't lie to their investors They have to speak honestly about potential delays and issues that they're having Or else they can potentially get sued for misrepresenting how well they're they're going because that can manipulate the stock price and all that stuff and Their official statements are probably accurate at least to some degree and if they're out there saying that this is not causing any issues Right now for us. I'm willing to believe them. Yeah, that's true, but who knows if things could get worse in the future I mean from my understanding the dude has been arrested. Yes, all that you know is if he had You got to rest apparently there might be accomplices who have the footage as well or the source code who knows but right now It seems that at least from my View of it that there's not going to be any problems for rocks though. Yeah, which is good Like imagine of the entire is like the whole source code got leaked and they had like that. It's just terrible Yeah, absolutely especially because we don't want to repeat of duty online for PC again Hey, what every man and their dogs got a mod menu for $4 like right over this day? |
| 17. December 2022 | When will I get the final achievement in GTA 5? | I get the final achievement in GTA V. This being the criminal mastermind's achievement where I have to do the doomsday heist three times without dying with different amounts of people. I was actually talking yesterday about the possibility of doing all achievements part 6. It's just not doable. It's a huge time investment and extraordinarily difficult. Like I would sincerely have to dedicate like a lot of time to it. Five to eight hours for a good completion and the possibility of someone getting DDoS'd or whatever. It's just too high. It's just not worth it. Like I don't know how I would make interesting content of me doing the same heist three times. I already have a video on the doomsday heist and it's a very good video. Like I don't know how I would make that interesting. |
| 02. June 2021 | When will I hit 1 million subscribers? | When will I hit a million subscribers? When do I think I'll hit a million subs? At current rates? A year from now. I think I'm getting like 30k a month right now. It's only declining. Certainly getting a thousand a day is quite flattering, you know. I mean there was that month or two where I got like 100k, which was nice. I'll probably get a million on YouTube this year. Nothing is suggestive of that. I would need 300,000 subscribers. How many months left? Six. I'll probably get 800k this year. It's not impossible I might get a million, but it would require me to have an influx of new subscribers that I'm not getting right now. The only things that would likely do that is if I completed no damage and moved on to doing other stuff. Socialblade predicts 1 million subs in September? Well, it's wrong. I know where it's predicting that off. I'm just saying, it's not impossible that I'll get a million subs by the end of the year. It's just right now the growth I'm having isn't suggestive that that's going to occur. If I would have put money on it, I wouldn't because the outlook is uncertain. But I would predict I would get a million by the end of the year. But that's because I believe I'll finish no damage by that point. I am pretty convinced that if I finish no damage, then the sky is the fucking limit. Because there should be so much stuff that I can do. When I was talking to Sonny Evans, if you saw that ramble, I rattled off a dozen things that I want to do, but I can't do because I'm still going through no damage. And there's more than that, you know? There's also a lot of single player games I want to play through. I want to play through the Yakuza games, Hitman games, the rest of the GTA clones. But I'm not likely going to put off speedrunning to do that. And I still haven't been going through Bully. But I do plan to dedicate some days to Bully. But again, I just want no damage to be finished. If I don't finish no damage by 2020, will I quit? Uh, no. I think all the time about quitting. And then the next thought in my mind is, now fuck that shit. Then it's all for nothing? I'm not in a situation where that's my main motivation to continue. Where it's like, oh man, if I quit now, then it will all be for nothing. My main motivation right now, and has always been, I really want to succeed. I have strived for it for so long that I want it so badly. To be real though, the pain I experience when I fail now is, uh, it's quite painful. My |
| 21. June 2022 | When will I quit? | I can't, I mean eventually it's just gonna get to the point where I have a lack of audience. It's just not worth doing. Sometimes I do feel really jaded and somewhat dislike this industry, but I doubt that's ever gonna be enough to stop me completely. Like with all that react stuff or whatever. It doesn't matter where you are in the world. The people who are most willing to abuse and exploit others are gonna be the furthest ahead. Or at least they're gonna be among the others who are more deserving of being ahead, you know what I'm saying? Like if I can't live with that or deal with that then I may as well retire from existence and that, you know. I just need to put it out of my mind and focus on my own shit. You know what's most likely gonna happen is that I just fade from relevancy. People get tired of my shit, and I can't capture a new audience. Or there is no new audience for me to capture and I'm done, you know. Like it would suck if I bow out before GTA 6, you know. The thing is though, like you may think that GTA 6 coming out will will cause me to explode in popularity or something. I'd be surprised if it wasn't more popular than I am now at least, but the competition will be so fierce, you know. Like now that I've shown that no damage runs, pass-versus runs, speed runs can be successful and all that, right? You got to imagine there'd be heaps of people doing that shit. Like pass-versus was enjoyable and no damage enjoyable in part because they were done so late in the game's life. If you do them really early, the routes will be fucking garbage. Like I often think to myself, what do I want to do when GTA 6 comes out? And I'm like an older man now. Like I would want to be streaming like 12 hours a day and just have like an army of people editing and uploading stuff for me. But uh, because at that point it almost doesn't matter the quality of the content. It's more about getting out first. If I did retire from making content tomorrow, what job would I go into if any? I would just do, I would work on myself for a long time. I've got a bit of money now, so I know I look into meditation and exercise and all that jazz and take care of myself. It is fine I took their stuff. I put their name in the credits. |
| 17. March 2022 | When will we run out of new songs? | When will we run out of new songs? Got a song stuck in my head now. Say you won't go, I will not go. Turn the lights off, carry me. There is no reason why new songs should be better than old songs, right? Taste change, but I wonder if in part it's because of that principle where people like things that are the same but slightly different. And so like with every passing year, stuff has released that is the same as before but slightly different until you move very far away from songs 10, 20 years ago whatever. And so they're not as good because they don't appeal to your taste anymore because you've just drifted away from them. I don't know. But certainly yeah people just advertise the older songs less because they bring in less money. But I just mean eventually there's gonna reach a point where every conceivable note in every conceivable order that is appealing to the human senses has been played. Certainly you can combine it with different lyrics and stuff but it's just like at that point we'll have all the music we'll ever need right? And it'll just be a question of finding what appeals to you. |
| 03. September 2021 | Where I would move if I had to leave Australia? | Where I would move if I had to leave Australia. If I had to move out of Australia where would I go? Probably New Zealand. If I can go to New Zealand I mean like just anywhere with really good internet. That speaks English. I've always been afraid that like going to another country and a language barrier leading me to get into some strife. That's always been a concern to me. I remember this story someone told me or something where they were on a train or something and they were stopped by these police or something. They didn't speak English and there was apparently a problem with their passports but they couldn't understand what the problem was and after a lot of confusion eventually one of them just kind of figured out that the other the policeman whether rightly or wrongly would just like look just pay us some money and we'll let you go or something. Who knows the facts of the matter what whether they you know were just being kind and they're like look just give us a reason to let you go I don't know. Or if they were just trying to extort them for money because they're you know ignorant foreigners I don't know but that whole exchange this makes me nervous about going to a country where English isn't the dominant language. Certainly in a lot of countries that like you know even English being the second language like everyone speaks English but still. |
| 03. June 2020 | Where are most of my viewers from | you right now. Where do most of my viewers come from? They come from America because America is the largest English- |
| 03. June 2020 | Where are most of my viewers from? | you right now. Where do most of my viewers come from? They come from America because America is the largest English- |
| 05. February 2021 | Where did in learn to edit? | Where did I learn to edit? Where did you learn to edit? No one taught me to edit. I just slowly learned myself over time. I would Google things if I had an idea and I didn't know how to do it. It's why you can see my editing from back in the day is a lot worse than it is now. Also, eventually getting myself editors and collaborating with them on my projects also helped me, because I could see what they were doing and be like, oh I could do that myself actually in other stuff, you know? The biggest problem with editing though is a lot of what makes a video good is not editing techniques but knowing how scenes should be composed and making stuff funny you know, with editing. Just being good at editing doesn't mean you have a good sense of humor or a good sense of how to compile footage. |
| 15. July 2021 | Where did podcasts get their name? | Where did podcasts get its name? It's weird how podcasts got their name. How did podcasts get their name? I assumed it was just like a pod like a small space or whatever where people meet and you're casting To the internet, right? It's broadcasts and iPod Really? Goddamn. |
| 27. July 2021 | Where do I plan out my pc builds? | Where do I plan out my PC builds? PC part picker is the site that you use to build PCs. There's nothing better than PC part picker. Shows every part, every availability. Like more than just building PCs, when I want to know if a part's available somewhere, I go to PC part picker. Which is that good? |
| 17. December 2020 | Where is Pacifist%? | Where is pacifist percent? Keep in mind that when I say oko in this next section, I'm referring to my no damage runs. So we'll uh, we'll answer the pacifist thing just one more time. Just because there's probably more people here than normal. Pacifist is really hard to create. YouTube does not favor that content. The last episode did extraordinarily terribly. It is a very hard video to produce. It causes me a lot of stress and the time that I would normally be spending working on pacifist, I'm now spending uploading clips to my second channel. So there are just multiple avenues why the episode hasn't come out. Have I done any work on pacifist? Yes. I've cut it down from like six hours of footage to like an hour of footage, and that's about all I've done. It will eventually come out. But once upon a time, at the end of the month, it'd be max possible priority. It is no longer that way. At this point I'm kind of working on it if I have nothing else to work on. But because I have so many clips to process, I always have something to work on. And I'm hoping that the longer I go, that it's not going to cause people to have higher expectations for the video. Don't. I have full expectations that the next episode is not going to be amazing. Some cool stuff happens. Like don't get me wrong, the biggest reason why I want to finish pacifist is because I know there's stuff in there that you guys would really appreciate. There's cool things in it. What's unfortunate though is because new strats have been found, it would impact how I would have done things. So the longer I wait and the more strats that are found, the more outdated the footage seems. If I finish Oko and Cyberpunk 2077 is a bit of a bust for me content-wise, I might try and focus on getting it out again. My most popular pacifist episodes are the longest. In the time that the long pacifist got popular, I think YouTube favored longer content more. Clearly, given my clips channel, YouTube isn't as interested in favoring longer content. They even made that change where you can put mid-rolls and eight-minute videos now as opposed to ten. Clearly YouTube isn't as focused on things being longer currently. I think if I had released this last episode of pacifist now as opposed to when it released, it probably would have done better. In my mind though, I've kind of segmented my life. There is the time before Oko and the time after Oko has been completed kind of thing where once Oko has been completed, once I've got zero deaths for the entire run, I will be able to do so much again. This thing has just consumed my life in trying to solve this. |
| 21. August 2021 | Where is my Doki Doki Literature Club footage? | During this video, where is my Doki Doki Literature Club footage? When did you play Doki Doki Club? I can't wait for the upload. Uh, a long time ago to the point where the footage is not very good. Uh, I'd have to work on it and it would take me three days. If I use the original edit that a person made for it, like a solid nine hours a day. It's, it's a very tough edit because sometimes I clicked through before the text had finished scrolling or I was reading faster than the text scrolling and stuff. So I need to like half freeze the frame so that the frame stays there and the person doesn't move. It, I have to use masking and stuff. It's a, it's a very complicated edit and it just, uh, I don't think it would do well enough to justify the time, you know. |
| 10. November 2021 | Where is my Pepsi sponsorship? | Where is my Pepsi sponsorship? But here's the style of the show, they're the Pepsi Max. Buy at your local grocery store. Not sponsored. Understandably. This Dark 5AU is giving us endless free promotion. Let's not pay him any money. I would be happy just to get any kind of acknowledgement. Like, Soda Poppin once got acknowledged by Coke, and they gave him a Coke fridge that he sat behind him for ages. I don't know if he still drinks Coke, I don't know. |
| 10. November 2021 | Where is my pepsi sponsorship? | Where is my Pepsi sponsorship? But here's the style of the show, they're the Pepsi Max. Buy at your local grocery store. Not sponsored. Understandably. This Dark 5AU is giving us endless free promotion. Let's not pay him any money. I would be happy just to get any kind of acknowledgement. Like, Soda Poppin once got acknowledged by Coke, and they gave him a Coke fridge that he sat behind him for ages. I don't know if he still drinks Coke, I don't know. |
| 07. May 2021 | Where is my podcast? | Where is my podcast? Did I give up the podcast or is it continuing? I think I've given it up. Don't think it's something I was good at, at least as good as I hope to be. It's hard arranging people by sleeping patterns to be on a day where I actually have energy and stuff. I ain't good at the clapping things yet. |
| 17. December 2020 | Where is pacifist%? | Where is pacifist percent? Keep in mind that when I say oko in this next section, I'm referring to my no damage runs. So we'll uh, we'll answer the pacifist thing just one more time. Just because there's probably more people here than normal. Pacifist is really hard to create. YouTube does not favor that content. The last episode did extraordinarily terribly. It is a very hard video to produce. It causes me a lot of stress and the time that I would normally be spending working on pacifist, I'm now spending uploading clips to my second channel. So there are just multiple avenues why the episode hasn't come out. Have I done any work on pacifist? Yes. I've cut it down from like six hours of footage to like an hour of footage, and that's about all I've done. It will eventually come out. But once upon a time, at the end of the month, it'd be max possible priority. It is no longer that way. At this point I'm kind of working on it if I have nothing else to work on. But because I have so many clips to process, I always have something to work on. And I'm hoping that the longer I go, that it's not going to cause people to have higher expectations for the video. Don't. I have full expectations that the next episode is not going to be amazing. Some cool stuff happens. Like don't get me wrong, the biggest reason why I want to finish pacifist is because I know there's stuff in there that you guys would really appreciate. There's cool things in it. What's unfortunate though is because new strats have been found, it would impact how I would have done things. So the longer I wait and the more strats that are found, the more outdated the footage seems. If I finish Oko and Cyberpunk 2077 is a bit of a bust for me content-wise, I might try and focus on getting it out again. My most popular pacifist episodes are the longest. In the time that the long pacifist got popular, I think YouTube favored longer content more. Clearly, given my clips channel, YouTube isn't as interested in favoring longer content. They even made that change where you can put mid-rolls and eight-minute videos now as opposed to ten. Clearly YouTube isn't as focused on things being longer currently. I think if I had released this last episode of pacifist now as opposed to when it released, it probably would have done better. In my mind though, I've kind of segmented my life. There is the time before Oko and the time after Oko has been completed kind of thing where once Oko has been completed, once I've got zero deaths for the entire run, I will be able to do so much again. This thing has just consumed my life in trying to solve this. |
| 29. December 2020 | Where the No Damage run rules come from. | Where the no damage run rules come from. If you're about to die could you leave then come back? There are no formal rules for this no damage run right? Like if I, there's no rule that says if I'm about to take damage that I can't just pause and load a save file that I made this run. But I feel like that's kind of cheating. Everyone has different standards as to what should be acceptable in any particular run. And because this isn't a formal category I am the ultimate arbiter as to what I can or cannot do. If I hadn't restricted the ability to use Trevor's special ability I would probably be done by now. But it just seems so garbage to use Trevor's special ability in a no damage run. So like I don't mind reloading save files when I've forgotten something or whatever but if I'm like staring down the barrel of a gun I'm not going to pause and load a save file. And solve the problem as it presents itself. |
| 29. December 2020 | Where the no damage run rules come from. | Where the no damage run rules come from. If you're about to die could you leave then come back? There are no formal rules for this no damage run right? Like if I, there's no rule that says if I'm about to take damage that I can't just pause and load a save file that I made this run. But I feel like that's kind of cheating. Everyone has different standards as to what should be acceptable in any particular run. And because this isn't a formal category I am the ultimate arbiter as to what I can or cannot do. If I hadn't restricted the ability to use Trevor's special ability I would probably be done by now. But it just seems so garbage to use Trevor's special ability in a no damage run. So like I don't mind reloading save files when I've forgotten something or whatever but if I'm like staring down the barrel of a gun I'm not going to pause and load a save file. And solve the problem as it presents itself. |
| 19. January 2022 | Where was I during the year 2000 and the turn of the millennium. | So was I during the year 2000 and the turn of the millennium. I still vaguely remember the year 2000 at my, um, friends the family sort of house. And, uh, I was just playing with, um, sparklers. Sparklers are these little firework things that you hold that shoot off sparks. And I missed the countdown, I think. And they're like, oh, you missed the countdown. I'm like, eh, whatever. Got my sparklers. Sparklers fucking cool. I was nine years old. Like I didn't give a shit. |
| 28. December 2019 | Where would I travel to? | of our YouTube content, but where would I like to travel? So the problem with travel, OK, if you gave me the ability to instantly teleport around the world, I would do that so much just to see cool shit. But there is nothing in the world that I'm aware of that it will be worth the hassle of traveling there to see it, especially when I can look at it online. It's not the same experience, but the loss, the lessening of the hassles, you know. I'm going to go on it because I'm in Australia, right? So it's like I'm going to go on like a 12 plus hour flights to the rest of the world and go see X. Why? Like what? |
| 15. February 2022 | Where would the viewers go if not for reactors? | It is inconceivable that a person who watches React content right now will just never engage with online content creation again. I fully grant it is possible that there's a certain amount of people who watch React content and that it's just their jam. And that they spend 90% of their time doing that or what have you. But if React content disappeared, they would still need entertainment. And it is just stupid to suggest that this person is just never going to engage with online content again. My point wasn't that. There would be an exact one-to-one transference of people who watch React content to other content creators. It is simply that a substantial amount of these people would spend at least some time somewhere else. And some of that would have to be online content creators. Because they still need entertainment. People are searching for entertainment and online content creation is a way that these people get entertainment. As shown by that, they're already in the system. And it's just inconceivable that they would just stop that entirely for the rest of their days. Maybe they would watch half the videos that they used to watch. I don't care. Those other 50, 50, the other half videos deserve those views and impressions more than does React content in my view. Yeah. And I wanted to quickly, because I want to get on to fair use, which is where I feel well, I think it's relevant. I think it's fairly well. I'll explain why it's relevant. But I wanted to say people saying that, you know, I only found you out because of someone reacted to you. I feel like that's basically the same as saying I don't care that you were exploited and you should be happy that now I know about you because you were exploited is basically I feel like what they're saying. But I don't think they understand that again. Most of this stuff, I think people just generally don't understand how people are being exploited. But that's but still, they just don't understand the cause. |
| 04. March 2022 | Where “Dawn of the New Run” comes from. | Where the Dawn of the New Run sound comes from. In Majora's Mask, the Nintendo 64 game, at the start of every day, it would come up and go dov dov, Dawn of the New Day. Because the game is based around a three day time loop, and it's very important what day you're in. And that sound and that screen coming up is iconic, but also a very easy transition, so a lot of people use it. But I used it so much that if people haven't played Majora's Mask, they assume it's something that I made. So I get messages sometimes like, oh, someone so big created used your sound. Not accusing them of stealing it, like they're like, oh, is this a homage to your content? It's not. I mean, maybe in some very rare circumstance it could be, where that creator also has only learns of the sound through me, but I doubt it. |
| 04. March 2022 | Where “dawn of the new run” comes from. | Where the Dawn of the New Run sound comes from. In Majora's Mask, the Nintendo 64 game, at the start of every day, it would come up and go dov dov, Dawn of the New Day. Because the game is based around a three day time loop, and it's very important what day you're in. And that sound and that screen coming up is iconic, but also a very easy transition, so a lot of people use it. But I used it so much that if people haven't played Majora's Mask, they assume it's something that I made. So I get messages sometimes like, oh, someone so big created used your sound. Not accusing them of stealing it, like they're like, oh, is this a homage to your content? It's not. I mean, maybe in some very rare circumstance it could be, where that creator also has only learns of the sound through me, but I doubt it. |
| 14. September 2021 | Which GTA 5 special ability i would change | Which GTA V special ability would I change? If you could rework one character's special ability, what would it be and how? I'd probably want Trevor's ability to make him immune to all damage. Including knockback. Like effectively make him an immovable object. So you can put an explosion next to him, but wouldn't even make him flinch. It would be okay. I was thinking more that Trevor would be, um... What's the guy from X-Men? Juggernaut. I remember Juggernaut's name because of him, the Juggernaut, bitch. anatomynote.u balloon.com |
| 30. May 2020 | Which g is hardest to speedrun? | So what do you think the hardest game to speedrun is or which requires the most skill? I have no idea The hardest speed runs are those that have been So competitive for so long that they've been ground down to needing frames to get world records Especially the really short runs really long runs are hard in terms of endurance and memorization of everything you need to possibly do and All the ways that you can fail and all the backups and all that stuff It's a different skill from perfect inputs in a very short speed run I'm not gonna say which is necessarily harder But it just it feels as though like when you're talking about Super Mario Brothers 1 or whatever where they need frames to beat the record or whatever like you view if your input is a frame late you you have to reset those seem like the games that take the most skill or most determination to do |
| 30. May 2020 | Which game is hardest to speedrun? | So what do you think the hardest game to speedrun is or which requires the most skill? I have no idea The hardest speed runs are those that have been So competitive for so long that they've been ground down to needing frames to get world records Especially the really short runs really long runs are hard in terms of endurance and memorization of everything you need to possibly do and All the ways that you can fail and all the backups and all that stuff It's a different skill from perfect inputs in a very short speed run I'm not gonna say which is necessarily harder But it just it feels as though like when you're talking about Super Mario Brothers 1 or whatever where they need frames to beat the record or whatever like you view if your input is a frame late you you have to reset those seem like the games that take the most skill or most determination to do |
| 14. January 2021 | Which livestream platform will win? | as well. Yeah, yeah. Twitch is definitely struggling to maintain its market share, even though while it is growing, certainly, it's just while it will continue to grow, its overall percentage of the market that it owns will become smaller and smaller. Especially as I discussed before, where once upon a time, if you wanted to live stream and you were a big YouTube content creator, you just moved over to Twitch. That was what you did. Now every big content creator on YouTube who decides to become a live streamer, they actually now have a choice and they're not always going to go to Twitch. That influx of viewers that was coming from new YouTubers moving over isn't happening as frequently anymore. If you look at the... There was a tweet out today, the top... It was like top 15 largest live streams that have occurred and half of them were on Twitch and half of them were on YouTube. If YouTube gaming hadn't ever come about, all those huge live streams that were on YouTube would have been on Twitch and Twitch would have grown even more. The competition is fierce between YouTube and Twitch and I wonder if Twitch has it in them to maintain its dominance long term. I'm not certain it does. Yeah, well, that's interesting to hear. Certainly, it's not going anywhere. Anyone who's live streaming on Twitch, Twitch is going to be fine. It's just going to be a question of how big is it compared to its competitors. It's not going the way of Mixer. At least that's what I would suspect. Yeah, I don't think so either. I guess it depends on what your philosophy is. For someone like me, it was very hard to pick, but I just went with Twitch because of the eggs in one basket. I don't want to have everything under the modus pelican umbrella on YouTube. I'd rather have multiple things going. With Twitch Prime and the... It is arguably, especially if you're larger, you can discover people looking for live streams better on Twitch than you can on YouTube. On YouTube, it's more that you make YouTube content, you make offline content, and then advertises you, and then you also stream to that audience. Your live streams don't really promote you or gain you a larger audience, but on Twitch, it's your live streams that are directly advertised to the wider audience. Twitch right now is the best live streaming platform. It's just a question of whether that's going to remain the case forever. Things always change. It'd be interesting to see how they go. |
| 14. September 2021 | Which video got me the most subscribers? | Which video has gotten me the most subscribers? The video that has gotten me the most subscribers is Michael was never in witness protection. That video got me 22,000 subscribers. It's actually surprising. The Michael was in witness protection video is worth 2% of all the money I've ever made on the platform of that YouTube channel. And it's worth 3% of the subscribers I've ever received. Following that is a rant about Friendly Baron at 12,683. That's surprising to me. Followed by 32 hours and 1 mission. So the Blitz play one, which with 12,628 also not surprising. Followed by 100% Grand Theft Auto V 1440p. My PB for 100% which is 10,062 subscribers. Followed by a Facts and Glitches episode 30 with 9,484. And it goes down from there. But I spent so little time on that witness protection video. Probably spent like 4 hours on it. Just rants in front of the camera. My experience getting vaccinated. |
| 06. July 2021 | Whiskey stones | cold but they do not dilute your whiskey because they're not ice so they keep less cold than ice does but you know you have the advantage of the lack of dilution have I tried them yes do I like them not particularly Elden Ring trailer impressions so do you guys see any of the Elden Ring trailer stuff I haven't seen the trailer itself but I saw game ranks as coverage of it like high |
| 01. June 2020 | Who I would collaborate with? | Would you do a collab if so with her there are very few people around my size that if it made sense That I wouldn't do a collab with them. There is one collab that I've turned down I was invited on a podcast a weird podcast that had a name that may be in somewhat vulgar. I'm not sure but like The first podcast I was invited on when I was a much smaller streamer And so I watched some of their podcasts and they're talking about I mean they said this the f-word the f-slur for homosexuals they Said the n-word at some point in there Shad base was on it. You know the guy who draws porn pornography and I said the guy look I don't know you personally and watching your content I mean I could possibly have fun on your stream because you seem like a guy I would disagree with a heap and maybe we'd have fun, but it just doesn't make sense for me to talk to you and potentially associate my brand with the sort of people you have on your platform already and It could impact Advertises and stuff in the future. It just doesn't seem like a good thing for me to do He's like yeah, I understand. Okay fair enough. I talk about it in one of the rambles somewhere early on this was a long time ago but um outside of Collaborations that would negatively impact my brand it's weird to think of branding because it's just me it would really impact people's thought of me I guess But outside of that I would collaborate with anyone as long as they were of a significant size where I could potentially gain something from it And they could potentially gain from their association with me as well And you know that they didn't seem like scumbags, you know I don't know a lot of content creators, so I can't really say who I would collaborate with Hungrybox He can he can personally teach me how to play Smash on |
| 11. June 2021 | Who I would want on my podcast | Who I would want on my podcast. Podcasting is relatively new media and it's already been overkill, because it's a fairly easy thing to do. It has a lot of setup and stuff, but if, especially if you happen to live, like, I don't know, in LA or something, with like a bunch of other media personalities and whatnot, or you have a lot of content creator friends or something, and you just all go on each other's podcasts. Some podcasts are just like four friends, and one of the dudes has the responsibility to write down some topics, and they just, yeah, ramble, you know. You know who I'd like to get on a podcast? Clint Stevens. And just ask him about his mentality with streaming. Does he not enjoy it? People clearly enjoy his streams, but given how little he does it, it doesn't seem unreasonable to assume that he doesn't enjoy it, you know? |
| 19. April 2021 | Who are the most popular speedrunners on Twitch. | Who are the popular speedrunners on Twitch? I'm trying to think how many speedrunners do I know who are more popular than me on Twitch. Like, I have a higher average viewership. Simply, Smallins, Elijah, that's the three that come to mind, who else? No, no, no, like actual speedrunners, not people who are engaged in like a speedrun challenge for another content creator. People whose main content is a speedrunner. Clint, yeah, Clint, definitely. ZfG, I think I'm about ZfG now. Illumina? Distortion2, yeah, that's another good one. Havihub, not a speedrunner, but yeah, he and I got the same kind of numbers. So we could establish, right, I'm probably in the top ten speedrunners on Twitch, but I don't think I'm, there's no way in hell I'm in the top five, I think. Man, are you even a speedrunner anymore, man? You haven't done a speedrun like almost a year, man. Amen. |
| 27. March 2021 | Who benefits from PS5 scalping | Benefits from PlayStation 5 scalping. Do I own a PlayStation 5? No? Like scalpers are buying up like every single one that releases. I guess they're able to do this because the price that the PlayStation is being sold at, and the Xbox as well, are far below what the market would actually pay for them. Because the goal of PlayStation is not to make money on the devices, but to make money on the games and the store and the microtransactions and stuff. So their goal is to have the console be as accessible as possible, to get into hands as many people as possible, to make money through other avenues. But the scalpers don't give two shits about Sony making its money. So they buy it and price it at what the market's actually willing to pay, depriving Sony of the revenue that they would generate from the other accessories or the other add-ons to the PlayStation, but enriching themselves. Like Sony loses, the game developers lose, anyone who sells accessories for Sony PlayStation loses. The consumer loses in the sense of people aren't able to enjoy these games, or they have to pay an inflated price. The only people who really benefit are the scalpers, and those who otherwise wouldn't have been able to have a PlayStation 5 if it weren't for the scalpers. But that's a much smaller amount of people, I think, than the amount of people being denied access to the PlayStation and its marketplace. I have no interest really in any PlayStation exclusives, except maybe Demon's Souls. I've already played through the game once, but I wouldn't mind playing through it again with the enhanced graphics and the few additions to the game. |
| 29. May 2020 | Who caused the pandemic? | platform of course. What do you think about the pandemic? I mean who do you think really caused it? Is it really because of Chinese eating bats exotic foods? I highly recommend checking out one of my favorite youtubers Pothole at 54 who does amazing research into the origins of this virus or rather the rumor of it being a manufactured virus. |
| 13. October 2021 | Who has it easier? Youtubers or Streamers? | Who has it easier? YouTubers or streamers? Easier to make a YouTube video than a stream? Oh god, no it's not. No. Streams are easier to make than... Yeah, there is not a single... YouTube video... that is easier to make than a stream. Because like, the simplest YouTube video... is just a stream. Streaming is the easiest thing? Uh, streaming is very hard. I mean, I know it may not seem that way. Here, so let me press. There's a big difference between... turning on OBS... and just recording yourself do the normal shit you do every day. And making a fun, engaging, entertaining stream. There are some people who put a hell load of effort into their streams. There are some people who don't. But the act of constantly talking, engaging... trying to be entertaining... it's very tiring, right? The problem with comparing... live streams and edited content... is... they vary so wildly in the amount of effort that they take to make. What's his name? Oh god, uh... Germa. Like, Germa recently had some sponsored thing... where they did like... a live performance with a bunch of actors and... well, a bunch of streamers acting and stuff. Performing roles where... viewers can interact and pick like... what Germa does in this big house. You may have seen it. Tens of thousands of people watched it. Huge production. Must taken months to create, right? That live stream was more difficult than... 99% of YouTube videos that have ever existed, right? Huge production. You call it your dollhouse, yeah. At the same time, that isn't the average stream. Or take for example, CPG Grey... released a video recently where he talked about his... tracking down of the first time a person was called Tiffany... or something. Like, going to libraries, reading the books, getting references... to other books, tracking down those books from hundreds of years ago. This must have taken weeks, months. That is more difficult than 99% of streams that have ever existed. But that isn't the average YouTube video, right? The average YouTube video has more time put into it... than the average stream, in my opinion. The average stream lasts, what, four hours? And the average edited video takes longer than four hours to make. You know? Yeah, some YouTube videos take months, like... like, my chaos streams... really easy to make. Okay, that's not true. Really tiring and actually really difficult when I think about it. But I mean, the amount of time invested... is just two hours. You know? But I say, really tiring to do. Because I'm constantly engaged, things are constantly happening. I'm very cognizant that there's gonna be no editing... so I'm doing my best to always be engaged, funny... make the best of every single thing that occurs on screen. But again, only two hours. This compared to my past videos, which might take me 11 days... of just straight editing, tearing out my hair. Yeah, so who has it easier? A YouTuber or a Twitch streamer? It just depends on who you're comparing, in my view. The thing is, though, I wouldn't even say past this is anywhere close... to how difficult a lot of YouTube content is. I'm spending, you know, a week plus... every day editing, you know, ten hours or whatever. But there are people who, you know, might spend months on a video. Yumdumbab. |
| 01. June 2020 | Who i would collaborate with? | Would you do a collab if so with her there are very few people around my size that if it made sense That I wouldn't do a collab with them. There is one collab that I've turned down I was invited on a podcast a weird podcast that had a name that may be in somewhat vulgar. I'm not sure but like The first podcast I was invited on when I was a much smaller streamer And so I watched some of their podcasts and they're talking about I mean they said this the f-word the f-slur for homosexuals they Said the n-word at some point in there Shad base was on it. You know the guy who draws porn pornography and I said the guy look I don't know you personally and watching your content I mean I could possibly have fun on your stream because you seem like a guy I would disagree with a heap and maybe we'd have fun, but it just doesn't make sense for me to talk to you and potentially associate my brand with the sort of people you have on your platform already and It could impact Advertises and stuff in the future. It just doesn't seem like a good thing for me to do He's like yeah, I understand. Okay fair enough. I talk about it in one of the rambles somewhere early on this was a long time ago but um outside of Collaborations that would negatively impact my brand it's weird to think of branding because it's just me it would really impact people's thought of me I guess But outside of that I would collaborate with anyone as long as they were of a significant size where I could potentially gain something from it And they could potentially gain from their association with me as well And you know that they didn't seem like scumbags, you know I don't know a lot of content creators, so I can't really say who I would collaborate with Hungrybox He can he can personally teach me how to play Smash on |
| 01. January 2021 | Who is DarkViperAU? | Who is DarkviperAU? So you normally speedrun GTA V story? I guess there would now be people who just know me from their dream video who know nothing about me. I am DarkviperAU. I have been making GTA V content, primarily speedrunning stuff, for over five years. I might barely be in the top ten of the most sex... the most sexy speedrunners, no, the most successful speedrunners. But I haven't actively speedrun GTA V since. It might be a year. I have been doing runs within the last year, but I've been focusing on my challenge runs of completing GTA V without killing anyone, and completing GTA V without taking any damage. They've taken up a lot of my time, and in that time I've fallen further and further down in the world record rankings. The last time I held a world record was maybe January 2019. I had the 100% world record. Prior to that point, I had world records in all the categories at various different times. I am one of the people who popularized GTA V speedrunning. I am one of the OGs, but I am not... I'm not even anywhere close to the best speedrunner right now. With that being said, I haven't really tried. It's completely debatable what my times would look like if I started actively running again. Like the most popular category, Classic%, I haven't PB'd in that category in like two years. When I said in one of the Dream videos, when I talked about my history, I was sincere when I said it's a hard pill to swallow sometimes watching people get ahead of you. When you're having to focus on producing content and stuff and things get in the way and you lose your world records, I would argue perhaps I took it a little bit more gracefully than Dream did. But yeah, that's my rough history. I still hold Classic% 11th place. Not being in the top 10 is... If you told me two years ago, I would not be in the top 10 for Classic%, I wouldn't have believed you. But we'll get back there eventually, guys. Maybe this will be the perfect no damage run and then I can finally get back to doing other stuff. |
| 03. June 2022 | Who is at fault for the popularity of react content? | What is it felt for the popularity of react contents? Man, in my opinion, the viewers are responsible for the react to rise. If people didn't watch them, then the reactors would be very few. This is true, but you gotta understand that creators very subtly influence what is acceptable. Like once upon a time, having a sponsorship in your video was seen as like taboo as shit. Oh, you fucking sell out piece of shit. I can't believe you have a sponsorship in your video. But obviously over time that changed, you know. Who pushed that change? We did as content creators, right? It's like with anything, you get just a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more, and then someone takes the plunge and gets all the backlash and does the thing, and then all the other creators who've always wanted to do it, you know, then they do it as well. Because like, oh, he's doing it now. Like, xQc, when he was being criticized for his gambling streams, what did he say? Oh, he's doing it. He's doing it. That guy's doing it. You're only angry at me. You know, the situation just shows how the powerful and rich have so much influence over the general population, it sucks. It is one of those things where creators can work to influence public perception to make things more or less acceptable, and reactors have worked to do that diligently for, you know, I guess the last six years. The first series where I talked about reaction content with Asmongold, what made me so mad was just how much he lied to his audience. Repeatedly, passionately, in the most obvious ways that you could just Google and know that what he's saying is false. But he just doesn't care. And so when you meet people and you mention Reaction, oh, isn't that fair use? Isn't that helping everyone? And it's just like, oh my god, dude. That's just what happens when you have that level of influence and you're willing to lie that much to an unaware populace. Populous. |
| 02. May 2021 | Who is my celebrity crush? | Who is my celebrity crush? Who's my celebrity crush? I don't really know celebrities. Like, legitimately I tried to think of an attractive celebrity and I couldn't think of one. What came to- who came to mind was Ryan Reynolds. And I ain't gay. It's just, the association in my mind between attractive celebrity is Ryan Reynolds. He's an attractive man! And he's funny! And a nice guy. Leonardo DiCaprio is my go-to answer for actor. Well then who- who's an attractive, uh, movie star, chat? I don't watch movies these days. And just the- the way that movies and TV shows have gone now, it's moved away from actors being like the predominant draw. It's the- the movie itself, the- the character in the movie, you know? So it can't be my fault that I forget everyone's names. Oh, Keanu Reeves, okay yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's really attractive. He's a nice guy. And being a nice person is attractive, chat. It is. At least to me. Megan Fox? I- I remember that name. Does she- does she even do stuff anymore? Most of these names I don't even recognize. I- I- I recognize the names, but I can't put names to the- the face, you know? Besides, you know how it is, like, every one of these movie stars or whatever, airbrushed, photoshopped, amazing lighting in makeup for five hours or whatever. I'm sure underneath, they look attractive. But the- the god-tier attractiveness that's achieved through those mechanisms just doesn't exist, you know? Isn't there a picture of- of one of the people from the Avengers movies? Maybe Black Widow without makeup and she- she looks great, but like, not like movie-grade? I don't know any adult film stars either. I- I do not- that I've never understood. Who's- who- the only one that I know is Mia Khalifa, because she- she had, like, a life outside of pornography, and that itself became notable and news. And she also was on Soda Pop and Stream one time, and she was also a Twitch streamer. |
| 16. May 2020 | Who is the most interesting philosopher? | We've had to restart this 86 times now. This is not gonna be good content. As in, you guys, like some of you are gonna be bored of what's going on. YouTube is somewhat gonna be bored of what's going on. And that makes me anxious. Because I'm here to enjoy myself. But I can enjoy myself basically doing anything. I... While playing GTA V and hanging out with you guys, I enjoy basically anything that I'm doing. I'm pretty much fine. But I'm still cognizant of what other people enjoy. So I try, while not forcing things, if something seems to be lagging, I feel a bit anxious that it's lagging. And that people might be being put off by what's happening on screen. And so that's why in the very rare cases I'll skip forward. |
| 21. July 2020 | Who is the most sympathetic GTA character | Who is the most sympathetic GTA 5 character? Who is the most sympathetic? Floyd. Floyd did nothing wrong. Oh, the main characters? Franklin. Franklin's easily the most sympathetic because, you know, he started from nothing, had bad influences, didn't really have good opportunities. Michael's similar though, he also came from, you know, he's trailer trash, he slums. But Franklin, it seems more, you can more sympathize with him because you can see his struggle. You can see where he came from. They likely all, I mean they all had terrible upbringings, right? So they're all sympathetic in some way. It's just hard to be sympathetic with Mass Motos. Because Trevor's upbringing, the little we know of it, like with his crazy fucking mother, who sexually abused him, even the little that we know of the characters' backstories, it's not a surprise that they all turned out fucked up. |
| 14. May 2020 | Who is your favourite non-main character in gta v? | EA5? Probably Simeon. I like Simeon. I don't know why. It's just funny. |
| 24. May 2021 | Who knew Michael was still alive in GTA 5 | To the garage. Who knew Michael was still alive in GTA V? You wonder how many people knew that Michael was still alive? I mean, in the game, it's, uh... Dave, Lester, Amanda, Jimmy, Tracy. Although, presumably, there were other people working with Dave who knew. But maybe not. Like, it's one of those things where, like, I suspect that some other people in Dave's firm helped him. But it's possible that they don't get enough information to know, like, whose body they're relocating or whatever, you know. Just because you're in on it to a degree doesn't mean you have all the details. Yeah, but so just those people knew Michael was still alive. |
| 29. March 2021 | Who the hell is Ludwig? | Who the hell is Ludwig? You've never heard Ludwig? Ludwig was one of the fastest growing content creators over the last six months. He gains something like 700,000 subscribers on YouTube or something in that time. He regularly streams for 30 to 50,000 viewers. If you know about any of the content creators who have kind of blown up Valkyrie and... what is it? Sycuno? You would have heard of him even in passing if you don't watch his content. Oh yeah, QD's boyfriend. Yeah, yeah. QD Cinderella's boyfriend. That's what he's most well known for. It's funny because I'm pretty sure she was a larger content creator than him when he first started. And so probably at one point he was known as QD Cinderella's boyfriend. |
| 29. March 2021 | Who the hell is ludwig? | Who the hell is Ludwig? You've never heard Ludwig? Ludwig was one of the fastest growing content creators over the last six months. He gains something like 700,000 subscribers on YouTube or something in that time. He regularly streams for 30 to 50,000 viewers. If you know about any of the content creators who have kind of blown up Valkyrie and... what is it? Sycuno? You would have heard of him even in passing if you don't watch his content. Oh yeah, QD's boyfriend. Yeah, yeah. QD Cinderella's boyfriend. That's what he's most well known for. It's funny because I'm pretty sure she was a larger content creator than him when he first started. And so probably at one point he was known as QD Cinderella's boyfriend. |
| 26. May 2021 | Who were the first people who came to Australia? | Who were the people who first came to Australia? Why were my ancestors sent to Australia? We've been through this before. The majority of people, I can't say majority, a significant amount of people who went to Australia were just new settlers, people who wanted a new life and shit. And the people who were mainly sent to Australia were people who were convicted of minor crimes or political prisons and shit. People that, you know, they just didn't want to have to deal with. Not people who, if put on a boat, would necessarily be a threat to the other people on that boat, you know. A lot of us dead as prisoners, yeah, exactly, non-violent offender kind of stuff. |
| 13. March 2023 | Who's the most succesful content creator. | Who's the most successful content creator? Who do you think is the most successful YouTube content creator? It all depends on how you're defining success Because obviously within particular niches there are people who have dominated those niches and been the most successful conceivably possible and take it as far as they can go where there may be other people in other Avenues of YouTube that might be making more money or might have more viewers but aren't necessarily more successful Relative to their peers in that area of YouTube. It's like in the way that the person who is the greatest Professional frisbee thar pro disc golfer Paul Mcbeth signs 10 million dollar contracts Rich's deal in sports history, but you can guarantee as successful as this guy is He's probably not more successful than the most successful golfer But he has dominated the disc golf niche You might find golfers who are getting more money or maybe even in the NBA or whatever other sports that were getting more money But who aren't necessarily the best in their particular sport like obviously Mr. Beast is the person who's got the most subscribers potentially getting close to the most views She's potentially making close to the most money He would obviously come to mind as being at least close to generally the most successful person on the platform but obviously this ceiling for Spectacle content is a lot higher than the ceiling for effectively any other kind of content because it's Content that appeals to a huge variety of people. Mr. Beast has a lot of different channels, too He probably has the most views overall. There are some really really successful content creators in other regions So like judging which of these is a person versus a company whatever like Mr. Beast has Hundreds of people working for him now if maybe even a thousand who knows but it's a lot of people and This compared to PewDiePie who had what like tops of like six people or something working for him at some point like a couple Of editors himself It may be a manager or whatever and like PewDiePie still has more views than Mr. Beast's main channel But like he's fifth in terms of subscribers, but if you go by video views like Mr. Beast isn't even on the top 50 Would he even be on the top hundred? Okay, Mr. Beast is 74th in terms of views and sure he has other channels But I don't think his other channels especially because they're newer get have gotten anywhere close to as many views as his main channel and as I say He's not on the top of that list So as I say it just depends on what you're assessing in terms of success as to who would be the most successful on YouTube There are many creators who I prefer far beyond Mr. Beast, right? Mr. Beast has broad appeal but that doesn't obviously mean that he is the best creator in regards to everyone's particular subjective preferences. |
| 13. March 2023 | Who's the most successful content creator. | Who's the most successful content creator? Who do you think is the most successful YouTube content creator? It all depends on how you're defining success Because obviously within particular niches there are people who have dominated those niches and been the most successful conceivably possible and take it as far as they can go where there may be other people in other Avenues of YouTube that might be making more money or might have more viewers but aren't necessarily more successful Relative to their peers in that area of YouTube. It's like in the way that the person who is the greatest Professional frisbee thar pro disc golfer Paul Mcbeth signs 10 million dollar contracts Rich's deal in sports history, but you can guarantee as successful as this guy is He's probably not more successful than the most successful golfer But he has dominated the disc golf niche You might find golfers who are getting more money or maybe even in the NBA or whatever other sports that were getting more money But who aren't necessarily the best in their particular sport like obviously Mr. Beast is the person who's got the most subscribers potentially getting close to the most views She's potentially making close to the most money He would obviously come to mind as being at least close to generally the most successful person on the platform but obviously this ceiling for Spectacle content is a lot higher than the ceiling for effectively any other kind of content because it's Content that appeals to a huge variety of people. Mr. Beast has a lot of different channels, too He probably has the most views overall. There are some really really successful content creators in other regions So like judging which of these is a person versus a company whatever like Mr. Beast has Hundreds of people working for him now if maybe even a thousand who knows but it's a lot of people and This compared to PewDiePie who had what like tops of like six people or something working for him at some point like a couple Of editors himself It may be a manager or whatever and like PewDiePie still has more views than Mr. Beast's main channel But like he's fifth in terms of subscribers, but if you go by video views like Mr. Beast isn't even on the top 50 Would he even be on the top hundred? Okay, Mr. Beast is 74th in terms of views and sure he has other channels But I don't think his other channels especially because they're newer get have gotten anywhere close to as many views as his main channel and as I say He's not on the top of that list So as I say it just depends on what you're assessing in terms of success as to who would be the most successful on YouTube There are many creators who I prefer far beyond Mr. Beast, right? Mr. Beast has broad appeal but that doesn't obviously mean that he is the best creator in regards to everyone's particular subjective preferences. |
| 04. November 2021 | Whose garlic bread is it anyway? | Whose garlic bread is it anyway? So for those who don't get what happened, some random person in chat said, remind me in three and a half minutes that I have garlic bread in the oven. And I said that out loud reading what he said, and everyone in chat thought I was asking to be reminded in three and a half minutes about my garlic bread. So chat spamming garlic bread and I'm like, I didn't think chat would care this much about some random dude's garlic bread. It was people trying to help me out for my fictional garlic bread. You're not a random person. It was you Trains. Well, I'm happy you got your garlic bread, dude. Just casually having something in the oven while speedrunning? I mean, that's incentive to go fast. It's like, OK, guys, if I don't get world record, I'm going to ruin my dinner. |
| 31. March 2021 | Why 'Hi YouTube' is banned on Twitch. | Why high YouTube is now banned on Twitch? Yeah so guys you may have noticed now, I thought of mentioning it in a video but I've made it so if you type a greeting on YouTube you get timed out for like 3 minutes or something. I've seen on other channels as well this, it's almost like a new meme that might not just be from my channel but people typing high YouTube whenever something's going to end up from stream on YouTube. The reason I time this out is not because I hate the meme necessarily but because it clogs up chat. When discussion can still be had and it pushes a lot of stuff off screen so when I look over I'm less likely to see stuff and stuff. I'm not a stream that really likes there to be a lot of spam. Some spam can be funny in particular contexts but the high YouTube thing is just too frequent. Anytime I start talking about fucking anything people start typing high YouTube and so if I want feedback on something or if a person wants to write a message in the hopes that I see it about the topic I'm speaking on they can't do it because high YouTube is being spammed in chat. And for that reason I'm going to continuously increase the punishment for people typing high YouTube. Longer and longer timeouts potentially bans until the meme ends. I banned 5 people yesterday because of it. Presumably they'll eventually get unbanned in some, because they'll probably write unbanned forms or whatever but it's a yeah. So I'm just explaining why. I'm not being some kind of a grinch just hating fun. It's just for the sanctity of chat or the readability of chat. Trolls are the worst. I don't think it's a trolling thing. It's kind of funny saying hello to people in the future on YouTube but it's just a, it can't go on forever you know. And if I don't put my foot down and say look guys we've done this enough now it will go on forever you know. Because it's certainly true, I don't think it's a lot of people but some people do interact with chat so that later on when they watch the video or whatever they can go like there's me you know. |
| 04. March 2021 | Why Australia did ok with Covid and bushfire threat? | Why Australia did okay with COVID and bushfire threats. Yeah, hopefully we're close to the end of the significance of COVID. Probably still some months away though, I think. What are the restrictions like in Australia? Non-existent currently. Australia has been... Depends on the state, actually what restrictions are present, and what time you're talking about. But in general Australia hasn't done too bad with coronavirus. But it's in past because we had the bushfires before coronavirus hit. And the bushfires had the side effects of dropping tourism by a fuckton. Like cutting it in half. And so, you know, when a global pandemic hits, and you have low population density, you're in a country that's far away from everyone else. And tourism's been cut in half. You're already off to a good start. We have had our outbreaks, our worst times, our... Bits of incompetence from different politicians on the issue. We have our denialism. People not taking it as seriously as they should and what not. But we were always going to do at least decently better than other countries that didn't have that kind of... Those variables that let us be a little bit more protected than other countries. A family of New Zealanders saw the fires? My grandparents have a holiday house down the south coast that's more in the bushy kind of area. I remember when I was a kid, we were going down to the... To see them down there. And there was fires raging and stuff. And my parents were on edge like, are we going to get out? So we're going to get blocked off or whatever. You could see fires in the distance and stuff. It's just vague memories. Where I live, bushfires aren't a huge concern. It's one of those things where there's just so much bush in Australia. It just takes one lightning strike in the middle of nowhere to create a forest fire that people won't see for days. And then of course, there's not good roads or anything like that. So you can't get out to fight it. And it just spreads and spreads and spreads. Like as much as arson can sometimes be a problem. Arson's got nothing on just natural forest fires because an arson is going to start the fire. You know, some place that's generally accessible by human. Pretty much... Unless they're trying really hard to keep it stealthy. Wherever they're going to make it, it's going to be more accessible by the fire services. And it's going to be more likely to be seen earlier. Because there's going to probably be other humans around, you know. But lightning strikes, middle of nowhere. That's the day. |
| 17. September 2021 | Why Don't I Drink Beer | Why don't I drink beer? Why don't I drink beer? Beer is an acquired taste. It doesn't in of itself taste good. Like no one who drinks beer for the first time thinks wow this is an amazing taste. It seems more based on social conventions and you just get kind of used to it and then you grow to like it. I was never motivated to develop that taste so I never did. It's also very cheap. It's a cheap way to get drunk. Bourbons where it's at guys. Your drink of choice is whiskey. Whiskey is definitely better than beer. I prefer bourbon over whiskey even though they're only subtly different. |
| 31. August 2020 | Why Dr Disrespect plays dumb about his ban | Why Dr. Disrespect plays dumb about why he was banned. What are your thoughts on Doc streaming on YouTube and him still not knowing why he got banned? There is no fucking way in any reality that he doesn't know why he got banned. Stop pretending like you think he doesn't know. You do not go from a person who signed a multi-year million dollar contract with a company to being banned and going, I have no idea what happened, man. That's just nonsense. These things are going to be hammered out in the courts and at no point would you admit guilt publicly or give justifications for your banning. Even if he speculated publicly as to why he got banned, the lawyers would be like, well, those are the reasons why we banned him. Even he's admitting these are possible reasons that would be justified to ban him because he's saying it publicly. He can't say anything. Being in public and saying, I have no idea, is suggesting, legally, gives him the strongest case. Of course I've done nothing to be deserving of a ban and Twitch's ban of me is completely unjustified because I couldn't even think of a possible justification for what they did. The suggestion by him that says he believes that they might have had some even tiny amount of motivation makes his legal case weaker from him getting paid out millions of dollars. Don't be naive to think that he doesn't have some idea or doesn't outright exactly know. What I think about him streaming on YouTube, considering that YouTube didn't give him some exclusive deal is not surprising. And if he's not banned on YouTube, I mean, I think he's not banned on YouTube. |
| 16. February 2021 | Why Dream getting “insane luck” is really good for jokes | Why dream getting insane luck is amazing for jokes? What happened with the dream thing? It just kind of disappeared? What do you mean? People still make jokes about dream all the fucking time. Think of how perfect it is, guys. How perfect it is. So, the dream- like, saying this is the dream scenario actually had meaning before dream cheated in Minecraft. Because it would mean like, not in my wildest dreams would I think this ever could happen, right? So people already said, this is a dream, this is a dream come true. And now, a guy named Dream purports to have gotten an extraordinarily lucky thing. So whenever anyone gets amazing luck in a game, believable luck at least, or whatever, they go, oh my god, I'm getting dream luck. This is the dream situation. And it now has a double meaning, because it refers to the content creator and just the expression. It's hilarious. The amazing coincidence that this happens to a content creator with the name Dream, as opposed to any other name, is amazing. Like, every speedrun stream I've been in, in the last, you know, since it happened, has made references to, I need the dream luck here, guys, I need the dream luck. It's very funny. |
| 08. December 2020 | Why GTA 5 takes up 800 GB of my storage | except 800 gigabytes of my storage. Do you, it's probably not your storage, but what storage do you have GT on? Yeah, not my SSD. I should put it on my SSD. I got it on my, I think I'd probably put it on the worst storage ever, because I put it on my external hard drive. I have like seven copies of GTA. Like they're basically their own storage device really, because I've got so many different versions of the game that I play for different reasons. Really? Yeah, because I got like Chaos and 1.7, then I have one for online, then I have a modded version of 1.27, then I have a modded version of the newest patch, because the challenge runs it on the newest patch, but then I also need a modded version of it, because I can't do the challenge runs while I have mods. And then, you know, 1.27 for the speed run, and then 1.27 modded, because I can't use the modded version when I'm speed running, and then I need a clean version for online, and then I have Chaos as well. And then I even have another version of Chaos that I haven't really used all that much, but it's basically, I wanna have an effect from Chaos that's on permanently. One idea was to have like a companion Brad as I play through the entire game, but I just didn't think it'd be too interesting. But yeah, like when I get back to speed running, I wanna do, especially when I'm just relearning the routes and stuff, I wanna do the entire game covered in snow or something, and that kind of stuff. So I need a version of the game for that. Holy shit, seven freaking versions. It's back. Especially the size of the game now. Oh my God. It's like freaking nearly a terabyte worth of GTA that you got. Yeah, kinda, yeah. Okay, how YouTube contents. |
| 27. July 2021 | Why GTA FIVEM beats GTA online | Why GTA 5m beats GTA Online? For those unaware, 5m is basically just private servers for GTA. You think 5m is better than GTA Online? Yeah. To be fair to GTA Online, some of the games that work for 5m only work because there you've got like a bunch of dedicated people who aren't just gonna leave when they lose, right? The stuff that you can make for a dedicated skilled audience is very different than what you can make for a general audience. You have to make it so that the lowest common denominator is able to interface with whatever you're making successfully. Given the huge barrier to entry for 5m, I mean any barrier to entry, the people you're getting in there are gonna be a different audience than who plays GTA Online. |
| 24. September 2021 | Why GTA roleplay doesn't jive with me | Why GTA roleplay doesn't jive with me? Do you have any interest in trying GTA roleplaying as a secondary to speedrunning? I don't have the time, and it's never been my thing. Like, when we talk about roleplaying, I describe my childhood. Once upon a time, my mother thought that I was really introverted as a kid, and she was right. So she enrolled me in like a drama class for little kids, like I was probably six years old or something. And I refused to participate. It doesn't matter, like, I would still go and hang out with the kids and stuff before and after, and I'd watch the shows and stuff. But the teacher's ability to get me to do anything was almost non-existent. I was a rock. I was a boulder. In the sense that I would not budge. I did not like to pretend to be things that I'm not. I don't like pretend. I don't like to be fake. I didn't like people looking at me and shit. It just was not my thing. And while, of course, I'm not six years old anymore, that kind of pretend is something that I've never really gravitated towards. For all I know, I've changed significantly and I might enjoy it, but when I think about doing it, it doesn't inspire me to want to try. And when I watch RP, too much of it's cringey to me. Because it's, it's, um, it's improv, right? So some of it's gonna be cringey. Where people don't drive with each other or someone, um, makes a joke that doesn't really land. And it just feels off to me. It just makes it hard to en- |
| 11. June 2021 | Why Germans are such a large % of my viewers | Why Germans are such a large percentage of my viewers? Lots of Germans in here. Germany is quite a large place. What is that, like 70 million population, right? There's a large English speaking population. 80 million? Yeah. And I don't think you have competing live streaming services. Like is there a German Twitch? Yeah Twitch is a large German community to begin with. So it's not surprising to me that as a collective, Germans make up a significant portion of my viewership and Twitch's viewership in general. As a rule, the order of the percentage of Twitch's audience is how many people in your country do they speak English? And then just rank them in that order. And then you get the exact basic order of the largest groups on Twitch. Can I speak German? As long as you didn't ask any follow up questions? Absolutely. I can speak in German my entire life. You know my sister lives in Germany. That's actually true. Unfortunately you can't speak any language other than English in my chat because you could be violating TOS and I wouldn't. |
| 02. October 2021 | Why Guinness decides who has world records | Why Guinness decides who has world records? You know why Guinness has the authority to say what is and is not a world record? It's because they say they do. Like from my understanding people used to have bar conversations about, oh you know, who has done this or done that and who has the record for this and that. And Guinness just took it upon themselves to start listing the records from people. And then they just one day made a book and they're like yeah we can do this now. |
| 30. November 2020 | Why I Am Not Playing The Playstation 5 | Why I am NOT playing the PlayStation 5 Why am I not playing Demon's Souls? Because I don't have a PlayStation 5. Where am I gonna get a PlayStation 5 from? Well, you think there's some kind of a PlayStation 5 store that you can get PlayStation 5 from? Get it, get out of here. By the time I get a PlayStation 5, it'd be so old news. If you want to see me play Demon's Souls though, it's on my YouTube channel. Did very poorly in terms of views. That's a good video. Got funny jokes though. You can see PS5 by now. Yeah, I can't even get on the list. Like I'm not gonna go to the effort. Like every time I go to one of these web pages, I can't even pre-order it, right? I'm not gonna be staying up till midnight for the five minutes or whatever that pre-orders become available before they become sold out because bots have stolen them all. It's salt in a wound though. PlayStation making their tagline play has no limits when like no one can get access to this fucking console. When some countries, like the entire stock given to the countries is in the hundreds, they play has no limits. You just can't play the fucking console though. If you had it though, there would be no limits. Basically, if you remove all possible limits, there's no limits. |
| 30. November 2020 | Why I Basically Only Wear Tank Tops | Why I basically only wear tank tops. How the fuck did I- Why do I only wear tank tops? Um, all my life, I have hated having multiple outfits, having to deal with what am I wearing today. Like, I've never liked dressing up in that way. I don't- I don't want cool outfits and shit. All I want is stuff that I feel comfortable in. And this is it. And these were really cheap. At least the original black tank tops were. My merch is a bit more expensive, but uh, yeah. I- I- I just went into- came out one day and they were like, five dollars a tank top. And I'm like, you beauty, and I bought ten. And the rest was history. And also because my roommate didn't like the air conditioning being on, and it being hot in Australia, my PC cooking in my room was just good having um, less on, you know. Show you my tank top collection. Uh, I need to get more tank tops. Speaking of tank tops though, I'm looking into expanding my merch and getting all my emotes on gear. And then I will probably buy myself like, 80 tank tops or something. Just have an unlimited supply. One of each emote. I can put them all in my cupboard and I can be like, yeah I'm feeling a bit derpy today. Now I'm feeling happy today, you know. I can wear a different shirt based on uh, my particular mood of the day. Clearly I'm not gonna do that. I mean, I will buy all the tank tops, but I'm just gonna pick one. I'm not gonna do that kind of uh, mood thing. |
| 17. March 2021 | Why I Have A Hole In My Head | Why I have a hole in my head Why I have a hole in my head A clip went up on my clips channel that I titled explaining why I have a hole in my head and as I always say it's because I was shot in the head and There's an exit wound on the other side, but you can't see it because of the camera angle Then of course then I explained that's obviously a joke. I wasn't shot in the head But then like the clip ends and so people in the comment section like but but you didn't explain Why you have a hole inside your head? But like the title promised that you explained it, but you just explained what it isn't I got a mole cut off when I was a kid guys. All I remember from the experience is there was like Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle on the walls and and the episode of Pokemon I watched was the one where a kid flushes his Bulbasaur down the toilet and then it lives in the sewer and because of the sewer it grows freakish freakishly large and it harasses people by putting its vines through the pipes and it comes out toilets and sinks and stuff and everyone thinks it's a Monster, but it's actually just this Bulbasaur being like man I hate that I was abandoned you know and then at the end of the episode the kid realizes the error of his ways and his Bulbasaur forgives him and even as a kid I was like But why would that Bulbasaur forgive the kid like he was flushed down the toilet that Bulbasaur should be like fuck you dude I'll find a better Human to hang with yeah, I think that Bulbasaur is way too fucking forgiving intelligence |
| 22. May 2021 | Why I abandoned my podcast . | Why I abandoned my podcast. Do I have any new podcasts with content creators planned? My experience talking to Carl on the podcast that never got released confirmed to me pretty strongly that I don't think podcasting is for me. Like I was tired that day and all that jazz but... I just don't think it went very well. I don't think I was very engaged or engaging in anything. And so I just went, nah, I can't do this. I think that the first one was okay, it was a bit of a fluke. But it's easy content with no production effort? Oh my god, dude. My dude. Setting up a podcast is a lot of effort. Like, a lot of effort. Especially when it comes to like YouTubers and content creators who kind of make their own schedule. Like having a particular time when you both happen to be free, both happen to be awake, given that often it's between different countries, both happen to have the energy to do it or in the right mood to do it and stuff. Like that is not an easy thing. The nanosecond you involve another person in anything, complications arise. Especially when it comes to a person like me. Like Peli wanted to do a consistent podcast with me and I said to him, look man, I do nothing but let you down. Because sometimes as it happened the last five days, I just feel fatigued for no fucking reason. And my sleeping pattern goes to shit all the time. Like it's not just the other person. I don't think I'm suited to doing some sort of a consistent collab with other people. One of things, sure. But a consistent thing, I just don't live a consistent life, you know? I don't think I'm just suited for podcasting. Rambles are better than podcasts is the fact. Wish the rambles could be a... come out sooner. Certainly Dark Souls Edits, if the dude works out, then they would end up coming out sooner. But yeah, I do prefer the rambles. Easy content to make and what have you. You've never been able to get into podcasts? If you find the right one, it can be interesting. But yeah, I haven't listened to many podcasts in my life. But the two that I listen to still are The Wain Show and Trash Taste. I think they're the only two podcasts I listen to right now. Trash Taste being the Anime Man, Giiguk, Seadog, VA. Just talking about their lives in Japan and just whatever topics they want to talk about. Their favorite anime, TV shows, games, what have you. Their last episode was about their favorite games and I was somewhat disappointed that none of them had Heroes of Magic 3 as one of their favorite games. I'm just saying it's the greatest game of all time. Like anyone's list that doesn't have it. They're just missing out. It's not the greatest game of all time, but it's definitely in top 10, okay? Definitely number one of the turn-based strategy. And the other podcast goes The Wain Show, which is just Linus and... Luke, thank you. God damn names. Linus and Luke are recapping all the stories about tech from the week or whatever. What's great about The Wain Show though is it's so casual and chill with these moments of serious talk about the industry. It's a very good background noise. Like when Linus will just get super serious about something and passion, it's... to break up the kind of chill vibe, it's cool. Yeah, Matty, I doubt there's many people who dedicate themselves to just watching podcasts. Although there must be some portion because a lot of podcasts, like professionally done ones, are edited to add in stuff, like images of what's being talked about and whatnot. So some people clearly do, but the vast majority, it's certainly just background music, background noise. |
| 20. December 2021 | Why I always appear offline on discord | Why I always appear offline on Discord? Even when I was smaller, whenever I would set myself to- whenever I'd go onto Discord, like I'd open up Discord, there'd always be someone who would notice and they'd say, Oh my god, hi, it's Dark Viper, hi Dark Viper. I'd be like, oh man, I just- I just want to read Discord, you know? And I- I- hello? Because, you know, sometimes you don't want to be noticed and you just want to chill out. But the- the response is perfectly reasonable, because I'm offline and I move online and it's my Discord, so people say hi, because what nice people do. Like- like if you- if you see a person you know walking down the street and you like the person, you're like, hey man, how's it going? That's perfectly reasonable. It's just, when there's a lot of people who do that, it just feels weird sometimes. It's- no need to apologize, man. The response was perfectly reasonable. It's just- just because of the nature of what I do, it just- it's just weird sometimes. Um, that's why I- you never see me online in my Discord, but I'm there quite frequently. I have my sets self-set to invisible, all the time. |
| 29. December 2020 | Why I am a GTA runner and not a Souls runner. | Why I am a GTA runner and not a Souls runner. Have I ever thought about playing some Souls games? I've played every Souls game. I am a Souls fanatic. There are very few games that I would drop everything to play and Souls games are it. I'm a Dark Souls speedrunner, or at least I was. If I didn't have so many goals that I wanted to complete in GTA V, I would probably do some Souls speedrunning still to this day. There is some hypothetical reality where I gave up speedrunning GTA V and speedrun Dark Souls. The main reason that reality never came to be is because I don't like controllers. And you kind of need a controller to competitively speedrun Dark Souls. |
| 29. December 2020 | Why I am a GTA runner and not a souls runner. | Why I am a GTA runner and not a Souls runner. Have I ever thought about playing some Souls games? I've played every Souls game. I am a Souls fanatic. There are very few games that I would drop everything to play and Souls games are it. I'm a Dark Souls speedrunner, or at least I was. If I didn't have so many goals that I wanted to complete in GTA V, I would probably do some Souls speedrunning still to this day. There is some hypothetical reality where I gave up speedrunning GTA V and speedrun Dark Souls. The main reason that reality never came to be is because I don't like controllers. And you kind of need a controller to competitively speedrun Dark Souls. |
| 02. August 2021 | Why I am able to do giveaways again | Why I am able to do giveaways again. In Australia, obviously we have states, fun fact, and each state has different rules regarding giveaways, okay? And all of the states have some threshold that you need to have your giveaway be worth or you have to get a license. So in Victoria, it's like if you're giving away something worth $3,000 or something, you got to get a license for that, make my cost $100. But there's one exception to this and that's New South Wales, the state that I'm in. They had no threshold. So if you're giving away a dollar, you need to get a $100 license. Now you might think it's stupid, and it's because it is. Really stupid. And everyone's been saying that apparently for years. I'm just now reading. And as of, it turns out a year ago, the law changed. I was under the impression that this threshold of nothing still existed and that I'd have to go through months long process to get a license every time I would do a giveaway. And so I'm like, fuck it, I'm not doing giveaways anymore. That's why I was so skittish about the last giveaway that I did. I'm like, oh man, am I going to get in trouble for doing this giveaway? Oh no. But it turns out the laws have changed. And so now, as long as I don't give away something worth $10,000, I don't need a license. So I can go back through and giveaways. Giveaways are back. I'll have to think about something to give away. But yeah, it's going to be great. |
| 17. December 2022 | Why I am considering changing rambles on this channel | place to do a lot of this. Why I'm considering changing Rambles on this channel. People have told me many times over the years that I should make a separate channel for Rambles. I am no longer convinced that the algorithm is good enough to distinguish videos from channels. And so it is entirely possible that my Rambles being on my main channel are hurting the reach of my other videos. It's just even in my best years where I was like releasing a chaos episode for a million views than a chaos highlights for 600,000 views. At those times I was still releasing Rambles for like 40K views. And so I looked at that and I said, well, there's no way Rambles are stopping my success. There's no way that Rambles can stop a good video from having a significant reach. But it's possible that while it doesn't prevent success, it could be hampering the success somewhat. And considering right now my numbers on the backend don't look that good, my videos don't really have the kind of reach that they used to. I'm looking at all these different angles to try to assess what I could potentially doing wrong or what I could do to make things be going better for my videos, my channel, my editors now and having more people watch my stuff, which I am very proud of. And so one of the things I asked people in the community post was, do you guys want me to move the Rambles from another channel? And 50% of people said no, 25% said yes, and 25% said I have no opinion, I don't know you, whatever. So twice as many people want me to keep them on the main channel as move them, which surprised me. But that could be because people who watch my Rambles are more likely to watch all of my content and more likely to engage with my community posts. So it's probably a sampling bias. We're more casual viewers who don't watch Rambles are less likely to vote in community posts, polls, or even get them presented to them. Despite that, I'm probably not going to move them. It's a lot of effort, I can't be sure it would actually work to achieve anything. And I'm pretty convinced that on a separate channel, the Rambles would just get no views and die. Don't forget long-term, your catalog videos will still bring views and money. On YouTube, content fits on a spectrum of what we call evergreen, where an animation of a funny story of you going to the store can be as interesting and funny in 2010 as it is in 2020. But you talking about what Kanye West was doing in 2010 isn't gonna be interesting in 2020. So some forms of content don't get repeat views for many decades while others do. And my Rambles fit into the category of not really getting many repeat views. So here is the amount of views that my first 300 episodes of Rambles got in the last seven days. So 16,000, that's not a lot. Despite my best efforts to improve this somewhat with new thumbnails and stuff, there's just not a huge audience of people watching these older videos. Like to put this into perspective, I get like 300,000 views a day on like my average day. So this is what? 1% at best. There is a lot of evergreen content in these Rambles, but a lot of it is more topical stuff, stuff that's only relevant at the time. You're talking about Ninja moving to Mixer and stuff. So I can understand why it doesn't get those kinds of views, but it's hard to imagine that this isn't hurting my channel. Having 300 videos on it that just people aren't really keen to watch. This compares to say Facts and Glitches, which gets 20,000, which is still not an insane amount of views, but it's just some amount of views. You wonder if it could be thumbnail related? No, I've somewhat kept on top of the changes in the amount of views that have occurred because of me changing the thumbnails. And that's not really mean that significant. Again, if you're doing this only for views and money, it's a very different perspective than for people like me who do it because I like to, regardless of views on money or clicks, et cetera. This perspective is kind of like a person's going on a road trip and they are carefully planning their fuel, how much food they need, how to get shelter, where they're gonna stop on the way to make sure they don't run out of phone charge and stuff. And someone's like, "'Dude, do you even like going on road trips? "'What is this?' "'Why are you so obsessed with all these small things here? "'Like, just enjoy the road trip as you go.' And it's just like, you could die. Something could go wrong and you would not be able to continue doing road trips because you'd be dead or something catastrophic would happen where you lose all your money and you just can't continue. Like, you gotta plan some things. With YouTube, if you stop thinking, "'Hey, how can I make my content appealing to an audience?' "'Eventually, you have to stop.' "'I like doing this so much "'that I care enough to look at these things. "'I enjoy doing this so much "'that I want to continue doing it.' So you have to think about the future. This sort of, I'm just gonna live in the moment and do whatever I want, fuck yeah. That attitude is good for like a weekend when you're going out with your mates. It's not good for like your life and existence. And I get these comments sometimes, like, oh, you only care about the views. It's not that at all. I like my content and I like what I do and I want to keep doing it. And if the difference of whether I can do this for the next five years is whether or not I have a second channel with my rambles on it, why wouldn't I just make that change? Well, I'm sure to some people, all I do is sit around all day and play video games. We call these people stupid people. For most of you, I suspect that you have some inkling that a lot goes into this to keep this train going. Rambles over month are one eighth of my views for that month because the rambles get the overwhelming vast majority of their views over the course of seven days. So it's not like the views they give me is insignificant. It is merely that they don't have longevity on my channel. And I'm not sure what to do with that information. At the end of the day, what I'm most interested in is people watching the content that I'm most proud of. And that is not rambles. Rambles has always been filler content to fill in the upload schedule. And if rambles are hurting my channel overall, then they're not really worth keeping around. If they're hurting the content that matters most, not really important. I think that idea of releasing rambles and then removing them is good. But once I do that, right, it's done. Like I can never reverse it. Or maybe just unlist them, sure. Yeah, I could just unlist them and just leave them in the playlist and see if things change. Yeah, I think I might do that. After a month, I'll unlist them and just leave them. |
| 17. July 2021 | Why I am going to be driving an automatic. | Why I'm going to be driving an automatic My car isn't automatic or when I know my car I currently have as a manual but I haven't got my new car yet coming in the mail and now we automatic I don't know how I feel about that, but we'll see the range. I enjoy driving a manual I it's hard to imagine not driving a manual but uh The car I was getting didn't come in a manual Apparently it's safer or something, god no |
| 01. November 2022 | Why I am happy Apple is moving way from Thunderbolt | Why I am happy Apple is moving away from Thunderbolts. You know me. I very commonly blame other companies for my own mistakes. That is a common thing that I do. Because fuck companies. I'm perfect. They're always wrong. There is a product that I recently purchased. These are wireless lavalier microphones. Like this, and you're like, Hey what up son, it's me, it's your boy DarkViperAU coming at your life with some in real life content. Exactly what I'd say. The problem is this fucking thing on the end. You see what that is chat? It is a fucking Apple connector. Apple with their fucking proprietary, god damn unique special snowflake god damn connector. Makes this completely dick useless. Adapter? I would never risk my audio quality on an adapter. Made by some six year old in China. There isn't me, you know, insulting a six year old in China. I just mean it, you know. Labor practices in China are often not the best. I'm sure that six year old is trying its best, alright. Basically, I fucked up and now I'm gonna have to wait another week to get this thing from America. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 10. November 2022 | Why I am keeping my livestreams unlisted in a playlist. | Why I am keeping my live streams unlisted in a playlist. So you can still watch them after they're done You just have to go to the playlist It is true that YouTube has updated the layout so that videos, shorts and live stuff is separated But I'm still probably not gonna have my live videos be public I don't make the titles and thumbnails particularly provocative and so I'm concerned that that content will Disadvantage me in the algorithm like my other stuff, but also Those videos would to some degree compete with the edited content that comes from those live streams Like when those live streams are all that you're doing it makes sense for them to be public and be presented to bring in an audience But that's not the only thing that I'm doing |
| 26. November 2021 | Why I am less motivated to get world records | Why I am less motivated to get world records. I've been trying to think what motivated me in the past To get world records because I've always enjoyed doing runs I've always enjoyed doing getting world records But I think I'm less motivated these days to do it and I realized a part of my motivation for getting world records in the past Was because I believe that they advertised my channel and this is true It brought traffic to my channel that I desperately needed back then But since I don't need that anymore, I'm more More keen just to take it at my own pace and get world records slowly I'm less concerned about not having world record for long periods I think I can get them back and I will work to get them back But there is less, you know get in there every day grind run after run killing myself until I get the world record back I'm saying, oh, you know, if I don't get it back today get it back tomorrow next week month It's fine, you know, it's a more healthy attitude But it certainly is an attitude that seems less conducive to actually getting the record back |
| 26. August 2021 | Why I am level 250 in GTA Online | Why I am level 250 in GTA Online I'm level 250 online because a hacker made me level 250. It was not intentional. They joined my private lobby because I accidentally had them as a friend and then they did a bunch of weird shit. Rockstar took all the money that they threw around but they left me at level 250. |
| 08. December 2020 | Why I am level 261 in GTA Online | Why I'm level 261 in GTA Online. I love my level being 261. In every video people ask, how do you have such a high level? How do you do that? Yeah, I was playing way back in the day. I was attempting to level myself a bit so that I could do the speedruns of the online heists and a hacker joined my lobby and leveled me like level 250 and gave me like a trillion dollars. I got Rockstar to remove the money, but they didn't remove the levels. You gotta send them over to me that morning. |
| 31. August 2020 | Why I am not DarkViperAU on Socialclub | Why I am not DarkFiperAU on Social Club. They said they changed my name to real DarkFiperAU and that is the name I'm gonna have. How fucking lame is that? Well because some asshole with a level zero account or whatever on PlayStation 3 has my name. I'm like, Voxer, so clearly this is someone just camping the name, you know, it's on a platform that you don't even support anymore. They're clearly not using it. It's a bot or just some guy. Can I have the name? And they're like, nah. Thanks Voxer. Every sane company on the planet has policies in place to give people names that are just being camped by bots or that no one is using that have been inactive for a long time. You know why? Because every single time when a social media comes out, a bunch of people with their bot farms have them make all the popular names into accounts so that they can sell them. And obviously this gray market of selling account names is not good for a platform. So most companies are like, yeah, yeah, it's clearly just not being used for 10 bajillion years. Sure, you can have the name. And it's that fucking simple. Rockstar isn't a fucking simple company. It's the same company that doesn't let you change your name except once every 365 days unless you ask them. If you will allow a person to change their name effectively whenever they want to, if they are support, why not just cut out support and have just let people change their name whenever they want to. And that's what you do in a sensible reality. This is Rockstar Games. |
| 10. August 2022 | Why I am not an expert at gta 5 despite playing for 9500 hours. | Why I'm not an expert at GTA V despite playing it for 9,500 hours. I'm sure most of you know Averitasium, he might actually be Australian as well. He released this video, the 4 things it takes to be an expert is not just 10,000 hours. Many people likely recognise that despite having 9,500 plus hours in GTA V, I don't play better than people who only have a thousand hours, at least in regards to speedrunning right? Like clearly I'm good at the game but I'm not like just instantly starts speedrunning and then get world record sort of level right? And he explains why this is. It's not a simple matter of doing something for 10,000 hours, but you've got to like push the boundaries of what your limits are right? You've got to keep practicing at the limits of your current level of skill. So all that time I spend doing no damage and just driving around slowly in my car not caring about break boosts and stuff, that's not really making me better at the game. All the time recording facts and glitches and stuff, sure I'm in GTA V but it doesn't make me better at the game. You know so much of what I did with my 9,500 hours has not been practiced as meaningful. Even when I speed ran I did not practice efficiently, it was largely just me doing the run over and over and over again and not practicing specific things that I was bad at. I've always been not very good at practicing speed runs. But if you haven't seen this video I highly recommend it, it's a very interesting video, I mean very potassium you know, these videos are very well done. |
| 12. August 2020 | Why I am not growing as i did | Why I'm no longer experiencing explosive growth on YouTube. I'm currently not producing any new series, so I can't expect the kind of explosive growth that I had with the introduction of any of my new series. Like if you go back and look at the first video of each of the series, huge views. Repeatedly doing those series, while easier than making an entirely new series, it's not going to bring in the same viewership. It's why I was disheartened when that video that I made on Amanda didn't do amazingly well. Like it did well, but it didn't even do as well as a normal Facts and Glitches episode. I have one new series coming, but it's being delayed because I missed an email. And even that, I'm not convinced it's going to be amazing, but we'll see. My most viewed video? There's a handful of Facts and Glitches over a million views. Most past this is over a million views, but my 100% world record from back in the day, the 959, has over a million views. But it might be my largest now, 1.4. |
| 19. July 2020 | Why I am not serious playing casual games. | Why I'm not serious playing casual games on stream. Can you teach me how to play Jedi Fallen Order? No. Guys, here's something that's gonna shock you. This is gonna really surprise you. I don't mind being bad at casual games. When I play a casual game on stream, I don't fail and then sit there for five minutes trying to figure out exactly the best way to not fail going forward. I don't take my time and think through things. I just play the game. And if I fail, I'll laugh and then keep playing. I'm not there to be amazing at the game. I don't take it super seriously. If my only goal was to beat Jedi Fallen Order very well without dying very much, I could do it very easily. I would work out all the mechanics, move the buttons around, maybe watch a tutorial or two on YouTube, and then I could do it. But I don't want to do that. Half the fun is in the failure. Especially when you're making content for Twitch and YouTube. |
| 19. July 2020 | Why I am not serious playing casual games? | Why I'm not serious playing casual games on stream. Can you teach me how to play Jedi Fallen Order? No. Guys, here's something that's gonna shock you. This is gonna really surprise you. I don't mind being bad at casual games. When I play a casual game on stream, I don't fail and then sit there for five minutes trying to figure out exactly the best way to not fail going forward. I don't take my time and think through things. I just play the game. And if I fail, I'll laugh and then keep playing. I'm not there to be amazing at the game. I don't take it super seriously. If my only goal was to beat Jedi Fallen Order very well without dying very much, I could do it very easily. I would work out all the mechanics, move the buttons around, maybe watch a tutorial or two on YouTube, and then I could do it. But I don't want to do that. Half the fun is in the failure. Especially when you're making content for Twitch and YouTube. |
| 25. December 2019 | Why I am not suitable for Mixer | Not suitable for Mixer. You ready to be bought out by Nick? Mixer and Nally have a higher bitrate. There is no way in hell Mixer would ever buy someone like me out. I am not wholesome. Okay, look. You guys think of me as wholesome. I want people to treat me nice and so I try as much as possible to treat other people nice and when I don't, when I, you know, I'm angry because I'm tired or frustrated or whatever and I snap at someone I always try to apologize and make amends because that's just not why I like to put in the world. Except against Baron. Fuck Baron. But the game that I play, GTA V, is definitely not something that Mixer is kind of super in love with. The amount that I swear, probably not a thing that Mixer really loves. The amount of politics and stuff I talk about, definitely not something that Mixer is into. |
| 18. July 2022 | Why I am temporarily wearing glasses? | I am temporarily wearing glasses. Okay, so... Why am I wearing glasses? I explained before that I'm getting laser eye surgery, and you need to... not have worn contact lenses for the past couple of days. I got my glasses, and I'm like, well I'd better test and see if they work, and I've just kept wearing them for the past week, while I haven't been streaming. I'll still be wearing contact lenses, and I am kinda getting sick of wearing the... glasses to be honest. I'm being reminded how fucking blind I am. Just for a while, I'm doing it, so... Love the glasses? Ah, yeah, they're alright. I bought them because they remind me of my... my shoulder glasses, that I used back in like the seventh grade. When's my surgery appointment? Ah, for... laser eye surgery? Ah, it's quite a ways away. I like, I have to go for the test, to see if I can even get it. I'm surprised how long it's taking. It was like three months I had to wait to get an appointment for laser eye surgery, like certainly, I could have gone somewhere else. The reason why I'm going to these people, because they're like the best at it, and my mother already got laser eye surgery with them, and she was fine, so I'm like, ah, you know, better to just wait and... go with the people that I know, you know. |
| 31. October 2021 | Why I avoid watching most other gta content | Why I avoid watching most other GTA contents I don't want to take ideas from people and if I keep myself away from other people's content Then any idea that I have I can say is kind of uniquely mine, right? Well, not uniquely mine because everything is kind of derivative But I just mean out of the community kind of thing like I had the idea for my GTA 5 fact GTA 5 fact series forever, I pitched it to like Four or five larger youtubers hoping that they would allow me to put on their channel But it was ultimately Baron's success with casual versus speedrun that inspired me to actually make the script into a Well, it wasn't much of a script. It was more just a list of stuff to include But to actually make that into a video because the success of casual versus speedrun showed that uh, you know The YouTube algorithm can like that kind of content. Although funnily enough it did take like Five or six days for the series to actually take off like when I uploaded it It got decent views, but then it was like five or six days later, which went skyrocketing |
| 01. September 2021 | Why I can't do GTA 5 strip club streams | Why I can't do 24-hour GT5 strip club streams there are different rules in regards to the conduct of the streamers themselves and the conduct of the What's what can be shown in games if the game isn't banned and there's something that's a common sense What to you twitch probably wouldn't want on their platform. It just can't be the focus of your stream So like if twitch didn't allow nudity you'd have to ban like all quite a few actually AAA games I Mean you couldn't play any got a war games for example even things like you know Mafia to whatever have pinups whatever naked women. It's more of a matter of like if I made my title Hanging out in the GT5 strip club. Hold am look at these titties That would get me banned because I'd be making a focus on my stream Wasn't for that damn old evil twitch. I'd be doing those 24-hour GTA 5 strip club titty streams. They should never be though I'm fortunate |
| 23. August 2021 | Why I can’t play Binding of Isaac | Why I can't play Binding of Isaac. Yeah, whenever you release more content for a game, an initial burst of content can increase interest and therefore bring in new people. But if you keep adding more and more and more and more, eventually, whenever anyone sees the game, it looks so complicated that they won't want to start. And that's how it looks whenever I look at Binding of Isaac's stream. Guys got like 87 heads spewing continuously in every single direction with 17 minions. He's one hitting everything in every room. I was like, no. |
| 29. December 2020 | Why I deny requests for others to reupload my content. | I had a company contact me and ask to use my clips on their pages like Facebook and stuff and I was like, nah, I don't like their stuff. I'm not convinced that people reposting my stuff to other pages actually benefits me. It seems far better to have the content be exclusive to a particular place so that anyone who finds it and enjoys it and wants to share it will have to necessarily share me and my channels. When someone finds it somewhere else and they enjoy it, they will share the page that they found it on, right? Clearly the other people benefit far more from uploading my content than I do from them uploading my content. Of course, always a different story if it's transformative. If you take something I've done and make it your own in some capacity, I love that shit. I'm even totally okay with people reacting to stuff on Twitch as long as they don't upload it to YouTube. As I said in that reacting video, the lack of permanency of your reaction or whatever and that you're not using the other person's content to market yourself. The title isn't, oh my god, I'm watching this guy's content, come watch. Just the part of your general content reacting to YouTube videos, I'm fine with that shit. But that's just my view, you know? But just direct copying someone else's stuff and competing with their work putting on YouTube stuff, I hate that. I suppose it also depends on the content to a degree, especially if you're just like a one-off viral video, there's no chance you pick up viewers having it spread on other people's channels and stuff. My content, at the very least, is, while not unique, it does, it's not super common to the extent, like if you want to find this kind of content, I'm kind of the place you have to go, you know? Why this season of chaos has taken longer to complete the game. Some people don't like the personal voting and I- |
| 29. January 2021 | Why I didn't make a best of 2020 video | Why I didn't make a best of 2020 video Did you guys see the tweet that I put out before I went live? I think it was pretty funny because I was noticing everyone making best of 2020 videos like the best of Ludwig 2020 the best of simply and so I tweeted out I didn't make a Best of dark Viper 2020 video because everything I made in 2020 is equally good Please watch every video I released in 2020 see the best of what I have to offer But in reality the reason why I didn't make such a thing is because I always have more content to release I Always have more things that I'm working on than I can handle I don't have time to be going back through all my content and finding the best stuff |
| 11. December 2020 | Why I didn't release GTA 5 cutscene movie | Why I didn't release my GTA V cutscene movie. Why did you cancel the cutscene movie after most of the footage was recorded? I discovered that the lip syncing of the characters is really, really, really, really bad. I didn't want to have to go to the effort to fix it, and I wasn't happy with the recording. I mean, maybe I'll do it again when I have a 3090 and I can use max anti-aliasing and stuff. Don't you think a cutscene movie would have been a bit scummy in terms of profiting off someone else's content? I mean, considering the game released seven, eight years ago, I'm gonna say no. So there's kind of a... The degree to which something is scummy kind of depends on what it impacts. And I don't think a cutscene movie of GTA V for a company that's worth like tens of billions of dollars, it's so infinitesimally small that to care about it all seems like a complete waste of time. No one at this point is not buying GTA V and instead just watching a cutscene movie on YouTube. The people who'd be watching a cutscene movie that I would make, the people who've already played the game, don't want to play through it again, but want to relive the cutscenes in higher quality. People certainly treat things differently. The difference between like using another YouTuber's content and using content from a multi-billion dollar company, it's just like, if you're spending your time worrying about the well-being of, you know, billion dollar companies, I think you're just wasting your time. They're doing fine. Would I add a watermark on my cutscene movie? No. I hate those channels that have put watermarks on their cutscene movies. Fuck them. The way that I would be doing a cutscene movie would take so much fucking effort in terms of lip syncing and whatnot. The cutscene movies that are on YouTube right now, low quality garbage, no efforts at lip syncing, the quality of the actual footage is abysmal and it's got watermarks on it. So anyone who wanted to use a small clip is basically screwed. How would you lip sync an in-game or pre-rendered cuts in yourself by moving the words around on the timeline, speeding up or slowing down footage? |
| 06. August 2020 | Why I didn’t play Ghost Of Tsushima | Why I didn't play Ghost of Toshima. I wanted to play Ghost of Toshima or whatever, but my controller's fucked. I swear I plugged it in, I must have unplugged it at some point. When I plug it into my PlayStation, it won't function. The controller literally will not charge and function at the same time plugged in the PS4. So I'm like, oh, plug it into the wall. Plug it into the wall. So plug it into the wall, try to turn it on, doesn't work. As long as it's charging, it will not connect to the PS4. I can't imagine that's how it's meant to go, right? Normally you're meant to be able to charge the controller while using it, right? It may be much as broken or maybe when it's too low battery, it, I don't know, but I can't risk half an hour into the thing, just it breaking. The cable I have into the controller is shit. But the main reason for that is, like it still charges it, but it's just a little bit flimsy. The main reason for that is because it uses the most antiquated out of date fucking charging method ever. It is the only thing in my entire house of all my devices that uses that fucking 10,000 year old fucking charging board. So I bought myself, well, I've ordered these new USB cables that you can change the top of because I'm just so fucking sick of it. But they, it's coming from the US, so it's gonna take like a month to fucking get here. I just, I feel like shit too. Couldn't get to sleep until 4 a.m. last night. And that's after like the last couple of nights, going to bed at like 11. I stayed up an extra five hours. I could not get to sleep regardless of what I fucking did. And then I woke up, it was like 10, 10. I'm like, I'm gonna get myself pizza. I'm gonna wait until 11 a.m. to get myself pizza. Got myself pizza, like waited an hour, doing nothing. Couldn't get out of bed. I only had like six hours sleep just to get a pizza. I ate two whole pizzas and I feel fucking terrible. |
| 06. August 2020 | Why I didn’t play Ghost Of Tsushima? | Why I didn't play Ghost of Toshima. I wanted to play Ghost of Toshima or whatever, but my controller's fucked. I swear I plugged it in, I must have unplugged it at some point. When I plug it into my PlayStation, it won't function. The controller literally will not charge and function at the same time plugged in the PS4. So I'm like, oh, plug it into the wall. Plug it into the wall. So plug it into the wall, try to turn it on, doesn't work. As long as it's charging, it will not connect to the PS4. I can't imagine that's how it's meant to go, right? Normally you're meant to be able to charge the controller while using it, right? It may be much as broken or maybe when it's too low battery, it, I don't know, but I can't risk half an hour into the thing, just it breaking. The cable I have into the controller is shit. But the main reason for that is, like it still charges it, but it's just a little bit flimsy. The main reason for that is because it uses the most antiquated out of date fucking charging method ever. It is the only thing in my entire house of all my devices that uses that fucking 10,000 year old fucking charging board. So I bought myself, well, I've ordered these new USB cables that you can change the top of because I'm just so fucking sick of it. But they, it's coming from the US, so it's gonna take like a month to fucking get here. I just, I feel like shit too. Couldn't get to sleep until 4 a.m. last night. And that's after like the last couple of nights, going to bed at like 11. I stayed up an extra five hours. I could not get to sleep regardless of what I fucking did. And then I woke up, it was like 10, 10. I'm like, I'm gonna get myself pizza. I'm gonna wait until 11 a.m. to get myself pizza. Got myself pizza, like waited an hour, doing nothing. Couldn't get out of bed. I only had like six hours sleep just to get a pizza. I ate two whole pizzas and I feel fucking terrible. |
| 29. January 2021 | Why I did’n’t make a best of 2020 video | Why I didn't make a best of 2020 video Did you guys see the tweet that I put out before I went live? I think it was pretty funny because I was noticing everyone making best of 2020 videos like the best of Ludwig 2020 the best of simply and so I tweeted out I didn't make a Best of dark Viper 2020 video because everything I made in 2020 is equally good Please watch every video I released in 2020 see the best of what I have to offer But in reality the reason why I didn't make such a thing is because I always have more content to release I Always have more things that I'm working on than I can handle I don't have time to be going back through all my content and finding the best stuff |
| 01. September 2020 | Why I do the shorter segment runs | Why I do the shortest segment runs. Do you do segments to practice the classic? Basically yeah. I don't want to stick around on any segments too long. I just want to kind of learn enough that I could do it in a full run. With that being said, segments are a lot more convenient for when I'm doing other stuff. Because right now I want to work on passives so I just do some segments. |
| 08. March 2023 | Why I don't feel the need to play new games when they release. | Why I don't feel the need to play new games when they release Atomic Heart is out gonna stream it. It doesn't look appealing as a game I mean people seem very split on how good it is. I'm not one to go out of my way to play new games like this Hundreds of old games that are really good that I've never played who all these people have played all the good old games that need new games |
| 06. October 2021 | Why I don't go out of my way to do GTA online racing | Why I don't go out of my way to GC online racing There were some things about racing that I find interesting but a lot that I think I'd find boring I like the varied gameplay of speedrunning. I don't think just driving around a track over and over again would be really appealing to me I mean, I've liked Mario Kart, but that's about it You know when I drove in races online the few times that I've done it I smashed everyone if I didn't get knocked off the race at the beginning when I got knocked off I'm like, why the fuck am I even doing this? This is a lesser race and more Dodge-room cars, whatever public racing is more of a demolition derby Yeah, it's terrible because if you get knocked off the track at any point You can't really recover and then you're stuck doing a race for like the next 10 minutes |
| 17. January 2020 | Why I don't have a P.O Box | Why I don't have a PO box. I don't have a PO box anymore Because the one I was using shuts down shut down as much as I'm flattered that people Want to send me things sending stuff internationally to Australia is extraordinarily expensive It's just not worth it for people and the hassle for me Using a PO box and stuff is just not something I want to deal with right now Like if my PO box was still open like it shut down like the place where I got it shut down I would still use it, but if I would have set up a PO box now It'd be further away and thus it'd be harder for me to get the package |
| 24. May 2022 | Why I don't have issues recording games anymore | Country, even though they're both together or something, I'm not sure. Why I don't have issues recording games anymore. So with modern graphics cards, there's a section of it dedicated to encoding. So if you stream, it shouldn't affect your gameplay performance, but there are some options in OBS that uses your actual GPU. And now that I've turned those off, I don't have issues of dropped frames when my, when my game is using a lot of FPS. The quality of my stream is a little bit worse, especially like you wouldn't notice, but with the zooms for YouTube, you can see it's a little bit more crunchy, but now that I don't have to deal with that kind of issue. |
| 16. May 2021 | Why I don't like wallpaper engine | Yeah. Why I don't like wallpaper engine. So yesterday I tried wallpaper engine and I realized that there are so many wallpapers and it's hard to find one that really drives with you. And I didn't want to spend a lot of time. So I put some Dark Souls one on my monitor to my side. And I realized I don't like moving wallpapers. They're distracting. Like out of the corner of my eye, having stuff moving is not good. So I uninstall it again. I'm lucky it only costs like three bucks, but I just much prefer static wallpapers and for that I don't need wallpaper engine. |
| 28. September 2021 | Why I don't think I would be a good partner currently | Why I don't think I would be a good partner currently. I don't want to be helped meeting people or getting in relationships and stuff. I'm fairly content with how my life is right now. I don't think I would make a good partner for anyone except maybe another streamer because I spend so much of my life streaming and editing and stuff and I don't want to stop doing that. So any person that I got into a relationship with they'd have to understand that and maybe be doing something similar. One of the biggest reasons I think that my parents relationship failed, I mean the 10 year age difference probably hurt a little bit in the beginning, but my father is the kind of person who isn't willing to put aside his interests or what he wants to do for other people very frequently. Like if he's not doing something or has nothing planned on that day he'll help you as long as you want. Oh you need help moving? Yeah I got that. You know you need Tuesday? Yeah I can under do anything Tuesday. Oh you need it Wednesday? Can't do it mate. Go on the gym. Can't do it you know I've got a TV show I'm watching. It's important try I can't miss it back you know when the recording was less of a thing or whatever. My mother probably got too worked up over small things and my father didn't get worked up over anything and wasn't willing to step out of his comfort zone for other people's benefit. I take after my father not as much but I just mean I don't think I am willing to as readily put aside my own interests as you should probably be willing to in a healthy relationship you know. But I always just imagined that if I met someone who I really cared for I would be more willing to do that. In my current iteration of who I am I'm not really super keen to do that like I don't want to do that I want to edit my stuff you know I want to want to stream today I don't really want to go to whatever place you want to go to you know how I imagine I would be. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 17. January 2020 | Why I dont have a P.O Box | Why I don't have a PO box. I don't have a PO box anymore Because the one I was using shuts down shut down as much as I'm flattered that people Want to send me things sending stuff internationally to Australia is extraordinarily expensive It's just not worth it for people and the hassle for me Using a PO box and stuff is just not something I want to deal with right now Like if my PO box was still open like it shut down like the place where I got it shut down I would still use it, but if I would have set up a PO box now It'd be further away and thus it'd be harder for me to get the package |
| 03. January 2021 | Why I don’t enjoy the holidays. | Why I don't enjoy the holidays. Do I like holidays? Because I don't have any holidays. And I'm not a particularly festive person. All holidays mean is that on the very rare occasions when I used to go to the store before COVID, there'd be a lot of people there, and that would annoy me. There's this significance of holidays to me. Holidays are expectations that I go to particular gatherings, that I buy people gifts. It's just pressure, an obligation. There is nothing that I want materially that I need other people to buy me. I can see my family anytime. But usually when I see my family, it's when it's a convenient time. But for Christmas, regardless of what I want to do, on the 25th of December I have to go see my family. There's no benefit that Christmas gives me because of my line of work. |
| 12. August 2020 | Why I don’t like Watch Dogs 2 | Audio. Why I don't like Watch Dogs 2. How come I dislike Watch Dogs 2? The characters, their dialogue, who they are, what they're doing, their goals is so cringy and annoying. That sounds like it was written by like 45 year olds who don't really understand internet culture, but we're trying to emulate it as much as possible to appeal to like Generation Z or something, whatever the fuck they call, you know, the kids in high school and it just comes off all as so fake. Like even though they even have those troll face memes, which were like a big meme thing in like 2009 or something, like the early days of meme culture. And that's like on the forefront of the cover. It almost sounds like they just Googled memes and then just copy pasted everything that they saw into the game. And this it just makes everything feel so cringy. And so then if the gameplay isn't immediately amazing and enjoyable, it's hard to continue, right? It's almost as though the cringiness and annoyingness of the story and the characters, even this early on, makes every other flaw massively stand out, you know, and the flaws were a lack of communication about the tools at my disposal to deal with the problems in which the game was generating for me at every point. I was like, so what am I meant to do here? Where am I going? What is this? What does this button do? This I had gotten into situations where I would have to use a tool and then like five minutes later, it would explain that tool for me. I should be like, but I needed that tool, or at least it was very useful five minutes ago. And the existence of fast travel immediately, the very beginning of the game just shows that the map can't be set out that well, you know. I will I will try and have another go at it. But it's just even in the first two hours, it's immediately rubbed me the wrong way in many different ways. |
| 02. January 2022 | Why I don’t play GTA Online with viewers. | Why I don't play GTA Online with viewers? Why don't I play more multiplayer games with my viewers? As I've said many times, if GTA Online had any security, I'd probably play some occasional online games with you guys. But it doesn't. And people with mod menus would just ruin it every time. I did play 5M once before, it's just a... It's a bit annoying to set up, I suppose. I mean, I would imagine if I were to... Is it Ivana they're called? Hopefully they're still around. I could probably ask them, be like, hey look, can I have a day where I just play with my viewers or something? And they'd probably be keen to do it, to get some people onto the server or something. It's just setting stuff up like that, you know, it's hard. I'm planning on making space in my crew for people to join today. Unfortunately, I'm just too big now. People with mod menus will always join and ruin it. I can't do anything. Community related to GTA Online. Like if I needed more people for something, I'd pick from the people who are patrons who've been put in the upper tiers. Understand, there are tiers in the crew, but I am not able to specifically invite a tier of people. Is that dumb? Yes. That is dumb. It is supremely dumb. But Rockstar is terrible at everything they do. Like I can't even regulate my own groups correctly, you know. But at Twitch sub, the last dude who DDoSed me was at Twitch sub, my guy. Okay. Hmm. Well, that's not correct. No. That's what happens when you load into a bloody public lobby. Couldn't sign me in automatically. Is that cause Steam's down? Oh no, I have to get through Rockstar's stupid fucking security. You know what sucks the most about these verification puzzles? Even if the system is down, it gives you these verification puzzles. So you don't even know if it's going to let you in. Can machines really not count to five? Could a machine really not do this? Cause always the numbers on the top. Surely a machine could be programmed to pick five. Why would you need six of them though? Loading. Loading. Are you for real? Some guy kicked me and now I literally can't play cause Steam's down. Are you... What an asshole. The entire time that we were playing, at any point I could have been kicked by some asshole with a mod menu, would have been perfectly fine. The one fucking time where it's an actual problem. God damn it. And all of this because Rockstar and their infinite fucking wisdom can't put you back in the same fucking lobby that you were in prior to going into a fucking heist. Like they didn't even put you into a solo session. They're like, oh, we'll just put him into a public session where everyone has a fucking mod menu. That can crash literally anyone on the fucking server. Morons. A company staffed by morons. Morons who feel that in the industry morons are discriminated against and they only hire fucking morons. |
| 29. January 2021 | Why I don’t use Twitch’s predictions feature | Why I don't use Twitch's prediction feature. This is something that allows viewers to bet currency on whether an event happens or does not. Predictions just clog the chat with people talking about the prediction. Meaning that when I look over, it is far less likely I'm going to see something that I actually want to see. More than this, when people make predictions about what's going to happen in the stream, they will try to influence the stream to make that thing happen. In like a tournament or something, or when you're not looking at chat or whatever, sure it's fine to use predictions. But for me, who likes to read their chat, and who can get stressed out by people trying to go, oh do this, oh don't do this, oh you suck, do this, you're going to fail. I don't want that stuff. You know? It's annoying to look at that shit when people come up with things around the stream. |
| 12. August 2020 | Why I don’t use subtitles | Why I don't use subtitles when I play games on stream? I hate subtitles in games that I play. The reasoning is because sometimes you want to move the audio or zoom in on a particular thing and the subtitles are in the way. The more things that are on the screen that aren't the thing you want to focus on, the harder it is to have a camera zoom that looks clean. Like 165% is the size you need to do to crop me and my splits entirely out. You also therefore lose the other side as well of the screen. If I was smaller here, you wouldn't have the zoom as much to crop me out. My layout isn't just clean in the way that I like it. It's also with the editing later in my life. |
| 03. May 2020 | Why I drive a manual car | Why I drive a manual car I do drive a manual car yes Manus are so much better than automatic the only reason I drive a manual is because when I was learning my mother was like What if you get caught somewhere and you need to drive a car and me? The only car that's there is a manual you don't have to drive the manual you get stuck there or something I wouldn't be good you may as well learn to drive a manual even if you can automatic later And that's sound reasoning as far as I'm concerned it doesn't take that much more effort to learn to drive a manual You may as well learn it just in case you ever need to drive one or you you know you happen to find a car Later in life that you want that happens to be manual or whatever you know I Wonder if it's ever been like a line in a movie where it's like we need to get away from the killer Oh, no, it's a stick shift. I only know how to drive automatic and the killer catches up with them GTA 5 |
| 15. May 2021 | Why I explain strats live instead of using voice overs | There have been indications that the American economy has not been doing well for quite a while and there have been people saying doom and gloom stuff for quite a while as well. I'm not educated enough in this, but I don't believe it's the printing of money that's America's problem. Like you have to print a damn lot of money to destabilize a currency, especially if a currency is relied upon as the US. Relyed upon? It is. The US dollar is still the international currency for trade. Many countries who have weaker currencies keep US currency in stock as reserve. Those who have international investments keep US currency. It's relied upon by other countries as prog.se. |
| 06. May 2021 | Why I gained so many followers in July 2017. | Why I gained so many followers on July 2017 Why did I gain so many followers in July 2017? So there was this thing that Twitch was trialling where when you made a new account it would recommend you some streams that you can follow The only streams initially that were recommended are those who are live and I think at the very beginning partners and it wasn't obvious that you could just skip through without following anyone so people would just like mash follow on everyone who got recommended to them to get their account complete and during this time I was doing 100% speedruns and I was even doing reruns of my 100% speedruns so as far as the system was concerned I was live basically 24 hours a day and so anyone making their account had a significant possibility of being recommended to follow me and would just spam follow and potentially never come to my stream some of them did of course, it did help me but for a while there it caused me to have an inflated follower count compared to my actual viewer numbers |
| 08. April 2021 | Why I get into drama sometimes. | Why I get into drama sometimes. It's been a stressful couple of days. Despite what people believe, I'm not the kind of person who likes to get involved into drama. When I see someone either intentionally or inadvertently causing harm to potentially not only me but other people as well, I get very irate. Whether done out of ignorance or maliciousness, I kind of have a hard time controlling myself and how angry that makes me. Especially when it's done out of ignorance and it's done out of simply a lack of care or consideration. I just get really cranky. I go to good heart, but sometimes a good heart can make you do things that are less than practical. |
| 16. November 2022 | Why I got a psychology degree. | as well. Why I got a psychology degree. What was the reason you wanted to attend college to earn a psychology degree? Always been interested in people and why they believe as they do and act as they do. It just so happened coincidentally that my leaving of my job repairing hearing aids happened to coincide with the enrollment for the university of it. And I was just like, well, you know, it's good as time as any. And always wanted to help people. So learned some good things, potentially help people. Sounds like a plan. |
| 30. January 2021 | Why I hate my rambles sometimes | Why I hate my rambles sometimes. Do I extend rambles because I know they're gonna be rambles? No. Often, I feel annoyed at myself whenever I listen to my rambles back, because there's always more I could have said. The way that I would present my views, and the way that I would argue my points in writing is very different than the way that I do it in a ramble when I'm just speaking to you guys right now. It's never good enough. I have never said enough. When I listen to the ramble back, I'm like, I know what dumb shit people are gonna say in response to this. It's gonna be this, this, this, and that's so easy to explain why those rebuttals or arguments are all so dumb. But I know that because I haven't addressed them, people are gonna hold to those things and either criticize me in the comments or not gonna change their minds because they weren't addressed. |
| 03. January 2022 | Why I have always liked the youtube comment section | It's just fucking crazy, you know what I'm saying? Why I have always liked the YouTube comment section. As a person who was never super talkative when I was younger and then when I got older I became very frustrated that the quote-unquote friends that I had at the time didn't have the same interests as me. Going on YouTube and stuff and finding people with similar interests or going in you becoming going on Twitch and having finding people with similar interests has always been wonderful. My life has been more complete being on the internet than it ever was prior to my |
| 05. September 2021 | Why I have so many more youtube viewers than twitch viewers | Why I have so many more YouTube viewers than I do Twitch viewers There are more people who can watch offline content than can watch online content YouTube has a much higher audience than Twitch More people like watching offline content, non-live stream content than watching live stream content My current view count doesn't encapsulate every single person who's joined the stream Which videos on YouTube do It's very simple when you give it a little bit of thought Same reason Ninja can have 2 million views on his YouTube video And yet have 30-40k viewers on his YouTube video |
| 26. January 2022 | Why I made a twitter account | You know? Why I made a Twitter account. So I've been going over my old tweets to find my best tweets to make a video about. Also, because it's interesting looking at my past, like looking at how I thought about things or what I posted and stuff. I posted a lot of tweets to- for zero likes. For a long time. I think I largely made a Twitter so that I could promote my Twitch streams. That's what it seems to suggest because like from the from the get-go I'm tweeting out that I'm live. Because I have no idea why I made a Twitter account back in the day. |
| 26. January 2022 | Why I made my clips channel | Why I made my clips channel. Keep in mind when I reference Twitch's DMCA issues this was when music companies were potentially putting DMCA's on channels for their older content. Clips channel is just for money. The clips channel was begun primarily to build my brand as in get more viewers to watch my other stuff. I did not expect it to be as successful as it is. DMCA made my clips channel. It wasn't just that. I had already noticed that there were a bunch of channels on YouTube blowing up like in a week going from having one view to a million views a day and thousands upon thousands of subscribers using other people's clips. And so I looked at that and I'm like oh I should do that too. I don't know when am I gonna have the time though. I'll get around to it. Like it was on the books as something that I wanted to do but I didn't know an exact mechanism of how I wanted to do it. And then when the DMCA stuff happened like three or four days later I was like well no time like the present. So I looked up how do I download all my clips finding all the ones that I think are good to put on the channel. To my knowledge I had to at least be one of the first to make their own dedicated clips channel. Like a lot of the really really big content creators they can't be farts and they're happy to let these other people do it for them. I have an advantage though that what I'm doing is somewhat unique. If you get suggested a random clip from a random streamer if they do something funny you're like oh that was funny but you might not necessarily seek them out. But with my clips you know Chaos, GT5 speedrunning, GTA 5 OCO people might not know that it exists and because they become aware of that they go oh okay maybe that's something I want to look into maybe I like that kind of thing you know. It is always depressing when something very low effort becomes so much more successful than something really high effort you know. Effort does not necessarily translate one to one into reward on YouTube or in life in general. Oh don't get me wrong I think that clips channel is very funny it's got some real good stuff on it. I just mean it's not like high effort content or something right. No one should look at what I'm doing there and go wow that's some creative work you got there man. Like I wouldn't be able to do what I'm doing permanently it's just because I have such a backlog of clips you know. Eventually I'll have to stop. I am tempted like when I truly run out of clips just making another channel and re-uploading all the videos again but just with different titles and potentially slightly different thumbnails and just seeing how that channel would go. No! Director's commentary. I'll re-upload all the clips with director's commentary. Now you see here I was doing a speedrun and didn't go so well and didn't like that I lost some time so I yelled here it is now. You motherfucker! I was very angry that day. |
| 02. May 2021 | Why I morally can't support logitech anymore | Why I morally can't support Logitech anymore. So a long long time ago when I was a small content creator, Logitech reached out to me and they would give me stuff like boards and mice and stuff. Presumably like, you know, just to build a relationship so that you know if you ever get larger content creator there's some promotion there. They never gave me any money, never asked for any reviews. They just said look like tweet that you got this or whatever. And so the problem with getting multiple items from a seller is that you can see when boards and items change. So I would get myself a mouse and then I would go, oh can I have the same mouse like a year and a half, two years later. They'd send me a new copy of that mouse and it would be amazingly worse. It'd be made of weaker quality items. It wouldn't feel as rugged. You could shake it and things would jiggle around and stuff. And I don't think Logitech is the only people who do this. And like I think what they do is when they release the item the first time it's like the brand new amazing quality stuff. So all the reviews are amazing. And then slowly over time they replace parts of the products with basically the same but slightly cheaper materials. So people, unless they're doing direct one-to-one comparisons, won't notice and it's not like they're going to be reviewed, right? So I've experienced that with Logitech, receiving items from them continuously over the years. But it's gotten worse now because the most recent board that I've received, like it's awful. Not only is it just amazingly worse than the first one I received, the Logitech 10 keyless, they're now doing this thing where they no longer will put the keys in themselves and test them. So once upon a time you had, you could buy yourself a Logitech board with red keys or blue keys or whatever. But now what they do is they sell everyone a blue keyboard and require you to replace the keys yourself, right? These are all blue keys because I've used all my red ones. And when I got the board the first time, a significant portion, I don't know how many, a significant portion of the blue keys already in the board were all double-strokes. As in, if you press it, it can more often than not press twice. I was staggered like, oh, well, I'm going to use the red keys anyway, so who cares? And so I put in the new red keys and like a 30% of them also had double-stroke. And my board here now is like, I know like 40% blue keys and 30% red keys because so many of the fucking keys double-strokes, both of the blue and the red. Staggering this amazing amount of cost-cutting the Logitech has to be doing over these years. I don't know why they're doing it. Are they running out of money? But this decline in quality is unacceptable. Like when this board is dead, I'm going back to Corsair. And I haven't used the Corsair board in five years. But at least I got to test something else because this is, like, morally, I can't support this shit anymore. Over the years, I have said, hey, I'm using Logitech boards or support the company in some way. And if I don't say something about this, I will feel guilty about it. Because some of you are going to buy Logitech boards with the expectation of quality, and it just doesn't exist currently. I don't know how this fucking happens. What is double-stroke? Double-stroke is when you press a key and it presses two of the key at once. So you've done one input, but it does it twice. Fucking staggering. Okay, so let me see if I can find myself another red key somewhere. Because my O key is a blue key. What's another key on this keyboard that I don't fucking use very often? I only use F12. Maybe that's still a red key. Ah, that's still a red one. Okay, so we'll hope this one doesn't double-stroke as well. It's become this game of trying to only put blue keys in the keys that I don't press very often. It's incredible. Like I'd buy myself a new set of keys, but you know what that costs? $70. $70! Once upon a time, you could just buy whatever keys you wanted in a fucking keyboard from Logitech. Now they're like, ah man, you gotta pay that premium if you don't want blue. Who the hell uses blue keys? What's the play of double-stroke? I think it's when the keys have been designed poorly. It's a failure in the manufacturing process and or the quality control process. |
| 04. November 2021 | Why I never call myself “viper” | Why I never refer to myself as Viper. I want you to go onto YouTube, there's like go onto Google, and type in Viper GTA V. See how long it takes you to find me. It's gonna take you a fucking while, cause there's a car, called a Viper. My name isn't Viper, it's Dark Viper AU. Viper, is something you can't Google, and so I can never be found with that name. You guys can call me Viper, but I don't formally go by Viper, as in if you saw me on some media, thing, I'd be called Dark Viper or Dark Viper AU. You won't, ever see me in any official capacity, being called Viper. |
| 03. April 2021 | Why I often wear a jacket while ranting. | Why I often wear a jacket while ranting. Do you guys not know why I wear jumpers when I rant? When I get riled up, my body gets really fucking cold. I don't know why. But man, if you have sleeves, you'll lose half your power. You do it so you look more badass with your sleeves. |
| 18. August 2022 | Why I prefer my 'This is what you missed' series rather than a VOD channel. | I much prefer combining together all the relevant footage into one video. Like if you want to go watch me play Slay the Spire, there's 20 hours of it on YouTube right now. Same with Noita, you know. Same with Chess, you know. You want some background noise of me playing some game that you weren't there for the stream. You've got a bunch of possibilities now. Of course, the value of a VOD channel in part depends on what kind of a streamer you are. For me, it's a little bit more valuable because when I do a stream, it's generally not me just buggerizing around. I will start a stream and have a specific goal for that stream, and I will work to complete that goal. And if I fail, I'll stop the stream. Some streamers will start the stream with no particular goal in mind and just sit there and chat and hang out. And those VODs are less valuable. Is Michael actually coming to GTA Online? It's Michael, the famous guy from GTA 5. |
| 17. March 2022 | Why I prefer to do as much myself as possible. | Why I prefer to do as much myself as possible. I'll be real with you, uh, I feel as though every person who's ever asked me, why don't you hire a person to do X, has never actually hired a person to do something in their entire life. Full disclosure, like I, I sincerely have come to believe that. Same way before I started to do it, until you start doing it, you don't understand the difficulties imposed in such a thing. Because it's not obvious, but it's just not as easy as you might think. The process of thinking of thing, then immediately doing that thing, is generally speaking a much faster process than thinking of the thing, finding a person who has the skills to do that thing, communicating that thing to that person, making sure the other person understands that thing, having them do it, having it come back to you, you checking to make sure it is the thing that you want, realizing it isn't the thing you want, going back for additional corrections, getting that person to do the corrections, hoping that the corrections are now correct that time, bringing it back to you, and then using that thing in the capacity that you wanted to use it. Realizing that it's not actually the thing that you needed in the first place, going back and saying, you know what, now that I've actually tried it, I need more changes done, and going through the whole process again, it's a hard process. Anything that you can hypothetically do yourself, you would rather do yourself. The second you add a person into something, the complications immediately increase. So you're going to have a very good reason, very good reason to bring someone on board. |
| 31. July 2021 | Why I prefer to watch Smash Melee over Smash Ultimate | Why I prefer to watch Smash Melee to Smash Ultimates? Why just Melee? Ultimates, it just doesn't have the kind of competitive vibe that Melee does. Nothing ever done in Ultimates looks interesting. Besides, as a casual observer, there are so many characters in Ultimates that you can't really follow what they all can do. And I've never played Ultimates, there's no nostalgia there. Like the movement tech in Melee is insane. Like it's on levels beyond comprehension. Melee's execution, Ultimates just knowing the 70 matchups, yeah, kind of seems that way. I mean, certainly there's, you know, certain characters being stronger or weaker against other characters in Melee as well, but you know. Do I have a favorite player? Not really. I like watching Hungrybox because he feels like such an underdog in everything that he does. Because I didn't know Hungrybox during his time of absolute dominance or whatever. I only know him as this guy who's kind of past his prime. But like, obviously Zayn and Mango are always great to watch. Leffen I haven't seen much of. Maybe because he's in Europe. |
| 27. September 2022 | Why I privated all the videos on my shorts channel | Why I privated all the videos on my shorts channel. So the shorts channel was getting like no views. Like it did terribly. It did terribly from the get-go. Got to like 50,000 subscribers but it was making no money and getting no views. All that was happening was people were just ripping the videos from the channel. And either uploading them to shorts on different channels or uploading them to tiktok. And I'm just like this channel is doing me no good. And who knows it could even be doing me harm. So I'm just gonna private all the videos. I would delete the channel but I'd be worried I'd press a wrong button or something. And I'd delete my other channels or something. I'm just gonna leave it. And maybe at some point I'll throw a random video up there and just be like hi. I might need it for something. Who knows. |
| 03. May 2020 | Why I quit Pepsi Max | Why I quit Pepsi Max. Fixing my teeth cost well over a thousand dollars, was very annoying, and I'm gonna now be dealing with those fillings for the rest of my life. And I've got another half a dozen, like, warning spots in my teeth. Going to the doctors and them going like, yeah, you got all these problems. Blah blah blah blah blah. And I'm like, look, I gotta eat, I gotta drink healthy. Drink and eat healthy. And when I say drink and eat healthy, I don't mean like, I'm not gonna be like, a health nut. I'm just gonna not buy fast food. As long as I get into the habit of ordering stuff from Woolworths and just buying normal groceries, I can get more perishable stuff. So I, you know, I can buy more strawberries and blackberries. Plus, what's also helped me a little bit is, because I have more subs now, I have the luxury that I can afford healthier food. Like, spending five dollars on raspberries or blackberries used to, like, I would just have a fit doing that on a regular basis. So I wouldn't eat them, even though they were my favorite healthy thing. But now I have more subs, I can get that and not feel as bad. My least favorite. |
| 11. December 2020 | Why I rarely make compilation videos | Why I very rarely make compilation videos. People often say you should make a compilation of all the times where you did X. See, the problem with making compilation videos is you have to go through a lot of footage to find all instances of something, right? Under normal circumstances, you're going through a particular chunk of footage, you know, six hours or whatever. But if you wanna find all instances of something over the course of many, many months, you have to use the original footage or whatever, and you're looking at like, you know, hundreds of hours of content. Certainly, you could skim through and look for particular missions where certain things happen and stuff. It depends on what you're making compilation of, how easy it is, but it's not something you would normally spend the time doing. Like the return on time investment is not usually there for compilations. |
| 14. February 2021 | Why I really want 10k subs on twitch | Why I really want 10,000 subs on Twitch. Keep in mind that on Twitch a sub is a $5 a month subscription. Apparently, the last emote slot is at 7,000, and then there's 10 emotes that you get unlocked at 10,000. As in it's a progressive thing, where it's like you need 10 more for each emote slot, then it becomes like 50 more, then it becomes 100 more. I'm currently at 400, so like I have to go from 6,600 sub points to 7,000 sub points to get the 50th emote slot, but then there's no progression after that. So from 7,000 to 9,999, there's no more emote slots. When you hit that 10,000, you get another 10 emote slots, and you get the full 60. I would have to almost double my sub count to get those last 10, and boy, boy do I really want those last 10. It is tempting to do like chaos every day or something until I hit 10,000 subs. |
| 17. March 2021 | Why I removed some of my demonetized videos | Why I removed some of my demonetized videos What happened to the Doritos ran video? I think it was demonetized and so I took it down Might have had some good lines, and I'm not sure why keep it up when you cannot make any money. Ah I believe I removed it during the period where I thought my channel was in a bad state with the YouTube algorithm like it considered me to be too Aggressive or something like that my viewership was dropping my subscriber numbers were dropping so I removed a bunch of minor videos that have been Limited in their ads and stuff in the hopes that on the back end to be like well I guess it's the counts not that bad anymore like I know that may seem stupid But I was desperate and I'm like well I don't care about these videos these you know four or five videos or whatever so I may as well just remove them In the hopes that it does something good There are a dozen plus videos that have had the ads removed, but I think the videos are good So they stay up my GTA 3 highlights video is demonetized I think because I say fuck like 15 times in the first 30 seconds I remember it getting demonetized and me thinking why was it demonetized that doesn't make any sense now looking back I'm like oh, I get it One of the no hit runs as well the one with Franklin a suit on the thumbnail, maybe that's an episode 10 or something that's also demonetized, but I was in the community because important for the continuity of the thing |
| 15. January 2023 | Why I returned to livestreaming on Twitch. | Why I've returned to live streaming on Twitch TLDR, I am going back to live streaming on Twitch after testing YouTube streaming for a few months. After this 3-4 month experiment of streaming on YouTube, I am still left with the difficult decision of where to stream in 2023. I think the pros and cons of Twitch and YouTube are equal for me, and as much as I dislike Twitch as a platform, it is simply easier to stream there. I like being able to just click a button and stream, rather than dealing with making a thumbnail, getting chat links to put into OBS, and waiting 30-60 seconds after pressing start for the stream to actually start. It isn't even just how long it takes to start, it's the complete ambiguity of it, where I'm sitting there going chat can you see me, chat can you see me, chat can you see me, like it's embarrassing. Along with this, it is the unknowns of YouTube that disturb me. While there are endless reasons why my channel could have struggled somewhat over the last few months, it is impossible to rule out my live streaming there. The instinct when difficulties arise is to attempt a reverse course to when they were not present, and so I am left desiring to do that now. Additionally, I think mentally, I like hiding on Twitch to some extent. YouTube is my livelihood, making a mistake in what I do there, or how my live stream is presented, could have massive consequences, but on Twitch, it is just Twitch, so who cares. I think my plan moving forward will be to stream on Twitch, but do the occasional big stream on YouTube. I'm very conflicted about it, especially as I know a lot of you liked me streaming here, so maybe this idea won't stick as well. We shall see. I would greatly appreciate you all following me on Twitch and giving me a chance there again. I can't link anything as YouTube would nuke this post. A good way to know when I am live, or when I release a video, is to use Discord. In the role reacts section, you can ask to receive a ping for one or the other. I wish you all the best, sorry if it seems like I'm screwing with you all by jumping between platforms. I am just trying to find what suits me best, and how I can make the best content I can for the most people. But like, it does suck to have to go back to struggling and trying to bring people over to Twitch. |
| 11. June 2021 | Why I sometimes delete livestreams | Why I sometimes delete the online recordings of my live streams. Why are some of the votes not available? Usually when I leak information that I shouldn't. I actually noticed when I was looking for a keyboard, I actually leaked my suburb like four times. I didn't realize that Amazon in multiple places is like, Hey ya! So this is delivering to this specific place. Is that okay? Like, ah, thanks Amazon. Like it isn't my exact address, but I mean, fuck. It's like Amazon, I know where I live. And then there's so many times, yes, I have. I mean, I've doxxed myself specifically when buying pizza multiple times, but that was back when I was smaller content writer. Next level leaking. I'm gonna shatter you guys right now, okay? In any given stream, the amount of people who are there is so tiny compared to the amount of people who are engaging with like my other content. We here on Twitch are like a special few compared to the grand scheme of things. I never feel particularly bad like showing you guys stuff first, except worrying that it will leak like somewhere else. Like I wouldn't show like an entire new video of something in case someone like to rip it off a stream and upload it, but whatever. Like relatively speaking, telling you guys about something here, no one knows. There was a German YouTuber who screamed his address seven years ago. To this day, people come to his house, it's destroying his windows with rocks. He must be a hater content writer. He must have also been reasonably big or like baited people to do that. |
| 24. October 2022 | Why I spend so much time making online content. | Why I spend so much of my time making online content We love you and we love your content. You don't need to constantly push content to keep us happy, understand? Growing the new audience is important, but you don't need to overwhelm yourself. Here's the thing, I find life miserable. I never feel comfortable in my own skin. I have a hard time finding joy and meaning in doing things, knowing that I will just forget I ever did them anyway. That each moment that I live, I'm not going to remember it in a week's time, making it hard for me to attach significance to any particular moment. But the one thing that brings me joy, the one thing chat, is making YouTube content, live streaming. Live streaming is so much in the moment that nothing else matters. I am not considering the grand scheme of the world, in most cases while live streaming, and so none of those existential issues matter. I talked to TG about this. He doesn't understand why I like live streaming so much and recording so much of my life. And I say to him, because then it truly exists. It is a thing that I can look at weeks from now and say, hey, that's what I was doing at 3pm on a Saturday. Building up those numbers, building this channel, it feels real and significant. And getting all the feedback from people that they enjoy this thing that I'm doing in the world, especially even meeting them in person, is the one real joy I get out of life. Is that sad? A little bit. It's just how I cope with life. My particular issues with life chat should not be something that you consider to be, you know, objective fact about life. You make your own meaning in life. That my brain is unable to bring me the simple joys and pleasures that other people seem to have, it's my problem. |
| 25. June 2021 | Why I split my no damage runs in half | Do I feel really bored or do I feel really boring or am I too tired? And I'll assess as I continue. I have reached the point where I'm trying not to give a shit as much if I'm boring. People's standards for content are lower than I originally believed. So people seem perfectly willing to watch me when I'm a sour, whiny bitch. And as long as I think I can physically still do it, I don't mind continuing. But Matt, how does that differ from your normal content? Ha ha ha. Shut up. It's an interesting battle that goes inside my body right now, right? I'm super tired, but I'm super fucking motivated to finally finish this run. Like half of me is like, just fucking stop and do the rest of it tomorrow. The other half of me is like, no. If you do it all today, then it's done. You never have to look at this goddamn category again. While I finish this run, I have no idea. I'm already in a I am boring, I'm tired kind of state of mind. It's very hard to push past that and just persevere regardless. What would it be like just to sit here for 10 hours, not say a single word, but just do nothing with focus on the game? Like just a few moments I did there, just focused on the game. I felt like I was a completely new experience. It's like my entire attention was focused on just the game. Haven't had that in a long time. It's hard to imagine I'm not going to split it because I'm tired and I don't feel particularly interesting. I'm just going through the motions. The first half of the game is I've done it so many times now. I mean, I've done every part of the game so many times, but this is just not particularly difficult. It's just I mean, the whole run isn't really difficult. It's just a matter of doing it enough times that eventually lets me win. You know, the second half of the run is more interesting. But at this point, I'd much rather just be playing Slay the Spy right now. I still have a lot of energy today, unfortunately. But if I can get half of it done, then even if I'm low energy tomorrow, I can at least finish the run. You know, you know, you know. Taking painkillers while streaming. Right now, my head feels a little bit full of fluff. It's not a great feeling. Yeah, take some powder or something. Whenever I. |
| 17. March 2021 | Why I started speedrunning Dark Souls 3 | Why I started speedrunning Dark Souls 3. I played Dark Souls casually and I really enjoyed the game like it was Playing Dark Souls 1, 2, then 3 with the DLCs was some of the Like funnest games I've ever played. I'm like I want I want to just you know kind of learn the speedrun, you know. |
| 25. February 2021 | Why I still haven’t found the time to put clips on Youtube shorts. | Why I still haven't found the time to put my clips on YouTube Shorts. For those unaware, YouTube Shorts is the competitor to TikTok, works in the same way, only accepts 9x16 content, when of course my content is normally 16x9, so I would have to take the time to reformat it. So a person commented there that I should put some of my clips on YouTube Shorts. That is something that I plan to do, but it's always prudent to remember that the views that a person gets from Shorts or TikTok or whatever, they aren't the same as normal views. If a person just scrolls their phone and gets your video to play, traditionally that counts as a view. It doesn't mean that they're gonna like your video or subscribe or move on to watch more of your other content, it's just a view. Especially on YouTube Shorts where they're not monetized views, they're not super beneficial. You may as well do it for any kind of additional traction, but it's kind of the- like there's just so many social medias now. You can put yourself on Instagram, Spotify, podcasting, YouTube fucking plays music, uh, no, iTunes music, you can put yourself on Twitter, you can put- like there's just so many different ways that you can format your content to present it to potentially a new audience, and you can't do everything. You can go fucking mad trying to get yourself on literally every goddamn platform these days, because there's just so many. And while the optimal thing would be to be everywhere, if it gets in the way of you making more content, it's probably not gonna help you, you're probably better off just making more stuff and focusing on the platforms that matter. And I'm not convinced that YouTube Shorts necessarily matters in terms of building my brand, finding people who actually want to watch my stuff so they engage with my normal content. I'm gonna try it, but I'm not gonna be blown away when it's like, oh, this got a million views, because it's not- it's not a person necessarily choosing to watch my video, it's a person scrolling and it randomly being presented to them. These things are very different in terms of finding people who actually want to watch your content long term, you know? |
| 25. February 2021 | Why I still haven’t found the time to put clips on youtube shorts. | Why I still haven't found the time to put my clips on YouTube Shorts. For those unaware, YouTube Shorts is the competitor to TikTok, works in the same way, only accepts 9x16 content, when of course my content is normally 16x9, so I would have to take the time to reformat it. So a person commented there that I should put some of my clips on YouTube Shorts. That is something that I plan to do, but it's always prudent to remember that the views that a person gets from Shorts or TikTok or whatever, they aren't the same as normal views. If a person just scrolls their phone and gets your video to play, traditionally that counts as a view. It doesn't mean that they're gonna like your video or subscribe or move on to watch more of your other content, it's just a view. Especially on YouTube Shorts where they're not monetized views, they're not super beneficial. You may as well do it for any kind of additional traction, but it's kind of the- like there's just so many social medias now. You can put yourself on Instagram, Spotify, podcasting, YouTube fucking plays music, uh, no, iTunes music, you can put yourself on Twitter, you can put- like there's just so many different ways that you can format your content to present it to potentially a new audience, and you can't do everything. You can go fucking mad trying to get yourself on literally every goddamn platform these days, because there's just so many. And while the optimal thing would be to be everywhere, if it gets in the way of you making more content, it's probably not gonna help you, you're probably better off just making more stuff and focusing on the platforms that matter. And I'm not convinced that YouTube Shorts necessarily matters in terms of building my brand, finding people who actually want to watch my stuff so they engage with my normal content. I'm gonna try it, but I'm not gonna be blown away when it's like, oh, this got a million views, because it's not- it's not a person necessarily choosing to watch my video, it's a person scrolling and it randomly being presented to them. These things are very different in terms of finding people who actually want to watch your content long term, you know? |
| 06. July 2021 | Why I still support the clips channel despite it shrinking | It's just like a an offshoot of my main channel, you know, the clips channel is currently Shrinking massively as in there was a month where it got like a hundred million views and now I think we're down to 25 but to quarter at what it was at its peak There's a month where I got like a hundred thousand subscribers. I think we're down to like 12 or 13 thousand a month now Still worth doing don't get me wrong but it's not As lucrative as it once was which is unfortunate. Well when I say lucrative I mean like back then when I first started it made a far less money because the ad revenue was so low But now the ad revenue has been boosted and now I'm getting less views I know there's a connection there, but they're clearly making changes in terms of what content gets some promote them one Oh, it's still doing fine. So I'm not particularly complaining. It's just I'm acknowledging a small change I have that all there's just more competition, you know, and I think it's Polly. I think it's more reasonable to say There's just more competition with short clips now compared to When I first started I think that's more likely than YouTube changing the algorithm was like See, I would say the viewership is declined that the ad revenue that the money I make on the channels Stay the same because as the viewership has declined the ad revenue is increased Additionally though a good thing with the clips channel is like you can see on the back end how many new people are looking at the channel And so my main channel like every day like 10,000 new people check out the channel on the clips channel It's like 20,000 and as clips are in general meant to you know Help new people find your channel. It's still doing that job better than my main channel Facebook gaming not taking a cut of live streaming revenue What our Facebook videos Facebook is awful in every respect Although Facebook did recently announced that apparently they're taking no revenue |
| 27. July 2021 | Why I stopped doing Fortnite friendlies | Why I stopped doing Fortnite Friendlies, which was an Epic Games sponsored thing where a bunch of streamers would get together and play Fortnite. I actually got an email though, from the people, like I used to play Fortnite Friendlies. So like a bunch of streamers would get together and all play Fortnite. And we would stupidly do it for free and there wasn't even a prize at the end of it. Just pure advertising for Epic Games. But it was fun to do so people still participated. As I explained before though, it went to shit because some people built their entire streams off playing Fortnite. And they would also play with the rest of us. So we'd all just get fucking stomps. In the beginning it wasn't too bad because everyone was on an even playing field. But as things progressed it was just stupid. |
| 07. August 2021 | Why I stopped playing Warcraft 3 custom maps | Hey everyone, this is a somewhat special Rambles in that it includes footage all the way from 2014 up until now. Over the course of this video you will therefore see how my stream changed over time. I hope you enjoy. Why I stopped playing Warcraft 3 custom maps. Like, when I used to play all these custom maps, I eventually dominated them all and that's effectively why I stopped playing. It wasn't that I necessarily grew out of playing Warcraft 3 games, I just couldn't find any games that were really that good that I hadn't beaten into Oblivion at that point. |
| 08. November 2021 | Why I stopped speedrunning | Why I stopped speedrunning. I just slowly ended up focusing on other things. The thing that ended up on the backburner is the stuff that isn't time sensitive. I had other pressing content to make and that led to speedrunning just falling by the wayside. One hit KO scratches the same itch that speedrunning does for me, but pacifist will be finished eventually, and one hit KO will be finished eventually. So at that point I will be back to speedrunning by default. There's no pressing need for me to speedrun again while I am still being entertained and you guys are being entertained, so I may as well take my time with it. |
| 20. February 2021 | Why I stopped uploading to TikTok | Why I stopped uploading to TikTok. You love my TikToks? I haven't uploaded TikTok in like a thousand years because they won't put me in the creator program. One of you statistically has to have connections with TikTok. Get them on the phone. Why don't I use TikTok to grow? Because TikTok is such a pain in the ass and the conversion of people from TikTok to any other platform is really tiny. I'm already throwing so much of my life to my clips channel, right? There's only so much I can do. If I could be in the TikTok creator program, then yeah, I would probably hire someone to do my TikToks for me. Until that day comes, I'm just gonna ignore TikTok for a little bit longer. You found me on TikTok? I know some people did, but... To put it another way, my most popular clip on my clips channel has 2.7 million views and that's YouTube views, which are harder to get and worth more than TikTok views. On TikTok, that same clip got like 50k, you know? There seems to be a lot of luck involved in like, who gets served the clip or whatever on TikTok because TikTok's algorithm is not as good as YouTube's. Like the stuff that does really, really, really well on TikTok is stuff that like, the largest majority of people could possibly enjoy. But let me put it a different way. Let's say you make something that 10% of the population would fucking adore. Oh my God, they'd watch it 57,000 times. You put it on TikTok and it dies because it gets shown equally as much to that 90% that won't like it as the 10% who won't like it, that will like it, you know? On YouTube, because its algorithm is really good and it's got so many ways of categorizing different types of content, it will just give your video to that 10% and they'll fucking love it. TikTok has a really good algorithm? It doesn't because it doesn't have ways to categorize the content well. It isn't a bad algorithm. It is simply not. It can only do so much with the information that is provided. It doesn't, guys. The overwhelming vast majority of people on TikTok just tag their stuff hashtag for you page and that's it. When you look at the tags, the overwhelming vast majority mean fucking nothing. TikTok is basically just an engagement algorithm. It will show your video to a certain amount of people and if a certain amount of people engage with that content, then it will give it to an additional greater amount of people and if a certain amount of people engage with the content from that greater amount of people, then it will give it to an even larger greater amount of people and it will keep doing this until a significant amount of people, well, enough people don't engage with it and that's it. That's the algorithm. One thing I think it does is it, rather than categorizing the content, it categorizes the audience as in, this is, I think, I can't remember how much of this is just speculation, but I remember hearing this from someone somewhere. Like, so, if this person and you both like this TikTok and this person has liked both these TikToks, the algorithm goes, oh, well, if you both like this TikTok, then maybe this other person will like this TikTok too and so then it will show you the same TikTok that that other person liked and so it will have classes of people. If you're liking the same things as this group of people, it will show you TikToks that that group of people tends to like as well, you know? YouTube algorithm, which is bad. YouTube algorithm is fucking amazing and bad, as in algorithms are still algorithms at the end of the day, right? Like, they're never, they're not going to be perfect, especially considering how much content it has to catalog and sort through and stuff. Like, when we call an algorithm good or bad, it just, it depends what you're referencing it to, what you're comparing it to. YouTube's algorithm is the best algorithm in existence for sourcing video content and giving it to people who are most likely going to enjoy it. It just is the best. Does that make it perfect? Does that mean I can go to my recommendation tab and get like just 57,000 videos that I definitely want to watch? No. It does its job fairly well and better than its competitors. People aren't mathematical. Well, they kind of are, you know? I think it's more that people vary from day to day, from time to time, right? As in, what you're into on Monday may not be what you're into next Monday. The algorithm isn't going to be able to quantify when you get sick of watching Markiplier videos. At least not immediately. As in, you will watch 50 Markiplier videos, get sick of it, and you'll have to wait until the algorithm realizes that you don't want to watch any more Markiplier videos before it stops giving you them. And so it may give you Markiplier videos for the next fucking two weeks being like, why is this motherfucker not watching Markiplier videos anymore? They like them so much, like they would eat them like they were fucking cake, and now they hate them. What? Do I just give them more? What am I meant to be fucking doing here? It is true that, like, if YouTube presents you ten videos and you can pick one of the ten, it's more likely going to hit than TikTok, which just presents you all ten of those videos in sequence, right? How does TikTok know if you like a TikTok other than physically liking it? I mean, like everything. So like, if you watch it all the way at the end rather than scrolling by immediately, if you watch it twice, if you click on the person's profile to see their other stuff, if you follow them, if you, as you say, like it, if you comment or whatever, like there's many different ways that you can additionally engage with a TikTok that you wouldn't normally do with a TikTok you don't enjoy. Like, if you've ever used TikTok, you can, you like superficially judge a TikTok like the nanosecond it appears on screen. It's scary how fast you can just superficially go, I'm probably not going to like this and swipe along. I imagine what it's like with people using Tinder. Like, I can look at a TikTok, glance at it for a nanosecond and go, this is a TikTok made by someone who is garbage. And then I will look at the like and follow thing or whatever, and it will be zero comments, zero likes, and I'm like, oh yeah, this makes sense. You can tell within a nanosecond whether you've been presented with one of those, because that's what a TikTok does. Whatever TikTok is uploaded on TikTok, it will be presented to at least someone. And within a nanosecond, you can tell if what you've been presented is one of these garbage TikToks just thrown up there by someone who has no idea what the fuck they're doing. The amount of times I've gotten a TikTok with zero likes and zero comments, which is just simply that, you know that meme where it's like, there's a filter on TikTok that changes anything green to purple, and then it's just a video of a person using this filter, changing green things to purple. I'm like, why? Why do they keep doing that? I guess it's just people fucking around, right? Probably sitting there bored, nothing to do, and they just go, hey, I'm just going to do that trend that everyone else has done. TikTok isn't basically all the content the same. Have you ever used TikTok? It's a lot of really creative stuff on TikTok, my dude. The extent of the creativity of people is really impressive. You are certainly right that content on YouTube is far more diverse. Not everything can fit into a 16 by 9 video frame in one minute. The majority of TikTok I see is girls shaking their tits and ass, and people reacting to memes. Oh, there's definitely a lot of that, yeah. And then there's memes about that, where people will react as if they're being found out by their girlfriends or... It's kind of funny. Someone posted the entire Spongebob meme on TikTok, what, like sped up to a thousand percent or more than that? Why am I still talking about TikTok chat? I 100% guarantee you my audience has decreased because of all this TikTok talk. 100%. I don't like this TikTok bloody app that all these kids use. Back in my day, we had YouTube full of illegal content. The straight rips of Naruto episodes. Those were good times. |
| 20. February 2021 | Why I stopped uploading to tiktok | Why I stopped uploading to TikTok. You love my TikToks? I haven't uploaded TikTok in like a thousand years because they won't put me in the creator program. One of you statistically has to have connections with TikTok. Get them on the phone. Why don't I use TikTok to grow? Because TikTok is such a pain in the ass and the conversion of people from TikTok to any other platform is really tiny. I'm already throwing so much of my life to my clips channel, right? There's only so much I can do. If I could be in the TikTok creator program, then yeah, I would probably hire someone to do my TikToks for me. Until that day comes, I'm just gonna ignore TikTok for a little bit longer. You found me on TikTok? I know some people did, but... To put it another way, my most popular clip on my clips channel has 2.7 million views and that's YouTube views, which are harder to get and worth more than TikTok views. On TikTok, that same clip got like 50k, you know? There seems to be a lot of luck involved in like, who gets served the clip or whatever on TikTok because TikTok's algorithm is not as good as YouTube's. Like the stuff that does really, really, really well on TikTok is stuff that like, the largest majority of people could possibly enjoy. But let me put it a different way. Let's say you make something that 10% of the population would fucking adore. Oh my God, they'd watch it 57,000 times. You put it on TikTok and it dies because it gets shown equally as much to that 90% that won't like it as the 10% who won't like it, that will like it, you know? On YouTube, because its algorithm is really good and it's got so many ways of categorizing different types of content, it will just give your video to that 10% and they'll fucking love it. TikTok has a really good algorithm? It doesn't because it doesn't have ways to categorize the content well. It isn't a bad algorithm. It is simply not. It can only do so much with the information that is provided. It doesn't, guys. The overwhelming vast majority of people on TikTok just tag their stuff hashtag for you page and that's it. When you look at the tags, the overwhelming vast majority mean fucking nothing. TikTok is basically just an engagement algorithm. It will show your video to a certain amount of people and if a certain amount of people engage with that content, then it will give it to an additional greater amount of people and if a certain amount of people engage with the content from that greater amount of people, then it will give it to an even larger greater amount of people and it will keep doing this until a significant amount of people, well, enough people don't engage with it and that's it. That's the algorithm. One thing I think it does is it, rather than categorizing the content, it categorizes the audience as in, this is, I think, I can't remember how much of this is just speculation, but I remember hearing this from someone somewhere. Like, so, if this person and you both like this TikTok and this person has liked both these TikToks, the algorithm goes, oh, well, if you both like this TikTok, then maybe this other person will like this TikTok too and so then it will show you the same TikTok that that other person liked and so it will have classes of people. If you're liking the same things as this group of people, it will show you TikToks that that group of people tends to like as well, you know? YouTube algorithm, which is bad. YouTube algorithm is fucking amazing and bad, as in algorithms are still algorithms at the end of the day, right? Like, they're never, they're not going to be perfect, especially considering how much content it has to catalog and sort through and stuff. Like, when we call an algorithm good or bad, it just, it depends what you're referencing it to, what you're comparing it to. YouTube's algorithm is the best algorithm in existence for sourcing video content and giving it to people who are most likely going to enjoy it. It just is the best. Does that make it perfect? Does that mean I can go to my recommendation tab and get like just 57,000 videos that I definitely want to watch? No. It does its job fairly well and better than its competitors. People aren't mathematical. Well, they kind of are, you know? I think it's more that people vary from day to day, from time to time, right? As in, what you're into on Monday may not be what you're into next Monday. The algorithm isn't going to be able to quantify when you get sick of watching Markiplier videos. At least not immediately. As in, you will watch 50 Markiplier videos, get sick of it, and you'll have to wait until the algorithm realizes that you don't want to watch any more Markiplier videos before it stops giving you them. And so it may give you Markiplier videos for the next fucking two weeks being like, why is this motherfucker not watching Markiplier videos anymore? They like them so much, like they would eat them like they were fucking cake, and now they hate them. What? Do I just give them more? What am I meant to be fucking doing here? It is true that, like, if YouTube presents you ten videos and you can pick one of the ten, it's more likely going to hit than TikTok, which just presents you all ten of those videos in sequence, right? How does TikTok know if you like a TikTok other than physically liking it? I mean, like everything. So like, if you watch it all the way at the end rather than scrolling by immediately, if you watch it twice, if you click on the person's profile to see their other stuff, if you follow them, if you, as you say, like it, if you comment or whatever, like there's many different ways that you can additionally engage with a TikTok that you wouldn't normally do with a TikTok you don't enjoy. Like, if you've ever used TikTok, you can, you like superficially judge a TikTok like the nanosecond it appears on screen. It's scary how fast you can just superficially go, I'm probably not going to like this and swipe along. I imagine what it's like with people using Tinder. Like, I can look at a TikTok, glance at it for a nanosecond and go, this is a TikTok made by someone who is garbage. And then I will look at the like and follow thing or whatever, and it will be zero comments, zero likes, and I'm like, oh yeah, this makes sense. You can tell within a nanosecond whether you've been presented with one of those, because that's what a TikTok does. Whatever TikTok is uploaded on TikTok, it will be presented to at least someone. And within a nanosecond, you can tell if what you've been presented is one of these garbage TikToks just thrown up there by someone who has no idea what the fuck they're doing. The amount of times I've gotten a TikTok with zero likes and zero comments, which is just simply that, you know that meme where it's like, there's a filter on TikTok that changes anything green to purple, and then it's just a video of a person using this filter, changing green things to purple. I'm like, why? Why do they keep doing that? I guess it's just people fucking around, right? Probably sitting there bored, nothing to do, and they just go, hey, I'm just going to do that trend that everyone else has done. TikTok isn't basically all the content the same. Have you ever used TikTok? It's a lot of really creative stuff on TikTok, my dude. The extent of the creativity of people is really impressive. You are certainly right that content on YouTube is far more diverse. Not everything can fit into a 16 by 9 video frame in one minute. The majority of TikTok I see is girls shaking their tits and ass, and people reacting to memes. Oh, there's definitely a lot of that, yeah. And then there's memes about that, where people will react as if they're being found out by their girlfriends or... It's kind of funny. Someone posted the entire Spongebob meme on TikTok, what, like sped up to a thousand percent or more than that? Why am I still talking about TikTok chat? I 100% guarantee you my audience has decreased because of all this TikTok talk. 100%. I don't like this TikTok bloody app that all these kids use. Back in my day, we had YouTube full of illegal content. The straight rips of Naruto episodes. Those were good times. |
| 20. February 2021 | Why I suck at collaborating with others | Why I suck at collaborating with others. I just don't have the energy, man, to be good at that collaboration thing. Like, I am- I so intermittently have energy to do stuff, or at least do particular things. Like, even when I'm super low energy, I just find something that is productive that requires only a minimum amount of energy to do. You know, sorting files or changing formats or edit- a little bit of small editing, whatever. So I'm always doing something, but like, to do content with other people, you gotta be fucking engaged, man. You gotta be really energetic at the same time as the other person's energetic, right? Like, I didn't even have enough energy to do Rust with Peli. Like, Carl today, we were meant to do the podcast, whatever, but he went to bed at like 3am, and I wasn't feeling amazing either. I was just gonna push through, but he wanted to go back to sleep and I'm saying, fuck it, we'll do it next week. But here's what I mean, like, the people who can just, at the drop of a hat, fucking go be entertaining with a bunch of other people, these are the people who fucking conquer social media. Because they're always in a position to take advantage of those collaboration things, you know? Clabs that did with Sunny were pretty good, yeah, I hope we do them again sometime. |
| 23. November 2020 | Why I took a break from playing Among Us | Why did I stop playing Among Us? I don't enjoy it as much. Too many games are annoying or boring. The wait for imposter is annoying. When I get imposter it's no longer... like I no longer care if I win and so I don't play very well. I realize it doesn't really matter and so I just don't enjoy it as much. I might just take a break from this and if they bring out a new map I'll play again but I mean I've played it for a hundred hours in such a short period of time and for a game that's simple you know. And just so many of the games aren't good. Like one in ten games is really good I'll say. It'd be a different story I think if my Among Us videos were successful but they're not and I've had endless frustrations getting people to be able to edit it and you know just playing Among Us has come with so many different frustrations in regards to people, the gameplay, the footage like I... it's salad the experience a bit for me. All the drama that's occurred some annoying people it... good game still. I think I want to wash my hands of it at this point. Among Us is slowly dying too. I don't think it's anywhere close to the point where it's dying necessarily. It's just people like me who've been playing like every goddamn day can get over a little bit. It's still very very very popular. The thing about Among Us is it's even easier to have cheaters in that game. I've seen tons of clips of people who get killed and they tell their friend who killed them and it ruins the game. But I mean there's no MMR system or whatever in Among Us right? So the queue times would be really low and again just because it's so cheap as a game five dollars or free on mobile or whatever it's unlikely gonna fall flat anytime soon. What is MMR? Matchmaking rating. When they released the 15 player update will you want to play with 15 people and three imposters? That does sound like fun. I would like it if they just changed the maps that already existed to add different sabotages and stuff. Makers and comms have to be turned off in two different places and stuff. That alone I think would make things a lot better or allow additional modifications to the map like reducing the amount of time you have to get rid of a reactor on the third map or something. |
| 22. March 2022 | Why I use constant powers between audio cuts. | Why I use constant powers between audio cuts. Why do you put those orange boxes in your editing? So, it bothers me that so many people don't. Anything that has background noise should have one of those on it. If you just have mic audio, whatever, but when you transition between two bits of audio, those two bits of audio were not made with the goal of hiding them both side by side. What that does is it merges them together, like this. So, like, they bleed into each other to make the transition between them very smooth. Some people use them very tiny, but in general, in my view, they should be a little bit bigger. You actually now notice when someone doesn't use audio crossfade and it immediately annoys me. Go back to my oldest episodes of Facts and Lieutures and listen to them, and you'll be able to hear on the transitions, it would go... With the audio. And you'll be like, ah! |
| 15. November 2020 | Why I want GTA Online Cross Play | Why I want cross play between GTA Online for PC and for consoles. Matt, can you further explain what you said about GTA cross play on Twitter? I was just making a joke. The name Sonny Evans made a comment where he's like, they should never enable cross play between PC and consoles because Rockstar can't handle the hackers at all on PC. It's goddamn insane. And it would just leak over to consoles or whatever. And so I like this. And I retweeted and I said, no, no, no, better idea. Enable cross play, which would mean all the hackers will annoy all the console people. The console people will complain that the hackers will flood the console area, whatever, with hacked money, ruining the economy, eating into eating into the sales of shark cards. And the end result of that would be either GTA Online would fail because it wouldn't be getting enough money or all the complaining would mean that Rockstar would finally have to make actual servers as opposed to peer to peer. When you have actual servers, you can defend against hackers and stuff. And the the gameplay experience for everyone is infinitely better. And so either we'd get a better GTA Online or GTA 6 would be sped along because GTA Online would fail. It's win win as far as I'm concerned. I would love for them to enable cross play. They would never do it because I'm sure they would realize what would happen just as much as I realize. You know, what do you what do you want me to more explain? Wait, so you can't play with someone if you've got a PC and they're peaceful. Yeah, that's exactly right. There is no cross play between PC and console. It's why PC has all the hackers and the mod money and stuff. And so Rockstar doesn't pay as much attention to the PC space because any mechanisms they put in to try to block hackers, you know, cost them dev time and cost them, you know, it's a huge headache for them trying to defend against hackers. But on consoles, they're harder to hack. It's a lot more of a closed system. You know, this is why there's less hackers, if any, or whatever on console. And so there's less hacked money, which means more sharkard sales. But can you play on Xbox One or something on PS4? I'm not sure. I don't know how that works. I don't play console. What was funny, though, was someone responded to that comment and they were like, I hear this all the time, talking about having servers for GTA Online, but come on, think of how like is that even possible? How hard that would be. Like, think of all the cars that people could be driving. And there's like, what, 30 people per lobby or whatever. And all the variants and different cars and properties. That's a lot of things to be in a server. I don't think it's possible. And you look at this person and go, dude, have you ever played an MMO? Like, ever? There are MMOs with infinite complexity compared to GTA Online, and they have like thousands of people in singular service at any given time. What do you mean? What are you even talking about? I mean, they're certainly changing a lot of things, doc, with the expanded and enhanced. If they're separating the single player and GTA Online, it means they have to be changing the GTA Online substantially. Let's just hope it leads to a better gameplay performance, you know, experience overall. Are they just lazy? No, they just don't believe there's a significant return on investment. As in it would cost a lot of money to make dedicated servers for GTA Online, and they don't believe there'd be sufficient sales to offset the cost. So like a lot of companies need dedicated servers because there's enough competition in the space that without them, they'd just be completely destroyed. Like, I'm sure like Call of Duty or whatever has dedicated servers, because like, imagine one shooter not having servers and another one having peer-to-peer. Like, you just get completely wiped out, because the experience would be so much better with the dedicated servers than not. They'd be, uh, what have you, right? But there's no real competition for GTA V. What else are you going to play that has even the closest, the same experience? The same experience. Yeah, so there's not really anything. So there's no incentive for Rockstar to do that, except the longevity of the company, which Rockstar does not give two shits about. Like, a lot of companies value good community sentiment, wanting to keep their brand pristine without massive criticism. But like, you can see over the last seven years how the tides have kind of turned in terms of people's perception of Rockstar. Like, once upon a time Rockstar was one of the AAA-grade beloved companies. Everyone was like, yes, Rockstar's so good, they do everything right. And now everyone's like, we know Rockstar's terrible. We play their games, but they are a garbage company. Whoever is making the decisions has looked at this situation and gone, another dollar for servers to maintain our brand that we've had for decades? Nah, fuck that shit. The suffering of the consumer base? Nah, fuck that shit. Suffering untold for hundreds of thousands, millions of people for years on end? Fuck it, who cares? Sometimes there can be benefits that aren't strictly revenue. The companies value to a greater or lesser extent, and Rockstar, Take Two, whoever, they clearly just don't value the... If it isn't a dollar in the wallet, it has no value. I don't draw a distinction really between Take Two and Rockstar. If Rockstar was unable to make any decisions by themselves, then Rockstar doesn't exist and it's just Take Two. They're just synonyms. |
| 15. January 2023 | Why I'll never reveal my secret VOD channel. | Why I'll never reveal my secret VOD channel. What's new VOD channel called? I won't tell you. Basically chat I've made a VOD channel, but here's the thing. You do not want people to click on videos and not watch them That's like the worst goddamn thing for a youtuber. I actually feel bad sometimes when I click on a video and I'm like two minutes in I'm like, I want to keep watching this. I'm sorry creator. I gotta go and I just leave it I'm like, I've heard that person algorithmically. Why did I do this? That hurts you in the algorithm, right? Ideally you want like your videos to be found by people who watch it all the way through Especially on a new channel where the videos that I'm gonna be releasing will be somewhat weaker because they're not gonna be edited condensed things The only people who'll be interested in watching those videos are people who already know me and so while I have made a VOD channel now I'm not gonna tell you like hey go subscribe to this channel I'm gonna be like look if you're really interested in that stuff like really super interested Feel free to go out and look for it Maybe no one will find it and they'll also be fine and then later when you get Recommended one of the videos you be like, oh, that's that VOD channel of Dark Fiber AU I'm gonna click and watch that just to help you |
| 12. July 2021 | Why Is It Called Hungary? | Hungary called Hungary Love to Hungary. Why is Hungary named hungry? Like does the name in? The region have anything to do with food. Those are just coincidence Polycranes the people who took the land were called huns. Unfortunately, everyone is trying to give us food ever since Just change the name of your country to full or satiated or satisfied We Hungary after all these years have finally decided that we are quite satisfied And Thus that will be in be the name of our country We appreciate all the gifts of food from around the world. Let's be real by the time it gets here. It's basically gone off anyway |
| 31. October 2021 | Why Michael was hiding in jimmy’s car | Why Michael was hiding in Jimmy's car during the mission complications How did Michael know his car would get stolen? I don't think Michael knew his car would get stolen I believe he was sitting in there listening to the tennis pro and his wife He was hiding from them because he was eavesdropping It's partly him listening to them that leads to the confrontation later |
| 03. May 2021 | Why Pacifist doesn't get worked on | Why PassFest doesn't get worked on? I really need to work on PassFest, I really need to work on a lot of things. PassFest should be a higher priority. Of all the content that I make, PassFest has the least immediacy. Usually when it gets around a month old, then it feels more immediate, so I immediately drop everything and work on it. But we've gotten to the point where we're... Two months between episodes is not unheard of. I more want it done so I can have it done as opposed to wanting it done for views or something, right? Because it doesn't... its viewership doesn't compare when it comes to... Relative amount of work that goes into the episode, the viewership just isn't worth it. What I would normally do in the past is like take a break from streaming, or do very tiny streaming for like five days. To get PassFest done. But I don't want to do that now, I want to do Oko. I want to finish this run so badly. Like if I finish this run, then the question of when does he complete PassFest is just... You know, I could just dedicate every day to it if I wanted to. I see PassFest as having stakes as well. Is he gonna avoid all damage in this episode? How much damage is he gonna take? How is he gonna solve these problems that get presented? Because that's the best episode to PassFest where some problem is presented and it's like, how can this possibly be fucking solved? E.G. The Blitzplay episode. |
| 04. November 2021 | Why People Call Me Nick (Stream Lore) | Why people call me Nick StreamLore Basically companies like to pretend that they know you and your content when they offer you stuff, at least the shady ones do, or the ones that are doing mass emails. So they'll have a look at like your most recent stream and be like, hey man, I love insert game here's content, right? That kind of thing. I got this email that's like, hey, I love your speedruns of GTA 5. I've got an offer for you. And I look at this email and the first thing they say when the email opens is hi Nick. And I was like, you know my content so well that you don't even know my name. Swing and a miss. And still to this day, occasionally people will be like, hey Nick, how's it going? There's a more dominant meme back in the day. They get Nick, I assume it was the last person's name they used before they send an email to me. |
| 14. March 2022 | Why Rockstar allows roleplaying servers. | Why Rockstar allows role-playing servers? You're surprised they don't shut down RP servers? Ummm... I'm of the position that they could, but some people disagree with me. Because, um... Apparently it's not their code. It is reverse-engineered or whatever. But I don't know if that really makes a difference. I don't know the law. We'll see what happens with the GTA 3, GTA Vice City reverse-engineering stuff. And if that passes, then RP is more than likely in the clear. But playing RP, there is a huge barrier to entry. You gotta know people, you gotta be able to dedicate a lot of time to it, you've gotta be good at it, it's hard to just improv and stuff. Not a lot of people are tech-savvy enough to download 5M and stuff. The easiest gateway to playing in the world of Los Santos is GTA Online. So anything tangentially related to it that has a higher barrier to entry, that is interesting, most people are gonna look at that interesting thing and go, wow, that's interesting, I remember Los Santos, I'm gonna go play GTA Online. When a person watches a speedrun, they go, oh, that's cool. Like, one in ten thousand might say, I'm gonna speedrun myself. But the other 9,999 people are gonna be like, oh yeah, I remember that world, oh, I haven't been there in ages, I wonder how my stuff in GTA Online is doing. Actually, I haven't checked out that content in a while. Like, GTA RP doesn't really compete with GTA Online, except for like a tiny fraction of people. It more just continues to remind people about the world of GTA and brings people its attention to that world. Because remember, while everyone knows that GTA exists, the constant reminder that it's there brings people back to it, you know? The example I always use is, I always knew that Heroes of Magic 3 existed, but suddenly someone made a video about it and I was like, oh, Heroes of Magic 3, I haven't played that in a thousand years. I'm playing that, and now I'm, I played it a bunch and now I'm still watching Heroes of Magic 3 tournaments. Just because you know about something doesn't mean that you're gonna interface with that thing. Having constant reminders about it is good, and I'm sure Rockstar recognizes that, right? And of course, they probably don't want the negative backlash either. |
| 10. July 2021 | Why Rockstar shouldn’t make heist single player DLCs. | Why Rockstar shouldn't make high single-player DLCs? I've talked about it before, like there's no reason to make anything a single-player DLC. Like all it would mean is that people who want to play it their friends won't be able to. Like if they- if it can be completed single-player, all they've done is made a single-player DLC but made it so you could play with your friends if you wanted, which is perfectly acceptable. |
| 11. June 2021 | Why TikTok mentions are broken | Why TikTok mentions are broken? I haven't uploaded TikTok in like 800 years. I haven't looked at my mentions and stuff either. Cause every single time I looked at my mentions, just someone tagging me is like, like someone making a TikTok like, your third mention has to give you a thousand dollars. And then like 800 people would tag me and be like, oh, duck, you gotta give me a thousand dollars now. It's like, ah, that's great, man. Thank you for making it so my mentions can never be used for any fucking purpose. Thank you. It's like, oh man, you got me. You happen to see that TikTok, bro. So yeah, give me your PayPal, man. I'm going to give you that thousand dollars. |
| 14. September 2021 | Why Twitter is my favorite social media | Twitter is my favorite social media. Just to delete Twitter, I really enjoy Twitter. Twitter is my favorite social media. There's not- no one's sending you fake friend invites or sign up to this. There's no endless shitty fake pages full of garbage or whatever. You follow specifically the people that you want to follow. There's no- people aren't there writing page after page of garbage posts or just putting out endless stuff because there's a limit on the text and stuff. I think it's great. I only follow like 60 people. And I specifically will go through the list sometimes and go, I don't care what this person says, I don't care what this person says, I don't follow people, just to keep it readable. |
| 19. November 2022 | Why Youtube doesn’t listen to the community. | Why doesn't YouTube listen to the community? The thing I don't get is that yeah, YouTube has all this manpower, why don't they just listen to streamers and implement it? Not all suggestions should be implemented, but some should. YouTube is ridiculously ridiculously large in so many different regions around the world. It's probably inconceivable how large it really is. And so I imagine any widespread change takes a long time to implement without breaking stuff. Especially when you have a website that is over 10 years old and there's likely code sitting there that was made by someone a bajillion years ago. I heard this from someone, okay? It could be wrong. But the reason why we got a new analytics page on the back end, and you may have caused a lot of hub annoyance people like, oh, I hate this new analytics page, it's terrible. I want the old one back. And they actually gave you the option to have the old one before. Like I even prefer the old one. But I heard that the reason they gave us a new one is because a vulnerability, an exploit was found with the old analytics page, where you could get access to a person's account. And they couldn't fix it because the code that was used for the analytics page went all the way back to like the founders of the website or something. It was just impossible for them to change it. So they had to like rip the entire thing out and put a new thing in. It'd be interesting how often they run into those issues. So as I say, they likely deal with a bunch of difficulties that we just can't conceive of. They're just on a scale so incomprehensible. Either that or they're just dumb. |
| 15. May 2021 | Why all YouTubers want to make music | rewatchable thing on YouTube. When we talk about videos that get the most views, we usually just exclude music because you can't compete with music. It doesn't matter how rewatchable a video is. A song is just much more rewatchable. Like if you have the talent for music and you already have an audience, making music is just a good idea. Speedruns that teach you more about the game. They need a category, which is just collect all |
| 04. November 2021 | Why all the big game companies made their own launchers | Why all the big game companies made their own launchers? Steam takes a huge cut. Was it like 30% on their launcher? But as these companies have gotten bigger, and they have franchises that are very recognizable, that people would be willing to purchase anywhere, they say, look, we're going to lose some people by not being on Steam, but we're going to make more money because we won't have to pay Steam, right? And so we'll have our own launcher. And with your own launcher, you can advertise your own games. So every time you go to play GTA V, you'll say, hey, you want GTA VI? GTA VI, pretty good. You create your own kind of ecosystem. Like every single time you open the Blizzard launcher, it's like, hey, yo, you play World of Warcraft, but what about StarCraft? You don't get that kind of freedom with Steam. How Steam got off the ground was Steam was Valve's game launcher, but everyone installed Steam because Valve's games were very popular. And so Steam was basically like, hey, yo, person publishing a game, we have a huge user base. You know, you give us a cut of sales and we'll put your game on our launcher. And every time someone opens that launcher, they'll be like, hey, you want to buy this brand new game by this company? And companies were like, oh, yeah, that's a fucking brilliant idea. And soon everyone was doing it. And with more and more people putting their games on Steam, you know, eventually it just became the thing that everyone did. If you want to release a game, you had to put on Steam. It's not as true these days, but imagine being an indie game that didn't release on Steam. Who's going to fucking buy your game? You know. |
| 06. August 2020 | Why alt-tabbing in gta v is bad | Why alt-tabbing in GTA 5 is bad? What makes alt-tabbing so bad? So Rockstar is pretty incompetent in everything that they do. If you alt-tab or leave the screen in any capacity, your game will slightly desync. Not to a degree that you're likely going to notice the first time you do it, but if you alt-tab enough, or if you edit videos, you'll quickly notice that the frames of desync add up. Until everything's completely fucking desynced. Why does this happen with GTA 5 and like literally no other game in existence? Because Rockstar sucks at everything that they do. Windowed Borderless does not fix it. Has the same issue. Windowed Borderless in this game is also amazingly terribly programmed, so it feels like you're playing the game through jello. The input lag is like 57 times what it is in full screen mode. |
| 24. September 2022 | Why am I not on more podcasts? | Why am I not on more podcasts? Are you going on any more podcasts anymore? Love the some ordinary podcast episode. Thanks, dude I wish the audio wasn't scuffed in it though, but I don't get invited to many podcasts I've talked about this before my numbers in regards to how many views I get every month is more than what my actual audience is Okay, like let's look up like how many views does Lily Pichu get each month on her youtube channel? She gets two million I've had more views than her on my youtube channel for like my entire career Or since I've got successful ever in the in the last three three years However, Lily Pichu way more popular than me go way more audience More people care about Lily Pichu than me Lily Pichu going out in public. She be mobbed by people She writes a tweet that says hey, I just had dinner. She getting 50k Likes on her twitter. I get as many views as I do on youtube because I release a lot of videos And so if a person is looking for someone popular to get on their podcast They're not going to pick someone like me. They're going to pick someone like Lily Pichu I mean, it's not the only reason of course, like obviously a lot of other creators just have more connections It's hard to get someone onto your show that you've never spoken to before having a little bit of rapport Knowing something about what they're about before you get them on your show is very valuable Because you know, it's not going to be just a a shit show. I don't know that many creators I don't know anyone who has a podcast and that makes it very hard for me to get into Or onto anyone's podcast even if I wanted to I mean it's the problem I've had with getting people for GTA Gessa once I got down my list of people that I know and then people I know Tangentially, I'm getting to the point where I'm inviting on people who know of me But I don't really know and that makes things more difficult. So yeah, so so two Two different barriers there that I'm not as popular as you likely think I am I just get a lot of views because I've released a lot of videos and I don't know that many people So I'm not on people's top 10 list of people they want on their podcast What about Moodahar? Yeah, because I knew Moodahar like we talked in DMs a couple of times I like the dude I mean it makes sense that I would eventually get on these podcasts at some point, right? Talking to someone and having a rapport with them on a podcast is a little bit different than Rambling to yourself about whatever you want and then you know editing it to make it seem coherent, right? For example when I spoke to Carl at the height of the react drama Many people commented that I talked over Carl and or interrupted him a few times I didn't feel that way at all. But that was people's perception. Why don't you make a podcast with Pelikan and TGG? Me and Peli Did talk a bit about doing a podcast? I don't know how many of you have actually seen the first a ramble with that I did with Peli It was around that time when I was doing the first episode where we talked about that possibility But I was never keen to because to begin with I'm not sure how good I am at podcasts anyway I haven't done that many and a lot of what I'd probably do is just be repeating the same stuff I talk about in rambles, but with another person wouldn't necessarily go down all that well But also because of my inconsistent sleeping and how busy I often am I wouldn't want to bring someone else on board that I could potentially let down It's one thing that's kept me from a lot in life chat. I hate letting people down I hate promising things to people and not fulfilling my end of the bargain like I wrote multiple notes To get Carl his thing for the cameo that I did and I still almost forgot There are enough podcasts in the world a podcast at the end of the day It's just people chilling and talking most people listen to podcasts when they want to have some consistent Long form content in the background where they're doing something else you're playing some video game You're grinding some mmo And you just want something consistent in the background that you don't have to continuously change video Because most youtube videos are like 10 minutes long and so if you need You know something while you're doing the dishes or cleaning you're having to go. Oh god Get back on youtube searching for another video every 10 minutes. It's a pain in the ass trash taste I've listened to every episode they've ever released for that reason anytime. I need to clean my house or clean my room or whatever. It's just a a trash taste, you know Be sure to like and subscribe also leave a comment if you have something on your mind My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best |
| 06. June 2020 | Why am I single? | Why are you still single my dude? Every experience I had with being in a relationship when I was younger, I wouldn't say every experience, but the experiences that I remember were negative. The worrying about what another person thinks to that degree, the anxiety, am I doing the right thing, worrying about everything that I'm saying, it never sat well with me. I didn't enjoy myself in the relationships that I had as much as some other people seem to. I was a socially anxious person, I doubted myself, I didn't value myself a lot, I would always question why they were with me, and these were fairly short-lived relationships. I'm a very different person now, but I consider myself to be very inexperienced in relationships now. And even sexually, I am not what you might call a person who's been in long-term relationships. I would be worried about bringing my inexperience in relationships as a whole to someone else. Like it'd be hard for me to imagine meeting someone that I liked enough that I want to saddle them with my bullshit, basically. More than this though, I am fairly happy being alone. When I think about the value that I could get from a relationship, and what would likely entail the average relationship, I doubt that the advantages of such a thing would outweigh the negatives, on average. Certainly there's people out there, you can guarantee that I would just fall head over heels in love, and would just be the most amazing situation, I'd prefer to hang with them than Twitch stream or make YouTube content. I both doubt that I would necessarily find such a person, and that I want to, at least at this stage of my life, spend that amount of time doing so. At the end of the day, I take after my father in a way. I am more than willing to help people as long as it's on my time. When someone asks me for help on the internet, I can help them whenever they want to get some information, do whatever. I can fit that in, I can answer emails whenever I please. But in a relationship, you have to be willing to make sacrifices with what you're doing for their benefit, as you hope they would do for you as well. And I worry that I'm not willing to make the kind of sacrifices that you need to make a relationship work. I want to stream one day, they want to go somewhere. Am I going to be go- like, sorry guys, gotta go to this thing, it's important to my girlfriend. Am I going to be willing to do that? I don't know. You know, she wants to go to bed, I fuck my sleeping pattern, I need to work on a YouTube video. Am I just- am I going to be willing to go, ah, you know, we don't need to release the video today, we'll release it tomorrow. Am I going to be willing to do that? I don't know. I'm a person very comfortable in what they're doing right now, set in their ways. Not to compare a relationship with having a dog, but same kind of principle. I don't want to get involved into something that I'm not going to give what I need of myself to have it succeed. Other than these doubts, the main reason I'm still single is I don't meet people. It's very hard to get into a relationship if you don't meet people. |
| 15. February 2022 | Why are reactors making react content? | I haven't really seen, well I haven't seen, I don't really watch reactor stuff anyway because I'm too busy. But I just have never seen anyone really push, oh probably it does happen, but it'd be super rare if they do push their viewers to go subscribe or show support to the original content creator. It's like... Not really, if anything it's an afterthought, like oh yeah here's a link guys, you know you wanna do whatever, you know. Because it's not about that. Because obviously these content creators, as large as they are, especially like on Twitter and stuff, they could be shouting out videos every fucking day if they wanted to. Especially on Twitter where the person isn't already engaged with video media. If you saw a link to a video that looked interesting you would be more likely to click it than say if you saw it on live stream. So like, as the example I gave with Critical, if his goal was only I just wanna give people exposure, he could be doing that on Twitter all day. Like he could be tweeting out like a video a day of like here's a video I found that was amazing guys. But none of these people do that because the goal isn't exposure of other content creators, it's I want free content to entertain my viewers. And sure if a handful goes somewhere else, whatever, who cares. But that's not what they're trying to achieve. I'm just thinking some of the time it's also hey I don't wanna put any effort into my content, I just wanna relax and this is a way to relax while making money. Yes, because it's a way of feeling productive making content but not expending energy or effort. Well they just literally just sit in there watching a video. Yes. With thousands of people giving them money. But it still makes you feel like you're productive even if you don't care about the money. It still feels like you're doing something and as anyone who's played video games with an audience would know, playing a video game with an audience is a lot funner, at least for most people, I mean certainly those who do live streaming, than playing a video game by yourself. And so watching videos is the same, where you have an audience where you're like oh man look at the thing that just happened, that's fucking crazy chat. It's like watching a movie with your friends can be funner than watching the movie yourself. It's about the live stream or the content creator whatever, because now we're just talking mainly about live streaming rather than reaction videos on YouTube as well. But they're there for themselves. Any exposure that is given to anyone else is an unintended byproduct that if that would have disappeared, let's say tomorrow that it was literally impossible in reality for anyone to get exposure from people watching YouTube videos on live streams. I'm not sure what that would look like but let's say that happens. They would still watch videos on live stream. The reason that there isn't to give exposure to other content creators is because they're not going to be able to watch videos on YouTube. |
| 14. January 2021 | Why are we on TikTok? | I remember when I actually another creator called Mali who does like VR content. He was like, dude, you've got to get into TikTok. And I just didn't really like, I just thought TikTok was like girls dancing. And I was like, I don't know. And then I did it. And I got on just like on the tail end of that boom. And like my TikTok almost has as many followers as my main channel. And it just was, it boosted growth because people are like, oh, I watched the whole video and came over to YouTube. And then since then, like TikTok died off, but it's still great. Like it still helps a lot. I have found and I've read things that are suggestive of it that converting people from TikTok to YouTube is actually quite hard. They're not, there is like a cross pollination, cross breeding, whatever, between the platforms. It's just people who are flicking through their phones quickly for content aren't necessarily going to move somewhere else for another content creator. But on TikTok, you can so quickly, so rapidly get followers that even though it's a small percentage that actually come over, it's still a significant percentage. Like if you've got a, you know, if it's 10% or whatever and you've got a million, you know, this is a hundred thousand, whatever, it's a lot of people. And I saw you on TikTok there while I was making content. I was like, man, he's going so fucking fast, man. Look how many views he's getting and stuff. Time, we would just throw up like a 15 second little like joke from one of the videos and it would just get like 5 million views in a day. So it's like, even if 0.01% of the people who saw that clip come over, like there's still thousands of people. It's just, it's crazy. I remember how I found out about TikTok. It was because I watched a lot of these. I watched a lot of stuff. I wouldn't call them documentaries, but just like explaining the world economics or new technologies or stuff like that. And this video, I can't remember who it was, but they were like, so this thing called TikTok is the fastest growing application right now. And it's growing at enormous rates and it's exploding and beating all its competitors. I'm like, oh, I should probably make a TikTok then. And that was it for me. I don't think I ever opened TikTok before. I was barely aware of it, but that's how I ended up making mine. And I got 250,000 followers on that, but it's such a pain in the ass uploading to TikTok. Especially a lot of stuff. Like I couldn't imagine doing what I'm doing with my clips channel now on TikTok, especially because the resolution is different. And I know that I wish, because they do allow you to upload 16 by 9, right? But I rarely see 16 by 9 videos on that. You know, 16 by 9 and we just put like a background behind it like, oh yeah, that's true. I mean, but it's shrunk down. I mean, the other way, because they do allow you to do the things where you have to tilt your phone and. Yeah. But it doesn't seem to me people do it, you know. I don't know. But TikTok is, I think TikTok is like, we've seen it before, right? Vine, Musically, they had this meteoric rise and then they kind of just slowly died. I'm not sure TikTok is going to go that same way. It seems to be more accepted and there's more money behind it now. You're right, though, you can't really know. Maybe, yeah. Because especially with all the controversy surrounding it and the American sanctions and who knows what's going on with that anymore? There's plenty of, you know, A-list celebrities like Will Smith and everyone's still on there. So you're right. It's definitely got more merit to it than something like Vine. For sure. How much did they say they were putting into the creative program? Like 400 billion dollars? That's probably an exaggeration. I'm not sure, but it was a lot of money. It was enough money for me to go, OK, maybe this thing is actually going to stick around. Are you in the creative program? Are you making money on TikTok? I don't make any money directly from TikTok. I couldn't apply. I couldn't get in, I think, Australia or something like that. Are you? No, because I'm trying to find an Australian content creator on there. If I could make money on TikTok, I would be more willing to go the effort to upload on there. But they don't seem to be interested in sending me an email or something like that. Well, fuck it. I'll just stick on YouTube. I'm doing enough as is. Bro, I got notifications on TikTok. It's like such and such brand wants to work with you. And I'm just like out of curiosity rather than like I've never actually worked with the brand. I'm like, yeah, I'll work with them. And then I just never hear anything. So weird. They might just spam it out to heaps of people. I think so. And then say who says yes, I think so. It's like sometimes big companies, it'll be like Nike or Universal Studios. And I'm like, OK, I'll work with Nike and get some air pelicans going or something. And they just never pay. Obviously, never hit me up. Someone's like, all right. I think for these companies, they see TikTok as the gateway to the youth, the kids that they can't reach through traditional media or whatever. And that pipeline is just appealing to them or something. Absolutely. I think so, too. So I'm actually very interested in this one. |
| 04. March 2021 | Why australia did ok with covid and bushfire threat? | Why Australia did okay with COVID and bushfire threats. Yeah, hopefully we're close to the end of the significance of COVID. Probably still some months away though, I think. What are the restrictions like in Australia? Non-existent currently. Australia has been... Depends on the state, actually what restrictions are present, and what time you're talking about. But in general Australia hasn't done too bad with coronavirus. But it's in past because we had the bushfires before coronavirus hit. And the bushfires had the side effects of dropping tourism by a fuckton. Like cutting it in half. And so, you know, when a global pandemic hits, and you have low population density, you're in a country that's far away from everyone else. And tourism's been cut in half. You're already off to a good start. We have had our outbreaks, our worst times, our... Bits of incompetence from different politicians on the issue. We have our denialism. People not taking it as seriously as they should and what not. But we were always going to do at least decently better than other countries that didn't have that kind of... Those variables that let us be a little bit more protected than other countries. A family of New Zealanders saw the fires? My grandparents have a holiday house down the south coast that's more in the bushy kind of area. I remember when I was a kid, we were going down to the... To see them down there. And there was fires raging and stuff. And my parents were on edge like, are we going to get out? So we're going to get blocked off or whatever. You could see fires in the distance and stuff. It's just vague memories. Where I live, bushfires aren't a huge concern. It's one of those things where there's just so much bush in Australia. It just takes one lightning strike in the middle of nowhere to create a forest fire that people won't see for days. And then of course, there's not good roads or anything like that. So you can't get out to fight it. And it just spreads and spreads and spreads. Like as much as arson can sometimes be a problem. Arson's got nothing on just natural forest fires because an arson is going to start the fire. You know, some place that's generally accessible by human. Pretty much... Unless they're trying really hard to keep it stealthy. Wherever they're going to make it, it's going to be more accessible by the fire services. And it's going to be more likely to be seen earlier. Because there's going to probably be other humans around, you know. But lightning strikes, middle of nowhere. That's the day. |
| 21. November 2020 | Why billionaires still want more despite having so much | Why billionaires still want more despite already having so much? I don't see the desire of being so rich. You can do anything you want and then just continue to gain more of my wealth that you would never use and will keep to yourself without giving to charity or the people you need. You gotta understand, the people that you compare yourself to is the people around you. You're Strata, right? Like, put it in terms of streaming. When you have 10 viewers, you're jealous of those people with 100 viewers. You think, oh my god, the people with 100 viewers are just insanely large. You have 100 viewers, you look at the people with 500 viewers. 500, you look at 1,000, right? You may think Bezos is on the top of the pyramid in regards to society. There's this great video by Economics Explained that breaks down the different types of billionaires. And Bezos isn't in the uppermost strata of billionaires. There's like billionaires that are effectively the market. They own a part of every company rather than being... And I think that's what Bezos is probably doing with his divesting from Amazon, trying to become one of these people where his wealth isn't tied to one particular thing. And then you have these billionaires who are multi-generational, as in they can trace their wealth back to the 12th century or some shit. There's always more. You can always go higher. You can always look over and go, hey, that's something I don't have. Even when you have all the wealth in the world, there's still power that you don't have. There's influence that you don't have. There's respect of other people around you that you don't have. Remember that wealth is not the only motivator to do things. And once you have all the wealth, when you have enough money to do effectively anything, you look at all those other things that you don't have and you go, I'm going to take those now. Or at least work towards those now. Like if you had all the wealth and you're just like, fuck it, I want to go to Mars. Or I want to do something. I want to get my name in the history book. I like when my old money friends look down on the new money folks with no taste. I don't know if you're being serious, but that is a trope. That's probably true. |
| 26. January 2022 | Why billionaires want more despite having so much | Why billionaires still want more despite having so much? I don't see the desire of being so rich, you can do anything you want and then just continue to gain more of the wealth that you would never use and will keep to yourself without giving to charity or the people you need. You gotta understand, the people that you compare yourself to is the people around you. You're Strata, right? Like, put it in terms of streaming. When you have 10 viewers, you're jealous of those people with 100 viewers. You think, oh my god, the people with 100 viewers are just insanely large. You have 100 viewers, you look at the people with 500 viewers. 500, you look at 1000, right? You may think Bezos is on the top of the pyramid in regards to society. There's this great video by Economics Explained that breaks down the different types of billionaires. And Bezos isn't in the uppermost strata of billionaires. There's like billionaires that are effectively the market. They own a part of every company rather than being... And I think that's what Bezos is probably doing with his divesting from Amazon, trying to become one of these people where his wealth isn't tied to one particular thing. And then you have these, then they have billionaires who are like multi-generational as in they can trace their wealth back to the 12th century or some shit. There's always more. You can always go higher. You can always look over and go, hey, that's something I don't have. Even when you have all the wealth in the world, there's still power that you don't have. There's influence that you don't have. There's respect of other people around you that you don't have. Remember that wealth is not the only motivator to do things. And once you have all the wealth, when you have enough money to do effectively anything, you look at all those other things that you don't have and you go, I'm going to take those now. Or at least work towards those now. Like if you had all the wealth and you're just like, fuck it, I want to go to Mars or I want to do something. I want to get my name in the history book. I like when my old money friends look down on the new money folks with no taste. I don't know if you're being serious, but that is a trope. That's probably true. |
| 03. February 2020 | Why bother uploading TikToks | Bother uploading TikToks? I have had TikToks that have had more views than any of the YouTube videos I've ever produced. In two weeks, maybe three weeks, I gained 50,000 followers. It's an avenue to a new audience where I can put content that I've already produced for little to no effort, for potentially all the gain in the future. People tell me, oh, they've just randomly found me on TikTok. I have people come into chat and say, oh, you know, I've followed you on TikTok. Or like, this is the first time I've been to your stream. I know you from TikTok. As a content creator, any place where you can increase your reach easily, it'd just be foolish not to do that. I'm not in a position that I would want to make exclusive content for TikTok, but there's no reason for me not to leverage the platform to grow my brand and audience. |
| 24. May 2022 | Why can't Kratos break open some crates in God of War | Can't Kratos break open some chests in God of War? One of the devs was asked like, what is the in-law explanation as to why Kratos can't get into some chests in the game? His response was, because it's a video game, because I'd be dumb otherwise. Because he's like a god and it's just like a wooden chest, it's like, I need a key. |
| 26. January 2022 | Why challenge runs are valuable | The value of challenge runs. I love how the weapons actually important in a no hit run. Me too! I get to use all these weapons and attachments and stuff that I've literally never had a reason to use in like the first 6,000 hours whatever we play in the game. That's why challenge runs in general are quite awesome. Like speed runs also, like I mean speed runs are kind of just a category of challenge runs and a well-made challenge run can have you play in the game in ways that you never thought of before and can allow you to experience parts of the games that you would otherwise not be able to or would have no reason to I should say. |
| 25. June 2021 | Why cheating in speedrunning is interesting | Why cheating in speedrunning is interesting? Why is cheating in speedrunning so interesting to people? The height of anything cheating in it is interesting. Because the question of how did they do it, how did they get away with it so long, how was it caught, it's like a murder mystery. The fingerprints were all over the crime scene, but no one bothered to look. Until one guy saw something that gave him a suspicion and everything was cracked wide open. Analyses were done from night to morning. Everyone looked over as it became more obvious that the best speedrunner, the person considered the best of all time, was actually a cheater. It's interesting. It's kind of like CSI but in real life. Nah, I don't think anyone in the speedruns GT5 is a cheater. Realizing you can afford stuff now. Yeah, I have seen the video of Eminem talking about a story how he asked his manager if he could afford an expensive car. |
| 24. October 2022 | Why commentary channels rush to upload videos on new events. | on new events. Which topic should I start with? Because like, Twitch stuff is old now. It's just these topics, they've already been covered to death, so like, not a lot of people are gonna click in specifically for them. You never want to be the last person to cover something. For example, I just saw Sonny Evans release a video about GTA 6 hacker and stuff. It could be a great video, but it's just, it was covered immediately by so many people. Likely not as well, but it's not gonna draw like a heap of people, you know. There's always someone, but it's, you know, there's a reason why everyone tries to get the story first, gets the scoop, gets the exclusive. It matters. People thinking I am bad at card games. |
| 05. April 2021 | Why did I have to hurt Mutahar's feelings? | Why did I have to hurt Mudahar's feelings? Why did I have to hurt Mudahar's feelings by insulting him? I am sincere. I did not expect to. Because despite what he believes, I do know him to a degree. I didn't expect him to get that down. But I don't think it was the mean words. I don't think little of his intelligence. I'm sure he knows the degree to which he misrepresented things in his first video. But I'm sure he's laid himself enough rational justifications inside his mind that he doesn't feel the full weight of it. But statements in his second video clearly showed that he did shift in his opinion. I mean, he called himself an idiot like six times inadvertently. I went kind of rabid and said, yeah, it's unfortunate that people can rightly criticize me that my goal when I make those videos is very rarely to change the mind of the original content creator. Very rarely. And I'm sure I can't imagine Mudahar as the kind of guy to respond to DMs. He didn't respond to them after I made the video. But had I been in a situation where I was more interested in educating Mudahar than I was in educating viewers, I would just contact him personally. All I care about is that people get that counter message and I enjoy myself and it's kind of funny. And I think all three of those videos are funny, educational, and I'm pretty sure my viewers at the very least will learn something from it. Mudahar can be wrong as much as he wants and he clearly wants to be wrong. But if I can make something educational, fun, you know, and that I can be proud of, why not do it? You know? Oh, no, unless of course he actually wants to talk to me, which I'm fairly confident he won't. Like, he looked very sad in that video. But I mean, can you imagine doing a response video where you have to talk for 16 minutes about completely irrelevant things just to buffer your audience enough from the other guy's words and then when the other guy speaks, you jack up his game so much that no one will want to actually listen and they still skip by it. I mean, he couldn't have worked harder to prevent his audience from actually hearing a single word out of my mouth. Like, you don't do that unless you're feeling really insecure. Sometimes doing what I feel like isn't the smart thing to do. I've said many times, guys, criticizing other content creators, calling them out when they're wrong and stuff. It's never very productive to do as a content creator. It's fun though. |
| 12. December 2021 | Why did I make the rule that i had to use my weakest weapon in pacifist | Why did I make the rule that I had to use my weakest weapon in pacifist? Because it's meant to be a funny video about challenge. You start off with a pacifist run. If it cannot be pacifist, it becomes a melee only challenge. If it can't be melee only, only, it becomes like pistol only, right? So different layers of challenge. It's mainly to avoid, oh look, I have to kill these people. I'll just use RPGs. And just blow them all up with one shot or something. That's dumb. It's also why I count shots rather than kills. Because there'll be like this temptation to to line up everyone one line and then shoot through them all or like there'll be some parts where I could skillfully, if I have to kill people, use like one shot or something to kill like four people or something. I don't know, we'll cross the bridge when we come to it, but the point is to make it difficult and interesting to watch. |
| 11. December 2019 | Why did I quit my last job? | Why did I quit my last job where I was preparing hearing aids and hearing devices? Why did I stop working at the hearing aid place? Very very dumb reason. Okay, the sensible reason is that there was no advancement opportunity. I was just making a little bit more money every year as is standard, like the longer you work somewhere you get a little pay raise every year. Like of like two to three percent. That's one reason I left. So there was no position that I could get above me, like I was at the highest point. It wasn't a job that had any advancement opportunity. But the biggest reason I left is because they put in a new policy where I wasn't allowed to listen to my iPod anymore. They cared about productivity and so they believed that people listening to their iPod all day or whatever when they were doing their work was distracting them from work. And the biggest thing I liked about the job was that I could listen to audio books and stuff all day and podcasts and whatnot. So I was like, then I tried doing the job for like a week without listening to my iPod and it was so monotonous and boring that I just couldn't deal with it. I was going insane. So I had to quit. I said to the dude before I left like look, I do more jobs than anyone else in my department. Anyone else. Cleaning my iPod is not a distraction. Let me listen to it. They're like no. I'm like okay, well I have to leave. |
| 26. May 2021 | Why did I start YouTube and the old days | Why did I start YouTube and the old days? Why did I start YouTube? I had opinions about particular social topics that I wanted feedback on and I kinda liked the YouTube kinda community that existed at that point back in 2013, 2012. YouTube community went down since then. It's not as much of a kinda community thing anymore. There were more little communities on YouTube back then. You had video responses and stuff and people used to mirror other people's videos to give each other shoutouts and stuff and it doesn't happen much these days. YouTube, when they removed video responses, for those unaware, people didn't use YouTube back then, underneath videos there used to be a little section that would show you everyone who directly responded to another person's video. So you make a video and say, this is a video response to this person's video. And so you could get views off doing that. Because people would be like, oh I wonder what the video response is saying to this controversial video. So your response video might have nothing to do with the video you're responding to. But because that video is popular, you get some people clicking on your response video to check out your channel or whatever, right? The first video I ever made that got me any subscribers was a response video. Not that I really remember the content of that video, but I remember being at work and talking to Lee like, oh my god I got another subscriber, like I'd be getting a subscriber every hour or something. I remember seeing there like I had 36 subscribers, I'm like, Lee look I got 36 subscribers. Yeah, the YouTube made the case that so few people used response videos that it wasn't worth keeping them around. Similar argument they made to the community captions or whatever, right? It is usually the case that a particular community of people uses this particular feature like heaps, but the over one majority people don't use it. So YouTube is like, well you know the over one majority don't use it so we can just get rid of it. Basically screwing over the small group of people that do use it, you know? Your favorite YouTube was 2005 to 2008? I actually remember the first time someone told me about YouTube, at least like, who knows if this memory is true because you can never be certain about old memories or whatever, but I'm fairly sure Michael, when I was in school, told me about YouTube and he's like, oh you can watch like episodes of Naruto and stuff on there, like just full episodes man for free. I'm like, I'm not really into anime, like it just seems like a pain in the ass. I'm pretty sure that's how that conversation went. How things have changed, given that I watch quite a bit of anime and I upload videos to YouTube for a living, and that those episodes don't exist on YouTube anymore really. Yes, Michael from Grand Theft Auto happened to go to my high school, where I still have all my older videos, yeah somewhere. Not about all of them, but yeah, most of them. They will never see the light of day. I'm pretty sure there are two on the internet in different places, mirrors that people did back then, that I can't be bothered taking down, or like contacting them to take down. |
| 23. August 2021 | Why did I start the rambles series? | Why did I start the Rambles series? What was the reason why you decided to do Rambles? Rambles initially were effectively unedited. It was, I have no video going up today, I may as well put up that thing where I was rambling about that thing that people seem to be interested in, right? Then over time, as more and more of the footage of my streams was being processed, more and more sections of me rambling were there. And so they just all got put together. Effectively still no editing, but they were just all a video of just a bunch of different sections of me rambling. Then they got title cards, as in it would go doof doof and show on the screen what the next scene was going to be, what the next topic was going to be. And they were given a minor amount of editing. Now it's a lot of editing, I read the title cards and there's even a, what's the thing at the beginning of that thing called again? An index at the beginning of the episode. And the reason why they're still made is because, well there's many reasons, but at the end of the day it's just easy content to make. It is in the Rambles take up spots that other videos would go in. Like today I don't think I'm going to release a video because I have nothing to release. Partly because I haven't been rambling as much. Do I want to become a- |
| 04. October 2021 | Why did I study Psychology? | Why did I study psychology? What did you want to do with psychology before you started streaming? I thought I would just always end up in the public service somewhere, doing community service, work or something. I've just always liked the idea of helping people. Makes me feel good. It's nice to make a difference. And I kind of was unhappy for a lot of my years when I was younger, and I thought, well, you know, if I could live my life warding people away from the unhappiness that I felt, I think that would be a good use of my life. Didn't go down that route, though, but here I am, shaking my ass on the internet for quarters. If you had told me five years ago, ten years ago, that I'd be shaking my ass on the internet for quarters, I would have believed you. Would have been like, yeah, I can see that. That is the thing I could see myself doing. Thank you. |
| 21. August 2022 | Why did Mr Beast's video on Ludwig's channel do poorly? | But I did do this fairly recently not to toot my own horn But there was some interesting and insightful stuff in my older rambles But yeah, so those of you who are watching my older rambles via the playlist. Thank you And yeah, so this is probably not indicative of some greater change of YouTube as I postulated before Why did mrbeast's video on Ludwig's channel do poorly? so Ludwig was in a video with mrbeast but mrbeast thought the video wasn't good enough So he decided not to release it on his channel, but Ludwig convinced mrbeast to let him release it on Ludwig's channel Right the video got 6.6 million views and is Ludwig's most watched video But that's clearly very different from like the videos that go on mrbeast's actual channel And so it leads to the question. Why is this? Why would a video with mrbeast in the thumbnail one of his normal kind of videos? Get one tenth the views on a different channel and a successful channel at that this video had it released on mrbeast's channel Let's be real probably would have got at least like 30 million views now I have a theory as to why this is I am of the belief that some channels are specifically flags to be clearly representing the YouTube as best as it possibly can content that is Acceptable and likely enjoyable by everyone and flagged this way it makes it so Non-logged-in accounts are fed this content and people who first come to the website are fed this content I think because mrbeast is seen by YouTube as a channel that provides content that would be at least non offensive to the vast majority of people and Would represent YouTube in the best way possible that they prioritize showing his content on the main page to new people to YouTube and to Non logged in accounts and the reason why I think this is because Previously many times I went to the home page and found mrbeast videos immediately when I wasn't logged in also when I tried Shorts for the first time half of the videos that I saw were from mrbeast But also because I think that makes sense for the platform like why wouldn't you want to put your best foot forward? When you have no information about the user who's just come to your platform You would be wanting to put forth the content that is most likely going to be enjoyable by Anyone and that's mrbeast content, you know more advertiser exactly like why would you put any of my content? That is more niche and specific to people's people particular preferences on the front page like that. Yes, it just my theory Maybe I'm wrong. I know this is what I'm currently working with Beryllium74 one of my viewers took it upon themselves to use a VPN and open 12 incognito pages to test my theory Finding that 46 of the 96 videos were from verified channels only nine channels appeared more than once or the same video every time It has a combination of like really low view videos, but also many very huge videos as well Surprisingly, he did not see a single video from mrbeast So this is at least some evidence against my theory Although there still has to be some criteria that YouTube is using for what to show new viewers to the platform And if I use an incognito tab, I do get videos from mrbeast So ultimately inconclusive but an interesting thought |
| 14. January 2021 | Why did Peli choose to make what he makes | about your hobby, you know, but definitely. So why did you pick the content that you make? Because you've got a wide variety of games that you play. Is this are you selecting games because they will do well in the algorithm? Or is this fun games that you think you can make good, good content? I've like, do you play other games that just don't make it into content? Um, yeah, I do. I do play other games. I just sort of like I started on battlefield one and I just made 100 battlefield one videos probably. And that was it. That was my thing. And then I just got to a point where I still love battlefield, but I just made every video I could think of, like it started to feel repetitive in content and what I was doing. So those brands branched out into like open world games and started doing like storylines and having fun with that. And like sometimes I pick a game because I think it'll do well, like, but only if I also think it'll make good content like cyber punks. And it was a no brainer. I was of course, I was going to make a cyber punk. |
| 12. December 2021 | Why did martin madrazo take Franklin’s drivers license? | Why did Martin Madrazzo take Franklin's driver's license? Martin Madrazzo in the story obviously took Franklin's driver's license so he would know who he is and so he could track him down if he needed to. That's why he says I don't know you who you license. |
| 12. December 2021 | Why did martin madrazo take franklin’s drivers license? | Why did Martin Madrazzo take Franklin's driver's license? Martin Madrazzo in the story obviously took Franklin's driver's license so he would know who he is and so he could track him down if he needed to. That's why he says I don't know you who you license. |
| 17. March 2022 | Why do I list all topics at the beginning of Rambles videos? | Why do I list all the topics at the beginning of Rambles videos? I can see why do you show text in the of the topics in the intro? Do you pin a comment make YouTube chat as well? I do this is like a Holdover from a carryover when that didn't exist But I have no idea what else to put in the first five seconds So I keep doing this and I don't think I should because it makes it hardest. It makes impossible to remove Remove stuff later on but what else am I gonna put there? I just need like a just five seconds to say hey This is a video and to be like hey, there's a lot of stuff coming up It's like hey, you may not like the first topic, but look how many topics there are. It's pretty fucking crazy Maybe you want to stick it out See what else is going on do like a short tease for the video like coming up It would also make people interested well that would just be the same thing though It would just be the same thing I mean Doing it voiced would be interesting like but that that takes so long to read all the topics you know What could I say in five seconds? |
| 18. August 2022 | Why do I not do no reset runs any more? | No reset runs anymore. Will I do a no reset? I'm just not at the point where I have to do that, you know? Once upon a time when I was just a live streamer and I was just speedrunning GTA 5 is the main thing that brought people into my channel I kind of had nothing else to do in the day other than stream and speedrun But like I've got dozens of things I could be doing so that there's always stuff I need to be handling so if the runs going really really bad I reached a point where I'm like There were so many things that I could do that are a better use of my time and I leave Either that or I'm like I feel like shouldn't I don't want to do this and I just leave the pressures to Perform and complete runs and stuff just aren't there like they used to be or rather there are pressures from other things that are pushing me towards |
| 03. February 2020 | Why do I not have explicit rules on Twitch/Discord? | Hey Mac, could you pretty please address why there isn't a specific rule channel in your discord or chat? It gets asked a lot and sometimes people seem quite offended that there isn't one. Thank you. I don't think people who I would most want to dissuade with a set of rules, I don't think they would be them. Nor do I think if they did see them that they'd likely conform to them anyway. The sort of rules that I would create are not rules that you know 99.99% of people couldn't just infer from that you're engaging with random strangers on the internet. Rule, no showing your cock or pictures of your cock in my chat. Like what I need, do I really need that rule? No, you know being racist or again violating the discord TOS. Like here's the way I'm putting it. Do any of you know the discord TOS? Do you know the rules that discord has? I don't. I can infer probably what discord would want and that alone has kept me from violating discord rules. I saw a person say somewhere where they're like to someone else they're like oh you're lucky. I went to Dark Viper's chat twice on two different accounts. I got banned after saying one thing. Like if you are so socially inept that you can say something in my chat to get so banned not once but twice. There's no amount of rules that I could define that would safeguard you in the long term. You would do something just heinous that would get you banned. Like whenever you try to do something in my discord or my twitch chat think to yourself is this something that I could do while surrounded by like-minded individuals or something. It shouldn't be too hard. Like the most most common things that people get banned for these days in my chat is being um grossly sexually suggest suggestive to me. I've had to ban a lot of people like that. It's it's creepy and they go why did I get banned? You do do that you read it. Imagine walking up to a person a random stranger and saying what you just said. If we were both drunk at a bar you would still be hit in the face. And if there was a set of rules, I don't think these sorts of people who read- |
| 27. October 2022 | Why do I play GTA 5 and support Rockstar if I hate them? | Why play GTA 5 and support Rockstar if I hate them? I'll occasionally get these messages where people question why I'm still playing GTA 5 if I hate it so much and why don't I try and take down Rockstar games by having people play less play GT online and So I want to make a statement about that. I get weird comments at times So to be clear I love GTA 5 and hold no bad feelings towards Rockstar games or anyone who works there Even if it isn't mutual hell 95% of my sincere complaints I've made just relate to the lack of security and service for GTA online Which no one would defend I really like GTA 5 and so I'm gonna like the people who made it I I'm not as doom and gloom about Rockstar as a lot of people the only thing that really pisses me off is that I can't play GTA online on stream this easily I can't just do some death matches with you guys if that was fixed 95% of my complaints done Is it don't get that twisted why people you? |
| 16. May 2020 | Why do I put hat kid at the end of my videos? | Why do you put Hat Kid at the end of your videos? What caused you to put her adorable self there? There's a meme called Smug Dancing where it's just that image in front of a bunch of other characters and I like the meme and so I put it there and it just stuck and I just kept putting it there and now it's permanently fixed in the It used to be its own thing on the timeline But now I rendered a version of the outro specifically with her in a specific place mainly because the Endscreen blocks a lot of the places that I used to put her So she's in that place every single time now and to remove her would require me to use an older outro or Re-render it or whatever and there's no reason to do that because I like that she's there I'm just gonna keep it there because it's easier. |
| 20. July 2021 | Why do I rage quit streams because of a single viewer? | ... because of a single viewer. Why were you so annoyed by a single random viewer? So, anytime I get annoyed by a single random viewer, you gotta understand it's not the viewer. It's that I have other issues, like if I'm really tired or I want out, all I'm doing is looking for an excuse. And so, it's always that there's, in any case, there is a straw that breaks the camel's back, but you shouldn't confuse the straw for the ultimate weight that is allowed for the breaking to occur. You understand? All you're seeing is the final domino, and you're like, why is one domino achieving this? It's never one domino. Do I approve of TV? |
| 26. March 2022 | Why do I use Twitch to make YT videos? | What are you interested in though? Why do I use Twitch to make YouTube videos? You could almost say that Twitch is just a bonus, as in like, I could make the same YouTube content, but just off stream a lot of the time, and I just wouldn't make any of the money that I get from doing the live stream. More than this though, having an audience usually enriches content, either because there's interactions between me and the audience, or the audience has some suggestion that makes things better. The amount of times while recording facts and glitches where someone in chat's like, what if you try this? I'm like, oh, that's a good idea, and I try it, and it leads to something good. You know, that happens all the time. If the type of content that you're recording is able to be done on Twitch, or during a live stream, you may as well do that during a live stream, because you're either just gonna get the value that comes from a live stream, viewership, subs, and all that stuff, or the content itself is gonna be enriched with audience participation. |
| 03. February 2020 | Why do I use these headphones? | or what have you. I always wondered why you use those headphones you use, because I enjoy them. I like them. But what answer did you expect? Well, you see, I have this rare ear condition that just so happens these particular ear phones protect my ears in this special way and keep them from like exploding and killing me. Okay. Okay. So I. |
| 31. October 2021 | Why do all games have ‘follow missions’? | Why do all games have follow missions? I don't understand why developers always want to have follow missions because it's a very easy way to give exposition. Like, when it comes right down to it, there's only a finite amount of ways to do missions. It's like, every single time from this point forward where Rockstar has you crashing or robbing a plane in the air, every single time they do that it's going to be like, oh, you're just copying the other two times you did this in the other games. Could you imagine them making completely wholly unique mission concepts for GTA 6 that share no parallels to GTA V? And follow missions kind of make sense, like that's what cops and stuff do, they stake out places, they watch a location, and they wait for someone to arrive and then they follow them and shit, that's what they do. I had Assassin's Creed 1. One of the beginning missions is a follow mission that would just not end. It would go for like 20 minutes every time. I'd just follow the guy, follow the guy, follow the guy, it failed me for no reason, okay, do it again, follow the guy, follow the guy, follow the guy, okay, it failed me for no reason, follow the guy, follow the guy, follow the guy, failed me for no reason. The one thing that Assassin's Creed did for me in my youth was create within me a massive passionate hatred of follow missions. I hate follow missions more than anything in any game ever. Escort missions, some escort missions, your character can move as fast as the character you're escorting. If the character you're escorting moves slower than you, it may as well be a follow mission, because you're effectively following them at that point. |
| 16. May 2020 | Why do i put hat kid at the end of my videos? | Why do you put Hat Kid at the end of your videos? What caused you to put her adorable self there? There's a meme called Smug Dancing where it's just that image in front of a bunch of other characters and I like the meme and so I put it there and it just stuck and I just kept putting it there and now it's permanently fixed in the It used to be its own thing on the timeline But now I rendered a version of the outro specifically with her in a specific place mainly because the Endscreen blocks a lot of the places that I used to put her So she's in that place every single time now and to remove her would require me to use an older outro or Re-render it or whatever and there's no reason to do that because I like that she's there I'm just gonna keep it there because it's easier. |
| 03. January 2022 | Why do people get worked up over politics? | or the financial cost of having a kid. Why do people get triggered over politics? I don't understand why people get so triggered over political beliefs. If you legitimately believe that you have some semblance of what would make society better, here's another way of putting it. Let's say that you live in an area where you're getting by specifically because of a government policy. Would you not be very invested in whatever political party is enabling that policy to exist? At that point, it's not really just a political opinion. It's kind of like life or death. If you accept any level of the commentary on the likely effect of CO2 and whatnot on the climate, and you worry about what the world's gonna be like in 50 years, at that point, it's less of just a political opinion and more like survival. Political opinions aren't just a matter of facts. It's a matter of value. I don't believe there's an objective reason outside of goals why you should care about another person. So when a person says, I don't care about anyone except me, I don't think they're factually wrong to do that, but I have a difference of values, as in I do care about other people and the well-being of humanity in general. And when I see people who specifically engage in actions that I think will have a negative effect on society and will lower a very large amount of people's quality of life, specifically for the greed of some individuals, it's very hard not to get angry. It's very hard not to get cranky at people who I see using their democratic voting ability to make the world a worse place. Whether it's for their own greed or out of ignorance, I don't know how to just ignore that. Like while you recognize your own fallibility and you recognize that you might be wrong, it's very hard just to dismiss everything that you believe and go, well, I might be wrong. You recognize your convictions, being confident in your own views and your own values or whatever and blah, blah, blah, and you believe in that one political party is worse than the other so obviously. People who vote for the other side, they likely have the same kind of feelings, right? Just having strong convictions doesn't necessarily mean you're right, but I don't know, it's just very hard once you get to a certain age to just be completely apathetic about politics. I mean, |
| 11. September 2022 | Why do shorts get so many likes? | Why do shorts get so many likes? So someone asked previously why do shorts get so many likes compared to normal videos as in per view Shorts get far more likes and my response to that wasn't very clear But the answer is just because it's so easy to like a short Because you're holding your phone you should go tap tap and it likes Whereas with anything else you have to like scroll and find the like and press it and then go back to what you're doing It's just a reduction in barriers to entry and you also get feedback Like immediately on the screen when you tap like like the little hearts come up. It's like haha, you know So it's not surprising that you get more likes per views on shorts than you do on um the normal videos |
| 09. March 2022 | Why do so many people hate me? | Why do so many people hate me? Why do so many people hate me? I mean the grand scheme of things not a lot of people hate me. I would like to say people who don't know me hate me. Maybe it's a bit I know arrogance or biased, but I don't think people who can actually know me can really hate me. I contend that the overflowing vast majority of people who believe they have sufficient reason to dislike me for any reason don't actually have sufficient reason. And they fucking know nothing about what they're talking about. And I base this on the hundreds of comments that I've received from people who dislike me who have no idea what the fuck they're talking about. I've responded to many of them and those who see the responses are generally in agreement. At least in some cases that they had no idea what the fuck they were talking about. But that's life. That's the internet. I assume every person who just met me hates me. Yeah, I have I've had that for most of my life. I don't like talk people because I always assume that people don't like me and becoming an internet celebrity in a minor way has not helped that at all. Wait, you guys maybe were not anymore because I don't like that game of like does this person hate me? What I usually like to tell myself though is like how many people do I hate? Most people don't I I don't think spend enough time like actively maintaining hatred of people, you know. |
| 15. January 2022 | Why do we need sleep? | Why do we need sleep? Is it a sign showing why we get tired? Isn't it like disputed? Why we need to sleep? Is it processing the information of the day? I mean it would be interesting if it was something stupid like humans that were too prone to walking around during the night would more often trip and break their legs or something and die so there's selective pressure against that basically like rebooting our brains but I mean you'd think that cause even today there are some people today who biologically need less sleep it's like 5% of the population of some shit can be as refreshed with 4 hours of sleep as everyone else when they have 8. I don't know if there's diminishing returns on that or something but remember looking at some bloody video on sleep but it's from my university course it wasn't some random fucking video what they would do is they would do sleep trials where they'd have people in their celly and they'd go to sleep and they'd wake some people up after 4 hours and some people up after 8 hours and they found like it was less than 5% of people were able to do the same mental tasks with the same proficiency as everyone else despite only having half the sleep Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 31. August 2020 | Why doctor disrespect plays dumb about his ban | Why Dr. Disrespect plays dumb about why he was banned. What are your thoughts on Doc streaming on YouTube and him still not knowing why he got banned? There is no fucking way in any reality that he doesn't know why he got banned. Stop pretending like you think he doesn't know. You do not go from a person who signed a multi-year million dollar contract with a company to being banned and going, I have no idea what happened, man. That's just nonsense. These things are going to be hammered out in the courts and at no point would you admit guilt publicly or give justifications for your banning. Even if he speculated publicly as to why he got banned, the lawyers would be like, well, those are the reasons why we banned him. Even he's admitting these are possible reasons that would be justified to ban him because he's saying it publicly. He can't say anything. Being in public and saying, I have no idea, is suggesting, legally, gives him the strongest case. Of course I've done nothing to be deserving of a ban and Twitch's ban of me is completely unjustified because I couldn't even think of a possible justification for what they did. The suggestion by him that says he believes that they might have had some even tiny amount of motivation makes his legal case weaker from him getting paid out millions of dollars. Don't be naive to think that he doesn't have some idea or doesn't outright exactly know. What I think about him streaming on YouTube, considering that YouTube didn't give him some exclusive deal is not surprising. And if he's not banned on YouTube, I mean, I think it's a good thing that he's not banned. I mean, it's not a bad thing. I mean, it's not a bad thing. I mean, it's not a bad thing. I mean, it's not a bad thing. |
| 12. September 2021 | Why does GTA 5 Any% exist despite it being garbage? | Why does the Any% category of GT5 speedrunning exist despite it being garbage? For those unaware, this category involves basically failing over and over again to use the in-game mission skip feature to get through the game. Why does it exist? Because it has to exist. There's a question that is asked in every single game that exists. How fast can you do it using the mechanics involved in the game? And there always needs to be an answer for that. And that's what Any% does. Any% is the least arbitrary category that exists. |
| 12. December 2021 | Why does most of the gta 5 missions lead to nothing? | Why does most of the GTA V missions lead to nothing? You're really confused on why most of the mission in-campaign leads to nothing? It's so that the final heist for so much money is considered more weighty. If the entire game was, you steal 10 million, you steal 10 million, you steal 10 million, then the stakes for the final heist would be small. I wish Rockstar knew a better way of gradually ramping things up though. As in a better way of doing things is that the stakes slowly improves until a huge climax, rather than simply you fail, you fail, you fail, you fail, you fail, and then there's a huge climax. |
| 23. August 2021 | Why doesn’t noita release consistently on YouTube | Why doesn't Noita release consistently on YouTube? Why don't I post these on YouTube? I have six Noita videos up there. It's because they do not get the kind of viewership that would allow me to spend time, like a lot of time editing. So I have to find people who can edit the series, and I've had trouble finding such people. Every episode that has come out has just been me being like, I'm sick of waiting for other people to edit this, and I just do it myself basically. |
| 02. February 2020 | Why don't I do GTA roleplay? | Hey, I was in your stream the other day, if I remember correctly, and I talked about GTA role-playing. You said you didn't know what happens in role-playing. No, I'm saying as in like, I don't know how I would navigate myself in that space. It's just not something that I've ever found really appealing. When I think about GTA role-playing, I always think about when I was younger, and my mother thought I was too shy, inhibited, as you know, I've been a lot of my life. You know, maybe alcohol's put me out there. Like, I've become less shy and inhibited as I've grown older, but when I was a kid, it was the worst it's ever been. And so she forced me to do drama classes, and I refused to participate 90% of the time. And she'd be like, be a candle and just stand there. I'm like, no, I'm not a candle. I am as I am, and I will... I don't like to present myself as something that I'm not. But of course, you know, it's acting, it's role-play or whatever. I'm sure I could do it now, especially, you know, being more into entertaining. But it's just never been something that I've gone, oh yeah, I can act like someone that I'm not? Fuck yeah, let me get in there. It's just never super appealed to me. The only reason I'd be interested in doing GTA role-play is if I thought it would make entertaining content for my viewers. Which, given how much I've taken on that I need to do, you know, with Chaos% and Passive% and all these percents, even getting back to speedrunning, I don't need role-play to make entertaining content right now. Maybe that might change in the future, but we'll see. If GTA doesn't exist... |
| 04. February 2020 | Why don't I have a sleeping schedule? | I was just wondering why you don't have a semi-specific schedule for sleeping. I often get distracted by certain things. Work, or watching TV or movies or something, or perhaps I drink too much Pepsi too close to bed. I go to bed half an hour later than the next night, or half an hour later again, and half an hour later again. And eventually, the pattern, where I'm going to bed has moved so far. I'm, you know, I'm 12 hours different from where I was sleeping, not two weeks ago. It's just something I've always been bad at. You |
| 08. June 2022 | Why don't I make a video game? | Why don't I make a video game? Dai pictures some guy. I wonder if the pictures are of the devs. At least some of them. Like if I made a game, I would just have me in some random, almost inaccessible room, just chilling. Make a game? Uh, I don't have the skills unfortunately. Or rather, it's not a matter of lack of skill, it's more like, making videos. Like I already have that creative outlet. I remember once, um, my friend's dad, after watching us play video games all day, he's like, I don't understand why you kids, like, just don't make a game yourself. Like you sit all, you sit here all day playing these small games, like you just learn to make one yourself. And we're like, nah, who cares? You know? I respect those who do have that passion, and are willing to dedicate that much time to one project. Making games these days, uh, like, it's more accessible than it ever has been, right? I'm sure anyone who's sufficiently committed could make one. It just requires a lot of time, and patience. Although of course, making a successful game is a completely different matter. Because like, the mechanisms to get a game noticed just aren't super there. Like the amount of people who are willing to try some random game on the Steam store is pretty low I imagine. Like simple word of mouth for games, you know, not really there. Like while I'll spend, you know, an hour each day, collectively, uh, finding YouTube videos to watch, I won't spend any time searching on Steam to find a, a hidden gem of a, a game. Like I'm not sure how good Steam's algorithm is compared to YouTube's, you know? I guess it's similar with, um, streaming. How, you know, like you, you only need one game a month or something, if that. But you need like, 50 YouTube videos a day. What I mean is, you know, you might consume one stream a day, or one game a day, but with videos, you can consume dozens. So it just gives more opportunity for stuff to be found. Making a game as, oh, it absolutely is. I, I just mean it's more accessible than it perhaps was, you know, back in the day. As in there's more, uh, tools around for people to, to learn and stuff. And which is, which is the case with most things, because you know, we've got the internet now, you know? |
| 10. July 2021 | Why don't I make dedicated political videos anymore? | Why don't I make dedicated political videos anymore? It is a lot easier to point out how someone else is wrong than to make content yourself, to put forth a position on something and argue for it. It's the difference between saying, like let's say a person puts forth a policy and you point out all the ways it will fail and they look at you and say, so what should we do then? And you go, I don't know. Let me explain this poorly, but I feel like I don't bring forth enough positive positions. I don't say this is what the wealth tax should be or this is how society should be constructed. All I do is say, hey, here's why I don't agree with this or here's the flaws in this. I don't give forth a positive position. If I had a confident ideology that I would be arguing for, I'd make more videos like that because I'd make them to try to change the world, to change minds. But I don't have one of those. I'm uncertain about a lot of things or I feel unqualified to talk on a lot of things. Things have to be really blatantly, obviously wrong for me to specifically make a video about it. Not ramble about on stream because of a little bit different thing, but you know. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 02. May 2021 | Why don't some people wash their hands? | Why the hell don't some people wash their hands when they go to the bathroom? Of course I washed my hands. Who doesn't wash their hands? Do I remember seeing something somewhere? I remember being surprised by the amount of people who would openly say, yeah I don't wash my hands when I go to the bathroom. It's like, what the fuck? Like I have multiple showers a day and like I keep hand sanitizer around me now just the fucking hell of it. You don't piss on your hands? What? No! But throughout the day you get germs on your hands and when you go to the bathroom you have a chance to fucking wash your hands. Like everything you touch potentially has fucking you know flu germs on it or whatever and so when you have the opportunity to wash your hands you just may as well for hygiene's sake and certainly there can be sweat and stuff on your junk. Like you have to piss on your hands to need to wash them. Are you serious that you think that the only reason people wash their hands is because they piss on their hands? How dumb are you? How old are you? Two? Well good job on typing if that's the case. |
| 22. March 2022 | Why don’t I automate stuff? | Why don't I automate stuff? In the same way that people who say why not hire someone to do this, people who've never hired someone to do something, I think people who say why don't you automate this are people who've never automated anything. You ever seen that meme? I spent the last six hours automating something that would have taken me one hour to do myself. |
| 22. December 2021 | Why don’t I do more with channel points? | being a thing on Twitch that you get for just being in the chat and watching the stream. They get you small perks like you can buy certain emotes for a short period, or you can highlight your message, but I don't really do anything much with them. No hate, but why don't you do more with your channel points? Well, that's disappointing. I specifically don't do stuff with my channel points in order to inspire hate in the people who watch my channel. Are you telling me I'm failing? That sucks. Kinda disappointed there, my dude. Cause I'm busy, dude, and there's nothing interesting I could add that wouldn't require me to take up more of my time. I kinda wish that Twitch had a... As in, like, your channel points were a number out of a number. As in, it would tell you the total channel points that you've generated, and how many of those you've spent. So people wouldn't have to choose between being able to say, I've got so many channel points, and actually using their channel points, you know? It doesn't do that, right? Yeah, like that. Buy buy 1000 points. That's... fairly silly. Like, if you can get Twitch to add that, then okay. I will add some channel point features. I guess that wouldn't work with the gambling though, the prediction gambling. I guess it would show your highest amount of channel points you've ever had. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 11. September 2022 | Why don’t I more aggressively advertise in my shorts? | Why don't I more aggressively advertise in my shorts? The question there was why not at the end of my shorts, do I put a small bit of information about my long form videos? Like, hey, check out this video, rather than somebody putting in the description and the pinned comments. And the answer for that is that the higher the retention you have, the more that the algorithms will push out your video. So you want people getting to the end and not clicking off. And any shout out you give to literally anything causes people to click off. It's why you can see a lot of videos these days. They have no intro, duh duh duh duh. Like I got rid of my intro a long time ago, and they also don't have outros that go on for a little bit. I still have my outro because I like directing people to particular videos. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 30. May 2020 | Why don’t I use “normal” headsets? | Why don't you use normal headsets? This is a normal headset. It transmits audio to my ears. I like this headset. It's comfortable. Most headsets I don't... |
| 14. January 2021 | Why don’t Peli’s friends become YouTubers? | I was going to ask you before, your friends, why haven't they made their own channels or attempted to branch off or build their own online presence? Because we talked about collaboration before. Yeah. One has, so Stealtho Carbo has got a YouTube channel that he's recently started and he's making great content over there. But the others just all have like other careers, like they love gaming, but they just don't, like I think you've really got to love making content because you are going to be spending 15 hours editing in a row sometimes and staying up all night to get a thing out. Like you've got to really love it or it's not a dream job. And I think they kind of just recognize that they love gaming and they love being a part of videos, but making content is like a whole nother thing altogether. |
| 12. December 2021 | Why don’t i require all facts and glitches submissions to have a video? | Why do I not require all Facts and Glitches submissions to have a video? Some things that are submitted aren't difficult to test, and so if there is no video I'm not particularly stringent on it, but if someone submits me something that either seems too good to be true, or is really difficult to test, I will ask them for videos. |
| 30. May 2020 | Why don’t i use “normal” headsets? | Why don't you use normal headsets? This is a normal headset. It transmits audio to my ears. I like this headset. It's comfortable. Most headsets I don't... |
| 16. February 2021 | Why dream getting “insane luck” is really good for jokes | Why dream getting insane luck is amazing for jokes? What happened with the dream thing? It just kind of disappeared? What do you mean? People still make jokes about dream all the fucking time. Think of how perfect it is, guys. How perfect it is. So, the dream- like, saying this is the dream scenario actually had meaning before dream cheated in Minecraft. Because it would mean like, not in my wildest dreams would I think this ever could happen, right? So people already said, this is a dream, this is a dream come true. And now, a guy named Dream purports to have gotten an extraordinarily lucky thing. So whenever anyone gets amazing luck in a game, believable luck at least, or whatever, they go, oh my god, I'm getting dream luck. This is the dream situation. And it now has a double meaning, because it refers to the content creator and just the expression. It's hilarious. The amazing coincidence that this happens to a content creator with the name Dream, as opposed to any other name, is amazing. Like, every speedrun stream I've been in, in the last, you know, since it happened, has made references to, I need the dream luck here, guys, I need the dream luck. It's very funny. |
| 29. January 2023 | Why few big content creators will openly support my views on react content. | Why few big content creators will openly support my views on react contents? Slump says, Well, it's insane how bad these streamers, YouTubers made Darkviper out to be. They made him seem so crazy and batshit that I even believed that Darkviper was just a rambling buffoon that didn't have a good argument. They made me think he was just a one-off creator that's petty and jealous of views, so I never even tried to seek out his argument. Now that I've seen his side, I'm starting to see how bad react content is and how these streamers are truly taking away the whole point of creating new fresh content. It's just painful chat. Knowing that I could have an impact if I was just more charismatic, or if I was just better at this. If I had more dedicated myself 10 months ago, rather than just having a half-heart attempt at writing a script and trying to go back to working on Pacifist. You can't live regretting the past, but it didn't matter what I would say or how. Like that end result was going to be it because reactors got to protect their bag. You're great at most and even all stuff. There is specifically one thing that I have always sucked at and that is speaking. Always. I don't like giving speeches. I don't like scripted content, reading scripts. I just suck at it. I'm not even very good even to this day at speaking during a live stream. I'm just not. I'll often stumble over my words, have to go back and stuff. I've been doing this for years now and I'm still much worse than people who've just started doing this like a year ago. I'm way better than I once was, but still pretty bad. You've started the ball rolling. You've reached more people than most of us could. Hopefully more big original content creators get on board with the message. I don't think it'll ever happen. No one wants a microscope put at what they're doing and for what they're doing to potentially be called into question. No one wants to pick fights with all the larger content creators who have got there because of their ability to pull everyone's work to themselves and siphon impressions and therefore viewers away from the wider market. We aren't in 2016 anymore where most of the large creators were themselves original content creators. We're in a new market where most of the large creators, at least a lot of them, are themselves reactors. Like do you really want to risk pissing off millions of people and close yourself off from many of the people who exist on your same level? I mean I did it but I care about this stuff a lot. Like I'm not the average sort of person. I'm a bit weird in terms of my goals and desires for life. I'm a lot more focused on ethics and my impact on others and I just don't think there will ever be enough people who understand the nuances of what I'm discussing. It's more complicated. Like even though reaction content works in a similar way to the lottery in that the lottery doesn't create additional money, it just moves it around in the same way that reactors don't create additional exposure. They just move it around and the lottery keeps a chunk of the money for itself and the reactors keep a chunk of the exposure for themselves. The mechanisms of the lottery is far more clear cut and a closed off system where reaction content is just endless different small inner working parts that require a lot of foundational knowledge that most people won't have. Like I don't think there's a single person in existence who I couldn't sit down with and within a couple of hours have them agreeing with me but I can't just have that conversation with millions of people. |
| 30. May 2020 | Why focus on GTA V, a game I “dislike”? | Why is your channel involved or mostly around GTA 5 even though you call it a shit game? I don't call it a shit game. I say it's shit in the same way that a person playing 10-pin bowling who gets a 9 be like this is a fucking shit game. It's just a way of expressing anger and frustration about something. And certainly GTA 5 being multifaceted, many different aspects of the game exist, you could find one bit annoying or one bit shit and other bits are enjoyable and fun. Very few people will ever play a game where they think every single bit is perfect and there isn't a single thing that could be changed even if just to meet their own personal subjective preferences. I enjoy GTA 5. I think it's a great game. I've called it a game that doesn't really fail in any aspect. It's like an 8 out of 10 game. I don't think it's a 10 out of 10 game. I think it does everything very well and I love it. Even if there are a lot of things about it that frustrate me. GTA Online though is shit. Can shit be enjoyable? Yes, but it is shit. |
| 30. May 2020 | Why focus on GTA V, a game i “dislike”? | Why is your channel involved or mostly around GTA 5 even though you call it a shit game? I don't call it a shit game. I say it's shit in the same way that a person playing 10-pin bowling who gets a 9 be like this is a fucking shit game. It's just a way of expressing anger and frustration about something. And certainly GTA 5 being multifaceted, many different aspects of the game exist, you could find one bit annoying or one bit shit and other bits are enjoyable and fun. Very few people will ever play a game where they think every single bit is perfect and there isn't a single thing that could be changed even if just to meet their own personal subjective preferences. I enjoy GTA 5. I think it's a great game. I've called it a game that doesn't really fail in any aspect. It's like an 8 out of 10 game. I don't think it's a 10 out of 10 game. I think it does everything very well and I love it. Even if there are a lot of things about it that frustrate me. GTA Online though is shit. Can shit be enjoyable? Yes, but it is shit. |
| 18. July 2022 | Why game sound has been removed from Rambles. | Why game sound has been removed from Rambles? I did a poll and asked people whether they want me to have game sound or not in the Rambles and 71% said they do want game sound with only 7% saying they don't want game sound but while editing Rambles I realized that it is a it's much more of a pain in the ass to have game sound there. Whenever there's characters who are also talking underneath me talking it is so distracting. It takes no effort to remove it. It takes more effort to keep it than it does to remove it so I've just removed it. Game sound feels more authentic for a Rambles? Yeah maybe but I don't think people are sticking around because of the game sound you know and now that I've released the Rambles on podcast platforms where they can't see the gameplay anyway I think it's just better for it not to be. |
| 18. July 2022 | Why game sound has been removed from rambles. | Why game sound has been removed from Rambles? I did a poll and asked people whether they want me to have game sound or not in the Rambles and 71% said they do want game sound with only 7% saying they don't want game sound but while editing Rambles I realized that it is a it's much more of a pain in the ass to have game sound there. Whenever there's characters who are also talking underneath me talking it is so distracting. It takes no effort to remove it. It takes more effort to keep it than it does to remove it so I've just removed it. Game sound feels more authentic for a Rambles? Yeah maybe but I don't think people are sticking around because of the game sound you know and now that I've released the Rambles on podcast platforms where they can't see the gameplay anyway I think it's just better for it not to be. |
| 26. October 2022 | Why giraffes have long necks. | Why giraffes have long necks? Did you know that giraffes' pregnancy lasts for up to 16 months? Did you know that it's more likely that giraffes' necks were evolved to be longer because of the ability to take on foes rather than eating food in hyatres? Giraffes fight over mates and for dominance. They slam their necks into each other. Giraffes with the stronger, thicker necks are able to win those fights more often. Eating food from higher places as well could have also benefited, but that is also said to be a significant thing. |
| 21. June 2022 | Why go after the most popular creators? | the most popular- of course people come out for the most popular streamers! Why- why do people- okay, anything that is done that causes harm, uh, the people who do the most of it are the people you're most interested in. It's always weird to me when people say this, where they're like, oh why are you talking about the people who have the most influence and impact the most people, rather than Barry with five viewers? It's like, I don't know! The changing significance of birthdays. Imagine can you- |
| 12. December 2021 | Why good artists can sometimes struggle to make good emotes | Why good artists can sometimes struggle to make good emotes? It doesn't just require artistic talents It requires a consideration for what makes emotes work or images make sense at a very small scale You need like thicker lines a lessening of detail rather than increasing of it and all that jazz It's why it's very hard to have like purely unique emotes because there's only so many ways that you can communicate Like happiness at such a small scale |
| 12. December 2021 | Why good artists can sometimes stuggle to make good emotes | Why good artists can sometimes struggle to make good emotes? It doesn't just require artistic talents It requires a consideration for what makes emotes work or images make sense at a very small scale You need like thicker lines a lessening of detail rather than increasing of it and all that jazz It's why it's very hard to have like purely unique emotes because there's only so many ways that you can communicate Like happiness at such a small scale |
| 02. February 2021 | Why has speedrunning blown up recently? | Why has speedrunning blown up recently? It is weird how much speedrunning is popping off now. Like, why now? I wonder if there's a video out there where someone does an investigation as to why, like, everything's speedrunning right now. It just seems to be doing well. Like, because AGDQ's been around for ages. Dream, COVID. I wonder if my clips helped. Or, did my clips predate the explosive thing? Or, were my clips riding the wave? Or did it help the wave? Maybe it all just adds together, I don't know. You even see, like, Summoning Salt has been around for ages and has always been helping speedrun grow. Speedrunning grow. But it just seems like there was a big boom, like, a year ago, with my rise, Small Unc's rise, and a bunch of other people, then just within the last month or two. Like, what we're talking about with Easy Speedy. Oh, Speedy. Can you say his name correctly? Like, these kind of just, both explosion things. I didn't really thought about it until someone mentioned it in a Discord, and I said, oh yeah, it kinda has happened. Maybe there's just a lot more content to recommend, a lot more content creators doing it. |
| 01. December 2022 | Why have I started making more GTA Online content? | Why have I started making more GTA Online content? Funny to see me playing online so much. I mean, I do like my speedrunning, and now that I have a decent way to speedrun without people bothering me, I'm more than happy to do it. As I've said many times before, the only thing stopping me from playing more GTA Online was just the fuckwits who screwed with me. Or two years ago, Matto Think, seeing you speedrunning GTA Online, he would think, man, they finally fixed the servers in GTA Online that's fucking crazy. He'd be wrong, but that's what I would think. Because I never had a huge problem with GTA Online chat. I've always thought it's a piece of shit, and it is a piece of shit. But as I keep saying, I would always have played more if I wouldn't get harassed by modders and DDoSers. And currently, I'm in a situation where I can protect myself, as much as it's still a pain in the ass. |
| 31. August 2020 | Why i am not DarkViperAU on Socialclub | Why I am not DarkFiperAU on Social Club. They said they changed my name to real DarkFiperAU and that is the name I'm gonna have. How fucking lame is that? Well because some asshole with a level zero account or whatever on PlayStation 3 has my name. I'm like, Voxer, so clearly this is someone just camping the name, you know, it's on a platform that you don't even support anymore. They're clearly not using it. It's a bot or just some guy. Can I have the name? And they're like, nah. Thanks, Voxter. Every sane company on the planet has policies in place to give people names that are just being camped by bots or that no one is using that have been inactive for a long time. You know why? Because every single time when a social media comes out, a bunch of people with their bot farms have them make all the popular names into accounts so that they can sell them. And obviously this gray market of selling account names is not good for a platform. So most companies are like, hey yeah yeah it's clearly just not being used for 10 bajillion years. Sure you can have the name. And it's that fucking simple. Rockstar isn't a fucking simple company. It's the same company that doesn't let you change your name except once every 365 days unless you ask them. If you will allow a person to change their name effectively whenever they want to, if they are support, why not just cut out support and have just let people change their name whenever they want to. And that's what you do in a sensible reality. This is Rockstar Games. |
| 12. August 2020 | Why i am not growing as i did | Why I'm no longer experiencing explosive growth on YouTube. I'm currently not producing any new series, so I can't expect the kind of explosive growth that I had with the introduction of any of my new series. Like if you go back and look at the first video of each of the series, huge views. Repeatedly doing those series, while easier than making an entirely new series, it's not going to bring in the same viewership. It's why I was disheartened when that video that I made on Amanda didn't do amazingly well. Like it did well, but it didn't even do as well as a normal Facts and Glitches episode. I have one new series coming, but it's being delayed because I missed an email. And even that, I'm not convinced it's going to be amazing, but we'll see. My most viewed video? There's a handful of Facts and Glitches over a million views. Most past this is over a million views, but my 100% world record from back in the day, the 959, has over a million views. But it might be my largest now, 1.4. |
| 22. October 2022 | Why i am struggling to go back and finish RDR2. | Why I am struggling to go back and finish Red Dead Redemption 2. I do want to, but it would just take so much fucking time. What am I gonna throw away, like, two weeks of my life playing the entire game again just so I can see the end? That's nuts. Who would do that? When I try to explain to people why the game didn't jive with me, I always try to explain it this way. Look, I'm a very goal-oriented person. It's not a matter of slowness or grind or whatever. I just have to know of a goal and want to achieve it. As long as that's there, I will hit my face against the wall for hours and hours on end until either my face breaks or the wall breaks. I don't care. In Red Dead Redemption 2, all of it seemed entirely fucking pointless. Hey, yo, man, we got this new camp. Need to make some money. We just escaped from the Pinkertons. Look at that. Failed to get some money. The Pinkertons are after us. Gonna move location. Yeah, sure, you've just finally learned all the area and know where everything is and stuff, but we're moving location. Move location. Hey, we're in this new location. Need to make some money. Pinkertons are after us. Oh, no. Failed to make some money. The Pinkertons have arrived. Better move fucking location. And you do this in the third chapter, the fourth chapter, and the fifth chapter, you're thrown into the fucking island, and I'm just in there like, what is the point of any of this? What am I trying to do? What is this leading up to? Am I ever going to achieve something of significance? Is any of my struggle actually meaningful? And now I've been told the ending, or at least parts of it, I'm like, oh, so it was leading to somewhere. Sure, nothing of what we did actually mattered at all, but there was a light at the end, there was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And so I probably, had I known the ending, I might have just struggled along to see the ending, but what I've seen of the ending seems to suggest that everything done was pointless. But I guess I'll find out when I finally play it, but I just don't. I just don't. I just, you know. It's about the journey or whatever, but most of the time, the reason why you want to go through the journey and you're willing to go through it is because you know what's at the end of it. |
| 22. October 2022 | Why i am struggling to go back and finish rdr2. | Why I am struggling to go back and finish Red Dead Redemption 2. I do want to, but it would just take so much fucking time. What am I gonna throw away, like, two weeks of my life playing the entire game again just so I can see the end? That's nuts. Who would do that? When I try to explain to people why the game didn't jive with me, I always try to explain it this way. Look, I'm a very goal-oriented person. It's not a matter of slowness or grind or whatever. I just have to know of a goal and want to achieve it. As long as that's there, I will hit my face against the wall for hours and hours on end until either my face breaks or the wall breaks. I don't care. In Red Dead Redemption 2, all of it seemed entirely fucking pointless. Hey, yo, man, we got this new camp. Need to make some money. We just escaped from the Pinkertons. Look at that. Failed to get some money. The Pinkertons are after us. Gonna move location. Yeah, sure, you've just finally learned all the area and know where everything is and stuff, but we're moving location. Move location. Hey, we're in this new location. Need to make some money. Pinkertons are after us. Oh, no. Failed to make some money. The Pinkertons have arrived. Better move fucking location. And you do this in the third chapter, the fourth chapter, and the fifth chapter, you're thrown into the fucking island, and I'm just in there like, what is the point of any of this? What am I trying to do? What is this leading up to? Am I ever going to achieve something of significance? Is any of my struggle actually meaningful? And now I've been told the ending, or at least parts of it, I'm like, oh, so it was leading to somewhere. Sure, nothing of what we did actually mattered at all, but there was a light at the end, there was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And so I probably, had I known the ending, I might have just struggled along to see the ending, but what I've seen of the ending seems to suggest that everything done was pointless. But I guess I'll find out when I finally play it, but I just don't. I just don't. I just, you know. It's about the journey or whatever, but most of the time, the reason why you want to go through the journey and you're willing to go through it is because you know what's at the end of it. |
| 27. October 2021 | Why i deleted my older channels | why I deleted my older channels. I had two old channels and just recently I deleted them both. It was somewhat painful but both channels had been demonetized for different reasons and there was always the possibility that at least for one channel that still had some content on it that I might be hit with a copyright strike or the channel might receive enough strikes to be closed down and that would um affects you know my potential monetization of this channel or that maybe I've left a comment somewhere that you know five years from now I think I could reasonably defend everything that I've ever said I don't recall myself ever being you know a massive dick or just insensitive people I don't know you know the kind of stuff that people care about these days I don't recall myself ever being an extreme or anything but I mean I don't remember everything I've ever said on YouTube so there's always the possibility that something will come up and I'll be like ah shit this will cause some controversy or something there was no there was no benefit outside of like nostalgia or sentimental reasons or whatever for me to keep those channels so I just cut them |
| 12. August 2020 | Why i don’t like watch dogs 2 | Audio. Why I don't like Watch Dogs 2. How come I dislike Watch Dogs 2? The characters, their dialogue, who they are, what they're doing, their goals is so cringy and annoying. That sounds like it was written by like 45 year olds who don't really understand internet culture, but we're trying to emulate it as much as possible to appeal to like Generation Z or something, whatever the fuck they call, you know, the kids in high school and it just comes off all as so fake. Like even though they even have those troll face memes, which were like a big meme thing in like 2009 or something, like the early days of meme culture. And that's like on the forefront of the cover. It almost sounds like they just Googled memes and then just copy pasted everything that they saw into the game. And this it just makes everything feel so cringy. And so then if the gameplay isn't immediately amazing and enjoyable, it's hard to continue, right? It's almost as though the cringiness and annoyingness of the story and the characters, even this early on, makes every other flaw massively stand out, you know, and the flaws were a lack of communication about the tools at my disposal to deal with the problems in which the game was generating for me at every point. I was like, so what am I meant to do here? Where am I going? What is this? What does this button do? This I had gotten into situations where I would have to use a tool and then like five minutes later, it would explain that tool for me. I should be like, but I needed that tool, or at least it was very useful five minutes ago. And the existence of fast travel immediately, the very beginning of the game just shows that the map can't be set out that well, you know. I will I will try and have another go at it. But it's just even in the first two hours, it's immediately rubbed me the wrong way in many different ways. |
| 02. February 2022 | Why i don’t make serious new years resolutions. | Why I don't make serious New Year's resolutions. What's my New Year's resolution? I have no reason to have New Year's resolutions. If I think I should do something and it would improve something, or I want to do something, I just do it. I don't have a way for a particular date to do it. I don't even like to set like targets for like subscribers or subs and stuff. I'd just be disappointed when I don't hit those targets or whatever. I'd rather just continuously just do my best. If I continuously do my best, and I'm convinced that I've done my best, then whatever result I end up having, I'm going to be at least somewhat satisfied with it, you know? Or if I set a specific goal, and it's a too easy goal, I'll feel like it's not a meaningful goal. Because meeting that goal won't make me feel satisfied because it was too easy. But if I set it too hard, then I could feel let down that I didn't meet it. It just seems better just to do the best I can as consistently as I can. And that brings me satisfaction, you know? |
| 12. August 2020 | Why i don’t use subtitles | Why I don't use subtitles when I play games on stream? I hate subtitles in games that I play. The reasoning is because sometimes you want to move the audio or zoom in on a particular thing and the subtitles are in the way. The more things that are on the screen that aren't the thing you want to focus on, the harder it is to have a camera zoom that looks clean. Like 165% is the size you need to do to crop me and my splits entirely out. You also therefore lose the other side as well of the screen. If I was smaller here, you wouldn't have the zoom as much to crop me out. My layout isn't just clean in the way that I like it. It's also with the editing later in my life. |
| 27. July 2021 | Why i stopped doing fortnite friendlies | Why I stopped doing Fortnite Friendlies, which was an Epic Games sponsored thing where a bunch of streamers would get together and play Fortnite. I actually got an email though, from the people, like I used to play Fortnite Friendlies. So like a bunch of streamers would get together and all play Fortnite. And we would stupidly do it for free and there wasn't even a prize at the end of it. Just pure advertising for Epic Games. But it was fun to do so people still participated. As I explained before though, it went to shit because some people built the entire streams off playing Fortnite. And they would also play with the rest of us. So we'd all just get fucking stomps. In the beginning it wasn't too bad because everyone was on an even playing field. But as things progressed it was just stupid. |
| 20. March 2021 | Why is Hungry Jacks called Burger King in Australia. | Why is Hungry Jax called Burger King in Australia? Why is Burger King called Hungry Jax in Australia? There was already a Burger King in Australia. There was a fight over the naming rights or whatever and apparently Burger King lost. I mean the American Burger King lost or whatever. Wonder how they settled on Hungry Jax. Is Burger King a better name than Hungry Jax? Yeah I think it is. What does Hungry Jax even mean? |
| 01. May 2021 | Why is it called Rambles? | Why is it called Rambles? How come it's called Rambles? It just seems to be a very passionate thing to talk about from a non-substantive so it doesn't seem like rambling. I mean, the vast majority of what goes into those videos is rambles. As in like, just me giving my general thoughts on a topic. Like, when I labeled the series, I wanted it to be communicated that it's not like I'm writing a script, it's not like I'm doing research prior to my speaking about a topic. Well, that does sometimes happen if I happen to do research and then start a stream and ramble. In most cases, it's stuff I remember from my past or things that I'm arguing that you can infer from certain things. But again, it's not like I'm going to be showing diagrams or quotes or there isn't going to be a source list below a stream. I wanted to differentiate as much as possible the Rambles series from my older content. You know? Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 01. May 2021 | Why is it called rambles? | Why is it called Rambles? How come it's called Rambles? It just seems to be a very passionate thing to talk about from a non-substantive so it doesn't seem like rambling. I mean, the vast majority of what goes into those videos is rambles. As in like, just me giving my general thoughts on a topic. Like, when I labeled the series, I wanted it to be communicated that it's not like I'm writing a script, it's not like I'm doing research prior to my speaking about a topic. Well, that does sometimes happen if I happen to do research and then start a stream and ramble. In most cases, it's stuff I remember from my past or things that I'm arguing that you can infer from certain things. But again, it's not like I'm going to be showing diagrams or quotes or there isn't going to be a source list below a stream. I wanted to differentiate as much as possible the Rambles series from my older content. You know? Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 17. June 2021 | Why is speedrunning a sausage fest? | running is a male-dominated thing. It can speculate why, but it in general mirrors the tendencies of the wider gaming ecosystem, I suppose. It's not as though there isn't a lot of women gamers out there. It's just the games dominated by one group over the other. Some games are less speed-runnable than others. And certainly, when a game category or speed-runner or whatever is already dominated by guys, often it probably seems less open or less comfortable for women to join such a thing anyway. Yeah, it's speculated all day, but it doesn't really matter, does it? Things are as they are. I mean, like, take GTA V. I mean, my audience is only like 5% women, so the odds of it being different for the speed-runners obviously non-existent. I'm not really drinking anymore. My favorite alcohol. Honestly, I'm not so much into alcohol as I used to. |
| 17. June 2021 | Why is speedrunning a sausagefest? | running is a male-dominated thing. It can speculate why, but it in general mirrors the tendencies of the wider gaming ecosystem, I suppose. It's not as though there isn't a lot of women gamers out there. It's just the games dominated by one group over the other. Some games are less speed-runnable than others. And certainly, when a game category or speed-runner or whatever is already dominated by guys, often it probably seems less open or less comfortable for women to join such a thing anyway. Yeah, it's speculated all day, but it doesn't really matter, does it? Things are as they are. I mean, like, take GTA V. I mean, my audience is only like 5% women, so the odds of it being different for the speed-runners obviously non-existent. I'm not really drinking anymore. My favorite alcohol. Honestly, I'm not so much into alcohol as I used to. |
| 10. July 2021 | Why isn’t Rockstar giving mod menu protections? | Why isn't Rockstar just giving mod menu protections? Does Rockstar provide mod menus? I don't know why they don't at this point. If it is possible for a mod menu to defend against other mod menus, why wouldn't they just be affect- why wouldn't they just effectively recreate what the mod menus are doing? I don't understand. |
| 26. December 2021 | Why it is hard to find good editors | You know? Why it is hard to find good editors. Is a hard to find a decent editor? Yes. It's one of those things where not a lot of people are in a position to edit a lot of videos to get to the point where they're good. We all suck at editing when we first begin. And not everyone edits in a style that's suited to all types of content. Or to the tastes of the content creator themselves. I mean, Martin was the first editor that I picked up. That was years ago. The level of skill that Martin had when we first begun, I'd probably reject him today. The level of skill that I had when I first begun. If I took my- if I was a duplicate of myself from two years ago, and I submitted to edit for me, I would reject myself. Because the standards have improved. I've improved because of my editors and my editors who've been with me a long time have improved as well. We've all grown, and therefore the standards have improved. I've met people and I've looked at their stuff and I've gone, Yeah, if you edited for like another year, you'd be- you'd be exactly what I want. But I don't have a year, you know? And a lot of the time it's hard. It's like what I was talking about before. Trying to get other editors has taught me that certain things that I consider to be like, instinctive or the only way to do something is not the way that everyone does it. You think no one could fail this, and then you give them something and they fail. And you're like, how? And you're just so baffled. Working for a long time with someone, you get used to what you have to- Oh, that's also another thing, certainly. It's much easier to create something that a person will like if you've been editing with them for a very long time. But as I say, both me and Bob over the last two years have made endless, endless videos. And therefore we're both gonna get better, you know? The standards are just a little higher. And so finding a person who has effectively done those years of development, just not with me, is hard. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 08. March 2022 | Why it is hard to take seriously criticism that comes from those who always speak on drama. | Why it is hard to take seriously criticism that comes from those who always speak on drama. Every single day, every single day, literally thousands of people, tens of thousands, millions, say things that people disagree with. In no reality does anyone actually give a fuck what I think about reactors. All these people are just talking about it because it's like the thing that everyone's talking about. And people send me messages like, oh Ethan Klein says- I don't give a fuck what Ethan Klein says. Why would anyone care what Ethan Klein says? On anything. Like it's totally understandable that a bunch of content creators are gonna talk about it because it's the thing that everyone's talking about. But none of them actually give a shit. So like a week from now they'll be like, oh yeah, DarkFap, okay, didn't you say something about like rapists or something? Ah, whatever. And so like, knowing this, you just feel detached from any criticism that people give you because you know they don't really care. Think about it this way. Do you guys remember what Asmongold got fucking raked for like two years ago? Everyone was on Asmongold's case. I can't remember what it was for. I have no fucking idea. And that's just the way it goes. Everyone just moves on to the next thing. And then the next thing and the next thing. And more particularly vindictive people who don't like you anyway will be like, I remember that thing you did like five years ago. No one really gives a shit. |
| 24. April 2021 | Why it is important to know Hungry Jacks is the Australian Burger King | Why it is important to know Hungry Jacks is the Australian Burger King. So today for breakfast I got myself Hungry Jacks. Haven't had fast food in quite a while and it sucks. The main reason I did it is because I didn't have like any good food. My groceries are coming today at 4pm. I was like screw it, one large meal I won't eat anything else for the day. And it just wasn't great. The Big Jack is not that great. It's meant to be the Burger King replacement for the Big Mac. It's nowhere near as good. Even without the onion, which I remembered to remove this time. I don't know if it was because I hadn't eaten fast food in days, but it just seems so tasteless. You know? The meat didn't really have any flavor to it. Which is not the case with all the meat at Hungry Jacks. Hungry Jacks, Burger King, same thing guys, just beware. Oh, funny story about that actually. I was watching Ludwig's GeoGuessr video. And the first one that comes up, I look at it and I'm like, that looks like Australia. And he's like, ahh, it kind of looks like either Australia or New Zealand, I don't know which. And I look at it and I'm like, that's Hungry Jacks. Australia is the only place where Burger King is called Hungry Jacks. This has to be Australia. He's like, ahh, I think it's New Zealand. And he does it in New Zealand so he fails. And like one of the top comments is like, umm, Ludwig. Burger King is called Hungry Jacks in Australia. So you knew that, you should have known that was Australia. But you see what I'm saying is, I am better at GeoGuessr than Ludwig. Because I know that small fact about Australia. Yes, I'm aware if you watch my GeoGuessr video, you know I really really suck at GeoGuessr. I don't think I did that badly, okay? Maybe I did really badly considering that I picked very easy maps, but... I think my favourite one though was where I said this is probably in the Northern Territory. And then I looked at it, I got like no points. But I zoomed in and it was in the Northern Territory. But by like one pixel. As in it was like the very centre of Australia. And I did the very north part of Australia. And I was like, well I'm technically correct. I was as wrong as I could possibly be while still being in the Northern Territory. It's a funny video, yeah it's unfortunate that I didn't remove all the swears from the first 30 seconds. So I got demontized. This has got 100,000 views though. |
| 27. March 2021 | Why it matters what I talk about during runs | But I really hope it's not the run. No, actually I have said that before When I've done something really stupid at the beginning continued or I've talked about some really dumb shit in the run I'm sitting like man. I hope this run isn't the run to immortalize the stupid shit. I talked about Obviously it's an exaggeration to say it would immortalize what's garbage I talked about but think about like my PB My PB my 620 that's now like two years old of a classic percent it's it has like 800,000 views and it's still getting views my 100% Run which is a really nice run and both in conversation in terms of both in conversation and the the strats and And how how when and stuff that's got over a million and it's still getting views You know no longer world records But speed was to watch them because they're good watchers and so it is somewhat important That if I have a good run that I'd not be talking about something real trash or whatever, right? But a lot of what we talk about is you know Topical what's what's the phrase it? Um, it's finite. It's um, it only has relevance to the now So like you listen to it a year later and like who the fuck cares about this shit You know the big drama the big story of today in a month It's just like old news nonsense that you wouldn't ever want to listen to there's only a finite amount of things we can talk about and and topical stuff is Of course important especially like because in this category There's so many missions where there's no strats at all Like I'm just going through the motions here doesn't matter how fast they go what I do I could just take a random street doesn't matter because only some of the missions with the strats really come into play Being more empathetic after experiencing |
| 20. November 2022 | Why my Billionaire speedrun is underperforming. | Why my billionaire speedrun is underperforming? I don't think the billionaire video is doing as well as the millionaire video. But I think that's probably because people will expect me to be doing roughly the same thing as in the first video. Like on some level, I should have tried to draw a greater distinction in the thumbnail. Usually the second video does not do as well. It'll probably grow over time though. Bad to go watch it. It is a really nice video. Like I tried to make the thumbnail the same but more. The original thumbnail has like a lot more shadows and stuff to make it look more distinguished. I don't know. I think the original thumbnail is better. I could have tried harder to make it so... They could be seen as two separate things. So I wouldn't have the falling off that often in episode 2. |
| 29. January 2021 | Why my Twitch viewership has increased rapidly | Why my viewership on Twitch has increased rapidly? Why have you got so many more viewers than normal? Combination of my clips channel blowing up, the dream thing, and maybe a tiny amount of the people who are more aware of me because of the Apollo thing, which is not exactly the attention I want, but yeah. I would say the majority of it is just my clips channel. My clips channel right now is getting 4 million views a day. Or like, in the last 7 days it's gotten 25 million views. That kind of stuff brings you more attention. But if your clips channel gets more subs than your main channel, that'd be very, very unlikely to happen. I don't have unlimited content for it. It's funny with my clips channel, things that I consider to be fairly mundane and that I don't think will do very well. For example, there's one clip of me explaining how Jimmy changes throughout the run. And all it is is talking about how his movement changes and how he is no longer susceptible to spooking from gunshots. I thought that's a very mundane thing. Only speedrunners would be interested in that. But it has like 500,000 views. I can't think of an example right now, but there's been other clips that I think are fucking awesome and they don't do well at all. They get 30,000 views or whatever. I'm like, that's just strange. |
| 09. April 2021 | Why my YouTube viewership dips in march | Why I think my YouTube viewership dips a bit in March. So I have a theory chat, I have a theory that there are a lot of content creators out there who do not upload during January and February. Because in January and February, the ad rates are like really low. So all these channels that make like really amazing like one off videos, hold them all off until you get into the better ad revenue times like in March and stuff where the things kind of pick up. Maybe because of Easter, I'm not sure. And so it is easier to get views in January and February because there's less competition. If you're one of those people who uploads every day. But when you get into the better ad revenue parts and your CPM goes up, there's more competition for views so your viewership goes down. I think I'm experiencing a little bit of that right now. You know? Yeah Veritasium uploaded a video, Mark Rubber uploaded a video, ZGP Grey uploaded one as well. Again, this isn't throwing shade because why wouldn't you do that? It's just, I think that's like the explanation I'm telling myself why my viewership was high in January, February and it's dropping down a little bit going into this. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 14. September 2021 | Why my latest rambles contain older footage | Rambles contain older footage. When did I officially start doing rambles? I started doing rambles like late 2018, right? But I've got hours of footage before that. So what I have done is I've gotten other people, just random people from who watch me, to go through my older stuff and find all the rambles. Only put out those that actually make sense in present day, but I'm not doing rambles right now because I'm not doing my normal streaming, you know? So am I confused and be like, why is he doing speed running in these rambles, man? Speed running ages. Why don't you rambles? I haven't done Oko in two months. That's why I'm saying I haven't done any rambles. Calling small. |
| 06. November 2020 | Why my most controversial rambles annoy me | Rambles on controversial topics annoy me. Because politics is one of those things where, if you aren't exact on everything that you say, the people who disagree with you will spring on that singular thing that you said incorrect, even if it's just off by a degree in regards to a figure. And they'll dismiss everything that you say. I much prefer writing stuff related to controversial issues. You can ramble and be convincing about something that people aren't super passionate about. But in regards to things that people are passionate about, you're much better off writing something or having a script or sign, so you can be precise in your language, rather than giving people who disagree with you an out in a simple misstatement or an irrelevant thing that is, while not perfectly accurate, still mean-less to you overall. |
| 25. February 2021 | Why my non-GTA 5 content struggles more than it maybe should. | Why my non-GTA content struggles more than maybe it should. What happens with my non-GTA 5 content is that YouTube will present the videos to my normal audience and my normal audience, because they don't like non-GTA 5 stuff, will be like, oh well I'm not going to watch this. And then the YouTube algorithm is like, well I guess if even the core Darkviper AU audience isn't going to watch this, then why would I give it to anyone? It's why the only things that really do well for me are GTA clones. Because at least my core audience will watch that. I wonder if YouTube is missing on something by thinking like that? Oh of course. It is impossible for the YouTube algorithm to be so perfect that it finds all the best content and provides it to the exact right people. But it has gotten progressively better over time. Like for example, back in the day, it'd be more prone to judging your entire channel by every video that you release. So if you release a video that goes really well and a video that goes really bad, that could make your channel look worse than the algorithm. But now, it judges each video kind of on its own merits. So you can go to channels and see them have a video that does a million views, another one that does 30,000 views, and it doesn't hurt the channel overall. You can release really big epic videos and really smaller, less popular videos, and it's not going to hurt the longevity of your channel. |
| 05. February 2021 | Why my power kept going out | Why my power kept getting turned off at my house? Did I tell you guys why my fuse box kept going off or whatever? So for a while, whenever I would flick a switch at my door, my fuse box would go off or whatever, like it would cancel all my power and I have to go out and flick it back on. And the reason for this was there was water in the light bulb of my front door light. It's weird because it wasn't like a light facing like outside or the rain or whatever, it was upside down. So like somehow the water's got inside the light bulb fighting gravity and it's get trapped in there. I assume there must have been like some hair crack or something and the water would have just trickled down from the top and inside or something. I don't know. You have to just remove the light bulb and everything's fine. So it's a good thing I didn't take the time to bring out an electrician or something. |
| 30. June 2021 | Why my sub count massively reduced on twitch | Why my sub count massively reduced on Twitch? Where did the rest of the 10,000 subs go? I didn't stream GTA for a little while, or what GTA I did stream was far less, so my sub count went down. I'm not doing any social media posts for my streams currently, meaning the amount of new people coming in from YouTube and stuff is far less, because I haven't done a giveaway in a while, the people who subbed for the giveaway bonus haven't subbed, and then a thousand of the subs I gifted so we could get to 10,000 to unlock all the emotes lost. Yeah, that's all of it. Do you ever think my sub count will rise or fall after Oko? My guy, my dude. There is so much cool content that I want to make, I can only assume that it will increase. As all the people who are so sick of this category justifiably actually give a shit again. I am still watching my ancients have this even ended episodes. When I get back to speedrunning, I will be fucking unstoppable. I mean in terms of the content creation thing, in terms of the actual speedrunning, yeah I'll be totally unstoppable, but you know what I'm saying. I miss the old Dark Fiber AU, the speedy Dark Fiber AU, runs dead Dark Fiber AU, occasionally get World Records Dark Fiber AU. True, still have my Mars World Record and no one can take that away from me. |
| 02. November 2021 | Why my videos usually have some sort of preview at the start. | Why my videos usually have some sort of preview at the start? It's believed on YouTube you want to hook people into your video within the first like 10 seconds. If you can get people instantly interested, they're more likely to stay for the rest of the video. Even if like the next part is a little bit of a slow build up, they're more likely to stay because they're like, Oh, I want to get to that part that I initially saw. |
| 17. September 2022 | Why my zooms in my videos look worse now | Why my face cam zooms in my videos look worse now? So you may have noticed in my videos that the zooms on me when I'm playing a game are somewhat crusty these days, a little bit more jagged, not as smooth as they were once upon a time. This is because I've changed my OBS settings so that I don't use as much of my GPU. There are two sections of an RTX graphics card, one that's dedicated to encoding, that if you use, it doesn't impact your gameplay or anything like that, you don't drop frames, because it's dedicated for encoding. Then there's another one, which is used for everything else. But it's possible to increase your settings so high on OBS, which increases the quality of your stream, but it makes it so you use that larger part of the graphics card. So what would happen is, you may have heard me complain about it in the past where I'm like, oh, fuck, I'm using too much of my graphics card, I'm dropping frames and my FPS is all over the place and whatnot. And it was just annoying. I would have to balance out my graphics settings in whatever I'm doing to make sure my game doesn't use so many resources that it competes with my stream. Now, my settings while lower, make it so that can never happen, because my stream is specifically on that smaller part of the graphics card, the encoding part of the graphics card, and my game's on the other part. It's only like two settings that do it in OBS. One is your preset, like if you set it to max quality, and I think the other one is, it's either look ahead or psycho visual tuning. Hope that explanation made sense. Yeah, but that's why I like using the full webcam whenever I can, because I know the zooming on my small cam is not gonna be as good. Seven thousand. |
| 22. March 2022 | Why never delete the original copy of any Youtube video. | Why I never delete the original copy of any YouTube video When is it safe to delete a video locally when uploading to YouTube? I see never delete them just keep them storage is fairly cheap you get yourself just an external hard drive That's worth, you know, a hundred bucks Whatever just chuck everything on there because remember you what YouTube has on their website is a lower quality version of what you upload It's compressed didn't know that when I first started so I thought I could just download my videos from YouTube. No |
| 22. March 2022 | Why never delete the original copy of any youtube video. | Why I never delete the original copy of any YouTube video When is it safe to delete a video locally when uploading to YouTube? I see never delete them just keep them storage is fairly cheap you get yourself just an external hard drive That's worth, you know, a hundred bucks Whatever just chuck everything on there because remember you what YouTube has on their website is a lower quality version of what you upload It's compressed didn't know that when I first started so I thought I could just download my videos from YouTube. No |
| 08. December 2021 | Why no taser in Pacifist%? | Why no Taser in Passive's Percent? Can I use a Taser in Passive's Percent? For like 15 reasons, no. Prime among them is a Taser in this game. A stun gun is lethal. Often. Secondly, it kind of defeats the purpose of the challenge. If I'm just shooting every single person I would normally shoot with a pistol, with a stun gun instead. The run would be effectively the same, but my pistol would be replaced by a Taser. That doesn't seem particularly fun. You can knock them out. You guys may not know this, there's a knockout mechanic in this game. The reason why you don't notice is because a person who's quote unquote knocked out looks dead. The last person to comment about it, I showed them a picture of a knocked out person. And they had a huge pool of blood underneath them. Enough blood to fill an entire body. And I'm like, look, that rockstar wants to call this knocked out is just fucking stupid and I'm not playing that game. You know? |
| 08. December 2021 | Why no tazer in pacifist%? | Why no Taser in Passive's Percent? Can I use a Taser in Passive's Percent? For like 15 reasons, no. Prime among them is a Taser in this game. A stun gun is lethal. Often. Secondly, it kind of defeats the purpose of the challenge. If I'm just shooting every single person I would normally shoot with a pistol, with a stun gun instead. The run would be effectively the same, but my pistol would be replaced by a Taser. That doesn't seem particularly fun. You can knock them out. You guys may not know this, there's a knockout mechanic in this game. The reason why you don't notice is because a person who's quote unquote knocked out looks dead. The last person to comment about it, I showed them a picture of a knocked out person. And they had a huge pool of blood underneath them. Enough blood to fill an entire body. And I'm like, look, that rockstar wants to call this knocked out is just fucking stupid and I'm not playing that game. You know? |
| 04. March 2021 | Why no ‘history’ videos will be made about GTA 5 challenge runs. | Why no history videos will be made on GTA 5 challenges? Do I reckon Carl will cover my no hit when I beat it? I never imagine any real significance like historical video will be made about GTA 5. Speedrunning or no hit or whatever. It's just too long of a game. For one thing, the only person who would really be qualified to give a breakdown of the developments of the no damage run is me. And I don't have the time to give a person that kind of breakdown. I suppose given how every single run that I've done has made it to YouTube, you could figure it out yourself. But like most of those historical videos that get made are about shorter runs. Thanks for watching! |
| 20. November 2022 | Why not just record my videos offline? | Why not just record my videos offline? Joshua Boy says, you have mentioned that you basically streamed to make content for YouTube. Would you be able to record your videos while offline? Does chat play a role in this process? Are you doing it because of the added engagement and revenue? Yeah, I suppose there's probably a long list. Whenever I run into any kind of difficulty, I can look at chat and go, chat, help me, please. I'm drowning here, save me chat. I will often get saved. Other times when I have nothing to say, there's nothing interesting going on on stream, I can look at chat, see something that's just straight up funny that the person has said, almost like stealing a joke, although clearly I'm reading from chat, so not really. Or I can like play off something someone has said to at least make it so there's not dead air. And then of course, people enjoy it. Like people like watching my live streams, they're like, they don't just want the cut down stuff. So I'm making people happy. And of course the revenue. While live stream revenue is only a tiny portion of the amount of money I make every month, it's like, why not? Honestly, the revenue is like the least of the points there. Like if there was no other benefit, I wouldn't be willing to live stream just for the revenue. But I like live streaming, I enjoy it. And it has benefits along with it, so why not? Kind of feels weird to talk to no one though. Chat is someone to address instead of face to scam. I mean, in some way, I often think when I'm talking that I'm talking to my viewers in the future as well. |
| 17. September 2022 | Why not make dedicated topic videos instead of rambles? | Why not make dedicated topic videos instead of rambles? Hello! If you read this, please do more of the singular videos of, for example, Business Casual is Allegedly Lying. I think it's a good, easy way to make content for you, but it's also very interesting for the audience. I might be wrong, but I feel like people want to see you talk about stuff like Moodahar, but not just play games. So I do not like to say false things or mislead people. And for that reason, I'm cautious about the topics that I speak on. There's only a very finite amount of topics that I feel like I already know enough on and I can be confident on that I could make a video dedicated to that idea or topic, right? In rambles, clearly this is just like, we're just having some fun, laying back, I'm talking about non-super important topics a lot of the time, and it's less serious, right? But for that reason, most of these rambles are between like 3 and 4 minutes long, they can't be dedicated videos, right? Well, Moodahar does get some things wrong sometimes. He does put in effort to do research. You can see that in these videos, clearly. He does read up on different topics and whatever, and he puts in the time. And I do not have the time to do that. So either the topic has to be about me personally, something that's wholly subjective, or something I already know a lot about for whatever reason, because it's been a topic of interest in the past, or it's something I've already studied, that kind of stuff, and I'd say there's not that many topics like that. I have decided that in the future, if I ever run into a ramble that's like over 10 minutes long, I'll probably just make a dedicated video. The dedicated videos do better than the rambles. And it has been awkward in the past, having a ramble video that's like 2 or 3 topics, that's strange. So, yeah, in the future, I'll make them dedicated videos. |
| 17. May 2021 | Why pacifist% is always delayed | Why Passifist is always delayed? What about editing Passifist makes me dread it so much? The amount of effort that goes into it for the amount of views it gets is not at all worth it. And I have to put off doing so much other stuff to do the episode. And it puts me behind on everything else. Yeah, as a person said there, Passifist is a staple of my channel. And it does bring in new viewers. Not as many as you might think, because it does say like episode 20 or whatever. But it is a series that people binge watch from the beginning. It's a good series and I love it. Don't get me wrong, it's just I usually like to have caught up on everything before I do it. And how much time I keep throwing at no damage in just a vain... Just any kind of hope that I actually succeed. It's made it very hard to catch up on all my other editing and get to the point where I can actually work on Passifist. |
| 02. April 2022 | Why people are as they are. | reading what they're saying. Use the example of when you found out that OBS could have multiple audio tracks working smart. I would argue that working smart in that instance isn't the act of using multiple audio tracks. It'd be Googling OBS multiple audio tracks in the first place if you get what I mean. No. The people who work smart are the ones who actively seek answers solutions. Okay, okay, okay, okay. What do you need before you can seek that information? You need information already that says that that information is something that exists and can be sought. Right now there are infinite things that I do not know exist and therefore cannot search for them because my environment hasn't profited me that information yet to enable me to have that bare amount of information to search for things. I have not been lucky in that respect. If you ask a person who works in IT what is the majority of IT work? It's like 80% Googling. But when you're in IT tech you have enough information already to know what to Google. You know? You've gone through the learning where a normal person can look at a problem on their screen and go I have no fucking idea what to Google to solve this problem. They just don't know that the terminology, they don't know the language, they don't even know if there's a solution that exists. You can only seek for things that are possible given the information that already exists in your environment that you're just lucky to have. I understand what you're saying but it's basically become paradox at this point. No it's not. It absorbs your responsibility for not searching for the answers. How so? How could you possibly ever be responsible for not searching for something that you have no ability to know even exists? How could that be your responsibility? You you cannot possibly at any given time be simultaneously searching for literally every possible conceivable thing irrespective of the likelihood of existing. That's literally impossible. The only time that you seek information is when you hit a problem or something in your environments proffers information to you that has suggested that such a search will be fruitful. It would be a massive waste of time for you to just randomly search for things. I have no reason to believe that right now there is a way to turn Dettol hand sanitizer into gold. I have literally no nothing in my environment, nothing that I know of that suggests this is possible. So why would I search for it? This could be a thing that exists. There could be someone out there right now who knows of a way to turn hand sanitizer into gold and he'd be like look at this fucking Dark Viper guy not searching for that information but you can't have any expectation of me that I would search for this information. That's just not a thing. People can only work as smart as their environment allows and some people's environments are more rich in terms of information resources, niche knowledge that's only available to certain people that enable them to utilize their environments better than other people and that's just luck. Unfortunately. And there's no escape from this because you could randomly just strike out looking for information hoping to stumble across something but that is a very terrible way to go about looking for information. You'd be more often than not in the overwhelming majority of cases completely wasting your time and that wouldn't be smart. Okay I'll try a real-world example here. Happened just yesterday. I walked past a homeless person begging outside a cafe that had a staff wanted sign on it. In that scenario is he merely a victim of his environment. How the hell would he get a job working at a cafe? What does it even mean? What type of cafe is hiring a homeless person? Have you seen what a homeless person looks like? You know how hard... So when a person becomes homeless it is very rarely like there is not a clone of me to some degree well-rested, access to resources, clean, high nutrition, who's homeless right now. People who are homeless aren't just a manifestation of a lack of desire to succeed. That is nonsense. You'll find that people born in particular environments, wealthy neighborhoods or from wealthy families and stuff, for whatever reason don't end up homeless as often as people born into poverty. Crazy how that works. I shouldn't need to say that but I don't think you realize that. People are influenced by their environments and reach conclusions as to what is most likely a fruitful use of their time. A person who's homeless is not a person who's received positive affirmations from their environments suggesting that success is possible and more than likely they have more going on than simply a lack of job that has led to them being in those circumstances. Traditionally speaking a homeless person is not in a good state of affairs. They are not one job at a coffee place away from doing well. The suggestion that laziness, a lack of desire for a job is like you you start you get you're born lazy and not wanting a job and then that just progresses to the point where you just never get a job and you're just a homeless. That's just the dumbest way to look at the world. I could say it to you right now. Here's the way of putting it. You can fly. You can. You just go jump out the window. You just have to. You can fly right now. Just jump out the window. You look at me and go, I can't fly. No, no I'm saying I say it man you definitely can. 100% if you just applied yourself you can fly. But I have no evidence at all that my jumping out that window will do anything more than just causing me to fall potentially to my death if not injury. I mean no man you can do it. I know all of your environments have suggested to you that this is a complete waste of your time that will only result in an even worse circumstance for you but just do it. Just just do it man. This is what you ask of some people. Some people are in that circumstance where their entire life or their environment in general is suggesting to them that certain actions are not a good use of their time. That will they would just lead to failure. Won't actually improve anything and some people will just sit there and go just do it anyway. Just go for it. Even though they have no reason to believe that those actions will actually lead to significant benefit to their life. They just say just do it anyway man. Just go. It's just not how people work. People only perform actions that their environment suggests will be more likely to result in success in whatever they're pursuing. It's why people who are born to rich families or successful families or in rich areas or in wealthy countries surrounded by successful people they look around and go well success is possible. Success is possible for all those people it's possible for me. The people who are born I mean this isn't the only reason these differences exist but this is one of the reasons that they exist where people born in worse circumstances look around them and see people on welfare people homeless people failing businesses people who are malnourished people who are on drugs and saying to them hey man just what just you can succeed. No one around you is succeeding sure your entire environment suggests that what you attempting to succeed in a monumental way in life will be similar to jumping out the window do nothing more than cause you great significant harm but do it anyway. People act as a response to their environment and in ways that their environment suggests are a good use of their time. He is in the environment that demonstrates success to him. How so? It isn't simply a matter of successful people existing but that people like you can succeed. I personally do not think that there are many tools or mechanisms out there to help homeless people become affluent people. Well I know from research that it's quite unlikely for there to be upward mobility from the very low strata of society. To put it another way if you're born into a circumstance of poverty you are most likely gonna end your life in poverty as of all of them. Off top of my head I'm not even sure like let's say I became homeless tomorrow I don't even know what tools I would use to get out of those circumstances other than to use what I've already built because I was previously successful. Like if I if I lost all my money I would rely upon my supportive family you guys these sorts of things that I only have because I've I've been born into a fortunate circumstance because 99% of the people walking past him are better off than him shouldn't they at least question why? Surely they question why but a homeless person in general but no a home person isn't like a person who is walking by them these are not people with friends social connections access to technology nutrition people don't end up homeless who have an easy time succeeding in our society. So environment is a catch-all term for everything as in you are a pool of genetics that interacts with your environment and your environment shapes your experiences. You are a pool of genetics that interacts with an environment which creates experiences and these experiences shape what you believe is possible or that you're likely to attempt to achieve. What is what is the greatest determining factor of your religion the country that you're born in and the family that you're born into? What is the most likely indicator of your level of affluence at the end of your life? The level of affluence that you're born into at your birth. Why did no one prior to the existence of the movie back to the future have back to the future as their favorite movie because it wasn't in their environment yet? Again to use the example you're asking a person this so this person has existed in an environment that has had sufficient effects on them to get to a point where they're homeless so clearly there has been sufficient environmental variables to lead to this and you're just saying just stop it. In the same way that I'm asking you to jump out a window despite no evidence that that's gonna be a good use of your time you're just saying hey I know that this up to say 30 years of life experience has led to this but just stop doing that just just apply to a cafe which let's be real is not likely to give you a job. This this suggestion that a homeless person has just never applied for a job is just so well it is it's impressively dumb it just is impressively dumb as if this this homeless guy has just spent 30 years of his life ending up to end up homeless and he's like man have you ever thought of like just applying for a job and homeless guys like oh what I didn't I didn't think of this what what a genius idea whoa oh my god why do I just I just never consider this one like clearly this guy is gonna be having more issues the working poor I mean that term exists for a reason anyway there's the same environment excuse absolve criminals then have to go further in your philosophy as in so punishment of criminals to me isn't a manifestation of blame or hatred it is attempting to avoid outcomes so if you have this entity let's just say X it doesn't matter why X is as they are genetics nature environment philosophy doesn't matter if they are going to kill a person this is something that needs to be prevented and so whatever mechanisms need to be applied there in a civilized society should be done not with any sort of blame or hatred as to how this person ended up like this but just because we don't want this outcome it should be obvious to anyone that examines life that clearly endless variables outside of a person's control can well do influence a person to be more likely to be criminal to be a criminal in any capacity to be to engage in violent crime but that doesn't matter in terms of preventing the outcomes but a lot of people don't have this mindset they have the mindset that you likely do that all the criminals just being criminal fucking criminals being criminal they're just so bad we need to get rid of them we blame them for criminal they're responsible for their criminality fuck them this sort of viewpoint has no basis in psychology like it's an idea that's so far in the past that you couldn't find a psychologist study of behavior that would have any support of such viewpoints it's it's just nonsense it's just it's just simplifying the world and simplifying people in a way that's not possible given what we know of humans right now the viewpoint you're expressing what I'm trying to say is has no basis in any modern understanding of how humans become who they are and why humans act as they do as weird as it is sometimes to think a human doesn't have limitless possible behaviors that they're going to commit at any given time it's like this big you know I am not suddenly going to jump up and move to Mexico but there are people out there who who would this isn't philosophy unseen I'm not a huge fan of philosophy this is just psychology I am a psych student I I I spent four years studying why people act as they do I have an understanding of human behavior and I even all my electives were in criminology as a matter of fact as well and even before that I was doing I did a community services cert form diploma whatever I I'm not interested in philosophy this isn't so I specifically avoided philosophy in terms of determinism and stuff but this is just how humans function and I even explain it to you and using examples that should clearly apply to you like in the same way that you wouldn't jump out a window because everything in your environment suggests that that is a bad move for you some people will not act in ways that you think advantageous because they believe the exact same thing they believe that be a complete waste their time and effort and you should recognize this that even if you personally believe that a person would benefit from a particular action it doesn't mean that they agree or that they have sufficient motivating factors in their environments to engage in that behavior and as I tried as I tried to explain to you your surface assessment of a person as merely being homeless because of their lack of initiative is just wrong it has no basis in any understanding of humans and how they behave as they do a person does so we often is we can go back one step why does a person using example why isn't that person applying themselves to get that job so we have two people so we got one homeless person who sees that help wanted and says I'm uninterested we have another homeless person who says oh that's help wanted hell yeah I'm gonna apply for that job what is what has caused the difference between these two people the window example is so hyper like that it's a total false no no but no it it's a perfect perfectly applicable analogy because the the analogous thing is that your environment has suggested that a particular action is completely a non-starter and we all have these actions like I exist in the environment where I believe that it's a complete non-starter to invest in afts while another person exists in another environment that it's a perfectly acceptable thing to be I believe that jumping out a window is equally a sensible action as investing in afts but other people completely disagree with that assertion but so where does this difference between two people come from person one is likely applied to multiple other jobs previously and got rejected every time it's simpler than that it's simpler than that so there's only two possible explanations here either is genetic which neither these people chose so there are aspects of genetics that relate to energy and positive attitudes and even your politics and stuff stuff that I is over my head I'm not that versed in it but there are factors that lead that influence how likely you are to be assertive and outgoing and and apply apply yourself and whatnot or it can be environmental factors as you say a person applies for a bajillion jobs and fails this person hasn't done that yet and this isn't this person's fault if this person had received things in their environment like they apply for a job and the person says oh you know you you're almost there but you're just not ready that's gonna give them initiative to try again and try again and try again but just some people by chance of environment are gonna receive nothing but negative reinforcement nothing but everything they do will fail everything they do will fail their situation will get from worse to worse to worse to worse to worse usually people who exist in bad circumstances already and to just say why doesn't this person just go for this job what like why don't they like so it's a question of this belief in humans having limitless initiative or drive it doesn't exist all humans have a finite amount that they're willing to pursue anything and they're always naturally just by the chance of environments and we some people who have reached their limit most successful people have situations where they get positive reinforcement especially early on initial positive reinforcement suggestions that the action being applied done more will result in success are those who are most likely to succeed if you do X and it fails and X again and fails X can fail there is no one in existence no one who will do X forever without any positive reinforcement it just doesn't exist doesn't this only apply if you take the trading of thought that who you are affects your choices rather than your choices affect who you are at what point do you become responsible for your own bad decisions what what is you what are you me to me each of us is mainly a conjunction of genetics and environment that leads to experiences that naturally follow from each other your just your decisions are merely a manifestation of your environment we can simplify reality and say if I was born in the 12th century I wouldn't have pursued my career if I was born with an inability to speak wouldn't have pursued this career if I had been born even just a place in Australia without accident internet I wouldn't have pursued this career they get you you you keep bringing this back to this idea of responsibility I reject the framing I don't care about responsibility I only care about outcomes to what degree people are responsible doesn't matter to me all I care about is why did it happen is it good or bad if it's bad how do we stop it and make it better this idea of responsibility comes up in certain ideas of politics and philosophy that largely exists just to assign blame so that you can justify a person being as they are it's a it's a part of the just world bias where everyone wants to have a narrative to explain how people in bad circumstances are deserving of those bad circumstances because they're responsible for them it's hard to justify either from psychology or philosophy I shouldn't make declarative statements to say it can never be justified as if everyone agrees with me but it's these are hard things to do it's not useful it's not practical it has no it has no reason to be I'm not I'm not just a justification doesn't matter if you're using justification in the sense there to be to mean acceptable or okay that's that's not what I'm doing I'm explaining why so any anything that happens has a cause for it being there and a hypothetical solution and nothing about that relates to responsibility because it's an unnecessary variable as it relates to problem-solving it is a simple fact of reality that who you are was not your choice I'm sorry you as an entity at any given time are bombarded with literally endless bits of stimuli and variables that you have absolutely no control over and your response to this set of variables was dependent upon the last set of variables that hit you and the previous ones before that and the previous ones before that and this will happen until you die it will happen until you die so like that it's like I can't force my like the air to leave or I can't will my government to change or something is that what you'll tell your kids and you expect them to be driven and motivated my guy reality can be discomforting my desires for what I want reality to be or what I wish was lovely and happy to tell my kids has nothing fucking to do with what reality actually is we can quote we can you can quantify variables obvious variables that are determining factors in your likelihood of success in anything you can do it of aggression analysis and you can explain the difference between people based on where they were born you know their levels of nutrition their levels of education all this jazz and these things you don't control my level of work ethic is not something that I woke up and chose it is a manifestation of my genetics combined with my particular environment there are certainly experiences that I could have had where I wouldn't be this person now you could tweak my genetics and I wouldn't be this person now I am fortunate to have been in the circumstances that I found myself in you can certainly increase your lack of success no sure so at any given time you as an entity have a bunch of experiences knowledge and stuff like that that you can apply to any circumstance that you're in and it can be the case that you have something in here that can work with the environment that exists around you to increase your success but sometimes that's not the case and you just fucked it doesn't matter like a person born in a mud hut with no access to education medicine existing a thousand miles away from civilization isn't gonna become a billionaire they do not have the necessary knowledge to apply to their environment even if their environment actually is one that where success is possible but you are in the circumstances you're in your argument only stands if someone never becomes self-aware even if you are in a circumstance where you believe success is possible it doesn't mean that you actually have the tools for success even if you are in an environment that imbues within you a belief that success is possible it doesn't mean you have the tools to succeed in your environment that you have the knowledge of what to pursue where to look for information there has to be something in your environment already that as it is at least a stepping stone for you to go oh these steps lead somewhere and you've also got to have the right variables in your environment or your genetics or whatever to believe that stepping up these steps is is worthwhile or you're gonna go they have the energy for it or whatever you know no but once you know it's possible you can at least begin to pursue that sure so here we go okay so here is the desert you are here I can tell you with a certainty that going in one of these directions will be success and the other three so these thing and the other three are certain death and you can only pick one direction where do you go I personally don't move why would I have risk a 75% chance of death fun fact I lied you die in every case well guess you all died in your progress your your progression for success good work I get success is staying put yeah so yeah what I mean is knowledge that success is possible doesn't suggest that you can succeed until you act so until you actually succeed you don't actually know that you can succeed you can only have an approximate knowledge of that being possible success as weird as it is is ultimately trying to predict the future given your present variables so hypothetically speaking you're here and there are hypothetically endless possible things you can do sit on the couch call a random number yeah so just any ending up bring up your phone you could type any number you want like as we can see if I've just millions upon millions of things that you can do and some of them will potentially result in your success picking these at random chance would be a fool's errand it'd be a complete waste the fucking time you'd only pursue it if you had a good belief as to a certain Avenue of success that you can do and you can succeed and to have this you need the variables X Y Z whatever that says hey yo here here's a path so you're born to your family a bankers and they say oh we've got banking connections or your you go to a school teachers like are you you seem to got some aptitude for art there my friend you might want to pursue that something in your environment that suggests a yo you can succeed if you do these things and without these you won't do anything because you have no reason to believe that even if success is possible you have no idea where to go and striking out aimlessly because everything has an opportunity cost you understand every every single thing if you pursue here you can't pursue here if you pursue here and fail that's gonna put you in a worse circumstance than you were before time is finite and so and as I say so it doesn't matter who you are if you pursue here and don't succeed you pursue here and don't succeed you pursue here don't see you everyone has a limit and that limit depends on variables in your environment so if you've got a supporting family who are like oh you failed but don't worry slugger you get him next time you got a wife a girlfriend maybe you didn't succeed but you were very close that time or you've got a lot of positive feedback even if you you've ultimately failed in your pursuit or something something that can spur you on but eventually you're gonna quit eventually you're gonna get fucked either either you are gonna quit or you're gonna be literally incapable due to debt or injury or whatever to pursuing another Avenue these people we call homeless people so there are two types of people who end up homeless either those who are effectively born homeless with they're just there and their avenues of escape are effectively none or people who their their environment ultimately leads to those conclusions no one wakes up and says I want to be homeless today the the homelessness is a long path depending upon where you start and no one just willingly walks that path no rich person walks up wakes up mentally stable and goes you know what I'm tired of being rich I'm tired of being born to affluence I'm tired of going to the best schools and eating the best food and not being malnourished and whatever I'm gonna be homeless today homelessness isn't a choice you can absolutely say homelessness is a mindset that's true that mindset is is voiced upon you by your environment it's not something you wake up and choose because when you see a homeless person next to a help wanted sign asking the question why would he or she stay in their circumstances and the answer would never be because they want to be homeless like if you walked up to a homeless person and gave them sufficient money to get an apartment or something they probably would if you wanted to make it your life's goal to help a homeless person you probably could do that if you just had limitless resources you if you could convince them that you're gonna help them and you can help them to get a job that you probably get them somewhere some you couldn't because they would be other barriers that you personally wouldn't have the knowledge to solve say mental illness or other forms of illnesses just physical stuff for a significant amount of homeless people the difference of their homelessness would be a bit of information that you or I might have or just a little bit of money a little bit of care but it's just and it's just never gonna come which is very sad as they I didn't work for my supportive family I didn't work to be born in one of the most prosperous countries in the world it's just life life is unfair man I just can't agree with your framework abdicating responsibility for one's actions isn't a common ground I can begin with you on sure so the reason for this is because applying responsibility is a useful idea for you to simplify the world a person ending up as they are is a very complex process of understanding behaviors and forces and environment and different variables and whatnot and how experience for that relates to environments but if you can just say they are as they are because they it's their fault you're done it is a very simple philosophy a toxic philosophy that makes society so much worse but you're done you are now done it doesn't ultimately matter why because they are responsible is their fault if they're in bad circumstances they are responsible for them if a person is in good circumstances they are also responsible for them and so you this worldview is often rejects things like taxes or public funding or good works and stuff because this good person deserves their good circumstances because they're responsible for them and this bad person deserves their bad circumstances because they are responsible for them any action to help this person is merely a matter of act of mercy as opposed to an understanding of the imbalances of society and existence as a whole and the reason why when challenged here you said how could you tell your kids that it's because the reason why the philosophy I'm talking about well I'm letting you run on how reality works the reason why you reject it isn't because it doesn't have a basis in evidence or that the way you view the world better explains reality but it's because my worldview would not enable you to do this your world will become much more complicated and you just don't want to go to the middle of it but at some point they have to be responsible why why why at some point do they have to be responsible when a child is behaving badly their parents are responsible why a child's genetics influence how likely they are to be missed to misbehave as to the environment that they're in a parent's is more or less equipped to deal with an unruly child based upon the experiences they have within their environment and their own genetics as well can they afford babysitter can they afford correct nutrition um have their parents themselves being good at their jobs today in terms of teaching how to raise people people don't wake up and choose to not be able to handle an unruly child it is a an aspect of their environment as being as being imbued within them we will never agree with this different but you'll notice that you aren't refuting anything I'm saying you're not arguing you're merely saying this cannot be this is incompatible with what I want reality to be therefore it must be false when I gave you just now a dozen reasons why people differ in terms of their ability to handle unruly children you can't say no that's not true because it is true because you're framing in a way that makes it a feudal because it's true they have so we have two people we have one set of parents that are able to handle unruly children and other people who are not able to unhandle unruly children they didn't just wake up one morning go I don't want to be able to handle an unruly child there's reasons for why this difference exists and these differences can either be genetic which they cut did not choose or they can be manifestations of their environments and the experiences that they have within them which is merely a combination of their genetics and their environment if there was a very supportive father here is like who takes them under their wing and says oh look this is this is how you handle an unruly child they would be able to handle an unruly child if her friend said oh you're having trouble with your child well actually I was too and here are the tools that I use to solve that if if this person isn't here and they're here this doesn't make these people better people it doesn't make them responsible it doesn't make them better needs it just means that this aspect of the environment is different what do you think a paradox is unseen these aren't unanswerable questions they're not paradoxes at all the nature versus nurture debate is not one where it's either or it's a question of how much in any different thing so X can be 75% nature 25% nurture in general and Y can be the complete opposite right it is both and it's obviously both it's just a question of how much the different people in what circumstance what do you mean they're unanswerable saying that you wouldn't why would it even require an answer I don't understand saying that you wouldn't jump out the window because nothing in your environment is suggestive that that would be a good action for you isn't a thing that needs to be answered it's just a statement of facts again in the nicest way possible this feels like Dunning Kruger now I think you're trolling unseen because I this this is literally the thing that I studied for like four years and I graduated with very high marks then what do you think Dunning Kruger is Dunning Kruger it's the way people usually use Dunning Kruger in terms of the low end it's when you when you lack sufficient knowledge to be able to assess yourself and and your abilities as in relation to other people so you you can't assess that you don't know stuff because you you lack knowledge at all or you lack skill you your skills are so low that you can't assess other people's skills to know that you're so much inferior but but I clearly have learning in this field so that it shouldn't apply to me I can be wrong but clearly I possess knowledge of this topic I wouldn't be able to speak on it for fucking 50 minutes and I couldn't have graduated if I didn't have knowledge on this topic but it's not infallible that doesn't matter nothing is infallible I'm not talking about psychology like it's an absolute anything that exists can only be believed to varying degrees of confidence based on what is currently known or suggested by the evidence that exists there is no position I hold on anything that I would consider to be without question but every time I proffer you problems you say this cannot be and that's it if please read your responses that you've given you've just been incredulous there must be a point where there is responsibility there must be what will you tell your children these aren't statements of a person looking for the truth it is there must be a way to confirm but I want to be true because it'd be a nice world where everyone whatever circumstances they're in we're deserving of those circumstances be sure to LIKE and subscribe also leave a comment if you have something on your mind my feed gives them to me from all over my channel it doesn't matter how the video is I wish you all the best |
| 16. November 2022 | Why people are put off when I speak about what I buy. | Why people are put off when I speak about what I buy. Previously I've talked about how I had a comment or two people remarking that I talk a lot about stuff that I'm purchasing and whatnot and I said this is just you know, because I find this stuff interesting and I'm not trying to hide that I make a bit of money. But someone commented that maybe the thing that bums to be of the wrong way isn't me talking about things that I'm buying but that I mention the cost of stuff and like it's expensive stuff and for me again, it's more about transparency, but also because it's a part of the YouTube game. Where it's like I bought this thing for a gajillion dollars ah and you just expect people be more interested in things because the number big bigger number better thing you know, but I do recognize that it likely sounds obnoxious being like hey look how much money I spent on my blinds huh, so I guess it's just you know me playing the YouTube game and I will try to do it less maybe. |
| 06. March 2021 | Why people call me Nick | Why people call me Nick? Yeah, I say many times because of the influx of viewers over the last month or two, a significant amount of people don't know the old memes. If I called myself Nick, people would consider that to be my actual name instead of a meme. I had a person contact me offering to to do some sponsored thing, right? They said in the email Hi Nick, DarkFabAU, obviously showing that they actually knew my content, because they got the reference. I should have explained the reference to begin with because most of you don't know it. So for people who don't know, who've never received sponsored emails, sometimes companies want to pretend like they know your stuff. Like, hey, I really like your GTA 5 content. Yada yada. Laugh at it every day. It's so great. Ha ha ha. Here's some she sponsorship offer. And so this company sent me a sponsorship offer that read like that. Like, oh, yeah, I love your GTA 5 stuff. So good. I watch all the time and they started the email though by calling me Nick. My name is not Nick. It's Matt. So obviously it was a fake bullshit thing. But for ages, people would jokingly be like, hey Nick, how's it going? And so in that person sent me a sponsored email calling me Nick. They were clearly in on the joke, pretending to be in at a touch company. Giving me a she sponsored offer. But in reality, they actually did watch my content. |
| 17. September 2021 | Why people with bad english knowledge think amanda was at the prologue heist | Why people with bad English knowledge think Amanda was at the prologue heist. Non-English speakers believe that when he says this That is not worth it! I don't see you complaining on the way to the fucking bank! They think that he's talking about North Yankton and that Amanda was in North Yankton with him or whatever, like that old meme or whatever. But it's just an expression to say that she's not complaining while she's spending the money that he makes through his illicit deeds. You know? This video is sponsored by Skillshare, which is an online learning community where millions come together to explore new skills, deepen existing passions, and get lost in creativity. Members get unlimited access to thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people on topics including film and video, graphic design, web development, animation, and more. Classes consist of a combination of video lessons and hands-on projects to fit any schedule and skill level, with feedback from a community of millions. If you want a place to start, I recommend Digital Poster Design, Combining Images and Type for Powerful Visuals by Temi Koka, Digital Artist and Illustrator. What I enjoyed about Temi's class is how he captured the full process of creating a poster, from selecting the focus, what to look for when capturing the photo, to adding the design elements in Photoshop. He does a great job at giving a quick overview of some of the more useful Photoshop tools and how to use them effectively. Temi also takes some time to experiment with other tools and effects he uses in his other works. This offers a glimpse into the range Photoshop offers without overwhelming the user. I think Temi's class would be great for anyone wanting to learn Photoshop, particularly if they were looking into digital art and graphic design. Skillshare is curated specifically for learning, meaning there are no ads, and they're always launching new premium classes, so you can stay focused and follow wherever your creativity takes you. The first thousand of my subscribers to click the link in the description will get a free trial of premium membership so you can explore your creativity. Thank you Skillshare for sponsoring this video. |
| 14. March 2020 | Why private healthcare is more expensive than public | than public. There's no system I'm aware of where private ends up being cheaper than public. And you can understand why. There's many, many different reasons why. Because with private systems you have the extra cost of profit, the extra cost of advertising. Between different orgs or whatever you have the redundant staff, redundant infrastructure. And then you have the cost of non-treatment. As in, there's a large block of people who don't go to the doctor under private systems because they can't afford the cost. And so when they could have gone to the doctor and would have cost them $5 for a pill, they don't go because they got to pay their rent. And so what could have been stopped with a pill for $5? They leave it for a week, two weeks, three weeks, that becomes bad. And then they go to the doctor. And then it requires a $5,000 procedure. Doctors, you know, they still do the procedures or whatever to save this person's life. Or maybe in this procedure they die on the table. That cost is foot by the rest of us. In a public system, we're stopping at $5. At the private system, we're suffering a cost of $5,000. These additional costs don't exist in the public sphere. So in a lot of industries, competition makes sense because you can innovate and it drives down costs. But with insurance, at the end of the day, it's abstract. It's a concept. It's a bit of paper that says, we will pay for these particular things. You can't really innovate insurance, either something is covered or it's not. Insurance has existed in the same way for hundreds of years. It's everyone pays into a pool and then it pays out to the people who need it. You don't need to innovate that. You don't need competition to make that better. You know what's cheaper than both public and private healthcare? Pressing the like button. Pressing guaranteed to improve your health because if you don't press it, bad things will happen to you. |
| 26. May 2021 | Why publishers let epic games give away their games for free | Why publishers let Epic Games give away their games for free? There's one thing I want to talk about first though. Don't know if you guys saw it. I believe it's because of the lawsuit against, you know, between Epic Games and Apple that this sort of information got released. And they've released how much money different developers got to put their games for free on the Epic Games Store. So Subnautica by Unknown Worlds in 2018, 4.7 million people got the game for free, I think. They were paid $1.4 million. 804,000 of the almost 5 million accounts were new. And I guess that's how much money per new account. So Epic effectively paid $1.74 for every new person at the Epic Games Store. And 17% of the accounts were new. And you can kind of look at the list here. Obviously 5 million copies of Subnautica wouldn't normally cost $1.4 million, right? And comments, where was the one that most highlighted it? I responded to it. People made comments about like, why would anyone do this? This doesn't seem good for the developers. Yeah. That actually seems like not an amazing deal for the devs. Games don't magically stop selling. Even the oldest titles on this list are likely selling steadily still, given their popularity and the roots in the Steam algorithm. So I responded. People who get games for free aren't the same as the people who buy them. It's the same reason why studies find that piracy doesn't necessarily cost the creators money because the people who are pirating stuff aren't the same as the people who are buying stuff. The people who are getting stuff for free aren't the same as the people who are buying the games. Like if you have the means and desire to buy a game, you just buy it. You don't go, well, maybe next year it will be free or something. People don't work that way. These 4.6 million people who got Subnautica are likely people who either didn't know the game existed prior to the sale. So this deal got Subnautica a lot of free advertisement. Or they're people who would never get it in the first place. And they're like, oh, well, it's free, I may as well check it out. And this kind of stuff means that they haven't likely lost any money because these 4.7 million people weren't going to buy this game. But also these people may now go, oh, I love unknown games now. If they make Subnautica 2, which they are making Subnautica 2, I'm going to buy that game because of my good experiences with the first game. Or maybe Unknown Worlds has made other games, so I'll go check those out as well. And these 4.7 million people, after the game is no longer free, they will go to their friends and go, oh, I have this great experience with Subnautica, you should try it out. And it's no longer free. So their friends now got to buy the game. The Subnautica is basically being paid $1.4 million for their game to be advertised and all their games to be advertised, their brand to be advertised on the Epic Games Store. This is a great deal for devs. That's why they do it, right? They wouldn't do it if there wasn't something for them. It's very simplistic to think, oh, look, they've lost 4.6 million sales. That's just not how this works. So basically, if you want to know why these games are given away for free by Epic Games, it's obviously to get new people on the platform. Why do the devs agree to do it? Because they get a small amount of money and they get everything advertised. Usually these free games come out before the developers release another game to potentially generate hype for that new game. And yeah. Yeah, but at the end of the day, thinking of these, this is 4.6 million sales lost is nonsense. It's just a small amount of money. |
| 18. December 2021 | Why rainbomizer was delayed for YouTube | Why Rainbow Mizer was delayed for YouTube? So many of you may have noticed that Randomizer, the Rainbow Mizer hasn't come out on YouTube in like two weeks The reason for this is I've been jerked around by a sponsor who I won't name When I started doing sponsorships through my management team it was with the expectation that it wouldn't really take away from my content and my upload schedule and 99% of the time that has been the case, but with this one exception. They said they're what they wanted for me I'm like, alright, yeah, I can do that. It was a bit of a pain in the ass, but I did it I send off to them and they come back and go I want this changed. I'm like, what a weird request Okay, fine. And I understand every single communication took like multiple days, which is weird And then I did the thing that they requested that they didn't specify in the beginning I gave it to them and they came back and said now we want you to do something else now and I'm just like this is the first time this has happened where they've wanted multiple changes and These changes on the basis of like things they never asked for to begin with Like if I was the one talking to them directly and not my managers or whatever, I would have told them to fuck themselves I would have legitimately write an email go fuck yourself And that's why I told my managers to tell them polite tell them politely to go fuck themselves because it is it has now reached that point where it's jeopardized the releasing of my content and That annoys me, you know, so hopefully this won't happen again to fuck does that piss me off because the money doesn't matter Except that one day maybe the money will matter I do use pawnships now not because I need them because in the future I might need them And I might regret not being able to have done. I'm I regret not having done them Be sure to LIKE the video and subscribe to my channel it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best |
| 02. June 2021 | Why rambles aren't on spotify | Why rambles aren't on Spotify, other than that I simply don't have the time to do it. When are the rambles going on Spotify? I don't think there's a large enough audience for it. All that would do- all it would do is, uh, split my audience away from, uh, from YouTube, right? Potentially meaning that the algorithm won't share the video as much on YouTube, meaning I get less viewers on YouTube, and the money you make on YouTube is far more than Spotify. |
| 09. February 2020 | Why some Twitch chats are toxic | Why some Twitch chats become toxic? Matt, what do you think is the reason for toxic chat environments forming on Twitch? Compare your chat to some of those really big streamers and yours is really tame in comparison. What do you think has to go wrong for a toxic chat to develop? Or is it just inevitable as you get thousands of viewers? Basically, brief summary. There are two facets to what makes up a Twitch chat. One is the direct cultivating by the streamer themselves. I ban people who do particular things that other streamers would not ban, as in certain types of spam, vulgar stuff, disrespectful stuff. I have a large mod team specifically to remove that kind of stuff so that I have a chat that I can read. A lot of larger streamers don't give, or even streamers around my size, don't care about reading their chat so they don't remove these kinds of people. And like begets like. So if you have a chat of spammy people, if you allow spammy, disrespectful, toxic stuff to foster, soon viewers who come in will go, oh look at this chat, I don't like this, and they'll leave. And so the only people who come into chat at that point are people who also agree with that kind of behavior, or maybe even do it themselves, or at least they tolerate it, you know. So you have a chat that is cultivating itself as you ignore it. More than this though, you inadvertently cultivate your chat when you share stuff about yourself. So if you share a particular political view, or a particular view of decorum, or society, or values, or whatever, it's some people in chat that go, oh I don't like what he's saying there, or I don't like his personality, I don't like how he's expressing himself, and they're gonna leave. Your chats somewhat reflects you in the way that you behave. So people who have toxic chats tend to have, you know, toxic opinions, or are very toxic towards other people, you know, that kind of stuff. You cultivate that kind of behavior, or those kind of views, or those, you know, with your own behaviors. So how toxic your chat is going to be is going to reflect upon your moderation of your chat, and how toxic you are as a person. As a broad summary. |
| 22. January 2022 | Why some online creators moved to facebook and died there | Why some online creators moved to Facebook and died there? The lawsuit that I reference happened at the end of 2019. Did you guys hear that apparently, um, Facebook massively inflated their numbers in regards to how many people watch videos on their website, leading to a lot of companies moving their operations to Facebook, and it basically killed those companies. CollegeHumor was that way, for example. And so apparently there was some lawsuit where they've had to pay out a lot of money. 0.3% of Facebook profits. Basically they fucked over a lot of people, and they're getting a slap on the wrist. That's a problem with a lot of these fines against these companies. It's worth far less than they make from the scam, so it doesn't do anything to incentivize them not to, uh, do the scam. And incentivize them to work more carefully and not get caught. I think the bare minimum of a fine for a company that effectively scams their customers or violates some regulation should be the amount of money they made from said scam or violation. There should be more to inspire them to, uh, not do it again. |
| 14. February 2021 | Why some people think I am toxic | Why some people think I'm toxic Hello Matt, concerned YouTube viewer here, I saw a video on Dream Cheating and recommended your analysis vid in the comments. Someone replied saying that you were the most toxic individual they had ever seen and had no business in this drama. Do you have any idea why people have that impression of you? I do not believe you to be a particularly toxic or negative person and people think that. That upsets me as a viewer of the YouTube. Sure. So imagine that each and every moment someone is meeting you for the first time. At every single point in your life, every second one person meets you. Think of all the times in your life that you've had bad moments, down moments, you've snapped at people, you've been a complete asshole. Embarrassing moments. Now that first impression will affect how that person views you. They may not stick around, they may not, you know, it's turned off completely, right? I have that all day, every day with my content. Thousands of people right this very moment are seeing me for the first time in some capacity and there is going to be some portion of those people that come away with a negative opinion of me and there's nothing I can do about that. Certainly there are ways to increase or decrease the likelihood of this stuff occurring, but it just comes with the territory. Some people are going to think I'm a toxic person. There are things that I do that actually embody me as a person that I wouldn't consider to be evidence of toxicity, but another person would absolutely completely disagree. Like that I talk about politics at all. Some people would be like, that's fucking toxic, my dude, you're a fucking content creator, get the fuck out. People have these very strange standards as to what they believe people should or should not talk about or how they should or should not conduct themselves. And potentially they just disagree with how I conduct myself. So it's two different things. A person can get a misapprehension of me given limited information based on limited exposure to me or my content, or they can have an accurate portrayal of who I am and how I conduct myself and my content, but they can have standards of toxicity that I don't agree with because I don't consider myself a toxic person. But the accurate understanding of me, they would still conclude me as being toxic. |
| 03. January 2022 | Why some streamers dont always thank subs and donations | fairly as opposed to their particular interests. Why some streamers don't always thank subs and donations? How do streamers ignore $100 donations? Not you Matt. But there's people I've seen who just ignore all donations and subs because streamers I never donate to them. I've never seen a person ignore a $100 donation. But when you get to a certain size, if you thank every sub that you receive, that's all your stream will be. If you give attention to people who donate $5, that's all your stream's gonna be. If there's 40,000 people there, there are definitely enough people there to give you $5 every 20 seconds just for your attention. The point of being a streamer is to both enjoy yourself and make good content. And there's no way in hell you could make good content if you're thanking people for $5 every 20 seconds. People like, I came here to watch Shroud play Apex Legends, not say thanks for the $5 753 times. It's certainly possible that some people are just so rich that they don't give a shit even about $100. They're like, yeah, who cares? I doubt that's many. Donations are awesome. Showing people your appreciation, showing the people who support your content some appreciation is awesome. But at the end of the day, just by the nature of alerts and stuff, it is possible that can take... |
| 31. July 2021 | Why some tiny streams have high production quality | Why some tiny streams have high production quality? When you're a really small streamer, right, and you don't really know how to be successful, you don't know how to get the viewers to come in, and you really want to succeed, you do everything possible to add more stuff, to feel like you're progressing and you're improving things. I did that when I was a smaller streamer as well. I would be so focused on my emotes and my description boxes and stuff and what little stuff I could, my alerts and stuff, and I cared about all this stuff. And it's just so unimportant for bringing in new viewers and stuff. It doesn't increase your discoverability and stuff, but it's a thing that you can control. And so really small streamers, I think they'll just add everything possible, thinking that just adding another thing will make their streams even better. But sometimes the less is more. You want the important stuff and that's it. Look at my screen right now. It's got the smallest thing in the corner. You'll find these small streamers who have like 57 things on the screen, different moving animations and GIFs always there, 78 different alerts that just go off all the time, like 17 different top dono of the five minutes, top dono of 10 minutes, top dono of the year. All that stuff just clogs up the screen and makes your stream look worse and there's nothing to help you. It really makes them feel, as I did back then, makes you feel like you're controlling something and improving your circumstance when in reality you're not, which is a lot of what I think people do sometimes, which is just doing stuff to feel like you're trying to solve your problems regardless of whether or not it's actually solving your problems. |
| 09. April 2020 | Why speedrun GTA V over another game? | Speedrun GTA 5 instead of another game. Why do I like speedrunning GTA 5 in general? I like the length because it enables for endless different things to be found. But my main thing I like about speedrunning is the strat finding, the knowledge, the, you know, slowly improving. There's other things I like about speedrunning, but I don't think there's anything unique about GTA 5, which means I like speeding this game more than any other. I think what I like about speedrunning exists in basically every speedgame. Do I think GTA 5 is a good speedgame? For some reasons, yes, for others, no. All the different versions, like tech, all the movement tech and all the driving tech and ways against speedboosts and stuff, that kind of stuff is in general good for speedruns. It makes them more interesting, although it does make it hard for new people to get into it. I like all that stuff. At least I've grown to like it over time. There's so much to remember, which is interesting, but also kind of annoying sometimes. Like this run will never be perfectly optimized, and that's good and bad, you know? |
| 10. November 2022 | Why stay in Australia if I can move anywhere? | Why, right? Why stay in Australia if I can move anywhere? Considering that you can live anywhere in the world to do your work, have you ever considered moving to other countries? Without sufficient reason to move somewhere, like significant advantages that are obvious and communicated to you, you just won't. Because I like what's familiar to me and anywhere else I go would require me to learn about the area and different things and whatnot and take upon risk upon myself that things wouldn't work out. I get stuck somewhere or I'd run afoul of a government somewhere or what have you. I would have to, you know, I couldn't use the same kind of systems I'm using here. I have to get like a new account and all that jazz. Like it would just be a huge hassle. It is extraordinarily unlikely that business-wise I happen to have been born and live in the place that is most optimal for my particular business. But at the same time, I'm not particularly interested in uprooting my entire life and hoping that I find somewhere better. What I'm doing now, where I live now, is clearly working for what I need. And so I don't want to ruin that. It must be cool to be born in such a cool country that you never have to think about moving. Yeah, absolutely. As I say, I got very fortunate to be born into, you know, one of the most posh plus countries in the world. I wouldn't say the best area of the country, but a good one at that middle-classy kind of stuff. Because obviously it's not like Australia is perfect for everyone in every area. Every country has its worse parts or people born into disadvantageous circumstances, but clearly I got lucky in that respect. |
| 14. June 2021 | Why streamers ask for primes rather than normal subs on Twitch | Why streamers ask for primes rather than normal subscriptions on Twitch? Why is Twitch Prime subs better than regular ones? The reason why people just in general appeal to Twitch Prime subs is because like, you know people have them, and they're free. So like, a lot of people with their Prime sub, they don't necessarily do much with it specifically, like it just sits there. And so, if you remind people about it, they're like, you know I wasn't going to use it for any purpose anyway, fuck it, I'll give it to this guy, because I just happen to be here, you know, I can write this second, get a few seconds of notice or whatever. And because it doesn't cost them anything, like, and it's not a subscription or whatever, like there's no real loss to them. In terms of revenue, normal subscriptions are potentially better because they are reoccurring, but Prime subs, you just know they're always there. There's always someone in chat who has a Prime sub that they haven't used. I would do that with my Prime subs sometimes. Like I was in Petty's stream yesterday and someone subbed them, like hey I wonder if I've got my Prime sub available now. And I'm like, oh I do, and I subbed them. |
| 24. December 2021 | Why successful people overestimate the capabilities of others. | of where they are. Why successful people overestimate the capabilities of others? So have you guys heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect? Most people have. It's basically the idea that a person who lacks knowledge and skills in an area is unable to assess their degree of knowledge and skill in relation to everyone else. So potentially overestimates their capabilities. Another part of this research done by these dudes is that experts will often overestimate the capabilities of non-experts. Any of you, if you can see yourself an expert in anything, will have come across this. Where because you're mainly around other people who have similar interests to yourself, similar experts, similar expertise, whatever, and that you aren't constantly assessing the average person necessarily, you come to assume that other people are capable of similar things to yourself. Or if you accept that you're an expert, you at least believe them at least somewhat capable. I've watched videos where people say, this is basic science that everyone knows. And I'm like, I didn't know that. I vaguely remember that from high school. But because a person who studies chemistry all the time and talks in certain terms all the time just assumes that, you know, the average person has at least some understanding of chemistry. I will often, I'll play GTA V and feel like shit that I'm not very good. And then I'll watch another person play GTA V and I'll be like, oh, I am good. Completely forgot that people who play this game aren't on the same level as me. Because why would they be? I've been playing for 9,000 hours. I'll let people write comments like, oh, that driving there was amazing. Literally. I'll look at the section they're talking about. I'm like, that's shit driving. What are you talking about? You judge everything else in a large part by yourself. You are the standard, unless proven otherwise. And because most of your experience is around yourself and people like yourself, you don't necessarily, by your experience, get an understanding of everyone else outside of your little bubble. But because your experience is in this bubble, you assume that everything outside the bubble is at least somewhat similar to what's inside of it. |
| 24. December 2021 | Why successful people want to believe everyone can succeed. | Why successful people want to believe everyone can succeed? So there's this idea with success, right? Where once you become successful, you want to feel as though you're deserving of success. If you're running a race and the gun goes off and you run and you get first, you're like, yeah! If you turn around and you notice that a guy has come along with a shovel and beaten all of your opponents so they can't walk, you're not going to feel very good that you got to where you are. You'll be like, oh, well, I didn't really win now, did I? You want to feel deserving of what you've achieved. People will sell themselves these narratives to convince themselves that they were the arbiters of their own success. You'll sometimes hear people say, oh, 87% of millionaires are self-made. In reality, that number comes from a survey of millionaires who just say they're self-made. People are like, well, sure, my parents did pay for me to go to the finest colleges and universities. I did have the finest tutors and, yes, my father did give me a bit of a leg up at the company, but I did work very hard to get where I am today. I am a millionaire today because of my own hard work and I am self-made. Because we're often we're blinds to the advantages that we get or the advantages that we have that other people don't have. It is the fact of your life that there is more things impacting you that you don't control than that you do control. When you scroll down your Facebook feed, your Twitter feed, you don't know what information you're going to see in your feed, how you're going to react to that information. You don't know what a company in Germany is about to release in terms of a product that could shake up your job and or ruin your investments or whatever. Each of us is ignorance of what the future is bringing. But what we try to do is take information that is profit to us by our environment and attempt to predict the future in a way to achieve outcomes that we desire. And because all our environments aren't equal, each of us doesn't have access to the same information nor because of our genetics, do we have equal ability to utilize the information we're given anyway. So if you have people who are in particular circumstances to get information that enables them to achieve success that they would just attribute to their own genius, like, oh, I use this information profitably by environment to become successful. I'm self-made. But in reality, you just happen to be in the right place at the right time to get that information when most people wouldn't. But when you get successful, you kind of want to ignore this because you've got to look around you and say, man, I'm living in luxury while these people are all living paycheck to paycheck. I'm buying myself my third car, my third house. And these people can barely get by. That person's living in their car. That person's in abject poverty. And so people want to sell themselves these narratives where anyone is able to become successful or equally able to. It follows along the just world bias that people have to varying degrees, which is a thing in psychology. Because if the world isn't just, if everyone isn't capable of success, then your success is in part or wholly a matter of happenstance rather than something that you're doing or that you've achieved. So you're going to sit around in your comfort, high nutrition, air conditioning, looking outside at people barely able to get by and you're going to feel like shit. You're going to feel guilty. People want to rationalize things so they don't have to feel guilty about the circumstance they find themselves in. So they invent narratives that somehow makes it so the world is actually a just and fair place and they are deserving. |
| 28. November 2022 | Why the NPCs in GTA online magically always know where you are | Why the NPCs in GT online magically always know where you are. Oh my god I just realized why in online so many the characters basically have to have telepathy to know what you're doing It's because your character doesn't speak. Yeah, so in single-player Michael say hey Lester I made it to the roof but in online the character on the other side has to be like I figure you'll be on the roof About now or hmm. I see you're on the roof. That's why having a protagonist that doesn't speak doesn't make a lot of sense |
| 23. November 2020 | Why the delay on No Damage runs and my Souls content | Rage runs took so long to come out and souls content funny enough the reason why we fell behind so much is because watchdogs 2 and Demon souls took a lot of time away from both my editors and myself in terms of Adding to a review and cutting down and da da da and neither did particularly well Demon souls completely bombs on YouTube which I Did not surprise me, but I wanted it to come out before the PlayStation 5 released with its remastered Demon souls I thought it was a very good video. It's a shame that so few people got to watch it Yeah, I put a lot of effort into that Demon souls video, and I know that's our D mod did as well but obviously Demon souls doesn't exist within the Like it's not even tangentially related to my brand as a GTA guy That's why my blood-borne footage hasn't come out That's why I didn't bother to ever release the dark soul 3 runs to YouTube like I could get them edited Or if I could edit them myself, but I it's not worth the time because I know no one will watch them and it sucks because as I say I like GTA 5 more than any individual soul game, but I prefer the souls franchise over the GTA franchise An impressively dense comment that was left on my Demon souls video |
| 23. November 2020 | Why the delay on no damage runs and my souls content | Rage runs took so long to come out and souls content funny enough the reason why we fell behind so much is because watchdogs 2 and Demon souls took a lot of time away from both my editors and myself in terms of Adding to a review and cutting down and da da da and neither did particularly well Demon souls completely bombs on YouTube which I Did not surprise me, but I wanted it to come out before the PlayStation 5 released with its remastered Demon souls I thought it was a very good video. It's a shame that so few people got to watch it Yeah, I put a lot of effort into that Demon souls video, and I know that's our D mod did as well but obviously Demon souls doesn't exist within the Like it's not even tangentially related to my brand as a GTA guy That's why my blood-borne footage hasn't come out That's why I didn't bother to ever release the dark soul 3 runs to YouTube like I could get them edited Or if I could edit them myself, but I it's not worth the time because I know no one will watch them and it sucks because as I say I like GTA 5 more than any individual soul game, but I prefer the souls franchise over the GTA franchise An impressively dense comment that was left on my Demon souls video |
| 06. March 2021 | Why the notification bell is important | Why the notification bell is important. Hey there, never donate to any streamer ever, but you deserve it. Thank you so much for your streams and videos. Sadly can't watch your streams due to time zones, but I enjoy your YouTube videos. Huge thanks. Thank you. That's amazingly kind of you. Considering how much my starting time for the stream moves around, I probably do stream at times when occasionally you could catch the stream. You probably not know that I was live. Me being live at a good time is half the battle. You being aware that I'm live and able to watch is the other half. Like I'm not a person who rails at people to press the notification button or whatever. Hit that bell. I think if I did though, I'd benefit from it. And so would everyone else. You want to see me live guys, Twitch notifications usually go out. Hit that bell. Quasimodo that shit. |
| 28. May 2022 | Why the subscription feed is worse than the recommendation feed | What's some random Australian getting to change their mind? Why the subscription feed is worse than the recommendation feed? Am I the only weird one that does not use the recommendations on YouTube and almost strictly watch what I'm subscribed to? I feel like I'm the weird one here. You are the weird one. Yes, but more importantly, how did you find those creators in the first place? As in you start with a need for content, whatever that need is, and then you interface with the recommendation systems And then you get something at the end of it Maybe that something is enough to satisfy you like you only want to watch a video a week or something and you're like Well, I've got my guy for my video week who cares, but that's not the way most people act. You're not weird or sensible I mean, yeah, weird is the wrong word. I mean, it's not like you're- it's not like you have to watch YouTube or something, you know? I've been trying to subscribe to as many creators as I can as long as I'm somewhat interested in their content So I have new videos in my subscription tab every hour. So see The subscription tab is just very inefficient. You're gonna get every single video From your- the people you subscribe to even if you've skipped the last 15 of those videos in that series, right? But in the recommendation algorithm, that's not necessarily the case. But even more than that, interspersed between your Subscribed videos will be new content that you're not aware of that might be even more appealing than what you're subscribed to, you know? The subscription feed is just an inefficient way to get new content because you don't know what you want to watch You don't know all the content that exists in the world Now that the algorithm doesn't know exactly what you want either, but it has a better chance of getting it to you because it Knows of the other videos in existence, right? Because your tastes will change over time But you probably don't unsub for many people very often You know, you're- you're subbed to people who you liked watching a year ago and their videos are still appearing there And you're just skipping over them because like, you know, I can't build it on subbing and maybe they'll make something later that I want to watch You know, but all my recommendations are usually from the subscribed channels So yeah, I'm there and exactly and like you don't just want to watch the most recent video From a channel that you were subscribed to you might want to watch a video that they released a year ago Because if you've just especially if you just found that channel a Video they released a year ago could be more interesting than the video They just released today and you won't get that in your sub feed. It's why so few of Views come from the sub feed because if you found a new channel You don't just necessarily want their newest videos You want everything they produce assuming that the channel is evergreen? Which like for example, Philip DeFranco not evergreen content at all when he takes a break. He's getting like 15,000 views a day because a video that he released a year ago has effectively no relevance, right? Except maybe in his some historical Context that most channels try to be evergreen, you know a documentary about some speedrun Can be interesting to watch even a year later, even if it's not |
| 04. March 2022 | Why there are 2 htse playlists. | Why there are two How This Will Even Ended playlists? That viewers can't, um, change the order of our playlists really annoys me. I've mentioned to YouTube multiple times, that's why I have two How This Will Even Ended playlists. Uh, at this point though, I should probably get rid of them, but... Like, cause who wants to start from the end now? |
| 10. November 2021 | Why there are less clips of my early streams and none before 2016. | Why there are less clips of my early streams and none before 2016 The more people hear, the higher the odds that there's going to be someone who sees what's on screen as something that they want to clip. Back in the day, more than likely, heaps of clippable stuff just wasn't clips. Because there wasn't enough people around to always have someone who was willing to do the clip. Something had to be really fucking impressive back in the day for the handful of people who were there to bother actually pressing the clip button. Besides, clipping hasn't been around forever. As crazy as that probably sounds to people, clipping didn't exist when I first started streaming. I started streaming mid to late 2014, but clips didn't become a thing until May 2016. Prior to Twitch Clips, there was a third party service that launched in 2015 called OdShots. While OdShots was successful, it couldn't survive when Twitch decided to rip off their idea and make their own clips feature. As Twitch Clips was on the site itself, rather than a third party on a different website, it was just easier to use, and of course, it completely replaced OdShots. OdShots unfortunately shut down early 2018, and to my knowledge, there isn't an archive of all the clips that were made on the website. Therefore, any made of me are perhaps lost to time. |
| 10. July 2021 | Why there are so many stream highlight channels. | Why there are so many stream highlight channels? I know what it is, but it feels like YouTube gaming content is slowly turning into predominantly streaming clip compilations, or at least those types of channels are blowing up right now. Multiple reasons for this. One, streaming is itself a revenue source, right? If you're going to do Let's Play content, you may as well do Let's Play content, but with an audience watching you, because you get additional revenue from that, right? Two, If you're a streamer, you make so much content, so fast. There's always good content from streams, and more people just continue to wake up that throwing it on YouTube, cutting out the best bits is just really easy content to make. Three, an audience is an asset to making content. If you're sitting there with a friend, and you're talking, laughing it up or whatever, playing a Let's Play or whatever, sometimes there's lulls in the conversation, or you don't know what to talk about. If you have chat with you, you can always just glance over chat, and chat will say something, and then you can talk about that, and it can springboard you into more conversation, right? Stream highlights is just a more profitable, easier to make version of Let's Plays. That's it. All that's happened is we've moved from Let's Play stuff to live streaming stuff. But also, because back when Let's Plays were taking off, streaming wasn't as big of a thing. The quality you had for streams was far lower. So if you had stream quality content, and you're versing the quality of content that normal Let's Players were doing on YouTube, you couldn't compete. But now that you can do 1080p on YouTube, sorry, on Twitch or whatever, your footage in terms of quality is competing with the stuff that is put on YouTube, right? |
| 18. May 2021 | Why there are three rant hoodies now | Why there are three Rand Hoodies now What did I do the first Rand Hoodie? Yeah, so for those who don't follow me on Twitter, what's wrong with you? But also I tweeted out something special secret. I'm gonna show it to you now There are actually three Rand Hoodies the original Rand Hoodie Those who don't know my Rand Hoodie is the purple hoodie that I wear sometimes the original one Which I don't know what I did to it like I put it in the wash and I washed it incorrectly or something And so when it came out it was a bit smaller and like it didn't feel nice And it was super uncomfortable to wear and I was like, but this is not like a meme. So fuck it I'll get a new one. So I bought a new one it came and I was like, but this is mean Fucking Amazon dude screwing up sending me the wrong one I looked at my order and I had ordered medium. So Amazon didn't fuck up I fucked up and I'm like, ah, well, that's unfortunate because I remember now like I put it in my cars and I'm like No, this is dumb. I don't need to buy another Rand hoodie But then I decided later like now this is actually I should do it and that's why like I originally said It's a large when I first put it in and I didn't do it a second time around And so I had to order a third Rand hoodie which now the third one I had to order a large and so that finally came and that's the one that you now see when I wear it Maybe if I keep losing weight the medium will fit but I doubt that's the case I think it'd have to be like 78 kilos again or something. Maybe maybe 75 But yeah, so basically life is a lie. The original Rand hoodie is dead maybe I'll give away the original hoodie and the packs and and and and the medium one at packs |
| 21. December 2019 | Why there is no 'Bababababa' donation sound | Ba ba ba ba ba ba donation sound which is the sound that Trevor makes in prologue We tried to do a donation sound like that, but uh The sound is tied to the cutscene So we can't separate it from like the cars in the background and stuff or the music or whatever that's playing during that scene It doesn't sound good. I'll have to find the actual actor in real life and be like hey yo, man Can you say ba ba ba ba ba into this microphone? like the the actor from Michael I think has one of those Cameo, is that what cameo website are saying? You can pay him 50 bucks to say stuff I don't think the Trevor actors on there Wait a thousand dollars for one line from Stephen OG It's way too much money. I'm not contacting Stephen OG for one line He is worth a lot true. He can't be worth that much It's not worth the man. It's just a ba ba ba ba sound I could do it myself So to pay me thousand dollars to go ba ba ba. I'll do it OG is worth two million apparently, not as much as I thought. See, it's a size amount of money He hasn't been in that much super high profile stuff Like it's not like he was paid millions to be in um GTA 5 And plus all those estimates for people's net worth are always based off um Like the assets you can see usually I think Are there any morally Morally |
| 04. March 2022 | Why they removed yellow bars for ads on youtube. | Why I think they removed the yellow bars for ads on YouTube. Remember guys, it does not actually play an ad at every one of these spots. It only plays them at appropriate times, but it just gives it spots to do. That's why they remove the yellow bars, by the way. Because it doesn't actually show an ad on every bar and some people would go on videos and be like, Yo, I'm going to see like 87 ads to watch this and reality, no. |
| 29. December 2020 | Why this season of Chaos has taken longer. | Understand there are downsides and upsides to the different voting systems I am not sure that my experience getting through the game is worse Because of the proportional voting I think the main reason why We're taking much longer this time around is because there are so many more effects that are destructive Destructive and can cause mission fails like we first started doing runs a lot more of the effects were fairly mundane Make your car red give this particular gun, but those more mundane effects have naturally become more diluted over time By the really outrageous effects that you know while let's say in 50% of situations Don't cause a mission fail if I'm on a mission they do you know I think if I gave the viewers back control I Don't think like absolute control not proportional voting. I don't think I'd get through the game fast I think I get through the game slow you're right though that there are missed opportunities Where a particular effect that's being voted on would do something really cool And then you know there's a 1% chance the other thing happens And it does happen and you ruin that some cool effect that would have occurred in that particular situation but there are also those endless times where I would get screwed like a millimeter away from the checkpoint and You know the 10% effect happens instead, and I get to go through maybe next time we won't do proportional voting We'll see what happens when I get to the end. That's that's a way away is that right? Finally getting a 5950 X Don't tell you guys I am getting myself a 5950 |
| 29. December 2020 | Why this season of chaos has taken longer. | Understand there are downsides and upsides to the different voting systems I am not sure that my experience getting through the game is worse Because of the proportional voting I think the main reason why We're taking much longer this time around is because there are so many more effects that are destructive Destructive and can cause mission fails like we first started doing runs a lot more of the effects were fairly mundane Make your car red give this particular gun, but those more mundane effects have naturally become more diluted over time By the really outrageous effects that you know while let's say in 50% of situations Don't cause a mission fail if I'm on a mission they do you know I think if I gave the viewers back control I Don't think like absolute control not proportional voting. I don't think I'd get through the game fast I think I get through the game slow you're right though that there are missed opportunities Where a particular effect that's being voted on would do something really cool And then you know there's a 1% chance the other thing happens And it does happen and you ruin that some cool effect that would have occurred in that particular situation but there are also those endless times where I would get screwed like a millimeter away from the checkpoint and You know the 10% effect happens instead, and I get to go through maybe next time we won't do proportional voting We'll see what happens when I get to the end. That's that's a way away is that right? Finally getting a 5950 X Don't tell you guys I am getting myself a 5950 |
| 14. September 2021 | Why twitter is my favorite social media | Twitter is my favorite social media. Just to delete Twitter, I really enjoy Twitter. Twitter is my favorite social media. There's not- no one's sending you fake friend invites or sign up to this. There's no endless shitty fake pages full of garbage or whatever. You follow specifically the people that you want to follow. There's no- people aren't there writing page after page of garbage posts or just putting out endless stuff because there's a limit on the text and stuff. I think it's great. I only follow like 60 people. And I specifically will go through the list sometimes and go, I don't care what this person says, I don't care what this person says, I don't follow people, just to keep it readable. |
| 10. May 2021 | Why variety streaming isn't an easy path to success | Why variety streaming is not an easy path to success? Apexen, if I understood your question correctly, you were asking why don't I play a more diverse amount of games to have my content recommended to more people? Is that correct? Yeah. So there's a bunch of different answers to this. The first being that as far as Twitch is concerned, there are not a lot of people searching for new content on this platform. Changing your content specifically to appeal to the Twitch audience is fairly a waste of time. Twitch is a much smaller website than say YouTube, as in the considerations that I have for my content for Twitch is mainly geared towards YouTube. What's going to do better on YouTube? I either gear my content towards YouTube or I don't care at all and I play here's my magic three, stuff like that. More importantly, even if I am trying to capture additional viewers on Twitch, I don't have the same amount of viewers playing other games as I do GTA 5. I'm just not as good at other games as I am at GTA 5. I'm not as knowledgeable, for example. I have less to offer playing other games compared to GTA 5. The more viewers you already have doing what you're doing, the larger amount of viewers that are likely going to see your stuff in the various different places on Twitch that you can be found. Playing a diverse set of games is commonly believed and I would say rightly so to be the worst way to grow an audience on Twitch. You generally want to appeal to a particular audience and make consistent content for that audience as opposed to dipping your toe in 50 different markets or something. You want to dominate one thing as opposed to being somewhat present in a bunch of different places. There are what is called variety streamers, people who can play goddamn anything and get a large viewership, but even they, playing particular things, usually end up having a larger viewership because certain things appeal to more or less people. You can make better content for different demographics or different groups of people easier. We talk about roleplay, for example. I don't know how good I would be at making roleplay content or whether I'd be as good at making roleplay content as making my content right now, but it is something that I want to try because it is trying to diversify into a different market that is at least similar enough to my own market that I'm likely going to have roughly the same amount of viewers as I normally do. I could pick up some new viewers who wouldn't have found me without that change. You want to diversify a bit as a content creator, but not so much that you're really outside your wheelhouse, you're outside of your comfort zone. Most people who grow big on social media these days grow big for a particular thing and then branch out from that thing. It is almost impossible to grow as a content creator as a variety person these days. Most of the people who are variety content creators are those who have been around a real long time. You know your lyrics, for example, or those who, as I say, got started doing one thing but then dropped that thing but the audience that they had was large enough that the portion that was waiting to stay for anything was a significant amount. Let's say if you have 5,000 viewers doing your most popular thing, you might have 2,000 viewers doing a less popular thing. If I became a variety streamer, my viewership would be about 1,500 and that's enough to live off. That's kind of your goal as a content creator. It's to become so large in one thing that when you become a variety streamer so you don't go crazy, your audience is still large enough that you can survive. It's something like 20 to 25% of your audience who will come with you when you stop doing your main thing and like you enough as a person just to stay with you when you do different things. You must get lucky to succeed. Oh, there's definitely aspects of luck in success. I would say a significant amount. Holy shit. Especially if you factor in the foundational things that you need to succeed in particular areas. You know, be born in a particular time, a particular place, access to particular resources, wealth, whatever. Like true success, the greater your level of success, the more luck you probably needed to get there. But at the same time, it is clearly the case that different things that you can do increase or decrease your likelihood of success. There is still definitely a component of your decision making, what you strive to do, how you act that impacts your success. In other words, like if tomorrow I started, I went, oh, fuck it, I'm not going to stream on Twitch. I'm not going to stream on some D live or just garbage website with like 15 viewers or whatever. You can guarantee that I'm going to be less successful, right? A lot of the problems with becoming successful is having access to the knowledge that leads to success in anything. Like right now I can reflect back on my own success and see how coincidentally I did certain things that led to my success today that I had no fucking idea would be that way. A lot of success is that you happen to be doing the right thing at the right time or you have like an inclination that maybe this will work out and it actually does. You don't know for certain, but you just hope for the best and it works out. Like there was so many things that had I known five years ago that I know now, I'd be more successful. I would have made my success would have been easier, but I didn't have that knowledge. They often say, work smart, not hard or whatever, but your ability to work smart is what you are predicated on. You're being lucky that in your environment you have access to knowledge that enables you to work smart. It matters what you do, you know, but even like what you do is somewhat dependent upon luck that you have access to knowledge or that you know where to get that knowledge. For example, that's just luck. It just has to be in your environment, you know, because I know why I ramble about them. I'm sorry guys. |
| 18. April 2021 | Why we still keep finding glitches in GTA 5 | Keep finding glitches in GTA V. This game is so broken, you'll still be making Fats and Glitches. No, I don't think it's that broken. I don't consider this game to be broken at all. It's just a very large game. We're still examining it after all this time. Like most games, I'm sure, have infinite amount of tiny glitches basically everywhere, but usually people move on from them within a year, you know? And then you have speed runners finding all this stuff, but it doesn't really hit the public consciousness because most of it isn't applicable to speed running. But with this game, it's still popular after so long that I can be like, ah, hey, Rockstar, found out that this texture over here is the wrong texture. Get fucking rekt. Should have had more attention to detail there in this random part of the map that no one has ever gone to. How are you gonna live with yourself, Rockstar? Rockstar developer going home to their significant other. They found another one. I just don't know how I can go on, how I can live with these mistakes that I've made. My legacy is damaged forever because of these bastards on the internet finding my small mistakes. I can't deal with it anymore. I don't know where I'm going with this, but it's going into a dark place. I'm gonna end it here. |
| 04. July 2022 | Why you are always wearing black tank tops | Why am I always wearing a black tank top? Why do I always wear black tank tops? So once upon a time, there's no real story to it. I don't like wearing a different outfit every day. I fucking hate that shit. You're gonna come on here and be like, oh, this is my new outfit from fucking France or whatever. It is all the rage and style right now. I don't like that shit. Like I just want to live a very simple life. Always know what I'm gonna wear because always the same thing. I need to impress you chat with all the newest fucking hot trends and shit, you know? Do you swear the same tank top? No. I actually have a ridiculous amount of tank tops now because I uh, buy my own merch. Which reminds me, I need to put up more merch. |
| 18. January 2021 | Why you can take breaks during challenge runs. | Why you can take breaks during challenge runs. Is this a one-sit kind of run? No. So the thing about non-speed runs is hypothetically speaking you can just leave the timer going. Like in a speed run you can take as many breaks as you want, you just, the timer continues, you know. In a challenge run there's no real reason you have to do it in one sitting. It'll be more impressive certainly, but like if I just stopped my car right here and slept in my chair, there's nothing you can do about that, I'll still complete the challenge, you know. The challenge has nothing to do with how much of a break you take or how long it takes you, it's completing it. And certainly given that my sleeping pattern sucks and I'm tired as fuck, I'm better off doing it segmented. |
| 22. January 2022 | Wierd sega games from my childhood | Weird Sega games from my childhood. In the stream a while ago I talked about this Sega game that my mother purchased me that I didn't really enjoy because I couldn't figure out what to do. So I didn't know the name of this game but they released the mini Sega recently and it had the game on it that I didn't understand and it was called Light Crusader. I looked at the plot and it was bare-bones so I ended up watching an entire speedrun of the game at two times speed. It only took half an hour because the world records like an hour or whatever. It's funny because it's such an old game the text boxes come up and they have to skip through them so I and doesn't even skip through very quickly so I could read all the text boxes and learn the entire story. Yeah Echo was so hard and so scary as a kid. I've told this story before my mother found me cheat codes for the game because we couldn't get any further and it was just in the magazine so she's like oh yeah here you go and so I cheated my way to a further forward level it was an ice level I had sharks and scared the hell out of me. Then I was like oh I'm going to go to another level that's less scary and then I go even further forward and puts me with the final boss and it's a huge green alien with the creepiest fucking music I've ever heard in all my days. I'm sitting here going wasn't this about dolphins and there was like an it was a scary octopus but what the fuck why why is there an alien and I didn't understand as a kid. I now know the story where it turns out that um aliens basically sucked all the dolphins from the ocean because they want to eat them and you get sucked into the ship later to save all the dolphins. |
| 03. August 2021 | Wikipedia is great | Wikipedia is great. In terms of a brief summary or a good starting point for research, Wikipedia is like the best place to go these days. When I was a kid Wikipedia wasn't as trustworthy, right, because it wasn't as fleshed out or whatever, but their moderation is a lot better these days and the kids had far more time for more and more and more contributors. It's sourced which is something you can't say about many websites. It's obviously not the be all and end all of absolute knowledge or something, but if you've got five seconds to look up to get a general idea of something, Wikipedia is the best place to go. It would really suck if Wikipedia was to go away. Wikipedia is the reason people think you're a genius. What Tasty? You're not a genius? This entire time I was under the impression that you're a genius. Oh no. You certainly can't get away with doing that kind of stuff in university, right? They have, for every topic they have like a database that will cross-reference everything you write with different sources and different places where their information is held and if your work is too similar it'll come back and say like a plagiarism score that's too high. |
| 21. November 2020 | Will Among Us die and discussing popular Among Us Content | Will Among Us die and popular Among Us content? Matt, do you think Among Us will die down like what happened in Forghast? Oh, absolutely, absolutely. And I think it would be similar, for similar reasons as Forghast. Not enough release of new content. I will say though that Among Us, because it involves other people directly talking with each other and stuff, and because the games are heavily varied, like effectively anything can happen, I think it's going to stay around longer. Like myself personally, I played Forghast for 23 hours. Kind of had enough. Among Us I played for 70 hours, and I could still see myself playing more. Because with Forghast, it was like I would never lose the first map. I would never lose the second map. And so like half the gameplay was just me going, there was no possibility of me losing here. On Among Us, you know, you might die first round, second round. There's always some suspense of who is the bad guy. You're always needing to be doing something, getting new information and stuff. Like even when you're entirely innocent, you need to try to act in ways so that other people don't think you're guilty, because it would make it harder for your team to win. Among Us got boring to me though when I was playing with people who weren't experienced. And still to this day, some of the games are somewhat ruined by people who don't have as many hours in the game. But in general, because I'm more selective with the people that I bring in, and that more people have more hours in the game, it's in general more fun. Because it's not particularly fun when an inexperienced person as imposter gets themselves chucked out in the first 10 seconds. Or two people are inexperienced imposters, so they don't know how to set up kills for themselves, so there's no kills the entire game when you just win on tasks. You just like the metagaming Among Us? Metagaming or the meta game? You don't like the current dominant strategies? Yeah, I think people in general prefer watching imposter games, but I think there's a lot of crew games that are particularly interesting as well. There were certainly days where I was like, man, they were all really good games, you know. With the editing of Among Us, like I don't know to what degree people who watch Among Us videos are there to try to figure it out for themselves. So I want to keep in, like I try to keep in any relevant information to what happens in the discussions and stuff. So if you're watching as a viewer, you can be, oh yeah, I do remember Jazz being there, oh yeah, and then you can kind of put two and two together. A lot of Among Us videos that I've seen aren't really Among Us videos really. It's just like 10 streamers or 10 content creators just digging around and yelling and stuff. There's no actual real game of Among Us there. Twitter. |
| 02. April 2021 | Will Among Us' new map rebuild its popularity? | Will the new map for Among Us, to be released March 31st, bring life back into Among Us? I wonder, with the release of the new map, will that breathe some life into Among Us, or make the memes more positive? Are the memes negative? They come across that way, right? Isn't Among, Among, how do you say it, Among Us? Is that just like, to shit on the game? Am I crazy? Yeah they are. You can't say it's same boring gameplay, where you go off and watch like 50 hours of fucking Fortnite, okay? Most of the popular games is the same boring gameplay. I mean, look at, look at my stream. I play the same single-player game every day and you're here. You can't be like, oh man, I don't like Among Us, it's so repetitive. Hell, I mean, Darkfap is doing the fucking no-hit run here, man, I love that shit. I have seen some of those extra rolls. It just expands the game to be more like the other Among Us-like games, what are the, the, the Town of Salem and all that stuff. |
| 01. May 2021 | Will Covid be handled by the end of the year? | Will COVID be handled by the end of the year? What's your thoughts on Japan trying to reopen the Olympics by around December despite the situation? I have to imagine that things will be under control by December. Surely? No? I mean, America's gonna be at 200 million vaccinations. Like, you don't need every single person to have had the vaccination by then for it to be fairly safe to do the Olympics. Vaccine will be less effective against new COVID variant. I have heard the complete opposite. Something being different doesn't necessarily mean that the treatment or prevention for it is gonna be significantly less effective. Yeah, so current polling has 70% of Americans who say they're willing to get a vaccination. And the number has just continued to increase as it continues to roll out and there's not side effects and whatnot. And you don't need 100% of the population to have been vaccinated. 70% is acceptable. I mean, you want more than that to reduce the chance of a significantly different new strain coming along. That the prevention that already exists doesn't work for but you can still get COVID. The point is to either stop you getting it or just to prevent you from having any severe symptoms. Well, then maybe I am being optimistic but by the end of the year, I can't imagine it could not be resolved by then. Resolved in the sense of it not being on pandemic levels. Only 3 million vaccinated? What do you mean? In my country it's only like 500,000. Covaxin is similar to the flu shot set up so a new flu shot will come out every year to keep up with the different variants of the flu. The flu is different though. It's been around mutating for blah blah blah billion blah blah blah, you know. This type of vaccine that they produce isn't the same as the flu vaccine. |
| 27. February 2021 | Will Dream Be Forgiven For Cheating? | Will Dream be forgiven for cheating? Do I think Dream will be forgiven for cheating? There have been people who have cheated and have gone on to be continued to be accepted in speedrunning and whatnot. But they're not usually very common. And I think a lot of that occurred more back in the day. Now that speedrunning kind of is larger and more mainstream and stuff. Like when it was more niche and there were so few people involved to begin with, anyone being thrown out of the community was probably a huge thing. But these days there's just so many people it's like if you chuck one cheater to the curb, it's not like a community is going to shrink massively. But obviously non-speedrunners aren't going to give a shit, right? The only people who, like I don't think anyone stopped watching Dream over it, is what I'm saying. People who watch Dream either won't accept it or just won't care if they accept it. So what, he still makes good content. I mean that's also what Gio has expressed on Twitter, he still makes good content. But obviously speedrunners in general, we don't like cheaters. As long as Dream doesn't try to inject himself into speedrunning or the speedrunning community to any, in any capacity, he'll be fine. Like treating him as a non-speedrunning entity, that's fine. Like I wouldn't blame anyone, speedrunning or otherwise, for collabing with the dude in the future. Like I'd probably do that if the opportunity came up again. It's just too lucrative of an arrangement. But I wouldn't want to see him go into speedrunning again. I don't know how you could trust a cheater to run again. Could you just think, oh man they probably found another way to cheat that I can't detect, you know. |
| 14. May 2021 | Will GTA 5 Expanded and enhanced require a new speedrun leaderboard? | Will GTA V expanded Enhance require a new speedrun leaderboard? Am I ready for the enhanced version of GTA V? Absolutely dude, and my only concern is that it's gonna make a lot of my facts and glitches redundant, because they're no longer gonna be applicable, or it's gonna completely destroy patch 1.27 or whatever, or it's gonna be so amazing and none of it's gonna be usable with 1.27, to the extent where even if we can play 1.27 we won't want to because it'd be so much worse. It's entirely possible that they will change like, every file of the game, and like 1.27 won't let it all cross that bridge when we come to it. When is the expected release? Late 2021. You think I'm overconfident in Rockstar, thinking that the expanded enhanced version's gonna be anything significant? If you compare the 360 version to the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC version, it's night and day. There's substantive changes. Everything looks smoother, the layout's better, the graphical settings are massively improved. That Take-Two on a call to... Was it their shareholders? I know there's just been... People... Hire-offs from Take-Two have made statements saying that it's gonna be significant in terms of the changes. Graphically... Did the... Did the ramble come out? I put the exact quote in there, but there's... They claim they're doing more than simply re-releasing the game. And given that they're waiting so long after the release of PlayStation 5 to do it, why would they be waiting? If they were just gonna do some cash grab re-release with no changes, why not just do that with the release of PlayStation 5? Be one of the first games that is purchased with the system. No, they're waiting. Look, I'm not so optimistic that I think we're getting like a single-player DLC or something. I think it's gonna be fundamentally the same game, but improved graphically. But we might get some technical improvements as well, I'm not sure, but... I... It's gonna... You are gonna be able to see the difference. It's gonna be a change similar to going from the 360 version to the PlayStation... The PC version. You wonder what the release would do for the leaderboards? If indeed the expanded enhanced version is so different from the pre-expanded enhanced that it could be considered to be an entirely different run, then you would end up making multiple leaderboards. Like the new version of the game would have to be fundamentally just better on every level for the current leaderboards to be retired. And it's hard to imagine how different the game would have to be for new leaderboards to be justifiable. Like, the main reason why there isn't like a 360 PlayStation 3 leaderboard is because no one wants to run that, and it's just a much worse playing experience. But if the new version is a much better playing experience, then that would be a different thing entirely that might incentivize a different response. They could rework guns or car physics and all that stuff, it's possible. Does someone have the quote? It's like graphical and technical improvements that will push the boundaries of what is currently possible or something like that. I don't believe they'll rework much of the game because it will just cause more unexpected bugs and Rockstar can't program for crap. Rockstar has the incentive to make it so their game competes with the next generation, you know. The game is still selling a lot. When people buy new consoles, they buy Grand Theft Auto V. That can't last forever unless the game can graphically compete, you know. The new generation versions of GTA V will feature a range of technical improvements, visual upgrades and performance enhancements to take full advantage of the latest hardware, making the game more beautiful and more responsive than ever. That's a lofty claim. I have to imagine if Rockstar and Take-Two didn't believe in what they were doing or that what they're doing would be receiving at least some level of positivity, they wouldn't be talking it up like this. They'd be just saying nothing. Why come out and be like, guys, we're going to be pushing the boundaries of what's possible. Why wait so long? From announcement. I think all evidence suggests they're not half-assing it. And as long as we keep our expectations at a reasonable level, we won't be disappointed. I see your arguments are good, but it's Rockstar though. Hey, I mean, they did put in that new code change to improve the loading. We all thought they wouldn't do that, but they did. At least, we had our doubts, let's say, because we all knew what was technically possible, which is, you know. Maybe we could go perfectly in. |
| 14. March 2020 | Will GTA 6 be a disapointment | Keeping it's just dumb. Will GTA 6 be a disappointment? Will GTA 6 be a huge disappointment? I doubt it. I don't think whatever GTA 6 is that it won't at least be a decent game. It's been long enough that its graphics will definitely be better, and the story of GTA 5 is not so insanely good. It's just decent, so that can be topped. It's more of a question of how long the game is gonna be and how many extra features and stuff are in it. Do you guys think that Rockstar's teasing GTA 6 with the change of their logo on their website and stuff? I sincerely doubt it. Not just marketing team getting bored. Hey man, let's just change some logos and shit. Just fuck with people. The one conversation I had with a Rockstar dude, like I've literally only talked to a Rockstar guy once, and he said Bully 2 was dead. Yeah, the dude basically said it was like an internal thing, like being banded around whatever. There may have been like a playable, small playable thing, but it was never like, it's not gonna be me. But things could have changed, or he could be wrong. |
| 14. March 2020 | Will GTA 6 be a disappointment | Keeping it's just dumb. Will GTA 6 be a disappointment? Will GTA 6 be a huge disappointment? I doubt it. I don't think whatever GTA 6 is that it won't at least be a decent game. It's been long enough that its graphics will definitely be better, and the story of GTA 5 is not so insanely good. It's just decent, so that can be topped. It's more of a question of how long the game is gonna be and how many extra features and stuff are in it. Do you guys think that Rockstar's teasing GTA 6 with the change of their logo on their website and stuff? I sincerely doubt it. Not just marketing team getting bored. Hey man, let's just change some logos and shit. Just fuck with people. The one conversation I had with a Rockstar dude, like I've literally only talked to a Rockstar guy once, and he said Bully 2 was dead. Yeah, the dude basically said it was like an internal thing, like being banded around whatever. There may have been like a playable, small playable thing, but it was never like, it's not gonna be me. But things could have changed, or he could be wrong. |
| 24. September 2022 | Will GTA 6 be coop? | Will GTA 6 be co-op? You think GTA 6 will have coop story? There's Code Down, Self-Revive and Suicide, Buddy Ping, Passenger Drive-By and both characters in all missions. You know what? That they put the mechanic to drop weapons in what appears to be single player? That could also suggest that it's going to be co-op. As I was talking about when I talked about the leaks, I was like, I don't know what the purpose of you being able to drop a weapon is, other than just clearing out your inventory. But yeah, maybe it could be co-op. Rockstar does always like to try new things, and the rumours that it's kind of like a Bonnie and Clyde kind of campaign, obviously they're with each other all the time, so you may get a spot. Previously when someone asked I was dismissive of it, but the things you tell me here and thinking about it now, yeah, it does seem like a Rockstar thing to do. I wonder how good the AI is going to be, especially for speedrunning. Oh my god, it's going to be terrible chat if you always have to stay within some sort of proximity of your other character and the AI will continue to get stuck. Oh boy. |
| 04. October 2021 | Will GTA 6 be more realistic than GTA 5 | Would GTA 6 be more realistic than GTA 5? I think it's pretty clear that the... that they look at the franchise of Red Dead and the franchise of GTA 5 as being wholly different. As in they don't seem to be interested with realism when it comes to GTA. Like they went that route with GTA 4. They heard all the complaints and they came up with GTA 5. I think the GTA 6 would probably be a middle ground between GTA 4 and GTA 5. In terms of realism or grittiness or what have you. |
| 19. November 2022 | Will Gta 6 have cheat codes? | Do GTA 6 have cheat codes? Do you think GTA 6 should have cheat codes? It's actually something that people have talked about in regards to GTA 5, that the cheat codes in the earlier titles were so much more robust. There were so many more different things that you could do, and in GTA 5, they're much more limited. It's actually been a trend over the years for less and less cheat codes to exist in games, and instead, they had to be effectively DLC or what have you. This could be in part because they worry about, I know, security vulnerabilities or something, or people screwing up the online stuff, or leaderboards or something, but honestly, giving people more tools to do whatever they want in the game is just good to me. I mean, give people basically dev tools in GTA 6, as long as it's kept in the single player, and you can guarantee it's kept that way. If it jeopardizes security in any way, fuck cheat codes. But I would hope that Rockstar learns from GTA 5 and realizes that GTA 6 and GTA Online 2 must be completely separate. I want different executables on my fucking desktop. They'd be in their own worlds. Like, I don't want them on, if they're connected online, I don't want them to go to the same fucking server, okay? I want them in different countries, because I don't want anything that happens in GTA Online 2 to fuck up GTA 6 in the same way that things that they would do in GTA Online do change GTA 5. And a lot of the exploits and vulnerabilities have come from the GTA 5 side of things for the current GTA Online. Foolish decision, again, likely because they didn't think GTA Online was gonna be as successful as it was, but I hope they've learned their lesson and they don't make that same mistake again. Cheat codes are just kind of repetitive when you have those mod menus. Remember that a lot of people still just play on console. Cheat codes are all you have on console. And a lot of people don't have the knowledge to install mod menus anyway. Like, we think, oh, it's just a small thing like installing a mod menu, but when I had to install Chaos for Minecraft, a game that I know nothing about, I was a little bit clueless for like an hour. And I'm like, oh, I don't know, things just don't seem to be working. Why isn't this downloading? Why is this? And I do this for a living. When you talk about the average person, it's hard to put your minds in a person who's completely foreign to concepts. People go, what's a mod menu? I don't understand. Oh, cheat codes, I understand them from games but I was a kid. |
| 31. July 2022 | Will I be changing the layout of Rrambles? | Will I be changing the layouts of rambles? I did ask people for feedback on the rambles. A lot of people said, hey, I click on and look at the topics and I go, yeah, that's a topic I'm interested in, that's a topic I'm interested in, that's a topic I'm interested in. I watch those and then I click off. And so that kind of suggests to me, removing chapters may cause people to watch more of the video. Or it might cause people to not click on the video at all, because they know they won't be able to find stuff. I don't know. If I just put the topics at the start without timestamps, you know. |
| 31. July 2022 | Will I be changing the layout of rambles? | Will I be changing the layouts of rambles? I did ask people for feedback on the rambles. A lot of people said, hey, I click on and look at the topics and I go, yeah, that's a topic I'm interested in, that's a topic I'm interested in, that's a topic I'm interested in. I watch those and then I click off. And so that kind of suggests to me, removing chapters may cause people to watch more of the video. Or it might cause people to not click on the video at all, because they know they won't be able to find stuff. I don't know. If I just put the topics at the start without timestamps, you know. |
| 03. February 2020 | Will I do GTA Online speedruns? | Sorry to speedrun, but to switch it up a little, I'm going to speedrun GT Online. Do you think GT Online speedrunning is a good idea? It already exists. You can find it on the speedrun.com. I am personally not a huge fan of it, partly because of problems of getting three like-minded people with a lot of free time who happen to live in Australia or whatever, who, you know, can be around times like me and can have lower loading times and stuff because we're all in the same region or whatever. These limitations have made doing online speedrunning next to impossible for me. And I don't particularly love online and only doing one fourth of a speedrun is not something that I look on favorably. I'm not against it. The little that I've seen of the runs, they're not particularly interesting. But if you will enjoy that, that's totally something you should pursue. |
| 24. September 2021 | Will I do a karaoke stream? | Will I do a karaoke stream? Karaoke stream anytime? My voice cracks sometimes. And while I've certainly gotten better over time, I was, you know, I was that kid who sat at the back wall at the dance at school and was like, man, I really want to participate. I'm too shy and nervous. I don't think I could really bring myself to do karaoke on stream. I could make some like insane sub goal that will never reach. So I can debate people and be like, see, I'm totally willing to do it. But you know, we should have to reach the sub goal first. 10 trillion subs guys and I'll do Twitch thing. |
| 06. June 2020 | Will I do more gambling streams? | Would you consider doing another gambling stream? Those were so enjoyable. No. I don't really want to get involved in gambling again. And while those streams were funny, if you haven't seen them, I highly recommend them. It doesn't- it's not something I'm gonna get involved in. Even if I got sponsored again. And the company that sponsored me last time seemed fairly shady. I think they did contact me again, but I don't want to get involved with them. They have like Russian connections and shit. Is that prejudice that when a person's email has Russian stuff in it, I'm like, I don't know about that, man. It seems a little bit sketchy. I don't know. |
| 28. November 2022 | Will I ever be a game reviewer? | Will I ever be a game reviewer? Walli Wallabala asks on the discord, Do you think you could branch out into making reviews of games or media in general? If you think you could, would you want to? I ask this because you seem to look at media quite objectively in my opinion, as you did in your rant about VE2 not being swayed by the hype or peer pressure into liking it. As much as you're paying me a compliment, I would like to say that often what people think of as objectivity is Hey, this person's saying something that I agree with and they aren't agreeing with the popular consensus. Therefore, they must be speaking objectively in some sense. Media is subjective, but you can judge things on the basis of objective measures. You're caring about one measure instead of any other measure is just a matter of your particular preference. Should you value the amount of sales or the amount of money that a game makes? If you sell three times as many games, but sell it for a fraction of the price, is that better than a game that made far more money despite selling far fewer copies? Because that's for example, like when we compare Minecraft and GTA V in terms of sales. GTA V sold less, but GTA V, it costs far more to buy. Things like this. And so my judgments of Red Evidence 2, if I consider it to be slow and it drags on too much, I think a lot of it could be cuts to streamline the whole experience and not lose anything. There are some people who would love those things that I want to cut out, and that's just their preference. There are some people who like nothing more than to ride really, really slow on a horse and just take in the grass for hours on end. And I can't say that they're wrong in some way. I can only say that I don't enjoy that, and I think a greater majority of people don't enjoy that as well. But as you can see that I'm struggling to talk about Red Evidence 2 right now, partly because I'm tired, but my struggles is because I'm not a reviewer. I don't dig deep into media. I don't look at themes. I don't compare and contrast different things on a day to day basis. I don't have a back catalog in my head of all the best media that's been produced over the many decades. I just play something and then I get to the end and I'm like, I like that. That was good. I don't like that. That wasn't very good. And attempts to dig deeper than that only come from people who are like asking me, why do I have those feelings? I don't really care why I like something or why I don't like something. I just care that I do. I don't get to the end of an anime and I'm like, hmm, why did I enjoy this? I don't care. It is hard to make a sort of fair review that takes into account all tangential information to that game and where it fits in the zeitgeist of gaming. I don't have that kind of knowledge or expertise, so I'm not going to do it. There are a lot of people who do make reviews of media that are like, hey guys, I really like this. This thing was really cool. It was great. Please like and subscribe. And those reviews are fucking dog water. Do you like that criticism? Dog water? I don't know why I heard that, but it's funny. Making a retrospective is better than reviews since those are more long and detailed. Yeah, I honestly prefer those as well. Where a person goes really deep into the history of a particular game, like how it was developed, the difficulties that they had, the history of like the company and the franchise as a whole, as opposed to a person just in eight minutes being like, hey, I enjoyed the water level. They did water pretty well, to be fair. And I'm not criticizing people who do like that kind of stuff, especially if you're just looking to make a purchase right now and you just want to know a little bit about it without being spoiled. Those reviews do have a purpose, but not really what I'm looking for in terms of content to watch. |
| 02. February 2020 | Will I ever get World Record in GTA V? | That's the problem. Do you think you will ever get the world record for GTA V? If so, what will you do when you do it? Are you a new person? I've had the world record for every category multiple times. Um, will I ever achieve it again? It'll probably be a very long time. Just because I don't have the time to really go hard at it. And it may be possible that I'm just not good enough. Who knows? There's a lot more competition than there was back in the day. I somewhat envision that, you know, 10 years from now, when everyone's forgotten about GTA V, I'll just go back and get the records. If that's even possible at that point. You know, I'm not saying it's impossible, but I would probably need to go, be a lot more focused on it. And other things would fall by the wayside. In one of my recent rambles, I talked about how it frustrates me that once upon a time I was a speed runner, now I am, at best, a Twitch, a YouTuber Twitch streamer speed runner. Maybe equally, and maybe not even, you know, a third going to the speed running these days, because it depends what you, how you look at pacifist or chaos or what have you. You can't, you can't focus 100% on all of your interests. The change of the way that I see myself as a, as an online person, I guess, not seeing myself as a speed runner anymore is something that kind of hurts to think about. I was the top GTA V speed runner. Now I'm not. And that, that was a part of my identity for quite a long time there. And losing that has been something I've had to come to terms with. And I feel like I have to a large extent, partly because I feel fulfilled in other areas of my life, like my YouTube and Twitch, but it still hurts. |
| 28. January 2022 | Will I ever quit Youtube? | Will I ever quit YouTube? There will eventually come a point, hypothetically, where my audience is so low that I no longer consider it rewarding to make content. Since becoming successful, I've only had one time where it looked like things were going shit for me, and it didn't take it particularly well. Because I value this so much, any evidence that things are going downhill scares me. But obviously, as time goes on, and I develop more knowledge, understanding, skill in regards to YouTube, there's less luck involved in what I'm doing, and therefore I can be more secure in my future. Like at this point in time, I don't really think I can fail outside of quitting myself or some monumental change in legislation or YouTube itself. I can only go down a bit or up a bit. I get what I need to make to have at least some portion of people want to watch me, and it just becomes a question of can I go higher than what I'm doing now, or will I inevitably just peter out over time. When was that? I don't know. Actually, I can probably find it. I can find it because I know Smalland sent me a nice message. So it was October 1st, 2020. It was like January, February, a little bit lower, but I'm in the 5 million, 6 million, 8 million, 7 million, 8 million. Oh no. What happened? Ah, no. This is the first time I've really gone down a lot. And ah, I've gone down again. Ah, shit. Oh no. I'm done for, chat. Little boy DarkViperAU is going nowhere. He's going to the poor house. Ah. It is funny that that's the time that I was freaking out and then just what, you know, and even though I'm no longer up here, you know, I'm sticking with this between 18 million kind of and 15 million kind of range. Do I get scared of the future? Oh, absolutely. I have a very negative view of the future. I'm just one of those people. It's why I try to close myself off from it a bit. Just focus on my work and not worry about things that I can't change. |
| 25. February 2020 | Will I ever run Trevor% again? | run Trap Ascent again. When I do Trap Ascent, I will never run Trap Ascent again. I would much rather spend time editing or practicing strats for the entire run than running Trap Ascent. If I ever get sub 1, it will be naturally in the classic run. It's obvious that I can do sub 1. I was on pace for many, many different times and that's before more strats have been found even since then. How old is my Trap Ascent PB? Like 6 months? That can't be much. 4 months? And my Trap Ascent PB loses like 35 seconds in the final 2 splits. I think that's those splits. You know what? I've changed my mind. If this video gets 10 gajillion likes, I will run Trap Ascent again. You have my word. So be sure to like the video to hopefully get to that mark. Thank you. |
| 23. January 2023 | Will I ever speedrun any game other than GTA V? | than GTA 5. Solo asks, playing some of these other GTA clones, would you consider speedrunning them or checking out the community that runs some of them? I just can't imagine I wanna spend the time learning an old game without much of an active audience. There's so much more I wanna do in GTA 5 and that I can't even bring myself to do in GTA 5, that I don't really need to overburden myself by speedrunning something else. There's this initial stage of speedrunning where you don't super know what you're doing, so you don't know all the mistakes you're making and you just learn the bare bones of the run and you just quickly improve over time because there's so many time saves to be had. That's a very fun time in speedrunning and so maybe I would enjoy just picking up a random speed game every six months and just doing some of it. But I have no current plans to do that. We'll see how I go, I suppose. Kingdom Hearts speedruns are damn hard, though. Unveiling my op- |
| 11. December 2020 | Will I ever stop doing chaos mod | Will I ever stop doing Chaos mod? When do you plan to stop making Chaos? Presumably never. I guess when I stop enjoying it. I always imagine I can change, if I stop enjoying it, I can just change it ever so slightly or just wait longer for new stuff to come out. I suspect that I'll be playing Chaos all the way until I stop playing GTA V. Might play it less frequently, who knows. It's not a big burden on my time. It might get to the point where the highlights aren't made. We've discussed that many times. |
| 03. January 2021 | Will I get a P.O box? | Will I get a PO Box? Will I open a PO Box? So, being Australian, and the majority of my audience, the vast majority, not being in my country, opening a PO Box will mean that people will be paying an extraordinary amount of money for shipping. Besides, the hassles of dealing with all the boxes and storage and all that jazz, I don't think it's something that I want to invest the time in. |
| 29. October 2021 | Will I get a valve steam deck? | Will I get a Valve Steam Deck? Am I gonna get a Valve Steam Deck? I am not the target audience for this, but I'm happy it's becoming a thing. The more I hear about what Windows and Microsoft are doing in the future in terms of taking data from users and stuff, the more I'm interested in Linux becoming more popular and more user-friendly. |
| 27. November 2022 | Will I go back to making speedrunning content like before? | Will I go back to making speedrunning content like I did before? So I've said before, if you're a YouTube member, a Twitch subscriber or a patron, you can make suggestions for rambles on the Discord. Demomute asks, now that you're getting back into speedrunning, I know this might get asked a lot, but do you plan on really grinding it again, like NoviSet runs even if it's behind PB? And will you do strat finding streams again? Perhaps two. I doubt I'll ever do strat finding streams again, unless of course I have a specific idea, like when I was doing my practice, my learning, I did have some ideas, so I did test some stuff. I like doing that stuff, but I'm not going to have like dedicated days. No. As for grinding, I'm not sure I'll ever get to the point where I'm doing like multiple runs in a day, and certainly with the long runs you can't do that anyway, but I do hope to get to the point where I'm doing multiple runs per week, perhaps even finishing multiple runs per week. I've never really ever gotten to that point, but I hope I can more just focus on almost like just caring more about the content than having the fastest time, because at that point then I will complete runs, because like, well, for the content, got to complete this run. I want to balance out my interest in content and my interest in speedrunning, which I think funnily enough will actually make me a better speedrunner, because I'll actually complete the game multiple times. Unfortunately, I've now gotten myself sidetracked with Keo Perico, but hopefully when I get to that point, I'll be able to complete the run. |
| 18. December 2021 | Will I go to some international events? | Will I go to some international events? Do I think I'm going to TwitchCon? Conversations did occur that night talking about other events like Gamescom, E3 and all that jazz and Because these guys are like Craitor and Loserfruit or whatever have been around for eons they've been to all these parties before and they're like, oh yeah, it's great fun and so potentially especially now that I have people to go with all these people that I would know there could see myself going to other events but it is hugely taxing like I'm still recovering and it's like the next day and even an hour flight is a huge It's a huge undertaking, you know, it's very taxing and tiring and it only took an hour and I'm like man I went off this fucking plane. It's hard to imagine doing a eight-hour flight then another eight-hour flight, you know |
| 22. February 2022 | Will I make content for the rest of my life? | Will I make content for the rest of my life? Matt, do you think you will be doing Twitch and YouTube for the rest of your life? Even when you have a family one day? For one, I doubt I'm ever gonna have a family. I doubt it. But for two, I don't think I'll be able to stay in the limelight forever. And sometimes, like, it does get to me, having so many things to do and the stresses of all that and all that jazz and... I don't know what else I would want to do with my life. So I'm gonna assume that, yeah, I would do it forever. But, uh, who knows? Maybe I'll find something else. I'm not sure. |
| 03. June 2022 | Will I make more videos on react content? | Make more videos on react content. Any chance of expansion of the series? Are you letting it die after the final release? What more is there to say? I have as fully and completely decimated the idea of react content being beneficial more so than any person I think ever. What more is there to say? Like if someone made a sincere response, sure, I might say something, but what could they possibly say? The only responses I've gotten so far are people just either not watching the video and commenting or just not getting the point. And it's hard to come from a position where you admit it's lazy and you admit that the overwhelming vast majority of the work done to create your reaction content is done by someone else. When you start on that week of a foundation, it's hard to like make a good case for yourself because you're admitting to being a lazy fuck exploiting other people. And then when you lose that one little shred where you argue you're benefiting the other people, even that tiny benefit when it exists at all is contextualized within the grander narrative of you extracting value from that person and everyone else because of your massive oversupply on the market. You've got nowhere to go, you know? Like I'm not sure to what degree people have just ignored the videos versus just having no response because I hear XQC watched the video off stream of his one and I can understand completely why he wouldn't want other people to see that video because it looks like fucking more. |
| 21. July 2020 | Will I play Cyberopunk 2077 | Will I play Cyberpunk 2077? Am I going to play Cyberpunk? I can't imagine that I won't, but playing Cyberpunk will be entirely out of curiosity. I might only do it for one stream, unless the game is really impressive, because I know it's not going to be a good business decision. But who really gives a shit, right? It's been hyped that much, I want to see what happens. And like I believe I saw like 30 seconds of a trailer and that 30 seconds was enough to convince me I wanted to play it. I'd be a fool not to try. I'm hoping that the delays aren't evidence that the game isn't as good as they want it to be and they've just had to scramble to fix it or something. As a general rule, I prefer games to be delayed than to be bad, you know? I mean, that's just facts, you know? Delayed game is better than a bad game. Although of course these days, you know, you can patch everything to Oblivion. There's that old quote from Do it for Nintendo, whatever. A delay is temporary, but a bad game lasts forever or whatever the quote is. But I mean, it's less true these days because of all the patches. Duke Nukem was delayed for what, 10 trillion years? I was saying, um, Cyberpunk 2077 People have now had like hands-on play of it, and they really enjoy it. Skill Up released a video recently. I listened to like the first minutes. He's like, oh, he's god damn amazing. I'm like, nah, I don't want to hear anything more about the game. I don't want to know anything. For all I know, Cyberpunk 2077 is like a honey-pop game where it's, you know, you finish puzzles and then you go on dates with scantily clad women. That's what Cyberpunk could be, because that's how little I know about it. I've only listened to like the meta commentary of it. Oh, it's being delayed or oh, it's being really good or, you know, I don't know. I don't want to know about the minute-to-minute gameplay. I watched like 30 seconds of a trailer. I'm like, you son of a bitch, I'm in. That's a Rick and Morty reference. It shows I'm an intellectual. |
| 16. May 2020 | Will I play horror games? | A dozen. Would you play horror games when your channel such as Outlast? I've played Outlast for 15 minutes, I don't like it, I don't like being s- |
| 29. April 2021 | Will I play nintendo games on stream? | play any Nintendo games on stream. When I'm done with Oka, will I play some Nintendo Switch exclusives on stream like Zelda or Mario? Um, my brand isn't Nintendo games, you know? You can see the handful of Nintendo games that I've already played. If you- if you go to my Devapper Classics playlist, there's- I play like Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, but generally when I pick another game to play, I pick games that are Rockstar games or GTA clones or whatever, because I enjoy them and people are more likely to want to watch them. I've played the Switch on stream before, I've played Ring Fit. Aren't there like better versions of Switch out- a Switch out now or are they bringing out a better version of the Switch or something? |
| 12. July 2021 | Will I remember you when I am famous? | Will I remember you when I'm famous? Matt will you remember me after you get famous? No I don't actually recognize your name oink, but um I don't know dude Eventually you just end up um you recognize names and stuff yesterday Reeves came by I'm like oh I know that guy. I know that guy's name. I'm like how long's it been Reeves? It's like it's been three years I'm like three years Really? You know if a person's in chat enough especially during the earlier days when I had fewer viewers like you just the names Stick in your head may not a heap of details, but they stick that but outside of recognition in that if I saw the name But I remember that name. I'm not gonna like recall it as I'm sitting there on my couch one day like oh oink 2007 yeah, that was a guy in my chat like it just doesn't happen. I am just some guy on the internet Making weird YouTube videos. That's it. I'm happy you guys like them |
| 01. June 2020 | Will I return to RDR2? | Do you think you will return to Red Dead Redemption 2 online for a stream or attempt a speedrun? No Never it will never happen Will I play through Red Dead Redemption 2 again one day? Yes Put it on the calendar five years from now Matt will play through Red Dead Redemption 2 again because I want to finish all Rockstar games Eventually, and I never finished Red Dead 2 so I will have to eventually |
| 22. September 2022 | Will I speedrun day 1 with GTA 6? | Will I speedrun day one with GTA 6? When GTA 6 comes out, the two things I'll probably focus on is no damage and pacifist because both of those once achieved, it's done. There's no more after that, like you can, you know, speed run the no damage run or whatever or do it in all different ways and stuff. Speedrunning goes on forever and sure it will be pain in the ass to catch up, but I think those two things that are more finite should be done first. There is so many things that I could create for GTA 6 immediately. I don't know what I'm gonna do first. I hope that I can bring on like more people as I get round to that because GTA 6 is just gonna print money chat. GTA 6 is too far away. Yeah, I don't like to think about it all that much because as you say, years away, and I've still got a lot of stuff to do, who knows I might even be around when GTA 6 comes out. I definitely need to find more editors for that point and I'll have to accept having a greater amount of being hands-off as in right now I do rambles because I know what I want to say and I can remove topics I don't want in there and I can make what I'm saying more coherent just by removing certain things and whatnot. But someone else could do my rambles for me and it'll be 90% as good. They would use their voice for the title cards or we'd use some text-to-speech thing, whatever. At the end of the day, the first couple of months of GTA 6, the most important thing will be me recording as much stuff as possible and get processed as fast as possible. While I do think I will always do the best work if I do it myself, having things be 90% as good and there should be more of it is definitely preferable. Will the GTA Online- |
| 29. May 2020 | Will I speedrun gta iv? | You know. Hello, Matt, can you speedrun GTA 4? I have no interest in speedrunning GTA 4. I did try. I've tried to speedrun multiple GTAs at different points. Like, set up the splits, start the learn from video, and they just never jive with me. Out of context, but are you paranoid about the Kronos situation right now? I don't know if I'm paranoid. I mean, I'm justifiably concerned. A lot of people have died. How do I feel about the protesters against it? It's dumb. The idea that you're protesting when there's an easily contractable virus going around. I'm sure a lot of people in their ivory towers, no chance of contracting this virus, and even if they did, they'd have the best of care. I'm sure a lot of them want the economy to go, everyone go back to work and, you know, sacrifice the drones so they can have their money. That's understandable. But the people on the ground floor being like, I want to go back to work. I want to risk my life. It just seems dumb. It wants support structures to be in place so you don't have to work for the duration rather than being like, I want to risk my life to get myself that 715 hour. That's just dumb. How little do you value your life? I'm not going to go back to work. I'm going to go back to work. |
| 15. February 2022 | Will I still make the video and have I gained from all this? | I will make the video in the future remains to be seen because it's My commentary content where I make a standalone video talking about something that has nothing to do with GTA 5 That gets like a hundred thousand views or so, which is a very flattering number thank you for all who watch those kinds of videos, but this script is like a 40-50 minute video and the amount of time it would take to make that as well as Have accompanying clips and stuff especially now that I want to avoid showing clips of other content creators too much and stuff it would take a week and It would just be a huge time sync and I would lose far more than I gained from it I in in this case. I still think I've lost more than I've gained from it because I don't particularly value Negative exposure in this way Nothing more my my mental health and stuff It is certainly going to be the case that some people will now watch my content after being introduced to it from From this whole debacle But I don't think that's Significant to the degree of the amount of people who now remember me forever as dark fiber Au is the guy who called most critical a rapist and I just that is just not something I want It makes my already I already have trouble interacting with people and assuming that they hate me I'm like I had that before I started being content creator and now being a content creator. It's just much worse I don't need more of that in my life. I already have enough trouble talking to people and so like people who accuse me like oh you're just starting drama for the The cloud or whatever and it's sure it's negative publicity This is exactly what you wanted you you freak and they just don't know me That is anyone who knows me to any degree who's watched any of my rambles would know there's the last thing I want in any situation, you know, no one would say that unless it being through it Yeah, I haven't had like that kind of thing happen, but I had a just read it Twitter shit. Yeah I remember and that's it's insane. Like no one would want that. You |
| 16. June 2022 | Will I stop editing one day? | Will I stop editing one day? Hypothetically speaking, I suppose yes, but it's not imaginable that I could get to that stage. So there is a possibility that I have so many people helping me that I will focus a greater share of my time just making footage. So right now, I'd say a quarter of my time is spent making footage, a quarter of my time is spent on managerial stuff, tech issues, moving footage, finding footage, all that stuff, thumbnails, titles, all that jazz rendering, blah blah blah, and the other 50% is like editing. This shifts around sometimes more of my time spent recording footage, but hypothetically there could be a scenario where I'm spending all my time recording footage. I have so many people helping me that it's in my best interest to produce as much footage as possible and just give it to as many people as possible, but we're... It's hard enough finding a single person to help me, let alone that many people, you know? That would be maximum output. You can guarantee like a high-quality video every day where I record footage, I get an edit back, I polish the edit a bit, make the thumbnail and upload it and stuff. Yeah, it's not... It's not gonna happen. And besides, even then, there would still be stuff that I would do myself because a part of the what makes the channel what it is is my editing. The creative process that I go through, the jokes and stuff. And seeing people comment that they like the jokes is always great. Like in the How This Will Ended that I just uploaded, where I put that clip of me going, this song sucks, but I changed it to bike. This bike sucks. I'm deleting this bike. I found that funny. |
| 20. July 2021 | Will I stream Elden Ring? | Ring. Yes, I will stream Elden Ring when it comes out. Come hell or high water, there are very few games that I'm passionate about, and FromSoft is one of them. Developers that I'm passionate about. Like you can guarantee that as long as I can get access to them, I will play anything that FromSoft brings out and I will play anything that Rockstar brings out. And I'll be more enthusiastic about FromSoft. As Snoop Dogg says, this motherfucker, FromSoft, don't miss. In the heat of battle, he don't miss. Under pressure, he don't miss. Rockstar like fires a bullet every decade. Not only did I play Sekiro, I was given like promotional stuff for Sekiro. It didn't pay me a dime, but they gave me like a collector's editions to give away. They gave me like a box with a bunch of exclusive Sekiro stuff in it. Played that shit for like 60 hours on the stream. Anyway, the controversy around me |
| 15. January 2022 | Will I stream on youtube soon? | Will I stream on YouTube soon? Keep in mind that I currently have a partnership agreement with Twitch that makes it so I can't stream on YouTube. Mixer is not comparable to YouTube. YouTube has 2 billion users. The odds are almost certain that I would have more viewers if I live streamed on YouTube. The difference is that YouTube just isn't as nice a stream platform. Chaos wouldn't work there for a start. The chat looks worse. It doesn't have theater mode. There's no gifted subs. There's no Twitch Prime. I would just have less money. I've watched YouTube live streamed, but just like I watch a normal YouTube video. YouTube's making moves... Oh, of course. They're adding gifted subs soon, apparently. And there's speculation that they're going to do something with YouTube Red to be similar to Twitch Prime. But there's so many more Prime users than there are YouTube Red users. It's the one feature that YouTube has over Twitch. That you can rewind and then 2x speed to catch up to where you are. That's why Twitch added this. Oh, they removed it. I guess they were only testing on some streams. Had it for like a couple of days. There's a button you could go back 2 minutes in the stream. It'd be really funny if they removed it because no one used it. But I mean, they didn't promote it, so why would anyone use it? So any variable on some channels, or trick channels where they had it before, even I had it before, it's not there. |
| 22. February 2022 | Will I upgrade to windows 11? | Will I upgrade to Windows 11? I doubt it. I mean, like, obviously eventually, but I'll be like one of the last people to change. Like, when you're using your system for recreational purposes, if something goes wrong, you have a little bit of a frustration. For me, if I upgrade and something goes wrong, I can lose like, you know, eons of work. It can set me back, you know, bare minimum a dozen hours of work, and I could also lose stuff that I'm already working on. It's just not worth the risk. Because the upsides of changing seem effectively non-existent, can't they? |
| 09. March 2022 | Will I “rise again”? | Will I rise again? I'll rise again, stay strong. So I was fortunate over the last year or two that just a bunch of fairly useful things content-wise kind of fell into my lap. Like chaos and facts and glitches, for example. There is a lot of stuff I'm gonna be able to do when I do speed running that's gonna be interesting, but it's not gonna be like, oh my God, we've discovered chaos or GTA Guest Out where I can just very easily make basically infinite amounts of content using that format, right? Absent finding something like that, it's not really conceivable that I'm gonna have like another resurgence unless GTA 6 comes out. My goal right now, as is probably the goal with most GTA content creators, is to just find a way to stick it out, maintain viewership and relevance until Rockstar finally releases that stuff. I found you through your Blackjack videos, I honestly think you're the best creator I've ever come across and I think you have a base to where this is just a small bump in your road of success. Perhaps. As I say, chat, canceling doesn't really exist so long as there's an audience that actually still wants to watch you. And I know there is such a thing for me, but this kind of stuff is very mentally draining. It is very, very rare for me to think, man, may I actually just quit? And this situation, while I didn't consider it with any real gusto, like it was like a kind of passing thought, it did cross my minds more than it has in any other situation in my life. I don't know, at least my career rather. It's just so tiring, dude. I've spent so much of my life worrying about other people and caring about how I impact others and trying to help others and just to be painted as a person who's just, I don't know, selfishly trying to grab for relevance, who doesn't give a fuck about anyone else but themselves. It's just so painful. I don't want to say what was it all for because it's not like I've developed my sensibilities towards others specifically for some gain. But on the other hand, I'm like, if people are gonna think you're an asshole who doesn't give a fuck about anyone anyway, you may as well be that, because at least then you get that material gain that you can get from disregard for others. I only have that choice. It's not like I can turn off my beliefs or turn off my conscience, let's say, but it is just frustrating that despite how much I worry about other people, it seems to just do nothing to cause me trouble. |
| 21. November 2020 | Will Kamala Harris be likely to step in and become president? | Will Kamala Harris more likely have to step in and become president? Drew Rogan's constantly saying vote for Joe Biden as a vote for Kamala Harris. With the amount of money that he has and the amount of medical resources that the president has access to, that's unlikely. I don't think. It's possible. But I mean, it's just as likely Trump dies. What's the difference in their age? Four years and Trump has now had just had corona and taken endless amounts of experimental goddamn drugs. Like in four years isn't a heap of time to maintain yourself. Because like when we talk about the average life expectancy, we're talking about the average life expectancy, including like people who are malnourished, who don't have access to medicine and da da da, right? Biden isn't at the average life expectancy for a person who's a millionaire, right? Actually, is that information out there? Average life expectancy of a millionaire. America's richest men live 15 years longer than poor men. Men of the top 1% can expect to live until age 87. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 31. March 2021 | Will My Speedrunning Again Be Successful On Twitch | Will my speedrunning again be successful on Twitch? When was my last run? And even then that was only of the minor categories. Like when was my last full run? It has to be well over a year. Where does the time go chat? It'd be interesting to see what my viewership is like when I get back to the speedrunning, honestly. Like you would imagine that the speedrunning would potentially be more interesting than the no damage runs as long as I didn't reset too much. I say that as if I'm not gonna reset like a bajillion times. I'm not though. I think I've definitely matured as a person who does the video gaming. I don't think I'm gonna reset nearly as much as I used to. Now you are mega low overkill, but I just think I care more about being entertaining now. I recognize that it's gonna take me so long of being shit before I become competent again. So small time losses and stuff aren't gonna bother me as much. It's like, well, yeah, I understand I'm gonna get time losses because I'm shit, you know. |
| 02. October 2022 | Will Rockstar finally fix the servers for GTA Online 2? | Will Voxstar finally fix the servers for GTA Online 2? Okay, do you think there's going to be a GTA Online 2? Or do you think they're just gonna keep GTA Online and expand upon it? And do you think they're gonna fix the issues of a lack of......servers and stuff like GTA Online had? It's hard, it's so hard to say, cause like, on one hand, I don't know if they can really expand on it without like completely rewriting the entire thing. Like, cause there's just so many internal like, bugs and glitches that are just, coded into the game that they cannot fix. Like God Mode for instance, there's always a God Mode glitch in Online. Like all the time. But on the other hand, how can they create a new GTA Online and then leave like nine years of updates behind? There's so much content. What they can do is they can sell it all back to the people again. Just buy the same cars guys, just do it. That's what I kept saying, like they put so much into GTA Online, how is GTA Online 2 going to be really distinct from the first game? Unless they bring all the cars over on day one, which is like, I don't know if they're gonna be able to do that. That's just so much work. I think they're going to drip feed it all again. Even if it's somewhat of the same content, you're gonna be like, hey, here's those cars that were released in 2014, now being re-released in 2023, but for GTA Online 2. That's what I think is gonna happen. Like it's gonna be a complete clean slate. And GTA Online is just gonna be abandoned. The most important thing for me is, do you think they're going to do peer-to-peer again? Or do you think they're going to bring in servers? I hope they switch to dedicated servers. And I almost think they kind of have to. Like, I don't know how you can do peer-to-peer on like, if they want to increase the player count for the next GTA Online, I don't know how I can do peer-to-peer on like 64 players. I'm not a network engineer, so maybe that is possible, but I feel like that would just be catastrophic. It just would not work out that well. What makes you think there's gonna be 64 players? I just, I don't know, maybe it's like, because it's the next gen. So you just expect that they're gonna want to go bigger and better, and the only way they can move forward is with, yeah. Is it like, because I mean- Maybe not like a double player count, but at least like an increase. I have often said that the online world does feel very empty with the amount of people who currently exist on the map. Is it like 20 people or something? Less? It's 30. 30 isn't the max you can have. Even then, I rarely see 30 in there. Well, I suppose I don't play public that often, I suppose. It's hard to get a good sense of the actual GTA Online, because I haven't played in a public lobby in like a bajillion years, because I literally can't. And you can't if you're on PC. Exactly. Awful. I'm very hopeful that they finally fix it for the next edition, because I used to love playing deathmatches, the little that I was able to with my viewers until DDoSing and mod menu just became awful. Like I know, I mean, I saw your video as well, they've released deathmatches, and they look so fun, and I can't do them, so. Yeah, the deathmatches are really fun, the new ones. Or some of them are. Some of them are just kinda, eh. But there's a few that are good in there. But it's crazy, GTA 6 might be like, so different, because you think GTA 5, when they were developing it, they had no idea Online was going to take off, so they're most likely developing it, or they were developing a type of story mode DLC, and then they changed plans, but GTA 6 Online, they're going into it knowing. They know how successful GTA Online is, so it might be interesting to see how different it is, differently they go about their design decisions. And you hope that they would just take everything that works, and kind of do it again but better, and abandon all the things that didn't work throughout the last nine years. I mean, nine years of running one of the most successful Online worlds is enough to hopefully give you the experience to make something really amazing the next time around. Yeah, for sure, for sure. |
| 17. May 2021 | Will Rockstar fix the glitches in my series? | Will Rockstar fix the glitches in my series? I'm sure Rockstar devs watch your videos and rescript missions so unexpected events happen. I'm sure that's not the case, but I do wonder, with expanded and enhanced, if they haven't like watched my series and they've gone, oh that bug, we gotta remove that bug. Oh that's actually kind of a bad one, we gotta remove that one too. You know? Like how much of the code are they changing? And since they're there, are they gonna fix some of the more egregious bugs? Like is it really gonna be expanded and enhanced if they leave in the bug where Michael gets spooked at the beginning of monkey business? No no no that's not how Rockstar works. Hey, hey, clearly we don't know how Rockstar works considering they did add that thing to shorten the loading times for GT Online. I hope Rockstar doesn't just add a graphics mod and call an upgrade. I don't think they, can they legally do that now? Because on their calls with their shareholders or stakeholders or whatever, they made more lofty claims than that. And wouldn't it be illegal to make claims about like your direction as a company that might impact people's investments into your company if you don't actually end up going down that road? I mean it's not like they're gonna get sued for it or something, but I'm just saying like, I'd be very surprised given statements they've made up to this point, if it's just gonna be like a slight code of new paint, you know? They're giving away money to each account for online, I would be surprised if they don't announce GTA 6 this year, but release date is probably 2023. Nah, I don't think they're going to release, oh I'd announce GTA 6 this year. I think that would overshadow the release of GTA expanded and enhanced. I think expanded and enhanced will be out for a year, then they'll announce GTA 6. |
| 27. April 2022 | Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at Oscars. | Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars. What are my thoughts on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars? It gave me a meme that I could put in Pacifist, so I think it was a good thing. |
| 27. April 2022 | Will Smith slapping chris rock at oscars. | Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars. What are my thoughts on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars? It gave me a meme that I could put in Pacifist, so I think it was a good thing. |
| 22. February 2022 | Will TikTok come to replace Youtube? | Will TikTok come to replace YouTube? I know I don't believe that TikTok will ever come to fully replace YouTube. YouTube is technically currently like, what, two or three times bigger than TikTok. It's less that TikTok will ever fully replace YouTube and more that TikTok will ease into the time that YouTube once filled. The nanosecond you want to search up something, but in particular, you search up on YouTube. There is just a lot of content that you can't really fit into three minutes. You know what I'm saying? Or like 57 parts, whatever. And given how little TikTok pays out to creators, you find people that get significant success on TikTok, they try to make it on YouTube, preferably, right? I mean, as much as sponsor money is big, it just, TikTok pays so little. It pays what? What did it say? Hank Green said, um, one fourth of a cent per thousand views or something. YouTube, TikTok's current creator program is set up so that it's a fixed amount. And the percentage you get is the, I am too tired to explain. You watch Hank Green's video. Yeah, I have seen Hank Green's video about TikTok conversation. Yeah. Interesting guy. Honestly, Jonah, I think everyone who will just post their stuff to both TikTok and YouTube and continue to do that. Sometimes some content would only be suited to YouTube, so you'd only put it on YouTube and some would be only suited to TikTok, so you'd only put it on TikTok. You just do both. Shorts are not monetized, not presently, except in the same, you can get some money through the YouTube creator program, similar to the TikTok one, but it's just not a lot of money. It's mainly for just advertising yourself and bringing people to your other content. |
| 22. February 2022 | Will Tiktok come to replace youtube? | Will TikTok come to replace YouTube? I know I don't believe that TikTok will ever come to fully replace YouTube. YouTube is technically currently like, what, two or three times bigger than TikTok. It's less that TikTok will ever fully replace YouTube and more that TikTok will ease into the time that YouTube once filled. The nanosecond you want to search up something, but in particular, you search up on YouTube. There is just a lot of content that you can't really fit into three minutes. You know what I'm saying? Or like 57 parts, whatever. And given how little TikTok pays out to creators, you find people that get significant success on TikTok, they try to make it on YouTube, preferably, right? I mean, as much as sponsor money is big, it just, TikTok pays so little. It pays what? What did it say? Hank Green said, um, one fourth of a cent per thousand views or something. YouTube, TikTok's current creator program is set up so that it's a fixed amount. And the percentage you get is the, I am too tired to explain. You watch Hank Green's video. Yeah, I have seen Hank Green's video about TikTok conversation. Yeah. Interesting guy. Honestly, Jonah, I think everyone who will just post their stuff to both TikTok and YouTube and continue to do that. Sometimes some content would only be suited to YouTube, so you'd only put it on YouTube and some would be only suited to TikTok, so you'd only put it on TikTok. You just do both. Shorts are not monetized, not presently, except in the same, you can get some money through the YouTube creator program, similar to the TikTok one, but it's just not a lot of money. It's mainly for just advertising yourself and bringing people to your other content. |
| 22. September 2022 | Will Twitch die out in the next couple of years? | out in the next couple of years. You see Twitch going under in the next couple of years? I don't. So I talked to my partner manager at Twitch about Twitch's problem five plus years ago, longer. I mean, when I was just a partner, I said to them, look, all of the exposure for the platform comes outside of the platform. As in, everyone learns about Twitch from YouTube. The nanosecond that YouTube gets their act together and adds live streaming, or either that or tries to cut off people who advertise Twitch, you're fucked. You won't get any more people coming to the platform and you'll just slowly die as those on the platform already slowly disappear, like get sick of the platform. You never want your competitors in control of your main source of advertisement, but they never solve that. And so, like the recent announcement that Twitch made where they're like, oh, we want our live streamers to also stream on other platforms, is likely them realizing like, oh shit, if our streamers are just on Twitch and Instagram creators stream on Instagram, TikTok streamers stream on TikTok, and YouTube streamers stream on YouTube, no one's gonna move to Twitch. So Twitch will just be forever small and hemorrhage its audience, you know? |
| 19. July 2020 | Will Twitch ever be shut down? | Will Twitch ever fail going the same way as Mixer? Do you think Twitch will ever turn out like Mixer being shut down? That would be really surprising. I talk about this all the time. Twitch had the first mover advantage and that's the only reason why it's still a player in the game. That's it. Over the next five years, its market dominance will continue to be eroded. But it will still be a successful platform, I think. So Facebook and Google, how do they make their money? They make their money from ads. How does Amazon make their money? They make their money selling products. Twitch isn't the main, it doesn't really fit the normal portfolio for Amazon. They don't seem to have it as a major focus. In the same way that YouTube and Facebook have more of an invested interest in growing their platforms. But they're not in the ad game in the same way that Google is. YouTube doesn't care about streamers. This seems not to be true. It's true for both. As in YouTube does care about its streamers. Because its streamers are largely its content creators. The people who are successful as streamers on YouTube are the same people who are successful producing edited content on YouTube. It can't not care about its streamers. If it doesn't care about its streamers, it doesn't care about its creators at all. Which doesn't seem to be true. And Twitch does care about discoverability. It's just, I've said it since I've begun on Twitch. I think live streaming is just terrible for discoverability. And making an algorithm to present it to people and what not. Because it's just hard to categorize. Edited content will always be a better driver for stream content than streams themselves. It's why, you know, if you want to get a person to watch a movie, you make a trailer for that movie, you don't show them a two minute snippet of the movie. Yesterday, for example, I went into Friendly Geordie's stream. A content creator that I like and enjoy. And I watched it for like a minute. I had no idea what the fuck they were talking about. It was something about some ultimatum was being given to one of the guys, by one of the other guys in the cache. I'm like, I have no idea what's going on. And I clicked off. It's possible that if I had seen a video that encapsulated what was going on, what the dynamic is, why they were giving ultimatums and stuff, that I would have immediately been able to catch on and watch and enjoy it. But just getting that snippet, that one minute snippet of the stream, I couldn't enjoy myself. |
| 18. June 2022 | Will Twitch stop gambling streams? | Twitch stop gambling streams. Do you think Twitch would take action against gambling? I would be very surprised if the people who are giving these gambling sponsorships are not also giving Twitch money, in some respect, somehow. Maybe they're paying for advertisements on the platform at a much higher rate or something. There would have to be a substantive backlash for them to do anything. People make these statements where they're like, oh, you can't expect people to turn down millions of dollars to be sponsored by these shady, unregulated gambling companies. We need to rely on the platforms, the systems in place to make rules to stop people. And I hear this and I'm like, who do you think is running these companies, these platforms? It's just people. If you're saying we can't rely on people not to take these sponsorships, then how can we rely on the people who run the platforms to also not take this money? In the same vein, if you're willing to say that you shouldn't think less of people for taking these sponsorships, then you must also apply that to the platform itself because they're also gonna want this money as well, because they're just people as well. More than this, though, they're a company. And they have, what is it, fiduciary obligations or whatever to stakeholders and stuff, that they have to maximize profits and all that jazz. I'm not sure how far that goes or whatever. And then if we can't expect streamers to not take this money, then how can we expect politicians not to take this money? Like, there has to be some measure of being critical and judging the people who actually take this money for any sort of change to happen. What you ultimately want to do is to convince people that there is a greater benefit in not taking this money than taking it, which usually requires a significant amount of community backlash. I believe Ludwig actually referenced this when he said, if I was offered one of these deals, I might not take it, but I don't know if that's because I think they're bad or because I'm worried about my community being angry at me and stuff. That's it, that's social sanctions at work. I had someone argue malls don't pay bills or buy groceries to argue streamers like Asmongold do in React and Condit that was a stupid argument. Of course it's a stupid argument. You can understand a person who is starving, stealing a loaf of bread. You're like, okay, I understand. But if you have a warehouse full of bread and you steal a loaf of bread from a starving family, that's the same act, but the context is very different. Clearly, XQC does not need to do any sort of gambling sponsorships. He probably only did one because he was stupid enough to lose millions of dollars gambling. Because it somehow makes it even worse for a person to lose millions of dollars gambling and then do something that they know will inspire other people to also lose fuck tons of money gambling. The sad state of affairs in life is that in competitive industries, anytime a person stops and thinks, is this right? Is this fair? Is this just? Am I treating other people fairly? This prevents you from out competing everyone else. Because anyone else who is not hampered by such thoughts is sprinting past you, winning, getting more for themselves, fucking over other people, harming other people, but ultimately at the end of the day, dominating that industry. The people who get to the very tip-tops of society are not traditionally the people who have the best motives or are selfless or spend time performing introspection or thinking about their impact on the world or their impact on others. It's just, I want more, gimme, gimme, gimme, me, me, me all the time. It's why despite that, you know, anyone could re-upload the entirety of people's creative works, most people don't do it because they recognize how scummy it is. Asmogold's like, hey, more for me, fuck everyone. As I said, I watched a good video recently that talked about the shady underpinnings of these companies that are giving massive amount of money. The drugs, the murders, the shady enterprises that are housed in these particular countries and stuff. It was all pretty shocking. Like, this isn't a cruelty-free money, it's money that's come from a lot of hardship. So I don't know how these people get so much followers. Are these people just sheep following some fake messiah? I discussed it at the end of the second video. The entire system is set up to keep the already successful more successful. And because these people have no moles, they cheat the system by stealing content to keep themselves live even longer. Anything that would normally inhibit a person's growth, actual work that needs to be done to make content, they outsource to other creators for free. Once you're in that upper echelon, the only way you can fall from it is if you stop streaming. |
| 16. June 2022 | Will XQC be on GTAGuessr? | Will xQc be on GTA Guessa? Why would xQc ever be on GTA Guessa? I'm surprised that I can even remember where his hands are. Like in that video that I just mentioned before about the gambling streams, apparently like a year ago, there was like a debate between the intellectual heavyweights. I say that sarcastically. Okay, the morons of the internet, H3H3, Hasan, Trainwrecks, and xQc. And they show clips of it, all just screaming over the top for each other. It looks so fucking pathetic. |
| 21. September 2022 | Will YouTube ban you all if I streamed Chaos here? | ban you all if I stream Chaos here? A long time back in Rambles, I mentioned that Markiplier was doing a YouTube livestream and a bunch of his viewers got banned because he asked them to type repeatedly like a red light or a green light or like a red paddle or green paddle, something representing no and yes and it was a big scandal and that was maybe a year ago now and I realized if I ever want to do Chaos on YouTube I might be risking that same thing happening. I actually messaged my YouTube partner manager guy I'm like hey uh if I did Chaos on YouTube would all my viewers get banned? And he's like huh I'll have to inquire about that and I'm like I understand having spam protections but like when you as a live streamer can't just ask your viewers to spam for a bit for funsies like that's a that's a little bit weird right? Like Twitch has an inbuilt spam feature in that it doesn't allow you to type the same message twice within 30 seconds that's why Chaos goes from numbers one to four and then five to eight so you can alternate between them every 30 seconds and that's a good feature why does YouTube not just have that feature instead of banning people automatically for typing too much? Hope that isn't the case but we'll see what happens that reminds me I actually got a message from um my YouTube partner manager. No user will be banned simply not able to post chat messages more once the limits are reached in the period. By default viewers are limited to 200 characters and a maximum of 11 submissions every 30 seconds. Event owners are not subject to the frequency threshold so I can spam as much as I want. Viewers cannot post special characters URLs or HTML tags. The creator can configure and enable slow mode so that most users don't hit the above limit. So long story short I've got slow mode of 10 seconds on there's no way for you guys to spam so much that you will uh suffer any reprimand from YouTube. Uh as I say Chaos currently doesn't work on YouTube I don't know how hard Pongo or anyone else in the Chaos crew is working to have that work. Until it does work of course I'll just do it on Twitch. Same thing with GTA Guesser but everything else I'm just gonna do on YouTube because you know why not. |
| 23. February 2023 | Will YouTube shorts change viewer patterns and effect revenue? | and affect revenue. Given that a shorts viewer is worth 1 100th of a regular video view, it'd be sad if all YouTube shorts does is change people's viewing habits from normal videos to shorts and thus massively reduce YouTube's revenues. Time I spend on shorts, I'd normally be watching regular videos. If you previously would watch an 8 minute video and see two ads versus now you watch 16 30 second shorts, like the revenues there don't match up. If rather than bring in new people to watch YouTube longer, it's merely changing people from watching regular videos to watching shorts. This will cause people to effectively have the same watch time on YouTube but have YouTube's overall revenues go down, which would be bad for the creators on the platform, right? Because I found myself I will scroll through regular videos while in my bed and I'll be like well I haven't found anything so I'll click shorts and like scroll through them for a bit. I've said before time I would normally have just spent looking longer for regular YouTube video. I now will just give up easier and go watch shorts or go watch TikTok if I really want something to watch right now. I still of course watch regular YouTube videos. I still do watch long-form content but the ideal scenario was that this would be in addition to people's normal viewing habits rather than changing their viewing habits and at least based on myself it's changing my viewing habits so I assume it's changing other people's as well. I don't believe shorts can replace regular YouTube videos. Given that on TikTok people watch movies separated into shorts, what's that hotel Transylvania where you know with that vampire and falls in love with a human or whatever. I've seen like half that movie on TikTok now. Puss in Boots was on there as well. I know Kung Fu Panda is on there in its entirety. People will do this because it's just easier. You've got to look at it this way. A burger and a pizza are fundamentally different things but they are both food. You wouldn't mistake a burger for a pizza. You wouldn't mistake a pizza for a burger but if you go to a restaurant and they don't have pizza you eat a burger. If they don't have burgers you eat a pizza. They can fulfill the same function of making you full and bringing you satisfaction. While there are some instances where like it is not suitable for you to watch a hundred shorts like you're working on something and you want something in the background you don't want just a endless reel of shorts you want like a podcast or something. There are still many cases where you could either watch shorts or watch regular content and be equally satisfied in that they can replace each other. They can serve the same function even if they are not the same. Keep in mind YouTube isn't paying creators less for shorts. YouTube is making less money off shorts in general. Shorts are harder to monetize. Shorts have a lower click-through rate on ads. That ad space is less valuable. There was less demand for it and so it goes for less. YouTube is giving roughly the same amount of the split that it makes on the ads on shorts but it makes so much less on the ads on shorts that having everyone move from regular videos where the ad space is worth more and they can charge more for it to having them move to shorts where people flick by the ads so quickly people don't click on the ads and stuff they'll like make less money off that space. Low shorts get millions of views? Yeah. It's just it's not equivalent. People are not watching a hundred shorts for every regular video that they would have otherwise watched so the revenue isn't equivalent there. Yeah it's possible they may find a better way to monetize shorts. We'll have to wait and see. It's just people don't like ads. Understandably. Is it worth enabling mid-watching? Yeah it's worth it. |
| 16. November 2022 | Will Youtube streaming beat Twitch streaming? | Will YouTube streaming beat Twitch streaming? Do you think YouTube streaming is getting better by the week? YouTube has thousands of the greatest minds, the greatest technicians, engineers, whatever. Their job is just to think of ways to keep them ahead of their competitors, to grow the tools that people have without potentially overwhelming people, to continue to grow and be the best in the live streaming market. And they've got just endless amounts of money to achieve that ends. So every year things should get better to a degree, I imagine. I mean, progress isn't guaranteed. Obviously they can make things worse. Obviously we can fall backwards. The legislation can screw stuff. But I'm pretty optimistic in regards to YouTube live streaming. |
| 02. February 2023 | Will Youtubers earnings decrease after this change? | Will youtubers earnings decrease after this change? This video was interesting to me. It's amusing to me that CaptainSparklez, once upon a time like a massively huge Minecraft content creator, still makes Minecraft videos, but I had no idea who they were. Until they made a video, he made a video being like I don't like the algorithm and I'm giving up or something, and that video got recommended to me, and now like whenever he does one of his videos where he's just looking into the camera talking about stuff, they always get recommended to me. Because I've watched most of them that have been recommended and you know that's how the algorithm works. But this one, he talked about something I had not considered, where in February the shorts are now going to be fully monetized and the revenue is going to be shared between YouTube and the creators making the shorts in various different percentages, the details don't matter. But one thing he brought up that I hadn't considered is that companies might just take some of their advertising budget that they normally put forth onto long form content and put that towards short form content. So my long form content will start making less money because that's how that works, and your shorts will make up for that, but it won't be like I will make the same amount of long form content plus shorts. It'll be long form content goes down and shorts goes up. And I was like, yeah, I suppose that's conceivably possible. But for me at least, my shorts are going so well that it's inconceivable to me that my long form content could reduce in revenue to the degree that shorts won't make up for that. Like my shorts are going great right now. I released some true bangers. I have 322 left to go through. Some I look at and I'm like, ah, these can't actually be made into shorts. Oh yeah, actually, this one's better than I realized. But there's definitely some other bangers in here to release. And what I'm hoping is that this trend continues into February. I've got a week left and I hope that the monetization of shorts is actually significant, which it might not be because monetizing shorts is quite hard, right? Because the content's there. |
| 28. July 2020 | Will all new games have long speedruns | Will all new AAA games have very long speedruns? Do you think speedrunning new modern games are going to take forever? It depends on the game. Not all games are designed to have really long stories. Or to not be exploitable. It usually just depends on how the game checks for progress. Prey is a good example of a modern game that you clip through one wall, grab one item, and as long as you have that item it assumes you've completed 80% of the game or whatever it is. Certainly games are getting larger, but generally speaking when a game is larger it has more cracks in it. More things that can be exploited. Games that are rigidly segmented like Red Dead Redemption for example, these take forever. But you know it's just the extraordinarily linear nature of the game. What do they call it? Where it's like hubs. There's so many hubs and you can't skip a hub. So you have to do pretty much everything. |
| 28. July 2020 | Will all new games have long speedruns? | Will all new AAA games have very long speedruns? Do you think speedrunning new modern games are going to take forever? It depends on the game. Not all games are designed to have really long stories. Or to not be exploitable. It usually just depends on how the game checks for progress. Prey is a good example of a modern game that you clip through one wall, grab one item, and as long as you have that item it assumes you've completed 80% of the game or whatever it is. Certainly games are getting larger, but generally speaking when a game is larger it has more cracks in it. More things that can be exploited. Games that are rigidly segmented like Red Dead Redemption for example, these take forever. But you know it's just the extraordinarily linear nature of the game. What do they call it? Where it's like hubs. There's so many hubs and you can't skip a hub. So you have to do pretty much everything. |
| 12. February 2023 | Will car keys cease to exist? | Will car keys cease to exist? It's funny, I guess like car keys are kind of going the way of the dodo because like my car doesn't have a key. It has a small thing that you hold and if it's near the car the car's able to unlock. I guess that's what they're doing with all new cars and stuff. A FOB, yes. I know what that stands for, but what car do I drive? It's in chat. Alexa's 2021 IS 300h. I still have a key as part of the FOB. Oh, this is it. So like the entire thing drops off and while this doesn't look like a key, trust me it's a key and so it goes in here and so you press this and it drops away. Like yeah. Wow. Chat smart. If you ignore all the times the chat says dumb things you might be the smartest people in the universe. |
| 14. March 2022 | Will console gaming ever die out? | Will console gaming ever die out? With how expensive the PC market is right now, I don't see consoles dying anytime soon. That's a good point, because most consoles are sold like at cost, if not below that. Because they want to recoup the... Or they just want as many people in the ecosystem as possible to sell games and other services and whatnot. While every piece of hardware that you buy has some amount of markup, the profit of the company that's making it. And when you make something en masse at that kind of scale, you can trim a lot of costs, you know? And development for consoles, considering that everyone has the exact same console, is generally easier than developing for PC. At least this is what I hear, not being a developer, I can't say that based on my own experience. Like, consoles will never be the cutting edge, but due to their simplicity, at least their relative simplicity, they'll have advantages over PCs. No, true, but that Microsoft and Sony might like to sell as cheap as possible, earn off games and things, but the consoles where I live are usually 1.25 to 1.5 times of MSRP. I mean, yeah, but that's just kind of now because of the console, the chip shortage and stuff. |
| 01. May 2021 | Will covid be handled by the end of the year? | Will COVID be handled by the end of the year? What's your thoughts on Japan trying to reopen the Olympics by around December despite the situation? I have to imagine that things will be under control by December. Surely? No? I mean, America's gonna be at 200 million vaccinations. Like, you don't need every single person to have had the vaccination by then for it to be fairly safe to do the Olympics. Vaccine will be less effective against new COVID variant. I have heard the complete opposite. Something being different doesn't necessarily mean that the treatment or prevention for it is gonna be significantly less effective. Yeah, so current polling has 70% of Americans who say they're willing to get a vaccination. And the number has just continued to increase as it continues to roll out and there's not side effects and whatnot. And you don't need 100% of the population to have been vaccinated. 70% is acceptable. I mean, you want more than that to reduce the chance of a significantly different new strain coming along. That the prevention that already exists doesn't work for but you can still get COVID. The point is to either stop you getting it or just to prevent you from having any severe symptoms. Well, then maybe I am being optimistic but by the end of the year, I can't imagine it could not be resolved by then. Resolved in the sense of it not being on pandemic levels. Only 3 million vaccinated? What do you mean? In my country it's only like 500,000. Covaxin is similar to the flu shot set up so a new flu shot will come out every year to keep up with the different variants of the flu. The flu is different though. It's been around mutating for blah blah blah billion blah blah blah, you know. This type of vaccine that they produce isn't the same as the flu vaccine. |
| 15. January 2023 | Will creators flee YouTube as it becomes more restrictive? | Will creators flee YouTube as it becomes more restrictive? If people have to choose between like the cut of 30 billion dollars or something that YouTube brings in, like half of which they give to creators, and being on another platform with like one one millionth of the viewership, they're just gonna swear less. Regardless of what policies that YouTube puts forth, people are just going to obey those policies. The reason why people are a bit annoyed about this one is because it's retroactive. You can't obey future policies in the past. So like there's a possibility that YouTube one day unleashes a new policy where you can't have characters named Michael in your videos. For whatever reason. And I'll just be screwed. That's everyone's fear, right? So I've always sworn in my videos, especially because I play a violent video game, and I've always been fine. I've not gotten age gated or demonetized all that much. I've had to remove a thing or two here or there, but nothing particularly serious. But one day America will become even more puritan, and suddenly even like F you is like a sin against God. And we have to like chuck such people into pits with spikes in them. And I'll be screwed. |
| 22. July 2022 | Will future VR systems have baystations? | Will future VR systems have base stations? Base stations are those boxes that you put in the corner of your room that detect where you are for whatever games you're playing. So I've talked to my electrician about getting four powerpoints in the corners so that I could put base stations there because the valve index can use four base stations, but I didn't even know if valve was going to keep using base stations. Does anyone know about if they're going to keep it? So the Quest right now doesn't use base stations, and the Quest is like the vast majority of the VR market. They lose money on quests that they sell. They're just trying to dominate the market. You cannot get better value for money when it comes to VR hardware than the Quest, and they're going to be releasing another Quest that is also not going to use base stations. When you have a headset that doesn't use base stations, it's just easier to set up. You don't necessarily need as much room. It's just like one thing. Is it wireless as well? Yes? See, and then you compare that to the Valve Index, which has base stations and a bunch of cables, and most people just don't want to deal with that shit. However, you get better tracking with base stations. You get a better visual experience with your PC connected by the cables. The Valve Index still gives you the best experience when it comes to VR, but clearly the more mainstream public doesn't want to spend that kind of money to get a Valve Index, and they don't want to bother with setting up base stations everywhere. It just adds on more expense. And so it would make sense if the next Valve Index didn't use base stations, even though base stations give you a better experience. And so I'm worried I'm going to put a bunch of PowerPoints in my walls, and then a year from now the next Valve Index is going to be not use them. In my mind, it would be strange if Valve didn't make them optional. You have the option to use the base stations. But then I suppose that might make games additionally more complex, because you've got to continue to develop them with consideration for the older hardware and stuff. I don't know, you know. I tried looking around for information. I couldn't find anyone definitively saying anything about it. The problem with VR for me is that it's so hard to capture on stream because there's circular eyes, right? So you've got to like cut off the corners. I hope by now the third party solutions as to how to get VR stuff captured are a bit better, right? |
| 18. May 2021 | Will how the speedrun ended come back? | Will How the Speedrun Ended come back? Of course I plan to do speedrunning again. I think I am so far behind in speedrunning that unless the top runners quit, I will potentially never catch up. But I will certainly smash my PB, show you guys some real cool shit, and make some fucking awesome videos. Of course How the Speedrun Ended will come back. But How the Speedrun Ended will probably be like, they might be like hour long videos. Because there will be so much new stuff. |
| 14. May 2020 | Will i do more gta online? | Will you do the GTA casino heist? I have footage already on YouTube where I tried to do the GTA casino heist. It did not go very well. Will I go back and finish it? Last time I tried to do that, I got bombarded with our hackers. All Rockstar needs to do is put in limitations so people can't fuck with me and I'll play GTA Online like every week. The biggest reason I don't play GTA Online is the hackers. With you guys, you guys can help me make GTA Online a fun game. If you have enough people who are interested and you can play death matches and stuff, I could have some fun with it. But the hackers just ruin it every single fucking time because Rockstar is really incompetent when it becomes comes to its online shit. Who the fuck uses peer-to-peer servers when you're a multi-billion dollar company? Get the fuck out of here Rockstar. When did you first find out about Twitch and why did you start streaming? I first found out about Twitch late 2014 I think with Hearthstone tournaments. Watched a lot of Hearthstone, found speedrunners, streaming. |
| 03. January 2021 | Will i get a p.o. box? | Will I get a PO Box? Will I open a PO Box? So, being Australian, and the majority of my audience, the vast majority, not being in my country, opening a PO Box will mean that people will be paying an extraordinary amount of money for shipping. Besides, the hassles of dealing with all the boxes and storage and all that jazz, I don't think it's something that I want to invest the time in. |
| 16. May 2020 | Will i play horror games? | A dozen. Would you play horror games when your channel such as Outlast? I've played Outlast for 15 minutes, I don't like it, I don't like being s- |
| 14. February 2021 | Will i return to no damage when it is done? | Will I return to no damage when it's done? Once I'm done with no damage, the only reason I will ever come back to it is if I want to do a no damage without using alt strat. Which would be nice, but amazingly frustrating. It would massively increase the amount of spots where things can go wrong. And there are some parts that are effectively not solvable, you know, that I use alt strat on. If I made better strats, it would just at best increase my chances of succeeding, not make it safe. I could certainly do a segmented without alt strat, fucking easily. |
| 01. June 2020 | Will i return to rdr2? | Do you think you will return to Red Dead Redemption 2 online for a stream or attempt a speedrun? No Never it will never happen Will I play through Red Dead Redemption 2 again one day? Yes Put it on the calendar five years from now Matt will play through Red Dead Redemption 2 again because I want to finish all Rockstar games Eventually, and I never finished Red Dead 2 so I will have to eventually |
| 19. March 2021 | Will my clips channel outpace my main channel in subs | Will my clips channel outpace my main channel in subscribers? My clips channel won't get more subs than my main channel. People in general don't sub to clips channels. In the last month my main channel got 51k subs, my clips channel got 49k. Clips channel posts way way too often for me to sub to it. Exactly. Yeah, some people don't mind that stuff. Some people sub to channels and never use their sub feed and stuff. Given how YouTube works with mainly using recommendations to get people to watch stuff. It's not even super important to sub to channels anyway. It's nice though and subs will always be that easy way that people can get some gauge of your success, you know. Even if it is very imprecise. Just a lot of people aren't gonna go to a third-party website to look up how many views you're getting and stuff. They're just gonna be like, oh you got a lot of subs, you famous. |
| 30. December 2022 | Will my final anti-reaction content video ever be made? | Will my final anti reaction content video ever be made? I'm still adding to that essay about reaction content right for the final video that I want to make but I'm like I'm so fascinated by this topic I can't stop thinking about it and I have like the perfect fucking explanation the perfect analogy to explain it that even the dumbest Personal life could understand and it makes me excited to make that video, but I know I'm not going to potentially for eons I'm just like God, but so good. It's so good It's gonna be very interesting when I finally get to try to cobble that video together how much of it is uh still in my memory I'm convinced I'm gonna eventually make it there and the reason isn't as a once upon time thought it would end up being which is ego I'm fairly convinced that the world cannot be really made a better place And I'm certainly not the one to achieve that but it's like Sincere interest at this point and just like I think it's just something interesting to explain to the handful of people who give a shit |
| 31. March 2021 | Will my speedrunning again be successful on Twitch? | Will my speedrunning again be successful on Twitch? When was my last run? And even then that was only of the minor categories. Like when was my last full run? It has to be well over a year. Where does the time go chat? It'd be interesting to see what my viewership is like when I get back to the speedrunning, honestly. Like you would imagine that the speedrunning would potentially be more interesting than the no damage runs as long as I didn't reset too much. I say that as if I'm not gonna reset like a bajillion times. I'm not though. I think I've definitely matured as a person who does the video gaming. I don't think I'm gonna reset nearly as much as I used to. Now you are mega low overkill, but I just think I care more about being entertaining now. I recognize that it's gonna take me so long of being shit before I become competent again. So small time losses and stuff aren't gonna bother me as much. It's like, well, yeah, I understand I'm gonna get time losses because I'm shit, you know. |
| 17. June 2021 | Will no damage runs ever be an official speedrun? | Like, so to explain that, like, the concept of no damage is just so against the philosophy of what speedrunning is. I mean, as a meme category, sure, fine, but taking damage in an intentional, targeted way to save time is like a significant portion of what speedrunning is. Like, damage boosting is a fundamental part of many speedruns. And just removing that arbitrarily, like, I don't think it changes the game enough for it to be worth it being a speedrun. Of all the ideas for extra categories, I think that one makes the most sense though, because it is something you can do and you could hypothetically race in. But it would ultimately then just become down, like, it would be a race to the bottom in the way of, you would just be effectively trying to recreate the original speedrun as much as possible. And to do that, you would have to take certain amounts of risk, and the more risks you take, the more likely you are to save time. Yeah, it just would be a pain. So the differences between the original speedrun and one-hit KO would be as small as possible. A hypothetical best no-damage run speedrun would just be the original speedrun without damage. I'm not saying it doesn't make sense to do it, I just don't find the appeal much, you know? More than anything, this was just a problem-solving exercise. Did my good memory help at university? My memory is good, I must have been good at school. You mean university, the main- |
| 08. March 2022 | Will people ever stop reuploading other people’s videos via reactions? | Will people ever stop re-uploading other people's videos via reactions? One day his battle against one day this battle against the exploitative reaction content will be fruitful. Don't give up Matthew. No it won't so one of the biggest reasons why this can't be solved is because The probably only way it could be solved is through some legislation or some rule on behalf of YouTube More than what they've already done. I mean in regards to not uploading to you complicated content or the stuff on live streams if If we called upon the government to do something they might come down In a position that I wouldn't like or that person wouldn't like or that person wouldn't like no one wants to take that risk if YouTube came down same possibility of that happening because we all have different ideas as to what is most justified and I Don't think any of us trust the government or YouTube to do what we think is right so which kind of letting it sit in limbo hoping it hoping it doesn't get worse and It is getting worse |
| 22. September 2022 | Will people stay playing GTA 5 when GTA 6 comes out? | Will people stay playing GTA V when GTA 6 comes out? I think GTA 6 is just going to be a superior GTA 5 in effectively every respect It's going to take a lot of the, as we see from the leaks, a lot of the stuff from Red Dead Redemption 2 that was Superior and they're just gonna make a GTA V that's better in GTA 6 So while in previous generations you saw some people stick with GTA 4, you saw some people stick with San Andreas because they preferred those games I think it's gonna be less people this time around because the difference between, you know, San Andreas and GTA 4 was huge The difference between GTA 4 and GTA 5 was huge I don't think it's gonna be as big a difference this time around so you aren't gonna have as many holdouts for the previous games Especially because of how long GTA 5 was out without any other games from Rockstar to really compete with other than Red Dead, of course So I think there's gonna be more clean separation between the generations this time around I for one am not gonna stick with GTA 5 We're still a few years out from GTA 6 releasing and I think by then I'll have done everything I want to do with GTA 5 Is the- |
| 06. November 2020 | Will people still make GTA 5 content in 10 years? | GTA 5 in 10 years. Are you saying, are you saying will people still watch streams of GTA 5 10 years from now? Uh, it wouldn't surprise me. Like you can look up and find content creators who are still making videos on Rollercoaster Tycoon. Age of Empires after 20 years still has a vibrant community, although it did get a re-release. A game like this where just so many people have bought it and people have played it for so long. There's always going to be some people who are like, ah, GTA 5. I remember the days when I played that game. But of course the the popularity will wane. Everything will eventually have been done to a degree. Like keep in mind that these games that, you know, are still popular after 20 years. YouTube didn't exist 20 years ago, right? It remains to be seen how long a game can survive people making content about it. Even when GTA 5 came out seven years ago, YouTube wasn't as big of a thing, right? Sure, Age of Empires is still, people are still making content about Age of Empires. But will they be making content about Age of Empires 20 years from now? There's only so many challenge runs that you can do. There's only so many facts that you can talk about, about the game. There's only a finite amount of content that you can create. But you can imagine that content can always be remade for a new generation. It can always be remade with a new personality doing it, putting their own spin on it. Like it wouldn't surprise me if content is made about GTA 5 for effectively the rest of time. You know, gaming time or whatever. But I'm sure it would not be as popular. Like you can imagine 30 years from now someone saying, hey guys, I'm playing all the GTA games again. Oh man, GTA 5, I remember that from my childhood. Oh look, it's Michael again. And you know, whatever. |
| 22. September 2022 | Will people submit speedrun times for GTA 6 day one? | People submit speedrun times for GTA 6 Day 1. Traditionally, when a game comes out, the speedrun.com moderators, I mean, it depends on the group, of course, but this is usually what happens. There's usually, like, what's the word, an embargo, where you can't submit a time for, like, two weeks or something, to give people time to actually enjoy the game, rather than people just wanting to pick up a world record and say, I had a world record for GTA 6, even though you only had it for, like, 15 seconds, because you happened to submit on, like, Day 1 or something. Give people time to actually play through the game, and for the time to get to something that's actually competitive, rather than just a thousand people all submitting their times immediately, clogging up the boards, trying to get world record for that one nanosecond. I have no evidence that's gonna happen this time around, but I'd be really shocked if that didn't happen. Do you think any of the old GTA 5 strategies also work in GTA 6? I believe it would be the same engine, so I'd be very surprised if they didn't. Usually, when the next version of a game on the same engine comes out, the speedrun gets a lot more broken, a lot faster, because you already have, like, a laundry list of things to test. An interesting thing is going to be who is going to be a moderator for GTA 6, because what happened when GTA 5 came out is a lot of the old guard for a lot of the earlier GTA games, they became moderators for GTA 5, they speedrun a little bit, but clearly didn't enjoy it as much as the earlier games, and so all kind of went away. And so, at one point, we had, like, the three super moderators on speedrun.com who were doing nothing, they were basically absent, you had to, like, message them and say, hey, yo, stuff's going on. It's part of the reason why I became a moderator at all, because they weren't doing anything, and they just needed someone who would be willing to check runs and stuff. So it's gonna be interesting if, like, the old guard from the 3D GTAs are going to try and be like, no, no, no, we should be the moderators for GTA 6, rather than the moderators for GTA 5 just being carried over. Clearly, I'm going to be bogged down with content creation and stuff, so I probably wouldn't submit to be a moderator for GTA 6. The only reason I would like to, and the reason why I like continuing being a moderator for GTA 5, is because I consider myself to be fair. I'm not a person interested in, like, power for power's sake. I'm willing to do everything democratically all the time, even if, you know, I get overruled on stuff or what have you. I trust myself to do this, why I don't necessarily trust other people. The possibility that something bad happens with the leaderboards for GTA 6, and I'm not going to have any influence to be able to stop it, would be awful. It's, I mean, more than likely, though, I won't submit myself to be moderator for GTA 6, because I just won't be active enough, I don't think. |
| 29. October 2021 | Will rambles ever end? | Will rambles ever end? Do I think I'll ever be done with rambles? So when it comes to YouTube content, you ideally want two things. One, an infinite source of content, and two, for the content to be evergreen, in the sense that regardless of what year it is found and by who, it will still be understood and be interesting. Rambles are only one of those two, which is that I have an everlasting supply. As in, as long as stuff exists in the world, I can talk about it, and therefore rambles can go on forever. But it's not evergreen, because it gets out of date, becomes less interesting sometimes. Some of it is evergreen, in that it's, you know, I talk about society, philosophy, all that jazz, but other things, talking about current events, less interesting. And sometimes, unless you're around for those current events, I don't give enough context for what I'm talking about to really make sense, because I just assume that people, because the people at the time would understand a little bit, that people a year from now might not. But the reason why rambles will continue to be made forever is because they're the easiest content to make. They're basically filler content. They come out every second day, ideally, to put space between my main videos. So you, because you don't want to release a two hour video every single day, because a person may not have finished the previous two hour video, you want to give them a little gap there, you know? Rambles perfectly space my content. Yeah, I think that rambles is good content. It's just, it's not the most difficult content to make. It's not the main driver of people coming to my channel. |
| 22. September 2022 | Will the GTA Online 2 servers be good? | Two servers be good. Nothing Roxlar has done is in any way suggestive that GT Online 2 for PC isn't gonna be as much a shit show as the first GT Online. They have made so much money despite how bad the lack of servers are that maybe they just won't care. And you think like, oh but like they made that back in 2013. There's no way in 2022, 2024, whenever the game comes out, whatever, that they're gonna have no servers and gonna do peer-to-peer again. But you forget that Nintendo still does peer-to-peer. There are multi-billion dollar companies right now still doing peer-to-peer in their games because it is just cheaper. If they go to peer-to-peer again, it's gonna be as much a shit show as it was last time and that's just gonna be so fucking sad. |
| 13. October 2021 | Will the new strats in ohko make me feel cheated when I succeed? | Will the new strats in Oko make me feel cheated when I succeed? Do you think you'll feel cheated if you beat Oko first? Try and use these new strats. You'll be happy it was over. I Felt cheated that I didn't succeed in this like a bajunian years ago I don't think my feelings on the matter will change if anything I would see these new strats as like a a great silver lining I mean if I couldn't be first and I had to spend that much time being frustrated if at the end of it I get to do a really cool run with some really cool strats. I mean, that's a good silver lining, right? I like cool stuff in GTA and these strats are definitely very cool These new strats almost make all that long frustration worth it |
| 29. November 2022 | Will the next GTA Online DLC include Michael? | Will the next GTA Online DLC include Michael? Nothing particularly interesting is happening in the world of GTA right now. When is the DLC coming out in a month? Which I know you don't really play, but... I mean, is it finally going to be the Michael DLC or? All rumors at this time still, unfortunately. Because do you remember when Ned Luke was on Twitter like hinting like, oh, I'm doing something with GTA Online, you remember that? Yes, it's been a while though, right? Yeah, so I was thinking maybe it was just him trying to like drum up interest so that Rockstar would be like, oh, there's interest in this, so let's do it. Rather than it being an actual thing already in the works. I mean, I'm sure they saw the success with Franklin and the contract DLC, so I don't see why they wouldn't want to gain on that with Michael. That's what I thought as well, but so I'm kind of playing devil's advocate here, but like I don't think that Franklin DLC was that successful compared to other DLC that they've done. And a lot of that, them doing that was just so that they could have the Dr. Dre tie in. Indeed. That they clearly had interest in. So maybe they had no real interest in bringing the characters back, but wanted to drum up interest in the Dr. Dre music stuff. And without that kind of motivation, they have no reason to care about Michael either. I hope they do it though. |
| 14. January 2021 | Will the social media platforms collapse? | And certainly what you're talking about with with mixer in terms of you know, you you hope that YouTube and twitch will be around forever because Google and Amazon but like in Listening to other people talk about it talk about it. Um, YouTube did come close to basically collapsing multiple times because of Different lawsuits in regards to DMCA and whatnot and Google saying this is this is too hot We want to chuck it and and people why twitch is gonna do something similar Twitch was so bad in having no preparation for the the music companies coming down on them Even me just being a layman or whatever just a regular dude I when people would say to me in chat, oh, it's great on twitch You can play any music you want and I'm like, yeah only because twitch is small watch out when twitch gets big They're gonna come here just like they came for YouTube and I was shocked that twitch was not prepared For when they when they finally came and there was always the worry that Amazon's gonna go This this twitch is like one tiniest fraction of what Amazon owns and it's causing all these problems all these lawsuits all this bad attention It's fuck off twitch who cares. Let's get rid of it. There's there's a possibility that could still happen. Um, and that that It's very disheartening. I I You know a few years ago I would have sell you twitch is gonna be here forever But as twitch continues to go on making these mistakes not being prepared for the future I'm not as certain as I was, you know I think that's why it's just so so important like to try and get audiences on Instagram Twitter channels yet which get diversify as much as you can just so that if something closes, you know, You can be like our guys that sucks twitch is gone. I'm gonna be streaming on YouTube now I'm gonna be streaming on Facebook or whatever hopefully not Facebook, but we're |
| 12. April 2022 | Will they finally update red dead online? | Bring more love to Red Dead Online for you guys who care about that, but I am skeptical that they ever will, honestly, at this point. Yeah, but did you see the GTA Online fanboys that were like attacking the save reddit online thing, and they were saying like, Oh, stop complaining, we want GTA 6, you're causing GTA 6 to be delayed and stuff like that. Have you seen those comment wars? That's not how that works, I don't think, no. I mean, yeah, I have seen. Whenever Rockstar says anything or anything about Rockstar comes up, someone is always like, where's GTA 6? As much as I'm sure we'd all like GTA 6, it wouldn't kill them to have a few people still making content for Red Dead Online, you know? Yeah, and I hope that they can still make money from it, and the thing is, I hear these stupid arguments all the time saying, Red Dead Online doesn't make as much money as GTA Online, but if they put time and effort into making updates and actually made stuff that you can buy in the game, then yeah, it would make them money, but they're just being lazy with it. They think, you know, why should we make brand new updates for Red Dead Online, and we can just milk GTA Online and put an update every six months and people will play that. So that's the way a lot of Red Dead players feel. I was about to say then, they're not really putting much new stuff into GTA Online either. Clearly, they just don't really have much interest in supporting these online things anymore. I've heard that the development of GTA 6 has been somewhat rocky. There's always rumors like this, and so in my mind, it's possible that a lot of the garbage that we're seeing coming out of Rockstar in the last couple of years has been because of this rocky development, where they're trying to reassure shareholders or whatever that they can still make money. So every single time GTA 6 has some issues and it's delayed a little bit internally, they're like, oh shit, we've got to put out these remasters or we've got to make GTA Plus or whatever. They're throwing everything they can to make GTA 6 work, and in the meantime, they have to do things that take no effort, but still generate revenue to appease shareholders. But maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm being optimistic, I'm not sure. I guess we will only see. Time will tell what happens rather than lying, but I don't have much hope for the game. Yeah, and we'll see with GTA 6 as well if it ends up being good. |
| 18. January 2023 | Will this sleeping pills allow me to have a normal life again? | Will sleeping pills allow me to have a normal life again? So first bit of good news chat, I have been given sleeping pills. I'm rest. Zopikion. So I thought that this stuff wasn't available, but it turns out you just need a prescription for it. So whenever I'm unable to sleep, like last night I went to bed at like 9am, pop one of these. Unfortunately they are addictive, and if you use too many of them, then you kind of can't function without them or something. So no more than two weeks in a row, but I don't plan to use them two weeks in a row. Basically, when I have a night where I can't sleep, I'll use one. Either that, or to like reset my sleeping pattern I'll use one, and that's all I plan to use them for. So hopefully this works out for me, and I can actually have a normal life again, which I haven't been able to have for like a year. |
| 19. July 2020 | Will twitch ever be shut down. | Will Twitch ever fail going the same way as Mixer? Do you think Twitch will ever turn out like Mixer being shut down? That would be really surprising. I talk about this all the time. Twitch had the first mover advantage and that's the only reason why it's still a player in the game. That's it. Over the next five years, its market dominance will continue to be eroded. But it will still be a successful platform, I think. So Facebook and Google, how do they make their money? They make their money from ads. How does Amazon make their money? They make their money selling products. Twitch isn't the main, it doesn't really fit the normal portfolio for Amazon. They don't seem to have it as a major focus. In the same way that YouTube and Facebook have more of an invested interest in growing their platforms. But they're not in the ad game in the same way that Google is. YouTube doesn't care about streamers. This seems not to be true. It's true for both. As in YouTube does care about its streamers. Because its streamers are largely its content creators. The people who are successful as streamers on YouTube are the same people who are successful producing edited content on YouTube. It can't not care about its streamers. If it doesn't care about its streamers, it doesn't care about its creators at all. Which doesn't seem to be true. And Twitch does care about discoverability. It's just, I've said it since I've begun on Twitch. I think live streaming is just terrible for discoverability. And making an algorithm to present it to people and what not. Because it's just hard to categorize. Edited content will always be a better driver for stream content than streams themselves. It's why, you know, if you want to get a person to watch a movie, you make a trailer for that movie, you don't show them a two minute snippet of the movie. Yesterday, for example, I went into Friendly Geordie's stream. A content creator that I like and enjoy. And I watched it for like a minute. I had no idea what the fuck they were talking about. It was something about some ultimatum was being given to one of the guys, by one of the other guys in the cache. I'm like, I have no idea what's going on. And I clicked off. It's possible that if I had seen a video that encapsulated what was going on, what the dynamic is, why they were giving ultimatums and stuff, that I would have immediately been able to catch on and watch and enjoy it. But just getting that snippet, that one minute snippet of the stream, I couldn't enjoy myself. |
| 05. September 2021 | Will we reach the point where no more new content is needed? | Did we reach the point where no more new content is needed? I was just thinking about like, is there going to be a time where like, no one has seen Breaking Bad and... Like, the company that owns Breaking Bad will just advertise it as if it's something new? Like, is there going to be a point where companies won't like, need to make new stuff? Like, they can just live off just re-presenting the old stuff? Like, visual and audio technology will get to the point where it's clearly at its peak. And so like, new stuff that's made won't look any different from the old stuff. Bit like some YouTube channels already. I've said before that uh... A lot of YouTube channels could just re-release everything they made like, three years ago. And their audience would have completely changed and so it may as well be new. |
| 27. October 2020 | Wining | First grade or something. There was a coloring in competition and neither me nor my friend won. But my friend wanted to pretend like he won to his mother. So he wrote on his piece of paper. And just like, like as a kid would, he wrote winning. But he spelled it with one N. So rather than saying winning, it said whining. He's like, mom, look, I won. She's like, so you're whining. How are you? I don't know why I remember that to this day. That's not how you spell whining, but just without the N. It's just funny as a little kid. I don't know why I still remember that to this day. Doing more cooking streams. Do I plan to do more cooking streams in the future? Nah. |
| 08. April 2021 | Wiping your past social media from existence. | wiping all your past social media from existence. So, do you guys know this guy? Um, does he work for Polygon or something? His thumbnails have like a purple outline and he kind of in a very enthusiastic way explains video games and video game concepts. BDG, Brian David Gilbert, yeah. Interesting dude. Funny guy. So the reason why I bring him up is he has this video where he explains the lore of Waluigi. And obviously there's not much lore and he explains it in a very funny way and it's a good video. But apparently the head of Nintendo actually saw his video and responded to it with a wave or something on Twitter. And I thought that was kind of cool. Imagine you make something that the head of Nintendo whatever acknowledges. It'd be the equivalence of the head of Take Two or Rockstar acknowledging my video. But what was weird to me is that the tweet that the head of Nintendo responded to was deleted. So Brian made a video that the head of Nintendo responded to and he deleted that tweet. And I'm like, why would you ever delete a tweet that was responded to by someone that famous? And apparently it's because he deletes all his tweets periodically. And then he would just wipe clean his Twitter. And you gotta wonder how many people do that now. And I thought to myself, do I want to do that? Am I willing just to wipe clean my entire Twitter? I just, I don't, I couldn't do that, I don't think. Like I even had trouble like deleting my Facebook before I was 18 or whatever. Like there's nothing on there that I could ever possibly really value but just like I never know what I'm gonna want in the future, you know? There'll be cash version of his old tweets. Are you sure? Isn't there laws that says you can't do that? At least in Europe, that if a person deletes their stuff, it has to be permanently deleted? Or do you mean like on an external website or something that's keeping them? So I'd be really surprised if there was an external like keeping of all Twitter replies. Like, nah, I don't believe that for a second. Like when you look at the way back machine and stuff, you can get some good information from there, but it's spotty at best. There's just too much information being shared on Twitter at all times for it all to be recorded. Certainly when you get to a level of prominence, stuff is more likely to be kept, but you know like major tweets maybe doesn't surprise me. Like there could be websites where if an account has over 100,000 followers, it will catalog any tweet that they make. Because that'd be such a small amount of the platform. Maybe that exists, I don't know where that is, but I don't. |
| 26. August 2021 | Women thought I was gay because of how I looked | Women thought I was gay because of how I looked when I was younger. When I was younger guys, I used to have blonde streaks in my hair and there was a point where I grew my hair so long that like I had a whole fringe kind of over the top of my hair. My hair kind of went down and like it wasn't like super long hair but like I had a lot more hair. It grew even longer and I had to like part it in front of my head. I could only see out of one eye kind of thing. It was really stupid. Long story short, I also wore like a silver chain around my neck and I would wear like two rings on like this, these two fingers. I'd wear like one ring on one hand and two on the other hand, like stainless steel kind of rings. I had to rethink my life choices when I went to the RSL once and this girl asked me if I was gay based on my physical appearance. And her friend agreed and I was just like, oh. I actually went to my friends that I was there with and I'm like, do I look gay? And they're like, what? No, no, no. And one person was like, I kind of see it. And I was just like, oh man. When I had this hairstyle and I was dressed this way, I took a picture of myself in the Coles bathroom because I was working at Coles at the time and I had like a blue shirt and stuff. I thought I looked pretty good and I still think I look pretty good. It's okay to be gay. Of course it's okay to be gay. But I mean, if you're straight attempting to attract women, you don't want people to look at you and think that you look stereotypically gay. That is not a good move. It is not conducive to the goals that you're trying to achieve. |
| 22. July 2022 | Words that shouldn’t be lewd but kind of are | Words that shouldn't be lewd but kind of are. You know what's weird to me chat? The word length almost has lewd connotations. In the same way that I guess moist is for other people, it doesn't trip me out of it, it just it just it kind of like girth and moist. Like these words aren't lewd but just for whatever reason it just kind of has that little bit of an association in my brain. |
| 14. January 2021 | Work-life balance | I feel you, I feel you. Like, there's only so, at the end of the day, like, if you take on too much of that management stuff at first, it's OK. But I don't know how you do it there every waking hour, editing, making content. I need to have just a day off to just spend time with, like, my girlfriend or family or whatever. Like, otherwise, I just just not worth it somehow. So, yeah, I've got a terrible attitude when it comes to these things, where it's like, I there's this there's a sentiment that a lot of YouTubers have. I've heard it suggested just independently by many different people, where you always think this is your last year as a not that you're going to quit. Is that, you know, the algorithm is going to turn or or just people are not going to like your content or you're going to make some error and it's going to destroy your career. And so every moment I'm sitting there like, man, this is could be my last year. Fuck getting a dog. Fuck, fuck getting a relationship. You know, not to the extent fuck my family exactly. But I mean, like, sure, family may be not as big a priority as it would have been in years past. Yeah, you know, next year will be the year where I bother with that stuff. And then like the year past. Well, next year, next year, I'm worried that I'm going to always going to be successful. I'm never going to get that other stuff in my life. But it's just I want to make the most of this while I can. And, you know, I'm not I have a lot of confidence in myself and my ability to stick around forever. Maybe you do because you've got a support network or whatever that's telling you that you're amazing in your life or whatever. But I don't really have that stuff. I'm amazing. You're amazing. I know. But I think your community, like no joke, your community is so crazy. Like, good. Like, it seems like such a good place to be in. And like, everyone seems to love your stuff. So I totally get where you're coming from. But at the same time, I do. You you could have an extra day off every now and then. And I think at the end of the day, like your fans and viewers would actually. I don't know what I do with myself, though. I just I just enjoy making stuff. And it's just it's just so satisfying watching the numbers go up and see myself climbing and as I've lived. Because how old are you now? I'm 27. How old are you? I'm 29. So there's not much of a difference there. But I mean, I've lived a life before making content and it just was boring. I mean, I go back to thinking about grinding World of Warcraft achievements all day after school and shit like that was a terrible waste of time. And we all did. We all did it. So I think it's what it's funny. You know, whenever I the conversation comes up on different channels, I'm watching and someone asked like, what what games do you have the most hours in? World of Warcraft is mentioned. |
| 03. May 2021 | Workaholic, Work Ethic, Happiness In Purpose | Workaholic, work ethic, happiness in purpose. Do I consider myself a workaholic? What an interesting question. When I worked at Kohl's, I gained this feeling of satisfaction when I could walk out in the store and at the end of the night everything looked perfectly faced up and every apple was in its place and everything was full and looked great and everything was clean and I could look around and go, yeah, it's good. When I was at university, I would make sure I did enough work every day. I wouldn't overwork myself but I plan out everything so I could do 20% this day, 20% that day, 20% that day. So I wouldn't feel overwhelmed but I could feel like I'm progressing towards my goals, completing assessments or doing certain study things. When I worked repairing hearing aids, I liked doing the jobs fast and having more jobs done than anyone else but I never overworked myself at any of these jobs. When my hour was done at Kohl's, I was gone. I was flash out of there like I was teleporting. 9pm, gone, I'm home. If I can leave a few minutes early, happy with that too. When I worked repairing hearing aids, maybe I want to stay on lunch another five minutes. You know when I did my uni work, I'd be sure to take those breaks. I would do work so I know I'm getting to the end but I wouldn't just overwork myself and stay up 24 hours or finishing a job. The only reason you might consider me a workaholic with what I do now is because what I do now is really, really, really, really rewarding. Both mentally and financially, really rewarding. And to give you an example, Ludwig's Subathon, that looks amazingly taxing. Holy shit, how annoying would that be? Couple of hundred thousand dollars though and suddenly you're a workaholic. You know what I'm saying? It's not hard to work really hard if there's an actual result of your work that you can tangibly see and that you really love doing what you're doing. People who are unmotivated to work, it's not like they wouldn't work in some circumstances, is that they don't see the reward, they don't see it worth it, you know? Like a person can be like the laziest motherfucker alive at their job and they can go home and grind ten hours straight on the exact same mobs in World of Warcraft to get it to drop a pet. If you care about the reward and you see some actual positive effects of the extra effort that you're putting in, people can do stuff, you know? As I say, you can't blame people for putting in the minimal effort when they're paid the bare minimum at their job, working at nine to five. Studies found that it was like money at the job that motivated the workers. I wonder how they did the study though. Because surely like feeling appreciated at your job must have some measure of impacts. That kind of statement would just depend on the job, I think. Maybe even the person or how the money is given. Stock options are very, very motivating at my company. I mean, certainly if you own a piece of the company and the success of the company is directly felt by you. What's it called? Workers co-ops or whatever, where everyone working for the company has like a legitimate investor interest. Like if the company is profitable, they receive some of that profit. Of course people are going to be motivated in what they do. Like I can't imagine, for example, if you offered someone a billion dollars to increase their productivity by 10%. I sincerely fucking doubt that wouldn't work. Who the hell wouldn't work temporarily harder for a billion dollars? The statement money doesn't motivate people. I can't like that broad of a statement can't be true. Because you can clearly think of extremes, but that would be true. Everyone has a price, but people will take a lower paying job. It all depends. All these statements just, it depends. Because certainly you wouldn't take a substantially lower paying job, right? Or one that has less job security. Because it's as I always say, all decisions are a matter of the pros and cons of what you're currently doing versus the pro of cons of what you're going to be doing, right? I mean, Salifah, if you have that study, send it to me, I'd be interested to read it. Because it wouldn't surprise me if in some circumstances money does not inspire people. It just, for me, it would just depend on what is being done and what is being offered. Because you can definitely conceptually think of how, as I say, the extremes that can't possibly be true. Context depend probably, yeah. With a lot of studies, they just can't be generalized. And it's often unfortunate, like the researchers will often like explicitly say, oh, well, the extent to which this can be generalized to the entire economy is skeptical of that possibility. And then like some will write a news report like, oh my god, this proves definitively X is bad or whatever. It's like, oh, fuck off, you know? Researchers are in general quite open about the degree to which their work can be generalized to anything. But that kind of gets lost in translation when people either report on it or they just read the results or whatever. Money motivates you up to a point. If you earn 200k, then 250k is not a main motivator. So this is another one. The amount of studies that have said like, oh, you know, money only makes you happy up to this point. Like there's endless amounts of studies that come to the conclusion that money, getting more money doesn't necessarily make you happier. But the amount of money that they say is the peak is always different. It just depends on how you're calculating it or what you're talking about or who the sample is. Like 250k is a different amount of money, depending upon what country you're talking about. How much that would put you above the average person or above the poverty line or whatever is very different. And how you're making that money, I think matters a lot as well. You'd rather be rich and unhappy than poor and unhappy. So yay for money. I mean, at least if you're rich and unhappy, you have more options to solve your unhappiness or the odds of things getting worse for you is less. Money just in general gives you more options and protects you from your changes in your environment that could potentially negatively impact you. You know, if you have enough money to buy a new car, then the possibility of your car coming to damage to use is no longer a big issue. The more money you have, the more hobbies that you can effectively afford to investigate and actually do, given that some hobbies actually require an amount of money to do. The amount of places you can go, the amount of things you can do just goes up. So the amount of potential solutions you have to fucking anything goes up. You've seen those reports of those junior analysts and investment banks? No. Unless you're talking about how these people sleep four hours a day, are always working, you know, they're working 18, 20 hours a day, making fuck tons of money, that's all they fucking do. As I was saying before, it depends on how the money is being made. There are some people who are sitting on their asses all day doing nothing. They have, you know, two hours of work a day and they're making 100k a year. And there are other people who are working 20 hours a day who are also making 100k a year. Your quality of life there is going to be very different. There was an interesting statement made by Rekful. For those who don't know, he's a Twitch streamer who committed suicide. But he made a statement when he, because he suffered from depression like a long time, but he was always very wealthy. He was actually the richest streamer that I knew of. And he said, I wish I was poor because then I would have something to do. And people hated him for this statement, but it was just, he was like, he had nothing to fight for. He had no real worries. And he just felt like if he had that battle every day, it would improve his circumstances. Like he would no longer feel that emptiness that he had. I'm not saying that's true necessarily, but that level of not having something to push for, to strive for, that's something that's going to be damaging regardless of how much money you have. Right? So I got distracted by someone saying, someone saying privileged shit in here. My dude, the guy literally killed himself. He literally was so depressed that he killed himself. And he tried to explain why. And your response was, that's some privileged shit. Fuck you. The reason I brought up Rekful's statement is when I heard it, I thought it was so absurd. But as I've gone on in life, I really want to see a study that breaks down not happiness by income, but just looking at people who make above average income and trying to classify them based on how they make that money as to how happy they are. Like I'm interested if, like these people who lay around and collect money, do they have satisfying lives compared to people who, let's say they don't overwork themselves. Let's say they're making 200k a year or something, don't overwork themselves. Like I want to think that a person who works a nine to five, five days a week, could be potentially happier than a person who has nothing to do but collects 200k a year. But you can imagine that not being true, but you can also imagine it being true. Like work does give people satisfaction, depending on what they do. Gives you something to do, something to strive for. But clearly a lot of people are just stuck in completely dead end jobs that are just soul crushing. And that can be the case regardless of what income you make. It's just so hard to make general statements about everyone. It's always just like, it depends. I don't think that it's possible to measure. I'd say it's possible. Like for me, because AdSense goes up or down depending upon the month, I make more or less money from YouTube based on the month. I don't think my satisfaction with my life or job changes. Maybe it's too small of an increase or reduction. I just really like what I do. Sometimes when I tell myself like, oh man, I think you've spent too much of your time editing or streaming or whatever. You should probably be like getting real life friends and relationships and stuff. I'm like, do I really care about those things? Or do I tell myself I should care about those things? You know? Your lifestyle is not changing month to month basis? |
| 01. June 2020 | Working and studying from home | Do you think quarantine will show the world that people can work and study from home? Yeah, so we touched on that before. There are still a lot of things that, you know, that work culture and togetherness and bonding and stuff, and shared experience and da-da-da, you're meeting friends and stuff. Like, for a long time, the main place people met new people was work, or new friends or whatever, for adults, was work. Having that go away would be weird. I doubt you can bond with a person from work over the internet as well as you could in person. Certainly, a lot of people say with study that the best things you can get out of study is the networking. You know people who are going into the same industry that you're going in, who themselves may have connections. So, you know, five years from now, it's like, oh yeah, we went in that same class together, how's it going? That stuff is very valuable. There's a dollar figure you can put on that, and it's a pretty hefty one. Just going to purely digital, you would lose all that. Like, it's not all upside, is all I'm trying to say with at-home work. And not everyone would be cut out for that kind of stuff. |
| 11. December 2019 | Working out | My father continuously hounding me to work out. My dad yesterday, he's so concerned about my physical well-being, as he always has been. Whenever I would talk to my dad, he's like, Are you hitting the gym, man? You're doing a bit of an exercise. Come on, man. You gotta run a bit, man. You're still young, gotta take care of yourself, man. You eating well? Like, uh, maybe, dad. My dad offered me, um, offered to pay half of the physical trainer or something. As in, was it 20 or 40 dollars? He said, look, you come around once a week or something, and train you. Or was it once a day? I can't even f**king remember. I think it was once a week. To get me to exercise for 30 minutes or some s**t. And I said no, because I never know when I have 30 minutes free. Because, you know, my stream might go longer or shorter, I might be in an amazing run or whatever, and, um, ultimately I just need to get my act together and exercise a bit more, which I, which I do try to do. When I reviewed footage, like, my VODs, I would exercise during that. But now that I don't review my VODs and I have editors do it for me, again, to explain the procedure, people send me a project file, and then I, um, with all the selected scenes that they've edited together, and then I, you know, remove a scene or extend a scene or change the amount of frames in a scene or whatever, and I add my own edits sometimes. Part of the reason why there's more creative edits than previous episodes is because you have, like, both mine and the other editors, other editors having ideas. If you just have two mines, you get more out of it. But I can't exercise while doing those edits. I could when I was reviewing the footage. I just have less time to exercise. I just need to put away half an hour and just fucking go on my treadmill or my exercise bike, whatever, and I'll be fine. But it's just, I hate not working, you know, or making stuff. There's always something I can be doing. |
| 14. March 2020 | Working with audio when making videos | Which is a far quicker Working with audio when making videos With every video I make I realize how much I hate working with audio Audio is so hard and it's so underappreciated when watching a video Me it's just because I make content this I Know when like I watch videos make this audio is terrible, you know But I definitely didn't think that much about it when I was younger or when I didn't make content like good audio is Like you don't even notice that it's been Worked on it seems all fluid and perfect, you know But like I have the greatest problem that often I'll have like ideas for content and I won't know where to begin with How to find the audio that I want for the particular scene |
| 02. October 2021 | Working with people and kids in community work | Working with people and kids in community work I Teach a fun science class and after school program to little kids. Oh, dude. That's awesome We do birthday parties to I wear a lab coat and everything that's nice It sounds like a lot of fun when I went to a career counselor when I was 18 years old Based on the the aptitude and personality tests and stuff that they gave me or that the woman gave me She suggested that I would I would enjoy working With kids or being in nursing or something But I said to her like I don't think I'd be comfortable around people all day every day like I've always wanted to help people But I find people emotionally draining especially those who are suffering I'm kind of empathetic and I feel What other people are going through and so it makes it hard to be around people who are really having a hard time You know and I think if I ended up working in some kind of community service kind of thing either I'd come to hate people or I would kill myself or something because I should be so depressed and and with with kids though Kids are cute But they can be real assholes, right? It's not some kids just fucking brats and I don't know how I would deal with that You know You gotta have a lot of patience with kids and kind of take the good with the bad kind of thing I'm not sure that I could do that. Yeah, I'm sure there's ways to diffuse the situation stuff Kelly I just don't know if I'd be good at it. It's clearly not something that is likely to happen for me besides There's still a bit of a stigma around Well from what I've heard I didn't know this for certain. I'm just you know around the water cooler I'm not saying I've seen data on it or I've heard anecdotal accounts and stuff Of some people still not being okay with men around kids. I'm sure that's not like everyone But I would I think I'd find it tough Even if one person like questioned my motivations or something or you know clutch their kid when I came by I'd be like Oh, man, you know that would hurt my feelings |
| 14. May 2020 | World record depression | I've heard speedrunners say that one of the most depressing moments is right after getting a world record something to do with finally achieving what you've strived for For so long you understand share those feelings. I mean people feel different things about any kind of achievement It's on them. I don't feel that I've always got the next thing that I need to do It has been a while since I've got a world record I feel a great sense of satisfaction, but it's mainly because I know World records are fleeting that I'm gonna lose the world record eventually and I will have to get it back Getting a world record never feels like the end of the story. It feels like the end of a chapter There's gonna be another chapter more goals more things to achieve so I don't feel depressed after it. I feel satisfied. |
| 26. April 2021 | Worrying about my father and old age. | Worrying about my father and old age. I've begun to worry about my father. My father, for those unaware, is in his 60s. As in he met my mother when she was in her early 20s and he was in his 30s. So like there was a 10 year age gap. They were only together for 20 years. Well that's a long time but I mean, you know, they didn't stay together forever, you know what I'm saying? But my dad, he once said to me, one of the things that drives him and makes him believe his life is doing good in his life and whatnot is he feels like the money that he makes, his jobs and stuff, is going to help me and my sister in the future. Like in a way, he feels like he's doing good because he's providing for his kids and their future. Now that I've become successful, and to be frank I don't need any potential money from him or whatever, I've begun to be concerned that he's, well he's probably happy for me. He's lost a part of what was kind of driving him to have purpose in life in his old age. And I've heard that like he went to the gym consistently for like 50 years, like every day, and he stopped. I heard that and I was shaken to my core. Like I'm legitimately worried for my father. And looking at my dad, my dad doesn't do anything. He doesn't do anything. Like he goes to work and he drinks. And the doctor has told him he has to cut down on drinking. What I'm just saying is, I gotta go visit my father. Go to dinner with him or something and see, and try to get him to do something with his life. Seeing my father have like maybe one friend that he refuses to go visit, and how he does nothing with his life, I worry that I'm gonna end up that way as well in my later life. The one advantage I have over my father though is I've got the fucking internet. When I'm 65, I'm gonna have video games. I'm gonna be able to talk to people in video games. I'm gonna be that old guy in your guild like, oh you kids you don't understand. Video games back then used to be so much better than they are today. You now have to do a microtransaction to move two feet. Oh lordy. Have you kids ever heard of Grand Theft Auto V? I was a big shot with that game one day. Back then. You don't care about your old timey games. Fucking old timer. The kids in, you know, 2065, they just don't fucking stay in chat. I get no respects. Oh my god, Modern Warfare 21. |
| 04. December 2020 | Worrying about people donating who can't afford it. | Worrying that people are donating who can't afford us. It's this weird feeling when people are really generous to you and give you a lot, where you don't want to think that this person is giving you something they can't afford. So when there's even a hint that this person is misusing money that they need or something, I become kind of skittish. And I try to say, like, calm down, you know, you don't have to give me stuff or whatever. Because much as I like people being nice to me and getting subs and all that stuff, I don't want to feel like I'm negatively impacting people's lives to any significant degree, you know. Why, it kind of sucks when people mess with me and say, oh man, I'm sorry, I can't keep subbing because, you know, I don't have the money. That's a perfectly good reason to not sub to my channel. You can't afford it, you should not be subbing. Like, you know, five bucks a month is not a lot of money for most people, but for some people it is, you know. And I would hate to think I'm taking five bucks from such people. |
| 01. January 2021 | Worst job i have ever had? | The worst job that I've ever had. What is the worst job that I've ever worked at? I don't know. I've never considered any of the jobs I've had to be overwhelmingly bad. Maybe the pamphlet delivery when I was a young, young kid, just because I was younger. No, I know. When it was really, really hot, and I had to deliver pamphlets. And back then with all the flyers, like I'd just be covering them, covered in flyers. In the summer. But of course, these days, because of pesticides, I... What was... I'm not going to say specific numbers, but the amount of bugs in Australia has massively declined. I had anecdotally noticed that there were far fewer bugs compared to when I was a kid. I never communicated these thoughts because I'm like, oh, you know, it might just be because, you know, I'm inside more, just don't notice as much. And then my dad, we're talking on the phone, he's like, oh, I saw this report recently. They're talking about how all the bugs are gone. All these pesticides. I'd say maybe I shouldn't be repeating it because it's not something you have looked into too deeply. I do hear in passing sometimes people mention things like the bugs are being harmed and da da da. But yeah, back then, hordes of flyers were just awful. |
| 14. January 2021 | Worst mistake, what would you do different? | What's the worst mistake you made on the internet? um The worst mistake I made on the internet. It's a hard question isn't it? When I thought about I'm like I can't think of anything specifically that I've done The only things I can think of are things that would answer the next question Which is if you could start over again, what would you would you do it all the same way or what would you do differently? um I can't think of like a terrible like not that I like I haven't made like one big mistake where it's been like I've had to apologize And if like anyone's ever got angry, I just don't care. I think I said I said a couple of jokes that I kind of regretted that I just pushed it a little bit too far just because You know back when I was making a video every few days and I just had to write they you know I've come up with these jokes I just said something that was once or twice that definitely crossed the line So you have knowledge now that you wish you had in when you begun, right? Yeah, I think I think it's so technical but all the technicalities of YouTube and like how to make good content like because when I Started like I had fun making my videos But if I watch them now just like oh my god, this is just bad But everyone starts somewhere because you learn as you go and they find in you in you know one of my girlfriend's sisters best friends is like starting a YouTube channel and she's like Can you have a meeting with me and like help me figure it out? I was like, yeah, of course and I just sat down with her and I was like Talking and she was just like what the fuck are you talking about? I was like talking about like click through rates watch time like algorithms like brand presence like all that I know this and she was just like I was like you realize that from doing YouTube how much just such specific knowledge It just feels natural. It's like what people don't understand this I thought this is what it just it feels so natural that you think everyone would get this immediately Yeah, it's um, which I call my channel and I'll just be like this like out of these top shows I don't absolutely this one and she's like why and I was like, I don't know like that's just wait. That's just trust me I wish I started way earlier with gaming I wish I I wish I had been one of the first people on twitch could have been there in the early days even though Hearing about it where people were struggling to stream at like 240p with like a hundred bit rate and shit like it sounds terrible at the same time like I When did I start like 2016? End of 2014 or the game 2015 I kind of started streaming on twitch and I think like I The early you started on twitch I think the the better your chances of success on the platform like some of the first ever Partners on twitch are still here today with like 10,000 viewers. I'm like ninja You know was one of the first partners lyric was one of the first partners Dan Dan's gaming these kind of people certainly, it's possible that had I started earlier the the specific variables I needed to be successful wouldn't have been there but I do think It's one of those things where once you know, the future is obvious what you could have done in hindsight Why when I just put all my money into Apple or whatever going back that far? But certainly I think I could have been even larger than I am now had I started on twitch earlier. Yeah Definitely like that that knowledge that just can get you so far But you know, I think it's I think it's cool to like go back like and watch someone's first video and then say what? They're doing now and I'm you |
| 26. December 2022 | Would I accept a role in GTA 6? | Would I accept the role in GTA 6? There was no role that Rockstar could offer me that I wouldn't accept, unless of course it took like a ridiculous amount of time. If it would take away from everything else that I do, maybe not, unless I was justifiably compensated, right? If it was just some bit thing, of course I want to be involved. I get my own little Wikipedia page and people be like, oh that's the Darkviper AU guy, or that's some random YouTuber that we don't care about kind of thing. And that'd just be cool, to be immortalized in something as socially and culturally impactful as Grand Theft Auto. Not just socially and culturally impactful, but in my life. The phrase, it'll be a dream come true, would be overstating it a little bit, but it'd be a really mad thing to have happen. Even if I was like ridiculed in the game to some degree, I would be interested in doing that, who wouldn't? |
| 08. September 2021 | Would I be willing to become a cyborg? | Would I be willing to become a cyborg? Would I ever replace my body parts with superior robot parts? Of course, if by definition they're superior. And if I can, especially if the perception of superiority came from me and not from someone else. If I looked at them as superior, I'd be foolish enough not to change. Unless of course, you know, there were other consequences that, you know, are not in this hypothetical. I of course wouldn't want to be the guinea pig. I think all Grievous is going a little bit too far because there will be consequences of augmentation to that extreme extent. Especially considering in Grievous's case, most of his augmentations were related to combat and fighting and stuff and I would have no use... |
| 06. July 2021 | Would I box another YouTuber? | Would I box another YouTuber? Darkvab, you should box the baby, I'd pay to see that. Look, I am not a boxer, and I have no interest in boxing, but obviously there is definitely an amount of money you could pay me, or amount of promotion that I could receive, where I would box someone. As I've said before, if it doesn't hurt anyone or whatever, and I receive some benefit from it, then there is some hypothetical amount of money or something of value that I could receive to do it. For many things, the amount would have to be just staggering. Like countries worth of revenue. We will give you all of Canada. Canada though? I don't know man. How about like Switzerland and Japan? |
| 29. December 2020 | Would I cheat in speedrunning for money? | I'm sure there is a price in which I could be paid to cheat, and that people would consider me a fucking idiot for not taking. I don't know what that price is, especially considering I'm quite comfortable already, like I'm not driven by money, but you're right, everyone has a price. Like if someone offered me a hundred million dollars, and I cheated, and I... Like if I made a hundred million dollars, the first thing I would do is do like cool giveaways, like every week, of like a brand new PC. Because why the fuck not? But I'd still stream, I'd still make content, and then it would come out that I cheated, and people would be like, oh so that's why you're releasing a giveaway for $5,000 PC every week. Hahaha. Yeah, I think it would be an insane amount of money for me. Why I deny requests when others ask to re-upload my content on other platforms. |
| 14. May 2021 | Would I do a subathon? | Would I do a sub-a-thon? Would I ever do a sub-a-thon? That is a fantastic question. I could absolutely, without a doubt, sit here all day playing Heroes of Mad- Magic 3. Or playing random games of my childhood or something. Just grabbing random Sega games that I find enjoyable. Games I've always wanted to play again. And I would just say nothing. Or like the occasional word like, oh I got that guy good. It'd be the most boring content you've ever seen. And I could do that for hours and hours on end. I could probably do that all day. You wouldn't enjoy it though. The kind of content that I create, where I ramble here and I do challenge runs and stuff. This stuff is tiring. Sub-a-thons where I don't have to try to be interesting or energetic. I just have to stream. I could do that, you know? There is a huge difference between being an engaging, talkative streamer, reading chat. Versus just playing video games on stream. Anyone can play video games on stream. Or rather they can just play video games normally but just happen to be streaming it. But not everyone can stream video games and make it kind of interesting. Or engaging. Or be communicative, you know? |
| 26. November 2021 | Would I do an NFT sponsorship for 100k? | Would I do an NFT sponsorship for $100,000? I'm of the position that it doesn't matter what sort of moles or system of ethics that people espouse, there is always some hypothetical scenario where people chuck that system out the window for some benefit. You could find yourself a vegan who would say eating meat is murder and you offer them a billion dollars, I guarantee you they're biting into that burger. It is very easy to condemn people for doing wrong actions when you yourself are never put into those circumstances where you have to make the choice. Like I think NFTs are a scam, let's say I got offered $100,000 to do a sponsorship for them. Would I say no to that? I don't know. I have no fucking idea. I want to say immediately I would never do that. Of course not, I'm just the greatest person alive, but I have no fucking idea. Until I'm in that situation, I just would never know if I would do it. You don't know what you're capable of until you're in the situation where you are offered that choice. I've made this mistake myself where in the past I would often say sponsors have some reasonable assurance that they're going to get a return on their investment for any kind of sponsorship. So I would say if a sponsor is willing to give you $100,000, then they must believe they're going to get over $100,000 from your audience. But more experience with sponsors has taught me that's not necessarily true. It is sometimes the case with companies that they're just given a budget where higher ups will be like, look, spend $10 million on sponsorships that you think will get some return for. They have no assurance that they're going to get this return, but they just throw out money. They just say, look, get as many eyeballs as possible. Get that brand recognition. This is especially the case when there's no tracking links and stuff. It's just do stuff. Like if I was offered $100,000 to shill an NFT website, there is no fucking way in hell that my viewers would spend $100,000 on NFTs. Fucking no way. Coffeezilla did a video talking about how apparently Post Malone had like a five second ad spot in one of his videos for an NFT website and he was paid $750,000 for it. They have no way of tracking whether there was $750,000 worth of sales from that five seconds of Post Malone using his phone, showing an NFT. They have no way of knowing that. They just hope it is the case. A lot of sponsorships do work on the basis of they do have ways of tracking conversions. And so like the second time round, they'll only sign with you again if they see enough conversions, but that's not all sponsorships. It is very easy to say, I won't take 10 grand to advertise X when you aren't getting those offers. It is very easy to be holier than thou are when you have no opportunity to take that bag of cash. You've never been in those circumstances. How would you know you wouldn't do the same sort of thing? I think the vast majority of people would take sponsorships like that for the right price. The number of people who'd stick to their principles, even if it's over $10 million, are one in a million. I wouldn't even say it's one in a million. Everyone has their price. And maybe that's just me being really pessimistic about the world, but that's truly how I feel. So maybe my position is it is bad, but it's hard to imagine the average person not accepting a similar deal. |
| 18. May 2021 | Would I do another sponsored gambling stream? | Would I do another sponsored gambling stream? See, it's terrible. Look at it. It's just awful. There are very few things that could screw up my life, but a gambling habit definitely could. Do I think I have the mental fortitude to say enough is enough? I would like to think so, but I am certainly you know, the most biased judge there can be for such things about myself. Given that I've been able to stop before, they would have to sponsor me for a loss. People aren't as accepting of gambling streams as they were in the past, and even back then they weren't super accepting. I've been doing ok for a year, but how long are you gonna stop? But yeah, but I wouldn't have a goal in gambling. Like if I had a particular goal in gambling, I might be hard. I'll just stop then. What keeps me going is I have a goal, an aspiration, and I want to complete it. Isn't it illegal to gamble on stream? No. I mean, it depends on the country, but on Twitch, no. And I'm not sure about the laws in Australia right now. There was a push to put limitations on online gambling, you know, for the benefit of gambling in person. We need to think of the children! I need my donors to get more money. I mean, we need to protect the children from online gambling. They should gamble just as their parents did, at affordable prices at the Star Casino. Ah, here's my laundry! Ignore that this sack has a dollar sign on it. Yeah, that is a vague Simpsons reference, true. As someone in the betting industry, a lot of people claim they can stop but can't win the neutral. Oh, because it's psychologically addictive. Absolutely is. But I have had a history with gambling, and then I stopped. The last time I gambled was... Was it 2017 or 2019? Might be 2019 when I was a Pax. |
| 31. March 2021 | Would I ever buy shark cards? | Would I ever buy shark cards? Would I ever buy shark cards? If there was some online content that I really wanted to do, like I really thought it would do well on YouTube, and I didn't have enough money in the game to do it, and it was time-sensitive, so I didn't have time to grind it, I'd probably buy a shark card because it would pay for itself, because the YouTube video would give me my money back, you know. Beyond that situation, no. Like as a casual player, I would never buy shark cards. |
| 08. November 2020 | Would I ever do an entire OHKO run in one sitting? | Would I ever do an entire one hit KO run in one sitting? Will I ever do Oko all in one day? I just can't imagine I ever would. Cause like, you need to be really paying attention to not fuck up in this run, right? I can't imagine nine hours in how amazingly tiring it would be to be focusing entirely, you know? It's hard enough not to make mistakes when I'm basic tired. Just being ten hours tired, you know? Like I have to do it for 100% runs, and I know what it's like to do ten hour runs, I just couldn't imagine doing it for Oko. Like if I had to do it, I would. But I don't have to do it so I won't. |
| 25. July 2022 | Would I ever just make content for myself? | Would I ever just make content for myself? Man, if when in your career do you think you'll make videos exclusively for yourself and ignore the algorithm completely? Is that part of the enjoyment of content creation? If I make something good, I want other people to see it. Why would I just make something for myself? I'm living the experience of making it. I like making other people happy. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 08. April 2021 | Would I ever lie to my viewers? | Would I ever lie to my viewers? Would you ever lie to chat? Yes, I would, McChicken. I don't consider myself to be a dishonest person, but I don't consider lying to be immoral. It entirely depends on why you are lying, what your end goal is. Well, it's entirely, it's a significant portion of it. Like, you can have the best intentions, whatever. It is entirely possible to lie for someone else's benefit, or lie to achieve a good, you know, any... You know, it's always that old, uh... You know, Nazis are knocking at your door, looking for people, and you've got some of them below your floorboards, and they ask, are you hiding people here? You know, you lie and say no. You know? It's not immoral to do that. If you lie specifically for, like, self-gain, or to harm another person, that'd be immoral to me. It's always important to remember that always speaking what is true is very different from being honest. If you never tell a lie, it doesn't mean that you're honest. You don't manipulate, you don't mislead people. It is possible to say only true things and present people a false narrative, or lead them astray, or lead them to the wrong conclusions, right? Or it's possible to withhold information that you know another person would want, um, for your own self-gain, or to their detriment. Um, you know? |
| 18. January 2023 | Would I ever make a GTA V speedrunning world record progression video? | value. Will there ever be a speedrun world record progression for GTA 5? A visible nickname asks, do you think Summoning Salt could make a video about GTA 5 speedrunning? If so, would you like to help or collaborate with him on that video? So I'm pretty sure Summoning Salt doesn't like me, and to the practical realities of it, I don't think GTA 5 speedrunning is something that can be really condensed into an easily understood video. The run is just so amazingly long, and the history so extensive. Like, think of just like watching the runs to understand the development, how long that would take. I have conceived of over the years different ways that I could personally make a video like that, and you saw one of them a few years ago where I made like a bar graph race of how the world record changed, but the most practical thing that I devised was just looking at the world records and saying, what did this runner do that made them better than the previous runners world record? Like, what strats changed between them? Even if like those runs weren't the first implementation of those strats, what changed? Because a lot of the old stuff isn't super documented, a lot of the players from back then you can't really reach, but at the end of the day, I just don't think the video would be successful enough to warrant the hundreds of hours that that would take. It'd be like my biggest pastless episode times like 10, and certainly Summoning South doesn't have any particular interest in GTA 5. I mean, I'd be surprised if we didn't like GTA in general. |
| 31. March 2021 | Would I ever want to get any body mods? | Have I ever wanted to get any body mods? Have I ever wanted to get any body mods? No. The only thing I've ever wanted to do was try to get my scars removed from my back. I've got stretch marks along the middle of my back that makes it look like I've been swiped by a bear. There's no joke if this is actually true. I've looked it up, you can't remove scars, you can only make them look softer and stuff. Possibly swiped by a cougar. I've looked it up, you can't remove scars, you can only make them look softer and stuff. |
| 06. October 2021 | Would I get fast food if I was insanely rich? | Would I get fast food if I was insanely rich? If you were insanely rich, would you still get McDonald's and Domino's? Fuck no. You'd have access to like, the greatest chefs imaginable, right? Cause surely the best tasting pizza in the world isn't a Domino's pizza. It's just one that's very easy to make and for you to get, right? And it's also cheap. It's the best combination of cheap, tasty and easy to acquire. |
| 29. March 2021 | Would I go on Cold Ones podcast. | Would I go on the Cold Ones podcast? Of course I would go on Cold Ones with anything for viewers in Max MoFA. I watch all their stuff, but it's uh, like, you guys gotta remember, I am still nowhere close to the biggest content creator around. And if you just look at me superficially, oh no, even if you look in depth, I'm not what you might call a personality streamer. I'm not one of those content creators who can do fucking anything and get themselves half a million views. I'm not CallMeKevin, you know? I'm very popular for doing like one thing. I don't have a huge track record of being able to go on podcasts and chat it up with people and tell funny stories and shit. I'm sure Max and Anything For Views have their pick in regards to guests, and I wouldn't be on that list. Like, if I were in their shoes, I wouldn't put me on that list of potential people to speak to, you know what I'm saying? I don't know, I've spoken to Chad twice in my life and he wouldn't remember either situa- |
| 29. March 2021 | Would I go on cold ones podcast. | Would I go on the Cold Ones podcast? Of course I would go on Cold Ones with anything for viewers in Max MoFA. I watch all their stuff, but it's uh, like, you guys gotta remember, I am still nowhere close to the biggest content creator around. And if you just look at me superficially, oh no, even if you look in depth, I'm not what you might call a personality streamer. I'm not one of those content creators who can do fucking anything and get themselves half a million views. I'm not CallMeKevin, you know? I'm very popular for doing like one thing. I don't have a huge track record of being able to go on podcasts and chat it up with people and tell funny stories and shit. I'm sure Max and Anything For Views have their pick in regards to guests, and I wouldn't be on that list. Like, if I were in their shoes, I wouldn't put me on that list of potential people to speak to, you know what I'm saying? I don't know, I've spoken to Chad twice in my life and he wouldn't remember either situa- |
| 07. February 2021 | Would I go onto other people’s podcasts? | Would I go on other people's podcasts? Would you ever consider going on Code Miku's show? Um, I've only ever seen her in passing. As in clips of her or YouTube videos. I know a little bit about her, but I don't know what a show really consists of. I haven't been popular for very long. To the degree that shows like that would really care to have me on. You know? And there's a very big difference between the more personality driven content creators. Compared to me, who's mainly known for GTA V. You gotta understand guys, most people have like stories of stuff they've done in their lives or whatever. Uh, I have led a fairly mundane life. What are people gonna interview me and talk to me about GTA V? So uh, what's it like having 8,000 hours in a single player game? That's pretty good. Is that right? Yeah. So who's your favorite character? Like, there are very few shows guys that I would not go on if I was asked. Oh boy thank you for asking. |
| 18. May 2021 | Would I join the hot-tub meta if I had a hot-tub? | Would I join the hot tub meta if I had a hot tub? Hot tub stream? I've said before, if I had a hot tub and I believe legitimately that it would do me some benefit for my platform, absolutely I would do a hot tub stream. Like why the fuck not? The only dude that I know who did a hot tub stream is uh, Jake and Bake. Is it Jake and Bake? I almost said Jakey Bakey as if I combined Snakey Jakey and Jakey Bake in my head. And he did one with like, he had like two women there but as well as VR women as well. Retro Gageon did one as well. I suppose probably more people have done one. Moist Critical did one? That doesn't surprise me. Speedrun hot tub? Yeah that's actually a good idea if I was more keen to jump onto metas. Like every single popular thing that comes out I should be like, I speedrun popular thing. Regardless of how dumb or applicable speedrunning is. Like a good example is um, when Among Us was popular, Dunkie did a video speedrunning Among Us and he just speedran the tutorial or something in a kind of stupid way. It would be interesting to see some stats like the normal viewership compared to a hot tub stream viewership and compare the two. Or even compare donations, subs and all that stuff. As I've said before, I have no idea why, if you could do that successfully, why you wouldn't if it's not against TWS. You can certainly take it too far or whatever. Like whenever you do something that you know is on the border of its acceptability, you are putting yourself at some risk that you're gonna step over that line or misjudge where the line is entirely and receive some reprimand. But it doesn't seem likely that you're gonna receive a permanent ban for this right? Certainly how many bans you've had can impact the way you're perceived by Twitch and potentially for brand deals and whatnot. I think when you get banned you can sometimes lose the bouncy board or whatever, which is where Twitch has sponsored deals with some people and you can do stuff on the bouncy board. You can say, I will do this and they offer you a fee and then you do the thing. You play the game, you watch the advertisement, whatever it is. And I think you lose that if you get banned, but I wouldn't know because they still don't have it in my fucking country. |
| 06. June 2020 | Would I not want so much money my life changed? | If confronted with the opportunity to claim any amounts of money, would you put a limit on said money for the sake of preserving some form of normalcy? Something to do? No. I would take as much money as possible to attempt to help as many people as possible, I suppose. I would have enough money that I could live comfortably, and then I would just spend all the time being like, you seem like a good person, here's some money to do that thing you want to do. You seem like a good cause, help those people. And that would just be what I would do. It would be selfish of me to, even if I cared about maintaining a normal life that I live in right now, it would be selfish of me to restrict the amount of money I would take when I know that taking more money could help others. I suppose it depends on the source of the money as well, but you get the idea. For the money, does there immediately come to mind something to use it for? It would just be a matter of me being stable and, unforeseen negative circumstances of the future, not being able to completely fuck my life. If I have a bit more money, that means these few extra things can't fuck me as hard. As in, if you don't have enough money to repair your car, and you need your car, if your car breaks down, you're fucked. But if you have enough money to repair your car, and your car breaks down, you're fine. The more money you have, the more grandiose the negative variable has to be for you to be completely fucked. There was a point brought up by some ordinary gamer. He was claiming H3H3 was shaming Bezos for not giving enough money, or rather that Bezos makes that amount of money in six minutes is really that big of a thing. And one thing that some ordinary gamer said is that, oh yeah, sure, he gave ten million dollars, whatever it is, I'm sure it's not a lot of money to him, but it's probably more than anyone else's, any of the people watching are going to give in their entire lives. And it's like, well obviously, when you get to that level of money where nothing can fuck with you, like the world would have to be hit by a fucking meteor for your life to be greatly impacted, and for you not to be able to meet your needs. It's very easy to be generous with your money. Why wouldn't you be? It's effectively meaningless. It's the lint in your belly button. Until you reach that point, any amount of money that you give away does impact your life. It's why it's more meaningful. It's why it's seen as a greater kindness. Because you're giving away money that is potentially making your future less certain, or potentially making you vulnerable to potential negative things that can happen in the future to fuck you completely. When Bezos gives away 10 million dollars, you go, okay, that's cool. I'm happy you did that. It's a wonderful thing. I'm sure a lot of people are going to be helped by that, but it's not a sacrifice by any means on Bezos' part. It's not as meaningful. Like, if a person had 10 dollars and gave me 5 dollars, yes, it would not be 10 million dollars. He would be giving far less than Bezos, but I'd be more applauding the person giving 5 dollars to charity than I would be Bezos giving 100 million dollars to charity. That person must really care to be sacrificing half their worth for whatever cause it happens to be. With Bezos, who knows what he thinks? Does he really care? You can tell a person cares about something when they're willing to sacrifice for it. If a person's willing to give away something of no value to them, you don't know what's in their minds. You don't know what's really motivating them. |
| 01. June 2020 | Would I play GTA VI if like RDR2? | If GTA 6 is a more exploring game like Red Dead Redemption 2, would you play it? If GTA 6 was literally a rat in a maze and you poke it with a stick, I would play it. Whether I continue to play it afterwards would be a separate question. I didn't like, I didn't love at least Red Dead Redemption 2 even when I first started playing it and thought it was okay. But I still played that game for a grand total of what was in the end like 40 hours or some shit. I gave that game my all and it doesn't matter what GTA 6 is, I would do the same for that. |
| 01. August 2020 | Would I punch Trump | Would I punch Trump if given the opportunity? If you have the opportunity, would you punch Trump? You have no repercussions? No. Like, would I cause him physical harm? I am- I am- I adamantly don't like Trump, but there's no- Punching him would not achieve anything in the world. The only thing that it would do is give me a funny story. You know, there's one time I punched Trump. Let me tell ya. Like, if he consented to me hitting him, then I would do it. Or if I hit him in a way that it didn't cause him any physical harm, he's an old man. |
| 01. August 2020 | Would I punch Trump? | Would I punch Trump if given the opportunity? If you have the opportunity, would you punch Trump? You have no repercussions? No. Like, would I cause him physical harm? I am- I am- I adamantly don't like Trump, but there's no- Punching him would not achieve anything in the world. The only thing that it would do is give me a funny story. You know, there's one time I punched Trump. Let me tell ya. Like, if he consented to me hitting him, then I would do it. Or if I hit him in a way that it didn't cause him any physical harm, he's an old man. |
| 21. June 2022 | Would I rather a clone or a wife? | Or have a wife I'd rather have a wife while a clone sounds good in theory like you imagine the amount of problems that that would cause you know confusion with our banks and the potential for your clone to not see eye to eye with you and stuff like because you know your experience will shape you and over time you'd have different experiences and So you become different people and wearing contact lenses while sleeping don't leave contacts in while sleeping. I |
| 09. December 2020 | Would I rather be a streamer or a YouTuber? | If I had to pick between streaming and YouTube, which would I pick? You had to choose only stream but no YouTube content or release YouTube videos but you want to stream, what would you do? Definitely stream. Also, money isn't an issue, you don't need to worry about subs or ads. Stream. Streaming is far more casual and far more enjoyable. The highs in content creation on YouTube I think are better than the highs in streaming. It is such a great feeling when you produce some edited piece of work, you got that anticipation and you release it, it does really well. And people love it, people give them good comments and you watch it back yourself and you're proud of what you've created. That's a great feeling. But the grinds of worrying, is this going to work? Am I producing this video at the right time? The worrying about the algorithm, is it going to give you some favor this time? Those thoughts, I hate them. Streaming is very simple by comparison to being successful on YouTube. |
| 10. May 2021 | Would I rebrand myself | You know would I rebrand myself? Have you ever thought about rebranding yourself for what purpose? I mean I did once move in from dark fiber 88 to dark fiber a you It's weird to think that the vast majority people don't know about those times I mean I had like what seven thousand eight thousand followers assigned at the time and I was like, ah, can I really do it? I'm I have so many followers now like I Is it really make sense to completely rebrands if you type exclamation mark name it explains why my name was changed The video there why my name is dark fiber a you explains all |
| 14. December 2022 | Would I scam people if the money was right? | No. Would I accept scam sponsorships? iPhone unlock, someone just mentioned it in YouTube chat, not me, but possibly a good idea, the established title scam. I talked about it on stream a little bit, but from my understanding, what established titles was, is they would claim that you'd pay like 150 bucks or something to buy a small amount of land in Scotland. And a part of some tradition in Scotland, they would enable you to be called a lord and lady. And nothing about that seems legit. Like that just screams, oh my God, what a ridiculous scam. There is no way a country would have it so that everyone in the country would be called a lord or lady. Cause that would just defeat the purpose of the titles of lord and lady. It would just be an entirely valueless thing to be, like I could just call myself a lord right now with as much legitimacy. It was a scam in that they weren't really giving you anything and your title of lord was just real to the people that established titles and not at all in Scotland or what have you. Like if you went there to try to find your little bit of land, you'd just be laughed at. When I first heard of this sponsor, I was like, well that's a scam. Like, huh, people really out here advertising a scam like this, it's kind of weird. I didn't get offered the sponsorship, but I would be surprised if I would have taken it. I have turned down sponsorships before because they sounded scammy. And I think I would have done the same with this one as well. But who knows, maybe with enough zeros, I would have just been like, oh yeah, whatever. It's probably fine. Which I suspect a lot of these people were like that, where it was just like, their managers bring them forth a sponsorship and they just assume, yeah, I guess my managers looked into this, this is fine, I guess. You just become complacent with sponsorships sometimes. You just go with the flow. You're okay, this is what I'm doing, okay. Although I say this about other people, I'm not really that way. My managers always ask me like, you wanna do this? You wanna do this? You wanna do this? And I'll often be like, no, no. A lot of cool and normal people took it. Yeah, so I can't tell you why that is. Either maybe this song and dance they put on made them seem more legit and I haven't seen that song and dance. Maybe they just didn't look into it because the money was so good. Maybe they just didn't care, I don't know. It wouldn't be the same for each one person involved. It's unfortunate. And just one more reason, I suppose, to do the diligence with any advertisement, I suppose. As I've often said, it's not like I need the sponsorship money. It's more that I worry that one day I'll regret not taking it. And the only thing I care about with those sponsors is that the product that I'm advertising is what it claims to be. Like I'm not making value judgments. It's not a review. I'm not looking at every product in the market in every part of the world to confirm that it's the best value for the dollar or something. It's just, hey, does this product do what it says it does? Yes, okay, that's fine. Which again is probably why I would have stayed away from. |
| 07. February 2022 | Would I still have the energy to do 100% speedruns? | Would I still have the energy to do 100% speedruns? Understand there are two different types of streaming one where you're basically just playing the game and another where like you're actively engaged Always talking with chat and doing new things and all that jazz. I could definitely still just stream for 10 hours at low energy You know, it's like it's like a lamp or whatever. It's different between having it on dim Versus at full brightness and stuff. If I did 100% again, I would just be like low energy for most of it Be sure to like the video and subscribe Also, remember comments are shown to me chronologically for my entire channel Meaning regardless of how of the video your comment will still be shown to me in my feed So leave one if you have something on your mind |
| 22. September 2022 | Would I take a gambling sponsorship? | Would I take a gambling sponsorship? Someone asked me, would I take a sponsorship from Steak, citing someone getting $12 million a year. Anyone who can get a $12 million a year sponsorship from Steak doesn't need a $12 million a year sponsorship from Steak. XQC for example, probably getting at least $10 million, more than that maybe. But he was already making like $8 million a year anyway. Uh, was it four? Was it four million dollars a year? I can't remember. He was making many million dollars a year. If I was making four million dollars a year, would I take a sponsorship from Steak for ten million dollars a year? No, I would not. Let's say though I was like a person working a nine to five at a local supermarket and for whatever reason Steak wanted to sponsor me to stream for my five viewers on Twitch for ten million dollars a year. Yeah, I take that deal. I put significant consideration towards the harm of others in my own actions, but I have my limits chat. If Steak offered me a billion dollars to stream five hands of Blackjack or ten minutes of slots, obviously I'm going to take that deal. There's going to be a point where the amount of money and the good that I could do with it is so high that to me it's just going to offset any potential harm that is caused. Those kind of deals don't exist. I am of the belief that everyone has a price, but some people are whores. That's my position on this. I am less likely to judge a person who has nothing just trying to get by doing something a little bit underhanded than I am a person who has no fucking need to grab for more that just grabs for more because they fucking can. Trainwrecks got enough money, he can stop, he doesn't. XQC never had any need to take any gambling sponsorships, but he did fucking anyway. That's the difference. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 02. June 2021 | Would I use a green screen for my livestreams? | Would I use a green screen for my live streams? Would I ever consider using a green screen for my stream webcam? So once upon a time where I was really obsessed with stream quality, which I still kind of am, having as little on screen as possible, I thought about doing that, but having a good green screen setup requires very bright lights. Like even the best green screen setup doesn't look that good. Often it looks like you're just disembodied floating there. You don't really look like you're you know in the game or whatever. You do take up less space traditionally, but not that much less space, right? But a bad green screen looks fucking horrendous. Like even the occasional flicker where it doesn't perfectly remove your background, it just looks awful. A consistent box looks better than an inconsistent green screen, and a consistent box often looks better than a green screen. I'm not saying all green screens setups for webcams are bad. I'm just saying that they don't always look good, you know. I'm kind of sensitive to lights in a way. Like streaming is hard enough doing it for long periods. Imagine doing it with massive bright lights in your face. That's kind of what a good green screen setup requires. A lot of what makes streams good isn't like the setup of the stream, the green screen, the webcam, whatever it is, it's how comfortable the stream is. Comfort should always be prioritized over some small difference in quality for the stream. You can do fun things with green screens? Oh, absolutely. If you're gonna not simply have a green screen for your webcam, but actually do things with the green screen, well, that's a completely separate question. You're absolutely right. That is in general better than a box because you've got more things you can do with it. |
| 02. June 2021 | Would I use a greenscreen for my livestreams? | Would I use a green screen for my live streams? Would I ever consider using a green screen for my stream webcam? So once upon a time where I was really obsessed with stream quality, which I still kind of am, having as little on screen as possible, I thought about doing that, but having a good green screen setup requires very bright lights. Like even the best green screen setup doesn't look that good. Often it looks like you're just disembodied floating there. You don't really look like you're you know in the game or whatever. You do take up less space traditionally, but not that much less space, right? But a bad green screen looks fucking horrendous. Like even the occasional flicker where it doesn't perfectly remove your background, it just looks awful. A consistent box looks better than an inconsistent green screen, and a consistent box often looks better than a green screen. I'm not saying all green screens setups for webcams are bad. I'm just saying that they don't always look good, you know. I'm kind of sensitive to lights in a way. Like streaming is hard enough doing it for long periods. Imagine doing it with massive bright lights in your face. That's kind of what a good green screen setup requires. A lot of what makes streams good isn't like the setup of the stream, the green screen, the webcam, whatever it is, it's how comfortable the stream is. Comfort should always be prioritized over some small difference in quality for the stream. You can do fun things with green screens? Oh, absolutely. If you're gonna not simply have a green screen for your webcam, but actually do things with the green screen, well, that's a completely separate question. You're absolutely right. That is in general better than a box because you've got more things you can do with it. |
| 08. September 2021 | Would I want people fined as a % of income? | such things. Would I want people fined as a percent of income? Would you be in favor of fining people based on income? Yes. Fines only work if the person considers the fine to be a sufficient deterrent for the action. There's no point fining a person something that they do not value because it isn't a punishment at that point. Like the purpose of fines, other than if you want to be cynical and say it's just to generate revenue, it's to prevent people engaging in behavior that is not prosocial or has a chance of negatively impacting others around them. It's the example I use with the billionaire who's charged $100 every time he speeds. Just go, okay, I'll just give you 500 bucks a day and I'll just speed where the fuck I want. Thanks. It's not going to help. The person hits with his car and kills. |
| 19. February 2022 | Would I want to be a beta tester for gta 6? | Would I want to be a beta tester for GTA 6? Have you ever tried to apply as a beta tester at Rockstar? No, I wouldn't want to work for Rockstar I've said too many bad things about them. Look if Rockstar offered me a job I'd be thinking like this is some elaborate hit right there. They're gonna they're gonna be like hey We're gonna do your interview in in this dark alley at 3 a.m You may see a lot of black unmarked fans around the alley just just ignore that it's it's This is the usual procedures for interviewing someone for a job at at Rockstar |
| 08. November 2021 | Would I want to do a only good effect chaos run? | Would I want to do an only good effect chaos run? I think it'd be fairly boring really There isn't a lot that can really help you in the run Like if I'm driving in a car and you spawn for me like an adder, I still won't take it It's just not worth the time to get out of a car and get into another car You know if you give me a better weapon in a shootout, it's just gonna interrupt my shooting That's not gonna help me. The teleports to the right spots would work, but a lot of things are only good contextually, right? It would definitely be interesting Miro to have like two player grant the thought of five Where another person can control elements of the game? So like move pedestrians out of the way move cars out of the way spawn you faster vehicles upgrade your vehicles I should go heal your HP and stuff kind of like what um What was that Mario game used to have we used to have like the the pad thing or whatever and you could like draw in Steps and stuff for Mario to jump on you know what I'm talking about third League sword |
| 28. June 2022 | Would I want to go into politics? | Would I want to go into politics? Have you ever considered going into politics? It just seems like such a toxic field. Like you can't just speak honestly. You've got to kind of dance around and say things in a way that won't get you in trouble. I just don't think I want to deal with that kind of stress, that sort of attention. Like I'd just be tempted in any interview to go, look, I'm sick of giving you political answers. Here's the actual, you know, gist of what's going on. And they just get you in trouble, you know, because you're trying to keep so many different parties happy. Imagine if everything you said was getting analyzed like your first draft of the reactor. Say exactly, when people have blown something out of proportion and it doesn't fucking matter, you've still got to go on TV and go, I am very, I apologize. What I did was a pence and I feel deep regrets. And in your head you're like, it was a tweet or an offhand comment or like, you know, this is something that happened 10 years ago. But recently Albanese was asked about like some tweet of one of his cabinet ministers or another person in the party. And he was like, I don't think that tweet's very appropriate. I'm surprised I haven't heard this before. And then he asked him like, when was this tweet from? And the person's like, 2011 or something. And he's just like, oh, you know, he's like, I stand by his record and, you know, I haven't heard him talk about it, but I doubt he supports that position anymore. It was just so dumb, like. |
| 29. April 2021 | Would I want to make my own mod for GTA 5? | Would I want to make my own mod for GTA 5? Have I thought of making my own mod for what purpose? I greatly respect what DougDoug does with his making of his own stuff. This. I'd be surprised to hear that he learned coding specifically for YouTube. I don't know DougDoug's history. I assume that he coded and became a YouTuber and it just happened to be helpful. Like I'm not gonna learn coding to help with YouTube videos, you know. He was a software developer for YouTube, exactly. He was a programmer for EA? Man. |
| 29. April 2021 | Would I want to stream with a girlfriend? | Would I want to stream with a girlfriend? Would I stream with my future girlfriend? Um, I guess that'd be up to her, but I mean, in- in- In a way, the people who keep their relationships largely separate from their stream, I think it's the best move you can make. Because you never know how a random person's gonna respond to that- all that kind of attention. And if the relationship goes poorly, it can then negatively impact your stream. People's perception of you, because they can like the person and da-da-da, then blame games come out and stuff. And it just- it's just a mess. Like, I would rather meet someone, like if- unless they are themselves a streamer, that's a little bit different. But meeting a person who just respects what I do and likes what I do, but is largely unaware of who I am is kind of the goal at the moment. Meeting someone who's like, very- like, they know all my content. Like, they know me far better than I know them, because obviously I've communicated a lot about myself in my Ramble series and stuff. I don't know how I deal with that, you know? You want your girlfriend to like you and respect what you do? Maybe you need to lower your standards. Ha ha ha! |
| 18. June 2022 | Would I want to take part in the YouTube boxing events? | Would I want to take part in one of the YouTube boxing events? Would you be down to fight in Create A Clash? I don't know why I would want to. It would just take me away from my work. A few more years down the line, sure, maybe. Like I feel like Create A Clash is something that you do when you're still popular, but you're kind of burnt out on what you're doing. So you're looking for another creative outlet, something else to master that's still within the domain of your job. Because don't you know it'd be cool just to like, as part of your job, dedicate your time to getting ripped and you know taking care of yourself and stuff? Are they your friends? |
| 28. November 2022 | Would I’ve been more successful if GTA 6 came earlier? | Engagement. Would I have been more successful if GTA 6 came earlier? Waiwala Bala also asks, what impact has the long delay between GTA 5 and 6 had on your career? Do you think you would have been successful had Rockstar not milked GTA 5 and online for so long? So few people reached the level of success that I have that it seems pretty obvious that any small change to my life likely would have not led me to reaching this level of success that I have right now. It is possible that I could have never done streaming and been a successful psychologist. I could have succeeded in some other capacity, but I have no guarantee of that at all. And something as monumentally different about existence as GTA 6 coming earlier would likely have led me down a completely different path of life. And I have no idea where I would have been. It is certainly true that GTA 5 being milked, as you say for so long, has given time for a lot of the older creators who were really big in GTA 5's early days to move on and to give room for newer creators like TG and me and stuff to jump in there and to still make content for those who are around. And certainly it's given time for GTA 5 speed running to massively mature and grow a dedicated base of runners that like there was basically no one running the game even like five years after release. It was like seven until like it really, really took off. But it is also of course conceivable that GTA 6 could have come out, I could have started speed running GTA 6 day one and been the greatest thing ever as well. But I just sincerely doubt that. As I have continued to argue, all success requires luck. The greater the success you experience over the shorter period of time, the greater amount of luck that you need. The more variables that you need outside of your control just to be going just right for that eventual out of it to occur. And my success is, as far as I'm concerned, pretty monumental. And therefore it's very unlikely I could have achieved similar to this in different circumstances. |
| 20. November 2022 | Would Twitter dying be a good thing? | Dying be a good thing. Meh, Twitter should die, to be honest. I've become kind of sick of this attitude that people have, where it's like, huh, I didn't use Twitter, it can just fucking die. Could you imagine people having that perspective on like anything that you care about or use or like? There were hundreds of millions of people using Twitter because they wanted to use Twitter. And a billionaire bought it because he got his feelings hurt and he's destroying it. Like again, I don't think he's destroying it intentionally. His actions don't suggest that. He is just massively incompetent and way over his head. It's like, oh, I've done things before, therefore I can do anything. Ha ha ha. Can you imagine any circumstance where a billionaire buys something that people love and ruins it because of his own ego, where you wouldn't be like, man, that's fucking gross. That billionaires can have that kind of control in life. Like you might dedicate all your time to something. And then the billionaire is like, oh, I don't like this anymore. Squish. That's not a good part of life. I don't care how much you use Twitter. I don't care how much you like Twitter. This isn't a positive development. It's not something to be celebrated. Every person who's like, man, either it gets better or it burns down. That's a win-win thing. That's not the case. Just cause you don't like something or don't want to use something doesn't mean it's good when it gets destroyed. The people who are saying things on Twitter that you don't like, don't disappear with Twitter. Twitter has a functional purpose in the market and therefore it will eventually be replaced, but it will likely be replaced with a lot of inconvenience and take many years. As I say, I'd be shocked if Twitter died entirely because its brand has a lot of value. Like when, like every place that talks about news will at some point reference Twitter and things people have said on it. It was the place where the movers and shakers of the world were most likely going to express their thoughts. That functional purpose should exist and will exist somewhere else. |
| 10. November 2021 | Would a GTA movie work well? | Would a GTA movie work well? Do you think any GTA is really movie ready? I don't know what separates GTA from a regular heist movie. Like, take any heist movie. If you change its names to GTA, what changes? Like, GTA, the Italian job, and you watch the Italian job. And you'd be like, oh yeah, this is a GTA movie. What separates GTA from those movies is that it's a game that you can play. I just hope GTA 6 is good. Like, at this point, it's not simply being a fan of the games, right? It's kind of my career at this point, which is weird to say out loud. Like, I can't imagine GTA 6 could be so bad that I wouldn't want to play it. I can't imagine that. |
| 02. August 2021 | Would a bully 2 even make sense? | Would a Bully 2 even make sense? Does it deserve a sequel? What would you do in a sequel? The only Rockstar person I've ever talked to was this media dude at PAX. He seemed to believe that like a Bully 2 concept kind of kicked around the offices. Maybe there was even a little bit of a playable demo thing, but it didn't go anywhere. And that was what the recent hubbub about it was. I wouldn't be surprised if multiple times they tried to make one, but like I don't know what you'd do. They definitely couldn't do a game where you build children. Hey, that wouldn't be an issue, dude. Not at all. Especially in the way they do it here. Like, think about this was an entire, this is a game about American schools and not a single nanosecond did gun violence come up. Nowhere. You could totally do a game like this. No one dies, there's no blood, there's, it's a very toned down game when it comes right down to it. Even sexualization of characters is effectively non-existent. This is a very PG-13 game. More risque games than this come out like every day. Like every trope of school yard bully character, whatever, was done in this game. So what could you do for the second game? Like the second game would be different, but it would be, it would involve like cyber bullying and shit, you know? I mean, most of the drama that happens in school now is, I imagine, online and stuff, which wouldn't translate well to a game like this. I don't know. The entire GTA series repeats itself and still they keep going on. I don't think it does. All the, all the GTA games are distinct in terms of like what aspect of crime that they touch on, but bully has to focus on a school and there's only so much you can do at a school, you know? Hmm. |
| 10. November 2021 | Would a gta movie work well? | Would a GTA movie work well? Do you think any GTA is really movie ready? I don't know what separates GTA from a regular heist movie. Like, take any heist movie. If you change its names to GTA, what changes? Like, GTA, the Italian job, and you watch the Italian job. And you'd be like, oh yeah, this is a GTA movie. What separates GTA from those movies is that it's a game that you can play. I just hope GTA 6 is good. Like, at this point, it's not simply being a fan of the games, right? It's kind of my career at this point, which is weird to say out loud. Like, I can't imagine GTA 6 could be so bad that I wouldn't want to play it. I can't imagine that. |
| 22. December 2021 | Would a ”Michael” gta online DLC work? | My problem with a Michael online DLC is that I feel his story ended in single player. So the problem that Michael had is that Michael's an adrenaline junkie, you see? It's what got him into trouble, it's why he lost all his money to day trading and stuff, it's why it ruined his relationship with Amanda and whatnot. At the end of single player he's meant to have matured and changed, and so they have two choices. Either they can say, ah, well actually Michael didn't really change at all, he's just gonna go back to his same adrenaline junkie ways when he tries to actually settle down with Amanda. Or they can say that he was successful, but because of his associations with the movie industry, even though he doesn't want to, he has to go back to his somewhat criminal ways to punish some people doing wrong. So like he'll be doing another movie or something, and some scumbags are trying to ruin it, and he has to track down who did it or who's doing it, and he has to take them out or whatever, you know. So he'll either be Michael wanting to get back into the game, or him being forced to get back into the game because of his association with making movies. And Trevor's obvious because he's always just wanted to be, you know, the guy who runs guns, smuggles meth, all that jazz. And even if he got a fuck ton of money he'd still probably do shit like that, you know. In the same way that this DLC for Franklin makes sense, because the way Lamar talks of Franklin when he was younger, Franklin always wanted to be the big cheese, the head honcho, the CEO, the guy that people respected. So even though Franklin got a fuck ton of money, this is of course what Franklin would be doing. Yeah, so I don't think anything in this DLC doesn't make sense, given how Franklin was left at the end of Ending C for Story Mode. As I said, the only thing that really gets changed is Tanisha. It's not necessarily a change, it's more like a suggestion that she failed in her ability to truly put this life behind her, and didn't find satisfaction in a more mundane life with her doctor or whatever. How long does Rockstar expect people to enjoy- |
| 29. December 2020 | Would going on Keemstar be a bad thing? | Would going on Keemstar's show be a bad thing? Keemstar is one of the few things I would never associate with. It's an interesting question. Is it wrong to use a bad person to achieve benefit for a good cause or a good person? Like I consider myself a good person. Good is a strong word. I don't consider myself a bad person. If I went on Keemstar, as I am right now, clearly I would benefit more than that. More than Keemstar would. I don't think my involvement there would have any tangible benefit for Keemstar at all. But for me, it would potentially give me a big audience. More viewers. Get whatever I wanted to say out there, you know? Keemstar would be successful with or without me. Would it be wrong on some level to use an ostensibly bad person for my own gain? Anyone who watches them is toxic and would be banned immediately? I don't agree. Liking drama doesn't necessarily make you toxic. It is what you call low brow content. It's just like a soap opera, right? It's not information you need to know, but it can be amusing to hear about it. Keemstar isn't just drama too. If you're in the YouTube space, it can be somewhat beneficial to know what's going on. What is or is not drama is certainly a debatable thing. I've often said before that sometimes serious topics will be labeled by others as drama, specifically to downplay their significance to the public. Now, this is just some drama, guys. Ignore us. You know, it happens all the time. One person's serious impactful allegations is another man's drama. |
| 29. December 2020 | Would going on keemstar be a bad thing? | Would going on Keemstar's show be a bad thing? Keemstar is one of the few things I would never associate with. It's an interesting question. Is it wrong to use a bad person to achieve benefit for a good cause or a good person? Like I consider myself a good person. Good is a strong word. I don't consider myself a bad person. If I went on Keemstar, as I am right now, clearly I would benefit more than that. More than Keemstar would. I don't think my involvement there would have any tangible benefit for Keemstar at all. But for me, it would potentially give me a big audience. More viewers. Get whatever I wanted to say out there, you know? Keemstar would be successful with or without me. Would it be wrong on some level to use an ostensibly bad person for my own gain? Anyone who watches them is toxic and would be banned immediately? I don't agree. Liking drama doesn't necessarily make you toxic. It is what you call low brow content. It's just like a soap opera, right? It's not information you need to know, but it can be amusing to hear about it. Keemstar isn't just drama too. If you're in the YouTube space, it can be somewhat beneficial to know what's going on. What is or is not drama is certainly a debatable thing. I've often said before that sometimes serious topics will be labeled by others as drama, specifically to downplay their significance to the public. Now, this is just some drama, guys. Ignore us. You know, it happens all the time. One person's serious impactful allegations is another man's drama. |
| 15. November 2021 | Would i be good at narrating audiobooks? | Good at narrating audiobooks. I'd be great as an audiobook narrator? Hell no. You have no idea how hard it is for me to read stuff. This natural flow and pacing that some people can get with reading, that's... I think it's a learned skill, but it's a skill that I simply do not have. It takes me multiple takes to have anything sound the way that I want them to. Tom Scott, you may have seen him, he does like informational videos on YouTube. There's this video he has where he walks along a path, the camera in front of him, and he speaks without a single stutter or fumble or too long pause, without a single error, and he walks for like, it must be five minutes, and perfectly says the entire script. And I look at that and go, fuck you, I would pay so much money for that skill. I'm sure part of it's natural talent, but a lot of it is probably practice. Because it's with elocution, you can take elocution lessons where you learn how to say certain things, and it's like how, you know, news reporters, how they all have this generic accent. That's a learned skill. When you're a small time news anchor, you go from region to region to region, and people don't like it if you have an accent that is not familiar to them or different from their region. So people adopt a generic accent so they don't, and it's just the news anchor accent, you know. I've definitely become better at speaking simply because, you know, I speak every day. But speaking every day is very different from reading off a teleprompter or off a script. |
| 17. May 2021 | Would i collaborate with dream given the opportunity? | Would I collaborate with Dream given the opportunity? Do you think if you asked Dream to play with you, he would spend the time giving you prior communication? I can't imagine so. Dream is large enough that he could contact basically anyone and they'd be like, Yeah, yeah, man, sure, let's play. Why the fuck would he play with me? And besides, I don't know if I really want to play with him. Like I'm conflicted in the sense that he does just seem to be a nice guy whose success probably got the better of him and he justified something that's not justifiable, which is cheating. At the same time, I don't like speedrun cheaters. And I don't really want to associate with speedrun cheaters. Like if I ever met him somewhere, I'd be like, hey man, how's it going? And the topic wouldn't come up. At the same time, in a professional capacity, eh, you know, give it some time at least, you know? Sure, it would be beneficial for me business-wise, but I really don't like cheaters. I don't like people who cheat systems for their own gain to other people's detriments. I know it's just speedrunning, as in, you know, the quality of people's lives is not going to be massively diminished. And certainly even if Hadi got world record, it would have been beaten by now very quickly and blah, blah, blah, blah. But it's, I don't like it. It doesn't sit well with me. Additionally, given that I am fairly certain now that he did cheat, that does mean that he spent a lot of time lying to people about it, which is also quite bad. Potentially even worse than the cheating itself. But as I've said before, given that people are so slow to forgive, even when people admit to wrongdoing and try to make amends, and that in no way would him admitting it benefited him. Like, admitting it would only cause him additional problems. Like, I can't blame him for not wanting to take that burden upon himself for effectively no one's gain. But it still isn't like lying for your own gain and cheating and speedrunning, the things I don't like. I just don't. And give it a few years, maybe, you know. It's called having moral values. I don't want to get into the conversation again. What's a shorter one? Everyone will at some point justify themselves breaking whatever values that they have. No person goes through their entire life without doing something that they, at least at one point, considered morally reprehensible. Take my most recent situation with Moodaha. I did not conduct myself in a way that I considered to be appropriate. And I mentally justified that to myself for a while until I realized that I was just deluding myself to justify it. Then I apologized and tried to make amends. But that initial violation of my standard of conduct that I think everyone should hold to, I still exist, you know. Everyone makes mistakes. It's how you respond to that mistake. And potentially why you made that mistake in the first place, right? I'm one of those kind of people who I like to try as best as possible to forgive people when I can give them that leniency. It is nothing Dream did after he cheated enables me to give him that kind of leniency. The only thing that enables any kind of leniency is, you know, potentially his age, his situation with his success and pressure, and that it's not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things. But that only goes so far. It goes far enough for me to not necessarily dislike the dude, but not enough for me to be comfortable with like a business relationship. |
| 07. February 2021 | Would i go onto other people’s podcasts? | Would I go on other people's podcasts? Would you ever consider going on Code Miku's show? Um, I've only ever seen her in passing. As in clips of her or YouTube videos. I know a little bit about her, but I don't know what a show really consists of. I haven't been popular for very long. To the degree that shows like that would really care to have me on. You know? And there's a very big difference between the more personality driven content creators. Compared to me, who's mainly known for GTA V. You gotta understand guys, most people have like stories of stuff they've done in their lives or whatever. Uh, I have led a fairly mundane life. What are people gonna interview me and talk to me about GTA V? So uh, what's it like having 8,000 hours in a single player game? That's pretty good. Is that right? Yeah. So who's your favorite character? Like, there are very few shows guys that I would not go on if I was asked. If that would help. |
| 08. July 2021 | Would i hug someone for $30? | Would I hug someone for $30? Will you hug me for $30? No. COVID, you know. I can't even hug my mother. Oh, you $25 under the name of your mum. Ha ha ha ha! |
| 01. June 2020 | Would i play GTA VI if like rdr2? | If GTA 6 is a more exploring game like Red Dead Redemption 2, would you play it? If GTA 6 was literally a rat in a maze and you poke it with a stick, I would play it. Whether I continue to play it afterwards would be a separate question. I didn't like, I didn't love at least Red Dead Redemption 2 even when I first started playing it and thought it was okay. But I still played that game for a grand total of what was in the end like 40 hours or some shit. I gave that game my all and it doesn't matter what GTA 6 is, I would do the same for that. |
| 08. November 2021 | Would i want to do a only good effect chaos run? | Would I want to do an only good effect chaos run? I think it'd be fairly boring really There isn't a lot that can really help you in the run Like if I'm driving in a car and you spawn for me like an adder, I still won't take it It's just not worth the time to get out of a car and get into another car You know if you give me a better weapon in a shootout, it's just gonna interrupt my shooting That's not gonna help me. The teleports to the right spots would work, but a lot of things are only good contextually, right? It would definitely be interesting Miro to have like two player grant the thought of five Where another person can control elements of the game? So like move pedestrians out of the way move cars out of the way spawn you faster vehicles upgrade your vehicles I should go heal your HP and stuff kind of like what um What was that Mario game used to have we used to have like the the pad thing or whatever and you could like draw in Steps and stuff for Mario to jump on you know what I'm talking about That was GTA 5 |
| 13. May 2021 | Would losing anonymity online be bad for society? | Will losing anonymity online be bad for society? What would the internet be like if you could not be anonymous in any way, shape or form? It's an interesting thing to think on. I guess you'd look at the positives first, where, you know, people would be more accountable for their words, people would be less willing to spread misinformation or whatever, because they know it could bite them in the ass, they could actually be prosecuted for it. I suppose the downsides would be that people would be less able to give forth information freely without fear of repercussion, in the sense where, like, you know, people who have information to give, but they- that's of public interest, but they can't give it because they run the risk of reprisal. But then again, that kind of stuff isn't believed by most people anyway. Like if you come as an anonymous source for X, the people who won't like the message would just go, nah, this is just some bullshit, some random person saying nonsense. Certainly as a public figure to a degree, a lot of the online content creators and stuff would be immediately at risk, because people would have their full name and they'd be easier to find, and a lot of content creators don't like that kind of stuff. Certainly you'd be a reduction in freedom, because, you know, people would no longer have the option to choose whether they wanted to be anonymous or not. Hence companies would have an easier time tracking people online. There seems to be some upsides, some downsides, but the ability for this to be regulated, like who's doing this regulation and what's the punishment gonna be? Oh, you made an account and you used a fake ID, go to jail for ten years, like what? Who's gonna be enforcing this? It would destroy encryption too? Oh, that would be terrible. Nothing would really be private. It just seems logistically next to impossible to achieve, although certainly in whatever form it would exist, it would still be some barrier to people being anonymous. Like even if some easily doable thing is online, a significant amount of people won't do it, and doing that thing will still be a barrier to people being anonymous online and whatnot. I guess it would depend on the implementation. Like my feelings on the matter, like if you ask me, Matt, would you prefer a world where everyone had to be open with who they are online and you could not be anonymous? Would you want that world? And I would say no. Literally when people talk about a downside of Facebook gaming, they're like, you can't be anonymous, you can't have a username, and everyone's just like, oh, God, you know, you don't comment when you watch Facebook streams? Yeah, if you couldn't be anonymous, people would be less willing to speak, less willing to share information, but at the same time, a lot of stuff what people share is completely meaningless garbage anyway. So effectively, the online world would largely just mirror the real world. In the real world, anything you say is to a greater or lesser degree identifiable as coming from you. There are consequences to what you're saying. What you say will depend upon who's listening because you know they'll attribute it to you. And yeah, I mean, is online discourse better or worse than real life discourse? I'd say it's worse, honestly, but then again, when you speak and say something in real life, the nanosecond you finish speaking it, it goes off into the ether, right, unless it's being recorded. But online, everything's being recorded by someone to some degree. I mean, you know what I'm saying, but at least there's the potential for that. I can definitely see upsides to such a change, but it just as a person who likes anonymity, it hits me bad emotionally, you know. I suppose what that viewer mentioned, that encryption would go away, is perhaps the biggest concern to me, because some stuff should be encrypted. Some communications should be private from both the government and companies. People's ability to steal your information, if it has to be able to be traced to you, would be astronomically higher. Like, how on earth could you do online banking without encryption and whatnot? Like, is it complete anonymity is gone, or you just have to have a username that's your name? I guess it depends on how far this goes. Do I even consider myself anonymous anymore? Uh, to a degree, but you're right, I'm not nearly as anonymous as the average person. Like there's a big difference between a person being able to, if they wanted to, dig around for information about me, versus all that information being very easily accessible immediately. You could find my real name if you wanted to, but just by looking at me right now, you won't immediately know my real name. And I had that choice, you know, I had the choice to be free with my real name or not. Having that decided for me would be, uh, invasive in my view. Someone make a poll. Take the question, irrespective of your personal feelings, do you think a requirement that usernames be their real name, be your real name? Do you think they'd be better for society? Irrespective of your personal feelings, do you think it'd be better for society if everyone's usernames had to be their real name? Anonymity simultaneously makes the incident a much worse place and a much better place? Yeah, exactly. There are definitely downsides and upsides to what we have. And as is often the case with any new potential implemented system, it just depends on what you value more as to which one you're going to think is better. What goals you think social media should be achieving? Know it 86%. I think people would be less toxic in general, but the risk of companies and governments being even greater able to invade on your privacy, potentially not worth that loss of toxicity, I think. And I suppose, in general, the people you want to be held accountable for what they're doing and saying online are those who have a lot of influence online. And it's hard to gain a lot of influence online without people knowing who you are. Like, you kind of lose your anonymity the more influence you gain online. The easier you are to be tracked, the more people who are interested in finding out about you and who you are. And those people can be held accountable for their words if such laws exist. I suppose all that a loss of anonymity would do is make it so you can keep tabs on the average Joe a lot easier. So loss of anonymity would just mean that you can track an average Joe better. And I don't think that's necessarily the most important thing for society, even if, as I say, the loss of a little bit of toxicity online would be a little bit nicer. I think there's better ways to combat toxicity beyond simply making sure everyone has their real name for their account username, you know, like there are too many downsides with that system. What do I know? I don't claim to be an expert there. What about criminal hackers? People with child porn and whatnot? Yeah. So certainly, see, laws requiring that people are not anonymous online would be barriers to anonymity, but it'd still be achievable. Those who are truly committed to being anonymous online could achieve it. They'd be more risk in doing it, potentially being found out would incur greater penalties. But those who require anonymity to do the things that they want to do would still find ways to achieve that ends. As it's still a barrier to entry. So there would likely be some amount of people who see that barrier and say, oh, well, I'm not going to do this illegal thing that I want to do, or this harmful thing that I want to do. But I don't think it'd be that much, you know, it'd be a very indirect way to combat online crimes, to make laws requiring a loss of anonymity. That's a hard word to say. Anonymity. I say definitely upsides, definitely downsides. And I just I just don't see the upsides as being worth the downsides. Even that, at least in regards to public figures or those who have a lot of influence, they aren't anonymous. At least they're far less anonymous. The good people suffer from criminals will be criminals. They will find other ways that that mentality is always terrible. It is the wrong mentality to have. No law will ever stop crime. It will be deterrent for crime. It will be a barrier to potentially put up barriers to crime. Criminals are not people with just infinite initiative, infinite drive, infinite persistence. It's like, okay, sure, like this crime will go from taking one day to do to 80 years, but a committed criminal will find a way. Like there is there is no system that will ever be a perfect barrier to literally everyone on the planet. The question is, will this reduce the thing that you're trying to reduce? And what are the downsides of this reduction? Every single law that has ever been made has been misapplied and has harmed the innocent. That's just true. The jails now are full of people who are innocent. What percentage depends on how pessimistic you are, but you wouldn't advocate that the justice system be entirely removed. No system will ever be perfect. It's downsides versus upsides. That question, what percentage of innocent people are you, do you think it's okay to be caught by a system for what amount of criminals? It's bad phrasing. How many false positives in a system are you willing to have to capture a certain amount of true positives? Like let's say we can catch a hundred criminals for every innocent person that suffers the same fate as those criminals. Is that a good system? What about one in a thousand? Are you willing to let a thousand criminals go to avoid capturing one innocent person in that same fate? There's no objective answer to this question. The higher you make your standards for someone to meet the threshold, the greater the amount of people who should be caught by the system will get away. In the same token, the amount of people who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time won't be picked up by that system. If your standard for evidence is on the floor, you will capture every god damn criminal. You also capture every god damn innocent person. So it's a consideration with every law. How many innocent people are going to be inconvenienced? To what degree? How many criminals are you going to capture or deter? Is it worth it? Any person who says this law shouldn't be implemented because it's just going to impact innocent people has either not thought about for a very long time or is just an idiot because it's every god damn law. Like 95% of current laws probably shouldn't exist anyway. Oh my God, I'd love to hear how you reach that conclusion. God damn. I think in a lot of ways, it's the libertarian mindset. No laws should not exist that don't specifically benefit me. The nanosecond where a law would exist that would benefit me, it should already have existed. What's wrong with you? The nanosecond a law inconveniences me. Oh my God, why does this law exist? Get rid of it right now. Just because a law doesn't benefit you doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. Just because a law inconveniences you doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. To be charitable, you could certainly argue that there are laws on the books that are no longer applicable in today's society. They were made eons ago that are just there because it's not like anyone's going back and going, well, this doesn't apply, strike it from the book. But why would you be concerned over such laws anyway? Because they're not applicable today, right? You thought I was saying law this whole time? L-O-R-E and L-A-W sound exactly the same. May I use my accents? Law and law, is there any accent where those can be distinguished? La and law. I am the law. You over-annunciate the R. L-A-R-E. L-A-R-E. L-A-R-E. I can't even try and do it. I mean, within context, surely most people realized I wasn't saying L-O-R-E. How did we get onto that conversation anyway? I hope I at least somewhat communicated my thoughts well. On some topics where I haven't thought a lot on it, I'm kind of talking myself through the topic, thinking about what I should ultimately believe at the end of the day, right? Like I have not considered for long periods of time what the implications of a non-anonymous social media system would be, because it's not something that I believe that has a significant likelihood of becoming a reality anytime soon. Because I mean, it's not like even Facebook is completely anonymous. I can talk with my brand account as readily as I can with my personal account. You can talk as owner of a group as opposed to your personal account, you know? I mean, sure, Facebook would still have that information, but as far as the public is concerned, you still wouldn't, you'd still be anonymous. And you can make fake accounts on Facebook easily. So we are a long ways away from losing all anonymity on the internet. How would loss of anonymity cause encryption not to work? Encryption works just fine with real names. Oh, because what they're saying is like everything has to be attributable. If you send a private message and it's not recorded by anything or viewable by anyone, you are anonymous, effectively. The idea of encryption is that you, the user, and the end person you're sending a message to, you're the only two people who can read that message. That's anonymity. If you lose anonymity, then you can't have that level of encryption because you would be anonymous in your messaging. Sure, you could see, I believe the person who facilitated that exchange would be able to see that you sent a message, but they couldn't see the contents of that message. So you would be anonymous. And that's why I said, it depends on what level of loss of anonymity you're talking about. If you're just saying that people have to have their real name as their username, okay, fine. It's a little bit less egregious. But if the complete loss of anonymity is in like everything that you do must be trackable in some context, then that's not good. |
| 02. February 2022 | Would people adapt and survive or struggle if technology disappeared? | People adapt and survive or struggle if technology disappeared. Anyone would struggle were there environments to massively change. Like each of us makes decisions every day based on certain assumptions about what's going to happen in the future. And if the future were fundamentally massively different from what you predicted it to be, you're going to be screwed, right? There'd be some people who have survivalist skills who'd be perfectly fine. But obviously most people would not. It depends on how much technology we're losing here. Because obviously most places, absent like the ability to use boats and trucks and stuff, food would immediately just dry up. Because like all the major cities, the population centers are reliant on stuff, reliant on food coming from far away. And so, you know, obviously most people would be immediately screwed. Loss of technology does not equal loss of morals and civilization. In this case it would. I think you would find that the behaviors that people consider acceptable or that they'd be willing to do are very different when they're secure and not food insecure versus when they're, you know, when they don't have as much security and they are food insecure, right? When you're starving, the things that you're willing to do to no longer be starving are pretty significant, you know? The mechanisms that we use to sustain ourselves in our current environment would largely all be pointless or rather not useful in an environment absent technology. And our civilization currently is based upon technology in terms of how we communicate, how we get around and all that jazz. I'm not saying we would never develop any kind of civilization again, but things would majorly hit the fan, like shit would just hit the fan and we'd basically be starting from ground zero again. And that's, I'm assuming that's all technology lost, right? |
| 05. June 2022 | Would the player base even notice the fixes? | Car yet. They have no like a normal car. They haven't tried it. If they applied it to all the cars, like for the hell of it, how much of the player base do you think would even notice? I'm not sure how many people even know about brake boosting or curb boosting or all that jazz. My videos and your videos, of course, have shown that to people, but I'm not sure how many people really bother or think about curb boosting or brake boosting at all. What's your experience with that? Is this common knowledge to everyone now, given how long it's been? I would say if they applied this fix, 90% of the general population would not even notice a difference. I don't think they might notice that their cars feel a bit more sluggish and slow unless Rockstar actually again, increased the engine power for all the cars whilst they made this change. I think that there's this like a viral video on YouTube that talks about, well, it shows the difference of a curb boosting or something like that. I think people, anyone who's seen that and actively does any kind of curb boosting even just a little bit would notice. Yeah. Because it would be so obvious that you can, I mean, you can tell, you know, I put up a video that shows the difference when it shows a car with these flags applied and you can, you can see the difference that it just does not pick up speed when it gets in terms of acceleration. Yeah, I remember that video. Because you're just not getting that power off. The curbs actually really do improve the performance of the cars quite substantially, even if you're not seeking the curbs, any little bump in the road and micro bumps, it just makes them quicker. So if they just applied this flag, a lot of people would notice, but the general GTA population that don't really know how to drive a car in the first place wouldn't, probably wouldn't make a difference. I forget sometimes that it's not just curbs, it's just any small indentation. It's a small detail I forget. It's even on to the level of, you know, in races, you've got the stunt road pieces that people create tracks out of and these speak stunt races. So those, those are completely flat. So cars would actually be slower on those stunt road pieces of road than they are on just a flat highway in the game because the highway has all the |
| 05. June 2022 | Would the playerbase even notice the fixes? | Car yet. They have no like a normal car. They haven't tried it. If they applied it to all the cars, like for the hell of it, how much of the player base do you think would even notice? I'm not sure how many people even know about brake boosting or curb boosting or all that jazz. My videos and your videos, of course, have shown that to people, but I'm not sure how many people really bother or think about curb boosting or brake boosting at all. What's your experience with that? Is this common knowledge to everyone now, given how long it's been? I would say if they applied this fix, 90% of the general population would not even notice a difference. I don't think they might notice that their cars feel a bit more sluggish and slow unless Rockstar actually again, increased the engine power for all the cars whilst they made this change. I think that there's this like a viral video on YouTube that talks about, well, it shows the difference of a curb boosting or something like that. I think people, anyone who's seen that and actively does any kind of curb boosting even just a little bit would notice. Yeah. Because it would be so obvious that you can, I mean, you can tell, you know, I put up a video that shows the difference when it shows a car with these flags applied and you can, you can see the difference that it just does not pick up speed when it gets in terms of acceleration. Yeah, I remember that video. Because you're just not getting that power off. The curbs actually really do improve the performance of the cars quite substantially, even if you're not seeking the curbs, any little bump in the road and micro bumps, it just makes them quicker. So if they just applied this flag, a lot of people would notice, but the general GTA population that don't really know how to drive a car in the first place wouldn't, probably wouldn't make a difference. I forget sometimes that it's not just curbs, it's just any small indentation. It's a small detail I forget. It's even on to the level of, you know, in races, you've got the stunt road pieces that people create tracks out of and these speak stunt races. So those, those are completely flat. So cars would actually be slower on those stunt road pieces of road than they are on just a flat highway in the game because the highway has all the |
| 19. February 2022 | Would you kill a random person for a million dollars | Would you kill a random person for a million dollars? A person comes to you and says, If you press this button, you will kill one random person on the planet. But you will receive one million dollars. Would you press the button? I think everyone has their price to do effectively anything, right? People are good at rationalizing things for themselves and they'd be able to... A person would be able to convince themselves of almost anything, right? But it needs to be enough, right? So, how much money would I need to kill someone? It depends on the person, the consequences of me killing them, and... Yeah, so the person and the consequences, right? If it's a sickly dying person who's going to die the next day anyway, I'd kill them for far less than I would, say, a child. If you wanted me to kill a child, it doesn't matter who they are. As long as they're healthy and they're not in danger of dying like two days from now, it would be billions. I couldn't do that shit. It would need to be enough money that I would feel like I could use the money to achieve far more good in the world than the wrong that I've done, right? And even then I would be very hesitant and I'd feel like a dipshit for the rest of my life, I think. It would need to be a lot of money. I'm talking, I can take like a thousand starving orphans and put them up for life or something, you know? They're stuck into ten bucks. Yeah, ten billion. I get what you're saying, but I've got some of me like two fivers right now. Would you mind killing this kid for the two fivers? Maybe I can write you an IOU for ten grand or ten billion or whatever you think you need. What is the least amount you'd kill a stranger for? It depends on the stranger. The amount that I need to kill Hitler would be significantly less than what I'd need to, than a person who's very good, you know? It all depends on the context. The same idea of what you said with killing the kid, but if you didn't do it, the person asking would kill you. In theory, it should lower the number. Oh, I see. In a weird way, I think that would make it worse. I don't- I wouldn't- on some level I'd be thinking that I'd be killing the kid to save my own life. It'd be very different as well if it was consensual. Like if you found me a person who was what I considered to be of sound mind, who legitimately wanted to die and wanted me to kill them, I'd have many reservations, but I could certainly think of contexts where I wouldn't need to be compensated for it. Like I could- I- especially depending upon the means of death, right? It's funny how the means of death actually matters, right? So like, people are more okay with, say, euthanasia with like a- something in like a dropper or whatever, right? They're more okay with that than like a doctor shooting a guy in the face to kill him, right? Even though it achieves effectively the same thing, right? One seems humane and the other one does not. These are dark things to think about, eh? I've said it before, man. No one truly knows themselves. No one truly knows what they're capable of until they get put into a particular situation, you know? Like, I don't think I could kill another person to save my own life, or I don't think I could kill an animal in the wild for food. And then you get there and it's- |
| 31. March 2021 | Would you want to be a millionaire if you had to eat half the money? | Would you want to be a millionaire if you had to eat half the money? Would you want to be a millionaire if you had to eat every other dollar you made? I suppose not. That'd probably be very, very bad for you. I think you'd die. Because, especially in my currency, because you'd have to eat the metal. You'd die. Even if you could save it up and eat only like five dollar bills. That stuff is definitely not conceivable. |
| 31. March 2021 | Would you want to be a millionare if you had to eat half the money | Would you want to be a millionaire if you had to eat half the money? Would you want to be a millionaire if you had to eat every other dollar you made? I suppose not. That'd probably be very, very bad for you. I think you'd die. Because, especially in my currency, because you'd have to eat the metal. You'd die. Even if you could save it up and eat only like five dollar bills. That stuff is definitely not conceivable. |
| 08. November 2020 | Wouldn't making GTA 6 be more profitable for Rockstar? | Wouldn't making GTA 6 just be more profitable for Rockstar? I understand why they wouldn't just make GTA 6, don't you think it would make them more money than milking this game? No. So the return on investment for microtransaction content is higher than the return on investment for making a full game by itself. Certainly, you know, there's exceptions to that, whatever. But that's why companies, where possible, make microtransactions, right? I think people showed it using blizzards. When was this? Information they had to give to their shareholders or whatever? It was like, for every 50 cents they invested into making an actual game or DLC or whatever, they got a dollar. For every 20 cents they invested into microtransactions, they got a dollar or something. Probably not exact figures, but that's basically the premise. If you can develop a successful microtransaction economy and you've got enough of an audience, it's clearly a better return on investment. Like the time it takes for one dude to make some horse armor and then you present it to millions of players, you only need a small fraction of those people to buy it for $5 for it to be a good investment or whatever. |
| 26. September 2021 | Wrongly blaming the game for your mistakes | Wrongly blaming the game for your mistakes. It's hard sometimes when I'm editing my content and I look at what I'm doing and I'm like, I made a mistake there, made a mistake there, why did I reset that run? I could have continued that run, oh that run was fine, why did I do that? Because I have to go over my VODs again, I have to relive my mistakes and it's tough. It certainly helps with introspection and stuff, right? Like, you come to realize over time how much you erroneously blame the game versus yourself and stuff and you're like, you feel like such a douche. |
| 19. April 2021 | X problem doesn’t exist, it was made up for money. | Ex problem doesn't exist, it is made up for money. Psychologists find more problems than there is because money, more money, more problems, more money. I consider this to be a very terrible way to look at things. So there was this guy who once said, Here's how we know climate change is false. Because climatologists don't get money if it doesn't exist. It's all about the money. Climatologists just causing a stink because they want to get a few more dollars. Now if you look at this reasoning, it applies to literally everything. Cars, they don't break down ladies and gentlemen. It's just these fucking mechanics man. They're just making up nonsense to make more money. You don't really need to work on cars. Come on now, they don't even fix cars. You bring them in and they like just maybe tinker a little bit to make it look a little bit better. And so you come back in the next fucking week. Mechanics, scammers. They're the ones who are really damaging your cars. Doctors, there's no such thing as fucking disease. It's just some fucking scam by big fucking pharmaceutical companies. Health, aging, this is all in people's minds. Put in there by these fucking doctors who want to make some money. Food purveyors. Oh my God, you don't need food to live. They're just convincing you you need more food than you actually do. It's all a fucking scam. The existence of people who act in a fraudulent way or potentially find problems that don't actually exist does not mean actual problems don't exist or that those who seek to solve these problems and those who come to them for help are just in it for the money and never seek to solve problems. To believe that psychologists are just sitting there trying to find problems to make more money, you would have to be a person who is a psychopath. You're a person who ignores such words because they mean a lot of different things. You're a person who does not have empathy and thus cannot understand existing others. It is a hard thing to imagine a person dedicating their lives to sitting there listening to other people's problems and caring not even one jot as to whether they got better or not. Not only that these people exist, but they would get into careers like psychology rather than careers like finance or economics or something. You don't traditionally go into these careers if you don't have at least some sense of empathy for those who'd be trying to help. It's the same stupid idea with that guy who thinks climatologists are just in it for the money. Can you imagine the idea that you're a person driven to gain a lot of money and you're going to pick your career and you're like, climatology, that's where the money is. Don't care about the environment. Don't care about helping people. Don't care about providing for future generations. I'm only in it for the money and climatology is where it's at. Dumb. |
| 01. June 2021 | XQC and Sponsored Gambling Streams | xQc and sponsored gambling streams. For those unaware, xQc is one of the biggest Twitch live streamers and currently there is a trend of a lot of big content creators playing gambling on stream. I sort of saw a mention, um, because I was asked about yesterday. Is xQc still doing his gambling streams? How many did he do? Apparently, um, xQc did gambling streams caused a bit of a ruckus because previously he had criticized other people for doing gambling streams. There's a clip of him saying, like I'm going to listen to someone who advertises gambling to children or whatever. Apparently people defend him by saying that, uh, he constantly says throughout his streams, you know, don't do this. It's just for fun or whatever. You'll lose money, blah, blah, blah. But always remember at the end of the day, the reason why companies advertise stuff is that they believe that they will make more money from that advertising than they're paying for the advertisement, right? So in reality, what this deal is, is xQc taking an amount of money from this agency and that agency hopefully taking more than that amount of money from his viewers. Normally this isn't a problem in advertising because like if I advertise something, it's with the general idea that more than likely people will spend more money on those products or generate more profit for that company than they're paying me in advertisement. But it's usually, you hope, a product that people actually want or is actually a value to them. And gambling, it's, you know, debated by many whether that actually is a valuable thing to spend your money on. Like it is entertainment at the end of the day. I remember when I used to gamble, and I would often say with the amount of entertainment I've got, I think it's well worth the amount of money that I've lost. Like it was like over six months or something with going continuously, I lost like $2,000 or something. For the hour, dollar per hour entertainment, very good value. And as I say, I like gambling, but with gambling, of course, it can be heavily addictive and can potentially ruin lives and whatnot. And it's debatable how responsible any particular person is for that small minority that will not interface with the thing you're advertising in a normal or positive way, right? Like for example, it is entirely possible that by playing GTA V, a person may love the game so much that they shirk their responsibilities, don't do their homework, don't do their studies, unless they flunk out of college or something. I'm not really responsible for that. This is the thing you've got to debate. To what extent is XQC potentially putting his viewers in harm's way by advertising gambling? And to what degree is he responsible for that? And there is no answer to this question. It's just a question of value, you know? How responsible any of us are for the actions of others? At the end of the day, I don't think there's a single person who wouldn't advertise gambling on their content if the price was right. Like any streamer who says, I would never advertise gambling, if you offered a billion dollars to do one singular gambling stream for an hour, you'd fucking do it. Let's be real, obviously you would. Whatever XQC's reservations about doing gambling streams, clearly whatever they offered him was enough for him to no longer feel bad about it. As I've said before, I've already done a gambling stream a long time ago for money when I was a smaller content creator, but at that point I needed the money more than I do now. There is certainly a number that I could be offered to do a gambling stream, but it'd have to be extraordinarily high. I'm on the record like a hundred times saying I love Texas Hold'em, I love playing that shit, I love Blackjack. My early years going to the casinos and stuff, I only quit because when I quit my job and went into studying, I didn't think it was a responsible thing to do. And even now, when I do gamble and I lose money, the loss of the money is worse to me than the positive feelings that I get playing or the entertainment value. So I abstain from gambling basically all the time. But I guess that's a difference between me and XQC then. Because I've already done a gambling stream and I'm on the record saying I love gambling, if I did a gambling stream, people wouldn't consider that to be outside the norm. But XQC going around saying this is a terrible thing and I don't respect people who do this and then doing it himself makes him more- he is just a massive hypocrite. Saying you shouldn't do this until the very moment it benefited him to do it. But he doesn't want people to do what he does? Yeah, that's extraordinarily stupid. As an argument defending his behavior, that's just dumb. Because obviously the agency paying him wouldn't be paying him what they are if they sincerely believe that XQC could stop his viewers from interfacing with the website. I can assure you as a person who has actively had to work to abstain from gambling over the years since I quit, whenever I see anyone else gamble, it's a lot harder to do. The problem with online gambling is it's so easy to do. You just jump in immediately and throw in a hundred bucks or whatever to try your chances, right? If XQC sincerely cared about whether or not his viewers gambled and wanted them not to, he wouldn't have taken the sponsorship. Any lip service he gives to try to assuage people away from it is just him playing to a crowd. He can't sincerely care or at the very least the degree to which he cares must be significantly less than his care for the money that he's received. As I say, I won't fault him for doing it, but I will fault him for trying to pretend like he isn't ultimately just taking money from his viewers through the process of taking money from a gambling website and the gambling website taking money from his viewers and giving lip service to the idea of stopping them, stopping his viewers gambling, because obviously they will. If you want to do gambling games, own it. Make a case for it. It can be made because it's not some sort of objective thing. Make the case that ultimately it is just entertainment and that a small minority might interface with it in an irresponsible way shouldn't dissuade normal people from enjoying themselves doing it. Gambling for the purposes of making money is foolishness of course, but as entertainment gambling is often great. If you don't have the money to lose gambling is the worst thing you can do. What if his kid viewers try to do it? So that kind of point I have seen brought up. I sincerely doubt that XQC's viewers are like, you know, 13 in the majority, right? I think that's just nonsense. The average age of Twitch in general is like 20 and Twitch is a more niche website, right? It's not in the majority populated by kids. And even if it were possible, let's grant the premise that indeed his audience is mainly kids. One, kids don't have enough money to put into a gambling website. Two, most kids don't have access to the means to put money into a gambling site. Three, most gambling sites legally have to try to prevent people under the age of the gambling legal limits for whatever country is in or whatever from using the website, putting money in or cashing out. Like the barriers to entry there for kids is enormous. The hurdles that you'd have to go through, extraordinary. I don't think that's a very good argument against the doing gambling strings. My company required an ID to log in before you can gamble. Yeah. I think when I did Pokestars, they were the same. As I say, kids aren't going to be the people putting money in there, right? The only people who are going to suffer from gambling are those who see this, like the tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny minority who see this and psychologically or whatever, they're just unable to stop themselves from overindulging in the process. And as I tried to say at the beginning, that can happen with basically anything. It's just more common with gambling. And it's a question of your personal values as to how responsible anyone is for influencing a person to do that. For example, let's say I influence a person to play GTA V and they buy thousands of dollars worth of shark cards that they can't afford. Am I responsible for that? It may be not, Matt, but it's more common with gambling. So maybe you'd be more responsible in that context. And that's an argument you could certainly make. I say that that threshold of to what frequency this has to occur for you to be somewhat responsible is debatable. As I say, though, I'll put myself on the record again. I will. I'm totally not above doing a gambling stream for the right price in the future. It's not likely to happen, but I'm fine with doing that myself. Here's a better question for your chat. Would it be more OK if it wasn't sponsored? Let's say that he just wanted to play gambling on stream. That is likely going to have the same degree of influence of causing people to play gambling. I suppose at least in that case, it could be at a sincere interest. At the end of the day, anything that you present to a wider audience could cause that wider audience to interface with that thing in a non-constructive way or a completely destructive way. Gambling, given its history of potentially destroying lives, is more suspect, though. A bit of a problem with sponsored gambling is some sides increase the luck for streamers, and that's not the case with CSGO. I don't think on any CSGO gambling site that was actually proven. It was more the conflict of interest. And no gambling website is… I can't say no, but I would be floored if any gambling website of any degree of legitimacy is going to risk their license to increase the likelihood of one particular person winning. I find that very hard to believe. I'm delusional. Regulatory agencies have access to the information on the backend for these websites, and they're meant to be checked. At least this is what I've heard anyway. When you're talking about a million dollar, if not billion dollar or trillion dollar industry, any individual advertisement is really small chips, right? Risking that degree of revenue to make an advertisement look a little bit better and potentially risking jail time, I doubt that happens to the degree of the frequency that you think it does. The risk is just not worth the reward. Because most of the time, they're going to win sometimes, and sometimes it's going to be enough. And gambling sites don't need to rig anything, because by the design of the games, they're at an advantage anyway. Gambling sites aren't interested in underage gamblers, as the trouble would outweigh any revenue brought in from their gambling. They're probably more with the valuable people being tempted back and rather than on your heel. That's what I said before, yeah. |
| 26. May 2022 | XQC and sponsored gambling streams | And sponsored gambling streams. XQC recently was on stream. I think, I heard this secondhand, but there's articles about it. Where apparently his dad chewed into him because XQC lost two million dollars gambling. And now he's taken a gambling sponsorship to play slots on stream. Which is similar to what Trainwrex does. He's one of the most viewed people on Twitch and all he does is play slots like 30 hours. Just non-stop. Just going again and again and again and again. Because these gambling websites have just like astronomical amounts of money to spend. Because obviously it's always in the house favor. You know, you're just printing money if you get people into your gambling website. Especially because as a website your costs for running the business is so fucking low. So more the scummy higher up people in the Twitch ecosystem who have no models can just accept multi-million dollar contracts for gambling sponsorships. But in XQC's case, it was like a year ago or something where he said that he would never take another one again. Because there was all this backlash about it and Banny Mizkif might be taking one of these gambling sponsorships as well. Because none of them have any models. They just don't fucking care. The only reason these companies give these sponsorships to these streamers is because they believe that the viewers will lose more money than they're paying in the sponsorship. The reason why I'm not more outspoken against gambling sponsorships is because I like gambling. I've talked about my history with gambling before. So a long time ago when I was like early 20s. 18 or over 18. I would work weekends and the people I knew at the time, you can call my friends if you like. They worked weekdays. So if I ever went to a meetup or a party or something I'd be getting there at like 10 or 11pm. As everyone's already pretty drunk and stuff. So I had my weekdays fairly free. Monday to Thursday often. And so I would have no one to hang out with, nothing to do. And so I would probably one day a week go to the Star Casino and I would play very low stakes Texas Hold'em. Like I was probably up a thousand dollars and then over six months I lost it all and I was probably down a thousand dollars at the end. Like I was very low stakes gambling. And Texas Hold'em being one of the few gambling games that if you have some skill you can actually get ahead. Not that I had much skill mind you. Because you don't play against the house, you play against other people. The sum of the players will always lose because the house takes a certain cut of each pot. You know like ten bucks or whatever. But individuals at the table can be ahead by the end of the night. I stopped doing this when I quit my job and started studying. Because I didn't have an income anymore. At least not a significant one because I was just getting benefits from my government. And so I was like I can't afford to do this, I'm not doing anymore and I quit. And since then, this is you know in the last five or so years I probably gambled maybe like three times in all that time. But for those unaware I had a gambling sponsorship once. This was towards the very early days of my stream. It was one of my first three sponsorships. Now I want to make the case that it's a little bit different for me taking those sponsorships. Because for one I was more ignorant at the time. But also because I was poor. My income was at the time less than what I was, my expenses were. So I was taking whatever sponsorships that I could. Like I ended up taking a gambling sponsorship to play just some blackjack. Which is where my most popular clip of all time comes from where she called me Dark Weaver or whatever. And then I had like two mobile game sponsorships. One for Lords Mobile and another Lords game or something. The Lords Mobile was actually quite fun. But it paid a win. Aspects. He's probably paying me like 500 bucks but at the time 500 bucks was a lot of money. This is very different from XQC who is making 4 million dollars a year from Twitch alone. And then many millions more on top of that for YouTube. He doesn't need to take those sponsorships to get by like I did. If you count all your gambling expenses over the years together you were just like a thousand dollars in the hole. Considering that's money spent on entertainment I think most adults spend that much more on entertainment. Anyway I mean I spend more than that on JDM cars. Oh yeah absolutely you make what you're saying is true. I'm probably down more than a thousand dollars since then. But certainly in the dollar per hour for entertainment the low stakes gambling that I was playing was somewhat good value for money at least at the time. But you know gambling can always snowball. Where you know suddenly you don't get the same thrill betting 200 dollars. Now you have to bet 400. Now you have to bet 600. Now you have to bet 700. And then eventually you're screwed right. If you can avoid gambling it's definitely something that you should do. It is a advice that can snowball and destroy your life. I still remember to this day I was in the elevator leaving. I think I had lost that day. Like what I would end up doing usually was I would go with 200 or 400 dollars. And if I lost the 200 I go well I'll leave. But I was leaving I think I lost my 200 I was going down to the elevator. And there was a guy in there and his eyes were red. Looked like he'd been crying. Looked like someone hadn't beaten him up but someone had spiritually beaten him up. Like every aspect of his being had just said I don't want to live anymore. And he's like we engaged in some small talk that clearly represented him as a person who'd lost a fuck ton of money. And he really needed to win. And I think of that guy every time I think about gambling. And the way that clearly he'd ruined himself something fierce. There's a lot of psychological factors that can trap you with gambling. I like playing without actual cash the game's fun but adding money to it that can be dangerous. Yeah I think the best form of gambling is one where there is stakes but not really. As in like you have seven friends and you play you all chip in 20 bucks and then you play Texas Hold'em. And the person who wins who has all the chips at the end they get the 140 dollars. So there's stakes but not like real stakes you know. Like there's a winner of something. Bob you said that having your psych degree I think you are less likely to person get tangled up in gambling since you recognized it early. I never like to think of myself that way. Like I have a bachelor's degree I'm not a psychologist I'm not a therapist or a clinical psychologist I'm not like that. A bachelor's degree all it really gives you is kind of like you understand the scope of the topic. And you've got like a toe worth of knowledge of everything that exists. You have a greater understanding than the average person but you're not an expert. And I never want to think of myself as a person who can't fall victim to psychological biases or the normal psychological failings of humans. Because I've done that. I even mentioned in the first video where I often will assume malice in people rather than assuming incompetence. Whether that's because it's just easier to assume that because you just want to assume that this person is clearly a bad person. But that's not always the case. Like I'm human so I will fall victim to these things. But I would like to argue that having some knowledge that these failings exist and being wary of them can help you catch yourself more quickly than other people. Even if you still fall victim to them. My degree is in psychology. So I have a community services degree which I used to get into university because it showed that I had aptitude. I guess it showed that I had aptitude but I also was just committed to actually wanting to go. While in university I did every single unit required for a criminology degree except one. I can't remember exactly why but they said they wouldn't give it to me even if I did that last unit. Because technically some of the required units were also units that were required for my psych degree. So I thought I could get both but they said that I couldn't. But whatever. All my electives were in criminology. But technically I have a bachelor's of social science with a major in psychology. But of course I did this back in 2016. So acting as though I remember the entire course six years later is not right. |
| 28. May 2022 | XQC doesn't need reaction content | Maybe I could have worded it differently and put it in there. XQC doesn't need reaction content. Honestly, XQC actually doesn't need to react to get views because he gets 70k viewers while playing GTA RP. I don't think he has bad intentions with react content because he is oblivious. I still love his gaming content though. My guy, how do you think he ended up being in a position where he would get 70k viewers a stream? Most people who watch Twitch are just looking for a place to chill. Simple place with consistent content that never runs out. You know? And the only reason XQC has been able to get to the point where he's at now is because he's stolen like tens of thousands of hours of people's labor. If he had never reacted to content, he'd be a fraction of what he is today. Not just on Twitch, but if he didn't upload it to YouTube. Sure, he can keep 70k viewers now, but that's because he's at the top of Twitch where every new viewer, or at least the overall vast majority of new viewers, click on his stream first, because he's the first person. What's a good analogy? You've stolen 10 million dollars, and now you no longer need to steal any money. And so you go, well, he's not a thief anymore because he doesn't need to steal any money anymore because he's got 10 million dollars. Like, well, yeah, because you've already stolen 10 million dollars. Like, you know. Hassan's bad you- |
| 28. May 2022 | XQC not knowing moving studios pay to film and locations | Not knowing movie studios pay to film at locations. If you missed it, this is commentary on Can Anyone Actually Be This Dumb? The Worst Defense of React Content. I like how XQC said movie producer doesn't invent the street, therefore it is stolen. Because most movies have to get permits and pay fees to lock down the fucking street to film. That was in the script originally, Bob. Someone else commented that too. And I kinda wish I had left it in now. But I thought that was like really obvious. And it just seemed clunky with everything else that was in the video. What was the point I ended up making for that section? That was the Carl Sagan section, right? Like I think that was a more important point. Yeah, I think that's why I removed it. Because it left open the possibility for a person to argue, well then, what if I just give them the money that the video makes? I pay them some money. Would that be okay then? And as I tried to make the case, like, the money isn't the entirety of the point. You're stealing exposure from everyone. The entirety of the market. You know? Yeah, it clotted things up and just made things a bit confusing, so I removed it. |
| 19. February 2023 | XQC tries playing GTA 5 Chaos Mod and fails miserably. | Hello and welcome to another episode of Viper Rambles, starting with the topic XQC tries playing GT5 Chaos mod and fails miserably. I've received a lot of messages telling me that XQC is playing Chaos and apparently he sucks balls. Which is funny. But that is what I've said about Chaos mods. Chaos mods are the kind of thing that you want to do for games that you know really well and it can like change your gaming experience if you're completely clueless about what you're meant to be doing. Just in the base game, the added chaos on top of that often can make for a very boring experience. Because like you don't know what to do, you don't know where you're going, you don't know the tools of the game to combat the randomness that's been thrown at you through Chaos. And so you just end up getting kind of stuck and you don't know what to do or say. With that being said though, XQC is kind of a boring person in general sometimes. You can often be very quiet and just sit there. It's live streaming values, longevity, as opposed to short time span being like as action packed as possible. It's a young man's game, a stamina game, as opposed to uh, I don't know, like being 10 out of 10 the most entertaining at all times. Because like a lot of streams can just be carried by, as we often say, random YouTube videos and a chat. Tens of thousands of people will sit in a live stream where the streamer is literally sleeping because they just have random videos and a chat. |
| 09. June 2021 | XQC's energy and high text to speech prices | Excuses, energy, and high text-to-speech prices. I just wish I had like, you know, the stamina of Excusi or something. As we talk about many times, you're in like 12 hours a fucking day with like a 100k view or whatever. Like I've never viewed myself as a lazy person or whatever, or particularly weak person, but I do recognize that it's sometimes very hard for me to have energy to do stuff, and I usually just push myself anyway because I really want to achieve stuff. I mean since being diagnosed with Hashimoto's, I now know in parts why I was having issues for quite a while there, but even having been diagnosed is still, uh, still have my days where I still get my fatigue and it's just fucking awful. To be fair though, haven't eaten much in the way of fruit and vegetables lately. I mean, I do eat a lot of raspberries and blackberries though. Surely that puts me above the average person. Excusi doesn't care for donations or anything, and he interacts with chat like once in 10 minutes. Yeah, I mean once you have a 100k viewers, I mean that would be it I suppose. Once you get to that kind of level with that kind of money, I guess he's just, uh, he's just playing games at that point, you know. He would be like I am when playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Well mainly because when I play Heroes of Might and Magic 3, like in my turns at least, because there's a timer counting down, I can't look at chat and I just play, you know. You understand though, like, you've got to imagine that gambling stream or whatever he did. I mean, sure that's worth at least quarter of a million dollars or something. I mean at his level of success, he's probably not gonna give that much of a shit about ten bucks. I'm sure he realizes that it's still a kindness or whatever in a sense of, as I always say, like if you were in a random place and a stranger walked up to you and gave you ten dollars, like imagine how that feels. It's just like oh my god that's so cool, and you'd be very appreciative of that, right? But I imagine just at his level, like, it doesn't even feel ten bucks, you know. Maybe saying like that is wrong. More than likely, like once you have a hundred thousand viewers, how high you'd have to set the donations for them not to be disruptive to the stream would be super high. When I was a smaller streamer and I set it to three dollars, it was going off too much, so I set it to four dollars, and when I put, when I get back to speedrunning and putting donation sounds back on, I'll probably make it like, at my level now, ten dollars a night, because as much as I like the alerts and stuff and I like text to speech, I wouldn't want them going off all the time or the content would be consumed by it. But I mean, if you got a hundred thousand viewers, there's probably at least like a hundred people there who are willing to drop ten bucks, or fifty bucks even, to get alerts on the screen. So you'd probably have to set it to like a hundred bucks a sign call, that's all you would hear all day. What if you could put a cooldown on text to speech donations? Yeah, you'd feel like a jerk though, wouldn't you, Velo? Like, I mean, like, one person gets their donation read out and the next person doesn't. Like, you want it to be consistent, you want people to know what they're receiving with their, their purchase. I mean, at the end of the day, donors are just meant to be like, support for the content that you enjoy, but obviously everyone doesn't treat them that way. Dream had minimum donations set to fifty dollars, and the alerts were still literally non-stop, yeah, that sounds, that sounds about right. It's just one of those things where you want to be appreciative to the people who support you, but at the same time you don't want to like, ruin the content for those who aren't spending money or something, right? Because that'd just be disrespectful. Like, if all you did on stream was thank donors and thank subscribers and stuff, they would just ostracize the people who don't have the funds to, to donate and stuff. You don't want to feel like people have to donate to, to get your attention or whatever. It's a hard thing to balance. And don't take this as a thing, like, me complaining or something, I'm just saying. Like, complaining that so many people are kind enough that they want to give you money is not what I'm trying to do. It's just the balance of wanting to show appreciation but not wanting to derail the content for everyone else. |
| 30. November 2020 | Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 Issues | My issues with the Xbox Wireless Pro Elite 2 controller. I wanted this controller because of the paddles on the back, and that it was apparently really good and wireless. But, uh, the wirelessness of this controller has been garbage from the very first day I got it. Then I got the dongle and it worked for a while and now it just doesn't want to work at all. The controller itself is great, it's just when you build a controller on being wireless and the best wireless controller around and it turns out to be hot garbage in the wireless department, it can't be a good controller at that point. It's the Xbox Pro Elite blah blah blah 2 or whatever it's called. |
| 24. August 2022 | YOU CAN BRING BACK THE DISLIKE BUTTON STOP ASKING ME ABOUT IT! | Back the dislike button, stop asking me about it. I'm gonna explain this one last time, chat. One last time, there is an extension on Google Chrome that gives you back the dislike counter. It seems fairly accurate, it's not 100% accurate, but it's fairly accurate. It uses information on the backends to approximate how many dislikes videos have gotten. Comparing it with my own videos, it's like maybe off by a percent or something sometimes. But it's certainly good for telling you whether or not a video is getting a significant amount of dislikes. Just Google it, Chrome extension to give back dislikes. I've always said that it is possible that people, because they can no longer see the dislikes, would be less likely to dislike a video. But I don't know if that's true or not, because certainly people are still disliking videos. That could be because just so many years of being able to hit dislike, people still haven't got that out of their heads that they can no longer see it. I'm not sure. Or maybe it's just knowing that at least the creator can see the dislikes, that's enough. Or it's like the only thing a person can do if they dislike a video, so they just wanna press the button even if it outwardly does nothing. But regardless, people still hitting the dislike button, so it's cool to be able to see it still. |
| 07. February 2022 | You are as good as can be expected. | You are as good as can be expected. Davey! How you doing? About as good as can be expected. When I get married, okay, if I ever get married, if I ever talk to another human being in real life again, if I ever get married, from my wedding vows I'll be like, you make me as good as can be expected. Honey, am I beautiful? You are as beautiful as can be expected. |
| 30. December 2022 | You can ask google’s AI who it thinks you are. | You can ask Google's AI who it thinks you are. So this thing, myadcenter.google.com, shows what YouTube thinks you do and who you are. Like it's indicative of like what it thinks based on your search history and stuff. And so this is what kind of ads you get. So it says relationships, not enough info. I'm not in a relationship, so not doing very well. What's this one say? Moderate high income. I think I'd be in the high income categories. That's also not correct. High school diploma. Okay, this is also incorrect because I have a bachelor's degree. I also have a certificates from TAFE. Industry, not enough info. I mean, I literally work for Google. So it's also kind of dumb. Employer size, large employer. Technically, I suppose I'm a self-employed. I'm a contractor or whatever, but I also do work for Google. So this is either correct or incorrect depending upon your perspective. No, it's actually incorrect because if they're counting Google, they're a very large employer. So it's wrong regardless of how it perceives me. Home ownership, homeowners. Okay, I do own a home, very good. Parenting, not parents. This is also true. So what were they like? Two for seven? Good work, Google. The. |
| 18. October 2021 | You can now submit locations to GTAGuessr | You can now submit locations to GTA Gessa Did you guys know you can now submit locations? To GTA Gessa? They'll be checked by the dudes but um Make it easy for them If you guys got some spare time and want to help out the dudes Feel free How do you submit them? It's on the website I wonder if he put the ability for um For the viewer, for the submitter to rank them In terms of difficulty How was the games against Pelican? Oh they were good The episode should come out soon Sooner or later |
| 19. March 2021 | You can't tell me what to eat for breakfast | You can't tell me what to eat for breakfast Like why did I eat? KFC today chat. I know it's just gonna give me acid reflux like what the fuck is wrong with me. Wow Yeah, clearly should have had a hungry Jackson step. That's exactly right. I actually had um KFC at 10 a.m So I guess KFC is now open at 10 a.m Question mark KFC does breakfast. I mean look guys is some controversial opinion Okay, you can technically eat any food at any time of the day the idea that you can't eat something at a particular time Is a stupid social convention if I want to eat fucking toothpaste on muffins at 11 p.m. I should be able to Without society judging me. It's gonna be just be considering me to be some kind of a degenerate Okay, cave this between you and me twitch might ban me for too much controversy. We talked about before that uh Dietitian or what have you claiming that? Cereals are so bad for you That's uh eating peas to breakfast would be healthier because pizza. You know, it's bread Something like tomato paste cheese and herbs and meat and stuff. Wow. Wow Cereal is just primarily like bread and sugar neither being amazing for you But cereal just being so goddamn garbage that pizza wins that so I'm saying is everyone Should eat pizza for breakfast every day I know a lot about health care if your parents or your significant other question what you're doing Just just tell them some guy on the internet told you that's okay to eat pizza for breakfast You know, that's enough authority that they should have no problems with no wonder. I have acid reflux. Okay, good point I have bought myself a bunch of healthy food But there's a difference between buying healthy food and actually consuming it I mean I did I did half what you're meant to do right? So that's that's pretty good, right? I did half what you're meant to do right? So that's that's pretty good, right? That's like a like a C plus |
| 28. December 2019 | You can't trust streamer ban stories | And the bad parts of Mafia 2. Why you can't trust any story about a streamer being banned? You guys hear about this girl who got banned? because the Twitch staff Who reviewed the clip or whatever Believed she was abusing a dog But her dog has like a a medical disorder that makes a cough a lot It does sound awful, but like there's earlier videos of her explaining it and she still hasn't been unbanned which is weird but with all these stories now, I always think like is this really what happened because You know that wubby guy or whatever who got banned for being in a restaurant or something and filming and He's like I had complete permission to be there I had complete permission to be there and It was like oh man twitch is terrible for banning him he had complete permission right and they just clearly Twitch is falsely banned him because he didn't really know because they didn't know he actually got permission it turns out that um They they he lied to the restaurant owners like he he claims to be a college student or something working on making a Projects for AI or some shit and so like he got permission but under false pretenses So clearly that's a banable offense you can't lie to give permission to film in places and so he made like a video got like 500,000 views and shit and Really milked the drama and it turns out he was completely in the wrong And there was another story just like that recently and so whenever I hear these What what appears to be clear-cut stories? It makes me think what maybe what's what's actually going on behind the scenes like a Devin Nash apparently who has talked to some of the moderators At twitch in some cases. They're like we know these people are lying on live stream fails But we're not allowed to say anything it's against company policy I think there was there were just some situations where it seems so clear-cut that twitch is in the wrong, but because of these stories Where the person who was banned is clearly lied like later on it's found out that they've lied. I'm skeptical everything now I don't know what to believe and fucking sucks In these cases, I don't give a fuck or find the truth myself. Yeah exactly because in life You only have a certain amount of time to look into things deeply In most cases you only have enough time barely to get a surface understanding of things because What is true or false doesn't have a huge bearing on your life As I always say you have to partition your care responsibly and getting to the bottom of every twitch ban As to who was really in the right and who was really in the wrong is clearly not worth the time It's clearly not worth the time |
| 15. January 2022 | You grow into your role. | You grow into your role. Very few people pursue something and start as who they need to be to be successful. Each of us grows into the role that we pursue. If you look at any streamer in their first live stream, they all suck because no one knows exactly how they're meant to conduct themselves. You grow into the role. You become more communicative. You get used to reading chat, even though it's, you know, you got to quickly internalize that information and have something immediately to say. You become better at expressing how you feel, that kind of thing. In any role that you try to take up, you will grow into that role. Some people grow into it better than others, but... The hardest part is surviving long enough that you have time to grow into the role. The more precarious the role that you're trying to get into, the higher the chance that something external to yourself is going to prevent you from being able to stay along that path. But the longer you stay on that path, the less luck you need. The more secure your footing will be, because you've grown into that... that role. Skill comes to replace luck. And the harder it is for things external to you to be able to completely destroy you. |
| 15. January 2022 | You have never been the most qualified to make a decision on anything. | You have never been the most qualified to make a decision on anything. So on every single decision you've ever made in your life of any significance, there has always been someone else living at that time who could have made that decision better. Who has more information, is more knowledgeable, you know, they have the better expertise, they're older than you, whatever it is. The reason why you rely on yourself most often is A. That person isn't always around for you to ask. Can't afford to talk to them, you don't even know who the fuck they are. But also the second, which is very important, is You can have some belief that you're at least trying to work for your own best interests. When you look at a random stranger, you look at them and go, Do you care about me? Do you actually give a shit about what's best for me? Are you only making decisions for your own best interests? Are you informing me about what is best for me? Or maybe what is best for you? You gotta try in life to find people that you can trust on issues and stuff, right? Or you gotta try to make incentives so that people who are more knowledgeable than you Can actually give you information that is in your best interests. That's why you pay people. Or, you know, if this fucks up for me, man, I won't give you money in the future. You know, you'll have failed me, so you better give me the best information possible. Because you're right, it's impossible to be educated on Every single thing of relevance to your day to day life, you know? It's just, life is just too complicated. There are too many laws, too many systems. And so we pay people astronomical amounts of money To spend their time becoming experts in particular aspects of that. And when we need expertise in that area, While it would take too long for us to get that ourselves, We can reach out to these people that we've paid astronomical amounts of money To get the information that we need. Relevance, again, people who study viruses for a living, Telling us about COVID. And people who are not good at making these assessments, Going, Nah, this guy who did the research for 50 years, he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. I know more, because I've been on Facebook for five minutes. You pay me half a million dollars every year to spend my life researching viruses, And you don't even give a shit about my, my, Professional opinion based on the research, That I've specifically been educated to be able to, suss out. Alright then, I mean you did read that Facebook meme I guess, that's equally equivalent. |
| 08. April 2021 | You never see Rockstar representatives out in the wild. | You never see any Rockstar representative out in the wild. I wonder if when Rockstar hires people, they make them sign waivers to say that they won't go online and like communicate with people or whatever. Because you never hear like just a random person from Rockstar showing up on like a forum and being like, hey yo, so here's what's happening with this, right? Other companies you have that happen sometimes like on Reddit and whatnot, they'll they'll come out and openly say, yeah so this is what we're doing and this is why da da da. Rockstar says nothing. Like you don't even get like a Rockstar employee coming in and being like, hey yo, fuck you man, Rockstar's awesome, you know? At least not to my knowledge. Maybe half of you guys work for Rockstar and you're just not allowed to say. Someone tells like, oh I think that actually Rockstar employees are around much more than you think. MDAs from being online to work for Rockstar, you're not allowed to go on the internet outside of work. Rockstar only hire people that are banned from every single social media. Or maybe it's like an initiation, you have to get yourself banned. Start your first day at Rockstar, they give you just a bunch of racist, sexist stuff with a bunch of nude images and you just gotta spam them on all of your social media as a way of showing solidarity and that you're really committed to the Rockstar brand. |
| 28. November 2022 | You now can buy a real life rail gun from GTA V. | You can now buy a real life rail gun from GTA 5. But this is the thing that I want to announce. The guy who designed and built my rail gun, Adrian Martinez, is now offering to sell them to anyone who wants one. They are expensive, it is around what I paid myself. But if you want your own, maybe with custom sounds and logos, hit him up. He is a great guy, very reliable. Oh, if you don't know what I'm talking about, what this rail gun is, it's the gun that I showed off in my video where, well, I dressed as Griefer Jesus and built the gun. And the other small video I uploaded, which is just the building process of the rail gun. With that being said, apparently he's now redesigned it so it's even better now and it's even easier to construct when you get sent it in the mail. So, see, you can buy it and I believe he's willing to make it in different colors for you, whichever you prefer. You can pick it here. You can change the logo from my face, of course. You can have your own custom sounds rather than me, my little mean things. Or you can have that as well as you want. They're handmade, which of course is why they cost so much. If you've ever tried to buy a handmade memorabilia or whatever, anime figures or something, you'll be paying this much. The thing is huge. It's like this big. This was a build over many months. And as I say, this is about what I paid as well. So you couldn't be expecting a cheaper price than that. Only for the true fanatics who want to purchase one. You may question whether Rockstar will take that down. Like you've probably seen everywhere like unofficial merch of like Pokemon and Nintendo characters and all that jazz. It really depends on how big you guess as to whether or not these companies will really take the time to strike you down. But it's a separate question as to whether or not Rockstar even feels they have the rights to strike this down. Because for my understanding, the Railgun isn't really like an original design for GTA V. It's based on a lot of other stuff. And this thing is changed in a variety of different ways. Like it's not the exact thing that you find in GTA V. And it's not like they're offering a similar item that Adrianist is taking with their market share or something. It's funny, by promoting it, I'm increasing the likelihood that he will get a negative response from Rockstar. But if I don't promote it, then no one will be able to have one like I do. Yet it is only Railgun and he's what sold three currently. So very unlikely it's going to see some sort of takedown notice. But even if that does happen, he'll obviously still finish your orders. It's just a matter of that he will have to stop taking new orders. So if you're interested, feel free to go about. |
| 11. June 2021 | You should watch castlevania on Netflix | I watched Castlevania on Netflix. That's something else I actually did. I watched, um, Castlevania. Uh, the newest season. I- I suck at names with people. The- the bald black dude who summons creatures. I found the resolution with his story to actually be more interesting to me than the main story. I just like those two. And they're taking on of the female vampire. It was- it was an interesting fight even though I think the animation in those really fast scenes, I don't know if it's a stylistic choice for it to look like that, but it is nowhere near as detailed as everything else. It was still- it was still really cool. You know. You watched the entire spin-off series with just Isaac? Yeah. Yeah, like I- like, as in, like, I think there are definitely things that I would change about the series. To make it a little bit better or whatever. But I think it was perfectly worth the watch and I think it's probably the best video-adapt- game- the- the best video game adaptation I've ever seen. If you haven't- if you have never played Castlevania, who cares? I haven't either. I've just seen, like, speedruns and stuff. I highly recommend Netflix's Castlevania series. Um, every season is good. The characters are good. The plot's good. The animation is good. Nine naps at a time. I hope they continue with it and keep making more seasons for the rest of time. You know. The show stands tall on its own. I do wonder if people who've played the game are like, Oh my god, they brought that character in! Or they're like, Oh my god, they brought this enemy in or whatever. Holy shit. You know. This isn't really a spoiler, cause it's just the generic enemy or whatever. But there's a dude who is a dwarf who can throw axes and he teleports to those axes. I'm like, surely that's a character in the game somewhere. Season 4 was the last one as far as I know. I mean, if it gets enough views, surely they'll do another. |
| 31. August 2020 | You will live forever until x happens | You will live forever until X happens. That'd be interesting if you met some entity that can grant you eternal life. And they're like, look, you will live up until a condition is met and you get to- you get to stipulate the condition. I guess you'd say something completely impossible. Benjamin Franklin comes back and wins an NBA championship. But like, you never know, maybe they will eventually clone people or whatever. And what would be the most impossible thing? Or you do something paradoxical or whatever. I can only die if I've already died. Eternal life will only run out if I've already died. That would be funny if you set it to something that only you can control. Like, I can only die if I've gotten the 100 meter world record in running. And then like, eventually you get to the point where you're tired of living, so you want to die. And so then it becomes like, you know, year after year, you attempting to become the fastest 100 meter runner the world has ever seen. You're running literally to kill yourself. I know. What I'm saying is, I have very interesting ideas for the plots of movies and someone should hire me, okay? |
| 03. August 2021 | You'll live to regret this! | You live to regret this. There's a line that sticks out in my head. You know that episode of The Simpsons where sideshow Bob's brother, Cecil, comes into the scene and Bob believes him to be working on an actual, legitimate project, while Cecil is actually stealing all the money rather than buying concrete? And there's that line in it where Cecil's like, tell them they'll live to regret this. And sideshow Bob's like, YOU LIVE TO REGRET THIS! Oh, now they think I'm crazy. But that line, just that line. YOU LIVE TO REGRET THIS! I think about that a lot, I don't know why. I want to be in a situation where I can ominously say that to people. |
| 02. May 2021 | You're just doing this for attention | You're just doing this for attention. Certainly it is, uh, very annoying as a content creator when you do something and people say you're just doing this for attention. Oh, the worst one I hate is You're just jealous. Fuck, I'm so sick of hearing that. Can I just get to a level of success where people accept that I'm so successful that I clearly can't be doing things out of jealous of your attention? I know there'll always be people who say that shit because they're less interested in what you're saying and they just want a simple way to dismiss you. But fuck is that shit or not? It's like I make a video that gets one tenth the viewership of my normal videos and you get like a dozens of comments like, oh man, you're just milking this shit off. Oh man, you're just trying to start drama. You're looking for attention. Like, I just want views. It's like, motherfucker, if I want a view, I just make my normal content. Like you sacrifice time, viewership, subs to talk about something important and that loss should be apparent to anyone paying attention and you still get people. But that hints of irony will just go, man, you're just doing this for the views. So dumb. That's just the nature of the internet, man. And caring about those comments is just a complete waste of time. I'm just rambling guys, as I always do. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 24. September 2022 | YouTube # short monetization changes | YouTube Shorts Monetization Changes. As I mentioned previously, there was some changes coming to Shorts. Turns out that there's a change in the monetization. Creators now get 45% and YouTube gets 55%. So previously, what YouTube had was something similar to TikTok, where they have a chunk of money that gets individually shared to everyone based on how many views they receive. Now this is a terrible form of monetization because the more views that happen on the platform, the less money everyone gets. So let's say on TikTok there's a million views. It means that everyone will get $200 per view. But if there's two million views, then everyone gets $100 per view. So obviously as TikTok has grown, the amount of money that each view has gotten has become less and less and less and less and less. Creators are effectively fighting harder and harder to get less and less money. YouTube doing sharing in this way means that as people use Shorts more, creators will get more, which is how it should be. In saying that, the monetization of Shorts already isn't that good. So I'm not sure how much of an increase this is gonna be because we don't have the public information about what amount of money is being made from Shorts. It's hard to imagine this wouldn't be an increase though. As I said before, I got $800 for 60 million views or something, which is obviously not very good. The revenue share here is surprisingly worse than the normal revenue share that long form content gets. I believe that's 60-40 in favor of the content creator while this is 45-55 where the creators are getting the 45. So it's 15% less than long form content. I'm not sure why that is. But it's an improvement and more improvements will hopefully come. |
| 24. September 2022 | YouTube #short monetization changes | YouTube Shorts Monetization Changes. As I mentioned previously, there was some changes coming to Shorts. Turns out that there's a change in the monetization. Creators now get 45% and YouTube gets 55%. So previously, what YouTube had was something similar to TikTok, where they have a chunk of money that gets individually shared to everyone based on how many views they receive. Now this is a terrible form of monetization because the more views that happen on the platform, the less money everyone gets. So let's say on TikTok there's a million views. It means that everyone will get $200 per view. But if there's two million views, then everyone gets $100 per view. So obviously as TikTok has grown, the amount of money that each view has gotten has become less and less and less and less and less. Creators are effectively fighting harder and harder to get less and less money. YouTube doing sharing in this way means that as people use Shorts more, creators will get more, which is how it should be. In saying that, the monetization of Shorts already isn't that good. So I'm not sure how much of an increase this is gonna be because we don't have the public information about what amount of money is being made from Shorts. It's hard to imagine this wouldn't be an increase though. As I said before, I got $800 for 60 million views or something, which is obviously not very good. The revenue share here is surprisingly worse than the normal revenue share that long form content gets. I believe that's 60-40 in favor of the content creator while this is 45-55 where the creators are getting the 45. So it's 15% less than long form content. I'm not sure why that is. But it's an improvement and more improvements will hopefully come. |
| 31. October 2020 | YouTube Algorithm, Regulation, Clickbait. | YouTube algorithm regulation clickbait and content farming. Thoughts on the YouTube algorithm? The YouTube algorithm, while annoying to me sometimes, it clearly is the best thing out right now for sorting through and delivering content en masse to billions of users. What it does is effectively miraculous. It's clearly not perfect at it, but over time I think it's gotten better. Sometimes it doesn't benefit me, changes it makes annoys me, but I can't think of another alternative for YouTube that would be better. Therefore, while I bitch about the algorithm sometimes, I try not to bitch too much. What I hate more is YouTube itself, in that they don't enforce their policies well. There's a video, this woman who does cooking and cakes and stuff, she talks about this channel that is getting 200 million views a month. The channel is about 11 months old, and it's in this network of channels. They have 200 channels, and they're getting billions of views collectively. Their channel is basically just endless reuploads on different channels with clickbaity thumbnails that don't represent the content and titles that are meant to psychologically manipulate people into clicking. They're the worst clickbait imaginable. This stuff, according to YouTube's own guidelines, should be removed immediately, but instead it's not. The algorithm promotes it nonstop, and they just give him 50 billion play buttons. I realize that most people don't know that there is a finite amount of recommendation space on YouTube, and every single video that shouldn't be on YouTube, either legally or by YouTube's own TOS, every single time one of those videos gets recommended, it's stolen from someone else. I was baffled when talking to Asbin in DMs that he didn't seem to know this either. I guess if Asbin didn't realize, maybe he was motivated not to realize, but maybe then it's not as obvious as I thought it was. You get views, have your YouTube button, that's not how YouTube says it works, or how their guidelines says it works. YouTube is meant to look over your channel and only give buttons to people who are playing by the rules. Maybe it's not the channels, but the rule systems that are the issue. It's that the rules aren't enforced. Certainly there's always going to be things that slip through the cracks. As with the law in general, right, I believe that people who have power, influence, or people who just rise through the ranks, through the ranks to the top of any kind of system, these people should be scrutinized to a great deal, as much as possible. If there is a person getting a thousand views who is breaking the rules, eh. If you've happened to stumble across them, fine. If there's a person getting 200 million views, and they're breaking the rules, they should be detected immediately. Surely people at the top of YouTube are smart enough to know that these are the places that they should be looking for bad actors. These are the people they should be scrutinizing the most, not only because they're viewed by the most people, but because if you're that large, it leads you to have the greatest capability to have done something wrong, to potentially boost you up to that height. Like I just imagine that people at YouTube have seen these channels that are doing the wrong thing, and they're just like, eh. When it comes to React stuff, that clearly violates fair use and copyright. I mean, YouTube's hands-off approach and saying, we're not here to enforce copyright and stuff, because they do that, it allows these channels to thrive. I don't want to go through all the React stuff again, but the main problem with React videos is the externalities, that it's effectively stealing recommendations from everyone else, and then giving a small amount of it to the original creator that it's being reacted to. It's not the reactor or the person being reacted to who is the most influenced, it's everyone else. And externally, for those who don't know, is like there's an exchange between two people, but there's a third party who is affected, who's not necessarily part of that exchange. It's like when I have a company that pollutes a river, I have customers who buy my products. They're not affected by me polluting the river, but there's some people down the way who use that river for water, and they're being affected. They're not my customers, they're not the ones buying the product, they're not a part of my company, they're not involved in the exchange for my product, but they're still affected by the existence of my company and my product. The only thing that fixes externalities is regulation. YouTube benefits from reactor content, the reactors benefit from reactor content, the people who are reacted to in a large part benefit from being reacted to, it's everyone else who is negatively impacted. Stolen content, effectively re-uploaded content, takes recommendations away from original content, meaning original content is valuable to produce, meaning people who make original content get less recognition, less views, less money. Every dollar that has been made by a react video has been stolen from the mouths of people making original content. I've said endless times, guys, either you join the reactors or you get crushed by them. I'm going to join them. I recognize that regulation isn't coming down, enforcement of any existing laws isn't going to happen, YouTube doesn't give a shit, the vast majority of viewers don't give a shit, and I've talked about this many times before, it provides a service that people actually enjoy because it aggregates content. I am not dying on a hill for some hypothetical utopia where original content creators get more recognition. I'm not an activist, I'm not actively trying to make the world a better place. I have my own ideas of what is moral and immoral, that I, like everyone else, if sufficiently motivated, can rationalize fucking anything without even noticing. I am sure there are things I am doing today that two years ago I'd be like, oh, I don't think I'll ever do that, or no, you know? But you just slowly, gradually change what you think is acceptable over time until the thing that most benefits you in your current environment is the thing that you now think is right. I am just human. |
| 31. October 2020 | YouTube Auto-captioning and review system. | YouTube's auto captioning and review system. So the thing that happened, so for those who don't know, on one of my Four Guys videos, there was a thing where I said, there's the golden egg there. And the captions came up and said, there's the golden N-word. Not N-word, the word that is represent- N-word is meant to represent, I hate having to say that, but you know what I'm saying? And I'm like, and then a human reviewed it and said, yep, that's the N-word. I'm like, that doesn't sound anything like the N-word in any goddamn reality. Are you crazy? And so I wrote about it on Twitter. And so someone sent, someone sent to me a Discord that has a lot of, it's like a YouTube community thing, it's got some YouTube employees in it, some handful of higher up YouTube people and stuff. It's got people from all walks of life in the YouTube sphere, various different levels of content creation, right? And so I went in there and I asked this dude, and the dude was like, oh yeah, I can look into it for you. Someone at YouTube published in their lunch break whatever, just typed in some numbers or whatever and looked it up. And it got sorted. So it no longer says that on my video. It's funny because I had been invited to this Discord before by someone else and I didn't see the purpose of being in it. I was like, oh, it's just another Discord, man. Sure, it's got some people. I don't collaborate with anyone, so who cares? And it turns out it's actually fairly useful Discord. As I mentioned before, though, I was not the only person this has happened to. They've clearly changed something about the auto-generated captions. Now they've changed it, though, that when the auto-generated captions detects a slur, it's just going to put like a blank space instead of the word. But my greater concern is that the auto-generated captions are picking up slurs that don't exist, which may impact whether or not the video gets recommended or what monetization settings it has or whatever. Like that a human reviewer, which I know it was definitely a human, looked at me saying, there's the golden egg over there or there's the golden egg there, and came to the conclusion that I said the N-word. Like, I have no trust in the human review at YouTube. It wasn't even close. I've heard that, like, the countries where they have people reviewing footage, it isn't, you know, people from my country. It's people in various different countries that can pay people a lot less of a wage. So it's not like I'm having Australians judging my accent on things that I say, you know. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 10. June 2020 | YouTube Beating Twitch At Livestreaming | Why YouTube may one day dominate Twitch in regards to live streaming? So for those who don't know PewDiePie signed an exclusive deal with YouTube to Stream on their services. He used to have a Relationship with D live which was never gonna fucking work I've always wondered if his relationship with D live was because YouTube wouldn't play ball He's like pay me something to stream on your service and they're like what where that where else you're gonna go? PewDiePie was like I'll go literally anywhere. Give me money. And so he went somewhere and YouTube's like ah shit. Yeah He's actually gonna do this. Well, I guess we better give him some money I don't know. But so he's taking a bunch of money No one knows how much it makes the most sense for him to stream there and as I've always said I don't think Facebook gaming or Mixer have any chance of beating Twitch in the live streaming game but YouTube has a Really commanding a better lead to do so because they already have all the content creators They already have all the viewers. Not everyone has a Mixer account I mean, there's a lot of people have Facebook Facebook accounts, but you know, they aren't looking for content there people on YouTube already billions of users looking for content and so YouTube picking up its picking up its game in regards to live streaming They have the best position to beat Twitch. I talked to The Twitch partner manager about this. We had a long conversation about it and why even for me personally They could come a day one day where my YouTube is so much larger than my Twitch that it just makes sense to go on YouTube That's not likely gonna happen for a long time, but it's a hypothetical reality. In my view Twitch them not going hard into non-live content was a huge mistake Apparently they did try a little bit because they had premieres and apparently they Apparently they you know hush hush. They did pay some people to make content for Twitch whatever, but they didn't do enough live-streaming content is Horrible for advertising live-streaming content like even when you want to advertise your live-streaming content on Twitch You know if you're making a trailer or whatever you use Edited content because edited content you can present the best parts of your stream to the wider world Any person who joins your stream at any given moment in time? Isn't necessarily gonna see something amazing because live streams are slower It's more about the atmosphere, you know the interaction stuff. You can't choose to put your best foot forward When people come to your live stream because they're just gonna see what they happen to see on the screen That's why like for movies they make trailers They don't they don't like if you want to advertise a movie You don't show a random minute of the movie you show a trailer the the best selected bits to make people interested Now the reason why I mention this because YouTube ultimately has all the trailers YouTube is like the advertising for Twitch and Eventually, it's gonna come to the point where people advertising their twitch on YouTube are gonna be like wait a second. Why am I? Wasting my time trying to move people from YouTube to Twitch when I could just have people move from YouTube to YouTube It's another additional step to get people to a twitch live stream than to get them to a YouTube live stream You're gonna make them get them to make an account get familiar with a new platform a new service that they don't know might not Necessarily use they're not necessarily gonna be on all the time a YouTube user is much more likely to watch a YouTube live stream than to watch a Twitch live stream in a hypothetical world where YouTube live streaming and twitch live stream are equivalent in terms of their quality and whatnot, so all YouTube has to do is match twitch and While twitch isn't fucked necessarily Because they've been in the game long enough that they'll always have People on the platform their dominance in the market will continue to climb to decline Like twitch will continue to grow but their percentage of the overall market would apply That's what I believe the future is gonna be because twitch has no interest in moving to non-live content and YouTube controlling the non-live content You know, they control the keys. They control the trailers. Oh, it is really annoying when they have Scheduled content that shows up in my sub feed and I'm like, I can watch this video Oh, it's scheduled and people complain that uh, you know, they go their sub feed and it shows the live stuff at the top Anything that YouTube does to advertise its live streaming stuff if you're not interested in the live streaming stuff It's just gonna be annoying. It's just gonna be like a regular advertisement something You're not interested in but they have to do it if they want to grow that side of the platform for me The problem with premiered content is there's no huge advantage to me Watching a regular video with an audience Like I don't I don't really watch YouTube videos to have interactions with viewers, especially when it's all Preplanned stuff as in everything that's gonna happen is you know expected by the person who's created the editor content In live content who knows what's gonna happen? It's crazy Content who knows what's gonna happen? It's cool to be there when it's being experienced for the first time and no one knows what's gonna happen No, whatever. I have found that The YouTube chat experience is worse than the twitch chat experience I believe it's more than likely because twitch chat skews older than YouTube and maybe because you know banning and time that timeouts and stuff are just the reality of twitch and people know that so maybe there's a People act better because they know there could be actually repercussions for actions, but YouTube Commenters and stuff I used to just like No one's gonna read their fucking comment anyway, so they'll say whatever the fuck they want so they get to a live stream And they just take that same mentality, but you could fix that stuff You know it's got a handful of mods just start timing out people you stage your rules or whatever Enough people just ban a bunch of people and you'd be fine really |
| 06. November 2020 | YouTube Success = Large and Small projects | YouTube success, small and large projects. Think of your how the speedrun ended, that's your personality can be done infinitely. My goal, when I started taking content seriously, making content, you know, for a living or whatever, was to find series that I could make that would effectively be infinite. That's, um, while good, didn't necessarily require just a hell lot of effort. I've talked about this before for YouTube. When I say a hell lot of effort, I mean, like, I don't have to make the video for an entire month or two months, right? A lot of effort goes into them, but it's not a project that you're working on for a bajillion years. Like, I'm currently working on a project that I've been working on since July, and I like, I didn't want a YouTube channel like that. I didn't want to be a CPG Grey, partly because, one of these animators, partly because I don't have that kind of talent, but also because I think I would go crazy, working on a singular project for that amount of time. I've talked about before how I think success on YouTube is both having big videos that bring in a lot of people, and then having a lot of smaller videos that you can make in the meantime, where the content is effectively infinite. Talking about MrBeast, he has these really big videos that bring in a lot of people, and now he's made a gaming channel where those viewers effectively get the same amount of views as his big videos now, but the effort is just a small fraction, you know? You want your big projects and your smaller projects. Had to work his way up the matter? Exactly! You can't start making those small projects. As I've said, if you want to get big on YouTube these days, you kind of need to, either somehow latch yourself onto a game or whatever, but that's super rare to be one of the fortunate people who do that. You either need to be first to the punch with simpler content. Let's say you find this niche game and you start making content about it, and then it blows up, because more people know about it. But generally speaking, how you get big is you have these really large projects that no one's thought of doing before, and they get picked up in the algorithm or whatever. You can't start by making things like, you're just playing a video game with your friends. You can't start out on YouTube and grow big making Let's Plays. The graveyard of Let's Plays is so large. Remember me? I didn't get big on YouTube making How the Student Ended. I didn't get big on YouTube making Ramble videos. Well, how did I get big on YouTube? Facts and glitches and Pacifist. Facts and glitches from Speedrunners being something that no one had ever done before, and the facts within it were things that the overall environment of people didn't know, because they weren't speedrunners. And Pacifist, something that no one had ever done for GTA V. But since making those series, now I can do all the smaller series that I do, and they do fairly well. |
| 10. August 2022 | YouTube actually demonetized a react channel?! | YouTube actually demonetized a react channel. So you remember that meme? It suggested that react channels were going to get demonetized by YouTube. And I said there was no article suggesting this. It's probably just a meme, whatever. Someone sent me this. Hey Matt, apparently YouTube is in fact demonetizing reaction channels. This guy here, very small YouTuber, got demonetized for being a react channel. So this dude re-uploaded all the best videos from all the largest content creators. Just sat there and watched the videos. There's him, and he's just like, oh my god, look how cool this is, wow, that's crazy, bro. No editing, no nothing, it's just him just sitting there, right? And this is what happened. Boo. Doesn't need to think of ideas, doesn't need to put in all the effort or creativity or financial investment to making these videos. Like you've got like, you know, the odds one out, right? Requires what, a team of like 12 people working for a month plus to make one of those videos. Rips the entire thing, does not give a fuck. And his defense, hey bro, I linked the channels. That's not how this works. If people weren't watching his channel, they'd be watching something else on the platform. It's like, hey man, the odds one out, just giving him a leg up in this world by putting some links in the fucking description. Sure, yeah, okay. It is like a forced collaboration where the other person does all the work and all that has all the financial investment and works for months to get something that I get in 15 fucking minutes. But I'm the good guy here. This wasn't Mark Rober, man, he just needs a little shout out from this fucking React channel. It's nonsense. As you all know, if you've watched my React series, that learning this guy got demonetized. I wonder if this is a trend because surely YouTube realizes that having the newest people who rise on the platform just being people who re-upload other people's videos is not really good for the platform. It's not really good for bringing in new blood, for ideas and new creativity when the path to getting into the platform is just re-upload other people's videos. Literally do, identically, what everyone else is doing on the platform. That can't be good long term. At the same time, is YouTube really going to be willing to weather the backlash? Most people on this platform have no fucking idea about fair use. They've never read the guidelines and their source for learning what is legal is Reactors themselves. Guys, it is perfectly okay to re-upload other people's videos with the same thumbnail, same title, no changes, targeting the same audience for the same purpose when in reality that is like the perfect definition of violating fair use. But audiences will sincerely be like, oh it's totally fair use bruh, they linked it in the description. Is YouTube really going to be willing to face hundreds of millions of entirely ignorant people who've been lied to by these fucking scammers? Are they really going to do that? What I'm saying is, I'd be surprised if they ever demonetize anyone significant. Maybe they'll watch people on the low end, up and coming Reactors and just nip that in the bud immediately. I don't know. I don't think they're ever going to demonetize someone like Asmongold. He did Bill Wirtz? Oh yeah, the nine months to a year that Bill Wirtz spent making History of the World. This guy is like, man I linked his name in the fucking description bruh. Of course that means I can rip his entire video to my YouTube channel. What do you mean? He and I are doing the same work for the same product here. He worked nine months to a year and I sat here on my ass for like half an hour. We're basically the same. We both deserve the same video on our channels. |
| 26. December 2022 | YouTube added new analytics for seeing subscriber numbers | suing people or something. YouTube added new analytics for seeing subscriber numbers. So YouTubers continue to expand their analytics on the backend, so they've added this. Subscribers last 28 days, like I've never seen this little tab here before, but what was interesting to me is this figure here. So I gained 16,000 subscribers from shorts, 6,000 subscribers from videos, live stream 3.3 thousand subscribers, post 500 subscribers, but from other, I lost 5.1 thousand subscribers. For most of the time, YouTube would like, not really thought in your face how many subscribers you were losing, because as a natural consequence of having so many subscribers over so many years, you're gonna lose some every day. That's just how it works. As I've talked about before, with any kind of thing that depends on viewership, you need to be getting in more viewers than you're losing over day for you to continue to grow. But this figure where it's like 5,000 subscribers, 5,000 people in the last month were like, that Dark Viper EU guy, I'd rather see him less. Bam. It isn't like it's a thing necessarily of a hatred or dislike or something on those lines. It's just like you get tired of content. That's why I was trying to talk about, in another ramble that I'm not sure ever came out, where I was just saying like, every day people get sick of your stuff. You know, that's just a part of life. I probably unsubscribed from like three or four different people over the last couple of weeks. And that's just, I was just like, ah, you know, I think I've seen enough of these guys' stuff. I don't really watch them as much as I used to. Screw it. When it says other, by the way, what that means is like, a person hasn't like clicked into your video and pressed unsubscribe. It's usually people from like the subscription page or they've seen you somewhere else that isn't directly in your content and they've just unsubscribed from that section. And obviously from those sections, your ability to gain subscribers is very, very low. So you aren't gaining subscribers in those avenues to offset the losses. And that's why the number's in the negative. Although, with that being said, the phenomenon of me losing subscribers from other isn't, is fairly new. So like, back up here, you can see like most days I'm gaining subscribers from this other section. But down here, it's like, ah, losing. But I mean, I have more subscribers than I did back in 2021. But I'm just in general not doing as well as I did back in 2021, you know? But like all the way back here, like 2019, 2020, I was gaining subscribers from other. It could be like they're categorizing things differently or something, I'm not sure. But yeah, just thought that was kind of interesting. Upcoming collaboration. |
| 31. July 2022 | YouTube and Twitch both suck for livestreaming. | YouTube and Twitch both suck for live streaming. So when TGG yesterday was playing the new content for GT Online, he had like 20,000 viewers. And I looked at that and I'm like, what did I have, like 3,000 viewers on Twitch? I've talked about this problem before where the overwhelming vast majority of my viewers found me on YouTube and watched me on YouTube. And therefore don't know when I'm live on Twitch. Can't be f***ed checking that out. I'm probably the only person they watch on Twitch and I would just be better off being on YouTube. But even saying this to my mods, their response, as I expected, was very much so negative, as mine is. Because YouTube is just such a worse streaming experience. The bots that are used don't really work. The chat is so bad. Not just in terms of like the people. It's the way that it scrolls. The YouTube chat just flows rapidly, super fast. It's completely unreadable. Even Lodwig talked about when he moved. I just don't know why they don't fix it. Like moving to YouTube would have so many inconveniences. On some level, the only reason I'd move is if I got myself a contract where I was paid a bunch of money. Which is not likely to happen. As far as Twitch goes, I f***ing hate Twitch. Like as a platform, I hate it. It's just people watching YouTube videos and anime and gambling and s***. That's like the biggest strengths. I've always hated how they lock you into a contract of exclusivity. No other platform does that. It's just Twitch. And even worse, they trick you when they give you a bump in the sub-revenue to 70%, which is YouTube's base, by the way, with sub-revenue. That's what the share is. They trick you because they increase your contract by like two years of exclusivity. Like mine doesn't end until February. But if I don't re-sign a contract, I can't get subs on Twitch. I could still stream here, but all the main sources of revenue, I think even bits, I don't know if you can even get bits, are gone. So I can't even have a situation where I dual stream on YouTube and Twitch. You need like a special contract for that, which they won't give me. Like I'm confident I would get more viewers on YouTube. But I have to deal with the worst streaming experience. Everyone would lose their sub-history and all that jazz. My mods would like it less. I would lose the money that I'm making on Twitch right now. Not that it's super significant compared to the YouTube money, but like I just have to hope that eventually YouTube wakes the fuck up and just fixes the five or six things that make it inferior to Twitch. And looking at the numbers discoverability-wise on Twitch, they're not very good. We can do this again. Let me do this again. Where did you first find me? YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram. So currently it's 93% YouTube, 5% Twitch and 2% TikTok. This is what I mean. Twitch is just a way to record footage with a chat. We'll see chat. I am more on the fence about it than I've ever been in my entire fucking career. But I want to on record Twitch sucks as a company and a platform. The actual service is pretty good outside of the contracts and the people of course you guys are great. Streaming in modern era is a thing you do to supplement your content that you already have. It's not a thing you use to grow. Streaming is a good way to make content for other platforms and to interact and engage with your audience that you've already generated by making content. |
| 22. April 2021 | YouTube as a career, and goals for content | YouTube as a career and goals for content. I was thinking like recently as well like how YouTube and all that stuff, like how it has changed for me. Because I always said to myself like YouTube and like the way I see it, like it never changed. But you know what over time it does start changing especially when it's like your full-time job. Like do you still feel like you have the same passion for what made you do YouTube in the first place? I can't even remember why I started my first YouTube channel. I actually, my sister walked up to me and she's like I'm gonna make a YouTube channel. Like make a YouTube channel? Are you crazy? It's a dumb idea. And like a couple months later I made my own YouTube channel. I don't know I've just always liked making videos and seeing myself grow on it and I don't think that's changed. Sometimes I do feel like growing a channel. I don't know like at first when it started out. I wouldn't say like I'm not gonna say that it's all about money now at all. But of course because it is like a full-time gig it kind of like is also about money. Like whereas before it was like oh my god I got 10 subs, oh my god I got 100 subs, I got a thousand subs now you know. I think milestones don't feel as special anymore. Like after 100k like it kind of you know. They say that about anything that becomes a job it changes your perception of it. Isn't that an expression don't let your hobby become your job or something? Because it'll never be a hobby again or something. But I mean I'm not a person who wants a lot. I don't have a lot of expenses and stuff and I've never focused on the money. Beyond when I was concerned that I wasn't making ends meet. Once I got that the money is just secondary to growing online. I like the idea of growing a channel and the numbers grow. But really all I'm doing is just trying to achieve the goals that I want to achieve. I'm just a goal oriented person. If I'm achieving goals then I'm happy. And as long as I feel myself pursuing and I can see myself actually moving towards that goal I'm happy. And I think about effectively nothing else. What's your current goal then? All tiny things where it's finishing no damage. Converting all my old stuff into clips from my clips channel. Continuing to have edited my older stuff like from 2017, 2018, 2019 my various different playthroughs. And then just ongoing goals where processing my current batches of footage. Finishing Bully, doing media sharing, relearning, speedrunning after I finish no damage. Getting back into speedrunning, finishing Pastas, that's another one. I've always got this stuff that I'm doing. I've always got something to fill my time with. Something I'm meant to be working on. So I don't really stop and think like has it all changed or what's the landscape look like. It's just I need to do these things and it doesn't really matter what's going on in the world. It's just I want to achieve my goals and that's all that matters to me. It's nice. It's really nice that you got certain series ongoing that could have a potential definitive end to it. Because I'm kind of missing that right now on my channel. My goal is like okay I got to make videos but I don't have these smaller goals. Unless I make them up myself like get to 450,000 subscribers or 500,000 subscribers. Like on a day-to-day basis, on a video-to-video basis, I don't have that. I kind of miss that. You don't have a grand plan. You just have an idea for a video and you finish that particular video and then... And then I'm done. That's my week or that's one of my week. I try to do multiple things a week but I'm done then at that point. It's not like I can revisit it. Except for Cops and Crooks, I can revisit it. But it's not like there's an end to this series or whatever. If people won't watch it anymore, then I'll stop making it. My goal for my content was always to find stuff that could be reoccurring. Let me drive. You drive last time. That I could effectively do forever. And that's what... I do have a bunch of series like that that will go on forever. Like my Rambo series for example. But yeah. |
| 27. March 2022 | YouTube baiting my WOW nostalgia. | YouTube basing my World of Warcraft nostalgia. The fucking cruelty of YouTube chat. They recommend me a fucking World of Warcraft video from the starting area. Man, the nostalgia right here is insane. My childhood man was in this game. Farming these fucking wolves and shit and killing kodos and......because I played a tauren shaman. I remember all this shit man. And I know it's not like going back to play WoW would rekindle that feeling. The game sucks. But... That simple joy of farming mobs or whatever. Doing simple achievements man. Not knowing how much of a waste of time it was. Just being perfectly happy. Just dropping my little totems and shit. I don't get nostalgic over much but the early days of WoW. Feel that right now. I'm an old ass man bro. Yeah. Yeah. But the good thing is I will look fairly young for a very long time. Because apparently 80 to 90% of the signs of aging come from the sun. The amount of sun you get. Motherfucker I don't get much sun. I'm gonna be 60 still looking 40. Hell yeah. Now but I'm fucking myself with my sleep being bad. And my diet being bad. I'm gonna fix that shit. |
| 27. March 2022 | YouTube baiting my Wow nostalgia. | YouTube basing my World of Warcraft nostalgia. The fucking cruelty of YouTube chat. They recommend me a fucking World of Warcraft video from the starting area. Man, the nostalgia right here is insane. My childhood man was in this game. Farming these fucking wolves and shit and killing kodos and......because I played a tauren shaman. I remember all this shit man. And I know it's not like going back to play WoW would rekindle that feeling. The game sucks. But... That simple joy of farming mobs or whatever. Doing simple achievements man. Not knowing how much of a waste of time it was. Just being perfectly happy. Just dropping my little totems and shit. I don't get nostalgic over much but the early days of WoW. Feel that right now. I'm an old ass man bro. Yeah. Yeah. But the good thing is I will look fairly young for a very long time. Because apparently 80 to 90% of the signs of aging come from the sun. The amount of sun you get. Motherfucker I don't get much sun. I'm gonna be 60 still looking 40. Hell yeah. Now but I'm fucking myself with my sleep being bad. And my diet being bad. I'm gonna fix that shit. |
| 20. March 2021 | YouTube bugs and deleted the GTA 5 Category. | YouTube bugs and deletes the GTA V category. So last night, it was 11pm, and as normal people do at 11pm, I was scrolling Twitter. And I was about to turn off Twitter. I'm like, okay, gotta get a good night's sleep, be a good boy, right? And moments before I put my head down to sleep, I noticed someone mentioned, maybe it was Sonny Evans, I'm not sure, that GTA, I think Sonny Evans retweeted something, but GTA V, GTA 3, and Vice City had all been removed as categories on YouTube like 8 hours ago, but I only just learned about them. And so what this meant was no video listed as GTA V existed anymore. No one could stream under the GTA V title, and I was like, oh shit, this is like the beginning of the end, where YouTube is going to be removing the game or something, banning it, or at least uploads explicitly it, because of trying to generate political goodwill or some shit with some fuckwit politicians in America or some shit, you know, this kind of stuff, all going through my mind. And I'm like, nah, this is more than likely just a bug, a small thing, they only removed half the GTA games after all. And despite knowing that it was more than likely a bug, I still couldn't get to sleep, so I ended up getting to bed at like 7am, even after like realizing it, like it was like 4am, 5am, that it was certainly a bug. I think it ended up getting fixed like 10am this morning, but I got information that informed me it was definitely a bug. But that means I've completely fucked my sleeping pattern again. All that work I did for weeks trying to get myself refreshed, taking melatonin, realizing it was shit, all this experimentation, I woke up at 1pm today, and I feel awful. But my awfulness is getting so much in the way of me making the stuff that I want to make. Like a lot of people, I think in life, aren't driven, they don't know what the fuck they want to do, they don't have goals and shit. I have all these goals and stuff that I want to do, but I'm physically incapable of doing them and it's so fucking frustrating. Like I want to stream like 12 hours a day, it's all I love doing. Like some people are like, oh man, fine, I can take a break from streaming and shit. I don't want any of that shit. I've got nothing to do. When I'm too tired to stream, I walk around and clean my house. You know? Or I edit. They're like fucking bad RNG dude. |
| 27. October 2021 | YouTube comments make me feel smart | YouTube comments make me feel smart. I've never considered myself overly brilliant, but the longer that I've spent on YouTube and Twitch talking to people, the more brilliant I've felt. Clearly, there's a selective bias in terms of who's likely to leave a comment. And I've talked to, through YouTube and Twitch, some very profound people who know a lot. I'm not saying everyone who watches Twitch or YouTube is dumb, but you'll get these comments and you're like, like, this is the dumbest stuff I've ever read before in my life. When you have people who respect your opinion and will say to you, oh, you seem very bright, it's hard to ignore that. But I know I'm not a genius, but reading YouTube comments sometimes makes me feel like one. People who know effectively nothing can be very confident despite that. And you see that so much in the YouTube comment section. It's just disturbing, though, when you read a comment garbled English, terrible spelling, terrible grammar, but the person speaking is asserting things that you can demonstrably prove are false, but they're asserting it with high levels of confidence. And they were so confident in what they're saying that they were willing to leave it as a YouTube comment. That's just disturbing, you know? |
| 04. January 2023 | YouTube cracks down on profanity with strict new rules. | YouTube Cracks Down on Profanity with Strict New Rules So YouTube has made a bit of a policy change that has people a bit up in arms. It's mainly this one. Inappropriate language. All varieties of profanity are now treated equally, meaning they are not differentiated based on level of severity. Also, we are not treating words such as hell and damn as profanity anymore. It's weird that they ever were. Content where profanity is used after the first 8 seconds may receive ad revenue. However, if profanity is used in the first 8 seconds of the video, then it will not monetize. It's weird that they specify 8 seconds here because I have been dinged by this new policy and it says 8 to 15 seconds. So here are all the videos that are currently limited for me. As you can see, it's not that many. It's 21. I think I had like 5 before, but the shorts were already done. So like if you ignore shorts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, I can't remember how many I had before, but I've gotten at least like 5 or so since the change in policy. And certainly some of these I can still get re-reviewed and stuff apparently. It's unfortunate that the quartering one got demonetized, but I do say the f-word multiple times in the beginning. So the reason why this policy change hasn't hurt me all that much is because YouTube has had a policy that you're not meant to swear in the first 30 seconds for like over 2 years. So any video I made in the last 2 years hasn't really had any swearing in the first 30 seconds. So this change in policy reducing it to 8 or 15 seconds is not that significant. The difference between this and the 30 second policy though is the 30 second policy wasn't super done retroactively. So when they put that policy in place, it was mainly going forward, not going back. In most cases it seemed. That's why some of the videos that have now been demonetized, they did have swearing in the first 30 seconds, but they just were never flagged. But with this new change in policy, it's gone all the way back and flagged those videos now. You can look at this as YouTube being more lenient in terms of the rules, but enforcing them harder. Because now you can swear after 15 seconds, but your old videos where you didn't abide by this rule that you couldn't have known existed are now getting demonetized. See I'm not super concerned about this. Every single time YouTube makes any sort of policy change, everyone's always like this is the worst thing that has ever happened. The world is going to come to an end. YouTube is going to die and that never ends up happening. I am sure in the same way that I've been inconvenienced, other people will be inconvenienced too. There will be mistakes that are made, people will be negatively impacted by this. How much blame can be put on YouTube versus the advertisers? I honestly will always lean towards blame on the advertisers. Clearly YouTube would love if they can just put advertisements on literally everything regardless of how perverse or profane or what have you and still get those advertising money. But the advertisers, you know, they want to have some buffer between their brand and potentially controversial or insensitive content. In the same way that some advertisers now when they do sponsor spots will make it so the influencer will specifically say that the sponsor hasn't sponsored the entire video, but has sponsored specifically the section where they talk about the sponsor. Which is obvious, but now the influencers have to specifically say that rather than saying this video is brought to you by X, they say a portion of this video was brought to you by X. Because the advertisers are always just in that position of we need to protect our brand, protect the brand, just any small potential for something bad to happen. We need protection. As a YouTube, we'll always want to like go, you guys is fine, don't worry about it. This is not going to hurt your brand, just put your advertisers wherever. The brands will be like, no, it's going to hurt us, man. We need these protections. I mean, if you go back in Rambles, I talked about how the adpocalypse works with YouTube. What happens is YouTube gets pushed back. And so the amount of videos that they put ads on goes to like the bare bones of like everyone in the universe will find it acceptable. And then slowly over time, they move out and out and out and out and out and out and out. And eventually they push too far and advertisers get put on something that is absolutely terrible and horrendous. And then they push back in. And that's like the life cycle of YouTube. Unless, of course, you can be optimistic and believe that YouTube will not every year try and increase their revenue as a company should and will eventually just stop at some point and go, hey, if we go further than this, we'll get public outrage again and all the advertisers will leave. So we can't go beyond this barrier of acceptability. I mean, that's the only way we would ever possibly avoid another adpocalypse ever happening. But who knows if that will happen. What I'm saying is, sure, this does suck that you can't swear in the first 8 to 15 seconds, but I don't think it's YouTube's fault that this is that way. I think it's more society's fault and advertisers fault. How many people do you know that still go like, oh, you shouldn't swear. You said the F word. That's not good. Those people buy products. Whenever I think of swear words and the social acceptability of them, I always think of Ben Shapiro when he read out the lyrics of, what's the song, Wet Ass Pussy or whatever. And he read the lyrics, but every single time he said, wet ass P word. Yeah, you up in with some wet ass P word, bring a bucket and a mop for this wet ass P word. Is a grown man who couldn't say the word pussy and believed it was better to say P word. That didn't make him look stupid. That everyone in the universe knows what word he's referring to, but still said P word. And they'll eat it multiple times without any sort of hints that he understood what he was doing was ridiculously stupid. These people exist and buy products and therefore. |
| 07. February 2023 | YouTube demonetization is becoming increasingly more ridiculous. | YouTube demonetization is becoming increasingly more ridiculous. So this was a strange thing that happened to me. Released a video showing a glitch to play as Trevor with his pants down, has footage of him on a toilet, I censored his dick but he's bare ass running around. When I got demonetized, they said it wasn't that, was actually the simple line drawing of a dick on shirtless Lazlo. So I guess it will be censored for rambles I guess. This is the level of censorship like, uh, he's cleaning an ankle or whatever, he's bare ass, like, he's on a bike as well sometimes. There's another shot where it's even closer than this. But this is what got it demonetized. Now the reason why I think that's somewhat insane is because, can you imagine believing that people under the age of like 18, or even just kids, aren't seeing drawn dicks in their lives? Like, I've never seen a guy without his shirt on or something. Like, this wasn't like at the beginning of the video, it was like 8 minutes in or something. Like, there's an entire plot line in the movie Superbad, where the dude talks about his obsession with drawing dicks in school. In fact, I know a guy in high school who had that same thing, where he drew just, you give him a pencil and he just draw a dick somewhere. Just for the hell of it. Just unbelievably tame thing, conceivable, demonetized. But not Trevor running bare ass around, or struggling to have a bowel movement on a toilet. No, that's not it. It's the drawn dick on a shirtless dude. You see, it didn't even occur to me that anyone in any culture, in any reality could find something like that an issue. That scares me. My recent Minecraft video was also 18 plus age gated. Don't know why yet. I don't even have a basic idea what YouTube now considers offensive. When you understand the rules, the letter of the law, and you can work to conform to that, you feel a little bit secure. Like, when I made that faxing glitches video, I was like, not pixelating Trevor's ass, maybe I'm taking a risk here, but I think it's better for the video. And so, had they come back and said, look, you didn't censor the ass, we're demonetizing you. I'd be like, okay, I knew that was the risk I was taking, fine, very well. But having something entirely unexpected demonetize the video, that's the scary thing. For I clearly don't know where the lines are now. And so with my latest Minecraft video being age gated, I don't know what in there got it age gated. There's a dick joke in there somewhere, the most tame one imaginable, but is that it? Like, I only have two other videos age gated, one being the pacifist where Trevor says the C word like 15 times in a row, and the other one where it is just a compilation of swearing. Those are my two age gated videos. And then my third is a Minecraft video, potentially for a dick joke, not showing a dick, referencing the existence of dicks. I said to my YouTube partner manager, I was like, maybe I don't want to ask any questions anymore. I think these guys might be offended that I'm questioning their decisions on these videos or something. And so they're now just going to crack down on my channel and age gate everything that I produce. Like, these are scary times. Like I've said before, I totally understand the need for YouTube to demonetize things for the benefit of the platform, to restrict some content or limit what content shows advertisements so that the platform as a whole can receive far more money and thrive more. But obviously that doesn't mean that I'm going to agree with the way that they implement such an idea, right? YouTube will continuously make decisions that I think are foolish. And whether that is because the rules and thought processes are being implemented correctly or it's someone at YouTube like making a mistake, I can't tell. Because obviously with a company the size of YouTube, with thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people looking over content, there are going to be mistakes. Even if they had an error rate of one in 10,000, it would still be a staggering amount of errors for the creators themselves, right? And that would just be a continuous thing. So I don't know if this is what YouTube wants, or if it's just someone being overzealous, but not knowing is scary. It's the unknown in life that's scary, chat. The ambiguity of it all. If something's bad, but you are certain the limitations of that badness, you can live with that, you can work around that. The ambiguity, the unknown of YouTube is just something that every YouTuber will say to you is extraordinarily f- |
| 14. January 2021 | YouTube drama | You don't you don't feel bad potentially are burning the bridge with Carlson. Oh Carlson, sorry Look I like I said, I just hope he's alright like I'm sure he's in a bad mental space and It's an interesting topic of conversation just because we were talking about young fame, but that's Alright man, like we can I just found with YouTube drama It'll be like the initial blow will come this way and then like someone will blow back and then I'll be like everyone's like Oh, this person's right then like this person releases an exposed video and it's like this person's right Then this person tweets and it's just like his endless kind of cycle and I think it just makes it really hard to comment It's just almost like whoever can better Represent themselves like he maybe doesn't feel comfortable doing like a video that would really help his brand or maybe you're right Maybe he just burrows under but like at the end of the day. He's just a person and he seems like a nice guy I just hope he's alright. Yeah hearing about his arm. He was having the depressed potentially suicidal and all that stuff and It kind of brings back to how much it would fuck you up being that successful that quickly at that age Yeah, hopefully nothing too terrible comes out of the situation for anyone involved The guy was probably just a little horny some girls were hitting him up He just messaged a few girls things like got a little carried away like I don't know like I'm not gonna There's so many different ways to look at this, but Exactly. I just hope he's alright The the the thing that makes me step back and now is just because how quickly his friends distance from him Like what haven't we seen? You know, it's it it's kind of like what I shouldn't be making to Absolute statements on such a topic like this because that's kind of the mistake I made with the dream situation Yeah, dream cheating my car. I felt like I came out too hard too fast on that before letting the dust settle and learning More about what was going on. I kind of want to learn from that experience and try to treat Each of these drama situations with the ambiguity or accept the ambiguity that exists and kind of yeah tackle it tackle it from as many angles as possible It but the drama so it's always so interesting like it's really interesting and you know It's the community that we're both in I think it's fine to talk about but |
| 30. July 2022 | YouTube explained the # shorts algorithm and how it interacts with the rest of YouTube. | YouTube explains the Shorz algorithm and how it interacts with the rest of YouTube. My Shorz, where I talked about the OnMissionZero skip or the Cletus skip if you like, in its first day didn't do all that well and that made me a little bit sad because like man I really thought this would do well. Like I made this, this is the first time I've ever made something specifically for 9x16. I'm like, this is such a good concept. I presented it well. I think this is really good content. I'm annoyed that it hasn't done well. And then in the coming days it just went whoo! Blew up massively. This is like the most subscribers I've gotten on a video in quite a long time. No money of course because that's how Shorz work. And you can see behind my head here like the graph which is just boof and it's gone back down again. But Shorz seemed very swingy like it could bump up again later. Who knows. I ended up talking to TGG on Twitter and he's like it doesn't seem as though getting a really big Shorz seems to help your long-form content all that much. And I was suggested a video. So this tweet led me to this video which led me to this conversation between MrBeast and the guy at YouTube who works in discoverability. The audio is shit. But in this video MrBeast and this Todd dude talk about the YouTube algorithm and confirm everything that I thought about it or suspected about it as being true. Because you know how it is you like pick up stuff as you go throughout your career or you make certain connections and you wonder is this just in my head and whatnot and it turned out no. When I used YouTube Shorz I was like man it seems as though there is a separate algorithm for YouTube Shorz and for long-form content. At least that's what it seems like. So Todd here is like yeah so when we first released Shorz we realized that the algorithm couldn't really handle it because you'd have a person who'd go into the Shorz section and watch like a hundred videos that were only one minute in length and so the algorithms like oh this person only likes short videos. They only like videos that are one minute in length. You know we better start recommending them more. And so a person would leave Shorz and go to the main page and all that would be there is one minute long videos. The algorithm not being able to realize that the only reason that person was watching one minute videos is because they're watching Shorz. And so what they did is they're like well this is not good. I guess we'll just separate the two and make an algorithm for Shorz and algorithm for long-form content. Which is good in a way because long-form content isn't disadvantaged by people using Shorz. Its recommendations aren't reduced. But the bad thing about this is if you become very successful in Shorz it's not going to easily transfer over to long-form content. Like you get some subscribers and subscribers do matter for getting views in your long-form content but being a subscriber is not sufficient to necessarily get recommended thousands of videos from a creator right? Todd has said they're looking into ways to fix this to kind of mesh the algorithms together or make it so people who become successful in Shorz can also have their long-form content recommended the same people. But I don't at least this wasn't that long ago I doubt they've solved that yet. But one other thing that he didn't mention that you can infer is that this is probably why my clips channel did so well. They released Shorz I speculate at the time like they must have changed the algorithm somehow. When I released my clips channel it was coincidentally at the time where the algorithms for Shorz and long-form content were merged. Because I was one of the few people who was releasing endless fucking clips you know 24 a day or whatever. The algorithm's like oh everyone likes short content now give them more clips more and more clips. So I just you know coincidentally was able to ride that wave get a lot more subscribers a lot more money a lot more views. Because of something it was ultimately something that YouTube didn't intend. That the algorithms aren't merged they were merged back when I first made my clips channel they unmerged them and that would explain why my clips channel stopped doing as well. It wasn't doing a hundred million views like it did in the beginning. If you are a creator who is interested in learning some things about the algorithm and you don't mind bad audio go to this spotlight stage June 25th and it's about three hours and 15 minutes in. I may make a video on it and summarize what was in it because it was some interesting stuff. MrBeast also talks about how he views YouTube and what he does with his videos. Some of it was interesting other parts aren't really applicable to me and I disagree with. Partly what I was talking about before with you know retention versus length of video and all that jazz. Yeah interesting conversation. |
| 30. July 2022 | YouTube explained the #shorts algorithm and how it interacts with the rest of YouTube. | YouTube explains the Shorz algorithm and how it interacts with the rest of YouTube. My Shorz, where I talked about the OnMissionZero skip or the Cletus skip if you like, in its first day didn't do all that well and that made me a little bit sad because like man I really thought this would do well. Like I made this, this is the first time I've ever made something specifically for 9x16. I'm like, this is such a good concept. I presented it well. I think this is really good content. I'm annoyed that it hasn't done well. And then in the coming days it just went whoo! Blew up massively. This is like the most subscribers I've gotten on a video in quite a long time. No money of course because that's how Shorz work. And you can see behind my head here like the graph which is just boof and it's gone back down again. But Shorz seemed very swingy like it could bump up again later. Who knows. I ended up talking to TGG on Twitter and he's like it doesn't seem as though getting a really big Shorz seems to help your long-form content all that much. And I was suggested a video. So this tweet led me to this video which led me to this conversation between MrBeast and the guy at YouTube who works in discoverability. The audio is shit. But in this video MrBeast and this Todd dude talk about the YouTube algorithm and confirm everything that I thought about it or suspected about it as being true. Because you know how it is you like pick up stuff as you go throughout your career or you make certain connections and you wonder is this just in my head and whatnot and it turned out no. When I used YouTube Shorz I was like man it seems as though there is a separate algorithm for YouTube Shorz and for long-form content. At least that's what it seems like. So Todd here is like yeah so when we first released Shorz we realized that the algorithm couldn't really handle it because you'd have a person who'd go into the Shorz section and watch like a hundred videos that were only one minute in length and so the algorithms like oh this person only likes short videos. They only like videos that are one minute in length. You know we better start recommending them more. And so a person would leave Shorz and go to the main page and all that would be there is one minute long videos. The algorithm not being able to realize that the only reason that person was watching one minute videos is because they're watching Shorz. And so what they did is they're like well this is not good. I guess we'll just separate the two and make an algorithm for Shorz and algorithm for long-form content. Which is good in a way because long-form content isn't disadvantaged by people using Shorz. Its recommendations aren't reduced. But the bad thing about this is if you become very successful in Shorz it's not going to easily transfer over to long-form content. Like you get some subscribers and subscribers do matter for getting views in your long-form content but being a subscriber is not sufficient to necessarily get recommended thousands of videos from a creator right? Todd has said they're looking into ways to fix this to kind of mesh the algorithms together or make it so people who become successful in Shorz can also have their long-form content recommended the same people. But I don't at least this wasn't that long ago I doubt they've solved that yet. But one other thing that he didn't mention that you can infer is that this is probably why my clips channel did so well. They released Shorz I speculate at the time like they must have changed the algorithm somehow. When I released my clips channel it was coincidentally at the time where the algorithms for Shorz and long-form content were merged. Because I was one of the few people who was releasing endless fucking clips you know 24 a day or whatever. The algorithm's like oh everyone likes short content now give them more clips more and more clips. So I just you know coincidentally was able to ride that wave get a lot more subscribers a lot more money a lot more views. Because of something it was ultimately something that YouTube didn't intend. That the algorithms aren't merged they were merged back when I first made my clips channel they unmerged them and that would explain why my clips channel stopped doing as well. It wasn't doing a hundred million views like it did in the beginning. If you are a creator who is interested in learning some things about the algorithm and you don't mind bad audio go to this spotlight stage June 25th and it's about three hours and 15 minutes in. I may make a video on it and summarize what was in it because it was some interesting stuff. MrBeast also talks about how he views YouTube and what he does with his videos. Some of it was interesting other parts aren't really applicable to me and I disagree with. Partly what I was talking about before with you know retention versus length of video and all that jazz. Yeah interesting conversation. |
| 27. September 2022 | YouTube finally splitting types of content on channel pages | YouTube finally splitting types of content on channel pages. That's so cool! YouTube creators, we've heard you loud and clear, highly requested updates coming to channel pages this fall, including splitting content out by long form, shorts and live. That is sick. I mean, it doesn't show live here, but I assume that's just gonna be a tab as well. So when I started doing shorts, I had people comment like, man, it's harder to find videos in your channel page section now. This just makes sense. To be real with you, channel page views are not the biggest source of views. It's 6%. But 6%, while not the majority or something, it's still a reasonable chunk. Having the content be more easily searchable, it's just a good thing. The question for me is, will I not unlist my live videos now? Because I hated how they clogged up my channel page section. I mean, when that rolls out, I'll see what happens. |
| 27. September 2022 | YouTube fixes music copyright | YouTube fixes music copyrights. A YouTube W I didn't speak about before. YouTube is fixing the copyright music problem on YouTube to some degree. I mean, T Martin gave a good summary. It's the first place that I saw it. Not that I really like T Martin, but. YouTube is fixing the copyright music problem. Currently, if you use a copyrighted song, 100% of the revenue goes to the artist. This isn't always true. Some labels will give you a 50-50 cut or whatever. But most of the time. With creative music, you can license music for a flat fee or split revenue 50-50 with the artist. They already have deals with over 50 labels. I wonder if you have to do this beforehand where you have to set out an agreement first or can a song get picked up in your video and then say, hey, you can keep this song if you give us a 50-50 split or you can keep this song if you pay us 10 bucks. Because as I've said many times, 99.999% of the time when a song gets picked up in one of my videos, I just remove that song. I re-edit the video or I use YouTube's inbuilt features to remove it. No song is worth 100% of my revenue. However, if I had the option just to even pay 50 bucks, sometimes I'd be like, okay, this song is probably important enough. It makes the video better. Here's 50 bucks. Whatever the price is. Maybe this is just the record labels believing they can get more money from these deals rather than experiencing what's happening now where no creator making any significant amount of money is leaving in songs in their videos that take all the money. And previously, I was listening to a person talk about how difficult it is to get licenses for songs. Like if you want to use a song and it's important to you, you're sending 800 emails between 50 different departments. Even if you're willing to pay for the song, you can't do it. And that's just stupid. YouTube is the place where people experience media now. If you want your songs to stay relevant and to reach a larger audience and make yourself a little bit of money, getting them into some YouTube videos is a smart move. I've said before, before TikTok, where I found most of my new songs was Twitch. During a stream, I'd be like, oh, it's a banging track, son. And I'd put it on my Spotify. Then they got rid of the music. So then it became TikTok. I'm on TikTok, oh, this is a fucking banging song, son. And I put it in my Spotify. I've always said not letting YouTubers use like say, 30 second snippets of your songs was just a dumb move by the labels. Music is a little bit different from other forms of media. It's not a one and done. You listen to the same song hundreds of times. So if you hear the song for the first time on YouTube and you like it, you're not gonna go back to that video of some guy talking over a song to listen to the song. You're gonna put it on Spotify. Yeah, so this is just a win all around. Good job, YouTube. You guys are really Susan at The Music síndrome. |
| 26. December 2021 | YouTube is better than most think | YouTube is better than most think. YouTube really is messed up like really bad honestly. I think viewers have a incorrect perception of how YouTube is doing and how good YouTube is to its creators. YouTube is fucking amazing chat. Revenues are really high. It has the best algorithm for content delivery that exists anywhere. Its content delivery system. It can compress videos so well, reducing their size yet still contain so much detail and then distributing it within moments all over the world. From what I've heard from industry people, they are light years ahead of everyone and that's a significant reason why no one wants to compete with them. Once upon a time, YouTube was like a black box where you couldn't talk to fucking anyone regardless of how big you were as a creator. Now they have like hundreds of thousands of people whose main job is talking to creators or reviewing content. Their CEO will like frequently call up and talk to YouTubers or will fly them out and specifically say hey this is what we're talking about. It's just YouTube is so fucking large. It's billions of users all over the world in endless different languages. There's always going to be things that fall through the cracks. Like from what I've heard, non-English speaking regions don't do as well in terms of communicating with YouTube and all that stuff because most people who work at the higher ups area of YouTube are people who speak English and have a cultural idea, a Western cultural idea as well. So they don't necessarily understand the problems that YouTubers say in India are experiencing. They're less able to flag content or bad language and stuff because they're just not as a good language. And that will change over the years. The reason why I think viewers have a more negative perception of YouTube is because people don't make videos saying hey YouTube is doing great. YouTubers did this very good thing for me. YouTube helped me out here. They make videos when things are going really badly or YouTube is fucked up. Like I talked about before how YouTube's policy on the C word is something that really pisses me off. I don't mention though the last dozen times where I've had a personal representative resubmit my videos to be re monetized or to get specific feedback as to what thing has caused demonetization and how to resolve it. People make a video talking about how this thing fucked up, YouTube sucks, blah blah blah. Then when it gets resolved, they don't make another video necessarily. And if they do, it's probably like an update video, like a short thing saying hey it actually got resolved and it gets far fewer views. You know, or maybe they make a community post. They do communicate that potentially. Sometimes they don't. But even if they do, it doesn't reach as many people. And like negative things in general go further in YouTube's algorithm just in society in general. Negativity gets clicks, gets views. YouTube will also frequently get blamed for copyright issues which are very hard to deal with for YouTube because they exist in multiple countries with many different laws. It is often the laws themselves that are causing the problems and not YouTube. Like YouTube is a great company and it's in general doing good things. Given I am from India, the way the most popular of the YouTubers get away with using foul language in their videos, I absolutely agree with you. I mean YouTube isn't as hard on foul language as they once were. I've talked about this before. I mean it could be the case that you know they ask things in Indian video, Indian language videos that should be taken down but YouTube is not detecting them. But it's also potentially the case. You know they're intentionally allowing it. Whenever any company has any sort of scandal that leads to them losing a bunch of money and stuff or advertisers or whatever, their business shrinks or whatever, they kind of over correct in terms of their behaviors. In the circle of things that they can do without getting into legal trouble or social issues or whatever, they shrink back down to the core of what they know they can do and not experience backlash. In YouTube's case, that's what content they let on the platform. They're like okay this core content, no one's going to be pissed at us for and that's what we're letting on the platform. Anything else that's potentially outside of this bubble of what is allowed, get rid of it. Fucking get rid of it. We cannot deal with losing advertisers. We cannot deal with backlash right now. We can't get rid of it. Demonetize it, remove from the platform, whatever. But then over time, companies benefit from doing the maximum of what they're able to without getting into trouble. So YouTube tests the waters. They're like okay we'll allow more swearing. No one's pissed yet. Alright. Bit more swearing. Maybe a bit more violence. Alright. Sexual themes. No one's pissed yet. Alright. Swearing throughout video perfectly fine, but not in first 30 seconds. Oh. No one's pissed. Alright. Uh. Shit. And bitch. It's good. Wow. No one's pissed about this yet. Alright. And YouTube is going to keep doing this until eventually they move out of the bubble of what's acceptable, receive a bunch of backlash, and have to collapse again. Or if you're optimistic, you can say that YouTube will have learnt from past adpocalypse's and never cross those boundaries again. They'll get razor close, but never cross over. But who knows? You know? That's why, like, if you look at like changes that YouTube makes like every six months, it's allowing for more mature themes or what have you. I can almost guarantee that within a couple of years, the C word will not be instant cause of demobilization. They'll be like, you can have one C word depending upon the context, as long as it's not directed at a person. Or something like that. возможно Hokux, especially with thatциena break. |
| 21. September 2022 | YouTube is changing it’s layout again? | Play out again? So I've talked a lot about how subscriptions on YouTube don't seem to matter nearly as much as they used to. How you have these channels with tens of millions of subscribers, but they're getting like no viewers. I mean, PewDiePie, for example, I know he's not the best example because he's pseudo-vertired, like he isn't grinding to get the most views ever, but he's got 111 million subscribers. He's getting one or two million views a video. You can find worse examples, people with five million subs who are getting 20,000 views a video, you know. Subs don't seem to matter all that much. And I've talked about my back end where I only get 5% of my views from the sub feed. And I've had other people share similar results where it's 80, 90% of views come from recommendations. And one thing that is suggesting that YouTube is kind of acknowledging this is that they're rolling out a new layout for YouTube where this is what it looks like. The sub button is now like white. It used to be red. You stand out like, I mean, like you know what it looks like, but yeah, so like it used to be red, blaring. And now it's like muted, like just, you know, kind of there. Oh, look at people, like small new creators. And they'll be like, oh, it'd be such a milestone to hit a thousand subscribers. And it's just like, it doesn't matter. Your videos will be judged based on how good they are. Gaining an audience these days is finding people who always click your videos in the algorithm. So the algorithm will always feed them your newest videos, right? It's not finding people who will press the subscribe button. It's finding people who will continuously click your videos so they continuously get them fed to them. Or psychologically, it's a milestone, yes, because the algorithm and all the numbers on the backend, right? They're like invisible. They don't feel as real as that number that's next to your name, X amount of subscribers. And you get your little plaque and stuff, and it's like, oh, good job, you know? That's why I, even though I don't think subscribers matter all that much, when I got a million subs, it was like, I feel good. This is great. I hit an achievement. It isn't that those subscribers don't matter at all. They have some value, especially in particular circumstances. It's just they're not the most important thing. The most important thing is largely completely invisible to us, and that's the workings of the algorithm. And so it's hard to feel an achievement when the algorithm's doing stuff, you know? Did shorts help me reach one million sooner? No, I did shorts after that. I mean, if I really wanted to hit two million really fast, all I would do is just stop making normal content and do nothing but shorts for like three months. I'll probably hit a million. |
| 22. May 2021 | YouTube is making “fat stacks”. | YouTube is making fat stacks. Did you hear that YouTube is making fat stacks now? Well they say since 2019 or something their revenue has gone up by 50%. That surprised me considering the changes with advertising for kids and stuff. But I guess you know everyone staying home, COVID, all that jazz, you know, definitely would help. Where did I see it? Philip DeFranco was saying like what did YouTube make six billion or something? Nutty. Shorts health... ah shorts are really new dude. I don't even think shorts are out in my country. I don't think that would have been factored into their revenue reports as of yet. I wonder what percentage of people who watch YouTube actually use YouTube premium. Someone do a poll for my audience. How many of you have a YouTube premium or YouTube red or whatever you want to call it? YouTube premium definitely a better name. Can I upload shorts despite it not being available in my country? Yes. Because all you have to do to upload a short is have the right resolution and put hashtag short on it. I've only done 15 shorts. None of them went crazy good. I got too much to do with my normal clips. Like I can't even keep up with my normal clip production. Like I can't bother making them shorts. YouTube premium, YouTube premium for free with your phone plan? That's cool. 17%. That's a lot. To be clear I said 17. One seven. |
| 14. January 2021 | YouTube isn’t for everyone? | True. Yeah, I sometimes forget that that this isn't something that everyone would want to do Yeah, dude, like on Sunday night, like I mean I say that I'm like, I think it feels chill to me because I love it But on Sunday night, I think I started on Sunday. I started working at about 9 a.m So much went wrong so much editing recording and went through I worked straight through till 7 a.m So that's like 10 a.m. And you will do this all the time as well. That's like You're talking like almost like 20 hours straight of work And I just had a quick dinner break and some coffees and it's like it didn't even felt okay because I'm used to it And I was so satisfying getting that video done But it's like a lot of people won't don't want to do that. Like if you don't enjoy it, that would be really hard Yeah, so and also of course then the risk involved with is it gonna take off? Am I gonna go this time and nothing gonna come for it? Because obviously a traditional career you can see your future ahead of you I'm you know, you like if you've got an accounting job Whatever you can see I'm gonna go from here to here to here to here to here or whatever your job has some security In this career, even when you're extremely successful, you don't know exactly what you're gonna be next year or the year after no It's not even really tested how long you can have a career in YouTube or live stream or whatever the people with the longest careers now what 10 15 years or something? There are people who've been accountants for you know, 50 years whatever it's gonna be interesting It what the future? |
| 27. October 2022 | YouTube livestream moderators getting a boost. | YouTube livestream moderators getting a boost. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 02. October 2022 | YouTube livestreaming growing to dominate Twitch | YouTube live streaming growing to dominate Twitch. But yeah, so you asked me about my moving to YouTube streaming, because you stream on YouTube as well, right? Yeah, I've only streamed on YouTube. I was about to ask, why did you choose YouTube over Twitch? And when did you start streaming? I started streaming, it was like 2019 when I got my computer set up and everything. Like summer of 2019, I would say. Oh, you're one of the OGs of YouTube streaming. Like not a lot of people were streaming on YouTube back in 2019. Yeah, I just chose YouTube because that's where my audience was. So it just seemed like the easiest thing to do. So like trying to go get them over the Twitch, which at the time might seem like a better idea. But nowadays, I feel like it's it was a good choice. Oh, yeah, certainly. Like I often ask people that over the years when I'm like when Modest Pelican or whatever would go to Twitch or whatever, I'd be like, why? Why do that when you already have millions of people on YouTube? But I guess for for a while and maybe even still now, like Twitch is seen as like the legitimate live streaming platform, the top live streamers on Twitch. And if you want that prestige, you kind of have to be there. But I think like every passing month, people's YouTube. YouTube has been making a lot of good moves in terms of streaming. And Twitch has been making a lot of bad decisions. The the level of positive esteem towards Twitch has done nothing but nose dive since like 2017 or something. When I started streaming on YouTube, they didn't even have like gift memberships. There's like so many more features they've added over the years for YouTube streaming. Yeah, exactly. There's still more to go. Like it's still a pain in the ass setting it up. But I've only been doing it for two weeks. And I can't imagine what it would have been like to stream without Truffle. Do you use Truffle? No, I don't. I probably should, though, because I feel like it makes the chat easier to read and everything. Precisely. Like I was about to say, maybe you've because you've never been on Twitch. You just got used to the way YouTube chat looks like. Yeah, that could also be it, too. Yeah, but it's just it's so jarring moving from Twitch to YouTube and just this endless flow of text that's impossible to read. I don't know why YouTube doesn't fix it, especially when like the person they spent millions of dollars to bring over Ludwig was going to develop an entire extension to fix it. So it's clearly an important thing. Come on, YouTube. Another thing I like about YouTube, I like the Super Chat feature. It's just like directly connected into YouTube. Like so if no one wants to go up like the real PayPal information to donate to someone, they don't have to. It's all through YouTube. That's true. And there's no well, certainly back in the day, Twitch would have a lot of issues with chargebacks and stuff. Less of an issue now. Yeah, exactly. Chargebacks, too. But there is no issue with that with Super Chats. The split for Super Chat is 70 percent, and that's about the same as Bits. And I believe actually Twitch is rolling out their own version of Super Chats. Oh, they are? That might be called Super Cheers or something. I just saw that fairly recently on Twitter. But I guess maybe they think the Super Chat works better than Bits. I don't really know. Because certainly when you do Bits, it doesn't have the like the message pop up and stuff in the chat as distinctly. I can't even fucking remember. But clearly Twitch just wants more money, as you can see with their recent change where they want to pay people less money. I'm assuming you read like the post that the president made. So long winded, full of marketing bullshit speak like, oh, we love you guys so much. Just PR. Like we're in this together. PR. It's just a bunch of PR stuff. At the end of the day, the summary is we want to pay you less money. Just run some more ads, lol. Yeah, like how do you, the PR team is like, alright, how do you make this? We're trying to make pay cuts, announcing pay cuts sound like a good thing. Good luck. Yeah, they're never going to win in that. Like I wonder how much money that kind of a cut represents. Because it's obvious if you've seen the Twitch leaks of people's payouts, the vast majority of the money is given to the top, you know, 0.5% of creators or something. Like this is going to represent a lot of money going to Twitch. Unless of course more people like me bail out of Twitch. Yeah. But are they that desperate for money though? Or are they desperate to try to inspire people to run ads? I don't know. It just seems like a weird decision. It wouldn't be that big of a deal, but the Twitch ads are so intrusive. I mean, I would say ads in live streaming in general is always going to be intrusive. Because it's, you never know when something is happening if you do automatic ads. Or if you don't do automatic ads and you like stop your stream and say, hey guys, I'm running some ads for a few minutes. It just ruins the streaming experience. You're just sitting there doing nothing for a couple of minutes waiting for half of your viewers to come back. It's just no win. There's no way to do ads in a live stream that isn't going to be disruptive. Unless it's like in a point where you're like, oh guys, I'll be right back. And then it's a little break moment. Like that's probably the only thing I would see. Because the stream is already broken up at that point. But yeah. |
| 01. November 2022 | YouTube looks different now | YouTube looks different now. So good news everyone YouTube has received a major refresh you may have noticed when if you go to like a YouTube video and stuff okay That this this is and it's pretty clean this one, but okay weird anyway things look different now What's to explain I sometimes click videos on YouTube that have boobs in the thumbnail I am only human now. We know I do like some good Booba as I think people say on the internet Actually, I saw recently on Twitter booba was trending so clearly that's the word people use it now, so oh yeah Look at that booba is trending again. I'm not clicking that no you |
| 30. September 2022 | YouTube membership versus Twitch sub | to my videos, but I see every one of the timestamps. And he's like, ignore this. I'm like, yeah, but I see it. I can't ignore it, cause I see it every time. An interesting thing though, is that people seem far more interested in doing super chats rather than memberships. I guess cause like on Twitch, a membership has more value. It stops ads and you get the emotes everywhere, all over Twitch. How the hell did you do that? |
| 06. June 2022 | YouTube not recommending me a creator's videos | YouTube not recommending a creator's videos Have you ever had the situation where YouTube no longer recommended a channel you were subscribed to? I've been subbed to Live Tech Tips for years. For the past year I have never seen a video in my recommended feed and always had to go on the channel to watch previous videos I'm pretty sure the only reason that might happen is if you um Is if you skip over a couple of videos There was a time where clicks Philip all his videos were getting recommended to me all of them And I watched like dozens upon dozens upon dozens it made me like his content to a great degree And that's why I've referenced him a handful of times in different cases where it's been relevant because I know all of his back catalog, but eventually it had to start recommending me duplicates of his videos because I had already seen them all and It recommended me less and less and less and eventually I don't get recommended his videos much anymore I like when he releases a new video that will probably get to me, but his back catalog It's just not worth the time for the algorithm because it can't tell which ones I've seen or which ones I haven't seen which one I want to watch or whatever I think that happens to a lot of people where They get inundated with a particular creator for so long so many of their old videos And you know you watch so many of them that eventually get sick of them like maybe you don't hate that content creator anymore But yeah You just start skipping over more of the impressions because you've seen so much of them and the algorithms like oh well guess They're not interested anymore And then the algorithm just kind of cuts off completely because you've just skipped that many impressions I mean, it's just the set I've just had that experience before so I think it's a thing that happens occasionally. I'm not sure That's so cool immediately. So yeah, no that's a little customization. Also funny, but, why is he sending me lots of great feedals? What's up for dinner? |
| 27. December 2020 | YouTube subscriber count isn’t that important. | Your sub count isn't the most important thing. I think on YouTube, the amount of subs you have is more about clout than it is, than it does have an actual impact on the amount of views you get on any of your videos, you know, it's why you can go on channels, and even like mine, and the, you know, Rambles gets 20k and Chaos gets 150k, or 250k, whatever, right? Most people don't use their sub boxes to find content, and if you're clicking on a person's videos every time they're recommended to you, you're basically subbed. If you're subbed and you're not clicking on any of the videos recommended to you from Content Creator, you may as well not be subbed, because they're gonna stop recommending the videos, you know? It's not a pointless thing to get subs, but it's not the be-all and end-all, right? Like people will look at my sub counts, and they'll be like, oh man, you need to, you should be so much more popular in this, dude, you're great, and I'm like, well thank you, but like, currently I'm getting like 10 million views a month on my main channel, and you can find content creators with like 5 million subs who are getting like half that, you know? I am doing quite good. The sub counts is not the thing that often matters the most. Or like my Clips channel, not that the views on my Clips channel matter as much as normal views or whatever, but I mean, it's getting like 40 million a month, and it's got less than 100k subs. How many channels do I subscribe to? Close to 2 million. |
| 23. December 2019 | YouTube suspending Markipiler livestream viewers | YouTube suspending Markiplier's viewers during a YouTube livestream. So that story about Markiplier though. So Markiplier did a livestream on YouTube. You know, if you don't know Markiplier, one of the biggest people on the platform, like 10 million subs or something. And so he does a YouTube livestream, and he asks people to vote using like red or green paddles that he has, specifically for voting as his emotes. And so people would like write seven green paddles in a row or something. And people just for like, not even a lot of emotes, we're talking like seven emotes in a row, accounts suspended. Not warning. Literally the Google account gone. I think some people, if not all of them, include their like Gmail account. All their videos that they had on their YouTube channel, completely gone. Completely suspended. Their subscribers gone, their account just gone. And so these people are like, oh this is insane. And they appeal it. And all the appeals are rejected. This is hundreds of people. It takes days of like, the biggest, like one of the biggest content creators, one of the biggest OGs of YouTube, saying hey, please help my viewers for YouTube to even have a small amount of care to actually help. Could you imagine that? That's insane. And people are like, why don't you stream on that there, YouTube? Oh, scary, dude. Very scary. Like people are critical of Twitch. But I can't think of anything as bad as this ever happening on Twitch. And I have some confidence that were something like this to happen, I could talk to Lewis. I could talk to people at Twitch. And they would actually care. It might, to be honest, it's partly because YouTube, as an entity, sorry, Twitch as an entity is smaller. But your Twitch is just so much better than YouTube. |
| 23. December 2019 | YouTube suspending Markiplier livestream viewers | YouTube suspending Markiplier's viewers during a YouTube livestream. So that story about Markiplier though. So Markiplier did a livestream on YouTube. You know, if you don't know Markiplier, one of the biggest people on the platform, like 10 million subs or something. And so he does a YouTube livestream, and he asks people to vote using like red or green paddles that he has, specifically for voting as his emotes. And so people would like write seven green paddles in a row or something. And people just for like, not even a lot of emotes, we're talking like seven emotes in a row, accounts suspended. Not warning. Literally the Google account gone. I think some people, if not all of them, include their like Gmail account. All their videos that they had on their YouTube channel, completely gone. Completely suspended. Their subscribers gone, their account just gone. And so these people are like, oh this is insane. And they appeal it. And all the appeals are rejected. This is hundreds of people. It takes days of like, the biggest, like one of the biggest content creators, one of the biggest OGs of YouTube, saying hey, please help my viewers for YouTube to even have a small amount of care to actually help. Could you imagine that? That's insane. And people are like, why don't you stream on that there, YouTube? Oh, scary, dude. Very scary. Like people are critical of Twitch. But I can't think of anything as bad as this ever happening on Twitch. And I have some confidence that were something like this to happen, I could talk to Lewis. I could talk to people at Twitch. And they would actually care. It might, to be honest, it's partly because YouTube, as an entity, sorry, Twitch as an entity is smaller. But your Twitch is just so much better than YouTube. |
| 26. December 2022 | YouTube to add multiple thumbnail feature for creators | to add multiple thumbnail feature for creators. So this is really interesting. This might be the most interesting thing I've seen on YouTube in a while. I mean this could be fake, it's just been shown to me, so... But we'll discuss it as if it's true because the implications could be interesting. New YouTube experiment that lets you upload multiple thumbnails and see which performs best. So it's just one, two, three, and then it splits... One, two, three. That is super interesting. Because this is something that YouTubers, at least some of them, already do. Usually people, as I've mentioned before, who might release only one video a month, and its success really matters. And so they have time to make and workshop like a dozen different types of thumbnails. And then if the video isn't doing too well, they can swap one in and whatever. So I imagine what would happen is you put all three, and then a third of the people will see the first one, a third the second one, and a third the third one. And the back end, you'll be like, here's how each thumbnail is performing. The analytics would presumably look very cluttered. I hope they found a way to like lay that out so it's... You can easily understand what's going on. I wonder if you have the option just to always leave it on three, or maybe it'll automatically pick the one that's performing the best after a day or something. Who knows? But this will certainly make the process of making thumbnails even more taxing for a person like me who tries to upload each day. Very interesting. Is this real? That's the thing. Who knows? This makes perfect sense for YouTube to do. And as I say, it's something that they already do. But this is like a 200 like thing here. There's nothing here suggesting it's false, but this could be like a conceptual thing. So as a concept, I approve of this idea. If it's real, it'd be interesting to see. But I'm not sure what I'm gonna do about it though, because like I pay someone to make my thumbnails, and I pay per thumbnail made. I don't really think I have the ability just to like double the cost that I'm spending on thumbnails. But I mean, if I get more views because of it, then I would make up for that cost, right? I have to think on it. It is certainly the case that some videos are very, very good. Not my own. Well, in some cases, my own, but other people's that I've clicked on. I'm like, man, this thumbnail sucks, but this video is really good. And it's always unfortunate when a good video doesn't get the love that it deserves, because the thumbnail just isn't there in terms of its quality and ability to captivate an audience. Might be beneficial for small time content creators. I'm not sure why them specifically. Always keep in mind that when we talk about thumbnails being more clickbait and more captivating and whatnot, is what you're trying to do is be more captivating, more interesting than everyone else. YouTube is a competitive marketplace, and so you are trying to say, hey, sure, you've got Jessica's, Jack's and Billy's thumbnails here, right? You see these videos, don't click them. Click mine instead. As just a continuous arms race of who can make the better thumbnail design, the best communication of what your video is about, to get them to click it instead of everyone else's. It would be interesting if they put this out for everyone. It seems really helpful to creators though. Considering this is something that creators can already do, but how creators do it is just less efficient. Like you have to actively watch the analytics on the backends to know how they're changing based on different thumbnails. This is just better enabling people to do what they already do, at least some of them. This seems like nothing but a good thing for creators. It doesn't necessarily disadvantage or advantage anyone, although you'd assume that those who have more funds to hire more thumbnail artists would benefit the most from this, right? Although I suppose you could say that it does put additional burdens on content creators to now have three thumbnails for every single video. The process of being the most optimal with your content creation has now gone up, or at least would, will go up if such a thing is implemented. On the other side of this, it is now impossible to pick thumbnails for shorts. So it was always the case that you couldn't make a custom thumbnail for shorts, but you could always pick which of the three generated ones would be shown in like the browse section. It says for now you can't change the thumbnail on your short. So this is the one that will be shown for everyone in the browse section. And you can see here 9.5% of my views came from the browse section, which is the case for shorts. It's not normal that you get most of your views from the browse section. So yeah, potentially interesting time. |
| 08. March 2023 | YouTube to add tiktok reaction feature and vague AI tools for creators | YouTube to add TikTok reaction feature and vague AI tools for creators. So the new CEO released a blog talking about like what they're gonna be doing in 2023. The only things of significance to me were they're attempting to copy TikToks like side-by-side reaction short thing and their implementation of AI. This year we'll roll out a creation tool that lets creators record a short in a side-by-side layout with shorts and YouTube videos so they can easily add their own take on a trend or join in with reactions. Obviously not the reaction stuff that I normally criticize. This stuff is generally fine. Although like even on TikTok, people comment like how lazy it is for people just to be like on the side being like, look at that disingenuous dense motherfucker and don't really add anything, whatever. And that those TikToks still get millions of views if they react to the right thing. But it like it is garbage and it is lazy but obviously this can still be used in a creative way and in an actual response sort of way that's good. Although them saying you can do shorts against YouTube videos is interesting because shorts are still only a minute. So you couldn't like do a reaction short side-by-side with the YouTube video for the entire length of the video. You could only still do it for a minute. I do find the one minute length of shorts to be restrictive sometimes, even though I do think it is a good thing for YouTube because it further distinguishes shorts content and long form content. But like that Davey AI video I just made is a minute and 11 seconds. I'm gonna have to cut 11 seconds out of that and it's probably gonna be a worst product for that. But you know, that's just what I have to do. And the power of AI is just beginning to emerge in ways that will reinvent video and make the seemingly impossible possible. Creators will be able to expand their storytelling and raise their production value from virtually swapping outfits to creating a fantastical film setting through AI generative capabilities. We're taking the time to develop these features with thoughtful guardrails. Stay tuned in the coming months as we roll out tools for creators as well as the protections to embrace this technology responsibly. Forgive me for the lack of discussion about the practical and ethical realities of AI asps. I will talk about it in a future episode. |
| 14. January 2021 | YouTube vs Streaming | It's too funny. Yeah, so you do a lot more YouTube than you do streaming. So this question probably is obvious, but what's more difficult and more rewarding for you making YouTube videos or streaming? I think, well, I think like just keeping it a bit fresh, but I don't find either particularly difficult. Like I actually really enjoy both. But this year I'm going to be uploading on Modest Pelican, but also streaming like a lot more. I'm going to get really into Twitch. I just really like the live aspect of it. So I streamed this morning. The viewers, like a lot of people there, which was awesome to see. And yeah, I'm definitely going to get more into that. Why Twitch instead of YouTube? So honestly, I just asked a bunch of creators who are way bigger than me. And that was like not a black and white decision, but the consensus was Twitch. I'm honestly surprised that consensus still exists amongst YouTubers. Like certainly anyone who's starting out, I would still say probably still Twitch is best. They're increasing their discoverability. And YouTube doesn't really have much discoverability for live streams. But when you already have an established audience, it seems more common for a person who's already a YouTube with a million subscribers just to stream to those million subscribers. Certainly diversification, not putting all your eggs in one basket, those are factors. But I was surprised to find you on Twitch personally. Yeah, that's fair enough. I don't know. I just like to keep it separated. I think my Modest Pelican content is so like post commentary. It's like well, I edited it for ages. Like it's put together. I don't want to just start streaming randomly on that channel. And because it's just so wildly different. Like if you were to start streaming a new YouTube channel, it would actually feel quite organic, I think. Whereas for me, it's just like such a different type of content. I want to keep the Twitch, the Pubpipeli, and the Modest Pelican all separate. And if people want to subscribe to all of them, they sure can. But yeah, that was kind of my thinking, I suppose, as well. I understand that sentiment. I personally, I remember saying to people like, I'm never going to make a second channel, man. Why would I ever do that? And I end up making that clips channel, right? I can understand there are certainly reasons to differentiate your content from different channels. I get that. Me personally, I find streaming so much easier than YouTube. But it might just be because of how much I throw up on myself. But I've been doing streaming for so long now. It's so comfortable to me that I can just turn on and just chill and play games or whatever. I think that's half the appeal, man. I can just turn on. You're just in a wife bed, just chatting shit, so casual. I love it. It just feels like, it feels just chill to watch. I don't know. I think that's what hooked me in a little bit with you. Because I'd never watched GTA Live speed running. And if you'd asked me if I'd ever want to watch that before I watched your videos, I'd probably be like, no, it doesn't interest me. But I don't know. You just did it in a way that I was like, yeah, I can watch this. This is good. I suddenly care about you having a good run or whatever it is. And I was like, oh, there you go. I've been that way with a lot of games that I could never imagine playing, but watching someone else do. Yeah. I'm just like, oh, yeah, this is great. Or it's certainly a content creator can make. The right content creator with the right game can make that game interesting, regardless of what it is, in a way. Especially when they're passionate about it. I just love passionate people who are very knowledgeable about fucking anything. I find a person who's knowledgeable and loves refrigerators. I'll just listen to them all day talking about their favorite fucking refrigerators, whatever it is. So wait, what's the optimum temperature for the freezer? Oh, shit, nice. Exactly. Yeah. |
| 10. November 2022 | YouTube wants ads everywhere. | YouTube wants ads everywhere. Do you know YouTube's been putting ads on videos on content creators that are below 500 subs? That doesn't surprise me, and it's probably not worth a lot of money. YouTube, like any company, wants to grow every single year. And even if they do just as well as last year, that can be seen as a failure. So now they're trying to monetize the platform as much as possible without disrupting the user experience. I mean, they've always been doing this, but it's just like they're going to continuously need to do this every single year to grow. And so I can't tell you exactly what they're doing, but like every single day there'll be a meeting being like, where can we stick ads so that we can get more money without people leaving the platform? And of course, someone at some point is like, what about all those videos that are not monetized because they're not in the partner program? Why don't we put ads on those? And someone's like, oh yeah, good idea. And they did. It's going to be interesting to see how much of the changes to the Chromium browser are actually going to affect ad blocking programs. Clearly, people at YouTube and or Google are looking at that like, that is currently our biggest battle to find a way to get these people to stop using ad blockers and to watch ads. They're already doing their thing where they're using algorithms to try to find how many ads they can show people without pissing them off and getting them off platform. Who knows how successful they're being at that? I don't know. They'll actually use YouTube premium, so. I guess ad blockers will find a way around it. It is a service that people want and therefore, unless it's outright illegal and even then actually, there's going to be someone providing it in some capacity. But obviously, the more barriers to achieving that ends, the less people will seek about achieving it. If indeed Chromium just makes ad blocking impossible, I guess Google is just banking on the idea that not a significant amount of people will change to something else and will just accept it. I don't know. We'll see. I don't think YouTube premium is 16 USD. I think that's like a family plan or something for like five people. Can you guys look up right now how much YouTube premium is for you and then just like say your region? That's a huge variance we're getting here. Seemingly circling around like 12 USD. The thing is, if you bought premium a long time ago and never got rid of your monthly payments, you're still on that cheaper payment. So there are some people paying what it released at like $7 or something. As I said in Rambles, it's just like the most convenient way to never have to deal with ads on every platform that you use YouTube on without having to install different apps and worry about whether some new patch or something or some decision is going to cause you the ads again. You don't have to worry about that. But also I compare it to like any other plan that I have with like Netflix or Stan or Disney Plus or whatever. I watch astronomically more YouTube than I watch those platforms. It's not even close. I might watch like one thing on Netflix a month where I use YouTube every single day for many hours. When talked about in terms of those value terms, it's a no-brainer except, you know, we aren't comparing no access to access because again, you have the option available right now of ad block and still having access. But you don't have that option with Netflix. You can't just download an extension and get access to Netflix, you know. The reason why YouTube Premium costs different amounts is that it is weighted to be equal to the cost of living in wherever you- |
| 10. September 2022 | YouTube will shadowban community posts | YouTube will shadow ban community posts. So I did my first YouTube live stream, then I made this community post. Thanks for everyone who showed up to my first ever YouTube live stream. I didn't have anything planned and didn't do much, but I received 169 super chats. Very crazy, and there's no way I got to them all. If you did send one, I'm terribly sorry I didn't respond to it, and I greatly appreciate your kindness. I will hopefully do better next time, should I do more YouTube live streams. If you wanna watch the stream, it is now unlisted, but you can find it here. What's interesting about this is that this got 33 likes. This was seen by fucking no one. So I'm assuming that if you do a community post and link to an unlisted video, YouTube just nukes that shit from orbit. Let's very few people see it. This is not members only, you can see. See, that's the members only post. It's not members only. Twitch. XiaoaiR is still making sound effects. |
| 03. May 2021 | YouTube's Inconsistent Content ID | YouTube's inconsistent automated content ID. I was going to release Chaos Rats, but I have a sponsor in the video, which isn't the reason I couldn't release it. The reason I couldn't release it is because I upload two versions of the video, one without the sponsor and one with the sponsor. The video with the sponsor, an hour and a half in, it detects the song that's on Fame or Shame. Nothing about the sponsor changes the song, but in the non-sponsored episode version of the video, it doesn't pick up the song. It doesn't make any sense. It's the exact same section. YouTube in its automated system sometimes doesn't do too well. |
| 31. March 2021 | YouTube's Text to speech reddit recap | YouTube's text-to-speech Reddit recaps. I got recommended a video from a dude who got big during the Reddit recap days. So, so, let me explain. Reddit recaps, as they're described today in the way that I'm using it, is related to me recapping my own Reddit of content that people submit to me largely for the video. But from like 2017 to maybe 2020, did it end up going 2020? There were people who would just go to subreddits and then read like the top posts. I'm sure you guys have seen these things and there was like a three-year period where dozens of channels blew up making somewhat creative videos based on the stuff that people would post on Reddit in these text stories or whatever. And then people realized that they don't have to be creative. They could just have text-to-speech bots read the postings into YouTube videos and they would make a very generic thumbnail and throw it up there. And these videos themselves would get millions upon millions of views. And how this died, YouTube made a rule against this kind of content where, what do they call it in the TOS? Low effort text-to-speech content or something is no longer allowed on YouTube. It's also possible that, you know, given how long it went on and how just ridiculous, the ridiculous amount of videos that were posted, like a dozen channels posting multiple times a day just text-to-speech copies of Reddit. That also likely contributed to its downfall. But now that you literally can't make this content, and maybe the YouTube tweaked the algorithm so it wouldn't favor this content, maybe that's another reason why it's faded. Does anyone else still get recommended these videos on occasion? Yes, not anymore. All the time. I remember, like I hadn't seen one in ages, and then I just, I can't remember if I searched for it or just one got recommended, I clicked it. And then suddenly they all started coming back, just many, many recommendations again. And then, you know, I eventually just went, I don't want to say this shit, so I said not interested knowledge, not interested till this bit. So maybe there is still some of this stuff on YouTube. It's just nowhere near as popular as it was in the past. Like I'm curious if people are still making this content, or if just the older videos are getting recommended still, you know? Because isn't PewDiePie still doing like, last time I watched PewDiePie, like a year ago or something, he was doing it where him and a friend would go, today we're looking at, that's gross. And then they would look at Reddit and go, oh, that's gross. And the video would end. No, no, LWIAY is different. LWIAY is just Reddit Recap. Like it makes sense when you are reacting to stuff specifically made for you to react to, that it has something to do with you. And the person who made it has specifically made it to get your reaction to it, right? It's the same kind of content in theory, but it seems more appropriate, because the content has actually has something to do with you. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing, and I wish you all the best. |
| 23. December 2019 | YouTube's change of policy so they can delete your account | YouTube's changed to the terms of service so they can delete your account if it's not profitable. Google may terminate your access or your Google account's access to all or part of the service if YouTube leaves. It's still a subscription. A provision of the service to you is no longer commercially viable. You can absolutely see why YouTube would do such a thing. You can imagine a wonderful utopia where you just have like a hundred years worth of content still being supported by YouTube. But it's clearly not going to be profitable for them, you know. There are some additional things that I didn't talk about in this section that does continue after this little insert that I've put here. Basically, some people abuse YouTube by using it as their own personal storage that's free. So they've got 50 terabytes of video files and they just upload them all to YouTube. And even better than that, if they would want to compress them anyway, and like on their end on their PCs, it would take many hours to compress this footage, YouTube, if they upload it, would do it for free. On their end, using their servers. So you have just unlimited free storage for videos that you have no intention of releasing to the public. You just leave them all unlisted. Which of course, that's not the point of YouTube. It's meant to be for sharing content with other people and generating ad revenue for YouTube. At least that's, you know, what they would like you to do with it. You can even hypothetically use a new YouTube account to share video files with other people, say in your team of people who you're working with. Like you just give them the username and password and they download the stuff that you've uploaded for them. You can even have like a separate account for each person that you're sharing content with and it's all free. This may be one of the reasons why YouTube doesn't allow you to download videos from your YouTube account at max quality. They only allow it at 720p. Because if they gave it to you even higher quality, it would better facilitate these people to abuse these services. So the change of the policy, I think, is more targeting these people, as opposed to targeting a person who, you know, 10 years ago uploaded a video of their bunny or something. They don't care about that. They care about the people tens of terabytes, hundreds of terabytes worth of free storage. They don't want that. It may even compete with other services that Google has invested their money in. Like the vast majority of stuff that is put on YouTube, that is stored, is not profitable for them to have. It would be interesting to see what percentage of content uploaded gets what percentage of viewership. It wouldn't surprise me if 1% of the content gets like 99% of viewership or something, right? Why don't they just limit how many videos small people can keep? There'd be uproar about that as well. It's again one of these situations where something that would be good for society isn't profitable. It would be nice to have an infinite archive effectively for anyone's video content, but that isn't profitable. I don't know about YouTube's financials. I don't know how profitable they are. Certainly YouTube can't continue to grow. They've kind of they've got over 2 billion users. They're like capped out in terms of growth, really. Amazon used to have unlimited plan for the Amazon drive until one guy, one guy did what? Someone abused it. This is why we can't have nice things. |
| 06. May 2021 | YouTube's continued leniency towards swearing. | YouTube's continued leniency towards swearing. YouTube policies suck. Honestly, there is detractors for every social media website. As social media websites get larger, they have a financial incentive to create TOS that is appealing to advertisers while not being overly repressive to the content creators. Like YouTube recently made a change to make it more lenient on swearing in videos. Which I believe they've done consistently, as in they've kind of noticed swearing, they're a bit of swearing, they're a bit more swearing now. We have even a bit more swearing. Not any unlimited amount of swearing is okay. Now you can swear at a greater frequency and at different points where they said you couldn't before. Like in the first 30 seconds you can swear, just not certain words. I wonder if this has been brought about because of YouTube's losing ad revenue from the more child-friendly parts of YouTube. You know where they can't do targeted advertising for kids anymore? So maybe they're trying to be more mature or something, or push the boundaries of what advertisers will accept or whatever. Yeah, certainly I'm pretty adamant in saying that the degree to which people swear these days is higher than in the past. Or at least, certainly the degree to which they swear in media is substantially higher than it was in the past. Like there was a time where no swearing on TV for example. Like I'm literally listening to an audiobook right now where they swear, just fluently. So the book is basically like they're in a digital world or whatever and their player feeds are being recorded and made into a TV show. And the person who does the editing or whatever, or the publisher, they're like, oh yeah, we've got a bunch of complaints about how much you guys swear. And the character's like, what? People still care about fucking swearing in TV? That's fucking crazy. It's like yeah, we should ignore these, it's fine. And the world is set 30 years in the future or something. YouTube Kids is on the fire recently in the US government realm because the content outside of ads has become more geared towards direct product placement rather than having it through ads. YouTube is probably lowering the content restrictions against because content at some point for kids might be... Yeah I guess that would happen wouldn't it? These huge channels making this really easy to make content. I guess when they lose the ad revenue from YouTube, they would go into making their own deals with various different child friendly products or whatever. Yeah I guess that makes sense. I haven't heard about this before but just thinking about that, yeah, it's not like child channels are going to go quietly into the night, you know. They would do what they can to get their revenue back. At this point YouTube is kind of a shit show. YouTube is the best it's ever been. I feel as though sometimes people forget how things were and only focus on the negatives of what currently exists. More people are making a living on YouTube than ever before. Demonetizations are at an all time low and pocalypses haven't happened in years. It's uh, I'm supposed you can count the child thing but that's not exactly YouTube so... Well I mean kind of. I mean YouTube could have proactively thought about these issues and prevented that so yeah, I guess that is a dead... |
| 18. August 2022 | YouTube's most replayed feature was stolen from another website | Because it doesn't matter who I'm with, I'm screwed regardless. And even though their support initially was garbage, at least in the end, they did give me the information I needed. YouTube's most replayed feature was stolen from another website. Some of you may have seen on the bottom of videos now. Yes, I have been watching a bunch of Helluva Boss and that's why it recommends me the videos. Don't judge me, it's a good show. Okay, so you can see here on the bottom where it says most replayed and places where people have replayed the most and da da da. This feature is cool, but I think its main function is just to skip over sponsors. Like how often are you like looking at a video and being like, oh that's where it's mostly played, I'm gonna watch that as well. Maybe sometimes, but for any video where there's a sponsor, this no longer has any purpose and it's just a huge massive peak where the sponsor is. I find that really funny. I still think it's a very good feature. Copied from Pornhub? Really? I have been on Pornhub and I haven't- Ah, maybe. Maybe I haven't noticed this feature. Huh. Well, they should copy more stuff from Pornhub, like having porn on YouTube. Come on now. A do- |
| 08. April 2023 | YouTuber Kwite falsely accused and strikes back with a vicious defense. | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Rambles Podcast, starting with a topic YouTuber K. White falsely accused, strikes back with a vicious defense. Sorry this topic's a bit old now, I got skipped over by accident. So roughly two weeks ago, some allegations came out against the creator Kawais. So me and Kawais have never interacted in any capacity, but we follow each other on Twitter. Why? I don't know. Well, rather, he's liked some tweets that I've done, I've liked some tweets he's done, but we've never like directly spoken. But I got recommended this video two weeks ago. Kawais just got cancelled, and it talks about how a person came forward to talk about and some experiences they had with this creator four or five years ago. How they accuse Kawais of committing every terrible thing under the sun. I mean sexual assault is probably like the main claim, but also just gaslighting and not caring about people and using people and all this stuff. Like everything that you can possibly imagine a content creator could be accused of. Kawais was accused of. And so for two weeks Kawais was like dragged on Twitter. It got a lot of traction. This person's accusations got like 80,000 likes. There were a lot of like cancel Kawais hashtags going everywhere. Anyone who follows me don't support Kawais. This is the most disgusting stuff I've ever heard. So I watched this video and I was like, I don't really know this person. I know what to think about this. I'm just going to leave it, right? I did end up going to my Twitter and I considered unfollowing the dude. Cause I was like, maybe my small association with this guy could blow up in my face. But I didn't unfollow him because I'm like, that's just silly, right? I don't know if this is true. We'll just see what happens. We'll wait until he speaks out about such things and gives his side of the story. And there were a lot of people on Twitter saying the exact same thing. Like, look, maybe we shouldn't jump to conclusions. Let's see what this guy has to say. And so yesterday Kawais released his video giving his side of the story. The response was overwhelmingly positive. And it's got 2 million views. You can see people on Twitter now being like, all the people who were against Kawais silenced. Everyone deleting old tweets saying that Kawais was a bad person. Cause he clears his name in the most brutal, honest, brave fashion I've ever seen. These are my impressions that I had after I watched the video. Hey mate, I'm unsure how to communicate this given that we are relative strangers, but I found your video in response to the allegations made against you to be incredibly brave, convincing and well presented. Given how emotionally overwhelmed I felt by the time I reached the end, I cannot imagine what it must have been like to put it together over the weeks since you were accused, along with dealing with the accusations themselves. I am sorry for what has happened to you and I hope that your words can spread and lift the stain that has been wrongly placed upon your name. While I will avoid commenting about the situation publicly on Twitter, as I do not want to potentially settle you with the negativity associated with my own brand, I will bring up your video in my Rambles series on the odd chance some of my viewers may have been too quick to judge and distanced themselves to the degree that they will not see your response. I hope the positive response to your words will rekindle your desire to continue being a YouTuber. If not, I wish you all the best in whatever other avenues you take in life. All the best. Like, hopefully from that you can see that I found this very convincing and emotionally overwhelming that a person could deal with that much stuff and that much negativity. Like, this dude was being called a rapist from every corner of the internet by so many people and apparently these accusations didn't just come out two weeks ago, they kind of built up over time. Like, these claims were made by disingenuous people based on false information and there was largely nothing he could do about it. This dude previously was a faceless creator. Like, he used a mask, sunglasses, a hoodie, he didn't want to be revealed and this person who made up all these false accusations against him revealed his face for the world to see. They revealed very private things about him that he clearly didn't want to reveal and to clear his name he further had to reveal things that no one should have to reveal to the public. The person accusing quite seemed mentally unwell. A habitual liar in the grossest way possible. And the person, when this response came, like went on Twitter and like doctored some medical certificate or something to pretend that they were having some episode or something. I didn't want to look at it, it was just really, really gross. His accuser was a, as you say, a manipulative liar and a serial abuser emotionally. Yeah, I'm not communicating well how insane the person accusing quite comes off in this video. He comes with like receipts everywhere, like message logs from so long ago, dredging up like terrible things in his past. Like, I just can't tell you how much respect I have for this dude and how sad I felt by the end of this video knowing he had to do all this at all. He seemed like just such a nice guy who was treated the worst possible ways by this person and then the wider internet based on him doing nothing wrong at all. I highly recommend just watching the video. You gotta wonder, like even with him clearing his name in this way, will every person who distanced themselves from him hear about it? Will every person take the time to watch an hour and a half video? Of course not. Although you would think that the average person who just hears about this in passing is probably going to hear the overwhelmingly positive response to Quiet's attempt to correct the record and will therefore conclude from that like, oh, I guess the accusations were bullshit, right? If you aren't willing to do the legwork yourself, you kind of just end up following the herd wherever they're leading, right? But certainly there are still going to be many people who believed his accuser and it doesn't matter what Quiet says, they will still believe them. And how damaging that would be to see all the time, like I can't imagine. Like I have a hard enough time with the people who sincerely believe that I think watching other people's YouTube videos is the same as date rape. Like people ironically believe that of me. As silly as that sounds, people will convince themselves of just the dumbest things imaginable. And that's distressing for me. I can't imagine what this guy feels like. It's a sad event that's fortunately has as happy an ending as could be for Quiet, I suspect. I feel like his uncancellation created more noise than his cancellation to begin with. I don't know. I normally say it is in your best interest just to not respond and not apologize for anything. Even if you're innocent, the people who like you will like you regardless and just assume good things about you. And the people who hate you will just continue to hate you and nothing will change, right? You just give the people who want to tear you down more ammunition. But in cases like this, where there is some serious traction with some serious allegations, like the, as I say, the original tweet had like 80,000 likes and I guess hundreds of thousands of views. In situations like this, if you are innocent, it makes sense to make a response, right? Even while, yes, he would bring more attention to the accusations themselves, given how thoroughly, thoroughly he demolishes them, it was obviously in his best interest to speak out. But you can see in situations, for example, Logan Paul, when he was accused by Coffeezilla of running a scam with NFTs, Logan Paul coming out and like trying to defend himself and say, oh, these accusations are nonsense, blah, blah, blah. That did not help him at all. It just gave a bunch of channels more fuel to make more videos dunking on him, drawing more attention to the accusations against him. But part of the reason for that is that he was guilty. Had Logan Paul been able to defend himself and show that the accusations were false, potentially those videos would have made sense. But they still would have, regardless of what he said, added fuel to the fire and given people more content for more videos on all the commentary channels, right? Whether or not you should make a response probably depends on the degree of traction the accusations have. Even if you're innocent, in some cases, it is not worth the time or the possibility of giving false accusations more air to respond. But if they've already got legs, everyone's already asking for a response, potentially tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people who have seen them already. At that point, if you are innocent, maybe it makes sense to do a response. The worst apology I have ever seen has to be the Atriox apology. Not that he had anything to justify the damage that had been done, but still having his wife cry in the background just seems so air. That is a good example of a time when, had Atriox said nothing, it would have blown over in like a week. But the thing that gained the most traction wasn't simply what he did, which for those who don't know was looking at deep fake porn of female Twitch streamers, a website that hosted this deep fake non-consensual pornography of even people that he knew. Not that he was necessarily looking at that material, but just he was on the site in general. Like that story, while sensational, was not as sensational as the clips of him crying with his wife in the background, also crying while apologizing. That went everywhere on Twitter. Tweets with hundreds of thousands of likes. It just gave people more stuff to talk about, to write articles about, to criticize. And you can imagine he wouldn't have done such an apology had he realized that people were talking about it more than simply in his little circle. He probably just didn't realize how mainstream the story was. Like everyone was talking about it. Even people who know nothing about Twitch. It was on every major publication in mainstream media. The apology would have been better if he said the same thing in a constructed format, in an edited YouTube video. People would have not cared about it that much. I agree. If at any point you are going to respond to accusations or try to present an accounting for yourself of things that you've done, it is always best to do that in the most structured way possible. Where you can control the exact words that you're saying, so you don't inadvertently say or do something that can be taken out of context or communicate something that you don't intend. Because for example, I did not watch the entire livestream of Atriac apologizing. For all I know, like that clip that went viral is an aberration. It's a thing that did not represent the entire livestream. Maybe his wife was just there for that minute. She was walking in to pat him on the head or something and walk out. And the whole livestream maybe gave a better accounting for himself. I don't know. And I'll never know. And even if I was more interested, which I wasn't particularly, obviously the overwhelming vast majority of people are never going to find out that information even if that's the case. Oh, to be clear, I'm not saying the livestream in any way vindicated him. I'm just saying that there's a reality where that could have been the case. I did learn more about what he was saying in the livestream. Where as you say there, he did say a lot of other things that made it come off like he was being disingenuous or trying to justify himself in ways that weren't appropriate. |
| 28. November 2022 | YouTuber attacks me for not reading donations. | Am I? YouTuber attacks me for not reading donations. Beatsdown, a YouTuber, wrote a community post a couple of days ago. Just been told about DarkFiberEU watching my How to Spew on Keio Purikko in under 30 minutes guide, as he was trying to learn how to do it. He spent at least an hour going through the preparations. I then joined his stream, and pointed out he didn't read a message from a guy who donated, so he mutes me. Needless to say, he and the chat got everything else wrong that he was meant to do during the finale. LOL. Everything about this is a lie. Down here, aha! I've achieved the impossible. I never want to go through that entrance again. You too, Shark. Thank you for 12 bucks and all the donors. Thank you for being here. Thank you for the kindness. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, so should've gotten in at the front. I really as well. Armageddon, Aaron, thank you guys. Hope you're all doing great. Thank you. So, one, two, three more parts left, chat. Uh-oh. I need the cutting torch. I don't think that's available for me. How do I make the cutting torch available for me, chat? I have to go back to the island. Ah, shit. Well, how do I do that? Hope you have a good day. Hope you have a good day. Any tips for getting all achievements in online and story? Good medals, numero, you know, et cetera. Yeah, you can keep spamming, discover the drainage tunnel, how do I go back to the island? So, once more, how do I pick gather intel? What's the button? Screen? Oh! God damn, I hate the buttons in this game. It's like this. Oh, okay. Well, that's going to cost me quite a bit of time then. Get a cycle and drive uphill? Where are these bicycles? Imagine doing someone who doesn't bother reading chat 99% of the time, beats? Because I don't just mute beats. I read chat so fucking much. I read like half the messages in chat. Go fuck yourself. You don't deserve to be read in chat. Fuck you. I was not learning from his how to speedrun Keir Perico in under 30 minutes guide, because even as ignorant as I was prior to starting the stream, I knew his guide was massively out of date. I was learning from the world record and getting information from the world record holder. I had multiple runs that I was going through. The video from his channel that I was looking at before I begun was how to make the jobs on the map that you can warp to. But someone quickly pointed out in chat that, hey, no, you don't need to make those yourself. You can just get all the bookmarks from the website. I was like, oh, and then there was no more after that. This is way out of date. No one should use it. What he says here, I pointed out he didn't read a message from a guy who donated, so he mutes me. What he actually said was, imagine donating to someone who doesn't read chat 99% of the time. That was his message. And he's like, I got muted because I said he didn't read a message from somebody who donated. This is what I mean when I say when people get banned from chat and you listen to why they think they got banned, they either will just outright lie or misunderstand entirely. Like he just joined the stream by his own admission. He has no fucking idea how much I read chat or don't. And like I read chat all the fucking time. But obviously when you're speed running or trying to learn something, you can't read chat at every nanosecond. And what was funny is I saw his message in order to mute him personally. So you can tell that I do read chat. If his premise was true that I don't read chat all that much, I wouldn't have caught his message. His very complaining disproves what he said in chat. And like look at how many comments he gets compared to likes. From what I remember, you didn't just point out that Matt didn't see a donor. You made a passive aggressive comment directed to the people who donate to Matt. He's delusional. No, but imagine donating to someone who doesn't read chat 99%. He's just doubled down. He just doubled down. He just doubles down on it. He literally read chat all the time though. He even read your message in chat. But is he supposed to respond to every single thing someone says? Can you blame him for also paying attention during a speed run? You were being passive aggressive as fuck. And now you're crying about it. You weren't pointing out something. You're trying to ridicule people in his chat, which is disrespectful. Which is true. Why ridicule people for donating to my stream? I read every message that goes there. I just can't read them immediately when they pop up. I mean people used to compliment me for literally reading every single message that I used to get in chat when I first started speedrunning. Even when I had a thousand viewers. But when you're learning something, it takes far more concentration to move along. It's not like speedrunning back in the old days, as I used to say, where there would be heaps of downtime and all I would do is read chat. Why is this serious? Because this is actually a YouTuber. I mean one who clearly isn't going that well. But you're right. Maybe this is punching down to a degree. But I just say this is the level of delusion that you get from people. The near six hour climax. I don't think you know what a climax is. Something you and DV have in common with the opposite sex. I imagine. He was just trying to be helpful guys. He's not being vindictive and mean at all. He just got muted because you know, he was just just kindly trying to point something out. Did you think it's funny that he watched all the tips and tricks I gave him in the video? No, I didn't. Because the first thing you do when you start speedrunning is you watch the world record. Like why would I talk or watch a guide from some random person whose strats are massively outdated when I can just like talk to the person who actually has world record. I've just peppered this guy with questions. He's been kind enough to respond to me. In the job warp setup video, it said the professional sucks. And I thought that might be a meme. I was actually going to ask the professional about it. But apparently he's also started beef with a professional. I didn't start the beef. I just pointed out that he muted me after I mentioned him not reading my message. People pay him to read. What are you? I can't do it. I don't read donations. I don't reach out either. What a devastatingly delusional person. He's just a cloud chaser. As I constantly point out, there's no amount of criticizing or throwing shade at larger creators that ever helps a person. It could be possible that he could be that delusional to think that. But I don't think that's the case most of the time. Cloud chasing through just mindless criticism or whatever in a person's chat, it's not going to work. I don't think that's what he's doing there. But popping into a chat for two seconds and immediately saying something that you can't possibly know that is completely irrational, then going to your viewers and lying about what happened and then commenting on my sexual prowess or whatever the fuck he was doing there, he's clearly not a person who's just reasonably trying to look at situations and assess the truth. Because I do read literally every single donation message that I get. And I read with chat all the time. Like anyone who could watch a stream would know that. But it's not about what's true. It's demonizing me and this guy's mind to justify his bidness. But it's just like me of all people to have this criticism against. Like it's just so funny because I read more comments on my YouTube channel than like any person alive. I have like some of the highest levels of chat. |
| 02. June 2021 | YouTuber baffled that I do all my clips manually | YouTube baffled that I do all my clips manually. I had a person contact me yesterday on Twitter. His Fortnite content creator looked like a fairly big dude. Grew some success with shorts, right? And he was somewhat inspired by my clips channel in how he was doing things. But he didn't understand how I was able to release so many clips and stuff. So he contacted me, he wanted to know what process I did. And he assumed and hoped it was some sort of an automated process or a simple thing that I do. He didn't expect that I just manually do it all. That I spend two to three hours a day uploading those clips. Wish I had an easy solution for him, but it's very hard to get something automated that is as good as doing it manual. It's just usually the automated thing just saves you time or whatever, right? You sacrifice some level of quality for the massive saving of time so that you can dedicate that time to stuff that's more important. But in this case, that doesn't seem to be possible. There are automated things that will actually scan your VODs and look for moments where the chat has been really active or something, suggest that something really cool has happened and will make clips in those moments and give them to you for you to upload. But obviously that's not going to get everything that you really want. It's not going to really edit it perfectly for you. You still have to do the editing. What I'm saying is there's certainly ways to make it easy on yourself through automated processes or like what I do. I pay couch. Well, in one part of the process, I have couch go through a thousand clips from the stream at a time and I pay him to cut them down. So I only have to go through, you know, 200 or whatever. How long have I been doing that now? Like six months or something. I've uploaded over three thousand three hundred clips and made over three thousand three hundred thumbnails and titles. I think the average time I spend on a clip is about four minutes. So I've definitely got it streamlined. Like clips that I take from my videos, I don't have to edit all that much, as in they're already edited and I just usually take them as they are from the video. The clips from Twitch, though, I do have to edit, but I usually use the YouTube editor for that, so it's not that time consuming. I'm surprised to see how well the clips channel is still doing. It's even recently within the last week or so I've seen a bit of a resurgence where the subs have once again climbed and as have the viewers. But it is still like half of what it was three months ago. That's the thing about doing something successfully. It will lead people to notice and try to do the same thing you're doing, which of course will saturate things. Not that I'm forcing people for doing that, because obviously I do the same thing. It's just the nature of you can get in early on something, but eventually everyone else will catch up as well. Oh, I did find out though yesterday that Shorts actually came out in September in India specifically. So we in the West hadn't heard of YouTube Shorts. Shorts vote out much, much later to other regions. But like India is a place where everyone has mobile phones. Like the main way that people interface with the internet and stuff is mobile phones. So that was obviously the place that YouTube was going to do Shorts first. And when I noticed that Short Clips were doing well on YouTube, it was in October. So clearly YouTube was not only releasing Shorts in India, but was tweaking the algorithm at the same time. And eventually the changes were noticeable on the platform around October. And that's when I took notice and started uploading clips. I was under the impression that the success of Short Form content came before Shorts. That's not the case. It came before Shorts in the West, but not in India. I'm Indian. I have no idea what Shorts are. I mean, whether they're being successful in that region is a separate question. But YouTube first made Shorts with the goal of replacing like TikTok and stuff. Because wasn't TikTok banned in India, at least for a short time or something? And that may have spurred them even more to take an interest in combating TikTok or all that taking some market share in that Short Form content. It's still banned? Well, yeah, I'm sure they already had the goal of trying to capitalize on people's desire for Short Form content. But with that ban, it likely caused them to go, oh, we need to get into gear and try to take some of this market share. |
| 28. December 2019 | YouTuber is the most desired career | for the average viewer. YouTube is the number one job that young people want to have. I heard today that the job that people most want to have is YouTuber. You think that's true? Like, imagine that's true, right? Like the quality of life of a YouTuber. It's just so different from content creator to content creator, right? There's some content creators who kind of just hang out and get like fuck tons of views and shit. And there are other content creators who are like, you know, like imagine being Kyrgyzstan or whatever, reading dozens upon dozens of books, reading research papers, long arduous processes of related animation and stuff, and dozens of people being involved and stuff. I guess very different from like, you know, 17 YouTube who are just like recording their lives going, hey, guys, what up? And get like 10 million views. There are definitely some YouTubers you'd rather be than than others. You know what I'm saying? Like, I think every type of YouTube content that you can make where you can gain some level of success has its downsides, right? Usually the content that is easiest to make, it has the least ability for a person to maintain their popularity long term because just because more and more people go, wait a second, this is very easy to make. And so endless other people jump into that on that same bandwagon. Like, not everyone can be Kyrgyzstan, you know, or like not everyone can be primitive technology. I'm sure there's other people doing similar things. It's it's a harder thing to get into. But anyone can play Fortnite. That's not everyone can make Fortnite interesting in terms. |
| 28. September 2021 | YouTubers deleting their account due to scam | YouTube is deleting their account because of a scam. So I only heard a bit about it in passing. I actually had a person DM me on Discord and tell me about this, first I heard about it. I saw a little bit of it on the WAN show with Linus and whatnot. Linus and Luke, obviously. All I know is that apparently scammers found a way to basically reroute their emails through a Google domain, making it look effectively indistinguishable from it coming from, like it made it look as if it was actually coming from Google itself. And so it tricked a handful of larger channels to cause them to delete their AdSense account. I wonder why, like what does a scammer get out of that, having a person delete their AdSense account? Like the scammer's basically claimed, oh, you've got two AdSense accounts, you need to delete one or it's having issues or whatever. What do they get out of that chat? They use Google chat, which sends a notification directly from Google, yeah. For fun, for the lols? Oh, weird. I mean, like my first question was, don't they have contacts at Google? Like I'm scared of like accidentally pressing the delete button on anything. And if anyone asked me, even Google, to delete something, the first thing I would do is ask my managers, like, hey, have you heard about this? Is this a thing? Can you talk to whoever you have at YouTube? I have other people that I can email from YouTube, because YouTube is much better than they were years ago. Like if you're at a certain size, you have at least someone you can talk to. There's multiple people that I can email now. To what degree they can help me with anything or who they have to talk to, whatever. But I can at least talk to people. Like I would definitely get a second opinion. Like anyone can get taken in by a scam. And I'm not, like, I don't know enough details. Maybe it was really, really good. But I'm just a pretty cautious person. And I'm afraid of fucking up my channel at the best of times. I can't imagine how convincing a person would have to be to have me delete anything related to my YouTube channel. I mean, without talking to my managers or talking to another person at Google. May I watch a video about it later? Yeah, I hear Jim Browning, the person who got dumb, was the person who talks about all the scams and stuff. So maybe it was really good, I don't know. But yeah, where you can talk to people at YouTube. Yeah, so for a very long time, YouTube was heavily criticized for having like no communication mechanisms between the YouTubers themselves and Google, YouTube, whatever. And it seems over the years, they've built out this group within Google or YouTube, whatever, that specifically exists to talk to the other departments and content creators. So you bring your complaint to this group and that group then pings the other parts of the company to try to get information as to what's going on for you. Often what will happen is I can get an immediate response from this group and then it will take like many more days before they're actually able to get information from the involved parties. Like when I had issues with the editor on YouTube, for example, and I need to find out why that was or what have you. Like often, the thing that sucks the most when you have a problem is just feeling as though you're unheard. Just getting a response of any kind from someone who is at least somewhat tangentially involved in your problem, whatever, is always a thing that is very- |
| 20. December 2021 | YouTubers promoting politicians | You know? YouTubers promoting politicians. What do you think about YouTubers promoting politicians? It's totally their business, and it's probably a good thing too. There is something commendable to me about, even if I disagree with it, with their positions, if you have some confidence that a particular policy or a politician getting into power would lead to better outcomes for society or something, if you said nothing, it wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, but it's probably a good thing for you to do it. Like I was saying, it's brave in the sense that you're taking on risk with very little chance for reward, and you're seeking to improve your society. Kind of thing. It's like, hey, yeah, maybe people will give me shit for doing this, but I might be the deciding difference in making things better, so I'm gonna do it anyway. It seems like a cool thing. As in, I'm not saying you're wrong for not doing this, but I think it's okay to do, and it's probably a brave thing to do. |
| 18. December 2019 | YouTube’s Changes to demonetization | or adult advertisers, like people who are fine with having advertisements on edgy content. So content will basically never be demonetized, it will just be put into a situation where there will be advertisers specifically for that kind of content. It makes sense for YouTube to go in this direction considering that a lot of the revenue that they used to get from targeted ads towards kids is now going away. Certainly there won't be as much money to be made in that edgy domain. It's a perfectly sensible move for them and it's going to help everyone really. And it's obviously not going to be an amazing amount of money. I'm sure the CPM for edgy content will still be quite low, but it's going to be more than simply zero. Didn't HowToBasics say on one of his videos that was demonetized that had like 80 million views or something, he got like $80. That kind of thing will go away. So he'll actually get something for that, which is clearly a very good thing. Hope it goes up over time. You have to imagine that as TV continues to decline, the CPM will just continue to get better for YouTube as advertisers move their dollars more towards where the eyeballs are. What country is it best to live in if you are a live streamer? What's the best country for streaming? It depends on whether you're saying like, what's the best country for like in what country you're watching or watching on YouTube, but it depends on whether you're actually doing |
| 26. October 2022 | YouTube’s ad algorithm tests your patience. | YouTube's ad algorithm tests your patience. Look at how many ads that YouTube wants to stick in this. It won't actually give you an ad on every one of these spots. From what I've heard, it's like an algorithm that calculates how many ads you can stomach. So it'll like test you and like give you an ad every two minutes and then you go, I'm fucking sick of this shit. And then you leave the platform and YouTube's like, oh no, best not give him that many ads in the future. And then it learns. It learns your tolerances chat. There, I halved the amount of ads chat. May hurt the video or something in YouTube's eyes. Who cares? |
| 01. November 2022 | YouTube’s best hidden new feature | YouTube's best hidden new feature. So there's a new feature on YouTube chat. It's not immediately obvious, so you might miss it. So all the other features that you update were cosmetic except for this one. So if you scroll somewhere now, it says pull up for precise seeking. Look at that. It gives you thumbnails, or like still frames rather, of the exact space that you're trying to scroll to. So you can be really more precise. Ain't that cool? |
| 01. June 2020 | Young kids and smartphones | What do you think about very young kids, 4-8, having unlimited access to the internet and having a phone? I have never raised kids. I do not know how to raise kids. I'm not an expert in developmental psychology. I took like one unit. I do not know the effects that such a thing would have on kids necessarily. I don't know about your kids. Kids are very different, very different places. I would assume that limiting your child's access to certain forms of content and to preferably positive influences would seem to be a good thing. I can't imagine how you would want a child 4-8 years old looking at anything and everything on the internet or listening to anything and everything on the internet. That's just my take coming from complete ignorance. |
| 07. February 2022 | Your ability to mess with people as a large content creator. | Funny though, once you get to a certain size of content creator, even things that are very, very rare, probably are happening all the time while you're streaming. Like, you can guarantee every single time that Dream is streaming, like one of his viewers is having sex or something. And he's just in the background. Probably doesn't happen very often, but like, just, you've got 300,000 people watching you. Probably happens at least once. Every single time, like, see what I just said there before, about you being in a coma and you should wake up? If you had 300,000 people watching you, there would at least be one person who was sitting there being like, I wonder if I'm in a coma, and this is all an illusion, how would I know? And then you just, then the stream would be like, look, you're in a coma, please wake up. And how freaked out would you be, just for a moment? You know? I would like to get to that level of success. Screw with people sometimes, you know? But you just see random stuff sometimes. Mark! You were meant to do the dishes, you promised your mother, do it, okay? And then there'd be one guy named Mark, sometimes, who actually promised to do the dishes, but like, wait, wait, wait, wait, what? How do you know? |
| 18. December 2021 | Your blood type affecting your personality | Your blood type affecting your personality. I should take all my drugs and stuff. Didn't take them today because I went to get a blood test. What is my blood type? What are you, Japanese? It's weird, right? That like every culture has their weird oddities, like their supernatural stuff and their ultimate medicine stuff. You can just go dive down deep into like these beliefs that you would expect to be something from a movie, but like some culture actually believes them or believe them in the past. And like your blood influencing your personality is a weird one from Japan. Like not all Japanese believe it of course, but it's like half the population or something. Like it's why when you look at anime, it'll detail like the blood type of the character. Like obviously there's no science that supports it, but there's a person or two who has made a lot of money making such claims. It's also a bit of that whole self-fulfilling prophecy thing. If you learn your blood type and they tell you, well these people with that blood type act this way, and it influences you how you act, you know? And of course confirmation bias is a thing. If you believe that a person's blood type influences their personality, and they tell you their blood type, then you'll be motivated moving forward to interpret that person as conforming to your already pre-existent beliefs. Like everyone knows that Pisces are sassy barkers, chat. And that's why I'm a sassy barker, because I'm a Pisces. |
| 05. January 2022 | Your current feelings of success is relative to those around you | Your current feelings of success is relative to those around you. Chat, why is nothing ever enough? Like, I am successful. I don't need to be successful as Smollens or Point Crow or Ludwig. I can be just really, really successful. Not really, really, really, really successful, you know? It's human nature, always want more. It's just that feeling of growing, of getting bigger, of getting success, is always relative to where you are. As you go from 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 to 5 to 6, the growth has got to be as significant as before for you to get the same feeling. Do I feel I'm not growing fast enough? I'm not a person obsessed with growth. It is nice to feel like I'm getting bigger doing stuff. I don't know, man, it's just when I get stuck on projects like this, I just doubt myself and I think about everything, you know? |
| 20. July 2022 | Your normal isn’t necessarily everyone else’s | Your normal isn't necessarily everyone else's. Like imagine that you live your entire life being unaware your normal is not everyone else's normal. I saw someone say that recently right where a certain percentage of people have like almost like static over their eyesight. Like they can see fine but it's like a staticky TV. So there's like little flecks and stuff in their vision all the time. And people just assume this is how everyone is until they learn that this is something that only affects like a small portion of people. Here's an example for me. When I see lights they have like they like spike out in different directions. Because I have astigmatism in my eyes. I have contacts that corrects it but it's never exactly perfect. I didn't know for my life that this is not what lights look like to most people. And we all have these kind of things you know. |
| 30. November 2020 | Youtube Forcing Ads On Smaller Channels | I can understand why he'd be nervous about that. I hope it continues to work for him. YouTube forcing ads on small channels and not paying them. What's your opinion on YouTube putting ads on small channels and not paying them? It's pretty scummy. I mean, what other opinion do you think I'm gonna have? They made the standards that you need to get monetization higher and even remove monetization from some channels. And now they're putting the ads on there not giving them any kind of a cut. To be honest though, clearly the amount of money that YouTube is making from these smaller channels is, you know, like if they don't have ads on they're just losing money on them. People are effectively just using YouTube as free storage for their videos. And that's not really fair to YouTube now, is it? But I mean, it's not like Google is starved for money. It just seems unnecessary. Especially when you have like videos that may be, it may be insensitive to have ads on them. A person's funeral. Graduation, special moments, whatever. So basically I can see why YouTube, Google would be motivated to make this change. But I can understand why people who, you know, people wouldn't be happy with it. There is no benefit of this change for creators or consumers. It's only for YouTube and Google's benefit. So why would anyone be happy about it except YouTube and Google? Opinion on Twitch's copyright system? |
| 20. October 2020 | Youtube and the ‘c-word’ | I was surprised to learn that YouTube considers Australian word to be as bad a word as The F word that's a slur to homosexuals and the N word that's a slur to black people I suppose the second explanation is unnecessary. There's only one N word, but there's more more Profanity that starts with F. It just seems so weird to me You've got one word that historically and even in current day is used to Persecute a minority and another word that is used Historically and today to persecute a minority and then you have the word Australian word which has no real meaning at all or historical significance and they're like these are the same thing I've heard that America cares about the C word a lot and I don't understand why maybe Americans can explain to me Is there some historicalness of the word that I'm just not getting as to why Americans are weird in this regard Because women but people call other people pussies without any issue people call each other dicks and assholes and Australian word occasionally is used to mean Pussy in like rare context, but it's clearly not its main association This may sound weird to you guys, but when a person calls another person an asshole or a bastard or a dick they're not actually referring to the body parts or In regards to bastard the marital status of their parents. That's not how these words are used in the current context they are general pejoratives or Exclamations of frustration. They don't actually mean anything. We're just learning that two slurs on on the same level to YouTube as The C word which has no meaning was just baffling to me Originally when my video was demonetized, I thought it was because I used The C word But no idea that wasn't the case if you're comparing the badness of two words and you won't even say one of them That's the worst word. Yeah, I remember that wasn't that um, what's worse the n-word or cracker? That's some news reporter whatever twitch's trial of mid-vote ads |
| 18. July 2022 | Youtube demonetizing reactors? | YouTube demonetizing reactors? There was a meme going around that said YouTube is internally disgusting turning off monetization of react content and there's a little guy underneath that says so I can no longer make money off other people's work and YouTube responds yes. The second I saw this what I thought was what how do people know what YouTube is talking about internally? I'm gonna look up and see if this is an article couldn't find the article I'm like well this is definitely fake and it's a meme but people said it to me everywhere and people spoke about it as if it was real which surprises me because I would think most people would just Google and try to find the article to make sure it's true especially considering the format but apparently not. What interested me more was that the original post got like 30,000 upvotes again suggesting that the a significant amount of people at least do understand the bullshit nature of the react economy on social media. Apparently even Asmongold had this in his reddit thing. I have the footage somewhere as well as other times he's talked about react content but like I'll get to it eventually. It's a lot of really brain-dead shit which is not surprising because it's Asmongold but I don't want to address it now. I don't want the conversation to end about react content and so I will bring it up again every couple of months or whatever just a video or something but right now I you know want to get my shit sorted out doing my iceberg and all that jazz. But Asmongold have the most brain dead opinion on it not really worth it but I mean that's that's the reason why you do it is to show the lack of foundation that people who support react content have. Obviously you don't make videos like that to convince reactors what they're doing is wrong like who the fuck wakes up of a day and goes I'm doing a good thing by re-uploading seven people's videos to my YouTube channel. No one's really like that. Asmongold only cares about Asmongold and his assessment of things is does it benefit me? Yes. Can I get away with it? Yes. Then I'm gonna do it. Be damned the consequences to anyone else. And he's always been this way. I used to watch his content back in the day. It was funny watching him just spout off bad things that he knew nothing about and now apparently he just bans anyone in chat who disagrees with him which is not really surprising when you get to that kind of level. Unless you have literally just spent your time listening to the lies said by reactors, a general curse review of one guy spending a month on a video and another guy stealing that same video in half an hour like anyone can recognize the exploitative nature of that arrangement. One guy sitting around stealing 12 videos that took each a month to make for years worth of labor and everyone else spending that month to make those videos that's not a good deal right? Obviously that's exploitative. While I doubt YouTube is gonna make a change on their end, it does at least show that people haven't forgotten how bullshit it is. When I go to Google it shows me like one news story that its algorithm believes I would want to see and it always shows me a streaming story usually from Dex Decoro. What's that website called? No, Dex. I don't know. And the one it showed me today was that Asmon is apparently gonna be largely quitting playing video games and he's just gonna be reacting to stuff full time and that doesn't surprise me because he is a scum fuck but it does make me want to step up the production of that second video where I talk about Asmon Gold's defenses for react content and how laughably stupid they are. But for one thing I can't because of the echo in my room but also because I want to do my iceberg first. So I guess a month or two until I can do that I suppose. Why I... |
| 12. February 2023 | Youtube disapproved my burned chest photo. | YouTube disapproved of my burns chest photo. It was actually funny to me. I wonder if the post of it I did on YouTube got suppressed. So normally what happens is, anything I put on Twitter gets far fewer likes than it gets on my community posts. Because I just have more people on YouTube. So this got 4,000, but it only got 1.3 on YouTube. And like me just writing some text got 4K. And my VOD channel got 4K. I like 6K. Like this is the lowest post I've done in a long time. They didn't have a link in it. This isn't me complaining. It's more just me thinking about the mechanics of YouTube. I wonder if the algorithm can detect that this has got like a lot of skin in it. And they're like, hmm, this could be a nude image. Let's like suppress this a bit. Possibly. Either that or more people on YouTube are revolted by me not having a shirt on. Either way. In this business, it always pays to like look for irregularities and try to figure out what's going on. |
| 19. November 2022 | Youtube doesn’t let me unban my viewers. | YouTube doesn't let me unban my viewers. I do have a YouTube representative, yes. My contact has changed over the years. The most recent one is the most communicative of any representative I've ever had. His name's Alex. At the end of the day though, he is like, he just represents YouTube. It's not like he can personally go into the back end of YouTube and change the algorithm or change stuff. He has contacts with the different departments at YouTube. And so he is a source of information and I can ask him to ask the different parts of YouTube if I want something done. And often the answer will be no. He ain't the CEO. But it's obviously nice to have at least someone that you can email when you want to be like, this doesn't make any sense. For example, I emailed him yesterday and I was like, hey, did you know that the ban list or the muted person list on the back end of YouTube isn't ordered in any particular way? It's not alphabetical. It's not chronological. There's no ordering. So if I refresh the page, it just gives me a random set of 250 people who've been muted. Why is this a problem? I accidentally muted someone. I was like, oh shit, what was their name? Oh, I missed it. Oh, well, that isn't recorded anywhere. Go to the back end. I know, I don't know which one of these people is the person I muted. Fuck. Well, I guess they're screwed now. It's happened twice now. These are two random viewers who did nothing wrong. I just now muted and there's nothing to do about it. |
| 04. March 2022 | Youtube faces for thumbnails. | are YouTube faces for thumbnails. So I've been meaning to do it's harder. So most people in their years on YouTube become very good at doing YouTube faces for thumbnails. Like it's a thing that you practice. I have no experience doing it because I always take pictures of me from the video. So the handful of times that I've had to make pictures, I've had to do the kind of shit. I'm terrible at it, but I mean meaning to improve and get just a bunch of stock versions of my face that I can fucking stick everywhere every time I need it. But I need to reuse them on my mouth. That's a huge pain. |
| 27. November 2020 | Youtube favouring older content | YouTube favoring older content. You love how YouTube is promoting these 12 year old 10 second clips. I have said many times over the years that content that is a year old, two years old, three years old, whatever, it doesn't make it worse content than a video made yesterday. Before YouTube started doing it, I was always saying YouTube's algorithm should favor more content that's already on the platform. And I'm happy they're doing that and it's continued to do that. |
| 26. March 2023 | Youtube is cutting my "Boops" from videos. | final past this episode. Did you just cut out the boop at the end of this video? I responded, no it seems some people videos can end a second early might be device dependent. I don't know if this is just videos that have been edited or not but when I see this video the boop is there. See you in the next episode. Boop. See it's there but I've received enough of these comments that I can confidently say that there is something going on on YouTube's end. So if it seems like the end is cut off by like half a word it might not be like something I've done or something that was done when the videos were edited after the fact using the YouTube editor to remove the outro's remember. It might just be that YouTube has a weird thing with the last second of videos. My brilliance yet under appreciated jokes. So this is another entry in the long... |
| 20. October 2022 | Youtube is now adding handles | It's probably going to be a month or two. YouTube is now adding handles. For example, I'm AskDarkViperAU. I received this email three times. It was sent to each of my channels. Hello, we're wanting to let you know over the coming weeks, YouTube will be introducing handles to make it easier for members of the community to find and communicate with each other. Your handle will be unique to your channel, and will be how people mention you in comments, community posts, and more. You'll receive another email and a notification in YouTube Studio when you're able to choose yours. In most cases, if you already have a personalized URL for your channel, we've reserved this for you as your handle. So, I already have DarkViperAU, so I guess they're just going to give me that. A long time ago, YouTube had its own messaging system. Two different types of them over the time that I've been on YouTube, I believe. And both of them were barely used. I wonder why they're adding this handle feature. Is it just for the livestream possibility? That you guys will now be able to, like, change your name to match what it was on Twitch? Or maybe they're going to roll out some social features on YouTube, as they have tried many times in the past and failed. Like on Twitch, for example, they have a messaging system. And I do use it on rare occasions, and I certainly used them more before I had the Discord. I don't know, maybe, again, this is just YouTube trying to make the transition from Twitch to YouTube as easy for people as possible. |
| 05. March 2023 | Youtube is restricting better quality video settings to YouTube Premium. | YouTube is restricting better quality video settings to YouTube Premium. I saw this both on TikTok and on YouTube via TwoClicksPhilip, but apparently YouTube is trialing a higher bitrate version of their resolution options for videos. So rather than saying 1080p, it will say 1080p Premium, enhanced bitrate. I don't have this available to me, and this is meant to be for YouTube Premium people, and I have YouTube Premium, so obviously they're just trialing it, but I want to know from you guys in chat, do any of you see this? You don't pay for YouTube? Oh yeah, but it'll still show you that even if you don't pay, because they want you to pay for it. The goal is to get more people to jump into YouTube Premium. So no one says they haven't. What would enhanced bitrate even do for the viewers? That's the question. As TwoClicksPhilip talks about in his video here, are they upping the bitrate in a way that you can tell, or is it just going to be like one node, like less compression, or are they reducing the bitrate of normal 1080p, and then you have just like the old normal 1080p becoming this Premium version? No one seems to know what they're doing. It's just a thing that they've gone, here you go. I'm not aware of any documentation from YouTube explaining what this does, and so we're all left clueless. As I was just interested if any of you had an experience with this new feature, and apparently not. So we'll see. Either we'll get extended to more people if it works, and people jump on board YouTube Premium, or they'll get rid of it. I guess we'll find out in the future. They probably want to reduce the bitrate without people noticing. I don't think putting in these sorts of things would cause people to less notice changes in bitrate. Like if they reduced the bitrate by 1%, no one would notice that from day to day. Unless of course you said, hey here's a new feature, we're changing something about the bitrate, examine the bitrate. That is definitely not their goal. Someone just linked me here, apparently. I don't like just to read titles. YouTube says it isn't messing with 1080p. 1080p Premium is higher bitrate. Options currently available to a small group of YouTube Premium subscribers. Provides more information per pixel. Higher quality viewing experience. No changes made to the standard version. This is true. This isn't the first time YouTube has experimented with putting higher quality video behind the Premium paywall. Last year the company ran a test that made it so some people weren't able to access 4K playback, unless they were subscribers. Paid subscribers. A move that garnered a lot of pushback from the community. I forgot about that. However, a lot of that came down to the fact that people were losing something they previously had access to for free. If YouTube truly is keeping the quality for the regular 1080p option at the same time, then the experiment is just adding a perk for paying customers. It is still in a way taking away something though, in that previously all quality options were free. And that people could have the expectation that any additional improvements to quality would come to everyone, in the same way that all prior quality improvements came to everyone. But it is, of course, not taking something that was free previously and putting it behind the paywall, which is obviously better. Twitter... |
| 18. February 2021 | Youtube releases its own version of Twitch clips | YouTube releasing its own version of clips. Did you guys see that YouTube is implementing its own version of clips? It's basically just the same as clips on Twitch, except rather than just linking to the clip, it links to the part of the livestream or upload a video. You can do it with uploaded videos as well, which to be honest with you is far more efficient and better arguably than the Twitch version, except that it doesn't seem to have any way for you to mass download clips that have been made of your content or to even see all the clips that have been made of your content. It's just for viewers to share particular moments. I'm sure someone out there is probably gonna be like, oh man, YouTube is just copying Twitch, but in reality Twitch just stole that feature from OddShott. Twitch just, everyone used to use OddShott to make clips, which is exactly what the Twitch clip thing is, and then Twitch stole that feature and now YouTube is stealing that feature from Twitch. But it just goes to show, over time, YouTube is just going to continue to implement every single feature that Twitch has, and then it's just gonna again come down to which place has the most viewers and the most streamers and whatnot, because you can't even like gift memberships and stuff on YouTube yet. Like on the announcement for this, Valkyrie or whatever her name is, was like, hey, you know, when are we gonna be able to give memberships? I mean YouTube's feature of being able to scroll back a couple of seconds if you miss something is such an amazing feature. How many times have you guys been watching a stream and you've missed something so you've had to click clip in order to make a clip so you can watch the previous 15 seconds or whatever? It's happened to me so many fucking times, which is actually advantageous for me because it makes more clips for my clips channel, but as for a viewing experience, it's not a very good one. Even more infuriating, it sometimes takes so long for VODs to generate on Twitch that if you, even if you go to the VOD to see like the last minute of the stream, it can not be there. Multiple times, even as a content creator, I've wanted to go back in my VOD to see what just happened, that's not that. The VOD system on Twitch is terrible and while Twitch, and while YouTube seems interested in continuing to bridge the gap in features between it and Twitch, Twitch doesn't seem to have any interest in doing the same, which is, does not bode well for the future, that's what I'm saying. YouTube's commitments to not being trash in regards to their live streaming, which I, you know, I don't think they're there yet, but their commitments to that is very obvious, while Amazon's commitments to improving on Twitch is not immediately obvious, you know. |
| 18. February 2021 | Youtube releases its own version of twitch clips | YouTube releasing its own version of clips. Did you guys see that YouTube is implementing its own version of clips? It's basically just the same as clips on Twitch, except rather than just linking to the clip, it links to the part of the livestream or upload a video. You can do it with uploaded videos as well, which to be honest with you is far more efficient and better arguably than the Twitch version, except that it doesn't seem to have any way for you to mass download clips that have been made of your content or to even see all the clips that have been made of your content. It's just for viewers to share particular moments. I'm sure someone out there is probably gonna be like, oh man, YouTube is just copying Twitch, but in reality Twitch just stole that feature from OddShott. Twitch just, everyone used to use OddShott to make clips, which is exactly what the Twitch clip thing is, and then Twitch stole that feature and now YouTube is stealing that feature from Twitch. But it just goes to show, over time, YouTube is just going to continue to implement every single feature that Twitch has, and then it's just gonna again come down to which place has the most viewers and the most streamers and whatnot, because you can't even like gift memberships and stuff on YouTube yet. Like on the announcement for this, Valkyrie or whatever her name is, was like, hey, you know, when are we gonna be able to give memberships? I mean YouTube's feature of being able to scroll back a couple of seconds if you miss something is such an amazing feature. How many times have you guys been watching a stream and you've missed something so you've had to click clip in order to make a clip so you can watch the previous 15 seconds or whatever? It's happened to me so many fucking times, which is actually advantageous for me because it makes more clips for my clips channel, but as for a viewing experience, it's not a very good one. Even more infuriating, it sometimes takes so long for VODs to generate on Twitch that if you, even if you go to the VOD to see like the last minute of the stream, it can not be there. Multiple times, even as a content creator, I've wanted to go back in my VOD to see what just happened, that's not that. The VOD system on Twitch is terrible and while Twitch, and while YouTube seems interested in continuing to bridge the gap in features between it and Twitch, Twitch doesn't seem to have any interest in doing the same, which is, does not bode well for the future, that's what I'm saying. YouTube's commitments to not being trash in regards to their live streaming, which I, you know, I don't think they're there yet, but their commitments to that is very obvious, while Amazon's commitments to improving on Twitch is not immediately obvious, you know. |
| 01. December 2022 | Youtube streaming has made livestreaming interesting again. | interesting again. Honestly, with a lot of things, if you just like change the location that you're doing it, it feels newer and fresh and that can like revitalize your enthusiasm for the thing. That's kind of what happened for streaming for me. It's not like I grew to hate streaming or something, it just it felt so mundane and I felt like I was just bloundering on Twitch. Moving to YouTube, it's felt a bit more fresh. |
| 14. March 2022 | Youtube supporting NFTs, and problems of crypto. | YouTube supporting NFTs and problems of crypto You guys see YouTube's talked about how They would support creators with a new emerging technologies like NFTs fuck that was depressing to hear the allure of selling nothing for something as I think the first time I heard that was from Josh Strife is just so strong that even though there's so much backlash against it from people You know smart enough to recognize the scam that it is Companies will still do their damnedest to her to implement it somehow just for that small portion of people too dumb to recognize the scam And it sucks like I don't know if you guys were here for it. I was so disappointed to hear about lyrics Attempt to scam his viewers had an artist friend and make a bunch of assets and then have them have a algorithm generate 10,000 technically unique images, but in reality they all look the same but just with small different features You know one's purple with a hat one's just purple as these bots Produced that that's how all NFTs are produced With these algorithms and just a bunch of tiny assets and he's like yeah You guys can buy one for $50 each think of it like you know buying a t-shirt It's just like see if you're selling 10,000 for $50 a piece you want your audience to give you half a million dollars For JPEGs, and you're saying this is just like giving them shirts shirts that are made of physical material that have a practical purpose in terms of protecting you from the elements which the enabling you to go out in society that involve like production costs manufacturing delivery and And you're gonna give them JPEGs for 50 bucks apiece, and this is these are equivalent things What a scumbag just how it is man that a law of selling nothing for something is just so strong even otherwise Normally more people will just want that money yes They're not actually well in in lyrics case They may have actually been receiving the JPEG or the rights no they could know even then because the obviously the blockchain does not actually store JPEGs has to be stored somewhere else and you merely get a token that gives you access to that location as opposed to having the JPEG itself, but lyric wasn't using one of the larger exchanges he was using a His own website or whatever which you know causes problems in of itself in that you know his website may eventually go down And then you won't have access to your JPEG through Your link or whatever bit whatever they receive which obviously they're just receiving a token, but he was Selling them the idea of them having a JPEG Do you know even the creator of NFTs has said that he doesn't want to associate with them anymore because they are so bad I did hear that somewhere. I've not seen it myself, but wouldn't surprise me if true Where's that line between dumbasses of owning specific set of bytes and if teach JPEGs and large companies owning license for music with music being The same thing set of bytes because you can use music music like if you have a license for music you can use it for other purposes Functional purposes and make money off it when you buy an NFT You don't necessarily have the rights to that image to use it for commercial purposes or use it anywhere for anything Buying an NFT does not in of itself give you copyright rights. It all crashed too soon It's been ten years. How long were people meant to wait for crypto to actually do something interesting beyond it being simply a store of value and Hoping to sell your recently purchased token to some other sucker who will pay from pay more than you paid How long were we meant to wait if you watch the video? The line goes up the problem with NFTs. You will understand why it has not done anything more significant because it is garbage Again, I said something doesn't have to be tangible to be able to generate money a crypto coin has no practical value or purpose The only way it makes a person more money is if you find someone else to sell it to you can take a Bitcoin and Hypothetically replace it with any other crypto currency and it will have the exact same practical purpose The only reason they don't is because a select group of people have convinced themselves and other people that those particular Cryptocurrencies are more important or more valuable than the other ones, but they aren't actually in terms of their practical application a lot of what exists in the speculative market of collectibles and stuff is stupid, but Cryptocurrencies more than anything are the most stupid when you're mining a coin You aren't actually mining something that's valuable, you know, or that has practical purpose Let's say the only way you're gonna get money from that is if you find a bigger sucker That's it People are gonna find bigger suckers over and over and over again until a day comes where there are no more suckers and the price Will crash and everyone who's left holding the bag will have nothing |
| 01. March 2023 | Youtube's CEO to be replaced by an NFT bro? | little bit more secure but it's done a little more than that. YouTube CEO to be replaced by an NFT bro. One quick ramble to get out of the way is obviously Susan Wojcicki, the now former CEO of YouTube stepping down. Are they former right now or are they former in the future? I don't know exactly when that shift of title happens but whatever. To start with she apparently released like a write-up saying why she was leaving, what's gonna happen now and I want to say the format of this is awful on this page. Personal update from Susan on stepping back from her role as CEO of YouTube and what is this? How can I fit this on the screen? There you go. Okay I mean the main thing here is she wants to start a new chapter focused on family, health and personal projects that she's passionate about. That's like yeah she's been there for 25 years being CEO for what almost a decade. At that point you've probably got quite a bit of money. You get to an age where she's like how about I just go do stuff that I want to do. I mean doing anything for 25 years is pretty nice. Like I've been asked here do you see any big changes happening or anything you might like changed in the platform such as demarcization being relaxed, live streams being easier to find or some other changes on the backend? As far as whether there's going to be changes I don't know how instrumental the CEO is in the decisions that happen at YouTube. Like surely it's still not just like a authoritarian dictatorship where Susan's like I want the entire platform shut down tomorrow between the hours of 12 and 2 and everyone has to do that. I just don't think that's how it works. I don't know how instrumental Susan was in everything that's happened over the last 10 years but I don't think as a whole YouTube's done particularly bad over the last 10 years. So it could certainly get worse. It could also get better. Who knows? I don't know enough about how much a role the CEO of YouTube had. I'm sure it wasn't insignificant but was it a determining factor? Who knows? One thing that does have me concerned though is the word currently on the replacement for Susan is the Chief Product Officer Neil Mohan for the new head of YouTube position and speculation here. Well not speculation I mean he's outright said this stuff. Folks the new boss of YouTube is literally the guy who came up with the idea of NFT integration. He's an all-round crypto metaverse web3 show. YouTube is going to get so much worse. I mean we don't know that for certain but you and me are probably like well obviously NFTs are dead and no one really gives that much shit about crypto anymore right? This web3 thing like how many scams, how many billions of dollars people lost, how many companies went to insane evaluations and just exploded overnight because of how terrible all this stuff was. Like you'd think on the base of that everyone's like well oh clearly this is going nowhere but there's still some people some die-hard holdouts are like no man it's gonna happen bro we just need the right crypto scam I mean currency it'll happen so who knows how committed this guy is to this stuff and how much he's you know accepted the reality of how stupid all that shit was but who knows? Like I like to think that all these NFT bros have now just moved on to AI. AI is the new hot thing and so they're trying to find a way to use AI to scam people and get their money through that avenue rather than using NFTs but I said in response to this I want to be remembered fondly so be sure to replace me with literally the worst conceivable person that way I can look good by comparison and people will miss me. Susan probably. I mean like imagine that because like a lot of people do not like Susan Wojcicki and that's what happens when you're the face of a company as large as YouTube. Anytime there's something bad happens at YouTube it's like oh that's Susan Wojcicki regardless of how actually involved she was because not like people know the name of the head engineer on floor 17 or something it's Susan Wojcicki she's the face of the company so she will get the shaking of the fists but it would be funny if this guy is just absolutely terrible and so some years from now people like man I missed the era of YouTube where Susan Wojcicki was in charge ah what a wonderful time that was never said a bad word about Susan Wojcicki it's kind of harsh though shouldn't you wait to see what he does before judging him so hard oh that's what I'm saying like we don't know this guy and words he's said in the past aren't necessarily going to be indicative of what he's going to do in the future nothing could change everything could change we just don't know it's just like if this guy was on record being like I love punching puppies in the face oh boy puppy punching in the face is my favorite thing to do I love it if I had power in this world I get everyone to punch puppies in the face all day and then if such a person was given power we'd be like I kind of worry he's gonna start making people punch puppies in the face I mean we don't know for certain but I am a little bit concerned that kind of thing we don't know but at the same time obviously there's going to be some peeking at words that have been said in the past to attempt to predict the future |
| 01. March 2023 | Youtube's increasingly restrictive policies are getting ridiculous. | YouTube's increasingly restrictive policies are getting ridiculous. So the Act Man tweeted out, Attention! If you are making YouTube content, do not say the word, the C word, in your video. Just had two videos hit with timestamps where the C word is spoken. Your video will likely get demonetized if you say that word. My heart bleeds for Strati right now. And so I responded down here, Tis sad, one of my fave videos got age gated over it. They considered a slur against women on the same level as the N word towards black people and the F slur against gay people. Been that way for at least a year or two. Or it was before the last policy change, who knows how they rank it now. So that past first video where Trevor is stomping on Johnny and saying, C word, C word, C word, C word, C word. Once upon a time, that video was monetized, fully and perfectly on YouTube. Was that way for at least a year, I'm not exactly sure how long. But it was a policy change that led to like any instance of the C word, even just in written form, being enough to instantly demonetize your video. I had a chaos video where it was in the subtitles that they said the C word. Because I took out the voice because I knew it was something that YouTube didn't like. But in the subtitles, it was still there. Instantly monetized, two hour long video. Americans really, really hates that word. Now understand, YouTube has since December or whatever, changed their policies in regards to how they are cracking down on swear words. So maybe they don't consider it on the same level as the M word or the F slur anymore. But it does seem they've become harsher on swear words rather than more lenient. So I think it's probably about the same place in their policies anyway. But yeah, it is annoying and potentially racist against Australians. Not really, of course, but yeah, it sucks. |
| 20. December 2021 | Youtube/Twitch and censorship of speech | Social media platforms and censorship of speech. You can't have both a platform that is funded by ads and a platform where you can say literally anything at any given fucking time. That just doesn't work. I mean, I would certainly prefer if Twitch were profitable and people could say whatever the fuck they want. It's just not the world we live in, right? This is capitalism. Not all speech is equally profitable and in a world where capitalism rules you can never have absolute free speech because some speech is going to be promoted more or less or segregated or removed based on whether or not it's profitable. Free speech only matters to these people in the context of being able to say racist, sexist, and transphobic shit. It comes to things like burning the flag or right to process somebody they don't care. Oh exactly, damn. It's similar to um, one of the reasons why it'd be very hard to argue that Twitch is doing something wrong in regards to banning people for saying certain things. It's because that's an expression of their free speech. Like if you owned a comedy club and anyone who stood up on your platform, if you were unable to take down anyone, your ability to speak through the use of your platform has now been limited. You are expressing your ideas through other people on your platform. I think it was actually Brett Kavanaugh, the guy who got into all that trouble who recently got on the screen. This is his argument as to why you couldn't regulate things like YouTube. Regulating YouTube in regards to its ability to regulate its own content on its platform would be violating YouTube's and those who its stakeholders. It'd be violating their free speech, their first amendment rights. Like imagine a world where if you own any platform and you say people can speak here, you'd have to allow literally everyone to say what anything they want on that platform. Persons up there saying they feel it's okay to rape your mother and you just have to let them. It's perfectly acceptable. People just get up there every day and just like I don't know just drive away the audience from your platform by saying heinous shit, and you can't do shit. Like can you imagine that world like literally anyone could destroy any platform? You just write a list of things that would drive away that platform's advertisers or drive away that platform's audience and go well, you can't stop me from speaking cuz uh free speech motherfucker and platform dies. What impressively sick, terrible world. I mean I would like if, nah, I'm not even sure I would like Twitch to be some kind of publicly funded at least in some capacity. I don't know. You would end up with a system where people would be more free to say whatever they wanted, but you'd effectively never get any competition then because you'd have one platform that would be so dominant because of public funding and other funding that they themselves could get still through subscriptions and blah blah blah. It's just it's just the price you pay for competition that not all speech is going to be on private platforms equally profitable. |
| 20. October 2020 | Youtube’s algorithm and content farms | content farms. Any new series? I have one video that, if it does really well, I'm talking if it gets half a million views I'll make it a series, because it's such a pain in the arse to do. I had the artwork for the thumbnail made a long time ago, I wonder if I can find something even better. Like I've kind of reached this kind of defeatist point with YouTube, where attempting to cater to the algorithm seems such a futile process, futile effort now that I just kind of just put out the content that I want to put out. Which is, I always worry sometimes where like, oh you know if I spent one more hour on this video or if I put a little bit more effort into this thumbnail maybe it would have gotten more successful. But it's just, all that worrying just drives me crazy. Because I don't think YouTube really rewards effort. It doesn't reward good content. There's a video that was released recently that Charlie, Critical Reference, where there are these farms of, you can't really call them bot farms, what they do is they have the same formulaic content that fits these psychological clickbait sort of things and they release the same videos over and over and over again on multiple different channels with the same thumbnails and they get tens of millions of views. You know, top five best cake recipes or whatever and the video, the thumbnail shows a cake being cut in half and people are like, oh I wonder what's in that cake or whatever and so they click on the video and that cake won't even be in the video. Like the thumbnails are misleading, the titles are misleading, the content is regurgitated, repeating duplicate content on multiple channels but these channels don't get taken down, YouTube does nothing to them and they just recommend them to no end giving them tens of millions of dollars. The more you learn about YouTube, the more jaded you come towards it, it just makes the effort you put in seem foolishness. Going the extra mile for a platform that will in no way ever reward that extra mile just seems futile. Like I don't consider myself to be anywhere close to the best content creator by far. Like I am lucky to have and I am happy with the success that I have. I am just always concerned about losing it and I definitely can identify people who are not deserving of the success that they have but I'm sure people would say that about me as well. But things that are clear cut like those YouTube videos where they're just exploiting people's psychological weaknesses and it's just the same regurgitated content and lying titles and thumbnails and stuff, those people don't deserve success. The people who are... have you seen those videos? Where people like put a duckling in Greece or something and they're like, hey I found this duckling, it was covered in oil, oh that's terrible, let me clean it up. And people ask like, so why do you already have all this stuff to help this duckling that you just happen to find? And it all looks suspect as shit. And you realize that it's just people who are... they're just putting animals in harm's way or in situations where they're in disrepair or dirty or whatever and then claiming to have found them and then they help them and they get millions of views. Because you can guarantee that some of these videos are real and the real videos getting successful has led bad actors to be like, oh I could do this as well. But I can't just stumble across animals enough. And that might be dangerous or whatever, let's just fake it. Same thing as giving money to homeless people. I love that video from Gus Johnson where he's like giving money to homeless people off camera to respect them or whatever. Whenever those kind of sleazy kind of ways to get views come out, Gus Johnson makes a parody of it where he's doing the respectful thing or whatever. Or where he's like respecting the privacy of female strangers or whatever at the beach and he's just standing there just doing nothing or whatever as women walk by rough and being one of those prank channels that randomly kisses women or whatever for money or whatever. Clearly fake but you know. Or um, I can't remember his name. Asian dude who makes sketch videos, doesn't do it that often. He has a good one about the homeless people trend that was happening before. John is not Asian, no and it's not ProzD either. He's a little bit less known, I think he has like 300-400 thousand subs. Everyone thinks it's ProzD. Whenever you mention sketches as an Asian dude. The dude even has a video on his channel mocking that. He's like oh you're ProzD? No, no, no, no, no. Don't know who hipster is, Dominik's no. Ian Chung, that's it, yes. Ian Kung. Ian Kung is a funny dude. I don't think he makes that many videos anymore but I always felt like he was critically under viewed. I mean he was criminally under viewed. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel, it costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 28. November 2022 | Youtube’s superiority is understated. | YouTube's superiority is understated. A lot of the complaints that people have of YouTube are complaints that are somewhat unjustified in regards to they lack an understanding of just how large YouTube is, and the tightrope that they walk in regards to legislation surrounding copyright in all the different countries in which they provide a service. For a lot of people, everything is defined by its negative attributes, rather than like its positive, or the everyday positive. YouTube provides access to just unfathomable amount of content, and a free place for anyone to put their videos, and provides a career for, what, hundreds of thousands of people, and that's all meaningless compared to like, oh man, my video got wrongly demonetized, and it sucks that companies are just really, really large, and is, at the end of the day, a company. So it's gonna do stupid things and have problems. YouTube is a wonderful place, man. People would like to complain. I mean, things that are going well, and are doing what they're meant to do, they just become a part of the mundane. If you did some great things a year ago, that's cool, but what about today? It's uh, negative things get more attention, because they're the things that are of pressing concern. Do you finally agree YouTube is supreme? YouTube has always been supreme. In terms of live streaming, no. Twitch is still a better live streaming experience than YouTube, that is without a doubt, in terms of its features. But in terms of like, the player, YouTube is clearly supreme, because you can scroll backwards, and you can have higher quality. But you gotta remember, it's still the case that for a lot of Twitch streamers, their audience are Twitch viewers, right? I was not that way. Many Twitch streamers don't have, like, active YouTube channels. 95% of my audience found me through YouTube, so it's not a big deal for me to stream on YouTube, but uh, it's not the way I wait for everyone on Twitch. There is a lot of stuff that's strange about YouTube that you think wouldn't be. For example, just right now, the, all those super chats. Like, they took like a solid 15, 20 seconds to appear in the activity feed. Why? Why would that be the case? And it's also missed out on a resubscription. Like, why? Everything in YouTube live streaming in regards to uh, interacting with chat is just that little bit more delayed than Twitch. And it's uh, weird. As I say, Twitch is better than YouTube in all the ways that don't matter. And YouTube is better in all the ways that matter to me. I reach more new viewers streaming on YouTube. I have more viewers who watch me, because I already have an audience here. The VOD quality is higher. The stream quality is also a bit higher. More money. It's just Twitch has, they've been around for a lot longer doing it, so they have a lot of all these smaller things figured out that you'd think YouTube would just copy, but they haven't. |
| 08. December 2021 | You’d be surprised at the shows I have seen | You'd be surprised at the shows I've seen. Once upon a time, back when I was playing WoW, before I knew what Twitch was, I would just download show after show after show after show after show. Like I think you'd be surprised how many things I've seen. I've seen, I think a season and a half of My Little Pony, for example. I think it's the bottom of the barrel in terms of what I've watched. I've read Twilight, the book series. There's just been various times in my life where I've been that starved for content before I really got ingratiated into YouTube and Twitch, that I just take anything that was new. Honestly though, I think I watched My Little Pony, for example, kind of out of curiosity, because I remember it from my childhood. My sister used to love My Little Pony, and I still remember one of the movies, which is An Ooze is Unleashed by these witches, I think. And I can kind of vaguely remember the song. I can remember the song and these two creatures who are playing like five-dimensional chess. Like there's five chess boards stacked on each, on top of each other, and I think they're using mushrooms as chess pieces. I know, I was curious. And so I just put them in a playlist and watched them while I was playing well. I don't think it was that bad, really. It wasn't good. |
| 01. January 2020 | ZFG losing world record | ZFG losing the Zelda Ocarina of Time 100% World Record. Do you hear that ZFG was kicked off his throne? ZFG after 6 and a half years lost the World Record for 100% Ocarina of Time. As long as ZFG isn't being completely outclassed, which I sincerely doubt he is, he must be very happy about this because think about how much hype is going to be around him doing 100% runs now. Because there's an actual chance of him, you know, there'd be so much hype around him getting World Record back. |
| 04. July 2022 | Zip track blockout interior blinds | Zip track block out interior blinds. So these are the blinds that I'm getting. They're called zip track interior blinds. They used to only exist for outdoors or something. So there's these tracks on the side here. The blinds goes perfectly down, and there's no gap on either side. It goes into a slot at the bottom. So this, whatever fabric it is, does not let in any light at all, and there is no creases around the sides to let in any light either. And it's going to be wired permanently into my house. So I'm going to have like a button, and I'm going to press it, and it's going to go down. Like when I wake up, I'll be able to like, I don't know, grab the remote and like press, and have the blinds come up and have actual light hit me. |
| 04. July 2022 | Ziptrack blockout interior blinds | Zip track block out interior blinds. So these are the blinds that I'm getting. They're called zip track interior blinds. They used to only exist for outdoors or something. So there's these tracks on the side here. The blinds goes perfectly down, and there's no gap on either side. It goes into a slot at the bottom. So this, whatever fabric it is, does not let in any light at all, and there is no creases around the sides to let in any light either. And it's going to be wired permanently into my house. So I'm going to have like a button, and I'm going to press it, and it's going to go down. Like when I wake up, I'll be able to like, I don't know, grab the remote and like press, and have the blinds come up and have actual light hit me. |
| 27. December 2020 | catJam twitter account story. | Cat Jam Twitter account story. So I follow this Twitter account called Cat Jam. Because you know the meme, Cat Jam? Love that meme? For those unaware, I will show the meme, although it would normally be green-screened with a different background. All this account does on Twitter is puts up popular songs, you know, from all decades and it puts Cat Jam over it. And I was like, I remember this song. Yeah. And it's cute and I might put a song into my Spotify or whatever. Yesterday, as I've seen it do before, on its Twitter with 200,000 followers, it's like, hey guys, let's go raid this person and post Cat Jam. You know, I just happened to be on a break or whatever, so I'm like, fuck it. I'll do it. And so I clicked through the link to the Twitter, which is to the Twitch. You know, the guy has like two viewers or whatever, less than 50 followers, playing Doom, his microphone sucks, his streamer etiquette or whatever, it sucks. The game audio is way too low. But then everyone's just typing Cat Jam and I type Cat Jam too. I would be shocked, shocked, if even a single person from that raid went back to that guy's stream. But it was probably exciting for that guy, for that moment or whatever, seeing that amount of activity in his chat. I don't know. The accounts, the Cat Jam Twitter account, contacted me through my DMs. How the fuck did it do that? Don't I have closed DMs? Oh, wait a second. Maybe... Oh, because I follow them and I guess they followed me, even though I have closed DMs, they can still message me. I guess that's how it works. Ah, right, right. So they're like, hey man, thank you for joining in the raid. That's cool. Do you have any requests for songs? And I couldn't think of a song to request. I thought of a lot of songs I liked, but I don't know what other people would like, so I said, nah, fuck it. No, no, I said to them, no, I have no requests. I hope you and your friend, the person that they want to raid, are doing well. And the Cat Jam person's like, Oh, yeah, I looked at your content, looks pretty interesting. You'll make it one day. And I was just like, thanks, man. One day. I'll make it one day. Hahaha! Like, they were trying to pay me a comp, like, oh yeah, your content looks cool. You know, you'll get there one day. You got the right stuff. And I'm like, have I not made it? I haven't made it yet. What the fuck is making it? Me little tiny boy dark rapper, man. Cat Jam thinks I got the right stuff, guys. Maybe he's right. But if I just stick with it for a little while, I'll get somewhere. |
| 27. December 2020 | do i have good memories of my early life? | I think Do I have good memories of my early life? Do I have good memories of school? No, I do not have any good memories Prior to starting to it. It's actually sad. Yeah, whether it's because I'm I've never really been good at Developing memories of good times. It's more that I just remember all the bad times But I also don't really think the environment I found myself in for most of my life was a particularly good one I'm sure I had some fun times with my friends, but in hindsight I don't think I don't think I'd let a particularly fulfilled life I was not good at making new friends So I kept the friends that I had even while recognizing that we were very different people They weren't doing the things that I was particularly interested in I convinced myself to do certain things That I don't really think I was I particularly enjoyed it's what everyone else was doing Like I can't remember a single good time that I had going to the city and getting drunk Do I think I have a fulfilling life now? Yes. The only problem I have with my life right now is Not feeling physically up for doing what I wants to do mentally like it's only been three and a half hours But even now I can feel a bit of strain on myself my my body the tiredness and it sucks All I want to do is stream for like 15 hours a day, but my body just can't take it It's weird though. I find different things more or less taxing Gt5 is easy if I was easily the most taxing because it actually matters what happens I have a lot more writing on it that I have a lot more viewers I have to engage more with with chat and stuff and playing noita is a lot more relaxing Because at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. I want to succeed But if I don't who cares and while playing no damage I have to be focused all the time If you making sure I'm doing the exact right thing at every time or I'm gonna fail. It's a small stressful It's more taxing physically success is just relative. It depends if you have a specific criteria for success than it's not relative but you're right that uh Every time you get to a different tier of success your expectations Your expectations whatever normalize and you don't see yourself as successful ever right because you're looking at the people even more |
| 17. July 2021 | friendlyjordies and his legal woes. | Friendly Jorries and his legal woes What do I think of Friendly Jorries? I saw someone write before Somewhat conflicted there was once a story that he talked about where I was interested in it enough that I looked into it more and Well, he wasn't necessarily incorrect. It was more like he was simplifying things And I guess that's how YouTube kind of works in general. I found his reporting on stuff to be interesting and engaging and true as far as I can tell he does come off as somewhat smug and full of himself sometimes and but in general I like him and I think it'd be very interesting to like if you met him somewhere to have a chat with him because he seems like a knowledgeable engaged sort of person as in he has Character flaws like we all do and flaws in general I suppose but on the whole I consider him to be a Good content creator and an interesting person the reason person probably asked is so this guy Friendly Jorries is a satirist he makes comedy stuff, but he also Reports on the news and does a bit of investigative journalism while acting somewhat like a clown in his words, but he This is guy John Barallaro. I think he's a politician in my state and he Jorries believes himself to have and it seems suggestive that he has these uncovered some corruption from this John Barallaro guy and John has now sued him and sent like a special police unit or something to arrest this youtubers cameraman and producer or whatever lying to the police to get them to to arrest this dude at least lying from what information has been shown thus far it's an abusive power from a corrupt politician attempting to silence a critic and Regardless what you think of Jorries, I mean even if you disagree with him passionately That kind of stuff is just disgusting right. I wonder how does Does John just feel up by the barrel? Oh bros. It's easy to say does bros consider himself to be just above the law or something or Does he not consider the Streisand effects where? The more you respond to this thing or whatever as a politician is just going to lead to More people being aware of it and talking about it and whatnot It's gonna be very interesting to see where this goes because it is an official court case especially considering that apparently Jorries has a pretty famous lawyer or something Supporting him or um Representing him or what have you in in court be interesting to see yeah, I'm sure none of you really care about this Small thing in the land down under for most of you I mean, it's a small thing in the land down under I suppose I gave him a hundred bucks to Even if it's a massive influx of support or sign can can easily Deal with his legal bills, whatever. I'm happy just giving him a couple of bucks. I like his content it's one of the problems with Making content that is centric to one particular part of the world, especially I mean, it's not probably for American I suppose but when you're Australian if you're making content about Australian politics like there's only 22 million 23 million whatever it is people people in this country and So just it's relatively speaking for the world a small audience that you can capture so Jordy's like, you know, he makes some funny content I guess like two or three million views a month on YouTube like he's a smaller content creator than me shouldn't be that way. That's You know, you're appealing to a smaller market. I hope for his current ordeal is that he ends that they're like he ends up getting some more recognition and Growing his audience off the back of this |
| 27. December 2020 | getting scammed by AI dungeon 2. | Successful getting scammed by AI dungeon 2. Oh So something happened to me yesterday, right? So there's this thing called what's it called AI dungeon 2 So I saw soda pop and playing AI dungeon 2 on stream and looks kind of fun It's basically a thing where an AI builds you a story There's a free version of it But only the paid version has a text-to-speech thing where the bot will read you what's going on and you kind of need that Reading for it to be enjoyable like reading yourself is kind of lame. So I'm like, it's ten bucks I'll pay and it's a subscription, which is annoying, but I'm like, okay, I'll pay whatever So I paid and it didn't make me a member and I was just confused. It wouldn't let me pay again I it definitely take my money. So I issued a refund through PayPal some time later I completely forgot about it the people who made this game actually got back to me and they said oh, yeah There's something that happens extremely rarely. It does happen. You didn't get your membership, but you were charged So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna refund you and cancel the subscription. It's okay. No, actually, you know what? I'm gonna do I'm gonna refund you give you a free month of the service and keep your subscription now This was these messages were sent to me two months ago so there has been a ten dollar subscription that I've been paying for for the last two months and and So I didn't get to use the free one month didn't get to use the second month I paid for and now in the third month which I've just paid for like three days ago and the only reason I found out about this is Because they sent me a newsletter and like hey guys, we're we're making some cool new changes to the AI dungeon I'm like wasn't I paying those guys money? What happened with that? So I can't smell subscription It's telling me you know, I was like, hey, give me my money back It's only 20 bucks, but it's funny cuz I wouldn't mind actually playing the game It did look kind of interesting and still have my membership for the rest of the month. So maybe I'll Maybe later on maybe after this if you remind me you can go check it out I like I've never played it. So we'll see after this. Yeah, this is more important |
| 01. January 2020 | loserfruit's New years eve party | Loser fruits New Year's Eve party. So this person called loser fruit, right? She is one of the most successful Australian streamers and she writes on Twitter something like having a New Year's Eve party Mutuals welcome to come you just go to DM me for the info and I'm seeing they're like what the fuck is a mutual? What does mutual mean in? the online space so I googled it and it's like mutuals are like Mutual people you associate with so if you know a person and another person if you know a person and that person knows someone They're your mutual ever you click on Twitter and I will say like You you and that person have 16 mutual friends or some shit a friend of a friend This is that's how I interpret it right and I'm like my sleep and pattern shit You know, I'm socially awkward sometimes I do a little bit better when I start drinking Like I should probably try to go to this party Because there be people there that I could potentially meet and like and they're in my same space and maybe be good to have a New Year's Eve party and so I DM'd her and She didn't respond. It's been like a day. I was damned if I do damned if I don't because if I didn't do it I know I would have regretted it. I'll be sitting there going man I could have been having fun at the fucking New Year's Eve party. God damn and But but now I'm in the situation where it's like this is like being in high school again, right? And the popular fucking people have their parties and I don't know if I'm fucking invited or if I'm meant to be asking to be invited I don't fucking know I don't need that anxiety man. I've left high school behind me Why am I trying to be in the popular people's club, you know? And I'm like has she seen my DM is it should I DM again? I don't want to think about these things But I just want to make fucking content, you know, I'm just a loner making fucking content in my room I know cuz she does follow me on Twitch this she's been following me on Twitch Since like a bajillion years ago following since January 27 2017 more than likely followed me from something completely unrelated a bajillion years ago Probably follows thousands of people never been to my content, right? So I don't think we've ever formally talked. I've been in a room where she has been I think it packs 2017 or whatever I know it's just an awkward situation to be in but anyway, let's just start this pass for shit That's what you guys are here for |
| 01. July 2020 | making facts and glitches | The difficulties in making the Facts and Glitches episodes. When is the new Facts and Glitches episode coming out? It's going to come out when I finish it. It is a really long process to make Facts and Glitches, you know. I know it may not seem like it, but it's the amount of time spent going through people's suggestions and figuring out which ones actually make sense and testing it all. Often people give me like an idea or something that they've half looked into, and then I have to spend like hours tinkering with it in every possible way. Often it's not a matter of simply just showing something. I also have to explain why it occurs. And the person who presented the thing to me doesn't necessarily know that. So I have to like test it in 57 different ways to know exactly what variables are causing something to happen. It's kind of fun, really. But then going through all that footage to find all the successes and stuff is time consuming. What is the golden number of glitches? Facts for Facts and Glitches episode. There is no golden number because you never know how long it's going to take to explain any particular glitch, you know, or facts. As a general rule, I just make as many recordings of facts and glitches as I can. And then I worry about whether or not I have enough footage for two episodes, three episodes, whatever, after the facts. There is still a bunch that I didn't record, and there's tons of stuff that I could put in there from the speedruns that hasn't been put in there. But I just haven't needed the footage. There's also a lot of weaker facts and glitches in this very long multi-page part of my document that I might not touch for a long time. |
| 01. July 2020 | more cooking streams | The possibility of more cooking streams. Hey, I was wondering if you was ever going to make another cooking stream? Nope. If I could, mom. So, cooking streams are both difficult to do, and I don't really enjoy cooking. That one episode of the cooking streams was amazing, and I can't top it. A lot of it was just B-Tubes editing, but also the janky nature of it. Like, things went wrong, the alarm kept going off, I sucked at doing literally everything. The quality was terrible, which gave it a kind of, you know, homely feel. If I were to do it again, the quality would be better. I would have the cameras being held well. I know more about cooking now. I don't know what I would do about the alarm, but I have a stick there and I can press it, so. That cooking video is really cringe to watch, I mean, one man's comedy is another man's cringe. There is a fine line in a lot of things between funny and cringe. Especially in improv. Anything that's live, and you know, not scripted, there's a huge possibility for cringe. Especially if multiple people are involved. Streams, it's a little bit different. Sure, there can be some cringe, but because there's one person who's ultimately dictating the pace of what's going on, there's less likely that, why is it going to be cost? Someone's going to do something that another person isn't expecting or doesn't like, whatever. So those interactions kind of co- |
| 01. July 2020 | my views of chess, xqc vs moistcr1tikal | My views of chess and the xQc vs moist critical game I did see the chess match between moist critical and xQc yeah It's the scotch open! It's the scotch open! Fuck this is exciting! Exactly what we practiced for I can't believe it! I can't fucking believe it! He just lost! Exactly what we practiced for! Yes! HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM BANG! We're listening to moist critical right now Daniel Naraditzky is a fucking prophet He said immediately that xQc will likely go with the scotch open Well that's gotta be a world record My cock is throbbing! Throbbing! What is xQc's chat saying right now? Didn't it get like 4 million views or something? Like one of the highest viewed twitch clips? I mean let's be real How does xQc still want to play chess after that? It's not like obviously that could happen to everyone When you're learning but it's just like Surely people must reference that all the time to ridicule him and shit It's like his version of a wreckful missing lethal xQc does not come across to me as a particularly dumb person He doesn't come across as a genius He just comes across as you know a person with Is not really inhibited Says whatever comes onto his mind Is very expressive I wouldn't call him a genius but I wouldn't call him an idiot either xQc is just a person? Yeah And for twitch you know he's Got what you need to be successful on twitch So I like chess as like a casual thing I don't think I would like chess if I tried to go to the professional level Where on a professional level what chess is It's just memorization of types of boards Because there's many moves that you can possibly make in chess There's only really like a finite amount that a professional will do The more boards that you've memorized and that you can effectively instinctively Muscle memory react to The faster you're going to move especially in Blitz chess and whatnot I like chess when I'm sitting there trying to figure out the best move in that moment I don't want to sit around and memorize 57,000 boards So that I already know what the next best move is going to be I'm not even sure I'd be capable of doing that let's be real I am a decent chess player to the extent where I can play And not always make an ass of myself I mean versing people on stream and what like an 80% win rate or something 75% whatever |
| 12. July 2021 | teleportation and identity | Teleportation and identity. Could it be the case that the best we're ever gonna get for teleportation is like 3D printing? I guess the internet is effectively teleportation but only of digital things, you know what I'm saying? And I guess 3D printing would be the best teleportation we'll ever get of like actual physical objects but it's really just copying, you know? Teleportation would be killing yourself, it all depends on how you perceive the idea of self. If you see yourself as a configuration as opposed to particular matter, then as long as the configuration on the other end was indistinguishable from the configuration in the beginning, you wouldn't be killing yourself, you would just be relocating the configuration that is you. It is very hard to have an idea of self that is dependent upon a particular type of matter because your body replaces that matter all the time. Different parts of you get replaced, you know, every year or every six months or every four years or whatever it is, but all your cells eventually do get replaced. It's the ship of Theseus or whatever. If you take a boat and you replace each plank, one plank by one plank by one plank, if you replace, like how many planks do you have to replace before it isn't really that ship anymore? Like it would be indistinguishable potentially from the original ship, but none of the original bits of wood were the original bits on that ship. Most ideas of identity or self that make sense to me involve some sort of conceptual thing like continuous experience, you know? You can identify a continuous chain of events that you experienced from a first person perspective and that is you. You're essentially entirely a new person every five years because of the Self Regeneration? Yeah, exactly. So if you have an idea of self where a particular matter is you, then you are a completely new person, you know, every five years or so. If you have an axe and the handle breaks, you replace it, but keep the head, then next year the head breaks, but keep the old handle. Is it still the same axe? Yeah, at the end of the day, it's all just a matter of, you know, we perceive what things are and we give them identity based on our perception, right? We find particular things important and thus distinguish them from other things with names and other signifiers and whatnot. |
| 16. May 2020 | the last of us 2 | Anything. Would you play The Last Of Us 2? I have not seen the last- I have not played The Last Of Us 1. I've only seen the cutscenes. The cutscenes were fine, but no, I wouldn't play The Last Of Us 2. I'm not particularly interested. Cyberpunk 2077 though? Yeah, I'd play that. |
| 20. February 2021 | wanting to get into chess | Wanting to get into chess. I was watching Ludwig play chess for like 5-10 minutes before. Kinda made me want to just play some chess today. Like I know I'm not good. Probably better than the average person because the average person has never played chess. You know what I'm saying? I'm not terrible. I hear Ludwig has a bot on chess.com now. I should verse and see if I beat it. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel. It costs you nothing and I wish you all the best. |
| 12. November 2022 | “Discount DarkViperAU” | Dark Viper AU. So I saw something kind of funny here. So this dude and this dude were having an argument and this guy responds Accept it. It's backed up you fucking discount Dark Viper AU and that's what he looks like and like Kinda I can see it especially with the added qualification of discount Yeah |
| 02. November 2021 | “GTA 5 is racist and sexist” | shit. GTA 5 is racist and sexist. The racism and the sexism? That seems very dumb. Let's put it another way, every person in this game seems to be a piece of shit. You can always read more into things if you want to. I don't think you could legitimately play this game and think, oh man, this is just a racist and sexist all over the place, it's not. I would suspect that they would say, well man, it's got like a black guy who steals stuff. It's based on a guy in real life. The gangs exist. You can't portray reality in video games. Like, does the game ever make the case that every single person in this game is representative of demographics or what have you? No it doesn't. Not at all. |
| 23. January 2021 | “Gamba” and speaking in Twitch chats. | Gamba and speaking in Twitch chats. I was actually nervous. So I don't speak in a lot of chats Badalski said Gamba, which is a thing that Recful used to say and I was like, oh I Wonder if that's a reference to Recful or whatever or an homage or whatever and Gamba could just be nothing, you know I'm sure other people in their lives have said Gamba before Gamba But I was curious so I actually went to Recful's chat and I did slash use a Dalski and he'd been subbed for two months. So he's definitely aware of Recful. I was like, oh, that's nice and for that reason alone I typed in his chat the reason why I sometimes feel uncomfortable typing in chats is because I worry that people think like I'm trying to draw attention to myself or Or my being there might derail the person's stream or make them nervous or whatever the fuck I'm a guy who over obsesses or over analyzes stuff, but no one knew who knew who the fuck I was I am no one. I mean, I just mean that no one knew of me So it's all good. What was funny though is I don't think it was the case the first stream that I went into But the most recent stream I went into he was playing this playlist that you're hearing right now the chill hop playlist and I was like really I find a stream that I want to watch and it just and the music I listen to all day every day is the same music being played What a fucking unfortunate coincidence. I felt like being like hey man, I give you a hundred bucks to change the playlist to anything else It's just nice having a variety of different content that I can have on the background when I've got nothing else to watch, you know and Minecraft speedruns is something that I've liked to have on the background recently so Forsen's Minecraft speedruns now this Dalski guy and Mitch's War of Warcraft PvP stuff is my background noise right now when I've run out of videos to watch on YouTube |
| 23. January 2021 | “Gamba” and speaking in twitch chats. | Gamba and speaking in Twitch chats. I was actually nervous. So I don't speak in a lot of chats Badalski said Gamba, which is a thing that Recful used to say and I was like, oh I Wonder if that's a reference to Recful or whatever or an homage or whatever and Gamba could just be nothing, you know I'm sure other people in their lives have said Gamba before Gamba But I was curious so I actually went to Recful's chat and I did slash use a Dalski and he'd been subbed for two months. So he's definitely aware of Recful. I was like, oh, that's nice and for that reason alone I typed in his chat the reason why I sometimes feel uncomfortable typing in chats is because I worry that people think like I'm trying to draw attention to myself or Or my being there might derail the person's stream or make them nervous or whatever the fuck I'm a guy who over obsesses or over analyzes stuff, but no one knew who knew who the fuck I was I am no one. I mean, I just mean that no one knew of me So it's all good. What was funny though is I don't think it was the case the first stream that I went into But the most recent stream I went into he was playing this playlist that you're hearing right now the chill hop playlist and I was like really I find a stream that I want to watch and it just and the music I listen to all day every day is the same music being played What a fucking unfortunate coincidence. I felt like being like hey man, I give you a hundred bucks to change the playlist to anything else It's just nice having a variety of different content that I can have on the background when I've got nothing else to watch, you know and Minecraft speedruns is something that I've liked to have on the background recently so Forsen's Minecraft speedruns now this Dalski guy and Mitch's War of Warcraft PvP stuff is my background noise right now when I've run out of videos to watch on YouTube |
| 23. June 2021 | “Gimmick runs” on Speedrun.com | Gimmick runs on speedrun.com. There was actually a discussion brought up by someone else, another person who has an interest in no damage, to make it into an official category on speedrun.com. Had a lot of pushback. Speedrunners in general do not like no damage runs, no hitruns, you know, all this kind of stuff. Because while speedruns are a challenge run, challenge runners aren't speedrunners. And it's kind of like, antithetical to the idea of speedrunning, where you're specifically avoiding going faster for some arbitrary reason, right? The degree to which people allow for these kind of categories, whereas like, go the fastest you can, except you can't do X. It depends on the community, is how receptive people are to that kind of stuff. Like even Classic Percent, our main category, would be and is mocked by other speedrunning communities, which is where you can't use fast traveling, and you have to use doing ending C. Yeah, so when Classic Percent was first proposed, or first done, there's this, it was before my time, but there's this long thread on speedrun.com, it's on the forum, discussing how much of a gimmick Classic Percent is, and how it should be removed from the leaderboard. At best, added to the category extensions, which is like a, it's like a section of speedrun.com for the ugly ducklings of the GTA speedruns, or categories, or whatever. Where like, unless you're really into GTA speedrunning, you don't even know that section exists. It isn't something that you can just really look up, it's just there if you there, if you really want to record some sort of a run. Yeah, so when the topic of adding a no damage category, or an OKo category, just, you know, go through the game as fast as possible, you only have one HP. These kind of categories, when they were discussed, it was hilarious to me listening to people bring up the idea of this being a gimmick, a gimmick run, and therefore it shouldn't be on the leaderboards. It's so funny, because I'm one of the oldest people there. So I I remember that the main category of GTA V was considered a gimmick. What is a gimmick run is merely what people don't like, or don't deem as popular. If it's not popular and not accepted, it's a gimmick. If it is popular and accepted, then it's not a gimmick. Calling something a gimmick as a reason to dismiss it is almost circular. You're just defining something as a gimmick, and in order to dismiss it, it's a nonsense argument. The best argument, I think, against having this kind of run on the leaderboard is that it requires a mod to achieve. Like, are you speed running GTA V at that point, if you're modding the game beyond what GTA V is capable to achieve a particular thing? And in large way you still are, but I can understand that sentiment of the leaderboards is for GTA V, not GTA V plus whatever garbage people want to add to the game. At the same time though, it would be the case that had Rockstar added a hard mode 1 HP part of the game, where you start the game with 1 HP, and you always have 1 HP, then that would just be on the leaderboards. It would be GTA V hard mode speed run. The lack of Rockstar adding that functionality, I don't think is a sufficient reason for us not to add it. If it was sufficient to make it popular, and people had a sufficient interest in it. I believe there's at least a dozen people who have had attempts, or are having attempts at, there might be a few more, of like some form of no damage, one hit KO kind of runs, which makes it more popular than a significant amount of the runs on the leaderboard as is. Like I'm not overly fussed whether some form of I have 1 HP for the entire run, finish it as fast as possible, I'm not fussed if that ends up on the leaderboard, but I just, in the discussion, in the mod section about it, I found the arguments against it to be very weird, considering the nature of the leaderboard right now. I also, maybe it's just because I've gotten old, I'm not sure, but it was brought up the idea that we should care about, like the respect of other speedrunners or something, as if the potential condemnation, or people's disagreement from people who don't even run the game should matter. Like they wouldn't respect GTA 5 speedrunning if we had a no damage run on the leaderboards, seems silly to me. I suppose in general, like so I kind of brushed over it before, but for those unaware, there is something called category extensions for GTA speedrunning, where any run that isn't deemed worthy of the leaderboards is put in a separate section on speedrun.com. You can look it up, I think, GTA category extensions, so there'll be like hookup percent, fastest person to get it on with hookup, or something. These really meme categories that just random bullshit that people make up. I like to think, I can't be for certain, that category extensions was made when speedrun.com was a much smaller website and had less functionality, because these days you can make like amazing, so you could put like a meme section and within that section put all these runs. You don't need to hide them somewhere else, and this would just be in a completely separate section of the board, where unless you're digging for it, you wouldn't even find it. Like it wouldn't be front-facing, you have to dig for these runs. There's no reason these days to have a category extension, but because that exists, it now becomes a justification for anyone just to dismiss and throw anything off the leaderboard that they want. It becomes the compromise. Some people want it there, some people don't want it there, and then it just goes, well then it goes category extensions. And I just find it to be a cop-out, when at the end of the day, if a run isn't good enough to be buried in like a billion sub-categories on the leaderboard for the game itself, then the run shouldn't really exist. And if you find yourself dismissing a lot of runs that should exist, anyway, then I think you just need to lower your standards as to what's on the leaderboard. Because the purpose of a leaderboard is just to record information that people might want to look up. It's not the idea of prestige or something, it's just nonsense to me. At the end of the day, what is meant to define a category in speedrunning for me, or what justifies the existence of a different category, is if the new way of running the game tests different skills and allows sort of the development of new strats and understanding of the game. That's it. So if you go, I propose this category, I'm like, is it different enough from a category that already exists, and what is fundamentally changing about the way that you're playing? So like we have two categories, one classic percent where you can't use fast traveling, and one where you can. And that significantly changes like the rousing, what you do, what you can do, not to an extraordinary degree, but there is enough change there. The change becomes really pronounced in the 100% category, the difference between taxis and non-taxis, it changes the route completely. No damage or only having one HP does change how you play, it just does, and requires different strategies. But what makes me kind of uncomfortable about the run is that ideally, the optimal Oko run is just a normal speedrun. Like you're developing strategies to as much as possible, not have to change the way that you play from a normal run. And it's just a question of how close can you get to that? So like, the degree to which the run is different from a normal speedrun is largely just dependent upon how good you are at the game, and how long the run lasts. And so it's hypothetically possible that with enough dedicated runners, these differences in the actual category wouldn't be all that much, it just would be a little bit more stressful and you can't make as many mistakes. So it just ended up being a hard mode of the normal speedrun. I know I've been rambling for a bit, but it's just, I just found the arguments against adding it to be kind of silly, and this glorification of a method of recording information to be completely absurd, and category extensions just not making sense with the modern speedrun.com. But none of it really matters at the end of the day. And I don't particularly care that much. And I'm not gonna argue with people about it, I suppose, but yeah. |
| 07. February 2022 | “Go woke, go broke” & The Quartering. | Go woke, go broke, and the quartering. You guys ever heard of this narrative? Go woke, go broke? It's nonsense if you look at the numbers. It's just a bunch of very selective bullshit. And what counts as going woke is, uh, well let's just say very subtly racist. As in like, they're calling this, uh, was it, Shung Lee movie or whatever in the Ten Rings? They're calling it woke and it's like, how does this work exactly? Because the main actor's Asian? Like, I don't know, but regardless, every single time these YouTube channels will come out and say, oh man, Disney, Marvel, go and woke so they're not making any money, ah. And, uh, and so they, everyone wrote all these videos complaining about how, or saying Shung Lee's gonna make no money, everyone's scared he's gonna make no money, because they've gone woke and so they go and broke, blah blah blah. And now that Shung Lee has done very well at the box office, these people have to, you know, they've got egg on their face like they, they often do. And the reason I bring this up is because the quartering was one of these people, for those who don't know the quartering, outraged merchants, complains about fucking everything. And there was a Reddit thread, or Shung Shi, whatever, Shung Shi, whatever. There was a Reddit thread that brought up the quartering and then, as one of these people who was shitting on this movie, it's not gonna make any money and, you know, it made a lot of money. And half the comments, I was like, or at least a significant amount of them, were referencing me, or calling the quartering a disingenuous dense motherfucker or whatever. I've done that so fucking funny. I, like, I gotta wonder how often the quartering does live streams and shit, and people just stop in the troll and call him a dense motherfucker or some shit. Or ask him how is he good at tying his shoes and stuff. Because he is, he is really a despicable human being, causing him some manner of displeasure is quite nice. The Imperials |
| 19. December 2019 | “Gotcha” names in chat | How I handle gotcha names and chats Do you ever watch out for those gotcha names like Mike Ock? No, I just say them out, right? If I have nothing to say I look in chat and someone's like Hey, can you say Mike Ock? I'm like, yeah Mike Ock. Good job. You got me, bro 10,000 IQ stress there dude. I'm proud of you. Does this smell like up sexy in that room you're in? What's up sexy? |
| 10. July 2021 | “If I laugh, I do x” challenges. | If I laugh I do X challenges. When I see people doing like these challenges, if I laugh I'll gift 10 subs or whatever, they call me Kevin Dozen sometimes. I read that I'm like, you must gift a lot of subs because like I laugh at fucking everything. Like everything. Like I'm so easy to make laugh but then when I do these instances here where I ask you guys to funny videos I'm like yeah it must be like one in ten that's actually funny. So maybe they don't give that many subs, you know? The average humor is just oh look there's a monkey it's funny because it monkey. It monkey therefore funny. What do you mean you know if I'm funny but but they're monkey so so monkey funny. I don't say you're saying monkey just saying monkey isn't humor. No way. Don't quit your day jobs chat is what I'm trying to say. |
| 10. July 2021 | “If i laugh, i do x” challenges. | If I laugh I do X challenges. When I see people doing like these challenges, if I laugh I'll gift 10 subs or whatever, they call me Kevin Dozen sometimes. I read that I'm like, you must gift a lot of subs because like I laugh at fucking everything. Like everything. Like I'm so easy to make laugh but then when I do these instances here where I ask you guys to funny videos I'm like yeah it must be like one in ten that's actually funny. So maybe they don't give that many subs, you know? The average humor is just oh look there's a monkey it's funny because it monkey. It monkey therefore funny. What do you mean you know if I'm funny but but they're monkey so so monkey funny. I don't say you're saying monkey just saying monkey isn't humor. No way. Don't quit your day jobs chat is what I'm trying to say. |
| 21. June 2022 | “It is fine I took their stuff, I put their name in the credits” | Credit does effectively nothing. So the reason why you give credit when a person contributes to something is so that that person can draw attention to that should they have need. Where they can say, hey, I help with this, see? Whether it's for clout, hey, this is my work. Or for business opportunities, hey, I would like to do something for you, here's some of my prior work and you can see I was credited here. The amount of people who click through a link to go somewhere is effectively zero. If it isn't a link, the amount of people who use that to find the original content creator is again even less. Credit does not justify or make even really a part of it all re-uploading someone else's content. It just doesn't. Why go after the most popular creators? Of course everyone comes out. |
| 27. July 2021 | “Loyalty” to streamers | Loyalty to streamers. Mano, do you think viewers who watch you at every game you stream are more loyal than the viewers who watch you when you play GTA V? I do not want my viewers to feel like they have to be loyal to me or they feel like they're disadvantaged me by not watching me when I'm doing something that they're not interested in. I only want people to watch me when they want to watch the content that I'm producing. This isn't a cult, it isn't a clan, it isn't a family, it isn't even a group of friends or a group of associates. We aren't work colleagues or something. I'm just a guy making content. If you want to watch it, cool. If you don't, that's also cool. Go watch something else. Like when people tell me that I'm the only content that they watch or like that they're the only content creator that they like, I'm like, well, that's good for me, I suppose, but terrible for you. And I often say like, hey, I hope you find something else to watch as well. If nothing else, because I'm not always live. Like I want people to live fulfilled lives and stuff. And I love finding a good content creator myself. And I wouldn't deny other people, you know, the content that they can enjoy simply for my own benefit, you know. Wait, we're not a cult pepper leaf. Yeah. |
| 04. March 2022 | “Mario speedrun every 5 minutes the hud gets worse” | Mario speedrun but every five minutes the HUD gets worse. Did you guys see um, Doug Doug's latest video? What an amazing idea! Mario speedrun every five minutes the HUD gets worse. This man is brilliant. Like, what a crazy original idea. Like, after all this time, still finding ways to take the formula of speedrun but X and finding new X's. You know? What a great video. It's so cool. |
| 16. December 2019 | “Ok Boomer” Meme | What do I think of the OK Boomer meme? Opinion on OK Boomer? So the generation before the boomers, they created a world with greater opportunity and wealth for their kids than the one that they grew up in. That's a fact. The boomers haven't done that for their kids. The world is today worse in terms of opportunity for the young than it was when the boomers were growing up. If you judge the boomer generation by leaving the world better than when they found it, they've failed massively. And if in some small way that the younger generation can say the boomers fuck you, if we can do that with the OK Boomer meme, I'm happy with that. Because fuck them. So many decisions made by boomer politicians or politicians voted in by boomers is just let us sell the future for the present, because fuck future generations. It's garbage. Obviously every boomer is not a terrible person, but goddamn as an average man, very selfish fucking generation. |
| 10. July 2021 | “They are just jealous” | They are just jealous. When you become popular content creator, there's something that you... that becomes very attractive to do, but I'm trying to force myself never to do it. Whenever people criticize you, what you want to say is, um, they're just jealous. Technically the correct word is envious. It's the dumbest fucking thing to do. But sometimes it feels so fucking true. But if you get to this point where you begin dismissing everyone who's critical of you for that reason, it never ends, and you just... never accept criticism after that point, you know? |
| 17. March 2022 | “Twitch doesn’t care about it’s creators” | better. 2. Twitch doesn't care about its creators. Would it be fair to say that Twitch doesn't care about its content creators? Or at least they try to pretend that they do? It's always important to remember that companies are not monoliths. Or at least they aren't all of a single like mind. There are clearly many people, many people who work at Twitch who care about content creators to a great degree and who they themselves used to be content creators. Or maybe even still are to a degree content creators. I know my partner manager streams herself on Twitch, partner manager. She's a Vtuber or whatever. She's a small content creator. It does a little hobby kind of thing. But she's perhaps more passionate about, well you know, she is more passionate about Twitch than I am and its content creators. There are many people who work at Twitch now though, who are like on the Amazon side of things. They don't understand what Twitch is. They don't watch Twitch. Their priorities are not necessarily aligned with what is best for content creators. The concerns of a platform like Twitch in terms of reaching profitability and continuing to maintain advertisers and stuff isn't necessarily, or at least how they want to do that isn't necessarily how you or I think it should be done for the best, for how the platform should be. What they think is best isn't necessarily what you or I think is best is all I'm trying to say. Some of them care, some of them don't care. Twitch is pretty walled off from Amazon in terms of control. Amazon lets them do their own thing. Heard whispers of the op- no, no, not that Amazon has massive control over it, more that there is a intermingling of that culture now. Similar sorts of people move between both companies. Once upon a time it was, well I'm saying that the culture of the platform has changed over time on the back end. And the sort of people who work there has also changed. So I hear. Oh yeah, Twitch is a tiny, tiny thing to Amazon, absolutely. But I mean once upon a time live streaming was like the new kid on the block, the new thing, fresh, cool. Whoa, you can live stream to view it, not make videos that get seen later, like actually live stream and talk, that's crazy. Everyone's figuring stuff out but now stuff is kind of figured out. Live streaming is just one more part of the landscape of content and it will never feel as fresh and cool as it once did. What an exciting future for Amazon. |
| 13. March 2022 | “Why don’t you just hire a person to do it for you?” | Why don't you just hire a person to do it for you? How do- how do I phrase this? Every single person who has ever said, why don't you get someone else to do that, has never been in a situation where they have to find someone to do that thing. It is painful. It's very hard to find people who are in the ballpark of being able to help me. And the process of going and finding such people can often take longer than just doing the thing myself. But in regards to the Clips channel, I couldn't hire someone to upload them myself, or make titles myself, or make thumbnails myself, because people are just slow. It is much faster, like, I could probably do it five times faster than anyone else on the planet. Finding someone who would be able to do it, and then realizing I still have to upload it myself and all that jazz, it just wouldn't be worth the time.middle time playing videogames |
| 14. February 2021 | “yoink” origin | Yoink origin. Yoink. What the fuck does yoink even mean? Where does the word yoink come from? Is it meant to be like the sound effect or the sound that happens when you take something? It's from the Simpsons? I find that hard to believe. It's just such a strange word. So what it came from the Simpsons in the same way that doe came from Simpsons. Doe. I just thought it was a fucking word. Onomatopoeia being words that are meant to represent the sound or whatever. Simpsons writer George Meyer has been credited with coming up with the idea to have a character say yoink when taking an item from someone or something. Former Shrivanah Bill Oakley tweeted recently that Meyer actually got yoink from Archie Comics. Ah, interesting. The plot thickens. But where did Archie Comics get it from? Get fucking Scooby Doo on the case. |
| 19. February 2022 | ”All you do is play video games all day” | All you do is play video games all day. Does this not feel like a desk job to you sometimes? It's- it's work, yeah, and I am at a desk. Occasionally you get these comments where people say, Oh man, all you fucking do is play video games all day. Yeah. Such ignorance crushed into one fucking comment. |
| 26. March 2022 | ”Ballstorture” | Balls torture. Right now guys, there seems to be a modder who is set up so that he sends a multiplayer invite to like, I think it's basically everyone when they come online. And their name is Balls Torture. Like it's just one message. And it says Balls Torture. I first heard about it on Reddit, and now like whenever I log into my game to record some footage, even in single player, it'll just go Balls Torture. It doesn't need to be targeting anyone specifically, it's just everyone. You get a multiplayer invite from them in closed crew session periodically. What a dumb vulnerability to have in your game after 8 years, you know? |
| 04. March 2022 | ”Expert opinion” | Expert opinion. People use opinion in weird ways. Like, opinion can be used as a synonym for viewpoint or perspective. As in, like, saying this is your opinion doesn't necessarily mean that you don't have a factual basis for that opinion. An opinion is just, you know, a perspective that you have, a viewpoint. But it has a connotation of just something that you've just thrown together, like a suspicion or a... What's the word I'm looking for? Like, people will say, like, expert opinion, for example. And that almost sounds like, what's the word, a misnomer or something, where how can you possibly have an expert opinion? Because an opinion is meant to be, like, baseless or something. But, like, an expert opinion is, to me at least, like, you have qualifications that enable you to assess the information that's out there. But at that point, maybe all the facts aren't there currently. So an expert opinion is, like, determining what is most likely true based off prior precedents, as opposed to the facts of the matter of this case. It's like, before you open the box, an expert in this type of box and its content can give you a range of possible things that can be in the box. But you only know and have the facts when you open the box. But that's just kind of how I view it. I've heard people scoff at the idea of expert opinion, as if expert opinion is merely opinion. Speculation! That's the word I was looking for, Peaky. Be sure to like and subscribe. Also leave a comment if you have something on your mind. My feed gives them to me from all over my channel. It doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 09. March 2022 | ”I want to watch you play non-GTA 5 games”. | I want to watch you play non-GTA 5 games. Meadow, would you ever leave GTA and not completely just play other games? I would love to see you play like Dark Souls or even games like Dying Light. My guy. Let me blow your mind right now. So here's me playing Red Dead 1, El Inuwa, Red Dead 2, Red Dead 2, Skyrim, Mafia 2, Minecraft, Resident Evil, Getting Over It, Witcher, Simpsons Hit and Run, this is like Poly Bridge, Something the Lion, Sniper Elite, Tomb Raider, Jedi Fallen Order, Doom, Eternal and CSGO, Watch Dogs, Halo. This is a bunch of games like FTLs in here. This is Super Mario 64 and Portal 2, Watch Dogs, Demon's Souls, Watch Dogs Legion, two episodes that were sponsored. This is Great AI Dungeon 2, hilarious video, no one watched it. This is Sleeping Dogs, we've got Dishonored 1, Super Mario Sunshine, Pubg, PUBG, the original GeoGuessr, Hollow Knight, Beating Chestbots, this is Griff Lancers, an ad as well, Fortnite, this is Ring Fit, we've got Henry Stickmin Collection, Bully, Max Payne, Chess vs Chat, Diablo 2, Mario Party, more Fortnite, GTA San Andreas, Bloodborne and Elden Ring. Wait, there's even more than this though. I've got GTA 4, GTA San Andreas, GTA 3, Vice City, episodes from GTA 4, the DLC, another DLC, more GTA 3, more GTA Vice City, and then I've got, you know, Among Us, I've got VR games as well, I've got Noita, I've got Dark Souls speedruns, got a little bit of Blackjack back there, got all my Fall Guys stuff, I've played other games, and a lot of it's really good, you can totally go watch if you like. Be sure to like and subscribe, also leave a comment if you have something on your mind, my feed gives them to me from all over my channel, it doesn't matter how old the video is. I wish you all the best. |
| 26. March 2022 | ”Limitations are good for creativity” | to compete. Limitations are good for creativity. New pet peeve of mine, chat. Just coincidentally, I've heard this opinion expressed like multiple times over the course of the week. I have no idea how that ended up happening because I hadn't heard it to that degree of frequency in a long time. But it's the idea that limitations, even significant ones, are good for creativity. And they'll go, look at this huge production with hundreds of millions of dollars in their budget and the movie ended up shit. But look at this other movie that had like 10 bucks and it was so amazing. Look at how if just having, if just your budget is too large, then the content's gonna be shit. But if you have a small budget, you know, the people gotta be creative and they use everything to its maximal degree to get things done, it's gonna have a much better end result. So they ignore the countless, endless thousands. If not, let's go millions over the course of time, projects that have died in their early stages due to not having a large enough budget or being restricted by limitations that they literally can't solve. And they ignore all the things that came to market that were stifled because of limitations. And they only look at the successful things that where people have creatively gotten around limitations go, see, look at all that creativity that came from these limitations. And then all the things with huge budgets, they look at lots of talent, lots of resources, very few limitations. They just ignore all the successful ones and only grab for the ones that try to fit their point, right? It's dumb. The amount of times a game has like released and people have been like, man, they worked on that for too long. They had too much money. They had too much talent working on this project. They had just had too many resources. If only they had had less resources, then this game would have been so much better. This is not a common thing. Normally the case is, man, they needed some more time in the oven. They needed more budget. They needed more people. They needed more time. It is certainly the case that in some situations, there have been limitations of like hardware or time, resources, whatever. And people have creatively found ways around these limitations. But it's more often than not that these limitations are just unsolvable and we never get to see the end project. We never get to see the end product or it's just worse for them. You know? It just annoys me. This idea that we're denying ourselves the peak of creativity because we don't restrict creative people to the bare minimum of what is possible. The more resources you have, the more you can create. The more finite your tools, the more finite the amount of things that can be created from what you have. Too many options causes issues too. But when does that ever happen? No one exists with unlimited resources, unlimited time. Everything has limitations to some degree. Small budget projects that break through are objectively good because they break through. If they were bad, they wouldn't even release. It's more the case that you simply need the right allocation of resources for the scope of the project that you're trying to make. If what you wanna create requires this many resources, that's how many resources you should probably have. Not this many to create as many limitations as possible where you've gotta now try and cram all this into here. You can have more than that, which means you can still create what you want, but then you have all this, which can be a distraction or can be simply wasteful. The idea that creativity benefits from having less than what you need to create what you want is just silly to me. Brandon Sanderson's crazy Kickstarter. Brandon Sanderson is a very prolific author. He's one of the best-selling fantasy authors of all time, and he writes just a staggering amount of books, more books than like anyone. |
| 27. March 2022 | ”TikTok is full of cringe” | TikTok is full of cringe TikTok so full of cringe that you just keep thinking that honestly I Prefer people to stay on YouTube, so I guess I should not advertise that that isn't true. and I love you this is $1, but I very hate you because I love you so much. |
| 27. March 2022 | ”Tiktok is full of cringe” | TikTok is full of cringe TikTok so full of cringe that you just keep thinking that honestly I Prefer people to stay on YouTube, so I guess I should not advertise that that isn't true. Can you even realise anyone likes..? |
| 29. October 2021 | ”You will never be as big as X” | You'll never be as big as X. Size of content creators always relative. Obviously I'm a big content creator, but there are people right now uploading like, two videos a day, each getting four million views, and all they're doing is playing random Roblox mini-games and laughing. Every generation has their, it doesn't matter how big you get, you'll never be as big as X, you know? You'll never be as big as Elvis, or you'll never be as big as the Beatles, or whatever. And I was just like, it doesn't matter how big you get, you'll never be as big as some guy playing Roblox for kids. |
| 03. January 2022 | ”You’re wrong” comments | Internet life you could say. Your wrong comments. God love the know that's wrong comment with nothing said to back it up. Oh dude, I get those all the fucking time. And sometimes I respond to them like, dude, you took the time to say I'm wrong, to insult me, but you at no point attempted to say why I'm wrong, or make any kind of an argument that would change my mind. Your comment is completely useless. In some weird way, it just makes me more confident. Because if you had some meaningful... |